| Description | Probate of the will of Sir Francis Nethersole of Nethersole (Kent) dated 1 Sept. 1656 and codicil made in the year 1658. The will contains many small legacies of goods and chattels to relations, including "my greate silver bason and ewer which the Queene of Bohemia my most gracious mistris gave my late deare wife and me at the time of our marriage, and those twelve silver dishes having the armes of the late King of Bohemia upon them which his majesty gave me some years after". [This codicil is not the same as the undated codicil transcribed in the Trustees' order book, CR369/63, and printed in the Charity Commission Reports, p. 666]. |