Jane Sackvile, daughter of Thomas Sackvile, Erle of Doresett, wife of Anthony Browne and mother of Anthony, Mary, Catherin, Frances, Barbara, Anne, Lucye and Jane.[1]
Jane wrote a will on 16 December 1649
She asked to be buried in the parish church of Midhurst in the chapel belonging to her only son Francis, Viscount Montague. To the poor of Midhurst, Eastbourne, and Westhorsley, she bequeathed £5 apiece
To nephew Edward, Earl of Dorsett, £300, and to niece Lady Beauchamp, £250, and to nephew William Lewis, esq., son of said niece, £200. Legacies to servants
To said grandchild Francis Browne until he should attain 21 years, an annuity of £100 issuing out of the capital messuage called Cowdrey House together with Cowdrey Park als Single Park and meadows called Sowdrey Meadows and Blackpond Mead and the Lodge Meadows, Toties Mead and Osborne Mead, and out of Balls Farm, Oxepastures, Culverlands and St. Anns hill in Midhurst, Eastborne and Wollavington, which the testatrix held for a term of years then unexpired under a lease by the said Francis Viscount Mountague of 5 March, 17 Chas. I
Executors were her kinsmen Benjamin Weston of AshleyHouse, Surrey and John Tregonnell (Tregonwell) of Milton Abbas in Dorset,[2]
A further addition to her will was added on 29th July 1651
Her grandchild Henry Browne, brother of Frances received 100 marks
Her nephew, Richard, Lord Buckhurst was given £100- in place of the bequest to Edw.Earl of Dorset
Her executors were amended and became Cosin Beniamyn Weston of Walton, Surrey, esq., nephew William Lewes and Henry Hildyard of Easthorsley [3]
Sources
↑ Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 84.
↑ West Sussex Record Office, SAS BA/100, Catalogue entry with abstract, original will of Jane, Viscountess Dowger Montague National Archives, Discovery
↑ West Sussex Record Office, SAS BA/103, Catalogue entry with abstract, original will of Jane, Viscountess Dowger Montague , additions 26 Jul 1651 National Archives, Discovery
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"Jane Viscount Mountague, relict of the late right honble Anthony Viscount Mountague deceased" made her Will on 29th July 1651; proved 8th January 1651/2 - https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D817674 ; PROB 11/220/51 ; Will of Jane Viscountess Mountague, Dowager ; Date: 08 January 1652. Precis available West Sussex Record Office Online Catalogue ; Catalogue No. SAS-BA/100 ; Title Original will of Jane, Viscountess Dowager Mountague