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- --- St Peter, Cornhill, burial register reads:
"1703/4. March 21. Richard Acton, linen draper, in the middle Isle."
(This will be the same vault where he buried his first wife in 1697/8.)
--- Listed as a Linen Draper on his first wife's burial record and his own burial record, but as a Vintner in his will.
--- Extracts from the Last Will of "Richard Acton Citizen and Vintner of London":
(signed 13 March 1703/4) :
Wife Hester Acton
Daughter Ann, wife of Mr Thomas Parrott, linen draper
£200 pound for Mourning for said Thomas & Ann Parrott and their children
Son Richard
Daughter Catherine
Wife Hester gets the dwelling house at Richmond, Surrey
Sister Catherine Evance [Evans], wife of Thomas Evance, draper of Bridgnorth
Nephew Richard Acton, son of my brother Robert Acton, deceased (who is now on a voyage to the East Indies, the sum of £200 to be paid to him if he lives to return to England).
Doctor Bray of Richmond
Son-in-law Edward Gibbon of London, Gentleman, another of my executors
Brother Francis Acton
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