Last Will and Testament, 14 May 1663

Component identifier:

Item 91

Content Summary:

English

Copy of the last Will and Testament dated 10 April 1663 of John Comfort. Relates to bequest of his property in ‘the Parish of Northwood in the Island of Weight’.

Parties: John Comfort of Portsmouth in the County of Southhampton, 'marchant'

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 329-332

Immediate source of acquisition:

The documents in this collection were presented to the National Library of Australia by Sir Rex Nan Kivell in 1969. He referred to it as ‘The Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection’. The documents were collected by him as specimens of early calligraphy and/or examples of early documentation. He acquired them over a number of years from varied sources which were not recorded. However, it seems likely that the group of legal documents in Series 1 relating to the Elliott family of Salisbury would have a single provenance. Nan Kivell had a country house in Devizes, Wiltshire, which is only a short distance from Salisbury.

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