Burials from the Registers of Cottered Meeting, Hertfordshire
Mary Exton Wife of John Exton of the parish of yardly Was Buried in the Buring Ground at Cottred on the 16 Day of ye 7m called september one thousand seuen hundred and twelue
John Exton of the parish of yardly was Buried in the Bureing place at Cottred one the 23 Day of the seuenth mth called september one thousand seuen hundred and twelue and did by his Last Will and Testement Giue the said Ground for A Buring place unto Frinds and all Christian people to Bury their dead in that desire it For euer with out mony or prise that If hearafter it should be to strat or Lolle to Burey the dead in then to be Inlarged to the Ashin trees and A Ditch made on the out side of the Fence and did Apoynt his sonn John Exton and Grandson Georg Robins and John Starr and his Frind Thomas Edridg to be Fefees In trust to haue it ordred According to the mind of Frinds [next lines have been crossed out]
Source: RG6/1572 National Archive