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Title: 1633 will extract
Post by: mijath on Wednesday 06 January 21 13:44 GMT (UK)

Hello, can anyone help me fill in the missing words from this hightlighted extract? What I have managed to read myself (I think):

I give unto Richard Hartshorne my son one stand bed in the little chamber one press in the great chamber one [...] one salting trough one well trough of stone and [.........] and also the [........] the hall chimney [...] of the estate I have conferred upon him [...] shall be and stand for his filial portion

Many thanks

Title: Re: 1633 will extract
Post by: horselydown86 on Wednesday 06 January 21 14:08 GMT (UK)

...Chamber one counter one...

...stone and y^e harnesse [or?] ffurniture for a Corslet and also y^e [?] [tree?] w(i)th
y^e hookes & those fixed w(i)thin y^e hall chimney:...

...upon him I will shall be...

Still thinking about the missing word.

ADDED:

...chimney: all w(hi)^ch thing(es) in* respect of y^e estate...

*  There seems to be a rogue line here which doesn't belong to the for above or the portion below.  I don't think it belongs to the in either.

ADDED 2:

I think the missing word is:   ...gallow tree...

Title: Re: 1633 will extract
Post by: Bookbox on Wednesday 06 January 21 15:08 GMT (UK)

Quote from: horselydown86 on Wednesday 06 January 21 14:08 GMT (UK)

ADDED:
...chimney: all w(hi)^ch thing(es) in* respect of y^e estate...
*  There seems to be a rogue line here which doesn't belong to the for above or the portion below.  I don't think it belongs to the in either.

Is it not just an opening parenthesis, which then closes in the following line, after upon him ?

ADDED - and after estate, I think there is y^t (= that).

Title: Re: 1633 will extract
Post by: mijath on Wednesday 06 January 21 15:35 GMT (UK)

Thank you both so much. I can't believe I couldn't read some of those, it's so clear once you know!

I'm confused about the gallow tree. I know what one is...but I don't understand how one could be bequeathed.

Title: Re: 1633 will extract
Post by: Bookbox on Wednesday 06 January 21 15:47 GMT (UK)

Is it this, perhaps? An iron support for a pot over the fire?

The term is allegedly found in some 16th-century Yorkshire wills ...
https://yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/gallow%20tree

ADDED:
Also in OED ...

Gallows
 5. Applied to various objects consisting of two or more supports and a cross-piece.
†a. An iron support for a pot over a kitchen fire. Cf. GALLOW(S)-BALK n. Obsolete.

Gallow(s)-balk
The iron bar in the chimney from which the pot-hooks hang.