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1 … lawfully begotten and the survivours and survivor of them to have and
2 … receive to theire equall use beneffitt and advantage the yearely proffitts
3 … of the said messuage tennement and premises in Bebington aforesaid
4 … as the same shall arise And for the disposal of my goods and personall estate
5 … my will and mynde is as ffolloweth ffirst I give and bequeath to my said
6 … sisters and their children lawfully begotten equally amongst them All
7 … my goods and implements of household standing and being in and upon
8 … the said messuage and tenement in Bebington aforesaid Item I give
9 … to every one of my sisters which shall bee liveing at the tyme of my death
10 ... threescore pounds apeece and to every of my sisters children which shall
11 … bee living at the tyme of my death twenty pounds apeece Item I give to
12 … my good ffreind William Laughton of Preston in Amoundernes Esq[uir]e tenn
13 … pounds in gold and to his wife a silver …………. And to her little daughter a ……………….
14 … of gold in hope that the said Mr Laughton will perform what hee was pleased
15 … to promise mee Item I give to Mr William Smith of Snape an Attorney at
16 … Law ffive pounds in hope hee will likewise perform the truth which I repose
17 … in him Item I give to Mariery wife of John Dawse of Garston ffive pounds
18 … and to every one of her children which shall bee liveinge at the tyme of
19 … my death twenty shillinges apeece Item I give to the wife of Robert Dawse
20 … of Crowton twenty shillinges Item I give to William Bastwell of Augton
21 … twenty shillings and to his sonne ffive pounds Item I give to the wife of David
22 … Henshaw of Wavertree and to every of her children twenty shillings apeece
23 … and to William Diconson the younger of Wavertree twenty shillings Item
24 … I give to my good ffreind Peter Parr my sadle which is covered with leather
25 … and to the wife of the said Peter Parr ffive pounds and to his two children
26 … twenty shillings apeece and to the wife of Peter Parr of the ffylde twenty
27 … shillings and to my godsonne William ………………. fforty shillinges Item I give
28 … to Henry Mercer of the …………………… and to every one of his children twenty
29 … shillinges apeece and to the wife of Thomas Sandford and her child twenty
30 … shillinges apeece and to Katherine wife of Hugh Hesketh gent and to his
31 … two children twenty shillinges apeece and to Richard Mercer of the Northmeales
32 … twenty shillinges And to William Ffazakerley gent and his wife Alice
33 … theire daughter tenn shillinges apeece and to the wife of William Smith of
34 … Westderby and William Smith his sonne and my godsonne tenn shillinges apeece
35 … to Humphrey Sheppard and his wife tenn shillinges apeece to Elizabeth Ffletcher
36 … the older widowe tenn shillinges to the poore of the towne and parish of Bebington
37 … to be delivered to the Parson of the said Parish and by him to bee commytted to
38 … two such persons of every towne by them to bee distributed as hee shall thinke
39 … ffitt and allowe the summe of ffive pounds Item I give to the poore of Liverpoole
40 … the summe of ffive pounds to bee distributed at the discretion of my said wife
41 … Ralph Massam Edward Williamson Edward Fformbie and Robert Cornell
42 … Item I give to Robert sonne of Ralph ………….. butcher the summe of fforty
43 … shillings to bee bestowed in apparel for him by my said wife and to the poore
44 … of West Derby ffive pounds to bee distributed by my said wife and such other
45 … persons as shee shall think ffitt to assist her And I heereby declare that it
46 … is my will and mynde that the legacies beforenamed shall bee paid fforth
47 … of debts oweing to mee as soone as the same can bee gotten in And all the
48 … rest and residue of my goods cattells chattells and implements of household
49 … in or about the house in West Derby wherein I live or else where not heerein
50 … formerly bequeathed and given I give bequeath and leave wholie to my
51 … loveing wife Anne Dwarryhouse And for the due and true execution
52 … of this my will I doe nominate and appointe the said Anne Dwarryhouse
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