Thanks, horselydown, for your help. The wills I am working on are all for Scatchards (or variations thereon) who lived in or around the parishes of Otley and Adel. The location referred to on this latest as Powle is actually Poole; the spelling is similar to other documents I have seen. Poole lies close to Arthington where several Scatchards lived.
At this point I have a number of fragmented Scatchard families that I am trying to link, but occaionally a spanner is thrown into the works as in the last will, that of Thomas Scatchard, where mention is made of his niece Ursula Scatchard. She is previously unknown to me, but she may be Ursalie, baptised in Calverley, the daughter of Nicholas Scatherd, and who might in turn lead to links with the Scatcherds of Batley - the combination of Ursalie/Ursula and Scatcherd being extremely uncommon. The issue here is the exact meaning of "neece" in the will. Does it actually refer to, in this case, a brother's daughter, which would make Nicholas Thomas' brother, or is it a simple term for a female relative. If it is the former, it is proof of the relationship between the Scatchards of Adel and Otley to the north of Leeds being related to those of Morley and Batley, to the south. If the latter, then there is further research needed to try and identify the actual relationship.
The reason behind my interest in this family is to try and prove a so far unsubstantiated link to the Scatchard family of Bishop Monkton. I have almost exhausted my current supply of documents: I have only two or possibly three more wills after this one, plus a number of other court documents that I know I will need help to decipher. Nevertheless, the proof I seek remains elusive. Proving the connection to the Scatchards of Adel and Otley would push my Yorkshire ancestry back at least three generations, and possibly back to the late 1400s if the families that I am aware of currently can be linked. So far, I can identify a general migration of the family towards Wakefield and the east, but the move towards Ripon and the north is still to be proved. As this is pre-industrial revolution, the reasons for migration are not so simple. For those who acquire a profession, e.g. surgeon or attorney, it might be expected that they will end up away from their birthplace in order to practice that profession. For others with more humble occupations, tracing the migratory path is much more difficult.