Earle Family of Aldborough

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Baptism – 27th March 1636

Peter, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Aldborough Parish Charities 1623-1727

 

1st May 1636

John Earle brother & executor of the will of William Earle of Minskip donated £4 to be distributed amongst the poor of the Aldborough Parish in accordance with William's wishes in his last will and testament transcribed above

 

Last Will & Testament (transcript)

 

Henry Earle of Roecliffe, 1637 (WYAS, Leeds Ref: RD/AP1/35/38)

In the name of God Amen the xxth day of September anno dm 1637. I, Henrie Earle of Rocliffe in the pish of Aldburghe being sicke in body, butt of sounde and pfect remembrance god's name be praised for it do hereby ordaine and make this my last will and testam’t in writinge, manner and forme followinge. First I give and bequeath my soule into the hands of almyghtie god, my maker and to Jesus Christ my redeemer by whose death and purpose I hope to be saved. And my body to be buried in the church, or churchyarde of Aldburghe att the discretion of my executor. Item, I give and bequeath unto Peter Earle my younger sone all my terme of yeres in and to one messuage and lands appertaining thereto belonging in Minskipp that I have off Thomas Tankard Esq. And all the corn and hay in the barn there. Item, I give and bequeathe unto the said Peter Earle, my sone, all my interest, title and terms of years which I have in and for all those lands nowe in my demise, late the lands of William Simpson deceased. Item, I give and bequeath unto Richard Earle and the said Peter Earle, my sons all my tymber and woodd and sawhorses fytt for husbandrie equally to be divided between them. Item, I give to one of Ann Hallyday’s and Peter Earle, his children one gymmer lambe to be defined within one yere next after my death. Item, I give and bequeathe to John Earle of Minskipp five lambes. Item, I give to Francis Earle of Malking Hame Hill 5s. Item, I give and bequeath and my will and mynde is that after the legacies before mentioned be plyed, my debts and funerall costs discharged, all the residue of my goods, catells and chattels (of whatt nature or kind then the same be) shall be equally divided between the said Richarde and Peter Earle, my sonns, provided always and my will and mynde is that if my said sone Richard Earle cannott, or may nott lawfully have and enjoy his full shaire and pportion of all my goods, cattells and chattels accordinge to my wyshes aforesaid, or be debarred, or denyed of the same by the said Peter Earle my sone, then my will and mynde is and I do give and bequeath unto my said sone Richard Earle (my legacies as before mentioned first discharged) all such share and pportion of my said goods as shall, or may belonge to the deeds parte by wayes or meanes heresaid and I make the said Richard Earle and Peter Earle my sons joint Executors of this my last will and testament, these beinge witnesses – Francis Warde, William Burnand, Nycholas Yates.

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Burial – 23rd September 1637

Henry Earle of Roecliffe

 

Inventory (transcript)

 

Henry Earle of Roecliffe, 1637 (WYAS, Leeds Ref: RD/AP1/35/30)

The inventory of the goods and chattels of Henry Earle of Roecliffe deceased praised the xxix day of September anno dm 1637 by these four honest men – William Blake, William Burnand, Nicholas Yates and John Earle as followeth: -

                                                                               

		£	s	d
Imprimis:	the testators purse and apparell	3	0	0
	Goods att Minskipp
Item	four oxen	18	0	0
Item	3 heffers	4	0	0
Item	3 mayres and 2 stagges[17]	10	0	0
Item	24 ewes and lambes	9	0	0
Item	a wayne and 2 coupes with wheels &
	other furniture belonging the same	7	0	0
Item	one oxe harrowe, a paire of horse’s
	harnesses, 2 ploughes with irons, 4
	ox yolks, 2 paire of horse geare with
	all furniture belonginge them	2	0	0
Item	a cupbord, a longe table, a chest &
	other hustlements in the place	2	10	0
Item	an old table, a case, a forme, a reckan[18]
	& all other hustlement in the fyer house		10	0
Item	spoaks, axelltres, wood, other
	hustlements in & about the house	1	0	0
Item	hardcorne, wayre corne & hay in the barne	36	0	0
Item	corne sowen in the grounde	2	0	0
	Goods at Roecliffe
Item	22 ewes[19] and lambes	6	6	8
Item	heynes yonge & old about the house	3	6	8
Item	6 oxen	37	0	0
Item	2 kiml oxen	6	8	4
Item	10 kyne, 3 yonge beast, 2 calves	32	0	0
Item	6 mayres and a foale	18	0	0
Item	hard corne and wayre corne in the barne,
	corne in the ground and hay in the barne	89	0	0
Item	3 paire of wayne blaides, 5 paire of coupe
	soles, 5 pairs of coupe fangs and some
	stompes rayles, stands, herkes and other
	wood	5	0	0
Item	waynes and coupes and old wheeles	20	0	0
Item	2 ploughes with all furniture, an oxes
	harness, 2 horse harnesses, 4 ox yolks,
	4 teames, 3 horse draughts, 2 boltes &
	shackells	2	10	0
Item	a little mylne for grindinge malt and
	some other implements in that house	1	0	0
	In the Fyer House
Item	a longe table, a cupbord, 3 chaires,
	2 buffette stooles, a forme	2	0	0
Item	an iron range, 2 kerkans, 2 pairs of
	tongs, 3 potts, one paire of bellowes		15	0
Item	28 peeces of pewther	2	10	0
Item	3 doble saltz, 2 single saltz, 3 bowles
	a flagon, 4 candlesticks, 12 tankards	1	0	0
	In the Mashinge House
Item	5 brass potts and a posnett[20]	2	0	0
Item	2 dripping panns, 2 frying pans, a
	chaffinge dish		10	0
Item	3 kettles, 5 pans	10	0	0
Item	13 bowles, 3 bottells, a cup, a knyffe
	and other implements there		15	0
	In the Kytchine
Item	6 barrelles, 2 stands, 6 stooles		10	0
Item	a maskefatte[21], a dough trough,
	2 gylefatte[22]	?	?	?
Item	a bedd for servants	?	?	?
	In the Chamber under the Parlour
Item	2 bedds furnished, a great kymlin[23],
	one cheste a deske a chaire and some
	other ymplements there	6	0	0
	In the Parlour
Item	one bedd furnished		6	8
Item	a cupboard, one amboire a chest and
	3 other chests	2	0	0
Item	3 Cowletts, 2 happings, 2 blankets, 2 cods,
	one piece of white cloth and an other bedd	4	0	0
Item	6 pillow boards, 5 towells		12	0
Item	7 sheets for bedds	1	0	0
Item	7 paire of hempe and harden sheets & one
	odd sheet, 2 table clothes, 7 table napkins	1	10	0
Item	a warter cowinge	1	0	0
Item	one other table cloth and 2 yards of
	white cantey	?	?	?
	In the Chamber over the House
Item	7 stone of hempe, 2 chests, 3 spininge
	wheles 2 dozen of bowles, 6 dozen of
	trenchers[24], spayles, dishes and
	some hustlement there	3	0	0
	In the Lowe Chamber
Item	Servants bedds, 2 arks and some
	other hustlements there	2	0	0
	In the Oxe House
Item	mantlebords and speakes and saltz	3	0	0
Item	2 spades, 2 axes, a chistle, a harke
	and some other implements there		10	0
Item	coales		10	0
Item	geese, 2 hens and some chickens		10	0
Item	2 stones of cheese, butter, 1 bushell of salt		12	0
Item	in ready monye	27	0	0
Item	a silver spoon		8	0
	Sum[25]	£300	8s	4d
	Debts owed to the testator: -
Firstly	John Earle	3	7	0
Item	William Allan for wheate	3	11	0
Item	Adam Allan for barley	?	?	?
Item	William Horn	7	9	0
Item	Richard Revise	3	12	0
Item	Myles Percival, alderman & William
	Richmond	10	0	0
	Total[26]	£27	19s	0d

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Marriage - 13th November 1637

Peter Earle & Elizabeth Prance

 

Marriage - 22nd November 1637

Richard Earle & Ann Sutton

 

Baptism – 3rd October 1638

Richard, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Baptism – 16th October 1638

Richard, son of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Burial – 29th October 1638

Richard, son of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Burial – 9th April 1639

Richard, son of Peter Earle

 

Burial – 20th April 1639

Ann, wife of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Aldborough Manor Court Rolls

 

5th October 1639

View of Frank Pledge with Court Baron of Arthur Aldburgh, Esquire, held within the Tolbooth of Boroughbridge, on the 5th day of October in the 15th year of the reign of Our Sovereign, Lord Charles, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, before Jonathan Jennings, Esquire, Steward thereHOMAGE FOR THE LIBERTY OF ALDBURGH - Christopher Mawtus, Richard Dove, William Smithson, John Earle, Marmaduke Lowry, John Marke, Richard Burnand, Christopher Ward, William Dickinson, William Browne, George Fall, Senior, Richard Ward, Roger Harrison, Thomas Saunderson, Thomas Shaw. (Sworn).

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Baptism – 22nd October 1639

Peter, son of John Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 6th May 1640

Ann, daughter of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Baptism – 24th August 1640

Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Marriage – 28^th June 1641

Peter Earle and Elizabeth Hall

 

Baptism – 31st March 1642

Richard, son of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Baptism – 5th June 1642

Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Burial – 10th June 1642

Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Baptism – 14th November 1642

Richard, son of John Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 3rd September 1643

Ellen, daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Baptism – 5th November 1643

Henry, son of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Marriage – 14^th November 1643

Ann Earle and James Young

 

Baptism – 17th March 1644

Catherine, daughter of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 12th June 1644

Isabel, daughter of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Burial – 26th September 1644

Ellen, daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Baptism – 3rd April 1645

Marie, daughter of John Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 29th June 1645

Francis, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Aldborough & Boroughbridge Deeds

 

Ref: Ne D 5580 dated 23rd May 1646

Feoffment from George Fall to Peter Earle of one and a half acres of land in Low Closes, Aldborough for the consideration of £13 6s. 8d.

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Baptism – 14th October 1646

Ann, daughter of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Burial – 22nd October 1646

Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Burial – 8th April 1647

Marie, daughter of John Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 27th June 1647

Marie, daughter of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Burial – 6th July 1647

Henry, son of Ann Earle widow of Roecliffe

 

Baptism – 23rd December 1647

Richard, son of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Baptism – 10th June 1648

Ellen, daughter of John Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 26th April 1649

Margaret, daughter of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 22nd September 1649

John, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Baptism – 5th October 1651

Christopher, son of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Burial – 4th March 1652

Christopher, son of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Baptism – 8th July 1652

Peter, son of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Burial – 16th July 1652

Peter, son of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Burial – 13th September 1652

Elizabeth, wife of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 6th October 1652

Marie, daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Burial – 22nd February 1653

Ann, daughter of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Aldborough & Boroughbridge Deeds

 

Ref: Ne D 5554 dated 8th May 1653

Feoffment from John Burnand to Nicholas Smithson and Charles Catton of a messuage and land in Boroughbridge, being a settlement made prior to the marriage of William Burnand and Ann Earle

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Burial – 20th June 1653

John, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Baptism – 24th January 1654

Matthew, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Bishop Stubbes Geneaology History

 

2nd August 1656

Richard Sutton, the younger, of Aldborough bequeathed the sum of £40 to each of his sister Ann's two daughters [Isabel & Mary] by Richard Earle, her husband

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Baptism – October 1656

John, son of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Baptism –1656

Isabel daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Last Will & Testament (transcript)

 

John Earle, Woollen Weaver of Minskip, 1657 (WYAS, Leeds Ref: RD/AP1/35/43)

In the name of god amen where as nothing is more certain than death and nothing more certain than the hour and time and place where and when. I therefore John Earle of Minskip in the county of York, woollen miller, being sick of body but in good and perfect memory, praised be god, do make my last will and testament the second day of January in the year of our lord god one thousand six hundred and fifty seven in manner and form following: First I give and bequeath my soul unto almighty god my saviour whom I trust in Jesus Christ my only redeemer will estow? it at the hour when my body shall descent this transitory life and my body to be buried in the churchyard of Aldborough. Item, I give and bequeath unto Richard Earle my second son £? of current money of England to be paid within ten days after he has accomplished the age of one and twenty years. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Ellen Earle eight pounds of current money of England within ten days to be paid to her after she shall accomplish the age of one and twenty years. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Richard Earle one loom and pound of ??? and two flayes being the best loom I have. Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ellen Earle ten shillings. Item, I give and bequeath unto my wife Mary Earle and to my first son Peter Earle my effects from my whole farm equally to be divided betwixt them. Item, I give and bequeath unto my said wife and my said son all the rest of my goods and chattels moveable and immoveable my debts and funeral expenses being paid forth of them and also make my said wife and my said son my whole executors to this my last will and testament in witness whereof I have put to my hand and seal the day in years first above written. My mind and will is that if my son Richard should fortune to die before my daughter then his portion shall go to her and if she die then her portion shall go to him

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Burial – 28th February 1657

John Earle of Minskip (see will above)

 

Inventory (transcript)

 

John Earle, Woollen Weaver of Minskip, 1657 (WYAS, Leeds Ref: RD/AP1/35/43)

 

		£	s	d
Imprimis:	his purse and apparell	1	10	0
	In the Parlour
Item	one cubberd, one bedsteade, one great
	panelled chist, one ould presse	1	0	0
Item	one cowlitt, one happing, one chaise bed		6	8
Item	7 pewther dishes, 2 candlesticks, 2 flaggons,
	8 spounes, one pitcher, one pewther bowl	1	0	0
Item	sheetes and other linen	1	0	0
	In the little Parlour
Item	one bed steade, one cowlett, one pare of
	sheetes, one chair bed, one kimlin, one
	dough trough with other hustlements		13	4
	In the Farr Chamber
Item	one panell chest, one cheese trough, one
	chest one greate kitt[27], 3 pare of woole
	bands with other hustlements		10	0
	In the Milke House
Item	7 boules, 3 milk potts, 3 cheesefatts[28]
	3 stooles with other hustlements		5	0
	In the Chamber ov’r the House
Item	one bedd and codd steade, one long chest	3	10	0
	In the Kitchin
Item	2 pots, 2 kettles, 3 little pans, one whipping
	pan, one frying pan, 3 bottles, 2 beere
	barrells with other hustlements	2	0	0
	In the House
Item	one long table, one firme, 1 chare, 2 stooles,
	3 quissings, one range, 2 reckons one fire
	shoufle, one pare of tongs, one spoone, one
	brasse laddle, 2 baton flukes, one tall table	1	0	0
	In the Chamber ov’r the Stable
Item	some wooll, 2 spinning wheeles, one pare of
	ouskoakes with other hustlements		15	0
	In the Shoppe
Item	1 loume, 2 pare of ould geeres & flayes with
	other things belonging to it, 2 sheepe skins,
	one ould bedstead, 1 pare of tentures in the
	garth with other hustlements	3	10	0
	Other
Item	one waine, a coupe, one plough, 2 harrayes
	with yolkes & teames, oxplough froons,
	with forkes & shousells & other implements	9	0	0
Item	3 kine and one calfe	9	0	0
Item	6 horses	14	0	0
Item	corne and hay in the barne	5	10	0
Item	one pigg		10	0
Item	19 sheepe	30	0	0
Item	10 acres of hard corne in the field called
	Skolburr Field	25	0	0
	Sum[29]	£83	0s	0d
	Debts owing by the testator: -
Imprimis	his funeral expenses	2	10	0
Item	owing by legacies to Richard Earle and
	Elizabeth Earle	16	0	0
Item	more by a legacy to Elizabeth Earle		10	0
Item	to Richard Walker by Bond	10	0	0
Item	to William Fish	5	0	0
Item	to John Lupton	5	0	0
Item	to George Wright	5	0	0
Item	to Peter Simpson	5	0	0
Item	to Thomas Oastler	5	0	0
Item	William Hamerton	5	0	0
Item	Thomas Young	3	0	0
Item	William Tomlinson	2	0	0
	Sum Owing	£64	0s	0d
	So there remaining[30]	£19	0s	0d

 

 

Peter Earle                 }

Richard Earle              }          appraisers

Richard Barwick          }

Michael Wright            }

 

Bond (transcript)

 

Mary Earle, 1657 (WYAS, Leeds Ref: RD/AP1/35/43)

The condition of this obligation is is such that if the within bounden Marye Earle doe well and truly administer all and singular the goods rights and credits which late were and did belong unto John Earle, her husband lait of Minskipp. Then so farr as the law shall bind her if also she do enter into the register
of Richmond a true and juste inventory of the goods of the said deceased and make a true and juste ? of the premises when she shall be thereunto lawfully called educatinge and bringinge up the natural and lawful children of the said deceased with all ? whatsoever duringe theire minoritie and payieinge them theire severalle prospective childes ? which are due unto them by the death of John Earl aforesaid, their father and enter into such further bond for performance of the ? as now required as shall be thought fit and do ? by the Comissary. And lastly save, ? and keepe ? this within named Comissary and all other his officials whatsoever as....

 

Last Will & Testament (transcript)

 

Peter Earle of Aldborough, Yeoman, 1657 (PRO, Prob/11/277, Image Ref: 91)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN - September the fourth and twentieth one thousand six hundred fifty seaven. I, Peter Earle of Aldburgh in the county of Yorke, Yeoman do make and ordaine this my last will and as testament in manner and forme following. First I give and bequeath my soule into the hands of almighty God my maker trusting only in Christ’s mercy to be saved. And my bodie to be buried in the parish churchyard of Aldburgh. Item, my mind and will is that my son and heire Peter shall peaceably and quietly enter, enjoy and occupy two farmsteads (whereof one is called the Butcher Close) and all the freehold lands in arable, meadow and pasture lying in the fields of Aldburgh which of right belongs unto him being the right heire of me the forenamed Peter Earle and Ann my former wife (my other freehold lands exempted) Item, I give and bequeath more unto my son Peter to him and his heires for ever my now dwelling house with the outhouses, garths and right of common and all other privileges to which belong to the house (the croft lands only exempted) all which I purchased of Daniell Smithson. Upon condition that my son Peter shall pay to my son Francis, his tutor for his use fortie pounds of lawful English money within one halfe yeare after that my son Peter shall come to the age of one and twentie years. And if he refuse or neglect to pay the forenamed fortie pounds then I give and bequeath my now dwelling house with all rights and privileges belonging (the Croft lands only exempted) to my son Francis to him and his heires forever to enter at the end of halfe a yeare after my son Peter shall come to the age of one and twenty years. Upon condition that my son Francis his tutor shall pay to my youngest daughter Isabelle tutor for her use fifteen pounds of lawful money of England within two yeares, whether he receive the forenamed fortie pounds or enjoy and enter to my house. And if my son Francis shall chance to die before my son Peter shall come to the age of one and twentie and halfe a yeare after this my mind and will is that my son Peter shall pay to the tutor of my three children Matthias, Elizabeth and Mary for their use the forenamed fortie pounds within one halfe yeare after that my son Peter shall come to the age of one and twentie and if he refuse to pay fortie pounds, then I give the forenamed house with all rights belonging (the Croft lands only exempted) to my three children Matthias, Elizabeth and Mary to them and their heires for ever equally to be divided amongst them. And my mind and will further is that although my son Peter hath paid the forenamed fortie pounds either to my son Francis his tutor or to my three childrens tutors. But if he dye without heires of his bodie lawfully begotten then I further give my now dwelling house with all rights belonging (the Croft lands only exempted) to my five youngest children to them and their heires for ever to be divided equally amongst them. And whereas Elizabeth Thompson gave by her last will and testament seventeene pounds unto my daughter Margaret which I received for her use. In confirmation of the seventeene pounds my mind and will is that she shall have thirteene pounds which will make her thirtie pounds. Then I give unto my daughter Margaret ten pounds more out of my household goods to be praised by foure honest men which I give in full satisfaction of her portion. Item, I give and bequeath unto Matthieu my son and Elizabeth and Mary my daughters all my five acres of freehold lands which I purchased to them and their heires forever. Viz. two acres lying in the Lowe Close; one acre in the new intake adjoining to the Low Moore; one rood and a halfe in the west field lying on a flatt called the Berries; three roods in the same fields lying between the lands of Ruth Smithson north and my fielde south; one rood and a halfe in Yorke House fields lying on a flatt called the Low Shorteford the lands of widdow Sutton north and my field south; one halfe acre lying on the curtlidge of my house called the Croft. Item, my mind and will is that my wife Elizabeth shall have the benefits and profits of the forenamed five acres until my children shall come to the age of one and twentie yeares towards their education. Item, I give and bequeath to the trustees of the parish of Aldburgh six shillings and eight pence to be added to the parish stocke. Item, all the rest of my goods moveable and immovable (my debts paid and funerall expenses discharged) I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my wife, whom I make sole executrix of this my last will and testament and all other former wills I revoke and call in. In testimonie hereof I have sette my hand and seale the day and year first above written, Peter Earle his mark.

Witnessed hereof Mich: Gilbert & Robert Hall.

 

THIS WILL was proved at London before the judges for probate of wills and granting administration lawfully authorised the thirtieth day of June in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fiftie eight by the oath of Elizabeth Earle, the relict. of the said deceased and sole executrix therein named. To whome administration of all and singular the said deceased goods, chattels and debts was granted and committed she being first sworne by commission hereby to administer.

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Burial – 13th January 1658

Peter Earle of Aldborough (see will above)

 

Baptism – 12th September 1659

Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Earle of Roecliffe

 

Marriage – About 1660

Peter Earle & Mary ?

 

Aldborough & Boroughbridge Deeds

 

Ref: Ne D 5393 dated 23rd April 1660

Settlement by Feoffment [cancelled] from Peter Earle and Richard Abbay and William Abbay of half of his messuage and land in Aldborough. The property to be held to the use of Peter and Mary Earle for life, afterwards to the use of their heirs. Memorandum of Mary Earle endorsed on the reverse of the document acknowledging that she consented to the deed being cancelled

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Marriage – 7^th August 1660

Margaret Earle and Peter Simpson

 

Aldborough & Boroughbridge Deeds

 

Ref: Ne D 5555 dated 2nd February 1662

Feoffment from Peter Earle to Peter Burnand of half an acre of land in Aldborough for the consideration of £9

 

St Andrew's Church, Aldborough

 

Burial – 6th March 1662

Catherine, daughter of Peter Earle of Minskip

 

Baptism – 2nd April 1662

Richard & Ann, son and daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Burial – 2nd April 1662

Ann, daughter of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Burial – 3rd April 1662

Richard, son of Peter Earle of Aldborough

 

Last Will & Testament (transcript)

 

Peter Earle, Yeoman of Minskip, 1662 (WYAS, Leeds Ref: RD/AP1/35/45)

In the name of god amen, I Peter Earle of Minskip in the Countie of York, Yeoman, sicke of body but of perfect memorie god's name be praised doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First I give and bequeath my soule into the hands of almighty god my maker trusting only in the mercy of god through the merits of Christ Jesus to be saved and my body to be buried in ye church=yard of Aldburgh. Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Dorothie out of my goods ten pounds. Item, I give unto my daughter Elizabeth out of my goods ten pounds. Item, I give unto my son Henry the benefit of my farme. Item, all the rest of my goods, my debts paid and funeral expenses discharged, I give and bequeath unto Henry my son whom I make sole executor of this my last will and testament. In testimonie hereof I have sette my hand and seale April 4th 1662