Page 9, Will, Robert Pearson, 15 August 1695
| In The name of God Amen I Robt Pearson ye Elder of Errington in ye County of | ||||
| Northumbland Yeom, being sick & weak in body but of sound & pfect memory | ||||
| (praised be God) for it Do make & Ordeine this my last Will & testamt in manner | ||||
| & form following ; And First I Comend my Soul into ye hands of Almighty God | ||||
| my Creator hopeing assuredly through ye merritts death & passion of Jesus Christ | ||||
| my Onely Saviour to obteine full & free pardon of my Sinns & to Inheritt everlasting | ||||
| life, & my Body to ye Earth from whence it came to be Burryed in such decent | ||||
| & Christian manner as by Executor hereafter named shall be thought fitt | ||||
| & convenient, And as for such Wordly* Estate as it hath pleased Almighty | ||||
| God to bestow upon me I Dispose thereof in manner & form following | ||||
| Itm I give & bequeath unto my loving Wife Catherine Pearson the Sume | ||||
| of Two hundred pounds of lawfull English money to be payd by my Ex | ||||
| hereafter named, & my Will further is, that if my sd Wife have a mind | ||||
| to Release her Thirds* or Widdow right of my Copy hold Messuages* lands & | ||||
| Tenemts in ye Townpps territories & feilds of Acomb & Wall in ye County | ||||
| of Northumbland to my Son & heire Robt Peirson, that then ye sd Robt | ||||
| Pearson shall pay Yearly & every Year during ye life nrall of my said | ||||
| Wife Unto my said Wife ye Sume of Eighteen pounds of lawfull | ||||
| English money at two feasts or terms in ye Year (that is to say) at ye | ||||
| feasts of Pentecost & St Martin ye Bpp* in Winter, And my Will is | ||||
| that my sd Son shall pay Yearly unto my sd Wife ye sume of three pounds of | ||||
| lawfull English money at ye feasts aforesaid over & above ye above menconed | ||||
| Sume of Two hundred pounds : Itm I give legate & bequeath Unto my | ||||
| daughter Mary Pearson for her filiall portion ye Sume of Five hundred | ||||
| & Thirty pounds Due to me by Security out of ye lands & tenemts called | ||||
| Walwick Low hall in ye County of Northumbland : Itm I give legate & bequeath | ||||
| Unto Mr Robt Stobbert Minister of Bavington ye Sume of ten pounds to be | ||||
| payd by my Ex hereafter named wthin Six months next after my decease | ||||
| Itm I give legate & bequeath unto my Cozen Jane Quincy (Wife of James | ||||
| Quincy of Newcastle upon tyne) the Sume of twenty pounds to be payd by my | ||||
| named | ||||
| Ex hereafter ⁁ wthin Six months next after my dease* : Itm I give & | ||||
| bequeath ye Sume of Five pounds of lawfull English money Yearly & | ||||
| every Year for & during ye time & term of twenty Yeares to be payd | ||||
| unto Edwd White & Thomas White of Humsehaugh* their Exs or Assig | ||||
| by my Ex hereafter named for & towds ye maintenance of two dissenting Ministers | ||||
| the One at Bavington ye other at Hexham at two terms in ye year vizt | ||||
| Pentecost & Martinmas* Equally & in case there be noe dissenting Ministers | ||||
| at ye sd places or eith of them during all ye sd terme, then my Will is | ||||
| that ye sd psons their Exs Adms & Assignes shall together wth my son Robt | ||||
| Peirson & his heires dispose of ye said Yearly Sume to such Religious Uses | ||||
| as they in their discretion shall think fitt : Itm I give & bequeath Unto my | ||||
| loving Wife all my household Goods & household stuffe & also fower Cows | ||||
| And all ye rest of my Goods & chattells moveable & imoveable whatsoever I give | ||||
| & bequeath unto my Son Robt Peirson whom I do hereby make sole Ex of this my | ||||
| last Will & testamt & I do hereby Revoke all former & other Wills & testamts | ||||
| by me made either by Word or Writeing. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto sett | ||||
| my hand & seale this fifteenth day of August in ye 7th Year of ye reigne of o Sovaigne Lord | ||||
| Rx Wm ye 3d ov Engld ec: Annoq Dni 1695 : Signed, Sealed & Published In ye psence of Us | ||||
| Rob Stobbert, Thomas Newton John Carr. | ||||
| Robt Pearson | ||||
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