| Hutchinson fower pounds : Item I give unto Edith Pattison One pound : Item I give | ||||
| unto John Wilkinson of Potter house two pounds : Item I give Unto Nicholas | ||||
| Wilkinson his Brother One pound : Item I give Unto their Brother Mathew | ||||
| Wilkinson One pound : Item I give Unto their Sister Elizabeth Kinleside | ||||
| fifteene Shillings : Item I give Unto Margt Ridley of [???] One Shilling | ||||
| Item I give Unto Elizabeth Woodman One Shilling : Item I give Unto | ||||
| Mable Cowes One Shilling Item I give Unto Elizabeth Teasdaile One | ||||
| Shilling : Item ye rest of my Goods & Chattells movable & unmoveable | ||||
| I give Unto my Sisters Margt Jackson & Susanna |
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| whom I make & Ordeine my true & lawfull Executrix of this my | ||||
| last Will & testamt Witnesses Wm Wilson Mathew Spark | ||||
| Mathew Rowell. | ||||
| Thomas Jackson | ||||
| In the name of God Amen I Francis Little of Hollywell | ||||
| in ye County of Northumbland being sickly in body but of sound & pfect | ||||
| mind & memory (praise be therefore given to Almighty God) Do make | ||||
| & Ordeine this my psent Last will & testamt in manner & form | ||||
| following (that is to say) First & principally I comend my Soul into | ||||
| ye hands of Almighty God hoping through ye Meritorious death & passion | ||||
| of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have free pardon & forgivenesse of all | ||||
| my Sinns & to Inheritt Everlasting life & my body I comitt to ye Earth | ||||
| to be decently buryed at ye discretion of my Ex hereafter named | ||||
| And ass* touching ye disposicon of such temporall Estate as it hath | ||||
| pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give & dispose thereof | ||||
| as followeth (vizt) Imps I will that all my Debts & funerall | ||||
| charges shall be payd & discharged : Item I give Unto my loveing | ||||
| Wife Ann Little halfe of all my psonall Estate Whatsoever | ||||
| after my debts & funerall charges are payd & discharged : Item I give | ||||
| to Nephew Francis Little ye Sume of ten Shillings : Item I give to my | ||||
| Brother Edwd Little ye Sume of two pounds ten Shillings : Item I give | ||||
| ye Sume | ||||
| to my Neece Jane Sheild ⁁ of One pound ten Shillings : Item I give to my | ||||
| ye Sume | ||||
| Neece Margery Sheild ⁁ of One pound ten Shillings : Item I give to Dorothy | ||||
| Sheeld ye Sume of ten Shillings : Item I give to Hugh Sheild ye Sume | ||||
| of ten Shillings : Item I give to my Sister Jane Little ye Sume of | ||||
| fower pounds : Item I give to Jane Bowman daughter to Robt Bowman | ||||
| half a Crown : Item I give to Thomas Dawson of Hexham ye Sume of | ||||
| five Shillings : Item I give to John Dawson of Haddery Barn five Shillings | ||||
| Item I give to Margt Dawson five Shillings : Item I give to Ann Dawson | ||||
| Daughter to J [???]* Dawson One Ewe Lamb : Item I give to Ann Dawson | ||||
| Daughter to John Dawson One Ewe Lamb : Item I give to Elizabeth Little the | ||||
| ye Sume of ten Shillings & One Ewe Lamb : Item I give to Mary Bowman the | ||||
| Sume of two Shillings Six pence : All ye rest of my |
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| whatsoever I do give & bequeath unto my loving Brother John Little full & sole Ex of | ||||
| and mark voyd | ||||
| this my last Will & testamt : & I do hereby Revoke disannull ⁁ & all former Wills & testamts | ||||
| whereof | ||||
| by me heretofore made In Witnesse ⁁ I ye sd Francis Little to this my last will & testamt being contained | ||||
| in One sheet of pap have sett my hand & Seal in ye Year of o Ld God 1696 : Aprill ye thirteenth | ||||
| Signed & sealed in ye psence of Thomas Williamson John Dawson James Hornesby. | ||||
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