In the name of God Amen ye Nineteenth day of January | ||||
1694: I John Robson of Hexham in ye County of Northumbland Glover | ||||
being sick of body but of good & Pfect memory (praised be God) Doe | ||||
make Constitute Ordaine & appoint this my last Will & testamt | ||||
in manner & form following Revokeing & annulling by these psents | ||||
all & every Testamt & Testamts Will & Wills by me made either | ||||
by Word or Writeing, & this to be my last Will & testament | ||||
& none Other: And first being penitent & Sorry from ye bottom | ||||
of my heart for my Sinns past Most Humbly begging forgivenesse | ||||
for ye Same: I give & comitt my Soule to Almighty God my | ||||
Saviour & Redeemer in whom & by ye meritts of |
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Christ my Saviour I believe assuredly to be saved & to have full | ||||
remission & forgivenesse of all my Sinns & my body to be buryed | ||||
in Hexham Church Yard in such decent manner as it shall | ||||
seem good to my Exr hereafter menconed: Item I give Unto | ||||
my Son Robt Fifteen pounds to be payd him by my Execatrix | ||||
two Years after my Decease: Item to Wm Oliphants Wife | ||||
Elizabeth my daughter ten pounds to be payd her* at ye Expiracon of three | ||||
Years after at two severall paymts Item to my Son John | ||||
Twenty Nobles to be pd ye Year after hee is loose from his trade | ||||
Item to my Son Joseph, twenty nobles to be pd him within | ||||
a year after hee is loose from his trade: Item I give to my | ||||
Wel beloved Wife Jane Robson ye West End of my now | ||||
dwelling house for her life with room for a Cow to stand in | ||||
& three Carrfulls of Hay, And of all other my Goods & | ||||
Chattells moveable & imoveable (after Legacies payd & funerall | ||||
Expenses discharged) I Do make my sd Wife Executrix | ||||
In Witnesse Whereof I do sett to my hand & Seale ye day | ||||
& Year first above written Sealed & Delivered In ye psence | ||||
of Us Tho Johnes, John Wilkinson, Mathew Robinson, Thomas | ||||
Caward. | ||||
John Robson |
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Transcribed by LF and JW