Page 30, Inventory, C Leadbitter, 30 January 1698, p 2; Will, John Heron, 14 June 1699, p 1
| £ s d | ||||
| Item | Stokins Inkle* Threed & Skeen | 00: 5: 00 | ||
| Item | other Grossiries* | 00: 3: 04 | ||
| Item | Stript* Handkerchifts & other made Cloaths | 00: 5: 00 | ||
| Item | A Truncke with Linnen valued att | 2: 00: 00 | ||
| ———— | ||||
| 36: 12: 8 | ||||
| ———— | ||||
| Item | Debts oweing to ye Decd of wch some is Desperate* | 5: 00: 00 | ||
| ———— | ||||
| Apprizers names | Tot | 41: 12: 8 | ||
| James Johnston | ———— | |||
| Wm: Leadbitter | Funerall Expenses | 5: 6: 8 | ||
| John Carr | ———— | |||
| Rests | 36: 6: 00 | |||
| ———— | ||||
| In the Name of God Amen I John Heron of ye Payes* in | ||||
| ye County of Northumberland Yeom being sicke & Weeke in | ||||
| Body but of sound and perfect memory (praised be God for itt) | ||||
| Doe make this my last Will & Testament in manner & forme | ||||
| following; And first I recomend my soule unto ye hands of | ||||
| Almighty God my Creator hopeing assuredly through ye merits | ||||
| Death & passion of Jesus Christ my Saviour & redeemer to | ||||
| obtain full pardon & remission of All my sins & to inheritt | ||||
| eternall life and my Body to ye Earth from whence it came | ||||
| to be buried in Such Decent & Christian manner as by my | ||||
| Executor hereafter named shall be thought fitt & as for such | ||||
| worldly Estate as it hath pleased Allmighty God to bestow upon | ||||
| me I Give & Despose thereof as followeth I I* Give Devise and | ||||
| bequeath unto my loveing wife Elizabeth ye sume of Six | ||||
| pounds & Tenn Shillings of lawfull English money Yearly | ||||
| and every Year during her naturall life to be payd her by | ||||
| my son John Heron out of ye Rents and profitts of my Messuage | ||||
| Tenemt & Farmhold called ye Payes aforesaid for & in lieue | ||||
| of her Thirds & Widdow right of ye same to be payd her at two | ||||
| Feasts or Terms in ye Year (vizt) Martinmas & Pentecost by | ||||
| equall porcons, the first paymt thereof to begin & be made | ||||
| at whether of ye said Termes shall first happen after | ||||
| my Decease Item I Give and bequeath unto my said wife | ||||
| All my household Goods and Utensells of household Stuffe | ||||
| Item I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Ann Heron | ||||
| ye Sume of Thirty pounds of lawfull English money to | ||||
| be payd her by my Executor hereafter named within | ||||
| Twelve months next after my Decease; Item I Give Legate | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW