Page 43, Inventory, Richard Gibson, 15 May 1700, p 2; Will, Robert Booteland, 17 March 1699, p 1
| £: s: d: | ||||
| Brewing Vessell | 01: 10: 00: | |||
| Two Iron potts a Brasse Mortar & pestle and other } | ||||
| Utensiles of Iron & Brasse } | 00: 08: 00: | |||
| 19: 08: 0: | ||||
| This is ye true Inventory of ye Goods & Chattells} | ||||
| of Richard Gibson late of Hexham deceased seen } | ||||
| Apprized by us as Witnesse our hands } | ||||
| Carleton Hebdon | ||||
| Tho Mowbray | ||||
| In the Name of God Amen the seaventeenth Day of | ||||
| March in ye Twelfth Year of ye Reigne of our Sovaigne Lord | ||||
| William ye third by ye Grace of God of England Scotland France | ||||
| & Ireland King Defender of ye Faith &c I Robert Booteland | ||||
| of Hexham in ye County of Northumberland Cordwainer being | ||||
| sick and weak of Body but of sound & perfect memory praised | ||||
| be God for it doe make and Ordaine this my last Will & Testamt | ||||
| in manner & form following revokeing & hereby annulling all | ||||
| former & other Wills & Testaments by me made either by word | ||||
| or writeing And First I Recomend &c my soule into ye hands of | ||||
| Allmighty God my Creat hopeing assuredly through ye meritts | ||||
| death & passion of Jesus Christ my saviour & Redeemer to | ||||
| obtaine full pardon & remission of all my sinns & to inheritt | ||||
| eternall life and my Body I give to ye earth to be buried in | ||||
| such decent and Christian manner as by my Executrix here | ||||
| after named shall be thought fitt & convenient and as for | ||||
| such worldly Estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow | ||||
| upon me I give and despose thereof as followeth Item I give | ||||
| devise and bequeath unto Leonard Oliver of Hexham aforesd | ||||
| Butcher his heires and Assignes for ever All that my | ||||
| Burgage* or stonehouse with ye Apps scituate* standing & | ||||
| being in Hexham aforesaid & boundering on ye Burgage of | ||||
| Richard Pepper on ye East and ye Burgage belonging to | ||||
| widdow | ||||
| Dorothy Lambert ⁁ on ye West in a certaine street there | ||||
| called ye Hall style head to ye intent & purpose that the sd | ||||
| Leonard Oliver his heires & Ass shall sell & despose of the | ||||
| same & ye money ariseing upon sale of ye said house to be despos’d | ||||
| of for and towards the payment of all such Debts as I am | ||||
| oweing to any person or persons whatsoever upon Bonds | ||||
| or other specialties and ye over plus money that shall be due | ||||
| upon the sale of my said house after ye payment of my | ||||
| debts aforesaid I give and bequeath unto my loveing wife | ||||
| Elizabeth (my said wife joyneing with ye said Leonard Oliver | ||||
| in conveying all her thirds*[*] and Interest which she shall have | ||||
| of | ||||
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