| by the mighty power of God wherewth he is able to subdue all | ||||
| to himself yett not a corruptible mortall & vile body as now it is but an | ||||
| Incorruptable Immortall & perfect body in all points like unto the | ||||
| glorious body of my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ Secondly as for my wordly | ||||
| Estate wherewith it hath pleased God of his infinite goodness to bestow | ||||
| upon me I dispose thereof in such sort manner & form as are herein | ||||
| after menconed Imp I give divise and bequeath unto my Sonn Robert | ||||
| Nicholson All those my Messuages Lands & Tenements herein after | ||||
| menconed (yt is to say) All that my Burgage or Stonehouse scituat* in | ||||
| Hexham in a Street there called the Markett Street with all ye app | ||||
| belonging to the same All that my Close of meadow ground Scituat | ||||
| lying & being in Hexham Eastfeilds comonly called & known by ye name | ||||
| of the Comon Stole Close to enter unto at such time as he shall | ||||
| attaine to ye Age of Eighteene Years & not before and also All that | ||||
| my Coppyhold Messuage Tenement & Farmhold Scituate in Acomb | ||||
| aforesaid of the ancient yearly rent of Two Shillings & Six pence wth | ||||
| all houses & Lands & other rights & Appurts belong to the same | ||||
| boundering as is menconed in ye division Fyne to enter upon after | ||||
| the death & decease of my loving wife Jane Nicholson And my Will & | ||||
| pleasure is that my said loveing wife Jane Nicholson shall have | ||||
| hold & enjoy the said Coppyhold Messuage Tenement & Farmhold | ||||
| in Acomb aforesaid for & during her naturall Life Provided | ||||
| she continue during such time unmarryed & not otherwise but if it | ||||
| shall happen that my said Wife shall happen to intermarry during | ||||
| her naturall Life that then it shall & may be lawfull to & for my sd | ||||
| Sonn Robert immediately to enter into ye said Messuage & Land aforesd | ||||
Note: Will, Robert Nicholson, p 2Undated (but must be before date of Inventory on p 70)
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