Page 76, Will, Joseph Bell, 8 November 1700, p 3
| In the first in parte recited menconed surrender fore soe much | ||||
| money as shall discharge my Debts & Funerall expences after my psonall | ||||
| Estate is disposed of by my Executors hereafter named towards paymt | ||||
| of the same & for what my personall Estate shall fall short thereof | ||||
| Item I give legate & bequeath unto my loving Brother William | ||||
| Bell the sume of Four pounds of lawfull English money to be | ||||
| payd by my Executors hereafter named within Twelve months | ||||
| next after my decease; Hee the said William Bell paying Interest | ||||
| or Consideracon for ye same to my sd Brother Peter Bell during | ||||
| the life of my said Mother Jane Bell Item my Will further is | ||||
| that in case my Daughter Jane shall dye without Issue of | ||||
| her body that then my Brethren Peter Bell & William | ||||
| Bell & their heires to whom my other Estate will discend & | ||||
| come shall pay unto my Nephew Thomas Cragg and to my | ||||
| Neice Jane Nicholson and to each of them the sume of Three | ||||
| pounds of lawfull English money within Twelve months | ||||
| next after the decease of my said Daughter Jane. Item I give | ||||
| legate & bequeath unto my loving Mother Jane Bell ye sume | ||||
| of Tenn shillings of lawfull English money to be payd by my | ||||
| Executors hereafter named within Twelve months next | ||||
| after my decease Item all the rest of my Goods & Chattells | ||||
| moveable & imoveable I give and bequeath unto my loveing | ||||
| Brethren Peter Bell and William Bell who I doe hereby | ||||
| nominate constitute and appointe Joynt Execss. of this my | ||||
| last Will and Testament Item I doe hereby nominate constitute | ||||
| and appointe, John Carr of Hexham aforesaid Gent Tutor & | ||||
| Guardian for my Daughter Jane Bell untill she attaine ye | ||||
| Age of one and Twenty years or be marryed Item my Will | ||||
| further is that in case my said Daughter Jane shall happen | ||||
| to dye without Issue of her Body that then my Brethren | ||||
| Peter Bell and William Bell & their heires to whom my other | ||||
| Estate will descend & come shall pay unto the said John Carr | ||||
| his heires or Assignes the sume of Five pounds of lawfull | ||||
| English money within Twelve months next after the | ||||
| decease of my said Daughter Jane In Witnesse whereof | ||||
| I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day & yeare | ||||
| first above written. Signed Sealed and published in the | ||||
| presence of us. Jerrard Bowman Elianor Bowmand and | ||||
| Richard Ellis | ||||
| Joseph Bell |
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