Page 102, Inventory,Timothy Johnston, p 2, Will, Cuthbert Bell, 8 September 1704, p 1
| £ : s : d | ||||
| Pewther valued to | 01 : 00 : 00 | |||
| Woodden Vessell | 00 : 6 : 8 | |||
| Linnen & Yarne | 02 : 00 : 00 | |||
| One Cow & Stirk* | 02 : 10 : 00 | |||
| Plate valued to | 02 : 10 : 00 | |||
| Grosieries Bridle Ware & oth Shopp goods | 26 : 10 : 00 | |||
| Debts oweing to ye Decd of wch some |
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| are Desperate } | 30 : 10 : 00 | |||
| Apprizers | 81 : 11 : 00 | |||
| Jo: Carr } | ||||
| Jo: Heron } | ||||
| Richd: Heron } | ||||
| In the Name of God Amen. I Cuthbert | ||||
| Bell of Hexham in ye County of Northumberland Skinner | ||||
| &glover being sick & weak in body but of sound & perfect | ||||
| memory (praise be God for it) Doe make & ordaine this my last | ||||
| Will & Testamt in mann & forme followeing (that is to say) | ||||
| First I comend my soul into ye hands of Almighty God my Creat | ||||
| hopeing assuredly through ye merritts Death & passion of | ||||
| Jesus Christ my Saviour & R.deem to obtaine full & | ||||
| Free pardon of all my sinns and to inherit eternall life | ||||
| And my body I give to ye earth from whence it came to | ||||
| be buried in such decent & christian manner as by my | ||||
| Exec.ix hereafter named shall be thought fitt & convenient | ||||
| And as for such worldly Estate as it hath pleased | ||||
| Almighty God to bestow upon me I give & dispose | ||||
| thereof as followeth; Item I give Legate & bequeath | ||||
| unto my eldest Daughter Margt Bell the sume of | ||||
| twenty pounds of lawfull English money to be pd her by | ||||
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