Page 114, Wills, Margaret Walton, 16 Sept 1706, p 2; Matthew Lee, 8 Oct 1706, p 1
| Shillings. I give unto my Grandchilde Joseph Lee | ||||
| ten shillings. I give unto my Grandchilde Margt Smith | ||||
| ten shillings. I give unto my Grandchilde Mary Lee | ||||
| ten shillings. I give unto my Neice Anne Johnson | ||||
| two pound. I give unto Elizabeth Lee five shillings | ||||
| I give unto Mary Smith five shillings. I give unto | ||||
| Peter Lawson five shillings: I give unto Hannah | ||||
| Dixon five shillings. I make & ordaine my Grandchilde | ||||
| John Lee to be Executor of this my last Will and | ||||
| Testamt revoakeing & disanulling all former | ||||
| Wills by me made. I declare this to be my last Will | ||||
| & Testamt. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett | ||||
| my hand & Seale ye Sixteenth Day of September | ||||
| Anno Dni 1706: Margaret Walton | ||||
| John Lawson x {x} | ||||
| William Lawson. jurat cora me* Geo Ritschell. | ||||
| Matthew } | In the Name of God Amen the eight day of October In the | |||
| Lee } | fifth year of ye Reign of ou Soveraign Lady Ann by ye grace | |||
| of God of England Scotland france & Ireland Queen defendr | ||||
| of ye faith ec I Matthew Lee of Whiteley Sheele in ye County | ||||
| of Northumberland & parish of Allendale being sick & | ||||
| weak in body but of perfect mind & memory (praised | ||||
| be God) do make & ordaine this my last Will & Testamt | ||||
| in manner & forme following (that is to say) first and | ||||
| principally I comitt my soul to Almighty God yt gave | ||||
| it & my body to be decently buried att ye discretion of my | ||||
| Execx & for my worldly goods wch it hath pleased God | ||||
| to bestow upon me I give bequeath & dispose of ye same | ||||
| as followeth; Imps I give & bequeath to my Aunt Elizabeth | ||||
| Teasdale ye sum of forty shillings, Item I give & bequeath to | ||||
| my Cozen* Frances Keenliside ye sum of forty shillings Item | ||||
| I give & bequeath to Giles Raisley if my wife Margaret | ||||
| Lee have no child or children of my body when he comes to | ||||
| ye age of twenty one yeares if he so long live ye sum of ten | ||||
| pounds, Item I give & bequeath to Mary Raisley my | ||||
| neece if my wife Margaret Lee have no child or | ||||
| Children of my body when she comes to ye age of twenty | ||||
| one yeares if she so long live ye sum of twenty pounds | ||||
| provided alwayes & it is ye true intent & meaning of |
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