Page 120, Will, Peter Thirlewall, P 1.
| T:Pe: } | In the Name of God Amen I Peter Thirlewall of | |||
| Thirlewall} | Mollersteeds* in ye County of Northumberland Yeom being | |||
| sick & weak of body but of sound & perfect memory (praised be God | ||||
| for it) Doe make & ordaine this my last Will & Testamt in mann | ||||
| & forme followeing Revokeing & hereby annulling all former & | ||||
| other Wills & Testamts by me made either by word or writeing | ||||
| And first I comend my soule into ye hands of almighty God | ||||
| my Creator hopeing assuredly through ye merits death and | ||||
| passion of Jesus Christ my Saviour & Redeemer to obtaine | ||||
| full & free pardon of all my sinns & to inherit eternall life | ||||
| And my body I give to ye earth from whence it came to be | ||||
| buried in such decent and Christian manner as by my | ||||
| Exec hereafter named shall be thought meet & 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, Devise & bequeath unto my | ||||
| loveing Wife Elianor for and Dureing her nrall life | ||||
| the moiety or one halfe of all my Lands & Grounds in | ||||
| Mollersteads aforesd She my sd Wife giveing free | ||||
| liberty and Licence unto my eldest Sone John Thirlewall | ||||
| att any time after my Decease to enter in to Fell cut Downe | ||||
| Stack Perch* & carry away all ye Wood & Bark now growing | ||||
| upon ye premises or any part thereof; Item I give and | ||||
| bequeath unto my Daughter Jane Thirlewall the | ||||
| sume of Forty pounds of lawfull English money to | ||||
| be paid her ye Twelfth day of December in ye yeare | ||||
| of our Lord 1704: by my sd Sone John Thirlewall | ||||
| out of my Estate att Mollersteeds aforesd for her filiall | ||||
| porcon: Item I give, Legate and bequeath unto my | ||||
| Sone Robert Thirlewall the sume of Forty pounds of | ||||
| lawfull English money to be paid him the Twelfth | ||||
| Day of December in ye yeare of our Lord 1706: | ||||
| by my sd Sone John Thirlewall out of my Estate att | ||||
| Mollersteeds aforesd Item I give, Legate and bequeath | ||||
| unto my Sone Peter Thirlewall the sume of Forty | ||||
| him the Twelfth Day of December in ye yeare of | ||||
| our Lord 17010*: by my sd Sone John Thirlewall out of | ||||
| my Messuages Lands & Tenemts att Mollersteeds |
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