Page 14, Will, Richard Ord, 24 August 1676
| In the name of God Amen Upon the twenty fourth of | ||||
| August in ye Twenty Eighth Year of our Kg Charles ye Second. & in ye Year of our | ||||
| Lord God 1676 I Richard Ord Of Nether Ardley in ye Liberties of Hexham & | ||||
| County of Northumberland Do make this my last Will & Testamt in manner | ||||
| & form Following: First I Committ my Soul to Almighty God my Maker | ||||
| & to Jesus Christ my Redeemer, upon whose meritorious Pasion & Mercy | ||||
| I Do onely Relye for a Healing Medicine for all my Sores, & Do Hope | ||||
| for Salvation thorough his Blood To Whom be Glory for ever & ever Amen | ||||
| And my Body to be Burryed at ye discretion of my friends, leaveing | ||||
| my Motherlesse (& abt to be Fatherlesse) Children unto ye keeping of | ||||
| ye Lord: And for my Wordly Estate that hee hath In |
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| here, I Do Order as Followeth: Know Yee then, that is not my | ||||
| Purpose to Abbrogate or make Null, But that I do hereby Ratifie & | ||||
| Confirme that Deed of Guift made in ye Year of God (as I remember) | ||||
| 1662: To my father John Ord, & my Trusty Friend Wm Weldone | ||||
| ye Elder of Adon Sheeles, Alexander Forster then of Over Eschells & | ||||
| Richard Walton of Peacock house, & now in ye Custody & possession of | ||||
| ye said Wm Weldon. Of all my Personal Estate for ye Raiseing | ||||
| & Provideing of Portions to my Six Children Thomas, Richard | ||||
| Margarett, Barbary, Phebe & Dorcas: And Whereas my Son | ||||
| Thomas is now dead, It is my Will & Pleasure, That his Share be | ||||
| equaly divided amongst ye Rest, And likewise my Daughter | ||||
| Margarett being dead it is my Will & Pleasure that her share | ||||
| shall be given to her Son Anthony Hedley. Yet be it known, that ye | ||||
| Real intent then was at ye making of ye Said Deed, & now also | ||||
| is by this my last Will & Testamt If none of my trusty friends | ||||
| shall Receive any losse or pjudice by ye sd Deed or any thing therein | ||||
| conteined, (That is to say) to be compelled by any law or | ||||
| thereof to raise any sume therein menconed further then can realy | ||||
| & indeed be made of ye Personal Estate, so that if my sd friends do | ||||
| meet together & Divide ye said Estate in kind amongst my said Children | ||||
| & putt it into good hands for their Uses & faithfully lend their best | ||||
| assistance in ye same: I Do hereby Declare them freed & discharged | ||||
| of any Engagemt Act or thing done or to be done in ye sd Deed, any | ||||
| thing therein conteined to ye contrary notwthstanding, Also it is my Will & | ||||
| pleasure that my Son Richd Ord Shall pay out of my Real Estate unto my | ||||
| dear Wife Susanna |
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| life: Lastly I Do make & appoint my dear Wife Susanna & my Daughter | ||||
| Barbary joint Executors of this my last will & Testamt, And likewise | ||||
| I do order & appoint my trusty friend John Swinburne & my loving Brother | ||||
| John Ord for to be Supvisors that this may be Executed according as I | ||||
| have said In Witnesse Whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & Seale | ||||
| ye day & year first above written: Signed Sealed in ye Psence of Us | ||||
| John Errington, Robert Brown, Robert Readshaw | ||||
| Richard Orde | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW