Page 16, Will, William Lee, 23 November 1697
| In the Name of God Amen The Twenty Third day of | ||||
| November in the Ninth Year of William The Third of England etc | ||||
| King & in ye Year 1697 I William Lee of Hexam in the County of | ||||
| Northumberland shoomaker being sick in Body but in good and | ||||
| perfect memory praised be to Almighty God & calling to remembrance | ||||
| the Incertain Estate of this Transitory life & all flesh must | ||||
| yeild unto Death when it shall please God to call doe make | ||||
| Constitute & Declare this my last Will & Testament in manner & | ||||
| form following. Revoking and adnulling by these psents all | ||||
| and every Testament and Testamts Will & Wills heretofore by me | ||||
| made & Declared either By word or By writing and this to be taken | ||||
| Will & Testamt & none other & first being penitent & sorry from ye bottom of my heart for my sins past most Humbly desiring* | ||||
| onely for my last ⁁ forgiveness for y same I give and Committ my | ||||
| Soul unto Almighty God my saviour & Redeemer in whom and by | ||||
| the Meritts of Jesus Christ I trust & believe assuredly to be saved | ||||
| and to have full remission and forgiveness of All my sins and that | ||||
| my soul with my Body at ye Generall day of Resurrection shall | ||||
| Rise again with Joy & Through ye meritts of Christs Death & Passion | ||||
| possess & inherit the Kingdome of Heaven prepared for his Elect | ||||
| and chosen and my Body to be buried in such place where it shall | ||||
| please my Executrix hereaft named and now for ye setling my | ||||
| Temporall Estate & such goods & Chattells as it hath pleased God | ||||
| to bestow upon me. I Doe Order give and Dispose the same in | ||||
| mann & form following. Item I give and bequeath unto my son | ||||
| Anthony Lee The Sume of Twenty Pounds of lawfull English money | ||||
| to be paid by my Executrix hereaft named within Twelve monthes | ||||
| next aft my Decease for his porcon Item I give & Bequeath unto | ||||
| my son Cuthbert Lee ye sume of Twenty Pounds of lawfull English | ||||
| money to be paid by my Executrix hereafter named within Twelve | ||||
| months next aft my Decease for his porcon & my will further is | ||||
| that if either of them happen to die before they attain ye Age | ||||
| of one & Twenty Years then such porton by me hereby left to my | ||||
| sons shall Acrow & goe to my other son so surviving Item I give and | ||||
| bequeath unto my Dear wife Mary Lee all my other goods and Chattells | ||||
| moveable and unmoveable whom I doe hereby appoint to be my | ||||
| sole Executrix of this my last will & Testament to see my Will | ||||
| proved & funerall Expenses Discharged I Doe hereby appoint my | ||||
| Brother Christopher Lee of Wall to be my supervisor of this my said | ||||
| Will to take care and dispose of my sd Childrens porcons to ye Best | ||||
| advantage & if my wife mary Shall happen to die before my Eldest | ||||
| son William Lee come to Age I Doe appoint ye sd Christo: Lee to be Tutor | ||||
| of & for my son William Lee In Witnesse hereof I have hereunto sett my | ||||
| hand & seale ye day & year above written. signed sealed & delived in ye psence | ||||
| of Philipp Aydon, Wm Aydon; Wm Stokoe William Lee | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW