Page 20, Will, John Leadbitter, 30 March 1696
| In the Name of God Amen I John Leadbitter of Hexham | ||||
| in ye County of Northumberland Tanner being sick in body but | ||||
| of sound & perfect Mind |
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| God Doe make this my last Will & Testamt in manner & forme | ||||
| following (yt is to say) First I recomend my soule in to the | ||||
| hands of Almighty God my makeer* hoping assuredly through ye | ||||
| meritts of Jesus Christ my only Saviour & Redeem to be made | ||||
| partaker of eternall happiness & my body to ye earth to be buried | ||||
| according to ye Discrecon of my Executrix herein after named |
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| Item as for |
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| reall & personall to pserve Love & Kindness amongst my wife | ||||
| and Children & for making provision for each & every of them & | ||||
| payment of my just Debts and yt ye same may goe to such uses | ||||
| intents & purposes I Doe give Devise & bequeath ye same in such | ||||
| sort manner & forme & to such uses intents & purposes as are | ||||
| herein after menconed (vizt) whereas I have this psent Day | ||||
| of the Date hereof before ye sealing & Executing of these psents | ||||
| surrendred into ye hands of ye Lord of the Mann of Hexham aforesd | ||||
| by ye hands of ye Baliffe & two Coppyholds according to ye custome of | ||||
| the sd Mannour there anciently used All that my Burgage* with | ||||
| ye | ||||
| a garden & other ⁁ Apps to ye same adjoyning & belonging scituate* | ||||
| & being in ye Town of Hexham in A street there called Gillygate | ||||
| & boundering between ye Burgage* of Wm Leadbitter on ye south & the | ||||
| lands of John Leadbitter & ye lands late |
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| the West the lands late John Smiths on ye north & ye Kings high | ||||
| street on ye East together wth ye revercon & revercons remainder | ||||
| & remainds thereof & of every part & parcell thereof And All | ||||
| the Freehold Estate right title & Intest Claime & Demand | ||||
| whatsoever wch I the said John Leadbitter my heires Exs Adms | ||||
| of | ||||
| have can or ought to have ⁁ in & to ye pmisses aforesd of the Yearly | ||||
| Rent of Five shillings & Threepence to ye Use & behoofe* of | ||||
| John Carr of Hexham aforesd Gent his heires & Ass forever | ||||
| according to ye Custome of ye sd Mannour to & for such uses intents | ||||
| & purposes as I by my last Will & Testamt shall nominate ordaine | ||||
| & appoint Now my Will is & I Doe hereby Order & appoint that the sd | ||||
| John Carr shall sell ye sd Burgage & Garden wth all & singul ye Apps | ||||
| abovemenconed to ye best advantage & ye over plus of the money | ||||
| raised by ye sale of ye same (from & after ye sume of Fifty pounds | ||||
| due to the said John Carr for wch he hath a former surrender of ye | ||||
| sd Burgage & other ye pmisses wth ye Apps with Interest for ye same | ||||
| is satisfyed & Payd) I Do hereby give & bequeath unto my Three | ||||
| Younger sonns Cuth Leadbitter Jo Leadbitter & Ra Leadbitter | ||||
| to be equally Divided amongst them And if any of my sd sonns | ||||
| shall happen to Dye before they attaine the Age of one & Twenty | ||||
| Years then my Will further is that such share & part of the | ||||
| over plus of ye sd money as becomes or may be due to the party | ||||
| or partys dying shall come to my other |
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| sd Three Younger sons surviveing as abovesd And All the Rest of | ||||
| my goods & Chattels moveable & immoveable I give & bequeath | ||||
| unto my loveing wife Issabell whom I Doe herby noiate & | ||||
| appoint sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament And I | ||||
| Doe hereby revoke all former & other Wills & Testamts by me | ||||
| made either by word or writing In Witnesse whereof I have | ||||
| hereunto sett my hand & seale this Thirtieth Day of March Ao* | ||||
| Regni Willi Tertij Rx Ang &c Octavo Annoq Dni 1696* signed | ||||
| sealed Published & Declared to be ye last Will & Testament of | ||||
| the abovenamed John Leadbitter in ye psence of John Cooke William | ||||
| Johnston Tho Leadbitter & Cuth Robinson jur* | ||||
| John Leadbitter | ||||
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