Page 45, Will, Phillip Jefferson, 22 December 1699, p 1
| In the Name of God Amen I Phillip Jefferson of Hexham in | ||||
| ye County of Northumberland Tanner being weake and infirme of | ||||
| body but of Sound & perfect memory praised be God for it do make | ||||
| & ordaine this my last Will & Testament in manner & forme | ||||
| following (that is to say) Imp I Recomend my Soule into ye hands | ||||
| of Almighty God my Creat hopeing Assuredly through ye meritts | ||||
| Death and passion of Jesus Christ my Saviour & Redeemer to obtaine | ||||
| full & free pardon of all my Sinns and to inheritt eternall life & | ||||
| my Body I give to ye earth from whence it came to be buried in | ||||
| Such decent and Christian manner as by my Executrix hereafter | ||||
| named shall be thought fitt & convenient And as for such | ||||
| worldly Estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon | ||||
| me I give & despose thereof as followeth Whereas at ye last | ||||
| Head Court held for ye Regality & Manno*of Hexham the Four & | ||||
| Twentieth day of October last I have surrendred according to | ||||
| ye Custome of ye said Manno Three Acrees of Arrable land or | ||||
| meadow Ground be it more or less together wth A House & other App | ||||
| to ye same belonging lyeing in ye West Feilds of Hexham aforesaid | ||||
| & comonly call'd Mirry Leazes between ye lands late Willi:m Johnstons | ||||
| on ye West the lands called Lady close on ye East Wynes well burne on | ||||
| ye South and ye Kings high way on ye North to Thomas Jefferson & | ||||
| John Robson of Hexham aforesaid Shooemakers their heires and | ||||
| Assignes to stand seized to such uses intents & purposes as I | ||||
| by my last Will & Testamt shall Order Nominate & appointe as in | ||||
| & by ye said surrender Relacon being thereunto had it doth and | ||||
| may more at large appear Now my Will & pleasure is And I | ||||
| doe hereby order & appointe That ye sd Thomas Jefferson and | ||||
| John Robson & yr* heires shall Stand seized of ye premisses in ye | ||||
| said surrender menconed with all & singular their Rights members | ||||
| & Apps to ye use and behoofe* of my wife Barbara Jefferson for | ||||
| and so long as she remains my Widdow and continues unmarried | ||||
| and from & after such time as she shall be married to another | ||||
| Husband that yn ye said Thomas Jefferson & John Robson and | ||||
| yr* heires shall Stand seized of ye abovemenconed premisses with | ||||
| their Apps to ye use & behoofe of my second sonn, Phillip Jefferson | ||||
| his Heires and Assignes upon Condicon that my said sonne | ||||
| Phillip Jefferson & his Heires or Assignes shall pay unto my Daughter | ||||
| Jane Jefferson the sume of Fifteen pounds of lawfull English | ||||
| money (that is to say) Five pounds parte thereof within Twelve | ||||
| months next after that my said sonn shall enter upon & enjoy ye | ||||
| said premisses (if my said Daughter Jane Shall be then liveing) | ||||
| Five pounds other part thereof within Twelve months | ||||
| next after, & ye other Five pounds residue thereof within | ||||
| Twelve months then next after. Item I give devise & bequeath | ||||
| unto my said wife Barbara All that my Freehold Burgage | ||||
| or Thatched house with ye Apps in Gillygate now in the | ||||
| possession of Peter Orde and John Corner & formerly belong | ||||
| -ing to Thomas Hutchinson Decd & also All that my Freehold |
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