Page 109, Will, Nicholas Walker, 19 March 1700, p 2; Will, Mathew Lee, 5 Dec 1705, p 1
| Executors a year after my decease Item I give to my Grandchild | ||||
| Dorothy Olliver five shillings & to mary daughter of Mary | ||||
| Thirlwall widdow Tenn shillings to be paid in like manner | ||||
| Lastly after my debts Legacies & funerall Expenses paid & | ||||
| discharged by my Executors hereafter nominated I make & | ||||
| constitute my sd Sons Edward Walker Joseph Walker & my | ||||
| loveing wife Dorothy Walker Joynt Executors of this my | ||||
| last Will & Testament In Testimony whereof I set to my | ||||
| hand & seal ye day & year above written Sealed Signed & | ||||
| delivered in ye presence of us Tho: Jones Timo: Johnson | ||||
| Roger Walker |
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| Nicholas Walker | ||||
| In the name of God Amen this fifth day of December In ye | ||||
| fourth year of ye raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Ann (by ye | ||||
| Grace of God) Queen of England Scotland France & Ireland defend | ||||
| of ye faith Annoqz Domini 1705: I Mathew Lee of Midlehope in ye | ||||
| parish of Allendaile & County of Northumberland, being of a | ||||
| Good & perfect memory (thanks be to God for ye same) & calling | ||||
| to mind ye uncertainty of this life, doe make & ordain this my | ||||
| last Will & Testament in manner & forme following, Revokeing | ||||
| & Annulling all other Will & Wills heretofore by me made do | ||||
| make constitute & Allow this my last will & Testament & none | ||||
| other First I commit my Soul to Almighty God my maker & | ||||
| my body to be buryed in decent manner at ye discretion of | ||||
| my Executrix hereafter menconed. And as for ye setling & | ||||
| disposeing of what temporal Goods as it hath pleased God | ||||
| to Endue me with I order & dispose of as followeth Imp I give | ||||
| & bequeath unto my sister in law Elizabeth Lee Widdow ye | ||||
| Sume of Five pounds yearly & every year during ye tearm | ||||
| of Six years to be paid her at midsum yearly dureing ye sd | ||||
| tearm of six years alwaies provided & upon condicon that | ||||
| she ye sd Elizabeth Lee shall remain a widdow during ye sd | ||||
| Tearm, but if peradventure she ye sd Elizabeth Lee shall Marry | ||||
| before any ye aforesd days of payment, that from that | ||||
| time forwards till ye sd tearm of six years be Expired ye aforesd | ||||
| sum of Five pounds yearly due as aforesd shall go forwards | ||||
| & be kept for ye use of her ye sd Elizabeth Lee four Children | ||||
| Item I give & bequeath unto ye four children of my sd sister | ||||
| Elizabeth Lee vizt Nicholas Lee Elizabeth Lee John Lee & | ||||
| William Lee or to their Tutors for their use ye sume of |
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