Archdeaconal Will 1660 #12 German of Jane Stevenson als Moore,

"Germaine ye 16^th of Februairie 1658: In the name of God, Amen. I Jane Stevenson als Moore being in perfect health, & of good memorie, blessed be God for the same, yet considering the uncertaintie of the shortness of our daies and tyme here on earth: am desirous at this present, to make my last will & testament & the same to stand of force, if I shall not at any tyme hereafter alter it.
First, I comitt my soul to God with full confidence of the xxxxxxxx of the light, & my bodie to be interred in Xtian mould.
Itm, to the poore 1 boule of malt, 1 bo-: of wheat, & the rest at the discretion of my exec.
Itm, to my daughter Marie Stevenson thirtie pounds.
Itm, to my daughter Jane twentie pounds.
Itm, to my sonn James ten pounds.
Itm, to the child on my bearing fifteen pounds, & if it dy the sd fifteen pounds to returne to my daughters.
Itm, to my son & heire Willm Stevenson all that my part of the crope of corne, & teame of oxen: not onely as I now possess it but as it was promised by my father in law & mother in law at our marriage as is extant by bargaine of contract.
Likewise I leave to sd heire Willm Stevenson one new feather bed furnished with clothes, & sheets, & all the tables formes & bedstockes in the house without division: & in case my son Willm dy ere he come to bee married, or to lawfull yeares, I bequeath all the premises to my sonn James: & the ten pounds left the sd James to my birth if it live otherwise to my daughters, and soe whether heire male or female of my children come to be heire, I leave their legasie to the rest of my children.
Itm, to my heire the new cubboard wholly after my husband’s decease.
Itm, to my daughter Marie my trunke: & all my wearing linen & woolen clothes to my daughters, to my father the black stuffe.
Itm, to my mother my gould ring.
Item, I constitute & ordayne my loving husband Robert Stevenson true & whole exec of all the rest, And in testimonie that xxx hath given consent to all the promises, & will faithfully performe this my will, he hath subscribed his name before the witnesses.
Itt, I leave all my children and goods to my husband’s custodie, & bringing up.
It, I constitute my father & my brother James Moore overseers of my children. And in case my husband marrie, & the children be not looked unto, & used, I then leave power to my overseers to dispose of my children & their goods to such as they think of xxxx provided all waies it be for ye good of my poor childrens discresion I then leave my husband & brother James Moore xxxxxx[lower right corner crumbled away] my husband to have wholly to himself ye crop of corne[?] xxxx of oxen, or what goods came by bargaine xxxxxxxxx my father in law. Jane Stevenson als Moore her mark. Robt Stevenjson. Testes: James Moore, Tho Killy his X mark.

5^th August 1660: The supervisors & husband sworn. Probat et solvit 1s.

The Supervisors in Court have declared ye Inventory of goods or porcions who ye children to be mentioned, & expressed in ye will; and have further undertaken to bringe in a perfect Invent of ye particulars of ye wearinge[?] apparel as it is expressed for ye case of ye daughters as for other goods They xxxxx to ye husband being exec. Therefore the husband by consent of ye sd Supervisors hath given securityes Jo: Cain & tho: Radliffe, their heires exec & assigns for ye faithful answering of ye sd portions of ye children when they come to lawfull yeares, & to keepe the office xxxx eles suppoena double portion ad uses xxxx as witness their subscription this 5^th of August 1660: Jo: Cayne, Tho: Ratcliffe."