Archdeacon Will 1693/4 #39, German, of John Killey, died 8 April 1694:

"German: This is affirmed to be the last will and testament of JOHN KILLEY who departed this life the 8th of April 1694, being in perfect memory at the making thereof. First he committed his soul to God and body to Christian burial. Item, he left to HENRY KILLEY (HIS NEPHEW) two sheep. Item, to WILLIAM CRAINE a sheep and two lambs. Item, to every kinsman that would claim any right to his goods if the CHILD ON HIS WIFE'S BEARING did not live 6 pence apiece. Item, to his WIFE ANN CRELLIN all the remainder of the ground what soever, she paying the rent and defraying his funeral charges. Item, to his said WIFE a quarter of the crop new sewn and to be sewn, she maintaining the child now on her bearing if it pleased God it lived, with an house which he himself built and this house to be enjoyed by her if she pleased to live therein till the child came to 14 years of age. Item, he declared that he owed forty shillings to RICH: ELLISON, and to pay the same he left to JOHN KILLEY (HIS NEPHEW) an ox and an horse, and if that would not reach to pay the same, then the said JOHN KILLEY was to take as much out of the other quarter of the crop as would satisfy the debt. Item, he left to the posthume on his foresaid wife's bearing the said quarter of a crop, and that on account should be taken of it in stokes by the supervisor and put into the Record, for the use of the foresaid posthume if it lived to enjoy the same, and that this said quarter should remain in the custody of the foresaid JOHN KILLEY till the child came of age; and in the interim the said JOHN KILLEY to manage and till(?bill) the tenement, and if the child died underage, then this quarter of the crop was to return to the said JOHN KILLEY or he(?) the next heir. Item, he left the posthume his lawful Executor of all the rest of his goods moveable and immoveable whatsoever and if he died under age, then the foresaid JO: KILLEY. Item, he appointed his KINSMAN WILLIAM CRAINE aforesaid overseer of his said CHILD. Item, he declared that HENRY KILLEY should have the cow fit of his bill of mortgage to the term of xx years, and if he did not redeem it then to be continued to him from year to year till the moneys be paid. Witnesses: Will: Craine, Hen: Killey.

THE EXECUTOR BEING UNDERAGE the wife and xxxx sworn in Court according to Law. The tuition of the CHILD in the hands of the mother who hath given in pledges JOHN CRELLIN AND PATRICK CRELLIN according to Law.

The Inventory brought in by the overseers amount to 1 pound 2 shillings 0 pence. More added by the supervisors 40 stookes of oats; Item of barley 6 stooks, Item of wheat 1 stook. The goods in the hands of JOHN KILLEY who hath given pledges WILLIAM CRAIN and WILLIAM CANNEL according to Law."