"xxxx June the 28th xxxx: In the name of God, amen. I WILLIAM CORLETT sick in body but whole in mind and of perfect memory blessed be God for the same do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following: Imprimis: I commit my soul to God my Saviour and my body to Christian burial. Item, I leave to the poor one furlett of meal, one furlett of malt and a mutton. Item, I leave my SON WILLIAM and HIS WIFE ten shillings legacy. Item, I leave to HIS DAUGHTER twenty shillings legacy and also a calf of a year old. Item, I leave to my SON THOMAS all the goods in his possession that is to say one cow and an ox and MY WIFE hath given consent for her part of the same more over I leave him my said SON all my part of the sheep out of the whole. Item, I leave my SON JOHN my part of the money that is in ED: CROWRVS[?] Ballacotter's hand which is five pounds ten shillings in the whole. Item, I leave a feather bed to my SON THOMAS. Item, I leave my WIFE all my part of the linen and woolen cloth. Item, I leave a young colt to my DAUGHTER CATHRIN AND HER HUSBAND legacy. Item, I leave to my SISTER SON WILLIAM CROW Glandufe a house of bees. Item, I leave my BROTHER ROBERT CORLETT one furlett of barley legacy. Item, I nominate constitute and appoint my three SONS ROBERT, THOMAS, AND JOHN joint executors of all the rest of my goods moveable and unmoveable whatsoever excepting two shillings legacy I leave to my SISTER MARGARET CORLETT. Foreasmuch as would DOLINE CAINE deseased[?] pretended a d---- for a xxxx due to him, from the l---- but he doth freely declare he never owed the same to the said Caine. Witnesses: William Crowe, William Crowe.
LEZAYRE: THE EXECUTORS AT LAWFUL AGE are sworn in form of Law. Probatum est et Solvit. The Inventory given in by the Executors is xxxxx. Pledges in form of law Wm Crow and xxxx."
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