Archideaconal Will 1721 #25, Andreas, of James Teare

This is affirmed to be the last will & testament of JAMES TEAR, who departed this life about ye 25 March 1720, being in perfect mind & memory at the making thereof.
First, He committed his soul to God & body to Christian burial.
Item, He left to his ELDEST SON JOHN TEAR half the crop, & half the team, with half the husbandry gears.
Item, He left that the sheep shud be divided equally betwixt his sd SON JOHN and HIS MOTHER, or to be equally concern'd in them.
Item, He left to his SON JAMES TEAR a pair of looms & twenty shillings as legacy, with an heifer of two years old; And whatever sheep were named upon him, that he shud have them to himself.
Item, He delcar'd that there was 18s due to MALLY SAYLE; ten shillings to CATH: SKINNER; three shillings to PHILIP FARGHER;
And he order'd his ELDEST SON JOHN to pay a third part of these debts, out of half of the crop & team.
Lastly, He constituted & appointed his WIFE sole & lawful Execrx of all the rest of his goods moveable & immoveable whatever; with a young stone[?] horse of four years old to her, as legacy. Witnesses: Chas Cowle, John Goldsmith, jurati.

THE EXECRX SWORN in form of Law. Probatum est & solvit 12d. Pledges, the witnesses of the will."

Andreas bur reg: James Tear (Smeale Crenilt), died of smallpox, bur 26 Mar 1720