Archideaconal Will 1722 Lezayre #50, of Philip Quayle

From MM / LDS

Lezayre: This is affirmed to be the last will of Philip Quayle of the Creggan who departed this life the first day of Novr 1722, being of perfect mind and memory of at ye making thereof, & commending first & principally his soul to God & body to Christian burial.
Item, he left to his SON THOMAS two sheep that were in the flock of Balneskielley & a peckled heifer.
To his 2 DAUGHTERS ANNE & JONEY 2 heifers wch he supposed to be in calf & ordered that ye mother shd keep them (if she pleased) rather than any other, for the benefit of his sd daughter.
Item, to his SON JOHN he bequeathed all the sheep that were in Penny-pot; & to his SON WILLIAM all the sheep that were on the west side of Snayfield (2 muttons excepted), desiring his wife might let all the children have ye legacies left them wholly, & she to take goods that might be equal to them elsewhere, to wch the sd wife consented, & likewise that PHILIP THE HEIR shd have the whole crop & husbandry gears, whenever she quitted or left the Estate.
Item, to the 2 witnesses he bequeathed six pence apiece legacy.
And lastly constituted his WIFE ALICE & SON PHILIP joint Exrs of all the rest of his goods moveable & immoveable whatsoever, & willed that in regard the sd PHILIP was near being at age the goods shd not be valued, but that ye whole of his part of the Exrship shd remain in his mother's hands for 3 years, during wch time she is to reap the whole benefit of the same. Witnesses: Wm Quayle, Jon. Kermod, jurati.

TO TAKE AWAY ALL DISPUTE concerning ye last part of ye will, vizt., PHILIP's part of ye Exrship being left to his mother for 3 years; Tis now settled between ye Supervisor & her, that she is to have ye increase of all ye living goodswholly during ye sd term, excepting of the sheep & goats, of these she is only to kill or dispose of ye old ones as usual) & to have ye whole of the wool. THE WIFE (WHO CONSENTS TO YE WILL) is sworn in form of Law & so is WM QUAYLE of Balneskielly sworn supervisor. The children & goods in their mother's hands who has given pledges Nich. Kewley & Jon. Kermod. Probatum est & solvit 1s."