KK Christ Rushen: The last will and testament of Mrs. Elizabeth Qualtrough senior of Kentraugh, she being at perfect mind and memory at the making hereof. First, she commended her soul to Almighty God and her body to Christian burial. Item, she bequeathed to her graddaughter Elizabeth Qualtrough one hundred and forty pounds, the sum whereof being already in her uncle's hands, and to receive the aforesaid sum when she should arrive at the age of twenty one; an hundred and twenty yards of linen cloth, five blankets, three coverlets, a new black hood, a red mantle, a scarlet mantle, the next chest to the biggest, five gowns, four petticoats, ten aprons, twelve new shifts, three silk handkerchiefs and four muslin ditto, twelve hoods and pinners, a new feather bed and twelve yards fine white cloth. Item, she bequeathed unto her grandson william qualtrough twenty pounds and to call for the same when he should be twenty one years of age. Item, to her grandson Chavelier sixty pounds and to have and enjoy the same when he should arrive at the age of twenty one years. Item, she bequeathed to William & Chavelier twenty yards of linen. Lastly, she constituted nominated and appointed her loving son Mr. William Qualtrough to be sole executor of all the rest of her goods and effects moveable and immovable, and deprived all others that might claim title to her goods or effects after her decease with six pence legacy each. All this she affirmed to be her last will and testament this 4th day of February 1742. Witnesses: Thomas Gawne, Jane Stevenson. Mr. William Qualtrough the Executor is sworn in Court in form of Law and hath given pledges for payment of debts and legacies namely the Revd. Mr. Quayle and Capt. Thomas Gawne.
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