Archdeaconal Will 1757 #8 Malew of Elizabeth Gelling als xxxxx of Malew:

"Malew: The last will and testament of Elizabeth Gelling of the parish of Malew. I recommend my soul to God and my body to a Christian burial. I bequeath to my eldest son Nicholas the crop of my estate with the husbandry gears and the bay horse and the big chest and the dails in the house and the sheep. Item, I nominate and appoint my children namely Edward and Catherine joint Executors of all the rest of my effects moveable and immoveable whatsoever and that my son Nicholas is to give to his sister Catherine a bowle of oats or meal corn which these witnesses cannot be particular whether it was oats or meal corn and that her said Executors was not to disturb or strip the house for twelve months and this to be my last will which is as made and declared in the presence of us: Gilbert Shimmin my mark X, Andrew McDonald my mark X, jurati. At a Court of Correction holden at Castletown Feb 17^th 1757: The Executors are sworn in Court in form of Law as also to be just to one anther in the division of the goods and have given pledges for payment of debts and legacies namely Gilbert Shimmin and Andrew McDonald the witnesses of the will. Probatum est, Solvit 12d. Ro: Radcliffe, Matths Curghey."