In the Name of God Amen I John Pitts of Brokenbury in the County of Wilts yeoman being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and Memory Praise be given to almighty God I Do make and ordain this my present last Will and testament in manner and form following that is to say
ffirst and principally I Commend my Soule into the hands of Almighty God Hoping through the Merits Death and passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and for Giveness of all my Sins and to inherit Ever Lasting life and my body I commit to the yearth to be Decently buryed at the Dirrection of my Executor here after named and as touching the Disposission of All such temporall estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and Dispose there of as followeth that is to say
First I Will that all my debts and ffunnerall Charges shall be paid and Discharged
Item I Give and be quit unto my Loveing Wife Mary Pitts all my Reale Estate in manner and form as followeth, that is to say, the Halle and the Buttery adjoining to the said Halle and the to Chammers over the said Halle and Buttery and the Court Adjoining to the said Halle and the Garden joining also the said Halle and three appell trees in the orchot one called the yankoake appell and one called the Summer appell tree and the other Called the quining tree and Roome to sett or keep to or three Horses in the stable from the Day of my Deceas as Lng as She Shall happen to live and after her Decease it shall remaine and be unto my Executor here after named and all the Rest of my Reale Estat Houses Gardens Carksidd orchott Grounds leases meadows pastures what soever all being in Brokenbury afore said Shall be unto Samuel Pitts my Executor hereafter named During the full term of nine years after my decease for the payment of my Debts and paying unto my wife every year During the said term of nine years ffive pounds of lawfull mony Eight of the ffirst yeares and the ninth yeare ffifteen pounds of lawfull mony and at the end of the said term of nine years then all my Reale Estate afgoresaid shall Remaine and be unto my Wife for and During all her term of her natuall Life and after her Decease it shall Remaine and be unto Samuel Pitts my Executor hereafter named to he and his heires and Assigns for and During the Hole term and terms of years yeat to com and unacspired upon the said Estate and also I Give unto my wife all of the Goods that wase her own and all of my house hold goods for she to make use of it and keep it as long as shee do live and after her Decease it shall remaine and be unto they as I shall hand after mension and to load of wood to be delivered every yeare During the said term of nine years by my Executor and All the said sums During the said term aforesaid shall be paid every yeare at to equall payments one in at or upon the twenty ffifth day of March and the other in at or upon the twentyninth say of September
Item I Give and be quit unto my Coson Mary Pitts the Daughter of my Brother Simon Pitts Late Deceased Sixty pounds of Lawfull mony to be paid at three equall payments by my Executor here after named the first payment to be made and paid with in one yeare after my Deceas and my Wife Decease and the second payment to be made and paid with in ffour yeares after my Decease and my Wife decease and the third and Last payment to be paid and Made with in four years after my Decease and my Wife Decease and my warming pan.
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Loving Coson Elizabeth Pitts the daughter of my Brother Simon Pitts Late Deceased Sixty Pounds of Lawfull mony to be paid by my Executor here after named at three Equall payments the first payment to be made and paid with in to yeares after my Deceas and my Wife Deceas and the second payment to be made and paid with in ffive yeares after my Decease and my Wife decease and the third and Last payment to be made and paid with in Eight yeares after my Deceas and my Wife Deceas
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Loving Coson Sarah Pitts the daughter of my Brother Simon Pitts Late Deceased Sixty Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony to be paid by my Executor here after named at three Equall payments the first payment to be made and paid with in three yeares after my Deceas and my Wife Deceas and the second payment to be made and paid with in Six yeares after my Decease and my Wife decease and the third and Last payment to be made and paid with in nine yeares after my Deceas and my Wife Deceas and if any of the Sums a fore mentuioned Given unto my Cosons Mary Pitts Elizabeth Pitts and Sarah Pitts be not paid in manner and form as a fore said and it is Lawfully Demanded then it shall be Lawfull to and for the said Mary Pitts Elizabeth Pitts and Sarah Pitts to enter into the said estate here by Given to my Executor here after named in Six months after it is Lawfully Demanded and to keep it xxxx payment be made
(Item) I Give and quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts ten pounds of Lawfull mony to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after mydecease and my Wife Decease
(Item I) give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Son John Pitts ffive Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease
(Item I) Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Son Timothy Pitts ffive Pounds to be paid within Eleven years by my Executor here after named after my decease and my Wife Decease of Good and Lawfull mony of England
(Ite)m I Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Son Simon Pitts ffive Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Son Daniel Pitts ffive Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Son Joseph Pitts ffive Pounds to be paid by my Executor here after named of Lawfull mony of England within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Daughter Elizabeth Pitts ffive Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Daughter Lydia Pitts ffive Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease
(Item) I Give and be quit unto my Brother Samuell Pitts Daughter Sarah Pitts ffive Pounds of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid by my Executor here after named within Eleven years after my decease and my Wife Decease and I Give all my Goods in the Halle and Buttery and the to Chammers over the Halle and |Buttery unto Elizabeth Pitts Lydia Pitts and Sarah Pitt the Daughter of my Brother Samuel Pitts after my decease and my Wife Decease to be Equally Divided betweene them
Item I Give and be quit unto my Brother Daniel Pitts Daughter Croset twenty Shillings of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid with in three years after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item I Give unto my Sister Hanna Davis Daughter Hanna Davis twenty Shillings of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid with in to years after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item I Give and bequit unto my Sister Hanna Davis Daughter Mary Davis twenty Shillings of Lawfull mony of England to be paid with in to years after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item I Give and bequit unto my Sister Hanna Davis Daughter Sarah Davis twenty Shillings of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid with in to years after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item I Give and bequit unto my Sister Elizabeth Pitts ffive Shillings of Good and Lawfull mony to be paid by my Executor here after named with in one yeare after my Decease and my Wife Decease
Item I Give and bequit unto my Sister Sarah Pitts ffive Shillings of Good and Lawfull mony of England to be paid with in one yeare after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item I Give unto my Coson Joseph Boyd the son of my Sister in Law Hester Boyd Late Deceased twenty Shillings of Lawfull mony of of England to be paid with in 2 yeare after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item I Give and bequit unto my Coson Hester Boyd the daughter of my Sister in Law Hester Boyd Late Deceased twenty Shillings of Lawfull mony to be paid with in to yeare after my Decease and my Wife Decease by my Executor here after named
Item All the Rest and Residue of All my Reale Estate and Parsonall Estate Good Chattls whatso ever I do Give and bequit unto my Loving Coson Samuell Pitts the son of my Brother Samuel Pitts to hisd Heirs and Assigns full and sole Executor of this my Presnt Last Will and testament And I do here by Revoke and Dissanul and make void all former Wills and Testament here to fore made by me In Witnmess where of to this my present Last Will and Testament I have In for thaing (?) able sett my hand and seale the six day of March and in the six yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraign Lord and Lady William and Mary by the grace of God King and Queen of England Scotland Ffrance and Ireland yr Anno Domini 1693/4 Sealed and Delivered in the Presents of

Here followeth a true Invitory of All the Estate Goods Chattle whatsoever of John Pitts of brokenbury in the County of Wilts yeoman Late Deceased praised the six and twentieth Day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1694 by Daniel Weard Samuel Eycott and Roger Andrews as followeth

	£	s	d
Imprimus his wearing apparell	4	0	0
It In the Chammer our the Halle one bead and bead steed with all the apputenances belonging and one Coffer and one box & three Chayers and all the Rest of the furniture	4	0	0
It In the Chammer over the butteries and bead and beadsteed with the appurtenances belonging and one Chest with other Lomber Goods	3	0	0
It In the Halle one table bord and frame and one Settle and Cobbard and other Lomber Goods	1	10	0
Item The buttery one table bord and to Barrels and one flagon and som other jares of Pewter with other Lomber Goods	0	15	0
Item The Brewhouse one furnace and kettle and one brass xxxx	0	15	0
It one Cheese press and one whisk and cart with other lomber Goods in the Stable	1	10	0
It the house Gardens arshotts Corte backside and one lease called the Close and one Ground called the Rowlease and one mead Long lease	250	0	0
It one ground Called Newlease Chattle Lease for four score and nineteen yeares if the three lives live so long	20	0	0
	285	10	0
Item In Debts and rents due to the Testator	11	0	0
The whole	296	10	0

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