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Clauses:
1) his body is to be buried in the churchyard at Newton Purcell
2) all his goods etc are to be passed jointly to his wife & son John, who are then to pay out the other legacies below
3) to daughter Ellen five pounds (to be paid to her or her husband, half at Candlemas and half at Whitsun, by selling some trees growing at Tingewick)
4) to Ellen's child, a sheep
5) to other three daughters - Alice, Margaret and Mathew [should this be Martha?] ten pounds each as well as the cattle they already have.
6) to son Richard three pounds and the heifers he already has
7) to the poor of Newton Purcell, three shillings
8) to god-daughter Anne Taylor a sheep
9) to godson Christofer Fenimer a sheep
10) residue jointly to wife & son John unless his wife remarries, in which case she is to give up the house etc at Tingewick to John
John is also asked to be 'an obedient sonne and a true and faithfulle servant unto his mother during her widowhood and not to marie without her consent \ but if he doe then to depart quite a way \ not molestinge her in anie thing'
His wife is made sole executrix: the will is signed (with a X mark) in the presence of John Lawrence (minister), John Taylor and Edmund Clarke the younger. Probate was granted in April 1611.