Page 17, Will, John Charleton, 11 August 1697; Will, John Cragg, 20 March 1695
| In the Name of God Amen I John Charleton of Wall in ye | ||||
| County of Northumbland Gent being sick in Body but good and | ||||
| perfect remembrance (thanks be to Almighty God) doe make this | ||||
| my last Will and Testament in manner & form following. First | ||||
| I Commend my soul in ye hands of Almighty God : And settle my | ||||
| Temporall Estate as followeth. It I give and bequeath to my wife | ||||
| all my goods, & Chattells of what kind soever. The same be and in | ||||
| whose hands, Custody or possession soever, ye same be in; And I | ||||
| make my wife sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament, | ||||
| Revoking all other Wills by me formerly made ; In Witnesse whereof | ||||
| I have hereunto set my hand & Seale this Eleaventh day of August | ||||
| Anno Dni 1697 : Sealed Signed Published & Declared to be his last | ||||
| Will and Testament in ye psence of William Potts Cuthbert | ||||
| Lambert, Jo Greenwell : | ||||
| John Charleton | ||||
| In the Name of God Amen I John Cragg of Hexham in the | ||||
| County of Northumberland Cordwainner being sick & week in Body But | ||||
| of sound & perfect memory (praised be God for it* Doe make this my last | ||||
| Will & Testament in manner & forme following (yt is to say) First I | ||||
| Commend my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hopeing | ||||
| assuredly through ye meritts Death & passion of Jesus Christ my saviour & | ||||
| Redeemer to obtaine full pardon & remission of all my sins & to inheritt | ||||
| eternall life; And my body to ye Earth from whence it came to be buried | ||||
| in such decent & Christian manner as by my Executrix hereafter named | ||||
| shall be thought fitt & as for such worldly Estate as it hath pleased | ||||
| Almighty God to bestow upon me. I Dispose thereof as Followeth Item | ||||
| I give Demise* & bequeath unto my Two Daughters Margarett Cragg & Elizabeth | ||||
| Cragg their heires & Ass forever the Moyety* or halfe of all that my Acree | ||||
| of Arrable Land or meadow ground lyeing & being in ye West Feilds of | ||||
| Hexham called Hencoates Feilds in A certaine place there called ye Skaites | ||||
| boundering on the Lands of Thomas Ellwoods on the East ye Skaite Loaning | ||||
| on the south & the Lands Late Issabel Allgoods Decd on ye West & North To | ||||
| have and to hold the said halfe Acree of Land unto the sd Margarett Cragg | ||||
| & Elizabeth Cragg their Heires & Ass forever Provided always & my Will | ||||
| further is that if my sonn John Cragg Doe pay unto my said Daughters | ||||
| Margarett & Elizabeth & to either of them the sume of Tenn pounds of lawfull | ||||
| English money wthn Three months next after they shall attaine ye Ages of | ||||
| one & Twenty Years or be marryed That then upon paymt of ye sd sumes as | ||||
| aforesd my sd Daughter shall convey ye sd halfe Acree of Ground unto the sd John | ||||
| Cragg my sonn his heires & Ass forever ; And my |
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| of my Daughter shall happen to Die before she attaine ye Age of one and | ||||
| Twenty Years or be married as aforesd yt then ye sd sume of Tenn pounds soe | ||||
| due to her by this my last Will shall be Due & payable to my other Daughter | ||||
| surviveing Item my Will further is & I Doe hereby give Devise & bequeath | ||||
| unto my loveing wife Elizabeth All the sd Acres of Ground lyeing in ye Skaites | ||||
| aforesd during her naturall life in case my son & Daughters aforemenconed | ||||
| shall All happen to Dye before they attaine ye Ages of one & Twenty | ||||
| Years & not otherwise Item I give legate & bequeath unto my sd wife Elizabeth | ||||
| the sume of Tenn pounds due to me from my Brother in Law John Smith Tanner | ||||
| And all the rest of my goods & Chattels moveable & immoveable I give & bequeath | ||||
| unto my wife Elizabeth Cragg who I Doe hereby |
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| Will & Testament And I Doe hereby revoke All former & other Wills & Testaments | ||||
| by me made either by Word or writeing In Witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett | ||||
| my hand & seale ye Twentieth Day of March Anno regni Willi tertij nunc Rx Ang* | ||||
| &c Octavo Annoq Dni 1695* Sealed & Published in ye psence of us John Wilkinson Thomas | ||||
| Cragg jur Matt Robinson Jo Smith & John Carr | ||||
| John Cragg | ||||
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