Page 74, Will, Fenwick Downes, 25 February 1702, p 2; Will, Joseph Bell, 8 November 1700, p 1
| Watson Supervisors and Overseers of this my last Will and | ||||
| Testament and desire their care advice and assistance to my said | ||||
| wife in the prudent conduct and management of her Affairs | ||||
| And my Will & pleasure is that if my said wife shall dye before | ||||
| shall | ||||
| the said severall & respective Legacyes ⁁ be paid to my said | ||||
| Children or any of them that then my said Supervisors shall take | ||||
| upon them the Burthen and Charge of seeing this my last Will | ||||
| and Testament duely performed And I make them my Executs | ||||
| after her Death for ye sole use benefitt and advantage of | ||||
| my said Children Fenwick Downes and Shaftoe Downes & seeing | ||||
| the said Hundred pounds paid to my said Daughter Frances | ||||
| according to this my last Will & Testament In Witnesse whereof | ||||
| I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this Twenty Fifth | ||||
| day of February in the first Year of the Reigne of our | ||||
| Soveraigne Ladye Anne by the Grace of God of England | ||||
| Scotland France and Queen Defender of ye Faith ec Annoq | ||||
| Dni 1702. Read signed sealed & published in ye presence of | ||||
| us Wm. Carr Carleton Hebden Robert Fenwick | ||||
| Fenwick Downes | ||||
| In the Name of God Amen the Eight day of November | ||||
| in the Twelfth Year of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord | ||||
| William the third by the Grace of God of England Scotland | ||||
| France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith ec Annoq | ||||
| Dni 1700 I Joseph Bell of Hexham in the County of Northumb : | ||||
| Carpenter being sick and Weak in body but of sound & perfect | ||||
| memory praised be God for it doe make constitute ordaine | ||||
| & declare this my last Will and Testament in manner & forme | ||||
| following Revokeing & by these presents annulling all former | ||||
| & other Wills and Testaments by me made either by word or | ||||
| writeing Impss. I commend my Soule into the hands of Almighty | ||||
| God my Creator hopeing by the meritts Death and passion of | ||||
| Jesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer to have full | ||||
| pardon and remission of All my sinns and to inheritt eternall | ||||
| life and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be | ||||
| buryed in such decent and Christian manner as by my Exs. | ||||
| hereafter nominated & appointed shall be thought fitt & | ||||
| convenient And for the worldly Estate which it hath pleas’d | ||||
| Item Whereas at the laste head Court held for ye Regallity & | ||||
| Mannour of Hexham the Fifteenth day of October last past | ||||
| before the date of these presents I did surrender into ye | ||||
| hands |
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