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Clauses:
1) To wife Mary - all household goods for life, 3 beace [beasts?], 20 sheep and two horses and all ready money and debts.
2) To son Richard the two best stocks of bees in his yard and one shilling
3) To son Henry one shilling
4) To son William the barn in his yard...to be taken away within
one year and a day
5) To daughter Ann Haxton one shilling
6) Residue to son Joseph (after the death of Richard's wife Mary) as well as his
horse and 8 sheep with all my netts, trapps with all manner of other
materialls belonging to that employment where with I got my livelihood. [which makes me wonder if Richard had a connection with the fish ponds at Tingewick?]
Executor: son Joseph above
Signed with a mark: witnesses Arthur Middleton of Finmere, Oxfordshire and Robert Saxbee of Tingewick.
There was also a codicil, making clear that some of the goods in his house (a bedstead, chest, box, kettle, pot hooks, table board and Bible) belonged to his grand-daughter Jane, daughter of his late son Christopher.