Item (I) give & bequeath unto my two daughters Susan & Sarah all that my Messuage or Tenement, Malthouse, orchards, gardens, Backsides w[i]th Seaven Acres of Land thereunto belonging wth th[e] appurtenances & to their heires for ever
But my mind & meaning is that Susan my now wife shall live in my said house & & enjoy one Moitie of all my said Landes afore bequeathed during her naturall life not wthstanding wthout any ye lett or molestacon [molestation] of them ye said Susan & Sarah or their heires
Item I give unto my daughter Mary eight shillings yearely out of my said Lands quarterly to be paid during her naturall life
Item I give unto Susan my wife my best bedd wth ye furniture thereunto belonging & ye use of all other ye utensills of household
whatsoever
Lastly I doe make & ordaine my Cousin Michaell Norwood the younger of ye Parish of St. Peter aforesaid my sole executor of this my Last Will & testament appointing him to sell any? or all of my p[er]sonall estate w[ha]tsoever for ye payment of all such debts as shall bee any way due or oweing unto any person whatsoever And I give unto my said executor for his paines in ye execution hereof the sume of fortie shillings
In wittnesse hereof I have hereunto sett my hand this five & twentyeth day of June in ye yeare of our
Lord one thousand six hundred & sixtie seaven
Richard Noorwood
This writing was published & declared by ye within named Richard Norwood to bee his last Will &
testament & he sett his hand to it in ye prsence of us
Richard Culmer; William Church
Probatum fuit: 26th July 1667 and 31st October 1667
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 4th July 2021
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