Will of John Allan of Great Crakehall, yeoman, 2 November, 1596



My mynd and will ys that the lande which I should have after the death of my father and mother shall remayne unto my daughter Elisabeth Allan, and that she at the entrie thereof & her mother shall paye to my brethren and syster twentye mark amonge them, and that my father woulde builde a house thereupon for my wife to dwell in & she to beare the charge thereof. 
Item, I give and bequeath unto my saide daughter Elisabeth Allan twentie ewes, one browne whie and one read whie stirke, and my mynde and will is that if the deathe part of my goods will amount to the sum of twenty markes which this before mentioned and bequeathed, that my said daughter have it to legacie.
 Item, I gyve and bequeathe to my brothers Francis and Richard Allan all my apparrell.
 Item, the half part of wynter corne sowen with Henrie Mason I give unto my brother Francis Allan. 
Item, I will that if my brothers Francis and Richard Allan will maike cost for the sowynge of the waire corne land I have to halfs part with Henrie Mason, that they have yt between them.
Item, I gyve and bequeth unto my brother Thomas one busshell of masshellione.
 Item, I gyve and bequeth unto my brother Marmaducke one ewe or else a gymber. 
Item, I gyve and bequeth unto my syster Luce one ewe. 
Item, I give and bequethe unto John Gyll one bushell of rie. 
Item, the residewe of my goods movable and unmovable, my debts paide and funerall expenses discharged, I gyve unto my wife and to my daughter Elisabeth Allan, whom I maick executors of this my last will and testament. And I ordayne supervisor heareof Briane Burton, and would have hym to have the overseinge of the legacis given to my dawghter to be let forthe for hir most comoditie.



Witnessed :
John Collinson
, Thomas Whitton, 
Richard Allan, 
Christopher Watson