IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, The nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand six hundred and eighty eight, I Alice Boardman of Halliwell, widow going ficke and weak in body but of good and perfect memory (blessed be God), considering the frailty of my own body, and certainty of my own death, do make, constitute and ordain, this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say first, I command my soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping assuredly to be saved by the merits of Christ, My Saviour, my body to be buried in such decent manner as to my executors shall seem met and convenient, as to my wordly estate wherewith it has pleased God to Bless me, my will is as follows, First my debts and funeral expenes being deducted out of my whole estate. And whereas Thomas Boardman, late of Halliwell, did give and bequeath to Elizabeth his daughter, a childs part or portion being one third of his whole estate, my will is that if the said Elizabeth Boardman do by her carriage and behaviour please and give content to my executors hereafter named, I shall give the said Elizabeth so much of my estate and goods as shall make the said child’s part or portion left by her father to amount to the sum of one hundred pounds, but upon her misbehaviour or displeasing my executors I give my whole estate and goods to be equally divided between Thomas my son, and Elizabeth my daughter, but if the said child’s part but if the said child’s part be made up of one hundred pounds to Elizabeth then I give to Thomas my son, the remainder only. And if it shall happen that if either of my children should die before they shall be of capacity to dispose of their estates then the survivor shall have the whole and lasly I make an appoint Oliver Stones of Heaton, and Richard Bolton of Halliwell my executors hoping they will perform the same as my trust is reposed in them.
I witness whereof I have put to my hand and seal
 
Witness of Alice Boardman her X
John Hilton his X
Edm. Sweetlove
 

A true Inventory of all the Goods and Money of Alice Bordman, the late wife of Thomas Bordman late of Haliwell – Priced and Valued  by Richard Johnson, Richard Bolton, William Bromily, and Edm Sweetlove, Priced the Sixth day of February Anno Dom. 1688.