In the name of God Amen I Robert Cockeram late of Eglesston within the Isle of Purbeck and County of Dorset gent being in good health and of perfect memory prayse be given unto Almighty God do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following vide first and principally I give and commend my Soul unto the hand of Almighty God my maker and Redeemer and my body I commit to the earth to be buried where it shall seem fit to my executrix whom I shall hereafter in this my last will and nominate and appoint Now as touching the disposing of my land goods and chattels my will is as followeth (that is to say first I give and bequeath unto the parish Church of Tyneham within the Isle and County aforesaid the sum of ten shillings and to the poor people of the said place I give the sum of ten shillings to be distributed amongst them by the discretion of my said executrix within short time after my burial Item I give and bequeath unto my son Dennys Cockeram and his heirs all my land tente and hereditaments whatsoever with their appurtenances in Sherborne Newlands Oborne and Castle town within the said County of Dorset Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth all my meadow land tente and hereditaments in Eastholme in the said County of Dorset with their appurtenances whatsoever to have and to hold unto her and her heirs forever Item I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Elizabeth the sum of two hundred pounds provided always that if it shall happen my said daughter Elizabeth to dye before she shall come to the full age of sixteen years then my will is and I give and bequeath one hundred marked parsell of the same legacie of two hundred pounds unto Katherine Cockeram my granddaughter one of the daughters of my son William Cockeram And my will is also that ….the residue of the said legacie of two hundred pounds shall be equally divided to and amongst the residue of the children of my son William and of my said son Dennys Cockeram which shall be living at the time of the death of my said daughter Elizabeth Item I give and bequeath unto Avice Talbott my grandchild being the daughter of my son in law William Talbott the sum of one hundred pounds which legacie I will and do appoint shall be payd by my said executrix unto Richard Byles of Child Ocford in the said County of Dorset Gent and Bruine Cockeram clerk my nephew within one year next after my decease And I do desire my good friends Richard Byles and Bruine Cockeram to lett out the same carefully for the best profit they must lawfully make of same until the said Avice shall accomplish her age of sixteen years And at her age of sixteen years to pay unto her the said sum of one hundred pounds together with such profit as they have thereof made or to deliver unto her such assurance as they have taken for the same and provided always that if it shall happen the said Avice Talbot do dye before she shall come to the age of sixteen years then my will is and I give and bequeath the said sum of one hundred pounds together with such profit and have been thereof made by the said Richard Byles and Bruine Cockeram to and amongst the children of my said sons William and of the children of my said son Dennys Cockeram which shall be living at the time of the death of the said Avice Talbott so dyeing before her age of sixteen years by even and equal parts to be divided among them Item I give unto Bruine Cockeram clerk parson of Sandwich the sum of five pounds Item I give unto Bartholomew Cockeram the son of my brother John Cockeram the sum of five pounds Item I give unto Rachel Spencer my servant ten pounds Item I give unto Richard Forssey my servant forty shillings Item I give unto every of my godchildren six shillings a piece which said legacies I will to be payed within one whole year next after my decease And whereas my son William Cockeram together with other sureties stand bound unto me and unto my brother in law Richard Srovill and unto Benjamin Byles my brother in law in the sum of eight hundred pounds for the sume payment of four hundred pounds lawfull money of England unto such ….. and persons as I shall by my last will and testament limit or appoint the said sum of four hundred pounds being payable by the same bond within one year next after my death now I do limit and appoint the said sum of four hundred pounds to be paid unto my said executrix for the better enabling them to pay all the legacies herein by me described and bequeathed and for the better performance of this my last will and Testament   And I do hereby further give devise and bequeath unto my said executrix the said sum of four hundred pounds and the full and whole benefit of the same bond Item I give devise and bequeath unto Anne my beloved wife for the term of her life all that my toft of land or tenement and garden containing by estimation half h. yard of ground (be it more or less) together with the houses at the east and west ends thereof lately erected and built by John Harding and by me of him purchased together with all other my lands tentes and hereditaments situate and being within the parish of the Holy Trinity in Wareham in the said County of Dorset and which I lately purchased and bought of the said John Harding unto to me and my heirs and after the decease of the said Anne my wife I will that the said toft of lands tentes garden and all other the said premises.in Wareham aforesaid shall go and remain unto my said daughter Elizabeth and the heirs of her body lawfully to be begotten And for default of such issue then I will that my toft of land tentes garden and other the said premises in the parish of the Holy Trinity in Wareham aforesaid shall go and remain to the said Avice Talbott and to the heirs of her body lawfully to be begotten and for default of such issue then I will that the said toft of land tentes and garden and other the premises in Wareham aforesaid shall go and remain unto my right heirs forever and whereas there is a defective title lately found out of the said toft tentes and garden and other the premises in Wareham aforesaid which is not as yet conveyed unto me and my heirs as is intended and promised Now my meaning is and I do hereby direct that the same shall be conveyed unto my said wife daughter and grandchild in such manner as is before limited for the better strengthening of their estate and for the better performance of my intent and meaning herein before expressed And whereas I have a lease for divers years yet to come.by time of ...... of meadows or thereabout  within the parish of the Holy Trinity in Wareham aforesaid I do give and bequeath all my said … of and in the said ….of meadows and all my estate right title and interest thereunto unto my said wife Anne for and during all the said term yet to come and unexpired.  All the rest of my goods and chattels…. debt plate household stuff and implements of house whatsoever not herein formerly given or bequeathed I give devise and bequeath unto my loving wife Anne whom I do hereby constitute ordayne and make my full and whole executrix of this my last will and testament and I  desire my brother Lewes Cockeram and my said cousin Bruine Cockeram clerk to be aiding and assisting unto my said wife to see  this my last will and testament performed according to my true intent and meaning In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the eleventh day of July in the fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith Anno dom One thousand six hundred twenty nine Robert Cockeram memor….that  the day and years above written the will above mentioned truly and definitely read unto the above named Robert Cockeram who did allow thereof and publish and declared the same to be his last will and testament and in token thereof did sign the same with his own hand and set his seal thereunto in the presence of us whose names are underwritten to testify the same Richard Byles, Robert Scott Robert Byles John Nicholls   There are some spaces and the words in red I am not sure of.