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In the name of God Amen, I Thomas COLLIER
thelder of HEATON NORRIS in the countie of Lancaster yeoman
being weak in body but of sound perfect mynd and memorie praise
be given to Almightie God for the same doo make this my last
will and testament in manner and form ffollowing.
First I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my
creator, hoping through the merits death and passion of Jesus
Christ to have remission from my sinns and my bodie I commend to
the earth of which it was first fashoned to be buried in decent
buriall at the discretion of my executor herein nominated.
And for such estate personall as it hath pleased God to bestow
upon mee I bequeath the same as ffolloweth .
Itm whereas I have heretofore divided my estate personall into
three equall parts : viz : one part thereof to ELLEN COLLIER my
wife at her dispose and another part thereof to THOMAS COLLIER
my eldest sonne. And the third part thereof I have ........
Item my will and mind is that for the of this said third part my
funerall expences and debts be paid if any shall arise at my
decease.
Item whereas I have heretofore ......... from my sonne HENRY
COLLIER's portion fortie pounds and the said third part of my
estate .... for myself I hereby bequeath unto my said sonne
Thomas after my decease to repay and make upp my said sonne
Henry's portion.
Item My will and mind is that the sume of sixtie pounds which
JOHN COLLIER my sonne hath in custodie, being the other part of
my said sonne Henry's portion, hee the said John Collier shall
keep in his custodie ffortie pounds thereof during the lifetime
naturall of the said Henry ...... and only paying the interest
due for the said sume and further my will is that the said John
Collier my sonneshall within twelve months of my decease pay the
sume of twentie pounds from the said sume of sixtie pounds unto
my executor herein named and the remainder thereof to hold for
the use of his children.
Item. My mynd is that my said sonne Thomas shall discharge and
pay the rent of the messuage house or chamber in Stockport in
the countie of Chester wherein MARY COLLIER my sister liveth to
pay the same yearly during the life naturall of the said Mary
and the reversion of the lease of the said messuage house to
take .... for his own use after my decease. And of this my last
will and testament I doo make ordayne my said son Thomas Collier
my sole .... executor hoping hee will truly execute the same
(blot) as my hope in him .......
And I do hereby utterly (blot) dis... and make void all former
wills testaments legacies and bequests by mee heretofore made
willed and .... whatsoever. In witness whereof I the said Thomas
Collier thelder hereunto set my hand and seale the twentieth day
of Aprill Anno Domini 1674 and in the six and twentieth year of
the raigne of our Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of
England etc
Sealed signed published and declared by the said Thomas Collier
to be his last will and testament in presence of
Item it is my mynd and will that if it should happen the said
third part of my estate to ffall short in discharging the
aforesaid sume of fortie pounds to be due to my said sonne Henry
Collier and likewise my funerall expenses that then Ellen
Collier my said wife shall joyne equally with my said sonne
Thomas Collier in the discharging of my said funerall expenses.
The words ffortie pounds thereof were interlined on the other
side ..., ffourteenth line of the bottom then sealed in the
presence of us vizt
ALEXANDER ELCOCKE
ANTHONIE ELCOCKE
Proved 30th March 1675, Thomas Collier
executor. Signed by FRANCIS MOSLEY
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Inventory of Thomas Collier of Heaton Norris 1674
A true and perfect inventorye of all the goods, cattells and
chattells of THOMAS COLLIER late of Heaton Norris in the County
of Lancaster, yeoman, deceased Praised and valued by WILLIAM
ROODBOTHAM, RANDLE OLIVER (?), JOHN WORTHINGTON, LAWRENCE
HOULKER, the sixteene day of March 1674
Imprimis in money £15.8s 0d ; ffour mares £12.6s 8d ; furniture
for them £1.0s 0d ; ffoure barren cowes £10 ; 2 twinters £4.0 ;
in hay £2 ; one swine £!. 15s ; four carts, 2 paire of shod
wheeles, one cart chest £3.16s ; b...ds and ffillies 16s 8d ; 3
dyes? And 3 billes/ and the rest in the rath?house 10s ; harrows
and plowes £1.10s 8d ; in all the ..... and in .... thresher and
.... £28.0s.0d ; all the m...er 13s 4d ; in fewell 2s ; bedstead
in my father's parlor 16s ; one bed ...illing and 2 blankets,
one chase bed and chase pillow 16s. 0D ; the press and great
coffer 13s 4d ; coffer at bedstead 4s 6d ; in linnen of all
sortes £3 8s 0d ; two paire bedstocks (part is torn but possibly
says day) parlor 5s 0d ; a flocke? bed and two ch...(torn again)
beds in it 10s ; four blankets 9s ; four wooll...2s ; bedstead?
(torn and faded0 6s ; several lines missing ; bed and clothes
belonging to it 9s ; one coffer and (missing) blle 6s.8d ; two
bordes two w..... besoms 3s 4d ; in the parlor in the
...(torn)..f house , bedstid and courtines £1.1s ; one bed
covering and blankets and a chase bed £1.1s ; one bedsted one
covering and blankets 8s ; one fflocke bed that children lye in
4s ; one table and chaire 6s ; butter and rest of things in
butery £1. 4s ; in the buttery tablle and 3 stooles 10s ; in
barrells s... and .... 5s ; ....ors and chissorts ?) 5s ;
chespress ba...on and b....t 3s 6d ; bassons and butterprints
one can 5s ; pigins and other treneware 5s 6d; turnell and ...
in it 18s ; one dripping pan skillet and skimmer 7s 6d ; tablle
and tresles 5s ; little fire iron 1s ; trough yolberte and
fornete? 6S 8d ; one churne and other things with it 3s 4d; a
skillet and a ladell and other things 5s ; one lead and iron po
5s ; tablle and six stoolles £1 13s 4d ; six chaires 6s 8d ;
fire iron and crow(?) 13s 4d ; tounges and fireshow, 3 spits and
other iron things within the chimney 4s 6d ; the great ... in
the nooke 1s ; ....boards? 2s ; cheese bred and looking glass 1s
6d ; cat...2s ; quiskins?? 6s 8d ; one bibble and three books
more 10s ; 4 pillets and a pa.....2s 6d ; in feathers and
ticking £6 7s ; in pillow? (could be pullen viz poultry) £2.9s ;
two brass panes £1.4s ; one brass pott 9s ; two brass potts 6s
8d ; one candlestick 8d ; wheat on? the ground £1 6s 8d ; in
tackes of grounde £7. 10s ; 3 ladders 4s ; in debts £1.16.10d ;
in aparrell £3 10s ; husillments 17s 6d.
Total £136 8 shillings.
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