This is the Last Will and Testament of me THOMAS GYLL of Barton in the County of York Esq made the 5th August 1779 I do hereby confirm the will of my late father and devise my Body may be buried in the Chapel Yard on the North side of the Chapel of St Cuthbert in Barton in the most private manner Without any Pall or other funeral parade and if I shall die at Durham or any other distant Place from Barton to be carried from thence directly to the place of Burial and I do charge my personal Estate with the payment of my debts legacies and funeral Expences and if dificient to Pay the same I charge all my real Estate with the Payment thereof.

I give and devise all that my Manor in Barton aforesaid called Rokeby's Manor with the free Rents thereunto ... and all the arrears of rent. And all that my Capital messuage and other my messuages and lands tenements hereditaments lying in the several parishes townships and territories of Barton .... to GEORGE HARTLEY of Middleton Tyas and JOHN BOWES of Scorton .... upon the Trusts following .... to permit and suffer my sister MARY GYLL to hold and enjoy my said captial messuage and the furniture and garden orchard garth foldyard barns stables and other buildings and the Plantation now in my own occupation at Barton ... during the term of her natural life... and out of the rents of my said Manor messuages lands tenements and hereitaments ... to raise £50 to pay to my sister MARY GYLL .....  and if my said sister be then dead .... then to raise £60 to pay  unto my three enices MARGARET HARTLEY, ALICE BAINES and MARY HOBSON ... in equal shares ... and upon further trust to suffer my nephew LEONARD HARTLEY to take the freehold of my said manor and use the residue of my yearly rents ... and after the decease of my sister MARY GYLL ... all my said Manor and Capital messuage and all other my said mesuages lands tenements and hereditaments unto the use of my said nephew LEONARD HARTLEY  ..... and whereas I have lately advanced and paid to the use of GEORGE BAINES son of my said neice ALICE BAINES £300 wherewith to buy him an Ensign Commission in Lord Percy's Regiment of Foot I do hereby give and bequeath to the said GEORGE BAINES the further sum of 10 Guineas.

I also give and bequeath to my neice MARGARET HARTLEY £200 and to my neices ALICE BAINES and MARY HOBSON £100 a piece ......

I also give to the Master and Fellows and Scholars of Trinity Hall in Cambridge 5 Guineas and to the Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn 5 Guineas to buy a small piece of plate for the use of the said Societies in which I had my education.

I also give and bequeath to my nephew LEONARD HARTLEY all my books papers and manuscripts ..... for his own use and my will and mind is that all the household goods, plate, Linnen, Pictures, prints, books and Manuscripts that shall be in and about my Capital messuage buildings and Garden at my decease shall be freed and discharged from the payment of my debts legacies and funeral expences  and shall be enjoyed by my sister MARY GYLL for her life and after my death my said nephew LEONARD HARTLEY .... and my Trustees and Executors to make two true and exact Schedules or Inventories of the said household goods ... and my said Sister do resepctively sign the same ... and that after her death they belong to LEONARD HARTLEY ... and the rest and residue of my Personal Estate ... to LEONARD HARTLEY ..... and I do appoint the said LEONARD HARTLEY as sole exeuctor... in witness whereof I the said THOMAS GYLL ... set my hand and seal the day before written .....

Witnesses George Wood, James Whitfield, John Lambert

From the North Riding of Yorkshire Registry of Deeds held at the North Yorkshire County Record Office in Northallerton 

BH 217 90

Footnote - The Victoria County History of the North Riding of Yorkshire gives an account of the descent of the two manors at Barton

see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64732#s2