In the name of god Amen  I Henry Kenion of Haydocke in the Parish of winwick and County of Lancs being at this p’sent sickly and distempered in body And Considering that death is most Certayne but the time there of uncertaine And therefore for the avoiding of all Conran’sis and Contentions wh’ch after my decease might otherwise happen to ...... and grow betweene my wife and/Children or amongst my Children onely for about or Concerning my Lands Tenem’ts Leases goods/chattells and debts or some p’te thereof And for the better stateing setling and disposeing of the same first hereby revoking and makeing void all former and other will and wills Testament and/Testam’ts gifts legacies and bequests by mee at anytyme heretofore ordayned made given or bequeathed in any wise doe Constitute appoynt ordaine publish and declare this to bee my last will & Testam’t in manner and forme following And first and principally I Commend my Soule into the hands of Almighty god mercifull and heavenly father hopeing and aseuredly beliving that through the suffering of Jesus Christ his onely son and my redeem’ and advocate I shall have full and free pardon and remission of all my sinnes and the same washed away in his pretious blood and shall be made an heire of heaven and numbered among the Elect saints  And my body I Committ unto the Earth from whence it Came to be decently buried according to the discreation of my friends and Executors hereafter named And as for and Concerning my Messuage Lands and inheritance edifices and buildings with the appu’tenances whatsoev’ situate lyeing & being within Abram in the said County of Lancs together w’th all the deeds Evidences & escripts Concerning the same I doe hereby give bequeath will and appoynt unto Peter Kenion my eldest son and his heires and assignes for ever To enter upon the same so soone as hee shall acomplish the age of one and twenty yeares And in the meane tyme it is my mynd and will that my Executors hereafter named shall Collect levy receive and take order and dispose of the Cleare yearely issues and profitts thereof Comming and arryseing To and for the uses hearafter men’coned That is to say ten pounds thereof I would have paid to John Lyon watch-maker to make up the five pounds which hee oweth mee fifteene pounds which is the last payment which shall be due & payable .... him with the said Peter my son  And moreov’ I will that forth and out of the issues and p’fitts thereof alsoe the said Peter bee mantayned and supplyed with decent and Convenient apparrel both Lynnan and woollen dureing all the tyme of his apprentiship  And the residue & ov’plus of the issues and p’fitts thereof Comeing and arryseing Iwould have my Ex’rs to improve to and for the best p’fiit and advantage of Henry Kenion my youngest son for the adding of his life into the Lease of Haydocke howse or otherwise as shall bee most for his benefitt  And as for and Concerning my messuage and Tenem’t Edifices and buildings with thappu’tenances whatsoev’ scituate and being in Ashton in makerfield I doe hereby give and bequeath appoynt and assigne ov’ unto James Kenion my second son his executors and assignes for and dureing all the remayning terme of yeares for which I old the same by Lease together with the same lease as alsoe all the ...... houshold goods and utensells there standing being and remayning  And as for and Concerning all other my p’sonall estate in goods Cattell debts and utensells whatsoev’  I doe here by order give bequeath and dispose of in manner and forme hereafter declared and first of all I would have my debts and funerall expences discharged and paid forth and out of the whole  That being done I doe give and bequeath to James Kenion my said second son the sume of fiftie pounds of moneyes due to mee by the last will and Testament of William Wood my father in law deceased  Item I give and bequeath unto Henry Kenion my youngest son all my standing goods in Haydock howse where I now live That is to say Tables bedsteads Cupboards and Irone grates  And for the rest and residue of all my said cattell debts and utensells whatsoev’ not before disposed of I would devided into three p’tes the third part whereof I give to Sarah my wife the second p’te whereof I give to Margaret my elder daughter and the third and last part thereof I give to Lydia my younger daughter  And the said two p’tes given to my said two daughters I would have my executors to improve to and for theire best p’fitt and advantage dureing theire minoritie  Item I doe hereby will order and appoynt that Gilbert Banks and Robt. Rasbothome two of the Ex’rs hereafter named shall have allowed unto them twelve pence a day for ev’y day they or either of them shall goe out or bee taken of from theire labours about any business relating  to this my Testam’t forth and out of that part and portion of goods or moneys belonging to the p’son or p’sons about whom or in whose business they are most imployed  And I doe hereby ordaine Constitute appoynt and make Sarah my said wife and the said Gilbert Banks and Robert Rasbothome my true and Lawfull Execut’s to execute p’forme fulfill and accomplish this my last will and Testam’t in all things according to my mynd and will herein declared as my trust is in them  And I desire my loving friends Mr. Peter Aspinwall Edmund Winstanley and Willm. Wood my brother in law to be ov’seers to see to and take notice of that the same be by my s’d Ex’rs executed p’formed fulfilled & accomplished accordingly  And for the better strengthning & Corroborating hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale the tenth day of September in the seaven & twentieth yeare of the Reigne of our sov’aigne Lord Charles the second ov’ Englnad etc.  Anno Domini 1675

Sealed signed and deliv’ed and as his last will and testament published and declared in the presenc’ of us

Gerval Clough

Peter Buckstone  .... his m’ke

Ed: Winstanley

                                                                             7 Junni 1677

                                                       Sara Troutbeck als Kenion made uxor

                                                       Thomas Troutbeck

Inventory of Henry Kenien of Haydock, 1675

A true Inventory of the goods Cattells Chattells and ...... of Henry Kenien Late of Haydocke ......... moveable & unmoveable and according as they were apprised by Willm. Wood ......... Rolinson Thomas Barrow & Willm. H..ghton this second day of November Anno Dom’i 1675 as followeth