In the name of God Amen the tow and twenteith day of february 1674 in the Twenty Seaventh yeare of the Raigne of our Sov’aigne Lord King Charles the second over England etc.  I Henry Lyon of Haddocke in the County of Lanc’r husbandman Beinge Imfirme and weake in Body but of Sound and p’fecte Memory (prayse bee given to god for the same) And knowinge the uncertainty of this Life on Earth And beinge desirous to Settle things in order doe make this my Last Will & Testament in manner & forme followinge (that is to say) first and principally I Commend my Soule to Almighty God  my Creator Assuredly Beleivinge that I shall receave & have Full pardon and Free remission  of all my Sinnes and bee Saved by the precious death and Meritts of my Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Christ Jesus & my Body to the Earth from whence it was taken to bee buried in such decent and christian manner as to my Ex’rs hearafter named shall bee thought meete & convenient And as touching such Worldly Estate as the Lord hath lent mee my will and meaninge is the same shall bee Imployed & bestowed as hearafter by this will is expressed Revokinge  and makeinge void all wills by me formerly made declare & appoynt this to bee my Last will & Testam’t First as touchinge & concerninge one Messuage & tenem’t of Myne in Haddock aforsaid where I now Live My will & Mynd is that Mathew Naylor Thomas Bordman Zachary Gaskell & Robt. Cash all of Haddocke shall have full power to bargaine sell confirme & dispose of the same as their discreation shall think fitt towards the dischardginge of my debts onely Reservinge in the Bargaine & sale thereof the yearly Sume of five pound out of the same to be paid to Ellin Lyon my mother dureinge the Terme of her natural Life If the Indenture of Lease Soe Longe endure And for my p’sonall estate in goods my Will & mynd is that my debts funerall expencs & p’pate of this my will shall be truely dischardged & paid forth & out of my said Goods & Tenem’t as aforsaid  Item I Give to Ellin Lyon my mother the Some of five pound her bed w’ch shee now useth one Little box & one hatchell  Item the Rest and residue of All my Goods whatsoever  I Give & dispose the same to John Lyon my brother Mathew Naylor my Brother in Lawe & Elizabeth Lyon my sister in Lawe to bee equally devided Among them three  And of this my present testam’t I ordayne constitute & Appoynt My Brother in Lawe Mathw Naylor & Zachary Gaskell my True and Lawfull Ex’rs hereof  And Rob’rt Cash and Thomas Bordman overseers of the same  In witnesse wherof I have hearunto put my hand and Seale the day and yeare first above written

                                                           Heny Lyon

                                                Be it remembred that it is my will & Mynd that Ellin Lyon my mother ............................................... roomes in the Lower end of the house to............... excepted dureinge the warme ................................................ Long Last but not to sett before Sealinge.

Inventory of Henry Lyon, Haydock, 1674

A perfecte Inventory of All the goods & Cattels of Henry Lyon late of Haddock in the County of Lanc’r deceased valued & prized by Andrew gaskell william Bullinge & John Bankes upon the Sixteenth day of March 1674 as followeth

                                                             2 May 1675