In the name of God Amen The one and Twentieth day of Januarie in the yeare of our Lord God 1637 and in the thirteenth yeare of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles I Lettice Norton of Barnes in the Countie of Surry Widdow being in good and perfect memorie thankes be to God doe make and Declare this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following ffirst I comend my Soule into the hands of Almightie God my maker and unto Jesus Christ my Redeemer by whose death I doe assure myself to have forgiveness of all my sinnes and to inherit ever lasting life And I will my bodie to be buried in the Chauncell of Offley in the Countie of Hants where my husband was buried in that decent manner as my executor hereafter named shall thinke fitt And as touching such goods and chattels as it hath pleased God to blesse me withal I doe thus dispose of them as followeth I devise and give unto Thomas Norton my youngest sonne the some of ffyftie pounds of good and lawfull money of England which I lent him since the death of his father for the payment of such money I procured him to be bound unto Susan Norton his sister then unmarried the bond was taken in trust for mee now my will and minde is shalbe redelivered unto him after my death And doe further give and devise unto my said sonne Thomas fortie pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be payde unto him within half a yeare after my death And I doe alsoe give unto Graveley Norton my Grandchild  sonne of my sonne Thomas tenn pounds to be payed unto his father for him my will and minde is that his father shall put out for him the money shalbe payed within halfe a yeare after my death And I doe hereby devise and give unto my sonne Gravely Norton all my goods and househould stuffe nowe remayning in his house at Sharpenhoe in the Countie of Bedford I doe further give unto Mathewe Coppen my daughter my white Chest that hath three locks uppon it and all that is in it And alsoe I doe give unto her my best Gowne and Petticote I doe further devise and give unto Lettice Norton my Daughter wife of Richard Norton and unto Elizabeth Lendall my daughter and to the aforesaid Mathew Coppen my daughter the Wife of Thomas Coppen and unto Susan Barnards my Daughter and unto Talbott Rotheram my daughter wife of Thomas Rotheram to every of them ten pounds of good and Lawfull money of England to every of them tenn pounds a peece which said somes of money soe devised unto my sonnes and Daughters as is aforesaid shalbe payed unto them the next daye after my death to buy them mourneing Gownes yf they please I doe hereby further devise unto Beniamin Norton my second sonne my Lease of my house in Barnes aforesaid where I doe nowe dwell and all the lands thereunto belonging for all the yeares that are yet to come And I do alsoe devise and give unto him the said Beniamin Norton my two Coach Gueldings and my Coach And I alsoe give and bequeath to my said sonne Beniamin Norton all my silver plate not formerly devised by my husband in his will The rest of all my goods and household stuff not formerly given this my will I will and devise them unto Beniamin Norton and Thomas Norton my sonnes and unto Lettice Norton Elizabeth Lendall Susann Barnards and unto Mathew Coppen and unto Talbot Rotheram my Daughters equally to be divided between them I doe further give unto T.... Love my kinswoman tenn pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be payed to them within half a yeare after my death I doe also devise unto Lettice Laughence my Grandchilde twentie nobles of lawfull money of England to be payed the next day after my death to buy her a mourning Gowne yf shee please And of this my last will and Testament I make and ordaine Beniamin Norton my sole and onely executor not doubting but that my sayd sonne Beniamin will faithfully and carefully performe this my last will and Testament In wittness of this my last will and testament I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the yeare and day first above written L N   (Attestation Clause)   T Goldingham    Andrewe Wheteley   Proved 19 February 1637/8   PCC Prob11/176