To be buried at the discretion of WILLIAM PRESTON, my son in law and SUSAN his wife because my son RICHARD ROOKES lives too far away.

Temporal estate bequeathed in manner following

To my son Richard my estate at Scotton and also my house and the ground, hereditaments and appurtenances l belonging to it situate in Kettlewell  in Craven, both in Yorkshire to hold unto the said Richard his heirs and assigns for ever. in I also give unto him the said Richard Rookes, to ROBERT LLOYD, gentleman, my son in law and MARGARET his wife, one of my daughters, the aforesaid William Preston and Susan his wife all my estate commonly called or known by the name of Scale Park in Kettlewell to hold to them as tenants in common and not as joint tenants for the term of their respective natural lives and the life if the longest living of them, after their respective deaths to the heirs of the said Richard Rookes, of the heirs of the said Robert Lloyd on the body of my daughter Margaret his wife and the heirs of the said William Preston on the body of my daughter Susan, his wife, lawfully begotten or to be lawfully begotten, In default of such issue to the heirs of Richard Rookes for ever.

Whereas it was agreed between William Preston and me on the intended marriage between him and my daughter Susan that in consideration of the fortune left her by her late father and of £60 of his own fortune to be paid should I turn over my household goods, plate and linen to hiom, and wheras he has already paid me £30 the remainder to be paid to my executor hereinafter named, in performance of the said agreement I give and bequeath to him all my household goods and implements whatsoever, also my plate, linen, pewter, copper, brass and other vessels, my bed and beeding. clock, jack iron weight  and everything else whatsoever, Again I give and bequeath to him William Preston, the benefit and advantage of the lease I .have on the house in which I dwell to hold to him and his executors, administrators and assigns for the rest of the term of the lease, he paying the rents due.

Again I do appoint that the rents due from my tenants of Scale Park be paid unto William Preston, any ready money in the house shall be used to pay any dues on Scale Park,  The residue is to be payable to Richard Rookes, Robert Lloyd and William Preston.

I give to my daughter Susan Preston my clothes and wearing apparl whatsoever except one ......... which I give to my daughter ANN MOTHERBY (sic) which shall be delivered to her by my daughter Susan Preston. I order my daughter Susan Preston to deliver to my grand daughters ANN COWLING and ELIZABETH COWLING all the wearing apparrell which was their mothers. Again and Lastly I order my son Richard Rookes to pay to his Sister Ann Molton (Sic) 20 shillings yearly to buy herself clothes with or otherwise to buy ....... to the value of 20 shillings and that he pay the said Ann Molton one shilling and to the said Ann Cowling one Shilling and to the said Elizabeth Cowling one shilling  in consideration of which I give to him the said Richard Rookes all the residue not disposed of elsewhere and do appoint him sole executor, to which I have set my hand and seal this 7th day of December 1735

witnessed  .... ROBINSON, JANE ROBINSON and THOMAS WATSON

The obligation was signed on the 24th of March 1735/6 by Richard Rooke of Bristol in Somerset Gentleman and Robert LLoyd of the same, Clerk with William Preston of Richmond Inn Keeper present.

witnesses EDWARD BARRETT, JOHN WALBEEF GIBBONS, MARY BECKES and ELIZABETH JONES

on the 7th of August 1736 Richard was sworn as Executor

Richmond deanery wills from West Yorkshire Archives

Ref: RD/AP1 129/36