In the name of God Amen I Gilbert Sephton of Scarisbrick in parish of Ormskirk and the County of Lancaster, yeoman, being very sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God for the same therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body do make & ordain this my last will and testament this 11th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty eight in the manner & form following that is to say principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hand of almighty God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like & decent manner at the discretion of my executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly effects that God has bestowed upon me in this life I distribute the same in the following mannner and form.
Imprimus I make & ordain my dear wife Alice Sephton the whole executrix of this my last will and testament until my son John Sephton comes to years of twenty one.  Those years being expired I give & bequeath to my son John Sephton my whole Estate known by ye name of Sephton's but it is will and mind that my son John Sephton pay the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England to my daughter Ann in two years time after he possesses the said estate.  Therefore I revoke and annul all and every will and testament, legacys and bequests by me made before ratifying and confirming this & none other to be my last will
Signed & delivered in the presence of
Richard Aspinwall                                           Gilbert X Sephtons mark
Thos Bradshaw
Edward B?ell

March 16^th 1748

Alice Sephton, the soul Executrix named in the within written will was sworn in common form, before me Will: Knowles, Surrogate

Probate granted 20^th Mar 1748/9