In the Name of God Amen I Dorathy Raws of Crook in the Parish of Kirkby Kendall and County of Westmoorland Spinster being att / this time partly infirm in body but of Sound and perfect disposing mind and memory (Blessed be God therefor) do this sixth day of June in the / Seventh Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God over Great Brittain France and Ireland King defender / of the faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty four make publish and declare this my Last Will and Testament / in Manner and form following (that is to say First and principally I commend my Soul into the hands of of Almighty god who gave itt me and my body to / the Earth from whence itt came and in Hopes of a joyfull resurrection through the Merits of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to be buried in such a Christian manner / as to my Executor herein after named Shall think Meet and convenient and as for that wordly Estate wherewith itt hath pleased God to bless me with / I dispose of it as follows. First I give to my Sister Agnas Healson wife of Richard Healson in the Penrith in the County of Cumberland ten Shillings and two / Pounds which I have lent her. Likewise I give and bequeath unto the two daughters of my said sister Agnas; Agnas and Jane to each of them three / Pounds Likewise I give and bequeath into my sister Ellinor Mason wife of Thos. Mason of Hinckester in the Parish of Heaversham and County of Westmoor / land Ten Pounds Likewise I give unto my Nephew John Thompson, Taylor in Lancaster Two Pounds Likewise I give unto Margarett Moor my Niece Daughter / of my said Sister Ellinor three Pounds Likewise I give unto my Niece Mary Thompson daughter of my said Sister Ellinor the sum of three Pounds / Likewise I give unto my Niece Isabell Mason daughter of my said sister Ellianor Likewise I give unto Richd. Ellwood of Crook aforesaid / all my Household Goods which are in his own House Likewise I give unto my niece Jane Munkhouse daughter of my sister Elizabeth Munkhouse / the sum of Sixteen Pounds Likewise I give unto my niece Dorathy Munkhouse daughter of my said Elizabeth Ffifteen pounds Likewise I give / unto my niece Elizabeth Munkhouse daughter of my said sister Elizabeth Fifteen Pounds Likewise I give unto my nephew William Munkhouse son of my said sister Elizabeth / ffifteen Pounds Likewise I give unto Nicholas Wilson of Crook two shillings and six pence and itt is my Will and mind that the Legacies herein / given the time of payment whereof is not particularly mentioned be paid at the determination of one whole year after my decease / Likewise I give unto my Sister Ellinor all my wearing apparrell both Linning and Woolling Executor of this my Last Will and / Testament I constitute ordain and appoint my Nephew John Munkhouse of Crook aforesaid and to him I give and bequeath all my / Bills Bonds Mortgages Credits and Money both in Cheist and elswhere and all my Personal Estate whatsoever (my wearing apparrell / only excepted and foreprised) he paying and dischargeing all my just debts Funerall expences and Legacies before given and expressed / Supervisors of this my last Will and Testament I Nominate ans appoint James Clark and John Thompson both of Crook aforesaid / desireing them as I repose trust in them to see this my last Will performed and I give to each of them five shillings and also rason / able charges for what damage and hinderance may accrue to them concerning the performance of the Same and I do hereby revoak / and make void all other Wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the / said Dorathy Raws have hereunto sett my hand and Seal the day and year first above written
Signed Sealed and Declared to be the Last Will and
Testament of the Testatrix above said in the presence
of Us with these words William Munkhouse inter lined betwixt the fifteenth and sixteenth lines
Isaac Morland
William Jackson
Ann Jackson X Her mark Dorathy Raws X Her mark
Kendale 14: October 1734
John Munkhouse sole Executor
above named was sworn well and
faithfully and so forth
before us
Will. Stratford
[Admon:]
Know all Men by these oresets that we / John Munckhouse and William Jackson both of Crooke / in
the parish of Kirkby Kendale and County of / Westmoorland Yeomen. / are holden and firmly bound
unto the Right Reverend Father in GOD SAMUEL / by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Chester, in
five hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to the said Right
Reverend / Father, or his true and lawful Attorney, his Executors, Administrators or Assigns. /
to which Payment well and truly to be made, WE bind Ourselves, and each of US, Our Heirs Executors
and Administrators firmly by these Presents, Sealed with Our Seals, Dated the fourteenth Day of
October in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand, Seven Hundred, Thirty and four. /
The Condition of the Obligation is such, That if the / above-bounden John Munkhouse / shall and do well and truly execute and perform the last Will and / Testament of Dorothy Rawes late of Crooke aforesaid Spinster / Deceased, and do pay all her Debts and Legacies so far as her / Goods and personal Estate will extend, and the Laws shall bind him if also / he do exhibit into Court a true and perfect Inventory of the said Deceased's / Goods and personal Estate, and give a true and just Account of his acting / in the premisses when he shall be thereunto lawfully called. That then this Obligation to be void, or else in Force.
Sealed and delivered
in the presence of
[signed]
Cha: Lambert.
Robt Philipson.
John Monkhouse.
William Jackson.
Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002