[Will:]
In the name of God Amen I Judith Rawes of Kirkby Lonsdale in the County of Westmorland, Widow / and Relict of
Gerard Rawes late of the same place deceased being sick and weak in Body but of sound perfect and disposing / mind
and memory, praised be to God for the same. I make ordain publish and declare this to be my Last Will and
Testament in / manner and form following. First I give and devise all and singular my Freehold Estate whatsoever
and wheresoever unto my Friend / John Moore of Grimeshill in Middleton in ye County of Westmorland aforesaid and
William Batty of High House in the parish of / Tunstale and County of Lancaster, their Heirs and assigns and all
the survivor of them, his Heirs and assigns To have and to hold / my said Freehold Estate whatsoever and
wheresoever with all its rights members and appurtenences unto them the said John Moore / and William Batty their
Heirs and assigns upon this special Trust and confidence, and to the Intent and Purpose that they ye said /
Trustees John Moore and William Batty, or the survivor of them, his or their Heirs shall with all convenient speed
after my Decease sell / the same. And also I Give and bequeath unto them my said Friends John Moore and William
Batty, their Executors and administra / tors All and singular my Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever
(excepting one Pair of Chest Drawers, All my Glass-framed / Pictures, all my Linen of all kinds, and my Tea Table
with all its Furniture, which I Do hereby give and bequeath to my Daughter / Mary Rawes. And excepting my Chest in
ye Parlour and my wearing apparel which I Do hereby give and bequeath to my / Daughter Jane Bromfield) upon this
special Trust and Confidence also and to the Intent and Purpose that they ye said John Moore and / William Batty
do sell and dispose of the same as soon as well may be after my Decease. And it is my will and mind that the
Moneys / arising by such sale of my said Freehold and Personal Estates be by them the said John Moore and William
Batty applied / and disposed of in the following maine[?] that is to say, First that my just Debts Funeral
Expences and Probate of this my last Will be / well and truly paid and discharged. Then that the Legacies that
were left by my sd late Husband Gerard Rawes (excepting only / what has already been paid to my daughter Jane
Broomfield or her late Husband which must first be deducted out of her Legacy / as left her by her Father my said
Husband) be next paid and discharged. And the surplus money then remaining I Give / and bequeath unto my Children
Philip Foster, James Rawes, Mary Rawes, Gerard Rawes, and John Rawes share and share / alike; excepting, Five
pounds which I Do hereby Give and bequeath to my grandson James Broomfield and One Guinea to / each of my said
Friends John Moore and William Batty for their trouble they will have herein, and all charges and expences
whatsoever that shall in any way attend ye management of this their Trust. And it is my mind and will that a
Rreceipt or Re / ceipts from any person having Legacy or Legacies herein tho' a minor shall be deem'd and lookt
on as a sufficient discharge / to my said Trustees. And it is further my Will and Mind, that my sd Trustees and
the survivor of them, his and their heirs executors / and administrators shall not be discharged or chargeable
with, or answerable for any more, or other moneys than what really comes to their / respective hands, nor any
less that may happen without their willful Default, and that neither of them shall be charged or / chargeable
with or answerable for the Default of the other of them. And I Do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint my said
/ Friends John Moore, and William Batty Executors of this my last Will and Testament. And lastly it is my will
and / mind that whatsoever sum or sums of money I shall at any time pay my sd abovenamed children shall be in
discharge / of so much of their several and respective Legacies left them by their sd Father my late husband
Gerard Rawes. In / witness whereof I the said Judith Rawes have to this my last Will and Testament set my Hand and
Seal the tenth Day / of January in ye year of our Lord One thousand seven Hundred and Forty seven.
Judith Rawes X Mark [signed]
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the above named
Judith Rawes to be her last Will and Testament in the Presence of
us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the
Presence of the Testator.
Henry Chatborn
Will[?] Otway
William Preston [all signed]
14th February 1750
John Moore one of the Executors in Trust named
in the above written Will was sworn and
truly to execute and perform the same (William
Batty the other executor therein named being
first dead) and so forth --- before me
T. Croft [signed]
[Bond, abstract:]
A bond for five hundred pounds taken out by John Moore of Grimeshill in Middleton Co. Westmorland, Esquire and
John Doe, Gent. 14th February 1750.
The above bound John Moore one of the executors in Trust (William Batty another Executor being dead) shall
execute the Will of Judith Rawes late of Kirkby Lonsdale Co. Westmorland, Innkeeper, Widom.
John Moore [signed]
Witnesses: Philip Foster / Mary Rawes [signed]
Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002
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