[WILL:]
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Kendall 1645
----- Robert Rawes supra
of Borrowdaile parochia do ----
Kendall Probated -----------
doe Mensis January Anno p---
[script in Latin continues but very faint.]
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1/ In the Name of God Amen; ye ninth day of May, anno Dni 1644, I Robt Rawes of Borrowdale, sicke in bodie, but of good & p[er]fect remembrance
2/ (laud & praise be unto almighty god) do make & ordaine this my last will & testamt in mannr & forme following; ffirst & principally I commend
3/ my soule into ye hands of almighty god my Creator & redeemr fully trusting through ye pretious death of his deare son Jesus Christ my lord &
4/ Savior to have free remission of all my sins, & my body to be buried in my parish Church yard at Kirkby Kendall, paying all dues belonging ye same
5/ And for the temporalle state wch god, hath lent me here on earth I devise it as followeth; ffirst I give my messuage & tenemts in Borrowdale
6/ wth their appertennts to my grandchild Richard Rawes & his heires for ever; & it is my minde & will tht my said grandchild Richard
7/ Rawes shalbe admitted & sett Tennant of the same as shortly as may be after my death: (alwayes pvided that my son Richard Rawes
8/ shall have ye occupacion & pfitt of my said messuage & tenemts for ten yeares next following after my death, & no longer, Itm I give
9/ unto Elizabeth Rawes ye eldest daughter of my son Richard Rawes fforty pounds; Itm I give unto his second daughter Jane Rawes
10/ fforty pounds; Itm I give & bequeath unto his youngest daughter, An Rawes fforty pounds; Itm I give unto Gerard Rawes my brother
11/ all my Cloaths whatsoever except my Cloak & hatt, & I forgive him seven pounds wch he owes me; & it is my minde, yt my
12/ executor shall pay ffive pounds to James Nicholson, wch my said brother Gerard Rawes oweth unto him, & for wch I stand bound
13/ By bond, to the same shalbe paied out of my goods. Itm I give to John Jackson who dwelleth now at Levens xxs & to his sister
14/ Mabell Jackson, who dwelleth now at High House xxs. Itm I give & bequeath to Robt Lowther ye son of John Lowther xls. Itm I
15/ give to William Robinson who dwelleth at High House ten groats; Itm I give & bequeath to Jane Rawes my brother Lancelot
16/ daughter twelve pounds & two happins, two shirts, bolster, blankett & chaffbed now in y xxe bed shee has on, & also I give her y xxe
17/ bedstock & ye same. Itm I give to Gerard Rawes the younger xxs. & I give to his brother Robt Rawes xxs. the rest of
18/ all my goods & chattles whatsoever moveable & unmoveable (my debts, legacies & funerall expences discharges) I give & bequeath
19/ to my son Richard Rawes, whom I make my sole executor. Supvisoes hereof I make & appoint Anthony Stevenson & William
20/ Fell, & I give either of them vis viiid, desiring them for Christes sake to see this my last will & testamt truely pformed
21/ as my trust is in them; In witnes that this is my last will & testamt I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the day
22/ and yeare above said recorde[?] hereof Anthony Stevenson, William ffell & John Stevenson
Robt Rawes - x - marke
[OBLICATION:]
First section is in Latin
The Condition of this Obligation is such that if the above
bounden Richard Rawes doe well and truelie Execute pforme & fullfill
the last will and testament of Robert Rawes his late father
Deceased
In signat sigillat et deliberat
in pre--ia ---
Robert --icars[?]
Alen Braben
-oey[?] Eubey[?]
Ric: Rawes
[INVENTORY:]
The Inventory of all ye goods & Chattles of Robert
Rawes late of ffawcett fforrest taken & prized the xxix
day of May 1644, by Thomas Lickbarrow, William
Jackson & Richard Bacones Junr
£ s d
Inprimis one horse 2 10 0
Item one blacke cow 3 0 0
Item a great Ga--uer[?] 0 13 4
Itm a cupboord 0 13 4
Itm two bedds 0 14 0
Itm a great Kettle 0 10 0
Item a great Ganelocke [or Gauelocke] 0 4 0
Item a great Chest 0 7 0
Item a little table 0 1 0
Ite 9 dublers 1 bowle & 2 sawcers 0 10 0
Item a ffetherbed & an old covercloth 0 16 0
It a paire of Iron Racks 0 3 0
It 2 bolsters & 5 sheets 0 9 0
Item ffive blanketts 0 13 0
Item a loade: Saddle 0 2 0
Item an hackney Saddle 0 2 0
It sacke & 2 happins 0 13 0
It a knop & barrell 0 4 0
It a whinnocke & 2 slanes[?] 0 1 6
It 2 Chaires & a flesh tubb 0 6 0
It a p of hotts & a Rattencrooke 0 1 6
Item an axe 0 1 6
It a Caudlesticke & a brasse laddle 1 4
It a Can, a piggin & other things 1 0
It 3 pannes & a speete[?] 0 8 0
It a loade of meale 0 15 0
It a Chyrne & a brasse morter 0 3 0
It a Chaffe bedd 0 2 0
It in money & debts 137 0 0
£ s d
Suma total 152 0 0
NOTES:
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- Richard Rawes, who inherited Robert Rawes's messuage in Borrowdale, Was the Richard Rawes of Rossill and died in 1674.
- Elizabeth Rawes married Henry Washington and had issue.
- Ann Rawes married Roger Becke and had issue.
- Dubler/dobler = a dish or charger.
- Piggin = Small wooden vessel made in the manner of half barrels.
[Deduced pedigree from the Will.]
Pedigree and information deduced from the Will.
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ROBERT = LANCELOT GERARD
of Fawcett | = =
Forrest in | | |
Borrowdale | | |
died 1645 | | |
Will | | ------------------
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| JANE GERARD ROBERT
RICHARD
lived in the =
house that his |
son Richard |
inherited |
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RICHARD ELIZABETH JANE ANN
1645 inerited
messuage &
tenement in
Borrowdale
Other people mentioned in the Inventory.
- Richard Bacone.
- William Fell.
- William Jackson.
- Thomas Lickbarrow.
- Anthony Stevenson.
- John Stevenson.
Transcribed from the original by Julian Rawes, 2015