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JOHANE WATTS OF STALBRIDGE WESTON, DORSET 1608

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to the church of Stalbridge ten shillings

to the poor of Stalbridge six pounds in money and twenty or thirty faggots apiece "as far as they will go"

to Robert Legge half an acre of wheat and to his wife Alice Legge, a black cow which I bought of him, one feathbed which is in the trunk in my chamber, a pair of sheets, one bolster, one borderlowe of canvas, my green gown, my red petticoat of home made cloth, one smock, one partlett, one silver spoon.

to John Hunte half an acre of wheat, one dust bed, one boulster, a pair of blankets & coverlet, a pair of sheets and the bedstead in the maid's chamber and to his daughter Jane a hunked yearling.

to Nicholas Brute half and acre of wheat and to his wife a pair of canvas sheets, a holland kerchief, a partlet, gown, a petticoat and an old coat

to William Cutberd? my man, one bedstead, a pair of blankets, one coverlet, a boulster, a pair of sheets that he lyeth in, two bushells of wheat, a bushel of malt, a hunked bullock of a year old.

to Margaret Hunte the elder two bushells of dredge, forty wood faggots, my old gown which lyeth on the maid's bed, one petticoat, one smock, one kerchief, one partlett, one apron of canvas.

to Margaret Hunt the younger, one cow called Young Duffett, a red heifer, which is in "boardfield", a bedstead with a flockbed, boulsters, a pair of blankets, a coverlet, a pair of sheets which are in the parlour, six new tablenapkins, the biggest cauldron saving one, a .... crock, a long legged skillet, two platters, two pottingers, two saucers.

to William Martin my man, five shillings

to my maid Priscilla Campin, five shillings

to my brother? Lodge's five children of Bunvill ? [Cunvill?] ten shillings apiece

to John Lodge the son of Walter Lodge twenty shillings

to Johane Watts the daughter of Richard Watts one heifer with two stars in the face, a year old

to Grace Atkinson five pounds

to Elizabeth Faith and Susan Atkyns ten shillings apiece

to Barnard Chamberlain his daughter a heifer of a year old

to Thomas Combe the son of Robert Combe the bull that is at Newman.

to my sister in law Katherine Combe my black mare

to Agnes Wood ...... heifer and a wrought cushion for a a window

to Johane Scooler my best gown, my best petticoat, my green cloth, one silver spoon, a band with a gorgon, a silk apron.

to William Scooler a bullock of a year old

to Thomas Scooler one "Wenlynge" which is in my house

to Francis Scooler forty pounds to be paid by my Executor to William Wood my overseers or to be employed for her use until the age of twenty one years, my chamber furnished saving one featherbed in the trunk and the chamber next adjoining with all things therein, all my pewter, and brass not before given, her father not to meddle

to William Watts my brother in law all my goods, chattles, debts, demands whatsoever not before given. William Watts executor

Overseers William Wood, gentleman and John Scooler, and twenty shillings for their pains

Debts owing

witnesses William Eton? William Martin

the widow Hay forty shillings

the widow Howchins forty shillings

signed Johane Watts

Probate granted 26th day of March 1608

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