FROM PROBATE RECORDS
The WILL of JOHN CARLETON OF Beeford, 1620. "In the name of God Amen I John
Carleton of Beford in Houldrnes att this present beeing in health god be
praysed do ordaine and make this my last will and testament in manner and
forme followinge renouncing all former wills ffirst I giue and comend my
Soule into the hands of Almighty god and my Saviour Jesus Christ by whose
sufferinge and merits my salvation dependeth And my will is that my bodye be
buried wthin the churche of Beford If I Dye there Itm I do gyue and bequeth
to my wyfe all my estate tytle and interest in the house wherein I now
dwell, wth the closes and v oxgangs of land wth all other appurtenances
thereunto belonging, to enter to the same according to the customs of the
Towne of Beford aforesaid; Itm I do gyue to my daughter An Strickland x
s[hillinges], Itm I do gyue to my daughter An Carleton x 5; Itm I do gyue my
daughter Jaine Carleton x 5; Itm I do gyue to my daughter Rachell Carleton x
s; Itm I do gyue to my sonne Thomas Norton x s; Itm I do gyue to every one
that are my servants at the hower of my death ii S vi d; Itm I do gyue to
the poore of Beford xx 5 to be distributed to the most needfull at the
discretion of Mr. Bell (Thomas Bell, M.A., was rector of St. Leonard's
Beeford, instituted 31 March 1608, and continuing until his death, probably
about 1637.) The rest of my goods & chattels in this my will not gyuen &
Bequeathed (my dettes beinge paid and funeral dyscharged) I do gyve and
bequethe to my Sonnes Thomas Carleton, George Carleton, Walter Carleton and
John Carleton, and to my grandchild Thomas Carleton being my sonne Thomas
his sonne whom I make executor of this my Last will and Testament Beseching
god to bless them all, And I do charge them to be Loving and obedient to
their mother, And every one of them to be loving to another, wch I do not
doutt but they will do and p'form; my meaning is And yt is my will that my
said grand child Thomas Carleton shall have as full and large a pte of my
goods as shall fall and he due any waye to my said sonnes; In witnes whereof
I haue to this my last will and testament subscribed my name and put to myn
seale the nynthe daye of December, and in the yeare of our Lord God one
thousand syxe hundrethe and twentie
I do owe my sonne George Carleton xII Wytnesses of this my will Thomas Shawe
Robert Chambers All these blottings in this my will were don and blotted bye
myselfe in my lyfe-tyme" (Original will, York Probate Registry)
Following the registered copy of John Carleton's will (York, vol. 39, fo 5)
is this record: On the same day [22 Nov. 1626] the said dean [Mr. Wilfitt,
dean of Holderness] certified concerning the proving of this will, through
the witnesses named, being sworn; administration on the goods of the said
deceased was committed to Thomas Carleton, son, sole executor named in the
same will, being previously sworn.
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