| Description | Date:21 March 1666
Bequests: To his wife, the house and garden at the City of Durham near Framwellgate Bridge and with the houses and tenements in Sandhutton in the County of York expressed in the Declaration of Trust between his brother in law, Alderman Mascall; also she receives is silver watch and case and a mare called 'Kattee' or any other horses. To his eldest son, William Read and his son, Clement Read, grandchild and godson, 8 acres of meadow in Burton Fields and 2 oxgangs in Bolton. To Clement Read, houses, shopps, stables, chambers, barns in the City of York, borough of Malton. To son William at his marriage, lands at Sandhutton and tithe of corn and hay within the lordship of Belthorpe within Bishop Wilton and £15 per annum out of the rent charge of the lordship of Skirringham. To Richard Read, the property in Durham with reversions and other houses and lands in Durham, the lands and right of the lordship of Crooke Hall. To Edward Read, mortgage , tithe and interest in the farm and other lands in Buttercrambe, Aldby and Holgate, Sutton and Sandhutton and the remainder of the rent charge due out of George Wilkinson's land in Stockton. To his grandchildren, Thomas Binlowe, £15 per annum and Katherine Binlowe, £10 per annum. To his daughter, Elizabeth Read, £400 and a 22 shilling piece of gold. To Edward Read, his son, waines, ploughs, yokes and teams, helmes, standhecks, slees, slackbarry. To his sister, Isabell Algood of Newcastle, £6 per annum. To his cousin, Jane Nicholson's children £15 owed to him by his brother Algood and other family bequests. For the poor people of Heddon upon the Walle in Northumberland (where he was born), £5 for stocks to be paid to the churchwardens and the interest to be equally distributed and other bequests in this manner.
Executor: William Read, Clement Read, Richard Read and Edward Read (his sons)
Witnesses: William Harrison, Edward Wainman and Richard Hutchinson
With memorandum to act as a codicil, 7 January 1667 and witnessed by Geoge Avison, Richard Hutchinson |