| Description | Bequest: To friend, Leonard Thompson of Sheriff Hutton, £100; to Rebecca Allanson, daughter of Rev Doctor Cuthbert Allanson of Ripon, deceased, £1,000; Miss Deborah Wharton, daughter of Doctor Thomas Wharton of Old Park, Durham, £5,000; to his butler, Mark Pearson, all his wearing apparel and £50; to the housekeeper, Jane Woodhouse, £50; to his wife's maid, Elizabeth Abbey, £50; manor and lordship of Youlthorpe, mansion house and lands at Sandhutton, lands at Bishop Wilton and Whixley to his wife, Deborah Read and after the death of his wife to Rev Thomas Cutler Rudston who is to take up the residence of the Sandhutton mansion, bear the family arms of Read and use the surname 'Read'.
Executor: Rev Thomas Cutler Rudston-Read
Witnesses: Thomas Court, Matthew Whitby, George Wedell |