| Description | Bequests: Annuity of £5 charged on two closes known as Butt Closes in Great Driffield containing 12 acres to Elizabeth Lee and Ann Bonwick, 'my goodfriends and neighbours'; annuity of £5 charged on closes in Great Driffield to Richard Holder, the son of my late nephew Richard Holder; annuity of £5 charged on messuages and Kiln Garth and two closes known as Markham Hill and Croft Close in Little Driffield to Ann Ashton; two closes known as Butt Closes in Great Driffield and messuages and closes in Driffield to John Barnby, son of my late niece Ann Barnby, subject to a charge into John Gray Weatherill (son of my relation William Weatherill living in Pimlico, London); messuage bounded by the fore street towards the east and by a newly erected Methodist Meeting House and some almshouses in Great Driffield recently erected by John Gray to Thomas Ashton 'good and worthy friend and relation' now living with John Gray and his wife; recently erected almshouses for seven poor persons in Westgate, Great Driffield to Thomas Ashton for life, then to William Weatherill; two little cottages with garths in Great Driffield in occupation of Robert Roebuck and Jane Dawson to Ann Roebuck, wife of Robert Roebuck for life, and then to her children; a gold watch to John Barnby; 5 shillings to Mary Hannah Barnby and Ann Barnby, daughters of his late niece Ann Barnby; clock and the case to William Weatherill; household effects including 'my smoaking chair in which I usually sit' to Thomas Ashton; a guinea to purchase a mourning ring to Miss Jane Etherington, daughter of 'my good friend' Reverend George Etherington; large easy chair to 'good friend and neighbour' Mrs Cator; damask morning gown to 'my good friend' Thomas Cator; a black stuff gown to Elizabeth Lion and Hannah Todd, widows, Sarah Sugden, Jane Sanderson, Dorothy Smith, Mary Elliot, Margrett Harpur and Hannah Wardel; a guinea each to his godsons Richard Etherington, Edmund Maltby, John Conyers, William Porter, John Gray of Water Wold, William Jarrat, Thomas Woodmansey and George Brown, who are requested to bear him to the place of interment
Executor: William Weatherill, husband of his late niece Ann Weatherill
Witnesses: Edward Hall, George Etherington, Thomas Cator |