| Description | Died: 28 June 1800
Bequests: Leonard Thompson, £500 of Sheriff Hutton; Miss Rebecca Allanson, £1,200; Miss Deborah Wharton, £1,000; William Hutchinson, godson, of Eggleston, £2,000; Major William Wilkinson of His Majesty's 30th regiment of foot, £100; to his brother, Richard Wilkinson of Newcastle upon Tyne, £100; Mrs Isabella Richardson, wife of John Richardson of City of Durham; Mrs Sarah Pricket, daughter of late friend Mr Hale Wyvill and wife of Captain Thomas Pricket, City of York, £100; Leonard Belt of Pickering, £100; John Belt of City of York, surgeon; £100; Elizabeth Pearson, daughter of butler Mark Pearson, £100; Mark Pearson, all his wearing apparel and £50; Jane Woodhouse, housekeeper, £50; to late wife's maid, Elizabeth Abbey, £50; manor and lordship of Youlthorpe, mansion house and lands at Sandhutton, lands at Bishop Wilton and Whixley 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'.
Codicil: Clement Seller of Grimthorpe to receive Greenwick's Farm at Givendale and after his decease the farm to go to Rev Thomas Cutler Rudston-Read; Richard Wharton, son of late Doctor Thomas Wharton of Old Park, £200; because of his regard for the neighbours at Bossall he gives Robert Belt's children £500 to be divided between them; Jane Woodhouse, housekeeper, in addition to her legacy from the will, an annual sum of £10; he revokes the bequest to his butler Mark Pearson of all wearing apparel insofar that it relates to linen apparel which is left to Elizabeth Abbey; Thomas Cutler Rudston-Read is to reside in the dwellinghouse in Little Blakestreet in the City of York as his town residence and that he shall not sell to people he knows or thinks the William Read would have had any objection to.
Witnesses: Matthew Whitby, George Wedell, W Withers, Thomas Court, William Parkin |