in the name of God Amen the 8th and 20th day of May Anno Dom 1708 in the seventh year of the reigne of our Soveraign Lady Anne by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland Queen defender of the faith etc I William Weldon of Syston in the County of Leicester Taylor do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say first I will that all those debts and duties as I owe in right or conscience to any person or persons whatsoever shall be well and fully paid within convenient time after my decease by my executor hereinafter named
and I do revoke renounce frusterate and make void all wills by me formerly made and declare and appoint this to be my last will and testament
Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne John Weldon the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain for to be paid unto him within one year after my decease and the disease of Elizabeth my now wife by my executor hereinafter named and if it shall happen that my said sonn John Weldon shall die before it becomes due and leave no issue then it shall be to my son William Weldon
Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne William Weldon his frame or stockinge loume for him to have it at the day of my death
item I further give and bequeath unto my said sonne William Weldon the sum of fforty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain full to be paid unto him within one year after my decease and the decease of Elizabeth my now wife by my executor hereinafter named and if it shall happen that my said sonne William Weldon shall depart this life before it becomes due and have no issue then the one half of it shall be to my sonne Robert Weldon and the other half of it shall be to my sonne John Weldon
Item my will and mind is and I do order and appoint it so to be that for the none payment of the summes of ten pounds and the summe of fforty pounds unto my said son John Weldon and unto my said son William Weldon as aforesaid that then it shall and may be lawful to and for I said sonne John Weldon and my said sonne William Weldon to enter upon all my houses lands and tenements with their appurtenances in Syston aforesaid and hold and enjoy them to their own Proper use and behoofed until the said somme of ten pounds and the said summe of fforty pounds be fully paid as aforesaid
Item my will is that all my household goods shall stand and be in my house as they now be full and during the Term of the natural life of Elizabeth my now wife and at her disease then to be equally divided between my three sons Robert Weldon John Weldon and William Weldon
Item my will and mind is that my son Robert Weldon shall maintain and provide for Elizabeth my now wife he having that with she has during the term of her natural life if she lives with him and if she shall happen to go from him then he shall pay her 20 shillings a year yearly during the term of her natural life
Item I give and devise unto my son Robert Weldon and to his heirs and assigns forever all my dwelling house out houses gardens orchards and backsides and all my arable land meadow ground pastures sheep domons and premisses with their appurtenances situate in Syston aforesaid thereof my goods chattells & chattells unbequeathed I give and bequeath (my debts and funerall discharged) unto Robert Weldon my sonne whom I make soul whole and lawful Executor of this my last Will and Testament
in witness whereof I have here unto sett my hand and seale the day and year first above written
William IX Weldon his mark [his seal]
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said William Weldon as his last will and testament in the presence of us
John [mark] Fewkes his mark
Jarves [mark] Plumer his mark
John Reeve
INVENTORY
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A true and perfect Inventory of ye goods cattell and chattells of William Weldon Late of Syston in ye County of Leics as valued and prized by us under written
Item his purse and Apparrell - 1-0-0
Item ye goods in ye house and chimney - 4-1-0
Item in ye parlour next the house one bed and beddings and chest 2 boxes and a cubbard one little table and other od things - 3-10-0
Item in ye buttery barrills and thralls and other lumber - 0-10-0
Item in ye new parlour 5 chairs - 0-4-6
Item in ye chamber over ye parlour next to ye house one bed and beddings + tubbs one krinnill and other od things - 1-2-6
Item the chamber over the house two bedds and beddings one cradle 2 blankits and other lumber - 2-15-0
Item in ye chamber over ye new parlour corne and mault cheeses and other od things - 2-0-0
Item in ye yard s stone traaues [troughs?] 2 ladders one cheese presse - 0-8-0
Item in ye garden 3 hive of bees - 0-9-0
Item coales and wood and other lumber in ye yard - 0-10-0
Item one store pigg - 0-6-8
Item 3 cows - 4-0-0
Item ye crapp ye is growing on ye ground - 5-15-0
Item mony owinge - 10-0-0
Things unseen - 0-1-0
Loast ye whole sume is 36-12-8
John Goddard
Ye mark of John [mark] Fewkes
Robert Weldon