gylfatt, 38. Seves, ridles and 5 kuttells, 8d. Secks, pecks, a windowclothe, 2s. 2 reeles, a heckell and lyne, 12d. One racking crooke, one paire of tongs, 12d. One oxe harrowe, 5s. One new bedstocke, 12d. One old bedstocke, 8d. One old kneding tubb, 7d. One old chese presse, 4d. 2 lynnynge apprens, 2 linninge churchef, 3 napkins, one payre of lynne sleves, thre lyning vails, one fyne curchife, 4 patlitts, one payre of lynne sheets (a paire of codd pillibers [erased]) and a paire of blacke sleves, 16s. 6d. Summa, 821. 5s. 3d. For his mortuarye, 10s.; for reparacons, 20s.; and funerall, 208.

WILL OF JANET ANDERSON.

Dec. 4, 1587. Jennet Anderson of Barwik on the Hill, widow. To be buried in the church of Ponteland.1 To my daughter Jane, wife of Thomas Anderson, one bowle of whet of Newcastle market measure, one chist that standeth now in my chamber window, one side saddle and a cradle. I give to Heugh Anderson, sonne of John Anderson, one sheepe hogge and one silver arrow. To John Anderson, brother of the said Heugh, another sylver arrow. To Thomas Anderson, one sylver ringe. To my sone, William Anderson, one bed of clothes, on ironspit and chair, and a caser with two bedsteads. The rest to my youngest son, Bartram Anderson; he

executor.

WILL OF RICHARD GLOVER.

Dec. 7, 1587. Richard Glover of Darlington, in the countye of Durism, yeoman.2 I geve to Annes, my wife, twentye marks. I geve to my sonne Peter my younge blacke horse and two horsgats in the parke duringe my lease. I geve to my daughter, Elisabeth Glover, one house with appurtenances, adjoyninge to the house wherin I now dwell, and a cupbord standinge in the same house, and a presser standinge in the deanry and twentye marks. I geve to Mychell

1 The following is the will of another member of the same family : May 4, 1565. James Anderson of Berwyke on the Hill, in the parish of Ponteland, yeoman. I give my farmhold to Elizabeth, my wife, so long as she keepeth herself soyll and unmarried, and yf she be now with child, then the sayd child shall have the farme as soon as it shall be able to occupy yt, and that Maister John Ogle, the godmane of Twyssyll, shall have the custody of the said child; and yf my wyfe be not with child, the farme to goe to Cuthbart Anderson, sone of Edward Anderson, laite of the towne of Newcastell-upon-Tyne, marchand, deceased. Witnesses, John Ogle, John Masyljohn, Richard Anderson, Percivell Anderson, Sir Edward Allenson, curat. will that Isabell and Agnes, my susters, be brought up and have ther lyvinge off my farmold in Barwick, according to my father's commandment.

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2 An account of the Glovers, one of the oldest families in Darlington, may be found in Longstaffe, Darlington, pp. 149-150.

Shipside, 20s. To Thomas Glover that now dwelleth with me, 10s. To Richard Glover, my brother's soone, 10s. To George Marchells, sonne of John Marchell, ane ewe and a lambe, and to Anes Marshall and Elizabeth Marchall, doughters of the said John Marshall, each of them an ew and a lamb. All the rest of my goods, not bequethed, I geve to be devided equallye betwene my wife Annes, my sonn Peter, and my daughter Elizabeth Glover, and I make my sonne Peter executor of this my last will and testament. Witnesses, Lewis Ambrose, John Marshall and others.

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INVENTORY. Jan. 7, 1587/8. Inter alia: His aparell, 40s. A cubbord, 26s. 8d. 2 tables, a forme, a chare, and 4 buffett stules, 30s. 5 puder chargers, 20s. 48 other puder dishes, 37. salters and 8 pottingers, 13s. 4d. 9 salts, 5s. 11 candlesticks, 10s. A basen, a latten ladle and an old ewer, 2s. A quart pot and a pinte pot of puder, 28. 3 chamber potts, 2s. 6d. 2 chaffing dishes, 2s. 6d. 2 reckon crokes, a fyre shoull, on pare of tongs and a brulinge yron, 5s. 2 carpetts and 8 quishings, 10s. A paire of tables, 20d. 18 chesses, 13s. 4d. Befe and bakon, 40s. 3 cubbords, 2 formes and a chaire, 30s. 5 litle brasse potts, 26s. 8d. 8 fetherbedds, 8 bolsters and 8 coods, 81. 3 fetherbedds, 3 bolsters and 3 codds, 47. Fower chistes, 20s. 15 paire of shets, 30s. 7 paire of blankets, 40s. 14 coverletts, 47. A stand bedd, a treacle bed, a fether bedd, 2 coverings, 2 blanketts, a bolstr and a pillow, 31. 6s. 8d. A table a forme and chest, 10s. A carpett and 6 quishings, 20s. 10 paire of lyn sheets, and 12 rodwaires, 4d. 6 towels, 12s. 18 napkins, 48. 6 table clothes, 13s. 4d. 9 yardes of lyn, 9s. 3 pare of bedstocks, 30s. 6 blankets and 6 coverings, 20s. 4 bedstocks and a treacle bedd, 30s. 6 quishings, 20s. A bord and other implements, 5s. 20 salt fiches, 10s. Stands in the butterye, 20s. 5 brasse potts and thre dripping pans, 20s. Fower kettels, etc., in the kitchinge, 47. 4 quarters of havere and 15 peckes of wheate, 37. 2 kits of butter and 2 leaxes, 20s. 20 quarters of malt and bige, 201. A cupbord, 40s. A presser, 20s. Coles, 3 formes, 20s. A blacke horse, 53s. 4d. Spare flekes and a paire of wheales, 40s. hay in the howse and stacks, 331. 6s. 8d. 4 oxen, 127. the ground, 207. Wain, plugh, etc., 4l. 5 kye, 117. 2 mares, a stagge and 18 sheep, 107. 14 silver spoones, 47. The lease of two horsgats in the parke, 47. The lease of Haughton feild, 301. 3 swine and certaine wod, 37. A bedd at John Marshell's, 3l. 6s. 8d. Summa totalis, 219l. 7s. 4d.

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WILL OF JANE NICHOLSON.

Dec. 7, 1587. Jane Nicholson of Darlington, in the countye of Durham, wedow, late wiffe of Cuthbert Nicholson of Darlington, aforesayd. My bodye to be buryed in good and Christian maner. I geve to my sonne Cuthbert twentye marks and to my sonne

Edward other twentye marks, to be paid them within five yeares after my decease. I geve to Thomas Dossye a boule of rye and land to sowe halfe a bushell of corne yearlye duringe 3 yeares. I give to John and Frauncis Dossy, sonnes of the said Thomas Dossy, each of them a gimmer hogg. I geve to Annes Stanton a bushell of wheate. I geve to Margerye Stanton a kercher and a vayle, and to Jane Stanton a kercher. I geve to my daughter, Annes Dossy, all my cotes, except my wedding cote, which I geve to Isabell Dossy, daughter of Thomas Dossy, and one red cote, which I geve to my sister, Margarett Wilkinson. I give to Jane Glover a kercher and a vaile, all the rest of my goods not bequethed, my debts payd and funerall expences discharged, I geve to my sonne, Christofer Nicholson, whome I make executor of this my last will and testament. Witnesses, Cuthbert Storye, Richard Stanton, Thomas Dossye, Lewis Ambrose and others.

INVENTORY. Feb. 15, 1587/8. Imprimis: Her apparell, 10s. An almerye, a table and 2 chairs, 5s. 7 peces of puder, 4 brasse potts, 2 kettells and 6 panns, 34s. A chaffinge dish, 2 candlesticks, 2 salts, a spite, cobyrons, reckencrooks and tonges, 5s. Skels, dishes, bouls, trenchers, a little tub with other woodgeare, 10s. 2 bedstocks, 2 shelves and befe, 11s. 8d. One fetherbedd, one mattres, 3 happinns, 3 coverletts, 4 paire of shets, a bordcloth, a towell, 2 codwares, 5 code hemp and yarn, 44s 4 oxen, 3 kye, 2 calves, a horse and a meare, 197. Corne in the lath and one the ground with hay, 327. 2 swine and 4 shepe, 26s. 8d. 6 henns, a cock and 2 gese, 5s. Waine and waingere, 40s. Summa totalis, 607. 11s. 4d. Debts which he oweth, 57.

WILL OF CUTHBERT RACKETT.

Dec. 10, 1587. Cuthbert Rackett, within the parishinge of St. Oswold in Durham, visited by hande of God, sicke in my boddye, and yet hole of mynde and of perfitt remembrance make this my last will and testament in maner and forme following. I bequethe my soule to Allmightye God and my bodye to be buryed within the parish church of St. Oswolds aforesaid.1 I geve and bequeth my dwelling house to my wiffe and hir children, that is, John Rackett, George Rackett, Addelia Rackett, Margret Rackett, Elsabeth Rackett, Chatherine Rackett, duringe the tearme of 24 yeares after my decease. I bequeth to my sonne, John Rackett, the house that nowe dwells in John Kendre, to him and his heires, lawfullye begotten of his bodye. I bequeth to Georg Rackett my sonne, the house that nowe dwells wedowe Grayme, and the heires of his bodye lawfullye begotten, and for defawte of heires lawfullye of there bodyes begotten, Register of St. Oswald's,

1 1587, Dec. 13. Cuthberd Racket buried. Durham.

to come to there fower sisters as is named afore. I geve to my wiffe the lease of the house that nowe dwells in John Thompson during the yeares. I geve to my doughter, Addelyn Racket, the awmerye that was hir mother's. The rest of all my goods, moveable and unmoveable, I geve and bequeth to my wiffe and hir children named before, whome I make my full executors, my debts and other my legacies discharged. In witnesse heareof, Anthonye Barton, John Shipson, Richard Scott, John Kendrey, John Ridley.

INVENTORY. 2 iron chimneys, one paire of racks, a paire of tonges, a parr, a spete, a droppinge pann, 13s. 4d. 4 almeryes with one litle almerye, 20s. One long table, a shorte table, 2 counters, 2 formes, 78. 6d. 2 chaires, a payre of playing tables, a buffet stoole, a carpinge clothe, 2s. 4d. 14 peece of pewder, 2 baysings and 10 sawsers, 6 potting dishes, 13s. 4d. 7 candlesticks, a laver, a salt, a tynn pott, 2s. 6d. 5 brasse potts, 12s. 3 standbedds, a trinle bed, a bordid bed, 2 fether bedds, 2 mattresses, 2 bowlsters, 2 payre of blanketts, foure happings, 2 coverletts, a oversee covering, a payre of hingers, 3 paire of lyne sheets, 3 code mares, 3 payre of harden sheets, 36s. A Flander chist, 2 formes, 2s. 6d. A chaffing dish, a wod dubler, 2 formes, 2 skeylls, a stande, 20d. 5 chists, a presser, a forme, 2 hallings, 4s. 4d. 4 panns, a cawdron, 3 stone trowes, 3s. 10d. His apperell, 13s. 4d. A brede braike and 6 bords, 2 old arks, 22d. Serten haye, 3s. 4d. A brewe lede, a tapp stone, 4 tubbs, 13s. 4 pece of old harnesse, 4 jacks, 12d. A grene covering, a paire of hingers and 5 pece of pewder, 10s. An oversee covering, 6s. 8d. A brasse pott, 6s. 8d. The lease of the house that now dwelle John Thompson, 10s. The some, 91. 5s. 2d.

Debts that the foresaid Cuthbert ought: To Dorritye Walle, 30s. To William Wall, 10s. 6d. To John Willson, 18s. To James Liddelle 12s. Andrew Hawkins, 128. At his furth bringing, 128. The some, 47. 13s. 9d.

Debts owing to the foresaid Cuthbert Rackett: Thomas Fosser for a cowe, 13s. 4d. Thomas Fosser for a lode of malt, 10s. The some, 238. 4d. The funerale expences and debts dischargede, the total some cleare, 21. 5d.

WILL OF WILLIAM NEWBY.

Dec. 28, 1587. William Newbye of Cockefeild. My bodye to be buryed in the churchyeard of Cockefeild. I geve to John Newbye and Richard Newbye one graye meare and 4 wethers. I geve to Symon Newbye 10s. which my brother, Gregorye Newbye, is indebted unto me, and 3 wethers. To Jelia Newbye, one whye calfe and 4 ewes. To Raufe Newbye, 3 wethers. To Robert Newbye, 2 wethers. To Anne Newbye, 2 wethers. I give the lease of my ferminge to my wiffe duringe her lyffe naturall, provided allwaies that she continnue my wiffe. I will that when my wiffe dyeth, or marieth, that my said

lease come to my sonne, Rowland Newbye. I will that my wiffe bringe upp my two youngest children uppon the ferminge, and if she dye I will that my sonne Rowland shall se them brought and that they have there portions paid when theye come to the lawfull yeares. The rest of my goodes unbequethed, my debts and funerall expencs discharged, I geve unto my wiffe, my sonne Symon and my doughter Jelia Newbye, whome I maike joint executors of this my last will and testament. Witnesses, John Jollye, Robert Dixon with others. Supervisors, John Wild, John Jollye, Thomas Wilde and Lancelott Wild.

INVENTORY.

Jan. 8, 1587/8. Summa, 241. 13s.

WILL OF JOHN SEDGSWICK.

[Dec. 1587]. John Sigswick 1 of Walworth moore, in the parishe of Heighington. My bodye to be buryed in the churchyard of Heighington with all dewtyes of right thereto belonginge. I geve and bequethe unto the poore people of my parishinge, 13s. 4d. I geve unto William Bilton 10s. I geve unto my brother in lawe, Raphe Preston, my best dublett, and my best hose. I geve unto my brother, James Sigswicke, my best frese cote and my lynninge dublett. I geve Oswolde Newton my olde frese cote. I geve unto everye one of the children whome I did help to geve Cristendome unto, 4d. I geve unto John Rowthe, the curate of Heighington, one lyninge sharte. I geve unto younge William Robinsone one harden sharte. I geve unto my sonne William and to my sonne Thomas, to either of them, four ewes. I geve to my doughter Jane and my sonne Richard tenn ewes and one lambe, equallye to be devided betwixt them. I geve unto my sonne George five ewes and one lambe. I geve to everye one of my youngest children two ewes. My debts, legacies and funeralls paid and discharged, the residewe of my goods I geve unto Agnes, my wiffe, and Thomas, William, George, Richard and Raphe, my sonns, and Jane, my daughter, whome I make my joynte and full executors of this my last will and testament. Witnesses, William Bilton, John Rowthe, clarke, and William Robinson.

INVENTORY. Dec. 31, 1587. Imprimis: 11 kyne and hay, 307. Corne in stacke, 20s. 2 whyes, one maire and 2 folles, 47. 6s. 8d. Threscore eleaven shepe, 157. 6s. 8d. The geare in the workehowse, 20s. His apperrell, 20s. 4 paire of lynnen shets, 7 paire of harden shets, 3 coverletts, 10 happings, 6 pillowbers, 6 coddes, 2 mattresses, 2 paire of blanketts, 4 paire of bedd stocks and 4 yeardes of clothe, 47. 4s. 20 pece of puder, 2 sawcers, 12 tin spoones, 3 candlesticks, 21s. 2d. 6 brasse potts, 4 kettells, 4 pannes, one litle ketle and

A pedigree of Sedgwick of Thorpthewles is printed in Surtees, Durham, vol. iii. p. 82.