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An old will written in 1668 mentions "a pair of blankets … standeth on the hall chamber".

The words between blankets and standeth might say "[?] and cord about", perhaps describing how the edges were finished?

There was also "a pair of blankets … standeth in the floor [?]" So the location of the blankets varied.

Can anyone make out what the words between the words 'blankets' and 'standeth' are?

In a will written in 1668 a man left bedding and furniture to his (adult) children. 2 received trundle beds, 2 received tester beds, and 2 received "…ry" beds (bedsteads). The "..ry" beds might not have been the same kind of beds.

I have isolated and cleaned up the two phrases (see image).

Does anyone know what kind of beds either of these might have been?

I also read it as 'younger' (see post title), but what they meant by younger and youngest in the early 1700s is anyone's guess.

He had two daughters named Mary, one by each wife, who both were still alive in 1703, and are both mentioned in the will.

Mary daughter of the first wife was about 20 years old when her half-sister Mary was born.

I have seen that happen in other families as well. They seem to have figured that since the older child was an adult (or nearly) then the name could be recycled and used for children of the second wife.

I have also seen Mary Ann and Maria in the same family (and same mother), Elizabeth and ELiza, and so on — and all survived to adulthood and married, etc.

The only record I have is for someone's wife. I cannot find a marriage record.

I have now found an army record (random unrelated person) who was also born in "Wall Sutton near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire".

Considering some people in census returns said "Wallsutton" Cambridgeshire, I guess it is a local variation of how to say Walsoken.