Can I ask for some help with a few words here please?
The rest of the will is fine – it has been a very nice one to do. One of the few written by a woman, of course, so her ideas of what needs to be included as legacies have varied very much from the usual ‘seven sheep’ or ‘corn on the ground” that the men think important! One of things I’ve enjoyed reading about is all the coloured cloths, rugs and various other textiles she includes.
“my daughter my best bedd and boulster belonging thereto one new
chaffe bedd one feather (?) boulster one paire of of fustian pillows
one paire of blanketts rowed (?) with red one under blankett one
yellow blankett one paire of curtains and vallance of greene
?? ? one wrought cupboard cloath and two
wrought cushons of bredcloth (?) two litle chayres covered with green
cloath one wicker (?) chayre one warming panne my own lookinge
glasse my litle ? ? ? box the great trunk one
black bond box alsoe half of my lynnens pewter and brasse
one ? my bible and my best ? ? Alsoe half of the
rest of my aparell both lynnen and woollen which shal bee undisposed
att my death Item I give and bequeath unto Mary Burges my daughter”
Many thanks
