This is what Garturde's will
says. Some spellings were not correct but that is the way they wrote back
then. Some English has changed over the years.
I, sick in body but (sound in mind and in) memory, God be praised for the same, doe make my last will and testament in manner and forme following:
First: I commend my soule into the hands of my Lord God and Creator, nothing doubting but that for his infinite mercies sett forth in the precious blood of his beloved Jesus Christ my Saviour and redeemer. He will receive the same into his glory and place it in ye company of heavenly angels and blessed saints
and as concerning my body even with a good and free hart, I give it over, commending it to the earth whereof it came, hopeing according to the article of my fayth att the great day of the generall resurrection when all shall appear before the judgement seat of Christ I shall receive the same againe by the mighty power of God, whereby, he is able to subdue all things to himselfe, imortall and perfect in all points like unto ye glorious body of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
and as concerning my goods:
First: I will and devise that Francis my sonne and Alice my daughter shall have eyther of them £12 out of my whole goods and chattels in lew of their fillial portons due unto them out of goods and chattels of Francis Glossop their deceased father.
Item: I will and demise that the said Alice shall have 4£ out of my said goods due unto her by the interest on a heffer which was given unto her by her said father.
Item: I give and bequeath unto the said Francis my sonne 4£ and one brasyen morter and a pestel for a legacie to be paid out of my said goods.
Item: I give unto my sonne Peter one landyron , one cupboard and one great arke in the back house.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my sonne James my best cow, pett cow excepted, and unto my daughter in law, wife of the said James, one eue and one lambe.
Item: I give unto William Bate, my sonne in law, one eue and one lambe, unto Margarett his wife, one eue and one lambe and unto Peter Bate, Ann Bate, and Mary Bate children of the said William Bate, to every one of them one eue and one lambe.
Item: I give and bequeath unto the said Ann Bate 30 shillings to be put forth unto some friend for the best use of the said Ann until she accomplish her age of one and twentieth yeares, and if it happen she dye before she accomplish the full age of one and twentieth yeares, then I will that the said 30 shillings with interest and profit therof be equaly divided between the said Peter and Mary, brother and sister of the said Ann.
Item: I give to Henery, Roger and Cisely Boulsover, my god-children either of them 12 pence.
All the residue of my goods and chattels not bequeathed, my debts and funeral charges paid and discharged, I will and demise to be equally divided betweene my said sonne Francis and my daughter Alice whom I make executors of this my last will and testament, and doe make Robee Bowman, my brother James and my brother Francis supervisors of the same will and testament, desiringe them to see the same performed according to the true meaning thereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand and seale the day and yeare above written.
(Signed and sealed) Gartrude Glossop , witnessed here onto...
Debts oweing unto Gartrude Glossop followeth ......... videlt. Francis Urton ... £8.
Francis Urton was Gartrude's brother, I don't know what he owed her money for.
It's funny to think that people were leaving cows and sheep to family members in their wills but they were valuable possessions to people then as they still are to some today!