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friends, in all twenty-four, “‘to buy them mourning rings. He had 
no great amount of money to dispose of in legacies, having gener- 
ously given to each son and daughter their portion on their entering 
into business, or on their marriage. To his eldest son, William, 
he says: “I bequeath one oval table and six rushed chairs, now 
belonging to my dining room, one large map now in my staircase, 
one jack and spit, and my large Bible wherein are written the 
names of my several children, which legacy, together with what I 
settled upon him by deed bearing date the 29th day of December, 
1691, is and shail be his full part and portion,” etc., etc. 
Another bequest is to his daughter Agnes, whose marriage in 
1694, to Mr. James Coningham, is recorded in the parish 
registers. Walker, in his history of Penrith, says: ‘‘ James Con- 
ingham, M.A., a native of Scotland, who was educated at the 
University of Edinburgh, and was connected with the Established 
Church of Scotland, is first mentioned as minister of the Presby- 
terian congregation in Penrith in the year 1694. In 1700 he 
removed to Manchester, and afterwards to London.” 
William Cookson thus remembers his daughter Agnes and her 
reverend husband in his will:—‘“‘I give and bequeath to my eldest 
daughter, Agnes Coningham, the sum of five pounds with one 
silver porringer, and ten shillings to buy a mourning ring, which, 
with what I gave her at the time of her marriage, is in full for her 
part and portion. I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, Mr. 
James Coningham my Clark’s Bible in folio and ten shillings to 
buy a mourning ring.” Amongst his grandchildren, to whom he 
left five pounds each, he mentions ‘‘John Coningham, the son of 
the Rev. James Coningham.” 
To his daughter Isabel, wife of William Jeffray, he bequeaths 
“twenty pounds and one silver porringer, and ten shillings for a 
mourning ring ;” to his son-in-law, William Jeffray, “ten shillings 
to his grandsons, Thomas and Richard 
Jeffray, twenty pounds each, and to his grand-daughter, Agnes 
” 
for a mourning ring; 
Jeffray, the sum of ten pounds ; but none of the legacies to grand- 
children were to be paid until they came of age. ‘The absence of 
any mention of Isabella having had a dowry on her marriage, and 
