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abilitie and I commend one of her children to breed 

 up (as I have said I intended to doe) if he shall be 

 able to doe it as I know he will for they be good 

 folke. I give to Mr. John Darbishire the sermons 

 of Mr. Anthony Faringdon or of Dr. Lunderson 

 which my executor thinks fitt to my servant 

 Thomas Edghili five pound in mony and all my 

 Clothes linnen and wollen (except one sute of 

 Clothes which I give to Mr. Holinshed and forty 

 shillings) if the said Thomas be my servant at my 

 death if not my Clothes only ; and I give my old 

 friend Mr. Richard Marriot tenn pound in mony to 

 be paid him within three months after my death 

 and I desire my sonne to shew kindnesse to him if 

 he shall neede and my sonn can spare it ; and I 

 doe hereby will and declare my sonn Izaak to be 

 my sole executor of this my last will and testament, 

 and Doctor Hawkins to see that he performes it 

 which I doubt not but he will. I desire my buriall 

 may be neare the place of my death and free from 

 any ostentation or charge but privately this I make 

 to be my last will (to which I shall only add the 

 Codicell for rings) this sixteenth day of August 

 One Thousand six hundred eighty three. Izaak 

 Walton Witnesse to this will. The Rings I give 

 are as on the other side. 



To my brother Jon Kenn, to my sister his wife 

 to my brother Doctor Ken to my sister Pye to Mr. 

 Francis Morley to Mr. George Vernon to his wife to 

 his three daughter to Mistris Nelson to Mr. Richard 

 Walton to Mr. Palmer to Mr. Taylor to Mr. 

 Thomas Garrard to the Lord Bishop of Sarum to 

 Mr. Rede his servant to my cozen Dorothy Ken rick 

 to my Cozen Lewin to Mr. Walter Higgs to Mr. 

 Charles Cotton to Mr Rich. Marryot 22 [sic] to 

 my brother Beacham to my sister his wife to the 



