78 THE WEDGWOODS. 



Potter, being weake in body, but of sound mind, perfect memory 

 (praised be God therefore), do make tbis to be and continue my last 

 will and Testament, in manner and form following : first, I commend 

 my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator, hoping through 

 the only merits of Jesus Christ soy dear Redeemer to obtain life 

 everlasting; & as for such worldly and outward estate it hath pleased 

 God out of his superabundant Goodness to bestow upon me, I give 

 and assign the same in manner and form following, that is to say, 

 I give and devise unto Margaret my loving wife, so long as she 

 remain sole unmarried after my decease, for the time of her natural 

 life, all the dwelling house wherein I now inhabit, called the Upper 

 or Over House, with all barns, outhouses, stables, cowhouses, yards, 

 folds, orchards, gardens, thereunto belonging, with the fish-pond 

 and fish ; and also the Oxley Crofts, the great Old Field, the little 

 Old Field, the Oxley Croft Meadow, the Kill yard, with all and 

 every of these appurtenances & privileges which are situate in 

 Eurslem aforesaid, for and during her widowhood, in full recompense 

 of her jointure and dower, of all my lands and tenements and under 

 this proviso. Also that my said wife do and shall relay & release 

 all her title and interest in all my housing and lands lying at the 

 Church Yard side in Burslem aforesaid, which were formerly or are 

 in the holding of myself & father-in-law, Shaw, one or both of us, 

 or to my Son John during her said widowhood, and no longer. 

 I give and assign unto my said wife for her natural life my horse 

 mill, with the buildings wherein it now stands, for a further help to 

 her & for the educating and maintaining of my younger Children 

 until they come to the age of one and twenty years, to be disposed 

 of in marriage or receive their portions. Item I give and assign 

 unto my said wife all my workhouses, shops, ovens, which I have 

 erected and built upon a certain piece of ground which I lately 

 purchased of William Keen of Crow Borrow, with all and every 

 their appurtenances lying in Burslem aforesaid, until such time as 

 my Son Thomas "Wedgwood shall accomplish the age of Twenty One 

 years, and for no longer time, to keep her, the better to maintain 

 and educate my younger children. I give and assign unto my said 

 Son Thomas Wedgwood, his heirs and assigns for ever, when he 

 shall come to the age of one & twenty years, all the said work- 

 houses, & pot ovens, & folds or yards belonging to the same, all and 

 every their appurtenances & privileges ; also the said house, mill, 

 with the buildings thereunto belonging after the determination of 

 my wife's estate. I give unto my Son Thomas when he shall attain 

 the said age of one & twenty years, all the plank boards & shelves 



