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Charles, Lord Stourton, fyc. 



after the tyme of the same recoverye. Item I geve and bequeth unto the same 

 Thomas the lease interest and all my title of my farme called the Woodes end 

 in the parisshe of Mottecome within the county of Dorset. Item if the seid 

 Thomas dye while George his sonne doo lyve or any other childe of his living 

 betwene hym and Anne his wife whatsoever chaunce or myshap shall come to 

 the saide Thomas ; I will that the saide An, George and other his children one 

 after other have and enjoy the lease of the same ferme during my yeres. And 

 if it fortune them and every of them to dye within the space of the yeres of the 

 said lease thenne I will that the same lease remayn to Edward my sonne during 

 the same yeres. And if it happen hym to decease afore th'end of the same 

 yeres then I wyll the remayndre therof be to John Hartgill and to Cutbert his 

 sonne and to the children of the said John successively from th'one to th'other 

 as they be of age. Item I geve and bequeath to the said Edward my sonne 

 forty poundes parcell of the debts aforesaide in manner as is before declared to 

 be paide. Item I geve and bequeath also to the said Edward all my right 

 interest and title that I have in certayne grounde of medowe and pasture lying 

 in Est Knoyll within the countie of Wiltes, whiche I holde also by lease for 

 terme of yeres. And if the saide Edward fortune to dye afore the full deter- 

 minacion of the said yeres, thenne I will the same lease remayn to the saide 

 J ohn Hartgill and Cuthberd his sonne and to the children of the saide John 

 after their deceases in manner as is above declared. Item by thies presentes I 

 doo geve and bequeath unto the saide John Hartgill and to Cutbert his sonne 

 all other my goodes, cattalles and debtes above not geven and bequeathed, in 

 whose handes soever any parcell therof doo remayn or shall happen to be by any 

 meanes, the which John Hartgill and Cutbert Hartgill I doo make ordayn and 

 constitute my true lawfull and hole executours, they to ordeyn and dispoase 

 all the saide goodes cattalles and debts, as by their discrecion shalbe thought 

 most necessary at ther pleasures. In witnesse wherof I the above named 

 William Hartgill have written this my present will and testament with myn 

 awne hande and sealed the same with my seale the day and yere above written. 

 And also 1 have subscribed my name to the same, By me William Haetgill 

 of Kylmyngton - ." 



Proved the 13th day of November A.D. 1557 when a comission issued to Joan 

 Hartgill the relict of the said deceased and to Dorothy Hartgill the relict 

 of John Hartgill defunct, whiles he lived one of the executors in the said will 

 named, to administer, &c, &c, &c. 



An Inquisition of William HartgilPs lands, &c, was taken at 

 Chard, co. Somerset, on the 11th September 1557 before Roger 

 Walrond, Escheator. He was found to have been at his death 

 seised in fee of a farm and capital messuage at Kilmington, and of 

 59 acres of land with common for 40 sheep, also of two messuages 

 and 40 acres there held of the Crown in chief by service of the 

 twentieth part of a Knight's fee, paying 4s. 5d. annual rent into 

 the Exchequer. Also of a messuage and 52 acres with common 

 called Barkesdale, in Norton in the parish of Kilmington held of 



