MRP: Sir John Nelthorpe will

Sir John Nelthorpe will

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I S:r John Nelthorpe of Grayes Inne in the County of Midx Baronett seriously weighing and considering the frailty of mans life, how that the dayes of his Pilgrimage are few and evill And that when wee least thinke of i t Death many tymes Knocks att our Dores, And when wee imagine our mountaine most strong then are wee nearest being ?removed ?hence thereupon esteemed it my duty in tyme of health to thinke of sicknes And in XXXdest of life to prepare for death Not onely by recomedning ms soule into the hands of my most ffaithful Creato:r whose it XX and for and by whome it is and was Created But alsoe by setting my house in order before the evill dayes come upon me even those wherein I shall say XXXXX noe pleasure in them That soe when myne appointed tyme comes I may have nothing to doe but to dissolve and be with Christ which is best of all ??This Eleaventh day of September in the One and Twentieth yeare of the Rayne of our Soveragne