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 Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King defender of the ffaith xr ?Annoys Domini One Thousand Six hundred Sixty Nyne have made this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following

IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath unto all and every my Tennants in Market Rasin Killingholme Kerington North Kelsey Clamford Briggs Messingham Ulceby ?Horncasth West Ashby and Upper ??Tointon in the County of Lincoln And in Beverley in the County of York All their arreares of Rent which shall be due to me and unpaid att the tyme of my decease

ITEM I givea nd bequeath unto Brian ?Coverdale Thomas Appleby and my Tennant the Blacksmith of Barron in the County of Lincoln to Thomas Horneby Nicholas Bates widdow Brampton and William ?Douse of ?Lehesby in the said County of Lincolne And to all and every my other Tennants in the said Leggesby and in South fferreby in the said County of Lincolne whose respective Rents for the lands they doe hold of me doe not severally amount to about Tenn pounds per Annum All their Rents then in arreare