Whereas there is nothing more certaine than death nor 
nothing more uncertaine than the houre of death 
therefore I John Lamb of Woollaston in the County 
of Northampton Yeoman being sick in body but of 
good and perfect remembrance giving all praise and 
thankes to Almighty God First I doe bequeath my Soule 
into the hands of Almighty God my maker hoping 
through the merritts of Jesus Christ my only Saviour 
and Redeemer to have an inheritance in the Kingdome 
of Heaven and my body to be buried at the discretion 
of my Executor Item I doe give unto my eldest Sister 
Mary Yeomans the wife of John Yeomans of 
Brampton the sume of fifty pounds of lawfull English 
money I doe give unto Robert Mase my said Sister's 
Eldest sonn the sum of fowre Score pounds Item I give 
unto Mary Mase my said Sister's Eldest Daughter the 
sum of thirty pounds Item I give unto Grace Yeomans 
my said Sister's Second daughter the sume of thirty 
pounds Item I doe give unto my brother in Law John 
Yeomans the summe of ten pounds Item I give unto 
Grace Dalley the wife of Tobias Dalley of 
Wellingbrow the sume of fourty pounds Item I give 
unto Tobias Dalley my said Sister's Eldest Son the 
summe of Six score pounds Item I doe give unto 
Katherine Dalley my said Sister's Eldest daughter the 
summe of thirty pounds Item I give unto my brother in 
Law Tobias Dalley the summe of ten pounds Item my 
will is that my Mother Grace Lamb shall have the 
dwelling house and halfe the Land according to my 
Father's will during her naturall life I doe give unto 
Ann the wife of my brother Thomas Lamb the summ 
of ten pounds Item I doe give unto George Lamb my 
said Brother's Eldest Sonne the sum of ten pounds 
Item I doe give unto John Lamb my said Brother's 
Second Sonn the sum of ten pounds Item I doe give 
unto Thomas Lamb my said Brother's third Sonn the 
summe of ten pounds Item I give unto Ann Lamb my 
said Brother's Eldest daughter the summe of ten 
pounds Item I give unto Sarah Lamb my said 
Brother's Second daughter the summe of ten pounds 
Item I give unto Katherine Lamb my said Brother's 
Youngest daughter the summe of ten pounds Item I 
doe make my brother Thomas Lambe of London in the 
County of Middx whole and Sole Executor of this my 
last Will and testament my debts and Legacies paid and 
my funerall expences discharged and lastly my will is 
herein intended that my said Brother Thomas Lamb 
whome I make my whole and Sole Executor shall have 
all my Lands tenements with the appurtenances 
whatsoever after my said mother's decease In Witness 
hereunto I have sett my hand and Seale this fourth day 
of July and in the thirtieth yeare of the reigne of our 
Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second and in the 
yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred 
seaventy and eight I doe nominate and appoint Paul 
Pack and Thomas Sedgwick to see that my will be 
performed and I doe give to each ten Shillings John 
Lambe  
Witnesse the marke of William Norman _ Thomas 
Sedgwick _ the mark of Elizabeth Norman
Proved at London 17 April 1679
PCC Prob11/359