In the name of god ame the xxiijth daye of the monethe of August 1570  I John Stansted of the pearishe of Wokyng in the County of Sure being sycke in body but whole in mynd and of a good and pfitt Rememberance Laude & prayse be unto all myghty god Dwo ordayne make and declare thys my psent & Testament conteynyng therin my very laste Wyll in manour and forme Folowing. That is to saye Fyrste and pryncipally I Comend my Sole to all myghtye god and and [sic] my Bodye to be buryed wthin my pearishe Churche yarde of Wokyng of Wokyng [sic] afore sayde Itim I geve and bequethe to the Comon boxe towards the Relyffe of the poore peopell of the same pearishe ijs  Item I geve and bequethe to my mother my beste Cloke  Ite I geve and bequethe to Elyzabethe Stansted my Wyffe all my lands tenements mylls quitt renttes What soever the be the wyche I have or myhte to have by Ryghte in the sheres of Sure and hampshere by the late dethe of John Stansted my Father tearme of her naturall lyffe  Also I Dwo ordayne and Constitute the sayd Elyzabethe my wyffe my full and soule executryx of all my goods and cattells movabell and nonmovabbel and un movabell and she to se my body onestly buryed and to paye my detts and to calle for myne  Ite I wyll that Wyllyam Lambole and Arnolde lee shalbe  the ovrseers of thys my Wylle to theentent they wyll seit the better pformed and theye to have for there paynes takyng there in ijs a pece
These being wytnes Wyllyam lambole    Arnold lee   John Olyver Robert Farnam     Niclas Starky  Richard Bedford  Wyth other men

                 Detts oyng to me the aforesayd John
                      John Smekell        xxs
                      Robert Farnam     xijs iid
                      John Gibik            ijs 

Probatm… xxv die mensis Septembris 1570

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