John Corkle, 1656

            Maud                       ( 50 )

     The last will & testamt of the wth in John, John Corkle
     being in pfect memory first comitting his soule to god
     his body to christian buriall.
[edge gone]

  t  Hee left his wife Isable Kerroish his true and lawfull
     Exterutor of all his goods, wt goods moveable & unmoveable
  t  To Will Corkle in Carridayle 10s, to be paid (viz 5s this
     yeare & 5s the next, by his sd Exterutr
  t  bequeathed to the poore -  1s viz 4d to Mally Knaele, 4d
          Ewan
     to one^Charan the other 4d is not known to whom &
     to his sister Bahee a Blankett worth 4d.
  t  Hee constituted by a former will to the above Will Corkle 20s
     but being hee was burd ensome to his wife and his friends
     [vttely]for sakeing him in his needs, hee only left him at half
     20s as aforesd to bee paid wt above menconed.
  t  bequeathed as a legasie an ewe & a lambe, and a sheepe of
     2 years old
  t  To his stepson a small fishing line, his old suite of cloths, stockin
     and shoes to Patrick Kerroush, his best suite to his Brother
     Edw: Corkle, his new hatt, to William Corkle, hee paying the Ex
     terutr 1s, his new shoes to Will Corkle ballajora
     To be bestowed at his funerall one mutton, & 8s which then
     hee had of money to bestow in beere, what was left, unbestowed,
     left to the Exterutr

                                             Witnesses
     ……. & solvit 6d                            Will Corkle   x his mk
                                                Daniell Cowle   x mk


    
 Note the sicke man (after his will made) lay sick very near a quarter of a yeare
     & also sold ye half above menconed before his Death


           Janury the 12th   1656            Maud
           The Inventory of the goods of John Corkle of
           Ramsey prizd by Edm : Christin, John Christ…[side missing]
           John Curphy & Robt Kerroush
Impis  His pte  ( being ye fourth ) of fishing net
                           [corks] & ……
           boyt, & ropes,							00 - 1 - 
     Itt  his pte of the fishing lines						00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of old lines & hair ropes					00 - 0 - 3
     Itt  his pte of some ….., & of some old [iron]				00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of [rortained] old wood on vessell				00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of some unheckled fflaxe					00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of 5lb of black woole						00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of 2lb of gray woole						00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of an old cheist ; 2 straw basket & other
          trifles								00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of some salted herrings & ye cask				00 - 1 - 
     Itt  his pte of a [boare] stoole & [barrum skin] & other sticks		00 - 0 - 3
     Itt  his pte of a fir : of wheate, & ye sacke about it				00 - 1 - 10 
     Itt  his pte of 3 old blanketts						00 - 1 - 
     Itt  his pte of ……., of 3 kitchings of salt, & a [fagot]			00 - 1 - 9 
     Itt  his pte of ………………………………………			00 - 0 - 
     Itt  his pte of a [shirt] being ye 8th pte					00 - 1 - 3
     Itt  his pte of 3 sheepe							00 - 1 - 3
     Itt  his pte of 21 yeards of linin & 6 yeards of
          woolen, and also some hempe & flaxe					00 - 7 - 1 
                              					The whole is / 	1 - 2 - 1 

   Pledges Wm. Corkle & Da : Cowle
           
           There is to bee deducted out of the above Inventory as a Legasie
            to Will Corkle							0 - 10 - 0 
            more of due debt of 						0 - 3 - 0 
            more to Rober Kerroish						0 - 0 - 5
             ………………………..						0 - 0 - 6 
            more due from him to [secure] all creditors				0 - 5 - 3 
            due [from] Will Corkle to the … John				0 - 1 - 0 
            due to ye [deceasor] [ssone]						0 - 0 - 6 
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