Phillip Quayle, 1722

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50                 Lezayre 
This is affirmed to be the last will of 
Philip Quayle of the Creggan who 
departed this life the first day of 
Novr 1722, being of perfect mind 
and memory of at ye making thereof, 
& commending first & principally 
his soul to God & body to Christian burial.   
Item, he left to his son Thomas two 
sheep that were in the flock of Balneskielley 
& a peckled heifer. To his 2 daughters 
Anne & Joney 2 heifers wch he 
supposed to be in calf & ordered that 
ye mother shd keep them (if she 
pleased) rather than any other, for the 
benefit of his sd daughter.  Item, to his 
son John he bequeathed all the sheep 
that were in Penny-pot; & to his son 
William all the sheep that were on the 
west side of Snayfield (2 muttons 
excepted), desiring his wife might let
 all the children have ye legacies left 
them wholly, & she to take goods that 
might be equal to them elsewhere, to 
wch the sd wife consented, & likewise 
that Philip the Heir shd have the whole 
crop & husbandry gears, whenever 
she quitted or left the Estate.  Item, 
to the 2 witnesses he bequeathed six 
pence apiece legacy.  And lastly constituted 
his wife Alice & son Philip joint Exrs of 
all the rest of his goods moveable & 
immoveable whatsoever, & willed that 
in regard the sd Philip was near being at 
age the goods shd  not be valued, but 
that ye whole of his part of the Exrship 
shd remain in his mother’s hands for 3 
years, during wch time she is to reap 
the whole benefit of the same.  
Witnesses: 
Wm Quayle, 
Jon. Kermod, jurati.                         

To take away all dispute concerning ye 
last part of ye will, vizt., Philip’s part of ye 
Exrship being left to his mother for 3 years; 
Tis now settled between ye Supervisor & 
her, that she is to have ye increase of all ye 
living goodswholly during ye sd term, 
excepting of the sheep & goats, of these 
she is only to kill or dispose of ye old ones 
as usual) & to have ye whole of the wool.                                 

The wife (who consents to ye will) is sworn 
in form of Law & so is Wm Quayle of 
Balneskielly sworn supervisor.  
The children & goods in their mother’s hands 
who has given pledges Nich. Kewley & 
Jon. Kermod.  Probatum est & solvit 1s