Elizabeth Qualtrough, 1748

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40     KK Christ Rushen
The last will and testament of Mrs. Elizabeth Qualtrough 
senior of Kentraugh, she being at perfect mind and memory 
at the making hereof. 
First, she commended her soul to Almighty God and 
her body to Christian burial. 
Item, she bequeathed to her graddaughter Elizabeth 
Qualtrough one hundred and forty pounds, the sum 
whereof being already in her uncle's hands, and to 
receive the aforesaid sum when she should arrive at 
the age of twenty one; an hundred and twenty yards 
of linen cloth, five blankets, three coverlets, a 
new black hood, a red mantle, a scarlet mantle, 
the next chest to the biggest, five gowns, four 
petticoats, ten aprons, twelve new shifts, 
three silk handkerchiefs and four muslin ditto, 
twelve hoods and pinners, a new feather bed and 
twelve yards fine white cloth. 
Item, she bequeathed unto her grandson William Qualtrough 
twenty pounds and to call for the same when he 
should be twenty one years of age. 
Item, to her grandson Chavelier sixty pounds and 
to have and enjoy the same when he should arrive 
at the age of twenty one years. 
Item, she bequeathed to William & Chavelier 
twenty yards of linen. 
Lastly, she constituted nominated and appointed 
her loving son Mr. William Qualtrough to be 
sole executor of all the rest of her goods 
and effects moveable and immovable, and 
deprived all others that might claim title to 
her goods or effects after her decease with 
six pence legacy each. All this she affirmed to 
be her last will and testament this 4th day of 
February 1742. 
Witnesses: 
Thomas Gawne, 
Jane Stevenson. 

Mr. William Qualtrough the Executor is sworn in 
Court in form of Law and hath given pledges for 
payment of debts and legacies namely the 
Revd. Mr. Quayle and Capt. Thomas Gawne