Scope and Content
to son Jeremiah Pearce - Messuage in Houghton Conquest, close, 6 acres arable and 4 acres meadow
to wife Elizabeth - use for life of bed and bedding, cupboard and trunk in best chamber, 4 pair sheets, 1 pair pillow bears, and napkins, 1 table cloth, 1 pottage pot, best skillett (after her death they are to be divided between daughters Elizabeth and Sarah) - 4 bushels of best wheat, 6 of best cheeses, and one load of wood
to daughter Ann, wife of Edward Lane - 5s
to 2 sons of Ann (Thomas and J) - 12d each
to daughter Elsie - £20; bed and bedding in the matted chamber, chest in same, 4 of biggest pewter platters, 2 of best pewter platters, best brass pot, 2 best pewter candlesticks, pewter tankert, pewter salt seller , 6 pewter spoons, 2 sawsers, best kettle save one, best skillet, 2 pair best sheets, 1 pair best pillow bears, 6 best napkins, best table cloth, best table, cupboard "at my howse in the town"
to daughter Sarah - £20; bedstead "at my howse in the town", a feather bed whereon she now lieth, 1 bolster, 2 pillows next in goodness to my best, 2 blankets, 1 coverlet next in goodness to my best, 4 pewter platters of the bigger sort, 2 of the lesser sort, 1 pewter salt seller, 6 pewter spoons, 2 pewter porringers, 1 pewter basin, my new chamberpott, my best brass pott save one, my best kettle save two, 1 skilletts, 2 pair sheets next in goodness to my best, 1 pair pillow bears next in goodness to best, 6 napkins next in goodness to best, best table cloth save one, table standing in the hall, cupboard standing at William Redman's, and best red heifer
Executor: son Jeremiah Pearce
Overseers: friend Richard Saunder and brother J Pearce- half a crown each to buy them gloves
Endorsed: My Grandfather's last will and testament made before his death.