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The Will of William Crumpelher [1614]



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1. duringe her life and after her death to make stock[es]
2. for the Children borne of her bodie the s[ai]d six and
3. twentie shilling[es] and eight pence to be paied
4, quarterly duringe the s[ai]d [Chris]tian Joyliefes life
5. and the life of Richard Crumpelher and the
6. longest liver of them Item I give unto my sonne
7. John Crumpelher my furnis pann provided alwaies
8. that my wife and Richard Crumpelher his brother
9. shall have the use of him to brewe in duringe
10. theire lives and if Richard Crumpelher doe
11. fortune to overlive his Brother John Crumpelher
12. that then my will is that the s[ai]d furnis pann
13. shall remayne unto his brother Richard Crumpelher
14. The residue of all my good[es] not before given
15. nor bequeathed my debt[es] and legacies beinge
16. first paied I give and bequeath unto my
17. sonne John Crumpelher whom I make my
18. whole executor of this my last will and
19. Testament for divers causes and thereunto
20. movinge and especially for that the s[ai]d John
21. Crumpelher and his assignes shall duringe my
22. wives life be att all charges for the ploughinge
23. of her grounde and Carryinge in her corne and
24. hey and carryinge all such fryth [Note 1] and fier wood
25. as she shall have occation to use at his and
26. theire owne cost[es] and charges without payinge
27. any thinge for the same; Item my will is
28. that my sonne Richard Crumpelher shall have
29. the use of halfe the p[ar]sonage of Winterborne
30. Kingston and my sonne Will[ia]m Crumpelher and
31. John Crumpelher the use of thother hafe for
32. these six yeares from and after Midsomer day
33. next, doeinge, payinge and p[er]forming all such
34. covenant[es] as shalbe in a lease expressed which is
35. to be graunted unto them by John Foyle of
36. Shaf[ts]bury gen[tleman] and for the lower roomes of
37. the dwellinge howse my will is that my sonne
38. Richard Crumpleher shall have the use of them
39. wholly to himselfe and the loft[es] to remayne in
40. Com[m]on amongest them all three to lay theire corne
41. in duringe the whole terme and that my sonne
42. Richard shall have the use and p[ro]fitt of all the little
43. garden at the east end of the dwellinge howse and
44. three goade [Note 2] square of ground more lyinge in the south
45. side of the dwellinge howse next peaceably
46. wholly to his owne use hidginge it at his owne cost and
47. Charges; Will[ia]m Crumpelher his marke / witnes
48. hereunto Huberte Gallton John Gallton Richard
49. Crumpelher his m[ar]ke Thomas Strangwaies

Note 1: Line 24: fryth = frith = brushwood

Note 2: Line 44: From the OED –

Goad, n.

3. A measure of length.
a. A cloth-measure = 4 feet. Obs.

1481 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 17 My Lord schal haue of hym iiij.c goodes off white..and my Lord schal pay him for euery goode, ix.d.
1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw VI, c. 6 §1 Cottonnes called Manchester..and Chesshire Cottonnes..shalbe in lenghe twentie two goades and conteyne in bredith thre quarters of a yarde in the water.
1674 S. JEAKE Arith. (1696) 65 In 1 Goad..4 Feet, a Measure in some places for Land and Cloth received by Custom.
1721 C. KING Brit. Merch. I. 181, 1200 C. Goads of Cotton.
1727 W. MATHER Yng. Man's Comp. 399 In London, the Yard is used for Silks, Woollen Cloth, &c. The Ell for Linnen Cloth, &c., and the Goad for Frizes, Cotton, and the like.

b. A land-measure (see quots. and cf. GAD 6).

1587 FLEMING Contn. Holinshed III. 1353/1 The space of fortie goad (euerie goad conteining fifteene foot).
1880 E. Cornw. Gloss. s.v., It represents nine feet, and two goads square is called a yard of ground.

The Gad 6 entry says:

Gad, n.

6. A measuring rod for land; hence, a measure of length differing in various districts. Cf. GOAD n.

c1440 Promp. Parv. 184/1 Gad, to mete wythe londe (P. gadde, or rodde), decempeda.
1502 ARNOLDE Chron. (1811) 173 In dyuers odur placis in this lande they mete ground by pollis gaddis and roddis some be of xviij. foote some of xx fote and som xvi fote in lengith.
1599 SKENE De Verb. Sign. s.v. Particata, Ane rod is ane staffe, or gade of tymmer, quhairwith land is measured.
1706 PHILLIPS (ed. Kersey), Gad, or Geometrical Pearch, a Measure of Ten Foot, and in some places but Nine Foot.

b. A division of an open pasture, in Lincolnshire usually 6 feet wide; = SWATH.

1593 Kirton-in-Lindsey Court Roll (N.W. Linc. Gloss.).
1717 N. Riding Rec. VII. 285, I am seized of..four gads in the Bishop Ings.
1794 Act Inclos. S. Kelsey 19 Owners and Proprietors of Gads in a certain Piece of Ground..each Gad being Two Roods, Two Perches and a Half.


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