Bpt ‘s of Robart & Johan’124 M.I Branscombe: bur same day as only son.124 3,144 MI includes:
“The wine that in these earthen vessels lay
The hand of death hath lately drawn away
And as a present served it up on high
Whilst here the vessels with the Lees doe lye”
From photocopy of typed summary, slightly cut off at r edge, ink pale and some letters unclear]
DRO O M Collection of Wills
PCC 709 [Westto?]
LEE, William of Weston in Branscombe, Yeoman
Will dated 4 September 1658
Proved 15 December 1658 by Charity Leigh (sic)
To my son Robert L. all my lands & livings, subject to payment of £200 each to my two youngest daughters Sarah & Dorothy when of age or marriageable.
Residue to my wife Charity whom I make my Exx, subject to payment of £200 each to my two eldest daughters Charity & Joan when of age or marriageable.
To poor of the par. 30s.
(Sd) William Leigh.
Wits. Phillipp Drake, Ellizens Leigh243