The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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The English Ancestry of
Item I givef and beqveaf vnto the poor people of Thoring [sic]
the sum of x s to be paied vnto them by my executor the daie of my
bereyall
Item I giff vnto Bettres al my housses and Landes ling in
Wrabnes Wex and bentley Turm of her naterall leyf to bring vp
my Cheldren and to paie mey dettes and the finne for my Sunnes
for the house & land I haf Boute at bentley when the Coorte com
which hoves and land I havef not it take up I saie to bring up my
Cheldren whil they com to the eage of xxj yeares and to Cepe al
my housses in good & sufficient Reaprations, and that she shall
suffer no manner of streep nor wast to be mad of Tember or wood
or aney other waie of aney the said Landes
Item I Gief unto Susan my Dauter all my lande lienge in wex
& too other piteles lieng in Wrabnes the one of them by estimation
an aker the other fouer akers mor or les withoute the which piteles
she cold not a had awaie too an parte of the land lieng in wex the
which too piteles doo butt all upon the land called the Copey land
and parte of the land that leyeth in wex next long northe on the
South* & the other parte of the land lieng in wex next the ffarem
called spennales on the waste & the hoye waie leading from spen-
neles to Ramse on the north and the land longing to my houes
which is thre piteles on adjoyneng on to another from the houes
along against the hooy waie on the east the which land lieng in
wex dooe hould of the manner of Parke Hall & doe Rente to the
* This expression seems at first to be confusing, but remembering that Wrabness lies
north-east of Wix, I understand the language to mean that the two parcels in Wrab-
ness, containing five acres, were ' next along the north of the copy-land,' part of
which on the south of the Wrabness parcels, was in Wix; it adjoined the easterly
portion of Edward's estate, since it extended in that direction to the ' lands belonging
;
to his house ' these were in three parcels, one being the homestead as we should call
it, and were bounded easterly by the highway where it turns northward, as described
in the text. From the ' house lands ' the five acres in Wrabness extended westward
along the highway after it turned, having the road on the north, and also beyond the
copy-lands to Spennele's, the farm which adjoined the estate on the west.