Archeaconry of Richmond, Lonsdale Deanery Probate Files, Thistlethwaite, William of Harborgill, Proved 1766.
"William Thistlethwaite of Harbourgill in
Kirthwaite in Dent
WILL dated 6th February 1760
All my Messuage & Tenement of Harbourgill with all the Rights Priviledges Hereditaments and Appurtenances thereunto belonging with a Large Cupboard & Table standing the Parlour A Large Ark & Bedstead standing in the Bodystead Loft and a Large stone Table standing on the Backside of My said house And the Largest joyner work Chist to my son Richard Thistlethwaite for ever. Nevertheless charging him with the payment of two hundred & forty pounds forth and out of the same unto my Executors at the end of one year after my decease.
To my son John for ever all that my Messuage & Tenement called Leayeat, with &c and a Cupboard standing in the said house. Nevertheless charging him with the payment of thirty pounds out of the estate [same as for Richard]
To my son Timothy for ever my m & t of New Closes & Knew Intack &c, with a Cupboard standing in the dwelling house at Leayeat.
To my daughter Margaret wife of Alexander Fothergill the sum of forty pounds, the remainder of her portion.
To my daughter Isabel the wife of Henry Moreland £40, the remainder of her portion.
To my daughter Ann the wife of Christopher Thistlethwait £40, the remainder of her portion.
To my son Timothy £30 in addition to what I have already devised to him.
My two sons James and Thomas appointed joint executors and I give and bequeath to them the remainder of my personal estate, obliging my son James to reckon and account for what he has already received as a part of his portion and the executorship with my son Thomas.
Further my will & pleasure is that if my son Timothy shall have a mind to stay at Harbourgill for the space of one year after the payment of the above legacies, the same shall be granted him, paying a reasonable rent for the same.
Signed William Thistlethwait
Witnesses: Anthony Mason; William Mason; Richard Burton
CODICIL dated 26th day of the fifth month
called May 1766
Be it known by all men by these presents that whereas I William Thistlethwait
now of Rayside in Dent in the parish of Sedbergh and County of York
yeoman have made and declared my said last
Will and Testmanet in writing bearing date the sixth of February 1760 I the
said William Thistlethwait by this present Codicil Confirm and Ratify my said
last Will and Testament only with the following provisoe that in Case my son
Timothy die before me it is my Will that the Bequest of the Estate given and
devised to my son Timothy with the additional sum of thirty pounds devolve upon
his two sons William and John equally between them their heirs and Assigns and
to enter upon the same when the younger attains to twenty one years of age and
the yearly profits growing and arising therefrom during their minority to be by
their parents or Guardians imployed for their Maintenance & Education....
Signed William Thistlethwait
Witnesses: William Mason; Richard Burton; Anthony Mason."