The will and inventory of John Webster

In the name ofGod Amen I John Webster of Cliderow in the County of Lancaster Physician knowing the certainty that it is appointed for all men ones [sic] to dye & that the houre of death is uncertain being something crazy of body but of right understanding perfect judgment & sound memory doe make this my last Will & Testament thereby revoking & disanulling all other Wills & Testaments by me made anytime heretofore in manner& forme following First I doe bequeath my soule & spirit unto the hands of Jesus Christ my onely Saviour & Redemer trusting by faith onely in His blood to have everlasting peace & salvation Item I doe bequeath my body unto the earth hoping for its glorious resurrection according to the articles of the Christian Faith to be buried at the discretion of my most deare & loving Wife' And for my temporall estate & worldly goods I dispose of them in this manner following As for my lands & inheritance that I have purchased in the Borrow & Township of Cliderow to wit one Burgage or Messuage and one fourth part of a burgage paying yearly one shilling eight pence burgage rent called Keyes House with one garden and two crofts there unto belonging Also one Burgage or Messuage ofthe yearly Borrow rent ofone shilling fourepence now called my studdy2 one stable & one building ioyned unto it called my furnace house one fold one garden & one croft or meadow with one barne on it commonly called the School house croft one meadow called Corbetts meadow one field of arable ground called the great Hey with one meadow adjoyning unto it also certaine closes called Muckland with one barne standing in one one ofthem& one field thereto adioyning called the little Hey all lying in the townshipe Cliderow aforesaid & being all freeland & ofBurgage tenure as also one house or cottage in the little garden & backside comonly called Kenyon house in Cliderow aforesaid All these Burgages cottage barnes with all the aforesaid premises with all the profits priviledges & apurtenances thereunto in any wise appertaining or belonging I doe give bequeath grant & confirm unto my most deare & loving Wife Elizabeth Webster for & dureing her life naturall without restriction condition or limitation to possesse& inioy the same for the aforesaid terme as fully as I myselfe have done and further my mind and will is that after the decease ofmy said wife then I doe give bequeath grant & confirme unto Edward Webster my nephew that Burgage or messuage with the garden & two crofts thereunto belonging called Keyes house with that house or cottage & the backside with all the rights priviledges & appurtenances in any wise belonging or appertaining & to