Hi list, hope the computer problems are resolved. This will was on the second page of a will I downloaded from the PRO site, and I thought it might be of interest. In the name of God Amen, I Joane RAYSON of Sherborne in the county of Dorset widdowe dothe make my last will and testament in manner and forme as followeth, in the year of our Lord God 1649, December the fourth, .Imprimis I bequeath my soule to Almighty God, my Saviour and Redeemer, and my body to the earth to be buried in the churchyard of Sherborne. Item I give to my son Thomas £20 which was his father`s will, and I give him my chest and my best bedsteed, and the tackles and shelfes in the shopp and buttery. Item I give to my daughter Mary £45 and half my apparell. Item I give my daughter Elizabeth all my goods yet unbequeathed whome I make my whole executrix and this is my will that if either of my children dye before they attaine to be of lawfull age that his or theire portion of my will shall remaine to the rest or to which of them shall fortune to live. I do desire and appoint John Stucke, Michaell Elmes, Thomas Norman, and Walter Withers to be the Overseers of this my will and what charge they shall be at as concerning this my will they shall be allowed by my executrix,. Joan Rayson, my marke, witnesses Walter Withers, the marke of Thomas Norman, John Stucke, the marke of Mary Norman. Proved 1st Feb 1650 to the overseers , Eo quod executris in eodem testamentis nominate in eius minori ( which I take to mean that Elizabeth Rayson the daughter and executrix of Joan , was still a minor at her mother`s death ). Hope this was of some interest to the list.