> I wyll that they ?shalle/shalbe ?[bescomd] for the wellthe of my > soule by my executors' "Bestowd" would make sense... Some sort of clause requesting the executors to dispose of the estate "for the health of my soul (and all Christian souls)" was quite common at the time - it often implied the executors were to give money to the poor or to the church in the deceased's memory. Hector Davie