Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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And as for the goods of this transitory world with which it hath pleased God to endow me, my will and full mind is as followeth, first, that every one of my neighbours and relations in Carlecotes, Ecklands, and the upper part of Thurlston Mere who are at my burial shall have six pence a piece, and all the poor that comes from other places shall have two pence a piece.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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And as for the goods of this transitory world with which it hath pleased God to endow me, my will and full mind is as followeth, first, that every one of my neighbours and relations in Carlecotes, Ecklands, and the upper part of Thurlston Mere who are at my burial shall have six pence a piece, and all the poor that comes from other places shall have two pence a piece.

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• Carlecotes (1) ·
• Charity (practice) (10) ·
• Eyre, Susannah (?-1668) (2), daughter of Godfrey Mathewman of Ellentree Head, lived at Hazlehead Hall, wife of Adam Eyre ·
• Funeral (25) ·
• 📌Hazlehead Hall (3), home in the 17th century to Adam Eyre ·
• 📌Hazlehead (3), hamlet mid-way between Millhouse Green and Carlecotes ·
• Thurlstone (2) ·
• Will and testament (11) ·

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