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"21 June 1602- the will of Francis Goodwyn of Hemlyngton in the county of Norfolk, husbandman... to my wife Joan two of my best milk cows, and one young heifer, my sorrel ambling mare colt, my red ambling gelt colt, ten wethers and five ewes, one of my best skeps with bees, one shock cart with steel wheels, one good plow with the irons therto belonging with sufficient furniture and trace belonging to a plow, one pair of cart trace appertaining to a pynn or hand hoist, one chillers trace and furniture, one pair of harrows and harrowing trace and collars to them, five combs of good wheat and three combs of good barley or malt, to be taken out of my crop of corn now growing and to be delivered by my son John out of the crop, one half of all my wool, and one half the cloth that is or shall be made of this year's wool, the other half to son John... in default of their consent, to be divided at discretion of my neighbor Henry Black and William Goodwyn of Burlingham... milk neats shall remain as now they be, to be pastured... until the feast of St. Michael Archangel next... profits and produce towards maintenance of my wife, children, rest of my household and workmen, wife to have the government therof... to wife two of my best hogs, two of my best young shoats, 10 geese and a gander, six hens and a cock, six ducks and one drake, all to be kept with the rest of my swine and fouls at said farm till the feast of St. Margaret... to said wife all such stuff of household as were her own before her marriage to me, my best featherbed, my best pair of sheets, and a blanket and bolster, my best covering, etc... said Henry and William and my cousin Thomas goodwyn of Ranworth... remainder to son John except my brew and dye vessels which are to be divided betwixt them... to son John the farm now in my occupation in Hemblington and Burlyngham, and all such plows, carts, harrows and other implements not heretofore given or hereafter, also all the rest of my bees and bee skeps, four of my best work mares and geldings, my bay horse foal, three weanling calves and five milk neat... children and servants shall have such sheep and lambs which are among my sheep but are known to be their own, rest to son John... wife to have one weanling calf, son John to have one steer and one heifer now at market paying the toll due for their feed... to Peter Goodwyn my son £5 to be paid by son John in Hemblington church porch within two years... to Elias Goodwyn my son £5 within 4 years... to Frances Goodwyn my daughter £3 within five years... to Susan my daughter 20s. after age of 21... to Mary my daughter £3 at age 21... to said Susan my daughter my little brindle cow... to Margaret my daughter the wife of Robert Page my black cow known by the name of the marsh cow... to Sampson my son my young bay colt and to Elias my son my bay mare colt... to Peter my son my young gray colt... John upon reasonable request to be made at my now mansion house in Hemblinlgton within 21 days next after my decease shall become bound by obligation formal... John to pay Robert Lynes all such debts as I do owe him... to the maintencance of the parish church of Hemblington 40d., to the poor 40d.... to wife all crops upon any of my lands in Ranworth and Panxforth which I now hold in the right of my wife... rest of my goods and movables unbequeathed except armour and weapons which I give to my son John, to executors whom I ordain and make: Johan my wife, and Sampson Goodwyn my son."

Witnesses were William Goodwyn, John Robinson, clerk, Thomas Goodwyn and Henry Black.