This was subscribed, sealed, and acknowledged by the above named most Reverend ffather, Matthew Hutton, Lord Archbishopp of Yorke, Primate of England and Metropolitane, to be his last will and testament, the foresaid twentieth day of November, anno Domini 1605, and in the third yeare of the reigne of our said Soveraigne Lord James, by the Grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., and of Scotland xxxix1h, in the presence of us hereunder named, being required by him the said Lord Archbishopp to be witnesses of the same.

Item, my will and meaninge is, that all rents and debts due unto me out of or for myne owne lands and specialties shall be imployed for the payment of Sir Cuthbert Pepper, knight, and for the buying of land in Pontefract for my sonne Thomas.

THOMAS HEWITSON.

ROBERT HALL.

MILES DAWSON.

SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON'S

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

187

No. CXIII.

MY LORD'S GIFT OF £1900.

1 APRIL, 1592. (829.)

Be it knowen to all men by these presents, that I Matthew Hutton, Bishop of Durham, in consideration off a mariage alreadie solemnized betwene Timothie Hutton, my eldest sone, and Elizabeth Bowes, daughter to Sir George Bowes, knight, deceased, and the Ladie Jane Bowes, off Stretlam, widowe, have given, and by this present writing doe give, unto my saide sone Timothie the sume off one thousand nine hundredth poundes, whereoff ccc' my said Ladie paied me in part off paiment off her daughter's portion; which summe is in an iron chist in my bedd chamber, and is to be bestowed upon a purchase for a jointer to the said Elisabeth, to Timothie Hutton and the said Elizabeth, and to the heires off the said Timothie begotten off the bodie off the said Elisabeth; and, in default of such issue, to the right heires of the said Timothie. In witnes whereof I have subscribed my name and put to my (hand), and also have delivered the key off the said chist unto the said Timothie, together with the chist and monie in the same, the first day off April, 1592. By me,

(Seal, a Bible open, with the words ODOR VITÆ, and the circumscription GLADIVS SPIRITVs.)