HERCULES BRABBANT.1

April 27, 1612. In the name of God, Amen. I, Hercules Brabbant, of Redworth, in the parish of Heighington. To be buryed in the parish church of Staindrop in or neare to the grave of Ralphe Brabant and his brothers. I give and devise to my wife, Marye Brabant, all my freehold lands and tenements lyeing within the townshipp of Redworth and Heighington, in the Countye of Durham, for and during her naturall lyfe. I give to my wyfe, Marye Brabant, my lease of Midderidge Grainge, and where the lease of the tythe corne of Readworth is renewed by my consente, in the name of George Brabant, of the East Park Lodge, of Brancepeth, my will is that my wife doe enioye the said tythe wholy for foure yeares next ensuing the daie of the date thereof, and afterwards she to have the moietie of it during the said tearme, if she live so longe, according to an agreement betwixt the said George Brabant and me, my said wife paieing the whole rent for the said tythes to the dean and chapter of Durham for the said first foure yeares, and the halfe rente after during her life. Where the lease of the demeanes of Heighington is latelie renewed in the name of the saide George Brabant for three lives, my will and meaning is that my wife have and receive the profitts of the said demeanes to her owne use during her life, she paieing yearly the said rente and all other dewtyes and services for the same, and after her decease, my mynd and will is that Adalyne Brabant, daughter of the said George Brabant, shall have the said demeanes, the whole interest of the said leases, to her owne use, accordinge to the truste I have reposed in the said George Brabant. Also, for the furthere sellinge and disposing of all my said freehold lands, withall and singular the appurtenances lyeing and being in Redworth and Heighington aforesaid. I doe by this my laste Will and Testament give, grant and devise the same, after the deathe and decease of me and Mary, my said wife, to the said George Brabant for and duringe his naturall lyfe, and after his decease, the same to remayne to John Brabant, sonne and heire apparent

1 Hercules Brabant was bur., not at Staindrop as desired in his will, but at Heighington, 13 June, 1612. His Inq. p.m. taken at Durham, 30 Oct., 1612, and printed in the Deputy Keeper's Report, vol. 44, p. 340, says that he died without an heir. He mar. Mary Robinson at Heighington, 22 Dec., 1589, their only son Hercules being bur. there, 9 Aug., 1590, unbapt.; she mar., secondly, Gilbert Freville, 9 Feb., 1612/13, at Heighington, and was bur. there, 25 Aug., 1616.

George Brabant, mar. Anne, dau. of Ralph Whitfield of Whitfield, and was bur. at Brancepeth, 30 Apl., 1642, where his widow was also bur., 6 Apl., 1646; his brother, Charles Brabant, was also bur. there. 20 Apl., 1631; John, s. of George Brabant, mar. Jane Johnston of Piercebridge. His Inq. p.m., taken at Durham 17 Sept., 1625, is printed in the Deputy Keeper's Report, vol. 44, p. 344.

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unto the said George Brabant, and to the heires of his bodie to be begotten for. And for default of such issue, the same to remayne to the said Adaline Brabant, daughter of the said George Brabant, and to their heires of her bodie for ever. for default of such issue, the same to remaine to Charles Brabant, brother of the said George Brabant, and to their heires of his bodye lawfully begotten. And for defaulte of such issue, the same to remaine to Raiphe Maddeson, second sone of Mr. Henry Maddeson, of Newcastle, and to the heires of his bodie for ever. And for default of such issue, to Thomas Todd, of Redworth, And for and to the heirs of his bodye lawful begotten for ever. default of such issue, the same to remaine to George Heighington, sonne of Richard Heighington, of Graystones, and the heires of his bodie lawfully begotten. And the said land and every part and parcel thereof to descend to the partye next in remainder and mentioned as aforesaid. I give and bequeathe 20s. rent charge yearly for ever, to issue out of my said freehould lands, to be paid upon great Mondaie after Penthecost and great Mondaie after Martinmas imediately after the decease of my said wife, by equall porcons, to the handes of the Vicar and Churchwardens of the pish church of Heighington for the tyme being and their successors, to be by them, with the consent, oversight and advice of Mr. Anthony Byerlay, George Gryser, gent, Thomas Todd, and Christopher Raine, distributed and bestowed in the Church porch there upon twentye of the most aged and impotent poore people of that parish. In like manner, I doe give 20s. rent out of my said landes to be payed yearlie for ever as aforesaid to the parson, Rector and Churchwardens of the parish Church of Brancepeth for the tyme being and their successors, to be payd at the tymes to be by them distributed, with the consent, advice and oversight of George Brabant, Richard Dighton and Thomas Hull, upon twentie of the most aged and impotent poore people of that parish. In like manner, I doe give the like yearlye rent of 20s. out of my said landes to be payd yearly for ever as aforesaid to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Staindropp, to be distributed as aforesaid, with the advice and oversight of John Dowthwaite, of Newsham, and Bernard, his Brother, and olde Charles Brabant and Robert Brabant, upon the most aged and impotent poor people of that pish. And also my will is that George Brabant and his heires shall for ever hereafter have one speciall voyce in nominating or electinge of the poor people of the three severall pishes to And likewise my whom I have given this yearlye benevolence.

will is when any of the aforesaid psons appointed to have oversight and consent in distributing the said rents fortune to dye, then the other survivors shall have power to elect and choose some substantiall man or men well devoted in religion for the distribution of the said money according to this my Will.

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I charge my land with the paymente of three score pounds of lawful English money, which I give unto Adaline Brabant, to be paid unto hir by George Brabant, hir father, or John Brabant, his heires or assigns, within one year next ensuinge the death of Mary, my now wife, and in default of non payment of the three score pounds, it shallbe lawful for the said Adalyne Brabant to enter into the said landes, and the same quietly and peacefully to have, hould and enioy for the terme of five yeares then next following, and after the said yeares to be complete I give and bequeathe to the Worsll my Mr. Sir George Freevile, Knight, 207. for a token. To my Worll good Mris, the Lade Frevile, 207. To Mr. Thomas Jenison, of Irchester, 67. 13s. 4d. I give to the said George Brabant one gray colt, and to Mris Anne Brabant, his wife, 51. To there sonne, John Brabant, one other graie colt, which colt goeth now in the olde close, and I also give to the said John Brabant one newe table, now standinge in the hall, and one cupbord, now standinge in the plor, pannelled with lattine, for heire loumes. I give more to Adalyne Brabant, 201. To Mr. George Frevile, for a token, 10s. To Gilbert Frevile, 53s. 4d. To Robt. Bellas, 6s. To Richard Dighton, 10s. To Mr. John Sage, 5s. To his wife, 5s. To Mris Dighton, 58. To Nicholas Fynn, 6s. To Robt. Layburne, 11s. To George Graie, 6s. To Thomas Dowthwaite, 2s. 6d. To Samuell Sir George Frevile's man, 2s. 6d. To Nycholas Hodgson, 2s. To Ralphe Newbye, 28. To Ralph Emmerson, 28. To George Parkin, 28. To Nicholas Pettifer, 2s. I give to Charles Brabant, brother to George Brabant, 67. 13s. 4d., and a bay mare which was some time his owne. To Richard Heighington, 10s. To his sone, George, 10s. To his sone, John, 5s., and to his daughter, Marie, 5s. To Mr. Siles Garthwaite, clerk, 5s. To his wife, 5s. To Mr. Croser, 5s. To his wife, 2s. 6d., and to his daughter, Smithson, 5s. I give to Thomas Todd, 10s., and to his wife, 10s., and to his daughter, Elinore, whom I christened, 20s., and to every other child he haith, 2s. 6d. I give to Willm. Greene, 10s., and to his daughter whom I xpenned, 20s., and to every other childe he haith by his late wife, Elizabeth, deceased, 28. I give to Thomas Hull, 2s., for a token. To Thomas Robinson, 5s. To Samuell Moberlaye, 2s. To George Young, 28. To his wife, 2s. I give to Charles Brabant, the elder, 10s., and to Robt. Brabant, 10s. To Christopher Rayne, 10s., and to his wife, 10s. To Robert Robinson and his wife, either of them, 10s. To Christopher Hodgson, 10s., and to Hercules Robinson, 20s. To Robert Bell, 5s. To Edward Wilfoot, 5s. To John Richinson's wife, 5s. To William Peverell, 3s. 4d. To An Cockson, 6s. 8d. To William Dawson, if he remaině my servant till my death 37. if he doe not, 20s. To John Emerson, if he contynew my servant till my death, 16s. 8d.; if not, 10s. To Hercules Rayne, in considercon of a litle whie I had with him, 37.

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John Wilfoot, if he contynewe my servante, 26s. 8d; if not, 10s. To Isable Rawlinge, 20s. To Anne White, 10s. To Margarett Adamson, 3s. 4d. To every child I helped to xpenned, 28. Mr. John Hutton, preacher of God's worde, a Angell of gold. I give to Mr. Anthony Byerley, to Mr. Henry Maddison, and to his wife, each of them an angell of golde for a token. To George Trotter, 58. To his wife, 2s. 6d. And for all the rest of my goods, moveable and unmoveable, my legacies paid and funerall expences discharged, I doe given and bequeath unto Marie Brabant, my wife, whom I doe make sole Executor of this my last Will, giving and limitinge unto my said Executrix the space of three yeares next after my decease for the payment of all my legacies above given. And for the due execution of my Will, I doe make any Maister Sir Henry Frevile, Knight, Mr. Thomas Jenyson, of Irchester, Mr. Anthonye Byerlay, of Pickhall, and Mr. Henrye Maddeson, of Newcastle, Supervisors hereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hande and seale the daie and yeare first above written. Witnesses, Thomas Hull, George Trotter, Richard Dighton, Thomas Robinson.

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DANIELL GALLON.1

May 22, 1612. In the name of Gode, Amen, I, Daniell Gallon, of Shilbottle, in the Countie of Northumberland, GentleMy bodie to the earth to be interred at the discretion of my friends. As for my land in Shilbottle, I bequeath to my wife, Isabell, for and during her life natural, and after her decease, the same to come and descend to my daughter, Ellinor Gallon, and to the heires of her bodye lawfully begotten for ever, and for default of such issue, to come and remaine to my brother, George Gallon, and to the heirs male of his bodye lawfully begotten for ever, and for default of such issue male in him, to come and be devolved to my brother, John Gallon, and the heires of his bodie lawfully begotten. I give unto my daughter above said the whole tythe, corne, yearly renewing in and upon the fower several tenements, with the appurtenances, in the west end of Shilbottle aforesaid, and to the heires of her bodie lawfully begotten for ever, and if by god's pleasure she die without issue, and my wife survive her, that then it shall come and remaine to my wife for her life naturall, and after her decease to George Gallon, my brother, and his heirs male lawfully begotten, and for default of such issue male in him, to

There is a pedigree of the Gallons of Alnwick printed in the New County History of Northumberland, vol. ii., pp. 486/8. The administration of the goods of George Gallon, the father of the testator was granted, 27 July, 1620, to Edward Delaval of Alnwick, his brother John and his sisters, Alice and Jane, being mentioned.

my brother, John Gallon, and the heires of his body lawfully begotten. Also my will is that my wife bring upp my daughter vertuoslie in the feare of gode, at her booke, needle and such other commendable qualities as will best enable her for the service of god, and her maintenance and preferment in this worlde. And if it please gode my wife marrie againe, that then my father, George Gallon, and Edmond Finch, of Warkworth, in case they dislike the education and usage of my daughter under her mother, shall take her into one of their tuitions, or at their discretions during her non age see her well and vertuostlie brought upp, and the profitts of the tythes of those fower severall tenements, and employed to that use and end. I give to my daughter, Eleanor, above said all my whole estate, right, title, interest of the whole burgage or tenement, with the appurtenances, situate, lying and being in Barwick on Tweed, and which of right doth descend unto me by the right of my late grandfather, Robert Lowther, and to the heires of her body lawfully begotten for ever; and for default of her and such issue lawfully begotten, I give my whole right therein to my wife, Isabella aforesaid, and to her heires for ever. I give to my daughter above said two kyne and two calves, to be marked at the hour of my death for her use. I give unto her moreover, the one half of all my household stuffe and implements, to be given to her when she shall come to lawful full yeares, and the other halfe of all my goods and chattells, moveable and immoveable, whatsoever, with the corne alreadie sowen and hereafter in that season to be sowen, I leave and give to my wife, Isabella, aforesaide. And I make and ordeine my wife, Isabella, and daughter, Eleanor, abovesaid, joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament, requesting my well beloved father, George Gallon, of CalledgPk, and my especiall good friends, Fargus Storie, of Yea. ing, and Edmond Finch, of Warkworth, to be supervisors for the ordering and assisting them in their rights. Witnesses, Richard Garrett, Charles Atkinson, John Harte. Proved, 11 March, 1612.

THOMAS NEWTON.1

Aug. 20, 1612. Thomas Newton, of Hawkwell, in the parish of Stamfordham, in the countie of Northumberland, yeoman. To be buried in the South Porch of the parish church of Stamfordham. I comit my sone Arthur unto William Ray, whom I make and appoint his tutor to bring him up in a godly and christian

1 There is an account of the Newtons in the descent of the Hawkwell property in the New County History of Northumberland, vol. xii., pp. 360-1. The testator's son Arthur was bur. in the church porch of Stamfordham, 19 May, 1663.