Will of Robert Jackson of Great Crakehall, yeoman, 2 December 1662

First, I give and bequeath unto Margaret my loveinge wife the messuage or tenement wherein I now live, situate and being in Great Crakehall, aforesaid, with the stable and garth thereunto adioyning, one layeth or barne formerly called by the name of Taylor House, with the garthes or parcells of arrable and pasture groundes lyinge on the backside thereof, situate or being in Great Crakall, comonly called or known by the name of Taylor Closes, with a parcel of ground called the Batt belonging to the same, To have and to hold the same unto my wife and her ........ during the term of her natural life in lewe and full satisfaction of all her jointure etc.
Item, after the decease of the said Margaret my wife I give and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, garth, stable, barne, garthes, closes or parcels of ground above mentioned, unto my son William Jackson, his heirs and assigns for ever.
Item, all the rest of my lands, tenements and hereditaments situate in the town fields andf territoriesof Great Crakehall aforesaid I give and bequeath unto my brother-in-law Robert Hutchinson of Spennythorne, George Pybus and John Pybus of Maunby upon Swaile yeomen, for the term of 31 years after my death, willing and disiringe them that out of the rents, issues and profits theirof they pay all my just and due debts and after the payment or expiration of this terme, whichever shall first happen, I give and bequeath all and evry those lands tenements and hereditaments to my said son William Jackson, his heirs and assigns for ever, provided always and my further will & mynde is that if my said son William Jackson his heirs or assigns shall at any time during the said term of one and thirty years pay and discharge all my debts, or give sufficient security for their payment, then he is to enter to the saide lands etc.

Inventory of Robert Jackson of Great Crakehall, 11 February 1662/3

His purse and his apparrell	£5 - 0 - 0
In the forehouse, one cubberd, two little tables, three chares, one forme and two shelves	£2 - 0 - 0
In the same room, brasse, puther with other small implements	£3 - 0 - 0
In the upper parlour, two cubberds, two pannell chists, two coffers, one standing bedd with a teaster, one little table, one chare, three buffitt stooles	£10 - 0 - 0
Item, in the low parlour, one standing bedd, with a teaster, one table, two chests, fower joynte s tooles with bedcloase	£3 - 0 - 0
In the chamber two plaine bedds, one fether bedd, two mattrisses, one rugge with pillows and other bedinge	£6 - 13 - 4
In the milke house fowerr shelves, twelve milke bowles, one stikirne, two stands, two stooles and one little kimlinge	16s - 0d
In the garden two stockes of bees.
Corn in the barn	£1 - 0 - 0
........pieces of hay	£6 - 0 - 0
Two acres of grounde sowne with hard corne	£4 - 0 - 0
One yoake of oxen	£11 - 5 - 0
Two kine	£6 - 0 - 0
One calfe	£1 - 0 - 0
One mare and a foale	£4 - 0 - 0
One swine	10s - 0d
[ TOTAL ]	£70 - 9 - 4