Will of Henry Lucas the elder of Little Crakehall, 26th August 1676

In the name of God Amen. I Henry Lucas of Crakehall the Elder in the County of York yeoman, being of good health in body and sound and perfect mind and memory praise be given to almighty God do make and ordain this my present last will and testament in manner and form following :
That is to say , first and primarily I commend my soul into the hands of almighty god hoping through the merits, death and passion of my saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and so inherit everlasting life and my body I comit to the earth to be decently buried where and at the discretion of my executors hereafter named. And as touching the disposing of my real and personal estate which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as follows -
first I will that my debts and ..........all charges shall be payed and discharged. and in discharge thereof I give unto my two brothers Oliver Lucas and John Lucas all and every of my messuages, cottages, lands, tenements and hereditaments situate, lying and being in Little Crakehall, Great Crakehall, Langthorne and Melmerby in Coverdale in the County of York aforesaid in manner and form following -
that is to say I give unto my brother Oliver Lucas all that messuage or mansion house wherein I now live, with all my houses, buildings, cottages, barns, stables, milnes, kilnes, orchards, gardens garths, backsides to the same belonging and the moiety or the one half of all my lands of arable, meadow and pasturage lying and being within the several townships of Little Crakehall, Great Crakehall, Langthorne and Melmerby aforesaid, to have and to hold the same unto my said brother Oliver, his heirs and assigns for ever.
And I give unto my said brother John Lucas all that messuage or mansion house in Little Crakehall aforesaid which I heretofore purchased amongst other lands from the trustees of John Johnson late of Little Crakehall, to have and to hold the same unto my said brother John Lucas, his heirs and assigns for ever ( only excepting and severing forth from the same the east end of the messuage from the entry or the narrow passing thereof which heretofore I purchased from the trustees of the said late deceased John Johnson with a way to the same in at the old garth yatte to the back door thereof, and the orchard belonging to the same messuage, which I give unto my loving wife Christabell during her natural life ).
I give unto my said brother Oliver Lucas one farm in Great Crakehall which I now hold by and under the demise of one Abraham Clarke esq. and one other farm lying within Newton in the Willows which I now hold by and under the demise of the right Honble Robert, Earl of Ailsbury and all my right and title therunto, and I give and bequeath unto my said two brothers Oliver Lucas and John Lucas all the rest of my goods, cattle and chattels whatsoever, they paying forth of my real and personal estate all my debts equally betwixt them. And do make my said two brothers sole executors ......
Witnessed Joseph Chapman, John Whitton

Inventory of the goods and chattels of Henry Lucas the elder, of Little Crakehall, appraised 19th August 1676

His purse and aparel	£5 - 0 - 0
In the forehouse one long table and a form, one livery cupboard and a little cupboard, 3 chairs, twostoules, two long settles, 6 quishings	£1 - 10 - 0
In a little roume next the forehouse two little tables, one deske, one cheist	5s - 0d
In the high parler one long table, two joynt formes and a planke forme, one stand bed, curtaines & vallans, with the bedinge thereto, one truckle bed with bedinge, one livery cupboard, one little press, two pannell cheists, one counter, three chaires, two quishings, one glasscase, one desk, one little truckle	£3 - 6 - 8
In the next roume to the high parloure one stock bed & bedinge, an old press and one little table	13s - 4d
In the low parloure one stande bed and a little stock bed and bedinge thereon, one longe settle, one old cheist, one stoule	£2 - 0 - 0
In the kitchin three old cupboards, two little tables, fower kettles, fower little pans, two iron pans, one brass pott, two spitts, two payer of iron racks, three reckons, two fyer shovells, three payer of tonges, two fryinge pans, eighteene puter dishes, two puter flagons, one tankerd, two puter plates, fower saucers, five candlestickes, one dozen puter spounes and implements of houshold	£5 - 0 - 0
In the milchouse in cheese & butter	£3 - 0 - 0
More in the milchouse forty milchboules, six pales, two charges, one cheespress and other implements of houshold	£1 - 13 - 4
Two swine	£2 - 0 - 0
Poultry	6s - 8d
Two waines, two plowes, with other plowgeare & waingeare belonging to husbandry	£3 - 6 - 8
In winter corne, barley and pease	£8 - 10 - 0
Nyne rucks of hey	£26 -13- 4
Six draught oxen	£24 - 0 - 0
Eleaven milchkine & a bull	£40 - 0 - 0
Two steares	£5 - 0 - 0
Eight stirkes Nyne calves Fower mares & fower foles Two gelt colts & a filley One stoned horse	£12 -0- 0 £6 - 0 - 0 £28- 0- 0 £16- 0- 0 £11- 0- 0