Harrogate, Yeoman

My real estate of an ancient building and copyhold land called High Buttersome, Low Buttersome Closes, Teen Laith Garth, Broad Field, Great Broad Field, and Low Field, in total 6½ acres at Beckwith with Rossett, after the death of my grandmother Elizabeth Jackson, to my nephew John Coates, son of my brother Jonathan Coates, and now occupied by a tenant William Blythe, when he reaches 21, chargeable with :

£20 to, his mother, my sister-in-law Ann Coates.

£150 to, his sister, my niece Elizabeth Coates.

My mother, Ursula Coates, whom I appoint Executrix, is to pay my sister-in-law Ann an annuity of £1 after the death of my grandmother Elizabeth.

I appoint my mother guardian of my nephew and niece, and to receive the profits from my estate for their maintenance and education, until my nephew reaches 21.

I appoint Francis Shepherd of Knaresborough, the elder, William Bramley and Thomas Smith, both of Birstwith, Trustees for my nephew and niece

Witnesses : Ann Cope, Bar?k Clapham, John Tengatt

Inrolled 25th October 1750