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      and after her decease I doe give & bequeath to my sonne Robert Liber M M
      Byat my land in Portland and the house in Edward Owsely
      now Dwelleth and the house lately built in the south side of the
      high streete during his naturall life & to ye heirs & issue of his body
      lawfully begotten & for want of such heirs or issue to my daughter
      Hannah Barker and her heirs forever, and I Doe give & bequeath
      the house wherein Henry Lee now Dwelleth to Kathereine Pinson
      my Grandchilde and her heires forever And for all the Rest of lands
      goods & Chattells not Disposed of I doe give to my said wife and
      to her disposing to give or sell as she shall thinke fit whome I Doe
      make my sole Executrix of this my last will & Testamt And I doe
      desire my frends Wittm Cade and Nicholas Nicholas Tackle to be
      overseers of this my said will & doe give unto Each of them Twenty
      shillings In witnes whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale
      the 25th day of Aprill in ye yeare of our Lord 1672 Tho Byat sealed
      in the prsence of signe of E. B. Erasmus Browne Nicholas Tackle
      Wm Cáde.
        Tenore presentium nos Gibertus providentia divina Cant Archi
      episcopus totius Anglie prima et Metropolitanus notum facimus uni
      versis quod quarto die mensis Julij Anno Domini 1672 Apud London
      coram reverenti & egregio viro Leolino Jenkins milite & legum doc
      tore Curie Prerogative Cant nostro Custode sive Commissario legi
      timo constituto probatum approbatum & insinuatum fuit testamentum
      Theophili Byat nuper de Weymouth & Melcomb Regis in comitatu
      Dor Defuncti prentibus auc & habentis dum vixit & mortis sue tern-
      pore bona jura sive credentia in diversis diocesibus sive jurisdic
      tionibus cuius pretextu ipsius testamenti approbatio & insinuatio
      administrationisque huiusrnodi audito finalique liberacio sive dis
      missio ab eadem ad nos solum & insolidurn & non ad aliurn nobis
      inferiorem judicem noturn dignoscunt pertinere & commissa fuit
      administratio omnium & singulorum bonorum jurarurn & creden
      tiarurn dicti defuncti & eius testamentum qualitercunque concernen
      tium Edithae Byat relicto & executrici in huiusmodi testamento
      nominate ponitus de bene & fideliter administranda eadern ac de
      pleno & fuit jura omnium & singulorum bonorum jurarum & cre
      dentiarum dicti defuncti conficienda et illud in Curia Prerogativa
      Cant citra vel ante prirnum diem mensis Novembris proximum
      futurum exhibenda nec non de plano & vero compoto calculo sive
      reciocinio inde reddendo ad sancta dei Evangelia vigore commis
      sionis jurata Datum die mensis Anno & loco predictis nostroque
      translatione Anno Nono Marcus Coitle Registrarius.

        To All Xpiãn People To whome these prsents shall Come Greeting—
      Know yee that Christopher Rousby of Calvert County in the Prov