Copies of the will of Sir Cryan Cooke, of Wheatley, bart

Direction for the division of £1,200 to be raised for children of his marriage with Priscilla (née Squire), viz. his son, Bryan, and three daughters, Priscilla, Katherine and Elizabeth; bequest of his wife's jewels and dressing place to his daughters Priscilla and Katherine according to his wife's wish before her death; 4 closes in Wheatley Lance, par. Doncaster, bought by testator since his marriage to his eldest son, George in trust to raise £400 to be paid to the executors of the will; a rent for 21 years from alun mines, partly held in the right of his wife and part purchased from his sister-in-law, Mrs. Jane Squire, under a lease to the late Duke of Buckingham, to be collected by the executor to pay an annuity to Mrs. Squire for her life; the part of the alum mine bought by testator from Mrs. Squire to pass after the expiration of the lease for 21 years to testator's eldest son, George Cooke, charged with the £40 annuity to Mrs. Squire and with £1,000 to be paid to the executor; £300 to testator's brother, Alexander Cooke, Doctor of Physic; £20 each to buy mourning to his brothers, George Cooke, Esq., Reverend Henry Cooke, Alexander Cooke, John Cooke, and his sisters, Diana Cooke and Mrs. Acklom, wife of Richard Acklom, esq., and to his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Wombwell, widow; £10 to the poor of Doncaster, £10 to the poor of Bentley and Arksey; £500 to his brother George Cooke; testator's brother, appointed executor and granted the rents from the lease for 21 years of the alum mine to acquit £500 owed to George Cooke by the testator by a bond due to George Cooke as executor of the will of the testator's late father, Sir George Cooke, bart. George Cooke and Mrs. Wombwell appointed guardians of the testator's children.