Another old will

[Mitch in Notts]

Ok apologies again. I'm already stuck on lines 2 & 3 though I have done most of this short (phew) will.

reads:
body but of good and pearfe memory thanks be
to remembrance the un*ar*lon Estate of this

I know that should say 'perfect' on line 2 - but it doesn't does it.....

Thanks

Mitch

[Ken_R]

"So far for memory?"

[Peter Goodey]

pearfe memory

Perhaps an attempt at parfait memory

[cicilysmith]

You are right, it is pearfe, definitely a p. I'm struggling with the other word. Usually in that position there is a trope about God having given you or lent you your worldly estate and it says "unearned" "undeserved" but I can't think of any synonym which fits there. I think it ends -ten or possibly -len. I wondered if he could possibly have written "underwritten" in very strange spelling. cicilysmith

[Sue Mackay]

Is it uncertain Estate? Bit difficult to tell without the whole sentence. The c in remembrance looks a bit like the letter following 'un'

[Mitch in Notts]

Thanks folks. There is some very strange spelling in there so pearfe looks possible for parfait.

The whole opener reads:

In the name of God Amen the 8 day of Desember(sic) Anno Doni 1718 I Samuell/ Wheatcroft being sick in body but of good and pearfe memory thanks be/ to Almighty God and calling to remembrance the ****** Estate of this/ Transurory(sic) Life and that all of **** must yeald unto death whean(sic) it please/ God etc..

[Mitch in Notts]

And this is the missing word from line 4:

all of lesh? must (the bit below the f is part of that line & not that of the line below).

[Mitch in Notts]

I wondered if he could possibly have written "underwritten" in very strange spelling. cicilysmith

'Undariten' certainly looks a possibility and makes sense in the context! Thank you so much.

[pennydog]

of Lesh - could be - flesh ?

[Mitch in Notts]

Yes definitely. Thanks.