Single word please

[Mitch in Notts]

this is the only word I can't fathom on a Will Inventory.
Line reads: "a Churn, 2 Looms 3 ***** & some Dearyweare.



Frustrated!

Thanks

Mitch

[arthurk]

Kit(t) - a number of meanings, but the most likely one here is probably a wooden vessel, especially a milking pail with a cover and one or two 'ears'.

Source: Joseph Wright's Dialect Dictionary - this non-link goes to the page where 'kit' is found: https://
archive.org/details/cu31924088038405/page/n469

[Mitch in Notts]

Thank you Arthur, much appreciated.

[Mitch in Notts]

Another one please. Text before reads: "do pay and allow her my said wife Mary or her assigns the sum of Six Shillings "something" and every week? for and during the term of her natural life"




Thanks

Mitch

[Sue Mackay]

Weekly and every week.

I think wills were often a bit tautologous!

[Mitch in Notts]

Thanks Sue.
I thought it said Weekly and every Week, but then it just seemed too obvious - doubted myself too much!
Mitch

[Mitch in Notts]

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[Mitch in Notts]

A phrase added in left side of 1726 Will:




The text around reads "to my loveing Wife Jone for her natural life yt (text above inserted) She paying my funerall charges and expenses"

Thanks

Mitch

[Mitch in Notts]

I shal dysease of - I shall decease of - now seems possible, though it doesn't read well in the context of the Will, but then this Will doesn't seem overly well written!

[arthurk]

It might be 'yt I shal Dy Sezd of', ie 'that I shall die seized of'. (I might not have transcribed it entirely accurately, as the letters are a bit squashed together.)

This would require there to be something before 'to my loveing Wife' detailing some property or other asset, and this phrase would mean, in effect, 'that I own at my death'.