In the name of God amen I, Nathaniel Wight, minister of god's word at Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucester, upon due consideration and with due remembrance do make and appoint this, my last will and testament in manner and form following. First, I willingly resign my soul into the hands of my glorious God and merciful redeemer, in lively hope of eternal life. My body I refer to the ordinary manner of christian burial, to rest in assurance of a happy ressurrection. Touching such worldly goods as god hath blessed me withall and committed to my disposal, my will is thus to bequeath them. First I give to my dear and beloved wife, Elizabeth Wight, all that free land which I purchased, containing eight butts of arable land and about one acre of pasture ground, all lying and being in a field called the Oldbury in the parish of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucester, with all the profits and commodities thereunto belonging, to possess and enjoy the same, wholly and fully, during the term of her natural life for the maintenance of her and my children, and after her decease I give and bequeath all that free land forementioned, with all benefits thereunto belonging, unto my son Nathaniel Wight and to the heirs of his bnody lawfully begotten, to enjoy for ever, and in case he die without issue, my will is that the free land aforesaid shall pass to our son Thomas, and to his heirs lawfully descending, and in case I have no child remianing alive after my wife's decease, my will is to devise and bequeath all that ny free land which I now enjoy aforesaid, together with all my goods and chattels not otherwise bequeathed, to my two brothers James Wight and Samuel Wight, and to my four sisters Elizabeth Whitehead, Deliverance Wight, Ann Wight and Mary Wight, to be sold and distributed amongst them in six several and equal portions , to belong to them and their heirs forever, lawfully descending from them , and if any of them die before that time the legacy of the party or parties deceasing shall be divided among the rest of them. Item, I give to my son, Nathaniel Wight, forty pounds. Item, I give to my second child Thomas Wight the sum of twenty pounds: both which portions I appoint be laid out to purchase some land or houses for them within one year after my decease, or as soon after that as it may be raised out of my estate, the yearly revenue whereof shall be toward their education. Item, I give to my eldest brother Wiliam Wight, my great testament in Greek and Latin. Item, I give to my mother in law and every one of mine own and my wife's brothers and sisters one English book of divinity apiece such as my wife shall think meet. To Mr. John Greene, Piscator's Commentary on the new testament in two volumes. Item, I give to ten honest poor widows of Tewkesbury twelve pence apiece. The rest of my goods and chattels unbequeathed I give to my loving and much esteemed wife, Elizabeth Wight whom I make and ordain my sole executrix of this, my last will and testament, in witness and confirmation whereof I have put my hand and seal on the twenty third day of February in the sixteenth year of the reign of our sovereign King Charles, and in the year of our lord and saviour 1642.

I give to my second son Thomas Wight the sum of twenty pounds to be paid within the year after my decease.

Subscribed and sealed in the presence of Theophilus Alye, Henry Smythe, Mary Smythe, Sarah Vaughan by me Nathaniel Wight.

Memorandum. This was added and interlined October 13, 1643, ""and that my wife's legacy shall be toward the maintenance of her and our children and that the land shall descend to the second son in case my wife and eldest son die without issue. Item, That if my wife have other child by me, then that child shall have twenty pounds paid as soon as it may be raised out of my estate.
Witness Sarah Vaughan.

Proved 1644.