In the name of God Amen the twenty second day of November in the eleventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of god Queen of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc. I, William Hodgkins of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucester, sick in body but, god be praised, of good and perfect memory, do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say, First I give and bequeath my soul to Almighty God, my maker and redeemer, and my body to be buried in the parish churchyard of Tewkesbury aforesaid. And for the distribution of my worldly goods, Imprimis, I give to my daughter, Joane, two flockbeds, one feather bed, two feather bolsters, two feather pillows, four coverlets, two canvasses, four pair of sheets, four blankets, one joned bedestead, one table board, two brass pots, two posnets, one bushel one peck, one half peck, three cawtherins, one brass and cobbe ------- , one fire shovel linker and pothooks, one pail, eight pieces of pewter,
one basin, two salt cellars, three pewter pots, two candlesticks, one cloak, one pair of hose, on doublet, three chests, the doublet to be received at William Wattes of Cheltnam, on little barrel with two other standing vessels, one chair, two benches, two iron bound shovels, one iron peel with all the rest of other implements belonging to this house that I dwell now in that are mine, with all my hay, one feather bed that Elnor Hodgkins, my wife hath in her keeping, one bolster, one canvas, four pair of flaxen sheets, four pillow beres, two pillows, one brass pot, one brazen, cauldron the price sixteen pence, a dozen of flaxen napkins, half a dozen of silk cushions, eleven pieces of pewter, three of the pieces valued at six pence a piece. One wrought towel, one flaxen towel, two candlesticks, one brazen dripping pan, one broche, one chair, three yards of broad cloth price thiry shillings, one wrought table cloth. The Residue of all my goods and catelIs excepted and unbeqeathed, my debts paid and funeral costs discharged I do ordain and make the sole and only executrix of this my last will or testament. Item I ordain and make the supervisors or overseers of this my last will or testament, to see this my last will executed, fulfilled and done, according to my true meaning, John Bayley and John Jecckes.

Witness, John Bayley, John Jenckes, Richard Gregory.

Proved 1597.