by my frends wch in all is seauen poundes to bee imployed
for his vse according to the discrecon of my Executors
for ye placing of him wth an other Master Item I giue
and bequeath to JOANE my servaunte fiue poundes more
then her wages. Item I giue and bequeath vnto
my svaunte JANE wch serveth vnder the said JONE fortie
shillinges more then her wages wch wages is twenty
shillinges by yeare Item I giue and bequeath to my
auncient svaunte CHRISTOPHER KELLETT a Lymning paynter
dwelling neare PettyFraunce in Westminster fiue poundes
Item to my aincient servaunte JOANE wife to Paule
Chapman dwelling in Brayneford end I bequeath fortie
shillinges. Item I giue vnto the aforesaid EARLE
OF NORTHUMBERLAND my two pspectiue trunckes wherewth
I vse espetially to see Venus horned like the Moone
and the Spout in the Sonne The glasses of wch trunckes
I desire to haue remooved into two other of the fayrest
trunckes by my said servaunte CHRISTOPHER TOOKE Item
I bequeath vnto euyone of my Executors hereafterwards
to be named, One pspectiue truncke a peece of the best
glasses, and ye fayrest trunckes, as my said servaunte
Can best fitt to theire liking Item I giue vnto my
said servaunte CHRISTOPHER TOOKE the residue of my
Cases of pspectiue trunckes wth the other glasses of
his owne making fitted for pspectiue trunckes (excepting
two great longe trunckes Consisting of many ptes wch
I giue vnto the said EARLE OF NORTHUMBERLAND to remayne
in his Library for such vses as they may be put vnto,
Alsoe I bequeath the dishes of iron Called by the spectacle
makers tooles to grinde spectacles, and other pspectiue
glasses for trunckes vnto my foresaid servaunte CHRISTOPHER
TOOKE, Item Concerninge my debts, I doe acknowledg
that at this psente I doe owe moneyes to Monseir Mayornes
a Potycarie More to Mr Wheately a Potticary dwelling
neare the Stockes at the East end of Cheapeside Item
to my Brewer dwelling at Braynford end Item to Mr
John Bill Staconer for Bookes The some of the debte
to all fower before meneoned I thincke and Judge not
to bee much more or lesse then forty poundes.
Item I doe acknowledge to owe vnto Mr Christopher
Ingram keeper of the house of Syon for the aforesaid
EARLE OF NORTHUMBERLAND Three thousand sixe hundred
of Billett wch I desire to be repayed vnto him Item
I doe acknowledge that I haue some written Coppies
to the number of twelue or fowerteene (more or lesse)
lent vnto me by Thomas Allen of Gloster Hall in Oxford
M` of Artes vnto whome I desire my Executors hereafter
named to restore them safely according to the noate
that hee shall deliu of them (I doubting whether I
haue anie true noate of them my selfe) Item I make
Constitute and ordayne theise fowre following my Executors
Namely the aforesaid Sr ROBERT SIDNEY KNIGHT VISCOUNT
LYSLE (if his Lopp may take soe many paynes in my
behalfe) Also JOHN PROTHEROE of Hawkesbrooke in the
County of Carmarthen Esquio` Alsoe THOMAS ALESBURY
of Westminster Esquior Lastly THOMAS BUCKNER Mercer
dwelling in St Xpofers pishe in Lond not farre from