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The testator requests burial in St. Michael's, Coventry near his parents, with a funeral service like his father's; his wife and executrix Anna Maria should lay out £200 - £300 on a monument to himself and his parents; Anna Maria will receive £600, of which £200 will be at the end of a month and the balance three months after his death, also household goods, use for life of their dwelling in London or Westminster, the lease thereon, jewellery, and 600 ounces of plate which she shall choose (excepting a silver basin and ewer); those excepted artefacts will go to the testator's eldest son Richard, along with residuary plate, books and pictures, and furniture at Coventry; the wife shall be sole guardian of the children Richard, Edward, Mary and Anne, and of any others which might be born to them; the testator's godson Hopkins Botterell (son of Mr. Botterell of Shropshire) who married the testator's cousin Anne Goodrick will receive £20 one year after his death, as will his friend Mrs. Mary Odiarne £50; Mr. Thomas Sutton or any other receiver of the Warwickshire and Coventry estate will take £10; other servants (except those at the copperas works) will accept one year's wages if they have served a twelvemonth or up to six years, whereas it will be two years' wages for those who have worked for him for seven years or more; for the poor of Coventry is reserved £60 - £40 to St. Michael's parish's and £20 to Holy Trinity's - also £5 per parish to those of Barston, Allesley and Foleshill, all within six months of the testator's death and at his wife's discretion, whilst the poor of Alderton will get £3 and those on the testator's Hinton Hall estate (likewise in Suffolk) 40/-, each within six months of his death at the ministers' and churchwardens' discretion: whereas the testator has provided £6,360 for his younger children under his marriage settlement, he appoints that at their majorities or earlier marriage they shall each enjoy an additional £880, which will raise each one's share to £4,000 - however, if only one younger child survive, it shall receive just the entire £6,360; residuary personalty should be used to buy freeholds for settlement as below, viz. to the successive uses of the testator's son Richard, his issue, his son Edward, his issue, any other sons by seniority, and his daughters and their issue equally; if a daughter marry under age with her mother's consent, the wife shall raise £4,000 for a portion by means of a five-hundred year mortgage; Anna Maria shall enjoy a yearly rentcharge of £40, on top of her jointure as already settled, with power of distraint if it become twenty days outstanding: whereas the testator has spent much in improving what he has recently bought at Ewell, Surrey, that has only been designed as a personal retreat in his latter days for the preservation of his health, so that house and its contents shall be sold for the wife's advantage so as to augment his residuary personalty.
Endorsed memorandum [no date] as on PA194/12/2 but shown to Benjamin Brockhurst [apothecary], Joseph Cater [attorney] and Thomas Cater, the will's witnesses.