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om the time that I promised the same, till the amount for the same shall be perfected, which is to be done by their help and endeavors. Item: I do desire and entreat Mr. William Corbine to assist my wife aforesaid, whom I make sole executor of this my last Will and Testament, to get in my estate, and to see my debts paid and my Will performed. Given as my act, last Will, and Testament, this 9th day of November, 1640. Mathew Cradock. Witness hereto: Edward Lewis, William Alney, Richard Howell. Entered and recorded the 12th of February, 1662, by Thomas Danforth, Recorder. This will of Mr. Cradock sounds somewhat peculiar in our ears; and we presume it is not a fair specimen of that legal precision in words so necessary then in such a document. To give six hundred pounds to each of his partners in a land speculation was a new way of settling an outstanding account. We cannot too much admire the wise and Christian provision he makes for his wife. When a husband, by hi