These extracts are taken from the Probate records of the Diocese of York, which are preserved at the Borthwick
Institute of Historical Research, York.
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Extract from Will of William Porrett, Scarborough, Gent.
Dated 10.3.1702/3, proved 25.5.1706 at York.
wife Elizabeth
[houses, closes, grounds, lands & tenements in Hartlepoole, Co. Dur]
son Thomas Porrett
son Robert Porrett
[messuage etc purchased of James Thompson in ?.....? near a place called Sandgate where I dwell]
son John Batty & Grace his wife
[stable adjoining Cuthbert Harper & house in Key Street, Scarbrough wherein my son Robert Porrett lately dwelt]
son William Porrett
[house etc in Key Street where son William Porrett dwells]
[close in Falsgrave]
daughter Elizabeth Bell
daughter Ann Porrett
[close called the Furlongs adjoining the Quaker burying place in Scarbrough]
wit: Lovell Lazenby, James Richardson, Savile Scriven