Wills and Inventories

The is now The Greyhound Inn, Penkhull.

In the name of God, Amen. I John Townsend, of the Parish of Stoke and County of Stafford, Yeoman, being weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory, Thanks be given to God, calling to mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, so make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all,

I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and by body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in decent Christian Burial, at the Discretion of Executors, hereinafter named; nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, demise, and dispose of in the following manner and form: