In the Name of God Amen. This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Butcher of Alderton in the County of Northampton Yeoman as follows. First I will, direct and appoint that all my debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied.
Item I give all my Messuages Cottages Closes Lands Tenements and hereditments whatsoever which I shall die possessed of interested in or any ways entitled unto Tomy a Nephew Thomas Davis of Turweston in the County of Bucks. Yeoman his heirs and assigns forever upon the condition and real trust that he the said Thomas Davis shall provide for and allow my sister Alice Butcher a good substantial maintenance during the term of her natural life.
Item I give to my nephew John Franklin of Alderton the sum of eighty pounds of Lawfull money of Great Britain.
Item I give to my nephew Edmund Franklin one shilling.
Item I give to my niece Elizabeth Timms the wife of John Timms Blacksmith the sum of twenty pounds of Lawfull money of Great Britain.
Item I give to my nephew John Harris of Cosgrove in this County of Northampton yeoman the sum of twenty pounds of like Lawfull money, and to his brother Robert Harris the sum of five pounds.
Item I give to my niece Ann King the sum of twenty pounds.
Item I give to my nephew Thomas Butcher of Westbury the sum of thirty pounds, and to his brother Richard Butcher one shilling.
Item I give all my household goods to be equally divided between the above named Thomas Davis and the above named John Franklin all the rest residue and remainder of my personal estate whatsoever or wheresoever I give to my said nephew Thomas Davis and do make him sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the twenty third day of August in the twenty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred fifty and five.

The mark of Thomas Butcher

Signed sealed published and declared by the Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us and the same was attested in the Testators presence and in the presence of each other by us the word Ever being first underlined in the seventh line.
The mark of Ann Shortland of Tyrweston
Jane Powell of Alderton
William Webb of Towcester

Proved 17th September 1755