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 London, and part I kept in cash, to answer emergencies; hereupon I purchased lands in Ireland with sodier's debentures, bought att above the markett rates, a great pt whereof I lost by the Court of Innocents, anno 1663, and built the said Garden called Token House yard, in Lothbury, which was for the most part destroyed by the dreadfull fire, anno 1666. Afterwards, anno 1667, I married Elizabeth, the relict of Sr Maurice Fenton, Barronett. I sett up iron works and pilchard fishing in Kerry, and opened the lead mines and timber trade in Kerry, by all which, and some advantageous bargins, and with living under my income, I have, at the making this my will, the reall and personall estate following (vizt.), a large house and 4 tenements in Runsey, with 4 acres of meadow upon the causway, and about 4 acres of arrable in the fields called Marks and Woollsworth, in all about thirty pounds per ann.; houses in Token house yard, near Lothbury, London, with lease in Piccadilly, and the Seaven Starrs, and the Blazing Starr, in Birching Lane, London, worth about five hundred pounds per ann.; besides mortgages upon certain houses in Hogg Lane, near Shoreditch, in London, and in Erith, in Kent, worth about £20 per ann.: I have ¾ parts of the ship Charles, whereof Deryck Paine is master, which I value at £80 per ann.; as also the copper plates for the mapps of Ireland, with the King's priviledge, which I rate at £100 per ann., in all seven hundred and thirty pounds per ann. I have in Ireland, without the County of Kerry, in lands, remainders, and reversions, about three thousand one hundred pounds per ann. I have of neat profits out of the lands and woods of Kerry, above eleven hundred pounds per ann., besides iron works, fishings, and lead mines, and marble quarrys, worth £600 per ann., in all £4800. I have, as my wife's Joynture, during her life, about £850 per ann., and for 14 years after her death about £200 per ann.; I have, by £3300 money at interest, £320 per ann., in all about £6700 per ann. The personal estate is as foll. vizt—in chest six thousand six hundred pounds, in the hands of Adam Loftus £1296; of Mr John Cogs, goldsmith, of London, £1251; in silver plate and Jewells abt £3000, in furniture, goods, pictures, coach horses, books, and watches, £1150 per estimate, in all twelve thousand pounds. I value my three chests of originall mapps and field books, the coppys of the Down Survey, with the Barrony mapps, and the chest of distribution books, with two chests of loose papers relating to the survey; the two great Barony books, and the book of the history of the survey, altogether at two thousand pounds. I have due out of Kerry for arrears, May rent, and iron, before 24th June, 1685, the sume of £1912, for the next half year's rent out of my lands in Ireland, my wife's joynture,