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Rh kindred after their day: But I will [after] their day, that it go unto the nighest hand to me; unless of them any one Children have; then it is to me most eligible that it go to that issue on the male side, the while that any of it worthy be. My Grandfather hath bequeathed his Land to the Spear-side, and not to the Spindle-side. Wherefore, if I have given to any Female what he had acquired, then let redeem it my Relations, if they it while she is living have will: If it otherwise be, let it go after their day, so as we before determined have. For this reason I ordain that they it pay for, because they will succeed to my [Estate] that I give may, or to female hand, or to male hand, whether I will.

And I beseech in God's name, and in his Saints', that of my Relations none, nor of my heirs none, do obstruct none of the freedom of those that I have redeemed. And for me the West-Saxon Nobles as lawful have pronounced that I