To: Elizabeth Duncombe (Wife)

To my wife Elizabeth for her life, the house in Watlington, lately occupied by the Rev. Mr. Billingley; Properties in Watlington and Britwell Salome, occupied by John Hayward; share in the manor of Watlington and property in Stukely in Bucks. occupied by Robert Wilson; and meadow land in Stukely known as Oat Close, occupied by James Bevan, all property to be charged with the payment of a yearly annuity to her of forty pounds.  After her death the properties and all my property in Tring and Putnam, Hertfordshire, given by the death of Mr. Knight, now living, by the will of my cousin Peter Duncombe, to pass to Edward Duncombe for his life and after his death to his first son Thomas Duncombe and his male heirs in order of seniority; if none to his second son Richard Duncombe and his male heirs in order of seniority and if none then to his third son and his male heirs in order of seniority.