In the name of God Amen. The 20^th day of September 1664 I John Ballard of New Sarum gentleman sick in body but of good and perfect memory thanks be to Almighty God do make constitute ordain and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following revoking and annulling by these presents all and every testament and testaments will and wills heretofore by me made and declared either by word or by writing and this to be taken only for my last will and testament and none other. And first being penitent and sorry from the bottom of my heart for my sins past most humbly desiring forgiveness for the same I give and commit my soul unto Almighty God my Saviour and Redeemer in whom and by the merits of Jesus Christ I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins and that my soul reunited to my body on the general day of resurrection shall possess and inherit through the merits of Christ’s death and passion the kingdom of heaven prepared for his elect and chosen. And my body to be interred with Christian burial where it shall please my executrix hereafter named to appoint. And now for the settling of my temporal estate, I order give and dispose the same in manner and form following that is to say I will first that all those debts and duties that I owe in right or conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever shall be well and truly paid or ordained to be paid by my executrix hereafter named within convenient time after my decease. Item I give and bequeath to my son John the living at <Cupennham> in the parish of Romsey in Hampshire. Item I give and bequeath to my son Henry £100 of good English money. Item I give and bequeath to my son Oliver £100. Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Martha £100. Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Susan £100 to be paid to them respectively at the day of their marriage or one and twenty years of age, and if any of them die before that age or marriage this money given and bequeathed to each to be equally divided between the survivors of the four. Item I give and bequeath to my sisters Dorothy Hunt and Elizabeth Brett each of them ten shillings to buy a mourning ring. Item I give and bequeath to each of my wife’s sisters Mary <Scuse?>, Susan Oliver, Margaret Oliver and at Dorothy Oliver ten shillings to buy mourning rings. Item I give and bequeath to the poor of the parish of St Thomas forty shillings to be disposed of amongst them as my executor shall think fit. Item I give and bequeath to my dear wife Martha the lease of the house <enjoining?> to Close Gate on condition that she deliver up her interest in the above-mentioned living at <?Chipernham?> for the use of my son John. Item I constitute and appoint my wellbeloved friends Thomas Boswell <?????> of Sarum  and John <Skuse> of Odstock overseers and my dear wife Martha sole executrix of this my last will and testament. In witness of which promises I have set unto them that my hand and seal at the day and year above written. John Ballard signed and Seale in the presence of – Katherine Wansbrough – Elizabeth Turner.

Probate granted in London 8^th February 1664 to Martha Ballard relict and executrix.