In the name of God Amen I Alice LODER of Dorchester in the County of Dorset widow being of perfect mind and memory but sensible of my frail & mortal estate and condition in this uncertain life Do make & ordain this my last will & Testament.

Impremis: I commit my soul into the hands who gave it & my body I commit to christian burial in St Peters Church next my dear husbands grave.

Item: I give to the poor of the parish of St Peters & to the poor of the parish of Trinity in Dorchester aforesaid, to each parish twenty shillings a piece.

Item: I give unto my sister Mary LYNINGTON of Weymouth Five Pounds, & such of my wearing apparel as my executors in their discretion shall think fit.

Item: I give unto my son Gilbert [LODER] a trundle bedstead ⁽²⁾ & a coverlet;

And my desire is that my executors hereafter mentioned will take a special care of him to whose trust I wholly leave and commit him, hereby appointing them to receive and manage for his use what was given him by his fathers last Will.

Item: I give to my Cousin Margaret ATKINS my silk gown & twenty shillings in money

Item: I give to my son James LODER and his wife to each of them a gold ring worth twelve shillings a piece.

Also: I Cousin Andrew LODER & his wife to each of them a ring of like value

Also: to Cousin Anne DAMPIER a ring of like value.

Item: I give to Mr William BENN; Mr George HAMMOND; Mr John THOMPSON now living in Dorchester & to Mr John EATON at Chapena? in Dorset; to each of them a ring worth ten shillings.

And: I hereby ordain and appoint my loving sons John LODER of London Gentleman & Philip STANSBY of Dorchester Grocer the executors of this my Last Will & Testament desiring that what I bequeath to them may be managed for the good of the children now living.

And: I do by this leave ye [rest?] of my money (part {----?} of are in the possession of my son James LODER & {?} my house {?} he now dwells in ) which I have not disposed of as is above mentioned. I do {?} bequeath to my two sons, John LODER & Phillip STANSBY aforementioned {?} equally divided betwixt them for the mentioned use and end.

And: rev{oking all?} former & other Wills doe hereby make & declare this my last will & Testament as is herein expressed. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & {seal} the second day of May in the sixteenth year of his majesties Reign & in {the} year of our lord 1664.

Signed Alice LODER with her seal

Signed Sealed & published by the said Alice LODER to be her last will & Testament in the presence of

John CRADOCK

The mark of Alice SEAGER