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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Re: Help in understanding an old Will

try the subject index at manxnotebook - eg www.manxnotebook.com/parishes/treen.htm#quarterlands for quaterlands etc
remember that all land wab nominally held as a tenant of the Lord (hence tenement)
The 6d legacy is not hardheartedness but a legal device dating from around the 15th C (when 6d was worth something) to prevent children from being cut off with no support (again I thought explained on Manxnotebook) - however it then developed as a legal device in case he had forgotten someone who could otherwise sue or in this case to prevent a law case (the Manx being then as litigious as today's Americans)