Transcribing early 17th century English script

Question

I've transcribed most of an old will, but I'm having trouble with abbreviations like

als with a line over it (not sure of that last letter) used to join two surnames possibly for a hyphenated name

an opening parenthesis with no closing

a’ a’ possibly “aforesaid” 

to see the original go to

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Will_of_William_Richardson%2C_Clerk%2C_Vicar_of_Hurstbourne_Tarrant%2C_Hampshire&public=1

This is a possible grandfather of the ID below. I' be putting up new linked profiles soon.

Answer 1

Fifth line of your transcript - trusting and beleeving [assuredly] ....

Eighth line of your transcript - the "a' a' " are used to fill-in or  complete the line.

Sixteenth line of your transcript - "my godson to be imployed" (sic) - meaning 'employed' or to be put to use.

The testator desires Mr Vincent Sparke to be his Overseer and not Sponsor.

The daughter is Mary Bishopp [als = alias] Rowland "unremembered before".

His godson is William Bishopp  [als = alias] Rowland.

Comments

Great work, anonymous. Thank you. That solves all the translation problems. u, s, and p were hard to learn. I should try another one before I forget all I learned on this one.

Can you or anyone suggest possible reasons for the alias? Ennoblement?

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Alias could be for someone married twice, born out of wedlock and sometimes using the mother’s surname, other times the fathers, a stepfather’s surname or adopted, formally or informally.

Of these I have definitely seen the second a number of  times, although not in this early a time frame and not specifically using the word “alias” and also a stepfather’s name is pretty common.

just ideas.