0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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0002: | I Hagar Hester of Henly upon Thames in the County of
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0003: | Oxon widow being of sound mind memory and understanding do
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0004: | make publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in
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0005: | manner and forme following And first and principally I commend
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0006: | my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator trusting thro'
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0007: | the merits and mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to
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0008: | have remission of all my sinns and to be made partaker of
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0009: | Everlasting life And my body I committ to the Earth to be decently
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0010: | buryed att the discretion [↑of my Executor] hereafter named and as for my
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0011: | Worldly Estate which the Lord out of his mercy hath bestowed
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0012: | upon me I give and dispose thereof in manner and forme following
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0013: | (that is to say) Item I give and devise unto my Grandaughter Elizabeth
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0014: | Guy wife of William Guy the Younger of Henley upon Thames
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0015: | aforesaid Malster all those my three Messuages Cottages or Tenements
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0016: | with the Gardens Orchards Backsides and all and singular other the
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0017: | hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging scituate and
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0018: | being in the Parish of Renmham alias Remenham in the County of
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0019: | Berks in the severall tenures or occupations of Edward Norman and
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0020: | William Page and also all other my reall and personall Estate
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0021: | whatsoever and wheresoever nott herein before given or devised
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0022: | To hold unto the said Elizabeth Guy her heires Executors Administ[rato]rs
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0023: | and assignes for ever Item I do hereby constitute and appoint the
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0024: | said William Guy full and sole Executor of this my last Will and
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0025: | Testament And I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me heretofore
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0026: | made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament [↑only] In testimony
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0027: | whereof I the said Hagar Hester have to this my last Will and
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0028: | Testament sett my hand and seale this sixteenth day of January
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0029: | anno dom[ini] one thousand seaven hundred thirty and two
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0030: |
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0031: | the marke of Hagar Hester
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0032: |
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0033: | Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
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0034: | Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us
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0035: | who subscribed our names in the presence of the said Testatrix
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0036: |
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0037: | William Guy
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0038: | Robert Stokes
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0039: | Tho[ma]s Hackman |