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Will of Titus Seal

Occupation

  • 100: Farmer, Grazier, Yeoman

Location

Yeoman of Henley upon Thames

Document reference: ORO MSS Oxon Wills 152/2/34
First date: 19 March 1750
Probate date: 27 October 1759
Probate court: Henley

Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.

Witness: Tho[ma]s Hackman
Executrix: Ann Seal
(Wife of testator and beneficiary of Will)
Court Official: John Read
Court Official: George Hay

Bequests

To: Ann Seal (Wife)

Two cottages at Northfield End Henley (lately in the tenure or occupation of Ann Wooton and Elizabeth Waters) for Ann Seal's lifetime.  After her death the same two cottages to go to Titus Seal's niece Frances Allen, wife of William Allen.

Bequest Types

Location of property

Names

To: Ann Seal (Wife)

All the residue of my personal Estate

Bequest Types

Names

Transcript

0001: In the Name of God Amen I Titus Seal of Henley upon
0002: Thames in the County of Oxon yeoman being in perfect health and
0003: of sound mind memory and understanding do make publish
0004: and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in manner
0005: and form following (that is to say) first and principally I
0006: recommend my Soul ino the Hands of Allmighty God my creator
0007: and redeemer trusting through the merits of my Lord and
0008: Saviour Jesus Christ to have remission and forgiveness of all my
0009: sins and wrong doings and to be made partaker of ever lasting
0010: life and my Body I committ to the earth to be decently buryed at
0011: the discretion of my Executrix herein after named and as for my
0012: Wordly Estate which the Lord out of his goodness has bestowed
0013: upon me I dispose thereof in manner and form following First
0014: of all I give and bequeath unto my dear and Loveing Wife Ann
0015: Seal All those my two Messuages Cottages or Tenements with
0016: the appurtenances situate and being at Northfield end in the
0017: parish of Henley upon Thames in the said County of Oxon now
0018: or late in the Severall Tenures or occupations of Ann Wooton
0019: and Elizabeth Waters To Hold unto my said Wife Ann and
0020: her assignes for and during the Terme of her Naturall life
0021: and from and immediately after her decease Then I give
0022: and bequeath the said Messuages Cottages or Tenements with
0023: the appurtenances unto my neice Frances Allen Wife of
0024: William Allen her Executors Administrators and assignes All
0025: the rest and residue of my Reall and personall Estate whatsoever and
0026: wheresoever not herein before by me given and Devised (after my
0027: Debts Legacys and Funerall Expences are paid and discharged) I
0028: give Devise and bequeath unto my said Wife Ann Seal her Heires
0029: Executors Administrators and assignes And I do hereby nominate
0030: and appoint my said Wife full and sole Executrix of this my last
0031: will and Testament And I do hereby Revoke all former Wills by me
0032: heretofore made and declare this to by my last Will and Testament only
0033: In testimony whereof I the said Titus Seal the Testator have to this
0034: my last Will and Testament set my Hand and Seal this nineteenth
0035: Day of March in the Twenty Fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereigne
0036: Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain
0037: France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so Forth and
0038: in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Fifty
0039:
0040: Titus Seal TS his mark
0041:
0042: Signed Sealed published and
0043: Declared by the said Testator
0044: Titus Seal as and for his last
0045: Will and Testament in the
0046: presence of us who subscribed
0047: our names as wittnesses thereto
0048: in his presence
0049: Tho[ma]s Hackman

Preparation of this entry

Post status: Published
Transcript by: Hilary
Author: Hilary Fisher
Checked by: Cynthia Robinson
Date posted: 04th November 2012
Date modified: 22nd May 2014

Comments

Photocopy suggests that there may have been at least one other witness' signature below that of Thomas Hackman which has been cut off Seal covered probably for protection

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