| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Joanna Hale of Henley upon Thames in the County
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| 0003: | of Oxford Widow being weak in Body but of sound
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| 0004: | Mind Memory and Understanding thanks be to Almighty
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| 0005: | God for the same do make and Publish this to be
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| 0006: | my last Will and Testament as follows that is to say
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| 0007: | First I will and desire that all my Just Debts and
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| 0008: | Funeral Expences to be fully paid and satisfied by my
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| 0009: | Executrix herein after named and after payment and
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| 0010: | satisfaction thereof I give and bequeath unto my
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| 0011: | beloved Brother John Morris the Sum of Fifty Pounds
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| 0012: | of lawful Money of Great Britain if he shall be
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| 0013: | living at my decease and not otherwise the same
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| 0014: | to be paid within four Months next after my decease
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| 0015: | And as to all the Rest and Residue of my Estate
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| 0016: | and Effects Real and Personal whatsoever and wheresoever
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| 0017: | and of what nature kind or Quality soever which I
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| 0018: | now am or at the time of my death shall or may
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| 0019: | be in any ways seized possessed of interested in
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| 0020: | or entitled unto and not herein before otherwise disposed
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| 0021: | of I give devise and bequeath the same and every
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| 0022: | part and parcel thereof after Payment of my Just
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| 0023: | Debts Funeral Expences and the abovementioned Legacy
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| 0024: | of Fifty Pounds unto my dearly beloved Friend
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| 0025: | Frances the Wife of Jonathan Sills of Moorefields
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| 0026: | London Merchant and to her Heirs Executors Administrators
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| 0027: | and Assigns as and for her and their own proper
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| 0028: | Goods Chattels Estate and Effects for ever And I do
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| 0029: | hereby make nominate constitute and appoint my
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| 0030: | said good Friend Frances Sills full and sole Executrix
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| 0031: | of this my last Will and Testament and do
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| 0032: | hereby revoke all former and other Wills by me at
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| 0033: | any time heretofore made and do publish and declare
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| 0034: | this only to be and contain my full and true last
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| 0035: | Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have
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| 0036: | hereunto set my Hand and Seal the thirtieth day of
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| 0037: | July in the thirty third Year of the Reign of Our
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| 0038: | Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain
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| 0039: | and so forth and in the Year of Our Lord 1759
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| 0041: | Joanna Hale [Seal]
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| 0042: | Signed Sealed Published and declared by
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| 0043: | the said Testatrix Joanna Hale as and for her last
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| 0044: | Will and Testament in the presence of Us who in her
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| 0045: | presence and at her request and in the presence of
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| 0046: | each other have hereunto subscribed Our Names as
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| 0047: | Witnesses thereof
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| 0048: | Edw[ar]d Priscey
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| 0049: | John Allen
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| 0050: | Jane Allen |