| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I William Smith of Henley upon Thames in the
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| 0003: | County of Oxford Baker being of sound and disposing
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| 0004: | Mind Memory and Understanding do make publish and
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| 0005: | declare my last Will and Testament in manner
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| 0006: | and form following (that is to say) I will and
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| 0007: | direct that all my just Debts Funeral and Testamen[tar]y
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| 0008: | [↑expences] be fully paid and satisfied I give and devise unto
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| 0009: | my dearly beloved Wife Elizabeth Smith all those my
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| 0010: | thirty five acres of wood Land (be the same more
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| 0011: | or less) situate lying and being in the Parish of
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| 0012: | Hambledon in the County of Bucks called or known
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| 0013: | by the several Names of Adams's Wood and Bottom
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| 0014: | Wood and also all other my Real Estate in the
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| 0015: | said Parish of Hambledon or elsewhere To hold unto
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| 0016: | and to the use of my said Wife Elizabeth Smith
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| 0017: | her Heirs and Assigns for ever Subject nevertheless
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| 0018: | to and charged and chargeable with the payment
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| 0019: | of the Mortgage Money due thereon And also to
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| 0020: | an Agreement made by me with Mr James Pitt
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| 0021: | for the Sale of a small part thereof which
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| 0022: | said Mortgage and Agreement I hereby direct my
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| 0023: | said Wife to confirm and carry into Execution
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| 0024: | and also Subject to the payment of my Debts in
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| 0025: | case any deficiency shall happen in my
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| 0026: | personal Estate Also I give devise and bequeath unto
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| 0027: | and to the use of my said Wife All that my Moiety
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| 0028: | half part or share of and in two Leasehold Messuages
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| 0029: | or Tenements with the Appurt[enance]s situate in Market
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| 0030: | Street near Newport Market in the Parish of Saint
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| 0031: | Ann in the Liberty of Westminster To hold unto her
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| 0032: | my said Wife her Executors Administrators & Assigns
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| 0033: | for all the residue of the Term I have to come
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| 0034: | therein Also I give devise and bequeath unto and
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| 0035: | to the use of her my said Wife her Heirs Executors
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| 0036: | Administrators and Assigns for ever all the rest
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| 0037: | residue and remainder of my Real and Personal
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| 0038: | Estates whatsoever and wheresoever to and for her
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| 0039: | and their own use and benefit absolutely and I do
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| 0040: | hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said
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| 0041: | beloved Wife Elizabeth Smith full and sole Executrix of
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| 0042: | this my Will and Lastly I do hereby revoke and
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| 0043: | make void all former and other Wills by me at
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| 0044: | any time heretofore made and do declare this and
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| 0045: | this only my true last Will and Testament In
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| 0046: | Witness whereof I the said William Smith the Testator
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| 0047: | have to this my last Will and Testament set
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| 0048: | my Hand and Seal this twentieth day of June
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| 0049: | in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven
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| 0050: | hundred and eighty four
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| 0051: |
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| 0052: | William Smith [Seal]
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| 0053: |
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| 0054: | Signed
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| 0055: | Sealed published and declared by the above named
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| 0056: | William Smith the Testator as and for his last
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| 0057: | Will and Testament in the presence of us who in
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| 0058: | his presence at his request and in the presence of
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| 0059: | each other have subscribed our Names as Witnesses
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| 0060: | thereto
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| 0061: |
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| 0062: | T. Cooper
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| 0063: | Tho[ma]s Ford
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| 0064: | Fra[nci]s Moon |