| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Elizabeth Neate of Henley upon Thames in the
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| 0003: | County of Oxford Widow being in good health
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| 0004: | and of sound and disposing mind and memory
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| 0005: | and understanding and considering the uncertainty
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| 0006: | of this transitory life do make publish and
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| 0007: | declare this my last Will and Testament in
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| 0008: | manner and form following (that is to say)
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| 0009: | First and principally I commend my Soul to
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| 0010: | Almighty God who gave it my body I commit to
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| 0011: | the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion
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| 0012: | of my Executor hereinafter named and as to the
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| 0013: | Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to
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| 0014: | bless me I dispose thereof as follows (that is to
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| 0015: | say) I will and direct that all my just debts Funeral
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| 0016: | and Testamentary Expences be fully paid and
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| 0017: | satisfied and subject to and charged and chargeable
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| 0018: | with the payment thereof I give and bequeath
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| 0019: | unto my Son in Law Robert Hollaman All and
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| 0020: | singular my Estate and Effects whatsoever and
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| 0021: | wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever
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| 0022: | To hold unto and to the use of my said Son in
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| 0023: | Law Robert Hollaman his Heirs Executors
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| 0024: | Administrators and Assigns for ever to and for
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| 0025: | his and their own use and benefit And I hereby
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| 0026: | nominate constitute and appoint him the said
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| 0027: | Robert Hollaman Sole Executor of this my Will
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| 0028: | hereby revoking all former and other Will and
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| 0029: | Wills by me at any time heretofore made and
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| 0030: | declaring this and this only to be my true last
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| 0031: | Will and Testament In Witness whereof I
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| 0032: | Elizabeth Neate the Testatrix have hereunto
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| 0033: | set my hand and seal the fifth day of August One
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| 0034: | thousand seven hundred and eighty five
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| 0035: |
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| 0036: | Elizabeth Neate [Seal]
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| 0037: |
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| 0038: | Signed Sealed published and declared by
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| 0039: | the above named Elizabeth Neate the Testatrix
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| 0040: | as and for her last Will and Testament in the
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| 0041: | presence of us who in her presence at her request
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| 0042: | and in the presence of each other have subscribed
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| 0043: | our names as Witnesses thereto
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| 0045: | Marg[are]t Ford
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| 0046: | Tho[ma]s Ford
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