| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Francis Blake of Henly upon Thames in the County of Oxon Harness
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| 0003: | Maker being aged and infirm but of sound Mind and Memory and
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| 0004: | Understanding do make publish and declare this my last Will and
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| 0005: | Testament in Manner and Form following that is to say First and
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| 0006: | principally I commend my Soul unto Almighty God my Creator hoping
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| 0007: | through the Meritts and Mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus
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| 0008: | Christ to have Remission of all my Sins and to be made partaker of
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| 0009: | everlasting life And my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried
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| 0010: | at the discretion of my Executors herein after named And as for my
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| 0011: | worldly Estate I give and dispose of the same as followeth Impr[im]is my
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| 0012: | Will is that all my Just Debts which I shall owe at the time of my
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| 0013: | decease be well and truly paid and satisfied and also my Funerall
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| 0014: | Expences And I do hereby charge all my Reall and personall Estate
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| 0015: | with the same payment Item my Will and Desire is that my
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| 0016: | Executors herein after named do as soon as may be after my decease
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| 0017: | sell and dispose of all my Goods and Chattles and get in the Money
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| 0018: | which shall be due to me at my decease and therewith satisfie and
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| 0019: | pay my just Debts and Legacyes herein after given and my Funerall
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| 0020: | Expences And in case my personal Estate shall fall short of paying
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| 0021: | my Debts and other Charges as aforesaid my Will is that my Executors
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| 0022: | herein after named shall take and receive the Rents and profitts of
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| 0023: | my Messuage or Tenement herein after mentioned with the
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| 0024: | Appurtenances to be by them applyed for the payment and satisfaction
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| 0025: | of so much and such parts of my Debts and Funerall Expences as my
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| 0026: | personall Estate shall fall short of paying and discharging and from
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| 0027: | and after such payment and Satisfaction of my Debts and Funerall
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| 0028: | Expences together with such Charges and Expences as my said
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| 0029: | Executors shall happen to |
| 0030: | by reason of the Trust hereby in them reposed in the Execution and
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| 0031: | fulfilling this my last Will and Testament and my Will and Desire is
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| 0032: | that they my said Executors shall in the first place satisfie and pay
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| 0033: | themselves what is due to them or either of them out of my personal
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| 0034: | Estate and out of my Reall Estate as aforesaid Item I give all that
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| 0035: | my Messuage or Tenement with the Appurtenances to the same
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| 0036: | belonging scituate and being in Bell Street alias North Street in
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| 0037: | Henly upon Thames in the County of Oxon aforesaid and now in my
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| 0038: | own possession and in the Occupation of one Thomas Mason a Baker unto
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| 0039: | my Grand Son John Campbell for and during and until such time as
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| 0040: | my Great Grand Son Francis Campbell shall attain to the Age of twenty
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| 0041: | four Years and I do hereby give my said Messuage or Tenement with
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| 0042: | the Appurtenances from and immediately after my said Great Grand
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| 0043: | Son have attained to the Age of four and twenty Years unto my said
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| 0044: | great Grand Son Francis Campbell and the Heirs of his Body lawfully
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| 0045: | to be begotten and for default of such Issue as also in case my said
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| 0046: | Great Grand Son shall happen to dye without any Issue of his body
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| 0047: | before the said Age of four and twenty Years then I do hereby give
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| 0048: | and devise my said Messuage or Tenement with the Appurtenances
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| 0049: | unto my Right Heirs for ever provided nevertheless and it is my
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| 0050: | Will Intent and Desire that neither my Grand Son John Campbell
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| 0051: | nor my Great Grandson Francis Campbell nor the Heirs of the said
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| 0052: | Francis shall receive any profit or Benefit out of my Reall or
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| 0053: | personal Estate until such times my Debts and Expences for my Funerall
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| 0054: | and the Costs and Expences as my Executors shall be at in the Execution
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| 0055: | of their Trust shall be intirely satisfied and paid And I do hereby
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| 0056: | constitute and appoint my loving Neighbours and Friends Mr. William
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| 0057: | Curtis and Mr. Thomas Mason to be Executors of this my Will to
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| 0058: | each of whom I give one Guinea for their Trouble and Pains in the
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| 0059: | premisses and my Will is that they shall not be answerable or
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| 0060: | accountable the one for the other or for the Acts or Receipts the one
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| 0061: | of the other or their Executors or Administrators the one of the other
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| 0062: | but for their respective Acts and Receipts only Item all the Rest and
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| 0063: | Residue of my personal Estate wheresoever and of what nature kind
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| 0064: | or quality soever not herein before given or charged with the payment
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| 0065: | of my Debts and Funerall Expences and other Expences as aforesaid I
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| 0066: | give unto my said Grand Son John Campbell And I do hereby revoke
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| 0067: | all former Wills heretofore made or by me published and do declare this
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| 0068: | to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Francis
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| 0069: | Blake have hereunto set my hand and Seal this First Day of May in
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| 0070: | the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second
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| 0071: | by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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| 0072: | Defender of the Faith &c. Annoq[ue] Dom[ini] 1732
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| 0073: |
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| 0074: | Francis Blake
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| 0075: | Signed Sealed published and declared to be the last Will and Testament of the
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| 0076: | Testator Francis Blake in the presence of us who were present at
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| 0077: | the Publication signing and sealing hereof the Words (by, and
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| 0078: | until, what, first interlined)
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| 0079: | Elizabeth Havergill
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| 0080: | Henry Benwell
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| 0081: | Abraham Johnson
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| 0082: | Walter Sellon |