| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen I Mary Forster of Henley upon Thames in the County
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| 0002: | of Oxford Widow being of Sound and disposing Mind Memory and Understanding and calling to Mind the
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| 0003: | uncertainty of this Life do make publish and Declare this my last Will and Testment in manner
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| 0004: | and form following and first and Principally I commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty
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| 0005: | God my creator hoping thro' the Meritts and Mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to
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| 0006: | have remission of all my Sins and to be made partaker of ever lasting Life and my Body I
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| 0007: | committ to the Earth to be decently Buried by my Executrixes hereinafter named in the same
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| 0008: | manner as my late Dear husband was and as for my Wordly Estate which the Lord out of his
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| 0009: | Mercy hath bestowed upon me I Give and Dispose thereof (as followeth) (that is to say) My
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| 0010: | Will and Desire is and I hereby Direct that my Neice Mary Luxford shall have and take to
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| 0011: | herself all the Linnen Woollen and [↑all] other Goods She brought to my House without
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| 0012: | giving any account for the same All the rest and residue of my Goods Chatteles ready
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| 0013: | Money and Estate whatsoever and wheresoever after Payment of my just Debts
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| 0014: | Legacies and Funerall Expences I Give and Bequeath to and amongst my Sister
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| 0015: | Sarah Woolgar My Neice Mary Luxford and Ann Luxford her Daughter Equally to be
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| 0016: | divided between them Share and Share alike and I do hereby constitute and appoint
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| 0017: | my said Sister Sarah Woolgar the said Mary Luxford and Ann Luxford her Daughter
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| 0018: | joint Executrixes of this my last Will and Testament And my Will is further That in
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| 0019: | case my said Sister Sarah Woolgar should happen to dye that her Share or part should
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| 0020: | go to and amongst her Children I Revoke all Wills by me heretofore made and declare
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| 0021: | this to be my last Will and Testament only And in Testimony that this Writing is and
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| 0022: | contains my last Will and Testament I the said Mary Forster have hereunto Set my Hand
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| 0023: | and Seal this Seventh Day June in the year of our Lord One Thousand
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| 0024: | Seven hundred and forty eight
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| 0026: | Mary Forster X her marke
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| 0028: | Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said
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| 0029: | Mary Forster the Testatrix as and for her last Will
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| 0030: | and Testament in the presence of us who have
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| 0031: | hereunto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses in the
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| 0032: | presence of the said Testatrix
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| 0034: | Tho[mas] Newell
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| 0035: | Alice Ransford X
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| 0036: | her marke |