| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Ann Ryder of Henly on Thames in the County of Oxon Widow
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| 0003: | being Sick and weake of Body but of Sound Mind and Understanding
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| 0004: | and calling to Mind the uncertainty of this Life do make publish and
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| 0005: | declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following
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| 0006: | and First and principally I commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty
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| 0007: | God trusting through the Merits and Mediation of my Lord and Saviour
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| 0008: | Jesus Christ to have remission of All my Sins and to be made partaker
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| 0009: | of Everlasting Life and my Body I commit to the Earth from whence it
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| 0010: | was taken to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executors
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| 0011: | hereafter named and as for my worldly Goods which the Lord hath
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| 0012: | bestowed on me I dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis I give
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| 0013: | and devise unto my Son Jonathan Steevens one Shilling Item all
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| 0014: | the rest and residue of my Goods Chattells whatsoever and
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| 0015: | wheresoever I give and devise unto my two Daughters Katharine and
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| 0016: | Elizabeth Steevens to be equally divided between them Share and
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| 0017: | Share alike and do make them joynt Executrixes to this my last Will
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| 0018: | and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my Hand
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| 0019: | Seal the twenty eighth day of February in the year of our Lord
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| 0020: | God one Thousand Seven hundred and twenty three
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| 0022: | Anne Rider
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| 0023: | Signed Sealed and published to be the last Will and Testament of
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| 0024: | the said Ann Ryder in the presents of us whose name are hereunder
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| 0025: | written
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| 0027: | Thomas Stevens
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| 0028: | the mark of Jane Prosser
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| 0029: | Francis Blake |