| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I William Buckney of Henley upon Thames in the
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| 0003: | County of Oxford Hoopshaver being Weak in Body but
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| 0004: | of Sound and Disposing Mind Memory and Understanding
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| 0005: | (praised be God for the same) and calling to Mind the
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| 0006: | uncertainty of this Mortal life do for the Setling and
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| 0007: | Disposing of the Worldly Estate wherewith it hath
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| 0008: | pleased Almighty God to bless me make and Ordain
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| 0009: | this my last Will and Testament in manner and form
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| 0010: | following (that is to say) First I commend my Soul to
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| 0011: | God that Gave it and my Body to the Earth to be
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| 0012: | Decently buried at the Discretion of my Executrix herein
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| 0013: | after named Item I Will and Direct that all my Just
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| 0014: | Debts and Funeral Expences shall be fully paid and Satisfied
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| 0015: | And I do hereby charge all my Real and Personal Estate
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| 0016: | with the Payment thereof and from and after Payment
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| 0017: | thereof and every part thereof I Give Devise and
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| 0018: | bequeath unto my loving and beloved Sons and Daughters
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| 0019: | Thomas Buckney George Buckney Elizabeth Buckney
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| 0020: | and Joanna Buckney the Sum of Five and Twenty Shillings
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| 0021: | a piece of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid them
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| 0022: | by my said Executrix within One year next after my Decease
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| 0023: | And all the Rest and residue of my Real and Personal
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| 0024: | Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what Nature
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| 0025: | or kind soever and wheresoever Situate lying and being
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| 0026: | (after Payment of my Debts and Legacys as aforesaid)
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| 0027: | I Give Devise and bequeath the same and every part
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| 0028: | thereof unto my loving and beloved Wife Eleanor
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| 0029: | Buckney To hold to her her Heirs Executors Adm[inistrat]ors and
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| 0030: | and Assigns for ever And I do hereby Ordain Constitute
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| 0031: | and Appoint my said Wife full and Sole Executrix of this
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| 0032: | my Will hereby revoking and making Void all former
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| 0033: | and other Will and Wills by me at any time heretofore
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| 0034: | made do Declare that this and no other is my last Will
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| 0035: | and Testament In Witness whereof I the said William
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| 0036: | Buckney have to this my Will set my hand and Seal
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| 0037: | this Twenty Second day of March in the Thirty Second
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| 0038: | Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George
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| 0039: | the Second And in the Year of our Lord One thousand
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| 0040: | Seven hundred and ffifty nine
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| 0041: |
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| 0042: | W[illia]m Buckney
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| 0043: |
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| 0044: | Signed
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| 0045: | Sealed Published and Declared by the above named William
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| 0046: | Buckney as and for his last Will and Testament in the
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| 0047: | Presence of us who at his request and in his Presence and
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| 0048: | in the Presence of each other have Subscribed our names
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| 0049: | as Witnesses thereunto the day and Year above written
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| 0050: | (the words Twenty Second in the Date of the Will being
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| 0051: | wrote in Stead of the Eighth[)]
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| 0052: |
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| 0053: | H Cooper
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| 0054: | Fra[nci]s Lilly
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| 0055: | John Bennett |