| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I John Holme of Henley upon Thames in the County of
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| 0003: | Oxon Distiller being of sound mind memory and understanding
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| 0004: | do make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in
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| 0005: | manner and form following and first and principally I commend
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| 0006: | my soul unto Almighty God who gave it me trusting through the
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| 0007: | [?] Merits and Mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to
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| 0008: | 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
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| 0010: | buried at the discretion of my Executrix herein after named and as
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| 0011: | for my Worldly Estate which the Lord out of his mercy hath bestowed
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| 0012: | upon me I dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis I give and devise
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| 0013: | unto my dear and loving Wife Mary Holme all my Messuages
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| 0014: | or Tenements Lands and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever
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| 0015: | within the Kingdom of England and all other my real Estate whatsoever
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| 0016: | and wheresoever to hold unto [↑her] the said Mary Holme and to her
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| 0017: | heirs and Assigns for ever Item I constitute and appoint my said
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| 0018: | Wife full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
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| 0019: | to whom after payment of my Debts Legacies and funeral Expences
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| 0020: | I give and bequeath the rest and residue of my personal Estate
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| 0021: | whatsoever and wheresoever I revoke all Wills by me heretofore
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| 0022: | made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament only In
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| 0023: | Testimony whereof I the said John Holme have hereunto put my hand
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| 0024: | and Seal the thirteenth day of February anno Dom[ini] one thousand
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| 0025: | seven hundred twenty and four
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| 0027: | John Holme
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| 0028: |
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| 0029: | Signed sealed
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| 0030: | published and declared by the above named John Holme the
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| 0031: | Testator as and for his last Will and Testament the word (buried)
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| 0032: | being first interlined in the presence of us who subscribe our names
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| 0033: | in the presence of the said Testator
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| 0034: |
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| 0035: | Geo[rge] Harrison
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| 0036: | John Hume
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| 0037: | Tho[ma]s Hackman |