| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Henry Leadbeatter of Henley upon Thames in the County
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| 0003: | of Oxford Tapester being somewhat infirm in Body but of sound
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| 0004: | Mind Memory and Understanding do make publish and declare
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| 0005: | this to be my last Will and Testament in manner and form
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| 0006: | following And first and principally I commend my Soul into the
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| 0007: | Hands of Almighty God trusting through the Merits and
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| 0008: | Mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to have
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| 0009: | Remission of all my Sins and to be made partaker of Everlasting
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| 0010: | Life and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried
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| 0011: | at the Discretion of my Executor herein after named And as
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| 0012: | for my Worldly Estate I give and dispose thereof as followeth
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| 0013: | That is to say I give and bequeath unto my dear Father William
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| 0014: | Leadbeatter of Aylesbury in the County of Bucks Taylor all my
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| 0015: | Notes of Hand which I have from several persons And also all my
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| 0016: | Money and Debts now due or to grow due from any person or persons
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| 0017: | whatsoever And in case there should any of my Notes or Money
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| 0018: | remain in my said Fathers possession at the time of his Decease I
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| 0019: | give and bequeath the same to my Brother William Leadbeatter
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| 0020: | of Aylesbury aforesaid to be disposed of as he shall think proper
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| 0021: | All the Rest and Residue of my Goods Chattells and personal
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| 0022: | Estate whatsoever and wheresoever I do hereby give and bequeath
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| 0023: | unto my said Father William Leadbeatter to his Heirs and
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| 0024: | Assigns and I do make and ordain my said Father my full and
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| 0025: | sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I do hereby
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| 0026: | revoke all Wills by me heretofore made and declare this to be my
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| 0027: | last Will and Testament only In Testimony that this is and contains
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| 0028: | my last Will and Testament I the said Henry Leadbeatter have
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| 0029: | hereunto set my Hand and Seal this fourteenth day of September
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| 0030: | in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Forty
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| 0031: | one
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| 0032: |
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| 0033: | Henry Leadbeatter
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| 0034: |
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| 0035: | Signed sealed published and declared
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| 0036: | by the said Henry Leadbeatter the Testator as and for his last
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| 0037: | Will and Testament in the presence of us and then attested by
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| 0038: | us in his presence (the Word persons) being first interlined between
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| 0039: | the ninth and tenth Line
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| 0040: |
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| 0041: | Barton Franklin
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| 0042: | Peter Willson
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| 0043: |
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| 0044: | Ex[amine]d |