| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Adam Beaty of Henley upon Thames in the County of
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| 0003: | Oxford Labourer being sick and weak in Body but of sound
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| 0004: | mind memory and understanding and calling to mind the
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| 0005: | uncertainty of this life do make Publish and declare this my
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| 0006: | last will and Testament in manner and form following (that
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| 0007: | is to say) I Give devise and Bequeath to my dear Sister
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| 0008: | Ann Rackstraw and her Assigns all those my Messuages or
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| 0009: | Tenements situate and being at Skirmot in the Parish of
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| 0010: | Hambledon in the County of Bucks for and during the
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| 0011: | term of her natural life and from and after her decease I
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| 0012: | Give and devise the said Messuages or Tenements with the
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| 0013: | Appurtenances to her son and my Nephew William Rackstraw
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| 0014: | and his Assigns for and during the term of his natural life
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| 0015: | and from and after his decease I Give and devise the said
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| 0016: | Messuages and Tenements with their Appurtenances to his son
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| 0017: | William Rackstraw his Heirs and assigns for ever all the rest
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| 0018: | and residue of my Goods Chattels real and Personal Estate
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| 0019: | whatsoever and wheresoever after Payment of my Just Debts
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| 0020: | and Funeral Expences I Give and dispose of in manner
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| 0021: | following (that is to say) I Give to my Sister the said Ann
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| 0022: | Rackstraw the sum of ten pounds and my Goods to be
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| 0023: | equally divided between my Nephew and my Sister and the
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| 0024: | remainder of my Money and Personal Estate I Give to my
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| 0025: | Nephew William Rackstraw and Appoint him sole Executor
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| 0026: | of this my Will and desire him to take care that I am
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| 0027: | Buried in a decent and Proper manner and in Testimony
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| 0028: | that this writing is and contains my last Will and Testament
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| 0029: | I the said Adam Beaty have hereunto set my hand and seal
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| 0030: | this twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one
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| 0031: | thousand seven hundred and seventy four
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| 0032: | The mark of Adam Beaty [Seal]
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| 0033: | Signed Sealed Published and declared by the Testator
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| 0034: | Adam Beaty as and for his last Will and Testament in
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| 0035: | Presence of us who in his Presence and at his request and in
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| 0036: | the presence of each other have subscribed our names as
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| 0037: | Witnesses hereto
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| 0038: | Thos Newell
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| 0039: | Hugh Keene
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| 0040: | Joseph Andrews |