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Will of Charles Brewer

Occupation

  • 100: Farmer, Grazier, Yeoman

Location

Yeoman of Henley upon Thames

Document reference: ORO MSS Oxon Wills 9/2/46
First date: 17 April 1753
Probate date: 25 June 1753
Probate court: Henley

Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.

Witness: Tho[ma]s Newell
Witness: Eliz[abeth] Jukes
Witness: Lovelace Hercy
Court Official: Daniel Burton
Court Official: Herbert Beaver
Executrix: Pennie Brewer

Bequests

To: Pennie Brewer (Wife)

All my property at Northfield Endand together with the rest and residue of my estate to my wife Pennie, all of which I charge with the payment of a debt of twenty pounds due to my sister Sarah Brewer

Bequest Types

Location of property

Names

Transcript

0001: In the Name of God Amen I Charles Brewer of Henley upon Thames
0002: in the County of Oxford Yeoman being sick & weak in Body but of Sound &
0003: Disposing Mind Memory & Understanding & being willing to settle my
0004: Affairs do make publish and declare this to be my last Will & Testament in
0005: Manner & Form following Whereas I stand indebted to my sister
0006: Sarah Brewer Spinster --- in the Sum of twenty pounds on Bond Now
0007: I Do hereby expressly Charge all my Messuages or Tenements Lands and
0008: Hereditaments hereinafter mentioned with the payment of the same And
0009: from & after payment thereof & also of all other my just Debts & Funeral
0010: Expences I Do hereby Give Devise & Bequeath All & every my Messuages or
0011: Tenements Lands & Hereditaments with the Appurtenances scituate at
0012: Northfield End in the Parish of Henley upon Thames aforesaid And also all
0013: other my Estate & Estates whatsover & wheresoever both real & personal
0014: unto my Dear & Loving Wife Pennie ---- Brewer & to her Heirs
0015: Executors Administrators & Assignes for ever & do make my said Wife
0016: full & sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament revoking all
0017: former & other Wills by me heretofore made & Do declare this to be my
0018: last Will & Testament only In Witness whereof I the said Charles
0019: Brewer have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal this seventeenth day
0020: of Aprill in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred &
0021: fifty three
0022:
0023: Charles Brewer
0024: Signed Sealed Published & Declared
0025: by the said Charles Brewer the
0026: Testator as & for his last Will &
0027: Testament in the presence of Us
0028: who have hereunto subscribed our
0029: Names as Witnesses thereto in the
0030: presence of the said Testator & in the
0031: presence of Each other
0032: Tho[mas] Newell
0033: Eliz Jukes
0034: Lovelace Hercy

Preparation of this entry

Post status: Published
Transcript by: Viv Greenwood
Author: Viv Greenwood
Checked by: Not checked
Date posted: 26th January 2013
Date modified: 23rd April 2014

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