| 0001: | In the name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Elizabeth West of Henly upon Thames in the County of Oxon
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| 0003: | Widdow being well in body and of sound and perfect memory all
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| 0004: | praise be given to Almighty God for the same doe make this my
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| 0005: | last Will and Testament in writeing in manner and forme
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| 0006: | following First and principally I give my Soule unto Almighty
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| 0007: | God who gave it me trusting assuredly through the mercies and
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| 0008: | merritts of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Eternally to be
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| 0009: | saved and as to my Temporall Estate which it hath pleased
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| 0010: | God [↑for] to bestow upon me I give the same as followeth my Will is
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| 0011: | and I give devise and bequeath unto my Loveing Daughter
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| 0012: | Mary the Wife of William Curteise the sum[m]e of one hundred
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| 0013: | pounds of Lawfull Money of England Item I give unto my
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| 0014: | Grandson William Curteise the sum[m]e of Thirty pounds of
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| 0015: | lawfull money of England to be paid by my Executrix hereafter
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| 0016: | named when he shall attaine the age of one and Twenty Years
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| 0017: | Item I give to my Grandson Thomas West the sume of
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| 0018: | Threescore pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid
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| 0019: | him when he shall attaine the age of one and Twenty Years Item
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| 0020: | I give unto my loveing Granddaughter Mary West the sume of
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| 0021: | Thirty pounds to be paid her when she shall attaine the age of
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| 0022: | one and Twenty Years Item I give-------the said Mary West
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| 0023: | all the goods which I brought into the house of the said William
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| 0024: | Curteise whereas the money lately given to the said persons
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| 0025: | afore named is out of Interest [↑now] my Will is that if any be lost by
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| 0026: | putting into ill hands the same shall be equally borne between the
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| 0027: | persons afore named my Will is that the sumes of money shall
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| 0028: | be put out to Interest for the use and benifitt of the said Thomas
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| 0029: | West and Mary West imediatly after my decease and if any
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| 0030: | of the said person and persons happen to dye before they recieve
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| 0031: | their money that then in such case it shall goe and fall to the surviv[or]
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| 0032: | of them and I make and ordaine the said Mary Curteise sole
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| 0033: | Executrix of this my last Will and do make Ralph Vinge and
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| 0034: | Thomas Crewe of Reading aforesaid overseers of this my last
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| 0035: | Will and doe give each of them two shillings and sixpence to
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| 0036: | buy them gloves and in Wittness this Present writing doe containe
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| 0037: | my last Will and Testament I the said Eliz[abeth] West have hereunto
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| 0038: | sett my hand and seal the eight day of August Anno d[omi]ni one Thousand
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| 0039: | seven hundred and five
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| 0041: | The mark of Elizabeth West
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| 0042: |
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| 0043: | signed
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| 0044: | sealed published and declared by her the said Elizabeth West
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| 0045: | to be her last Will and Testament in the presence of
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| 0046: | William Curtis
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| 0047: | John Bennett
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| 0048: | Solo[man] Sewen |