| 0001: | I Henry Mason
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| 0002: | Constitute this my last Will and Testament I Give to
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| 0003: | my Sister Frances Mason of Holbourn One Hundred
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| 0004: | pounds. To my Brother Thomas Mason after my
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| 0005: | ?sister's above Legacy and Funeral Expenses are paid
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| 0006: | I bequeath all Moneys and Effects of whatsoever kind
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| 0007: | I shall die possessed of Witness my Hand this second
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| 0008: | day of October 1767
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| 0009: |
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| 0010: | Henry Mason
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| 0011: | The last Will of me Henry Mason wrote
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| 0012: | with my own hand this second day of October
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| 0013: | 1767
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| 0014: | 6th Oct 1770
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| 0015: | Appeared Personally Edward
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| 0016: | Ingram of Featherstone Buildings in the Parish of
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| 0017: | St Andrew Holbourn in the County of Middlesex Esq[uire]
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| 0018: | and Richard Fisher of Fleet Street in the Parish of Saint
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| 0019: | Dunstan London haberdasher and being severally sworn
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| 0020: | by the holy Evangelists made oath each for himself as
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| 0021: | follows that they well know Henry Mason late of Henley
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| 0022: | upon Thames in the County of Oxford Surgeon deceased
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| 0023: | and were well aquainted with his manner and Character
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| 0024: | of handwriting he the said Edward Ingram having received
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| 0025: | divers letters from the said deceased which he the deceased
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| 0026: | had afterwards in discourse acknowledged to be his and he
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| 0027: | the said Richard Fisher having often seen the said deceased
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| 0028: | write and also received divers Letters from him and they the
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| 0029: | Appearers having now carefully viewed the paper writing
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| 0030: | hereto annexed purporting to be the last Will and Testament
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| 0031: | of the said deceased hereto annexed beginning thus 'I Henry
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| 0032: | Mason' and ending thus- Witness my Hand this second day
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| 0033: | of October 1767 - and thus subscribed Henry Mason and
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| 0034: | endorsed 'The last Will of me Henry Mason wrote with
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| 0035: | my own hand this second day of October 1767' [↑they] say that they
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| 0036: | do verily believe the whole Body and Contents of the said
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| 0037: | will and the Name Henry Mason thereto subscribed and
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| 0038: | also the said Endorsement thereon to be all of the proper
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| 0039: | handwriting of the said Henry Mason deceased
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| 0040: |
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| 0041: | Edw[ar]d Ingram
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| 0042: | Rich[ar]d Fisher
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| 0044: | same day the said Edward
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| 0045: | Ingram and Richard Fisher were duly sworn to the truth of
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| 0046: | this affidavit before me Fr[anci]s Simpson Surrogate |