| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I John Ayres of Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxon
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| 0003: | Gentleman being of Sound and disposing mind and Memory do
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| 0004: | hereby make this my last Will and Testament First and Principally
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| 0005: | I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping for
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| 0006: | remission of all my Sins through the Merits of Jesus Christ my
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| 0007: | Blessed Saviour and Redeemer and my Body to the Earth or
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| 0008: | Sea as it shall please God and as for Such Worldly Estate and
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| 0009: | Effects which I Shall be possessed of or intitled unto at the time
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| 0010: | of my decease I Give and bequeath the Same as followeth that
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| 0011: | is to say unto my I Give and bequeath unto my dear and
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| 0012: | Loving Father Thomas Ayres All my Effects and Personal Estate
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| 0013: | Estate now in his possession for life and from and immediately
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| 0014: | after his decease then I Give and bequeath the Same unto my
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| 0015: | Brother Edward Ayres his Executors Administrators and Assigns
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| 0016: | All the rest and residue of my Personal Estate I Give and
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| 0017: | bequeath unto Richard Hackman of Henley aforesaid his
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| 0018: | Executors and Administrators And I do hereby nominate constitute
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| 0019: | and Appoint Thomas Hackman of Henley aforesaid Gentleman
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| 0020: | Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and
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| 0021: | making Void all other and former Wills by me heretofore
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| 0022: | made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament
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| 0023: | In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal
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| 0024: | this Seventeenth [↑day of December in the Year of our Lord
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| 0025: | one thousand seven hundred and forty three and in the seventeenth]
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| 0026: | Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George
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| 0027: | the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and
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| 0028: | Ireland King defender of the Faith
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| 0030: | Jno Ayres
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| 0031: | Signed Sealed
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| 0032: | Published and declared by the said John Ayres the Testator
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| 0033: | as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of
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| 0034: | us who have hereunto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses
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| 0035: | in the presence of the said Testator (an obliteration being first
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| 0036: | made
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| 0037: | Jno Delafons St Martin Le Grand
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| 0038: | Giles Southam
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