| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I John Sandall late of Brentford in the County of Suffolk
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| 0003: | but now of Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxford
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| 0004: | Gentleman being weak in Body but of sound Mind Memory
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| 0005: | and Understanding and calling to Mind the uncertainty of
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| 0006: | this Transitory Life do make Publish and declare this my
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| 0007: | last Will and Testament in manner and form following
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| 0008: | hereby revoking and making void all former Wills by me
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| 0009: | at any time or times heretofore made First and
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| 0010: | Principally I commit my Soul into the Hands of my Creator
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| 0011: | who gave it me hoping through his kind Mercy and
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| 0012: | Goodness to have perfect Remission of all my Sins and
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| 0013: | my Body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion
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| 0014: | of my Executor herein after mentioned As to my Wordly
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| 0015: | Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me after
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| 0016: | Payment of all my Just Debts and Funeral Expences I
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| 0017: | Dispose of as follows I hereby give devise and bequeath
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| 0018: | unto my three Daughters (Videlizet) Mary Coles the Wife
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| 0019: | of William Coles of Henley aforesaid Maltster, Elizabeth
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| 0020: | Cresswell the Wife of Thomas Cresswell of the same Place
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| 0021: | Apothecary and Ann Wade the Wife of the Rev[eren]d William
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| 0022: | Henry Wade of Brightlingsea in the County of Essex All
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| 0023: | and singular my Real and Personal Estates whatsoever and
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| 0024: | wheresoever and of what kind soever which I shall be
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| 0025: | possessed of or any ways entitled unto at the time of my
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| 0026: | decease To Hold to them my said Daughters their Heirs
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| 0027: | Executors Administrators and Assigns for ever in equal
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| 0028: | shares and proportions as Tenants in Common and not as
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| 0029: | Joint Tenants And I do hereby ordain constitute and
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| 0030: | appoint my Son in Law the said Thomas Cresswell sole
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| 0031: | Executor of this my last Will and Testament In Witness
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| 0032: | whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
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| 0033: | in contained in one Sheet of Paper hereunto set my
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| 0034: | Hand and Seal the ninth day of October in the Year of
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| 0035: | Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty
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| 0037: | John Sandall X his Mark [Seal]
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| 0038: | Signed Sealed Published and
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| 0039: | declared by the said John Sandall to be his last Will
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| 0040: | and Testament in the presence of Us who subscribed Our
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| 0041: | Names in his presence and at his request
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| 0042: |
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| 0043: | Cha[rle]s Towsey Att[orne]y
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| 0044: | Tho[ma]s Willats Jun[io]r |