| 0001: | In the of God Amen I William
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| 0002: | Button of Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxford Yeoman
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| 0003: | being willing to Settle my affairs do make Publish and declare
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| 0004: | this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to
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| 0005: | say In the first Place I give and devise to my dear and loving
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| 0006: | Wife Mary Button all my Estate whatsoever lying and being
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| 0007: | in the Parish of Wargrave in the County of Berks To hold to
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| 0008: | her and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural Life
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| 0009: | and after her decease I give and Devise the same to and amongst
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| 0010: | such Child or Children as I shall beget on the Body of the said
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| 0011: | Mary my Wife and their Heirs and assigns forever as Tenants
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| 0012: | in Common and not as joint Tenants and for want of such Child
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| 0013: | or Children I give and devise the same to Jane Rockall Spinster
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| 0014: | of Remenham in the County of Berks and to her Heirs and assigns
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| 0015: | forever and all the rest and residue of my Estate and Estates
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| 0016: | whatsoever and wheresoever both real and Personal which I
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| 0017: | shall die possessed off Interested in or intituled unto and not
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| 0018: | hereinbefore by me given or disposed off I give devise and
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| 0019: | bequeath to my said Wife Mary Button and to her Heirs Executors
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| 0020: | Administrators and Assigns forever and do make and ordain
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| 0021: | my said Wife full and Sole Executrix of this my last Will and
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| 0022: | Testament and do revoke all former Wills by me heretofore made
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| 0023: | and declare this to be my last Will and Testament only and in Testimony
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| 0024: | that this Writing is and contains my last Will and Testament I
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| 0025: | the said William Button have hereunto Set my hand and affixed
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| 0026: | my Seal this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand
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| 0027: | seven hundred and Fifty two
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| 0028: | W[illia]m Button
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| 0029: | Signed Sealed
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| 0030: | Published and declared by the Testator William Button as and for
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| 0031: | his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who have
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| 0032: | hereunto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto in the
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| 0033: | Presence of and at the Request of the said Testator and in
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| 0034: | the Presence of each other
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| 0035: | F Bottinger
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| 0036: | Lovelace Hercy
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| 0037: | Edward Richardson Clerk to Mr Newell |