| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I William Gooday of Henley upon Thames in the
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| 0003: | County of Oxford Victualler being of sound and disposing
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| 0004: | mind memory and understanding Do make and ordain this
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| 0005: | my last Will and Testament in manner and form following
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| 0006: | that is to say First I commend my Soul into the hands
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| 0007: | of almighty God who gave it and my Body I commit
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| 0008: | to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion
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| 0009: | of my Executrix hereinafter named And as to the worldly
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| 0010: | Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I dispose
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| 0011: | thereof in manner following (that is to say) First I give
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| 0012: | and bequeath unto my beloved Brother Robert Gooday
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| 0013: | all my wearing apparel of what nature or kind soever
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| 0014: | All the Rest and Residue of my Estate and Effects whatsoever
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| 0015: | and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever I give
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| 0016: | and bequeath unto my beloved Wife Ann her Executors
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| 0017: | and Administrators to and for her and their own use and benefit
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| 0018: | And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint her my
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| 0019: | said Wife Ann sole Executrix of this my last Will and
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| 0020: | do hereby revoke and make void all former and other Will
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| 0021: | and Wills by me at any time heretofore made and do
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| 0022: | declare this and this only to be my last Will and Testament
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| 0023: | In Witness whereof I the said William Gooday the Testator
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| 0024: | have to this my Will set my hand and seal this thirteenth
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| 0025: | Day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
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| 0026: | seven hundred and eighty seven
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| 0027: |
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| 0028: | William Goodday [Seal]
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| 0030: | Signed sealed published and declared by the above
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| 0031: | named William Gooday the Testator as and for his last
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| 0032: | Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his
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| 0033: | presence at his request and in the presence of each
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| 0034: | other have subscribed our Names as witnesses thereto
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| 0035: |
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| 0036: | Thomas Cooper Jun[io]r
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| 0037: | Charles Stokes |