| 0001: | In the name of God Amen I William Leaver of Mays Farm in the County of Oxon Yeoman
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| 0002: | being indisposed as to my bodily health but of sound and disposing mind and Understanding praised be
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| 0003: | God do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in writing in manner and form following First
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| 0004: | I com[m]end my Soul to God who gave it and my Body I com[m]it to the Earth to be decently buried by my Executors
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| 0005: | And as touching my temporal Estate I give and dispose thereof as followeth In the First place I Will &
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| 0006: | Order that all my just Debts be with all convenient speed paid and satisfied by my Executors out of my
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| 0007: | Stock and Personal Estate, & I confirm as much as in me lyeth the Settlement by me lately made on
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| 0008: | the Marriage of my Son Robert Leaver. In the next place I do give and devise unto my Dear and
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| 0009: | loving Wife Mary for and during the term of her natural life All and every my Quitrents or Fee farm
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| 0010: | rents (amounting to Twenty pounds and ten shillings a year or thereabouts) issuing out of divers lands
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| 0011: | Tenem[en]ts and p[re]misses in South Moreton in the County of Berks, and other my Freehold Estate w[here]soever And from
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| 0012: | and immediately after her Decease I give and devise the same unto my said Son Robert Leaver and the heirs
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| 0013: | of his Body lawfully begotten and to be begotten And for default of such Issue I do give and devise the
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| 0014: | same Quitrents or Fee farm rents, & other my Freehold Estate by me not setled on my said Sons marriage,
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| 0015: | unto my Kinsman William Finmore of South Moreton aforesaid Malster To hold to him the said William
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| 0016: | Finmore and to his heirs and Assigns for ever from and after the decease of my said Wife, and of my said
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| 0017: | Son Robert without Issue as aforesaid. I give and bequeath unto my said Wife, and Son Robert, to be
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| 0018: | equally parted and divided between them, after payment of my Debts, and Funeral and Testamentary
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| 0019: | Expences, All and singular my Household Goods household stuffe Cattle Corn Grain Stock Chattells and
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| 0020: | Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever And I do make nominate and appoint my said Wife and
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| 0021: | Son Robert joint and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament And hereby revoking all former
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| 0022: | Wills by me made do declare this to be my last Will only In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
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| 0023: | hand and seal the Seventh day of August in the tenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King
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| 0024: | George the second And in the year of our Lord God One thousand seven hundred and thirty six.
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| 0026: | Will[iam] Leaver
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| 0028: | Signed sealed published and Declared by the Testator
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| 0029: | to be his last Will and Testament in the p[re]sence of us who
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| 0030: | subscribed our names as Witnesses in his p[re]sence & at his
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| 0031: | request & in the p[re]sence of each Other.
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| 0033: | Cornelius Norton
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| 0034: | Elizbeth haywad
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| 0035: | The mark X of Mary West |