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Will of John Burberry Yeoman Newdigate 1745

 


 
Will of John Burberry Yeoman Newdigate 1745

In the name of God Amen the seventeenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and forty five I John Burberry Yeoman in the Parish of Newdigate in the County of Surrey being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.
That is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Buryal at the discretion of my Trustees nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Almighty Power of God. And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Wood the sum of eighty pounds of Lawfull money to be paid to her within one year next after my Decease by my Executor hereafter mentioned and all the rest and residue of my Estate of what Nature or Kind soever after payment of my debts and funeral expenses I hereby give and bequeath unto my two sons John Burberry and William Burberry whom I constitute and appoint sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament and revoking all former wills by me heretofore made I publish this to be my last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. The mark of John Burberry signed sealed published and declared by the said John Burberry the Testator as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto set our hands as Witnesses in the presence of the same Testator and one another.
John Sayers
Thomas Ward
Jno Chandler

This Will was proved at London the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty five before the Worshipful Robert Chapman Doctor of Law surrogate of the Right Worshipful John Bettesworth Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
constituted by the oath of John Burberry the son one of the Executors in the said Will named to who administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased being first sworn duly to administer power reserved of making the life grant to William Burberry the son also of the said deceased the other
Executor when he shall apply for the same