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1780 will of Elias Newman

Baker

 

This is the last Will and Testament of me Elias Newman of Yeovil in the County of Somerset Baker I commend my Soul to God through Christ and my body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my daughter and Executrix hereinafter named I Give and devise my Freehold Messuage Lands and Hereditaments situate lying and being in the Parish of Halstock in the County of Dorset unto my Son Thomas Newman for and during the term of his natural life and from and after his death I Give and devise the same unto my daughter Mary Clothier and my Grandaughter Mary Ring as tenants in common and not as joint tenants their Heirs and Assigns for ever I Give and devise unto my Grandson John Clothier the Younger and his Assigns for and during the term of his natural life the Weekly Sum of [three?] shillings to be issuing and payable out of my Freehold Messuages Lands and Hereditaments situate lying and being in the parish of Yeovil aforesaid and to be paid him the said John Clothier and his Assigns Weekly on every Monday without any deduction on account of Taxes or otherwise howsoever the first payment to be made on the Monday next after my death all and every my Freehold Messuages Lands and Hereditaments [word illegible] situate lying and being in the parish of Yeovil aforesaid which I am seized of or intitled unto in possession Reversion Remanded or [Expectancy?] charged as aforesaid I Give and devise unto my said daughter Mary Clothier and to my said Grandaughter Mary Ring as tenants in common and not as joint tenants their Heirs and Assigns for ever I Give and devise unto my Grandaughter Sarah Lilly Wife of Samuel Lilly the sum of One hundred Pounds I Give and bequeath unto my Grandaughter Mary Ring the sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds which said Legacies of One hundred Pounds and One hundred and fifty Pounds shall be paid by my Executrix hereinafter named in one year next after my death And as for and concerning all the Rest and Residue or my ready Money debts and Securities for Money and all other my personal and Testamentary Estate whatsoever and wheresoever I Give and bequeath the same unto my said daughter Mary Clothier whom I make and appoint Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretobefore made In Witness whereof I the said Elias Newman have to this my last Will and Testament and also to a duplicate thereof subscribed my Name and set my Seal this second day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty

Elias Newman

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request have Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto in the presence of the said Testator and of each other

Nath[anie]l Butler Batten     James Anstice     John Barrett

 

This Will was proved at London the fifth day of April in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty six before the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doctor of Laws master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Mary Clothier Widow the daughter of the deceased and sole Executrix named in the said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased she having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer

 

 

Transcribed by Bob Osborn