The Document Chest
1803 will of John Hookins
Banker
In the Name of God Amen
I John Hookins
of Yeovil in the
County of
Somerset Banker
being of sound
and disposing
Mind Memory and
understanding
but persuaded of
my mortality do
this nineteenth
day of March in
the year of our
Lord one
thousand eight
hundred & three
make and publish
this my last
Will and
Testament in
manner and form
following that
is to say I give
devise and
bequeath all my
Estates real and
personal
whatsoever and
wheresoever & of
what nature kind
and quality
soever the same
may be after
payment of my
Just Debts
Funeral Expences
& the Expence of
proving this my
last Will I do
hereby give
devise and
bequeath the
same unto my
dear Wife
Elizabeth
Hookins her
heirs & assigns
for ever and I
do hereby make
ordain and
constitute and
appoint my said
Wife Elizabeth
Hookins sole
Executrix of
this my last
Will and
Testament hereby
revoking all
former Wills &
Testaments by me
at any time
heretofore made
In Witness
whereof I have
to this my last
Will & Testament
set and
subscribed my
Hand & Seal the
Day and year
above written
Jno Hookins
Signed sealed
published &
declared by the
said Testator
John Hookins as
and for his last
Will & Testament
in the presence
of us who at his
request in his
presence and in
the presence of
each other have
subscribed our
names [as]
Witnesses
thereto
Betty [Kiltion?]
James
Sutton
William
Brook
This Will was proved at London on the
twenty third day
of November in
the year of our
Lord one
thousand eight
hundred and
seven before the
Right Hon[oura]ble
Sir William
Wynne Knight
Doctor of Laws
Master Keeper or
Commissary of
the Prorog[ative]
Court of
Canterbury
lawfully
constituted by
the oath of
Elizabeth
Hookins Widow
the Relict of
the said
deceased and the
sole Executrix
named in the
said Will to
whom adm[inistrati]on
was granted of
all and singular
the Goods
Chattels and
Credits of the
said deceased
having been
first sworn by
Com[missi]on
duly to
administer
Transcribed by Bob Osborn
