No mention of my Beard family in this will but it is an interesting one if you happen to be able to trace back to the William Beard son of the testator. It may help with other family members.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Jan 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1184/275
Testator: John Beard
Place: Saint Thomas Southwark, Surrey, England
Date of document: 25 Nov 1788, probated 26 Nov 1789
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Document quality: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Beard
1 In the name of God Amen
2 I John Beard of St Tho[ma]s Hospital Southwark do hereby
3 make my last Will and Testament as well knowing the
4 frailty of life and certainty of death and now being in
5 sound mind and memory that when it shall please
6 God to put an end to my period on Earth I desire
7 that thingsd may be as follows and first I commit
8 my soul into the protection of Almighty God who gave
9 it hoping for his pardoning mercy for my said the frailty
10 and sins of my life past through the merits of
11 Jesus Christ in whom I believe came to save
12 penitent sinners who Trust him by him alone
13 I hope for mercy and life Eternal with God in
14 heaven I desire that my body may be buried
15 in christian manner in the Chapel of this hospital
16 before twelve o clock in the day in a Leaden
17 Coffin with a stone layed over the __ve with
18 a proper inscription of my name and that a
19 sermon may be preached the following Sabbath in
20 the parish Church from St John 25 by Mr
21 Wiezel and for that worldly Goods the Lord hath
22 blessed me with I desire may be the sole property
23 of my Dear son William Beard I also Give and
24 Bequeath to the said William Beard the two hundred
25 pounds stock in the 3 per cent cons and one hundred and fortie pounds of stock vested 3 per cent of ____ ____and one hundred
26 in the 4 per c cons in the Bank of England all
27 of which I desire may be kept for the said William
28 Beard untell he comes to the age of twenty one years
29 and then to be transferred to him and stand in his
30 name and the Interest of the above to be appropriated
31 to his use as his Gardians shall see fit I also
32 give to the said William Beard ten pounds per annum
33 in the long annuities standing in my name in the
34 Bank of England to be kept for him untell he is
35 thirty years of age that is the said William Beard may receive the Interest as it becomes due but not to sell it out until he is thirtie years of age and then to do what he please
36 with it I likewise give and bequeath to the said
37 William Beard all the moneys that shall arise or be-
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38 paid from the available society on No 140 which policy
39 I am possessed of and all other monies and property
40 of mine after all my just debts and expences are
41 paid may be the sole property of the said William
42 Beard but if the said William Beard should not
43 live untell he is twenty one years of Age then I
44 desire that the Interest of what monies and stock
45 he leaves may be paid to Mrs Elizabeth Marshall
46 Cook of this hospital during her life and at her
47 decease both Interest and Principal to be equally
48 divided that is to say one third part to Mrs Sarah
49 Johnson of Lewisham in kent Widow and one third
50 part to Mr John Thaner weaver at Kidderminster
52 in Mill Street Kidderminster in Worcestershire to be
53 divided between him and his two sisters or nearest
54 of them that shall be then living and one third
55 part between each of the Executors to this my Will
56 and I hereby appoint and beg the favour of Mr George
57 Whitfield sen apothecary to this hospital and Mr
58 Abraham Haye of Friday Street London and Mr. Job
59 Marke of the same fire office to be Executors to
60 this my will and Gardians to my son William
61 Beard I desire that a Ring of One Guinea value
62 may be given one to each of the above named
63 Executors and one to Mrs Elizabeth Marshall and to
64 Miss Leeser Mrs Clark one to Mr Clark my sons
65 Master and his Mistress so I rest my will John Beard
66 Nov the 25th 1788 N B if the said William
67 Beard should marry and leave a wife or child
68 when he die then his property to go to them of
69 the above at the discretion of his Gardians John
70 Beard
71 five pounds to Jane Hawkins
72 If Jane Hawkins be living with me when I die
73 three pounds for Mourning for her N B the
74 third I intended for Mrs Johnson I desire may
75 be given to the above John Thaner and his
76 two sisters at the above J Beard April 19th 1789
77 I do acknowledge to have two hundred pounds
78 stock 4 per c ___ standing in my name in
79 the Bank of England to be the property of Mrs
80 Elizabeth Marshall Cook to the hospital I likeways
81 desire that if either of the before mentioned Executors
82 should die or refuse to act as Executor then the
83 said Mrs Elizabeth Marshall to be Executrix to this
84 my will with the others The above sum of
85 three hundred pounds is transferred to Mrs Elizabeth
86 Marshall the 4th of August last by John Beard
87 23 Nov 1789
88 Appeared Personally Thomas Clarke of the parish
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89 of St Olave Southwark in the County of Surry Anthony
90 Wingfield of the parish of St Thomas Southwark in
91 the county of Surry aforesaid and George Whitfield
92 of the parish of St Thomas Southwark in the County
93 of Surry aforesaid and being severally sworn on
94 the Holy Evangelists made Oath as follows and first
95 the said Thomas Clarke and Anthony Wingfield
96 made oath that they knew and were well acquainted
97 with John Beard late of the Parish of Saint
98 Thomas Southwark in the County of Surry deceased
99 and with his manner and Character of handwriting
100 and Subscription having often seen him write and
101 subscribe his name and having now viewed and
102 perused the paper writing hereto annexed purporting
103 to be the last Will and Testament of the said
104 deceased the said Will beginning thus " In the
105 yeare of God Amen I John Beard of St Thomas
106 hospital Southward do hereby make my last will and
107 Testament " and ending thus " So I rest my will"
108 and dated "Nov the 25th 1788" and thus subscribed
109 "John Beard They say they do verily and in their
110 consciences believe the whole series and contents of
111 the said paper writing together with the date and
112 subscription thereto to be all of the proper handwriting
113 and subscription of the said John Beard deceased Also
114 the said George Whitfield for himself made oath that
115 some few days after the death of the said John
116 Beard deceased William Beard a son of the said
117 deceased brought unto him this this appearer the paper
118 writing hereto annexed inclosed and sealed up in a
119 paper cover which he informed this appearer was the
120 will of the said deceased and was found by him the
121 said William Beard in a closet of the house of the
122 said deceased wherein the said deceased kept his papers
123 of Moment and Concern and that he the appearer
124 on breaking open the said paper cover found the
125 said Will and then took notice that the name and
126 words "by Mr Wiezel" interlined in the nineteenth
127 line from the top of the first side of the said will
128 as also that the several words obliterated in the
129 fourth fifth and sixth lines of the second page of the
130 said Will as also the obliterations in the eighteenth
131 line and of the 26, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th
132 35th, 36th and 37th lines from the top of the second
133 side of the said Will were so oblitered in
134 manner and form the same was appear therein and
135 that the same is now in the same plight and
136 condition in which it now appears save and except
137 only that the Jurate was written thereon was not
138 then written on the said will Thos Clarke Anthy
139 Wingfield Geo Whitfield Same day the said Thomas
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140 Clark Anthony Wingfield and George Whitfield were
141 duly sworn to the truth of this affidavid before me
142 William Hattine Surrogate present In token Not_ publ
143 This Will was proved at London the twenty sixth
144 day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
145 seven hundred and eighty nine before the Worshipful
146 William Battine Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the right
147 honorable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of laws
148 Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of
149 Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths of George
150 Whitfield and Abraham Hayes two of the Executors
151 named in the said Will to whom administration was
152 granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and
153 Credits of the deceased having been first sworn duly to
154 administer Job Marks the other Executor named in the
155 said Will having been first renounced the execution thereof
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