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Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4 Jan 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1790
Name of testator: John Blake, Farmer
Place: Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated 8 May 1831, probated 21 Sep 1831
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[In margin] John Blake
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1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I John Blake of the parish of Hatfield in the County of Herts farmer
3 being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding do hereby make
4 and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is
5 to say First and principally I resign my Soul into the hands of Almighty
6 God who gave it and my body I commit to the Earth to be decently
7 interred in the Burial Ground of the parish Church of Hatfield aforesaid
8 I give devise and bequeath unto Frances Smith Spinster now residing with
9 me the daughter of Benjamin Smith and Frances his wife formerly of Ealing
10 in the County of Hants all that my leasehold messuage or tenement situate
11 and being No 7 Upper Rathbone place in the County of Middlesex for all the
12 residue and remainder of the term Estate and interest which I may be
13 entitled to therein at the time of my decease to and for her own absolute
14 use benefit and disposal also I give devise and bequeath all and singular
15 the household furniture goods plate linen and china together with the
16 stock of every description in and about my farm known by the name
17 of Ludwick hyde farm in the parish of Hatfield in the County of Herts
18 aforesaid and all my monies securities for money book and other debts
19 chattels Estate and Effects of what nature or kind soever the same may
20 receive and of or to which I shall be possessed or entitled at the time of
21 my death and over which I have a disposing power and wheresoever
22 situate subject nevertheless to the payment thereout of all debts which may
23 be justly owing by me at the time of my death to any person or persons
24 whomsoever and also to the payment thereout of my funeral and
25 Testamentary expences unto the said Frances Smith now residing with me
26 as aforesaid to and for her own absolute use benefit and disposal and lastly
27 I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Francis Smith to be
28 sole Executrix of this my will and revoking all other Wills and Testamentary
29 disposition of me at any time heretofore made I do hereby make publish
30 and declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the
31 said John Blake have to this my last Will and Testament contained in
32 or written on two sheets of paper to the first sheet thereof set my hand
33 and to this second and last sheet thereof set my hand and seal this
34 twenty eighty day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
35 John Blake Signed sealed published and declared by the said John
36 Blake the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
37 of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other
38 have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses Benjamin Parle clerk
39 Bishops Hatfield Herts In: Rollo 5 Berners Street Oxford Street Ann White Hatfield
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40 Proved at London the 21st September 1831 before the worshipful John Danbury
41 doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oath of Frances Smith Spinster the sole
42 Executrix to whom admon was granted being first sworn duly to administer
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