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The will of Mary Lavender, 1765
Will made 12 Jul 1760 . Testatrix died 8 Aug 1765 . Will proved 12 Aug 1765


In the Name of God Amen I Mary Lavinder Widow in the parish of

Therfield in the County of Hertford being of Sound Mind Memory and

Understanding (praised be God for the Same) Do Make and publish this

My Last Will and Testament in Manner and form following (that is to Say)

First, I do give and Devise unto My Daughter Mary Lavinder one Shilling

to be paid her one Month after My Decease Allso I do give unto My Daughter

Sarah Wife of Richard Haggor one Shilling to be paid her one Month after

My Decease Allso I do give unto My Daughter Ann Wife of Benjamin

Crouch one Shilling to be paid her one Month after My Decease Allso I do

Give unto My Daughter Elizabeth Wife of William Knight one Shilling to be paid

her one Month after My Decease As to my Goods Chattels and personal Effects of

What Natuer or Kind-Soever and Wheresoever (My Debter and funerall Expence

being first paid and Discharged) I do give and bequeath the Same unto my

Daughter Alce Lavinder and to my Grand Daughter Mary Laivender Ailers Ayers

Whome I do hereby Nominate and Appoint Whole and Sole Executrix of this My

Last Will and Testament and Lastly Revokeing and Making Void all former Wills

by Me heretofore Made and I do Declare this to be My Last Will and Testament

In Witness Whereof I the Said Mary Lavinder have hereunto Set My hand

and Seale this twelth day of July and In the thirty third yeare of the Reigene

of our Souering Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain

France and Ireland King defender of the faith and in the yeare of our

Lord 1760 Allso my Will and plesuer is that my Grand Son George Hagger

Shall have one Guinea to be paid one Month after my Decease

and this Was Given before My Will Was Signed


Sealed Signed published and Declared the Mark of

by the Said Mary Lavinder the Testater
X

the day and year Above Written In Mary Lavinder

the presence of Us Whose hands are

hereunto Subscribed and In the presence

of the Testater and at her request


Thos Tunwell


Will Hagger


Samuel Hale


Proved &c. at Buntingford 12 August 1765 before

the revd. Richd. Cordery & Master of Arts serve

of the wpfull Arthur Collier Dr. of Laws Comm. and

the revd. Charles Jenner Master of Arts offl. of the

archdeaconry of Huntingdon &c by the Oath of the

Extrixes to whom was granted adron &c and being first sworn

& salvoer[?]


(ON THE BACK OF THE WILL) Mary Lavinder the Testatrix died at Therfield on

the 8th of August 1765


12 August 1765

Alice Lavinder and Mary Lavinder alias Ayers Spinsters the Executrixes within

named were sworn to the Truth of this Will and to the due Performance

thereof this twelfth Day of August in the Year of our Lord one Thousand

seven hundred and sixty five Before me


R. Cordery, Surrogate

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