Baker Will 1718

Will of Henry Baker

of Barham, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/83/33b
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

In the name of God Amen
I Henry Baker of Bareham [Barham] in the Cuty of Kent, Maltster, being Sick and Weak in Body but of Sound mind and memory (praised be Almighty God) Considering the uncertainty of this mortall life do make and ordain this my psent [present] Last Will and Testament in manner and form following
First I recommend my Soul into the hands of God Almighty my Creator hoping to be saved by the only merits death and passion of Jesus Christ my redeemer And my body I comit to the Earth to be decently interred according to the discretion of my Executrix hereinafter named

Item I give and devise to my loving wife Mary Baker All that my Tenement or dwelling house with all the Lands and appurtenances to the same belonging Scituate and being in a certain Village called Breech in the parish of Barrham (sic) and County of Kent aforesaid now in the Occupacon of William Boake or of his Assigns To have and to hold all and Singular the said Tenement or dwelling house Lands and pemisses [premises] unto my said Wife Mary and her assignes for and during the Term of her natural Life
and immediately after her decease I give and devise the said Tenement Lands and pemisses with thapputens. [the appurtenances] equally between my two sons Henry and Richard Baker their heirs and Assignes for ever

And of this my psent [present] Last Will and Testament I do make constitute and appoint my said loving Wife Mary Sole Executrix to whom I give all my personall Estate whatsoever, She paying my Debts and funerall Charges and the Probate of this my Will

In Witness whereof I have to this my psent [present] Last Will and Testament Set my hand and Seale dated the Seaventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Seaven hundred and Seventeen
Hen : Baker

Signed Sealed published and declared by the above named Henry Baker for and as his last Will and Testament in the pesence [presence] of us who have Subscribed our names as Witnesses in the Testator�s presence
Robert Arthur Mary Beane her mark Phillip Lorde

Probatum fuit: Vicesimo nono [29th] dei March 1718.

Notes:
Henry Baker was buried on 10th December 1717 at St. John the Baptist, Barham.
His wife Mary died and was buried there (Widow) 9th September 1718.
Henry Baker married Mary Spain by Licence 8th July 1707 at Boughton-under-Blean. He was a Bachelor, Hoopmaker of Barham; she was a single woman of Wooton.
Their children, christened at Barham: 11-Apr 1708 Mary; 24-Dec 1710 Henry;
Their son christened at St. Giles, Kingston (next Barham): 30 Aug 1713 Richard.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 5th September 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.

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