For several good & weighty reasons hereunto me induceing I do hereby Constitute & appoint my dear wife Elizabeth Bate my sole heir & executrix; desiring she would see my body decently interred in the parish church of Ashford (in such part of it as she shall judge most proper) & after my just debts honestly discharged shall inherit all my dues debts & demands, all my household goods lands & tenements for the time of her natural life;
& that after her Decease it is my Will it shall all be equally divided between
my dear niece Mary daughter of my brother George
& my dear sister Elizabeth Shocklidge
& Frances only daughter of Moyle Briton Esq�r. of Kennington & Mary his wife
& their Heirs for ever.
& hereby invoke & make void all former Wills by me made & do declare this my last Will.
In Witness whereof I have to this my Will contained in half a sheet of paper set my hand & seal this
fourteenth of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred & Twenty nine
Richard Bate
Signed sealed & published & declared by the s�d Richard Bate the Testator to be his last Will &
Testament in the presence of us who in his presence & in the presence of one another have set our names as witnesses
Frances Symonds � John Clough � John Marshall
April 20th 1749
Adm�on with the above written Will annexed of the Goods &c. of the said Deceased was granted to
Mary Shocklidge and Frances Breton residuary Legatees substituted in the said Will
Elizabeth Bate his wife sole Heir & executrix named in the said Will dying before the Testator.
Notes:
Rev. Richard Bate was buried at Ashford 4 Apr 1749.
Richard Bate of Ashford, bachelor & Elizabeth Breton, spinster of Hackington married by licence 14 Jul 1718 at Godmersham.
Richard Bate of Ashford was licenced as a schoolmaster in 1714.
Rev. Mr. George Shocklidge of New Romney married Mrs. Elizabeth Bate 19 Jun 1721 at Horsmonden
Their daughter Mary Shocklidge was baptised 9 Jan 1723 at New Romney
Oxford University Alumni: Bate, Richard, s. James, of Ashford, Kent, gent. All Souls' Coll., matric. 23 May 1691, aged 17;
B.A. 16 March 1695-6, vicar of Sea Salter 1711-12, and of Chilham 1711-38, rector of Warehorne 1719-37, all in Kent.
Richard son of James & Mary was baptised 27 Feb 1673 at Ashford.
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