Item I give to my Daughter Mary Holmes Fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to her
by my Executors within Six Months next after my decease
Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Holmes Fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to her by my
Executors within Six Months next after my decease
and I do hereby order direct and appoint my Executors to pay to my said Daughter Sarah Holmes the sum of Fifty Pounds more
for Service due to me at the same time
Item I give and bequeath to my said Daughters Mary and Sarah Holmes all my Household Goods to be equally divided between them (Except) the Stove with Iron Spud and Fender together with the Brass Shovell and Tongs thereunto belonging standing in my Bed Chamber being my Daughter Sarah�s already
Item I give to my Daughter Ann Hutchins Ten Pounds to be laid out by my Executors to settle her in Business as they shall think most proper and that the said Money may not come to her Husband�s Hands but if she should happen to die before she is settled in Business then I will that the said Money go and be applied towards Cloaths and Education of her Children at the discretion of my Executors and if they die then the Money to be divided amongst all my Children
Item I will that my Lease I have of the Parish Field be sold with the Hay and Wood thereon and likewise my Books and Instruments and new Plan of the Manor of Eltham which Money and what remains over and above what I have already bequeathed and what I give to my Executors for the Pains and Care they will have in the Execution of this my Will Likewise all good and recoverable Debts being got in and received I give and bequeath the said Money be the Sum what it will to be equally divided amongst all my Children share and share alike
Item I give to my Son John Holmes all my Plans of Land surveyed Except the Plan of the Manor of Eltham above mentioned
And I do hereby make constitute and ordain my two Sons John Holmes of Maidstone and James Holmes of Hackney to be Executors of this my Will and do give them two Guineas apiece for their Trouble
In Witness whereof I the said John Holmes have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and Seal this 20th Day of April 1741 _ John Holmes
(Attestation Clause)
John Yeates _ Isaac Mallinger
Item I do hereby constitute and make my Daughter Sarah Holmes joint Executrix with her Brothers John Holmes and James Holmes above
mentioned and do give her full Power to Act with them in the Execution of this my Will
Witness the same this 3rd day of January 1742 _ John Holmes
_ Jno Hentridge _ John Yeates
Item also to Sadbine John Hutchings the Sum of Ten Pounds vizt. Five Pounds to put him out Apprentice and Five Pounds to Cloath him by the
Direction of my Executors
Item also to Ann Hutchings the Sum of Ten Pounds to be paid six Months after my decease to be paid by my Executors within mentioned
Witness our hands this Twenty sixth day of Janr 1752
John Yeates _ Hen: Webster
(Personal Appearance by Mary Kinersley wife of William Kinersley daughter of the deceased 12 February 1752)
Proved at London with two Codicils 14 February 1752 to John Holmes and Sarah Maxted (wife of Thomas Maxted) the surviving Executors
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