Will of Richard Long

of Deal, Kent

I give and bequeath all and singular my Leasehold Tenements Houses Outhouses Edifices Buildings Land and Ground with their and every of their Appurtenances situate lying and being in the said Town and Borough of Deal And all the Estate right Title Interest and Terms of Years which I now have or shall or may have in any Leasehold Estate at the time of my Decease with the Leases thereof which shall be then subsisting And all and singular my Goods Chattels Effects Debts due and owing to me Money securities for Money and all other my Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever after payment of all my just debts and Funeral Expences unto my loving Wife Jane Long her Executors Administrators and Assigns

And I make constitute and appoint my said Wife Jane Long full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
And Lastly I revoke all former Will by me made

In Witness whereof I the said Richard Long have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and Seal the Fourteenth Day of April in the twenty first year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defendr of the Faith etc. And in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one
Richard Long

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Richard Long as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other
Wm. Frosley? Junr.; John Cannon

The before Registered Will of Richard Long deceased was proved the 5th day of November 1781 before the Reverend John Godley, Clerk, Surrogate to the Worshipful Andrew Coltee Duracel, Doctor of Laws, Commissary General of the City and Diocese of Canterbury, lawfully constituted by the oath of Jane Long, Widow, the sole Executrix named in the said Will, She being first sworn well and truly to perform the same, etc.

Notes:
Richard Long, of this Parish [otp], Bachelor and Jane Bradley, otp, Spinster, were married in this Church [St. Leonard, Deal] by Licence this fourteenth day of November 1772, by me John James. (Both Richard and Jane signed their names) Witnesses: Margt. Pope; John Cavel (both signed their names).

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 19th April 2022

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