First I will that all my debts and funerall Charges shall be paid and discharged
Item I give unto my Daughter Nowers and to my Daughter Holfnorth all my wearing Apparrell both Linen and woollon to (be) equally divided
between them
Item I give unto my Daughter Marshall and my Daughter Longley, my Daughter Nowers and my Daughter Holdsworth five Pounds apiece to be paid to each of them by my Executor for their own proper use
Item I give to my Grandsons Thomas Nowers and John Nowers five pounds apiece to be paid them at three Months after my decease if both
living, if not, the Survivor to have the whole ten pound
Item I give unto my Grandaughters Mary Holsworth and Elizabeth Holdsworth five pounds apiece to be paid to them at the Age of Eighteen
years and if one should dy before then the whole ten Pound to be paid to her that surviveth
and I do constitute and make Mr. Thomas Wilmote of the parish of Bethersden in the County of Kent full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament which I also Charge with the Payment of my said Debt and Legacies and for his trouble in Executing the same I do hereby give unto him the sum of three pound over and above allowing him reasonable expence for his trouble
Lastly I desire that if anything remain after all my Debts, Funerall Charges, legacies and Executors
Charges are all paid, I give it between Thomas Nowers, John Nowers and Elizabeth Holdsworth equally to be divided between them,
Elizabeth Holdsworths to remain in my Executors hand till She attains to Age of Eighteen Years and then to be paid to her with the five pound
before given to her
And I do hereby revoke, disannul and make void all former Will and Testaments by me heretofore made
In Witnes w[h]ereof I the said Marian Marshall to this my last Will and Testament being contained in one Sheet of Paper have set my hand to the
bottom of the Sheet and set my Seal Seal to the Top and bottom the fifth day of January 1736 [1735-6]
Marian Marshall
Sealed published and declared by the above named Marian Marshall for and as her last Will and Testament in the presence of us
John Yate, Daniel Bircher
The above registered Will of the said deceased was proved twenty Fifth day of August 1736 before the Reverend Henry Shove, Clerk, lawfull Surrogate to the Worshipful George Lee, Doctor of Laws, official General to the Rev: the Archdeacon of Canterbury, lawully constituted by the Oath of Thomas Wilmatt the Relict of the said Executor named in the said Will, to whom Adminstration of the Goods, Chattles and Credits of the said Deceased was committed, He being first sworn duly to perform the said Will
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 17th October 2021
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