This is the Last Will and Testament of me John Fluck of Tewkesbury in the County of Gloucester Victualler for the Disposition of that Estate wherewith I am blessed First I will and direct all my just Debts Funeral Expenses and the Charges of proving this my Will to be paid and discharged out of my Personal Estate by my Executors hereinafter named Also I give and devise unto my Dear Wife Hester Fluck and her Assigns All my Messuages or Tenements Buildings Garden Ground Hereditaments and Premises with their Appurtenances situate lying and being in Tewkesbury aforesaid To hold unto my said wife and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural Life She keeping the Premises in good Repair And subject to her Estate for Life therein I give and devise unto my Eldest Son Abraham Fluck and his Heirs forever All my Messuages or Tenements Buildings Garden Ground Hereditaments and Premises with their Appurtenances situate lying and being in Church Street in Tewkesbury aforesaid To have and to hold the same premises with the Appurtenances unto and to the use of the said and his Heirs and Assigns forever And also subject to my said Wife's Life Estate I give and devise unto my Son Isaac Fluck and his Heirs forever All that my Messuage or Tenement with the Buildings Garden Ground Hereditaments and Premises situate lying and being in High Street in Tewkesbury aforesaid now in the occupation of Mrs Sarah Moore Widow as Tenant thereof To have and to hold the said Messuage or Tenement Buildings Garden Ground Hereditaments and Premises with the Appurtenances unto and to the use of the said Isaac Fluck and his Heirs and Assigns forever Also I give to the said Isaac Fluck the Sum of Ten Pounds To my Daughter Mary Fluck the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds and to my Daughter Hester Fluck the like Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds to be paid them by my Executors as they shall attain Twenty One Years of Age out of my Personal Estate And in Case either of them shall happen to dye before Twenty One Years of Age Then I will the Legacy of him her or them so dying shall be considered and taken as part and parcel of the Residuum or Overplus of my Personal Estate and shall be subject to the like Disposition as herein after is made thereof And my Will is that my said Wife shall receive and take the interest of the said several Sums of Ten Pounds, One Hundred and Fifty Pounds and One Hundred and Fifty Pounds towards educating and maintaining my Children during the Minority of the said Isaac, Mary and Hester Fluck Also I give and bequeath unto my said Wife Hester Fluck all the rest residue and remainder of my Money, Securities for money the Use and Wear of my Goods Chattels Effects and Personal Estate of what nature kind or quality soever for and during the Term of her natural Life She educating and maintaining all my children out of the Rents Issues and profits of my Real Estate and the Produce of my said personal Estate during their Minorities and which I expressly order and direct she shall do And that my executors shall exhibit an Inventory in Writing of my Personal Estate in the proper Ecclesiastical Court within Twelve Months next after my Decease Also I give to the said Abraham Fluck my Clock, and to the said Isaac Fluck my Silver Tankard to be delivered to them at my Wife's Death And in Case there shall be any Residuum or Overplus of my Personal Estate after payment of my Debts, the charges of my Funeral and the Probate of my Will and legacies aforesaid Then I give will and direct the same to be equally divided between and among my said Four Children share and share alike subject to my Wife's Interest therein for Life And Lastly I constitute and appoint my said Wife Hester Fluck and my said Son Abraham Fluck Executrix and Executor of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills be me at any Time heretofore made In Witness whereof I the said John Fluck the Testator have to this my Last Will and Testament contained in and wrote upon Two Sheets of paper set my Hand to the first Sheet and my Hand and Seal to the last Sheet this Fifteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
Signed sealed published and declared by the said John Fluck the Testator as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his Request and in his Presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
