Warminster,  1728  as  1
John Butcher, proved date uncertain, 1728
Transcribed b David Church
Copied for MPL Wall
From Trowbridge RO collection

In the Name of God Amen, I John Butcher of Warminster in the County of Wilts mercer being in helth of Body and of sound and disposing mind memory & understanding
Doe make & ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner & forme following (that is to say)
Impris I will that my Debts and ffunerall Charges be first paid and satisfied Item I give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Anne Langley of Warminster aforesaid widdow and to her Heirs and Assigns for ever All that my three Messuages or Tenements and the Backside thereunto adjoining & belonging Scituate and being in Warminster aforesaid on the North side thereof one whereof is in my owne
Pos.ion and the other two are in the pos.ion or occupation of Thomas Squire & William Yockney my
Tenants And also all those my ffourteen acres & an half of Arrable Land lying dispersedly in the Common  ffields of Warminster and Corsley in the said County of Wilts and also all my ffour acres & an halfe
Of Meadow and pasture Ground in the said Parish of Warminster And also all my Rever??? Right
And Interest of in and to the House Tenem.ent or Cottage Malthouse Garden & premises wherein Thomas
Turner now dweleth scituate in Portway in the said Parish of Warminster  and which the said Thomas
Turner  now holds of me by Lease  for Lives And also all other my Messuages Lands Tenements 
Hereditam.ents and premisses  whatsoever in the said parishes of Warminster and Corsley  or elsewhere in the said
County of Wilts  and all my Right Tithe and Interest  therin and thereunto  Or which I shall or may
Have at any time hereafter therein & thereto to have & to hold the s.d Severall Messuages Lands
Tenements Hereditaments and premisses beforementioned unt and to the sole use of her  the said Anne Langley
Her Heirs and Assigns  for ever. Upon this Condition neverthelesse and subject to and chargeable with
The Legacy or Sume of ffive hundred pounds of lawfull Brittish money Which said Legacy or
Sume of ffive hundred pounds I hereby will direct and devise shall be paid out of the abovementioned 
Premisses or by sale or Mortgage thereof  unto my Grandaughter Anne Langley at her Age of
One & twenty years or day of marriage which shall first happen And in the meane time the Interest
Thereof to be applied for & towards her maintenance 'till the s.d Legacy shall become due. Item
I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law William Wilton  of Warminster aforesaid Gent.. the Sume of ffive 
Pounds of lawful Brittish money And to his wife Mary Wilton my Daughter the like Sume of ffive
Pounds. Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandaughter Mary the now wife of Samuel Temple Gent..
The sume of ffive pounds of like lawful money and also ffive pounds more of like money to him the
Said Samuel Temple Item I give and bequeath to my Gradson John Langley  the sume of ffive
Pounds of like money. Item all the Rest and Residue of my Reall &Psonal Estate Goods Chattells and
Effects whatsoever and wheresoever I give devise and bequeath  unto my s.d Daughter Anne Langley Widdow.
Whom I do hereby make nominate ordain and appoint Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
And I do revoke and make void all former and other Will and Wills Testament and Testaments by me at any
Time or times heretofore made And do hereby declare this to be my  only last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I the s.d John Butcher  have hereunto sett my hand and Seale this two and twentieth
Day of Aprill in the nineth year of the Reign of our Sovereigne Lord George of Great Britain ffrance
& Ireland King Defender of the ffaith &c  Annoz Dui  1723.
Sig John Butcher

Signed sealed published & declared by the said Testator John Butcher as and
For his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the sight and presence of the said Testator .
John Buckler
Henry Wansey
Jo Hughes (very flowery)

17.o  junij //// Sarum Jurat Extrix Supradict. de pi??tendo ?? de p.? 8eris et p.fectis Invencio p.?Co(mpleto)
???? pr. Exhibende xr. Num xr. (is that right - not very clearly written at all - cannot read single word on next line, but is signed looks like 
Jo. ??. albert  sur.ogate

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