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Lucy (Tredway Snapes) Clarke Will
Widow of Beaconsfield
20 Dec 1722
DAWf:72/263
Donated by Jared Treadway

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
Archdeaconry of Buckingham

  IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I Lucy Clarke of Beaconsfield in the County of Bucks widow being sick and weak in Body but of sound Disposing mind and memory blessed be God/ Do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner following first I comitt my soul to God who gave it and my Body to the Earth to be Decently buried at the Discretion of my Executrix hereinafter named and as for my worldly Estate wherewith God hath blessed me I Dispose thereof as followeth Imp.mis

I give my Son in Law Zachury Clarke the Sume of Five pound to paid by my Executrices Item

I Give and Devise to my Loveing daughters Hannah See wife of Edward See of Beaconsfield Maltster and Susannah Squire wife of William Squire of Beaconsfield aforesaid Wheelwright all my Goods Ch[at]ells moneys and p[er]sonall Estate whatsoever and wheresoever being Equally to be devided between them share & share alike and I do hereby make my said two daughters sole Executrices of this my Last will and Testament and Revoking all other wills by me made I do declare this to be my Last Will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have to this my Last Will and Testament comprised in one sheet of paper putt my hand and seale thisseven and Twentieth Day of December Anno Dm 1722

Signed Sealed published and Declared The mark by the above named Testatrix as and for of her Last will and Testament In the Sight 

Lucy (her “L” mark) Clarke

and p[re]sence of us who have hereunto putt our names as witnesses in her sight and p[re]sents these words being first Interlined by my son in law Zachary Clarke the sume of five pounds to be paid by my Executrices

Item I Give and Devise to them

Thomas Wattson
John Briares
Walte White
Wm Welles