Elizabeth Grange 1715

IN the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Grange of the parish of Haversham in the County of Bucks Gentlewoman being indisposed in body but of perfect Sence and Memory doe make and Ordaine this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First and principally I commend and comit my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator Trusting in the only Meritts and Mediation of Jesus Christ for the Salvation of my precious and immortal Soul and my body to the Earth from whence it was taken and there to be decently buried according as my Executor hereafter named shall see convenient And as for that portion of Worldly Goods which the Lord hath blest me with all I give and bestow in Manner following Imprimis I give to my Neece Elizabeth Tomson a Hundred pound Item I give to my Neece Ann Sophia Tomson Twenty pounds Item I give to my Brother the right Honourable Lord Haversham and all my Sisters every One a Mourning Ring Item I give unto Tomson Gregory Ten pound Item I give unto John Wentworth Gregory Ten pound Item I give to the Lady Wittewrong a Mourning ring Item I give to Mr Hide Rector of Eversoull [Eversholt] a Mourning ring Item I give Mr Vallentine Cressy Vicar of Dunstable Heaton a Mourning ring Item I give to Mr Jonathan Norris of Tuddington [Toddington?]a Mourning ring Item I give to my Maid Kingsmill Field Ten pound and all my Cloths and my Linnen and I give John Glover Fourty Shillings and I do make my Brother the Rt Honourable Lord Haversham Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament hopeing he will see it fullfill’d In Wittness hereunto I have Sett my hand and seal this 24 of January in the First year of the Reigne  of Our Soveraigne Lord George of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in the year of Our Lord 174/5 (Eliz: Grange) Signed Sealed and Declared to be the Last Will of Mrs Elizabeth Grange in the presence of John Marritt Rad: Clayton Samuell Wase

Probate: 27 June 1715