This is the last Will and Testament of me Dame Elizabeth Alston First I commend my Soul to God my Heavenly Father trusting to be saved by his Infinite mercy and his Sonn Jesus Christ merits my only Lord and Saviour and Blessed Redeemer And my body I commit to the Earth to be buried in Bradwell Church in the County of Bucks at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter mentioned And I give unto my Grand=Daughter Penelope Alston and the Heirs of her body lawfully to be begotten upon the birth of her first Child or when she shall come to the age of One and Twenty Years all my Houses Messuages and Tenements with the Gardens Orchards Yards Backsides and all other Commodities Conveniences and appurtenances to them and every of them belonging or with the same used and occupied or enjoyed or reputed or taken judged or esteemed as part or parcell or member thereof Scituated and being in Peckham in the County of Surrey And for want of such Issue or if she shall dye before she comes to the age of One and Twenty Years To my Grandson Cornelius Alston and his Heirs for ever Item I do give unto my Grand=Daughter aforesaid all my Money Plate Rings Jewells Diamonds Pearls and Watches with all other my Goods or Chattells Reall or personall of what kind or nature soever my Debts and Legacies and Funerall Charges being first defrayed Item I give unto my Sonn Sir Joseph Alston Tenn pounds for Mourning and to make him my said Sonn Sir Joseph Alston sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and every other former Testaments Wills and Legacies requests and Executors by me in any time before his named willed and requested Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seale this Twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and four and in the Third Year of the Reign of her Majestie Queen Ann by the grace of God Queene of England etc. pronounced and declared by the said Testatrix to be her last Will and Testament in the presence of us subscribers the plot first made after the word Watches in the Eleventh line Elizabeth Leake Katherine Cripps Joseph Jenkins
Probate: 08 December 1709