In the Name of God Amen This Fourteenth day of November One 
thousand eight hundred and forty nine

I Thomas Quartermaine of the Town and Parish of 
Watlington in the County of Oxford Blacksmith being very sick 
and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory And as touching 
such worldly things wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this 
life I give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form 
As this is my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and 
first of all-

First I give and bequeath to my lawful Wife Elizabeth 
Quartermaine all my goods and chattels with all the stock and 
Trade the Trade part to be divided on the first of January next And 
also I give and bequeath to my loving Wife all the produce growing 
on about Three acres of Land in Windmill field And to receive all 
Bills and pay all debts

Also I give to my Brother Joseph Quartermaine one third of my 
business with one third of the profits of the above Trade And the 
remaining Two Thirds of the Trade for the benefit of my lawful Wife 
at the same time paying her portion of expense in the said Trade 
and to commence the Partnership as aforesaid on the 1st Jany next 
Also to take my Eldest Son Thomas Quartermaine to learn him 
the Trade in all its branches and likewise to take the apprentice 
Daniel Jacobs on the same conditions as on the former three years 
for the space of four more years when his time shall be expired   
Thomas Quartermaine

Thomas King
William Lowe
James Bartlett

Proved at Oxford 1850