In the Name of God Amen  I William Cobbett of Bisley in the County of Surrey 
Yeoman do make this my last Will and Testament. First I give unto my Wife Ann 
my best Bed and bedstead with its furniture and my Clock for her use during her 
natural life and after her decease to my Daughter Elizabeth and as  to all the rest and 
Residue of my Estate both real and Personal I Give the same unto my son William 
Cobbett subject nevertheless as wherein after mentioned that is to say in the first 
place in answering and paying all my just debts and funeral expences  In the next 
place I give six pounds a piece unto Ann my said Wife and to my three Daughters 
Ann Elizabeth and Hannah to be paid within twelve Months after my decease out of 
the same  Also I give thirty pounds unto my son John Cobbett and do hereby subject 
my Real Estate for payment thereof and as to the said Thirty pounds I desire that after 
the rate of four pr Cent may be paid for the same until my said son John shall attain 
the Age of twenty one years but if necessity shall require for his maintenance before 
that then the same may be lessened at the discretion of my Executor and such part 
thereof as shall remain to be paid to him at his age of Twenty one years and I do 
hereby Nominate and appoint my said Son William Cobbett Executor of this my Will 
hereby revoking all former Wills by me made and declare this only to be my last Will 
and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fifth 
Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty 
three  The mark X of William Cobbett.  Signed Sealed  Published and declared by the 
above named William Cobbett the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in 
the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have 
hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses.  James Stedman  John Knowles The 
Mark X of Jethro Cheeseman

This Will of William Cobbett late of Bisley in the County of Surry deceased was 
proved on the Twenty seventh day of September 1785 before the Reverend James 
Weller Clerk a Surrogate by the Oath of William Cobbett the Son of the said deceased 
and the sole Executor named in the said Will to whom Administration was granted he 
having been first sworn duly to Administer.