In the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Shudd of Haslemere 
in the County of Surry Spinster being Sick in Body but of 
Sound and Perfect Mind and Memory (God be Praised 
therefore) revokeing all former Wills by me made do hereby 
make and Declare this to be my last Will and Testamt in 
manner and form following And first being heartily sorry for my 
Sins past and humbly begging Forgiveness of God for the same 
I humbly commend my Soul to Almighty God hopeing to be 
saved by and thro? the Merits death and Passion of Jesus Christ 
my only Saviour and Redeemer and my Body I commit to the 
Earth to be decently buried in Christian Burial in such manner 
as shall seem to my Sister Jane Combes to be most meet 
And as to my temporal Estate with which it hath pleased God 
to bless me I do order give and Dispose thereof as followeth 
Impris I give and bequeath unto my Sister Mary Leggatt 
Thirty Pounds of lawfull Money of Great Britain to be paid unto 
her by my Executor within Six Months next after my decease 
and that her Discharge Separate and apart from her Husband 
shall be to my Executor a Sufficient Discharge Item I give and 
bequeath unto my Cozen John Leggatt Ten Pounds of lawfull 
Money of Great Britain Item I give unto my Kinswomen Anne 
Shudd and Mary Shudd Ten Pounds a peice of lawfull Money 
of Great Britain Item I give and bequeath unto my 
Kinswoman Mary Sadler and unto her Daughter Anne 
Sadler Ten Pounds a peice of lawfull Money of Great Britain All 
which Several Legacies above mentioned I Will to be paid to 
the Several Legatees by my Executor within Six Months next 
after my decease And I will that the three several Sumes of 
Ten Pounds above mentioned and bequeathed to my 
Kinswomen Ann Shudd Mary Shudd and Ann Sadler to be laid 
out on Plate and my Name Engraved thereon Item I give to the 
Poor of Haslemere Tenn Pounds twenty Shillings of which Sume 
I will to be paid to Mary Oliver and the remainder to the other 
Poor in such manner as my Sister Jane Combes shall think 
proper within one Month next after my Decease Item I give and 
bequeath unto my said Sister Jane Combes all my Wearing 
Apparel Household Goods and Linnen whatsoever Item after 
my Just Debts and Legacys are Discharged I give unto my said 
Sister Jane Combes the use of all the rest of my Moneys to be 
paid her yearly by my Executor and that her receipt seperate 
and apart from her Husband shall from time to time to my 
Executor as sufficient Discharge And in case She shall dye in 
the life time of John Combes her now Husband then I will the 
said Monies shall be paid and equally between the said John 
Combes my Brother John Shudd my Sister Mary Legatt and 
my Kinswoman Mary Sadler their Executors and Admors within 
Six Months next after the Decease after the Decease of my said 
Sister Jane Combes But in Case my said Sister Jane Combes 
shall happen to Survive the said John Combes then I give the 
said Moneys to my said Sister Jane Combes to be paid unto her 
by my Executor within Six Months next after the Decease of 
the said John Combes And lastly I make my said Brother John 
Shudd Executor in Trust of this my last Will and Testament In 
Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the 
Seaventh day of February Anno Dm 1725 Elizabeth Shudd her 
Mark
(Attestation Clause)
Abraham Upfold _ Jeremiah Cox _ Mary Wagger her 
Mark
Proved at London 3 October 1726
PCC Prob11/611