In the name of God Amen  I John Honer of the parish of Pirbright in 
the County of Surry yeoman de make and ordain this my last Will 
and Testament as followeth  First I commend my soul to Mercies of 
God and my Body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion 
of my Executors hereinafter named and as to my Worldly Estate I 
give and dispose thereof as followeth  First my will is that all my just 
Debts and Funeral Expences be paid  I give unto the poor of the said 
parish of Pirbright to be given in bread the Sum of five Pounds to be 
given by my Executors to such poor people belonging to the said 
Parish as they shall think are most in want and deserving of it and my 
will is that it be given away at four times that is to say twenty five 
shillings worth of Bread the four first Mondays that shall happen to 
be in the Month of January that shall next happen after my decease  
I give and bequeath unto Ann my beloved Wife all the Cows Calves 
and Hoggs Crops and Out Door Stock that I may happen to leave at 
my Farm at Pirbright Green at the time of my death  I give and 
bequeath unto my said Wife the Sum of Twenty Pounds in one 
Month after my decease  I give unto my said Wife the Interest of one 
hundred Pounds as long as she shall live and keep herself my Widow 
with liberty for her to draw so much of the said hundred Pounds at 
any time as she shall choose to give to any of my children as she shall 
think are in want of it but for no other purpose she abating the 
Interest for so much of the said principal Money as she shall receive 
and from and after the death of my said Wife or she marries again 
which shall happen first I give and bequeath all the said Interest and 
Principal Money that my Wife have not received to equally divided 
between all my Children  I give unto my said Wife the use of so much 
of my Household Goods as she shall choose to have so long as she 
shall live and continue my Widow and my will is that there be an 
Inventory taken of it from and after her decease or she marries again 
which shall happen First I give the said Goods to be equally divided 
between my three sons  I give and bequeath unto my said Wife all 
that my Freehold Estate in Pirbright that I lately purchased of Mr 
John Howard likewise my Leasehold lands in Pirbright called Houds 
Grounds to hold together the said Freehold and Leasehold Estates 
unto my said Wife so many years as she shall live and keep herself 
my widow and from and after the death of my said Wife or she 
marries again which shall happen first I give and bequeath my said 
Freehold Estate unto my son Richard Honer and his Heirs and assigns 
for ever he paying out of the same unto my son John Honer the Sum 
of one hundred and fifty Pounds in twelve Months after the death of 
my said Wife or she marries again which shall happen first and 
immediately after the death of my said Wife or she marries again 
which shall happen first I give all the rest and residue of the term or 
terms as I have in the said Leasehold Estate unto my son James 
Honer and his Heirs and Assigns  I give and bequeath unto my son 
John Honer and his Heirs and assigns for ever all my parts or shares 
as I may happen to have at my death in a Freehold Meadow in 
Pirbright called Coopers and I give and bequeath unto my son James 
Honer and his Heirs and assigns the Lease of the Farm that I now 
renteth of George Tate Esq.r called Foards Farm and Furze Hill I give 
and bequeath unto my son Richard Honer and his Heirs and assigns 
the Lease of the Farm that I now renteth of Benjamin Kidd and Mrs 
Pritchard called Rails Farm and if at any time my son Richard should 
have a mind to part with the Lease I hope he will be so kind to give 
my son James the offer of it   All the rest of my Goods and chattels of 
what kind soever that is not hereinbefore by me given I give and 
dispose thereof as followeth  First my will is that there be an 
Inventory taken of all my personal Estate that is not hereinbefore by 
me given as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and the 
crops Stock and Goods on Rails Farm be valued to my son Richard 
Honer which my will is that my son Richard should take to at a fair 
Valuation Further my Will is that my Executors do as soon as possible 
they can after my decease get in all the Money that is due to me 
except such Money as I shall have out at Interest at such places as 
they should think it lies safe and with the said monies first to pay all 
my just Debts and themselves reasonably for their time and 
Expences in executing this my Will and the Poors and my Wife's 
Legacies and my Wife's her Interest as above directed and then what 
remains together with all the money I have at Interest and the 
money that is made of my Crop Stock and Goods and the money that 
I may happen to have by me at the time of my death being all added 
together I give and dispose thereof as followeth  I give and bequeath 
out of the said money unto my son Richard Honer the Sum of three 
hundred and twenty five Pounds in twelve months after my decease 
and as much more as it suits my Executors to pay it he paying for his 
crop Stock and Goods out of this said money  I give and bequeath 
unto my son John Honer out of the said money the Sum of three 
hundred and twenty five Pounds to be taken care of and put to 
Interest by my executors on the best Security they can get for the 
use of my son John during his minority and my will is that my son 
John do have the three hundred and twenty five Pounds at the age 
of twenty one years and then what remains after my debts and 
Funeral Expences and my Executors Expences and all those Legacies 
and Payments before by me given my will is that all the money that 
remain my Executors do divide every year between my three sons 
share and share alike after they have paid themselves reasonably for 
their trouble and Expences in executing this my will and so do every 
year until my son John attains to the age of twenty one years at 
which time I give my said Monies that is not before by me given to be 
equally divided between my three sons the three hundred and 
twenty five Pounds to each of my two sons Richard and John 
excepted but my will is that if my son John should happen to die 
before he attains to the age of twenty one years and have any child 
or children lawfully begotten then my will is that my sons James and 
Richard should have their parts or shares of my said money in twelve 
months after my son John Honers decease and my son John's part to 
be taken care of by my Executors or their Executors to be by them 
put to Interest on Land Security which Interest of all my son John 
Honers money my will is that my Executors or their Executors do 
expend so much of it as they shall think needful in nourishing and 
bringing up such Child or Children as my son John shall happen to 
leave lawfully begotten until they attain to the age of twenty one 
years if they live so long at which time I give and my son John's part 
to such Child or Children if but one then to that one if more than one 
then to be equally divided between them but if such Child or 
Children as my son John shall leave should happen to die before they 
attain to the age of twenty one years and leave no Child lawfully 
begotten then I give my son John's part to be equally divided 
between my sons James and Richard Honer or their Heirs in twelve 
months after the death of such children Further my will is that if my 
son John should happen to die before he attains to the age of twenty 
one years and leave no Child lawfully begotten then my will is that 
my son Richard do pay out of his Freehold Estate the Sum of seventy 
five Pounds unto my son James or his Heirs at the time my son John 
was to have his Legacy out of the said Estate Further my will is that if 
my son John should happen to die before he attains to the age of 
twenty one years and leave no Child lawfully begotten then my will is 
that my sons James and Richard should have all my personal Estate 
equally divided between them share and share alike in twelve 
months after my son John's decease my son Richard's three hundred 
and twenty five Pounds and my Wife's Goods and hundred Pounds 
for her to have the Interest of excepted and my will is that if either of 
my sons should die before their part or share becomes payable and 
leave any Child or Children lawfully begotten my will is that such 
Child or Children should have their Fathers part that shall so happen 
to die but if one then to that one if more than one then to be equally 
divided between them share and share alike their part to be taken 
care of and put to Interest by my Executors or their Executors and 
the Interest for the same so much as they shall think needful to 
expend in nourishing such Child or Children as my son John shall 
happen to leave lawfully begotten until they attain to the age of 
twenty one years at which time I give and their Father's part to such 
Child if but one then to that one if more than one then to be divided 
between them share and share alike but if such Child or Children 
should happen to die before they attain to the age of twenty one 
years and leave no child lawfully begotten then I give such son's part 
to be divided between my surviving sons their Heirs in twelve 
months after the death of such child or children and my will is that 
my Executors shall be at no loss if any of my money should happen 
to be lost except it be by their own wilful neglect and my will is that 
my Executors do pay themselves reasonably for their troubles and 
Expences in executing this my Will every year out of the Interest of 
my money  Lastly I nominate and appoint my Brother in law John 
Woods and my Friend Philip Gyles of Pirbright Executors and 
Trustees to execute this my last Will and Testament faithfully and I 
do appoint my said executors Guardians of my Son John and his 
Estate and to expend so much of his Interest money every year on 
him as they shall think needful during his minority  In Witness 
whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in this 
and Two other sheets of Paper set my Hand and Seal this twelfth day 
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
eighty seven   
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the Testator to be his last 
Will and Testament in the presence of us who subscribed our Names 
as Witnesses in the presence of the Testator the words cropps and 
out Door Stock being first interlined between the twelfth and 
thirteenth line from the top in Page the first and the words " 
household Goods" between the twenty first and twenty second Lines 
in the said Page and the words "and my Will is that my son John do 
have the three hundred and twenty five pounds at the age of twenty 
one years" being interlined between the thirteenth and fourteenth 
lines in Page the third and I do declare the above interlining be done 
before my signing this my Will and charge my whole Estate as above 
directed James Honer
William Howard,  Elizabeth Huntingford, Jane May X her mark

This Will was proved at London on the thirteenth day of August in 
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine 
before the Right Worshipful Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws 
Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of 
Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths of John Woods and 
Philip Gyles the Executors named in the said Will to whom 
administration was granted of all and singular the Goods chattels and 
Credits of the deceased having been first sworn by Commission duly 
to administer.

On the 20th Oct.r 1818 Admon (with the Will annexed) of the Goods 
Chattels & Credits of James Honer late of the Parish of Pirbright in 
the County of Surry dec.d left unadm.d by John Woods and Philip 
Gyles the Exors & Resid.y Legatees named in the said Will was 
granted to Charles Honer the natural and lawful son of one of the 
Residuary Legatees named therein hav. been first sworn by Comon 
duly to adm.r.  John Woods the Surviv.g Exor died Intestate.

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