In the name of God Amen the five and twenty day of february :1728: and in the second yeare of the Raigne of our gracious Sovereigne Lord King George the second According to the cumeputtatyon of the church of Ingland that James Lee of Woking parish Carpenter in the County of Surrey being of perfect Mind and Rememrance and of A good understanding praised be God Allmighty for it doth make and Ordaine this my last will and testament macking void all former wills by me mead and this to be my last will and testament as followeth Viz First of all I bequeath my soule into the hands of God Allmighty my macker hoping through the merits death and passion of Jesus Christ my only saviour to Receve free parne of all sins by me commited in thought word or deed and as for my boddy to be bueryed in true Cristion bueriall at the discresion of my Executtrixe which shall be hereafter nominated in the parish church yard of Woking and as for all such worlds goods as it hath plesed god to bles me with in this life I give and bestow them as it pleseth me in my wisdom so to doe as followeth Item I give unto my loveing Wife Elizabeth my Coppyhold esteat all of it where I now live by Acknoligeing of A surrender by me made to the use of my will for the turme of hur life and at hur death I give the same Coppyhold esteate abovesaid to my sonne James Lee and to his heirs and assignes for ever subjecte to those payments which shall be heare after menshoned I doth will and give to be truly payd out of this Coppyhold esteate above by my sonne James Lee the sume of sixty pound of good and lafull money of Great Brittan at on Intyer payment unto my datter Ann Lee with in sixe month after the death of my wife Elizabeth I will and give out of this Coppyhold esteate above that my sonne James Lee shall truly pay at on intyer payment unto my sonne Richard Lee the sume of tenn pound of good and lafull money of great brittan with in sixe month after the death of my now wife Elizabeth and if it shall so happen that my datter Ann Lee shall depart this life before the sixty pound above doth come due to hut I will and give the seame sixty pound to be truly payd and equally devided amongst all my sonnes that are then living at that time Item I doth with and give by the acknoledging of a surrender by me meade to the use of my will all this my Coppyhold esteat lying in the tiding of Kingfild now in the occupatyon of Richard Humphrey unto my sonne John Lee and to his heirs and assignes for ever subject to these payments which shall be here after menshoned that is I doth will and give out of this Coppyhold above to be truly payd by my sonne John Lee unto my sonne Richard Lee the sume of twenty pound of good and lafull money of great brittan at on intyer payment with in sixe month after the deth of my wife and I doth will and give to be truly payd out of this Coppyhold above by my sonne John Lee unto my datter Elizabeth Lee the sume of fifty pound of good and lafull money of great brittan at on intyer payment with in sixe month after my desese and I doth will and give to be truly payd by my sonne John Lee out of this Coppyhold esteat above the sume of forty shillings a yeare for the turme of hur life this yearly Rent I doth will that my sonne John Lee shall truly pay to his mother every mellmus day for the turme of her natural Life And if it shall so happen that my datter Elizabeth shall depart this life before the abovesaid fifty pound doth Come due to hur I give the same fifty pound to be truly payd by my sonne John Lee unto those my granchi: which are Children of my sonne William and my datte Seary ideren Colshin when thay shall be of the aige of one and twenty years to as maney of them as there be living shere and shere alicke Item I will and give unto my loveing wife Elizabeth whome I doth make soule Executrixe of this my last Will all my stocke goods Reddy money even all that have in the world ungiveen away In Witnes hereunto I doth sett my Hand and Seale in the presents of those three witneses hose hands are here sett in In order in this place James Lee Signed Sealed published Pronounced and Declared by the said Thomas Martin for and as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our Names as Wittnesses in the presence of the Testator John Fenn Richard Humphrey his marke X Thomas Hayward Probatum ... octavo die Junii Anno Dni 1730 ... DW/PA/5/1730/72/01