In the Name of God Amen  I Henry Edmead the Elder of the parish of 
Horsell in the County of Surrey Yeoman do make my last will and 
testament in manner and form following First I commend my soul to 
God hopeing to be saved by the death of Jesus Christ and I order my 
body to be decently buried and as concerning my worldly Estate I 
give and dispose thereof as followeth to wit  I give and bequeath to 
my two Daughters Deborah and Jane Edmead five pair of home 
spun sheets apiece and to each of them one large Trunk with all 
things that shall be therein at the time of my decease to which 
several and respective Trunks each of them has a Key and I give 
devise and bequeath to my Son Henry Edmead his Heirs Executors 
and administrators all the Rest and Residue of my Goods chattels 
Rights credits Ready money and Personal Estate whatsoever and all 
my lands Tenements and Hereditaments To hold to him my said son 
Henry Edmead his Heirs Executors admors and assigns for ever 
subject nevertheless to and I hereby charge the same with the 
payment of and I will that he and they do and shall pay thereout all 
my debts and Funeral Expenses to my four daughters Mary wife of 
John Friend Deborah Edmead Jane Edmead and Anne wife of Henry 
Bartholomew thirty pounds apiece of lawful Money of Great Britain 
which with thirty pounds reserved for himself is the Money saved 
and intended for them by my late wife to my said Daughter Mary 
Friend fifty pounds more of like Money to my said Daughters 
Deborah and Jane Edmead One hundred and fifty pounds apiece of 
like Money and to my said Daughter Anne Bartholomew fifty pounds 
more of like Money all to be paid within six Months next after my 
decease including therein all moneys payable and to become payable 
to them any or either of them in or by means or virtue or power of 
the settlement made on my Marriage with my said late Wife and of 
the last Will and Testament of my late Father Henry Edmead 
deceased or either of them And I Nominate constitute and appoint 
my said son Henry Edmead full and sole Executor of this my last Will 
and Testament and I revoke all former Wills by me made in 
Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal the twenty 
sixth day of January in the thirty third year of the Reign of King 
George the second over Great Britain and so forth and in the year of 
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty  Henry Edmead
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Henry Edmead the 
Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who 
subscribed our Names as witnesses thereof in his presence and in 
the presence of one another  James Weller  James Douglas  John 
Shotter
On the twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord One 
thousand seven hundred and sixty eight administration with the Will 
annexed of the Goods chattels and credits of Henry Edmead the 
Elder late of the parish of Horsell in the county of Surrey deceased 
was granted to Ann Bartholomew wife of Henry Bartholomew the 
sister and administrator of the Goods of Henry Edmead the younger 
deceased whilst living the son and sole Executor and  Residuary 
Legatee named in the said Will of the said Henry Edmead the Elder 
deceased she having been first sworn by Commission duly to adster 
The said Henry Edmead the younger surviving the said Testator but 
dying before he had taken upon him the Execution of the said Will.

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