In the name of God Amen I Thomas Hayward of the Parish of Oxted in the County of Surrey Yeoman This Twelfth Day of August in the year of our Lord God One Thousand Six hundred Eighty One being of sound & perfect Memory and in good health of Body (thanks be given to God) doe make & Ordaine this my last Will and Testament in Manner and Forme following Impris I commend my soul unto Allmighty God my Maker firmely trusting and beleiving in the meritts & suffering of my Saviour Jesus Christ and that [thr]ough them and by his Mediation I shall receive Salvation of my poor Soul and my Body to be buryed in the Parish Churchyard I[n Oxte]d aforesaid according to the Will and pleasure of my Executours whom I shall herein nominate and appoint Item I will that all such Debts and Dutyes as of right I owe and ought in conscience to be paid to any person or persons wtsoever be well and truly contented and paid by mine Executors hereafter named and my Debts being so paid and my funerall Expences dischardged, I doe give and bequeath unto my Second Sonne William Hayward the sume of Tenn Pounds to be paid unto him at the End of one whole year immediately succeeding after my Decease by my Executors Item I give and bequeath unto Robert King Husband of my late Daughter Elizabeth the sume of One shilling Item I give and bequeath unto Martha my second Daughter wife of William Ousley the sume of One shilling Item I give and bequeath unto Katherine my Third Daughter and to Edward Dunn her Husband the sume of two shillings (that is to say) to each of them One shilling All wch said Legacies of One shilling a piece I doe ordaine shalbe paid immediately after my Decease to all and every of the said Legatees And For as much as my Daughter Martha being a good and dutyful Child unto me hath neverthelesse by her owne imprudence married her selfe unto the aforesaid William Ousley a person of a Debauch life and conversacon who hath severall tymes not onely abused her in person, but sold her Goods that I have given her and him even to her wearing Apparell to serv[e] his Luxury and then run away leaving her and One Sonn by her to the Provision of the parish or the Charity of good People Yet nevethelesse fearing my poor Daughter Martha may by the unnaturall and unworthy behaviour of her said Husband be at some tyme or other reduced even unto the want of bread for her selfe and her child; I doe hereby Ordaine Will bequeath and deposite into the hands of my Executours or one of them the sume of Five Pounds, The interest whereof I doe will and Ordaine shall be during the life of the said William Ousley be paid unto my Daughter Martha or her assignes And if it shall please God that my Daughter Martha shall survive the said William Ousley That then within One moneth after his Decease, my Executours shall pay or cause to be paid the said sume of Five Pounds unto my said Daughter Martha and if it shall happen that my said Daughter Martha shall dye before her Husband their son Isaac - surviving, It is then my Will and I doe hereby bequeath the aforesaid sume of Five Pounds unto my said Grandchild Isaac ~ Ousley to be paid unto him when he shall attaine the full Age of Eighteene Yeares, by my Executors, And my Debts and funerall Expences and Legacies being paid and discharged, All the rest of my Goods and Chattells I doe give and bequeath unto my Dear Wife Elizabeth and my wellbeloved Sonn Thomas Hayward whom I hereby make and Ordaine Executors of this my last Will and Testament; to be equally devided & proporconed betweene them, And I doe hereby revoke and adnull all and every other former Testaments, Wills Legacies, Bequests, Executours and Overseers by me in any waies before this tyme named Willed and bequeathed In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale the day and year first above written and doe publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. The marke H of Thomas Hayward Signed Sealed Published and declared in the presence of John Burrough Andrew Barry Walton Cooppere Probatum fuit ... Decimo Septimo die mensis Novembris Anno Dni 1691 ... DW/PA/5/1691/70