In the name of God Amen  the Five and Twentieth Day of April Ano 
Dni 1690 and in the second yeare of the Reigne of our Gracious 
Soveraigne Lord & Lady King William the third & Queene Mary the 
second &c  I John Slyfeild of Woking in the County of Surry yeoman, 
being weake & infirme in body but of sound and perfect mind & 
memory (praise be given to god) doe make & ordeyne this my last 
Will and Testament in manner & forme following revoking and 
adnulling all former and other Wills by me heretofore made and this 
is to be taken for my last Will and Testament & no other (That is to 
say)  First and principally I commend my soule into the Hands of 
allmighty god my Creator & Redeemer hoping by the reconciliacon of 
Jesus Christ to be saved only and my body to the Earth from whence 
it came to be buried in such decent manner in the Chruchyard of 
Woking as it shall please my Executor hereafter named to appoint, 
and as touching such small temporall estate as the Lord of his mercy 
far above my deserts hath bestowed uppon me my Will & meaning is 
the same shall be employed & bestowed as hereafter by this my Will 
is expressed, Imp.s I give & bequeath unto John my eldest Son Tenn 
pounds & to my daughter Mary the Wife of Edward Burke 
Threescore poundes to be paid unto them wthin three Moneths next 
after my decease by my Executor hereafter named  Item I give & 
bequeath unto my Grandchild & Goddaughter Elizabeth the 
daughter of John Slyfeild aforesaid & to Rose Burke my Grandchild & 
Goddaughter Five shillings apeece  Item I give & bequeath unto my 
three God Children John Genons Damaris Snuth & John Spong Foure 
shillings a peece, And as for all the rest of my Goods Chattells & 
Debts not above given & bequeathed I give & bequeath unto Henry 
Slyfeild my youngest Son whom I make and Ordeyne sole Executor 
of this my said last Will and Testament  In wittnesse whereof I have 
hereunto sett my hand and Seale the day and year first above 
written. 
John Slyfeild
Signed sealed pronounced and declared by the said John Slyfeild to 
be his last Will and Testament in the presence of 
the make E of Elizabeth Jennoway   the marke O of Jostas Kimber   
Phillip French

Probatum fuit humoi Testum Johannis Slyfeild ... Decimo die mensis 
Maii Anno Dni Millesimo Sexcentesimo et Nonagesimo ...

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