I Job Spooner Shopkeeper Dealer & Chapman in the Parishe of Woking County of Surrey being of Perfect Mind and Memory make this my last Will and Testament;
First I desire to be privately buried at the Discretion of my two Executors whom I constitute and appoint Viz Mrs James Fladgate Mealman Woking Surrey and Charles Herington Grocer Guildford Surrey;
Secondly I request they will dispose of all my Goods and Chattles and taking all Monies and Book debts into their hands and dispose of them all as they shall see proper for the Benefit of my Creditors, after this if any surplus, I bequeath to my Natural son William West Spooner Twenty five Pounds with which I intreat my two aforesaid Executors to Apprentice him should the surplus allow of the aforesaid sum and should their remain any further balance say Twenty Pounds that I bequeath to Mary Whittle my Nurse.  Should their remain any balance after this that I also give unto my aforesaid Natural son William West Spooner;  Should his life not be spared to enjoy and have fulfilled my above desire, then after the Expence of his Funeral or any other Necessary expences my said Executors may incur to be repaid;
If any balance remaining divide it equally between my Brothers and Sisters then living, also divide the same to them in case of Mary Whittle’s Death previous to my own; And I do hereby utterly revoke and disanull all former Wills and Legacies by me heretofore in anywise left or made declaring ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament;  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth March in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight Hundred and Twenty nine.  Job Spooner
Signed sealed published and Declared by the within named testator Job Spooner to be his last Will and Testament in Presence of us who subscribed our Names in Presence of the said Testator and of each other. Richard Houghton    Henry West

This Will of Job Spooner late of Woking in the County of Surrey Shopkeeper deceased was proved on the ninth day of December 1829 before the Reverend John Richards clerk a surrogate by the Oaths of James Fladgate and Charles Herington the Executors to whom Admon was granted being first sworn duly to administer

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