In the Name of God Amen I Joseph Roake of Barnbury & Parrish of Woking & County of Surry being in perfect sence & Memory do make this my last will & Testam.t  First I give my soul to God that gave it & my Body to be decently Buried by the order of my Executor my Son Joseph Roake, & I First give all my Personable Estate, Freehold & Coppyhold wherever it lyeth to the Behalf of him & his heirs for ever paying the Legacies that I shall here Mention  First I give to my Son John Two hundred & fifty pounds of Lawfull Money of Great Brittain & to be truly paid a Year after my dicease & if my Son John should die to be left to his Heirs equal alike That is the Mother of them must be equal with her Children, secondly I give to my Son James Two Hundred pounds of Lawfull Money of England to be paid a Year after my disease
Likewise I give to my two Grandchildren that is George & John Roake to be paid to them when they come to the age of Twenty one Years Fifty pounds each & if either of them should die to go to the Survive, Likewise I give to their Mother Ten pounds to be paid Three Months after my  disease
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal this fourth day of May & in the year of our Lord God one Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty two.
And in the First year of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third King of Great Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c
Joseph Roake
Witnesses  John White    Wm Merry   John Woods

This Will of Joseph Roake late of Woking in County of Surry deceased was proved on the 19th March 1763 before the Rev.d Edmund Brewer Clk a Surrogate by the oath of Joseph Roake the Executor to whom admon was granted being first sworn
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