The Last Will & Testament of ELIZABETH HODDER (1722) Widow of Beaminster
Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC project by Ros Dunning
In the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Hodder of Beaminster in
the County of Dorsett Widow being of good and perfect memory do make ordain and
declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following revokeing
and annulling by these presents all and every Will and Wills heretofore by me
made either in word or in writing and desiring and appointing that this only be
taken for my last Will and Testament and first I recommend my Soul to the mercy
of God hoping to be saved through the merrits of Jesus Christ and my body to the
Earth to be buried according to the discretion of mine Executors hereinafter
named
And as to the setling of my temporall Estate I do order give and dispose of the
same in manner and form following that is to say Imprimis I Will that my debts
and funerall expences be paid and discharged
Item I desire my said Executors to give to the poor people of ffleet Street in
Beaminster aforesaid what they my said Executors shall think fitt
Item I give unto my Servant Maid Mary Stoodley forty pounds
Sterling the feather bed that she usually lyes on and the bedstead and all other
the furniture thereunto belonging
Item I give unto my Grandson James Randall tenn pounds lawfull
money to buy him a suit of mourning Cloaths
Item I give unto my Grandson James Cooper the like sum of tenn
pounds like lawfull money to buy him a suit of mourning And I also give him my
great Bible
Item I give unto my Grandson Thomas Cowper ten pounds to buy
him a suit of mourning Cloaths
Item I give unto my Grandson George Cowper ten pounds to buy
him a suit of mourning Cloaths Item
I give unto my Great Grandson John Pitman tenn pounds to buy
him a suit of mourning Cloaths
Item I give unto my Great Grandson Thomas Truppe ten pounds to
buy him a suit of mourning Cloaths
Item I give unto my Great Grandson John Truppe tenn pounds to
buy him a suit of mourning Cloaths
Item all the rest residue and remainder of my Personall Estate goods and
Chattles whatsoever and wheresoever and not herein and hereby already by me
given I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Hannah Randall and
my Grandson Thomas Randall whom I hereby make authorize
constitute and appoint whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and
Testament
In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Hodder have hereunto
set my hand and Seal the two and twentieth day of June in the Seventh Year of
the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord George now King of Great Britain etc. And in
the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred twenty and one Eliz: Hodder
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Elizabeth Hodder for and to
contain her last Will and Testament in the presence of us whose names are
hereunder subscribed
Charles Warren Robert Hallett James
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Proved at London 6 April 1722
PCC Prob11/584