In the Name of God Amen I John Coker of Portsea in the County of Southampton Caulker being Sick and Weak in Body but of sound and Perfect Memory and
understanding (Praised be Allmighty God for the same) Doe for the preventing and avoiding of all Contoversies after my Decease make Publish and Declare these presents to be and Contain my Last Will and Testament First and Principally I resign my Soul to Almighty God and my Body I committ to the Earth to be Interred at the Discretion of my Executrix hereinafter named and my Worldly estate I dispose of as followeth (That is to say) All Those Three Messuages or Tenements in the Yards Gardens Backsides and Appurtenances thereunto belonging Situate in Portsea aforesaid one of which I now Dwell in, one other in the possession of Daniel Palmer & the other in the possession of Thomas Loader I give and Devise unto my Loving Wife Jane for and during the Term of her Naturall Life and from and after her Decease I give and Devise the Messuage Tenement with the Yard Garden Backsides and Appurtenances thereunto belonging wherein I now Dwell and which I purchased of Daniel Lownder unto my Kinsman John Coker Son of Richard Coker and to his Heirs and Assigns forever And from and immediately after the Decease of my said Wife Jane I give devise and bequeath the Messuage or Tenement with the Yard Garden Backsides and Appurtenances thereunto belonging which is now in the possession of Daniel Palmer which I lately purchased of John Bowes unto my Friends Jacob Towers of Portsea aforesaid Hopp Merchant and Benjamin Hooper of the same place Tallow Chandler and to their Heirs and Assigns upon this Special Trust and Confidence That they or the Survivour of them or the Heirs and Assigns of such Survivour with all Convenient speed after the Decease of my said Wife Jane Sell and Dispose of the said Messuage or Tenement with the Yard Garden Backsides and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and Twenty Pounds of Lawfull Money of Great Britain Part of the Money Arising by such Sale shall be by them Distributed among such Poor People (called .....) as they shall think proper and the remainder of the Money arising by such Sale shall be Equally shared and Divided between Richard Coker and Mary Coker (Son and Daughter of my said Brother Richard Coker) share and share alike And from and imediately after the Decease of my said Wife Jane I give and Devise All that Messuage Tenement with the Yard Garden Backsides and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and which is the last that I purchased of the said John Bowes and now in the possession of Thomas Loader unto my Brother Richard Coker for and during the Term of his Natural Life and from and after his Decease I give and Devise the same unto his Son Thomas Coker and to his Heirs and Assigns forever And all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate and Effects of what Nature or kind soever That I am or at the time of my Decease shall be in any ways Intitled unto either in possession Revertion Expectancy or otherwise howsoever and which I have Power to Dispose of (after the payment of my Just Debts and Funerall Expences) I Give Devise and bequeath unto my said Wife Jane and to her Heirs Administrators and Assigns for ever And I Do hereby nominate and appoint my said Wife Jane full and sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof (Revoking and making void all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made) I have to this my last Will sett my hand and seal this Twenty Ninth Day of December in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Six            John Coker

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Proved 18th January 1736/7
Hampshire Record Office 1736P/11