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In the Name of God amen I John Dowding of Kington Magna in the County of Dorsett Yeoman being sick in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be to God do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say Imprimis I commend my Soul into the hands of God hoping through the merits death and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and remission of all my sins and to inherit everlasting life And my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried according to the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named And as touching the disposition of all such temporal Estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as followeth Item I will that my debts and funeral expenses be paid and discharged Item I give and dispose unto my loving wife Gertrude and her heirs forever all that my new purchased Lands that is to say one pasture ground commonly called South common close One pasture ground called ..... One arable ground called Maish ffurlong and one arable more called Goffeland all which said grounds are situate and being in Kington Magna aforesaid Item I give and dispose unto my said loving wife Gertrude and her heirs forever the reversion of all that dwelling house and messuage or tenement commonly called Laurences Tenament with the Garden Orchards and Barkside thereunto belonging situate and being in Kingston Magna aforesaid with all edifices buildings outhouses Lands Meadows pastures commons woods closes ... hereditaments and appert.... whatsoever to the same belonging and appertaining or reputed to appertain Item I give unto my brother in law John Jarratt? the sum of ten pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be paid within the space of one year after my decease Item I give unto Jane Gibbins of ffroome Sellwood in the County of Somersett the sum of ten pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be paid within one year after my decease Item I give unto William Blowit of Wincanton in the said County of Somerset the sum of five pounds of good and lawful money of England that is to say of and for the use of and in trust for his son William Blowit until he shall attain unto the age of one and twenty years to be paid within one year after my decease Item I give unto Mary Andrews of Wincanton aforesaid the sum of two pounds of good and lawful money of England to be paid within one year after my decease Item I give unto John Dowding son of my brother Edward Dowding late deceased the sum of forty pounds of good and lawfull money of England to remain in my Executrixes hands until he shall attain unto the age of one and twenty years of age Item all the rest and residue of my personal estate goods and chattles whatsoever I give and bequeath unto my said loving wife Gertrude whom I do hereby institute make and ordain my full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament And I do hereby revoke and make void all other Wills by me heretofore made In witness whereof I the said John Dowding have hereunto sett my hand and seal this twelfth day of October Anno ... 1702 John Dowding Signed Sealed and published and the indorsement written before the sealing hereof in the presence of us L Dyer William Greene Roger Blackmor
Item I give unto Elizabeth Heyward the sum of five pounds of lawfull money England to be paid within one year after my decease Item I give unto Walter Chubb the sum of five pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid within one year after my decease These two legacies being forgotten my Will is that it should be so effectual as if it was mentioned the within written Will witness my hand signed John Dowding In the presence of us L Dyer William Greene Roger Blackmor
 

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