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In the Name of God Amen the thirteenth Day of June ADoi 1634 I Richard Hopkins of Steventon in the County of Berks yeoman beeeing weake in bodye but of healthy & ? memory (thank bee given unto Almighty God therefore Doo make & ordayne this my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge ? I commit my soule into the hande of ALmighty God fully preyinge to bee saved by the mersite? death & ? of Jesus Christe my Saviour and my bodye I commite to the earth eherof itt is al made to bee buried in the Churche of ?
Item I give and bequeathe unto my sonne Ffrancis Hopkins 40P to bee payd unto him one year next after my decease
Item I give unto my sonne Thomas Hopkins the like sum of 40P to bee paide unto him within one yeare next after my decease
Item I give unto my daughter Joane Kinger a bullocke and to her Sonne Ffrancis Kinge xx s
Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Sherwood a Bullock and unto my Godsonne Richard Kinges x s and All with my will it shall bee payd within one yeare next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Coles xxx s and unto every one of her children xx s a peice to be payd again one yeare next after my decease alsoe
Item I give unto my daughter Dorothie Ffield xi s and I give unto my daughter Anne Weeke xxx s beeing intended for after of their marriages parony? in full satisfaction thereof
Item I give unto my Godsonne Richard Hopkins xx s and unto my kinsman John Hopkins x s All with my will is shall bee payde within one yeare nexte after my decease
Item I give unto WIlliam Lyforde Sonne of Robt Lyforde two quarters of Barley to bee paide and delivered unto him when hee shall atteyne the age of twelve yeares
Item I give unto Mary Lorrett & unto Margarett Whitte my sisters children x s a piece to be payd unto them within one years next after my decease Also I give unto the poore people of Steventon five pounde to remayne at a Stock for ever & that this ffriday yearely
Item I give unto my daughter Anne Week xii s on and above the somme of xxx L above newly bequeathed: I give and bequeathe unto Mary may loveinge wife and to Thomas my Sonne whom I make executors of this my last will and testament. And I doe nominate a desire my ? from Thomas Simpson and James Stone onseed? of this my last will and testamt and for their payment herein to bee taken I ? to short apairne? of ? In witnes whereof I have left my hand and Sealle hereto the day and year first above written
Hear published & acknowledged by the saide Richard Hopkins to bee his last will & testament in the presence of Robert Shike & John Bowler
 

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