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In the Name of the Holy and
Ever Blessed Trinity God the Father God the Son and God the Holy
Ghost Amen. Whereas the ERNST AUGUST MUSTAPHA Native of Misistra
late Valet de Chambre of his late Royall Majesty of Great Britain of
Glorious memory and MAGDALENA CATHARINA by Marriage MUSTAPHA born
HOMEYER have lived and passed many years together in a Christian and
Happy State of Matrimony and call to our mind the Mortality which
all mankind is subject to We have resolved being in health of Body
and of good and perfect memory God be Praised to make together the
following declaration of our last Will touching the Goods which
after the death of either or both of us shall be left consisting in
Houses Gardens Furniture Plate Jewels ready money outstanding Debts
or pretensions or of whatsoever denomination the same may be that is
to say First we give thanks to the most high God for all his Great
Blessings and kindnesses which he has bestowed on us during the
whole course of our lives and do pray to him that he will be pleased
to continue and to preserve the same to us till to the hour of our
death. But whenever it shall please him to call us or any one of us
by a natural death out of this World We do commend our Souls to him
into his merciful and gracious hands who has Redeemed the same by
the precious blood of Jesus Christ and pray that he may preserve and
receive the same to Everlasting joy and happiness Our Bodies we
bequeath to the Earth and the longest liver of us will take care to
have the Body of the deceased buried and carried to his place of
rest according to the Christian Rites without any of the pompous
Ceremonies As to our worldly Goods and Effects which we are already
possessed of or which we may stil acquire hereafter We do make our
beloved Son the Secretary of Chancery GEORGE LEWIS MUSTAPHA our Heir
therein of his legal share under an honourable Title so that he
shall enjoy a yearly Revenue of Two Hundred Rix Dollars wherewith he
is to consent himself But Whereas we, more especially I , ERNEST
AUGUSTUS MUSTAPHA have delivered and signed a Bond of Two Thousand
Rix Dollars his account for Debts he contracted and for which I have
yearly payd hither to a sum of Eighty Rix Dollars Interest the said
two thousand Rix Dollars shall be accounted for in his said legal
share that is to say in the legitima and we have that confidence in
him that he will not touch the Principall but be contented with the
income thereof forbidding him at the same time to touch or to break
into the Principal Stock of his said legal share Whatsoever after
the deduction of the said legal share shall then be found left in
the Remainder lett the same consist in moveable or unmoveable Goods
or Effects Plate Jewels outstanding or active debts or whatsoever
the same may be called in all those Goods I ERNST AUGUST MUSTAPHA do
declare my Wife MAGDALEN CATHARINA MUSTAPHA born HOMEYER to be my
Universal Heir because of the Manyfold love fidelity and assistance
she has shewn me as also for her prudent care and management of the
Family. But if she should happen to dye my Son should Survive her,
then I declare all the said Goods to be Fidei Commis that is to say
that they shall then devolve to my Son the Secretary GEORGE LEWIS
MUSTAPHA but so that he shall have no power to alienate Morgage or
charge or Incumber with Debt my part of parts thereof or account of
Debts which he may have contracted before or may contract
afterwards. Nay I desire that so as I have acquired the same with
great pains he will keep the same together for his lawful posterity
desiring and requesting at the same time my Wife and appointed
Universal Heir to preserve the said Goods and Effects in the same
state as I shall happen to leave the same. However my son as long as
he lives shall receive and enjoy the yearly income thereof hoping
that Whereas my intent aims only for the continual good and welfare
of him and his lawfull Heir which he may have perhaps hereafter that
he will content himself with it and be satisfyed. On the other hand
I MAGDALENA CATHARINA MUSTAPHA born HOMEYER after my Son the
Secretary GEORGE LEWIS MUSTAPHA shall have recieved as above
mentioned his legal share of my Goods and effects which I have
brought in for my portion and which I shall happen to leave behind
my whereof I make him my Heir under a Honourable Title I do make and
appoint my loving Husband the Royal and Electoral Valet de Chambre
Mr ERNST AUGUST MUSTAPHA my Universal Heir of all my Estate. So that
if he happens to Survive me he shall not be obliged to cause an
Inventory thereof to be made nor deliver any specification thereof
but my son shall give and entire belief of the declaration of his
Father my Husband and Heir to how much his legal share amounts and
further if he shall happen to Survive his Father and me the said
Goods and Effects though they shall devolve to him yet they shall
lay under a Fidei Commiss So that my said son shall enjoy the income
thereof but shall alienate nothing of them but transmitt the same to
his lawful posterity and in case he leaves none to my nearest kndred
and Relations. And Wheras I ERNST AUGUST MUSTAPHA have hitherto
mantained a poor Girl called LOUISA I do bequeath to her in case she
behaves herself well a Sum of One Hundred Rix Dollars however it
shall be left to my Wife as my Universale Heir to consider and judge
if she deserves the said legacy and if she should find that she is
not deserving of it by being disobedient to her or shewing her no
duty or respect she shall be authorised and impowered to take the
same from her entirely to annull or to give the same to any body
else And to the end that this our reciprocal Testament may take
effect after the death of either one or both of us, we have resolved
personally to present the same to the Royal and Elelctoral Court of
Judicature in order to be kept there among the publick Records and
there also to petition that in case both of us shall happen to dye
or my wife survive me the said ERNST AUGUST MUSTPAHA to appoint and
to name a provident and able Man to be the executor of this Will to
assist her with his good advice and after both our death to procure
the observants of our Testament in the best manner and to see that
this our Will may be punctually complyed with In Case this Testament
cannot subsist as a Solemn Testament or Last Will We do will that
the same may subsist as asside Comiss codicil or in what manner else
it may best be done. In Testimony whereof we have signd the same
under every side and at the end with our own hands having affixt our
seal thereunto done Hanover on the 9th November 1737.
Ernst August Mustapha, Magdalena Catharina Mustapha born Homeyer. In
Testimony that these presents agree with the original they are
attested by W.A. LUDEMANN secretary of the Court .
Superscription. The Judicial
and reciprocal Testament of the Royal Valet de Chambre Ernst August
Mustpaha which they personally presented in Court and delivered to
be recorded as a Judicial Testament on the 11 day of November 1737.
I Samuel Willett Licentiate of
Laws and Notary Publick by Royal Authority duly admitted and sworn
do testify to all to whom it may concern that the hereunto annexed
translation is a just true translation out of the High Dutch
Language of the attested Will and Testament ..... 6 March 1738
This Will was proved at
London..... 8 March 1738 by the oath of Magdalena Catharina Mustapha
otherwise Homeyer as widow the relict of the said deceased and
Universal Heiress or Executrix named in the said will.....
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