848 Richard Featherstone Kent 1762

In the name of God Amen

I Richard Featherstone of the parish of Broadgar in the county of Kent being

mindful of mortality of human nature and that it is appointed for all men so to

to die  but considering the uncertainty of the time thereof do make this my last

will and testament in manner and form following that is to say. I give and

bequeath unto my sons William John and Stephen, whom I constitute and appoint

sole executors of this my last will and testament  All my messuage barn stable

outhouses lands and hereditaments thereunto belonging containing by estimation

fourteen acres more or less lying in the parish of Storkberry? And Broadgar

aforesaid together with all my personal stock and all the husbandry tackling?

Thereon to be equal alike in part of the rent stock and tackling? For the time

of my wife Sarah s life and no longer  yielding and paying out of the said

estate unto her yearly of and every year the sum of six pounds per annum for the

time of her life and my mind and will is that after the decease of my aforesaid

wife Sarah all my messuage barn stable outhouses lands and hereditaments

whatsoever and wheresoever lying and being at the aforesaid places of Storkberry

and Broadgar shall go to the sole use and property of my aforesaid son Stephen

his heirs and assigns for ever yielding and paying out of the said estate to my

aforesaid son William the sum of two pounds per annum and to my aforesaid son

John the like sum of two pounds per annum to be paid during their lives

-------------whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day

of January  and in the year of Our Lord 1760 Richard Featherstone his mark

Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Richard Featherstone

as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request

and in his presence have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses Wm Soilow

Thomas Naylor John Olive his mark Tho Sellon sen Tho Sellon jun George Sellon

THE Before registered will of Richard Featherstone deceased was proved the

fourteenth day of June 1762 Before the Worshipful George Way Doctor of Laws

Vicar General lawfully constituted by the oath of William John and Stephen

Featherstone sons of the deceased and executors named in the said will being

first sworn duly to perform the same [net?]