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Henry THRALE 1781 will

Peter Calvert, Doctor of Laws Master Surrogate of the Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Ann Thorp Spinster the sister of the deceased and sole Executrix named in the said will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased She having been first sworn duly to Administer

HENRY THRALEof Southwark in the County of Surrey Esquire being of sound mind memory and understanding, do make this my last will and testament in manner following, I give and devise all and every my manors mortgages lands tenements and hereditaments whatsover in the counties of Oxford, Surry, Middlesex and elsewhere in the Kingdom of Great Britain except my capital messuages lands hereditaments and premises situate at Streatham in the county of Surry and also except my Brewhouse messuages and Tenements in the Parish of St Saviour Southwark and such other mortgages or tenements and premises as are now or shall at the time of my death be used or employed in my trade or lett unto occupied or rented by the customers thereof unto Samuel Johnson Doctor of Law, John Cator of Beckenham in the County of Kent Esquire Jeremiah Crutchley of Sunninghill Park in the County of Berks Esquire and Henry Smith of St Albans in the County of Hertford Esquire and their heirs and Assigns To the uses upon the trusts and for the several interests and purposes hereafter mentioned that is to say To the use and behoof of the first son I may have by my present wife and the Sons of the Body of such first son lawfully issuing and for default of such Son To the use of the second third fourth and all and every other son and sons I may have by my present wife severally successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall be in seniority of age and priority of birth and the heirs of his and their body and bodies lawfully issuing The Elder of such son and sons and the heirs of his and sons and the heirs of his and their body and bodies lawfully issuing being always preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the sons of his and heirs body and bodies lawfully issuing and for default of such heirs then as to my said manors mortgages lands, Tenements and hereditaments so devised as aforesaid except my lands tenements and hereditaments situate in the County of Oxford to the use of my own right heirs for ever. Also as to my Estate called Crowmarsh and all other my lands tenements and land in the County of Oxford in case I shall not have any Son or Sons or having such all such Son or Sons shall die without Heir. Then I give and devise the same last mentioned estate into the said Samuel Johnson, John Cator, Jeremiah Crutchley and Henry Smith and their heirs and assigns to the use and

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