Job Lester of Scalford 1720 Will

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1720

In the name of God amen I Job Lester of Scalford Husbandman being sick & weak but of sound mind & memory praised be God do make this my last will & Testament in manner & form following

First I commend my soul into the hands of my Saviour Jesus Xt hoping thro his alone merits to be partaker of eternal happiness & my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix herein after mention’d & for my goods & what I am possess’d of I dispose as follows

Imprimis I give & bequeath to my son Job twenty shillings

Item I give to my son William twenty shillings

Item I give to my son John twenty shillings

Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Fox twenty shillings

Item I give to my Daughter Anne Doubleday twenty shillings

Item I give & bequeath to my Wife Hannah Lester all my goods chattel cattle & personal Estate whom I make Executrix of this my last Will hereby revoking all former Wills

In witness whereof I have here set my hand this twenty fifth day of December 1719

                                                                                                                Job Lester’s mark

Sign’d seal’d publish’d & declar’d by the Testator to be his last Will in the presence of us

R Goodall

Wm Bruton’s mark

James Roberts’s mark

Probate to Hannah Lester 12 April 1720