Brett Chester of Nether Broughton 1780 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1780/40
In the Name of God Amen I Brett Chester of the Parish of Nether Broughton in the County of Leicester Farmer do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following (viz)
Imprimis I give and bequeath to my Son Amos Chester the Sum of one Guinea of good and lawful Mony of Great Britain
Item I give and bequeath to my Son Benjamin Chester the like Sum of one Guinea
Item I give and bequeath to my Son Michael Chester the like Sum of one Guinea
Item I give and bequeath to my Son William Chester the like Sum of one Guinea
Item I give and bequeath to my Son Charles Chester the like Sum of one Guinea
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Ann Shilcross the like Sum of one Guinea
Item I give and bequeath to my Son Brett Chester the like Sum of one Guinea
Item I give and bequeath to my loving Wife Rebekah Chester all my Personal Estate of what Nature or Kind soever it be she first discharging the abovementioned Legacies, my just Debts and Funeral Expences
And I do hereby make constitute and ordain my said loving Wife whole and Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and do ratify and confirm this and no other to be my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this Seventh day of December in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy one
Brett Chester
Sign’d Seal’d Publish’d and declared by the within named Testator Brett Chester to be his last Will & Testament (the Interlineation first in the 20th Line being first made) in the Presence of us
Mary Paling
William Chamberlain
On the 4th Day of May 1780 Rebeccah Chester Widow the Sole Executrix within named was sworn and made oath that all the Deceased’s personal Estate was not worth Twenty pounds
Before me Tho. Ford, Surrogate