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Will of Elizabeth Lane

Date of will 4 January 1684, the year being according to the old style calendar in which the year ended on 25 March, Lady Day.  Thus this year corresponds to 1685 by the modern calendar.
Status Widow 
Abode when will written Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
Date of probate 9 May 1694
Summary of will Left her estate to her daughter Frances Lane 
Persons mentioned in will:
Name Relation Abode Role Notes
Frances Lane Daughter    beneficiary executor    
Mary Travell     witness    
Will Panter     witness    
Jo Forty     witness    
Source:  Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies,  reference 
The original document from which this image has been taken is held by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, County Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1UU, UK. Copies may be made for private use, but anyone wishing to publish the will, in whole or in part, or to reproduce it on their website should contact the Centre. A photocopy of the will can be ordered from the Centre

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Source: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies,  reference 
The original document from which this image has been taken is held by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, County Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1UU, UK. Copies may be made for private use, but anyone wishing to publish the will, in whole or in part, or to reproduce it on their website should contact the Centre. A photocopy of the will can be ordered from the Centre

In the Name of God Amen the fourth day of January in the yeare of our Lord 1685 I Elizabeth Lane Widdow being in Good health and of perfect and disposeing Memory blessed be God doe make this my Last Will and Testament in maner ffollowing ffirst I bequeath my Soule to Almighty God beseeching him for the Merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ to receive the same to his Mercy and my Body to the Earth to be buryed in such private and decent maner as my Executrix hereafter named shall think fitt and as for that worldly Estate which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me my ffunerall charges and Just debts being first paid Sattisfied and discharged I doe hereby give and bequeath the Rest and Residue thereof both Real and personall Lands money Plate Jewels household         and all other my Goods and Chattells whatseover to my Executrix hereafter named and Revoacking all former and other Wills I doe hereby Constitute and make my Daughter Frances Lane Spinster whole and Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seale the day and yeare first above written Eliz Lane Signed Sealed and published for my Last Will in the presence of us Mary Travell Will Panter Jo  Forty

Proved 9th day of May 1694

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