This is the last Will and Testament of me Isaac Hemingway of
Canbury otherwise Cannonbury House in
the parish of St Mary Islington in the County of Middlesex Victualler who being
weak in body but of sound and disposing
mind memory and understanding praised be Almighty God for the same So resign my
Soul to Almighty God my Creator humbly hoping through the merits and mediation
of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer to enjoy life Everlasting and my Body to the Earth to be decently interred at the
discretion of my Executors herein after named and as for such worldly Goods and
Estate wherewith it hath pleased Almighty God to furnish me I do give and
bequeath the same and every part thereof
of what nature or kind soever unto James Hastings of Long Lane in the
Borough of Southwark in the County of Surry Gentleman, John Baptist Shackles of
Fore Street London Stationer and David Treasurer of Coventry Court in the
parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the county of Middlesex Taylor or the
survivors or survivor of them his executors and administrators upon trust in
the first place to pay all my just debts and after payment thereof upon trust
to pay such clear moiety of the rest and residue of my Estate and Affects unto
my dearly beloved wife Eleanor Hemingway to and for her own sole use and
benefit and upon trust to lay out and invest
in their or his names or name the other moiety thereof in Government Securities of this Kingdom
upon trust to pay or transfer the same to my daughter Mary Hemingway on her
attaining her age of twenty one years and to apply the interest thereof for and
towards her maintenance education and support till she attains that age and
lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and
appoint the said James Hastings,
John Baptist Shackles and David Treasurer Executors of this my last Will who
are to be at liberty to deduct their respective reasonable charges and expenses
and to be subject to their own respective acts deeds and receipts only and I do
hereby revoke all former Wills and do declare this only to be my last Will and
Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty
second day of May one thousand, seven hundred and eight four.
Isaac Hemingway
Signed sealed published declared by the said Isaac Hemingway
the Testator as and for this last Will and Testament in the presence of us who
in his presence and at his request have subscribed our names as witnesses Edward
Dyson Jno Hichingbottom.
This will was proved at London the twenty third day of July
in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four before the
worshipful John Fisher Soctor of Laws surrogate of the Right worshipful Peter
Calvert Soctor of Laws, Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of James Hastings one of the
executives named in the said will to whom administration of all and singular
the goods chattels and credits of the deceased was granted he having been first
sworn duly to administer power reserved of making the life grant to John
Baptist Shackles and David Treasurer the other executors named in the said will
when they or either of them shall apply for the same.