In the Name of God Amen
I John Sage of Desborough in the County of Northampton, Carpenter, being in
health of Body and in Sound and perfect Mind and Memory Praises be therefore
Given to Almighty God, and Considering the frailty of this life and the
Certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the time therefore Do make and
Ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is
to say,
First and principally I Commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my
Creator hoping and Assuredly believing that through the Gracious Death and
Merits of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to have full free pardon and
forgiveness of all my Sins and to Inherit Everlasting life,
and my Body I
Commit to the Earth to be Decently Buried at the Discretion of my Executors
hereafter named
And as touching such Temporal Estate wherewith it pleased God to bless me
with I Give and Dispose here as followeth
Item I Will that my Just Debts that I Owe be first paid and Satisfied
Item I Give and bequeath unto my loving Wife Ann Sage for and During the
Term of her Naturall Life All that Messuage or Tenement with the Appurts
thereunto belonging wherein I Do now Inhabit and Dwell
Also I Give my Brother
William One
Shilling, and my Brother
Samuel One
Shilling, my Sister
Martha One Shilling, my Sister
Mary One Shilling
,and after the Decease of my loving Wife Ann Sage if no Child, I give the said
house to my Brothers and Sisters to part betwixt them that are left or their
Heirs,
the Rest and residue of all and Singular my Goods, Chattels, Money and
Personal Estate whatsoever I give to my said loving Wife Ann Sage whom I
make full and Sole Executrix of this my Will Allowing it to be my last Will
and wrote with my own hand by me John Sage setting my hand and Seal this Twenty
first of January And in the year 1758 John Sage Signed, Sealed, Declared
and Published by the Testator John Sage to be his last Will and Testament in
the presence of us who as Witnesses have Subscribed our Names in the
presence of the said Testator Thos Barker,
Abs[?] Barker,
Jonathan Curtis
This Will was proved at London the first Day of December in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Sixty Six before the Worshipful
Arthur Collier, Doctor of Laws, Surrogate of the Right Worshipful George Hay
also Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper[?] or Commissary of the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury lawfully Constituted, by the Oath of Ann Sage, Widow, the Relict
of the deceased and Sole Executrix named in the said Will to whom Admicon
was Granted of all and Singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said
Deceased, She having been first Sworn duly to Administer.