Wills

This is the last will and Testament

of me Alexander Whicherley belonging to the Removing

Wardrobe at Saint James’s I desire and direct that all

my just debts funeral expenses and the expenses of the

probate of this my last will may and shall in the first

place be fully paid discharged and satisfied and after

such payment and satisfaction made I give and 

bequeath unto my Cousin Robert Holderness the Elder

of Colnbrooke in the County of Bucks shoemaker the

sum of ten pounds and to his son Alexander Holderness

the sum of Thirty pounds to his son Robert Holderness

the sum of twenty pounds  my cousin Anne Webb

the sum of ten pounds and all the rest residue and 

remainder of my estate and effects real and personal

and of what nature or kind so ever the same may be 

I do give and devise and bequeath unto my Cousin Elizabeth

Holderness and to her heirs executors admons and assigns

for ever and I do hereby nominate constitute and 

appoint her my said cousin Elizabeth Holderness sole

executrix of this my last will and testament I do

hereby revoke all former and other Wills by me at any 

time heretofore made and do declare this alone to be 

my last will and testament In witness whereof I have

hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of 

March in the year of our lord one thousand and seven

hundred and sixty three  Alexander Whicherley

Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator

Alexander Whicherley as and for his last will and Testament in

the presence of us who have in his presence and in the presence 

of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto - The 

words (and to her heirs executors administrators and assigns

for ever) being first Interlined  Joseph Smith  Robert Borrisford 

Wm Burroughs

Probate   8 February 1766     Elizabeth Holderness spinster