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<p n="487"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">31 July 1713</note>
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<p n="488"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-1">Williams Thomas</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Legacy of £5 to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20204_geo30">Bethlem</rs>
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}</note>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-2">Thomas Stringer</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20204_geo31">Bermondsey</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20204_geo32">County<lb></lb>
of Surrey</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20204_occ396">Cowkeeper</rs>
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one of the Executors of the last Will and<lb></lb>
Testament of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-3">Thomas Williams</rs>
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late Citizen and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20204_occ397">Leather seller</rs>
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of London deced came and acquainted this Court<lb></lb>
That his said Testator by his said Will bearing date the <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20204_date15">25th day<lb></lb>
"of June 1688</rs>
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Reciteing that he had then oweing to £150 by<lb></lb>
"& from him the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-4">Thomas Stringer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-5">Christopher Docker</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-75">Luke<lb></lb>
"White</rs>
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by & upon three Bonds each of them being severally bound<lb></lb>
"for paymt. of £50 and Interest He the said Tastator gave to his<lb></lb>
"wife <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-6">Elizabeth Williams</rs>
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the Interest thereof for her life<lb></lb>
"& after her death (which happened about 12. Months ago) he gave<lb></lb>
"to <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20204_geo33">Bethlem Hospital</rs>
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£5 part of the said £150 and the residue<lb></lb>
"of the said £150 to and amongst Severall other persons and for<lb></lb>
"Several uses in the said Will menconed And the Testator by his<lb></lb>
"Said Will directed that if it should happen the said £150, or any<lb></lb>
"part thereof should be lost or could not be obtained by the<lb></lb>
"Failure of any Security or by any other accident that the several<lb></lb>
"Legatees therein named should bear a proportconable part of<lb></lb>
"Such Loss out of the several Legacees And the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Stringer</rs>
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further acquainted this Court that £50 part of the<lb></lb>
said £150, due from the said Luke White was by him paid to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-8">William Nash</rs>
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the other Executor of the said Will who dyed about<lb></lb>
Six Months ago insolvent And that £10 part of the said £50<lb></lb>
which was due from the said Docker was paid to one Short in<lb></lb>
Satisfaccon of a debt due to him from the said Testator and £40<lb></lb>
residue thereof was paid to this Depont so that there remaines<lb></lb>
no more than £90 of the said £150 to be divided amongst the said<lb></lb>
Legatees whereof the proportion to Bethlem Hospital is £3<lb></lb>
and no more which the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-9">Thomas Stringer</rs>
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offered to pay in<lb></lb>
discharge of the said Legacy deducting only 6d in the pound<lb></lb>
towards the Charges he had been at in proveing the said Will<lb></lb>
Whereupon It is Ordered that if upon an affidavit<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-10">Thomas Stringer</rs>
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to be made before a Master in Chancery<lb></lb>
it shall appear that the hath is as before Sett forth Then the<lb></lb>
Clerk of these Hospitals upon receipt of £2..17.6 do give<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n488-11">Thomas Stringer</rs>
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a Discharge for the said Legacy of<lb></lb>
Five pounds<lb></lb>
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