19 March 1776 Will of Thomas Pike of Clements Lane, Lombard Street, London (proved 18 April 1776)

Source: TNA, PROB 11/1019

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In the Name of God Amen
I Thomas Pike the younger of Clements Lane Lombard
Street London being weak in Body but of sound mind memory
and understanding do make this my last Will and Testament in
manner and form following First I desire to be privately
Buried and after my Debts and Funeral Charges shall be paid
the whole of my Estate Lands Tenements Hereditaments with
all my Goods Chattels Plate Bonds Notes and all my other
Properties of what kind soever to me appertaining or
belonging at the time of my Decease I give devise and bequeath 
unto my much Honoured Father Thomas Pike of Cannon Street
London Hatter whom I do hereby Constitute and appoint my
whole and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
and I do hereby revoke and Disannul all former Wills by me
heretofore made declaring and confirming this and no other to 
be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have
hereunto set my Hand and Seal this nineteenth day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy
six  Thos Pike JunrLS  Signed Sealed Published and
Declared by the Testator Thomas Pike the younger to be his
last Will and Testament in the Presence of us  Geo Ramshaw
John Stephens  Thos Hodgskin

This Will was Proved atLondon the eighteenth day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy six before the Worshipful William Macham
Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right Worshipful Sir
George Hay Knight also Doctor of Laws Master keeper or
Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully 
constituted by the Oath of Thomas Pike the Father of the 
Deceased and sole Executor named in the said Will to whom
administration was granted of all and singular the Goods 


Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased he having been first
sworn duly to Administer

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