Transcription of Will of Joseph Pates of Headington, 30 August 1832

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Joseph Pates, born in Islip in 1782,, died on 20 September 1833, a year after signing this will. He must have written it out himself, as the spelling is very unusua. The line endings match those in the PCC Will:

I Joseph Pates Baker at Headington in the
County of Oxford This is my last Will and Testament It is my  
wish for my wife [Sarah] to have after my deth this house and the baking business and all
the profets for her life if she not mareyes againe and if she marreys
againe to have no profit nor nothing to do with it only to have one
five pound and if she do not marry to have all the profets of the
Baking bisness and all the rents of all I have persesst of for her Life rents
withch is set on this premises and the House ner the Church witch
is in Latermers olding and the old House as was William Larances and
the two new onens that I bilt at the end of the old one witch is free
land and the House and Orchard at Barton witch is eld onder Magdalen
Colledge and Close witch is joining witch is about four eakers and half eaker
on the Coman and strip of that the west end of the Garden as? in Mr.
Whorwood olden and the housel goods and stock of flour wheat pigs
book depts and intress of money witch is out at youse witch is one
hundred & twenty pound at Mr Richardsons in St Clemens ner the City
of Oxford and after the deth of my Wife for my Son William Pates to have
this house as I now Hockepy and Bake House and Cotedge in the
yard and all the buildings there on and Garding and not let after her
deth or with her Consent and for he to alow her a house to live
in and maintaine … of it that was be left to her and after her
deth for William to have the baking bisness and all the book depts and the
stock of flour wheat rols? and pigs as may be in perseshion at that
time and for he to pay for the furnal expences out of it and for the
housel goods to be devied into four and shee as the trust may think fit for
all my chileren to have eakerell shers and if William shuid die
singall for this House to go to the next eldest that is Ann Pates
and so on to the next eldest if she should die and if William should.
survive?? to go to him and is ears for ever and William to receve
all the book & oter dets after the deth of is mortherand to pay
all bills and dets witch is standing And Seckently after the deth of
my wife Sarah Pates for my dauter Ann Pates to have the house as
that my sister Phillips lives in now as is eld under Edwd Latemer Esq
and for Ann to have the hundred and twenty pound as is out at youse
at Mr Richardsons in St Clements witch I think will about eakewell
shere and for her and her hers for ever with out Ann Pates should die
singell and then for the House to be sold and the money eakwelley diveided among
the other children the hundred and twenty pounds as the Trust may
think fit. And thirdly after the deth of my wife Sarah Pates for my dauter
Sarah Ward Pates to have the old house as I bought of William Lardner?
and the two newe onons as I bilt at the end of the old one witch is all
free land to her and her ears forever or if she should die singell to be
sold and the money be eagely divied among the other cheldern as the
trust may think fit. Fourthly after the deth of my wife Sarah Pates I
give to my dauter Emma Pates the House and Garden & orchard and
Close witch is about 4 eakers and half eaker on the Comon on Shotover Hill
as is all Eld under Magdelen Colledge and the strip of land at the end of the
garden nerest Hedington about 20 feet wide eld under the Lord of the manor
of Hedington and if I should die before this estate is paid for it is to be paid for
out of my book debts as it tis to be completed at New Micklemas 1832 and for
Emma Pates and her ears for ever without Emma shuld die singell
if she does it tis to be sold and the money to be eakeley devied among the
other cherldern as the trust may think fit Fively if my wife should
have another Child with in nine months after my deth William
Pates is to Give that Child when the Child is of the eage of twenty one
two hundred pounds in money out of this house and bisness after
the deth of is mother when he comes persst of it Mr James Coombs. Brother
to my my [sic] wife of Milton Barks one Trust and Mr Thomas Burrows Jun'r at
Southfield farme Headington the other } witness
Dated August 30'th 1832 Joseph Pates

I appoint the said James Coombs the said James Coombs [sic] and
Thomas Burrows Executors of this my will dated the first day of
September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Joseph Pates the
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Joseph Pates the
testator as and for the last will and testament in the presence of us who
at his request in his presence and in that of each other have ?subscribed
our names as witnesses    Wm Tanner    G. Horn      A ??

Proved at London 12th March 1834 before the Judge by the oath
of James Coombs and Thomas Burrows the Younger the ex’ors to whom
adm’n was granted having been first sworn by com'on duly to adm'r

Notes

“Latermer” is William Latimer, Lord of the Manor of Heddington, who lived in Headington House.

“Mr Whorwood” is the Revd Thomas Henry Whorwood, Lord of the Manor of Headington, who lived in Headington Manor House

“This house and the baking business” is 1 & 2 North Place

“The House ner the Church witch is in Latermer’s olding” and the “house as that my sister Phillips lives in now as is eld under Edward Latemer Esq” is 16 St Andrew’s Road.

“The House and Orchard at Barton witch is eld under Magdalen Colledge” is the Fox pub

“Mrs Phillips”, Joseph Pates's sister, is almost certainly the Elizabeth Pates who married William Phillips at St Andrew's Church on 24 May 1821.