In the Name of God Amen, I William Galbreath of Wood Street
London Scotch factor do make publish and declare this my last
Will and Testament in manner following that is to say first I
commend my soul to God who gave it and my body to the earth to be
decently interred at the discretion of my executors hereinafter
named and as to my temporal Estate and effects of what nature or
kind so ever
I give devise and bequeath the same in manner
following (that is to say) Item I give and bequeath unto my dear
brother Thomas Galbreath and my good friend Thomas Willcocks of
Broad Street London Haberdasher their executors administrators
and assigns all my stock in trade book debts ready money
household furniture and lease of my present messuage or tenement
and premises situate in Wood Street aforesaid upon trust to sell
and dispose of such part thereof as are saleable either by
publick sale or private contract for the best price or prices
that can or shall be had or gotten for the same and from and
after such sale and my debts shall be collected in and received
then upon trust to pay my funeral expenses and the charges of
proving this my will and all the charges attending such sale and
after payment thereof then upon trust to pay off my just
creditors their several and respective debts but in case there
shall not be sufficient to pay twenty shillings in the pound then
I do hereby order my said trustees to divide the same between all
my said creditors in equal shares and proportions so far as the
same will extend without any priority or preference given to any
one creditor and as to all the rest residue and remainder of my
Estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature
or kind soever after first paying all my just debts funeral
expenses and the charges of proving this my will and other
outgoings ....
I give devise and bequeath the same unto my said dear
brother Thomas Galbreath to and for his own use and
benefit
and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said
brother Thomas Galbreath and my friend Thomas Willcocks joint
executors of this my will hereby revoking and making void all
former and other will and wills by me at any time heretofore made
and do declare this to be and contain my last will and testament
in witness whereof I the said William Galbreath the Testator have
to this my will contained in one sheet of paper set my hand and
seal this eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty five
Signed W. Galbreath
Signed sealed published and declared by the said William
Galbreath the Testator as and for his last will and testament in
the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the
presence of each other have subscribed our names as witness
hereto, Thomas Walbrook, Wm. Burkitt, Rd. Johnson
This Will was proved at London the tenth day of
March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty five before Worshipfull Andrew Coltree Ducarel Doctor of
Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doctor of
Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of Thomas Galbreath
the brother of the deceased and Thomas Willcocks the executors
named in the said will to whom administration of all and singular
the goods chattells and credits of the said deceased was granted
they having first sworn duly to administer.
PCC will (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) 1785
GALBREATH, William, London Mar 131
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