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SHAKSPERE'S WILL,

Extracted from the Registry of the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY.

Vicesimo quinto die Martii, Anno Regni Domini nostri Jacobi nunc Regis Angliæ, &c. decimo quarto, & Scotia quadragesimo nono. Anno Domini 1616.

In the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspere, of Stratford upon Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent. in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following; that is to say:

First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof that is made.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Judith one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful English moncy, to be paid unto her in manner and form following; that is to say, one hundred pounds in discharge of her marriage portion, within one year after

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London Printed for J.Bell, British Library Strand, Sept. 26th 1786.

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