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Copy of the Will of John Newbery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

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In the name of God. Amen.—I John Newbery of St Paul's Churchyard London Bookseller being weak in Body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory do make publish and declare this my last will and Testament in manner following that is to say; ffirst I desire I may be Buried as private as possible in the Church Yard of the parish of Lawrence Waltham near my late ffather and mother and in the day time if it be convenient and I desire that my Corps may be carried from the Hearse to the grave by six very poor men of the said parish and that six other poor old men of the said parish do support the pall and that each and every of them be paid half a guinea for their trouble and attendance and I order that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall be fully paid and satisfied and after payment thereof I give and bequeath to my dear wife Mary all my Household goods in my dwelling House in Saint paul's Church Yard aforesaid.

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Bookseller of the Last Century
Being Some Account of the Life of John Newbery, and of the Books He Published, with a Notice of the Later Newberys
, pp. 160 - 167
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1885

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