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(LH Margin, near top, STAMPED TENN PENCE QUIRE)
 
Release of a Legacy out of Trewint
To all to whom these presents

 
Shall come I GRACE POMERY of Lantoorn in the Parish of Liskeard in the County of Cornwall Spinster send Greeting WHERAS JOHN POMERY of Lantoorn aforesaid my late deceased Father in and by his last Will and Testament in Writing bearing Date the Twenty fourth Day of September one thousand seven hundred Eighty Three did amongst other Legacies and Bequests herein contained, give and bequeath unto me his said Daughter the Sum of Four Hundred & Fifty Pounds and charged his Estate called Davey’s Trewint in the Parish of Menhenniot with the Payment of one hundred and fifty Pounds and his other Estate in Menhenniot aforesaid called Hellys Trewint with the Payment of the remaining Sum of Three Hundred Pounds – AND WHEREAS the said JOHN POMERY after devising the said Estates to his Son JOSPEPH POMERY subject to the said Legacy (among others) is since dead without altering or revoking his said Will, Reference being there to had will more fully appear NOW KNOW YE that I the said GRACE POMERY for and in Consideration of the said Sum of Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to me now in Hand paid by my said Brother JOSEPH POMERY at or before the Sealing and Delivery hereof, the Payment and Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and thereof and there from and of and from every part there of do acquit release and discharge my said Brother JOSEPH POMERY his Executors Administrators and Assigns as also the said Estates so charged as aforesaid of and from the Payment of the said Legacy and also of and from the Payment of the said Legacy and also of and from all other Debts Dues Claims and Demands whatsoever, of in to or out of the said Estates charged with the Payment of the same or which my Executors or Administrators may
(On the Reverse)
have Claim Challenge or Demand of my said brother JOSEPH POMERY by virtue of the said last Will and Testament of my said Father deceased or otherwise howsoever – In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this fifteenth Day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty Eight.

   

(Signed and Sealed)
G POMERY

Signed sealed and delivered
(being first duly stamped) in the
Presence of ………………….

Wm Reynolds

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Transcribed by Althea Johnson from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection.