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THE WILL OF THOMAS SAVERY. 



"In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Savery, of the 

 Parish of St. Margaret's, AVestminster, in the County of 

 Middlesex, Esquire, being at present sick and weake in body 

 but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be to God 

 for the same, doe make and ordain this my last Will and 

 Testament in manner and forme following, hereby revoking and 

 annulling all former Will and Wills by me at any time hereto- 

 fore made — that is to say — I doe give, devise, and bequeath unto 

 my loving wife, Martha Savery, all my goods, chattels, debts, 

 money, real and personal estate whatsoever, and wheresoever, 

 and all my estate, termes, and interest of and in any invention 

 or inventions by virtue of any letters patents under the Great 

 Seal or by Act of Parliament or otherwise howsoever, and I do 

 make, ordain, constitute and appoint my said loving wife, 

 Martha Savery, full and sole executrix of this my will. In 

 witness whereof I have to this my will, conteyned in this side 

 of paper, sett my hand this 15th day of May, in the year of 

 our Lord, 1715.'' 



The witnesses are Catherine Alexander, Walter Davis, and 

 John Meres, but, so far as we are aware, they are unknown to 

 history. The will was proved by the widow on the 19th of 

 May, so that Savery must have died shortly after executing it, 

 but she seems never to have administered the estate, and 

 accordingly letters of administration, with the will annexed, 

 were granted on the 10th of June, 1796, to Thomas Ladds, who 

 was the executor of one Charles Csesar, a creditor of Savery's. 

 Seeing that so many years elapsed before the estate was wound 

 up, it is probable that Savery's papers survived destruction until 

 the beginning of the last century, and perhaps later. His death 

 was not noticed in the newspapers of the day, and the place of 

 his burial is not known. He would naturally have been interred 

 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, but the register does not contain 

 any entry referring to him. 



