......... county of Dorset Labourer........
...........but reflecting.........
.......after
recommending my soul........... mercies of my
Saviour I dispose (no full stop between ‘saviour’ and ‘I dispose’)
...in the following manner
(viz) first I give........
......... and also in my possession.......
.......enclosed from the waste.........
........goods and furniture I die possessed off .......
...life only excepting one of the beds.........
..........after my decease
the sum of twenty shillings for holding possession of the newly enclosed
plot which with the bed bedstead and furniture thereunto belonging
above mentioned in my bequest.........
....above mentioned do belong to my son George.........
...only and at his decease to be his daughter Mary’s for her own
disposal next my will is that my son James is to have and possess
for his natural life only the House he now occupys with the
garden thereto belonging lying in the parish of Longburton
aforesaid and after his decease my will is that the said house
and garden are to be his eldest son’s named John at his own dis-
posal, and I do constitute and appoint my daughter Mercy Jeans
the sole executrix to this my last will and testament
Signed sealed published and declared this 13th of March 1803 the mark
in the presence of Henry King +
Sarah(?) Winter Penelope King of James Baker
viz = ‘in other words’
It might have been easier to find had you said it came under Wiltshire wills, and not the PCC or Dorset wills!
You have a couple of typos in there - added an 'o' to 'will', and 'cecease' instead of 'decease', which I expect you would have corrected when you checked it.
The bottom is pretty squashed up. But as you can see, after the date '1803', is 'the mark'.
This then follows under the seal with 'of James Baker'.
For future reference, a transcription should be written starting a new line whenever the original starts a new line. That makes it much easier to find a specific word within the will by counting down the lines. (Some documents are huge, and it would be impossible to find anything if you just wrote it all in one long piece without line breaks). It should also be written without 'modernising' spellings, (this doesn't really apply here as it's only from 1803, but as you get further back, spelling was very variable).
'Write what you see' is the best practice advice.
