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This is the last Will and Testament of me William Wrathall of Tooley Street in the Borough of Southwark, Wine Merchant. In the first place I order and direct all my just debts and funeral and Testamentary expenses to be fully paid and satisfied, to and with the payment of which, I subject and charge all my Estate and Effects of what nature or kind soever, and I hereby likewise order and direct my Executors, hereinafter named, forthwith to pay and discharge all and every the debts now owing of my late Uncle, William Wrathall, of Burnsall in the County of York, and which are entered in my own handwriting in my pocket ledger folio 92 and numbered from one to ten, and with the payment of which I likewise subject and charge all my Estate and Effects of what nature or kind soever. I hereby give and bequeath the follow legacies viz. To the Revd. Bland, my Executor hereinafter named, the sum of one hundred pounds. To William Wrathall, son of my late uncle, Stephen Wrathall, the sum of one hundred pounds. To Benjamin Ellis, George William Ellis and Ellen Ellis the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings each, and I hereby give and bequeath unto Ann Hicks, sister of my late wife, an annuity or yearly sum of twenty five pounds a year to be paid to her during her natural life quarterly, the first quarterly payment thereof to be made within three calendar months after my decease and which sum or annuity of twenty five pounds per annum is intended to be over and above any sum or sums of money which I may be indebted to her at the time of my decease, and I hereby give and bequeath unto John Knight, Son of the late John Knight, Master Mariner, now residing with me, all my moiety or share in the Goodwill of my Business now carried on by me in Tooley Street aforesaid, and I hereby direct authorise and empower my Executors, hereinafter named, to lend and advance unto the said John Knight the sum of four hundred pounds upon the security of the Bond of the said John Knight and his Mother, with interest at the rate of four percent per annum, and which sum I direct to be lent him for the purpose of carrying on such share in the said business. I hereby give, devise and bequeath all and every, the freehold and leasehold messuages, lands, tenements, credits and real and personal Estate whereof and whereto I, or any person or persons in trust for me, am are or is, seized or entitled or which I have power to give or dispose of by this my will, not hereinbefore disposed of, and all other my Estate whatsoever and wheresoever in possession or reversion with the appurts, unto and to the use of the Reverend Stephen Bland of Burnsall in the County of York and the the Reverend John Knight of Heylesbury? In the County of Wilts, their heirs, Executors, admors? and assigns for ever according to the nature of the said Estates respectively upon the trusts nevertheless hereinafter contained of, and concerning the same viz. Upon trust, and I do hereby authorise, empower and direct my said Trustees, or Trustee for the time being, with all convenient speed after my decease, to make sale and dispose of my said freehold and leasehold Estates and also of all the copyhold or Customary Messuages , lands, tenements and credits of, or to which, I, or any person in trust for me, may be seized or entitled at the time of my decease, either together or in parcels and by public auction or private contract for the most money that can reasonably be obtained for the same, and with liberty to buy in and resell the same at discretion and also subject to special and other conditions of sale, and also to make sale, dispose of and convert into money in such manner as they shall deem most eligible, such parts of my said personal Estate as shall not consist of money or securities for money and to receive, recover and get in the remainder thereof but with power to allow the continuance, at discretion, of funded and Mortgage securities, and to stand possessed, and interested in, the proceeds of such real and personal Estate when and as the same shall be received upon trust to invest the same in their, or his own, names or name, in the purchase of stock in same or one of the public funds or upon Government or real securities in England at Interest and do and shall from time to time alter, vary and transpose the said trust monies so to be laid out and invested as aforesaid, and all other stocks, funds and securities for, or into, other stocks, funds or securities of the like nature at their, or his, discretion, and I hereby declare that they, the said Revd. Stephen Bland and Revd. John Knight, and the survivor of them and the heirs, Executors and admors ? of such a survivor, shall stand seized and possessed of, and interested in, the said stocks, funds and securities and other, my Bond trust Estate, upon the trusts following viz. In trust in the first place to pay my said debts, funeral and Testamentary expenses and the legacies and annuity given by this my will, and also the said debts of my said late Uncle William Wrathall, and as to all the residue of my said Trust Estate in trust for my Niece, Emily Hartley, daughter of my late Sister, Susannah Hartley of Grassington in the said County of York, deceased, until she arrives at the age of twenty one years and then upon trust to assign and transfer the same unto my said Niece, Emily Hartley, absolutely, and I hereby declare that it shall be lawful to and for the said Revd. Stephen Bland and Revd. John Knight, and the survivor of them and the Exors and admors of such survivor, to pay and apply all or any part of the dividends, interest and annual proceeds of the said trust Estate during the suspence? of its vesting, for, or towards, the maintenance, support and education of my said Niece in such manner as she or they shall think proper, and I hereby declare that the receipt of my said Trustees and Executors for the time being shall effectually discharge any purchaser or other person paying money under this my will, or the trusts thereof, and I hereby nominate and appoint my said friends, the said Revd. Stephen Bland, the Revd. John Knight, Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and annulling all former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made, and I hereby direct that my said Executors and Trustees shall each of them be answerable for his and their own acts, receipts and defaults only and not one for the other of them, and that they shall not be answerable for any loss or miscarriage by any security or securities that may happen in my Estate, and also that they shall retain and reimburse themselves all costs, charges and expenses incurred in, or in relation to, the trusts of this my will. In Witness whereof I, the said William Wrathall, have, to this my last Will and Testament, contained in one sheet of paper and written on three sides thereof, set my hand and seal this third day of ffebruary one thousand eight hundred and forty one – Wm. Wrathall – Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said William Wrathall, the Testator, as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who, in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other, subscribed our names as witnesses hereto, the word “five” on the eighteenth line of the first side of this sheet of paper, the words “ during her natural life” on the nineteenth line of the same side, the word “my” on the twenty fifth line of the same side and the words “their heirs, Executors, admors and assigns for ever according to the nature of the said Estate” on the ninth line of the second side of this sheet of paper having been first interlined and also the words “ to the Revd. Stephen Bland, my Executor, hereinafter named, the sum of one hundred pounds” on the fourteenth line of the first side of this sheet of paper. H. De Jersey, 162, Aldergate Street - Richd. Knight, 149, Tooley St.
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