I JOHN GREENWOOD of Blacknest in the Parish of Binsted in the County of Southampton Husbandman do declare this to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoking any Wills or Testamentary dispositions which I may before have made. I direct that all my just debts funeral and testamentary Expenses be paid by my Executors hereinafter named as soon after my decease as can conveniently be done from my personal Estate. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife MARY GREENWOOD the sum of twenty pounds and I direct my Executors to pay her the same within one month next after my decease. I also give and bequeath unto my said Wife all my provisions liquors fuel and other articles of household consumption that shall be in and about the house wherein I may reside at the time of my decease. I also bequeath to my said Wife all my wearing apparel. I give and bequeath unto my good friends WILLIAM WESTMACOTT of Binsted aforesaid Labourer and JOHN COLE of Farnham in the County of Surrey Publican my household goods and furniture books watch plate glass linen woollen and china except my said wearing apparel. Upon trust that they or the survivor of them his Executors or Admons do and shall permit my said Wife to make use of the same during her life if she shall so long remain my widow and I direct that an Inventory thereof be made as soon after my decease as can conveniently be done and signed by my said Wife and kept by my said Trustees but my said Wife is not to be answerable or accountable for the reasonable wear and tear of the same effects in the use thereof and from and immediately after the decease or marriage again of my said Wife I direct that the same household goods furniture and effects shall be sold by Public Auction and the money thereto arising divided into three equal parts and I five and bequeath one third part thereof unto my daughter MARY the Wife of GEORGE SPIER of Binsted aforesaid Sawyer and one other third part thereof unto my daughter LUCY the Wife of WILLIAM WILKINSON of Wrecclesham in the parish of Farnham aforesaid Labourer and as to the other third part thereof I direct may said Trustees or Trustee or the Trustees or Trustee of this my last Will for the time being shall stand possessed thereof upon Trust to pay the same as hereinafter directed. I give and devise unto my said Wife MARY GREENWOOD all that my freehold messuage outhouses buildings and garden with the appurts thereto belonging now in my occupation situate at Blackest in the parish of Binsted aforesaid and which I purchased of GEORGE SPIER and also all that my freehold messuage outhouses buildings and garden with the appurts thereto belonging also situate at Blacknest aforesaid now in the occupation of DAVID OTHEN and which I purchased of FRANCIS WORKMAN and also all that my freehold messuage outhouses buildings and garden with the appurts thereto belonging called the W---- -- House situate at Southay in Binsted aforesaid now in the occupation of ELI OTHEN and which I purchased of WILLIAM PAMPLIN to hold my said several messuages outhouses buildings gardens heredits and premises unto and to the use of my said Wife MARY GREENWOOD and her assigns for any during the term of her natural life if she shall so long continue my widow and immediately on the decease or marriage again of my said Wife I give and devisee all and singular my said several messuages outhouses buildings gardens heredits and premises with their respective appurts unto and the use of the said WILLIAM WESTMACOTT and JOHN COLE and their heirs and I declare that the said WILLIAM WESTMACOTT and John COLE and the survivor of them and his heirs do and shall stand possessed by the same heredits and premises Upon the Trusts hereinafter expressed and declared remaining the same respectively that is to say as to the messuage outhouses buildings gardens and premises now in my occupation and which I purchased of GEORGE SPIER hereinbefore mentioned Upon Trust to permit my daughter MARY SPIER to reside in occupy and make use of the same during her natural life or otherwise permit he to receive the rents and profits thereof during that period for her own sole separate and absolute use and I declare that her receipts for such rents and profits shall alone notwithstanding her coverture be good discharges for so which money as in such receipts shall be expressed to be revised and from and immediately after the decease of my said daughter MARY SPIER Upon Trust to permit the said GEORGE SPIER her husband if he shall survive his said Wife to occupy and enjoy the same messuage heredits and premises lastly mentioned or to receive the rents and profits thereof for his own use benefit for and during the term of his natural life and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them the said MARY SPIER and GEORGE SPIER Upon Trust to sell the same messuage heredits and premises lastly mentioned either by public auction or private contract for the best price that can be obtained for the same and pay the money therein arising (after deducting the expenses attending the sale thereof) unto and equally between the children of my said daughter Mary as well ass those living at the time of my deceased as those which may be born afterward and if there shall be but one such child then to pay the whole thereof to such only child to whom I do hereby give and bequeath the same accordingly. And as to the messuage outhouses buildings and garden with their appurts which I purchased of FRANCIS WORKMAN secondly herein before mentioned Upon Trust to permit my said daughter Lucy to reside in occupy and make use of the same for and during the term of her natural life or otherwise to permit her to receive the rents issues and profits thereof during that period for her own sole separate and absolute use and I declare that her receipts for such rents and profits shall not withstanding her coverture be good discharges for so which money as in such receipts shall be expressed to be received and immediately after the decease of my said daughter LUCY WILKINSON upon trust to permit the said WILLIAM WILKINSON her husband if her shall survive his said Wife to occupy and enjoy the same last mentioned messuage heredits and premises or to receive and take the rents issued and profits thereof for his own sue and benefit for his natural life and after the decease of the survivor of them the said LUCY WILKINSON and WILLIAM WILKINSON Upon Trust to sell the above mentioned messuage heredits and premises by public auction or private contract for the best price that can be obtained for the same and pay the money therein arising (after deducting the expenses attending the sale thereof) unto and equally between the children on my said daughter LUCY WILKINSON as well those living at my decease as those which May be born afterward and if there shall be but one child then to pay the whole thereof to such only child and as to the aforesaid messuage outhouses buildings garden premises called The W------ House with the appurts which I purchased of WILLIAM PAMPLIN Upon Trust to sell and dispose of the same as soon as conveniently may be after the decease of my said Wife either by public auction or private contract for the best price that can be obtained for the same and I declare that my said Trustees or Trustee or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will do and stand possessed of the money arising from such sale after deducting the expenses thereof Upon Trust to pay the same as hereinafter directed. I give and bequeath unto the said WILLIAM WESTMACOTT and JOHN COLE all the residue of my personal Estate of every kind Upon Trust that they or the survivor of them his Executors or Admons do and shall convert into money collect and get in such parts thereof as may be converted or outstanding and invest the money to arise therefrom with any other moneys which may constitute part of any said residuary personal Estate in their or his names or name in the public stocks or funds or on Government Securities of the United Kingdom or on good private real security in England and do and shall pay the annual income of the said moneys or of the stocks funds or securities whereon the same shall be invested into or permit the same income to be received by my said Wife for her life if she shall so long continue my Widow to whom I do thereby bequeath the same income for her own use and benefit accordingly and from and immediately after the decease or marriage again of my said Wife I direct the Trustees or Trustee of this my Will for the time being to sell and convert the same Trust Socks funds and securities into money and divide the same money into three equal parts and pay one third part thereof to my said daughter MARY and one other third part thereof to may said daughter LUCY to whom I do hereby give and bequeath the same to and for their own use and benefit respectively and as to the remaining third part of the same money and also as to the remaining one third part of the money to arise from the sale of my said household goods furniture and effects therein before directed to be sold on the decease of my said Wife. And also as to the money to arise from the sale (after the decease of my said Wife) of the before mentioned messuage heredits and premises called W----- House with the appurts I will and direct that my said Trustees or Trustee or the Trustees or Trustee of this my Will for the time being do and shall pay the same into and equally between all the children of my late daughter HANNAH WILKINSON deceased or her only child if but one who shall be living at the time of my decease to whom I do hereby bequeath the same accordingly provided always and I hereby declare and direct that if any of my Grandchildren Children of my said daughters MARY and LUCY or either of them shall be under the age of twenty one years at the time of the decease or the survivor of my said Wife and the respective parents of any such Grandchildren or if any of my Grandchildren Children of my said daughter HANNAH shall be under the said age at the time of the decease of my said Wife I direct the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will to invest the shares or share of such Grandchildren or Grandchild so being under that age in the names or name of such Trustees or Trustee in the public stocks or funds or Government Securities of the United Kingdom or on good private real security in England and during the minority of any such Grandchild to apply the whole or such part as they or he may think expedient of the annual income yielded by the share of any such Grandchild so invested in or towards his or her maintenance and education the unapplied income thereof to be accumulated by investing the same in manner aforesaid and the accumulations to be added to the capital and disposed of according to the Trusts hereby declared of the same share. And I empower the said Trustees or Trustee during the minority of any such Grandchild to apply the whole or any part of his or her share or accumulations thereon in or towards his or her advancement or preferment in the World or otherwise for his or her benefit provided also. And I hereby will and direct that if any one or more of my Grandchildren children of my said daughters MARY LUCY and HANNAH or either of them should be under th age of twenty one years without leaving lawful issue living at his her or their decease then as with the original share of shares of him her or them so dying as aforesaid as also the stocks or shares arising to him her or them under this present proviso or so wish respective preferment advancement in th World by virtue or in pursuance of the power or authority hereinbefore contained shall go arrive and belong to the others or other of the children or child of the same parent whose children or child shall so die under the age of twenty one years without leaving issue as aforesaid and if more than one in equal shares as Tenants in Common provided also and I further declare in case my said daughters MARY and LUCY or either of them should not have any issue who shall live to attain the age of twenty one years or who dying under that age shall have issue living at his or her death then the said shares or share intended for such daughters or daughter respectively and their or respective issue shall be in Trust for the person or persons who shall at the death of each of my said daughters MARY and LUCY be of her blood and kin and under the Statutes for the distribution of the effects of Intestates would be entitled to the personal Estate of each such daughter in the event of her dying Intestate and surviving her husband and be divided between and among such persons from that one in the shares or which personal Estate would in that event be divisible among them provided also that in case no child of my said late daughter HANNAH living at my decease shall live to attain the age of twenty one years or die under that age leaving issue at his or her decease then the share or shares intended for the said children or child of my said daughter HANNAH shall go and belong to the person or persons being of my blood and kin who at the time of the decease of the survivor of such children of my said daughter HANNAH under age and without leaving issue as aforesaid would under th Statutes for the distribution for the Estates of Intestates be entitled to my personal Estate in th event of my daughter dying Intestate and surviving my said Wife and be divided between or among such persons if more than one in the shares in which my personal Estate would in that event be divisible among them provided always And I declare notwithstanding the Trusts hereinbefore declared and contained in case my said Trusts or Trustee or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will should be of opinion that it would be expedient or desirable for the support or comfort of my said daughters MARY and LUCY or either of them that marry should be raised by sale or mortgage of the hereditaments and premises or any part thereof heretobefore devised for their respective use or benefit during their lives respectively that then it shall be lawful for the said Trustees or Trustee at any time at the request in writing of my said daughters MARY and Lucy or either of them to sell and dispose of all or any part of the said several heredits and premises for which such daughters so making request may be entitled for life as aforesaid for the most money and best price or prices that can be had or gotten for the same either by public auction of private contract or otherwise to mortgage the same respectively for such sum or sums of money as to them the said Trustees or Trust shall seen reasonable and proper. And I direct the money therein arising to be paid to my said daughter or daughters so making such request as aforesaid whose receipts alone respectively shall be sufficient discharges to the said Trustees or Trustee for the same notwithstanding her coverture or otherwise that the said Trustees or Trustee do and shall at their or his direction pay and apply such money from time to time for the maintenance comfort and support and benefit of any said daughter MARY and LUCY respectively in such way and manner as to the said Trustees or Trustee shall deem fit. And I further will and direct that if any part of the said money shall remain in the hands of my said Trustees or Trust unapplied at the decease of my said daughters MARY and LUCY or either of them the same shall go and be paid to the person or persons who would have been entitled to the money to arise from the sale of the heredits respectively so sold or mortgaged had the power of sale or mortgage not been exercised together also with such moneys as may arise by the sale of the equity or redemption of any of the heredits and premises that may haave been so mortgaged. And I declare that in case the heredits devised by this my Will or any part thereof should be offered for sale by public auction the same may be bought and sold by the Trustees or Trustee for the time being without their or his incurring any liability for any loss which may be occasioned thereby and that the said Estates may be offered for sale under any conditions the said Trustees or Trustee may think proper. And I also declare and direct that the said respective tenants for life or parties entitled to the occupation or to the receipt of the rents and profits of any part of my real Estate by virtue of the trusts aforesaid shall during their lives or until any absolute sale under the power aforesaid shall keep the respective buildings and premises to which or to the occupation or receipt of the rents and profits of which they may be so entitled in tenantable repair and condition and pay all rates quit rents and other outgoings charged and chargeable thereon and sufficiently insure and keep insured the said respective buildings from and against loss or damage by fire. And I empower the Trustees or Trustee of this my Will for the time being from time to time to vary and transpose any of the stocks funds or sureties held on any of the trusts of this my Will for into or upon other stocks funds or securities of a like nature at their or his discretion. And for facilitating the sale or mortgages to be mad under the Trusts hereinbefore ordained I declare that the receipt and receipts of my said Trustees or Trustee or of the Trusts or Trust of this my Will for the time being shall be a good and sufficient discharge and good and sufficient discharges to the purchaser or purchasers mortgage or mortgages of my real Estate or any part or parts thereof for secure money as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed to be received without such purchaser or purchasers mortgagor or mortgagees concerning himself herself or themselves with or being answerable or accountable for the application or applications of the purchase or mortgage money or any part thereof provided always and I declare my Will to be that in case the said WILLIAM WESTMACOTT and JOHN COLE or either of them or any succeeding Trustee should depart this life or decline or become incapable to act in the Trusts created by this my Will or any of them before the said Trusts shall have been fully executed it shall be lawful for my said Wife during her widowhood or in case of her death or marriage for my said daughters MARY SPIER and LUCY WILKINSON or the survivor of them and after the decease of the survivor of th said MARY SPIER and LUCY WILKINSON for the surviving or remaining Trusts or Trustee or the Executors or Admons of the surviving Trustee by any writing under her their or his hand or hands to appoint any person or persons to be a vice Trustee or Trustees for all or any of the purposes aforesaid in conjunction with the surviving or remaining Trustee or Trustees or solely as the rest may require. And I direct that upon the appointment of any such Trustee or Trustees the Trust Estates and funds of which the Trustees or Trustee shall die or decline or become incapable to act shall be conveyed and transferred in such manner to become vested in such vice Trustee or Trustees jointly with the remaining Trustee or Trustees if there be any of the same Estates and funds or if not in the vice Trustee or Trustees only and I declare that the Trustee or Trustees to be appointed as aforesaid shall have the same powers and authorities for all the purposes which he or they shall be so appointed a Trustee or Trustees as if he or they had been originally appointed a Trustee or Trustees for the same purposes by this my Will and I do declare that my said Executors and Trustees shall be at liberty to deduct and retain to th--- of their own use out of the monies that shall come to their hands by virtue of the Trusts of this my Will all such losses costs charges and expenses they or either of them shall or may sustain or be put into and about the Execution of this my Will and the Trusts hereby within ------- and that it shall be lawful for either of my said Executors and trustees to pay and allow his Co-Executor and Trustee all and every part of his reasonable expenses touching or concerning the said Trusts and the Execution of this my Will. And I also direct that my Executors and Trustees shall not be answerable or accountable for any loss or losses that shall or may happen to the said trust moneys and premises by bad securities or otherwise howsoever without their wilful and apparent neglect or default and that the one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the acts receipts defaults or miscarriages of the others or other or their but such of them for his own acts receipts defaults or miscarriages only in the execution of this my Will and the Trusts hereby without ------- And I devise and bequeath all such Estates as are vested in upon any Trusts or by way of mortgage unto and to the se of the said WILLIAM WESTMACOTT and JOHN COLE their heirs Executors and Admons according to the nature of the said Estates upon such Trusts and subject to such equity of redemption as the same respectively shall be liable to and I make nominate constitute and appoint the said WILLIAM WESTMACOTT and JOHN COLE Executors of this my Will and authorise and empower my personal Representative and Representatives or Trustees or Trustee acting for the time being under this my Will to compromise any debt received from ass or being due to my Estate and to adjust and settle by reference or arbitration or otherwise upon such terms as may be thought reasonable after accounts transactions matters and things relating to my estate. In witness whereof I the said JOHN GREENWOOD have to this my last Will and Testament contained in this and the seven preceding sheets of paper set my hand and seal (that is to say) to the seven first sheets my hand and to this eighth and last sheet my hand and seal this fourteenth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven John Greenwood Signed sealed published and declared by the abovenamed JOHN GREENWOOD as and for his last Will and testament the day of the date in the presence of use who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto Wm. Clement Solr. Alton Hants Geo. Trimming Jno. Richardson Clerks to Messrs. Clement Solicitors Alton Hants Proved at London 15th May 1839 before the Judge by the oath of WILLIAM WESTMACOTT the surviving Executor to whom Admon. was granted having ben first sworn by Commission duly to Admon. P.R.O. CATALOGUE REF: PROB 11/1910