This is the Last Will and Testament of me MERCY HILL of Bridge Street in the parish of St Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey widow & hereby confirm the Settlement made on my Grandaughter HENRIETTA HILL bearing date the thirty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty one made between me the said MERCY HILL of the one part and GEORGE SMART and JOHN BALL .. respectively described of the other part and bequeath unto my daughters MARY ANN BUTCHER and SARAH ANDERSON all my clothes linen and wearing apparel equally between them and I Bequeath to my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER my silver teapot and the silver stand usually used there with and I bequeath unto my son JOSEPH HILL the silver watch which belonged to my late husband MOSES HILL and I Bequeath unto MRS MARIA HILL residing at No. 16 Oakley Street in the said Parish of St Mary Lambeth the sum of Ten pounds sterling to be paid immediately or within one week after my decease and I Bequeath unto my said Grandaughter HENRIETTA HILL daughter of the said MARIA HILL and now residing with her the sum of Ten pounds sterling to be paid immediately or within one week after my decease to the said MARIA HILL for mourning and for the immediate maintenance of the said HENRIETTA HILL and for which sum of Ten pounds the receipt and receipts of the said MARIA HILL not withstanding coverture shall be a sufficient discharge to my Exors and I Bequeath unto my said son JOSEPH HILL and to my son WILLIAM HILL the two messuages or tenements adjoining each other situate in SMARTS FIELDS near the YORK Road in the said Parish of Lambeth respectively bequeathed to me by my said late husband and the one of which messuages and tenements is now in the occupation of my said son JOSEPH HILL and the other was lately in the occupation of ROBERT DRAYFOOT with their respective appurts to hold the same for all the Estate term and terms for years for which I am entitled to the same in trust in the first place to save harmless and keep indemnified through my said sons respectively and their respective Exors & Admor’s and their lands and tenements goods and chattels of and from all loss costs charges damages and expenses which they shall or may respectively sustain or incur in respect to the rent and covenant reserved and contained in the lease under which the same premises are held and on the part of the Lessee or assignee to be paid kept done and performed or for or in respect to any matter or thing relative to the said trust premises and subject thereto shall and do stand possessed of and interested in the same messuage or tenements respectively upon the trusts and for the interests and purposes Herein after expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say) as concerning the said messuage or tenement in the occupation of my said son JOSEPH HILL with their appurts in trust during the life of my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER (after paying one moiety of the ground rent and of the Insurance money necessary to be paid and payable in respect of the said two messuages or tenements to pay the rents and profits thereof into the proper hands of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER or unto such person or persons as she shall by any note or writing under her hand and or direct or appoint after the rents and profits for which such order shall be given shall have actually become due and payable but not otherwise to the interest that the said rents and profits and direct that the receipt and receipts of my said daughter or of her appointee or appointees as aforesaid shall allow not withstanding coverture be a good and effectual discharge and discharges for the said rents and profits or for so much thereof as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed to be received and after the decease of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER lawfully begotten and living at the time of my decease or born afterwards who being a son or sons shall live to attain the age of twenty one years of age that are of age or be previously married equally to be divided between them and if but one such child being a son at his age of twenty one years or being a daughter shall attain that age of twenty one years or be previously married but in that there shall not be any child of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER or being such all such children shall die without any of them having acquired a vested interest therein and as to their parts or shares of the said lastly mentioned messuages and tenements and premises in trust for my said two sons JOSEPH and WILLIAM HILL equally to be divided between them and as to the other and remaining one equal third part or share thereof in Trust for my said daughter SARAH ANDERSON and her child SOPHIA ANDERSON upon the same or the like Trusts and in the same or like manner in all respects as are or after by me expressed and declared of and concerning the messuage or tenement herein beforementioned to be lately in the occupation of the said ROBERT DRAYFOOT but in case the said SARAH ANDERSON shall die without having acquired a vested interest in the said one third part and premises then as to the said one third part and premises in Trust for my said two sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL equally to be divided between them and as for recovering(?) the said messuage or tenement lately in the occupation of ROBERT DRAYFOOT with the appurts in trust during the life of my said daughter SARAH ANDERSON after paying one month of the ground rent and of the insurance money necessary to be paid and payable in respect of the said two messuages or tenements to pay the rents and profits thereof to the said SARAH ANDERSON for her sole and separate use under the same or like restrictions in the same or like manner in all respects as I have herein before directed in respect to the payment of the rents and profits of the said other messuage or tenement to my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER as aforesaid and after the decease of the said SARAH ANDERSON in trust for my granddaughter the said SOPHIA ANDERSON and to be an interest vested in her at her age of twenty one years or day of marriage whichever shall first happen But if the said SOPHIA ANDERSON shall be under the age of twenty one years without being or having been married then as to two equal third parts or shares of the said lastly mentioned messuage or tenement and premises in trust for my said sons JOSEPH HILL & WILLIAM HILL equally to be divided between them and as to the other and remaining equal third part or share thereof in trust for my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER and her child and children in the same or like manner in all respects as is herein before by me expressed and declared of and remaining the said messuage or tenement and premises in the occupancy of my said son JOSEPH HILL as aforesaid But if no child of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER shall acquire a vested interest in the said lastly mentioned one third part or share and premises in Trust as to the said lastly mentioned one third part and premises for my sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL equally to be divided between them and provided always and I do hereby declare that if by the failure of the previous trusts either of my said daughters or her child or children shall become entitled or presumptively entitled in possession of the one part or share of either of the said messauages or tenements herein before Bequeathed for her and their benefit in reversion as aforesaid Then it shall be lawful for the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of the said one third part or share and Trust premises by and with the consent of my daughter for the time being entitled thereto if living and if dead then with the consent of the parent or the Guardian or Guardians for the time being of the child or children for the time being presumptively entitled thereto such consent to be testified by some note or writing under their his or her hand and to be attested By two or more credible witnesses to make sale and absolutely dispose of such one third part and premises to which my said daughter or her child or children shall be entitled to or presumptively entitled as aforesaid for such price or consideration in money as shall be thought reasonable and I declare that the receipt or receipts of the Trustees or Trustor for the time being of the said one third part or share and shall be a good and official release and discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the said premises for the purchase money or for so much thereof as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed to be received and that the purchaser or purchasors there of shall not after obtaining such receipt or receipts as aforesaid be obliged to see the application there of or be in anyways answerable or accountable for the loss misapplication or nonapplication thereof of any part thereof and upon Trust to invest the monies to abide by such sale or sales as aforesaid in or upon some or out of the public stocks or funds of Great Britain or at interest upon Government Securities in England and to stand possessed thereof and interests therein upon all such and the same or the life trusts and for all the same or the like interests and purposes as are herein before expressed and declared of and concerning the said undivided third part and premises so sold as aforesaid or as near thereto as circumstances will permit and where as TIMOTHY HILL late of Bridge Street Lambeth aforesaid made his Will in writing dated the thirtieth of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and thereby bequeathed unto JOHN HARBROW herein subscribed all that his leasehold messuage or tenement situate in UNION PLACE, LAMBETH and being No. 19 (?9) upon Trust for my late husband MOSES HILL since deceased for his life and after his decease for me the said MERCY HILL during my life and after the decease of the survivor of the said MOSES HILL and me the said MERCY HILL upon Trust to assign the said leasehold premises unto such person or persons for such interests and purposes as I the said MERCY HILL by my last will and Testament in writing to be by me signed and sealed in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses should give or bequeath direct limit or appoint the same Now I the said MERCY HILL in persuance of the power or authority given limited or reserved to me in and by the said ....... will of the said TIMOTHY HILL deceased and of every other power and authority in me vested or in anywise enabling me on his behalf do by this my last Will and Testament signed sealed and published in the presence of the two or more credible persons whose names are hereunder written as witnesses attesting the execution hereof by me direct limit and appoint that the said JOHN HARBROW his exors and admors and assigns shall from and immediately after my decease stand possessed of the said leasehold messuage or tenement and premises ....... aforesaid bequeathed by the said TIMOTHY HILL as aforesaid in Trust for my said sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL and my son-in-law EDWARD BUTCHER their exors and admors and assigns for all the residue of Estate and interests of the said TIMOTHY HILL ... and direct the said JOHN HARBROW his exors and abutors to assign the same to them the said JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL and EDWARD BUTCHER my exors and admors upon the Trusts hereinafter bequeathed to them and I give and bequeath unto my said sons JOSEPH HILL & WILLIAM HILL and my said son-in-law EDWARD BUTCHER their exors abutors and assigns all those ...my leasehold messuage or tenements situate in OAKLEY STREET and my leasehold messuage or tenement situate in GLASSHOUSE STREET, VAUXHALL respectively in the said Parish of LAMBETH with their respective appurts [section 2 p1.] and also the Rest residue and remainder of my personal estate whatsoever and direct the said JOSEPH HILL, WILLIAM HILL and EDWARD BUTCHER as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to sell dispose and convert the said leasehold interests in UNION PLACE aforesaid and my said residuary estate into money and either together or in parcels and by public sale or auction or by private contract as they shall think proper and in Trust in the first place to pay my debts and particularly the debt secured to the said EDWARD SMART and JOHN BALL if I shall not have satisfied the same in my lifetime and also my funeral and testamentary expenses and in the next place to retain pay satisfy and discharge all such debts and sums of money if any as shall be due and owing to my said sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL or either of them or to the Estate and Effects of my said late son HENRY HILL or his personal representatives for the time being from the said MARIA HILL and all money which may become payable to Government for Legacy Duty on account of any provision made or hereinafter to be made by me by will or otherwise for my said Granddaughter HENRIETTA HILL and her family and her MOTHER the said HENRIETTA HILL [this should read MARIA HILL] any or other of them and subject to the trusts aforesaid shall stand possessed of and interest in the said leasehold premises in UNION PLACE aforesaid and my said residual Personal Estate and the monies to arise by the sale and conversion thereof respectively upon the Trusts following that it is to say As for and returning five equal interests parts or shares of the said trust premises respectively the whole being into sixteen equal parts or shares divided or considered as divided in trust for my said son JOSEPH HILL his exors admors and assigns absolutely subject to the payment thereof to my son WILLIAM HILL of SIXTY SIX POUNDS SIX SHILLINGS and EIGHT PENCE being one SIXTH part or share of the estimate value of the reversion of a freehold messuage or tenement situate at or near GUILDFORD in the County of Surrey of which the said JOSEPH HILL is seized (?) of two third parts and as for and remaining five other equal sixteenth parts or shares of the said trust premises respectively and the said sum of SIXTY SIX POUNDS SIX SHILLINGS and EIGHT PENCE being payed & payable by my said son JOSEPH HILL as aforesaid in Trust for my said son WILLIAM HILL his exors and admors and assigns absolutely as for the remaining three other equal sixteenth parts or shares of the said trust premises respectively in Trust for such person or persons and for such interests and purposes manner and form in all respects as my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER by any note or writing under hand or by her will and Testament in writing notwithstanding coverture shall direct or appoint give or bequath the same in all respects as if she were a firm sole and unmarried and for which the receipt or receipts of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER or of her appointee or appointees (notwithstanding coverture) shall alone be sufficient discharge to my Trustee and Trsustee’s and in case she should not make any such appointment or disposition as aforesaid Then in Trust for the Exors and Abuttors of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER and as for and receiving the other and remaining three equal undivided sixteenth parts or shares of the said Trust premises in Trust for such person or persons and for such interests and purposes manner and form in all respects as my said daughter SARAH ANDERSON by any note in writing under her hand or by her last will and Testament in writing (notwithstanding coverture) shall direct or appoint give or bequeath the same in all respects as if she were a firm sole and unmarried and for which the receipt or receipts of the said SARAH ANDERSON or of her appointee or appointees (notwithstanding coverture) shall alone be a sufficient discharge to my Trustee and Trustees and in case my said daughter SARAH ANDERSON shall not make any such appointment or disposition as aforesaid or shall die in my lifetime then in Trust for the said SOPHIA ANDERSON and to be an interest vested in her at her age of twenty-one years or previous marriage and in case the said SOPHIA ANDERSON shall not aquire a vested interest from the Trust as to TWO equal THIRD parts or shares of the said lastly mentioned three sixteenth fourth parts or shares of the said Trust premises for my said sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL equally to be divided between them and as to the other and remaining one equal third part or share of the said lastly mentioned three sixteenth parts or shares for my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER and her appointed exors and admors in all respects as herein before directed in respect to her original three sixteenth parts or shares of the said lastly mentioned trust premises provided always and I do hereby direct that in making up and calculating my personal Estate and Effects and the monies to arise by the sale and to reversion thereof and of the said leasehold tenements in UNION PLACE for distribution between my said four children as aforesaid the debt and debts sum and sums of money due and owing to me at my decease from my said sons and son-in- law JOSEPH HILL, WILLIAM HILL & EDWARD BUTCHER any or other of them and who shall be or be considered as released or extinguished by the appointments of them respectively indebted to me as aforesaid Exors of this my will shall be calculated or considered and taken as part of my Personal Estate and Effects and that my said sons and son-in-law and my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER respectively shall only have and be entitled to as much of my said residuary Estate and Effects and the monies to arise by sale and conversion thereof and of the said leasehold interests in UNION PLACE aforesaid as with such debts and sums of money respectively so due to me at my decease shall make up their respective five sixteenth parts and three sixteenth parts respectively hereby given or bequeathed to my said sons and daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER as aforesaid provided always and I do hereby direct that the receipt and receipts of my said sons and son-in-law and of the Trustees or Trust of the time being of the said lastly mentioned trust premises shall be good and sufficient release and discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the said leasehold premises in UNION PLACE and of my said Residuary Personal Estate and to every other person who shall pay any money to them by virtue of this my will for for so much money as in said receipt or receipts shall be expressed to be received and that such purchaser or purchasers or person or persons paying the same shall not after obtaining such receipt or receipts be bound or obliged to direct the application or be in anywise answerable or accountable for the loss misappropriation or nonapplication thereof or of any part thereof respectively provided always and I do hereby declare that the debt or sum of money due to me for my Nurse MARY MASON and secured to me by an assignment by way of Mortgage of her money of and in the said funds set apart under an order of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY for the payment of an Annuity or Annuities to her Mother AMELIA BRAGG or the interest of the said debt or any part theirof respectively shall not be required to be paid by my said Nurse MARY MASON to my said Trustees Exors and residuary Legatees during the life of the said AMELIA BRAGG if my said Nurse shall live so long But the said debt and the accrued and accruing interest thereon shall remain on the aforesaid Security during the life of the said AMELIA BRAGG unless the said funds shall from any unforseen circumstance become transferrable to the said MARY MASON in her Mother’s lifetime provided always and I do hereby declare that if my said sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL or either of them or my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER shall die in my life time leaving a Child or Children him her or them respectively surviving them and in those cases or virtue of them the Child and Children of my said sons and of my said daughter so respectively dieing who being a Son or Sons shall live to attain the age of twenty one years or being a Daughter or Daughters shall live to attain that age or be previously married shall have and be entitled in equal shares to the parts or shares of my said Estate and Effects respectively to which my said Sons and Daughter so respectively dying as aforesaid would have been entitled if he she or they had respectively survived me provided always and I do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for my Trustees and Trustee for the time being to pay and apply the interest dividends annual or other produce of the Trust premises respectively towards any of my said Grandchildren shall be presumptively entitled as aforesaid for the maintenance education and support of my Grand-child or Grand-children respectively who for the time being shall be presumptively entitled thereto until he she or they shall acquire a vested interest therein or previously die and that notwithstanding the Father of such Grand- child or Grand-children shall be living and capable of maintaining him her or them provided always and I do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for the Trustees and Trustee for the time being of the trust premises respectively hereby appointed and bequeathed as aforesaid by any note or writing under their or his hands or hand to nominate and appoint any additional Trustee or Trustees or any now Trustee or Trustees of the Trust promises in the room or stead of any Trustee or Trustees who shall so die desire to be discharged or refuse ... or become incapable to act and which additional and new Trustee and Trustees shall thereupon be invested with all the Trust powers and authorised by this my will created and to which they shall be appointed as aforesaid as if and or they had been hereby appointed a Trustee or Trustees thereof provided always and I do hereby declare that the Trustees of this my will and my Exors hereinafter named or their respective uxors or admors shall not be accountable the one for the other or others of them but each of them for his own atts receipts and ..... only and not for any involuntary losses and that they shall be allowed and may retain all costs charges damages and expenses occasioned to them respectively in about or relating to the due execution of this my Will and the Trusts thereof and I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made and I appoint my said sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL and my son-in-law EDWARD BUTCHER and the said GEORGE SMART and JOHN BALL EXECUTORS of this my last Will and Testament contained in SEVEN SHEETS OF PAPER and a duplicate orig set my hand and seal this second day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty two........... the mark of “+” MERCY HILL [SS] Signed sealed and published by the said Testatrix MERCY HILL in the presence of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Sarah NICHOLAS - Ann CORBETT - No 8 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth. THIS IS A CODICIL to the Will of me MERCY HILL of even date herewith in case my daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER shall die in my lifetime then I give the three sixteenth parts or shares by my said will given to my said daughter and her ... .. interest in one other sixteenth part or share of my Estate and Effects as in my said will is mentioned to my said son-in-law EDWARD BUTCHER but if the said EDWARD BUTCHER and MARY ANN his wife shall both die in my life time Then I give two of the said lastly mentioned three sixteenth parts or shares and the said renting out interest in the said one sixteenth part or shares to my sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL equally and to their children as in my said Will is mentioned and the other one sixteenth part of my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER I give to my said daughter SARAH ANDERSON and her child SOPHIA ANDERSON in all respects as I have given three other sixteenth parts or shares to my said daughter SARAH ANDERSON and her child SOPHIA and if the said SOPHIA ANDERSON shall not acquire a vested interest therein then I give the same to my said sons equally and to their children as aforesaid As witness my hand the second day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty two - the mark “+” of MERCY HILL witnesses to the signature of Mercy Hill, Sarah NICHOLAS = Ann CORBETT *#. This is a Second Codicil to the will of me MERCY HILL late of BRIDGE STREET but now of HERCULES BUILDINGS Lambeth in the County of Surrey widow and which will bears date the second day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Now I do by this Codicil of my said will in exercise of the power for that purpose given or reserved to me by the Indenture of Settlement bearing date the thirty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone mentions or referred to in my said will direct and appoint that in lieu of the several trusts powers and authorities in and by the same Indenture declared of and concerning the Bank Annuities thereby covenanted by me to be transferred but which hath not been done and of the dividends those of the said Bank Annuities and every part thereof and dividend thereof shall belong to and be in Trust for my exors and admors and for part of my personal Estate discharged of the Trusts thereby created and I do hereby REVOKE the legacies of one half of my clothes linen and wearing apparel and of the silver tea pot and stand usually used therewith by my said will respectively bequeathed to my daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER and I hereby give the same one half of my clothes linen and wearing apparel and the said silver tea pot and stand unto my sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL in Trust for such person or persons and for such interests and purposes as the said MARY ANN BUTCHER shall by any note or notes in writing under her hand whether overt or solely direct or appoint and in default of and until such direction or appointment in Trust to permit her to have the use benefit and enjoyment thereof for her separate and sole use and benefit as a f... sole and free from the control constraints any .... cuts or intermeddling of her husband EDWARD BUTCHER and if the said MARY ANN BUTCHER shall not make any such appointment or appointments as aforesaid the said articles and things and things or such part or parts thereof to which such direction or appointment shall not extend shall be held as part of my Residuary Estate and hereby REVOKE the legacies of ten pounds and ten pounds (sic) by my said will given to MARIA HILL and HENRIETTA HILL therein respectively named and I do hereby give the sum of five pounds sterling to both of them the said MARIA HILL and HENRIETTA HILL and I direct that the same legacies respectivly shall be paid in the same or the like manner in all respect as in my said will directed in regard to the said two Legacies of ten pounds respectively hereby revoked and I give unto my Granddaughter the said HENRIETTA HILL one Annuity of Fifteen pounds twelve shillings during her life for her seperate use notwithstanding coverture to be paid weekly and the first payment thereof to be made at the order of the first week after my decease and her receipts to be valid discharges with a power to apply the same for her maintenance during minority and I direct that sufficient three pounds per Cont Consolidated Bank Annuities shall be invested in the names of my Exors for the payments thereof and that after her decease the same Bank Annuities shall form part of my Residuary Estate and I hereby revoke the appointment of my sons JOSEPH HILL and WILLIAM HILL as Exors of my said Will and appoint my said nephew WILLIAM PRESTIGE to be an exor with my other Exors therein named and not hereby revoked and I hereby REVOKE the appointment of the said EDWARD BUTCHER as an Executor and Trustee of my said Will and I hereby revoke all Legacies and bequests by my said Will and by my first Codicil thereto of even date therewith given or bequeathed to him beneficially or otherwise and I hereby direct that JOHN HARBROW in my said Will named shall stand possessed of the Leasehold Messuage or Tenement and premises situate in UNION PLACE LAMBETH by my said will appoints as therein mentioned Interest for and I do hereby in exercise of all powers given me for that purpose by TIMOTHY HILL in my said Will named appoint the said premises into the said WILLIAM PRESTIGE and JOHN BALL upon the Trusts hereinafter declared or referred to and I hereby bequeath my leasehold Messuages or Tenements in OAKLEY STREET and VAUXHALL STREET and all the residue of my Personal Estate into the said WILLIAM PRESTIGE and JOHN BALL and I direct them forthwith after my decease to sell dispose of and convert into money the said Messuage or Tenement in UNION PLACE and my said other Houses and Residual Personal Estate in the same or the like manner with a power to give receipts for the monies to arise therefrom as directed by my said Will and out of the monies to arise by such sale and conversion to pay my just debts fiuneral and testamentary expenses and legacies payable by virtue of my said Will and not hereby revoked and this my second Codicil and the Legacy duly payable on the said sums of five pounds the said annuity of fifteen pounds twelve shillings bequeathed to the said HENRIETTA HILL and her Mother and after the payment thereof shall stand possessed of the residue thereof upon the same or the like trusts interests and purposes as in my said Will and first Codicil and directed of my said residuary Estate (save and except any benefit thereby respectively given to the said EDWARD BUTCHER and the ultimate trust thereby declared if the shares of my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER therein) which in the event of her death without making any appointment thereof as in my said will is mentioned shall ... and belong to the next of kin of my said daughter MARY ANN BUTCHER as if she had died intestate and unmarried instead of her uxors or admors as in my said will is directed and I hereby empower my exors and personal representatives for the time being of their or his own proper authority and discretion and for the exercise of which they shall not be answerable to any person or persons whomsoever to compromise all or any of the debts due to my Estate and to accept any part or parts thereof in full for the whole thereof respectively and to submit all or any of the claims made on or by them to arbitration and to abide by and fulfill the award made on every such reference and to release such debts respectively and in all things to act in my affairs as if the same were their own and they were alone and beneficially interested and Do hereby confirm my said Will and the first Codicil thereto in all respects in which the same are not hereby revoked altered or varied IN WITNESS whereof my name is hereunder written this twenty ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Mercy Hill we the undersigned hereby declare that the name of the Testatrix Mercy Hill was written in her presence and was acknowledged by her in the presence of both of us and that our names were respectively hereunder written in the presence of Mercy Hill and of each other, MARY MASON & THOMAS MAJOR. on the second day of December 1839 APPEARED PERSONALLY THOMAS MAJOR of 95 LONDON ROAD SOUTHWARK in the County of Surrey, Gentleman and made oath that he is one of the subscribing witnesses to the execution of the second Codicil to the Will of MERCY HILL late of HERCULES BUILDINGS LAMBETH in the said Count of Surrey widow deceased that he was present together with MARY MASON spinster at the house of the said deceased at the time of the execution of the said Codicil (which is now hereunto annexed beginning thus *# This is a second Codicil to the Will of me MERCY HILL, ending thus, this twenty ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and is thus subscribed “MERCY HILL”) and the Deponent further saith that he observed that previously to the acknowledgement or execution of the said Codicil by the said Deceased two interlineations had been made in the said Codicil to whit that now appearing between the seventh and eighth lines from the top of the second side thereof consisting of the words ‘for her seperate use not withstanding any overture” and the second interlineation arranged between the script and with lines from the top of the same side and consisting of the following words namely “and her receipts to be valid discharges with power to apply the same for her maintenance during minority” and the Deponent lastly made oath that on the twenty ninth day of March last being the day of the date of the said Codicil the signature of the said MERCY HILL was written at the foot of the said Codicil by the said MARY MASON at the request of the said deceased and in her presence and in the presence of Deponent and was acknowledged by the said deceased in the presence of the Deponent and of the said MARY MASON both then being present at the same time and who were thereupon respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to the said execution of the said Codicil in the presence of the said deceased and of each other THOS MAJOR on the same day the said THOMAS MAJOR was duly sworn to the truth of this Affadavit before me JOHN C.P. ROBERTSON, Surrogate HENRY SMALE N.P. PROVED at London with two Codicils 7th December 1839 before the Worshipful Jsce ADDAMS Doctor of laws and Surrogate by the oath of WILLIAM PRESTIGE (in the second Codicil written PRESTAGE) the Nephew the Exor named in the second Codicil to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer GEORGE SMART and JOHN BALL the Exors. named in the Will having renounced Probate of the said Will and Codicils (As by acts of Court appears.) END Transcribed: Sue (HILL) Woods, 23 Sep 2002 End page one Margin Note: “ May before her sole and separate use independently of her present or any future husband and to this extent that he may not make any assignment or appointment by way of anticipation of the said rents and profits” Margin Note: “In trust for the child and children of the said MARY ANN BUTCHER”. SARAH replaces SOPHIA ... crossed out. End page 2 original document SARAH deleted and replaced with SOPHIA FOURTH line through and underlined Later inserted ‘at my decease’ Later inserted ‘and who’ Later inserted ‘to arise’ Inserted later ‘required to be’ End page 5 Crossed out ‘the said George Smart and’ Inserted ‘and a duplicate orig’ Margin note: Inter...