This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Mepham of the Parish of Bisley in the 
County of Surrey Spinster as follows (that is to say) In the first place I direct that all such 
debts as I shall justly owe at the time of my decease together with my funeral and 
testamentary charges and expenses be fully paid and satisfied by my Executrixes hereinafter 
named  And subject thereto I give and bequeath all my personal estate and effects whatsoever 
and of what nature or kind soever unto my sisters Mary Mepham and Martha Mepham 
their executors administrators and assigns  Upon Trust to convert into money all such part or 
parts thereof as shall not consist of money or securities for money  And to call in and compel 
payment of all such parts thereof as shall consist of money out upon security at interest or 
otherwise  And also to collect and get in all debts which shall be owing to me at the time of 
my decease in such manner as they shall think fit  And I hereby declare and direct that the 
said Mary Mepham and Martha Mepham and the survivor of them and the executors and 
administrators of such survivor shall stand and be possessed of the monies I may be entitled 
to at the time of my decease and the monies to arise from the sale and conversion of my said 
personal estate Upon Trust to pay retain and divide the same unto and amongst and between 
my Brothers James Richard and George my said sisters Mary and Martha and my sisters 
Jane Ann Hannah and Charlotte and my Brother in Law Henry Sherwood or such of 
them as shall survive me or shall depart this life in my lifetime leaving lawful issue who 
being a son or sons shall attain the age of Twenty one years or who being a daughter or 
daughters shall attain that age or marry to be divided between them in equal shares and 
proportions according to the number of stocks and not to the number of individual objects as 
tenants in common  I give and devise unto my said sisters Mary Mepham and Martha 
Mepham and their heirs all that my undivided moiety of and in all that messuage or tenement 
with the garden ground outhouses land and appurtenances thereunto belonging containing by 
estimation one acre (be the same more or less) situate lying and being near Hook Lane at the 
West End of the Parish of Chobham in the said County of Surrey and now in the tenure or 
occupation of Joseph Granger and         Crane Together with all other my real estate 
whatsoever and wheresoever situate lying or being with their rights members and 
appurtenances To hold the same unto and to the use of the said Mary Mepham and Martha 
Mepham their heirs and assigns for ever as Tenants in common and not as joint Tenants  And 
Lastly I hereby nominate and appoint my said sisters Mary Mepham and Martha Mepham 
Executrixes of this my last will and hereby revoking and making void all former and other 
will and wills by me at any time heretofore made I declare this only to be my last Will and 
testament  In witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Mepham the Testatrix have to this my last 
Will and Testament subscribed my name this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty - Elizabeth Mepham
Signed declared Acknowledged by the said Elizabeth Mepham the Testatrix as and for her 
last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time and who in her 
presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names 
as witnesses attesting the same - S??an Downer Dean Clerk to Mr. Jno. Mears Sol.r Bagshot 
Surrey - Sarah Gosden Bisley Surrey

Proved at London 11th July 1853 before the Worshipful Thomas Spink Doctor of Laws and 
Surrogate by the oath of Mary Mepham Spinster the Sister one of the Executrixes to whom 
Admon was granted having bee first sworn duly to Administer Power reserved of making the 
like Grant to Martha Mepham Spinster the Sister also the other Executrix when she shall 
apply for the same.