This is my Last Will and Testament of me John Willats of 
Addlestone in the Pariish of Chertsey in the in the County of Surrey Gentleman being weak 
of body but of sound and disposing ~ memory and understanding praised be to God for the 
same first I give my body to be duly interred and all my just debts and funeral and testimony 
expenses to be paid immediately after my decease and I Give and Bequeath unto James 
Cosham of  Kensington in the County of Middlesex watchmaker and Richard Bartholomew 
Child of  Spur Street Lancaster Square in the County of Middlesex porter Merchant and the 
survivor of than his Executors Heirs and Assigns all that the sum of one thousand and three 
hundred pounds three pounds per centum annulus cobured Bank Annuities now standing in 
my name and also all the money that may be in the house  household goods furniture plate 
annuities liquors & gaterally the residue of my property whatsoever & wheresoever of 
worth may be possessed of  or entitled until In the first Trust that they aforesaid James 
Cosham & Richard Bartholomew Child and the survivor of them his Executors 
Administrators  and assigns So and Shall from time to time pay and apply allowing to their 
full discretion as I have utmost confidence thereof and all other my property in such parts 
shares & proportions & in such manner to the benefit and advantage of Maria the wife of 
James Buckingham independent of the debts or control of her present or future husband and 
so that the receipts alone of the said Maria Buckingham shall be sufficient discharges under 
this my will for all such sums of money as she may receive under the trusts hereof & to and 
for the benefit and advantage of her two children Sarah Maria Buckingham and Frederick 
Buckingham and the survivors or survivor of them and as to the said Sarah Maria 
Buckingham her receipts alone notwithstanding any husband she may marry shall at all 
times be sufficient discharges for all moneys she may receive under this my Will and so that 
no husband have a the control of the same and so that the same be not liable to his debts and I 
give & bequeath unto Francis the son of the said James Cosham the Legacy or sum of 
nineteen shillings and I also give & bequeath unto the said Richard  Bartholomew Child the 
Legacy or sum of nineteen shillings these Legacies to be paid immediately after my decease 
out of my effects generally I give that the receipts of my said trustees shall be good 
discharges that my said trustees shall not be answerable for more moneys than shall come to 
there hands respectively and that they and shall not accountable for allowable for the arts of 
the others or other of  them That on the death or refusal or inability to act of any trustees or 
trustee the surviving or acting trustee as occasion may require and who may at in the same 
manner as if named inn this my Will and I direct that the trustees or trustee for the time being 
shall reimburse themselves respectively all such expenses as they may reasonably be put uses 
unto in fulfilling the trusts hereof and hereby revoking all former Wills by me at time or 
times how to fore made I declare this only to be my Last I nominate constitute and appoint 
the said James Cosham and Richard Bartholomew Child Trustees and Executors of 
this my Will In witness whereof I the said John Willats have hereto set my hand and seal to 
this eighteenth Day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six ----  John 
Willats ---- [L&S] ---- signed sealed published by the hand John Willats 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 have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto ---
   James Wilson   Royal Navy  ----  R J Cole   Sol. Chertsey II

Proved at London 17th May 1836 before the Right Worshipful John Danbeary 
Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of James Cosham and Richard Bartholomew 
Child the Executors to whom administration was Granted having been first sworn duly to 
administration.

 
 
 
 
Willats John, Gent of Chertsey Will [1751-1836]