This is the last Will and Testament of me William Cobbett of Kingston upon Thames 
in the County of Surrey Malster I hereby appoint William Turner the younger of East 
Molesey in the Said County Victualler and Christopher Bythewood of Kingston 
aforesaid Glazier and Painter to be Executors of this my Will and I do hereby 
authorize empower and direct them or the survivor of them and the heirs and assigns 
of such survivor to make sale and dispose of all my copyhold or customary 
messuage or Tenement Malthouse and Premises now in my own occupation situate 
on the south side of London street in Kingston aforesaid and holden of the manor of 
Kingston Canbury otherwise Canonbury and all other my real estates whatsoever 
and wheresoever with all convenient speed after my decease either by public auction 
or private contract for the most money that can be reasonably obtained for the same 
and I hereby will and declare that the receipt or receipts of the said William Turner 
and Christopher Bythewood or the survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such 
survivor shall be an effectual discharge or effectual discharges in Law and Equity to 
the purchasers of my said estate for his her or their purchase money and that such 
purchaser or purchasers shall not be answerable or accountable for the loss 
application misapplication or non application of his her or their purchase money  after 
having obtained such receipt or receipts for the same as aforesaid and the money 
which shall arise from the sale of my said estates after deducting all the costs and 
charges attending the same I will and direct shall become part of my personal estate 
and I give to my said Executors and to two other Inhabitants of Kingston aforesaid in 
Vestry Assembled three hundred pounds four per cent Consolidated Annuities upon 
trust that they and the future trustees thereof to be appointed as is hereinafter 
mentioned shall yearly forever pay the dividends or interest of the said Annuities into 
the hands of the Churchwardens for the time being of Kingston aforesaid to be by 
them distributed in bread amongst the most necessitous poor inhabitants of the Town 
of Kingston aforesaid upon the first day of January in every year for ever except 
when that they shall fall on a Sunday and then on the following Monday and in order 
to keep up a succession of trustees of the said Annuities for the purpose aforesaid I 
will and desire that when the said Trustees shall by death resignation or incapacity 
be reduced to two then two new Trustees shall be appointed by the said inhabitants 
in Vestry assembled  and the said Annuities shall thereupon be transferred to such 
new Trustees  jointly with the surviving or continuing Trustees and so on for ever as 
often as the Trustees for the time being shall be reduced to two also I give to such of 
the children of Charles Ayres deceased brother of my late Wife as shall be living at 
my decease one hundred pounds to be equally divided between them if more than 
one also I give to Lydia Clark and Henrietta Clark daughters of John Clark of East 
Molesey aforesaid ffarmer fifty pounds each also I give to the said William Turner one 
hundred pounds also I give to the said Christopher Bythewood twenty pounds and all 
the rest and residue of my personal estate including the money that shall arise by 
sale of my real estate after payment of my debts legacies funeral and testamentary 
expences and the expences of my said Executors and Trustees in and about the 
execution of this my Will I dispose of as follows vizt one third part of the said residue I 
give unto my niece Sarah Rose only child of my eldest Sister Sarah Davis deceased 
if she shall be living at my decease but if she shall die before me I give the same to 
such of her children as shall be living at my decease to be equally divided between 
them if more than one one other third part of the said residue I give to my sister Ann 
Elliott if she shall be living at my decease but  if she shall die before me then I give 
the said last mentioned third unto such of her children as shall be living at my 
decease to be equally divided between them if more than one one third part of the 
said remaining third part of the said residue I give unto my nephew John Boxall son 
of my late sister Elizabeth Boxall if he shall be living at my decease but if he shall die 
before then I give the same unto such of his children as shall be living at my decease 
to be equally divided between them if more than one one other third part of the said 
remaining third part of the said residue I give unto such of the children of my late 
niece Martha Browing deceased another daughter of my said late sister Elizabeth 
Boxall as shall be living at my decease to be equally divided between them if more 
than one and as to the other third part of the said remaining third part I will and direct 
shall be placed out at interest by my said Executors and Trustees in their names in 
the public funds and from time to time as the same interest or dividends shall 
become due to pay the same to my niece Lettice Jones one of the daughters of my 
said late sister Elizabeth Boxall and now the Wife of John Jones ffisherman if she 
shall be living at my decease for and during her life and after her decease to pay the 
same interest and dividends to the said John Jones for life and in case both shall 
happen to die then I give the said last mentioned stock ffunds dividends or interest 
unto such of their children as be living at my decease to be equally divided between 
them if more than and if any person or persons under the above disposition of the 
said residue shall be a Minor or Minors at the time he she or they shall become 
entitled to any part of it then I direct my said Executors to invest the part or parts of 
such minor or minors in some of the public funds and apply the dividends thereof in 
the maintenance and education of such minor or minors respectively or otherwise for 
his her or their benefit during such minority and I hereby declare that it shall be lawful 
for such Executors or Trustees to deduct and retain out of my estates all such costs 
charges damages and expences as they shall respectively pay sustain or be put unto 
in the execution of the trusts hereby in them reposed and that they shall not be 
answerable or accountable for the acts deeds neglect and defaults of each other but 
each of them for his own acts deeds neglect and defaults only nor shall they or either 
of them be answerable or accountable for any loss or damage which shall happen to 
my said estates or any part thereof unless the same shall happen by or through their 
respective wilful neglect or default and I do hereby revoke every other will by me 
made In Witness whereof I the said William Cobbett have to this my last Will and 
Testament contained in three sheets of paper set my hand to the two first sheets and 
to the third and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this fourth day of ffebruary in the 
Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty    William Cobbett

Jane Strange
Elizabeth Strange
Hippesley Brice

Proved 18 July 1821
PCC
Prob11/1645