This is the last Will and Testament of me William Kates of Horsell in the County of 
Surry publican  I nominate and appoint my friends James Rogers of Chobham in 
the said County of Surry Farmer and James Stedman of Horsell aforesaid 
Maltster Executors and trustees of this my will  who I direct to pay all my just debts 
and funeral and testamentary Expenses with all convenient speed after my decease out 
of my Personal Estate hereinafter bequeathed  I give and bequeath unto my said 
Executors all my monies and Securities for money Household Furniture debts Goods 
Chattels Rights Credits and Personal Estate whatsoever Upon trust as soon as 
conveniently can be after my decease to make sale of and collect in  all such parts 
thereof as shall not consist of monies or Securities for monies and to convert the same 
into money and lay out such monies in case some one of the public Funds or at 
Interest on Real Estate and pay such Interest when and as the same shall become 
payable unto my Wife for and during her natural life if she shall so long remain my 
widow she maintaining thereout during their minorities our three children William 
Harris and Mary Ann  I give and devise unto my said Executors and their heirs all 
that my Freehold Messuage or Public House with the Garden Land and Appurts 
thereunto belonging situate in Horsell aforesaid and now in my Occupation and also 
all that Messuage or Cottage and Garden adjoining and now being erected and built 
To hold to them their heirs and Assigns upon the trusts following that is to say Upon 
trust that they and the Survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such Survivor 
shall and do make Sale thereof either by Public Auction or private contract as soon as 
conveniently may be after my decease and lay out and invest the monies arising from 
such sale after deducting the expense thereof in some one of the Public Funds or at 
Interest on Real Security and pay and apply the Interest and dividends thereof when 
and as the same shall become payable unto my said Wife for and during the term of 
her life if she shall so continue my widow she maintaining thereout our said three 
children during their minorities and I order and direct that the receipts of any 
Executors for the monies arising from the sale of my said Freehold premises shall be 
good and sufficient discharges to the purchaser or purchasers thereof who after 
obtaining such receipt shall not be compelled to see to the application or be 
answerable for the misapplication thereof and from and after the decease of my said 
wife Upon trust to pay transfer and divide the monies to arise from such Sale and also 
from my aforesaid Personal Estate unto and equally between my said three children 
when and as they shall severally attain their respective ages of twenty one years and 
in case either of my said children shall depart this life under the  age of twenty one 
years before his or her aforesaid share shall become payable and without leaving Issue 
of his and her body lawfully begotten him or her surviving then I give and bequeath 
such Share unto such Share unto the Surviviors or Survivor equally and in case either 
of my said children shall depart this life under the said age of twenty one years  
leaving Issue of his and her body lawfully begotten him or her Surviving then I give 
and bequeath such Share unto such Issue equally if more than one and in case my said 
wife shall marry again then I revoke all and singular the aforesaid bequests to her and 
from and after that event I order and direct my said Executors to pay her out of the 
aforesaid Interest and dividends the Annual sum of thirty pounds by equal half yearly 
payments for and during the term of her natural life to whom I give and bequeath the 
same and to pay and apply the rest and residue of such Interest and dividends to and 
for the maintenance of my said three children during their respective minorities  I also 
give and devise unto my said Wife all that messuage or Cottage and Garden now in 
the occupation of William Spooner at Horsell aforesaid for and during the term of 
her natural life and from and after her decease I give and devise the same unto and 
equally between my said three children To hold to them their heirs and assigns as 
tenents in common thereof  I nominate and appoint my said three children residuary 
devisees and legatees of this my will and I declare that the provision I have before 
made for my said Wife is to be taken and accepted by her in lieu of all Dower and 
thirds to which she may be entitled out of my said Freehold Premises and I order and 
direct my said Executors to deduct and reimburse themselves all their reasonable 
Expenses and I direct that the one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for 
the other of them or for the acts deeds receipts and disbursements of the other of them 
and revoking all former wills I declare this to be my last will  In testimony whereof I 
the said William Kates have to this my last Will set my hand and Seal the seventeenth 
day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six  
William Kates  Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said William Kates the 
Testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request 
in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names 
as witnesses  W Clark of Chertsey Atty  Sam.l Reading his clerk  Elizabeth Peters

Proved at London 8th Nov. 1830 before the worshipful Charles Cooke Doctor of Laws 
and Surrogate by the oath of James Stedman one of the Executors to whom admon 
was granted having been first sworn duly to administer power reserved of making the 
like grant to James Rogers the other Executor when he shall apply for the same.