This is the last Will and Testament of me Louisa Scawen 
formerly of Reigate in the County of Surrey but latterly 
residing at Limpsfield in the said County I wish to be 
buried in Limpsfield Church Yard or in any other County Church 
Yard near where I may happen to be at the time of my decease 
with as little expence as with propriety I can to Mr Scawen 
Blunt & his Sister & to Col Wyndham Mrs Blunt & her 
daughter Miss Marianne Blunt & Mrs Stedman & to the 
Revd Henry Blunt & Mr Jasper Blunt ten pounds each in lieu 
of a ring to each I leave to my attentive Servant Jane 
Devonshire thirty pounds clear of legacy tax & all my Cloths & 
what wages are due to her at the time of my decease I desire 
my books furniture & carriage to be sold & after all the above 
very small legacies & ten pounds to Lady Catherine & to Lady 
Susan Bathurst & my funeral expences are paid & whatever 
little may remain to give to my Godson William Louis 
Collins having already given some little remembrance to his 
Mother Mrs Collins for her constant kind attentions to me I 
desire & hope Mrs Chute will do me the favour to be the 
Executrix of this my last Will and Testament written with my 
own hand this twenty ninth day of May one thousand eight 
hundred & thirty seven & I hereby revoke all former Wills ? my 
legacy to William Louis Collins to be free of legacy tax _ Sign?d 
seal?d & declar?d by the above named Testatrix Louisa Scawen 
as her last Will and Testament in presence of _ Louisa Scawen 
? Augusta Smith Widow of No 6 Portland Street
(Affidavit of due Execution sworn by Elizabeth Chapman of 
Sherborne St John in the County of Southampton on 3 
December 1858)
Proved at London 10 December 1838
PCC Prob11/1904