This is the Last Will and testament of me Henry Harris of 
Woking in the County of Surrey Shopkeeper  First I will and 
direct that all my just debts funeral expences and the expences 
of proving this my will be fully paid satisfied and discharged by 
my Executor hereinafter named as soon as conveniently can be 
after my decease by and out of my Real and Personal estate and 
subject thereto I hereby give devise and bequeath unto my good 
friends Thomas Woods of Pirbright in the said County of 
Surrey Mealman Henry Woods of the same place Mealman 
and James Fladgate of Woking aforesaid Mealman and to the 
Survivors and Survivor of them and to the Heirs executors 
administrators and assigns of such Survivor All my Real and 
Personal estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever 
according to the respective natures and qualities thereof  Upon 
the trusts hereinafter declared concerning the same (that is to 
say) Upon trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivors or 
Survivor of them or the Heirs executors admors or assigns of 
such Survivor do and shall pay and apply the Rents and Profits 
of my said Real Estate and also the profits of my Shopkeeping 
business (which I will and direct shall be carried on by my said 
Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Heirs 
executors or administrators of such Survivor until my youngest 
child for the time being shall have attained his or her age of 
twenty one years or as long as they my said Trustees shall think 
it beneficial so to do)  And also the dividends and Interest of all 
my other personal estate until my youngest child for the time 
being shall have attained his or her age of twenty one years for 
and towards the Maintenance and support of my wife Elenor 
Harris and such child or children as I may happen to have at the 
time of my decease or that shall be born within a reasonable 
time afterwards and when and as soon as my youngest child for 
the time being shall have attained his or her age of twenty one 
years then Upon trust as soon as conveniently may be to sell and 
dispose of my said Real Estate either together or in parcels and 
either by Public Auction or Private contract for the best price 
and most Money that can reasonably be gotten for the same and 
the Money thereby arising Upon trust to pay and divide in 
manner hereinafter mentioned And then Upon further trust 
(when and as soon as my youngest child for the time being shall 
have attained his or her age of twenty one years) that they my 
said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the 
executors or administrators of such Survivor do and shall divide 
the Monies to arise by the Sale (as hereinbefore directed) of my 
said Real estate and also my said personal estate and effects 
unto between and equally amongst such Child or children as I 
may happen to have at the time of my decease or born in due 
time afterwards share and share alike as Tenants in Common 
and not as joint Tenants the share or shares of such of my said 
Children as shall happen to be dead to go to his her or their 
executors administrators and assigns And it is my will and 
meaning that in case of the death of any of my children under 
the age of twenty one years without leaving issue then and in 
such case the share or shares of such child or children so dying 
shall go to the Survivors or Survivor of my said children their 
executors administrators and assigns if more than one equally to 
be divided between them share and share alike and if but one 
then to such only one his or her executors administrators and 
assigns and to vest and be transferred and paid at the same time 
as their his or her original share or proportion would be 
transferable and payable by virtue of this my will Subject 
nevertheless and I do hereby charge my said Personal estate and 
also the Monies to arise by Sale (as hereinbefore directed) of my 
said Real estate to and with the payment of one annuity or 
annual Sum of Ten pounds to my said wife for and during the 
term of her natural life if she shall so long continue my widow 
and unmarried by equal half Yearly Payments  in each and every 
year the first half yearly payment to be made at the end of Six 
months next after the attainment by my youngest child of his or 
her age of twenty one years  And in case my said wife shall 
marry again I hereby declare and direct that the provisions 
hereinbefore made for her shall cease and determine but it is my 
will and meaning that she shall from and after such Second 
Marriage receive and be paid one clear Annuity or Annual Sum 
of five pounds for the Term of her natural life by equal half 
yearly payments the first half yearly payment to be made at the 
end of Six months next after her second marriage which I 
hereby give and bequeath to her accordingly and I hereby charge 
my said Personal Estate and the Monies to arise by the Sale (as 
hereinbefore directed) of my said Real estate with the payment 
thereof  And I do hereby authorise and empower my said 
trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the 
executors and administrators of such Survivor to advance for the 
Apprenticing or placing out in the world of all or any of my said 
children during the minority of such children such sum or sums 
of money part of the Principal of my said personal estate and the 
monies to arise by Sale (as hereinbefore directed) of my said 
Real estate as my said Trustees or trustee shall think prudent or 
necessary not excluding the then presumptive share of each 
child so advanced of my said Personal estate Provided always 
and I do hereby declare and direct that the receipt or receipts of 
my said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the 
Heirs executors or administrators of such Survivor shall be a 
good and sufficient discharge or good and sufficient discharges 
and valid in the Law to the Purchase or Purchasers of all or any 
part of my said Real and Personal estate and effects for so much 
Money as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed to have 
been received by my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of 
them his or her Heirs executors or admors and that after such 
receipt or receipts shall be given such Purchaser or Purchasers 
shall not be bound or obliged to see to the application of the 
purchase Money or any part thereof nor be answerable or 
accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof or 
of any part thereof  Provided also and I hereby further will and 
declare my will and meaning to be that my said Trustees and the 
Survivors and Survivor of them his or their Heirs executors and 
administrators shall be charged and chargeable only for such 
and so much Money as they and each of them shall respectively 
receive by virtue of or under the trusts of this my Will and the 
one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the 
others or other of them or for the acts receipts neglects or 
defaults of the other or others of them but each for his own acts 
deeds receipts neglects or defaults only nor for the insufficiency 
of any Security or Securities in or upon any part thereof is or 
shall or may be vested nor for any loss misfortune or damage 
which may happen in the execution of the trusts of this my Will 
or in relation thereto except the same shall happen by or through 
their or either of their own wilful defaults respectively  And also 
that they my said Trustees shall and do reimburse themselves 
respectively out of my trust estate and effects all such costs 
charges damages and expences as they or any of them shall 
incur sustain or be put unto in the execution of the trusts of this 
my Will hereby in them reposed  And lastly I hereby nominate 
constitute and appoint my said good friends Thomas Woods 
Henry Woods and James Fladgate Executors of this my Will and 
I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made and declare this 
only to be my last Will and Testament  In witness whereof I 
have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three 
Sheets of Paper to the two first sheets thereof set my hand and to 
this third and last sheet my hand and Seal the Seventh day of 
December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and twenty four.   
Henry Harris
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Henry Harris 
the Testator 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
Geo. Pra??? Guildford Surrey
Geo Newman }  Woking Surrey
John Wallis   }

This Will of Henry Harris late of Woking in the County of 
Surrey deceased was proved on the eighth day of March 1825 
Before the Reverend John Richards Clerk a Surrogate by the 
Oaths of Thomas Woods Henry Woods and James Fladgate the 
Executors to whom Admon was granted they having been first 
sworn duly to administer.

DW/PA/5/1825/11