Edward Glanvill

1 Nov 1794

I Edward Glanvill
of the Broad Sanctuary Westminster but a present residing at Clapham in the County of Surrey do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say / I desire that all my just debts ffuneral epenses and the expenses of proving this my will may be paid by the executors herein after named as soon after my decease as reasonably may be I give and bequeath unto good ffriends Mr Henry Wood of George Street in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster aforesaid and Mr George Kier of Bridge Street oilman my Executors hereinafter named the sum of ten pounds a piece for mourning I likewise give and bequeath unto my worthy relation the reverend William Clarke rector of Orpington the Bible which I am now in pofsefsion of I also Give and Bequeath unto my Nephew Jeremiah Glanvill the sum of ten pounds for mourning & I likewise give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Simon Stephenson the sum of two thousand pounds after deducting thereout or therefrom all such sums and sums of money as her said husband shall stand indebted to me at the time of my deceased and also the sum of ffifty pounds which I do hereby give and bequeath unto him and which said sum subject to such directions as aforesaid I do hereby give and

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executors In trust for my said daughter and to placed out by them at interest in the public funds & the interest dividends and product thereof to be paid to her for and during her the term of her natural life

bequeath unto my said daughter for her own sole and separate use notwithstanding her coverture and not to be subject or liable to the debts control or engagements of her present or any ffuture husband

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and from and after her decease the principal sum to go to such person or persons as my said Daughter notwithstanding her coverture shall by her last will and testament appoint

I give and bequeath unto my two other daughters Mildred and Peggy the sum of two thousand

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such respective sums to be invested in the purchase of stock in the public ffunds in the names of my executors and to be transferred by them to my said daughters as soon after my decease as reasonably may be

pounds sterling each I give and devise unto my son Edward my ffreehold estate & give to him his heirs and afsigns forever and as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder of my Estate and effects whatsoever and wheresover and of what nature or kind the same shall happen to be I give devise and bequeath the same and very part thereof unto my said son his executors admons and afsigns and it it my will and I do hereby direct athat my said son shall carry on the businefs which I now follow and that the stock in trade therein shall not be disturbed or disposed of for the purpose of paying the said legacies so given or bequeathed unto my said daughters as aforesaid unlefs it shall appear to my executors to be absolutaley neccefsary and in such case it is my desire that it shall be so disposed of as to as much advantage to my said son as reasonably may be and it is also my will and I do hereby likewise direct that all my household ffurniture plate linen china and glass shall be disposed of by my executors by public auction as soon as resonably may be after my decease and I do hereby exprefsly revoke and make void all former and other wills by me heretofor made and I declare this only to be my last will and testament and I so nominate and appoint the said Henry Wood and George Keir Executors thereof In witnefs whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four - Edwd Glanvill LJ - Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Edward Glanvill as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnefses thereto - Mary Dawes - Sarah Baker - Sampson White

15th Apr 1797
Appeared Personally Sampson White of George Square ffleet Street London Gentleman and maketh clear that he is the writer of and one of the subscribing witnefses to the last will and testament of Edward Glanvill late of the Broad Sanctuary in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster in the County of Middlesex deceased hereunto annexed bearing date the first day of october in the year of our lord one thousand seventeen hundred and ninety four and the deponent having now viewed the several interlineations appearing in the said will (***) Executors in trust for my said daughters and to be placed out by them at interest in the punblick ffunds and the interest dividence and product thereof to be paid to her and during the term of her natural life ( interlined before the nineenth and twentieth line of the first sheet of the said will the words "and from and after her decease the principal sum to go to such person or persons as may said Daughter notwithstanding her coverture shall by her last will and testament appoint" interlined between the twenty second and twenty third lines of the same sheet and the words "such respective sums to be invested in the purchase of stock in the publick ffunds in the names of my executors and be transferred by them to my said daughters as soon after my decease as reasonably may be " "Sterling" interlined between the ten twenty third and twenty fforth lines of the said sheet of the said will the deponent lastley made oath that the interlineation were made by this deponent by the direction of the said deceased previous to execution of the said will and that the said is now the plight and condition as when executors by the said deceased as his last will and testament saw and axcept the *** (docat?) written at the ffoot of the said will on swearing the Executors therein named Sampson White - Same Day the said Sampson White was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me - Jn Fisher Surg - priest J B Bicknell *** publ

This will was proved at London the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven before the worshipful Maurice Swabey Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Honourable Sir William Wynne Knight also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commifsary of the prerogative court of canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of Henry Wood and George Kier by mistake in the said will called Keir the Executors named in the said will to whom adminstration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the deceased was granted having been first sworn duly to administer