Edward Glanvill
31 Jan 1808
This is the last Will
and Testament of me Edward Glanvill of De La Haye
Street in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster
in the County of Middlesex Esquire I direct that
all my just debts and funeral expenses and the
cost and charges of proving and executing the
trusts of this my will shall be fully paid and
satisfied I give unto my dear wife Margaret
Glanvill the sum of five hundred pounds I give
unto my said wife an annuity or year sum
of two hundred pounds to be paid unto her by
quarterly payments out the suaual quarterdays
for payment of rent for and during the term
of her natural life provided she shall so long
continue my widow and unmarried but in
case my said wife shall at any time hereafter
marry then and in such cast I do hereby
revoke the said annuity and direct that the
same shall from henceforth cease and be no
longer payable and in lieu thereof I give unto
my said wife one annuity or yearly sum of
thirty pounds only to be paid quarterly as
aforesaid for and during the term of her natural
life and I direct that the first quarters payment
of the said annuity shall become due and be
paid on the first of the said quarter days as shall
happen next after my decease I give and
direct that my Executors and trustees herein
after named shall pay and apply the yearly
sum of one hundred pounds from time to
time as and when the same shall become
necefsary for such towards the maintenance and
education of my son Thomas William Glanvill
until he shall obtain the age of twenty one
years I give and direct that my said executors
and trustees shall pay and apply the yearly
sum of one hundred pounds from time to time
as and when the same shall become necefsary
for and towards the maintenance and education
of my daughter Emily Glanvill until she shall
attain the age of twenty one years and when and
as soon as my said daughter shall attain her
said age of twenty one years I give and direct
that the sum of three thousand pounds shall
be laid out and invested in the purchase of
same or one of the public funds in the names of
my said excutors in other sufficient trustees upon
trust to pay the interest and dividends thereof as
and when the same shall become (*** and
payable unto my said daughter for and during
the term of her natural life to and for ever
own sole and separate use exclusive of and
not to be subject to the debts or control of any
husband she may happen to marry and that
her receipt alone shall at all times be a
sufficient discharge to my said trustees for such
interest and dividends and from and after the
decease of my said daughter upon trust to
stand pofsefsed of the said three thousand pounds
or the stocks or funds in which the same shall be
invested for and for the benefit of all and every
the children of my said daughter share and
share alike and to be afsigned transfering and
paid unto them respectively upon attaining their
respective ages of twenty one years and I direct
that in case any or either of them shall die
under such age the share of shares of him her
or them so dying shall go and survive (?) unto the
survivors or survivor of them and be afsigned
transferred and paid at the same time as their
original portions but in case my said daughter
shall happen to die without children or leaving
any they shall all die before attaining the said
age of twenty and one years and my said daughter
shall leave any husband her survivor then
I direct the interest and dividends of the said
trust funds shall from and after such failiure
of Ifsue be paid unto such husband for and
during the term of his natural life and from
and after his decease and that of my said
daughter and such failure of Ifsue aforesaid
I give the said sum of three thousand pounds
and the stocks funds and securities in which
the same shall be invested unto my said son
Thomas William Glanvill I give unto my
mother in laws Mrs Bertie one quantity or
yearly sum of twelve pounds by half yearly
payments at Midsummer and Christmas and
that the first payment shall become due and be
paid on such of the said days as shall first
happen after my decease and I charge all my
estates both real and personal with and for the
payments of the before mentioned annuities and
the said legacy of three thousand pounds and
I direct that for the better payment of the said
annuities and providing for the said legacy of
three thousand pounds that my said executors
and trustree do and shall as soon as conveniently
may be after my decease (with reference to the
surectional (?) herein after given with respect to my
present copartner in trust (?) lay out and invest or
sufficient part of my personal estate and effects
in the purchase of some or one fo the publick
funds not only to answer and *** the said a
several annuities but to provide for the said
legacy of three hundred pounds directed to take
place upon my said daughters attaining her
said age of twenty one years and that my said
Executors do and shall when and as they
shall make such investments make and
execute proper declartion of the trusts thereof
provided and I do hereby declare that the
said annuities to my said wife of two hundred
pounds or thirty pounds as the case shall be
put and is intended to *** in *** *** and full
satisfaction of all power or *** which might
otherwise become payable to her out of and
from my just estates and I diect my said wife
shall before the first quarter payment of her
said annuity execute and deliver unto my said
trustees at the expense of my estate a good
and sufficient release in the law of all such
power or *** in and in case she shall refuse to
give and execute such release accordingly then
I do hereby revoke and make void the provision
hereby given and made unto and in her favor
as aforesaid and war* I am engaed in
trade with one Jeremiah Glanvill and it may
be considered for the benefit of my estate that
the same shall be carried on for the advantage
of any son and residuary legacee I do hereby
authorize my executors and trustees if they
shall so think proper and consider it be for
the benefit and advantage or the *** of my
said son with the said Jeremiah Glanvill for the
conducting and carrying on of the said trade
for the advantgage of the said Jeremiah Glanvill
and of my said son in equal shares
and that in such case my said Executors
shall leave such sum of money in the said
trade for the support of the same and for such
time as they shall think proper I give unto the
said Jeremiah Glanvill the sum of ten pounds
or the purchase of a piece of plate as a testamany
of my regard I give unto my sister Elizabeth
the wife of Mr Simon Stephenson the sum of
fifty pounds to and for her sole and separate use
and that her receipt alone shall be a discharge
for the same and it is my wish and desire
that ring may be provided and presented to my
wife and my sister Mifs Glanvill Mrs Stephson
and Mrs Cooper and their husband and to the
Reverend William Clarke in token of my affection
and regard for them also to my friends Mr Henry
Hakewill Mr Lytton George Kier and Mr George
Kier I nominate and appoint my ffriends
Henry Hakewill of *** Alley Cavendish
Square in the county of Middlesex architect and
Lytton George Kier of Bridet Street in the parish
of Saint Margaret aforesaid wine merchant
Executors and trustees of this my will and
give unto each of them the sum of twenty
pounds as a small acknowledgment for the
they may have in the execution thereof and
as to all the rest residue and remainder of my
estate and effects as well real as personal or ot
whatother nature or kind soever I give and
decree the same unto and to the use of my
said son Thomas William Glanvill according
to the nature of the same estates respectively and
to be a vested interest upon his attaing the
age of twenty one years provided and my mind
and will is that in case my said son Thomas
William Glanvill shall happen to die before
attainign the said age of twenty one years then
that all the rest and residue of my said real
and personal estate so givein and devised unto
him shall go and belong to my said daughter
Emily Glanvill and her ifsues and *** remain in trust for her and them
in such and the same manner and under
the same restrictions as I have hereinbefore
given and directed touching the said legacy of three
thousand pounds before mentioned and that in
case both my said children shall happen to die
before attaining the said age of twenty one years
or in the event of my said daughter attaining the
age and not having any child who shall live to
attain the said age of twenty one years and become
pofsefsed of the said trust preperty then I give and
devise all and every my said real and personal
estates hereinbefore given and described in favor
of my dead children unto and to the use of my nephew
and Gadson (?) William Stephenson upon that exprefs
condition that my said nephew shall as soon as
conveniently may be after such events take upon
him and use the name of Glanvill in addition to
his own and that application other by an act of
parliament or for His Majestys Royal dirence (?) shall
be made for that purpose and it is my wish and
recommendation that the said Simon Stephenson
shall be consulted and employed in all matters
relating to his pfofefsion which may become
necefsary in the execution of the trust so this
my Will and I nominated and appoint the said
Henry Hakewill and Lytton George Kier to be
Guardians of my said children during their
respective minority and my mind and will is that
my said executor and trustees shall not be
answerable or accountable for these or other of them
or for the acts receipts payments or defaults of
the other of them but each of them for this own
acts receipts payments and defaults only
notwithstanding their joining in any receipts for
the sake of conformity nor shall any or either of
them be accountable for any involuntary cofs or
deficiency which shall or may happen to the
said trust monies or to any ** act thereof by
reason of the failure of amy Benfice with
whom or in whose hands the same or any
part thereof shall or may happen to be placed
or lodged for safe custody nor for the deficiency or
failure of any security wherein the same shall
or may happen to be placed save only such as
shall happen by reason of their respective wilful
neglect or default and that they are each of them
shall and may by and out of the moneies which
shall come to their hands respectively not only
retain to and reimburse himself and themself
respectively but pay to his cotrustee all such cofs
cofts charges damages and expenses which
by or either of them shall or may pay bear
suffer expend or input unto by reason or
means of the trusts hereby in them reposed or
in the execution of this my will and hereby
invoking all former wills by me at any time
made I do declare this to by my last will and
testament in witnefs whereof I have to these
first four sheets hereof subscribed my name and
to this fifth and last sheet hereof subscribed my
name and set my seal this thirty first day of
January one thousand eight hundred and eight
E Glanvill LJ Signed sealed published and
declared by the said Edward Glanvill 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 subscribed our names as
witnefses thereto - Pelham Warren - William
Annandale - Ann Hemington
This will was proved at London on the
eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eight before the
worshipful Thomas Everads Doctor of Laws
Surrogate of the Right Honourable Sir William
**** Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
Commifsary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
lawfully constituted by the oath of Henry
Hakewill Squire (by mistake in the said will
written Hakewell) and Lytton George Keir Esquire
the Executors named in the said will to whom
Administration was granted of all and singular the
Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having
been first sworn duly to administer -
Thandos House Bath May 30th 1802