Benjamin Glanvill

1 June 1838

The last will and testament
of Benjamin Glanvill of sound mind 1838 after all by book debts and my funeral expenses is paid I bequeath unto my beloved wife Maria Glanvill all my household furniture and all goods and chattles and all wearing aparrel that I may be pofsesed of all this is her property as long as she keeps unmarried but if the said Maria Glanvill should get maried then all my household furniture and all goods and chattles and that I am pofsesed of becoming the property of my children I bequeath unto my beloved son Amos my watch and my drawing instruments also the ffamily bible and Jamiesons Dictionary also the mechanics calculator all other books to be devided between Amos and my beloved son Oliver but should Oliver not survive then Amos is to have all the books that I am pofsesed of I also bequeath unto my son Amos my portrait his mother is to have it so long as she may keep unmarried but not to be disposed of I bequeath unto my beloved daughter Maria the piano and the sampler and prayer book I also bequeath to my beloved daughter Maria my mothers gold *** she is to have those articles as soon as she is capable of taking care of them or when she may get maried I also bequeath to Joseph Samson by executor my gold brest pin my son Amos to have his articles as he may get capable to use them or as his uncle said I also bequeath to my son Amos my clothes chest guardian may think proper I bequeath unto my beloved wife all my interest in the ffirm of Benjamin and Richard Glanvill engineers situated in No. 24 ffore street Limehouse Middlesex I also bequeath unto my beloved wife all the tools all the property that belongs to me on the premises and also to hold my part of the businefs to receive half of all the proceeeds and to pay half of all the legal book debts and I also request my executor to get the books fairly settled up to every three months on afidavit Signed 1st day of June 1838 - Benjamin Glanvill - Signed and declared by me as and for my last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at my request in my presence and in presence of each other have herein to subscribed our names as witnefses Signed - William Baker Salmon Lane Limehouse - Henry Gilbert Copengham Terrace Limehouse

Appeared Personally William Baker of Salmon Lane Limehouse in the County of Middlesex coal dealer and Maria Glanville of ffore Street Limehouse aforesaid widow and severally made oath as follows (to wit) and first the said William Baker for himself made oath that he was and is one of the subscribed witnefses to the last will and testatment hereunto annexed of Benjamin Glanville late of ffore Street in the parish of Saint Ann Limehouse in the County of Middlesex engineer deceased the said will beginning thus "The last will and testament of Benjamin Glanvill of sound mind 1838" ending thus "and I also request my exector to get the books fairly settled up to every three months on afidavit signed 1st day of Jun 1838" and being thus subscribed "Benjamin Glanvill" and referring to the erasure appearing underneath the said subscription "Benjamin Glanville" he further made oath that previously to the execution of the said will by the said deceased in the presence of him the deponent and of Henry Gilbert his fellow witnefs thereto he the said deceased had signed his name to the said will in the place where the said erasure now is but that having afterwarsd been informed that it was necefsary he should so sign his said will in the presence of the witnefses thereto he the said deceased erased his name which he had so written where the said erasure now is and which he did partly in the deponents presence and again write his name in the presence of him the deponenet and of the said Henry Gilbert over the said erasure in manner as now appears at the time of the execution of the said will which took place on the day of the date thereof namely the first day of June last and the said Maria Glnvill for herself made oath that she is the lawful widow and relict of the said deceased and referring to the letter and words "I also bequeath to my son Amos my Clothes Chest" written at the foot or bottom of the first side of the said will she further made oath that the same are of the said deceased's own handwriting and that from having frequeently seen and perused the said will previously to the execution thereof she is enabled to dispose and does depose that such letter and words were inserted in the said will in manner as now appears previously to such the execution thereof - William Bake - Maria Glanvill - On the twenty seventh day of July 1838 the said William Baker and Maria Glanvill widow were duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me John Daubeny surr pt J H Burchdett NP

Proved at London the 30th July 1838 before the Worshipful John Daubeny Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of Joseph Sansom the sole executor to whom admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer