Charles Glanville
23 Dec 1747
This is the last will of the
underwritten Charles Glanville of the parish of Saint Mary le Strand London Vizt I give to
Mr James Johnson fifty pounds to Mr Richd James fifty
pounds to Mrs Selwyn widow of Hen: Selwyn Esquire late
Receiver General of his majesties Customs one thousand
pounds and to Major Selwyn one hundred and my Chamber's
Dictionary to my servant Mary Rhodes for her extraordinary
care of me in my illnes I give and bequeath twenty pounds
sterling of good and lawful money of Great Britain together
with my gold watch and all my linen and wearing
apparel and all the goods and furniture of my house in the
Strand or elsewhere in London excepting only the five
Landebfos (?) and Beancoe (?) in my dining room I likewise leave
to my executor and residuary legatee herein after named
his executors and administrators seven hundred pounds
stock in the three per cent bank annuitys anno 1742 in
trust nevertheless to the uses herein after mentioned And
my express will and meaning is that he or they shall inpower
and permit my before named servant Mary Rhodes if living
with me at the time of my death after it to receive
the dividends thereon being ten pounds ten shillings
every half year to and for her own use during the term
of her natural life to commence with the first half
yearly dividend that shall be due next after my decease
and in order the better to come to the said Mary Rhodes
the payment of the same I will and require my executors
and residuary legatee his executor and administrators
within three months after my death to give unto her a
good and sufficient letter of attorney to receive all the
said dividends as they become due during her life
as aforesaid and at all times during the life of the said
Mary Rhodes at and upon the reasonable request costs
and charges in the law of the said Mary Rhodes to
execute all and every power or letter of attorney which
by the said Mary Rhodes shall be lawfully and reasonably
required for receiving the said dividends and if my said
executor his executors and administrators shall be
assistant to my said servant at all times during her life
as hereby directed thenStrand from and after her death I devise
the said seven hundred pounds stock to him and them
for his and their own uses for ever But in case he or they
shall neglect or refuse to give the said Mary Rhodes such
letter of attorney during the space of three months from
and after my decease or shall neglect or refuse to execute
any power or letter of attorney which shall be required
in manner aforesaid during the space of three months
next after the same shall be required than I do hereby
give and bequeath the seven hundred pounds stock before
mentioned to my said servant Mary Rhodes absolutely
to be disposed of as she shall think fit to the poor of the
parish of Saint Mary Le Cripl in the city of Gloucester I
leave fifty pounds to be placed at interest which I want to
have laid out in bread and disributed every sixteenth day
of October to the poorest object according to the apportion (?)
of my under named executors or his agent as to the place
of my interment I would choose to lie by my dear Mother
in the Cathedral of the foresaid City of Gloucester under
the monument of Mr Browning her first husband where
she was interred with a short inscription on the said
monument both for herself and me and I will that without
any funeral pomp ten poor men and as many poor
women may attend my corps each of them to be paid five
shillings for so doing and lastly I hereby devise all my
estate both real and personal and all effects debts and
demands that shall happen to be due to me at the time
of my decease (except what dividend shall happen to be
payable on the seven hundred pounds 3pcent bank
annuity at the end of the half yearly payement next after
my decease as before mentioned) my just debts and the
legacies abovesaid being only paid within six months
after my departure to my much honoured friend and
ally John Selwyn of Cleavland Court esquire to him and
his heirs forever appointing him the sole executor of
this my last will written with my own hand this 23rd day
of December 1747. Chas Glanville
Appeared Personally 27th April 1748 John Pigott of the parish
of Saint Dunstan in the East London gentleman and Richard
Parsons of the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the
County of Middlesex gentleman and by virtue of their coporal
oaths deposed that they know and were well acquainted with
Charles Glanville late of the parish of Saint Mary Le Strand
in the said county of Middlesex deceased for several years
before and to the time of his death and also with his manner
and character of hand writing having often seen him write
and having now carefully viewed and perused the last will
and testament of the said deceased hereunto annexed
beginning thus (This is the last will of the under written
Charles Glanville of the parish of Saint Mary Le Strand London
and ending thus (Writeen with my own hand this 23 day of December
1747) and thus subscribed (Chas: Glanville) they those deponents
do verily and in their consciences believe the whole body
scrive and contents of the said will and the name Chas:
Glanville thereto subscribed to be wrote by and with the
proper hand of the said Charles Glanville deceased - J Piggott
Richard Parsons - On the same day the said John Piggott
and Richard Parsons were sworn to the truth of the above
affidavit before me Rich: Smalbroke - Surrogate. Present
Benj : Lockyer Notary Publick
This will was proved at London before the
worshipful George Pant Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the
Right Worshipful John Bettesworth also Doctor of Laws Master
Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
lawfully constituted the twenty ninth day of April in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty eight
by the oath of the honourable John Selwyn esquire the sole
executor in the said will named to whom administration
was granted to all and singular the goods chattels and credits
of the said decease being first sworn duly to administer.