This is the last Will and Testament of me Hannah Clare of Lower Strode in the Parish of Netherbury in the County of Dorset, Spinster.
I give to Mrs Keddle of Hatchlands Netherbury £50 and to each of her sons and daughters Robert, Sherring, Christina, Louisa & Margaret and Mrs Wynne £50.
And to Mrs Susan Coles of Bowood £100, to her daughter Mary Coles £300 and to her other daughter Ellen Coles £100.
To Ellen Ansell of Stoke Abbotts £300.
To William James Daniel of Beaminster, Dorset £200.
To Joachim Gilbert of the same place £200.
To Harriet Langford Shier of Bradpole £200.
To Maria Carter of the same place £200.
To _____ the wife of Philip Risdon of Waytown £200.
To my friend Frederick Hogg £500.
To Maria Odaatjie £300.
To Bessy, daughter of the late Charles Forward, £200. To her brother, the Reverend Edward Forward, £100. To his sister Sarah, wife of Charles Bond, £100 and to her aunt Emma Bond £100.
To Mary Hutchings of Hingsdon £60.
To Richard Lawrence of Netherbury, Mason, £60.
To Sidney Warr of Netherbury, my Needlewoman, £50.
To my servant Elizabeth Old, provided she be living in my service at my decease, £400 and a years wages.
To my servant Mary Prior, on the like condition, £400 and a years wages.
To my servant Charles Watts, on the like condition, £100 and a years wages and to Mary, the wife of the said Charles Watts, provided her husband be living in my service at my decease, £100.
To my friend Peter Cox of Beaminster £800.
To Miss Williams of Netherbury £100.
To my friends William Coles of Croydon and Gustavus Symes of Forston, Surgeon £300 a piece.
All which legacies I direct to be paid at the end of three months after my decease free of Legacy duty.
And I charge the same legacies and duty in exoneration of my personal Estate on the lands and hereditaments hereinafter devised to my friend Maria Cozens.
I give to my friend Anna Maria, the wife of the Honourable and Reverend Aubrey Spring Rice my ??? and old ???
To each of the under bearers at my funeral £1.
To my servant Elizabeth Old my ??? Bible also a feather bed, bedstead, bolster and pillows, Quilt, six blankets, four pair of sheets and Six Pillow cases and two suits of mourning.
To my servant Mary Prior a like legacy of Bed, bedstead, bolster, pillows, quilt, blanket, sheets and pillow cases and two suits of mourning.
And also to my servant Charles Watts and wife one suit of mourning.
I give and bequeath unto the official Trustee of Charitable Funds £900 upon trust to pay the dividends and interest to arise from the investment of that same sum to the Minister and Churchwardens of the said Parish of Netherbury for the time being to be by them applied as follows:
The dividends and interest of five hundred pounds parts thereof in the purchase of bread coals and fuel for distribution amongst such of the poor residing in Netherbury tithing in that Parish yearly at Christmas as to them the said Minister and Churchwardens for the time being shall seem meet.
And the dividends and interest of three hundred pounds other part thereof in the same manner for the poor of the tithing of Bowood in the same Parish.
And the dividends and interest of £100 remaining part thereof in the same manner for the poor of the tithing of Ash in the same Parish.
I give and bequeath unto the Governor and Trustees of the Dorset County Hospital for the benefit of the same hospital £100 and to the Governor and Trustees of the Weymouth Eye Infirmary for the benefit of the said Infirmary £100.
Which said last legacies of £900 £100 and £100 I direct to be paid free of Legacy duty and as a primary charge on and to be paid out of my purse personally.
I give and devise to Daniel Moorse of Stowell in the County of Somerset YeomanSocial class between labourers and the nobility
Probably owning and working their own landSocial class between labourers and the nobility
Probably owning and working their own land all my lands and hereditaments at Stowell aforesaid or else where now in his occupation as my tenant.
I give and devise to my friend Peter Cox all my lands and hereditaments at Ash in the Parish of Netherbury aforesaid now in the occupation of ______ ???[Macey?] as my tenant thereof.
I give and devise to my friend Maria Cozens, the daughter of Mrs Keddle of Hatchlands, all my lands and hereditaments of whatever tenure in the said Parish of Netherbury now in my occupation and that the Representatives of John Farwell Roper, deceased, charged nevertheless as hereinbefore mentioned.
All the residue of my household goods and furniture, linen and china and all my plate and plated goods, books, prints and pictures and wearing apparel and ornaments of the person I give and bequeath to the said Maria Cozens trusting to her disposal of such of my plates and wearing apparel between the maid servants living with me at my decease as she may think fit.
I give devise and bequeath unto that said Peter Cox all the residue and remainder of my goods chattels and personal estate and of all my real copyholdType of feudal land tenure
with duties and obligations
to the Lord of the Manor and other Estate over which I have a disposing power and I appoint the said Peter Cox Executor of this my will.
I give devise and bequeath unto the said Peter Cox all messuageHouse or dwelling,
inc. outbuildings &
orchard, courtyard
or gardenss, tenementRented dwelling
or lands, lands and hereditaments which at the time of my decease may be vested in me a Trustee or Mortgagee upon the trusts nevertheless and subject to the equities of occupation incident to the same respectively. And I direct that the moneys due to me on any such mortgage shall be considered and administered as part of my personal Estate.
In witness whereof I have hereto subscribed my name this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty six.
Hannah Clare
Signed, published and declared by the named Hannah Clare (the Testatrix) as for and to be her last will and testament.
In the presence of us together present with her at the same time who, at her request, in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses.
The interlineation of the words “And Mrs Wynne” between the 4th & 5th lines in the first sheet. the striking through of the words “four fifths” in the third line, “the remaining fifth” in the seventh line, the words “my dwellinghouse lands and hereditaments at Kingsland in the said Parish of Netherbury now in the occupation of the Representatives of John Farwell Roper which I purchased of Sir Alexander Hood and his son in or about the year 1847” and also in the 17th 18th 19th and 20th.
And the words “except my said house and land at Kingsland” in the 25th line of the second sheet and the interlineation of the words “five hundred pounds” between the second and third lines, “three hundred pounds other” between the 6th & 7th lines “And the dividends and interest of £100 pounds remaining part thereof in the same manner for the poor of the tithing Ash in the same parish” between the 7th & 8th lines of the second sheet having been previously made as well as the striking through of the word “same” in the 21st line and the interlineation of the words “of Netherbury aforesaid” between the 20th and 21st lines of the same sheet.
The legacy to William Coles & Gustavus Symes in the first sheet being altered to £300.
The payment of the legacies to be made at three months from decease and legacies of two suits of mourning to each of the maid servants and the man servant & wife one suit.
John Cox Jr
Edwin Allen Jr
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