This is the last will and testament of me Timothy Fetherstonhaugh of KirkOswald College in the county of Cumberland Esquire being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding I confirm the jointure? of two hundred pounds to my wife Eliza Were for her life empowered? to be paid to her by my late father on the settlement made in contemplation of my marriage with her I dispose of all the freehold hereditaments I am competent? to dispose of for an estate of inheritance with their appurtenances in manner following namely As my hereditaments at Fetherstonhaugh now let to John Threbads? at yearly rent of two hundred and twenty pounds to Edward Williams Hawke? of Dalemain in the county of Cumberland Esquire and Charles Fetherstonhaugh of Kirkoswald in the said county Esquire their executors administrators and assigns for the term of five hundred years to be computed? from my death without impeachment or waste. Upon trust hereinafter expressed And as to the same hereditaments subject to such sum And as to all other the hereditaments aforesaid To the intent that my said wife may receive out of the rents during her life a yearly rent charge of two hundred and fifty pounds in addition to the jointure provided for her by my said marriage settlement by equal half yearly payments at Midsummer and Christmas clear of all deb------ with a proportional part thereof up to her death the half yearly payment to be payable on such of the said days as shall first happen after my decease and that she may have the same remedy by distress for recovering such ---- charge as well as the jointure of two hundred pounds covenanted? to be paid to her by my said marriage settlement as Lessors? Have by law for recovering rent in arrears and may also as an additional remedy when and so often as the said rent charge of two hundred and fifty pounds and the said jointure of two hundred pounds shall be arrears for twenty one days enter lossession? Such possession to be without impeachment of waste and receive the rents of the said hereditaments until the arrears with the said payments to account? due during such possession and all consequential rents shall be satisfied provided nevertheless? If my said wife shall marry again I declare that the said rent charge of two hundred and fifty pounds hereby given shall wholly cease and subject to the same rent charge and jointure to Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle in the said county of Cumberland Esquire and Thomas Hartley of Gillfoet? in the said county Esquire their executors administrators and assigns for the term of one thousand years to be computed? from my death without impeachment of waste Upon the ------ hereinafter expressed and subject to such term I devise all the hereditaments aforesaid To every son of mine and his issue male? in succession so that every older son and his issue male man be preferred to every younger son and his issue male and so that every such son may take an estate for his life with remainder to his first and every subsequent son successively according to seniority in tail male and on failure of such issue To every daughter of mine and her issue male in succession so that every older daughter and her issue male may be preferred to every younger daughter and her issue male and so that every such daughter may take an estate for her life with remainder To her first and every subsequent son on ------- according so ---------- entail male but subject to a -------- in ----------------------------------------of such daughter To ------- Hartley of --------- in the said county Esquire the ------ administrators and assigns for term of one hundred years if she shall so long live Upon trust to pay the rent as and when the same shall become but due and not? by way of anisivation? unto the proper hands of such daughter to be enjoyed? by her as an incaluable? personal provision for whenever she shall be ----------- from the control and -------------- of her husband and for which could? her receipt about shall be sufficient discharged to my trustees And in failure of such issue to her first and every subsequent daughter successively in tail male of every son and daughter of mine in the order in which my said hereditaments are hereinafter limited to the sons of every son and daughter of mine and on failure of such issue to the first and every subsequent son and the best? and every subsequent daughter ----------- --- fail -------------------------------of every son and daughter of mine in the ------ in which my said hereditaments ---- hereinbefore ----ed in fail to the sons and daughters of every son and daughter of mine and in failure of such issue To my own right? elars? And I declare every estate for life hereinbefore --------- to be without impeachment for waste and I undertake? after every such estate for life a remainder immediately expectant thereon to my executors and administrators for the life of the tenant of that estate Upon trust to preserve the subsequent contingent remainders to the issue of such tenant --- to permit such tenant to receive the rents I declare that the said term of five hundred years hereinbefore limited to the said Edward William Hewitt and Charles Fetherstonhaugh is so limited Upon trust in case my personal estate shall be insufficient to satisfy my debts funeral and testamentary expenses then one of the rents and profits of the hereditaments comprised in the said term or by mortgage or sale of the same premises or any part thereof or by any other means to raise in aid of my personal estate so much money as shall be sufficiency to satisfy the same debts and expenses and to pay such monies to my executors or administrators who shall satisfy the same accordingly and whose receipt shall exonerate the trustees of the said term of five hundred years from all liability in respect to the application thereof and I declare that the said term of one thousand years hereinbefore limited to the said Henry Howard and Thomas Hartley is so limited to them Upon trust in the first place for securing to my said wife and her assigns the said yearly rent charge of two hundred and fifty pounds hereinbefore limited and the said jointure of two hundred pounds as and when the same shall arise and become due and for that purpose when and so often as the same rent[real] charge and jointure shall be in arrears for thirty days out of the rents and profit of the hereditaments comprised in the same term or by mortgage or rent of the same hereditaments or any part thereof or by any other means to raise and satisfy the arrears of the said rent charge and jointure with all incidental rents? and expenses and subject to the trusts aforesaid Upon further trust in case any child or children of mine other than an eldest or only son or daughter entitled to the freehold or inheritance of the same hereditaments under the limitations hereinbefore contained shall being a son or sons attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters attain that age or marry then in like or manner to raise for the portion or portions of such child or children if only one the sum of five thousand pounds if two and no more the sum of eight thousand pounds or if three or more the sum of ten thousand pounds for the portion of every such child in addition to the provision any such child may obtain under my marriage settlement the portion or portions of a son or sons to be raiseable and payable when and as he or they shall respectively attain the said age and the portion or portions of a daughter or daughters to be raiseable and payable when and as she or they shall respectively attain that age or marry with interest after the rate of four pounds per cent and per annum for the said portion or portions from the respective period or periods of which the same oagh? To be raised and paid until the same shall be actually raised and paid and I declare that when the said terms of five hundred years and ---------------- years respectively shall be satisfied or decease [because] ------------- the same ------- shall respect duly cease? I empower my tenant? for life under the -------- ----- before contained whether entitled in -------- nor either in contemplation of marriage or after marriage by deed reasonable or ------able ------- by him? in the p------[ pressure ?] of ------ attested by one or more witnesses? or on his wife? as they-------- ------ continue to appoint but without prejudice? any prior? Sub---- ----- or in favour of any or every ----- he shall marry? or have in ---- yearly rent charge or rent ------- -------- preceding ? is the whole the ------ of t---- hundred pounds to be issuing -------- of any said hereditaments do or any part thereof to convenient from the decease of such trustee for life ----- to be ------- ------ half the party during the life of such persons for the jointure and --------- ------ with the usual powers and renu----- by ----- ------ for ------- the payment thereof and also to ------ hereditaments ---------- --- trustee or trustees for a term of years -- ------ from the decease of such ------- --- without impeachment of waste Upon proper trusts and for serving? the appointment yearly rent charge and subject to a proper fee for best? no rent charge to ----- appointed under this power shall take – offers as --- usual charge wa—the apportion shall ever? Afterwards become entitled as possession to the ---- hereby ---- or would if living have been so entitled under the limitations here contained and if the same hereditaments would under this por--- be unable at any one time to the payments of a larger yearly sum in the whole than four hundred pounds then the posterior? Charge or charges shall not take effect or shall only partially take effect in possession until the amount of the previous charge shall cease or be diminished so as to limit the existing amount further to the sum lastly specified I empower every female tenant for life under the limitations herein contained whether entitled in possession or in either the contemplation of marriage or after marriage by deed reversible or irreversible executed by her in the presence of and attested by one or more witness or witnesses or by her will or any testamentary writing to appoint but without pre---- to any prior or subsisting uses or powers to or in favor of any husband she may marry or have married in said hereditaments or any part thereof for his life or any yearly rent charge to be issuing out of my said hereditaments or any part thereof and so payable during his life with such powers and remedies for securing the same rent as are authorised to be created by the power of appearing? Jointures lastly hereinbefore contained such appointed estate or yearly rent charge to commence from the decease of the appointor but no estate or yearly rent charge to be appointed under this power shall take effect as an actual estate or charge unless the appointor shall be or afterwards become entitled in possession to the said hereditaments or would if living have been so entitled under the limitations herein contained and if the said hereditaments would under this power be able of one time to the payment of a larger yearly sum in the whole than four hundred pounds then the posterior charge or charges shall not take effect or shall only partially take effect in possession until the amount of the previous charge shall cease or be diminished so as to limit the existing annual ----- than to the sum lastly above specified I empower every tenant for life under the limitations herein contained whether entitled in possession or no by deed reversions or ---------able to be executed and attested in the presence of one or more witness or witnesses or by his or her last will or any testamentary writing to appoint [but without prejudice to any jointure rent charge or life estate? to be willed? To the wife or husband of such tenant for life] my said hereditaments or any part thereof to any trustee or trustees for any term of years without impeachment of waste Upon proper trusts and with and under proper powers and provisions for the raising for the child or children of the tenant for life so appointing other than an eldest or only son or an eldest or only daughter entitled to the inheritance of the said hereditaments under the limitations aforesaid a portion not exceeding three thousand pounds for one child or portions not exceeding I n the whole four thousand pounds for two children or five thousand pounds for three children with maintenance not exceeding interest at the rate of four pounds per cent per annum on such portion or portions but the said term to be reached? as last aforesaid shall be subject to a proper proviso for –sser and the trusts ------ shall not be capable of being -------- less the appointor or his or -------shall be as afterwards become entitled in possession to the said hereditaments ------ ---- the said limitations and if the said hereditaments would by reason of this power be liable at any one time to the payment of a larger principal in the whole than fifteen thousand pounds-------- the portion and portions ---able under the trusts of the said term of one thousand years the charge or charges -------- shall be whole for partially suspended proviso a –roins that it shall be lawful for every person for the time being entitled as beneficiary tenants for life or tenants entail in possession under the limitations heretobefore contained by Facsenture? executed by him or her in the presence of an attested by one or more witness or witnesses to appoint by way of lease my said hereditaments or any of them except my capital mansions houses at Kirkoswald aforesaid and the out buildings gardens and pleasure grounds thereto belonging for any term of years not excessing fourteen years in possession from the making of the lease as the best yearly rent payment half yearly be reserved and no fine or pecuniary ----- and so as the lease contain covenants for payment of the rent and ----- for repairing and keeping in repair the premises beinsed? with such other covenants as the lessee shall think reasonable and also a proviso for ------- on nonpayment of the ---- for a period not exceeding forty days after the same shall become but or on breath? of any of the covenants provided also that it shall be lawful for Richard Hale Clark of Tiverton in the county of Devon Esquire and William Edward James of Barrork Lodge in the county of Cumberland Esquire or the survivor of them his executors or administrators with the consent is counting the person for the time being entitled as beneficial tenant for life or tenant in tail in possession under the limitations herein contained to sell my said hereditaments or any part thereof [ except my capital? Mansion house and the outbuildings garden lawns and pleasure grounds thereunto belonging and also the lands situate on each or side of the parish road below the college comprising together one hundred acres or thereabouts together or in parts? By public sale or by private contract or to exchange my said hereditaments for any part thereof except as aforesaid for other hereditaments or tenements of the description hereinafter authorised to be purchased or to make partition of any hereditaments whereof an undivided share or shares is or are hereby devised with liberty to accept any sum or sums of money for equality of exchange or partition and thereupon by deed executed by the same Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James or the survivor of them his executors or administrators in the presence of and attested by one or more witness or witnesses to make such revision of the uses of my will and such appointment of new uses as shall be proper for effecting the said sale exchange or partition and I declare that the said Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James or the survivor of them his executors or administrators may apply the money to be reserved from any such sale or exchange or partition as aforesaid in the first place in discharging the encumbrances [if any] which shall then effect the hereditaments hereby limited in strait settlements and shall lay out the money so received and not so applied in the purchase of freehold hereditaments in fee simple in possession situate in England or Wales or of copyhold customary or leasehold tenements such leasehold tenements to be held under a renewable lease or leases for lives or for years or for a long term of years absolute whereof at least fifty years shall be unexpired convenient to be held with the hereditaments hereby limited in strait settlement or to be acquired under this provision and shall settle or cause to be settled as well the hereditaments and tenements so to be purchased as the hereditaments and tenements to be acquired by means of any such exchange or partition as aforesaid conformably to the disposition hereby made concerning my estates of the same or the like tenure hereby devised so far as such dispositions shall be then capable of taking effect and shall until the same money shall be laid out as aforesaid invest the same use or upon public stocks funds or securities of the United Kingdom or real securities in England or Wales in the name or names of the said Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James or the survivor of them his executors or administrators and vary the investment from time to time to any other of the life nature and I declare the income of such investment shall follow the dispositions to which the rents of the hereditaments directed to be purchased therewith would if such purchase were made be subject but I direct that no such purchase or investment as aforesaid shall be made while there shall be any person entitled as beneficial tenant for life or tenant in tail in possession under the limitations herein contained and of the age of twenty one years without the previous consent in writing of such person and inasmuch as the limitations hereinbefore contained concerning my freehold hereditaments are not in all respects the same I direct that distinct sales exchanges purchases and investments shall be made so that the several estates or funds subject to the different limitations now may be ascertained provided also that every person having a surname ------ different from the surname or arms hereinafter required to be used who shall become entitled as a beneficial tenant for life or in tail in possession under the limitations herein contained and not be a married woman or who shall marry any female becoming so entitled otherwise than for her separate use shall as to every such tenant within eighteen calender months after he or she shall become entitled in possession if of the age of twenty one years or if not within eighteen calender months after attaining that age and as to every such husband within eighteen calender months after his wife shall become entitled in possession or be married to him whichever shall last happen assume and use my surname either alone or in addition to his or her usual surname but that the name of Fetherstonhaugh shall be the last and principal name and the arms of Fetherstonhaugh quartered with his or her family arms and that every person excluded by reason of his or her already bearing the surname and arms aforesaid from the operation of the requisitions aforesaid shall continue the use of such surname and arms and that in case of neglect or refusal to comply with the requisites of this proviso the estate or estates hereby limited for the life of the person or as the case may be the estate tail hereby limited to the person or ancestor of the person who or whose husband shall be guilty of such neglect or refusal shall cease and the subsequent limitations be accelerated yet so that all or any of the uses limited to the issue of a tenant for life whose estate shall so cease shall be contingent and a limitation to the use of the said Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James their executors and administrators for the life of such tenant shall spring up immediately precede the use or uses from time to time in contingency Upon trust to preserve the same and to permit the rents and profits to be received and enjoyed by the person or persons from time to time entitled to the first vested remainder for the time being therein and I declare that on the cesser? Of an estate of a female tenant for life whose husband shall so neglect or refuse aforesaid any appointments of a rent charge or new charges made or to be made by her in his favor in excersise of the power hereinbefore given to her shall be void I devise my copyhold tenements and hereditaments to the use of Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James their heirs and assigns Upon such trusts and subject to such provisions as shall correspond as nearly as the difference of tenure will permit with the uses and provisions hereinbefore contained concerning my freehold hereditaments hereinbefore devised posterior to the limitations of the said term of five hundred years I devise and bequeath my leasehold tenements whether held for lives or for years absolute or determinable unto the said Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James their executors administrators and assigns Upon trust out of the rents and profits thereof or by raising money on mortgage thereof to pay the rent and perform the covenants subject to which the same tenements are respectively held and to reverse at the usual periods such of the same tenements as shall be or have been held under leases usually -------- and subject thereto Upon trust to permit the same tenements to be enjoyed as nearly? As the difference of tenure will allow accordingly to the limitations and provisions hereinbefore contained concerning my freehold estates hereinbefore devised posterior to the limitation of the said term of five hundred years But so that my leasehold tenements held for years shall be subject to an executory limitation over on the death? of any tenant in tail of freehold hereditaments under the age of twenty one years without leaving ---- four in tail at his or her death to or in favour of the person or persons entitled under the subsequent limitations according to the tenure of such limitations I direct that the library of books with the book cases and appendages the pictures and framed prints and the statues marbles bronzes and other articles of virtu which shall be in or about or belonging to my mansion house at Kirkoswald at my decease and my plate and valuables shall annexed the same mansion house as heirlooms to be enjoyed by the person or persons for the time being beneficially entitled to the same Mansion House under the limitations hereinbefore contained but so that such heirlooms shall be subject to an executory limitation over on the death of such tenant in tail under the age of twenty one years without leaving issue in tail living at his or her death to or in favour of the person or persons entitled under the subsequent limitations according to the tenure of such limitations and I direct that my executors shall within one month after my decease cause an inventory to be made thereof and place a copy of such inventory signed by them and the person then entitled to the enjoyment of the said heirlooms amongst the ---------ments of title to my said mansion house to be kept therein and deliver another copy so signed to the trustees or trustee of the limitations hereinafter contained for preserving contingent remainders to be kept by the trustees or trustee for the time being of such limitations I declare that my ------ shall be entitled to reside in my said mansion house for six calender months after my decease and in case the person presumpively entitled to the said mansion house under this my will shall not have attained his or her majority I declare that my said wife shall be entitled to reside in the same dwelling for the term of her natural life provided she so long remains my widow and in case my said wife shall during her widowhood give up my mansion and premises to my son or the person entitled to the same under the provisions of this my will I direct that she shall leave the old stock of wine therein on receiving the sum of fifty pounds from the person entitled to the possession of the said premises But in case my said wife shall marry again she shall give up the old stock of wine without any compensation for the same I bequeath my carriage and carriage horses harness and accoutrements belonging thereto housekeepers stores and provisions wines liquors fuel household furniture linen china and other household effects except the articles hereinbefore constituted heirlooms to my said wife absolutely I bequeath the residue of my personal estate unto the said Richard Hall Clark and William Edward James their executors and administrators Upon trust to convert collect and get in the same and to dispose of the monies to arise therefrom in manner hereinbefore directed concerning the monies to arise from the sales to be made under the power of sale hereinbefore ordained I authorise the trustees or trustee of such residue for the time being to permit the same or any part thereof to remain outstanding upon securities or otherwise for such period as he or they shall think fit I declare that the yearly produce of my residuary personal estate for the time being outstanding [whether such produce be more or less than such estate if invested pursuant to the trust aforesaid would have yielded shall be deemed the income thereof and be applied as such conformably to the destination of the rents of the estates directed to be purchased with such residuary estate I give to the said Edward Williams Howell and Charles Fetherstonhaugh their heirs executors and administrators all the real estates vested in me as trustee or mortgagee in fee or otherwise subject to the trusts and specified effecting the same respectively and I appoint the said Edward Williams Hasell and Charles Fetherstonhaugh executors in trust of this my will and I also appoint them and my said wife and the survivor or survivors of them Guardian and Guardians of the persons and fortunes of any child or children during his or her or their minority or respective minorities and I do hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of my respective trustees for the time being acting in the execution of the respective trusts hereinbefore created for any sum or sums of money payable to them or him under or by virtue of the trusts of this my will shall be a sufficient and effectual ow? charge or sufficient and effectual discharged for the same respectively or so much thereof respectively as in such receipt or receipts respectively shall be expressed or authorized to be received and that the person or persons to whom the same shall be given his her or their executors administrators or assigns shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for any losses and application or nonapplication or be obliged or con----- to see to the application of the money therein mentioned and acknowledged to be received or any part thereof provided always and I hereby declare that if the trustees appointed by this my will or be appointed under this present provision or any of them or their or any of their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall die or be desirous of being discharged from or refuse or decline or be incapable to act in the trusts hereby in them reposed as aforesaid before the same shall be fully considered then and in every such case if shall and may be lawful to and for my said trustees or the surviving or continuing trustee of the same class appointed by this my will whether they or he shall accept the trusts thereof or shall renounce the same or for the trustees or in the surviving or continuing trustee to be appointed under this pressed? provision or the execution or administrators of such last surviving or continuing trustee by any deed or deeds instrument or instruments in writing to be by them him or her sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by one or more possible witness from time to time to nominate and appoint any fit person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the room? or place of the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or becoming unwilling or incapable to act as aforesaid and that when and so ---- a my new trustee shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trust estates monies and premises or such of them as shall then be subject to the trusts and provisions aforesaid which shall have vested in such trustees or trustee dying desiring to be discharged or becoming unwilling or incapable to act as aforesaid shall be thereupon with all convenient speed conveyed assigned and transferred so and in such manner as that the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the person or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid either ----ly or jointly with the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees of the same ---- as occasion shall require to the uses and upon and for the first ------- and purposes hereinbefore expressed and declared or such of those as shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking effect and the person or persons to be appointed as aforesaid shall have and be ------- ------- the same powers and authorities reposed in the same class as if he or they had been appointed a trustee or trustees of this my will provided always and I hereby further declare that the trustees of this my will hereby appointed and to be appointed as aforesaid and each and every of them and each and every of their heirs executors and administrators shall be charged and chargeable for such monies only as they respectively shall ----ally reside by --- --- of the trusts hereby in them reposed notwithstanding there or any of their ------ or signing or joining in grazing? Or signing any ------ or------ for the sale of conformity and I direct that none of them shall be answerable or accountable for any banker or broker with whom the said trust monies and premises shall be placed for safe custody or for any default or neglect of the other or others of them or for involuntary losses and also that it shall and may be lawful for them with and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to refrain and reimburse themselves respectively and also to allow their respective co-trustees or co-trustee all costs charges damages expenses and fees to counsel for advice which they or any of them shall or may sustain expend or disburse in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereto In witness whereof I the said Timothy Fetherstonhaugh have to this my last will and testament contained in this and the fourteen preceding sheets of paper set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one Timy Fetherstonhaugh signed settled published and declared by the said Timothy Fetherstonhaugh the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request in the presence of each other and being all present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses hereto S. Saul Jn Solr Carlisle Wm Jennings Clerk to Messrs Saul
This is a codicil to the last will and testament of me Timothy Fetherstonhaugh of Kirkoswald College in the county of Cumberland Esquire bearing date the twenty ninth day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty one I hereby revoke the yearly rent charge of two hundred and fifty pounds given to my wife by my said will and in lieu thereof I direct and order that a yearly rent charge of two hundred pounds shall be paid to her for life in manner and subject to the same conditions as the said rent charge given to her by my said will Whereas by my said will I have declared that my said wife shall be entitled to reside in my mansion house for six calender months after my decease and in case the person presumptively entitled to the said mansion house under this my will shall not have attained his or her majority I declare that my said wife shall be entitled to reside in the same during the term of her natural life provided she so long remains my widow and in case my said wife shall during her widowhood give up my mansion house and promises to my son or the person entitled to the same under the provisions of this my will I direct that she shall leave the old stock of wine therein on receiving the sum of fifty pounds from the person so entitled to the possession of the said premises But in case my said wife shall marry again she shall give the old stock of wine without any compensation for the same I bequeathed my carriage and carriage horses harness and accoutrements belonging thereto housekeepers stores and provisions wines liquors fuel household furniture linen china and other household effects except the articles hereinbefore constituted heirlooms to my said wife absolutely Now I do hereby revoke the whole of such referred bequests to my said wife and I declare that she shall be entitled to reside in my mansion house for six calender months after my decease and that she shall have the use of such rent as may be necessary for household use during that time only and I give the residue of the said wine carriages and carriage horses harness and accoutrements belonging thereto housekeeping stores and provisions wines liquor fuel household furniture linen china and other household effects to my son or the person entitled to the ---- and occupation of my said mansion house after my wife shall cease to reside there and in all other respects I confirm my said will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the ninth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight Timy Fetherstonhaugh signed published and declared by the said Timothy Fetherstonhaugh the testator as and for a codicil to his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request in the presence of each other and being all present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses Silas Saul Solr Carlisle James Armstrong his clerk
The will of Timothy Fetherstonhaugh late of Kirkoswald College in the county of Cumberland Esquire deceased was proved at York with a codicil thereto on the twenty ninth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six before The Right Worshipful Granville Harcourt Vernon Master of Arts Commissary and Keeper General of the Exchequer and Prerogative Court of York lawfully constituted by the Oaths of Edward Williams Hasell Esquire and Charles Fetherstonhaugh Esquire the executors ------ in the said will named to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased they having been first sworn by Commission before The Reverend William Rees clerk Commissioner duly to administer Wm Hudson Jos Buckle Deputy Registrars
Proved at London with a codicil the 13th November 1856 before the Judge by the oaths of Edward Williams Hasell Esquire and Charles Fetherstonhaugh Esquire the executors to whom admon was granted they having been first sworn by Comon only to administer