this is the last will and testament of me
Wm Powter otherwise Poulter
of Earls Colne in the county of Essex gardener made as follows (that
is to say) I give and devise all that my freehold croft or piece or
parcel of land or ground called
Three Corner Croft
(
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Three Corner Croft
containing 2a more or less lying and being in Earls Colne
aforesaid and not in the occupation of
Thos Woolman
unto and to the use of my eldest son
Wm Powter otherwise Poulter
his heirs and assigns for ever and it is my mind and I do desire and
direct that my executors hereinafter named do and shall from time to
time receive the rents and profits thereof until he my said son shall
have attained his age of twenty-one years and lay out and apply the
same for his use and benefit until that time also I desire and direct
authorise and empower my executors hereinafter named or the survivor
of them or the executors or administrators of the survivor of them
with all convenient speed after my decease to bargain sell convey and
absolutely dispose of all my messuages lands grounds tenements
hereditaments and real estate of what tenure or nature soever and
wheresoever (except the abovementioned and devised premises) and also
all my goods chattels and personal estate and effects of what nature
quality or denomination soever and wheresoever that shall be saleable
either entirely or in parcels for the best price or prices and most
money that can be gotten for the same respectively and out of the
monies thereby respectively raised and to the rents and profits of
the said real estates until such sale or sales and of all such ready
money and other monies that shall belong to me and I shall leave at
my decease to pay the charges of such sale or sales of my funeral of
the probate hereof my just debts and all expenses attending the due
execution of this my will and the rest and residue of the same monies
to put place and continue out at interest upon real or government
security or securities or in the public stocks or funds with all
speed and from time to time to receive the interest thereof and
thereout to pay unto my wife
Eliz
the sum of 4s weekly and every week until the sum of £40 shall have
been thereby paid to her upon every saturday in every week, the first
payment to commence on the first saturday next after the receipt of
any interest by my said executors and which shall be paid to her in
lieu bar and full satisfaction of all her dower thirds claim and
demand whatsoever out of and upon any my real and personal estates
and effects and the residue of such interest from time to time to lay
out apply and pay for or towards the necessary use and benefit of all
my children (except my said eldest son) that I shall leave at my
decease until such time as my youngest child shall have attained the
age of twenty-one years and then to divided and pay the principal
money and all unreceived and unapplied interest thereof among and to
all my said children equally share and share alike (except my said
eldest son) and in case any of my said children shall die before my
youngest child shall have attained the age of twenty-one years
without leaving lawful issue that shall live to the age of twenty-one
years, then to divide and pay the share or shares of such of them as
shall so die among and to the survivors or survivor of them when and
so soon as the youngest of them my said children as shall be then
living shall have attained the age of twenty-one years and the issue
of such of them as shall be dead leaving lawful issue living when my
youngest child shall have attained the said age of twenty-one years
equally share and share alike if more than one at the several and
respective ages of such issue as shall have attained or shall attain
the age of twenty-one years at or after my youngest child shall have
attained the said age of twenty-one years and not before and in the
mean time to place and continue the share or shares of such issue as
shall not then
have
attained the said age of twenty-one years out at interest upon the
aforesaid security or securities and the interest thereof
respectively to receive and apply and pay for their respective use
and benefit of such issue, but so as such issue shall not have more
than their respective parents would have had if living also I do
nominate and appoint
Jas Wing
of Earls Colne in the said county of Essex shopkeeper and
Thos Mills
of Colne Engaine in the same county gardener and farmer joint
executors of this my last will and testament and also guardians of
all my said children that are unmarried and under age during their
several and respective minorities and it is my mind and desire and I
do hereby declare and direct that the receipt or receipts of my said
executors or of the survivor of them or of the executors or
administrators or the survivor of them shall be a full and sufficient
discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of all or any part or parts
of my said real and personal estates and effects directed to be sold
as aforesaid for so much money for which such receipt or receipts
shall be given without such purchaser or purchasers being obliged to
see the application or being answerable for any loss misapplication
or nonapplication thereof and further that they my said executors or
either of them shall not be charged or chargeable with or accountable
for any more monies than they shall respectively actually receive nor
with or for any loss that may happen unless the same be by their or
one of their default nor shall either of them be answerable for the
other of them or for the acts receipts or defaults of the other of
them but each for his own acts receipts and defaults only and that
they and each of them may and shall by and out of the said principal
monies or the interest thereof deduct retain and reimburse themselves
and each of them their and each of their reasonable charges for loss
of time and trouble and all such loss costs and expenses as they or
either of them shall sustain expend or be put unto in and about the
due execution of this my will and I do hereby revoke and make void
all former wills and testaments by me at any time made and I do
publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
11.8.1815
Wm Powter otherwise Poulter
signed sealed published and declared by the said testator
Wm Powter otherwise Poulter
as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at
his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other
have thereunto subscribed out names as witnesses
J. Usher
J. P. Taylor
Jas Wenden