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Description: | To son John James Clark a silver cup.
To wife Ann Clark, residue of plate, household linen and woollen, all beds, bedding, china, household goods and furniture, and £500 payable within 6 months of decease.
To wife Ann Clark, good friend John Campbell of Louth, mercer and draper, and son John James ClarkStock in trade, book debts, ready money and securities for money, and residue of goods, chattels, personal estate and effects (except leasehold hereditaments) on trust for sale. To pay off debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and the above £500 legacy.
To wife Ann Clark, messuages, cottages, closes, lands, tenements and hereditaments in Market Rasen for life if she continues as his widow.
To wife Ann Clark, John Campbell and John James Clark, messuages, cottages, closes, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate in Middle Rasen and Linwood, and Newark, Nottinghamshire, and leasehold estates and hereditaments in Westminster or elsewhere, and the premises in Market Rasen after the death or marriage of his wife, in trust to convey them in equal proportions to any children alive at the time of his death or due, chargeable with the payment of sums.
Shares of sons John James Clark and Richard Clark shall be debited by £1000 to allow for sums already advanced to them, and daughters Mary wife of James Martin and Ann wife of William Wells sahll be debited by £500 for sums already advanced.
Provisions re shares of any children who die.
To apply sums for the maintenance of children under 21 or not married (if daughters).
Trustees should not, unless necessary, sell the house in which John James Clark now resides, with the yard and garden, and the shop, warehouses, candle house and premises occupied by the testator and John James Clark as co-partners in trade in Market Rasen, being part of the hereditaments devised to wife Ann Clark for life, but they should be conveyed to sons John James Clark and Adam Calrk as part of their shares.
Executors and executrix: Ann Clark, John Campbell and John James Clark. Also to be guardians of any minor children.
Codicil
Since the will, his daughter Elizabeth has married John Cumpstone of Market Rasen, surgeon and apothecary, on which occasion the testator gave him £300. He has advanced sons Marmaduke Clark and Adam Clark £700 each. They should thus be debited these sums from their shares.
He now gives the properties in Market Rasen to wife Ann Clark, her heirs and assigns for ever, on no trust.
The estates at Newark should not be sold or disposed of before Lady Day 1830 to any person other than son Ricahrd Clark, without his consent, and he shall have the option of purchasing it for £1600 at that time, and in the meantime he may occupy it for a rent of 5% of the £1600.
Son Adam Clark appointed as an additional executor
2 Apr 1822
Proved by John James Clark at PCC.
Copy made 6 Feb 1833. | Temporal: | 21 Sep 1820 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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