Estate Duty Office Will of Elizabeth Flood formerly Elizabeth Melhuish of Cullompton, (1825)
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Devon Heritage Centre 1078/IRW/F/174
Transcribed by Art Ames
Proved 18h March 1825 in the Registry of the Archdeaconry Court of Exeter
Appeared personally John Snow Manley of Cullompton in the county of Devon druggist and Richard Harvey of the same place grocer the sole executors in trust named in the last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Melhuish late of Cullompton aforesaid but who after making the said Will was married to John Flood therein named and who died on the twenty seventh day of February 1825
I Elizabeth Melhuish of the parish of Cullompton in the county of Devon shopkeeper to make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in manner and form following
First whereas by virtue of a marriage deed or settlement executed between I the said Elizabeth Melhuish and John Flood mason of Cullompton aforesaid bearing date the fifteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three in which Mr John Snow Manley druggist and Mr Richard Harvey grocer and tea dealer both of Cullompton aforesaid are appointed by trustees in which marriage deed or settlement I have reserved for my own use and disposal at the sum of two hundred and ninety eight pounds sterling I hereby give devise and bequeath the same as follows
I give devise and bequeath unto my two grandsons John Granger and William Granger both born of the body of my late daughter Mary the late wife of William Granger now of Taunton coal dealer and the sum of fifty pounds sterling to each of them to be paid to each of them at my decease by my executors in trust hereinafter named
But should my death happen before they or either of them my said two grandsons shall attain the age of twenty one years then my executors in trust hereinafter named shall defer the payment of the said fifty pounds until they or either of them my said two grandsons shall arrive at that age of twenty one years when it shall be paid them with all the interest arising therefrom after my death by my executors in trust hereinafter named
I also give devise and bequeath unto my son Henry Bale (otherwise Melhuish) now of Tiverton in the county of Devon aforesaid the interest arising from the remaining one hundred and ninety eight of my reserved property in the marriage settlement above mentioned to be paid unto him my said son Henry Bale otherwise Melhuish during his natural life by my executors in trust hereinafter named but no part of the principal thereof shall in any wise be diminished during his my said sons Henry life
And at his decease the whole of the said sum of one hundred and ninety eight pounds I give and bequeath the same unto his child or children which may survive him
And if more than one child shall happen to survive him my said son Henry at his death then the said sum of one hundred and ninety eight pounds shall be equally divided between them share and share alike
And if his my said son Henry’s child or children shall be under the age of twenty one years at his decease then the interest arising from the property only shall be applied to the support or bringing up of such child or children as may survive him and the principal shall be the property of such child or children at the arrival of the age of twenty one years to be paid as herewith specified and directed by my executors in trust here and after named
But should my said son Henry Bale otherwise Melhuish aforesaid die without any child or children to survive him then I give devise and bequeath the above mentioned one hundred and ninety eight pounds unto my two grandsons John Granger and William Granger above mentioned share and share alike or should either of them die before the age of twenty one years the surviving brother shall receive the said sum of one hundred and ninety eight pounds with any interest which may be due thereon to be applied as thus directed by my executors in trust hereinafter named
Lastly I hereby appoint authorize and ordain the above named John Snow Manley druggist and Richard Harvey grocer and tea dealer both of Cullompton in conjunction with each other to be the sole executors in trust for the purposes above mentioned of this my last Will and Testament and they are both authorized to dispose of the above property as above specified in this my Will paying themselves any reasonable charges or expense which may be incurred in the due discharge of their duty in the execution of this Will
And I hereby revoke and make void any Will or Wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament contained in this one sheet of paper to which I said Elizabeth Melhuish the testator have set my hand and affixed my seal this eighteenth day of September in the fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty George the fourth and in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Elizabeth Melhuish as for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto in her presence and in the presence of one another of us
William Hill James Hill