| Will & Codicils of Christopher Rawes of Lancaster, Lancashire. Made 16th November 1814. Proved 15th December 1819 at Chester. (Preston Record Office WRW 1819) (Three codicils: 1st 12th May 1819, 2nd 6th January 1819, 3rd 3rd January 1819. (Miscellaneous) |
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[Will:] This is the last Will and Testament of me / Christopher Rawes of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster / Gentleman. I direct all my just debts funeral expenses and testamentary / expenses to be paid by my executor. I give devise and bequeath / all my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever / excepting plate china Furniture and effects deposited with Edward / and Susanna Tatham at Hipping Hall in the said County and / which are hereinafter bequeathed unto my friend John Higgin / the elder of Lancaster aforesaid Gentleman his heirs executors and administrators upon Trust that he or they shall and do as soon / as conveniently may be after my decease make sale and dispose / thereof (except such as are hereinafter specifically bequeathed) either in public sale or by private Contract for the most / money that can be reasonably be obtained for the same. And to grant / assign and deliver the same to the purchasers or purchasees thereof / And I declare and direct that the receit or receits of the said John / Higgins his heirs executors or administrators shall be good and / sufficient discharge to the purcharser or purchasees of all or any / part of my real or personal esate or effects for the monies in such / receit or receits expressed to be received, who shall not afterwards / be liable to see to the application of such purchase monies / And I declare that the said John Higgins his heirs executors / and administrators shall be possessed of the said Trust Monies / upon Trust in the first place to pay the following legacies / [I direct?] - Unto Mary the wife of the said John Higgin the sum of / Ten Guineas - To Mary the wife of John Chippindall of Manchester / in the said County, Calico Printer the sum of One Hundred Pounds / for her seperate and sole use. And in case of her decease leaving / issue then living I give and bequeath the same to such issue in canal Shares (if more than one) and if she leave only one child / then to such child to be paid to them at their respective age of / twenty one years or day or days of marriage which shall first happen / And in case any of the children of the said Mary Chippendall / shall die under age and without leaving issue then living I direct / that the Share or Shares of him her or them so dying shall be paid / to the survivors or survivor And to be a vested interest or interests / from the day of my decease - To Letitia Higgin and Sarah / Higgin, Daughters of the said John Higgin the sum of fifteen guineas / each And in the event of the decease of either of them I give the / legacy of her so dying unto the Survivor - To Agnes Harrison the daughter of John and Alice Harrison of Kendal the sum of ten guineas. To twelve of the oldest poor widowes belonging and living in Lancaster / at my decease (of whatever religeous persuasion they may be) / the sum of two guineas each and I request my executor to pay the same immediately after my decease - To the Trustees or Governors for the time being of the Girls Charity School in Lancaster the sum / of four guineas to be applied in promoting the objects of that / laudable institution - To the said John Higgin my Executor / hereinafter named the sum of ten guineas as a token of my / esteem and regard - To Richard Bateson of Liverpool, Merchant / his miniature portrait and the sum of five guineas with which / I desire him to purchase a piece of plate. And to Sarah the / Wife of William Houseman of Lune [or Lime] Bank, Esquire my two / prints of Joseph and his Brothers which are framed and / glazed - And upon further Trust that the said John Higgin / his heirs executors or administrators do and shall pay and divide / the remaine and remainder of the said Trust Monies Estate and / promises[?] equally between and among the children of the said / Edward and Susanna Tatham And in case any of them shall depart this life leaving lawful issue then living I direct that / the share of him her or them so dying shall be paid to such issue / in equal shares on their attainder to the age of twenty one years / or day or days of marriage which shall first happen. And to see[?] vested interest or interests from the day of my death- And in/ case of the decease of any of them without leaving such issue / I direct that the share of him her or them so dying shall be paid / to the survivors or survivor. I give and bequeath all my plate / china Furniture and effects deposited with the said Edward and / Susanna Tatham at Hipping Hall unto the children of the said / Edward and Susanna Tatham. I give and bequeath all my / wearing apparel and body linen unto the said Edward Tatham the / son of the said Edward and Susanna Tatham. I nominate and / appoint the said John Higgin the Executor of this my / Will And I declare that it shall be lawful for him or to reimburse for / himself all such Costs Charges and Expenses as he shall or may / expend or be put unto in the Execution of the Trust hereby / reposed in him and shall be answerable only for such / monies as he shall actually receive and not for involuntary / lapses - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand/ and seal the sixteenth day of November on the year of our / Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Signed Sealed Published
John Higgin, Sr
On the fifteenth day of December in the Year of our Lord / One thousand eight hundred and nineteen This Will (with / three codicils annexed) of Christopher Rawes late of / Lancaster in the parish and County of Lancaster, Gentleman, deceased who died on the seventeenth / day of March One thousand eight hundred and / nineteen was proved in common form and John Higgin / the Elder of Lancaster aforesaid Gentleman the sole / Executor within named was sworn well and faithfully / to execute and perform the same and so forth and / that according to the best of his knowledge & Information / and Belief the whole of the Goods Chattles and / Credits of which the said Christopher Rawes deceased / died possessed within the Archdeaconry of Richmond in the / Diocese of Chester (Exclusive of what the said Testator / might have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee / for any other person as the same and not Beneficially / and without deducting any Thing on Acatrust[?] of / the Debts due and saving[?] by and from the said / Estate) were under the Value of One thousand / five hundred Pounds. Before me V[?] Bowly Surrogate In the Consistory Court at Lancaster On the fifteenth day of December / in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight / hundred and nineteen appeared personally / John Higgin the younger of Lancaster in / the County of Lancaster, Gentleman and Thomas / Housman Higgin of the same place / Gentleman / who being severally sworn upon God's Holy / Evangelists severally made Oath that they / severally knew and were well acquianted with / Christopher Rawes late of Lancaster aforesaid / gentleman, Deceased and with his character / and Manner of Handwriting and Subscription / having ofter seen him write and subscribe / his name and the said John Higgin / and Thomas Housman Higgin having carefully viewed three several paper Writings purporting / to be the last Will and Testament of the said Deceased and three Codicils to the same / respectively hereunto annexed and respectively / hereinafter described that is to say the first / marked with the Letter A and purporting / to be the last Will and Testament of the / said Deceased the second marked with the / Letters B. C. and respectively subscribed / "Chrisr Rawes" and purporting to be a / first and second Codicils to the said Will of / the said Deceased and the third marked with the Letter D and thus subscribed "Christopher / Rawes" and purporting to be a third Codicil / to the said Will of the said Deceased they / these Deponents severally further deposed and said / that they verily believed that the Letters C.R. / in the Margin of the first side of the said Will / and the Words "belonging and" inter lined in the / Second Side of the said Will and the Name / "Chrisr Rawes" signed and subscribed to the / said annexed Paper markes B and the / Name "Chrisr Rawes" signed and subscribed to / the annexed paper markes C and also the / Name "Christopher Rawes" signed and subscribed / to the said annexed paper marked D were / and are respectively of the proper Hand Writing / of the said Christopher Rawes, Deceased.
Signed and Sworn at
Before me
John Higgin.
I the undersigned Christopher Rawes of Crook[?] / being of sound and disposing mind and memory / notwithstanding my present Indisposition, do ordain / and make the following bequests. Viz. It is my / will and request that my Executor John Higgin / of Greenfield Lancaster do pay unto Thomas / Townson of Lancaster, Cabinet Maker the sum of fifty / pounds of lawful money in consideration of the / Trouble and attention he has had on my account / during my residence in his House: also, the sum / of ten pounds to Ann the wife of the above named Thomas / Townson, and also the sum of five pounds of like money / to each of the children Dorothy and Margaret / of the afloresaid Thomas and Ann Townson - And I first / desire that the above named sums of money shall be / paid respectively to them clear of any Legacy Duty or / other charges - And in consequence of the above Bequests I / consider the Instructions which I some time ago gave / Mr Edward Tatham of Kendal in a Letter to him to be null and Void / And it is my desire that the above written may be / considered as an addition, or codicil, to last Will / and Testament. As Witness my Hand this twelfth / Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight ------[missing on copy] Chrisr Rawes
This is the second Codicil to my last Will - In consideration of my / sickness and the attention thereunto me by Ann Townson the wife of Thomas / Townson of Lancaster CabinetMaker, I hereby direct that the executor of my Will / do pay unto the said Ann Townson the sum of ten guineas in addition / to the legacy and other bequests in my former codicil to my Will, exclusive of / legacy duty. dated the sixth day of January one thousand eight hundred and / nineteen Chrisr Rawes
This is the third codicil to my Will. It is my / Will and request that my Executor expend / the sum of three guineas, or therabouts, in / the purchase of a piece of silver plate, or in / Books, and present the same after my decease / to my Friend Doctor Cassells of Lancaster, / a memorial of my esteem for him: Also, it is / my Will and Desire that Thomas Townson of / Lancaster Cabinet Maker and Ann his wife, / at my deacease, shall each of them have good / Mourning, and each of their Daughters two / osborn[?] cotton Frocks, and I direct that the Cost / thereof shall be paid by my Executor. Witness my / Hand this seventh Day of January 1819. Chrisr Rawes Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002 |