JOHN RAWES OF SOUTH ACOMB

Will & Admon of John Rawes of South Acomb, Bywell St Peter, Northumberland. Made 10th October 1840. Proved 11th June 1853 at the Perogative Court of York (PCY). (Borthwick Institute, York.) (Anthony)
[WILL:]
I John Rawes, Clerk. B.A. late of Clare Hall in the University / of Cambridge, now Curate of Bywell St. Andrew, and resident at South Acomb in / the Parish of Bywell St. Peter in the County of Northumberland, being of sound mind / and memory, do make this my last Will and Testament, in the manner following, that is to say. First I give and bequeath to my cousin John Jennings, my History of / England by Hume and Smollet - Also I give and bequeath to my cousin William Jennings / my copy of Cicero's and Demosthenes' Works. Also I give and bequeath to my cousin Daniel / Jennings my Waverley Novels. Also I give and bequeath to my cousin Sarah Jennings / my copy of Byron's Works in seventeen volumes & my Bible. - Also I give & bequeath to my / to my cousin Thomas Jennings all the remainder of my Books, Sermons, Manuscripts & which / are here at my lodgings and at Askew-Mire And my last Will & mind is that all the / above named books, & may remain at Askew-Mire during my Uncle John's life / time if he think proper that they should do so. - Also I give & bequeath to my / Aunt Margaret Stockbridge, all my Crockery, Brewing Utensils, & my Bed & Table / linen. Also I give and bequeath to my Uncle John Stockbridge all my wearing / apparel and Money after paying my funeral Expences and all the remainder of / my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever. And I nominate and appoint the / said John Stockbridge executor of this my last Will and Testament, to which / I have set my hjand and seal this tenth day of October in the year of / our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty.

John Rawes. [signed]

Signed, sealed and declared by the said
Testator to be his last Will and Testament, to which
he has set his hand and seal in our presence, and
to which we have set our hands as Witnesse at his
request, inhis presence, and in the presence of
each other, the day and year above written.

Witnesses: Edward Cooke. Fanny Cooke.

[margin notes] Exhibited before me this 11 June 1853.
James Thwaytes, Commissioner.


This Commission was duly executed and the within named / John Stockbridge was sworn according to the form and / effect of the within Oath this eleventh day of June / in the year of our Lord 1853,

Before me
James Thwaytes
Commissioner
As afsd 15th June 1853 200l & fund.
Died 20th December 1852


Mr Stockbridge
Askew Mire
Yeoman
under £200
died 22 Decr '52


[Admon:]
Granville Harcourt Vernon, Master of Arts, Commissary
and Keeper General of the Exchequer and Prerogative Court of the / most Reverend Father in God, THOMAS, by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of / England, and Metropolitan, To our well-beloved in Christ, The Reverend William / Rees and James Thwaytes, clerks / jointly and severally, GREETING: Whereas, John Rawes formerly of South / Acomb in the Parish of Bywell St. Peter in the County / of Northumberland, but late of Askew Mire in the Parish of / Caldbeck in the County of Cumberland, Clerk, deceased / having whilst living, and at the Time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, or Credits, in divers Diocese or Juris / dictions did make his Will (hereunto annexed) and did therein name / John Stockbridge the Executor who / now reside at a distance from us, and, by reason thereof, cannot without great Expence come to our Prerogative / Court of York, for the Purposes herein after-mentioned. We therefore in Aid of Law (Justice so requiring) do / authorise and empower you jointly or severally to Administer the Oath below, to the said Executor / and further to do in the Premises as shall be needful; requesting that (such Oath being administered) you duly / transmit to us or our lawful Surrogate, the said Will and the whole / Proceedings thereon subscribed with the proper Hand or Hands of one or more of you, immediately after the / Execution hereof, together with these Presents so that Justice may be administered in the Premises. Given at / York. the sixth Day of June in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight / Hundred and Fifty three

Joseph Buckle
Deputy Register

The Form of the Oath to the Executor laying his Hand on the Bible or New Testament.
Your Oath is, that the above named John rawes / died on or about the twentieth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and / fifty two, and that the writing hereunto annexed contains his true last Will and Testament / as so far as we know or believe, that you are the Executor named in the said / Will and that you will truly perform the same, by paying first his Debts, and then the / Legacies therein contained, as far as his Goods, Chattels and Credits, / will thereto extend and the Law charge you; and that you will make a true and perfect / Inventory of all the said Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and exhibit the same into the Registry of the Prerogative Court of York, at the Time assigned you by the said Court, and render a just Account thereof when lawfully required, / that the Whole of the Goods, Chattels, and Credits, of the said Deceased, (within the Province of York,) do / not amount to the Sum of Two hundred Pounds and that the Contents of the annexed Affidavit to / which you have subscribed your Name were and are true.

So help you GOD.

John Stockbridge of Askew
Mire, Caldbeck, Cumberland
Yeoman.

Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002