Will of John Rawes of Kendal, Westmorland. Made 14th April 1855. Proved 12th April 1856 at Chester. (Preston Record Office (WRW DK). (Greenhow Line)

[Sheet one:] This is the last Will and Testament of me / John Rawes of Kendal in the County of / Westmorland, Husbandman. I give all my / personal Estate to my wife Elizabeth absolutely / and appoint her my sole Executrix. I devise / unto John Butterwith of Kendal, Grocer and / Hugh Langhorn of the same place Gentleman / and their heirs all my real Estate Upon / Trust to sell the same together or in parcels / and by private contract or public auction / and with power to give effectual receipts / discharging purchasers and others from / seeing to the application of the money / therein mentioned And to apply the income / arising from such purchase money and / also the whole or any part of the capital / thereof if they shall think fit and proper in their / sole discretion so to do towards the benefit / of my said wife during her life. And / subject to the said the same money / shall be In Trust for all and every my / Nephews and Nieces (children of my / Brothers and Sisters) living at my decease / and to be a vested interest in each of them / at my decease I empower my Trustees to / delay the sale of my real Estate until / such time or times as they shall think / expedient and in the meantime to raise / any sum or sums of money from time to / time by mortgage or mortgages a power of [Sheet two:] sale but notwithstanding such delay the / same shall be considered as Personal / Estate. And to invest any money in their hands on real or Government securities / or by way of loan to any public Company. / In witness whereof I have to this my last / Will and Testament set my hand this / fourtheenth day of April 1855. John Rawes [signs] Signed and declared by the said John Rawes in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Eldred Harrison, Solicitor, Kendal Daniel Harrison, his Clerk. On the twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and / fifty six this Will of John Rawes late of Kendal, in the Parish of Kendal in the / County of Westmorland within the Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Diocese of Chester / and Carlisle, Husbandman who departed this Life on the sixth day of January one / thousand eight hundred and fifty six was proved in common Form and Elizabeth / Rawes of Kendal in the Parish of Kendal, in the County of Westmorland, widow, the sole / Executrix therein named, was sworn well and faithfully to execute and perform / the same and so forth and that according to the best of the Knowledge, Information, and / Belief of the said Elizabeth Rawes the said Executrix the whole of the Goods, Chattels, / and Credits of which the said Testator John Rawes died possessed within the Dioceses / of Chester, Carlisle, and Manchester and the Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Diocese of / Ripon, (exclusive of what the said Testator might have been possessed of or entitled / to as Trustee for any other person or persons, and not beneficially, and without [Sheet three:] deducting anything on account of the Debts due and owing by and from the / said Testator) were under the Value of one hundred pounds Before me Joseph Fawcett Surrogate. Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002