born 1766 died 14th Feb 1841

of Laystone Hertfordshire

Created 14th Feb 1829
Proved at London 4th May 1841

Admors = Administrators – one line spells it out in full.

This is the last Will and Testament of me William Butt of Corneybury in the parish of Laystone in the County of Hertford Esquire

I give and devise my manor of Corneybury aforesaid and the Advowson of the parish church of Laystone aforesaid and all my messuages farms lands tenements tythes and hereditaments situate and being in the parish of Laystone aforesaid and all and singular other my lands hereditaments and real estate situate lying and being in the said County of Hertford and also all that my manor of Holbeach Lord D’Acre and all other my lands and hereditaments in the County of Lincoln and all other my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto the Reverend John Henry Michell Rector of Buckland in the County of Hertford Charles Mansfield Clarke of Saville Row in the County of Middlesex Doctor in physic and the Reverend David Lewis of Twickenham in the said County of Middlesex Doctor of Divinity and their heirs to the uses upon the trusts and subject to the powers and provisoes hereinafter mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to say to the use of my son William Butt

and his assigns for the term of his natural life without impeachment of waste and from and after his decease to the use of the first and every other son of my said son William

lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priorty of birth and the heirs male of the body and respective bodies of such son and sons issuing every elder of such sons and the heirs male of his body issuing being always to take before and be preferred to the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his and their body and respective bodies issuing and for want of such issue to the use of all and every the son and sons of my body hereafter to be born whether in my lifetime or alive after my decease severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priority of birth and the heirs male of the body and respective bodies of such hereafter born son and sons issuing every older of such hereafter born sons and the heirs male of his body issuing being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of them and the heirs male of his and their body and respective bodies issuing and

in default of such issue to the use of my oldest daughter Ann Butt and her assigns for the term of her natural life without impeachment of waste and from and after her decease to the use of the first and every other son of my said daughter Ann lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priority of birth and the heirs male of the body and respective bodies of such son and sons issuing every older of such sons and the heirs male of his body issuing being always to take before and be preferred to the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his and their body and respective bodies and for want of such issue to the use

of my second daughter Jane Butt and her assigns for the term of her natural life without impeachment of waste and from and after her decease to the use of the first and every other son of the sons Jane Butt lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priority of birth and the heirs male of the body and respective bodies of such son and sons issuing the elder of such sons and the heirs male of his body issuing being always to take before and be preferred to the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his and their body and respective bodies issuing and for want of such issue to the use

of my third daughter Elizabeth Butt and her assigns for the term of her natural life without impeachment of waste and from and after her decease to the use of the first and every other son of the said Elizabeth Butt lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priority of birth and the heirs male of the body and respective bodies of such son and sons issuing the older of such sons and the heirs male of his body issuing being always to take before and be preferred to the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his and their bodies and respective bodies issuing and for want of such issue to the use

of my daughter Mary Butt for the term of her natural life without impeachment of waste and from and after her decease to the use of the first and other sons of my said daughter Mary lawfully ^to be^ begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priority of birth and the heirs male of the body and ^respective^ bodies of such son and sons issuing every elder of such son and the heirs male of his body issuing in being always to take before and be preferred to the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his and their body and respective bodies and for want of such issue to the use of every daughter and daughters of my body hereafter to be born severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they respectively shall be in priority of birth and the heirs male of her and their body and respective bodies issuing every elder of such after born daughters and the heirs male of her body being always preferred to and to take before the younger of their and the heirs male of her and their body and respective bodies and

in default of such issue to the use of my own right heirs for ever and to preserve the contingent remainders hereinbefore devised from being defeated or destroyed I give the hereditaments hereinbefore devised to any person during the term of his or her natural life respectively with the appurtenances after the determination of that estate respectively by forfeiture or otherwise in his or their respective life-time unto and to the use of the said John Henry Michell Charles in Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and their heirs during the life of the tenant whose estate shall so determine in trust for him or her respectively and by the usual ways to preserve the contingent remainders expectant or depending thereon but to pay the rents and profits thereof to such tenant for life respectively during his or her respective natural life provided always and my will nevertheless is that if the persons to whose respective use the said real estates are hereinbefore respectively devised or limited in remainder as aforesaid or the husband of any such person being a female do not and shall not as a and when he she or they shall severally by virtue of the devises or limitations hereinbefore contained become and be entitled in possession to the said estates respectively or to receive and take the rents and profits thereof

and shall be of the age of twenty one years use assume and take upon himself and herself and themselves respectively the surname and arms of Butt as the same is and are uses used by me and continue to use the surname of Butt only and use his her and their utmost endeavours for procuring and obtaining his Majesty’s Royal Licence or other proper authority for his her or their respectively taking and assuming the said surname of Butt only and bearing and using the arms now used and borne by me or shall refuse decline or neglect so to do for the space of six calendar months after he she or they shall respectively become and be so entitled as aforesaid and be of the age of twenty one years and upwards then and as often as the case shall so happen the estae or interest of him her or them so refusing declineing or neglecting as aforesaid and whose husband (being a female) shall so refuse decline or neglect as aforesaid of and in all the said estates given and devised as aforesaid by virtue of the limitations aforesaid shall thenceforth cease determine and be void in such and the same manner to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if he she or they so refusing declining or neglecting or the persons whose husbands shall so refuse decline as aforesaid being a tenant or tenants for life was or were actually dead and being a tenant or tenants in tail male was or were actually dead without issue male anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding and during any vacancy or suspense of the contingent remainders hereinbefore limited to be occasioned by any forfeiture under the last mentioned proviso

I give the estates so to be forfeited by any tenant for life unto and to the use of the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and their heirs during the life of such tenant for life in trust to preserve the contingent remainders hereinbefore limited and to pay the rents and profits during such suspense or vacancy only to the persons next entitled in remainder to a vested interest or remainder of and in the estate so forfeited under the limitations aforesaid provided lways that it shall be lawful for every person who by virtue of this my will shall be tenant for life in possession of any of the said estates in the Counties of Hertford and Lincoln respectively hereby devised and who shall have attained his or here age of twenty one years notwithstanding such person may be under coverture and whether she shall be sole or covert and for the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivor of them and the heirs of such survivor during the minority of any such tenant for life or in tail male to appoint the said estates respectively or any part thereof respectively to any person by way of lease for any term of years not exceeding twenty one years to be computed from the making thereof on the best yearly rent that can be reasonably had for the same without taking any fine or foregift for the making thereof but so that there be contained therein a condition of reentry for nonpayment of the rent thereby reserved and so that the lessee execute a counterpart thereof and thereby covenant for the payment of the rent provided also and

I further will and declare that it shall be lawful for the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivors and survivors of them and the heirs of such survivor at the request in writing of any person who shall be tenant for life in possession under this my will (notwithstanding any such person shall be a ffane(?) Covert and whether she shall be sole or married to dispose of either by absolute sale or in exchange for other hereditaments situate in England or in Wales any part or parts of the estates of which such person shall be actual tenant for life as hereinbefore mentioned and that for the purpose of effecting such sales or exchanges it shall be lawful for the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivors and survivor of them and the heirs of such survivor by any deed sealed or delivered by them him or her respectively and attested by two or more credible Witnesses to revoke the uses or trusts hereinbefore or herein after created or which shall be created by any codicil to this my will or by an exercise of any of the porooes??? Hereinbefore contained or to be contained in any such codicil except under the poeoor??? of leasing and to appoint such other uses or trusts as it may be thought necessary or expedient to appoint in order to effectuate any such sale or exchange and to receive upon every such exchange any sum of money by way of ???? and also upon payment of the money to be raised by sale of the said hereditaments devised by this my Will or any part thereof or of any money to be paid for equality of exchange to sign and give receipts for the same respectively and that such receipts shall effectually discharge the persons paying the same from being answerable from the misapplication or of being bound to see to the application of the money therein mentioned to be received

and that the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the Survivors and survivor of them and the heirs of such survivor shall out of the money arising from any such sale or to be received for equality of exchange as aforesaid in the first place pay off and discharge all the mortgages or other incumbrances which shall be subsisting at my decease or charged by virtue of any of the powers herein contained upon the hereditaments hereby devised and made saleable and exchangeable and which is shall be necessary to pay off and discharge in order to make a good title to the purchaser or purchasers of the same hereditaments

and after payment thereof upon trust to lay out the residue of the money arising from such sale or to be received for equality of exchange as aforesaid or the whole of such money if no part thereof shall become applicable as aforesaid in the purchase of ffreehold or copyhold estates of inheritance to be situate in England or Wales to be approved of by some writing under the hand of the person who would be tenant for life or in tail thereof if the same were then actually purchased and settled if such person shall then have attained his or her age of twenty one years but if such person shall be under the age of twenty one years then every such purchase shall be made at the discretion of the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivors of them or the heirs of such survivor and that the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor shall settle the estates so to be purchased or received by way of exchange to the uses and upon the trusts hereinbefore expressed and which shall be then subsisting of the hereditaments which shall be so sold or given in exchange or as near thereto as the nature and quality of the said extates and intervening circumstances will admit of

And my will is that until a proper purchase shall be found upon which the money arising from the said sales or exchanges shall be invested the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them or his heirs shall invest the money arising from such sale or for equality of exchange as aforesaid in their or his names or name on Government or Real securities in England and after and vary(?) the same as they or he shall think proper or expedient and pay the interest dividends and annual produce of the said sums of money stocks funds and securities to the person who would be entitled to receive the rents issues and profits of the estates so to be purchased and settled as aforesaid if the same were then actually purchases and settled and

I bequeath all the plate pictures engravings drawings china glass books linens and other articles of furniture whatsoever which shall be in and about my said Mansion house at Corneybury aforesaid at the time of my decease to the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis their executors as??oes and assigns in trust to permit the same to go and be held and enjoyed with the said Mansion house in the nature of heir looms so far as the Rules of Law or Equity will admit by the person or persons who for the time being shall be entitled to the possession of the said Mansion House by virtue of this my Will yet so that the same shall not vest absolutely in the son or sons of any person hereby made tenant for life of the said Mansion House and appurtenances unless such son or sons shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years but nevertheless such son or sons respectively shall during his or their minority or respective minorities be entitled to the use and benefit of the said plate pictures and other articles and

I direct that as soon as conveniently after my decease the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivors and survivor of them his executors and admors(?) shall cause schedules or inventories to be taken of the sons plate pictures and other articles and two copies to be made thereof and that they shall sign each of the said copies and keep one of them and leave the other at the said Mansion House to which the said plate furniture and other articles shall belong and from time to time cause the same to be signed by the person for the time being intitled to the said Mansion house under the uses and trusts of this my will and

I direct that the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors and admors(?) of such survivor shall and may from time to time inspect and examine into the state of the said furniture and other articles and cause such reparations restorations or replacing to be made thereof from time to time as they shall think proper such reparations restorations and other replacings to be made at the costs and expences of the person or persons for the time being intitled to hold use and enjoy the said plate furniture and other articles under the trusts of this my Will and

I direct that the provision hereby made for my said son and my daughters Ann Jane and Elizabeth shall be taken by them respectively in full satisfaction of any portion or sum of money to which they may respectively become intitled under the settlement executed upon my marriage with their late mother Ann Butt deceased or otherwise from the estates hereby devised

[and I appoint the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and my said son William Butt Executors of this my last Will and Testament] and

I direct my Executors for the time being to pay my funeral expences debts and the legacies hereby given or which may be given by any codicil to this my will out of that part of my personal estate which is not hereinbefore specifically bequeathed all which I direct shall be sold and converted into money for such purpose and in case the money so to arise and be gotten in from the said residue of my personal estate shall not be sufficient for payment of my funeral and testamentary expences debts and legacies then I direct that the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors and admors(?) of such survivor to cause and apply sufficient monies in and of my said residuary personal estate for and in payment of my said funeral and testamentary expences debts and legacies together with all costs of raising the same by mortgage of my estate at Holbeach in the County of Lincoln hereby devised to take effect prior to all the uses hereinbefore limited and for the purpose of effecting any such mortgage

I declare that it shall be lawful for the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or admors(?) of such survivor by any deed or deeds to be sealed and delivered by them or him in the presence of two or more credible Witnesses to appoint the said estate at Holbeach in the said County of Lincoln or any part thereof to any person who shall be willing to advance the money wanted in aid of my personal estate either in fee simple or for any term or terms of years subject to Redemption on payment of the principal sum so to be advanced and the interest thereof and to give a receipt for the money so to be advanced and that such receipt or receipts shall discharge the person to whom the same shall be given from being accountable for the misapplication or being obliged to see to the application of the money therein mentioned and acknowledged to be received or from being obliged to enquire whether such money or any part thereof shall be or have become raiseable under the trusts and by virtue of the powers hereinbefore contained and

I give and bequeath unto the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis their Executors administrators and assigns the sum of five thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain in trust for my daughter Ann Butt and the further sum of five thousand pounds of like lawful money in trust for my daughter Jane Butt and the sum of five thousand pounds of like lawful money in trust for my daughter Elizabeth Butt and the like sum of five thousand pounds of like lawful money in trust for my daughter Mary Butt and

I direct that the said several legacies of five thousand pounds a piece shall be payable at the expiration of one year from my decease and that they shall be attended with interest after the rate of five pounds per rent per annum payable quarterly from my decease and

I direct that the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors admors(?) of such survivor do and shall place out and invest in their or his names or name in or upon Government or real funds or securities at interest the said repective legacies of five thousand pounds a piece so bequeathed in trust for my said daughters as aforesaid and do and shall stand ^and be^ possessed of such respective legacy of five thousand pounds and the funds and securities whereupon the same shall respectively be invested and the interest and dividends thereof respectively upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned that is to say upon trust to pay the interest and dividends thereof respectively unto each of my said daughters in trust for whom the same legacy is respectively given as aforesaid for the term of her natural life respectively from and after she respectively shall have attained the age of twenty one years or been married with consent of her guardians or guardian or a majority of them for the time being which shall first happen for her sole and separate use and disposal independent of any husband and for which the receipts of her or her appointees in writing shall alone be a good discharge and from and after her respective decease then in trust to pay the interest and dividends thereof to such husband if any of such respective daughter as may survive her and to whom such daughter shall by any deed or writing or by her last will in writing to be respectively executed by her in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses have give or appointed a life interest therein and whether before or after her respective marriage and whether she shall be a minor or of full age at the execution thereof provided such marriage during minority be had with such consent as aforesaid and his assigns for the term of his natural life and from and after his decease in trust for all and every or any one or more of the child or children of such daughter respectively lawfully ^to be^ begotten for such estates and interests and in such shares and proportions sort manner and form as such daughter respecttively (whether sole or covert) shall by any deed or writing or by her last Will and Testament in writing to be respectively executed and attested as aforesaid direct and appoint and in default of such appointment and so far as any such shall not extend in trust for all and every the child and children of such daughter respectively equally to be divided between them if more than one and for his her or their executors admors(?) and assignes but if any of such children shall die under the age of twenty one years and with out having been married then as to the share or shares as well original as accruing of such child or children so dying as aforesaid in trust for the others and other of them equally to be divided between them if more than one share and share alike and for their his or her executors admors(?) and assigns but not to become vested in such other or others of them sooner than their his or her original share or shares shall become vested by virtue of this my will and in case there shall not be a child of such daughter respectively who shall live to attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall first happen then (subject to the trusts aforesaid and to he powers of appointment and advancement hereby given for the benefit of any such child or children) upon such trusts and to and for such intents and purposes and under and subject to such powers provisoes and declarations as such daughter respectively shall by any deed or writing or by her last Will and Testament in writing to be executed and attested in manner aforesaid whether she shall be sole or married and notwithstanding her coverture direct or appoint and in default of such appointment and so far as the same should not extend then the same respective legacies of five thousand pounds and the securities for the same or so much thereof as shall not have been absolutely disposed of under the trusts aforesaid or applied for childrens advancement under the power hereinafter contained shall be in trust for such person or persons of the blood and kindred of my said daughter living at her decease as by virtue of the statute ^made^ for the distribution of intestates estates would have become entitled to her personal estate in case she had died without having been married and intestate and in such shares and proportions sort manner and form as she or they would in that every have become entitled to the same provided always and

I hereby will and declare that it shall and may be lawful for the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or admors of such survivor with the consent of each of my daughters respectively during her respective life and after her respective decease with the consent of her respective husband surviving her if she shall be entitled to a life interest in her respective legacy of five thousand pounds during his life such consent to be testified in writing and after the decease of such daughter and her husbands surviving her and entitled as aforesaid respectively then of the proper authority and at the discretion of the same trustees or trustee to raise and apply for the advancement and preferment in life of any child or children of such daughter respectively any part or portion of the presumptive share or shares of such child or children of and in her said respective legacy of five thousand pounds in such manner as the trustees or trustee with the consent of the person or persons authorising such advancement if any shall think proper not withstanding the share or shares of such child or children shall not be then vested or payable provided always and

I further will and direct that the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them or his executors or admors(?) shall and do from and after the decease of each of my said daughters respectively and the decease of her respective husband intitled to a life interest in her respective legacy of five thousand pounds as aforesaid pay and apply the interest and dividends of such respective legacy for and towards the maintenance and education and the child or children presumptively entitled thereto during his her or their minorities and discovertures respectively according to their respective presumptive shares therein in such manner as the said trustees or trustee shall think proper and do and shall accumulate upon such securities as aforesaid all the unapplied residue of such interest and dividends and hold all such accumulations upon the trusts here by declared of the respective capital share or shares from which the same shall arise provided also and

I hereby further will and declare that whilst my said daughters shall respectively be under the age of twenty one years and unmarried the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or the survivors or survivor of them his executors and admors(?) shall by and out of the yearly interest and dividends of the said respective legacies of five thousand pounds pay and apply the yearly sum of one hundred pounds a piece clear of all deductions whatsoever for the maintenance and education of each of my said daughters respectively in such manner as my said trustees or trustee shall think proper Nevertheless I empower my sons trustees or trustee at their or his discretion to increase the said yearly allowance of one hundred pounds for each of my said daughters during their respective minorities from time to time to such other yearly sum as the said trustees or trustee shall think fit not exceeding two hundred pounds per annum for each daughter and

I direct that the residue of the interest and dividends of the said respective legacies of five thousand pounds shall whilst my respective daughters shall be respectively under the age of twenty one years and unmarried with such consent as aforesaid be laid out and accumulated in such securities as aforesaid and all such accumulations shall be held and remain subject to the trusts hereby declared concerning the ???? respective original legacies from which such accumulations shall respectively have arisen provided always and

I further declare that if any husband with whom my said daughters or any of them shall happen to marry with such consent as aforesaid shall before or after such ^inter^marriage convey and settle freehold or copyhold land or hereditaments of inheritance worth to be sold at the time of such conveyance and settlement in the opinion of any respectable surveyor of lands as much money as the amount of the respective legacies and the accumulations thereof to which such daughter and her issue shall be intitled as aforesaid to and to the use of the trustees or trustee of the said legacies in fee simple clear of incumbrances in trust to sell the same with the consent of such daughter and her husband or the survivor of them and after the decease of such survivor of the proper authorities of the trustees or trustee and to pay and apply the monies arising from such sale upon the same or the like trusts as are hereby declared and which shall be then subsisting concerning such respective legacy and the accumulations thereof and in trust to pay the rents and profits of the hereditaments so made saleable until the sale thereof in the same manner and to the same powers and purposes as the interest of the money arising from such sale would be applicable under the trusts aforesaid in case such sale was actually made then and in such case the whole of such legacy and accumulations shall be paid to the husband making such conveyance and settlement as aforesaid for his own use and benefit discharged of all the trusts hereinbefore declared but my daughter (the wife of such husband) and her said husband and her children and appointees shall nevertheless be still intitled to the benefit of our divorship and accruer in the said other legacies of five thousand pounds respectively which in case of the failure and determination of the trusts hereby declared concerning each of them respectively in like manner as if her said legacy of five thousand pounds respectively and the accumulations thereof had not been paid over to such husband as aforesaid

I also give to the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis the sum of two hundred pounds apiece as a small acknowledgement for their trouble in the execution of this my will to be paid immediately after my decease (and in case there shall be any Residue of my personal estate after payment of my debts legacies and funeral expenses exclusive of what is hereinbefore specifically bequeathed) then

I give such residue unto my said son William Butt for his own use and

I appoint the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis and the survivors and survivor of them Guardians and Guardian of all my child and children living at my decease under the age of twenty one years or born alive afterwards until he she or they respectively being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or be married which shall first happen and

I request that my said friends John Henry Michel Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis so appointed Guardian of my said children as aforesaid will pay a friendly attention to their conduct morals and education and

I will declare my will to be that if any of them the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis or any person to be appointed in the place of them or any or other of them as hereinafter mentioned shall die or decline to act in the trusts hereby created then and in that case and so often as the same shall happen it shall and may be lawful for the trustee or trustees so declining to act or the executors or admors(?) of such of them as shall die by a deed sealed and delivered by them or him in the presence of two or more credible witnesses to appoint one or more person or persons in the room or stead of the trustee or trustees who shall so depart this life or decline to act in the trusts of this my will contained and thereupon all the trust estates or trust monies stocks funds and securities shall with all convenient speed be conveyed and transferred in such manner as that the same shall be effectually vested in the person or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid either solely or jointly with the surviving or containing trustees or trustee as the case may require upon the trusts and with the powers hereinbefore expressed or contained of or concerning the said trust estates trust monies stocks funds and securities and every person so to be appointed as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the person in whose room he shall be substituted and so from time to time as often as that case shall happen and

I particularly recommend and request that such substitution or nomination of any new person or persons to act as aforesaid may be made on the death or resignation of any of the said trustees or executors within three months after such event shall take place and

it is my will that my said trustees and trustee for the time being their and his respective heirs executors and admors shall not be answerable or accountable the one of them for the other or other of them or for the signing receipts for the sake of conformity or for involuntary losses and that it shall be lawful for them and every of them out of the monies which shall come into their hands to retain all costs charges and expenses in carrying into execution the trusts hereby reposed in them and

I give all such real estates as are now vested in me upon trust or by way of mortgage unto and to the use of the said John Henry Michell Charles Mansfield Clarke and David Lewis their heirs and assigns to hold subject to such trusts and equity of redemption as may affect the same respectively at my decease and the better to enable them to get in and receive the money secured by any such mortgage for the purposes of this my will and

I revoke all former wills In Witness whereof I the said William Butt the testator have to the first thirteen sheets of this my last Will and Testament set my hand and to the fourteenth and last sheer thereof my hand and seal this fourteenth day of ffebruary in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Wm Butt Signed sealed published and declared by the testator William Butt as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto J Matthews 10 Castle Street Holborn – Tho Randall Dr Joseph D Powell Clerk to Matthews & Randall

Proved at London 4th May 1841 before the Judge by the oaths of the Reverend David Lewis Doctor in Divinity and William Butt Esquire the son two of the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn to witness the said Reverend David Lewis by common and the said William Butt before the worshipfull Jesse Addams Doctor of Laws and Surrogate duly to administer The Reverend John Henry Michell Clerk and Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke Barones Doctor in physic (formerly Charles Mansfield Clarke Doctor in physic) the other Executors named in the Will having first renounced the probate and execution thereof as by Acts of Court appears

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