Ince Castle

Edward Smith Esquire

This is the last Will and Testament

Edward Smith Esquire
This is the last Will and Testament 


of me Edward Smith of Ince Castle in the County of Cornwall Esquire I ???
all my real and personal estate of what nature  or kind ?? with the payment of .
all my debts and funeral and testamentary expense and the annuities and legacies
hereby ??? I give and devise unto my dear daughter Mary the wife of Henry
Crease Esquire Captain hi his Majexty's Royal Navy all my mansion and estate 
called and known by the name of Ince Castle in the County of Cornwall ..
together with the farm lands hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging
of whatever ?? the same ??  ?? and all other the freehold copyhold and 
customary hereditaments howsoever and whosoever which I or any person or 
persons in trust for me or my ?? ?? are or is ??? or shall be sized and that ..
time of my decease whatever in ???

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hold the same and every of ??? unto her my said daughter her executors 
administrators and assignees attending? to the several ??? also ??? thereof 
respectively as and for her and their own project? ??? goods and chattels subject 
nevertheless to the payment of the Annuities and ??? hereby given but .. 
in such manner and I hereby direct that the several estates and premises as well 
?? as personal hereinbefore given and bequeathed to my said daughter Mary ..
Crease shall be for her own sole and separate use and benefit and in no wise
subject to the ??? ??? to engagements or interference of her present or any ...
future later husband and so that she alone shall have the free enjoyment and
disposal thereof and of every part thereof in every respect as if she were unmarried
provided always nevertheless and I hereby charge and make chargeable all and ..
singular the same real and personal Estate so given and bequeathed to my said ..
daughter and I ??? for my said daughter her Executors and administrators by 
and out of the ??? ??? and annual produce? thereof by mortgage sale of ..
other disposition therefor or of any part therefor or by such other ways and means 
as she shall think most advisable to raise and levy yearly of the several ....
annuities following and the Legacy hereinafter given given and bequeathed to Edward
Smith the younger that is to say I give and bequeath to ??? Elizabeth Harriet
Smith so long as she shall remain unmarried an annuity or clear yearly sum 
of One hundred pounds I give and bequeath to ??? Thomas Edward Smith ???
and during?? the term of his natural life a life annuity or clear yearly sum of 
One hundred pounds and I ??? that the said annuities respectively shall be
paid without any deduction for any present or future taxes or impositions what-
soever into the proper hands of the said annuitants respectively or into the hands
of such person or persons as they shall respectively from time to time by any note
or notes in writing under their respective hands shall from to time to time best
not by way of anticipation charge or aforemost appoint to receive the same by ..

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equally quarterly payments or by equal monthly payments in the discretion of my
said Executors the firs of each quarterly or monthly paymens to ??? and be 
made at the end of the first quarter of a year or the first month as ??? ??
may be that shall fall next after any ??? provises? always and I so ???
bequeath and direct that the said annuities are given upon this express condition
that in case either of the said annuitants shall sell assign incumber or transfer 
or in any manner dispose of or anticipate their or either of their said annuities
or yearly sums of One hundred pounds each or any part thereof respectively or 
if the said Elizabeth Harriet Smith shall intermarry with any person after
my decease then and in such case and from and immediately after such date
or after ??? or such intermarriage the same annuity or annuities of them
him or her so disposing of such their annuities or annuity as aforesaid and
the said annuity of the said Elizabeth Harriet Smith is she shall so inter-
marry shall cease?? determine and be absolutely void and shall sink into and
become part of the residue of my personal estate for the benefit of my said
daughter provided also and I direct that in case the said Thomas Edward
Smith shall at any time or times become Bankrupt or take the benefit of any
act of Parliament for the relief or discharge of Insolvent Debtors then and in ???
either of the said cases his said annuity shall cease and determine and sink into 
the residue of my personal estate in ????? aforesaid it being my intention
that both the said annuities shall be for the private use and benefit of the
said annuitants respectively an not be transferable to ??? or enjoyed by 
any other persons whomsoever and it is my will and I request my said ..
daughter Mary Crease to take upon her the Guardianship of Edward Smith
now a minor Son of the said Thomas Edward Smith and that whether his 
father or mother shall in any manner interefere therewith or with his ..
oburation? and I direct my said daughter by and out of the estates and efforts
hereby given  and bequeathed to her to provide for the said Edward Smith suitable
maintenance and ??ration in the same  or like manner as she may maintain
and ??? her own Children until he attains the age of twenty one years
provided nevertheless that if the father and mother of the said Edward Smith
or either of them shall in amy manner interefere with such matenenacne 
and ???? then it shall not be obligatory for my said daughter to provide the 
same and I give and bequath unto the said Edward Smith the sum of five
hundred pounds to be paid to him when he shall attain the age of twenty
one years but if he shall die under that age such legacy to lapse & give 
to my old and mush esteemed friend John Channor of Brighton Esquire * ..
plain gold ring as a token of ??? and lastly I give all the ..
Residue of my Estate and Effects not hereinbefore disposed of unto my said .
daughter the said Mary Crease and I hereby appoint her the said Mary ..
Crease sole Executrix of this my will and hereby revoking and making  void
all former Will and Wills and testamentary dispositions whatsoever by me at ..
any time heretofore made I sward this to be my last Will and Testament In ..
witness whereof I have to this my last Will and testament contained in this and 
the two preceding sheets of my hand and seal that is to say my hand at the
bottom of each of the said preceding sheets and my hand and seal to this last ..
sheet this ??? thirtieth day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty ..
six  |-----|  Edward Smith (SS) Signed Sealed published and declared bt the ..
above named Edward Smith as an for his last will and testament in the 
presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each ..
other have hereunto subscribe our names as witnesses ??? |-----| Jno Hodgson,
?? St ?? Court  |-----|  Wm B Egden? ? St ?? Court  |-----|  John 
Eyre Coates clerk to the above  |-----| 

This is a Codicil to my said will and which I sear to be 
added to and taken as part thereof ??? ??/ the date and execution of my said 

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will my property has been diminished?? and I have in consequence sold my Estate of ....
Ince Caste  Now I do hereby revoke and make void the bequests hereinbefore ...
??tained of Annuities of One hundred pounds and One hundred pounds to the said 
Elizabeth Harriet Smith and Edouvas Edward Smith and the charges? powers & ..
authorities in my said will contained for servicing the payment of the said Annuities
I also revoke the legacy of five hundred pounds by my said will bequeathed to ..
Edward Smith here named and I revoke the direction to my daughter Mary Crease
in the said will also named to provide for the maintenance and duration of the 
said Edward Smith And in all other respects I ratify and confirm the devises and 
bequests of my said will confiding in my said daughters direction rightly to use ..
what I have devised and bequeathed to her In witness whereof I the said Edward
Smith have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of April One thousand
eight hundred and thirty |-----|  Edward Smith (SS) Signed Sealed published 
and declared by the said Edward Smith the testator and for a Codicil to his said 
will in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the ..
sight of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses |-----|  William
P Bartlett . Job Nicholas ?? |-----|  Jno Bland  Newington 
Causeway |-----|  M P Bland Newington Causeway |-----| 

Proved at London with a Codicil 17th June 1830 before the Judge by the 
oath of Mary Crease (wife of Henry Crease Esquire) the daughter the sole ..
Executrix to who Admon was granted having been first sworn by Commission
??? to Administrator.










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