Reference
R6/29/3/20
Title
Copy will of Rev. Samuel Wright of Drayton Parslow
Date free text
23 Jun 1841, proved 25 Apr 1846
Production date
From: 1841 To: 1846
Scope and Content
Copy will of Rev. Samuel Wright of Drayton Parslow [Buckinghamshire]
- confirming the settlement made on marriage with his wife Charlotte;
- bequeathing £50 to his wife as well as all household Goods;
- devising and bequeathing all real and personal estate to his brother-in-law Edmund Wodley Ashfield on Canonbury Square, Islington [Middlesex], gentleman and his brother Septimus Wright of Hitchin [Hertfordshire], gentleman as trustees for sale, proceeds to be invested;
- if he left any son who entered holy order before the age of thirty his advowson of Drayton Parslow and the land adjoining the rectory garden called Illands were not to be sold before it had been offered for sale to the son at the sums of £1,000 and £500 respectively upon mortgage at 4% interest; the advowson could be purchased separately from the land; meanwhile the trustees were to have the right of presentation to the rectory with the consent of his widow;
- interest from invested monies to be paid to his wife for her widowhood to bring up their children; remainder equally to his children as tenants in common;
- Edmund Wodley Ashfield and Septimus Wright to be Executors.
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