Scope and Content
to son Thomas
… £4,000
to wife Mary
… annuity of £50 for life chargeable on his real estates demised to son Thomas
… further annuity of £50 payable out of residue of personal estate given to son Frederick
… ready money in house at time of his decease
to Edward Polhill, York Place, esquire, said son Thomas, and friend Charles Hopkinson, Regent Street, Waterloo Place, Middlesex, banker
… £2,000 in trust, to pay interest etc., to Frances Margaretta, wife of said Frederick Polhill, for life, for her separate use, and after her decease said sum shall fall into residue of personal estate
… messuage in Cavendish Square, with coachhouse, stables, furniture, plate, linen, pictures etc., chariot and carriage horses and harness in trust for wife, and after her decease in trust for sale. Money arising to be held in trust for all children of son Frederick living at death of testator's wife, and who shall have reached 21 or married with father's consent, in equal shares. If no children of Frederick then money to fall into residue of personal estate
to use of son Thomas
… all freehold lands, tithes etc.(except in Cavendish Square) and all copyhold estate (subject to said annuity)
to said son Thomas
… all his personal effects at Howbury House and on farms and land as is in his (testator's) own occupation
… all arrears of rent
to each of trustees
… £100
to son Frederick
… residue
provision to appoint new trustees (by wife, then by Frederick, then his widow, then by Frederick's executors
trustees also appointed executors
witnesses: Richard Waring Lloyd, Bentinck Street, Manchester Square
C Flood, St Marylebone Court House, Oxford Street
T H Cook, St Marylebone Court House, Oxford Street 14 Jun 1826
with Codicil
… to George Read, steward, £400
… to Mary Ward, one year's wages
… to Catherine Cottell, £100
… to William Bond, butler, one year's wages
… to Thomas Bousfield, coachman, £10
… to Mrs Lamb, housekeeper, £20
… to William Dearlove, footman, £10
… to James King, groom, £10
… to Thomas Clarke, gardener, £10
… to wife, any spare money in bankers' hands
servants' legacies to be paid if in his service and not under notice 24 Dec 1827
witnesses: A J Crespin, vicar of Renhold
Thomas Street, Renhold, farmer
'There is a Bond at Mr Pearses Bedford of Mr Read for one hundred Pounds the old Dairy woman I allow two shillings per week'
proved (London) 28 Nov 1828