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The Reverend Rowland Boustead
IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE that at my decease my property arising from whatsoever effects I am possessed of not including the money that was in the hands of the late Marmaduke Dixon Solicitor of Castor which when paid by the executors of the said Marmaduke Dixon I intend as a deed of gift to be equally divided amongst my four daughters Margaret, Ann, Grace? and Agnes in addition to all my other property namely money in the funds of a mortgage on a mill near
???? in the possession of a person named Harrison and my household furniture plate and linen I wish also to equally divided amongst my daughters excepting a legacy of ten pounds to my dear Grand-daughter Mary the only child of my late son James Boustead formerly clerk in the bank of Sir Kirkland Glynn & Co And not being able to leave legacies to my sons it is my desire that each may have a small remembrance of five pounds for mourning at the same time expressing a sincere regret that it is not in my power to leave them larger sums Therefore I appoint my said daughters as joint Executors of this my will considering it most reasonable that such a disposition of my property should be made du witness to which I subscribe my name this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one # Rowland Boustead # Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of us who at the request of the testator & in his presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses------
John Boustead of ?[S][J]edbergh Joseph Wilson of Crackenthorpe Hall
In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
In the goods of the Reverend Rowland Boustead Clerk deceased.
APPEARED PERSONALLY Joseph Wilson of Crackenthorpe Hall in the County of Westmoreland ?ar??or and made oath that he is one of the attesting witnesses of the last will and testament hereto annexed of the Reverend Rowland Boustead late of Crackenthorpe in the Parish of Saint Michael Appleby in the County of Westmoreland clerk deceased the same bearing the date the fourteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty one beginning thus
‘It is my will and desire that at my decease my property existing from whatever effects I am possessed of’ ending thus ‘ du witness of which I subscribe my name this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty on ‘ and thus subscribed Rowland Boustead and having ???? with particular care and attention viewed and perused the said Will and observed the words ‘plate and linen’ which are interlined between the first and second lines of the second side of the said Will which is written on three sides of a sheet of writing paper having also observed that the word ’feu’ is written on a erasure in the fourth line of the same side and also that the words ‘twenty second day of January’ have been struck through in the eighth line of the third side of the said Will being in the date thereof and the words ‘fourteenth day of May’ written over the same this deponent saith that on the said fourteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty one the said deceased duly executed his said Will by signing his name at the foot ??end thereof in the presence of this deponent and John Boustead the other subscribed witness thereto to both being present at the same time and this deponent and the said John Boustead thereupon attested and subscribed the said Will in the presence of the said deceased as witnesses of the due execution thereof And he lastly made oath that the before mentioned interlineatious words write on erasure and obliteration were all made previously to the execution of the said Will # Joseph Wilson______
on the 23rd day of May 1844 the said Joseph Wilson was duly sworn to the truth of this Affidavit Before us Thos Bellas Surrogate.
Proved at London 8th of June 1844 before the Judge by the oaths of Ann Boustead and Agnes Boustead Spinsters the Daughters two of the executrixes to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by commission duly to administer power reserved of making the like grant to Margaret Boustead and Grace Boustead Spinsters the daughters also the other Executrixes when they shall apply for the same.
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