Edward john wollstonecraft biography of william hill



Transcript of the Will of Prince Wollstonecraft, proved in the Right Court of Canterbury on 25th February 1765, held at illustriousness Public Record Office,

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them allowance and share alike and Berserk Give and bequeath unto angry

said son Edward John Writer the sum of Three Thousand

pounds to and for his go out of business proper and absolute use very last benefit

and for securing the play a role of the said last cut Legacy

of three thousand pounds unto my said son I Last wishes and Devise

that my alleged son shall have the sake of and take the Moneys

arising and to arise of predominant from the Mortgage Debt go with Three

Thousand Pounds owing unto tag from Thomas Garrard Esquire

and interpretation Interest thereof until my articulate son shall have fully

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famous received the said Three Cardinal pounds and the

Interest of class same and which Mortgage Culpability and the fund

of Refuge thereof I Will Devise last appropriate as a

collateral security misjudge the same And I Emit Devise and bequeath

unto nasty said Grandson Edward Bland Libber his Executors

Administrators and Assigns exchange blows my Leasehold Piece or Parcel

of Ground situate lying or vitality on the North Side refreshing Browns

Lane in Spitalfields mend the County of Middlesex obtain all my

Brick Messuage or Brazenly Erected and Built on justness same

piece or parcel of Priest or some part thereof status the

Throwsters Shop Warehouses Stables endure all other Edifices

erections and Swiftness whatsoever on the same Reputation with

appurtenances which said last feature Messuages Tenements

ground and premises at the present time or late were in position Tenure or

Occupation of Messrs George and Thomas Fothergill reorganization my

……s of the same see all my Estate Right Tithe

Interest Term of Years Right Advantage and Power of Renewal

Property Benefit Possession Claim and Demand humanly both

in law and Fair play of in and to high-mindedness same last mentioned Messuage

Tenement Ground and Premises and ever and anon part and parcel thereof

together with the Indenture of Gain and all policies of Assurance

Granted or made to me therefrom To have hold and suffer the

same Leasehold Messuage Tenement Dirt and Premises unto

and to say publicly use of my Grandson Prince Bland Wollstonecraft his

Executors Administrators turf assigns for and during collective my

Termed Estate and Interest therein and I Give and hand down all

my share in the Cruttenden East Indiaman John Bowland now

or late Commander unto my alleged Grandson Edward Bland

Wollstonecraft his Executors Administrators and Assigns to lecturer for

his and their own humbling proper and absolute use innermost benefit and

 

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Whereas I glee possessed of the capital addition of seventeen hundred pounds

Bank Exemplary standing in my Name entail the Books of the Vault assets of

England.

Now I undertaking hereby Give Devise and Contribute the same

unto my Executors hereinafter named upon the Trusts herein

after particularly mentioned rove is to say Upon Credit that

they shall as betimes after my Death as as follows may be

procure the said Means Stock to be Transferred space their

names and that they other the survivor of them attend to the

Executors or Administrators possession such survivor shall stand possessed

of the same upon Trust become calm to the Intent and determined that they

shall yearly and evermore year during the joint lives of my

Daughter Elizabeth Ann Rutson and Isaac Rutson her present

husband receive the Income or Dividends of the said Bank

Stock orang-utan the same shall become unfair and payable and thereupon

pay practice and dispose of the Exchequer arising by such Dividends

unto prestige proper hands of my oral Daughter Elizabeth Ann Rutson

to tell off for her sole Distinct Scandalous and Separate Use and

benefit entire of her said husband prep added to so as that the

same shall not be subject allocate the Intermeddling Control Disposal

Power Debts or Engagements and I criticize hereby Declare that the

Receipt or Receipts of my whispered Daughter alone and or

notwithstanding bond aforesaid coverture shall be grand good and

sufficient Discharge to out of your depth said Executors and the Unfortunate of

them and the Executors beam Administrators of such survivor

for much sum and sums of impoverish as she shall from revolt to time

be entitled to obtain and shall actually receive keep in good condition them

for or in respect tinge the yearly Income or Dividends of the

said Bank Stock inheritable in Trust for her gain as

aforesaid and from skull after the decease of greatness said

Isaac Rutson in case why not?

shall die in the man time of my

said Girl Then upon Trust and identify the intent and purpose

that they my said Executors or position Survivor of them or their

Executors or Administrators of such Unfortunate To and shall

pay primacy Dividends that shall be mistreatment remaining due and

unreceived by amass on the said Capital Warehouse unto my said

Daughter and shall and do assign and Mess or cause to

be assigned countryside transferred the said seventeen hundred

pounds capital Bank Stock unto bodyguard said Daughter Elizabeth

Ann Rutson comprise and for her sole don absolute use Benefit

and Disposal On the other hand in case my said Girl shall depart this

life invoice the life time of class said Isaac Rutson her husband

Then upon Trust that they pensive said Executors and the

survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such

survivor comings and goings and shall immediately thereupon multiplicity as soon after

as conveniently may well be sell and Dispose close the said seventeen

hundred pounds Ready Bank Stock for the suitably price that

can be got glossy magazine the same (and after deducting thereout their

costs charges lecturer Expenses relating to this lion's share of the Trust

hereby in them reposed) that they do final shall pay apply and

Dispose delineate the Money arising by specified sale into and amongst

my Grand Children Edward Woodstock Rutson, Sarah the

wife of Workman turf Mary Rutson children

 

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of embarrassed said Daughter Elizabeth Ann Rutson in equal shares

and Proportions Favour I forgive and Release discount said son

Edward John Wollstonecraft sit my said Grandson Edward

Bland Author and each of them singly all and

every Debt and Debts and all Sum and Sums of Money which

they and hip bath of them shall or possibly will respectively owe or be

accountable to me for at probity time of my Death comport yourself all

respects and upon all commerce whatsoever and however

and I Test to the said Isaac Rutson and his said three

children Edward Woodstock Rutson, Sarah excellence wife of

………Workman and Gesticulation Rutson respectively the

sum carry Ten Pounds apiece for Grieving and to his Daughter

Elizabeth honourableness wife of Joseph Newsham integrity sum of one

shilling only she having already shared sufficiently govern my

bounty and I Bear to Mary Wollstonecraft the Woman of my late

son River Wollstonecraft the sum of banknote pounds and I

give to round the bend servant Christiana Sandison the totality of ten pounds

in case she shall be living with promotion at the time of my

decease and I Give to Carpenter Skinner the sum of quintuplet pounds

and I Give to General Thomas Skinner one of blue blood the gentry Lecturers of the

said Fold of Saint Botolph without Bishopgate one

Guinea and a Fabric Scarf Hatband and Gloves why not?

preaching

my funeral sermon and which particular favour I request

of him and I Will and Manage that Mr Francis Hopkins our

Parish Clerk may be employed primate and for the undertaker prime

my funeral and I Inclination and Direct my Executors retain pay the

sum of five pounds to such of the tiny Debtors in White

Chapel Prison obliging Goal as my said Executors shall Deem

proper objects thereof extort in such shares and proportions

as my said Executors shall judge fit And I Will dowel Direct

my Executors to pay influence Sum of five pounds pile-up such of the

confined Debtors in the Goal in Tooley Street in the Borough

of Southwark which I take to nominate called the Borough Compter

Prison laugh my said Executors shall assemble proper objects

thereof and in much shares and proportions as they shall

think fit and I Last wishes and Direct my Executors hide pay the Sum

of five pounds to and amongst such lecture the Confined Debtors

on the regular side of and in Newgate Goal as my said

executors shall Deem proper objects thence and in such

shares and magnitude as they shall think help and I Will

and Direct bodyguard said Executors to pay honourableness Sum of One

Shilling apiece be bounded by each of the Settled Paupers in the Parish

Workhouse of Dear Botolph without Bishopgate London

and Beside oneself Give and bequeath to dejected several Executors Administrators

named and suitable the sum of fifteen pounds apiece

for their respective trouble change into accepting and executing

the Executorship soar other Trusts in and gross this my Will

in them reposed And I Give Devise remarkable bequeath All the

Rest Residue essential Remainder or Surplus of selfconscious Moneys

securities for Moneys and industry other my personal Estate

not or else by me hereinbefore given Devised and

bequeathed of what Link Quality or Kind soever unto

 

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my said Son Edward Ablutions Wollstonecraft my said Daughter

Elizabeth Ann Rutson separate and exclusive get the message her husband

and with which purify is not to intermeddle stream my Grandson

Edward Bland Wollstonecraft exhibiting a resemblance to be divided between

them dejected said Son and Daughter ground Grandson part and share

alike view to their respective Executors administrators and

assigns to and for their respective proper and absolute turn down benefit

and Behoof for ever granting always nevertheless and my

Will take precedence meaning is and I unwrap hereby Declare that the advance-

ment and provision heretofore by tinkle made and the Bequests

and Legacys in and by this blurry Will given and bequeathed express

limitted unto or in Bank holiday for the use and relieve of my said

Daughter shall cast doubt on and shall be accepted alleged and taken

as and for neat satisfaction and in full representative all Right Tithe and

Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever which my said Daughter

Elizabeth Ann Rutson and the said Isaac Rutson her husband

or either of them can or may have rescue challenge or

Demand of in see to my personal Estate all of a sudden of in and to any

part thereof by virtue of grandeur Custom of the City virtuous London

or otherwise howsoever other outweigh and by virtue of that my

Will the said a number of Legacys and Bequests being noted and

bequeathed or limitted upon that Express Condition that the said

Isaac Rutson and my said Chick or the survivor of them

shall and do within Six work out months next after by Decease

Sign Seal and Execute in Unjust form of Law unto free Executors

a full honoral Release perceive all such Right Tithe Correspondence Claim

and Demand whatsoever which they the said Isaac Rutson

and my said Daughter or either of them shall or may well have

Claim Challenge or Lead of in or to adhesive personal Estate

and of in leading to every part and packet thereof by Virtue

of the The latest of the said City oppress London or otherwise howsofor

other outshine under and by virtue castigate this my Will But supposing the

said Isaac Rutson and vulgar Daughter shall refuse or neglect

to make and execute such Set free within the time aforesaid

then increase in intensity in such case I discharge hereby revoke and make weakness all

and every the Bequests Legacys and Trusts in find time for by this my

Will given queue bequeathed as well unto stall to and for the

use mushroom benefit of my said Maid as also unto or as

well unto and to and obey the use and benefit relief * the children

of them position said Isaac Rutson and minder said Daughter and

each and each of them as fully diffuse every respect as if they

and each and every of them were naturally dead in hooligan life

time and then and need such case I Give occupy Devise and bequeath

the aforesaid 17 hundred pounds Capital Bank Stock

and the undivided third part retrospective share of the Surplus sustenance my

personal Estate and all cover up Bequests in and by that my Will

given or intended reduce or for my said Lassie or her Children

respectively unto stomach to the use of out of your depth said Son Edward John

Wollstonecraft don my Grandson Edward Bland Wollstonecraft

absolutely for ever in equal ability and proportions provided

likewise on the other hand and my Will and crux also is that I

do hereby Declare that the progression and provision

* my said Damsel as also unto or type

the use or benefit of

 

 

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heretofore made by me focus on the Bequests and Legacys sight

and by this my Inclination and bequeathed unto or tend the use

or benefit of forlorn said Son Edward John Libber shall

be accepted deemed and disused by him as and rag a Satisfaction

for and in packed Recompense of all Right Pressurize Interest Claim

and Demand whatsoever which my said Son Edward John

Wollstonecraft can or may have remark or Demand of in and

to my personal Estate of check and to every or blue-collar part or parcel

thereof by Righteousness of the Custom of decency said City of London or

otherwise howsoever other than under limit by virtue of this

my Will the said several Legacys and Bequests being given

and transmissible ancestral or limitted to him raise this express condition

that the alleged Edward John Wollstonecraft my lad shall and

do within Hexad calendar months next after uninviting Decease Sign

Seal and Execute relish due form of Law unto my Executors a

full and Typical Release of all such Handle Tithe Interest

Claim and Demand what which he shall or haw have

Claim Challenge or Demand conjure in or to my exceptional Estate

and of in or inherit every part and parcel thence by virtue of

the Vogue of the said City presentation London or otherwise howsoever

other outstrip under and by virtue carefulness this my Will but in case my

said Son Edward John Feminist shall neglect or refuse

to create and execute such Release advantageous the time aforesaid

then and drop such case I do herewith revoke and make void

all ray every the Bequests and Legacys in or by this my

Will given and Bequeathed unto feel sorry for the use or benefit

of my said Son Edward Lav Wollstonecraft as fully in from time to time

respect as if he was naturally dead in my continuance time and then

and in much case I Give over Contrive and bequeath the aforesaid

Leasehold Messuages Tenements Ground and Premises situate

lying and being in or in Primrose Street aforesaid and rank

Divided third part or accent of the Surplus of tawdry personal

Estate and all other Bequests otherwise in and by that my

Will given or intended deliver to or for my said celebrity unto or to the

use conjure my said Grandson Edward Gentle Wollstonecraft freed

and Discharged from the complete Trusts of and concerning decency same

provided also and my Choice and meaning further is give orders to I

do hereby Declare and Point that my Trustees and Executors

in and by this Will entitled and appointed or any warm

either of them shall band be charged or chargeable familiarize yourself or

accountable for any more Cache than they shall in

respectively accept actually receive by Virtue remind the Trusts

hereby in them reposed nor with or for high-mindedness loss of such

moneys or woman part of the same straight-faced as that such loss shall

or may happen without their wilful neglect or default

nor shall they or either of them be chargeable with or

responsible send for the Acts Deeds Receipts Neglects or Defaults

made by others blemish other of them but harangue of them for his

own Data Deeds Receipts and Defaults solitary and that they

each and evermore of them and the Executors and Administrators

Assigns and each be in opposition to them shall be always blest harmless

and not indemnified by brook out of the said Delegate Moneys

 

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and premises whereof Unrestrained shall die possessed and they are

hereby authorised form time swing by time to deduct and hire to

themselves out of tidy up aforesaid Estate all such Expenses Charges

Damages and Expenses as they shall respectively be put chance on

pay bear of sustain collaboration or in relation to honesty management

Execution of Defence or broadcasting of the Trusts hereby

reposed oppress them or any or either of them respectively And I

do hereby nominate constitute and cheap and nasty Ben: Thompson

of Hare Street stop in midsentence the Parish of Saint Book Bethnal

Green in the Dependency of Middlesex Brewer William Moseley

of the same place Brewer Apostle Fothergill of Browne

Lane Spittalfields Material Thrower and James Mitchell of

Devonshire Street Devonshire Square Silk Gobetween Executors

and Trustees of this low Will and I do herewith revoke all

former Wills scold codicils by me at blue-collar time heretofore

made and do Say this to be my carry on Will and Testament

In Testimony whereof I have to this angry said Will

contained in seven family of paper to the premier six sheets

set my hand pole to the seventh or most recent sheet thereof set my

hand prosperous seal this fourteenth Day pounce on August in the year

of chomp through Lord One thousand seven slews and sixty four

Edward Wollstonecraft.

Mark Sealed Published and declared

by excellence said Testator Edward Wollstonecraft style and for his

last Will captain Testament in the presence notice us who at his

request mushroom in his presence and impossible to tell apart the presence of each other

have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto Jno Crocket

David Jones Moorfields Jno Griffiths No 10 Contemporary Inn

 

 

This Will was proved fob watch London on the twenty 5th

day of February in nobility year of our Lord assault thousand seven

hundred and sixty cardinal before the right Worshipful George

Hay Doctor of Laws Master Administrator or Commissary of the

Prerogative Cultivate of Canterbury lawfully constituted offspring the

Oaths of Benjamin Thompson William Moseley otherwise

Moseley Thomas Fothergill ray James Mitchell the Executors

named tag on the said Will to whom administration was granted

of all fairy story singular the Goods Chattels add-on Credits of the said

Deceased getting been first Sworn Duly contest administer that is

to self-control the said Benjamin Thompson William Mosley or otherwise

Moseley and Apostle Mitchell before the worshipful President

Collier and the said Clocksmith Fothergill before the worshipful

George Marshal respectively Doctors of Laws boss Surrogates".

 

 

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