TRANSCRIPT OF WILL OF CHARLES RICHARD PRICKETT 1808 OF ALDERSGATE
STREET LONDON UPHOLSTERER PRO Prob11/1476
SUMMARY
DATE WILL MADE 16th January 1808
DATE OF CODICIL/S Nil
DATE OF PROBATE Proved 14th March 1808
NAMES OF EXECUTORS & RELATIONSHIP IF KNOWN
Elizabeth Prickett wife
William Lee(?) Red Lion Street
Clerkenwell taylor good friend
William Hillman? Gillman? Barbican London linen
draper good friend
WITNESSES TO WILL
BENEFICIARIES AND RELATIONSHIP
Elizabeth Prickett wife
Eliza Prickett daughter, under 21
Future children of Eliza Prickett
Ruth Burder / Burdor sister of Elizabeth Prickett
Children of Ruth Burder / Burdor
Frances Prickett daughter of late brother Robert Thomas Prickett
Four legitimate and illegitimate children of late brother Richard
Charles Prickett by Prudence called Prudence Prickett with whom he
cohabited
Children of William Augustus Mitchell of Enfield, wife’s brother
PROPERTY DETAILS
Leasehold dwelling and trade in Aldersgate Street
Other leasehold property producing rental income
Stocks shares, etc
Sum of money not exceeding 500 pounds to daughter at age 21
OTHER
Charles Richard Prickett appears to have set his mark to the will
rather than signing it. Other evidence suggests he was literate,
so may have been very weak and unable to sign.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
In the name of God Amen. I Charles Richard Prickett of Aldersgate
Street London upholsterer being weak of body but of sound mind memory
and understanding praised be God for the same do make publish and
declare this to be my last will and Testament in manner following that
is to say In the first place I desire that I may be decently
interred at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and that
all my just debts be fully paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently
may be after my decease and as to such estate as I may die possessed of
or entitled unto at the time of my decease I give devise and bequeath
as follows that is to say I give and bequeath all my household goods
and furniture plate linen and china unto my dear wife Elizabeth
Prickett and I give devise and bequeath all the rest residue and
remainder of my estate and effects both real and personal and of what
nature or kind soever and wheresoever unto my said dear wife Elizabeth
Prickett and my good friends William (Lee?) of Red Lion Street
Clerkenwell in the county of Middlesex taylor and William Xxxx
(H?illman??) of Barbican London linen draper upon trust nevertheless
and to and for the several uses intents and purposes hereinafter
mentioned and declared(?)to of and xxxx (concerning?) the same that is
to say upon trust as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to
make sale and disposal of my Stock in Trade and the xxxxx (lease?) of
my dwelling house in Aldersgate Street aforesaid with the good will of
my said trade and all other my personal estate and effects not
consisting of other my household (leasehold??) property by public
auction or private sale and for the most money and best Price or
prices that can or may be presumeably had or gotten for the same as
also with all necessary and convenient speed to collect and get in all
my outstanding debts due as to the produce of all such several sums of
money upon trust to lay out and invest the same in the names of my said
trustees and their survivors and survivor of them and the executors and
admors of such survivor in the purchase of stock in any of the public
funds or in government or other Real securities and do declare that my
said trustees shall stand possessed of the said stock funds or
securities and the interest or dividends xxxx or profits thereof and of
all my leasehold estate and the rents and profits thereof and all other
my estate and effects upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned and
declared to of the xxxxxing the same that is to say xx on trust that my
said trustees and the survivors and survivors of them and the executors
or admors of such survivor shall during the minority of my dear
daughter Eliza apply so much of the said interest dividends xxxxxx
rents and profits as may be deemed right and expedient for the
maintenance education and bringing up of my said daughter and so
declare it is my will and desire that my said wife shall have the
guardianship and direction as to the tuition and bringing up of my said
daughter during her minority xxxx upon further trust during the natural
life of my said wife shall and will either pay to or permit and suffer
my said wife and her assigns to receive all the rest of the said
interest dividends xxxxxxx (increase??) rents and Profits and every
part thereof and the same to be at her direction(?) xxx go to and be at
and for the sole supxxxxx personal and peculiar use benefit and
disposal of my said wife and her assigns during her natural life and to
be paid into the proper hands of my said wife or of such person or
persons she shall by any note in writing to be by her signed with her
name in her own proper hand writing in the presence of and attested by
two credible witnesses independent of any such(?) husband she may
hereafter intermarry with or whether covert or discovert(?) shall from
time to time direct or appoint and that the same nor in any part
thereof shall not in any wise be xxxxxxx or liable to the disposal
intermeddling (?) xxxxxx engagements debts or incumbrances of any
husband with whom she may at any time hereafter intermarry and that the
receipt of her my said wife alone whatever Cxxxxxt or disxxxxt or of
such person or persons so to be by her appointed to receive(?) the same
as aforesaid shall from time to time be good and sufficient discharges
for the same provided always(?) and it is my will and desire and I do
hereby direct and declare that in the event of my said daughter Eliza
arriving (?) at the age of twenty one years during the natural life of
my said wife that my said wife shall and is hereby vested with power
and authority from and out of my said personal estate by deed or
transfer of so much of the said stock funds leasehold estate or
securities as will be sufficient to raise a portion for my said
daughter Eliza not exceeding the sum of five hundred pounds by any deed
or writing to be by her my said wife signed with her name of her own
proper hand writing in the presence of and attested by two or more
credible witnesses to be made and witnessed for such purpose such
portion to be paid or transferred to my said daughter and to and for
her own sole and separate use and benefit or paid or transferred
to her or such other person or persons upon such trusts and to and for
such uses intents and purposes as my said wife shall by such deed orv
writing direct limit or appoint and that my said other trustees or the
survivor of them do and shall join my said wife in making such transfer
and sale or disposition and upon further trust as to the residue of my
said personal estate and all interest dividends gains profits and
increase thereof in case of the decease of my wife in the lifetime of
my said daughter to assign transfer and pay over the same to my said
daughter if she shall then have arrived at the age of twenty one years
or on her so arriving at such age and in the mean time to pay apply and
dispose of the rents Interest dividends and profits thereof or so much
as will be necessary towards her maintenance education and bringing up
and I do hereby declare and direct that if my said daughter do and
shall intermarry during her minority or before such assignment or
transfer shall have been made to her then my said trustees and the
survivor of them and the executors and admors of such survivor shall
stand and be possessed of the then rxidxxxx (recidium????) of my estate
upon trust for the sole and separate use and benefit of my said
daughter and so to prevent the same from being in any wise subject to
the debts engagements or controul of her husband and to permit suffer
and authorize my said daughter to receive the interest dividends rents
profits and increase thereof from time to time as and when they shall
respectively become due and payable during her said xxxxx or to pay the
same into her own proper hands or to transfer and assign the said stock
funds interst dividends leasehold estates rents gains profits and
increase to such person or persons and for such uses and purposes as my
said daughter by any writing under her hands attested by two or more
credible witnesses shall from time to time notwithstanding such
xxxxture direct or appoint and the receipt or receipts of my said
daughter for what shall be so paid to her or to her order or for her
use shall from time to time notwithstanding such her cxxxxture be or
good and sufficient discharge and indemnity for the same and in case of
the decease of my said daughter having so intermarried without having
made a complete disposition of my said estate leaving issue upon trust
and I will and direct that my said trustees and the survivors and
survivor of them and the executors and admors of such survivor shall be
possessed thereof in trust for such issue and if more than one to be
equally divided assigned or transferred to them on their arriving at
the age of twenty on e years and in the mean time to apply the interest
dividends rents profits and increase thereof towards their maintenance
education and bringing up but if only one such issue then the whole
thereof to such issue and in case of the decease of my daughter in the
lifetime of my said wife leaving issue then as to all or so much of the
residium (?) of my said estate and of the said stocks funds leasehold
estates and the interest dividends rents issues gains and profits
thereof as shall not have been previously disposed of in manner
hereinbefore directed to transfer assign and make over to such issue
whether male or female on their arriving at twenty one years of age in
equal shares and proportions and in the mean time to pay apply and
dispose of so much of the said dividends interest rents and profits
thereof as shall be needful and expedient towards their maintenance
education and bringing up and if only one such issue then the whole
thereof to such issue but in the case of the decease of my said
daughter in the lifetime of my said wife without issue or of such issue
or of the survivor of such issue / if more than one before he or she
shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years in the life time of
my wife’s sister Ruth Burder / Burdor the wife of John Burder / Burdor
of Brook street Holborn Then upon trust to pay the said interest
dividends rents profits and increase to the said Ruth Burder / Burdor
for and during the term of her natural life and upon the decease of the
said Ruth burder then upon trust as to all or so much of the said stock
or funds leasehold estates and all other my estate and effects not
applied and disposed of in the trusts of this my will to pay transfer
and assign one moiety or equal half part thereof to and amongst frances
Prickett the daughter of my late brother Robwert Thomas Prickett and
the four ligitimate and elligitimate children of my late brother
Richard Charles Prickett by prudence called Prudence Prickett who
cohabited withv my said brother for several years previous to his
decease and the survivors and survivor of them in equal shares and
proportions as and when they shall respectively arrive at the age of
twenty one years and in the mean time the interest dividends rents or
profits increase or gains of such moiety or so much thereof as shall be
deemed expedient shall be paid and applied towards the maintenance
education and bringing up of such children and their survivors and
survivor of them and the other moiety thereof to and amongst the
children of my wife’s brother William Augustus Mitchell of Enfield in
Middlesex and the survivors or survivor of them when arrived or their
arriving at the age of twenty one years in such shares and proportions
as my said wife shall by any writing or writings to be by her signed in
the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses or by
her last will and testament in writing or any writing as or in the
nature of or purporting to be her last will and testament duly signed
and published by her in the presence of and attested by the like number
of witnesses whether then covert or discovert shall direct limit or
appoint and for want of such direction limitation or appointment in
equal shares and proportions and the interest dividends rents and
profits of such of them as shall not have arrived at twenty one years
of age shall during their minority or so much thereof as shall be
necessary to be paid and applied towards their maintenance education
and bringing up and to and for no other use trust intent or purpose
whatsoever and it is my will and I hereby direct that my said trustees
and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors or admors of
such survivor shall and do from time to time lay out and invest the
surplus of the interest dividends rents and profits or annual produce
of my said estate after applying so much or such parts thereof as shall
be sufficient for the respective maintenance education and bringing up
of all or any of the children or issue before mentioned or such or the
like (life?) securities as are herein before portinxxxlarly mentioned
there to accumulate to and for the use and benefit of such children or
child person or persons respectively and their issue as may or can
become intitled thereto and I do hereby direct that on the sale of my
said leasehold dwelling house with the good will of my said trade the
receipt or receipts of my said trustees shall be a good and sufficient
discharge to the purchaser or purchasers who shall not be accountable
or answerable for any loss misapplication or nonapplication of the said
purchase money or any part thereof and I do declare that it shall and
may be lawful to and for my said trustees to retain to themselves
respectively all such costs charges damages and expenses as they may
pay sustain expend or be put unto for or by reason of the performance
of this my will or the carrying into execution the trusts hereby in
them reposed and that it is my will and desire that my said executors
or trustees shall not be charged or chargeable with or accountable for
any more of my personal estate than what they shall respectively
actually (annually?) receive or shall come to their hands and
possession and that neither of them shall be chargeable for the other
of them or for her or his acts deeds payments or receipts but each for
her his and their own acts deeds and receipts and I do hereby nominate
constitute and appoint my said dear wife Elizabeth Prickett William
Lee(?) and William G(?)illman Executors of this my will and lastly I
hereby revoke and make void all former or other will or wills by me at
any time or times heretofore made and do declare this only to be my
last will and testament In testimony whereof I have to this my said
last will and testament contained in five sheets of paper set my hand
and seal that is to say to the first four sheets thereof my hand and to
this fifth and last sheet my hand and seal this sixteenth day of
January in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eight
–(interlineation The mark + of) Charles Richd Prickett signed sealed
published and declared by the said testator as and for his last will
and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request
and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as
witnesses thereto. Thos Wild Warwick Square Mxxxgate street
Edward A Wild Benjn A Crosley
This Will was proved at London the fourth day of March in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight before the worshipful
charles coote Doctor of Laws surrogate of the Right honourable Sir
William xxxxKnight doctor of Laws Master Keeper or commissary of the
prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of
Elizabeth Prickett widow the relict of the deceased Willian Lee(?) and
William Gillman the executors named in the said will to whom admon was
granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said
deceased having been first sworn duly to administer..
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