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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