Date of Will: 5 May 1852
Proved on 12 August 1852 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

 










This is the last Will and Testament of me SUSANNA GUTTRIDGE of Thorpe Mandeville in the County of Northampton Widow I appoint WILLIAM PAGE of Thorpe Mandeville aforesaid Farmer and GEORGE MANSFIELD BERNER of Costow House in the same County Farmer to be Trustees and Executors of my Will and I devise to them all the real estate which at the time of my decease shall be vested in me as Trustee or Mortgagee Nevertheless upon the trusts and subject to the several equities then affecting the same respectively I devise all that messuage or tenement with the garden outbuildings and appurtenances situate at Thorpe Mandeville aforesaid now in my own occupation unto and to the use of my grand daughter ANN DAVIS PARRISH her heirs and assigns for ever I recommend my said grand daughter to allow her two Sisters SUSANNAH REBECCA and LUCY MARY to reside in the said messuage or tenement during their discoverture But I expressly declare that this recommendation shall not have the force or effect of imposing a trust on my said Granddaughter ANN DAVIS PARRISH or in any manner abridge or qualify her property and interest in the said messuage or tenement and hereditaments any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding I give bequeath and appoint all my money securities for money and all other the personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever of or to which I shall have any power of appointment or disposition by Will unto the said WILLIAM PAGE and GEORGE MANSFIELD BERNER their executors administrators and assigns Upon trust that they my said Trustees do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease possess collect and get in any monies which may be due to my estate with full powers for my said Trustees in their discretion to refer to arbitration any dispute concerning any debtor credits owing by or belonging to my Estate And also to compound for any monies due or owing to my estate upon such terms and in such manner as my said Trustees shall think proper and to give or allow time for the payment of any monies owing to my estate without being answerable for any loss in respect thereof And to pay any debt or debts claimed to be owing by me notwithstanding the want or [deficit] of strict legal evidence or title in support thereof And likewise to sell and convert into money all other my residuary personal estate except such part thereof as my said Trustees shall deem it expedient to continue on the security or securities on which the same shall happen to be invested (which they are hereby authorised to do during such time as they shall think fit whatever may be the nature of such security) And after payment of my debts funeral and testamentary expenses to stand possessed of the residue of the monies to be produced by all or any of the means aforesaid as and when the same shall be received In trust to set apart the sum of five hundred pounds part thereof and to place out the same in the names of my said Trustees in the Public stocks or funds of Great Britain or at Interest upon real securities in England or Wales or to continue any investment of that amount which I may happen to have at my decease with power to vary such investments for others of a like nature as often as they shall see occasion And to stand possessed thereof upon the trusts following (that is to say) Upon trust from time to time to pay the annual income arising from the said sum of Five hundred pounds unto or permit the same to be received by my son JOHN GUTTRIDGE and ELIZABETH his wife during their natural lives and the life of the survivor of them and after the decease of such survivor In trust as to the principal of the said sum of Five hundred pounds and the annual income thenceforth to arise therefrom for such child or children of my said son JOHN as shall attain the age of Twenty one years or die under that age leaving lawful issue and such child or children of any child or children of my said son dying before him as shall attain the age of Twenty one years or die under that age leaving lawful issue in equal shares as between or among brothers and sisters but so that the child or children collectively of any deceased child of my said son JOHN shall take only the share which such deceased child would have taken if living and upon further trust that my said Trustees do and shall in like manner set apart and invest the further sum of Five hundred pounds other part of the said trust monies and pay the interest and annual produce of such last mentioned sum of Five hundred pounds unto my daughter SUSANNA HIRONS or permit her to receive the same during her life for her separate use free from the power debts or control of any husband she may marry and so that my said daughter shall not have power to alien or dispose of the same by way of anticipation And after her decease In trust for the children of my said daughter SUSANNA HIRONS and their issue in the same manner and under the same restrictions and limitations in all respects as are hereinbefore declared concerning the sum of Five hundred pounds bequeathed for the benefit of the children of my said son JOHN as aforesaid And upon further trust that my said Trustees do and shall in like manner set apart and invest the further sum of Five hundred pounds other part of the said Trust monies and pay the interest and annual produce of such last mentioned sum of Five hundred pounds unto my son in law JOHN PARRISH or permit him to receive the same during his natural life And after his decease In trust for the children of my late daughter ANN REBECCA the late wife of the said JOHN PARRISH and their issue in the same manner and under the same restrictions and limitations in all respects as are hereinbefore declared concerning the sum of Five hundred pounds bequeathed for the benefit of the children of my said son JOHN as aforesaid And as to the residue of the said trust monies and premises In trust for my said son JOHN my daughter SUSANNA and my said son in law JOHN PARRISH in equal shares and proportions for their own use and benefit absolutely to whom I do hereby bequeath and appoint the same accordingly And I further declare that in the event of my personal estate being insufficient to answer the several purposes aforesaid the several Legatees thereof shall abate proportionably to their several Legacies or shares therein And I empower my said Trustees at discretion to apply all or any part of the income of the expectant or presumptive share of any and every Legatee under my Will for his her or their maintenance and education during minority and to accumulate the unapplied part thereof (if any) in augmentation of the principal of the share whence the same shall have arisen with power nevertheless to apply such accumulations for the purposes aforesaid if required And I also empower my said Trustees (with the consent in writing of the parent entitled to the prior life interest if then living and afterwards at their own discretion) to apply any part not exceeding one third of the principal of each expectant share for the advancement in life of the child to whom such respective expectant share shall presumptively belong And I declare that any vacancy or vacancies occurring in any Trusteeship under my Will by death in my lifetime or afterwards disclaimer resignation refusal or incapacity to act may be supplied by the Trustee or Trustees for the time being including any retiring or disclaiming Trustee or Trustees if willing to act and if there be no Trustee willing to act by the acting executors or administrators of the person who shall have last died in the trust or if there be no such person by my acting executors or administrators every such appointment to be made by any attested writing or Will I declare that the receipt in writing of my Trustees or Trustee for the time being for any trust moneys or trust property shall discharge the person paying or transferring the same from responsibility for the application thereof or the property or regularity of the payment or transfer thereof or of any transaction leading thereto I declare that each Trustee shall be answerable only for losses arising from his own wilful default and may retain and allow to his Cotrustee all expenses incidental to the performance of the Trustee And I declare that the powers and declarations hereby vested in the Trustees herein named shall be exercisable by the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of my Will Lastly I revoke all former Wills by me heretofore made In witness whereof I the said SUSANNA GUTTRIDGE have to this my last Will and Testament contained in four sheets of Paper to each sheet set my hand this Fifth day of May One thousand eight hundred and fifty two – SUSANNA GUTTRIDGE – Signed published and declared by the said SUSANNA GUTTRIDGE the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names at witnesses – R P HUMFREY Rector of Thorpe – BENJ. WM. APLIN Solr. Banbury

Proved at London 12th August 1852 before the Judge by the oath of WILLIAM PAGE one of the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by Comm duly to administer Power reserved of making the like grant to GEORGE MANSFIELD BERNER the other Executor when he shall apply for the same

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