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| Gilliat Wills Transcribed by Roy Walker ________________________________________________ Will of William Gilliat of Edlington died 1730 In the Name of God amen I William Gilliat of Edlington In the County of Lincoln Yeoman being Weake of body but of perfect Memory and remembrance praised be god doe Make and ordain this my last will and Testament in Manner and forme following (viz) first I bequeath my Soul to God That gave it and as for my body to be deacently buried at the Discretion of my Executor and Executrix hereafter Mentioned and as for my Worldly good I dispose of as followeth (viz) Item I give and Bequeathe to my Daughter Mary Gilliat fifty pound when She Shall Accomplish ye Age of one and Twenty Years. All the rest of my goods and Chattles Whatsoever my Debts being paid and funeral Charges defrayed I give to my Dear wife Mary Gilliat and my Son William Gilliat whome I make Sole and Joynt Executors of This my last will and Testament revoking all others In Witness whereof I have Set my hand and Seal this twenty Nineth day of March Ano Dom 1730 William Gilliat Signed in the Presence of us Langley Gace/Geo: Dickinson/ Thomas Usall Probate granted 20 April 1730 Inventory of William Gilliat of Edlington 1730 A Trew and Perfect Inventory of all the Goods and Chatles of William Gilliat of Edlington in The County of Lincoln Yeoman Deceased Taken and Appraised this 7th day Aprill 1730 by us Whose names are hereunder written Imprimis his purse and Apparell £2 0s 0d Item In Debts owing to him £60 0s 0d His Mare Brydle and Sadles £2 0s 0d In the Closes called Cawkwells & Pingle £12 13s 0d Twenty Three Ews Twenty one Lambs Do three Incalved Heffers £6 0s 0d In one Close called Speakthorn 3 Calves £4 0s In the Plats 22 Lamb Hoggs £15 0s 0d Do 2 Young Beasts one Bull Stagg £6 0s 0s In the Pingles 6 Milch Cows £18 0s 0d In the Barn 2 Stake Calves £1 10s 0d In the House one Dresser 3 Tables Pewter £1 10s 0d Chares and other Od Things In the Parlor 2 Beds one Chest of £35 0s 0d Drawers and other Od Things In ye Dary Shelves and Milch Vessell etc £1 0s 0d In the Kitching one Chees Press £1 0s 0d Some Brass and other Od Things In the Chamber Corn and Other Things £1 0s 0 d Things not Seen viz old Wood Lumber and Poultry 5s 0d £136 18s 0d Langley Gace Geo Dickinson John Coale ________________________________________________ Will of William Gilliat of Scrivelsby died 1775 This is the last Will and Testament of Me William Gilliat of Scrivelsby in the County of Lincoln Grazier First I Give and bequeath my Farm Lands Tenements and Hereditaments situate at Coningsby otherwise Conesby in the County of Lincoln with their Appurtenances unto my Dear Wife Elizabeth Gilliat for and during the Term of her natural Life and from and after her Decease I Give and Devise the same to my eldest Son William Gilliat the Younger his Heirs and Assigns for Ever Also I Give and bequeath to my Sons William Gilliat the Younger Richard Gilliat John Gilliat Thomas Gilliat James Gilliat Joseph Gilliat Benjamin Gilliat and Samuel Gilliat and my two Younger Daughters Elizabeth Gilliat and Ann Gilliat and to every other Child of my Body which shall hereafter be born alive the Sum of Two hundred and fifty Pounds a Piece To be paid to them respectively as and when they shall respectively marry or attain the age of twenty one Years which shall first happen Provided that if any or either of my said Children shall happen to dye before he she or they shall marry or attain the age of twenty one Years Then the Legacy or Legacys of him her or them so dying shall go to the Survivor or Survivors of them and my eldest Daughter Mary Packharniss equally to be divided amongst them Share and Share alike And if all my said Sons and my said two Younger Daughters shall happen to dye before any one of them shall marry or attain the said Age of twenty one Years then the said several Legacys shall go and be paid to my said eldest Daughter Mary Packharniss her Executors or Administrators Provided And I do hereby will and direct that the said several Legacys given to my Sons and two younger Daughters shall be paid or Securitys for the same assigned within twelve Months after my Decease to my Friends William Taylor of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln Butcher and Richard Taylor of Minting in the said County Grazier their Executors or Administrators Upon Trust that they the said William Taylor and Richard Taylor or the Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor Do and shall place or continue such Legacys out at Interest and apply the Interest thereof as the same shall arise in the Maintenance and Education or otherwise for the use and Benefit of my said Sons and younger Daughters till their said Legacys shall respectively become due and payable as aforesaid Provided Also and I do hereby further Will and Direct that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor to advance to any one or more of my said Sons and daughters any Part of their respective Legacys for his her or their Advancement in the World before the same shall become actually due and payable If they shall see good Cause for so doing Also All my Ready Money Securitys for Money Stock in Husbandry Goods Chattels and personal Estate of what Nature or Kind (Charged with the payment of my debts Legacys and funeral Expenses) I Give and Bequeath unto my said Wife and the said William Taylor and Richard Taylor their Executors or Administrators with full Power to order Manage and dispose of the same in such Manner as they shall think best Nevertheless upon the Trusts and subject to the Proviso and Directions herein after declared of and concerning the same (that is to say) Upon Trust To permit and suffer my said Wife to receive and take the Interest and clear Yearly produce of all my said Personal Estate to her own use and for the Support of her Family for and during the Terme of her Natural Life or until she shall marry a Second Husband which shall first happen And from and after the Death of or second Marriage of my said Wife *Then my said Trustees William Taylor and Richard Taylor or the Survivor of them or the Executors or administrators of such survivor shall alone stand possessed of my said Ready Money Securitys for Money Stock in Husbandry Goods Effects and Personal Estate (Charged as aforesaid) Upon Trust for the only proper use and Benefit of all my Children both Sons and daughters born or hereafter to be born equally to be divided amongst them Share and Share alike Provided that if any one or more of them shall happen to dye before he she or they shall marry or attain the Age of Twenty one Years Then the Share or Shares of him her or them so dying shall go to the survivors or survivor or others or other of them If more than one such Survivor or other To be equally divided amongst them Share and Share alike and if there shall be only one Then to such only one his or her Executors or Administrators And I do hereby appoint my said Wife Guardian of such of my said Children as shall be under the Age of twenty one Years at the Time of my Decease But in Case she shall happen to marry again or from and after her Decease Then and from thenceforth I appoint the said William Taylor and Richard Taylor Guardians of my said Children and Trustees for their said respective Fortunes and Estates till they shall respectively marry or attain the Age of twenty one Years and I do appoint my said Wife and the said William Taylor and Richard Taylor joint Executrix and Executors of this my last Will and Testament Hereby revoking all former Wills And Lastly I Do hereby will and Direct that my said Wife and the said William Taylor and Richard Taylor shall not be answerable the one of them for the others or other of them or for the Acts Deeds Receipts or Disbursements of the others or other of them But Each of them only for her and his own Act Deed Receipt and Disbursement Nor shall they or any of them be Chargeable with or for any more of the said Trust Moneys than they shall respectively actually receive Nor with or for any Loss that shall happen of the same So as such Loss happen without their Wilful Defaults and they and every of them shall be entitled to deduct and reimburse to her him and themselves respectively out of the said Trust Moneys all such reasonable Costs and Expenses they or any of them shall sustain or be put to in the Execution of the Trusts hereby in them reposed In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in two Sheets of Paper to the first Sheet thereof set my Hand and to this last my Hand and Seal this twenty ninth Day of November In the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy four Wm Gilliat Signed Sealed published and Declared by the above Named Testator William Gilliat as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereof in the Presence of the said Testator and of each other Sam: Lyon Hen: Rutter George Babb ___________________________________________________ Will of Thomas Gilliat of Richmond, Virginia, died 1810 At a Court of Hustings held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse, the 14th day of August 1810 This document was returned into Court and ordered to be recorded Test Th C Howard Clk I, Thomas Gilliat of the City of Richmond, and State of Virginia, being now of good health and of sound mind but not knowing at what time it my please Almighty God to call me to another world, do make declare and ordain this writing to be my last will and testament. To my executors herein after named, or to such of them as shall accept of that trust, and to the survivors and survivor of them, I devise in trust for the purposes herein after mentioned all my own lands and lots of grounds. And my said Executors shall sell the same either at public or private sale as to them shall seem best and on such credit as to them shall seem most advantageous. My said executors will also sell all my slaves and other chattels. Our of the proceeds of sale to be made by my executors of my lands and lots of grounds, and of my slaves and other chattels, or from any bank stock or other stock which I may own at the time of my death, or from any debts due to me individually, or from my share of any debts due to any partnership or firm of which I am or have been a partner, I make the following provisions for my late beloved wife, Martha, and for Sarah Scott and Sophia Scott, sisters of my late wife, that is to say: To my wife Martha I give and bequeath five thousand pounds sterling money of Great Britain, and I direct that my executors shall invest another sum of five thousand pounds sterling in the purchase of Stock, or the funded debt of Great Britain, or the stock or funded debt of the United States of America, or shares in stock of the bank of the United States or bank of Virginia, as to them shall seem best, and after such investment shall be made (and which shall be done as early as possible after my decease) all the interest or dividends thereafter growing due on such stock or shares shall from time to time after it is received be paid to my wife. I direct that my executors shall invest as much money in the stock or funded debt of the United States, or in shares, or stock of the bank of the United States, or bank of Virginia, as to them shall seem best, as will produce, as nearly as can be estimated, an annual interest of one thousand dollars; half of which interest shall be paid from time to time, after it is recd. to Sarah Scott, during her life, or until she shall be married, and no longer, and the other half of the said Interest shall in like manner be paid to Sophia Scott during her life, or until she be married and no longer, and until such stock or funded debt of the United States, or Shares, or stock of the bank of the United States, or bank of Virginia, shall be purchased, the said Sarah Scott, and Sophia Scott, shall each receive five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid to them half yearly. All the rest and residue of my estates, of what kind soever it may be, I give and bequeath to all my children which may be alive at the time of my death, and to any child or children with which my wife may then be pregnant, equally to be divided between them. And after the death of my wife and after the death or marriage of Sarah Scott and Sophia Scott, respectively the stock, funded debt, and Bank Shares, herein before directed to be purchased shall be divided equally among all my children. My children will be maintained and educated out of the estates or property herein bequeathed to them and any interest that may arise therefrom. Lastly I constitute and appoint John Gilliat, Joseph Gallego, Thos. Dent and M. W. Hancock executors of this my last will and testament, and in confirmation of this will and testament I have hereto subscribed my name this 7th day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. Tho Gilliat Signed published & declared to be my last will and testament in presence of Joshua Crump, Francis Strobia, M.B. Poitiaux as to T.G. Edmd Taylor jr A Codicil to my last Will made this 19th November 1807. Notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in this my last will and testament, my dear wife Martha shall have the use of the lot of ground in Richmond with all its appurtenances where I now live, all my house servants (slaves), my carriage and horses so long as she chooses to reside in Richmond and shall continue a single woman, but no longer. I appoint my brother John Gilliat of London and Joseph Gallego of Richmond, gardians of all my children, until they (my children) shall severally attain the age of twenty one years, or shall be married. Thos. Gilliat Codicil to my last will. The one third part of the Deep run Coal pits bought by me of M.W. Hancock as per deed to me is not to be sold until my children comes of age, then the proceeds to be equally divided. My executors will do what they think best for thare benefit according to thare judgement in the mean time Thos Gilliat Richmond 31 March 1808 Witness Francis Strobia Joshua Crump Edmd. Taylor At a Court of Hustings held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse this 14th day of August 1810 This Will was proved by the oaths of Francis Strobia and Michael B. Poitiaux, witnesses thereto, and the first codicil thereafter written was also proved by the oath of the said Francis Strobi; and there being no subscribing witness to the second Codicil, Charles Copland and the said Strobia, being sworn, deposed that they were well acquainted with the handwriting of the decedent, Thomas Gilliat, and verily believe the same second codicil together with the name and date thereunder written, to be wholly written by the testator's own hand. And on the eighteenth day of the same month, the first written Codicil was proved by the oath of Joshua Crump, also a witness thereto, and together with the will and second Codicil aforesaid, ordered to be recorded. And at a Court of Hustings held for the said City, at the Courthouse, the tenth day of September 1810, on the motion of Joseph Gallego, an executor in the said will named who made oath thereto and with Michael B. Poitiaux and Aubin Laforest, his securities, entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of two hundred thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs, certificate was granted him for obtaining a probate of the said will in due form, Liberty being reserved to the other executors therein named to join in the said probate when they shall think fit. And at a Court of Hustings held for the said City of Richmond, at the Courthouse, the eighth day of October 1810, the said will was proved by the oaths of Joshua Crump and Edmund Taylor Jr two other witnesses thereto, and the first Codicil, thereafter written, was also proved by the oath of the said Edmund Taylor, another witness to the same, which was ordered to be certified. Test. Th. C. Howard Clk And at a Court of Hustings held for the said city the 27th day of July 1818, on the motion of Michael W. Hancock, also an executor named in the said will, who made oath according to law, and with James Thorborn, Edmund Taylor, John Bosher, Samuel Perkins, Richard C. Gilliam, James Gibbon and Thomes Taylor, his securities, entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, conditioned as the law directs, certificate was granted him for being pined in the said probate according to law Test Th. C. Howard Clk ___________________________________________________ Will of Richard Gilliat died 1823 This is the last Will and Testament of me Richard Gilliatt of Partney in the County of Lincoln Grazier I Give and Devise unto my Son Richard Gilliatt All and singular my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and parts and shares of Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in possession reversion remainder or expectancy situate lyeing and being in Orby Partney and Dalby or elsewhere in the said County of Lincoln To hold unto and to the use of my said Son Richard Gilliatt his Heirs and Assigns forever And I do hereby charge and make chargeable my said real estates parts and shares of real estates in possession and reversion situate lying and being in Orby Partney and dalby aforesaid with the payment of the sum of One thousand one hundred pounds to the persons following (that is to say) To my daughter Mary Ann the wife of George Cutforth the sume of Two hundred pounds, To my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Robert Westwick Three hundred pounds, To my son William Gilliatt Three hundred pounds, To my son John Gilliatt Two hundred pounds And to my Trustees and executors hereinafter named for the benefit of my son Thomas Gilliatt and his children as hereinafter directed the sum of One hundred pounds Which said several legacies I do hereby direct to be paid and payable Twelve calendar months after the decease of my wife Mary Gilliatt by my said Son and devisee Richard Gilliatt I Give and bequeath unto my said son William Gilliatt the further Legacy or sum of Two hundred pounds Unto my said son John Gilliatt the further Legacy or sum of One hundred pounds Unto my said daughter Mary Ann the wife of George Cutforth the further Legacy or sum of One hundred pounds Unto my said daughter Elizabeth the wife of the said Robert Westwick This is the last Will and Testament of me Richard Gilliatt of Partney in the County of Lincoln Grazier I Give and Devise unto my Son Richard Gilliatt All and singular my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and parts and shares of Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in possession reversion remainder or expectancy situate lyeing and being in Orby Partney and Dalby or elsewhere in the said County of Lincoln To hold unto and to the use of my said Son Richard Gilliatt his Heirs and Assigns forever And I do hereby charge and make chargeable my said real estates parts and shares of real estates in possession and reversion situate lying and being in Orby Partney and dalby aforesaid with the payment of the sum of One thousand one hundred pounds to the persons following (that is to say) To my daughter Mary Ann the wife of George Cutforth the sume of Two hundred pounds To my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Robert Westwick Three hundred pounds, To my son William Gilliatt Three hundred pounds, To my son John Gilliatt Two hundred pounds And to my Trustees and executors hereinafter named for the benefit of my son Thomas Gilliatt and his children as hereinafter directed the sum of One hundred pounds Which said several legacies I do hereby direct to be paid and payable Twelve calendar months after the decease of my wife Mary Gilliatt by my said Son and devisee Richard Gilliatt I Give and bequeath unto my said son William Gilliatt the further Legacy or sum of Two hundred pounds Unto my said son John Gilliatt the further Legacy or sum of One hundred pounds Unto my said daughter Mary Ann the wife of George Cutforth the further Legacy or sum of One hundred pounds Unto my said daughter Elizabeth the wife of the said Robert Westwick the further Legacy or sum of Two hundred pounds And unto my Trustees and Executors hereinafter named for the use and benefit of my said son Thomas Gilliatt and his Children as hereinafter directed the further Legacy or sum of One hundred pounds which said several last mentioned Legacies amounting altogether to the Sum of Seven hundred pounds shall be paid and payable to such several Legatees by my Executors hereinafter named at the expiration of Twelve Calendar months next after my decease And I do direct that the two several Legacies of One hundred pounds each given to my said Trustees and Executors for the benefit of my said son Thomas Gilliatt and his children shall be held and possessed by them my said Trustees and Executors on the trusts and for the intents and purposes and subject to the directions following (that is to say) Upon trust that my Trustees and Executors or the survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such survivor do and shall from time to time as such Legacies shall severally become payable place out and invest the same in real or Government or other good and sufficient security with power to alter and transpose the same thereafter as occasion shall require and pay and apply the Interest and Annual proceeds thereof unto and for the use of my said son Thomas Gilliatt for the Term of his natural life in such manner as they my Executors and Trustees or the survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such survivor shall think most advantageous for my said Son Thomas Giliiatt and so and in such manner as the same shall not be anticipated by the said Thomas Gilliatt or liable to his Debts or Engagements nor be saleable or liable to be diverted under any Assignment Insolvency or Bankruptcy or other process at Law or Equity the same being intended as a personal provision only for my said Son Thomas Gilliatt And I do hereby direct that the said Interest and Annual proceeds of such said several Legacies or any part thereof or of the Interest of the said Thomas Gilliatt shall not be sold or disposed of by my said Son Thomas Gilliatt during his natural life And in case of any such sale or disposition or other diversion whatsoever the payment thereof shall cease and sink into the residuancy of my personal Estate for the benefit of my Son Richard Gilliatt during the natural life of my said Son Thomas Gilliatt And from and after his decease Upon further trust to pay and apply such two several Legacies of One hundred pounds each as and when the same shall become disposable unto and equally between and amongst all and every the child and children of my said Son Thomas Gilliatt living at the time of his decease or born alive in due course of time afterwards equally share and share alike if more than one and if only one then to such one only child his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns absolutely provided always nevertheless and I do hereby declare that it shall be and may be lawful to and for my trustees and Executors or the survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such survivor at any time or times after the said two several Legacies of One hundred pounds each hereinbefore given to them in trust as aforesaid for either of them shall become payable to my said Trustees and Executors by virtue of this my Will to pay the said several Legacies or either of them or any part thereof unto my said Son Thomas Gilliatt if my said Trustees and Executors or the survivor of them his Executors or Administrators in their his or her discretion shall think proper but not otherwise And in case of payment thereof or any part thereof unto him the said Thomas Gilliatt Then I direct that all the Trusts and further bequests over of and concerning such such Legacy or Legacies part or parts of Legacy or Legacies shall from and after such payment to my said son Thomas Gilliatt cease and become void And as to for and concerning all the rest residue and remainder of my Goods Chattels credits personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever I Give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto and to the use of my said son Richard Gilliatt his Executors, Administrators and Assigns subject nevertheless to and charged and chargeable with the payment of my just debts the said several legacies amounting to Seven hundred pounds and chargeable on my real estate and funeral and Testamentary expenses And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Brother Benjamin Gilliatt of Horncastle in the said County Merchant and my said son Richard Gilliatt Joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament and Trustees for carrying this my Will into execution hereby revoking and making void all former and other Will and Wills by me at any time heretofore made And lastly it is my Will and mind and I do hereby direct that my said Executors and Trustees or either of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any loss or losses which shall or may happen of or to the aforesaid Trust monies or Trust property or any part thereof or otherwise relating to or concerning the execution of the Trusts hereby in them reposed unless the same shall happen by or through their or his wilful neglect or default Nor shall either of them be answerable or accountable for the Acts, deeds receipts and disbursements and that my said Trustees shall and may pay and reimburse themselves respectively out of the said Trustee monies all reasonable and necessary costs charges and expenses whatsoever that they or either of them may pay bear or be put or be put in or about the execution of this my last Will and the trusts hereby in them reposed In Witness whereof I the said Richard Gilliatt (the Testator)have to this last Will and Testament set my hand and seal the Twenty Sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two Signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard Gilliatt (the Testator) as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto Hannah Bourne John Kirkham ___________________________________________________ Will of William Gilliat of Martin died 1825 In the Name of God Amen I William Gilliat of Martin in the County of Lincoln Grazier do make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in writing in manner and form following (that is to say) First I give and devise All my Freehold and Copyhold Messuages or Tenements Land Hereditaments and Real Estate whatsoever situate lying and being at Burgh in the Marsh and elsewhere in the said Countyunto and to the use of my sons William Gilliat and Adkin Jollands Gilliatto be equally divided between them share and share alike as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants and to their respective Heirs and Assigns for ever Also I give and bequeath unto my Brother Benjamin Gilliat of Horncastle in the said County Merchant and my Brother-in-Law William Jollands of Tattershall in the said County Farmer the sum of Two thousand pounds to be paid to them at the Expiration of three Calendar Months next after my decease Upon Trust nevertheless that they the said Benjamin Gilliat and William Jollands or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall continue or as soon as may be place the same out at Interest upon Government or some good and ample private security or securities and call in and reinvest the same at Interest as often as occasion shall require and do and shall pay such Interest as the same shall from time to time arise and be received unto my dear Wife Mary Gilliat and her assigns for and during the Term of her natural life (in case she shall so long continue my widow) and from and after her decease or second marriage I direct that the sum of One thousand pounds (part of the said Legacy of Two thousand pounds) shall sink into and become part of my personal Estate and that they my said Trustees shall stand possessed of the sum of One thousand pounds (residue thereof) upon the same Trusts as are hereinafter mentioned and declared of and concerning the Legacy of Two thousand pounds hereinafter bequeathed to them Also I give and bequeath unto the said Benjamin Gilliat and William Jollands the sum of Two thousand pounds to be paid to them at the Expiration of Six calendar months next after my decease upon Trust nevertheless that they the said Benjamin Gilliat and William Jollands or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall continue or as soon as may be place the same out at Interest upon Government or some good and ample private security or securities and call in and reinvest the same at Interest as often as occasion shall require and do and shall pay such Interest and also the Interest of the aforesaid sum of One thousand pounds of which they are to stand possessed from and after the Decease or second marriage of my said Wife as aforesaid as the same shall arise and be received unto my Daughters Mary Gilliat and Ann the wife of William Burcham Junior of Ewerby in the said County Grazier in equal shares for and during their respective natural lives And I direct that the receipts of my said Daughters only notwithstanding Coverture shall from time to time be sufficient Discharges for their respective shares of the said Interest and the same shall not be liable to their Husbands Debts Conhoul (?) or Engagements and from and after the decease of them my said Daughters respectively then upon further Trust that they my said Trustees or the survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall stand possessed of one moiety or half part of the said last mentioned Trust monies to and for the only proper use and benefit of all and every the Child and Children of my said daughter mary gilliat in equal shares or proportions (if more than one) to be an Interest vested in them at their respective ages of twenty one years and to be paid to them at such age if the same shall happen after the decease of her my said Daughter but if the same shall happen in her life time then to be paid to them respectively immediately after her decease with Benefit of Survivorship in case of the death of any one or more of such Child or Children under such age and without lawful issue And I direct that in the meantime and until the respective shares of such Child or Children shall become payable as aforesaid they my said Trustees or the survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall pay and apply the Interest or Dividends arising therefrom in for or towards their Maintenance and Education And upon further Trust that they my said Trustees or the survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall stand possessed of the other moiety or half part of the same principal trust monies to and for the only proper use and benefit of all and every the Child and Children of my said Daughter Ann Burcham in equal shares or proportions (if more than one) to be an Interest vested in and paid to such Child or Children of her my said Daughter at such time or times with like Interest in the meantime for maintenance and education as hereinbefore directed with respect to the Child or Children of my said Daughter Mary Gilliat and in case either of my said daughters shall happen to die without having any Child or Children or there being such all of them shall happen to die without lawful issue before the age of twenty one years then I direct that my said Trustees or the survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall stand possessed of the moiety or half part of and in the same principal trust monies of her who shall so die upon Trust to and for the only proper use and benefit of the Children of my surviving daughter and also the Children of my said two sons William Gilliat and Adkin Jollands in equal shares or proportions in the same manner as hereinbefore directed with respect to the original shares of the Children of my said Daughters respectively Also I give and bequeath unto my said Wife such part of my plate (except my Cup and Tankard) Linen and Household Furniture as she may think proper to make choice of And I do hereby will and direct that my Executors do and shall as soon as may be after my decease repay unto my said Wife the Sum of One hundred pounds which I have borrowed of her All the rest residue and remainder of my ready money Securities for money Stock Goods Chattels personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever (charged and chargeable with the payment of all my just debts funeral expenses and above mentioned Legacies) I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said Sons William Gilliat and Adkin Jollands Gilliat in equal shares or proportions And I do hereby declare that the Sum or Sums of Money which I have advanced or may advance to either of my said Sons in my lifetime shall be accounted as part of their respective shares of and in my personal Estate under this my Will And I do hereby constitute and appoint my said Sons William Gilliat and Adkin Jollands Gilliat joint Executors of this my Will And I do hereby declare it to be my will that my said Trustees their Executors or Administrators shall not be charged or chargeable with or for any more of the said trust monies than they shall respectively actually receive or shall come to their respective Hands by Virtue of this my Will nor with or for any loss that shall happen to the said Trust monies or any part thereof so as such loss happen without their wilful default nor the one of them for the other of them And that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Trustees and each of them their and each of their Executors and Administrators by and out of the said Trust monies or the Interest or Proceed thereof to deduct and reimburse him and themselves respectively all such Costs Charges and Expenses as they or either of them shall sustain expend or be put unto for or by reason of the Trusts hereby in them reposed or in the management or Execution thereof respectively or in any other thing in any wise relating thereunto And lastly revoking all former wills by me at any time herebefore made I do publish and declare these four sheets of paper written on one Side only and each of them signed by me and the last of them sealed with my seal to be my last Will and Testament this second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one Wm Gilliat Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator William Gilliat as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us and in his presence and at his Request have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto A D Parkinson Wm Longstaff Joanna Balding On the seventh day of January 1826 William Gilliat and Adkin Jollands Gilliat the joint Executors within named were duly sworn, & also made oath that the whole of the personal estate and effects of the deceased, at the time of his death, did not amount in value to the sum of six thousand pounds Before me C. Mately surrogate The Testator died on the 18th day of November 1825 _______________________________________________ Will of Benjamin Gilliat of Horncastle died 1838 This is the last Will and Testament of me Benjamin Gilliatt of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln Merchant First I do hereby in all things ratify and confirm the Settlement made upon my marriage with my present wife Rachel Gilliat and in addition to the jointure therein and thereby secured to her my said wife I give and bequeath unto her all and singular my household goods and furniture books and other effects whatsoever which belonged to her before our marriage and by virtue thereof became my property to and for her own absolute use and benefit And I declare it to be my intention that the provision made for my said wife in and by the said Settlement and by this my Will confirmed shall be taken and accepted by her in lieu bar and full compensation & satisfaction of and for her dower and thirds And I give and bequeath the sum of four thousand pounds unto or in trust for my daughter Sophia Gilliat in manner hereinafter expressed that is to say two thousand pounds part thereof to be paid to her at the age of twenty one years or day of marriage which shall first happen and two thousand pounds residue thereof to be invested in the names of my trustees and executors hereinafter named or of the trustees to be named and appointed under or by virtue of any Settlement that may be made upon the marriage of my said daughter in some of the public Stocks or Funds or upon government or real securities and the interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof from and after my said daughter shall have attained her said age of twenty one years or been married which shall happen first to be paid during the life of my said daughter into her proper hands for her sole and separate use and benefit or to such person or persons as she by any writing signed with her own proper hand shall from time to time notwithstanding her coverture or whether she be covert or sole direct or appoint It being my will that no husband of my said daughter shall intermeddle with the said Interest Dividends and proceeds and that the same shall not be subject to the Debts Control or Engagements of such husband and that the Receipt of my said daughter or of such person or persons directed and appointed by her in manner aforesaid to receive the same shall above and notwithstanding her coverture or whether she be covert or sole shall be a good and sufficient discharge for so much of the Interest Dividend and Proceeds of the said sum of two thousand pounds as shall be therein acknowledged to be received And from and after the decease of my said daughter in case she shall leave any issue the said last mentioned sum of two thousand pounds or the stocks funds or securities upon which the same shall be invested shall be paid transferred or assigned to and amongst all and every the child or children of my said daughter to be equally divided amongst them if more than one share and share alike and if there shall be but one then to such only child the share or shares of such of them as shall be a son or sons to be paid by him or them at his or their age or respective ages of twenty one years and of such of them as shall be a daughter or daughters at her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years or day or respective days of marriage which shall first happen in case of the decease of my said daughter before the same shall happen but in all events such payment transfer or assignment shall be postponed until after the decease of my said daughter provided always that the share or shares of such of the said children as shall be a son or sons shall be considered a vested interest or vested interests in him or them respectively upon his or their attaining his or their respective ages of twenty one years and of such of them as shall be a daughter or daughters upon her or their attaining her age or their respective ages of twenty one years or day or respective days of marriage which shall first happen although my said daughter shall then be living provided also that any such child of my said daughter being a son shall die under the age of twenty one years or being a daughter shall die under that age unmarried then and in such case the share of each son so dying as aforesaid and of each daughter dying unmarried as aforesaid shall from time to time go and accrue to the survivors or survivor others or other of the same child or children and respective Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of them as shall be dead having first acquired a vested interest in their respective original shares and be equally divided amongst such survivors and others of them and the said Representatives of those who shall be dead (if more than one) share and others alike and the same shall be payable and aforgivable at such respective days and times as are hereby provided touching the said original shares and such benefit of survivorship and accruor shall extend as well to the surviving or accruing as to the original shares And in case my said daughter Sophia shall not attain to the age of twenty one years or marry then the sum of two thousand pounds directed to be paid to her on her attaining the age of twenty one years or day of marriage shall sink into my Residuary Estate for the benefit of my son George Gilliat and the sum of two thousand pounds directed to be vested in trustees for her use shall in that case and also in case my said daughter Sophia shall attain her age of twenty one years or marry and die without issue go to and be equally divided between my other children George and Maria and their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns Also I give and bequeath the sum of four thousand pounds unto or in trust for my daughter Maria Gilliat two thousand pounds in part thereof to be paid to her at her age of twenty one years or day of marriage which shall first happen and two thousand pounds residue thereof to be invested in the names of trustees for the benefit of my said daughter Maria and her children in like manner as is hereinbefore directed as concerning two thousand pounds Residue of the sum of four thousand pounds hereinbefore bequeathed to my said daughter Sophia and in case my daughter Maria shall not attain her age of twenty one years or marry then the sum of two thousand pounds directed to be paid to her on her attaining her age of twenty one years or day of marriage shall sink into my Residuary Estate for the benefit of my said son George Gilliat and the sum of two thousand pounds directed to be vested in trustees for her use shall in that case and also in case my said daughter shall attain the age of twenty one years or marry and die without issue go to and be equally divided between my said other children George and Sophia and their respective Executors Administrators and Assigns And I do hereby will and direct that it shall be lawful for my trustees and executors hereinafter named at their discretion to lay out and expend all or any part of the interest dividends and annual proceeds of the presumptive portions of my said daughters respectively for their maintenance and education until they shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years or marry which shall first happen and the Residue of the interest dividends and proceeds of such portions respectively shall sink into my Residuary estate Also I give and bequeath unto my Brother Joseph Gilliat one annuity or clear yearly sum of twenty pounds for the term of his natural life to be paid to him by half yearly portions first payment to be made at the expiration of six calendar months next after my decease And subject to the payment and satisfaction of my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and of the several legacies and bequests aforesaid I give and bequeath all the Residue of my Personal Estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever unto my said son George Gilliat And I give and devise unto my said son George Gilliat all my freehold messuages lands tenements & hereditaments whatsoever situate in Hagworthingham or elsewhere in the County of Lincoln to hold to him his heirs and assigns for ever and I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my nephew Richard Gilliat of Welton & my good friends Thomas Rockcliffe of Fulletby in the said County of Lincoln Farmer and William Longstaff of Roughton in the same County Farmer Executors in trust of this my will and together with my said wife Rachel Gilliat Guardians of my said Children And I do hereby direct that in case my executors shall be of opinion that it will be for the advantage of my said son George to carry on the trade and business in which I am engaged it shall be lawful for them to do so and to employ such clerk or clerks agent or agents as they may find necessary for managing and conducting the same And I do hereby give and bequeath unto each of them my said executors the sum of twenty pounds for Mourning And I do hereby direct and declare that my said trustees and executors or any or either of them their or any or either of their heirs executors and administrators shall be answerable and accountable only for such sums as they shall respectively actually receive notwithstanding their or any or either of their giving or signing or joining giving or signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity And the one of them shall not be answerable for the others or other of them but only for his own acts receipts neglect and default And my said trustees and executors or any or either of them shall not be answerable for any banker broker or other person in whose hands any part of the said trust monies or estates shall be deposited for safe custody in the execution of the said trusts And that they any or either of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the insufficiency or deficiency of any stocks funds or securities in or upon which the said trust monies or estate or any part thereof may be invested or placed out at interest nor for any loss which may happen in the execution of the trusts aforesaid or in relation thereto except the same shall happen through their own wilful default respectively And also that it shall be lawful for my said trustees and executors or any or either of them to reimburse themselves or himself respectively out of the said trust monies and estate all such costs charges and expenses as may be incurred in the execution of the trusts aforesaid And lastly revoking all former wills by me made I do hereby publish and declare this to be and contain my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I the said Benjamin Gilliat the testator have hereunto set my hand and seal that is to say to the first three sheets hereof my hand and to the fourth and last sheet hereof my hand and seal the twenty second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen Benj Gilliat Signed sealed and published and declared by the above named Benjamin Gilliat the 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 hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto J W Conington Sarah Stones George Deep I Benjamin Gilliat of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln Merchant do declare this to be a Codicil to my last Will and Testament which bears date the twenty second day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixteen whereas in and by my said Will I gave and bequeathed the sum of four thousand pounds unto or in trust for my daughter Sophia And thereby gave and bequeathed the sum of four thousand pounds unto or in trust for my daughter Maria and whereas since the date and execution my said daughter Sophia hath intermarried with William Gilliat of Richmond in the State of Virginia America Merchant and she thereupon received the sum of one thousand pounds from me as and for her marriage portion And whereas I am minded to revoke the legacies in and by my said will severally given to or in trust for my said daughters respectively And in lieu thereof to give the other legacies hereinafter mentioned And I am also minded to revoke the annuity of twenty pounds by my said will given to my brother Joseph Gilliat and also to change two of the trustees and executors in my said will named for the persons hereinafter appointed to be trustees and executors thereof in their stead Now therefore I the above named testator do hereby revoke the Legacy of four thousand pounds in and by my said will given to or in trust for my said daughter Sophia in lieu thereof I give and bequeath unto or in trust for her the sum of two thousand and five hundred pounds And I direct that seven hundred and fifty pounds part thereof shall be paid to her or her assigns at the expiration of six calendar months next after my decease and that the sum of one thousand and seven hundred and fifty pounds residue thereof shall be invested in such manner and for such purposes in favor and for the benefit of her my said daughter Sophia and her issue as in and by my said will is directed concerning the sum of two thousand pounds residue of the sum of four thousand pounds thereby given to or in trust for her And I hereby revoke the Legacy of four thousand pounds in and by my said will given to or in trust for my said daughter Maria And in lieu thereof I give and bequeath unto or in trust for her the sum of three thousand and five hundred pounds And I direct that one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds part thereof shall be paid to her or her assigns at the expiration of six calendar months next after my decease And that the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds residue thereof shall be invested in such manner and for such purposes in favor and for the benefit of her my said daughter Maria and her issue as in and by my said will is directed concerning the sum of two thousand pounds residue of the sum of four thousand pounds by my said will given to or in trust for my said daughter Sophia And I hereby revoke the bequest in my said will contained of an annuity of twenty pounds given to my said brother Joseph Gilliat for his life And I also revoke the appointment in and by my said will made of my friends Thomas Rockcliffe and William Longstaff as trustees and executors of my said Will and all bequests and legacies thereby to them given And in their place and stead I nominate and appoint my nephews William Gilliat of Martin in the said County of Lincoln and Adkin Jollands Gilliat of Scrafield in same County to be trustees and Executors of my said will jointly with my nephew Richard Gilliat the other trustee and executor therein named and (these words crossed out) with all the Rights powers and Authorities as are in and by my said will given to the said Thomas Rockcliffe and William Longstaff And I revoke the legacies given by my said will to the three trustees and executors therein named for Mourning And I hereby ratify and confirm my said will as far as the same is consistent herewith In witness whereof I the said Benjamin Gilliat the testator have to this Codicil to my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven Benj Gilliat Signed sealed published and declared by the above named testator as and for a Codicil to 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 hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto James Boothby, J H Conington Ed Cartwright Appeared Personally John Kirton Gilliat and William Gilliat both of Billiter Square London Merchants and having carefully viewed and perused the paper writing (now hereunto annexed) purporting to be and contain a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of Benjamin Gilliat late of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln deceased the said codicil beginning thus 'I Benjamin Gilliat of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln' ending 'this twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven' and thus subscribed 'Benj Gilliat' and having particularly observed the words and names jointly with my nephew Richard Gilliat the other trustee and executor therein named and obliterated on the twenty first and twenty second lines of the second side of the said codicil and a Memorandum or addition written opposite the said recited obliteration on the third side of the said codicil contained in the names and words following to wit Richard Gilliat name arrested by my own hand and thus subscribed 'Benj Gilliat' they lastly made oath that they knew and were well acquainted with the said deceased and with his manner and character of handwriting and subscription having frequently seen him write and also write and subscribe his name and that they verily and in their consciences believe the whole body sense and contents of the said writed Memorandum or Addition contained and subscribed as aforesaid to be of the proper handwriting and subscription of the said Benjamin Gilliat deceased John K Gilliat William Gilliat On the seventeenth day of March 1838 the said John Kirton Gilliat and William Gilliat were duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit Before me John Danbury Surr In the presence of I Henry Pitcher Not Pub Proved at London with a Codicil the 24th March 1838 before the Judge by the oaths of William Gilliat and Adkin Jollands Gilliat the nephews the executors named in the codicil to whom admon was granted having been first sworn by common duly to admin ___________________________________________________ Will of Alfred Gallego Gilliat of Brighton, died 1859 This is the last Will and Testament of me Alfred Gallego Gilliat I appoint my son Alfred and my brother-in-law Joseph Smith Esq my executors with power for them to appoint successors I leave my books pictures household furniture plate linen wines horses etc. to my wife Mary Ann Gilliat In the event of my son dying without lawful issue in my lifetime I leave my £28,500 6 pr Ct Virginia State Bonds my £16,000 Philadelphia and Reading Railway 6 pr Ct Bonds and my 3 pr Ct Corwols to my daughter Mary with a life interest therein to my wife and in case of her death the reversion to my daughter Caroline The Policy of Assurance for £2000 and profits accruing in the National Provident Institution and Policy of £1000 also on my wife's life in the same office I leave to my daughter Mary and in the event of her death without heirs to my wife Mary Gilliat The £600 borrowed from the National Provident Institution on the Policy of £2000 I wish my executors to pay with interest as soon as they may think it advisable from any funds belonging to me in the hands of Messrs J.K. Gilliat & Co or elsewhere In the event of the death of either my son Alfred or my daughter Caroline during my life all property that I may inherit in right of their Mother my first wife I give absolutely to the survivor of the two All other property that I may be possessed of not before specified in this will I give to my dear wife trusting that she will either hold or dispose of the same as she may think advantageous to herself or the welfare of her daughter Mary Signed by me this 24th day of Dec 1857 Alfred G Gilliat Witnessed by us John S Gilliat Peter Davidson In Her Majestys Court of Probate The Principal Registry In the Goods of Alfred Gallego Gilliat deceased I John Saunders Gilliat of No 20 Great St Helens in the City of London Merchant make oath that I am one of the subscribing witnesses to the last Will and Testament of the said Alfred Gallego Gilliat late of No 22 Lewes Crescent Brighton in the County of Sussex Esquire deceased the said will being now hereunto annexed bearing date the twenty fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven and that the said testator executed the said will on the day of the date thereof by signing his name at the foot or end thereof as the same now appears thereon in the presence of me and of Peter Davidson the other subscribed witness thereto both of us being present at the same time and we thereupon attested and subscribed the said will in the presence of the said Testator John S Gilliat Sworn at my office No 7 Crosby Square in the City of London on the twenty second day of June 1859 Before me W Jones a London Commissioner to administer oaths in Chancery Proved at London 27th June 1859 by the oath of Alfred Gilliat Esquire the son one of the Executors named in the said Will as therein mentioned to whom admon was granted Power reserved of making the like grant to Joseph Smith the other Executor named in the said Will as therein mentioned when he shall apply for the same On the 27th day of June 1859 the Will of Alfred Gallego Gilliat late of No 22 Lewes Crescent Brighton in the County of Sussex Esquire deceased, who died on the 29th day of March 1859 at No 22 Lewes Crescent aforesaid was proved in the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate, by the Oath of Alfred Gilliat of Chipstead in the County of Surrey Esquire the Son Executor named as therein mentioned, he having been first sworn duly to administer, power being reserved of making like Grant to Joseph smith the other Executor named as therein mentioned Renunciation of Joseph Smith one of the Executors dated January 1865 & filed in the Principal Registry pursuant to order dated 16 January 1865 Under £1500 __________________________________________________ Will of William Gilliat of Martin died 1865 This is the Last Will and Testament of me William Gilliat of Martin in the County of Lincoln Farmer and Grazier I give and bequeath all my furniture plate linen china glass books prints pictures wines liquors fuel consumable provisions and other household effects of which I shall die possessed unto my two sons William Jollands Gilliat and John Barton Gilliat and my two daughters Eliza Rebecca the wife of George Henry King and Emma Jollands Gilliat equally to be divided between and amongst them share and share alike And I give and bequeath unto my said two daughters Eliza Rebecca King and Emma Jollands Gilliat the legacy or sum of One hundred and twenty Pounds apiece to be paid to them respectively, free from legacy duty, within twelve calendar months after my decease And I give to my said Son John Barton Gilliat the legacy or sum of Thirty Pounds to be paid to him, free from legacy duty, immediately after my decease I give and devise all my lands tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances situate lying and being at Friskney in the County of Lincoln which I purchased of the Trustees of Joseph Dickinson to William Burcham of Ewerby in the said County Grazier George Gilliat of Horncastle in the said County Merchant and John Barton of Sutterton in the said County Farmer their heirs and assigns Upon the Trusts hereinafter declared concerning the same that is to say Upon Trust from time to time during the life of my said Son John Barton Gilliat to pay the rents issues and profits thereof unto my said Son John Barton Gilliat when and as the same shall be received by them or at the discretion of the said trustees or trustee to permit my said Son John Barton Gilliat to occupy the same for and during the term of his natural life but I declare that if the said John Barton Gilliat shall attempt or agree to alieu sell assign incumber or transfer or in any manner dispose of or anticipate the said rents issues and profits or any aprt thereof then and in such case the said rents issues and profits shall cease and determine And from and after the decease of my said Son John Barton Gilliat or such alienation as aforesaid then upon trust that they the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs or assigns of such survivor hereinafter called the Trustees or Trustee shall at such time after the decease of my said Son John Barton Gilliat or such alienation as aforesaid as in their or his discretion they shall think fit absolutely, sell and dispose of the same hereditaments and premises either together or in parcels and either by public auction or private contract with full power to insert any stipulation as to title and with full power to buy in and receive any contract for sale and to resell without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby and do all such acts and assurances for effectuating any such sale as they or he shall think fit And my Will is that the said Trustees or Trustee shall stand and be possessed of and interested in the monies to arise from the sale or sales of the said hereditaments and if the rents and profits thereof in the meantime and until the same shall be sold In Trust after payment of all the expenses attending the said sale or sales for all and every the child or children of my said Son John Barton Gilliat lawfully begotten equally to be divided between and amongst them if more than one in equal shares and proportions when and as they shall severally attain the age of twenty one years And if there shall be only one such child then the whole for such one child absolutely And I give and devise all my lands tenements and hereditament situate at Friskney aforesaid which were devised to me by the Will of my late Uncle William Jollands unto and to the use of my Son William Jollands Gilliat his heirs and assigns for ever Subject to the payment of an Annuity or yearly sum of Fifty Pounds to my said Son John Barton Gilliat during his natural life And also subject to the payment of the sum of Six hundred Pounds at or immediately after the decease of my said Son John Barton Gilliat to the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton upon and for the Trusts intents and purposes hereinafter expressed of and concerning the same And I give and bequeath unto my said Son John Barton Gilliat the said Annuity of Fifty Pounds to be paid and payable and issuing out of the said last mentioned Estate in Friskney aforesaid and I direct that the same shall be payable to him by four equal quarterly payments in the year the first payment to become due and payable at the expiration of three calendar months next after my decease And I declare that if my said Son John Barton Gilliat shall attempt or agree to alieu sell assign incumber or transfer or in any manner to dispose of or anticipate the said Annuity or any one or more of the quarterly payments thereof then and in such case the said Annuity shall absolutely cease and determine And in case the said Annuity or any part thereof shall be unpaid for the space of twenty one days next after the aforesaid days of payment it shall be lawful for the said John Barton Gilliat and his assigns to enter upon all and every or any part of the said hereditaments charged with the payment thereof as aforesaid and to distrain for the same or for much thereof as shall be in arrear and for all costs and charges occasioned by the non-payment thereof and to sell such distresses in like manner as for rent reserved by Lease or common demise And I give and bequeath to the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton their executors administrators and assigns the said legacy or sum of Six hundred Pounds so charged upon and payable out of the said last mentioned estate at Friskney aforesaid To hold the same upon and for each Trusts ends intents and purposes as my said Son John Barton Gilliat shall by any deed or instrument in writing or by his last Will and Testament, but not by way of anticipation, limit direct and declare of and concerning the same and in default of any such limitation direction or declaration and so far as any such if incomplete shall not extend then upon and for the like trusts ends intents and purposes and to be paid and directed in like manner as is hereinbefore provided with respect to the monies to arise from the sale of the firstly hereinbefore mentioned estate at Friskney so devised to them upon trust for sale as aforesaid And I give and bequeath unto the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton their executors administrators and assigns the sum of Six thousand Pounds And I direct that the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton or the survivors survivor of them or the executors or administrators of each survivor (hereinafter called the Trustees or Trustee) shall invest the said sum of Six thousand Pounds in their or his names or name in any of the Parliamentary Stocks or Public Funds of Great Britain or at Interest upon Government or real securities in England or Wales or in or upon the securities of any Company incorporated by act of Parliament and paying a Dividend and shall from time to time at the discretion of the said Trustees or Trustee alter vary or transfer the said stocks funds or securities into or for others of the same or like nature And I direct that the said Trustees shall stand possessed of the sum of Three thousand Pounds one moiety of the said sum of Six thousand Pounds and the stocks funds and securities upon which the same shall be invested Upon Trust during the life of my daughter Eliza Rebecca King the Wife of George Henry King of Horncastle in the said County Surgeon and Apothecary to pay the interest dividends and annual produce thereof unto the said Eliza Rebecca King for her separate use independently of her present or any after taken husband and so that she shall not have power to deprive herself thereof by sale mortgage charge or otherwise in the way of anticipation And after the death of the said Eliza Rebecca King Upon Trust for all and every the children and child of the said Eliza Rebecca King who shall attain the age of twenty one years (or in the instance of a daughter or daughters marry under that age) to be equally divided between and amongst such children in equal shares and proportions and their respective executors administrators and assigns and if there shall be but one such child then Upon Trust for such one child his or her executors administrators or assigns and if there shall be no such child of my said daughter Eliza Rebecca King then as to One thousand five hundred Pounds and the stocks funds and securities upon which the same shall be invested Upon Trust to pay the interest dividends and annual produce thereof unto the said George Henry King (in case he shall survive the said Eliza Rebecca King) for and during the term of his natural life And as to the residue of the sum of Three thousand Pounds and after the death of the said George Henry King as to the whole of the said sum of and the stocks funds and securities upon which the same shall respectively be invested Upon Trust for my said son William Jollands Gilliat and my daughter Emma Jollands Gilliat respectively in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and not as joint Tenants and their respective executors administrators and assigns And as to the further sum of Three thousand Pounds residue of the said sum of Six thousand Pounds and the stocks funds and securities upon which the same shall be invested Upon trust during the life of my daughter Emma Jollands Gilliat to pay the interest dividends and annual produce thereof to her for her separate use independently of any husband with whom she may happen to intermarry and so that she shall have the power to deprive herself thereof by sale mortgage charge or otherwise in the way of anticipation And after the death of the said Emma Jollands Gilliat Upon Trust for all and every her children and child in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided with regard to my other daughter Eliza Rebecca King And in case there shall be no such child or children of the said Emma Jollands Gilliat then as to One thousand and five hundred Pounds part of the said sum of Three thousand Pounds and the stocks funds and securities upon which the same shall be invested Upon Trust for such person or persons and in such shares and proportions as my said daughter Emma Jollands Gilliat shall by deed or deeds or by her last Will and Testament or any Codicil thereto to be by her duly signed and executed and that whether (erle or covert) direct or appoint And in default of any such direction or appointment and so far as the same shall not extend and as to the further sum of One thousand five hundred Pounds residue of the said sum of Three thousand Pounds and the stock funds and securities upon which the same shall be invested Upon Trust for my son William Jollands Gilliat and my daughter Eliza Rebecca King in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and their respective executors administrators and assigns And I hereby charge my real estate at Martin hereinafter devised to my Son William Jollands Gilliat with the payment of the whole or so much and such part of the said sum of Six thousand Pounds as my personal estate after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the other legacies hereby bequeathed shall be insufficient to pay And subject to the payment of the said sum of Six thousand Pounds or such part thereof as my personal estate (after first paying thereout my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the other legacies by this my Will bequeathed) shall be insufficient to pay and also subject to any charges or incumbrances affecting the same Real Estate I give and devise to my Son William Jollands Gilliat his heirs and assigns forever all and every my messuages farms lands tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Martin aforesaid and all other my real estates whatsoever and wheresoever (not hereinbefore specifically devised) together with their and every of their appurtenances I give and bequeath all my implements of husbandry crops of corn and grain and live and dead stock whatsoever which shall be my property and in our about the messuages farms and hereditaments which I shall occupy at the time of my death And also all my monies and securities for money stocks funds shares in Public Companies goods chattels and personal effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what kind or quality soever (not hereinbefore specifically disposed of) unto the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton their executors administrators and assigns Upon Trust that they my said Trustees and the survivors and survivor of them his executors administrators or assigns or other the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of my Will do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease collect get in sell dispose of and convert into money so much and such parts of the same residuary personal estate as shall not consist of money and out of my money and my said residuary personal estate and the proceeds thereof do and shall after the payment of all costs and expenses attending each sale dispositions and conversion discharging my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies and sums of money by this my Will given and bequeathed as aforesaid together with the duties thereon pay the residue thereof to my said Son William Jollands Gilliat his executors administrators and assigns and I make my said Son William Jollands Gilliat Residuary Legatee of this my Will I devise and bequeath all the Estates which at my death shall be vested in me upon any Trusts or by way of Mortgage unto the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton their heirs executors and administrators respectively according to the nature thereof respectively Upon the Trusts and subject to the equity of redemption at my death subsisting or capable of taking effect therein respectively but the money secured on such mortgage shall be considered as part of my personal estate And I appoint the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton Executors of this my Will and authorise the acting Executors or Executor for the time being of this my Will to satisfy any debts claimed to be owing by me or my estate and any liabilities to which I or my estate may be alleged to be subject upon any evidence they or he shall think proper and to accept any composition or security for any debt and to allow such time for payment (either with or without taking security) as to the said acting Executors or Executor shall seem fit and also to compromise or submit to arbitration and settle all accounts and matters belonging or relating to my Estate and generally to act in regard thereto as they or he shall deem expedient without being responsible for any loss thereby occasioned And I hereby declare that the receipts or receipt in writing or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being acting in the execution of any of the trusts hereof for any monies funds shares or securities which may be paid or transferred to them or him in pursuance hereof or of any of the trusts hereof shall effectually discharge the purchaser or purchasers or other the person or persons paying or transferring the same therefrom and from being concerned to see to the application or being answerable for the misapplication or non application thereof And I hereby declare that if the said Trustees hereby appointed or either of them or any Trustee or Trustees to be appointed as hereinafter provided shall die or be desirous of being discharged or refuse or become incapable to act then and so often the said Trustees or Trustee (and for this purpose any retiring Trustee shall be considered a Trustee) may appoint any other person or persons to be a Trustee or Trustees in the place of the Trustee or Trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing or becoming incapable to act and upon every such appointment the said Trust premises shall be so transferred that the same may become vested in the new Trustee or Trustees jointly with the surviving or continuing Trustee or Trustees or solely as the case may require And every such new Trustee shall (both before and after the said Trust Premises shall have become vested) have the same powers and authorities and discretions as if he had been hereby originally appointed a Trustee And I declare that the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will shall be chargeable only with such monies as they or he respectively shall actually receive and shall not be answerable the one for the other of them nor for any banker broker or other person in whose hands any of the Trust monies shall be placed nor for the insufficiency of any stocks funds shares or securities nor otherwise for involuntary losses And that the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being may reimburse themselves or himself out of the monies which shall come to their or his hands under the Trusts aforesaid all expenses to be incurred in or about the execution of the aforesaid Trusts In Witness whereof I the said William Gilliat have to this my last Will contained in this and six preceding sheets of paper set my hand this Twentieth day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixty three Wm Gilliat Signed and acknowledged by the said William Gilliat as his last Will in the presence of us present at the same time and who in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Rt Clithrow Solr Horncastle Geo Jay his Clerk This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me William Gilliat of Martin in the County of Lincoln Farmer and Grazier which Will bears date the twentieth day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixty three Whereas I am minded to appoint my Son William Jollands Gilliat to be a Trustee and Executor of my said will in conjunction with the Trustees and Executors named and appointed therein Now it is my Will and I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Son William Jollands Gilliat to be a Trustee and Executor of my said Will in conjunction with William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton the present Trustees and Executors thereof And I direct that my said Will shall be read and construed as if the name of my said Son William Jollands Gilliat had been originally inserted therein as a Trustee along or in conjunction with the said William Burcham George Gilliat and John Barton And in all other respects I confirm my said Will In Witness whereof I the said William Gilliat have hereunto subscribed my name this Ninth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty three Wm Gilliat Signed by the said William Gilliat the Testator as and for a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of him the said William Gilliat in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Rt Clitherow, Solr Horncastle Chas Dee Solr Horncastle This is the second Codicil to the last Will and Testament of William Gilliat of Martin in the County of Lincoln farmer and Grazier and which Will bears the date the twentieth day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixty three Whereas William Burcham named in my said Will as a Trustee and Executor is lately dead Now it is my Will that Clement Conington of Hagwothingham in the said county Farmer and Grazier shall be substituted in the place of the said William Burcham as one of the Trustees and Executors of my said Will And I direct that my said Will shall be read and construed as if the name of the said Clement Conington had been inserted therein in the place and stead of the name of the said William Burcham and I confirm my Will except as aforesaid In Witness whereof I the said William Gilliat have hereunto subscribed my name this Twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty four Wm Gilliat Signed by the said William Gilliat the Testator in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Rt Clitherow Solr Horncastle Chas Dee Solr Horncastle Proved at Lincoln with two Codicils the Eighteenth day of March 1865 by the oaths of George Gilliat and John barton the Executors named in the Will William Jollands Gilliat the Son the Executor named in the first Codicil and Clement Conington the Executor named in the second Codicil to whom administration was granted The Testator William Gilliat late of Martin in the County of Lincoln Farmer and Grazier died on the Nineteeth day of February 1865 at Martin aforesaid Under £3000 Robert Swan Solicitor Lincoln I do hereby certify this to be a correct copy Lincoln 23rd March 1865PCC Will of William Gilliat of East Hothly, died 1868 I William Gilliat of Barham House in the Parish of East Hothly in the County of Sussex Esquire hereby revoke all Wills Codicils and other Testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last Will and testament I appoint my friend Joseph Smith of The Oaks in the Parish of Woodmansterne in the County of Surrey Esquire my Brother-in-Law George Gilliat of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln Esquire and my friends and relatives Adolphus Frederick Govett of the Stock Exchange in the City of London Stock and Share Broker and Frank Kirton Jones of The Oaks in the Parish of Woodmansterne aforesaid Esquire Executors and Trustees of this my Will I give and bequeath to each of the said Executors and Trustees the sum of one hundred pounds sterling which I direct shall be paid to or retained by them respectively within three calendar months after my decease free from legacy duty and I direct that the legacy duty on the said legacies shall be paid out of my general Personal estate I bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth the Wife of the Reverend Henry Robinson the articles mentioned in the first schedule hereunder written I bequeath the use of the articles mentioned in the second schedule hereunder written to my daughter-in-law Emily Sarah Gilliat (the Wife of my son Richard Gilliat) during her life and after her death to my said son Richard Gilliat if he shall survive her during his life and after the decease of the survivor of them I give the said articles unto and if more than one equally among all their children living at the decease of such survivor and who being sons or a son shall attain the age of twenty one years or being daughters or a daughter shall attain that age or marry I bequeath to my Brother-in-Law George Gilliat the sum of one thousand pounds And I declare that such sums of money (if any) as shall be owing by him to me at my decease shall be deducted therefrom I bequeath to my brother Richard Gilliat during his life an annuity of sixty pounds I bequeath to my Sister Elizabeth Westwick during her life an annuity of fifty pounds I bequeath to my Son Richard Gilliat during his life an annuity of sixty pounds I bequeath to my Niece Sophia Gilliat the daughter of my said Brother Richard Gilliat during her life an annuity of one hundred pounds And I direct that each of the said annuities shall be considered as accruing from day to day and shall be paid by equal half-yearly payments the first payment to be made at the expiration of six calendar months after my death And I direct that my trustees shall as soon as circumstances will admit appropriate and set apart and invest in their names conformably with the provisions for investment hereinafter contained out of my residuary estate such a fund as they in their uncontrolled discretion shall seem sufficient for answering by the yearly interest dividends and income thereof each of the said annuities And I will and direct that the annuity given to each of them my Sister Elizabeth Westwick and my Niece Sophia Gilliat shall during any coverture be for her respective sole and separate use and benefit independently of any husband and of his control debts or engagements and her receipt alone shall be a discharge for the same and she shall not have power to dispose thereof by anticipation And I declare that my trustees shall stand possessed of the fund to be appropriated and set apart for answering each of the said four annuities and the investment thereof upon trust out of the income thereof and if or so often as the income shall prove deficient then also out of the corpus thereof to satisfy the annuity for which the same fund shall have been set apart and subject to the funds aforesaid I direct that the fund provided for the payment of each annuity shall fall into my residuary estate hereinafter disposed of And I declare that after a fund shall have been set apart for answering an annuity as aforesaid the residue of my estate shall be altogether discharged therefrom and that until a fund shall have been set apart each annuity shall be paid out of any fund representing income which shall be in the hands of my trustees I bequeath to each of my Nieces Ellen Willoughby and Ann Gilliat daughters of my Brother Richard Gilliat the sum of one hundred pounds for her respective separate use free from marital control I bequeath to James Johnson of Gracechurch Street in the City of London the sum of fifty pounds I bequeath to my Housekeeper Charlotte Brooks the sum of fifty pounds over and above any monies which may then be due or owing to her by me for wages or otherwise I give one years wages to each of the domestic servants who shall be living in my service at the time of my death every such legacy to be in addition to what may be owing to the respective legatees at my death And my trustees shall be the responsible judges as to who are domestic servants I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate (except copyhold and customary hereditaments) which I am competent either in respect of interest or by force of any power or otherwise to dispose of and which is not hereby otherwise disposed of unto and to the use of my trustees As to the real and personal estate not belonging to me beneficially upon trust to dispose thereof according to the equities affecting the same And as to the real and personal estate belonging to me beneficially upon trust to dispose thereof according to the directions hereinafter contained I direct that my trustees shall at such time or times within seven years after my decease as they shall judge convenient sell my messuages land tenements and hereditaments whether freehold or leasehold or of whatsoever tenure comprised in this device and belonging to me beneficially And also all my copyhold or customary hereditaments (and as regards the said copyhold or customary hereditaments as well also as regards my other estates at a period not later than seven years at the latest next after my decease) by public or private sale and altogether or in lots (it being my desire that on any sale the timber shall be taken at a valuation not be sold at one such intensively with the land) and either subject or not to special conditions with power to buy in resell and vary the term of contracts and shall in the meantime and till sale let from year to year or for a term of years upon building repairing or improving or mining or other leases or agreements and either with or without fine occupy and use my real estate of whatsoever tenure including leaseholds comprised in this device and belonging to me beneficially and my said copyhold or customary hereditaments) and manage generally the affairs thereof at their discretion and pay all costs losses and expenses out of such funds in their hands as they may think proper And direct that in the sale and other disposition and management of my said Estate my trustees shall have full power to exchange or join in partitioning the same estate or any part thereof and either with or without giving or receiving any money for equality of exchange or partition And also to fell timber for repairs or sales and work and get mines and minerals (including stone and all other mineral substances) and to determine what part of the rents or royalties reserved on any mining leases or of the produce of working mines shall be deemed income and what part thereof corpus for the purpose of this my Will And I further direct that my trustees shall have full power in reference to the appropriation of sites for and the making or laying out of squares Crescents Streets Roads and other open spaces and the laying and using of drains and watercourses and the granting of casements and the taking and using or carrying away of stone clay gravel or other substances and the felling carrying away or using of any trees shrubs or plants and the taking down or removing of building and of the disposal of the materials or in any other respect in such manner as my trustees shall judge best and most conducive to the profitable management or disposition of my estate I direct that my trustees shall at such times and in such manner as they shall think expedient convert and get in my personal property comprised in this bequest and belonging to me beneficially and not consisting of ready money or monies invested in stocks funds shares or securities and shall at their discretion either get in or dispose of the monies invested in stocks funds shares or securities or permit the same to continue so invested And I declare that if any real or personal estate hereby directed to be sold or converted shall consist of reversionary future or contingent interest my trustees shall be at liberty in their discretion either to wait the falling in or the vesting of such interests or to sell the same or to concur with the person o persons entitled to any prior interest or interests in any arrangement for dividing the corpus of the property or for selling or converting the same and for apportioning the produce according to the value of the respective interests or otherwise providing for such interests And I direct that my trustees shall invest conformably to the directions hereinafter contained respecting investments the ready money of which I shall die possessed and the produce of the real and personal estate hereby directed or authorized to be sold or otherwise converted or got in and not immediately wanted for the purposes of my Will (including as part thereof all monies received by way of fine or for sale of timber or for equality of partition or exchange or as being the proportion which my trustees shall determine and constitute corpus of the produce of the working of any mines or of the rents or royalties reserved on any mining lease or leases) And I declare that the yearly produce until conversion of my said real and personal estate shall as from the day of my decease be considered as the income thereof for the purposes of the trusts and provisions of this my Will and be applied accordingly And I direct that my trustees shall hold all my residuary estate after payment thereout of my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and legacies (which I charge thereon and after appropriating funds for providing of the aforesaid annuities) upon trust to divide the same into three equal parts or shares save that in the adjustment of such shares and the division of my said residuary estate the share the trusts whereof are first hereinafter declared shall be debited with and shall bring into hotchpot the sum of nineteen thousand three hundred and eighty pounds (which I consider to be for the purposes of this my Will the value of the benefits given by me to my late Son Henry William Gilliat and part of which has been settled on my grandchildren Hubert Adkin Gilliat and Evelyn Augusta Gilliat the children of my said Son William Henry Gilliat) and save also that in such adjustment and division the share the trusts whereof are secondly hereinafter declared shall be debited with and shall bring into hotchpot the sum of sixteen thousand three hundred pounds (which I consider to be for the purposes of this my Will the value of the funds settled by me upon my said Daughter Elizabeth Robinson on the occasion of her marriage) And I direct that my trustees shall be possessed of one of the said three shares (being the share hereinbefore referred to as the share the trusts whereof are first hereinafter declared) in trust for and to be divided equally between my said two grandchildren Hubert Adkin Gilliat and Evelyn Augusta Gilliat as and when they respectively shall attain the age of twenty five years or marry under that age with the previous consent in writing of my trustees Provided always that if both or either of them shall die in my lifetime or shall die after my death under the age of twenty five years and without having married with such consent as aforesaid but shall leave issue living at my death or at his or her death (whichever shall last happen) the share of each of them who shall so die shall go and belong to his or her respective surviving child or children who shall attain the age of twenty one years and in equal shares if more than one And if either of my said grandchildren shall die in my lifetime or shall die after my death under the age of twenty five years and without having married with such consent as aforesaid and shall leave no issue living at my death or at his or her death (whichever shall last happen) and who shall attain the age of twenty one years then the share of him or her so dying shall go and belong to the survivor or other of them or his or her issue in augmentation of such share of the survivor or other but if both of them my said grandchildren shall die in my lifetime or shall die after my death under the age of twenty five years and without having married with such consent as aforesaid and neither of them shall leave any issue living at my decease or at his or her decease who shall attain the age of twenty one years then the entirety of the said share the trusts whereof are here being declared so far as the same shall not have been disposed of under the provision for advancement hereinafter contained and the annual produce thereof shall go in equal shares in augmentation of the two other third shares the trust whereof are hereinafter declared of my said residuary estate Provided always and I further declare that it shall be lawful for my trustees in derogation of the aforesaid trusts and provisions or any of them at any time or times before the absolute vesting of the respective shares of my said grandchildren and either before or after their respective marriages by any deed or deeds to make such a Settlement as they shall deem proper and reasonable of the share of each or either of them or of any part thereof respectively for the benefit of each or either of them the said Hubert Adkin Gilliat and Evelyn Augusta Gilliat and of his or her Wife or Husband and issue respectively but so that as to each of them who shall have attained the age of twenty one years such settlement shall only be made with his or her consent in writing And I direct that my trustees shall be possessed of one other of the said three shares of my residuary estate (being the share hereinbefore referred to as the share the trusts whereof are secondly hereinafter declared) In trust for my said Daughter Elizabeth Robinson for her separate use and to be paid applied and disposed of as she shall direct whether she shall or shall not be under coverture And I direct that my trustees shall be possessed of the other of the said three shares of my residuary estate upon trust to set apart such a portion thereof as at the time of the appropriation shall in their irresponsible judgment be likely to produce an annual income of eight hundred pounds sterling clear of all deductions except the income tax and shall invest or keep invested such fund conformably with the provisions respecting investment hereinafter contained and shall pay the annual income of the fund so to be appropriated as last aforesaid and of the investments thereof to Emily Sarah the Wife of my said Son Richard Gilliat during their joint lives and also during her widowhood if she shall survive him by equal half-yearly payments and during her coverture into her own hands for her own separate use not subject or liable to the debts contracts forfeiture or engagements of my said Son Richard and so that she shall not have power to anticipate the same it being my intention that she shall apply the same for the maintenance of herself and for the maintenance clothing and support education or benefit of all or any of the children or child of my said son but not so as to render it obligatory on my trustees to see that this intention is carried out And in the event of or after the decease of the said Emily Sarah Gilliat during the lifetime of the said Richard Gilliat do or shall or may during his life apply all or any part of the said annual income at their discretion for the support food raiment or other benefit of the said Richard Gilliat and any future Wife and for the support maintenance or education or other benefit of all or any the children or child of my said Son Richard Gilliat or any one or more of the same objects in such manner as my trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit And subject and without prejudice to the trusts aforesaid I declare that the fund so to be appropriated as last aforesaid and the investments thereof shall sink into and form part of the part or share from which the same shall have been withdrawn And I declare that my trustees shall be possessed of the said last mentioned one of the said three shares of my residuary estate after setting apart and appropriating thereout such fund as aforesaid Upon trust for all and every the children and child of my Son Richard Gilliat who being a Son or Sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a Daughter or Daughters shall attain that age or marry to be divided among them if more than one in equal shares and if there shall be only one such child the whole to be in trust for that one child and so that this trust shall embrace any children of my said Son who shall come into existence after any other child or children of my said Son shall have attained a vested Interest Provided always And I hereby direct that as to all or any part or share of any trust monies stocks funds or securities to which any minor (and for the purpose of this my Will my two grandchildren Hubert Adkin Gilliat and Evelyn Augusta Gilliat shall be considered minors so long as they respectively shall be under the age of twenty five years) shall for the time being be entitled in immediate expectancy on attaining the age of twenty one years or twenty five years as the case may be or on attaining that age or marrying by virtue of or under the trusts of this my Will my trustees shall apply the whole or such part as they shall think fit of the annual produce thereof for or towards the maintenance or education of such minor until (if a male) he shall attain the age of twenty one years or twenty five years as the case may be or (if a female) she shall attain that age or marry and that my trustees either may themselves so pay or apply the same or may pay the same to the guardian or guardians of such minor or any other person or persons for the purposes aforesaid without seeing to the application thereof or being bound to enquire whether the maintenance of such minor is or ought to be otherwise provided for And shall during such minority or minority and discoverture as lastly aforesaid assimilate all the residue (if any) of the same annual produce in the way of compound interest by investing the same and all the resulting income thereof from time to time in or upon any of the stocks funds or securities hereinafter mentioned for purposes of investment with power to vary the securities at their discretion And I declare that each such assimilated fund shall be added to the principal fund or share from which the same respectively shall have proceeded and be considered part thereof not so that my trustees shall have power to resort to the assimilations of any preceding year or years and to apply the same for or towards the maintenance or education of the person or persons for the time being in no presumptively entitled to the same Provided also And I hereby further declare that it shall be lawful for my trustees at any time or times after my decease to raise any parts or parts not exceeding in the whole one half of the then expectant or presumptive or then vested portion or share of any minor under or by virtue of any of the trusts herein contained and pay or apply the same for his or her advancement or benefit as my trustees shall think fit including in such advancement the expenses of the education of a male who shall have attained the age of fifteen years at any school or college or place of education or the advance of capital to enable him to join any established business or to start in any profession or business by himself or any premiums or fees payable for or in reference to education or study for any profession or employment Provided always that no such advancement shall be made of the capital of any trust monies stocks funds or securities whereof the income shall for the time being be payable to any person for life or for any less period under any of the trusts or powers aforesaid without the consent of each such person but any consent shall be valid notwithstanding any provision against anticipation hereinbefore contained I direct that all investments to be made in pursuance of my Will shall be made in or upon some of the public stocks or funds or government securities of the United Kingdom or at interest upon government or real securities in England but not in Ireland such real securities to be first mortgages only in or upon bonds or guarantees or preferential stocks or preferential shares of Railway Companies in England or the stocks or shares of the Globe Insurance Company in London and from time to time to alter or vary such stocks funds shares or securities for or into others of the nature hereinbefore mentioned when occasion shall require or as they or he shall think fit save that any variation of securities of any fund shall not be made without the consent in writing of the persons entitled to the income of the fund while there shall be any person in existence entitled to such income and of the age of twenty one years or upwards And I hereby declare that the receipts of my trustees shall be sufficient discharges to purchasers and others And I declare that if the trustees hereby constituted or any of them shall die in my lifetime or if they or any of them or any trustee or trustees appointed as hereinafter provided shall after my death die or be abroad or desire to be discharged or refuse or become incapable to act then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being and for this purpose every refusing or retiring trustee shall if willing to act in the execution of this power be considered a continuing trustee or for the acting executors or executor administrator or administrators of the last surviving or continuing trustee to appoint a new trustee or new trustees in the place of the trustee or trustees so dying or being abroad or desiring to be discharged or refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and upon every or any such appointment as aforesaid the number of trustees may be augmented or reduced and upon every such appointment the trust property if and so far as the nature of this property or other circumstances shall require or admit shall be transferred so that the same may be invested in the trustee or trustees for the time being and every trustee so appointed as aforesaid or to be appointed by any Court of competent jurisdiction may as well before as after such transfer of the trust property act or assist in the execution of the trusts and powers of this my Will as fully and effectually as if I had hereby constituted him a trustee And I declare that all the trusts and powers hereby confided to my trustees herein named shall be exercisable by the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will Provided always and I declare that the trustees for the time being of this my Will shall be respectively chargeable only for such monies stocks funds shares and securities as they shall respectively actually receive notwithstanding their respectively giving any receipt for the sake of conformity and shall be answerable and accountable only for their own acts receipts neglect and defaults respectively and not for those of each other nor for any Banker Broker or Auctioneer or other persons with whom or into whose hands any trust monies or securities may be deposited or come nor for lending on any security with less than a marketable titled not for the insufficiency nor deficiency of and stocks funds shares or securities or for any other loss unless the same shall happen through their own wilful default respectively And also that the said trustees or trustee for the time being may reimburse themselves and himself or pay and discharge out of the trust promises and expenses incurred in or about the execution of the trust or powers of this my Will In Witness whereof I the said William Gilliat have to this my last Will and Testament which is contained in nine sheets of paper subscribed my hand the first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven First Schedule Carved Indian Rosewood Sideboard Sarcophagus under ditto All Oil Paintings (Library Stock included) and All engravings except the Picture mentioned in the second schedule Round centre inlaid Indian rosewood table carved flower stand Indian rosewood writing table and all other rosewood tables in Drawing room and Library Dining room clock and all ornaments on Dining room Mantel shelf Drawing room fender Music Canterbury White mats and Raccoon Rug Alabaster figures John Cheval Glass Crimson cloth Library window curtains Hall table Turn table two large Vases in Drawing room Case of Stuffed birds in Hall one horse and the Brougham and harness complete All wines plate four corner dishes four plates dish covers dinner table branches one pair asparagus tongs six table spoons six desert ditto six tea ditto six large and six small forks two salt spoons Second Schedule The bedstead in my bedroom and bedding complete Childs crib ditto two tin baths two small chiffoniers the large chest of Drawers in my room Wardrobe (rosewood) ditto and two mahogany wardrobes Raccoon rug the Picture of my Son Richards Mare Fanny Two easy chairs and one sofa bronzed urn China tea services Dinner service two small tables Drawing room carpet All knives All household linen Sani Grand Piano All plate not given to my Daughter Elizabeth William Gilliat Signed by the said William Gilliat the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Edward Langdale Rector of East Hothly Sussex Henry Holman of East Hothly Sussex Surgeon This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me William Gilliat of Barham House in the Parish of East Hothly in the County of Sussex Esquire bearing ? date with ? executed before the execution hereof Whereas I lately purchased land situated on the West side of Church Road in the Parish of St Mary Magdalen within the Borough of Hastings in the said County of Sussex as a site of a church now in course of erection thereon Now I give and devise the said land and the buildings thereon unto my friends John Saunders Gilliat of No 4 Crosby Square in the City of London Esquire George Bower of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon Esquire Henry Topham Clements of Belmont in the Parish of East Hothly in the County of Sussex Esquire their heirs and assigns as joint tenants in fee simple And I give to them as joint tenants the sum of five thousand four hundred pounds sterling And I direct that if at my decease I shall have entered into a contract or contracts with any person or persons for the erection or completion of any buildings on the said land or for any other work in connection therewith the monies to be paid by me and my other liabilities if any under such contract shall be considered to be a debt or debts of mine to be paid as provided by my Will so that the said land and buildings may go to the said Devisees freed from all liability or payment by virtue of such contract In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this first day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven William Gilliat Signed by William Gilliat the said Testator as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other hereunto subscribe our names as Witnesses Edward Langdale Rector of East Hothly Sussex Henry Holman of East Hothly Sussex Surgeon I William Gilliat of Barham House East Hothly in the County of Sussex do make this a Codicil to my Will Whereas by my said Will I have given unto my dear Daughter Elizabeth the wife of the Reverend Henry Robinson one equal third part or share of the residue of my Personal Estate (less the sum of £16 300 considered for the purposes of my said Will to be the value of funds settled on her marriage for her separate use and at her absolute disposal) And it was my intention thereby to give to her in truth and in fact the absolute use control and enjoyment of the said one third of her said one part or share but I have lately been informed and advised that by virtue of the trusts of the Settlement made and executed on the marriage of my said daughter the said one part or share of my said estate (less £16 300 as aforesaid) if given directly unto my said daughter would ? under and become subject to the trusts of the said settlement which is contrary to my intention Now I do hereby revoke cancel and make void the said gift and bequest in my said Will contained in favor of my said daughter as to the one third part or share of the residue of my Personal Estate (less £16 300 as aforesaid) thereby given and bequeathed to her or directed to be paid to or held in trust for her And I hereby give and bequeath the same one third part or share of the residue of my said estate (less the said sum of £16 300)) in my said Will mentioned unto George Bower of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon Esquire Henry T Clements of East Hothly Sussex late a Captain in Her Majesty’s Army and James Robinson of the City of Dublin Esquire one of Her Majesty’s Counsel To Hold the same unto them their executors and administrators upon the trusts following that is to say upon trust upon receipt of the said trust monies to pay apply and dispose of the same unto such person or persons upon such trusts and to and for such ends intents and purposes and in such manner as my said Daughter Elizabeth Robinson shall by any deed duly executed by her and attested from time to time direct and appoint (her coverture notwithstanding) And in the absence of any such direction or appointment and in the meantime and until any such shall be made and so far as any such direction or appointment when made shall not extend upon trust to invest the said trust monies at interest upon government or ?or leasehold securities in Great Britain or in or upon the stocks funds or securities of the government of India or in or upon any Railway or other stocks or funds having the guarantee of the government of Great Britain or the Government of India and to pay the interest dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies as and when the same shall be received from time to time into the proper hands of my said daughter Elizabeth Robinson for her own absolute use and benefit during her life and upon her own receipts which shall be good and sufficient discharges to the said trustees for the same notwithstanding her coverture And upon further trust from and after the decease of my said daughter to pay apply and dispose of the capital of the said trust monies or so much thereof as at the time of the decease of my said daughter shall remain unappointed and undisposed of unto such person or persons upon such trusts and to and for such ends intents and purposes and in such manner and form in all respects as my said daughter by her last Will and Testament or any writing purporting to be her last Will and Testament shall (notwithstanding her coverture) direct or appoint And in default of and such direction or appointment and so far as any such shall not extend upon trust to pay over the said trust monies or the undisposed residue thereof unto the executors and trustees of my said Will to be by them both applied and disposed of one part of the general residue of my personal estate And I hereby authorize and empower the trustees of this my Codicil to alter vary and transpose any of the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the said trust monies or any of them shall be from time to time invested into or upon any others of the like nature And I authorize them to retain to and reimburse themselves and each other out of the said trust monies all costs charges and expenses which they shall respectively incur or sustain in or about the execution of the trusts of this my Codicil Provided always that in case the said trustees or either of them shall happen or shall decline or become incapable to act in or desire to be discharged from the trusts aforesaid then and in every such case it shall be lawful for my said Daughter Elizabeth Robinson by any deed duly executed to appoint any other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the place of the trustee or trustees so dying declining or becoming incapable or desiring to be discharged and thereupon and upon every such appointment all the said trust monies remaining undisposed of and the stocks funds and securities for the same shall be assigned and transferred so as to vest the same in such new trustee or trustees jointly with the surviving or continuing trustees or if there shall be no surviving or continuing trustees then in such trustees solely as the case may be upon such of the trusts of this Codicil as shall be still subsisting and capable of taking effect In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty sixth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight William Gilliat Signed by the Testator William Gilliat as and for a Codicil to his Will in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Jas. Geo. Langham Jr. Solr Uckfield Henry Holman of East Hothly Surgeon This is a Second Codicil to the Will of me William Gilliat of Barham House East Hothly in the County of Sussex Esquire Whereas by a former Codicil bearing date the twenty sixth day of January last I gave and bequeathed one third part or share of the residue of my Personal Estate (less £16 300 as therein mentioned) unto George Bower of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon Esquire Henry T Clements of East Hothly Sussex late a captain in Her Majesty’s Army and James Robinson of the City of Dublin Esquire one of Her Majesty’s Counsel Upon certain trusts therein mentioned and subject to certain powers of appointment and direction which I thereby gave to my Daughter Elizabeth Robinson the Wife of the Reverend Henry Robinson Now I do hereby revoke and make void the said bequest unto the said Henry T Clements as one of the trustees of the trust monies and promises mentioned and referred to in the said Codicil of the twenty sixth day of January last And I do hereby confirm the said bequest unto the said George Bower and James Robinson as trustees of the said trust monies and promises and do hereby declare that they the said George Bower and James Robinson shall hold the said one third part or share of the residue of my said estate (less the said sum of £16 300 in my said Will and former Codicil mentioned) as trustees thereof upon the trusts and subject to the powers and provisions in my said former Codicil contained in the same manner as if they the said George Bower and James Robinson only had been mentioned in the said Codicil and the name of the said Henry T Clements had been wholly omitted therefrom And as to the power of appointing new trustees given to my said Daughter Elizabeth Robinson in and by the said Codicil I do hereby further will and declare that it shall be lawful for my said Daughter Elizabeth Robinson at any time whenever she shall think fit by any deed or writing duly executed and attested to appoint one other and additional trustee of the said trust monies and promises jointly with the said George Bower and James Robinson or other the trustees for the time being of my said Codicil so that as the total number of such trustees do not at any time exceed three and also from time to time as and when she shall think proper by any such deed or writing as aforesaid to revoke any such appointment of such additional trustee which shall be so made by her and to appoint any other person to be a trustee in the place of the trustee whose appointment shall so be revoked and thereupon and upon every such appointment revocation and new appointment respectively all the trust monies and promises shall be conveyed assigned and transferred so as to vest the same in the new trustee jointly with the old and continuing trustees upon such of the trusts as shall be still subsisting and capable of taking effect and subject to the several powers of appointment and direction of the application of the said trust monies and the interest thereof as are given to and vested in my said daughter by my said Codicil of the twenty sixth day of January last Provided always that the revocation of the appointment of any trustee under the power hereinbefore contained shall not invalidate any act which shall have been lawfully done by such trustee before he shall have received notice of such revocation And I hereby confirm my aforesaid Codicil in every other particular in which the same is not hereby altered or revised In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight William Gilliat Signed by the Testator William Gilliat as a second Codicil to his Will in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Jas. Geo. Langham Jr. Solr. Uckfield Henry Holman of East Hothly Surgeon Proved at London with three Codicils 16th April 1868 by the Oath of George Gilliat Esquire Adolphus Frederick Govett and Frank Kirton Jones Esquire three of the Executors to whom admon was granted Joseph Smith Esquire the other executor named in the Will having renounced the probate and execution of the said Will and Codicils William Gilliat died on the 27th day of March 1868 at Barham House aforesaid ________________________________________________ Will of John Gilliat of Thorpe St Peter died 1867 This is the last Will and Testament of me John Gilliat of Thorpe next Wainfleet in the County of Lincoln Farmer I devise all my property to my wife Susanna and my two sons John and Alfred and John Crawford of Irby in the same County of Lincoln Farmer Upon trust during the life of my said wife to allow her to retain possession thereof for the purpose of carrying on my present or any other Farm and lands she may occupy And I declare my intention to be that only the annual profits and proceeds of the said trust property shall be applied as aforesaid and only for the purpose but nevertheless that my trustees for the time being shall not be in any way whatever accountable for such proceeds nor for the corpus of the said trust property even for gross negligence but only for a positive moral fraud And I fully indemnify my trustees for the time being for all acts and defaults except moral delinquency in attempting to carry out this my will And after the decease of my wife I bequeath the corpus or capital of the said trust property to my children now living and to the children of any deceased child such children shall stand in lieu of and take the same share as their deceased father or mother would have done if living but such of my daughters as shall be living at the time of my decease shall have ten pounds each more than my sons in other respects the whole is to be divided equally except that Abraham is to have only twenty pounds he having already had his share And in case any unemployed capital or increase should come to the hands of my trustees for the time being I direct them to invest it in real or Government securities I devise all real estates vested in me upon any trusts and which I have power to dispose of unto the trustees before named and their heirs subject to such trusts And I appoint them Executors of this my will And I declare that my trustees shall not be answerable for each other In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty John Gilliat Signed published and declared by the Testator John Gilliat as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in presence of each other present at the same time have hereunto subscribed as witnesses E Merrifield William Hibb Clerk to Mr Merrifield Solicitor Wainfleet Proved at Lincoln the twenty ninth day of April 1867 by the oaths of Susanna Gilliat Widow the Relict John Gilliat and Alfred Gilliat the sons and John Crawford the Executors to whom Administration was granted The Testator John Gilliat was late of Thorpe next Wainfleet in the County of Lincoln Farmer and died on the sixteenth day of January 1867 at Thorpe next Wainfleet aforesaid Under £800 Lincoln 9th May 1867 ___________________________________________________ Will of George Gilliat of Horncastle, died 1873 I George Gillatt of Horncastle in the county of Lincoln Gentleman hereby revoke all Willa Codicils and the Testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last Will and Testament I bequeath to my dear Wife Katherine all my Furniture Plate and plated articles China Glass Books Linen Prints Pictures Musical Instruments and other articles of domestic use and ornament absolutely I also bequeath to my said Wife my wines liquors and consumable stores and provisions I devise and bequeath all my real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and all my residuary personal estate unto and to the use of William Jollands Gillatt of Swine in the County of York Gentleman and Clement Conington of Hagworthingham in the County of Lincoln their heirs executors and administrators respectively Upon trust that they or the survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators respectively of such survivor shall in such manner and under such stipulations and upon such terms and conditions in all respects as they or he in their or his uncontrolled discretion think fit sell collect or otherwise convert into ready money (according to the nature of the premises) all such parts of the same premises as shall not consist of ready money and may buy in or rescind or vary any contract for sale or of any other description and resell without being answerable for loss and may for the purposes aforesaid or any of them execute and do all such assurances and things as they or he shall think fit And shall invest the monies to be produced by such sale collection and conversion and all other monies arising from or forming part of my residuary Estate in the names or name of the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will in any of the permanent stocks or funds or real or Leasehold Securities in the United Kingdom or bank Stock or the Debenture guaranteed or Preference Stock or Shares or the Debenture or obligations of any Railway or other incorporated Company of the United Kingdom or any other Stocks funds shares or securities which the said Trustees or Trustee shall consider fitting and safe and every Investment so taken or made shall be deemed to all intents and purposes an authorised investment And may vary or transfer such stocks or funds or securities into or for others of the like nature at their or his discretion And shall pay the Interest dividends and Income of the said residuary monies and of the Stocks and funds in or upon or into which the same or any part thereof may be invested or transposed to my said Wife during her life subject to the obligation of maintaining and educating such of my children as being Sons shall be under the age of Twenty one years and being Daughters shall be under that age and spinsters but without liability to account so long as she shall duly and adequately maintain and educate such my children And I declare that the said Trustees and Trustee shall stand possessed of the same monies stocks funds and securities as from the death of my said Wife and of the Interest dividends and income thereof respectively In trust for all and every my Children and Child living at my death who being Sons or a Son attain the age of Twenty one years or being Daughters or a Daughter attain that age or marry under that age and if more than one in equal shares But inasmuch as I have from time to time advanced various sums of money to and for the benefit of my Son Frederick Gilliat Now I hereby direct that his share of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities shall be paid to him subject to a reduction therefrom by the sum of Six hundred pounds Provided always And I declare that it shall be lawful for the Trustees or Trustee for the time being to defer and postpone the sale conversion and collection of the whole or any part or parts of my said Real and Personal Estate respectively so long as to such Trustees or Trustee shall in their or his uncontrolled discretion seem proper but my real Estate shall for the purposes of transmission be impressed with the quality of personally from the time of my death and I empower the said Trustees or Trustee during such interval or postponement to manage and to let upon Lease for any term not exceeding Twenty one years or from year to year or to cultivate my real and Leasehold Estates and to make out of the Income or Capital of my real and personal Estate any outlay which such trustees or trustee may consider proper for improvements repairs Insurance Calls or Shares premiums or policies or otherwise for the benefit or in respect of my real or personal estate And I declare that the net rents and profits or other income produced from every or any part of my real or personal Estate previously to the conversion or collection thereof pursuant to the trusts herein before declared shall be applied in the same manner in all respects as if the same were income proceeding from such Investments as are hereinbefore directed or authorized and that the whole of the Income produced from my Estate (real or personal) in its actual condition or state of investment for the time being whether consisting of property or Investments of an authorised or of an unauthorised description and whether of a permanent or a wasting character shall as well during the first year from my death as at all times afterwards be applicable as income under the trusts of this my will no part being in any event liable to be retained as Corpus or Capital but no reversion or other property not actually producing income which shall form part of my estate under the doctrine of constructive conversion or otherwise to be treated as producing income or as entitling any party to the receipt of Income Provided always And I declare that the provisions hereby made for my said Wife shall be accepted by her in satisfaction and bar of the dower and free tenets to which by the Common Law or by Custom she might be entitled in or out of the freehold copyhold or customary hereditaments of or to which I have been are or shall be seized or entitled Provided always and I hereby declare that in case my personal estate shall consist in part of any policy or policies of Assurance upon my life or lives it shall be lawful for the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will in their or his absolute discretion ( whether the interest in respect of which such policy or policies shall have been effected shall have determined or not) either to sell the same (to the Office or offices granting the same or otherwise) under the trust for Sale hereinbefore contained or to keep the same on foot by paying the premiums due inrespect thereof or ( in case it shall be thought advisable) to discontinue the payment of such premiums and abandon such policy or policies whether they or he shall or shall not have previously paid any premiums in respect thereof and (in case they or he shall think it advisable so to do but not otherwise) to effect in lieu of any policy or policies so abandoned either in the same or in any other Office any new or other policy or policies And I declare that all premiums which shall be payable in respect of policies held by me or (under the power hereinbefore in that behalf contained) effected by the said Trustees or Trustee shall be payable out of the income to be derived from my general Estate and that all monies to become payable under such policies shall when the same shall become payable form part of my personal estate And I hereby declare that the receipt of the said William Jollands Gilliat and Clement Conington or the survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor for the purchase monies of any property hereby directed or authorised to be sold or for any other monies paid or for any stocks funds shares or securities transferred to them or him by virtue of this my Will or in the execution of any of the trusts or powers hereof shall effectually discharge the peron or persons paying or transferring the same therefrom and from being bound to see to the application or being answerable for the loss or misapplication thereof provided always and I hereby declare that if the said Trustees hereby constituted or any of them shall die in my lifetime or if they or either of them or any Trustees or Trustee appointed as hereinafter provided shall after my death die or be abroad or desire to be discharged or refuse or become incapable to act then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the surviving or continuing Trustee or for the acting Executors or Executor Administrators or Administrator of the last surviving or continuing Trustee to appoint a new Trustee or Trustees in the place of the Trustee or Trustees so dying or being abroad or desiring to be discharged or refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and upon every such appointment the trust property shall if and so far as the nature of the property or other circumstances shall require or admit be transferred so that the same may be vested in the Trustees or Trustee for the time being and every Trustee so appointed as aforesaid may as well before as after such transfer of the trust property act or assist in the execution of the trusts and powers of this my Will as fully and effectually as if I had hereby constituted him as Trustee Provided always And I hereby declare that the Trustees for the time being of this my Will shall be respectively chargeable only for such monies stocks funds shares and securities as they shall respectively actually receive notwithstanding their respectively signing any receipt for the sake of conformity and shall be answerable and accountable only for their own acts receipts neglects and defaults respectively and not for those of each other nor for any Banker Broker or Auctioneer or other person with whom or into whose hands my trust monies or securities may be deposited or come nor for dispensing wholly or partially with the investigation or production of the Lessors Title on lending money on Leasehold securities nor for otherwise lending on any security with less than a marketable title nor for the insufficiency or deficiency of any Stocks funds shares or securities nor for any other loss unless the same shall happen through their own wilful default respectively and also that the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being may reimburse themselves and himself or pay and discharge out of the trust premises all expenses incurred in or about the execution of the trusts or powers of this my Will I devise all the hereditaments which at my death shall be vested in me for an Estate of Inheritance or for an Estate pur autur vie which would devolve on my heirs upon any trusts or by way of mortgage and of which I shall at my death have power to dispose by Will unto the said William Jollands Gilliat and Clement Conington and their heirs upon the trusts and subject to the euity of redemption which at my death shall be subsisting or capable of taking effect therein respectively but the money secured on such Mortgages shall be taken as part of my personal Estate And I hereby appoint the said William Jollands Gilliat and Clement Conington Executors of this my Will and authorise and empower the acting Executors or Executor for the time being of this my will to pay and satisfy or compromise or compound my debts owing or claimed to be owing by or from me on my Estate and any liabilities to which I or my Estate may be or may be alleged to be subject and to accept any composition or any security real or personal for any debts owing to me or my Estate and to allow such time for the payment of any such debt or composition (either with or without taking security for the same) as to them or him shall seem reasonable and to refer to Arbitration and settle all debts accounts questions and things which shall be owing or claimed to be owing from or to me on my Estate or be depending or arise between me or my said Executors or Executor and any other person or persons and generally to and in relation to the premises in such manner as they or he shall think expedient without being liable for any loss occasioned thereby And I hereby appoint my said Wife during her life and after her death the said William Jollands Gilliat and Clement Conington Guardian and Guardians of my Infant Children during their respective minorities In Witness whereof I the said George Gilliat the Testator have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy one George Gilliat Signed by the above named George Gilliat the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses H F Conington Gent Horncastle Lincolnshire J R Slade Clerk to Messrs Fluce and Co Solt 3 East India Avenue E.C. Proved at Lincoln the third day of November 1873 by the oaths of William Jollands Gilliat (of Swine in the County of York Farmer) and Clement Conington (of Hagworthingham in the County of Lincoln Farmer) the Executors to Whom Administration was granted The Testator George Gilliat was late of Horncastle in the County of Lincoln Gentleman and died on the twenty fourth day of September 1873 at Horncastle aforesaid Under £2000 Frederick William Tweed Solicitor Horncastle I do hereby certify this to be a correct copy Lincoln 13th November 1873 ________________________________________________ Will of William Gilliat of Granville Park Lewisham, died 1881 This is the last Will and Testament of me William Gilliat of No.18 Granville Park Lewisham in the County of Kent and No. 8 Great Tower Street in the City of London Merchant. I revoke all prior wills heretofore made by me and appoint my dear wife Louise Gilliat George Croshaw of No.8 Aberdeen Terrace Blackheath in the said County of Kent Gentleman and my friend George James Nutt of No.2 Brabant Court Philpot Lane in the City of London Gentleman Trustees and Executors hereof I bequeath the following legacies that is to say To Ellen Willoughby of Peterborough in the County of Northampton the sum of nineteen guineas To Emma Burman of Ketton in the County of Rutland Widow the sum of nineteen guineas To Ann Gilliat of Peterborough aforesaid Spinster the sum of nineteen guineas and To Sophia Gilliat of Saint Leonards on Sea in the County of Sussex Spinster the sum of nineteen guineas I devise unto and to the use of my said trustees Louisa Gilliat George Croshaw and George James Nutt their heirs and assigns all the real estate and I bequeath to them their executors administrators and assigns all the personal estate of or to which I shall be ? possessed or entitled at my decease Upon trust to sell call in and convert into money my said trust estates or such part thereof as shall not consist of money with full discretionary power to sell by public auction or private contract together or in parcels and subject to such terms and conditions as to title or evidence of title or otherwise as my said trustees shall judge expedient Also to fix reserved biddings and buy in property offered for sale and vacate or vary contracts for sale and to resell as aforesaid without liability for any consequential loss end generally to effect the sale and conversion of my said trust estates on such terms and in such manner as they shall deem most advantageous Also full discretionary power to suspend for such period as my said trustees shall judge expedient the sale conversion or getting in of my said estates or any part or parts thereof With power also for my said trustees or trustee from time to time to let any hereditaments for the time being remaining unsold either from year to year or for any term not exceeding twenty one years in possession at such rent and subject to such covenants and conditions as they or he shall think best but the unsold real and the outstanding personal estate shall be subject to the trusts hereinafter contained concerning the money stocks funds and securities hereinafter mentioned and the rents and yearly produce thereof shall be deemed annual income for the purposes of such trusts And as to the moneys to arise from the sale conversion and getting in of my said trust estates Upon trust thereout in the first place to pay or retain all the expenses incident to the execution of the proceeding trusts and powers and my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and in the next place to pay the pecuniary legacies hereinbefore bequeathed And upon further trust to invest the ultimate surplus of the said trust moneys in the names of my said trustees or in the names or name of the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will in or upon any of the public stocks funds or securities of the United Kingdom or on the security of a mortgage or mortgages of any freehold or copyhold or leasehold estates of not less than thirty years to run or in the purchase of freehold (but not improved) ground rents in England or Wales but not elsewhere and not in or upon any other kind of security And with power from time to time in the discretion of my said trustees to vary the investment or investments of my said trust moneys for any other or others of the description contemplated by this trust And upon further trust to pay the annual income of my said trust moneys or of the stocks funds and securities whereon the same shall be invested as aforesaid to my said Wife during her life if she shall so long continue my Widow she thereout maintaining educating and bringing up ina manner suitable to their station in life such of my sons as shall for the time being be under the age of twenty one years and such of my daughters as shall for the time being be under that age not having been married And immediately after the decease or marriage again of my said wife as to as well the capital as the annual income of the said trust estates In trust for my child if only one or all children if more than one in equal shares the respective shares of such children to be absolutely vested on my death and to be paid and divided between them on my youngest child for the time being living attaining the age of twenty one years I empower my said trustees after the death or marriage again of my said wife during the minority of any child or grandchild of mine to apply such part as they shall think fit of the annual income of the fund or share to which such child or grandchild shall be entitled in or towards the maintenance and education or otherwise for the benefit of the same child or grandchild I also empower my said trustees in their discretion and notwithstanding any of the trusts hereinbefore declared to apply any part or parts not exceeding in the whole one moiety of the capital of the fund or share to which each or any child or grandchild of mine shall be entitled in or towards the advancement in life or otherwise for the benefit of the same child or grandchild whether such child or grandchild shall be a son or daughter or shall be under the age of twenty one years or not I declare that if any child of mine shall die in my lifetime leaving issue any of whom shall be living at my decease such issue shall take and if more than one equally amongst them the share which his or their parent would have taken under this my Will if such parent had been living at my decease But in the event of my decease without leaving any child or children me surviving or issue of of such child or children or more remote descendants or if my said child or all my said children shall survive me but die under the age of twenty one years without being married Then I direct my said trustees or trustee after the decease or marriage again of my said wife to pay and divide the said capital monies stocks funds and securities and such of the income as shall not have been applied as hereinbefore provided equally between and amongst my sisters the said Ellen Willoughby Emma Burman Ann Gilliat and Sophia Gilliat share and share alike And in case of the decease of either of them my said sisters in my lifetime leaving issue who or whose descendants shall be living at my decease such issue shall take and if more than one equally between them the share which his her or their parent would have taken under this my Will if living at my decease I direct that my trustee George James Nutt shall be the Solicitor to my trust property and as such notwithstanding his acceptance of the trusteeship be allowed all professional and other charges for his time and trouble which if employed as Solicitor to my Trustees not being himself a trustee he would be entitled to make I declare that the receipts of my said trustees for such moneys stocks funds and securities as shall be paid or transferred to them by virtue of my Will shall effectually discharge the person or persons paying or transferring the same from liability to see to the application I declare that if my said Wife shall marry again she shall cease to act as a trustee or executor under this my Will and all estate and interest vested in her as such trustee or executor shall thereupon vest in the remaining trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will and I devise such estate and interest to them or him accordingly I empower the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will if any or if none the executors or administrators of the last deceased trustee or either or any of such executors or administrators from time to time to nominate and appoint any person or persons to supply the place of any trustee or trustees of my Will who shall die whether in my lifetime or after my decease or disclaim or be unable or unfit to act or desire to retire from the office or in the place of my said Wife if she shall marry again With liberty upon any such appointment to increase or diminish the original number of trustees And on every such appointment the trust premises shall be conveyed and transferred that the same may become vested in the new trustees or trustee either jointly with the continuing trustees or trustee or solely as the case may require And every such new trustee (as well before as after the trust premises shall have become vested in him) shall have all the powers and authorities of the trustee in whose place he shall be substituted In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy five William Gilliat Signed by the said Testator William Gilliat as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his sight and presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as attending witnesses G J Nutt Brabant Court Philpot Lane London Solicitor W Stevens Clerk to Mr G Nutt Proved at London 29th August 1881 by the oaths of Louisa Gilliat Widow the Relict George Croshaw and George James Nutt the Executors named in the said Will to whom Admon was granted (but as to the said Louisa Gilliat so long only as she shall remain a widow. ________________________________________________ Will of Anne Gilliat of Peterborough, died 1882 This is the last Will and Testament of me Anne Gilliat of Peterborough in the County of Northampton Spinster made the twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy three I give and bequeath to my sister Emma Burman the legacy or sum of two hundred pounds I give and bequeath to my brother William Gilliat the sum of One hundred pounds I give and bequeath to my Niece Sophia Willoughby the sum of fifty pounds I give and bequeath to James Rogers of Eaton Scoton in the County of Bedford the sum of fifty pounds I give and bequeath to my sister Ellen Willoughby the sum of thirty pounds I give and bequeath to my brother Richard Henry Gilliat the sum of ten pounds I give and bequeath to my Niece Augusta Willoughby the sum of five pounds I give and bequeath to my said Sister Ellen Gilliat my Cameo Brooch and all the household goods furniture and effects whatsoever (except money and securities for money) of mine which are in her house except what is hereinafter specifically bequeathed. I give and bequeath unto my said sister Emma Burman my Mourning brooch black bracelets Ring with Mother's hair Gold Ear-rings also all effects whatever now in her House belonging to me and also my wearing apparel except any part thereof hereinafter specifically bequeathed I give and bequeath to my sister Sophia Gilliat my gold bracelets diamond Opal necklett Diamond and Ruby rings Amethyst brooch and a Dressing case I give and bequeath to my said brother William Gilliat all my forks spoons Cruet stand Tea Caddy and all the plated and silver articles except any which is hereinbefore or hereinafter specifically bequeathed subject to his paying my funeral expenses and any debts that may be owing by me at my decease I give and bequeath unto my Nephew and God child Harry Howard Gilliat my gold studs seal with the initials ‘A C’ and also a writing desk I give and bequeath unto my niece Gertrude Gilliat daughter of my said brother Richard Henry Gilliat my gold locket I give and bequeath unto my said Niece Augusta Willoughby my mahogany Chest of Drawers Bridesmaid’s Dress and pink silk jacket I give and bequeath to my said Niece Sophie Willoughby my gold chain and wardrobe I give and bequeath to my Niece and God child Elizabeth Ann Willoughby my work box Papier Machee Box and Topaz Brooch and I give and bequeath unto my Cousin Mrs Robinson my blue Turquoise Ring And I give and bequeath to the said James Rogers my Gold Watch and small seal key and hair guard And as to all the rest residue and remainder of my estate and effects of whatever description not hereinbefore disposed of and I give devise and bequeath the same unto my said sister Emma Burman her heirs executors administrators and assigns absolutely And I appoint her my residuary legatee I direct that all legacies and sums given by this my Will to females shall be paid to them on their sole and separate receipt and independent of any husband or husbands and free from his or their control debts or engagements I give devise and bequeath to my said sister Emma Burman her heirs executors and administrators all estate vested in me as trustee or Mortgagee subject to the trusts and equities affecting the same respectively And I appoint her to be Sole Executrix of this my Will And hereby revoking all former Wills by me made I do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I the said Testatrix Anne Gilliat have hereunto set my hand the day and year first above written Anne Gilliat Signed by the said Testatrix Anne Gilliat as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses Maud Gandy of Westgate House Peterborough Thomas James Walker Doctor of Medicine 18 Westgate Peterborough Proved at Peterborough the 22nd day of August 1882 by the Oath of Emma Welch (Wife of William Welch, Farmer and Grazier) formerly Burman Widow the Sister the Sole Executrix to whom administration was granted The Testatrix Anne Gilliat was late of Peterborough in the County of Northampton Spinster and died on the 26th day of April 1882 at Peterborough aforesaid Under £450 Caparn Wilders & Caparn Solrs Holbeach Resworn Sept 1894 £1036.1.6 ___________________________________________________ Grant of Administration for John Gilliat, Esquire, died 1820 On the seventh day of September 1820 Admon of all said and singular the goods chattels and credits of John Gilliat Esq late of Clapham Terrace in the parish of Clapham in the County of Surrey England was granted to Mary Gilliat widow the lawful relict of the said decd having been first sworn duly to Admn Sub £120 000 Interlocutory decree ___________________________________________________ Will of Louisa Gilliat of Lewisham, died 1893 This is the Last Will and Testament of me Louisa Gilliat of 18 Granville Park Lewisham in the County of Kent Widow I give and bequeath to my brother George Croshaw of Fenchurch Street in the City of London Merchant all my leasehold and other property whether real or personal of which I may be possessed or entitled to at time of my decease save and except such amounts and annuities and such articles as may be named in a Schedule enclosed herewith which I authorise and instruct my said brother to dispose of as therein directed And I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said brother George Croshaw my Executor and Trustee under this my Will dated this 4th day of July 1883 Louisa Gilliat Signed by the above named Louisa Gilliat in our presence and in the presence of each other Georgina Pay South Harting Sussex Mary Ann Brown 46 Gt King Street Edinburgh Schedule of legacies As referred to in my Will dated the 4th day of July 1883 To Mary Ann Brown my Housemaid thirty six pounds To Mrs Maria Weir my mothers old servant thirty pounds If she is not living at the time of my death ten pounds then to be given her only daughter Sarah Weir To Ann Norman my mother’s servant ten pounds To Howard Gilliat my late husbands nephew thirty pounds three gold studs and a plain gold band ring with one diamond center To my brother George with my dear love my best ring of five diamonds family bible and six silver tea spoons (Kings pattern) To Ellen Mary Corshaw (wife of the above) my gold brooch and earrings with small diamond center To my nephew George Stuart Croshaw my gold chain with seals and coin attached To my nephew Oswald Mosley Croshaw my watch WG engraved on the back To my niece and Godchild Evelyn Mary Croshaw my plain gold locket and chain gold bracelet with pearl center my piano all my songs and music and Longfellows illustrated poems To my sister Mary Croshaw my brooch and earrings of Etruscan gold a ring cluster of small diamonds my blue ring large Prayer book with silver cross and my wardrobe viz linen dresses mantles etc etc To my sister Emma Ash my gold necklet with pendant and brooch of carbuncles my afternoon tea service (old silver) viz milk jug sugar basin tongs tea pot and tray To my niece Rosalie E Frost my gold ring three diamonds in a plain band of gold and my pearl ring To my niece Emma Louisa Frost my ruby and diamond ring mizpah ring and writing table Louisa Gilliat witnessed by Mrs Gilliat’s servants Georgina Pay Mary Ann Brown January 26th 1885 affidavit of due execution of Will and Codicil filed On the 18th day of July 1893 Probate of this will with a Codicil was granted to George Croshaw of No 116 Fenchurch Street in the City of London Merchant the Brother the sole Executor Louisa Gilliat died on the 19th day of June 1893 at No 18 Granville Park aforesaid Gross value of Personal estate £2620.12.6
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