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This is the last Will and Testament of me - Thomas
MARKLEY of Outwell in the County of Norfolk Tailor I give and bequeath
all my personal estate whatsoever unto my Wife I give and devise unto
my son in law Joseph Clarke of Outwell in the County of Cambridge
Wheelwright and Charles Cox of Outwell aforesaid in the County of
Norfolk Grocer and Draper and their heirs all my real estate whatsoever
Upon trust that they or the survivor of them and his heirs or their
or his assigns (hereinafter called my Trustees) do and shall by and
out of the rents and profits of my said real estate pay my debts (except
Mortgage debts) funeral and testamentary expences and pay and keep
down the interest on the mortgage of my said real estate and maintain
the cottages and buildings in good tenantable repair and ___ condition
and then do and shall pay the residue or surplus of the said rents
and profit unto my said Wife during her life provided she remains
my Widow in annual or quarterly or monthly or weekly payments or in
such other manner as to them my said Trustees shall seem meet and
proper And I declare that it shall be lawful for my said Trustees
at any time without the consent of my said Wife to cause the cottages
in hereinafter devised to my Grandson George CLARKE to be tiled? [titled?
but only five letters] and also to cause to be done to the same Cottages
such other substantial repairs and alterations as they in their discretion
shall consider requisite and necessary And I hereby authorize and
empower them my said Trustees to borrow on the security of my said
real estate as much money as will be sufficient to provide for the
cost of such repairs and alterations and to pay and keep down the
interest thereof out of the said rents and profits And from and after
the decease or marriage of my said Wife my said Trustees shall stand
seized of my said real estate To the uses following that is to say
As to and concerning All that messuage or Tenement in which I now
reside situate in Outwell aforesaid in the County of Norfolk And also
all those five Cottages or tenements thereto adjoining with the Garden
Ground and appurtenances thereto adjoining To the use of my Daughter
Granville and her heirs subject nevertheless to and charged with the
payment of the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds part of the principal
sum amounting to about two hundred pounds secured on the mortgage
of my said real estate And also subject to the existing right of way
from the Street to the Hereditaments hereinafter devised to my said
Grandson George Clarke And as to and concerning All those four thatched
cottages next Well Creek with the Garden Ground thereby belonging
and adjoining and the appurtenances To the use of my said Grandson
George Clarke and his heirs Subject to and charged with the payment
of the remainder of the said principal money due on Mortgage of my
said real Estate and also subject to the payment of any further sum
that may be borrowed on the security thereof by my said Trustees as
aforesaid And I appoint my said Son-in-law Joseph Clarke and the said
Charles Cox Executors of this my Will and hereby revoke all former
Wills or Testamentary dispositions at any time made by me In Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand the twentieth day of January one
thousand eight hundred and sixty eight.
Signed and declared by the said Thomas Markley 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 the same having been first carefully read over to him and he appeared perfectly to understand the same and to have full knowledge of its contents. James Webber Jr. Solicitor Upwell, S.M. Witthers Proved at Norwich, the thirteenth day of May 1872 by the oaths of Joseph Clarke and Charles Cox the Executors, to whom administration was granted. The Testator Thomas Markley was late of Outwell in the County of Norfolk Tailor and died on the thirteenth day of December 1871 at Outwell aforesaid. Under #100 - No Leaseholds James Webber Jr Solictor Upwell Certified to be a Correct Copy |
Interesting that Thomas apparently could not read nor write, so how did he managed his tailoring business all those years? His death certificate has his name spelled MARKILLIE.
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