This is the last will and testament of me, Thomas Hotham Archbell of Tadcaster in the County of York Joiner and Cabinet Maker.  I give and bequeath unto Amelia Harle of the City of York the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid six months after my decease and in case of her death before that period I give and bequeath the same amongst her lawful issue if any, share and share alike on attaining the age of twenty one with interest in the meantime.  I give and bequeath to John Clough the son of Nathan Clough of Tadcaster aforesaid Wheelwright all and every my stock in trade hardware working tools wood timber and all articles and things belonging to my business as a joiner and cabinetmaker to and for his own use and benefit subject to the payment of any debt I may owe to Mr James Maude of Leeds Timber Merchant which I direct to be paid by the said John Clough.  I give and bequeath to my housekeeper Hannah Arnold for and during the term of her natural life sufficient furniture to furnish two rooms which shall be chosen by her out of my household furniture and after her decease I give and bequeath the same to be divided equally amongst Robert Hartley, Mary Hartley and Jane Hartley, the children of the late William Hartley of Tadcaster aforesaid Brewer.  I give and bequeath to my godson John Fletcher the son of Joseph Fletcher of Tadcaster aforesaid my watch and appendages.  I give and bequeath to the said Robert Hartley my silver cup or tankard marked R R A.  I give devise and bequeath until Henry Waterhouse of Tadcaster aforesaid Joiner and Cabinetmaker and to Joseph Fletcher of the same place Farmer all and singular my messuages dwellinghouses lands and premises situate at Tadcaster aforesaid subject to the mortgage affecting the same.  And also all and singular my personal estate monies book debts household furniture stock-in-trade tenant right and personal estate whatsoever not hereinbefore by me specifically bequeathed to hold the same according to the different natures or tenures thereof unto them the said Henry Waterhouse and Joseph Fletcher and the survivor of them and the executors or administrators of the survivor of them.  Upon the several trusts following that is to say.  Upon trust in the first place to convert the whole of my personal estate to them bequeathed into money and to pay thereout my just debts funeral expenses and the costs of proving and registering this my will and the said legacy of one hundred pounds to the said Amelia Harle or her issue.  And upon further trust to place the remaining monies arising from such conversion into money out on such security as shall be deemed sufficient by my said trustees and to pay the interest thereof and also the rents and profits of my said real estates after deducting the interest of the mortgage thereon unto my said housekeeper Hannah Arnold for and during the term of her natural life which said interest rents and profits I hereby direct is not to be subject to the debts control or intermeddling of any husband she may marry and I declare the receipt of her the said Hannah Arnold notwithstanding any covertures shall be from time to time a sufficient discharge to my said trustees for such interest rents and profits.  And from and after the decease of the said Hannah Arnold I direct my said trustees to transfer my said real estate if the same shall not have been sold under the power of sale hereinafter contained and the securities upon which my personal estate shall be invested unto the said Robert Hartley, Mary Hartley and Jane Hartley their heirs executors administrators or assigns the real estate and tenants in common and personal estate share and share alike.  And my will and mind is that if any said trustees shall at any time think it advisable to sell and dispose of my said real estate then I hereby empower them so to do either by private sale or public auction and I declare that the receipts of the said Henry Waterhouse and Joseph Fletcher or the survivor of them or the executors and administrators of the survivor of them shall be a sufficient discharge to any purchaser of my said real estate for the purchase money for the same and that such purchaser shall not afterwards be liable to see to the application of such purchase money.  And in case of such sale I direct the proceeds thereof to be applied upon the same trusts as I have hereinbefore directed the residue of my personal estate to be applied upon.  And I hereby declare it to be my will and mind that it is my wish that the said Henry Waterhouse shall have the preference of succeeding me as tenant to the quarries and lands which I occupy on Bramham Moor in the parish of Tadcaster and that the said Joseph Fletcher shall have the preference of succeeding me as tenant to the farm I occupy at Stutton in the said parish.  Subject to the same tenant-right in respect of all the said lands I should be entitled to were I leaving the same as an offgoing tenant the proceeds whereof I declare tobe part of my personal estate.  And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Henry Waterhouse and Joseph Fletcher joint executors of this my will hereby revoking all former wills by me made.  In witness whereof I the said Thomas Hotham Archbell have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

Signed published and declared by the said Thomas Hotham Archbell 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 all present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

Ben. Blaydes Thompson, Solicitor, Tadcaster

Philip Lee, his Clerk

This is a codicil to my last will and testament hereinbefore written.  I give devise and bequeath my pew in the parish church of Tadcaster in the County of York to the said Henry Waterhouse and Joseph Fletcher in my said will named.  To hold the same to them and the survivor of them and the heirs executors and administrators of the survivor of them.  Upon the same trusts as are expressed and contained in my said will respecting my messuages dwellinghouses land and premises therein devised and bequeathed and subject to the same power of sale as is therein aforesaid of an concerning the same.  In witness whereof I the said Thomas Hotham Archbell have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

Signed published and declared by the said Thomas Hotham Archbell the Testator as and for a codicil to his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other all present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

Ben. Blaydes Thompson, Solicitor, Tadcaster

Philip Lee, his Clerk

28 October 1848 Henry Waterhouse of Tadcaster in the County of York Builder and Joseph Fletcher of the same place Farmer the joint executors named in this the last will and testament with a codicil annexed of Thomas Hotham Archbell late of Tadcaster aforesaid in the Diocese of York Joiner and Cabinet maker deceased were sworn well and truly to execute and perform the same; and that the whole of his personal estate and effects within the Diocese of York do not amount in value to the sum of four hundred and fifty pounds.  Died  4 October 1848