This is the last Will and Testament of me Joseph Clack of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford that is to say First I will that my debts and funeral expenses shall be paid and satisfied.  Also I give and devise to my brother John Clack and Thomas Breakspear in trust all my household goods and furniture monies securities for money and all my effects whatsoever and wheresoever To hold the same to and for the proper use and benefit of my beloved wife and my three children to have a living jointly together out of the same as long as she continues unmarried And if she marries then to have no more to do with the property But it shall be equally divided amongst the children or the survivor of them when they come of age But my will is that if my beloved wife Elizabeth Clack shall think well to be married to another man that she shall have her choice of one bed bedstead furniture blankets and sheets bolster and pillows and all thereto belonging And I appoint my said brother John Clack and Thomas Breakspear Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made In Witness whereof I the said Testator Joseph Clack have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal this twenty second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight   

           The X Mark of Joseph Clack    the above named testator

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the above named testator Joseph Clack as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and sight have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto

John Dawson  Rich Dawson Thomas Sirman

On the 12th August 1839 Administration (with the will annexed) of the goods chattels and credits of Joseph Clack late of Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford deceased was granted to Elizabeth Pryor (wife of William Pryor), the natural and lawful Mother next of kin and the Curatrix or Guardian lawfully assigned to Sarah Clack and Jane Clack Spinsters Minors the natural lawful and only surviving children of the said deceased and as such the surviving residuary legatees on their attaining the age of twenty one years named in the said Will for the use and benefit of the said Minors and until one of them shall attain the age of twenty one years she having been first sworn by Common duly to administer. John Clack the brother and Thomas Breakspear the executors and residuary legatees in trust, named in the said will survived the said deceased but died without having proved the said will, and the said Elizabeth Pryor, (formerly Clack widow) the Relict and one of the residuary legatees named in the said will so long as she should continue unmarried, having intermarried with the said William Pryor