The last Will and Testament of me John Davill of the Town of Monmouth Skinner as follows I Appoint Mr Thomas Probyn of the Town of Monmouth Tanner Mr James Yarworth of Saint Dials and Daniel Tregost of Tregurod Esqr my Trustees to execute this my last Will I bequeath all my Effects (that is to say) all my Real Estate and Personal or Under whatsoever Denomination my Effects may be call’d to the entire Management of my aforesaid Trustees Mr Thos Probyn Mr James Yarworth and Daniel Tregost Esqr until my Son William Davies Davill Arrives to the Age of Twenty One Years and then to my said Son and his Heirs for ever on his Paying his Grand ffather William Davill Ten Pounds every Quarter of a Year and so to continue so long as his said Grandfather shall live and on Condition my said Son should die before he arrives at the Age of Twenty One Years that my said Trustees do continue on in the same entire Management and Care of all my Effects as before mention’d during my ffather William Davill’s life for his use as they shall think fit my said Trustees to pay all my Debts and when it shall please God to take my ffather out of this troublesome World for them to pay or otherwise satisfy his daughter Elizabeth Turner Wife of John Turner agreeable to a Bond of Performance for certain Sums of Money which I undertook to perform at my ffather’s decease which said Bond is now in the Possession of Mr Thos Probyn ffurthermore on Condition my  Son should not live to the Age of Twenty One Years my ffather also being dead I bequeath all my Estate and Effects to my first Cousin William Probyn Son of Mr John Probyn Skinner on his Paying the following Legacies

To Elizabeth Turner Wife of John Turner one shilling

To her Son my Nephew John Turner three Hundred Pounds

To my first Cousins the Issue of my Uncle and Aunt Nicholas Two Hundred Pounds and to be equally divided between them by my Trustees

To my Aunt Cox fifty Pounds

To my first Cousin John Davill the Son of John and Elizabeth Davill Two Hundred Pounds

To my Brother in Law George Vaughan fifty Pounds

To each of my Trustees fifty Pounds

And on Condition my Cousin William Probyn do not live to fulfil this my Will I bequeath my whole Estate and Effects amongst my first Cousins his Sisters to be equally divided between them by my Trustees they my Cousins to pay the Legacies as before mentioned In Witness I have Signed my hand and Seal this Eighteenth Day of May One thousand seven hundred and Seventy three _ John Davill Witness present Ann Maughan _ Henry John Exciseman _ James Williams Skinner

Proved at London 25 April 1775

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