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This is the last Will and Testament of me
Anthony Gell of the Little Cloisters Westminster Abbey I desire to
be buried in the Great Cloisters Westminster Abbey ........ in a
private manner at the discretion of my Executrix & Executors
hereinafter named & whereas I did several years ago give up unto my
eldest son John Henry Gell the Office or business of secretary to
the present Bishop of Winchester & the Income & Profits arising
therefrom by means whereof & by his unremitting attention to the
business of his profession he has succeeded to various other
lucrative offices & is in a very prosperous way & already in
possession of a very good income which he very deservedly merits &
is entitled to & whereas he may at my decease if he chooses & can
make it convenient succeed me in divers appointments & situations
which would prove to ... a further considerable & lucrative addition
to his present yearly Income I feel it is in every way incumbent
upon me & which is my sincere wish & intention to make the best
provision in my power for the comfortable support of my dear Wife
ffrances Gell (the eldest daughter of Joseph Dalby late of Welbeck
Street Cavendish Square Surgeon & Apothecary) 7 the rest of my
family & first I give & bequeath unto my said dear Wife ffrances
Gell & her assigns so much Stock Part of my Property standing in my
name in the five per Cent Real Bank Ann. Or on the three per Cent
Consolidated Bank Annuities or in any other of the Public ffunds
which at the time of my decease will produce ffifteen hundred pounds
Stock in three per Cent Consolidated Bank Annuities to be
transferred to her absolutely within two months next after my
decease by my Executors & Trustees hereinafter named & the like sum
of ffifteen hundred pounds Stock in the said three per Cent
Consolidated Bank Annuities to be by them in like manner to my said
Daur ffrances Kynninmond absolutely within six months next after my
decease for her own proper use & benefit Also I give & bequeath unto
my two sons John Henry Gell & William Egerton Gell all that my
dwelling house with the Appurts situate in Old Palace Yard & Poets
Corner Westminster which I hold on lease for forty years from &
under the dean & Chapter of Westminster In trust to pay the net
yearly Rent & Rents which they my said Sons & Trustees may receive
from time to time after my decease to my said Wife ffrances Gell or
her assigns during the term of her natural life & after her decease
I give & bequeath the said house & lease thereof unto my said Son
William Egerton Gell his Exors Admors & Assigns for his & their own
proper use & benefit together with all right & benefit aforesaid And
my Will is that my said Executors & Trustees John Henry Gell &
William Egerton Gell shall from time to time during the life of my
said Wife ffrances Gell renew the said lease of the said House with
the said Dean & Chapter whenever fourteen years shall be elapsed
therein if a less term shall be therein elapsed at the time of the
decease of my said Wife then to fill up the sd term to forty years &
that all Expences attending such renewal be paid out of my Personall
Estate or any part thereof as shall be thought most proper &
convenient to be done Also I give & bequeath to them the said John
Henry Gell & William Egerton Gell All that my dwelling house with
the Orchard Garden Coach House Stable & all other the Premises with
the Appurts thereunto belonging which I hold on lease from John
Pratt Esq for a long term of years situate & being in the Clapham
Road now called & known by the name of Clapham Rise in the County of
Surry In Trust for the benefit & accommodation of my said Wife
ffrances Gell for her life if she chooses to live therein but if she
should not chuse to occupy the same then my will is that my said
Trustees do & shall let the said house & Premises on lease or other
devise for the highest Rack Rent that can be gotten annually for the
same & pay the rent & produce thereof half yearly or as soon as
conveniently may be after receiving the same unto my said Wife or
her Assigns during her life & after her decease my Will is that my
said Trustees or the Survivor of them do sell & dispose of the said
lease House & Premises for the remainder of the term of Years then
to come therein & unexpired for the best & highest price either by
private Contract or Public Auction at any time thereafter at their
discretion that can or may be had & obtained for the same & vest the
whole Purchase Money & all Profits may happen to derive & arise from
the time of the decease of my said Wife (after deducting all charges
& expences that may happen on that account) in their joint names or
the name of the survivor in the five per Cent Real Bank Ann. Or in
any other of the Public ffunds & transfer the said Stock & pay the
Interest & Dividends arising from time to time half yearly or as
soon as conveniently may be to such persons & in such proportions as
are hereinafter mentioned that is to say to transfer one Moiety or
half part of the sd Stock & pay the dividends thereof unto my Daur
ffrances Kynninmond for her own proper use & benefit & as to the
remaining Moiety of the sd Stock my Will is that my said Trustees do
from time to time pay one moiety of the said moiety of the dividends
which may arise & become due thereon unto my said daur ffrances
Kynninmond to be by her applied towards the maintenance & education
of her Daur & my Granddaughter ffrances Anne Kynninmond until she
shall have attained the age of one & twenty years & when she shall
be twenty one years then my Trustees to assign & transfer the said
moiety of the said moiety of the sd Stock & all Dividends due
thereon unto my said Granddaughter ffrances Anne Kynninmond for her
own proper use & benefit & if my said daur ffrances Kynninmond
should die before my said Granddaughter ffrances Anne Kynninmond
should attain the age of twenty one years then my Trustees to apply
the Interest & Dividends arising thereon from time to time towards
the maintenance & education of the said ffrances Anne Kynninmond
until she shall be twenty one years & when she shall arrive to the
age of one & twenty years then to transfer the said moiety of the
said Moiety of the said Stock & pay all Dividends that shall be due
thereon unto my said Granddaughter ffrances Anne Kynninmond for her
own proper use & benefit & in case she should die before she is
twenty one years then this bequest shall merge & sink into the
Residue of my Personal Estate & as to the remaining Moiety of the
moiety of the said Stock my Will is & I do hereby direct & desire
that my said Trustees do from time to time apply the Interest &
Dividends arising thereon for and towards the maintenance &
education of my Granddaughter Octavia Baulard until she shall have
attained the age of one & twenty years & when one & twenty years
that my said Trustees do assign & transfer the said moiety of the
said moiety of the said Stock & all Dividends that shall be due
thereon unto the said Octavia Baulard to & for her own proper use &
benefit but if she should die before she attains the age of one &
twenty years this bequest shall cease & merge into the Residue of my
Personal Estate & if that event shall take place my will is that my
Exors & Trustees shall pay unto her ffather Joseph Charles Bauland
one hundred pounds sterling for his own use & benefit also I give &
bequeath unto my said Wife ffrances Gell All my Household ffurniture
Linen Plate China Glass Books Prints Wine & every other Article &
thing of what nature quality or value soever belonging to me or in
her possession or on any part of the Premises at Clapham Rise or in
any other house or houses she may happen to live for her own sole
proper use & benefit & all Money & Property which she may have in
her possession Also I give & bequeath unto my said Son William
Egerton Gell all the household ffurniture Linen Plate Glass Wine &
any other article & thing whatsoever belonging to me situate in my
house in the little Cloisters Westminster as Receiver in the Dean &
Chapter of Westminster also I give & bequeath to my said Son John
Henry Gell all my Books in the Office there which are in general
respecting Ecclesiastical Business & also all manuscripts
precedents & documents relative thereto or otherwise & all other
Papers Books & Articles whatsoever there belonging to me & my Will
is that no part of the Property which I have already given &
bequeathed or may hereafter give & bequeath by this my last Will &
Testament unto my said daughter ffrances Kynninmond or my said
Granddaughter ffrances Anne Kynninmond shall be liable or subject to
the Debts or Controul of any Husband or Husband with whom they or
either of them may respectively intermarry but that their Respective
Receipts & Releases alone shall be proper discharges to my Exors &
Admors for the same & all profits arising therefrom & with respect
to Carminative Medicine called and universally known by the name of
Dalby’s Carminative I do hereby give & deliver up agreeable to the
wish & request of my said Wife ffrances Gell the receipt given to
her by her father the said Joseph Dalby for compounding preparing &
making the said Medicine unto my said sons John Henry Gell & William
Egerton Gell in order that they may be legally authorised & enabled
from time to time to compound & prepare the same as they have for
several years heretofore done for my said Wife ffrances Gell &
supply Mrs ffrances Newbury therewith pursuant to certain articles
of agreement entered into by & between the said Joseph Dalby & the
said ffrancis Newbury I do give & bequeath unto my said sons John
Henry Gell & William Egerton Gell the whole annual Profits arising
from the Sale of the said Medicine in by them to the said ffrancis
Newbury In trust for the following purposes namely ffirst to retain
to each of themselves annually for their time & trouble in preparing
& supplying the said ffrances Newbury therewith one.... part of the
net Profits arising from the Sale of the said Medicine & then to pay
the remainder annually to my said Wife ffrances Gell from time to
time during her life & from & after her decease to pay the same from
hereinafter stated namely to the said William Egerton Gell two tenth
parts ffrances Anne Kynninmond two tenth parts & the said Octavia
Bauland One tenth part of the net proceeds thereof making together
the whole of the net annual profits arising from the Sale thereof If
either of my said Sons should decline to compound & prepare the said
Medicine & supply the said ffrances Newbury or his assigns therewith
as heretofore has been done my Will is that my other Son shall & may
compound & prepare the whole of the said Medicine & shall receive to
& for his own proper use & benefit the said tenth part of the said
net profits thereof as above given to each of my said Sons for their
trouble in preparing the same & if both of my said Sons shall find
it inconvenient to contrive to prepare the said Medicine & & supply
the said ffrancis Newbury his Sons or assigns therewith then my Will
is that the receipt for compounding & preparing of the same be
offered to the said ffrances Newbury or his Assigns in order that he
or they may have the refusal of purchasing the same at a fair &
proper valuation which if he or they desire then that it be disposed
of to any other person or persons & that the amount of that purchase
money after deducting all charges & expences attending the same be
divided & paid to & amongst the several following persons namely the
said ffrances Kynninmond three tenth parts ffrances Anne Kynninmond
three tenth parts the said Octavia Bauland one tenth part the said
John Henry Gell one tenth part & the said William Egerton Gell two
tenth parts also I give & bequeath unto my said sons John Henry Gell
& William Egerton Gell their heirs & assigns all that my one thirty
second share of the Lord M...... at Wirksworth in Derbyshire called
Ranter otherwise Ravenhard with all Profits which may from time to
time arise thereout or therefrom all the rest & residue of my Estate
& Property of what nature soever I give & bequeath unto my said sons
John Henry Gell & William Egerton Gell & my daughter ffrances
Kynninmond & Grand daughter ffrances Anne Kynninmond to be equally
divided between them share & share alike & lastly I do hereby
nominate & appoint my said Wife ffrances Gell Executrix & my said
sons John Henry Gell & William Egerton Gell Executors & Trustees of
this my Will In Witness whereof I have to this my said last Will
written upon five sheets of paper concluded on part of this fifth
sheet set my hand at the bottom of each sheet & at the bottom of
this testimony have set my hand & Seal this 14th day of
June in the year of Our Lord 1815 Anthy Gell
(Attestation Clause)
John Cathrig Little Cloisters Westm Abbey Jn
Horsfall Great Cloisters Westm Abbey
Proved at London 16 April 1817
PCC Prob11/1591
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