The Will of Edward Jenden

 

In the name of God Amen I Edward Jenden of Wisborough Green in the County of Sussex do hereby make my last Will and testament in manner & form following that is to say I commend my Soul to Almighty God hoping to be saved by the death of Jesus Christ & I order my Body to be decently buried by my Executrix & Exor ffirst I give & devise & bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Gallup Wife of Robert Gallup to she all the rents & profits arising or may arrive and due (that my daughter Sarah Gallup that she shall have power to receive unto her proper hands for & during the term of her natural life only that is from my ?real Estate All my Messuage lands tenements credits whatsoever wheresoever with their appurts for her own separate use benefit & disposal as if she was unmarried to receive all thereunto profits arising from my small real Estates to support herself during her natural life (then after the decease of my daughter Sarah Gallup not before)if my son in law Robert Gallup should happen to survive his Wife my Daughter Sarah Gallup then I give to Robert Gallup the same power to receive all the rents & profits arising from my real Estate as the same to receive by him the term of his natural life only (then my will & meaning is & I direct that when the said Sarah Gallup & Robert Gallup shall respectively become entitled to the rents & profits of my said small Estate that they do respectively to keep in repair all & every the buildings belonging to my said small Estate herein before devised in my Will further that after my Daughter Sarah Gallup & Robert Gallup decease I give & devise unto my Grandson Edward Jenden Gallup All my Messuages lands tenements heredits & real Estate whatsoever & wheresoever to him & his heirs & his assigns for ever but my will & meaning further is that in case my Grandson Edward Jenden Gallup should happen to die & depart this life & leave no Issue lawfully begotten at his decease & for default of such Issue I give & devise to my other Grandchildren Sarah Gallup John Gallup Robert Gallup William Gallup Henry Gallup Daughter & Sons of the said Sarah Gallup by my Daughter by the said Robert Gallup All my small Messuages lands tenements heredits & real Estate whatsoever & wheresoever to them & their heirs & assigns for ever as tenants in common nit as joint tenants to be equally divided amongst them share & share alike And as for all my personal Estate Goods Chattels ready money & all my personal Estate whatsoever & wheresoever I hereby appoint my Executor & Executrix In trust Guardians & overseers to the case of my grandchildren I give devise & bequeath all the same to my said Grandchildren Edward Jenden Gallup Sarah Gallup John Gallup William Gallup Robert Gallup & Henry Gallup to be equally divided share and share alike to be paid respectively at their age of twenty one years by my Son and Executrix & Executor In trust with all the profits and Interest that the trust can make of from the money of the personals to be paid them respectively when they shall attain the age of twenty one years my Will & meaning further is after my decease to desire my Executrix & Exor to sell all & every part of & parcel of my household Goods & Stock in trade to get my money in to sell every Article of my personals to sell & make all & to turn all my personals into money all for the purpose & benefit of my said Grandchildren & for their uses & to see all my just Debts satisfied & paid & ffuneral Expences And I do hereby make ordain & appoint my said daughter Sarah Gallup Executrix & Robert Gallup my Son in law Exor & trustee to this my last Will & testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made In Witness whereof I the said Edward Jenden the testator have to this my last Will & testament containing one sheet of paper have set my hand & seal the twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & five Edwd Jenden   Christopher Elliott Ann Balchin William Briant   Proved: 9 April 1814 by the oath of Sarah Gallup Widow the surviving Executor   PCC Prob11/1565