This is the last Will and Testament of me Susanna Parsons of Horsington in the County of Somerset Spinster made the  first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one that is to say I give devise and bequeath unto my Friends Samuel Newton Parsons Surgeon and Charles Parsons Yeoman both of Wincanton All my real and personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever To hold to them their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively Upon Trust that they the said Samuel Newton Parsons and Charles Parsons and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively of such survivor do and shall pay and discharge all my just Debts Funeral and Testamentary expences and after retaining for themselves the said Samuel Newton Parsons and Charles Parsons the sum of Ten pounds apiece which I hereby give and bequeath to each of them for the trouble hereby occasioned them and setting apart a sufficient sum of money to meet the Legacies hereinafter by me bequeathed and such other Legacies as I may by any Codicil or Codicils to this my Will hereafter bequeath Upon Trust to pay over and divide the rest and residue of my personal estate (except certain Articles of Furniture hereinafter otherwise disposed of) unto and equally between my two Brothers James Parsons and William Parsons absolutely for their own use and benefit to whom respectively I give and bequeath the same accordingly and as to the amount so retained as aforesaid Upon trust to lay out and invest the same in their or his Name or Names upon Government or Real Securities with power to alter and vary the same from time to time as they or he in their or his discretion shall think fit and to pay or apply the Interest Dividends and annual proceeds thereof together with the rents issues and profits of my Real Estate unto and for the benefit of my said Brothers James Parsons and William Parsons or permit them to receive and take the same for and during the term of their joint natural lives and the life of the survivor of them for his and their own equal use and benefit And from and after the decease of the survivor of them my said Brothers as to my Dwelling house and Lands situate at Stoke Trister in the said County now in the occupation of John Wake I direct my said Trustees and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively of such survivor  to pay or permit Thomas Williams Lush son of my nephew Thomas Lush of Hook Farm in the parish of Charlton Musgrove Somerset to hold and enjoy the same and to receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof for and during the term of his natural life subject nevertheless to the payment by the said Thomas Williams Lush of the sum of fifty pounds and Robert Dike the son of Catherine Dike of Wincanton aforesaid Widow to be paid to him on his attaining the age of twenty one years with Interest in the meantime in such manner as they my said Trustees shall think best in case the said Thomas Williams Lush shall have previously come into possession of the said Dwellinghouse and Lands And from and after the decease of the said Thomas Williams Lush I give and devise the same Dwellinghouse and Lands unto and equally between and amongst all and every the Children or Child of the said Thomas Williams Lush who may be living at the time of his decease To hold to them as Tenants in Common and not as joint tenants their or his heirs and assigns for ever And as to my Dwellinghouse and Lands situate at Buckhorn Weston Dorset now in the occupation of William Weare I direct my said Trustees and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor to pay to or permit my faithful servant Mary Shutt to hold and enjoy the same and to receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof for and during the term of her natural life And from and after her decease I direct my said Trustees and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively of such survivor to pay to or permit Samuel Lush another son of the said Thomas Lush to hold and enjoy the same and to receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof for and during the term of his natural life And from and after his decease I give and devise the same Dwellinghouse and Lands unto and equally between all and every the Children or Child of the said Samuel Lush who may be living at the time of his decease To hold to them as Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants their or his heirs or assigns for ever And with regard to the disposition of the sum so set apart as aforesaid I give and bequeath unto Sabina Lush and Selina Lush the two Daughters of the said Thomas Lush the sum of Two hundred pounds apiece and to the said Samuel Lush the sum of One hundred Pounds and I declare that in the event of the death of either of the Children of the said

Thomas Lush before they shall come into possession of the share or interest intended for them by this my Will and without leaving lawful issue him her or them surviving the share or interest intended for such Child or Children so dying as aforesaid shall go to and be devisible unto and equally between and amongst the survivor and survivors of the beforementioned Children  I give and bequeath unto Naomi Parsons the sum of One hundred Pounds together with my bedstead with the White Furniture and the Bed and Bedding thereto belonging and my Mahogany Chest of Drawers for her own absolute use and benefit I give and bequeath my Sofa unto the said Thomas Williams Lush for his own absolute use and benefit  I give and bequeath my Oak Bureau and best Looking Glass unto James Parsons son of the said Mary Shutt for his own absolute use and benefit  I give and bequeath my Ash Bedstead with the Blue Furniture and the Bed and Bedding thereto belonging unto the said Mary Shutt for her own absolute use and benefit  I declare that the said Trustees hereby appointed and each of the heirs executors administrators and assigns of them and each of them shall be charged and chargeable respectively for such monies only as they respectively shall actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed notwithstanding either of their giving or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity And either of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the other of them or for involuntary losses  And also that it shall and may be lawful for them with and out of the Monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse themselves respectively and also to allow each other all costs charges damages and expences which they or either of them shall or may suffer sustain expend disburse be at or be put unto in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereto And I do hereby further declare and direct that the receipt and receipts of my Trustees and Trustee for the time being shall be a sufficient discharge and effectual discharges for all Monies thereon expressed to be received and hereby appoint them Executors of this my Will  In Witness whereof I have to this and the three preceding sheets affixed my name the day and year aforesaid S. Parsons  

Signed by the said Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the joint presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses the above interlineation having been first made.    Thomas Lush     Edwin Ings

The will was proved in the Consistorial Archidiaconal Court of Wells on 18th July 1855.

The Executor's sworn statement prior to probate states the date of death as 5th October 1854, that the Personal Estate and Effects of the deceased was less than £1,000, and that the deceased was not possessed of any leasehold estate for years either absolute or determinable on a life or lives to his knowledge.

The Executor was Charles Parsons of Wincanton, Somerset, Yeoman. Power was reserved for Samuel Newton Parsons of Milborne Port, Somerset, Surgeon, the other Executor named in the will.