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This is the last Will and Testament of me Uriah Parsons of Kington Magna in the County of Dorset Yeoman that is to say I give and devise unto my nephew Richard Parsons son of my brother Charles Parsons and to my nephew Benjamin Parsons son of my brother Isaac Parsons all that my moiety of and in the messuages and lands at Holton Kington Magna and North Cheriton of which I am jointly seized with my brother Henry Parsons together with all and singular my monies securities for money farming stock household goods and all other my personal estate to hold to them the said Richard Parsons and Benjamin Parsons and their heirs to the uses and upon the trusts thereinafter expressed and contained of and concerning the same that is to say To the use of my brother Henry Parsons and his assigns during his life without impeachment of waste and after the determination of that estate by forfeiture or otherwise in his lifetime to the use of the said Richard Parsons and Benjamin Parsons and their heirs during the life of the said Henry Parsons In trust for him and his assigns and after the decease of the said Henry Parsons as to for and concerning my moiety of and in the messuages and lands at Kington Magna and the household goods stock on the farm and all other my personal estate I give devise and bequeath the same unto the said Richard Parsons and Benjamin Parsons to hold to them their heirs executors administrators and assigns in equal and undivided moieties as tenants in common and not as joint tenants charged nevertheless as to the moiety thereof devised and bequeathed to my said nephew Richard Parsons with the annual payment thereout of the sum of five pounds which I hereby give and bequeath unto Isaac Parsons the brother of the said Benjamin Parsons for and during the term of his natural life and also charged equally with the other moiety thereof devised and bequeathed to my said nephew Benjamin Parsons with the annual payment thereout of the sum of five pounds which I hereby give and bequeath unto Martha Weare a servant now in my employ for and during the term of her natural life And as to for and concerning my moiety of and in the messuage or dwelling house and Inn with the garden orchard and appurtenances thereto belonging situate at Holton aforesaid I give and devise the same unto my nephew Charles Parsons the son of my brother Charles Parsons to hold to him his heirs and assigns forever charged nevertheless with the annual payment thereout of the sum of two pounds and ten shillings which I hereby give and bequeath unto his brother Uriah Parsons for and during the term of his natural life And as to for and concerning my moiety of and in the lands and hereditaments situate at North Cheriton in the said County I give and devise the same unto my nephews Uriah Parsons and Henry Parsons sons of my brother George Parsons to hold to them their heirs and assigns forever as tenants in common and not as joint tenants charged nevertheless with the annual payment thereout of the sum of five pounds which I hereby give and bequeath unto my niece Anne Parsons daughter of my brother Isaac Parsons for and during the term of her natural life and I direct the said several annuities to be paid by quarterly payments the first quarterly payment thereof to be made at the expiration of three calendar months next after my decease And I direct the annuities bequeathed to the said Martha Weare and Anne Parsons to be paid to them for their separate use and benefit independently and exclusively of any husband with whom they may respectively intermarry and without being in any wise subject to their debts claims or demands and that the receipts of the said annuitants not withstanding their respective covertures shall be good and effectual discharges for the same And in case either of the said annuities or any part thereof shall be unpaid for the space of fifteen days next after any of the said days of payment it shall be lawful for the said annuitants to enter upon all and every or any part of the said hereditaments charged with the said annuities as aforesaid and to distrain for the same or for so much thereof as shall be so in arrear and for all costs and charges occasioned by the non-payment thereof and to sell such distresses in like manner as per rent reserved by lease or common demise And I do declare that my said trustees shall be chargeable only with such monies as they shall actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed and the one shall not be answerable for the other nor for involuntary losses And also that it shall be lawful for them to retain and reimburse themselves respectively all costs charges and expenses which they or either of them shall or may incur or be put unto in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereto And I appoint the said Richard Parsons and Benjamin Parsons Executors also of my said will and hereby revoke all former Wills and declare this to be my last will and testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last will and testament contained in three sheets of paper subscribed my name to each sheet thereof this ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two

Uriah Parsons signed by the said Uriah Parsons the testator in the joint presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses this day and year as aforesaid
H Messiter       Edwin Ings Clerk to Messrs Messiter Sol. Wincanton

Proved at London 4th Dec 1860 by the oaths of Richard Parsons the nephew (son of testators brother Charles Parsons) and Benjamin Parsons the nephew also (son of testators brother Isaac Parsons) the executors to whom Admin was granted

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