The Will of Henry Sandford

 

This is the last Will and Testament of me Henry Sandford of Cromer otherwise Shipden in the county of Norfolk Merchant first I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid out of my personal estate and I direct authorise and empower my Executors hereinafter named to manage cultivate and carry on my mercantile and farming business at Cromer otherwise Shipden aforesaid and also to carry on my Malting business until my youngest child already born or hereafter to be born shall attain his or her age of twenty one years or until my Executors in their discretion shall think proper to discontinue the same business and which I hereby authorise and empower them to do when they in their discretion may deem necessary and for the purpose aforesaid I authorise my Executors to hire and employ any bailiffs servants or other persons such salaries or wages as they shall also think fit and deem reasonable for the purpose of managing and carrying on the said  mercantile farming and malting business respectively and it is my particular desire that if my son Henry Sandford shall superintend the said business that he shall be paid such a sum of money annually by way of salary as my Executors in their sole discretion may think reasonable and I direct that my Executors shall out of the profits and probate of my said mercantile farming and malting business respectively in the first place deduct retain and pay all the debts wages salaries and expenses whatsoever which they may incur or expend in or about such management and carrying on of my business as aforesaid and in the next place pay or allow to my wife or eldest daughter weekly or otherwise such a sum of money as my Executors may deem reasonable for the maintenance and support of my wife and family but I request that my wife may only remain with my family during her widowhood and as to the residue of the said profits and produce arising from the said mercantile farming and malting business I direct the same be considered as part of the residue of my personal estate and to be paid and applied accordingly and I request my Executors to let such part of my premises at Cromer as they may not want for the purpose of carrying on of my business in such manner as they may think proper and I further declare that if my Executors shall discontinue my mercantile farming and malting business before my said children shall attain their respective ages of twenty one years that it shall be lawful for my Executors and I do hereby authorise and empower them to make sale and absolutely dispose of my real and personal estate in the manner hereinafter directed except such part as is given to my said wife after my said children shall have attained their respective ages of twenty one years and from and after their respectively attaining that age then I give and devise all that my dwelling house and premises attached to it and more in my occupation situate lying and being in Cromer otherwise Shipden aforesaid (and not or those hereinafter otherwise disposed of) unto Margaret my wife for and during the term of her natural life (if she so long continues my widow but not otherwise) and also the use but not the disposal of all my household furniture plate linen and china which shall be in and about my dwelling house at the time of my decease and I request my Executors to take an inventory of the said household furniture plate linen and china as soon as conveniently can be after my decease and from and after the decease or marriage of my said wife I make void the said devises and bequests to my said wife and so hereby authorise empower and direct my said Executors to make sale and dispose of all my said messuages lands tenements and hereditaments in Cromer otherwise Shipden aforesaid so devised to my said wife as aforesaid and also my said household furniture plate linen and china in such way and manner as my Executors in their sole discretion shall think proper if my children shall have then attained their respective ages of twenty one years but if they shall not then have attained that age then I direct my Executors to postpone such sales till they shall have attained that age or for such a time as my Executors in their sole discretion may think proper and most to the interest of my family and the money arising from such sales and conversion I direct to be considered as part of the residue of my personal estate and be paid and applied in the manner hereinafter mentioned and in case my said wife should marry then I direct my said Executors to place out such a sum of money at interest on government or real security as will produce the clear yearly sum of twenty pounds and pay the same to my said wife for her life for her own use and benefit so that the same may not be subject to the debts of any husband she may marry and that her receipts alone shall be the only discharge for the dividends and interest which I direct to be paid to her by half yearly payments and immediately after my said wifes decease I direct the principal sum to be considered as part of the residue of my personal estate and be paid and applied accordingly whereas I have lately purchased of Mr. Thomas Mickleburgh certain hereditaments and premises in Cromer otherwise Shipden aforesaid but the same have not yet been conveyed to me or to my use Now I do hereby authorise empower and direct my said Executors to make sale and dispose of the said hereditaments and premises so purchased by me of Mr. Mickleburgh as aforesaid in such way and manner as my Executors think proper as and when my children shall attain their respective ages of twenty one years or whenever they in their discretion may think proper to discontinue my said mercantile farming and malting business respectively and as to my messuages land tenements and hereditaments in Wabourne in the said county and in Folkestone in the county of Kent I direct the same to be sold as soon as conveniently can be after my decease either together or in parcels and in such way and manner as my said Executors in their sole discretion shall think proper and I also direct my Executors in like manner to make sale of my personal estate and effects as and when my said children shall attain their respective ages of twenty one years or whenever my Executors shall discontinue my said business so directed by me to be carried on as aforesaid and the money arising from such sales I direct to be considered as part of the residue of my personal estate and be paid and applied accordingly provided and I do expressly declare that it shall be lawful for my Executors to employ such part of my personal estate towards carrying on of my said business as aforesaid as they in their discretion may seem necessary and proper and I do further declare my will and mind to be and direct that every receipt which shall be given to my Executors for the time being acting under this my will for any money to be received in pursuance and by virtue of this my will shall be a good and valid discharge for the sum or sums of money to be in such receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received and that the person or persons paying such money and taking such receipt as aforesaid for the same shall be thereby released from all obligation of seeing to the application of the same money and of all lieu and liability by reason of the misapplication or nonapplication thereof or of any part thereof and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my much respected friends Benjamin Barcham of Sherringham, William Blythe of Syderstrand my daughter Mary Sandford and my son Henry Sandford Executors and Executrix of this my will to each of whom I shall give and bequeath the sum of five pounds as a small remuneration for the trouble they may have in the due execution of this my will and as to for and concerning All the rest residue and remainder of my Personal Estate and Effects and the money to arise from the sales directed to be made as aforesaid subject to and after payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary charges and expenses and the legacies hereby given I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said Executors upon trust to convert such parts thereof as they may not want for the purpose of carrying on of my said mercantile farming and malting business respectively and as to not consist of ready money into and place the same out at interest on government or real security in England until my children Mary Henry Elizabeth Margaret Georgina Anna and George Webb shall attain their respective ages of twenty one years and as and when they respectively attain that age then upon trust and I direct the same to be divided between my said children share and share alike and I direct my said Executors to apply such parts of the share of my said children during their minority towards the maintenance education and preferment in the world of such children as my Executors in their sole discretion shall think proper and in case of the death of any of my said children under the age of twenty one years and without leaving any lawful issue then I direct the share of him her or them so dying to be paid to the survivors or survivor and in case of the death of all my said children under twenty one and without leaving any lawful issue Then upon trust that my Executors divide the same as follows that is to pay one fourth part of the residue of my said personal estate I give and bequeath to the children of my  sister Mary Hilton to be equally divided between them one other fourth part thereof I give and bequeath to the children of my brother John Sandford to be equally divided between them one other fourth part thereof I give and bequeath to the children of my sister Elizabeth Rigden to be equally divided between them and the remaining fourth part thereof I give and bequeath to the children of my deceased sister Ann Boxer to be equally divided between them an I further declare that in case I shall advance of my said children a sum of money in my lifetime or in case any of them shall stand indebted to the others in any sum of money then and in that case it shall be lawful for my said Executors to settle and adjust such accounts and to retain the balance which may appear to be due out of the share to which such children may be entitled and pay the same ever to such child or children to whom the same may appear to be due Provided and I declare that my Executors shall only be accountable for such money as they shall actually receive and not the one of them for the other or others of them and that they shall be reimbursed all such expenses as they shall be put to in the due execution of this my will in witness whereof I the said Henry Sandford the Testator have to the first three sheets of this my will set my hand and to this fourth and last sheet thereof my hand and seal the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Henry Sandford signed sealed published and declared by the said Henry Sandford the Testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses

Sarah Corben                   Thomas Ramsdale                              Jno Pilgrim

 

Proved 29^th January 1830 by the oaths of Mary the wife of Thomas Emory Seal( late Mary Sandford)  and Henry Sandford the Executrix and one of the surviving Executors within named and on the 3^rd October 1833 Benjamin Barcham the other surviving Executor within named to whom power was reserved then duly renounced the execution of the said will  -  

 

 This is a true Copy of and agrees with the original Will of the said Testator deceased.   Examined – P. Rilson   Reg.

This official copy of the will extracted from the Registry of the Episcopal Consistorial Court of Norwich was Proved at London 5^th February 1857 before the Judge by the oath of Henry Sandford the son of the surviving Executor to whom administration was granted Limited so far only as concerns all the right title and interest of the deceased in and to the sum of £242. 17s. 11d. three percent consolidated annuities and the interest and dividends now due and to become due thereon subject to the charitable purposes of a certain society called The Cromer Friendly Society established in the Town of Cromer in County of Norfolk for the benefit of women in times of sickness and old age but no further or otherwise or in any other manner whatsoever he having been first sworn by common duly to administer.