also I give and devise unto my said two daughters Martha Denne and Sarah Denne equally to be
divided between them share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and to
their several and respective heirs and assigns all that my freehold messuage or tenement with
the buildings, yard garden and appertuance situate lying and being in the Parish of St Nicholas at
Wade aforesaid and now in my own occupation.
Also I give and bequeath unto my said two daughters
Martha Denne and Sarah Denne all the household furniture, plate, linen and china except what I have
hereinbefore disposed of that shall be in about or of or belonging to my present dwellinghouse at the
time of my decease to be equally divided between them
also I give and bequeath unto my said daughter
Mary the wife of the said Joseph Coxon all the household furniture fixtures plate linen and china that
shall be in about or of or belonging to my farm house at Monkton in the said Isle of Thanet and County
of Kent wherein she my said daughter Mary now resides.
Also I give and bequeath the sum of five hundred pounds sterling unto the said Thomas Denne and
John Bridges upon trust that they or the survivor of them his executors or administrators shall
and do within six months next after decease lay out and invest the said sum of five hundred pounds in some and or most of the public stocks or funds of
this Kingdom in the names of them the said Thomas Denne and John Bridges or the survivor of them
his executors or administrators in trust that they the said Thomas Denne and John Bridges or the
survivor of them his executors or administrators shall and do pay apply and dispose of all the clear
yearly dividends interest and produce of the said stocks and funds so to be purchased as aforesaid as
the same shall be received by equal half yearly payments unto my said son William Denne for and
during the term of his natural life and from and immediately after the decease of my said son William
Denne then in trust that they the said Thomas Denne and John Bridges or the survivor of them his
executors or administrators shall and do on the decease of my said son William Denne pay assign and
transfer the said stocks and funds in manner following
one third? part thereof unto my said daughter Martha Denne her executors administrators or assigns
and other third part thereof unto my said daughter Sarah Denne her executors, administrators or assigns
and the other and remaining third part
thereof unto themselves the said Thomas Denne and John Bridges and the said John Zacharia Plummer
upon the trusts hereinafter declared remaining the same
also I give and bequeath unto my said son
Thomas Denne and my said son in law John Bridges the sum of five hundred pounds sterling upon trust
that they shall and do receive the yearly produce thereof for and being the term of their natural life to
and for their own use and benefit as a small compensation for their care and trouble in the management
of the affairs of my said son William Denne which I do hereby request them to undertake and perform
and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them the said Thomas Denne and John
Bridges I do hereby give and bequeath the said last mentioned sum of five hundred pounds unto my
three daughters Martha Denne, Mary Coxon and Sarah Denne equally to be divided between them
share and share alike and to their respective executors administrators and assigns the share of my said
daughter Mary Coxon therein to be transferred to and vested in the said Thomas Denne John Bridges
and John Zacharia Plummer or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of
such survivor for the benefit of her and her family in such and the same manner as the other property
hereinbefore and hereinafter bequeathed to the said Trustees is vested for her and her family and as to
all the rest and residue of my goods, chattels, stock and crop upon my farms and lands ready money
securities for money, money in the public stocks or funds of this Kingdom and all other my personal
estate whatsoever and wheresoever after and subject to the payment of all my debts legacies funeral
expenses the charges of proving this my will and other incidental expense touching the same I do
hereby give and bequeath the same and every part thereof in manner following that is to say and equal
fifth part thereof unto my said daughter Elizabeth Bridges her executors administrators and assigns one
other full equal fifth part thereof unto my said son Thomas Denne his executors administrators and
assigns one other full equal fifth part thereof unto my said daughter Martha Denne her executors
administrators and assigns one other full equal part thereof unto my said daughter Sarah Denne her
executors administrators and assigns and the other and remaining full equal fifth part thereof unto the
said John Bridges Thomas Denne and John Zacharia Plummer their executors administrators and
assigns and I do hereby declare that such last mentioned fifth part is by me given and bequeathed unto
the said John Bridges Thomas Denne and John Zacharia Plummer together with the several sums of
money hereinbefore given to them jointly and that they shall stand and be possessed of the same upon
the trusts and to and for the several uses intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared of
and concerning the same that is to say in trust that they the said John Bridges Thomas Denne and John
Zacharia Plummer and the survivors and survivor of them his executors administrators shall and do as
soon after my decease as conveniently may be in their own discretion lay out and invest the monies to
arise in manner aforesaid and herein before bequeathed to them by this my will in the purchase of
Capital Stocks in some one or more of the public stocks or funds of this Kingdom or in or upon some
one or more good private security or securities in the names or name of them John Bridges Thomas
Denne and John Zacharia Plummer or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or
administrators of such survivor and from time to time at their own discretion to sell call in and change
the stocks and securities respectively in or upon which the said trust monies or any part thereof shall or
may be invested and to reinvest and lay out the same again in the purchase of other capital stocks or in
or upon other good private security or securities as aforesaid as often as they shall see occasion and
shall and do stand possessed of all such capital stock so to be purchased and of the security or securities
in or upon which the said trust monies respectively shall or may be from time to time laid out or
invested as aforesaid and of the yearly dividends interest proceed or profits thereof respectively upon
trusts following that is to say upon trust that they my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them
or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do pay apply and dispose of the yearly
dividends interest proceed and profits of the same capital stock and securities as the same shall from
time to time arise or be made and be received into the proper hands of my said daughter Mary Coxon
during her life to and for her own sole and separate use and benefit apart from her said present or any
after taken husband to the intent that the same may not be at the disposal of or subject or liable to the ?
debts or engagements of her said present or any after taken husband but only at her own sole and
separate disposal and my will and mind is that the receipts of my said daughter alone under her hand
for the said yearly dividends interest proceed and profits shall from time to time notwithstanding her
coverture be good and sufficient discharges to my said Trustees for so much thereof for which such
receipts shall be respectively given and from and immediately after the decease of my said daughter
Mary Coxon upon trust that they my said Trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or their
executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do pay assign and transfer all the said capital
stock and securities in or upon which the said trust monies respectively shall be then invested and all
the dividends interest proceed and profits thereof respectively which shall be then due thereon unto and
among all and every the child or children male and female of my said daughter Mary Coxon lawfully
begotten and to be begotten which shall be living at the time of her decease and the issue of such of
them as shall be then dead equally to be divided between them if more than one share and share alike
such issue taking his her or their respective fathers or mothers share therein only and to be paid
assigned and transferred unto such children and issue severally and respectively when and as soon as
he she or they shall have attained his her or their respective age or ages of twenty one years or shall be
married which shall first happen and if any or either of the said children of my said daughter Mary
Coxon or their issue shall happen to die under the said age and unmarried then upon trust that they my
said Trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor
shall and do pay assign and transfer the part or share and parts or shares of and in the said trust
promises respectively of him her or them so dying unto and among the survivors or survivor of them
equally to be divided among such survivors if more than one share and share alike and to be paid and
payable unto such survivors or survivor at such times and in such manner as his her or their respective
original part share and proportion of the said trust monies and promises is by this my will directed to be
paid assigned and transferred as aforesaid and in case my said daughter Mary Coxon shall happen to
die without leaving any child or children lawfully begotten which shall be living at the time of her
decease or in case she shall leave any and all of them shall happen to die under the said age of twenty
one years and unmarried then upon trust that they my said Trustees or the survivors or survivor of them
or their executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do pay assign and transfer the said
capital stock and securities respectively and all the dividends interest and proceed thereof which shall
be then due thereon unto such persons who would have been entitled to my personal estate under and
by virtue of the statute for the distribution of intestates effects in case I had died intestate nevertheless
in utter exclusion of the said Joseph Coxons participating therein in any manner whatsoever and my
will and mind further is and I do hereby order direct and declare my said Trustees respectively and the
survivors or survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor to reimburse and pay
themselves and each and every of them out of the monies which shall come to their hands by virtue of
the trusts aforesaid all such costs charges and expenses as they or any of them shall expend pay or be
put unto in the execution of the same trusts and also that they or any or either of them shall not be
answerable or accountable for the loss of any of the said trust monies respectively which shall come to
their or any of their hands by reason of the trusts aforesaid if there be no wilful neglect or default of
them or any of them but if any loss shall happen by or through the wilful neglect or default of either of
them then the same shall be made good by him her or their only through whose means the same shall
happen and I do hereby make nominate and appoint my said son Thomas Denne and the said John
Bridges Executors of this my last Will and Testament.
And I do hereby revoke and make void all
former and other wills and testamentary papers whatsoever by me at any time heretofore made and do
publish and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I the said Elizabeth
Denne the Testatrix have to the five first sheets of this my last Will and Testament in six sheets of
paper contained set my hand and to this sixth and last sheet hereof my hand and seal this twelfth day of
June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Signed, sealed published and declared by the said Elizabeth Denne the Testatrix as and for her last Will
and Testament in the presence of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each
other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Michael Brett Snr, Michael Brett Jnr and William Elgar.
Proved at London 29th October 1819 before the Judge by the oaths of Thomas Denne Esq. the son and John Bridges Esq., the Executors to whom administration was granted having first sworn (by commission) duly to administer.
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