And I make nominate constitute and appoint my good friend George Ralph Payne Jarvis of the Town and Port of Dover in the said County
of Kent Esquire,
my eldest son Joseph Sladen of Doctors Commons London, Proctor
and my Son John Baker Sladen of Ripple Court in the said County of Kent Grazier, Executors of this my last will and Testament
And I desire to be buried in my Family vault in the Parish Church of Folkestone aforesaid at the discretion of my said Executors
I give and devise unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis and his heirs all that the Manor or Lordship of Ripple otherwise Rippley in the
said County of Kent and the quit rents heriots, reliefs, rights, royalties, members and appurtenances thereto belonging and
also all the Farms, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments thereto belonging or appertaining or
incidental or appurtenant thereunto and all other the messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate whatsoever which I lately
purchased of and from William Deedes Esquire
All which said Messuages, farms, lands and hereditaments are situate lying and being in Ripple aforesaid and Sutton in the said County of
Kent and the same are now in the tenure or occupation of my son the said John Baker Sladen his undertenants or assigns
And also all those my several pieces or parcels of Marsh Land containing by estimation ninety two acres more or less
lying and being in the several Parishes of New Romney, Old Romney, Ivychurch, Newchurch and Saint Marys in Romney Marsh in the said County
of Kent now also in the occupation of my said son John Baker Sladen
And also all those several pieces or parcels of fresh Marsh Land (now in one piece) containing by estimation twenty four acres more or
less called Coldharbert lying in the Parish of Old Romney in Romney Marsh in the said County now also in the occupation of my said Son John
Baker Sladen
And also all those two several pieces or parcels of Fresh Marsh Land containing by estimation fifteen acres more or less lying in the
parish of Alderswick otherwise Orgarswick in Romney Marsh in the said County now also in the occupation of my said Son John Baker Sladen
(which said pieces of Land contain twenty four acres and fifteen acres I lately purchased of Henry Broadley and Thomas Broadley Fooks
)
And also all that piece or parcel of Fresh Marsh Land containing by estimation sixteen acres more or
less lying in the Parish of Saint Mary’s in Romney Marsh in the said County and now also in the
occupation of my said Son John Baker Sladen
And also all those my two pieces or parcels of Land arable, meadow or pasture containing by estimation three acres and three quarters more
or less called Gladers and Chapel Field situate and lying within the liberty of Folkestone aforesaid and all and singular other the lands
tenements and hereditaments which I purchased at any time or times heretofore of and from Mr. William Watson or any of the Watson
Family which said Lands and premises are in the tenure or occupation of Charles Stebbings
To have and to hold all and singular the said Manor or Lordship, Messuages, Farms, Marsh Lands,
Tenements, hereditaments and premises and every of them and every part and parcel thereof with
their and every of their Appurtenances unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis his heirs and assigns
To the several uses Upon the several trusts and under and subject to the provisoes and agreements
hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say)
To the use of my Nephew John Sladen his executors, administrators and assigns for and during the
term of five hundred years without impeachment of waste
Nevertheless Upon such trusts and for such intents and purposes as are hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the said term
And from and after the said expiration or other sooner determination of the same term and subject thereto
In trust for my said son the said John Baker Sladen and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste (voluntary waste in pulling down houses and buildings and not rebuilding the same in as good or better a manner only excepted) And from and immediately after the determination of that Estate To the use of the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis and his heirs during the natural life of my said son John Baker Sladen
In trust to support and preserve the contingent uses and estates thereof hereinafter limited from being defeated or destroyed And for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as occasion shall or may require But nevertheless to permit and suffer my said son John Baker Sladen and his assigns to receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof and every part thereof for and during the term of his natural life to and for his and their own proper use and benefit
And from and after his decease In trust for the first Son of the body of my said son John Baker Sladen already begotten or to be begotten and the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing And for default of such Issue In trust for the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and all and every other son and sons of the body of my said son John Baker Sladen already begotten or to be begotten whether born in his lifetime or after his decease severally successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall happen to be in priority of birth and seniority of age And the several and respective heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such respective son and sons lawfully issuing the elder of such sons and the heirs male of his body being always preferred and to take before the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his or their respective body or bodies issuing
And for default of such Issue In Trust for my eldest son the said Joseph Sladen and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste And from and after the determination of that Estate To the use of the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis and his heirs during the natural life of my said son Joseph Sladen
In trust to preserve and support the contingent uses and estate thereof hereinafter limited from being defeated and for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as occasion shall or may require But nevertheless to permit and suffer my said Son Joseph Sladen and his assigns to receive and take the rents and profits thereof and every part thereof for and during the term of his natural life to and for his and their own proper use and benefit
And from and after his decease In trust for the first Son of the body of my said son Joseph Sladen already begotten or to be begotten and the heirs male of the body of such first son of my said son Joseph Sladen lawfully issuing and for default of such Issue In trust for the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and all and every other son and sons of the body of my said son Joseph Sladen already begotten or to be begotten whether born in his lifetime or after his decease severally, successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall happen to be in priority of birth and seniority of age And the several and respective heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such respective son and sons lawfully issuing the elder of such sons and the heirs male of his body being always preferred and to take before the younger of such sons and the heirs male of his or their respective body or bodies issuing And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the right heirs of me the said Joseph Sladen for ever
And as for and concerning the said term of Five hundred years hereinbefore limited to the said John Sladen his executors administrators and assigns I the said Joseph Sladen do by this my will expressly declare that the said term is so limited to him and them Upon the trust and confidence and to and for the intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned (that is to say)
That in case my said son John Baker Sladen shall happen to depart this life without leaving Issue
male of him surviving and there shall happen to be one or more Daughter or Daughters of the body
of him my said son John Baker Sladen lawfully begotten and whether born in his lifetime or after his
decease That then and in such case he the said John Sladen his executors administrators or assigns
shall and do within three calendar months next after the death of my said son John Baker Sladen as
aforesaid by and out of the rents and profits of by sale mortgage or other disposition of the premises
comprized in the said term of Five hundred years or by all or any of the ways and means aforesaid or
by any other whatsoever as he or they in his or their discretion shall think fit, meet, levy and raise for
or towards the portion or portions of such Daughter or Daughters the sum of three thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain
And pay and apply the same unto and amongst such Daughter or Daughters (if more than one) share
and share alike And if but one such Daughter To such Daughter at her or their age or ages of twenty
one years or day of marriage which shall first happen And in case any or either such Daughters shall
happen to die under the said age and before marriage Then it is my will that the part or share or parts
or shares of such Daughter or Daughters so dying as aforesaid shall go and be paid to the survivor or survivors of them
And Upon the further trust that he the said John Sladen his executors administrators or assigns shall and do after the decease of my said son John Baker Sladen without leaving any lawful Issue male as aforesaid by and out of the rents and profits of the said premises comprized in the said term or by such other means as he or they in his or their discretion shall think fit meet levy and raise such sum of money for the maintenance and education in the meantime of such Daughter or Daughters as will not exceed the Interest of their respective portions after the rate of five pounds for one hundred pounds for a year, such maintenance to be payable half yearly at the fifth day of April and the fourth day of October and the first payment thereof to be made on that of the said days which shall first happen next after the decease of my said son John Baker Sladen without male issue as aforesaid
And Upon this further trust that the said John Sladen his executors administrators or assigns shall and do permit the person next in remainder of the same Premises expectant on the determination of the said term of five hundred years to have and take the rents and profits of the said Premises over and above so much thereof as shall be applied in the maintenance of such Daughters as aforesaid Provided always and I do hereby declare my will to be that from and after the trusts hereinbefore declared of the said term shall be fully satisfied or shall become incapable of taking effect That then the said term of five hundred years or so much thereof as shall not have been sold mortgaged or otherwise disposed of for the purposes aforesaid (the charges relating to the said trusts if any being first paid and satisfied) shall cease determine and be utterly void
Also I give and devise unto my said son John Baker Sladen his heirs and assigns All that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Ground and Hereditaments situate lying and being in the Town and Port of Folkestone aforesaid in a certain Street there called Radnor Street and now in the occupation of William Smith And also all that my Copyhold Messuage or Tenement Ground and Hereditaments situate lying and being in the Town and Port of Folkestone aforesaid in a certain Street there called South Street and now in the occupation of John Eldridge To have and to hold the same two last mentioned messuages or tenements and hereditaments unto and to the use of my said son John Baker Sladen his heirs and assigns for ever
Also I give and devise unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis and his heirs All that my messuage,
tenement or manor house with the land and hereditaments thereunto belonging situate and lying in
the parish of Lee in the said County of Kent and now in the occupation of my said son Joseph Sladen
And also all that my messuage or tenement and farm with the outhouses buildings yards Gardens
and several pieces of Land containing by estimation one hundred and thirty acres more or less with
the Appurtenances situate lying and being in the several parishes of Newington-next-Hythe and
Paddlesworth in the said County of Kent and now in the occupation of John Kettle or his undertenants
And also all those several pieces or parcels of freshwater land containing by estimation thirty acres
more or less lying in Old Romney aforesaid and now in the occupation of my said son John Baker Sladen
And also all those two pieces or parcels of pasture Land with the Appurtenances called Long Meadow and a Newland containing by estimation
four acres and three quarters more or less lying and being in the Liberty or Parish of Folkestone aforesaid and now in the occupations of
John Grayling Major and Thomas Godden
To have and to hold the said Marsh Lands, messuages, mansion house, Farm, Lands, tenements,
hereditaments and Premises and every part thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said George
Ralph Payne Jarvis his heirs and assigns To the several uses Upon the several Trusts and under and
subject to the provisoes and agreements hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say)
To the use of the said John Sladen his executors administrators and assigns for and during the term
of six hundred years without impeachment of Waste Nevertheless upon such trusts and for such
intents and purposes as are hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the said term
And from and after the end expiration or other sooner determination of the same term and subject
thereto In trust for my said first son the said Joseph Sladen and his assigns for and during the term
of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste (voluntary waste in pulling
down buildings and not rebuilding the same in as good or better a manner only excepted) And from
and immediately after the determination of that Estate To the use of the said George Ralph Payne
Jarvis and his heirs during the natural life of my said son Joseph Sladen
In trust to support and procure the contingent uses and estates thereof hereinafter limitted from being defeated or destroyed And for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as occasion shall or may require But Nevertheless to permit and suffer my said son Joseph Sladen and his assigns to receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof and of every part thereof for and during the term of his natural life to and for his and their own proper use and benefit
And from and after his decease In trust for the first Son of the body of my said son Joseph Sladen already begotten or to be begotten and the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing And for default of such Issue In Trust for the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and all and every other son and sons of the body of my said son Joseph Sladen already begotten or to be begotten whether born in his lifetime or after his decease severally successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall happen to be in priority of birth and seniority of age and the several and respective heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such respective son and sons lawfully issuing the elder of such sons and the heirs male of his body being always preferred and to take before the younger of such Sons and the heirs male of his or their respective body or bodies issuing
And for default of such Issue In trust for my said second son John Baker Sladen and his Assigns
for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste And
from and after the determination of that Estate To the use of the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis and
his heirs during the natural life of my said son John Baker Sladen In trust to preserve and support
the contingent uses and estates thereof hereinafter limitted from being defeated or destroyed
And for that purpose to make entrys and bring actions as occasion shall or may require But
nevertheless to permit and suffer my said son John Baker Sladen and his assigns to receive and take the Rents and profits thereof and
every part thereof for and during the term of his natural life to and for his and their own proper use and benefit
And from and after his decease In Trust for the first son of the body of my said son John Baker
Sladen already begotten or to be begotten and the heirs male of the body of such first son of my said
son John Baker Sladen lawfully issuing And for default of such Issue In trust for the second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and all and every other son and sons of the body of my said
son John Baker Sladen already begotten or to be begotten whether born in his lifetime or after his
decease severally successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall
happen to be in priority of birth and seniority of age and the several and respective heirs male of the
body and bodies of all and every such respective son and sons lawfully issuing the elder of such sons
and the heirs male of his body being always preferred and to take before the younger of such Sons
and the heirs male of his or their respective body or bodies issuing
And for default of such Issue To the use and behoof of the right heirs of me the said Joseph Sladen for ever
And as for and concerning the said term of six hundred years hereinbefore limitted to the said John Sladden his executors administrators and assigns I the said Joseph Sladen do by this my Will expressly declare that the said term is so limitted to him and them Upon the trust and confidence and to and for the intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned (that is to say)
That in case my said son Joseph Sladen shall happen to depart this life without leaving any Issue male him surviving and there shall happen to be one or more Daughter or Daughters of the body of him my said son Joseph Sladen lawfully begotten and whether born in his lifetime or after his decease That then and in such case he the said John Sladen his executors administrators or assigns shall and do within three calendar months next after the death of my said last named son Joseph Sladen as aforesaid by and out of the rents and profits or by mortgage sale or other disposition of the premises comprized in the said term of six hundred years of by all or an of the ways and means aforesaid or by any other (means) whatsoever as he or they in his or their discretion shall think meet Levy and raise for or towards the portion or portions of such Daughter or Daughters the sum of three thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain and pay and apply the same unto and amongst such Daughter or Daughters (if more than one) share and share alike and if but one such Daughter To such only Daughter at her or their age or ages of twenty one years or day or days of marriage which shall first happen And in case any or either of such Daughters shall happen to die under the said age and before marriage Then it is my will that the part or share or parts or shares of such Daughter or Daughters so dying as aforesaid shall go and be paid to the survivor or survivors of them
Upon this further trust that he the said John Sladen his executors administrators or assigns shall and do after the decease of my said son Joseph Sladen without leaving any Issue male as aforesaid by and out of the rents and profits of the said premises comprized in the said term or by such other means as he or they in his or their discretion shall think meet, levy and raise such sum of money for the maintenance and education in the meantime of such Daughter or Daughters as will not exceed the Interest of their respective portions after the rate of five pounds for one hundred pounds for a year, such maintenance to be payable half yearly on the fifth day of April and the fourth day of October and the first payment thereof to be made on that of the said days which shall happen next after the decease of my said son Joseph Sladen without male issue as aforesaid
And upon this further trust that he the said John Sladen his executors administrators or assigns shall and do permit the person next in remainder of the same premises expectant on the determination of the said term of six hundred years to have and take the rents and profits of the said Premises over and above so much thereof as shall be applied in the maintenance of such Daughters as aforesaid
Provided always and I do hereby declare my will to be that from and after the trusts hereinbefore declared of the said term shall be fully paid and satisfied or shall become incapable of taking effect That then the said term of six hundred years or so much thereof as shall not have been sold, mortgaged or otherwise disposed of for the purposes aforesaid (the charges relating to the said trusts (if any) being first paid and satisfied) shall cease determine and be utterly void
Provided always and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that if any person who by virtue of
the limitations hereinbefore contained shall be entitled for the time being to the actual possession or
to the receipt of the rents issues and profits of the said several hereditaments and premises
hereinbefore devised or any of them shall be under the age of twenty one years
Then and in such case and so often as the same shall happen he the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis
his executors or administrators shall during such minority or respective minorities receive the rents
issue and profits of the hereditaments and premises to which any such person shall be entitled as
aforesaid and at his or their discretion apply a competent part thereof for the maintenance of the
person so for the time being entitled as aforesaid and lay out and invest the rest in the name or names
of the said trustee or trustees or the time being in the purchase of parliamentary stocks or public
funds of Great Britain or at Interest upon real or Government Securities in England and alter and vary
the same from time to time at his or their discretion
And receive and take the Interest Dividends and Annual produce of the said Stocks Funds and
Securities and lay out and invest the same in hi or their name or names in or upon Stocks Funds and
Securities of a like nature to be from time to time altered and varied as aforesaid and from time to
time upon the said receipts layings out and investments To the end and intent and so that he said
rents issues profits stocks Funds and Securities Interest Dividends and Annual produce and the
resulting income and produce thereof may during such time as any such as aforesaid shall be under
the age aforesaid accumulate in the way of compound Interest
And I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that the said rents issues profits stocks funds
securities and the resulting income and produce thereof respectively shall be respectively applied and
disposed of in such manner as I shall direct the money to be applied and disposed of which shall
respectively arise by the sale of the hereditaments from which such rents issues Stocks Funds
Securities and accumulations shall have proceeded
Provided always and I declare my will and mind to be that it shall and may be lawful for the said John Baker Sladen and Joseph Sladen respectively as and when by virtue of the limitations hereinbefore contained they shall severally or successively be in the actual possession of and entitled to the receipt of the rents issues and profits of the several hereditaments and premises hereinbefore by me devised during their respective lives
And also for the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis his executors or administrators from time to time and at all times during the minority of any child who by virtue of any of the limitations hereinbefore contained be any Indenture or Indentures to be sealed and delivered by them respectively in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses to limit and appoint by way of demise or lease all or any part or parts of the said several hereditaments and premises to any person or persons for any term or number of years absolute not exceeding eleven years to take effect in possession and not reversion or by way of future Interest so as there be reserved in every such demise lease or grant the best or most improved yearly rent or rents that can or may be reasonably had or gotten for the same to be incident to the immediate reversion of the hereditaments so to be demised or leased without taking any fine premium foregift or any thing in the nature of a fair Premium or foregift for the making thereof
And so as there be contained in every such limitation or appointment by way of demise or lease a condition of re-entry on nonpayment of the rent or rents thereby to be respectively reserved And so as the Lessee or Lessees do execute a Counterpart thereof respectively And do thereby covenant for the due payment of the rent or rents thereby to be respectively reserved and be not by any clause or words thereon to be contained made dispunishable of waste or excepted from punishment for committing waste (any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding
Provided also and I do hereby further declare my will and mind to be that it shall be lawful for the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis his executors and adm[inistrat]ors at the request and by the direction of any person who shall be Tenant for Life or in tail in possession under the limitations hereinbefore contained if such persons shall be of full age but if any such person shall be under age then at the request and by the direction of the Guardian or Guardians for the time being of such person so entitled as aforesaid (such request and direction to be testified by some writing under the hand and seal or hands and seals of the person or persons whose direction is hereby made requisite as aforesaid and to be attested by two or more credible witnesses) to dispose of either by way of absolute sale or in exchange for other hereditaments situate in England Wales all or any part or parts of the Estates of which such Person shall be actual Tenant for life or in tail in possession as hereinbefore is mentioned
And that for the purpose of effecting such sales or exchanges it shall be lawful for the said George
Ralph Payne Jarvis his executors or administrators by any Deed sealed and delivered by him or them
in the presence of and attested by two or more credible Witnesses to revoke the uses or trusts,
powers, provisoes and declarations thereinbefore or hereinafter created or which shall be created by
any Codicil to this my Will or by an exercise of any of the powers hereinbefore contained or to be
contained in any such Codicil (except the uses or estates to be created under the power of Leasing
hereinbefore contained) and to appoint such other uses, trusts, powers, provisoes and declarations as
it may be thought necessary or expedient to appoint in order to effectuate any such sale of exchange
and to receive upon any such exchange any sum of money by way of equality of exchange
And also upon payment of the money to be raised by sale of hereditaments devised by this my Will
or any part thereof or of any Money to be paid for Equality of exchanges to sign and give receipts for
the same respectively And that such receipts shall effectually discharge the persons paying the same from being answerable or
accountable for the misapplication or being bound to see to the application of the money therein mentioned to be received
And that the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis his executors or administrators shall lay out the money arising from any such sale or so to be paid for equality of exchange in the purchase of Freehold Leasehold or Copyhold Estates situate in England or Wales to be approved of by some writing under the hand of the person who would be Tenant for life or in tail thereof if the same were then actually purchased and settled in case such person shall have attained his age of twenty one years But if such person shall be under the age of twenty one years then every such purchase shall be made with the approbation in writing of the Guardian or Guardians of any such tenant for life or in tail
And that the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis his heirs executors or administrators shall settle the Estates so to be purchased or received by way of exchange To the uses upon the trusts and under and subject to the powers provisoes and declarations hereinbefore expressed and contained of the hereditaments which shall be so sold or given in exchange or as near thereto as the nature and quality of the said Estates and intervening circumstances will admit of Yet so that if any of the lands to be purchased as aforesaid shall be held by a Lease for years the same as to the effects or purpose of transmission shall not vest absolutely in the Child of any Person hereby made Tenant for life who shall not attain the age of twenty one years
And my will is that until a proper purchase shall be found upon which the money arising from the said sales or exchanges shall be invested the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis his heirs executors administrators or assigns shall invest the Money arising from such sale or to be paid for equality of exchange as aforesaid in his or their name or names in Government or Real Securities in England and later and vary the same as he or they shall think proper or expedient And pay the Interest Dividends and Annual produce of the said sums of money, stocks, funds and securities to the person who would be entitled to the rents issues and profits of the Estates so to be purchased as aforesaid if the same were then actually purchased and settled
Also I give and bequeath unto my said Executors George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators the sum of two thousand and eight hundred pounds bank Stock Upon trust that they the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen or the survivor or survivors of them or the executors or Administrators of such survivor shall and do immediately after my decease stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of two thousand and eight hundred pounds Bank Stock and shall and do pay the Interest Dividends and yearly proceed of the same unto my said son Joseph Sladden and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life to and for his own use and benefit
And from and immediately after his decease In trust to pay the Interest Dividends and Proceeds thereof unto the first son of the body of my said son Joseph Sladen already begotten or to be begotten and the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing And for default of such Issue In trust for the second, third, fourth, fifty sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and all and every other son and sons of the body of my said son Joseph Sladen already begotten or to be begotten in such and the same manner and subject to the same trusts, provisoes, intents and purposes and to the like contingencies as I have hereinbefore directed concerning the rents issues and profits of the messuage, Mansion house, lands and hereditaments in the Parishes of Lee, Newington-next-Hythe, Paddlesworth, Old Romney and Folkestone aforesaid in the said County of Kent
Also I give and bequeath unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker
Sladen their executors and administrators the sum of Five hundred pounds of sterling money Upon trust
that they the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John
Baker Sladen or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors of administrators of such survivor
shall and do immediately after my decease place out the said sum of Five hundred pounds on
Government Securities and shall and do invest the interest dividends and yearly proceed of the same
from time to time as the same shall become due in accumulation of the Capital thereof in their own
names until my Grandson Joseph Banks the oldest son of my daughter Sarah the wife of Lawrence
Banks shall arrive to the age of twenty one years
And when and so soon as my said Grandson Joseph Banks shall arrive to the said age of twenty one
years Upon trust to pay assign and transfer the said sum of Five hundred pounds together with all
such accumulations as aforesaid unto him the said Joseph Banks
Provided always that in case the said Joseph Banks shall depart this life before he arrives to the said age of twenty one years Then I
give and bequeath the said sum of Five hundred pounds together with all such accumulations as may
be due at the time of his decease unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John
Baker Sladen their executors and administrators
Upon such and the same trusts and intents and purposes as I have hereinafter mentioned expressed
and declared of and concerning the sum of twelve thousand and five hundred pounds four pounds per Centum bank annuities given by me to
the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators In trust for the Child and
Children of my said Daughter Sarah Banks as hereinafter mentioned
Also I give and bequeath unto my said Executors George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and
John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators the sum of twelve thousand and five hundred
pounds four pounds per Centum bank annuities Upon trust that they the said
George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their survivors and survivor of
them or the executors and administrators of such survivor shall and do immediately after my decease
stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of twelve thousand and five hundred pounds
four pounds per Centum bank annuities and shall and do invest the Interest Dividends and
Yearly Proceed of the same bank annuities as the same shall from time to time become due in
accumulation of the Capital thereof in their own names during the natural life of my said Daughter
Sarah the wife of the said Lawrence Banks
And from and immediately after the decease of my said Daughter Sarah Banks Upon trust that
they my said Executors or Administrators or the survivors and survivor of them or the executors and
administrators of such survivor shall and do pay, assign or transfer the said sum of twelve thousand
and five hundred pounds four pounds per Centum bank annuities together with all such
accumulations as aforesaid unto all and every the child and children of the body of my said Daughter
Sarah Banks already begotten and to be begotten equally to be divided between them (if more than
one) share and share alike And if but one such child Then unto such only child as and when he, she
and they shall severally and respectively attain his, her or their age or ages of twenty five years
And my will is that the Interest of the said bank annuities and funds of such child’s part and share
who shall be under the said age of twenty five years at the decease of my said Daughter Sarah Banks
shall accumulate as aforesaid until such child’s part and share of and in the said trust monies shall
become payable and shall be then paid unto such Child according to the true intent and meaning of this my will
Provided that in case any of the Children of my said Daughter Sarah Banks shall die in her lifetime
leaving Issue Then such Issue shall take its parents part or share of the said Bank Annuities Funds
and Monies while all accumulations thereof but in case any of the Children of my said Daughter
Sarah shall die in her lifetime without Issue Then and in such case the part or share of such of them as
shall so die shall go and be paid to and equally divided between and among the survivors of the
children of my said Daughter Sarah (if more than one) but if only one then to such surviving Child
And in case my said Daughter Sarah shall happen to die without leaving any Issue of her body
lawfully begotten or there being Issue (and) all such Issue shall happen to die in her lifetime Then I
give and bequeath the said twelve thousand and five hundred pounds bank annuities and all
accumulations thereof unto my said sons Joseph Sladen, John Baker Sladen and my said Daughters
Caroline Matilda Smith and Mary Sladen equally to be divided between them share and share
(alike) and to their respective executors administrators or assigns accordingly
And it is my desire that all such sum and sums of money which the said Lawrence Banks may owe me at the time of my
decease may be paid by him to my said Executors within three months next after my decease
Also I give and devise all that my leasehold messuage or tenement late in the occupation of William
Smith the Elder situate in the parish of Chartham in the said County of Kent together with the Yards,
Gardens, land, hereditaments and premises thereunto belonging or therewith now enjoyed unto my
son in Law William Smith and my said Daughter Caroline Matilda his Wife for and during the
term of their natural lives if my estate and Interest therein shall so long continue they keeping the
same in good and tenantable order condition and repair and paying the Rent to grow due for the
same and observing and performing the covenants conditions and agreements in the Lease or Lease thereof
And from and after the decease of the survivor of them the said William Smith and Caroline
Matilda his Wife I give and devise the said leasehold messuage or tenement yards Gardens Lands
hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said daughter Caroline Matilda
already begotten or to be begotten and the heirs male of the body of such first Son lawfully issuing for
and during all the then residue and remainder of my estate and interest therein
And for default of such Issue Then I give and devise the same Leasehold Premises unto the second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and all and every other son and sons of the body of
my said Daughter Caroline Matilda severally, successively one after another as they and every of
them shall happen to be in priority of birth and seniority of age and the several and respective heirs
male of the body and bodies of all and every such respective son and sons lawfully issuing the elder
of such sons and the heirs male of the his body being always preferred and to take before the younger
of such sons and the heirs male of his or their respective body or bodies issuing for and during all the
then residue and remainder of my Estate and Interest then due
And for default of such Issue Then I give and devise the same Leasehold Premises unto and amongst
all and every the Daughter and Daughters of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda already begotten or
to be begotten for and during all the term residue and remainder of my estate and interest therein
And for default of such Issue Then I give and devise the same Leasehold Premises unto the right heirs
of me the said Joseph Sladen for and during the term residue and remainder of my estate and interest thereof
And it is my desire that at the expiration of the present term for which the present Leasehold premises are granted that my said Executors and the survivors and survivor of them or the executors and administrators of such survivor shall and do renew the present and future Leases of the said Premises and take a new Lease or Leases of the same in their own names for such term or terms of years which the same have usually been leased or demised and shall and do by and out of the rents and profits of the said Leasehold Premises raise such sum and sums of money as shall be sufficient to pay the Fines and Expences of renewing such lease and leases as aforesaid when and as often as there shall be occasion and such new lease or leases and the term and terms thereby granted shall be subject to such and the same uses and limitations as I have hereinbefore mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the residue of the term of the now subsisting Lease And that the rents covenants and agreements to be reserved and contained in such new lease or leases shall be paid performed and kept by the person or persons who shall for the time being be beneficially interested therein
Also I give and bequeath unto my said Executors George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators the sum of ten thousand pounds four per centum Bank Annuities Upon trust that the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do immediately after my decease stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of ten thousand pounds four pounds per centum Bank Annuities and shall and do invest the Interest Dividends and yearly proceed of the same Bank Annuities as the same shall from time to time become due in accumulation of the Capital thereof in their own names during the natural life of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda the Wife of the said William Smith
And from and immediately after the decease of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda Smith Upon trust that they my said Executors or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do pay assign or transfer the said sum of ten thousand pounds four per centum Bank Annuities together with all such accumulations as aforesaid unto all and every the child and children of the body of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda Smith already begotten and to be begotten equally to be divided between them (if more than one) share and share alike And if but one such child then unto such only Child as and when he she and they shall severally and respectively attain his her and their age or ages of twenty five years
And my will is that the Interest of the said Bank Annuities of such Child’s part and shares who shall be under the said age of twenty five years at the decease of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda Smith shall accumulate as aforesaid until such Child’s part and share of and in the said trust monies shall become payable and shall be then paid unto such Child according to the true intent and meaning of this my Will
Provided that in case any of the Children of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda Smith shall die in
her lifetime leaving Issue then such Issue shall take its parents part or share of the said bank annuities
with all accumulations thereof but in case any of the said Children of my said Daughter Caroline
Matilda shall die in her lifetime without Issue Then and in such case the part and share of such as
them as shall so die shall go and be paid to and be equally divided between and amongst the
survivors of the Children of my said Daughter Caroline Matilda (if more than one) but if only one then to such surviving Child
And in case my said Daughter Caroline Matilda shall happen to die
without leaving any Issue of her body lawfully begotten or there being Issue all such Issue shall happen to die in her lifetime
Then I give and bequeath the said ten thousand pounds Bank Annuities and all
accumulations thereof unto my said Sons Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen and my said
Daughters Sarah Banks and Mary Sladen equally to be divided between them share and share alike
and to their respective executors administrators or assigns accordingly
And I do give and forgive my said Son in law William Smith all such Principal Monies which may
be due from him to me at the time of my decease whether on bond or otherwise he paying unto my
said Executors all Interest then due thereout
Also I give unto my said Children Joseph Sladen, John Baker Sladen, Sarah Banks, Caroline
Matilda Smith and Mary Sladen all my plate equally to be divided between them share and share like
Also I give unto my said Daughters Sarah Banks, Caroline Matilda Smith and Mary Sladen all the
Wearing Apparel, rings and Trinkets which belonged to my late deceased Wife
Also I give unto my said Daughter Mary Sladen the sum of five hundred pounds sterling
to be paid to her by my said Executors immediately after my decease
Also I give and bequeath unto my said Daughter Mary Sladen all my household Furniture, Linen, China and Implements of household (of which
I request my said Executors to make an Inventory immediately after my decease) for and during the term of her natural life
And from and immediately after her decease I give the said household Furniture, Linen, China and
Implements of household unto all and every the child and children of the body of my said Daughter
Mary Sladen lawfully begotten equally to be divided between them (if more than one) share and
share alike And if but one such child then unto such only Child
But in case my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall depart this life without leaving any Issue of her
body lawfully begotten Then I give and bequeath the said household furniture, linen, china and
implements of household unto my said Sons Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen and my said
Daughters Sarah Banks and Caroline Matilda Smith equally to be divided between them share and
share alike and to their respective executors administrators or assigns accordingly
Also I give and devise unto my said Daughter Mary Sladen all that my new erected messuage or
tenement wherein I now reside with the Yard Garden Outbuildings and hereditaments thereunto
belonging situate lying and being in Dover Street in the said Town and Port of Folkestone And also
all that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Garden Hereditaments and Premises situate lying and
being in Cow Street in the said Town of Folkestone and now in the occupation of John Castle To
hold the same unto my said Daughter Mary Sladen and her assigns for and during the term of her
natural life she keeping the same in good and tenantable repair and condition
And from and immediately after her decease I give and devise the said two last mentioned
messuages or tenements yard garden outbuildings and hereditaments unto all and every the child
and children both male and Female of my said Daughter Mary Sladen lawfully begotten equally to
be divided between them share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and the
heirs of their respective bodies issuing And in case any of them shall happen to die without Issue
Then as to the part or share or parts or shares of such Child or Children so dying or whose Issue shall
fail To the use of the survivors or survivor and others and other of them and the heirs of their
respective bodies And of there shall be failure or Issue of all the said Children but on or if there shall
be but one child Then to the use of such remaining or only Child and the heirs of his or her body
issuing And for default of such Issue To the use of my own right heirs for ever
Provided always that in case my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall marry without first obtaining the
consent of my said son Joseph Sladen in writing under his hand and attested by two credible
witnesses Then I give and devise the said two last mentioned messuages or tenements Yard Garden
Outbuildings and Hereditaments unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis and his heirs Upon trust
to pay the rents and profits thereof for and towards the maintenance education and bringing up of all
and every such Child and Children as my said Daughter Mary Sladen may have lawfully begotten in
such manner as my said trustee or his heirs shall think proper until the youngest of them shall arrive to the age of twenty one years
And when and as soon as the youngest of them shall arrive to the said age of twenty one years Then
I give and devise the said two last mentioned messuages or tenements Yard Garden Outbuildings
and Hereditaments unto and among all and every the child and Children both male and female of my
said Daughter Mary Sladen lawfully begotten equally to be divided between them share and share
alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and the heirs of their respective bodies issuing
And in case any of them shall happen to die without Issue Then as to the part or share or parts or
shares of such Child or Children so dying or whose Issue shall fail To the use of the survivors or
survivor and others and other of them and the heirs of their respective bodies And if there shall be
failure of Issue of all the said Children but one or if there shall be but one Child Then to the use of
such remaining or only Child and the heirs of his or her body issuing And for default of such Issue
To the use of my own right heirs for ever
Also I give and bequeath unto my said Executors George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators the sum of Fourteen thousand pounds fo[u]r pounds per Centum Bank Annuities Upon trust that they the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do immediately after my decease stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank annuities and shall and do pay the Interest Dividends and yearly Proceed of the same and each of them unto my said Daughter Mary Sladen and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life
And from and immediately after her decease Upon trust that they my said Executors or the
survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do pay
assign or transfer the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank annuities
unto all and every the child and children of the body of my said Daughter Mary Sladen lawfully to
be begotten equally to be divided between them (if more than one) share and share alike And if but
one Child Then unto such only Child as and when he she and they shall severally and respectively
attain his her and their age and ages of twenty five years if such respective times of payment happen
after the decease of my Daughter Mary Sladen
And my will is that the Interest of the said Bank Annuities shall from the death of my said Daughter
Mary be paid be paid and applied for the maintenance and support of such Child and Children
respectively in such way and manner as my said Executors or the survivors or survivor of them or the
executors or administrators of such survivor shall from time to time think proper until the said trust
monies shall become payable and be paid unto such Child and Children according to the true intent and meaning of this my will
Provided that in case any of the Children of my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall die in her life time
leaving Issue Then such Issue shall take its parents part or share of the said bank Annuities But in
case any of the Children of my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall die in her lifetime without Issue
Then and in such case the part or share of them as shall so die shall go and be paid to and be equally
divided between and among the survivors of the Children of my said Daughter Mary Sladen (if more
than one) but if only one then to such surviving Child
And in case my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall happen to die without leaving any Issue of her
body lawfully begotten or there being Issue all such Issue shall happen to die in her lifetime Then I
give and bequeath the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank
annuities unto my said sons Joseph Sladen, John Baker Sladen and my said Daughters Mary Banks
and Caroline Matilda Smith equally to be divided between them share and share alike and to their
respective executors administrators or assigns accordingly
Provided also that in case my said Daughter Mary Sladden shall marry without first obtaining the
consent of my said son Joseph Sladen as aforesaid Then I give and bequeath the said sum of
Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank annuities unto the said George Ralph
Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators
Upon trust that they or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such
survivor shall and do immediately after such marriage of my said Daughter Mary without the
consent of my said son Joseph as aforesaid stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of
Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank annuities and shall and do pay the Interest
dividends and yearly proceed of the same for and towards the maintenance or education and
bringing up of all and every such child and children as my said Daughter Mary Sladen may have
lawfully begotten in such manner as my said Executors shall think proper until they shall respectively
attain the age of twenty five years
And when and as they shall respectively attain the age of twenty five years Upon trust to pay assign
and transfer unto such child and Children his her and their part and share or parts and shares of and
in the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank annuities accordingly
Provided also that in case any of the Children of my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall die before
they become entitled to receive their parts and shares of and in the said trust monies leaving Issue
Then such Issue shall take its parents part or share of he said bank annuities But in case any of the
Children of my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall die before they are entitled to receive their part and
share as aforesaid without Issue Then and in such case the part or share of such of them as shall so
die shall go and be paid to and be equally divided between and among the survivors of the Children
of my said Daughter Mary Sladen (if more than one) but if only one then to such surviving Child
upon his her or their respectively attaining the said age of twenty five years
And in case my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall happen to die without leaving any Issue of her body lawfully begotten
or there being Issue (and) all such Issue shall happen to die before they are entitled to receive the said trust monies
Then I give and bequeath the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds, four pounds per Centum bank
annuities unto my said Sons Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen and my said Daughters
Sarah Banks and Caroline Matilda Smith equally to be divided between them share and share alike
and to their respective executors administrators or assigns accordingly
Also I give and bequeath unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis the sum of twenty pounds
And as to all the rest residue and remainder of my ready monies and securities for money, monies in
the Public Funds, Mortgages, Bonds, Debts, Goods, Cattle, Chattels, Leases, Terms of Years, Effects
and Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever, and of what nature kind or quality soever the same
(may) be, whereof I shall die possessed, interested in or entitled unto or which shall be any ways
due, owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease not by me heretofore disposed of (and
which shall be and remain after the payment of all my just debts, funeral and testamentary charges,
the aforesaid legacies and sums of money hereinbefore bequeathed or ordered or directed to be paid,
my trustees costs and charges and all incidental expences) I give and bequeath the same and every
part thereof And all my estate, right and interest therein unto my said sons Joseph Sladen and John
Baker Sladen equally to be divided between them share and share alike and to their respective
executors administrators and assigns to and for his and their own use and benefit
And I direct my said (son) John Baker Sladden to pay unto my other Executors within three months
next after my decease all such sums of money as may be then due from him to me
And in case any or either of them my said Executors and Trustees George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John
Baker Sladen shall happen to die before the accomplishment of the said several trusts hereby in them
reposed as aforesaid or shall refuse or decline or be incapable to act in the said trusts or any of them
before the same shall be fully executed Then and in such case I do will and direct that the survivors
or survivor of them my said trustees shall by writing under his or their hand and seal nominate and
appoint one or more next Executor and trustee of Executors and Trustees for the purposes aforesaid
to keep up the number of fair Executors and Trustees with like power for the survivors or survivor of
them from time to time in case of any or either of their deaths to fill and keep up the said number
And that upon every such nomination and appointment the surviving trustee or trustees shall assign transfer and make over all ad singular the said trust Estates Monies and Premises in such manner as that the surviving trustee or trustees and such person and persons so to be nominated and appointed shall from thenceforth be jointly and equally concerned and interested in the said several trusts hereinbefore expressed in the same or like manner and shall have the same or like power or authority to act in the aforesaid several trusts according to the true intent and meaning of this my Will as such survivors or survivor and the trustee and trustees so dying would have had and been if he or they had not died and that as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as if such new or other Executor or Executors Trustee of Trustees had actually been named and appointed by me
And my further Will is that they my said Executors and Trustees above named and those to be nominated and appointed in manner aforesaid or any or either of them their or any or either of their executors or administrators shall not be charged or chargeable with or accountable for any more of the aforesaid trust estates, monies and premises than they respectively shall actually receive or shall come to their respective hands by virtue of this my Will (their joining in receipts for conformity notwithstanding) nor with or for any loss or losses which shall or may happen of the same Estates, Monies and Premises or any part thereof or by any security or securities taken in pursuance of those presents or otherwise in the execution of the said trusts so as such loss happens without their wilful default nor any of them for the other or others of them or for the acts deed receipts or disbursements of the other or other of them but each of them only for his own acts deeds receipts or disbursements
And also that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Executors and Trustees and such other trustees to be appointed as aforesaid and each and every of them and each and every of their executors and administrators in the first place by and out of the aforesaid respective trust estates, monies and premises to deduct and reimburse himself and themselves respectively and to pay to each other all such losses costs charges and expences as they or any of them shall respectively sustain expend or be put unto for or by reason of the several trusts hereby in them reposed in relation to the same Estates, Monies and Premises respectively or the management and execution thereof or any other thing in any wise relating thereto together with a reasonable and proper allowance for their Services trouble and loss of time in and about the same
In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Sladen the testator have to this my last Will and Testament
contained and this and the twenty two preceding sheets of Paper set my hand and seal (to wit) my
hand to the twenty two preceding sheets and my hand to this twenty third and last sheet and my seal
at the top where the said Sheets are affixed together the Day and Year first above written
Joseph Sladden
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the above named Joseph Sladen the testator as and for his
last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the
presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Sarah Browning, Servant to Mr. Sladen; Geo. Stone; John Omer Stone
Be it known to all Men by these presents that I Joseph Sladen of the Town and Port of Folkestone in
the County of Kent, Esqr. have made and declared in my last will and Testament in writing bearing
date the fourteenth day of October eighteen hundred and twenty two
I the said Joseph Sladen by this present Codicil do ratify and confirm my said last Will and Testament
and it is my desire and Will that three months after my decease that my Executors pay to Anne Rolfe daughter of Isaac and Amy Rolfe of Ottinge near Elham six hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of Great Britain
Witness my hand and seal this twenty seventh of October 1822
Joseph Sladen
Witnesses: Arthur Ovenden - Catherine Ovenden
This is a second Codicil to the last will and Testament of me Joseph Sladen of Folkestone in the County of Kent Esquire which I made and published the fourteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty two
Whereas I have in and by my said Will (amongst other things) given and devised unto my Daughter Mary Sladen for her life All that my new erected messuage wherein I now dwell with the Yard Garden Outbuildings and Hereditaments thereunto belonging situate in Dover Street in Folkestone aforesaid And also all that my Freehold Messuage Garden Hereditaments and Premises situate in Cow Street in Folkestone and then in the occupation of John Castle and after her decease I have given and devised the same hereditaments unto the Children of her my said Daughter Mary Sladen and their Issue in the manner therein mentioned And in default of such Children or Issue Then to the use of my own right heirs for ever
And in my said Will is contained a proviso whereby I have declared that in case my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall happen to marry without first obtaining the consent of my said son Joseph Sladen in writing under his hand and attested by two credible Witnesses Then I have by my said Will given and devised the same Hereditaments unto George Ralph Payne Jarvis and his heirs Upon trust as therein mentioned
And whereas I have also in and by my said Will given and bequeathed unto George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen (the Executors of my said Will) their Executors and Administrators the sum of fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum Bank Annuities Upon trust to stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum bank annuities and to pay the Interest Dividends and yearly proceed of the same unto my said Daughter Mary Sladen and her assigns during her natural life and after her decease Upon trust to pay or assign and transfer the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum bank annuities unto the child and children of her my said Daughter Mary Sladen and their Issue in the manner therein mentioned
And in case of the death of her my said Daughter without Issue or there being such (Issue but) all of them shall die without Issue Then I have given the said Fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum bank annuities unto my said sons Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladden and my Daughters Sarah Banks and Caroline Matilda Smith equally to be divided between them And in my said Will is also mentioned a similar proviso
And Whereby I have declared that in case my said Daughter Mary Sladen shall happen to marry without first obtaining the consent of my said son Joseph Sladen as aforesaid Then I have given the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum bank annuities unto the said George Ralph Payne Jarvis, Joseph Sladen and John Baker Sladen their executors and administrators Upon the trusts therein mentioned
And Whereas I have in and by a first Codicil to my said Will which Codicil bears date the twenty seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty two desired and willed that three months after my decease my Executors do pay to Anne Rolfe daughter of Isaac and Amy Rolfe of Ottinge near Elham six hundred pounds
And Whereas I am now minded and desirous to revoke rescind and annul the provisoes in my said
Will which restricted my said Daughter Mary Sladen from marrying without the consent of my said
son Joseph Sladen in writing as aforesaid, and also of revoking the devises and bequests over in that
case of the said Messuage and Hereditaments wherein I now dwell and also of my said Messuage and
Hereditaments in Cow Street now or late in the occupation of the said John Castle
And also of the said sum of Fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum bank annuities it
being my Will that she the said Mary Sladen shall be at full liberty to Exercise her own Judgement
and wishes in that respect and independently altogether of my said son Joseph Sladen
And I am also desirous of revoking the said legacy of six hundred pounds given and bequeathed by me to the said Ann Rolfe in and by the said first Codicil to my said Will and in lieu and stead thereof of giving to her an annuity of eight pounds during her life if she shall so long remain single and unmarried but not otherwise
Now I do by this Writing which I declare to be a second Codicil to my said Will and direct the same
to be accepted and taken as part thereof revoke rescind and annul the provisoes in my said will
contained restraining my said Daughter Mary Sladen from marrying without the consent in writing
of my said Son Joseph Sladen as aforesaid And also the devises and bequests over of my said
Messuage and Hereditaments wherein I now dwell and the said Messuage and hereditaments in Cow
Street now or late in the occupation of the said John Castle
And also of the said sum of fourteen thousand pounds four pounds per centum bank annuities in the
event of the marriage of my said Daughter Mary Sladden without the consent of my said son Joseph
Sladen as aforesaid, it being my will and meaning that she my said daughter shall be at full liberty to
exercise her own judgement and wishes therein independently altogether of my said son Joseph
Sladen
and in other respects I hereby ratify and confirm all and every the gifts devises and
bequests by me in and by my said Will made to and in favour of her my said Daughter Mary Sladen
and over in the manner therein mentioned in case of her death without issue or there being Issue all
such shall die in her lifetime
And I hereby also revoke and make void the legacy of six hundred pounds by me in and the said first Codicil to my said Will given and bequeath to her the said Ann Rolfe in in lieu and instead thereof I give and bequeath into the said Ann Rolfe and her Assigns one annuity or yearly sum of eight pounds sterling for and during the term of her natural life if she shall so long remain single and unmarried And I direct that the said annuity shall be paid quarterly on Lady Day; Midsummer Day, Michaelmas Day and Christmas Day in every year free from all deductions whatsoever and that the first payment thereof shall be made on such of the said days as shall first and next happen after my decease And for ensuring the punctual payment of the said annuity
I direct my said Executors as soon as they conveniently can after my decease to invest in their names out of my personal Estate a sufficient sum in some or one of the public Stock or Funds or upon real securities so that the Interest Dividends or Annual produce of the monies so to be invested shall be sufficient to answer and pay the said annuity as ad when it becomes due and from and after the decease or marriage of her the said Ann Rolfe I direct that the monies so to be set apart to answer the said annuity to her as aforesaid and the Stocks Funds and Securities in or upon which the same shall be then invested shall be shared and divided equally between and among my said sons and daughters the said Joseph Sladen, John Baker Sladen, Sarah Banks, Caroline Matilda Smith and Mary Sladen and their several and respective executors administrators and assigns To whom I give and bequeath and order and direct the same to be paid assigned or transferred accordingly
In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Sladen the testator have to this writing which I declare to be a
second Codicil to my said last Will and Testament and to be accepted and taken as part thereof set my
hand and seal (to wit) my hand to the two preceding sheets and my hand and seal to this last
sheet the seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Joph. Sladen
The Writing contained in this and the two preceding sheets of paper was signed sealed published and
declared by the said Joseph Sladen the testator as and for a second Codicil to his last Will and
Testament and to be accepted and taken as part thereof in (the) presence of us who have hereunto
subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto in his presence at his request and in the presence of each
other The interlineation between the twenty fourth and twenty fifth lines from the top of the second
sheet and the obliterations on the same twenty fourth and twenty fifth lines and also the obliterations
and interlineations appearing on this sheet having been first made and written
In Witness Jno Fisher, Rye; Sarah Browning, Servant to Mr. Sladen
Proved at London with two Codicils 28th January 1828 before the Judge by the Oaths of Joseph
Sladen & John Baker Sladen Esquires, the Sons, two of the Executors to whom was granted having
been first sworn by Comon [Commission] duly to Adm[iniste]r.
George Ralph Payne Jarvis Esquire the other Executor having first renounced the probate and execution of the said Will
Exd.
Notes:
Joseph Sladen, aged 91, was buried at SS Mary & Eanswith, Folkestone, on 4th Jan 1828.
The entry in the burial register reads: “Joseph Sladen Esqr. The Senr. [Senior] Jurat”.
Memorial inscription:
“Sacred to the memory of Joseph SLADEN Esquire who died XXVII December in MDCCCXXVII in his XCII year. Also of Elizabeth his wife who
died XVII September MDCCC XI in the LXX year of her age. Also of Hannah their daughter who died XXVI April MDCCXCIII in her XXI year.
Their mortal remains are interred in a Vault near this tablet.”
Joseph Sladden, Bachelor, married Elizabeth Baker, Spinster, both o.t.p., on 8th Jan 1767 at Folkestone, by Licence. Witnesses were:
Thos. Baker, Chr. Stredwick
Their children: (all baptised at SS Mary & Eanswith): 25 Aug 1771 Hannah; 28 Jul 1773 Sarah; 10 Jan 1776 Joseph;
20 Sep 1780 John Baker; 4 Mar 1782 Mary; 17 May 1785 Caroline Matilda.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason April 2021
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