Weymouth & Melcombe Regis

Proved 1 October 1803

By Permission of almighty god I Matthew Langrish of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the county of Dorset mariner being of sound and disposing mind and memory ***sed be to god but considering the mire***ty of this life take this opportunity to settle mine affairs to prevent differences and disputes which otherwise after my death may arise between my children and relations for and concerning my personal estate which with it hath pleased almighty god to bless me with and hereby revoking all former and other wills by my ******** so made and swear this and none other to be my last will and testament in manner and form following / that is to say first I commit my soul to almighty god and my body to a burnt interment and as for my personal estate I so give bequest and bequeath in manner and form following that is to say first I give devise and bequeath unto Robert Langrish my oldest son the sum of one hundred pounds stock grow ten 3, 10. p cent consols / I give devise and bequeath unto my son William Langrish the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds of ***** money of Great Britain together with that place? Or ground called the Castlefields in the parish of Wyke Regis in the county aforesaid now in the occupation of Mr Robert Bullen? Butcher of Weymouth aforesaid / all that estate at Calne in the county of Wiltshire I give devise and bequeath one fourth part of the rent unto my son Robert Langrish one fourth part of the rent I give devise and bequeath unto my son John Langrish and one half of the rent give devise and bequesth unto my daughter Catherine K***th during her natural life and after her decease I do hereby give devise and bequeath that half part of the rent that estate aforesaid unto my daughters child or children if any then living and after their decease I give and bequeath unto my grand daughter Elizabeth Langrish daughter of Robert Langrish my oldest son during her natural life and after her decease I do devise and bequeath that half part of the rent unto all my grandchildren then living share and share alike and their sons for ever / I give devise and bequeath unto my son John Langrish the sum of one hundred pounds of com*** money of Great Britian / I give devise and bequeath unto my Grand daur Elizabeth Langrish daughter of Robert Langrish my oldest sum the sum of one hundred pounds stock grow? M the 3 p. cent consols I give devise and bequeath unto my grandson Matthew Langrish son of Robert Langrish my oldest son the sum of one hundred pounds stock now in the 3 p. cent consols / I give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Catherine Ke***th the dweling house I now live in for her natural life and her child or children surviving their natural lives after if any who I make my sole executrix of this my last will and testament to perform in the payments of the esquires hereinbefore given with all my debts - which shall appear to be justly one and that it is my further will and pleasure that the dwelling house whichin I now live in shall be in the possession of my son Robert Langrish after the deseace of my daughter Catherine Ko***th and her child or children if any and after the decease of my son Robert Langrish I give and bequeath the dwelling house aforesaid unto my grand daughter Elizabeth Langrish daughter of Robert Langrish aforesaid and after the decease of my Grand daughter Elizabeth Langrish aforesaid I give devise and bequeath the said dwelling house aforesaid unto my Grandson Charles Langrish son of William Langrish my son/ the dwelling house aforesaid and unto his sons for ever lastly I give devise and bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife Elizabeth Langrish all my goods and chattels whatsoever and whosoever to be by, her most use of during her natural life and after her decease what goods then remaining if any I give devise and bequeath between my son John Langrish and my daughter Catherine Ko***th who I have made my sole executrix aforesaid for whereof I the said Matthew Langrish Mariner aforesaid have ******* my own seal signed my own hand to this my last will and testament this second day of June in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and three. Matthew Langrish signed ex***ed published and ser***ed by the executor to be his last will and testament in the presence of us this 2 d day of June 1803 Richard Burch ~ Thomas Wisdom ~ Francis Earl /-- ** B the a******* above was made on the presence of [illegible] G Wisdom ~ R Burch

Appeared personally Francis Earl of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the county of Dorset yeoman and made oath that the last will and testament of Matthew Langrish late of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis aforesaid survased hereinto anointed? Mark is all of this deponents handwriting except the signatures of the testator and witnesses and that deponent is also a subscribing witness then to and that having now viewed the word formerly written on our closure the winter time of this said will also the word fourth written on ** closure in the tenth line of the said will the words daughters child or children if any then living and after their decease I give and bequeath the same unto my interlined Between the said tenth and the eleventh lines of the said will the words and her child or children surviving their natural lives after if any interlined between the seventeenth and eighteenth lines of the said will and also the words after the decease of my daughter and her childrens decease of any interlined between the nineteenth and twentieth lines of the said will and also the words and her child or children if any interlines between the said last mentioned lines and the erasure a little above the last line of the said will at the deponent saith that such interimitations and erasures were made per*****ns to the executor of the said will by the said deceased Francis Earl 28 th September 1803 the said Francis Earl was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit by virtue of the commission hereunto annexed before me [illegible] S. Payne commissioner

This will was proved at London the first day of October in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and three before the right honourable William Winnie knight **** of laws master keeper or commissary of the prerogative court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Catherine Ke*** by mistake in the will within Ke*** wife of Francis Ke**** the daughter of the deceased and the sole executrix named in the said will to whom administration was granted of all and singular this goods chattels and debits of the said deceased Having been first sworn by commission only to administer