Will detail

Will of Samuel Maplesden of Rotherfield

Date signed: 17 Mar 1836, Probate date: 05 Jul 1837

This is the last will of me Samuel Maplesden of Rotherfield in the county of Sussex auctioneer. First I appoint Robert Crittall of Spaed in the same Parish Farmer my Son Ezra Maplesdon and Edward Elphick of Rotherfield aforesaid Baker executors of this will And I give devise and bequeath unto my said Son Ezra Maplesden All that my Messuage in several dwellings with the Garden Yard and Premises thereto attached and belonging situate on the west side of the village of Rotherfield aforesaid being copyhold of the Manor of the Rectory of Rotherfield And all other my real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever To hold to him my said Son Ezra his Heirs and Assigns for ever Subject nevertheless and in exoneration of my personal Estate to the payment of all such Sum and Sums of principal Money and Interest as shall be due and owing by me at the line of my decease and charged on the same premises and to the Payment of all such Fines Heriots Fees and Charges as it shall accrue thereon by reason of my decease And I give and bequeath all my personal Estate whether consisting of household Furniture Money Securities for Money book debts and of * * kind soever and wheresoever situate subject nevertheless to the Payment of the Legacy or Sum of five Pounds which thereby give and bequeath unto each of them the said Robert Crittall and Edward Elphick * slight acknowledgment for their trouble on the execution of the Trust hereby imposed in them under the said Robert Crittall Ezra Maplesden and Edward Elphick Upon Trust that they or the Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor do as soon as conveniently may be after my decease sell and convert so much thereof as shall not consist of Money into ready Money and do and shall call in and called so much thereof as shall consist of Money and do and shall in the first place pay and discharge thereout all such Debts as shall be owing by me at the time of my decease (except the Money charged on the said Copyhold Premises aforesaid) and do and shall retain to and reimburse themselves all the recoverable expenses which they shall sustain and be put to in the execution of the Trusts of this my Will and all do and shall invest the Sum of two hundred and sixty Pounds in their or his Names or Name in Real or Government Securities and from time to time vary and change the Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested as Occasion shall require and they shall think fit (And after further Trust that they or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall thereout pay unto Harriet Soper and Sarah Soper the Children of my deceased Daughter Jia (?) and unto Ada Maplesden and Phoebe Maplesden the daughters of my deceased Son Zebulon the Sum of fifty Pounds apiece where and as they shall respectively attain their respective Ages of twenty one Years And also do and shall pay the Sum of sixty Pounds the Remainder of the said Sum of two hundred and sixty Pounds unto Stephen Maplesden the Son of my said deceased Son Zebulon when he shall attain his Age of twenty one Years And upon further Trust that they shall do and shall until my said Grand children shall respectively attain the said respective Ages of twenty one Years pay and apply the Dividends Interest or Income of their respective Marr* and towards their respective Maintenance and Education in such (Samuel Maplesden) manner as they my said Executors or the Survivor of them my Executors or Administrators shall think fit And as to all the Residue of my said personal Estate Upon trust for the said Ezra Maplesden and to be paid to or claimed by him for his own absolute Use and Benefit And thereby direct that if either of them the said Harriet Soper and Sarah Soper shall die under the Age of twenty one Years and without having been married the Sum of fifty Pounds hereintofore given to her shall go to and be paid to and the Interest and Income thereof applied for the Benefit of the Survivor of them the said Harriet Soper and Sarah Soper at the period and in manner appointed and mentioned for fragment of the Legacy of fifty Pounds and Interest hereinbefore given to such Survivor and in Case both of them the said Harriet Soper and Sarah Soper shall so die then the Legacies hereinbefore given to them shall go to and be equally divided amongst the Survivors of them the said Ada Maplesden Phoebe Maplesden Stephen Maplesden and Ezra Maplesden in equal Shares and Proportions And that in case any or either of them the said Ada Maplesdon Phoebe Maplesden and Stephen Maplesden shall be under the Age of twenty one Years (as to the said Ada and Phoebe without having been married and as to the said Stephen without leaving lawful issue) then the legacy of fifty Pounds or sixty Pounds as the case may be hereinbefore given to such Grand Child so dying shall go and be paid to and the Interest and Income thereof be applied for the Benefit of the Survivors in equal Shares or the Survivor of them the said Ada Maplesden Phoebe Maplesden and Stephen Maplesden of the period and in manner and subject to the same Provisions as are hereinbefore or hereinafter appointed and mentioned for Payment of and concerning the Legacy of fifty Pounds or sixty Pounds Hereinbefore given to such Survivor or Survivors and in case all of them the said Ada Maplesden Phoebe Maplesden and Stephen Maplesden shall so die the Legacies hereinbefore given to them shall go to and be equally devided amongst the Survivors of them the said Harriet Soper Sarah Soper and Ezra Maplesden in equal Shares and Proportions Provided always that it shall be lawful for my said Executors or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators if they or he shall think fit at any time before the said Stephen Maplesden shall attain their age of twenty one Years to advance all or any part of the Sum or Sums of Money which the said Stephen Maplesden shall then be entitled to under this my Will in or towards apprenticing him and to any trade or business or towards his advancement in the World in such way as they shall think proper And I declare that the Receipt or Receipts of my said Grand Daughter and Grand Daughters shall notwithstanding her or their C* be a good discharge or good discharges for any Money paid to her or them under this my Will and that the Legacy or Legacies hereby given to her and them shall not be subject to the debts control or engagements of any Husband or Husbands with whom she or they may intermarry and I declare that the Trustees and Trustee for the Actions being of this my (Samuel Maplesden) Will Shall be charged and chargeable only with such Monies as they shall actually receive by virtue of the Trusts hereby agreed in them respectively notwithstanding their passing (?) in any Receipt or other Aid (?) for the Sake of Conformity only and shall not be answerable or accountable for any Banker Broker or other Person with whom or in whose Hands the said trust Monies or any part thereof shall be placed for safe investing or otherwise nor for the insufficiency of any Security upon which the same shall happen to be invested not forming either Less misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid Trusts or any of the* * * * the same shall happen by or through them or Survivor wilful default And also that it shall * * for the said Trustees respectively by and out of the Monies which shall come to their or his Hands respectively to * * to each other all Costs damages and expenses which they respectively shall sustain or expend in or about the Execution of the said Trusts or in relation thereto In witness whereof I the said Samuel Maplesden here to this my last Will contained in three Sheets of Paper set my Hand and Seal (that is to say) to the first two Sheets thereof my Hand and to this third and last Sheet thereof my Hand and Seal this seventeenth day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six – Samuel Maplesden (…)

Signed sealed published and declared by the said Samuel Maplesdon the Testator as and for His last Will in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses this seventeenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty six

Donald Barday, John E. Tompsett, Alfred Gold

The Will of Samuel Maplesden late of Rotherfield within the Archdeaconry of Lewes Auctioneer deceased was proved on the fifth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven Before the Reverend John Scobel clerk Surrogate and so forth Upon the Oaths of Robert Crittall Ezra Maplesden and Edward Elphick the Executors in the said Will named To whom was committed the Administration of the Goods etc of the Testator They being first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same and so forth Sworn also that the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased do not amount in value unto Two hundred Pounds.

Transcribed by:

Dianne Coppard.

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