Will of John Yelloly M.D., Cavendish, Suffolk, 1842

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Will of John Yelloly M.D. F.R.S
This is a transcription of the register copy of the Will of John Yelloly of Cavendish, Suffolk, England. It was written between 7 August 1826 and 28 February 1834 and proved on 6 May 1842.^[1]

Transcription conventions:
Spelling, punctuation and line breaks are as per the original document.
Crossings through have been included struck out
Paragraph breaks at change of bequest, and bold text are my own for ease of reading.
Abbreviations and breviographs have been expanded in [square brackets]
The image quality was good and the writing very legible.
Non standard spelling as per usual for this time period, which has been transcribed verbatim.

Persons mentioned

• John Yelloly M.D., Testator
• Sarah Yelloly, my beloved wife, sole Executrix
• our children
• my good brother in law
• Mrs Tyssen
• M^r Richd Smith
• M^r W^m Haldemand?
• the Prevosts
• my Cousin Nich. F .S. Davison
  • the oldest of his Sisters
• my revered uncle Nathaniel Davison
  • his Father
  • his respected brother Nicholas Davison
• my late dear friend Dr Market
• M^r Francis Market of Geneva his Son
• the House of Mess. Morris & Prevost of Cateaten Street London
• M^r Alexander Prevost of Geneva
• M^r John Prevost of London
• M^r Dolasive? of Geneva Son in Law to the late Doctor Market
• Mrs Davison the Widow of my Uncle
• my Cousin M^rs Edw^d Howman
• Miss Davison of Alnwick
• Miss Mary Davison
• M^rs Adam Atkinson
• the late Rev^d D^r Calder

Affidavit

Samuel Tyssen Yelloly Esquire, son Harriet Yelloly, daughter Rev. Thomas Vashey?, Commissioner

Transcription

[Page one]

John Yelloly

Aug. 7. 1826

I should long ere now considering the
shortness and uncertainty of life have deemed it proper to make ^frame something
of a testamentary nature if it were not ^{had it not been} for the full dependance which
I have always have had in the judgment rectitude and discrimination
of my dear Wife on whom at my death the complete disposition of
all the principal part of our property and the management of our
family would devolve without any particular direction to this effect on
my part. We have spent twenty years of our lives very happily
together and every year gives me more reason to respect and admire
her sound judgement her high sense of honour the independence ^{and integrity} of
her character her unaffected piety and the ardent attachment which
she bears to me and to our family we have the power by our
marriage settlement of making conjointly dispositions of our property
either during our life or in the event of our decease and if we should
not do so whether we may do so or not will depend on various
contingencies but if no such contingencies should arise during my life
I shall have the complete conviction that whenever ^{my death should take place} such should
arrive my dear wife will act with the judgement and discrimination which
she has always exhibited I bequeath to her all the property which I
have the power of bequeathing and which consists ^^principally of our household
furniture cash at Mess. Hankeys or Mess. Harvays & Hudsons and
some a small quantity of ^some 3 per rent reduced stock and consols
which is in but small quantity and is not likely from the urgent
^{& increasing} demands of our family to become greater. She will pay the reasidue
of the sum due to her brother of the family arrangement made
some years since in such way as she pleases taking care to have
always if possible the command of a comfortable floating balance
at the Bankers. It is my wish that all my ^^medical manuscripts medical case
books and other papers of a medical description should be burnt and
that any other manuscripts or letters should also be burnt with
the exception of such as my dear wife may think it proper or
desirable to keep. our Letters to each other we have mutually kept they
will come into the possession of the survivor but I would suggest that
they should be directed & injoined to be burnt after our deaths. If I knew
any of our friends with whom my dear wife would wish to be
associated in the Guardianship of our children I would nominate
him or them with her in such capacity but not having

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heared any thing expressed by which I might be directed to her
wishes on this subject I nominate her sole Guardian and earnestly
trust that she will always receive that assistance from our friends
on any points on which she may desire it which I have both
reason to expect from my good brother in law and Mrs Tyssen she
will always I am sure she will at all times receive every mark
of regard. in M^r Rich^d Smith I look for every assistance which sound
judgment and the most friendly feelings to all of us will dictate.
He stands very high in the regards and respect of us both. the
attachment which there has been for so long a period between
my friend Alers Hankey and me will lead me to expect
what I have always met in him to myself a friendly concern
after M^rs Yelloly's welfare and that of my family and in M^r W^m
Haldemand? and the Prevosts to whom I am much
attached she will always find excellent and warm friends. I have
put down these memorandums (to which it is my intention to add
from time to time what may occur to me ^as at all important and
perhaps at some future time to draw up a more correct copy of what
I have inserted or may insert /—/ J. Yelloly .//

Aug. 6. 1828
I bequeath to my dear Wife during her life and to
my Cousin Nich. F .S. Davison at her decease the Egyptian Drawings
and papers which were bequeathed to me by my revered uncle
Nathaniel Davison his Father and also the portrait of my said
uncle which was left to me by his respected brother Nicholas
Davison. If my Cousin the said N. F. S. Davison should not be
living at that time and leave children then I make the above
bequest to the oldest of his Sisters who may be living /—/ J Yelloly

July 9. 1829
Having misled the key to my safe in
which is my will I do not wish to delay making one or two addi-
tions or alterations in it And First I wish that all the manuscript
books of cases both public and private which belonged to my late
dear friend D^r Market ^^x should be transmitted to M^r Francis Market of
Geneva his Son through the House of Mess. Morris & Prevost of

x
and were presented to me by
M<rs</sup> market

Cateaten Street London and in case of the previous demise of M^r F.
Market then to be placed at the disposal of M^r Alexander Prevost
of Geneva of M^r John Prevost of London of M^r Dolasive? of Geneva
Son in Law to the late Doctor Market. As none of my sons are intended
for Physic I arranged with M^r F Market to transmit these cases to
him in the way mentioned. I bequeath to the Medical & Chirurgical
Society of London three quarto volumes of the classed Catalogue of
their Library and also a small interleaves volume of the Catalogue
of the Medical Society of Edinburgh which I employed in the for-
mation of that Library I bequeath my Uncles picture and his
Egyptiam Drawings after my dear wife's death to M^rs Davison the
Widow of my Uncle if then living and in case of her death to
my Cousin M^rs Edw^d Howman Miss Davison of Alnwick Miss Mary
Davison or M^rs Adam Atkinson whomsoever ^^{of them} may be living at
that time I also wish the above to be accompanied with the corres-
pondence between the late Rev^d D^r Calder and my Uncle and which
D^r Calder kindly presented to me some time before his death this last
bequest I mean to be substituted in the place of the former one the
date of Aug. 6. 1828 /—/ J.Yelloly.//

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Feb. 28. 1834
I hereby do away with the above
Paragraph beginning with I bequeath my Uncle's Picture and
ending with Aug. 6 1828 and restore that which was stated as a
Codicil to my will under the date of Aug. 6 1828 /—/ J. Yelloly.//

Prerogative
In the Goods of John Yelloly Doctor of Medicine deceased.

Appeared Personally Samuel Tyssen Yelloly
of Cavendish Hall in the Parish of Cavendish in the County of
Suffolk Esquire and Harriet Yelloly of Cavendish Hall aforesaid
Spinster and jointly and severally made Oath that they knew
and were well acquainted with John Yelloly formerly of Finsbury
Square in the County of Middlesex afterwards of Woodston Hall in the
Parish of Woodston in the County of Suffolk and late of Cavendish
Hall in the Parish of Cavendish in the County of Suffolk Doctor of
Medicine ^^deceased and with his manner and character of handwriting and
subscription having frequently seen him write and write and subscribe
his name and the deponents having now carefully viewed and
perused the paper writings hereunto annexed purporting to be and
contain the last will and testament with three Codicils thereto of the
said deceased the said will beginning thus " Aug. 7. 1826 I should
long ere now considering the shortness and uncertainty of life ending
thus ^to draw up a more correct copy of what I have inserted or
may insert" and thus subscribed "J Yelloly" and having particularly
observed the ^word "make" obliterated in the third like "and the word "frame"
written above the same the words "if it were not" obliterated in the
fourth line and the words "had it not been" written above the same
the words "and" and "have" respectively obliterated in the fifth line
the words "all the principal part of" interlined between the eighth
and ninth lines the word "and" obliterated in the said ninth line the
words "and if we should not do so" obliterated partly ^{...rth and partly ..........} in the twenty
fifth lines and his words "such should arise" obliterated in the
twenty ninth line of the first side thereof and the words "my
death should take place" written above the same the word "principal-
ly" interline between the fourth abd fifth lines the words "some a
small quantity of" obliterated int he eighth line and the word "some"
written above the same the abbreviation and word "& increasing"
interlined between the tenth and eleventh lines and the word "Medical"
interlined between the nineteenth and twentieth lines of the same
side thereof the word "always" obliterated in the seventeenth line the
word "well" interline between the said seventeenth and the eighteenth
lines and the word "she" written in the margin and opposite to the
said eighteenth line of the third side thereof and the words "will"
interlined between the second and third lines of the fourth side of
the said will the first of the said Codicils being written on the ^^said fourth
side of the said will beginning thus "Aug. 6 1828 I bequeath to my
dear wife" ending thus "to the oldest of his Sisters who may be living"
and thus subscribed "J Yelloly" and having partucularly observed the
words "to me" interlined between the third and fourth lines and the
words "and leave children" interlined between the ninth and tenth
lines thereof the second of the said Codicils beginning thus "July 9. 1829
having misled the key of my safe" ending thus "I mean to be
substituted in the place of the former one of the date of Aug 6 1828" and

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thus subscribed "J Yelloly" and the third of the said Codicils beginning thus
Feb 28. 1834 ending thus "as a Codicil to my will under the date of Aug 6
1828" and thus subscribed "J Yelloly" further made Oath that they verily
and in their consciences believe the whole body series and contents of the
said will and three Codicils beginning and ending as aforesaid the
the initial and name "J. Yelloly" threto respectively set and subscribed
together with the said recited interlineations and words obliterated
to be of the proper handwriting and subscription of the said John
Yelloly deceased /====/ Sam:Tyssen Yelloly /====/ Harriet Yelloly /====/
On the twenty eighth day of April 1842 the said Samuel Tyssen Yelloly
and Harriet Yelloly were only sworn to the truth of this Affidavit
y virtue of the accompanying Commission before me /====/ Rev. Thomas
Vashey? Commissioner.//

On the 6^th May 1842 Administration (with the will and three
Codicils annexed) of the Goods Chattels and credits of John Yelloly
formerly of Finsbury Square in the County of Middlesex afterwards of
Woodston Hall in the Parish of Woodston in the County of Norfolk and
late of Cavendish Hall in the Parish of Cavendish in the County of
Suffolk Doctor of medicine deceased was granted to Sarah Yelloly Widow the
Relict and the residuary Legatee named in the said will having been
first sworn by Commission only to administer. No Executor.//

Right margin:

On the 12^th April 1865 Admon
(with the Will and three Codicils
annexed) of the personal Estate
and Effects of John Yelloly
formerly of Finsbury Square
in the County of Middlesex
afterwards of Woodston Hall in
the Parish of Woodston in the
County of Norfolk but late of
Cavendish Hall in the Parish
of Cavendish in the County of
Suffolk Esquire Doctor of
Medicine deceased who died
31^st January 1842 at Cavendish
Hall aforesaid left unadministered?
by Sarah Yelloly Widow deceased
whilst living the Relict
and the Residuary Legatee
named in the said Will
was granted to the Reverend
John Yelloly Clerk the Son
and one of the Executors of
the Will (with ten Codicils)
of the said Sarah Yelloly
deceased, he having been
first sworn. No Executor
being named in the said
Will –
?

Sources

1. ↑ Will of Doctor John Yelloly, Doctor of Medicine of Cavendish, Suffolk

   Reference: PROB 11/1963/199

   Description: Will of Doctor John Yelloly, Doctor of Medicine of Cavendish, Suffolk

   Date: 6 May 1842

   Held by: The National Archives, Kew