Will of Reverend Edward Fulham, Clerk of Compton , Surrey 1832

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I, EDWARD FULHAM of Compton in Surrey Clerk
do hereby constitute and appoint the Rev’d L. Wm Eliot rector of peper harrow
the sole EXECUTOR of this my last will & testament. I also give and bequeath
to the said L. W. Eliot the sum of ₤200 to repay any expenses he may incur
on my account and independently of the ______ ____charges for proving the will
or for which he is to make all further deductions. And i do further give him all
my books papers and writings of every description & also all the wines in my
cellars both in bottles and in casks. I also hereby direct my said executor
to sell all the freehold copyhold and personal property except as hereafter
directed of which I shall be possessed to the best advantage and in the first
place to discharge the existing mortgages together with all my just debts
& the subsequent legacies & also to pay whatsoever may be due for
dilapidations upon the Rectories of St. Nicholas in Guildford & of
Penton Mewsey in Hampshire.

I give and bequeath my moiety of a
property in Bishopsgate Street in the City of London in trust to the Rectors
of the town of Guildford for the time being, & the Rectors of Worplesdon & St
Nicholas for the time being enjoining them to invest the annual rent of ₤23
according as it shall _____ in Government securities there to accumulate to
the expiration of the leases at Michaemas 1855 & then to sell the premises
to the best advantage the produce of the sale to be invested in the
same stock with the annual rent & there to accumulate until the said
trustees shall in their judgment think the whole sum may be most advan-
tageously applied to the building of a new Church in the Parish of St
Nicholas in Guildford or on a more eligible site than that of the present
Church

I give & bequeath ₤50 to each of the parishes of Compton St Nicholas
in Guildford & Penton Mewsey in Hampshire, the said sums to be invested
in the 3 per cent consolidated annuities respectively in the names of the
Rectors of the said parishes for the time being & direct them to distribute the
interest annually at Christmas in Blankets to the poor person or persons
in their respective parishes whom they shall deem to be most worthy to receive
the same.

I give to the National Society for the Education of the poor on the
___ of St Bell ₤20.

I give to Mrs Margaret Aubery of Conduit Street
widow ₤10.

I give to the Revd. George Turner my gold watch.

I give to
Edward Searle of Guildford & to his wife if he should die before me ₤20

. I give
William Searle of Catherine Hill ₤5.

I give to Mary Edgar if she remain

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in my service at my death ₤55.

I give to Thomas Gibbons on the same
condition ₤55 & all my wearing? apparel o clothes linen etc

I give to
John Manville, Charles Larbon the cook and housemaid each ₤10.

The residue
of the money produced by the sale of my property & effects and all arrears of rent of
tithes houses and land & of Government annuities & whatsoever may be standing
in my name in the Public Funds I give & bequeath unto John Turner of
Guildford, Common Carrier, & in case of his death to his present wife & if both
should be dead at my decease I give it to be divided in equal portions
amongst their surviving children.

Signed, sealed & delivered,' Ed. Fulham (SS')
in the presence of Wm. Hayden, C.A. L’Otto, Tho. Hayden,

A CODICIL to my Will deposited withMessrs Haydon at Guild-
ford. I Edward Fulham do on this 20th day of Feb 1830 direct my said executor
when he has settled everything relating to my whole property and ascertained
the clear surplus before he pays it over to the residuary legatee or legatees to
purchase with a portion of it ₤2000 3 per cent stock and invest it in the names
of responsible trustees who shall pay to my servant Thomas Gibbon ₤30 a
year for his life, & to John Manville my gardener ₤15 a year during his
life & to Charles Larbon my groom ₤15 a year during his life & to the repre-
sentatives of each of the said three persons one half years annuity subse
quent to their death as each life fails that annuity is to be paid to the
legatee or legatees, & when all the lives are expired the said ₤2000 stock is to
be transferred also to them.N.B. perhaps the Messrs Haydon will be so
good as to undertake the trust.

I also hereby give to John Chandler/Thowdler? Servant
₤25 & in case I should survive him, I give it to his wife.

I also hereby give
to Richard Hurst, Labourer ₤5.

I also give to William Marshall, Labourer ₤5.

I give to Henry L Long Esq. of Hampton Lodge the stuffed American
partridge.

I give to my executor in addition to the bequests in my will all
my spectacles & magnifying & object glasses.

The trustees of my bequest for the
improvement of the Church of St. Nicholas are to apply it equally to that
purpose, though it may be found necessary only to repair the present structure
or rebuild on the same site.

I give to Mr Frederick Turner of London 5₤ for a ring

. I hereby direct my said executor when he shall have ascertained the full and fair value of the house with all the furniture and all the buildings & premises & also the full value of the four houses in the street together with the whole of the land & the manor with the timber also _ attending to a valuation to be made by Mr Crosbey to _____ to offer the whole property in one gross sum to Charles _____ Esq. the _____ Mrs____ ____ & in case of this refusal to ? L. Long Esq for any purchase he may recommend In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in the goods of the Rev’d Edward Fulham Clerk, Deceased APPEARED PERSONALLY Thomas Haydon of Guildford in the County of Surrey, Banker, Henry Marshall of Godalming in the County of Surrey Gentleman and James Limbert? of Godalming aforesaid Gentleman and being sworn to depose the truth jointly and severally made oath as follows And first the said Edward Haydon for himself swore that he is one of the subscribing witnesses to the last will and testament with codicil thereto hereunto annexed of the deceased Rev Edward Fulham, late of Compton in the County of Surrey decd and was present in the month of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight but the precise day this deponent does not recollect at the banking house of this deponent and his copartners at Guildford in the County of Surrey when the said dec’d executed his said will in the presence of this deponent and of the other persons who have subscribed their names as witnesses to the one will thereof and he further made oath that having now carefully viewed and perused the said will beginning thus Edward Fulham of Compton in Surrey, Clerk, ending thus “I give it to be divided among their surviving children” and thus subscribed “Edw Fulham” and particularly observing that the said will is without date he doth depose that the same beginning, ending and subscribed as aforesaid is the very will which was executed by the said dec’d in the presence of deponent and the name “Tho Haydon” subscribed thereto is in this deponent’s handwriting and is the will referred to as this deponent verily believes in the Codicil bearing date the twentieth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty as being deposited in the hands of Messrs Haydon of Guildford in the said County of Surrey, Bankers where the same was found after the said deceseaseds death and no other will having been deposited with the same Messrs Haydon and the said Henry Marshall and James Limbert for themselves and make oath and say that they knew and were well acquainted with the said dec’d several years before and down? to the time of his death and also with his manner and character of handwriting and subscription having often seen him write and subscribe his name to writings and having more carefully viewed and perused a further paper writing hereunto annexed purporting to be and contain a ____ codicil beginning thus “A Codicil to my will deposited with Messrs Haydon” and ending “for any purchaser he may recommend” with the following written in the margin of the first page of the said codicil “I give all my plate china & household linen of every description to the residuary legatee or legatees, also the pictures and drawings not otherwise disposed of”, also the following ____ in the margin of the second page of the said codicil “I give to Lady Harriet _____ a diamond ring it is sealed up & inscribed with her name. I give to Lady? (Laura?) Taylor her copy of the “_____”. I give the lithograph view in the interior of the Cathedral of the Episcopal parlours at Chichester” They these deponents do depose that they verily and in their consciousness believe the whole body series? and contents of the said codicil beginning and ending as aforesaid and also the before ____ additions in the margins thereof to be all of the proper handwriting of the said dec’d. Tho Hayden Henry Marshall Jas. Limbert On the first day of August 1832 the said Thomas Haydon, Henry Marshall and James Limbert was duly sworn to the truth of this affadavit by virtue of the amended codicil? before me Charles Abbott officiating minister of Godalming Surrey PROVED at London with Codicil 4th September 1832 before the Judge by the oath of the Rev’d Lawrence William Eliot, Clerk, the sole executor to whom admon was granted having been first sworn by _____ only to _________.