John Saunders’ Will | Capture Burnham

Items in green relate to St Ann’s Villa.

Items in purple relate to charitable bequests.

This the last will and testament of me John Saunders of St Anns Villa Burnham in the county of Somerset Esquire. I nominate and appoint my friends John Nesbitt Malleson of number11 Austin Friars in the City of London Gentleman and Thomas Morgan of Saint Clements House Clements Lane in the said City of London Merchant Executors and Trustees of this my Will and I give and bequeath unto each of them a Legacy of One thousand five hundred pounds as an acknowledgment for the trouble of executing the trusts of this my will and also the trusts of several Indentures of settlement executed by me on various occasions

I give and bequeath to my servant William Dark if he shall continue in my service till my death a Legacy of five hundred pounds but if he should die in my service but before me then I give and bequeath the said Legacy of five hundred pounds to the Executors or administrators of the said William Dark as part of his residuary personal Estate

I give and bequeath to my late servant James Courtney now residing at Preston near Weymouth in the County of Dorset a Legacy of two hundred and fifty pounds

I give and bequeath to each of the female domestic servants who shall be in my service at my death and who shall have been in my service for two years or upwards a Legacy of two hundred pounds in addition to the wages then due to them respectively

I give and bequeath to Mrs Humpage the widow of the late Mr Edward Humpage Of Clifton who was for many years my late mother’s medical attendant an annuity of fifty pounds for her life and I direct that the said annuity shall commence from my death and be paid quarterly. And I direct my trustees to set apart within twelve calendar months after my death in their names in Government stocks a fund sufficient at that period of appropriation for answering the said annuity and in the meantime to pay the same annuity out of my residuary personal Estate. And I declare that a proportionate part of the said annuity down to and inclusive of the day of the death of the said Mrs Humpage shall be paid to her executors or administrators

I give and bequeath to my brother in Law William Colebrook Stockdale a Legacy of ten thousand pounds I give and bequeath to my trustees an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds for the life of my brother in Law Frederick Colebrook Stockdale upon trust to pay the same annuity to the said Frederick Colebrook Stockdale until he shall assign charge or incumber or attempt to assign charge or incumber the same or otherwise do commit or permit Some act or default whether voluntarily or involuntarily which is the ??? for payment to him of the same annuity were to continue would be inconsistent with the personal enjoyment of the whole benefit thereof and henceforth upon trust to apply the same annuity for the maintenance or otherwise for the benefit of the Wife and Children for the time being of the said Frederick Colebrook Stockdale or any of those objects in such manner as my Executors shall in their discretion think fit so long as there shall be any such object in existence and after such act or default and failure of objects as aforesaid the same annuity shall cease and direct that the same annuity shall commence from my death and shall be paid by equal monthly instalments until the aforesaid trust in favor of the said Frederick Colebrook Stockdale shall have failed or determined and afterwards shall be applied in such instalments and at such times as my trustees shall in their discretion think fit And I direct my trustees to set apart within twelve calendar months after my death in their names in Government stocks a fund sufficient at the period of appropriation for answering the said annuity and in the meantime to pay the same out of my residual personal Estate and I declare that no apportionment of the said annuity shall take place on the determination or ceasing thereof

I give and bequeath to my trustees an annuity of forty pounds for the life of and upon trust for my natural son Henri Roger Ange by one Sarah Hills now residing in France and I declare that it shall be lawful for my Executors instead of paying the same annuity to the said Henri Roger Ange from time to time to pay the same to Amelia Woodcock of Paris whose receipt or acknowledgement shall be a good discharge to my trustees and shall exonerate them from all liability to see to the application of the monies so paid to her as aforesaid and I direct that the said annuity it shall commence from my death and be paid half yearly and I direct my trustees to set apart within twelve calendar months after my death in their names in???? a fund sufficient at the period of appropriation for answering the said annuity and in the meantime to pay the same annuity out of my residual personal Estate and I declare that a proportionate part of the said annuity down to and inclusive of the day of the death of the said Henri Roger Ange shall be paid to his legal personal representative or at the discretion of my trustees to the said Amelia Woodcock whose receipt shall be a good discharge to my trustees as aforesaid

I confirm the settlement made by me on the tenth day of March One Thousand eight hundred and sixty eight whereby the sum of five thousand three hundred and sixty nine pounds two shillings and sixpence three pounds per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities and five thousand four hundred and thirty five pound two shillings and four pence three pounds per cent reduced Bank Annuities now standing in the names of my Executors and myself are settled upon certain trusts for the benefit of my sisters in Law Harriet Sophia Stockdale therein called Harriet Stockdale /and Caroline Anna Stockdale (herein called Caroline Stockdale/ during their joint lives and for the benefit of the survivor of them during her life and also the settlement made by me on the thirteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight whereby the sums of two thousand six hundred and eighty four pounds eleven shillings and three pence three pounds per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities and two thousand seven hundred and seventeen pounds one shilling and two pence three pounds per cent reduced Bank Annuities now standing in the names of my said Executors and myself are settled upon certain trusts for the benefit of Mrs Henrietta Parish and her children

I give devise and bequeath unto my trustees the freehold messuage or dwellinghouse called Saint Anns Villa at Burnham aforesaid in which I now reside with the Lodge Offices gardens land and premises belonging thereto and now occupied therewith by me together with the use and enjoyment therein of the furniture pictures prints books musical instruments ornaments articles of vertu plate-linen china wine spirits and other household effects and reasonable stocks and live and dead stock which shall be in or about the same at my death and upon trust for the said Harriet Sophia Stockdale and Carolina Anna Stockdale during their joint lives or until either one of them shall marry as in tenants in common and after the death of marriage of either of them or until her death or marriage which shall first happen Upon trust for the survivor or other of themuntil her death or marriage whichever first shall happen But I hereby expressly declare and direct that Frederick Young and his wife during their joint lives and the survivor of them during his or her life shall be allowed to occupy the furnished Lodge in which they now reside rent free and subject to the trusts aforesaid

I give devise and bequeath my said messuage or dwellinghouse and premises furniture and effects hereinbefore more particularly specified and described unto my Cousin Alice Rogers the wife of Nathaniel Rogers for her own sole and separate use free from the debts control and interference of her present or any future husband and to be at her absolute disposal either in her lifetime or by her Will And I declare my will to be that an Inventory of the said furniture and effects hereinbefore bequeathed shall not be required and that the trustees of my Will shall not be in any way liable for or concerned to see to the custody or preservation of the said furniture and effects or any of them

I confirm that the several settlements made in contemplation of the marriage of my daughter Harriet Ellen with her husband Elliott Armstrong and I give and bequeath to my trustees my Leasehold house at Cleve Hill near Bath in the county of Somerset and all my term and interest therein and all the furniture pictures prints books musical instruments ornaments articles of vertu plate linen china wine spirits and other household effects live and dead stock upon trust for my said daughter absolutely for her sole and separate use independently of the control interference debts or engagements of her said husband or any future husband and to be at her absolute disposal either in her lifetime or by her will

I give and bequeath unto my trustees the sum of twenty thousand pounds cash and the sum of One thousand two hundred and ninety one pounds thirteen shillings and four pence three pounds per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities in trust for my grandson John William Saunders but if he shall die under the age of twenty one years I direct that the said Legacy shall fall into the residue of my personal Estate and I direct my trustees to invest the said sum of twenty thousand pounds in their names in the public funds or on Government securities of the United Kingdom and I empower them in their discretion to vary the investment of the said sum of twenty thousand pounds and also of the one thousand two hundred and ninety one pounds thirteen shillings and for pence Consols for any of the funds hereinbefore prescribed And I direct that during that during the minority of my said grandson the whole or such part as the trustees or trustee for the time being shall think fit of the annual income of the said Legacy or the investments thereof shall be applied in or towards the maintenance and education of my said grandson and the trustees or trustee may either themselves or himself so apply the same sr may pay the same to the Guardian or Guardians of my said Grandson for the purpose aforesaid without seeing to the application thereof and that during such suspense of absolute in?vesting as aforesaid the residue if any of the said annual income shall be accumulated in the way of compound interest by Investing the same and the resulting income thereof in or upon the funds or securities hereinbefore prescribed and such accumulations shall be deemed and treated as part of and shall go with the capital of the said Legacy And I desire that my said Grandson may be brought up to a business and I declare that any part of the income and if necessary of the capital of the said Legacy may be applied for the purpose of apprenticing my Grandson or otherwise starting him in business And I desire and so far as I lawfully can I direct that the capital of the said Legacy or such part thereof as shall not have been applied under the powers aforesaid shall not be paid and transferred to my said Grandson until he shall attain the age of twenty five years And I further declare that it is my desire that the utmost attention should be paid to the education and moral training of my said Grandson and as I believe that this end will be best attained by his being be made a ward of Court of Chancery, I request my trustees (but not so as to make it obligatory upon them it being my desire to leave the matter to their discretion) to institute a Suit or to take such other proceedings as Counsel on their behalf may advise for the purpose of having the trusts of the said Legacy administered by and under the direction of the Court of Chancery and of having my said Grandson made a ward of Court

And whereas by an Indenture dated the third day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight and intended to be enrolled in Chancery I granted a certain piece of Land containing two roods and fifteen perches or thereabouts forming part of the Warren situate in Burnham aforesaid and ten Cottages or Almshouses now in the course of erection thereon to the use of myself and the said Thomas Morgan and John Nesbitt Malleson upon certain charitable trusts therein mentioned and by the same Indenture certain charitable trusts were declared of and containing the sums of three thousand three hundred and eight pence three pounds eight per cent Consolidated Bank annuities and three thousand three hundred and thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence three pounds per cent reduced Bank Annuities which had been recently transferred by me into the names of myself and the said Thomas Morgan and John Nesbitt Malleson and by the said Indenture it was provided and declared that if by reason of my death within twelve calendar months after the execution thereof the trusts hereby declared of and concerning the said land Almshouses or Cottages and heriditaments should become null and void then and in such case the trusts thereinbefore declared of and concerning the said Bank Annuities should therefore cease and the same Bank Annuities and the dividends thenceforth to arise there from should be held upon trust for me absolutely and as part of my personal Estate Now in case I should happen to die before the third day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty nine I give and devise the land Almshouses or cottages and heriditaments comprised in the aforesaid Indenture of Settlement unto my said trustees in trust for then said for Alice Rogers absolutely for her own sole and separate use free from the debts control and interference of her present or any future husband and to be at her absolute disposal either in her lifetime or by will and freed and discharged from all trusts whatsoever and without any obligation at law or in equity to carry out my intentions as expressed in the aforesaid Indenture of Settlement or otherwise And I do hereby further declare and direct that in case I should happen to die before the said third day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty nine and any persons or person should within twelve calendar months after my decease at their his or her expense purchase or give a suitable piece of Land in Burnham aforesaid or elsewhere in the County of Somerset as a site for Almshouses and with the intent that the same should be devoted to charitable purposes then and in such case I empower and direct the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will when and as soon as such Land shall have been legally conveyed to charitable uses (provided they or he shall approve the ?? of the intended charity and the rules and regulations proposed for the management thereof to pay to the trustees of the said intended charity a sum of money sufficient at the date of such payment to purchase the sum Of three thousand and three hundred and thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence three pounds per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities and the sum of three thousand three hundred and thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence three pounds per cent Reduced Bank annuities or such further sum as they or he may think desirable not exceeding in the whole the sum of ten thousand pounds to be devoted by the trustees of the said intended charity to the several purposes of the said charity in the manner to be determined in respect of the funds of the same but so nevertheless that no part of the said sum shall be applied or attempted to be applied in or towards the purchase of any Land for the purposes of such charity And I do hereby further declare and direct that in case I should happen to die before the said third day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty nine and in case no such piece of Land shall be purchased or given and conveyed as aforesaid or being such the scheme of the intended charity or the rules and regulations for the management thereof shall not in the opinion of the trustees or trustee for the time being of my will be in accordance with what they may consider my wishes upon the subject to have been then and in such case the sum of money intended for such charitable purposes as aforesaid shall fall into and become part of my residuary personal Estate And I do hereby further declare that in case I should die after the said third day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty nine but without having completely erected furnished and fitted up the Almshouses or Cottages now in the course of erection by me as aforesaid I authorize empower and direct the trustees or trustee for the time being of my will to lay out and invest such sum or sums of money as they or he in their or his absolute discretion may think fit proper not exceeding in the whole the sum of two thousand pounds in or towards the completion of the said Almshouses or Cottages and the furnishing and fitting up thereof or any of the said purposes and I declare that they or he may either themselves or himself lay out and invest the same monies or may pay the same monies to the trustees for the time being of the aforesaid Indenture of Settlement for the purposes aforesaid

And in case I should die possessed of any personal Estate not hereinbefore specifically bequeathed and which the Law does not permit to be appropriated by Will to charitable purposes I direct that such part of my personal Estate shall be applied solely in or towards payment of the Legacies hereinbefore given to my Executors William Dark to James Courtney and to William Colebrook Stockdale or such of the said Legacies as my Executors shall select for that purpose to the intent that nothing but my pure Personal Estate may be left to be applied for the charitable purposes in this my Will mentioned

And whereas I have by this my will or by various settlements previously executed by me made what I devised? to be ample provision for my said daughter Harriet Armstrong and her issue and for my Grandson John William Saunders and also for such of my collateral relations as have need of pecuniary assistance And whereas I have long been convinced that it is the duty of every man after satisfying the just claims of his family and relations to devote the residue of his property to the relief of bodily pain and suffering Now I do hereby give and bequeath unto my Trustees all the rest residue and remainder of my personal Estate of what nature and kind saving and including the various revisionary interests hereinbefore mentioned upon trust there??? to pay all my just debts and my funeral and testamentary expenses and the Legacies and annuities hereinbefore bequeathed (regard being had to the direction hereinbefore in that behalf contained) and the Legacy duty and all the expenses incident to the bequests of Legacies as well specific as pecuniary and annuities hereinbefore and hereinafter bequeathed and subject thereto upon trust to???

…….Pay to the Treasurers or Treasurer respectively for the time being of male and female Lock Hospital London situate respectively at Number 91 Dean Street Soho and Westbourne Grove in Harrow Road both in the County of Middlesex a Legacy of two thousand five hundred pounds

…….and the Treasurer for the time being of The Royal Hospital for incurables London situate at West Hill Putney Heath in the County of Surrey and instituted the thirty first day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty four a Legacy of two thousand five hundred pounds

…….and to the Treasurer for the time being of the G??? Hospital London situate at Number 167 Piccadilly and also in the Fulham Road Brompton both in the said county of Middlesex a Legacy of two thousand five hundred pounds

…….and to the Treasurer for the time being of an Institution known by the name of the Field Lane Ragged Schools and Night Refuge for the Homeless Little Saffron Hill Farringdon Road, Holborn Hill instituted in November One thousand eight hundred and forty one

….a Legacy of two thousand five hundred pounds shall be applied to the general purposes of the said Institutions respectively And I direct my Trustees to stand possessed of all the residue of my personal Estate after making the payments and answering the purposes aforesaid upon trust for such hospitals Infirmaries or other institutions in Great Britain the object of which is the relief of bodily pain and suffering and not the propagation of religious opinions and in such sums or shares and upon such convictions?? and general in such manner and form as the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will shall by writing under their or his hand from time to time being within twelve calendar months after my death appoint and in default of such appointment and as far as no such appointment shall extend upon trust for

…..the Royal Society for the prevention of cruelty to Animals 12 Pall Mall London the solicitors Benevolent Association 9 Clifford Inn London The Crippled Boys and Girls Industrial House 17a Marylebone Road London The female aid society 27 Red Lion Square London The female Temporary House 218 Marylebone Road London The Girls House London about to be and when established by Miss Kindersley 6 Stanhope Place Hyde Park London The Governesses? Asylum Grafton Place Kentish Town London The Home For Gentlewomen 25 Queens Square London The Home for Motherless Girls 2 King Street Grosvenor Square London The Home for the blind 4 Upper Ernest Terrace Saint Johns Wood London Homeless Boys 32 Sackville Street London The House of Charity for distressed persons? 1 Greek Street Soho Square London The Homeless of poor Asylum Playhouse Yard White Cross Street London London by Moonlight Misson 218 Marylebone Road, London The London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis 19 Charles Street Portman Square London Saint Peters home for Incurables London The Strangers friend Society 7 Exeter Hall? London And the Invalids Dinner Table 66 Earl Street Lisson Grove in London in equal shares

And I direct and declare that the receipt of the Treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of the respective Charities or Institutions in this my will expressly mentioned Or which may under any exercise of the aforesaid powers take any benefit under this my will shall be a good discharge to any Executors and Trustees for all monies payable to such Charities or Institutions respectively provided always and I hereby declare that if the said trustees hereby constituted or either of them shall be in my lifetime or if they or other of them or any trustee or trustees appointed as hereafter Provided shall after my death die or be aboard or desire to be discharged or refuse or become Incapable to act then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the surviving or continuing trustee for the time being (and for this purpose every refusing or retiring trustee shall if willing to act in the execution of this power be considered a continuing trustee or for the acting Executors or Executor Administrators or administrator of the last surviving or continuing trustee to appoint a new trustee or new trustees in the place of the trustee or trustees so dying or being abroad or desiring to be discharged or refusing or being incapable to act as aforesaid and upon every or any such appointment as aforesaid the number of trustees may be augmented or reduced and upon every such appointment the trust property shall if and so far as the nature of the property or other circumstance shall require or admit be transferred so that the same may be vested in the trustees or trustee for the time being and every trustee so appointed as aforesaid may as well before as after such transfer of the said trust property act or assist in the execution of the trusts and powers of this my will as fully and as effectively as if I had hereby constituted him a trustee provided always and I hereby declare that the trustees for the time being of this my will shall be respectively chargeable only for such monies stocks funds shares and securities as they shall respectively actually receive notwithstanding their respective signing any receipt for the sake of conformity and shall be answerable and accountable only for their own acts receipts neglects? and defaults respectively and not for those of each other nor for any Banker Broker Auctioneer or other person with whom or whose hands any trust monies or securities may be deposited or ?? for the insufficiency or beneficiary of any stocks funds or securities nor for any other loss unless the same shall happen through their own willful default respectively And also that the said trustees or trustee for their time being may reimburse themselves and himself or pay and discharge out of the trust premises all expenses incurred on or about the execution of the trusts or powers of this my will provided always and I hereby declare that the said John Nesbitt Malleson and every future trustee of this my will who shall be a Solicitor or Attorney may act as Solicitor and Attorney to my Estate and shall be entitled to charge and shall be paid for all business done by him as a Solicitor or Attorney in respect of my Estate in the same manner is if he had not been a trustee or Executor of this my will And lastly I revoke all former Wills made by me and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand this fourth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight and I have also set my hand to each of the nine preceding sheets of this my Will – John Saunders

–Signed published and declared by the said John Saunders the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of both of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunder subscribed our names as witnesses thereunto

Frank G Pilditch – John Smee Clerks to Mssrs Wadeson & Malleson 11 Austin Friars London Solicitors

This is a Codicil to the last will and Testament of me John Saunders of Saint Anns Villa Burnham in the County of Somerset Esquire which bears date the forth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight Whereas by my said Will I gave and bequeathed to my trustees my leasehold house at Cleve Hill near Bath in the County of Somerset and all my term and interest therein and all the furniture pictures prints books musical instruments ornaments articles of vertu plate linen china wine spirits and other in household effects and live and dead stock which should be in or about my said house at my death upon trust for my daughter Harriet Ellen Armstrong absolutely for her sole and separate use independently of the control interference debts or engagements of her present husband or any future husband and to be at her absolute disposal either in her lifetime or by her Will Now I hereby confirm the said bequest s far as concerns the said Leasehold house and my term and interest therein but I revoke the said bequest so far as concerns the said furniture and effects And in lieu thereof I give and bequeath the books in the said house which belonged to my late father John Freeman Saunders and the china in the said house which belonged to my late Uncle Charles Dixon unto my cousin Alice Rogers the wife of Nathaniel Rogers absolutely for her sole and separate use free from the debts control and interference of her present or any future husband and to be at her absolute disposal either in her lifetime or by he Will And \I empower my said trustees to determine conclusively in case of dispute what articles shall be deemed to be comprised in the aforesaid bequest to the said Alice Rogers and subject to the said bequest I give and bequeath the said furniture and other effects to my said trustees upon trust to permit my said daughter to possess use and enjoy the same until the termination of the existing Lease of my said house or until her death which ever shall first happen for the sole and separate use she keeping the same property insured against fire and properly preserving the same from deterioration reasonable wear and tear excepted And I direct my trustees to cause an Inventory to be made of the said furniture and effects (except such of them as from their trifling value or perishable nature or for any other reason it may be considered inexpedient to include in such Inventory as to which I give full discretion to my trustees) as soon as conveniently may be after my death and signed by my said daughter and that such Inventory shall be kept by my trustees and that after taking such Inventory and procuring the same to be signed by my said daughter the trustees or trustee for the time being shall afterwards be in any way liable or responsible for or concerned to see the custody Insurance or preservation of the said furniture and effects or any of them or be compellable to take any steps for the protection thereof And upon the termination of the said Lease or upon the death of my said daughter whichever shall first happen I direct and declare that the said furniture and effects (other than the said books and china hereinbefore specifically bequeathed) shall forthwith be sold by my said trustees and that the net proceeds arising from such sale shall be deemed And taken as part of my residuary personal Estate

And whereas by my said Will I gave and bequeathed to my brother in Law William Colebrook Stockdale a Legacy of Ten thousand pounds Now I hereby revoke the said Legacy and direct that the said sum of Ten thousand pounds shall sink into and form part of my residuary personal Estate and in lieu of the said Legacy of Ten thousand pounds I give and bequeath to the said William Colebrook Stockdale an Annuity of One Hundred and fifty pounds for his life and I direct that the said Annuity shall commence from my death and be paid quarterly And I direct my trustees before applying the rest residue and remainder of my personal Estate as by my said Will direct to set apart within twelve calendar months after my death in their names in Government stocks a fund sufficient at the period of appropriation for answering the said Annuity and in the meantime to pay the same annuity out of my residuary personal Estate And I declare that a proportionate part of the said annuity down to and inclusive of the day of death of the said William Colebrook Stockdale shall be paid to his executors or administrators and upon the decease of the said William Colebrook Stockdale I direct that the said sum to be set aside so as to be apart as aforesaid shall sink into and form part of my residuary personal Estate and be dealt with accordingly as in and by my said Will direct with respect to all the residue of my personal Estate after making the payments to and answering the purposes in my said Will expressed (except so far as the same are hereby revoked)

And whereas by my said Will I gave an annuity of One hundred and fifty pounds upon certain trusts for the benefit of my brother-in-Law Frederick Colebrook Stockdale or his Wife and Children and I gave devised and bequeathed the freehold messuage or dwellinghouse called Saint Anns Villa at Burnham aforesaid in which I now reside with the use and enjoyment of the furniture and effects therein upon certain trusts for my Sisters in Law Harriet Sophia Stockdale and Caroline Anna Stockdale and the survivor of them with an ultimate gift to my Cousin Alice Rogers for her own sole and separate use Now I hereby direct and declare that in case the said William Colebrook Stockdale or the said Frederick Colebrook Stockdale shall at any time after my death and notice of this condition visit Burnham aforesaid or be seen within three miles of Saint Anns Villa aforesaid the Annuity by my said Will or this Codicil given to the person so visiting Burnham or its neighbourhood shall thenceforward cease and become void as if he were actually dead And I hereby further direct and declare that in case the said William Colebrook Stockdale or the said Frederick Colebrook Stockdale or my Sister in Law Mrs Henrietta Parish shall at any time after my death and notice of this condition to the said Harriet Sophia Stockdale and Caroline Anna Stockdale or the survivor of them visit the said Harriet Sophie Stockdale and Caroline Anna Stockdale or either of them at Saint Anns Villa aforesaid or remain at Saint Anns Villa or in the grounds or precincts thereof with the consent or permission of the said Harriet Sophia Stockdale and Caroline Ann Stockdale or either of them then and thenceforward the ultimate trust in favor of the said Alice Rogers shall immediately take effect in the same manner on and to the same extent as if the said Harriet Sophia Stockdale and Caroline Anna Stockdale were then dead

And I direct that the Legacy duty payable on the specific bequests hereby made and the annuity hereby given shall be paid out of my residuary personal Estate And in all other respects I confirm my said Will and declare that the alterations or corrections of my said Will to which the initials of the attesting Witnesses are affixed were made before my execution of the said Will and that the said attesting Witnesses affixed their initials to the said alterations or corrections in my presence and in the presence of each other at the time of my executing my said Will In witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand this fifteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight and I have also set my hand to each of the two preceding sheets of this my Codicil – John Saunders

-Signed published and declared by the said John Saunders the Testator as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of both of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunder subscribed our names as Witnesses thereunto

Ed Glanville Martin Weymouth Dorset

Beverly R Morris Burnham Somerset

This is a further Codicil to the Will of me John Saunders – Will of me of Saint Anns Villa Burnham in the County of Somerset Esquire Whereas it is my desire to restore my daughter Harriett Ellen Armstrong to the benefits which she would have derived under my Will dated the fourth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight in the same manner and to the same extent as if the Codicil to my said will dated the fifteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight had never been executed Now therefore I revoke so much of said Codicil as is necessary for attaining this object to be revoked Lastly I give to my medical attendant Beverly Robinson Morris of Burnham aforesaid the sum of One thousand pounds free of Legacy duty as a return for his services to me independent of any medical fees That may be properly due to him at my decease In all other respects I confirm my said Will save as so far as my Said Will is altered or revoked by my said Codicil and save so far as my said Will and Codicil are altered or revoked by this Codicil in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight – John Saunders

– Signed published and declared by the above named John Saunders as and for a further Codicil to his will in the presence of both of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunder subscribed our names as Witnesses thereunto

Jno N Malleson Solr 11 Austin FriarsLondon

Eliza Poole Bitton Gloucestershire

This is a further Codicil to the Will of me John Saunders of Saint Anns Villa Burnham in the County of Somerset Esquire which Will bears date the fourth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight Whereas by my said Will I gave devised and bequeathed the freehold messuage or dwellinghouse called Saint Anns Villa at Burnham aforesaid in which I now reside with the use and enjoyment of the furniture and effects therein upon certain trusts for my Sisters in Law Harriet Sophia Stockdale and Caroline Anna Stockdale and the survivor of them with an ultimate gift to my cousin Alice Rogers for her own sole and separate use And whereas the said Harriet Sophia Stockdale died on or about the nineteenth day of August last whereby the said trusts in her favor have lapsed and I have this day by deed indorsed on the settlement dated the tenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight in and by my Will referred to and thereby confirmed partially revoked or varied the said settlement so as to terminate the trusts therein contained of one moiety of the trust thereby settled the income of the other moiety of the said trust funds being in my opinion amply sufficient for the wants of the said Caroline Anna Stockdale by whom I do not now desire my said messuage or dwellinghouse should be inhabited Now I do hereby revoke and make void the said trusts in my said Will contained in favor of the said Caroline Anna Stockdale And I declare that the devise and bequest of the said messuage or dwellinghouse furniture and effects in my said Will contained in favor of my Cousin Alice Rogers in my said Will named shall take effect immediately upon my decease I hope my said Cousin Alice Rogers may find it Convenient and agreeable to inhabit my said messuage or dwellinghouse for some period of the year at least but in case she should not be able or willing wholly or even partially to reside at my said messuage or dwellinghouse and should not otherwise dispose of it and the furniture therein I desire (but not so as to impose any obligation or trust upon the said Alice Rogers or to limit the terms of the said devise and bequest by my said Will and this Codicil made to her as aforesaid) to recommend for her approval Mrs Eliza Poole of Westover House Bitton in the County of Gloucester (who for some time lived with my late Mother Alice Saunders) as a fit proper and trustworthy person to be employed by my said cousin to look after my said messuage or dwellinghouse and to take charge of the furniture and effects therein for and on behalf of the said Alice Rogers during her absence In all other respects I confirm my said Will and my two previous Codicils dated respectively the fifteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight and the twenty fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight save so far as my said Will and Codicils are respectively altered or revoked the earlier by the later or by the Codicil In witness thereof I have hereunder set my hand this twenty third day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight John Saunders.

Signed published and declared by the said John Saunders the Testator as and for a further Codicil in his last Will and Testament in the presence of both of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunder subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto

Jno N Malleson Solr 11 Austin FriarsLondon

William Dark Coachman Burnham Somersetshire

This is a further Codicil to the Will of me John Saunders of Saint Anns Villa Burnham in the County of Somerset Esquire which Will bears date the fourth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight I absolutely revoke the Legacy of One thousand pounds by the Codicil to my said Will dated the twenty fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight to my medical Attendant Beverley Robinson Morris And whereas by my said Will and the first Codicil to my said Will or out of them I gave and bequeathed an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds to my brother in Law William Colebrook Stockdale for his life and an Annuity of One hundred and fifty pounds upon certain trusts for the benefit of my brother in law Frederick Colebrook Stockdale or his Wife and Children subject to certain conditions in the said first Codicil contained for the ??? of the said Annuities respectively And whereas I am desirous of giving to the trustees of my said Will an absolute power to revoke the said Annuities in manner hereinafter appearing Now I do hereby expressly direct and declare that it shall be lawful for the trustees or trustee for the time being of my said Will at any time or times hereafter in their or his uncontrolled discretion and without assigning any reason therefore by any deed or deeds to revoke the said two annuities of One hundred and fifty pounds or either of them or any part thereof respectively and any such revocation if made within six calendar months after my death may be made to take effect as from the date of my death but otherwise every such revocation Shall take effect as from the date thereof or from the last preceding quarter day and the benefit Of every such revocation shall accrue to my residuary personal Estate as if the annuity or such part thereof as shall be revoked had ceased by the death of the Annuitant And I hereby declare that the aforesaid power may be exercised by my said trustees or trustee nothwithstanding that a suit may have been instituted in the Court of Chancery for the administration of my Estate and without the necessity of acting under advice or sanction of the Court in such suit or otherwise it being my desire and intention that the direction given to my said trustees or trustee shall not be subject to the control of any Court or judge In all other respects I confirm in my said Will and my three previous Codicils dated respectively the fifteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight the twenty fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight and the twenty third day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight save so far as my said Will and Codicils are respectively altered or revoked the earlier by the later or by this Codicil In witness thereof I have hereunder set my hand this twenty eight day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty nine John Saunders

William Hinton Ham Cottages Bath Cab proprietor

William Dark Weston Nr Bath Coachman

Proved at London with four Codicils 6^th October 1869 by the Oaths of John Nesbitt Malleson and Thomas Morgan The Executors named in the Will to whom Admon was granted.