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Will of Sarah Rampley 17 November 1813 (codicil added 6 November 1819) (proved 19 April 1821)

Catalogue Reference: PROB 11/1642
Dept: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Series: Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers
Piece: Name of Register: Mansfield Quire Numbers: 201 - 250

I Sarah Rampley now residing at
Thurston in the county of Suffolk the wife of James Rampley late
of Stanningfield in the same county farmer do make this my last will
and testament in the manner following that is to say whereas by an
Indenture dated the seventeenth day of November one thousand eight
hundred and thirteen and made between the said James Rampley
and myself of the one part and Ezekiel Sparke of Bury Saint Edmunds
in the said County Gentleman since deceased and Joseph Maulkin of
the same place Merchant of the other part writing that the said
James Rampley would pay into the hands of the said Ezekiel Sparke and
Joseph Maulkin the sum of one thousand and five hundred pounds
to be laid out in the purchase of Stock and which was on the
thirteenth day of March then last laid out by them in the purchase of
one thousand six hundred and ninety seven pounds six shillings and
three pence Navy five per cent annuities and that the said five
per Cent annuities were so purchased by them for the Trusts intents
and purposes therein and hereinafter mentioned and it was thereby
declared and agreed by and between the said parties and particularly
the said James Rampley did thereby direct appoint and agree that
it should and might be lawful to and for the said Ezekiel Sparke
and Joseph Maulkin and the survivor of them his Executors and
advisors or such future Trustee or Trustees to be appointed as therein
mentioned to stand possessed of the said Stock upon the Trusts and for
the intents and purposes thereinafter mentioned that is to say upon
Trust to pay to or authorize and empower me and my assigns during
the joint lives of myself and the said James Rampley to receive and
take the whole of the dividends and interest thereof to and for my
own sole and separate use exclusive of my said husband and so as not
to be subject to his Controul Debts or Engagements and for which my
receipt alone notwithstanding my Coverture shall be a good discharge
to the Trustees for so much thereof as should be expressed in such
receipt and from and after the decease of either of them the said
James Rampley and myself in case I should survive him Then upon
Trust to pay assign and transfer the said Stocks funds and Securities
and the accruing interest thereof unto me my Executors and advisors
to and for my and their use and benefit but in case the said James
Rampley should happen to survive me Then upon Trust to pay
assign and transfer the said Stocks Funds and Securities and the
accruing Interest and dividends thereof unto such person or persons
for such uses intents and purposes and in such manner as I
notwithstanding my Coverture and as if I was sole and unmarried
should at any time in and by my last will and Testament in writing
or any writing or writings purporting to be or being in the nature
of a will or any Codicil or Codicils thereto to be by me duly executed
and attested direct or appoint give or dispose of the same now by
virtue and in pursuance of the power and authority given or
reserved to me in and by the said writed Indenture and of all other
powers and authorities given to me or in anywise enabling me I do
by this my last will and Testament or appointment in the nature
of a will give and dispose of the one thousand six hundred and ninety
seven pounds six shillings and three pence Navy five per Cents and
the dividends which may be due to me for the same at my decease
in manner following that is to say I give and bequeath unto the said
Joseph Maulkin the Sum of Two hundred and forty pounds Sterling
upon Trust that he shall and do immediately after my decease place
out the same at Interest on Government or Real Security by and in his
name upon Trust that the his Executors and advisors shall and do
pay to or authorize and empower my Brother Thomas Taylor and
his assigns to receive and take the Dividends and Interests thereof for
and during the term of his life and from and after his decease then
in case his wife Mary shall survive him to pay the Dividends and
Interest to his said wife for her life and from and after the decease of the
Survivor of them the said Thomas Taylor and Mary his wife I give
and bequeath the said Sum of Two hundred and forty pounds and the
Stocks Funds and Securities for the same and the accruing Interest and
Dividends thereof unto his two Children Robert and Lucy Taylor
equally to be dividends thereof unto his two Children Robert divided
between them share and share alike and I give and bequeath unto Sarah
Halls the wife of Matthew Halls of Denham in the said County the Sum
of one hundred and fifty pounds Sterling also I give and bequeath unto Sarah
Sarah Halls the Eldest daughter of the said Matthew Halls and Sarah
his wife the Sum of four hundred pounds sterling to be paid to her at her
age of twenty one years but in case she shall happen to die under that age
then I give the Sum of Two hundred pounds part thereof unto the said
Sarah Halls the wife of the said Matthew Halls and Margaret Dooks
of Hawstead Place one hundred pounds other part thereof & the remaining one hundred pounds to Sarah Burch the wife of Thomas Burch of Diss in the county in Norfolk Cooper also I give and bequeath
unto the said Margaret Dooks the sum of Two hundred pounds Sterling
to and for her and their own use and benefit also I give to the said Joseph
Maulkin the further sum of Two hundred pounds Sterling upon Trust
that he his Executors or advisors shall and do in like manner place
out the same at interest and upon further Trust to pay to or authorize
and empower the said Sarah Burch the wife of the aforesaid Thomas
Burch and her assigns to receive and take the dividends and Interest
thereof during the term of her life to and for her own sole and
separate use so as not to be liable to the debts Controul or Engagements
of her said husband and I declare and direct that the receipt of the
said Sarah Burch notwithstanding her Coverture or the receipt or
receipts of such person or persons as she shall by any note or
writing under her hand direct to receive the same shall be a good
discharge and indemnity to the said Joseph Maulkin his Executors and
advisors and from and after her decease then upon Trust to pay
assign and transfer the said last mentioned Trust monies Stocks Funds
and Securities for the same and the accruing Interest and Dividends
thereof unto such person or persons for such uses intents and purposes and
in such manner as she the said Sarah Burch shall in and by any
deed or writing under her hand and seal or by her last Will and
Testament in writing or any writing or writings purporting to be or being
in the nature of a Will or any Codicil or Codicils thereto to be by
her respectively only executed and attested direct or appoint give or
dispose of the same and for want thereof to her Executors or advisors
also I give and bequeath the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling
unto all the Children of Thomas Peacock of Barrow in the said
County Collar maker by Elizabeth Aldaus his late wife who shall be
alive at my decease equally divided between them and to be
paid to them on the youngest of them for the time being attaining
the age of twenty one years and in case any of them shall happen
to die under the age of twenty one then I give the share or shares
of him her or them so dying of and in the said last mentioned Sum
and of the accumulations to be made of the Interest thereof as herein
after mentioned unto the Survivors of them and to be paid in like
manner with his or her original share thereof and I direct that the
said Sum of one hundred pounds Sterling and the yearly Interest
and dividends thereof shall be from time to time placed out at Interest
by and in the name of the said Joseph Maulkin his Executors
& advisors as an accumulating Fund until the youngest of the said
children for the time being shall attain the age of twenty one
years also I give and bequeath unto John Rampley of Hawstead
aforesaid Husbandman the sum of Thirty pounds also to his sister
Mary Cousins the Sum of nineteen Guineas also I give to Alice
Durrant of Bury Saint Edmunds aforesaid Widow the Sum of fifty
pounds and Ann Rogers wife of William Rogers of Lopham
Innkeeper nineteen Guineas and I give to the said Joseph Maulkin
the Sum of ten pounds in case he acts in the Trusts of this my
will and I direct all the said Legacies for the payment of which no
one is hereinbefore directed to be paid within six months after my
decease and all the Residue of the monies Stocks Funds and Securities for
for monies so vested in the said Ezekiel Sparke and Joseph
Maulkin in and by the said recited Indenture and all other my
personal Estate which I have power to dispose of after payment
of my debts and funeral expenses and the before mentioned Legacies
unto the said Sarah Halls the daughter to and for her own use and
I desire to be buried in a decent and proper manner at Hawstead
aforesaid In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
or appointment in the nature of a will contained in four sheets of paper
set my hand and seal in manner following that is to say to the
three first Sheets thereof my hand and to this last and fourth
sheet thereof my hand and Seal this fifteenth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Sarah
Rampley Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said
Sarah Rampley as and for her last Will and Testament or appointment
in the nature of a Will in the presence of us who in her presence and
in the presence of each other at her request have hereunto subscribed
our names as witnesses the several Erazures having been first made
therein. Tim J Holmes John Jackson Bury St Edmunds

I Sarah Rampley above named do this
sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and nineteen make
this as and for a Codicil to my above Will first I give and bequeath
unto my brother Thomas Taylor the sum of forty pounds part of
the sum of Two hundred and forty pounds by my said Will directed to
be paid put out for his benefit the remaining Two hundred pounds to
be invested and go as by my said Will is directed as to the Two
hundred and fifty pounds also I revoke the Legacy by my above Will
of fifty pounds given to Alice Durrant and instead thereof do give and
bequeath unto her Thirty pounds and so confirm my said Will in all
other respects Sarah Rampley Signed Sealed Published and Declared
by the above said Sarah Rampley as and for a Codicil to her last Will
and Testament or appointment in the nature of a codicil in the
presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence
of each other have hereunto set our names as witnesses Tim J Holmes
J Jackson.

Proved at London (with a Codicil) 19th April 1821 before the
Judge by the oath of Joseph Maulkin the Executor according to the
Trust to whom administration was granted limited so far only as
concerns all the right Title and Interest of her the deceased in and
to the sum of �1697 .. 6 .. 3 Navy 5 pCent Bank Annuities and the
Interest and Dividends now due and to grow due thereon over which
she the said deceased had a disposing power by virtue of a certain
Indenture of Settlement or Declaration of Trust bearing date the 17th
November 1813 and which she hath disposed of by her Will accordingly
and all benefit and advantage to be had received and taken therefrom
but no further or otherwise or in any other manner whatsoever
having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer.