| Description | DSCAM/3/370/1: Administration de bonis non (16 May 1871) of the annexed will (dated 27 Nov. 1823) of Thomas Seale of Cleobury Mortimer, Salop, gentleman, granted to Caroline Crich, widow, one of the children of Sarah Clarke, deceased, as such one of the residuary legatees; recites the succession of the executors etc.
£100 to brother, James Seale; £20 to sister Helen, wife of James Cox of Burton upon Trent; £50 to servant, Hester Breakwell; all other estate in trust, to apply income for the equal benefit of sisters, Helen Cox and Sarah Clarke, thence all income to the survivor; trustees may advance up to £200 capital to Sarah to set her up in business etc., reducing her income to compensate; after death of both sisters, £400 to brother James Seale, half of balance to the children of Sarah Clarke and half to those of Helen Cox, making allowance for the possible advance of £200 to Sarah.
Executors: Thomas Pardoe of Cleobury Mortimer, gentleman and James Reynolds of the same, grocer.
Codicil (29 Nov. 1823); silver snuff box to John Fox of Cleobury Mortimer, Esq.
Codicil (24 Sept. 1825); cancels potential £200 advance to Sarah and the half share in the capital of the trust fund of Helen Cox's children, and, to assist brother James Seale, who has a young family in greater need of assistance than the grown up family of Helen Cox, substitutes James's issue living at the time of the decease of Sarah and Helen, as inheritors of half the trust fund, subject to two further payments: £50 to the Revd George Moultrie, Vicar of Cleobury Mortimer to be invested to provide bread for the poor of the parish each Christmas; £20 annuity to servant, Hester Brockwell, from death of Sarah and Helen, and the capital behind it to be divided as for the trust fund after Hester's death.. |