John Cook of Long Clawson 1828 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1828 C-L
In the Name of God Amen
This is the last Will and Testament of me John Cooke Junr of Claxton otherwise Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Grazier
First I do hereby order and direct that all my Just Debts Funeral and testamentary expenses shall be fully paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently may be after my Decease
And as to for and concerning all the Stock upon my Farm, Goods, Cattle, Chattles personal estate and effects of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever, I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my Friends as Trustees Joseph Shillcock of Hose in the County of Leicester Grazier, and John Pears of Claxton otherwise Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Innkeeper & Grazier their Executors Administrators and Assigns upon trust for my said [sic] Wife and Two Children as soon as conveniently may be after my Decease by Public Sale or Private Contract to sell and dispose of such part of the residue of my personal estate as shall be of a Disposeable nature for the most Money and best price or prices that can or may be reasonably had or gotten for the same
And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests, and Executors by me in any ways before named, willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this nineteenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Seven
John Cook
Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said John Cooke as his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his Presence and in the Presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our Names
John Cooke Senr
Josh Shilcock
John Walker
1828 Feb 5 Melton Mowbray
Let a probat be granted to Joseph Shillcock of Hose in the County of Leicester Grazier and John Pears Innkeeper & Grazier of Long Clawson in the said County joint Executors according to the tenor of the Will of John Cooke of Claxton otherwise Long Clawson who died at Clawson in Dec 1827
They being duly sworn to the faithful execution of the Will and that the Testator’s Goods Chattles & Credits as they were at his death without deducting any thing on account of debts owing by him therefrom did not amount to two hundred pounds
Before me William Greenwood Sur. to the Commissary
Same day Probate passed Seal signed by John Stockdale Hardy, Dep Rigistrar
