Shuttlewood Joel 1846 of Long Clawson Will

Joel Shuttlewood of Long Clawson 1846 Will

The National Archives PROB 11/20942/311

This is the last Will and Testament of me Joel Shuttlewood of Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Gentleman

I give and devise all my messuages closes lands tenements and real estate situate at Long Clawson aforesaid and in Hickling in the County of Nottingham or elsewhere and whether in possession reversion remainder or expectation and all real estate which may descend to me or which I may purchase before my death unto my Wife Sarah Eleanor Shuttlewood or unto her heirs and assigns for ever subject to the payment of my debts funeral and testamentary expences

I give and bequeath all my money securities for money household furniture plate linen and other household effects and all other my Personal Estate to my said Wife absolutely

I give and devise all the messuages closes lands tenements and hereditaments and real estate of which I shall die seized as Trustee or mortgagee in fee unto my said Wife Sarah Eleanor Shuttlewood her heirs and assigns for ever nevertheless upon the same trusts and for the same intents and purposes as I shall hold the same at the time of my death

And I appoint my said Wife Sarah Eleanor Shuttlewood sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made

In Witness whereof I the said Joel Shuttlewood the Testator have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty four

                                                                                                                Joel Shuttlewood

Signed published and declared by the said Joel Shuttlewood the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses

Wm Latham Solr Melton

Geo: Wm: Brewitt his Clerk

Joel Shuttlewood

Resigned resealed republished and redeclared by the said Joel Shuttlewood the Testator as and for a Codicil to the above written Will this 1st day of April 1845 in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses

Wm Latham

Geo: Minckley

In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

In the Goods of Joel Shuttlewood deceased

Appeared Personally William Latham of Melton Mowbray in the County of Leicester Solicitor and made Oath that he is the drawer of and also one of the subscribed Witnesses to the execution as also to the true execution of the last Will and Testament of Joel Shuttlewood late of Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Gentleman deceased the said Will beginning thus to wit “This is the last Will and Testament of me Joel Shuttlewood of Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Gentleman” and ending thus “to wit In Witness whereof I the said Joel Shuttlewood the Testator have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty four” the said Will being now hereunto annexed and marked with the Letter A and the deponent having now carefully viewed the said Will and particularly observed the second attestation appearing thereon purporting that the same had been resigned resealed republished and redeclared by the said Testator as and for a Codicil to his said Will on the first day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five he does depose that by reason that the said Joel Shuttlewood having had an estate conveyed to him after the date of the said Will it was thought more prudent that the said Will should be republished as aforesaid the said Testator did on the said first day of April reexecute his said Will by signing his name opposite to the said second attestation as the same now appears and that it was entirely through error or inadventure that the said will was in the said second attestation miscalled a Codicil for that the said second attestation was meant and intended to apply solely to the reexecution of the said Will by him the said Joel Shuttlewood the Testator deceased

                                                                                                                Wm Latham

On Wednesday the twenty sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six the said William Latham was duly sworn to the truth of the aforegoing Affidavit in virtue of the annexed Commission

                                                                                                                Before me Thomas … of Long Clawson Leicestershire

                                                                                                                Commisary

Proved at London 17th September 1846 before the Judge on the Oath of Sarah Eleanor Shuttlewood the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Administration was granted having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer