This is the Last Will and Testament of me, Charles Halford, of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucester, malster. First I direct all my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses to be fully paid. And I do hereby devise to my dear wife, Elizabeth Halford, all and singular the messuage called the Chequers Inn, situate in the Church Street in Tewkesbury, with the gardens, stables, outbuildings, premises and appurtenances thereunto belonging, to hold to my said wife and her heirs upon trust to receive the rents and profits thereof for her and her own use to keep the same messuage and premises in good tenantable order, repair and insured form damage by fire, in an adequate sum until my son Charles shall attain his age of twenty one years, and when, and as soon as my said son shall attain his said age, upon trust to sell and dispose the said messuage and premises either by public auction or private contract and either altogether or in parcels and under any special conditions as to title or otherwise, with liberty to buy in the same or any part thereof at any such public sale, and resell from time to time without being answerable for any loss or diminution in price which may happen or take place, and to convey the same messuage and premises or any part or parts thereof to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, his, her or their heirs or otherwise as he, she or they shall direct or appoint, and to give receipts for the purchase moneys, which receipts shall effectually exonerate the purchaser or respective purchasers from seeing to the application and from being answerable for the misapplication of the said purchase monies respectively, and upon further trust to pay one half of the said purchase monies (after deducting all expenses connected with and incident to the said sale) unto my said son Charles, his executors and administrators, and to place the other half of the said purchase monies out upon securities in the discretion of my said wife, and when and as soon as my daughter Jane Elizabeth shall attain her age of twenty one years or be married, which shall first happen, to pay the said trust monies or transfer the securities in and upon which the same may be invested unto my said daughter, the interest, dividends and proceeds a rising from the said trust monies being received by my said wife until the same trust monies shall become payable to my said daughter as aforesaid. I give and devise all the rest of my real estate to my said wife and her heirs absolutely. I give and bequeath all my personal estate to my said wife absolutely. And I bequeath to my said wife and her heirs all estates vested in upon trusts or by way of mortgage to hold the same to my said wife, her heirs and assigns upon and subject to the several trusts and equities affecting the same trust and mortgage estates respectively. And I do hereby appoint my said wife executrix of this my will and revoke all former and other testamentary dispositions, provided that if my said son, Charles, shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years, the said sale of the aforesaid messuage and premises shall be freed by my other estates from all -----. charges and incumbrances which may effect the same messuage and premises, and that my said wife shall not be liable for any loss which may happen to the aforesaid trust monies unless such loss shall happen through her own wilful neglect or default. As witness my hand this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four.

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator Charles Halford as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names.

W.Lloyd Chandler. solicitor
John Partridge, his clerk.