This is the Last Will and Testament of me, William Skeavington of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucester, gentleman. First I direct all my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid and satisfied by my executors of my personal estate. I give and bequeath to George Watson of Tewkesbury aforesaid, draper, and Charles Clifford of the same place, grocer, my fore street messuage or dwelling house at Tewkesbury aforesaid in the occupation of the Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Company. Also the messuage or dwelling house behind the same in my own possession with the gardens, stables and appurtenances to the same messuages or either of them belonging, or in the occupation of myself and [MISSING] Firkins. Also the two yards with the sheds erected and standing in the same, which I lately purchased of George Gardner of Tewkesbury aforesaid, stonemason, and now in the respective occupations of George Preston and William and George --field. Likewise my two tenements or dwelling houses adjoining my brewhouse in the several occupations of Thomas Walker and George Russell. And also the stables and building adjoining the river Avon in the occupation of John Eet, to hold the same with their appurtenances, unto and to the use of the said George Watson and Charles Clifford, their heirs and assigns upon trust nevertheless at such time or times in such manner and form and under and subject to such reservations and conditions in every respect, as they, my said trutees shall in their discretion see fit to sell and dispose of the same, and to convey and assure the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, it being my will that such purchaser or purchasers shall not be bound to see to the application of his, her or their purchase money or be answerable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof, and upon trust to lay out and invest the monies arising from such sales (after payment of the costs and expenses arising atending the same) on Government real or chattel real security in England, and from time to time to alter, vary and transpose such securities as to them my trustees shall seem best and by and out of the rents and profits of the said premises until sold (after providing for all needful repairs) and of the dividends, interst and annual proceeds of the monies to arise from the sale thereof to pay to my nephew, George Skeavington Garwood, an annuity of forty pounds during his life by equal half yearly payments, the first payment to be made at the end of six calendar months after my decease, and to pay the resdidue of such rents and profits, dividends, interest and annual proceeds during the life of the said George Skeavington Garwood unto my servant Elizabeth Peart, and from and after the decease of the said George Skeavington Garwood upon trust to pay to his two daughters the sum of three hundred pounds each and to pay the further sum of two hundred and fifty pounds unto and equally between my nephews and niece, William Hawton?, George Hawton?, Joseph Hawton? and Elizabeth Hawton (sons and daughters of my late sister Elizabeth Hawton deceased) and to pay the residue of the said trust monies unto the said Elizabeth Peart for her own use and benefit. [I give and devise unto my said nephews and niece, William Hawton?, George Hawton?, Joseph Hawton? and Elizabeth Hawton, my three trenements or dwellings on the north side of Wilkes Alley in Tewkesbury aforesaid, with their appurtenances, to hold the same unto the said William Hawton?, George Hawton?, Joseph Hawton? and Elizabeth Hawton, their heirs and assigns for ever as tenents in common. But my will is and I do hereby declare that the properties and tenants of the last mentioned tenements or dwelling houses shall not after my death have, or be entitled to the liberty or privelige of taking water from the premises hereinafter devised to my said trustees, but that such liberty or privilege (which has hitherto been allowed by me to the occupants of these tenements) shall at my decease forever cease and determine]. I give and bequeath to the following persons the sums undermentioned. Viz: to William Henry Beard (son of my brother in law Thomas Beard) nineteen guineas. To the trustees of the Baptist Society at Tewkesbury aforesaid for the time being two hundred pounds, the annual interest thereof to be applied by them in the first place to the keeping of my tomb stone hereinafter mentioned from time to time in clean and decent condition. And the residue thereof to be applied by them unto and to the use of, or upon such of the poor members of the Society as the trustees for the time being shall think fit to bestow the same in bread and clothing on Saint Thomas's day in every year. I give and bequeath to the Sunday School attached to the Baptist congregation in Tewkesbury the sum of five pounds. To the British or Lancastrian School in Tewkesbury the sum of fifty pounds and to the Tewkesbury Dispensary the sum of fifty pounds, such four last mentioned legacies to be paid free of Legacy Duty out of such part of my personal estate as shall not consist of mortgages or chattels real, and as I may by law give by will to charitable purposes and the receipts of the treasurers for the time being of the said instructions respectively shall be sufficient discharges for the same. I give and bequeath to every one of the children of my late nephew Henry Hawton (another of the sons of my late sister Elizabeth Hawton deceased) one hundred pounds, such sum to be paid to each of them on their respectively attaining the age of twenty one years. My sister Sarah Skeavington having been amply provided for by others, I do not consider it needful to make further provision for her by this my will. I give to my late wife's nieces, Harriet Wheeler and Elizabeth Wheeler (daughters of her late sister Rebecca Wheeler deceased) such part of my said wife's wearing apparel as shall be found in my possession at the time of my death, to be equally divided between them. I give to the said Elizabeth Peart fifty pounds. I also give and devise to the said Elizabeth Peart my gardens, cottages and premises at Bredon in the county of Worcester, and to her heirs and assigns for ever. I also give and devise to the said Elizabeth Peart all my china, glass and earthen ware in and about my dwelling house at the time of my decease. Also all my linen, and also a sufficient portion of my household furniture to furnish her cottage, the said Elizabeth at liberty to for that purpose such part of my said furniture as she pleases. I direct my executors to have my body interred in the Baptist burying ground at Tewkesbury aforesaid, and to erect over or at the head of it a tombstone to my memory -- and I beg each of them to accept the small legacy of five guineas which I give them in testimony of my regard for them [ and all the rest and residue of my real and personal estate, and effects of every description and kind (the whole of which I expressly desire and direct my executors to convert into money) I give and bequeath unto my said nephews and niece William Hawton?, George Hawton?, Joseph Hawton? and Elizabeth Hawton to be equally divided between them] -- I give and devise unto the said George Watson and Charles Clifford, all such real estate asmay be vested in me or to which I may be entitled at the time of my decease, upon any trust or trusts whatsoever or by way of mortgage I do hold the same unto the said George Watson and Charles Clifforf, their heirs and assigns for ever upon the several trusts and subject to the equity of redemption affecting the same. And lastly I appoint the said George Watson and Charles Clifford joint executors of this my will, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. --- William Skeavington.

Signed by the said William Skeavington, the testator, in the presence of us both present at the same time who thereupon in his presence and in the presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses.

Joshua Thomas, solicitor, Tewkesbury
Edmund Rudge jnr. his clerk.

This is a codicil to the Last Will and Testament of me, William Skeavington of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucester, gentleman. I revoke the trust or bequest therein contained of the sum of three hundred pounds each to the two daughters of George Skeavington Garwood, and instead thereof I direct my trustees on the decease of the said George Skeavington Garwood to stand possessed of the sum of six hundred pounds, part of the monies arising from the sales of my said will directed in trust for all the children of the said George Skeavington Garwood who shall be living at the time of his decease, and the issue of any who may be then dead, leaving issue, in equal shares and proportions, such issue nevertheless taking per ------ only or the share or shares which his, her orf their, parent or parents would have taken if living . I also revoke the bequest of two hundred pounds to the trustees of the Baptist Chapel in Tewkesbury, and in lieu thereof I give the Minister of the said chapel, George Watson the elder of Tewkesbury, gentleman, and the said George Watson, draper, and Charles Clifford upon the same trusts as all in my said will declared respecting the said sum of two hundred pounds, and upon this further trust that on either of the said last named trustees or any further trustee dying or removing his residence from the Borough of Tewkesbury, the surviving or remaining trustees shall nominate one other fit person to be a trustee of the said sum of five hundred pounds in lieu of such deceased or removed trustee thereupon the said sum of five hundred pounds and the securities for the same shall be so transferred or assigned as that the same shall be vested the said surviving or remaining trustees and such new trustees jointly upon the trusts by said will, and by this codicil declared I also revoke the bequest in my said will contained of the sum of fifty pounds to the Tewkesbury dispensary. In all other respects I ratify and confirm my said will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.

Signed by the said William Skeavington in the presence of us both present at the same time who thereupon in his presence and in the presence of each other subscribe our names as witnesses.

Proved 1854.