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The last part of this will shows a summary of the Names, Places, Properties and Vessels mentioned in the will.
Nicholas C. Corsellis VI
Was born in Wivenhoe in 1763, son of Mary and Nicholas Corsellis.
He married Mary Bond in 1796. There were no children from that marriage, but Nicholas had 7 children with Sarah Plampin who he described as his friend in his Will.
Sarah was one of the Executors of the Will and is described as a spinster.
His Estate was left to Sarah and their children, but in a Codicil Nicholas revoked the bequests left to his daughters Frances and Mary. He stated the reason for this was that Frances had married Henry Firman without his consent. Frances was at that time aged 30 years.
The reason for revoking on the bequest to Mary was that she was a party to the marriage.
In a second Codicil he left them both a very much smaller amount, less than £100. The original bequest was £2500.
- This is the last Will and Testament of me Nicholas Caesar Corsellis late of
2 Thirsk in the County of York and now of Wivenhoe in the County of Essex Esquire I nominate and
3 appoint my two natural sons Nicholas Caesar Corsellis and Henry Joseph Corsellis and my beloved
4 friend Sarah Plampin their Mother Executors and Executrix of this my willand from and after
5 or subject to the payment of all my just debts funeral and Testamentary expenses I give and
6 bequeath unto the said Sarah Plampin all my personal Estate and effects of every kind and
7 description for her own absolute use and benefit And I give and devise all my Manors
8 messuages farms lands tenements hereditaments and real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto
10 my said two sons Nicholas Caesar Corsellis and Henry Joseph Corsellisand their heirs to the uses
11upon and for the trusts intents and purposes and with and subject to the powers and provisos
12 hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to say as to for and concerning
13 all that my messuages or tenements with the farm and lands thereunto belonging situate lying and
14 being in Wivenhoe aforesaid called the Ballast Quay farm now in the occupation of John Robinson
15 or his assigns to the use intent and purpose that the said Sarah Plampin and her assigns
16 shall and may from and immediately after my decease yearly receive and take during the term
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17 of her natural life one annual sum or yearly rent charge two two hundred pounds of
18 lawful British money to be charged upon and yearly issuing and payable out of all and singular
19 my said messuages or tenement and farm called Ballast Quay farm with the appurtenances and
20 to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth day of
21 June the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth day of December in every year without
22 any deduction or abatement whatsoever and the first payment thereof to be made on such of
23 the said quarterly days of payment as shall first happen after my decease and to this further
24 use intent and purposes that in case and when and as often as the said annual sum
25 or yearly rent charges of two hundred pounds or any part thereof shall at any time or times be
26 unpaid for the space of twenty one days or more next after any of the said days hereby appointed
27 for payment thereof as aforesaid then and so often it shall and may be lawfulto and for
28 the said Sarah Plampin and her assigns to enter into and distrain upon my said messuage farm and
29 lands called the Ballast Quay ffarm with the appurtenances or any part thereof and to dispose of
30 the distress and distresses then and there farms according to law to the intent that thereby or
31 otherwise the said annual sum or yearly rent charge of two hundred pounds and every part thereof
32 so in arrear and unpaid and all cost charges and expenses occasioned by means of the non-payment
33 thereof shall be fully paid and satisfied and to and for the further use intent and purpose that in
34 case the said annual sum or yearly rent charge of two hundred pounds or any part thereof shall at
35 any time or times be unpaid for the space of forty days or more next after any of the said days
36 hereby appointed for payment thereof then then and so often ( although there shall not have been
37 any legal demand made thereof ) it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Sarah
38 Plampin and her assigns at any time or times during the continuance of the said annual sum
39 or yearly rent charge or in the case there shall be any arrears thereof but for the space of seven
40 days or more next after her death then to and for her executors administrators or assigns at any
41 time thereafter to enter into and upon and hold my said messuages farm and lands called
42 the Ballast Quay ffarm or any part thereof and to reserve and take the rents issues and profits
43 thereof to and for her and their own not until she and day shall therewith and thereby or
44 otherwise be fully paid and satisfied the said annual sum or yearly rent charge of two hundred
45 pounds and the arrears thereof due at the time of such duty or afterwards to become due during
46 her or their being in possession of the same premises or any part thereof together with all rents
47 charges and expenses which she or they shall sustain by reason of the non-payment thereof and such
48 possession when taken to be without impeachment of waste provided always and my will is that
49 if the said Sarah Plampin shall marry any person or persons whosoever then the said annuity
50 of two hundred pounds shall from thereforth be reduced to the annuity or yearly sum of one
51 hundred pounds only and such reduced annuity shall be held and enjoyed by her the said Sarah
52 Plampin for her life for her own sole and separate use and benefit exclusive of any husband she
53 may marry and the same shall not be subject to his debts controul or engagements and her
54 receipt alone notwithstanding coverture shall from time to time be a good and effectual discharge for
55 the same and as to for and concerning the said messuage farm and lands called the Ballast Quay
56 farm subject to the said annuity or yearly rent charge and the powers and remedies hereinbefore
57 contained or given for better securing the same and also as to for and concerning all other my
58 said Manors messuages lands tenements hereditaments and real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever To the
59 use intent and purposes that the same may and be charged I do hereby expressly subject and charge the
60 same and every part thereof with and to the payment of the sum of seventeen thousand pounds
61 of lawful money of Great Britain which sum I do hereby give and bequeath to and amongst and
62 for the benefit of my natural children ( except my said Son Nicholas Caesar Corsellis ) hereinafter
63 named in the shares and in manner hereinafter mentioned expressed and declared concerning the same
64 and so subject and charged as aforesaid to the use of such person or persons for such Estate or Estates
65 and to and such intents and purooses and with and with under and subject to such powers provisos declarations
66 and agreements as my aforesaid natural Son Nicholas Caesar Corsellis shall by any deed or deeds
67 with or without power of revocation to be by him sealed and delivered in the presence of two
68 or more witnesses or by his last will and Testament in writing or any codicil or codicils thereto
69 to be by him signed and published in the presence of and attested by three or more witnesses
70 direct limit and appoint and in the mean time and until and also in default of any such
71 direction limitation and appointment and so far as the same if incomplete shall not extend to the
72 use of such person or persons for such Estate or Estates and to and for such intents and purposes
73 and with under and subject to such powers provisoes declarations and agreements as my natural
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74 Son Charles Caesar Corsellis by any such his deed or deeds or last Will or Testament or Codicil or
75 Codicils as hereinbefore mentioned with respect to my said natural Son Nicholas Caesar Corsellis
76 shall direct limit or appoint and in the mean time and until and also in default of such
77 direction limitation or appointment and so far as the same if incomplete shall not extend to the
78 use of him the said Charles Caesar Corsellis and the heirs of his body and in default of such
79 issue to the use of such person or persons for such Estate or Estates and to and for such intents
80 and purpose and with under and subject to such powers provisos declarations and agreements
81 as my said natural Son Henry Joseph Corsellis shall by any such his deed or deeds or last Will
82 and Testament or Codicil or Codicils as hereinbefore mentioned with respect to my said natural
83 Son Nicholas Caesar Corsellis direct limit or appoint and in the mean time and until and also
84 In default of such situation limitation or appointment and so far as the same is incomplete shall
85 not extend to the use of him the said Henry Joseph Corsellis and the heirs of his bodt and in
86 default of such issues to the use of ffrances Corsellis Emily the wife of the Reverend Campion
87 Napper of Hillington Yorkshire Caroline Matilda Corsellis Eliza Corsellis four of the
88 natural daughters by thhe said Sarah Plampin equally to be divided between them as tenants
89 in common and the heirs of their respective bodies issuing and in case there shall be a want of
90 issue of the body or respective bodies of any of them my said four daughters then as to the
91 part or parts share or shares as well original as by survivorship or accrues of such of them
92 whose issue shall so fail to the use of the remaining or other or others of such my said four
93 daughters equally to be divided between them if more than one as tenants in common and the
94 heirs of their respective bodies issuing and in case there shall be a want of issue of the bodies
95 of all such my said four daughters save one then to use of such remaining or only daughter
96 and the heirs of her body issuing and for want of such issue to the use of my own right
97 heirs for ever provided always and I do hereby expressly will and declare that it shall and may be
98 lawful to and for such and every and any of my aforesaid four daughters as and when and
99 at any time or times and from time to time after she or they respectively shall be in the
100 actual possession or entitled to the receipt of the rents and profits of any share or shares as well
101 accruing as original and whether original or accruing by survivorship of or in my said manors
102 messuages farms lands tenements hereditaments and real estate and not withstanding any coverture
103 she or they may respectively happen to be under and as well being covert as sole by any deed
104 or deeds with or without power of revocation and new appointment to be by her or them
105 respectively sealed and delivered in the presence of and to be attested by two or more witnesses
106 or by her or their last Will and Testament or respective last Wills and Testaments in writing or any codicil
107 or codicils thereto or any writing or writings in the nature of or purporting to be her or their
108 last Will and Testament or respective last Wills and Testaments to be by her or them respectively
109 signed and published in the presence of and attested by three or more witnesses absolutely to revoke
110 determine and make void all and every or any of the uses or trusts hereinbefore declared or contained
111 and then subsisting of and concerning the share or shares which she or they respectively shall
112 for the time being be so in the actual possession or entitled to the rents and profits of as
113 aforesaid save and except and subject and without prequdice to the aforesaid annuity or yearly
114 rent charge to the said Sarah Plampin charged on the aforesaid Ballast Quay ffarm and the
115 powers and remedies for enforcing payment thereof and to the payment of the legacies by this
116 my Will charged on all my said manors or messuages lands tenements hereditaments and real Estate
117 and by the same or any other deed or deeds or by such her or their respective last Will and
118 Testament or last Wills and Testaments or any codicil or codicils thereto or writing or writings
119 in the nature thereof as aforesaid to limit declare direct or appoint any other use or uses trust or
120 trusts whatsoever of or concerning the share or shares the uses or trusts whereof shall be revoked
121 as aforesaid which my said daughter or daughters respectively so making such revocation or
122 revokations respectively shall think fit any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding
123 and I do hereby declare that the said sum of seventeen thousand pounds hereinbefore charge upon
124 my said real Estate shall be paid and applied for such of my natural children and in such shares
125 and proportions manner and form as hereinafter mentioned in that behalf that is to sayfor my said
126 two sons the aforesaid Charles Caesar Corsellis and Henry Joseph Corsellis the sum of three thousand
127 pounds each for my aforesaid four daughters the said ffrances Corsellis Emily Napper Caroline
128 Matilda Corsellis and Eliza Corsellis the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds each and for
129 my other natural daughter Mary the wife of ffield of London printer the sum of one
130 thousand pounds with Interest for each and every of such several sums at the rate of five
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131 pounds per centum Per annum to be computed from the day of my decease and which said
132 sum of three thousand pounds hereinbefore bequeathed to or provided for the benefit of each of
133 my aforesaid two Sons [I will and direct shall be vested Interests in each of them my same two Sons] respectively immediately upon my decease subject only to the proviso
134 hereinbefore contained relative thereto and that the said several sums of two thousand five hundred
135 pounds each and one thousand pounds respectively shall be settled upon my said several daughters
136 for their separate use and benefit and otherwise in manner hereinafter expressed provided always
137 nevertheless and I do hereby expressly will and declare that the person or persons who under the
138 limitations or powers and devises of this my will shall for the time being be entitled to my
139 said manors messuages farms lands tenements hereditaments and real Estate shall not be bound or
140 liable to pay to my said legatees nor shall they any or either of them call for or demand
141 the payment of the said several legacies amounting together to the sum of seventeen thousand
142 pounds or any part thereof for the term of five years after my decease if the person or persons so
143 for the time being entitled to the same manors messuages farms lands tenements hereditaments and
144 real Estate shall yearly and every year during such five years duly pay to my said legatees
145 Interest at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum on the amount of their said legacies
146 respectively half yearly the first half years payment to be made at the expiration of six calendar
147 months next after my decease provided also and my will is and I do hereby declare that in
148 case at the time of my decease my said daughter Eliza shall be under the age of twenty one
149 years then and in such case the Interest of her aforesaid legacy during her minority shall be paid
150 to my executors whose receipt shall be a sufficient and absolute discharge for the same and
151 they shall pay and apply the whole or a competent part of the said Interest in or towards her
152 maintenance and education [and I direct that the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds
153 hereinbefore provided for or for the benefit of my daughter ffrances Corsellis shall be laid out and
154 invested in or upon some or out of the public stocks or funds not bring a sinking or temporary
155 fund or upon real securities of or in Great Britain at Interest in the names of two trustees
156 one to be named by my same daughter and another by my said Executors and Executrix or the
157 Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or administrators of such Survivors and I declare that
158 they the said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or other the trustees or trustee thereof
159 for the time being shall stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of two thousand five hundred
160 pounds and the stocks funds or securities for the same upon trust to receive the Interest dividends or
161 annual proceeds thereof when and as the same shall from time to time become due and payable
162 and to pay the same unto my said daughter ffrances Corsellis for and during the term of her natural
163 life to and for her own sole separate and peculiar use benefit and disposal as an inalienable provision
164 for her own personal support and not to be anticipated or in any way assigned or otherwise
165 incumbered and not to be liable to the debts control intermeddling or engagements of any
166 husband with whom she may happen to intermarry and for which purpose I declare that the
167 receipt and receipts of my said daughter ffrancis Corsellis alone notwithstanding coverture shall be
168 good and effectual discharge and discharges to the said trustees and the survivor of them or other
169 the trustees thereof for thr time being for so much of the said yearly Interest and dividends
170 as shall be therein acknowledged or expressed to be received and I do hereby direct that she
171 my said daughter ffrances shall not sell or dispose of the same in any manner howsoever
172 and that any such sale or aliviation thereof or of any part thereof and all assignments thereof
173 shall under the same void from the date of any such contract or assignment or other Instrument
174 for effecting any such sale and the said yearly Interest and dividends shall from thenceforth
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176 be laid out and invested upon real or Government Securities and accumulate for the benefit of
177 the person or persons who under this my Will shall at her decease be entitled to the said principal
178 trust sum of two thousand five hundred pounds and shall be paid and transferred therewith and from
179 and after the death of my said daughter ffrances Corsellis then upon trust that the trustees for the
180 time being thereof do and shall stand possessed of the said principal trust sum of two thousand five
181 hundred pounds and all the Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof accruing or receivable and
182 the accumulation thereof if any from and after such death or forfeiture In trust for all and
183 every the child or children of her my said daughter ffrances Corsellis who shall attain the age
184 of twenty one yearsor marry under that age equally to be divided between them share and
185 share alike and if there shall be but one such child then the whole to be in trust for such
186 only child and to be paid assigned and transferred accordingly But in case there shall be no such
187 child then upon trust to assign transfer and pay the said principal trust sum and
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188 all accruing or accumulating Interest dividends and proceeds thereof
189 unto and equally between my Surviving children share and share alike
190 and the issue of such of them as may then happen to be dead such issue respectively to take
191 per stirpes and not per capita and I direct that the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds
192 hereinbefore provided for or for the benefit of my said daughter Emily Napper shall be laid out and
193 invested in or upon the like stocks funds or securities as hereinbefore directed with regard to the legacy
194 of my said daughter ffrances Corsellis in the names of two trustees to be like manner appointed
195 out by my said daughter Emily Napper and the other by my said executors and executrix or
196 the survivors or Survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such Survivor upon trust
197 to pay and apply the same and the Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof upon and
198 for the same trusts ends intents and purposes for and for the sole and separate use and benefit
199 of my said daughter Emily Napper and her child or children and in the same manner and form
200 and subject in all respects to the like powers restrictions conditions and limitations over as
201 hereinbefore mentioned of and concerning the said first mentioned trust sum of two thousand five hundred pounds
202 hereinbefore settled and intended as a provision for my said daughter ffrances Corsellis and her
203 children and I further direct that the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds hereinbefore
204 provided for or her the benefit ofmy said daughter Caroline Matilda Corsellis shall be laid out
205 and invested in or upon the like stocks funds or securities as hereinbefore directed with regard to the
206 legacy of my said daughter ffrancis Corsellis in the names of two trustees to be in like manner
207 appointed one by my said daughter Caroline Matilda Corsellis and the other by my said Executor
208 and Executrix or the survivors or survivor of them or the Executors or administrators of such
209 Survivor upon trust to pay and apply the same and the Interests dividends and annual profits
210 thereof upon and for the same trusts ends intents and purposes for and for the sole and separate
211 use and benefit of my said daughter Caroline Matilda Corsellis and for her child or children and in the
212 same manner and form and subject in all respects to the like powers restrictions conditions and
213 limitations and as hereinbefore mentioned of and concerning the said first mentioned sum of two
214 thousand five hundred pounds hereinbefore settled and intended as a provision for my said daughter
215 ffrances Corsellis and her children And I further direct that the sum of two thousand five
216 hundred pounds hereinbefore provided for or for the benefit of my said daughter Eliza Corsellis shall
217 be laid out and interested in or upon the like stocks funds or securities as herein before directed with
218 regard to the legacy of my aforesaid daughter ffrances Corsellis in the names of two trustees to
219 be in like manner appointed one by my said daughter Eliza Corsellis and the other by my said
220 Executors and Executrix or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or administrators
221 of such Survivor upon trust to pay and apply the same and the Interest dividends and annual
222 proceeds thereof and for the same trusts and intents and purposes for and for the sole and
223 separate use and benefit of my said daughter Eliza Corsellis and her child or children and in the
224 same manner and form and subject in all respects to the like powers restrictions conditions and
225 limitations over as hereinbefore mentioned of and concerning the said first mentioned sum of two
226 thousand five hundred pounds hereinbefore settled and intended as a provision for my said daughter
227 ffrances Corsellis and her children And I further direct that the sum of one thousand pounds
228 hereinbefore provided for or for the benefit of my said daughter Mary ffield shall be laid out
229 and invested in or upon the like stocks funds or securities as hereinbefore directed with regard to the
230 legacy of my said daughter ffrances Corsellis in the names of two trustees to be in like manner
231 appointed one by my said daughter Mary ffield and the other by my said Executors and Executrix or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the
232 or the Executors or administators of such survivor upon trust to pay and apply the same and the
233 Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof upon and for the same trusts ends intents and
234 purposes for and for the sole and separate use and benefit of my said daughter Mary ffield and her
235 child or children and in the same manner and form and subject in all respects to the like powers
236 restrictions conditions and limitations over as hereinbefore mentioned of and concerning the first
237 mentioned sum of two thousand five hundred pounds hereinbefore settled and intended as a provision
238 for my said daughter ffrances Corsellis and her children provided always and it is my express
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239 will and mind and I do accordingly will and direct that if any one or more of my aforesaid
240 natural children the said Charles Caesar Corsellis Henry Joseph Corsellis ffrances Corsellis Emily Napper
241 Caroline Matilda Corsellis Eliza Corsellis and Mary ffield shall happen to die
242 as to the said Charles Caesar Corsellis and Henry Joseph Corsellis without having actually received his or
243 their aforesaid legacy or legacies or sum or sums of so hereby provided for them respectively
244 as aforesaid or any part or parts thereof respectively or the Interest for the same and as to them
245 and the rest of my said children ffrances Corsellis Emily Napper Caroline Matilda Corsellis Eliza Corsellis
246 and Mary ffield without having made any complete and effectual disposition of the same either by
247 deed or will or otherwise and shall not have any child or other issue or any Will or husband
248 as the case may be him her or them respectively surviving or if any other event shall happen
249 in which any such sum or sum as aforesaid or any part thereof or the Interest or accumulation
250 thereof or any accruing shares or other right or Interest therein which they any or either of
251 them shall be or become entitled to under this my Will would otherwise escheat or go and
252 devolve to the Crown then and in such case such legacy or legacies sum or sums of money
253 or portion or portions thereof so unreceived as aforesaid with the Interest and accumu
254 lations thereof or so much and such part and parts thereof respectively of which no such complete
255 and effectual disposition shall have been made as aforesaid
256 and subject to any incomplete disposition
257 therefore or which would otherwise so escheat or go and devolve to the Crown as aforesaid shall go
258 to and be equally divided amongst the Survivors and Survivor of them my said natural children
259 share and share alike and in case of the death of any other or others of my said last mentioned
260 natural children without having actually received his her or their legacy or legacies and otherwise as
261 lastly hereinbefore mentioned then every such accruing or Surviving part or share shall again be
262 subject and liable to such right chance contingency and condition of accrue as hereinbefore is directed
263 with regard to the original legacy or legacies portion or portions of my same natural children
264 and shall go and be payed and applied accordingly to and be equally divided amongst the Survivors
265 or Survivor of them if more than one share and share alike and my will is and I do hereby
266 declare that the receipts in writing of the trustees and trustee for the time being shall be good
267 and sufficient acquittances and discharges to any person or persons paying in purchasing or discharging
268 my personal Estates or any part thereof or any monies
269 stocks funds or securities to be acquired or paid in under
270 the trusts of this my will for all monies to be paid by him or them in such respects as
271 aforesaid or any of them and that the same person or persons his her or their heirs Executors
272 administrators or assigns shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for the loss misapplication
273 or nonapplication or be in any wise obliged or concerned to see to the application of or to the
274 necessity of raising the money which in such receipt or receipts shall be acknowledged to be
275 received or any part thereof provided always and I do hereby that if the trustees so to be
276 appointed or other of them or of any trustees or trustee to be appointed in the stead or place
277 of them or either of them or of any future trustees or trustee as herein after mentioned shall die
278 go to reside beyond the area or shall be desirous of being discharged from or decline or become
279 incapable to act in the several trusts hereby in them reposed as aforesaid before the said trusts
280 shall be fully performed then and in any such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the
281 surviving or continuing trustee if any whether such surviving trustee shall be willing to continue
282 to act in other respect or not or if both the trustees for the time being shall be then dead then
283 for the Executors or administrators of the Survivor of the trustees by any writing or writings
284 under his or their hand and seal or hands and seals from time to time to nominate substitute
285 or appoint any other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the stesd or the place of the
286 trustees or trustee so dying going to reside beyond the seas or being desirous of being discharged
287 or decling or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and therefore all the monies and premises
288 hereby bequeathed and directed to be laid out and invested in their names upon the trusts and
289 with and subject to the powers and provisoes aforesaid to be produced under any of the said
290 trusts shall with all convenient speed be assigned and transferred respectively so and in such manner
291 that the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the surviving or continuing
292 trustee or trustees and such new or other trustee or trustees or if there shall be no continuing
293 trustee then in such new trustees only upon the same trusts and with the same powers and
294 authorities as art hereinbefore declared and contained of and continuing the same monies and
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295 premises or such of the same trusts powers and authorities as shall or may be then subsisting
296 or capable of taking Effect and it is my will that the said trustees for the time being and every
297 of them and their respective Executors and administrators and assigns shall severally be charged and
298 chargeable only nfor such monies as they shall actually receive respectively by virtue of the 299 trusts so in them to be reposed although they or any of them may give sign or join in any
300 receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and that each of them shall only be answerable
301 for himself and his own acts and that none of them shall be answerable for any money paid
302 over by one to another of them the said trustees nor for any Banker Broker or other person with
303 whom any part of the trust monies to arise under this my will shall or may be deposited nor
304 for the Insufficency or deficiency of any security of or upon which the said trust monies or
305 stocks or any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor for any other misfortune of loss
306 in the Execution of the trusts of this my will or any of them unless the same shall happen
307 by or through their own wilful default respectively and that it may and shall be lawful to and
308 for the said trustees or trustee for the time being and every of them to retain to and reimburse
309 themselves and to allow their or his cotrustee or cotrustees by or out of the trust funds and
310 premises comprised in or to arise under this my will all costs damages and expenses which they
311 or any of them shall or may suffer sustain expend disburse be at or be put unto in or
312 about the Execution of the aforesaid trusts or any of them or in relation thereto and lastly I
313 hereby revoke all former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made In witness whereof
314 I the said Nicholas Caesar Corsellis the testator have to the first ten sheets of this my last will and Testament
315 set my hand and to this seventh and last sheet thereof my hand and seal the twenty third day
316 of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty – N C Corsellis – – Signed sealed published and
317 declared by the said Nicholas Caesar Corsellis the Testator as and for his last will and Testament in
318 the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have
319 hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses ( the obliteration of several lives in the seventh sheet
320 having been first made ) W Sparling Attr Colch J Rudland Geo Sansom his clerks
321 Whereas since the date and execution of my within written last will and Testament
322 my daughter ffrances hath married against my consent and my daughter Mary ffield hath been party
323 thereto Now I do hereby revoke the legacies and bequests contained in my said will to or in favour
324 of my said several daughters and their issue respectively and the several sums of money within
325 directed to be raised and invested for their benefit according to the trusts declared thereof shall not
326 be raised and invested but in lieu thereof I give and bequeath to my said daughter ffrances the
327 sum of twenty pounds per annum for the term of her natural life and to my daughter Mary
328 ffield the sum of twelve pounds per annum for the term of her natural life And I charge the
329 same annuities upon my messuages lands tenements and hereditaments and I do in all other
330 respects ratify and confirm my said will witness my hand and seal the fourth day of October
331 one thousand eight hundred and thirty – N C Corsellis Signed sealed published and
332 declared by the within named Testator Nicholas Caesar Corsellis as and for a codicil to his last will
333 and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of
334 each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses – W Sparling Att Colch Geo
Sansom W B Rudland his clerks
335 This is a second Codicil to the last will and Testament dated the
336 twenty third day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty of me Nichalos Caesar Corsellis
337 late of Thirsk in the County of York afterwards of Wivenhoe in the County of Essex and now of
338 Loughton in the same County Esquire made this twenty eight day of July one thousand eight
339 hundred and thirty two whereas by my first Codicil to and which is endorsed om my said will and
340 bears date the fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty I revoked the legacies
341 and bequests contained in my said will to or in favour of my said several daughters ffrances now
342 the wife of Henry Firman and Mary the wife of John ffield and their issue respectively and willed
342 that the several sums of money by my sid will directed to be raised and invested for their benefit
343 according to the trusts declared thereof should not be raised and invested but in lieu thereof I gave
344 and bequeathed to my said daughter ffrances the sum of twenty pounds per annum for the term of
345 her natural life and to my daughter Mary ffield the sum of twelve pounds per annum for the
346 term of her natural life and I charged the same annuities respectively upon my messuages
347 lands tenements and hereditaments Now I do hereby confirm the revocation so made by my said
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348 Codicil of the legacies and bequests contained in my said will to or for in favour of my said
349 several daughters ffrances ffirman and Mary ffield and their issue respectively and all other parts of
350 my said Codicil except such parts thereof as are hereby revoked altered or varied and I do hereby
351 revoke the bequest contained in my said Codicil to my said daughter ffrances ffirman of the 352 said annual sum of twelve pounds for her life and to my said daughter Mary ffield of the said annual
353 sum of twelve pounds for her life and the charge thereof upon my messuages lands tenements and
354 hereditaments and in lieu of the said bequest of the said annual sum of twenty pounds to my
355 said daughter ffrances ffirman for her life I do hereby give and bequeath to her my said daughter
356 ffrances ffirman one annuity or clear yearly sum of seventy pounds for and during the term of her
357 natural life to and for her own sole separate and peculiar use and benefit exclusive of her present and
358 any future husband as an inalienable provision for her own personal support and not to be anticipated
359 or in any way assigned charged or otherwise incumbered and not to be++++++++++++++++
360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ liable to the debts control intermeddling or
361 engagements of her present or any future husband and for which purpose I declare that the receipt
362 and receipts of my said daughter ffrance ffirman alone notwithstanding coverture shall be a good
363 and effectual discharge and discharges for the same annuity or nearly sum of seventy pounds or so much
364 thereof as shall be therein acknowledged to be received and from and immediately after the decease of
365 my said daughter ffrances ffirman in case she shall have any child or children who shall live to attain the
366 age of twenty one years or be married then I give and bequeath to and amongst all and every such
367 child or children of my said daughter ffrances ffirman who shall live to attain the age of twenty
368 one years or be married the sum of one thousand pounds of lawful English money equally to be
369 divided between them if more than one share and share alike and if there shall be but one such
370 child then the whole to such one child and in lieu of the said bequest of the said annual
371 sum of twelve pounds to my said daughter Mary ffield for her life I direct that the sum of
372 one thousand pounds provided by my said will in manner therein mentioned for the benefit
373 of my said daughter Mary ffield and her issue shall be raised and invested in manner therein
374 mentioned except that the trustee whose nomination is by my said will given to my said
375 daughter Mary ffield shall be nominated by her husband the said John ffield But upon the following
376 trusts that is to say In trust that the trustees thereof for the +++++++++++++++time being
377 do and shall pay and apply the Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto the said John
378 ffield and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life and from and immediately after
379 his decease In trust to pay and divide the said principal sum of one thousand pounds and the
380 Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto and amongst all and every his child and children
381 by my said daughter Mary who shall attain the age of twenty one years or be married equally
382 to be divided between them if more than one share and share alike and if there shall be but
383 one such child then the whole to be for such only child But if there should be no such
384 such child then upon trust to assign transfer and pay the said principal sum and all
385 accruing or accumulating Interests dividends and proceeds thereof unto and equally between my
386 surviving children share and share alike and the issue of such of them as may then happen
387 to be dead such issue respectively to take per stirpes and not per capita And I do hereby subject
388 and charge all and every my Manors messuages farms lands tenements and hereditaments except
389 my farm called the ballast Quay farm mentioned in my said will to and with the payment
390 of the said annuity of seventy pounds to my said daughter ffrances ffirman during her life
391 and after her decease if the same shall become payable to and with the payment of the said
392 principal sum of one thousand pounds to her child or children aforesaid if any and I direct that my
393 personal Estate to which I have by my said will given to Sarah Plampin therein named and
394 which gift I hereby confirm shall not be charged with such annuity and principal sum or
395 either of them and whereas I have by my said will directed the sum of three thousand
396 pounds to be raised in manner therein mentioned my Son Charles Caesar Corsellis now I do
397 hereby declare that as he has since obtained a good and permanent situation for his life the
398 said principal sum of three thousand pounds shall not be paid to him but the same shall
399 be laid out and invested in or upon some or one of the public stocks or funds not being a
400 sinking or temporary fund or upon real securities in England at Interest in the name of
401 two trustees one to be named by my said Son Charles Caesar Corsellis and another by my
402 Executors and Executrix or the Survivors or Survivor of them or or the Executors or administrators
403 of such Survivor upon trust to pay and apply the Interest dividends or annual proceeds thereof
404 unto my said Son Charles Caesar Corsellis and his assigns for and during the ter of his natural
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405 life and from and immediately after his decease in case his wife Caroline should survive him
406 in trust to pay and apply the annual sum of fifty pounds part of the Interest dividends and annual proceeds of the said sum of three thousand pounds
407 unto the said Caroline Corsellis the wife of my said Son Charles Caesar Corsellis and her
408 assigns for and during the term of her natural life or until she shall marry again whichever
409 event shall first happen and no longer and subject to the Interests in the said sum of three
410 thousand pounds hereby given to my said Son Charles Caesar Corsellis and his said wife I give
411 and bequeath the same sum and the Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto
412 all and every his child and children who shall attain the age of twenty one years or be
413 married equally to be divided between them if more than one share and share alike and if
414 there shall be but one such child then the whole to to be for such only child but if there
415 should be no such child then the said principal sum of three thousand pounds and all accruing
416 or accumulating Interest dividends and proceeds thereof shall go and I hereby give and bequeath
417 the same unto and equally between my surviving children share and share alike and the issue
418 of such of them as may then happen to be dead such issue respectively to take per stripes and
419 not per capita and whereas I have by my said will provided and declared that my several legatees
420 should not call for payment of their several legacies for the term of five years after my decease if
421 the person or persons for the time being entitled to my Manor messuages farms lands tenements
422 and hereditaments and real Estate should yearly and every year during such first years duly pay
423 to my legatees Interest at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum on the amount
424 of their said legacies respectively half yearly the first half years payment to be made at the
425 expiration of six calendar months next after my decease Now I do hereby confirm such last
426 mentioned provision and declaration except as to the legacies which I have since revoked and except
427 that I do hereby will and declare that the rate of Interest to be paid to my legatees
428 shall be four four pounds per centum instead of five pounds per centum per annum as
429 therein mentioned and I do hereby declare that the sum of one thousand pounds hereby provided
430 for the said John ffield and his aforesaid children if any and the said sum of three thousand
431 pounds so directed to be invested for my said son Charles Caesar Corsellis and his wife and if
432 any children as aforesaid shall be subject to the said last mentioned provision and declaration in all
433 respects the same as if the trusts of such sums respectively had been the same as declared
434 by and will and in case my Son Henry Joseph Corsellis shall not at the time of my decease
435 have been placed by me in some business or profession on his own account soley or in
436 partnership then I do hereby subject and charge all and every my Manors messuages farms
437 lands tenements and hereditaments ( except my said farm called Ballast Quay ffarm) with and
438 to the payment to him my said Son Henry Joseph Corsellis of the sum of one thousand
439 five hundred pounds within two years after my decease and this legacy is in addition to the
440 legacies bequeathed to him or for his benefit by my said will and my personal Estate is
441 not to be subject thereto and I hereby charge all my my said real Estates with the payment
442 of five hundred pounds a piece to my two daughters Caroline Matilda Corsellis and Eliza Corsellis
443 in addition to the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds a piece charge thereon by my
444 said will and the said sum of five hundred pounds a piece to be under and subject to the same
445 trusts and for the same ends intents and purposes and with under and subject to the same
446 limitations over as in my said will is mentioned concerning the said original legacies or
447 charges of two thousand five hundred pounds apiece and I do hereby ratify and confirm my
448 said will and former codicil my said will and former codicil so far as the same respectively are
449 not hereby altered or varied In witness whereof I the said Nicholas Caesar Corsellis the testator have
450 to this second Codicil to my last will and Testament contained in four sheets of paper set my hand
451 to the first three sheets and my hand and seal to this fourth and last sheet thereof the day and
452 year first before written N C Corsellis – signed sealed published and declared by the said
453 Nicholas Caesar Corsellis the Testatot as and for a second Codicil to his last will and Testament in the
454 presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
455 subscribed our names as witnesses W Gurson + Noah Heath + Robert Stringer
456 Proved at London with two Codicils 26th Nov 1833 before the worshipful John Haggard
457 Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Nicholas Caesar Corsellis and Henry Joseph Corsellis
458 Esquires and Sarah Plampin Spinster the Executors to whom admin was granted being first
sworn duly to administer.
A summary of names, relationships, places, properties and vessels mentioned in the will of Nicholas Caesar
Names Relationship Line
Sarah Plampin Friend 4, 6, 15, 28, 37, 49, 52, 88, 114, 393, 458
Henry Joseph Corsellis Son 3, 10, 81, 85, 126, 240, 242, 434, 438, 457
Nicholas C. Corsellis Son 3, 10, 62, 66, 75, 83, 314, 457
John Robinson Tenant 14
Charles C Corsellis Son 74, 78, 126, 240, 242, 396, 400, 401, 404, 407, 410, 431
Frances Corsellis Daughter 86, 127, 153, 162, 167, 171, 179, 183, 194, 202, 206, 215, 218, 227, 230,
238, 240, 245, 321, 326, 341, 344, 349, 351, 355, 356, 362, 365, 367, 390
Emily Napper Daughter 86, 127, 192, 199, 240, 245
Caroline Matilda Corsellis Daughter 87, 128, 204, 207, 211, 241, 245, 442
Eliza Corsellis Daughter 87, 128, 148, 216, 219, 223, 241, 245, 442
Mary Field (ffield) Daughter 129, 228, 231, 234, 241, 246, 322, 327, 341, 349, 352, 371, 373, 375, 381
- Sparling Attrn 320, 334
J Rudland Clerk 320, 334
George Sansom Clerk 320, 334
Henry Firman Son in Law 341
John Field Son in Law 342, 375, 377, 430
Caroline Corsellis Daughter in Law 405, 407
W Gurson Witness 455
Noah Heath Witness 455
Robert Stringer Witness 455
John Haggard Dr of Law
Prpoerty Place
Ballast Quay Farm Wivenhoe 14, 19, 29, 42, 55, 114, 389
Manors Wivenhoe 58, 101, 139, 143, 388, 421, 436
Comments about this page
The question marks (?) are as follows:
line 56 “remedies”
Line 131 “centum” (rather than return)
line 275 “received”
Line 279 “reposed”
“ff” was used to denote a capital f.
Ballast Quay Farm rather than ffarm, Mary Field, rather than ffield and Frances Corsellis rather than ffrances.
Hi Michael
I am aware that the ff indicates a capital F.
But in order to show how the original will is written I have stuck to transcribing what is written, such as words which are written as ff instead of upper case F.
There are a number of things in the wills which may look like errors but are in fact a copy of the original will as it is written.
Hence the explanatory paragraph at the beginning of each will.
I realise there is probably a need for something to explain some of the oddities that may crop up and with this in mind I am putting together a glossary which will explain some of these.
Thank you for the letter that you filled in where there were question marks.
Frances
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