Hi Jo,
Here's my transcription of the first page. Hopefully this should help you get the rest. It's a pretty clear one so when you have your head around some of the strange letterforms (like c and the long s) you should be able to do it
You can't post the whole thing here or you will be breaching copyright.
Cheers
Prue
Same County at the time of making this my and Will and Testament he being
in the employ of Messieurs Jolliffe and Banks as their Clerk in the accompting house
at Beaufort Wharf on the north side of the Thames contiguous to the south end of
the said Fountain Court joint executor with Mary Eden now a resident at
my said house in the Polygon aforesaid to whom jointly I hereby give and
bequeath in trust upon the following terms and conditions premising nevertheless
and in conformity with my rooted dislike to the interference of Attornies and to
Suits of Law among manking that if any difference of opinion should arise
between these my duly appointed Executor and Executrix that then they shall
jointly or severally submit such difference to John Husband of Lansdowne Mews
Guildford Street Fondling(?) in the same County Cabinet Maker whose decision on the
point in difference shall be final and conclusive if he be then living and in case of
the decease of the said W E Russell that from thenceforward the said John
Husband shall become the Executor under this my Will and Testament jointly
with the said Mary Eden in the place and stead of the said W E Russell and
should the said Mary Eden depart this life or marry that then she will as well
by such her natural death as by her said marriage cease in any way to
interfere in the direction of my said affairs under this my Will and in such case
the said W E Russell and John Husband aforeseaid shall be and remain to all
intents and purposes my whole and sole Executors in this my last Will and
Testament and that upon any difference arising between them in the disposal and
construction(?) of this my Will and Testament then the decision of William Plews the
Clerk also to Messieurs Jolliffe and Blankes at the accounting house in Beaufont
Wharf aforesaid shall decide any difference if any should arise between them and
his decision as to this my said Will shall be abided by and settled between them if
by reason of death or the marriage of the said Mary Eden it should come to them in
due course as aforesaid. And whereas by reason of a most unfortunate professional
proscription of the Board of Woos and Forests continuing for the last sixteen
years and by reason of the Infidelity of the Mother of my Children against whom
a Jury of my Country many years ago pronounced a verdict Guilty of Adultery
with my Apprentice Edward Hunt stands of record in His Majestys Court of Kings
Bench by which my former marriage hath been annulled and legally dissolved
except that divorce has not followed so as to enable me to marry again according
to the existing English Law that such verdict stands of record in the aforesaid
Court about the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven that subsequent
thereto my said then Wife hath become the Wife and since the Widow of another
man and may for aught I know to the contrary be now the Wife of a third
person by some of whom she may have had Child or Children my will is that
neither she nor any of her said Children by other husbands or persons shall in
any way interfere or participate in this my Will and Testament. My Personal
and Real as well as Freehold Property is very inconsiderable and comprises
only the Estate of Adelphi
House in Adam Street Adelphi in the aforesaid County and of which I am the
possessor of by reason of a rule of His Majesty’s Court of Common Pleas as of
Hilary(?) Term the second and third of the late King George the Fourth Entituled
… on the demise of Evans and Macklen Assignees of William Adam a
Bankrupt v. Pitt and another
the same standing confirmed and ratified by a subsequent
conveyance thereof under the hands of John Evans and Edward Macklen the
above named Assignees bearing date the sixteenth of April one thousand eight
hundred and twenty two which at the time of such conveyance for a term of about
forty four years was charged and encumbered with a ground rent of seventy
eight pounds per annum and a rent charge of one penny per annum for eleven
feet wise of the Street extending across Adam Street the width of the said Adelphi
House but which hath long since composed the footway on the East side of Adam
Street aforesaid and part of the carriage way thereof and which besides was
charged with one of four outstanding annuities of fifty pounds p annum
which had been charged by the Bankrupt William Adam and his Brother
during their life time the last and only life outstanding being that of Elizabeth
