I am restating the Will with your kind submissions inserted. I am now posting the first 6 lines of the Will (that is the amount I am able to post within the 500 KB) for your kind suggestions as to the missing words there.
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost I, Charles William Stocker D.D. Rector of Draycott-le-Moors in the Diocese of Stafford being at this present time by the ... of God in sound health both of mind and body make this my last Will and Testament. I appoint as my Executors Richard Stocker of ... Street Surgeon Harry Dupuis c/o ... ... of ... and Edward Seymour Stocker c/o ... Rector of Titchwell ... ... I wish to be buried as simple as may be and forbid any eulogy whatever to be placed on my grave beside my dear wife. After payment of all my just debts I leave the whole of my property of every description to my youngest daughter Harriet Julin with the exceptions here following, namely, to my older daughter Frances Harriet one hundred pounds Sterling free of legacy duty. To my son Edward Seymour the following books and articles of plate, the Guernsey inkstand the Barton cup, the Davies (plain) bread basket, the forks with Speidells crest and the Winchester gold medal (for Basil) the prize books stamped with the Arms of St John’s College the bible and prayer book presented on the sixth of July 1863. The manuscript books of my grandfather John Stocker and those of Gaynsford Smith B.D. and all my classical books in Greek and Latin. Finally I pray our Gracious Saviour to have mercy on my sinful soul for ... ... ... and to reunite in ... ... me his unworthy servant with those beloved ones whom I have ... survives or who shall hereafter survive me. Signed by me the testator this fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three – Charles William Stocker in the presence of the ... witnesses who have also signed their names ... at the same time in attestation thereof in each other’s presence and in that of the testator – Clement Braughton (York ... ... ... ... ...) William ... ... ... ... ...
In Her Majesty’s Court of Probate the ... Registry in the Estate of the Reverend Charles William Stocker deceased
I, the Reverend William ... of ... ... in the County of Stafford ... Doctor of Civil Law make oath that I am one of the surviving witnesses to the last Will and Testament of the said ... Reverend Charles William Stocker ... of the Rectory Draycott ... in the county of Stafford ... Doctor of Divinity ... the said Will being ... hereunto annexed bearing date the fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty tree and that the said testator on the day of the ... therein on signing his name at the foot or ... of the date of the said Will meaning and ... the same for his final signature to this Will as the same now as the same now appears therein in the presence of him and of the Reverend Clement ... Braughton ... is the other surviving witness thereto both of us being present at the same time and have thereupon attested and witnessed the said Will in the presence of the said testator and that there was no writing on the ... side of the ... of ... whereupon the said Will is ... at the time of the said execution – William ... ... D.C.L. in the city of London this ... day of July 1870 before me ... ... Clarke Commissioner of the ... of Probate.
Proved at London 7th July 1870 by the oaths of Richard Stocker the brother and the Reverend Edward Seymour ... therein ... the surviving Executors ... ... was granted.
