Third batch. More to come tomorrow.
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...pounds like three per cent... [life is used for like in this context a few times. I won't cover any more examples.]
...upon trust to be applied towards carrying
on the purposes of that Charity for ever I also give and bequeath unto the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish...
...the interest dividends and
annual proceeds to arise therefrom in manner following...
...the said annual produce...
The transcript becomes disorganized after this point. You'll need to go through this section and revise as necessary.
...yearly and every year forever [I think the lines in the RH margin should be inserted here] and I direct the same to be applied and
paid at the discretion of my Exors [sic] William Northway during his life and after
his decease...
...and whom I direct to keep an account of the pay
=ment and distribution...
Picking up again:
...in Government funds in their names and
to pay the interest thereof half yearly unto my niece Elizabeth Lovelock Wife
of James Lovelock during her natural life and for her separate...
...after her decease I give the
said Capital sum so invested to such child or children of my said niece Elizabeth
Lovelock...
...to have the whole the same
to be paid at his her or their respective ages of twenty one years but in case
my said niece shall die without leaving issue then I give the said Capital
sum unto my nephew... [niece is crossed out before nephew.]
Obviously, Exors is a shortened Executors.
