In the Name of God Amen I Daniel Hemingway of Spital Street
in the hamlet of Mile End New Town in the County of Middlesex Victualler being
weak in body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding thanks be
given to Almighty God for the same Do make and publish this my last Will and
Testament in the following (that is to say) first and principally I recommend
my Soul to God that gave it my Body I commit to the earth to be decently
intered at the discretion of my Executors herein after named and as to my
worldly estate and effects which it has pleased God to bestow on me I give and
dispose thereof as follows (that is to say) after payment of all my just debts
funeral expenses and the expenses of proving this my Will. I give and bequeath
to my son Daniel Hemingway all those my three leasehold messuages being part of
five leasehold messuages or tenements situate standing and being on the left
side of White Village in the parish of Saint Matthew Bethnal Green in the
County of Middlesex to hold to the said Daniel Hemingway his executors
administrators and assigns for and during the residue and remainder of the term
in and by the said lease granted subject to the payment of a proportionable
part of the ground rent of the said five messuages and also subject to the
covenants in the lease and under which I hold the same. I give and bequeath to
my said son Daniel Hemingway all such household goods utensils in trade and all
such other things as are now standing and being in and about my house and
premises in North Street Spitalfields now occupied by him. I give and bequeath
to my trustees Edward Clark of Wheeler Street Spitalfields auctioneer and Charles
Poole of North Street Spitalfields aforesaid Butcher all that my freehold
messuage or tenement situate standing and being at Harrow on the Hill in the
County of Middlesex and all those my two copyhold messuages or tenements
situate standing and being at Txxxham Green in the said County of Middlesex and
also all those my two leasehold messuages or tenements being the two last of
the said five messuages or tenement on the left side of Whites Village
aforesaid and also all that leasehold messuage or tenement situate and being on
the right side of Whites Village aforesaid In Trust that they my said trustees
or the survivor of them and the heirs executors and administrators of the
survivor do and shall from time to time receive the Rents xxx and profits of my
said freehold copyhold and leasehold estates as the same shall from time to
time become due and payable and on receipt thereof to pay the same to my poor
wife Ann Hemingway for the support and maintenance of herself and also for the
support and maintenance and education
of my two sons Thomas and John Hemingway for and during and until they shall
respectively attain their respective ages of twenty one years and her Receipt alone notwithstanding any
future coverture shall from time to
time be a sufficient discharge to my said trustees for the same and in case of
the death of my said wife Then my said trustees to pay and apply the same in
manner as aforesaid for the benefit of my said two sons Thomas and John
Hemingway or the survivor of them and in case of the death of both my said sons
then my said trustees to pay the whole of the said rents and profits of my said
freehold and copyhold and leasehold estate to my said wife Ann Hemingway for
her own sole use and benefit as aforesaid all the rest residue and remainder of my personal estate and
effects of what nature kind or quality the same may be and consist of at the
time of my decease and not hereinbefore given or disposed of. I give and
bequeath the same to my said wife Ann Hemingway to and for her own sole use and
benefit. And it is my will and mind that my said trustees shall not be
answerable or accountable for any more monies than they shall actually receive
nor liable for any loss that my happen to my said Estate (unless by their won
wilful neglect) nor shall they or either of them be answerable for the acts or
receipts of the other of them but each of them for his own acts and receipts
only and that they shall and may retain and reimburse themselves all such costs
charges and expenses as they or either of them shall or may sustain or be put
unto in the execution of the trusts hereby in them reposes in any manner whatsoever and do hereby nominate and appoint
my said wife Ann Hemingway and the said Edward Clark and Charles Poole joint Executors and Executrix of this my
last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all other and former
will or Wills by me at any time or times herebefore made satisfying and
confirming this to be may last will and Testament xxxxxx whereof I have to this
my last Will and Testament contained in two sheets of paper to the first sheet
thereof set my hand and to the last sheet my hand and seal this twenty fourth
day of June in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign George the
third by the grace of God of Great
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight Daniel Hemingway
Signed sealed published and declared by the testator Daniel
Hemingway as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us who in
his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have
subscribe our names as witnesses J Dalton attny Spitalfields, W Dupree, William
Atkins