Estate Duty Office Will of James Parsons late of Highampton, Devon, out of business, dec's

Executor - Jonathan Parsons of Highampton, Devon, yeoman

Proved 18th October 1852 in the Principal Registry of the Lord Bishop of Exeter

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Devon Record Office - 1078/IRW/P/260

Transcribed by Sheila Howard

Effects sworn under £200

In the Name of God Amen. I James Parsons now residing at Stockley with my Brother Emanuel Parsons in the parish of Highampton in the County of Devon being of sound mind memory and understanding and duly considering the uncertainty of human life and to prevent controversies after my decease do make this my last Will and Testament. First and principally I commit my Soul into the hands of my blessed Maker trusting in his Mercies and in the merits of my dear Redeemer Jesus Christ for the remission of all my Sins My Body I commit to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my Executor herinafter named. As to my Temporal Estate I bequeath and dispose of in the following manner that is to say First I give and bequeath unto my beloved Brother Emanuel Parsons at Stockley in the parish of Highampton in the County of Devon the sum of ten pounds. Secondly I give and bequeath unto my beloved Sister Jane Quick now residing at Shebbear in this County the sum of five pounds. Thirdly I give and bequeath unto my beloved Brother Louis Parsons of Jacobstow in this County the sum of five pounds. Fourthly I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Jane Watkins now residing in London the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings. Fifthly I give and bequeath unto my beloved Nephew James Parsons Son of Emanuel Parsons the sum of five pounds and Lastly I give and bequeath to my beloved Nephew Jonathan Parsons now living at Stockley in the parish of Highampton in this County After paying my Funeral Expences and all my just debts All the money I have in the Savings Bank and Sums of money payable to me on Notes of hand together with all the Sum or Sums of money that may be due or owing to me and all that I may die possessed of to his sole use and behoof whom I hereby nominate and appoint my whole and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I hereby enjoin and strictly bind and charge my said Nephew Jonathan Parsons whom I have chosen to be my sole Executor to provide for and maintain my beloved Brother Emanuel Parsons and Elizabeth Parsons his wife as long as they both shall live free from any charge for the same. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and dis[....] all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies Bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament The above legacies are to be paid by my Executor three months after my decease. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two and in the fifteenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
The mark of James Parsons
In the presence of us Henry Cornish Mary Cornish Elizabeth Blatchford Cornish

Proved 18th October 1852 in the Principal Registry of the Lord Bishop of Exeter by the Oath of Jonathan Parsons the sole Executor to whom Probate was granted.
Testator died 25th September 1852 - Effects sworn under £200
Ralph Barnes
Dep Registrar