The spelling has been modernised.
This is the last Will and Testament of me Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne of Monachdy in the County of Cardigan Esquire being of sound mind memory and understanding (praise be to God for the same) Whereas on the decease of my late Father which happened on the fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen (1819) I became as his heir at Law raised of or entitled to the fee simple and inheritance of and in divers Messuages Tenements Lands and Hereditments situated and lying in the several parishes of Henfeniw, Llanddewi Aberarth, Llanbadarntrefeglwys, Llaneraeron, Llanarth, Nantycwmlle, Llansaintffread,Llanddewi brefy, Llandyssil, and Llangrwyddyn or elsewhere in the said County generally called known and distinguished as the Monachdy Estate land services to or in trust for my said late Father in and by the last Will and Testament of Lewis Gwynne Esquire deceased expectant on the determination of the estate for life of Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne the Widow and relict of my said late Father of and in the same Estate and Premises But subject to and change by the settlement made previous to my Marriage with an Annuity or clear yearly Rent charge or sum of five hundred pounds to be yearly issuing and payable out of the same premises and hereditments to my dearly beloved Wife Mary Anne Thomas Jones Gwynne and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life ( in case she shall happen to survive me ) Now I do hereby give and devise All those my aforementioned Messuages Tenements Lands and Hereditments and all other the Estates and Premises so as aforesaid devised by the Will of the said Lewis Gwynne unto my friend James Morris the younger son of Carrreg in the said County Esquire his operators administrators and assigns for and during and unto the full end and term of one thousand years to commence on the decease of the survivor of me and the said Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne upon the trusts and to and for the several uses intents and purposes and under and subject to the provisoes conditions determinations and agreements hereinafter mentioned expressed and declared of and in concerning the same And subject to the said Annuity and [illegible] of distress for the recovery thereof upon Trust that he the said James Morris his executators administrators or assigns do and shall from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of me and the said Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne yearly and every year until my oldest Son Alban Lewis Thomas Jones Gwynne shall attain the age of twenty one years out of the rent issues and profits of the said premises and hereditments comprised in the said term from time to time as occasion shall require pay and apply such sum and sums of money ( not exceeding in the whole the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum )as will be sufficient for the clothing maintenance and education of my said eldest Son until he shall have attained the age of twenty one years And further trust that he the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns do and shall with all convenient speed after the decease of me and the said Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne by demise or Mortgage of the said premises and hereditments comprised in the said term of one thousand years or a component part thereof for all or any part of the said Term raise and levy or borrow and take up at Interest such sum or sums of lawful money of Great Britain as will make the other portion of all my Daughters and younger Sons which shall be living at the time of my decease or born in due time afterwards amount to the Sum of one thousand and five hundred pounds as pieces together with Interest for the same after the rates of four year continue per annum from the time of the decease of me and the said Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne until such Sum or Sums of money shall be by him the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns raised as aforesaid And also such further Sums as shall be necessary to bear and pay other costs charges and expenses of raising the same And I do hereby will order and direct that the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns do and shall stand possessed of the said Sum or Sums of Money to be raised in manner aforesaid upon the trusts and to and for the ends intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same ( that is to say ) Upon Trust that the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns do and shall by and with the consent and approbation of my said Wife ( testified by same writing under her hand ) during her lifetime and after her decease of his and their own discretion with all convenient speed lay out and invest the said sum or sums of money so to be by him or them raised in manner aforesaid upon Government or good real security or securities at Interest in his or their manner or manners with full provision from time to time with such consent and application as aforesaid to alter change and vary the Security or Securities And so and shall pay the Interest and annual proceeds of such sum or sums of money or such part or parts thereof as my said dearly beloved Wife shall think fit and necessary for and towards the maintenance and support clothing and education of my said daughters and younger sons until such of my said younger children as shall be a Son or Sons shall attain his or their age or respective ages of twenty one years and such of them as shall be a Daughter or Daughters shall attain that day or days of Marriage which shall first happen And as to the overplus[?]of such interest or annual proceeds if any I will order and direct that the same be made by the said James Morris his executators or adminitrators from time to time laid out at Interest on such Security or Securities and with such consent and approbation as aforesaid in order to accumulate for the benefit of my said Daughters and younger Sons until they shall respectively obtain such ages or days of Marriage as aforesaid And I do hereby declare that the share or portion of each of my said younger children of and in the said Sum or Sums of Money heretofore directed to be raised shall be vested Interests in such of them as shall be Son or Sons upon his or their attaining the age or respective ages of twenty one years and as each of them as shall be a Daughter or Daughters upon her or their attaining that age or day or respective days of Marriage which shall first happen and it is my Will and meaning and I do hereby order and direct that as and when my said younger Children shall respectively attain such age or ages or day or days of Marriage as aforesaid that the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns do and shall pay assign and transfer the portion or share of him her or their of and in the said sum of money so to be raised as aforesaid or the security or securities upon which the same shall be then laid out or invested together with all such Interest and increase of the same as shall not have been paid out towards his her or their respective maintenance clothing and education as aforesaid unto my said younger children upon their respectively attaining such age or respective ages or day or days of marriage as aforesaid which shall;; first happen to and for their his or her own absolute ease and benefit for ever Provided always that if any of my said younger Children being a Son or Sons shall die before he or they shall attain or their age or ages of twenty one years respectively or being a Daughter or Daughters shall die before she or they shall attain or their age or ages of twenty one years respectively without having been married then the share or shares of him her or them so dying of and in the said sum or sums of money so to be raised as aforesaid or so much thereof as shall not have been disposed of applied for his her or their respective maintenance clothing and education as aforesaid shall from time to time go accrue and belong to the Survivors or Survivor others and other of my said younger children and be paid assigned or transferred to him her or them if more than one equally share and share alike at such time or times in such manner to each surviving or other child or children then in being as is hereintofore declared and expressed touching his her and their original share or shares And in case of the death of any other or others of my said younger children being Son or Sons before he or they shall attain his or their age or ages of twenty one years and being a Daughter or Daughters before she or they shall attain such ages without having been married then all and every the accruing or surviving share and shares of such child and children so dying shall again from time to time be subject and liable to such further right chance contingency and condition of accruer or Survivorship to the then Survivors or Survivor or others or other of the said Children as herintobefore is declared touching his her and their original share or shares And subject to the said term of one thousand years and to the trusts thereof I give and devise all and singular the said premises and hereditments unto and to the use of my said eldest Son Alban Thomas Lewis Jones Gwynne his heirs and assigns for ever And also I do hereby will and declare that when and so often as any mortgage or mortgages of the said premises and hereditments comprised in the said term of one thousand years or any part or parts thereof shall be made by the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns the receipt and receipts of him or them under his or their hands shall from time to time be a sufficient discharge or sufficient discharges to the Mortgage or Mortgagees and his her or their executators adminitrators or assigns for so much Mortgage money or Mortgages monies for which such receipt or receipts shall be given and that after such receipts or receipts the Mortgage or Mortgagees or other person or persons advancing the same shall be absolutely discharged of and from the same and shall not afterwards be obliged to see to the application of such money or be amenable or accountable for any loss misapplication or misapplications of such money or monies or any part thereof nor be in any wise [illegible] to enquire into the necessity of raising the same Provided also and my Will is that when and as soon as the trusts heretofore declared of and concerning the said term of one thousand years shall in all things be fully performed and satisfied or otherwise discharged that then and in each case ( the said Trustees charges relating to the said Trust if any being paid and satisfied ) the said term of one thousand years of and in the said premises shall from thenceforth cease determine and be utterly void to all intents and purpose whatsoever And I do hereby will declare and direct that the said James Morris his heirs executators or adminitrators or either of them shall not be charged or chargeable with or answerable or accountable for any more money than what he or they shall respectively actually receive by security or securities whereon the said monies or any part thereof shall or may be invested or placed out at Interest nor for any Banker Broker or Agent or any other person or persons who shall or maybe employed or entrusted by him or them in the management or disposition of all or any of the said monies nor shall he or they be answerable or accountable for any loss that may happen of all or part of the said Trust monies but shall be acquitted and saved harmless in respect of all such acts matters and things as shall be done by him or them in the execution or management of the trusts hereby in him reposed and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said James Morris his heirs executators or adminitrators from time to time in the first place by and out of the Trusts Estates Funds and Securities money and premises in him vested as aforesaid or the Interest and proceeds thereof respectively to deduct and reimburse himself and themselves all such costs charges damages and expenses which he or they shall bear pay sustain expend or be put unto in or about or relating to the execution of this my Will or the aforesaid Trusts or any of them in any manner whatsoever And as to all and singular my personal Estate of what nature kind or quality soever and wheresoever which I shall die possessed of I leave and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said dearly beloved Wife heirs executators or adminitrators (subject nevertheless to the payment of all my just debts my funeral expenses and the expenses of proving my Will) And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Wife sole Executrice of this my last Will and Testament and also Guardian of my children until my Sons shall attain the respective ages of twenty one years and my Daughters respectively attain that age or marriage which shall first happen And I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other Will and Wills by me at any time hereto fore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the Testator before named have to this my last Will and Testament contained in five sheets of paper to the first form sheets thereof set my Hand only and to the fifth and last sheet set my Hand and seal this second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three (1823)
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the Testator
before named as and for his last Will and Testament
in the presence of us who in his presence at his request
and in the presence of each other have hereto submitted
our names as Witnesses thereto other error "Lewis" being
first initialised.
H A Williams of Ystradteilo
Charles Michell Aberayron
Jenkin Thomas Pigon(?)
The Will does not appear to be signed by the Testator
Whereas I Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne of Monachty in the County of Cardigan Esquire have duly made and published my last Will and Testament in writing this second day of April and thereby ( among other things ) gave and devised All those my several Messuages Tenements Lands and Hereditments situated and lying in the several parishes of Henfeniw, Llanddewi Aberarth, Llanbadarntrefeglwys, Llaneraeron, Llanarth, Nantycwmlle, Llansaintffread,Llanddewi brefy, Llandyssil, and Llangrwyddyn or elsewhere in the said County of Cardigan called known and distinguished as the Monachty Estate until my Friend James Morris the younger of Carreg in the said County Esquire his executators adminitrators or assigns for and during and unto the full and said term of one thousand years to commence on the decease of the survivor of me and and Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne of Tyglyn in the said County Widow upon certain trusts therein particularly mentioned and set forth And as to all and singular my personal Estate of what matter kind or quality soever and wheresoever which I shall die possessed of I thereby left and bequeathed the same to my dearly beloved Wife Mary Anne Thomas Jones Gwynne her executors administrators and assigns ( subject nevertheless to the payment of all my joint Debts and funeral Expenses and the expense of proving my said Will ) and nominated constituted and appointed my said Wife sole Executrix thereof as in and by my said last Will and Testament reference being thereunto had will more fully appear Now I do hereby will order direct and declare that the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns shall stand possessed of and interested in all and every my messuages tenements lands and hereditments and real Estate so devised for my said Will for and during the said term of one thousand years In trust that he the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns do and shall with all convenient speed after the decease of the Survivor of me and the said Susanah Maria Thomas Jones Gwynne by devises or mortgages of my said real Estate so comprised in the said term or a component part thereof for all or a component of the same term raise and levy or borrow and take up at Interest such Sum and Sums of money as my personal Estate hereintofore mentioned to have been bequeathed will fall short and be deficient in full paying and discharging all my just debts as well those second by specialities as by simple contracts my funeral Expenses and the expense of proving my said Will and this my Codicil and do and shall immediately after such sum and sums of Money shall have been so borrowed and raised pay and apply the same in aid of my said personal Estate in the full satisfaction and discharge of my said debts Funeral Expenses and the expense of proving my Will and this my Codicil And it is my Will and meaning and I do hereby order direct and declare that the hereintofore mentioned order direction and declaration shall be carried into execution by the said James Morris his executators adminitrators or assigns and take precedence of and have the preference to the several uses trusts intents and purposes contained or declared in and by my said last Will and Testament of and concerning the said term of one thousand years hereby created and and the premises and hereditments wherein comprised And I do hereby further will order direct and declare that the provisions made for my said Wife under my Marriage Settlement and my said Will were so made upon this express Condition that the same shall be accepted and taken by her in [two words illegible] and full satisfaction of all dower and third right and title of dower and thirds at Common Law or otherwise that she can or may claim or be entitled to from or out of all or any part of the real Estate of which I now am or at any time hereafter shall or may be revised And lastly I do hereby order direct and declare this present writing to be a Codicil and that the same shall be annexed to and taken as part of my said last Will and Testament hereby certifying and confirming my said Will and Testament in every particular not herein or hereby altered or varied In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three (1823)
The Will does not appear to be signed
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the above named
Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne as a Codicil to be annexed to and
taken as part of his last Will and Testament in the presence of
us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other
word "last" having been first initialised
and in the presence of each other
H A Williams Charles Michell Jenkin Thomas
Ystradteilo Aberayron Pigon(?)