Partial Transcript of Will Of Pilgrim Mangles
I Pilgrim MANGLES being of sound mind and having on this day arrived to the my 29th year do think it right to make a last Will and Testament over the little property I possess. First to my father and mother I bequeath except of course any and as many of my books as they be desirous of taking in a such they are both in possession of as much worldly ? as they call desire and the gift of all I have in the world would be but a poor return for the manifold and ? kindness derived from them. If they or any of them be alive when this at my death is openend they will receive from a ? of their own conduct towards me gratification than any bequests or verbal praise of mine can be ?.
To my brother Frederick to whom from my earliest infancy upwards to this day I am more indebted for personal kindnesses and liberal benefactions than any legarcies however large can repay. I leave the whole of property whatsoever and wheresoever being subject however to the agreement of the hereinafter mentioned legacies and bequests. I will that my law books be sold and the money arising from their sale be applied to the payment of my pecuniary legacies. The remainder of course if any to my brother Frederick. As to the rest of my library desirous that all my friends hereinafter named should possess a memorial of one ? attached to them all. I will that each of them may receive any book they please. The priority of allocation being in Frederick’s gift. Caroline ONSLOW, Arthur ONSLOW her husband, sisters Emily Jame and Hamilla Ellen and James Sterling my brother; Charles Ross and Albert James Henry and Margaret Torre my cousins; Robert and James MANGLES John CLARIDGE; ? DEHANY; Frederick THORINGER; Robert COUSIGN? ; Joseph Douglas Frederick Hongson Thomas F Hall Edmund BAUGH Andrew Reynolds.
To Ellen sterling I give £500 to be settled on her for life for her own use and upon her to go to the ?.
To Ross my brother I leave my Gold ? gained at Cambridge by my Grand Uncle in ? for the the first son of his who may be entered and study at either university.
To my laundress Mrs NOLAN I leave £50 and to any and every other servant I may have at the time of my death £10 however short as time they have lived with me. But 32 to te added for every years service.
To this Will I appoint my brother Frederick MANGLES sole executor leaving to the liberality of the ? to compensate by some ? present the latter for any trouble that his duties attendant upon ? this will into execution may put him to.
28th October 1828
Appeared personally Frederick MANGLES of No 272 Wapping Street in the county of Middlesex Esquire. John Fulham TURNER of the same place ship chandler and Charles Frisby PRADLING of the same place Gentlemen and being sworn made oath as follows and first the said Frederick MANGLES for himself saith that having now with particular care and attention viewed and perused the paper writing hereunto annexed purporting to be and contain the Last Will and Testament of Pilgrim MANGLES late of Kings Bench ? Temple in the City of London Esquire deceased beginning 6th April 1824 “I Pilgrim MANGLES being of sound mind and having on this day arrived to the my 29th year “ end thus “To this Will I appoint my brother Frederick MANGLES sole executor” and thus subscribed “Pilgrim MANGLES” and having with like care and attention viewed and perused the words “except of course any and as many of my books as they may be desirous” which are interlined between the fourth and the fifth lines of the first side of the said Wlll beginning at the top thereof and viewed the words “of taking” also interlined between the said fifth and sixth lines of the said Will also viewed the word “constasnt” which is struck through in the ninth line of the said first side of the said Will beginning as aforesaid. And the word manifold written over the same also viewed the words “et her of them” which are interlined between the said ninth and tenth lines of the said Will. And also viewed the names “Andrew REYNOLDS” which are interlined between the thirteenth and fourteenth lines of this second side of the said Will beginning at the top thereof. Also viewed the obliteration of this last words in the said Fourteenth line and the obliteration of the whole of the fiftheeen and sixteenth lines and the beginning of the seventeenth line of the said second side of the said Will beginning as aforesaid. And also viewed the following bequest vizt “To Ellen STIRLING I give £500 to be settled on her for life for her own ? use and upon her death to go to the oldest son Andrew when he arrives at the age of 21 or if for his advancement i n life. If Ellen dies before her husband he ? his life will be well provided for by the original settlement with following observation These alterations made 13th January 1828 with the initials “PM” after ? which legacy or bequest as impact interlined ? the aforesaid fourteenth and fiftheenth lines of the said second side
Side of the said Will .