Proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 17 March 1824
 










In the Name of God Amen
I ROBERT HOUSE of Lashbrook in the Parish of Shiplake in the County of Oxford Gentleman being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding do make publish and declare this to be my last Will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say) I give and bequeath unto my son THOMAS HOUSE and to my friend THOMAS CROUCH of Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxford aforesaid [ ] their Executors and Administrators all the Stock in the four per cent Bank Annuities of which I am or may at the time of my decease be possessed with the interest and the dividends due thereon at the time of my decease to hold the same unto them the said THOMAS HOUSE and THOMAS CROUCH their Executors and Administrators upon trust that they my said trustees and the survivor of them his Executors Administrators and Assigns do and shall take and receive the interest and dividends thereof from time to time as the same shall become due and payable and do and shall pay or cause the same to be paid unto my beloved wife ANN HOUSE and her assigns or otherwise empower her to receive the same during her natural life to and for her sole use and benefit and from and after her decease upon further trust to assign transfer pay over and dividend all the said principal Stock in the four per cent Annuities unto between and among of my sons THOMAS HOUSE  ROBERT HOUSE and CHARLES HOUSE and my son in law WILLIAM BROWN in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and all the rest residue and remainder of my Goods and Chattels money and securities for money personal and testamentary estate whatsoever and wheresoever and what sort kind or quality the same may be I give and bequeath unto my said sons THOMAS HOUSE  ROBERT HOUSE and CHARLES HOUSE and my said son in law WILLIAM BROWN to hold the same unto them my said sons and son in law their Executors Administrators and Assigns to and for their own several and respective absolute use and benefit for ever to be equally divided between and amongst them share and share alike and to take the same as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and I hereby declare that all sum and sums of money which I have already lent and advanced or which I may hereafter lend or advance to my said sons and son in law or either of them shall be and be considered by them as parts of my said residuary personal estate and I direct that all such monies as shall have been so advanced by me and as shall be due and owing from them my said sons and son in law THOMAS HOUSE  ROBERT HOUSE  CHARLES HOUSE and WILLIAM BROWN to me at the time of my decease shall be accounted for by them to my said trustees respectively and be brought into hotchpot so and in such manner as that each of my said sons and son in law THOMAS HOUSE  ROBERT HOUSE  CHARLES HOUSE and WILLIAM BROWN shall have and receive and be entitled to have and receive as tenants in common as aforesaid out full fourth part or share of my said residuary personal estate to and for his own absolute use and benefit

And all my freehold copyholds and other messuages farms lands tenements and hereditaments of whatever nature or kind the same may be and wheresoever situate lying in or being and whether in possession reversion remainder or expectuary I give and devise unto my said sons THOMAS HOUSE  ROBERT HOUSE and CHARLES HOUSE and my said son in law WILLIAM BROWN with all and every the advantages rights encumbers and appurtenances thereto or to any part thereof to hold the same freehold copyhold and other messuages farms lands tenements and hereditaments with the appurtances unto and to the use of my said sons the said THOMAS HOUSE  ROBERT HOUSE and CHARLES HOUSE and my said son in law WILLIAM BROWN their heirs and assigns for ever equally share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and my Will and meaning is and I hereby declare my Will to be that in case the interest and dividends of my said four per cent annuities shall be insufficient to produce an annual [ ] of fifty pounds a year for my said wife during her life then in the event of my obtaining possession of or of my being entitled to any estates or hereditaments as heir at law to the late HARRY HOUSE formerly of Pall Mall but afterwards of Hammersmith in the County of Middlesex Esquire deceased and of which my aforesaid sons and son in law shall obtain the possession under and by virtue of this my Will I hereby give and bequeath unto my said Wife such an annuity for her life as with the interest and dividends of my aforesaid Bank four per cent annuities will make a fill and complete annuity or yearly sum of fifty pounds for her own use and benefit

And I hereby subject and charge all such freehold copyhold and other messuages farms lands tenements and hereditaments as shall be so obtained or got possession of by me or as at the time of my decease I shall be entitled to as heir at law to the said HARRY HOUSE or of which my said sons and son in law shall be in possession as aforesaid and with the payment of the said annuity accordingly and which annuity shall be free and clear of and from all payments and deductions whatsoever for taxes or otherwise

And I hereby declare my Will to be that my said trustees and the survivor of them his Executors and Administrators shall not be answerable or accountable the one for the other of them or for the acts receipts or defaults of the other of them but each of them for himself and his own acts receipts and defaults only nor shall they or either of them be answerable or accountable for any loss or misfortune which may happen in the execution of the trusts aforesaid or in relation thereto unless the same shall happen by or through their own neglect or wilful default respectively

And also that they the said trustees and such of them as may and shall and may out of the monies that shall come to their respective hands retain to and reimburse himself and themselves and allow to his and their co-trustee all such costs charges damages and expenses as he or they may or shall be put unto respectively in the execution of the trusts hereby reposed in them or him or in any wise relating thereto

And I hereby nominte constitute and appoint my said son THOMAS HOUSE and my said Friend THOMAS CROUCH joint Executors and trustees of this my Will

And I hereby revoke all former Will and Wills by me at any time [ ] made and publish and declare this only to be my last Will and testament

In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and testament written on three sheets of paper to the first two sheets thereto subscribed my name and to this third and last sheet subscribed my name and set my seal this twenty-fifth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty three – ROBERT HOUSE

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said ROBERT HOUSE the testator as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us three who in his presence and at his request and also in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto: DAVID HIATT Senr paper maker Shiplake Oxon DAVID HIATT jun Shiplake Oxon paper maker CATHERINE ROULING Henley Oxon [ ] woman

Proved at London 17 March 1824 before the judge by oaths of THOMAS HOUSE the son and THOMAS CROUCH the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer