This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Cleaver of Hanslope in the County of Buckingham Spinster   ffirst I will and direct that all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses be paid and satisfied I give and bequeath unto my Brothers Thomas Cleaver and Joseph Cleaver of Hanslope in the said County of Buckingham ffarmers the sum of three hundred pounds upon trust as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to lay out and invest the same at interest upon Government or real securities with full power to alter vary and transpose the same from time and to pay and apply the annual income thereof unto my Brother Matthew Cleaver during his natural life and from and immediately after his decease Upon trust to pay and divide the capital of the said trust monies unto and equally between all and every the children of my said Brother Matthew Cleaver when and as they shall severally attain the age of twenty one years provided always and I do hereby declare that is shall be lawful for the said trustees at their discretion to advance the whole or any part of the presumptive share of any child of my said Brother Matthew Cleaver for and towards his or her advancement or preferment in the world notwithstanding he or she shall not have attained the age of twenty one years and also to apply the annual income of the presumptive share of any such child towards his or her maintenance during minority or until such share shall have been applied for his or her advancement and in case any child shall die without attaining the age of twenty one years and the share of such child shall not have been applied for his or her advancement then I direct that the share of such child so dying shall go to and be divisible amongst the surviving children equally and payable at the same time and subject to the same trusts as their original shares and I give and bequeath to my said Brothers Thomas Cleaver and Joseph Cleaver the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings each to be paid within six calendar months after my decease as a remuneration for the trouble that they will have in the execution of the trust of this my Will   and as to all the rest and residue of my monies securities for money and stock personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kindsoever to which I shall die possessed or in any way entitled I give and bequeath the same unto the said Thomas Cleaver and Joseph Cleaver upon trust to divide the same into seven equal parts or shares and I give one of such parts or shares unto each of my brothers and sisters Thomas Cleaver Joseph Cleaver Mary the Wife of John Dolton Sarah Cleaver and Martha Cleaver and the remaining two parts or shares I give and bequeath unto the said Thomas Cleaver and Joseph Cleaver upon the trusts following that is to say as to one of such part or shares upon trust to pay and apply the capital thereof and the annual income thereof or any parts thereof respectively from time to time to and for the benefit of my sister Esther the Wife of John Latimer in such manner as my trustees shall think fit yet nevertheless that the same may be for her sole separate and exclusive use and not subject to the direct control contracts or engagements of her husband and to this end I declare that payment to and the receipts of the said Esther Latimer and that only notwithstanding  a coverture shall be an effectual discharge to  my trustees for any part of such share or income thereof and as to the other one remaining seventh part or share upon trust to invest the same at interest upon such security as  my trustees shall think proper whether real or Governmental Railway shares or stock and to accumulate and invest the annual or other income thereof for the space of five years next after my decease unless my Brother Esmy Edward Cleaver who was when last heard of residing at Buenos Ayres shall previously to the expiration of the same five years come to England or be heard of as living  in either of which cases I do hereby declare him entitled to such share and all accumulations thereof and direct my trustees to pay or remit the same to him accordingly but if at the expiration of the said five years my said Brother Esmy Edward shall not have come to England or shall not have been heard of as living or shall be ascertained to have died then upon trust to pay and divide on such last mentioned share and all accumulations thereof unto and amongst my brothers and sisters and their children or some one or more of them in exclusion of the other or others of them as my said trustees shall in their discretion think proper without being in any way accountable for the application or division and I request my said trustees to write or cause to be written once at least in each of the said five years a letter for the purpose of endeavouring to ascertain if my said Brother Esmy Edward be living or not and in case of the death of any of my said residuary legatees in my lifetime Then I direct that the share as well original as                by virtue of this present clause of such residuary legatee shall go to and be equally divided amongst my surviving residuary legatees and be liable to the same trusts as are thereinbefore  declared with respect to the original shares  And whereas I have advanced to my said Sister Esther the Wife of John Latimer the sum of thirty pounds Now I do hereby direct that the sum shall be             and retained by my executors out of the share set apart for her and considered as part of my personal estate and divisible accordingly And lastly I nominate constitute and appoint my said Brothers Thomas Cleaver and Joseph Cleaver joint Executors of this my Will and Testament whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty five - Elizabeth Cleaver (LS)  Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Testatrix Elizabeth Cleaver as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have thereunto subscribed our names as witnesses  Sally Baines  Thomas Rogers

Proved  at London the 11th August 1847