This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Panter of Hanslope in the County of Buckingham Widow which I make and ordain in manner following (that is to say)   First I will and direct that all my legal debts funeral expences, expences of proving this my Will and other expences incident to the Trusts and execution hereof be fully paid and satisfied by my Executor hereafter named   Next I give and bequeath unto my two Nieces Sarah and Elizabeth daughters of my Brother James Inwood All my Cloaths and wearing apparel of every description to be equally divided between them   And as to all and singular the rest residue and remainder of my Goods Chattels Household Furniture Stock in Trade and Implements therein Ready Money  Bonds Notes securities for Money Book Debts personal Estate and Effects whatsoever which I shall dispossessed of I give and bequeath the same unto an to the use of John Inwood of Hanslop aforesaid Butcher his Executors Administrators and Assigns absolutely   But it is nevertheless my Will and I do hereby subject and charge the residue of my said personal Estate so by me given unto him the said John Inwood as aforesaid with the payment of the principal Sum of Two hundred pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain unto my Nephew Jethro Inwood Son of my Brother Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators Upon the several trusts hereafter mentioned And I do hereby order and direct my said trustee the said Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to demand and take of him the said John Inwood such good and approved security as he or they may be advised or judge proper of an upon all and singular the residue and remainder of my said personal Estate Effects and premises for the payment of the aforesaid Sum of Two hundred pounds with lawful Interest for the same   And I do hereby Will and require that such the Interest and produce thereof shall be applied and paid by him the said John Inwood his Executors or Administrators in equal weekly proportions of four Shillings each unto my Dear Mother in Law Mary Panter Widow and her Assigns for and during the term of her natural Life And also that such weekly payment shall commence and be computed from the time of my Decease And I do hereby likewise authorize and empower my said Trustee and Nephew the said Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators at any time hereafter (notwithstanding such approved security shall or may have been as by him taken as aforesaid and without default being made in any or either of such Weekly payments as aforesaid) and whenever he or they shall think proper or see occasion To make sale and dispose of all and singular the residue and remainder of my said personal Estate and Effects or of so much and such part or parts thereof as he or they shall judge necessary for the special purpose of raising the said principal Sum of Two Hundred Pounds exclusive of all incidental costs and charges attending the same rendering the surplus (if any) unto him the said John Inwood his Executors Administrators or Assigns And immediately upon the said principal Sum of Two hundred Pounds being so raised and made as aforesaid Then upon trust that he my said Trustee and Nephew the said Jethro Inwood his Executor or Administrators do and shall place put out and invest the same at legal Interest on real or other sufficient security and pay and apply the Interest thereof in equal Weekly proportions of four Shillings each unto my said Dear Mother in Law Mary Panter and her Assigns for and during her natural Life and that such Weekly payment shall commence and be reckoned from the last Weekly payment made by him the said John Inwood as aforesaid And in case it shall so happen that approved security shall have been so as as aforesaid given by him the said John Inwood unto my said Trustee and Nephew Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators and that he the said John Inwood his Executors or Administrators shall have duly paid unto the said Mary Panter and her Assigns the said Weekly payment of four shillings during the Term of her natural life without any such sale being had and made as aforesaid Then upon trust that my said Trustee the said Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators shall and do immediately upon the decease of my said Mother in Law Mary Panter, call in and demand of him the said John Inwood his Executors or Administrators, the said principal Sum of Two hundred Pounds so mentioned and directed to be secured to the said Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators as aforesaid And immediately upon such payment being made or otherwise in case my said Trustee his Executors or Administrators shall have previously raised the same principal Sum of Two hundred Pounds by such sale and have invested or placed the same on such security as aforesaid Then and in either of the aforesaid cases Upon this farther special trust and confidence that my said Trustee and Nephew the said Jethro Inwood his Executors or Administrators shall and do immediately on receipt of the said principal Sum of Two hundred Pounds pay and divide the same unto and amongst the several persons hereafter mentioned and in manner following (that is to say) To my said Niece Sarah Inwood the Sum of fifty Pounds part thereof To my said Niece Elizabeth Inwood the like Sum of fifty Pounds farther part thereof To my Nephew Jethro Inwood Son of my said Brother James Inwood the Sum of Twenty five Pounds farther part thereof And to my Nephew Benjamin Inwood Son of my Brother Jethro Inwood the Sum of Twenty five Pounds farther part To whom respectively I do hereby Give and bequeath the same accordingly And the sum of Fifty Pounds remainder part of the said Sum of Two hundred Pounds principal Money I do hereby Will and desire my said Trustee and Nephew  the said Jethro Inwood to keep and retain to his own use And to whom I therefore Give and bequeath the same And in case it shall happen that any or either of the said last mentioned Legatees shall be then deceased leaving any issue of their bodies or body lawfully begotten Then my mind and will is that the Legacy or Legacies so by me given to them respectively as aforesaid shall go to and be equally divided amongst his her or their Child or Children respectively But if any or either of my said last mentioned Legatees shall depart this life without leaving issue of his her or their bodies or body lawfully begotten before he she or they shall become intitled to his her or their legacy or legacies respectively Then I will and direct that the legacy or legacies of him her or them so dying without issue shall go to and be equally divided between or amongst the survivors and survivor of them my said last mentioned Legatee (if more than one) in equal shares and proportions And Lastly I do hereby Nominate constitute and appoint the said John Inwood my residuary Legatee sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And hereby revoking all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Panter the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three sheets of paper and affixed together at the top with a seal set my hand and seal (that is to say) to the two first sheets my hand only and to this last sheet my hand and seal this Twenty seventh Day of February In the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven (LS) Eliz. Panter – Signed sealed published and declared by the said Elizabeth Panter the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other subscribed our Names as witnesses hereto – Jethro Inwood – Sarah Harraway – Thomas Hindes

 Proved the 21st day of December 1797