This is the Last Will and Testament of me Thomas Crook of Titherton in the County of Wilts Esquire give devise and bequeath all my Messuages Lands Tenements Heredits and real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and all my Goods Chattels Personal Estate and Effects of what nature or kind soever and to the use of my Son in Law Thomas Ebsworth and William Gent Wood their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively Upon Trust with all convenient speed after my decease to sell and dispose of all my Messuages Land Tenements Hereditaments and real Estate either together or in parcels and either by public sale private contract for the best price or prices that can be obtained for the same and to sell dispose of get in and convert the whole of my goods chattels personal Estate and Effects into money and by and out of the money to arise and be produced from my Real and personal Estate In Trust to pay all such charges by way of mortgage or otherwise as my affect my real Estate or any part thereof and all other my just debts and my funeral expenses and the expenses of proving this my Will and to stand possessed of the residue or surplus of all the money to arise from my real and personal Estate In Trust for my three daughters Mary Susannah the Wife of the said Thomas Ebsworth Ann the Wife of the said William Gent Wood and Lucy Koren? Happuth? Crook in equal shares and for their respective Executors Administrators and Assigns and I declare that the receipt or receipts of the said Thomas Ebsworth and William Gent Wood or of the Survivor of them or of the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall be goods and effectual discharges in the law to the puchaser or purchasers of all or any part or parts of my real Estate for so much as in such receipt or receipts shall be acknowledged to be received and that such purchaser or purchasers shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for the money so received or any part thereof or for any loss misapplication or nonapplication thereof or of any part thereof provided always And I direct that until my real Estate shall be sold the rents issues and profits thereof shall be paid to my said three daughters in equal shares or to their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns And I declare and direct that if either of them the said Thomas Ebsworth and William Gent Wood shall die or refuse or decline to act in theTrusts of this my Will then a new Trustee or Trustees may be appointed by the Trustee or Trustees so declining to act or by the Executors or Administrators of such of them as shall so die and that the said Trust Estates so to be vested in such now and such surviving or continuing Trustees or Trustee upon the same Trusts and with the same powers as are hereinbefore mentioned and declared and so from time to time as often as that case shall happen and I appoint the said Thomas Ebsworth and William Gent Wood and my Wife Mary Susannah Crook Executors and Executrix of this my Will and the reason of my not making any provision in this my Will for my said Wife is because she has sufficient property of her own independent of me And I declare that my said Trustees Executors and Executrix shall not be answerable one for another and by no means for involuntary losses and that they shall be allowed and may retain to and reimburse themselves out of the produce of my real and personal Estate all their Costs Charges and Expenses to be occasioned by the due execution of the Trusts hereby in them reposed And I hereby revoke all my former Wills In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty one Thos Crook as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his rewquest and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscibed our names as Witnesses thereto R H Gaby Chippenham _ John Powell - Samuel Powell both of Tytherton Lucas Cordwainers

Proved at London 7th March 1822 before the Judge by the Oath of William Gent Wood one of the Executors and one of the Residuary Legatees in Trust to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by Comon only to Admr Thomas Ebsworth and Mary Susannah Crook Widow the Relict the other Executors having first renounced the Probate and Execution thereof and the said Thomas Ebsworth having also renounced as the other universal Legatee in Trust the Letters of Admon of the Goods of the said deceased