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Will of Nathaniel Wright 1817

Will of Nathaniel Wright 1817

“This is the last Will and Testament of me Nathaniel Wright of Low Marple in the Parish of Stockport in the County of Chester Esquire made and published in manner and form following (that is to say) First I will order and direct that all my just debts and funeral and testamentary charges and expences together with the Legacies be me hereinafter given shall be paid and discharged by my Trustees and Executors hereinafter named by and out of my personal estate I give devise and bequeath unto the Reverend Charles Prescot the younger of Stockport aforesaid Clerk Matthew Ellison of Glossop Hall in the County of Derby Esquire and Jonathan Woodhouse of Overseal in the County of Leicester Esquire (who are my Executors hereinafter named) All my live and dead Stock (except such parts thereof as are by me hereinafter otherwise disposed of) ready Money Money out at Interest or owing to me either upon Mortgage Bond Note or otherwise and outstanding Debts with my Canal Shares Together with all my Freehold and Leasehold messuages or Dwellinghouses Outbuildings Lands tenements and Hereditaments with all my Collieries and Lime Works and parts and shares thereof Situate and being in Poynton Worth Norbury [Werneth inserted] Stockport and Hyde in the said County of Chester and in Heaton Norris Haughton Denton and Manchester in the County of Lancaster or in any of them with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances To Hold to them the said Charles Prescott Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse their Heirs and Assigns for ever or for and during all my respective Estates Terms and Interests therein Upon Trust that they or the Survivors or Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease (at their discretion and as they shall see most proper) sell and dispose of such part or parts thereof as are of [a inserted] saleable nature (Except my Collieries in Poynton Worth Werneth and Romiley and my Estates and Interest therein by hereinafter given) either by public Auction or private Contract and together or in parcels at and for the best price or prices that can be gotten or obtained for the same and call in and receive all such debts or sum or sums of money as shall be due or owing to me at the time of my decease and stand and be possessed of the money arising therefrom respectively and from my ready money To and for the uses intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say) Upon Trust in the first place to pay all my just dents including any Mortgages on my Estates Bonds Notes and which I am perfectly satisfied will be considerably more than sufficient) In the next place to pay and discharge the expences of my Funeral) at their discretion) the charges of the probate and execution of this my Will and of providing and putting up in the Seat or Pew in which I usually sit in the Chapel at Marple aforesaid a Monument to the Memory of me and my late dear Wife and also other the Payments and Legacies hereinafter by me directed and given (that is to say) to the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellis and Jonathan Woodhouse or such of them as shall act as Trustee or Trustees Executor or Executors of this my Will the sum of One hundred Guineas each And also a sum adequate a sum adequate for the purpose of purchasing Mourning Rings for my Friends and Acquaintances next hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Sir John Dickinson Fowler [and Joseph Pyecroft Esquire inserted] of Burton-on-Trent William Harris of Overseal Esquire Samuel Oldknow of Mellor Esquire Thomas Claughton of Haddock Lodge Esquire James Antrobus Newton of Cheadle Heath Esquire James Newton of Heaton Norris Esquire George William Newton of Taxal Esquire William Crowther of Bredbury Esquire Samuel Frith of Bank Esquire Thomas Brown [& Thomas Marriott Esquire inserted] of Disley Mr William Clayton of Worth Mr Garratt of Poynton [and Dr Bellott inserted] and John Harrop of Stockport Gentleman To a Treasurer of Manchester Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital the sum of One hundred Guineas to be applied for the use of and towards carrying on the good designs of that Institution To a Treasurer of the Sunday Schools of the Established Church at Stockport the sum of forty Guineas to be applied for the use of and towards carrying on the good designs of that Institution To a Treasurer in the Sunday Schools taught in the Chapel House at Marple the sum of twenty Guineas to be applied for the use of and towards carrying on the good designs of that Institution To the Minister for the time being of the Chapel at Marple aforesaid the Rents and profits arising from a House and Garden near the said Chapel (but not the Stable adjoining) in the occupation of one Frith Upon Trust to be by the said Minister for the time being given yearly to two or three of the leading Singers for their trouble in instructing to other Singers at the said Chapel To my Bookkeepers John Wood Francis Whitaker Charles Oldham James Clayton and John Bagguley twenty Guineas each as marks of my respect for them To each Servant living in my House at the time of my decease suitable Mourning and to such other of my Servants as are employed constantly at home but not resident in my House And also all or any of those serving about the Collieries as Overlookers and Bookkeepers as my Executors or any two of them shall deem deserving five pounds each to be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently can be And do and shall lay out and invest the surplus and residue of the said purchase monies and produce of my said Trust Estate in the purchase of Stock in some or one of he public Stocks or Funds of Great Britain or at Interest on Real Security in England And do and shall received the Dividend and Interest of the said Stocks Funds and Securities and again lay out the same in the purchase of further Stocks Funds or at Interest on further real Security and again from time to time receive the Dividends and Interest of such further Stocks Funds and Securities And also lay out the same as aforesaid And so from time to time repeat such receipts and investments as aforesaid by way of accumulation in the nature of Compound Interest for the purposes of this my Will as hereinafter mentioned And I do hereby will order declare and direct that when any person or persons shall become a purchaser or purchasers of all or any of my said Hereditaments and Premises hereinbefore given and devised in Trust to be sold as aforesaid the receipt or receipts of my said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators shall be a good and sufficient release and discharge unto such purchaser or purchasers respectively for his her or their purchase Money or such part or parts thereof as shall be therein expressed to be received by them or any of them respectively and that from and after such receipt or receipts shall be given the purchaser or purchasers respectively shall not be concerned to see to the application of the Money for which such receipt or receipts shall be given nor liable to answer for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof [but shall be wholly discharged therefrom inserted] And I do hereby further will and appoint the said John Wood subject to the approbation of and orders from time to time of such superintendance by my said Executors or any two of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall think necessary and proper to exercise therein in the care management and conducting of all and every my Collieries Wharfs Lime Works and parts and shares of Collieries Lime Woks and Wharfs with full power and authority to employ such and so many Agents Servants and Workmen therein and thereat respectively until my Son John shall attain the age of twenty four years And I do request and desire that the Accounts of each respective Colliery Coal Wharf and Lime Work be kept separate and distinct from each other and made up adjusted and settles and the clear gains and profits thereof paid to my said Executors or the Survivors or Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators at the end of every six months during my said Sons minority for the uses hereinbefore and after mentioned And in case it shall appear from any such accounts that any of the said Concerns is or are a losing Concern or losing Concerns such loss shall be paid and borne out of the profits of such other of the said Concerns as shall or may be gaining Concerns And I hereby give and bequeath unto the said John Wood during such time of the Minority of my said Son as he shall by the authority aforesaid continue to manage and conduct my said Collieries parts and shares therein Wharfs and Works as aforesaid and as an extra compensation for the same over and above his present Salary of One hundred and fifty pounds the clear yearly sum of seventy five pounds by two equal half yearly payments in every year the first of such half yearly payments to become due and be made at the end of six months next after my death And in case of the death of the said John Wood or it shall become necessary to remove him from the situation from any unforeseen occurrence then and in such case I direct my said Trustees and Executors or any two of them to nominate and appoint from time to time as it shall become necessary some competent person in his place upon such terms and conditions as they or any two of them shall think adviseable or proper And I do hereby will order and direct that all my Plate Linen China Pictures Principal Household Goods and Furniture or such as my Executors shall direct in and about my Mansion House at Low Marple aforesaid shall either remain there as Heir Looms to be enjoyed therewith or be removed to my Mansion House at Grange Wood End in Netherseal aforesaid which Mansion House Out Offices Stables and Gardens are now in an unfinished state but which I authorise and empower my Trustees and Executors or any two of them to finish and complete in such manner as they in their discretion shall think fir And I do hereby give devise and bequeath direct limit and appoint All and every my Messuages or Dwellinghouses and Tenements Lands Rents Collieries Lime Works and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in Marple Romiley and Werneth aforesaid and in Netherseal in the said County of Leicester or any of them unto the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse and their Heirs Executors and Administrators according to the quality of the said Estates respectively subject and charged and chargeable as aforesaid To the several Uses upon the trusts and to and for the intents and purposes and with under and subject to the provisoes Declarations and Conditions hereinafter devised limited expresses and contained of and concerning the same (that is to say) As to the Freehold parts of the said devised premises To the Use of my said Son John and his Assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste And from and after the determination of that Estate To the Use and Behoof of the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse and their Heirs during the natural life of my said Son John In Trust to support the contingent Uses and Estates hereinafter limited from being defeated or destroyed and for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as occasion mat require Yet nevertheless In trust to permit and suffer my said Son John and his Assigns to receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof during the term of his natural life And from and after his decease To the Use and Behoof of he first Son of the Body of my said Son lawfully to be begotten and the Heirs of the Body of such first Son lawfully issuing And in default of such Issue To the Use and Behoof of the second third fourth and all and every other the Son and Sons of the Body of my said Son lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another in order and course as they shall respectively be in priority of birth and the several and respective Heirs of the Body and Bodies of all and every such Son and Sons lawfully issuing the elder of such son and sons and the Heirs of his and their Body and Bodies lawfully issuing being always to be preferred and take before the younger of such Son and Sons and the Heirs of his and their Body and Bodies lawfully issuing And in default of such Issue To the use and behoof of all and every the Daughter and Daughters of the Body of my said Son lawfully to be begotten equally amongst them if more than one as Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants and the Heirs of her and their Body and Bodies lawfully issuing And for default of Issue of any one or more such Daughters Then as to the share or shares both original and accruing of each Daughter whose Issue shall so fail To the use of the others or other of the said Daughters equally amongst them if more than one as Tenants in Common and of the Heirs of her and their Body and Bodies lawfully issuing And for default of all such Issue To the Use of my Niece Wife of Thomas Hudson of Camilla Lodge near Dorking in Surry [sic] Esquire her Heirs and Assigns for ever And as to the Leasehold parts of the said premises Upon such Trusts as will correspond with the Uses of the said Freehold parts so far as the Rules of Law and Equity will permit Save only that no Son or Daughter taking any Estate Tail in the said Freehold Estates shall take an absolute vested Interest in the said Leasehold Estate until he or she shall attain the age of twenty one years or dying under that age leave lawful Issue living at his or her death And so that on the death of any Son or Daughter before acquiring a vested Interest his or her share shall go over as if he or she had never been entitled under the said trusts Provided always and I hereby declare that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Son during possession by any Deed or Instrument in writing to be by him sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible Witnesses to grant limit settle or appoint to or for the use of or in trust for any woman he shall happen to marry And that either before or after such marriage for and during the natural life if such woman for and in the name of her Jointure and in bar of dower any rent or annual sum not exceeding the annual sum of five hundred pounds to be issuing and payable out of all or any of the said Messuages or Dwellinghouses and Tenements Lands Rents and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in Werneth and Netherseal aforesaid such rent to take effect from and after the death of such said Son and to be paid and payable half-yearly or quarterly or at such other days or times as he shall think fit And by the same Deed to give and grant to and for such woman and her Assigns such powers and remedies by distress and entry and receipt of the rents and profits of the premises for recovering such rent or annual sum when in arrear as to such my said Son shall seem meet And whereas by certain Indentures of Lease and Release or Settlement dated respectively on or about the eight and ninth days of October one thousand eight hundred and eleven the Release being of three parts and made or mentioned to be made between the said Nathaniel Wright of the first part Thomas Massey and William Massey both of Saltersford in the said County of Chester Yeomen and William Longden and Jonathan Longden both of Hooley Hey in the said County Farmers of the second part and the several other persons therein named of the third part For the Consideration therein mentioned I have granted and released directed limited and appointed All those my two Leasehold Tenements situate in Rainow in the said County of Chester And also all that my other Leasehold Tenement situate in the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield in the County of Chester aforesaid (which said Leasehold premises are respectively held by Lease for three lives each under the Right Honorable Edward Earl of Derby) unto the said Thomas Massey William Massey William Longden and Jonathan Longden their Heirs and Assigns To the Uses upon the trusts and for the ends intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisoes conditions and agreements in the said Indenture of Release or Settlement mentioned and contained and have also directed limited and appointed and covenanted and agreed with them that I and my said Son John and all other persons claiming under us or either of us shall and will at any time thereafter at any Halmote Court or Courts to be holden in and for the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield [aforesaid inserted] at their request but at my costs and charges in due form of Law surrender into the hands of the Lord of the Manor and Forest aforesaid for the time being according to the Custom of the said Manor and Forest All that my Copyhold Messuage or Tenement with the Lands Hereditaments and Appurtenances thereunto belonging called Hooley Hey situate in Rainow aforesaid (and which said Leasehold and Copyhold Premises are respectively comprised and described in a certain Indenture of three parts dated on or about the nineteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven made between me the said Nathaniel Wright of the first part my late Wife Mary Wright by her then name and addition of Mary Wheeldon of Haslin House near Buxton in the said County of Derby Spinster of the second part and Matthew Pickford of Poynton in the said County of Chester Gentleman and James Hall of Buxton aforesaid Gentleman of the third part Being the Settlement made by me on the marriage with my said late Wife) To the Intent that the said Lord the King having seizin thereof by the Steward of the said Manor and Forest or his Deputy there might give and grant the same with the Appurtenances unto the said Thomas Massey William Massey William Longden and Jonathan Longden their Heirs and Assigns To hold to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever To and for the several Uses Intents and Purposes upon the several trusts and with under and subject to the several powers provisoes limitations and agreements therein declared and express of and concerning the same as in and by the said in part recited Indentures of Lease and Release or Settlement relation being thereunto had will more fully and at large appear Now I the said Nathaniel Wright being satisfied that the said Conveyance or Settlement so made by to the said Thomas Massey William Massey William Longden and Jonathan Longden of the said Leasehold and Copyhold Premises respectively as aforesaid is not consistent with but contrary to the true intent and meaning of my said Marriage Settlement Therefore I do expressly will [order inserted] and direct that my said Son and his Heirs shall and do at all times hereafter when thereunto required by the said Thomas Massey William Massey William Longden and Jonathan Longden or the Survivor or Survivors of them or the Heirs or Assigns of such Survivor not only release all his Right Title and Interest if in and to the said Leasehold and Copyhold Premises respectively but also make do acknowledge levy suffer and execute all and every such further acts deeds matter and things conveyances surrenders and assurances in the Law whatsoever necessary or requisite for the ratifying and confirming of the said Indentures of Lease and Release or Settlement or for the granting releasing conveying surrendering and assuring of the same Leasehold and Copyhold Premises respectively with their Appurtenances unto the said Thomas Massey William Massey William Longden and Jonathan Longden their Heirs and Assigns To the Uses intents and purposes upon the several Trusts and with under and subject to the several powers limitations and agreements in the said Indenture of Release or Settlement contained and according to the true intent and meaning thereof And That in case my said Son or his Heirs shall refuse or not comply therewith or shall commence or prosecute any suit or suits at Law or in Equity for or concerning the same in any way relating thereto Then and in either of those cases the five thousand pounds in the three per Cent Consolidated Bank Annuities by me hereinafter given or directed to be paid to my said Son shall pass accrue belong and be paid unto the said Thomas Massey William Massey William Longden and Jonathan Longden their Executors Administrators and Assigns In trust nevertheless and to and for the use and benefit of the several and respective persons named in the said Indenture of Release or Settlement as of the third part in the manner and proportions therein mentioned and which shall be accepted by them in bar and full satisfaction of and for all the provisions by me made or intended to be made for them or any of them in and by the said Release or Settlement or or otherwise howsoever Provided always and I do hereby direct and order that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse or the Survivors or Survivor of them (if they shall deem it necessary or proper) And after the death of the Survivor of them Then the Trustee or Trustees for the time being under this my Will to let or lease all or any part of the said Freehold or Leasehold Estates hereinbefore given or devised as aforesaid till the person who shall be entitled thereto under and by virtue of the limitations aforesaid shall attain his or her age of twenty four years (but by no means to destroy by Tillage any Grass Land or fell any growing Timber) and afterwards that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Son or any of his Children who shall come into possession thereof from time to time and at all times during their respective lives by Indenture or Indentures to be sealed and delivered by him her or them in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses to make any Demise or Lease Demises or Leases of all or any part of the said Freehold and Leasehold Estates and Premises by this my Will devised to or in trust for him her or them as aforesaid he she or they shall then be entitled to the possession or to the rents or profits as to the Colliery Lime Works and Wharfs in Romiley [& Werneth inserted] aforesaid for any term or terms of years not exceeding twenty one years and as to the other Hereditaments and Premises for any term or number of years not exceeding eleven years in possession and not in reversion or by way of future interest Provided and so that there be reserved in every such future Demise or Lease of the entailed premises or any part thereof the best and most improved yearly rent to be incident to the immediate reversion of the Premises so to be demised that can be reasonably had or gotten for the same without taking any fine premium or foregift or any thing in the nature of a fine premium or foregift for the making thereof and so as there be contained in every such Demise or Lease a Condition of reenntry on the nonpayment of the rent thereby to be reserved and so as the Lessee or Lessees to whom such Lease or Leases shall be given shall be made to execute the same or a Counterpart or Counterparts thereof and do thereby covenant for the due payment of the rent to be thereby respectively reserved and be not by any Clause or Words therein contained made dispunishable for waste or exempted from punishment for committing waste Provided further and I do hereby expressly will order and declare that the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse or the Survivors or Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators shall or may either set let work sell or dispose of the said hereditaments and Premises by me hereinbefore given bequeathed and devised unto them in trust to be sold as aforesaid or any part thereof as they shall deem lost right and proper and in doing which I give them a discretionary power and the money arising therefrom by all or any of the ways aforesaid to be paid and applied in such manner as the purchase money is hereinbefore directed And that they shall have full power and authority to set and let my Estate late Wards in Netherseal aforesaid together with the Mansion House there And also my Mansion House at Low Marple aforesaid together with the Outbuildings Gardens Pleasure Grounds Orchards Lands and Appurtenances thereunto belonging either together or separately during the minority of my said Son or have hold use occupy and enjoy a part thereof during that period for the use of them and my said Son to come to and in that case I order and direct that the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor shall have and receive from the other parts of my Estate and Effects such sum and sums of money as may be necessary from time to time to lay out and expend in keeping the said Mansion House Offices Gardens and Pleasure Grounds in good order and condition as also so much money as may be needful or necessary to be expended in entertaining them and my said Son whenever they shall think it necessary to meet on the business of the Trusts of this my Will I give and bequeath unto my said Son the sum of five thousand Pounds Stock to be hereafter invested in the three perCent Consolidated Bank Annuities to be paid and transferred to him from and out of the money to be laid out and invested on Government Securities on the accumulations thereof when he shall attain his age of twenty one years Upon this express condition that he ratifies confirms and makes good and valid the before stated Release or Settlement but not otherwise And I do will order and direct that my said Executors or the Survivors or Survivor of them do and shall in the mean time and until my said Son shall attain hr age of twenty one years pay and allow unto or for him the yearly sum of three hundred and fifty pounds by half yearly payments the first of such payments to be made at the end of half a year from and after my death for his maintenance education and bringing up And I do hereby give devise and bequeath All and every other my Messuages or Tenements Lands Rents Collieries Lime Works and parts and shares thereof and Hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever Including such and so many as have not during my said Sons minority been sold or disposed of by my said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them his Executors and Administrators and pursuant to the power by me hereinbefore given to them and not by me hereinbefore disposed of (if any) with their and every of their Appurtenances unto and to the use of my said Son His Heirs Administrators and Assigns respectively according to the nature of the respective Premises and of my respective Estates and Interests therein to enter upon the same respectively when he attains the age of twenty four years But in case my said Son shall happen to die under the age of twenty four years and without Issue living at his death Then I give devise and bequeath the same Messuages or Tenements Lands Rents Collieries Lime Works and parts and shares thereof and Hereditaments (including such and so many as shall not then have been sold or disposed of by my said Trustees as aforesaid) if any with their Appurtenances unto and to the use of my said Niece Ann Hudson her Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively according to the nature of the respective Premises and of my respective estates and Interests therein And I do hereby further will order and direct that when and so soon as my said Son shall attain his age of twenty four years the remainder of the money to arise or be made by my said Executors by the means and from the several sources and so directed to be laid out and invested in Government Securities as aforesaid and be accumulated in the manner aforesaid and the accumulations thereof respectively after the Payments and allowances before and after mentioned shall be called in and paid unto my said Son his Executors Administrators or Assigns And I do further will and appoint that my said Niece Ann Hudson and the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse and the Survivors or Survivor of them her or his Executors or Administrators shall have the custody tuition guardianship and education of my said Son and manage and improve his estates and Fortune for his Use and benefit until he shall attain his said Age of twenty four years and after payment and satisfaction of my said Debts Legacies and Funeral and Testamentary Charges and Expenses to lay out and invest in the purchase of Bank Annuities or Government Securities the remainder of the monies belonging to or arising from his Estates and Fortune half yearly as the same or any part thereof shall come to their or any of heir Hands and to accumulate the same for his benefit or in case of his death as aforesaid for the use of such other person or persons as shall or may be entitled thereto under and by virtue of this my will that it shall be lawful for my Trustees for the time being when and as they are authorised to lay out any money in the purchase of Bank Annuities or Government Securities as aforesaid to sell and dispose of the said Bank Annuities and Government Securities and lay out the produce thereof in the purchase of other Bank Annuities or on other Government Securities or at Interest on Real Security and so from time to time to vary and change the said Stocks Funds and Securities as my said Trustees shall think fit [And I do hereby make and appoint the said Charles Prescot Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse Executors hereof] [so bracketed by a later hand] and do declare my will and Mind to be that it shall and may be lawful for my said Executors and the Survivors and Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators in the first place by and out of the monies and premises respectively coming to their Hands to deduct retain to and reimburse themselves respectively all such loss costs charges damages and expences as they or any of them shall sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution of this my Will or any of the trusts hereby in them reposed or any thing relating thereto or any thing hereinbefore also contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding And my Will and Mind is that whenever it shall be deemed essential and necessary that my said Works and Premises should be viewed by the said Jonathan Woodhouse and he shall take a journey at the request of my said two other Trustees or my Son for that purpose Then and in such case the said Jonathan Woodhouse shall have and be allowed for his loss of time for each and every such Journey the sum of ten pounds And my will further is and I do hereby declare that my said Executors or any of them their or any of their Executors or Administrators shall not be charged or be chargeable with or accountable for more of the aforesaid Monies and Premises than they shall actually respectively receive or shall come to their respective Hands by virtue of this my Will or for any loss which shall happen without their respective wilful neglect or default nor the one of them for the others or other of them or for the acts deeds receipts disbursements neglects or defaults of the others or other of them And Lastly I do hereby revoke all former other Will and Wills by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Nathaniel Wright the Testator have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the twentyninth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and contained on eight separate sheets of Paper of which this is one number 8,

Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Testator Nathaniel Wright as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our Names as Witnesses to attest the due Execution thereof
Jeffory Bolshaw Butler at Low Marple
John Jones Gardener at Low Marple
Thomas Arderne Game Keeper Low Marple

Stockport November the 7th 1818
Charles Prescot the younger, Matthew Ellison and Jonathan Woodhouse executors in the will named were sworn in common form and they further made oath that the personal estate and effects of the testator within the diocese of Chester were under the value of thirty thousand pounds
Before me
Kelsall Prescot
Surrogate
The testator died on the sixteenth day of July 1818

Probate issued
Dated 7th November 1818