This is the last Will and Testament of me Ann Bailey of Ashwell in the County
of Hertford Widow First I give and devise unto my son James Bailey his Heirs and
Assigns for ever All that Cottage Tenement or Dwelling House consisting of two
Rooms on the Ground floor now in the Occupation of Joseph Jarman and two Rooms
over the same now in my own Occupation together with the lower Barn and the
South part of the Garden which said Premises are situate in Mill Street in
Ashwell aforesaid And I give and devise unto my Daughter Alice Bailey her Heirs
and Assigns for ever All that Cottage Tenement or Dwelling House consisting of
two Rooms in front on the Ground floor now in my own Occupation and two Rooms
over the same now in the Occupation of the said Joseph Jarman together with the
upper Barn and the North part of the Garden as the same is divided by a foot
path from the South part and which last mentioned Premises are situate in Mill
Street in Ashwell aforesaid And (subject and charged as hereinafter mentioned) I
give and devise unto my Son Peter Bailey his Heirs and Assigns for ever All that
Cottage Tenement or Dwelling House fronting Gardners Lane in Ashwell aforesaid
towards the West now in the Occupation of William Worboys and a piece of Garden
Ground lying behind the same now in the several Occupations of myself and the
said William Worboys and which is divided by a Quick Hedge from the Premises
hereinbefore severally devised to my Son James and Daughter Alice and their
Heirs respectively Subject and charged with the payment of the sum of five
Pounds apiece to my Daughters Sarah Savage and Mary Briant which I do hereby
give and bequeath to them to be paid by my said Son Peter Bailey at the end of
one Year next after my decease And I give to my said Daughter Alice Bailey the
Use of all my Beds Linen and Household Furniture for the Term of her Life and
after her decease I give and bequeath all the said Beds Linen and Household
Furniture in manner following that is to say; one fourth part to my Son Peter,
one other fourth part to the three Children of my late Daughter Elizabeth, one
other fourth part to the four Children of my late Son Henry, and the remaining
fourth part to the three Children of my late Daughter Isabella. And I give to my
said Daughter Alice all my ready Money Stocks of Bees and other Personal Estate
for her own absolute Use, she thereout paying my Funeral and Testamentary
Expences And I nominate and appoint my Son Peter Bailey and my Daughter Alice
Executors of this my Will and hereby revoking all former Wills and Codicils I do
declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my Hand this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
Ann Bailey her X mark
Signed published and declared by the said Ann Bailey the Testatrix as and for
her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request and in her
presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our Names as
Witnesses thereto,
Abrm Thorne
Thos Flitton
W. Peacock
Hitchin 8th March 1823
Peter Bailey and Alice Bailey the Executors within
named were sworn duly to execute the within Will And that the Effects of the
deceased are under the value off Twenty pounds