THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MR. JOHN PIGOTT OF NO. 3 CHARLES STREET, GROSVENOR SQUARE IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, MASTER BAKER, BEING OF SOUND AND DISPOSING MIND, MEMORY AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAKING HEREOF. I DIRECT THAT ALL MY JUST DEBTS, FUNERAL EXPENSES AND CHARGES OF PROVING THIS MY WILL BE FULLY PAID AND SATISFIED BY THE EXECUTORS HEREINAFTER NAMED. I WILL THAT MY EXECUTORS HEREINAFTER NAMED HAVE FULL POWER AND AUTHORITY TO RECOVER AND RECEIVE ALL SUM OR SUMS OF MONEY THAT MAY BE OUTSTANDING AT THE TIME OF MY DECEASE WHERESOEVER AND WHATSOEVER UPON TRUST. I WILL AND DIRECT THAT THE LEASE AND BUSINESS NOW CARRIED ON BY ME AT NO. 3 CHARLES STREET AFORESAID AND ALL MY INTEREST THEREIN AND ALL MY STOCK, chattels ?, IMPLEMENTS AND EFFECTS NOW TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN AND ALL ESTATE AND INTEREST IN THE HOUSE AND BUSINESS NO. 3 CHARLES STREET AFORESAID HELD BY ME ON LEASE FROM MR. GEORGE ALLEN, THE STEWARD OF THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER AND ALSO ALL MY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS WHATSOEVER TO BE holden ? AND THE LEASE CARRIED ON BY MY DEAR WIFE SOPHIA PIGOTT ASSISTED BY MY YOUNGEST SON THOMAS PIGOTT FOR THE INTEREST AND GOOD OF MY CHILDREN PROVIDED THAT THE PROPERTY AND TRADE BE NOT DETERIORATED OR SUFFER ANY SERIOUS LOSS THEREBY. I WILL THAT MY EXECUTORS HEREINAFTER NAMED SHALL HAVE A DISCRETIONARY POWER TO SELL AND DISPOSE OF THE LEASE AND BUSINESS OF MY HOUSE, NO. 3 CHARLES STREET AFORESAID, SHOULD SUCH LOSS OCCUR, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY DEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN HEREINAFTER named?. WHEN THE LEASE AND BUSINESS IS DISPOSED OF I DESIRE THAT MY YOUNGEST SON, THOMAS PIGOTT SHOULD HAVE THE FIRST OFFER TO PURCHASE THE SAME AND SHOULD THE LEASE AND BUSINESS BE THUS DISPOSED OF BY SALE DURING THE LIFE OF MY DEAR WIFE SOPHIA PIGOTT, THEN I WILL THAT THE INTEREST ARISING FROM THE purchase? AND THE WHOLE OF MY PERSONAL ESTATE AND OF ALL MONEYS WHATSOEVER AND WHERESOEVER BE FOR HER BENEFIT AND BE PAID TO HER ANNUALLY FOR AND DURING HER NATURAL LIFE AND AFTER HER DECEASE I WILL THAT THE WHOLE OF THE MONEY THAT MAY BE REALIZED UNDER MY WILL TO BE GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: TO MY SON JAMES PIGOTT AND TO MY SON THOMAS PIGOTT AND TO MY DAUGHTER MARYANN PIGOTT AND TO MY MARRIED DAUGHTER ANN ----, THESE FOUR IN EQUAL PROPORTIONS OF ALL MY PROPERTY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FIFTY POUNDS TO MY OLDEST SON WILLIAM JAMES PIGOTT TO BE PAID TO HIM BY INSTALLMENTS OF TEN SHILLINGS WEEKLY AND SHOULD ANY OF MY CHILDREN DIE UNMARRIED, THEN THEIR PROPORTION OF PROPERTY SHALL DEVOLVE ON THE WHOLE OF MY SURVIVING CHILDREN IN EQUAL SHARES. I WILL THAT THE DWELLING OF MY DEAR WIFE BE IT IN CHARLES STREET OR ELSEWHERE, BE ALSO A HOME FOR MY ELDEST DAUGHTER, MARYANN PIGOTT AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS SINGLE. I GIVE UNTO JOHN WHITT , ONE OF MY EXECUTORS THE SUM OF FIVE POUNDS FREE OF LEGACY DUTY FOR THE TROUBLE HE MAY HAVE IN EXECUTING TRUSTS OF THIS MY WILL AND I NOMINATE AND APPOINT JOHN WHITT OF NO. 72 ------ STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE AFORESAID AND MY SON JAMES PIGOTT OF NO. 194 HIGH STREET, BOROUGH TO BE THE EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. IN WITNES THEREOF I, THE SAID JOHN PIGOTT, TESTATOR HAVE HEREINAFTER SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 30TH DAY OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY. JOHN PIGOTT, SIGNED, SEALED PUBLISHED AND DECLARED BY THE SAID JOHN PIGOTT, THE TESTATOR AS AND FOR HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, IN THE PRESENCE OF US PRESENT AT THE SAME TIME, WHO, IN HIS PRESENCE, AT HIS REQUEST AND IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER HAVE HEREUNTO SUBSCRIBED OUR NAMES AS WITNESSES, SAMUEL PULLEN 4 CHARLES STREET, GROSVENOR SQUARE WILLIAM PEACOCK ---- STREET, GROSVENOR SQUARE PROVED IN LONDON 7TH MAY 1856 BEFORE THE WORSHIPFUL FREDERICK(?) THOMAS PRATT DOCTOR OF LAWS AND SURROGATE BY THE OATHS OF JOHN WHITT AND JAMES PIGOTT, THE SON, THE EXECUTORS TO WHOM ADMINISTRATION WAS GRANTED HAVING BEEN FIRST SWORN DULY TO ADMINISTER