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Extracted by Mark Guy Bodmin

THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me JOHN GRAY of the Parish of Endellion in the County of Cornwall yeoman I GIVE and all my personal estate and effects unto my wife Susanna Gray absolutely subject to the payment of my just debts personal and testamentary expenses I devise all my real estate unto my nephew Nicholas Cleave the younger of Lenow in the Parish of Saint Kew his heirs executors and administrators UPON TRUST that he the said Nicholas Cleave the younger shall let the same and pay the rent thereof to my said wife during her life AND after her death I DEVISE my said real estate to my nephew the said Nicholas Cleave the younger his heirs executors administrators and assigns (subject nevertheless to an annuity of £5 to my Brother William Henry Gray and his assigns during his life to be payable by equal quarterly payments the first of such payments to be made at the end of 3 calendar months next after the decease of my said wife and also subject to the payment of the following legacies namely TO my nephews and nieces the children of Nicholas Cleave of Lenow aforesaid £5 each except John to whom I bequeath a legacy of £20 free of Legacy Duty to be paid to them 6 calendar months after the decease of my said wife I APPOINT the said Nicholas Cleave the younger EXECUTOR of this my will IN WITNESS whereof I the said John Gray the Testator have to this my last will and testament set my hand this 8th day of November 1887.

JOHN GRAY

Signed by the said John Gray the testator as and for his last will and testaments in the presence of us present as the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other save hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
WR Guy Port Isaac
W C Wellington Clerk to Mr Symons Solicitor Wadebridge.

Annexed document with a large paper seal.
The District Registry at Bodmin
IN HER MAJESTIES HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
Be it known that at the date hereunder written the last will and testament (Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of JOHN GRAY late of the Parish of Saint Endellion in the County of Cornwall yeoman deceased, who died on the 11th November 1889 at Saint Endellion aforesaid, within the District of the County of Cornwall was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesties High Court of Justice , at Bodmin and that Administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court NICHOLAS CLEAVE the Younger the Nephew the sole Executor named in the said will he having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
And it is hereby certified that an Affidavit in verification of the Account of the said estate has been delivered wherein it is shown that the gross value of the said estate amounts to £92 11 00
Dated 31st day of December 1889
J Basset Collins
District Registrar

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Contributed by Malcolm McCarthy, (Malc in Sunny Padstow), who has the original document.