This is the last will and testament of me Robert Knaggs of Guisborough in the North Riding of the County of York, Innkeeper Brewer and Farmer, made this sixteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and seventy. I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid by my executors hereinafter named out of my personal estate. I request my said executors to make out as soon as conveniently may be after my decease a full and accurate inventory and valuation of all of my real and personal estate monies and effects after being acepted? by them I should wish them to retain in their possession. I devisee all the real estate and bequeath the residue of the personal estate of or to which I shall be seized possessed or intitled at my decease or over which I shall have any disposing power unto and to the use of my friends William Messenger of Guisborough aforesaid Joiner and Robert Mascall of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham Slate Merchant said heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively Upon trust so long as my wife Martha Knaggs shall contiune my widow and any of my children shall be under the age of twenty one? years to allow him carry on and conduct the farm occupied by me and my said business of an Innkeeper and Brewer at Guisborough ? and to employ in that purpose each part of my personal estate as shall constitute their capital employed therein at the time of my decease with any additional capital which my trustees shall think requisite and also to ? here during the same period to have the care and employment of all my household furnitures plate linen china brewing plant, ? and ? to the stock in trade and other effects and also to ? or allow him to receive ? ? ? the profits of the ? businesses for his own use and ? ? the ? maintaining clothing educating and bringing up my children for the time being under the age of twenty one years. And in case my said wife shall die or marry again while any of my children shall be under the age of twenty one then upon trust in the ? of my ? either to discontinue the said businesses or either of them or to cause the same or either of them to be carried on under their inspection and control so long as any of my children shall be under the age of twenty one years. And ? to the trusts aforesaid as to my said real and residuary personal estate ?ing the capital invested in the said businesses upon giving up the ? upon trust with the consent of my and wife in writing while she shall continue my widow and any of my children shall be under the age of twenty one years and afterwards in the discretion of my trustees to sell such real estate by public auction together or in pieces and sell convert and ? in such residuary personal estate and to execite and do such assurances and acts as may be necessary for conveying any and every such sale into effect. And upon ? ? with such consent or in such discretion as ? aforesaid to invest the monies

On the twenty first day of December 1876 the Will of Robert Knaggs late of Guisborough in the North Riding of the County of York Innkeeper Brewer and Farmer deceased, who died on the first day of November 1876 at Guisborough aforesaid was proved in Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in the District Registry attached to the Probate Division thereof at York by the Oaths of William Messenger of Gusiborough aforesaid, joiner and Robert Mascall of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham, Slate Mercahnt, the Executors therein named they having been first sworn duly to administer.

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