PROB 11/949/225

 Howard Serrell Gentleman of Swanwich, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
 Dated: 25 September 1767

 - Samuel (brother): £10 in 2 installments (one at 6 months and the second at 12 months).

 - Sarah, Elizabeth and Martha Bonfield (cousins): all stock and trade of Mercery and Grocery that shall be in
   my Shop and any other place. Stock to be valued. If not worth £300 then the executors are to pay the rest to
   make it up within 12 months of my decease.

 - Mr John Morrison: £20
 - My Kinsman Abel Bonfield: £50 and all wearing apparel (both linen and woollen)
 - My Kinsman Samuel Bonfield: £50 and moiety or share and interest of leasehold house in which Samuel lives.
 - Elizabeth Serell (cousin) daughter of my uncle David Serell: £10
 - Elizabeth Oviatt (cousin) daughter of my uncle William Serell: £10
 - William Serell son of John Serell: £10

   All to be paid within 12 months.

 - ‘My good friends’ Thomas Bartlett, Attorney at Law of Wareham and Joseph Collins the elder, marbeller of
   Sandwich, Dorset: lands, tenements, boathales, leasehold, ready money etc to be used to make £500
   out of consolidated 3% annuities in order to pay the interest from such money to brother Samuel Serell
   ‘towards his support and maintenance’.

 - Samuel Serrell (brother): to occupy the old back kitchen chamber of my house with a fire passage through the
   garden to and from such back kitchen chamber. Also the use of the bedstead, bed curtains with 2 pillows, one
   bolster, 2 pillow ties, 2 bolster cloths, 2 pairs of sheets, 3 blankets, 1  quilt with Chest of Drawers and the
   trunk or chest now in the chamber, provided he remain a bachelor. Samuel not to get the chamber for his
   use if he marries.

 - Sarah, Elizabeth and Martha Bonfield: to occupy the Shop of my house and the Salt House Room for keeping
   salt until my kinsman their brother George Bonfield, the son of John Bonfield, marbeler, deceased, reaches
   21 years old, and no longer, provided that ‘they be willing of continuing the business of Mercery and Grocery’,
   but not otherwise. They may ‘wall up the inner door way between the Shop and the passage into the dwelling
   house in 3 months after my decease.

 - Mrs Morrison (kinswoman): to occupy the dwelling house, garden (except the Kitchen Chamber, Shop and
   Salthouse) and the use of household goods, furniture, plate and china until one month after my kinsman
   George Bonfield reaches 21 years. If he dies the Morrison may live in the house for her life and pay the rent
   and taxes, provided she doesn’t remove any fittings or furnishings and keeps it in good order If she refuses to
   comply then it is to be taken up by trustees of will. If she doesn’t want to live there then she receives £4 a year
   for life, to be paid immediately after the death of Mrs Cockram provided the lease for 2 lives is still subsisting.

 - John Harden: ‘be permitted to work my Quarry in Dursetone Bay for the space of one year after my decease and
   no longer on the same terms as present’. No one else to work the quarry.

 - Thomas Bartlett and Joseph Collins to pay the produce of the remainder of real and personal estate for the
   maintenance and education of George Bonfield until he reaches 21 years, when they deliver up the rest to him,
   with continued payment to Mrs Morrison. If George Bonfield dies the dwelling house, as soon as it is quitted
   by Mrs Morrison, and my share in lands called Brothers at Fitower, Corfe Castle are to go to Sarah, Elizabeth
   and Martha Bonfield.

 - Remaining bankers, boathales in trust for the benefit of Samuel Bonfield, the younger and Howard Bonfield,
   sons of Samuel Bonfield, marbeler, of Sandwich. They are also to have the use of the £500 stock after brother
   Samuel Serell dies.

 - Elizabeth Bonfield, the younger (cousin): use of the reversionary right in Mrs Cockram’s estate.
 - Leasehold estate called Boyleivell or Peverell Point, Sandwich, held under George Pitt, in trust for the use of my kinsmen
   Abel and Samuel Bonfield. The estate to be charged with the payment of £5 a year to be paid to brother Samuel Serell.

 - Rest or remainder in trust for the use of Sarah, Elizabeth and Martha Bonfield, with an annuity of £5 a year to Elizabeth
   Bonfield their mother for her life in two equal half yearly payments, and one other annuity of £5 and by 2 equal half yearly
   payments to Mrs Morrison for her life.

   Executors: Thomas Bartlett and Joseph Collins: 5 guineas each.
   Witnesses: Grace Haysom, Robert Brown and Lewis Warren
   Proved: 16 Jun 1769 (by oath of Joseph Collins)