Sir Thomas Clifford-Constable of Burton Constable Hall Holderness, East Riding, Yorkshire Will Dated 4th December 1869 codicils 13th March 1870 and 5th November 1870 Died 2nd December 1870	Back to Wills list

This is the Last WILL and Testament of me

Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable

of Burton Constable in Holderness in the county of York, Baronet.

I Give to my wife Lady Rosina Clifford Constable for and desiring all or any part she may think proper to require of the term of three calendar months next after my decease the exclusive use and enjoyment of my Mansion House of Burton Constable aforesaid and of the out buildings stables coach houses pleasure grounds yards and appurtenances thereto belonging and

I Give to her for her absolute use such of the witness provisions and other consumable stores on the premises as she may require and the enjoyment during the said term of all other the contents of my said Mansion House and

I Direct my Executors to pay the servants wages and other costs of the Establishment at Burton Constable aforesaid during the said term of three months or so much thereof as my said wife shall reside there.

I Also Give to my said Wife the sum of Five thousand and five hundred pounds to be paid to her as soon as conveniently may be after my decease.

I Also Give to my Wife her own Paraphernalia and Jewels and such plate and ornamental articles as belonged to her before our marriage and having the fullest confidence in my said wife's Honor and sence of justice.

I Further Give to her my Diamonds including those that belonged to my late Wife and such of my Plate, Linen and Furniture and such of my pictures, jewels and articles of adornment or Household in or about my said Mansion House or which may be in or about my Mansion at or was Leddington hereinafter named as she my said Wife may during the said three calendar months select and this I do in the hope that she will at some time hereafter give or by WILL leave most of the said selected things to some member or members of my family but this I leave entirely to her own discretion, imposing no obligation upon her and I exonerate my Trustees and Executors from all responsibility both as to what my said wife may select and as to how she may dispose of the things selected.

I Further Give to my said Wife such of my Carriage and Riding Horses and Ponies and such of my carriages with the Saddles, Harness and appendages belonging to them respectively and also such of of my does as she may select.

I Also Give to my said Wife for her life the annual sum or yearly rent charge of Four Thousand pounds payable half yearly on the first day of February -

and the first day of August in every year with a proportionate part from the day of my decease to the first of the said days of payment which may then next happen and a like proportionate part thereof to the day of the decease of my said wife from the then proceeding day of payment.

I further Give to my said Wife and her assigns for her life my Mansion house called Haywood Abbey situate at Haywood in the county of Stafford with the land grounds and appurtenances thereto belonging now in the occupation of William Woodnaffe Esquire she keeping the same in repair and whereas I have erected a Mansion House or Shooting lodge on the Teargill Estate being part of the estates in the North Riding of the said county of York Comprised in a settlement made by me subsequently to my marriage with my first and late Wife and under the limitations of which settlement my son and only child Frederick Augustus Talbot Clifford Constable is entitled to as stated in fact expectant on my decease.

I Give to my said son all the furniture and Chattels belonging to me in and about the said Mansion House or Shooting Lodge

I Also Give to my said son all my books furniture and chattels at or about my Cliff Hall situate on the other part of my said North Riding situate estates.

I Give to my friend and Secretary Stephen Octavious Jay the sum of Eight thousand pounds to be paid to him free of legacy duty within twelve Calendar months next after my decease and
I Directthat the same shall be paid to him in addition to any salary that may owe to him,
But I Direct that out of this legacy any liability to which my estate may be subject in respect of the guarantee I gave for the said Steven Octavious Jay on hid entering into the xxire baddxx shall be satisfied so that my said estate may be exonerated out of the said legacy from all charges and liability in respect of such guaranteed and in case the said Steven Octavious Jay shall happen to die in my life time I give the the Legacy or so intended for him to his present Wife for the benefit of Herself and her children by the said Stephen Octavius Jay but to be paid to her and her receipt alone to be a sufficient discharge of the same and subject always to the satisfying to the said guarantee and to the exoneration of my estate therefrom

I Give to each of the following all and faithfull servants of mine namely; Henry Styche, John Stych, Louis Rushtom, James Waton, Nowart Sowing, Michael Hodgson, Robert Swales, Jame Forfitt, Thomas Fields, Robert Thompson, and Susan Hoe the legacy of -

Two years wages free from legacy duty over and above any wages I may owe them respectively.

I Give to my sister in law Mrs Mary Ann Stanford for her life the annuity of two hundred pounds free of duty with the like proportionate parts of it and payable on the same days as the said annual rent charge hereinbefore given to my said Wife.

I also Giveto my Late Butler Peter Purdon for his life the annuity of Twenty pounds free of duty to be paid to him half yearly in continuation of the annual allowance of this amount that I now make to him.

I Give to my Trustees and Executors hereinafter named the sum of fifty pounds and request them but not as an obligation to lay out the same at their descretion in charities or in obtaining prayers for my soul.

I Give my Furniture and household goods, books, pictures, prints, plate, china, statuary and articles of Vertue use or Ornament in and about my Mansion House, Stables Gardens and Grounds at Burton Constable aforesaid except such of them respectively as may have been selected and taken by my said Wife in virtue of the gift in that behalf made to her as aforesaid to my said trustees upon trust that the same may be annexed to my same Mansion House and premises and kept there as heirloom and to be enjoyed there as such bt the person or persons for the time being beneficially entitled to the same Mansion House and premises under the limitations hereinafter contained but so that this bequest shall be subject to an Executory limitation over from time to time on the death of every or any person hereby made tenant in tail made or in said by purchase who shall die under the age of Twenty one years without leaving issue inheritable in tail living at his or her death to or in favour of the person or sucessive persons entitled under the next subsequent limitations.

And I Direct that the same shall be kept moured against fore to the satisfaction of my trustees by or at the expense of the person from time to time entitled to the enjoyment thereof and I direct that my trustees and Executors shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease cause an inventory to be made of the said heir looms but I Empower my said trustees and executors to leave out of the said Inventory and to treat as part of my general personal estate any of the things coming under the heads hereinbefore enumerated as heir looms which from their decay or worn out or perishable or significant character my said trustees and Executors may judge improper to be treated ss heir looms And -

I Direct that two copies of the inventory of heir looms shall be made both of them to be signed by on on behalf of my said trustees and by or on behalf of the person for the time being entitled to the use of the said heir looms and one copy] to be kept by my said trustees and the other in the document chamber at Burton Constable aforesaid.

But I Declare that my said trustees shall be under no responsibility in regard to the safe custody or insurance of the said heir looms and shall not in any event be liable by reason of the loss destruction or non insurance thereof.

I Give to my said trustees my ready money and securities for money and all my personal estate and effects not hereinbefore given upon trust to get in such money and to convert into money the part not consisting of money and out of the money so repectively arising to pay my just debts and funeral and Testamentry expenses and the pecuniary legacies given by this my WILL or which I may Give by any Codicil or Codicils thereton or so much of the said debts Expenses and legacies as my said personal estate will extend and to pay and in such use as my said trustees shall think proper to pay the same repectivly and in case there shall be any residue of my personal estate, I Bequeath the same to my said Trustees upon the same trusts as are hereinafter declared concerning the monies to arise from any exercise of the power of sale or exchange of any part or parts of my real estate hereinafter contained.

I Give and Devise and in Exercise of every power to me given limited or reserved or which immediately preceeding my death shall be in anywise enable me in this behalf I appoint my Seiginory# of Holderness and all my Manors or Lordships Mansion Houses Messuages farms advowsons rent charges lands tenements and hereditaments in the Counties of York, Durham and Stafford and all real estate whatsoever and wheresoever belonging or to belong to me whether in possession seversion remainder or Expectancy or over which I have or shall have any power of disposition by this my WILL ( Except a certain Mansion and hereditaments at or near Teddington in the County of Middlesex which I have recently contracted to purchase and which are hereinafter devised and subject as to the said Haywood Abbey premises to the estate for life hereinbefore given to my said Wife) unto and to the use of my trustees hereinafter named their heirs and assigns Upon Trust by Mortgages or Sale of any competent part or parts thereof to levy and raise such sum or sums of money as may -

be required in aid of my personal estate for payment of my debts and funeral and Testamentary expenses and the pecuniary legacies hereinbefore given or which I may hereafter give by any codicil or codicils to this my WILL.

And Upon Trust by and out of the rents issues and profits of my real estate to levy and raise and pay the interest due and from time to time accruing due on my mortgages debts or on mortgages created in virtue of the trusts of this my WILL or any of my debts bearing interest and all covenants drainage taxes and other annual payments or out goings due from my said real or my personal estate and in the next place by and out of the rents issues and profits of my said real estate to levy and raise and pay to my said Wife and her assigns for her life the said annual aum or yearly rent charge of Four Thousand Pounds given to her as aforesaid at the days and times and in the manner hereinafter mentioned and appoint for payment thereof And as to pay the other annuities hereinafter given and any annuities which I may give by any Codicil or Codicils to this my WILL at the times and in manner appointed for payment thereof respectively and subject as last aforesaid.

I Give Devise and Appoint that all my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever shall be held by my said Trustees upon trust to hereinafter mentioned that is to say,

I Devise and Appoint the same to the use of my said son Frederick Augustus Talbot Clifford Constable and his assigns for his life with remainder to the use of his first and every other son successively in order of seniority in tail male with remainder to the use of his first and other sons successively in tail general but that every son of my said son born in my lifetime shall in lieu of and in the same order of succession with the estate in tail male hereinafter limited to him take an estate for for his life with immediate remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male and shall in lieu of and in the same order of occasion with the estate in tail general hereinbefore entitled to him take an estate for his life with remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail general with remainder to his first and other daughters successively in tail general and on failure of such issue of my said son to the use of every daughter of his successively according to seniority in tail general but so that each daughter of my said son born in my life shall in leiu of and in the same order of succession with the estate in tail general hereinbefore limited to her take an Estate for her life with immediate -

remainder to her first and other sons successively in tail general with remainder to her first and other daughters successively in tail General and on failure of issue of my son To the use of every other son of mine (if any) for his life with such remainder to his issue as shall assimulate to and convention with the limitations to my son now living and for issue but so that every elder of my afterborn sons (if any) and his issue shall take before every younger of my afterborn sons (if Any) and their respective issue with remainder to the use of every daughter of mine (if any) for her life with immediate remainder to her first and other sons successively in tail general with remainder to her first and other daughters successively in tail general or that every elder daughter and her issue my be prefered to every younger daughter and her issue and on failure of my issue To the use of my sister Mary Barbara aLady Chichester for her life with remainder to the use of her eldest son Raleigh Charles Chichester for his life with remainder To the use of every son of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male in succession so that every eldest son of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male may be prefered to every younger son and his issue male according to Seniority in tail male but so that ever such son of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester born in my lifetime may in lieu of such estate in tail male taken an estate for life with immediate remainders to his first and every other son successively in order of Seniority in tail male and on failure of such issue of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester To such use in favour of Hugh Arthur Chichester second son of my said sister and his issue male as shall assimulate to and correspond with the limitations hereinbefore contained in favour of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male with remainder to such use in favor of Henry Augustus Chichester third son of my said sister and his issue male as shall assimulate to and correspond with the limitations hereinbefore contained in favor to the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male with remainder to such issue in favor of the sons in successsion according to seniority of my late nephew Theodore Winsell and their respective issue male as shall assimilate to and correspond with the said limitations in favor of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male with remainder to such uses in favor of my said cousin Sir Charles Clifford now or late of New Zealand and his issue male as shall -

assimilate to and correspond with the aforesaid limitation in favour of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male with remainder to such uses in favor of Alphonnsus Clifford, brother of the said Charles Clifford and his issue male as shall assimulate to and correspond with the said limitations in favor of the said Raleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male with remainder to such uses in favor of Edward Sheldon of Brittany in France and his issue male as shall assimilate to and correspond with the aforesaid limitation in favor of the saidRaleigh Charles Chichester and his issue male with remainder to the use of right heirs for ever and whereas with the exception of some properties that i have bought my land estates are very ancient ancestral estates and I am consequesntly desirous that my land estates should continue in my family as long as may be and whereas some short time afer my marriage with my First and late Wife I Executed a Post Nuptial Settlement as before mentioned of the Bulk of my Ancestral Estates situate in the said North Riding under which settlement my before named son and only child is entitled to at my decease to an estate in tail as aforesaid .

Now I Do Hereby Declare that it is and shall be a condition force & act# to my same son and his issues taking any estate under this my WILL and the limitations hereinbefore contained either in my East Riding estates or in any real estate by this my WILL appointed given or devised that within twelve calendar months next after my decease he executes such diseculation# or other deed of deeds as counsel to be approved of by my said trustees may judge proper for the purpose and thereby settles and assures all and singular the Manor Mansions Farms Lands and hereditaments with the appurtenances comprised in my said Post Nuptial Settlement, subject always to and charged with the amount of any mortgage or Mortgages or other charges outstanding at my decease which in my lifetime my said son may have charges on his expectant estate in the premises to the use of himself my same son and his assigns for his life without impeachment of waste other than the cutting down of ornamental timber with the same remainders to his issue and failing them with the same remainders to the use of the same person and persons and for the same estate and estates and generally in the same manner as I have hereinbefore devised and appointed the bulk of my real estate and the beneficial ownership thereof or so near to the said uses and -

estates as death of persons and other circumstances will admit of but not so as to be subject to my debts or any of the mortgages or charges to which the bulk of my devised and appointed real estates may be subject and not so as to increase or multiply charges.

BUT I Declare that in the deed or deeds of settlement so to be made by my said son of the premises comprised in my said Post Nuptial Settlement there may be contained in addition to as not withstanding the power of jointuring(note 1) and charging portions hereinafter contained with reference to my estates hereby devise powers for my said son by deed or WILL to jointure any wife who may survive him with any annual rent charge not exceeding One Thousand pounds and to charge the estate and premises so being settled with any sum not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Pounds for portions for any of his younger children and also power for him to charge the same being settled estates by deed or WILL with any such sum or sums of money for my said sons own purposes as either alone or with the amount of any mortgage or mortgages or other charges subsisting at my decease which my said son may have charged on his expectant estate in the premises will not exceed Twenty Thousand Pounds and to limit the premises to ant Trustee for any term of years for occuring the said jointure(note 1) and portions and sum or sums of money respectively.

AND I Declare that in case my said son shall decline or subject to make and deliver within Twelve Calandar months next after my decease the settlement hereby required to be made by him of the Hereditaments and premises comprised in my said Post Nuptial Settlement then (unless my said son shall happen to die within such twelve calendar months leaving issue surviving him in which case the present proviso requiring a Settlement to be made by him shall be null and void and my WILL shall take effect as if the limitations hee in contained to him and his issue has not been made subject to such condition precedent as aforesaid the limitations hereinbefore contained of my devised and appointed real estate to take effect on the death of my said son and failure of his issue shall be accelerated and shall take effect as if my said son had actually died at the end of the said twelve calendar months without having had any issue.

AND I Give the clear and undisposed of rents and profits of my appointed Ind# devised real estate unto my said trustees until my son shall make the Settlement required to be made by him as aforesaid in case he shall make the same -

within the said Twelve Calendar months or otherwise until the expiration of such Twelve Calendar months .

In TRUST of the former alternative for my said son subject to the further condition hereinafter mentioned and in the latter alternative upon the trust and manner in which the same would have gone in case the then accelerated limitations of this my WILL had been taken effect immediately on my decease.

AND I Declare that in the event of my said son declining or neglecting to make and execute the Settlement he is hereby required to make for the space of Twelve Calendar months after my decease and on dying within that time leaving issue him# surviving the power of raising money by way of sale by this my WILL given to my said trustees shall as soon afterwards as may be exercised in respect of all my lands and hereditaments in the said North Riding and in the said county of Durham not included in my said Post Nuptial Settlement and the proceeds disposed of after payment of ant mortgages affecting the same in and of my residuary personal estate in case of being required for the purpose or otherwise as moneys arising from the exercise of the power to sale and exchange hereinafter contained.

I Further Declare that on my said sons executing the settlement required to be made by him as aforesaid (in case he shall execute the same) the clear rents and profits up to that time hereinbefore declared to be in that case in trust for him shall be paid to him only on his relinquishing all claim under his mothers WILL to the Diamonds I have hereinbefore given to my Wife and in case of his thereupon refusing or neglecting to relinquish all claim to such Diamonds the said clear rents and profits up to the date of his executing the said Settlement shall be added to and considered part of my residuary Personal Estate provided alway and,

I Do hereby Declare that every estate for life hereinbefore limited to my hereinbefore devised and appointed real estate shall be unimpeachable for waste but I expressly declare that as regards my woods plantations and timber trees no tenant for life shall cut down the same otherwise than in a judicious course of thinning nor cut down ornamental timber nor be guilty of waste either grossly destructive or arising from gross neglect provided also and,

I Declare that every person having a surname and arms different from the surname and arms hereinafter required to be used and who shall become entrusted in possession as benificial tenant for life or in tail under the limitations herein -

contained shall within eighteen calendar months after so becoming entitled and being of the age of Twenty One Years obtain the Royal Licence to assume the name of "Constable" either alone or in addition to and after his or her usual own name and to bear the Arms of constable of Burton Constable and thenceforth shall use and bear such name and Arms accordingly I Empower every benefit for life under the limitations hereinbefore contained and when entitled in possession by deed or Will and without prejudice to puer# charges uses trusts or powers to appoint to or in favor of any Wife's or entitled wife a yearly rent charge not exceeding One Thousand Pounds to be issuing out of my said devised and appointed estates or any part thereof to commence from the decease of the tenant for life and to be payable half yearly by way of jointure(note 1) with usual powers

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other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my WILL and I Declare that if any of them the said Lord Herries, Sir Robert Gerrard and Thomas Counstable shall die in my lifetime or refuse the trusts or in case any Trustee for the time being shall at any time die or become incapable or unwilling to act I empower the surviving or continueing trustees or trustee or if there shall be none such then the executors or administrators of the deceased trustee or if there be more than one deceased Trustee then the executors or administrators of the last surviving of such deceased trustees or the refusing or retiring trustee ot trustees (asa the case may be) but with the consent and approbation in each case in writing of my said Wife during her life and after her decease of the person for the time being entitled in possession to an estate for life or in tail male or general by purchase in my appointed and devised real estate provided such person is of the age of Twenty One years but otherwise at discretion by deed to appoint any person or persons to be a Trustee or Trustees in the form of such deceased refusing retiring or incapable Trustee ot Trustees and every Trustee or appointed or who shall in any manner duly become a Trustee hereof shall be fully competent to exercise all the powers and discretions which are reposed in the Trustees herein named.

AND I Direct that all nessessary deeds shall thereupon be executed for vesting the legal estate and interest hereby given appointed and devised in the Trustees for the time being.

AND I Declare that the Trustees of this my WILL shall not be answerable for each others acts or receipts or for any involuntary losses happening without their respective default and shall be at liberty to retain and allow to each other and either out of rents or profits or out of moneys arising by sale or Mortgage or otherwise all costs and expenses incumbent to the executors of the Trusts and powers of this my WILL and it being my desire that the said Thomas Countable who is my Solicitor and Attorney shall continue to act as such in all matters relating to my property and affairs.

I Hereby Declare that he shall notwithstanding his acceptance of the office of a Trustee and Executor of this my WILL and his acting in the execution thereof be entitled to make the same professional charges and receive the same professional remuneration for all business done by him in relation to the Trusteeship and executorship as if he not being himself a Trustee and Executor of -

my said WILL were employed by the trustees and executors thereof,

I Desire that my remains be buried in the Family Mausoleum at Halshom and be laid in a grave that may adjoin that of my late Wife and on the death of my present Wife I should wish that her remains be buried in the same Mausoleum in a Grave adjoining mine and on the opposite side to that containing the remains of my first Wife.

I Appoint the said William Constable Maxwell, Lord Herries, Sir Robert Gerrard and Thomas Constable Executors of this my WILL and hereby revoke all former wills.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this Fourth Day of December in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Nine.

Thomas Aston Clifford Constable

Signed and published by the Testator Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable as and for his last WILL and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of us who in his presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as Witnesses ~~~
OWEN DALY M.D., Hull.
Wm. Kirk, Surgeon, Hedon.

This is a first Codicil to the last WILL and Testament of Me
Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable of Burton Constable in Holderness in the County of York, Baronet, Whereas James Forfill in my said Will named is no longer in my service,

I Hereby Revoke the Legacy of two years wages by my said Will given to him and Revoke the legacy of two years wages by my said will given to Henry Styche therein named and in lieu thereof I Give to the said Henry Stych the legacy of of Sixty Five pounds free from legacy duty in addition to the portion to the day of my decease of the annual allowance, I am now making to him as a retired servant, And Declare that the legacy or Legacies of one years wages by my said will given to the other old servants in my said will named is and are ment for and shall be paid to such of them only as may be in my service at the time of of my death.

I Give to my gamekeeper John Tor the legacy of one years wages free from legacy duty and over and above any wages I may owe him in case he shall be in my service at the time of my decease.

I Direct that all the new buildings improvements repairs and alteration in and about the -

Mansion House now called Dunbar House in or near Teddington which I have contracted to purchase as in my said WILL mentioned and in or about the Stables each houses out offices gardens and grounds thereto belonging that shall have been commenced or be in progress at the time of my death shall be completed and finished by my Executors and Trustees according to the plans that may have been approved or by me or that may then be approved of by my wife Dame Rosina Clifford Constable

And I Also Direct that in case the furnishing painting papering and decorating of Dunbar House aforesaid shall not have been completed in my life time all additions that may be requisite for the completely furnishing painting papering and decorating the same and supplying the same both inside and out with all suitable fixtures and articles of furniture ornament and household use shall be made by my executors and Trustees under the direction and at the discretion of my said wife.

And I Direct that all cost that at the time of my death may have already incurred or which after my decease may be invoiced by my Trustees and Executors upon the said new buildings improvements repairs or alterations or for any such painting papering decorating or furnishing of the said Mansion House and premises and all moneys expended by my said trustees and Executors in any of the matters aforesaid shall be raises and paid in like inasmuch as my debts are in and by my said WILL directed to be raised and paid.

And I Give all the furniture china, Plate, Linen and articles of ornament and household at Dunbar House aforesaid and all my horses and carriages that may be there at the time of my death and all other the contents of Dunbar House aforesaid and the adjoining premises unto my said wife absolutely, In all other respects I confirm my said WILL.

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my name the Thirtieth Day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy,

Thomas Aston Clifford Constable

Signed by Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable as and for a Codicil to his WILL in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as Witnesses:-
Owen Daly M.D., Hull.
Wm. Kirk Surgeon, Hedon.

This is a second Codicil to the the last WILL and Testament of Me,
Sir Thoms Aston Clifford Constable
of Burton Constable in Holderness in the County of York, Baronet.
Whereas I Have now paid almost the intirety of the purchase money for the Mansion House called Dunbar House and the lands and other hereditaments at or near Teddington in the County of Middlesex which I some time also contracted to purchase as in my said WILL mentioned And I expect that the purchase thereof will very shortly be completed.

I Do Hereby Revoke the devise of these premises and of the benifit of the said contract contained in my said WILL and I do hereby give and devise that the same premises with all their appurtenances and with all the furniture and articles of Household use or ornament goods chattles and effects now in or about the same or which shall or may be in or about the same when the building decorations and furnishings thereof shall have been completed pursuant to the directions of the first codicil to this my will unto my wife Dame Rosina Clifford Constable her heirs executors administrators and assigns absolutely free from encumbrance and from all contribution towards payment of the purchase money or cost of any part thereof respectively and by way of enlargement of the gift to my said wife in my WILL contained of articles she may select for her own use from my Mansion House and premises at Burton Constable aforesaid.

I Hereby now especially give to her my watches and chains with all my jewels my dressing cases, jewel cases, bags and boxes the iron boat and all belonging to it my two violins my best piano the Harp the Tenor and any music she may select and all such other articles or things in my same Mansion House or in the gardens and grounds stables and farm and out buildings thereof that during the three calender months in my said will refered to she may think proper to so select and,

I Declare that nothing hereby given is to restrict any other benifits to which my said Wife is entitled to under my said WILL or the First Codicil thereto.

In Addition to the benefits my friend and Secretary Stephen Octavious Jay is entitled to under my said WILL I hereby give to him one years salery in addition to what I may owe him and also my violin that is marked with the name of Sir Charles Wolsely.

I Give to my Chaplain the Reverand William Arnold the legacy of fifty pounds in addition to any Salery I may owe him.

I Give to my valet James Watson in addition to the legacy of a years wages to which he will be entitled under my said WILL the legacy or sum of Five Hundred pounds and also my wardrobe after my said Wife has taken there from such articles as she may think proper,

And Whereas I have taken upon myself the payment of the two annuities of fifty pounds each given to my late wife's WILL to former servants of herself and of her sister the late Mrs Chichester

I Direct my trustees and Executors to continue the payment of such annuities in manner given by the said WILL.

And Whereas I hold in my hands of the sum of eight hundred pounds that belongs either to Great Haywood Chapel or to some other Catholic Charity in the County of Stafford I DIRECT my said trustees and Executors to pay over the said sum with interest in the meantime to such person or persons as they shall consider equitably entitled to the same or to the trusteeship thereof In all other respects and as not altered by this Codicil.

I CONFIRM my said WILL and first Codicil .

IN Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my name the Fith Day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy.

Thomas Aston Clifford Constable

Signed by Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable as and for a Codicil to his WILL in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
OWEN DALE, MD, Hull
Wm. Kirk, Surgeon Hedon

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