Catalogue description Copy of will of Sir Jn. Call of Whiteford, Bt.   Tomb of Cornish granite to be made on...

Copy of will of Sir Jn. Call of Whiteford, Bt.

Tomb of Cornish granite to be made on top of Hingston Down or Kit Hill adjoining inclosure of the castle built there by testator with epitaph chosen by wife and executors at expense not exceeding £500.

Whole to be enclosed with iron rail and maintained by persons entitled to his Cornish estates.

Plain panel marble slab to be placed near testator's pew in parish church of Stoke Climsland or where his mansion house was when he died with arms cut thereon and inscription chosen by wife and executors. To be maintained as trust.

To sister Sarah Meagher and husband Dr. Wm. Meagher annuity of £100 from estates at Whiteford.

After deaths of S. & W. Meagher, to their dtr. Christiana Anna John annuity of £60.

To friends Jn. Coryton and Jn. Rashleigh, esqs., estate at Whiteford and elsewhere except mansion house in Burlington Street, St. James, Westminister where testator then lived. In trust for use of eldest s. Wm. Pratt Call and hrs. male with remainders to use of second s. Geo. Cotsford Call and hrs. male, and then eldest sons of 4 dtrs. Philadelphia, Louisa, Frances and Catherine Call; and their (the son's) hrs., then to eldest dtr. etc. 2 sons given power to charge estate with jointure not exceeding £800 and to make leases for no more than three lives, or leases not exceeding 21 yrs. in possession but not in reversion. Any s. of testator's daughters inheriting to assume surname, crest and arms of Call by royal licence.

Trustees to have power of sale and acquisition of other estates.

Copyhold and leasehold estates to same uses as freehold.

Trustees if they think fit to sell estate near Albion Mill, Surrey and to use purchase money if necessary for portions of younger children. If so money to be laid out in purchase of freehold lands in Cornwall and Devon as near as may be to testator's existing estates.

House in Burlington Street to be sold or let by trustees at their discretion. To be used for legacies of younger children then laid out in purchase of freehold lands in Cornwall and/or Devon.

Wife to be allowed to live at house in Burlington Street or in mansion house at Whiteford with children for 1 yr. after testator's decease. To wife annuity of £200 for life or until she remarries.

To have jewelry for life or re-marriage, then to eldest s. Wm. Pratt Call. Also to wife coach horses and carriages with harness and wines and liquors in bottles or casks at house in Burlington Street. Use of household furniture, linen and china at Whiteford or Burlington Street.

Plate to s. Wm. Pratt Call when of age.

Children surviving wife and two aunts Lady Young and Mrs. Jn. Rashleigh would be entitled with their cousins (children of Aunt Rashleigh) to equal division of late grandfather Doctor Jn. Batties' personal estate - probably £3000 each. £40,000 to trustees in trust to invest and pay interest on £10,000 to dtr. Philadelphia Call for life or until marriage. If latter took place with consent of trustees £10,000 to be settled by trustees on her and her husband or on her husband if he made her competent jointure. Interest on further £10,000 to dtr. Louisa Call etc. (as for Philadelphia). Interest on £10,000 to dtr. Frances Call etc. (as for Philadelphia). Interest on £10,000 to dtr. Catherine Call.

To 4 dtrs. if they marry with trustees' consent £300 for wedding clothes. To live with wife and pay board before marriage.

To son Geo. Cotsford Call, testator's share in Banking House in Bond Street. Testator wished him to be admitted a partner when of age. If share did not amount to £6000 to be made up to that amount. £4000 part of testator's share in the Stag Brewhouse at Pimlico.

Power in testator's marriage settlement to dispose of £14500 stock among children after wife's death. This stock then in 5% Govt. stock in names of trustees of marriage settlement.

After wife's death £1000 stock to each of testator's dtrs. (to Catherine Call when of age). Likewise £1000 to s. Geo. Cotsford Call when 21.

Residue of 5% stock to eldest s. Wm. Pratt Call, with remainders to Geo. Cotsford Call, and 4 dtrs. if either sons died under age without issue.

To niece Margaret Jones annuity of £30 for life or until marriage.

If marriage with consent of trustees then she to have £700 in lieu

To friends Jn. Rashleigh, Jn. Coryton and Jn. Grant, and Thos. Rashleigh, esqrs. £100 each. Extra £100 to Thomas Rashleigh on whom managements of the trusts will fall.

Joint executors: Jn. Rashleigh, Jn. Coryton, Jn. Grant and Thos. Rashleigh. Also they to be guardians of children under age.

Residue to eldest s. Wm. Pratt Call.

Witd. Jonathan Rashleigh, Hatton Garden, London solcr., Thos. Rashleigh, jun. Lincolns Inn, Thos. Hill, Northumberland St., coal merchant.

27 June 1800.

Codicil. 23 August 1800. To Eliz. Shaw £50 capital in 5% stock

To excrs. Jn. and Thos. Rashleigh £2000 in trust for use of Geo. Isaac Call, s. of testator's late bro. Jas. Call for G. I. Call's maintenance education 'and promoting his Appointment to a Writership in the East India Companys Service and his Equipment and Voyage to such Settlement as he may be appointed by the good offices and interference of Mrs. Mary Raynsford. '

To servant Jn. Mac' Call if living with testator at decease ten guineas and 'one share of Fifty Pounds in the Stock of the Society for establishing fishing Villages and Peopling the Islands of Scotland' 23 August 1800. Witd. Jn. Martin Attry, Callington; Nich. Stephens, butler to Sir Jn. Call, Bt; Jn. Nottle, Whiteford, hind.

With note of epitaph for tombstone on Hingston Down, monument in Church, and verses for (? memorial at Kit Hill)

Tomb on Hingston Hill to be designed by Phil Stowey, esq.

To be buried in Lee Church Yard, London, where his s. Jn. was buried if testator died in London.

Nomination by testator of s. Geo. Cotsford Call under Articles of Co-Partnership of 20 September 1790 of Banking House of Pybus, Call, Corant and Hale. 26 September 1796.

Witd. Chas. Broughton, secretary to Sir Jn. Call, Nich. Stephens servant to Sir Jn. Call.

Directions to wife for tomb. To continue to give Mrs. Saltren 6 guineas a year for life. To continue to support family (wife and 4 children) of testator's late uncle Wm. Mill of Shernick.

Son asked to allow Wm. Bray and wife £10 yearly (wife £5 after death) and £85 or residue to 2 sons in Dock Yard.