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Henry THRALE 1781 will

tenements hereditaments and premises in the parish of Saint Saviour, Southwark and all other my mortgages or tenements and premises which at the time of my death shall be used occupied or employed in my said trade and the several public houses. I shall be then entitled to by lease or otherwise and also my brewing utensils and stock in trade and all other my mortgages lands tenements hereditaments and premises whatsoever not herein before disposed of I give devise and bequeath the same and every part of them unto my said wife and the said Samuel Johnson John Cator Jeremiah Crutchley and Henry Smith their executors administrators and assigns upon the several trusts and to and for the several uses intents and purposes herein after particularly mentioned expressed and declared and referring the same And my will is that my said trustees and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors and administrators of such survivor shall and may And I do hereby authorise and empower them to and carry on the business of brewing at or in my said brewhouse and premises from and immediately after my decease in the same or like manner as they shall think most proper and beneficial for my estate and family and for the better carrying on of the said business and that my said trustees may act securely my express will and direction is that they shall and may and I do hereby authorise and empower them to have take and employ all and every such clerks all staff and servants and at such wages as they think proper and necessary and I do hereby expressly give them full entire and absolute authority in all respects touching or concerning the said trade or business to act there and as they shall be most for the benefit and advantage there of and of my said family and as fully and effectively as I myself now to or have done and I do here by declare that my trustees or either of them shall not be answerable for the other or others of them or of his acts deeds receipts or payments of any sort of kind or for any loss or deficiency that shall or may happen the said Trade And that they my said trustees shall and may at all times be indemnified from and retain and reimburse themselves all costs charges and expenses whatsoever they shall or may arise or happen in the execution of the trust hereby imposed in them and my Will and meaning is that in or about the month of June next after my decease a rest or particular amount of all the brewing estate and effects shall be taken from the foot of the last rest made and taken in my lifetime and that the like rest or account shall be taken every year as usually has been done by me in order to discover the real state and condition of the said estate trade and profits thereof And my will and desire is that the said Henry Smith shall have the chief acting management and superintendency of the said trade and all other my affairs under this my will And as a compensation for his care and trouble therein if he shall accept thereof I will and direct that he the said Henry Smith shall be allowed

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