Trouble reading a Will

[PrueM]

Here you go Pip    Only a couple of words I couldn't get (well, it is very early in the morning here!     )

...I desire that my body may be ? interred
at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter named Item I give &
bequeath unto my son Richard Beaver (whom I hereby appoint
Executor of this my will after my just debts ffuneral expenses
and all other expenses which may necessarily attend the Execution
of this my said will all the Money which I have in the Consolidated
? being one hundred and sixty pounds together with all
the interest that shall be due thereon at the time of my death upon
trust nevertheless to the need intents and purposes hereinafter...

[Pip24]

Thanks Prue

Mum is here this evening and I've shown her the Will and we tried to read it out together.  We still had a least two words missing from each line in that last extract and gave up at the line "trust nevertheless to the need intents and purposes hereinafter... "   But now it is all crystal clear.

You really are brilliant at this.  Thanks so much

[bervonian]

A suggestion.  Could the first word be 'formally', and the second 3pc (per cent) followed by annuities ? Consolidated annuities are (or were) part of the British national debt consisting of several stocks consolidated into one fund.

Bervonian.

[JDGen]

I think the first line is:

"I desire that my body may be decently interred"

Jean

[JDGen]

Hi Anne,

Is this near the beginning of the will?  The first word could be something like "imprimis" meaning firstly - I can't see the exact word but something similar.

Jean

[Little Nell]

Jean is correct in saying that the body is to be decently interred.

The other word is definitely Imprimis - very common in wills and as Jean says is Latin for firstly.

The funds mentioned are "3 per cent ......." - the dots represent the missing word which seems to be abbreviated and is probably the name of the particular fund in which the money was invested.  It does look a bit like Ann. with a superscript s on the end, as Bervonian says.

Nell

[PrueM]

Thanks for the help, everyone! 

Prue

[Pip24]

Fantastic - thank you all so much. I'm found out so much about Elizabeth.