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*COMPLETED* Will for deciphering please Part 2
« on: Friday 26 April 13 06:02 BST (UK) »
Could someone with better seeing skills than me read the underlined words in this 1895 Scottish Will? I have deciphered most of the will, but there are a few words which I simply cannot make out.

Some of you have helped with another part of the will, but I did not include this part due to the length of the will, and the size of the image.

The part I have deciphered is as follows, from the same point in the will:

appoint the said Arthur Macarthur
and Adam MacKinlay Macarthur to
be my sole and only executors or executor
and I consent to the Registrar ???
hereof for pre???????? //// //// whereof
I have subscribed these prec???? With
marginal additions hereon written by
myself at Glasgow the eleventh day of
September in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety one before these
witnesses John Laird Smith ??????
Angus Hadgow and William Brownlee
Sheriff Officers in Glasgow (Signed)
Daniel Macarthur Jn Laird Smith witness
William Brownlee witness

A Chesters in hope

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Re: Will for deciphering please Part 2
« Reply #1 on: Friday 26 April 13 06:09 BST (UK) »
Hello

appoint the said Arthur Macarthur
and Adam MacKinlay Macarthur to
be my sole and only Executors or Executor
and I consent to the Registration
hereof for preservation in witness whereof
I have subscribed these presents With
marginal additions hereon written by
myself at Glasgow the eleventh day of
September in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety one before these
witnesses John Tait Smith Messenger
at Arms Glasgow
and William Brownlee
Sheriff Officer in Glasgow (Signed)
Daniel Macarthur Jn Tait Smith witness
William Brownlee witness

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Re: Will for deciphering please Part 2
« Reply #2 on: Friday 26 April 13 06:12 BST (UK) »
I should add, in case you aren't aware, 'these presents' is simply legal jargon meaning the contents of the present document.

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Re: Will for deciphering please Part 2
« Reply #3 on: Friday 26 April 13 06:18 BST (UK) »
I agree with preservation in witness whereof

presents

But I think John Tait Smith Messenger at Arms

William Brownlie

Signed J Tait Smith witness
William Brownlie Witness


I think!   I'm not sure what a messenger at Arms is - but I think he is one!   :D  :D

Well that's good - they do have such things

http://www.canderson.co.uk/

http://www.smaso.org/dirdisplay.php?cid=13

Wiggy   :)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

 Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.


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Re: Will for deciphering please Part 2
« Reply #4 on: Friday 26 April 13 06:19 BST (UK) »
I was just editing my transcription at the same time Wiggy, and I see we're in agreement.  :D

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Re: Will for deciphering please Part 2
« Reply #5 on: Friday 26 April 13 06:40 BST (UK) »
Thank you both very much for your very prompt replies. I am very grateful.

Even with your translation, I am finding it hard to read the words, due entirely to my eyesight :P

Again, many thanks for your help. I will try to do better the next time I come across such documents, with the help you have given in this case.

A Chesters in gratitude