Just one sentence in Will

[hilarybelton]

This 1825 will is discussing that the trustees and executors shall have full

"power and control over it and educate and bring up my children in such way as my property will buy(). … … it will be my …but bring them up to plain habits of industry."

It is the style of this Testator that random words have dots after them, so a dot is not necessarily punctuation. I am not totally convinced of the word "buy", I think it may be another word that links into the two following words. I think the last of my indecipherable words might be "insufficient".

Extract attached, I hope one of you might be able to join up those dots!

Hilary

[lizdb]

I think maybe it is

"in such way as my property will but suffice....."

and maybe

"I fear it will be ..... insufficient...."

[hilarybelton]

Thank you

The first part, certainly, "but suffice" and explains the crossing on the last letter of but.

The second half is reasonable, but this guy seems to have sufficient property, his will was proved at less than £300 in 1825, but I wasn't there at the time, and looking at it again, I think you are right and it might actually say

"I fear it will be very insufficient".

Thank you once again