This is the last will and testament of me Charles Ballard of Great Haseley in the county of Oxford Clerk and I hereby appoint my beloved wife for whom I do and have ever entertained the most unbounded confidence and trust my sole executrix I wish to be buried in the chancel of Haseley if I die within 10 miles of that place and that my funeral may be accompanied by the smallest possible ostentations.  After all my debts are discharged I give and bequeath unto my dear wife all my estates in land or houses all interest of money in the public funds all of my goods and chattels including books paintings and prints plate linen and every thing of every denomination and kind whatsoever for her use and benefit for and during her natural life and after her deceased I give and bequeath all my worldly possessions of every kind and sort to my three beloved daughters Jane Mary Ballard Caroline Ballard and Hannah Phillipa Ballard to be shared equally between them share and share alike and moreover as they have now obtained an age when it were fit that they should have some suitable income which they might call their own and out of which they might be able to employ a small part at least in acts of benevolence and charity I hereby direct their mother whom it behoves me to say is most desirous that the same should be done yearly and every year out of the proceeds of her income to pay to her three daughters singularly and severally to each the sum of 100 pounds by half yearly payments the first half yearly payment to be made on the day six months after my decease so long as they remain unmarried their income would I trust be amalgamated with that of their mother and so improve the common stock as it will be desirable to convert my landed property into money when a suitable opportunity may offer I therefore give power to my dear wife to sell and dispose of the though all my farms but my will is that they be not sold up hastily to sale in such sort as to injure their value but should all or any of my landed property be sold during the life of my wife my further will is that the proceeds of land so sold shall be laid out fully and unequivocally in government security and by no means it upon a mortgage or employed in any of the wilder schemes of the present day the disunion at which so commonly distracts families on the partition of property will I hope to be averted from of my daughters after the deceased of their mother the ready and uniform affection which has always subsisted between them and which I confidently believe he is not to be warped by worldly and sordid considerations will I Trust so amount all of difficulties but if from a marriage or from other unforeseen circumstances eight division at satisfactory to all parties cannot be made my will then there is a that the whole property real and personal be sold to the best advantage and that the produce of such sale or sales be equally divided share and share alike between my three daughters or their representatives now I do hereby revoke and make void all of former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made and I do declare this to be my last will and testament in witness where of I the said Charles Ballard have to this my said last will and testament contained in all one at sheet of paper set my hand and seal this first day of March in the year of our lord 1826 Charles Ballard signed and sealed published and declared by the said testator Charles Ballard as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have subscribed an names as witnesses thereto Thos Robinson Josh Phillips E Horn

On the marriage of my daughter Caroline with Samuel Pole Shawe I transferred 400 pounds of bank stock to the trustees of her marriage settlement being part of 1400 pounds bank stock then standing in my name now in order that my first purpose of making my daughter's fortunes exactly equal be in no part frustrated I give after my own decease and that of my wife 400 pounds of bank stock to my eldest daughter Jane Mary Ballard and also to my youngest daughter Hannah Phillipa Ballard 400 pounds of bank stock and I further direct that what ever residue of bank stock could be outstanding in my name be equally divided after their mother's deceased between my three daughters or their representatives this codicil to my will was signed by me this 11th day of February 1829 Charles Ballard in the presence of John Watson \-\ Wm May Ellis clerk

In of the goods of the Rev. Charles Ballard clerk deceased

Appeared personally John Sibbald Edison of the Middle Temple London esquire and William Roberts sergeant of George Paulet Morris of Princes Court of Saint James Park in the county of Middlesex Doctor of Physic and made both for the he news and world well acquainted with the Rev. to Charles Ballard late of Haseley in the county of Oxford clerk deceased for several years before and up to the time of his death and were also well acquainted with the manner and character of his handwriting and subscription the said John Sibbald Edison having been in the habit of receiving letters from the said deceased and the said William Roberts having frequently seen at the said deceased right and also subscriber his name and the <????> Having at now referred to the paper writing here to annexe to purporting to be and contain the last will and testament of the said deceased and having reviewed and perused the same the said will beginning of us this is the last will and testament of me Charles Ballard of great Haseley in the county of Oxford clerk and ending thus “this first day of march in the year of our lord 1826” and subscribed Charles Ballard and having more particularly inspected the words for all written between the third and fourth lines from the top of the second side of the said will and also the word six where written <????> In the third and last side of the said will and they or their dependents and lastly made an oath that they do verily and in their consciences believe the whole or body series and contents of the said will beginning her ending and subscribed as aforesaid and also the before edited words so into aligned and written as and erasure as aforesaid to be all the proper handwriting of the said Charles Ballard deceased Jno S Edison - William Roberts - on the 26th day of march in the year 1832 the said William Roberts was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me John Daubeny Surr Prost - Arthur Loveday Not. Pub. - On the 27th day of March in the year 1832 the said John Sibbold Edison was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me John Daubeny Surrt Provent Arthur Loveday Not. Pub.

On 24th June, 1836 administration with the <?????> Codicil annexed of the goods chattels and credits of the Rev. Charles Ballard late of Haseley in the county of Oxford clerk deceased left unadministered by Jane Ballard widow deceased whilst living the relict of the said deceased and the sole executrix and residuary legatee for life named in the said will was granted to Jane Mary Edwards wife of the Reverend James Edwards clerk formerly Ballard the daughter of the said deceased and the surviving the residuary legatee <???????> in the said will having been first sworn duly to administer The second executrix died intestate