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Estate to be equally divided between them, share and share alike ; "
and of this my
Will I do hereby constitute and appoint the said John Spencer Colepeper and Richard
Maskall Joint Executors, and my Will and meaning is that, if any Deficiency shall
arise in my Estate and Effects, the several Legacies of ^3000. to my Niece's children,
;^3oo. for the benefit of Mary the Wife and Mary the Daughter of y" said John
Spencer Colepeper, and the ^100. to my Executors, be first paid and satisfied, and
the other Legatees to abate in proportion to their respective Legacies ; and
further
that it shall be lavirful for my said Executors to deduct and retain to themselves, out
of my Estate and Effects, and out of the Several Trust Monies herein bequeathed, all
such charges and Expences as they shall be at in the Execution of this my Will, and
the several Trusts therein contain'd ; and that they shall not be chargeable with any
loss that may happen by putting out any Monies to Interest, or otherwise acting in the
Execution of this my Will, without their Wilful Neglect or Default respectively ;
and that one of them shall not be chargeable with the Act of the other of them, but
each for his own Act and Deed, and lastly I do hereby revoke all other Wills by me
heretofore made, and declare this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Scarlett have hereunto, and to a Duplicate
hereof, set my hand and seal this g**" day of July in the year of our Lord 1767."
"Eliz. Scarlett."
'* It appears that Mrs. Scarlett bequeathed the bulk of her property, "both Real and Personal," to
her residuary legatees John Spencer Colepeper Esq. and Richard Maskall Esq., who were also the
executors of her Will, "To hold the Real Estate as Tenants in Common, and the Personal Estate to be
equally divided between them." As these items of her Will, in connection with the fact that the
Scarlett silver which she bequeathed was given to her relatives in America, and that she was living in
the house of Mr. Maskall in her widowhood, where she made her Will, together with her evident inti-
macy, also, with the Colepeper family, seem to us to imply that her principal legatees were her own
relatives, we give some particulars in regard to the old family of Colepeper, found in Hasted's " History
of Kent."
Lord John Colepeper, dying in 1719 without issue, bequeathed two "manors [in Tenterden, co.
Kent] to his wife Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Colepeper, of Hollingborne, who by will devised
them to her nephew John Spencer Colepeper Esq. of the Charter-house, being the last of the vast
possessions of the different branches of the family dispersed over this whole county." This gentleman
also received from his grandfather Sir Thomas Colepeper the manor of Greenway Court, Hollingborne.
John Spencer Colepeper was, in the time of Hasted, the last of the name of this ancient and honorable
family. The old Kent families of Colepeper, Mascall, and Webb are all frequently mentioned by
Hasted.
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