Third Codicil to
Thomas Cubitts will of 1855
NOTE – This has been transcribed by OCR and then by manual
correction. This may not be an exact copy. You should carefully check
the text against the original as there may well be errors from this
method.
Pg 10 (of the collated PDF bundle) 3^(rd) Codicil to Thomas
Cubitt’s Will 2/12/1855
This is a Codicil (being the third) to the will of me Thomas
Cubitt of Denbies near Dorking Surrey Esquire. Whereas I intend to give
my son in law Edgar Alfred Bowring for his our use and benefit the House
in Claphams Park, Clapham Surrey which I have lately erected as a
residence for line and residence my daughter Sophia and which with the
outbuildings gardens and appurtenances I hold under an agreement for a
lease entered into with the late William Atkins Bowyer Esquire and I
have given instructions for the preparation of a lease of the said
premises to the said Edgar Alfred Bowring from the Tustees of
the will of the said William Atkins Bowyer for all my term and interest
therein at the yearly rent of Twenty pounds payable as from Michaelmas
last now I hereby, direct my Executors and Trustees in case such Lease
should not be granted and completed before my death
to cause and procure the same to be granted to the said Edgar
Alfred Bowring his Excutors administrators and assignees as soon After
my death as may be convenient. And whereas I hold under the
said agreement for a lease (amongst other premises) a piece of ground in
Clapham Park aforesaid situate[d] between the House of my
Nephew Andrew Cuthell and the House now occupied by Mr. West
part of which ground is now occupied by my said nephew
and the other part is used as Nursery grounds Now I hereby,
direct my Executors and Trustees at the end of five years from the time
of my death to cause and procure a Lease the said ground to be granted
by the Trustees of the said Williams Atkins Bowyer to the said Andrew
Cuthell his Executors Administrators and assignees for his and their own
use and
Benefit for all the residue of my term therein under
[illegible]
* *
Page 11 (of the collated PDF bundle) 3^(rd) Codicil to Thomas
Cubitt’s Will 2/12/1855
agreement at the yearly rent of Five pounds and in the mean time
to permit the said Andrew Cuthall his Executor Administrators and
assignees to occupy so [under?] thereof as he now occupies be
paying therefore the yearly rent of Five pounds until the said Lease
shall be granted and whereas I intend to grant a lease to Mr Thomas
Waller (who has been a confidential clerk in my office for many
years) of the House in Besborugh Street near Vauxhall Bridge
now occupied by him for the term of Eighty years at the yearly rent of
ten pounds as a token of my appreciation of his faithful services and
such lease is course of preparation now I direct my Trustees
and
Executors to grant such lease of the said House with the
appurtenances thereto to the said Thomas Waller his
Executors administrators and assignees for his and their own
use and benefit in case I should happen to die before the lease now in
course of preparation is granted and completed
In witness thereof I have to this Codicil contained on one
sheet of paper set my hand this second day of December
one thousand eight hundred and fifty five/.
Signed published and declared by the Testator Thomas
Cubitt as and for a codicil to his last will in the presence of
us (present at the same time) who in his presence at his
request and in the presence[?} of each other have [illegible]
inscribed our names
as witnesses——-
Tho[ma]s Cubitt
Richard Bautey Bayley – 35 St Georges [illegible but probably 35
St Georges Drive/Row/Street, Pimlico]
Pimlico
James Hopgood – King Williams St Strand. Sol