The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)Jeaffreson, John Cordy
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The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Jeaffreson, John Cordy
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
‘I give and bequeath unto Mary Jane Clairmont (the sister-in-law of my
residuary legatee) the sum of six thousand pounds of like lawful money
of Great Britain and I also give and bequeath unto the said George
Gordon Lord Byron and Thomas Love Peacock their executors
administrators and assigns the sum of six thousand pounds of like
lawful money of Great Britain upon trust to lay out and invest the
same in their names in purchase of an annuity for the term of the
natural life of the said Mary Jane Clairmont and the life of such
other person as the said Mary Jane Clairmont shall name (if she please
to name one) and to stand possessed of the said annuity and the
securities to be obtained for the same upon trust that they the said
George Gordon Lord Byron and Thomas Love Peacock and the survivor of
them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor
shall and do during the natural life of the said Mary Jane Clairmont
when and as the annuity hereinbefore by me directed to be purchased
with the aforesaid sum of six thousand pounds shall be received by my
said trustees or the trustee for the time being pay the said annuity
into the proper hands of her the said Mary Jane Clairmont or unto her
order to be signified by some note or writing under her hand from time
to time after the quarterly payment of the same annuity for the
payment of which such order shall be given shall have actually become
due and payable but not otherwise to the intent that the same annuity
may be for the sole and separate use of the said Mary Jane Clairmont
independently of any husband with whom she may intermarry and to the
intent that the said Mary Jane Clairmont may not either covert or sole
make any appointment or assignment by way of anticipation of any
unaccrued quarterly payment of the said annuity and the receipt or
receipts of the said Mary Jane Clairmont or of the person or persons
to whom she shall make such order or appointment as aforesaid shall
alone be a good and sufficient discharge for the said annuity or for
so much thereof as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed or
acknowledged to be received and from and after the decease of the said
Mary Jane Clairmont in case the said annuity shall not then have run
out my said trustees shall then stand possessed thereof in trust for
such person or persons as the said Mary Jane Clairmont shall by deed
or will appoint to receive the same and in default of appointment in
trust for the executors or administrators of the said Mary Jane
Clairmont I give and bequeath to Thomas Jefferson Hogg of the Inner
Temple London Esquire the sum of two thousand pounds of like lawful
money of Great Britain I give and bequeath unto the said George Gordon
Lord Byron the sum of two thousand pounds of like lawful money of
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