Will of Samuel Rubidge 1803

Samuel Rubidge

In the Name of God Amen

I Samuel Rubidge of East Lane Walworth in the parish

of Saint Mary Newington in the county of Surry

being of sound and perfect Mind do make this as my

last Will and Testament to do away all and every

former Will and to appoint my Son Robert Rubidge

of No 3 ...on Row Newington Surry my sole Executor

and to whom I bequeath and give all my ready Money

plate Trinketts wearing apparel and Books etc and the said

Robert Rubidge paying my funeral Expenses and all

things ...ary [necessary?] thereto likewise the Expense of Administering

to this my last Will then all the Residue of Money after

re...ing any and all the dividends due to me from

my Life annuity granted by his Grace the Duke of

Marlborough it is my Will that my said son Robert

Rubidge ...es if every he has it in his power by

Gods Mercy of seeing or knowing that my younger

Son William Hatfield Rubidge is still alive divide

equally what there may be left "as above described" In

Witness whereof I have hereunto put my Hand and

Seal the tenth day of March 1803 Saml Rubidge <SS>

Signed and Sealed being first read over in our presence

Witness. Robt Eltsom No 7 East Street Walworth Chr

Roberts No 8 East Street Walworth

This Will was proved at London the twenty

first day of November in the year of our Lord one

thousand eight hundred and three before the worshipful

Charles Cook doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right

Honorable Sir William Wynne Knight also doctor

of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative

Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of

Robert Rubidge the Son of the deceased the sole Executor

named in the said Will to whom administration was

granted he having been first sworn duly to administer.

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Some explanation of the life annuity:

Bellhouse, D. (2017). A Return to Roots. In Leases for Lives: Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England (pp. 198-205). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316282229.012

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In the 1790s the Duke of Marlborough apparently needed to pay some back taxes on his estates and decided to raise £30,000 to pay them. It was to be done by selling life annuities.