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County of Middlesex, Doctor of Laws. Whereas on the marriage of my late daughter, Ann Griffiths, with the late Thomas Wainewright Esquire, I advanced a certain sum of money and covenanted that after my death a further sum should be paid by my personal representatives as a marriage portion for my said daughter and whereas my grandson Thomas Wainewright is become entitled to such property so advanced by me to his mother my Will that neither he the said Thomas Wainewright nor his trustees for him shall demand any further sum out of my estate as I hereby declare that the sum already paid with that which is covenanted to be paid is all that I intend for my said grandson. And with regard to the rest and residue of my estate and effects of what kind of nature soever it is my Will and intention that the same should be divided according to the statute for the distributions between my wife and my son George Edward Griffiths, and that I should die intestate save and except as to what I have declared regarding my said grandson Thomas Wainewright.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.”

This is unlikely, at his great age, to have been his first will. Why did he go to such lengths to ensure that his young grandson would get not a penny more than he had settled on his dead daughter and husband?

There is some evidence that the bluff doctor - described by John Forster, the biographer of

JOHN PRICE WILLIAMS

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