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the party or parties so dying, of Two hundred pounds so given to 

 them as aforesaid, shall sink into and become part of the residue of 

 my personal estate, and be applied and disposed of accordingly. 

 Also I give to my Servant George Jones the sum of twenty guineas, 

 as a token of my remembrance of his faithful services to me. Also 

 I give and bequeath to the several persons whose names shall be 

 mentioned and comprised in the Schedule or List hereto annexed, 

 signed with my name, and marked with the letter "B," the 

 mourning Rings or other small legacys or sums of money which 

 shall be therein specified and expressed. Also I give and bequeath 

 unto James Caldwell, Esq., of Newcastle under Lyme, in the County 

 of Stafford, the sum of One hundred pounds, which I desire he will 

 accept as a testimony of my friendship and esteem for him. And I 

 do hereby direct and appoint that my said Nephew Thomas Byerley 

 shall, under the direction of my Executors, settle my accounts and 

 manage and conduct the collection of my debts and other matters 

 relating to the settlement of my concerns in business ; and that 

 a Salary of One hundred pounds per annum be allowed and paid to 

 him for such particular service, so long as he shall be employed 

 therein, over and above all charges and expenses attending the 

 same. And it is also my Will that an estate at Burslem, late in the 

 occupation of Joseph Wedgwood, consisting of a newly erected 

 dwelling house, a set of pot works, with other buildings, and a 

 field called the Cross hill, containing altogether about two acres ; 

 and likewise an estate in the Parish of Astbury, in the County of 

 Chester, called Spengreen, and now in the holding of Thomas John- 

 son, containing about seventy-five acres or thereabouts ; and also a 

 piece of land on the east side of the Bridge in Congleton, in the said 

 County of Chester, being about two rods ; and also all the rest, resi- 

 due, and remainder, messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, 

 and real estate, money, securities for money, debts due and owing, 

 personal Estate and Effects of what nature or kind soever or where- 

 soever, not hereinbefore particularly devised or disposed of, together 

 with such or so much of the several sums of money hereinbefore 

 mentioned and bequeathed as shall, by means of the contingencies 

 and directions hereinbefore expressed, shall all of them sink into and 

 become parts of the said residue of my personal Estate. And I do 

 hereby give, devise, and bequeath the same unto my said Executors, 

 for the payment of the legacys and annuities hereinbefore men- 

 tioned ; and provided there should be a residue after the above 

 mentioned payments, then I direct that such residue shall go and be 

 divided unto and amongst my said children, John Wedgwood, 



