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The testator bequeaths the Doddington Hall estate and advowson, and property in St. John Baptist's, St. Michael's and Holy Trinity parishes, Coventry and in Kites Hardwick, Leamington Hastings, Bedworth, Allesley, Wolscot, Grandborough, Keresley, Shilton, Burton Hastings, Fillongley, Exhall and Foleshill (all Warwickshire), with tithes, and property with tithes in Dover or elsewhere in Kent, successively to his eldest son George Knollis Jarvis [esq.] for life, then to that man's son George Edmund Jarvis, then George Edmund's sons and issue by seniority, the testator's second son [Reverend] Charles Macquarrie George Jarvis, his sons and issue by seniority, the testator's sons John George Jarvis [in the army - see PA56/129/4] and [Reverend] Edwin George Jarvis for one hundred years if the testator's daughter Mary Eden Cole (wife of Robert Cole, esq.) shall so long live, so as to pay her the rents, thereafter the estate passing to her eldest son Robert Eden Cole, his sons and issue by seniority, her other sons and issue likewise, and the testator's right heirs; if in possession, George Knollis Jarvis, Charles Macquarrie George Jarvis, George Edmund Jarvis or Robert Eden Cole may allow such a descendant's wife a maximum of £1,000 per annum rentcharge; if a descendant inherit the estate while a minor, John George and/or Edwin George Jarvis shall maintain him from the rents, investing the surplus in stocks, leasing anything except the Doddington estate for up to 21 years; with the tenant for life's permission, John George Jarvis and/or Edwin George Jarvis may sell the leasable property, revoking this will's uses if necessary, to discharge any encumbrances and buy property with the balance, meanwhile investing the moneys; since, at the time of John George's and Edwin George's marriages, he charged parts of his Warwickshire possessions with payments of £10,000 apiece, the testator declares that those sums should be paid out of his personalty; properties at Thorpe and Middleton, Rothwell parish, West Riding, Yorkshire, are to the use of Charles Macquarrie G. Jarvis; George K. and Charles M.G. Jarvis are allotted £10,000 in £3% consols so as to empower the testator's wife Frances to receive the income, it sinking in the residuary personalty upon her death; the wife will accept a phaeton; since, under the terms of the 1 May 1816 will of Miss Margaret Blackwell, the sister of the testator's late wife Philadelphia, her residuary estate passed to him for life with remainder between Philadelphia's children as her widower might direct, and as the effects have been converted into money, invested in the names of the testator and G.K. and C.M.G. Jarvis (£796/13/5 in 3% consols, £450 in 3.25% consols and £200 in East India stock), therefore the invested money passes to G.K. Jarvis, C.M.G. Jarvis, M.E. Cole, J.G. Jarvis, E.G. Jarvis and Ann Fector [for correspondence with the Dover banker John Minet Fector, see Lincolnshire Archives Office: Jarvis Collection (Coventry City Record Office searchroom library reference 016.091) p.93] Bromhead (wife of John Bromhead, esq.) equally; since £4,038/18/- in 3% consols, £1,237/6/10 in 3% reduced [consols] and £200 in East India stock now stand in the names of James Martin and Joseph Maberley, esqs. as trustees under the marriage-settlement with Philadelphia, that money is likewise divided amongst the testator's children; the daughters' shares in both these sets of stocks remain in G.K. Jarvis' and C.M.G. Jarvis' names in trust for their use, distinct from any husbands'; five shares in River Dee stock in James Martin's and Joseph Maberley's names go to G.K. Jarvis; G.K. and C.M.G. Jarvis will, within six months of the testator's death, fund £10,000 Bank £3% consols and £1,000 Bank £3% reduced annuities, to pay the dividends to M.E. Cole for life, then half to her present or future husband, half to her children - subject to which, the capital passes to her children or their issue born within her lifetime as she might appoint or by default between them equally; G.K. Jarvis and C.M.G. Jarvis will deal with £2,000 Bank £3% consols for A.F. Bromhead (she having received £10,000 as her marriage-portion) for life, then half to her present or a future husband, half during his lifetime and the whole thereafter being used by the trustees on behalf of the Bromhead children during their minorities, then to her children and their issue born during her lifetime as she might appoint or by default equally; G.K. Jarvis and C.M.G. Jarvis will deal with £2,000 Bank £3% annuities similarly for Mary the wife of Samuel Coppin (of Nunnery Street, Castle Heldingham, Essex) for life, then successively to her husband, her children and likewise such of their issue as are born during her lifetime; the trustees of the Dover Charity School in - Street, to which the testator has contributed before, will receive £100 Bank £3% reduced annuities similarly; annuties will be paid of £30 to the testator's niece Mary Wilhelmina (wife of William Lindsey, esq. of Bath [, Somerset]; late Army captain), £50 to Elizabeth Williams (of Trinidad, widow), £50 to the testator's nephew Oswald Williams (of Topsham, Devon, esq.), £25 to T.C. Banks (of Stone Gate, York, esq.), £6 to William Taylor (of Dover and formerly in the testator's service), £30 to Richard Graves (likewise), £18 to Jemima Graves (formerly the testator's servant but now M.E. Cole's) and £24 to Elizabeth Grubb the Doddington housekeeper; the testator's sons C.M.G, J.G. and E.G. Jarvis will accept £1,000 each; £10 each goes to the testator's niece Ann Lindsey Jarvis, George Marshall and George Priestley (gardeners) and William Shaw senior, Robert Moody and R. Gilbert (woodmen) of the Doddington estate, - Liversley (gardener) and - Cooper (butler), whilst George Wells (groom) and Joseph Do[d]son (footman) will accept £5 each, provided that each benefitting servant be in the testator's employ at the time of death; C.M.G. Jarvis will accept volumes of the "Annual Register"; dean and chapter of Lincoln leaseholds at Harby, Nottinghamshire and the Archbishop of Canterbury's leaseholds in Kent, remaining household goods at Doddington and Dover, and residuary estate pass to G.K. Jarvis; G.K. and C.M.G. Jarvis are appointed executors, and are made reponsible for land for which the testator is the mortgagee.