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From: Hugh Watkins <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] IDENTIFY TERM USED IN WILL
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:03:00 +0200
References: <000a01c1e999$250d9600$18444fcb@gilr>


,Internet writes:
>In 1869 John A. MUNIS wrote his Last Will and Testament which is a
>little difficult to read and is not assisted by the poor quality of the
>photocopy I am using.

>'I direct that the whole of the residue of my personal property be
>invested in Government Chemities?, & that the Interest arising
>therefrom together with the rents and profits of my Real Estate after
>payment of all taxes and other expenses thenent? be paid to my said
>Wife for her and my children's maintenance.'

>The two words with questions marks are the ones I would like help with.
> I thought that Chemities could have been 'securities' but there is no
>way I can make that fit. I have no idea what 'thenent' is supposed to
>be.


a guess Annuities with a curled foot to the A


Hugh W

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ask Google

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=VBQAB&q=last+t
estament+personal+property+be+invested+in+Government



died 1849
Upon Trust that they my said Trustees or the survivors or survivor of
them, his Executors Administrators or Assigns do and shall lay out and
invest such share and shares in the Parliamentary stocks or public
funds of Great Britain or at Interest on Government or real securities
in England and Wales And do and shall vary all or any Stocks funds or
securities and do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in
the share and shares stocks funds and securities in which the same
shall be invested and the Interest Dividends and annual produce thereof
Upon Trust that they my said Trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of
them his Executors Administrators and Assigns do and shall for and
during the natural life of my said Daughter in law Nancy Balshaw in
case she shall so long continue a widow and unmarried pay the interest
and dividends of one seventh share and of the stocks and securities in
which the same shall be invested into the proper hands of my said
Daughter in law Nancy
<<
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:8vda_T1x0gkC:home.clara.net/balshaw
/wills/wjb1849.htm+last+testament+personal+property+be+invested+in+Gover
nment&hl=en

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Government+annu
ities%22&btnG=Google+Search

I had never heard of "Government Annuities" before as usually an
affair for a private insurance company paying an annual income for
life which is calculated on pruchase by the size of the capital lump
sum and life expectancy and rates of interest.

So the Canadian Government does it

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Government+annu
ities%22+site%3Auk&btnG=Google+Search

History
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:dXCI30JUYAYC:www.actuaries.org.uk/l
ibrary/finlaison1.html+%22Government+annuities%22+site:uk&hl=en

In 1722, this company petitioned the Parliament to be allowed to divide
their immense capital of more than thirty-three millions eight hundred
thousand pounds, the whole of which had been lent to government, into
two equal parts: The one half, or upwards of sixteen millions nine
hundred thousand pounds, to be put upon the same footing with other
government annuities, and not to be subject to the debts contracted, or
losses incurred, by the directors of the company in the prosecution of
their mercantile projects; the other half to remain, as before, a
trading stock, and to be subject to those debts and losses. The
petition was too reasonable not to be granted. In 1733, they again
petitioned the Parliament that three-fourths of their trading stock
might be turned into annuity stock, and only one-fourth remain as
trading stock, or exposed to the hazards arising from the bad
management of their directors. Both their annuity and trading stocks
had, by this time, been reduced more than two millions each by several
different payments from government; so that this fourth amounted only
to L3,662,784 8s. 6d. In 1748, all the demands of the company upon the
King of Spain, in consequence of the Assiento contract, were, by the
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, given up for what was supposed an
equivalent. An end was put to their trade with the Spanish West Indies,
the remainder of their trading stock was turned into an annuity stock,
and the company ceased in every respect to be a trading company.
In 1722, this company petitioned the Parliament to be allowed to divide
their immense capital of more than thirty-three millions eight hundred
thousand pounds, the whole of which had been lent to government, into
two equal parts: The one half, or upwards of sixteen millions nine
hundred thousand pounds, to be put upon the same footing with other
government annuities, and not to be subject to the debts contracted, or
losses incurred, by the directors of the company in the prosecution of
their mercantile projects; the other half to remain, as before, a
trading stock, and to be subject to those debts and losses. The
petition was too reasonable not to be granted. In 1733, they again
petitioned the Parliament that three-fourths of their trading stock
might be turned into annuity stock, and only one-fourth remain as
trading stock, or exposed to the hazards arising from the bad
management of their directors. Both their annuity and trading stocks
had, by this time, been reduced more than two millions each by several
different payments from government; so that this fourth amounted only
to L3,662,784 8s. 6d. In 1748, all the demands of the company upon the
King of Spain, in consequence of the Assiento contract, were, by the
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, given up for what was supposed an
equivalent. An end was put to their trade with the Spanish West Indies,
the remainder of their trading stock was turned into an annuity stock,
and the company ceased in every respect to be a trading company.
In 1722, this company petitioned the Parliament to be allowed to divide
their immense capital of more than thirty-three millions eight hundred
thousand pounds, the whole of which had been lent to government, into
two equal parts: The one half, or upwards of sixteen millions nine
hundred thousand pounds, to be put upon the same footing with other
government annuities, and not to be subject to the debts contracted, or
losses incurred, by the directors of the company in the prosecution of
their mercantile projects; the other half to remain, as before, a
trading stock, and to be subject to those debts and losses. The
petition was too reasonable not to be granted. In 1733, they again
petitioned the Parliament that three-fourths of their trading stock
might be turned into annuity stock, and only one-fourth remain as
trading stock, or exposed to the hazards arising from the bad
management of their directors. Both their annuity and trading stocks
had, by this time, been reduced more than two millions each by several
different payments from government; so that this fourth amounted only
to L3,662,784 8s. 6d. In 1748, all the demands of the company upon the
King of Spain, in consequence of the Assiento contract, were, by the
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, given up for what was supposed an
equivalent. An end was put to their trade with the Spanish West Indies,
the remainder of their trading stock was turned into an annuity stock,
and the company ceased in every respect to be a trading company.



http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:0H0f4ImlxvYC:www.adamsmith.org.uk/s
mith/won-b5-c1-article-1-ss3.htm+%22Government+annuities%22+site:uk&hl=e
n





http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=+thenent&btnG=Goog
le+Search

King Richard III 1478

The same day, persens and place by all abovesaid that for somoche as
the prior of the Trinites in this cite of York thare presently in his
propre person pitivouselie besought the said maire and his brethren
that he myght have in thare namez under the seal (off) of office a
letter of rogacion (u) made unto the right high and myghty prince the
duc of Glocestre shewyng to his hig(h)nesse the grete povertie of the
said place, the which desire of the said prior the which desire
(sic)wer graunted
and thenent therof foloweth:


the text thereof follows
www.richard111.com/York.htm

possibly a Greek word
try the great Oxford Dictionary
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:nD0v3AHZ6GYC:www.richard111.com/Yor
k.htm++thenent&hl=en

Thenent German surname and Egyptian god.


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