brown and FARRANT against Hallett prerogative court rd session Michaelmas term  November rd a unfinished and unexecuted paper establish as a codicil captain  Thomas brown decease make a will date d December complete execute appoint his  wife Margaret brown Stephen law Esq and Mr Henry Farrant proctor his executor  and testamentary guardian for his child and in case Mr law shall refuse to be  his executor c he appoint Mr Arthur pond to be executor in his stead both law  and pond have refuse to act the decease give his wife for her life the  interest of and the lease of the house where he live and all his household  good plate and linen and to maintain her and the child till the shall be  invest in security and produce interest give the residue to his four child all  minor his sister Catherine Hatfield his sister mary north for mourning and the  same to his mother in may decease go to Ireland to visit his say mother and  sister and return lee home in August after which he frequent declare that they  his say relation have use he and his wife ill in Ireland and he will alter his  will decease be take ill on the that August and die on the that on that August  in the evening decease be in bed and his wife niece and maidservant be in the  room he bid his wife fetch his will and his niece bring pen ink and paper  decease read over the will and then write himself the paper now plead as a  codicil wherein he appoint John Hallett Esq executor and alter the legacy of  to his sister Hatfield to reduce his sister mary north and his mother legacy  to each and give to Mr Hallett and Mr Farrant two thousand pound and two  hundred pound in trust to be lie out and to pay the dividend to his wife for  life be write a few more word which show he be go on to explain that devise  but leave off abrupt say as the witness depose that he be very much tire with  write from that time he daily grow worse and worse and do nothing more towards  complete the paper but when he leave off write bid his wife take care of that  paper and lie it up with his will Hallett cite the widow and Farrant to see  this paper propound and prove as a codicil they appear declare they do not  oppose the codicil confess the allegation modus et form wherein the above fact  be plead and wave all assignation but Hallett examine three witness who prove  all the fact above state and that decease be full in his sense when he write  say paper judgment sir George lee as the decease have declare he will alter  his lee will agreeable to this paper and as it appear he be in his sense have  write it but four day before his death and be not in a condition to complete  it and as the guardian for the child do not oppose it I pronounce this paper  to be a codicil to the decease say execute will