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produced between the two Pitts and Ryder to secure to the
latter the sum of £5OOO. by which it was recited that
Edward Pitt acknowledged to have received £BOOO from
Ryder, and Edward Pitt and Thomas made themselves
jointly liable for that amount. The draught was prepared.
by Edward and Thomas together, who got him to write it
out. This was executed on the 213 t of August. On the
26th the will was executed on which the lessor of the
plaintiff now relics. it was produced by Edward Pitt,
as a draught or, parchment, written in a small cramped
hand. On this occasion also the witness officiated and.
copied it out fair. It was then executed in the pre.
Bence of the witnesses. John Cropper and Robt. Hudson,
who signed as attesting witnesses. Cropper shortly after
went to Rio Janeiro, and has not been heard of since.
Hudson is dead. This will was put into the bands of
Ryder, in the presence of Thomas Pitt, who assented to
its provisions. By these Edward Pitt bequeathed to
Ryder the whole of his real and personal estate, and made
Ryder, "his executors, administrators, and as!igns,"
executors of the will. The witness said that on a subse-
quent occasion he went to call on Thomas Pitt, in com-
pany with Captain Caldwell, to receive £4OO as a year's
interest on the sum due from the elder Pitt to Mr. Ryder.
They collected from the tenants of the several houses the
sum of £25 Ds. 61, which they handed to Thomas Pitt.
It was on the table, and Pitt made it up to £4OO. The
witness then asked after his father, and he replied
he was in the country. He then produced a will, by
which he said he proposed to leave all to Mr. Ryder. He
executed it in the presence of the witne,s, and he, Captain
Caldwell, and a person of the name of William Barker
sighed it as attesting witnesses. Barker has since gone to
Australia, and Caldwell is dead This will also was now
produced. It was not, as the first, in the handwriting of the
witness, nor did he, he said, know by whom it was written,
but it contained the same singular proviso as to the execu-
tor appointing to that office, Ryder, " his executors, admi-
nistrators. and assigns." By it Thos. Pitt also bequeathed
all his real and personal property to Ryder. 'Thomas Pitt
said he executed the will that Ryder might be quite secure.
In 1836 witness, Ryder. and Thomas Pitt met again. Wit-
again collected £2B 194. Gd., and handed it to Thomas
p to £l5O, the amount of interest then

due. In 1840 he ariin collected some rents to the amount
of £l2 93. 61. Thomas Pitt added some to this, but less
than the half year's interest then due. The witness said

s was less than the sum fine, when Pitt said, if he, (the
witness) wanted more, he must wait for the property, or go
to h— and get it. Witness then asked to see his father.
Thomas Pitt said be was dead many years. Witness asked
why Pitt had said be was in the country, and he said so he
was. Witness asked why he did not tell him his father was
dead, and he replied that he (witness) might go to h— for an
Witness asked him what he meant by waiting
roperty, and he said he meant he must wait until
the deqth of him (Thomas Pitt,) and take it under his
7111. Things then remained as they were until the death
,f Thomas Pitt, in 1811 Mr. Ryder was abroad during

the time,

as a sea-captain, and was frequently en-
Witness accounted for the ab-

aged in long voyages

very 'Ate period, they were not award
Pitt's death.

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