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When Honour's husband died in 1802, he bequeathed Skinner Estate to her in his will.  The relevant section of his will reads:

As to my wordly goods it has pleased God to bless me with I give and bequeath in manner following.  That is to say, Item 1^st I give and bequeath to Honor my beloved wife that estate at Bridgend in the Parish of Holbeton commonly called or known by the  name of Skinner together with two cows as she pleases to take the best bed and bedstead and bed clothes complete together with one thing of a sort of household goods and furniture and ten guineas of lawful money to be paid on demand.  

Other researchers have wondered about this bequest:

“The biggest mystery is the bequest to Honour which is made absolutely and suggests that she was to have a separate household.  Perhaps she already had money of her own, from a marriage settlement and the Skinner Estate was a rather grand term for a dower house.  Her son Andrew may already have been married or was planning to do so and the bequest may have been offering her the opportunity to move out without necessarily implying that she was to do so immediately.  For all that, to cut her out of any formal involvement with the children or the administration of the rest of the estate suggests that all was not well.  But this cannot explain why she was not simply granted a life interest in the Skinner Estate which would be usual.” (http://www.amhinja.demon.co.uk/archive/Ltr1850.htm)

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