William Michael Lally

London lawyer, working in the Six Clerks Office of Chancery (the barrister and legal reformer Samuel Romilly was apprenticed to him). Under a deed of 03/06/1771 William Michael Lally of Chanecry purchased for £275 an annuity for his life (aged 38) and that of his wife Mary (aged 42) from Rowland Ash secured on Ash's estate and enslaved people on St Vincent, as one of a small group of purchasers paying in total £3175 for annuities amounting to £325 p.a. The schedule of annuitants immediately precedes a list of 76 enslaved people on whom the annuities were secured. Richard Willis of London guaranteed the payments.

1. Will of William Michael Lally of Bristol proved 22/02/1793.

Deed Book 1771-1772, British Library, EAP688/1/1/26, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-26 pp. 108-121.

1. PROB 11/1229/140.