Estate Duty Office Will of Henry Williams of Cullompton, Devon, Yeoman (1812)
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Devon Heritage Centre 1078/IRW/W/891
Transcribed by Art Ames
Proved in the Registry of the Archdeaconry Court of Exeter the 7th April 1812
Executors Joseph Davey of Cullompton clothier, Joseph Pannell of same gentleman
This is the last Willand Testament of me Henry Williams of Cullompton in the county of Devon yeoman being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding hereby revoking and making void all former Will and Wills by me at anytime heretofore made
First I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Mary Williams the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of this realm to be paid her by my trustees and executors hereinafter named within one month next after my decease
Also I give and bequeath unto my daughter Charity Veals the sum of one hundred pounds of like lawful money of this realm likewise to be paid her by my trustees and executors hereinafter named within six months from the day of my decease but my will and mind is that in case my said trustees hereinafter so to be named shall think proper to advance and pay the said sum of one hundred pounds unto my said daughter Charity immediately after my death they are hereby authorized to do
Also I give devise and bequeath unto Joseph Davey of Cullompton aforesaid clothier and Joseph Pannell of Cullompton gentleman their heirs executors administrators and assigns all and every my estates messuages lands tenements and hereditaments of what nature or kind so ever and wheresoever situate within respective appurtenances and also all my goods chattles money securities for money rights credits substance personal and testamentary estate and effects whatsoever subject and charged nevertheless to and with the payment of my just debts legacies funeral expenses and the expenses of proving this my Will upon trust and to and for the several intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to say
Upon trust that they the said Joseph Davey and Joseph Pannell the survivor of them his heirs executors or administrators do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my death take up and borrow on the security of all or any of my lands messuages and premises hereinbefore by me devised to them any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds in order to pay off and discharge the said legacies hereinbefore by me given my funeral expenses and the expenses of proving this my Will and I hereby direct that the person or persons so lending and advancing the said sum of money shall not be accountable for any loss misapplication or non application thereof or any part thereof
Then upon trust that they the said Joseph Davey and Joseph Pannell the survivor of them his heirs executors or administrators do and shall pay apply and dispose of the yearly rents dividends and products thereof unto my dear wife Mary Williams and her assigns for and during the term of her natural and from and immediately after her death upon trust for my daughter Charity Veals her heirs executors administrators and assigns to whom I hereby give and devise the same except all that messuage or tenement now in the possession of Thomas Forse which is hereinafter by me bequeathed unto my grandson Henry Veals
Provided always nevertheless and my will and mind is that from an immediately after the several deceases of my said wife Mary and my said daughter Charity that they my said trustees or the survivor of them his heirs executors administrators or assigns shall stand possessed of all that my said messuage and tenement in possession of Thomas Forse in trust for my grandson Henry Veals his heirs executors administrators or assigns to whom I give and devise the same
And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Joseph Davey and Joseph Pannell trustees and executors in trust of this my Will provided also and my will and mind further is and I do hereby order and direct that they said Joseph Davey and Joseph Pannell their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall be charged and chargeable only for such monies as they shall respectively and actually receive by virtue of the trust herein by them reposed and that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the other of them or for the acts deeds defaults disbursements or misbehaviour of the other of them notwithstanding either them shall join in any receipts for conformity but each of them for the acts deeds receipts defaults and disbursements of himself only and lastly that my said trustees their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall and may by and out of the monies which shall come to their or either of their hands by virtue of the trust aforesaid retain and reimburse themselves and himself all costs charges management expenses which they or either them shall or may suffer expend and disburse or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts hereby in them reposed in relation thereunto
In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament comprising in or written on three sheets of paper affixed and sealed together set my hand to the first two sheets thereof and my hand and seal to this third sheet and last this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven Henry Williams
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Henry Williams the testator as and for and to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses hereto in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
William Staddon Fras Poole Henry Hill