Alexander Greaves 1835

This is the last Will and Testament of Alexander Greaves of Haversham in the County of Bucks Gentleman of which I nominate constitute and appoint my friends Henry Holton and John Chandler both of Tryingham in the said County of Bucks Yeoman Executors I give and bequeath unto my wife Mary All so much and such part and parts of my Furniture Plate Linen China Wine and other liquors and Household Goods as she shall choose to take for her own use and I give and bequeath All the Rest and Residue of my furniture plate linen china wines and other liquors and household goods And all my Farming Stock Crops Cattle Implements monies securities for money and all other my Personal Estate Goods Chattels and Effects whatsoever and whensoever unto the said Henry Holton and John Chandler Upon trust to sell dispose of and convert the same into money therewith and thereby to pay satisfy and discharge All my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and that legacies hereafter given and bequeathed that is to say unto my Niece Louisa Greaves one thousand five hundred pounds and unto my Niece Lavinia Greaves one thousand five hundred pounds unto the Widow of my late Brother Robert Greaves one hundred pounds unto my Wife’s niece Sarah Neville five hundred pounds unto my nephew Thomas Greaves one hundred pounds unto my nephew Edmund Greaves one hundred pounds unto search of the Children of my Nephew John Greaves as shall be living at the time of my decease one hundred pounds each unto my Wifes Great Niece Frances Greaves Neville two hundred pounds unto my Wife’s Sister Mrs Damper one hundred pounds unto my old Servant David Beck forty pounds And unto the said Henry Holton and John Chandler my said Executors and unto my friends John Gibbins of John Street Commercial Road London Gentleman and John Scott of Haversham aforesaid Yeoman twenty Guineas each I give and devise all my messuages farms and lands in Haversham aforesaid And all other my real Estate whatsoever unto the said John Gibbins and John Scott their heirs and assigns to hold to the same to the uses following (that is to say) To the use of the said John Gibbins and John Scott their executors administrators and assigns for and during and unto the full end and term of ninety nine years to commence and be computed from the time of my decease without impediment of waste Upon the trust and to and for the intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisos and declarations hereinafter declared or expressed with respect thereto And from and after the end expiration or other sooner determination of the same term And in the same time subject thereto and to the trusts thereof To the use of the said Henry Holton and John Chandler their executors administrators and assigns for and during and unto the full end and term of Five hundred years without impeachment of waste Upon the trusts and to and for the several intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisos intentions and declarations herein after expressed with respect thereto And from and after the end expiration or other sooner defemination of the said term of ninety nine years and five hundred years respectively and in the meantime subject there to respectively to the use of my Nephew William Greaves son of my late brother John Greaves his heirs and assigns for ever And I do hereby declare that the said term of ninety nine years hereinbefore limited in use to the said John Gibbins and John Scott is to limited to them and that they and the survivor of them and the executors and  administrators of such survivor shall stand and be possessed of and interested in the same term and the hereditaments therein comprized upon the trusts and to and for the intents and purposes hereinafter declared and expressed of and containing the same that is to say In trust by mortgage or other disposition of the hereditaments comprised in the said term of ninety nine years or a competent part thereof or by and out of the rents issues and profits thereof or by any of the said ways and means or by any other such ways and means as to the said John Gibbins and John Scott or the survivor of them his executors or administrators shall seem meet to levy cause and pay by even and equal quantity payments or portions one Annuity or clear yearly sum of two hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain unto my said Wife Mary for and during the term of her natural life free from all deductions whatsoever on the sixth day of April the sixth ay of July the tenth day of October and the sixth day of January in each year after the first payment thereof to be made on such of the said days as shall next happen after my decease with appropriate part of the said Annuity up to the day of the decease of my Wife Mary Greaves And I do hereby declare that the said term of five hundred years hereinbefore limited in use to the said Henry Holton and John Chandler as aforesaid is so limited to them and that they and the survivor of them and the executors and the administrators of such survivor shall stand and be possessed and interested in the said term of five hundred years and the hereditaments therein comprised Upon the trusts and to and for the intents and purposes hereinafter declared and expressed of and concerning the same (that is to say) In case my Personal Estate not hereby separately bequeathed shall not be sufficient to pay and satisfy all my bequeathed Upon trust that they the said Henry Holton and John Chandler the survivor of them or the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor shall and do by Mortgage sale or other disposition of all or any part of the hereditaments comprised in the said term of five hundred years for all or any part of the same term or by such other ways or means as to them or him shall seem meet levy out raise such sum or sums of money as will be sufficient to answer and make good such the defraying of my Personal Estate as aforesaid And shall and do pay and apply such sum or sums of money accordingly And I do hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of the said John Gibbins John Scott Henry Holton and John Chandler or the trustees for the time being acting under or in execution of the trust of the said terms of Ninety nine years and five hundred years respectively shall be good and effectual discharges for the monies which may arise from the sale of mortgage of any part of the hereditament comprised in the said terms of ninety nine years and five hundred years respectively and for the rents and profits of the same hereditaments or for so much of such monies rent and profits as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed or acknowledge to be received And the person or persons paying any such money rents or profits as aforesaid shall not after having obtained such receipt for the same as aforesaid be obliged to see to the application nor be answerable for any loss in application or unapplication of the same or any part thereof nor shall any purchase or mortgage be bound or ascertain or enquire into the deficiency of any personal Estate or otherwise into the necessity or propriety of any sale or sales mortgage or mortgages which shall be made by the trustees or trustee for the time being acting under or in execution of the trusts of the said terms of ninety nine years and five hundred years respectively divided always and I do hereby direct that when the trusts hereinbefore declared of and concerning the said terms of ninety nine years and five hundred years respectively shall have been performed or satisfied or shall have become unnecessary  or impactable  of taking effect and the costs and charges of the trustees or trustee of the same terms in and about the performance of the same trusts shall have been fully paid and satisfied and which they are hereby authorised and empowered to levy and are by all or any of the ways and means aforesaid and to .ean. accordingly then and immediately thereforth the said terms of ninety nine years and five hundred years and in the premises therein comprised or so much thereof shall remain and undisposed of for the purposes aforesaid shall cease determine and be absolutely void to all intents and purposes Provided always and I do hereby declare that in case the said trustees hereinbefore named or any of them  or any succeeding trustees or trustee to be nominated and appointed as hereinafter mentioned shall happen to die or be desirous to be discharged from or decline or become incapable to act under or in execution of the trusts of this my Will before the same trusts shall be fully performed or satisfied then and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful for the surviving or continuing or other trustee or trustees of the said trust promote for the time being the trustees or trustee of which shall so die or desire to be discharged or decline or become incapable to act as aforesaid (they or he are or is hereby directed so to forthwith as soon as conveniently may be after the same shall happen) by some deed or writing under their or his hands and seals or hand and seal to nominate substitute and appoint any other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the place or stead of the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid And that when and so often as any such trustee or trustees shall be nominated as aforesaid all the trust premises respectively  the trustees or trustee of which shall so die desire to be discharged decline or become incapable to act as aforesaid shall thereupon with all convenient speed be conveyed transferred or assigned in such manner as that the same may be legally and effectually vested in the newly appointed trustees or trustee jointly with the former or continuing trustee of the trust premises or in case there shall be no continuing former trustee then such newly appointed trustee or trustees only upon and for the several trust intents and purposes hereinbefore expressed and declared of and concerning the trust premises respectively the trustee or trustees whereof shall so die desire to be discharged or decline or become incapable to act as aforesaid and that such new trustee or trustees shall and may in all respects act and assist in the carrying on and execution of the trusts to which he or they shall be so appointed as fully and effectually and with all such powers & authorities whatsoever as if such new trustee or trustees had been originally by me appointed and as the trustee and trustees in or to whose place he or they shall come or succeed might do or could have done under or by virtue of this my Will Nevertheless I do hereby declare my Will and mind to be that any new trustee or trustees to be appointed in the place or stead of the said John Gibbins and John Scott or either of them shall be so appointed with the consent in writing of my said Wife if living And I do hereby also direct and declare that my said trustees or the trustees or trustee to be appointed in pursuant of the said lastly mentioned power in the execution of this my Will or either of them shall not be answerable for the Acts Deeds receipts or defaults of each other but each of them for his own Acts deeds receipts and defaults only notwithstanding their joining in receipts for the sake of conformity and that they or any of them shall not be answerable for any loss which may happen to the said trust premises unless the same shall happen by or through their own wilful neglect or defaults respectively and that my trustees and executors and every of them shall and may by and out of the monies which shall come to their hands by virtue of this my Will reimburse themselves respectively and allow to his and their Co trustee or Co trustees or Co Executor all such loss costs charges and expences as they respectively shall or may suffer pay sustain or incur in or about the execution of this my Will or the trusts thereof or in relation thereto In Witness whereof I the said testator Alexander Greaves have to this my last Will and Testament contained in or written on five sheets of paper set my hand and seal that is to say to the first four sheet my hand only and to the fifth and last sheet my hand and seal this twenty third day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Alex Greaves Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator as and for and to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Hy Lucas William Powell Benj ypm. 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Proved at London the 30^th April 1835 before the Judge by the Oaths of Henry Holton and John Chandler the Executors to whom Admon was granted having first sworn by Common only to administer.