11-1291-0621_RichardThomason_1797

This is the last will and testament of me, Richard THOMASON of Houghton in the parish of Worfield in the County of Salop, Gentleman, made the twenty-fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one (1791). First, I desire to be decently buried at the discretion of my executrix herein after named, and that my just debts and funeral expenses may be paid and discharged with all convenient speed after my decease, and to that end I do hereby charge all my real and personal estates with the payment thereof also I give and bequeath unto George Timmins of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Button and Buckle Maker, and John Corbett the younger of Great Sholesley in the County of Worcester, Gentleman, all my ready money and money out upon securities, upon trust to permit my wife, Jane THOMASON and her assigns to receive take and enjoy the interest, dividends and produce thereof during the term of her natural life, and from and after her decease upon trust by and out of the said trust monies to pay the several legacies hereinafter given to the respective persons and at the time hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) to my brother Edward THOMASON the sum of one guinea; to John THOMASON son of the said Edward Thomason the sum of five hundred pounds; to Elizabeth COVEY, a daughter of the said Edward Thomason, the sum of one hundred pounds; to Sarah THOMASON, another daughter of the said Edward Thomason, the sum of one hundred pounds, to Ann THOMASON, another daughter of the said Edward Thomason, the sum of one hundred pounds; to Edward THOMASON the Younger, another son of my said brother Edward Thomason, the sum of one hundred pounds; to James THOMASON, another son of my said brother, the sum of one hundred pounds; to Mary PICKARD, a Granddaughter of my said brother, the sum of one hundred pounds; to the said George Timmins and John Corbett the sum of two hundred pounds apiece; to my wife’s nephew, William Webb LANE of Wordsley in the County of (blank), Baker, the sum of two hundred pounds; to Mary Corbett, the younger sister of the said John Corbett, the sum of one hundred pounds; to Benjamin Bowston, who lives with the aforementioned George Timmins at Birmingham aforesaid, the sum of two hundred pounds; to Sarah Bowston, sister to the said Benjamin Bowston, the sum of four hundred pounds; to John Noxon LANE, son of Mr John Noxon Lane late of Birmingham aforesaid, deceased, the sum of one hundred pounds, and to James LANE, another son of the said John Noxon Lane deceased, the like sum of one hundred pounds; and I do hereby direct that all the before mentioned legacies shall be paid unto the respective legatees aforesaid, at the end of two years after the decease of my said wife with interest for the same respectively after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum to be computed from the death of my said wife until the same shall be paid, and in case all or any of the legatees aforesaid shall happen to die in the lifetime of my said wife, then I do hereby direct that the legacy or legacies of him or her or them so dying shall be considered as lapsed and become a part of the residuum of my personal estate hereinafter bequeathed, and that the respective legacies so given to such of the legatees as shall survive my said wife shall be considered as vested legacies immediately upon her decease although not to be paid till the end of two years afterwards, and subject to the payment of the aforesaid legacies, I give and bequeath all the aforementioned trust monies unto my said wife, Jane Thomason, her executors and administrators absolutely forever, and as concerning all my real estates whatsoever and wheresoever, and all the rest and residue of my personal estate whatsoever, I do hereby give, divide and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said wife, Jane Thomason, her heirs, executors and administrators respectively, according to the nature and quality of each respective estate; and whereas the said George Timmins and his co-partner, James Timmins, are indebted to me in several sums of money, and it may be inconvenient to them to draw their money out of trade for the payment of the same at a short notice, now I do hereby declare that the said George Timmins and James Timmins or either of them shall not be called upon or have to pay out such monies as they or either of them are or shall be indebted unto me until the expiration of two years from the decease of my said wife, provided they, the said George Timmins and James Timmins, do regularly keep down and pay the interest thereof unto my said wife during her life, provided always, and I hereby declare, that my said trustees and their respective executors and administrators shall not be answerable or accountable for any more of the said trust monies than what they shall severally and actually receive, nor the one of them for the other of them, nor for the acts, deeds, receipts or defaults of the other of them, but each for his own acts, deeds, receipts and defaults only, and that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said trustees and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor (notwithstanding any legacy given to them by this my will) to deduct and reimburse themselves out of the said trust monies all such costs, charges, damages and expenses as they or either of them shall sustain, expend or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts hereby in them reposed; and, lastly, I appoint my said wife sole Executrix of this my will, hereby revoking all former wills by me heretofore made. I declare this only to be my last will and testament; in witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal and published and declared this to be my last will and testament the day and year first above written – Rich. Thomason – signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Richard Thomason as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who, at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto: Jas. Marshall, Plowden Presland, T. Baker

Proved 12^th May 1797 by Jane Thomason, Relict