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Will of William Budd, maltster, 1803
Herts RO 293 AW1
In the name of God Amen I William Budd of Winslow in the County of Bucks Malster being weak in Body but of sound Mind Memory and understanding praised be Almighty God for the same Do make Publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say I Give and Devise unto my loving wife Elizabeth Budd all and every my Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other my Real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever both Freehold and Copyhold the Copyhold parts whereof I have surrendered to the use of my last Will and Testament To Have and to Hold the same and every part thereof unto my said Wife Elizabeth and her assigns for and during the Term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease I Give and Devise the said my Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments unto my two sisters Ann the wife of Richard Ridgeway of Buckingham in the said County of Bucks Grocer and Elizabeth Budd To Hold the same and every part thereof unto them my said sisters Ann Ridgeway and Elizabeth Budd their Heirs and assigns for ever as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants I Give and bequeath unto my said wife Elizabeth all my House Plate Linnen and China and Household Effects of every sort or kind To Hold the same absolutely to her own use And as to all my ready money and Securities for money Book Debts Chattels Stock of Cattle Corn Grain Hay and Malt and all other my Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever not herein before by me given and disposed of I Give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto Thomas Deverell of Aylesbury in the said County of Bucks Grocer and Ironmonger and John Bull of Winslow aforesaid Dairyman In Trust that they the said Thomas Deverell and John Bull and the survivor of them and the Executors and administrators of such survivor do and shall as soon as may be after my Decease sell and dispose of all such parts of the said residue of my Stock Chattels Personal Estate and Effects as shall not at my death consist of ready money In Trust thereout in the first Place to pay and discharge all such just Debts as I shall owe at my Decease and my Funeral and Testamentary Expenses and then In Trust with all convenient speed to put and place out at Interest or Government or other good and sufficient Securities or Security all such sum and sums of money as shall be made of my Personal Estate and Effects after Payment of my Just Debts Funeral and Testamentary Expenses as aforesaid and I do hereby Give them full power to call all such money in and to place it out at Interest again upon other good Securities or Security as often as they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators shall see occasion or shall think proper and upon Trust to pay Interest Dividends and proceed that shall from time to time arise or be made by or from the same unto my said wife Elizabeth for and during the Term of her natural life and that her Receipt alone notwithstanding [page 2] Her future coverture shall be good and effectual discharge and good and effectual discharges both in Law and Equity from time to time to my said Trustees or the survivor of them his Executors or Administrators for the money to be paid her in pursuance of the trusts aforesaid and immediately after the decease of my said Wife Then Upon Trust to pay apply or Transfer all the money arising from the residue of my Personal Estate and Effects unto my said two Sisters Ann the Wife of Richard Ridgway and Elizabeth Budd share and share alike for their own separate use and benefit and I do nominate constitute and appoint my said wife Elizabeth Budd and the said Thomas Deverell and John Bull Executrix and Executors of this my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Testator William Budd to this my Last Will and Testament contained in two Sheets of Paper to the first Sheet thereof have set my Hand only and to this second and last my Hand and Seal the Twenty first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and three
[signed] William Budd
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said
Testator William Budd as and for his last Will
and Testament in the Presence of us who have in
his presence and at his request and in the
Presence of each other subscribed our Names
As Witnesses to the same
Lan: Wyatt
Elizabeth Jones
Oliver Mayne
Notes
William Budd was the son of Philip Budd, maltster, d.1784, and can't have been aged more than 27. He married Elizabeth Turnbull at Winslow on 13 April 1801.
William Budd's property is listed in the Court Book for 1802, when he mortgaged some of it, and 1803, when his widow Elizabeth was admitted tenant:
1. messuage or cottage in Cow Street formerly in the occupation of William Roberts and Mary Shillingford, afterwards of Richard Redding and Jane Spratley, now or late of Richard Redding and Thomas Scott
2.
messuage in Cow Street formerly in the occupation of Richard Stanneford and John Deeley and now or late of John Deeley and John Royce
To which WB was admitted by his guardian at a court on 28 & 29 Oct 1796, rents 2d and 2d.
3.
messuage in Great Horn Street formerly in the occupation of John Spooner and William Goodman, afterwards rebuilt by Thomas Cleaver and since in his occupation, late in the occupation of WB, with malting stables barns outhouses buildings orchards gardens
4.
messuage formerly in the tenure of John Rawbone and Robert Shelton, afterwards of William Gibbs, late of WB, being a bay and half of a barn situate near the street there, the messuage last mentioned being on the east and yard of Augustine Seaton on west
To which WB was admitted after a recovery suffered by him at a court on 25 & 28 Oct 1802, rents 3d & 1½d
1 & 2 seem to be what is now 36-40 High Street. William must have inherited them in 1796 from his brother Philip, to whom their father Philip left them in 1784. One of the messuages is mentioned in the will of William's grandfather John Budd (proved 1778). The property may be the one mentioned in the will of William's great-grandfather John Budd (proved 1719): "my Coppyhold Mesuage or Tenement in Winslowe aforesaid wherein I now dwell which I Purchassed of Mr Richard Bigg"
3 & 4 are now 20 Horn Street. William's father Philip bought them in 1763 and made his wife Elizabeth joint tenant in 1764. In 1802 William underwent a procedure of common recovery and then mortgaged them for £200 to Richard Seaton of Winslow, victualler.
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