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Will of Henry Hughes, yeoman, 1827 (proved 1828)
National Archives PROB 11/1739/109
This is the last Will and Testament of me Henry Hughes of Winslow in the County of Bucks Yeoman First I declare that the principal sum of one hundred pounds and eighty pounds secured by the Bond of Thomas Ingram to me . . . now in the possession of The my Brother Thomas Hughes was advanced by my said Brother out of his own proper monies and that my name was used only as a trustee for him and . . I direct my Brother to retain such Bond . . . and that the principal and interest monies due . . . may be paid to him his exors admors or assigns Also I give and bequeath unto my said Brother Thomas Hughes and James Knibbs of Salden in the Parish of Mursley . . . Dairyman all my ready money securities for money debts rights credits personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever . . . upon trust that they . . . shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease sell . . . such parts of my said personal Estate and Effects as shall not consist of money . . . for the most money . . . that can be reasonably had . . . And . . shall also call in . . . all sums of money which may be placed out at interest . . . and out of the monies to arise . . .pay all such debts as I may justly owe at the time of my decease my funeral and testamentary expences . . . and shall in the next place pay unto my Nephew Stephen Hughes Son of my Brother William Hughes the legacy . . . of nineteen Guineas . . . and direct the same may be paid unto him within twelve calendar Months next after my decease . . . and shall place . . .out the Residue of my personal Estate and Effects or the monies arising therefrom . . . at interest in their . . . own names on Mortgage or Government . . Securities as they my said Trustees . . . may deem most proper (with power . . . to call in and replace . . . alter and vary . . . such Securities) and shall stand possessed of and interested in such . . .Securities upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned . . . as to the principal sum of one hundred pounds . . . part of the monies so to be placed out . . . and the securities . . .upon . . . which the same shall be . . invested . . . that . . . Thomas Hughes and James Knibbs . . . shall . . as the interest . . . of the principal sum . . . shall . . . be received by them . . . pay the same unto my said Brother William Hughes . . . during the term of his natural life . . . And . . . immediately after his decease . . . to call in the principal sum of one hundred pounds an all accumulations thereof (if any) and to . . divide the same . . . among all . . . the Sons and Daughters of . . . William Hughes who shall be living at the time of his decease equally . . . And as to the residue of the money so to be placed out . . . that . . . Thomas Hughes and James Knibbs . . . shall . . . as the interest . . . of the principal sum . . . shall . . . be received by them . . pay the same unto my said Brother Thomas Hughes . . . during the term of his natural life . . . . And . . . after his decease in like manner to pay the last mentioned interest . . . to Ann the Wife of . . . Thomas Hughes . . . during her natural life (if she shall survive her said husband) And . . . immediately after the decease of Thomas Hughes and Ann his Wife . . . to call in the said last mentioned monies and all accumulations thereof (if any) and to . . . pay the same unto my Nephew Thomas Hughes (Son of my said Brother Thomas Hughes) for his own use and benefit . . . And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Brother Thomas Hughes and James Knibbs joint Executors . . . of this my last Will and Testament provided always that [they] shall be charged . . . only with such monies as they . . . shall actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed nor shall they be . . . accountable for any Banker or Broker or any person with whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust monies . . . may be deposited . . . for safe custody or otherwise in the execution of any of the said trusts . . . nor for the insufficiency or deficiency of any . . . securities Stocks or Funds in which the . . .trust monies . . . shall be placed out nor for any loss which may happen . . . except the same shall . . . arise by or through their own wilful default . . . and that the one of them shall not be . . accountable for the other . . . notwithstanding they . . . shall join in any receipt for conformity but each of them for the acts deeds defaults receipts and disbursements of himself only and also that they . . . may . . . out of the monies . . . which . . . may come to . . . their hands . . . retain . . . all costs . . . and expenses . . . which . . . either . . . may sustain in or about the execution . . . of any of the trusts hereby reposed in them . . . And I do hereby revoke and make void all former Wills by me heretofore made and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I the said [deletion] Henry Hughes the testator have to the first two sheets of my last Will and Testament contained in three sheets of paper set my hand only and to this third and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
Henry Hughes [signature]
Signed sealed published and declared by me the said Henry Hughes the testator as and for my last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as Witnesses thereof
Fred: Willis [signature] Penelope Hall [signature]
Proved at London 11th April 1828 before the Judge on the oaths of Thomas Hughes Brother and James Knibbs the Executors to whom adm(inistrati)on was granted having first been sworn by Com(missi)on duly to administer
Henry Hughes was buried at Winslow in 1827 aged 67. He must have been a tenant farmer but there is no further information about where he lived.
The manor court book for 1831 records that Thomas Hughes of Bottle Claydon labourer & James Knibbs of Salden dairyman on 3 Nov last acknowledged to have received of George Mayne victualler, carpenter & joiner the principal sum of £200 under a conditional surrender of 26 March 1828. This must have been an investment of Henry's money.