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Will of William Judge of Shipton, dairyman, 1830 (proved 1832)
Herts RO 265AW5
This is the last Will and Testament of me William Judge the elder of Shipton in the parish of Winslow in the County of Bucks dairyman First I give and bequeath unto my Wife Mary Judge for her absolute use and benefit all her remaining Apparel of every kind and also such parts of my linen household goods and effects as she may make choice of not exceeding in value the sum of twenty pounds Also I Give and bequeath unto my friends John Morecraft of Winslow aforesaid Butcher and Edward Gray of the same place Blacksmith all my Farming stock both alive and dead implements in Husbandry dairy utensils ready money and securities for money the residue of my linen household Goods and Furniture and all other my rights credits chattels personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same may be which I may die possessed of interested in or intitled unto and over which I have a disposing power and not hereinbefore by me otherwise disposed of To hold the same and every part thereof and all my estate and interest therein and thereto unto the said John Morecraft and Edward Gray their Executors Administrators and assigns Upon trust nevertheless that they the said John Morecraft and Edward Gray or the Survivor of them his executors administratiors or assigns do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease sell and absolutely dispose of my said farming stock implements in husbandry dairy utensils and other the residue of my personal estate and effects or such parts thereof as shall not consist of money and securities for money and shall be saleable for the most money and best price that can be reasonably had or obtained for the same and also collect and get in all some and sums of money which may be due and owing to me at the time of my decease And by and out of the monies to arise by such sale and disposition and to be collected and got in as aforesaid and my ready money do and shall pay and discharge all costs charges and expences of and attending such sale and disposition and the collecting and getting in of the said sums of money and all such debts as I may justly owe at the time of my Decease my funeral and testamentary Expences And upon further trust that they the said John Morecraft and Edward Gray or the survivor of them his executors administrators or assigns do and shall put and place out at interest what shall be and remain of the monies to arise as aforesaid after answering the several purposes
[p.2] hereinbefore mentioned in their or his own names or name on Government or good mortgaged Security (with full power from time to time to call in and again place out the same on any new or other securities as often as may be necessary or as they or he shall think proper) And do and shall pay and dispose of the interest dividends and produce of the monies [deletion] so to be placed out as aforesaid as and when the same shall become due and payable to my said wife Mary Judge or permit and suffer her to receive the same during the term of her natural life to whom I do hereby give and bequeath the same accordingly (she my said wife supporting and maintaining my daughter Elizabeth Judge as long as she shall remain single and unmarried) And do and shall as conveniently may be after the decease of my said wife Mary Judge call in and receive the monies so to be placed out as aforesaid with all accumulations thereof and pay and divide the same unto and amongst my Sons and Daughters William Judge Thomas Judge Sarah the wife of Joseph Briant Mary the wife of Richard Gray and Elizabeth Judge equally part and share alike (except that as I have already advanced my said Daughter Sarah Briant the sum of twenty pounds I direct that the same may be deducted out of her share of the aforesaid monies) And which said monies I do hereby accordingly give and bequeath unto my said Sons and Daughter William Judge Thomas Judge Sarah Briant Mary Gray and Elizabeth Judge from and after the decease of my said Wife Mary Judge I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said John Morecraft and Edward Gray joint Executors in trust of this my last Will and Testament Provided always and my will and meaning is that the said John Morecraft and Edward Gray their Executors administrators and assigns shall respectively be charged and chargeable only with and for such monies as they or he shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed and that he they or either of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any Banker or Broker or other person with whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust monies shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe custody or otherwise in the execution of any of the said trusts hereinbefore mentioned or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any securities stocks or funds or upon which the said trust monies or any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor for any loss which may happen to the aforesaid trust monies and premises except the same shall happen or arise by or through their own wilful defaults respectively and that the
[p.3] one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the other of them or for the acts deeds defaults receipts or disbursements of the other of them notwithstanding them joining in any receipt for conformity but each of them for the acts deeds and defaults receipts and disbursements of himself only And also that they the said John Morecraft and Edward Gray their Executors Administrators and assigns shall and may by and out of the monies which shall come to their or his hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid retain to and reimburse themselves and himself all costs charges damages and expenses which they or he shall or may suffer sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution or management of all or any of the trusts hereby reimposed in them or in respect thereof or thereto And lastly I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other Wills by me heretofore made and declared this only to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I the said William Judge the elder and Testator have to the first two sheets of this my last Will and Testament contained on three sheets of paper set my hand only and to this the third and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this thirty first day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty
[signed] Wm Judge
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said William Judge the elder and Testator as and for 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 thereof the interlineation between the eighth and ninth lines of the second sheet being first made
Dav Th Willis Atty Winslow
Samuel Cater his clerk
Archdeaconry of Saint Alban The first day of February 1832
John Morecraft and Edward Gray the Executors in this Will named were duly sworn as such and that the personal estate of the testator doth not amount to in the whole to the sum of eight hundred pounds to the best of their knowledge and belief
Before me James Preedy
Surrogate
Notes
William Judge lived at Red Hall Farm from about 1816. He was a tenant of the Selby-Lowndes estate. Previously he lived at Swanbourne and then Little Horwood, where Elizabeth was baptised in 1804. He was buried at Little Horwood in 1831, aged 74, followed by Mary in 1842 aged 79. Mary and Elizabeth were living in Winslow at 2 Church Street in 1841.
In 1828 William's daughter Mary married Richard Gray at Winslow.