Will of Robert Robinson
Occupation
- 414: Status only, no stated occupation. Use for Widow, Gentleman, Esquire, Indweller etc., if no occupation is given.
Location
Gentleman of Henley upon Thames
| Document reference: | TNA PROB 11/670 |
| First date: | 11 January 1732/3 |
| Probate date: | 18 April 1735 |
| Probate court: | London |
Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.
| Witness: | Rob[er]t Undarwood |
| (Witness to Will only) | |
| Witness: | Edw[ar]d Rockall |
| (Witness to both will and codicil) | |
| Witness: | Jona[than] Sayer |
| (Witness to both will and codicil) | |
| Witness: | Joseph Flight |
| (Witness to codicil only) | |
| Court Official: | John Bettesworth |
| Executor: | Thomas Blagrave |
| (Jointly with John Hume) | |
| Executor: | John Hume |
| (Jointly with Thomas Blagrave) |
Bequests
To: Joan Robinson (Wife)
To my wife Joan for her life my property and farm in the parishes of Whitchurch and Goring or one of them in the county of Oxfordshire and also all my property in the aforesaid parishes of Whitchurch and Goring or one of them lately purchased from John Clarke and others; and my property with the granaries gardens now in my possession in Market Place Henley. After her death to Robert Lovegrove son of kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove. During her life the property to be charged with payment of £10 annually to be paid half yearly in equal amounts to my Executors to be used to maintain Robert Lovegrove.
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: Joan Robinson (Wife)
To my wife Joan a cottage in Purley, Berkshire, now in occupation of one Guteridge
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Location of property
Names
To: Joan Robinson (Wife)
To my wife Joan twenty pounds; and the use of my household goods, implements, furniture and plate for her life and after her death to Robert Lovegrove on condition he pays my cousin John Bates' son seventy pounds
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Names
To: Elizabeth Lovegrove (Kinswoman)
To my Executors and to the survivor of them, and to the executors and administrators of the survivor of them all my property at the upper end of Butcher Row, Henley, now in the possession of John Lovegrove, husband of kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove, to use the income of the property for her sole benefit and use of her as she directs (but not into the hands of her husband) and after her death to John Lovegrove the younger son of Elizabeth Lovegrove forever
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Location of property
Names
To: Catharine Bates (Sister)
To my sister Catharine Bates ten pounds
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Names
To: Children of Robert Bates (Cousin)
To the children of my cousin Robert Bates alive at my death ten pounds each out of the money he owes me
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To: Mary Sayer (God daughter)
To my God daughter Mary Sayer five guineas
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To: the poor
To the poor who are not receiving alms at my death thirty shillings to be given to them in bread by me Executors or their order
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To: Maid servant (Servant)
To the maid servant who lives with me at the time of my death five pounds to buy her mourning
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To: Thomas Blagrave; John Hume
To my executors (my very good friends) Thomas Blagrave (of Reading, gentleman) and John Hume (of Henley apothecary and chirurgeon) five guineas each for their trouble in undertaking the Trust and also to take any costs, expenses, damages and travelling expenses incurred in the execution of the will from my personal estate
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Names
To: Joan Robinson (Wife)
To my wife Joan the residue of my estate
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Names
To: John Lovegrove (God son)
To my God son John Lovegrove, son of Elizabeth Lovegrove, five guineas
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Names
To: Robert Lovegrove (Great nephew)
My properties in Goring, Whitchurch and Henley will be charged with the payment of an annuity of ten pounds per annum payable in equal half yearly payments to be paid by my executors to maintain Robert Lovegrove
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To: John Bates (Kinsman)
I give the legacies of thirty pounds and forty pounds bequeathed to the now late John Bates to my kinsman John Bates his only son.
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Transcript
| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen |
| 0002: | I Robert Robinson of Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxon Gent[leman] |
| 0003: | being willing to settle my Temporal affairs Do make publish and declare |
| 0004: | this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following And |
| 0005: | first and principally I commend my Soul into the hands of God |
| 0006: | Almighty who gave it me hoping through the merits and mediation |
| 0007: | of my Lord and Savivour Jesus Christ to have remission of all my Sins |
| 0008: | and to be made pertaker of everlasting life And my body I committ |
| 0009: | to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors |
| 0010: | hereinafter named And as for my worldly Estate I dispose thereof as |
| 0011: | followeth Imprimis my Will is that my Executors shall lay out the |
| 0012: | sume of sixty pounds in [↑my] Funeral Expences as near as may be but not |
| 0013: | more Item I give unto my dear wife Joan Robinson All that my |
| 0014: | Messuage or Tenement and Farm with the Lands Hereditaments and |
| 0015: | other appurtenances to the same belonging Scituate lying and being |
| 0016: | in the parishes of Whitchurch and Goring or one of them in the said |
| 0017: | County of Oxon And also all those [↑my] Lands Tenements and Hereditaments |
| 0018: | Scituate and lying ..... in the aforesaid parishes of Whitchurch and |
| 0019: | Goring or one of them which I lately bought and purchased of John |
| 0020: | Clarke and others And also all that Messuage or Tenement with the |
| 0021: | Grainarys Gardens and other appurtenances to the same belonging |
| 0022: | now in my own possession Scituate and being in the Market Place in |
| 0023: | Henley upon Thames aforesaid To have and to hold the said Messuages |
| 0024: | or Tenements Lands Hereditaments and premisses with their appurten[an]ces |
| 0025: | unto my said Wife and her Assigns for and during the Term of |
| 0026: | her natural Life (Subject nevertheless to the provisoe hereinafter |
| 0027: | contained) and from and immediately after the decease of my said |
| 0028: | Wife I doe hereby give and devise my said Messuages or Tenem[en]ts |
| 0029: | farm Lands and Hereditaments with their appurtenances unto Robert |
| 0030: | Lovegrove Son of my Kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove and to his |
| 0031: | heirs and assignes for ever Item I give unto my said Wife all my |
| 0032: | Estate right Title and Interest whatsoever of in and to a cottage or |
| 0033: | Tenement with the appurtenances Scituate and being in Purley in the |
| 0034: | County of Berks and now in the Occupation of one Guteridge Item |
| 0035: | I give unto my said Wife the sume of Twenty pounds and my Will |
| 0036: | is that my said Wife shall have the use of all my household Goods |
| 0037: | for and during the Term of her natural life Item I give and devise |
| 0038: | unto my Executors hereinafter named and [↑to] the Survivor of them |
| 0039: | and to the Executors and Administrators of the Survivor of them all |
| 0040: | that my Messuage or Tenement with the Appurtenances Scituate |
| 0041: | and being at the upper End of the Butcher Row in Henley upon |
| 0042: | Thames aforesaid and now in the possession of John Lovegrove |
| 0043: | Husband of my said Kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove To hold |
| 0044: | the said last mentioned Messuage or Tenement with the Appurten[an]ces |
| 0045: | unto my said Executors and the Survivor of them and the Executor |
| 0046: | and Administrator of the Survivor of them for and during the |
| 0047: | natural life of my said Kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove To the |
| 0048: | Intent and purpose that my said Executors and the Survivor of |
| 0049: | them and the Executor and Administrator of the Survivor of them |
| 0050: | shall receive and take the Rents Issues and profitts of the said last |
| 0051: | mentioned Messuage or Tenement with the appurtenances for and |
| 0052: | during the Term of the natural life of my said Kinswoman Elizabeth |
| 0053: | Lovegrove and from time to time pay the same into the proper hands |
| 0054: | of my said Kinswoman or as she shall direct or appoint (but not into |
| 0055: | the hands of the said John Lovegrove nor as he shall direct or appoint) |
| 0056: | to and for the sole peculiar and seperate use benefit and disposall of |
| 0057: | my said Kinswoman and wherewith the said John Lovegrove shall |
| 0058: | not intermeddle or have any thing to do and from and im[m]ediately |
| 0059: | after the decease of my said Kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove I do |
| 0060: | hereby give my said last mentioned Messuage or Tenement with the |
| 0061: | Appurtenances unto John Lovegrove the [↑next] younger son of my said |
| 0062: | Kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove and to his heirs and assignes |
| 0063: | for ever Item I give to my Sister Catharine Bates the sume of |
| 0064: | Ten pounds Item I give to my Cosin Robert Bates Children that |
| 0065: | shall be living at the time of my decease the sume of Ten pounds a |
| 0066: | peice and my will is the same shall be paid out of the money that |
| 0067: | the said Robert Bates now owes unto me and no other wise Item I give |
| 0068: | to my Kinsman John Bates the sume of Forty pounds and to my Cousin |
| 0069: | his Son the sume of Thirty pounds Item I give to my cousin William |
| 0070: | Bates the sume of Thirty pounds which he now owes me upon Bond and |
| 0071: | do order my Executors to deliver up the Bond for the same to him who is |
| 0072: | to give my Executors a proper discharge for the said Legacy Item I give to |
| 0073: | my God daughter Mary Sayer five Guineas Item I give to such of the poor |
| 0074: | of Henley aforesaid who shall not receive almes at my decease the sume |
| 0075: | of Thirty shillings to be given to them in Bread by my Executors or their order |
| 0076: | Item I Release and discharge my Kinswoman Mrs Sweasland the |
| 0077: | half sister of my late Cousin Clement Leaver deceased to whom she |
| 0078: | was Executrix or Administratrix of the sume of Forty pounds due |
| 0079: | to me on Note from the said Clement Leaver she releasing and |
| 0080: | discharging my Executors of all moneys due or pretended to be due |
| 0081: | from me to him All which said Legacies my Will is shall be paid |
| 0082: | within six months next after my decease in case my Executors shall |
| 0083: | so soon gett in money sufficient to pay and discharge the same |
| 0084: | otherwise so soon as they shall so do Item I give to my Maid servant |
| 0085: | who shall live with me at the time of my decease five pounds to buy |
| 0086: | her mourning Item I constitute and appoint my very good Friends |
| 0087: | Thomas Blagrave of Reading in the County of Berks Gentleman |
| 0088: | and John Hume of Henley upon Thames aforesaid appothecary |
| 0089: | and Chirurgeon full and joynt Executors of this my last Will and |
| 0090: | Testament and I do give unto each of them [↑the sume of] five Guineas for their |
| 0091: | trouble and pains in undertaking and acting in the Trust hereby |
| 0092: | reposed in them and my will is that my said Executors shall and may |
| 0093: | be saved harmless and Kept indempnified and deduct and keep to |
| 0094: | themselves by and out of the residue of my personal Estate All such |
| 0095: | Costs Damages and Expences whatsoever which they or either of them |
| 0096: | shall layout pay sustain or be put unto for or by reason or means |
| 0097: | of this my will or the Trust hereby reposed in them or the Execution |
| 0098: | thereof or any thing relating thereunto and for their Journeys and |
| 0099: | trouble and that they shall not be answerable or accountable for |
| 0100: | any more than they shall actually respectively receive nor the one |
| 0101: | for the other nor with or for the act deed receipt payment or default of |
| 0102: | each other but for their respective acts deeds receipts payments and |
| 0103: | defaults only Item I give to the said Robert Lovegrove from and |
| 0104: | im[m]ediately after my said Wifes decease All my Household Goods and |
| 0105: | Implements [↑and] furniture of household and all my plate whatsoever |
| 0106: | But upon this Condition that he pays to my Cosin John Bates the |
| 0107: | Sume of Thirty pounds within Three months next after my |
| 0108: | Wifes decease which I do hereby give unto him and do subject and |
| 0109: | charge the said Goods and plate with the payment thereof accordingly |
| 0110: | provided always and my Will and mind is that my said Wife shall yearly |
| 0111: | and every year after my decease for and during the term of her natural |
| 0112: | life well and truly pay or Cause to be paid unto my said Executors or |
| 0113: | the survivor of them or the Executor or Administrator of the Survivor |
| 0114: | of them the sume of Ten pounds (free and clear of Taxes) out of my |
| 0115: | Messuages Farm Lands Hereditaments and premisses herein before |
| 0116: | devised to her which I do hereby Subject make lyable and Charge |
| 0117: | to and with the payment thereof by half yearly payments on Lady |
| 0118: | Day and Michaelmas Day by equall portions the first payment thereof |
| 0119: | to begin and be made on such of the said days as shall first and next |
| 0120: | happen after my decease which said sume of Ten pounds my Will is shall |
| 0121: | be paid and applyed by my said Executors for and towards the maintenance |
| 0122: | and support of the said Robert Lovegrove till the decease of my said Wife |
| 0123: | any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise |
| 0124: | Notwithstanding Item I give to such persons as I shall nominate |
| 0125: | in any list or Note at the time of my decease a mourning Gold ring |
| 0126: | a peice Item all the rest residue and remainder of my Goods Chattels |
| 0127: | and personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever (after my Debts |
| 0128: | Legacies and Funeral Expences are paid and discharged) I give |
| 0129: | and devise the same unto my said Wife I revoke all Wills by me |
| 0130: | heretofore made or published and declare this to be my last Will and |
| 0131: | Testament only and Lastly my Will and desire is and I do hereby |
| 0132: | Charge and require that the said Robert Lovegrove im[m]ediately after |
| 0133: | my decease shall take upon him and constantly use the sirname of |
| 0134: | Robinson instead of Lovegrove And in Testimony that this Writing |
| 0135: | containing Four sheets of paper (fixed together) is and contains my |
| 0136: | last Will and Testament I the said Robert Robinson have to each sheet |
| 0137: | set my hand and seal the Eleventh day of January in the Sixth year of |
| 0138: | the reigne of King George the Second etc Annoq[ue] D[omi]ni 1732. Item |
| 0139: | I further give unto my Kinsman John Lovegrove son of my said |
| 0140: | Kinswoman Elizabeth Lovegrove five Guineas [↑as] I was his Godfather |
| 0141: | |
| 0142: | Rob[er]t Robinson |
| 0143: | |
| 0144: | Signed Sealed published and declared by the Testator |
| 0145: | Robert Robinson as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence |
| 0146: | of us who Subscribe our Names in the presence of the said Testator |
| 0147: | |
| 0148: | Rob[er]t Undarwood |
| 0149: | Edw[ar]d Rockall |
| 0150: | Jona[than] Sayer |
| 0151: | |
| 0152: | I Robert Robinson of Henley upon Thames |
| 0153: | in the County of Oxon Gentleman having made my Last Will and |
| 0154: | Testament in Writing bearing date on or about the Eleventh day of |
| 0155: | January 1732 and being desirous to make some alterations therein |
| 0156: | Do make publish and declare this to be a Codicil of and to my said Will, |
| 0157: | And whereas I have in and by my said Will given to my Kinsman |
| 0158: | John Bates the sume of Forty pounds And whereas I have given |
| 0159: | to my Kinsman Robert Lovegrove after my Wifes decease All my |
| 0160: | Household Goods and Implements and Furniture of Household and |
| 0161: | all my plate whatsoever But upon Condition that he pays to my [↑said] Cosin |
| 0162: | John Bates the sume of Thirty pounds within Three months next |
| 0163: | after my Wifes decease which I have thereby given to him and subjected |
| 0164: | the said Goods Chattels and plate with the Payment thereof And |
| 0165: | Whereas the said John Bates is lately dead Now therefore I do |
| 0166: | hereby revoke and disannull the said several Legacies of Forty |
| 0167: | pounds and Thirty [↑pounds] in and by my said Will given or appointed to |
| 0168: | be paid to the said John Bates and do hereby give and bequeath |
| 0169: | the said Legacies of Thirty pounds and Forty pounds unto my |
| 0170: | Kinsman John Bates the only son of the said John Bates deceased |
| 0171: | to be paid unto him at such respective times and in such manner |
| 0172: | as the same are respectively appointed to be paid to the said John |
| 0173: | Bates his said late father deceased in and by my said Will |
| 0174: | And Whereas I have in and by my said Will given to my |
| 0175: | Kinsman William Bates the sume of Thirty pounds which he |
| 0176: | then owed to me upon Bond and have also ordered my Executors |
| 0177: | to deliver up the said Bond to him Now I do hereby revoke the |
| 0178: | said Gift of the said Thirty pounds to the said William Bates |
| 0179: | having already delivered up to him the - - Bond for the said Thirty |
| 0180: | pounds and forgiven him the same sum[m]e All other matters |
| 0181: | and things in my said Will contained and not herein or hereby or |
| 0182: | by any other Codicil to my said Will revoked or altered I do hereby |
| 0183: | ratifye and confirm In Testimony whereof I the said Robert |
| 0184: | Robinson have to this Writing (which I desire may be accepted |
| 0185: | deemed and taken to be a Codicil of and to my said Will to all intents |
| 0186: | constructions and purposes whatsoever) Set my hand and seal the |
| 0187: | Seventeeth day of august in the Eighth year of the reign of our |
| 0188: | Sovereigne Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great |
| 0189: | Britain France and Ireland King defender of the Faith etc and in the |
| 0190: | year of our Lord God 1734 |
| 0191: | |
| 0192: | Rob[er]t Robinson |
| 0193: | |
| 0194: | Signed Sealed |
| 0195: | published and declared by the above named Robert Robinson as |
| 0196: | and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us |
| 0197: | who subscribe our Names in his presence |
| 0198: | |
| 0199: | Edw[ar]d Rockall |
| 0200: | Joseph Flight |
| 0201: | Jona[than] Sayer |
| 0202: |
Preparation of this entry
| Post status: | Published |
| Transcript by: | the author |
| Author: | Cynthia |
| Checked by: | Anthony Lynch |
| Date posted: | 18th March 2013 |
| Date modified: | 14th May 2014 |
Comments
See also the Will of the Testator's widow, Joan Robinson 1745; notably the surname given here as "Bates" is given as "Bales"