FIGGURES, OTHER SURNAMES MENTIONED: EDEN, FOSTER, GATE, HERBERT, KEMPSON, KENDALL, KETTLE, MORRIS, PICKERING, SNELL, Thomas Figgures, I Thomas Figgures of Blockley in the county of Worcester do hereby revoke all wills and testamentary dispositions by me heretofore made, and do make and publish this only for my last will. I direct that my debts and funeral and testamentary expences may be paid as soon as possible after my decease. I give and devise unto my dear wife Hannah Figgures, all those two messuages or tenements with the gardens and appurtenances thereto belonging, situate in Blockley aforesaid, in the several occupations of my son John Figgures and John Foster, both which messuages and other hereditaments I hold by lease for lives under the Lord bishop of Worcester. To hold the same unto my said wife during her life without impeachment of waste, and immediately after her decease, I give and devise the said messuage with the garden and appurtenances enjoyed therein, in the occupation of my said son John Figgures, unto and to the use of him my said son, his heirs and assigns, for all my estate and interest therein, and I give and devise the said messuage with the garden and appurtenances enjoyed therewith, in the occupation of the said John Foster, and which last mentioned messuage and other hereditaments I purchased of Mr John Morris, unto and to the use of my son Thomas Figgures, his heirs and assigns, for all my estate and interest therein. I give and bequeath unto my said wife and son John Figgures, all my household furniture, plate, linen and china, and all my ready money and securities for money, stock in trade and all the rest, residue and remainder of my personal estate and effects, in possession or reversion, to hold the same unto my said wife and son John Figgures, their executors and administrators, upon trust that they do and shall, call in and convert into money, such parts thereof as shall not consist of money, excepting household furniture and other effects required by my wife for her own use, and account, pay and satisfy my debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, and upon further trust that they do and shall, after payment thereof, layout and invest in their names, at interest at the public stocks or funds or upon government or real securities, the monies which shall come to their hands, and alter and vary such securities at their discretion, and do and shall pay unto, or permit my said wife to retain and receive, for her own use, during her life, the interest dividends and proceeds of the monies so to be laid out and invested, as she shall deem necessary for her maintenance and support, and from and after the decease of my said wife, it is my will and mind that my said son John Figgures do and shall stand possessed of the said trust monies, stocks, funds and securities and of and in such parts of my household furniture and other effects, as shall have been retained for the use of my wife during her life, and of and in all other my personal estate, in trust for herself and my said son Thomas Figgures and my daughter Harriett, in equal shares and proportions, to who I hereby give and bequeath the same. I give devise and bequeath unto my said wife and son John Figgures, all estates, which at my decease may be vested in me upon any trust or by way of mortgage, and of which I have disposing power, to hold the same unto them, their heirs, executors administrators and assigns according to the respective natures and qualities thereof, upon the trusts and subject to the equity of redemption affecting the same, but the money secured on any such mortgages to be considered parts of my personal estate, and I appoint my said wife and son John Figgures executrix and executor of this my said will. In witness whereof I the said Thomas Figgures, the testator, have to this my last will and testament, set my hand and seal this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. Thomas Figgures Signed sealed and delivered by the above name Thomas Figgures in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses John Kempson, Charles Pickering (Blockley), W. Kendall (Solicitor, Bourton on the Water) Proved at London 7th July 1840 before the judge by the oath of John Figgures, the son, the surviving executor, to whom administration was granted, having been first sworn by commission duly to administer, etc. John Figgures, This is the last will and testament of John Figgures of Blockley in the county of Worcester, slater and plasterer. In the first place I direct that all my just debts and my funeral and testamentary expences be paid and discharged as soon as conveniently can be after my decease. I give and devise unto my son, James Figgures, his heirs and assigns for ever, all that my cottage or tenement with the appurtenances thereto belonging, situate at Blockley aforesaid, near the Warren Gate and now in the occupation of the Widow Eden, subject to any charges and chargeable with the payment of the annual sum of four pounds to my dear wife Elizabeth Figgures during her life, and after her decease, subject to the payment of the like annual sum unto or for the benefit of my son, John Figgures, during his life, the first annual payment of the said sum of four pounds to be made at the expiration of twelve calendar months after my decease. And I direct that my said wife and son John may have the same or like remedy by distress for the recovery of the said annual sum of four pounds as landlords have for the recovery of rent in arrear upon long leases. I give, devise and bequeath all other my real and all my personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever unto my brother Thomas Figgures of Blockley aforesaid, slater and plasterer and my friend John Herbert of Blockley aforesaid, butcher, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, upon trust, to permit and suffer my said wife to have the use and enjoyment of all my household furniture, plate, linen, china and other domestic utensils, for and during the term of her natural life, together with the absolute disposal of any consumable stores that may be in my house at the time of my decease, she permitting and allowing my son John Figgures to reside with her and to enjoy the use and benefit of the said household furniture and effects, in a like and equal manner with her my said wife. And from and immediately after the decease of my said wife, upon trust to permit and suffer my said son John Figgures (if he shall be then living) to have the use and enjoyment of the said household furniture and effects for and during his natural life. And I do hereby direct my said trustees to get in and convert the residue of my personal property (except leasehold estates if any) not consisting of monies invested on securities yielding income, and at their discretion either to get in the monies invested as last aforesaid, or permit the same to continue so invested, and to invest the produce of the trust property, so got in, or converted, in or upon real or approved personal securities in England, with power to vary such investments for any other investments of a like description; and upon further trust to pay the rents, issues andprofits of my messuages, tenements, lands and hereditaments, together with the net annual income to arise or be produced by or from the monies so to be invested as aforesaid, unto or otherwise permit and suffer my said wife to receive the same or so much thereof as shall be requisite and necessary for the maintenance and support of herself and my son, the said John Figgures, and such other of my children as shall be infants and incapable of supporting themselves, for and during the term of her natural life, and from and immediately after the decease of my dead wife, upon trust to pay the rents, issues and profits of my said messuages or tenements, lands and hereditaments together with the net annual income to arise or be produced by or from the monies to be invested as aforesaid, or so much thereof as shall be requisite and necessary, unto or for the maintenance and support of my said son John Figgures for and during the term of his natural life, and for the maintenance and support of such other of my children as shall be infants and incapable of supporting themselves, and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them my said wife and son John Figgures, upon trust as soon as conveniently can be, absolutely to sell and dispose of my said messuages or tenements, lands and hereditaments and every part thereof, either by public sale or private contract, to such person or persons as shall be desirous of becoming the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and for the best price and most money that at the time of such sale can be reasonably had or gotten for the same, and with liberty to buy in the same or any part thereof, and to sell the same at any future auction or by private contract, without being liable to answer for any loss or diminution in price by such a sale, and to convey and assure the same, when sold, unto the purchaser or purchasers thereof, or as he or they shall direct. And as soon as conveniently can be after the decease of the survivor of them my said wife and son, to collect, get in and receive all such money as shall be due and owing to my estate upon any security or securities, or upon simple contract, from any person or persons whomsoever, and sell and convert into money all such parts of my personal estate as shall not consist of money, and stand and be possessed of the net monies to arise or be produced by the means aforesaid, upon trust to pay and divide the same into and amongst my son the said James Figgures and my daughters Hannah Figgures, Ann Figgures and Eliza Figgures, in equal shares and if any of them my said children shall die tinder the age of twenty one years without leaving issue of his, her or their body or respective bodies living at the time of his, her or their decease, then as to the share or shares, original or accruing, of the child or children so dying, in trust for the other or others of my said last named four children, and if more than one, in equal shares, provided always, and I do hereby declare, that if and in case the interest and annual income of my said trust estate shall be insufficient for the maintenance and support of my said wife and son John Figgures and the survivor of them, it shall and may be lawful to and for my trustees, in their discretion, notwithstanding the trusts hereinbefore contained, to apply all or any portion of the principal of the said trust monies in or towards the maintenance and support of them my said wife and son, in such manner as they my said trustees shall think fit. And I expressly direct and declare that all purchasers and other person and persons who shall pay any monies to my trustees or trustee, for the time being, under or by virtue of the trusts of this my will, shall be exempt from all responsibility in respect of the misapplication or nonapplication of the same. I devise all real estates vested in me as trustee or mortgagee to my said trustees subject to the equities affecting the same respectively. I declare that if my said trustees or either of them or any trustees or trustee to be appointed under this clause, shall die or be unwilling or incompetent to accept or execute the trusts of my will, it shall be lawful for my said trustees or trustee,, for the time being, if any, whether retiring from the office or not, or if none, for the executors or administrators of the last deceased trustee to substitute by any writing under their or his hands or hand, any person or persons in whom alone or (as the case may be) jointly, with any surviving or continuing trustee my trust estate shall be vested. I direct that the trusts and powers hereinbefore confided to my trustees herein named may be executed by the trustees or trustee, for the time being, of my will, and in regard to trustees to be appointed as well before as after the vesting of the trust property in them, and I further declare that the trustees, for the time being of my will, shall not be answerable for each other's acts or receipts, nor for losses happening without their own respective default, and that they shall be at liberty to retain and allow to each other, out of the trust monies, all expences incident to the execution of the trusts and powers of my will. I appoint the said Thomas Figgures and John Herbert to be trustees and executors of this my will hereby revoking all former and other wills. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one John Figgures Signed by the said testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses Samuel Snell, John Kettle PROVED at London 18 June 185 1, before the judge by the oaths of Thomas Figgures the brother and John Herbert the executors to whom administration was granted, having been first sworn by ... duly to administer. Back to Blockley Wills