Reference
R6/7/1/4
Title
Attested copy will of Robert, 1st Viscount Hampden
Date free text
4 June 1777
Production date
From: 1777 To: 1777
Scope and Content
Attested copy will of Robert, 1st Viscount Hampden of Great and Little Hampden [Buckinghamshire]
- reciting R6/7/13;
- devising the reversion of his manors in Bromham, Stevington, Kempston and Stagsden with advowsons of Stagsden, Carlton and Chellington and all lands to his son Thomas
- devising the reversion of Biddenham Manor, rectory and advowson to his son John;
- devising the reversion of his manors in Carlton and Chellington to Robert Trevor, Receiver General of the Post Office Revenue;
- declaring that the respective legatees should raise any sums of money secured on the various manors and lands in the ratio 7/10ths by Thomas Hampden, 2/10ths by John Trevor and 1/10th by Robert Trevor;
- reciting £1,200 charged by an act of parliament secured on all or most of the lands;
- the sum and security was vested in Thomas Middleton of Lincoln’s Inn Fields [Middlesex]. Gentleman in trust for the testator;
- exonerating all his lands from payment of the £1,200 and interest and directing Thomas Middleton to merge it into the freehold;
- devising the Manor of Ashwood and lands in Astwood and North Crawley[Buckinghamshire], Cranfield, Caddington and Bedford, Saint Cuthbert purchased from John Thurloe Brace and Elizabeth, his wife to Charles Trevor Roper of Lea [Kent], esquire and George Brooks of Green Street [Middlesex], gentleman in trust for Robert Trevor for life remainder in trust for his sons in successive order, in default for the testator’s son Thomas and his sons in succession in default for the testator’s son John and his successive sons remainder in trust for Robert Trevor;
- reciting recent purchase of lands of George Brooks in Horsted Keynes and West Hoathley [Sussex];
- devising the lands to the use of Charles Trevor Roper and George Brooks in trust for the testator’s son John for life remainder in trust for his sons in successive order, in default for the testator’s son Thomas and his sons in succession; remainder in trust for Robert Trevor;
- reciting the will of John Hampden, late of Great Hampden of 22 May 1753 devising all his manors and those subsequently purchased in Buckinghamshire and Middlesex “are upon failure of all the several precedent estates limited and appointed by his will ultimately devised” to the use of the testator and his heirs;
- devising the reversion of these estates to his son Thomas;
- reciting the will of Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham of 9 April 1771 devising “upon failure of all the several precedent estates therein and thereby limited and appointed” all manors and lands in Sussex to the use of his heirs for ever;
- as brother of the Bishop of Durham devising the remainder of these estates to his son John;
- devising to his son Thomas “as the next taker thereof” all arrears of rent of quit rents and tithes that would have accrued to the testator at his death on estates in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex and Sussex;
- bequeathing to his son Thomas the remainder of the term for which the testator held his dwelling house in Green Street, Saint George Hanover Square and the remainder of the term for which he held a spot of ground adjoining it on the W side “intended for the erection of stables and coach houses exclusive nevertheless of the tenement and yard now let to and occupied by Mr. George Brooks;
- assigning to his son Thomas the remainder of the lease the testator held from Eton College of the rectory and tithes of Bromham and the lease he held from the Duke of Bedford of Oakley House;
- bequeathing to his son Thomas his furniture, plate, china, carriages, pictures, drawings, books, linen, live and dead stock, utensils, liquors and in general all movables in his dwellings at Green Street, George Street, Bromham and Great Hampden;
- bequeathing to his son Thomas his parliament robes and gold repeating watch;
- bequeathing all his personal estate at Glynde [Sussex] to his son John;
- bequeathing all letters and manuscripts in his houses and the “Brilliant Sleeve Buttons I usually wear” and gold snuff box with the portrait of the Bishop of Durham to his son John;
- bequeathing to his daughter Katherine his mahogany Gothic glass case with all its contents;
- bequeathing to his daughter Harriet his best Japan cabinet;
- bequeathing to Mary, wife of Robert Trevor his silver teakettle and silver coffee board;
- bequeathing to his son Thomas £1,000;
- bequeathing to his son John £1,000;
- bequeathing to George Brooks 100 guineas;
- bequeathing to his servants Mary Philadelphia Hodgson and Samuel Turnbull if still living with him at his death 100 guineas each;
- bequeathing to his “lower menial servants” at Bromham, Glynde at Green Street one year’s wages;
- bequeathing the unexpired term of the lease of the house in Green Street, in the occupation of George Brooks, all bonds, mortgages, bank bills, government securities and the residue of his personal estate to Robert Trevor who was sole residuary legatee and sole executor;
- directing that he be buried in Great Hampden churchyard close to his wife “with the least ceremony and expense possible”;
- witnessed by Henry Hinde, Rector of Bletsoe, Thomas Richards, Vicar of Bromham and William Hooper, Rector of Carlton
Codicil of 13 April 1778 revoking the bequest of pictures and drawings to his son Thomas and bequeathing those in London to his sons Thomas and John equally “my son John to divide the same and my son Thomas to choose the moiety he may like”;
- excepting from the bequest of all letters and manuscripts to his son John everything at Hampden House which he now bequeathed to his son Thomas
Attestation of the copy of 4 August 1814 by James Parfitt and A. Hodgson, clerks to Horne and Rogers of Lincoln’s Inn Fields [Middlesex]
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