Will of William Nunn ENTRY TAKEN FROM INDEX OF WILLS AT THE PRINCIPAL PROBATE REGISTRY LONDON

Will of William Nunn ENTRY TAKEN FROM INDEX OF WILLS AT THE PRINCIPAL PROBATE REGISTRY LONDON
Will with codicil of William Nunn late of Hertford in the County of Hertford ironmonger deceased who died 10th September 1866 at Hertford aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by oaths of James Kember of Hertford aforesaid Gentleman and Matthew Skinner Langmore of Hertford aforesaid solicitor the executors.
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THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me WILLIAM NUNN of Hertford in the County of Hertford Ironmonger. I give and bequeath unto my wife Emma Nunn the sum of One Thousand pounds and Five Hundred pounds resplively assured on my life by two Policies of Assurance in the National Provisant Institution London and in the Alliance British and in Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company together with all bonus and accumulations payable in respects thereof and all other benefit and advantage whatsoever to be derived from the said policies. Whereas I believe my said wife will be entitled upon my decease to an Annuity from the General Annuity Endowment Association as my survivor But by way of confirmation I hereby give and bequeath to her any Annuity payable by the same Association of which 1 have power to dispose and I also bequeath to her all my plate and plated articles and also so much of my household goods and furniture as she may choose to select within two calendar months after my decease and as shall not exceed in value
the sum of One Hundred and fifty pounds. I give and divest unto my brother in law James Kember and my friend Harry Tuship of Hertford aforesaid trustees their heirs and assigns all that my freehold messuage or tenement situate in Fore Street in the Town of Hertford aforesaid now in my own occupation with the workshop yards garden buildings-and appurtenances thereunto belonging and all that my freehold messuage or tenement adjoining and now used and occupied by Samuel Roams Esquire as a Bank with the yards and appurtenants thereunto belonging and all other my freehold messuages lands tenements and her---- amounts whatsoever and wheresoever S hold the same unto the said James Kember and Harry Tuship their heirs and assigns I
trust that they the said James Kember and Harry Tuship or the survivor of them or his heirs or his assigns do and shall do soon as rowveuiouly may do after my decease absolutely sell and dispose of the same either
together or in parts and either by public auction or private contract with liberty to make any special conditions of sale as to title or otherwise and to buy in and resell and to rescind or vary any contract and generally to act in relation to such sale without being answerable for any loss which shall accrue thereby and 1 (give).and empower the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will in the manner to make sale and absolutely dispose of any copyhold ? herboitamouls of or to which I may siezed or entitled at my decease and I declare that every receipt which 1 shall be given by the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will for the purchase money or respective purchase monies to be paid on the sale of my said freehold and copyhold accouterments or for any other monies payable to them or him upon the trusts of the my Will shall effectually discharge the person or persons paying the same from all responsibility in respect to the application
thereof and that no purchase of the said two freeholds messuages and premises in Fore Street Hertford shall be implicated in any inquiry or question whether the offer of presumption hereinafter directed to be made has been so made and refused and 1 give and bequeath all my goods and chattels stock in trade monies and securities for money debts and all and singular other my PERSONAL ESTATE whatsoever and wheresoever not herein being disposed of unto the same James Kember and Harry Tuship their executors as administrators and assigns upon trust to receive instil and realize the same respectively And I declare that the same James Kember and Harry Tuship their heirs executors administrators and assigns shall stand possessed of and interested in the monies to arise from the sale of my said real estates and from the rents and profits thereof and also from my said residuary personal estate I ---- trust to pay and satisfy thereout my just debts pecuniary legacies and funeral testamentary and other expenses and after payment. thereof the residue or surplus of the said trust monies shall be held in trust for all and every my children and child who being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or previously marry and if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and during the minority of any of my children direct the said trustees to invest the presumptive shares or share of such children or child of and in the said trust. monies in any of the Parliamentary stock or bonds at interest upon Government or real securities and from time to time to vary the same for similar stocks bonds or securities and to apply the interest and dividends thereof for their his or her respective education maintenance or benefit and also to apply the whole or any portion of such respective shares or share for their his or her respective accouterment. or benefit in such manner as my said trustees or trustee shall think proper provided always and thereby the trustees or trustee acting in the execution of the trust aforesaid to offer to my sons Charles William Nunn and George Nunn no withstanding the present minority of the said George Nunn or in case of their refusal to purchase the same jointly then first to the said Charles William Nunn and on his refusal to purchase the same then to the said George Nunn the privilege of purchasing - at a fair valuation all the stock utensils and effects for the time being employed in my trade or business of ironmonger and the said messuage and premises in and upon which the same is carried and said adjoining messuage and premises such valuation to be made by some indifferent person to be chosen by the said trustees or trustee and my said sons or son and if they cannot agree upon some one person then by two referees or their umpire one of such referee shall be chosen the said trustees or trustee and other of them by my said sons or son but my said sons or son shall not be required to pay any consideration for the good will of my said business and I hereby declare that if my said sons or either of them shall purchase the said messuages and premise stock utensils and effects it shall be lawful for the said trustees or trustee to give such time for payment of the purchase money for the same and to accept and take such security for the same whatever personal or otherwise and at such a rate of interest as they or he shall think proper provided always and I hereby declare that if the said trustees appointed herein or either of them or any trustees or trustee to be appointed under this provision shall die or desire to be discharged from or refuse or become incapable to act in the trusts and powers aforesaid before the same shall be fully performed then and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful for the trustees for the time being if all shall desire to be discharged or refuse to act) for the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees or the executors or administrators of the last surviving trustees for the time being by any deed or deeds from time to time to nominate and appoint any other person or persons (without restrictions as to numbers) to be a trustee or trustees in the room or place of the trustee or trustees so having desiring to be discharged or refusing or becoming incapable to act aforesaid and that when and so often as any new trustee shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trust estates monies and premises shall be conveyed assigned and transferred as occasion shall require and the person or persons to be appointed as aforesaid shall have and be entitled to exercise the same powers and authorities as if they had been originally appointed trustee or trustees of this my will. provided always and 1 do hereby further declare that the aforsaid shall. be severally accountable for such monies only as they shall actually receive notwithstanding their giving or joining in any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and that none of them shall be answerable for any monies which he shall pay unto this Co or Co trustees or any of them or empower or permit any such Cotrustee or Cotrustees to receive for the general purposes or any special purpose of this my Will nor for any Bank or Broker or any other person or trustee or employees in the usual course of business nor for any defective or insufficient securities nor for any involuntary losses whatsoever and also that it shall be lawful for them respectively with and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain and reimburse themselves respectively and also to allow their respective Cotrustee or Cotrustees all charges and expenses whatsoever which they or he shall incur in or about the execution of the trust aforesaid or in relation thereto. And 1 hereby appoint the said James Kember and Harry Tuship Executors of this my Will and 1 do divest to them any real estates which may be vested in me by way of mortgage to enable them to recover and receive the monies secured thereby for the purposes of this my Will and I bequeath to each of them the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings as an acknowledgment of his kindness in accepting the trust of this my Will. In witness whereof 1 the said William Nunn have to this my last Will and Testament contained in four sheets of paper set my hand this eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. WILLIAM NUNN signed published and declared by the said testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. The words "soon as"soon as" over the eleventh line from the bottom of the first sheet here of being first interlined. Mathew S Longmere SC Hertford Thomas S Carter his clerk

This is a Codicil to the Last Will of one William Nunn of Hertford in the County of Hertford Ironmonger which Will bears the date the eleventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. Whereas since the date and execution of my said Will Mr Harry Tuship one of the executors has died and I am desirous of appointing Mathew Skinner Langmore of Hertford aforesaid solicitor to be an executor and Trustee of my Will in his stead. Now I do appoint the said Mathew Skinner Langmore to be an executor and Trustee of my said Will in the place and stead of the said Harry Tuship deceased to act in conjunction with Mr James Kember the other Executor and Trustee appointed by my said Will and I do hereby give to the said Mathew Skinner Langmore all. the same estates interests trusts powers authorities and indemnities as are given in and by my said Will to the said Harry Tuship in the same manner in all respects as if he has been named throughout my said Willin the place and stead of Harry Tuship and I do hereby declare that the said Mathew Skinner Langmore shall be entitled to his fair and professional charges for all the business done journeys taken and time employed in carrying out the trusts of my said Will or in relation thereto. As witness my hand the eighth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty five ------ Will m Nunn --- Signed by the said William Nunn in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses Thos S Carter Hertford --- G Watkins Assistant at Mr Nunns Hertford PROVED at London with a Codicil the 29th December 1865 by the oaths of James Kember the Executor named in the Will and Mathew Skinner Langmore the Executor named in the said Codicil to whom as much was granted.
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