Transcribed Will of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet of Coughton Court

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Buckland, Buckinghamshire, England
Surname/tag: Throckmorton

This is a transcript of the registered will of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet of Coughton Court. He wrote his will on 13 March, 1788. It was proved 27 February, 1792.

Spelling, punctuation and line breaks are as per the original document, with the exception that paragraph breaks have been added at change of bequest.
The names of individuals have been included in bold text for ease of identification.
Where present, the obsolete letter Thorn has been rendered as "th", and "ff" has been rendered as the capital letter "F"
Abbreviations and breviographs have been expanded in [square brackets]
Non standard spelling as per usual for this time period, which has been transcribed verbatim.

Source images of the will of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Bart. Throckmorton of Coughton Court:

The National Archives Website: Discovery: PROB 11/1215/129 Will of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Buckland , Berkshire, 27 February 1792, Description available at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D365069 (accessed 9 Feb 2023)

"England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"

The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 1215

Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #305449 (accessed 9 February 2023)

Will of Sir Robert Throckmorton, granted probate on 27 Feb 1792. Died about 1792 in Buckland, Berkshire, England. 19 pages.

Persons mentioned (by page where first mentioned)

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Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet of Coughton Court, Testator.

George Throckmorton, Esquire, deceased eldest son of Testator.

Anna Maria Throckmorton, widow of Testator's son George

John Courtenay Throckmorton, Esquire, eldest son of Testator's deceased son George

George Throckmorton, Esquire, 2nd son of Testator's deceased son George

Charles Butler, Esquire, Attorney at Lincoln's Inn.

Charles Throckmorton, Esquire, 3rd son of Testator's deceased son George

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Francis Throckmorton, Esquire, 4th son of Testator's deceased son George

William Throckmorton, Esquire, 5th son of Testator's deceased son George

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James Fermor, late of the City of York Esquire

Dame Maria Catharine (Giffard) Throckmorton, Wife of John Courtenay Throckmorton, Esquire

John Stoner Esquire

Right Honorable Francis Seymour Conway

Anthony Lord Viscount Montague, Deceased

Right Honorable Robert Edward Lord Petre

Sir Walter Blount Baronet

John Giffard Esquire

Basil FitzHerbert Esquire

Francis Canning Esquire

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Lord Bishop of Bristol

Thomas Boutilier Esquire

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Dame Lucy (Heywood) Throckmorton, 3rd Wife of the Testator.

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Robert Fogg

Brousley Chester

Teresa Throckmorton, Granddaughter of Testator

Mr. Orme

Mary Theresa (Throckmorton) FitzHerbert, Daughter of Testator

Petronilla Rorguiguy

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John Rawbone, Curate of Buckland

Henry Clifford Esquire of Lincoln's Inn

Step Hope, Clerk to Charles Butler Esquire Lincoln's Inn

William Battine

Sir William Wynne Knight

Will dated 13 March, 1788, and proved 27 February, 1792.

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(Will begins about one-quarter down the page)

("Sir Robert Throckmorton Baronet" written in right margin.)

I Sir Robert Throckmorton of Buckland in the County of
Berks Baronet Do hereby revoke all wills Codicils and other
Testamentary Dispositions by me heretofore made and declare
and publish this to be my last will and testament. I
recommend my soul to God and in his infinite mercies
and in the infinite mercies of his blessed son my
redeemer I humbly hope for my Salvation.

Whereas by
Indentures of Lease and Release bearing date respectively
the fourteenth and fifteenth days of May in the year
one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and made or
expressed to be made between me the said Sir Robert
Throckmorton of the first part, Anna Maria Throckmorton
Widow and Relict of George Throckmorton Esquire my
late son of the second part, John Courtenay Throckmorton
Esq[uire] (now the Eldest Son of the said George Throckmorton
and George Throckmorton Esq[uire]; (now the second son of the
said George Throckmorton) of the third part and Charles
Butler Esquire of the fourth part and a Common Recovery
suffered in his majesty's court of Common pleas at
Westminster in Trinity Term in the said year one
Thousand seven hundred and eighty two. The manor or
Lordship Capital Messuage or Mansion House and other
Hereditaments of or in Weston Underwood in the County
of Bucks were limitted settled and assured after the decease
of me or the said John Courtenay Throckmorton which
should first happen to the use of the said George
Throckmorton my Grandson and his assigns for the
term of his natural life and after his decease to
the use of the first and every other son of his
Body successively in Tail Male. And for want of such
issue to the use of Charles Throckmorton Esq[uire]; (now
the third son of my said late son George Throckmorton)
and his assigns for the term of his natural life

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and after his decease to the use of the first and
every other son of his body successively in Tail Male
And for want of such issue to the use of Francis
Throckmorton Esq[uire]; (now the fourth son of my said late
son George Throckmorton) and his assigns for the Term
of his natural life and after his decease to the
use of the first and every other son of his body
successively in Tail Male. And for want of such issue
to the use of William Throckmorton Esq[uire]; (now the fifth
son of my said late son George Throckmorton) and his
assigns for the term of his natural life and after
his decease to the use of his first and every other
son of his body successively in Tail Male. And for
want of such issue to the use of the said John
Courtney Throckmorton and his assigns during the term
Of his natural life and after his decease to the use
Of the first and every other son of his body successively
In Tail Male. And for want of such issue to the use
of me the said Sir Robert Throckmorton my heirs
And assigns for ever and by the said indenture
of the said fifteenth day of May it is so provided

That in case and when and so often from time
To time as the manors and other heredit[ament]s in the
Counties of Berks, Warwick, and Worcester (the family
Estates of me the said Sir Robert Throckmorton for so
much or such part or parts thereof as shall there
be of greater yearly value than one thousand pounds
clear of all deductions for taxes or other impositions
Whatsoever shall descend or come to or devolve upon
the said George Throckmorton, the grandson Charles
Throckmorton, Francis Throckmorton and William Throckmorton
or any of them or any son or heir male of the
Body of them or any of them as therein mentioned
who for the time being shall be entitled in possession
to the rents issues and profits of the said manors
Heredit[ament]s and premises in the said county of Berks by
virtue of the limitations contained in the said indenture
of the said fifteenth day of May Then and in such
case and so often from thenceforth all and every
the use and uses estate and estates in and by the
same indenture of the said fifteenth day of May
limitted of and containing the said houses and
Heredit[ament]s in the said county of Berks or to the use
of such of them the said George Throckmorton the
Grandsons Charles Francis and William Throckmorton or
such of their several and respective sons and the
Heirs male of his body to or upon whom the said
Manors or Heredit[ament]s in the said counties of Berks
Warwick and Worcester shall descend come or devolve
as aforesaid shall cease determine and be utterly void
to all intents and purposes and thereupon the said
Manors lands and Heredit[ament]s in the said county of

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Buckingham shall go over to such of them the said
George, Charles, Francis and William Throckmorton or to the
son of such of them and the Heirs male of his Body
as would be entitled in possession to the said manors
and Heredit[ament]s in the said County of Berks in case such
of them the said George, Charles, Francis and William
Throckmorton to or upon whom or to or upon whose
Son or the Heirs male of the Body of whose Son
the said manors and Heredit[ament]s in the said Counties
of Berks Warwick and Worcester shall for the time being
descend come or devolve were then dead without leaving
any Heirs Male of his Body

And Whereas the said
Manors Heredit[ament]s and Premises comprized in the said
herein before in part recited Indentures of Lease and
Release were mortgaged to James Fermor late of the City
of York Esquire borrowed for the Sum of one Thousand
five hundred and fifty pounds and Interest And Whereas
by Indentures of Lease and Release bearing date
respectively the ninth and tenth days of August in
the said Year one Thousand seven hundred and eighty
two the Release being of eight parts and made or
expressed to be made between me the said Sir Robert
Throckmorton of the first part the said John Courtenay
Throckmorton of the second part Mary Catherine
Throckmorton now the wife of the said John Courtenay
Throckmorton ( then Mary Catherine Giffard Spinster) of the
third part John Stoner Esq[uire] of the fourth part the
Right Honorable Francis Seymour Conway commonly called
Lord Viscount Beauchamp and Anthony Lord Viscount
Montague since deceased of the fifth part The Right
[Honorable] Robert Edward Lord Peter and Sir Walter Blount
Baronet of the sixth part John Giffard Esq[uire] and Basil
FitzHerbert Esquire of the seventh part and Francis
Canning Esq[uire] and William Fermor Esq[uire] of the eighth part
being the Settlement executed on the Marriage of the
of the said John Courtenay Throckmorton and Mary Catherine
Throckmorton and by two Common Recoveries suffered in
his Majesty's Court of Common pleas at Westminster in
Trinity Term aforesaid

The Manor or Lordship Capital
Messuage or Mansion house and other Hereditaments
of or in Coughton in the said county of Warwick and
the manor or Lordship Capital Messuage or Mansion
house and other Heredit[ament]s of or in Buckland in the
said County of Berks were limitted settled and assured
after my decease To the use of the said John
Courtenay Throckmorton assigns during the
term of his natural life and after his decease
To the use of the first and other sons by the said
Mary Catherine Throckmorton his wife Successively in
Tail Male and for want of such Issue and in
default of such joint appointment by me and the
said John Courtenay Throckmorton as in the will mentions

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To the use of the Sons of the said John Courtenay
Throckmorton by any other taken Wife successively in
Tail Male and for want of such Issue. To the use
of the said George Throckmorton the Grandson and his
assigns for the term of his natural life and after
his decease To the use of the first and every other
Son of his Body successively in Tail Male. And for
want of such Issue To the use of the said
Charles Throckmorton and his assigns for the term
of his natural life and after his decease To the
use of the first and every other Son of his Body
successively in Tail Male And for want of such
Issue to the use of the said Francis Throckmorton
and his assigns during the term of his natural
life and after his decease To the use of the first
and every other Son of his Body successively in Tail
Male And for want of such issue to the use of the
said William Throckmorton and his assigns for the
term of his natural life And after his decease To
the use of the first and every other Son of his
Body successively in Tail Male And for want of
such Issue To the use of the Right Heirs of me
the said Sir Robert Throckmorton

And whereas by
Indenture bearing date the same tenth date of Aug[ust]
one Thousand seven hundred and eighty two and made
between me the said Sir Robert Throckmorton of the first
part the said John Courtenay Throckmorton of the second
part and the said Francis Seymour Conway commonly
called Lord Viscount Beauchamp and Anthony Lord
Viscount Montague of the third part the Manors or
Lordships and other Heredit[ament]s of or in Buscott and Great
Haddon in the said Counties of Berks and Oxford
were bargained and sold unto the said Francis Seymour
Conway commonly called Lord Viscount Beauchamp and
Anthony Lord Viscount Montague and their Heirs Upon
Trust to sell the same and to apply the Money arising
thereby in or towards the discharge of the Bond debts
and Mortgage Debts therein mentioned or referred to
and the Residue if any to me the said Sir Robert
Throckmorton

And Whereas under or by virtue of a
Lease granted by the Lord Bishop of Bristol to
Thomas Boutilier Esquire and since assigned to me
I the said Sir Robert Throckmorton am entitled to the
Rectory and parsonage Bokeland otherwise Buckland
in the said County of Berks and the Glebe Closes
pastures Tythed Oblations Obventions Pensions portions
Woods Commons and profits thereto belonging for
the Term of the Lives of three persons named in
the said Lease and the Lives and LIfe of the
Survivors and Survivor of them Now I the said
Sir Robert Throckmorton do hereby give and bequeath
unto the said William Francis Fermor and Francis Canning

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their Executors Administrators and assigns all the pictures Statues and
Engravings Glasses Books, Musical Instruments, plate China-
Ware, Household Linen, Household Goods and Furniture of every
kind while at the time of my decease shall be in or
about or belong to or be usually kept in the said
Capitial Messuages or Mansion houses at Weston Underwood
Coughton and Buckland or the Outhouses thereunto
belonging. To hold the same unto the said William
Fermor and Francis Canning their Executors adm[inistrat]ors and
assigns Upon and for the Trusts Intents and purposes
and with under and Subject to the proviso herein after
Declared and contained of and concerning the same that
is to say, as to all the pictures Statues Engravings
Drawings, Glasses, Books, Plate China Ware, Household
Linen, Household Goods, and Furniture while at the time
of my decease shall be in or about or belong to or be
usually kept in the said Capital Messuage or Mansion
House of Weston Underwood and the Outhouses thereto
belonging Upon Trust to permit the same to remain
in or about the said Capital Messuage or Mansion
House of Weston Underwood and the Outhouses thereto
belonging and to be held used and enjoyed by the said
George Throckmorton the Grandson and his assigns during
the term of his natural life and after his decease
Upon Trust to assign and make over deliver the
same to such son of the Body of the said George
Throckmorton who shall first or alone attain the
age of Twenty one or depart this life under
that age leaving issue Male of his Body begotten
living at the time of his decease or born in due
time after and if there shall be no Son of the
Body of the said George Throckmorton the Grandson
who shall live to attain the age of Twenty one
years or who shall depart this life under that age leaving
Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the time
of his decease or born in due time after then
by the said Charles Throckmorton and his assigns
during the term of his natural life and after his
Decease Upon Trust to assign and make over or
deliver the same to such Son of the Body of the
said Charles Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain
the age of twenty one years or depart this life
under that age leaving Issue Male of his Body
begotten living at the time of his decease or born
in due time after and if there shall be no Son
of the Body of the said Charles Throckmorton who
shall live to attain the age of twenty one years or
who shall depart this life under that age leaving
Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the
time of his decease or born in due time after then
by the said Francis Throckmorton and his assigns
during the term of his natural life and after his

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decease Upon Trust to assign or make over or deliver
the same to such Son of the Body of the said
Francis Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain
the age of twenty one years or depart this life
under that age leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten
living at the time of his decease or born in due time
after and if there shall be no Son of the Body
of the said Francis Throckmorton who shall live to
attain the age of twenty one years or who shall
depart this life under that age leaving Issue Male
of his Body begotten living at the time of his decease
or born in due time after / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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Then by the said William Throckmorton and his assigns
during the term of his natural life and after his
Decease Upon Trust to assign and make over or
deliver the same to such Son of the Body of the said
William Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain
the age of twenty one years or depart this life under
that age leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten
living at the time of his decease or born in due
time after and if there shall be no Son of the
Body of the said William Throckmorton who shall live
to attain the age of twenty one years or who shall
depart this life under that age leaving Issue Male
of his Body begotten living at the time of his decease or
born in due time after Then by the said John
Courtenay Throckmorton and his assigns during the
term of his natural life and after his decease
Upon Trust to assign and make over or deliver the
same to such Son of the Body of the said John
Courtenay Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain
the age of twenty one years or depart this life under that age
leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the time of
his decease or born in due time after and if there shall be
no Son of the Body of the said John Courtenay Throckmorton
who shall live to attain / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / the Age of Twenty one
years or or who shall depart this life under that age
leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten living at
the time of his decease or born in due time after
Then the same to be considered as part of my
personal Estate provided always and I do hereby
declare it to be my Will and meaning that if any
of them the said George Throckmorton, Cha[rle]s Throckmorton
Francis Throckmorton and William Throckmorton shall
under or by virtue of the Limitations contained
the said Indenture of the tenth day of May one

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Thousand seven hundred and eighty two become seized in
possession of or entitled to the Rents Issues and profits
of the Manor and other Heredit[ament]s comprised in the
same Indenture or if any Son or Sons of any of
them the said George Throckmorton, Charles Throckmorton
Francis Throckmorton and William Throckmorton shall need
or by virtue of the said Limitations become seized in
possession of or entitled to the Rents Issues and profits
of the said last mentioned Manor and other Heredit[ament]s
Then and in such case and so often as the same
shall happen the Trust herein before declared for the
benefit of him or them so respectively becoming seized
or entitled as aforesaid cease and determine and
the said William Francis Fermor and Francis Canning their
Executors Adm[inistrat]ors and assigns shall from thenceforth stand
possessed of and interested in the said pictures Statues
Engravings Drawings Glasses Books Musical Instruments
China Ware Household Goods and Furniture Upon Trust
to permit the same to be held and enjoyed by and
to assign and deliver the same to the person or
persons who be entitled thereto if such of them
the said George Throckmorton, Charles Throckmorton, Francis
Throckmorton and William Throckmorton who or whose
Sons shall so become seized or entitled as aforesaid
was or were dead without Issue And as to all
the pictures Statues Engravings Drawings Glasses Books
Musical Instruments plate China Ware Household LInen
Household Goods and Furniture while at the time of
my decease shall be in or about or belong to or be
usually kept in the said Capital Messuages or
Mansion houses of Coughton and Buckland respectively
and the Outhouses thereunto belonging Upon Trust to
permit the same respectively to remain in or about
the said Capital Messuages or Mansion Houses of
Coughton and Buckland and the Outhouses thereunto
belonging and to be held used and enjoyed by the
said John Courtenay Throckmorton and his assigns
during the term of his natural life and after his
decease Upon Trust to assign and make over or
deliver the same to such son of the Body of the
said John Courtenay Throckmorton who shall live to Ꚛ
attain the age of Twenty one Years or who shall
depart this life under that age leaving issue Male
of his Body begotten living at the time of his
decease or born in due time after then by the
said George Throckmorton the Grandson and his assigns
during the term of his natural life and after his
decease Upon Trust to assign and make over or
deliver the same to such son of the Body of the
said George Throckmorton the Grandson who first or
alone shall attain the age of Twenty one Years or
depart this life under that age leaving issue Male

(the following appears in the lower right margin with the insertion point Ꚛ indicated above:)
who first or alone
shall attain the age of
twenty one Years or depart
this life under that Age
leaving Issue Male of his
Body begotten living at the
time of his decease or born
in due time after and if
there shall be no Son of
the Body of the said John
Courtenay Throckmorton

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of his Body begotten living at the time of his decease
or born in due time after and if there shall be
no Son of the Body of the said George Throckmorton
the Grandson who shall live to attain the age of
Twenty one years or who shall depart this life under
that age leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten
living at the time of his decease or born in due
time after Then by the said Charles Throckmorton
and his assigns during the term of his natural
life and after his Decease Upon Trust to assign and
make over or deliver the same to such Son of the
Body of the said Charles Throckmorton who first or
alone shall attain the age of twenty one Years or
depart this life under that age leaving Issue Male
of his Body begotten living at the time of his
decease or born in due time after and if there
shall be no Son of the Body of the said Charles
Throckmorton who shall live to attain the age of
twenty one years or who shall depart this life
under that age leaving Issue Male of his Body / / / / / / /
living at the time of his decease or born in due
time after / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Then by the said Francis
Throckmorton and his assigns during the term of his
natural life and after his decease Upon Trust to
assign and make over or deliver the same to such
Son of the Body of the said Francis Throckmorton
who first or alone shall attain the age of Twenty
one years or depart this life under that age leaving
Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the time
of his decease or born in due time after and if
there shall be no Son of the Body of the said
Francis Throckmorton who shall live to attain the
age of twenty one years or who shall depart
this life under that age leaving Issue Male of
his Body begotten living at the time of his
decease or born in due time after Then by the said
William Throckmorton and his assigns during the
term of his natural life and after his decease
Upon Trust to assign and make over or deliver the
same to such Son of the Body of the said William
Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain the
age of Twenty one years or depart this life
under that age leaving Issue Male of his Body
begotten living at the time of his decease Ꚛ Then
the same to be considered as part of my personal
Estate and upon this further Trust that if the said
John Courtenay Throckmorton, George Throckmorton the

(the following appears in the lower left margin with the insertion point Ꚛ indicated in the forth line above)
or born in due time after and
if there shall be no Son of
the Body of the said William
Throckmorton who shall live
to attain the age of twenty one
years or depart this life under
that age leaving Issue Male
of his Body begotten living
at the time of his decease

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Grandson Charles Throckmorton, Francis Throckmorton and William
Throckmorton or any of them shall depart this life leaving
Issue an eldest or only son for the time being under
the age of Twenty one Years and who would in case he
had then attained the age of Twenty one Years be entitled
to have assigned made over and delivered to him the
pictures, Statues, Engravings, drawings, Glasses, Books Musical
Instruments plate China Ware, Household Linen Household
Goods and Furniture so bequeathed in Trust respectively as
aforesaid Then and in such case the said William
Fermor and Francis Canning their Ex[ecut]ors Adm[inistrat]ors [and] assigns
do and shall during the Minority or respective Minorities
of such child or respective children so entitled as afores[ai]d
permit and suffer the last mentioned premises to be held
used and enjoyed by the said child or children respectively
until he or they shall attain his or their age or
respective ages of twenty one years or die under that age
and I do hereby request the said William Fermor and
Francis Canning their Ex[ecut]ors Adm[inistrat]ors [and] assigns to cause
Inventories to be made with all convenient speed after
my decease of the said pictures, Statues, Engravings Drawings
Glasses Books Musical Instruments plate China Ware
Household Linen Household Goods and Furniture so bequeathed
to them the said William Fermor and Francis Canning as
aforesaid and to have two copies made of the said
Inventories and that each of the said copies be signed
by the said William Fermor and Francis Canning their
Executors Adm[inistrat]ors or assigns and that one of the copies
be left and kept at such of my said Capital Messuages
or Mansion houses of the Furniture of which it
contains an amount and that the other copy be
retained by the said William Fermor and Francis
Canning their Ex[ecut]ors Adm[inistrat]ors and assigns and that
they the said William Fermor and Francis Canning their
Ex[ecut]ors Adm[inistrat]ors or assigns do and shall from thenceforth
inspect and examine into the state of the said pictures
Statues Engravings Drawings Glasses Books Musical
Instruments China Ware Household Linen Household Goods
and Furniture and cause all such Reparations or
Restorations to be made thereof from time to time
which they or he shall think proper such Reparations
and Restorations thereof to be made at the Costs and
Expense of the persons for the time being respectively
entitled to use hold and enjoy the same last mentioned
premises respectively. But it is my will that the plate
may be sold altered and varied from time to time
as the persons respectively entitled to the use
thereof respectively for the time being shall think
proper But so as the Weight of the whole respectively
be always kept up I give bequeath and devise unto
the said William Fermor and Francis Canning and
their Heirs all and singular the Rectory and parsonage

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of Bokeland otherwise Burkland and the Glebes Closes pastures
Tythes Oblations Obventions Pensions portions Woods
Commons and profits thereto belonging and all other
Heredit[ament]s held by me under the Lease from the
Bishop of Bristol or to be held by me at the time
of my decease by virtue of or under any Renewal or
Renewals of the said Lease with their appurt[enance]s to
hold the same unto and To the use of the said
William Fermor and Francis Canning and their Heirs
during the lives and life of the persons and person
for whose lives or life the same now are or
hereafter shall under or by virtue of any renewed
Lease thereof be held upon the Trusts to and for the
Intents and purposes herein after declared of and
concerning the same (that is to say) Upon Trust in the
first place that they the said William Fermor and
Francis Canning and the survivor of them and the
Heirs or assigns of such Survivor do and shall during
the life of the persons respectively entitled under the
devices herein after contained to the premises for the
term of his natural life by and out of the Rents
Issues and profits of the premises Yearly and every
Year and in all other Times and Seasons, duly pay satisfy
and perform the several Rents Reservations Covenants
and Agreements which are reserved and contained in
the Lease now subsisting of the said premises or
which in and by any of the Lease or Leases thereof
to be from time to time renewed or taken as herein
is mentioned shall be reserved and contained on
the part of the Lessee to be paid or performed and
Upon this further Trust that the said William Fermor
and Francis Canning and the Survivor of them and
the Heirs and assigns of such Survivor of them and
if they the said William Fermor and Francis Canning or
the Survivor of them or the Heirs or assigns of
such Survivor shall in their or his discretion think
proper by and out of the Rents Issues and profits of
the said Tythes Tenths and Heredit[ament]s or by Mortgaging
the same raise such a Sum or Sums of Money as
shall be sufficient to defray the Fine and Fines and
other charges Renewing the now Subsisting Lease
and any Lease or Leases to be hereafter taken
of the said Heredit[ament]s when and as any of the Lives
for which the same are held shall drop or fall in
and do and shall renew and fill up the Lives in
such Leases accordingly and I do hereby declare
that for the purposes aforesaid it shall and may
be lawful to and for the said William Fermor and
Francis Canning and the Survivor of them and the
Heirs and assigns of such Survivor to surrender and
yield up the presented Lease or any Lease to be
hereafter taken of the premises when and as any

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of the several Lives therein named shall drop or fall in
or the usual course for the renewal of such Leases
shall require or the said William Fermor and Francis
Canning or the Survivor of them or the Heirs or
assigns of such Survivor shall think fit and to take
a new Lease of the said Heredit[ament]s and premises

And I
Do hereby declare my Will to be That (Subject to the
aforesaid several Trusts) the said William Fermor and
Francis Canning their Heirs and assigns do and shall
stand and be seized of the Hereditaments comprised
in the said verified Lease or to be comprised in any
Leave to be hereafter taken of the said Hereditaments
Upon the Trusts and for the intents and purposes herein
after by me declared of and concerning the same (that
is to say) Upon Trust by with and out of Rents
Issues and profits thereof to pay my dear wife
Dame Lucy Throckmorton and her assigns during the
term of her natural life by four equal Quarterly
payments on the twenty fourth day June the
twenty ninth day of September the twenty fifth day of
December and the twenty fifth day of March in every
Year the annual sum of three hundred pounds
clear of all deductions for Taxes or upon any other
account whatsoever in addition to the annual sums
of Four hundred pounds and one hundred pounds
to which she is already entitled under or by virtue
of an Indenture bearing date the seventeenth day
of February one Thousand seven hundred and fifty
four and the said Indenture of the tenth day of
August one Thousand seven hundred and eighty two
the first Quarterly payment of the said annual sum
of Three hundred pounds to be made on such of
the said days of payment as shall happen next
after my decease and if the Rents Issues [and] profits of
the said Household premises shall at any time or
times be insufficient to answer and pay the said
Annual Sum of Three hundred pounds I charge my
personal Estate with such deficiency and Direct such
deficiency may be made good and paid by with and
out of the same and subject to the payment of
the said annual sum of Three hundred pounds

Upon further Trust to permit the said John Courtenay
Throckmorton and his assigns during the term of
his natural life to have hold and enjoy the said
Household premises and to receive and take the
Rents and profits thereof to and for his and
their own use and benefit and after his decease
Upon Trust to convey the said Household premises
to such Son of the said John Courtenay Throckmorton
who first or alone shall attain the Age of Twenty
one years or depart this life under that age leaving
Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the time

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of his decease or born in due time after and the
Heirs of such Son during the continuance of the
Lives or life which shall be then subsisting in the
same premises and if there shall be no Son of
the Body of the said John Courtenay Throckmorton who
shall live to attain the age of Twenty one Years or
who shall depart this life under that age leaving
Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the time
of his decease or born in due time after Upon Trust
to permit the said George Throckmorton the Grandson
and his assigns for the term of his natural life
to have hold and enjoy the said Household premises
and to receive and take the Rents and profits
thereof to and for his and their own use [and] benefit
and after his decease Upon Trust to convey the
said Household premises to such Son of the said George
Throckmorton the Grandson who first or alone shall
attain the Age of Twenty one years or depart this
life under that age leaving Issue Male of his Body
begotten living at the time of his decease or born
in due time after and the Heirs of such Son during
the continuance of the lives or life which shall be
then subsisting in the same premises and if there
shall be no Son of the Body of the said George
Throckmorton the Grandson who shall live to attain
the age of Twenty one Years or who shall depart
this life under that age leaving Issue Male of his
Body begotten living at the time of his decease or
born in due time after Upon Trust to permit the
said Charles Throckmorton and his assigns during
the term of his natural life to have hold [and] enjoy
the said Household premises and to receive and take
the Rents and profits thereof to and for his and
their own use and benefit and after his decease
Upon Trust to convey the said Household premises to
such Son of the said Charles Throckmorton who first
or alone shall attain the Age of Twenty one Years
or depart this life under that age leaving Issue
Male of his Body begotten living at the time of
his decease or born in due time after and the
Heirs of such Son during the continuance of the
lives or life which shall be then subsisting in the
same premises and if there shall be no Son of the
Body of the said Charles Throckmorton who shall live
to attain the age of Twenty one Years or who shall
depart this life under that age leaving Issue Male
of his Body begotten living at the time of his decease or
born in due time after Upon Trust to permit the
said Francis Throckmorton and his assigns during the
term of his natural life to have hold and enjoy the
said Household premises and to receive and take the
Rents and profits / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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thereof to and for his and their own use and benefit
and after his decease Upon Trust to convey the same
Household premises to such Son of the said Francis
Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain the age
of Twenty one years or depart this life under that
age leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten living
at the time of his decease or born in due time
after and the Heirs of such Son during the continuance
of the lives or life which shall be then subsisting in
the same premises and if there shall be no Son of the
Body of the said Francis Throckmorton who shall live
to attain the age of Twenty one Years or who shall
depart this life under that age leaving Issue Male of
his Body begotten living at the time of his decease
Upon Trust to permit the said William Throckmorton
and his assigns during the term of his natural life
to have hold and enjoy the said Household premises
and to receive and take the Rents and profits thereof
to and for his and their own use and benefit and
after his decease Upon Trust to convey the said
Household premises to such Son of the said William
Throckmorton who first or alone shall attain the Age
of Twenty one Years or depart this life under that age
leaving Issue Male of his Body begotten living at the
time of his decease or born in due time after and
the Heirs of such Son during the continuance of the
lives or life which shall be then subsisting in the
same premises and if there shall be no Son of the
said William Throckmorton who shall live to attain
the age of Twenty one Years or who shall depart
this life under that age leaving Issue Male of his
Body begotten living at the time of his decease or
born in due time after Upon Trust to convey the
same Household premises unto the Right Heirs of me
the said Sir Robert Throckmorton and Upon this further
Trust that in case the said John Courtenay Throckmorton
George Throckmorton the Grandson Charles Throckmorton
Francis Throckmorton and William Throckmorton or
any of them shall depart this life leaving Issue
an Eldest or only Son for the time being under
the Age of Twenty one years and who would in case
he had then attained the Age of Twenty one
Years be entitled to have the said Household
premises conveyed unto and to the use of him
and his Heirs as aforesaid They the said William
Fermor and Francis Canning and the Survivor of
them and the Heirs and assigns of such Survivor
do and shall from time to time pay and apply
the Rents and profits of the said Household premises
to the Guardian or Guardians of such Child or Children
for the time being and the same to be considered
and taken as part of the personal Estate or respective

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personal Estate of such Child or Children I give and
devise all and singular my Messuages Farms Lands
Tenements and Heredit[ament]s situate lying and being in
Aston in the County of Oxford unto and to the use
of my Grandson the said John Courtenay Throckmorton
his Heirs and assigns for ever for his and their
proper use and benefit I give and bequeath unto the
said William Fermor and Francis Canning all the surplus
or Residue of the Money to arise by Sale of the said
Buscot and Haddon Estates after discharging the Bond
Debts and Mortgage Debts so directed to be paid thereout
as aforesaid and all my personal Chattels [and] Estate
of what nature or kind soever except those which I hold
in Trust for any person Upon the Trusts and for the
Intents and purposes herein after declared of and
concerning the same (that is to say) Upon Trust
therewith to pay my Funeral Expenses and the Charges
of proving this my Will and all Debts owing by and
upon simple Contract and also all the Legacies
while I give by this my Will or which I may
hereafter give by any Codicil or other Testamentary
Disposition

And upon further Trust by with and out of
the same to pay off and Discharge the Sum of one
Thousand five hundred and fifty pounds Ꚛ I give and
bequeath the same to my said Grandson John Courtenay
Throckmorton his Executors admin[istrat]ors and assigns for
his and their proper use and benefit
(the following appears in the middle left margin with the insertion point Ꚛ indicated four lines above)
so charged upon the said
Buckinghamshire Estate
by way of Mortgage as aforesaid
in order that the said Estate
may be wholly exonerated and
discharged from the same and
as to somuch of the said surplus
or residue of the Monies to arise
by Sale of the said Buscott
and Haddon Estates and of my
said personal Chattels and
Estates as shall remain after
paying the said debts charges
and Legacies and the said sum
of one thousand five hundred
and fifty pounds

I give and
bequeath unto the Child or unto each and every of
the Children which I may have by my present
Wife who being a Son or Sons shall attain the
age of Twenty one Years or being a Daughter or
Daughters shall live to attaint the age of Twenty
one years or be married the Sum of Three Thousand
pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid
to such Son or Sons respectively upon his or their
respectively attaining the age of twenty one years or
to such Daughter or Daughters respectively upon her
or their respectively attaining the said age of Twenty
one Years or being married which shall first happen

And I will and direct that if I Shall happen
to have any such Child or Children who at the
time of my decease being a Son or Sons shall be
under the age of Twenty one years or being a
Daughter or Daughters shall be under that age
and unmarried Then such yearly Sum or Sums of
Money shall from the time of my decease be from
time to time paid for his her or their Maintenance
and Education as will be Equivalent to what the
Interest of the Sum or Sums of Money before by me
given and bequeathed to such Child or Children
shall amount to after the rate of four pounds for
every one hundred pounds by the year until such

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Child or Children shall be respectively actually entitled
to receive the principal of the Sum or Sums of
money so bequeathed to them respectively as aforesaid

I also give unto my Wife Lady Throckmorton the Sum
of one Thousand pounds to be paid unto her within
one Calendar Month next after my decease and all
the Furniture Goods Books and China now in the
house of M[iste]r Robert Fogg of Bond Street the Forte
Piano Organ made by Gainer now in my Library
at my said Mansion house in Buckland my India
Japanned Cabinet My portrait in Crayons by Losaro?
now in the possession of M[isse]s Brousley Chester at her
house in Upper Brook Street my Harpsichord and my
small enamelled portrait by Hout? and my Coach and
postchaise and the Harnesses thereto belonging

I give
to my Grand daughter Miss Teresa Throckmorton one
Thousand pounds and to M[iste]r Orme one hundred pounds
and to my Daughter in Law M[isse]s Throckmorton and
to my Daughter M[isse]s Fitzherbert Twenty pounds apiece
for Mourning

I give to M[isse]s Petronilla Rorquiguy and
her assigns during her natural life one Annuity or
clear yearly Sum of Twenty pounds free of all
deductions and reprizes whatsoever to be paid to her
by four equally Quarterly payments in the year
(that is to say) the twenty fifth day of March the
twenty fourth day of June the twenty ninth day of
September and the twenty fifth day of December the
first Quarterly payment to be made on such of the
said days as shall first happen next after my
Decease and I charge my Real and personal Estate
with the payment of the said Annuity

And I give
unto all such domestic Servants who shall be in my
Service at the time of my decease six Months Wages
over and besides what shall be their otherways due
and owing unto them and also Mourning to each
and also Mourning unto each of my Stewards and
Bailiffs who are not esteemed to be my domestic
Servants

And as to all the personal Estate which
I hold In Trust for any person or persons and as
to all the Real Estate not herein before disposed
of or whereto I or any person or persons In Trust
for me am is or are seized or possessed or entited
unto in possession Reversion Remainder or Expectancy
I give and devise the same respectively according
to the nature and quality thereof unto the said
John Courtenay Throckmorton his Heirs Executors Admin[istrat]ors
and assigns for his and their own use and benefit

And I nominate constitute and appoint the said
John Courtenay Throckmorton sole Executor of this my
last Will and Testament I desire to be buried in a
private manner in the parish Church of Coughton
aforesaid in the Tomb raised there by Robert

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Throckmorton Esquire who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy
Land about the year one Thousand five hundred and
nineteen My Corpse if I should die at a distance to
be attended to Coughton by one Mourning Coach on[ly]
and there to be joined by my Tenants in Worcestershire
and Warwickshire such Tenants who shall attend on
that occasion having Hatbands and Gloves given them
and the Funeral to be in the morning before Noon
and a Cold Dinner to be provided for the Tenants

Provided always and I do hereby declare that the
Receipt or Receipts in Writing of the said William
Fermor and Francis Canning or the Survivor of them or
the Executors Admin[istrat]ors or assigns of such Survivor shall
be a sufficient and full Discharge and sufficient and full
Discharges to any person or persons paying in the
said Trust Monies or any part thereof and that the
person or persons paying in the said Trust Monies or
any part thereof shall not be answerable or accountable
for the misapplication or non application or be bound
to use to the application of the Monies in such
receipt or receipts expressed or acknowledged to be
received provided always and I do hereby declare it to
be my Will that it shall and may be lawful to
and for the said William Fermor and Francis Canning
or the Survivor of them or the Heirs Ex[ecut]ors Adm[inistrat]ors
of such Survivor or an future Trustee or Trustees to
be appointed in the stead or of them or any
of them as herein after is mentioned at any time or
times before the Trust hereby in them respectively
reposed shall be fully executed performed or discharged
by any Writing or Writings under their his or her
hands and Seals or hand and Seal to nominate
substitute and appoint any other person or persons to
be a Trustee or Trustess in the Trust of this my
Will and for that purpose to make do and execute
all proper acts conveyances assignments and assurances
in the Law so as legally an effectually to vest the
said Trust Estates Monies and premises in such
new or other Trustee and Trustees only or jointly
with such continuing Trustees or Trustee as the case
shall require upon the same Trusts as are herein before
declared of and concerning the same Trust Estates Monies
and premises respectively and then and in such case
every such new Trustee or Trustees shall and may
in all things act and assist in the management
carrying on and execution of the said Trusts to all
Intents effects Constructions and purposes whatsoever
as if he or they had been originally in and by
these presents nominated and appointed a Trustee
or Trustee and I particularly recommend and request
that such Substitution or nomination of a new
Trustee may be made on the death or resignation

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of any of the said Trustees and within three months
next after such an event shall take place But I do
hereby declare that every such nomination substitution
or appointment of a new Trustee or Trustees shall be
made with the consent in Writing of the persons entitled
under the Limitations in the said first herein before
recited Indenture of the tenth day of August one
Thousand seven hundred and eighty two to the Manors
and other Heredit[ament]s therein comprised and it is my
Will that the said several Trustees hereby nominated
and appointed or to be appointed by virtue of the
proviso last herein before contained each and every of
them and the heirs Executors Admin[istrat]ors and assigns of
them each and every of them shall be charged and
chargeable respectively only for such Monies as they
shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the Trusts
hereby in them reposed notwithstanding his or their
or any of their giving or signing or joining in giving
or signing any Receipt or Receipts for the sake of
conformity and that each of them shall only be
answerable for himself and his own acts and that
they shall not be answerable for any Banker Broker
or other person with whom or in whose hands any
part of the said Trust Monies shall or may be
deposited or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any
security in or upon which the said Trust Monies or
any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor
for any other misfortune loss or damage which may
happen in the Execution of the aforesaid Trusts or in
Relation thereto except the same shall happen by or
through their own wilful default respectively and it
shall be lawful to and for the said Trustees or Trustee
to compound any Debts owing to me and pay any
Debts owing by me in such manner and on such
Evidence as they or he shall think proper to admit
and also to retain to and reimburse himself and
themselves respectively and to allow to his and their
Co-Trustee and Co-Trustees all above Costs Charges
Damages and Expenses which they or any of them
shall or may suffer sustain expend Disburse be out or
be put unto in or about the execution of any of
the aforesaid Trusts or in Relation thereunto

In
Witness whereof I the said Sir Robert Throckmorton have
to this my last Will and Testament and to a
Duplicate thereof both contained in three skins of
parchment set my hand and Seal this thirteenth
Day of March in the year of our Lord Christ one
Thousand seven hundred and eighty eight The
mark of Sir Robert Throckmorton Bar[onet] (SIGNATURE MARK) Signed
Sealed published and declared by the above named Sir
Robert Throckmorton as and for his last Will and
Testament in the presence of us who at his request

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in his presence and in the presence of each other have
hereunto written our Names as Witnesses attesting the
same, John Rawbone, Curate of Buckland - Henry Clifford
Esquire of Lincoln's Inn - Step Hope, Clerk to Cha[rle]s Butler
Esq[uir]e Lincoln's Inn

This Will was proved at London the twenty
seventh day of February in the Year of our Lord one
Thousand seven hundred and ninety two before the
Worshipful William Battine Doctor of Laws Surrogate of
the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of
Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative
Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Sir
John Courtenay Throckmorton Baronet the Grandson of
the Deceased the sole Executor named in the said Will to
whom administration was granted of all and singular
the Goods Chattels and credits of the said Deceased having
been first sworn duly to administer.

(the following appears in the upper left margin and was added 47 years after the Will was proved.)

On the 6th February 1839 Adm[inistrat]or
with the Will annexed / of the
Goods Chattels and Credits of
Sir Robert Throckmorton late
of Buckland in the County of Berks
Baronet dec[ease]d left unadm[inistere]d by Sir
John Courtenay Throckmorton
Baronet dec[ease]d whilst living the
Grandson of the said Deceased
and the sole Executor and
Residuary legatee named in
the said Will was granted
to Robert George otherwise Robert
Throckmorton Esquire the
administrator (with the Will
annexed of the Goods left
unadm[inistere]d of the said Sir John
Courtenay Throckmorton dec[ease]d
having been first sworn
by Commission) duly to administer
the said Sir John Courtenay
Throckmorton of his said Will
appointed his Wife Dame
Mary Throckmorton
and his Brother William
Throckmorton Executors
who duly proved the same
and are both dead The
said Dame Mary Throckmor-
ton Survived her Co-Executor
and made her Will but
did not thereof appoint any
Executor and William Fermor and
Francis Canning the Resid[uar]y Legatees
In Trust named for the said Will of the said
Sir Robert Throckmorton being both dead

End