Will of Thomas Noel 1705-1788 MP

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1 Introduction
2 Summary of Legacies
3 Will Transcript
4 Research Notes
5 Sources

Introduction

This is the last Will and Testament of Thomas Noel. (1705-1788) He was the son of John Noel and Elizabeth Sherard.
He was a wealthy land owner with vast Properties, Manors, Messuages, Hereditaments, Tenements, Advowsons and Mortgages in six counties;
Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
He commisioned a Monument to be erected in memory of his late wife Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Gainsborough, her late husband, Baptist Noel and himself at St Peter and St Paul church in Exton, Rutland.
He was a Member of Parliament for 48 Years. He represented Rutland from 4 March 1728 until 1741 and again from 31 January 1753 until 18 June 1788. ^[1]

Summary of Legacies

All real estate, rents, mortgages and income interest to be held in Trust and be preserved by Lord Robert Manners, his heirs and assigns jointly with Sir Horatio Mann Knight, his heirs and assigns for the listed heirs of Thomas Noel as follows:
Mary Poucher of said Duke Street one hundred pounds paid yearly from Estate, upon her decease to her heirs and assigns;
Alice Poucher spinster daughter of Mary Poucher, upon demise of Mary Poucher one hundred pounds paid annually from Estate.
John Brierely, said servant, one hundred pounds paid yearly, upon his decease to his heirs and assigns
Alice, my sister, use of living in Walcot Mansion and inventory within for life, and use of Estate funds, under Trust outlined, for herself and her heirs and assigns.
Right Honorable Henry Earl of Gainsboro, his legitimate male heirs, in order of birth, and their assigns, upon the demise of Alice, the use and profits of Estate and to preserve said Estate.
Right Honorable Lady Sophia Nevill, wife of Christopher Nevill, upon default of Right Honorable Henry Earl of Gainsboro, the rights, profits and uses of Estate for her life to and to preserve Estate, and pass to her first son and each son in birth order.

Executors of Will

Lord Robert Manners
Sir Horatio Mann,Knight, of Cottesmore in the county of Rutland.

People Listed in Will in order

Thomas Noel, Esquire
Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Gainsborough, my late wife
Lord Robert Manners
Sir Horatrio Mann, Knight
Mary Poucher, single woman residing on Duke Street, parish of St George, Hanover Square in county of Middlesex
John Brierely, my servant
Alice Poucher, spinster, daughter of Mary Poucher
Alice Noel, my sister
Right Honorable Henry Earl of Gainsborough
Right Honorable Lady Sofia Neville wife of Christopher Neville Esquire
Right Honorable Lady Ann Noel
Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Noel
Right Honorable Lady Mary Noel
Lady Elizabeth Noel (sister of Sir Henry)
Lady Jane Edwards(sister of Sir Henry')
Lady Lucy Mann (sister of Sir Henry)
Right Honorable Julianna Evans, daughter of Julianna (Carbery)

Witnesses of Will

James Manners, Thos Edwards and Thomas Godfrey

Real Estate Locations

In counties of:
Northampton
Rutland
Leicester
Nottingham
Gloucester
Lincoln

Property

Walcot Mansion (personal residence)
Manors, Mortgages, Messuages, Advowments Lands Hereditaments and Rents of Tenements and Premises in the six counties named above.

Will Transcript

[Page 1]

This is the Last Will
and Testament of me Thomas Noel of Walcott in the county
of Northampton Esquire made this twenty seventh day of
February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy three. I desire to be buried at Exton in the country of
Rutland and I desire a monument may be erected in
the church of Exton afore said to the memory of Elizabeth
the countess dowager of Gainsborough my late wife
deceased and myself and I charge my real estate with
the payment of such my debts funeral expenses Monument
and the primary charges hereafter given as my personal
Estate not herein after Specifically given or disposed of will
not to extend to pay and discharged and so charged and
chargeable I give and devise all the Manors Messauges
lands tenements Rectories Tythes Advowsons rent charges
hereditaments situate lying being or rising in or
within the counties of Northampton Lincoln Rutland Leicester
Nottingham Gloucester and about
or any of them or elsewhere whereof or wherein I or any
other person or persons in Trust for we have or hath or is
or entitled to any Estate of aforetold or '?'______

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in possession revision remainder? or expituary within thier and
every of thier rights __________appertanences with said
Robert Manners commonly called Lord Robert manners and
Sir Horatio Mann of Cottesmore in the county of Rutland Knight
and thier heirs to the uses upon the Trust for the wants and
purposes and with ____ and subject to the provisions and
Declarations here in after limited to salaries and expenses of or
reoccuring the same that is to say to the use intent and
purposethat Mary Powder now residing in Duke street in the
parish of Saint george Hanover Square in the county of
Middlesex single woman and John Brierely my servant may
and shall from and after my decease out of the said Manors
messuages land tenements rectories tithes hereditaments and
premises I formally have receive and take yearly and each year for
and during their respective lives such several anual summs
or yearly rents as are hereafter mentioned that is to say

Research Notes

Names below listed in Will as sisters of Henry Earl of Gainsborough]
Lady Elizabeth Noel (No marriage recorded) ^[2]
Lady Jane Noel Edwards (married Gerard Ann Edwards on 8 October 1754, son of Lord Hamilton and Mary Edwardes )^[2]
Lady Ann Noel (no marriage recorded) ^[2]
Lady Lucy Noel Mann (married Sir Horatio Mann, Knight 0n 13 pril 1765, son of Galfridus Mann and Sarah Gregory) ^[2]
Lady Mary Noel (relationship?) ^[2]
Lady Sophia Noel Nevile (married Christopher Nevile, resided at Wellingore, Lincolnshire) ^[2]
Right Honorable Julianna Noel Evans, daughter of Julianna {Barroness of Carbery}, she married George Evans on 7 February 1760. ^[2]

Other Siblings of Henry (Noel) Earl of Gainsborough
Penelope Noel
Lord Baptist Noel
Charles Noel
Susanna Noel
(Further sources required.) Lawrence-17722 15:19, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Sources

↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/noel-thomas-1705-88
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Thepeerage.com: Thomas Noel Cites: Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.