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PROB 11/351/63 Will of Maurice Thomson of Haversham, Buckinghamshire 09 May 1676

PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of Maurice Thomson of Haversham, Buckinghamshire 09 May 1676

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30/11/11, CSG: made minor edits

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See Jeremy Blackman senior will

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Maurice Thomson of Haversham in the County of Bucks Esquire being of good health of Body and of Mind and perfect Memory blessed be God for the same doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following That is to say

ffirst I give and bequeath my Soule into the hands of Almighty God that gave it mee stedfastly beleeving by ffaith the free pardon and remission of all my sinnes in and through the most pretious blood of my deare and blessed Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ By whose meritts alone through free Grace I hope for lyfe and salvation forever and ever Amen My Body I Committ to the Earth to be buryed if it may be in Haversham Chancell by my deare wife

And as touching the disposicon of my workes Estate which the Lord hath been pleased to blend mee wich I give devise bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth

ffirst I give and bequeath to one hundred poore silenced Ministers Twenty shillings a peece To be paid them within One Month next after my decease

ITEM I give and bequeath unto Arthur Thomson Helena Thomson and Elizabeth Thomson the Three children of my deare sonn Sir John Thomson Baronett One hundred Pounds a peece when they shall be of the age of One and Twenty yeares And if any one of them shall happen to depart this life before that are Then I give the One Hundred pounds of him or her so dying to the survivors equally to be devided betweene them And if Two of them shall happend to dye before the said age of One and Twenty yeares Then I gyve the whole Three Hundred Pounds to the survivor of them And I give and Bequeath to my Grandchildren by my eldest daughter the Lady Katherin XXXXX late wife of S:r John XXXXX Knight and Baronett as followeth viz:t To M:rs Katherin Witxxxxx the eldest daughter the summe of ffower hundred pounds of lawfull money of England To Anne Witwroxx the second daughter

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the summe of Two hundred Pounds And to Helena Witrwronxx the Third daughter Two hundred Pounds To be paid them at theire respective ages of One and Twenty yeares or dayes of marriage which shall first happen And if any one of them shall happen to dye before the age of One and Twenty yeares or day of marriage Then I give the share of her so dying to the survivors equally to be devided betweene them And if Two of them shall happen to dye before the age of One and Twenty yeares or dayes of marriage Then I give theire whole shares or Legacyes to the survivor of them

ITEM I give and bequeath unto my Two hopefull (sic) Grandchildren William and Samuell Oldfield One Hundred Pounds a peece at theire respective ages of One and Twenty yeares

ITEM I give and confirme to my deare brothers George & William and Robert Thomson Trustees for my daughter Martha Corsellis during her naturall life the yearely summe of One Hundred Pounds viz:t ffyve and Twenty Pounds to be paid them Three brothers or one of them or the executors or administrators of the Survivor of them every Quarter according to a deed of Settlement in that behalf by mee made to be disposed of as shee shall from time to time direct and appoint by Writing under her hand And I also give and bequeath to her the said Martha Corsellis the summe of One Hundred Pounds To be paid within One yeare next after my decease And I give to Nicholas Corsellis her sonne the summe of One Hundred Pounds when he shall atteine the age of Six and Twenty yeares

ITEM I give and bequeath unto my ffowerth daughter Elizabeth ?Alston wife of Joseph Alston Esquire The summe of One Hundred Pounds To be paid within one yeare next after my decease And I give to her Three hopefull sonnes Joseph Alston Edward Alston and Maurice Alston The summe of One Hundred Pounds a peece To be paid at theire respective ages of One and Twenty yeares

ITEM I give bequeath and devise unto my said dearely beloved sonn S:r John Thomson Baronett All my ffreehold mannors Lands Tenements and hereditaments in England Ireland Barbadoes ?Cureco S:t Christophers Virginia the ?Caribie Islands and elsewhere not herein afterwards by mee or otherwise disposed of for and during his naturall life without impeachment of ?Wast OR ?Mast And immediately from and after his decease I give devise and bequeath All and Singular my said ffreehold Mannors Lands Tenements and hereditaments in England Ireland Virginia the Carebee Islands Barbadoes S:t Christophers and elsewhere unto my deare Grandson Arthur Thomson Esquire eldest sonn of the said S:r John Thomson for and dureing the terme of his naturall life without impeachment of ?Mast And after his decease I give and devise the same to the eldest sonn of the said Arthur Thomson lawfully to be begotten and the heires of his naturall life without impeachment ?Mast And after his decease I give and devise the same to the eldest sonn of the said Arthur Thomson lawfully to be begotten and the heires male of his body lawfully issuing And for want of such issue I give and devise the same To all and every other sonne and sonnes of the said Arthur Thomson and the heires male of the body of all and every such sonnes issuing severally and successively The elder of such sonnes and the heires male of his body being to be preferred and taken allwayes before all the younger of such sonnes and the heires male of his and theire bodyes issuing And for default of such issue To the use and behoofe of the Second Third ffowerth ffifth Sixth Seaventh Eighth Ninth and Tenth Sonn and Sonnes and all and every other sonn and sonnes of the body of the said S:r John Thomson and the heires male of theire bodys issues severally and successively as such sonnes shall be in seniority The eldest of such sonnes and the heires male of his body being allwayes preferred and to take before all the younger and the heires male of his body being allwayes preferred and to take before all the younger and the heires male of his and theire bodyes And for default of such issue I give and devise the same Mannors Lands Tenements and hereditaments to my owne right heires forever

ITEM I give to my said sonn S:r John Thomson his executors and administrators All my Leases for yeares merchandizes and Adventures and my East India adventure and the profitts thereof and all Bills Bonds ready money plate household stuff and other personall Estate of what nature or kind soever which I shall have to be instituted unto at the time of my death (My debts funerall charges and also the Legacyes herein by mee particularly devised being thereout first deducted and paid)

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upon Trust and Confidence that he shall only have the use of such part thereof as is fitt to remaine in specie and the yearely interest and other profitt and proceed of the other part thereof and whereof and yearely interest and other proceed shall or may be made for and during the terme of his naturall life And upon further Trust that he shall either in his life time by deed or his last Will in Writing devide the principall among all the children of him the said S:r John Thomson in such partes and proportions as to him the said S:r John Thomson shall seeme meete And for default of such appointment upon Trust and confidence that he the said S:r John Thomson shall permitt the same to ?same (or some) to and be enioyed intirely by the said Arthur Thomson his executors and administrators forever yet nevertheless if my said sonne S:r John Thomson shall be putt to any expense or charges in or about my said personall Estate he may and shall deduct somuch out of the said principall of my said personall Estate as will fully answeare and satisffy such charges and expenses And my mind is that my said sonn S:r John Thomson his executors or administrators shall not be charged or chargeable with any more of the said principall of my personall Estate than shall come to his or theire hands now with any losse of any part or parts thereof happening without his or theire wilfull default and my further Will is and I doe by these ?presence give devise and bequeath unto the said S:r John Thomson for his life And after his decease To the second sonn of the said S:r John Thomson lawfully begotten and the heires of the body of such second sonn and for default of such issue To the Third sonn of the said S:r John Thomson and the heires of his Body And for default of such issue To thje said Arthur Thomson and his heires All my houses Lands and Gardens with the appurtenances without Bishopsgate London And I will give and devise to the said S:r John Thomson for his life And after his decease To the Third sonn of S:r John Thomson and the heires of his body And for want of such issue To the Second sonn of the said S:r John Thomson and the heires of his body And for deafult of such issue To the said Arthur Thomson and his heires All that my houses with the appurtenances in White Chappell Storage yard and Vinegar yard Provyded nevertheless and my Will is That if the Lady ffrances Thomson wife of my said sonn S:r John Thomson shall happen to dye before him the said S:r John Thomson Then I doe give the said S:r John Thomson full power and authority to settle a Jointure not exceeding Seaven hundred pounds a yeare ?one ?or (OR, ???of) any part of my Estate upon any woman he shall marry during her life only And I doe hereby nominate and appoint my said deare sonn S:r John Thomson to be full and whole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And my said Three brothers George S:r William and Robert Thomson to be Overseers of this my last Will And in Case my said sonn S:r John Thomson shall dye before thesaid Arthur Thomson shall atteine to the age of One and Twenty yeares Then I appoint my said brother Robert Thomson to be Executor of this my Will And deliver him to see to the breeding of my deare Grandson Arthur Thomson in the feare of God and to see to the performance of my Will and distributing of my whole Estate according to the intent of this ?my Will and the breeding of all the said S:r John Thomson s children vertuously and handsomely and to help to preferr them in marriage according to my full Trust and confidence in him And I doe hereby null and make void all former wills and Testaments by mee made willing this to stand irrevocable

In Witness whereof I the said Maurice Thomson to this my last Will and Testament conteyning Six Sheets of Paper have sett my hand and seale to eache sheete thereof and afterwards published the same as my last Will and Testament this Three and Twentyth day of March In the Seaven and Twentyth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the greace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender of the ffaith xtc Anno Domini 1674

MAURICE THOMSON

Signed sealed published and delyvered after the interlyving of the word (Legacyes) in the ffowerth sheete in the presence of ?F: OR ?J: Buchanan Hen: ?Antrobus

PROBATUM apud London fuit huismodi Testamentum Coram venerabili vivo Richardo Lloyd Legum Doctore Surrogato venerabilis et eggregi vivi xx Leolini Jenkins militis legum etiam Doctoris Curia Praerogativa Cantuariensis Magistri Custodis sive Commissary legittime Constituti Nono dir Mensis Maij Anno Uno Millesimo Sepxentisimo Septuagesimo ?Sexto Juramento Xdomino Johannes Thomson Baronetti fili et Executoris in huismodi Testamento nominati Cui Commissa fuit Administratio omnium et singularum Bonarum Jurium et Creditorum dicti defunctxxx bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad sancta dei Evangelia in debita Jurisforma Jurat

Notes

Maurice Thompson, Churchwarden, parish of Stepney, 1647

At a vestry meeting for the parish of Stepney held on April 22nd 1647 to elect churchwardens for the year, Maurice Thomson was one of seventeen signators. There is a lengthy footnote providing a thumbnail biography of Maurice Thomson accompanying this record, in the Memorials of Stepney Parish. The footnote includes a quotation from a charge brought against him and his brother Robert Thompson, on June 24th, 1666, which claimes

"He was once a poor fellow in Virginia, but got a great estate in the wars, mostly rent out of the bowels of the King's party."

The footnote also states that he was residing in 1650 at "the mansion on Mile End Green known as Worcester house, which he sold in 1675 to the 'Church' of Stepney Meeting", that he was residing in Bishopsgate Street in 1652, that he purchased "the manor and entire parish of Elsham, in Lincolnshire" in 1655, and that he purchased property in Stepney in 1672 known as the 'Vinegar Yard, Grand Alley.'^[1]

Suggested primary sources

TNA

C 2/ChasI/B70/7 Short title: Barnard v Thompson. Plaintiff: Barnard. Defendant: Thompson and others. Document type: [Bill and answer or answers]. 1625-1660

C 5/53/81 Thompson v. Byddulph: Middlesex. 1668
C 5/457/5 Bourne v. Thompson: Middlesex 1649

C 6/114/6 Short title: Andrewes v Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, gover. Plaintiffs: Thomas Andrews, Francis Allen, Stephen Eastwick, George Thompson, Samuel Moyer and Maurice Thompson. Defendants: East India Company and others. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. 1651
C 6/145/137 Short title: Penniston v Cockaine. Plaintiffs: Anthony Penniston and Robert Penniston. Defendants: William Cockaine, Thomas Andrews, Morris Thomson, Nathaniel Witch and Aaron Baker. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1656
C 6/172/22 Short title: Crispe v Thompson. Plaintiffs: Sir Nicholas Crispe kt and Ellis Crispe. Defendants: Francis Thompson, Benjamin Andrews, Clement Oxenbridge, William Dickenson and Henry Bishop. Subject: Contract to take over and farm H M Post Offices. Document type: two bills, eight answers, plea, demurrer. 1662
C 6/179/23 Short title: Oldfeild v Appleton. Plaintiffs: Anna Oldfield widow. Defendants: Sir Henry Appleton baronet, Maurice Thomson, John Goodwin and Robert Thomson. Subject: marriage agreement, Lincolnshire. Document type: bill, three answers. SFP 1665
C 6/185/119 Short title: Thompson v Calvert. Plaintiffs: Maurice Thompson. Defendants: Richard Calvert and Edmund Calvert. Subject: manor of Cockerham, Lancashire. Document type: bill, answer. 1667
C 6/601/49 Short title: Thompson v Corselles. First plaintiff: Thompson. Defendants: Corselles. Document type: bill only. [1649-1714]
C 6/601/50 Short title: Thompson v Corselles. First plaintiff: Thompson. Defendants: Corselles. Document type: bill only. [1649-1714]
C 6/187/51 Short title: Goodwyn v Thomson. Plaintiffs: Thomasine Goodwyn. Defendants: Maurice Thomson. Subject: money matters. Document type: answer only. SFP 1670

C 9/5/116 Kendall v. Thompson 1650

C 10/57/9 Thomas Andrewes, Franics Allen, Stephen Eastwicke, George Thompson, Maurice Thompson and Samuel Moyer v the Governor etc of the East India Company, William Cockayne, William Methwold and John Massingberd: money matters. Answer 1651
C 10/59/16 Bolle, Andrewed, Modyford, Holworthy, Dawes v. Canham, Thompson, Rives, Bellamy: Middx 1660
C 10/69/9 Blancs v. Dethicke, Thompson, Langley, Upton: 1663
C 10/99/70 East India Co. v. Smith, Rider, Wood, Thompson 1661
C 10/152/79 Ken v. Governor, &c. of, East India company, Thompson, Riccard and others: Middx 1669

PROB 5/1026 THOMPSON, Maurice, esq, of Haversham, Bucks 1680

1. ↑ G.W. Hill, W.H. Frere (eds.), Memorials of Stepney parish that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 (Guilford, 1890-91), fn. 1, p. 189