Will of Peter Robert Venables HINDE (1761-1836)
National Archives Document Reference: PROB 11/883/605
This is the Last Will and Testament of me Peter Robert Venables HINDE one of the senior fellows of Kings College Cambridge. I give bequeath and devise to nephew William WHITTINGTON all by real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and where so ever upon trust nevertheless by and out of the yearly rents interest and produce arising thereon to pay to my sisters Charlotte HINDE, Louisa HINDE, and Obriana WHITTINGTON the rents of my freehold houses situate in Bartletts Buildings Holborn and my freehold house in Hitchin during their lives with benefit of survivorship as each may die to the remaining sisters or sister. And upon the cease of the above mentioned sisters I give the above freehold houses to my nephew William WHITTINGTON during his life if he remains unmarried but to his children in case he marries. And upon his death without issue I give the said houses to my sister Harriett WILSON Widow for her life and after her death to her children in perpetuity.
I bequeath one hundred pounds per annum to be paid out of my personal property to my sisters Charlotte HINDE and Louisa HINDE conjointly. One hundred pounds per annum to my nephew William WHITTINGTON.
To my sister Harriett WILSON two hundred yearly for her own use and her children upon her death.
These several sums are to be paid out of the interest due to me upon the ? rents and money now laying in my Bankers hands to be put out to interest by my trustee William WHITTINGTON. I give and bequeath to my sisters Charlotte and Louisa all the wine in my cellar at Cambridge, all my plate my furniture and musical instruments in short all my effects save and except my clothes and linen of all sort and kinds. I bequeath to Mary GIBSON my servant all my linen and wearing apparel of every kind and forty pounds. I hereby forgive all the monies due to me from William WILSON as well as from his family amounting to upwards of eleven thousand pounds. I likewise declare that the money now standing in my name in Long Annuities amounting to five hundred per an is not mine but in trust for my brother Sir Samuel HINDE and my sisters Charlotte HINDE and Louisa HINDE. I appoint William WHITTINGTON and my sister Louisa HINDE executor and executrix of this my Will sealed deliveried as my Will by me Peter Robert Venables HINDE. Witnesses Martin THACKERAY Vic Provst Kings College James PACKE Kings College and James LAWRENCE
Appeared personally William WHITTINGTON of Hitchin in the County of Hertford Esquire and Louisa Anna HINDE of the same place spinster the executors named in the Last Will and Testament of the Reverend Peter Robert Venables HINDE late one of the senior fellows of Kings College Cambridge at Cambridge in the County of Cambridge Clerk deceased the same being now hereunto annexed and attested by three witnesses but being without date and made oath that soon after the death of the said deceased they applied to and has personal communication that is to say the appearer William WHITTINGTON with Martin THACKERAY James PARKE and James LAWRENCE the three subscribers witnesses to the said Will and the other appearer with Martin THACKERAY and James LAWRENCE and produced to them severally the said Will and minutely and particularly interrogated them with a view to ascertain the date at which the said Will was executed by the said deceased and attested by them in manner as now thereon appears but that although the said witnesses severally recognised their signatures to the said Will and expressed their recollection of
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The fact of having been present when he said Will was executed by the said deceased and their belief that the same occurred several years ago yet that neither of them as they declared and as the appearers believe to be the truth was enabled to recall to his recollection or to state to them either the day month or year in which such the execution thereof took place and they further made oath that they have also made enquiry of the servant of the said deceased for the contents of the said Will viz to the designation of Mary GIBSON as the servant of the said deceased and to the direction that certain bequests thereby made should be satisfied out of the interest due to him the deceased from dutch rents and referring to the designation affixed to the name of the Martin THACKERAY as one of the subscribed witnesses thereto further made oath that they believe and are in their own minds thoroughly convinced that the said Will was made and executed on a day occurring subsequent to the fourteenth day of March 1833 by reason that the said Mary GIBSON did not enter the service of the said deceased until the summer of the year 1832 and that the said deceased had no interest whatever arising or which had or would become due to him in respect of Dutch rents until the said fourteenth day of March on which day a purchase was made for him of ninety six thousand gilders Dutch two and a half per cent being the stock commonly called Dutch Rentes and that the same was executed prior to the eleventh of September 1834 by reason that the said Martin THACKERAY ceased to be Vice Provost of Kings College on that day and appears lastly made oath that they have made very particular and minute search in the repositories and amongst the papers of the said deceased and also enquiry of his Bankers friends and acquaintances and others with a view to learn whether the deceased made or left behind any Will or paper writing of a testamentary nature affecting his property other than the aforesaid Will but that they have been unable to discover or obtain any ? of any such save and except that have found amongst letters and other papers in his rooms at Kings College a former and uncancelled Will and Codicil thereto dated respectively in the years 1821 and 1824 and a paper writing in the said deceased handwriting but unsigned by him dated the 10th day of March 1833 containing amongst other things directions to them the Appears to put the money in then in the hands of his Bankers out upon good security at 5 per cent interest in case he should die before having himself so done but which he himself did in four days afterwards by the purchase of the said Dutch Rentes as by them already deposed and directing them upon so putting out the said money to make certain payments out of the interest thereof but the appears say that they have been legally advised and believe that the said last mentioned paper writing was rendered useless and void as well by such purchase of the said Dutch Rentes as by the subsequent making and execution of the aforesaid annexed will. William WHITTINGTON, Lousia Anna HINDE on the 18th day of August 1837 the said William WHITTINGTON and Louisa Anna HINDE were duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me John DAUBENY, CRICKILL Notary Public
Proved at London 23rd August 1837 before the Worshipful John DAUBENY Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of William WHITTINGTON Esquire the nephew and Louisa Anna (in the Will written Louisa) HINDE Spinster the sister the executors to whom admin was granted having been first sworn only to administer.
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