This is the last Will and Testament of me Edmund Boghurst of Kingston in the 
Parish of Portsea in the County of Hants Builder - I hereby nominate and 
appoint my friends John Green of Hilsea in the said County Yeoman and 
Charles Matthew of Buckland in the Parish aforesaid Brewer Executors of this 
my Will- I Give and bequeath my Silver Cream Jug and my Silver Salt cellars 
with the Spoons belonging to the same unto my Daughter Harriet the Wife of 
John Brown of Portsea aforesaid Gentleman to and for her own Use benefit and 
disposal- I Give and bequeath All that my Messuage or Dwellinghouse and 
Carpenters Shop with the Yard Garden Outlet and Appurtenances thereto 
belonging situate and being or near Kingston Cross aforesaid and now in my 
own occupation- And all and every other of my Messuages Lands Tenements and 
Hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever situate and being whereof wherein 
or whereto I am in any way seized possessed or entitled or over which I have 
any disposing Power unto the said John Green and Charles Matthews their 
Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns according to the different 
Tenures of such Messuages Lands and Hereditaments respectively Upon Trust 
that they the said Trustees and the Survivor of them his Heirs Executors and 
Administrators shall and do (when they or he shall deem it proper) after my 
decease sell and dispose of all and singular the said Messuages Lands and 
Hereditaments either together and in one lot or in several lots and either 
by public Sale or Private Contract as to them my said Trustees or Trustee 
shall seem meet And also make execute and perfect all necessary or proper 
writings Conveyances and Assurances for vesting the same in the Purchaser or 
Purchasers thereof and for such Uses intents and purposes as as he She or 
they shall direct or appoint And for facilitating such sale of the said 
Messuages Lands and Hereditaments I do hereby direct and declare that the 
receipt or receipts of my said Trustees and the Survivor of them his Heirs 
Executors or Administrators shall be a good and sufficient discharge or good 
and sufficient discharges to the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof for his her 
or their purchase money and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be 
ob;iged to see to the application of such purchase money or to be in any 
ways answerable or accountable for the misapplication or non application 
thereof or of any part thereof And I will and direct that they my said 
Trustees and the Survivor of them his Executors and Administrators do and 
shall stand and be possessed of the Monies to arise by such sale or Sales 
and the rents and Profits of the said Messuages and Hereditaments in the 
mean time until such Sale in and upon the Trusts intents and purposes 
hereinafter expressed concerining the same And I give and bequeath All my 
household Goods and furniture Plate linen and china Stock in Trade ready 
money and Securities for money Book and other Debts and all the rest residue 
and remqainder of my personal Estate Goods Chattells and effects (not 
hereinbefore disposed of) unto the said John Green and Charles Matthews 
their Executors Administrators and Assigns Upon trust that they the said 
Trustees and the Survivor of them his Heirs Executors and Administrators do 
and shall convert into money such part or parts thereof as shall not consist 
of money at the time of my decease and as to the monies to arise therefrom 
and the money to arise or be produced by sale of my said Messuages and 
Hereditments (subject nevertheless to the payment of my Debts and funeral 
and testamentary expences) I will and direct that they the said Trustees and 
the Survivor of them his Executors and Administrators shall and do lay out 
and invest such respective monies to some or one of the public Stocks or 
funds of this ..... or upon other real Securities (which Stocks funds and 
Securities  they or he are hereby authorised and..... to alter and change as 
often as they or he shall see occasion) And do and shall pay apply and 
dispose of the Interest Dividends and Annuel Proceeds thereof And the rents 
issues and profitts of such my Said Messuages and Hereditaments as shall 
remain unsold as and when the same shall respectively come due and be 
received Unto and for the Maintenance Education and bringing up of such of 
my Children as shall be under the Age of Twenty one years at the time of my 
decease until the youngest of my said children shall attain his or her age 
of Twenty one years And when and as soon as such youngest child shall have 
attained his or her age of twenty one Then Upon Trust to pay Assign and 
transfer the whole of the said Trust monies and Effects unto my children 
Edmund, Harriet the Wife of the said John Brown, John Horn, Thomas, George, 
William and Elizabeth to be equally divided between them share and share 
alike And in case the Youngest of my said Children shall happen to die 
before he or she shall have attained the said age of twenty oneThen the 
division and transfer of my said Trust monies and Effects shall be when the 
next youngest of my said Children shall attain that age and soon and in like 
manner with respect to my other Children shall attain that age and soon and 
in like manner with respect to my other Children It being my will and 
meaning that the said Division and Transfer shall take place and be made 
when my youngest surviving Child shall attain his or her age of twenty one 
years - Whereas for the further and better advancement of several of my said 
Children in life I have at different times and on various occasions paid 
laid out and expended the several Sums following (that is to say) for and on 
account of my said Son Edmund the Sum of Thirty Pounds for and on account of 
my said Daughter Harriet the Sum of Fifty Pounds for and on account of my 
said Son John Horn the Sum of one hundred Pounds and for and on account of 
my said Son Thomas the Sum of Fifty pounds Now my will and Meaning is And I 
hereby direct and declare that they my said Children namely Edmund, Harriet, 
John Horn and Thomas, shall not have or receive or be intitled to so great a 
share or proportion of the said Trust monies and effects as each of my said 
other Children by the value or amount of the said aforementioned several 
Sums as I have advanced and paid for them respectively as aforesaid - And I 
hereby direct and declare that they my said Trustees and Executors their 
Executors and Administrators shall not be answerable or accountable for more 
monies than they shall respectively actually receive nor with or for any 
loss which may happen to the said trust monies and premises so as such loss 
happen without their respective wilfull default nor one of them for the 
other of them but each for his own Acts receipts defaults or disbursements 
of the other of them but each for his own Acts receipts defaults or 
disbursements only And also that it shall and may be lawful to and for my 
said Trustees and Executors their Heirs Executors and Administrators to 
reimburse themselves respectively all such loss costs charges and expences 
as they respectively shall sustain expend or be put unto in or about the 
execution of this my Will or the Trusts hereby in them reposed - And hereby 
revoking and making void all former and other Wills by me at any time 
heretofore made I Publish and declare this to be and contain my last Will 
and Testament only In Witness whereof I the said Edmund Boghurst the 
Testator have to this my only last Will and Testament contained in three 
sheets of paper set my hand and seal (that is to say) my hand to the two 
sheets hereto annexed and my hand and seal hereto  the Thirtieth day of 
March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen 
 
Edmund Boghurst 
 
James Collins 
WH Goodfellow 
Chas Tring 
 
Proved 19th November 1822 
Hampshire Record Office 
1822A/7/1