This is the last Will and Testament of me John Vincent of Beech Hill in the 
Parish of Wokeing in the County of Surry Esquire  I Give and Devise unto my 
Niece Elizabeth Breton Daughter of Benjamin Day of Kensington in the 
County of Middlesex Esq.r and to her Heirs All that or those my undivided 
third Part or Parts of and in all those my two Messuages or Tenements with 
their Appurtenances Situate standing and being in half Moon Street in the 
Strand London adjoining to each other one in the Occupation of _______ 
Camnest Cabinet maker and the other in the Occupation of _______ a 
plumber and also of and in all that undivided third part of a Messuage or 
Tenement with the Appurtenances situate standing and being in Chandois 
Street near Covent Garden London and now or late in the Occupation of Hillary 
Wild a Baker and also of and in a Messuage or Tenement with the 
Appurtenances situate standing and being at Torpoint in the County of 
Cornwall now in the Occupation of ________ To have and to hold the said third 
part or parts of and in the said several Messuages or Tenements with their 
several and respective Appurtenances unto my said Niece Elizabeth Breton and 
her Heirs for ever Also I Give and bequeath unto my Friends Richard Street of 
West Clandon in the County of Surry Gentleman and John Chandler of 
Guildford in the said County of Surry Gentleman their Executors and 
Administrators All and Singular my Household Goods and Furniture of 
household Plate Jewels Books Ready Money Arrears of Rent and all and 
Singular my Personal Estate and Effects of every sort and kind In Trust that 
they or the Survivor or Survivors of them or the Executors or Administrators of 
such Survivor do as soon as may be after my Decease convert the same into 
Money and thereout pay all my just Debts (Except a Mortgage of five hundred 
pounds on my Copyhold Estate at Wokeing and the sum of Fifty pounds to 
William Vincent of Hardwick in the parish of Chertsey in the County of Surry 
the sum of Fifty pounds to James Vincent of Guildford aforesaid and the sum 
of Fifty pounds to Anne Tull of Chertsey aforesaid Widow) within three 
Months next after my decease and as my Personal Estate will not be sufficient 
to pay and Satisfy my just debts and Legacys so directed to be paid thereout I 
do hereby charge my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Farms Lands and 
Tenements with their Appurtenances which are standing and being in the 
Tithings of Crastock and Sutton Moors in the Parish of Woking in the said 
County of Surry and now in the Occupation of James Wigman or his Assigns 
and my Copyhold Estate Messuage or Tenement Farm Lands and Premises with 
their Appurtenances situate standing and being in the Parish of Yately in the 
County of Southampton and now in the Tenure or Occupation of Edward Pain 
and which I have surrendered to the use of my last Will with the payment of so 
much thereof as my Personal Estate will not extend to pay  Also I Give and 
Devise unto Ann Tulle of Chertsey aforesaid Widow for and during the Term of 
her natural Life One Annuity or Yearly Rent Charge of Forty Pounds of lawful 
Money of Great Britain  Also I Give and devise to my Servant William Hill for 
and during his natural Life One Annuity or Yearly Rent Charge of Fifteen 
Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain both which Annuitys of Forty Pounds 
to Ann Tull and Fifteen Pounds to William Hill I order to be paid out of my 
Messuage or Tenement Farm Lands and Premises called Moore Lane and now 
in the Occupation of Thomas Baker or his assigns by equal half yearly 
Payments free from any deductions or Abatements whatsoever for or on 
Account of Taxes or any other matter whatsoever and which Estate I make 
chargeable with the same the first Payment to begin and be made within Six 
Calendar Months next after my decease  Also I Give and devise unto the said 
Richard Street and John Chandler their Executors and Administrators All that 
and those my Freehold and Copyhold Messuages and Tenements Farms Lands 
and Premises situate standing and being in Wokeing aforesaid and now in my 
own Occupation and also all that and those my Freehold Messuage or 
Tenement Farm Lands and Premises and the Great Tithes of the Tithing of 
Sutton and one Acre of Copyhold Meadow Ground with their Appurtenances in 
the Parish of Wokeing and now in the Tenure or Occupation of Thomas Baker 
or his Assigns  And also all that my Freehold and Leasehold Messuage or 
Tenement Farm and Lands in Wokeing aforesaid in the Occupation of James 
Wigman or his Assigns and also all that my Messuage or Tenement Farm Lands 
and Premises situate standing and being at Pirford in the said County of Surry 
and now in the Tenure or Occupation of my Cousin John Vincent or his Assigns 
together with one Acre of Copyhold Land in the Occupation of John Vanndle 
and also all that my Messuage or Tenement  with the Appurtenances situate 
standing and being in Chandois Street near Covent Garden London now in the 
Tenure or late Occupation of _______ Carter a Mercer or his Assigns and also 
all that my Messuage or Tenement  with the Appurtenances situate standing 
and being in Bedfordbury near Covent Garden London and late in the 
Occupation of _______ Gibbon a Baker or his Assigns and also all that my 
Copyhold Messuage or Tenement Farm and Lands with the Appurtenances 
situate standing and being in the Parish of Yately in the County of 
Southampton and late in the Occupation of _______ Gibbon a Baker or his 
Assigns and now in the Tenure or Occupation of Edward Pain or his Assigns  To 
have and to hold unto the said Richard Street and John Chandler their 
Executors and Administrators  In Trust to for and upon the Several Uses Trusts 
Intents and Purposes hereinafter mentioned of and concerning the same (that 
is to say) In Trust to receive the Rents Issues and Profits thereof in the first 
Place to pay the Interest on the Mortgages of the Freehold and Copyhold 
Estates and of such other of my Debts as my Personal Estate will not extend to 
pay as bear Interest then retain thereout forty Pounds by the year to 
themselves for the Maintenance Education and bringing up of Nicholas 
Vincent Brocas now of the Age of Eight years and upwards and who is now 
under the Gaze of the Reverend Mr. Willis of Hollybourne near Alton in the 
County of Southampton untill his attainment of Twenty one years of Age 
which will be on the ninth Day of October in the year One thousand Seven 
hundred and Eighty Five and on such his attainment of Twenty one Years of 
Age I order the Sum of five hundred Pounds of lawful money to be paid him 
and I make my estates before mentioned called Moor Lane and Tith of Sutton 
chargeable with the Payment thereof and also to retain out of the Rents and 
Profits of my Estate two hundred Pounds to put the said Nicholas Vincent 
Brocas out as an Apprentice or for his Advancem. in the World as they shall 
think Proper then as for and concerning all those my Freehold and Copyhold 
Messuages or Tenements Farms Lands and Premises with their Several 
Appurtenances in my own Occupation  and the several occupations of Thomas 
Baker and John Vincent  In Trust in the first place by Mortgage of a sufficient 
part thereof to raise the Sum of Seven hundred Pounds and pay the same at 
the end of Six Calendar Months next after my decease in manner following 
that is to say One hundred Pounds to Elizabeth the wife of Henry Tatchel of 
Chertsey Grocer One hundred Pounds to Edmund Vincent of Woking Yeoman 
One hundred Pounds to Mary the Wife of John Millist of Newhaw Yeoman 
One hundred Pounds to Anne the Wife of Anthony Capeon of Sutton Yeoman 
One hundred Pounds to Thomas Vincent of Leadenhall Street London Grocer 
One hundred Pounds to John Vincent of Pirford Yeoman and One hundred 
Pounds to Peter Vincent late of Windsor tallowchander who are all Sons and 
Daughters of my Uncle Edmund Vincent late of Pirford deceased and Subject 
and chargeable with the said Sum of seven hundred Pounds the payment of 
the Annuity of Forty Pounds to the said Ann Tull the Annuity of Fifteen Pounds 
to William Hill and the payment of Five hundred Pounds to Nicholas Vincent 
Brocas In Trust for John Vincent West Son of my Cousin and Tennant John 
Vincent of Pirford aforesaid and his Heirs untill his attainment of Twenty one 
Years of Age and the Rents Issues and Profits thereof from time to time to 
apply and dispose of for his use Maintenance and Education in such manner as 
they or the survivor or survivors of them shall in their discretion think most 
proper and from and after the said John Vincent shall have attained his age of 
Twenty one Years then In Trust to convey the said Freehold and Copyhold 
Messuages and Tenements Lands Tithes and Premises in my own Occupation 
and the Occupation of Thomas Baker John Vincent and John Pannell with their 
Several and respective Appurtenances unto the said John Vincent and his Heirs 
then as for and Concerning All that Messuage or Tenement and Premises 
situate in Chandois Street in the Occupation of ______ Carter a Mercer And all 
that Messuage or Tenement and Premises situate in Bedfordbury late in the 
Occupation of ______ Gibbon a Baker In Trust  to receive the Rents and Profits 
of the same and apply them to the sole Use and Benefit of the same Nicholas 
Vincent Brocas and from and after the said Nicholas Vincent Brocas shall have 
attained his age of Twenty one Years then In Trust to convey the said 
Messuages in Chandois Street and Bedfordbury to the said Nicholas Vincent 
Brocas and his Heirs but in Case the said Nicholas Vincent Brocas should 
happen to die before his attainment of Twenty one Years of Age without 
leaving any lawful Issue of his Body or having disposed of the Estate by Will or 
otherwise then I Give the said two last Messuages or Tenements and Premises 
in Chandois Street and Bedfordbury to Cousin John Vincent Son of my Tennant 
John Vincent and his Heirs  And as for and Concerning that part of my Freehold 
and Leasehold Messuage or Tenement and Premises which lie in the Tithings of 
Crastock and Sutton which are in the Occupation of James Wigman (two Pieces 
of Land called Stile Pitten and round Acre which lie in the Tithing of Mayford 
and are part of Stylers or Beech Hill excepted) and the Copyhold Messuage or 
Tenement Farm Lands and Premises with the Appurtenances lying in the Parish 
of Yately in the County of Southampton and in the Occupation of Edward Paine 
In Trust to sell and dispose of the same as soon as conveniently may be after 
my decease for the best Price and Prices or most Money that can be had for 
the same and apply the Money to be raised by such Sale and Sales in manner 
following that is to say in the first place pay the Principal and Interest Money 
which is and shall be due on Mortgage of my Freehold Estate and then pay and 
discharge all my other Debts (the Mortgage on my Copyhold Estate excepted) 
which shall remain due and unpaid after the Produce of my Personal Estate 
shall be expended for that Purpose and then divide the Remainder thereof in 
equal Proportions between and amongst my Cousins Elizabeth Tatchell 
Edmund Vincent Mary Millist Ann Capion Thomas Vincent John Vincent and 
Peter Vincent  Also I Give and Bequeath to John Vincent Son of my Tenant John 
Vincent and his Heirs All those two pieces of Land called Stile Pitton and round 
Acre which are in the Occupation of James Wigman which I have excepted out 
of the Sale of the Estate in the Occupation of the said James Wigman and for 
the facilitating of such Sale or Sales as aforesaid I do hereby direct that the 
Receipt and Receipts of them the said Richard Street and John Chandler and 
the Survivor of them and the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor shall 
be a sufficient discharge and discharges to the respective Purchaser and 
purchasers of the same Messuages or Tenements Lands and Premises or any 
part thereof for so much of his her or their respective Purchase Money as shall 
be therein mentioned to have been received and after such Receipt and 
Receipts given such Purchaser or Purchasers respectively shall not be obliged 
to See to the Application of such Purchase Money or any Part thereof or be 
answerable or accountable for the Loss Misapplication or Nonapplication 
thereof or any part thereof and that from and after such Sale or Sales 
respectively as aforesaid and such Receipts shall be given for the Purchase 
Money as aforesaid all the said Premises which shall be Sold in such manner 
disposed of and conveyed shall be and remain to the only Use of such 
Purchasor or Purchasors to whom the same shall be so respectively sold 
disposed of and Conveyed and of his her and their Heirs respectively for ever 
And my Will is and I do hereby direct that it shall and may be lawful to and for 
the said Richard Street and John Chandler from time to time by Indenture duly 
executed to lease any part of the said Messuages or Tenements Farms Lands 
Tiths and Premises with their Appurtenances to any Person or Persons 
whomsoever in Respect to those estates that are given to John Vincent son of 
my Cousin John Vincent for no longer term than to the Michaelmas next 
following after his attainment of One and Twenty Years of age and in Respect 
to those Messuages or Tenements given to Nicholas Vincent Brocas for no 
longer Term than to the Michaelmas next following after his Attainment of 
Twenty One Years of Age so as such Leases shall be made with usual Covenants 
with Clauses for Payment of Rent half yearly and for Reentry in Case of 
Nonpayment  Also I Give to the said Richard Street and John Chandler and to 
each of them the Sum of Twenty Guineas which I desire they will accept of to 
buy a Ring  And I nominate constitute and appoint the said Richard Street and 
John Chandler to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament And I do 
direct that they the said Richard Street and John Chandler their Heirs Executors 
Administrators and Assigns shall not be accountable for any Trust Money 
otherwise than each Person for what he shall respectively receive and not the 
one of them for the other of them or for the Defaults of the other of them but 
each for his own Acts only and not for any Loss that may happen by Default of 
Tithe or Failure of any Fund or Security in or upon which any Trust Money may 
be laid out and invested nor in any involuntary Loss whatsoever and it shall 
and may be lawful for the said Richard Street and John Chandler their Heirs 
Executors and Administrators and every one of them out of such trust Money 
as shall come to their or any of their Hands to deduct and default to 
themselves and pay to any Cop Trustee or Trustees all Costs Charges & 
damages which they or either of them shall or may sustain or be put unto in 
the Execution of the Trusts hereby created or any of them or any ways relating 
thereto and reasonably for their Journies Trouble and Attendances therein In 
Witness whereof I the said John Vincent the Testator have to this my last Will 
and Testament contained in this and the preceding Eight Sheets of Paper to 
each Sheet thereof set my hand and to this last sheet thereof set my Hand and 
Seal this fifteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy 
two _ John Vincent.  Signed Sealed published and declared by the said John 
Vincent as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his 
presence Subscribe our Names as Witnesses thereto,  Jas Forster,  Jas Snelling 
Jun.r, Charles Ede.
This Will was proved at London the thirteenth day of May in the year of our 
Lord One Thousand seven hundred and seventy three Before the Worshipful 
George Hay Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of 
Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths of Richard Street and John 
Chandler the Executors named in the said Will to whom Administration was 
Granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased 
having been first Sworn by Commission duly to Administer.