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Somerset documents
Parish register transcripts, deeds etc. FILE - Aller manor - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/PR/24 - date: 1936 [from Scope and Content] Extracts and notes concerning history.[Qto.papers, compiled by Rev.A.L.Browne,1936, and given 1937]
FILE - Chilthorne Domer - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/PR/310 - date: 23 Aug 1662 [from Scope and Content] Letters Testimonial of Wm.Bishop of Bath and Wells, reciting certificate that Thos.Bell als. Browne, vicar of Chilthorne Domer, deposed that he was ordained deacon and priest by Saml., Archbishop of York on 19 Sep.1630 and 'in the late Rebellion in Ireland he was robbed of these his said orders'. [1 fcap.fly].
Serel colln. FILE - Deeds - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/SE/27 - date: 1825-c1830 [from Scope and Content] Conveyance(Lease and Release): (i) John Howe of Somerton, esq., bro. and devisee of Wm.H. of Bowlish in Shepton Mallet, esq., decd. (ii) Catherine Howe of Bath of City of Bath, widow of sd.Wm.H.; and (iii)Joseph Browne of Shepton Mallet, gent., a devisee of Jane Strode of S.M. and also of Sarah Langhorne: re Street Farm and lands in Street and Glastonbury: 12 Sep. 1755. [16 ff] copied circa 1830 [from Scope and Content] Mortgage for �2000: Joseph Browne to Wm.Provis of Shepton Mallet, esq: re Street Farm, etc.: 31 Oct.1761, with memorandum dated 23, 24 Mar.1829 re ppty. in Street and Glastonbury. [6 ff] copied circa 1830 [from Scope and Content] Lease and Release: Wm.Purlewent and Wm.Hyatt, both of Shepton Mallet, gents., devisees of Joseph Browne, decd. to Thos. Tothill of Street: Street Farm, etc., 21, 22 Oct.1794. [from Scope and Content] Browne family Epitome of Settlement, 8 Mar,1809. [from Scope and Content] Street, Glastonbury Abstract of title referring to the manor of Street and lands in Street and Glastonbury, of Wm.Purlewent, surviving devisee in trust for sale by Will of Joseph Browne, esq. reciting 1753-1792 [13 ff] w/m 1828
FILE - Britton's History of Wells Cathedral and Bath Abbey Church, 1824 - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/SE/83 - date: [1259]-1863 [from Scope and Content] Note of inscriptions on the Cathedral bells; Robt.Wm.Browne, archdeacon of Bath, elected canon residentiary, 1863; The Civil Wars; the Monmouth Rebellion from Q.S.Records Wells Sessions 1 Jas.II 1685.
Documents found loose in SE.27 - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/SE/27A FILE - Street Schedule of lands - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/SE/27A/2 - date: 1775 [from Scope and Content] On lease part of the manor of Street belonging to Joseph Browne esqr.
FILE - Street and Glastonbury Draft Abstract of title - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/SE/27A/3 - date: 1797 [from Scope and Content] To Street Farm and lands in Street and Glastonbury purchased by Mr.Edw.Brown of Messrs.Purlewent & Hyatt, Devisees of Joseph Browne, esq.decd. in trust for sale: reciting 1717-1789, referring to Strode Langhorne, Stillingfleet, Howe, Browne, Provis, etc.
FILE - Street Draft Release in fee - ref. DD\SAS\C/795/SE/27A/8 - date: 1832 [from Scope and Content] Wm.Purlewent and ors. claiming under the Will of Jos.Browne, to Jas.Symes and trustee [much deleted]: re land in Street.
9017550 1, Thomas Prowse of Axbridge, guardian of Thomas Horner of Mells 2. Joseph Brown of Shepton Mallet - Lease for lives of a house, ore and Combe, Burwole, 2a in South field, 1 yard under a wall late Thomas Hodges's, 1a under Haverland wall, 3 yards in Quarr furlong and 1/2 a in Common Heydon in Doulting. Rent 8s 6d. with counterpart. (2 docs)
19/2/ 10017550 1. Thomas Prowse of Axbridge, guardian of Thomas Horner of Mells 2. Joseph Brown of Shepton Mallet Lease for lives of Witstone (9a) Doulting. Rent 3s 8d. (1 doc)
19/2/ 11017550 1. Thomas Prowse of Axbridge, guardian of Thomas Horner of Mells 2. Joseph Brown of Shepton Mallet Lease for lives of Heverland (4a) and Boddenfield Close (2a) in Doulting. Rent 1s. 2 1/2d. (1 doc)
19/2/ 12-13017550 1. Thomas Prowse of Axbridge, guardian of Thomas Horner of Mells 2. Joseph Brown of Shepton Mallet Lease for lives of messuage and 20a, Short Mead (3a), Bramble Ditch (1a), 1a in Hencraft, 1/4a in Heyden Mead, 1a in Vullum toft in Chevelinch, 16a 3 yards arable in common fields and 2 doles (3 1/2 a) of furze in North Down in Doulting. Rent 8s 4d. With counterpart. (2 docs)
This is the last Will and Testament of me Joseph Browne of Bodden within the Parish of Doulting in the County of Somerset Yeoman eldest and only surviving son of Joseph Browne late of Shepton Mallet in the said County of Somerset Esquire deceased, I give and devise and pursuant to and by force and virtue and in exercise and execution of all and every powers and power authorities and authority to me given limited or reserved or in me vested or me in any wise enabling in this behalf do by this my last Will and Testament direct limit and appoint all that my Close or Parcel of Meadow or Pasture Land called Coke�s Mead containing by estimation seven acres which was given and devised to me by the Will of my late father, Joseph Browne deceased Also, all that my Close or parcel of Meadow or pasture land formerly in four parcels but now thrown together and called the Higher four Commons in Cokes Mead containing by estimation seven acres And also all that my other Close or parcel of Meadow or Pasture Land also called Coke�s Mead containing by estimation three acres and two roods all which said Closes or parcels of Land are situate lying and being within the Parish of Street in the said County of Somerset and are now in the occupation of Robert White the younger as tenant thereof or by whatsoever other name or names quantities qualities or other description or howsoever otherwise the said closes or parcels of land or either of them are or is situate or now are or is or heretofore have or hath been called known described or distinguished with their respective rights members and appurtenances unto and to the use of my son William Browne and Cornelius Curtis of Wookey in the said County of Somerset gentleman there heirs and assigns Upon trust nevertheless to permit and suffer or otherwise authorize my daughter Mary White wife of Robert White the younger of Street aforesaid Yeoman and her assigns during her natural life to receive and take the rents and profits thereof for her and their own use And from and after the decease of her my said daughter Mary White Upon trust for and for the only proper use and behalf of Charles White Joseph White Mary Ann White and Cornelius White the four children of my said daughter Mary White as tenants in common and the several heirs of their respective bodies And in case there shall be a failure of issue of any such children then as to the share or shares of him her or their whose issue shall so fail to the use of the others of them as tenants in common and the several heirs of their respective bodies and in case there shall be a failure of Issue of the bodies of all such children but one then to the use of such one child and the heirs of his or her body and in default of all such issue to the use of my son Charles Browne and my daughter Elizabeth Ann Sparks wife of James Sparks Yeoman their heirs and assigns for ever in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common. I give and devise and pursuant to and by force and virtue and in exercise and execution of all and every powers and power authorities and authority to me given limited or reserved or in me vested or me in any wise enabling in this behalf do by this my last Will and Testament direct limit and appoint all that my Close or parcel of Meadow or Pasture Land called Pressmoor containing by estimation four acres which was given and devised to me by the Will of my late father, Joseph Browne deceased Also, all that my other Close or Parcel of Meadow or Pasture land also called Pressmoor containing by estimation four acres Also my Close of Meadow or Pasture Lane called Gaston containing by estimation five acres and two roods and also my Close of Meadow or pasture land called Taylor�s Close contiguous to the said last mentioned close containing by estimation four acres all which said Closes or Parcels of land are situate lying and being within the Parish of Street aforesaid and are now in the occupation of the said Robert White the younger as tenant thereof or by whatsoever other name or names quantities qualities or other description or however otherwise the said Closes or parcels of land or either of them are or is situate or now are or is or heretofore have or hath been called known described or distinguished with their respective rights members and appurtenances unto and to the use of my said son William Browne and the said Cornelius Curtis their heirs and assigns Upon trust to permit and suffer or otherwise authorise and empower my daughter Jane Browne and her assigns during her natural life to receive and take the rents profits thereof for her and their own use and from and after the decease of my said daughter Jane Browne Upon trust for and for the only proper use and behoof of all the children of her my said daughter Jane Browne lawfully begotten their heirs and assigns in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and if there shall be but one such child upon trust for such one or only child his or her heirs and assigns for ever And in case all such children shall die before they shall respectively have attained their age of twenty one years and without leaving any lawful issue then and in such case I give devise direct limit and appoint all and singular the said closes or parcels of land hereditaments and premises unto and to the use of my said son William Browne and my daughter Ann Browne their heirs and assigns for ever in equal shares and proportions as Tenants in Common I give and bequeath the sum of three thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain unto the said William Brown and Cornelius Curtis or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease place out and invest the same at interest in their or his names or name in or upon Government or Real security or securities in England and from time to time alter vary and transpose such security or securities and those which shall be substituted in lieu thereof for others of the like nature as often as shall be deemed expedient and do and shall stand and be professed of and interested in the said Trust monies stocks funds and securities and the Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof upon the trusts and for the ends intents and purposes hereinafter expressed and declared or mentioned of and concerning the same that is to say As to for and concerning the sum of One thousand pounds, part of the said sum of three thousand pounds upon trust that they the said William Browne and Cornelius Curtis or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall stand and be professed thereof and of the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be invested and of the Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof upon trust to pay the interest dividends and proceeds of the said sum of One thousand pounds when and as the same shall be received by them respectively unto my son John Browne during the term of his natural life whose receipt or receipts only for the said Interest dividends and annual proceeds shall be a sufficient discharge or sufficient discharges for the same and from and after the decease of my said son John Browne upon trust to pay transfer and assign the said sum of one thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be invested and the accruing interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto and equally between all and every the child and children of my said son John Browne lawfully begotten who shall be living at the time of his decease and the lawful issue of such of his children as shall be then dead in equal shares and proportions but so and in such manner as that the issue of any of the children of my said son John Browne who shall die in his life time shall only receive in equal shares if more than one the share to which his her or their deceased parent would if living have been entitled and as to for and concerning the sum of one thousand pounds further part of the said sum of three thousand pounds Upon trust that they the said William Browne and Cornelius Curtis or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall stand and be professed thereof and of the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be invested and the interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof upon trust to pay to or otherwise authorize and empower my daughter Elizabeth Ann Sparks to receive the interest dividends and annual proceeds of the said sum of one thousand pounds during the term of her natural life exclusive of her present or any future husband who shall not have any control over he same nor shall the same be in any manner subject or liable to her debts or engagements and I declare and direct that the receipts of her my said daughter for the said interest dividends and annual proceeds shall alone me proper and sufficient discharges for the same and from and after the decease of her my said daughter Elizabeth Ann Sparks Upon trust to pay assign and transfer the said sum of one thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be invested and the accruing interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto and equally between all and every the child and children of her my said daughter Elizabeth Ann Sparks who shall be living at her decease and the lawful issue of any of such of her said children as shall be then dead as Tenants in Common but so and in such manner as that the issue of such of the said children of my said daughter Elizabeth Ann Sparks as shall die in her life time shall only receive or be entitled to receive in equal proportions if more than one the share to which his her or their deceased parent would, if living, have been entitled. And as to for and concerning the sum of one thousand pounds residue of the said sum of three thousand pounds Upon trust that they the said William Browne and Cornelius Curtis or the survivor of them or the executor administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall stand and be professed of the said sum of One thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be invested and the interest, dividends and annual proceeds thereof Upon trust to pay to or otherwise authorise and empower my daughter Ann Browne and her assigns to receive the Interest, dividends and annual proceeds of the said sum of one thousand pounds during her natural life exclusive of any husband with whom she may intermarry and without being in any manner subject or liable to her control debts or engagements and I declare and direct that the receipts of her my said daughter Ann Browne or of such person or persons as she shall by any writing under her hand authorise or appoint to receive the same shall be the proper discharges for the said Interest dividends and annual proceeds and from and after the decease of her my said daughter Ann Browne Upon trust to pay transfer and assign the said sum of One thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be invested and the accruing Interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto and equally between all and every the child and children of her my said daughter Ann Browne lawfully begotten who shall be living at her decease and the issue of such of her children as shall die in her life time in equal shares and proportions but so and in such manner as that the Issue of the deceased child or children of her my said daughter Ann Browne shall only receive in equal proportions if more than one the share to which his her or their deceased parent would if living have been entitled and in case my said daughter Ann Browne shall die without leaving any such child or Children or issue of such child or children living at her decease then Upon trust that they the said William Browne and Cornelius Curtis or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall pay transfer and assign the said sum of one thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities on or upon which the same shall be invested and the accruing interest dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto my said son John Browne his executors administrators and assigns I give and grant to my wife Ann Browne and her assigns during her life One annuity or yearly rent charge or sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain clear of any deductions for or in respect of any present or future taxes whatsoever to be paid and payable by quarterly payments the first quarterly payment thereof to become due and payable at the expiration of three calendar months next after my decease with the payment of which said annuity yearly rent charge or sum of fifty pounds. I do hereby subject and charge all and singular my Freehold Leasehold and Copyhold lands hereditaments and premises situate within the parish of Shepton Mallet aforesaid and my Will is and I hereby declare that in case the said annuity yearly rent charge or sum of fifty pounds or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of twenty one days next over or after the day or time or respective days or times upon which the said quarterly payments of the said annuity yearly rent charge or sum shall become due and payable as aforesaid then and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for her my said wife and her assigns to enter into and upon all and every or any part of the lands hereditaments and premises hereby charged with the payment of the said annuity yearly rent charge or sum as aforesaid and to distrain for the same or for so much thereof as shall be so in arrear and the distress or distresses so made to manage sell and dispose of in like manner as in cases of distress for rent in arrear reserved by lease or common demise and by and out of the money to be produced by the means aforesaid to satisfy and pay the said annuity yearly rent charge or sum or so much thereof as shall be in arrear together with all costs charges and expenses incurred or occasioned by or on account of the non-payment of the said annuity yearly rent charge or sum or any part thereof I hereby acquit and release my said son Charles Browne of and from the payment of any debts sum and sums of money which he may owe me at the time of my decease and I give and bequeath unto my said son Charles Browne the sum of three hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be payable and paid to him by my executor hereinafter named within six calendar months next after the decease of my said wife Ann Browne with the payment of which said legacy or sum of three hundred pounds I do hereby subject and charge all and singular my Freehold Leasehold and Copyhold lands hereditaments and premises situate in the parish of Shepton Mallet aforesaid and I give and bequeath unto my said wife Ann Browne the sum of one hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to her by my Executor hereinafter named within three calendar months next after my decease also I give and bequeath unto my said son John Browne and my said daughter Elizabeth Ann Sparks Mary White Ann Browne and Jane Browne the sum of one hundred pounds apiece of like lawful money which said several legacies I will and direct shall also be paid by my said Executor within six calendar months next after my decease. I give and devise and by force and virtue and in exercise and execution of all and every powers and power authorities and authority to me given limited or reserved or in me vested or me in any wise enabling in this behalf do by this my last Will and Testament direct limit and appoint all and singular my freehold leasehold and copyhold messuage lands hereditaments and premises situate within the Parish of Shepton Mallet aforesaid or elsewhere not hereinbefore specifically given or disposed of with their respective rights members and appurtenances (subject nevertheless and charged to and with the payment of my just debts and my funeral and testamentary expenses the said annuity yearly rent charge or sum of fifty pounds to my said wife and the several legacies or sums of money which I have given and bequeathed by this my Will or so much of my said debts and legacies as my personal estate and effects shall not extend to pay and satisfy unto my said son William Browne his heirs executors administrators and assigns All the rest and residue of my monies and securities for money goods chattels and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeath unto my said son William Browne his executors administrators and assigns and I appoint and constitute my said son William Browne sole executor of this my last Will and Testament � Provided always and I direct my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will to apply the rents issues and profits interest dividends and proceeds of the expectant share or shares of any of my said grandchildren or of the issue of any such grandchildren of and in the said Trust Estate monies stocks funds and securities for and towards their maintenance and support during their minorities respectively provided also and I do hereby declare that they the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will shall not be answerable or accountable for or liable to make good any loss or losses which any time or times may accrue or happen of or unto the said Trust Estate monies and premises or of or to the securities or investments for the time being in or upon which the said Trust monies shall be placed or invested or any part thereof respectively without their or his wilful neglect or default nor shall they or any of them be answerable or accountable the one for the other or others of them or for the acts deeds receipts payments neglects or defaults of the other or others of them but each of them for his own act deeds receipts payments neglects and defaults only nor for any more money than shall actually come to their hands respectively and not for any money or stock for which they or any or either of them shall join in transfer of or sign or give any receipt for the sake of conformity nor with or for any other loss or damage which shall or happen without their wilful defaults in or about the exercise or execution of all or any of the trusts hereby in them reposed and that it shall and may be lawful to and for them the said trustees respectively and their respective executors administrators and assigns from time to time by and out of the trust monies which shall come to their or any of their hands under or by virtue of this my Will in the first place to deduct and retain to and reimburse themselves respectively and allow each other all such loss costs charges damages and expenses as they any or either of them shall or may pay suffer sustain expend or be in any way put unto in or about the execution of the trustees of this my Will or in about touching or concerning any matter or thing in relation thereunto and I do hereby revoke and make void all former Wills and Codicils by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Browne the testator have to the first six sheets of this my last Will and Testament, contained in seven sheets of paper set my hand and to this seventh and last sheet thereof set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two Joseph Browne signed sealed published and declared by the said Joseph Browne the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses Thomas Guy Wake � Solicitor � Castle Cary John Cook Junior � Builder � Shepton Mallet Samuel Rossiter � Cordwainer � Shepton Mallet
Whereas I Joseph Browne of Bodden within the parish of Doulting in the County of Somerset Yeoman have by my last Will and Testament in writing duly executed and attested and bearing date the twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two charged all and singular my Freehold Estate lands and premises situate in the parish of Shepton Mallet in the said County of Somerset to and with the payment of the annuity yearly rent charge or sum of fifty pounds to be paid by my Executor in my said Will named to my Wife Ann Browne and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life now I do hereby declare this present writing to be as a codicil to my said Will and direct the same to be annexed thereto and taken as part thereof and I do hereby give grant and bequeath unto my said wife Ann Browne and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life, as an additional provision the further annuity yearly rent charge or sum of twenty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain with the payment of which said annuity yearly rent charge or sum of twenty pounds as aforesaid. I do hereby subject and charge all and singular my freehold leasehold and copyhold estate lands and premises situate in the parish of Shepton Mallet or elsewhere in the said County of Somerset. In witness whereof I the said Joseph Browne have to this Codicil set my hand and seal the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two Joseph Browne � Signed sealed published and declared by the said Joseph Browne as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us James Sparks of Bodden Elizabeth Curtis of Burcott Elizabeth Hannock (possibly Hancock as one of his sons married a Susan Hancock) of Bodden
DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS In the Goods of Joseph Browne deceased in he Consistorial Archidiaconal Court of Wells April 21st 1835 APPEARED personally William Browne of Shepton Mallet in the County of Somerset Esquire the sole Executor named in the last Will and Testament with a Codicil annexed of the said Joseph Browne late of the Parish of Doulting in the County aforesaid Yeoman who died on the 10th day of May 1832 and made oath and said that the Personal Estate and effects of the said Deceased, for or in respect of which a Probate of the said Will is to be granted by the said Court, exclusive of what the Deceased may have been possessed of or intitled to as a Trustee for any other Person or Persons, and not beneficially, but including the Leasehold Estate or Estates for years of the said Deceased whether absolute or determinable on a Life or Lives and without deducting any thing on account of Debts due and owing from the Deceased, are under the value of Five Thousand Pounds to the best of these presents knowledge, information and belief. William Browne Sworn on the same day before me Robert Foster Surrogate
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