Abraham Heyes of Leigh Lancashire (Will)

[George Shaw]

Looking for help to fill the blanks, please.

[goldie61]

I’ve made a start on this - run out of time just now.
Hopefully someone will pick it up.

This is the last will and Testament
of me William Heyes of Bedford in the County of Lancaster brewer WHICH
I MAKE AND PUBLISH in MANNER FOLLOWING.........
.........plate linen china chattels and IMPLEMENTS........
........ executors hereafter named shall as soon as may be after my DECEASE shall CALL in and COMPEL payment......... personal estate and EFFECTS as shall consist of money out UPON SECURITY at Interest.........
..... and also  COLLECT and GET in all BOOK and other DEBTS which shall be owing to me at the time of my DECEASE ........
...... empower them my said Executors and the SURVIVOR of them
his EXECUTORS and ADMINISTRATORS to COMPROMISE or COMPOUND or SUBMIT to arbitration any DEBT sum or sums of money.......



Where you have written ‘bereave’, it is ‘decease’.

For future reference, it is better to attach a part of a document you want transcribed to a post, rather than attach it as a  download as you have done here. (Not everybody in the world has an unlimited amount of data each  month!)
And write what you have found, or need help with, in the body of the post.
I find I am jiggling between 4 screens to help with the transcription, which makes it more difficult then it need be.
Also you are only supposed to post small sections of a document , not the whole thing. This breaches the copyright rules of Rootschat. You may find the Moderators withdraw it.
Sorry to sound a bit negative, but Rootschat is run on volunteers giving their time to help, so anything to make it easier! You may not be aware of the conventions of the site.
I’ll come back to it later if nobody else has

[philipsearching]

Most of the first part (up to the witness names) - I've filled in some gaps and amended some words in your transcription.

Hope this helps
Philip


Acting Trustee may if competent and willing to become a continuing trustee or if all the trustees for the time being shall be dead for the executors or administrators of the last surviving trustee for the time being by any writing or writings under this or their hand or seal or respective hands and seals from time to time to appoint some one or some person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the place of the trustees so (?) going to reside beyond the seas or being conscious of desirous of being discharged or refusing or (?) or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and that upon every such appointment the said trust and monies  and promises shall be assigned and transferred so and in such manner that the same may become vested in the new trustee or trustees jointly with the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees or solely as occasion may require and that every new trustee shall have all the same powers and discretion to all intents and purposes as if they had been originally appointed a trustee under this my will and it is my will that my trustees for the time being and every of them and their respective heirs executors administrators and assigns shall severally be charged and chargeable only for such monies as they shall actually receive respectively by virtue of the trusts herebye in  them reposed and by no means for involuntary losses and  particularly not for any loss that may happen by reason of continuing the said trust  monies or promises in or upon the respective states of investment in which the same respectively be at my decease and that each and every of my trustees for the time being may claim and allow to his or their co-trustee or co-trustees all losses (?) charges damages and expenses to arise or be sustained in or about the execution of the foresaid trusts or in anywise relating thereto In witness whereof I the said (?) (?) have signed my name at the foot or end of this my last will and testament or testamentary appointment contained in (?) sheets of paper and also at the foot or end of the nine preceding sheets thereof this eighth day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight at (?) in the county of Gloucester

[Bookbox]

As I see it, the will of Abraham (not William) Heyes begins on the last 4 lines of the first page posted (starting at Extracted ...).

Unfortunately, everything before that (transcribed in reply #2 above) is from the preceding will, which belongs to someone else (named Jane Handley).

I would endorse goldie61's recommendation about how to post items for transcription.

For anyone else helping with this, if you have Ancestry access, the image is rather easier to read there than in the attached pdf.

[goldie61]

Here’s a bit more - down to the bottom of Page 2.
I decided it was much easier to just do the whole thing rather than keep moving between several screens to see what you had already got or not.



........payment of the same and do and shall HAND IN
POSSESSES of AND INTERSTED IN the monies to arise or be gotten in by the MEANS aforesaid or otherwise under and by virtue of this my Will IN TRUST in the first place .
.......funeral EXPENCES and AFTER PAYMENT and satisfaction thereof IN TRUST
POSSESSES of and INTERSTED in (the) RESIDUE of my said estate and EFFECTS for the INTENTS and purposes HEREINAFTER
DECLARED CONCERNNG  the money to arise by the sale of my REAL and (free)HOLD
estates as are HEREINAFTER DIRECTED to be sold and as AND CONCERNING
{  } singular other The Property WHETHER REAL LEASEHOLD OR PERSONAL OR OF WHATSOEVER NATURE OR KIND THE SAME MAY BE WHICH I SHALL BE SIZED OF OR OVER WHICH I [    ]
HAVE A DISPOSING POWER AT THE TIME OF MY DECEASE I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH THE
SAME RESPECTIVELY AND EVERY PART THEREOF UNTO RICHARD GUEST THE ELDER OF BEDFORD
AFORSAID BREWER RICHARD GUEST THE YOUNGER OF THE SAME PLACE BREWER AND
THOMAS TICKLE  OF LEIGH  IN THE SAID COUNTY U??MAN THEIR HEIRS EXECUTORS
AND ADMINISTRATORS ACCORDING TO THE NATURES OF THE ESTATES AND PROPERTY (EACH)
RESPECTIVELY UPON TRUST THAT THEY THE SAID RICHARD GUEST THE ELDER RICHARD
GUEST THE YOUNGER AND THOMAS TICKLE AND THE SURVIVORS AND SURVIVORS AND SURVIVOR OF THEM
AND THE HEIRS EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS OF SUCH SURVIVOR DO AND SHALL AS
SOON AS CONVENIENTLY MAY BE AFTER MY DECEASE SELL AND DISPOSE OF ALL AND
EVERY MY SAID REAL AND LEASEHOLD ESTATE EFFECTS AND OTHER PROPERTY OF ANY(?)
NATURE EITHER TOGETHER AND IN ONE LOT OR IN PARCELS OR SEVERAL LOTS AND ATTAIN(?)
BY PUBLIC SALE OR PRIVATE CONTRACT AS THEY OR THE SAID TRUSTEES OR TRUSTEE
SHALL THINK BEST AND ALSO MAKE EXECUTE AND PERFECT ALL NECESSARY OR PROPER
DEEDS WRITINGS CONVEYANCES AND ASSURANCES FOR THE PURPOSE OF VESTING THE VALUE
IN ANY PURCHASER OR PURCHASERS THEREOF OR IN SUCH PERSON OR PERSONS AND
FOR SUCH USES INTERESTS AND PURPOSES AS HE OR THEY SHALL DIRECT OR APPOINT
AND I HEREBY DECLARE AND DIRECT THAT THE RECEIPT OR RECEIPTS OF THE SAID
TRUSTEES OR TRUSTEE OR OF THE ACTING OR ONLY ACTING TRUSTEES OR TRUSTEE
C?  ANY WILL FOR THE TIME BEING SHALL BE A GOOD VALID AND SUFFICIENT AQUITTANCE
AND DISCHARGE OR GOOD VALID AND SUFFICIENT ACQUITTENCES AND DISCHARGES TO
THE PURCHASER OR PURCHASERS OF THE SAID ESTATES OR OF ANY PART THEREOF FOR ALL
OR ANY OF THE MONEY WHICH SHALL BE BY THEM OR HIM PAID FOR THE SAME OR



It is awful lot of work to go through all the rest.
Perhaps this has been of help, and you can make out the rest now a bit better.
(The words at the end of some lines are difficult to make out - perhaps better if you can go directly through An*. I can't).
It is Abraham Heyes. I just copied what George had put in his transcript (William).

Took me a while to find to the start of the correct will. As you say Bookbox, it doesn’t start until the very bottom of Page 1. The rest above it is for somebody else.

[philipsearching]

Unfortunately, everything before that (transcribed in reply #2 above) is from the preceding will, which belongs to someone else (named Jane Handley).

In the words of Captain Edmund Blackadder: "Oh b*gger!"

Ah well, it's all good practice for next time.
Philip

[George Shaw]

Thanks for all your help so far.