Samuel Stubbs of Hose 1862 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives DE 462/5
This is the last Will and Testament of me Samuel Stubbs of Hose in the County of Leicester Butter dealer
I direct all my just debts and Funeral expences and the expences of proving this my Will [“be paid” or similar missing] as soon as conveniently may be after my decease by my executor hereafter named
I give and bequeath all my household goods and Furniture plate Linen China Books & other Household effects of which I shall be possessed at the time of my decease and all my Farming Stock and also all my ready money securities for money and other the monies oweing to me at the time of my decease and all the Residue of my personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever unto my Dear Wife Frances Stubbs her Executors Administrators & assigns absolutely
I devise all my real Estate whatsoever & wheresoever unto my said Wife her heirs & assigns for ever
I appoint my said Wife sole Executrix of this my will and devise to her her heirs and assigns all mortgaged & trust Estates vested in me at the time of my Decease, upon the trusts and subject to the equities affecting the same respectively as Witness my hand this sixth day of May One Thousand eight hundred & sixty two
Samuel Stubbs
Signed by the said Samuel Stubbs the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Joseph Stevenson Farmer
John Burnett Farmer
On the fifteenth day of December 1862 the Will of Samuel Stubbs late of Hose in the County of Leicester Butter Dealer was proved by the Oath of Frances Stubbs Widow the Relict of the deceased the sole Executrix named in the said Will she having been first sworn duly to administer
Sworn under £20 and that the Testator died on the fifth day of July 1862