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The Will of Vernon Collins, dated 24 May 1836
(Document 1)
I, VERNON COLLINS of the Town of Padstow in the County of
Cornwall doth declare this to be my last Will and Testament. I give and bequeath
all my goods chattels money securities for money and securities for money and
other personal estate and effects whatsoever which I have power to dispose of by
this my Will unto HENRY RAWLINGS of Padstow in the said County Esquire and
THURSTON COLLINS of St Columb in the said County Gentleman their executors,
administrators and assigns upon trust that they and the survivors of them and
the executor administrators and assigns of such survivors to and shall with all
convenient speed after my decease sell dispose of and convert into money such
part of my said personal estate and effects as shall not consist of Government
securities or mortgages on real estates and stand possessed of and interested in
the money to accrue or be procured by that part of my Personal Estate which I
have hereinbefore directed to be disposed of and converted into money and of and
in the money Government securities and mortgages of or to which I shall be
possessed or entitled at the time of my decease upon trust that they the said
Henry Rawlings and Thurston Collins and the survivor of them and the Executors
Administrators and Assigns of such survivor do and shall by and out of the same
pay my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and do and shall lay out and
invest all their his or her names or name such part of the residue or surplus
thereof as shall not consist of Government securities or mortgages on real
estates in the purchase of competent share or competent shares of the
Parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon
Government or Real securities in England and do and shall from time to time at
their his or her discretion alter vary and transfer the said stocks funds and
securities and also the Government securities and mortgages of or to which I
shall be possessed or entitled at the time of my decease and so shall during the
life of my dear wife pay the interest dividends or annual produce of the said
trust monies stocks funds and securities to or permit the same to be revived by
my said wife and her assigns for her and their proper use and benefit and
immediately after the decease of my said wife do and shall pay and transfer the
said trust monies funds and securities unto my son Edward Collins to become and
interest vested in him on attaining his age of 21 years but if my said son
should depart his life before he shall attain his age of 21 years do and shall
immediately after his decease and the decease of my said wife stand and be
possessed of and interested in the said trust monies funds securities in trust
for John Bassett Collins Charles Mathew Collins Thurston Collins and George
Browne Collins sons of my brother Thurston Collins in equal shares and
proportious provided always that the trustees hereby appointed shall not be
answerable the out for the other of them nor for involuntary losses and that it
shall be lawful for them to reimburse themselves the costs and expenses of
discharging their trust IN WITNESS whereof I the said Vernon Collins the
Testator have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th day of May in the year of
our Lord 1836
VERNON COLLINS
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Vernon Collins 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 hereunto set our names as
witnesses
William Mabley
William Minards
(Document 2)
JOHN BIRD by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of
England and Metropolitan, do by these presents make known to all Men, that on
the Twenty-second day of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Forty nine at London, before the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Jenner
Fust Knight, Doctor of Laws, Master, Keeper, or Commissary of our Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted the last Will and Testament of the
Reverend Vernon Collins formerly of Padstow but late of Bodmin both in the
County of Cornwall Clerk deceased
Hereunto annexed, was proved, approved, and registered, the said Deceased having
whilst living, and at the time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, or Credits in
divers Dioceses or Jurisdictions, by reason whereof the proving and registering
the said Will, and the granting Administration of all and singular the said
Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and also the auditing, allowing and final
discharging the Account hereof, are well known to us, and not to any inferior
Judge; and that Administration of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and
Credits of the said Deceased, and any Way concerning his Will was granted to
Henry Peter in the Will written Henry Rawlings Esquire and Thurston Collins the
Brother of the said Deceased the Executors according to the tenor of the said
Will they having been already sworn by Commissioner well and faithfully to
administer the same, and to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and
singular the said Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the
Registry of our said Court, on or before the last Day of August next ensuing,
and also to render a just and true account thereof.
Given at the time and place above written and in the first year of our
translation
Chas Dyurley
John Jaggalden Deputy Registrares
W F Gosling
Extracted by Slade Wadeson and Crucketts Proctors Doctors Commons
Sworn under £800 and that the Testator died on or about the 1st August 1848
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