Description:

Documents:
1. Will   [2 pages] dated 9 March 1763 .
Beneficiaries: To Thomas Jones, a messuage called Bulgfa 'which he now lives in' for a term of 99 years, provided he keeps the estate in good repair and pays her niece, Elizabeth Tomlins, 1 guinea.
To her sister Margaret's son, James, £10.
On the death of Thomas Jones, the property is to go to Thomas Evans, 'att the Brin' to the Bulgfa for £18 p.a. Out of this £5 is to be paid to her sister Anne, wife of Timothy Tanner;
£10 to her niece Elizabeth Tomlins both for 99 years or the decease of the beneficiaries.
After the death of the two beneficiaries the £15 is to be used as follows: £3 per year for the poor of Longtown, £2 per year to the poor of Ewyas Harold and £1 p.a. for the poor of Rowlstone. The remaining £9 to go to various recipients including Walter Powell 'as now lives with me', William Lewis of Pen-r-Hewl , Maudlin, the daughter of her, commonly called, Bess Arnold and Uriah Watkins. The remaining 12/- to be used by Thomas Evans to 'entertain those five old servants when they comes for theire legacies…'
£3 was to be allowed out of the £18 rent for the leasehold property for taxes and repairs. Of the £15 remaining the £6 p.a for the poor as above and £9 per year to the Minister of Clodock 'after he have preached 18 sermons on every Wednesday and Fryday against most vices….'

Executor: Thomas Jones with Mr John Jenings of Rowlstone and Mr Henry March of Gorloden to be trustees

Signed by testator.

Witnesses: Simon Lewis, John Davies and Thomas Prosser.

Date of probate: 19 May 1766 .

Observations:

No Inventory. A particularly interesting will as it contains much social comment on the area and the times; Constant Tomlin states that she has written it herself. The administration of this will was not straightforward and the separate registration instruction is endorsed with an undated Administrative Instruction stating that everything not administered by Thomas Jones should be handled by Constant Tomlin's next of kin and nephew, Thomas Tomlin, gent of Little Trinity Lane, London. Includes a coversheet; 4 sheets in all.
The administration of Constant Tomlin's affairs was not completed until 1789; see BR/1789/14 for the second part of the administration.