First Generation
General Notes: John Tufnaile or Tufnayle, the second son of Richard, junior, was a minor at the time of his father's death in 1640; he cannot, indeed, have been more than a few months old. He married on 2nd December, 1680, at the age of forty, Elizabeth, daughter of John Jolliffe, Esq., and Rebecca his wife, and sister of William Jolliffe who was twenty-three at the time of her marriage. John Tufnell was a merchant, who appears to have lived always in the city, in the parish of St. Martin's, Outwich, in which church he was married, his children baptised, and where he was eventually buried. The church is no longer in existence however; it formerly stood at the junction of Threadneedle Street and Bishopsgate Street Within. The old building was pulled down in 1797, and replaced by a church which was in its turn taken down under an Order in Council in 1873, and the parish united with the parish of St. Helen. The principal monuments were removed to St. Helen's Church.
John died on 9th September, 1699. His will was dated 1st July, 1699, and proved on the 10th November in the same year. All his lands were left in trust for his son Samuel. In addition to legacies, his second wife, Lettice, received all the pearls, diamonds, and other jewels with which he had presented her, his daughter Rebecca had the best pearl necklace, and his daughter Elizabeth the other necklace and the pair of diamond pendants which had belonged to their dead mother. Each of his four servants had £5 apiece. His tomb of black marble, whereon "is carved a Fess charged with three martlets and between as many Ostrich Feathers; impaling a Pile with three hands or Gauntlets," formerly lay before the altar of St. Martin, Outwich, but the slab has, as stated above, now been removed to St. Helen's Church, where it may still be seen. Under the same stone were also laid the remains of his first wife, Elizabeth, her father and mother, and her eldest son, John Tufnell, who died 30th October, 1686, at the age of six. A funeral hatchment, formerly on the south side of St. Martin, Outwich, bore the arms of Tufnell quartered with those of Merrick, his second wife's family.
John married Elizabeth Jolliffe, daughter of John Jolliffe and Rebecca Boothby, on 2 Dec 1680. Elizabeth was born in 1657 and died on 20 Oct 1687, aged 30.
Children from this marriage were:
Second
Generation
2. Samuel Tufnell (John 1) was born on 15 Sep 1682, died on 28 Dec 1758, aged 76, and was buried in Pleshey, Essex.
Offices Held
Capt. of troop of Essex militia 1715; commr. of the equivalent1 24 July 1717-18 Apr. 1719; commr. for settling commerce at Antwerp June 1732-Feb. 1742.
Biography
Tufnell was the grandson of Richard Tufnell, a prosperous brewer, M.P. Southwark 1640. At the age of 17 he succeeded to the family estate, subject to the trusteeship of his uncles, Sir William Jolliffe and Sir Edward Northey, till he came of age. He was called to the bar but, though he became a bencher, there is no evidence of his having practised. In 1710 he purchased the manor of Langleys, not far from Maldon, for which he stood as a Whig in 1715, jointly with Sir William Jolliffe, succeeding on petition. He made his first recorded speech in support of the septennial bill in 1716, sending a copy to the editor of the Political State, in which it is printed. At a meeting of M.P.s in March 1717, called to consider the introduction of a bill to repeal the laws against the Dissenters, he recommended that the matter should be postponed. In June 1717 he opposed the motion to postpone the trial of Lord Oxford, saying that he had originally supported the impeachment on a charge of high treason on the assurance of Walpole, as chairman of the secret committee set up to inquire into the late Tory Government, that there were just grounds for it. Walpole then:
let drop an insinuation, as if many who followed his opinion in the business of the impeachments, did it rather out of compliment to his power, than to his person,
whereupon Tufnell:
resenting this innuendo, immediately repelled the dint of it, by appealing to that honourable Member 'whether he ever made his court to him?' 'And whether he had not paid him more respect since he was out, than when he was in place?'
During the split in the Whig party he was given a temporary place which lapsed in April 1719, after which he spoke against the peerage bill. After the collapse of the South Sea bubble in 1720 he supported Walpole's efforts to damp down the proceedings against its authors, speaking with him on behalf of Sir George Caswall on 10 Mar. 1721 and on 2 June seconding a motion for allowing one of the directors to retain a substantial part of his confiscated estate. A few days later the secret committee of the Commons on the South Sea affair presented a report containing the names of a number of Members, including Tufnell, who, while the South Sea bill was before the House, had allowed themselves to be put down by the Company for stock without paying for it on the understanding that if the bill went through and the stock consequently rose, they would be entitled to receive the difference. The amount allotted to Tufnell was £5,000 at 182, but it is not known what he made on the transaction, nor was the matter pursued by the Commons. In January 1722 he is reported as complaining of 'a scandalous list that was handed about', in which he was named as one of the Members 'who received South Sea stock for giving their votes for the South Sea bill', and as professing to be able to clear himself.
Tufnell was out of Parliament till 1727 when he successfully contested Colchester as a Walpole Whig, voting for the excise bill and against the repeal of the Septennial Act. In 1732 he was appointed a commissioner, with an allowance of £4 a day, to treat with the commissioners of the Emperor and the States General on commercial and other matters arising out of the treaty of Vienna. The negotiations opened in 1737 at Antwerp, where Tufnell remained, with occasional visits to England, till they ended inconclusively on the outbreak of the war of the Austrian succession.
Tufnell did not stand in 1734 but was returned on Walpole's nomination for Great Marlow in 1741, continuing to vote regularly with the Government till he retired in 1747. He died 28 Dec. 1758.
Research Notes: This is the last will and testament of me, Samuel Tufnell, of Langleys I the county of Essex, esquire, made this twenty seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred forty nine.
I desire to be buried in the parish church of Pleshey in the said county of Essex and direct that my funeral be as private and attended with as little expenses as my be consistent with decency.
Whereas my late dear sister, Rebecca Tufnell, by her last will and testament in writing bearing date the sixteenth day of April one thousand seven hundred and thirty did give and devise to my sister, Elizabeth Tufnell, one annuity or yearly sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for her life payable quarterly and secured as therein is mentioned and made me executor and residuary legatee now, for the better securing the payment of the said annuity, I do hereby charge all my estate, real and personal, and I do desire my executor hereafter named to be punctual in paying the same from time to time as it shall become due.
I give and bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth, the sum of three thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid unto her at the end of twelve months next after my decease with interest for the same after the rate of four pounds per cent by the year from the time of my death.
I give and bequeath to my daughter, Maria Anna, the like sum of three thousand pounds of like lawful money to be paid unto her at the end of twelve months next after my decease with like interest from the time of my death.
The said respective sums of three thousand pounds and three thousand pounds to be payable and paid by my eldest son and executor John Joliffe Tufnell and with the payment thereof I charge all my estate both real and personal.
I also give to my said daughters the further sum of two thousand pounds apiece out of the sum of ten thousand pounds payable to me by the executors or administrators of my uncle, William Jolliffe, within six months after his decease,
I give and bequeath to my two younger sons, George and William, the sum of two thousand pounds each out of the remainder of the said sum of ten thousand pounds payable to me within six months after the death of my said uncle, and the remaining two thousand pounds I give to my said eldest son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, his executors and administrators and hope that the provision hereby made for my said younger sons considering the estates which they are at present severally in possession of and entitled to in reversion and that the provision hereby likewise made for my said daughters considering what each of them is already possessed of and that they are entitled to a certain interest in reversion expectant upon the decease of Mrs Cressener their grandmother in the lordship or township of Henham in the Bishopric of Durham will be thought a sufficient provision for them out of my estate and that none of them will think that I have given an undue preference to any of them.
And whereas my said uncle, Sir William Jolliffe, by indenture bearing date on or about the eighteenth day of December 1717 was pleased to make a settlement of his lands, tenements and hereditaments which he then had in or near Pleshey aforesaid or Great Waltham in the said county of Essex from and after his decease upon myself for my life with remainder to such issue male of my body as I should appoint or to that effect and whereas by indentures of lease and release bearing date respectively the 27th and 28th day of June 1745 made between the said Sir William Jolliffe of the one part and myself of the other part, the said Sir William Jolliffe was pleased to settle the parsonage impropriator of High Easter in the said county of Essex with all the tithes of corn and hay, glebe lands and hereditaments thereunto belonging (except as therein so excepted) and also the manor of Hallaughton otherwise Haughton and all the site and capital mansion house situate in in Hallaughton otherwise Haughton in the county of Nottingham to hold the said parsonage of High Easter glebe lands and hereditaments thereunto belonging unto and to the use of me and my heirs during the three lives therein named and to hold the said manor site, capital mansion house, hereditaments and premises of the said manor of Hallaughton belonging unto and to the use of me and my heirs during the three lives therein also named and the life of the longest liver of them if the said Sir William Jolliffe should so long live and from and after his decease to the use of such person and persons for such estate and estates and to and for such interests and purposes and in such course, order and manners as the same manor site, mansion house and premises now or should be devised, settled and limited in and by the last will and testament of my said uncle notwithstanding any renewed lease thereof now the better to enable my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, to pay and discharge the said several sums of three thousand pounds and three thousand pounds hereinbefore given to my said two daughters and payable as aforesaid I do hereby give and devise to my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, and his heirs the said prebendal lease of Hallaughton alias Haughton and all my estate and interest therein to hold to my said son and his heirs during the three lives in the said lease named and the life of the longest liver of them if my said uncle shall so long live with remainder to the last will and testament of my said uncle.
I also give, devise, limit and appoint all and singular the lands, tenements and hereditaments comprised in the said indentures of the eighteenth day of Dec 1717 unto my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body with remainder to my said second son George and the heirs male of his body with remainder to such person and persons and for such estates and interest as the same premises stand limited in remainder and by the said deed of settlement in case of failure of issue male of my body.
I also give and devise unto my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, and his heirs my freehold house in Albermarle Street wherein I dwell together with such of the furniture in my said house as he shall think proper and also my silver dishes and plates and I do hereby recommend it to him as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to sell the said house, furniture, silver dished and plate the better to enable him to pay and discharge the several legacies and sums of money by this my will given and bequeathed in case my other real estates hereinafter bequeathed to him [sic].
And as to all and singular other my manors, messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments freehold, copyhold and leasehold in the county of Essex or elsewhere in the kingdom of Great Britain charged and chargeable as aforesaid (which I have power of disposal of) I give and devise the same and all my estate and interest therein unto and to the use of unto my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, his heirs, executors and administrators respectively.
I give and bequeath unto my dear wife the pearl necklace and all other jewels which she hath at any time had from her own family and also her diamond buckles for stays but desire that at her decease the gold repeating watch which I presented her with at our marriage may go to my said daughter, Elizabeth, and my wife's wedding diamond ring, which was my mother's wedding ring, may go to my said daughter, Maria Anna.
I also give to my wife fifty pounds for mourning, to my son John Jolliffe Tufnell and his wife, my son George and his wife twenty pounds each for mourning and to each of my other children the like sum of twenty pounds for mourning.
I also give to my sister, Elizabeth, to my mother [in law], Mrs Cressener and to Sir William Halton, Baronet, each the like sum of twenty pounds for mourning and do desire my said uncle, Sir William Jolliffe, to accept on hundred pounds as a small testimony of my gratitude towards him.
All the rest and remainder of my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever of what nature, kind or quality soever, after payment of my debts, legacies and funeral charges, I give and bequeath unto my said son John Jolliffe Tufnell, his executors and administrators and so hereby nominate and appoint him sole executor of this my last will and hereby revoke...in witness whereof...the day and year first before written.
This is a codicil to be taken as part of the within written will:
Whereas by the within written will I have given and bequeathed to each of my daughters within named the sum of three thousand pounds payable as therein is mentioned and have also given to each of them the further sum of two thousand pounds out of the sum of ten thousand pounds therein mentioned to be payable to me within six months after the death of Sir William Jolliffe therein named and whereas I have also given and bequeathed by the said written will to my two younger sons, George and William, the sum of two thousand pounds each out of the remainder of the said sum of ten thousand pounds and whereas the said Sir William Jolliffe is since dead now I do hereby revoke the said several legacies or sums of money so given and bequeathed for my said daughters and younger sons respectively and in lieu and stead thereof I give and bequeath in manner following (that is to say):
I give and bequeath to each of my said daughters the sum of six thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to each of them within twelve months next after my decease with interest for the same after the rate of four pounds per centum by the year from the time of my death.
And I give and bequeath unto my said son George the sum of three thousand pounds of like money to be paid unto him in like manner and with like interest from the time of my death and hope that he will think this provision by me hereby made for him sufficient considering what he is in possession of already and that my son, William, will excuse my revoking what I had before given to him and not impute my not making any provision for him by my will or codicil to the want of affection or proper regard for him which I should have done had he not been so greatly provided for by my late uncle’s Nathaniel Payler, esquire, and the said Sir William Jolliffe in all other respects.
I confirm my said will...20 Mar 1749.
May 23rd 1757 I desire that this may be taken as part of my will.
I give to each of my daughters Elizabeth and Maria Anna Tufnell one thousand pounds each more than I have before given by my will, witness my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Proved at London 03 Jan 1759.
• Address: Monken Hadley, Hertfordshire.
• Address: Langleys, Great Waltham, Essex.
• Address: Broomfield, Essex.
• Address: Haughton Hall, Haughton, Nottinghamshire.
• Address: Albermarle Street, London.
Samuel married Elizabeth Cressener, daughter of George Cressener and Maria Anna Payler, on 19 Dec 1717. Elizabeth died in 1777.
General Notes: Elizabeth Tufnell widow of Samuel Tufnell late of Langleys in the county of Essex, esquire,, deceased, do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following:
First I desire that I may be buried at Pleshey in the county of Essex in the same manner as my late mother was buried and that the expense thereof doth not exceed the sum of one hundred pounds and that none of the name of Turner or [illegible] may be employed in my funeral or have any gloves or hatbands but my own tenants to have hatbands and gloves.
I give and bequeath to my eldest son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, two hundred pounds East India stock.
I give and bequeath to my second son, George Forster Tufnell, two hundred pounds East India stock and also my silver fruit dish given me by Sir William Halton.
I give and bequeath to my youngest son, William Tufnell Jolliffe five hundred pounds East India stock.
I give and bequeath to my daughters Elizabeth and Maria Anna Tufnell and to the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of the survivor, my house in Curzon Street in the parish of St George, Hanover Square, in the county of Middlesex and all my right and tithe therein and thereto and also all the cabinets, china, clocks and furniture in or about the said house as [illegible] as otherwise except what I shall dispose of in any other manner and likewise all linen of all kind that shall be for the use of the house.
I make this bequest unto my said daughters in lieu and satisfaction of and for all East India stock that they should have or might expect and if at any time it shall happen that my said daughters cannot agree about living together then my will and mind is and I do hereby direct that whichever of them chooses to go out or quit the said house the other sister shall pay to her who chooses to go the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain for her share of the said house, linen, cabinets, china, clocks and furniture and that there upon the said house, furniture and things shall go and belong entirely to her executors and administrators.
Also I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Elizabeth Tufnell five hundred pounds old South Seas annuities, my yellow diamond ring, silver tea kettle, lamp and waiter that were Sir William Halton's and also my small silver coffee pot, lamp and dish to stand in and a silver cup given me by my mother and the bed and furniture complete that my said daughter, Elizabeth, lies in and a pair of wrought silver candlesticks and also all my Chelsea china and on moiety or half part of the plate I shall be possessed of at the time of my decease and not otherwise disposed of.
I also give and bequeath unto my said daughter, Elizabeth, a quilt worked with gold and colours and a fine chain stitched quilt given me by my mother.
I give and bequeath unto my younger daughter Maria Anna Tufnell one thousand pounds old South Sea annuities, my diamond earrings which I wear when undressed, a gold snuff box set with diamonds, all my old gold, silver and other coin [illegible] and counters and also my own silver tea kettle and lamp, a diamond ring set round with brilliants in lieu of seven diamonds which are in the drops of my earrings, a pair of wrought silver candlesticks and the other moiety or half part of my plate which I shall be possessed of at the time of my decease and not otherwise disposed of and likewise my china [?] bed linen, two roses of pearls given men by Sir William Halton, a gold quilt and pillow and a Marilla quilt and a petticoat that my mother worked.
I give and bequeath unto my said eldest son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, and my said daughters, Elizabeth and Maria Anna Tufnell, their executors and administrators, upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned, all my leasehold houses in Watling Street, Carter Lane and the Old Exchange in the City of London during the remainder of the several terms of years which I shall have therein to come at the time of my decease together with the lease by which I hold the same and all benefit of renewal thereof.
I also give and bequeath to my said eldest son and daughters, their executors and administrators, upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned one thousand pounds old South Sea annuities and one thousand six hundred pounds three per centum Bank annuities reduced and I do hereby declare that the bequest of the said houses, annuities and premises unto my said son and daughters are upon trust that they and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors and administrators of the survivor do and shall renew the leases by which the said several leasehold houses are held from time to time as the same shall want renewal and pay and defray the fines, charges and expenses thereof by a sale of a sufficient part of the said annuities and which I do authorise and empower them to make for this purpose and subject thereto in trust to pay all the rents and profits of the said houses and also all the dividends, interest and produce of the said several annuities or of what shall remain undisposed of from time to time as such rents, profits, dividends, interest and produce shall arise and be received into the proper hands of my grandson Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell only for his life and not into the hands of any other person or persons whomsoever it being my meaning and will that the said rents, profits, dividends, interest and produce shall be for his personal use and support and that no part thereof shall be subject or liable to any alienation or encumbrance whatsoever by him and in case my said grandson shall at any time assign, transfer or alien or by any ways or means charge or encumber the said rents, profits, dividends, interest and produce or any part thereof then it is my will that no part thereof be afterwards paid to him but that such rents, profits, dividends, interest and produce be from thenceforth during the life of my said grandson paid unto his uncle my said son, William Tufnell Jolliffe, his executors and administrators, to whom I do in such case give the same to and for his and their own use and benefit.
And from and after the decease of my said grandson upon trust to stand possessed of and interested in the said rents, profits, dividends, interest and produce thenceforth to arise and grow due for the same for the use and benefit of all or of such one or more of the children of my said grandson lawfully begotten and in such parts, shares and proportions, manner and form as my said grandson by any deed or writing or deeds or writings under his hands and seal or by his last will and testament...and in case of failure of his line to my grandson William Tufnell brother of the said Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell...and then for my grandson William Tufnell the eldest son of my son George Forster Tufnell...in furnishing my said grandson with clothes, pocket money and schooling or otherwise for his benefit...then for my grandson George Tufnell the brother of the said William and the second son of my said son George Forster Tufnell...then unto my said daughters Elizabeth and Maria Anna Tufnell.
I give, devise and bequeath all my shares, right and interest in the New Jersey Company and all my tithe thereto unto my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell and my said two daughters, their executors and administrators, but upon the same trusts and for the same intents and purposes and in the like manner as I have bequeathed my said leasehold house and South Sea and Bank reduced annuities unto them, I do hereby authorise and empower my said son and daughters respectively and their respective executors and administrators to deduct and retain by and out of the rents and profits of the said premises and by and out of the dividends, interest and produce of the said several annuities bequeathed unto them in trust as aforesaid and also by and out of the principle sums all cost, charges and expenses...
I give and bequeath unto my said grandson, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, my rose diamond ring that was my mother's and the gold repeating watch and chain which were left me by Sir William Halton.
All the rest of my jewels not hereby disposed of I will and direct to be sold and disposed of and that my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell and my said daughters do from time to time apply the money arising thereby or so much thereof as shall be necessary in repairing and keeping up the leasehold houses and premises hereby given unto them in trust ad aforesaid and in the mean time to place the said money or what shall remain thereof out at interest upon real or government securities and to stand possessed of and interested in the same with the dividends, interest and produce thereof upon the same trusts for the same intents and purposes and in like manner as is hereby declared concerning the said South Sea and reduced Bank annuities bequeathed unto my said son and daughters as aforesaid and the dividends, interest and produce thereof.
I give unto my said son, John Jolliffe Tufnell, my great silver tea table.
I give and bequeath unto my said grandson, William Tufnell, the son of the said John Jolliffe Tufnell one hundred pounds old South Sea annuities to be transferred unto him within six months next after my death.
I give and bequeath unto each of my grandsons William Tufnell and George Tufnell, the sons of my said son George Forster Tufnell, the sum of one hundred pounds old South Sea annuities to be transferred unto each of them respectively upon attaining the age of nineteen years and the dividends, interest and produce of each of the said sums to be in the mean time paid to them for pocket expenses and in case either of them shall die under nineteen then both the said sums with the dividends thereof to go and be paid unto the survivor and in case both my said grandsons shall die under nineteen then the said South Sea annuities are to sink into the residuary part of my estate.
I give and bequeath unto each and every of my sons and daughters and to my said grandsons, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell and William Tufnell, his brother, and to my grandson John Tufnell twenty guineas for mourning and to each and every of them a gold ring.
I beg Lady Widdrington's acceptance of a ring of five guineas value with this motto "friendship in death".
I also beg the Rt Revd Doctor Moss, Bishop of St David's acceptance of a ring.
I give unto the Rev Mr Tindall of Greenwich [?], Miss Tindall, his daughter, Mr Peter Basford, Mr Simon Parry of Conduit Street and the minister that buries me each a gold ring.
I give unto Mrs Green of Great Waltham in the county of Essex twenty guineas and to each of the poor persons inhabitants of or residing within the parishes of Great Waltham and Pleshey aforesaid as my executrixes shall judge proper objects the sum of ten pounds for each parish and to be distributed by my executrixes as they shall think proper.
I give to each and every of my servants that shall be living with me at the time of my decease the sum of forty shillings for every year they shall have lived with me over and above their wages.
I will and direct that all the money legacies hereby given be paid within six months next after my death.
I give all my clothes, linen and covering apparel which I have at any time worn unto my servant Mary Aldridge in case she shall be living with me at the time of my death and I also give her the sum of thirty guineas exclusive of the forty shillings a year above given her.
And I give unto my servant John Fiduris in case he shall be living with me at the time of my death the sum of ten pounds exclusive of the forty shillings a year above given him.
All the rest and residue of my estate and effects whatsoever after payment of my just debts, legacies and funeral expenses I give, devise and bequeath unto my said two daughters Elizabeth and Maria Anna Tufnell, their executors and administrators equally share and share alike
And I do constitute and appoint my said two daughters Elizabeth and Maria Anna Tufnell joint executrixes of this my will.
And lastly I do hereby revoke all former wills...4 Apr 1771.
I the within named Elizabeth Tufnell do by this codicil will and direct that in case my daughters shall not choose to live together then that my eldest daughter, Elizabeth, shall have the option of having the house with the linen, cabinets, china, clocks and furniture to herself absolutely, paying unto her sister the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds for her share thereof but in case my eldest daughter shall not choose to pay the one thousand five hundred pounds then that upon my youngest daughter paying unto her that sum she, my said youngest daughter hall have the house with the linen, cabinets, china, clocks and furniture to herself absolutely and in either case I will and direct that such of my daughters who shall receive the one thousand five hundred pounds doth execute a release unto her sister of all right and tithe to the said house and premises and of all claims and demands upon account thereof.
I will and direct that no demand be made on my son William Jolliffe Tufnell on account of the eleven hundred pounds which I some time since advanced and gave him.
I publish and declare this as a codicil to my will which I have just now executed...
March 8th 1774 I sold out of old South Sea annuities twelve hundred pound a few days ago which I have lent to my daughter, Eliz Tufnell, paying me four per cent on the bond she has given me in case of my death before it is paid I do devise and leave it between my two daughters, Eliz Tufnell and Maria Anna Tufnell share and share alike but if not enough left to pay my debts each must give one hundred pounds apiece out of the five hundred I have left them and I make this a codicil to my will...
I [illegible, used?] 20 pound out of the twelve hundred which I have spent.
I, Elizabeth Tufnell, widow, do make this codicil to my last will and testament. I give to Mary Aldridge if living with me at the time of my death fifty pounds above what I have left her in my will witness my hand 01 Feb 1775.
Proved at London...27 Nov 1777.
Children from this marriage were:
12 Feb 1722 in Great Waltham,
General Notes: I, Rebecca Tufnell, spinster, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner following:
I give and devise to my sister Elizabeth Tufnell, spinster, one annuity or yearly payment of one hundred and fifty pounds for her life payable quarterly and for the better securing the payment thereof I give and bequeath to Sir William Jolliffe, knight, William Worthey, esquire, and my brother, Samuel Tufnell, the sum of five thousand pounds in trust to be by them or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor laid out in the purchase of South Sea annuity stock or other good government security and out of the dividends and profit to pay the said one hundred and fifty pounds a year for the benefit of my said sister and the residue of the dividends and after my said sister's death the stock or other security to go to my said brother, his executors and administrators.
I give to the said, Sir William Jolliffe, one hundred pounds which I entreat him to accept as a small acknowledgement for many obligations.
To Lady Worthey and the said William Worthey and Lady Buckworth I give twenty pounds apiece for mourning.
I give to my cousin, Elizabeth Jennings, widow, and to my cousins, the Rev Anthony Springett, clerk, and William Springett, ten pounds apiece for mourning, to my servant Martha Lawrence ten pounds and to my man servant five pounds.
I give to my niece, Elizabeth Tufnell, my two diamond rings, gold tooth pick case and cornelian seal, to my nephew, Jolliffe Tufnell, my pearl necklace and my gold medal, formerly Lady Meyer's, to my nephew, George Tufnell, my gold watch and chain, gold rings and set of desert knives and forks, to my niece, Mary Tufnell, my diamond buckle and to my nephew, William Tufnell, all the rest of my plate.
All the rest and residue of my estate and whatsoever it be I give to my brother, Samuel Tufnell, and appoint him sole executor...16 Apr 1730.
Proved at London 09 Apr 1730.
4. Elizabeth Tufnell (John 1) was baptised on 21 Apr 1686 and was buried on 6 Jun 1757 in Pleshey, Essex. She had no known marriage and no known children.
Third
Generation
General Notes: In the name of God Amen I, Elizabeth Tufnell, of St George, Hanover Square, in the county of Middlesex, spinster, being in good health of body and of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding but considering the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death do make this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say:
First and principally I commend my soul to God that gave it and my body I desire to be buried in the family vault at Pleshey in the county of Essex.
And I will and direct that forty shillings be distributed at Pleshey and Great Waltham the Sunday next following my burial in bread.
And I direct that all my servants shall have mourning.
And as to such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I dispose thereof as follows:
I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall in the first place be fully paid and satisfied.
I give, devise and bequeath all that my freehold farm situate at High Easter in the county of Essex now in the occupation of Mr Thomas Saltmarsh together with all and singular the lands, tenements, hereditaments, rights, members and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto my brothers John Jolliffe Tufnell, George Forster Tufnell and William Tufnell Jolliffe, esquires, and Mr Newcombe of Hackney in the county of Middlesex, schoolmaster, and their heirs to hold the same to the said John Jolliffe Tufnell, George Forster Tufnell and William Tufnell Jolliffe, esquires, and Mr Newcombe and their heirs for and during the term of the natural life of my nephew, Samuel Tufnell, the eldest son of my brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, in trust to pay the rents, issues and profits thereof to my said nephew and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life in such manner, at such times and in such proportions as they in their discretion shall think proper.
And from and immediately after his decease I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said nephew, Samuel Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the second son of my said nephew, Samuel Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and all and every other sons of the body of my said nephew, Samuel Tufnell, and the heirs male of their several and respective bodies lawfully issuing, the elder of such son or sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies.
And for want and in default of such issue I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises to my said trustees and their heirs to hold to them and their heirs for and during the term of the natural life of my nephew, William Tufnell, second son of my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, in trust to pay the rents, issues and profits thereof to my said nephew, William Tufnell, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life.
And from and immediately after his decease I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said nephew, William Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the second son of my said nephew, William Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and all and every other sons of the body of my said nephew, William Tufnell, and the heirs male of their several and respective bodies lawfully issuing, the elder of such son or sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies.
And in default of such issue I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises to my said trustees and their heirs to hold to them and their heirs for and during the term of the natural life of my nephew, William Tufnell, eldest son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, in trust to pay the rents, issues and profits thereof to my said last mentioned nephew, William Tufnell, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life.
And from and immediately after his decease I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said last mentioned nephew, William Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the second son of my said last mentioned nephew, William Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and all and every other sons of the body of my said last mentioned nephew, William Tufnell, and the heirs male of their several and respective bodies lawfully issuing, the elder of such son or sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies.
And for want of and in default of such issue I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises to my said trustees and their heirs to hold to them and their heirs for and during the term of the natural life of my nephew, Charles Tufnell, second son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, in trust to pay the rents, issues and profits thereof to my said nephew, Charles Tufnell, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life.
And from and immediately after his decease I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said nephew, Charles Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the second son of my said last mentioned nephew, Charles Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and all and every other sons of the body of my said last mentioned nephew, Charles Tufnell, and the heirs male of their several and respective bodies lawfully issuing, the elder of such son or sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies.
And for want of and in default of such issue I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises to my said trustees and their heirs to hold to them and their heirs for and during the term of the natural life of my nephew, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, third son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, in trust to pay the rents, issues and profits thereof to my said nephew, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life.
And from and immediately after his decease I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said nephew, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the second son of my said last mentioned nephew, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and all and every other sons of the body of my said last mentioned nephew, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, and the heirs male of their several and respective bodies lawfully issuing, the elder of such son or sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies.
And for want of and in default of such issue I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises to my said trustees and their heirs to hold to them and their heirs for and during the term of the natural life of my nephew, George Tufnell, fourth son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, in trust to pay the rents, issues and profits thereof to my said nephew, George Tufnell, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life.
And from and immediately after his decease I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the first son of the body of my said nephew, George Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the second son of my said last mentioned nephew, George Tufnell, and the heirs male of his body lawfully issuing and for want of and in default of such issue then I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and all and every other sons of the body of my said last mentioned nephew, George Tufnell, and the heirs male of their several and respective bodies lawfully issuing, the elder of such son or sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies.
And for want of and in default of such issue I give, devise and bequeath the said farm, lands, hereditaments and premises situate at High Easter aforesaid to my own right heirs for ever.
And I do hereby give full power and authority to my said trustees and the survivor of them and their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor,, grant leases etc...
Item: I give and bequeath unto my brother, George Forster Tufnell, the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain being one moiety of the sum of three thousand pounds which he is indebted to me exclusive of the other monies he owes me upon bond.
And as to the remaining one thousand and five hundred pounds the other moiety of the said three thousand pounds I give and bequeath the same unto and amongst the children of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, in the proportions following, that is to say: to his son, my nephew, William, four hundred pounds part thereof, to his son, my nephew, Samuel Jolliffe, two hundred pounds other part thereof, to his son, my nephew, George, two hundred pounds other part thereof and to his daughter, my niece, Frances Maria, four hundred pounds the remaining part thereof, such legacies to be paid to my said nephews respectively on their attaining the age of twenty one years and to my niece on her attaining the age of twenty one or day of marriage which shall first happen and the interest in the mean time to be applied towards their maintenance and education in such manner as their father, his executors or administrators shall in his and their discretion think proper but in case any or either of my said nephews shall happen to die before he or they shall attain the age of twenty one years or in case my said niece shall happen to die before she shall attain twenty one or be married then I do hereby direct that the share or legacy of him, her or them so dying shall go to and be divided between the survivor and survivors of them share and share alike and that he, she or they shall become entitled to their own legacies and in case only one of my said nephews shall live to attain the said age of twenty one years or my said niece shall live to attain that age or be married then I do hereby direct that such only child shall be entitled to the whole of the said several legacies to be paid to him or her at the time when his or her original legacy would have become payable.
Item: I give, devise and bequeath all my estate, right and interest in and to the house in which I now live situate in Curzon Street, Mayfair in the county of Middlesex together with all my household goods, plate, linen and china which I have not by this my will disposed of and also my carriage and horses and twenty pounds for mourning to my sister, Maria Anna Tufnell, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for ever.
Item: I give, devise and bequeath unto my eldest brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, Esq., two hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain.
Item: I give and bequeath to my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, and to his wife twenty pounds each for mourning.
Item: I give and bequeath to my nephew, William, second son of my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, four hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, to my nephew, John, third son of my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, three hundred pounds of like lawful money and to my nephew, Richard, fourth son of my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, two hundred pounds of like lawful money.
I give and bequeath to my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, and his wife twenty pounds each for mourning,
I give and bequeath unto my brother, William Jolliffe Tufnell, the sum of one hundred pounds of like lawful money and the further sum of Twenty pounds for mourning.
Item: I give, devise and bequeath the like sum of twenty pounds apiece to my nephew, William Tufnell and his wife and to my nephew, John and his wife for mourning.
I give and bequeath unto the governors and treasurer for the time being of the Society for the Benefit of Poor Clergymen's widows and orphans in the county of Essex the sum of ten pounds of like lawful money,
Item: I give and bequeath unto the governors and treasurer for the time being of the Friendly Society of Great Waltham in the county of Essex the sum of ten pounds of like lawful money,
Item: I give and bequeath unto the overseers for the time being of the poor at Waltham one annuity or yearly sum of five of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid and payable to them for fifteen years next following my decease and no longer and to be distributed by them by and under the direction of my executor hereinafter named to and among the poor of the said parish.
Item: I give and bequeath to the overseers for the time being of the poor of Pleshey in the county of Essex one annuity or yearly sum of two pounds to be paid and payable to them for the like term of fifteen years and no longer and to be by them distributed to and among the poor of the said parish by and under the like direction of my executor hereinafter named.
Item: I give and bequeath to the governors and treasurer for the time being of the charity Children of Chelmsford the sum of five pounds of lawful money of Great Britain.
Item: I give and bequeath to my great nephew, John Tufnell, son of my nephew, John Tufnell, one hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to at and when he shall attain his age of eighteen years.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my two great nieces, Elizabeth Tufnell and Anna Maria Tufnell, one hundred pounds apiece of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to them as they shall respectively attain the years of eighteen years.
Item: I give and bequeath to the three Miss Youngs each a ring of ten guineas value.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my nephew, William Tufnell, second son of my brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, all my Chelsea china and the quilt with gold which my mother left me.
Item: I give and bequeath unto the wife of my last mentioned nephew, William, my figured pearl necklace and cross and my coq de pearl earrings with pearl barrs and a final pearl sprig and my pearl pins.
I also give and bequeath to my said trustee Mr Newcombe for his trouble in the execution of the trusts in this my will the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain.
Item: I give and bequeath to my nephew, John, my round silver waiter late Sir William Halton's and his wife my yellow diamond ring left me by my mother and my two small silver waiters,
Item: I give and bequeath to my niece, Frances Maria, daughter to my brother, George Forster Tufnell, the diamond ring which I had for Miss Deering the same to be now set with a motto on the inside with these words "Love your duty".
Item: I give and bequeath to Miss Walters of [illegible] a ring of ten guineas value.
Item: I give and bequeath to my sister, Maria Anna Tufnell, my diamond necklace and sprig for the hair.
Item: I give and bequeath to Ann the wife of my brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, my diamond bracelets with the pearls to them.
Item: I give and bequeath to ____ the wife of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, the use of my diamond earrings for and during the term of her natural life and from and after her decease I give and bequeath the same to my nephew, William, her son.
Item: I give and bequeath to my great niece, Elizabeth Tufnell, my diamond rose.
Item: I give and bequeath to each and every of my relations hereinbefore mentioned a mourning ring of one guinea value.
Item: I give and bequeath to my brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, and my sister, Maria Anna Tufnell, all my pictures of my own painting in watercolours, except the Madonna after Raphael which I give to my brother George Forster Tufnell, equally to be divided between them, first one choosing then the other.
Item: I give and bequeath to Robert Sorrell who takes care of our garden and Judith Stokes who takes care of our house in the country five pounds each.
Item: I give and bequeath to each and every [illegible] servant that has lived with me above one year the sum of two pounds for every year he, she or they shall have so lived with me above one year over and above any other legacy I have by this my will given to them.
Item: I give and bequeath to William Bailey my postilion and to John [illegible] my butler the sum of ten pounds each in case they shall be living with me at the time of my decease but not otherwise.
Item: I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Abberly and William Abberly-Farmer both my late servants the sum of ten pounds each.
And I direct all my wearing apparel and clothes shall be divided into two equal moieties or half parts, one moiety of half part thereof I give and bequeath to the said Elizabeth Abberly and the other moiety or half part thereof I give and bequeath to Marchont Bloodworth in case she shall be living with me at the time of my decease or if not then I give and bequeath the said last mentioned moiety of my clothes to such servant as shall be living with me as my own maid at the time of my decease.
And my will and desire is and I do hereby direct that all the legacies which I have by this my will given, except such as a particular time for payment is specified which are to be paid according to the particular time or times mentioned and those for announcing mourning, rings and servants legacies which are to be paid immediately after my decease, shall not be paid or payable till two years and three months after my decease, interest in the mean time to be paid for the same at the rate of four per cent.
All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate and effects of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever I give, devise and bequeath unto my brother, George Forster Tufnell, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns to and for his and their own absolute use and benefit.
And I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my brother, George Forster Tufnell, sole executor of this my will...12 Dec 1780.
Proved at London 09 Mar 1784.
6. John Jolliffe Tufnell (Samuel 2, John 1) was born on 27 Jun 1720, died on 23 Sep 1794, aged 74, and was buried in Pleshey, Essex.
General Notes: Family and Education
b. 27 June 1720, 1st s. of Samuel Tufnell, M.P., and bro. of George Forster Tufnell. educ. M. Temple 1737; Corpus Christi, Camb. 1738. m. 2 Apr. 1748, Anna, da. of William Meeke of Northallerton, Yorks., 4s. suc. fa. 28 Dec. 1758.
Biography
Tufnell was returned for Beverley in 1754 after a contest. In Dupplin's list of the House of Commons he appears under the heading 'country gentlemen', and was classed as a Government supporter. But nothing further is known about his conduct in Parliament. He did not stand in 1761.
He died 23 Sept. 1794. 'He was one of the most wealthy commoners in England; the rental of his landed property in Essex and the north amounted to £18,000 per annum, and his ready money and stock in the funds is expected to amount to near £150,000.'
This is the last will and testament of me, John Jolliffe Tufnell, of Langleys in the parish of Great Waltham in the county of Essex, Esq,. Made this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty three in manner following:
I desire to be buried in the family vault in the church of Pleshey in the said county of Essex and my funeral to be attended with as little expense as is consistent with decency.
Whereas on or soon after my intermarriage with my dear wife I made a settlement upon her in bar of her dower [illegible] to her then satisfaction now I do hereby give unto her for life if she continues as long a widow a messuage or tenement called Wallops House in the parish of Great Waltham aforesaid and the [illegible] ground and orchard opposite the said house together with all outhouses and stables thereunto belonging and also one field of meadow or pasture land containing three acres or thereabouts situate opposite Strouts House upon the like terms and conditions.
I also give and bequeath unto my said wife one annuity or rent charge of one hundred pounds a year clear of all reprises to be paid unto her by equal half yearly payments for her life by and out of the rents, issues and profits of my several freehold estates over and above the said settlement made upon our intermarriage as aforesaid.
I also give unto her during her widowhood the use of a sideboard of such part of my plate as is commonly used in a private family together with my coach, a pair of horses and harness she, my said wife, at or before her taking possession of the said plate giving a receipt under her hand for the same at the foot of an inventory to be made thereof and thereby promising that she will carefully preserve and leave the same plate at the time of her decease in as good plight and condition as the same shall be at the time of my decease (reasonable use, wearing and inevitable accidents by fire or otherwise excepted) but these several bequests made to her as aforesaid are upon this express condition that she doth abide by her said settlement and not resort to her dower or thirds at common law or marry again and if she should claim her dower or marry again the same to be void.
I give to my son William five thousand pounds, to my son John six thousand pounds and to my son Richard five thousand pounds to be paid at their respective ages of twenty one years with interest in the mean time after the rate of four per pounds in the hundred by the year.
And I make my said wife and my much honoured mother and my eldest sister Elizabeth guardians of my son Samuel but in case my wife should marry again I will that her guardianship shall cease,
I also make my said wife, my said mother and sister Elizabeth guardians and trustees to my younger children above named and to take care of their respective educations and to allow each of them such annual maintenance as they in their discretion shall from time to time think proper not exceeding the income of their fortunes which I hope they will place out to interest and improve for the benefit of my said younger children.
I give to the several persons hereinafter named the several sums of money hereafter mentioned, that is to say:
To my said wife two hundred pounds and to my said dear mother one hundred pounds, to each of my brother twenty pounds, to each of my sisters the like sum of twenty pounds and to my much honoured grandmother the like sum of twenty pounds for mourning.
And I also give and bequeath to my said wife a further legacy or sum of five hundred pounds upon this express condition that she accepts of the several bequests and provisions made for her (over and above the said settlement) in and by this my will.
All and singular my freehold, leasehold for lives and copyhold estates whatsoever and wheresoever charged and chargeable as aforesaid I give and devise unto my said son, Samuel, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of waste and from and after the determination of that estate by forfeiture or otherwise I give and devise the same unto and to the use of William Tufnell Jolliffe of Nun Monkton in the county of York, Esq., and Andrew Wilkinson of Burrough Bridge in the same county, Esq., and their heirs during the life of my said son, Samuel, in trust to preserve the contingent remainders...
And for default of such...I give and bequeath the said freehold, leasehold for lives and copyhold estates to my said son, William, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life...
And for default of such...I give and bequeath the said freehold, leasehold for lives and copyhold estates to my said son, John, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life...
And for default of such...I give and bequeath the said freehold, leasehold for lives and copyhold estates to my said son, Richard, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life...
And for default of such...to the use and behoof of all and every other son and sons of my body...and in default of such issue to the use of all and every my daughter and daughters...and for default of such to my own right heirs.
And my will is and I do hereby order and direct that the lease or leases which I now have or may have at the time of my decease for the life and lives of any person or persons shall and my from time to time when and so often as occasion shall require (and that the same can be done on reasonable and equitable terms) be renewed and filled up by and out of the rents and profits of all or any part of the premises held by and under such lease or leases and that all new or other leases at any time or times here after to be had or taken of the same premises or any part thereof shall at all times then, after or during the continuance thereof respectively remain, continue and go to, for and upon the same uses, trusts, intents and purposes and under and subject to the expressed and declared of and concerning the now existing lease or leases of the same premises or as near to thereto as may be and the laws of England will permit with power for my said son, Samuel and my said other sons as and when they shall respectively be actually in possession of the said premises to make leases for one, two or three lives or for any term of years not exceeding twenty one years and also to make a jointure for the life of any woman or women he or they shall respectively marry not exceeding eighty pounds for every thousand pounds he or they shall receive as the marriage portion or portions of any such woman or women subject nevertheless to such leases as shall happen to be made of the premises by virtue of the powers herein given.
All the rest, residue and remainder of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever of what nature, kind or quality soever I give, devise and bequeath unto my said dear wife, my honoured mother and my sister Elizabeth, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns respectively in trust nevertheless to my said son, Samuel, his heirs, executors and administrators.
And I make, constitute and appoint my said wife, mother and sister Elizabeth joint executors of this my will during the minority of my said son, Samuel, and when he shall attain the age of twenty one years I make him sole executor thereof.And I do direct that my said trustees do and shall so soon as conveniently may be after my decease convert my said personal estate into money and invest the same in lands to be settled and limited to such and the same uses as my lands in Essex are hereinbefore settled and limited.
In witness whereof...in the year first above written.
On the twenty ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four administration with the will annexed of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of John Jolliffe Tufnell late of Langleys in the parish of St Waltham in the county of Essex, Esq., deceased was granted to William Tufnell, Esq., by the committee appointed by the High Court of Chancery for the care and management of the estate of Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell, Esq.,, a lunatic, the son of the said deceased and executor named in the said will and for his use and benefit during his lunacy having been first sworn duly to administer.
Research Notes: The elder son, John Jolliffe, made his home at Langleys, and the direct line continued through six more generations till the present day. Langleys has never been let since Samuel bought the property in 1711. John Jolliffe was born on 23rd June, 1720. Like his brother William, he was apprenticed to his father in 1736. In April, 1748, he married Ann, daughter of George Meeke, of Northallerton, co. York. He succeeded to the paternal estate of Langleys after his father Samuel's death in 1758, when he was already thirty-eight years old and the father of four sons. It was he who discovered £150,000 and three caskets of jewels wrapped up in linen and hidden behind the books in the old library at Langleys. The money is supposed to represent certain funded property sold out by Samuel in order to purchase further estates in the county.
John Jolliffe Tufnell was returned as Member for the borough of Beverley on 16th April, 1754, and was Sheriff for the County of Essex in 1786.2 He died and was buried on 23rd September, 1794, at Pleshy. He had four sons: (1) Samuel Jolliffe (2) William (3) John Tufnell, who was born in 1753, and married Hannah, daughter of — Beaulieu (by whom he had a son, John Tufnell, of Hawksters Hall, co. Lincoln); he lived at Wallops, Great Waltham, co. Essex, and was buried at Pleshy in June, 1819. (4) Richard Tufnell, John Jolliffe's fourth son, never married; he lived at Great Waltham, and was buried at Pleshy on 26th February, 1826.
Noted events in his life were:
• Address: Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire.
John married Anna Meeke on 2 Apr 1748. Anna was born in Northallerton, North Yorkshire and died in 1791.
Children from this marriage were:
First I recommend my soul to God who gave it in hopes of a glorious resurrection through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ and my body I commit to the earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and I do hereby direct the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds and no more to be expended on my funeral.
And as to such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I give and dispose thereof as follows (that is to say):
First I give, devise and bequeath unto my brother George Forster Tufnell all that my freehold messuage or tenement, land and premises situate at Broomfield in the county of Essex and commonly called or known by the name of Broomfield Place together with all the fixtures, furniture and pictures which now are or at the time of my decease shall be in or upon the said messuage, tenement and premises and also all that my farm and land situate at Broomfield aforesaid formerly in the tenure or occupation of _____ and now of John Cox to hold the said messuage or tenement, farm, land, hereditaments and premises together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid unto my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste (except wilful waste) and from and after his decease I give and devise the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid to my trust friend John Farwell of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury in the county of Middlesex, esquire, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for and during the life of the said George Forster Tufnell by the normal ways and means to support the contingent remainders hereinafter created from being defeated or destroyed and for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as the case may require but nevertheless to permit and suffer the said George Forster Tufnell and his assigns to receive the profits thereof for and during the term of his natural life.
And from and after the determination of that estate I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid to my nephew William Tufnell eldest son of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, to hold the same to the said William Tufnell and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life...
And from and after the decease of said William Tufnell I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid to the said John Farwell...to the use of the first and every other son and sons lawfully begotten...
And in default of such ... I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid unto my nephew John Charles Tufnell second son of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, to hold the same to him and his heirs for and during the term of his natural life...
And in default of such ... I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid unto my nephew Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell third son of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, to hold the same to him and his heirs for and during the term of his natural life...
And in default of such ... I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid unto my nephew George Tufnell fourth son of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, to hold the same to him and his heirs for and during the term of his natural life...
And in default of such ... I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid unto my nephew Richard Tufnell fourth son of my brother John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys in the county of Essex to hold the same to him and his heirs for and during the term of his natural life...
And in default of such ... I give, devise and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises, together with the fixtures, furniture and pictures as aforesaid unto my great nephew William Tufnell the son of my nephew John Tufnell 3rd son of my said brother John Jolliffe Tufnell, to hold the same to him and his heirs for and during the term of his natural life...
Item: I give, devise and bequeath unto my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, all the linen, horses, carts, carriage and implements of gardening and husbandry which shall be in and upon the said messuage and tenements, farm, lands, hereditaments and premises at the time of my decease and which are not hereby or otherwise disposed of, to and for his own use and benefit,
Item: I give and bequeath to my nephew, William Tufnell, eldest son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, one annuity or yearly sum of twenty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain payable quarterly, the first payment thereof to be made at the expiration of the first three months next after my decease.
Item: I give and bequeath to Judith Stokes now living with me one annuity or yearly sum of ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain over and above any other legacy she may be entitled to under this my will, payable quarterly, the first payment thereof to begin and be made at the expiration of the first three months next after my decease.
And I do hereby charge the tithes of the parish of [illegible] in the county of Northampton which I hold of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester with the payment of the said two annuities of twenty pounds and ten pounds.
Item: I give, devise and bequeath the said tithes, charged and chargeable with the payment of the said two annuities and also of the fine payable annually to the Bishop of Winchester to my brother, William Tufnell Jolliffe, of Nun Monkton in the county of York, and his executors, administrators and assigns,
And whereas I am indebted two several loans [?] of four hundred and fifty pounds and two hundred pounds secured upon bond [illegible] I do hereby charge my loans and promises on Curzon Street, Mayfair together with all the fixtures, furniture, pictures, linen, china and other effects which shall be in and upon the said house and premises at the time of my decease with the payment of the said two several debts and charged and chargeable therewith.
I give, devise and bequeath the same and every part thereof (the plate only excepted) unto my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, and Mary his now wife and their assigns for and during the term of their natural lives or the life of the longest liver of them and after the decease of the survivor of them I give, devise and bequeath the said house and premises together with the fixtures, furniture, pictures, linen, china and other effects (except ony the plate as aforesaid) charged and chargeable as aforesaid to my nephews, John Charles Tufnell, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell and George Tufnell, children of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns to hold the same to them, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for ever to take and hold the same together jointly and equally as joint tenants and not as tenants in common it being my express will, desire and intention that neither of them shall be at liberty to sell and dispose of his share and interest in the said premises separate and apart from the others or other of them.
Item: I give, devise and bequeath to my nephew and godson, Richard Tufnell, fourth son of my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, all that my copyhold house, garden and orchard and also the freehold piece of land which I occupy therewith situate at Great Waltham in the county of Essex subject to such outgoings as are payable therefrom together with the fixtures, furniture, linen, china, pictures and other effects (not hereby otherwise disposed of) which shall be in and upon the said house, land and premises or any part thereof at the time of my decease to hold the same to him the said Richard Tufnell, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my said nephew, Richard Tufnell, my gold box set with diamonds upon condition that he undertakes never to dispose of or alter the same but that it shall descend in the same condition it now is to his heirs (reasonable use and wearing thereof only excepted) but if my said nephew, Richard Tufnell, shall not choose to take the said box upon the condition aforesaid then I give the same to my nephew John Charles Tufnell upon the conditions aforesaid but if will not choose to have the same upon those conditions I give it to such of my nephews as will accept the same upon the same terms and conditions, the eldest of them to have the first refusal of it.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my said nephew, Richard Tufnell, one pair of silver salts, one case of silver knives and forks, a small pair of silver candlesticks with the family arms, one silver waiter with a cedarwood edge, a wrought silver cream mug, all my gold and silver coins, [illegible] and drawings, a phaeton with a cipher [ET], a rose diamond cluster ring which was my grandmothers and five silver tea spoons with the family crest.
Item: I give and bequeath to my brother William Tufnell Jolliffe two pairs of high wrought silver candlesticks, three silver urn castors, a silver [illegible] basket, my grandmother's picture (who left the Farnham Estate) and my mother's picture when a child for and during the term of his natural life and from and after his decease I give and bequeath the same to all his sons in rotation during their respective lives the eldest always entitled to the same first and the others according to their respective ages and from and after the decease of all the sons of my said brother, William Tufnell Jolliffe, except one I give and bequeath the said pate [sic] pictures to such surviving son to hold to him and his executors, administrators and assigns for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys aforesaid, my diamond rose cluster ring engraved on the inside with my father's name and age and a pair of silver waiters with a lozenge.
Item: I give and bequeath to Mrs Anne Tufnell, wife of my said brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell, my largest silver tea kettle and lamp, two cluster rose diamond hat pins, a set of blue and white Nankeen china with gilt handles and edges and all my pearls which are not hereby otherwise disposed of.
Item: I give and bequeath to Mrs Mary Tufnell fife of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, my cabriole chair and harness and all my point lace to and for her own use and benefit.
Item: I give and bequeath to the said Mrs Mary Tufnell all my jewels (which I have not hereby before disposed of) for and during the term of her natural life and from and after her decease I give and bequeath the same equally between her two sons, Samuel Jolliffe Tufnell and George Tufnell.
Item: I give and bequeath to my nephew, William Tufnell, eldest son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, my large brilliant sultana feather, five separate brilliant pieces in various forms and my rose diamond necklace with rings at the end.
Item: I give and bequeath to my nephew, John Charles Tufnell, second son of my brother, George Forster Tufnell, my other rose diamond necklace, a pair of rose diamond dropped earrings, one pair of silver salts, a silver ring and a case of silver knives and forks.
Item: I give and bequeath to my great niece, Elizabeth Tufnell, eldest daughter of my nephew William Tufnell of Wallops in the parish of Great Waltham in the county of Essex, esquire, my small single stone brilliant ring.
Item: I give and bequeath to my goddaughter Mary Ann Tufnell, second daughter of my nephew William Tufnell, my small diamond feather also my pearl cross set with diamonds, my harpsichord and all my Brussels lace.
Item: I give and bequeath to my niece Louisa Tufnell, third daughter of my said nephew William Tufnell, a single row pearl necklace,
Item: I give and bequeath to Miss Emma Farwell second daughter of the said John Farwell a diamond brilliant bird.
Item: I give and bequeath to my three brothers and to the said John Farwell each a ring of one guinea value.
Item: I give and bequeath to Mrs Sorrell, formerly Miss Peacock, twenty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain.
Item: I give and bequeath to Susan Island of Pleshey ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain.
All my clothes and linen (not before disposed of) I give and bequeath to my housekeeper Rachael Bladworth if she shall be living with me at the time of my decease.
Item: I give and bequeath to the parish of Pleshey ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, to the parish of Great Waltham ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain and to the parish of Broomfield five pounds of lawful money of Great Britain such legacies to be applied within one month after my decease for the benefit of the poor of the said several parishes in such manner as executors hereinafter named shall think proper.
Item: I give and bequeath to all my servants forty shillings a year for every year they shall have lived with me more than one year (over and above any wages that may be due to them) except my gardener Thomas Suckling to whom I give and bequeath the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain.
All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever I give, devise and bequeath to my said brother George Forster Tufnell his heirs, executors, admors and assigns for ever.
And I do hereby nominate, constitutes and appoint my said brother George Forster Tufnell, my said brother William Tufnell Jolliffe and the said John Farwell executors of this my will...14 Apr 1788.
Proved at London 25 Nov 1790.
Noted events in her life were:
• Address: Broomfield Place, Broomfield, Essex.
First I give and bequeath the several pecuniary and specific legacies hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:
To my nephew John Tufnell (son of my late brother John Jolliffe Tufnell, esquire, deceased) and to my nephew William Tufnell (eldest son of my brother George Forster Tufnell) the sum of two hundred pounds a piece.
To my sister in law Mrs George Forster Tufnell the sum of fifty pounds.
To my niece, the wife of my nephew, William Tufnell, another son of my said late brother John Jolliffe Tufnell, the sum of fifty pounds.
To my niece the wife of the said John Tufnell the sum of fifty pounds.
To my nephews Samuel Tufnell and Richard Tufnell sons of my said late brother John Jolliffe Tufnell, the sum of twenty pounds apiece.
To Charles Tufnell, Jolliffe Tufnell and George Tufnell sons of my brother George Forster Tufnell the sum of twenty pounds a piece.
To all the children of my said nephew, William Tufnell, the sum of twenty pounds apiece.
To the two sons of my said nephew, John Tufnell, the sum of twenty pounds.
To my worthy friend William Bethell, esquire, the sum of one hundred guineas for a ring, also the hunter I normally ride or any one of my other hunters which he may like better and also any one of the horses I may have in training at the time of my decease which he may think proper to make [illegible] of.
To my godson Bull Robinson, son of Bethell Robinson, esquire, the sum of fifty pounds.
To my worthy friend the Rev James Willoughby of Hutton in the county of the city of York, clerk, the sum of one hundred pounds.
To the Rev John Hornby of Nun Monkton aforesaid, clerk, the sum of twenty pounds.
To my two servants Christopher Abbott and Henry Williamson the sum of fifty pounds a piece.
To George Wise who assists in my dog kennel and stables the sum of ten pounds.
To Edward Hare who is an assistant to my husbandman the sum of two pounds.
To Philip Paxton of Fridaythorpe in the said county of York the sum of five pounds.
To the two men who are assistants to my gardener the sum of five pounds each.
To John Thompson and William Pinkney the sum of five pounds each.
To my faithful and trusty house steward Mr Oswald Hardy the hunter which he usually rides.
To the minister and church wardens for the time being of Nun Monkton aforesaid the sum of twenty pounds to be by them distributed as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to and amongst such of the poor of Nun Monkton aforesaid as the said minister and church wardens may think fit objects to receive the same and in such shares and proportions as they may think proper.
Also I give and bequeath to the minister and churchwardens the further sum of five pounds to be by them laid out in bread and distributed amongst the poor people of Nun Monkton aforesaid immediately after my funeral.
I do direct that my executors shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease distribute or cause to be distributed in such manner as they may think proper the sum of ten pounds unto and amongst the poor of the township of Wooburn in the county of Northumberland.
Also the like sum of ten pounds unto and amongst the poor of the township of Fenham in the county of Durham.
Also the sum of ten pounds unto and amongst the poor of Holloway in the parish of Islington near London.
Also the sum of ten pounds unto and amongst the poor of Froxfield and Bordean in Hampshire.
Also the sum of ten pounds unto and amongst the poor of the township of Longgate in the said county of York and the sum of ten pounds unto and amongst the poor of the township of Fridaythorpe in the said county of York.
Item: I give and bequeath to Ann Milner (the natural daughter of my late housekeeper Mrs Ann Milner) who is now at school with Mrs Walker in Micklegate in the city of York the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds to be paid to her when she shall attain the age of twenty one and I do direct that such legacy shall carry interest after the rate of four pounds per cent per annum from the time of my decease to be applied for and towards her maintenance, education and benefit until her said legacy becomes payable as aforesaid provided nevertheless that in case the said Anne Milner shall happen to die under the age of twenty one years leaving issue by marriage and such marriage shall have been had with the consent and approbation of my said trustees herein after named then and in such case I do direct that the said legacy of one thousand five hundred pounds shall be paid to such issue and if more than one be equally divided amongst them share and share alike when he, she or they shall severally attain the age of twenty one years and the interest thereof shall be applied for and towards their maintenance, education and benefit respectively in the mean time provided also that in case the said Ann Milner shall happen to marry under the age of twenty one years without such consent as aforesaid or marrying with such consent shall die under that age without leaving issue by marriage to be had with such consent or having such issue all of them shall happen to die under such age then and in any of the said cases I do direct that the said legacy of one thousand five hundred pounds and all the then unapplied interest thereof shall go to the persons or person who shall for the time being be entitled to by this my will to my real estates out of which the said legacy is hereinafter directed to be devised.
Item: I give to such of my other servants not herein particularly named living with me at my decease and who shall have lived with me not less than one year nor more than five years next preceding my decease the sum of ten pounds a piece and to such other servants not herein particularly named then living with me and who shall have lived with me five years and upwards the sum of twenty pounds a piece.
Item: my will and mind is and I do give and bequeath unto such person or persons whose names respectively shall at my decease be found contained in any memorandum or other writing which shall appear to be dated after the date of this my will and be by me signed with my own name the money, legacies, goods and other things which shall be therein expressed to be by me given and to be paid and delivered by executors to the persons respectively at the several times therein to be specified but if no time therein shall be specified then within six months next after my decease and which memorandum shall be esteemed a codicil to and part of this my will to all intents and purposes as if the same had been herein particularly inserted and included.
Whereas I lately purchased (with the sum of one hundred and five pounds) a share in the first class of the Doncaster Universal Tontine instituted by constitution deed of Monday the first day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight executed by a committee of directors thereof namely Sir George Cooke, baronet, Richard Ellison, esquire, and other proprietary members upon the life of William Milner then a minor in the fifth year of his age and I also purchased (with the sum of ninety nine pounds fifteen shillings) another share in the said first class of the said tontine upon the life of Nathaniel Milner then a minor in the third year of his age, now I do by this my will give and bequeath both the said shares of and in the said tontine and all my right property and interest therein unto the said George Forster Tufnell, William Tufnell, son of my said late brother John Jolliffe Tufnell, William Bethell and James Willoughby their executors, administrators and assigns in trust that hey and the survivor of them shall and do according to the rules of the said tontine from time to time receive and take the interest or dividends to arise from the said shares as the same shall become due and payable and pay and apply the interest or dividends as they shall think proper unto and for the use and benefit of the said William Milner (hereinafter described) until he shall attain the age of twenty one years and when and so soon as he shall attain that age then in trust to assign and transfer the said first mentioned share of and in the said tontine and all the interest then unapplied for his benefit unto and for the sole use and benefit of the said William Milner his executors, admors and assigns.
And do pay and apply the interest or dividends to arise from the last mentioned share in such manner as they shall think proper unto and for the sole use and benefit of the said Nathaniel Milner (hereinafter described) until he shall attain his age of twenty one years and when and so soon as as he shall attain that age then in trust to assign and transfer the said first mentioned share of and in the said tontine and all the interest then unapplied for his benefit unto and for the sole use and benefit of the said Nathaniel Milner his executors, admors and assigns.
Item: I do direct that the plate, pictures and furniture belonging to me and which shall be in and about my dwelling house at Nun Monkton aforesaid shall go a long therewith as heir looms for the benefit of the person or persons for the time being entitled to the same house.
Item: I give and bequeath all the residue and remainder of my personal estate whatsoever not herein particularly bequeathed or disposed of unto them the said George Forster Tufnell, William Tufnell, William Bethell and James Willoughby their executors, administrators and assigns upon trust that they and the survivors or survivor of them shall and do apply the same as far as it will extend towards discharging my funeral expenses, the charges of proving and registering this my will, my just debts and the several legacies herein bequeathed.
And I do direct that such legacies for the payment whereof no time is herein particularly specified shall be paid within twelve calendar months after my decease.
I give and bequeath to the said Oswald Sturdy or his assigns during the term of his natural life one annuity or clear yearly sum of one hundred and five pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, to Thomas Lazenby (who was formerly my husbandman) or his assigns during the term of his natural life one annuity or clear yearly sum of five pounds lawful money and which said annuities I do direct shall be paid and payable to the said annuitants or their assigns by two equal half yearly portions (that is to say) on the fifth day of April and the tenth day of October in each year and the first payment thereof shall be made on such of the said half yearly days as shall first happen next after my decease and a like proportion of the same annuities [illegible] due between the half years day next before and the day of their decease respectively shall be paid to their executors or administrators respectively.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my housekeeper Mrs Elizabeth Bamber or her assigns during the term of her natural life one annuity or clear annual sum of nine pounds of lawful money in addition to annuity of twenty guineas a year already secured to her by my note (which note I do hereby ratify and confirm) and I do direct that the said annuity of nine pounds shall be paid to her or her assigns on the same days or times and under the same conditions and restrictions as the said annuity of twenty guineas is by the said note made payable and not otherwise and that the first payment of the said annuity of nine pounds per annum shall be made on such of those days as shall first happen after my decease.
Item: I do hereby ratify and confirm to my late housekeeper, the said Ann Milner the annuity of thirty pounds already secured by my bond to her for her life to be paid at the days or times specified in the condition of such bond.
I give and devise all my messuages, farms, lands, tenements, tithes and hereditaments whatsoever situate, lying and being at Nun Monkton, Kirk Hammerton, Huggate and Fridaythorpe in the said county of York and also all my tithes, lands and hereditaments at Froxfield and Bordean in Hampshire aforesaid with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances and all other the real estates whatsoever and wheresoever whereof or wherein I am or any person or persons in trust for me is or are seized or entitled in possession, reversion, remainder or expectancy or over which I have any disposing power unto my said George Forster Tufnell, my said nephew William Tufnell, son of my said late brother John Jolliffe Tufnell, and my friends the said William Bethell and James Willoughby and their heirs hold to them upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes and under and subject to the powers, provisos, conditions and restrictions herein contained, expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say) upon trust that they the said George Forster Tufnell, William Tufnell, William Bethell and James Willoughby or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of the last survivor shall and do either by mortgage in fee or for some lower term or terms of years or by sale of all or sufficient part or parts of my said messuages, farms, lands, tenements, tithes and hereditaments or by and out of the rents and profits thereof or by such other ways or means as they in their discretion shall think proper in the first place raise and levy so much or such sum or sums of money as shall be sufficient and necessary for the payment and discharge of all such my just debts, funeral expenses, the charges of proving and registering this my will and the several legacies by me bequeathed as my personal estate herein before directed to be applied for that purpose shall be insufficient to satisfy and shall and do pay and apply the monies so to be raised accordingly.
And upon further trust that they my said trustees of the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of the last survivor shall and do on and out of the rents and profits of the said hereditaments and premises pay and discharge all costs, charges and expenses incident to the raising and paying the same and also shall and do pay, keep down and satisfy the interest from time to time to become due as well on the said monies which shall be so borrowed or taken upon mortgage and which carry interest when as the same shall from time to time become due and payable and also shall and do thereby and thereout raise and levy the interest of the said sum of one thousand five hundred pounds hereinbefore bequeathed to the said Ann Milner after the rate aforesaid and apply the same for and towards the maintenance, education and benefit of her or her issue who shall be entitled thereto as herein before mentioned until the said legacy becomes payable to her or them as aforesaid.
And upon further trust that they or he shall and do by all or any of the ways and means aforesaid (but subject nevertheless and without prejudice to the several trusts hereinbefore contained for the purposes aforesaid and to any sale or sales, mortgage or mortgages to be made in pursuance of such trusts) raise and pay all the said several annuities hereby bequeathed.
And also those which are already declared by me to the said Ann Milner, my late housekeeper, and to the said Elizabeth Bamber, my present housekeeper, at the times hereinbefore mentioned but nevertheless as to the said annuity of twenty guineas secured by my note and that of nine pounds hereby bequeathed to the said Elizabeth Bamber the same shall only be paid under the conditions and restrictions in such note specified and for facilitating any sale (if such shall be thought necessary for the purposes aforesaid) by my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or his heirs I do direct that the conveyances an assurances to be made by them or him of all or any part of the same hereditaments or premises so to be sold and disposed of and their or his receipt or receipts ...
And from and after full payment and satisfaction of all my just debts, funeral expenses, the charges of proving and registering this my will and the several legacies, interest, monies and annuities as foresaid and in the mean time subject thereto and to the several trusts, powers and remedies herein before contained for raising and paying the same and to such mortgage or mortgages as may be existent of any part of the said hereditaments and premises and to the costs, charges and expenses incident thereto and to the trusts aforesaid I do direct that they my said trustees George Forster Tufnell, William Tufnell, William Bethell and James Willoughby and their heirs shall and do stand seized of all the said hereditaments and premises or such of them or such parts thereof as shall not have been sold for the purposes aforesaid with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances upon the further trusts herein after mentioned (that is to say):
As to one undivided moiety or equal half part (the whole in two equal parts to be divided) of and all the same hereditaments and premises in trust for the said William Milner (the natural son of the said Ann Milner, my late housekeeper) who is now at school under the instructions of the Rev Mr [illegible] at Thornton near Pickering in the said county of York and for his assigns for and during the term of his natural life...and then for his sons...and in default of such to his daughters heirs as tenants in common...
And as to the other or remaining undivided moiety or equal half part (the whole in two equal parts to be divided) of and all the same hereditaments and premises in trust for the said Nathaniel Milner (also the natural son of the said Ann Milner, my late housekeeper) who is now at school under the instructions of the Rev Mr Hamilton at Tinserley in the said county of York and for his assigns for and during the term of his natural life...and then for his sons...and in default of such to his daughters heirs as tenants in common...
Provided nevertheless that in case either of them the said William Milner and Nathaniel Milner shall die and failing such issue of his body as aforesaid I do direct that the said undivided moiety of the said hereditaments and premises of him so dying shall be held in trust for the survivor of them the said William Milner and Nathaniel Milner and his assigns for and during the term of the natural life of such survivor...
And in case both of them should die...in trust for the said Ann Milner (the natural daughter of the said Ann Milner, my late housekeeper)...
And in default of such issue then...to the use of my said brother, George Forster Tufnell, and my said nephew, William Tufnell (two of my said trustees) their heirs and assigns as tenants in common and not joint tenants provided nevertheless.
And my will and mind is that the said legacy of one thousand five hundred pounds hereinbefore bequeathed to the said Ann Milner shall not be raised out of the said hereditaments and premises until the same actually becomes payable to her or her issue upon the events hereinbefore mentioned and if the said Ann Milner or her issue shall by virtue of the limitations aforesaid become entitled in possession to the said hereditaments and premises before the said legacy of one thousand five hundred pounds shall actually become payable as aforesaid then and in such case I do direct that such legacy and all interest for the same from the time of her or their so becoming entitled shall sink in the said hereditaments and premises for the benefit of the person or persons who shall for the time being be entitled thereto by virtue of this my will any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
Provided also nevertheless that in case any of them my said trustees or any future trustee or trustees to be nominated or appointed as hereinafter mentioned shall die...
And lastly I do constitute and appoint my said trustees George Forster Tufnell, William Tufnell, William Bethell and James Willoughby executors in trust of this my will and I do give and commit to them the care, education, tuition and guardianship of them the said William Milner, Nathaniel Milner and Ann Milner during their minorities (to wit) as to the said William Milner and Nathaniel Milner until they shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years and as to the said Ann Milner until such age or marriage as aforesaid.
In witness whereof...16 Nov 1796.
Proved at London 03 Jun 1797.
Research Notes: William Tufnell was born on 9th September, 1729. He is known to have been brought up by his great-uncle, Nathaniel Payler for in 1739, when his father and the remainder of his family were living at Antwerp, George Tufnell writes to them there, "When you write to Yorkshire pray give my duty to my uncle and love to Billy."
There is still in existence a document apprenticing him to his father in 1740, when he was little more than eleven years old. His indentures, which can only have been nominal, are enrolled on the same document as those of his eldest brother, John Jolliffe Tufnell.
They read very amusingly to our modern notions :
"This Indenture witnesseth that John Jolliff Tufnell and William Tufnell, sons of Samuel Tufnell of Great Waltham in the County of Essex Chapman put themselves apprentice to the said Samuel Tufnell their father to learn his art and with him after the manner of apprentices to serve from the day of the date of these presents unto the full End and Term of seven years from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended. During which term the said apprentices their said Master shall and will serve, his secrets keep, lawful commandments every where gladly do; they shall do no damage to their said Master nor see to be done of others, but to their power shall let or forthwith give notice to their said Master of the same. The goods of their said Master they shall not waste nor lend them unlawfully to any. Hurt to their said Master they shall not do, cause or procure to be done; they shall neither buy nor sell without their Master's leave; Taverns, Inns or Alehouses they shall not haunt; at Cards, Dice, Tables or any other unlawful games they shall not play; Matrimony during the said term they shall not contract nor from the service of their said Master Day nor Night shall absent themselves, but in all Things as honest and faithfull Apprentices shall and will demean and behave themselves towards their said Master and all his during the said term. And the said Samuel Tufnell in consideration of the good and faithfull service of the said Apprentices and for none other Consideration whatsoever the said Apprentices in the Art of Chapman which he now useth shall teach and instruct or cause to be taught and instructed in the best way and manner that he can, finding and allowing unto his said Apprentices sufficient Meat, Drink, Washing, Lodging and all other necessaries during the said Term and at the end of the said Term shall cause the said Apprentices to be admitted into the Freedoms and Liberties of the Borough of Malden at the Cost and Charge of the said Apprentices And for the true performance of all and every the Covenants and Agreements aforesaid either of the same parties bindeth himself unto the other firmly by these presents In witness whereof the parties abovesaid to these Indentures set their hands and seals the ninth day of September in the tenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second and on the twentieth day of September in the fourteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, respectively, by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc. and in the years of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six and one thousand seven hundred and forty respectively.
(Signed) SAMUEL TUFNELL."
William Tufnell was certainly born with a silver spoon in his mouth. On the death of his great-uncle, Nathaniel Payler, at the age of seventy-two, in 1748, he inherited the Nun Monkton property in Yorkshire and estates in Northumberland. The following year Sir William Jolliffe, another great-uncle, died, aged eighty-nine, and left him Pleshy and other property, on condition that he took the name of Jolliffe, which he accordingly did. Finally his godfather, Sir William Halton, Bart., died, in 1754, bequeathing to him the manor of Barnsbury in Islington, the site of whose capital messuage and demesne land is to-day known as Tufnell Park.
William Tufnell was fond of sport and hunting. There is a large picture of Nun Monkton at Langleys which represents him standing in the foreground with his pack of hounds, huntsman and whip. There are also pictures of Arthur Wentworth, his earth stopper, aged seventy-five, who was formerly in the employ of Charles, Earl of Carlisle, and Brewster Darley, Esq. William was also very successful in racing, and there are several silver cups at Langleys won by him.
He never married, and on his death in 1747, aged sixty-eight, his estate passed to his brothers*. Pleshy and Nun Monkton became the property of his eldest brother, John JollifTe Tufnell, and the manor of Barnsbury passed to his brother, George Forster Tufnell.
* Since his will specifically leaves his property to his illegitimate children they either died before inheriting or, I suspect more likely, the family contested the will on the grounds of their illegitimacy.
Noted events in his life were:
• Address: Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire.
• Address: Pleshey, Essex.
• Address: Barnsbury, London.
William had a relationship with Ann Milner.
Noted events in her life were:
