Newfoundland and Dorset/Devon

My siblings and myself (5 in total thus far) have quite a few matches with people whose families emigrated to Newfoundland in the past 300 years from Dorset and Devon. Some of these matches end up looking like 2nd to 4th cousin but in reality are more distant than that since I can not match them up with my known lines. As it turns out, I know my lines in Dorset and Devon back at least to my 4x and 5x great grandparents and further in quite a few of these lines.

Some of these surnames Butt, Jeanes and others are showing up on a regular basis. The Butt line I find especially interesting as a Butt researcher (research below attributed to this researcher for the most part) has traced our mutual lines back to Robert Butt who married Susan Cantrell (baptized 18 Aug 1585 at Winterborne Stickland) 13 Apr 1607 at Winterbourne Stickland, Dorset. This couple baptized eight children at Winterborne Stickland or other as mentioned below:

William Butt baptized Sep 1610
Jane Butt baptized 17 Dec 1611
Francis Butt baptized 27 Feb 1613 and buried 13 June 1623 at Winterborne Stickland
Robert Butt baptized 22 Sep 1616
Simon Butt baptized 27 Jun 1619
Thomas Butt baptized 31 Mar 1622 at Winterborne Houghton
John Butt baptized 28 Nov 1624
Francis Butt baptized 18 Feb 1626

Thomas Butt appears to be my ancestor and he married Elizabeth (unknown). Thomas was buried 16 Jun 1668 at Winterborne Stickland and his wife was buried 15 May 1687 at Winterborne Stickland. They baptized two sons at Winterborne Stickland:

William baptized 24 Aug 1665
Thomas baptized 10 Dec 1667

William, my likely ancestor, married Elizabeth Lemon 27 Jul 1696 at Winterborne Houghton and they baptized five children at Winterborne Houghton:

William Butt baptized 28 May 1697
Mary Butt baptized 15 Nov 1700
Elizabeth Butt baptized 3 Jun 1702 and buried 3 Jun 1702 at Winterborne Houghton
Thomas Butt baptized 5 Nov 1704 and buried 6 Nov 1704 at Winterborne Houghton
 John Butt baptized 14 Apr 1707

My likely ancestor William married Susanna Foster (baptized 10 Dec 1696 at Winterborne Stickland) 31 Jan 1729 at Winterborne Stickland. William Butt was buried 29 Jun 1774 at Winterborne Stickland and Susanna (Foster) Butt was buried 17 Feb 1775 at Winterborne Stickland. They baptized five children at Winterborne Stickland:

Robert Butt baptized 15 Feb 1731 and buried 3 Mar 1731 at Winterborne Stickland
William Butt baptized 6 Jan 1732
Susanna Butt baptized 6 Sep 1734
John Butt baptized 6 May 1736
Martha Butt baptized 16 Jun 1738

My likely ancestor John Butt married Mary Rolles (baptized 15 Apr 1740 at Wimbourne Minster) 9 Aug 1762 at Winterborne Clenstone. John Butt was buried 6 Jan 1820 at Winterborne Stickland and Mary (Rolles) Butt was buried 4 Mar 1811 at Winterborne Stickland. They baptized six children at Winterborne Stickland or other as mentioned below:

Sarah Butt baptized 19 Nov 1765
Joseph Butt baptized 24 Jun 1766
John Butt was baptized 11 Dec 1771 and buried 15 Sep 1772 at Winterborne Stickland
John Butt baptized 10 May 1776 at Winterborne Clenstone
Deborah Butt baptized 8 Jun 1783
William Butt baptized 18 Nov 1786

At this point my research is added into the research of this earlier researcher (and indeed I have verified all the dates above in the records now available online). My ancestor John Butt (baptized 10 May 1776) married Jean O'Ford (baptized 27 Jun 1773 at Milton Abbas) 14 Oct 1800 at Winterborne Stickland. John Butt was buried 6 Jan 1850 at Winterborne Stickland and Jean (O'Ford) Butt was buried 3 Feb 1848 at Winterborne Stickland. They baptized seven children at Winterborne Stickland or other as noted below:

Charles Butt baptized 25 Dec 1801
George Butt baptized 16 Oct 1803
Joseph Butt baptized 11 Aug 1805 at Winterborne Clenstone
Robert Butt baptism not located
Maria Butt baptized 18 Feb 1810 at Winterborne Clenstone
Bethaniah Butt baptized 5 Apr 1811 and buried 26 Nov 1811 at Winterborne Stickland
Stephen Butt baptized 12 Oct 1815

All of the lines of these siblings have been traced down by me mostly well into the 1900s thus leading me to deduce that the Butt family which we (my siblings and I) match in Newfoundland must be descended from the earlier branches of this family.

The Winterborne villages in Dorset all lie within a few kilometres of each other. It is a very quiet beautiful piece of Dorset and when we visited there was a low hanging haze over the valley looking down from the Church of St Nicholas at Winterborne Clenstone. Rolling fields stretched away in all directions from this high point. Has it changed very much? I suspect a good deal in some ways as there were more people in this area when my ancestors were there in the 1700s and 1800s and into the early 1900s. The wars perhaps changed that a lot but along with that the mechanization of agriculture rendered all those workers to be no longer needed in the agricultural industries of this area.

Maybe one of these days I will be able to discover our matches with the many Newfoundland families in our kits. Endogamy probably plays a part making the matches seem closer.

Charles Butt was a Methodist Preacher along with his agricultural duties. My grandfather knew this great grandfather of his but mostly from a distance as Charles lived at Turnworth near the end of his life. He did however spend some time with his then over 80 year old great grandfather and shared with me a little of this man who was born in 1801. Amazing the span of years that represents. My grandfather was born in 1875 and I was born in 1945 so I had the opportunity as a child of 8 years of age (the year my grandfather passed away) to listen to stories of a man who lived at the beginning of the 1800s (144 years before I was born). My grandfather liked to talk about how life had changed from then to when he died in 1953.

John Butt (1776 - 1850)

52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 7

Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman, Ann (unknown), Sherwood, unknown, Habberfield, Collings, Rawlings, Tanner, Dove, Morgan, Lywood, Canham, unknown, Peck, Pincombe, Charley, Rowcliffe, Pearse, Rew, Moggridge, Siderfin, Kent, Gray, Hilton, Cobb, Sproxton, Routledge, Tweddle, Routledge, Routledge, (unknown) Buller, unknown, Beard, Hemsley, Welch, Brockhouse, Cheatle, Woodcock, unknown Taylor, unknown, Harborne, Lewis, Roberts, Croxall, Lawley, unknown

John Butt is one of my ancestors that I knew for quite a long time and possibly for much longer than I really realize. His eldest son Charles was known to my grandfather as a child. Charles was a Methodist Lay Preacher and an agricultural labourer. He lived to be 86 years old and it was his 80th birthday party at Turnworth that my grandfather remembered. Quite likely this was the furtherest that my grandfather had ever been away from home at Upper Clatford. He never really mentioned that but he remembered his great grandfather Charles who could tell him about life in England from the early 1800s on.

John Butt was baptized 10 May 1776 at Winterborne Clenstone. That was the main reason that I took on OPC for Winterborne Clenstone way back in 2007. He was the son of John Butt and Mary Rolles who were themselves married 9 Aug 1762 at Winterborne Clenstone. This John had been baptized 6 May 1736 at Winterborne Stickland and was the son of William Butt and Susanna Foster and they had been married 31 Jan 1729 at Winterborne Stickland. I was unable to trace back further from this point until I met a cousin at Genes Reunited and she had been into the Dorset Record Office and traced the family back much further. The father of this William Butt was also a William Butt and he was married to Elizabeth Lemon. They were married at Winterborne Houghton 27 Jul 1696 and their eldest son William had been baptized 28 May 1697 at Winterborne Houghton. The father William had been baptized 24 Aug 1665 at Winterborne Stickland the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Butt.  Thomas was baptized 31 Mar 1622 at Winterborne Houghton the son of Robert Butt and Susan Cantrell who were themselves married 13 Apr 1607 at Winterborne Stickland. Richard Cantrell the father of Susan had been buried 15 Dec 1591 Winterborne Stickland.

We traveled through the Winterborne Valley when we visited England in 2008. There was a light mist over the valley and the hills roll away from you into valleys. It was a beautiful sight standing on the knoll where the church of St Nicholas stands in Winterborne Clenstone. I was too new to genealogy to really learn as much as I would now from such a visit. I did photograph a number of the memorial stones in the small cemetery just above the Winterborne (a small river) and at the base of the hill away from the Church. The Church is a Heritage building and used for services only a couple of times a year. It is in beautiful condition and looks out loftily over the valleys and hills that surround it.

Richard Cantrell is my 10th great grandfather and the furtherest I have information for this line back.  No ideas on the father of Robert Butt my 9x great grandfather. I do not know a lot about this family although I believe they were always agricultural labourers working in this Winterborne Valley. Robert and Susan had eight children - 7 sons and 1 daughter. I have trace downs for several of the sons - Simon, Thomas and John. They remained in this beautiful valley until the mills of Lancashire beckoned some of them away in the mid 1800s and Charles (my 3x great grandfather)'s brothers went off to Australia (George and Stephen and there are thousands of descendants there) and Canada (Joseph and there are thousands of descendants here). Charles and Robert remained in England and I have lately met an ancestor of Robert's line on My Heritage. Charles had two sisters with Bethaniah dying as an infant and Maria married to James Vacher.

John Butt (1776-1850) married Jean Durnford 14 Oct 1800 at Winterborne Stickland. Jean was the daughter of Thomas Durnford and Mary Ball and for me this line remains a brickwall. Jean was baptized at Winterborne Stickland 29 Sep 1771.

There isn't a lot of information on this Butt family other than my small bit of family lore but they have spread far around the world. Surprisingly one of my mother's best friends Teresa Butt was actually my father's third cousin but he didn't know that although may have suspected it from the surname. Joseph Butt had emigrated to Canada with his wife Sarah Arnold (Charles and Joseph had married Arnold sisters). Then three of Charles' children married three Knight siblings making this quite a combination of double and triple cousins! No one, other than myself, though have tested their atDNA to my knowledge thus far. Although I do have five people on my Family Finder with the Arnold surname but none with the Butt surname.

Charles' daughter Louisa was one of my known ancestors as my father knew of Louisa (she died before he was born) probably from his great grandfather Samuel Knight whom he knew as a child. Samuel and Louisa were married 7 Sep 1849 at Winterborne Stickland and I visited their memorial stone in 2008 at St Mary the Virgin parish Church in Turnworth Dorset. Their eldest daughter Maria Jane was my great grandmother and she married Edward Blake at Upper Clatford. They had twelve children and the eldest daughter Louisa Mary lived with her grandparents at Turnworth, married there and looked after Samuel until he died. My grandfather Samuel was Maria Jane's second son.

Ancestry of John Butt

1. Elizabeth BLAKE
2. Ernest Edward George BLAKE (b 20 Aug 1904) - Eastleigh Hampshire England
3. Samuel George BLAKE (b 10 Feb 1875) - Upper Clatford Hampshire England
4. Maria Jane KNIGHT (b 27 Jan 1849) - Turnworth Dorset England
5. Louisa BUTT (b 27 Jan 1827) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
6. Charles BUTT (b 21 Dec 1801) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
7. John BUTT (b 10 May 1776) - Winterborne Clenstone Dorset England
8. John BUTT (b 6 May 1736) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
9. William BUTT (b 10 Dec 1696) - Winterborne Houghton Dorset England
10. William BUTT (b 24 Aug 1665) - Winterborne Houghton Dorset England
11. Thomas BUTT (b 31 Mar 1622) - Winterborne Houghton Dorset England
12. Robert BUTT (b c 1570) 

It does seem like a long way to go back in an agricultural labourer's family and I really have no ideas on this family back into the 1600s. Were they always labourers or did they at one time farm and being younger sons did not inherit any leases or the like so had to make their own way in the world? They did it very well and the Butt family is huge around the world. A couple of years before I started into genealogy (2001 I think) there was a Butt family reunion in England. I would dearly have loved to attend that reunion and perhaps one day there will be another!

Butt family at Winterborne Stickland, Winterborne Clenstone and Spetisbury

My grandfather knew his great grandfather Charles Butt when he was a young boy. Charles was baptized 25 Dec 1801 at Winterborne Stickland and he was buried 7 Dec 1886 at Turnworth (both in Dorset). He was 85 years of age when he died and he had an 80th birthday party according to my Grandfather at Turnworth as my Grandfather attended it as a child. His memory was still fairly vivid as he remembered this white haired man who was the center of attention for his six living children and fourty four grandchildren. Josiah Butt (his second eldest son) had died as an infant and I have not yet discovered what happened to Nehemiah Butt the youngest son. Three of his children married three siblings of the Ellis and Eleanor Knight family (namely Thurza married Thomas, Abel married Martha and Louisa married Samuel).

What I didn't ask my grandfather when he talked about his Butt family was how he got to Turnworth from Upper Clatford but I guess it was probably by train. My grandfather loved trains and he worked as a blacksmith for the Southeastern Railway in England (lived at Eastleigh) and then for the Grand Trunk (later CNR) here in Canada (London, Ontario) from 1914 on.

Louisa Butt was my two times great grandmother and my father remembered the stories about Louisa except he thought she was born at Spetisbury. It was actually her mother Eleanor Knight that was born at Spetisbury and Louisa was born at Winterborne Stickland.  I think that my grandfather mentioned Eleanor Knight being from Spetisbury and he thought that his great grandparents Ellis Knight and Eleanor Knight were cousins. I still haven't been able to prove that conclusively but the search of the parish registers might help me with that.

Louisa Butt married Samuel Knight 7 Sep 1849 at Winterborne Stickland. They had eleven children including two sets of twins and buried all but four of them as infants and very young children. My great grandmother Maria Jane was their eldest child. The next daughter was Elizabeth baptized 24 Dec 1851 at Turnworth and she married Charles Swyer 30 Nov 1874 and they had one son Edward Brice Swyer who was born circa 1883 in London from the census. Mary Ann baptized 20 Oct 1853 at Turnworth was the next child and I do not have any further details for her. The next child was Eliza and she died as a young child less than two years of age. The last child to survive was Samuel Knight and he was baptized 5 Feb 1858 at Turnworth and married Catherine Crankshaw december quarter 1878 at Chorley, Lancashire. They had only one son Samuel born june quarter 1880 at Withnell, Lancashire. Maria Jane and her husband Edward Blake had twelve children of whom ten survived to adulthood. My grandfather was their third eldest.

Charles (father to Louisa Butt) married Hannah Arnold 26 Dec 1820 at Winterborne Clenstone. He was just 19 years of age and Hannah was almost 25 years of age. Charles was the son of John Butt and Jean Durnford who married 14 Oct 1800 at Winterborne Stickland. They had seven children which included five sons and two daughters with Bethaniah the youngest daughter dying as an infant. Charles was the eldest and along with his brother Robert they remained in England whilst the other three brothers emigrated with George and Stephen going to Australia and Joseph going to Canada. Most Butt families in Ontario and all the way west to British Columbia are descendant of Joseph Butt and his first wife Sarah Arnold  or his second wife Ann Trewin. Sarah died in childbirth shortly after they emigrated to Canada in 1841. Joseph and Sarah had eleven children (the last child also died) and Joseph and Ann had eight children. George Butt married Charlotte Barnes and they had nine children (first six born in England and the last three born in Australia). Stephen Butt married Martha Corke and they had ten children all born in Australia (five sons and five daughters). The Butt family is very large in Australia.

John (father of Charles Butt) was baptized 10 May 1776 at Winterborne Clenstone and the son of John Butt and Mary Rolles who were themselves married 9 Aug 1762 at Winterborne Clenstone and they had six children (four sons and two daughters with one son dying as an infant). I have only traced down John (my ancestor). John Butt was baptized 6 May 1736 at Winterborne Stickland and the son of William Butt and Susanna Foster who were themselves married 31 Jan 1728 at Winterborne Stickland. They had five children (three sons and two daughters with one son dying as an infant). William was baptized 28 May 1697 at Winterborne Houghton and the son of William Butt and Elizabeth Lemon who were themselves married 27 Jul 1696 at Winterborne Houghton. William was baptized 24 Aug 1665 at Winterborne Stickland and the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Butt. I do not have a marriage for this couple and that will be my project to go through the parish registers of Winterborne Houghton where Thomas was baptized 31 Mar 1622 the son of Robert Butt and Susan Cantrell who were married 13 Apr 1607 at Winterborne Stickland. That is as far back as I am able to go with the Butt line and I need to do both Winterborne Houghton and Winterborne Stickland as they lived at both places as well as Winterborne Clenstone. These places are all close to each other as we traveled to see all of them in 2008.

The Parish Registers are available on ancestry for Winterborne Houghton from 1550 to  1812. Probably working backwards is still the best way to look for Butt family entries.

Banns
1770. Banns of marriage between John New and Mary But both of this parish were published on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to say, On Sunday, the 29 of April, On Sunday the 6 of May, On Sunday the 13th of May by me Richard Lawrence Rector.

Marriages
John New of this Parish and Mary Butt of the same married in this Church by Banns this 17th day of May in the year One thousand 7 hundred and 70 by me Richard Lawrence Rector This Marriage was solemnized between us John New, The mark of Mary Butt, In the presence of Jno Eford, Mary Seamane
John New and Frances Butt were married 20 Nov 1744
Robert Wellspring of the parish of Dewlish and Eliz: Butt of the parish of ___nton were married 25 Jul 1734
John But of Stickland and Elizabeth Thomas were married September 12th, 1719
William Butt and Elizabeth Lemon were married 27 Jul 1696

Burials
23 May 1786 Martha Butt, 74 years of age, buried Northwest side of the Church yard
1773 Mar 23 Elizabeth daughter of John and Mary New was buried
1777 19 Jun Mary, wife of John New was buried
1769 Frances New wife of John New buried
1748 Jan 14 William Butt was buried
1744 5 Dec Elizabeth Butt was buried
Susanna daughter of Francis But was buried 29 February 1714
Thomas son of William But was buried 6 Nov 1704
Elizabeth daughter of William and Elizabeth But was buried 3 Jun 1702
Elizabeth Butt widow was buried 15 May 1697


Baptisms
28 Dec 1777 John son of John and Mary New was baptized
24 Apr 1774 John, son of John and Mary New was baptized
4 Aug 1771 Elizabeth daughter of John and Mary New was baptized
1737 John son of John and Frances Butt was baptized June 6
Martha daughter of William Butt was baptized 8 June 1712
Susanna daughter of Francis But was baptized 15 Feb 1714
John son of William and Elizabeth Butt was baptized 14 Sep 1707
John son of Francis and Mary But was baptized 21 May 1705
Thomas son of William But was baptized 5 Nov 1704
Elizabeth daughter of William and Elizabeth But baptized 3 Jun 1702
Mary daughter of William and Elizabeth Butt was baptized 10 Sep 1700
William son of William and Elizabeth Butt baptized 28 May 1697

Extraction done from 1690 to 1812. Some part of the register are difficult to read. A few new items acquired.

Will of James Buller, Esquire of Downes - The National Archives PROB-11/1731/161, probated 10 Oct 1827

James Buller (the testator) is the son of James Buller and Husey Gould. His father's will was blogged two days ago and his mother's yesterday. His father died 11 Feb 1772 and his mother 1768 so that this James was orphaned at the age of six years and his brother was 5 years of age. No ideas on where they lived but the trustees appointed to look after them and be their guardians were Sir John Chichester and John Parker. I suspect that John Parker is perhaps related to James (the father of the present testator). His great aunt Ann (sister to John Buller of Morval) was married to George Parker and Ann had served as an executor for her father's will.

James Buller (testator) married his cousin Anne the daughter of William Buller Bishop of Exeter and they were married 6 Jun 1791. James was an MP for Exter. They had a very large family with just the one son James Wentworth Buller also MP for Exeter and North Devon. Since he has died after 1858 his will is not in the PCC group. He married Charlotte Juliana Jane the third daughter of Lord Henry Molyneux Howard and niece of the 12th Duke of Norfolk, K.G., and they were married 5 October 1831 from the Visitation. They had a large family which included seven sons and four daughters including Lt Col Redvers H Buller.

James Buller (testator) and his wife Anne also had nine daughters although only seven are mentioned in the will. As mentioned in the will, Hester Eleanor married the Reverend H. Strangways. Other daughters include Elizabeth, Caroline, Georgiana, Anne, and Emma Husey who are not listed as marrying on the Visitation. Three other daughters did marry: Francis Susanna married the Reverend William Molesworth, Rector of St Breock, Louisa married the Venerable William John Phillpotts, Archdeacon of Cornwall and Susanna Catherine married the Reverend William Heberden, Vicar of Broadhembury, Devon.

James also mentioned his nephew Thomas Wentworth Buller who was also one of his executors. Thomas was the son of his brother William Buller of Whimple who had married Caroline Buller the only daughter of John Buller of Bake and they were married 18 May 1791. They also had a large family which included the son already mentioned and two daughters: Elizabeth Caroline married Sir Gregory Allnutt Lewin, QC, and Henrietta married John Divett according to the Visitation. Thomas Wentworth Buller, Commander RN was one of the Tythe Commissioners for England and Wales and he married Anne daughter of Edward Divett Esquire of bystock, Devon. They had one son and four daughters: Cecil Henrietta married Montague Bere of Morebath, Devon, Catherine married Major Hughes, Punjaub Calvary, Gertrude Caroline and Edith Anne did not marry according to the Visitation. Their son William Wentworth Buller of Strete Raleigh, Devon, JP.

There are three wills left for Devon which include the wills of Mary Buller of Honiton widow of William Buller, Surgeon, the will of William Buller, Surgeon and the will of William Buller of Exeter probated 1813. These wills could prove to be interesting looking at my lines as they do not appear to be on the Visitation. However, they are after the birth of Christopher circa 1763.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1731/161
Testator: James Buller, Esquire
Place: Downes, Devon, England
Date of document: 1 Feb 1823, probated 10 Oct 1827
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy

[Margin]: James
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: Esquire
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1    In the Name of God Amen I
2    James Buller of Downes in the County of Devon Esquire do make this
3    my last Will and testament in manner following (that is to say) I humbly
4    commit my Soul to the mercy of Almighty god my Creator and Redeemer
5    I direct that my body be decently and privately interred after Seven
6    days from my decease have expired in the Church of Saint Thomas
7    the Apostle near Exeter And Whereas by the Settlement made upon my
8    marriage with my dear Wife Anne Buller bearing date the third
9    day of June One thousand Seven hundred and ninety one and made
10    between me the said James Buller of the first part The Reverend William
11    Buller Doctor in Divinity afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Anne his Wife
12    of the second part Anne Buller my present Wife by the description of Anne
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13    Anne Buller the Younger Spinster Eldest daughter of the said William
14    Buller and Anne his Wife of the third part The Right Honorable Frederick
15    Thomas Earl of Stafford and Sir John Chichester Baronet of the fourth
16    part and Sir William Lemon Baronet my late Brother William
17    Buller Esquire and John Buller the Younger of Morval in the
18    County of Cornwall Esquire of the Fifth part divers Manors
19    Messuages Farms Lands and hereditaments therein particularly
20    described Situate in the said County of Cornwall was granted
21    and released unto the said Frederick Thomas Earl of Stafford and
22    Sir John Chichester and their heirs to the use intent and purpose
23    from and after my decease that if my said Wife should happen
24    to survive me and Lady Jane Buller therein named (who is
25    here said) she my said Wife should have receive and take
26    during the term of her natural life by and out of the rents issues and
27    Profits of the said hereditaments and premises one Annuity or
28    Yearly rent Charge of Five hundred pounds by quarterly payments
29    clear of all deductions whatsoever with such Powers of distress
30    and entry on nonpayment thereof as therein mentioned and
31    subject thereto to the use of the said Frederick Thomas Earl of
32    Stafford and Sir John Chichester their Executors Administrators
33    and Assigns for the term of One hundred Years Upon the trusts
34    therein after expressed for his better raising and paying the same
35    Annuity And from and after the expiration or sooner determination
36    of the said term of One hundred Years to the use of the said Sir
37    William Lemon William Buller and John Buller their Executors
38    Administrators and Assigns for the term of Five hundred Years
39    Upon trust to raise by the ways and means therein expressed the
40    several Sums therein and herein after mentioned for the portion
41    and portions of the Younger Children of the said intended marriage
42    namely If there should be but one such Child the Sum of Six
43    thousand pounds If two such Younger Children the Sum of Eight
44    thousand pounds and if three or more such Younger Children
45    the Sum of ten thousand pounds to be paid in such manner at
46    such time and times with such right of Survivorship and with
47    such Interest in the mean time until the same should become
48    Payable and with under and Subject to such powers provisoes
49    restrictions and declarations as therein expressed And from and
50    after the expiration or sooner determination of the said term of
51    Five hundred Years and in the mean time Subject thereto and
52    to the trust thereof and Charges and Chargeable as aforesaid to the
53    use of me the said James Buller my heirs and Assigns for ever
54    And whereas it is my desire to make some considerable addition
55    to the said Annutiy of Five hundred pounds limitted for the
56    benefit of my said Wife for her life by way of Jointure in and by
57    any said marriage Settlement and in as much as I have eight
58    daughters besides our only Son it becomes necessary for me to
59    make a further Provision for them in addition to the said Sum
60    of ten thousand pounds directed by the said Settlement to be raised
61    for their benefit by virtue of the said term of Five hundred Years
62    created for that purpose as aforesaid Now I do hereby give and
63    bequeath unto my said Wife Anne Buller and her Assigns for
64    and during the term of her natural life One Annuity or Yearly
64    Sum of Seven hundred pounds free and clear of and from all
66    deductions and outgoings whatsoever by quarterly payments
67    at Lady day Midsummer Michaelmas and Christmas in every
68    Year the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of
69    the said days as shall first happen next after my decease the said Annuity
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70    Annuity of Seven hundred pounds to be in addition to the said
71    Annuity of Five hundred Pounds provided for my said Wife by the
72    said Settlement and making together with the said Sum of Five
73    hundred Pounds the Sum of twelve hundred Pounds And I do
74    hereby Subject and Charge all and Singular the Manors Messuages
75    Farms Lands and hereditaments comprized in and granted by my
76    said marriage Settlement to and with the Payment of the said
77    additional Annuity of Seven hundred Pounds unto my said Wife
78    and her Assigns during her life accordingly. And I do hereby authorize
79    and empower my said Wife and her Assigns during her life to have
80    receive and take the said Annuity of Seven hundred Pounds by and
81    out of the rents issues and Profits of the said Manors Messuages Farms
82    lands and hereditaments by such and the same ways and means
83    and with such and the same powers of distress and entry on non-
84    payment thereof and all such other powers and authorities as are
85    given to my said Wife and her Assigns by my said Settlement for
86    receiving taking and enforcing the Payment of the said Annuity
87    of Five hundred pounds thereby limitted to her as aforesaid And I do
88    also authorize and empower the said trustees of the said term of One
89    hundred Years their Executors and Administrators to make use of
90    and exercise the same term for the better levying and raising the
91    said additional Annuity of Seven hundred pounds upon nonpayment
92    thereof in such and the same manner in all respects whatsoever
93    as they are authorized to do by my said Settlement for levying and
94    raising the said Annuity of Five hundred pounds as hereinbefore
95    mentioned Also I give and bequeath unto or for the benefit of
96    my daughters and Younger Children the Sum of Seventeen thousand
97    Pounds in addition to the Sum of ten thousand pounds directed
98    in and by my said marriage Settlement to be raised and paid
99    for the portions of any three of more of the daughters or Younger
100    Children of my said marriage equally to be divided amongst
101    them share and share alike To be paid at such and the same
102    time and times with such and the same right and benefit of
103    Survivorship with such Interest in the mean time until such
104    portions respectively shall become payable and with under and
105    subject to such and the same powers provisoes restrictions and
106    declarations as are expressed and declared in and by my said
107    Settlement concerning the said Sum of ten thousand Pounds thereby
108    directed to be raised to or for the benefit of my daughters or Younger
109    Children as aforesaid Provided always nevertheless and it is my
110    Will and intention that by reason or means of such right and
111    benefit of Survivorship as four of such my Surviving daughters
112    or Younger Children shall be entitled to have and receive under
113    and by virtue of the provisions made for the portions of my said
114    daughters and Younger children in and by my said marriage
115    Settlement and the addition made thereto by this my Will any
116    larger Sum to be divided between them for their portions
117    respectively than the Sum of twenty four thousand pounds nor
118    any three of such my Surviving daughters or Younger Children
119    any larger Sum to be divided between them for their portions
120    respectively than the Sum of Eighteen thousand pounds nor any
121    two of such my Surviving daughters or Younger children any
122    larger Sum to be divided between them for their portions respectively
123    than the Sum of twelve thousand pounds nor any one such my
124    Surviving daughter of Younger Child any larger Sum than the Sum
125    of ten thousand pounds for his or her portion And I do hereby authorize
126    empower and direct the said trustees of the said term of Five hundred
127    pounds
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128    Years created by the said Settlement and the Survivors and Survivors
129    of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor to make
130    use of and exercise the same term for levying and raising the said
131    additional Sum of Seventeen thousand Pounds hereby given for the
132    portions of my said daughters and Younger Children in such and the
133    same manner in all respects whatsoever as they are authorized to do
134    by my said Settlement for levying and raising the said Sum of ten
135    thousand Pounds as therein mentioned. And as concerning all and
136    singular my said monies Messuages Farms land and hereditaments
137    comprized in the said Tridenture of Settlement of which I am Seized
138    in for as aforesaid (Subject to the said Annuity of Five hundred pounds
139    limitted by my said marriage Settlement and the said Annuity of
140    Seven hundred Pounds given by this my Will to and for the benefit
141    of my said Wife for her life And also Subject to the payment of the
142    several sums directed to be raised and paid by my said Settlement
143    and by this my Will in addition thereto for the portion and portions
144    of my daughters and Younger Children and to the powers remedies
145    and authorities for raising and paying the same respectively And also
146    as Concerning all other my Manors Messuages Lands tenements
147    Advowsons hereditaments and real Estate whatsoever Situate
148    lying and being in the said County of Cornwall I give devise and
149    bequeath the same and every part thereof unto James Buller of
150    Sackville Street Piccadilly London Esquire Clerk of his Majesty's most
151    Honourable Privy Council and Thomas Wentworth Buller Esquire
152    Eldest son and heir of my late Brother William Buller Esquire
153    deceased their heirs and Assigns To the Several uses Upon the Several
154    trusts and to and for the ends, intents and purposes and with under
155    and Subject to the powers provisoes declarations and agreements
156    hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that
157    is to say) to the use of my Son James Wentworth Buller and his
158    Assigns for and during the term of his natural life without
159    impeachment of Waste except voluntary waste in houses and
160    Buildings And from and after the determination of that Estate by
161    forfeiture or otherwise in his life time to the use of the said James Buller
162    and Thomas Wentworth Buller and their heirs during the natural life
163    of my said Son James Wentworth Buller Upon trust to Support and
164    preserve the contingent uses and Estates hereinafter limitted from being
165    defeated or destroyed and for that purpose to make entries and bring
166    Actions as occasions shall require but nevertheless to permit and
167    Suffer my said Son James Wentworth Buller and his Assigns to receive
168    and take the rents issues and Profits of the said hereditaments and Premises
169    to and for his and their own use and benefit during his life And from and
170    after his decease to the use of the first Son of the body of my said Son James
171    Wentworth Buller lawfully to be begotten and the heirs Male of the body
172    of such first Son lawfully issuing And in default of such Issue to the use of
173    the Second third fourth fifth and all and every other the Son and Sons of
174    the body of my said Son James Wentworth Buller lawfully to be begotten
175    Severally Successively and in remainder one after another as they and
176    every of them shall happen to be in priority of birth and of the Several
177    and respective heirs Male of the body and bodies of all and every such Son
178    and Sons lawfully issuing the elder of such Son and Sons and the heirs Male
179    of his and their body and bodies being always to be preferred and to take
181    before the Younger of such Son and Sons and the heirs male of his and
182    their body and bodies issuing And for default of such Issue to the use of the
183    Second third fourth fifth and all and every other the Son and Sons of my
184    body lawfully to be begotten Severally Successively and in remainder one
185    after another as they and every of them shall happen to be in priority of birth
186    and
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187    and of the Several and respective heirs Male of the body and bodies of all
188    and every such Son and Sons lawfully issuing the elder of such Son and
189    Sons and the heirs Male of his and their body and bodies being always
190    to be preferred and to take before the Younger of such Son and Sons and
191    the heirs Male of his and their body and bodies issuing And for default of
192    such Issue to the use of all and every the daughter and daughters of the
193    body of my said Son James Wentworth Buller lawfully to be begotten
194    equally to be divided between them if more than one Share and share
195    alike as tenants in Common and not as joint tenants and of the
196    Several and respective heirs of the body and bodies of all and every such
197    daughter and daughters lawfully issuing And in case one or more of
198    such daughters shall happen to die without Issue of her or their body
199    or bodies then as to the Share or Shares of her of them so dying without
200    issue to the use of the Survivors or Survivor or others or other of them
201    to be equally divided between them if more than one Share and Share
202    alike as tenants in Common and not as joint tenants and of the Several
203    and respective heirs of the body and bodies of such Survivors or Survivor
204    or other or other of them lawfully issuing And in case all such daughters
205    but one shall happen to die without Issue of their bodies of there shall
206    be but one sure daughter to the use of such Surviving or only daughter
207    and of the heirs of her body lawfully issuing And in default of such Issue
208    to the use of all and every the daughter and daughters of my body
209    equally to be divided between them if more than one Share and
210    Share alike as tenants in Common and not as joint tenants and of
211    the Several and respective heirs of the body and bodies of all and every
212    such daughter and daughters lawfully issuing and in case one or
213    more of my said daughters shall happen to die without Issue of her
214    or their body or bodies then as to the Share or part of her or their so
215    dying without Issue to the use of the Survivors or Survivor or others
216    or other of them to be equally divided between them if more than one
217    share and Share alike as tenants in Common and not as joint tenants
218    and of the Several and respective heirs of the body and bodies of such
219    survivors or Survivor or others or other of them lawfully issuing and
220    in case all my said daughters but one shall happen to die without
221    Issue of their bodies or if there should be but one such daughter to the
222    use of such Surviving or only daughter and of the heirs of her body
223    lawfully Issuing and for default of such Issue to the use of my own
224    right heirs for ever provided always nevertheless that it shall and
225    may be lawful to and for my said Son James Wentworth Buller
226    by any deed or deeds writing or writing to be by him sealed and
227    delivered in the presence of and attested by one two or more credible
228    witnesses to grant limit and appoint to or to the use of any Woman
229    or Women with whom he may happen to marry for her or their
230    life or lives and for her or their jointure or Jointures any Annual
231    Sum or Yearly rent Charge not exceeding the Sum of Six hundred
232    Pounds by the Year for and without any deduction whatsoever
233    to be issuing out of and charged upon the said Manors Messuages
234    Farms and hereditaments or any part thereof but without prejudice
235    to the said Annuities directed to be raised and paid to or for the
236    benefit of my said Wife during her life as aforesaid with such powers
237    and remedies for recovering any such Yearly rent Charge when
238    in arrear and for defraying all costs and charges occasioned by
239    the nonpayment thereof as to my said Son James Wentworth
240    Buller shall seem meet And also to grant and demise limit or
241    appoint all or any of the same Manors Messuages Farms lands and
242    hereditaments to any person or persons for any term or terms of
243    Years for the better Securing the Payment thereof to take Effect immediately
244    after
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245    after the decease of my said Son James Wentworth Buller so as
246    such term or terms of Years be made determinable on the easing
247    of the Rent Charge thereby Secured and the Payment of all arrears
248    thereof and all costs and charges relating thereto Provided also that
249    it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Son James Wentworth
250    Buller by any such deed or deeds writing or writings to be by him
251    executed and attested as aforesaid to grant limit or appoint to or for
252    the benefit of all and every the Younger child and Children of my said
253    Son James Wentworth Buller but without prejudice as aforesaid
254    on the Sum and Sums of money not exceeding the Sum of ten
255    thousand Pounds as my said Son shall think fit as and for the
256    portion and portions of such Younger Child and Children to be
257    raised out of and charged upon the Manors Messuages Farms Lands
258    and hereditaments or a competent part thereof And also to grant
259    and demise limit or appoint all or any of the same Manors Messuages
260    Farms lands and hereditaments to any person or persons for any
261    term or terms of Years for the better raising and Securing the payment
262    thereof Provided also that it shall and may be lawful to and for my
263    said Son James Wentworth Buller and all and every person or
264    persons who shall be in the possession of or intitled to the rents
265    and profits of the said Manors Messuages Farms lands and hereditaments
266    by virtue of the limitations aforesaid And also to and for the said
267    James Buller and Thomas Wentworth Buller during the minority of
268    any person or persons so to be intitled as aforesaid by Indenture
269    or Indentures under his her or their hand and Seal or hands and
270    Seals to secure lease and grant any part of parts of the said Messuage
271    Farms Lands and hereditament for any term or number of Years
272    not exceeding fourteen Years in possession at the best and most
273    improved Yearly rents that can be gotten for the same without
274    taking any Sum or Sums of money or other thing by way of fine or
275    _____ for or in respect of such Lease or Leases And also to secure and
276    lease such of the said Messuages Farms lands and hereditaments as
277    shall have been usually leased for terms of Years determinable on
278    lives and which shall not be of the Clear Yearly Value of Fifty pounds
279    for any term or number of Years determinable on the deaths of one
280    two or three person or persons in reversion possession remainder or
281    expectancy so as there be not more than three lives as being on any
282    one tenement at the same time and so as there be reserved on such
283    lease or leases the ancient and accustomed rents duties suits and
284    Services heretofore usually paid and performed for the same And so as
285    the Lessee or Lessees of any lease or leases to be granted by virtue of any
286    power hereinbefore contained shall not be made dispunishable of
287    waste And so as there be a Clause of reentry for nonpayment of the
288    Rent or rents to be thereby respectively reserved And so as the respective
289    Lessees to whom such Leases shall be made duly execute Counterparts
290    thereof respectively Provided also and I do hereby declare that it shall
291    and may be lawful to and for the said James Buller and Thomas
292    Wentworth Buller and the Survivor of them and his heirs at any time
293    or times with the consent and approbation of my said Son James
294    Wentworth Buller testified by some Writing or Writings and or his hand
295    and Seal to make Sale and dispose of or convey in exchange for or in
296    lieu of other Lands and hereditaments. The Manors Messuages Lands
297    and hereditaments comprized in my said Marriage Settlement or any
298    part or parts thereof to any person or persons and for such prices in
299    money or for such other equivalent in Lands as to them shall seem
300    meet And upon payment of the money arising by such Sales the
301    Receipts of the said trustees or the Survivor of them or his heirs as
302    be good and sufficient discharge for the same and such purchaser or Purchasers
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303    Purchasers shall not afterwards be obliged to see to the application of
304    such purchase money or be answerable for the misapplication or
305    nonapplication thereof And that all and every person and persons
306    to whom any such Sale Conveyance or Exchange shall have been
307    made his her or their heirs and Assigns shall and may have hold
308    and enjoy the Premises by them respectively purchased or had in
309    exchange discharged from all and every the uses trusts and
310    limitations declared containing the same by the said marriage
311    Settlement and by this my Will And I do hereby further declare
312    that when any part of the said Lands and hereditaments shall be
313    Sold the money to arise by such Sale shall forthwith be laid out by
314    the said trustees with such consent as aforesaid in the Purchase of
315    other Lands and hereditaments either Freehold or for long absolute
316    terms of Years situate in the said Counties of Devon and Cornwall
317    or out of them and that as well the Lands to be purchased as them
318    to be taken in exchange shall be settled and Assigned to such and
319    the same uses Upon such and the same trusts and under and
320    Subject to such and the same powers provisoes declarations and
321    Agreements as are limitted and declared concerning the said Lands
322    made Saleable and Exchangeable as aforesaid by my said marriage
323    Settlement and by this my Will or as near thereto as the deaths of
324    parties and other contingencies will admitt of And that in the mean
325    time and until such money shall be laid out in such Purchases
326    shall be lawful for the said trustees with such consent as aforesaid
327    to place out the same at Interest Upon real or Government Security
328    and to pay the Interest dividends and produce arising therefrom
329    to such persons for such uses intents and purposes and in such
330    manner as the rents and Profits of the Lands directed to be purchased
331    and Settled would go and be payable in case such Purchases and
332    Settlement were there actually made Also I give and bequeath unto
333    my said dear Wife Annie Buller the Sum of One thousand Pounds to
334    and for her own use and benefit to be paid to her within three
335    months after my decease Also I give and bequeath unto my said
336    Wife all my Household Goods and Furniture Linen and Wines in
337    my house at Downes to and for her own use and benefit and to be at
338    her absolute disposal And also the use of my plate and of a Pearl
339    Necklace which she usually wears during her life which plate and
340    Necklace after the death of my said Wife and also my Books immediately
341    after my death I give and bequeath unto my said Son James
342    Wentworth Buller I give and bequeath unto my Cosson William
343    Buller and my Nephew James Buller sons of my said late Brother
344    William Buller the Sum of Two hundred pounds each to be paid
345    within twelve Calendar Months next after my decease I give
346    devise and bequeath unto the said James Buller and Thomas
347    Wentworth Buller and their heirs the right of Presentation upon the
348    next Avoidance to the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Saint Thomas
349    the Apostle in the said County of Devon Upon trust that they my said
350    trustees and the Survivor of them and the heirs and Assigns of such
351    Survivor do and shall present the Reverend John Caius Copleston
352    to the said Vicarage or Parish Church upon the death or resignation
353    of the Reverend John Bradford Copleston his father the present Incumbent
354    thereon I request the said James Buller and Thomas Wentworth Buller
355    to accept the Sum of One hundred Guineas each as a trifling mark of
356    my regard and affection for them I give to my faithful Servant William
357    Gowler an Annuity of Twenty Pounds during his life to be paid by
358    quarterly payments at Lady Day Midsummer Michaelmas and
359    Christmas in every Year the first payment thereof to begin and be made
360    on such of the said days as shall first happen next after my decease
361    I give devise and bequeath all and singular my Manors Messuages Lands
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362    and tenements Advowsons and hereditaments and real Estate
363    whatsoever Situate lying and being with the Several Parishes of
364    Saint Thomas the Apostle Coffinswell Crediton and Newton Saint Cyres
365    or elsewhere in the said County of Devon which I have the power to
366    dispose of (Subject to the next right of Presentation to the Vicarage
367    of Saint Thomas the Apostle which I have hereinbefore given and
368    devised for the purpose aforesaid And also Subject and charged to and
369    with the Payment of my debts Legacies and Funeral Expences not
370    visited to be raised and paid by and out of my said Settled Estate in
371    Cornwall by my said Settlement and this my Will and which my
372    residuary Personal Estate may not be Sufficient to discharge unto
373    my said Son James Wentworth Buller his heirs and Assigns to the
374    use of my said son James Wentworth Buller his heirs and Assigns for
375    ever And all the rest and residue of my Goods Chattels monies and
376    Securities for money and all other my personal and testamentary
377    Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever after Payment of my
378    debts Legacies and Funeral Expences I give and bequeath the same
379    and every part thereof unto my said Son James Wentworth Buller his
380    Executors Administrators and Assigns to and for his and their own
381    use and benefit And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint
382    my said dear Wife Anne Buller and the said James Buller and
383    Thomas Wentworth Buller joint Executrix and Executors of this my
384    Will And I do appoint them Guardians of the persons and Estates of
385    my said daughters and Younger Children during their respective
386    minorities And I do hereby request my said Wife that in case
387    of the deaths of the said Sir William Lemon and John Buller two
388    of the trustees named in my said Marriage Settlement in her life
389    time she will in pursuance of the power given for that purpose by
390    my said Settlement nominate and appoint the said James Buller
391    in the room of the first of the said trustees who shall so happen to die
392    and the said Thomas Wentworth Buller in the room of the other of
393    the said trustees who shall so happen to die to the Intent that the
394    said James Buller and Thomas Wentworth Buller or either of them
395    may act in the trusts of the said Settlement in such and the same
396    manner as the present trustees are thereby authorized and empowered
397    to do And I revoke all former Will and Wills by me at any time
398    heretofore made and to declare this to be and contain my last Will and
399    testament In Witness whereof I have to this my Will contained in ten
400    sheets of paper to the first nine Sheets thereof set my hand and to this
401    tenth and last Sheet my hand and Seal this first day of February
402    in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty three
403    1823 James Buller Signed Sealed Published and declared by the
404    said James Buller the testator as and for his last Will and testament in
405    the presence of us three who have subscribed our names as Witnesses
406    thereto in his presence at his request and also in the presence of each
407    other John Rawling Henry Rawling Wm Rawling
408    I James Buller of Downes in the County of Devon
409    Esquire do make and declare this to be a Codicil to my last Will and
410    testament bearing date the first day of February One thousand eight
411    hundred and twenty three Whereas I am Seized of some Share
412    Interest or portion in Freehold Estate consisting of a number of
413    dwelling houses and premises situate and lying in the Parish of Saint
414    Mary le bone in the County of Middlesex Subject to a Lease for a term
415    of Years absolute therein Now I do by this Codicil annexed to my said Will
416    give and devise my said Share Interest or Portion in the said Freehold
417    hereditaments and Premises unto my Son James Wentworth Buller and
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418    and all and every my daughters and their heirs equally Share
419    and Share alike as tenants in Common and not as joint tenants And
420    in case of the death of any or either of them before attaining the Age
421    of twenty one Years without leaving Issue the Share of such to go
422    to the Survivors or Survivor of them and his her or their heirs
423    equally also as tenants in Common and not as joint tenants In
424    Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty
425    Seventh day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight
426    hundred and twenty five James Buller Signed Sealed Published
427    and declare by the said James Buller as and for a Codicil to his last Will
428    and testament in the presence of us three who in his presence at his
429    request and also in the presence of each other have Subscribed our names
430    as Witnesses to such his Execution hereof John Rawling Henry Rawling Wm Rawling
431    This is a further Codicil to the Will of me James Buller of Downes
432    in the County of Devon Esquire bearing date the first day of February
433    One thousand eight hundred and twenty three Whereas since the
434    making of my said Will my daughter Hester Eleanora has intermarried
435    with the Reverend Henry Strangways And upon such her marriage
436    and for her better Advancement in life I advanced and settled the Sum of
437    three thousand three hundred and seventy five pounds in favor of
438    her said husband herself and the children of their marriage Now
439    I do therefore hereby revoke all legacies and Sums of money bequeathed
440    to her (as one of the Young Children of myself and Wife) by my said
441    Will and declare that the Advancement portion or portions which
442    I have so made and Settled in and by her marriage Settlement is
443    to be secured and considered to be in full Satisfaction and discharge
444    thereof And also in full Satisfaction and discharge of her Share
445    of the Portion or portions to which she is or shall be otherwise
446    would be (also as one of the Younger children of myself and Wife)
447    entitled to under the Settlement made on our marriage In all
448    other respects I confirm my said Will And also on former Codicil
449    dated the twenty Seventh day of December One thousand eight
450    hundred and twenty five and and declare this writing to be a further
451    Codicil to my said Will and taken as part thereof In Witness whereof
452    I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this ninth day of July
453    One thousand eight hundred and twenty Seven 1827 James
454    Buller Signed Sealed published and declared by the said James
455    Buller as and for a further Codicil to his said last Will and Testament
456    in the presence of John Rawling Henry Rawling
457    Proved at London with 2 Codicils 10th October 1827 before the
458    Judge by the Oaths of Anne Buller Widow the Relict James Buller
459    Esquire and Thomas Wentworth Buller Esquire the Nephew the
460    Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn
461    (that is to say) the said Anne Buller and Thomas Wentworth Buller
462    by Commission and the said James Buller before the Worshipful John
463    Daubeny Doctor of Laws and Surrogate duly to administer