Sir Richard Buller the testator was MP and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1637. He married Alice the daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London. The will does make it sound as if they had a very happy marriage with seven sons and six daughters
1. Francis Buller married Thomasin daughter of Sir Thomas Honywood
2. George Buller
3. Richard Buller
4. John Buller was a colonel in the army and named by his nephew Francis Buller in his will 1681
5. Anthony Buller
6. William Buller
7. Samuel Buller died young
1. Catheryne Buller married to James Parker
2. Julian Buller married to Bernard Tanner
3. Alice Buller married to George Kekewich
4. Mary Buller died young
5. Maria Buller
6. Thomasin Buller married to Josias Calmady
There is a short Wikipedia article on Sir Francis Buller:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buller
Sir Richard Buller (1578–1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1642. He was a Parliamentarian officer during the English Civil War.
Buller was born at Shillingham Cornwall, the son of Francis Buller and his wife Thomasina Williams. He was knighted in 1608.
Buller was elected Member of Parliament for St Germans in 1621. He was subsequently MP for Saltash from 1625 to 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1637. In April 1640, Buller was elected MP for Cornwall in the Short Parliament. In November 1640, he was elected MP for Fowey in the Long Parliament.[1]
Buller was involved in military operations in Cornwall in 1642, and was forced to retreat from Launceston.[2] He died in November that year at the age of 64.
[1] Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 .... London. pp. 229–239.
[2] Historic Cornwall: http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/flyingpast/civil.html
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/199/591
Testator: Sir Richard Buller
Place: Shillingham, Cornwall, England
Date of document: 30 Mar 1640, probated 1 Mar 1647
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Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament]
[Margin]: Richardi Buller
[Margin]: Militia 373
1 In the name of God Amen The thirtieth day of
2 March in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and Fortieth I Richard
3 Buller of Shillingham in the County of Cornewall knight doe make this my last Will
4 and testament in Writeing as followeth Revoakeing hereby all former Wills whatsoever
5 Imprimis I commend my soule into the hands of Almighty God my maker only Redeemer
6 and Preserver and my body in Christian buriall Item I give to the poor of the parish of
7 St Stephens iuxta Ashe Five pounds and to the poore of the towne of Ashe Five
8 pounds And to the poore of the parish of Pelint Forty shillings and to the poore of the
9 parish of Lansallos twenty shillings all which to be paid within one yeare after my decease
10 Item whereas Francis Buller Esq[uier] my Father deceased did seale and deliver unto
11 George Buller my sonne a certaine lease or draught purporting a lease of certaine
12 lands called East Lison and West lison I doe hereby straightly require and charge my heir
13 and his posterity and they tender my blessing to suffer the said George his Executors and
14 assignes quietly to enioy the same And all that is contayned in the said lease or draught
15 according to my said Fathers intent and meaneing And whereas I have released the same by
16 one Thomas Pounde upon conditions expressed in the said lease for payment of certaine
17 moneys which not withstanding he hath failed payments oute at his day yet I doe require
18 and charge George Buller my sonne to suffer and permitt the same Thomas Ponde
19 his Executors and Assignes to enioy the same according to the lease And I further Will
20 and devise that my Executors within one yeare after my decease shall pay unto the said
21 George seaven hundred fower score and one pounds which is the considera[t]ion I lett
22 itt for unto the said Pounde. Alsoe I devise will give bequeath and grannte unto the
23 said George Buller all my messuages lands and tenements called or knowne by the
25 name of Ford sett lyeing and being within the parrish of Lanhidroke in the county of
26 Cornewall which were sometymes in the tenure or occupation of John Stowe Marchant
27 deceased and William Langdon both or one of them has or their assigne or assignes and
28 the Reversion and Reversions thereof and all my messuages lands and tenements with
29 the Appertenances called Cockerton lyeing in Torkrete in the parrish of St Cleere
30 and all those my messuages lands and tenements with the appurtenances called by the
31 name or names of Langton and Coker within the parrish of JacobStowe or lyeing in
32 Langdon or Coker and all my messuages lands and tenements with the App[ur]tenances
33 called Cannary within the parrish of Warpestowe and the reversion and reversions thereof
34 all which premisses are scituate lyeing and being within the County of Cornewall w[hi]ch
35 I purchased of William Bond Esq and Jane his wife, and William Wolcombe gent
36 and Mary his wife to have and to hold to the said George Buller his heires Executors
37 and Assignes for nynety and nyne yeares if the said George Buller his wife or
38 children (if he happen to have any) or either of them shall soe long happen to live yeilding
39 and paying therefore yearly and respectively for all the premises as they come in hand
40 dureing the said tearme the olde ancient and _____ally yearly rent due and usually
41 payable for the same Item I doe hereby will devise and grannte that Richard Buller
42 my sonne shall have the Barton Farme and demesne of Loosleigh in the parrish
43 of Tamerton Foly sett in the County of Devon and the Downe called Lookleigh downe
44 with his App[ur]tenances and all other things therewith to mee heretofore demised and
45 leased By Dorothye Wadham Hitchins Wadham William Wadham and Nicholas
46 Wadham some or any one of them for seven yeares yet unexpired to have and to hould
47 to him the said Richard his Executors and Assignes for and dureing any whole tearme
48 and estate therein yet to come to mee grannted by them or any of them if he the said
49 Richard or any wooman that he shall marry or any child of his body lawfull begotten
50 shall happen soe long to live Alsoe I devise unto the said Richard and give all the
51 said premises called Loosleigh and Loosleigh downe with the two Appurtenances for the
52 tearme
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53 tearme of one hundred yeares in expiration of the said estate and tearme Formerly
54 granted and devised by this my will if the said Richard or any woman that he shall
55 marry or any child of his body or childrens children lawfully begotten shall happen soe
56 long to live, he and they paying the old and ancient part for the same which was
57 _____ to be paid before Christopher Brocker was deceased had and hold the same
58 (pideliket) Five markes yearly rent Item I doe hereby give will devise and bequeath to
59 John Buller my fowerth sonne Forty pounds yearly to be paid him yearely during
60 his life by quarterly payments and three hundred pounds in money to be paid him
61 within one yeare after my decease Item I doe hereby will devise give and bequeath to
62 Anthony Buller my fiveth sonne all the money which hee shall owe mee at the tyme
63 of my death either by specialty or otherwise And alsoe three hundred pounds more to bee
64 paid him within twelve moneths next after my decease Alsoe my will is that if my heire
65 or any other from or under him or by his means shall after my decease evict or expulse
66 the said George Buller or the said Richard Buller his or their Executors or
67 Assignes of or from any part of the lands messuages tenements or premises before to
68 them or any of them respectively grannted devised willed appoynted or meant by reason
69 or colour of any pretence of tenure or otherwise then I doe hereby give will and devise
70 that the said George Buller and Richard Buller theire heires and Assignes
71 respectively shall have and hold all my said lands messuages tenements and hereditaments
72 to him and them respectively and theire heires and Assignes for ever as they are severally
73 grannted willed devised lymitted intended or meant by the true meaneing of this my last
74 Will Item my will is that my daughter Thomasine if shee marry her selfe in marriage
75 in her mother's life tyme without her mother's good likeing or consent shall have only
76 the somme of one hundred pounds by this my last Will for her portion, and all other
77 Legacies and bequeaths in this my will touching her shalbe then voyde But if the said Thomasine
78 shall marry with her Mother's consent and good likeing (As I hope shee will) or shall not
79 happen to marry or be Affianced in Marriage in the life tyme of her said Mother
80 then I doe hereby give and bequeath unto the said Thomazine my daughter the sum[m]e
81 of one thousand pounds Lawfull English money to be paid unto her within one yeare
82 after she shall accomplish the Age of one and Twenty yeares or be married as aforesaid
83 Item I give unto all my sonne Bullers children which he shall have liveing at the
84 tyme of my death Fifty pounds to each of them to be paid when they shall come to theire
85 severall ages of Sixteene yeares if they be liveing Item I give unto Katherine Parker
86 Julian Tanner and Alice Keck which three of my daughters Tenn pounds apeece
87 to buy them each A jewell withall Item I give unto my loveing daughter in law Thomazine
88 Buller Twenty pounds to buy her A jewell withall Item I give and bequeath unto my
89 most deare and loveing wife dame Alice the use of all my manors with household stuffe
90 and goods within dores that I shall have at the tyme of my death in my howse att
91 Shillingham during her life And alsoe I give unto her all her goods which at any tyme
92 were hers or given her And alsoe I give her my Coach with fower of my best wath
93 horses and all my suit goods quicke (vid clicet) spoons oxen cowes and sheepe and all my
94 Corne that I shall have in and upon Shillingham at the tyme of my death Item I
95 doe give to Peter Peirce John Tingcombe Roger Hitchins Thomas Howes Jacobi Richard
96 Langston Mary Buller Elizabeth Willis and Jane Peirce Five pounds to each of
97 them Item I give to Toby Suelium Forty shillings and to every one of my covenant
98 servants A quarters Wages besides the wages shalbe due to them at the tyme of my death
99 And I will that my Executors shall pay all my debrts whatsoever which by Law costome
100 or equity is or maybe to be paid fully I doe appoynte and ordaine my most deare and loveing
101 wife Dame Alice and Francis Buller my eldest sonne Executors of this my last Will and
102 testament and I doe hereby give them all my goods chattles and cattle not before given
103 and bedqueathed after my debts and legacies paid and Funeralls discharged (where in I
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104 desire noe greate cost) And if my said wife or sonne or either of them doe indeavor or goe
105 about to defeate or defraude any of my children of any legacie or thing to any of them by this my last
106 Will and Testament given willed or meant that then and imediatly upon such interverence or goeing
107 about soe to do her and his authority and right of Executorshipp shall cease and all Legacies
108 and things by this my last Will and Testament given or bequeathed to them or either of them that
109 soe doeth I will to be voyd and then I will that George Buller my sonne shall shalbe in her or his
110 place that soe doeth or gooeth about soe to doe Reycouter And shall have all such legacies as are
111 given or bequeathed to the said Dame Alice and Francis or any of them respectively
112 Provided alsoe that if my said Wife doe happen to Marry after my decease that then her
113 Executorshipp and all interests thereby had unto be had shalbe voyd to all intents confirmations
114 and purposes Alsoe I will and devise that my said deare Wife shall have all her demesne payde
115 of ioynture in possession as Free of all tythes whatsoever as I had and hold itt my selfe
116 att any tyme Provided alwayes and taken by this my Will and Testament refers full power
117 and authority to make any schedull or Codicill wherein I may better remember these or other my
118 Freinds and servants which att this tyme I have nott tyme to doe and that scedull or codicill
119 which I shall soe make shalbe at the same validity and Force as this my Will is or shalbe being
120 subscribed by mee or Written or testified in the presence of any credible Wittnesses written
121 with my owne hand the day and yeare First above written and sealed with my owne seale
122 Memorandum whereas I have omitted the perticular ixpressed disposeall of my lease
123 and grannt which I have and hold of the Colledge of Windsor of the Rectory and p[ar]sonage
124 of St Stephens iuxta Ashe (otherwise then that my minde and Will is that my deare wife shall
125 have and hold her dimesne lands of Joynture Free from all manner of tythes dureing her
126 life) and whereas I make noe doubt question or scruple but that my personall estate is very
127 well able (thankes be to God) to Free and discharge all my debts and legacies with A good
128 overplus I doe by this my will therefore my debts and legacies being paid give grannte and
129 bequeath all my right title tearmes and interest which I have in and over the said lease and
130 grannte to Rectory and personage of St Stephens (except to my wife as aforesaid) unto
131 Franncis Buller my eldest sonne and his heires males forever provided that my heirs
132 doe suffer my deare wife quietly to enioy her Joynture dureing her life whereof I doubt nott
133 And this is alwayes and was still my will Full intent and meaneing Rich: Buller
134 Sealed and subscribed in the presence of us Tho: Dandy John Tingcombe Richard Langston
135 Whereas since the makeing of this my will I have given bond to pay George Buller my
136 sonne A certaine somme of money to be paid shortly after his marriage with Mistres Mary
137 onely daughter and child of Mr George Hanger now if itt shall happen the said Marriage
138 to take effect Then I doe will and declare by these that all Legacies and bequeaths to him
139 and his only ase given by this my Will to be voyd and if nowe effect to him to all confirmations
140 and purposes but as to the rest of this my Will I doe ratifie allowe and confirme itt to all intents
141 confirmations and purposes whatsoever
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Will of Francis Buller of Tregarricke - The National Archives PROB 11/212/119, probated 27 May 1650
This next group of three Buller wills I have labeled Francis 2, Francis 3 and Francis 4. I do not know if my Christopher Buller is descendant of this line but not being able to locate him anywhere thus far I decided to read all of them and if I am reading them I might as well transcribe them as I might miss an important detail. Christopher Buller is highly respected by his peers where he is living and often asked to be an executor of wills within the family. He appears to have owned his shop on Tooley Street and supplied slops to sailors one would assume given the occupation. Slops being their clothing as it was thus referred to.
Although he married Mary Beard and they baptized all of their children at St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey, he buried his two infant children and his first wife and had himself buried at St Olave Southwark. The Parish Registers at LMA are one of my must sees when next we are in England as the time period in which he lived are not yet online (if they exist and they appear to at LMA). He was buried in 1832 at the age of 69 giving him a likely birth year around 1763 and that is the most information that I have on his early years.
Francis Buller married Sybill Nicholls the daughter of John Nicholls of St Kew. They had five sons and two daughters who are mentioned in this will: namely, 1. Francis, 2. John, 3. Richard, 4. Peter and 5. Philip and 1. Anne (married to Hancock) and 2. Thomasine. Francis was a brother to Sir Richard Buller of Shillingham and it is his son Francis and grandson Francis that are mentioned in this will as the nephews of the testator. Francis (testator) appears on the Visitation of Cornwall in the lengthy Buller entry but only to list his family. They are not extended into the next generation. He is a possibility as an ancestor of my Buller line. As a younger son of Francis Buller and his wife Thomasine Williams of Shillingham who died 28 Sep 1616 it was his older brother Sir Richard who inherited primarily from his father.
This Buller line traces back to Ralfe Buller of Wood (Somerset) and by the third generation following his great grandson John married Alice Beauchamp the heir of her father John Beauchamp to property in Lillesdon Somerset. The line continues at Lillesdon (and the possibility that I am descendant of one of these families as there are also many lines in the earlier family as well) until the marriage of Richard Buller and Margaret Tretherslie (daughter of Thomas Tretherslie and widow of Edward Courtney). It was their son Francis Buller of Shillingham that was the father of this Francis and Sir Richard. There are so many many possibilities for one of these Buller lines to be ancestral to Christopher Buller of St Olave Southwark. Many of the lines are not traced down in the Visitation. The full test of the visitation of the county of Cornwall can be found on books.google.com:
http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_visitations_of_Cornwall.html?id=t0U7AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
and is downloadable from there.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 Jan 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/212/119
Testator: Francis Buller
Place: Tregarricke, Cornwall, England
Date of document: 22 Nov 1649, probated 27 May 1650
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Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T: Francis
[Margin]: Buller
1 In the name of God Amen
2 The twoe and twentieth day of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
3 six hundred Forty nyne I Franncis Buller of Tregarricke in the County of Cornwall
4 Esq[uie]r haveing before me the uncertainty of my continuence in this world And knowing
5 that it is as naturall for man to dye as to be borne And desireing to sett my house in
6 order that peace may continue in my family after my decease doe in the feare of gods
7 holy name, now in the time of my perfect minde and memory make and ordaine this
8 my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my
9 soule into the hands of the Almighty god my creator and Redeemer hopeing assuredly
10 to receive eternall life through Jesus Christ my alone Saviour And my body to bee
11 buried in the Chancell of Pilint Church Item I give to the poore of Pelint twenty
12 shillings To the poore of Lansellos tenn shillings To the poore of St Kew tenn
13 shillings And to every poore at my buriall two pence Item I give to my Servants five
14 pounds to be distributed amongst them as my wife shall thinke fitt Item I give and
15 bequeath unto Franncis Buller my oldest sonne All those my Messuages Lands
16 tenements rents rever[s]ions services and hereditaments with th[e ]appurtenances here
17 after men[t]ioned (that is to say) All my right title terme claimes interest and demand
18 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto the Barton of Tregarricke
19 with all and singular the appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
20 appertaineing And also all my right title terme clayme and interest which I now
21 have and ought to have of in and unto the feilds called Gayland with the app[ur]ten[an]ces
22 And likewise all my right title terme and estate which I have yet to come of in and
23 unto the Messuage and tenement called Wilton And further I give to the said
25 Francis my sonne All these Lands and tenements with the appurtenances called
26 _anacue which I there lately purchased of Sir Peter Courtney knight with the
27 rents reversions services and hereditaments to the same belongeing or app[er]taynning
28 And also I give to the said Francis my sonne All those my Lands and tenements
29 with the appurtenances called Talvan which I there latly purchased of Robert
30 Raw gent deceased with the rents issues and proffitts thereof And also I give to my
31 said sonne Francis All those Messuages Lands tenements rents and hereditaments
32 with the appurtenances in or called Tremayne which I there lately purchased of
33 John Killiewe Esq[uir]e and John his sonne and heire with the rents reversions and services
34 thereof belonging or appertaineing All which said mentioned Lands Barton Tenements
35 and hereditaments are lyeing and being within the said parish of Pelint in the said
36 County of Cournewall And also I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
37 Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
38 Landeare within the parish of Dueloe which I there late purchased of Edward Calmady
39 of Wenbury in the County of Devon Esq[uir]e with the rents reversions and services to
40 them belonging And likewise I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
41 messuages Lands Tenements Rents and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
42 Tremellicke in the parish of St Pinnocke which I there late purchased of Stephen Jay
43 deceased And my will is that Francis Buller of Shillingham Esq[uir]e and Francis
44 Buller gent his sonne My Nephewes and their heires and assignes and every of
45 them shall stand seized of and in all and singular the said Messuages Barton Lands
46 and tenements with their appurtenances respectively afore mentioned by me given to
47 the said Francis my said sonne to the use and beheese of the said Francis my sonne
48 and the heires males of his body lawfully to be begotten on the body of any woman which
49 he shall att any time hereafter marry and take to wife by and with the speciall
50 consente of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and Francis his sonne or one
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51 of them And for default of such heire males to the use of the heires males of my body
52 lawfully begotten And for default of such heires in the use of my right heires forever
53 ____ allwayes, and my will is That if the said Francis my sonne shall marry or take
54 to wife without the speciall consents of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and
55 Francis his sonne my said Nephews or one of them That then the said Francis my
56 sonne shall not further hold or be possessed of all or any of the afore mentioned messuages
57 Barton Lands tenements rents reversions or hereditaments whatsoever, nor of any part
58 thereof But shall from thence forth only have receive and take the summe of fowerscore
59 pounds yearly by quarterly payments in lieu and recompence of all the Lands tenements
60 and hereditaments afore mentioned And my will and desire is that my said Nephews
61 or one of them their or one of their heirs or Assignes shall from time to time have
62 full power and authority to manage and or lymitt and direct the said Messuages Lands
63 Tenements rents and hereditaments and the issues and proffitts thereof for the best
64 advantage and beheese of my said sonne Francis Buller untill he shall soe marry with theire
65 or one of their consents as aforesaid And my will is that for the preferment of my said
66 Francis Buller in any such marriage to be had by and with the consents of my said
67 Nephewes as aforesaid my sonne Francis with the consents of my said Nephewes or one
68 of them shall have full power and authoritie to alter and change or dispose of any the
69 Messuage Barton Lands or tenements afore mentioned for the creation of Joynt and
70 or mayntenance to be had made or assured out of or by the Lands tenements Barton
71 rents and hereditaments afore mentioned or out of or from any part thereof for any
72 such woman as my said sonne Francis shall soe marry or otherwise at the pleasure
73 or likeing of my said Nephewes or one of them Item I give and bequeath unto
74 John Buller my second sonne all my estate right title terms interest and demand
75 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto my Messuage and tenement
76 called Kelliew in the said parish of Lanesalles with all and singular the appurtenances
77 to the same belonging or appertaineing And I give to the said John my said sonne all
78 such quicke goods and corne as shalbe of myne upon the said Tenement called Kelliew
79 at the time of my death Item I give to Ann Hancock my daughter twenty shillings
80 to make her a ring Item my will is that my wife shall have and hold the lower
81 tenement in St Kew which was heretofore the tenement of her Uncle Nicholas
82 Nicholls gent deceased dureing her life if she release her estate formerly appointed
83 to her ioynture and maintenance in the two tenements called Wilton and Killiowe
84 aforesaid that is to say if she shall within twenty dayes next after my decease
85 release and yield up her said estate in Wilton to my said Nephewes or to one of them
86 for the use and beheese of my said sonne Francis And doe likewise release and
87 yield up her said estate in Kelliowe to my said sonne John Buller And shall pay
88 the summe of twenty pound per Annum to my Executor hereby made and ordained if
89 shee marry from the time of her second marriage dureing her life and not else Item
90 I give unto my said wife my second best feather bedd in Tregarricke with the furniture
91 to the same belonging And I also give her all my houshold goods at St Kew And
92 all my plate which is not my childrens now liveing I leave to my said wife to be
93 disposed by her at her pleasure Item I give and bequeath unto Richard my third sonne
94 all my estate right title tearms and interest which I am to have in the tenement
95 called Tregavethicke within the said parish of Lansalles after the decease of
96 Marrien Trassell wife of John Tressell with the Lease for the same And I also give
97 the said Richard the sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be
98 paid him by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephews or one of
99 them shall think fit and appoint And untill such time as the said Richard shall
100 receive the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay him thirteene pounds six
101 shillings and eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his maintenance And
102 tenn pounds of like mony dureing the life of the said Marrian Trussell for increase
103 of her por[t]ion Item I give onto Peter my fowerth sonne All my estate right title
104 terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought to have of in and unto the
105 Messuage and tenement called Lanwarnicke within the said parish of Dueloe which
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106 I there bought of Robert Cole with my deeds for the same And also I give unto the said
107 Peter the summe of two hundred pound of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at
108 such time and times as my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt and appointe
109 And untill the said Petter shall marrie the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay
110 him thirteene pounds six shillings eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his
111 maintenance and increase of his person And if the said Robert Cole shall happen to
112 dye within two yeares next after my decease Then my Executor to pay the said Peter
113 my said sonne the sume of one hundred pounds more of like mony for increase of his
114 por[t]ion Item I give unto Phillip my fifth sonne the summe of fower hundred pounds
115 of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at such time when as the said Phillip shall attaine to the age of one and twentie yeares and untill the sayd Phillipp
116 shall receive the summe of fower hundred pounds my Executor to pay him yearly
117 the summe of ___teene pounds of like mony by quarterly payments for his maintenance
118 and increase of his portion And my will is that my Executor shall pay away any
119 reasonable summe of mony of the said fower hundred pounds at any time when he
120 my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt to disburse the same for the preferment
121 of the said Phillipp in any caleing convenient for him Item I give unto Thomazine my
122 daughter All my estate right title terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought
123 to have of in and unto the two severall tenements called Trerachicke and ____ow
124 within the said parish of Pelintt with my deeds which I have to the same And also
125 I give the said Thomazine the summe of two hundred pounds of like mony to be paid
126 her by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephewes or or one of them
127 shall thinke fitt and appoint And untill the said summe of two hundred pounds be
128 paid her my said Executor to pay her yearly the summe of thirteene pounds six
129 shillings and eight pence for her maintenance and increase of her portion And my
130 will is that if any or either of my said fower youngest children last mentioned
131 shall happen to dye before the payment of their severall respective portions be
132 made as aforesaid Then the portion of him her of them so dyeing shalbe equally
133 devided amongst him her or them of the said fower youngest children surviveing
134 and what estate or tearms shalbe then to expire in either of the respective Messuages
135 or tenements afore appointed to the said Richard, Peter and Thomazine soe happening
136 to dye shall revert descend and be to the use and beheese of my Executor And
137 further my will is That if at any time after my decease the said Francis my
138 sonne whom I tend to make and ordaine to be the Executor of this my last will
139 and testament upon notice or demand of my said Nephewes or one of them to him
140 to be given shall refuse to give such reasonable securitie to my said Nephewes
141 or one of them for payment of my said fower youngest childrens severall sum[m]e and
142 sum[m]es of mony afore appointed and by me to them respectively given, with the
143 severall yearly payments for their severall maintenance as my said Nephewes
144 shall thinke fitt That then my said Nephewes or one of them their heires and
145 assignes shall have full power and authority to sell or dispose of any of the
146 Messuages Lands or Tenements goods or Chattells whatsoever in this my p[re]sente
147 will and testament by me given or to be given or bequeathed to my Executor for
148 payment thereof rspectively in manner and forme aforesaid And shall have like
149 power and authority to sell alter or dispose of the respective Leases and estates
150 thereof afore appointed to Richard, Peter and Thomazine my said sonne and daughter
151 for their best advantage and beheese respectively as my said Nephewes shall thinke fitt
152 or either of them Item I give to my said Nephews twenty shillings apeece to make
153 them two rings And I doe most earnstly desire and hereby appointe and authorize
154 my said Nephews ioyntly and severally to be Overseers and trustees of this my last
155 will and testament Item all that rest and residue of my goods and chattells not hereby
156 given or bequeathed of what kinde qualitie or condition soever they or any of them are
157 of I give and bequeath unto the said Francis Buller my oldest sonne whom I make
158 and ordaine to be Executor of this my last will and testament And to be wholly
159 guided and directed by my said Nephewes or one of them from time to time for the
160 manageing and carrying on of the burthen and affaires of this my present will and
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161 testament And what charges costs or expences my said Nephewes or one of them shall have
162 time to time disburse or expend in or about my suite of law which may happen touching the
163 premisses or for the imployment of any person or persons which shalbe imployed in or about
164 any of the comandes of my said Nephewes or one of them for or concerning the execution
165 thereof my said Nephewes and every of them shall from time to time satisfy them
166 out of from or by any of my goods or chattells whatsoever And further my will is
167 that my said Nephewes or one of them shall from time to time have full power to raise
168 pay and disburse any reasonable sum[m]e or sum[m]es of money for placing of any of my
169 said other younger children in any calling fitt for him or them And the same so raised
170 payd and distributed for the purposes aforesaid to deduct out of his or their portion or
171 portions for whom it shall soe paid and disburse And I doe hereby desire and appointt
172 Phillipp Tingcombe in Richard Langston George Corner and Edward Tomlinson to have
173 the ministeriall imployment and to act doe and accompt for my Executor as they shalbe
174 directed from time to time by my said Nephewes or one of them And I doe hereby nullify
175 and revoke all former and other wills and testaments whatsoever by me formerly made or
176 ordained And I charge my said sonne Francis to be kinde dutifull and courteous to his
177 mother and loveing to all his brothers and sisters. In witnes whereof I have to this
178 my last will and testament put my hand a seale geeven the day and year first
179 above written Francis Buller Sealed signed published and acknowledged in the
180 presence of us whose names are subscribed William hancocke William Purdy
181 Edward Tomlinson
Although he married Mary Beard and they baptized all of their children at St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey, he buried his two infant children and his first wife and had himself buried at St Olave Southwark. The Parish Registers at LMA are one of my must sees when next we are in England as the time period in which he lived are not yet online (if they exist and they appear to at LMA). He was buried in 1832 at the age of 69 giving him a likely birth year around 1763 and that is the most information that I have on his early years.
Francis Buller married Sybill Nicholls the daughter of John Nicholls of St Kew. They had five sons and two daughters who are mentioned in this will: namely, 1. Francis, 2. John, 3. Richard, 4. Peter and 5. Philip and 1. Anne (married to Hancock) and 2. Thomasine. Francis was a brother to Sir Richard Buller of Shillingham and it is his son Francis and grandson Francis that are mentioned in this will as the nephews of the testator. Francis (testator) appears on the Visitation of Cornwall in the lengthy Buller entry but only to list his family. They are not extended into the next generation. He is a possibility as an ancestor of my Buller line. As a younger son of Francis Buller and his wife Thomasine Williams of Shillingham who died 28 Sep 1616 it was his older brother Sir Richard who inherited primarily from his father.
This Buller line traces back to Ralfe Buller of Wood (Somerset) and by the third generation following his great grandson John married Alice Beauchamp the heir of her father John Beauchamp to property in Lillesdon Somerset. The line continues at Lillesdon (and the possibility that I am descendant of one of these families as there are also many lines in the earlier family as well) until the marriage of Richard Buller and Margaret Tretherslie (daughter of Thomas Tretherslie and widow of Edward Courtney). It was their son Francis Buller of Shillingham that was the father of this Francis and Sir Richard. There are so many many possibilities for one of these Buller lines to be ancestral to Christopher Buller of St Olave Southwark. Many of the lines are not traced down in the Visitation. The full test of the visitation of the county of Cornwall can be found on books.google.com:
http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_visitations_of_Cornwall.html?id=t0U7AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
and is downloadable from there.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 Jan 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/212/119
Testator: Francis Buller
Place: Tregarricke, Cornwall, England
Date of document: 22 Nov 1649, probated 27 May 1650
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T: Francis
[Margin]: Buller
1 In the name of God Amen
2 The twoe and twentieth day of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
3 six hundred Forty nyne I Franncis Buller of Tregarricke in the County of Cornwall
4 Esq[uie]r haveing before me the uncertainty of my continuence in this world And knowing
5 that it is as naturall for man to dye as to be borne And desireing to sett my house in
6 order that peace may continue in my family after my decease doe in the feare of gods
7 holy name, now in the time of my perfect minde and memory make and ordaine this
8 my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my
9 soule into the hands of the Almighty god my creator and Redeemer hopeing assuredly
10 to receive eternall life through Jesus Christ my alone Saviour And my body to bee
11 buried in the Chancell of Pilint Church Item I give to the poore of Pelint twenty
12 shillings To the poore of Lansellos tenn shillings To the poore of St Kew tenn
13 shillings And to every poore at my buriall two pence Item I give to my Servants five
14 pounds to be distributed amongst them as my wife shall thinke fitt Item I give and
15 bequeath unto Franncis Buller my oldest sonne All those my Messuages Lands
16 tenements rents rever[s]ions services and hereditaments with th[e ]appurtenances here
17 after men[t]ioned (that is to say) All my right title terme claimes interest and demand
18 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto the Barton of Tregarricke
19 with all and singular the appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
20 appertaineing And also all my right title terme clayme and interest which I now
21 have and ought to have of in and unto the feilds called Gayland with the app[ur]ten[an]ces
22 And likewise all my right title terme and estate which I have yet to come of in and
23 unto the Messuage and tenement called Wilton And further I give to the said
25 Francis my sonne All these Lands and tenements with the appurtenances called
26 _anacue which I there lately purchased of Sir Peter Courtney knight with the
27 rents reversions services and hereditaments to the same belongeing or app[er]taynning
28 And also I give to the said Francis my sonne All those my Lands and tenements
29 with the appurtenances called Talvan which I there latly purchased of Robert
30 Raw gent deceased with the rents issues and proffitts thereof And also I give to my
31 said sonne Francis All those Messuages Lands tenements rents and hereditaments
32 with the appurtenances in or called Tremayne which I there lately purchased of
33 John Killiewe Esq[uir]e and John his sonne and heire with the rents reversions and services
34 thereof belonging or appertaineing All which said mentioned Lands Barton Tenements
35 and hereditaments are lyeing and being within the said parish of Pelint in the said
36 County of Cournewall And also I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
37 Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
38 Landeare within the parish of Dueloe which I there late purchased of Edward Calmady
39 of Wenbury in the County of Devon Esq[uir]e with the rents reversions and services to
40 them belonging And likewise I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
41 messuages Lands Tenements Rents and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
42 Tremellicke in the parish of St Pinnocke which I there late purchased of Stephen Jay
43 deceased And my will is that Francis Buller of Shillingham Esq[uir]e and Francis
44 Buller gent his sonne My Nephewes and their heires and assignes and every of
45 them shall stand seized of and in all and singular the said Messuages Barton Lands
46 and tenements with their appurtenances respectively afore mentioned by me given to
47 the said Francis my said sonne to the use and beheese of the said Francis my sonne
48 and the heires males of his body lawfully to be begotten on the body of any woman which
49 he shall att any time hereafter marry and take to wife by and with the speciall
50 consente of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and Francis his sonne or one
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51 of them And for default of such heire males to the use of the heires males of my body
52 lawfully begotten And for default of such heires in the use of my right heires forever
53 ____ allwayes, and my will is That if the said Francis my sonne shall marry or take
54 to wife without the speciall consents of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and
55 Francis his sonne my said Nephews or one of them That then the said Francis my
56 sonne shall not further hold or be possessed of all or any of the afore mentioned messuages
57 Barton Lands tenements rents reversions or hereditaments whatsoever, nor of any part
58 thereof But shall from thence forth only have receive and take the summe of fowerscore
59 pounds yearly by quarterly payments in lieu and recompence of all the Lands tenements
60 and hereditaments afore mentioned And my will and desire is that my said Nephews
61 or one of them their or one of their heirs or Assignes shall from time to time have
62 full power and authority to manage and or lymitt and direct the said Messuages Lands
63 Tenements rents and hereditaments and the issues and proffitts thereof for the best
64 advantage and beheese of my said sonne Francis Buller untill he shall soe marry with theire
65 or one of their consents as aforesaid And my will is that for the preferment of my said
66 Francis Buller in any such marriage to be had by and with the consents of my said
67 Nephewes as aforesaid my sonne Francis with the consents of my said Nephewes or one
68 of them shall have full power and authoritie to alter and change or dispose of any the
69 Messuage Barton Lands or tenements afore mentioned for the creation of Joynt and
70 or mayntenance to be had made or assured out of or by the Lands tenements Barton
71 rents and hereditaments afore mentioned or out of or from any part thereof for any
72 such woman as my said sonne Francis shall soe marry or otherwise at the pleasure
73 or likeing of my said Nephewes or one of them Item I give and bequeath unto
74 John Buller my second sonne all my estate right title terms interest and demand
75 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto my Messuage and tenement
76 called Kelliew in the said parish of Lanesalles with all and singular the appurtenances
77 to the same belonging or appertaineing And I give to the said John my said sonne all
78 such quicke goods and corne as shalbe of myne upon the said Tenement called Kelliew
79 at the time of my death Item I give to Ann Hancock my daughter twenty shillings
80 to make her a ring Item my will is that my wife shall have and hold the lower
81 tenement in St Kew which was heretofore the tenement of her Uncle Nicholas
82 Nicholls gent deceased dureing her life if she release her estate formerly appointed
83 to her ioynture and maintenance in the two tenements called Wilton and Killiowe
84 aforesaid that is to say if she shall within twenty dayes next after my decease
85 release and yield up her said estate in Wilton to my said Nephewes or to one of them
86 for the use and beheese of my said sonne Francis And doe likewise release and
87 yield up her said estate in Kelliowe to my said sonne John Buller And shall pay
88 the summe of twenty pound per Annum to my Executor hereby made and ordained if
89 shee marry from the time of her second marriage dureing her life and not else Item
90 I give unto my said wife my second best feather bedd in Tregarricke with the furniture
91 to the same belonging And I also give her all my houshold goods at St Kew And
92 all my plate which is not my childrens now liveing I leave to my said wife to be
93 disposed by her at her pleasure Item I give and bequeath unto Richard my third sonne
94 all my estate right title tearms and interest which I am to have in the tenement
95 called Tregavethicke within the said parish of Lansalles after the decease of
96 Marrien Trassell wife of John Tressell with the Lease for the same And I also give
97 the said Richard the sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be
98 paid him by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephews or one of
99 them shall think fit and appoint And untill such time as the said Richard shall
100 receive the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay him thirteene pounds six
101 shillings and eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his maintenance And
102 tenn pounds of like mony dureing the life of the said Marrian Trussell for increase
103 of her por[t]ion Item I give onto Peter my fowerth sonne All my estate right title
104 terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought to have of in and unto the
105 Messuage and tenement called Lanwarnicke within the said parish of Dueloe which
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106 I there bought of Robert Cole with my deeds for the same And also I give unto the said
107 Peter the summe of two hundred pound of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at
108 such time and times as my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt and appointe
109 And untill the said Petter shall marrie the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay
110 him thirteene pounds six shillings eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his
111 maintenance and increase of his person And if the said Robert Cole shall happen to
112 dye within two yeares next after my decease Then my Executor to pay the said Peter
113 my said sonne the sume of one hundred pounds more of like mony for increase of his
114 por[t]ion Item I give unto Phillip my fifth sonne the summe of fower hundred pounds
115 of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at such time when as the said Phillip shall attaine to the age of one and twentie yeares and untill the sayd Phillipp
116 shall receive the summe of fower hundred pounds my Executor to pay him yearly
117 the summe of ___teene pounds of like mony by quarterly payments for his maintenance
118 and increase of his portion And my will is that my Executor shall pay away any
119 reasonable summe of mony of the said fower hundred pounds at any time when he
120 my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt to disburse the same for the preferment
121 of the said Phillipp in any caleing convenient for him Item I give unto Thomazine my
122 daughter All my estate right title terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought
123 to have of in and unto the two severall tenements called Trerachicke and ____ow
124 within the said parish of Pelintt with my deeds which I have to the same And also
125 I give the said Thomazine the summe of two hundred pounds of like mony to be paid
126 her by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephewes or or one of them
127 shall thinke fitt and appoint And untill the said summe of two hundred pounds be
128 paid her my said Executor to pay her yearly the summe of thirteene pounds six
129 shillings and eight pence for her maintenance and increase of her portion And my
130 will is that if any or either of my said fower youngest children last mentioned
131 shall happen to dye before the payment of their severall respective portions be
132 made as aforesaid Then the portion of him her of them so dyeing shalbe equally
133 devided amongst him her or them of the said fower youngest children surviveing
134 and what estate or tearms shalbe then to expire in either of the respective Messuages
135 or tenements afore appointed to the said Richard, Peter and Thomazine soe happening
136 to dye shall revert descend and be to the use and beheese of my Executor And
137 further my will is That if at any time after my decease the said Francis my
138 sonne whom I tend to make and ordaine to be the Executor of this my last will
139 and testament upon notice or demand of my said Nephewes or one of them to him
140 to be given shall refuse to give such reasonable securitie to my said Nephewes
141 or one of them for payment of my said fower youngest childrens severall sum[m]e and
142 sum[m]es of mony afore appointed and by me to them respectively given, with the
143 severall yearly payments for their severall maintenance as my said Nephewes
144 shall thinke fitt That then my said Nephewes or one of them their heires and
145 assignes shall have full power and authority to sell or dispose of any of the
146 Messuages Lands or Tenements goods or Chattells whatsoever in this my p[re]sente
147 will and testament by me given or to be given or bequeathed to my Executor for
148 payment thereof rspectively in manner and forme aforesaid And shall have like
149 power and authority to sell alter or dispose of the respective Leases and estates
150 thereof afore appointed to Richard, Peter and Thomazine my said sonne and daughter
151 for their best advantage and beheese respectively as my said Nephewes shall thinke fitt
152 or either of them Item I give to my said Nephews twenty shillings apeece to make
153 them two rings And I doe most earnstly desire and hereby appointe and authorize
154 my said Nephews ioyntly and severally to be Overseers and trustees of this my last
155 will and testament Item all that rest and residue of my goods and chattells not hereby
156 given or bequeathed of what kinde qualitie or condition soever they or any of them are
157 of I give and bequeath unto the said Francis Buller my oldest sonne whom I make
158 and ordaine to be Executor of this my last will and testament And to be wholly
159 guided and directed by my said Nephewes or one of them from time to time for the
160 manageing and carrying on of the burthen and affaires of this my present will and
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161 testament And what charges costs or expences my said Nephewes or one of them shall have
162 time to time disburse or expend in or about my suite of law which may happen touching the
163 premisses or for the imployment of any person or persons which shalbe imployed in or about
164 any of the comandes of my said Nephewes or one of them for or concerning the execution
165 thereof my said Nephewes and every of them shall from time to time satisfy them
166 out of from or by any of my goods or chattells whatsoever And further my will is
167 that my said Nephewes or one of them shall from time to time have full power to raise
168 pay and disburse any reasonable sum[m]e or sum[m]es of money for placing of any of my
169 said other younger children in any calling fitt for him or them And the same so raised
170 payd and distributed for the purposes aforesaid to deduct out of his or their portion or
171 portions for whom it shall soe paid and disburse And I doe hereby desire and appointt
172 Phillipp Tingcombe in Richard Langston George Corner and Edward Tomlinson to have
173 the ministeriall imployment and to act doe and accompt for my Executor as they shalbe
174 directed from time to time by my said Nephewes or one of them And I doe hereby nullify
175 and revoke all former and other wills and testaments whatsoever by me formerly made or
176 ordained And I charge my said sonne Francis to be kinde dutifull and courteous to his
177 mother and loveing to all his brothers and sisters. In witnes whereof I have to this
178 my last will and testament put my hand a seale geeven the day and year first
179 above written Francis Buller Sealed signed published and acknowledged in the
180 presence of us whose names are subscribed William hancocke William Purdy
181 Edward Tomlinson
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