21st February 1844
I Henry Rimell of New Bond Street in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex, Hackneyman and Job Master do hereby make publish and declare this to be my only last Will and Testament and I give and bequeath unto Thomas Nicholson and Thomas William Willett my two Executors hereinafter named the sum of twenty five pounds each as a small token for the trouble they may have in the execution of the trusts created by this my Will I give and bequeath one annuity or clear yearly sum of twenty pounds to my brother William Rimell for and during the term of his natural life to be paid and payable to him by two equal half yearly payments. The first payment thereof to begin and be made to him on that day six months that shall next happen after my decease together with a proportional part of such annuity from the last half yearly day of payment thereof up to the day of his decease and I do hereby charge and make chargeable the said yearly annuity of twenty pounds upon and to be issuing and payable out of all my leasehold property leased to me by the Right Honorable William Fitzhardinge Lord Segrave called the Bedford Yard and in South Benton Mews in the said parish of Saint George Hanover Square and County of Middlesex aforesaid.I give and bequeath all my leasehold premises No. 56 New Bond Street in the said county of Middlesex and also the dwellinghouse and furniture therein and theron of every description and also the stables and premises whereon the business of a Hackneyman and Job Master is now carried on by me and all my other my leasehold premises whatsoever and wheresoever (except my said leasehold premises being the Bedford Yard and in Benton Mews aforesaid and hereinafter given to my son Frederick Rimell and also all my stock in trade, bonds, book and other debts, bills, notes and other securities for money whatsoever that may be due and owing or belonging to me at the time of my decease and all other my Personal Estate and effects whatsoever or wheresoever not herinbefore or hereinafter specifically disposed of unto my said Executors hereinafter named or unto the survivor of them his executors administrators and assigns upon trust that they or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall make sale of a sufficient part of the same respectively or otherwise get in, collect and receive all such and so much of my said estate and effects as shall be necessary and sufficient for the payment, satisfaction and discharge of all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and after full payment of the same respectively and every part thereof and a full release and indemnity given or secured to the satisfaction of my said trustees and executors or the survivor of them his executors or administrators then hereby direct that they or he shall and will as soon as conveniently may be thereafter to pay assign or deliver unto my son John Rimell absolutely and without further control all the aforesaid leasehold premises in New Bond Street and the dwellinghouse and furniture therein or thereon and the business there carried on and all other my leasehold property (except those in the Bedford Yard and Benton Mews aforesaid) and also all my stock in trade, bonds, book and other debts, bills, notes and securities and all other my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever subject nevertheless to the aforesaid legacy of twenty pounds and I hereby give and bequeath all my leasehold premises called the Bedford Yard and the two leasehold houses and premises in South Benton Mews aforesaid leased and demised to me by the said William Fitzhardinge Lord Segrave unto my said Executors herinafter named their executors administrators and assigns upon trust that they or the survivor of them shall and do receive the rents, issues and profits thereof and of every part thereof and thereout. From time to time to pay and discharge the ground rent or rents in respect thereof and also the insurance from fire and any other outgoings in respect of the same and also to pay and apply a sufficient sum for the support, maintenance and education of my youngest son Frederick Rimell until he shall arrive at and attain the age of twenty one years and upon this further trust to pay out and invest from time to time all the rest residue and remainder and all accumulations and savings of such rents, issues and profits in their own or his own names or name in some or one of the Parliamentary Stocks or funds of Great Britain or at interest in or upon Government or real or long leasehold securities in England or Wales if he my said son Frederick Rimell shall not have attained the age of twenty one years at the time of my decease to the intent that the same may accumulate and go along with the same share and to alter, vary and transpose such stocks, funds or securities or any of them for or into other stocks funds or securities of the same or the like nature when and as my said trustees or trustee shall think proper provided always and it is my will and desire that my said trustees or trustee do and shall pay, apply and dispose of all or any part of the rents issues and profits of the said leasehold premises that in their or his direction they or he may think reasonable if he my said son shall be under the age of twenty one years at the time of my decease in and for his maintenance, education and advancement in the world and placing him in any profession trade or business until he my said son Frederick shall have arrived at and attained that age and if such rents issues and profits shall be insufficient for the purposes aforesaid I hereby authorise and empower my said trustees and trustee to raise in any way that they or he may think proper any sum or sums of money that they or he may think fit and when and as soon as my said son Frederick shall arrive at and attain the age of twenty one years then upon trust to pay assign and transfer the aforesaid premises and every part thereof to him the said Frederick Rimell, his executors, administrators and assigns and also to pay assign and transfer all accumulations or savings as aforesaid if any but the bequest hereby made is subject and liable to the payment of the said annuity or yearly sum of twenty pounds as aforesaid and also subject and liable to any other specific charge lieu or encumbrance there may be upon the said leasehold premises called the Bedford Yard and in South Benton Mews (provided always that if my said son Frederick Rimell shall happen to die before he arrives at and attains the said age of twenty one years then I give and bequeath the said leasehold premises and every part thereof to my son John Rimell his executors, administrators and assigns absolutely but subject only as aforesaid) and I do hereby declare it to be my will if there shall be only one of my said sons living at the time of my decease who shall have attained or shall afterwards live to attain the age of twenty one years then I give and bequeath the whole of my aforesaid property my effects and things and every part thereof to such one Son only his executors administrators and assigns and do hereby appoint Thomas Nicholson of Berkeley Square in the said County of Middlesex, Surgeon and Thomas William Willett of the Bedford Yard Benton Mews in the parish of St George Hanover Square in the said County of Middlesex my chief Executors and trustees of this my Will provided always and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that my trustees or trustee for the time being may give such time and take such securities or composition for any debt or debts owing to me at my decease or which may afterwards become due to my estate as they or he shall think proper and that the receipt or receipts in writing of the said trustees or trustee for the time being for any sum or sums of money payable to them or him under or by virtue of this my will shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge or sufficient and effectual discharges for the same respectively or so much thereof respectively as in such receipt or receipts respectively shall be expressed or acknowledged to be received and that the person or persons to whom the same shall be given his, her, their or theirs executors, administrators or assigns shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for the loss, misapplication or nonapplication or be in anywise obliged or concerned to see to the application of the money therein expressed or acknowledged to be received and I do hereby declare that if the trustees hereinbefore named and appointed or any or either of them or any trustee or trustees to be appointed as hereinafter is intentioned shall die or desire to be discharged from or decline or become incapable to act in the execution of the trusts contained in this my will or any of them then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being or the executors or administrators of the last surviving or continuing trustee by any writing or writings under their or his hands and seals or hand and seal to nominate and appoint any proper person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the stead or place of the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or declining or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and that when and so often as any new trustee or trustees shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the said trust premises shall be with all convenient speed paid, assigned and transferred in such manner and so as that the same may be legally and effectually vested in the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees if any jointly with such new or other trustee or trustees and if there shall be no continuing trustee then in such new trustees or trustee only upon the same trusts as are by this my will declared or expressed of and concerning the same or such of them as shall be then existing undetermined or capable of taking effect. And I do declare that every such new trustee shall and may in all things act and assist in the execution of the several trusts herein contained as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if he or they had been originally appointed by this my Will or as the trustee or trustees in or to whose place he or they shall succeed might or could have done if living and continuing to act in the execution of the said trusts and thereby declare my will to be that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said trustees so appointed and to be appointed to retain out of all or any of the monies which by virtue of this my Will or any trust herein declared shall come to their or any of their hands to deduct, retain and reimburse themselves all such costs, charges and expenses as they respectively shall or may sustain, expend or be in any way put unto in or about the execution of this my will and also that my said trustees and executors and the survivor his executors and administrators shall be severally and respectively charged and chargeable only for and with his own respective payments, acts and wilful defaults and not otherwise and shall not be charged or chargeable with or for any sum or sums of money other than such as shall actually and respectively come to his and their hands by virtue of this my Will with or for any loss or damage which may happen by or through any Banker, Broker or Agent or otherwise in or about the execution of all or any of the trusts hereby in them reposed without his or their respective wilful default. In witness whereof I the said Henry Rimell have to this my last will and Testament contained in six sheets of paper set my hand and seal in manner following that is to say to the first five sheets I have subscribed my name and to this sixth and last sheet thereof I have subscribed my name and affixed my seal this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one-------Henry Rimell ----Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Henry Rimell the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us being present at the same time who at his request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses------W Orlebar St George Street, Hanover Square------William Lambton, Surgeon, Paradise Row, Rotherhithe, Surrey.
Twenty third of Augt 1841
In addition to the Will in existence made by me I leave and bequeath to Mrs Roberta Whither the annual sum of twenty five pounds to be paid to the said Mrs Roberta Whither during her lifetime from the Estate called Bedford Yard in Benton St, Bond Street, London which estate is left to my son Frederick Rimell and this incumbrance of twenty five pounds annually I leave and bequeath to Mrs Roberta Whither in proff whereof I sign my name this the twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty one----------Henry Rimell Witnesses ---Alexander Murray----- Maria Luff, White Hart, Slough, Buckinghamshire.
In the goods of Henry Rimell deceased.
On the 21st day of February 1844
On which day appeared personally Alexander Murray of No.153 Oxford Street in the County of Middlesex Esquire and made oath that he is one of the subscribed witnesses to the codicil to the last will and testament of Henry Rimell late of New Bond Street in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex Hackneyman and Job Master deceased the said codicil bearing date the twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty one are now hereunto annexed and he further made oath that on the twenty third day of August aforesaid the said Testator duly executed his said codicil by signing his name at the foot or end thereof in the presence of this deponent and of Maria Luff, Widow the other subscribed witness thereto both of whom were present at the same time and this deponent and the said Maria Luff thereupon attested and subscribed the said codicil in the presence of the said Testator ----------Alexander Murray-----Same day the said Alexander Murray was duly sworn to the truth of this Affidavit Before me---John Daubeny……………….
Proved at London with a codicil 27th February 1844 before the Worshipful John Daubeny, Doctor at laws and Surrogate by the oath of Thomas Nicolson (in the will written Nicholson) one of the Executors to whom Administration was granted having been first sworn duly to Administer power reserved of making the life Grant to Thomas William Willett the other Executor when he shall apply for the same.
Will from PROB 11/1994 – Volume 4 – Q151-200