This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Fox of North Street, Aston, Oxfordshire, Farmer made this Twenty fourth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty eight as follows In the first place I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences to be paid out of my personal estate (except if any mortgage debt or debts due on deposit of deeds which debt or debts shall remain a charge on the premises charged therewith) I give all my personal estate to my Friend William Luckett of North Street aforesaid Farmer Upon trust to carry on my personal or any other farming business as long as the same can be carried on to advantage and  pay the profits thereof or the interest of the conversion of such personal estate into money in case of giving up the business to my wife Elizabeth during her natural life and after her decease Upon trust if not already converted into money to convert the same into money and pay Twenty pounds to my son Job Ten pounds to my grandson Alfred Coombes and divide the residue equally between my daughter Martha and my sons William Robert James and Job I  appoint the said William Luckett sole Executor of this my Will and declare that he shall not be answerable for any loss accident or damage which may happen to the said trust estate and premises In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Fox the Testator have hereunto set my hand the day and year first above written     Thomas Fox     Signed by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the joint presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses       R.H.Bullen, sol. Bampton, Oxon     Wm Plaster, his Clerk                 

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On the twenty sixth day of January 1861 the Will of Thomas Fox late of North Street Aston in the Parish of Bampton in the County of Oxford, Farmer, deceased, who died on the Twenty fourth day of October 1860 at Aston aforesaid, was proved in the District Registry attached to Her Majesty's Court of Probate at Oxford by the oath of William Luckett of North Street, Aston aforesaid, Farmer, the sole Executor therein named he having been first sworn duly to administer.

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