The will of Jacob gentleman of Castle Combe is very long and full of convoluted legal language, to the point of becoming boring and difficult to understand so it is considered pointless to present it here.The salient facts derived from it are described below.

Jacob was the eldest son of Edward1725 and Ann Henly, born 1756 and died 1816, the same year in which his mother died at Malmesbury. He married Sarah Bryant, his cousin, at Bremhill in 1786. The issue from this marriage were:
• Sarah 1787 who married Richard Grimes, described by Jacob in his will as “dissenting minister of ? in the County of York”. He was an executor and trustee in Jacobs will.
• Jacob 1788 baptised at East Tytherton. He married Elizabeth Hewitt.
• Uriah 1790 auctioneer of Newbury, who apparently did not marry. He died 1842.
• Edward 1792. His very brief will dated shortly before he died in 1857 described him as professor of music at Maidenhead, Berks. It gives no impression that he married. He was joint trustee with Richard Grimes in Jacobs will where he was described as “of Mirfield in the County of York”
• Isaac 6th Mar 1794. There is some evidence that he had a twin sister who did not survive. Isaac married Elizabeth Gay of Littleton Drew in 1815 and settled at Whelford near the boundary of Wilts and Glos. He died 1858.

On 23rd Oct 1797 Jacob married Lucy Hill at Brinkworth. The issue from this marriage were:
• Joseph 1798. He became an attorney at law at Newbury, mentioned in his half-brother Edward’s will of 1857.
• Mary Ann 1800, who married Uriah Evenis, her cousin on the Henly side.
• Eliza 1807.
• David 1810. He was a schoolmaster at Bristol and didn’t marry, believed to have died 1885.
• Maria 1813-1885. She was a school mistress of Bristol and didn’t marry. 
• Lucy 1814-1882. She didn’t marry but acted as housekeeper for David and Maria.

The inter-relationships within the Vines, Henly, Bryant and Evensis families are shown graphically here.
 
 

Jacobs will first bequeaths some money and his residence to his wife Lucy.
I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Lucy Vines the sum of Fifty pounds to be paid her within one month of my decease. Also I give and bequeath unto my said wife the use and enjoyment for and during her natural life of the dwelling house in which I now reside with the large garden and flower garden in front of the said house and the building opposite the brew house door used as a coal house and for other household purposes ....which premises I now hold by Copy of Court Roll of the Manor of Castle Combe.
He nominated as executors and trustees Richard Grimes, husband of his eldest daughter Sarah, his son Edward from the first marriage, and his son Joseph eldest of his second family, with due attention to the fact that at that time he was still under age. He names his estates. (A newspaper obituary for his son David1810 in the 1880s mentions that Jacob had been a very large land holder, exceeding 1000 acres.)
I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law the Reverend Richard Grimes of Gomersal in the county of  York, dissenting minister and my son Edward Vines of Mirfield in the said county of York and Joseph Vines of Castle Combe aforesaid all those eleven undermentioned parts or shares and all other my parts or shares of and in and all those my leasehold estates situate in the parish of Dunkerton in the county of Somerset which I hold for certain heirs? and also all and every my leasehold estates situate in the parish of Kempsford in the county of Gloucester which I also hold for certain heirs? to hold the same  respectively unto the said Richard Grimes Edward Vines Joseph Vines their executors admons and assigns subject to the rents? covenants and terms under which I hold the same for the remainder of  all the several and respective lands and estates which I shall have therein at the time of my decease, upon trust. 
...And as to for and concerning  all those my freehold estates situate in the several parishes of Kingston Saint Michael, Yatton Keynell, Leigh Delamare in the county of Wilts, and in the Parish of Dunkerton in the county of Somerset and all those my five? Copyhold estates held of the Lord of the Manor of  Castle Combe aforesaid subject to my said wife’s enjoyment for her life at the dwelling house aforesaid and also all that my leasehold estate situate in the parish of  Great Somerford in the said county of Wilts which I now hold for two ??? besides my own  and also all other my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever I give devise and bequeath the same unto the said Richard Grimes and Edward Vines 
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my said trustees Richard Grimes and Edward Vines ... will dispose thereof by public auction or private contract ... call in and ??? all such debts, sum or sums owing as shall be out or owing to me at the time of my death and amongst them the debts owed to me from my sons Jacob and Uriah and then do and shall set apart the sum of sixteen hundred pounds upon and for the trusts hereinafter mentioned and subject thereto do and shall divide the residue of the monies arising by ??? the sale or disposal and the monies so to be called in and received unto between and amongst all and every my children as well by my first as by my present wife in equal shares and proportions

Thus the estate was divided into eleven equal shares. The amount of 1600 pounds was to be invested and the interest used for the maintenance and education of the younger children while in their minority. The three youngest David, Maria and Lucy, being aged 6, 3 and 2, were not mentioned by name in the will.

Provision was made in the will for Joseph, the eldest son of the second marriage, then aged 18, to become a joint trustee when he reached the age of twenty one years.

A codicil directs that the property at Dunkerton Parish, Somerset, (about 4 miles SW of Bath) should not be immediately disposed of but the income from it should contribute towards a sum to be used by his wife Lucy, while she remained unmarried, for maintenance and bringing up of the children under 21 years of age and her own expenses. When the sum generated from rents reaches one thousand pounds the estate was then to be disposed of and the proceeds pooled with the residue from other sources.

The will was signed 25th May 1816. It was witnessed by Ann Sargent, John Sargent and Mathw. Morton. Probate was granted at London 18th July 1816 to Richard Grimes and Edward Vines.