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Abstract of Title
1) Settlement
1) Fred Peter Delme Radcliffe
2) Fred Peter Russell Delme Radcliffe
(eldest son of 1)
3) Hen Peter Delme
Wm Sloane Stanley
4) Rev Thos Garnier
5) H P Delme
Jn Waddington
recites by deed of settlement of 4 Mar 1825
settlement entailed on 1) for life and then to
use of first and others in entail male
1) and 2) appoint that property incl Manor House
Recites Deed of Disentailing Assurance
1) F P Delme Radcliffe
2) F P R Delme Radcliffe
3) Wm Hawkins
8 Mar 1854
Property incl Manor House or Capital Messuage
called the Priory with the Park and all other
capital and other messuages, farms, lands, etc,
comprised in Settlement of 4 March 1825
to such uses as F P & F P R Delme Radcliffe should
appoint
to use of F P Delme Radcliffe for life
remainder to use of F P R Delme Radcliffe for life
remainder to like uses in favour of Seymour Walter
Delme Radcliffe and his issue
remainder to like uses of Herbert Delme Radcliffe
and his issue
remainder to like uses of Francis Augustus Delme
Radcliffe
remainder to like uses in favour of Arthur Hen
Delme Radcliffe
13 Mar 1854
2) Revocation of Trusts and Creation of new ones
1) Fred Peter Delme Radcliffe of the Priory,
Hitchin, Esq
Seymour Walter Delme Radcliffe of the same
2) Henry Peter Delme of Cams Hall, Fareham, Hants,
Esq
Jn Thos Waddington of Twyford, Hants
3) George Grove Waddington of Langrish House,
Petersfield, Esq
Ric Rogers of Snare Hill, Thetford, Norfolk,
Esq
4) Jn Waddington of Langrish House
G G Waddington (again)
Henry Grimston Hale of Ippollitts, Herts, Esq
Hon Robt Grimston of Grosvenor Square,
Barrister at Law
5) H P Delme
Jn Waddington
6) The Very Reverend Thomas Garnier of Bishopstoke,
Hants, Dean of Winchester
Jn Waddington
Wm Sloane Stanley of Poultons, near Romsey, Hants
Recites Deed of Appointment
1) F P Delme Radcliffe
2) Emma Delme Radcliffe
3) Jn Thos Waddington
Jn Waddington
Yearly rent charge of 600 to use of 2) and her
assigns for life to be charged on Hitchin Estate if
she survived 1)
and term of 200 years was granted to Trustees:-
H P Delme, C Delme Radcliffe, J T Waddington,
Jn Waddington and certain premises in Shillington
and Holwell were charged with the sum of 10,000
F P R Delme Radcliffe to have rentcharge of 250
for joint lives of himself and F P Delme Radcliffe
In event of failure of issue to Seymour Walter
Delme Radcliffe
3 March 1832
recites certain part of settled estates were charged
with payments of 700 and 500 rentcharges in favour
of Gertrude Florinda Tollemache (d Sept 1864)
recites death of F P R Delme Radcliffe on 20 Sept 1854,
a bachelor
Then living 4 sons, S W Delme Radcliffe, Hubert
Delme Radcliffe, Francis Augustus Delme Radcliffe
and Arthur Henry Delme Radcliffe and 3 daus
Revokes trusts of Deed
13 Mar 1854
To uses as F P Delme Radcliffe and S W Delme Radcliffe
should appt (pencil note latter died 14 Nov 1860
without issue) to use of H P Delme and Jn Waddington
for 99 years upon trusts
to use of F P Delme Radcliffe for life then to Emma
to recieve rent charge of 400 for life (she died
25 Jan 1880) to use of G G Waddington and Ric Rogers
for 100 years on trusts
to use of S W Delme Radcliffe for life Reversion to
issue
Then to use of Emma for widowhood, to use of J Waddington,
G G Waddington, H G Hale and R Grimston during life
of Hubert Delme Radcliffe (d 13 Dec 1878)
19 Sep 1859
3) Conveyance to new Trustees
1) H P Delme (old Trustee)
2) Albert Fred Hurt of Alderwasley Park,
Derbyshire, Esq
Rev Jn Pardoe of Graveley Rectory, near
Stevenage, Herts (new Trustees)
recites death of Jn Waddington on 17 May 1880
deed dated 7 Apr 1881
4) Death of Jn Pardoe 23 April 1892
5) Death of Arthur Hen Delme Radcliffe, leaving
Ralph Hubert John Delme Radcliffe, his eldest son
11 Aug 1896
6) Death of A F Hurt
9 March 1907
7) Disentailing Deed
1) Ralph Hubert Jn Delme Radcliffe of
4 Stanhope Gardens, Middlesex
(beneficiary)
2) Francis Augustus Delme Radcliffe of Hitchin
Priory, Hitchin, Herts, Esq
(Protector of the settlement of 19 Sept 1851)
3) Edw Barber Lindsell of Hitchin, Solicitor
(Trustee)
Freehold and copyhold estates in Herts and Beds
12 Feb 1907
8) Deed of Settlement
1) F A Delme Radcliffe
2) R H J Delme Radcliffe
3) Edw Fred Talbot Ponsonby of Langrish House,
Petersfield, Hants, (Capt in RHA)
Francis Cecil Albert Hurt of Alderwasley,
near Matlock, Derbys, Esq
Arthur Henry Delme Radcliffe of St Neots
Eversley, near Winchfield, Hants
(Trustees for the purposes of the Settled
Lands Act 1882 - 1890)
Estates in Herts and elsewhere to uses as 1) and 2)
should by deed appt
13 Feb 1907
9) Death of F A Delme Radcliffe
22 Dec 1916
Abstract prepared by Hawkins & Co of Hitchin
Marked 'Lot 19'