Title
Release
Parties:
(i) Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly [Cornwall], esquire
(ii) Thomas Somers Cocks of Charing Cross [Middlesex], esquire; William Stuart of Tempsford, esquire, lieutenant colonel in the Bedfordshire Militia; Charles Edward Rashleigh of Lincolns Inn Fields [Middlesex], esquire; George Burvill Rashleigh of Horton Kirby [Kent], esquire;
(iii) Reginald Thistlethwayte Cocks of Charing Cross; Henrietta Pole Cocks;
(iv) William Stuart; Thomas Somers Cocks; Charles Lygon Cocks of Treverbyn Vean, Liskeard [Cornwall], lieutenant in Her Majesty's army;
(v) Rev.Oliver Matthew Ridley of Gobham Vicarage, Gravesend [Kent];
(vi) William Stuart; Hon.William Stuart Knox of Dungannon Park, Tyrone [Ireland], colonel; Henry Richard Farrer of Green Hammerton Hall [Yorkshire], esquire; William James Farrer of Lincolns Inn [Middlesex], esquire;
(vii) William Stuart;
(viii) William Stuart and William James Farrer
Reciting:
(A) marriage settlement of 29 Jul 1843 between (1) Jonathan Rashleigh; (2) Mary Pole Stuart, spinster; (3) William Rashleigh, esquire; (4) William Stuart senior, esquire; (5) Granville John Penn, esquire; Thomas Somers Cocks; William Rashleigh junior, esquire; Rev.Samuel Waldegrave; in which (4) paid the trustees 7,000 during the life or within six months of the death of (4) with interest at 4% per annum from the day of death;
(B) death of Mary Pole Rashleigh in 1852;
(C) death of Granville John Penn on 29 Mar 1867; death of William Rashleigh junior on 30 Oct 1871; death of Samuel Waldegrave, then Bishop of Carlisle, on 1 Oct 1869;
(D) death of William Stuart senior on 7 Jul 1874;
(E) 7,681/16/8 in 3% reduced bank annuities were transferred by (viii) into names of (ii) in Jan 1875;
(F) [endorsed on (A)] appointment of William Stuart, Charles Edward rashleigh and George Burvill Rashleigh as trustees on 20 jan 1875 in place of Granville John Penn, William Rashleigh junior and Samuel Waldegrave
(G) marriage settlement of 1 Sep 1845 between (1) Reginald Thistlethwayte Cocks; (2) Henrietta Pole Stuart, spinster; (3) William Stuart senior; (4) Thomas Somers Cocks, esquire; (5) Dame Maria Hargood, widow; (6) henry Stuart, esquire; William Stuart; Thomas Somers Cocks; Charles Lygon Cocks in which (3) were tp pay trustees during the life or within 6 months of the death 7,000 with interest at 4% from the day of death
(H) death of Henry Stuart on 26 Oft 1854
(I) marriage settlement of 2 Aug 1852 between (1) Oliver Matthew Ridley; (2) Louisa Pole Stuart, spinster; (3) William Stuart senior; (4) William Stuart, William Stuart Knox; Henry Richard Farrer; William James Farrer
(J) death of Louisa Pole Ridley on 7 Jan 1858
(K) agreement of 9 May 1872 between (1) William Stuart, senior and (2) William Stuart, junior and William James Farrer; in which 56,296/1/3 in reduced 3% bank annuities were transferred during the life of (1); (2) to levy out of the per annum income from the foregoing the sum of 1,000 per annum and to invest the rest; after the death of (1) to levy from the original and accumulated trust funds necessary to satisfy (1)'s covenants in his daughter's marriage settlements
(L) will of William Stuart, senior, of 4 Sep 1854, leaving his personal estate to his executor, William Stuart, junior [probate granted 26 Sep 1874]
(M) transfer on 19 jan 1875 by William Stuart and William James farrer of 7,681/16/8 in reduced 3% bank annuities, being equivalent at current price stock [5 Oct 1874] to 6,961/13/3, being the balance of 7,000 after deducting 38/6/9 for duty in the names of (ii) and payment of 81/18/3, being interest at 4% from 5 Oct 1875 less accruing dividend on stock, transferred to (i)
(N) transfer by William Stuart and William James Farrer of 7,678/11/7 in reduced 3% bank annuities, being equivalent to 7,958/14/3, being balance of 7,000 after deducting 41/5/9 for duty in names of (iv) and payment of 81/17/8 being interest at 4% less accruing dividends transferred to (iii)
(O) Transfer by William Stuart and William James Farrer of 7,685/7/6 in 3% reduced bank annuities, being equivalent to 6,964/17/5, being the balance of 7,000 after deducting 35/2/7 duty in names of (vi), though W.S.Knox "inadvertantly omitted" and payment of 81/19/2 being interest at 4% per annum less accruing dividends transferred to (v)
(P) Sale by William Stuart and William James Farrer of 266/8/- reduced 3% bank annuities to pay interest and 27/2/5 in annuities; proceeds to defray brokerage for sales and transfers (except in sale of 3128/3/- reduced 3% bank annuities and transfer hereafter recited)
(Q) sales (including 128/3/-) and transfers totalling 23,467/9/2 which, when deducted from 56,296/1/3, left 32,828/12/1 which was transferred in the name of William Stuart
(R) William Stuart and William James Farrer, during the life of William Stuart senior, invested the residue of dividends from 56,296/1/3 in purchase of consolidated bank annuities and accumulated per annum income of accumulated fund in compound interest by investing in same annuities, totalling 1,461/6/5 at the death of William Stuart senior
(S) transfer by (viii) of 31,462/6/5 in the name of William Stuart
(T) previous agreement that (i) and (ii) as trustees for (A), (iii) and (iv) as trustees for (G) and (v) and (vi) as trustees for (I) and William Stuart in his own right should execute for (viii)
Operative Part:
- (i)-(iii), Charles Lygon Cocks, (v), William Stuart Knox, Henry Richard Farrer and William James Farrer released (viii) from 56,296/1/3