HN2/B3/24/30

Copy Deed of Disentailment

9 Mar 1860

From: 1816 To: 1860

Parties: (i) Mary Brooks of Flitwick House, widow; (ii) John Hatfield Brooks of Flitwick, esquire; (iii) George Henry Brooks of Doctors Commons [City of London], gentleman; (iv) Thomas William Dell Brooks of Flitwick, clerk; (v) John Green of Woburn, gentleman; Samuel Swaffield of Ampthill, esquire Reciting: - lease & release by way of marriage settlement of 17-18 Apr 1816 between (1) George Brooks and Ann, his wife; (2) John Thomas Brooks, only son of (1); (3) Alexander Hatfield and Mary Hatfield, spinster, a minor and his eldest daughter; (4) John Brooks and Henry Egerton; (5) John Brooks and John Madocks; John Thomas Brooks and Mary Hatfield being about to be married, the Manor of Flitwick was conveyed by (1) and (2) under power given by an indenture of 29 Jan 1816 to (4) in trust to use of John Thomas Brooks for life, then to (4) in trust to preserve contingent remainders but to permit him to take rents and profits; remainder to Mary Brooks for her life as jointure in bar of dower; then to (4) in trust for Mary Brooks to preserve contingent remainders to permit her to take rents and profits; remainder to their children equally as tenants in common; - death of John Thomas Brooks on 22 Dec 1858; - (ii)-(iv) were the surviving children of John Thomas and Mary Brooks and were all over 21; - John Thomas and Mary Brooks had one other child, a daughter, who predeceased John Thomas and died unmarried [Mary Ann Brooks]; - (ii)-(iv) wished to bar the estates tail in Flitwick Manor, limiting the estates to the uses in the will of John Thomas Brooks [see HN10/277/Brooks39]; - (i) became a party as protector of the settlement Operative Part: - to dock all estates tail of (ii)-(iv) as described in the 1816 marriage settlement (ii)-(iv) released (a)-(c) to (v) Property: (a) Manor of Flitwick with rights etc. and fee farm rents amounting to 11/6/5 payable out of land in Flitwick and Maulden; (b) Flitwick Manor House with paddocks, closes, lands, grounds, pastures, farm houses, homesteads, cottages, barns, tofts, orchards, gardens, sward lands, closes of pasture and pightles of ground in Flitwick totalling 46a 0r 37p; (c) several allotments in Flitwick totalling 275a 0r 36p described in the Inclosure Award of 1808 referred to in a release of 29 Jan 1816 between (1) John Kirton; (2) George Brooks and Ann, his wife; (3) John Thomas Brooks; (4) Edward Horne; (5) John Brooks and Henry Egerton Habendum: - to (v), the one third share of (ii) subject to charges made in his marriage settlement, to use of (v) for life of (i) discharged from all other estates tail but subject to uses of will of John Thomas Brooks Witnesses: - John Thomas Green of Woburn; - Charles P.Wynter of Flitwick, farm bailiff

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Brooks, Mary,
Hatfield, Mary,
Brooks, John Hatfield,
Brooks, George Henry,
Brooks, Thomas William Dell,
Green, John,
Brooks, George,
Brooks, Ann,
Hesse, Ann,
Fisher, Ann,
Brooks, John Thomas,
Hatfield, Alexander,
Egerton, Henry,
Madocks, John,
Brooks, Mary Ann,
Kirton, John,
Horne, Edward,
Green, John Thomas,
Wynter, Charles Philip

widow, clergy names index, specific solicitors, John Green, George Henry Brooks, marriage settlements, Flitwick Manor, deaths, John Thomas will: Brooks, John Thomas Green, farm bailiff, FLITWICK, MAULDEN, Flitwick Manor [house]