• Reference
    R6/1/2/2
  • Title
    Copy Marriage Settlemenof Charles Bruce and Anne Savile
  • Date free text
    5 Feb 1705 [1706]
  • Production date
    From: 1706 To: 1706
  • Scope and Content
    Parties: (1) Charles Bruce, commonly called Lord Bruce (son of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury); Robert Bruce, esquire (brother of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury); James Bruce, esquire (brother of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury); (2) Thomas, Earl of Thanet; William, Lord Dartmouth; (3) Gertrude, Marchioness Dowager of Halifax; Mary, Marchioness Dowager of Halifax; Daniel, Earl of Nottingham; Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth (surviving guardians of Anne Savile, appointed by late William, Marquis of Halifax her father); (4) Lady Anne Savile (eldest daughter of William, Marquis of Halifax and granddaughter and heir of Sir Samuel Grimston, late of Gorehambury [Hertfordshire], baronet, deceased; (5) Daniel Finch, esquire, commonly called Lord Finch (son of Daniel, earl of Nottingham); Heneage, Lord Guernsey; (6) Phillip Stanhope, esquire, commonly called Lord Stanhope (son of Phillip, Earl of Chesterfield); Edward Finch, clerk (brother of Earl of Nottingham); Henry Finch, Dean of York (brother of Earl of Nottingham); Heneage Finch, esquire (son of Lord Guernsey) Operative Part: - to secure a portion of 20,000 etc. (1) released (a)-(i) to (2) Property: (a) manors, woods etc. in Wiltshire; (b) manors etc. in Wiltshire and Berkshire; (c) castle, manors etc. in Yorkshire (d) Manors of Maulden Ragons, How End and Dame Ellins: (e) mansion house and Houghton Park, alias Dame Ellingsbury, with closes etc. called King's Mead, Carters, Thomlins, Bushy Close and Buryfield with wood called King's Wood alias Dame Ellingsbury Grove; (f) advowsan of Maulden church; (g) Wards Farm with tenements called Hitherbury Pasture, Osmonds Close, Kings Mead, Beales Farm, Stoughtons Farm, Inward Stonefield, Outward Stonefield, Hill Close, Seven Acre Close, Square Close, Tufted Close, Hallow Close, Hanging Close, Long Close, Berrystead Farm, Dudsons Grounds, Horsey Piece, Buryfield, Limbersey alias Limersey all bought from Nicholas Denton, esquire; Stanbridges Farm, bought from Daniel Williams; parcel of ground purchased from Thomas Page; 7 acres of land purchased from Samuel Rhodes, esquire; parcel of ground purchased from John Auger; Sadleirs Estate, Ampthill; (h) Manor of Ruxox alias Roxox; (i) messuage, fields and common rights in Flitwick purchased from Elizabeth Scarburgh
  • Level of description
    item