HN2/B3/24/27

Letter from George Brooks to Mr Green.

27 Feb 1860

From: 1860 To: 1860

’The draft settlement I find I cannot conveniently send you, but I have today looked at the original in the custody of my wife’s grandfather John Pepys esq, 8 Lower Berkeley Street, & as I told you I find I have nothing to do with it as far as any settlement on my part was concerned, it was all on my wife’s side. It is dated 1st July 1853, and made between her father Edmund Pepys of Upper Harley Street…of the 1st part, G H Brooks of D Commons of the 2nd part, Louisa Pepys (eldest daur of the sd E P) of the 3rd part & the sd E Pepys, Henry Bond Royds of Kensington Garden Terrance Esq & Augustus Howell Shepherd, then of Devonshire Place, but now of Chertsey, esq. (the trustees) of the 4th part. It receites how £10,000 afterwards endorsed by my wife’s grandfather to £11,000, be invested by her father in consols for wife for life, on her death one third to me for life, & remaining two thirds for our children equally, & the capital to be transferred to them on attaining 21 or marriage of daughters, & my third also to them on my death. If no children live to attain 21 then to my wife’s next of kin. Trustees may vary investments, & are to be indemnified from loss as usual. This is all that it contains, so perhaps you will be satisfied as to my power to execute the proposed deed. Perhaps, you will kindly drop me a line to say when the money is paid to my a/c at Childs.’

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Brooks, George Henry,
Green, John Thomas,
Pepys, Edmund,
Pepys, Louisa,
Royds, Henry Bond,
Shepherd, Augustus Howell