Reference
OR489
Title
Assignment of a term of 300 years to attend the inheritance:
Date free text
20 March 1767/8.
Production date
From: 1767 To: 1768
Scope and Content
(i) Dame Anne Ryder, widow of Sir Dudley Ryder knight. Late Chief Justice of King’s Bench;
and son and heir Nathaniel Ryder;
(ii) Richard Orlebar of Hinwick, esquire;
(iii) Timothy Caswall of Sacomb Park, Hertfordshire, esquire.
(iv) Robert Bryant of Ilmister, Somerset, gentleman.
-- The manor house, messuages and lands, late of Sir Thomas Rolt in Somerset, commonly called the manor of Chilworthy, formerly the estate of Sir Humphrey Sydenham.
Recites:-
Sir Dudley Ryder purchased of Thomas Rolt, late of Sacomb Park, Hertfordshire, grandson of Sir Thomas Rolt, knight, manors and lands in the county of Lincoln, which by Act 21 George II (An Act for vesting several Estates of Thomas Rolt esquire in trustees to be sold ... to discharge encumbrances ... and for securing an equivalent for the benefit of his wife and infant son and for providing portions for his daughters), were vested in trustees. The Somerset premises, with others in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Norfolk “of much greater yearly value” were by said Act limited to the use of Caecilius Calvert (now deceased) and John Orlebar for 300 years;
Timothy Caswall married Mary Constantia, only surviving child and heir of Thomas Rolt senior, and sister and heir of Thomas Rolt junior.
Caecilius Calvert is now deceased, and Richard Orlebar has succeeded John Orlebar.
Witnesses. Mary Ryder, Michael Bateler, John Swale senior and junior, John Griffiths, servant to Timothy Caswall, James Tempest, clerk to Mr. Watson, Joseph Banks.
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