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OR538
Title
Post-nuptial settlement ( covenant to levy a fine):
(i) Richard Orlebar of Hinwick esquire and wife Diana. (daughter of Sir Samuel Astry and wife Elizabeth.)
(ii) John Orlebar of the Middle Temple esquire.
William Aspin of “Fensham”, Bedfordshire, esquire.
(iii) William Edwards and Henry Fane of Bristol, gentlemen.
Date free text
1707; 28 January 1708/9
Production date
From: 1707 To: 1709
Scope and Content
-- 1/3rd of the manor and hundred of Henbury;
the manors or lordships of Westerleigh, Aust, Iron Acton and Acton Ilger;
the messuages and farms of Dame Elizabeth in Henbury, Westbury super Tryme,Ridland, Redwick, Northwick, Stowick, Crooks Marsh,Salt Marsh, Allveston alias Alleston, Shirehampton, Olveston alias Olston, Tockington and Fiddington.
[Recites :-
20, 21 May 1707. Marriage settlement of Dame Elizabeth Astry and Simon Harcourt.
(i) Dame Elizabeth Astry.
(ii) Simon Harcourt of Pendley esquire.
(iii) Sir Simon Harcourt knight, William Banastre, sergeant-at-law, Edward Wymington of the Middle Temple, John Scrope esquire, a Baron of the Eschequer for Scotland, Thomas Edwards senior of Bristol esquire, and junior of the Middle Temple.
15 December 1708. Deed poll, Elizabeth Astry:
Devises estates to daughters Elizabeth (wife of Sir John Smith), Diana and Arabella as tenants-in-common.
Witnesses. Henry Neale, Joseph Edwards, Berkeley Seymour, Elizabeth Orlebar, Phillip Bradford, Bohun Witherston. 28 January 1708/9.
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