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Settlement: on the marriage of Oliver, Earl of Bolingbroke, with Lady Frances Cavendishe: £7,000

1654

From: 1654 To: 1654

(i) Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Bolingbroke, widow of Oliver, Earl; Oliver, Earl of Bolingbroke; (ii) Charles, Viscount Mansfield, son & heir apparent of William Earl of Newcastle; Henry Cavendish, esq., 2nd son of said Earl; Lady Frances Cavendish, one of the daughters of said Earl; Robert, Viscount Mandevile, son & heir apparent of Edward, Earl of Manchester; Oliver St. John of Woodford, Northants., esq. (iii) Robert Butler of Southwell, Notts, gent., John Beecher of Melchbourne, gent. -- the manors of Stanford & Stanford Berry (in Southill) & Yelden, with messuages, lands (no details) in Southill, Shefford, Campton, Meppershall & Yelden; detailed trusts; witnesses: Beauchamp St. John, (H?) Stanley, John Halsey, Ralph Arderne, William Clayton; seals; arml.

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St John, Oliver, 1st Earl Bolingbroke,
St John, Oliver, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke,
St.John, Elizabeth (Countess Bolingbroke),
Cavendish, Charles,
Cavendish, William (1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne),
Cavendish, Charles (Viscount Mansfield),
Cavendish, Henry (2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne),
Cavendish, Frances (Lady),
Montagu, Edward [2nd Earl of Manchester],
Montagu, Robert [Viscount Mandeville],
St.John, Oliver,
Butler, Robert,
Beecher, John,
St.John, Beauchamp,
Stanley, H.,
Arderne, Ralph,
Clayton, William

DEEDS, legal papers, marriage settlements, Yelden Manor, YELDEN, Woodford [Northamptonshire], Southwell, MELCHBOURNE, specific manors, SOUTHILL, Southill Manor, SHEFFORD, CAMPTON, MEPPERSHALL