• Reference
    OR1446
  • Title
    (draft) Marriage Settlement (release only) (i) Richard Orlebar, Hinwick, gentleman Cooper Orlebar, only son and heir (ii) John Hippesley, Lambouren, Berkshire, esquire John Whitfield, Middle Temple, esquire (iii) Elizabeth Powney, Braywick, Berkshire spinster.
  • Date free text
    21 May 1687.
  • Production date
    From: 1687 To: 1687
  • Scope and Content
    £2000 portion. (£1000 each to Richard and Cooper Orlebar) -- as OR192 also:- -- Petits close (1 acre) adjoining Church close -- 5½ acres in common fields of Hinwick purchased Richard Orlebar of Richard Fisher and wife Elizabeth -- messuage with 2 roods adjoining, and 3 acres in Wymington fields, late in the occupation of John Pack. -- cottage in the occupation late widow Lynn Wymington -- cottage and pightle (3 roods) Wymington late in the occupation of John Chapman, now John Church. -- Exmores alias Exmoor close, late divided into several closes. -- Exmores meadow close (102 acres 3 roods 12 perches) in Wymington late in the occupation of John Park, Thomas Swift, William Wyles, James Carter, Joseph Grey, John Quenby, William Makeham, John Purney -- Great Debden alias Debdalls close (36 acres 2 roods) in the occupation, late William Lavender, now John Church -- Whitnall Ditches (70 acres) in the occupation late William Church, now John Church. -- messuage and close called Middle Beast pasture, alias Great Ground (86 acres) -- Little close adjoining (5½ acres) -- 17 acres meadow in the occupation late Philip Willoughby esquire, then ( ) Poulter, now Robert Steere, in Strixton, Woolaston and Boziatt, Northamptonshire. (i) to (ii) in trust. to the use of:- Richard Orlebar for life, then life of wife Elizabeth, then to Cooper Orlebar and heirs -- all lands and tenements in Podington and Hinwick except those in the occupation of Richard Fisher, John Whitwick, Robert Abbott, John Brayes, Cockhill close, Petits close, and the 5½ acres purchased from Richard Fisher. Richard Orlebar for life, then to Cooper Orlebar and heirs -- remaining lands in Podington and Hinwick, with reversion of those above. Cooper Orlebar for life, then to Elizabeth Powney for life, then to heirs male of Cooper Orlebar and Elizaberth Powney -- all lands in Wymington,Wollaston, Bozeat. these lands may also be demised etc. to provide marriage portions for the daughters. Recited in OR197/8
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