Reference
R6/42/1/23
Title
Attested copy Release by way of Marriage Settlement
Date free text
10 Oct 1786
Production date
From: 1786 To: 1791
Scope and Content
Attested copy Release by way of Marriage Settlement
Parties:
(i) John Costin of Bedford, merchant;
(ii) Ann Cooper of Saint Ives [Huntingdonshire], spinster;
(iii) Thomas Smith of Bedford, minister of the Gospel on the congregation dissenting from the Church of England; Jeremy Fish Palmer of Bedford, gentleman
Reciting:
- intended marriage between (i) and (ii)
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid 10/- to (i);
- (i) released (a) to (iii) in trust to provide a jointure for (ii) and to bar dower
Property:
(a) messuage in a yard in the High Street in Bedford, Saint Paul, in the occupation of John Palmer, maltster, alderman of Bedford at an annual rent of twelve guineas
Habendum:
- to (iii) to the use of (i) until the marriage, remainder to (i) for his life, remainder to (ii) for her life as a jointure in satisfaction of all dower and thirds she might otherwise have had on the estate of (i), remainder to the use of the heirs of (i) for ever
Witnesses:
- Thomas Furnivall;
- Thomas Kidman;
- Thomas Hutchinson;
- Thomas Whitfield
Examined as a true copy by Theed Pearse and Susanna Pearse 4 April 1791
Level of description
item