• Reference
    WG1279
  • Title
    Assignment of mortgage, £2000: (i) Ann Tracey of Coscombe, Gloucestershire, widow of John of Stanway, Gloucestershire, who was son of Katherine Tracy, late wife of Ferdinando Tracey, esquire, and daughter of Sir Anthony Kecke; Walter Edwards of Lincolns Inn, esquire (executor of Mary Vernon, daughter of Anthony Kecke and administrator of late wife Mary, grand-daughter of Anthony Kecke); Francis Baber of Covent Garden, esquire (grandson of Anthony Kecke); Rev Robert Thistlethwaite, Warden of Wadham; Thomas Packridge of [-], Southampton, gentleman, trustee of Richard Whithed, great nephew of Anthony Kecke; Winifred Nicoll of Hatton Gardens, daughter of Anthony Kecke; Antonina Kecke of the Vine, Southampton, daughter of Anthony Kecke (ii) Antony Chute of the Vine, esquire (son of Edward Chute, executor of Anthony Kecke (iii) Daniel Brattell of Enfield, Middlesex, and wife Susanna (iv) Thomas Vernon of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (v) William Gery of Bushmead, esquire (vi) Mary Welby of Welbourn, Lincolnshire, widow (vii) Francis Fane of Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, esquire, Thomas Willes of Leadenham, Lincolnshire, William Selby senior of South Rawsby, Lincolnshire, Rev Richard Welby of Sepperton, Lincolnshire. The Manor of Bushmead: in trust to attend inheritance. [Recites several deeds, with details] Witnesses: Katherine Tracy, Richard Field, William Spakman, John Stanwix, Jacob Davison, W. Welby, Leonard Wye, Ann Chute, James Esgcumbe, Nathaniel Bardardiston, Thomas Roouch. 17 applied seals (conventional)
  • Date free text
    8 Jul 1738
  • Production date
    From: 1738 To: 1738
  • Scope and Content
    Recites several deeds: (1) Lease, 20 June 1583, William Gery senior of Over, Cambridgeshire, to William Gery junior: Bushmead estate, for 300 years at 40 shillings per annum fee farm rent of £20 5s, yearly rent of £80 to heirs of Anthony Cockett, esquire. (2) Lease vested in Richard March of London, merchant. (3) Assignment of lease, 2 August 1679, to Sir Anthony Kecke, Francis Naylor and Richard Webster, £5300. [Further deeds to secure title of Sir Anthony Kecke] (4) Assignment of mortgage to Thomas Vernon, 1 June 1688. (5) Will of Sir Anthony Kecke, 27 July 1695, mortgages to be settled on son for life, remainder to nine daughters. (6) Decree of Chancery, 27 February 1731, dividing personal estate of Sir Anthony Kecke into 7 parts (4 since dead): £2000 still owing on mortgage. (7) Marriage settlement, 13 April last, on marriage of William Gery and Eleanor Welby, including agreement that mortgage be redeemed out of marriage portion of Eleanor.
  • Level of description
    item