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SL1/309
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Settlement of the property of Miss Florence A. Maria Elliott in contemplation of her marriage with Richard Crampton Power, Esq. - Printed:
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1868, 1869
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From: 1868 To: 1869
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i) Florence Anne Maria Elliott, Goldington, spinster, an infant of 20 years ii) Richard Crampton Power, Kilfane, Kilkenny, Ireland, esquire iii) Elizabeth Browne James Herne Wade iv) James Herne Wade Thomas Barnard ( trustees) Robert O’Hara v) Elliott Kenworthy Brown, New College, Oxford, esquire Richard Bushe, Lincoln Place, Dublin, esquire reciting: SL1/253 : Issue of marriage of Robert Elliott and Anne Lucinda Elliott Harriett Lucinda Elliott (who only lived 4 days) Harriett Mary Lucinda Elliott [died 1 May 1858] Florence Anna Maria Elliott, now an infant of 20 years : £1056 16s Consolidated Bank Annuities and £1065 16s 10d cash held by guardians of Florence : Florence is entitled on 21st birthday to £306 16s 10d and £2052 7s 2d 3% Consols : Suit of Elliott v Browne :Approval of judge in Chancery of marriage settlement :Disentailing deed of property comprised in the 2 settlements, 21 May 1869 A) Florence A. Maria Elliott B) Thomas Wesley Turnley Now i) conveys to iv) - property in schedule for 99 years, in trust, for children etc. If no children, then to Colonel Wade and Mrs.Browne etc. trustees to retain £300 per annum during lives of i) and ii) and survivors of them, and apply it towards mortgage debt of £8000 copyhold and lease hold premises also assigned to trustees provision made in case ii) dies and i) re-marries i) has power to grant any pieces land in Clapham not exceeding 3 acres trustees to have power to raise £1200 for erection of farmhouse at Clapham upon land now in occupation of Thomas Grant - 3 sums in Consols and her guardians’ cash balance, to iv) for use of i) power to appoint new trustees 1st schedule Premises in settlement of 7 May 1842 In Goldington - Bury House or Goldington House etc. (12 acres 2 roods 7 perches) and close pasture (22 acres 33 perches) [ see SL1/310, nos 1 – 7 on plan] - closes (62 acres 2 roods 12 perches) [8 – 16, 42 – 44 on plan] - allotment under the enclosure [nos 2, 2a, 57, 61 on enclosure plan] (274 acres 1 rood 30 perches) - 8 cottages adjoining each other erected by Robert Elliott, senior, on N.side of Bedford – St.Neots Road lot 43 awarded for a recreation ground and including rent charge of £11 but not including hereditaments comprised in deed of 9 October 1846, subsequently conveyed to William Kenworthy Browne. Schedule gives details of lands to be conveyed. Excepted such hereditaments as have been taken by Bedford and Cambridge Railway Company (4 acres 1 rood 23 perches), conveyed to said Company by deed of 25 May 1865 Schedule Land alloted to Robert Elliott No.on map acres roods perches 17 122 2 4 fences to be made and maintained by him 88 29 0 30 against the road, S. and W. sides 89 2 0 2 90 - 1 25 against the road 91 19 2 26 against road and brook, and rent charge herein awarded 17a 5 2 6 S. and W. sides rent charge of £11 allotment no.43 (4 acres) for labouring poor total 179 1 13 Land in respect of which claims allowed and allotments made 189 acres 27 perches of open and commonable lands with 6 acres 3 roods 1 perch hereinafter mentioned conveyed to Robert Elliott by deed of 1 December 1847, and 3 cottages and common rights 6 acres 3 roods 1 perch in Castle Hill Meadow, part of last mentioned estate total 195 3 28 signatures i) and ii) witnesses Thomas Bolton, 2, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, solicitor John Frederick Honey, clerk to Messrs Lee and Bolton John B.Lee, solicitor John M.Turner (?), Rector of Buriton, Hampshire William A.Crawford, clerk, Rector of Shalden, Hampshire W.M.Beniston, St.Thomas, near Exeter, solicitor 20 May 1868 endorsed with: Re-conveyance i) Thomas Twining Wing Turner Arthur Macan ii)James Herne Wade, now of 5, York Crescent, Lower Norwood, Surrey, Lieutenant Colonel in H.M.Army Robert O’Hara, Irish Office, Westminster, esquire Charles Burton, Winchfield, Hampshire, esquire reciting Marriage settlement of 21 May 1869 A) Florence A. Maria Elliott, an infant B) Sir Richard Crampton Power, baronet, then Richard Crampton Power, esquire C) Elizabeth Browne James Herne Wade D) James Herne Wade Thomas Barnard, esquire Robert O’Hara E) Elliott Kenworthy Browne, esquire Richard Bushe, esquire approved by Vice Chancellor, Sir John Stuart A) with consent of B) conveyed to D) in trust - all property in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd schedules mentioned in said deed 2nd schedule contained property in within written indenture, and also hereditaments in Bolnhurst and Thurleigh, and subject to mortgage security of 2 December 1847 trust for 99 years – to take £300 per annum from profits towards discharge of principal sum of £8,000, during lives of A) and B) and survivor of them. To be invested at compound interest. Power to appoint new trustees : Indenture of 10 March 1874 endorsed on indenture of settlement 1) Sir Richard Crampton Power and Dame Florence A. Maria Power, his wife 2) James Herne Wade Thomas Barnard Robert O’Hara 3) Charles Burton Premise in indenture of settlement of 17 June 1844 In Goldington. Freehold - messuage at E.end of Goldington Green, with farmyard etc. and Cannon Close, erected by Robert Elliott, junior, near site of messuage and farm buildings pulled down by him (site – 1 acre 2 roods 25 perches) - closes (15 acres 2 roods 15 perches) - allotments under the enclosure (nos. on plan 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 33, 14) (56 acres 3 roods 27 perches) - 10 cottages adjoining each other erected by Robert Elliott, junior, on site of old cottage pulled down, and on Sward Close ,etc., on S. of Bedford – St.Neots road - Church Farm at Clapham (376 acres 1 rood 20 perches) and rent charge 2nd schedule Freehold estate of Robert Elliott, junior - farm at Goldington, (75 acres 3 roods 32 perches), in occupation of Ulysses Paine - lands at Goldington (122 acre 2 roods 11 perches after deducting 4 acres 1 rood 23 perches lately sold to the Bedford and Cambridge Railway Company), in occupation of John White - 4 acres at Goldington set out as place of recreation for inhabitants (4 acres) - rent charge of £11 issuing out of allotment [enclosure] no.48 - Greensbury Farm in Bolnhurst and Thurleigh (297 acres 17 perches) in occupation of William Green - farm at Green End, Great Barford,(56 acres 2 perches) in occupation of Samuel Martin - 6 cottages at Great Barford let at £21 per annum gross -land in South Field, Blunham (23 acres 2 roods 30 perches) in occupation of Samuel Martin - land etc. at Clapham (99 acres 3 roods 27 perches) in occupation of Thomas Grant - Grocer’s shop, candle warehouse etc., in High Street, Bedford, and buildings in Newnham Street, Bedford, in occupation of Thomas Clark - coach house, stable yard, etc. at Tooting, Surrey, in occupation of Henry Peale Bird, and land at Tooting mentioned in 3rd schedule under lease of 25 April 1866 - messuage, cottages, stabling etc. at Upper Tooting, Streatham, Surrey, in occupation of Samuel Holden, under lease of 21 June 1851 - warehouse at Wapping, Middlesex, in occupation of representatives of late John Charles Metcalfe, under lease of 24 March 1865 - “Reindeer”, 160, Old Gravel Lane, St.George’s in the East, Middlesex - ground and buildings in Jee’s Court, St.Marylebone, Middlesex, let to Stephen Down Rigby, for 60 years from 29 September 1834 at yearly rent of £26 5s 1st 5 premises subject to mortgage for £8000 of 2 December 1847 Copyhold - land in South Field, Blunham (1 rood 6 perches) N. and E. late William Pedley S. late Earl de Grey and now Countess Cowper W. turnpike road ( to which Florence A. Maria Elliott was admitted on 20 July 1863) - land in South Field, Blunham N. and E said William Pedley S.(part) late Earl de Grey W.(part) said William Pedley S.(other part) " " " W. turnpike road ( to which Florence A.Maria Elliott was admitted on 3 July 1856 and 10 July 1863) Leasehold - No 1, New Grafton Street, Middlesex, leased from City of London, for 61 years from Michaelmas 1865 at ground rent of £34 per annum renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £180 and subleased to Earl of Cork for 61 years from Midsummer 1865 at yearly rent of £84, renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £420 - No 2, New Grafton Street, Middlesex, leased from City of London, for 61 years from Michaelmas 1865 at ground rent of £15 15s per annum renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £73 and subleased to Lord Bury for 61 years from Midsummer 1865 at yearly rent of £36, renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £180 - No 3, New Grafton Street, Middlesex, leased from City of London, for 61 years from Michaelmas 1865 at ground rent of £32 per annum renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £155 and subleased to Viscountess Dungannon for 61 years from Midsummer 1865 at yearly rent of £73, renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £365 - No 4, New Grafton Street, Middlesex, leased from City of London, for 61 years from Michaelmas 1865 at ground rent of £29 15s per annum renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £143 and subleased to Honourable Henry Butler Johnstone and another for 61 years from Midsummer 1865 at yearly rent of £68, renewable every 14 years on payment of fine of £340 - rent charge of parish of River, Kent, leased for 21 years from Archbishop of Canterbury, from 26 June 1865, of £8 11s per annum ground rent and £30 payable to vicar - 54, Portland Place, Middlesex, leased from Portland Estate for 98¼ years from Michaelmas 1775 at ground rent of 1s per annum and subleased to Thomas and James Gibson for 98¼ years wanting 10 days, at yearly rent of £33 10s - 57, Portland Place (leased as above) subleased to John Westcott for 98¼ years minus 10 days, at £30 per annum - 25, High Street, Wapping, Middlesex, leased from George Byng, esquire, from 21 September 1795 for 98 years at ground rent of £30 per annum and subleased to Edmund Edward Hinckley for 21 years from 25 March 1850 at yearly rent of £104 7s 6d - 15, 16, 17, Golden Lane, St.Giles without Cripplegate, London, and 20 tenements in Crown Court adjoining held under lease dated 24 March 1801 for 99 years from Christmas 1800 at ground rent of £100 per annum and sublet to various tenants 3rd schedule Estate purchased since death of Robert Elliott, junior - small piece land at Tooting, Surrey, adjoining no 11, in 1st part of 2nd schedule and now leased therewith - piece land in Goldington (7 acres 3 roods 35 perches) bounded [see plan SL1/] ? Florence A. Maria Elliott ? road to Renhold ? Renhold brook conveyed by deed of 24 October 1857 [SL1/257] to use of Harriett Mary Lucinda Elliott and Florence A. Maria Elliott and heirs etc. - 2 messuages etc. at Goldington, late in occupied by Elizabeth Newman and James Denton N. Joel Agutter E. late Joel Agutter, now Florence A. Maria Elliott S. Bedford – St.Neots turnpike W. purchased by Florence A. Maria Elliott, 1867, and assured by deed of 16 November 1867 to use of Florence A. Maria Elliott and heirs etc. [SL1/262] which said 2 cottages adjoining the 8 cottages mentioned in 1st part of above 1st schedule - land in Goldington adjoining above 2 cottages purchased in 1867 and assured by deed of 11 May 1869 [SL1/273] to use of Florence Anna Maria Elliott and heirs and demised to Joel Aguttar by deed of 12 May 1869 for 99 years from 24 June 1869 at annual rent of £4 - 7 messuages or cottages (formerly 5), with ground adjoining, in Goldington, with use of gateway N. James Flood S. Bedford - St.Neots road E. Thomas Hull W. James Flood purchased, 1868, and assured by deed of 11 May 1869 [SL1/273] to use of Florence A. Maria Elliott, and heirs signatures all witnesses William Smail, solicitor, Bedford James Poe, solicitor, Kilkenny Sanctioned by the Vice Chancellor in Chancery
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