• Reference
    KK368
  • Title
    Conveyance (Lease & Release). £3,200.
  • Date free text
    5, 6 Dec 1792
  • Production date
    From: 1792 To: 1792
  • Scope and Content
    (i) Sir George Staunton of Marylebone baronet, James Lockhart of Pall Mall esq.,Charles Douglas of Mitcham (Surrey) esq. (trustees for sale of estates of Thomas Staunton of St. Margarets, Westminster). (ii) Bettenson Staunton of New Norfolk Street (daughter of Thomas Staunton) (iii) James Cumberland Bentley of Abingdon Street, esq., & wife Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Staunton) (iv) John Batt, Richard Bentley of Lincolns Inn, (trustees in marriage settlement of (iii)) (v) Mary Peck of Abingdon Street. (annuitant) (vi) Edward Hanmer of Lincolns Inn esq. --- Reputed Manor of Smewnes, with Manor House and Paper-mill, in occupation of (excluding manor) by W. Home at £90.10s p.a. (70 acres). - Stockgrove Farm, 24 acres land and mill, in occupation of John Franklin at 18 p.a. in Soulbury. -Cottage late in the occupation of William Neighbour in Crossend, Woburn (Bucks.). adjoining cottage late in the occupation of William Alley, then John Mattingley. -Cottage in Crossend, late in occupation of John Mattingley, adjoining cottage late in occupation of Joseph Carter & purchase of him by John Haddington Both cottages now in occupation by Joseph Body at £4 p.a. (Rec.(l) Will of Thomas Staunton, 19 May 1778, devising real property to Ref. John Taylor DCL. & William Burch esq. in trust to pay £220 annuity to (ii), £350 annuity to Elizabeth wife of (iii), £100 annuity to (v), remainder of realty to brother or to future son of mother of grandson Thomas (deceased) (2) Thomas Staunton obituary 5 October, 1784, leaving 2 daughters & 2 grandsons. (3) Recoveries suffered by (ii) & (iii) in 1785-7 (4) Marriage settlement of Elizabeth, wife of (iii) settling her property on (iii) & (iv) as trustees, with licence to sell, 14, 15 January, 1785 (5) Assignment of £5,000 out of the £6,000 settled on Elizabeth to above trustees, 18 January, 1785. (6) Act for sale of estates of Thomas Staunton in Essex, Suffolk & Bucks. 1790-1, and auction of property at Mr. Christies auction room in Pall Mall at which (vi) purchased above for £3,200.) Witnesses.: Joseph Lyon, Richard White, R. Dennett, P Jermyn, John Douglas, Endorsed: Memo that timber was valued at £233.10.3d. & this added to above consideration .29 November 1792.
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