Scope and Content
Attested copy marriage settlement by lease and release [lease missing]
Parties:
(i) Thomas, 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham, Privy Councillor and Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas; Henry Bendish of Saint Andrew, Holborn [Middlesex], gentleman; John Grubb of Peckham [Surrey], gentleman as trustee for Lord Trevor; Thomas Trevor, eldest son of Lord Trevor;
(ii) Timothy Burrell of Cockfield [Sussex], esquire and Elizabeth Burrell, spinster, his daughter;
(iii) Peter Courthorpe of Danny, Hurstpierpoint [Sussex], esquire; Thomas Bathurst of Finchcox, Goudhurst [Kent], gentleman;
(iv) Peter Burrell the elder of London, merchant; Richard Bridger of Comb, Hamsey [Sussex], esquire;
(v) Henry Campion of Danny, esquire; Walter Burrell of Lindfield [Sussex], esquire; Peter Burrell the younger, eldest son of Peter Burrell the elder;
(vi) John Borrett of Inner Temple [London], esquire; Peter White of Lewes [Sussex], gentleman; Edward Virgoe of Cockfield, gentleman
Reciting:
- intended marriage between Thomas Trevor and Elizabeth Burrell
Operative Part:
- Timothy Burrell paid £10,000 to Lord Trevor as marriage portion of his daughter to be laid out in purchasing land one fifth to be settled on his son and the rest on himself;
- Timothy Burrell settled half the Manor of Stoneham [Sussex] with appurtenant lands by indenture of even date;
- (iii) paid 10/- to each of Lord Trevor, Henry Bendish and John Grubb;
- Lord Trevor, Henry Bendish and John Grubb released (a)-(e) to (iii)
Property:
(a) the Manors of Bromham Bowells, Wakes and Brayes in Bromham, Biddenham and Stevington;
(b) Bromham Manor House formerly in the occupation of Lewis Dier [Dyve], esquire with lands and properties in Bromham, Biddenham, Kempston and Stevington in the occupation of Lord Trevor, Miles Morris, Sextus Thompkins, Widow Witt, Anne Dowdy, Samuel Bodington, George White, William Staines, Thomas Freeman, Thomas Browne, yeoman, Robert Pake, George Read, John Poole, Thomas Robinson, John Yeate, William Aspland, Richard Thead, Thomas Philips, George Woodhill, Humphrey Pake, John Fowler, Henry Knight, Henry Peacock, Thomas Wyet, Edward Honor, John King, John Smith, William Allen, Thomas Brown, labourer and Lewis Crouch
(a)-(b) purchased by Lord Trevor from Sir Lewis Dyve in the name of Henry Bendish and John Grubb
(c) Manors of “Stagsden alias Stagesden alias Stachden Dylioicks Bosomes” [Stagsden Dilwick, Bosoms and Burdelys Manors were all owned by the Mordaunts at this date] and Chellington and the advowsons of Stagsden, Carlton and Chellington and lands in Stagsden, Chellington, Carlton, Pavenham and Odell purchased by Lord Trevor from Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough in the names of Henry Bendish and John Grubb and in the occupation of Lord Trevor, Thomas Skevington, William Steffe, James Allen, Francis Wallis, Francis Greathead, Lewis Tinsley, William Gilbert, Phebe Tinsley, spinster, John Lovell, Thomas Lovell, John Pickering, Thomas Stanbridge, Edward Steffe, Edward Golding, Elizabeth Thrale, widow, John Clare, Thomas Wheeler, Thomas Clerke, George Woodfield, Richard Corby, William Marks, Austin Summerly, William Blott, Thomas Keynes, Robert Sansom, Thomas Newman, George Peake alias Austin, George Peake, John Tinsley, Francis Dentris, Thomas Rubitham, Thomas Burt, Francis Hoyte, Widow Bull, Thomas Heynes, John Allen, William Allen, John Seaton, Richard Ashby, Henry Richards, Edward Marshall, Thomas Bayes, Widow Blott, John Toll, Robert Ruffe, Charles Wright, Lewis Richardson, John Margetts, John Darling, John Bondington, Vincent Mason, John Ruddey, William Warner deceased, Urick Bithray, Joseph Harrison, William Fosbury, Widow Ellington, William Wray, John Wray, John Smith, Richard Collins, John Bushby and Thomas Allen
(d) Hillhouse Farm with lands in Carlton formerly an estate of Ralph Bromsall, esquire and lately purchased by Lord Trevor in his own name from John Hervey, esquire and Francis Brace, gentleman and in the occupation of John Smith;
(e) Manor of Biddenham [alias Newnham] with the rectory and tithes and advowson of the church and mansion with orchard, gardens and whiting ground called Kirtons, then Ford End formerly in the occupation of Sir William Boteler, deceased, then William Boteler, esquire, deceased his son and purchased by Lord Trevor from William Hillersden with trustee Sir Francis Masham of Oates [Essex], baronet and John Borrett in the names of Henry Bendish and John Grubb on 26 November 1713 and charged with an annuity of £400 to Lady Anne Trevor from the death of Lord Trevor, with lands and properties in the occupation of Lord Trevor, Richard Pennyfather, William Jefferies, James Butler, Thomas Atkins, William Ridle, William Haines, Widow Barford, William Harris, Samuel Richards, Richard Williamson, William King, Thomas Browne, Thomas Assaby, Widow Oswell alias Adams, Widow Leader, Thomas Watts, William Smart, Thomas Williams, John Brittain, Henry Peacock, Thomas Lambert, Thomas James and Simon Wilson
Habendum
- to (iii), subject to the rentcharge on (e); as trustees; to the use of Henry Bendish and John Grubb until the solemnization of the marriage; in trust for Lord Trevor;
- after the marriage (c) [set out in greater detail below] and (d) to the use of (iv) for 99 years from the marriage to raise from rents and profits an annuity of £150 during the lives of Lord Trevor, Thomas Trevor and Elizabeth Burnell; £200 after the death of Lord Trevor during the life of the longest lived of Thomas Trevor and Elizabeth Burnell and disposed of as directed by Elizabeth Burnell for her private use;
- upon trusts; to the use of Thomas Trevor for life; to the use of (iv) during the life of Thomas Trevor upon trust to preserve contingent remainders; in trust to suffer Thomas Trevor to take rents and profits and after his death; to the use of Elizabeth Burrell if she survive Thomas Trevor to take an annuity of £800 per annum [the property then being worth £1,200 per annum] as her jointure and barring dower with power for distraint in arrear;
- (a)-(b) and (e) to the use of (v) for 200 years; to secure the £800 annuity;
- upon trust to the use of Lord Trevor for his life and on his death; to the use Thomas Trevor for his life; to the use of (iv) during the lives of Lord Trevor and Thomas Trevor upon trust to preserve contingent remainders allowing Lord Trevor and then Thomas Trevor to take rents and profits; to the use of (vi) for 1,000 years to provide for children of Thomas Trevor and Elizabeth Burrell other than the eldest son
- upon trusts to the use of the eldest son of Thomas Trevor and Elizabeth Burrell and his heirs; in default of heirs to the second son and his heirs; in default of heirs to the third son and his heirs in default of heirs to each successive son in turn and his heirs, if any and in default of any such heirs to the use of the will of Lord Trevor; to the use of Lord Trevor for ever;
- with further detailed provisions for children of the marriage and their portions including £10,000 for a daughter
More Detailed Description of (c):
- messuage in Church End, Stagsden, with adjoining pightle of pasture near the churchyard;
- ancient cottage on the south side of Church Street, Stagsden formerly in the occupation of John Drake with a pightle of pasture on S side;
- cottage in Wick End, Stagsden, called Rowlands with pightle of pasture adjoining
- the three pightles above containing together 5 acres;
- meadow at the bottom of Bean Hill containing 2 acres;
- Hunts Close of pasture containing 3 acres;
- Golding’s Pightle of pasture containing half an acre;
- Hangers Close being land, pasture and sward “lying without the gate” containing 30.5 acres;
- six closes of pasture at West End, Stagsden, two called Cooper’s and another Clare’s, two called Fletcher’s and another Round Hill and altogether containing 72 acres;
- little coppice of wood belonging to Round Hill Close and called Round Hill Spinney containing 3 roods;
- Lamas Ground meadow also called Huxey containing 2 acres;
- 94 acres of arable in the common fields of Stagsden;
- above in the occupation of James Allen at rent of £100 per annum
- farmhouse and dovehouse in Church End, Stagsden;
- Home Close of pasture of 4 acres near the farmhouse;
- Drabbs Mead of 2 acres;
- Brays Orchard pastures containing 7 acres and 2 roods;
- Middle Close alias Bushy Close of pasture containing 4 acres, 3 roods, 20 poles;
- Outhill Close of pasture containing 10 acres, 2 roods;
- Asty Leys containing 16 acres, 2 roods;
- two closes called Hangers containing 16 acres;
- Indkins Pasture alias Little Field with meadow and spinney near N end of Stagsden containing 39 acres except the hedge on N adjoining Turvey;
- 3 acres of meadow adjoining Indkins Pasture;
- Longhills Close of pasture with hedge on N adjoining Turvey at N end of Stagsden containing 27 acres;
- Munns Close of pasture with cottage “or little house” and pightle adjoining formerly in the occupation of William Barthram near N end and containing 6 acres, 1 rood;
- Lamas Meadow lying dispersed in the common meadows called Oxley’s Mead, Saunders’ Mead and Wick End Bridge Mead containing together 6 acres;
- Lamas Meadow called Huxey Meadow containing 2.5 acres;
- 127 acres of arable in the parish fields
- above in the occupation of William Steffe at rent of £90/10/- per annum
- farmhouse in N end of Stagsden formerly in the occupation of Thomas Davies;
- two closes of pasture adjoining called Hall Close and Bodington Close containing together 8 acres;
- Ley Close of pasture of 7 acres, 2 roods;
- Little Field of pasture of 24 acres;
- meadow ground in North End Mead containing 2 acres, 3 roods;
- 90 acres of arable dispersed in the common fields;
- the ebove in the occupation of Thomas Heynes at rent of £62/5/6 per annum
Witnesses:
- Benjamin Whiten;
- Francis Preslands;
- Edward Wood;
- John Hurst;
- Richard Carmden
Examination of the copy by James Parfitt and A. Hodgson, clerks to Horne & Rogers of Lincoln’s Inn Fields [Middlesex]