Reference
RO4/3
Title
Copy of Marriage Articles
i) Honourable Althamia Thompson, sister to Right Honourable Maurice Lord Haversham, spinster
ii) Mathew Priaulx of New College, Oxford, M.A.
iii) Robert Wingate of Town of Bedford esquire, Thomas Armstrong of Houghton Conquest esquire
Marriage intended between i) and ii)
Date free text
13 Oct 1719
Production date
From: 1719 To: 1719
Scope and Content
Whereas: i) is seised in fee simple of estates in Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and also very great personal estate
now: i) and ii) will within one month after their marriage convey to iii) the real estate of i) on trust to pay profits to i) ,nd after her death to convey estate as she shall have directed; chargeable with £600 as i) shall think fit
further: if i) becomes entitled to any further estate this will be conveyed to iii) and after her decease will descend to heirs of i) and ii)
further: if ii) becomes seised of farm called Green House in Capell, Surrey, worth £40 per annum in which he has reversion and also an estate near Dunhead, near Shaftesbury in Dorset and Wiltshire held by lease for lives from the Duke of Norfolk or Earl of Arundell in which ii) also has an expectation, ii) will settle them on iii) to the use of i) and ii) and the survivor and their issue.
i) may without consent of ii) dispose of sums of money now due to her on bond from John Hamilton and Thomas Ligoe for payment of £200 and interest and upon a note from the said John Hamilton for payment of £100 with interest.
For performance of covenants ii) binds himself to iii) in the penal sum of £6,000
Witnesses: T Pembroke, Charles Corbett