RO19/30

Printed Copy of Act of Parliament An Act for Vesting the Settled Estates of Lillie Smith Aynescombe esquire and wife Valentina in trustees to be sold and for applying the money arising by such sale in the purchase of other freehold lands and tenements to be settled and limited to like uses and for other purposes in the said act mentioned

no date [1757]

From: 1757 To: 1757

Recites: will of Thomas Aynescombe (RO19/26) Whereas: he died seised of lands in Middlesex, Surrey, Bedfordshire and City of Norwich worth £520 per annum. Thomas Chew Gilbert died in the lifetime of the testator Recites: Lease and Release 29 and 30 December 1746 [very full details, no Bedfordshire property] Whereas: Valentina Aynescombe and Lillie Smith married and Smith changed his name to Aynescombe Issue of said marriage now living is 2 daughters, Valentina and Mary Recites: Lease and Release 27 and 28 February 1748/9 (RO19/27) Recites: Fine Trinity Term 1752 Indenture 6 June 1752 (RO19/28) whereas: Robert Smith is dead leaving Lillie Smith Aynescombe his eldest son and heir and Ann Smith his widow is still alive whereas: estates of Thomas Aynescombe settled in recited Indentures and also estates settled by said Robert Smith consist of small farms and houses and lie in different counties remote from the mansion house of Lillie Smith Aynescombe and wife Valentina which is in Berkshire, who therefore deems it to his advantage to sell the same and purchase other estates to be settled to the same uses, also wishes that £5,000 Old South Sea Annuities vested in trustees might be sold and money applied as above -premises as A in RO19/28 [premises there in occupation of William Holt here said to be in occupation of John Buckmaster] to be free from any previous trusts but held in trust to convey

Russell 'wallpaper books' Volume V. no.57 pg.154

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Aynescombe, Lillie Smith,
Aynescombe, Valentina,
Aynescombe, Thomas,
Gilbert, Thomas Chew,
Smith, Lillie,
Aynescombe, Mary,
Smith, Robert,
Smith, Ann,
Holt, William,
Buckmaster, John

personal acts, legal papers, settlements, trustees, Middlesex, Surrey, BEDFORDSHIRE, Norwich, Berkshire, South Sea Company, annuities