Reference
O/45
Title
Marriage Settlement
Date free text
2 Apr 1771
Production date
From: 1771 To: 1771
Scope and Content
i) Sir George Osborn of Chicksands, Bedfordshire baronet
iia) John Banister of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, county Middlesex esquire
iib) Elizabeth Banister spinster (eldest daughter of John Banister)
iii) The Right Honourable George Dunck, Earl of Halifax and Thomas Lord Pelham of Stanmer, county Sussex
iv) Ralph Willett of Merley, county Dorset esquire and Edward Mathew of Biggen, county Surrey esquire
v) John Baker of Binderton, county Sussex esquire and Anthony Hodges of Bolney, county Oxford esquire
RECITING intended marriage of i) and iib)
Further Reciting that iia) has agreed to pay to i) £10,000 as marriage portion of iib) and is to settle a further £10,000 secured by a mortgage of certain plantations in the Island of St Christopher by a deed of even date made between i) John Banister and wife Elizabeth and daughter Elizabeth, ii) Sir George Osborn, iii) said Ralph Willett and George Byng of Wrotham Park, county Middlesex esquire
MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT on occasion of said intended marriage and in consideration of £10,000 paid by iia) to i), i) grants to iii)
- Manor of Chicksands
- the late dissolved Priory of Chicksands
- Hawnes Grange with appurtenances now or late in the occupation of Sam Pryor
- messuage called the first Chicksands Lodge in the occupation of Rebecca Jenkins widow
- farm in Chicksands in the occupation of Thomas Ashley
- farm called the second Chicksands Lodge in the occupation of William Green
- Speeds Dairy Farm in Chicksands in the occupation of William Bevan
- Polehanger Farm in Meppershall
- messuage in Hawnes in the occupation of Sarah Cooper
- farm in Hawnes in the occupation of William Maxey
- all tithes and all property in Chicksands, Hawnes, Dean, Malden and Meppershall
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