Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X440/259
  • Title
    Abstract of Title of George Musgrave esquire to freehold & copyhold premises near Biggleswade
  • Date free text
    c. 1813 (watermarked 1811)
  • Production date
    From: 1750 To: 1813
  • Scope and Content
    for deeds abstracted, see: H/WS798-9, 801, 804, 806, 808-9, 805, endorsement on 804, 810-1. page 11-12 narrative account of history of property 1750-60 viz: 2 February 1750 Mr Borrett died leaving issue by said Susannah 2 daughters viz: Susannah his eldest, afterwards wife of William Evelyn esquire & Martha his youngest afterwards wife of Thomas Borrett esquire. Upon Mr Borrett’s death Mrs Borrett proved his will & entered on his real estate & received profits of same & entered on personal estate which was greatly deficient to pay his debts & he having charged them on his real estate it was thought more advantageous to the family to apply £10,000 to pay them rather than sell real estates. February 1760 Both the daughters being come of age, Mr Robert Scawen & Mr Edward Borrett, the trustees of the £10,000 settled an account with Mrs Borrett relating thereto & after payment of Mr Borrett’s debts & legacies there was due from Mrs Borrett £1351.9.7. Mrs Borrett & her daughters also settled an account for the moiety of the rents & profits of Mr Borretts estate devised by will & some timber felled thereon, for maintenance & education of the daughters, on which account there was due to Mrs Borrett £1382. 12. 3½ which being deducted from other balance left £31.2.8½ due to Mrs Borrett; so of the £10,000 in Old South Sea annuities in names Robert Scawen & Edward Borrett £3217.10.0 & £190 cash in hands of Mr Robert Scawen. On the daughters coming of age the trustees thought they ought to be indemnified on account of those payments & brought Bill in Chancery versus Mrs Borrett & her daughters in order that the £10,000 might be laid out in lands to be settled to uses or they might be indemnified on account of such payments. 19 February 1760 Decree in Chancery: Mrs Borrett & daughters submit will of Thomas Borrett; desire no part of £10,000 mentioned in Mrs Borrett's marriage settlement should be laid out in lands pursuant to that settlement but that already applied should be considered properly applied & that remainder should be applied as directed. Decree that £2,000 part of £10,000 lent to Mr Borrett on mortgage of Biggleswade estate should remain to trustees to attend inheritance of the term; £3333.10.5 paid to Mrs Borrett by trustees for payment of husband's debts, to be considered properly applied & that £1351.9.7 in her hands should be applied to discharging £1382.12.3½ balance of account & £31. 2. 8½ being residue of balance should be paid to Mrs Borrett by Robert Scawen out of the £190 admitted to be in his hands of said £10,000 & residue of £190 should be laid out in Old South Sea Annuities in names of Robert Scawen & Edward Borrett which together with £3217.10.0 annuities purchased with residue of the £10,000 should remain in their hands on trusts as in marriage settlement. The daughters agreed to partition estates (except those in Kent); divided into lots, numbers put in hat & Susannah drew lot 1; lot 2 went to Martha & includes all Bedfordshire estates mentioned in this abstract. abstracts: H/WS 814, 817-8 pg. 20 Opinion of Mathew Duane, Lincolns Inn, on this abstract 7 June 1768 abstracts: H/WS 820-1,823 endorsed: Lindsell, Biggleswade
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