• Reference
    SJ200-202
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement
  • Date free text
    8, 9 Dec 1780
  • Production date
    From: 1780 To: 1780
  • Scope and Content
    1) Henry Beauchamp Lord St John, Baron of Bletsoe 2a) Samuel Whitbread, Cardington, esquire 2b) Emma Maria Elizabeth Whitbread, his second daughter by Harriet his first wife, now deceased, aged 19 years 3) Sir John Trevelyan, Nettlecombe, Somerset, baronet Sir Willliam Dolben, Finedon, Northamptonshire, baronet Jacob Whitbread, Soberton, Hampshire, esquire 4) the Honourable and Reverend James Cornwallis, D.D. Charles Chaplin, Blankney, Lincoln, esquire John Wingate Jennings, Harlington, esquire Settlement before the marriage of 1) and Emma Whitbread and in consideration of a dowry of £30,000, £20,000 of which in Bank Long Annuities sufficient to obtain £300 per annum, and £3,333.. 6s..8d to be paid to the Honourable St Andrew St John, a younger brother of 1), for his sixth share under the marriage settlement of their father; £3,333..6s..8d to be paid similarly to the Honourable Susannah St John, eldest sister of 1); and the rest to be paid to 1) The remaining £10,000 is to be secured on a bond. Full discharge of her portion and claims under Samuel Whitbread's settlements of 4 July 175? and 11 Aug 1769 The Bank Long Annuities of £4,800 to provide the £300 per annum have been transferred to 4) in trust for Emma The bond for £10,000 to be paid to Matilda, Elizabeth Barbara and Charlotte and the Honourable George St John (4 other children entitled under their father's settlement) Conveyance by 1) to 3) to uses ... Hundred of Barford and Stodden, and half hundred of Willey ... lordship of Melchbourne and mansion house of Melchbourne ... rectory of Melchbourne and land ... manor and Rectory of Riseley and land ... manors of Shelton and Dean and land ... manor of Tilbrook cum Hardwick and land ... advowsons of churches of Melchbourne, Tilbrook, Riseley and 2/3 of advowson of Shelton ... manor of East Haddon, Northamptonshire and land ... fen lands in Littleport, Isle of Ely ... Payton Hall, Ramshott, Suffolk ... property at Downham, Norfolk ... messuage on Ludgate Hill, London ... the reversion (on the death of lady St John) of ... manor of Bletsoe and fishing in Ouse, Stoke Mills etc. and advowson of Bletsoe ... manor and advowson of Woodford, near Thrapston, Northamptonshire, and mansion house and other property ... property in Denford, Northamptonshire
  • Level of description
    item