Reference
Z1356/3
Title
Marriage settlement of Thoswihan Brandreth and Mary Buckeridge
Date free text
1 May 1739
Production date
From: 1691 To: 1739
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Nehemiah Brandreth of Houghton Regis and Thoswihan Brandreth eldest son and heir of Nehemiah;
(ii) Henry Baynbrigg Buckeridge of St. Giles in the Fields (Middx) and John Nodes of Luton (trustees)
(iii) Nicholas Buckeridge, Fellow of St. Johns College, Oxford and Thomas Huxley of Eaton Bray (trustees)
(iv) Mary Buckeridge of St. Giles in the Fields
(v) Theodore Johnson of Lincoln’s Inn
(vi) William Stanlake of the Inner Temple
Reciting intended marriage between Thoswihan Brandreth and Mary Buckeridge
Operative part of settlement:
- (i) acknowledge receipt of £2500 paid as marriage portion by Mary Buckeridge - £2000 to Nehemiah Brandreth to pay two sums of £1000 charged on the Rectory of Houghton Regis to his son Nehemiah Brandreth and his daughter Isabella Brandreth; £200 to Nehemiah Brandreth for his own use; and £300 to Thoswihan Brandreth
- (i) covenant with (v) that they will levy a fine sure cognizance de droit come ceo etc. in the King’s Court before end of Easter term
- (v) to suffer common recovery against (vi) in King’s Court
- property as described below to be to the use of Nehemiah Brandreth senior for life until the marriage takes place
- after marriage in trust for 100 years, to use of Nehemiah Brandreth senior, then to Thoswihan Brandreth, then to heirs of Thoswihan and Mary, then to Nehemiah Brandreth junior, then to other heirs of Nehemiah Brandreth senior
- £2000 to be used for portions of younger children of Thoswihan and Mary
- lease of land to William Pollard dated 27 March 1735 for 12 years at £90 5s 2d excepted from provisions
- Nehemiah Brandreth senior to retain for life use of the bedchamber “wherein he now usually lyes up”, one pair of stairs and the next room to it facing the Green, and the garret over that with a little room westward and a room for a servant to lie in, and the hall and common parlour below stairs, and the use of the kitchen, washhouse, brewhouse, cellars, pantry, coachhouse stables and gardens of the capital messuage (a) without paying rent, and also the running for two horses in the closes now in his own possession
- all plate, goods, household goods, furniture of the capital messuage (a) transferred to (ii) for use of Thoswihan Brandreth and his heirs, as listed in inventory on reverse of deed
Property:
(a) Capital messuage (lately built by Lady Alice Milard) at Houghton Regis near Cookes Lane on the west and the common green on the north, with all appurtenances
(b) 90 acres of freehold land known as Twoyears Land lying dispersed in common fields
(c) 2½ acres called Inning Land in south field of Houghton Regis (described)
(d) tithes arising from (b), (c) and a further 30½ acres of copyhold land, formerly occupied by Michael Messeder (alias Toby) and now by William Pollard
(e) 30 acres of freehold land called Inning Land dispersed in Houghton Regis (described), also occupied by William Pollard
(f) tithes arising from (e)
(g) all lands of Nehemiah Brandreth which were purchased by Dame Alice Milard on 20 May 1692
(h) rectory and parsonage of Houghton Regis
(i) parsonage or mansion house belonging to the rectory
(j) all other lands of Nehemiah and Thoswihan Brandreth in Houghton Regis purchased by Dame Alice Milard on 16 March 1691
Endorsements:
- receipts of Nehemiah Brandreth senior for sums of £2000 and £200 from Mary Buckeridge
- inventory of contents of Houghton Hall
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