Reference
X520/119
Title
Marriage Settlement
Date free text
11 Jun 1717
Production date
From: 1717 To: 1717
Scope and Content
i) Sir John Every of Eggington (county Derbyshire), baronet
ii) Elizabeth Meynell (widow and administratrix of Godfrey Meynell of Bradley (county Derbyshire), esquire), and Dorothy Meynell, spinster (only daughter of said Godfrey Meynell and Elizabeth)
iii) John Curzon of Kedlaston, esquire (son and heir apparent of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, baronet), Littleton Meynell of Bradley, esquire, John Fitzherbert of Somersall Herbert, esquire, John Beresford of Ashborne and also Fenny Bentley, esquire and Brook Boothby of Ashborne Hall, esquire
(on the marriage of Sir John Every and Dorothy Maynell)
(in consideration of the marriage portion of £3,000 paid by Elizabeth Meynell, which is to be vested in iii) for the purchases of lands to be settled to the uses of this settlement)
… Manors and lands etc. in Thorpe, Tissington and Ettwal [one folio of description, giving close names and occupiers etc.] [one folio of uses]
[recites that there is due to said John Every from Maurice, Lord Haversham, £2,000 (part of the portion of his late wife Dame Martha, sister of said Lord Haversham), which is to be vested in iii) for the same purposes as the said £3,000. And that by the Will of Sir Henry Every (late brother of Sir John Every), dated 14 May 1709, the said John Every is empowered to raise £1,000 from the Manor of Eggington and Newton Wood (county Derbyshire); which said property is hereby so charged]
[6 folios of uses settling the said total £6,000]
[11 folios] [copy]
Level of description
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