• Reference
    SQ27
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement: on the marriage of John Danvers and Mary Watson.
  • Date free text
    29 Aug 1752
  • Production date
    From: 1752 To: 1752
  • Scope and Content
    i) Sir Joseph Danvers of Swithland (county Leicester), baronet ii) John Danvers of same (only son and heir apparent), esquire iii) Joel Watson of Clapham (county Surrey), esquire, and Mary Watson (daughter of Joel Watson), spinster iv) John Thornton of Clapham, esquire (trustee for Mary Watson), and Job Peck of Enderby (county Leicester), gentleman (trustee for John Danvers) v) William Palmer of Ironmongers' Hall, gentleman (trustee for John Danvers) and Thomas Abney of Willesly Hall (county Derby). esquire, (trustee for Mary Watson) vi) Thomas Peck of Leicestershire, gentleman (trustee for John Danvers), and John Hood of Bardon Park (county Leicester), gentleman (trustee for Mary Watson) Reciting from 1721, referring to property in counties Oxford, Northampton, Bedford and Middlesex - The Manor of Swithland etc. in Newton Linford, Thurcaston, Swithland, St Margaret's parish in Leicester, Quorndon, Barrow-upon-Soane; the wapentake of Goscott; the Manor of Mountsorrell etc. in Mountsorrell and Rothley; and the Manor of Thurcaston alias Thurgaston etc. in Cropston and Thurcaston; (all county Leicester); [folios 4-9]. Also the Manor of Basmey alias Basmead etc. in Eaton Soco, [folios 25-27]. Also the Manor of Prescott etc. in Cropready and Wardington (county Oxford); [folios 27-28]. And messuage etc. in Appletree in Ashton (county Northampton); [folios 28-29]. And also the "Talbot" Inn etc. in St Clement Danes (county Middlesex) ; [folios 29-30]. [Field names given, but no bounds] [copy; 48 folios]
  • Level of description
    item