Reference
R6/15/1/23
Title
Abstract of Title
Date free text
1729
Production date
From: 1621 To: 1729
Scope and Content
Abstract of title of Humphrey Monoux to the manor of Cranfield
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(XXII) Will of Lewis Monoux of Grays Inn [Middlesex] of 20 March 1707 devising all real estate (except leasehold) to his nephew Sir John Cope, William Aspin esquire, William Hillersden, esquire and John Hillersden, esquire in trust for performance of the will and payment of £3,000 of his youngest son Lewis at age 21, the trustees paying for education of his two youngest sons not exceeding £120 per annum for his eldest son Humphrey and £80 per annum for Lewis and bequeathing annuities as follows: £20 per annum to his niece Lucy saint John until she married; £5 per annum to Ellen Sansom for life; £10 per annum to his cousin John Hackett until the death of his cousin Nicholas Hackett or his mother-in-law; making John Twisleton, esquire sole executor
(XXIII) Codicil to the will of Lewis Monoux of 26 March 1712 revoking the annuity to his cousin John Hackett, substituting a £10 annuity to his cousin Francis Wingfield for life and revoking the trusteeship of Aspin appointing William Beecher, esquire in his stead and appointing William Hillersden, John Hillersden, Sir John Cope and William Beecher executors after the death of John Twisleton
(XXIV) Codicil to the will of Lewis Monoux of 26 June 1713 revoking the annuity to Lucy Saint John, now deceased, and revoking the clause about maintenance for his son Lewis and bequeathing £20 to per annum to Francis Wingfield
(XXV) Proof of the will of Lewis Monoux on 7 May 1720
(XXVI) Covenant to levy a fine of 1 May 1729 between (1) Humphrey Monoux, (2) Samuel Harris, gentleman and (3) Francis Wingfield in which (1) would levy a fine of Cranfield Manor to (2) to make him tenant to the precipe in a common recovery in which (3) would be demandant and (1) vouchee to enure to the use of (1) for ever
(XXVII) Exemplification of a recovery of Trinity Term 1729
(XXVIII) “The Duke of Bedford has agreed with Mr Monoux for the purchase of his estate for £2,100. Sir John Cope is the only surviving trustee in the will and Mr Monoux says Sir John Cope will joyn in any conveyance. Q. whether anything more is necessary to make the purchaser safe, and whether this recovery which has been suffered will do, or there must be another in which Sir John must joyn to make a tenant to the praecipe?”
(XXIX) “The settlement being only by way of trust the recovery being a good recovery in equity is sufficient to barre the intayles without a transfer of the legal interest”
(XXX) “If Philip Monoux survived his brother, we must have the term assigned to protect, but if Lewis as the survivor, I suppose it merged in the inheritance.Q”
(XXXI) “If Philip survived the term be assigned to attend if not it can’t be done being merged”
(XXXII) “On perusall of this abstract, I conceive your purchaser, his grace the Duke of Bedford, may be safe under this title taking a conveyance of the inheritance from Mr Humfry Monoux and Sir John Cope, his trustees and an assignment of the term if it may be, to a trustee for the Duke and to attend the inheritance. Gilbert Horsman 9th December 1729”.
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