Reference
X439/52
Title
Copy of mortgage
Date free text
10 May 1743
Production date
From: 1738 To: 1743
Scope and Content
i) Sir Roger Burgoyne, Sutton, baronet
ii) Hale Wortham, Royston, Cambridgeshire, gentleman
reciting lease and release of 29 and 30 December 1738
[see X115/112, X115/113]
a) Sir Roger Burgoyne
b) George, Earl of Halifax
George Mountagu, commonly called Lord Sunbury, son of said Earl
Lady Frances Mountagu, one of the daughters of said Earl
c) Richard, Earl of Scarborough
Sir Thomas Saunderson, K.B.
d) Thomas Archer, Pirgoe, Essex, esquire
Henry Archer, Inner Temple, London, esquire
reciting marriage in contemplation and since solemnised
a) released to Earl of Halifax and Lord Sunbury
… Manor of Sutton etc.,
… great wood and wood ground (250 acres) in Potton
… wood and ground called Ridings and Lawnes in Potton
… Twenty Acre Wood Piece in Potton
to secure jointure of £600 for Lady Frances in case she survives a) and then for their sons with agreement that when by exchanges and improvements the rents of the settled property in Sutton should amount to £1,300 per annum, then it might be lawful for a) to revoke trusts as to woods in Potton
reciting also a deed enrolled in Chancery of same date
1) Sir Roger Burgoyne
2) George, Earl of Halifax
Lady Frances Mountagu
3) Sir Thomas Saunderson
Henry Archer
reciting mortgage to Sir John Evelyn etc. for £8,000 and rest of lands of 1) in Sutton and Potton were mortgaged to Sir Samuel Luke to secure £3,000. In consideration of the intended marriage 1) bargained and sold to 3)
… Manor and lordship of Potton etc.,
in trust to raise such money as shall be sufficient to pay all money due on mortgage to Sir Samuel Luke
reciting that i) soon after his marriage out of his own money paid to Sir Samuel Luke the said sum of £3,000 and said mortgage was cancelled
reciting deed of 27 March 1742. Improvements on estate amount to £1,300 a year so trusts in above deed of 29 and 30 December 1738 are made void and woods and premises appointed to use of i)
[see X115/109]
reciting lease and release of 2 and 3 May 1743 [see X115/110, X115/111]
A) George, Earl of Halifax
Thomas, Earl of Scarborough, late Sir Thomas Saunderson
Henry Archer, Inner Temple, London, esquire
B) Sir Roger Burgoyne
A) confirmed to B)
… Great Wood, the Ridings and Lawnes and Twenty Acre Wood Piece
all in Potton
reciting that i) having expended very large sums of money in improvements of said estates has requested ii) to lend him £2,000 on the mortgage of the said woods
now in consideration of £2,000
i) releases to ii)
… Great Wood (250 acres)
… Ridings and Lawndes
in Potton
… Twenty Acre Wood in Potton
to secure repayment of £2,080
various provisions for repayment. Also i) shall not in any year cut down more than 16 acres underwood with licence of ii)
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