Reference
AN38/22
Title
Assignment of term to attend the inheritance
Date free text
26 June 1747
Production date
From: 1727 To: 1747
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Nicholas Apthorp of Gamlingay [Cambridgeshire], gentleman;
(ii) Margaret Sparhauke of Baldock [Hertfordshire] widow, executrix of William, who was executor of Edward Sparhauke; Anne Godfrey and Mary Godfrey of Bishop’s Stortford [Hertfordshire], spinsters, co-heirs of Edward Lawndey Godfrey;
(iii) Christopher Lofft of Middle Temple, London, esquire and Robert Mountague of South Sea House, London, deputy accomptant
Reciting:
- AN38/14;
- the £400 was not paid making the estate of (i) absolute for 1,000 years;
- Edward Sparhauke paid £200, part of the £400 to (i) by hands of Francis Bosworth on 15 October 1729 and £220 residue on 12 November 1729 and (i) promised to make assignment as directed by Edward Sparhauke;
- will of Edward Lawndey of Baldock, gentleman of 2 October 1714 beqeathing £400 to Ann Godfrey when she became 21;
- on becoming 21 Ann Godfrey released the £400 legacy to Edward Sparhauke in satisfaction of the £400 paid by him to Nicholas Apthorp entitling her to the £400 and interest so secured;
- the term of 1,000 was now legally vested in (i) and the £400 and interest remained due to Ann Godfrey;
- Mary Godfrey had paid £200 to Ann Godfrey;
- in his will John Godfrey devised the property to his son Edward Lawndey Godfrey who died intestate and unmarried on 17 March 1729 leaving his sisters Ann and Mary Godfrey as his co-heirs at law and on his decease they entered into and enjoyed the premises
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid 5/- to (i);
- (i), by direction of Ann and Mary Godfrey, assigned (a)-(k) in AN38/14 to (iii)
Habendum:
- to (iii) for remainder of the term of 1,000 years in trust for Ann and Mary Godfrey
Witnesses:
- Robert Sale;
- George Pedley;
- Anne Cooch;
- Isaac Wilkinson;
- J S Stainsby;
- Samuel Ryley, stationer
Level of description
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