Reference
SM15
Title
Mortgage
Date free text
28 May 1698
Production date
From: 1686 To: 1708
Scope and Content
i) Richard Norton, Mitcham, Surrey, esquire, son and heir of Richard Norton late of Mitcham, Surrey, esquire, deceased
ii) Thomas Webb, Middle Temple, London, esquire
Richard Bowater, citizen and mercer of London
(the two surviving trustees named in articles of marriage between Richard Lawrence, citizen and apothecary of London, and wife Dorothy)
iii) Richard Lawrence and wife Dorothy, one of the daughters of Richard Norton, esquire, deceased, late father of i)
Mortgage by i) to ii)
reciting that Richard Norton of Mitcham, esquire, late father of i), by his last will dated 10 August 1686 [see C169], gave to i) at age 24
... all messuages in Ingerthorp, Wallowthwait, Ripon, Mitcham [Markington in C169], or elsewhere in county of York
and that until i) should attain 24 years, testator's wife Anne should receive rents and profits, after paying £40 for maintenance to i), and after raising portion for daughter Dorothy of £700
and reciting
Articles of 12 January 1691/2 between
1) Richard Lawrence
2) Dorothy Norton
3) Anne Norton
John Norton, late of Mitcham, Surrey, esquire, deceased, eldest son and heir of Richard Norton the father
Richard Bowater
Thomas Webb
by which it was agreed that the money raised for 2) as a portion should be deposited in the hands of John Norton, Richard Bowater and Thomas Webb and placed out at interest until Richard Lawrence should make a settlement, and until then he should receive only the interest
and reciting that the marriage took place, and that Richard and Dorothy Lawrence brought a bill in Chancery asking that the money should be deposited in Chancery, and that the sums of £763..16s and £16..13s..4d have since been paid by Richard Bowater and the executrix of Anne Norton, but that Richard Lawrence has not yet made any settlement
and reciting that iii) are anxious that the money above, and £19..10s..8d of Richard Lawrence's own money should be lent to i) on mortgage
Mortgage by i) to ii) in consideration of £800 above by Demise for 1000 years
... messuage or farmhouse in Sharpenhoe in Streatley now or late in the occupation of Ralph Deakon with all houses, lands etc.
... 32 acres arable in Streatley fields, parcel of lands belonging to a messuage late in tenure of Richard Wheeler
... messuage or tenement where William Wright lately lived
... pieces of land with spring of wood lately in tenure of William Wright, containing by estimation 40 acres, now or late in tenure of John Burr
witnesses: Peter Bradshaw, Arthur Morgan 28 May 1698
endorsed with memorandum of further charge £300 from Edward Turner 10 Apr 1708
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