Reference
X66/1
Title
Release and Indeminity (Quitclaim); for £3745 & £2264 1s 10d
Date free text
2 June 1815
Production date
From: 1815 To: 1815
Admin/biog history
Document presented by Gloucestershire County Council in July 1937
Scope and Content
William Joseph Lockwood of Dews Hall [Lambourne](county of Essex), esq, to The Honourable Andrew Foley of Hazeley (county of Oxfordshire).
[Recites ( A ) Will, dated 9 July 1802,of Ann Foley of Bath (Widow of Reverend Robert Foley, DD, late Dean of Worcester and Rector of Kingham (county of Oxfordshire)), whereby she bequeathed £2000 (payable out of the estates of her late husband in Herefordshire), to Andrew Foley & Reverend John Foley, vicar of Newent (county of Gloucestershire), on trusts mentioned in a deed of Settlement referred to in the Will; and to Dorothy Dowdeswell £100 a year "Bank long annuities" for life, and after her death to said Andrew Foley and John Foley on trusts thereinafter mentioned; and she devises all her real estate in county of Bedford to use of said Andrew Folely and John Foley in trust for sale, and payment of her debts, and those of her late nephew William Lockwood, and to apply the dividends & interest unto her cousin Dorothy Dowdeswell for life, and after decease of said Dorothy Dowdeswell, to apply the same (a house in Bath excepted) to use of said William Joseph Lockwood until he reach the age of 25, and then to transfer both principal and interest to him.
( B ) Deaths of said Ann Foley (31 October 1802), John Foley (29 November 1803), and Dorothy Dowdeswell (4 February 1804).
( C ) Demise for £3745, dated 13 August 1813: ( i ) William Joseph Lockwood; ( ii ) Andrew Foley; ( iii ) Richard Smith, gentleman; & ( iv ) John
Benbow, gentleman -- Freehold property in county of Essex [no details].
( D ) Agreement that the £3745 shall be retained by said William Joseph Lockwood in part of the residue of the estate if the said Ann Foley by an
Indenture bearing even date with these presents.
( E ) Recites that there is a clear balance of £2264 1s 10d in favour of said William Joseph Lockwood from remainder of the estate, and that William
Joseph Lockwood agrees to take the real estate in Bedfordshire in lieu of money produced by sale but that said Andrew Foley shall stand
seised of said estate in trust for William Joseph Lockwood.] (William Joseph Lockwood declares his satisfaction with Andrew Foley's
management of the trust estates, and quitclaims unto Andrew Foley all actions and demands on account of said estates, and covenants to
pay all outstanding debts of said Ann Foley, to keep indemnified the said Andrew Foley and heirs of John Foley from all demands on the said
estate, and to pay an annuity of £15 to George Timbs of the City of Bath, yeoman, to which he is entitled by virtue of a codicil to the Will of the
said Ann Foley.)
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