Reference
W2155
Title
Marriage settlement : (Release : Lease missing) : £14,000 portion
Date free text
[8], 9 July 1765
Production date
From: 1765 To: 1765
Scope and Content
(i) George Viscount Torrington
(ii) Lady Lucy Boyle (sister of Edmund, Earl of Cork & Orrery of Ireland)
(iii) William Poyntz of Westminster, esquire & John Pierce of Holborn, esquire
(iv) Edmund Earl of Cork & Orrery & Sir George Pocock K.B.
(v) William Henry Duke of Portland & Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wiltshire, esquire
(vi) Honorable John Byng of Southill, esquire (brother of George Viscount Torrington) & George Byng of Wrotham Park, Middlesex, esquire
On the marriage of George Viscount Torrington & Lady Lucy Boyle
Recites : 20, 21 Apr 1753 : Settlement of lands in Ireland to pay portions to younger children of Earl of Cork (5) (deceased) by his 1st wife
& £6000 to Lucy Boyle, his child by wife Margaret
8 Feb 1753 : Will of Magdalen Hamilton of Dublin (aunt of Countess Margaret) £3500
31 May 1757 : Deed by Margaret in favour of Lucy for the £3500
Verbal will of Hamilton Earl of Cork - £4000 for Lucy (guaranteed by penal bond of Edmund): Edmund adding £500
even date : Mortgage of Irish manor : Edmund Earl of Cork to Torrington, to secure £8000
W2141
26, 27 Oct 1756 : Admiral [John] Byng conveys reversion of manor of Potton to his nephew George Viscount Torrington
12 Mar 1757 : Will of John Byng confirming same
Excepts : 6 July 1765 (W2150)
1 Aug 1747 (W2141)
-- Torrington estates in Bedfordshire (including manor of Potton);
covenant to suffer Recovery for copyhold land in Barton etc.,
Provides for £650 per annum for Lucy in event of widowhood;
£6000 for portions for younger children
Witnesses. Robert Bickle, Richard Balshaw
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