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(i) Edward Woodcock
Thomas Barnard
Elborough Woodcock, Lincolns Inn, gentleman
(trustees for Edward Woodcock)
(ii) Henry Seymour, Sherborne, Dorset, Esquire, only son & heir male of Francis Seymour, late
Sherborne, Esquire, deceased
(iii) Francis Gwyn, Ford Abbey, Devon, Esquire
Copplestone Warre Bampfylde, Hestercombe, Somerset, Esquire
Thomas Putt, Coombe, Devon, Esquire
(surviving executors of Sir John Trevelyan, late Nettlecombe, Somerset, Baronet, deceased,
the only surviving executor of Henry Portman, late Orchard Portman, Somerset, Esquire)
[reciting: Henry Portman's will 30 Jan 1723/4, devising to Sir John Trevelyan and other trustees
--- manors of Dunstan & Michael Church, Somerset, & estates, Dorset & Somerset, to use of
testator's nephew William Seymour (who died without issue in testator's lifetime) remainder to
Francis Seymour, his father, for life then in tail male, remainder to Alexander Seymour ditto,
remainder to William Seymour ditto, remainder to right heirs of testator
--- residue of real and personal estate to trustees to purchase lands & tenements to settle on nephew
William & others as directed in will
died 23 Feb 1727/8; proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Francis Seymour, father of (ii), obtained letters of administration with will annexed of William Seymour,
deceased
Reciting: decreee in Chancery, 16 Jul 1737 ordering performance of the trusts under will of H Palmer [?Portman]
Reciting: Chancery suit
Francis Seymour died 29 Dec 1761, leaving (ii) and Mary, wife of John Bailey, his only daughter & sole
executrix of his will
Reciting: decree in Chancery 27 Nov 1767 confirming the former order
Reciting: Articles of agreement for settling the estates of Henry Portman 1 Jul 1771.
confirmed by order of Chancery]
(i) to (iii) in trust
--- Manor of Week, alias Wick, Hackney, Middlesex with toll gate & pound
--- Wick farm, Hackney occ [ ] Leeds, pond and garden of Edward Woodcock, East, extending in breadth from
piece of water belonging to same to the pales which enclose the garden from Barnfield
--- Barn Field (4 acres with house and garden)
--- Hither Garden field & Further garden field (5 acres 4 roods)
--- Dovecoat alias Dovehouse meadow (6 acres 2 roods 7 perches)
--- Wick Meadow (13 acres 2 roods 39 perches)
--- Home two Acres (1 acre 3 roods 35 perches)
--- Gravel Pit field (3 acres 38 perches)
--- 6 acre piece (6 acres 1 rood 29 perches)
--- Great field (25 acres 3 roods 32 perches)
--- 8 acre piece (8 acres 2 roods 4 perches)
--- Sugar loaf field (4 acres 27 perches)
--- Hilly field (3 acres 1 rood 30 perches)
--- Ten acre piece (10 acres 2 roods 5 perches)
all in the occupation of [ ] Leeds at £160 per annum, Hackney, Bow & Stepney,
conveyed to Edward Woodcock, 11/12 Sep 1765 by Jo[seph] Barbaroux
--- capital messuage or farmhouse called Bendict Wallers (as H/DE275-276 etc.,)
--- capital messuage or farmhouse called Parkers
--- tenement or toft and parcels of land called Strawberrys alias Sheberrys and lands belonging,
late estate of Thomas Meredith, clerk
--- 3 crofts called Wattwoods and Clayshawe alias Clayhalke, Thundersley & Hadleigh, Essex (40 acres)
late in the occupation of Samuel Marridge, now [ ] Keeps, conveyed (Lease & Release)
22/23 Jan 1768 to Edward Woodcock by Henry Hesketh senior & junior
--- Boyces farm, South Benfleet, Essex
--- Sympkins farm, the Harp and Francis tenement and 20 acres meadow and 'rashore' ground, Thundersley
--- barn, several parcels of land, meadow & pasture and wood called Culver Hill, Middle field,
Further field, Brownings Hill, Piggs Mead, Culver Wood and the Springs (90 acres), Thundersley,
late part of the demesne of Thundersley Hall, Essex
all in the occupation of [ ] Keeps & William Bruet
--- chambers in the new buildings, Serles Court, Lincolns Inn, conveyed (Lease & Release) 21/22 Feb 1764
to Edward Woodcock by Seymour Leeke, esquire
--- Yedding farm, & 180 acres Hasse alias Hays parish, Middlesex, in the occupation of [ ] Pooley
@ £40 per annum, conveyed to Edward Woodcock by Seymour Leeke 21/22 Feb 1764
to uses: to use of Henry Seymour and heirs male, remainder as declared in the will of Henry Portman
concerning the real estate to be purchased with the remainder of personal estate
Allowed in Chancery
Witnesses: John Spiller, John Strong, John Glegg
4 Jul 1772