Reference
Z13/2
Title
Mortgage by demise
Date free text
11 Nov 890
Production date
From: 1890 To: 1890
Scope and Content
e(1) Henry Gerard Leigh of 19 Hans Place, Middlesex, Captain in H.M's 1st Life Guards
(2) Joseph Gurney Barclay Esq., Right Hon. John George Baron Monk Bretton and Wilfrid Arthur Bevan Esq - Mortgage Trustees of Rock Life Assurance Co. 15 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London
Recites: Z13/1 with following differences:
Heir = Henry Blundell Leigh of Armington Hall, Leics.; died leaving son (1) as heir
Testators father = John Shaw Leigh
His property:
- 500 acres, including house with gardens, stables, park, woods, farms, called Luton Hoo Park Estate
- 736 acres in County of Chester called Grange Hall Estate
- freehold and copyhold property at Kirkdale, Wavertree and West Derby near Liverpool, and other freehold property at Widnes, St. Helens and at Whiston and Eccleston near Prescot, Lancs.
Marriage settlement:
(i) (1)
(ii) Marion Lindsay Leigh wife of (1), then Maria Lindsay Antrobus, spinster
(iii) Sir Herbert Edmund Frankland Lewis Bart., Lawrence George Drummond, Richard Fort and Charles Keith Elderton (Trustees)
Parts of testators estates sold under Leigh Estates Act 1875
Life Assurance Policy, No. 19267, £23,000 for premium of £671.15s.10d p.a. During life of Eleanor Lucy de Falbe payment of premium on (1)'s behalf. (1) also advanced sum of £10,000
Now: Mortgage for 99 years on property except leasehold, in consideration of £10,000 advanced on policy. On death of Eleanor Lucy de Falbe or of (1), interest to be paid on £22,000 at 5 1/2% p.a. or 4 1/2% p.a. if paid within 1 calendar month of appointed 1/2 yearly days. Deduction for property of income tax.
Covenants: If Eleanor Lucy de Falbe or (1) to die within 5 years of agreement, (2) to receive, in lieu of £22,000, £10,000 with compound interest at 4 1/2% p.a. from day of present agreement to day of death and premium due on existing policies.
Schedule mentioned in deed not given.
Sealed by both parties; signed by (1)
Endorsements:
Witnesses: Dillon R.S Lowe, 2 Temple Gardens, London (solicitor) and Walter C.S Chapman, clerk to Messrs Kendall, Price and Reynolds, 62 Carey Street, Lincolns Inn
Attached:
(a) Letter to directors of Rock Life Assurance Society authorizing payment to (1)'s solicitors Lowe and Co, £10,000
(b) Notice to trustees of marriage settlement of 23 Oct 1886 assignment of (1)'s life interest in Leigh Estates to (2). Signed Kendall, Price and Francis Solicitors; receipt acknowledgement by Charles K Elderton (Temple), 11 No 1890
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