Coke's Estate Act 1812
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1812 c. clxxvii |
| Year | 1812 |
ANNO OUINQUAGESIMO SECUNnn
RGII III. REGIS.
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Cap.
177.
An A6t for effedhiating an Exchange between Thomas
William
Coke
Efquire, and the Truftees of his fettled
Eftates. [aoth June 1812/]
W
HEREAS the Right Honourable
Thomas
late Earl of
Leicejier
Will of
duly made and publifhed his laft Will and Teftatnent in Thomas Earl
Writing, bearing Date the Twenty-fifth Day of May One J^J!f
Jjr*
thoufand feven hundred and fifty-fix, and thereby, after difpofing of a yi^y
I7J6#
Meflbage in the County of
Middle/ex,
gave and devifed his capital Seat
or Houfe at
Holkbam,
in the County of Norfolk, and his Park there, and
all and lingular his Freehold and Copyhold Manors, Hereditaments*
dnd real Eftates whatfoever, fituate in the feveral Counties of Ntrfolk,
Kent)
Somerfet,
Oxford,
and in the City of London, and elfewhere in
England, (lubjeft to the Incumbrances that fhould be charged thereon
at the Time of
his
Deceafe,) unto and to the Ufe of Sir Matthew Lamb
Baronet, and Ralph
Cauldwell
Gentleman, their Heirs and Affigns upon
Truft, out of the Rents and Profits, to pay the Jointures, Annuities,
Rents,
and Interefls of Mortgages and Incumbrances that fhould be
charged on the fame Premifes at the Time of his Deceafe, fo long as the
fame fhould be charged thereon j and upon further Truft by Sale or
Mortgage, to raife fo much Money as would pay his Bond and ^mple
Contract Debts which his Perfonal Eftate (hould be deficient in paying;
and upon Truft to pay the Refidue of the Rents to his Wife Margaret
Countefs of'
Leicefler^
for her Life; and after her Death to pay an An-
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fluity of Two hundred Pounds to his Niece Ann
Roberts
for her Life,
and Annuities for Life of One hundred Pounds a-piece to all the
younger Sons of his Sifter Ann
Roberts •,
and alfo to raife the clear yearly
Sum of Three thoufand Pounds, and apply the fame in paying off and
difcharging the Mortgages that fhould affeft his Real Eftates at the
Time of his Death j and upon further Truft to pay the Refidue of the
faid Renis and Profits to his faid Sifter Ann
Roberts
for her feparate Ufe
during her Ufe; and after her Deceafe he dire&ed, that his faid capital
Houfe, Manors, Hereditaments, and Real Eftates devifed tk his
Truftees* (hould (fubjeit to the Trufts aforefaid,) be in Truft for his
Nephew
Wenman Coke
Efquire, deceafed, the eldeft Son of the faid Tefta-
tor's Sifter Ann
Roberts*
for his Life, with Remainder after his Deceafe,
in Truft for
Thomas William Coke
Efquire, then the only Son of the faid
Wenman
Coke,
and his Affigns for his Life, without Impeachment of
Wafte, with Remainder to the Ufe of the faid Sir Matthew Lamb and
Ralph
Cauldwell
and their Heirs during the Life of the faid
Thomas
Wil-
liam Cpke
in Truft, to preferve contingent Remainders, with Remain-
der in Truft for the Firft and other Sons of the faid
Thomas William Coke
fucceflively in Tail Male, with Remainder in Truft for all the other
Sons of the faid
Wenman Coke
fucceffively in Tail Male, with divers
Remainders over, and with the ultimate Remainder in Truft for the
right Heirs of the faid Teftator; and the faid Teftator thereby gave and
devifed all his Leafehold Eftates of what Nature or Kind foever, unto
the faid Sir Matthew Lamb and Ralph
Cauldwell*
their Heirs, Executors,
Adminiftrators, and Affigns, during the Terms he had therein in Truft,
for fuch Purpoles, and for the Benefit of fuch Perfon and Perfons, and
for fuch Eftates, and fubjeft to fuch Payments, Charges, and Limita-
tions as were thereinbefore expreflfed and declared concerning the faid
Freehold and Copyhold Hereditaments and Premifes, or as near thereto
as might be, and he direfted that the Leafes ftiould from Time to Time
be renewed out of the Rents and Profits of the faid Premifes, in the
Names of the faid Sir Matthew Lamb and Ralph
CauldwelU
or the Sur-
vivor of them, or his legal Representatives
-,
and that all the new Leafes
Ihbuld be upon the like Trufts, and he appointed the faid Sir Matthew
Lamb and Ralph
Cauldwell
Executors of his faid Will: And whereas the
faid
Thomas
Earl of
Leicejler
duly made and publifhed a Codicil to his
faid Will, dated the Twentieth Day of
May
One thoufand fevetf hundred
and fifty-feven, and thereby, after taking Notice that, fince the making
of his faid Will, he had purchafed feveral Eftates lying in the Parifhes
qf
Burnhamf
Wighton%
and elfewhere, in the County of Norfolk, he gave
and devifed the fame unto and to the Ufe of the faid Sir Matthew Lamb
and Ralph
Cauldwell,
their Heirs and Affigns, upon the fame Trufts
as were by his faid Will direfled, concerning his faid capital Seat at
Holkham, and his other Real Eftates : And whereas the faid Teftator's
Sifter, Ann Roberts, married Philip
Roberts
Efquire, and had lffue only
Five Sons, (that is to fay) the faid Wenman Coke (formerly
Wenman
Roberts)*
her eldeft Son, and Philip Roberts, William
Roberts*
Edward
Roberts*
and
Thomas
Roberts,
her younger Sons, and died in the Life-
time of the faid Teftator: And whereas the faid Teftator died in the
Year One thoufand feven hundred and fifty-nine without Iflue, and
without having altered or revoked his faid Will or Codicil, leaving the
faid Wenman
Coke
his Heir at Law ; and the faid Sir Matthew
Lamb
and
Ralph
Cauldwell-
proved the faid Will and Codicil in the Prerogative
Court
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