Earl Nelson estate: raising money against estates in Wiltshire for the discharge of an equitable charge, and other provisions Act 1835
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1835 c. 27 |
| Year | 1835 |
ANNO QUINTO & SEXTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS,
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Cap.
27-
An Act for raising, on the Security of certain Estates
in the County of Wilts whereof the Right Honour-
able Thomas Earl Nelson is Tenant in Tail, a Sum
of Money for the Purpose of discharging the Sum
of Ten thousand Pounds equitably charged there-
on by William Earl Nelson deceased, in favour of
his Daughter Charlotte Mary Lady Bridport; and
for other Purposes. [31st August 1835.]
W
HEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Letters Pa-
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland,
bearing tent,
46
G.
3i
Date at Westminster the Twentieth Day of November in ^J^*6
the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George
the Third, His Majesty did grant unto the Right Honourable William
late Earl Nelson, then William Lord Nelson, Doctor in Divinity,
Brother of the late Right Honourable Horatio Viscount Nelson, the
Titles of Earl Nelson and Viscount Merton of Trafalgar and of
Merton in the County of Surrey, to hold to him the said William
Earl Nelson and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten .and
to be begotten ; and in default of such Issue to the Heirs Male of the
Body of Susannah the Wife of Thomas Bolton Esquire, and Sister of
the said Horatio Viscount Nelson, lawfully begotten and to be be-
gotten, severally and successively one after another as they should
be in Priority of Birth; and in default of such Issue to the Heirs
[Private.'} 1 a Male
554 5° & 6° GULIELMI IV. tap. 27.
Male of the Body of
Catherine,
the Wife of
George
Matcham Esquire,
another Sister of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson, lawfully begotten
and to be begotten severally and successively one after another as
they should be in Priority of Birth : And whereas by an Act passed
in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign.of His late Majesty King George
46G.3,
c.146.
the Third, intituled An Act for settling and securing a certain Annuity
on the Earl Nelson and the Heirs Male of his Body, and such other
Persons to whom the Title of Earl Nelson may descend; and for grant-
ing a Sum of Money to purchase an Estate to accompany the said
Title; and also for granting a Sum of Money for the Use of the
Sisters of the late Vice-Admiral Viscount Nelson, in consideration of
the eminent and signal Services performed by the said late Viscount
Nelson to His Majesty and the Public, it was among other Things
enacted, that One Annuity or yearly Sum of Five thousand Pounds
of lawful Money of Great Britain should be issuing and payable out
of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of Great
Britain, and be paid quarterly to the Reverend William Nelson, then
Earl Nelson, and to the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Earl
Nelson, and to such other Person to whom the said Title, Honour,
and Dignity of Earl Nelson should descend, pursuant to the Limi-
tation of the Patent whereby the said Dignity was granted, to com-,
mence from the Twenty-first Day of
October
in the Year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and five ; and it was thereby further
enacted, that a Sum not exceeding Ninety thousand Pounds of lawful
Money of Great Britain should be paid out of the said Consolidated
Fund to the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord High
Treasurer of Great Britain or First Lord Commissioner of the Trea-
sury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord Commissioner
pf the Admiralty, and the Treasurer of the Navy, for the Time
being respectively, the Honourable George Walpole, Alexander Davi-
son of St. James's Square, Esquire, and William Haslewood of Fitzroy
Square, Esquire, in Trust to and for the Use of the said Earl Nelson
and such other Person on whom the Title of Earl Nelson should
descend, and to apply the same in the Manner therein-after directed ;
and il was thereby further enacted, that it should be lawful for the
said Earl Nelson by any Deed or Instrument in Writing under his
Hand and Seal, attested by Two or more credible Witnesses, to
charge the Real Estates therein-after directed to be purchased with
any Sum not exceeding Ten thousand Pounds, with Interest for the
same at and after the Rate of Five Pounds per
Centum
per Annum,
as and for a Portion for Lady
Charlotte
Nelson, only Daughter of the
said Earl Nelson, and, for securing the same with such Interest as
aforesaid, by any such Deed or Instrument to demise such Real
Estates, or any sufficient Portion
thereof,
to Trustees for the Term
of Five hundred Years, for the raising such Portion and Payment
of such Interest in such Manner and at such Times and in such
Proportions as the said Earl Nelson should by any such Deed or
Instrument direct; and it was thereby further enacted, that it should
be lawful for the said Trustees to whom the said Sum of Ninety
thousand Pounds was thereby granted as aforesaid, and they were
thereby required, to lay out and invest the said Sum of Ninety thou-
sand Pounds, or any Part
thereof,
in the Purchase of a Mansion
House, and of any Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Here-
2 ditaments
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