Lord Willoughby de Broke s estate: vesting estates entailed by an Act of 1535 [c. 44] [partition of lands between the co-heirs of Lord Broke] in trustees for sale, other estates to be purchased and settled in lieu Act 1854
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1854 c. 26 |
| Year | 1854 |
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO & DECIMO OCTAVO
VICTORLE REGIN^E.
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Cap.
26.
An Act for vesting certain Estates in the County
of Lincoln, entailed by an Act of Parliament of
the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His
Majesty King Henry the Eighth, in Trustees,
upon trust to sell the same, and to lay out the
Monies thence arising in the Purchase of other
Estates, to be settled to the same Uses as the
Estates so sold. [7th August 1854.]
T"HEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty- Act of
/ seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Henry the 27 Hei
Eighth, reciting, u that before that Time great Variannces,
Stryfes, and Debates had been had between Charles Blount Lord
Mountejoye, Son and Heir of William Blount Knight, late Lord
Mountejoye, and the Lady Ann his Wife, John Poulet Esquire, Son
and Heir Apparent of Sir William Poulet Knyght, and Elizabeth his
Wife, Daughters of Robert Willughby Knyght, late Lord Broke, on
the Body of Dorothy his late Wife begotten, of that one Part, and
Francis Dautry Esquire and Blaunch his Wife, Foulke Gryvelle
Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife, Cousins and Heirs of the said Robert
Willoughby, that is to say, Daughters and Heirs of Edward Willughby,
Son and Heir Apparent to the said late Lord Broke, of that other Part,
[Private..] 7 u of,
630 17° & 18° VICTORIA, Cap.26.
Lord Willoughby de Broke s Estate.
of, for, and upon the Right, Title, Use, Interest, and Possession of
and in (among divers other Manors and Hereditaments in the Counties
of Somerset, Gloucester, Stafford, Cambridge, Leicester, Northampton,
and Hertford) the Manors of Ropesley, Tottyll, Gayton, Helpryng-
ham,
and Frampton, with, the Appurtenances, in the County of
Lincoln, and of and in all Lands, Tenements, Advowsons, and
Hereditaments, with their Appurts. which were the said Lord Broke's,
in possession or in use, the Day of his Decease in (amongst other
Places in the Counties of
Gloucester,
Stafford, Cambridge, Leicester,
Northampton, and Hertford) Ropesley, Tottyll, Gayton, Helpryngham,
Frampton, Swaton, Swineshed, Reston, Heky'ngton,
Totylthrope, Carleton, Tathewell, and elsewhere1 in the County of
Lincoln, all which Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments
the said, Frcwpis t>awfry and Blaunche his Wife, Foulke 'Grevill and
Elizabeth his Wife pretended Title to have, as in the Right of the
said Blaunche and Elizabeth Wyves to the said Francis and Foulke,
as Cousins and Heirs of the said Lord Broke, and to them to be
descended, in use or in possession, as Cousins and Heirs of the said
late Lord Broke, and which said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments the said Charles Lord Mountejoye and the Lady
Anne his Wife, John Poulett and Elizabeth his Wife, claimed and
pretended Title to have, as in the Right of the said Lady Anne and
Elizabeth Wyfes of the said Charles and John Poulett, as Heirs of the
Body of the said late Lord Broke on the Body of the said Lady
Dqrothy lawfully begotten, by force of the last Will of the said late
Lord Broke, by him made, declared, and sealed with his Seal of
Arms,
and of several Recoveries and other Assurances in the Law
unto divers Persons and their Heirs
thereof,
had and made by the
said late Lord Broke to the same Use, and also of and for the Payment
of a great and notable Debt by the said late Lord Broke at the Time
of his Decease due to the King's Highness and divers other Persons,
not then yet paid, for appeasing
whereof,
and in avoiding of Variannce
and Debate which might have risen and grown between the said
Parties, and also considering their Nearness in Affinity and Blood,
had by Mediation of their Friends fully condescended, concluded, and
agreed in manner and form following, (that is to say,) that all and
every Person and Persons, their Heirs and Assigns, which stood and
were then seised, or that thereafter should stand and be seised, of
and in all and every the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Here-
ditaments, with their Appurtenances, in the said Counties of
Gloucester, Stafford, Cambridge, Leicester, Northampton, Hertford,
Somerset, and Lincoln, should from thenceforth stand and be seised of
and in the Moiety thereof to the Use of the said Blaunche and of the
Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten, and for Default of such Issue
to the Use of the said Elizabeth Wife to the said Foulke and to the
Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten, and for Default of such Issue
to the Use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Wylloughby,
late
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