Ramsden Estate (Leasing) Act 1859
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ANNO VICESIMO SECUNDO & VICESIMO TERTIO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
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Cap.
4.
An Act for authorizing Leases of Parts of the
Settled Estates, in the Parishes of Huddersjield,
Almondbury, and Kirkheaton, in the West Riding
of the County of York, of Sir John William
Ramsden Baronet, and of which the Short Title
Ramsden\? Estate (Leasing) Act, 1859."
[13th August 1859.]
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HEREAS by virtue of an Indenture of Release and Settle- s^Wt
ment, grounded on a Lease for a Year, and dated the Fifth of J. C.
Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, Ramsden and
between Sir John Ramsden Baronet of the First Part, John
Charles
Dunaas
Ramsden the eldest Son of Sir John Ramsden of the Second Part, the dated 5th
Honourable Isabella Dundas Spinster (afterwards
Isabella
the Wife 0f April 1814.
the said John Charles Ramsden and herein-after called Isabella
Ramsden) of the Third Part, Robert Oliver of the Fourth Part, John
Exley of the Fifth Part, James Lane Fox the younger, of Bramham
Park in the County of York, Esquire, and Edward Stourton, of the
Sixth Part, Thomas Davison Bland and Charles William Wentworlh
Fitzwilliam (then called Viscount Milton and afterwards and late Earl
Fitzwttliam) of the Seventh Part, and Robert Pemberton Milnes and
[Private.] o the
22° & 23° VICTORIA CapA.
Ramsderis Estate (Leasing)
Act, 1859.
the Honourable
Lawrence JDundas
(afterwards and late Earl of Zetland)
of the Eighth Part, (being the Settlement made on the Marriage then
intended and shortly afterwards solemnized between John Charles
Ramsden and
Isabella
Ramsden, and herein-after called " the Marriage
Settlement,") and of a Common Recovery suffered in Easter Term in the
Fifty-fourth Year of
George
the Third, wherein Robert Oliver was
Demandant, John Exley was Tenant, and Sir John Ramsden and John
Charles
Ramsden were Vouchees, the Messuages, Farms, Lands, Rents,
and Hereditaments described in the Schedule to the now reciting
Indenture, in the Parishes of
Almondbury,
Kirkheaton,
and
Huddersfield,
in the West Riding of the County of York, (and herein-after called " the
Ramsden Family Estates,") were limited, after the Solemnization of the
then intended Marriage, to Uses for securing to
Isabella
Ramsden, in
case she should survive John
Charles
Ramsden, a yearly Rentcharge of
One thousand six hundred Pounds during her Widowhood, and of Eight
hundred Pounds for her Life if she should marry again, with Powers of
Distress and Entry for recovering the same, and (subject thereto) to the
Use of Thomas Davison Bland and the late Earl Fitswilliam, their
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for a Term of Ninety-nine Years,
upon the Trusts therein-after declared
thereof,
and, subject thereto, to the
Use of Sir John Ramsden for his Life; with Remainder to the Use of
Trustees during his Life, upon trust to preserve contingent Remainders;
with Remainder to the Use of
John Charles
Ramsden for his Life ; with
Remainder to the Use of Trustees during his Life, upon trust to
preserve contingent Remainders; with Remainder to the Use of Robert
Pemberton Milnes and the late Earl of Zetland, their Executors, Ad-
ministrators, and Assigns, for a Term of Five hundred Years, upon the
Trusts therein-after declared
thereof,
and, subject thereto, to the Use of
the First Son of John
Charles
Ramsden by
Isabella
Ramsden in Tail
Male; with divers Remainders over, and with the ultimate Remainder
or Reversion, to the Use of Sir John Ramsden, his Heirs and Assigns
for ever ; and the Trusts of the Term of Ninety-nine Years were declared
for better securing the yearly Rentcharges of One thousand six hundred
Pounds and Eight hundred Pounds, and the Trusts of the Term of Five
hundred Years were declared for raising, after the Decease of the
Survivor of Sir John Ramsden and John Charles Ramsden, and in
the Events which happened, Ten thousand Pounds for the only
Daughter of John Charles Ramsden by
Isabella
Ramsden; and Power
for granting Building, Repairing, and Improving Leases of the Ramsden
Family Estates or any Parts thereof was thereby created, to be
exercised by Sir John Ramsden during his Life, and after his Decease
by John
Charles
Ramsden during his Life, and after the Decease of
the Survivor of them by James Lane Fox the younger and Edward
Stourton, and the Survivor of them, and the Executors and Admini-
strators of the Survivor during the Minority of any Issue Male of
John Charles Ramsden entitled in possession, with the Consent in
Writing
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23° VICTORIA, Cap
A.
55
Ramsden's
Estate (Leasing) Act, 1859.
Writing of the Guardian or Guardians of the Person so entitled : And
whereas at the Time of the Date and Execution of the Marriage Settle
ment there was no Person answering the Description of James Lane
Fox the younger of Bramham Park in the County of York, Esquire,
but it is believed that it was the Intention of Sir John Ramsden and
John
Charles
Ramsden to name as Trustee for the Purposes for which
James Lane Fox the younger*was thereby expressed to be made a
Trustee
George
Lane Fox, then of Bramham Park, Esquire: And
•whereas, after the Date and Execution of the Marriage Settlement
Edward Stourton became Sir Edward
Vavasour
Baronet: And whereas
there was Issue of the Marriage of John
Charles
Ramsden and
Isabella
Ramsden Three Children, who died during the Lifetime of John
Charles
Ramsden under Twenty-one, and without having been married, (to
wit,) John William Ramsden,
Isabella
Elizabeth Ramsden, and Frances
Margaret Ramsden, and Two Children now living, (to wit,) Sir John
William Ramsden Baronet and
Charlotte
Louisa, now the Wife of the
Right Honourable Edward Horsman, and no other Child: And whereas
John
Charles
Ramsden died in the Month of
December
One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-six : And whereas Sir John Ramsden, by his Will of Sir
last Will and Testament in Writing dated the Twenty-sixth Day of John Rams-
January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and duly executed 26th Jan.
and attested, devised and appointed (with the Exceptions therein 1838-
expressed) all his Freehold Hereditaments, herein-after called the
devised Estates, unto the late Earl Fitzwilliam and Philip Davies
Cooke
and their Heirs, to the Use of William Thomas Spencer Wentworth,
then called Viscount Milton and now Earl Fitzwilliam, and Sir Edward
Vavasour,
for a Term of One thousand Years, upon the Trust therein-
after declared
thereof;
and, subject thereto, to the Use that Isabella
Ramsden and her Assigns should have for her natural Life One yearly
Rentcharge of One thousand four hundred Pounds, in addition to the
Jointure provided for her by the Marriage Settlement, with Powers of
Distress and Entry for recovering the same; and, subject thereto, to the
Use of Edward William Harvey Lord Ilawke and
George
Lane Fox,
their Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for a Term of Ninety-nine
Years,
upon the Trusts therein-after declared
thereof;
and, subject
thereto, to the Use of the Testator's Grandson John William Ramsden
(now Sir John William Ramsden) for his Life, subject to Impeachment
for Waste; with Remainder to the Use of the late Earl Fitzwilliam
and Philip Davies
Cooke,
and their Heirs, during his Life, upon trust
to preserve contingent Remainders ; with Remainder to the Use of the
First and every other Son of Sir John William Ramsden, severally ani
successively, according to Seniority in Tail Male; with Remainder to
the Use of the Testator's Second Son William Ramsden for his Life,
subject to Impeachment for Waste; with Remainder to the Use of
the late Earl Fitzwilliam and Philip Davies
Cooke,
and their Heirs,
during his Life, upon trust to preserve contingent Prmainders; with
Remainder
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