Viscount Ansons estate: vesting part of the settled estates in Norfolk in trustees, to execute contracts for sale already entered into, to sell other parts thereof under the direction of the Court of Chancery and to apply the proceeds in the manner therei Act 1822

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Citation1822 c. 33
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An Act for vesting certain Parts of the settled
Estates of the Right Honourable Thomas William
Viscount Anson, in the County of Norfolk, in
Trustees, in Trust, to carry into execution Con-
tracts already entered into for Säle of Parts of
the same Estates, and to seil the other Parts
thereof under the Directions of the Court of
Chancery, and to apply the Money arising from
the said Sales in the Manner therein mentioned.
[Ist July 1822.]
"W TT XHEREAS by an Indenture, bearing Date on or about the Settlement;
%/W Thirteenth Day of
September
One thousand seven hundred dated i3th
T T and ninety-four, and made or expressed to be made between SeP1' I79+»
Thomas Anson of
Shugborough
in the County of Stafford, Esquire, after-
riae
of~ the
wards the Right Honourable
Thomas
Viscount Anson, and since deceased, late Viscount
the eldest Son and Heir of
George
Anson, theretofore
George
Adams, then Anson with
late of the same Place, Esquire, deceased, by the Honourable Mary Anson Mlss Co e'
hisWife, since also deceased, of the First Part; Thomas William Coke
Esquire, and Anne Margaret
Coke
Spinster, his Second Daughter, now
the Right Honourable Anne Margaret Viscountess Dowager Anson, of
the Second Part; Ralph Button Esquire, Edward Coke Esquire, and
Edmund Rolfe Esquire, of the
1
hird Part; the Honourable Henry Sedley,
and the Reverend Charles Anson Clerk, of the Fourth Part; and the
Right Honourable
Francis
Earl of Moira, and the Right Honourable George
Venables
Lord
Vernon,
of the Fifth Part (being the Settlement executed
[Private."} y n previously
3°GE0RGII IV.
CapM.
previously to and in consideration of a Marriage then intended, and
which was shortly after solemnized between the said
Thomat
late Viscount
Anson and the said Anne Margaret now Viscountess Dowager Anson);
after recidng, amongst other things, the last Will and Testament of the
said
George
Anson,
bearing Date on or about the Fourth Day of January
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, whereby the said Testator
gave to his Wife the Honourable Mary
Anson
for her Life an Annirity of
One thousand Pounds, and subject thereto he gave and devised all his
Freehold and Copyhold Estates in
Norfolk
and
Suffolk,
or so much thereof
as should not be sold for the Puiposes therein mentioned, and all and
every his Freehold and Copyhold Estates in the several Counties of
Stafford
and
Midd/esex,
and all his legal and equitable Estate, Right,
and Interest therein respectively, unto his Son the said Thomas late
Viscount
Anson,
and his Assigns, during his Life, without Impeachment
of Waste, and with such Power of Leasing as therein was contained;
with Remainder to the Use of the said
George Venables
Lord
Vernon
(then
George Venables Vernon)
and his Heirs, during the Life of the said
Thomas
late Viscount Anson, in Trust to preserve the contingent Uses and
Estates therein-after limited from being defeated or destroyed
j.
with
Remainder to the Use of the first and every other the Son and Sons
of the Body of the said
Thomas
late Viscount
Anson,
successively in Tail
Male, with several Remainders over; and in which Will was contained
(among other Powers or Provisoes) a Proviso in the Words or to the
Effect following; (that is to say), " Provided always, and my Will is,
that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Son
Thomas,
and such
other of my said Sons as and when he and they shall respectively come
into and be in the actual Possession of my said Estates and Premises
herein-before devised to or in Trust for him or them as aforesaid, pr any
Part
thereof,
by any Deed or Writing, Deeds or Writings, undex his and
their respective Hands and Seals, attested by Two or more credible Wit-
nesses^to grant, charge, settle, limit, or appoint any Part or
Parts
of
my
said
Estates, Hereditaments, and Premises, with the clear yearly Payment of any
Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the Whole the Sum of One-thou-
sand Pounds, unto or in Trust for or to
the Use
of any Woman or Warnen
he or they shall intermarry with (either before or after such Marriage),
for the Life or Lives of such Woman
or
Women,
for her or their Jointure
and Jointures, or in part of Jointure; and also that it shall and may be
lawful to and for my said Son
Thomas,
and such other of my said Sons
as aforesaid, in Manner aforesaid, to charge all or any Part of my said
Estates with the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding
the Sum of Fifteen thousand Pounds, for the Benefit andFortunes of his
and their younger Children;" and also reciting, that the said
George
Anson
departed this Life in or about the Month of
October
One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-nine, without revoking or altering his
said
Will j
it was witnessed (among other Things), that in consideration of the said
then intended Marriage, and for the other Considerations and Purposes
in the said Indenture particularly mentioned, the said
Thomas
late Viscount
Anson, in pursuance and exercise, and by force and virtue of the Powers
or Authorities so given or reserved to him in and by the said therein-
before recited Will of the said
George Anson
as aforesaid, and of all and
every other Power and Powers, Authority and Authorities whatsoever to
him given, reserved, belonging, or appertaining, or in anywise enabling
him in that
Behalf,
did grant, charge, limit, settle, and appoint by that
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