Eleanora Grubbe (an infant) estate: vesting in trustees for sale, purchase of other estates under the direction of the Court of Chancery, granting leases of the estates to be purchased and other provisions Act 1834

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1834 c. 8
Year1834
ANNO QUARTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
Cap.
8.
An Act for vesting Estates belonging to Eleanora
jimielJvMa Hunt Grubbe"SpiiiMeiy an Irrfant, iii
Trustees for Sale, and for laying out the Money
arising from such Sale, under the Direction of
the High Court of Chancery, in the Purchase of
other Estates, and for granting Leases of the
Estates to be purchased ; and for other Purposes.
[16th June 1834.]
W
HEREAS-by an Order of the High Court of Chancery Recital of
bearing Date the Twenty-fifth Day
.
of February One Order of
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and made in a Re^r?Jice
Cause depending in the said Court wherein Eleanora Anne Julia Hunt
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Grubbe (an Infant), by Thomas Hunt Grubbe her Uncle and next chancery,
Friend, was
Plaintiff,
and the Reverend James Andrew Hunt Grubbe Grubbe
Clerk, and Henry Palliser
Costobadie,
were Defendants, upon the perSvf
Petition of the said infant Plaintiff it was ordered, that it should be
25th Feb
referred to the Master to whom this Cause was referred to enquire 1834.
and certify whether it would be fit and proper and for the Benefit of
the Petitioner that Application should be forthwith made to Parlia-
ment for Leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Sale of the several
Estates, Tithes, and Premises to which the Petitioner is intitled as
{Private.'] % % the
182
Recital of
the Master's
Report,
dated
7th March
1834.
4°GULIELMI IV. Cap.8.
the Heiress at Law and Customary Heir and as the next of Kin
of Thomas Milnes the Intestate, in the Decree in this Cause named,
and also as the Heiress at Law of her Mother Charlotte Elizabeth
Grubbe deceased, or otherwise, and to enable and authorize the
laying out the Purchase Monies to arise therefrom, and also the Sum
of Twelve thousand six hundred Pounds in the Petition mentioned,
in the Purchase of an Estate or Estates to be conveyed under the
Direction of this Court to Trustees for the Petitioner, with such
Powers as may be usual and proper with regard to granting Leases
thereof,
and otherwise; and after the said Master should have made
his Report such further Order should be made as should be just:
And whereas in obedience to the said Order the said Master made
his Report bearing Date the Seventh Day of March One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-four, and thereby certified that he had
been attended by the Solicitor for the said Petitioner the infant
Plaintiff,
who was likewise the Solicitor for the Defendant James
Andrew Hunt Grubbe, and had proceeded upon the Inquiries by such
Order directed to be made, and a Pedigree, various Extracts
from the Registers of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, and
several Affidavits deposing to the Authenticity of such Extracts, had
been laid before him, which he had investigated and considered, and
he thereby found, that the said Intestate Thomas Milnes married
Eleanor Gery, and died on the Ninth Day of January One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-three, and that he had Two Children only
by such Marriage, one of whom (that is to say), Charlotte Elizabeth
Milnes, lived to be married, and that she married the Defendant
James Andrew Hunt Grubbe, and died on the Twenty-sixth Day of
August One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in the Life-
time of the Intestate, leaving One Child only her surviving (that is
to say), the infant Plaintiff Eleanora Anne Julia Hunt Grubbe, and
the said. Master found that such infant Plaintiff was the sole Heiress
at Law and only next of Kin of the said Intestate, and also the sole
Heiress at Law of her Mother the said Charlotte Elizabeth
Grubbe
;
and in order to enable him to form an Opinion whether such an Ap-
plication to bring in a Bill to Parliament as stated in the said Order
would be for the Benefit of the said infant
Plaintiff,
he had found it
necessary to enquire of what Real and Copyhold Estates the said
Infant was possessed, and what Estate and Interest she had therein,
and the said Master found that by Indentures of Lease and Release,
bearing Date respectively the Nineteenth and Twentieth Days of
September One thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, the Release
being of Four Parts, and made and duly executed by and between
William Gery, therein described of Bushmead Priory, Esquire, since
deceased, of the First Part; Eleanor Gery since deceased, and who
was One of Three Daughters and Co-heiresses of the said William
Gery, of the Second Part; the said Thomas Milnes, the Intestate in the
said Indenture of Release described as of Newark upon Trent in the
County of Nottingham, Clerk, (being the Grandfather of the infant
Plaintiff,) of the Third Part; and Francis Rix and Jacob
Costobadie
(both since deceased) of the Fourth Part; and which Indentures of
Lease and Release were made in contemplation of a Marriage after-
wards duly had and solemnized by and between the said Thomas
Milnes and Eleanor Gery, the Grandfather and Grandmother respec-
tively
4°GULIELMI IV. Cap.S. 183
tively of the infant
Plaintiff,
it was witnessed, that in consideration,
amongst other Things, of the said intended Marriage, the said William
Gery did grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, and confirm unto the said
Francis Riw and Jacob
Costobadie,
their Heirs and Assigns,, all that One
undivided Third Part, the Whole into Three equal Parts to be divided, of
and
in
all that Capital Messuage or Manor House called Bushmead Hall
otherwise BushmeadPriory, or by whatsoever other Name or Names the
same was or had been called or known theretofore, newly erected by
William Gery, Father of the said William Gery, Party thereto, situate,
lying, and being in the Parish of Eaton Socon in the County of
Bedford, then in the Occupation of the said William Gery, Party
thereto, and also of and in all other the Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments of the said William Gery, Party thereto, situate in
Bushmead aforesaid ; and also all that One undivided Third Part, the
Whole in Three equal Parts to be divided, of and in all that Messuage,
Tenement, or Farm House, and also of and in all and every the
Lands, Closes, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premises in the
Parishes of Bolnhurst otherwise Bolnest Keysoe and Perten Hall in
the said County of Bedford, or any or either of them, and also all that
Cottage or Tenement situate in the said Parish of Bolnhurst otherwise
Bolnest, and also of and in all other the Messuages, Lands, Tene-
ments, and Hereditaments in the said Parishes of Bolnhurst otherwise
Bolnest Keysoe and Perten Hall in the County of Bedford aforesaid,
whereof or wherein the said William Gery, Party thereto, and Charles
Gery, therein mentioned, or either of them, or any other Person or
Persons in Trust for them or either of them, at any Time before the
Intermarriage of the said William Gery with Mary Bell the younger,
had any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance in Possession, Reversion,
Remainder, or Expectancy, and also of and in certain Closes,
Grounds, an"d~Trerhis^"situaTe^in^He~P'arisK of Baton
Soconi
afore-
said, in the same Indentures particularly described; and also all that
undivided Third Part, the Whole into Three equal Parts to be
divided, of and in all that the Manor or reputed Manor of Bushmead
otherwise Bushymead otherwise Bismead, in the Counties of
Bed*
ford and Huntingdon, or One of them, and also of and in all those
Messuages or Tenements, Closes, and Parcels of Land and'Premises
situate in the Parishes of Eaton
Socon
and Little Haughton, or One of
them, therein more particularly described, and also of and in all that
Messuage or Tenement, and Closes of Land and Premises, situate in
Great Haughton in the said County of Huntingdon, therein also more
particularly described, and also of and in all the Great Tithes of
Corn, Grain, Hay, and Grass yearly arising, increasing, or renewing
in or upon the said last-mentioned Estate, and also of and in all other
the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of the said William Gery,
Party thereto, in Great Haughton aforesaid, except the Haughton
Moor Estate in the same Indentures particularly described; the En-
tirety of all which said Manor, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Tithes,
and Hereditaments, One Third Part whereof was by the said Inden-
tures intended to be granted and released by the said William Gery,
together with the Entirety of the Hereditaments in the same Inden-
tures and herein-after mentioned, and whereof One undivided Third
Part was intended to be granted and released by the said William
Gery and Eleanor Gery afterwards Eleanor Milnes, were collec-
tively

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