Sir John Palmer Acland estate: exonerating estates in Somerset and Devon from a jointure and charging the payment against other estates in Somerset Act 1834

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1834 c. 26
Year1834
ANNO QUARTO & QUINTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
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Cap,
26.
An Act for exonerating Estates in the Counties of
Somerset andDevon,comprised- in the Marriage
Settlement of Sir John Palmer Acland Baronet,
deceased, from the Jointure or Rent-charge
thereby limited to Dame Sarah Maria Palmer
Acland,
his Widow, during her Life, and for
charging other Estates in the County of Somerset,
devised and directed to be purchased by the Will
of the said Sir John Palmer
Acland,
with the
Payment
thereof.
[27th June 1834.]
HEREAS by Indentures of Lease and Release and Settle- indentures
of
ment, bearing Date respectively the Third and Fourth Lease and
Days of November in the Year One thousand eight hun- Release and
dred and eighteen, the Release' and Settlement being made or dated^dand
expressed to be made between Sir John Palmer Acland of Fairfield in 4th Novem-
the County of Somerset, and of the Royal
Crescent
in the City of ber!8i8.
Bath in the County of Somerset aforesaid, Baronet, of the First Part,
Sarah Maria Gibbes of the City of Bath aforesaid, Widow, of the
Second Part, the Right Honourable Samuel Hood Lord Bridport
Baron Bridport of Cricket Lodge in the said County of Somerset, and
the Reverend Randolph Richard Knipe Clerk, of Water Newton in the
County of Huntingdon, of the Third Part, and Henry Milnes Thorn-
[_Private:^\ g ton
4° & 5° GULIELMI IV. Cap.26.
ton of
Cobham
Place in the County of Surrey, Esquire, and Henri/
Charles Hoare the younger, of Fleet Street in the City of London,
Esquire, of the Fourth Part, being the Settlement made and exe-
cuted previously to and in contemplation of the Marriage then
agreed upon and soon afterwards solemnized Between the said Sir
John Palmer Acland and Sarah Maria Gibbes (now Dame Sarah
Maria Palmer Acland Widow), it is witnessed, that in consideration
of such Marriage, and for other the Considerations therein men-
tioned, the said Sir John Palmer Acland did grant, bargain, sell, alien,
release, and confirm unto the said Samuel Hood Lord Bridport and
Randolph Richard Knipe, and their Heirs, all those the Manors of
Brickland otherwise Bankland otherwise BucMand
Chadmead
other-
wise
Cheadmead
and BucMand otherwise BricMand Sororum, with the
Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereof respectively, in the
said County of Somerset, and divers Messuages, Lands, Tenements,
and Hereditaments to the same Manors belonging, situate, lying,
and being in the several Parishes of North Petherton and Durston, or
one of them, in the said.County
oi"_Somerset,
and in the now reciting
Indenture described, and also all those the Manors or Lordships or
reputed Manors or Lordships of Aller and Oath in the said County
of
Somerset,
with all and singular their and every of their Rights,
Members, and Appurtenances, and divers Capital and other Mes-
suages, Farms, Lands, Tenements, Woods, Rights of fishing and
fowling, and other Hereditaments, situate, lying, and being in the
Parish of Aller in the said County oi' Somerset, and in the same
Indenture more particularly described, and also all and singular
other the Manors, Lordships, Messuages, Farms, Lands, Tenements,
Rents,
Reversions, and Hereditaments whatsoever, with their and
every of their Rights, Members, and Appurtenances, then of him the
said Sir John Palmer
Acland,
situate, lying, and being and extending
in the several Towns, Fields, Parishes, Villages, Tithings, Hamlets,
Jurisdictions, Precincts, Territories, and Places oi BricMand other-
wise BanMand otherwise BucMand Chadmead otherwise
Cheadmead
Brickland otherwise BucMand Sororum BanMand, Moor
Land,
Aller
Court, King's Sedgmoor, Oath, Beere, and the Great River -otherwise
Langport River otherwise the River Perrett, Woolmerston otherwise
fVoolmislon, North Moor, North Petherton, and Durston, in. the
said. County of
Somerset,
or accepted, reputed, taken, or known as
Part, Parcel, or Member of the last-mentioned Manors, Lordships,
Messuages, and Farms, or any or either of them, or as thereunto
belonging or demised, used, occupied, or enjoyed as Part or Parcel
thereof or as thereunto belonging, then late the Estate of and belong-
ing to Sir Thomas Wroth deceased, since of Thomas Palmer Esquire
and Elizabeth his Wife, and afterwards of Elizabeth Acland Widow,
arid also all that Mansion House called Newhouse, and divers other
Messuages, Farms, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, situate,
lying, and being in the Parishes of Mamhead and Kenton in the
County of Devon, and in the said Indenture of Release and Settle-
ment particularly described, to hold the same, with the Appurtenances,
u„nto the said Samuel Hood Baron Bridport and Randolph Richard
Knipe, their Heirs and Assigns, to the several Uses, upon the Trusts,
and for the Intents and Purposes, and subject to the several Powers,
Provisoes, and Agreements therein-after limited, expressed, and
14 declared,
4° & 5° GULIELMI IV.
CapM-
declared, and herein-after in part mentioned, of and concerning the
same ; (that is to say,) to the Use of the said Sir John Palmer
Acland-T
his Heirs and Assigns, until the Solemnization of the said then.
intended Marriage; and after the Solemnization
thereof,
to the Use
of the said Sir John Palmer Acland and his Assigns, during the Term
of his natural Life, without Impeachment of Waste ; with Remainder,
after the Determination of that Estate by Forfeiture or otherwise, ta
the Use of the said Samuel Hood Baron Bridport and Randolph
Richard Knipe, and their Heirs, during the Life of the said Sir John
Palmer
Acland,
upon Trust to preserve the contingent Uses and
Estates therein-after limited; and from and immediately after the
Decease of the said Sir John Palmer
Acland,
then to the Use, Intent,.
and Purpose that the said Sarah Maria
Gibbes
and her Assigns should
and might have, receive, and take, yearly and every Year, for and
during the Term of her natural Life, one Annuity, Rent-charge, or
yearly Sum of Two thousand Pounds of lawful Money of Great
Britain, to be yearly issuing and payable out of the said Heredita-
ments and Premises therein-before granted and released, or intended
so to be, and the same to be' in full for the Jointure of the said
Sarah Maria Gibbes, and in lieu, bar, and satisfaction of and for
her. whole Dower or. Thirds at Common Law, or by or on account
of Custom, Freeberich, or Widow's Part, as therein expressed, and to
be paid to her the said Sarah Maria
Gibbes,
or her Assigns, at or in
the Guildhall in the City of Bath, on the Four most usual Feasts or
Days of Payment of Rent in the Year; (that is to say,) on the
Twenty-fifth Day of March, the Twenty-fourth Day of June, the
Twenty-ninth Day of September, and the Twenty-fifth Day of Decem-
ber in every Year, by even and equal Portions, free and clear from
and^wjthout anyManner of Deduction or Abatement whatsoever, as
therein expressed, ,or any other Reprises whatsoever, the first Pay-
ment thereof to be made on such of the said Days as should first
happen after the Death.of the said Sir John Palmer Acland ; and in
the now reciting Indenture of Release and Settlement are contained
the usual Powers and Remedies, by Distress and Entry and Percep-
tion of the Rents and Profits of the said Manors and Hereditaments,
for compelling and enforcing Payment of the said annual Rent-
charge, or yearly Sum of Two thousand Pounds when in arrear as
therein mentioned; and as to and concerning all and singular the
said Manors, Lands, Hereditaments, and Premises, with their Appur-
tenances, (subject to and charged and chargeable with the said annual
Rent-charge or yearly Sum of Two thousand Pounds, and the
Remedies and Powers thereby given and provided for securing and
recovering the same, and without Prejudice thereto,) to the Use of
the said Henry Milnes Thornton and Henri/
Charles.
Hoare, their
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, from the Day next before
the Day of the Date of the now reciting Indenture of Release and
Settlement, for and during the Term of One hundred Years from
thence next ensuing, and fully to hp complete and ended, without
Impeachment of Waste, upon the Trust-folio wing; (that is to say,)
upon Trust for the better securing to the said Sarah Maria Gibbes and
her Assigns during her Life, in the event of her surviving the said
Sir John Palmer Acland her then intended Husband, the due Pay-
ment of the said yearly Rent-charge or annual Sum of Two-thousand
Pounds

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