Sir Thomas Smiths estate: vesting parts in Essex in trustees for sale and investing the proceeds in the purchase of lands lying intermixed with other estates in the county standing settled to the same uses, and exchanging part of the last mentioned estate Act 1824
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1824 c. 18 |
| Year | 1824 |
ANNO QUINTO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap AS.
An Act for vesting certain Parts of the Entailed
Estates of Sir
TJiomas
Smyth Baronet, situate in
the County of Essex, in Trustees for Sale, and
for investing the Proceeds thereof in the Purchase
of Lands lying intermixed with other Estates in
the said County, standing settled to the like Uses ;
and also for effectuating the Exchange of Part
of such last-mentioned Estates for certain Glebe
Lands belonging to the United Rectories of
Thoydon Mount and Stapleford Tawney in the
said County, and for other Purposes.
[17th June 1824.]
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HERE AS by virtue of a certain Indenture of Bargain and Sale, Indenture,
bearing Date the Twenty-first Day of January One thousand seven ^ted..i'™ •
hundred and seventy-four, (inrolled in Chancery the Twenty- ~ec'ited.
ninth Day of the same Month), and made between the Reverend Sir
William Smyth
Baronet (long since deceased), and
William Smyth
Esquire,
his eldest Son and Heir apparent (afterwards Sir
William Smyth
Baronet, and
lately deceased), of the First Part, John
Slape
Gentleman, of the Second
Part, and Edward
Smith
Gentleman, of the Third Part, and of a Common
Recovery suffered in the Court of Common Pleas at
Westminster
in pur-
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suance of the said Indenture, the Manors or Lordships of
Mountbatt
and
Stapleford Tawney
in the said County of Essex, and ttoe Advowsons of
the Rectories of
Thoydon
Mount and
Stapleford
Tawney,
and the Capital
Messuage or Mansion House called Hill Hall Home, and divers other
Messuages, Farms, Lands, Woods, Wood Grounds, and other Heredita-
ments, situate in the several Parishes of
Thoydon
Mount,
Thoydon
Garnon,
Stapleford
Tawney,
and
Stanford
Rivers,
in the said County (which Manors
and Estates are contiguous to each other, and are generally known and
distinguished by the Name of the
Hill Hall Estate)
; and also the Manor,
Lordship, or Borough of
Thaxted,
and the several Manors or Lordships
of
Horham,
otherwise
Horham
Hall,
Spencer's
Fee, and
Coldbam's
Feey
and the Park called
Horham
Park, and the Capital Messuage called Hor-
bam Hall, and the Lands thereto belonging, and various Messuages,
Farms, Lands, Commons, and Hereditaments, situate in the several
Parishes or Precincts of Thaxted,
Henham,
Chickney,
Broxted otherwise
Chawreth,
Great
Sampford
otherwise
Old
Sampford,
Great Bardfield, and
Little
Bardfield,
in the
said
County of
Essex,
(which last-mentioned Manors
and Estates are usually known and distinguished by the Name of the
Horham
Hall
Estate)
with their respective Appurtenances (subject to the
Charges and Incumbrances herein-after referred to) were conveyed and
settled after the Decease of the Survivor of them the said Sir William
Smyth
the Father and Sir
William Smyth
the Son, to the Use of the First
and every other Son of the said Sir
William Smyth
the Son, severally and
successively in Tail Male, with Remainder to the Use of
Charles
Smyth
Esquire, Second Son of the said Sir
William Smyth
the Father, during his
Life,
Remainder to Trustees and their Heirs during his Life, in Trust to
preserve contingent Remainders ; Remainder to the First and every other
Son of the said
Charles
Smyth, successively in Tail Male ; Remainder to
the Use of
Richard
Smyth Esquire, (now the Reverend Richard Smyth
Clerk,) the Third Son of the said Sir
William
Smyth the Father, during
his Life; Remainder to Trustees and their Heirs during his Life, upon
Trust to preserve contingent Remainders; Remainder to the First and
every other Son of the said Richard Smyth, successively in Tail Male ; Re-
mainder to the Use of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and every other Son of
the said Sir
William
Sm\th the Father, successively in Tail Male ; with the
ultimate Remainder to the Use of the said Sir
William
Smyth the Father,
his Heirs and Assigns for ever ; and in the said Indenture are contained
Provisoes enabling the said Sir
William Smyth
the Son,
Charles
Smyth,
and
Richard
Smyth,
when in Possession or entitled to the Rents of the said
Manors and Hereditaments, to grant the same or any Part
thereof,
or
any yearly Rent Charge issuing out of the same, (except the Capital
Messuage called Hill Hall and certain Parcels of Land herein-after specified,
containing together about Eighty-eight Acres) for the Jointure of any
Wife, and also to charge the same Manors and Hereditaments with the
Payment of any Sum or Sums not exceeding Six thousand Pounds for
the Portions of Daughters and younger Sons ; and also by the same In-
denture a joint Power of Revocation and new Appointment was reserved
to the said Sir
William
Smyth the Father and Sir
William Smyth
the Son,
(but which Power was never exercised)
:
And whereas the said Sir
William
Smyth the Father departed this Life on or about the Eighth Day of Fe-
bruary
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, leaving the said
Sir
William Smyth
the Son his eldest Son and Heir at Law, and the said
Charles
Smyth,
and
Richard
Smyth,
and no other
Male
Issue:
And whereas
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