Title:
Marriage settlement by way of release [lease for a year lacking]
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS ESSEX DOCUMENTS
Level: Series
Deeds
Scope and Content:
(i) William [Dawes], Archbishop of York [1714-1724] and Darcy Dawes esquire (only son and heir apparent of said archbishop and wife Dame Frances, deceased, who was one of the three daughters of Sir Thomas Darcy of Braxted Lodge, baronet, deceased);
(ii) Elizabeth Pierrepont, widow of William Pierrepont of Nottingham, esquire;
(iii) Sarah Roundell of York, spinster (one of the three daughters of Richard Roundell of Hutton, Yorkshire, esquire, deceased);
(iv) Revd Samuel Brearey DD of Middleton, Yorkshire, John Batty of Warmsworth, Yorkshire, esquire, Thomas Brearey of Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant, and Francis Hildyard of York, bookseller (guardians appointed by will of said Richard Roundell for Sarah Roundell);
(v) Sir William Milner of Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, baronet, and said Revd Samuel Brearey; and
(vi) Thomas Davision of Blakiston, County Durham, esquire, and Thomas Place of York, esquire;
parties (i) to (v).

Property as in recitals (1) - (6) below.

Recites:

(1) Conveyance, 8 November 1692

(i) said archbishop, then Sir William Dawes of Lyons [in Bocking], baronet (son of John Dawes of Lyons, baronet, deceased, and wife Dame Christian, and brother and next heir to Sir Robert Dawes, baronet, deceased, and to John Dawes esquire, deceased, sons of said Sir John Dawes and wife Dame Christian);
(ii) Sir Thomas Darcy of Braxted Lodge, baronet, Henry Ayloft senior of Great Braxted, esquire, and said Dame Frances Dawes, then Frances Darcy (eldest daughter of said Sir Thomas Darcy and wife Dame Jane); and
(iii) William Rendall of Takeley, esquire, Thomas Darcy of Great Braxted, gentleman, and Robert Rogers of Great Braxted, clerk;
on marriage of (i) and Frances Darcy

Capital messuage called Lyons alias Great Lyons, farm called Crabtree Broom, then in possession of Joseph Reeve, now of Richard Reeve, and land [no details] in Bocking, Braintree and Stisted;
several parcels of land in Stisted.
four cottages near Lyons aforesaid, late in occupation of Nathan Read, Edward Nichols, John Cowell and John Ridgewell, now of Jonathan Church, William Beerman, John Goodwin, and widow Holmes; and a parcel of land (1 acre), late in occupation of Daniel Coe, now of William Beerman, all in Bocking;
messuage formerly divided into several dwellings, with 8 acres of land in Braintree, then in occupation of Thomas Brown, now of Zachariah Child and leased to Thomas Crosby;
farm called Brookhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, and lands [no details] in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Tolleshunt Knights and Tolleshunt Major, then in occupation of Isaac Wilkinson, now of James May;
farm called Newwick Farm in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, late in occupation of John Fryatt, now of James May, and lands [no details] in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Tolleshunt Knights and Tolleshunt Major;
manor and manor house or farm of North Pitts, Northern Fleet or Northern Marsh, in Canewdon, late in occupation of Edward Hatchman senior, now of Edward Hatchman junior;
manor and manor house or farm of Moones and farm called Blackfriars, part of said manor, and lands [no details] in Canewdon and Ashingdon, late in occupation of John [?Je]nning, now of John Barker;
messuage called Little Lyons alias Rawlins Lyons and land (104 acres) in Bocking.

(2) Conveyance, 24 February 1698/9

(i) Said archbishop, then Sir William Dawes of Chelsea, Middlesex, baronet, and said wife Dame Frances (daughter of Sir Thomas Darcy, baronet, deceased, and coheir of Sir George Darcy, baronet, an infant, who was only son of said Sir Thomas Dawes);
(ii) Peter Fisher DD of Bennington, Hertfordshire, John King of Chelsea, said Robert Rogers and John Bower of Graveley with Chichfield, Hertfordshire, clerk;
(iii) Robert Nelson of Lewisham, Kent, esquire;
with final concord, Michaelmas Term, 1698, by said archbishop and Dame Frances versus said Peter Fisher

A third part of:
messuage in Great Braxted in occupation of William Sandon;
woods called Norwood alias Northwood (60 acres), Farmers Heath and Harp Pightle (66 acres), and Stockgrove (14 acres), all in St Osyth and Weeley;
Manor of Bentons alias Benningtons, late in occupation of Joseph Morrice, now of Samuel Caswell, wood called Tonsons Grove, messuage, late in occupation of [blank] Todd, and woods called Monk Wood and Clavering Wood, all in Great Coggeshall, Marks Hall and Halstead;
wood in Great Totham called Horsewood alias Housewood;
messuage in Tolleshunt D'Arcy and Tolleshunt Major, late in occupation of James Partway;
tenement with land (3 acres) in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, late in occupation of Robert Holt, now of John Holt;
farm in Salcott, Tollesbury and Tolleshunt Knights, late in occupation of William Hawkins, now of John Lake;
farm called High Hall, late in occupation of Thomas Godsalve, now of Francis Brand, and a wood called High Hall Wood, both in Tollesbury;
farm called Langbrooks, late in occupation of William Holebrook, now of widow Holebrook, and wood called Langbrooks Wood, both in Tolleshunt D'Arcy;
messuage called The Bell, now in occupation of widow Cook; in Maldon.

(3) Conveyance, 22 and 23 November 1722

(i) Said archbishop;
(ii) said Robert Rogers and John Bower;
(iii) said Sir William Milner and wife Dame Elizabeth;
(iv) Robert Harper of Lincolns Inn, gentleman; and
(v) Penniston Lamb of Lincolns Inn, gentleman

Property as in recital (2) above.

(4) Conveyance, 5 November 1722

(i) Said archbishop to
(ii) said Dame Elizabeth Milner

Property as in recital (2) above.

(5) Will, undated, of Richard Roundell esquire

Manors of Hutton and Angram, messuages and land, in York;
Manor of Ellerton and lands in the East Riding of Yorkshire;
messuages and land in Marston, Bramham and Helaugh, Widdington, Brandon, Bubwith, South Duffield, Oxton, Rufford, Thorp Audlin, Nun Mounckton, Moor Mounckton, Green Hammerton, Whixley, Sparrington and Dringhouses, all in Yorkshire; Manor or Easedyke alias Eastdyke, Yorkshire.

(6) that said Elizabeth Pierrepont is seized of:
those other two third parts of [property as in recital (2)];
Manors of Cromford and Willersley, and lands, in Derbyshire;
capital messuage called Newhall and lands in Pontefract, Cantley, Carlton and Ferrybridge, Yorkshire;
messuages and lands in Darrington, Kellington, Womersley, and St Mary Olaves, all in Yorkshire

(7) Act of Parliement, 'An Act to enable Darcy Dawes esquire and Sarah Roundell to make settlements, upon their intermarriage, of their several estates, notwithstanding their respective minorities', c.1722
Dates of Creation:
16 April 1723
Extent:
14 large membranes]
Physical Characteristics:
Parchment.