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Description: | Mainly from John Kenrick, MP [for Bletchingley], nephew of Mr Humberston.
Includes:
Letter from W. Black, surveyor.
Letter from Samuel Allen, nephew of Mr Humberston, from Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Letters from Philip Burton, Hatton Street, London, concerning Mr Kenrick's view as to division and sale of the estate, with drafts to him from W Reeve, junior.
Draft Letter from W Reeve junior to Edmund Estcourt, Lincoln's Inn Fields, seeking his legal assistance, with letters from Estcourt concerning the sale and settlement of accounts, 1784-1787.
Attested copy of Release
1. Cranmer Kenrick of Southgate, Middlesex, esq, John Kenrick of Harley Street, esq, Matthew Kenrick of Blechingly, Surrey, LLD, and Revd Jarvis Kenrick of Chilham, Kent, clerk (executors of Matthew Kenrick, late of the Middle Temple, esq, deceased, who was one of two devisees in trust and also a legatee in the will of James Humberston late of Layton, Essex, esq, deceased),
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2. William Reeve of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, gent (the other of the two devisees in trust and also a legatee).
Recites that Reeve has lately sold the lands and estates comprised in the marriage settlement of Dorothy Humberston and those at Knossington and Owston, Leicestershire, purchased by the testator for £17,650, and has paid some of the legacies. That there now remains in the hands of Reeve £8,720 7s. 6d., to half of which Cranmer, John, Matthew and Jarvis Kenrick are entitled as executors.
Release from 1. to 2. and acquittance and discharge of the lands and premises sold and disposed by him in execution of the trusts reposed in him from the sum of £4,360 3s 9d. and from all other sums which 1. might claim or demand under the will of James Humberston.
(16 Apr 1788) | Subjects: | Country Estates Church Of England Parishes Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | 1784-1788 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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