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Attested copy of lease a piece of ground on the east side of Cavendish Square, Marylebone, London, 26 October 1719 (copy made 1803)
Parties:
1) Right Honourable Edward Lord Harley and the Right Honourable the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley, his wife
2) James Newton of Newington Butts, Surrey
Consideration: £800 to build a brick messuage to front a new intended square called Cavendish Square
Witnesses: John Morley, Francis Seale and Thomas Bedwell
Attested copy lease of land at Brook Street, 1 April 1725 (copy made 1803)
Parties:
1) Sir Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, Chester, bart, (eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, deceased, by Dame Mary his late wife, now a lunatic)
2) Robert Myddleton of Chirck Castle, Denbigh, Wales (guardian and committee of the person and estate of the said lunatic)
3) Edward Shepherd of Saint Martin in the Fields, Middlesex
Consideration: Yearly rents and covenants
Witnesses: Thomas Cupper, Rowland Charles, James Percival, Robert Andrews
Also includes indenture, 26 November 1729 between Edward Shepherd and Catherine Winn of St George Hanover Square for a consideration of £1,260 for the land above.
Copy will of Mrs Ann Elizabeth Winn of Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, 29 November 1766
Executor: Mary Winn. Bequests to Mrs Bendicta Howard, 20 guineas; Abraham Cock, 20 guineas; Mary Winn, sister, all her moiety of half part of the house in Cavendish Square and the house in Brook Street and after her death, the moiety in Cavenish Square property to her nephew, Edward Winn and niece, Mary Winn. Moiety of Brook Street property after sister's death to niece, Charlotte Winn. Also includes to the two daughters of her late niece Mrs Cholmley, £50 each. Witnesses, John Swale and John Swale junior.
Copy will of Charlotte Winn of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, Saint Mary le bone, 18 May 1792
Executor: Mary Winn who also receives £100 . Sarah Proctor (a companion?) to receive the dividends of the capital stock. Niece, Katherine Cholmley to receive £100 capital stock and ring; Mrs Mary Grimes, neice, diamond hair pin and glass gerandoles (candlestick); Elizabeth Freeman, ring; Miss Ann Askew, £100; Miss Sarah Askew, India cabinet and other rings to the Miss Stricklands includes other bequests. With codicil.
Witnesses: Richard Ponsett Webb, Half Moon Street, Picadilly, William Webb, Tudor Street, Chatham Place.
Abstract of two leases relating to the houses in Cavendish Square, 1758 and 1788 and abstract of subleases relating to the Brook Street house and premises, 1726 to1797.
Copy will of Miss Mary Winn of Exmouth, Devon, spinster 26 December 1797
Bequests include: Her sister, Lady Strickland, £20 for mourning, Mrs Grimes, her neice, £10; Mrs Harriet Le Merchant, friend, £10 for a ring; Mrs Cholmley of Langton, a mourning ring of £10...Henry Cholmley of Howsham and Abraham Grimes capital stock of £1,200 to pay the dividends to Reuben Williamson; to her nieces, Catherine Jessy Cholmley, Mary Cholmley, Louisa Cholmley, Charlotte Cholmley and Emily Cholmley, the residue of her estate to be divided amongst them only if they are unmarried.
Witnesses: John Jones, Mary Pitman
with copy of probate and codicils, 1 July 1792
Copy of the will of Henry Cholmley of Howsham, 17 June 1806
Bequests: Lands at Upton in Badsworth and leashold tithes in Cramb and estate to his wife, Katherine Cholmley. Son in law and trustee, Rev Thomas Cutler Rudston-Read and William Gray of York and £100 each.
Copy deed of appointment of Henry Cholmley and Katherine Cholmley, his wife of the unappointed monies settled on their marriage to their youngest son, George Cholmley and their five daughters, 1806. |