Catalogue description Lease and release in trust made between 1. Phillip Earl of Chesterfield 2. Hugh Clopton...

Lease and release in trust made between 1. Phillip Earl of Chesterfield 2. Hugh Clopton of Stratford upon Avon esquire and Robert Holden of Foremark esquire 3. William Stanhope esquire, the Earl's second son and 4. John Stanhope esquire the Earl's third son, by which, for the affection the Earl bore his sons and for their preferment, for settling the lands below and for 10s paid by Clopton and Holden, he conveyed the manors or reputed manors of Wing, Ascott, Burcott, Crofton, Broughton, Hoggeston alias Hogston, Aston Abbotts alias Abbotts Aston, Lidcott, Stewkley, Ham, Rowsham, Wingrove, Grove, Buckland, Ethrop alias Eldrop [Eythrope], Cranwell, Beechendon, Blackgrove, Saint Cleeres, Ilmer, Stone, 'Bishops Stone', Dinton, Hartwell, Circott alias Southcott, Aston, Martim, Hutchindon, Dagnall, Studham and Hudnall in the counties of Buckingham, Bedford and Hertford [most are in Buckinghamshire] to Clopton and Holden, to his own use for life, then to the use that John Stanhope may have £400 per annum clear for life and, subject to this rent charge, to William Stanhope and his heirs male, then to John Stanhope and his heirs male, then to Charles the Earl's 4th son and his heirs male, then to the use of Clopton and Holden in trust for the sons of Elizabeth youngest daughter of the Earl that shall take the name Stanhope and the heirs male of these sons severally, successively and in remainder one after the other in seniority of age, then to Phillip Lord Stanhope, the Earl's eldest son and his heirs male, and then to Earl's right heirs. Both parts.

Dated 17, 18 March