Catalogue description PRENUPTIAL SETTLEMENT (Lease and release) between (1) Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall,...

PRENUPTIAL SETTLEMENT (Lease and release) between (1) Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall, esq., and w. Laetitia, (2) Mary Wilbraham Bootle of Lathom House, co. Lanc., (3) Laetitia Rudd of Durham city, wid. of William Rudd, (4) Rt.Hon. Richard Pepper, Baron Alvanley of Alvanley, and Charles Edmonstone of Great Russell St., co. Middx. esq., (5) Edward Wilbraham Bootle of Lathom House, esq., and William Egerton of Tatton Park, (6) Anthony Hardolph Eyre of Grove, co. Nott., esq., and Bigoe Charles Williams of Bedford Row, co. Middx., esq., on marriage of (1)'s son, Randle Wilbraham, with (3)'s dau. Laetitia Rudd --- of the manor of HUXLEY, the undivided moiety of the Manor of RODE (Oddrode?), the capital messuage of Rode Hall with demesne, the water mill known as Rode Mill, and all messuages, farms and hereditaments belonging to Randle Wilbraham in RODE, HUXLEY and HARGRAVE, (excepting a cottage and 12a. land called Motter Shaw), the total annual rent amounting to £1108.5.0d. Also manors of BRUEN STAPLEFORD, FOULK STAPLEFORD and BURTON, moiety of manor of DUDDON, mansion house of BRUEN STAPLEFORD with demesne, all messuages, lands and cottages in BRUEN STAPLEFORD, all messuages, lands, mills and tenements in BURTON, DUDDON, FOULK STAPLEFORD, also a mess., farm, lands and tenements called Priors Heys in TARVIN parish. Annual rent of all mess. amounting to £1,300.

Wit: William Preston, Steward to W. Wilbraham, William Jones, Servant to W. Wilbraham, P.J. Broad, clerk, and Edmund Jones, servant, both to Lord Alvanley, R. Bratton and George Peters, clerk to B.C. Williams.

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