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A36820 The Duke of Norfolk's case, or, The doctrine of perpetuities fully set forth and explain'd 1688 (1688) Wing D2513; ESTC R17683 59,123 72

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for I pretend not to be Infallible but that is a thing I cannot help Upon the whole matter I am under a Constraint and under an Obligation which I cannot resist A Man behaves himself very ill in such a place as this that he needs to make Apologies for what he does I will not do it I must Decree for the Plaintiff in this Case and my Decree is this That the Plaintiff shall enjoy this Barony for the residue of the Term of two hundred years the Defendant shall make him a Conveyance accordingly because he extinguished the Trust in the other and the Term contrary to both Law and Reason by the Merger and Surrender and common Recovery And that the Defendants do account with the Plaintiff for the profits of the premisses by them or any of them received since the Death of the said Duke Thomas and which they or any of them might have received without wilful default and that it be referred to Sir Lacon William Child Knight one of the Masters of this Court to take the said Accompt and to make unto the Defendants all just allowances and what the said Master shall certifie due the said Defendants are to pay unto the Plaintiffs according to the Masters Report herein to be made And that the Defendants shall forthwith deliver the possession of the Premisses to the Plaintiff and that the Plaintiff shall hold and enjoy the said Barony of Greystock with the Lands and Tenements thereto belonging for the residue of the said Term of two hundred years against the Defendants and all claiming by from or under them And it is further Ordered and Decreed that the said Defendants do Seal and Execute such a Conveyance of the said Term to the Plaintiff as the Master shall approve of in Case the parties cannot agree the same but the Defendants are not to pay any Costs of the Suit. Die Veneris 19 Junii 1685. AFter hearing Council two several days upon the Petition and Appeal of Charles Howard Esq shewing that his Father intended a Provision for his younger Children by Deed made by advice of eminent Council and did settle the Barony of Greystocke and other Lands of the value of 500 l. per annum in Trustees in order thereunto and that after a long Suit in Chancery wherein the Petitioner was Plaintiff against his Grace the late Duke of Norfolk the Marquess of Dorchester Henry Lord Mowbray and Richard Marriott Esq Defendants the Cause coming to be heard before the Lord Chancellor Nottingham on the 17th of June in the Four and Thirtieth Year of His late Majesties Reign of Glorious Memory who after several Days hearing did declare his Opinion to be That the Petitioner had a good Title to the Barony of Greystocke and other the Lands in question and Decreed the Defendants to account to him for the Profits thereof by them received after the Death of Thomas late Duke of Norfolk which Decree was signed and enrolled and the Petitioner actually vested in the Possession of the said Mannors and Premisses and further sheweth That the Defendants the late Duke of Norfolk the Lord Mowbray now Duke of Norfolk and Richard Marriott exhibited a Bill of Review into the High Court of Chancery for reversing the said Decree to which the Petitioner put in a Plea and Demurer which being argued on the 15th of May in the Five and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our late King Charles the Second before the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England who after hearing Council on both sides over-ruled the said Plea and Demurrer and reverst the Decree aforesaid and ordered a Writ or Writs of Restitution to be directed to the Sheriffs of Cumberland and Westmerland to put the Plaintiffs in the Bill of Review in Possession which accordingly was done as in the Petition amongst other things is suggested and prayed a Reversal of the last Decree as also upon the Answer of the Right Noble Henry Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England and Richard Marriot Esq put in thereunto And after due Consideration had of what was offered at the Bar by Council on either part thereupon IT is ordered and adjudged by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled That the said Decree made in the High Court of Chancery on the 15th of May in the Five and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second of Glorious Memory in behalf of the late Duke of Norfolk and the now Duke of Norfolk and Richard Marriott Esq be and is hereby reversed and that the Decree made in the said Court of Chancery on the 17th of June in the Four and Thirtieth Year of His late Majesties Reign in behalf of Charles Howard Esq the now Petitioner Be and Is hereby affirmed JOHN BROWNE Cler. Parl. FINIS