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A64236 The case of Richard Taylor, Esq a member of the honourable, the House of Commons, and John Clerkson, Esq; the two surviving trustees of Hannah Knight, an infant, daughter of John Knight, Esq; lately deceased, by Mary his wife. Taylor, Richard, fl. 1690-1696.; Clerkson, John. 1696 (1696) Wing T549A; ESTC R218877 2,271 1

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THE CASE OF Richard Taylor Esq a Member of the Honourable the House of Commons and John Clerkson Esq the two surviving Trustees of Hannah Knight an Infant Daughter of John Knight Esq lately Deceased by Mary his Wife BY Indentures of Lease and Release 21th and 22th of May 1683. Sir Ralph Knight late of Langoll in the County of York Knight in Consideration of a Marriage then intended to be had between John Knight his Eldest Son and Mary the Daughter of Robert Clerkson Esq did convey the Mannor of Letwell in the County of York with divers Lands and Hereditaments in the County of Nottingham to the said John Clerkson Richard Taylor Robert Nott and Nicholas Fownes which said Fownes and Nott are since dead for the Term of 500 Years to commence from the several Deaths of the said Sir Ralph Knight and John Knight in trust for the raising of Portions for Younger Children of the said intended Marriage viz. if there was but one Daughter and no issue Male then to raise 5000 l. Portion for such Daughter payable at her Age of One and Twenty or day of Marriage which should first happen and such Maintenance as the Trustees or the Survivor of them should think fit not exceeding 60 l. per Ann. The Marriage soon after took Effect The said John Knight 21th of December 1686. and Mary his Wife had Issue a Daughter being the above named Hannah the Infant who was Baptized on the first Day of January following The said John Knight died 6th of May 1693. leaving Issue only the said Daughter and after his Death the said Trustees John Clerkson and Richard Taylor agreed with the Councel of Mary the Mother the Infant being then but a little above six Years old to allow 40 l. per Annum for her Maintenance which Maintenance was by them paid to the Mother for two Years 2d of Jan. 1695. and before the third Year was up viz. 2d of January 1695 the said Mary the Mother of the Infant inter-married with James Watkinson a mean Fellow who was her own Coachman and had been her late Husband's Groom The said Trustees being very much concerned for the Infant as being not only Trustees Tri●i●y 〈◊〉 1696. but related to the Child having married two of the Sisters of the Infant 's Father did preferr their Bill in Chancery against the said Watkinson and his Wife thereby setting forth the said Trust and the Marriage of the Mother to the intent to have the Infant preserved from being made a Prey of by her Father-in-Law and that she might not be married to her disadvantage Watkinson and his Wife put in their Answer to the said Bill 3d of August 1696. which was perused and signed by Thomas Gooding Serjeant at Law whereupon the said Serjeant Gooding finding that there was such a Portion settled on the Infant though otherways a stranger to the Family he treated with Watkinson and his Wife to marry the said Infant to Thomas Gooding his younger Son who was then above three and Twenty Years old and the Infant under Ten as by the Answer of Watkinson and his Wife and perused by the Serjeant appears and accordingly in the long Vacation and before the Court of Chancery could make any order concerning the Child Thomas Gooding the Younger in order to get the Licence at Doctors Commons maketh Oath 29th of September 1696. that the said Hannah Knight the Infant was about 12 Years old and thereupon the said Infant was soon after taken into the House of the said Serjeant Gooding and he now pretends that she is married to his said Son The said Trustees did petition the Lord Keeper concerning the said Infant Hilary Term last complaining of the Proceedings of the said Watkinson and his Wife and the said Serjeant Gooding pending the said Bill in Chancery and prayed that the said Infant might be brought into Court and committed to some indifferent Hand untill she should attain her Age of Consent 12th of February 1696. whereupon the Lord Keeper ordered that Watkinson and his Wife and Serjeant Gooding should attend him with the Infant on the next Day of Petitions The said Parties attended with the said Infant 12th of Mar. 1696. and after the Petition and two Affidavits on the Petitioners part were read Serjeant Gooding refused to consent to deliver up the Child at that time but desired further time in order to take Copies of the Petitioner's Affidavits and to make his defence by Affidavits also and thereupon the Lord Keeper ordered that the Child should be brought again and all Parties to attend him on the 18th of March then next ensuing and that all Affidavits on either side should be filed two days before The Petitioners with their Councel attended at the Lord Keeper's House accordingly 18th of Mar. 1696. but after some time Mrs. Watkinson with some of Serjeant Gooding's Daughters and Family came with the Infant to my Lord Keeper's House but before the Infant was brought into Court she was taken away from the Company of her Mother and the Serjeant's Daughters and others of his Family that came with her by a Woman who stood there ready whose name upon Inquiry is Passmore the Wife of one _____ Passmore a Cook who lodgeth in the Strand which Passmore was for four Years a Servant in Serjeant Gooding's House and is employed to make Mantoes for several of the Serjeant's Family and had been but two days before at the Serjeant's House My Lord Keeper sent his Messenger to search after this Woman Mrs. Passmore at her Lodgings but she could not be found nor the Child and then the Lord Keeper did Examine most of the Serjeant's Family but both he as well as they and also Watkinson and his Wife and Thomas Gooding the Younger do all pretend that they do not know where the Child is nor will they produce her It is supposed that it is the Design of the Serjeant and his Son and the other Confederates either to keep the Child till she comes to the Years of Consent and then to compell her to agree to the Marriage or otherwise that if the Child die before she attain her Age of Twelve that Thomas Gooding the Son will then be Intitled to take out Administration to the Infant under the Colour of this Mock-marriage and thereby recover the 5000 l.