years Did by Deed in 1639. in consideration of a Marriage with Elizabeth his then Wife and for that she had parted with her Interest in Goods Consideration c. which by Agreement she had the Disposition of for her own use and other Consideration herein mentioned did Assign over the said Premisses and all his Term therein Lease Assigned in Trust for a Joynture and after for Children to Rumbald Jacobson and Abrah Beard on Trust that the said Eliz. should have the profits during Life and after to James Paul Jane and Mary her Children or such of them as the said Elizabeth should appoint by her Will and for want of such Appointment to the said James Paul Jane and Mary or so many of them as should be living at her decease share and share alike and after Elizabeth dyed Paul the Son being dead in her Lifetime Afterwards by deed in 1643. in consideration of a Marriage between the said Philip Jacobson and Frances Earnely and for a Joynture for the said Frances and for Provision for such Children as he should have by her the said Philip Jacobson and James his Son Assigned over the said Premisses for the remainder of the said Term of 60 years and all his Goods and Houshold stuff unto William Daniel and Alexander Staples their Executors c. on Trust Trust to permit the said Frances and Philip and such Children as they should have between them to receive the profits during the said Term and after the decease of him and his said Wife without Issue then on Trust as to part to suffer the Executors of the said Frances and as to the residue the said James Jacobson his Executors c. to receive the profits during the Term afterwards by deed in 1646. Reciting all Assignments and Indentures aforesaid he the said Philip Jacobson Assigned over the said Premisses and his Term therein to Alexander Staples and Jeffery Daniel their Executors c. on Trust as to the said Frances Jacobson for the Premisses limited to her by her first Joynture and as to several other parcels of Land named as in the said Deed is recited which said last premisses contain 132 Acres which are in Trust for the said James Jacobson from the death of his Father during the residue of the Term and in case the said James should remain unmarryed or being Marryed and should dye without Issue and his Wife being a Widow then the Rents and Profits thereof to remain and be to his younger Brother and Sister Lelease of Trusts and afterwards James and Thomas Earneley Son in Law of the said Philip having Marryed Jane one of the Daughters of the said Philip did 22 Car. 1. Release to Staples and Daniel and to the said Phillip and Joanna Jacobson vid. Executrix of Rombold Jacobson who Survived Beard all and all manner of Trusts and demands whatsoever and Suits in Law or Equity which they or either of them their Executors c. had from the beginning of the World unto the date thereof in all the Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances then or theretofore in the tenure of Philip Jacobson aforesaid in the County of Wilts and by another Release in Jan. 1647. the said James and Thomas Earneley Released unto the said Philip Jacobson and Joanna Jacobson all manner of Trusts and demands whatsoever in all Lands in the County of Wilts as in the former Release and afterwards by deed in 1653. reciting that there was a Marriage then shortly to be had between the said James Jacobson Son and Heir of Philip Jacobson and one Margaret Still the said Philip did Assign over unto John Still and Nicholas Still their Executor c. the said 123 Acres for the Residue of the Term to the use of James and Margaret for their Lives and after their Deceases to the right Heirs of the said James begotten of Margaret and if Margaret should Survive James and have no Child by him and he dye before the end of the Term then she should have power to sell 51 Acres of the premisses and the Residue to the Executors of Philip and if Margaret dye in the life-time of James not having any Issue of her Body by him begotten then living then to the use of the said James Jacobson his Executors Administrators and Assigns for the residue of the Term which Marriage took effect and Margaret dyed without Issue in the Lifetime of James after whose Decease the said James being in possession by Deed in 1661. for 400 l. Mortgaged the 123 Acres to Elizabeth Brinley and yet enjoyed the 123 Acres till he dyed and the said Elizabeth Assigned over the said Mortgage which now by mean Assignments is come to the Plaintiff and James is dead without Issue or Brother and the Defendants Zenobia Frances and Rachell do him Survive This Court was fully satisfied that the Deed in 1653. Voluntary conveyance by which the said James derived his Title and afterwards made the said Mortgage under which the Plaintiff claims Remainder after a Limitation of a Term to an Issue Male void in Law was a good Conveyance and well executed in James and that the Conveyance in 1646. was a voluntary Conveyance and the Estate thereby claimed by the Defendants created being an Estate in remainder after a Limitation of a Term for years to an issue in Tail was void in Law and Decreed the Plaintiff to the possession of the 123 Acres or the Mony due on the Mortgage and to enjoy against all the Defendants and Decreed that the Plaintiff and Defendant Hopkins who is Administrator of the Mortgager James Jacobson to come to an account Oliver contra Leman al' 29 Car 2. fo 102. A Trial at Law is directed to the Plaintiff to try his Right to a Reversion of Lands after the Death of the Defendant Wainwright so the Plaintiffs desire what time they think fit to try the same A Tryal at Law directed to be within a precise time but the Defendant insists that the Plaintiff ought to be confined to a convenient time which was prayed might be the Rule in this Case and that the Defendant might not be kept in suspence and to wait on the Plaintiffs Convenience when he shall think fit to try the same This Court ordered it to be Tryed in Easter Term next or the Issue be taken pro confesso Stawell contra Austin 29 Car. 2. fo 579. THat George Stawell Father of Vrsula and Elizabeth Stawell being seized in Fee of Lands Construction of a Will by Deed and Recovery thereon setled all the said Lands on the Defendant Sir John and Robert Austin and their Heirs to the said George for Life remainder for such Estates and Charges as he by Will or other writing should appoint remainder to the Heirs Males of his Body with remainders over and by Will persueant to the power reserved by the said Deed devised the premisses setled by the said Deed to the said
Conscience of the Court in the application of the payment of the Mony and therefore as this Case is the whole Mony having been decreed and setled as aforesaid the Examination of the time of the actual Entry of the said Judgment tended not to the invalidating thereof but only to inform the Court when and how it came to be Recorded Examination of Originals filed is to be in the Courts at Law which in Cases of Originals filed to prevent the Statutes of Limitation and other Cases of like nature are usually Examined in the Courts at Law the Court saw no cause to relieve the Plaintiffs on their Bill of Review and dismissed their Bill of Review Dethick contra Banks 25 Car. 2. fo 143. A Free-man of London did assign over an Adventure to the Defendant his Son A Free-man of London disposeth an Adventure to his Son No breach of the Custom as to the Wives third part against which the Plaintiff complains and insists It is contrary to the Custom of London and tends to defeat the Plaintiff his Wife of a full third part of the personal Estate This Court with the Judges held the disposition to be good and could not relieve the Plaintiff Harmer contra Brooke 25 Car. 2. fo 648. THe Bill is to have an Execution of a Marriage Agreement Bill to perform a Marriage Agreement the Plaintiff Harmer with the encouragement of Thomas Hamling was to marry the Plaintiff Elizabeth the only Daughter and Heir of the said Thomas Hamling the Plaintiff Harmer being a man of a great Trade and in Consideration thereof the said Thomas Hamling was to pay the Plaintiff Harmer 500 l. at Christmass following and to settle on the Plaintiff and his Heirs a House in Sussex and at his death to give to the Plaintiff Elizabeth his Daughter all his Estate real and personal except 400 l. which he intended to the Defendant his Brothers Son whereupon the Plaintiff Harmer married the said Elizabeth but now the said Thomas Hamling the Plaintiffs Father refuses to perform his Agreement and Promise aforesaid the Plaintiff marrying without his consent and liking as is pretended and died without performance thereof and made a Will and the Defendant his Executor which Will the Plaintiff insists was voluntary and ought in Equity to be set aside the Plaintiff being disinherited thereby and to have the said Marriage Agreement performed is the Plaintiffs Bill The Defendant insists That the said Marriage was had by surprize and without the Consent of the said Thomas the Father and that he did never approve of it but when told of it was in great Passion and said his Daughter was undone and then made his Will in these words viz. I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my only Daughter lately married against my consent and good liking to Francis Harmer the Sum of 20 l. over and above the Sum of 500 l. which I intend to pay her my self in full for her Portion and the said Thomas the Father being afterwards moved to alter his said Will declared he would not alter the same and that he would not be a President to disobedient Children and the Defendant claims the said Estate real and personal by virtue of the said Will. This Court ordered it to be Tried at Law Whether Thomas the Father did agree to give the Plaintiff Francis Harmer with the said Elizabeth any other or further Estate real or personal at any time over and besides the said 500 l. That a Verdict passed for the Plaintiff And after a Trial at Law the Marriage Agreement decreed to be made good That Thomas the Father did agree to give the Plaintiff Francis Harmer with the said Elizabeth a further Estate real and personal besides the 500 l. This Court was satisfied there was such a Marriage Agreement and that the same ought to be made good and decreed accordingly Tregonwell contra Lawrence 25 Car. 2. fo 582. THe Bill is An Injunction to restrain Ploughing or Burn-beating of Pasture to restrain the Defendant being Tenant for life from ploughing up or converting into Tillage Pasture Ground to the damage of the Plaintiffs inheritance The Defendant insisted That the said Land was very full of Bushes and Fuz and that the Ploughing and Burn-beating was an improvement of it The Plaintiff insisted That the Lands are Sheeps-strete or Sheeps-slight the surface or soyl being so thin that if the same be ploughed up two years together the Lands will yield no profit in many years after This Court on reading an Order 20th Febr. 25 Car. 2. and a Certificate of Referrees doth decree That a perpetual Injunction be awarded to restrain the Defendant from Ploughing up or Burn-beating of the said Lands above two years Sutton Vxor ejus contra Jewke 25 Car. 2. fo 178. THat 1500 l. Sum left for a Portion But if she marry without consent then a part to be to another was to be put out at Interest for the use and benefit of the Plaintiff Ann and then the said 1500 l. and the proceed thereof to be paid her at her Age of 21 or Marriage but if the Plaintiff Ann should Marry without the Consent of the Defendant Jewke and his Wife being her Father and Mother or one of them or the Survivor of them then 500 l. part of the said 1500 l. to be paid to such person as the Defendant Jewke his Wife by Writing under her Hand and without her Husband should appoint That the said Defendant Jewke his Wife died in 1668. without making any Appointment so that the Plaintiff Ann is thereupon become intituled to the whole 1500 l. and the proceed thereof That the Plaintiff Ann married in 1671. and this Suit is to be relieved for the 1500 l. and Interest The Defendant Jewke insists That Mary his Wife died in 70. but before her death in 1669. by Deed Parol directed that in case the Plaintiff Ann married without the Consent of her the said Mary or the Defendant Jewke her Husband then 500 l. part of the said 1500 l. to be paid to her and the Defendant or the Survivor of them and that the said Deed was made upon mature deliberation to keep the said Plaintiff in due Obedience and that the Plaintiff Sutton having in a clandestine manner married with the Plaintiff Ann without the Defendant Jewke his privity or consent and after he had forbidden his Daughter to marry with him on the forfeiture of his Blessing or what otherwise she might expect from him the said Defendant Jewke by means thereof and by being Administrator to his late Wife became intituled to 500 l. part of the said 1500 l. So the Chief point now controverted is Whether the Plaintiff Ann. be intituled to the whole 1500 l. or whether she had not forfeited 500 l. thereof by her marriage without her Fathers consent and privity and contrary to his direction and advice His Lordship was fully satisfied 500 l. Decreed
said debt nevertheless that debt ought to be made good out of the said Pincheons Estate whatever and decreed accordingly Ramsden contra Farmer al' 28 Car. 2. fo 516. THat Simon Carill was seised in Fee of Lands Lands conveyed to Trustees for payment of Debt conveyed the same to Trustees to sell and dispose thereof for performance of his Will who by his Will devised the said premisses to the said Trustees and their Heirs to pay his debts and made Elizabeth his Wife his Executrix who afterwards married Mr. Barnes and the said Trustees with the consent of the said Elizabeth conveyed the premisses to Sir John Carill and others in Trust in the said Will Trust assigned and the said Barnes after died and the said Elizabeth married one Machell and by Deed 22 Car. 1. the said Trustees Carill c. with Elizabeth conveyed the said premisses to the said Machell and his Heirs and in 1646. the said Machell with the like consent conveyed to Duncombe Heath and Baldwin and their Heirs in Trust that they after the said Simons Debts and Legacies paid should convey to the said Elizabeth and her Heirs or to such as she by Deed or Will appoint That the said Elizabeth raised Monies and paid the said Simons Debts and Legacies and performed the said Will and after the said Machell's death Elizabeth by Will 1650. devised all the said premisses to her Son John Carill for life and after his decease to the first Son of the Body of the said Son lawfully begotten or to be begotten and to his Heirs And if her said Son should not have a Son but one or more Daughters then she devised the premisses to the first Daughter of the Body of her said Son and to her Heirs That the said John Carill in the said Elizabeths life time had a Son whose Name was John who died in her life time and soon after Elizabeth died and her said Son John Carill survived her and never had any other Son after Elizabeth Machells death and the said John Carill died and left the Plaintiff Lettice his eldest Daughter and the Defendant Elizabeth his second Daughter and the Defendant Margaret his third Daughter and the said Lettice the Plaintiff claims the premisses as eldest Daughter But the Defendants Elizabeth and Margaret insist They ought to have their equal parts with the Plaintiff Lettice in the premisses and that the said Simon had not power to make such Settlement or Will but say he was only seised for life of the premisses and that Elizabeth Machell joyned in the Settlement at her Son John Carill's Marriage and if there were such a Will of the said Elizabeth Machell yet the said John Carill had a Son named John Carill Construction of the words of a Will who was Born after the death of the said Elizabeth Machell and lived some time after her death without Issue and by the words of the Will the Trust is determined This Court not being satisfied as to the Birth and death of the said John Carill directed a Tryal on this Issue whether John Carill Grandson of Elizabeth Machell dyed during the Life of the said Elizabeth Machell or after her decease That upon a Tryal on the said Issue it was found that the said John Carill the Grandson outlived the said Elizabeth Trusts determined and therefore the Defendants insist that the Trust limited by the Will of the said Elizabeth Machell is fully determined This Court declared they saw no cause to relieve the Plaintiffs Bill in this matter and so dismist the Bill accordingly Salter contra Shadling 28 Car. 2. fo 66. THat Bryan late Lord Bishop of Winton being possest of the Mannor of Pottern by Lease from the Bishop of Salisbury Will. made to Sir Richard Chaworth in Trust for the said late Bishop of Winton by his Will Devised 200 l. per Annum should be paid out of the profits of the said Lease to William Salter the Plaintiffs late Husband his Nephew during his Life and that the Estate in Law in the said Lease should continue in Sir Richard Chaworth during his Life and the Surplusage of the profits he Devised to the said William Salter to whom he also Devised the Lease after Sir Richard Chaworths death and made Sir Richard Chaworth and others Executors who consented to the said Devise and about 16 Car. 2. William Salter made his Will and as to his Interest in Pottern he devised the same to Trustees that they should permit the Plaintiff to receive the profits during her Widdow-hood on Condition she renewed the Term to 21 years Construction upon the words of a Will once in seven years and if the Plaintiff should Marry or dye then he declared the profits of the Premises to go to his two Daughters Ann and Susanna and the Survivor of them and their Heirs and after their Deaths without Heirs of their Bodies then to his right Heirs and Devised all the rest of his Personal Estate should be to his Executors and Trustees for the benefit of his said Daughters and made the Plaintiff and the said Trustees Executors That the said two Daughters are since dead intestate and the Plaintiff being their Administrator is Intituled to the whole Term and Trust of the said Lease of Pottern as Administrator to her said two Daughters according to the said William Salters Will and the true Exposition thereof the same being devised in manner as aforesaid The defendant Charles Cleaver the Infant being Eldest Son and Heir of Dame Briana Cleaver deceased who was one of the Sisters and Coheirs of the said William Salter and the Defendant Stradlings Wife being his Sister and Coheir insist that according to William Salters Will and for that no present interest in Pottern was Devised to his two Daughters but only Contingent possibility of Interest in case the said Plaintiff should Marry or dye neither of which having since hapned and the said Daughters being since dead the Interest and Term in Pottern ought to come to them as Heirs to the said William Salter and not to the Plaintiff as Administratrix to her two Daughters the rather for that they consented to a decree for Sale of Lands which would have come to them as Heirs at Law to preserve Pottern from Sale for the payment of William Salters debts This Court declared that according to William Salters Will and the disposition therein made of Pottern the whole Interest of the said Term and Trust therein was well passed in the Plaintiff and that the Heirs of Salter can have nothing to do therewith nor have any Interest therein and Decreed the Plaintiff to enjoy the same against the Defendants Still contra Lynn al' 28 Car. 2. fo 195. Bill is to be relieved for 123. Acres of Land THat Philip Jacobson Deceased Settlement being possest of a Capital Messuage or Tenement and Lands by Lease from the Crown Dat. 13 Car. 1. for the Term of 60
Kindid before distribution that share shall go to her or his Executors or Administrators and not to the Survivor next of Kindred to the first Intestate and before any actual distribution made vest an Interest in the respective persons appointed to have distribution of the surplus of his Estate as much as if it had been Bequeathed by Will and that if any one of them dye before distribution tho' within the year yet the part or share of such person so dying ought to go over to the Executors or Administrators of such party so dying and not to the Survivor or next of Kindred to the first Intestate and that the Lady Katherine was at her death well intituled to a share of her Brother Thomas Wentworths Estate as an Interest thereby vested in her notwithstanding she died within a year after the Intestate and before any distribution made and that the Lord Winchelsey as her Administrator is now well intituled therto and decreed a distribution and the Plaintiff the Lord Winchelsey shall have the Lady Katherines share and proportion of the said Thomas Wentworths Estate accordingly and the Plaintiff the Lady Elizabeth shall have a like share thereof with the Defendant Lister and John Wentworth 2 Jac. 2. so 315. The question being Whether the respective shares of the Plaintiff and Defendant Lister the said Lady Katherine and Elizabeth and the Defendant Lister being only of the half Blood to the Intestate and whether the Mony be vested in Lands or the Lands themselves should be accounted part of the personal Estate of the said Thomas Wentworth or not His Lordship ordered a Case to be made as to those two points The Case being viz That the said Thomas Wentworth died an Infant and unmarried leaving such Brother of the whole Blood and such Brother and Sisters of the half Blood as aforesaid who were his next of Kindred in equal degree and that upon his death a real Estate of near 2500 l. per Annum discended to the Defendant John Wentworth his Brother and Heir and that above 3000 l. of the profits of that Estate received in the Intestates life time by Dame Dorothy Norcliff and the said Trustees which belonged to him and his proper Monies were by them during his Non age and without any direction or power in their Trust but of their own Heads laid out in Purchases in Fee and Conveyances in their Names but in Trust for the said Intestates and his Heirs with this express Clause in the said Conveyances viz. in case-he at his full Age would accept the same at the Rate purchased the purchase being made with his Mony and for his advantage This Court as to the said two Points Half Blood to have an equal share with the whole Blood being assisted with Judges declared That the Plaintiff and the Defendant Lister ought each of them to have an equal share with the Defendant John Wentworth of the surplus of the personal Estate of the said Intestate and the distribution thereof ought to be made among them share and share alike and decreed accordingly And as to the other Point declared Trustees lay out the Monies of an Infant in Lands in Fee This shall be accounted part of his personal Estate he dying a Minor That the Monies laid out in the said Purchases ought to be taken and accounted for as part of the said personal Estate and distributed with the rest and decreed a Sale of the said purchased premisses and distribution thereof to be made as aforesaid Dom ' Middleton contra Middleton 1 Jac. 2. fo 793. THat Sir Thomas Middleton upon his Marriage with the Plaintiff Dame Charlotta Middleton Devise setled a great part of his Estate in Com' Flint and other Countries for her Joynture being seised in Fee of Lands in several Countries viz. Flint Denbigh and Merioneth and setled all his Estate on his first and other Sons on her Body in Tail Male and charged the same with several Terms of years for raising Portions for Daughters viz. If one Daughter and no Issue male 8000 l. and out of his personal Estate intending to make an addition to the Portion of the Plaintiff Charlotta his only Child and to increase the Plaintiff Dame Charlotta's Fortune and Joynture made his Will in 1678. and thereby reciting that whereas upon his Marriage-Settlement it was provided That if he should have a Daughter she was to have 6000 l. Portion as his Will was and he gave to his only Daughter Charlotta in case she should have no Son living at his death 10000 l. more as an addition to her Portion to make her up the same 16000 l. and for raising of the said portions and payment of his debts and Legacies he devised all his said Lands except his Lands limited for his Wives Joynture for her life unto Trustees and their Heirs in Trust to raise out of the Rents and profits of the said premisses the several Sums mentioned for his Daughters portion and the sums of Mony thereafter mentioned and Willed That till one half of the said Daughters portion should be raised his Daughter Charlotta to have 100 l. per Annum for the first four years and afterwards 200 l. per Annum till her moiety of her portion should be raised and after payment of the said portions maintenance debts and legacies he devised the said Trustees to stand seised of all the said premisses except before excepted to the use of the Heirs males of his Body with a Remainder to the Defendant Sir Richard Middleton his Brother for life without impeachment of Waste Remainder to his first Son and Heirs males of his Body with other Remainder to the Defendants Thomas Richard and Charles Middleton Remainder to the right Heirs of the said Thomas and he bequeathed to his said Daughter Charlotta the Plaintiff his Diamond-pendants which his Wife wore and bequeathed to his Wife Dame Charlotta after his death one Annuity of 200 l. per Annum for her life to be raised out of the profits of the said premisses and bequeathed the great Silver Candlesticks to go according to his Grandmothers Will to the Heirs of his Family with his Estate as an Heir Loom and bequeathed the use of all his Goods Stock and Housholdstuff to his Wife the Plaintiff Dame Charlotta for so long as she should live at Chirke Castle and from thence he left the same to his eldest Son and Heirs or such as should be Heir male of his Family according to the limitations aforesaid and his further Will was that his said Wife should have such proportion of the Goods Housholdstuff and Stock for the stocking and furnishing of Cardigan-House and Demean being part of her Joynture as should be judged fit by her Trustees that she might be supplied with Goods and Stock requisite for her House and left to whomsoever should be his Heir all his Stable of Horses and made the Plaintiff Dame Charlotta Executrix and died in 1683. leaving the
not to be shaken yet nevertheless the Case being new and great referred it to the Opinion and Determination of the Lord Chancellor His Lordship held the Demurrer good and Order to stand Skinner contra Kilby 2 Jac. 2. fo 72. THe Bill is to have the benefit of a Bequest by the Will of Robert Kilby The Will being viz. Will. If my Son Richard Kilby should behave himself towardly and undertake the payment of my debts and Legacies then he to have all my Lands in Tredington The Son Devisee of Lands upon good behaviour for his mis-behaviour decreedagainst him if he behave himself otherwise or to neglect to pay my debts and Legacies as aforesaid then he to have but 5 s. and left it to the direction of his Executrix Jane Kilby the Defendants Mother and also Mother of the said Richard Kilby the Plaintiffs Father That the said Richard waving the said Devise made to him and neglecting the payment of his said Fathers debts and Legacies the said Jane undertok and paid the same being intituled by the said Will and by her Will Bequeathed to the said Defendant the premisses This Court upon reading the said Will of Robert Kilby the Testator which being as is aforesaid declared that according to the said Will the said Jane was well intituled to the premisses and that the Defendant ought to enjoy the same and could not relieve the Plaintiff but dismiss the Bill Nayler contra Strode 2 Jac. 2. fo 473. THe Surrender of a Copyhold Estate by an Infant of 4 or 5 years of Age allowed of by this Court Surrender of a Copyhold by an Infant of 5 years of Age. Yet the Lord of the Mannor insisted he never heard of any admittance in that Mannor at such an Age. Cloberry contra Lymonds 2 Jac. 2. fo 1069. LAnds extended in 1 Car. 1. and held in Extent and a Bill exhibited to redeem and being not redeemed the Bill dismist in 16 Car. Upon the buying the Equity of Redemption of Lands in Extent Account decreed from the time of the purchase 1. and afterwards he who had the Extent by virtue of the said dismission sold the said premisses to the Defendant But the Plaintiff having since bought the Equity of Redemption seeks a Redemption This Court notwithstanding the dismission and length of time ordered an account from the time of the Purchase but no account from any time before but the profits to go against the Interest to that time Newte contra Foot 2 Jac. 2. fo 695. THe Defendant insists Depositions suppressed because the Sollicitors Clerk in the Cause did write as a Clerk in the Execution of the Commission That the Depositions in this Cause are irregulerly taken and ought to be suppressed for that Mr. Samuel Vnderwood who was Clerk to Mr. Edward Gibbon Sollicitor for the Plaintiff in this Cause did write as Clerk in Execution of the said Commission under the said Commissioners and the said Vnderwood confessed the same and solicited the Matter for which Reasons the Defendants Commissioners refused to joyn in the Execution of the said Commission it being of great mischief for Solicitors or their Clerks to be privy to the taking of Depositions in such Causes as they Solicite This Court was well satisfied that the said Depositions were for the Reasons aforesaid irregularly taken and doth order that the same be hereby suppressed and that the Six Clerks Certificate for the regular taking of the Depositions be discharged Griffith al' contra Jones al' 2 Jac. 2. fo 353. THat Peter Griffith being seised in Fee of Lands Will. and possest of a personal Estate of 20000 l. in 1681. by his Will devised to his Brother the Plaintiff 200 l. to the Plaintiff Shonnet Price and Dorothy Parry the Daughters of his Sister Shonnet 150 l. apeice c. and to the Sons and Daughters of his Brother and Sisters not mentioned by name in his Will 10000 l. equally between them which said Legacy doth belong to the Plaintiffs John Lloyd and Alice Williams being the only Nephew and Neece not named in the Will and the overplus of his Estate he obliged the Executors should pay and and distribute amongst his Brothers and Sisters Children and Grandchildren and the rest of his poor Kindred according to his Executors discretions and the Plaintiff claims the overplus of the said Estate as being all the Brothers and Sisters Children and Grandchildren of the Testator and poor Kindred that can take by the Will The Defendants the Executors insisted That they conceive the distributing and apportioning the said surplus is left to them by the express words of the Will and that they ought to distinguish the Grandchildren of the Testators Brothers and Sisters whose Fathers and Mothers were dead before the Testator and had no particular Legacies by the Will and consider the Condition and number of Children of the said Kindred and give most to those that most want and conceived that such of the Plaintiffs as have particular Legacies ought to have but a small one if any part of the surplus and the Defendants crave the directions of this Court how far the words Poor Kindred shall Extend to what Degree of Relation This Court decreed Legacies to Poor Kindred how far to be extended That the surplus of the said Estate be distributed to and amongst the Testators Brothers and Sisters Children and Grandchildren and as to the rest of the poor Kindred according to the Act of Parliament for distributing Intestates Estates and no further and to be distributed in such shares and propotions as the Executors in their discretions should think fit and whereas there are debts owing to the Testators Estate and the debtors poor but propose to pay as far as they are able This Court decreed Poor Debtors to the Testator who left a great Estate the Executors left at liberty to compound any debt That the Executors be at liberty to compound any debt owing to the said Estate if they should think fit Creditors on Judgments and Bonds decreed Creditors on Judgment and Bonds decreed to redeem Mortgages to redeem Mortgages towards satisfaction of their debts fo 843. Bernry contra Pitt 2 Jac. 2. fo 373. THe Bill is That the Plaintiffs Father being only Tenant for life of a real Estate which after his death would come to the Plaintiff and the Plaintiffs Father allowing the Plaintiff but a small subsistance and the Plaintiff borrowed of the Defendant 1000 l. in 1675 and entred into Judgment of 5000 l. Defezanced for the payment of 2500 l. after the Plaintiffs Fathers death which hapned in 1679. The Defendant insists That he lent the Plaintiff 1000 l for which the Plaintiff gave Bond and Warrant of Attorny to confess Judgment to the Defendant of 5000 l. which was Defezanced that in case the Plaintiff should out-live his Father and in one Month after his Fathers death pay the Defendant 2500 l. and if the Plaintiff
hundred Pounds and Damages Rowley contra Lancaster 21 Car. 2. fo 993. THat Matthew Lancaster bequeathed to John Creeke 100 l. thus viz. Will. 50 l. Devise of Mony to be paid at a Day to come Devisee dies before the Day yet payable to his Administrator in one Month after the Expiration of his Apprenticeship and the other 50 l. within one whole year after the Expiration of the said Apprenticeship and made the Defendant Executor That the Apprenticeship expired 29 Sept. 1664. but John Creeke dying before the Legacy was paid the Defendant refuses to pay it to the Plaintiff the Administrator of the said John Creeke The Defendant insists That he paid the 50 l. due within a Month after the Expiration of the Apprenticeship and that the said John Creeke died before the whole year after the Expiration of his Apprenticeship was expired and therefore the other 50 l. was not due to the Plaintiff This Court being assisted with Judges were clear of Opinion That the said Legacy was Debitum in praesenti solvend in futuro and decreed the said 50 l. to be paid to the Plaintiff with damages Fry contra Porter 21 Car. 2. fo 568. THat the Earl of Newport Will. deceased by his Will devised to the Plaintiff the Lady Ann the Messuage called Newport House with the Appurtenances thus viz I do give and bequeath unto the Lady Ann Countess of Newport my Dear Wife all that my House called Newport-House and all other my Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever in Middlesex for her Life and after her decease I do give and bequeath the said House and all other my Tenements and Hereditaments as aforesaid to my Grandchild the Lady Ann Knowles the Daughter of Nicholas Earl of Banbury by the Lady Isabella my late Daughter and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully to be begotten Provided always and upon Condition that my said Grandchild the Lady Ann Knowles do marry with the consent of my said Wife and of Charles Earl of Warwick and Edward Earl of Manchester or the Major part of them And in case the said Lady Ann Knowles do and shall marry without the consent of my said Wife and the Major part of my Trustees aforesaid or shall happen to depart this Life without any Issue of her Body then I will and bequeath all the said premisses unto my Grandson George Porter Son of my deceased Daughter the Lady Ann late Wife of Thomas Porter Esq and to his Heirs for ever The Bill is to be Relieved against the Forfeiture of the said Estate for not performing the said Condition in the Will and Marrying against the consent of the Trustees and the Mother Yet the said Mother was told That the Plaintiff was about to marry and said nothing to the contrary whereupon the Plaintiff married and hath Issue The Plaintiff insisting That if any Error were committed in Marrying it was through Ignorance and not Obstinacy she the Plaintiff being very young and knew not of the Proviso or Condition in the said Will and it would be very unreasonable to make the happiness of the Plaintiff to depend upon the consent of Strangers in point of Marriage to put it into their power to keep her during her life either from Marrying or from her Estate and thereby make them Masters of her Affection or Fortune and to disinherit her and her Children But the Defendant insists That the Reason of inserting the said Proviso into the said Will was that the Plaintiff the Lady Ann might be disposed of in Marriage without disparagement and therefore that she should marry with the consent of the said Countess and the two Earls or the Major part of them and of that other Clause viz. That if she married without such Consent then he gave the said House and Premisses to the said Defendant George Porter the Infant and his Heirs for ever and that the said Lady Ann having Married a person very unequal to her Fortune and without such Consent as aforesaid having little or no Estate had made a wilful breach of the said Proviso or Condition in the said Grandfathers Will Lands devised on Condition the Devisee marry with consent and limitation over Devisee marries without Consent she shall not be relieved but the Land decreed to the remainder Man and the said George Porter claims the said House to him and his Heirs by virtue of the said Condition and Limitation over to him by the said Will the construction whereof is to be made out of the Will it self and not otherwise and the said Lady Ann had notice of the said Will before marriage there being discourse of it by the Trustees to her and so the Lady Ann ought not to be relieved against the said Forfeiture or Limitation aforesaid This Court with the Judges and on perusal of Presidents are clear of Opinion and fully satisfied That the Plaintiff ought not to be relieved against the said Forfeiture and that the same was such as ought not to be relieved in Equity and dismist the Plaintiffs Bill Vide this Case in Mod. Rep. p. 300. with Councels and Judges Arguments seriatim Shalmer contra Tresham 21 Car. 2. fo 560. THe Bill is to discover the Deeds of several Lands and whether they were not made in Trust and whether the Debt demanded by the Plaintiff were not mentioned in a Schedule thereunto annex'd The Defendant pleaded Bill to discover Settlements in Trust Plea That the Defendant is a Scrivener and had taken Oath not to discover the Secrets of his Clients Overruled That he was a Scrivener by Profession and hath taken the accustomed Oath that Scriveners do before they are made Free in London whereby he is obliged not to discover the Secrets of those persons business that employ him in that Trade without their leave and that he was employed by and assisted Sir John Langham in the purchasing of the said Lands and the Writings concerning the premisses he drew and hath the Keeping thereof by the said Sir Johns Direction and so ought not to discover the said Writings contrary to his Trust nor any thing relating to this Matter This Court declared That the Oath of a Scrivener doth not oblige from a discovery more than the Oath of any other Free man of London And if it had been in the case of a Counsellor at Law the said Plea had been Insufficient in this case and Overruled the Plea saving he is not to Answer to whom he paid the Purchase Mony Alford cont Pitt 21 Car. 2. fo 181. THe Plaintiffs Suit is Demurrer Remedy at Law Award to have the benefit of an Award To which the Defendant demurred and says That the Plaintiff ought to take his Remedy at Law This Court Overruled the Demurrer Langton al' contra Tracy Astrey 21 Car. 2. fo 376. THe Bill is to have the several Debts due to the Plaintiffs being Creditors of the Defendant Roberts paid The Case is viz. That Thomas
to be Re-heard before the Lord Keeper Bridgman who declared He saw no cause to alter the said former Decree and so confirmed it Brabant contra Perne 21 Car. 2. fo 146 344. DEpositions of Witnesses under the Hand of a Six-Clerk then in a Cause between Butt and Perne about Thirty years since the Plaintiff in this Cause prayed the same might be recorded the Record of the Original Depositions in that Cause being lost But the Defendant Pernes's Counsel insisted Copies of Depositions not to be recorded or exemplified it would be of dangerous consequence and president to suffer Copies of Depositions to be Recorded and used as Evidence in case of Title of Land there being no Cause in Court or parties to the said former Suit there being since the dismission of the said former Suit two Trials brought by the said Butt concerning the said things in question upon both which two Nonsuits passed against the said Butts Title the Witnesses which were examined in this Court being all then living and two Verdicts upon full Evidence on both sides and one other Verdict since 1664. hath been found for the Defendant's Title against the now Plaintiffs Title and some of the Witnesses at the said Trial have sworn otherwise than is expressed in those Copies of the Depositions which the Plaintiff would have now recorded and exemplified This Court would not allow the said Copies of the Depositions to be recorded or exemplified but they being before Ordered so to be by the Master of the Rolls it is Ordered they shall be vacated and made void and cancelled and taken off the File Alexander contra Alexander 21 Car. 2 fo 324. THe Suit is Assets to discover the Estate of Richard Alexander deceased which is come to the Defendants hands to satisfy a debt of 300 l. due to the Plaintiff from the said Richard Alexander The Defendant insisted that the Plaintiff ought not to have Relief in this Court in regard the Assets in the Defendants hands were legal Assets and nothing appeared but that the Plaintiff had her proper remedy at Law having not proved any thing more to be in the Defendants hands than was confessed in the Defendant's Answer But the Plaintiff insisted Bill to discover Affets That this Court hath directed Accounts in cases of this nature to avoid circuity of Action and further charge and trouble of Suits and that this Court being possest of the Cause and the parties at Issue on Proofs the same was as proper for this Court as at Common Law This Court ordered Presidents to be searched where this Court hath directed Accounts and given Relief in this Case and the Cause coming to be heard on the Presidents and Merits thereof and the Plaintiffs insisted that there is sufficient Assets of the said Richard Alexander come to the Defendants hands to satisfie the Plaintiffs debt with Overplus This Court decreed the Defendant to come to an Account for the Estate of one Blackhall unadministred Yate contra Hooke 21 Car. 2. fo 939. THat John Hele on the 23d Dec. 1654. Mortgage by demise and re-demise for 2000 l. mortgaged Longs Court and other Lands to Jasper Edwards his Executors Administrators and Assigns for 99 years and the said Edwards on the 25th of Dec. 1654. re-demised the same to the said John Hele for 98 years at a Pepper Corn Rent on Condition That if the said John Hele his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns did not pay to the said Jasper Edwards his Executors Administrators and Assigns 2150 l. at a certain day therein mentioned that then the said Re-demise to be void and Covenanted for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators to pay the same accordingly and in Hillary Term 1654. the said John Hele acknowledged a Judgment of 4000 l. to the said Jasper Edwards for the performance of the Covenants in the said Demise and Re-demise and after in 1656. the said John Hele for 500 l. mortgaged the said premisses to Joseph Jackson his Executors Administrators and Assigns reciting the said Mortgage to Jasper Edwards to have and to hold the said premisses to the said Joseph Jackson his Executors Administrators and Assigns for the residue of the said term demised to the said Jasper Edwards and to hold the Reversion to the said Joseph Jackson his Heirs and Assigns for the use of the said Joseph Jackson his Heirs and Assigns for ever on Condition That if the said John Hele his Executors c. paid to the said Jackson his Executors c. 515 l. in June next following then the said Deed of Mortgage to be void and the said John Hele to Re-enter as in his former Estate and the said John Hele Covenanted with the said Jackson his Heirs c. to pay the said 515 l. and for further confirmation granted to the said Jackson all his Equity of Redemption and afterwards the said Edwards and Hele for 2000 l. paid by Jackson to the said Edwards the said Edwards and Hele assigned the said premisses to Jackson with Condition or Proviso That if the said Hele his Heirs or Executors should pay to the said Jackson his Executors c. 2060 l. then the said demise from Hele to Edwards to be void and afterwards in 1657. Edwards assigned the said Judgment of 4000 l. to the said Jackson his Executors c. and the said Hele in 1660. died leaving the said Defendant Sir Thomas Hooke his Nephew and Heir And the said Jackson having made his Will and devised to his Daughter Sarah Wife of the Defendant Alford 2000 l. and to the said Joseph Jackson his Son 2000 l. with his Lands Tenements c. and to the Heirs of his Body and for want of Issue then the one half of his Lands so given to his Daughter Ann Yate and the other half to his Daughter Earle and the Issue of their Bodies equally and that in case his personal Estate fell short then every Legatee to abate in proportion to make it up the one half and the other half his Son Joseph should make good out of what he had bequeathed to him and made the Defendants Yate Earle and Aldworth Executors and if his Estate should amount to more than he had bestowed then that the said Joseph and Sarah should have the one half of it and his Son Yate and his Wife and his Son Earle and his Wife and what Child he should have living at his decease the other half Afterwards the said Joseph Jackson having in his Account accompted the said Mortgage Mony as part of his personal Estate in 1661 died leaving the said Joseph Jackson his Heir that no Entry had been made either by the Testator in his life time or by the said Joseph his Son and Heir upon the said mortgaged premisses but the said John Hele and Sir Thomas Hooke had received all the Rents and Profits So as the Question was Whether the said Mortgage Moneys are due and payable to the Heir or Executor
from this Defendant all her Lands and personal Estate which the Defendant had given her power to do and she died and for Non-payment of the said 400 l. per Annum the Defendant entred upon the Lands liable to the payment thereof and the Defendant hopes the said Decree shall not be Reversed The Plaintiff insists That the Title in Law in the Ladies Estate was in Trustees before her Marriage with the Defendant and so agreed to be continued without his intermedling therewith he bringing no Additional Estate to the said Lady and that there was no Fine levied to the Trustees or otherwise of her Estate of Inheritance Revocation of Uses and that the Uses upon the Recoveries were with power of Revocation in the Lady alone and that pursuant to such power by Deed 14 Car. 1. she Revoked the same and setled the same in Trust for such persons and their Heirs as she by her Will should appoint and that the said Tripartite Indenture and Decree did not discharge the Trust nor take notice of the Recoveries and that the said Lady in 1659. did appoint that her Trustees upon the said Recoveries shall convey part of her Land to the Plaintiff Solmes's Father and the Plaintiff Terrell and the rest to her Heir at Law and that in 1650. the said Land came first to be charged which was after the Ladies death and presently after there appeared Infancies which was the reason the said Decree was not sooner impeach'd This Court being assisted with the Judges Bill of Review dismist for that its a long time since the Decree was made and the Plaintiffs rested under it without any Complaint taking into Consideration the length of Time since the Decree was made and how long they were resting under it without any Complaint and that the Heirs have a benefit by the Ladies separate power of disposing who disposed accordingly by her Will. This Court with the Judges declared and are of Opinion that the said Decree grounded on the Tripartite Indenture 14 Car. 1. was and is a good Decree and ought to be performed and dismissed the Bill of Review White cont Ewens al' 22 Car. 2. fo 237. THis is upon an Appeal from a Decree Appeal from a Decree the Case being That Dame Ann Brett Relict of Sir Alex. Brett having a Joynture in the Manors and Lands of Whitstanton and Alexander her Son having on the Marriage with Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir William Kirkham agreed to settle 250 l. per Annum Joynture on the said Elizabeth but being disabled to do it by reason of Dame Anns Joynture he being seised only of 120 l. per Annum in Whitland and the Reversion of Yarkcombe the said Alexander agreed with the said Dame Ann That his Heirs Executors or Administrators should pay yearly after his death to Sir Humfry Lind and George Brett 250 l. per Annum during the said Dame Anns life if the said Elizabeth should so long live and thereupon the said Dame Ann Joyned with the said Alexander in a Grant of a Rent-charge of 250 l. per Annum out of Whitstanton for the Joyture of Elizabeth and Alexander 12 Jac. 1. demised Whitland and Tarkcombe to Lind and Brett the said Trustees for an hundred years to commence immediately after such time as the Heirs Executors or Administrators of Alexander should fail to pay the said 250 l. per Annum to the said Trustees during the life of the said Elizabeth That 15 Jac. 1. the said Alexander died and there being a failure of payment of the 250 l. by the Children Executors c. of the said Alexander to the said Elizabeth or to the Trustees for the use of the said Dame Ann the said Dame Ann paid the same out of Whitstanton and thereby the said Lease of 100 years of Whitlands and Yarkcombe did commence and thereupon she entred and received the Profits of Whitlands and the said Dame Ann paid the 250 l. during the life of the said Elizabeth That the said Alexander leaving three Children viz. Robert Mary and Ann wholly unprovided for and by Agreement the said Dame Ann was to pay 80 l. per Annum for the said Childrens Maintenance from the death of the said Elizabeth their Mother and that the said Dame Ann and her Trustees should assign the said Lease of 100 years to the said Children when at Age. That 17 Jac. 1. the said Lease was assigned to the Children to commence from 1636. that the said Dame Ann paid the said 80 l. per Annum maintenance which with 1750 l. she had paid to the said Elizabeth amounting to more than the Value of the said Lease of Whitlands whereof she received the Profits till about 1636. the said Mary one of the Children being dead and that the Defendant Ewens having married Ann the other Daughter they and the said Robert Brett the Son held the said premisses as Joynt-tenants by virtue of the said Lease but the said Robert Brett receiving more of the Profits than his share the Defendant Ewens and his Wife sued out a Writ of Partition in 1654. Partition a Moiety was delivered to the Defendant Ewens and Judgment given that the same should be held in severalty and the Defendant Ewens 12 Car. 2. for 132 l. Fine and 20 l. per Annum demised part thereof to the Defendant Nurse who assigned to the Defendant Rutland That the Plaintiff White insisting That Robert Brett acknowledged a Judgment to Richard White in 1644. extended the Defendants Moiety and brought an Ejectment and got a Verdict by surprize since which the Defendant brought an Action and obtained a Verdict whereupon the Plaintiff exhibited this Bill and hath stayed the Defendants by an Injunction To have an account of the Profits received and a Lease 12 Jac. 1. being 20 years since is contrary to the Limitations and Rules both at Law and Equity The Plaintiff insists He is now in the place of the said Robert but in a better condition his said Judgment under which he claims being long since Extended in the life time of the said Richard White and Robert Brett and before any Action brought and if the said Lease be satisfied the same ought to be set aside And to take off the length of Time insists That by a Decree made in the Court of Wards in 1640. the Defendants were to account with the said Robert Brett and the Plaintiffs Father Richard White really lent the said Mony for which the Judgment was got and in 1646. on Extent had a Moiety of Whitlands delivered and that notwithstanding the Lease to the three Children the Lady Ann had possession of Whitlands till 1637. The Defendants insist That the Lady Ann paid 1750 l. and 80 l. per Annum during the Minority of the Children which is more than the Value so look'd on her self an absolute Owner and disposed of the said Lease whereof the said Robert had a Moiety Lease to commence after failure of payment
Deed made by the Plaintiff Eliz. in Feb. 1666. Frandulent Deed. before her Marriage with the Plaintiff Sir Philip Howard and that the Plaintiff Sir Philip in right of his said Wife might have all her benefit and interest in or to the Estate of Sir John Baker her former Husband and receive the Rents and profits of the premisses The Case being that Sir John Baker the Father being seized in Fee of Lands by two Deeds Tripartite of Lease and Release made between himself of the one part Sir Robert Newton deceased of the second and Sir John Baker the Son and Dame Eliz. the Plaintiff and sole Daughter of Sir Robert Newton of the third part in consideration of a Marriage between the Plaintiff Dame Eliz. and Sir John Baker the Son and 4000 l. portion conveyed the same to Sir Robert Newton and his Heirs part of which Lands were for the said Dame Eliz. Joynture and Sir John Baker the Father and Dame Mary his Wife being dead Sir John the Son sold part of the premisses for payment of debts part whereof was the Joynture of Dame Eliz. and in consideration of the said Dame Elizabeth joyning in such sale and parting with her Joynture Sir John her Husband in lieu thereof and of 1500 l. to be paid to Dame Elizabeth for a Joynture house limitted the premisses unsold to the said Dame Elizabeth and the Defendants for 400 years upon Trust by Sale thereof to pay the said Dame Elizabeth the said 1500 l. and also the Rents and profits of the whole until Sale and the residue of the said premisses remaining unsold to Dame Elizabeth during her life and after to wait on the Inheritance And in 1658 the Inheritance was conveyed to Sir Robert Newton and his Heirs and he by Will devised the same to the said Dame Elizabeth for life Remainder to the first Son of the Plaintiff Sir Philip and Dame Elizabeth so the Plaintiff being intituled to the 1500 l. and the term of 400 years after the Trusts performed and so ought in right of the said Dame Elizabeth his Lady to continue in the possession of the premisses and receive the Rents and profits thereof which the Defendants refused to do pretending the term of 400 years is limited to them upon other Trusts and in particular that the Plaintiff Dame Elizabeth before her Marriage to the Plaintiff Sir Philip by her Deed of the 9th of February 1666 Assigned to the Defendants all monies then due or to be payable to her by vertue of the Deed in Trust for her benefit and to be at her disposing during the Joynt lives of her and the said Sir Philip whether she Married or continued Sole and that she should have power by writing under her Hand and Seal to dispose thereof for the benefit of her Daughter by her former Husband and that she hath disposed thereof accordingly which said Deed the Plaintiff insists is fraudulent or with power of revocation and never mentioned to Sir Phillip and that Sir Philip after his Marriage setled 500 l. per Annum on the said Dame Elizabeth for a Joynture which he would not have done if he had known or understood the said Dame Elizabeth had made such Deed or disposition as aforesaid of her former Husbands Estate and since their Marriage she desired leave of Sir Philip that she might receive the Rents and profits of the said Lands of her former Husband without mentioning the said Deed and therefore the same ought to be set aside The Defendants do insist the said Dame Elizabeth before her Marriage with the said Philip did declare to him that who ever did Marry her should have no benefit of any Estate that she had by her former Husband and that Sir Philip did agree to bar himself thereof and take no benefit thereby A Widow makes a Deed of her former Husband Estate and marries the second Husband not privy to it the Deed set aside and the second Husband to enjoy the Estate and that Sir Robert Newton looking upon the Estate as setled on his Grand-children as aforesaid and had given his personal Estate and 700 l. per Annum to the Plaintiffs and their Sons and the said Sir Robert Newton never pretended right to the said Estate or intermedled therewith that there is no reason to set a side the said Deed of the 9th of Feb. aforesaid This Court being assisted with the Judges on reading the said Deed it not appearing unto this Court that the said Sir Philip had any notice of the said Deed 9th of Feb. 1666. till after the death of the said Sir Robert Newton which was several years after the Marriage nor was privy or consented to the making of any such Deed but haveing intimation that Dame Elizabeth intended to dispose of her interest in her former Husbands Estate from such Husband as she should Marry broka off the treaty of Marriage which was afterwards brought on again by some Friends of the said Dame Elizabeth and that the said Sir Philip was induced to Marry the said Dame Elizabeth upon the hopes and confidence of having the interest she had in the Estate of the said Sir John Baker her former Husband without which he would never have married her and that the said Sir Philip never knew of the said Deed of the 9th of Feb. 1666 but the same was a fraud upon Sir Phillip and that therefore no use ought to be made thereof and decreed the said Deed of the 9th of Feb. 1666 be absolutely set aside and no use to be made thereof against the said Sir Philip or any claiming under him Poter contra Habbert 24 Car. 2. fo 591. THis Bill is to have a redemption of a Mortgage made in 1636 Mortgage by the Plaintiffes Father to one Abraham Dawes for 5000 l. and for non-payment of the Mortgage mony Sir Thomas Dawes Son and Heir of the said Abraham Dawes entred in 1641 and he and his Assigns have ever since taken the profits And the Defendant insists that the said Thomas Dawes in 49 conveyed the mortgaged premisses to Hugh Hubbert the Defendants Father for 7000 l. and that in 1641 when Sir Thomas Dawes entred there was 5000 l. due on the Mortgage besides interest so he would be charged without 350 l. per Annum for mean profits since that time and would have 6 l. per Cent. Interest for the 7000 l. from the time it appearing on the conveyance This Cause being first heard by Judge Ransford who ordered the Plaintiffs to redeem Computation of interest monies according to the Statute in force and the account for the Interest of the 500 l. to begin from 1636 the time of lending the mony and from that to 1642 Interest to be paid according to Acts then in force and from 42 to 46 Interest at 8 l. and 4 l. per Cent. The Cause being heard again by the Lord Keeper Bridgeman assisted with Judge Tyrrle Morton and Wild who ordered the
his debts being 100 l. and says that the 1000 l. was given to be divided as afore said and as the Defendant William should think fit and that Peter dying before any distribution was made to him thereof the Defendant William ought not to distribute the same amongst the other four and no part of it ought to come to the Plaintiff This Court declared That no part of the 1000 l. doth belong to the Plaintiff in Right of the said Peter or otherwise and dismist the Bill Nance contra Coke 29 Car. 2. fo 64. THe Plaintiff seeks Redemption of a Mortgage made the 17th of Jac. 1. Release pleaded against the Redemption of a Mortgage and allowed the Defendant pleaded a Release of the Mortgagors Interest in Anno 1620. This Court after so long time and such Release could not admit the Plaintiff to Redeem though the premisses were Mortgaged for 376 l. and worth now to be sold 1500 l. Burgrave contra Whitwick al' 29 Car. 2. fo 173. THat George Whitwick deceased Will. having Issue George his only Son and Elizabeth and Martha the Wife of the Defendant Curtis by Will bequeathed to the said Elizabeth 600 l. to be paid unto her as therein after is expressed and to the said Martha 600 l. in like manner and gave the residue of his Personal Estate to the said George his Son to be employed as should be afterwards expressed in his Will and also gave to his said Son and his Heirs all Lands whatsoever and Willed That if either of his said Children should dye in their Minority that the surviving should be Heirs to the deceased in equal portions but if all should die without Issue then he gave his Lands to George the Son of Humfrey Whitwick with Remainders over and ordered the said Portions in convenient time to be laid out in Lands for his said Children and till Lands purchased the Executors to retain the Mony so long as the Overseers should see good at 5 l. per Cent. and made the Defendant Humfrey Whitwick Executor That George the Son died Intestate under Age unmarried that no Land hath been purchased by the Executor That Martha attained 21. and received her Portion and also the Moiety of the residue of the Personal Estate bequeathed to George the Son but refuses to pay Elizabeth her 600 l. and Moiety of the said residue of the Personal Estate she being yet a Minor under 21. yet she is married to the other Plaintiff Burgrave who can give a Discharge The Defendant insiststs According to the meaning of the Will he ought not to pay Elizabeth till the Age of 21 years for in case she die before the said Martha ought to have the other Moiety of the residue of the Personal Estate and he is advised there is a possibility of Survivorship of the Plaintiff Elizabeths Portion and Moiety of the residuary of the Personal Estate and that if he should pay it to the said Elizabeth and she should die before 21 the Defendant Martha may compel him to pay it again But the Plaintiff insists That the Moiety of the residuary Personal Estate devised to the said George not being laid out in Lands falls to the Plaintiff within the words of that Clause in the Will that gives the residue by equal portions to the surviving and so no further Survivorship intended This Court was of Opinion Residuary part of the Personal Estate not subject to any contingency of Survivorship but the Interest presently vested and declared the residuary part of the Personal Estate is not subject to any contingency of Survivorship but that the Interest of that presently vested in the Plaintiff upon the death of the said George the Son and ordered the Defendant the Executor to pay one Moiety of the residuary Personal Estate and in case Elizabeth die before 21 then the 600 l. to be paid to Martha which in the mean time is to be kept in the Defendants hands Morgan contra Scudamore 29 Car. 2. fo 658. THe Plaintiffs being Customary Tenants of the Mannor Renewing Copies upon reasonable Fines in which Mannor the Tenants hold Estates by Copy to them and their Heirs by the words Sibi Suis for 99 years yielding a Rent paying a Herriot and doing of Suit and Service c. And by the Custom of the said Mannor the Lords upon Expiration of every Estate ought to renew upon reasonable Fines and which said Estates by the Custom of the Mannour do descend from Heir to Heir and their Estates to be renewed for reasonable Fines they being expired which the Lords of the Mannor refuse demanding more than the Fee for a Fine whereas two years value was as much as ever was or ought to be given or demanded The Defendant the Lord of the said Mannor insists that there was such a Custom to renew for 99 years but the Fines always at the will of the Lord and such as the Plaintiffs could agree with him for there being no benefit to come to the Lord during the 99 years so the question is whether the Lord shall be at liberty to set what Fine he please or be restreined therein by this Court it appearing that the Fines are Arbitrary The Plaintiffs insist that though the Fines are Arbitrary yet the same are by Law supposed to be reasonable and that in some Cases the Law had adjudged above two years value to be an unreasonable Fine and the Defendant had demanded 10 and 12 years value for a Fine which is very extravagant and the will of the Lord in this Case ought to be limited The Defendant insists that the Plaintiffs Estates and Terms for 99 years expired many years before the Bill Exhibited some of them 30 and others 11 or 12 years since in the life-time of the Defendants Father and some of the Plaintiffs Estates have been granted to others and Fines levied thereon and that the Tenants of the said Mannor do not during the 99 years pay any Fines upon death or alteration so nothing is due to the Lord for 99 years together so that the Defendant insists nine or ten years purchase is a reasonable Custom This Court declared The Lord of a Mannor limited to two years value for a Fine the will of the Lord ought to be limited and that the Plaintiffs onpayment of two years value shall be admitted to their said Estates and hold the same against the Defendant and all claiming under him and that the Plaintiffs shall renew such Estates within one year after the Expiration of their Term in case they be of Age Tenants Decree to renew within one year after the Leases expired or within the four Seas at such time or otherwise within one year after such respective Tenant shall attain the Age of 21 or return from beyond the Seas or else such Tenant shall be for ever foreclosed of any help or benefit and and then the Lord is at liberty to dispose thereof Warwick contra
that it should extend only to the Testators Sister Ann Carr and her Children and to the Testators Nephews and Nieces now living and that no Kindred out of the degree of a Brother or Sister to the Testator or a Child of such Brother or Sister ought to come in or have any share of the said Residue and that amongst those that are to come into the Distribution the Executor ought chiefly to consider those that have most need that so they that have more need may have more than they that have less and decreed the same accordingly and as to the said John Buncher who was his Sisters Son and so to have share and was particularly recommended to the Executor who the Court declared had a power to give some more than other this Court ordered the Executor to give him somewhat considerably out of the Residue of the said Estate and the Executor to distribute the remainder to such of the Kindred as are to come into the Distribution as shall appear to the said Executor to have most need and in such manner and proportion as he shall think fit and Sir Samuel Clark one of the Masters of this Court is to see right done in this Case Distribution and the Bill wherein the Plaintiffs which are beyond the degrees of Nephews of the said Testator is to stand dismist Bourne contra Tynt 30 Car. 2. fo 636. THe Case is Will. that Roger Brown the Plaintiffs Brother by his Will in 1671. devised to Executors in Trust all Lands as before that time were Mortgaged to him and all Money due thereupon that they should lay out so much of his Personal Estate as remained after Debts and Legacies paid in a purchase of Lands of Inheritance to be setled on the first Son of his Body and the Heirs Males of the Body of such first Son and so to all Sons in Tail Male and for want of such Issue on the Plaintiff for life remainder to the Plaintiffs eldest Son in Tail remainders over to the Plaintiffs Children in Tail and by his Will declared and devised that in case the Child his said Wife was then big withal should be a Daughter then he gave to her 1000 l. to be paid to her at 21 or 6 Months after Marriage and in case she Marryed with consent of the Trustees then the said Portion to be 3000 l. and it was provided by the said Will that the Trustees out of the Interest of the said 3000 l. should pay for the Maintenance of the said Child 80 l. per Annum and it was also provided that in case such Daughter should dye before such Marriage or Age of 21 then her Portion and Mony so devised to her should go and be for the use and benefit of such Person or Persons as should at any time enjoy his Lands of Inheritance according to the Will and thereby declared the same Money to be laid out in a Purchase of Lands to be setled as aforesaid and also declared that the rest of the Personal Estate not given or disposed of by his Will should all be bestowed in Lands of Inheritance and setled as aforesaid and the said Roger Burne dyed without Issue Male of his Body and about three Months after the said Defendant Florence his only Daughter was Born and the Trustees have not pursuant to the Will laid out the Personal Estate in Lands so that the Plaintiff ought to have the Interest of such Money as should have been laid out in Lands The question in this case being whether the 3000 l. and the Interest thereof over and above the 80 l. per Annum Maintenance of the Defendant Florence should be paid to the Defendant or to the Plaintiff who claims the same by virtue of the Will in case the said Defendant Florence had not happened to be Born the Will being made before she was Born and the Plaintiff claiming the 3000 l. and Interest over and above the said 80 l. per Annum in Case she should dye or not be Marryed or incapacitated to dispose thereof The Defendant insists that the Plaintiff having a very considerable Estate from the Testator by the said Will which would have descended to the Defendant Florence in case she had been born and living at the time of the Death of her said Father and that the Plaintiff cannot have any pretence to the interest of the said 3000 l. as aforesaid for that there is not any Clause or Direction in the Will touching the same Portion and Interest devised upon a contingency of dying or Marriage decreed to be paid into Court for the benefit of the Heir according to the Will in case of the Devisees death This Court declared the 3000 l. and Interest over and above the said 80 l. per Annum belongs to the Plaintiff in case the said Florence dye before she receive the same by the said Will and Decreed that the Interest of the 3000 l. be paid into Court and not to be taken out without good Security given by the said Helena to make good the Benefit thereof to the Plaintiff in case the said Florence dye before 21 years or Marryed as aforesaid as the Will directs Elvard contra Warren al' 31 Car. 2. fo 350. THe Defendant being in Contempt for disobeying a Decree Prisoner by Habeas Corpus brought from Bristol and turned over to the Fleet for that he was in contempt and being a Prisoner in Bristol a Habeas Corpus cum causis was ordered to bring him to the Bar of this Court who was brought up and turned over to the Fleet who is there a Prisoner and refuses to obey the said Decree The Court ordered a Sequestration against his Real and Personal Estate Warner contra Borsley 31 Car. 2. fo 629. THe question being Devise whether a Devise of the Plaintiffs Father by his Will of his Personal Estate and Debts to the Plaintiff in remainder after the death of his Mother and the Devise thereof to her in the first place she being Executrix to the said 1st Testator and the Defendant her Executor were good or not The Plaintiff insisted That the Devise of the personal Estate by the Will of the Testator to his Wife was an absolute Devise to her by operation of Law and was vested in her and so consequently in the Defendant who is Executor of the said Alice by virtue of the said Executor and the Devise or Limitation over to the Plaintiff after the death of his said Mother who was Executrix of the first Testator was absolutely void in Law and the said Defendant as Executor to the Plaintiffs said Mother is well intituled to the said personal Estate devised by the Testators said Will. The Plaintiff insisted That the Devise to the Plaintiff in Remainder after death of his Mother was a good Devise and ought to be countenanced the rather in regard such Devise in the life time of the said Testator and Testatrix was
consented and agreed to by the Relict and Executrix and so decreed at the former hearing This Court declared Devise of a Personal Estate in Remainder after the death of J.S. is a void Devise and Vests wholy in J.S. she being Executrix That the Devise of the personal Estate to the Plaintiff in Remainder was a void Devise and the said Estate to the Testator immediately thereupon did Attach and vest in the said Alice his Relict and Executrix and the Defendant as her Executor was and is well intituled thereto and decreed accordingly Bredhust contra Richardson 31 Car. 2 fo 695. THat Samuel Russell by his Will gave to his three Daughters Sarah Christian and Elizabeth 540 l. to be divided amongst them viz. For each of them in particular 180 l. but if any one or two of them 540 l. To be divided amongst three Daughters and if one or two dyes without Issue the Daughters to Inherit each other one Marries the Plaintiff and dyes Sans Issue the Plaintiff is intituled to the 180 l. as Administrator to his Wife should dye without leaving a Child that the Daughters should Inherit one anothers Goods Monies Lands and Chattels which the deceased should leave behind them and that the Plaintiff intermarried with the said Elizabeth and that she died without leaving a Child before payment of the said 180 l. The Plaintiff insists That he as Administrator to the said Elizabeh his Wife is intituled to the said 180 l. and her share of the said Goods The Defendant insists That by the words and true intent of the Testator and the said Will the same doth not belong to the Plaintiff but came or in Equity belongs to the Defendants as Surviving Sisters This Court declared the Plaintiff is well intituled to the said 180 l. and decreed accordingly Turner contra Turner 31 Car. 2. fo 102. THat the Plaintiffs Father lent to Ayloff 700 l. and 200 l. at another time for which Ayloff Mortgaged Lands to the Plaintiffs Father and his Heirs with proviso that on payment of 600 l. to the said Plaintiff Father or Heirs then the premisses to be reconveyed to Ayloff that the Plaintiff is Executor to his Father and Brothers and so claims the Mortgages as vesting in the Executors of his Father and not in his Heirs The Defendant being the Son and Heir of the Plaintiffs eldest Brother deceased and Grandson and Heir to the said Plaintiff's Father insists That the Plaintiff and Defendant and others who claimed several shares and parts of the Plaintiffs Fathers personal Estate agreed to a Division thereof amongst themselves and a Division was made and Releases given of each ones demands in Law or Equity to the said Estate and the Plaintiff in particular released and the said Ayloff's Mortgage with the Mony due thereon with other things was set out and allotted to the Defendant by consent of all the parties and received by the Defendant in part of his share and the Plaintiff accounted to the Defendant for the profits of the said Ayloffs Mortgaged premisses received by him and afterwards in 1664 the Defendant had a Decree for the Mortgage Mony against Ayloffs Executor and received the same to which proceedings the Plaintiff was privy and the Defendant says it is unreasonable that the Plaintiff should now make a demand to the said Mortgage to unsetle matters so setled by his own consent but the Plaintiff insists he looked on the premisses at that time to come to the Defendant as Heir and knew not his own Titile thereto and the shares set out came but to 250 l. apiece and Ayloffs Mortgage was worth 800 l. This Court is of Opinion The Heir is decreed to have a right to a Mortgage in Fee and not the Executor that the Plaintiff ought to be relieved and had an undoubted Right to the said Mortgaged premisses and decreed the Defendant to repay all the Mony received by him thereon to the Plaintiff Bois contra Marsh 31 Car. 2. Land Legatees and Mony Legatees decreed to abate in proportion notwithstanding an Agreement to the contrary fo 441. THis Court declared That all the Legatees both Land Legatees and Mony Legatees ought to abate in propotion notwithstanding the Agreement to the contrary and that the said Agreement be set aside Audley contra Dom ' Audley 31 Car. 2. fo 848. THe Bill is to set aside a Lease made by Sir Henry Audley the Plaintiffs Father Power to make Leases if well pursued to the Defendants as Trustees for the Defendant the Lady Audley for 99 years if Henry Francis and Ann Audley Children of Sir Henry by the Defendant the Lady Audley should so long live paying yearly so much Rent as amounts to two parts in three of the yearly Value of the said Houses according to the best improved Value But the Plaintiff insists The said Lease is not made pursuant to the power reserved to the said Henry by a Deed of Settlement made by one Packington in 4 Car. 1. in Consideration of a Marriage between the said Sir Henry and Ann one of the said Packingtons Daughters and Coheirs by which it was declared That the benefit of such power in the said Sir Henry to make Leases was to be for the younger Children of the said Sir Henry by the said Ann his first Wife and the said Lease was not well gained from Sir Henry The Defendant insisted it was made pursuant to the power which was That Sir Henry should have power to make Leases for a provision of any thing he should have or otherwise as he should direct Which Matter was referred to the Lord Chief Justice Hales who declared the power good and that Sir Henry had pursued that power The Plaintiff insisted That the Rent reserved is altogether uncertain and lies only in Averment and that if the Value averred by the Plaintiff should in the least be disproved the Plaintiff would be Nonsuited in any Action And so insisted That it was proper for this Court to fix and establish that for a standing Rent which can be made out to have been two parts of the best improved Value at the time of making the said Lease and that the Rent so to be ascertained the Defendant might Covenant for constant payment thereof This Court on perusal of the said Lease and power and of the Lord Hales Opinion declared the said Lease to be good and sufficient and that unless proof be made of a greater value than the Sum of 290 l. Two parts in three of the improved value reserved as a Rent by a power the constant payment of such a Sum at the time of making the said Lease decreed to be paid whether the premisses rise or fall which hath been constantly paid by the Defendant the Lady Audley and accepted of by the Plaintiff that the said Sum must be taken as two parts of the full value of the premisses at the time of making the said Lease which or the greater
of the Estate to the Testator Whereto the Plaintiff insisted That the Custom of a Sum certain to be mentioned appeared only by a By-Law called Judd's Law in 5 Ed. 6. the which is no estabiished Law in the City to bind the Right of any and there is a great difference in the By Laws in the City which ought to respect their Government and not bind the Right of any person which is governed by the general Custom of the City and which is paramount to any of their By-laws and by the Custom the Right of a Freemans Child is as much preserved to him as any mans Right by the Common Law of the Kingdom besides the naming of the Sum is no more than in order to the setling the Accounts of the said Estate which may be done before a Master in this Court This Coutt upon Reading several Presidents on both sides declared That the said Certificate was conclusive and that the Plaintiff must be let in for a Customary part of her Fathers Personal Estate and decreed the same accordingly The Defendant was ordered to Account for all the Personal Estate of Bennony Honywood Fo. 598. and the Plaintiff thereout to have her Customary part her Marriage Portion being brought into Hotch potch with the rest of the Personal Estate and the Plaintiff to discover the said Portion on Oath and the Defendant to do the like as to what provision he had The Defendant insists What provision he had was Mony deposited by his said Father in the hands of Mr. Colvile and others to purchase Lands or Houses in or near London in pursuance of Articles between the Defendants said Father and the Defendants Wives Father which were made before the Marriage of the Defendants which Lands and Houses so to be purchased is by the said Articles covenanted to be setled on the Defendant and his Wife for life and for her Joynture Remainder in Tail and was in consideration of the Defendants wives Portion and Houses were purchased therewith in Bennony's life and the Defendant is his Son and Heir And the Defendant insists What Mony is deposited by the Father to purchase Lands in pursuance of Marriage Articles is to be taken as Real and not as a Personal Estate and shall not be brought into Hotch-potch That what was so deposited as aforesaid is to be taken as if the Defendants Father himself had purchased Lands and setled the same to the uses aforefaid and ought not to be accounted a personal Estate of the Defendants Father but as Land This Court declared what was deposited by the Defendants Father to purchase Lands in pursuance of the said Articles is to be taken as Lands and not as personal Estate of the Defendants said Father and also declared what was deposited as aforesaid shall not be brought into Hotch-potch but the Defendant is to discover what he had from his Father upon his said Marriage Prigg contra Clay 32 Car. 2. fo 198. THat John Clay by his Will devised 100 l. Will. to the Plaintiff Philip Prigg Jun. and Deborah Prigg his Sister in manner viz. 50 l. to the said Philip at his Age of 21 years on day of Marriage which should first happen by the Defendants his Executors and in the mean time the whole 100 l. to be secured and improved by his Executors for their use and in case either the said Philip or Deborah should die before payment of their Legacies the Survivor to enjoy the whole 100 l. and if both die before payment of their said Legacies then the Testator decreed the whole 100 l. to his Sister the Plaintiff Elinor their Mother besides 100 l. to her to be paid within 6 Months after his death That the said Deborah Prigg died unmarried and before 21 and before she had received the 50 l. Legacy so that the whole 100 l. became due to the Plaintiff Philip Junior The Defendants insists That Deborah died before the Testator and her Legacy of 50 l. became void This Court was sully satisfied Legacies of 50 l. apiece given to two and if either die before 21 the Survivor to have all One dies before the Testator yet the Survivor decreed to have all though Deborah died before the Testator yet the said Devise of 50 l. to her did not become void and being devised over to her Brother Philip the surviving Legatee it belonged to him according to the devise in the Will the rather for that it being a contingent Remainder and might vest after the death of the Testator so long as there was a Survivor it did not belong to the Executors and for that the Testator who lived for some time afterwards did not alter the devise thereof by his Will nor otherwise dispose thereof in Writing and decreed the Defendants to pay the Plaintiff the two 50 Pounds This Order was confirmed by the Lord Keeper Sanders contra Earle 32 Car. 2. fo 102. THat the Plaintiffs late Husband Daniel Earle Will. or some in Trust for him was at his death seised in Fee and also intituled to the Trust of a long Term of the Mannor upon a Sore and Lands in Com' Nottingham which said long Term was in being and subject to be disposed as she should appoint so that he had full power to settle devise or charge the same by his Will and the said Daniel in consideration of a Marriage with the Plaintiff and 2000 l. Portion he in 1676. by Will devised to the Plaintiff besides a Joynture of 1200 l. and if she were with Child of a Son he gave all his Lands and Tenements to such Son in Tail but for default of such he gave them to the Defendants his Brother and their Heirs and if he had a Daughter he devised to such Daughter 500 l. to be paid when she attained her Age of Sixteen and the same to be secured out of his Lands aforesaid and made his said Brothers Executors That the Plaintiff had no Son but a Daughter who lived some time and is since dead and the Plaintiff is her Administratrix whereby she is intituled to her 500 l. presently The Defendant insists That the Plaintiffs said Husband devised to the Plaintiff 1200 l. and devised to her all her Plate Jewels and Goods and Stock in and about the House at Normanton and made the Plaintiff Executrix till the last day of August after the Will and if she who was then with Child had a Son by that time then she to continue Executrix otherwise the Defendants to be joynt Executors and made such devise to the Daughter and the rest of his personal Estate he devised to his Executrix or Executors That the Plaintiff Margaret having but a Daughter the Defendants proved the Will and are intituled to the Legacies therein to them devised and the refidue of the personal Estate and insists That if the Plaintiff as Administratrix to her Daughter be intituled to the 500 l. yet she is not to receive it till
Joynt Creditors That there can be no division of the Joynt Estate whereby to charge any part thereof with the private debts of either party and till the Joynt debts are paid and till division be made of the Surplus both parties are alike interessed and every part of the said Joynt Estate that the Commissioners have no power by the Commission to Administer an Oath to the Plaintiffs for proof of their debts they claiming debts from the said Widdows only and the Commission is against Widdows and Berman Joyntly and not severally and therefore cannot admit of the Plaintiffs Creditors This Court declared That the Estate belonging to the Joynt Trade as also the debts due from the same ought to be divided into Moieties and that each Moiety of the Estate ought to be charged in the first place with a Moiety of the said Joint debts and if there be enough to pay all the debts belonging to the Joynt Trade with an Overplus then such Overplus ought to be applied to pay particular debts of each Partner but if sufficient shall not appear to pay all the Joynt debts and if either of the Partners shall pay more than a Moiety of the Joynt debts then such Partner is to come in before the said Commissioners and be admitted as a Creditor for what he shall so pay over and above his Moiety and decreed accordingly Charles Howard contra le Duke de Norfolk al' 34 Car. 2. fo 722. THe Plaintiff by his Bill seeks to have Execution of a Trust of a Term of 200 years of the Barony of Grostock The Case was this The Earl of Arundel the Duke of Norfolks Father by Lease and Release Perpetuities or Entailing a Term for years with Remainders over Anno 1647. setled the Barony of G. and other Lands to himself for life then to the Countess Elizabeth his Wife for life and after her decease there is a Term limited to the Lord Dorchester and other Trustees for 200 years under a Trust to be declared in a deed of the same date with the Release and the Limitation of the Inheritance after the Term of 200 years is first to Henry Howard now Duke of Norfolk and the Heirs Males of his Body then to Mr. Charles Howard the now Plaintiff Brother of the said Henry and so to all his Brothers Successively in Tail Male remainder over Then by the said other Deed the Earl declares the Trust of the Term of 200 years and that deed in the reciting part declares that it was intended the said Term should attend the Inheritance and the profits should go to such persons and in such manner as was therein after limited viz. to Henry Howard now Duke of Norfolk and the Heirs Males of his Body so long as Lord Thomas Lord Maltrevers Eldest Son of the said Earl of Arundell or any Issue Male of his Body should be living but in case he should die without Issue Male in the life-time of Henry Howard not leaving his Wife enseint with a Son or in case after the death of Thomas without Issue Male the Honour of the Earldom of Arundel should descend to Henry Howard then Henry Howard and his Heirs to be excluded of the Trust and then it should be to Charles the Plaintiff and the Heirs Males of his Body remainder in like manner to other Brothers After this the Contingency doth happen for Thomas Duke of Norfolk dies without Issue and the Earldom of Arundel as well as the Dukedom of Norfolk descended to Henry now Duke of Norfolk by Thomas his death without Issue presently upon this the Marquess of Dorchester the Surviving Trustee Assigns the Term to one Marriott he Assigns it to the now Duke of Norfolk and the Duke suffers a Recovery to the use of him and his Heirs and the Plaintiffs Bill is to have execution of the Trust of this Term to the use of himself and his Heirs Males of his Body The Defendants insist That by the Assignment by Marriott to my Lord Duke Henry the Term was Surrendred and quite gone that the Common Recovery which barred the remainders which the other Brothers had would also be a Bar to the Trust of this Term and that the trust of a Term to Henry and the Heirs Males of his Body until by the death of Thomas without Issue the Earldom should descend upon him and after that to Charles and the Heirs Males of his Body was a void Limitation of the remainder to Charles The Plaintiff insists Though the Term by the Survivor is gone and Merged in the Inheritance yet the Trust of that Term remains in Equity That this is not a Term that attends the Inheritance but it s a Term in gross and so not barred by the Recovery and that the Limitation of the remainder in Contingency is good in Law and Relief ought to be had in this Court The Lord Chancellor Nottingham the Case being of great Consequence calls the Judges to his Assistance viz. the Lord Chief Justice Pemberton the Lord Chief Justice North and the Lord Chief Baron Mountague and they made one single point in the case Whether this Contingent Trust of a Term limited to the Plaintiff Charles and the Heirs of his Body upon the dying of Thomas without Issue Male whereby the Honour did descend to Henry be good in point of Creation and Limitation for as for the Recovery if this be not a good Limitation in point of Creation the Recovery will do nothing so that supposeth it to go along with the Inheritance and if this take effect then it will suffer no prejudice by the Recovery And as for the Assignment by Marriott to the Duke if this Court decree it for the Plaintiff then it is a Breach of Trust and then he must answer for it and so must the Duke for it is a Surrender to a person who had notice of the Trust If for the Defendant then it is of no weight So that the whole rests upon the first single point viz. whether it be a good Limitation upon the Contingency to Charles or as they call it Springing Trust a springing Trust And the said three Judges were all of Opinion that it was a void Limitation and that it ought to be Decreed for the Defendant They said Term in gross and a Term attending the Inheritance the difference there is great difference as to the Limitation of Terms that are in gross and Terms that attend the Inheritance as to Terms in Gross they are not capable of Limitation to one after the death of another without Issue but in Termsattendant upon an Inheritance there may be such a Limitation if the Inheritance be so limited and not else Now the Term is capable of a Limitation to Henry and the Heirs Males of his Body and for want of such Issue to Charles and the Heirs Males of his Body because it hath an Inheritance to support it But now to put another limitation upon it that upon the
the Mannor of Warter in the County of York whereby he made himself but Tenant for life the Inheritance vesting in the Plaintiff his Eldest Son and Sir Phillip had Issue by his first Wife the Plaintiff his Eldest Son Robert his Second Son and Mary who Marryed the other Plaintiff the Lord Merrion That Sir Phillip in 1647. by Will devised to his said Son Robert a Rent charge of 40 l. per Annum to be issuing out of the said Mannour and afterwards the said Robert died and the Defendant Dorothy his Relict Administred to the said Roberts Personal Estate so the Plaintiffs Bill is to have Distribution of his Personal Estate The Defendant Dorothy insisted That she as Widow of her said late Husband Robert by the Custom of York is Entituled to a Moiety of the said Personal Estate and by the late Act for setling Intestates Estates the said Defendant is Intituled to the other Moiety and insisted That Sir Phillip having Issue by several Venters which are yet alive or their Representatives they are equally intituled with the Plaintiff Stapleton This Court declared a Distribution of the said Personal Estate according to Law to be made amongst the Plaintiff Stapleton and the Child of the Lord Merrion as also the Brothers and Sisters of the said Robert as well as those of the half-Blood as those of the whole Blood and their respective Lineal Representatives who are to be called into the account And as to the point whether the Lord Merrion and his Child have the Right to his Wives share of the Estate a Case is to be made That the Master to whom the account of the Intestates Personal Estate was referred 36 Car. 2. fo 375. hath allowed to the Defendant Dorothy the Administratrix a Moiety of the said Estate of the said Intestates dying without Issue and hath Distributed the other Moiety amongst the Intestates Kindred Brothers and Sisters Whereas by the Custom of the Province of York she is not only to have a clear Moiety of the Personal Estate of her said Husband so dying without Issue after Debts c. but by the late Statute for setling Intestates Estates she is to have a Moiety of the other Moiety The Plaintiff insists That there was no Colour for the Defendant to have a Moiety of the remaining Moiety the said Statute leaving the Custom as it was without Addition Diminution or Inlargement but the Widow was to have only a Moiety and the other Moiety to be Distributed amongst the next of Kin. This Court for the further satisfaction The Custom of the Province of York Certified by the Arch-Bishop ordered the Lord Arch-Bishop of the Province of York to testifie when a man dies Intestate within that Province without Issue after his Debts c. paid how the Residue is to be Distributed by the Custom of the Province The Bishop certified That in such Cases as aforesaid the Widow of the Intestate by the Custom of the Province had usually allotted to her one Moiety of the clear Personal Estate and the other Moiety hath been Distributed amongst the next of Kin to the Intestate and that had been the constant practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts at York The Plaintiff insisted That the Custom of that Province is excepted out of the Act of Parliament and if it were within the Act it ought to have the more favourable construction on their part because it was made in favour of them and not of the Widow and Administratrix who before the said Act usually went away with the whole Estate unless more particular instances prevented This Court declared The Widow by the Custom of the Province of York shall have the Moiety but not another Moiety by the Act of Settlement of Intestates Estates They could not expound the Act to give the Defendant more than a Moiety that being the proportion allotted to her by the Custom and also by the Act if it had not been a Case within the Custom which Custom is confirmed because it appoints the same kind of Distribution with the Act and it would be a strein to give her more than a Moiety part by the Custom and part by the Act and refers to the Masters Report made in this Cause Coventry contra Hall 34 Car. 2. fo 330. THat Sir Thomas Thynn Bill for mean profits Father both of Sir Henry Frenderick Thynn and Sir James Thynn conveyed on Sir Henry Frenderick and his Heirs Males of his Body expectant after the decease of him the said Sir Thomas the Mannour of Hempsford and other Lands and soon after dyed and the said Sir Henry Frederick possessed the said premisses but Sir James Thynn pretending the said Conveyance was Defective Sir Henry Frederick in Oct. 1650. obtained a decree that the said Sir Henry Frederick and the Heirs of his Body should enjoy the said premisses against the said Sir James Thynn and his Heirs according to the intent of the said Settlement That Sir James Thynn insisting That Sir Thomas was but Tenant for life and not Seized in Fee of the premisses having suffered Recoveries so that the Freehold was in the said Sir James or some other for his use by virtue whereof he received the profits which Sir Henry Frederick ought to have received That Sir Henry not being able to recover the said mean profits at Law by reason of the defect in the said Conveyance which is now supplyed and setled by the said decree and Act of Parliament so that the said Sir Henry hath the right to the said profits and writings So the Bill is to be relieved for the same and to have an account thereof The Defendant insisted That there ought to be no account of the mean profits the demand thereof being very old and is grounded on a decree in a former Cause whereby a defect in a Conveyance under which the Plaintiff claims was supplyed and there is no provision in the said decree for mean profits though the Bill originally was such as this Court might have decreed mean profits and when the Decree was made it was not granted nor any farther relief than only possession and the possession hath been so unconstantly in any one person that it is very difficult especially after so long time against an Executor that is no way privy to the accounts of the Testator The Plaintiff insisted That though the demand on the decree is Antient and a prosecution hath been for the same ever since and the Right being determined the Plaintiff ought to have an account of the mean profits as the Consequences of that Right though the Original Bill might pray an account and the decree be silent as to that point This Court declared That considering this case as if there were no Act of Parliament the Plaintiff hath a right to demand an account upon an equity that ariseth on the Marriage Agreement and Settlement made in pursuance thereof notwithstanding the length of time for that the Plaintiff
Dame Ann Daughter of Sir Robert Cann Articles of Agreement were executed and in pursuance of the Articles a Settlement of part of the premisses was made upon the Defendant Dame Ann for her Joynture and in the said Settlement there was a Covenant on the said Sir Robert Gounings part to lay out as much Mony in the Purchase of Lands as would amount to 110 l. per Annum to be setled on the said Dame Ann for her life remainder to the Heirs of the said Sir Robert Gouning which was intended to be an Inlargement of his Real Estate and to be for the benefit of his Heir but the said Defendant Dame Ann refuseth since the death of Sir Robert Gouning her Husband to whom she is Administratrix to execute the said Covenant in Specie by Purchasing of Lands of 110 l. per Annum to be setled according to the Covenant as aforesaid and which ought to come to the Plaintiffs as Coheirs of the said Sir Robert Gouning The Defendants insisting Covenant to settle Lands of 120 l per Annum to the said Remainder to the Heirs of the Husband Wife Administratrix refuseth the Bill was dismist that the said Covenant was made in favour of the said Dame Ann only and not for the Plaintiffs the Heirs benefit and the Defendant also as Administratrix claims Title to the Mortgaged Lands at Siston insisting that the same are a Chattel Lease for a long Term of years which by Assignment came to Mary Gouning Sister of the said Sir Robert and that she afterwards procured a Release of the Equity of Redemption for 950 l. including therein the Mony due upon the said Mortgage and that she purchased the Reversion in Fee thereof in the name of her Brother Sir Robert which she did on purpose to keep the Lease distinct and separate and that it ought not to go to the Heir but to the Administratrix But the Plaintiff insists That the said Lease ought to attend the Inheritance which Mary Gouning to whom the Plaintiffs are Heirs bought in for that purpose in the name of the said Sir Robert her Brother and that the same ought to come to the Plaintiffs as other the Real Estate of the said Sir Roberts This Court declared Lease to attend the Inheritance as to the Lands at Siston it was an Inheritance and ought to go to the Heirs at Law and decreed accordingly And as touching the Covenant for Purchasing Lands of 110 l. per Annum this Court dismist the Bill Eyre contra Hastings 35 Car. 2. fo 590. THat Henry Eyre deceased Relief upon a Mortgage the Plaintiffs Brother being seized of Lands 22 Car. 2. Mortgaged the same for 200 l. to Giles Eyre the Plaintiffs Son and the said Henry Eyre Covenanted to pay the Mortgage money and gave Bond for performance of the Covenants and the said Henry dying without Issue and Intestate the premisses descended on the Plaintiff as Brother and Heir and Administration was granted to Dorothy his Relict who paid the Mortgage money and Interest then due to the said Giles Eyre the Mortgagee in relief of the Plaintiff who ought to enjoy the premisses discharged of the Mortgage money and the said Dorothy made her Will and the Defendant Ralph Hastings Senior her Executor hath got the Mortgaged premisses Assigned to him and insists He ought to hold the same till the 200 l. and interest be paid him by the Plaintiff That the Defendant Ralph Junior an Infant claims the premisses by the Will of the said Dorothy who devised the same to him To be relieved against them and the Plaintiff to have the Inheritance of the premisses discharged from the payment of the Mortgage money and Interest and the Bond delivered up is the Bill The Defendant Hastings Senior insists Whether Mortgage Money be paid by the Administrator in relief of the Heir That the said Dorothy paid the said Mortgage money and interest but not in relief of or for the benefit of the Plaintiff and thereupon the premisses were Assigned to the said Hastings Senior in Trust for the said Dorothy who had an equitable Right to all her Husbands Estate and Dorothy devised the said premisses to Hastings Junior her Godson The Master of the Rolls decreed the Plaintiff to enjoy the premisses against the Defendant This Cause was Re-heard by the Lord Keeper and this Defendant the Infant insists That he is much prejudiced by the Decree for that thereby he is stript of the Estate in question devised to him by the said Dorothy's Will without payment of the money and interest there being no Covenant in the said Mortgage Deed for payment of the money and interest or any Bond but the Plaintiffs Counsel insisted That Dorothy paid the Mortgage money and interest for the Plaintiffs benefit The Defendant insisted that Dorothy declared the Mortgage money and interest was paid in relief of the Heir at Law This Court declared If there be no Covenant in the Mortgage Deed for payment of the Money the Administrator is not obliged to discharge it That in Case there was not any Covenant in the Deed for payment of the Mortgage money and Interest the said Dorothy the Administratrix was not obliged to discharge the same Massingberd contra Ash 35 Car. 2. fo 466. THis Court ordered a Case to be Stated in this Cause Executory Devises upon the Deed only by way of Executory Devise to bring the question arising into Determination as if in a Will and in such method as if the Trust and Limitations in the deed had been Limited and Created by the Will upon which Case the Judges of the Common Pleas were to Certifie their Opinions Whether the Remainder of a Residuary Estate of the two Leases or Terms in question limited to the Plaintiff were a good Devise or Limitation or not and the said Judges were also to be attended with another Case made upon both Deed and Will and they are to Certifie what the Law is in Case of Executory Devise as also what is fit to be Decreed in Equity The Case on the Deed only by way of Executory Devise is viz. Two several Terms one for 500 and the other for 99 years by Will dated the 1st of November 1679. and devised in these words viz. That Sir Henry Massingberd and his Assigns shall take the Rents Issues and Profits for and during the Term of his life And that after his Decease Elizabeth his Wife should receive the Rents Issues and Profits during her life And after the Decease of the said Sir Henry and Elizabeth the Eldest Son of the said Sir Henry begotten upon the Body of the said Elizabeth shall take the Profits of the said Lands till Age and then to have the whole Term to him his Executors and Administrators And if such Eldest Son happen to dye before he comes of Age then the second Son of their two Bodies shall take the profits of the said premisses till he come of Age
and then to have the whole Term. And if such second Son die before he comes of Age then the third Son to have and receive as aforesaid and if such Son die before he likewise comes of Age then the fourth Son to have and receive as aforesaid And in Case of no Issue Male between Sir Henry and Elizabeth living at the time of the death of the Survivor of them who shall live to their Age and that there shall be one or more Daughter or Daughters of the said Sir Henry and Elizabeth that then the said Daughter or Daughters their Executors and Administrators to have and take their several equal shares and proportions of the said Rents Issues and Profits for and during the said Terms Unless William Massingberd the new Plaintiff should within six Months after the death of the Survivor of them the said Sir Henry and Elizabeth pay such Daughter or Daughters or secure the several Sums following viz. if but one Daughter 1000 l. and if more then to every one of the rest 500 l. a piece and after the same paid or secured in case there shall be no such Son or Daughter living at the time of the death of the Survivor of the said Sir Henry and Elizabeth or which should live to attain his or her Age then the Residue of the said Terms to go and to be to Sir William Massingberd the now Plaintiff his Executor and Administrators Sir Henry Massingberd dies in Sept. 1680. leaving his Wife Elizabeth Ensient of a Son after born and named Henry who died within six Weeks after Sir Henry and Elizabeth had no other Issue which Elizabeth is now the Defendant Quere Who is eldest Son of Sir Henry Whether the said Devise to William Massingberd the now Plaintiff be good The Case upon both Deed and Will That Sir Henry Massingberd being possed of two several Terms Deed of Trust and Will one for 500 and the other for 99 years by the Indenture 2 Nov. 1679 made an Assignment thereof to Trustees upon Trust To permit and suffer him the said Sir Henry and his Assigns to receive the rent and profits during his life and after his death to permit the Defendant Elizabeth then Elizabeth Rayner his intended Wife to receive the Rents and profits during her life then upon Trust to assign the residue of the said Terms to such person or persons and for such Estates and Terms and in such manner as the said Sir Henry should by Will in writing nominate limit and appoint give devise or dispose thereof or any part thereof and in case the said Sir Henry should die Intestate or should not by his Will nominate limit appoint give devise or dispose of the same and every part thereof that then the Trustees should permit the eldest Son of the Body of the said Sir Henry on the Body of the said Elizabeth to receive the Rents Issues and profits of the premisses undisposed of by the Will of the said Sir Henry till he should attain his Age and should then assign to him his Executors and Administrators the residue of the said Terms and in case the eldest Son should die before Age then the Trustees should permit the second Son to receive the Rents and profits with the like Trust to Assign to him at his Age and so to the 3d and 4th Son in like manner And in case of no Issue male between them at the time of the death of the Survivor of them the said Sir Henry and Elizabeth which should live to attain their respective Ages and that there should be one or more Daughter or Daughters between them that then the Trustees should permit the said Daughter and Daughters her and their Executor and Administrators to take their several equal shares and proportions of the said Rents Issues and profits not devised or disposed of the Will of the said Sir Henry for and during the said Terms unless William Massingberd the now Plaintiff the eldest Son and Heir of the said Sir Henry by a former Venter should within six Months after the death of the Survivor of them the said Henry and Elizabeth pay unto such Daughter or Daughters or secure to the good liking of the Trustees the several Portions therein mentioned for the said Daughter or Daughters and after the said Portions paid or secured or in case there should be neither Son nor Daughter living at the time of the death of the Survivor of them the said Sir Henry and Elizabeth or that should live to their respective Age that then the Trustees should assign the residue of the said Terms to the said William Massingberd his Executors and Administrators Then there is a power of Revocation in the said Sir Henry by Deed or Will to revoke and make void this present Deed and the Estate and Estates Trust and Trusts of the premisses or any part thereof After this Sir Henry made his Will in writing and the Defendant Elizabeth his Lady Executrix Residuary Legatee and Residuary Legatee and devised in these words viz. I do hereby give unto her all my Estate which I have by Deed setled upon her according to the true meaning and intent of the said Settlement And also I give her all those other Lands hereby hereafter Setled upon her according to my true intent of my Settlement thereof for her life or on my Issue by her And I do also give her all my Estate concerning my interest in the Colledge Leases from John Rutter of Canterbury and also all my Goods and Chattels not hereby otherwise disposed of I will that all the Coppyholds any ways appertaining to Paston be taken to the use of my Ececutrix and also the Bishops Lease when need is that it be renewed also to her use and also the Lease for 500 years of Paston all at her charge according to the true intent of my Settlements upon her which I hope my Son William will endeavour as before the Almightly to make good unto her and hers and if either I have no Issue by her or that they or their Issue all die so that the succession be expired Then after my Wives decease I hereby give upon my Sons wilful neglect or refusal of his duty herein and not otherwise all my said Lands not setled on him by his Marriage to all the Daughters of my Daughters Sanderson and Stoughton to be divided among them Yet always provided that if my said Son neither neglect nor refuse any reasonable duty herin Then my Will is that after my Wives decease and that all her Issue by me be either dead or have their Portions paid them as is provided That then all my said Lands setled on her for life whether Copy hold Lease hold or Freehold with all the rest unsetled shall discend and be to him and his Heirs for ever Sir Henry Massingberd left no Issue living by that Wife but left his said Wife Ensient of a Son born alive and named Henry but
of his Real Estate on Trustees and thereby made a provision for the Maintenance of William the younger during his Minority and therefore they opposed the Plaintiff Frances getting Administration of William the Elder The said Plaintiff Frances Whitmore insisted That by the Will of William the Elder there was no joynt devise made to the said William the Son and the Issue Male and Female of the Sisters of William the Father but a several devise to William the Son with Remainder to the Sisters Issue and that the said William the Son having an Interest vested in him by the Will of his Father and being 18 years Old when he died and he having then a power to have proved his Fathers Will the Earls Executorship during his Minority being determined might have spent or given away the said Estate in his life-time he might surely give away the same by his Will which he having done to the Plaintiff Frances she is thereby well Intituled to the same and that the remainder over to Issue Male and Female of the Sisters the Estate being purely personal is absolutely void This Court hearing several Presidents quoted Devisee Infant lived to 18 years and makes his Will and Executors and dies the Executor shall have the Legacy for that an Interest was vested in the Infant declared That by the Will of the Father there was an Interest vested in William the Son and the remainder over to the Issue Male and Female of the Sisters of William the Elder was void and that William the Son living to 18 years and making his Will as aforesaid and the Plaintiff Frances his Executrix she is thereby well intituled to the surplus of the said personal Estate and decreed the same accordingly Whitlock contra Marriot 1 Jac. 2. fo 700. THis Case being upon a Scandalous Answer Defendant ordered to pay the Plaintiff 100 I for putting in a Scandalous Answer His Lordship declared the said Answer to be very Scandalous and Impertinent and that the expressions taken by the Defendant to the Masters Report were not only more scandalous but also Malicious and that it appearing that Ryley the Defendants Solicitor had put Mr. Lynn a Councellors Hand to the Exceptions without his Knowledge This Court Ordered the said Ryley to be taken into Custody of the Messenger and declared the Answer and Exceptions were not pertinent to the Cause but meerly to defame the Plaintiff His Lordship Ordered the Defendant Marriot to pay to the Plaintiff 100 l. for his Reparation and Costs for the abuse and scandal aforesaid and the said Ryley to pay 20 l. and to stand committed to the Prison of the Fleet till payment thereof be made Ash contra Rogle and the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls 1 Jac. 2. fo 154. THis Case is upon a Demurrer Bill to enforce the Lord of a Mannour to receive a Petition in nature of a Writ of false Judgment to Reverse a common Recovery demurred to and the demurrer allowed the Plaintiffs Bill is to inforce the Defendant the Lord of the Mannour of Barnes in Surrey to receive the Plaintiffs Petition or Bill in the Nature of a Writ of false Judgment to Reverse a Common Recovery suffered of some Copyhold Lands in the Mannour by Susan Râ—gle Widow which the Defendant Râ—gle holds under the said Recovery the Bill setting forth that Katherine Ferrers by the Will of her Husband or by some other good Conveyance was seized in Fee of Free and Copyhold Lands in Barnes formerly her said Husbands in Trust to Convey 200 l. a year thereof upon William Ferrers her Eldest Son and the said Susan his then Wife and Heirs Males of the Body of William Remainder in Tail to Thomas Ferrers the Plaintiffs Father second Son of Katherine and the Heirs of his Body Edward being obliged by Articles upon Susans Marriage with his Son William to settle Lands of that value on Susan for her Joynture That Katherine on that Trust in 1642. surrendred the premisses to the value of 100 l. per Annum to the use of the said William and Susan and the Heirs of their two Bodies begotten remainder to the Right Heirs of William which was a Breach of the Trust in Katherine in limiting an Estate Tail to Susan when it should have been but an Estate for life That William died before the Admittance leaving Issue only his Son William and in 1652. Susan surrendred to one Mitchell against whom the Common Recovery in question was then obtained wherein one Walter was Demandant the said Mitchell Tenant and Susan Vouchee to the use of her self the said Susan for life the Remainder to William Ferrers and the Heirs of his Body the Remainder to the Right Heirs of the Survivor of them the said Susan and William her Son That William the Son died soon after and Susan died in 1684. and the Plaintiffs Father Thomas being dead without Issue Male in case the Common Recovery had not been suffered the premisses would have come to the Plaintiff being the youngest Daughter to her Father as Couzen and Heir both of William Ferrers the Father and William the Son the premisses being Burrough-English and so the Plaintiff was well Intituled to prosecute the Lord of the Mannour in the Nature of a Writ of False Judgment to Reverse the said Recovery wherein there are manifest Errors and Defaults but the said Lord refuses to receive the said Petition and combine with the Defendant Rogle who is Son and Heir of the said Susan by a second Husband who pretends that his Mother Susan surviving her Son William Ferrers the premisses are discended to him by virtue of the use of the said Recovery limited to the Right Heirs of the Survivor of Susan and her Son William so the Plaintiffs Bill is to examine the defects of the said Recovery The Defendants demur for that the Relief sought by the Bill is of a strange and unpresidented Nature being to avoid and reverse a Common Recovery had in the said Mannour 30 years ago and that upon a bare Suggestion generally that the Recovery is erroneous without instancing wherein which may be said in any case The Master of the Rolls declared That as that part of the Bill which seeks to impeach or reverse the said Recovery for any errours or defects therein or compel the said Lord to receive any Petition for reversal thereof or any ways to impeach the same his Honour declared That this Court being the proper Court to supply the defects in Common Assurances and rather to support than to assist the avoiding or defeating of them and there being no presidents of such a Bill as this is he thought not fit to admit of this nor to introduce so dangerous a president whereby a multitude of Settlements and Estates depending on Common Recoveries suffered in Copyhold Courts for valuable Considerations would be avoided and defeated through the negligence or unskilfulness of Clerks and therefore conceived the said Common Recovery ought
to the uses of the Articles To which the Defendant pleaded and demurred insisting the same was obtained on good Grounds and Reasons and farther insisted that since the said Dismission and before the Bill of Review the said Lamb had paid the said 1500 l. with other money unto the Defendant Atwood in Right of the said Ann his Wife who was Administratrix to Richard Kettleby and Ann the Daughter and that in consideration thereof the said Defendant Atwood had made a Settlement equivalent thereto for a Joynture for his said Wife and the Issue Male of their two Bodies with a provision for Daughters and that they had a Son then living and prayed the Judgment of this Court therein Which Plea and Demurrer was argued before the Lord Chancellor Jefferies which his Lordship over ruled and Ordered the Defendant to answer and he would hear the Cause ab origine at which hearing the Defendant Atwood and his Wife insisted That the Plaintiffs demand being only a Remote Remainder in Fee as Right Heir of the Husband was not so valuable in Interest as for a Court of Equity to Decree a purchase to be made for the Sale thereof and to take the money from the Wife and Administratrix to make that purchase when she ought to return the same as Assets or howsoever 1500 l. of the money was her own Portion and belongs to her by her Election within six Months and though according to the strict Letter of the Articles her Husband Richard Kettleby could not be said to die leaving no Issue because he had a Daughter living at the time of his death yet the Daughter dying within the six Months allotted for the Wives Election in case he had died leaving no Issue there was great equity to extend the Construction of that Clause of the Articles so far as to give her back her own 1500 l. portion The Plaintiff insisted That such Remainders in Fee have been considered by this Court and purchases decreed to be made and limited to such Right Heirs and that the 2000 l. in this Case cannot be Assets and in like Cases had been so adjudged at Common Law and in this Case the Articles have expresly provided that the money should go as the Land ought to have gone as if a purchase had been made therewith and as for the pretence of the said Defendant Anns electing 1500 l. her power of electing did never arise nor can her power be enlarged by this Court beyond the express words of the Articles nor is there reason for it in this case in regard the Articles provided that she shall have a Dower besides and the said Ann by virtue of her two Administrations hath a great personal Estate besides the 2000 l. in question This Court declared That the 2000 l. Money to be laid out in Land shall be apapplied as the Land should have been had it been purchased must go as the Lands ought to have gone in case a purchase had been made and yet the Wife had no power to elect 1500 l. part thereof because her Husband died leaving Issue and so her power of election never arose nor did any Circumstances appear to his Lordship in this Cause to induce him to inlarge the Construction of the Articles touching such power of electing beyond the express words thereof and decreed the said dismission to be reversed and that the Defendant Atwood and Ann his Wife do lay out the 2000 l. for purchasing Lands in possession in Fee simple to be setled according to the intent of the Articles And as for the Defendants the Trustees Trustees indempnified in regard they relyed upon the said dismission Signed and Inrolled for their indempnity in paying the said 2000 l. to the said Atwood at his Wife they are indempnified thereby Paggett contra Pagget 3 Jac. 2. fo 2. A Deed of Revocation Blanks filled up after the Sealing and Execution of a Deed yet good and a new Settlement made by that Deed tho' after the sealing and execution of the said Deed Blanks were filled up in the said Deed and the said Deed not read again to the party nor resealed and executed yet held a good Deed. Smith contra Fisher 3 Jac. 2. fo 641. THat Susan Beale by her Will in writing after several Legacies thereby given Money deviled to one for life with Limitations over good gave all the rest and residue of her Estate unbequeathed which consisted mostly in ready money to be put forth to Interest by her Executors and one half of the Interest to be paid to the Plaintiff Ann Cole her Sister during her life and the other half of the Interest unto the Plaintiff Ann Smith Daughter of the said Ann Cole and after her Mothers decease to have all the Interest during her life and if the said Ann Smith died without Issue of her Body then the principal of the Residue should be equally divided between the Defendants Mary Cleever and Elizabeth Farmer The Question is whether the devise over to the Defendant Clever and Farmer as aforesaid was a good devise This Court declared that the said Will was a good Will as to the limitations over to the Defendant Clever and Farmer and decreed the Executors to account accordingly Com' Dorsett contra Powle 3 Jac. 2. fo 148. 599. THis Case is Separate Maintenance where by the Deeds and Agreement before Marriage the Countess of Dorset had an absolute power to dispose of all the Personal Estate she had at the time of her Marriage with the Defendant and the proceed thereof and had by her Will and otherwise well disposed of and appointed the same to the Plaintiff and this Court Ordered the Defendant to confirm the same but as to the Rents and Profits of the Real Estate upon consideration of the several Clauses of the Deed relating to the said Estate and different penning of the same from the other Deeds that concerned the aforesaid personal Estate his Lordship declared that the said Countess had no power to dispose of the same By Indenture Tripertite Dated 28th of June 31 Car. 2. made between the Defendant Mr. Powle of the first part Sir Thomas Littleton and Charles Brett Esquire of the second part and the Countess of Dorsett on the third part reciting That the said Countess was seized in Fee of several Manor Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in England and reciting there was a Marriage intended between Mr. Powle and the Countess it was agreed that if the Marriage took effect the Countess should during the Coverture receive and dispose to her own use and at her own Will and Pleasure of all the Right and Title she had or claimed in the said Manour Lands and Premisses or in any other Manours or Lands of the Countess in England and of all the Rents and Profits thereof so as Mr. Powle his Executors Administrators and Assigns were not to intermeddle nor have any Benefit or Advantage thereby in Law or Equity but
the same that she shall release the 2000 l. per Annum within Three years after his death or else that Devise to be void The Remainder of his Lands in Berks to Sir Walter Clergyes pur vie and after in Tail Male Remainder to his Cousin Henry Monk in Tail Male Remainder to his own Right Heirs To Bevile Greenvile Son to the Earl of Bath his Freehold Lands in Surrey and Southampton for life and then in Tail Male Remainder to his Cousin Tho. Monck pur vie and then in Tail Male Remainder to his Cousin Henry Monck in Tail Male Remainder to his own right Heirs His Lands in Devon to Colonel Thomas Monck for life and then in Tail Male Remainder to his Cousin Henry Monck in Tail Male remainder to his own right Heirs All his Lands in Ireland to his Cousin Henry Monck in Tail Male with Remainder to his own right Heirs Provided That if he have any Issue all devises of any Sums of Mony except for his Funeral his Father's Monument Alms-houses and Legacies to his Executors shall be void and if he leave any Issue the premisses devised to Sir Walter Clergyes Mr. Greenvile Thomas and Henry Monck and their Issue shall go to his Issue viz. to his Sons successively in Tail Male if Daughters in Tail with Remainders to the said persons as before Provided If he leave Issue Male he deviseth to his Wife as an Additional Joynture to her Rent charge Lands in Devon and Essex for her life and makes the Dutchess during her life and in case of her death the Dutchess of Newcastle Guardians of his Children he shall have And in case it happen that Colonel Thomas Monck or any Heirs males of his Body shall live to come and be in possession of the premisses devised to him he desires they will live at Potheridge the Ancient Seat of the Family and desires his Majesty to grant them the Title of Baron Monck of Potheridge that it may remain in the Family in Memory of his Father and himself and his Service his Father had the Honour to do the Crown in the Restauration and makes the Duke of Newcastle Lord Cheney Jarvis Peirpoint Sir Walter Clergyes Sir Thomas Stringer Henry Pollexfen Esq and others Executors That the Duke gave direction to Henry Pollexfen Esq to make this Will and when drawn was fully approved of by the Duke upon mature deliberation Which Will being in Three parts he carefully lock'd up and after leaving Two parts of his Will to two persons and kept the Third he went to Jamaica That the Duke when in Jamaica heard Colonel Thomas Monck was dead in Holland sent to the Earl of Bathe Sir Tho. Siringer and others to send over for Chripher Monck the Colonels eldest Son to Educate him so as to fit him to bear the Character of one to whom he intended the greatest part of his Estate if he died without Issue In September 1688. the Duke sickned in Jamaica and there again published his said Will and declared that if he died the Box and Will should be delivered to the Dutchess and died in October following That the Dutchess at her Return from Jamaica found that the Earl of Bathe set up another Will dated 3. Aug. 1675. whereby the Remainder of the greatest part of the Estate was given to the Earl of Bathe and his Heirs and likewise a Settlement by way of Lease and Release in corroboration of that Will by which he seeks to avoid and frustrate the Will of 1687. That the Duke sent to the Earl of Bathe for the Will of 1675. if any such to have it delivered to him that he might make another Will That the Will of 1687. was Sealed at Sir Robert Claytons the same day after other Writings had been by him sealed to the Lord Chancellor Jeffreys of some Lands sold to him and that the Dutchess nor any of her Relations ever knew or heard of the said Deeds till after the Dukes death nor known to Sir Thomas Stringer who was the Dukes standing Councel and the Plaintiffs farther insist if there were such Deed yet it ought not to avoid or impeach the said last Will though the power of Revoking the same was not literally pursued yet the same in Equity ought to be taken as a Revocation and the rather for that at the making of the Will the Duke remained owner of the Estate and he lookt upon himself so to be for that he had since the said pretended Deeds sold some part of the Estate to Chancellor Jefferies without any Revocation and the Earl of Bath paid no valuable Consideration and that he ought to be protected in the enjoyment of the personal Estate and the Specifick Legacies devised to her in the Will of 1687. tho' the Will of 75. if any such be was intended by the Duke principally to hinder the discent to his next Heir and the Deeds if such there be were for the same purpose and that tho' the Deed recites to confirm the last Will of 75. yet does in several places controul it and alter it whereby and by the extraordinary strange and unprecedented Declarations Provisoes and Covenants therein the Plaintiff believes the Deeds were never executed by the Duke or if so that he was surprised therein and pray Relief in the premisses To this the Defendant makes Answer Answer and sets forth the Will of 1675. whereby the greatest part of the whole Estate was given to the Earl and his Heirs and sets forth the Considerations of his so doing as Antient Kindred and Esteem between Duke George and the Earl of Bath and several Services and good Offices that he had done the Family and likewise sets forth that being well satisfied with such his disposition of his Estate and finding that he had been often importuned to alter the same and fearing lest the repeated Practises and Arts attempted against such his Disposition might some time or other surprise him into a Compliance Consulted with Sir William Jones and other his Councel how to Obviate such practises and to settle his Estate in such manner as that it might not be avoided although for his ease he should at any time seem to yield to the Sollicitations of his near Relations whereupon in Anno 1681. the Duke makes a Settlement wherein he begins That for the assuring of the Honour Manours c. upon a Person of Honour c. and for the Corroborating and Confirming the said Will of 75. and to the end that no pretended last Will should be set up by any Person whatsoever and for the Natural Affection that he beareth to the Earl of Bath c. grants by Lease and Release several Mannors Lands and Tenements c. some in Possession and some in Remainder upon the Earl of Bath in Fee and so to Walter Clergies c. in which Deed there was this Proviso Proviso That if the Duke shall at any time during his life be minded to make void the said Indenture
Dower claimable by the Plaintiff and also devised the said Farms unto the Defendant Mary his Grandchild To have and to hold immediately after the death of the Plaintiff his Wife and by a subsequent Clause in the Will he devised all the Lands not therein before disposed of to the Defendant Thomas Kemp the Father for life Remainder to Thomas his Son for life with remainder over and also gave the Plaintiff his Coach Horses Plate and Jewels c. and one Third part of his clear Personal Estate And the Plaintiff conceived that she ought by the Will to have both the Rent-charge and the Farms for her life by the aforesaid devise 200 l. Rent-charge devised in lieu of Joynture and by the same Will an implicit Devise of the Lands to her Decreed she shall have only the 200 l. per Annum viz. where the same are devised to the Defendant Mary To have and to hold after the Plaintiffs death so to have the same by the said implicit Devise without Extinguishment of the said Rent charge is the Plaintiffs suit This Court declared they saw no Cause to decree both the Rent charge of 200 l. per Annum and the Farms aforesaid to the Plaintiff but the Rent charge of 200 l. per Annum to the Plaintiff only Boucher contra Antram 23 Car. 2. fo 97. THe Bill is Will. That Alice Lowman the Plaintiff Katherines late Mother did in Decemb. 1669. by Will give and dispose unto the Plaintiff Katherine a Legacy of 160 l. and made the Plaintiff who married another of the Daughters Executor The Defendant insists That the Testatrix made her Will in these words viz. Item I give unto my Daughter Katherine Boucher the sum of 160 l. for her to have the use of it during her life and her Child or Children to have it after her decease but if she happens to dye leaving no Child surviving her I Will that the said 160 l. shall be to and for the sole benefit and use of my Daughter Elizabeth Antram and her Children which Elizabeth is the Defendants Wife and the Defendant is willing to pay the said 160 l. to the Plaintiffs or either of them he being secured against the title and claim of the surviving Child or Children of the Plaintiff Katherine and if she should die leaving no Child or Children behind her then against the Title of said Elizabeth and her Children This Court decreed the Defendant to pay unto the Plaintiff 160 l. with full Interest Personal Estate devised to one for life and after to her Children and if they have no Issue the Remainder over is a void Devise as to the Remainder but as to the Clause on the Will which directs That for want of Issue by the Plaintiff Katherine the said 160 l. after her decease shall be to and for the benefit and behoof of the Defendants Wife and her Children His Lordship declared it being a Personalty is in the nature of a Perpetuity and so a void devise and therefore the Defendant nor his Wife and Children ought to have any benefit thereby but be debarred from the same and that the said 160 l. ought to be absolutely vested in and come unto the Child or Children of the Plaintiff Katherine and decreed the same accordingly Chambers contra Greenhill 24 Car. 2. fo 288. A Bill of Review brought by the Plaintiff Bill of Review because the Plaintiff can now prove a Tender and Refusal which he could not prove before dismist to Reverse the Decree in this Cause the Plaintiff would now Examine to a matter of Tender and Refusal which he could not prove before the Hearing but since the Decree signed and inrolled he can prove it The Court ordered Presidents to be searched which being produced by the Plaintiff his Lordship declared the said Presidents seemed of no weight to the Plaintiffs purpose and dismissed the Bill of Review Croster contra Wister 24 Car. 2. fo 688. THe Defendant insists Bill of Reviver The Plaintiff ought not to have brought a Bill of Reviver in this Case but to have taken out a Subpoena in the nature of a Scire facias to revive the Decree the same being signed and inrolled in the life time of the Plaintiffs Testator therefore the Defendant demurs to the said Bill The Plaintiff insists It is at the Plaintiffs election to revive the said Decree inrolled and to have Execution thereof by Bill or Subpoena in the nature of a Scire fac ' And as this Case is the whole Proceedings could not be revived by Subpaena Revivor by Bill or by Scire fac ' when proper in regard several Proceedings have been relating to Costs since the Decree which proceedings can be only revived by Bill and therefore the most proper course was to revive all things by Bill This Court held the said Bill to be well brought and held the Demurrer insufficient Stoell contra Botelar 24 Car. 2. fo 390. THat a Writ of Supplicavit of the Peace Supplicavit of the Peace on Petition and not on Motion nor any Indorsement on the back thereof yet good issued against Sir Oliver Botelar upon a Petition and Articles exhibited by the said Stoell The Defendant insists The said Writ issuing on Petition and not on a Motion in Court nor any Indorsement made on the back of the Writ as by the form of the Statute is required and but three of the said Articles are sworn to by the Articulate so it is irregular This Court on reading Presidents notwithstanding the Objections aforesaid of Botelar was fully satisfied that the Supplicavit was well granted and warranted Monnins contra Dom ' Monnins 24 Car. 2. fo 85. 178. BILL is to have the Defendant to discover Demurrer to a Bill for discovery whether the Defendant be married or not good for that if she be married it would be a forfeiture of her Estate and the Bill dismist whether she be married since the death of Sir Edmond Monnins her late Husband The Defendant demurred for that in case she was married since the death of her said Husband the same amounts to a forfeiture of her Estate and Interest in several goods and things devised to her by the Will of her said Husband to be held and enjoyed by her during such time as she should continue her Widowhood and so ought not to discover as aforesaid This Court held the Demurrer good unless the Plaintiff produced Presidents which the Plaintiff could not so the Bill was dismissed with Costs Warren contra Johnson 24 Car. 2. fo 543. THat Mary Warren Mony in Trust for the Children of I. S. it shall be for the benefit only of the Children that he then had and not born afterward the Plaintiffs Grandmother put 60 l. into the Defendants hands in trust for the benefit of the Children of Mark Warren her Son who at that time had but three Children whereof the Plaintiff was one but now hath six
Children This Court is of Opinion That the said 60 l. belonged only to the Children of the said Mark Warren which he had by his then Wife at the time when the said Mony was given and decreed the same accordingly Wallop contra Dominam Hewett 24 Car. 2. fo 218. THe Plaintiffs Henry and John Wallop seek Relief for 400 l. Legacies given by a Will and a Codicil and are distinct not one and the same viz. 200 l. apiece Legacy given them by the Will and Codicil of the Lady Crofts The Case is That the Lady Crofts by her Will gave the Plaintiffs 100 l. apiece and afterwards by a Codicil annexed to her Will gave the Plaintiffs 100 l. apiece The Question is Whether the said Legacies so given be one and the same or distinct and several Legacies or what her Intention was in reference to the same and desire the Judgment of the Court therein This Court with the Judges on Reading the said Will and Codicil were of Opinion and satisfied That the said Legacies in the said Will and Codicil mentioned are not one and the same but distinct and several Legacies of 200 l. and decreed the Defendants to pay the said Plaintiffs 400 l. Thorne contra Newman 24 Car. 2. fo 371. 24 Car. 2. fo 8. THat Nicholas Burnell Deed of Revocation Father of the Defendant Margaret Newman being seised of the premisses in 1652. demised the same to Elizabeth Stone for 99 years at a Pepper-Corn with a Proviso to be void on payment of 590 l. and the said Elizabeth died and made Elizabeth Wheat her Executrix and Thomas Baker marrying the Defendant Margaret Newman in November 1657. Elizabeth Wheat and the said Nicholas Burnell Assigning the premisses to Thomas Baker and the said Baker for 500 l. borrowed of the Plaintiff Assigned to one Minterne in Trust for the Plaintiff in 1659 and Baker failing in payment contracted with the Plaintiff for 770 l. more that he would give his Interest in the premisses absolutely without any power of redemption and Baker and Minterne did joyn accordingly in 1660. And the Plaintiff insists That the Defendant claims the premisses by a Deed dated the 19th of August 1659. whereby it is pretended That by Indenture made between the said Old Burnell of the one part and Thomas Lewis and Bartholomew Pickering of the other part the said Burnell in Consideration of the Natural love and affection to the said Margaret and for the setling and confirming of the premisses for the uses therein and for 5 s. Covenanted to stand seized of the premisses to himself for life Remainder to the Defendant Margaret for life then to the Wife of the said Thomas Baker Remainder to the Heirs of her Body with Remainders over and the said Burnell dying in 1659. the premisses then vested in Margaret and that Baker in her Right became seised of the Freehold thereof and that thereby the Remainder of the said term of 99 years was drowned Term drowning in a Freehold and so the Assignment to Minterne and the Assignment by Baker and Minterne to the Plaintiff was void and so the Plaintiff a purchaser for 1300 l. like to be defeated And the Plaintiff further insists That if the said Deed were ever sealed it is with a Proviso of Revocation to be void on payment or tender of 12 d. to Lewis or Pickering or either of them in the Middle-Temple-Hall and that Burnell did tender 12 d. to Lewis with intention to make void the said Deed and declared so to Lewis that she did revoke the said Deed and pulled the Seal off from it and that a Memorandum was Indorsed on the backside of the Deed That there was 22 Octob. 1659. 12 d. tendered to Lewis to revoke the said Deed but the Defendants pretend because the 12 d. was not tendered in the Middle-Temple-Hall therefore the Revocation was not legal and so the said Deed still in force and the Plaintiffs Estate drowned The Defendants admit the Case to be as aforesaid but insist That the said Deed 19 Aug. 1659. was intended for a Settlement on the Defendant Margaret for a provision for her after the death of the said Baker her Husband he having not made any Joynture and that the said Defendants claim the premisses by the said Deed whereby immediately upon the death of Burnell the Freehold of the Premisses vested in Baker in right of the said Margaret his Wife and so the Plaintiffs Estate was drowned and that Baker was not by intention of the said Deed to sell away the premisses for any longer time than his own life without the said Margarets Consent and Joyning with him in a Fine thereof And the Defendants further insist That the 12 d. ought to have been tendred in the Middle-Temple Hall else the Deed must be in force and if any Memorandum or Declaration were made as aforesaid the same was done out of design only to have the said Baker make the said Margaret a Joynture But the Plaintiff insists That he ought to hold the said premisses for the residue of the said term for 99 years against the said Deed. This Court was satisfied That the Plaintiff ought in Equity to enjoy the premisses against the Defendants Voluntary Deed set aside against a purchaser and that the said Deed ought to be set aside as against the Plaintiff but the Defendants are to redeem The Bill being to set aside a pretended voluntary Conveyance set on foot by the Defendant Conveyance with power of Revocation on payment of 12 d. at such a place 12 d. was tendered at another place with express declaration to revoke the Deed. which Deed is with power of Revocation upon the tender of 12 d. and the 12 d. was tendered accordingly with intent to revoke the said Deed and the said Deed is accordingly Cancelled but the Defendants in respect the 12 d. was not tendered at the place appointed set the said Deed up at Common Law and upon a Trial at Law without any defence made by the Plaintiff the Defendants were Nonsuited and the Plaintiff being a purchaser of the premisses first by Mortgage for 500 l. and afterwards by absolute Assignment for 770 l. more The Lord Keeper upon reading the said Cancelled Deed saw no cause to alter the Master of the Rolls his Decree aforesaid but ordered the same to stand Confirmed Comes Sterling contra Levingston 24 Car. 2. fo 113. 432. THat Sir Peter Vanlore the Elder being seised in Fee of the Lands by Deed Covenanted to stand seised thereof to several uses under which all parties to the Suit claim several parts of the premisses and here being a Proviso in the said Deed That if young Sir Peter Vanlore or the Issue whose Issues and Heir the now Plaintiffs are should attempt to impeach the said Settlement that then the uses to him and them limited by the said Deed should be void and that by the death of several persons several parts