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B08659 The case of the right honourable the Lord Leigh in answer to a printed paper entitled, The case of Dame Elizabeth, the vvife of said Thomas Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, &c 1677 (1677) Wing C1157C; ESTC R175680 4,051 1

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THE CASE Of the Right Honourable the Lord Leigh in Answer to a printed Paper entituled the CASE of Dame Elizabeth the VVife of the said Thomas Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh c. THAT the now Lady Leigh being proposed to the late Lord Leigh as a considerable fortune for his Grandson the now Lord Leigh he by his Agents entred into a treaty with her Mother then in truth the Wife of one Mr. Temple her concealed Husband but going by the name of Mrs. Brown about it But finding on information that her Estate consisted in Land and that incumbred and his occasions requiring monies to pay the debts of his deceased Son Sir Thomas Leigh for most part contracted in his late Majesties service and raising portions for his Daughters the now Lords Sisters being three he declined further treaty Wherewith the Mother being acquainted she to draw on the match declared that her Daughters Lands were 900 l. per Annum though in truth they never yet exceed 740 l. or thereabouts and for the most part not worth fourteen years purchase charged with 200 l. per Ann. for her Joynture and tho incumbred with 3000 l. debt for no more was spoken of tho others afterwards appeared yet that there was 3000 l. raised by sale of Woods which would clear the incumbrances that her Daughters Lands might be sold to serve all occasions and that if being under age her Daughter should die before sale ●et the Mortgages should be assigned for the Grandsons benefit so as the 3000 l. would come clear to him And in sum she would lay her Daughter and set Fortune at his Lordships feet to be disposed of at pleasure And with these and the like insinuations the late Lord was drawn to consent to the Match without any positive Agreement made about the Estate and she well knowing that his Quality and Estate might justly expect a better Fortune least second thoughts might prevent it got them forthwith married privately in London before almost any of his Friends knew of it That the Debts and Portions which for the most part were not as suggested charged on the Estate but yet in Honor and Conscience to be taken care of being on all treaties declared and intended to be provided for and therefore not concealed as is pretended the Mother and Daughter presently after the marriage were sent to veiw Ridware part of the Estate the Grandson had in possession and then to consider which was fittest for sale that or the Daughters his Lordship declaring and intending to endeavour to get an Act of Parliament to that purpose and for settlement of the whole in regard both were under Age. The Mother after view declares the Daughters estate fittest for sale and the Daughter in no sort gainsaid it But the Mother it seems intended nothing less for having got her own ends in the marriage she presently leaves Stoneleigh his Lordship House where they then lived pretending to go into Kent to mannage the Estate till disposed of and prevailed with the Son in Law and Daughter to go with her But being come thither she takes another method using all Artifices first to alienate his affections from his Grandfather and Relations and that not taking then to raise jealousies and dissentions betwixt him and his Wife That the Grandfather having discovered which till after the marriage was concealed tha her Mother and her Unkle Mr. William Andrews had procured the Lady at thirteen to levy a Fine of a great part of her Estate and to declare the use to the Mother and her Heirs in default of Issue of her own but with power of Revocation and the Parliament near approaching sent Proposals that 300 l. per Ann. of the Ladies Land might be sold for the ends supra which produced several Treaties But Mr. Andrewes who was employed on the Ladies part having laid a design by that Fine to get the Estate to his Sister and by consequence to himself came fraught with such extravagant demands and cavils as 't was evident no compliance was intended And the Mother at length declared that the Debts or Portions were only Provisions of Honor and her Daughters Estate should not be applyed to pay them so as all Treaties that way proved ineffectual That as to the Incumbrances upon her own estate 't is true the Wood had been sold by Indenture under Hand and Seal wherein Mr. Andrewes as the Ladies Guardian and the Mother by her Widdows name Brown sold the Wood for 3000 l. to herthen Husband Temple and two others But all that the Lord could receive of it and that not without suit neither was but 1400 l. for part was lost in Temple's hands and 1000 l. Mr. Andrewes received which was so far from being applied to discharge the Incumbrances that 't was rather to make Incumbrances For whereas part of the Estate was mortgaged to Mr. Farewell for 2000 l. that 1000 l. 't is true was paid to Mr. Farwell but Mr. Andrewes took Bonds for it from Mr. Farewell to his own use and having so done without the Grandsons though then married or Grandfathers privity gets that mortgage assigned to Mr. Bennet in consideration of 2000 l. borrowed and mentioned to be paid to Mr. Farewell but it truth he had but 1000 l. of it and the other was paid to Mr. Andrewes who thereupon Delivered up the Bonds and this 1000 l. still remains in his hands and other monies raised by Wood sales and Profits he though he stiled himself the Guardian in the Deed alledging he acted but as a Servant to the Mother and accounted to her and she that she was then a Feme Covert though that was concealed and not accomptable for what accrewed in Mr. Temple's time who was dead insolvent That the Grandfather failing of his expectations of other Provisions 't is true endeavoured an Act of Parliament for sale of Ridware for the honourable ends before mentioned But no ●a●●● being made for the Ladies Dower therein though that was after offered to be added it did not pass That being thus every way disappointed therein and considering that they who had perswaded the daughter at Thirteen to levy a fine and to pass by the Fathers Line by whom the estate came and to settle the Inheritance of failer of issue in the Mother and concealed it from him on the Marriage treaty did still drive on their designs to get the Estate to themselves and of keeping the now Lord Leigh from having advantage and benefit by it and that they were incouraged therein by their hopes that when the late Lord Leigh who was very old and infirm should dye and the Estate fall in possession upon the Grandson she would become dowable of the whole whereby in effect she would have all the advantage that could be out of his Estate and he little or none out of hers and that while those hopes remained they would not be brought to any reasonable settlement he that he might treat with them on