Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
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Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography; Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744
I devise to Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, of Lincoln’s
Inn, Esq., their heirs, &c., all my manors, parsonage, rectory,
advowsons, messuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments in the
several counties of Surrey, Oxford, Buckingham, and Huntingdon, which
were lately the several estates of Richard Holditch, Francis Hawes,
William Astell, and Robert Knight, Esqrs.
And also my manors, &c., in the said county of Buckingham, which were
late the estate of Richard Hampden, Esq., deceased.
And also my manor, rectory, &c., in the county of Buckingham, which were
some time the estate of Sir John Wittewronge, Bart., deceased.
And also my manor, &c. in the same county, formerly the estate of Sir
Thomas Tyrrel, Bart., deceased.
And also my manor, &c. in the county of Bedford, which were late the
estate of Sir John Meres, Knight.
And also my freehold and copyhold messuages, &c. in the county of
Bedford, which were late the estate of Bromsall Throckmorton, Esq.
And also my manor, &c. in possession and reversion, in the county of
Bedford, which were late the estate of Edward Snagg, Esq.
And also my rectory and tithes of Steventon, in the county of Bedford,
which were late the estate of Peter Floyer, Esq.
And also my lands, &c. in the county of Bedford, which were the estate
of John Culliford, Esq., and Mary his wife.
And also my manor, &c. in the county of Berks, which were the estate of
Richard Jones, Esq.
And also my manor, &c. in the county of Berks, which were the estate of
Robert Packer, Esq.
And also my messuage, lands, &c. in the county of Berks, which were late
the estate of Thomas Bedford, clerk.
And also my manor, &c. in the county of Oxford, which were late the
estate of Sir Cecil Bishop, Bart.
And also my manors, &c. in Northamptonshire, which were late the estate
of Mrs. Elizabeth Wiseman.
And also my manor, &c. in the county of Northampton, late the estate of
Sir William Norwich, Bart.
And also my manor, &c. in the county of Northampton, late the estate of
Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Lord Bishop of Durham.
And also that part of my estate at St. Albans still retained by me.
And also my manors, &c. in the county of Stafford, which were the estate
of Viscount Fauconberg.
And also my manor, &c. freehold and copyhold, in the county of Norfolk,
late the property of Gabriel Armiger, Esq.
And also my manors, &c. in the county of Leicester and Northampton,
which were the estates of Sir Thomas Cave.
And all other my manors, &c. in the counties of Surrey, Oxford,
Huntingdon, Buckingham, Bedford, Berks, Northampton, Hertford, Stafford,
Norfolk, and Leicester, (always subject to charges made by indenture on
the marriage of my grandson, John Spencer, Esq. to Georgiana Carolina,
his now wife, daughter to Lord Carteret.)
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