Mortgage indenture, Boxworth, Cambridgeshire

Whereas by Indenture dated 23 June 1659 [Sir] John Cutts, [Bt], of Childerslye, Cambridgeshire, mortgaged to Sir John Weld of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire,certain land in Boxworth for a term of three hundred years; and whereas Sir John Weld and Humphry Weld of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, by Indenture dated 1 July 1661 have agreed that John Bradborne of the Middle Temple shall take a certain rent free from trust to George Marten, Frances, his wife, Frances Marten his daughter, or Sir Thomas Allen; Sir John Weld declares that the sum due on the mortgage shall be disposed of on trust that Humphry Weld and Sir John Weld shall be secured against John Bradborne; and that Frances, wife of George Marten, shall take the interest for life, on her death Frances Marten, her daughter shall take it for life, if Frances Marten survives her father, to the use of Frances Marten the mother for life, and then to the use of Frances Marten the daughter. Witnesses: George Weld, D. Weld, Margarett Bowyer, Francis Holden. On the back is a declaration by Sir John Cutts that the land is not to be redeemable till Sir John Weld is indemnified and the interest paid to Frances Marten, now the wife of John Temple. Witnesses: Dor. Pickering, Robert Paschalle, Robert Hudson

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Purchased from G David, Lot 522/3, 24 November 1910

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