| Description | Copy of release from Stephana Hervey, one of the sisters and co-heirs of Richard Hervey, late of Cotton End, Northamptonshire, esquire, deceased, with the consent of Sir John Lenthall of Southwark, Surrey, knight, Edmond Lenthall his son and heir apparent, and William Lenthall, son and heir apparent of Edmond Lenthall, to Edmond Temple of Westminster, Middlesex, esquire, of her fifth part of the manor of Moreton alias Moreton Morell and the rectory of Rands alias Raunds, Northamptonshire, and her third part of lands, tenements and hereditaments in Sulby, Welford, Sibbertoft, Naseby, Cold Ashby and Thornby in Northamptonshire, with regard to the intended marriage of Stephana Hervey and William Menthall, in consideration of £1200, already secured to be paid to Edmond Temple by Sir John Lenthall on lands in Latchford and Great Haseley, Oxfordshire for the payment of £3800 on the death of Dame Elizabeth Lenthall, widow of Sir Edmond Lenthall, deceased.
File of 3 pages, with cover, copy probably made late 18th cent. |