| Title | Indenture which provides for the effective fruition of the arrangements made 26 & 27 Febr., 1702-3, by Richard, third Lord Bulkeley, (lease and release), and on 4 Sept., 1721, by the fourth Lord Bulkeley (by his last will and testament) and of a special Act of Parliament in the year 1756; in practice it meant the disposal in perpetuity of their Cheshire estates by the Bulkeley family in order to secure maintenance and jointure to the several daughters of the fourth Lord Bulkeley, sisters to the fifth and sixth Viscounts. |
| Description | An excellent summary of the somewhat intricate deeds, documents, and transactions leading to this final settlement is supplied by Ormerod: Hist. Cheshire,III,626 (footnotes). Incidentally, this document proves that Mr J.E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 43) is quite wrong about the marriages of some of these daughters - according to him Elin married her first cousin .....Bertie, a clergyman; according to this document her proper name was Eleanora Maria, and married to George Hervey; Ann, left by J.E.G. as unmarried, was married to a William Bartie (who is not described as a clergyman) |