| Title | Enfeoffment (August,1574) by Sir Richard Bulkeley [third Knight] of practically all his landed property in Cheshire, co. Carnarvon, and co. Anglesey, in the hands of seven trustees [of whom three were Davenports of Bramhall in Cheshire, close relatives of his first wife] in order that the provisions of his last will [which did not come operative until 47 years had passed, and a very different will to the one he would have made in 1574] should be diligently observed regarding debts and funeral expenses; also to express his love and fatherly affection to Richard, his son and heir, also to secure maintenance, portions, &c. for his younger children (if he should fortune to have any) |
| Description | At the end is the fatal proviso for possible disenulment. This document must have been drawn up before his second marriage with Dame Mary, at a time when relations between him and the Davenports were amicable, at a time too when the son Richard referred to was the only child born to him, he afterwards being known as Richard B, of Whatcroft and Cheadle, father to a younger Richard [who married Dorothy Hoskins], father too of the Humphrey B, of Cheadle who made such a hobby of granting leases on the Cheshire property in the mid-seventeenth century. On the dorse is a most exhaustive (and interesting) attornment of tenants on the lands referred to in the main document. The exact day of August is wanting, on account of an unfortunate rent in the indenture |