| Title | Lease of possession under the Statute of Uses (25 Jan., 1760) by which the representatives of the late Sir Thomas Aston of Aston sell and convey to Walter Thomas of Chester that Moiety of the Penrhyn estate once held by Lady Frances Russell [i.e., Frances Williams, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Williams of Penrhyn, who married as her second husband Lord Edward Russell, fourth son of William, Duke of Bedford]. It is not at present clear how the late Sir Thomas Aston came to have an interest in the moiety, but the presence of General Sir Hugh Warburton as one of the parties to this deed, he being nephew to Lady Frances and soon to become the father-in-law of Richard Pennant, goes far to show that this doct. is not a final conveyance, but an indeterminate transaction. Allied to this is a final concord between the same parties, at the Great Sessions of co.Caern, on 18 Aug., 1760, by which a fine was officially levied on the aforesaid moiety. |