| Description | Two paper copies of the first will of Charlotte, Marchioness of Annandale, 2 May 1754:
As surviving executrix, devisee and trustee in will of her late father, John Vanden Bempde , makes the will to prevent the uniting of the legal and equitable interests of and in the real and trust estates of her father in the person of her eldest son the Marquess of Annandale
Gives to the Hon Charles York, William Belasyse of Brancepeth Castle, Durham, the Hon Timothy Carr, Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Dragoon Guards and Joseph Godfrey of London, merchant, and their heirs
the manors, advowsons, messuages, farms, mills, woods, lands, cottages, tenements etc in Yorkshire, Berkshire, Kent, Middlesex and Lincoln and all other realty
which in her father's will were devised to trustees; to hold to her trustees upon same trusts and conditions as in her father's will
As concerns £36,503 15s 3d and other sums, part of the perpetual estate of her father, now charged on and secured by securities affecting the estate of her son the Marquess by virtue of an Act of Parliament and orders of the High Court of Chancery, and interest, and honours, lands and tenements of her son in Scotland also charged with the above sums, and money in public funds, other part of her fathers personalty, and the shares in the New River Company, and leasehold messuage of her father in Pall Mall and all other property which is vested in her as surviving executor or as surviving trustee of his personalty, bequeaths the same to her above-named
trustees : subject to trusts and uses as specified for residuary personalty in her fathers will |