| Title | Post-nuptial settlement made between 1. Reverend Charles Shuttleworth clerk Rector of Aston and the Honourable Mary his wife, late Mary Cockburne youngest of the 2 daughters and co-heiresses of Caroline Lady Forester and 2. Wills Earl of Hillsborough, Arthur Hill esquire commonly called Lord Viscount Fairford only son and heir of Wills, by which, in consideration of his marriage and Mary's portion of £3,100 and for securing £1,500 and dealing the trusts thereof as a provision for Mary if widowed and for their children, Charles will pay £1,500 (part of the £3,100) to 2. in trust to place out the money in public stocks, in trust to allow Charles Shuttleworth to receive the interest for life, then to allow Mary to receive it for life, then to hold the stocks in trust for the children in the meantime paying such annual sums for their maintenance as Charles shall appoint, in default of his appointment as Mary shall appoint, in default of appointment, to hold them in trust and for the benefit of all the children equally to be paid them at 21, or if when they are 21 Charles and/or Mary are still alive, to be paid them within 6 months of death of parents, the share of any child dying before 21 being shared equally among the other children;
if both Charles and Mary die, the interest is to be used to maintain the children until their principal trust monies be payable to them;
if there are no children or they die before 21, the principal is to be held in trust for the survivor of Charles and Mary.
Dated 12 June
Note: C E Shuttleworth's first wife died in 1777 and he married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Whitmore, in 1780. F 59 is her parents' marriage settlement. |