| Title | Marriage settlement by (lease-missing-and) release made between 1. Thomas Whitmore of Apley, county Salop esquire, 2. Sir Jonathan Cope of Bruern, county Oxford, bart and Anna his eldest daugher, 3 . Sir Robert Banks Jenkinson of Walcot, county Oxford and John Jones of Chasleton, county Oxford esquire, 4. Henry Arthur Herbert of Oakly Park county Salop esquire and Walter Stubbs of Beckbury, county Salop gent, in consideration of a marriage between Whitmore and Anna Cope, and for £6,000 paid by Sir Jonathan to Whitmore for Anna's marriage portion, Whitmore released to Jenkinson and Jones the hundred of Brimstree, manors or lordships of Stockton Worfield (giving several spellings), Claverle(y) or Clarely, Astly Bridge alias Astley Abbotts, manor, reputed manor or farm called Appley, Apley House with demesne lands, parks etc, advowson of Stockton, donative of free church of Astly Bridge, all lands of Whitmore in above places and Albury, Chatton, Tasley, Morville (giving other spellings), Quatford, Alveley, and in towns and hamlets of Apley, Norton, `Hickford' alias Higford, Worfield, Bromley, Wyken, Hallon, Bradney, Hilton, Newton Winscott, Alscott, Oldington, Rindleford, Catstree, Gatacre, Brantley, Woundale (`Woundwall'), Aston, `Studdeston', alias Ludstone, Heathton, Broughton, Beanbridge alias Beabridge, `Whittimore' [Whitmore], Farmcote and Romsley, county Salop, free chapel or college of St Mary Magdalen in the Castle of Bridgnorth commonly called the Deanery of Bridgnorth with its rights etc in cos Stafford and Salop, tithes etc from Claverley, Gatacre, Whitly Green, `Whitimore', Sutton, Farmcote, Woundale, Beambridge or Beabridge, `Studdestone' or Ludstone, Aston, Hopstone, Shipley and Dalicott or `Dadycott' county Salop, Borington or Bubbington county Stafford, the castle of Bridgnorth and the castle yard, messuages and burgages in Bridgnorth, tithes of parishes of St Leonards and St Mary Magdalen, Bridgnorth, cony burrow and warren within forest of Morffe and liberties of Bridgnorth, all formerly the estate of Sir William Whitmore Bart. deceased;
messuage and lands (described in detail) in Astley Abbotts, messuage and lands in Worfield, many messuages in Bridgnorth both in Newtown and Lowtown (positions described in detail, street names, tenants' names, often with their occupations, given) including the Sign of the Crown and the Sign of the Cock, shops, a cave in Holly Bush Lane, lands in fields of Bridgnorth (with detailed positions, field names) messuage in `Olbury' called the Harp and Fiddle, tithes of lands in Astley Abbotts;
many of the propeties are said to have been purchased by Thomas Whitmore from Anne Warter widow of Catherine Warter spinster;
messuge in Hodnet, messuage in Shakerly, parish Donnington, and messuage in Worfield reserved.
Detailed settlement provisions. £700 to be Anna Cope's jointure if widowed.
Dated 8 May
Note: C E S Holden's second wife Elizabeth died in 1795 and he remarried in April 1796 |