| Title | Family settlement between Sir Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, and Lady Elizabeth Pettus, his wife, Lady Anne Pettus of Caister, mother of Sir Thomas Pettus, William Heveningham of Heveningham, Suffolk, esq., Charles Everard of London gent., William Watts of the City of Norwich, esq., and Edward Shepley of Rackheath, gent., in performance of the will of Sir Thomas Pettus' father and to bar the jointure and dower of the Lady Anne Pettus, by which Sir Thomas Pettus, his wife and Heveningham and Everard, agree that they will before 10 May levy a fine conveying to Heveringham and Everard the manor of Little Ellingham, the advowson of the church of Little Ellingham, the manor of Caister St Edmunds and advowson of the church, the manor of Caister Marketshall alias Markshall, the manor of Hardwick and Wilton with all lands and appurtenances, rights and members in Caister St Edmunds, Markshall, Stoke, Poringland, Amringhall, Dunston, Swardeston, Hardwick, North Runton, South Lynn, West Winch, Setchley and Saddlebow, and all messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, marsh grounds and hereditaments of Sir Thomas Pettus in Kings Lynn, Tilney, Islington, Terrington and Clenchwharton, and also all the messuages, farms, lands, foldage, etc., belonging to the manor of Hardwick, with all rights, members and appurtenances in Great and Little Ellingham, Islington, Scoulton, Stow, Beckerton, Rockland Tofts, Caister, Stoke, Ambringhall, Portingland, Markshall, Dunston, Swardeston, Keswick, North Runton, Middleton, South Lynn, West Winch, Setchey, Kings Lynn, Terrington and Clenchwharton: after Heveningham and Everard have become tenants to the freehold it shall be lawful for Watt and Shepley to serve a writ of Entry sur disseisin en le post in the High Court to recover the premises and `dock' all entails: the manor of Caister St Edmunds, the advowson of the church, a messuage called Homestalls, and a farm leased to Matthew Barnes on 13 Jan 1647, to be held to the use of Lady Anne Pettus for life in lieu of the dower, and after her decease to the use of Sir Thomas Pettus and his heirs
14 Apr |