| Title | Copy of marriage settlement dated 9 April 1703 by (lease, not copied, and) release made between 1. Robert Hill of Weston yeoman and Anne Hill one of his daughters 2. Robert Brownhill of Aston yeoman and Joseph his son and heir and 3. William Cowlishaw of Aston yeoman and John Roberts of Melbourne yeoman, by which in consideration of marriage between Anne Hill and Joseph Brownhill and for £40 paid by Robert Brownhill to Robert Hill, half yardland in the fields of Aston (described in great detail, naming fields, neighbours, acreages) was conveyed by Robert Hill to Cowlishaw and Roberts to the successive uses of Robert Hill and heirs until the marriage, Robert Hill for life, Joseph Botham and Anne his wife for their lives, their heirs, Robert Erpe son of Thomas Erpe of Melbourne yeoman and his heirs and assigns for ever, and Hill allowed Joseph to dwell with him after the marriage and agreed that the farm he now enjoys under Robert Wilmot esquire shall be held and managed jointly between them and the goods, chattels, implements of husbandry, corn, grain now growing on the premises were declared to be as well the goods of Joseph Botham as of Robert Hill to be used jointly and each shall be able to bequeath his half of the goods, chattels etc
Copy examined 15 June |