| Title | Bill of complaint by Leeke Okeover of Okeover, esq., Wrightson Mundy of Osbaston, Leicestershire, esq., and John Eardley Wilmot of the Inner Temple, London, esq., (Okeover's trustees) to Hon Philip Lord Hardwick, Baron of Hardwick (Gloucestershire), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, against Thomas Beech and William Monk (representatives of William Okeover, younger brother of Leeke Okeover) and John Sherwyn and Samuel Sterrop (surviving acting executors of the will of Sir Thomas Parkyns, one of the trustees named in the marriage settlement of 19/20 November 1699 on the marriage of Thomas Okeover to Katherine Leeke), concerning Leeke Okeover's disposal to Robert Hudson of Red Lyon Square Middlesex, for £10,395, of premises in Hardwick (capital messuage and farm formerly in the occupation of Rowland Okeover, messuage and farm in Hardwick formerly in the occupation of Nicholas Righthouse, 90 acres, parcel of ground in Hardwick 4 acres, formerly in the occupation of John Dann, a parcel of land in Middleton, 11 acres, and several parcels of land in Ashley Fields, Hardwick, 11 acres, formerly in the occupation of Henry Towers, a messuage and farm in West Winch, 45 acres, in the occupation of Mr Bagg, land in Sechey, 25 acres, lying in the marsh abutting West Winch Common formerly in the tenure of John Williamson, two closes of ground, "next the Brooke" 4 acres formerly in the occupation of John Hunn, and a piece of ground in Sechey, 1 acre, butting on the common formerly in the tenure of Edward Woodhouse) limited in the marriage settlement of 19/20 November 1699 on the marriage of Thomas Okeover and Katherine Leeke, first to the use of Rowland Okeover (grandfather of Leeke), then to Elizabeth Okeover (grand-mother of Leeke), then to Thomas Okeover (Leeke's father) and then to be held in trust by Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny and William Cooke of Wymeswold to raise the portions of the other sons and daughters of Thomas Okeover (William Okeover and Elizabeth Higginbottom), which trust was duly executed and receipted by William and Elizabether : now Beech, Monk, Sherwyn and Sterrop have conspired to defraud Leeke Okeover by pretending that part of the premises was devised by Rownad Okeover, in his will, to William Okeover, and are thus preventing the sale to Bert Hudson : Leeke Okeover and trustees request that a write to subpoena be direted to Beech, Monk, Sherwyn and Sterrop to appear before the Court to answer the complaint |