Catalogue description Assignment

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Details of ASH/4501/949
Reference: ASH/4501/949
Title: Assignment
Description:

By WALTER ROBERTS of Tisehurst, esq., and HARBERT MAY of Tisehurst, gent., to JOANE BUSBRIDGE of Cattesfeild widow, Reciting that Audry Roberts of Tisehurst, widow, by her Will dated 6 Dec., 1655 gave to her grandson Richard Alfray of Nendfeild, gent., £650 and other legacies and appointed Edward May late of Tisehurst, esq., sole executor; after her death the said Edward May lent to his brother Anthony May, gent., divers sums arising out of the estate of the said testatrix and were designed to pay the legacy to the said Richard Alfray and became bound for debts of the said Anthony May, among others to one Tapping for £150 - the amounts so lent and engaged for amounted to £1600, to secure which sum the said Anthony May on 6 May, 1663 acknowledged to the said Edward a Statute Staple in the penal sum of £2400. The said Joane Busbridge to prevent variance among her sons and out of love for the said Edward May enetered into bonds for payment of the money due to the said Richard Alfray under the Will of the said Audry Roberts, which in the year 1666 amounted to £1050, and which sum the said Joane had paid except £318. The said Edward May died, leaving his eldest son Thomas May his executor, he had since died leaving the said Walter Roberts and Harbert May his executors in trust for his brother Edward May an infant. The Court of Chancery had ordered that the said Joane Busbridge might reimburse herself the said £1050 and then the £200 paid to Tapping might by virtue of the Statute be raised and paid to the said Walter Roberts and Harbert May in trust for the said Edward May the infant. The said Joane since the decree had paid Richard Allfray the sum of £318 in full discharge. In consideration of the premises the said Walter Roberts and Harbert May assigned to the said Joane the said Statute Staple of £2400

 

Signatures, Walter Roberts & Harbert May, and covered seals

 

Witnesses:- Edw. Polhill, John Plummer, Jo. Purfeild

Date: 15 Jun 1676
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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