| Description | That Edward Cavill junior shall marry Isabel Suffeld, daughter of Edmund and Agnes, in Hanley church when convenient, and at the solemnisation of the said espousal the said John and Elizabeth [Edward's parents] shall be agreed to take Edward and Isabel to dwell with them and to deliver them half their goods both moveable and immoveable, whether quick or dead, when they arrive, and [then] to deliver to four [five?] feoffees possession and seisin of all their lands and tenements; and the said feoffees shall make a lawful estate when requested of half this [property] to Edward and Isabel, and the assigns of Edward, in perpetuity, the said Edward and Isabel paying annually half of all manner of rents and charges, performing half the labour and taking half the profits; and the same feoffees shall make an estate to the said John and Elizabeth when requested of the other half of the lands and tenements, to have and to hold to them during their two lives, they paying half the charges of rents and labour, and after their deaths the said half to remain with Edward and Isabel and the assigns of Edward, the said Edward and Isabel [then] paying all charges for the whole property; and if it happen that the said John and Elizabeth should become helpless, lame or blind, then Edward and Isabel will find them all necessaries just as they have been accustomed to be found during their lives; and if John, Elizabeth and Edward should all die, the remainder is to Isabel for her life, with remainder thereafter to such heirs as Edward shall bequeath it to, and if none, to the rightful heirs of John Cavill; and if John and Elizabeth outlive Edward and Isabel and Edward has no heirs, then their half reverts to John and Elizabeth and the assigns of the said John in perpetuity; and if Edward and Isabel do not provide the necessaries for John and Elizabeth in their old age, when they cannot labour, then it shall be lawful for John and Elizabeth to sell up to three acres from their own half to Edward and Isabel, but at a lower price "than any other manner", if they wish. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: [none given].
Seal: (1) lost; (2) device of robed figure holding child, legend illegible.
(chirograph) (English)
[1531/1/48/2/7, 1531/1/48/2/9 and 1531/1/48/2/10 attached]
Item 247 in Toomey,'Records of Hanley Castle', WHS 2001 |