Mr. Duckets case Wherein he humbly, by petition, appeals to the right honourable, the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the high court of Parliament assembled; for relief against a decree pronounced against him by this present lord chancellor.

Mr. Duckets case Wherein he humbly, by petition, appeals to the right honourable, the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the high court of Parliament assembled; for relief against a decree pronounced against him by this present lord chancellor.

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Mr. Duckets CASE. Wherein he humbly, by Petition, Appeals to the Right Honourable, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the High Court of Parliament Aſſembled; For Relief againſt a Decree pronounced againſt him by this preſent Lord Chancellor.

Mr. Duckets CASE. Wherein he humbly, by Petition, Appeals to the Right Honourable, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the High Court of Parliament Aſſembled; For Relief againſt a Decree pronounced againſt him by this preſent Lord Chancellor.

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WIlliam Mildmay, Eſq having Right to, but out of poſſeſsion, of an Eſtate Real and Perſonal, viz. to part in Fee Simple, and to the reſt for Life, Remainder to the Iſſue of his Body with Remainders over, and his Brother and other Friends having forſaken him in the laſt Great Plague, and not having Money to ſubſiſt, he reſorts to the Petitioner, who was his full Couzen Germain, who very kindly entertained him and his Servants at the Petitioners houſe in Cambridgeſhire.

That the Petitioner, at the earneſt ſollicitation of Mr. Mildmay, undertakes a Suit in his name againſt one Clutterbuck and others, for recovering the ſaid Eſtate, and laid out therein above 1000 l. and in 1669 obtained a Decree for the ſame.

That Mr. Mildmay being ſenſible of the Petitioners kindneſs, and of the unkindneſs of his other Relations, and having had a Wife, but never any Child, and being then a Widdower and (as himſelf expreſſed) uncapable of ever having a Child, and having often declared he would ſettle his Eſtate upon the Petitioner and his Children, did, about the year 1670, and ſince, by ſeveral Deeds ſettle his Eſtate accordingly, reſerving to himſelf, for his Life a Maintenance of 200 l. per Annum and upwards.

That after the ſaid Settlement Mr. Mildmay declared to ſeveral perſons he had ſetled his Eſtate on the Petitioner his Kinſman and beſt Friend, and the Tenants had notice thereof, and Attorned and paid their Rents to the Petitioner, and called and owned him Landlord unto the year 1676.

That Mr. Mildmay in July 1676. coming up to London on ſome buſineſs, was drawn into Company, who betrayed him into a Marriage which was one Day propoſed, and the next Day had, with one Mrs. Brewſter; but ſo ſoon as he was Married and came to conſider what he had done, he went away and left his Wife without Bedding her.

That ſince this Marriage, viz. in October 1676. Mr. Mildmay is prevailed on to ſettle the Eſtate (formerly ſetled on the Petitioner without any Truſt or Power of Revocation) upon his ſaid Wife, or on Friends in Truſt for her and Mr. Mildmay; and Mr. Mildmay and his Wife and Wives Truſtees in November 1676 exhibit a Bill in Chancery to overthrow the Settlements made on the Petitioner, and for Equity alledge the ſame were obtained by Fraud, or were only in Truſt for Mr. Mildmay; and tho the Petitioner hath by his Anſwers fully denied both a Fraud and Truſt, and proved the Deeds to be abſolute, and to be read to and underſtood by Mr. Mildmay before he executed them, yet the Court of Chancery has declared the Settlements on the Petitioner to be a Truſt, and Decreed the ſame to be ſet aſide.

Therefore Prayes the ſaid Decree may be reverſed.

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Mr. Duckets case Wherein he humbly, by petition, appeals to the right honourable, the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the high court of Parliament assembled; for relief against a decree pronounced against him by this present lord chancellor.

Duckett, Thomas.

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1676

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— Mr. Duckets case Wherein he humbly, by petition, appeals to the right honourable, the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the high court of Parliament assembled; for relief against a decree pronounced against him by this present lord chancellor., Duckett, Thomas..

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