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BY INDENT ƲRE primo Septembris, 1653. and FINE for Corroborating thereof, the Right Honourable Charlotte, Counteſs Dowager of Derby, the preſent Earl's Grandmother, and Charles Earl of Derby, and Dorothy Henene Counteſs of Derby, the now Earl's Father and Mother, convey the ſaid Mannour of Bidſtone, and other Lands in the County Palatine of Cheſter, to William Steel, his Heirs and Aſſigns, to the Uſe of him, his Heirs and Aſſigns for ever: But ſubject to the Joynture of the ſaid Counteſs Dowagers, ſecured by a Leaſe for ninety nine Years to Truſtees determinable upon her death, with Covenant, That the ſaid Mannour and Premiſes were free from all other Incumbrances, and for enjoyment and further aſſurance.
By Indenture the 25th. Septembris, 1655. the ſaid Counteſs Dowager and her Truſtees DeWilliam Steele for ninety eight years, if ſhe ſhould ſo long live, under the Rent of 300
l. per Annum, clear of all Taxes or Payments; and Steele enters and en
In April 1662, William Steele in conſideration of 6000
l.
Sells and Conveys the ſaid Mannour and Premiſes to John Lord Kingſtone and his Heirs, but ſubject to the ſaid Rent of 300
l. per Annum; who likewiſe enters and enjoys, and pays the ſaid Rent during the Life of the ſaid Counteſs Dowager.
The ſaid Lord Kingſtone Mortgages the ſame for 6000
l.
and being in Poſſeſſion of the Premiſes by his Will, 9th. of March, 1675, deviſes to ſeveral Truſtees therein named, and their Heirs, all his Lands in England and Ireland in Truſt, to ſell and diſpoſe of ſuch parts thereof as they ſhould think fit, for Payment of his Debts.
The Heir, Truſtees, Executors, and Mortgages of the ſaid Lord Kingſtone, by good Conveyances and Aſſurances in the LAW in the year 1680: In conſideration of 6260
l.
in Money really and bona fide paid, and ſubject to a Judgment of 4000
l.
Penalty from the Lord Kingſtone to Sir Robert Vyner, not yet paid; Sell and Convey the ſaid Mannour and Premiſes to the ſaid William Lightfoot and John Sayer, Deceaſed; under whoſe Will his Widdow and Children now claim.
That in the Year 1662, Charles Earl of Derby, the Father of the preſent Earl, endeavoured to obtain an Act of Parliament to Reſtore him to the Mannor of Mould and Mouldſdale, Hope and Hopeſdale, in the County of Flint, but never attempted to be Reſtored to the Mannor of Bidſtone, or to Impeach the Purchaſors Title, when the Original Purchaſor, Steele, was alive, and in poſDecember 1665, wrote a Letter to the ſaid Lord Kingſtone, claiming his Promiſe, that he might be the Purchaſer, or have the Praeemption of the ſaid Mannour, in Caſe his Lordſhip parted with it.
But now after all this length of Time, there is a BILL brought in before the Lords in Parliament, to deſtroy a Legal and undoubted. Title by Conveyances and Aſſurances ſolemnly and duly executed; and by a New Law, to take away this Eſtate from Purchaſers who bought at a full vallue, and that too under a Deviſe for Payment of Debts by the Will of the Lord Kingſtone, who was likewiſe a Purchaſer himſelf for a full Conſideration, and that without the leaſt ſhadow of Fraud or unfair Practice in either of the ſaid Purchaſers, who had not the leaſt reaſon to ſuſpect that any ſuch Matter would ever have been attempted, the ſaid Charles Earl of Derby acquieſing as to this Mannour when Mr. Steele had it in Poſſeſſion, though he ſought to be reſtored to other Mannours and Lands: And yet by the ſaid BILL the Original Conveyance is to be taken as a Mortgage, and the Purchaſers in Poſſeſſion, who bought it but in 1680, and are meer Strangers to the Tranſactions between William Steele and Charles Earl of Derby, muſt account for the Profit of the Premiſes thirty two years back, and looſe the whole Conſideration Money by them paid; unleſs they ſhould chance to ſave ſome part thereof, by proving that William Steele, to whom they are meer Strangers, did two and thirty years ago pay a greater Conſideration than the Profit of the Premiſes from that time till this, will amount to Satisfie.