| Content Description | First Party: Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle.
Second Party: Edward, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and Henrietta Cavendish Holles, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer (his wife); Peter Walter of the parish of St Margaret Westminster, Middlesex, Esq. and John Morley of Halsted, Essex, Esq. (surviving trustees).
Third Party: Henry, Earl of Uxbridge.
Assignment by (1) to (3) of the sum of £2800 secured to him from (2) by the 1719 act of Parliament.
Recites the act of Parliament (Pl F3/2/17) and the Duke of Newcastle's desire for the money secured to him by the act to purchase property in Yorkshire.
Consideration: £2800 by (3) to (1)
Endorsed, 9 July 1740:
Quit claim by (3) to John Verney, Robert Harley and James West (trustees for the Earl and Countess of Oxford and Mortimer) upon payment to him of £3048 4s 9d (£2800 plus accrued interest) by a draft on Child and Company. |