| Content Description | First Party: James Meyer esquire of Forty Hall, Enfield, Middlesex; and Frederic Ouvry esquire of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Middlesex.
Second Party: Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone M.P. , of Harley Street, Middlesex.
Third Party: Angus Duke of Hamilton and Brandon [note that the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon at this time was actually William not Angus]; Anne Adele Hope, widow, of 25 Belgrave Square, Middlesex; and Thomas Edward Howe, barrister at law, of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex.
Fourth Party: The Midland Railway Company.
Conveyance from (2) and (3) to (4) [with permission of (1)] of 4 acres 1 rood and 15 perches of land in the parishes of Whitwell, Derbyshire and Worksop, Nottinghamshire under The Midland Railway Act 1865 for the purpose of building a railway from Mansfield to Worksop [property shown on attached plan and listed in an appended schedule].
Consideration: £868 and 15 shillings
Recitals: (a) recites lease and release dated 4-5 Jun. 1839; (b) recites lease and release dated 7-8 Jun. 1839; (c) will of the 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne dated 14 Aug. 1846 bequeathed the Worksop Manor and Shireoaks estates to his son Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton; (d) fact that the 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne died 12 Jan. 1851; (e) recites indenture dated 28 Apr. 1851; (f) recites mortgage dated 9 Aug. 1851; (g) recites agreement for conveyance from Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton to the 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne of the Worksop Manor and Shireoaks estates aforesaid dated 8 Dec. 1851; (h) fact that no conveyance was executed; (i) will of 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne dated 21 Jul. 1856; (j) fact that the 5th Duke made a codicil to his will dated 17 Jan. 1859 which appointed (2) to be trustees during the life of (3); (k) fact that the 5th Duke made a further codicil dated 1 Apr. 1864; (l) fact that the 5th Duke died 18 Oct. 1864; (m) recites indenture dated 18 Jun. 1866; (n) fact that 6th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne made his will dated 25 Nov. 1875; (o) fact that the 6th Duke died 22 Feb. 1879; (p) fact that the 6th Duke left a son [the 7th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne]; (q) fact that (4) has agreed to purchase the property in question under The Midland Railway Act 1865 for the price of £868 and 15 shillings; (r) fact that £90,000 is still owing on mortgage; fact that a trustee died 30 Nov. 1879; (s) fact that (1) has agreed to the sale.
Includes a plan with the property in question shaded pink; note that the largest area of land conveyed is in the hamlet of Haggonfields in the parish of Worksop. |