prior to their
marriage on 17th July 1683
This indenture made the ninth day of
July in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of our Dear Sovereign Lord Charles
the Second by the grace of God of England, Scotland and France and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, Annoys Dio, One Thousand, Six hundred and Eighty
Three
Between Richard Collett of Lower
Slaughter in the County of Gloucester, yeoman and John Collett the son and heir
apparent of the said Richard of the one part, and Henry Green of Lower
Slaughter aforesaid, yeoman and Jeremiah Green clothier and Elizabeth Green
spinster, brother and sister of the said Henry Green of the other part
Witnesseth that the said Richard
Collett and John Collett as well for and in consideration of a marriage by
God’s grace and permission to be shortly had and solemnised between the said
John Collett and the said Elizabeth Green and of the great love and affection
he hath for and beareth unto her, and the sum of one hundred and forty pounds
of current English money already had and received or be had and received by the
said John Collett for and to the marriage portion of and with the said
Elizabeth Green and for the settling of the land, tenements and hereditaments
hereafter mentioned on the said John Collett and the said Elizabeth Green his
intended wife and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten and to the said
Elizabeth may be provided with a sufficient livelihood and maintenance in case
she shall happen to survive her said husband and for other goods, causes and
considerations then the said Richard Collett and John Collett thereunto moving
he the said John Collett hath granted interest and confirmed and doth hereby
grant, inform and confirm
And the said Richard Collett doth
hereby grant, release, ratify and confirm unto the said Henry Green and
Jeremiah Green all that messuage or tenement and outyard land with the
appurtenances situate lying and being in Nether Westcote in the said County of
Gloucester heretofore in tenure or occupation of one Simon Marshall since in
the tenure or occupation of one Richard Hathaway and now in possession and occupation of the said John Collett party
to these presents and the said Richard Collett or both or one of them together
with all woods, underwoods, lands, meadows, pastures, ways, water,
watercourses, easements, commons, profits, commodities, advantages,
hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said messuage or tenement and
outyard land and premises or any part thereof belonging or in any wise
appertaining or therewithal usually letten, occupied or enjoyed or at any time
reputed or taken as part parcel or member thereof and of every part thereof and
all the Estate Tythe Interest claim and demand whatsoever of the said Richard
Collett and John Collett and either of them into and out of all and singular
the said premises all and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenanced,
all which said premises and situate lying and being within the parish of
Westcote aforesaid and within the field premises and territories thereto
To have and to hold the said messuage
or tenement, yard, lands and all and singular other the premises before
mentioned to be granted enforced and confirmed or meant, mentioned and intended
to be hereby granted enforced and confirmed with their and every of their right
members and appurtenances unto them the said Henry Green and Jeremiah Green
their heirs and assigns forever in trust
Nevertheless and to and for the
several uses, intents and purposes hereafter in these presents mentioned,
expressed and declared to and for none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever
and that is to say to and for the use and behold of the said John Collett for
and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any
manner of wage and immediately from and after the decease of the said John
Collett in case the said intended marriage shall be effected and the said
Elizabeth Green for and during the term of her natural life and immediately
from and after the several decease of them the said John Collett and Elizabeth
Green his intended wife and the survivor of them then to the use and behold of
the heirs of the said John Collett on the body of the said Elizabeth Green
lawfully begotten and for want of such issue to the use and behold of the right
heirs of the said John Collett forever and to use or otherwise intent or
purpose whatsoever
And the said Richard Collett and John
Collett for themselves, their heirs, executors and administrators and for every
of them do covenant and grant to and with the said Henry Green and Jeremiah
Green their heirs, executors and administrators and every of them by these
presents in manner and form following that is to say that the said messuage or
tenement, yard, lands and all and singular other, the premises before and by
those present granted and confirmed with their and every of their appurtenances
now are said from time to time at all times for ever hereafter shall be remain
and continue unto the said Henry Green and Jeremiah Green their heirs and
assigns to and for the several used intents and purpose aforesaid cleave and
freely and thereby acquitted and discharged or otherwise well and sufficiently
saved from hazard indemnified by the then said Richard Collett and John Collett
their heirs, executors and administrators and assigns or some of them of and
from all manner of former and other gifts, grants, bargains, sales, leases
jointures Elizabeth the now wife of Richard Collett wills, rents, arrears of
rents, entails after limitation of use and uses, statutes merchant and of the
staple judgements, extensions, fines, issues, amerciments, tythes, charges and
incumberance whatsoever made had made, committed or done or to be had made,
committed to be done by them the said Richard Collett and John Collett their or
either of their executors, administrators or assigns or any of them by and
otherwise or purpose whatsoever having or lawfully claiming to have or which shall
have or lawfully claim to have the said granted informed and confirmed premises
or intended to be granted, released and confirmed premises or any part thereof
or any lawful estate, right tythe, interest or demand whatsoever of into or out
of the said premises or any part thereof from by or under them or either of
them or by or through their or either of any of their act or acts dissent,
consent, present or presentment
And the said Richard Collett and John
Collett for themselves, their heirs and all and every other person and persons
claiming or to claim from by or under them or either or any of them shall and
will from time to time and at all times hereafter giving support of seven years
next coming after the date hereof at the request of the said Henry Green and
Jeremiah Green their heirs and assigns and at the debts and charges of them the
said Richard Collett and John Collett and their heirs make do suffer
acknowledge and execute or cause and promise to be made do suffered acknowledge
and executed all and every such further and other lawful and reasonable act and
acts, thing and things, desire and desires, assurances and conveyances in law
whatsoever for the further and furthermore better and perfect assurance and
conveyance surety and give making of the said hereby granted and sealed
informed and confirmed promises with their appurtenances unto the said Henry
Green and Jeremiah Green and their heirs and assigns and for the several
remissions and purposes aforesaid be it by fine reckoning with one or more
another or voucher deed or deeds enrolled or not enrolled with enrolment of
these presents release, confirmed or otherwise with warranty of them the said
Richard Collett and John Collett and their heirs against themselves and their
heirs or without warranty or by any or all or some of these ways or means or by
any other lawful and reasonable ways or means whatsoever as by them the said
Henry Green and Jeremiah Green their heirs and assigns or by their or any of
their counsel learned in the law shall be reasonably advised or devised and
required so as for the making of any such assurance the said Richard Collett
and John Collett now nay other persons to be required to make any such further
assurance be not compelled or compellable by virtue of these presents to travel
farther than the Cities of London or Westminster for the doing thereof
And for as in the same for other
assurance there be comprises not further or greater warranty or warrants then
only against the person or persons for making the same further assurance and
against his and their heirs respectively
And largely it is hereby concluded,
declared and agreed by and between the said parties to these presents that all
and every fine and fines, recovery and recoveries, assurances and conveyances
in the law whatsoever heretofore laid and made, suffered, acknowledged or
executed of the said hereby granted, released, informed and confirmed premises
are of any part parcel thereof by or between the said parties to these present
or any of them all be assigned and shall be deemed taken confirmed and adjudged
to be made for the several uses, intents and purposes aforesaid and to and for
none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever
In
witness whereof the parties first above named to these present indentures their
hands and sealed interchangeably have set the day and year first above written
The two signatures at the foot of the
document were
those of Richard Collett (Ref. 2H22) and
John Collett (Ref. 2I11)