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Conveyance of mortgage securities into a trust for the benefit of creditors of Sir Edward Turnor : manuscript
Title
Conveyance of mortgage securities into a trust for the benefit of creditors of Sir Edward Turnor : manuscript, 1697 October 19.
Production
[London?, England] ; 1697.
Physical Description
1 item (6 sheets) : parchment, ink ; 75 x 81 cm or smaller.
Language
English
Local Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare Flat 22-0003 copy purchased from Samuel Gedge Ltd in January, 2022.
Hicks classification: MssF T8525 no.1 flat.
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare Flat 22-0003 copy folded to 28 x 29 cm.
Notes
Title and bibliographic description is partially based on the information sheet provided by the bookseller (Samuel Gedge Ltd).
Includes docket title.
Manuscript indentures in ink in English; text within red ruled borders on all sheets.
Date from the first sentence in the largest sheet: "This indenture of nine parts made the nineteenth day of October, Anno Domini 1697."
Indenture documents bear a six pence revenue tax stamp.
The largest indenture has a wayv top edge.
Manuscript indenture consisting of six joined sheets of vellum, laced and held together by the largest parchment (75 x 81 cm), bearing a calligraphic heading "This indenture of nine parts ..." signed at foot by the creditors Christopher Cratford, Dame Jane Lethieullier, Dame Margaret Gostlin, James Ward, Robert Adams, Henry Hunter, Edward Herrys, Samuel Biscop, clerk to Robert Raworth, Leonard Pead, and Daniel Alford, with 11 velum tags at foot (each bearing red wax impression of the signatories' armorial fob), verso of outermost sheet bearing signatures of witnesses George Webb, Joseph Moyle, Thomas Shipman, William Brockett, John Adams, Richard Hutchinson, John Kente, John Osbourne.
Biographical / Historical Note
Sir Edward Turnor (1643-1721) (in some sources the birth year is 1642), the eldest son of Sir Edward Turnor (1616-1676), judge and speaker of the House of Commons, was born at Little Parndon, Essex. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1661 and called to the bar in 1672. Sir Edward was a high-Anglican tory and got involved in party politics in 1690s. His political aspirations eventually caused him confrontation and excessive expenses. Sir Edward asserted his claim on a lease of three lighthouses at Winterton Ness, Norfolk and Orford Ness, Suffolk. The rights for the lease for the lighthouses were originally granted to his father and grandfather. In later years, he used the patronage of Orford Ness, Suffolk, to seek election and was elected to the English Parliament two different times. Allegations of negligence regarding the maintenance of the lighthouses brought Sir Edward into a conflict with the Trintiy House (a lighthouse authority), leading to an expensive litigation. Sir Edward also spent money and energy battling family matters, involving his son Charles (d. 1726) and daughter Sarah Gee, both of whom he had excluded from his will.
Summary
A complex indenture on six sheets dated October 16, 1697, conveying mortgage securities into a trust to benefit the creditors of Sir Edward Turnor. Some of the creditors were prominent London merchants. Indenture documents also include detailed history regarding the operation of the lighthouses at Winterton Ness and Orford Ness in Norfolk and Suffolk, which were granted to his father Sir Edward Turnor (1616-1676) and his grandfather.
Variant and related titles
Docket title: Mr. Cratford's conveyance of Sir Edward Turnor's securities to Mr. Raworth and Alford.
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Archives or Manuscripts
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August 24, 2022
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