1755 SEALED AND DELIVERED 1755

This Indenture Quadrupartite  made the Eighth           day of July  in the

Twenty Ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of

God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc., And in the year of our Lord One

Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Five Between John Hammond of Petistree in the County of Suffolk

Gentleman and William Whimper of Karsgrave in the said County of Suffolk Gentleman Executors of the

Last Will and Testament of Richard Frost late of Woodbridge in the said County of Suffolk Gentleman deceased

of the First part John Carter of Beccles in the County of Suffolk Clerk and Sarah his wife and Denny Crabb of

Salisbury Court Fleet Street London Surgeon and Lucy his wife which said Sarah and Lucy are Daughters of Richard Frost

deceased who was the only son of the said Testator Richard Frost of the second part John Marsh of Bromswell

#####      In the said County of Suffolk Husbandman John Call of Antido in the County of Southampton  Exciseman William Cooke of

Woodbridge in the said County  of Suffolk Mariner – Cornelius Collins of Ipswich in the said County Schoolmaster

and Mary his wife and Nicholas Bacon of Ipswich aforesaid Corker ####### and Elizabeth his wife which

said John Marsh and John Call are Nephews of the said Testator Richard Frost and which said William Cooke Mary the

Wife of the said Cornelius Collins and the said Elizabeth the wife of the said Nicholas Bacon are all the Children of the said

Testator Richard Frosts Nephew of William Cook of the third part and Richard Andrews of Woodbridge aforesaid Surgeon and

William Walford of Woodbridge aforesaid Ironmonger      of the Fourth part Whereas the said Testator Richard Frost

the Elder in and by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date on or about the Seventeenth Day of December which

was in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty One Did Give Devise and Bequeath. All  his Messuages

Lands Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever as well Freehold as Copyhold Together with all his personal Estate to his

Executors and to their Heirs and Assigns upon the several Trusts and to the Intents and purposes therein and hereinafter

mentioned that is to say, In the first place to pay all his Debts Legacies and Funeral Expences and afterwards to pay to his Wife

Deborah Frost One Annunity or yearly Sum of Forty Pounds for her Life and Seven Shillings a week to his said Son Richard Frost for

so long as he should live And also to pay several Legacies therein mentioned And the said Testators Will and Mind was that all his

Personal Estate should as soon as conveniently might be after his Decease be laid out by his Executors or the Survivor of them or

the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor of them in the purchase of Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be limitted

to the same Uses and Trusts as his Real Estates are thereby appointed to be setled and that during the Life of his said Son his

Executors and Trustees should pay and apply so much of the Rents and profits of his Real Estate and such Lands as should be

Purchased by his personal Estate as also of the Interest and produce of his personal Estate untill the same should be Invested in

Lands after payment of the aforesaid Annuitys and Legacies for the Maintenance and Education of all and every the Children of

his said Son in such manner and proportion as they should think fit not exceeding fourteen Pounds a year to and for any such

child and the residue of such rents and profits of his Real Estate and Interest and produce of his Personal Estate during his

Said Son’s Life should be also laid out in the Purchase of more Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be settled to the same uses

as his other Lands are thereby appointed And the said Testator Did Will and Appoint that immediately, after the decease of his

Said son his Executors and Trustees and the Survivor of them and thei Heirs and Representative of such Survivor should convey

Settle and Assure all his then present Real Estate and such as should be purchased by his personal Estate Subject and Chargeable

with the Annunitys and sums of Money To and upon all and every the younger Son and Sons of his said Son which should be

then living in equal parts and shares to and amongst such Younger Son and Sons To Hold the same for the respective Life and

Lives of every such Younger Son and Sons with remainder to Trustees to support and preserve the remainder of such Estate to the

Issue Male of the Body and Bodys of such younger Son and Sons respectively the Elder of such Issue Male to be preferred and

take before the younger of them And  for want of such Issue To the Issue Female of his and their Body and Bodys respectively And

For want of such Issue To the Surviving younger Brother and Brothers if such younger Son and Sons in equal parts and shared

To be divided amongst them To Hold to such Surviving younger Brother and Brothers for his and their respective Life and Lives

Respectively Remainder to the Issue Male of such Surviving Brother and Brother respectively the Elder of which Issue Male to

take before the younger And for want of Issue – To the Issue Female of his and their Body and Bodys respectively and for want such

 

Outside

Sealed and Dellivered by the within names William

Whimper John Carter Sarah Carter his wife

And William Walford   In the presence of

Jas Tye

 

Sealed and Delivered by the within named

John Hammond Denny Crabb and Lucy Crabb

(being first Legally Stampt?) in the person of

John Poole

B.W.Sherman

 

8^th July 1755

John Hammond Wm Whimper the Rev[eren]d John

Carter & others   To – Rich[ard] Andrews

W[illia]m Watford Deed of Conveyance of

???? Frosts Estate = under a Decree in the

Exchequer

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Issue   To all and every the Daughter and Daughters of his said Son which should be living at the time of his decease equally

to be divided amongst them Share and Share alike To hold to all and every such Daughter and Daughters for her and their Life and

Lives respectively with Trustees to preserve the Remainder to the Issue Male of the Body and  Bodys of such Daughter and Daughters

respectively The Elder of which Issue Male to take before the younger and for want of such Issue To her and their respective Issue

Female and for want of such Issue To the Surviving Daughter and Daughters of his son in equal parts and shares to be

divided amongst them To Hold to such Surviving Daughter and Daughters respectively for her and their Life and Lives on

Remainder To the Issue Male of such Surviving Daughter and Daughters respectively the Elder of which Issue Male to take

before the younger And for want of such Issue to the Issue Female of her and their Body and Bodys respectively And for want of

such Issue To the Eldest son of his said Son Richard for his life with Trustees to preserve Remainder To the Issue Male of his

Body the Eldest of which Issue Male to take before the younger And for want of such Issue To the Issue Female of such Elder Son

And if it shall happen that at the time of his the Testators decease there should be no younger Son or Sons of him then living

and there should be One or more Daughter or Daughters of his said Son then living In such case the said Testator did Will

that his Executors and Trustees should convey his said Real Estate to such Daughter and Daughters and their Issue with

Remainder over for want of such Issue in manner as is above limitted to Daughters or if at his said Sons Death there should

be neither younger Son or Daughter of his said Son then living nor any Issue of his her or their Body and Bodys He willed in such

Case that his Estate should be conveyed by his Trustees to the Eldest Son of his said Son Richard and to his Issue in like manner as

above limitted to such Eldest Son And if any of the Children of his said Son should Dye in the lifetime of the Father leaving no

lawfull Issue of his her or their Body or Bodys his Will and Mind was that the Issue of him or her so dying should have and take

such part and share of his said Real Estate as the Father or Mother of such Issue would have been Intitled unto if living by Virtue

of any Limitations above mentioned and for want of such Issue of the Body of his said Son and Grand Children and of every of any of them

he willed that the remainder of all his said Estates should be limited to his Nephews John Marsh John Caue and the children of his

late Nephew William Cooke and their Heis equally to be divided between them To Hold in severalty to them and their Heirs as

Tenants in Comon and not as Joint Tenants And did thereby Nominate and Appoint Philip Coleman of Ipswich Esquire and the

said John Hammond to be the Executors of his said Will AND WHEREAS the said Testator Richard Frost in and by a Codicil to his

said Will bearing date the sixteenth Day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty One instead of the

said Philip Coleman appointed the said William Whimper to be Executor of his said Will with the said John Hammond as by the said

recited Will and Codicil relation being thereunto had may more at large appear AND WHEREAS the said Testator Richard Frost

afterwards departed this Life and the said John Hammond and William Whimper duly proved his said Will in the proper Ecclesiastical

Court AND WHEREAS the said Testator Richard Frost was at well as the time of making his said Will as at the time of his death Seized

of the several Freehold Messuages Farms Lands Tenements and Hereditaments herein after Released and also dyed possessed of a

considerable personal Estate AND WHEREAS the said Testators Wife Deborah Frost since Dead and the said Testators Son

Richard Frost departed this life and or about the Twenty third day of August which was in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven

hundred and Fifty two leaving his said Two Daughters Sarah Frost and Lucy Frost and no other Issue AND WHEREAS the said Mary

Collins the wife of the said Cornelius Collins the said William Cooke and the said Elizabeth Bacon the wife of thesaid Nicholas Bacon

where all  the Children of the said Testators Nephew William Cooke living and the said John Marsh and John Call are the Testators

Nephews AND WHEREAS all the said Testators Debts Legacies and Funeral Expences are paid AND WHEREAS in and by a Decree

Or Decretal order of his Majesties Court of Exchequer at Westminster bearing Date the Ninth day of November One Thousand

Seven Hundred and fifty three made in a cause wherein the said Sarah Frost and Lucy Frost are plaintiffs and the said John Hammond

William Whimper John Marsh John Caul Cornalius Collins and Mary his wife William Cooke and Nicholas Bacon and Elizabeth

His wife are Defendants It was  (amongst other things) Ordered and Decreed  that the Real Estate of the said Testator and the Estates to

Be purchased as aforesaid should be conveyed to the said Sarah Frost and Lucy Frost for her  Life as Tenants in Common with Cross and

Other Remainders according to the Will of the said Testator as in and by the said recited Decree or Decretal Order relation being thereunto

Had may more fully and at large appear AND WHEREAS no purchase hath been yet made of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments

Pursuant to the Directions of the said Testators will AND WHEREAS the said Denny Crabb intermarried with             the said

 

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LUCY FROST and afterwards the said John Carter Intermarryed with the said Sarah Frost   NOW this

Indenture Witnesseth that in pursuance of the said recited Will and in Obedience to the said Decree or Decretal Order And for and

in consideration of the sum  of Five shillings a piece of lawfull money of Great Britain to then the said John Hammond and

William Whimper  in Hand well and truly paid by the said Richard Andrews and William Walford at or before the Sealing

and Delivery of these presents the Receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged They the said John Hammond and William

Whimper Have and each of them Hath Bargained Sold Released and Confirmed and by these presents DO and each of them Doth

Bargain Sell Release and Confirm unto the said Richard Andrews and William Walford in their actual possession now

being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to them ?????  thereof made for Five Shillings Consideration by Indenture bearing date     ?

the day next before the day of the date of these presents and made between the said John Hammond and William Whimper

of the one part and the said Richard Andrews and William Walford of the other part for One  whole year communicating from

the day next before the day of the date of the same Indenture or Bargain and Sale and by force of the Statute for Transferring of

uses Unto possession and to their Heirs All that Messuage Tenement and Farm with the Lands and Grounds thereunto

belonging or therewith held or enjoyed situate and being in Earls Stonham in the said County of Suffolk now or late in the

Tenure or Occupation of    x x x x x x           Frost Widow  her undertenants or Assigns at or under the yearly Rent of Forty

Four pounds And also all that Messuage Tenements and Farm with the Lands and Ground thereunto belonging or therewith

held or Enjoyed situate and being in Waldring Field in the said County of Suffolk now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of

George Cooke his undertenants or Assigns at and under the Yearly Rent of Twenty four pounds  And also all that Messuage

Tenement and Farm with the Lands and Grounds thereunto belonging or therewith held or enjoyed situate and being in

Karsgrave in the said County of Suffolk now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Mary Doughty her undertenants or

Assigns at or under the yearly Rent of Seventy Three Pounds Ten Shillings And also all that Ozier Ground or Ground planted

with osiers situate and being in Swffling in the said County of Suffolk now or late in the tenure or occupation of

at or under the yearly Rent of Four pounds and Ten Shillings (Except and always reserved out of these presents

and the Conveyance hereby made such part of the said Messuages Tenements Farms Lands Hereditaments and Premises

As are copyhold or Customary and had by Copy of Court Roll of any Manor or Manors whatsoever And all Houses outhouses

Edifices Buildings Barns Stables Gardens Yards Orchards Ways Paths Passages Commons Common of Pasture Timber Trees and other

Trees Woods Underwoods Hedges Ditches Fences Priviledges Profits Commodities Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the

said several Messuages Farms Lands and Premisses or any of them belonging or in any wise appertaining or accepted reputed had

taken or known as part parcel or member thereof and the Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues

and profits of the premisses hereby Released or mentioned or intended so to be and of every part thereof And all the Estate Right

Title Interest use Trust Property Claim and Demand whatsoever both in Law and Equity  of them the said John Hammond

and William Whimper and each or either of them of in and to or out of the same premises and every or any part or

Parcel thereof TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Messuage Tenements Farms Lands and all and singular other the

Premises hereby Released or mentioned or intended so to be with their and every of their Appurtenances unto the said

Richard Andrews and William Walford  their Heirs and Assignes To the several uses and upon the several Trusts hereinafter

limitted expressed and declared of or concerning the same (that is to say) As to One undivided Moiety or half part thereof the

whole in two equal parts go be divided To the use and behoof of the said Sarah Carter and her Assigns for and during the Term

of her natural Life and from and after the Determination of that Estate To the use and behoofe of the said Richard Andrews and

William Walford and their Heirs during the natural life of the said Sarah Carter In Trust to preserve the Contingent Remainders

thereof hereinafter Limitted from being defeated or destroyed and for that purpose to make Entrys and being Actions as occasion

shall require but nevertheless to permit and suffer the said Sarah Carter and her Assigns to receive and take the Rents Issues

and profits thereof to her and their own use and benefit during her natural life and from and after her Decease To the use and

behoof of the first son of the Body of the said Sarah Carter lawfully begotten or to be begotten and the Heirs Male of the

Body of such first son lawfully Issuing And for Default of such Issue To the use and behoof of the Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth

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AND all and every other son and sons of the Body of the said Sarah Carter lawfully begotten or to be begotten severally

successively and respectively one after another in Order and Course as they and every of them shall be in Seniority of Age and

Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs Male of the several and respective Body and Bodys of all and every

such Son and Sons lawfully Issuing the Elder of such Sons and the Heirs Male of his Body Issuing being  always preferred

and to take before the younger of such Sons and the Heirs Male of his and their Body and Bodys Issuing And for default of

such Issue To the use and behoof of all the Daughters of the Body of the said Sarah Carter lawfully to be begotten to take as

Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Female of their Bodies lawfully Issuing and for Default of such issue

of any such Daughters  As to her and their share and shares of the said Moiety To the use and behoof of the others of them

to take as Tenants in Comon and not as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Female of their Bodys lawfully Issuing And in case all

such Daughters but one dye without such Issue or there shall be but one such Daughter Then as to the said Moiety To the

use of such only Daughter and the Heirs Female of her Body And for default of such Issue To the use and behoof of the said Lucy

Crabb and her Assigns for and during the term of her natural Life and from and after the Determination of that Estate To the use and

behoof of the said Richard Andrews and William Walford and their Heirs during the natural life of the said Lucy Crabb

In Trust to preserve the Contingent Remainders thereof hereinafter limited from being Defeated and Destroyed and for that purpose

to make Entrys and bring Actions as Occasion shall require But nevertheless to permit and suffer the said Lucy Crabb and her

Assigns to receive and take the Rents Issues and Profitts thereof to her and their own use and benefit during her natural Life

and from and after her Decease To the use and behoof of  the first Son of the Body of the said Lucy Crabb lawfully begotten or to

be begotten and the Heirs Male of the Body of such first Son lawfully Issuing and for default of such Issue To the use and behoof

of the Second Third fourth fifth Sixth and all and every other Son and Sons of the Body of the said Lucy Crabb lawfully begotten

or to be begotten severally successively and respectively One after another in order and course as they and every of them shall be

in Seniority of Age and Priority of Birth and the several and respective Heirs Male of the several and respective Body and

Bodys of all and every Such Son and Sons lawfully Issuing The Elder of such Son and the Heirs Male of his Body Issuing being

always preferred and to take before the younger of such Sons and the Heirs Male of his and their Body and Bodys Issuing

And for default of such Issue tTo the use and behoof of all the Daughters of the Body of the said Lucy Crabb lawfully begotten or

to be begotten to take as Tenants in Comon and not as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Female of their bodys lawfully Issuing

And for Default of such Issue of any of the same Daughters Then as to her and their Share and Shares of the said Moiety To the use

and behoof of the others of them to take as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants  and the Heirs Female of their Bodies

lawfully Issuing And if all such Daughters but One shall Dye without such Issue or therere shall be but one such Daughter

Then as to the said Moiety To the use and behoof of such only Daughter the Heirs Female of her Body lawfully Issuing and for

Default of such Issue To the use and behoofe of the said John Marsh, John Cav? Mary Collins William CooKe and Elizabeth      ??

Bacon and their Heirs to take as Tenants in Comon and not as Joint Tenants and to or for no other use Intent or Purpose

whatsoever And as to for and concerning the other Undivided Moiety or half part of the said Messuages Tenements Farms

Lands Hereditaments and Premisses hereby Released or mentioned or intended so to be  with their and every of that Appurtences

To the use and behoof of the said Lucy Crabb and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural Life and  from and after

the Determination of that Estate To the use and behoof of the said Richard Andrews and William Walford and their Heirs

during the natural life of the said Lucy crabb In Trust to preserve the contingent Remainders thereof hereinafter limitted

from being Defeated or Destroyed and for that purpose to make Entrys and bring Actions as occasion shall require but nevertheless

to permit and suffer the said Lucy Crabb and her Assigns to receive and take the Rents Issued and profits thereof to her and their

own use and benefit during her natural Life and from and after her decease To the use and behoof of the First Son of the Body

of the said Lucy Crabb lawfully begotten or to be begotten and the Heirs Male of the Body of such first Son lawfully Issuing

and for default of such Issue To the use and behoof of the Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth and all and every other Son and Sons of

the Body of the said Lucy Crabb lawfully begotten or to be begotten severally successively and respectively One after another

in Order and Course as they and every of them shall be in Seniority of Age and priority of Birth and the several and

 

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Respective Heirs Male of the several and respective Body and Bodys of all and every such Son and

Sons lawfully Issuing the Elder of such Sons and the Heirs Male of his Body Issuing being always preferred and to take before

the younger of such Sons and the Heirs Male of his and their Body and Bodys Issuing and for Default of such Issue To the

use and behoof of all the Daughters of the Body of the said Lucy Crabb lawfully begotten or to be begotten to take as Tenants in

Comon and not as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Female of their Bodys lawfully Issuing and for default of such Issue of any of the

Said Daughters as to her or their Share or Shares of the same Moiety To the use and behoof of the others of them to take as Tenants

in Common and not as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Female of their Bodys lawfully Issuing And if all such Daughters but one

shall Dye without such Issue or there shall be but One such Daughter Then as to the same Moiety To the use

and behoof of such only Daughter and the Heirs Female of her Body lawfully Issuing And for Default of such

Issue To the use and behoof of the said Sarah Carter and her Assignes for and during the Term of her natural Life

And from and after the Determination of that Estate To the use and behoof of the said Richard Andrews and

William Walford and their Heirs during the natural life of the said Sarah Carter In Trust to preserve the Contingent

Remainders thereof hereinafter Limited from being Defeated or Destroyed and for that purpose to make Entrys and

bring Actions as Occasion shall require but nevertheless to permit and suffer the said Sarah Carter and her

Assignes to receive and take the Rents Issues and Profitts thereof to her and their own use and benefit during her

natural Life and from and after her Decease To the use and behoof of the first son of the Body of the said Sarah

Carter lawfully begotten or to be begotten and the Heirs Male of the Body of such first son lawfully Issuing and for

default  of such Issue To the use and behoof of the Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth and all and  every other Son and

Sons  of the Body of the said Sarah Carter lawfully begotten or to be begotten severally successively and respectively

One after another in Order and Course as they and every of them shall be in Seniority of age and priority of Birth

and the several and respective Heirs Male of the several and respective Body and Bodys of all and every such son

and Sons lawfully Issuing the Elder of such sons and the Heirs Male of his Body Issuing being always preferred and

to take before the younger of such Sons and the Heirs Male of his and their Body  & Bodys Issuing And

for Default of such Issue To the use and behoof of all the Daughters of the Body of the said Sarah Carter

lawfully begotten or to be begotten to take as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Female of

their bodys lawfully Issuing and for default of such Issue of any of the same Daughters as to her and their Share

and Shares of the same Moiety To the use and behoof of the others of them to take as Tenants in Common and not

as Joint Tenants and the Heirs Females of their Bodys lawfully Issuing and if all such Daughters but one shall Dye

without such Issue or there shall be but one such Daughter then as to the same Moiety To the use and behoof of such

only Daughter and the Heirs Female of her Body lawfully Issuing And for default of such issue To the use and

behoof of the said John Marsh John Cave? Mary Collins William Cook and Elizabeth Bacon their Heirs and Assigns to       ???

take as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants and to and for no other use Intent or purpose whatsoever

AND the said John Hammond and William Whimper for themselves severally and not jointly not the one of them

for the other of them or for the Act or Deed of the other of them but each for himself and his own Heirs Executors and

Administrators Act and Deeds Do Covenant promise and agree to and with the said Richard Andrews and William

Walford their Heirs and Assigns by these present That they the said John Hammond and William Whimper respectively

have not at any time or times heretofore made done remitted or wittingly or willingly suffered any Act Matter or

Thing whatsoever whereby or by reason or means whereof the said Messuages Tenements Farms Lands & Hereditaments

and Premisses hereby released or mentioned or intended so to be or any of them or any part or parcel thereof are is shall

or may be Impeached or Incumbered in Title Charge Estate or otherwise  howsoever  IN WITNESS whereof the said

parties to these presents have hereunto Interchangeably sett their Hands and Seals the day and year first

Above written

John Hammond   John Carter    Denny Crabb

 

Wm Whimper      Sarah Carter   Lucy Crabb     Wm Walford

 

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