Hampton Lucy, Clopton Bridgetown

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Copy of an Act for vacating a term of 100 years in the settlement dated 12th December 1732 made by Sir Hugh Clopton knight and for creating a new term of 1000 years in lieu thereof for the purposes therein mentioned. Reciting DR 38/1173 and DR 38/1174 and that there was no means of discharging the debts of Sir Hugh Clopton amounting to £3320-14-0 but by mortgaging or selling the premises comprised in the term of 100 years and that the said Sir Hugh Clopton, Henry Talbott, Katherine his wife, Thomas Boothby Skrymsher and Ann his wife were willing that some part of the estate should be mortgaged or sold in order to discharge the said debts of Sir Hugh Clopton, it was thereby enacted that, upon the petition of the said Sir Hugh Clopton, Henry Talbott and Katherine his wife, Thomas Boothby Skrymsher and Ann his wife, the hereditaments limited by the Indenture of 12th December 1732 (DR 38/1173) should from the 1st May 1741 be vested in Sir Charles Mordaunt of Walton baronet and Newsham Pears of Alveston esquire for a term of 1000 years upon trust to discharge the said debts of Sir Hugh Clopton (subject to the term of 99 years) and after the determination of the term of 1000 years by discharge of the said debts to the use of Sir Hugh Clopton for life with Power of Appointment to any wife he might marry, remainder upon the trusts expressed in the settlement and deed of appointment except the term of 100 years which was declared void subject nevertheless and without prejudice to the annuity of £16.