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Maxstoke Priory lordship

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Abstract of mortgage by Hon Thomas Wentworth, Hon George Wentworth, Hon Edward Leigh and Mary his wife to Sir John Cope, of the estates of Maxstoke Priory, Warks., and Nosterfield Priors, Cambs., to secure £8000, due upon balance of £12,000 marriage portion for Hon Ann Leigh secured by settlement of 5 September 1705 following a partition of the estates of Bernard Paulet between his sisters and co-heiresses, Jane Browne and Ann Daniel, mother of Elizabeth Holbech and grandmother of Mary, wife of Edward Leigh. [Original at DR18/10/86/3/8]