Powis Estates

Copy of Disentailing Deed (photocopy). (1) Rt. Hon. Edward Herbert, Earl of Powis.

(2) Rt. Hon. Edward James Herbert, Lord Viscount Clive,eldest son and heir apparent of (1).

(3) Henry Clive, late of Lincolns Inn, co. Middlesex, now of Wokingham, co. Berkshire, esq., Lawrence Sulivan of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, co. Middlesex, esq.

(4) Joseph Newill of Lydbury North, co. Salop, gent.

Powis estates.

Consideration: 10s. paid to each of (1) - (3) by (4).

By his will, proved 19 Mar. 1801, George Edward Henry Arthur, then late Earl of Powis, devised estates including his manors or lordships of Oswestry, Duparts and Trayan, the Rectory of Oswestry and advowson of the Vicarage, to trustees, on trust to sell all or part to pay off mortgages, debts, legacies, and invest any surplus monies in purchase of freehold estates in co. Montgomery as near as possible to Powis Castle; to stand seised of all other estates and any estates not needed to be sold, for ten years to uses as directed, such estates after ten years to be conveyed to trustees to uses as expressed. By deed of settlement (lease and release) 19, 20 Aug. 1814, estates of the late George Edward Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis, including the Hundred of Oswestry, the manor and castle of Oswestry, the manors or lordships of Duparts and Trayan, the Rectory and Church of Oswestry and all other estates in Oswestry were conveyed to trustees, for 100 years from 17 Jan. 1811, to uses specified. (1), then Edward, Viscount Clive, married Rt. Hon. Lady Lucy Graham, 3rd daughter of the Duke of Montrose, by whom he had one son Edward James (2), born 5 Nov. 1818. (1), having opportunity to purchase estates near to the settled estates, desired that estates as yet unsold, including parts of Oswestry, should be sold and the monies used for their purchase, but this could not be done without an Act of Parliament, which was duly obtained (1 Geo. IV c.20) and some estates were then sold. In order to defeat all estates tail of (2), unsold parts are now conveyed by trustees (3) at request of (1) and (2), and released by (1) and (2) to (4) to uses specified.

Purchased from the National Library of Wales in 1988.