BIB_ID
294896
Accession number
MA 1475.17
Creator
Leicester, Robert Sidney, Earl of, 1595-1677.
Display Date
[1671 Nov. 16].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 30.7 cm
Notes
Docketed "Coppyof ye [Lord] Leycesters disposall of ye Lady Isabella's portion. November 16th 1671."
Lady Isabella Sidney married Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford, in 1656. She died in 1663.
Part of a collection of 17 documents relating to the Sidney family. Items are individually cataloged in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
Lady Isabella Sidney married Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford, in 1656. She died in 1663.
Part of a collection of 17 documents relating to the Sidney family. Items are individually cataloged in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
Provenance
Percy Clinton Sidney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford and Baron Penhurst (bound with doublures bearing his arms in 1837 or later); by descent to his granddaughter Mrs. P.M. Russell (Philippa Augusta Maria Baillie Russell), and sold by her (London, Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 533) to Quaritch; purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Summary
Copy of Leicester's disposal of his daughter Lady Isabella's marriage portion. Authorizing the Earl's various properties "to bee Subject [and] lyable vnto such Provisoes Reservac[i]ons charges [and] clauses" as are necessary to pay off his "Debts [and] Such legacies [and] Guiffts [and] other appointm[en]ts as by his Will dated [th]e 22th of July in [th]e 18th yeare of K. Charles [th]e 1st." Recalling specifically the bequests in his will of £3,000 a piece as "marriage porc[i]on" to his daughters, "to bee raysed Levyed [and] paid out of the Rents issues [and] profitts" of the premises, in light of the non-payment of the sum to the Lady Isabella after her recent marriage to Phillip, Viscount of Strangford, and the birth of a child from the union (who apparently did not survive). Declaring that Lady Isabella (and the Lord Strangford) will receive only £2,000 from the Earl's trustees, while the Earl's other daughter is to receive £1,000 from the trustees.
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