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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE Of <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> the Wife of <HI>Charles Stuteville</HI><ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> and of their Five Children.</HEAD>
<P>THat the &s;aid <HI>Charles Stuteville</HI> the 23th. of <HI>June</HI> 1687, Married <HI>Elizabeth</HI> the Daughter of <HI>John Becher</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> his E&s;tate being greatly Incumbred by divers Mortgages, which afterwards became Ve&s;ted in the Lady <HI>Glenham,</HI> who in 1682, brought her Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> for Mr. <HI>Stuteville</HI> to Redeem, or be Fore-clo&s;ed, and he was Decreed Foreclo&s;ed accordingly.</P>
<P>The E&s;tate and Title to the Premi&s;&s;es, is by &s;everal A&s;&s;ignments, become Ve&s;ted in <HI>Gil|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">t Dolben</HI><ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> as Executor of Sr. <HI>William Dolben</HI> Decea&s;ed, the A&s;&s;ign of the &s;aid Lady <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ham.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>July</HI> 1689, <HI>Judith Stuteville</HI> Widow, Mother of the &s;aid <HI>Charles,</HI> preferred her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> in <HI>Chancery</HI> again&s;t him, and obtained a Decree by Con&s;ent for 5800 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> 29 Years Ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">s of her Joynture, and 200 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR><HI>per ann.</HI> for the future, according to her Marriage|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">dement, made by his Father in the Ninth Year of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> 1695. The &s;aid <HI>Judith</HI> A&s;&s;igned all her E&s;tate and Intere&s;t to <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Charles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">er,</HI> to &s;uch U&s;es as by her Will in 1690 was by her declared; of which Will the <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Charles Becher</HI> and <HI>John Bridger,</HI> are Executors in Tru&s;t for the Child or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ldren of her &s;aid Son <HI>Charles</HI> and <HI>Elizabeth</HI> his Wife, Begotten, or to be Begotten.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">me Attorneys contriving his Ruine, he was kept at the Hou&s;e of one of them, who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">red a Conveyance of the E&s;tate to him&s;elf and others, who were to pay Mr. <HI>Dolben;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">here was no Provi&s;ion made for his Wife or Children: And to force him to Execute Deed, <HI>Thomas Stuteville</HI> and his Wife Threatned him, Beat him, and Locked him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ellar, Broke his Arm, and Arre&s;ted him, and &s;ent for a Tip-&s;taff belonging to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> who carried him behind him on Hor&s;e-back into the <HI>Fleet</HI> Rules as a Pri&s;oner, at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">uit of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Stuteville,</HI> although <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Roger Stuteville,</HI> Father of the &s;aid <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> obtained a Warrant of Attorney to confe&s;s a Judgment of 1000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> on the &s;ame <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">ces.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Hillary</HI> Vacation 1697. Mr. <HI>Becher</HI> preferred his Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> again&s;t Mr. <HI>Stuteville</HI> others his Confederates, Mr. <HI>Stuteville</HI> was &s;erved with Proce&s;s, but never appeared <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aid Bill.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> 1698. The Pari&s;h finding Mr. <HI>Stuteville</HI> would neither take care of his Children, nor <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">t that any other per&s;on &s;hould, delivered the Children to Mr. <HI>Becher,</HI> their Grand|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ion in 1697. The &s;ame being occa&s;ioned by tho&s;e per&s;ons (being &s;ix of them Attor|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> and Solicitors, and mo&s;t of them of Kin one to another.)</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Stuteville</HI> preferred his Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> again&s;t <HI>Mr. Dolben,</HI> to Redeem the &s;aid E&s;tate, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ich Bill <HI>Mr. Dolben</HI> pleaded the Foreclo&s;ure by the Lady <HI>Glenham</HI> in 1682. in Barr, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Plea was &s;everal times Argued and Allowed to be a good Plea, and the Bill there|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> was di&s;mi&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Stuteville</HI> in 1697. Conveyed his Equity of Redemption to <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Charles Becher; Dolben</HI> is content to accept of 8000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> due to him: But by rea&s;on <HI>Mr. Stuteville</HI> hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ate in the Premi&s;&s;es, no per&s;on will Purcha&s;e the &s;ame without the Aid of an Act <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">liament, and there being 8000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> due to <HI>Mr. Dolben,</HI> and about 11000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> to <HI>Mr. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">illes</HI> Children, in the whole about 19000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> though the &s;aid E&s;tate will &s;ell but for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> more, if &s;o much. It is de&s;igned that <HI>Mr. Stuteville</HI> may be provided for during <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">te, out of the Intere&s;t of the Money Decreed to his Children. But if the &s;aid Act <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">epending &s;hould not pa&s;s, neither Mr. <HI>Stuteville,</HI> his Wife or Children, can have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">enefit from the &s;aid E&s;tate, but Ruine mu&s;t inevitably befall the whole Family.</P>
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<P>THE CASE Of <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> the Wife of <HI>Charles Stuteville</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> and of their Five Children.</P>
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