Location: Bristol, England
Surnames/tags: Symonds Hunt Plomley
Case of law between Richard Symons of Upper Langford and Judith Hunt of Bristol regarding part of the legacy of Mary Plomley of Locking (Judith’s mother in law)
Key | National Archive Catalogue Entry |
Date | 1693 |
Short Title | Symonds v Hunt. |
Subject | personal estate of Mary Plomley, widow, Locking, Somerset. |
Plaintiffs | Richard Symonds. |
Defendants | Judith Hunt, widow. |
Document type | bill only |
Reference | C 8/355/108[1] |
Image transcribed from a copy of the original by Andrew Sansum on 2 July 2023
Dated 13 July 1693 Bristol
To Right honerable john Sommers? Kinight lord keeper of the great seal of England
Humbly complaining … Your Orator Richard Symonds of Churchill in the County of Somerset Gent.
Whereas Mary the late wife of William Plomley late of Locking in the County of Somerset Gent was before her intermarriage with her said husband possessed and interposed? Of and in a state to a very great value and being so possessed and by his consent did by some deed or or Writing assume? and —- or of his wife disposed in the hands of Michael Hunt late of the city of Bristol diverse sums of money and other goods and chattels and surrities for money to the intent the same might be paid disposed and applied to such Porton or Portons and for such uses as she alone should direct and appoint for which a power was reserved to her by the —- and —- of her said husband and pursuant to and by virtue of such power the said Mary Plomley in the presence of several credible witnesses did make and publish a writing? Under her hand and seal bearing date on or about the fourteenth day of October in the four and twentieth year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord King Charles the Second over England and by such writing did amongst other things appoint the sum of four hundred Pounds of lawful English Money to be paid to Eight of the Eldest of her grand children being the children of her Daughter Sarah then Wife of you Orator equally amongst them to witt fifty pounds a peece at their respective ages of twenty and one years and the said Mary Plomley did by her said writing further appoint that the yearly interest and increase of the said four hundred Pounds until the respective times Payment thereof to her said grandchildren as aforesaid should be put together and placed out for the benefit and advantage of the other children of her said daughter Symonds which should be —- then the said —- and to be divided equally amongst them share and share like at their respective ages of twenty and one years —- six pounds per —- part thereof which she thereby appointed should be yearly paid to her daughter Symonds own hands And if any of the said —- grandchildren should dye before ther respective ages of Twenty and one years then the same appointed to him her or them soe dying to be paid to the survivor and survivors of her said eight eldest grandchildren equally amongst them share and share alike as by the said writing had your Orator the same to produce right fully appear and your Orator further showeth that at the time of the writing and publishing the said writing by the said Mary Plomley Sarah her said Daughter had then living by your Orator her husband nine Children viz Martha Joseph Michaell Sarah Elizabeth Christian Richard xxxxx and Mary her eight eldest children and also Judith her ninth and youngest child who all lived till the death of the said Mary Plomley who died on or about the twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred and seventy and eight And your Orator further showeth unto your Lordship? that the said Children of your Orator and the said Sarah attained their several and respective ages of one and twenty years at the several dayes herein after expressed? that is to say ….
He then lists the dates of some of his children achieving their respective ages of 21
- Martha 6 July 1680 (Born 6 July 1559)
- Joseph 17 April 1682
- Michaell 26 December 1683
- Sarah 1685
- Elizabeth 1688
- Richard and Mary both 21 at the death of the said Mary Plomley
Subsequently describes how after the death of Michael Hunt his wife Judith became executrice of her husband’s Will.
Research Notes
Part of an interlinked series of cases amongst the extended Hunt Families of Somerset and Bristol.
Litigation - Legacy of Mary Plomley and son Michael Hunt
Sources
- ↑ "Short title: Symonds v Hunt. Plaintiffs: Richard Symonds. Defendants: Judith Hunt,... ”,The British National Archive, C 8/355/108 ,1693, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5460557 , (accessed 1 July 2023)
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