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1760 Will - 2 little words
« on: Thursday 06 December 07 00:02 GMT (UK) »
Please could anyone help with these two words I am unable to decipher ? I'm sure once I am told I will wonder why I couldn't read them  ::)

Sentence reads............. share of my Estate unless he shall first bring the said one thousand into  ?  ? , it being my will........

Seems Thomas Mason had a recalcitrant son - these two words are in  one other place in the Will but all I can see is Hotch pot or something similar  - please put me out of my misery  ::)

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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 06 December 07 01:35 GMT (UK) »
My guess is it would be "scotch pot" but it doesnt make sense. I've googled the word but not much came of it except as a vessel for distilling whiskey. Is the Will from a Scottish descendant? Were they distillers? :-\
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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 06 December 07 01:53 GMT (UK) »
Hello Cybermouse

Thanks for your help.  No, Thomas Mason was a  Weaver in London .........

A right puzzle this one  ???



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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 06 December 07 02:32 GMT (UK) »
I don't see why it couldn't be "Hotch pot" like you thought (though there's no capital "h" to compare it with). Take a look at Wikipedia's definition of the term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotch-pot

And if you Google "Hotch pot" you'll find plenty more about it.
ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HOLMES: Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow/Knutsford
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 06 December 07 02:40 GMT (UK) »
Hi Emmeline,
Seems Lambendsor beat me to it! ::) Wikipedia has the term Hotch Pot as the name given to a rule of equity in english law.
The link will give more detail. :)

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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 06 December 07 03:00 GMT (UK) »
Wonderful  IGS and Bron. Many thanks. :-*

Two more little words - Foolish Woman - I should have looked at Wikipedia first before giving up. ::) ::)

Don't you love that term Hotch Pot - let's hope his son brought and put his one thousand pounds back there.

Appreciation............

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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 06 December 07 11:36 GMT (UK) »
OED:

3. Eng. Law. = HOTCHPOT 2.

1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. IV. ii. 1586 If that fee-simple, and the fee taile be put together it is called hotch potch.
 1646 J. TEMPLE Irish Rebell. 9 note He assembled the whole Septs, and having put all their possessions together in hotch-potch, made a new partition among them.
a1656 USSHER Ann. VI. (1658) 189.

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Re: 1760 Will - 2 little words
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 06 December 07 20:33 GMT (UK) »
Hi Carole

Don't you just love the way this family research leads us in all sorts of directions.

One really learns so much :) :) :)

Thanks you for information - a legal  term it seems  which goes back a very long way  ::)
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