1670 marriage consideration William Hollyer & Sarah Ffarmer

[okkool]

Wow Bookbox your explanation answers a lot of questions. I thank you for your help and incite.

In Thomas Hollyer's will dated 4 Sep 1695 (prob 1698) quote "I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Holliar and his heirs for ever all my common land and common meadowing lying in Nether Whittacre after the decease of my eldest son William Holliar that is to say Six Ridges in the Church Crofts, eleven Ridges in the great Ridding, nine Ridges in the town Field, nine Ridges in the Mill field all arable lands."

The son William Hollier dies Apr 1696. probate of Thomas was probably delayed as a result of the overlapping deaths and of this document. It just seems that Sarah's daughter should have had an interest.
Brian

[Bookbox]

I'm afraid I can't explain this. The difficulty is that we don't know the outcome of the queries raised regarding the settlement, nor what other deeds and arrangements may have been made within the family in the 25 years between the marriage in 1670 and Thomas drawing up his will in 1695.

[okkool]

Goldie, Bookbox

Thank you so much for your help. I learned a lot about historic prenup agreements and fines. I will be on the lookout for these Feet of fines

Feet of fines are court copies of agreements following disputes over property. In reality, the disputes were mostly fictitious and were simply a way of having the transfer of ownership of land recorded officially by the king’s court.
The agreements were normally written out three times on a single sheet of parchment – two copies side by side and one copy across the bottom (the foot) of the sheet, separated by an indented or wavy line.
The purchaser kept one copy, the seller the other and the final copy – ‘the foot of the fine’- was kept by the king’s court as a central record of the conveyance.
Using one piece of parchment separated in this way gave protection against fraud or forgery as only the genuine copies would fit together – like a jigsaw.

Brian

[Bookbox]

I will be on the lookout for these Feet of fines

The class-description that you’ve quoted above, from Discovery, relates only to enrolled documents, where the 'foot' has ended up at TNA. In reality, most property deeds are held at local record offices.

[Old Bristolian]

Just a pedantic note, but the double "f" should not be transcribed as Ffarmer or Ffrancis - it is just the way an upper case F was written,

Steve