Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - Seized estates
£450
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Auction: 11 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Historic document on vellum, dated 9 December 1718, being the settlement by the Commissioners appointed to sell the seized estates in England, Wales and Elsewhere except Scotland of the Traitors involved in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, awarding a considerable amount to Richard Dashwood, a Norfolk claimant, written in English on four sheets of vellum, with a striking calligraphic heading indicating the hearing was held at Essex House in London and the Commissioners present were George Treby, Sir Thomas Hales and Henry Cunningham, with John Bath, Sergeant at Law, with the fine signatures of the three commissioners and the Royal Red Wax Seal against each signature, slight dusting to outer surface of the document, interior contents in fine fresh order.
Footnote
Note: Rare historic document, containing a full list of all the property which Dashwood claimed. This includes property and money in Lancashire belonging to the Earl of Derwentwate, who was one of the most important of all the rebels and who was executed for high treason.
By an act of 1715 entitled 'An Act for appointing Commissioners to inquire of the Estates of certain Traitors, and of Popish Recusants [Catholics], and of Estates given to Superstitious Uses in order to raise money out them severally for the use of the publick', all the real property of persons attainted, or who should be attainted before 24 June 1718, of any high treason committed before 1 June 1716 was declared to be forfeited and vested in the crown without further office or inquisition found. The commissioners were empowered to inform themselves of the names of persons so convicted or attainted of high treason, and of all real estates and interests vested in the crown pursuant to the act, by what tenure they were held, and to what incumbrances they were liable.
The commissioners met first at the Exchequer Chamber, Westminster, on 27 June 1716 and later in the Speaker's Chambers, where it was decided to form a separate commission for forfeited estates in Scotland. The commissioners for England went to Preston in September 1716, then to Newcastle, and back to London, where they sat at Essex Court off the Strand until 1722. They then moved to Fig Tree Court, Inner Temple, their number being reduced from seven to four, until the commission was wound up in 1724.