- C304.
- File
- 1697, Dec. 30.
Part of Kemeys-Tynte Estate Papers,
Sir Charles Kemeys to Sir Joseph Williamson, [British Diplomat at the Hague]. Invoking his aid in litigation business between him and Sir John Thomas and Elizabeth, his wife, respecting a claim to property in Holland; states that after the deaths of Sir Edmund and Anne Thomas, his step-children, without heirs, their ancestral estates came into the hands of Lady Elizabeth Thomas, sister of Edmund Thomas of Wenvoe (dec. 1677), who was judged to be the heiress at the age of 66; but it was contended that the estates which his step-children had inherited from their grandmother, Lady Morgan, which she had acquired herself, were not included in the estates which came into the possession of Sir John Thomas in the right of his wife, Elizabeth; according to the terms of the will of Lady Morgan it was provided that, in the event of her said grand children dying without heirs, her estates of inheritance in Monmouthshire, worth about £600 pa, were to go to her grand-niece, wife of Baron Swearing, a subject of the Duke Brandenburg, but that her estates in Holland were given to her grandchildren absolutely, and were disposable by will, which he, Sir Charles, had proved. Copy.