real and personal estate as shall hereafter descend to, or be given and bequeathed to the said (intended wife) during the said intended coverture, unto and to the use of the said (trustees) their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, or to the trustees for the time being of the trust premises, according to the nature and quality of the same premises respectively, upon trust, that they the same trustees respectively, or their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, do and shall convey, assign, transfer, pay, make over, and deliver the same respectively to such person or persons, for such estate or estates, upon such trusts, and to and for such ends, intents, and purposes, and with, under, and subject to such powers, provisos, limitations, declarations, and agreements, and charged and chargeable with the payment of such annual or gross sum, and in such manner and form as she the said (intended wife) shall, at any time or times during her life, notwithstanding her coverture, and whether covert or sole, by any deed or deeds, writing or writings, with or without power of revocation, to be by her sealed and delivered in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, or by her last will and testament, in writing, or any codicil thereto, or any writing purporting to be or in the nature of her last will and testament, or a codicil, to be by her signed and published in the presence of three or more credible witnesses, direct or appoint, and in default of, and in the meantime, until any such direction or appointment, and in case any such

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shall be made, then when and as the estates and interests thereby directed or appointed shall respectively end and determine, and as to such part or parts thereof whereof no such direction or appointment shall be made, upon trust, that they the said trustees, and their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns respectively, shall stand and be seised, possessed of, and interested in the said lands, hereditaments, and real estate, and the said last mentioned sum and sums of money, legacies, goods, chattels, and personal estate, or so much of the said hereditaments and premises respectively as shall not have been so directed or appointed by her the said (intended wife) as aforesaid, IN TRUST for her the said (intended wife) and her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, according to the nature and quality of the same hereditaments and premises respectively, and upon or for no other trust, intent, or purpose whatsoever. AND it is hereby declared and agreed, that in the mean time, and until such direction or appointment as is last hereinbefore mentioned shall be made by her the said (intended wife), the said trustees and trustee of the said hereditaments and real estate, and of the said last-mentioned personal estate, shall pay all the rents, issues, and profits, interest, dividends, and income thereof, into the proper hands of her the said (intended wife), for her own sole and separate use and benefit, or to such person or persons as she shall, by any writing signed by her, from time to time, direct or appoint, independently of

the said (intended husband), and without the same being subject or liable to his control, debts, or engagements; but the receipt and receipts of the said (intended wife), or of such person or persons as she shall, from time to time, appoint, shall always, notwithstanding her coverture, be a good and sufficient discharge for so much of the said rents, issues, and profits, interest, dividends, and income, as shall be therein expressed or acknowledged to be received. AND LASTLY, that he the said (intended husband) his executors and administrators, shall and will, at all times, after the solemnization of the said intended marriage, permit and suffer the said (intended wife) to retain, use, and enjoy all and singular her jewels, watches, rings, necklaces, trinkets, ornaments of her person and paraphernalia whatsoever; and also at her own discretion, and according to her own free will and pleasure, and for her own separate use and benefit, to sell, exchange, give, alter, or dispose of the same, or any part of them, at any time or times during her life, and to give and bequeath the same by her last will and testament, in writing, or any writing purporting to be or being in the nature of her last will and testament, with or without an executrix or executor thereof, to be by her signed and published in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, without any hinderance, or interruption, of or by him the said (intended husband), his executors, administrators, or assigns, or any other person or persons by his

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MENTS.

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Wife to retain

and dispose of

her jewels, &c.

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or their order, or by or with his or their consent or permission. PROVIDED ALWAYS, and it is hereby declared and agreed, by and between the parties to these presents, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner prejudice or affect the right of, or title to dower of the said (intended wife) of or in the lands, tenements, and hereditaments of to be prejudiced. the said (intended husband), or her share of, or interest in his personal estate, under or by virtue of the statute of distribution (1). IN WITNESS, &c.

Wife's right of dower, &c. not

Dower.

Other provisions.

(1) If the settlement is to be in lieu of the wife's dower and thirds, see ante, p. 489, n. (1).

See various other provisions in settlements of the lady's fortune, in riders post, p. 525, et seq.; also ante, p. 243, et seq.

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powers Copyholds;

Appointment of Copyholds to the same Uses as the Freeholds.
"AND THIS INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH, and
the said (intended wife) in further execution of the
and authorities in her vested as aforesaid, by this present
deed or writing by her executed as hereinbefore is expressed,
and with the privity and consent of the said (intended hus-
band), her husband, testified as aforesaid, HATH directed,
declared, limited, given, and appointed, and by these pre-
sents DoTH direct, declare, give, and appoint all and singular
the copyhold or customary messuages, farms, lands, tene-
ments, parts and shares, and hereditaments, which were in
and by the said recited indenture of lease and settlement of
the
day of covenanted and agreed to be surrendered
and assigned as aforesaid, (except such of the said copyhold
hereditaments as have been sold and disposed of as afore-
said) with their and every of their appurtenances, from and
immediately after the decease of her the said (intended wife),
to such and the same uses, upon such and the same trusts,
and to and for such and the same ends, intents, and purposes,
and under and subject to such and the same powers, provisos,
declarations, limitations, and agreements, as are herein-
before limited, expressed, and declared, of and concerning
the freehold hereditaments hereinbefore directed, limited,
and appointed, or as near thereto as the customs of the
manors whereof the said copyhold hereditaments are holden,
and the rules of law and equity will permit."

see ante, p. 247.

Covenant by Husband, that his Dwelling-house, &c. shall Husband's

become the Wife's Property.

dwelling-house to wife sur

"AND the said (intended husband) doth hereby, for him- viving. self, his heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant and agree with the said (trustees) their heirs, executors, and ad