Letter from William Hepple, Bishop Auckland to Thomas Greener

‘Miss Mary Hackworth is actually betrothed to an intended husband – if so I conceive his consent will be required to the trust deed – which will in fact be a marriage settlement and of course the husband will expect to have at least a life interest – [?] is the fact’ [Mary Hackworth never married]. In docket ‘William Hepple response Mary Hackworth’s trust deed’.