The Cornwallis Estate Act, 1870
WHEREAS the late Right Honorable James Mann, Earl Cornwallis, by his will, dated the fifteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, devised all his real estates in the counties of Kent and Sussex (exclusive of such parts thereof as might happen to be under contract for sale) unto his son-in-law, Charles Wykeham Martin, of Leeds Castle in Kent, Esquire, James Cocks, of Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, in Middlesex, Esquire, and the Right Honorable John Hume Home Cust, commo...