A bill to enable Elizabeth Gomeldon, widow, and her trustees, to enter their respective claims before the commissioners and trustees for the forfeited estates; and to impower the said commissioners and trustees to hear and determine the same ... .
Great Britain.Parliament.
[London : s.n.,
1720].
Caption and docket title.
A full statement of the case in which Elizabeth Gomeldon petitions to have her appeal heard although she has let more than the time allowed to elapse before making it. Mrs. Gomeldon's interest had become invested with her sister-in-law Meliora Gomeldon and her husband, Thomas Stanley. The latter's estate had been forfeited because of his involvement in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Elizabeth failed to realise in time that she should make a petition to the commissioners and trustees of the forfeited estates for her interest to be protected. By a private act of Parliament (Private Acts, 6 Geo.I.c.14) following this bill she managed to retrieve the situation.
ESTC
Gomeldon, Elizabeth, 1679-
Stanley, Thomas, active 1716-
Stanley, Meliora, active 1716-1720.
Inheritance and succession
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715.
Forfeiture