The Chutes of Bethersden, Appledore and Hinxhill

9&fgro of tifrttrbf gppfc&ore autr SrifwAjen •&. 55). Charles Ohute.! II . Crispe of Thanet. 1. Anthony=T=.. ., Chute. * ' T Mary=A11eyn. Joan Ensigne, da. of=f=Elizabe1ih=f2. Philip Chute the Stendard=r=Margaret Colepeper of Bedgbury Chute. Thomas Ensigne. M.P.forWinohelsea. Margaret PIayters.=Arthi Died Peb. 1607. Chute iur=j=Ei ». of Elizabeth Sea Herne. Girling of Suffolk. Bearer, Captain of Camber. Bur.atAppledore 7 Aprill566. Mar. before 23 Sept. 1542. Died at Ioklesham 28 Sept. 155S. Charles Chute.=T=TXrsula Chaloner. 7 Thomas Thomas Chute, heir to his Elizabeth.=Fjohn Taylor of Shadoxhurst, Philip Chute, father, above 30 in 1567. I Died 8 May 1616, aged 90. Chute, S,P* ™ ^ ,» S-PPour sons and four da's. Chaloner Chute, purchased the Vyue, Hants, in 1652. George Chute, «t. 18=i=EUzabeth Sir Edward Chute, inherited Anthony Chute. Anne, died in=j=Sir W. Blunt in 1567. Will proved I Gage of land at Chilham and Brede. —• the Strand 13 Waller. Chute, 18 May 1618. Bentley, Bur. at Hinxhill 24 Nov. Arthur Chute, Sept. 1624. s.p. Sussex. 1634. s.p. 1. Sir Walter Chute, 1 w., Margaret Welford. Died 9 June=j=2. Sir George Chute. Will proved 25 June 1649.=F2 w„ Anne 3. James s.p. Will proved 1618. 1614; bur. at Marden, Hereford. [ Bur. at Lambeth. "Of Stockwell." Said to be Barnham, Chute, I a th e f„o und_-ei r ofI tAhTe... ITri-s.:.hT .f !a•m i!l1y„. ... living 1649. B.p. - Prances, s.p. Anne, born leiS.^John Price. r 3 w.,Ratharine=2 w., Margaret=George Chute.1 Baker, widow, Coles, widow. Born about of Greenwich. Mar. 1660. Mar. 1674 1624. Will proved Jan. 1683-4. "Of Brixton." :1 w., Sarah William Elizabeth, bapt. Margaret, John= Prances, =Henry Styles. Chute, at St. Giles, died 2 March Tufton, mar. before Pitzunder21 Cripplegate, 18 1638-9, aged d. 1649. 1647 and james. in 1647. Dec. 1623. Bur. 6; buried at again be- Alive at Sonning 18 Lambeth. fore 1655. 1683. May 1627. Sarah, mar. 5Peb. 1674atCamberwell. Died=pSirBobertParker at Bath 2 Aug. 1708. Bur. at WUlingdon, Sussex, aged 58. of Ratton, Sussex. Joanna, da. of Sir W. St. John.=f George Chute "of Streatham." Died 16 Nov. 1717. Bur. at j Mar. 1675. Died 1689, aged 37. Battersea, aged 59; Pive sons and two da's. Sir Peter Soame.=Joanna, mar. 1695. Bur. 4 April 1717, aged 40. Thomasine, -widow of Edinund==4 Edward Chute, born=j=Lydia Gibbon, bapt. 28 Aug. Criohe of London, da. of Simon 1580. Bur. 8 June 1640 Henden. Mar. 1633. at St. Giles, Cripplegate. 1586. Mar. 27 Sept. 1608. Bur. 17 Nov. 1631. AU at Bethersden. Robert==EIizabeth.==Sir E. Tyrwhitt. Thomas, Pitzwil- s.p. liams. Anthony, Edward Chute, bapt. at — Bethersden 25 July Prances, 1613. Bur. at St. Andied drew's,Holborn,llDeo. infants. 1638, "Of Gray's Inn." Nfiicchhoo las Chute "of Gray's Inn." Bapt. at Bethersden 11 Nov. 1619. Bur. at Great Chart 22 April 1646. Left his land in Bethersden and elsewhere to his brother Phihp, and £10 to poor of Bethersden to be disposed of by his brother George's wife. Will proved 20 April 1650. Philip Chute, bapt.=pAnne. at Bethersden 30 Oct. 1614. Adm'on 20 April 1650. Of Kennington and Great Chart. Alice, bapt.=pEdward at Bothers- Roberts den 24 Deo. of Dub- 1626. lin. Edward Chute, living 1658. Lydia, bapt. at Ashford 11 July 1643. Margaret. I 1 George Chute,=pEleauOr Toke,=Richard Elizabeth,=Edward bapt. at Bethersden 27 Jan. 1611. Bur. at Great Chart 7 Feb. 1651. bapt. at Great Chart 29 Mar. 1619. Dead in 1663. Deane of Islington. bapt. at Bethersden 11 Maroh 1610. Mar. at Shadoxhurst20ot. 1627. Masterof Willesborough. Lydia, bapt.=Thomas at Bethers- Breokden 11 Nov. enden. 1617. Mar. before 1640. Anne, bapt. at=Thomas Bethersden 2 Knatoh- June 1623. bull. Mar. 28 Peb. 1642. Bur. at Mersham as "widow, of Wye," 1705. Mabella,= bapt. at Bethersden 18 Aug. 1625. Bur. at Pluckley 1710. :Pranois Betenham of Shurland iu Pluckley. Died in 1689. Edward Chute, bapt. at=pElizabeth=Thomas Nioholas, Sir George Ghute,=j=Ceoilia Preke, mar. at GreatChart2Peb. 1634 Buried at St. Bride's, London. Will proved 9 Peb. 1658-9.. Dixwell, living 1676. Westwray of St. Margaret's, bapt. at Great Chart George, - 4 Maroh 1641. Bur, died at Bethersden 18 infants. June 1664. Hannington, Wilts, 1661. Bur.atHollingbourne Maroh 1675, aged 82. Eleanor,: bapt. at Bethersden 6 May 1643. sWHliam Gerard or Jarrett of St. Dionis Baokohuroh, Merchant. Born 1686. Mar. at Islington 1663. Elizabeth, mar. 1673.=T=Sir James Died 1 Nov. 1696,1 Oxenden. aged 40. Buried at j Wingham. j Elizabeth, died iu infanoy. Eleanor, bapt.=John Wyldman, at Bethersden son of Alderman 7 April 1658. Sir J . Wyldman. Mar. 1676. s.p. Sir George Chute, bapt. 10 Peb. 1665. Bur. 13 Peb. 1722, s.p. Both at Bethersden. Prances, bur. at Bethersden 1 Jan. 1663, s.p. Cecilia, bapt. at Bethersden 23 Peb. 1664. Died 5 April 1675 in London, Bur. at Hollingbourne. Adm'on 8 June 1675 to her grand* father Preke. ( 55 ) THE CHUTES OF BETHEESDEN, APPLEDORE, AND HINXHILL. BY THE REV. A. J. PEARMAN, M.A. IN the Tenth Volume of Archceologia Cantiana I gave some account of the Lovelaces, an extinct Kentish family, whose seat stood at a short distance to the west of Bethersden Church. About a mile and a half in the opposite direction, near the north-eastern boundary of the parish, a farm-house occupies the site of another mansion of bygone days, of whose inhabitants I will now put on record such particulars as I have been able to collect. In so doing I shall be fulfilling one of the ends for which our Society was established, viz., " to reclaim and preserve the memories of men who with common passions with ourselves have stood and laboured on this soil of Kent." I refer to the Chutes of Old Surrenden. Old Surrenden stands on rising ground to the right of the turnpike road from Ashford to Tenterden, and commands a good view of the surrounding country. I agree with the late Mr. Furley in thinking that this, and not Surrenden- Dering, is the place intended in the Charter printed in our First Volume. We are there told that "Leofwine the Bed grants the pasture at Swithroedingden to him to whom Boetun may go after his day," the effect of which " would be to attach Surrenden pastures to the Boughton estate;" and the fact is that the owner of Old Surrenden still pays a quit rent to the Earl of Winchelsea as Lord of the Manor of Boughton Aluph. Nor does it appear that the Pluckley property was known as Surrenden until the marriage, centuries later, of John Surrenden, or Suthrinden, of Bethersden, with the daughter of William de Pluckley. These reasons 56 THE CHUTES OP BETHERSDEN, seem to justify the opinion that we have here a reference— the first, so far as I know—to the estate with which the name of Chute was, long afterwards, identified. The received account is, that in the reigns of John and Henry HI., Adam de Surrenden resided at this seat, and •that it continued in the possession of his descendants until John Surrenden sold it, about 1425, to Cardinal Archbishop Kemp, by whom it. was settled with other premises on his newly-founded College at Wye. At the dissolution of the College under Henry VHI. it passed into the hands of the Crown, and, 12 March 1544, was granted with other property to Walter Bucler, Esq., Secretary to Queen Katharine, to hold' by the service of one-tenth of a Knight's fee; being apparently in the occupation of Thomas Hammerson, of whom it is said in' the " rental of the College of Wye," written in October 1544, that " the same Thomas holdeth freelie the Farm of Surrendowne and payeth yearly Is. 10d.; and 1 hen." In 1547 Sir Maurice Dennys was the owner, and in 1549 Sir Anthony Aucher. £From Sir Anthony it passed in 1553 to Philip Chute, in whose family it continued 170 years, and was known during that period as Surrenden- Chute, in the same way as the neighbouring seat at Pluckley was distinguished by the name of Surrenden-Dering.. The new owners came of an ancient stock.* Their representative, the late Mr. Chute of the Vyne, near Basingstoke, informed me that he had in his possession a pedigree beginning in 1268, from which it appeared that they were then Lords of the Manor of Taunton in Somersetshire, and so remained until about 1500, when Edmond Chute sold his patrimony. Charles Chute, Choute, or Chowt,f grandson of Edmond, married a daughter of John Crispe of the Isle of Thanet, and was father of PHILIP CHUTE or CHOUTE * " Silas Taylor remarked that the name of Chute carried the memorial of the almost forgotten third nation of the Germans that conquered the Britons, and were commonly called Jutes and often. Chutes and Wights."—Harl. MS., quoted by Duncombe in his Sistory of SerefordsMre. Thomas Chute of Borton was M.P. for Canterbury in 1404. . f In the Tower of London (as I learn from W. M. Chute, Esq.., of Chiswiok) there is m the State prison of the Beauohamp Tower, on the south side of its east window, the name " C. CHOWT 1553 " cut into the stone. It is immediately below the name of IHON SETMOB. APPLEDORE, AND HINXHILL. 57 above mentioned. This Philip Chute, for his bravery at the siege of Boulogne, where he acted as standard bearer to the men at arms of the king's band in 1544, received a canton or honourable augmentation to his paternal coat, viz., "the Lion of England."* "Captain Philip Chowte" was appointed by letters patent, 21 July 1544, captain for life of Camber Castle,f with a salary of two shillings per diem. This castle, which stands on a marshy plain north-east of Winchelsea, was one of the numerous coast defences built about 1539. Philip Chute had previously been placed in charge of the property belonging to the Black Friars and the Grey Friars at Winchelsea, when it passed into the pos- * Guillim (ed. 1679) gives the Coat of Arms of the Chutes of Bethersden as "Gules, semy de mullets or, three swords barways proper, the middlemost encountering the other two, a canton per fess argent and vert, thereon a Lion of England." He thus desoribes the shield of the Hampshire branch: " He beareth gules, three swords extended barrways, their points towards the dexter part of the escocheon argent, the hilts and pomels or, by the name of Chute, and is the bearing of Chaloner Chute of the Vine in Hantshire, Esq., a worthy successor of his father's vertues, who was a gentleman of much eminence and knowledge in his practice of the Laws." The Irish family bears the same coat as the Chutes of Kent, but I do not know that their descent from the Standard Bearer has been proved, though it has been generally accepted. The crest of all three branches i s , " A dexter cubit arm in armour, the hand in a gauntlet, grasping a broken sword in bend sinister ppr., pommel and hilt or." Motto: " Portune de guerre." t "Looking from the precipice whioh is the boundary of Winchelsea on the east, Camber Castle is seen at the distance of a mile and a half, like an immense tortoise lying asleep by the sea. It is a fortress of early Tudor times, and was built, it is said, upon the site of a. still ea.rh.er castle. It stands—with reference to the one expanse of marsh whioh is formed by the three ' levels,' Pett, Camber, and Brede—exactly in the position of Pevensey Castle as regards the marsh of Pevensey; that is, in the point of most consequence for the command of the whole position. It was kept in Ml fighting condition until 1642, when it was determined that as the sea had receded so far as to render it of little use, the ordnance and stores should be removed to Rye, and the fortress left to ruin. But this extraordinary mass of stonework is hkely to last as long as the TJdimore. Hills whioh look down upon it, unless it should oome to be used as a stone quarry. . It is a perfectly symmetrical building, like Bodiam, Hurstmonceaux, and Pevensey Castles; but is much more massive than either of these. The keep, a round tower, curiously like the tomb of Csecilia Metella, in the Roman Campania, and, as far as I can carry the latter in my mind's eye, of about the same dimensions, stands clear in the centre, and around it are towers of the same kind, connected with blind walls pierced for guns. A subterranean gallery, of which the roof has partly fallen in, runs quite round the central tower, and close to its foundations, and probably had connection galleries with the outer towers. The castle is absolutely without architectural decoration except iu the great moulded string-course round the keep, in which a few Tudor symbols are carved. Its utter solitude in the midst of the silent plain, and its simplicity, strength, and symmetry, render it by far the most impressive ruin in all that region of impressive ruins—the Sussex marshes."—^. James's Gazette, 20th July 1886. 58 THE CHUTES OP BETHERSDEN, session of the Crown, at the dissolution of the monasteries. In 1541 he was one of the Burgesses returned to Parliament for that borough. In 1546 he requested permission to " purchase a farm of marsh lands in the parish of Iden, lately belonging to the Earl of Essex, and a marsh and nine acres and seventeen acres then in the king's hands by exchange." In 1556 he still received 66s. 8d. per annum from the lands of the dissolved Abbey of Faversham. Horne Place in Appledore was possessed and occupied by Philip Chute at the time of his death. Hasted describes the estate at Horne Place as consisting of " 870 acres of arable and marsh, besides a considerable tract of woodland." The Kent Archaeological Society visited this old home of Philip Chute during the Annual Meeting of 1879, and its beautiful domestic chapel has been illustrated, by our Honorary Secretary, in Archceologia Cantiana, XIV., 363. In Philip Chute's will made 1 March 1565, and proved 1 Feb. 1568, he says, " I desire my body to be buried in my Chappel in the p'ishe Churche of Apledore in the countie of Kent and to have a tombe stone on me declaring the certayne day and tyme when God called me unto his mercy. Item I will and bequeathe unto every poore person that shall come to my buryall and aske for God's sake sixpence." To the poor of Winchelsea he gave forty shillings, and the same sum to those of Wrenam in Suffolk, and to those of Town Mailing. "All the household stuffe which shall be in his house of Horne in Appledore at the time of his death," he leaves to his sou George, together with his property at Iden, and all in Appledore and Kennardington or elsewhere that he had purchased of John Harper. His son Edward was to inherit lands at Herst, Godmersham, Chilham, and Brede. The estates at Bethersden and Seddlescomb were given to his son Anthony, with remainder to George ; and the land at Playden to Thomas, on condition that he made no claim on the Bethersden property. As is well known, the Begisters of Appledore previous to 1700 have been long destroyed, nor are there duplicates at Canterbury. Great, therefore, was my pleasure when, on APPLEDORE, AND HINXHILL. 59 opening by chance a copy of Harris's History of Kent in the library of my late friend, Mr. Walter of Rainham, I found written in pencil (in the same hand as other entries in ink, and subscribed, " These notes I copied from the Begister of Apledore 19th October 1723. J. W."), the following extract, " Aprill 7fll 1566, Mr. Philip Choute, the Captaine of Camber Castle was interred." This entry is verified, as I have since found, by a pedigree in the College of Arms. At Wortham Hall, near Diss, in Norfolk, the seat of the late Major Betts, there is a fine panel portrait of a " wellpreserved" old gentleman of seventy, believed by the owner to be that of Philip Chute. It is described as having " above the left shoulder a medallion of a warrior with a drawn sword, while above the right are the arms and crest of Chute, with the scroll Fortune De Guerre. On the frame of the medallion is faintly inscribed, Anno D'ni 1588; cetatis sua LXX." The royal arms are in the corner. From the date 1588, it is plain that this portrait cannot have been painted in the lifetime of Philip Chute, the Standard Bearer. There is no existing memorial of him in Appledore Church. 2. GEOEGE OHOTTTE, the eldest son of Philip by his third wife, ultimately succeeded to the Bethersden estate, as well as to Horne Place, and probably made those additions to the house at Old Surrenden of which Philipot speaks.* According to the rate book he was living there in 1613. By his wife Elizabeth Gage of Bentley, Sussex, he had several sons. Under date 6 June 1600, B. Whyte writes from Penshurst to Sir Bobert Sydney, then Governor of Flushing: " Mr. Chute hath lost his eldest sonne in Ireland, his second is with you and his third. He understanding "by them the desire you had of a good Nagge told me he had the finest in England, which he refused J€20 for, and that he would bestow upon you if he could tell how to send it. I desired * In Proceedings in Chancery, temp. Elizabeth, we find a claim on his part " as heir of 600 acres of land called the Dowles in Appledore, late the estate of Philip Choute, deceased, his father," and a cause "George Choute, Esq., v. Martin Barneham,Esq., Eobert Morle, and others, landholders, and officers of the courts of conservancy in Romney Marsh,—a bill respecting scouring drains and dykes —the premises being Presh Marsh, called the Dowles, and also the five Waterings in Romney Marsh, the estate of plaintiff and his ancestors." 60 THE CHUTES OP BETHERSDEN, him to send it to Penshurst and I would take care to ship him over to you. The Nagge runs at grass at his own howse 20 miles hence: he gave me a letter to the Bailiff of his land to deliver him when I should send for him, and upon Monday he is to be sent for." Of these sons, Walter obtained some notoriety. Camden tells us that he was one of the select volunteers who in 1597, under the command of Sir Walter Baleigh, attacked and took Fayall from the Spaniards, and .were afterwards, with their leader, cashiered and committed to custody for acting without the authority of Essex, but were pardoned on the intercession of Lord Thomas Howard. He was knighted 23 April 1603, by James I., on the occasion of the king's visit to Belvoir Castle, while journeying southward to take possession of the English throne; and, on 16 February 1605, he received licence to travel for three years. In December 1608, he writes to Salisbury, saying he " has had three occasions to solicit him, has left him part of his property, and seeks employment in his service*." On 6 February 1611, he asks Salisbury for an appointment " as one of the ten who are to serve his majesty with especial diligence at a pension of .£200 per annum." The application was successful; for, 29 November 1611, a letter was despatched to George Choute desiring him " to enable his son, Sir Walter, to pursue his = course in the king's service by supplying him with means." . 20 November 1613, we hear that "Sir Walter Chute's requests," whatever they were, " have been fulfilled.". In the short-lived Parliament of 1614 he sat for the now disfranchised borough of Whitchurch in Hants. On May ,20th in that year Chamberlain writes to Carleton : " The house busy with elections, privileges, and impositions. Sir Walter Chute offers to undergo all the odium of undertakers, though nobody thought him worth suspecting." Winwood says, June 16, " Never saw so much faction and passion as in the late unhappy Parliament, nor so little reverence of a King, or respect of the public good. Some seditious speeches made the King impatient, and it was whispered to him that they would have his life, and that of his favourites, before they had done; on which he dissolved them. Four of their APPLEDORE, AND HINXHILL. 61 tribunes, Sir Walter Chute, Christopher Neville, Hoskins, and Wentworth are sent to prison." The captivity was not of long duration,for 12 October we hear "Sir Walter Chute released, but loses his place, and is restrained within three miles of his father's house."* In the following year, 1615, he made his will, describing himself as "of Bethersden," and mentioning only his " cousin Waller," whom he nominated his executor. He died unmarried in, 1618. Another son, George,f was knighted 14 October 1608 at Christchurch by Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and is noticed as one of the visitors of rank at the Hereford races of 1609, "where was a morris dance, by ten old people." His presence was, doubtless, owing to the fact that he had married, or was about to marry, Margaret, daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Welford, Esq., of Wisteston, in the neighbouring parish of Marden. . Burke, in his Landed * In the Journals of the House of Commons are several entries relating to these transactions. Under date 16 April 1614J we read : " Sir Walter Chute— That, before the Communion " (which the members were to receive together) " would discharge himself, as (he) thinketh others desire to do,—That, for accusation of himself, hath thought fit to deliver in a writing; which (was delivered) in and read by the clerk. Moveth for the Committee to meet this afternoon. Resolved: ' No.'" Certain persons seem to have " undertaken " to manage the House in conformity with the royal views if the King would summon a Parliament. Their conduct gave great umbrage, and they soon found themselves unable to please either party. The existence of such an " undertaking " was vehemently denied but more than suspected, and at length praotically acknowledged. A Committee of the House " reported" on the matter, but their Report was never entered on the Journals, though space was left for ,it. Sir Walter appears to have needlessly accused himself, as no one had thought him possessed of sufficient influence or ability. Anthony Wood says, "At the same time our author (John Hoskyns) was committed to oustody, were others also imprisoned with him for behaving themselves turbulently in the House of Commons, as Walter Chute a Kentish man, who had lately been put out of his place of carver to the King, one Wentworth, and a third named Christopher Nevil, second son to the Lord Abergavenny, who was newly come from school." f Duneombe, when describing Marden Church in Herefordshire, says (pp. 138-9), " On a brass plate 3 feet long and inlaid in a flat stone is a well engraved effigies of the lady of Sir George Chute; on a smaller plate on each side are represented her two daughters, and below this inscription: Under this monument lieth the body of Dame Margaret, the most deere wife of Sir Geo. Chute, Knt., and daughter and sole heyre of Thomas Welford of Wisteston, Esq., deceased; whose Pietie and Virtues deserve to survive in the memorie of man, till this her body shall rise again, re-united to her blessed Sowle, to live with her Bedeemer for ever. She had by her said husband two daughters onlie, Anne and Prances, which Prances died the first day of her birth, her said mother following her the next day after, being June 9, A.D. 1614. On a shield is a lion passant, with other quarterings." This shield really bears the Chute coat with its canton (charged with a lion passant), and over all on an escutcheon of pretence the Welford coat of four quarterings. 6 2 THE CHUTES OP BETHERSDEN, Gentry, represents him as the founder of the Irish branch of the family, but I know not upon what authority he does so. Burke says, " George Chute, a military officer, went into Ireland during the rebellion of Desmond, and obtained grants of land near Dingle and in the county of Limerick, which were soon however alienated. He married an Evans of the county of Cork, and had a son Daniel, who acquired in marriage with a daughter of McEUigott the lands of Tulligaron, subsequently called Chute Hall, which was confirmed by patent in 1630." If this was the case, which I doubt, Margaret Welford must have been his second wife, and Anne, daughter of Sir Martin Barnham of HoUingbourne, his third wife. On referring to his will, I find that he mentions his children by his surviving wife, and Anne Price, his daughter by Margaret Welford, " to whom a fayre inheritance is descended from her mother, my former wife, which upon my marriage and upon payment of a great sum of money by George Chute, Esq., my father, was soe settled," but he makes no allusion to any family in Ireland; yet this does not fully decide the point at issue. In 1627 he seems to have been living at Sonning, in Berks, where he buried his infant daughter Elizabeth.* In 1638 he is described as " of Stockwell;" and in 1640 he acted as a magistrate for Surrey, at Southwark. In his will, which was proved in 1649, he desires to be." decently and without ostentation buried in the Parish Church of Lambebh, in that isle where my predecessors, the owners of the Manor of Stockwell, which through God's goodness I enjoy, have a right of burial."f .* On another stone, north of the last, is the figure of a woman in a veil— " Here lyeth Elizabeth Chute, daughter of Sir George Chute, Knight, and Dame Anne his wife, who lived three yeares and six moneths and dyed the eighteenth of May, anno 1627. "WhatBeauty would have lovely stiled What Manners sweete, what Nature mild What Wonder perfect, all were fil'd Upon record in this one child And till the coming of the Soule To call the Plesh we keepe the Roll." Ashmole's Berlcs. t On a brass plate in Leigh's Chapel, Lambeth Church—" Here lyeth the body of Margaret Chute (daughter of Sir George Chute of Stockwell in the APPLEDORE, AND HINXHILL. 63 I am disposed to think that these sons, Sir Walter and Sir George, had given their father some trouble. At least that is the impression produced on me by the terms of his will made in 1615, and proved 18 May 1618. He calls Sir Walter his eldest son, and leaves him an annuity of £200 per annum, which he is " to forfeit if he alienates it or suffers