95 High Street, St. Clement, (HT 7531)

On 5 Aug 1769 Susannah Geery mortgaged a newly-erected house & garden on the W of the High Street (which she had purchased from William Geery mariner) to Thomas Deudney of St Mary Magdalen whose wife Ann owned a neighbouring croft

On 24 & 25 Mar 1774 Susannah sold to Boykett Breeds mariner & his wife Sarah for £80, £50 of which went to pay the mortgage which was assigned to William Polhill ironmonger in trust for Breeds; the property had widow Bailey's house to the N & Sargent's house to the S (AMS5828/22/1-3)

On 23 & 24 Sept 1794 Sarah Breeds widow (BB d 3 June 1784) conveyed to Thomas James Breeds mariner (who occupied Mark Bailey's house to the S) & William Scrivens gent his trustee for £240 (AMS5828/22/4, 5). On 19 Apr 1802 TJB & WS mortgaged to John Cossum draper for £500; the house then lay E of a ropewalk. On 24 Jan 1819 JC assigned to William Thorpe gent & Walter Duke of Bexhill gent; the deed describes TJB as a merchant (AMS5828/22/6, 7)

On 27 Feb 1837 a fiat in bankruptcy was issued against TJB shipagent & merchant and Charles Burfield, trading in London as Breeds and Burfield & in Hastings as James Breeds & Co. On 28 Feb and 1 Apr respectively Thomas Massa Alsager of Birchin Lane, London Esq was appointed official assignee & John Norman of Water Lane, Tower Street, London shipbroker & William Ransom junior, shipbuilder, principal creditors. At a meeting of creditors at the bankruptcy court 2 Dec 1837 the assignees were given power to release equities of redemption and on 24 July 1845 the assignees, Duke & Thorpe sold to George Phillipsbricklayer & William Thorpe junior gent his trustee on behalf of Horatio Nelson Williams winemerchant for £300; Henry Bishop gent received the assignment of the mortgage term. The house, untenanted, was stated to be E of a former ropewalk (AMS5828/22/8)

Phillips' will of 16 Aug 1849 left a life estate to his wife Ann with remainder to trustees for sale for the benefit of his children; he died 13 Nov 1850 & the will was proved in PCC 17 Sept 1852 by HNW his executor (Henry Bishop then of London renouncing executorship 3 Aug 1853). The widow died 19 Nov 1880 & her youngest child became 21 on 20 June 1859 & on 24 June 1881 Williams sold to Justinian Allen master mariner for £590; Frederick Sawyer of Upper Norwood Surrey covenanted to produce a mortgage of 17 July 1847 discharged 23 June 1881 which also related to 9 & 10 White Rock Place (AMS5828/22/9). The remaining four deeds record a series of mortgages, the last by Allen, retired master mariner, to Arthur Davis Thorpe, 16 Feb 1905 (10 - 14)