Counterpart lease for 21 years from 29 Sep 1646 at £110, eight turkeys (or 8s 0d)...

Robert [Sidney] earl of Leicester, lord viscount Lisle and Lord Sidney of Penshurst and his wife Dorothy to John Locherson of Ewhurst, gent

1 Messuage and farm called Udiam in Ewhurst

2 The Floote Field, The Floote Piece, two fields called The Culverwells, Well Field, New Riddings, Holland Fields, Horsebrooke Mead, Cowbrooke Long Mead, Gorrell Mead, Bardcroft, Lodgecroft and High Udiam and the herbage and pasture in Wimbletottes Wood, Cotterells Wood, Hallwood, Calcottes Wood, Welland Wood, Craneherne Wood, Androwes Wood Timberwood, Great and Little Morgay Wood and Badlands Wood

3 Liberty of fishing in the old river channel and dykes running through the premises

4 The Great and Lesser Boviers and Boviers Hart with a croft of one acre by Timbergate, The Lampfield, Hollow Whale, Long Whale, Zenslinges, Wimbletottes and Wimbletottes Croft, Calcottes Field, Wattle Fields, Welland Fields otherwise Morgue Fields and Stockwood, with a way from Long Whale and Little Morgay Wood through RS's Badlands Wood woodlands with oxen, horses and waggons

All in Ewhurst, Salehurst, Sedlescombe and Whatlington, occupied by JL

Reserved: wood and timber, mines and quarries, with the liberty to take sand and clay for the use of RS's furnace and forge, with the ways used with Robertsbridge Forge, Robertsbridge Furnace and the house let with them, and the watercourses and the hammer-dyke running from the forge

The rent to be paid at Penshurst House; AR to pay 5s 0d towards the furnishing of a horseman should RS be called on to serve in the wars

Detailed husbandry covenants, with details of woodland management; JL to preserve the pheasants, partridges and poults; JL may have every year 20 cords for firewood, ten of which may be taken as hop-poles, which are to be burnt when they become rotten

W: Thomas Houghton, John Gaye, Thomas Dimblebey

Hove Library Accession 2453