Map

AMS6497/1

Map

1651

'AN EXACT SURVAY AND GROUND plott of parte of the Demeans of the Mannor of Bramblety lyeing in the Parish of Chaily in the County of Sussex being parte of the Pocessions of the Honorable Baronett Henry Compton wherein is described everie particuler peece with its contents and names in every Tennants occupation as by a booke of Survay belonging to the Plotts apeareth, where there are Red Letters or figers directing to the Plotts. The measurement was performed by Clement Stoakes the Plotting and booke by Edward Gier finished in July Anno Domini 1651'

Estate map showing the present Great Lodge Farm and Warrenwood at North Chailey. Ink and colour on parchment, 19¼" x 11½"

Shows buildings, field-names and acreages, roads and their directions, names of neighbouring owners; only four of the eighteen fields numbered 17-20 in red letters

Scale of 11 perches: one inch surmounted by dividers; compass star; the whole map enclosed in a black and red border, the latter continued round the title

<p>For an undated but identically presented map of Lord Abergavenny's Whalesbeech in East Grinstead, then rented to and subsequently purchased by Henry Compton, see AMS6525/2. For Edward Gier and Clement Stoakes see Sarah Bendall (ed), Dictionary of Land Surveyors (second edn, 1997), 2 200, 490</p>

English

Henry Compton was a younger son of Henry Compton of Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire (created Lord Compton in 1572) and a brother of William Compton, created Earl of Northampton in 1618. He was born at Compton in about 1584, and was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James 1 in 1603. He acquired the manor of Brambletye in East Grinstead on his marriage with Cicely, daughter of Robert Sackville, earl of Dorset, in 1619 (SRS 19 60). For a deposition by him in the court of the archdeacon of Lewes, aged 32 and already of Brambletye, on 30 May 1616, see WSRO EpII/5/10, f93-4. He died overseas and administration of his estate was granted by the court of probate 1651. His second son, Colonel Henry Compton, was killed in a duel on Putney Heath by George Brydges, Lord Chandos on 13 May 1652 (GEC Complete Peerage 3 128). Neither Sir Henry Compton nor his son ever held the rank of baronet

In 1624 Henry Compton brought an action in Star Chamber against the inhabitants of Fletching, who had pulled down the fences which Compton had built around 51 acres of Chailey Common which he had enclosed. Compton's servants had attacked the Fletching men on their way home, and one had been wounded by gunfire (PRO STAC 8/104/9)