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Maps of the Coney Estate

Catalogue reference: AMS5990

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This record is about the Maps of the Coney Estate dating from 1775.

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Reference
AMS5990
Title
Maps of the Coney Estate
Date
1775
Description

Bicknell Coney, a druggist in Leadenhall Street, a director of the Bank of England and secretary of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, succeeded to the Sussex estate of his cousin John Coney of Burwash on the latter's death in 1775. Although only one of the maps is dated, it is presumed that both were commissioned in that year and indeed that the central, Burwash, portion of the estate was surveyed at the same time

Of the two farms depicted, Biggs Place, Ticehurst (AMS5990/1) was purchased by John Coney of Burwash butcher in 1673 and Poppinghole in Whatlington (AMS5990/2) by John Coney the younger of Burwash gent in 1707

Related material

<p>For deeds of both properties, Biggs Place from 1450 and Poppinghole from 1589, see AMS5744</p>

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

Documents purchased at Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 17 July 1986 (ACC 4691)

Custodial history

These two maps formed lot 1615A in the sale of maps, antiquarian and modern books and original illustrations on 17 Jul 1986

The deeds of the Coney estate, listed on AMS5744, were found in 1979 in the parish chest of Oakford in Devon

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Maps of the Coney Estate