Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue C

Since it opened, East Sussex Record Office has maintained a collection of 'Additional Manuscripts' for accessions which are not assigned, or are not accrued to existing collections which have, a distinctive alphabetic reference based on the collection's title. The Additional Manuscripts collection is now known as AMS

Some of these accessions added to AMS have been returned to A2A as free-standing catalogues. The residue are being returned as a series of catalogues, each covering a range of AMS numbers. The summary list below covers all the accessions within that range, with notes against those which are the subject of separate catalogues or which have been transferred to other collections or other repositories. The main body of the catalogue notes only the reference and the fact of the separate catalogue or the transfer

Summary of contents

AMS3427-3498 Maps from the offices and Powell and Co., Lewes, 1732-1932

AMS3499 Map of Josias Bonnick's Foxhunt Green and Burgh Farms in Waldron by William Bray, 1832; corn and seed account, 1840-1863; Nathan Russell's account to G Edwards of Freemans Farm, Mayfield, for woodcutting and cider-making, 1873-1874

AMS3500 Map of land in Northiam held of Ewhurst manor, c1675

AMS3501 Map of Rose Hill Park in Brightling, 1797

AMS3502-3503 Plan of Richard Rideout's estate at Framfield by Thomas Marchant, 1762; plan of 3a former waste at Framfield Place with a forge, c 1865

AMS3504 Demesne lands of the manor of Ote Hall in Wivelsfield by Anthony Everenden, 1641

AMS3505-3506 Land in Iden Level by [blank] Hill, 1689; Guldeford Level, 1738

AMS3507-3615 Deeds (1371-1693) and court records (1627-1931) of the manor of Moor Hall, Ninfield, purchased by the Worrall and Fuller charity in 1693; includes a tenement in Pevensey, 1371 (3507), an arbitration award, 1472 (3515); Haywards and Skinners in Hooe, 1554 (3524); settlement on the marriage of John and Elizabeth Wenham, 1655 (3530); marsh called Charnfold in Hooe, with the opinion of Samuel Gott on the title, 1637-1667 (3542-3552); Fiennes, Hoo, Devenish, Wenham, Luxford, Dunk and Ray families; manorial records include letters to the trustees' agent, 1798-1803; deeds of properties in Goulding Lane, French Alley and Leopard Head or Half Moon Alley, St Giles Without Cripplegate, Mx, 1638-1684 (3586-3609), newly built house near the windmill and a house in Hog Lane, St Leonard Shoreditch, 1666-1668 (3610-3614), owned by William Worrall, plasterer; land at Kildesby, Northants, settled on the marriage of Richard Tomson and Mary Hall in 1616 (3615)

AMS3616 Manifesto of - Banister, candidate for the East Grinstead seat in the 1889 County Council Election, printed from the Sussex Daily News of 23 Feb 1889

AMS3617 Assignment of lease, capital messuage called Ringmer Lodge and park called Ringmer Park (Cornford-Sackville-Turnor), [1576]-1580

AMS3618-3630 Plans for alterations at Roeheath Mansion, Chailey, 1885

AMS3631-3636 Plans for alterations at Kingscote House, East Grinstead, 1895

Transferred to WSRO and listed as AMS17688-17693

AMS3637-3688 Peckham, Woodward and Donovan families of Arches in Framfield, 1580-1891: manor and mansion called Arches, land called Bolneys, Hawksbridge, wasteland at Hoyle Common and copyhold messuage and 18a at Honeys Green in Framfield, settled on the marriage of William Peckham and Sarah Durrant in 1743, manor of Framfield copyhold including a messuage called Sithelbrooks, Sarah Peckham admitted 1771; manor of Arches, messuage and 25a called Merchants, Woodwards and Drays in Mayfield, copyhold messuage and 12a called Denis in Mayfield, copyhold messuage and 160a called Tovies in Worth, copyhold land in Ringmer, copyhold messuage and land at Bormer in Palmer, all settled on the marriage of Sarah Peckham and William Woodward, 1771; copyhold estate called Brook House Farm in Framfield, purchased by William Woodward in 1783 (Calverley-Mason-Woodward), 1781-1783; probate of William Woodward of Uckfield, clerk, including the advowsons of West Grinstead and Plumpton and an annuity from Jamaica estates, 1786; probate of Sarah Woodward of Uckfield, 1823; settlement of estate, including Poll Row Wood and Malgars in Framfield, 1823, annotated with sales off, 1847; mortgage of the estate including messuage called Gallops, messuage near Stroods Mill in Buxted, and a messuage called Loxfield; statutory declaration of Catherine Morgan concerning the marriage of Mary Peckham and Henry Courthope, with supporting register entries, 1849; schedule of title deeds of the Framfield Place estate (purchased 1890) and land at Framfield (purchased 1892), 1898; copyhold cottage and 1a at Booths Common, Framfield (Hart-Barton-Donovan), [1742]-1845; messuage in the marlpit, 2 messuages and a smith's shop at Framfield Green and other land in Framfield, [1713]-1818; next presentation of Westmeston (Dobell-Rideout), 1751; gravespace in Framfield chancel (Fuller-Stone), 1753; pew in Framfield chancel to belong to the estate late Everendens (Fuller-Rideout), 1754, with faculty, 1760; faculty for a new tower and restoration of Framfield church, 1891; court book of the manor of Arches, 1580-1828

AMS3689-3691 Three houses built on Coney Banks behind newly-built Croft Houses in Hastings (Milward-Hulse and Thorpe), 1816, with an undertaking concerning a deed of 1816 (Hulse and others to Simmons), 1839

AMS3692-3714 Garden and watercourse at The Wish, Rye (Lashley-Hayward-Peck), [1560]-1562; messuage on N side of Roger [?Longer] Street, Rye (Abury-Oxenbridge-Caselden), 1591; mortgage of messuage in Rye (Harman-Benbrick), 1618; probate of Josias Burdett of Rye mariner, including a messuage in the Gun Garden, 1716; messuage, barn and 15a called Stewards Reed in Buxted, Baker family, 1605-1691; (copyholds called Parsons and Calverts in Poynings (Barber-King-Lewry-Church), [1764]-1797 transferred to WSRO and listed as AMS17694-17696); 16a in Playden (Dallett-Bodle and Death), 1605; bond (Weekes-Grigg), 1621; Crouches in Bolney (Wickham), 1652; coronation commission to the barons of Hastings, 1661; house and garden in Midhurst (Featherstone-Browne-Francis), 1669; settlement on the marriage of Thomas Watts and Ann Walsingham: Wenborns or Burdens and 60a in Mayfield, 1695; contract for rights of way [S of Saltcot Street in] Playden, Pigram and Beaver, 1727; probate of Henry Cruttenden of Burwash bequeathing Woodgate in Dallington and Warbleton and a messuage in Heathfield, 1729; mortgage bond (Willes-Dawtrey), 1764; warrant of attorney to confess judgement in Baker v Hickes of Robertsbridge, in KB, 1773; survey by R Clarke of [H T Gott's] Gate, Hayes and Newmans in Beckley, Peasmarsh and Udimore and marsh in Rye and Icklesham, 1810 [map = Acc 2806/13]; memorial of 50 inhabitants of Winchelsea to retain parliamentary representation, c1832; prologue spoken by Captain Ash at Brighton Theatre for the benefit of the families of the men lost off Shoreham, c1780

AMS3715 History of Lindfield Congregational Church, compiled by J E Judson (pastor 1843-1861) and maintained by his successors; 1811-1901

Transferred to the WSRO and listed as Addit MSS 17697

AMS3716 Acknowledgement of fine of Wards, Parnel Lands and Bakers Field in Ticehurst and land in Etchingham, bequeathed by Herbert Randolph of Wardes to Anthony Apsley in 1604 and settled in 1618; 1637; produced in May v Apsley in Wards and Liveries, nd, c1640

AMS3717-3724 Copyhold cottages in Ditchling (Dumbrell-Durrant-Burt-Hall-Herriott-Rickman), 1724-1853; 3721 includes a messuage and 18a in Wivelsfield

AMS3725 Bill of lading of the Industry of Ulverstone, 52½ tons of slate for Lord G H Cavendish at Eastbourne, 1784

AMS3726-3764 Shoreham Farm, Ewhurst, 1693-1922: leasehold house and 1a (King-Austen-Darby-Seere-Darby-Colgate-Hyland-Glover-Harmer-Dawes-Meppem-Moon-Gurney-Baxter-Bourne, including note of recovery at Sussex Assizes in Hickes d Austen v King, c1693, and newly built messuages of c1750 and c1850) 1693-1922; messuage, 3 cottages and 78a (enfranchised Robertsbridge copyholds called Chapmans or Corners, Barons, Thorndens and Ladds), later known as Boyces Farm: (Wells-Blaker-Buckwell-(sales off to Frampton and Gardner); includes houses at Eaton Place and Chesham Road in Kemptown, Brighton; 1880-1922; all sold by Mobsby-Dawes, 1922

AMS3765-3779 Cottage at The Dicker in Arlington, copyhold of Michelham Parkgate (Baker-Wymark), 1662; Barnext and Barnetyes and 30a in Beckley, settled by William Davey in 1628, [1601]-1628; Clarks (1/2a) in Beckley (Stodder-Martin-East), 1701; woodland (47a), part of the Gott estate in Beckley (Lord-Luxford), 1825; Henshot (20a) in Dallington and Warbleton (Glydd-Boys-Weller), 1682; barn and 10a called Millands in Hailsham (Pelland-Somner, Dickinson-Swane-Willard), 1583, 1647; licence to Thomas Hooper clerk to hold Beckley and Hailsham in plurality, 1701; fine, Hailsham, Hailsham rectory and Lewes Westout (Goring-Hooper and Stonestreet), 1749; barn and 8a called Milland in Hailsham, copyhold of Wilmington (Luxford-Luxford), [1837]-1896; leaseholds (20a) called Rylands and Stockets in Mayfield (Marchant-Relfe-Relfe), [1657]-1676; parts of a tenement called Grandhese, copyhold of Rotherfield Rectory in Rotherfield (Wickham-Relfe), 1622; messuage and land at Salehurst (Luxford-Luxford), [1835]-1836

AMS3780-4104 Papers in De La Warr v Miles and Hale in chancery and the court of appeal (The Ashdown Forest Case), 1876-1882

Separately catalogued for A2A

AMS4105 Statistical survey of land, population and livestock in Frant, prefixed to a recommendation for national defence, 1803

AMS4106-4109 Maps of Brighton open fields by David Laing, 1792 and 1838; printed map of Brighton town by J Marchant, c1825; Stephen Smith's Bodiam Park Farm in Bodiam and Salehurst, copied from the tithe map by Thomas Boldwiles, c1840

AMS4110 Map of the Duke of Dorset's Broadstone Lodge Farm at Forest Row in East Grinstead by [Thomas Marchant], 1788

AMS4111 National Registration Act certificate of registration for Annie Hoad of Ashfield Cottage Newick, servant, 1915

AMS4112-4435 Deeds relating to Ote Hall Farm in Wivelsfield, Hurstpierpoint, Cuckfield, Barcombe, Lindfield, Ditchling, Keymer and Plumpton, 1330-1936

Separately catalogued for A2A

AMS4436-4437 Patent appointing commissioners of sewers for the rapes of Pevensey and Hastings, 1781; summons of Thomas Worge of Brighton to Lewes petty sessions for non-payment of poor rate, 1800

AMS4438 Letter, subscribed C S, describing 'The sufferings of the crew of a sloop commanded by N[icholas] Harvey' of Rye, 1757-1758; 1758

AMS4439 Records of Uriah Clark and Nephew, The Dicker Pottery, 1912-1945, including memorandum book of S Harte concerning the firm's history and products, c1940, engineering reports, 1925 and 1927, printed brochure, c1930, photographs, c1930

AMS4440-4443 Surveys of Ewhurst Manor, c1670, 1643x1647; maps of manor of Ewhurst tenements in Beckley, Iden, Playden and Peasmarsh, c1755 copies of c1672

AMS4444-4455B Letters, accounts and receipts of Simon Moyse of Winchelsea, 1649-1656

AMS4456 Map of Thomas Stone's Gatehouse Farm, Framfield, by T Weller, 1785

AMS4457 Deed of woodland at Brightling (le Turnur-Joce), 1291

AMS4458 Photostat of account of Edward Pelland, bailiff of Edward Carew's manors of Plumpton, Plumpton Boscage, Plumpton Piddinghoe, Birling and Netherhall, 1575

AMS4459 Abstract of a survey of manors of Herstmonceux and Old Court in Wartling by Samuel Crouch for Thomas lord Dacre, 1683; XA 18 is a microfilm of the original

AMS4460-4547 Diaries, farming journals, correspondence and other papers of the Poole and Blencowe families, 1706-1914

Now listed as HOOK

AMS4548 Account of Tide Mills, Newhaven, [recte Bishopstone], based on the recollections of A Davis, 1893-

AMS4549 Certificate of Cinque Ports freedom of Thomas Simmons the younger of Seaford, merchant, 1788