Conveyance (lease and release) to make a tenant to the precipe and lead the uses...

From (a) Dame Elizabeth Peachey of Glynley, Co. Sussex, widow of Sir John Peachey of West Dean, bart., deceased, and (b) Sir James Peachey of West Dean, bart., younger brother of the said Sir John Peachey, and John Peachey of West Dean, esq., his only son and heir, to (c) Thomas Middleton of Lincolns Inn, Co. Middlesex, gentleman

I Capital messuage, tenement, and farm called Stoughton Farm (202a), with a sheep down belonging, in Stoughton, in occupation of Richard Caplin

II Messuage or tenement and farm called South Farm (132a) with a sheep down belonging, in Stoughton, in occupation of Ann Witcher, widow

III Messuage, tenement, and farm called New Place Farm in Pulborough (160a) in occupation of Thomas Gates

IV Capital messuage or tenement and farm called Goreing Lee Farm in Shipley, Thakeham and West Chiltington (352a) in occupation of Richard Cragg

V Messuage, tenement and farm called Patmans or Hurlands Farm in Shipley and Thakeham (125a) in occupation of Richard Grinstead

VI Messuage or tenement and farm called Hoes or Hoes Farm in Shipley (137a) in occupation of James Andrews

VII Messuage or tenement and farm called Bakers Farm in Shipley (140a) in occupation of Isaac Cragg

VIII Manor of West Dean, and messuage, tenement and Farm called Home Farm or Manor Farm in West Dean (171a) in occupation of Ann Whitter and the said Sir James Peachey

IX Barn and land called Perriers in West Dean in occupation of the said Sir James Peachey

X Messuage, tenement, and farm called Monckton Farm in West Dean (245a) in occupation of John Green

XI Piece of land called Cannon Fields in West Dean in occupation of John Woods

XII Piece of land called Puttocks Land in West Dean Formerly in occupation of Richard Beall and since of the said Sir James Peachey

XIII Messuage or tenement and garden in West Dean formerly in occupation of William Till, and John Tribe and since of the said Sir James Peachey

XIV Piece of pasture land called Cottfield in West Dean

XV Piece of land called Cooper's Park in West Dean

XVI Piece of land lately used as a kitchen garden

XVII Dovehouse, fishpond, and two pieces of land called Berry Mead and Rogers Plott, in West Dean, in occupation of the said Sir James Peachey

XVIII Messuage or tenement and farm called Preston Farm in Binderton and West Dean (160a) in occupation of Robert Dearling

XIX Messuage or tenement called Black Bushes in Binderton and West Dean in occupation of Richard Burt

XX Manors of Stoughton, Says Court, Tawkshold, and Westbourne

XXI Manor of Birdham alias Siddlesham

XXII Barn and land in the District of Manhood, part of the said Manor of Birdham alias Siddlesham, in occupation of Robert Simmonds

XXIII Woods and coppices in West Dean, Stoughton, and Didling (640a) formerly in occupation of Thomas Knight and since of the said Sir James Peachey

XXIV Manor of Shipley

XXV Rectory of the parish church of Shipley and all tithes in the said parish belonging thereto

XXVI Messuage or tenement, barns, gardens, orchards, and backsides at or near Green Street in Shipley

XXVII Seven crofts or closes of land lying nearest to XXVI (35a), being part of Gassons Farm in Shipley

XXVIII Three fields called Lootham Fields (15a), part of a farm called Bridghill, in Shipley

XXIX Messuage or tenement and farm called Bridghouse Farm in Shipley (50a)

XXX Four crofts or closes of land called Gassons Wood in Shipley (10a), adjoining to a farm belonging to Elias Blunt

XXXI Messuage, farm, and lands in Shipley (53a.0r.7p)

XXXII Farm and lands in Shipley (25a.3r.19p)

XXXIII Barn with lands, tenements, and hereditaments belonging (18a), formerly being part of Slawter Farm in Thakeham

XXVI-XXXIII being in the occupation of Edward Bristow and Henry Jupp

XXXIV Messuage or tenement, barns, buildings, and lands called Wheatlands, Crockhurst, Thomas's Croft, Climpings, and Sleates in South Water, Horsham (52a)

XXXV Three closes of land called Mill Field, Lottingsfield and Crockhurst (20a)

XXXVI Barn, and lands, tenements, and hereditaments called Little Nuthams, Weekings, and Hook Mead in South Water, Horsham (20a), in occupation of John Ettridge

XXXVII Lands called Wayer Tor and Broad in Heringham alias Hardham (20a), in occupation of William Hill

XXXVIII Meadows or marsh grounds called Brookmead, Torryes, Wiggen holt Brooks, and Northbrooks in Wiggenholt, Hardham, and Pulborough (150a) in occupation of Ann Whitter widow

XXXIX Messuage or tenement and farmhouse, with lands and woodlands belonging, called Vistey or Pishley (120a)

XL Pieces of land called Great Thirsfield (20a)

XLI Lands called Shutwell alias Sutwells and Redland in Lodsworth and Burton (20a) in occupation of John Robinson

XLII Manor or Lordship of Stedham and advowsons of the churches of Stedham and Heyshott

XLIII Capital messuage, together with buildings and lands belonging in Stedham (189a), in occupation of Richard Ayling, and all coppice and woodlands belonging (60a)

XLIV Water cornmill called Stedham Mill

XLV Messuage, tenement, buildings, and 20a. land in Stedham, in occupation of Thomas Eldridge

XLVI Messuage, barn, buildings, and 8a. land in Stedham

XLVII Meadow (2r.Op) adjoining to Stedham Bridge

XLVIII Messuage, farm, and tenement called Sleters in Stedham (140a) in occupation of John Weeks and William Newman

XLIX Piece of coppice or woodland called Innholmes in Stedham (35a)

L Other part of XLIV in Stedham (35a)

LI Messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in Stedham and Heyshott in the occupation of William Chalcroft, Edward Hayward, Ogle Riggs, Ann Smith, [ ] Grist, William Hollist, William Grist, James Piggott, William Heather, John Challen, John Chandler and Joyce Lee widow

LII Messuage or tenement, farm and buildings called Heyshott Farm (166a), in occupation of John Mellersh

LIII All other manors, messuages, rectories, tithes, mills, farms, lands, tenements, and hereditaments belonging to the said Sir James Peachey and John Peachey in West Dean, Binderton, Didling, Stoughton, Says Court, Tawkshole, Westbourne, Birdham, Sidlesham, Manhood, Shipley, Thakeham, West Chiltington, Horsham, South Water, Pulborough, Herringham alias Hardham, Wiggenholt, Lodsworth, Burton, Stedham, Heyshott, or elsewhere in Sussex

Recites: (i) 12 August 1752. Settlement whereby the property described as I - VII above was appointed by the said Sir John Peachey to the use of the said Dame Elizabeth Peachey (then Elizabeth Fagge) for her life for her jointure

(ii) That the property described as I - VII above then stood settled to the said Dame Elizabeth Peachey for her life with remainder to the use of the said Sir James Peachey for his life and thereafter to the use of the said John Peachey in tail male

(iii) That the remainder of the property described above then stood settled to the use of the said Sir James Peachey for his life, thereafter to the use of Lady Georgia Carolina Peachey, his wife, for her life for her jointure, with remainder to the use of the said John Peachey intail male

By this deed the said property is conveyed to the said Thomas Middleton to the intent that he may become tenant of the freehold so that a common recovery may be suffered, and the property limited to the uses declared therein, namely to the use of the said Sir James Peachey during his life and thereafter to the use of the said John Peachey and his heirs in tail male, subject to the life interests of the said Dame Elizabeth Peachey and Lady Georgia Carolina Peachey

Witnesses: John Seagrave and Joshua James