Miscellaneous deeds and documents

Principal contents:

1-32 WSRO

33-35 East Guldeford: estate of the Guldeford family, 1504

36-37 Framfield and Little Horsted: Gage of Bentley Estate, 1739

38 Hastings: messuage behind St Clement's church, 1757

39 WSRO

40 Northiam: manor of Gatecourt, 1597

41-43 Wadhurst and Lamberhurst: Tylers and Sweetings, 1692-1701

44 Northiam: Gatecourt, 1760

45 Ringmer: will of Thomas Ellman, 1771

46-47 Lewes: Lewes Castle gatehouse, 1762

48 Southease: probate of Richard Bollard, 1780

49-52 Lewes: estate of Cater Rand a bankrupt, 1784-1788; administration of James Newman of Cliffe, 1793

53 WSRO

54 number not used

55 Newhaven: will of Thomas Tipper, 1782

56-57 WSRO

58 Southover: will of Robert Withington, 1787

59-62 WSRO

62A Salehurst: particulars of sale of the advowson, 1841

63-64 Battle: will of William Potter, dissenting minister, 1708, inventory, 1717

65 Framfield and Little Horsted: schedule of deeds of estate of Jasper Blythman deceased, 1658-1716; 1738

66 Falmer, Aldwick: settlement of estates of Lord Craven, 1669

67-68 Ripe: Great Lulhams, 1785

69-75 Laughton: grants of waste and subsequent descent, 1811-1824

76 Rye, Winchelsea: list of deeds of the Castle estate, including the manor of Iham, 1762-1853

77-82 Wadhurst: Shorte family, including a portion of the tithes, 1738-1791

83-84 WSRO

85 East Grinstead: Sackville College litigation concerning rentcharges, 1686

86 Mortgage bond (Walker-Arkall), 1682

87 Pelham Estate settlement, 1726

88 Ashburnham Estate: Exchequer decree in suit concerning settlement of 1705, 1712

89-93 WSRO

94 Robertsbridge Abbey Estate: patent to Sir William Sydney, 1541

95-97 Burwash: Burnthoath, Bishopsham and Williams Bow, 1569-1671

98-105 Ticehurst: Bardown, including Pelham lease of Bardown Chapel, manor of Bricklehurst, 1695-1742

106 Whatlington, Mountfield, Etchingham and Burwash: recovery, 1747

107 Abstract of costs of rebuilding Laughton Chancel and Pelham vault, 1765-1767

108-109 East Guldeford: marsh, 1808-1825

110-111 Icklesham and St Leonards: Elm Marsh and Ferry Marsh, 1820

112-117 Henry Pelham [1695-1764, statesman]: rentals and accounts of Sussex and Ifield Estates, 1731-1761

118-136 WSRO

137-150 Burwash: Westwood, Pasrtures, Checkley, Bakers, Halton and Rackleys (with settlement of Parker of Willingdon Estate, 1554), 1402-1588

151 Nevill famil, Lords Abergavenny: pedigree, with a schedule of the estate, 1726

152-163 Hooe: prebend of Hooe and Sherlocks Farm purchased by John Pelham in 1661, 1587-1661

164 Newick: messuage and land near the church, Richard Dungate deceased, 1781

165 Laughton: cottage and 30a, 1798

166-168 Rye Harbour: notes and report concerning improvements with a letter from Thomas Corbett of the Admiralty Office, 1722-1745

169 Correspondence concerning the tithes of reclaimed land at Newhaven, including letters from Richard Andrew Turner of Lewes [?for Lord Sheffield], 1814

170 WSRO

171 Buxted: leasehold croft, [1571]-1664

172-173 WSRO

174 East Grinstead: sale particular, Hammerwood Estate, 1918

175-176 Jevington: copyhold (Harben), 1764-1783

177 Berwick: cottage on Berwick Tye, 1715

178 Hooe: Barnhorne copyhold, settled on marriage of William Gilbert and Elizabeth Saxby in 1744, 1772

179-182 Bishopstone: lease of Norton Farm, 1765, terrier of the open fields, 1766, copyhold elements of the estate, 1775

183-310 ESRO AMS 6454 (including SAS/FB 345, 349, 357, 359, 389-393, 406)

311-420 Beckley: Belshurst, Hobsmarsh, copyhold Chequer Field, Hopes [or Little Belhurst] (including plan by J Parsons, 1792), with East Kichenham in Peasmarsh, and details of the Rugg family of Beckley; 1724-1852

421-439 ESRO AMS 6454

440-443 Estate of Lord Craven: court rolls of the manor of Rockland at Boreham in Wartling, 1559-1564, rental 1686, surveys of the manors of Wartling, Rockland, Falmer and Aldwick, 1768, lease of the manor of Falmer, 1755

444-457 Newick: Ridgeland, Bridge Mead, Rough Garden, Cowlings, copyhold of Allington, 1786-1819

458-465 Chailey and Barcombe: Grantham Estate, including Fridgers and Shoulders, 1806-1852

466-500 Newick: WH Blaauw's Beechlands Estate, including Ketches Farm, Combe Farm and windmill, Oldlands otherwise Tilehouse Farm, with valuations, 1834-1835; 1617-1877

501-504 ESRO AMS 6454

505-514 Estate of Lord Craven: manor of Leigh and Barn Grange in Iden, manors of Rockland and Wartling, 1620-1722

515-525 Ditchling: Folders, 1765-1819

526 Southover and Lewes St Anne, Pevensey and the advowson of Piddinghoe: recovery, 1693

527 Warbleton: lease of the manor of Warbleton by Smith's Charity to Lord Ashburnham, 1765

528 Peasmarsh, Iden and Playden: estate late Norris, sold on bankruptcy of Brown and Collinson, [1774]-1783

529-532 Wadhurst: messuage and 22a, 1793-1806

533 Chailey and Barcombe: Grantham Estate, Fridgers and Shoulders, [1793]-1806

534-539 Newick: WH Blaauw's Beechlands Estate, including Ketches Farm, Combe Farm and windmill, Oldlands otherwise Tilehouse Farm, 1823-1869

540 WSRO

541-586 Sackville Estate: East Grinstead, burgage called Gedgers, 1593-1725; Ashdown Forest and the manor of Duddleswell, 1693-1730; manors of Bexhill and Cooden, 1694; partial enfranchisement of the Kidbrook Estate to Lord Abergavenny, 1735; petition and deed poll of change of name from Sackville-West to Sackville, 1864-1870; receipts and expenditure, Knole Estate in Kent and Sussex, c1870; manor of Bexhill, 1797; covenant to produce deeds, 1819

587 Bexhill: Watclarkes, 1683

588-593 Rotherfield: Doddshill and Long Croft, 1754-1847

594 Ticehurst: stinted copy, manor of Hammerden, 1618

595-597 WSRO

598 Iden and Beckley: final concord, 1734

599 Warbleton: final concord, 1744

600 WSRO

601 Brighton: bond, Kemp-Blaker, 1781

602 Warbleton: land near Christians River, manor of Buxsteep, 1786

603 Ifield and Udimore, bond, 1797

604 East Grinsteadold messuage late Kettle's, 1815

605 Brighton: windmill near Kemp Town, [1836]-1840

606-607 Mayfield: mortgage bonds, 1737-1745

608 Framfield: final concord, 1806

609 Buxted: Red Tile House and land at Five Ash Down, 1825

610-611 Herstmonceux: Bemsells, 1762

612-616 Mayfield: messuage and land at the West End of the Town, 1708-1785

617 Portslade: five acres, 1818

618-619 Rotherfield: messuage formerly called The Beach, and final concord, 1701-1782

620 Udimore and Brede: final concord, 1702

621 Waldron, Hailsham and Pevensey: final concord, 1730

622 Wadhurst and Penshurst, Kent: settlement on marriage of John Wells Luck and Charity Baker, 1720

623-631 Ditchling: Perryfield, Inholmes and Boards, 1636-1851

632-637 Buxted: Old Lands, Buxted Mill, Scopers, and former waste, 1754-1862

638 Ashburnham: probate of William trivet, vicar, 1829

639 Ticehurst: administration of Henry Beauclerk, 1856

640-643 Hastings: probate of Charlotte Yeoman of Gloucester Place, 1857; assignment of turnpike securities, 1866; probate of William Talbot Sutthery of Barham House, 1897; probate of Frances Ashburnham [of Broomham in Guestling], 1897

644 Brede: probate of RHS Hele, 1839

645-686 Newick: WH Blaauw's Beechlands Estate, including cottage adjoining Tilehouse Farm, Budds Tenement in Ringmer, Beechland in Newick, Fridgers and Shoulders, part of Ketches, houses at Colonels Bank, maps and plans; 1699-1879

687-698 Buxted Park Estate: Totease Farm, [1829]-1869

699-700 Newick: WH Blaauw's Beechlands Estate, 1835-1841

701 Fletching: interest under the estate of James Graves of Somerset, 1763

702 Lewes: probate of Sarah Wheatley, 1787

703-705 Buxted: house at Buxted Bridge, 1832-1849

706-719 WSRO

720 Barcombe: probate of Mary Russell Gray, 1840

721-723 Eastbourne: 10-11 Seaside, 35 Grand Parade, 1850-1882

724-729 WSRO

730-732 Wadhurst: two messuages and part of Tanners Field, 1823

733 Lewes: stall in St Michael, 1686

734-735 WSRO

736 settlement on marriage of Eliza Fanny Morgan and EDA Aplin, 1853

737 Rotherfield: probate of William Hosmer, 1659

738-758 WSRO

759 Ninfield: Holstreet and The Mark, 1693

760-762 Hellingly: pottery kiln on the Dicker Common, 1819-1827

763-768 Rotherfield: Bullfinches and Colbrands, 1697-1718

Some of the documents have been transferred to West Sussex Record Office as indicated in the above list.

Given or deposited via the British Records Association by several firms of solicitors, 1942-1950.

The reference F was used by the Sussex Archaeological Society as a mnemonic reference for the listing of documents transferred by Frere and Company of London, solicitors, via the British Records Association in 1931. Further transfers by the association were given the references FA and FB as a means of continuing the same reference. On the transfer of the Society's collections of documents to ESRO in 1982 the references were altered to SAS/F, FA and FB.