Counterpart mortgage ([lease and] release) for £3000 at 5%

John Lade of New Norfolk Street, St George Hanover Square (late of Piccadilly), London, bt, to Henry Thwaites of High Holborn in Middlesex, warehouseman

1 The manor of Etchingham with Salehurst

2 Two pieces of brookland and two pieces of upland (16a)

3 387a wood

4 Iron mill or forge with several small tenements for workmen formerly occupied by William Weston, Sir George Strode and John Nicholls, esq

5 Messuage called Bardens with the barns, stables, buildings and 150a land (field-names) in Etchingham, formerly occupied by Richard Lambert and John Lambert

6 Messuage called The Church Farm with the barns, outhouses and 110a land in Etchingham, formerly occupied by Charles Hooke

7 Messuage and 17a formerly occupied by Henry German

8 Messuage and 12a formerly occupied by John Harlow

9 Messuage and 5a brookland formerly occupied by Robert Spiller, gent

10 Messuage and 6a arable formerly occupied by John Jones

All in Etchingham, Salehurst, Burwash, Ticehurst and Robertsbridge, subject to the life estate of JL's mother Dame Ann Lade in some parts and of his wife Dame Letitia in the whole

Recites: Act of Parliament of 23G2 for disposing of part of the real estate of William Robinson Lytton, esq, deceased (details), 1749; conveyance by John Taylour, DD and Matthew Bacon, esq and others to John Fuller, esq, surviving executor and trustee of the estate of JL's great-great uncle Sir John Lade of St Savour Southwark, bt, 1 and 2 Jul 1752; sale of the advowson of Etchingham and of a messuage and land in Etchingham, lately occupied by William Fisher, before John Lawrence and William Dunk, to William Clulow, gent; former occupation of the estate by Lawrence Williams, William Warburton, William Gibbons the father and son, Robert Noakes, John Bennett, Francis Squire, John Hayward and Thomas Woodgate

W: Stephen Moulton, Chancery Lane; William Gough, clerk to Mr Clulow, Chancery Lane

Hove Library Accession 1736