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Copy enrolled mortgage for £100

Catalogue reference: amsnn/AMS6792/1

What’s it about?

This record is a file about the Copy enrolled mortgage for £100 dating from 2 May 1556.

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Reference

amsnn/AMS6792/1

Title

Copy enrolled mortgage for £100

Date

2 May 1556

Description

Ninian Burrell of Penhurst, gent, and his son (by his first wife Elizabeth [Penhurst]) Thomas Burrell, the heir of his mother, to Anthony Pelham of Bivelham in Mayfield, esq

messuage, land and wood in Penhurst and Brightling called The Levettes, occupied by John Weston and Michael Hawkyns, which NB holds for life with reversion to TB reserved: woods and underwoods, with power to fell, cut, coal and carry away, and to dig iron mine during the next three years mortgage payable at AP's mansion house of Buxsteep [in Warbleton] on 1 May 1559; on the failure of NB and TB to repay the mortgage, AP to have an option to purchase by the payment of a further £63 and a rent of 9s 0d a year

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Former department reference

AMS 6792/1

Originals held at

TNA, CP 40/1167 part 2, deeds enrolled

Language

English

Custodial history

enrolled in the court of Common Pleas, 6 Jun 1556

Administrative / biographical background

The manor of Penhurst descended, on the death of John Penhurst, to his daughter Elizabeth, who married Ninian Burrell (VCH 9 237). The precise location of this land has not been determined.

Record URL
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Copy of enrolled deed of land in Penhurst and Brightling

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Copy enrolled mortgage for £100