Estate late John Mittell, 1794: Copy partition (lease for a year [and release])

Henry Mason of Hailsham, gent and his wife Mary, née Johnson, Henry Johnson the elder of Broadwater (late of Horley in Surrey), gent and Thomas Johnson of Framfield, gent (late of Buxted, tanner) to John Mynn of Hailsham, gent

1 messuage, barns, stables, lodges, buildings and 50a called Slewrights in Waldron and East Hoathly, occupied by HM and Thomas Cayley, once purchased by John Mittell from Richard Brightridge

2 messuage, barn and 40a called The Mowle in Waldron, occupied by HM, before John Adams and Elizabeth Browne, before John Pattenden and Elizabeth Browne (née Mittell), formerly the property of Thomas Hooper of Mayfield, gent, deceased and his son George Hooper

3 messuage, buildings and 47a called Bemsellys and Albursham in Waldron, occupied by Thomas Attwood, before William Piper, before James Vine

4 messuage and two pieces of land (7a) in Waldron, occupied by Thomas Attwood, before Nicholas Page and William Piper

5 messuage, barns, buildings, tan-house, tanyard and tan-vaults called Broomfield in Waldron, Barn Field, Old House Field, Akerhow Field otherwise Home Field, Well Field, Wayfield, River Field otherwise Floodgate Field and The Croft (20a) and Minepit Field, The Lions and The Pinfold (16a), occupied by Henry Johnson the younger, before John Hammond

6 barn and 60a called The Berge and Milkhurst in Waldron, occupied by Thomas Attwood, before William Piper, before Barnaby Goldsmith

7 messuage, barn, buildings and 70a called Barbers in Buxted, formerly part of land called The High Waste [?recte High Hurst Wood], occupied by TJ, before John Piper and Charles Browne, esq, before John Burgis

all bequeathed by John Mittell, esq, to his daughter Elizabeth by will of 11 Apr 1734 [proved in PCC in Dec 1734: PRO PROB 11/668, s268]

release of the following day to be between HM and his wife Mary, HJ, TJ and his wife Sarah, JM, Walter Mason of Sedlescombe (late of Folkington), gent and Henry Bonnick of Waldron, yeoman

W: William Long, John Sinnock; Mary Goble

W to copy: John Sinnock the younger, Samuel Sinnock, 6 Jul 1795

<p>For deeds of Bemsells and Albursham (3 in AMS6518/6), 1597-1715, including its conveyance to John Mittell of Waldron, founder, in 1605, see SAS/D 88, 110-111 and DD 67; for deeds of The Berge and Milkhurst (6 in AMS6518/6), 1673 and 1698, see SAS/D 270, DD 520. Their presence in that archive suggests that the properties may later have formed part of the Gatehouse estate in Mayfield and Waldron.</p>

The estate was bequeathed by John Mittell, esq, to his daughter Elizabeth by his will of 11 Apr 1734, proved in PCC in December 1734 (PRO PROB 11/668, s268). In about 1740 she married Charles Browne; for correspondence between their solicitor Francis Austen of Cliffords Inn and Sevenoaks in Kent and John Collier, steward of the manor of Foxhunt in Waldron, concerning a resettlement of the estate after the marriage, 1741, see PAR 361 7/1/5-12.

Broomfield and the Tanyard must have been allotted by the partition to Henry Johnson. He died in 1798 and the property descended to his son Henry Johnson, on whose bankruptcy it was sold to his relative William Balcombe Langridge, the clerk of the peace in 1819. For detailed papers concerning the farm, 1797-1850, see AMS 5706/11, 12. For a map of the farm, 1819, see LAN 305.