Brent Eleigh Hall Estate Records

Deeds, etc., of the Brent Eleigh Hall Estate in Suffolk and also to a minor extent Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, London, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire, 1508-1925

DEEDS AND RELATED PAPERS

(a) Brent Eleigh Manor, Church and Estate; and other property in Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex and London.

(b) Various specific properties, Brent Eleigh (and Milden, Monks Eleigh, Little Waldingfield, etc.)

(i) The Crown Tenement, Brent Eleigh

(ii) 1a. meadow on W. side of Lavenham to Brent Eleigh road

(iii) Collyers tenement and lands, Brent Eleigh and Stoke-by-Clare

(iv) Boycrofts Farm (and Wilcocks Farm, Bakers Farm), Brent Eleigh, etc.

(v) 2 water mills (Upper and Nether Mills), messuage and 3 pieces of land, Brent Eleigh

(vi) Sandpitts (6a.) and Four Acres (4a.)

(vii) Sandpitt and Sandpitt Grove (14a. in all), [Brent Eleigh].

(viii) Stonecrofts Farm, house and lands, and Chapple Cottage, Brent Eleigh.

(ix) The Swan, Wilcocks and Collers tenements, the Moors, cottage and lands mainly in Brent Eleigh.

(x) 2 tenements and cottages used as one, Brent Eleigh Street.

(xi) Tenement and cottage with yard adjoining, Brent Eleigh Street.

(xii) Cottage and orchard, Brent Eleigh Street.

(xiii) 2½a. meadow in Brent Eleigh abutting on Brent Eleigh to Lavenham road to N. and river to S.

(xiv) Messuage in Prentice Street, and lands (8a. in all), in Brent Eleigh

(xv) Messuage and 8a. land, Brent Eleigh

(xvi) Messuage, yard or garden, and 3r. arable adjoining, Brent Eleigh (and copyhold house in Market Place, Lavenham).

(xvii) Wells Hall Farm, Brent Eleigh and Milden (and Hall Farm, Brent Eleigh).

(xviii) Marles Farm and cottage, Brent Eleigh, and Kemps Wood in Brent Eleigh, Milden and Little Waldingfield.

(xix) Town Hill (1H½a.), and cottage and windmill thereon, Brent Eleigh

(xx) Freehold double tenement cottage in Cock Lane, formerly being 7r. of upper Fayers Field, Brent Eleigh.

(xxi) Hall Farm, Street Farm, Bowery Farm, Milden Hall Farm, and Foysters Farm.

(c) Copyhold Property, Brent Eleigh

(d) Miscellaneous Properties, Brent Eleigh

(e) Various Places in Suffolk (and Essex and Hertfordshire)

(i) Sandpit Grove, etc., Brent Eleigh, and Kingscroft, Preston.

(ii) Vaiseys Farm, Brent Eleigh and Little Waldingfield

(iii) Foysters Hall and lands, Brent Eleigh and Monks Eleigh

(iv) Bury St. Edmunds

(v) Elmswell Hall Farm and lands, and other property at Elmswell, Norton (and Gt. Finborough, Combs and Buxhall).

(vi) Gentryes tenement, Kersey, and messuage and lands in Milden and Monks Eleigh.

(vii) Barkers Meadow (4a.), Lavenham.

(viii) Messuage, farm amd appurtenances in Lavenham, and messuage, farm and appurtenances in Brent Eleigh.

(ix) Copyhold property in Milden, and manor of Wells Hall alias Milden and appurtenances (Brent Eleigh, Edwardstone, Groton, Milden, Monks Eleigh, Preston, Waldingfield, and "Marrls Neves").

(x) Manor of Milden alias Wells Hall, Milden Hall alias Rashbrooks, and property in Milden, Great (including Pond Hall) and Little Waldingfield, Brent Eleigh, Chelsworth, and Monks Eleigh, and in Totteridge, Herts.

(xi) Nether Blomefeld and Homeshill Meadow, Milden.

(xii) Manors of Monks Eleigh and Beaumonds in Lindsey copyholds, and lands in Monks Eleigh (and Milden and Brent Eleigh; and Aldham and Marks Tey, Essex).

(xiii) Milden and Monks Eleigh (and Great and Little Waldingfield) including Bowery Farm.

(xiv) Messuage in Milden, and Bears Wood, cottage, Brick Kiln Yard, etc., in Milden, Brent Eleigh, and Great and Little Waldingfield.

(xv) Hole Farm and Bears Wood and lands in Milden, Brent Eleigh and Little Waldingfield.

(xvi) Preston St. Mary.

(xvii) Copyhold lands at Preston and Brent Eleigh.

(xviii) Tostock Place Estate, Tostock, Drinkstone and Beyton (and Bury St. Edmunds, Elmswell, Norton and Woolpit).

(xix) Belchams alias Baldwyns messuage, Brabrocks tenement, and Colmans and Rawlings messuages, advowson of church and manor of Castlins, in Great Waldingfield, and lands in Acton and Great and Little Waldingfield.

(xx) ½a. in Little Waldingfield

(f) Places mainly outside West Suffolk

(i) Tower Farm, Tadlow, Cambs.

(ii) Suffolk, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire

(iii) Manors and advowsons of Lavenham and Stowlangtoft, and property in Brent Eleigh, Cockfield, Lavenham, etc.; and Manor of Downhall and property in Foxearth, Hadleigh, Liston, Rayleigh and Thundersley, Essex.

(iv) Brent Eleigh, Brettenham, Cockfield, Felsham, Preston, and Thorpe Morieux, West Suffolk; and Ardleigh, Great and Little Bromley, and Colchester, Essex.

(g) Huntingdonshire (Southoe).

(h) London (St. Martin's in the Fields).

(i) Norfolk (Bressingham and Fersfield).

(j) East Suffolk (Dagworth, Haughley, Metfield and Old Newton).

(k) West and East Suffolk (Elmswell; Lowdham, Styleham and Ufford).

(l) Suffolk and Norfolk (Hinderclay, Monks Eleigh, Redgrave, Rickinghall, Great and Little Thornham, Thrandeston, and Wickham Skeith, Suffolk; Bunwell, Carleton Rode, Diss, Frenze, South Lopham, Scole and Thorpe, Norfolk).

(m) Miscellaneous (Cotton, Hadleigh, Lavenham and Thurston property, etc.).

MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS, ETC. concerning Suffolk property, other than those re Brent Eleigh Estate as a whole.

WILLS (AND LEGAL PAPERS) ETC.

ESTATE PAPERS, ETC.

BUSINESS PAPERS

FAMILY PAPERS

3 November 1965

Given by Messrs. Williams and James, 3 South Side, Grays Inn, London, W.C.1, per British Records Association (B.R.A. Nos. 1062 and 1153) 3 November 1965. (Acc. 1754).

1. As Acc. 1754 and 1755 relate to Brent Eleigh Hall Estate as a whole they have been combined to form Acc. 1754.

2. Whilst upon receipt some of these deeds were in their original bundles (mainly formed in July 1881) the great majority were in modern bundles and it was found necessary to alter these bundles somewhat for the purposes of reconstituting the archival collection, etc. The original bundles whose labels were found were as follows:

No. 1 Box, A Deeds re 1). Small meadow next Lavenham Town Meadow 1662-88 (now Acc. 1754/1/167 and 169)

2). House in Brent Eleigh Street 1662-90 (now Acc. 1754/1/170-176, and 530).

3). The smith's shop in Brent Eleigh Street 1662-82 (now Acc. 1754/1/160, 161 and 168).

4). "Collers House," Brent Eleigh, 1607-74 (now Acc. 1754/108, 110-112, 114, 115 and 232).

5). Carpenter's cottage, Brent Eleigh Street, 1662-82 (now Acc. 1754/1/163-6).

No. 1 Box, B No. 6 Deeds re "The Swan," Brent Eleigh, 1632-86 (now Acc. 1754/1/486-8; 1754/2/1, 4-6; 1754/3/16)

No. 1 Box, D Nos. 8 & 9 Deeds re Wells Hall, Marles Hall and Kemp Wood 1626-1677, 1713 (No. 9: deed re Wells Hall) (now Acc. 1754/1/23, 354, 356-364 and 485; 1754/3/12, 13 and 17)

No. 1 E Deeds re Boycrofts Farm and Sandpits, 1609-1715 (now Acc. 1754/1/18, 116, 118-120, 122-128, 138, 151, 162, 241, 243 and 262; 1754/2/4; 1754/3/11 and 14).

No. 1 Box, F Nos. 11 & 12 Deeds re Bowers Farm 1624-86 (No. 11) and re Bloomfields and Sandpitts 1638-46 (No. 12) (now Acc. 1754/1/130, 145, 324-5, 377A, 402-414; 1754/2/2,3; 1754/3/8-10; 1754/4/8).

No. 2 Box, G 13 Deeds re the upper and lower water mills, Baldwyn's Fields, Little Town Meadow and Chapel Field, 1553-1646 (now Acc. 1754/1/1-3, 5, 8-10, 12-13, 20, 99-106, 117, 141-3, 146, 230, 233-5, 237-8, 240, 468-70; 1754/4/1-7, 9; 1754/6/3-5).

No. 2 Box, H No. 14 Deeds re Barkers Field for binding apprentices 1613-99 (now Acc. 1754/1/326-340, 528, and 531).

No. 2, I No. 15 Deeds re Isaac Stansby's cottage 1595-1730 (now Acc. 1754/1/231, 239, 246, 248-9; 1754/3/1-7, 15 and 21).

No. 2, J 16 Deeds re 2 cottages in Brent Eleigh, 1661-1718 (now Acc. 1754/1/155-159 and 245).

No. 2, K 17 Deeds re a cottage at Brent Eleigh, 1769-84 (now Acc. 1754/1/177-185 and 247; 1754/3/34; 1754/4/14-15; 1754/6/2).

No. 2, L No. 18 The Settlement and Probate of Mr. Thomas Wallingfield 1732 (now Acc. 1754/1/502-505, 507, 510-515, 532; 1754/4/10).

No. 2, L No. 19 The Probate and accounts of Mrs. Martha Wallingfield 1728-39 (now Acc. 1754/1/506, 508-9, 516-17, 519-20, 533; 1754/2/11; 1754/6/1).

No. 2, M No. 20 Several Bonds satisfied by Mrs. Goate during her son's minority (now Acc. 1754/1/493, 499, 500, 534-40; 1754/3/29).

No. 2, N 21 Miscellaneous deeds and documents 1580-1794 (now Acc. 1754/1/4, 6, 11, 19, 67, 113, 132-3, 218, 253, 347, 350-3, 393, 436, 438-9, 471-2, 495-8, 522, 524-5; 1754/2/8, 13; 1754/3/28, 32, 36; 1754/4/11-13.

No. 2, O 22 Miscellaneous papers, letters and drafts 1800-18 (found loose).

No. 2 Box, P 23 Deeds re Abbotts Hall estate, 1649-1786 (now Acc. 1754/1/25-30, 39-43, 47-8, 53-60, 62-4, 66, 541; 1754/4/16, 17).

No. 2 Box, R(1) No. 25 Settlements and mortgages of the Colman property, 1607-1715 (now Acc. 1754/1/14-16, 22, 31-38, 131, 134, 136-7, 150, 415 and 484; 1754/3/19, 20).

No. 2 Box, S Nos. 27-29 Deeds re Spraggs and Southy Woods 1655-93 (No. 27; sold in 1883 to Mr. Jas. Mitchell and handed over), Copies of Deeds re Hole Farm and Beare's (Southy) Woods with Abstract of Title 1675-1785 (No. 28; handed to Mr. Mitchell), and Deeds re Hole Farm 1780-5, 1811 (No. 29) (now Acc. 1754/1/428-430 and 432; 1754/2/15; and 1754/3/18).

No. 2 Box, T No. 30 Deeds re Fosters Hall, Monks Eleigh, 1727-55, 1804 (found loose).

No. 2 Box, V 31 Deeds tracing the Brent Eleigh estates from the Colman to the Goate families 1745-1819 (found loose; probably comprised settlements and wills).

No. 3 Box, AA 35 and 36 Deeds re Milden Hall Farm 1720-97 (No. 35) and 1819-74 (No. 36) (No. 36 found loose but No. 35 now Acc. 1754/1/370A, 417, 419, 422-5, 427; 1754/2/12; 1754/3/25,27).

No. 3 Box, FF 43-4 1st Bury St. Edmunds Building Sale, 1878 (now Acc. 1754/1/291-297)

No. 3 Box, GG 46 Miscellaneous Nunn exchange, deeds relating to Plot 4, 1651-9 (now Acc. 1754/1/283-286, 289, 290).

No. 3 Box, HH 49 Miscellaneous - Bury Sales, draft conveyances of lots (now Acc. 1754/1/281, 288, 301, 304-310, 431, 445-449; 1754/3/30; 1754/4/24).

Deeds re premises in Brent Eleigh belonging to Mr. Watkinson dated February 17 1842, Town Hill (now Acc. 1754/1/193-200, 257-8, 266-7, 376; 1754/3/41, 44; 1754/4/21).

Deeds re cottages at Brent Eleigh (now Acc. 1754/1/201-208; 1754/3/18).

W.T. Brown - Brent Eleigh, Sundry Old Documents re premises belonging to Wilkinson (now Acc. 1754/1/193-200, 257-8, 266-7, 376; 1754/3/41, 44; 1754/4/21).

Deeds re freehold cottages at Brent Eleigh; on one side of sheet noted as part of the estate of Walter Thomas Brown, Esq., (formerly Bowers') and on the other side of sheet noted as the property of Mr. W. Biddell (purchased of Mr. Thomas Bowers decd.).(Found loose).