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Richard de Herst, John, son of William Hadresham, Henry atte Grove and Andrew Fynch to Philip Seynteler, kt and his wife Margaret
1 The manors of Brambletye, Lavertye, Newenham, Tarring, Brighton, Jevington and Heighton, Sussex and Chaldegrave, Oxfordshire, Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, Oke, Buckinghamshire
2 Annual rent of £8 from John Roos for the manors of Aston Clinton and Chenerey, Buckinghamshire, and ther revesions of the manors of Aston Clinton, Chenerey and of Herdewyk in Oxfordshire, which John Roos holds for life by lease of PS
3 Rent of 5qrs 4bus of salt from Walter Tourymory from the manor of Lampham in the Lowey of Pevensey, and the reversion of the manor of Lampham which Walter Tourymory of Boreham [in Wartling] holds for life by lease by PS
4 The reversion of the manors of Aldeham and Wodeland, Kent, the manor of Notbourne St Clere, Sussex, which manors Elizabeth the wife of Warin Lerchidiacon, kt, holds for life by grant of PS's father John Seyntcler, kt
5 The reversion of the manor of Exceat, which Walter atte Hoke holds for life by grant of RH and the others
To hold to PS and MS and their heirs in tail, remainder to PS and his heirs
W: Thomas Sakevyle, kt, William de Etchynghame, James Pecham, Thomas Earyngton, William West
Four seals, including Richard de Hirst, (three pelicans impaling a blazing sun for St Clere)

John Gage, esq and his wife Eleanor to Richard Adam of Tarring Nevill (Torrynge), yeoman the manor of Tarring St Clere with lands, pastures, rents, services &c, except wards, marriages, reliefs, heriots

John Gage, esq to John Roull of West Firle, husband of the manor of Heighton [St Clere], except rents of tenants, heriots, reliefs, wards, marriages, fines; rent, 7 marks and 20d

Richard Guldeford, kt, Edward Dudley, esq, Thomas Ifley, esq, Richard Saunder, John Asshenhurst, Henry Saunder, John Jurdan against John Gage, esq
The manor of Heighton [St Clere]

John Gage, esq to Richard Ballard of West Firle, husbandman
The site of the manor of Heighton St Clere in West Firle and all the demesne lands

John Gage, esq, kt to Richard Frenche and his heirs in tail
A parcel of meadow called the Scarryll in East Hoathly (N: lane from East Hoathly church to Chiddingly church; E: lane from Waldron to the Downs; S: land of John Comy; W:land late Baldwynnys)
Rent 10s, heriot of 10s and relief of 10s to JG's manor of Heighton St Clere

John Gage to John Combes and his wife Christian, daughter and heir of Simon Affryth, and their heirs in tail
A tenement and garden called the Fryth and 12 pieces of land (50a) called the Wyst, the Upper Garden with house, the Estdoun, the Northdyke, the Morlyng, Longcroft, Powekhale, Wolsings, Gretrede, Longacre, the Shelff and Wyldlond, all in East Hoathly (to the highway from Whitesmith to Barne Crosse Gate)
Rent, heriot and relief to JG's manor of Heighton St Clere

John Gage, kt, to William Cornforth and his heirs in tail
1 A tenement with garden and two pieces of land called Calmons (E: road from Waldron to East Hoathly church; S: lane from the road to the house of Robert Jakys; W: land of Robert Jakys; N: lane from Scarlycross to the butts of East Hoathly)
2 Seven pieces called Netherfeld (W: land of Richard French called Scarlys; other bounds given)
Rent, heriot and relief to JG's manor of Heighton St Clere

Richard Saunders of Charlwood in Surrey, gent, at the request of John Gage, kt, to William Fitzwilliam, kt, treasurer of the king's household, Anthony Browne, kt, Henry Browne, esq, John Shelley, gent, Edward Belyngeham, John Guldeford, Richard Bray, Stephen Rootes and Thomas Pellond
The manor of Heighton [St Clere], which he with others recovered against JG in Trinity term, 1502
To the use of JG and his wife Philippa and JG's heirs

John Roole of Hene in [West] Tarring, husbandman, to John Gage, kt
A messuage and garden in Heighton in West Firle, in which Thomas Osborne then dwelt, and 8a 1r of land in the tenure of Thomas Osborne lying in divers parcels in Heighton, with pasture and common of pasture for seven animals called Retherbestes in the common of Heighton Also of a toft and 3a 3½r in drivers parcels in a place called the Borowe of Firle in the tenure of John Ballard of Preston, with common of pasture for two cows and one mare in the cowe lease and mare lease of Firle

Surrender by Richard Yokehurst
1 Tenement, two barns and two wists of land (30a) in Heighton in Firle, and common of pasture for ten bullocks, four oxen and two horses in the common of Heighton and 32 sheep on the hill called Heighton Down
In exchange for a grant from the lord of the manor of other lands, including
2 3a Called Stanford field in Firle (E: road between Ripe and Lewes; W: land called Gussylles; S: road between Pevensey and Lewes)
3 4a Called Frenchelands in Firle (E: land of John Lunseforde, esq, called Wicklands; W: road between Ripe and Lewes; N: land of John Yonge called Pointwickland; S: land of Alice Alwark called Frenchelands)
4 6a Of pasture late part of the common of Heighton in Firle (E: land of Thomas Thomas late part of the common; W: the Droveway; N: land called the East Lease, late part ofthe common; S: land of Thomas Thomas and the Droveway)
5 2a 1r Of pasture in the wishe of Heighton in Firle

John Gage of Firle, esq to John Fawkener of Waldron, yeoman, in pursuance of an agreement dated 20 March
Lands and tenements called Martyns Lande (40a) in East Hoathly (S: land of John Scott; E: land of George Virgo; N: customary land of Richard Tompsett; W: road from East Hoathly to Laughton)
W: John Comber, John Fawknour the younger

John Gage of Firle, esq, lord of the manor of Heighton St Clere, to Edward Pelland of Southover, yeoman
1 Messuage, barn, close orchard, garden (3a) in Heighton in West Firle (W: the road leading through the manor-house (platee) of Heighton to land of JG called Hollandale Land; S: customary land of Laurence Ballard; N: land of EP, part of a furlong called Chepland)
2 Piece of land, late part of the furlong called Shepland (11a) in Heighton (road through the middle of the manor-house; W: JG called Hollandale land; N: customary land of John Ballard the younger and land of JG, late part of the furlong called Shepland; S: 1 above)
3 Field or close (6a) called the Chepland in Heighton (E: field and customary land of John Ballard called the Gore; W: land of JG called Chepland Field and customary land of John Yonge; N: road from Lewes to Selmeston; S: customary land of John Ballard, late part of the furlong called The Chepland)
4 Two closes (8a) called The Great Migris and The Lytle Migris in Heighton (E: customary land of Robert Alwarke and Thomas Thomas called Frenche Landes; W, S:customary land of John Colvill called Wheatfeild and Longcrofte and the road from Firle to Ripe; N: customary land of Laurence Ballard called Migris)
5 Parcel, late parcel of Heighton Common (6a) in Firle (E: customary land of George Colvill late part of the common; W: customary land of Alice Alwarke, widow, late part of the common; S: land of JG called The Risshett; N: The Droveway)
6 Parcel (3a 1r) in the Wisshe on the S side
Livery of seisin endorsed: To hold to EP and the heirs in tail, remainder to his brother John Pelland; to hold of the manor of Heighton St Clere by fealty, suit of court twice a year (specified), rent 14s 0½d and the same for relief on the death of each tenant

John Gage, esq, lord of the manor of Heighton St Clere, with his brothers Thomas Gage and George Gage, and Thomas Thomas, one of JG's the tenants by copy of court roll of the manor
Reciting that TT, his ancestors and predecessors and other the copyholders of the manor had used to have common for their beasts by reason of their several tenures within the ground commonly called the Common of Heighton St Clere in Heighton in West Firle and that JG might as lord of the manor and owner of the soil put his cattle with theirs without stint
Also that JG had within the common of Heighton certain lands called the Oxlease([blank] acres) thitherto unenclosed or severed - and had been used as the several pasture of JG and his ancestors from 1 April till 1 August and at all other seasons had been common to the tenants, and consequently JG and the tenants had been compelled to keep and heard their beasts by all the day time from 1 April to 1 August and every night to bring them from the common and the Oxlease to the intent that none of their beasts should offend the other and 'hath been to the great trouble discomodity and hindrance' of the parties
And reciting that the said Thomas Thomas and the rest of the copyhold tenants had severally divers parcels of meadow ground lying in several 'quillets' and parcels as acres, ½acres, roods and such like parcels in the meadow and brook of Heighton otherwise called the Wish of Heighton lying on the W side of the common of Heighton, and JG, lord of the manor, had also parcel of meadow of his demesnes intermingled with the meadow of the tenants in the meadow, brooke and Wish of Heighton, likewise to the discomodity of both parties
And reciting that the tenants have had divers parcels of lands belonging to their several tenements in the laynes of Heighton mingled with the lands of JG part of his demesnes, viz in a field called Chapplonde, in one great field called the Mill Hill, in a place called the East furlong, in a place called the Hearne furlong, Westroode, Woolinke, Wimarkes, Longacre and West Homeland, in divers parcels and quillets; agreed for the more commodity that JG and his successors should have without impediment of the said Thomas Thomas in severalty in recompense for his right of pasture in the common and Oxlease, all that part of the common of Heighton lying to the N and E of the hedge and dike then severing the common and leading over the common from S to W, which part of the common so appointed to JG was divided into four parts by meares and boundes
The tenants to have as their part of their several tenements held by copy, free from pasture rights of JG, all that part of the common lying to the S of the inclosure laid out for JG, between the Wishe of Heighton and the hedge and dike leading from the S to the W, to be held by copy of court roll in severalty as they held the rest of their copyholds, the part allotted to the tenants respectively being set forth in a court roll of a court held 18 Mar 1578
And reciting that the tenants and their ancestors were charged with the keeping and making of the closure between the common and the manor of Laughton of John Pelham, kt, lying on the N of the common, JG to keep the tenants harmless and discharged from making and keeping the closure
JG to have in the meadow and brooke of Heighton otherwise the Wishe of Heighton for his demesne lands, a parcel of the meadow called the Uppwish and all the residue of the meadow lying between the Uppwish and the closure there lately made that divides the lord's meadow and the tenants'
JG also to have another parcel of the meadow, brook and Wish, viz a parcel called the Brooke of Heighton on the N side of the tenants' meadow
JG to keep and amend the closures then lately made and also to scour one dike and fensure between the lordship and the manor of Laughton and the parcel of meadow appointed to JG called the Brooke of Heighton, hitherto maintained by the tenants
JG to have in recompense of his demesne arable lands such parcels as he has laid out before the making of these indentures to him; JG to have and enjoy the common down which was lately the common of the tenants discharged of all common of pasture by the tenants
The said Thomas Thomas to have and enjoy in recompense of all such grounds as he and his ancestors had in the arable fields and his right of pasture on the Downs all such grounds as he had taken to him and his heirs by copy of court roll out of the lord's hands at a court 18 Mar 1578, to hold in severalty
W: John Comber, Isaac Burges, Roger Comber

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
Robert Alwarke
Not executed

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
John Colvill
W: John Comber, William Comber

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
John Ballarde the elder
W: John Comber and William Comber

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
John Ballarde the younger

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
George Colvill
W: John Comber, William Comber

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
Richard Yokehurste
Not executed

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
James Thetcher
W: John Comber, William Comber

Similar deed to SAS/G1/14
Alice Alwarke, widow
W: John Comber, John Fawkener, Richard Page and John Ballard the bailiff

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Comprising 13 courts

Fifteen membranes

Comprising 20 courts

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A single membrane

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Includes the manor of Tarring St Clere

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Registering the transactions as SAS/G1/14-22

Including the manors of Eckington otherwise Ripe and Compton Berwick

Endorsed: account of William Grynt, collector of rents

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Cover formed from a fragment of a roll of statutes for year 25 [?E3]

Richard Broke the elder, Richard Broke the younger, Robert Shoyssmyth, Richard Berd, John a Wode of Clayton, John a More, John Michelborne, Edward Markwicke and John Broke the younger of Litlington, querents, and Bartholomew Colyns and Thomas Colyns, deforciants, of 2 messuages, 4 gardens, 1 dovehouse, 100a of land, 40a of meadow, 100a of pasture, 10a wood and 20s rent in Firle and Framfeld To Richard Broke and others for £200

Richard Bellinham, William Everard, Nicholas Gaynsford and John Michell against John a More of the premises described in SAS/G2/1

John Gage, kt, querent, and Edward Coldfeld and his wife Katherine (one of the daughters and heirs of John Usan) of a moiety of 6a of land, 3a 1½r of meadow in West Firle and a moiety of common of pasture for two cows and one mare in West Firle

John Gage, kt and his wife Philippa, querents, and John Mascall, gent and his wife Alice, deforciant, of 3 messuages, 2 dovehouses, 4 gardens, 100a of land, 50a meadow, 100a of pasture and 10a of wood in West Firle

John Gage, kt querent and Nicholas Braydon and his wife Joan, deforciants, of a moiety of 10a of land, 12a meadow and common of pasture for two cows and one horse in West Firle

John Gage, esq against Edward Gage, esq of 7s 6d rent in West Firle of his inheritance

John Shelley, esq and Edward Gage, esq against John Gage, esq of the manors of Bestenover, Sholvestrode, Exceat, Friston, Lamport, Berwick otherwise Compton Berwick, Heighton St Clere, Hosiers, Eckington, Newnham otherwise Courtland and South Court and 20 houses and lands

in bad condition

Robert Pickering, gent and Awbrey Batherne, gent, querents, and Thomas Gage, bt, Edward Guldeford and others, deforciants, of the manors of Heighton St Clere, Hosiers, Ranscombe, Eckington, Compton Berwick otherwise Berwick St John, Lamport, Alciston and the hundred of Alciston

John Chamberlayne against Robert Pickering and Awbrey Batherne, gents of the manors named in Fine of the same term

bad condition

Robert Pickeringe, gent and Awbrey Bathorne, gent, querents, and Thomas Gage, bt, Edward Guldeford, esq, John Carell, esq, and others, deforciants, of the manors named in SAS/G2/18

Robert Pickering, querent, and William Hervie, kt, and his wife Penelope and Thomas Gage, bt and Mary his wife, deforciants, of 2 messuages, 3 barns, 2 gardens, 130a of land, 20a of meadow, 200a of pasture and 60a wood in Maresfield, Exceat, Pevensey, Ripe and East Grinstead

William Thomas, esq, Robert Shoebridge, gent, Richard Acton and Richard Alchorne against Robert Pickering, gent, of 2 messuages, 2 gardens, and other premises in Maresfield and elsewhere, as in SAS/G2/11

John Chamberlayne, esq querent and William Hervy, kt and his wife Penelope and Thomas Gage, bt, deforciants, of the manors of Exceat and Friston and 5 messuages, 6 barns, 6 gardens, 50a of land, 50a of pasture, 200a of wood, 200a of marsh, 100a of land covered by water, in Exceat, Friston, Maresfield and Pevensey

Thomas Dyke, kt, William Thomas, esq and Robert Pickering against John Chamberleyne, esq of the manors of Exceat and Friston

Charles Wilford, gent and John Woolf, gent, querents, and Garret Kempe, esq and Anthony Kempe, esq deforciants, of the manors of Binstead otherwise Burstead, Eartham, Madehurst, Bignor and South Stoke

in bad condition

Charles Wilsford against John Woolf, gent, of the manors of Heighton St Clere, &c

Charles Wilford, gent, against John Woolf, gent, of the manors of Sholvestrode, Hedgecourt and 5 messuages and land

Walter Evernden and Robert Pickering, querents, and Thomas Elphick and his wife Mary, deforciants, of lands in West Firle and Selmeston and 1 messuage, 1 dovehouse, 1 garden, 110a of land, 20a of meadow and 176a of pasture in West Firle and Selmeston [this=Charleston]

It comprises lands in West Firle (held by Giles Holindale); Hedglond in Westham; lands in Claverham [in Arlington]; holdings in Meads in Eastbourne and tenements in Waldron and Ripe; two small parchment rolls with the same text
SAS/G3/1/1 endorsed with Latin verse munus sit judex fraus est mercator in urbe with English translation

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Includes a terrier of all the lands in the borough of Meads whether belonging to the manor or not; mentions demesne lands at the Quarry, in Welcombe, at the Southwysshe, at Horsey called Cathole, meadow in Remyswysshe next Horsey, pasture at Longdike and Foxholes and on Grovedown and Medesdown; Longdown and Yerberdoune are also mentioned. The arable lands described are the following: Grattenden, Del Furlong, Middel Furlong, Homelond, Drove Furlong, Wycombe, Long Nore, Shortnore, Short Furlong, Homelond, Herdebergh, Welcombe, Larkeham, Gregoryden, Milleberghe, Holebaye, Cross Stayre upon the clyfe, Clyff Furlong, Gore Furlong, Chapell Steyre upon the clyffe and By South Chapell

Comprises 24 holdings, all in Eastbourne

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One membrane in bad condition

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Minutes of the first court of the feoffees of Thomas Manners, kt, Earl of Rutland
Comprises an acknowledgement of tenancy by various Eastbourne tenants; also record that 'John Gage knight holdeth to farm the manor of Ripe decayed with a barn standing in a pasture, being the site of the manor (2a), also the following lands: The Firth (12a); a pasture called the Ympton; the Hirst (12a); a little Wysh of pasture (2a); Mellonds (20a); Cowlmere (40a); a bush pasture called the Dennelond overgrown in divers places with oak and timber (100a); the Long Wysh (3a)

Short minutes of courts held for Pepyngbery, Bayham, Hellingly, Lamport in Eastbourne, Hailsham, Levyshoth, Otham and Friston

Including the first court of William Wybarne, 30 Sep 1546, with copies of rentals of 1527 and 1559-60

court rolls

Attached: list of other inquisitions relating to the manors of Eastbourne and Eckington

That Grovedown and South Down are not part of the manor of Eastbourne, but parcel of the manor of Eckington, with a narrative of the dispute with Mr Burton

By Thomas Dysney, receiver of the Earl of Rutland, to John Gage, kt for £5 for rent of Ripe in Eckington

By Thomas Earl of Rutland, to John Gage, kt of the manor of Eckington

John Gage, kt to John Sakevyle of Withyham, esq, of the site of the manor of Eckington in Ripe, with lands and meadows

Henry [Manners], Earl of Rutland, to John Gage, kt, of the manor of Eckington

Henry [Manners], Earl of Rutland, to John Gage, Kt for £160 in part payment of £400 for the purchase of the manor of Eckington in Ripe and elsewhere in Sussex

John Gage, kt, Lord Chamberlain of the Queen, against Henry, Earl of Rutland, and his wife Margaret of the manor of Eckington otherwise Denelande and 20 messuages, 20 tofts, 20 gardens, 80a of land, 80a of meadow, 80a of pasture, 100a of wood, 100a of furze and heath and £4 16s rent in Eckington, Ripe, West Firle, Waldron, Eastbourne and Westham

Thomas Gage, bt to John Reynolls of Ripe, yeoman
Lands called the Frith and the Seven Acres, (together 24a) in Ripe (N: road from Ripe to Chalvington; E: lands of Ambrose Trayton, gent occupied by Richard Acton; S: glebelands called the Nyne Acres and the Frith Crofte, to a parcel of land of Sir Thomas Dyke called the Huggetts and to a croft, parcel of Lintott's land; W: the churchyard, the vicarage garden and the vicarage croft)
W: Robert Pickering, John Wakeman, William Coe

In the Court of Wards and Liveries between Henry Guldeford, kt, Edward Gage, esq and Francis Eyremyn, gent, (committees of John Gage, the queen's ward), v James Payne and his wife Margaret concerning a messuage and 17a of land in Eastbourne which JP claimed as his freehold lands, but which the plaintiffs claimed to be copyhold of the manor of Eckington, late of John Howell

Alleges that the lands in question were his freehold in right of his wife Margaret, eldest daughter of John Howell by whom they were devised to her; after his death Margaret entered upon the tenement and lands and assigned a third part of them to JH's widow Constance for dower and afterwards married JP; he alleged one acre to be held of the manor of Eckington by a quitrent of 6d and 3a were supposed to be held of the manor of Lamport by quitrents of 8d for each acre; JP also had 1a at Cranore in Eastbourne held of [Thomas Sackville] Lord Buckhurst by a quitrent 11½d

In 1569, John Howell surrendered the 17a of land to the use of his wife Constance for life, remainder to the use of his eldest daughter Margaret and the heirs of her body, with contingent remainder to his second daughter Elizabeth Howell; after JH's death, Constance married Henry Homewood and they were admitted at a court of the manor of Eckington c1578; they deny the gift by will of John Howell

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Richard Payne of Eastbourne, yeoman, aged 100; Henry Homwoode of Eastbourne, yeoman, 50; John Peake of Eastbourne, husbandman, 60; Katherine Buckholde of Eastbourne, wife of Robert Buckholde, 60

Of John Comber of Shermanbury, gent, aged 71, for the plaintiffs; at a court for the manor of Eckington 1 Mar 1569, held by the deponent John Comber 'then and yet steward' for the manor, the surrender by John Howell was presented
Refers to courts kept by Master Dixson late steward of the manor on 6 Mar 1555 and on 14 Jun 1557 by Thomas Darrell, esq, then steward

Made 24 Aug 1606 and enrolled in the book of injunctions of the court of Wards and Liveries Hilary term 1607

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To James Payne to allot and bound the 17a of land late John Howell's decreed for John Gage in Hilary term last or to avoid the same according to an order of 26 May

Late John Howell's according to orders of the court of Wards and Liveries made in Hilary term, 1606 and Michaelmas term, 1606

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Survey of tenements in Eastbourne

A parchment roll

Robert Morley, esq, Richard Devenyshe, esq, William Lunsford, gent, Richard Meryan, clerk, Walter Woulvyn, clerk, and Robert Hede, clerk, against Thomas Pelham, gent and William Radclyff, clerk; Thomas Selwyn vouchee
The manors of Sherrington and Hosiers, with 2 messuages, 200a of land, 40a of meadow, 200a of pasture and 40s rent in Selmeston, West Firle, Berwick, Wincton [in Alfriston], Folkington, Ripe, Chiddingly and Chalvington,

Richard Meryan, rector of Barcombe, Walter Wulvyn, rector of Alford, and Robert Hedde, vicar of Bishopstone, to Thomas Selwyn for life, remainder to his bastard son John Selwyn in tail male, remainder to Thomas Blakenhale and his wife Thomasine and the male heirs of their bodies, contingent remainder to Thomas Selwyn of Waldron and James Tanner in tail male, remainder to TS's right heirs
The manor of Hosiers and lands called Grete Feld, the Comyn Feld, the New Martts, Knowle Feld, Old Lands, the Lake, Lowse Feld, the Stoneryd, Busshe Feld and the Duddyfeld in Selmeston, Firle, Folkington, Ripe, and Chiddingly, which premises they recovered, along with Robert Morley, esq, Richard Devenyshe, esq, and William Lunsford, gent against Thomas Pelham, gent, and William Radclyff, vicar of Glynde, who vouched TS to warranty
Thomas Thetcher of Warbleton and Richard Mylton of Alciston appointed as attornies to give seisin

Richard Devenyshe, esq and William Lunsford, gent of the same premises to Thomas Selwyn, gent, for life, with remainder to Thomas Blakehale and his wife Tamasine in tail male and in default of issue to TS's bastard son John Selwyn in tail male; contingent remainder to Thomas Selweyn of Waldron and James Tanner
NB: The trusts are reversed in these deeds, and all appear to be in the handwriting of Richard Devenyshe

Thomas Selwyn of Selmeston, Thomas Blakenhale and John Selwyn, gents, to Sir Laurence Bateman, clerk, of a tenement lying against the east side of the churchyard of West Firle, with 4a of land belonging to the tenement and part of the manor of Hosiers

John Selwyn of Alfriston to Giles Fynes of Arlington, esq of his manor of Hosiers and all other his lands in Firle, Ripe, Folkington, Beddingham, Fletching and Selmeston
W: Thomas Fenys, clerk, Harry Redyng

Giles Fenys, Richard Lacy and Henry Radyng against Thomas Darrell of the manor of Hosiers, 2 messuage, 1 toft, 1 garden, 60a of land, 16a meadow, 80a of pasture, 6a of wood, 12a of furze and heath and 25s rent and pasture for 150 sheep in Firle, Beddingham, Folkington, Lullington, Alfriston and Fletching

Giles Fynes, esq, Richard Lacye and Henry Radyng to Robert Oxenbridge, Thomas Devynnyshe, gents, John Bengeamyn and John Comber the younger, to the use of GF, of the manor of Hosiers and premises

The documents transcribed on this roll were formerly given the references SAS/G4/7, 31, 43A and 66; the roll also contains texts of SAS/G4/36 and 43

Giles Fynes, esq, son of Thomas Fynes, kt, deceased, to John Gage, kt of the manor of Hosiers and all messuages and lands in West Firle which GF lately purchased of John Selwyn of Alfriston, gent, 20 Feb 1531

By John Selwyn of Alfriston to Giles Fenys, esq for £12, in full of £20

By Giles Fenys of Arlington to John Gage, kt for 20 marks, in full of £103 6s 8d according to bargain and sale of 4 May 1532

Robert Oxenbridge, Thomas Devenysshe, gent, John Bengemyn and John Comber the younger, at the request of Giles Fenys and at the instance of John Gage, kt, to William Fitzwilliam, kt, Anthony Browne, kt, Henry Browne, esq, John Shelley, Edward Bellingham, John Guldford, gents, Richard Bray, Stephen Roots and Thomas Pellond
The manor of Hosiers and premises
John Stertt and William Ballerd attorneys to deliver seisin

Joan Bradley of Lewes, widow of James Bradley, one of the daughters of Nicholas Selwyn, to William Fitzwilliam, kt and the other feoffees in SAS/G4/10
Her right and claim in the manor of Hosiers
The consideration paid by John Gage, kt

Robert Oxenbridge and others as SAS/G4/10, querents and John Selwyn, gent and his wife Agnes, deforciants of the manor of Hosiers and premises

Peter de Dene to William Rennere
Lands called Laygore and Bontenore (22a) in Friston (E, S: land of WR; W, N: land of William de Echingham, kt), which PD, with William Haldenn, William Batelesford and William de Horne, had by feoffment of Vincent Fynch, (WH, WB and WH having released their right and interest to PD)
W: obert Jop, John atte Doune, John Colfyn, Simon and Richard Poteman, brothers, and William Colfyn; at Friston

John Selwyn to John Gage, kt
1 A croft of land (1a) in Friston called Meryfeld (S: land of JG; N: land of the vicar of Friston; heading E: land of JG; W: land of Robert Colyngham)
2 5a Dispersed in a field called Hobsares in Friston of which 1a called The Hedacre is in the upper part of the field (E: land of JG; W: a croft, part of the tenement of Gylkyns; N: street from Friston to East Dean; S: land JG and land of the vicar of Friston); one acre (N: other lands of JS called Houseplace and Homlands of Hobsares; S: a hill between the acre and lands of the tenement of Gylkyns; W: heading to the acre); the other 3a in the next furlong (N: land of JG; S: the hill; heading W: the acre; E: land of JS)
All sometime belonged to Alice, wife of John Adam of Crowhurst, daughter of Simon Potman and were lately partitioned between her daughters (Joan wife of John Wylgose, Julian wife of John Smyth otherwise Chapman, and JS's mother Margery, wife of Thomas Selwyn)
W: Edward Gage, esq, John Parker, esq, Thomas Devenyshe, esq, Edward Wylforde, clerk, Richard a Chamber, gent and Edmund Tyndall

Peter Colyn of Firle to Thomas Eton to deliver to William Sonde, Richard Welarby, William Colyn and John Adam seisin of all his lands and tenements, rents and services called Haukyngregg sometime belonging to William Stopham and his wife Alice at Hellingly

Katharine Redwell, widow of William Redwell, and his son and heir John Redwell, to John Gage, kt and his son and heir Edward Gage
Lands in the parish of Exceat sometime in the tenure of John Pottman
Part of land which John Fennell of Eastbourne granted to KR in the performance of WR's will, 14 June 1522, namely
1 A messuage, barn and divers buildings and 10a of land, 1 rood of meadow and pasture for 32 sheep, 2 oxen and 1 horse in Litlington, sometime of the tenure of Robert Leche late lord of Litlington (Messuage, barn and buildings and 2a formerly Robert atte Denys; 1½a (E: Robert Parker; W: Thomas a Chamber); 1r (E, W: Thomas Chamber) called Combe; 1r (N: Robert Parker; S: Richard Tourle); 1r (W: William a Broke; E: John Mew); ½a (W: Thomas a Chamber; E: Robert Sage); 1r (E: Henry a Fennell; W: John Mew); ½a (N: Roger Leche late Lord; S: Simon Sage); 1r (N: Thomas a Chamber; S: Henry a Fennell); ½a (N: Henry a Fennell; S: William a Broke); ½a (S: Henry a Fennell; N: Thomas a Brooke); 1r (S: Henry a Fennell; N: John Lackett); 1r (E: Simon Sage; W: the common); 1½a (N: Henry a Fennell; S: William a Broke); 1r meadow (S: Henry a Fennell; N: William a Broke); 2a at Hakelond called The Common)
2 Land in Exceat as above; 2a in Litlington, sometime John Ray (W: against the gate of John a Brooke called the Twytteine; W, E: land of John a Brooke; heading N: Thomas Chambre)
W: William Seger, William Tyse, John a Broke the elder, William Wirgar; at Litlington (English) The will openly read and shewed under the commissary's seal at the day above written by the overseers of the said will in the presence of the above named persons saying: I ordain my wife Ketherine and my son John Redewell my executors and they to have estate in the premises to their heirs and the longest liver of them
W to livery of seisin: John a Wood of Westdean, John a Fennell of Westdean, Nicholas a Fennell of Exceat, John Elpheck of Firle; 8 Jan 1546

Including mention of a chapel of St Gregory at Lamport; 1446-1448, 1458-1463; memoranda by Ralph Cleve of accounts fines and rents received from the manors of Friston, Otham [in Westham], Exceat and Lamport, 1457-1462

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In the court of Wards and Liveries in Henry Guldeford, kt and others [committees of John Gage the king's ward] v Edward Selwyn, gent, concerning The Helde and Ladders at Exceat [in Westdean]; depositions of John a Broke of Exceat, 60, Henry Fitzherbert of Lewes, yeoman, 58, Thomas Whate of Westdean, yeoman, 70, Thomas Skynner of Westdean, labourer, 50, William Middleton of Burwash, labourer, 55, John Banister of Westdean, husbandman, 60, Thomas May of Westdean, carpenter, 56, and Thomas Markwick of Jevington, yeoman, 63

Concerning disputes at Friston, including entitlement to wreck of the sea, Friston Pond and Friston Green

Between Thomas Gage, bt, John Thetcher, Augustine Belson and Thomas Roper, esqs (executors of John Gage, bt), and Francis Selwyn to settle differences about Friston Pond and Friston Green and other matters; W: Robert Pickering, Benjamin Scarlett, John Curson, Robert Scroope, Thomas Parker, John Chamberleyne

By Francis Selwyn of Friston, esq to Thomas Gage of Firle, bt, of lands called Southdown in fulfilment of SAS/G5/45; W: John Robins, Edmund Carter

By Francis Selwyn of Friston, esq to Thomas Gage of Firle, bt, of lands called Southdown and the profits of wrecks of sea in fulfilment of SAS/G5/45; W: Robert Pickering, Benjamin Scarlett

Last session of Trinity term, 1665
Allegations on behalf of John Gage, kt and his tenants and bailiffs (named) by their proctor Thompson concerning the profits of wreck of the sea, flotsam, jetsam, waveson and lagon claimed in respect of the manors of Boreham, Wartling, Tilton, Exceat, Friston and Crowlink

John Shelley and Edward Gage, esqs, querents, and John Gage, esq and Thomas Gage, esq, deforciants, of the manor of Maresfield and 10 messuages, 10 tofts, 10 gardens, 100a of land, 50a of meadow, 500a of pasture, 300a of wood and 1000a of furze and heath in Maresfield, Fletching, Buxted, Uckfield, Hartfield, West Hoathly, Withyham, East Grinstead and Worth

Elizabeth Gage, widow, John Gage and Thomas Gage, esqs, patrons of the rectory of Maresfield to John Staple of Maresfeld, yeoman, of the next advowson and presentation of the rectory

Edward Gage of Holborne, Middlesex, esq and his wife Ann to John Gage of Firle, esq
Maresfield Park with lodge, house, iron mill, ironworks, a corn mill, house and land which they held for 24 years then to come under a lease from Edward Gage, kt, deceased, 23 May 1568, and a futher lease of the reversion for 21 years by JG, 20 Feb 1583
Recites: leases by EG to George Collyn of the park (except wood and ironworks) for 21 years at £50 and of the ironworks for 12 years at £30, to John Upton of a tenement in Maresfield for 21 years at £6 13s 4d
W: Edward Gage, George Gage, Francis Eyerman, Thomas Gildereg, James Thetcher, Richard Cary

John Gage of Firle, esq and Edward Guildeford, esq, son and heir of Henry Guildford of Taplow, Buckinghamshire, kt, Edward Gage of Bentley, esq and John Thetcher of Priesthawes [in Westham], esq, in trust
Maresfield Park, Maresfield Mills, Maresfield Ponds and Maresfield Farm, occupied by William Crowe, esq and David Midleton, gent, Battes Farm and New Purchase occupied by the executors of Anthony Gouldsmith and Chauntrie Lands by Richard Taylor, clerk
For Penelope Trenchard, now wife of JG, as part of her jointure in lieu of the manor of Shovelstrode [in East Grinstead]
W: William Cobbs, William Cooke, Walter Rhetorick, Roland Mather, John Burges

John Gage of Firle, esq, to Henry Shurley of Astwell, Northamptonshire, esq
A rent of 40s, reserved on a lease of the manor of Maresfield from JG to Edmund Wilde of Glasley, Salop, kt, (now deceased) and HS in trust, 3 Feb 1613
W: Thomas Tyndale, Michael Webb, John Burges, 16 Dec 1620

Concerning Rest Hill in East Grinstead, copyhold of Maresfield Manor, and other disputes, including the digging of iron-mine for RS's ironworks at Sheffield [in Fletching]

Bill, Michaelmas term, 1627; answers of Martin Hoade and three other defendants, 30 Apr 1628; John Baker, esq, 21 Jun 1628; Thomas Hooke and three other defendants, 6 Oct 1628; Thomas Dyrkin and four other defendants, 10 Oct 1628; William Best and two other defendants, 21 Oct 1628; Thomas Upton and two ther defendants, 24 Jan 1628 and 30 Apr 1628; Nicholas Rootes, gent, 10 Jun 1629; Sackville Turner, esq, 13 Jun 1629 and 30 Jan 1630; Henry Compton, kt, 1 Jul 1629; Goldsmith Hudon, gent, 4 Nov 1630; Richard Crofte, 12 Nov 1630; plaintiffs' interrogatories, nd, [c1630]

Report of Robert Rich, master, finding the answers [?in a previous suit] insufficient, 22 Feb 1628; draft bill, Michaelmas term, 1628; answers of Nicholas Rootes (10 Jun 1629) and Sackville Turner (13 Jun 1629); exceptions to the defendants' answers, c1630; replication of John Gage and John Meeres, Trinity term 1630; further exceptions, c1631; plaintiffs' interrogatories with depositions of Richard Hoskyns pf the Middle Temple, gent (68) and Thomas Mowshurst of Maresfield, yeoman (60), Mar 1631; order that the defendants may have leave to examine witnesses, 28 Nov 1631; affidavit of Awbrey Batherne concerning the examination of witnesses, c Nov 1631; letter from Henry Hawkins, Chancery Office, to [John] Hoper, attorney, Lewes, that the officers in the report office cannot find a decree in the suit; 8 Mar 1796

Concerning a copyhold tenement of the manor of Maresfield late John Jervice otherwise Fletcher

The manor of Parrock in Hartfield and an ironmill, held of the manor of Maresfield by knight-service

Bound in a fragment of the will of James Mercer of Rye, 18 Jan 1552

Parcel of the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster, parts leased to James Gage, 12 May 1537, with a description of Maresfield Park and the mansion house in great decay; with an attached warrant for a grant to John Gage, kt

1440-41, 1469-70 and 1544-45 under the seal of the Duchy of Lancaster

To be buried within the church of the Grey Friars of London next to the sepulchre of William Chambelyn esqire
To the high altar of the parish church of St Michael in Burstow, Surrey for my tithes forgotten, 20s
To the church of the Grey Friars for my sepulchre there to be had and to the intent that the bretheren of the same place fetch my body to the earth and do a trental to be sung for my soul, 40s
To the high altar of the church of St Helen of London, 6s 8d
To the ladies of the priory of St Helen of London, 6s 8d
To Sir John Danysell and to Sir John Lyster, to each 6s 8d
To Thomas Dobson and Sir Robte Water and to William Boughton parish clerk, 5s evenly to be divided between them
To my daughter Margaret Myll, 20s
Legacies to servants and others
The residue to Agnes my wife she to do therewith her free will and pleasure, executrix, the said Agnes and Sir John Long, parson of St Michael Burstow, co-executor
Wife Agnes to enjoy all the manors of Heighton St Clere and Tarring in Sussex for life, which manor of Heighton I promised to her and friends at the time of the marriage had between her and me as part of her jointure
Agnes to enjoy during her life the manors of Burstow and Hedgecourt, Surrey according to the estate unto her heretofore made
Agnes to have the custody, guidance and rule of John Gage my son and heir during his nonage

Who lived in the precincts of the Preaching Friars of the City of London, granted to John Gage, kt and William Penestone, kt

To the cathedral Church of Chichester, 10s to the parish church of West Firle, 40s, to be distributed at burial 'two pennies dole to all such poor people as shall resort to the same'
Executors to give such sums of money to the poor households of all parishes specified in a schedule, and to give and distribute 'so much blacks and to such poor persons as in a little schedule annexed', also 2d dole at my month's mind to such poor people as shall resort to the same
To wife Elizabeth her dwelling in my mansion house in Firle and to have the bringing up of all children except my son and heir apparent
Specific gifts of household stuff to wife
The manor of Alciston and other manors mentioned, being a full third of estate to be allowed to descent to heir
As to residue of manors and lands including the house and lands purchased of Thomas a Mylton in Alciston
To every daughter, viz: Margerie, Lucy and Margaret, 500 marks at marriage and £10 a year until marriage
To sons, Anthony, Thomas, George, Edward, Richard, John the younger, and Robert, £10 a year for life
Wife had jointure of the manor of Burstow and annuity of 20 marks out of the manor of Hedgecourt; she to have the whole of the rest of the manors of Hedgecourt and Burstow, the manor of Maresfield and lands in East Grinstead and elsewhere taken as part of the manors of Maresfield, Burstow and Hedgecourt
To wife my little house at Alciston that I bought of Thomas Myddleton with the gardens, orchards and all land and common that I bought of the said Thomas a Middleton belonging to the same during her widowhood to bestow on my children and or herself when it shall please her, if any of them should chance to be sick of some contagious sicknes not meet to be kept in my mansion house at Firle for fear of infection of the rest of my children or any of my eldest son's children or household'
Wife to have to her own use 9qrs of wheat and 11qrs of barley out of the manor of Exeat and all the tithe of wheat and barley under a lease of the Prebend of Exeat, she paying 5s a qr for wheat and 4s 4d a qr for barley Also pasturage of 6 horses in the Plashett Park [in Ringmer] for 21 years paying 2s a piece And 30 loads of wood and 6 loads of coal out of woods, paying 12d for every load of wood and 5s a load for coals
To sons Anthony, Thomas, George, Edward, Richard, John the younger and Robert the manor of Ditchling Garden as tenants in common
Residue of personal estate to eldest son John upon trust that he will maintain, preserve and leave the same to his son and heir in stock so as the said heir male may be able with the said stock and furniture of his house and land to maintain and keep hospitality and household
Executors, wife Elizabeth and eldest son John Gage; if John should die and wife Elizabeth should marry or die, then son-in-law Edward Stradling, cousin Thomas Coplye, esqs and my trusty servant Thomas Rotts to be executors
Overseers [Anthony Browne], Lord Mountague and Mr John Jeffrey
Inventory annexed 20 Jan 1569

Testator's intention had been to leave son Henry a valuable estate, but having paid £400 debt for him and having received 'no penny profit of his marriage which fathers used to do', desires him to be content with £300
Gift to son Henry of land at Mitcham [in Surrey]
To daughter Helen an annuity of £20 which is paid by the Earl of Arundel out of the manor of Arundel
To daughter Mary £200 payable by Mr Monger, merchant
Testator bound by covenant to leave his wife £800, requests John Gage, kt to see £800 paid to her
Three younger sons, John Francis and Robert, to be paid by John Gage, kt
Wife to have annuity payable by Viscount Montague
To wife the whole temporal estate of all my goods (with reservations for daughter Helen)
To son George Gage £40 to be paid by Sir John Gage
Executors: Sir John Gage and John Heywood, esq

To wife Penelope, daughter of [Thomas Darcy], Earl Rivers, furniture for her chamber and £100 or the value in plate 'also convenient blacks for herself and all our children and for 3 men servants and 3 maid servants'
Gift to wife of her coach with all the furniture and 4 geldings or mares for the same and entreat her to be contented seeing I have many children to provide for
If the manor and lands remaining to wife in lieu of part of her jointure should not be of the yearly value which upon marriage was convenanted, executors to pay yearly so much as should make good the said value
And for that I should have built a house for my wife which is not performed, she to have the use of the house wherein JG dwelt in St Johns, Middlesex
If my servant John Guildridge should outlive me, he to have at the yearly rent he now payeth me the use and keeping of my land called the Starnash [in Hellingly] for life, on condition that he should have a care to preserve and keep the woods and not to plough or break up any portion of it
Yearly sums to be paid to servants during their lives:
John Guilderidge, Melitus Halward and Awbrey Bathorne, £6 13s 8d each; Thomas Weaver, £3 6s 8d, William Smith, butler, Richard, wife's coachman, Richard Weller, gardener, Old Bennet, Elizabeth May and Susan Cocke my son's maid, 40s each
Executors to keep hospitality at JG's house at Firle for 3 months for wife and children and for all my family; after those 3 months the house to be kept by 'some few servants whom executors shall think fit to keep up my said house and to preserve such household furniture as the executors shall leave unsold; my old servants to be preferred before others So to be kept until eldest son attains 21 and then delivered to him
Robert Pickering, gent, to continue steward of all courts of my manors and leets and solicitor of causes touching the estate; to have £10 yearly and 20s a term
Plashett Park [in Ringmer] to be continued and stored with 220 deer; James Gardiner to continue as keeper, usual fee, £6 13s 4d
Gifts of plate with arms and crest: mother-in-law, [Mary Darcy] Countess of Rivers, to the value of £20 Sister, Lady Pordage, £30 noble friend Sir Henry Compton, £20
To Anthony Mattocks, vicar of Firle a mourning cloak and £5 in gold; to the 3 sisters of the Fennels £6, they to continue in the house now occupied rent-free for their lives, and have every year a load of wood
Executors: John Thetcher, esq, Thomas Pordage, esq, Augustine Belson, esq, Edward Smith, gent, son and heir of George Smith, esq, and Thomas Roper, esq £30 to each to provide a piece of plate as a remembrance
Reference to settlements provision for children: second son John Gage, £1250; third son Edward and fourth son Henry, £1000 a piece
Executors to be suitors for the wardship of the body and lands of JG's son and heir and to have a special care to see him well brought up according to his degree as well in learning and virtue as other qualities fit for him, to allow him competent allowance for maintenance and for one man of good ability and government to attend on him and to direct and instruct him and I would desire that my servant Awbrey Batherne that now waiteth on me in my chamber may likewise serve my son and heir, if within age at my decease
The manor of Alciston left to descend to heir as more than one third of estate; manor of Burstow had been sold
Codicil joining Ralph Whitfield with executors in efforts to procure wardship; 2 Oct, 1633
To my most noble cousin [Edward Sackville] Earl of Dorset one basin and ewer or piece of plate with arms and crest - value £40 - desiring him to help in obtaining wardship for the executors
To Ralph Whitfield, a bowl or piece of plate, £20
If Stortes farm called the manor of Levites in Firle can be had executors to buy it for the heir
Awbrey Batherne to have meat, drink and lodging at Firle house until JG's son should come to age
Nuncupative codicil: cousin George Gage, esq, son of uncle Edward Gage, a piece of plate, £20

To be buried at Firle if convenient, the manner of interment left to the discretion of executors with the approbation of his wife Mary Gage
To mother Penelope Harvey, £20
To aunt Lady Pordage, £20, she to have the use of two convenient chambers or lodgings in TG's house at Firle for life and to be allowed convenient firewood for her necessary occasions there
To brothers, John, Edward and Henry and sisters Lady Frances Tresham, Lady Elizabeth Petre, Mrs Penelope Merry and Mrs Anne Petre, widow, £20 a piece
Sister-in-law, Lady Abergaveny, £20 The above legacies to be in lieu of mourning; Anthony Smith £10; the poor of Firle £10
Executors and residuary legatees: Francis Selwine of Friston, esq, John Belson, gent, son and heir of Augustine Belson, and Walter Everenden of Jevington, gent
By a codicil dated 29 June, 1654, the testator appointed his cousin William Roper, then living with him in his house at Firle, to be executor instead of John Belson

To be buried in his chapel in the church of Noke, Oxfordshire, if he should die within 20 or 40 miles of Noke; monument 'in my chapel at Noke of me, my wife and children or else where my body be buried', cost £100
Woods called Hadnoke Woods, Monmouthshire to executrix for payment of debts; household stuff to wife Ann Hall for life then to eldest son Henry Hall; also to him all ploughs, ploughshares and other implements of husbandry; daughter Ann Wakeman
Sole executrix wife Ann
Granted to Henry Benedict Hall, son and executor named in will of Ann Hall deceased, the widow and residuary legatee of Benedict Hall

Dwellinghouse in Arlington Street to William Hall Gage, eldest son of [Thomas Gage] Viscount Gage, for life, remainder to [Charles Noel Somerset], Duke of Beaufort and [George Henry Lee], Earl of Lichfield to preserve contingent remainders to the issue of William Hall Gage
Teresa Gage, daughter of Viscount Gage, £1000

To wife Margaret Gage linen, plate, horses
Sons Henry Gage, John Gage, and William Hall Gage, and daughters Maria Teresa Gage, Louisa Elizabeth Gage, Charlotte Margaret Gage and Emily Gage
To Samson Gideon, bt, Col William Sherrif and Samuel Kemble, esq (inter alia) plantations and estates in the island of Monserrat and elsewhere in the West Indies and also 18,000a lying near Mohocks River in the province of New York in North America, in trust
Executors: brother William Hall [Gage], Viscount Gage and wife Margaret

To be buried in the chapel of the parish church of West Firle in the tomb there lately provided for that purpose
To be bestowed among the poor people in charitable arms, £40; poor of West Firle, £5; Beddingham, 40s; Maresfield, 40s
To Elizabeth Gage and Mary Gage, daughters of brother Thomas Gage deceased, £1500 each; executors to have their custody until they attain 22 years, and they and John Gage their brother to be found meat, drink and lodging in JG's house of Firle
To brother George, Edward and Robert Gage, £40 each
Direction in regard to the grounds called Preston Poynings which JG held of [Anthony Maria Browne], Lord Mountague by lease and the water or fishing called Broadwater and the brooks adjoining, parcel of the manor of Ranscombe, which JG had found 'very fit and necessary for such person or persons as shall inhabit and dwell in my mansion house of Firle for the better provision of hospitality there', that the lands and the Broadwater and brooks should remain with the house of Firle, and the executors not to lease them
The manor of Alciston and all lands belonging to descend to JG's heir in the name of a full third part of all manors and lands
The residue of manors and lands to executors for fulfilment of the wills of JG's grandfather and father John Gage, kt and Edward Gage, kt, and to pay debts 'which are great and many by reason of my troubles and sundry other my great and extraordinary charges as sundry of my good friends can well witness'; after a term of 21 years, in default of JG's heirs in tail, to nephew John Gage in tail, remainder to JG's brother
George in tail, remainders to brothers Edward, Richard, Robert and James successively in tail, remainder to the heirs of JG's cousin John Gage of Hayling, esq, ultimate remainder to the right heirs of JG's brother Thomas Gage
If nephew John Gage should marry or contract himself without the consent of JG's son-in-law Henry Guldeford, esq, cousin Edward Gage of Bentley and friend Ralph Hare of Bolney, esq, the remainder in tail limited to the nephew John Gage to be void, and he to have an estate for life only and to be unable to make any jointure or dower to such wife; remainder to the first male issue of his body (and so on)
Mourning rings to sisters
Executors: Henry Guldeforde, Edward Gage of Bentley, Ralph Hare and Francis Eyerman, gent; to first three, a piece of plate value £10 and to Francis Eyerman, £20
Sole overseer: Anthony [Browne] Lord Montague, and bequest to him 'as a poor remembrance of my goodwill' a standing cup with a cover of silver and gilt, value 20 marks
W: Thomas Elffick, Edmund Elphick, Michael Okenden, John Duke, John Starte
Alteration of overseers done in the presence of Thomas Twyne, Edward Gage, Henry Crosse, Thomas Gilderege, Ann Gage; Mt Freeman to become steard of courts after Mr Comber's death
Codicil 27 Sep 1598:
Gifts to sons of brother Edward Gage to cease as JG had given them by deed annuities of £10 a piece for their lives
Portions of daughters of Edward Gage to be increased with 200 marks a piece, viz £200 If Elizabeth the eldest daughter should be preferred in marriage by Edward Stradling, kt, or his wife Ann, before her portion be paid then the portion of the said Elizabeth to be employed towards the marriage of Mary the second daughter
W: Francis Eyerman, Thomas Twyne, Thomas Gilderedge, Henry Crosse, Thomas Codlinton

Detailed bequests of goods at Hengrave and Clerkenwell, naming rooms; daughter, the wife of Thomas [Darcy] Earl Rivers; grandchild Lady Penelope Gage
Sons [in law] Thomas Lord Viscount Savadge and John Gage, esq

To be buried at Hengrave
Manors and lands in Suffolk settled on son Edward Gage, except the manors of Lackford and Fornham St Martin, which were settled on her son Thomas Gage deceased
Provision for son John and Henry
'An earnest desire to raise another branch of my family hath moved me to settle my manors, lands &c upon my said son Edward, whereat I desire my other sons to be no ways displeased with their brother Edward, this being done without solicitation'
Executors: son Edward Gage, cousin Ralph Sulliard and friend Mr Coell of Depden

To brother Thomas Gage of Sherborne, the manors of Pett and Mersham (except the advowson of Pett) and all the mansion or farm house called Mersham and lands adjoining (long list of the fields and acreages)

To be buried at Firle
Gifts for the benefit of my soul: £50 to the College of Douai; £20 to Lisbo College; priestes and religious and poor catholics to be distributed with equality, £200
Refers to 'my house at Firle'
To cousin Francis Gage 10 pistols
To wife, the lease which was made by my father Chamberlaine of £200 per annum for 10 years upon the manor of Clare which he has given to my son John

Refers to her manor of Solihull, Brockwell and Knowle and lands in Egbaston and Haybridge [in Warwickshire]
Daughters, Mary, Bridget, and son Henry Gage, and godson Jack Gage

William [Warham], archbishop of Canterbury, to Mr John Pers, dean of the college of St Michael in South Malling
His river, watercourse and land covered with water called the Brode Water of Suthram, with all the banks, ditches, dams and brooks belonging; free liberty of fishing and fowling in and on the same for so long as he shall continue master and dean of the college

William [Warham], archbishop of Canterbury, to John Bust of Cliffe by Lewes, yeoman
His park or enclosed ground called The More Park [Ringmer], excepting timber and great trees as oak, ash, elm and beech
Attached: bond by JB for performance of covenants

William [Warham], archbishop of Canterbury, to Master John Peers, clerk, dean of the college of St Michael of South Malling, and Thomas Bulleyn, kt, Viscount Rocheford
His river or watercourse and land covered with water called the Brodewater of Southram otherwise called the Broke of Southram, with all the banks, ditches and free liberty of fishing and fowling in and upon the same
Covenant by JP and TB that as often as the feasts of the Translation of St Thomas in July and St Thomas in Christmas week shall fall on Friday or Saturday and also in Lent, or when the king shall be at any manor place of WW in Kent, Sussex or Surrey in any fish day, that JP and TB shall provide all such fish as conveniently can be had or gotten in the river or watercourse and deliver it at such manor or manors as shall be assigned by WW at his cost

Thomas [Boleyn], Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, to Christopher Page of 'Cliffe of Lewes', yeoman
The river, watercourse and land covered with water called the Brodwater of Southram covenant by CP that he shall weekly on reasonable warning deliver to TB or his assigns at such time or times as he shall be in Kent or Sussex two great bream, TB to pay for the carriage; the lease to cease on TB's death

Thomas [Cranmer], archbishop of Canterbury, to John a Wood of Hamsey by Lewes, yeoman
The manor of Ranscombe, with all the demesne lands, rents and services of tenants reserving: all wardships, marriages and reliefs
At foot: ratification and confirmation by Thomas [Goldwell], prior of the Christ Church, Canterbury, 9 Sep 1536

Thomas [Cranmer], archbishop of Canterbury to John Hyve of Beddingham
The Brodewater of Southerham, with liberty of fishing and fowling
Term: [blank] years

Thomas [Cranmer], archbishop of Canterbury, John Gage, kt, controller of the king's household, and Thomas Culpeper, esq, son and heir of Alexander Culpeper, kt, deceased
Reciting an Act of Parliament of 33 and 34 H8 [1542], enacting that Cranmer should hold the manor of Bekesbourne otherwise Levingsbourne, Kent (with exceptions specified)
Cranmer to have the manor of Forde otherwise called Shelvingford, Kent, parcel of the possessions of Culpeper and all other lands and tenements of Culpeper in Bekesbourne, Patrixbourne, Wellhothe, Chislet, Reculver, Herne and Westbere, Kent; also JG's manor of Colrede in Kent; and the parsonage of Bewesfelde and the advowson of the church and the advowson of the vicarage of Benesfield; also the parsonage and church of Little Brickhill, Buckinghamshire and the advowson of the church
And it was further enacted that JG should have the manor of Ranscombe, then part of the possessions of the archbishop, and the fishing of the Brodewater in South Malling, Southerham and Beddingham, and the adjoining brooks, as well covered by water as not covered by water; and the parks, lands and tenements part of the archbishop's called More Park, Ringmer Park and Plasshett Park in Ringmer; and land called Plottys Parke and Owlde Pond otherwise Plottsbridge and Owldepond in Little Horsted and Framfield
And it was enacted that Culpeper should have the house and site of the late monastery of Combwell, Kent, and all messuages and land belonging, then part of JG's possessions; and the manor or lordship of Combwell and the advowson of the church of Hever, Kent, and all JG's lands which were late part of the possessions of Combwell monastery on the dennes of Glassenbury (and other places named) in Kent and Canterbury and certain specified rent
And it was further enacted that Culpeper should have to the heirs in tail of him and his late wife Elizabeth, one of the daughters and heirs of William Hawte, kt deceased, with contingent remainder to the heirs of William Hawte, the manor of Bishopsbourne, Kent then parcel of the possessions of the archbishop, and his park and lands called Langham Park in Bishopsbourne (with exceptions)
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covenant that the first limit and bound of the manor of Ranscombe begins at the highway from Glynde Bridge to Lewes, at the S end, and of a hedge dividing the said manor from lands and downs of John Thetcher, esq sometime Brigdens and extendeth from the said highway leaving the said lands of the said John Thetcher on the E part unto the down of Thomas Morley esq and extendeth thence leaving the said down of Thomas Morley of the E, to the down of the tenants of Borne called Berne Downe And so further leaving Borne Down of the E part to the down of the said John Thetcher called the Gote Down, and from thence leaving the Gote Down of the N unto the down called the Sextrie Downs of Malling, and so further leaving the Sextrie Down of the N until it cometh to the E corner of the down of John Aptotte called Aptotts Doune, and there it abutteth to the downs of Stoneham and so leaveth the down of Stoneham of the W and N, by certain marks and bounds newly renewed; and so leading by the same marks and bounds it extendeth to the upper side of the N end of the field of John Bust sometime Shermans and before that Wythers called Clyff Feld; and so from thence leaving the said Clyff Feld of the S till it cometh to the gardens of the tenements of the archbishop in the North Strete of the Cliffe near Lewes; and so leaving the gardens in the North Street and the gardens adjoining to the tenantries of the archbishop in the South Street of the Cliffe of the W to the garden late Andrew Owton that lyeth against the watering place in the River at the end of South Street and so leaving the garden late Andrew Owton and also the garden of John Buste which lyeth on the W side of South Street and adjoining to the common watering place in the River of Lewes of the N part; and from the watering place as the River of Lewes leadeth to a place called the Hengge; and from thence as the river leadeth to the mouth of the common sewer of Beddingham and Glynde called the Riche Mouthe entring into the said River of Lewes; and so by the common sewer called the Riche Mouthe as the sewer goeth unto a dyke called pyles Dyke to the N corner of the same dyke; and from the same North corner by a dyke there which divideth the ground being parcel of the said manor of Ranscombe called the Medowe of Ramescombe from the lands of Thomas Morley esq and the lands of John Thetcher esq called the Swylle, parcel of the said lands of John Thetcher and sometime Brigdens; and so extendeth to the said common highway that leadeth from Glynde Bridge to Lewes
The lands to remain within the liberty and franchise of the archbishop for the liberty of view of frankpledge and the tenants to sue and come to the court called the Hundred of Ringmer
JG to have half the river belonging to the Archbishop called the River of Lewes from the common watering place at the end of the South Street of the Cliffe to the said mouth or place called Riche Mowthe
JG and the owners of Ranscombe to have common in the ground of the archbishop called the Broyle for the farmers and tenants as the tenants of the archbishop's lordship or beadlewick of Ringmer have used to have, and to pay for the same as the Ringmer tenants
The lands and tenements in Ashton and Borne in Ringmer and Glynd which Thomas a Wode held by copy of court roll, the parsonage or prebend of Southerham and the advowson of the same not to be considered as parcel of the manor of Ranscombe

William Owton, son and heir of Andrew Owton of the Cliffe next Lewes deceased, to Edward Broune of Southerham [in South Malling]
A parcel of ground in Southerham (E: a brook called Mawdlen Broke; S: land of John Sheppard called the Slawghter; W: a little piece of ground of John Ellys called the Pygh; N: road from Southerham to Lewes), enclosed with dykes, E, S and W

George Myller of Compton, administrator of the goods of John a Wood of Hamsey, deceased, to John Gage, kt
For performance by GM and William a Wood of the award of arbitrators in a dispute concerning the Brodewater otherwise the Brodewater of Southerham otherwise the Brookes of Southerham, in South Malling, which GM and WW claimed to be part of the farm and manor of Ranscombe

William a Woode of Compton, yeoman, to Edward Gage, kt, of a lease of the manor of Ranscombe granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to John a Wode, 18 May 1536
W: John Gage, esq, Michael Lawder, clerk, and John Sterte of West Firle

John Gage of Firle, esq and his wife Elizabeth Guylfourde to John Page of Wellingham [in Ringmer], yeoman
The site of the manor of Ranscombe and all gardens and buildings belonging; the laine next the Down of Ranscombe (26a of arable land); the laine called the Oxen Seten (18a); 7a in Southerham called Colcote, two other parcels called the Grett Layne (33a) lying to Hendge Lane; 16a called the Meadow on the S side of the way against the barn of the demised premises; The Conye Burye, the Coneyecrofte and a round crofte enclosed from the Down; all JG's brooks between the Swyll and the Hendge Sluice and from the Hendge Sluice to the South Sluice as the river leads, and from thence to the Swill as the Brodewater wall leads; and all other the premises late in the tenure of Lancelot Gildredge; also 2a of meadow called Pryckwishe in Southerham Except the fishing and fowling of the waters called Brodewater and the reed and thatch growing in or about the same, and all tenants' rents, fines &c Except also a place and room for keeping of the courts of the manor of Ranscombe
And 11 quarters of good sweet wheat well winnowed with heaps to every half quarter of the same, and 11 quarters of good sweet barley with heaps likewise well innied and wynied and tried, the corn to be measured by the bushel of 8 gallons
W: John Comber, John Fawkener

John Gage, esq and his wife Elizabeth, to Edward Apsten of Lewes, draper
The site of the manor of Ranscombe and all buildings and lands (described as SAS/G8/13); brookland described as follows: 'the brooks or meadows lying between the Hengedyke eastward to a Dike newly cut from the Brodewater butting upon a gate leading out from the Brodewater butting upon a gate leading into Bishops Brooke'
11qrs Of wheat and 11qrs of barley, as in last lease
W: Melchior Rainolds, George Freman, Henry Collins

John Gage, esq to Edward Browne of Lewes, glover, for his faithful service
A little water house and yard (about 80ft) on the lord's waste in the manor of Ranscombe (W: the river running from Lewes; E: the road from Ranscombe to Lewes; S, N: the lord's waste)
No signature and no seal

John Gage, esq to William Thomas of Lewes, gent
Three parcels of pasture or brooklands, parcel of Broadwater Brookes, (8a), with a way through the Fishers Brooke occupied by Thomas Gildredge, gent
W: John Thetcher, Thomas Herisson

John Gage, kt to John Thetcher of Preisthawes, Sussex, esq, Thomas Pordage of Rodmersham, Kent, esq, Augustine Belson of Brill, Buckinghamshire, esq, and Edward Smithe, gent, son and heir of George Smithe of Sandhill [in Framfield], esq, and Thomas Roper of London, gent, of an annuity of £100 out of the manors and lands of Bestnover and Ranscombe for a term of 30 years, under a power contained in a deed between JG and Edward Guildford, John Carrill, JT, TP and ES of 23 Jun 1629

Thomas Gage of West Firle, bt, to Thomas Walker of Beddingham, yeoman
Two pieces of brookland or fresh marsh called Bishopps Brookes (12a) with the wall or bank adjoining, leading from Swillgate to the River, part of the manor or farm of Ranscombe (E: lands of Herbert Morley, esq; W: John Evelyn, gent; N: TG; S: the Common Sewer)
W: Sackvile Graves, Thomas Harison, Charles Goodwyn

John Gage of Firle, bt, eldest son and heir of Thomas Gage, bt, Katharine Walker the younger of Beddingham, singlewoman (one of the daughters of Thomas Walker of Beddingham, yeoman, deceased), Thomas Isted of Lewes, gent, and Richard Isted of Lewes, gent
Two pieces of marshland or brook ground called Bishops Brookes
To the uses declared by the will of TW: to KW and her heirs in tail, remainder to her sister Elizabeth Walker, Thomas Walker of Balsdean [in Falmer], yeoman, (son of TW's brother John Walker of Balsdean, yeoman, deceased), ultimate reversion to John Walker of Southease, yeoman, brother of Thomas Walker of Balsdean
W: Henry Shelley, Thomas Morley; executed by JG only

Elizabeth Alcocke, widow, mother of Charity Storer, spinster, lately deceased (daughter of William Storer of South Malling, deceased) to lands which Charity Storer on 5 Nov, 29 Chas II, surrendered to the use of her will on 5 Nov 1677 and bequeathed to EA 12 Mar 1679, as follows:
A cottage and garden sometime Pupps and afterwards Awcocks in South Malling next the Cliffe, quitrent 1d
A cottage and garden late Davys and Thomas Brooks in South Malling next the Cliffe, quitrent 2d
A cottage and garden late Anne Brookes in South Malling near the Cliffe, quitrent 2d
A tenement and 28a of bondland late Puckles and before Actons at Southerham, quitrent 13s 4d
A barn and 34a of bondland late Gawghtons and before Reads at Southerham, quitrent 18s
A messuage, barn and 9½a late Actons and before Unwyns in Southerham, quitrent 4s 3d
A messuage and 100a of neif land late Pollards and before Lages and sometime Thomas Lucas' at Sootherham, quitrent 41s 8d
2a Of bondland called the Wentacre and Owtons Croft late Brownes in Sootherham, quitrent 18d

Mary Goring of Burton, widow, and John Gage of Firle Place, bt, to John Gurr the elder and his son John Gurr the younger of Ranscombe [in South Malling]
A messuage, tenement and farm called Ranscombe Farm, with all buildings and land in Southmalling, occupied by JG the elder, and also of 18a of pasture adjoining Plashett Park in Ringmer
Rent payable to MG during her life and afterwards to JG

William Gage, bt to Philip Holman of St Jame's, Westminster, esq
The capital messuage or site of the manor of Ranscombe and all buildings and lands belonging; 18a of demesne lands of the manor in Ringmer, all occupied by Abigail Nelson and Thomas Rogers at £115
As collateral security against claims for annuities given by the will of John Gage, bt, and charged on the manors of Lackford and Fornham St Martins, Suffolk, which were lately purchased by PH from WG

William Gage, bt to Samuel Botting of South Malling, yeoman
The capital messuage or site of the manor of Ranscombe, with lands and premises late occupied by Abigail Nelson and Thomas Rogers and then of SB

First court of John Gage, kt

John de Schelvestrode to Richard Edward for life
All the lands and tenements which the late Soloman Buddi held in villeinage of the manor of Shovelstrode in East Grinstead
To hold of JS by the accustomed rents and services
W: Nicholas ate Parok, Richard de Walesberghe, John de Boyli, Peter ate Jeldhalle, Robert ate Estcote, Emeric de Seyntamaunt, knight; at Fairlight (Farleghe) Seal of arms; S'Johis de Schelvestrod

Master Richard Moresby, clerk, Robert Audstane, Thomas Walton, Robert Barde, William Bailie and William Barett to Richard Ask, esq
The manors of Shovelstrode [in East Grinstead], Bestenor, Wyder [in Pevensey], Imberhorne [in East Grinstead] Deane and Vardley and all lands and rents with their appurtenances whether in the salt marsh or in the fresh marsh of Pevensey and elsewhere in Sussex and Hampshire, which they had by feoffment of RA's father John Ask, esq
W: Thomas Lecnour, knight, John Lyll, Edward Trill, Peter Weston, Richard Norman

By John Gage, kt, KC, the Queen's Chamberlain, against Richard Sakevyle, kt and his wife Winifred of 11a of land, 3 roods of meadow and 51½a of wood in East Grinstead
Relates to Rest Hills in East Grinstead

John Gage of Firle, esq to William Gaynesforde of Blockfeld, Surrey, gent, youngest son of John Gaynesforde of Blockfeld, gent
Messuage, lands and tenements (30a) in East Grinstead called Idells and Colmans (S: land of William Muschampe, gent, held of the manor of Shovelstrode, and the road from Shovelstrode to East Grinstead; W: land of William Muschampe; N, E: land of Gaynesford, part of his manor of Blockfeld), which JG then held of Gage's manor of Shovelstrode by copy of court roll
Rent 8s 4d and heriot of best beast on death or alienation, and relief 8s 4d

Edward Gage and John Thetcher, querents, and John Gage and his wife Penelope, deforciants, of the manor of Shovelstrode for the term of 60 years after the death of John Gage

Edward Guildeford, esq, son and heir of Henry Guildeford, kt, John Thetcher of Priesthawes [in Westham], esq and Edward Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq, at the request of John Gage, bt, to Edmund Brooke of Hellingly, gent
The manor of Shovelstrode, which was by fine as SAS/G9/11 was granted by JG and his wife Penelope to EG and others at a peppercorn rent for 60 years from the death of JG, if Penelope should so long live
Endorsed: note that the Lady [Penelope Gage] hath Maresfield instead of this

John Gage, bt to Thomas Harrison of Firle, gent, and Edward Mattock of Firle, yeoman the manor of Shovelstrode
For the payment of sums by grant of JG's grandfather Edward Gage, kt, and uncle John Gage, esq, amounting to £80 yearly

Henry Gage of Hengrave, Suffolk, esq to Thomas Gage
£1000 Legacy in the will of John Gage of Firle, bt, 3 Jun 1633, charged on the manors of Hedgecourt and Shovelstrode, and quitclaim of the manors

John Gage of Firle, bt, to William Goring of Burton, bt, James Simeon of Watlington, Oxfordshire, bt, and Phillip Dracott of Painsley, Stafford, esq of the manors of Lackford and farm of St Martin, Suffolk, and of Edgcourt, Surrey, and Shovelstode, Sussex

Walter Spynnere of Hailsham to William Wodesonese and his wife Maud for their lives, remainder to their son Robert and his heirs in tail, remainder to WW's right heirs
4a Within the liberty of Pevensey (3a at Urtyes E: land of the heirs of John de Fakeham; W: land of John de Beche and Richard Quinterel; N: land of Bayham Abbey; S: the street from Horsey to Hailsham); 1a lying next Knapsherstbrugg in Hailsham (between land of Michelham Priory on the one side and the heirs of John Barteloth on the other)
W: Thomas atte Wode, Robert Cropp, John Ashman, Nicholas Wynam, Simon Batlesford, William Lewyne, John Lad, clerk; at Horsey
Endorsed: in an Elizabethan hand: parcel of Durtyes, an acre of land at Knapsonsbridge

Agnes Reynold of Hailsham to Thomas atte Wode and his wife Alice
The reversion of 15a called Saltmersh in Hailsham which Thomas atte Beche held for life
TB attorns to TW and AW by the payment of a penny
W: John Alman, John Reder, John Hamond, John Lombe, John Sharpe, John Umbreys, William Alman; at Hailsham

John Twyth and John Wythot, kinsmen and co-heirs of Robert Croppe, to Adam Ywode, Thomas atte Wode and William Alman
1 A messuage, 7a of land in Hailsham called Filpottislond which sometime were of Philip Berewyke, and 2a of land called Owtwyssh in Hailsham within the lowey of Pevensey
2 2a Of land called Losselond in Hailsham in the Lowey, two pieces of land called Cokkeslond and Marelyngh in Hailsham and a piece of land in the Lowey and in Hailsham sometime William Croppe
W: John Fakam, Richard Page, John Redere, John Hamond, John Blacstok; at Hailsham

Award of John Morle, bailiff of the liberties of Pevensey and Richard Sperte (on behalf of Simon Russell and his wife Isabel, late the wife of John Fakeham the elder), and Thomas Onstye and William Hokeby (on behalf of JF's son and heir John Fakeham the younger), arbitrators concerning the reasonable dower of Isabel Russell
Four pieces of land, three within the liberty and marsh of Pevensey called Cowlond, Fyve Acres and Strewysshe and the fourth called Hastynglond in Hailsham outside the liberty
To hold as dower of all JF's land except a piece called Dortyes; SR and IR to withdraw any actions pending in any court
Seal-tag formed from a notarial instrument, 1421

John Kechenham to Richard Tutt and his son William Tutt
3 Roods of marshland next Kyppyngis in the marsh of Doune at Horsey (N: the high street between Whitedyke and Horsey; E: land of Thomas Onstye; S: a lane called Kyppyngis Lane; W: land of William Hokeby)
At Horsey

Peter Profote (by his attorney John Burton) against John Archer of Alfriston and his wife Ellen (by their attorney William Gilderigge)
55a Of pasture in Hailsham
Disseisor: Thomas Croucher; first vouchee Thomas Marssheman and Alice his wife; second vouchee Robert King

Thomas Fenys, kt, Lord Dacre to Thomas Roote, William Roote, clerk, John Roote and Ralph Colbrond
Lands and and tenements, rents and services late John Fakenham of Hailsham, deceased
Warranty against John, Abbot of Westminster and his successors

Thomas Jurdan of Beckley to John Tufton, William Alyn and John Jurdan
Two parcels of land (30a) called Buskhye together in Hailsham (N, W: a way called the Shyreway; S: land late Crochers; E: land of Thomas Hukbe and land of Thomas Pupp)
John Soller attorney to give seisin; given at Hailsham

John Rootes of Marshalls in Marsefeild, esq, to John Gage of Firle, esq
The manor of Earsham otherwise Hailsham and all lands and rents belonging; lands called Fackham Marshe, Hoggebrooke, Joyes Mershe, Salte Mershe, Earshams, Crochers, Croker Rowe, Oners, Jordens, Joyes Lands, Grove Lands, Collards, Henhards, Mille Doune, Maunders Crofte, the Hayle, Hastings Lands, Stockes and Fackham Lands
Acknowledged before Mathew Carew, master in chancery, in the presence of Michael Fleming of Lincolns Inn, esq, to whom the acknowledger is known

Henry Guldeford, kt, Edward Gage, esq and Francis Eyermyn, gent (committees of John Gage an infant, the queen's ward), concerning rents due to the manor of Lamport in Eastbourne by Edward Burton and James Gilderidge and to the manor of Earsham otherwise Hailsham by Lawrence Susan, Abraham Edwards, Richard Baker, John Gardyner, Mark Colborne and rent due to the manor of Heighton St Clere from William Jurden for 30a in Milton Street, rent 10s

He held the following messuages and lands in Hailsham:
A messuage and 2a called Pepleshame Place, held of the Earl of Dorset's manor of Michelham, quitrent 16d
A messuage and ¾a called Tanners Place, held of Sir Gideon Annshame's manor of Horslunges (Herstlinger), quitrent 6d
Two marshes called Peddlesrepe and Somerlees (18a) held of the Earl of Dorset's manor of Bowley, quitrent 3s 4d
Closes called Betts, Carpenters, Nerst, Machons and Haltone being upland (14a) held of Lord Buckhurst's manor of Berwick, quitrent, 3s 6d
All sometime Bechenghams and afterwards Maynards and came to JG's father John Gardyner
John Tutt had the tenement called Peplesham Place and all the other lands by lease from John Gardyner the father
Tanners bounds to Fakeham Lane on one side, the house of Bollens on another and the highway on another

Abraham Esterfeilde of Hailsham, husbandman, aged 40:
The rent for Peplesham Place and 2a was paid by Anthony Sommer, tenant of the messuage and before by John Tutt
Tanners Place and ¾a held of the manor of Horslunges formerly Herbert Pelham's in socage
AE held the Uplands and had paid the rent to Lord Buckhurst
John Gardyner had done suit and service for the lands at the court of the manor of Berwick and had been reeve in respect of them
Marshes called Pellsepe and Somer Lease in AE's occupation, held of the manor of Bowley and he had paid the rent
Lands in Hailsham sometime Ketchinhams, one marsh occupied by the Earl of Dorset and one acre called Ketchingham Acres claimed by Robert Collingham
Elias Swayne of Hailsham, shoemaker, aged 32 years, deposed: similarly:
Marsh called Peddells Reppe or Pelshoppe
One acre called Ketchenhams Acre lay intermingled with Master Gage's lands called Fawkham Marsh

Comprising
1. 3 Pieces of marsh (52a) called the Hook, Fakeham Marsh, Shawland and Cowbrooke (N, W: road from Hailsham to Horsey; N: Lord Arundel's land called Hasting Land; NE: Twytts lands called the Hale; E: Nicholas Foster; S: land of Lord Arundel called The Beare)
2. Three little crofts of upland (4a) called Myldouns (E: street from Hailsham to Horsey; N: ground of George Snowe sometime Willards called Norheles; NW: a droveway to ground of William Edwards called the Hame; S: a croft occupied by John Atsee)
3. Fakeham Land otherwise Gersland (20a) in nine parcels (E: Lord Dacre's land called Grasland; NE: road from Herstmonceux to Hailsham; S: ground of Kytchinhamsheyres; W: Twytts ground; NW: road from Hailsham to Herstmonceux and Fosters land)
4. Jurdens Land in many small parcels (20a); there is pretty wood upon it (SE: the common of Hailsham; N: road from Hailsham to Michelham [in Arlington]; W, S: Pups Land; N: Wade's land)
5. Crooken Rowe [2½a) (S: Collynghams land; E: Wades land; N: Pups land; W: Twytts land)
6. 22a Called Croochers (NW: road from Hailsham to Eastbourne; SE: Hailsham Common; W: ground of Thunders called Bownes)

A piece of land in Wartling and Herstmonceux called Squabbs; nine pieces in Hailsham called Fakham Land otherwise Gerland, Fakham Mershe, Chawlland, Cowbroke, the Hooke, Mildoune, Jurdens, Croochers, Crookin Rowe A tenement, barn, garden and seven pieces of land called Jayes Tenement, Wovers, Grovland, Collerds, Henwords, Stoks and Jayes Marsh
Land contained in Shepperd's lease: three parcels called Yersham, Spenser and Gatehouse in Hailsham

John Thetcher, esq, against Thomas Lethbridge, gent, and Richard Lyson, gent, of the manors of Earsham otherwise Hailsham, Shovelstrode and Hedgecourt and 6 messuages, 6 gardens, 300a of land, 20a of meadow, 200a of pasture, 400a of wood and 100a of furze and heath in Hailsham, East Grinstead and Worth
Endorsed: produced in the claim of John Gage, an infant

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Comprising the following courts:
Hundred, with first court of John Gage, esq, farmer of Compton, 12 Oct 1513; courts held 26 Sep 1520; 8 Mar 1525; 18 Oct 1526; 22 Oct 1527; 29 Oct 1529; 23 Hen VIII; 24 Hen VIII; 25 Hen VIII; 26 Hen VIII; 27 Hen VIII

Paper

Held in 5, 12, 18 and 28 Hen VIII (included in above rolls) and 29, 31, 37 and 38 Hen VIII

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Held in 19, 22, 24, 27, 32 and 36 Hen VIII

Held as follows: 14 Nov 1554; 8 Oct 1555; 3 Oct 1556; 1557 and 1558

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Comprising courts held from 1 to 32 Elizabeth

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Comprising courts of the manor of Berwick Compton held as follows:
11 Dec 1596; 27 Sep 1597; 5 Apr 1598; 20 Sep 1598; 7 Sep 1599; 23 Sep 1600; 22 Sep 1601; 22 Sep 1602; 30 Mar 1603; 30 Mar 1604

Demesne lands:
55a Of arable at 20d per acre, £4 11 8d
17a Meadow at 2s per acre, £1 14 0d
Accounted for by the bailiff of Heighton St Clere
Rents of assize of free tenants £2 0s 2½d
Rents resolute to the king as chief lord 10s 8d

Demese lands:
41a 3r Pasture
17a 3r Meadow
54a 3r Arable
All called Upper Compton, and 6a lying to same
Also 323a 3r of several called Compton Sheepdown

8 docs

Confirming liberties and privileges, with inspeximus of many earlier grants, 10 May 1413

Showing a proposed new road between from Winton Street [in Alfriston] and Berwick Court and a calculation of the respective distances

Henry Guldeford, kt and other, guardians of John Gage, esq, against William Jorden, William Susan and others concerning Berwick Common and the Tye in Berwick, comprising bill, answer of William Jourden and William Susan, answer of Thomas Jurden and Thomas Paine (two copies), answer of William Suzan, replication of plaintiffs, rejoinder of defendants, interrogatories and depositions of Jurden and Paine, depositions of John Comber the land steward, briefs
The defendants claimed ownership rights in Berwick Common, which they called the Leaze of Berwick, and they had cut timber there; plaintiffs claimed that the common was part of the waste of the lord of the manor of Compton Berwick otherwise Berwick St John

A long roll

Accounting for receipts from manors in various counties to the sum of £609 8s 8d and including payments on behalf of the lord and his lady amounting to £725 4s 5½d
The Sussex estates are Brambletye and Lavertye; Newenham, Lampham, Tarring; Heighton; Jevington, Exceat and Brighton

The Receipts, none from Sussex estates, amount to £133 8s 1¼d. The total of the payments is £233 10s 3d

Surrey: Burstow, Hedgecourt and Merdon; Sussex: Heighton St Clere, Tarring; Buckinghamshire: manor of Aston Clinton
Payments include fine for refusing the order of knighthood

South Burstow William Rolff, bailiff
Hedgecourt John Chater, bailiff
Heighton Robert Chalcroft, bailiff of the manor of Heighton St Clere and Tarring Payments include: 47s 6d and 30s allowed to John Roll for his surrender of his lease of the demesne lands of the manor of Heighton into the hands of the lord by agreement of the lord, and 2s for a mare unlawfully seized for a heriot of one Reede Cattle bought: 56s
8d for half hundred of sheep bought for store of the lord's house, 50s and for a horse bought of the said accountant, 6s 8d
Aston Clinton William Byrkynshawe, bailiff

Alciston John Fawkener, bailiff
Alciston William Grint, woodward
Hosiers Arnold Bal, bailiff
Friston with Exceat Thomas Seymour, farmer
Lamport in Eastbourne John Joyner, receiver
Eckington John Howell, reeve
Bestenover Stephen Underdowne, farmer
Burstow John Tyrrell, farmer
Hedgecourt John Thorpe, farmer and collector
Shovelstrode Roger Baulcombe, bailiff
Maresfield William Bamber, reeve
Ditchling Robert Chatfield, reeve
Heighton St Clere John Ballard, reeve
Ranscombe John Page, bailiff

Receipts arranged by manors for farms, quitrents and extraordinary receipts (stock); payments of pensions and annuities, 1613-1614; payments of interest, law-costs and debts, 1614

Extracts
1627 Exceat 'There were 2 anchors and one cable taken, the one as a wreck, the other by composition for goods worth £3, but both the anchors were stolen away out of the little house, the cable brought home. The water mill was pulled down'
1628 of Clerk of Shoreham for his anchor and cable being driven on shore by a Frenchman when he was loaded with the king's provision for the navy 10s

Brief rental and details of income from timber with very detailed expenditure aranged by type

Henry [Percy], Earl of Northumberland to John Gage, kt, vice-chamberlain to the king, and Robert Fowler of Alciston, yeoman
All the wood and underwood on the manor of Heringauds otherwise Waldron, and on lands late in the tenure of Richard Frankwell, except 10a reserved to HP
Right of entry to cut and carry for ten years

Agnes Bolney, widow of Edward Bolney of Canterbury, esq, to John Bolney, esq, son and heir of Richard Bolney, esq, who was son and heir of EB's father Bartholomew Bolney
The site, mansion house, buildings and land of the manor of Amyse (4a) in West Firle (N: road from Heighton to West Firle church; W: a watering place called the Gutter; S: a lane from the place called Uptowns to West Firle church; E: land of John Gage, kt called the Shelffe), part of the manor of Amyse which AB held for life with remainder to JB, as appears by deed of 8 Apr 1487
W: Christopher Hales, Paul Richemond

John Bolney of Bolney, esq, son and heir of Richard Bolney, who was son and heir of Bartholomew Bolney, to John Gage, kt
The principal site and mansion place of the manor of Amyse, with houses, buildings and land (4a) in West Firle (bounds as SAS/G12/2)
Covenant that no rent, custom or suit of the manor of Amyse to be taken as granted; a rent of 40s to be payable to JB out of the site and out of JG's land in West Firle called the Shelffe, the Ten Acres, the Herst, Alcowte and the Long Acre
Covenant that if JG should purchase lands to the yearly value of 40s or more in Bolney, West Firle or Eastbourne adjoining lands of JB, and should offer them to JB and be refused, then the rent of 40s should cease
W: John Hales, one of the barons of the exchequer, Christopher Hales, gent, attorney of the king, Thomas at Cheker, Edmund Gadbury, John Colyer

William Fitzwilliam, kt, treasurer of the household, Henry Guldeford, kt, controller of the household, Anthony Browne, kt, Henry Browne, esq and John Guldeford, gent, against John Bolney of Bolney, esq, of a messuage, garden, curtilage, orchard and 3a of land in West Firle

John Bolney to John Gage, kt
1 13a 1½r (1a 1r Called the Gutter and the lynk; ½r called Frogplace lying in a corner next land called Hossyars and the Herst; 2a lying in the Wymark (heading S: land of John Joyner; N: road from Alfriston to Lewes; siding W: land called Richardslands; E: 1a of John Joyner); 2a in a field called the Ten Acres (which 2a JB's grandfather Bartholomew Bolney had by exchange of Richard Selewyne for 2a lying near Crowmere in two parcels of 5r and 3r); 8a called the Herst (heading S: stream called the Gutter and a piece of land called Hossyars; N: land of John Mascall called the Hert; siding E: lane to Hollendalle; W: the common field called the Herst)
2 All JB's land (13a 3r) in Smetheforland (9a in the common laines called Smetheforlang (heading E: Richards Land; W: the droveway from the parsonage of West Firle to the Down; siding N: parsonage land; S: the Down); 2a in Smetheforlang (heading E: Richards Land; W: the Droveway; siding S: parsonage land; N: land of John Alger); 1a 3r in Smetheforlang (heading W: the Droveway; E: Richardslands; siding S: a parcel of parsonage land; N: land of John Alger); 1a called Postern Acre (heading E: Richardslands; W: the Droveway; siding S: ½a called Levetts, which Giles Fynes, esq, lately purchased; N: 1a of Giles Fynes, late Levetts)
3 All JB's lands, tenements and commons in Compton in West Firle and the lands and tenements called Bentleys and all other his lands and tenements in [East] Hoathly
4 40s Rentcharge issuing out of the principal site and mansion place of the manor of Amys as by deed of 11 Apr 1530 [SAS/G12/3]
W: Thomas at Cheker, John Colyar, Alexander Sampson

Henry Polsted, gent, to John Brakenbury
1 The office of keeper of the park of Ringmer and the custody of the park from the death of William Corneford, then holding the office, for the life of JB
2 A yearly rent of 60s 10d with the other rewards and profits belonging to the office in accordance with deeds made between [Thomas Cranmer] archbishop of Canterbury and HP

John Bolney, esq to John Gage, kt
Two parcels of land or pasture enclosed (3a 1r) adjacent to a stream running through the middle of the land in West Firle (S: the churchyard; W: land of John Joyner and Robert Joyner; N: the common field called the Herst; E: land of JG, late Hosiers)
JG gives to JB in exchange
3a 1r Arable in West Firle (1a 1r S: the chalkpit; E: land of JB; W: land of the rectory of West Firle; N: land of Robert Wyrgar; 2a in Pettlonde furlong W: the common way from Lewes to the borstall of Newehelme; S: land late Richard Sawnder; N: land of JB)

Thomas [Cranmer], archbishop of Canterbury, to grant to John Delve for life, remainder to James Gage, esq, and his wife Joan, as freehold, the following lands formerly held as copyhold of TC's manor of South Malling:
A messuage with adjoining garden and two pieces of land called Homefeld and Woodrede (together 16a of old assert) sometime Bentleys, quitrent 16d
2a New assert called Pecchams Pettes with a parcel of land next the Broyle and land in Sifletebroke, quitrent 2s 5d
1a Old assert sometime Peter Bentley's, quitrent 3d
A virgate of bondland of the first virgate of Bentley in the tithing of Peccham in Framfield, quitrent 8s
A messuage and ferling of bondland called Trichefardinge, quitrent 4s 6d
A messuage and a ferling and a half of bondland of the second virgate of Bentley called Fulborne and a garden (1a) of bondland of the same virgate, quitrent 6s 9d
1 Shareland in two parcels, quitrent 22½d
3a New assert, quitrent 12d
2a Old assert in Framfield in the ward of Sifletebroke, quitrent 2d
A ferling and a half of the second virgate of Bentley, quitrent 6s 9d
A parcel of shareland lying next the Broyle, quitrent 12d
A cottage with garden and 5a of land in Framfield in Coupers Hatch, quitrent 5d
A Messuage with adjoining garden (N: Istedes Broke; E: road from Blackboys to Browninges Broke on the east (9a of middle assert) in Framfield in the ward of Bernett, quitrent 18d
A messuage with garden and crofts of land (7a 3r) new assert land in Framfield in the ward of Sifletebroke
2a New assert called Hobynyscroft in Framfield in the ward of Sifletebroke, quitrent 2s 2d
Messuage and 5a of old assert sometime Tybbys and 5½a of new assert called Newland, quitrent 5s 7d
½ Rood of new assert by the lane leading to the messuage and a daywork upon which is built a house next the said messuage in Framfield, quitrent 1d
A parcel of drovelands (16a) quitrent 12d
The premises to be granted with 3a of the forest, park or waste land of the Broyle next the messuage of Bentley by the metes and bounds newly placed
Rent for the 3a 12d and for the other premises 57s 9d, suit of court once a year or 12d, relief on alienation or death 1 year's rent at which the premises were held at will, and for the 3a, 12d and heriot

Edward Gage, kt, to James Gage of Framfeld, esq
A yearly rent of £12 9s 10½d for the manor of Horsted and the park of Mote and other lands granted to JG by letters patent, 12 Dec 1556, which rent was, by letters patent, 11 May 1560 granted to EG for life with remainder to JG

John Gage of Firle, esq and Edward Gage of Bentley [in Framfield]
A rent of 7s 6d, suit of court and other services due by JG for lands in Laughton and Firle held of EG's manor of Mote, to the intent that the rent and services should be extinguished
W: John Comber, John Fawkener

John Gage of Firle, esq and Edward Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq
Parcel of bushy land or pasture near Hawkesbridge called Bolney's Lands; parcel of woodland and pasture near the same called Bentley Lands(110a) in East Hoathly and Laughton, held by JG of Henry [Nevill], Lord of Abergavenny's manor of Beverington
W: John Comber, John Fawkenor

Edward Gage of Bentley in Framfield, esq, and Thomas Carrill of Bontons in Shipley, kt, and Thomas Tyndall the elder of Arlington, gent
Capital messuage and mansion house called Bentley, and all buildings and lands in Framfield
Piece of land (4½a) in East Hoathly (S: the common or waste called Tarbledoune)
62a Called Martins Land and High Hothes in East Hoathly (W: road from East Hoathly to Laughton)
Manor of Little Horsted otherwise the Mote in Little Horsted or elsewhere
Messuage or tenement called Sharpes and 60a in Framfield and Little Horsted
37a Called Bredneys with Bredney Barn and Bredney Meade and Horsted Land otherwise Eastfeild, Julians, Wishe; all in Little Horsted
Lands in Ripe, Tilton, marsh in Hailsham, the manor of Stratford Tony in Wiltshire and land in Kent (specified, as SAS/G12/16)
In favour of EG's nephew Edward Gage of Wormesley, Hereford, esq, and cousin John Gage late of Haling, Surrey, esq, and in part performance of the will of EG's father James Gage, esq, of which he was executor
W: John Shelley, Peter Carew, John Maulster, Richard Garnett, Robert Huchinson

Edward Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq, to John Stanfield of the Cliffe near Lewes, gent and Thomas Lusher of Little Horsted
All his manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments in Framfield, Ringmer, Little Horsted, East Hoathly and Hailsham (except the capital mansion house of Bentley in Framfield and all houses, buildings belonging lying within the warren pale, and also except the grounds enclosed with the pales of the warren of Bentley or between the warren, or the capital messuage and the park or grounds called the Broyle and the lands lying between the Pumphouse Gate and the Broyle and enclosed with a hedge reaching from or near the same gate to the Broyle and adjoining to two closes called the Six Acres and the Ten Acres)
In consideration of the payment EG's debts listed in a schedule; schedule of six debts amounting to £720
W: Edmund Butler, Roland Mather, Walter Hendley, John Burges

John Wright of Weybridge, Surrey, gent, to George Kempe of Pentlow, Essex, esq, and Thomas Bendelowes of Brenthall, Essex, esq
Two parts of a barn and of the tithes of corn and hay in Southerham [in South Malling] of which Edward Gage of Framfield, esq, a recusant, had a lease for 11 years, and also the following of EG's messuages and lands (described in detail as in SAS/G12/12)
Two parts of the capital messuage of Bentley and lands belonging
The manor of Little Horsted otherwise the Mote; Sharpes; Bredney lands; Brockhills;
300a Of land in Framfield occupied by John Stanfeild and Lusher; marsh in Hailsham
Granted to JW for 41 years, if the premises were so long in the King's hands by reason of EG's recusancy, at a rent of £66 13s 4d
W: John Gage, William Holt, Christopher Vincent, Francis Perkins, Jo Rutland

William Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq, Henry Compton of Brambletye [in East Grinstead], kt and his son and heir Richard Compton; in fulfilment of an agreement made upon WG's marriage with Bridget Timperley, a daughter of Sir Thomas Timperley, (WG being then under age) of the capital messuage of Bentley and lands belonging, John Vines' farm, Weller's farm, Waterman's farm and marshlands in Hailsham and lands in Ripe and Tilton [in Selmeston]
W: Richard Goddard, William Leftart, Thomas Moore, Philip Moore

Thomas Gage of Tilton [in Selmeston], esq and his wife Ann, John Carrill the younger of Harting, gent, John Greene of Holborn in St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, gent, and Adam Browne of Bedford [recte Betchworth] Castle, Surrey, esq, and George Browne of Buckland, Sursey, esq in consideration of a marriage portion paid by AG's brother Edward Cotton of Richmond in Surrey, gent
The capital mansion house called Bentley [in Framfield] with lands called the Warren, the Pompehouse Meade, Lushfield, the Pond, the High Readens, the Knowle, the Summerwell, the Copyhold, the two Upper Fulbarnes, the Fulbarne Gardens and the two bottoms belonging to them, the Great Fulbarne, the Mill Mead, the Heele, the Saltwells, the Apkins Mead, the Bridgefield and the Bottome, the Script Croft and the Westfields
John Vyne's, Wellar's, Waterman's and Lusher's Farms in Framfield; Brockwell Farm with the lands belonging to Eastons Farm and a watermill used with it, and lands called Breadneys in Little Horsted
Marshlands in Hailsham called Rushmersh occupied by Edward Calverley; messuage called Sharpes and 80a in Framfield and Little Horsted; two fields, one (7a) abutting S on the road from Ripe to Firle, and the other (11a) abutting N: on a road called Porke Hall Lane
The manor, tenement and farm of Tilton with Tilton Down and 209a over and above Tilton Down, in Selmeston and Alciston, occupied by John Walker
Homestall Marsh (32a) in Hailsham
20a Of upland called The Deanes in Hailsham (W: road from Hailsham to Herstmonceux)
The manor farm or tenement of Towland otherwise Towneland in Woodchurch, Kent
The mansion house and farm called Benchill in Woodchurch and Kenardington, Kent
W: C Briant, Jo Staley, Edward Belson, John Pell

Thomas Gage of Tilton [in Selmeston], esq and his wife Frances, daughter of John Plumpton of Plumpton, esq, deceased, with John Carrill the younger of Harting, gent and John Greene of Holborn, Mx, gent and John Linn of St Andrew, Holborn, Middlesex, gent, and John Lloyd of St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, gent, in consideration of the marriage portion of Ann Gage deceased, the first wife of the said Thomas Gage, of the manors, lands and premises described in SAS/G12/16 for the benefit of TG's only son Henry Gage, and TG's sons by his wife Frances
W: George Peedle, Hugh Wadsworth

Appraised by Thomas Alchorne, gent, Storer Bithwood and James Attree, appraisers

Henry Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq to Thomas Alchorne of Sandhill in Framfield, gent
The manor and farm of Tilton and two fields in Ripe (as before described)
W: Thomas Medley, James Attree, Charles Harison

Henry Gage of Brambletye in East Grinstead, esq, and his wife Elizabeth Boteler otherwise Elizabeth Gage, and James Graves of West Firle, gent
Capital mansion house of Bentley, and lands belonging called the Warren, Pumphouse Meade, the Two fields, Lushfield, the Pond, the High Riddens, the Knowle, the Sumerwell, the Copyhold, the Two Upper Fulbarnes, the Fulbarne gardens and the Two Bottoms belonging to the Great Fulbarnes, the Mill meade, the Heale, the Saltwell, the Apkins meade, the Bridgefeild, and the Bottome, the Script croft and the Westfeild, all in Framfield in the tenure of John Foord deceased, and then of Richard Hart
Messuage, barns, buildings called Vines Farm and parcel of Bentley lands (50a) in Framfield, late in tenure of John Vine and then of John Parris
Farm called Watermans Farm and 28a at Coopers Hatch in Framfield, late in tenure of Waterman and then of William Attree
Messuage barn and 28a called Lushers Farm at Coopers Hatch, late in tenure of William Lusher and then of William Attree
Manor of Little Horsted otherwise the Mote, and all messuages and land belonging in the tenures of Henry Gage, John Reade and William Attree
Messuage or tenement and farm called Brochells or Brickwells Farm, with the lands belonging to Easons otherwise Sharpes farm, (80a) in Framfield and Little Horsted, late in occupation of Robert Parris
Lands and tenements called Bredney otherwise Bredneymeade or Bradney Meade, Horsted Lands otherwise Eastlands, Juliana Feild and Julians Wish, (37a) in Little Horsted late in tenure of Thomas Whapham and then of Edward Chatfeild
Manor or farm of Tilton and lands and pasture called Tilton Down, also messuages, buildings, lands (209a) besides Tilton Down, in Selmeston and Alciston in the tenure of John Walker
Two fields in Ripe occupied by John Walker, one (7a) abutting on the highway from Ripe to Firle on the South; the other (11a) abutting on Pookhall Lane on the north
31½a of marsh called New Marsh in Hailsham (N: the Common Sewer or Haven); 32a called Homestall Marsh in Hailsham (N: Homestall Wall)
20a Of upland called Deanes in Hailsham (W: road from Hailsham to Herstmonceux) all in the tenure of Edmund Calverley, John Pupp and Abraham Bodle
Manor farm or tenement called Towlands otherwise Townelands in Woodchurch, Kent
Tenement and farm called Benchill in Woodchurch and Kenardington, Kent
W: with particulars from an attached memo: Richard Webb, James Selby, both barristers of the Inner Temple, Thomas Medley, Robert Southam, clerk to Mr Webb, Edward Cooke, a student or barrister in the Temple, son to one Mr Cooke a woolendraper in the borough of Southwark, Charles Fell, a kinsman of Mr Graves, Nicholas Hooper, a scrivener in Chancery Lane over against Lincoln's Inn Lane

James Graves, gent, querent, and Henry Gage, esq, and his wife Elizabeth, deforciants, of the manor of the Mote and 7 messuages, 3 tofts, 10 barns, a dovehouse, 7 gardens, 7 orchards, 600a of land, 60a of meadow, 200a of pasture, 350a of wood, 50a marsh and 200a of furze and heath in Framfield, Little Horsted, Selmeston, Alciston, Ripe and Hailsham

Henry Gage of Brambletye in East Grinstead, esq, to Thomas Medley of Southover, gent
Lands before described: Bentley house and lands, Vynes Farm, Wellers Farm, Watermans Farm, Lushers Farm, the manor of Little Horsted otherwise the Mote, Brockells Farm and lands of Easons Farm and Bredney Lands, mortgaged for £2880,17 Jun 1687
W: with descriptions from an attached memo: William Harrison, at the Six Clerks' office in Chancery Lane, Richard Chaloner of Hollingborne in Kent, Ralph Parker, at the Globe Tavern in Flett Street, Edward Baughe, clerk to TM

Henry Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq to Samuel Hinde of London, gent
Tilton Farm and Marsh in Hailsham (as before described)
To be paid at the dwellinghouse of Sir Thomas Fowle, goldsmith in Fleet Street, London W: John Watkins, Robert Pym, Terry Sturgeon his servant

Henry Gage of Bentley [in Framfield], esq to John Payne of East Grinstead, gent the capital messuage called Bentley and all buildings and the following lands: the Forestall, the Five Acres, the Eight Acres, the Eight Acres, the Kilefield, the Oldhouse Fields, Two Fields, the Little Warrens and the Great Warrens, the Scripbarne Field, the Westfield, the Two Shernours, the Bridgefield, the Saltwells, the Eight Acres, the three fields next Whitlocks, the Round Heal, the Scripcrofts, and Barnefield, the Napkins Bottom, the Foxham Fields, the Highrideings, the three Lishfields, the Pomphouse Bottom, the Pomphouse Mead; late occupied by Richard Hart, deceased
27a Adjoining the Broyle and the road to [? from] Coopers Hatch to Honyes Green, late occupied by Walter Dicker and William Maskell
W: William Ford, John Michell

William Goring of Burton, bt, on behalf of William Gage, bt, an infant, to Francis Francis of Ringmer, yeoman
Two messuages or tenements, a barn and outhouses in the Plashett Park and all the enclosed ground called Plashett Park, (300a), in Ringmer
Timber reserved
W: John Peirce, Bernard Couvert

Thomas Medley, gent, querent, and Henry Gage, esq, deforciant, of the manor of the Mote and 7 messuages, 7 barns, 3 tofts, 2 dovehouses, 7 gardens, 7 orchards, 600a of land, 60a meadow, 200a pasture, 350a wood, 50a fresh marsh, and 200a furze and heath in Framfield, Little Horsted, Selmeston, Alciston, Ripe and Hailsham

Henry Gage of Bentley, in Framfield, esq to Thomas Medley of Barcombe, gent, for the levying of a fine to dock entails of the following messuages, lands &c:
1 Capital mansion house with barns, buildings, stables, gardens, orchards called Bentley, with the lands on the backside of the mansion and lands called the Warren, the Pumphouse Meade, the two Rushfields, the Pond, the High Riddenam the Knowle, the Summerwell, the Copyhold, the two Upper Fulbarnes, the Fulbarne gardens, and the two bottoms belonging to them, the Great Fulbarne, the Mill Meade, the Heale, the Saltwell, the Apkins Meade, the Bridgefield, and the Bootome, the Script Crofte and the Westfield, with all the woodlands and coppice ground
2 Messuage or tenement, barn, garden and lands called Vynes Farm parcel of Bentley (56a) in Framfield theretofore in the tenure of John Vyne and then of [blank] Ilman widow, and Wellers Farm (40a) in Framfield in the tenure of William Snoveler
3 Farm and lands called Watermans Farm (28a) at Coopers Hatch in Framfield formerly in the tenure of [blank] Waterman and then of William Attree
4 Messuage and lands called Lushers farm (28a) near Coopers Hatch formerly in the tenure of William Lusher and then of William Attree
5 Manor or lordship of Little Horsted otherwise the Mote and all lands belonging in the tenures of Henry Gage, John Reade and William Attree
6 Messuage or tenement and farm called Brochells or Brockwells Farm, with the lands belonging to Fasons otherwise Sharpes farm (80a) in Framfield and Little Horsted late occupied by Robert Parris
7 Lands and tenements called Bredney otherwise Bredney Meade or Bradney Meade, Horsted Lands otherwise Eastlands, Julians Field and Julians Wish (37a) in Little Horsted, late in the tenure of Thomas Whapham and then of Edward Chatfield
8 Manor or farm of Tilton and lands and pasture called Tilton Down in Selmeston and Alciston in the tenure of John Walker
9 Two fields in Ripe occupied by the said John Walker, one (7a; S: road from Ripe to Firle; the other (11a; N: Pookhall Lane)
10 31½a Marsh called New Marsh in Hailsham (N: the Common Sewer or Haven); 32a called Homestall Marsh in Hailsham (N: Homestall Wall)
11 20a of upland called Deanes in Hailsham (W: road from Hailsham to Herstmonceux)
All in the tenure of Edmund Calverley, John Pupp and Abraham Bodle
W: Thomas Alchorne, James Attree, Charles Harison

Thomas Medley, gent, querent, and Henry Gage, esq, deforciant, of the manor of the Mote and 7 messuages, 10 barns, 3 tofts, a dovehouse, 7 gardens, 7 orchards, 600a of land, 30a of meadow, 200a of pasture, 350a of wood, 50a of fresh marsh and 200a of furze and heath in Framfield, Little Horsted, Selmeston, Alciston, Ripe and Hailsham

Henry Gage of Bentley, esq to Thomas Alchorne of Sandhill in Framfield, gent
The manor and farm of Tilton, Tilton Down and all messuages, buildings and land (209a) over and above the pasture called Tilton Down, in Selmeston and Alciston occupied by John Walker the elder and John Walker the younger
Two fields in Ripe occupied by John and John Walker described as in deed of 16 Oct 1682
New Marsh (31a) and the Deanes, upland pasture (20a) all in Hailsham
W: Thomas Medley, James Attree, Charles Harison

By Henry Gage to Thomas Alchorne for performance of covenants in deeds of even date between the parties

Thomas Alchorne of Eastbourne, gent by direction of Henry Gage, esq to Thomas Medley of Southover, gent of mortgage of 28 Sep 1683
W: Walter Brett, Charles Harison, Edward Baugher

By Henry Gage to Thomas Medley for performance of covenants

Henry Gage of Brambletye in East Grinstead, esq to Thomas Medley of Southover, gent
The capital mansion of Bentley and Bentley farms and lands (as before described)
W: Henry White, Richard Attree, Nicholas Hooper

By Henry Gage to Thomas Medley for performance of covenants

Henry Gage to Thomas Medley, in consideration of £2000 and £2934 5s then owing and a further advance of £65 15s of the two mortgages of 28 Sep 1683 and 14 Jun 1687
W: John Walcher, John White, Richard Hart, Edward Baugh and Nicholas Hooper
Memo dated 16 Apr 1705, endorsed on same deed of a further advance by Thomas Medley of £1000 also, 25 May 1708, that the said premises should stand charged in addition, with £300 due from Hen Gage to Thomas Medley on a Bond

Thomas Medley of Conyborough in Barcombe, esq by direction of Henry Gage of Bentley, esq to John Apsley of Pulborough, esq and John Middleton of Muntom, Sussex, esq, of the mortgage dated 28 Sep 1683 of the manor and farm of Tilton in trust for John Middleton
W: John Backshell, Michael Bryon and Christopher Bryon

Henry Gage, esq and Thomas Medley to William Longueville of the Inner Temple, esq and William Knight of St James', Westminster, esq, for £4500, of Bentley House and lands and the other premises described in mortgage of 14 Jun 1687 (see SAS/G12/9) except the Deanes in Hailsham which had been sold and the marshlands in Hailsham Which were reserved to HG
W: Francis Biddulph, Edward Porter, James Hart

Henry Gage, esq to John Middleton of Munton, esq of Bentley House lands and farms, the manor of Little Horsted and other premises as before
W: Charles Ingleby, Francis Biddulph, Robert Stonycroft

Between the same parties as SAS/G15/14 for £3250 paid to the said Henry Gage and £4500 to be secured to him, of the premises described in lease for a year

By John Middleton to Henry Gage for £4500, of Bentley House, lands &c

John Middleton declaring that the sum of £12,250 for the purchase of Bentley House and lands and the manor of Little Horsted was the money of Thomas Gage, bt, and that he was trustee for Sir Thomas Gage of the premises

Henry Gage, esq with John Middleton, esq to surrender copyholds being part of the manor of Tilton in accordance with deeds of 15 and 16 Apr 1706; in default £160 of the purchase money of Bentley might be retained

Henry Gage with consent of John Middleton to William Goring of Burton, Sussex, bt, of £1500, part of the sum of £4500 secured to him by a Mortgage of Bentley House and lands
W: Mannock Strickland, Thomas Penson

By Henry Gage to William Goring, bt, of £500, further part of the said £4500

Nevile Ridley of St Ann, Soho, Middlesex, gent concerning the manor of Little Horsted and Bentley House and lands demised to him by John Middleton, William Goring, bt and Henry Gage for 500 years by deed of even date, that he was trustee for William Gage of Firle, bt

John Middleton with Henry Gage to acknowledge satisfaction on a judgement for £320 and costs if the said Henry Gage should precure a surrender according to the custom of the manor of certain copyholds, the legal estate of which was then in John Gage, esq, which copyholds were agreed to be surrendered by deeds of 15 and 16 Apr 1706

Richard Arundell otherwise Bellings of Lanherne, Cornwall, esq to William Knight of St Martins in the Fields, Middlesex, esq of a mortgage of 30 Nov 1711, £3000 part of the sum secured being the monies of Richard Bellings, kt, and his wife Frances, William Longueville and William Knight, the mortgagees being trustees for them; RA being the executor of Sir Richard Bellings, who with Frances are both deceased

With a codicil dated 20 Feb 1724
The will has no concern with Sussex

William Gage, bt to Edmund Brydges of the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, gent, for £200, of several barns and buildings and lands as follows: The Heighton barn, the Misted barn, the Thomas's barn and the Tindalls barn, with the several closes and gate rooms to the said barns belonging, together with the closes or gate rooms belonging to Orells barn formerly burnt down
Also the following pieces of arable land: 69a lying from the way going up to Firle Mill unto certain arable lands of James Graves, gent, on the West
28a Called the Twenty Eight acre Lane
The Long Acre (14a)
8a Lying at the lower end of the tenants Lane next the highway
A piece (3a)
Compton Fields (38a)
Mill Hill Croft (2a)
Stanford Field (4a)
Bramland Croft (3a)
(Together 169a)
Also meadow ground and pasture as follows:
7a Part of the Ten Acres
Homeland (4a)
The Croft (1a)
Thomas's Croft (1a)
3a Part of Green Shelfe (9a)
The Ovall (2)
Cheaplands (4a)
The South Ham (17a)
Lullham field (12a)
Salters Dale (8a)
Long Furlong (8a)
Little Lulhams Field (4a)
Middle Lease (40a)
The Great Brooke (24a)
Little Brooke (5a)
Kents Wood (10a)
Pookbridge field (2a)
Little Apterwell (3a)
Wine Tare (10a)
Upper Rushett (14a)
Neither Rushett (19a)
The Eastham (7a)
French Lands (4a)
Little Lake (8a)
Orells Common (4a)
The Court Words (14a)
The Great Lake (21a)
Great Apterwell (14a)
The Commons (21a)
Barne Lease (30a)
West Lease (30a)
8a In Heighton Wishes
The Great Wish (30a)
The Barrows Croft (2a)
Turks Eye Croft (2a)
Sharp-rides (14a)
Rough Wine Tare (7a)
Thistle Foot Croft (6a)
Gussell (2a)
Also Sheep Down called the Place Down (300a)
Cowleazes (being heretofore 20 cowleazes but since reduce by consent to 13) in the common cowleazes of West Firle
All in West Firle occupied by Mr John Peirce
W: Edward Webbe, Ralph Hilton

By William Gage, bt to Edmund Brydges for payment of £2000 and interest

John Middleton of Muncton, Sussex, esq to William Gage of Firle, bt of the manor of and farm of Tilton and all messuages and lands belonging (209a), over and above the pastures called Tilton Down, conveyed to JM, 16 Apr 1706; also Bentley House and lands and the manor of Little Horsted otherwise the Mote and all other lands late of Henry Gage in Framfield and Little Horsted
W: Thomas Parsons, William Pettitt

Between the parties as in SAS/G15/28 in execution of trust, of the manors and premises described in lease for a year

William Gage, bt to Samuell Mabbat the elder, of Grays Inn, Middlesex, stationer, for £1000, of the premises named in mortgage of 26 Mar 1736 and subject to such mortgage

By Sir William Gage to Samuell Mabbat for performance of covenants

Charles Longueville of St Clements Danes, Middlesex, esq, executor of the will of William Longueville, esq, deceased, who survived William Knight the uncle his co-trustee, and others to Edward Barker of the Inner Temple, esq, in consideration of £7000 and a further advance of £500, of the before abstracted Mortgages of Bentley, Tilton &c

Edmund Bridges late of the Six Clerks Office and then of Shellford, Berkshire, and Samuel Mabbat, by consent and direction of Francis Poole of Lewes, bt, and Lancelot Storey of Westminster, esq (acting executors and devisees of William Gage, bt, deceased) and his heir Thomas [Gage], Viscount Gage to Elizabeth Hamersley of New Windsor, Berkshire, spinster, of the two terms of years created by the mortgages of 26 March, 1736 and 27 Jun 1737

Will dated 6 Jul 1720; Admingranted to James Porter, esq, out of the PCC

Executors and trustees of William Gage, bt, deceased and others to William Pitt, esq Paymaster of HM Forces and Privy Councillor, and James Stephens of St James Westminster, doctor in physic, (acting executors of John Spencer deceased) and guardians of his only son John Spencer an infant, for £23,000

James Porter, esq and others to Francis Gosling, esq, alderman of the city of London, and William Hopkins of London, merchant, of the mortgages of Lord Gage's estates in Sussex, comprising Bentley farm

Elizabeth Hammersley, by direction of Lord Gage and others to Francis Gosling and William Hopkins of the mortgage terms assigned to EH by deed of 1 Mar 1750

Samson Gideon of Belvidere, Kent, esq to Francis Gosling and William Hopkins for payment of £20,000 within two days after the solemnisation of an intended marriage between William Hall [Gage], Viscount Gage and SG's daughter Elizabeth Gideon

For a loan of £20,000 to take up Spencer's mortgage and so get his affairs out of chancery

Lord Gage to Samson Gideon in regard to £20,000 agreed to be advanced to discharge a mortgage, to invest upon Land Tax for this year, there being some delay owing to the title to the said mortgage

William Pitt and James Stephen, executors of John Spencer, by direction of Lord Gage, to Samson Gideon, esq for securing £23,000

By Lord Gage to Samson Gideon for payment of £23,000

By Lord Gage of all privilege of Parliament in connection with any suit for the recovery of the £23,000 loan

Peter, prior of Michelham, querent, and Ralph [de Coventry], abbot of Battle
Agreed that the prior should have the flow of water to his mill in Michelham [in Arlington] through the lands of the abbot in Stanash (Sternesse) and Hellingly, to the height of the sluices of 2 feet 9 inches; the prior paying to the abbot 10s yearly at Alciston
Made before Gilbert de Preston, Roger de Wycestr', William de Engelfeld and William de Cobeham, justices in eyre at Chichester

Thomas Combe, monk and almoner of Battle, with the consent of the abbot, to Giles Tylye and his wife Denise and their heirs in tail
A building (domus) in Alciston, which used to be the grange of the almoner to receive his corn
Paying an annual rent of 12d to the almoner; the abbot grants that the almoner and his successors may have an adequate place for his corn in another building in the manor of Alciston where it could conveniently be done; given in a court for the manor

Laurence [Champion], abbot of Battle and the convent to Richard Myddilton otherwise Mylton
7a Of demesne lands of the manor of Alciston lying together at Tilton, with the pasture of the abbey in the lord's common of Tilton (E: land of the abbey called the Pundfold and the land of the abbot and convent of Bayham called Pevyndene; S: land of the cathedral church of Chichester called Sperkyslond; W: the common of Tilton; N: land of Bayham called the Several)
RM granted to the abbey a right of way from the manor of Alciston across the said 7a and Tilton Common to land called Pokehale

Laurence [Champion], abbot, and the convent of Battle to Richard Middelton otherwise Mylton
A cottage with curtilage and garden with two crofts of land and 5a of land in the Common Field; the cottage and the two crofts lying together by the Northgardyn on the one side and by a croft of the lord called Litilpasture otherwise Litilheges on the other and abutting on Chalkcroft; the said 5a lying dispersed, viz in the laine (cultura) of Westlayn in the furlong of Westoun, 1 rood; in Westfurlong in the same laine, 1½a in two places; in Shortland in the same laine, 1 rood and at Bronbregge, ½a In the Middillayn in the furlong by Estrete, 1a; pasture for 30 sheep and 3 cows on the common of the manor like other tenants of Alciston
To hold of the manor of Alciston by a quitrent of 10s, suit of court twice a year (specified), heriot of best animal on death of each tenant and 10s as relief, for all other services
Appointment of John Selwyn and Thomas Taillour as attornies to give seisin

John Gage, kt, to Thomas Pellond of West Firle
80a Of land with the wood growing thereon in Hellingly (W: road from Thunderscrosse to Heathfield; N: the street from the messuage of Thomas Walshe to Gravebryge and land of Thomas Rede called Coles; E: land of Thomas Walshe called Wyllynges; E, S: land of Thomas Page called Cokyslongys; W: land of Thomas Page called Cokyslouche; S: land late William Suger called Sinderforde and lands of William Harmer called Coggars; W: land of Thomas Walshe called Franklands; N: land of Thomas Walshe called Wyllynges)
Covenant to give warranty against the abbot of Westminster

John [Hammond] abbot, and the convent of Battle to Ralph Sadyllar
The manor of Alciston, with all lands, rents of tenants there with tolcester and the profits of fairs at Alfriston and pasture and pannage in the wood of Sternersshe, together with all the live and dead stock as in indenture annexed, with digging of clay and chalk as anciently used
Except the hall of the manor, with buildings on the east of the hall, along with the kitchen and the old chapel in the garden there, and a stable sufficient for the horses of the abbot and his servants when they should come to the manor, and the easement of the garden of the manor as often as he pleases, together also with all liberties, franchises, deodands and treasure trove with fishery and free warren and with pasture for beasts of the farmer of Lullington in the wood of Sternersshe, viz 16 bullocks and two horses between 25 Mar and and Pentecost and two horses between 25 Mar and 29 Sep
Rent to include one quarter of green peas in Lent, one sufficient boar at Christmas, one fat ox of the value of 15s and one fat cow, value 8s at All Saints, conveyed to Battle at the cost of RS
RS to provide the abbot with food and drink, with sufficient bedroom for six of his servants and adherents twice in the year for three days and three nights and sufficient hay and straw for their horses, and also to find carriage for the abbot's things from Battle to the manor and back again twice a year
RS to receive the steward of the hospice of the monastery with three servants and the steward of the manor and the servants of the abbot sent to the manor and to find them food and drink and attend them as often as they should chance to come
Also to find carriage for twelve waggon-loads of timber for repairing the buildings of the manor, and ten waggon-loads for fuel at the Tilehouse, from the wood of Sternershe and Lynershe, and sufficient straw for thatching the buildings
The abbey to maintain and repair all buildings upon the manor unless destroyed by RS, his servants or beasts
RS to have sufficient fuel for reasonable expenditure within the manor and timber sufficient for ploughbote and haybote by delivery of the abbey officers in the said woods
The farmer to repair all fences and enclosures, except the enclosure of Northynwoode
As part of his farm the farmer to deliver at Battle between 29 Sep and 1 Aug at his own cost 100 quarters of good and clean wheat at the price of 6s 8d the quarter, and for the servants and cattle of the farmer carrying the said wheat the abbey to provide food and drink, with bedding stable and provender for horses
Attached: long schedule of live and dead stock, naming rooms
The deed is cancelled by cutting

The abbot and convent of Battle to Thomas a Wodde, almost identical with SAS/G16/6, but rents of Shoreham and Bramber are included
Cancelled by cutting

The crown to John Gage of West Firle and his wife Philippa, in consideration of good true and faithful service
The manor of Alciston with its members, late belonging to the monastery of Battle; also a Tilehouse and all messuages and land in Alciston, Tilton, [East] Blatchington, Selmeston, Arlington, Hellingly, Bramber, Berwick, Findon, Washington, Kingston Buci, Portslade, Old Shoreham and New Shoreham
All live and dead stock demised to the farmers of the manor before the date of these presents
Except all lands (26a 1½r) in the Borough of Tilton in Selmeston and Alciston on the south side of the road from Lewes to Pevensey, and 27½a ½r in the Borough of Tilton on the north side of the same road; and two parcels of land and pasture called Pysons Wysshe (11a) in Tilton, also 100a of land and pasture called Tilton Down in Tilton, which excepted land were granted to Edward Braye, kt
To hold to the said JG and his wife Philippa and his heirs in tail, by the service of the tenth part of a knight's fee and yearly rent of £10
The crown to discharge JG and the manor against Richard Sakfelde, steward of the manor concerning his fee
Endorsed: payment of £100 paid unto Edward Northe, kt in full satisfaction of £200 for the purchase of the lands within mentioned was made 2 Feb 1543 as appeareth by an acquittance thereof under the hands and seal of Sir Edward Northe, which acquittance is inrolled in the court of Augmentations 20 May 1543 by Richard Duke

John Gage, kt his wife Philippa and his son and heir Edward Gage esq, to Thomas a Wode of Alciston
Recites: questions as to the validity of leases of Alciston manor; decision to determine all estates and leases claimed by TW
JG sold to TW all the stock and store of corn which had been let to farm with the manor for 300 marks, 100 marks part thereof being remitted, the remainder to be paid by instalments
The manor was leased to TW, with the exception of quitrents and rents of assize and copyholds, the woods of Sternershe and the two Westfeldes of Pookhale (W: TW's Milton's Hurst and to a meadow of JG called the Hurst Mede; E: Great Pookhale; S: the road from Pevensey to Lewes) except also the wood called Wrodings Woode otherwise the Coppice

Thomas Middelton otherwise Milton, to Edward Gage, esq
For further assurance of a messuage, curtilage, garden, two crofts and 5a of land in Alciston sold and conveyed to EG by deed of 1 Dec 1548

Made at the request of Edward Gage, kt, of various letters patent touching grants to the Knights Hospitallers of Jerusalem and to Battle Abbey, including the grant of Alciston

John Gage esq to Edward Newton of Alciston, yeoman
The site of the manor of Alciston with all house, buildings and the following parcels of land: the soil of the site of the manor with the closes, fields, gardens (4a); piece of pasture called the Nether Garden and the Hemp Garden (6a 1r); Oldeland, pasture, 16a; Northwood, 51½a pasture; Horsecroft 15a pasture; The Loose Field, 18a pasture; the Great Myllfield, 46a pasture The Lytle Myllfield, pasture, 12a; Great Pookhale, pasture, 41½a; Great Pookhale mede, pasture, or meadow, 21a 3r; also the following meadow ground: Chalcroft Mede, 1a 1r; a meadow next the Coppice, 36a; Roselands Mede, 7a; Hardwell Mede, 14½a; Ten Acre, 10a; the Arms, 14½a; Poundefeld Mede, 14½a; arable lands: the Borowe, 51a; the Sturtell, 11a; Whitefoore, 19a 1r; Seven Acre, 7a; The Drove, 14a; Horseshoe, 8½a; the laine next the Sheplese, 36½a; the laine next Tilton, 28a 3r; a piece of arable in Telton layne, 7a; all the Shepecorses and shepe pastures belonging to the manor
Reserved: the dovehouses and their profits, and all timber
Tenant to provide house-room, meat and drink, horsemeat, litter and lodgings for the lord and owner of the manor, his steward and other his servants and officers and their servants and horses and geldyngs, keeping the hundreds and courts there or surveying the manor, twice a year or oftener if need be
W: Nicholas Newton, John Faulkner, Roger Salter

Thomas Gage of Firle, gent, to John Gage, esq his right and term of years in the farm of Alciston and the stock, which he had by grant of his father Edward Gage, kt, and also surrender of an annuity of £10 given to him by EG's will
W: John Comber, Roger Salter, Edward Gage

John Gage, esq to Edward Newton of Alciston, yeoman
Houses and buildings called the Tile House with the workhouse belonging, and the field in which they stood, also two other fields (12a) lying together (E: Berwick Common; S: road from Berwick Common to Alciston; W: Elfikes land; N: Ludlay Land), late occupied by John Peckden deceased
Tenant to be allowed to dig clay, earth and chalk as other farmers have done for the use of the tilehouse for the making of brick, tile, and lime
The tenant to deliver to John Gage at the Tile House all necessary tile, brick and lime for the repairs of the houses and buildings of the said John Gage in the manors of Alciston, Heighton, Eckington, Exceat and Hosiers, at 8s per 1000 bricks, 6s per 1000 tiles and 6s a load of lime
W: John Comber, John Faukner

John Gage of Firle, esq and Edward Gage of Bentley, esq
7a Belonging to JG lying among the demesne lands of the manor of Tilton, intermingled with demesne lands of EG in Tilton, the bounds being so decayed as hardly to be discerned, in exchange EG granted a close or several parcel of land then lately enclosed for that purpose called Penden and the Pinfould, E, a field called the Several, N and a field called the Common, S and W
W: John Cripps, Francis Eyerman, Richard Talbot

John Gage, esq to Edmund Elfficke of Alciston, yeoman
The capital house and site of the demesne lands of the manor of Alciston and all buildings, gardens and necessary places belonging (4a); the Nether Garden and the Hemp Garden, (6a 1r) (and all other premises as in SAS/G16/14)
W: George Gage, Thomas Gilderedge and Henry Collins

John Gage, esq to his brother George Gage, esq
A close of land or pasture called Newe Wood (7a) in Alciston (E: Berwick Common; N: Ludlay Lands; W: another close called Newswood otherwise Buckfield; S: road), late occupied by Richard Comber
W: Francis Eyerman, Henry Collins

John Gage, esq to Henry Guldeford and James Thetcher, esq
All the coppices, woods, underwoods and woodlands called Abbots Wood, Sterneashe, Lignashe and Deane Lands
Proviso for JG and the inhabitants in his mansion houses and messuages in Firle and Alciston to fell, coal and carry away as much of the said wood and underwood as required for fuel in the said houses; Edmund Elphick of Alciston to have 30 loads yearly for his house
W: Thomas Gildredge, Henry Collins, John Gilderedge, Henry Cooke

John Gage, esq to Walter Hendley of Maidstone, Kent, gent
Alciston Farm (described as in previous leases and the exceptions the same)
W: Richard Hoskyns, Thomas Herisson, Edward Watson, Lewes Rye

Walter Hendley to Edward Mattock of Alciston, yeoman
Alciston Farm
From the date of deed to 29 Sep 1636; rent to be paid in the porch of Alciston Church

James Morley of London, esq, and Robert Morley of the Inner Temple, London, gent to William Foster, gent
The tithes of corn from the manor of Alciston, amounting to 26s 8d yearly, granted to JM, RM and WF, with other things, by patent of 14 March 1617
W: Richard Hoskyns, Ric Thornton and Robert Walker, servant of Hen Best, scr

Walter Hendley to John Gage, esq
W: John Brook, Roland Mather, Jo Winterborne, Robert Carpenter

John Gage, esq to John Alce of Beddingham, yeoman, and Richard Alchorne of Rodmell, yeoman
Alciston house and farm (described as before)
Additional rent of 240 bushels of wheat at the mansion house of Firle between 1 Nov and 25 Dec, and 240 bushels of barley between 1 Nov and 2 Feb, 8 gallons to the bushel
W: Simon Maxfeild, Andrew Baulcombe, Robert Lorkin

John Gage, bt, to James Brooke of Berwick, gent
14a Of woodland called the Coppice in the manor or territories of Alciston
W: Christopher Herbert, M[elitus] Halward, Thomas Storer

John Gage, bt to Edmund Brooke of Hellingly, gent, all former lease being surrendered
Alciston Farm (described as before)
Reserved: the right to dig chalk (no mention of the dovehouse)
W: Christopher Herbert, John Guilderedge

John Gage, bt to John Alce and Richard Alchorne of Alciston, yeoman
Alciston Farm (dovehouse not excepted)
And 220 bushels of wheat and 220 bushels of barley

John Gage, bt, to John Meeres of Alciston, gent
The messuage in which JM was dwelling in Alciston with barns, orchards and 40a of land enjoyed with it, also occupied by JM, and 60 sheep-leases belonging to it
Reserved: trees of oak, elm and ash, the right of hawking, hunting and fowling
W: Richard Hoskyns, Christopher Herbert, Edward Mattock

John Gage, bt, to Thomas Savage of Melford, Suffolk, kt and bt
The manor of Alciston and the wood called Abbots Wood, Lignash, Sterneash and Deaneland Coppice
W: Thomas Savage, Thomas Brooke

The crown to Richard Chettle, esq, and Richard Balley, gent
(Inter alia) of the reversion and remainder of the manor of Alciston and a tile house granted to John Gage, kt and his heirs in tail male by patent of 13 Feb 1540
A contemporary certified copy

Richard Chettle of the Middle Temple, London, esq, and Richard Baley of London, gent, to John Gage, bt
The reversion and remainder of the manor of Alciston and Tilehouse granted to them by patent of 4 Jun 1631
W: Phillip Eden, Robert Pickering, Awbrey Batherne

Thomas Gage, bt, and his wife Mary to Richard Alchorne of Alciston, yeoman
Alciston manor and farm (described as before); 70a of marshland in Pevensey, occupied by RA
W: Thomas Hewes, John Smythe, Cuthbert Nicholson