Catalogue description Conveyance for £460

Richard Relfe of Dallington, gent, and his wife Margaret, by the direction of Thomas Mercer of Penhurst, yeoman, to William Mercer of Hastings, gent, and William Wimble of Dallington, yeoman

1 Piece of coppice or woodland called Mesinges otherwise Mysings [otherwise Nysinges] Wood (41½a) and an adjoining piece called Giffordes (5a) in Dallington and Brightling (NW, W, SW: plain land occupied by RR; SE: glebe lands of Penhurst; E: land of [blank] Lyence and John Gyles, clerk)

2 A right of way with carts, horses, wains and carriages out of the very upper end of Mesinges Wood, through a field called Mesinges otherwise Nysinges Field occupied by Thomas Hyland and William Bacombe, and through land called The Manninges Field occupied by William Bacombe, to the road between Dallington and Netherfield

3 A free passsage and way, when the woods are cut or coaled, with carts, horses, wains and carriages, through two pieces of plain land and wood called Giffordes adjoining the glebe land of Penhurst, occupied by RR, to Penningredge Wood in Dallington, WM and WW leaving a year's notice at RR's dwelling-house called Giffordes of their intention to fell

Warranty against acts of RR's father William Relfe deceased

W: John Gyles, Benjamin Scarlett, John Benbrigge, Richard Farncombe

Endorsed: agreement that TM shall maintain the boundary against three fields of RR called The Mysinges, and that RR shall maintain the boundary against his three fields called The Giffordes; W: Benjamin Scarlett, James Relfe; 25 Sep 1640

Hove Library Accession 1987 Flint [see AMS 1543]