Catalogue description Lease for 14 years from 29 Sep 1693 at £44

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of AMS 1348
Reference: AMS 1348
Title: Lease for 14 years from 29 Sep 1693 at £44
Description:

Richard Turner of Keymer, yeoman, to Richard Webb of Ditchling, yeoman

 

1 The great tithes of [RW]'s three farms in Ditchling called The Court Farm or Manor Farm, The Park Farm and The Wick Farm

 

2 Close of land with the Parsonage Barn standing in it

 

3 Down or feeding for sheep called Keymer Down in Keymer, part of the demesnes of the manor of Keymer, with the small tithes, reserving the piece which was denshired this year, and the piece adjoining the road which goes up the down (E: the denshire ground; W: RT's land; S: Keymer Holt; N: the road at the foot of the hill), the excepted land containing 25a besides the roads 'and is now marked out with some turfs of the ground being dug up'

 

Reserved: the two chalkpits with right of access; timber, wood and underwood

 

Very detailed agricultural covenants including references to folding sheep

 

W: Edward Burry, Francis Langford

 

Endorsed: extensive calculations, pen-trials and doodles by Richard Wood, William Wood, Christopher Combridge, Richard Parsons and Henry Looker

Date: 23 [Nov deleted] (Oct) 1693
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 1993 Flint

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