Catalogue description Extracts copied from the accounts of 'my uncle' Nathaniel Webb of Falmer on behalf of his cousin Richard Webb of Keymer, 1705-1716

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Details of AMS 1418
Reference: AMS 1418
Title: Extracts copied from the accounts of 'my uncle' Nathaniel Webb of Falmer on behalf of his cousin Richard Webb of Keymer, 1705-1716
Description:

Details extracted from the account-book of Nathaniel Webb from the death of his brother Richard Webb, specifying the page of the book from which the extract is taken

 

Includes the funeral, probate of the will and legacies of Richard Webb, accounts for farming his estate, sales of malt and for the maintenance, clothing and education of his son Richard Webb

 

Mentions heriots to Lord Abergavenny and searching the court rolls, heriot to Lord Montague, income from the estate and repairs to buildings at Fanners and Ellis's Land in Wivelsfield, Howell's house, barn and land and Pockney's house, hovel and buildings at St John's Common, the blacksmith's shop [down and the ground is lost]; goods sold 26 May 1706; costs in the suit between the lord and tenants 'about mudd in lord Stedly's manor'; John Michell lawyer for the chancery suit between Lord Craven and the tenants

 

Boarding and schooling Richard Webb (Mr Peirce 1708-1712, John Grover 1713-1714); costs when he had smallpox; to Norman the book-binder

 

At end: rental of the estate occupied by Nathaniel Webb, William Pockney, Thomas Howell, William Stiant and Jesse Bartholomew; list of taxes on Court Farm Falmer

Date: 18 Dec 1718
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 2022 Flint

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