Catalogue description Separation agreement (deed to lead the uses of a fine)

John Wood the elder of St George Southwark, innholder, [his son] John Wood the younger of Horsted Keynes, tanner, with Walter Gatland of Cuckfield, yeoman, James Creech, citizen and haberdasher of London, Edward Hatfeild of Chelsea in Middlesex, waterman, Elizabeth wife of John Wood the elder and James Bayly of St Margaret Westminster, patten-maker

1 Godmans Farm in Horsted Keynes, occupied by Thomas Maynard

2 Dean Lands Farm in Horsted Keynes

3 Copyhold messuage at Woking in Surrey

Recites: deed of even date declaring the uses of a fine in respect of 2 to JC [AMS 1442]; settlement on the marriage of JW the elder and his wife Elizabeth, 14 Apr 1671 [AMS 1437]; separation agreement by which Elizabeth parted with her interest in a leasehold estate in Southwark to secure £30 a year out of 1, by which JW became bound to JB and Edward Hatfeild, now deceased, 1 May 1694; refusal of JW to perform the agreement; bill in chancery followed by new agreement securing Elizabeth an annuity of £20 out of 1 and that she should have it as her jointure should she survive JW; mortgage and further charge to WG as AMS 1440, 11 Nov 1690 and 19 May 1701; assignment of mortgage to Philip Cheale of Henfield and John Chatfield of Mockford [in Cowfold] in trust; surrender of 3 by JW and EW to EH and JB

WG and EH to hold 1 in trust to pay £20 a year to EW, the surplus (and the whole amount after her death) in trust to discharge the mortgage, the remainder in trust for JW the younger; JB granted power of entry to levy the annuity in case of non-payment; JW the elder covenants with JB that Elizabeth may live with anyone without molestation from him, and to have power to receive and dipose of the goods in her possession; EH and JB to hold 3 in trust for EW and her heirs; JW bound to EH and JB in £500 not to molest EW or any of her friends or acquaintances who receive or entertain her, to be enforced by JB by a suit in chancery

W: Samuel Aungier, Daniel Hooton, Thomas Andrews

Endorsed: further charge for £70; recites deaths of JW the elder and his wife Elizabeth; W: Timothy Burrell, Edward Virgoe; 19 May 1702

Hove Library Accession 2035 Flint; West Sussex Record Office AMS17309