Catalogue description Contract for the sale of wood at £4 an acre

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

Details of AMS 1464
Reference: AMS 1464
Title: Contract for the sale of wood at £4 an acre
Description:

Charles Brown, Robert Legard and Simon Michell, esqs (executors of James Smyth, bt, and guardians of his son Robert Smyth, bt, aged 13) with Robert Mercer of Isfield, yeoman

 

Wood in New Park Wood (35a), The Lodge Wood (62a) and The Hook Grove Wood(16a)

 

Detailed covenants; when the underwood in Mr Radcliffe's Foxhole Wood is felled RM may omit to fell nine acres

 

Recites: lease to RM, 27 Nov 1710 (AMS 1456), which will expire on 25 Mar 1724; representations by RM in the negotiations for a new lease that it would be to his advantage in manuring the farm if he could have the underwood of the above woods, carrying chalk or lime by the same means by which he carried out the wood; lease to RM for 12 years from 25 Mar 1724, 31 Oct 1723

 

W: John Michell, William Phelipps
Date: 31 Oct 1723
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 2055 Flint

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