Catalogue description Marriage settlement ([lease and] release)

John Laugham of Mayfield, gent, with Lucy Baker of Mayfield, spinster, one of the daughters of John Baker of Mayfield, esq, deceased, to Richard Porter of Chailey, clerk, and Thomas Porter of Dewhurst in Wadhurst, gent, in trust; JL to marry LB

1 Messuage, stable, garden, orchard, close and piece of land called Foords otherwise Bessells (1a), occupied by JL, at the west end of the town of Mayfield

2 Piece of land called Sawkins Croft (3a) adjoining 1, assart copyhold of the manor of Mayfield Aynscombe, occupied by JL, near Bessells Pond

3 £1000, bequeathed to LB by her father JB but not yet paid

4 £300, payable to LB out of lands and tenements in Westfield and Brede

W: Nicholas Fowle, George Hooper

Annotated: JL died without issue and gave the premises to his brother Stephen Laugham by his will of 14 Apr 1736

Hove Library Accession 1671