Catalogue description Assignment of long lease for £460

Lawrence Sommers of Dallington, gent, and John Carpenter of Hawkhurst in Kent, gent, by the direction of Richard Relfe of Dallington, gent, to Thomas Mercer of Penhurst, yeoman

1 Coppice or woodland called Mesinges otherwise Mysenges Wood (41½a) and an adjoining coppice or woodland called Giffordes Wood (5a) (N and W: plain lands, part of the land below, occupied by RR; W, S and W: other plain lands, occupied by RR; S, E: glebe land of the parson of Penhurst; E: land of [blank] Lyence, and John Gyles, clerk)

2 A right of way with carts, horses, wains and carriages out of the very upper end of Mysinges Wood, through a field called The Mysinges Field occupied by Thomas Hyland and William Bacombe, and through land called The Manninges Field occupied by William Bacombe, to the road between Dallington and Netherfield

3 A free passsage and way, when the woods are cut or coaled, with carts, horses, wains and carriages, through two pieces of plain land and wood called Giffordes adjoining the glebe land of Penhurst, occupied by RR, to Penningredge Wood in Dallington, WM and WW leaving a year's notice at RR's dwelling-house called Giffordes of their intention to fell

Recites: lease for 500 years by George Marten of Hastings, yeoman, and his son George Marten of Crowhurst, yeoman, to Thomas Foster, son and heir of Goddard Foster of Battle, gent, and Elizabeth Wattell, 21 Sep 1637

Messuage, barns, outhouses, buildings and 330a land and wood called Willardes, Santredge, Messinges otherwise Mysenges and Grigges, Begland, Giffordes (N: road from Netherfield to Dallington; S, W: land of Thomas Baker, kt, called Panningridge, and to Hasleden; S, E: glebe lands of the parson of Penhurst; E: land of John Creasy, land of Edward Bromfeild, esq, land of the heirs of Michael Hawkins) and Coblie (S: road from Netherfield to Dallington; W: land of Edward Bromfeild, esq, also called Coblie; N: copyhold land of the heirs of Michael Hawkins; E: land of Richard Glidd) in Brightling, Penhurst and Dallington

Death of Elizabeth Wattell; assignment by Thomas Foster to LS and JC, 29 Oct 1639

W: William Wimble, Stephen Springat, Thomas Fatly; John Gyles, Benjamin Scarlett; William Pix

Hove Library Accession 1943 Flint [see AMS 1343]