Catalogue description Copy conveyance (lease and release) for £1400

Peter Courthop of Hurstpierpoint, esq, with Mary Dobell, executrix of Walter Dobell of Streat, esq, to Joseph Mercer of Keymer, yeoman

1 Manor and farm of Crowham in Westfield and Beckley and other land

2 Hole Farm with barns, buildings and 128a in Westfield, occupied by William Davis and Walter Dobell the elder

3 Piece of brookland called Crabbrook (9a) in Westfield, occupied by William Davis

4 Woodland and coppice (18a) part of Broad Oak Farm in Brede, occupied in 1692 by Peter Gott

5 Farm and land in Sedlescombe and Westfield, occupied by William Davis

6 Little tenement with a garden in Sedlescombe, occupied by Widow Tilden

7 Lands and tenements in Sedlescombe and Westfield, copyhold of the manor of Battle

Subject to annuities of £40 and £150 to Anna widow of Peter Farnden of Sedlescombe, esq

Recites: covenant to levy a fine, Peter Gott, esq, and his wife Martha, Walter Dobell, esq, and his son Walter Dobell, both of Streat, (now deceased) and Mary the wife of Walter Dobell the younger, WD the elder's youngest son Peter Dobell of Southwark in Surrey, salter, and his wife Ann, Walter Roberts, gent, and his wife Lucy (one of the daughters of WD the elder), John Godman, citizen of London; John Baker the elder, gent, and his eldest son John Baker, and Richard Gibbs, gent; Benjamin White, doctor in physic, and Richard Paine the younger, gent; 18 Oct 1692; will of Walter Dobell the younger, bequeathing his land in Sedlescombe and Westfield in Hastings Rape, occupied by himself, William Davis and [blank] Catchloe, formerly the estate of his grandfather Peter Farnden, esq, to PC and Richard Rideout (now deceased), 28 Feb 1693; order in chancery in Thomas Pellatt and other creditors of WD the younger v MD, PC and WD's children William, Walter and Barbara Dobell, infants, that the lands should be sold, 26 Jan 1697; report of Master Dr Henry Newton declaring JM the best purchaser at £1400, 4 Mar 1700; order confirming the report, 9 Mar 1700; payment by JM of £600, 28 Mar 1700; lease of the property by PC and JM to Basil Herne and John Suffield, esqs, the two senior Six Clerks of chancery, to secure the balance of £800, 2 Apr 1700; lease for 1000 years by John Baker the elder, gent, to WD the younger, esq, of a farm in Heathfield occupied by Isaac Fryar to secure the surrender of 7 by by his youngest son Nigel Baker at 21, 18 Oct 1692

W: B[enjamin] Henshaw, Richard Middleton, John Holford

W to copy: Anthony Harvey, Anthony C Bishop, clerks to Messres Bishop, Thorpe and Bishop, solicitors, Hastings, 27 Jul 1830

Hove Library Accession 1832a Flint