Catalogue description Assignment of lease in trust for a charity school for 5s 0d

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

Details of AMS 1582
Reference: AMS 1582
Title: Assignment of lease in trust for a charity school for 5s 0d
Description:

Joseph Mercer of Maidstone in Kent, gent, to Richard Thornton, vicar of Dallington, clerk, Richard Brown Wright, rector of Sedlescombe, clerk, Robert Pain, rector of Saltwood in Kent, clerk, Henry Bishop of Sedlescombe, gent, and John Plumer of Sedlescombe, gent

 

3/4a of land (W: road from Sedlescombe Bridge to Sedlescombe Church; S: the leasehold cottage and waste of John Cooper; E: the footway), 'whereon a school house and other necessary and convenient buildings are now very shortly intended to be built', part of waste lease for 100 years to Peter Farnden, 7 Oct 1652 [AMS 1564], now vested in JM

 

In trust for the use and habitation of a master appointed to instruct poor children born in the parish to read and write

 

W: William Lord, Isaac Gostling

 

Endorsed: JM to be paid 6d a year as acknowledgement
Date: 27 Dec 1731
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 1839 Flint

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