Catalogue description Marriage contract for £700 (covenant to levy fine)

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

Details of AMS 1587
Reference: AMS 1587
Title: Marriage contract for £700 (covenant to levy fine)
Description:

Joseph Mercer of Isfield, gent, Martin Richard Webb of Wivelsfield, gent and his daughter Mary Webb, spinster, with Henry Marten of Keymer, gent, and Michael Marten of Keymer, gent (trustees); JM to marry MW

 

JM's messuages and land in Sedlescombe, Westfield, Brede and Udimore, settled by JM's grandfather Joseph Mercer on the marriage of Robert Mercer and Mary Miller, 3 May 1710, which by their deaths have descended to their eldest son JM, except those parts which, under his father's will, he is to convey to his brother Thomas Mercer

 

JM and MW to convey by fine to HM and MM to secure an annuity of £50 for MW's jointure

 

W: [blank]

 

Endorsed: memorandum of sale off of part of the property by Robert Mercer and his wife Ann and Samuel Flint to Hercules Sharpe, esq and his trustees Cuthbert Sharpe, kt, and William Brooks, esq, with a covenant to produce this deed; 10 and 11 Aug 1830
Date: 27 May 1740
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 1844 Flint

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