Catalogue description Copy settlement (covenant to levy fine and suffer recovery)

Ann Davis of Addington in Kent, widow of John Davis of Mereworth, formerly of West Farleigh, Kent, clerk, with Frances Davis and Mary Davis of Addington, spinsters, and Robert Style of Mereworth, clerk, and his wife Priscilla (three of the four daughters of JD) to William Marshall of Cliffords Inn, London, gent, and Joseph Brooke of West Mailing in Kent, esq, in trust

1 Property (specified) in Hucking, Marden, Yalding and Horsmonden in Kent

2 Messuage, barn, oasthouse, buildings and 127a called Jacobs in Brede, Sedlescombe, Udimore and Westfield, occupied by William Cooke, before John Hendley, rent £55

3 Messuage, barn, oasthouse, buildings and 40a in 15 pieces called Sawyershams and Colthams in Westfield, occupied by John Sanders, before the heirs of John Beale ([blank] Thomas and [blank] Sanders), rent £35

4 Property (specified) in Otham, Hunton, Marden, Yalding, Meopham, Luddesdown and Linton in Kent

Recites: settlement on the marriage of JD and Ann Bold of Maidstone in Kent, spinster (William Henley, esq, and Nicholas Toke, gent, trustees), 15 Jul 1731, itself reciting the death of Ann's father John Bold of Marden in Kent, leaving estates in Kent and Sussex worth £450 a year, c1721; grant of letters of administration to his widow Mary Bold; her death and will, leaving her residuary estate to her daughters Mary wife of Thomas Marchant, gent, and Ann Bold, 18 May 1724; probate of her mother's will by Mary Marchant who obtained letters of administration of the goods of her father left unadministered by John Stringer who had obtained letters of administration; that no account could be taken on account of the minority of Ann Bold, aged about 20; settlement by John Davis and his wife Ann, née Bold, having obtained her majority, 1 Mar 1732; partition of the estates between Thomas and Mary Marchant and John and Ann Davis, 28 Sep 1732; will of John Davisd, 14 Aug 1746

W: John Fentiman, A H Dyne, B Brathwaite; W to copy: James Reynolds, John Kemp, 4 Oct [1791]

Hove Library Accession 1872 Flint