Catalogue description Mortgage for £400 at 5%

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Details of AMS 1703
Reference: AMS 1703
Title: Mortgage for £400 at 5%
Description:

William Browning of Canterbury in Kent, carpenter, with Joseph Mercer of Maidstone in Kent, yeoman, to John Brooke of Northiam, yeoman

 

Tenement, barn and 25a called The White Down, 6a wood or coppice and a piece of brookland called Crabb Brook (9a) in Westfield, occupied in 1720 by John Tassell, John Parker and JM

 

Recites: settlement on the marriage of WB and JM's youngest daughter Elizabeth, granting a payment of £400 to WB on JM's death should any of their children be then living, secured by a lease for 500 years from JM's death, Sep 1720; now WB assigns the lease and JM leases the property to JB to secure the payment

 

W: Andrew Robbins, Thomas Mercer; John Cartar, Sarah Quested [?]

 

Endorsed: receipt by JB for principal and interest paid by JM's sons and executors Robert Mercer and Thomas Mercer; W: Thomas Piety, Matthew Browning, 16 Oct 1738
Date: 2 May 1727
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 2120 Flint

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