Catalogue description Assignment of lease as AMS 1954 for £46 6s 3d

Thomas Baldock of Burwash, surgeon and apothecary, with John Vine of [blank], late of Maidstone in Kent, cider-merchant (grandson and an executor of John Vine of Heathfield, yeoman), and Samuel Drawbridge of Heathfield, yeoman, (the other executor of John Vine), to Samuel Baker of Heathfield, tanner

The Lower Croft (3a, called 2a in 1650) at the south end of Bishopps Wood in Heathfield, occupied by SB

Recites: lease by Joshua Bexhill of Heathfield, yeoman, to Richard Chilley of Heathfield, yeoman, 22 Feb 1650; vesting of the term in JV and failure of SD to assign his interest as his grandfather's executor to him; mortgage of this and other land for £250 by JV to William Snoad of Brookland in Kent, gent, 7 Mar 1783; assignment of the mortgage by William Snoad to TB; contract for sale by JV to SB by 13 Oct 1784 for £260, of which £62 was paid, the conveyancing costs to be paid by JV, 2 Aug 1784; failure of JV to complete and his intention to go abroad; warrant of attorney by JV to TB for the sale to SB of several messuages, buildings and land in Heathfield, occupied by John Read, 29 Oct 1784; £153 13s 9d owing to SB on security of the freehold land, which adding the £62 leaves £46 6s 3d to pay; conveyance by JV to SB and his trustee John Baker of Northiam, tanner, 11 and 12 Feb 1785

W: Mary Philcox, James Philcox

Hove Library Accession: 2269