Catalogue description Settlement by feoffees

Robert Loterford, John Hamond and Roger Pope to Richard atte Stokke and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Barbour and his wife Alice, and her heirs in tail, remainder to her sister Margaret wife of Robert Thwytt and her heirs in tail, remainder to AB's right heirs

The moiety of a tenement and adjoining lands called Chelsham in Herstmonceux and Wartling, held by RS and AS by a partition made to them by the advice of their parents and friends, in the whole of which RL, JH nad RP were lately enfeoffed by RS and AS

RS and ES during the lives of SB and AB to pay to RL, JH and RP an annual rent of 21s 8d and to find SB and AB them during her life a plot of land on which is built a house for the hall which RS and ES now hold; RS and ES to repair the houses and buildings on the moiety during the lives of SB and AB, during which time they may not commit waste without the licence of SB and AB

W: Robert a Melle, Thomas Colbrond, William atte Stokke, Richard Ponte, John a Forde; at Herstmonceux; seal-tag formed from a draft deed of a tenement in Battle south of the Little Park and between the messuages of Thomas Dockyng and Robert N...

Endorsed: 337P [Moulton's catalogue - copy enclosed]

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