Catalogue description Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue D

Since it opened, East Sussex Record Office has maintained a collection of 'Additional Manuscripts' for accessions which are not assigned, or are not accrued to existing collections which have, a distinctive alphabetic reference based on the collection's title. The Additional Manuscripts collection is now known as AMS

Some of these accessions added to AMS have been returned to A2A as free-standing catalogues. The residue are being returned as a series of catalogues, each covering a range of AMS numbers. The summary list below covers all the accessions within that range, with notes against those which are the subject of separate catalogues or which have been transferred to other collections or other repositories

The main body of the catalogue notes only the reference and the fact of the separate catalogue or the transfer

Summary of contents

AMS4550 - 4589 Papers concerning John Thorpe of Pett, 1807-1852; includes measurement of leasehold cottages at Pett, 1832, 46½a at Pett, 1836; valuation of Pett tithes, 1807; scot on Pett, Pannell and Dinsdale levels collected by JT, 1810, with his correspondence and vouchers as expenditor, 1813-1824; accounts, receipts, correspondence and sale catalogues of estates of Mrs Thorpe, Elizabeth Thorpe, Joseph Carswell, Christopher Thorpe and JT; cure for whooping cough, c 1830; 1815-1852

AMS4590 - 4595 Map of part of Anthony Reeve's estate [Pattendens and Maidlands] in Brede by Ambrose Cogger, 1627; land of Edward Chute of Bethersden at Iden in Wittersham Level by Ambrose Cogger, 1628; Lawrence Day's Barnets or Barnums [Eastland Farm] in Beckley by W Banister, 1732; Allen Grebell's Barline in Peasmarsh by William Wybourn, 1736; Thomas Carman's Reeds, Bennets, Wish and Hops in Beckley by W Banister, 1736; John Dulvey's Dinglesden in Peasmarsh by Edward Allfree, 1791

AMS4596 - 4605 Court books of the manor of Balneath, 1588-1876, with a survey of the manor with court roll references, 1891

AMS4606 Vice-admiralty inquisition concerning cargo taken from a wreck at Birling [in East Dean], 1563; transcript of a rental of Birling manor, 1575

AMS4607 - 4610 Maps of part of Henry Hale's estate near the church in Fletching by [?Anthony Everenden], c1630; John Baker Holroyd's Colin Godmans in Fletching, c1770; Lord de la Warr's Sheffield Place estate in Fletching by Richard Gadesby, 1745; John Baker Holroyd's Mawles Land, Lodge Farm and Splaine Green Farm in Fletching, 1774

AMS4611 Deed of a building plot in Hastings St Mary Magdalen (Putland-Honiss), 1833

AMS4612 - 4613 Deeds of Parkpale Farm, Mountfield: settlement by Richard Weller, 1710, Weller-Curtis, 1732

AMS4614 Map of William Hunt's estate at Dalehill Ticehurst [by William Gier], c1620; notes on the history of Steellands in Ticehurst (Apsley-Dry, Cowling); Ticehurst War Book (details of emergency provision), 1943

AMS4615 Farming accounts of John Wicker and Richard Hills on Allen and Jefferys Farms, Horsted Keynes, 1807-1835

AMS4616 Letter from 3rd Earl of Ashburnham to Samuel or Rev Daniel Lysons concerning antiquarian investigations at Ashburnham, Bignor and the rest of Sussex, 1814

AMS4617 - 4647 Mortgage of The Salutation, Winchelsea Ferry and marshland in Winchelsea and a messuage and land called Hopes in Udimore, with details of its purchase by Samuel Newman, 1675; deeds of the Udimore part of the estate (Cadman-Odiarne-Chambers-Swane-Hankins), 1675-1780; Hounster Farm (messuage and 57a) in Udimore, Icklesham and Brede (Newington-Hooke-Hankins), including opinions of Thomas Jenkins and Richard Webb on the estate purchased in trust for Zebulon Newington of unsound mind, 1706; 1706-1777

AMS4648 Pedigree of the Beard family of Rottingdean and elsewhere, beginning with Richard Berde, d1526; 1937

AMS4649 Partition of the estate of Leonard Gale of Crabbet esq and his son Henry Gale of Ifield, gent, in Worth, Crawley, Ifield, Beeding, Bramber, Steyning, Burstow in Surrey, East Grinstead, Cowden in Kent, West Hoathly, Isfield and Horley in Surrey, between Samuel Blunt, James Clitherow and Henry Humphrey, 1761

AMS4650 - 4657 Court books of the manors of Ashurst otherwise Grinstead Wild otherwise Walhill (1691-1914), Sheffield Grinstead (1643-1870) and Brambletye (1651-1870) in East Grinstead and Sheffield Lingfield (1643-1883) in Lingfield in Surrey

AMS4658 - 4663 Sackville College, East Grinstead

AMS4664 Sale particulars plan of estate of H H Spence deceased in South Malling in 18 lots, 1842

AMS4665 Map of William Russell esq's Asham and Itford farms in Beddingham by Thomas Budgen, 1790

AMS4666 Archive of A E Gabriel of Birmingham: deeds of the estate of the Roberts family of Boarzell in Ticehurst and Stone House in Warbleton, 1303-1797: St Andrew Holborn, London, 1303; Newlond in Bexhill, 1321; land in Maidstone, Kent, 1333; Marden and Staplehurst, Kent, 1365; Osynden in Sandhurst, Kent, 1396, 1449; Quarrels at Goudhurst, Kent, 1476; land at Boarzell, Dalehill and Flimwell in Ticehurst, Swiftsden in Etchingham, Swantwissel in Salehurst, 1349-1718, including a sale of a lease of Ticehurst parsonage (Topsell-Roberts), 1564, lease of land in Bodiam (Roberts-Fowle), 1566, lease of the manor of Snave, Kent (Roberts-Hendley), 1568, messuage and land in Guestling, Westfield and Battle (Fowle-Fowle), 1572, settlement on the marriage of John Roberts and Joan Watts, 1631, lease of the manor of Glyne in Bexhill (Allfrey-Baker), 1663, lease of Church House in Ninfield and land in Bexhill and Hooe (Busbridge-Allfrey), 1668, list of names [?of poor] for Battle, Ewhurst and other parishes, 1678, Sinderford in Herstmonceux (Hicks-Ticehurst), 1693, settlement on the marriage of Abraham Cruttenden and Elizabeth Everenden, 1697; deeds relating to Warwickshire, Shropshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Derby and Worcestershire, 1594-1797

AMS4667 Map of Rye by Thomas Hogben, 1771-1776

AMS4668 Sales particular plan of Parsonage Farm Ticehurst, 1868

AMS4669 - 4693 Minutes and accounts of St Johns Institute, Burgess Hill, 1876-1953

Transferred to West Sussex Record Office

AMS4694 - 4807 Genealogical notes and extracts from wills, deeds and other documents relating to the Wood family, chiefly of Twineham, Ditchling and Hurstpierpoint and Surrey, 1492-1820; printed history and photographs of Ormonde Hall, Bolney, 1929 (transferred to WSRO); deeds of Park Farm and Westovers in Twineham, including leases from the Spence family of South Malling to James and John Wood and its eventual sale to John Wood in 1797, 1744-1819; lease of Hurstlands in Twineham, Flint's devisees-Wood, 1827; leases of Newhouse Farm Hurstpierpoint, Norton, Tanner-Wood, 1772-1802; Worthelfold Farm Hurstpierpoint, Hersee-Flint, 1777; Wantley in Sullington, Shelley-Harraden, 1773; annuity, prior of Worcester to Talbot, 1492; covenant for special livery, crown to Gilbert Talbot, Worcestershire and elsewhere, 1517; quitclaim of Petre legacies, Winter-Talbot, 1600; Denman settlement, Garstons in Capell and Ringmores in Charlwood, Surrey (Wood trustee), 1715; Broadstone in Wooton, Surrey, Wood-Liliott, Nash, 1817-1818; probate of Edward Martin of Twineham, 1755; probate of John Wood of Shipley, 1776; probate of John Pilbeam of Hurstpierpoint, 1791; probate of Susan Martin of Twineham with voucher, 1795; probate of Edward Botting of Ashurst, 1805; probate of Grace Wood of Ditchling, 1818; probate of John Wood of Brook in Cowfold, 1820

AMS4808 Map of Julius Deedes's Brookgate otherwise Haselden Farm in Hawkhurst, Ticehurst and Etchingham by Jared Hill of Canterbury, 1718

AMS4809 - 4811 Maps of John Raines's Warningore Park in Chailey and Lewes St John Without by Robert Whitpaine, 1661; Henry Shelley's Warningore Farm by Thomas Marchant, 1772; John Aylwin's [Wickham Barn farm] in Lewes St John Without by John de Ward, 1623

AMS4812 - 4868 Estate and other maps from the offices of Messrs Dawes, Son and Prentice, Rye

AMS4869 Final concord, land in Ditchling (Paul, Venables and Crome to Meyrick), 1660

AMS4870 Photocopy of accounts of John Ashburnham on behalf of Charles 1, 1642-1643

AMS4871 Map of the Manor of Allington in Lewes St John Without by William Boycot, c1625

AMS4872 Photocopy of settlement by Robert Pashley of the manors of Pashley and Whiligh in Ticehurst, [East]bourne, Mote and the advowson of its chapel in Iden, Alsted in Surrey and the reversion of Thevegate, Kent, 1366

AMS4873 - 4880 Deeds of the Fraternity of Jesus with a messuage called The Chapel in Eastbourne, 1550; Barkley Mill in Wadhurst (Lewknor-Barham), 1515; farms in Sompting (Gage-Jefferay-Cooper), 1567; Little Lampham in Westham and Pevensey (Heath-Mercer), 1647; manor and farm of Meeching, house and barn called The Ship, and 2 ferries in Newhaven (Sackville-Lane), 1674; account of receipts on sale of plate of Henry Sidney, earl of Romney, 1705; court book of Wisden's moiety of the manor of Brighton, 1875-1936

AMS4881 Trading accounts of John Lilbourne of Rye's sloop, 1710-1714

AMS4882 Notification of excommunication of Nicholas Cooke in a tithe cause brought by William Attersoll, rector of Isfield, in the court of Arches, 1616

AMS4883 - 4898 Court rolls of Manor of Playden Porter or Morland, 1301-1420 (gaps), 1540-1596, 1629, 1630, 1669-1670; copy survey of 1567; list of quitrents, 1637; rentals, 1697, 1729, 1736, 1765; minutes, 1733-1772; stewards' papers including a plan for a barn to be built on the demesne, 1735-1770; particulars of land in Peasmarsh, Stodders and Bowmans, Little Knelle and Crabbs, Road End and Slipshoe, manor of Knelle and Great Knelle Farm in Beckley, Town House Farm, Whitbreads or Park Farm in Slinfold, 1777

AMS4899 Proposal for the formation of a Gilbert Union to build a workhouse at Piltdown or Chelwood Common for the parishes of Newick, Isfield, Little Horsted, Ringmer, Uckfield, Framfield, Buxted, Maresfield, Fletching, Chailey, Lindfield and Horsted Keynes; c1800

AMS4900 - 4938 Battle Abbey obedientiaries' accounts; all series have gaps: almoner, 1342-1441; beadle, 1385-1479; cellarer, 1287, 1351, 1404-1437; sacristan, 1363; treasurer, 1483; accounts of the manor of Barnhorn in Bexhill, 1354-1495; court roll, manor of Battle, 1530-1531; court roll, manors of Barnhorn and Agmerhurst in Catsfield and Ashburnham, 1556-1559

AMS4939 Settlement of messuage at Twineham on the heirs of Stephen atte Worth, 1368

Transferred to West Sussex Record Office and listed as AMS17733

AMS4940 Receipt from Littlehampton Master Mariners' Society to T Wellsted of Newhaven, 1872

AMS4941 - 4946 Deeds of Townsend Land, The Shelf and Mabbs Croft in Uckfield, Hoadley, Boyle and Langridge families, 1718-1776

AMS4947 Photograph of a grant to fee-farm of two mills in Rye, abbot and convent of Fecamp to Ellis de Rye, c1170

AMS4948 Photocopy of an inventory of the goods of Thomas Frewen deceased at Brickwall, Northiam, including library details, 1767

AMS4949 - 4951 Deed of a plot in Hastings St Michael (Baldelot - de la Dene), c1280; grant of the rents of Hegeland and Peelings in Westham (Ashburnham-Bireche), c1310; deed of Aleyns in Winchelsea [?recte Hastings] (Alayn-Heved-Pik-Hastings Priory), 1349

AMS4952 Plans of the estate of John Marten Cripps of Stantons in Chiltington by William Figg, 1819; grant of the manor of Ringmer, the half-hundred of Loxfield, Isfield view of frankpledge and advowson, manor of Langney in Westham and Willingdon, Griggs and other land at Boreham in Wartling, land in Bexhill, the manor of Willingdon (crown-Somerset and Johnson-Sedley and Rivers), 1605; castle and town of Reigate, manor of Dorking, castle and town of Lewes and the demesne manors of Lewes Rape and the castles of Dinas Bran and Bromfield and land in Bromfield and Yale and Wrexham, Clwyd. Warenne settlement, 1346; bill in Wheatley v White concerning Portslade tithes in the exchequer, 1638

AMS4953-4961 Journals of Carey Hampton Borrer of Pakyns in Hurstpierpoint, clerk (1814-1898), rector of Hurstpierpoint; includes continental tours, antiquarian notes and details of local educational provision; 1836-1838, 1860-1898

AMS4962 Colour transparencies of map of Robert Oxenbridge's estate in Brede by John More, 1607, annotated to show the parts then owned by Thomas Dyke, John Porter and Peter Farnden, 1639

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