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~1~HAMSEY – North End Farm P125/1

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 10s 0d [M505/90]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 153, 155, 179, 184, 185, 187, 188, 192

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 412135)<1631-1726 messuage, barn, garden, orchard and 5 pieces (10a) in Hamsey1783 cottage and croft called Rades Croft (P125/48, tithe 179, 180 = 1a 1r 15p)

acquired; according to the tithe map, cottage (180) sold off and merged with P125/2 by 1838 [2], but title deeds [8] show that the cottage and land descended together after their sale off in 1848: see P125/48

1794 cottage and land (187, 188 and 192 = 2a 2r 30p) acquired (P125/50) [3]1796 toft, barn, garden orchard and three (formerly five) pieces; a leaze on Green

Wood Common sold<1838-1841+ Cottage, farm buildings, 14a 0r 26p land [1]1848 Cottage and Rades Croft sold off: see P125/48

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)[1752] house on east side of road; buildings only by 1840 [7, 1]1781-1782 Land [2]1783- Land, house [2]<1838-1841+ Cottage on west side of road (187) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1781-1782 6

1783-1787 6+21788 5+2<1833-1840 2+2+5

Owners<1631-1631+ Joan Lover widow In 1631 she surrendered to herself for

life, remainder to RB [3]1631-1642 Richard Beale Admitted to reversion in 1631;

surrendered out of court (W: John Winton, George Reade and Stephen Reade) to TR in 1642 [3]

1642-1651 Thomas Rootes Son of William Rootes the elder; admitted 1644; death presented 1651, heriot a red cow; heir is son TR, subject to the widow’s bench of his mother MR [3]

1651-1679 Margaret Heward Formerly widow of Thomas Rootes, who held for life; death presented 1679, TR’s heir is TR [3]

1679-1681 Thomas Rootes Of full age in 1679; death presented 1681, heriot a sheep; heir is his only daughter Henrietta, aged 1; his widow Martha Rootes holds for life [3]

<1726-1726 John Jenner In the right of his wife Henrietta Maria, daughter of TR; in 1726 they

surrendered to SW1726-1736 Stephen Weller grocer Of Lewes; by his will of 23 Jan 1731 he

left this to his daughter SW [3]1736-1796 Sarah Weller Admitted 1742; she married Joseph

Morris; in 1783 Morris acquired P125/48; death presented 1796, no animal; heir is youngest son JM [3]

1796-1827 Joseph Morris gent Admitted 1796 and surrendered a leaze on Wood Green Common to Thomas Partington, esq, lord of the manor; the remainder of the holding enfranchised 1796 [3]; of Lewes, gent, at this death in 1827 [6]

1827-1840+ Benjamin Morris [1]

Occupiers<1781-1827 Joseph Morris [2]1827-1840+ Benjamin Morris [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/1727 (Joseph Morris of Lewes, gent, 1827)7 ESRO MOB 16998 WSRO Burrell Mss 17/D/1 – deeds, 1697-1887

~2~HAMSEY –Hamsey Place Farm/Black House/Part of Cow Lease P125/2

Manorial tenure: demesne of the manor of Hamsey, itself held of the Barony of Lewes [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 180, 181, 183, 190, 191, 276, 278, 284, 288, 310-313, 381, 384, 388, 390-

401, 405, 382, 383, 371, 375, 168, 416

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ411124)1237 dispute between the owner William de Say and his overlord William Earl

Warenne concerning fishing-rights settled by final concord: WS acknowledged the fishery of ‘the water of Hamsey’ to be the right of WW and released all rights of chase in the wood of Cleres [probably an all-purpose term for waste within the Rape of Lewes] and in all WW’s warrens in Sussex; WS nor his heirs may enclose their wood of Hamsey nor hunt in it nor make a park there; WW releases all the right which he has in the water of the Ouse (Midewinde) as the water stretches between the lands of WS without the raising of any weir, reserving the fishery where the land of WS lies on one side but not on the other; WW releases all right in the warren (cunicularia) which is enclosed within the site of WS’s manor (curia) of Hamsey [28]

1272 140a arable on which wheat and barley can be sown; 80a arable on which oats can be sown; 25a meadow fit for mowing; 100a pasture, both open and woodland, of which 30a is wood in which the timber is now destroyed and none can be sold, but there is pannage for 40 pigs; a park which can provide pannage for 20 pigs and the pasture of it is worth 5s 0d; 17 free tenants paying £9 13s 5d; two free tenants at Lewes paying 2s 0d; 11 villeins who pay 14s 6d and perform works (specified); five hold virgates and six hold half-virgates; 12 cottars who pay 7s 1d and perform works (specified); there is a water-mill which would be worth £4 5s 0d a year if the flow of the water were put right; the mill and mill-race could be mended and diverted for £11; advowson of the church, worth £12; rent of the fishery = 500 eels; there is a fishpond worth about 20 shillings a year, which cannot be valued exactly on account of its size; curia and garden; the whole worth £31 15s 0d a year if the cost of the mill is included [10]

1552 common recovery records sale of part of the manor, described as 120a land, 25a meadow, 100a pasture and 50a wood in Hamsey, to John Cook, but this was perhaps an enfranchisement [22]

1594 1 manor of Hamsey2 Okeley, Stonefeld, Challoners Field, The Old Park, Parkfield, Upland

Wish [388], Whapney, The Cowbrook [398-9], Catcham [?397], The Thackbrook, The Hogbrook [392], Little Colts, Great Colts, Hardings Wish [?175], The Knolls [314] Milford, The Cowles [166-7], Lames Wish [120], Hewenstreets, Oxenwish [160], Horsebrook [142] and Mowen Wish in Hamsey and Offham

3 the advowson of Hamsey [22]1633 The Link, and 2¼a in the Long Furlong, purchased from P125/40 [3]1667 the estate described in a marriage settlement as:

1 the manor of Hamsey, and the following demesne lands:2 messuage where John Winton formerly lived with the stables, barns,

buildings, dovehouses, gardens and orchards and 147a land called The Millfield, The Jermans Furlongs, The Long Layne, The Great Layne, The Lynke near the Down, The Pickle, The Ridges, The

Droveway, The Downe, The Knowle, The Great Hogge Brooke, The Little Tottes, The Dovehouse Croft, The Lynke Croft, The Thacke Brook, The Upland Wish, the after pasture of 7½ acres of the Upland Wish, The Lynke adjoining to Youngs Lynke, The Three Acres in the Long Furlongs, occupied by Samuel Midmore

3 messuage near the church of Hamsey called The Old House, the Mill House with 105a land called The Upper Katham, The Plashett, The Lower Katham, The Cowch Hay, The Court Garden, The Great Totts, The Horse Brook, The Spittle Acre, The Cowbrook, The Roundbrook, The Lynke, The Old Green, The Hop Garden, The Churchyards, The Cheese Fold and The Bowling Green, occupied by Samuel Midmore, late his father Samuel Midmore deceased

4 The Upper Cowleaze and The Cowlstock Cowleaze ([blank] acres), and meadow and brookland called The Cowleaze, Mounten Wish, Mowen Wish, The Horsebrook ([blank]) acres, also occupied by Samuel Midmore, late his father Samuel Midmore deceased

6 East Park Field and The Great Mead (36a) in the Hewen Streets (SW: land occupied by John Reynolls), occupied by Robert Fivens

7 Park Wood (18a), The Round Brook and The Long Brook (3a), occupied by John Smyth, clerk

8 The Chantlers Mead, Stonefield, Whapney, Wougham Fields, Bramblefield and about one acre in the Nick of the Knowle, The Oakly Wood, The Hardings Wish, The West Park Field and The Broom otherwise Furze Field in the Hewen Streets, occupied by Edward Manfield

9 chalk-pit occupied by Edward Manfield10 messuage, garden, orchard, barn and 10a arable called [blank],

occupied by Edward Manfield11 The Horselane Field, The Furzie Field, The Birchett Field, The Horse

Field, field called Fox Earth occupied by Mark Knight12 The Inner Cowleaze, occupied by John Smyth and Charles Smyth,

gent13 The Compes and Birchettes (16a), occupied by Edward Raynes, gent14 The Northends (10a), occupied by William Wymark15 the advowson of the rectory and church of Hamsey16 the manor of Offington in Broadwater, Goring and Bramber [7]

1752 estate shown on map as a house, three barns and 708a 0r 7p, including Hamsey Place Down (214a 3r 18p) and three pieces of isolated woodland north of Hamsey Common called Bush Woods [8]

c1765 the owners of this estate complained of damage to his land by a timber-wharf run on land [tithe 412, P125/21] owned by the Coombe Place Estate; a 21-year lease of a right of road was granted, which had expired by 1788, when a new lease was executed [25]

1766 sale of The New Inn at Offham Street [?P125/64] to the Coombe Estate [P125/22]

1776 land sold off to P125/15: three fields called The Knole otherwise The Knowle, The [blank] afterwards called The Fourteen Acres and [blank] afterwards called Offham Field, which now and for sometime past have been inclosed with a pale fence and called The Paddock [7]

1777 the estate as sold in 1777 consisted of:1 1-14 above2 70a land and wood called Hewen Streets with a barn thereon erected,

formerly occupied by Edward Raynes, gent3 all GWL’s other land in Hamsey and Barcombe occupied by Joseph

Mighell, Richard Knight, William Pannett, John Cheesman, <John Bridger, kt> and Richard Hollingdale [7]

1780 the lordship of Hamsey, a house and 186a 2r 24p sold to T W Partington [see P125/15-16]

c1780 purchased part of P125/80 [2]1789 advertised in the Time between 10 and 26 June 1789: manor of Ham Place

(good farmn house, offices, gardens outhouses, barns) and 470 acres rich arable, meadow and pasture, 220a sheepdown; a new navigable canal passing throught the centre of the estate; two distinct farms called Great and Little Hewen Street Farms and Hewen Street Woods (300 acres) with all their requisite buildings and outhouses and also a small brick-kiln, bounded on one side by a fine trout stream; a person attends at Ham Place who will show the estate [27]

1789 the Foreright Cow Brook (11a 2r 18p) sold to Christopher Spencer [P125/33]; perhaps this was the only lot to sell in response to the advertisement [27]

1791 in 1791 the estate granted a 99-year lease of the site of a windmill on Hamsey Place Down, for which see P125/54

1792 before the mortgage (next cell) Great and Little Hewen Street Farms and woods (299a 3r 22p) contracted to be sold to Richard Jay [P125/23]

1792 estate described in a mortgage as 678a in all, called Hamsey Place Manor Farm [7], described in detail as:1 messuage where John Winton lived, now called Hamsey Place,

occupied by James Andrew, before by JM, with stables, barns, buildings, dovehouses

2 land called The Further Bushy Wood (6a 0r 35p), The Middle Bushy Wood (13a 2r 5p), The Hither Bushy Wood (6a 0r 38p), North End (8a 2r 4p), Pond Field (12a 0r 38p, Nineteen acres (21a 1r 24p), two acres in Stevengate Brook (1a 1r 30p), more in same (8a 0r 0p), Oxen Wish (14a.2r 9p), Lower Ten Acres (12a 1r 36p), Upper Ten Acres (12a 1r 9p), The Dyers Mead (4a 2r 37p), Cow Lease mead (7a 2r 22p), part Bonton’s Wish (3r 24p), Gatefield (23a 2r 8p), Hearndens Wish (8a 1r 4p), Lower Little Horse Brook (1a 2r 6p), Middle Little Horse Brook (3a 1r 29p), Upper Little Horse Brook (2a 2r 7p), Upper Horse Brook (4a 1r 27p), Great Horse Brook (22a 1r 28p), 2a in Long Furlong (2a 0r 5p), Further Ox Brook (15a 0r 38p), Hog Brook (18a 1r 29p), The Links (3a 2r 28p), Hamsey Place (1a 3r 10p), The Warren (9a 3r 8p), Church Banks (9a 2r 8p), Ox Brook (13a 3r 6p), Lower Ham (17a 2r 2p), Gate Ham and Blackbird Lane (26a 3r 5p), Upper Cow Brook (12a 0r 16p), Lower Cow Brook (7a 2r 14p), Uplands Wish (17a 3r 33p), Lower Mill Field (10a 1r 4p), Upper Mill and Germany Field (22a 3r 3p), Ridges Mead (2a 2r 11p), Great Laine (26a 3r 26p), Long Laine (28a 2r 36p), Upland with lots (5a 3r 7p), The Drove (8a 1r 10p), The Mawshams (4a 1r 11p), The Housefield (4a 1r 4p), The House and Yard (2r 29p), Four acres and The Pith (3a 3r 32p), The Rosefield (6a 2r 38p), The Beachfield or Eight Acres (9a 0r 32p), The ½ acre in the Long Furlong (2r 1p) Hamsey Place Down (214a 3r 18p).

3 barn, close, orchard and piece of land (3a) in Hamsey, lately occupied by [blank] Kemp

1796 land sold to the River Ouse Navigation Company released from mortgage:2a 1r 13p arable in The Cottery in Hamsey, occupied by JM; 8a 0r 29p meadow and brookland, part of The Upland Wish Meadow, The Three Corners Brook, The Cow Brook, The Links, The Hogbrook, The Oxbrook, The Horsebrooks, The Cowlease Mead and Ringmer

Neck in Hamsey and Ringmertaken by them in extending and improving the river through those pieces of land [7, 25]

1808 sale included 29a 2r 24p formerly part of New House Farm occupied by William Knight under a lease from George Wenham Lewis, and not sold with that farm in 1780 but retained and are now occupied with HPF by John Guy:the Mawkhams otherwise Balcombes (4a 1r 11p), The Housefield (4a 1r 1p), the house and yard (1a 2r 9p), The Four Acres and The Pitch (3a 3r 32p), The Rosefield (9a 0r 32p) and the Half Acre in the Long Furlong (2r 1p) [this = P125/81]reserves: land called The Further Bushy Wood (6a 0r 35p), The Middle Bushy Wood (13a 2r 5p), The Hither Bushy Wood (6a 0r 38p)[these last said to have been sold in 1780, so ?]

1810 estate shown on map of this date, by which time Drove Cottages at tithe 313 have been built [9]

<1838-1841+ House buildings, 3 cottages: land 500a 0r 37p land including Hamsey Sheep down, gardens and plots [1]

1871 land sold to enlarge Hamsey churchyard [7]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412123)1321 on 14 Mar 1321 Sir Geoffrey de Say contracted with John Rngwyn of

Offham, mason, to build a large stone hall at the manor of Hamsey; Sir Geoffrey was dead by 3 Mar 1322 and it seems unlikely that the hall was ever built, indeed it seems likely that it owes its survival to the process of dealing with his estate [18]

1667 settlement of the estate shows two houses, one [Hamsey Place] occupied by Samuel Midmore, late John Winton, and the other ‘near the church’ [the former manor house?] occupied by Samuel Midmore, late his father Samuel Midmore [7]; Samuel Midmore had been assessed for 16 flues in the Hearth tax of 1662 [24]

1752 map shows house and buildings on present site and a barn and yard west of Hamsey church [8]

1792 messuage where John Winton lived, now called Hamsey Place, occupied by James Andrew, before by JM, with stables, barns, buildings, dovehouses [7]

<1838-1841+ house and buildings (391), 4 cottages (180, 190, 313, 371) [1]1855 two leazes on Hamsey Common sold to Edward Partington [P125/15] for £42

[26]1856 exchanges with P125/43

Land tax assessments [2]1808 - 1840 £198 15s

Owners<1066 Wlfgifu she held of King Edward for 25 hides;

of which 11 were in the Rapes of Pevensey and Arundel by 1086 [11]

<1086-1086+ Ralph de Chesney Hamsey formed the head of 14 fees; passed to his son RC [11]

c1100 Ralph de Chesney [11]<1146-1149 John de Chesney his three sons died without issue and the

estate passed to his two daughters [12]<1168-<1199 Alice

Emmade Chesnay before 1168 Alice married Geoffrey son

of William de Say, Emma married Michael Belet; the whole inheritance

passed to de Say [12]<1199-1214 Geoffrey de Say from which Hamsey acquired the

second element of its name; acquired the manor by marriage with Alice de Chesney; died 1214, to their son GS [11, 14]

1214-1230 Geoffrey de Say died in Poitou in 1230, and buried at Dover [14]; to his son WS [11]

1230-1272 William de Say kt in dispute with Earl Warenne about the fishery of Hamsey in 1247; at the battle of Lewes on the king’s side [14]; inquisition on his death held Feb 1272; heir WS [10]

1272-1295 William de Say aged 19 in Feb 1272 [10]; wardship granted to the king’s merchant Pontius de Mora, in discharge of the king’s debts to him; by Sep 1273 WS had bought the custody of the lands [14]; died 1295 [11]

1295-1322 Geoffrey de Say Lord Say [11, 14] in 1314 he settled Hamsey on himself and his wife Idonea (daughter of William de Leyburn), and to his heirs; at his death his manors in Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Sussex and Kent were worth at least £122 13]; his widow assessed for the subsidy at Hamsey in 1327 and 1332 [19]

1322-1359 Geoffrey de Say Lord Say [14], entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; aged 17 on 30 May 1322 [13]; on 11 Jan 1323 John Triple, citizen of London, bought his wardship and marriage from the king for £200; in June 1326, having proved his age, he received seisin of his father's lands; fought at Crecy; had numerous creditors, most notably William Clinton, earl of Huntingdon, to whom he owed £666 from 1344 until at least 1352, when Say mortgaged his manor of West Greenwich to Huntingdon until the sum was paid off; died on 26 Jun 1359, when the rental value of his property was probably a little over £130; before 1340 he had married Maud, daughter of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and in 1341 settled the manor of Hamsey on them and their heirs male by fine; she received his Sussex property as jointure and his Kentish manors as dower, and died in 1369 [15]

1359-1375 William de Say kt Lord Say [14]; born at Birling in Kent in 1340; in 1359 his wardship and

marriage given to Queen Philippa; came into possession on the death of his mother in 1369; died 1375, when the estates passed to his son JS

1375-1382 John de Say Lord Say [14]; aged 2 in 1375, died a minor in 1382, when the estates passed under the settlement of 1341 to his uncle John de Say as heir male of his father Geoffrey [15]

1382-1382+ John de Say son of Geoffrey de Say and Maud, aged 30 in 1382,a nd heir under the settlement of 1341 [15-16]

<1395-1395+ Isabel Deneford probably the re-married widow of John de Say, she held the manor for life when the de Say estates were settled by fine on William Heron and his wife Elizabeth de Say in 1395 [15]; in 1400 Thomas Cruwe released his right in the manor of Hamsey to William Heron, esq; had he married Isabel Deneford? [17]

1395>-1399 Elizabeth de Say aged 16 in 1382, by which time she had married Sir John Fawsley of Northants (d1392) without the king’s licence [15] and (2) Sir William Heron by 1395, when she held ther reversion on the death of Isabel Deneford; she died childless [14]

1399-1404 William Heron kt held by the curtesy of England until his death in 1404 [14]

1404-1431 William Clinton Lord Clinton [14], grandson of Idonea, heiress of Geoffrey de Say and Maud; inherited the reversion on the death of Elizabeth Heron in 1399; died 1431 [11, 14]

1431-1464 John Clinton Lord Clinton (1410-1464) [14]; settled the manor on his wife Margaret, daughter of John St Leger; a prisoner in France 1441-47; after 1488 his widow married Richard Willoughby of Wollaton in Nottinghamshire [11, 14]

1464-1488 John Clinton Lord Clinton (c1434-1488) [14]; in 1484 he conveyed the manor to Henry Willoughby and other feoffees, perhaps as a mortgage; later his son was to claim the manor [17]

1488-1502 John Clinton Lord Clinton (c1471-1515) [14]; between 1487 and 1500 he petitioned chancery to obtain the deeds of the manor from his mother Ann, then wife of Thomas Willicote [14, 17]; in 1502 he and his wife Ann sold the manor to Edmund Dudley [23]

1502-1510 Edmund Dudley esq (1462-1510, ODNB) held the manor in

1504 and charged an annuity of £20 in favour of Lewes Grammar School in 1507; former minister of Henry 7, executed by the new regime in 1510, when the property descended to his son JD

1510-1526 John Dudley kt (1504-1553, ODNB); in 1526 the surviving feoffes of Edmund Dudley’s purchase, at the instance of John Dudley and his step-father Arthur Plantagenent Lord Lisle, vested the manor in John Dudley absolutely, who sold it to feoffees for Edward Lewknor; JD became Duke of Northumberland in 1551 [20]

1526-1528 Edward Lewknor esq of Kingston Bowsey; on his death in 1528 Hamsey descended to his son Edward [11]

1528-1553 Edward Lewknor esq of Kingston Bowsey, groom-porter in the households of Edward 6 and Mary 1; [his mother] Mistress Lewknor rated for the manor in 1537 [21]; implicated in the Northumberland conspiracy of 1553 and attainted, when the manor came into the hands of the crown [22]; died in the Tower of London in 1556 [11]

1553-1557 CROWN by the attainder of Edward Lewknor [22]

1557-1589 Dorothy Lewknor widow

daughter of Sir Thomas Wroth, in Feb 1557 the crown granted her the manors of Hamsey and Kinston Bowsey for life [22], and the reversion was granted to her son EL in 1561 [17]; of Kingston Bowsey when her will was proved in 1589

1589-1594 Edward Lewknor kt of Kingston Bowsey and Denham Hall in Suffolk; he and his wife Susan sold Hamsey to Edward Alford in 1594 [11, 17]

1594-1634 Edward Alford esq of Offington in Durrington; purchased the manor in 1594; it was settled on the marriage of his son John Alford in 1632 [11]

1634-1649 John Alford esq aged 30+ at his father’s death; of Offington, his will was proved in May 1649 [6, 11]

1649-1649+ Frances Alford widow

of John Alford; she held for life with remainder to his brother Sir Edward [11]

<1667 Edward Alford kt a Royalist, the manor was placed in the hands of Henry Goring of Highden, Henry Goring of Burton and Edward Baldy, gent [11]

<1667-1691 John Alford son of Sir Edward; of Offington in 1667 when settled on his marriage with Sarah, daughter of Joseph JJackson, alderman of Bristol [7]; will, of Broadwater, 1691; to his son JA [6, 11]

1691-1744 John Alford of Coombe; bequeathed Hamsey to his nephew John Wenham, son of his sister Mary Alford and Thomas Wenham of New York [11]; John Bridger of Coombe, who had married his other sister Elizabeth, released his right to the manor of Hamsey ‘to avoid suits’ in the same year [5]

1744-1768 John Wenham of Beckenham, merchant; unmarried, he bequeathed Hamsey to his natural son by Elizabeth Keely, the Revd John Wenham (whom he had presented to Hamsey in 1766), with remainder to GWL [6, 7, 11]

1768-1773 John Wenham clerk (1740-1773) rector of Hamsey from 1766; bequeathed the manor to his godson GWL in 1773 [6, 7, 11]

1773-1777 Geo Wen Lewis esq George Wenham Lewis, esq, son the the Revd George Lewis of Westerham in Kent; in 1777 he sold the estate as described above, reserving the advowson (which was sold to Sir John Bridger of Coombe), to JM for £11,725 [7]

1777-1807 Joseph Mighell gent [2]; of Hamsey on his purchase in 1777, which was aided by a mortgage for £3000 to Margaret Shireff of Park Place, Westminster; in 1778 the Baldy mortgage of 1773 was assigned to William Shireff of St Marylebone, Mx, esq; sold the lordship of Hamsey Manor and parts of Newhouse farm to Thomas Walley Partington of Offham in 1780 [see P125/15-16], and land to Christopher Spencer in 1789 [see P125/33] and to Richard Jay in 1792 [see P125/23]; JM of East Kennett in Wiltshire in 1791 when a lease granted of the windmill (P125/54) and in 1792 when he mortgaged the estate for £10,000 to John Way of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, esq; further charge of £500 in 1798 and £1600 in 1804, on both occasions Henry Brooker of Brighton, gent, was appointed receiver of rents; of Midford in Wiltshire at his death, his will was proved on 24 Jan 1807 [6, 7]

1807-1808 trustees Mighell John Gale of Steart in Wiltshire, gent, John Haycraft of Southwark, tinplate

worker and James Vallance of Brighton, brewer; they sold for £25,000 (£9555 due on mortgage) in 1808 [7]

1808-1838+ Charles M Burrell bart [1] Charles Merrik Burrell of The Deepdene near Dorking in 1808; of Knepp in West Grinstead; the purchase approved by Master James Campbell from the proceeds of sales of estates in Essex under the Burrell Estate Act [7]

1808-1920+ BURRELL ESTATE [7]

Occupiers – Hamsey Place Farm1296 William de Capella tentative identification; no member of the

de Say family was assessed at Hamsey for the subsidy of 1296, and the list for that parish is headed by William de Capella [19]

<1327-1332+ Idonea de Say widow

of Geoffrey de Say; assessed in the hundred of Barcombe for £1 0s 04d in 1327 and £1 0s 2d in 1332 [19]

<1667 John Winton [7]<1667 Samuel Midmore [7]<1667-1667+ Samuel Midmore son of the last [7]; in 1667 other parts of the

demesne were occupied by: Robert Fivens (36a); John Smith, clerk (21a); Edward Manfield (includes chalk-pit); Mark Knight; Charles Smith, gent; Edward Raynes, gent; William Wymark [7]

<1752-1752+ Benjamin Davis tenant on survey of 1752 [8]<1777-1789 Joseph Mighell esq owner-occupier from 1777; of East Kennett

in Wiltshire by 1791 [7]1789-1789+ James Andrew yeo of Pulborough; he held under a contract for

a lease for 14 years from 10 Oct 1789 at £660 until 1795 and £690 thereafter; in 1791 the lessee was his administrator JA [7]

<1791-1803 James Andrew fmr of Hamsey Place Farm; he was to received 5s 0d a year from the rent of the new windmill on the Down, granted in 1791 [7]

1804 John GuyBerry

Messrs Guy and Berry 298 [2]

1805-1818 John Guy 198 [1]1819-1838+ Henry Guy [1]

1874-1886 Charles Ellis of Preston House, Beddingham, in 1875 when he complained about damage by flooding; rent reduced and covenants adjusted, 1881; his executors surrendered, 1886 [7]

1886-1886+ John Kenward ‘a substantial man and likely to prove a desirable tenant’, granted a yearly tenancy in 1886 [7]; later became a purchaser?

Occupiers – Cow Leaze Farm 1804 described as part of HPF [7]

1804-1804+ JohnMiles

BerryBerry

gentgent

of Firleof Cooksbridge in Hamsey; they took a lease of 170a for three years at £300 from 10 Oct 1803 [7]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR 1-206 TNA PROB 11/404 (John Alford of Broadwater); PROB 11/935 (John Wenham of

Beckenham); PROB 11/990 (John Wenham of Offham in Hamsey, clerk, 1773); PROB 11/1455 (Joseph Mighell, 1807)

7 WSRO Burrell 9/C/1-8, 9/D/1-15, 19/B/1-5, 21/H/1, 10/H/18 ESRO MOB 16999 ESRO AMS 6599/1 (copy of WSRO Add Ms 2000)10 SRS 44 71-3 (escheator’s inquisition on the death of William de Say)11 Victoria County History; Sussex 7 (1940) 84-512 SAC 44 (1901) 140-3; J H Round, ‘Note on the Sussex Domesday’13 TNA escheators’ inquisitions: C134/70/4 (Geoffrey de Say, 1322)14 GEC[ockayne] Complete Peerage 3 (1913) 315-7 (Clinton); 11 (1949) 464-78 (Say)15 Calendar of Close Rolls 1381-1385 157, 234-5; SRS 23 1922, 266816 Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem 15 84717 SAC 17 (1865) 70-103 Robert Chapman, ‘The parochial history of Hamsey’18 Westminster Abbey Muniments 4063; see SNQ 3 133-5.19 SRS 10 (1910); lay subsidy rolls, 1296, 1322, 132720 ESRO SAS/D - calendar of deed of 2 Jan 1526, no longer in the collection = ESRO AMS 29821 ESRO GLY 8422 ESRO SAS/D 53, 10523 ESRO AMS 298-924 PRO E179/258/15 (Hearth tax, 1662)25 ESRO SHR 2032: papers relating to new cut, 179626 ESRO ACC 6506/4527 Times, 10-12 Jun 178928 SRS 2 (1903) 341

~3~HAMSEY – 7 Offham Village P125/3

Manorial tenure: copyholds of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 6d each [M505/23]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 368-9

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ )1752 waste [6]1754 granted from the waste:

1 cottage and part of a garden near the turnpike at Offham, occupied by Thomas Earle, cordwainer

2 cottage adjoining 1 and part of a garden, occupied by William Martin, tailor

both lately erected on the lord’s waste copy, 2s 6d each [3]1765 cottage 1 said to be ‘near the place where the turnpike gate lately stood’ [3]1780 shown as two small buildings (1a 21p) Martin’s Farmhouse and garden [5]1827 shown on map as two small buildings [7]<1838-1841+ Cottages and gardens (1r 17p) [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ400122)<1838-1841+ Cottage [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ not assessed or unidentifiable

Owners1754-1840+ John Bridger esq of Combe Place; granted to him in 1754;

descends in the COMBE ESTATE [3]

Occupiers1754-1754+ Thomas

WilliamEarleMartin

cordwainertailor [3]

<1838-1838+ James Wright + others

(369); not identified individually; orchard of 368 occupied by Henry Guy [1]; JW is merely the first-named occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 2854

~4~HAMSEY - P125/4

Manorial tenure: apparently none [4]; perhaps previously part of M505/38, for which see P125/8 [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 101, 106

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403144)1777 Thomas Bland, blacksmith, was one of the occupiers of P125/8 in 1777,

perhaps suggesting that that tenement then included this, and that at some later date the liability of the entire copyhold tenure was assumed by that tenement, leaving this tenement as freehold [3]

1773x1777 map of the Shelley Estate shows the triangle below the southernmost point of the estate divided vertically. The whole area comprises tithe 101-106 (P125/4, 8, and 9). That on the East is labelled ‘Mr Bland’ and comprises this tenement [5]; for a discussion of the dating of this map see P125/17

1831 ‘3½ perches with blacksmith’s shop at Cooksbridge’ 13 perches at Cooksbridge, ‘being the south part of my garden’, formerly John Tasker, on part of which stood a wheelwright’s shop (S, W: John Howell; N: watercourse dividing this from remainder of garden; E: road from Cooksbridge to Newick Park) [4]

<1838-1841+ part of a house, garden, shop, wheeler’s shop and smith’s shop, 1r 2p land [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 403144)<1838-1841+ Part of house, garden and shop, and wheeler’s shop (101)

Part of smith’s shop (106) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1840+ not assessed or unidentifiable in 1840

Ownersc1795 Bland shown as neighbouring owner on map of

land to the north, datable to 1790x1796 [5]<1831-1832 Edward Bland black

smithof Cooksbridge in Barcombe; in 1831 he bequeathed the land, described as above, to Samuel Baker of Barcombe, blacksmith [4]

1832-1840+ Samuel Baker blacksmith

of Barcombe in 1831 [4]; owner-occupier in 1840 [1]

Occupiers<1840-1840+ Samuel Baker owner-occupier [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A77.622 (Edward Bland of Cooksbridge in Barcombe, blacksmith, 1832)5 ESRO AMS 6775

~5~HAMSEY - Cow Lease Farm P125/5

Manorial tenure: demesne of the manor of Hamsey; see P125/2 [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 154, 156-161, 164-167, 169,170, 172-175, 189, 280, 281

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 418135)<1838-1841+ house, buildings, cottage: land 170a 2r 13p land [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 418135)1752 buildings only [6]<1838-1841+ house and buildings (157) [1]

cottage and garden (189)

Land tax assessments [2]<1817-1840+ 100

Owners1803 Mr Mighell<1808-1840+ Charles Burrell bart of Knepp in Shipley [5]

Occupiers1803 James Andrew1808 John Guy [2]<1838-1838+ Nathanl Guy yeo [1]; his will of 1845, leaving his farming

stock to his son Henry Guy, was proved in 1846 [4]

<1840-1840+ Henry Guy [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A82.285 (Nathaniel Guy)5 WSRO Burrell MSS.6 ESRO MOB 1699.

~6~HAMSEY - Cooksbridge Brewery P125/6

Manorial tenure: part 2 = copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d, heriot 6d certain (M505/130) [3]; part 1 = land taken from P125/12, qv

Tithe numbers [1]1840 98

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402143)1738-1822+ NOT FORMED; shown as part of Little Mead [P125/25] on map of the

Coneyboro Estate of 1738 [7]1822 1 2r 9p land now stumped out (NW: Timothy Shelley, bt; E: late waste

[M505/130, 2 below]; N, W, S: CCC Jenkinson’s Wigsells Farm, late George Medley), reserving a right of way 12 feet wide to the owners of Wigsells Farm [4]2 piece of waste of 23p (N, S: waste; E: Lewes – Chailey Turnpike; W: land agreed to be purchased from the trustees of Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson [M505/128, 1 above]); includes part of a cottage by 1852 [3]

<1838-1841+ house, brewery, garden: land 3r 6p [1]1852 the estate included the Five Bells at Chailey, copyhold of the manor of

Warningore,a nd the Royal Oak at Barcombe, copyhold of the manor of Barcombe [4]

1874 estate consisted of the brewery, The Five Bells Chailey, the Royal Oak Barcombe, The Peacock at Shortbridge in Fletching, The Royal Oak Newick and The Fountain Plumpton

Descriptions of house (at TQ 402143)1822-1912 house, brewery etc ( 98) [1]; buildings shown in detail on map of 1827 [8]1867 brewery, dwelling-house, stable, store and buildings; land as above, with six

perches of land on the South side [4]1912 the brewery destroyed or badly damaged by fire on 7 August 1912 [6]

Land tax assessments [2]<1840-1840+ not assessed in Hamsey 1840 unless with malthouse

Owners1822-1836 John Cheesman brwr grant to JC of Cooksbridge in Barcombe,

brewer; death presented 1836; by will of 1835 to eldest son JC, calling it a copyhold cottage adjoining his freehold brewery, which he had given up to JC; also leaves Royal Oak in Barcombe (copyhold of Barcombe) and the Five Bells in Chailey (copyhold of Warningore) [3]

1836-1852 John Cheesman [1]; death presented 1852; by will of 1850 to brother TC and friend JM in trust for sale [3]

1852-1867 trustees Cheesman Trayton Cheesman and John Maxfield of Lewes, draper; obtained licence to let for 7 years; JM survived and had died by 1863; by will of 1859, proved 1863, to John Smith of Lewes, actuary; admitted 1866 as trustee of will of JC; enfranchised 1867 [3] on sale

to GN [4]1867-1874 George Norman brew

erof Cooksbridge; purchased for £2800; died 17 Nov 1874 [4]

1874-1905 George Norman brewer

sold to Harry George Telling of Hill Lodge, Champion Hill, Surrey, brewer, in 1905 nut the concern continued to trade as George Norman & Co [4]

1905-1912 Harry G Telling of Surrey, brewer; following the fire on 7 August 1912, he sold for £1100 to Thomas Sackville Manning of Lewes, managing director of the Southdown and East Grinstead Breweries Ltd, who sold on before the conveyance had been executed to John William Dodson, Lord Monk Bretton, for £1200 [4]

1912-1912+ CONEYBORO

ESTATE MERGED [4]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ John Cheesman [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO ACC 6506/475 ESRO AMS 6584/16 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO SHR 2854

~7~HAMSEY - P125/7

Manorial tenure: three freehold and one copyhold tenements of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 8s 0s, 1s 9d, 1s 8d and 3s 0½d [M505/61-63]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 176-178 279, 282, 283, 286, 287, 295, 297, 305-308, 300

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 411125)<1667 P125/51 merged1667+ 8a called Cows Croft, 4a and acre adjoining brook and parcel of rood called

Hilliers; copyhold M505/61land called Forestones, tenement called Stoners; freehold M505/62Smiths Orchard, Stoners Croft and tenement called Rogers M505/63The Hame, Lesson Lands, 2 barns and 6 pieces (15a and 5a) M505/64

[1752] His freehold and copyhold land consisted of a farmhouse (305-308), cottage (295), barn (177), an acre on Hamsey Common and land, in all 54a 1r 27p [7]

1810 location annotated onto map of this date [8] <1838-1841+ House, two barns, yard: land 43a 2r 24p land in scattered parcels including a

plot of 2r 6p in the lawn of the rectory (300) [1]1855 the annotations to the map of 1810 do not include the house (tithe 305-7), or the

land West of the road, suggesting that it was not included in the purchase [8]1855 tithe 300 (a plot of 2r 6p in the lawn of the rectory) to to the rectory [P125/46]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 411125)1752 house (15 = tithe 305-7), barn (12 = 177) and cottage (4 = 295) [7]<1838-1841+ house, barn and yard (306), barn and yard (177) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ 25<1789-1790 24<1791-1791+ 19 10s<1798-1798+ 18<1808-1840+ 19 10s

Owners<1590-1590 Nicholas Mabbe of Lewes; in his will of 1590, proved in PCC

that year, he bequeathed an annuity to his sister, charged on his tenement and lands called Stoners, which were to be sold for the payment of his debts and legacies [6]

<1627 Randall Cf P125/51<1627-1629 Edward Chatfield in 1627 obtained licence to lease for seven

years; surrendered in extremis in 1629 to us of EC; no animal [3]

1629-1639 Edward Chatfield of full age in 1629, son of Roger Chatfield; as EC of Hamsey death presented 1639, heriot a cow; heir is only daughter Sybil; his widow Dorothy entitled to bench [3]

1639-1671 Dorothy Chatfield wid admitted 1639; as Dorothy Wincton, widow; she held for life; death presented 1671, by which time RB is already dead

having left the estate to TB [3]<1662-1662 Edward Chatfield and his wife Sybil, only daughter of Edward

Chatfield of Hamsey, deceased; in 1662 they surrendered the reversion on Dorothy’s death to RB [3]

1662-1667 Richard Barnard in 1666 he surrendered to the use of his will (W: Samuel Cruttenden and Robert Swann) and was dead by 1667, heriot a cow; he had acquired the reversion on the death of Dorothy Chatfield otherwise Wincton from Edward Chatfield and his wife Sybil; death presented again in 1672; by will to eldest son TB [3]

1667-1724 Thomas Barnard gent admitted 1672; surrendered to will 1689; death presented 1724, no animal; heir is youngest nephew Richard Barnard, gent; on admittance he immediately surrendered to his only brother TB [3]

1724-1742 Thomas Barnard Esq of Lewes; death presented 1742 for M505/61-64, heriot four oxen; heir is brother RB [3]

1742-1764 Richard Barnard Esq of Lewes; will proved in PCC 1764 [9]; death presented 1766 for M505/61-64, no animal; by will of 17 Jun 1762 to his sisters Elizabeth and Frances for lives, remainder to nephew John Waterman in tail; Frances Barnard admitted on death of sister Elizabeth [3] and JW died without issue [9]

1764-1771 Frances Barnard Spr death presented 1771, no animal; JW admitted [3]

1771-1779 John Waterman Gent of Ashford; admitted as remainderman under the will of Richard Barnard; death presented 1779, heriot; RC admitted under will of Richard Barnard [3]

1779-1817 Richard Comber gent admitted as nephew and heir of Richard Barnard; in 1807 he had licence to fell an elm to repair the tenement; death presented 1817 for M505/60-64, heriot a cow; heir is eldest son RBC [3]

1817-1819 Richard Barnard

Comber Esq of Gatwick in Steyning; by letter of attorney to George and John Hoper of Lewes to be admitted at courts for Lewes Borough, Balneth, Beddingham, Combe by Beddingham and Hamsey; bars entail by recovery; by will of 1819 left M505/61-64 to wife SC for life, remainder to trustees; brother Thomas Comber has option to purchase at £15,000; estate in West Meath, Ireland [3]; died 1819 [9]

1819-1855 Sarah Comber trustees obtained licence to let for 7 years in 1819 and 1827; in 1855 trustees surrendered parts of the estate to CMB [3] and field 300 to Hamsey Rectory [P125/46]

1855-1855+ BURRE ESTATE Charles Merrick Burrell of Knepp Castle,

LL bt; enfranchised 1855; but was the farmhouse purchased?

Occupiers<1590-1590+ Roger Keme [6]

<1768-1787 John Holman [2]1788-1789 Richard Comber Owner-occupier [2]1790-1813 Benjami

nComber [2]; requisitions recite lease to Thomas

Marchant at £125, 1809 [9]1814-1817+ William Elms [2]; held at £85 [9]<1823-1830+ Richard Verrall [2]<1833-1840+ Henry Guy [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/76 (Nicholas Mabbe of Lewes, 1590; extract in SAC 17.86)7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO AMS 6599/1 (copy of WSRO Add Ms 2000)9 ESRO SAS/SH 270-272

~8~HAMSEY – The Rainbow at Cooksbridge P125/8

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 6d, heriot 2s 6d certain (M505/38); it is possible that P125/4 was separated from this tenement as freehold [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403143)<1746-1746 NOT FORMED granted from the waste in 1746, but presumably as an

addition to P125/56 [3]c1750 one rood with a little pound lately enclosed from the waste (N: [blank]

Shelley esq; E, S, W: road) [3]1752 house, forge and garden (1r 12p) [7]1756 described by the owner’s will of this date as a messuage and garden in his

own occupation [3]1772-1772+ the new owner already had a cottage (P125/35) [3]1777 described as a messuage, blacksmith’s shop, orchard and garden at

Cooksbridge, occupied by Susannah Tourle, spinster, and Thomas Bland [3]<1838-1841+ no description: land 1r 2p [1]1884 messuage and shop now used as a public house called The Rainbow with the

yard, cart-house, stable, buildings and garden [3]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 403143)1749 datestone on front of building with the initials IM [James Markwick] 1752 shown on map as a house, forge and garden (1r 12p) [7]1827 buildings shown in detail on map of 1827 [5]<1838-1841+ no description [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ 2 (?) described as a house 1833

Owners1746-1756 James Markwick bckth of Barcombe, blacksmith, in 1746; his death

presented 1756; by will of 24 Jan 1756 to his only son JM, subject to an annuity of 52s to his widow Catherine; also owns a copyhold messuage and garden in Barcombe, occupied by Richard Hobden [3]

1756-1772 James Markwick under age in 1756, Thomas Tippen of Hamsey, farmer appointed guardian; of Hamsey, yeoman, when he surrendered to the use of his will in 1768; in 1772 he and his wife Sarah surrendered to RH [3]

1772-1792 Richard Hollingdale yeo of Hamsey; called yeoman in 1771 when he inherited P125/35 from his father; not admitted until 1777; death presented 1792; widow MH admitted under his will of 12 Dec 1789, subject to a payment of £20 to his brother Edward H [3]; called shopkeeper in his will [4]

1792-1834 Mary Hollingdale wid widow; in 1792 she and her husband John

Henderson surrendered to the use of her will; in 1830 they mortgaged for £400 at 5% to John Henderson the younger of Chapel Place, Southwark, oil and colour man; MH’s death presented 1834; by will of 1824 to husband JH [3]

1834-1840 John Henderson death presented 1840; by will of 1838 to his children HH and EH [3]

1840-1845 Henry Henderson pbcn of Cooksbridge, publican, and Eliza Henderson of Brighton, spinster; in 1841 they paid off the mortgage to John Henderson of Hertford, draper, (executor of JH of St Anne’s Place, St Mary Newington, traveller), and mortgaged for £500 at 5% with a power of sale to William Balcombe Langridge of Lewes, esq; in 1842 he mortgaged for £200 at 5% to John Langford of Lewes, brewer; in 1845 they sold to JL [3]

1845-1850 John Langford brwr of Lewes, brewer; death presented 1856; by will of 1848, proved 1850, to his nephew Frederick Langford ‘who was brought up by my late brother Thomas Cooper Langford’ [3]

1850-1854 Frederic Langford by will of 1851, proved 1854, to trustee for sale [3]

1854-1857 trustees Langford William Sampson of Herstmonceux, gent, trustee; in 1857, by virtue of orders in Chancery of 1856 and 1857, sold for £310 (to credit of cause ‘purchase monies arising from sale of the brewery’) to TW, GM and GW [3]

1857-1884 Lewes Bank Thomas Whitfeld, George Molineux and George Whitfeld, bankers; in 1864 WBL’s executor acknowledged payment of the mortgage; in 1884 the survivors GW and GM sold for £300 to JE [3]

1884-1886 Jane Elmsley spr of Kilburn in Middlesex, spinster, according to the trusts in the will of Alexander Elmsley, proved in 1876; in 1886 she surrendered to JWL for £300 [3]

1886-1886+ John W Lyell brwr of Gothenburg in Sweden, brewer [3]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Henry Henderson [1] Mr Henderson [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A66.330 (Richard Hollingdale of Hamsey)5 ESRO SHR 28546 ESRO MOB 1699

~9~HAMSEY - cottages at Cooksbridge P125/9

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 6d, heriot 1s 6d certain (M505/9) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 102, 104, 105

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403143)<1719-1719 NOT FORMED; granted from the waste in 1719 [3]1729 E: road from Lewes to Barcombe; S: road from Deadman Tree Hill to

Cooksbridge Green; W: road from Cooksbridge to Chailey; N: land called Great Hewins Street late John Tredcroft, gent, in the right of his wife)

1746 parcel of waste [3]1752 Shown as six buildings and 3r at ‘Cooksbridge Street’ [7]1754 ‘waste whereon was lately built one messuage and one stable’1773x1777 map of the Shelley Estate shows the triangle below the southernmost point of

the estate divided vertically. The whole area comprises tithe 101-106 (P125/4, 8, and 9). That on the West is labelled ‘Mr West’ and comprises this tenement [7]; for a discussion of the dating of this map see P125/17

<1838-1841+ house, garden, two cottages: land 1r 38p [1]1843 messuage, cottage, garden, wheeler’s shop and 2 rods [3]1850 whole site described in will as: three dwelling houses or tenements, that is the

shop used for the business of wheelwright, outbuildings, garden and orchard, with the stable, occupied by Mr Stephen Berry; tenement occupied by Henry Guy, gent, with the small garden on the front; small tenement and small garden occupied by George Cornwell, held of the manors of Barcombe and Hamsey [4]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 403143)1752 shown on map as six buildings and described as ‘several tenements’ [7]1828 will of 1728 calls it copyhold land and shop<1838-1841+ house and garden (102), cottages (104, 105) [1]1850 see above

Land tax assessments [2]<1817-1840+ 2 described as house

Owners1719-1729 David Wood bcks

mithDavid Wood of Barcombe, blacksmith; granted to him 1719; death presented 1729; by will of 18 Apr 1728 to Thomas Attree of Barcombe, gent and John Wood of Southover, blacksmith, in trust for sale; they were admitted and surrendered to ET for life, remainder as below [3]

1729-1752 Eliz Tasker wife of John Tasker of Barcombe, wheeler, for life, remainder to JT; his death presented 1746; her death presented 1752 [3]

1752-1754 Thomas Tasker sold to HF in 1754 [3]1754-1760 Henry Furner of Barcombe, who mortgaged for £80 at 4%

to Samuel Nowell of Lewes, patten-maker, discharged 1772; in 1760 by an out-of-court

surrender (W: Richard Verrall, Francis Corner) he sold to AM [3]

1760-1773 Ann Markwick spr of Newick, spinster; wife of David Cherry by 1772 when they surrendered to David C, who on his admission in 1773 immediately surrendered to HW [3]

1773-1807 Henry West wheelwright

of Barcombe, wheelwright; death presented 1807; by will of 1804, describing it as the house in which he lived held of the manors of Barcombe and Hamsey, to trustees MB and JH [3]

1807-1815 trustees West Miles Berry of Hamsey, yeoman, and John Henderson of Hamsey, shopkeeper; trustees for sale; in 1815 MB, of Lifton in Devon, gent, appointed George Berry and John Cheesman both of Cooksbridge in Barcombe, gents, attorneys; GB and JH surrendered for £350 to JH in 1815 [3]; the Land Tax still regarded Mrs West as the owner in 1817 [1]

1815-1852 John Howell whrt John Howell of Cooksbridge, wheelwright; he mortgaged back to JH and MB for £190 at 5%, discharged 1818 when he mortgaged for £140 at 5% to George Bunting of Cliffe, butcher, whose executrix Jane Bunting of Cuckfield, widow, acknowledged payment in 1842, when JH mortgaged for £200 at 5% with a power of sale to Thomas Heathfield of Lewes, carpenter; paid off 1852; death presented 1852; by will of 1850 to wife Sarah Howell; she is admitted and immediately, with JH’s youngest daughter Eliza Howell, surrender to RH [3]

1852-1866 Richard Howell wheelwright

Richard Howell of Alciston, wheelwright; death presented 1866, heir is youngest son DH [3]

1866-1873 David Howell wheelwright

David Howell of Rottingdean, wheelwright; in 1873 he sold to JGD [3]

1873-1873+ CONEYBORO ESTATE purchased by John George Dodson MP of 6 Seymour Place, Mayfair [3]

Occupiers1817 Mrs West owner occupier<1828-1841+ John Howell owner-occupier [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A84.293 (John Howell of Barcombe)5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 1699

8 ESRO AMS 6775

~10~HAMSEY - cottage at Offham P125/10

Manorial tenure: unknown; probably an unlicensed encroachment on the waste of the manor of Hamsey [M505/129]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 400121)1780 not shown on map of the Combe Place Estate [5]1810 shown as a N-S cottage, with land to the East running South behind P125/64 [8]1815 in this year John Guy has encroachment 20p on waste by the turnpike gate at

Offham, used as a garden; is this tithe 376? [3]c1820-1827+ shown on map as L-shaped building, not part of the Combe Place Estate [7, 9]<1838-1841+ cottage and garden (376) [1]


Owners<1810-1810+ Guy [8]; probably the John Guy presented for an

encroachment on the waste by the turnpike gate in 1815 [3]; John Guy was the tenant of Hamsey Place Farm [P125/2]

<1838-1840+ George Langridge [1]

Occupiers<1838-1840+ George Langridge [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO AMS 6599 (map of Burrell estate, 1810)9 ESRO ACC 3412/3/160

~11~HAMSEY - cottage on Beechwood Lane P125/11

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d, heriot 6d certain (M505/39) [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 396137)<1634-1634+ shown as a cottage and land on a map of 1634, although the evidence

suggests that it was not granted as a copyhold for another 47 years [5]<1681-1681 NOT FORMED as a manorial tenement: granted from the waste, with a

cottage, in 1681 [3]c1750 1 rod of former waste with a cottage built on it in Hamsey (S, W: land of

Richard Bridger, esq), late occupied by Thomas Harvey [3]1752 shown on map as house and garden on the W side of a lane to Holters Green;

another building to the South of uncertain status [7]<1787 land to S late occupied by Samuel Ellis in 1787 [3]<1838-1841+ House, garden: land 1r 24p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 396137)1634 cottage shown on estate map [5]1681 cottage already built when granted from the waste [3]1707 cottage and orchard shown on map [5]1752 house and building shown in L-formation on map [7]<1838-1841+ House and garden (214) [1]


Owners<1681-1681 WASTE waste with a cottage; granted to occupier

TH in 1681 [3]1681-1698+ Thomas Harvey in 1698 he settled this on himself and his

wife Judith and the longer liver, remainder to their son TH; TH father admitted by attorney Benjamin Ellis [is TH moribund?], JH and TH in person [3]

1698-1725 Thomas Harvey by will of 16 Jun 1721 to daughters Elizabeth and Mary; in 1725 they (Elizabeth wife of Thomas Gates and Mary wife of Thomas Vinall) surrender to the Vinalls [3]

1725-1769 Thomas Vinall in the right of his wife Mary; in 1727 they mortgaged for £20 at 5% to Richard Care of Hamsey; in 1756 granted licence to cut two elm-trees by his house to repair it [3]

1769-1780 Richard Care Richard Care the mortgagee admitted on forfeiture in 1769; death presented 1780; only son JC [3]

1780-1787 John Care in 1781 he paid £1 5s 6d for a licence to cut four elm-trees for sale; in 1787 he surrendered to GE [3]

1787-1805 George Earle husb of Hamsey, husbandman; by will of 1805 to Mary Lindfield, daughter of William Lindfield of Hamsey, gardener (allowing her parents WL and his wife Mary to occupy for their lives, and GE’s brother John Earle to occupy the bedroom in which GE sleeps), with remainder to her sister Ann Lindfield if she die without heirs [3]

1805-1861 William Lindfield lab of Hamsey; Mary Lindfield, by 1853 wife of Samuel Sinnock of Sedlescombe, shoemaker, remained the tenant on the court rolls until 1853, when they were admitted and immediately surrendered to WL; he mortgaged for £100 at 5% to John Wickham of Lewes, brewer, paid off 1862; in 1861 paid off mortgage to JW (then John Pollard Wickham) and sold for a further £70 to GCS [3]

1861-1861+ COMBE ESTATE George Croxton Shiffner, clerk [3]

Occupiers1681-1698 Thomas Harvey [3]<1817-1841+ William Lindfield [1, 2] owner occupier

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 390 (map of 1634), 393 (map of 1707) 6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 1699

~12~HAMSEY - Cooksbridge Farm, formerly Wigsells Farm P125/12

Manorial tenure: by 1746 held as nine freehold tenements of the manor of Hamsey (M505/27-32, 34-36) quitrents, 10s 10½d [3]new grant in 1815 (M505/128), copyhold, quitrent 1d

Tithe numbers [1]1840 96, 107-110, 116-119, 136, 205

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402141)1608 1 two messuages, barn, two gardens and 10a at Werde (E, N: road from

Cooksbridge to Chailey; S,W: land called Breaches Land, land of John Threele esq; S: land called Rishley)

2 23a called Werde, occupied by William Lulham (E: road, land of James Plumer, lands occupied by Thomas Harding the elder; W: field called Maplewerd and land late Robert Randoll; N: field called Moylefield [?recte Moynefield]; S: land late Stephen Botting, land late John Comber gent) [these are bounds from 1592 - AMS 5897/53]

3 parcel of land (1a) in The Werde which Marian Costidell and John Barnden purchased from Abraham Edwards

4 moiety of a tenement and five crofts (9a) with a barn and orchard, occupied by Thomas Harding the elder; the tenement, barn and orchard abut N, NE: the road to Chailey; four on the N and NE bound N, W: the heirs of Brook; heading W: on Pakons Land; the fifth, called The Grove, heads SW: Rishley; S: land of John Threele called Batsford; E: land of the heirs of Breach

1648 1 two messuages, barn, two gardens and 10a (E, N: road from Cooksbridge to Chailey; S,W: land called Breaches, land called Threeles; S: land called Rishley)

2 23a called Werde (E: road, land of Philip Bennet, lands once occupied by Thomas Harding; W: lands called Maplewerd and land once Robert Randoll; N: field called Moylefield [?recte Moynefield]; S: land formerly Botting, land once Comber)

3 parcel of land (1a) once Abraham Edwards4 toft and five crofts (9a); the four on the N and NE bound N, W: late the

heirs of Brook; the fifth, called The Grove, bounds S,W: Rishley; SE: Batsford; E: late Breach

5 parcel of enclosed land (2a) called Fiddlers Down6 croft (1a) late Valentine [1643 adds: formerly sold by Edward

Valentine]1699 1 messuage, barn, stall, gardens, orchard and 10a

2 23a called The Werd3 1a before Abraham Edwards4 1a at The Werd (W: Hamsey Glebe)5 toft with 9a in five parcels all late William Lulham6 two pieces called Battsford als The Batspurs (8a); once Thomas

Threele esq(E: road from Cooksbridge to Chailey; N: Cooksbridge to Chailey road and late Theobald Shelley esq; W, NW: land of Mr Young occupied by Nathaniel Hosmer, small tenement of John Care; S: watercourse from Beachwood Green to Cooksbridge, land of Mr Bridger called Tanners Lagg)

c1708 ‘lately’ acquires Tanhouse Lag [P125/76]; this had certainly happened by 1712, but a bond in £110 by Richard Bridger of Hamsey to Thomas Medley of

Barcombe, to keep the covenants in a deed of even date, 2 March 1708, would fit a conveyance of Tanhouse Lag perfectly [10]

1713 as 1699 above, except:4 (W: Hamsey Glebe; E,S,N: the remainder of the land being sold),

formerly Thomas Beach5 toft with 9a, formerly in five parcelsnear Cooksbridge in Hamsey, formerly William Alcock of Lewes, gent (who purchased from William Lulham and Thomas Threele), then conveyed by Richard Shelley and his wife Hannah, a grand-daughter of William Alcock, to Thomas Wigsell and his son John Wigsell (bounds as above, except: S: Tanhouse Lag, lately purchased by Thomas Medley from Mr Bridger) [10]

1728 acquires P125/741731 acquires P125/U11822 Cooksbridge Brewery sold out of this estate [P125/6]1815 grant from waste: E: turnpike road; W: CCCJ; N, S: running to points;

M505/128<1838-1841+ house, buildings: land 75a 2r 10p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 402141)1752 are the buildings shown on this map? [7]1797 east front of house illustrated, with details of ground-floor rooms (kitchen, two

parlours, dairy, brew-house and pantry) in a survey of the Buxted Park Estate [11]

<1838-1841+ house and buildings (107) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ 39<1789-1790 361791-1791+ 31<1803-1840+ 29

Owners

<1588-1593 Thomas Longley yeo of Northease in Rodmell in 1588 when he purchased the moiety of 1608.4 from Edmund Wade of Wilmington, yeoman, for £3 [9]; in 1590 bequeathed 1608.1 by his father-in-law Nicholas Mabbe of Lewes, in lieu of his marriage-money with his wife Susan, to TL for life, remainder to their son Nicholas [6]; and of Hamsey in 1592 when he purchased 1608.2 and 3 from Marian Costidell of Chailey, widow, and her son [in-law] John Barnden [9]

1608-1648 William Lulham tanner in 1608 he purchased the estate from the widow and daughters of Thomas Longley; by 1644 John Maddox, citizen and goldsmith of London, had acquired an interest in the property, which he leased to William Lulham for three years at £28 - the deed is marked void; of Hamsey in 1648 when he sold (or perhaps mortgaged) to William Alcock for

£100; of Hamsey in 1661 when he quitclaimed to William Alcock of Lewes, esq [9, 10]

1661-1672 William Alcock esq of The Friars, Lewes; on his death it descended to his daughter Hannah Pellatt, wife of Thomas Pellatt [10]

1672-1691 Hannah Pellatt it passed from her to her daughter Hannah, wife of Richard Shelley [10]

1691-1699 Richard Shelley esq of Lewes; married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Pellatt of Bignor park and the Friars, Lewes, in 1691; sold to John Wigsell and his son Thomas Wigsell in 1699 [9]

1699-1713 Thomas Wigsell yeo of Hamsey; purchased, with his son John Wigsell; in 1703 he mortgaged to Robert Hammond of Lewes, gent, for £150, increased to £500 by 1710; settled by fine in 1707 (?on the marriage of John Wigsell and Ann) [9]; by 1713 John Wigsell was dead and TW, with his grandson Thomas Wigsell and JW’s widow Ann, sold for £800 to Thomas Medley of Coneyboro in Barcombe and his youngest son Edward Medley of the Middle Temple, esq [10]

1713-1838+ Thomas Medley MERGED with the Coneyboro Estate [2]

Occupiers<1713-1713+ Thomas Wigsell the elder; owner-occupier to 1713 [10]<1780-1803+ John Berry [2]<1808-1813+ Ann Berry [2]<1815-1823+ George Berry [2]; he acted as tenant when CCC Jenkinson

admitted to M505/128 in 1815 [3]<1828-1833+ Thomas Bell [2]<1840-1840+ John Waters [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/B 2.1655 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/76 (Nicholas Mabbe of Lewes, 1590)7 ESRO MOB 16999 ESRO SAS/PN 489-492; SAS/C592, SAS/SH 757-758; AMS 5897/44-5910 BL Add Ms 38485 ff204-711 ESRO ACC 3712

~13~HAMSEY - part of Cooksbridge Nurseries (FRIENDLY HALL) P125/13

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1d (M505/25) [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 401136)1584 part of Goteacre; this = 1a in Claycroft (E: road; S: Stephen Botting; W: Rishly;

N: glebe)1629 P125/19 and 93 (adjoining the land of Francis Langford) sold off from this

holding1635 land of George Read [9]<1838-1841+ House and garden, plot: land 1a 2r 6p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 401136)<1838-1841+ House and garden (203) [1]


Owners<1584-1584 Abraham Edwards yeo in 1584 he sold this, with Goteacre, to AB

[7]1584-1584+ Alan Brewer carp of Hamsey<1627-1627 Thomas Reade death presented 1627, heriot a cow (£2 10s);

heir is eldest son GR [3]1627-1644 George Reade death presented 1644, heriot a cow; heir is

eldest son TR [3]1644-1644+ Thomas Reade [3]<1681 Bennett [3]<1681-1681 Edward Valentine death presented 1681, no animal; widow

Eleanor Valentine holds for life [3]1681-1681+ Eleanor Valentine wid held a life estate [3]<1715-1715 Thomas Medley esq by 1715 had sold to SC [3]1715-1754 Stephen Cooper death presented 1754, heriot a hog; only son

RC [3]1754-1803 Robert Cooper only son of SC; by 1803 he had sold to SE

[3]1803-1815 Samuel Ellis yeo of Hamsey, yeoman; by will to nephew TE

[3]1815-1840 Thomas Ellis present by attorney Richard Knight; by

1840 he had sold to GM1840-1840+ George Merricks owner-occupier [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ George Merricks [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals

4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/7 CKS U1475/T278A/39 WSRO EpII/17/89

~14~HAMSEY - MYRTLE COTTAGE P125/14

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 6d, heriot and fine 2s 6d certain (M505/19) [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 400133)<1752-1752 NOT FORMED; granted out of the waste, a house already standing, in

1752 [3]c1750 the materials of a cottage [P125/94, in the vicinity of Woodcock Cottage]

demolished by John Bridger sold to Richard Care, bricklayer (the grantee) and used to build this cottage [5]

1752 Shown as ‘new house and garden by the road, 27r’, on the W side, N of the junction of the road to Chailey [7]

<1838-1841+ Cottage, garden: land 1r 10p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 400133)1752 house already standing when the land was granted from the waste [3]; shown

on map of the same year [7]<1838-1841+ Cottage (251) [1]


Owners<1752-1752 waste1752-1755 Richard Care granted to him, the house already built, in

1752; sold to EA 1755 [3]1755-1782 Eliz Alchorne wife of John Alchorne, husbandman; in

1764 they mortgaged for £20 at 5% to Edward Blackman the younger of Southover, victualler, paid off 1769; surrendered to SA 1782 [3]

1782-1807 Samuel Alchorne husb of Kingston, husbandman; admitted 1784; death presented 1807; by will of 1799 to his mother Betty Allcorn for life, remainder to RP [3]

1807-1834 Richard Paul Richard Paul, Betty Allcorn having died in SA’s lifetime; death presented 1834; by will of 1833 to youngest son RP; in his own occupation [3]

1834-1883 Richard Paul [1]; Richard Paul; death presented 1883; only son WP [3]

1883-1883+ William Paul William Paul of Blackall in Queensland, Australia, admitted by Henry Jones, gent under the will of his grandfather RP; licence to let for 14 years [3]

Occupiers<1838-1841+ Richard Paul [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR 2028/336 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 1699

~15~HAMSEY – Offham House P125/15

Manorial tenure: includes freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d M505/102 [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 314-317, 319, 351, 379, 380, 423, 253-259, 269, 356-377

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403125)1661 messuage, barn and croft of two acres [5]1662 purchased messuage, garden, orchard and 5a by 1000 year lease at 1d

[P125/U7] [5]1672 purchased barn, close and 15a called Pyecombes in Offham and croft called

Tyecroft (2a), with the cut of two acres in the Upland Wish by 1000 year lease at a peppercorn [P125/U6] [5]

1697 purchased Pellbrook (2a) and an acre with the site of a demolished chapel [P125/28]; no more is heard of this property

1699 1 messuage, barn, garden, close and croft of 2a2 messuage since converted into stable, garden, orchard and 5a in Offham, being meadow land adjoining the croft, and 8 sheepleazes3 barn, close and 15a called Pyecombes in Offham and croft called Tyecroft (2a) [5]; Offham House taken out of this

1701 2 above called The Clover Field [5]1706 purchased an enclosed croft (2a) S: the lane leading to Coombe; N: Offham

laines from Abraham Nicholas [P125/U5]<1752 purchased Wellcroft (P125/66)1776 purchased part of the demesnes of the manor of Hamsey: three fields called

The Knole otherwise The Knowle, The [blank] afterwards called The Fourteen Acres and [blank] afterwards called Offham Field, which now and for sometime past have been inclosed with a pale fence and called The Paddock [11]

c1780 purchased part of P125/80 [2]1780 purchased the lordship of the manor of Hamsey and part of the demesnes [ for

details see P125/16]

1788 purchased P125/79, of which the land (tithe 193) was attached to P125/161788 purchased three houses and a croft [P125/65] and Tilecroft [P125/68]1789 purchased Woodcock Cottage (P125/59); sold 18511790 purchased P125/671796 acquired a leaze on Wood Green Common from P125/1 and 1½ leazes from

P125/43<1797 purchased P125/61; sold 18511797 settled estate described as [13]

1 manor of Hamsey 2 capital messuage, purchased by TW Partington from William Stanford3 the paddock (46a) (S: Lewes - Cooksbridge Road; W: same road, and land of TP late John Wenham; N: Joseph Mighell late John Wenham; E: a drove way belonging to Joseph Mighell); of which 2a formerly called The Wellcroft [P125/66] purchased with 2; 2a, upon which three messuages or cottages formerly stood, now pulled down, were purchased by TWP from John Bridger [P125/65]; 42a 1r 3p, formerly called The Knole, The Fourteen Acres and Offham Field and a farmhouse, barns, stables, granary and buildings, purchased by TWP from George Wenham Lewis4 Offham Farm (195a), let to Richard Knight [details under P125/16]

5 Barcombe Farm in Barcombe (details)6 messuages, cottages, workshops, outhouses, sheds and buildings with the ground belonging (1a) [ details under P125/61]7 messuage or cottage in two dwellings with the site of a third [details under P125/59]8 lately erected malthouse adjoining lands purchased of Charles Gilbert esq, purchased by TWP from John Verrall [details under P125/67]

1817 purchased P125/60; sold 18511826 purchased house and blacksmith’s forge at Offham [P125/62]; sold 1854<1827 purchased P125/68; sold 1851<1838-1841+ mansion house, garden, orchard, farm buildings, 20 cottages: land 51a 0r 30p

[1]1851 sold Woodcock Cottage [P125/59], P125/60-611851 mansion and land sold to Coombe Estate for £4570 (tithe 351, 423, 356-365,

315, part 316, 379, 319, 380) [5]1854 sold house and blacksmith’s forge at Offham [P125/62]1855 two leazes on Hamsey Common purchased from Charles Merrick Burrell

[P125/2] for £42 [13]1864 capital messuage called Offham House with coach-houses, stables, ou offices,

gardens, orchards, lawn, shrubberies, 5a 1r 10p occupied by Mrs Daniell and paddock to the East of the road (24a) [5]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 399124) & farm buildings (403125)NB Hamsey malthouse and cottages discussed with P125/67

1634 shown, more roughly, as house of 1707 [5]1662-1675 Nizell Rivers 9 flues 1662, 12 flues 16751676 sundial on house NR 1676 = Nizell Rivers1707 shown as tile-covered bouse with central doorway and pediment, two wings

with gables and two massive chimneys; the house is approached by a path from the road, on which there are double gates [5]

1747 house + 5a among property sold by Norton Nelson to John Bridger; house + 5a sold by him almost immediately to John Davies, DD; 8 sheepleazes were attached to this house, but were not included in the sale, suggesting to John Bridger in 1787 that the house had once been part of Offham Laines [9]

1749 rainwater heads have JD 1749 = John Davies1752 shown without identification on map [6]c1780 view by James Lambert [12]1797 mansion house occupied by Thomas Partington with stables and 5a (E: road

from Lewes to Cooksbridge; N: John Bridger; W: John Bridger late Thomas Dennett; S: road from Offham to Coombe) [5]

<1838-1841+ Mansion house, farm buildings (351) cottages (253-259, 269, 356-377) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1817-1840+ £30 10s

Owners<1661-1661 Robert Baker clk of Rottingdean; sold to NR in 1661 [5]; in

his will of 1679 he mentioned his daughter Joanna Nelson [see 1698] [4]

1661-1695 Nizell Rivers esq 1614-1695, son of Sir John Rivers of Chafford in Kent; born Westerham 1614; his older brother James, MP for Lewes 1641,

was the owner of Coombe Place [P125/22]; MP for Lewes 1660; purchased house from Robert Baker in 1661, another house from Francis Corner of Offham, yeoman, and John King in 1662, and a barn, Pyecombe and Tilecroft from John Langford of Bolney and his son John Langford of Chailey in 1672 [5]; by his will of 1694 left his Offham property to his niece, James’s daughter Dorothy [4]; buried at Hamsey

1695-1698 Dorothy Rivers living with her brother in Kent; sold to WN in 1698 (according to the manor [3]) or 1699 according to the deed [5]; of Hamsey at her death in 1704

1698-1723 William Nelson esq ODNB; barrister of the Middle Temple and author and publisher of legal texts, chairman of the bench of the eastern Division; augments the estate (see above); in 1723, of the Middle Temple, gent, he conveyed all his property at Hartham in Corsham, Wiltshire, Goosey at in Stanford, Berkshire and Hamsey to his only son RN, subject to a mortgage of £600 to Sarah Alford of Hamsey [5]

1723-1746 Robert Nelson esq on homage 1745; by his will of 12 Aug 1745 NN bequeathed to NN [5, 6]

1746-1747 Norton Nelson esq of Gatcombe in Devon; immediately on admission he surrendered to JB, to whom he conveyed the freehold and leasehold estate for £750 on 6 May 1747 [5]

1747-1747 John Bridger esq owner of the Coombe Estate; a house and 5a, this property, sold [?immediately] to his brother-in-law JD, but the remainder retained [5]

1747-1766 John Davies clk DD, vicar of Iford and Kingston, and of Hamsey from 1752; married Jane Bridger in 1737; resigned Hamsey 1760 and died at Canterbury (of which he was a canon) in 1766; descends to his only son JBD

1766-1766+ JB Davis John Brewer Davis of Epsom and Lincolns Inn esq (1741-1817) [5]; he must have sold to Thomas Dennett [10]

<1768-1768+ Thomas Dennett assessed for £8 late Nelson’s Land in 1768 [9]; must have sold to JW [8]

<1773-1773 John Wenham clk DD; death presented at Warningore in 1775; he had built stables on part of Wellcroft; before his death he had mortgaged to William Stanford who, [as mortgagee in possession] had sold to TWP for £6400

1773-1791 TW Partington esq Thomas Walley Partington, solicitor to Dukes of Dorset and the Grosvenor Estate; owner-occupier; buried Hamsey 1791, aged 60; death presented 1792, to his son TW [8]

1791-1841 Thomas Partington esq [1] barrister; owner occupier; settled on his

marriage with Penelope Trollope in 1797 [5]; chairman of Quarter Sessions, 1804-1834; buried at Hamsey, aged 81, 1841; to his widow Penelope, née Trollope [5]

1841-1851 Penelope Partington wid died 1851; estate sold by her son Edward Partington to Sir Henry Shiffner [5]

1851-1851+ COOMBE

ESTATE

Occupiers<1662-1694 Nizell Rivers esq [8] owner occupier until his death1747 Howell occupier when sold to John Bridger [5]<1773-1791 TW Partington esq Thomas Walley Partington, barrister; owner-

occupier1791-1841 Thomas Partington [1] owner occupier1841-1851 Penelope Partington wid widow of TP<1857-1857 Catherine Gillham spr buried from Offham House 18571864-1866+ George Lyall of 14 Gloucester Square, Hyde Park; leased

for seven years at £175 in 1864 [5]<1871-1875+ HJ Pattison leased for 14 years at £175, 1872 [5]

problem with descent of Offham HouseAlthough a house and five acres which was added to this estate in 1662 can be traced back to before 1635 [P125U7], the house to which it was added cannot be traced before its purchase in 1661.If the house and five acres exempted from the Combe estate settlement in 1761 as having been sold to John Davies in 1747 = the messuage converted to a stable and 5a bought by Rivers from Corner in 1662 and sold by Dorothy Rivers to William Nelson in 1699 [P125/U7], why is the messuage already described in 1699 as converted into a stable since it should contain the mansion with the 1676 NR sundial? And where was the messuage and croft (2a) which the 5a meadow and converted stable adjoined?Deductions from deposition of William Corner, 1787 (ESRO SHR 2038/33): John Bridger sold a house to John Davies; JB believed that the house had been part of Offham Laines since the eight sheep-leazes which went with it were reserved to him when the house was sold to JD. The eight sheep-leazes beloned to the other part of the Nelson estate purchased by JB.The three acres at the bottom of Mr Partington’s garden and field lying E-W was bought by the Nelson family from his grandfather Corner, together with a cottage converted to a stable, held of the manor of Newick by a quitrent of 9s 6d ‘and since I suppose to be enfranchised by Mr Partington’. he never heard of the land being ploughed.

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A42.77 (Nizell Rivers, 1695); 35.163 (Robert Baker, 1679)5 ESRO SAS/SH 390 (map of 1634), SAS/SH 391 (map of 1707); 685-90 (deeds), 719

(abstract), 13 (settlement of 1797), 14 (sales particulars of 1851)6 TNA PROB 11/751 (Robert Nelson, Dec 1746)7 ESRO MOB 16998 TNA E179, ESRO XA 5 (hearth tax)

9 ESRO SHR 2028/33 (deposition of John Bridger, 1787), 75 (Land Tax, 1768)10 ESRO ADA 186-187 (court books of the manor of Warningore)11 WSRO Burrell 9/C/1-8, 9/D/1-15, 19/B/1-5, 21/H/1, 10/H/112 BL Add Ms 5677 f2313 ESRO ACC 6506/45

~16~HAMSEY - Offham Farm (New Farm) P125/16

Manorial tenure: demesne of the manor of Hamsey [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 120, 137-141, 143-151, 193, 196-198, 252, 260-268, 318, 320, 406, 171.

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 408131) Copyhold Farm1707 Lam’s Wish shown as an abuttal [5]1752 House, farm yard, buildings: land 170a 1r 24p [7]1780 purchased from Hamsey Place [P125/2]:

1 the lordship of Hamsey; farmhouse, barns, stables, granary and outhouses (1a 2r 25p) called New House Farm in Hamsey, with land called The Bramble Field or Brambly Field (10a 3r 38p), Oaten Rye Brook otherwise Watnigh Brook (10a 1r 14p), The Stonefield (12a 3r 29p), The Marle Pit Field and the Marl Pit (12a 0r 25p), The Copyhold Meadow (5a 2r 35p), The Ridge Wood Field or Ridge Woods (10a 2r 32p), The Kiln Field (5a 3r 25p), the Lower Field or The Upper and Lower Copyhold Fields (5a 1r 9p), The Pond Field (6a 2r 7p), Bushey Field and the shaw (6a 1r 33p), Newbroke Field or Hilly Field (6a 3r 33p), The Upper Candle Meadow or Green Field (7a 0r 36p), The Lower Candle Meadow or Candlers Mead (9a 1r 10p), The Upper Park Fields (11a 2r 7p), The Lower Park Field or Further Lower Park Field (5a 3r 14p), The Park Meadow or Hither Lower Park Field (8a 3r 25p), The Park Field Lakes or The Laggs (4a 1r 4p), The Alder Brook or Alder Moore (4a 0r 21p), The Lambs Wish (3a 0r 7p), The Common Acre (1a 0r 28p, then thrown into the Further Upper Park Field); lime-kiln and chalk-pit on a hill called Marble Hill in Hamsey; a proportion or part of Hamsey Common (1a 0r 17p); in all 152a 0r 34p, occupied in 1780 by William Knight

2 The Cromps (5a 0r 3p) and The Cromps Mead (3a 0r 29p), in Hamsey, occupied in 1780 by John Cheesman

3 1 rod of land formerly called the Nick of the Knole (NE: TWP’s paddock; SE: the drove-way; SE: the turnpike road; NW: a field owned and occupied by John Bridger, kt), then occupied by Richard Hollingdale

4 The Further Bush Wood (6a 0r 35p), The Middle Bush Wood (13a 2r 5p), and The Hither Bush Wood (6a 0r 38p) in Hamsey, occupied in 1780 by JM

reserving to JM a drove-way from Offham Village by TWP’s land called The Paddock to Hamsey Place, and power to dig chalk in the chalk-pit occupied by William Knight and to burn lime in the lime-kiln there [11]

1797 described in settlement as a farm of 195a consisting of [9]:1 9 acres, formerly the estate of John de la Chambre, purchased by

Thomas Walley Partington from Charles Gilbert esq and upon which four messuages or cottages are standing [P125/67]

2 messuage or cottage called Common House and six pieces of land (13a), purchased by TWP from Richard Spillman and thus enfranchised [P125/79]

3 two acres formerly used as a nursery but now as arable, purchased by TWP from Sir John Bridger [P125/22]

4 formerly called Newhouse farm otherwise Offham Farm, The crumps, The Crumps Mead, The Bush Woods, the Six Acres otherwise The

Great Field, being part of a farm and land called Towns Land and Kentings Acre and Keel Farm and Rough Croft and Stephens Gate or Willow Acre, purchased by TWP from Joseph Mighell and Philip Mighell

<1838-1841+ House, farm yard, buildings: land 216a 1r 38p [1]1851 sold; house and 243a 3r 14p detailed description in particulars [5]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 400126)1752 house and three outbuildings at Offham [7]1790 P125/67 acquired <1838-1841+ House, buildings etc (318, 268) [1]1851 brick-built and tiled farmhouse two attics and five bedrooms, two parlours,

store room, kitchen, pantry and dairy, back kitchen and cellars; farm buildings described in detail [5]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ £84 10s

Owners<1780-1780 HAMSEY MANOR formed part of the demesne land of the

manor [P125/2] until the sale to Thomas Walley Partington in 1780 [P125/15]

1780-1900 OFFHAM HOUSE [1, 2]; retained when Offham House sold to the Coombe estate in 1851 [5]; sold, with the lordship of the manor of Hamsey, to John William Dodson, lord Monk Bretton FOR £10550 in 1900 [9]


ESTATE [9]

Occupiers1672-1672+ Edward Raynes gt of Coneybrough in Barcombe; took a lease

of most of this for 21 years at £28 in 1672 [8]<1752-1759 John Alchorne [7]; his will of 1752, referring to his ‘worthy

landlord John Wenham’, instructs his wife to deliver his farm to his son John Alchorne when she deemed him capable of running it [4]

1759-1768+ John Alchorne assessed for £71 land tax ‘for his farm’ [2]1823 Richard Knight [2]1833 Thomas Partington [2]<1834-1900+ James Aylwyn called Alwyn on apportionment [1, 2]; in

1851 he paid £256 15s 0d rent [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A60.104 (John Alchorne, 1759)5 ESRO SAS/SH 391 (map of 1707); SH 14 (sales particulars of 1851)6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO SAS/PN 4869 ESRO ACC 6506/45

~17~HAMSEY - Shelley’s Folly P125/17

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8½d [M505/98], consisting of M505/92 (1d), 93 (3½d), 94 (2d) and 103 (2d) [3]referred to c1630 by John Rowe as former customary land [13]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 59-67, 79-90, 97, 99, 100, 142, 2, 6, 12, 13, 76, 16

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 404149)GENERAL It seems likely that the Northern portion of the parish, bounded by the Chailey

and Barcombe roads East and West, formed one entity called Hewen Streets; it may be that a common recovery of 1552, from Sir Edward Lewknor to John Cook, represents a partial enfranchisement of former copyholds - at least some of the land in this area was to remain freehold of the manor of Hamsey, subject to quitrents [M505/94, 98].It is clear that part of the land, probably the Southern portion of the land above the Shelley’s Folly triangle, remained in demesne, since Edward Lewknor was named as a neighbouring owner in 1594, and land called Hewen Streets was included in the settlement of the manor in 1667 [see P125/2].The Cook family gradually sold off the remainder of the land as follows. 1 By 1579, and probably before the death of Richard Holter of Barcombe in 1562, a house and 100 acres, forming the Northwestern two-thirds of the Shelley’s Folly triangle, had been acquired by Richard Holter. It was bought by James and Henry Plumer in 1589, and has been treated as the core descent of the Shelley’s Folly estate, this tenement, P125/17.2 In 1587 John Cook settled 30½ acres on the marriage of his son with Mary Board; in 1594 he sold 20 acres to John Allen. All this land was acquired by Roger Aderton in 1596 and 1597, and purchased by the owner of Hamsey Manor in 1751. Its descent appears as P125/92.3 In 1587 John Cook also sold the Southeastern third of the Shelley’s Folly triangle to Andrew Stone. Later that year Stone acquired two pieces of land on the West side of the Chailey road (tithe 76 and 97). He sold the whole to James Plumer in 1590. The descent of these elements of the estate before that date is presented as P125/95-964 In 1597 John Cook the elder, who had retained the upper portion of Shelley’s Folly (tithe 2, 6, 12, 13) on his settlement of the remainder in 1587, sold it to James Plumer; this descent is discussed within P125/95.James Plumer thus became owner of what would remain the Shelley’s Folly estate in 1840

1552> the elements purchased from or via John Cook probably a partition of the land granted out of the manor to John Cook in 1552 [5]

1579 messuage and 100a called Hewen Streets and Cockespyke in Hamsey [12]1 messuage and land: W: road; N: a horse or whapple way (see 1588); E:

Hanley Common; S: land of John Cook of Barcombe [P125/95])2 Cockespyke [tithe 142]; (S: demesne land of Hamsey; W: road; N, E:

the mill and mill-tail called The Little Mill [in Barcombe]) [12]1587 P125/92 and P125/95 sold off1588 whapple-way from Barcombe through Hewenstreet towards Resting Oak ought

to be repaired by the tenants on both sides; by 1617 the sole responsibility of the owner of P125/17 [13]

1590 P125/95-96 acquired1597 acquisition of Little Hewen Street (tithe 2, 6, 12-13), described as formerly part

of the lands called Hewen Streets [12]1609 the whole estate described in a conveyance as:

1 messuage, barns, orchard, garden lands and woods called Great Hewenstretes otherwise Hewarstreates and Cookes Pyke otherwise Parkefield (140a) before Holter’s and Cooke’s, occupied by Agnes Boakes, widow (N: lane from Barcombe Cross to The Beachwood; W, S, E: road) [59-67, 79-90, 99, 100]

2 messuage, barn and 30a called Lesser Hewenstretes otherwise Hewarstreates, once Cooke’s, occupied by Gerard Burte (E: road from Lewes to Holmewood Bridge; S, W: land of Edward Alford, esq; N: land also called Hewenstretes, late Roger Aderton, gent) [4, 6, 12-13]

3 meadow (5a), part of 2 above, occupied by Gerard Burte (E, S, W: land also called Hewenstretes, late Roger Aderton, gent; N: watercourse from Beverne Bridge to Holmewood Bridge) [2]

4 piece of meadow near Cooksbridge (10a), belonging to 1 above, occupied by Agnes Boakes, widow (W: road; N: lane from the little mill of Barcombe; S: a waterstream; E: pond called Bardolfes Pond) [142, but should be demesne of Hamsey]

5 messuage and land (5a) called Brewers (S: land occupied by Thomas Hardinge; N, W: land now or late Nicholas Longley; E: road) [97]

6 field called Goteacre (2a), part of Brewers (E: road from Lewes to Chailey; N, W: land late Staffordes; S: glebe land of Hamsey Rectory [absorbed into P125/41]); [76]

1617 Philip Bennett solely responsible for the whapple-way as 1588 above [13]c1620 formerly customary lands called Hewenstreet in Hamsey [13]1634 1 Great Hewenstreet otherwise Hewarstreet and Cookspile otherwise Parkfield

2 Brewers and Gotacre [M505/92]3 Lesser Hewenstreet otherwise Hewarstreet

1651 by a settlement of 1651, among other property, John Bennett settled:1 a messuage, two barns and 138a 3r 12p called Great Hewen Street

occupied by Nicholas Tagg2 barn and 29a called Little Hewen Street, occupied by John King

1681 1 messuage, barns, stables and 140a called Great Hewen Street2 messuage and 30a called Little Hewen Street3 27a coppice in hand; all in Hamsey and Barcombe

1689 in his will of 1689, among other property, Theobald Shelley described the estate as:1 messuage, barns, stables, outhouses and 140a called Great Hewen

Street; messuage and 30a called Little Hewen Street; both in Hamsey and Barcombe, occupied by Edward Pollington, late TS; 27a coppice grounds in Hamsey and Barcombe occupied by Edward Pollington

1773x1777 shown on a map as a house, buildings and 188a 2r 21p (134a 0r 17p plain) [11]1 mansion and land called Great Hewen Street2 Barn Field, Bushy Field, Middle 3½a, Well Field3 Lower Land Brook4 former millpond (sold by 1790)5 Cooksbridge Field (tithe 97; M505/93)6 The Acre and a half (tithe 76; M505/92)The book in which this map is found depicts the estates of Timothy Shelley. A Timothy Shelley owned this estate 1740-1771 and 1790-1844. Few of the names of neighbouring owners assist with the dating, but ‘lands of Mr Tutty’ at P125/47 seems possible only up to 1785 and ‘Mr Lewes’ must refer to George Wenham Lewis, who owned the demesnes of Hamsey Manor between 1773

and 1777 only. This data is internally inconsistent, and it seems likely that the survey was commissioned in the lifetime of the older Tmothy Shelley.

1781 tithe 76 shown as ‘Mr Shelley’ on estate map [8]<1838-1841+ House, cottage, farm buildings land: arable, meadow, pasture, wood 187a 2r

32p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 404149)1688 by 29 Sep 1688 landlord to build a new wain-house thirty feet long and

fifteen feet wide, set up and build an oast on the west side of the stable to dry hops in, new plank the floor of the lower barn, make and part off a stall in the upper barn big enough to stall six oxen, pall in three sides of the mansion or new built house, and do all other necessary and convenient repairs to the farm, lands and buildings called Upper Hewen Street in Hamsey [12]

1712 probate inventory lists kitchen, drink-room, milk-house, cheese-house, sink or brew-house, cheese chamber, little parlour, great parlour, drawing room, parlour chamber, drawing-room chamber, chamber over the cheese-room, oasthouse and hops worth £42 10s 0d, stable, granary, wain-house, stall and barn; only three of the rooms seemed to have working fireplaces; inventory total £310 17s 0d [4]

1752 shown as ‘The Folly’ on map [7]1773x1777 shown on a map as a house, buildings and 188a 2r 21p (134a 0r 17p plain) [11]<1838-1841+ House and garden (84) cottage and garden (88) [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 405165)1752 barn and dwelling house at West end of The Wood [?tithe 7] [7]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780 641781 521784 501788 461789 471791 401798 361808-1817 41 4s1833-1840 41 5s

Owners<1579 Richard Holter possibly the RH of Barcombe,

administration of whose estate was granted to his widow Katherine in 1562 [4]

<1579-1579 heirs of Holter Henry Collins of Burwash, yeoman, and his wife Alice, daughter and heir of Richard Holter deceased and sister and co-heir of Ann Holter, deceased, and William Lullingden and his wife Joan (another daughter of RH); conveyed to TG in 1579 [12]

1579-1589 Thomas Glyde yeoman

of Etchingham; in 1589 he and his wife Joan conveyed to James Plumer and his son Henry Plumer [12]

1589-1608 James Plumer yeo of Southover; in 1596 John Cooke the elder of Barcombe mortgaged Little Hewen

Streets (tithe 2, 6, 12-13), with a barn and dwelling-house at the West end [?tithe 7], to James Plomer of Southover, yeoman, for £100; he and his wife Joan sold this 30a to JP the following year [12]; his will proved 1608 [6]; warranty against him, and against the dower of his widow Elizabeth, given on sale in 1609 [12]

1589-1609 Henry Plumer merchant

son of James Plumer; of Southampton in 1609 when he and his wife Ann sold to PB and his son PB for £950; HP warranted against the dower of his mother Elizabeth Plumer wife of James Plumer of Southover deceased [12]

1609-1623 Philip Bennett gent purchased with his son PB; in 1617 presented as solely responsible for repairs to a whapple-way which in 1588 had been the responsibility of the tenants on either side [13]; died at Wootton in Westmeston 30 Mar 1623, IPM 6 June shows estate in Wiston, Ashurst, Buncton and Steyning [10]

1623-1634 Philip Bennett gent aged 15 years 5 months 5 days on his father’s death; settled in 1632 on his marriage to Ann daughter of John Middleton; died 6 Dec 1634, heir was his son JB [10]

1634-1671 John Bennett gent of Wootton in Westmeston; aged 6 years, 6 months and 19 days on the death of his father in 1634 [10]; in 1651 he settled his estate, with his father-in-law Edward Godman of Wootton, gent, as trustee [12]; in May 1670 he granted his estates to trustees [12]; his death presented 1671; who is heir? [3]; according to Edward Woodcock’s deed of sale to Theobald Shelley in 1681, his father Thomas Woodcock’s wife Barbara was the widow of John Bennett of Wootton; but TW was married to Barbara Gratwick by 1662, so ? another JB? [17]

1671-1680 Thomas Woodcock kt (1622-1680) of Charing Cross, St Martin in the Fields, London; his father Thomas had settled in Sussex on his marriage to Ursula, daughter of Sir Edward Bellingham of Newtimber, in 1613; fought for king in first civil war, knighted 1661 when MP for Lewes; of London when will proved 1680 [6]; death presented 1681 for M505/92-94, 103; to his son Edward Woodcock [3]

1680-1681 Edward Woodcock esq of St Margaret Westminster, who sold estates in Buncton, Wiston, Ashurst, Hamsey, Barcombe, Plumpton, Steyning, West Grinstead and Ashington to TS in 1681 [3, 12]

1681-1692 Theobald Shelley esq fourth son of Richard Shelley of

Warminghurst; of Horsham, gent, when he purchased from Edward Woodcock in 1681; by will to his widow MS; purchased from TW by 1684; death presented 1694, to his widow MS [3]

1692-1719 Mary Shelley wid she later married John Tredcroft, probably of a Horsham family of that name; died without issue, when the property passed to her nephew JS

1719-1740 John Shelley esq of Champneys in Thakeham and Fen Place, Worth, son of Timothy Shelley (clerk of the peace, d1671) and great-nephew of Timothy Shelley

1740-1771 Timothy Shelley of USA and Horsham; to his son JS1771-1790 John Shelley esq (1729-1790) of Field Place in Warnham [2];

to his nephew TS1790-1844 Timothy Shelley bart (1753-1844) of Field Place and Castle

Goring [1,2]; Mrs Shelley assessed for land tax in 1817

1845-1855 John Shelley esq (1806-1866, younger brother of PB Shelley), of Avington Park in Hampshire; he sold to JD

1855-1858 John Dodson1859-1897 George Dodson 1st Lord Monk Bretton

Occupiers<1579-1579+ Thomas Comber leased to him at £16 [12]<1605-1606 John Bookes yeoma

npart leased to him by Henry Plomer and his wife Ann at £40; he died in 1606 [12, 4]

1606-1609+ AgnesGerard

BoakesBurt

widow Great Hewen Street [12]Little Hewen Street [12]

<1651-1651+ NicholasJohn

TaggKing

Great Hewen Street [12]Little Hewen Street [12]

<1670-1681+ JohnThomas

KingWoodcock kt

Great Hewen Street [12][Little Hewen Street] [12]

<1687 Timothy Shelley owner-occupier [12]<1687-1712 Edward Pollington in 1688 he was of Little Horsted, yeoman,

when Upper [Little] Hewen Street was let to him for ten years (see above) [12]; buried at Little Horsted in 1712; surviving probate inventory totals £310 17s 0d [4]

<1772-1773+ William Howell [14, 4] 1780- John Howell [2]1808 Richard Knight [2]<1828- 1840 James Lashmer [1,2]1855-1870 Thomas Knight of Streat [15]1871-1871+ Eli Knight son of TK1901-1906+ Arthur Biden of Gosport, director of brewing companies;

house only<1910-1910+ Smith major [16]1915-1920 Lady Queensbur

yher son Lord Alfred Douglas occasionally in residence

<1930-1930+ George Murray surgeon-commander

<1934-1934+ Claude De Warren-Tyler

<1938-1938+ Patrick D

Stewart Lieutenant-Colonel

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A4.47 (Admon of Richard Holter, 1562); W/A12.128 (John Bokes, 1605); W/INV

353 (Edward Pollington), W/A63.286 (William Howell, 1773)5 ESRO D536 TNA PROB 11/112 (James Plomer of Southover, 1608); PROB 11/132 (Philip Bennett the

elder, 1618); PROB 11/363 (Thomas Woodcock, 1680); PROB 11/410 (Theobald Shelley 1692);

7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,

including map by Thomas Marchant, 178110 SRS 14.14 IPM of Philip Bennett11 ESRO AMS 677512 ESRO Preston manor deeds ES/CK, WS/AI/1, ES/EQ/1; CKS U1475 T27813 SRS 34.196 Book of John Rowe14 ESRO SHR 368615 ESRO MOB 1172A16 ESRO IRV 1/38 35317 History of Parliament

~18~HAMSEY - cottage on corner of Beechwood Lane and Allington Lane P125/18

Manorial tenure: unknown; associated with M505/40-41


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 390142)<1764-1764+ house, garden and orchard of William Ridge [5] = probably part of Lidlows,

[P125/25], in an abbuttal to which it is mentioned <1838-1841+ no description : land 2r 36p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 390142)1752 shown on manor map but not identified [6]<1780-1780+ shown on estate map [5]<1838-1841+ shown on tithe map [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ not recorded in 1840

Owners<1764-1764+ William Ridge abuttal to P125/25<1780-1838+ COOMBE ESTATE

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Henry Satcher

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 7996 ESRO MOB 1699

~19~HAMSEY - COOKSBRIDGE NURSERIES P125/19

Manorial tenure: copyholds of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 8d, 1s 0d and 6s 4d (M505/13-14, 60) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 249, 250, 322

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 399133)1629 Croft as below; created out of George Read’s tenement and fine certain of 10s

0d established [3]1631-1635 newly-built messuage and croft (1a) by the lands late George Goring, esq [3]1702 Messuage or cottage and 1a of pasture, part of the customary land of Denham,

occupied by Robert Norman [3]1752 building shown at angle to junction [6]1757 advertised for sale in 1757 as a copyhold estate consisting of a house, shop,

garden, orchard and one acre of meadow land, about two furlongs from Offham Street, pleasantly situated by the turnpike, occupied by George Bartholomew; for particulars enquire of William Alcorn at Chalvington near The Dicker [8]

1763 Messuage or cottage, garden, orchard and 1a [3]1766 grant of M505/60, 3 roods of land (W: acre in M505/13; E: road) [3]1792 grant of M505/14, a piece of land adjoining the orchard in M505/13 (W: croft

belonging to the acre of land in M505/13; E: road) [3]<1838-1841+ Nursery garden, plot: land 7a 0r 34p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 399133)1631 newly built [3]1662 Robert Mercer assessed for one flue [10]<1838-1841+ none


Owners<1629-1629 George Read in 1629 he surrendered to TR but remained

a tenant of the manor [3]1629-1635 Thomas Read in 1631 he mortgaged for £32 to RM and

released to him in 1635 [3]1635-<1649 Richard Markwick of Barcombe in 1631; admitted 1635; before

1649 he had surrendered out of court to JM and JM [3]

<1649 John Morris and his wife Jane Morris; he was long dead in 1649 when she was admitted [3]

1649-1664 Jane Morris she surrendered to RM out of court (witnesses: John Smith the younger, Samuel Cruttenden) in 1664 [3]

1664-1671 Robert Mercer admitted 1665 and again in 1667; in 1671 he surrendered to JH [3]

1671-1684 John Hook death presented 1684; heir is son [blank] Hook, aged [blank], but widow Mary entitled to bench [3]

1684-1702 John Middleton and his wife Mary, widow of John Hook, with their youngest son John Hook (who had been admitted to the reversion on his mother’s death), surrendered to SB [3]

1702-1716 Stephen Botting of Hamsey; admitted 1702; in 1716 he surrendered to JA [3]

1716-1724 John Alchorne yeo of Lewes St John sub Castro [3]; will of Hamsey, 1721, proved 1724 [4]; death presented 1724, wife Hannah for life, remainder to son WA [3]

1724-1752 Hannah Alchorne wid widow of John Alchorne; admitted 1727; in 1736 she and her son William Alchorne mortgaged for £40 at 5% to William Tutty of Hamsey, yeoman [3]; of Chalvington when she made her will in 1752, leaving 20 shillings to each of her three sons living in Hamsey, and her residuary estate to her son WA [9]; her death presented 1752, no animal [3]

1752-1763 William Alchorne thatcher

her youngest son admitted 1755 [3]; lived near the Dicker at Chalvington when he advertised the estate for sale in 1757 [8]; in 1758 he increased the mortgage to £50 at 4%; surrendered to the mortgagee’s son-in-law TT 1763 [3, 4]

1763-1769 Thomas Tippen yeo of Hamsey; not admitted until 1766 when he took a new grant, for which see M505/60; death presented 1769; widow AT admitted under TT’s will of 4 Oct 1766 for life, remainder to his friend John Wood of Streat, gent [3, 4]

1769-1790 Ann Tippen née Tutty [4]; admitted for life; death presented 1790; Sarah, wife of Thomas Wilson, gent, daughter of John Wood of Streat, gent, deceased, admitted under Thomas Tippen’s will [3]

1790-1790 Sarah Wilson wife of Thomas Wilson, gent; admitted by her attorney Joseph Wheatley, gent; she surrendered M505/13-14 to JB [3]

1790-1838+ COOMBE

ESTATE John Bridger admitted 1790 [3]; George Shiffner bt 1838 [1]

Occupiers<1757-1757+ George Bartholomew [8]<1838-1838+ Sarah Aldrich [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A51.251 (John Alchorne, 1721); W/A62.40 (Thomas Tippen, 1766); W/A62.798

(William Tutty, 1767)5 ESRO SAS/SH 591, 764

6 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 14 Nov 17579 ESRO W/U4/11 (Hannah Alchorne, 1752)10 TNA PRO E179/258/15 (Hearth tax, 1662)

~20~HAMSEY – brickyard and cottage, part of Hewen Street Farm P125/20Manorial tenure: part of the demesnes of the manor of Hamsey


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397158)<1838-1841+ Brickyard, cottage and garden: land 3a 2r 5p [1]; the brickyard (tithe 32)

apparently taken out of Lower Alfords Wood, the cottage (tithe 33) out of the garden of tithe 34, part of Great Hewen Street Farm, part of which had been used as a brickyard in 1808 [3]; the whole area shown on a map of 1752 [4]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 397158)<1838-1841+ cottage and garden (33)


Owners<1838-1838+ COOMBE ESTATE George Shiffner bt [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ George Best [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 22-244 ESRO MOB 1699

~21~HAMSEY - P125/21

Manorial tenure: parts of several individual tenements

Tithe numbers [1]1840 350, 342, 344-346, 352-355, 410-412

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397122)1620 tithe 410 owned by William Claggett and 411 held in common [5]c1765 the owner of Hamsey Place Farm [P125/2] complained of damage to his land

by a timber-wharf run on land owned by the Coombe Place Estate; a 21-year lease of a right of road was granted, which had expired by 1788, when a new lease was executed [4]

1786 cottage and land (tithe 353) purchased; for earlier history see P125/93<1838-1841+ Cottage and garden, farm buildings, wharf, pasture and arable land 75a 2r 19p

[1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 397122)1752 house and land [6]<1838-1841+ cottage and garden (353) [1]


Owners<1765-1838+ COOM

BEESTATE George Shiffner Bt in 1838 [1]

Occupiers of wharf<1780-1783 William Price [2]1784-1798 Mr Gaston [2]1799-1804 Mrs Gaston [2]1805 COOM

BEESTATE in hand; last called a wharf in this year [2]

<1838-1838+ Harmer [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO SHR 2032/215 ESRO SRA 6/13/2 (1620)6 ESRO MOB 1699

~22~HAMSEY – Coombe Place P125/22Manorial tenures: called manor of Coombe in 1596 with lands in Hamsey, Offham, Clayton and Chiltington [9], possibly described by Hamsey Manor as ten virgates (100a) called Coombs and Pyecombs, freehold, quitrent 7s 7d (M505/86); part held as a freehold tenement of the manor of Southover by a quitrent of 8d, which had disappeared by the date of the first surviving court book [26, 27]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 19, 15, 24, 28, 30, 31, 49, 186, 338-349, 321, 124, 207, 208, 246

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 393124)1239 the prior of Lewes took all the tithes of corn from the ancient demesne of

Richard de Coombe, in Hamsey, except one cart-load which the rector took; this was exchanged for an annual payment of 3s 0d in 1239 [12]

1270 described in a final concord as one messuage, one mill, 100 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 6s 8d rent in Hamsey, and one messuage and one hide of land and 13s 4d rent in Kingston and 13s 4d in Lewes; the final concord records the transfer of the overlordship of this property, which may therefore be part of Coombe rather than the core of the estate [19]

1300 held of the manor of Hamsey by half a knight’s fee [12]1561 manor of Coombe and tenements in Hamsey, Offham, East Chiltington,

Chailey, Newick and Ringmer; 1593 adds Clayton; 1605 adds Lewes St John [12]

1597 the manor of Coombe; lands and tenements called Picombes in Hamsey [9]1616 acquires a house occupied by Sackville Porter, two barns and land (75a+) in

Hamsey and Lewes St John with pasture for 200 sheep, [P125/U6]; is this the present Coombe Place?

1634 estate shown on a map [5]:house1 The Warren (3a 1r 7p)2 The Down Field (10a 1r 37p, pasture)3 The Mill Laine (21a 3r, arable)4 The Green Craught (2a 1r 30p)5 The Long Craught6 The Field against the Barn (4a 1r 13p, pasture)7 The Four Acres (4a 0r 8p)8 The Lides (5a 0r 19p, arable)*9 The Great Laine (40a 3r 8p, arable)10 Peetlands (13a 0r 13p, arable, with pit); freehold of the manor of Hamsey*11 called Leeds Shermans and two Pit Lands (15a), quitrent 1s 0d12 The Gate Field (5a 1r 7p, pasture)13 Thornwell Mead (1a 3r ?p, pasture)14 The Pond Field (5a 0r 11p, pasture)15 Bushey Field (5a 1r 21p, pasture)16 Fridays Wood (5a 3r 34p, pasture)17 Rishley Mead (9a 3r 30p)18 The Lower Rishley (4a 3r 26p)19 Land in the Common Rishley*20 The Shermans Mead (4a)21 The Long Slip (0a 3r)22 Bentons Wish (6a 3r 30p, of which 4a belongs to Coombe)23 Seven Acre Brook (7a), Hog Brook (2½a), Four Acre Brook (4a 1r

38p), Three Acre Brook (5a 3r 22p)* = included by name in 1616 conveyance from Samuel Norden [SAS/SH 573]in addition, it is clear from SAS/SH 579 that the estate also included Tanners otherwise Tanhouse Croft [P125/76], the plot of which has been torn away from the map.

1635 glebe terrier includes 2a in the Common Rishley, gone by 1780 map; of the land in the open fields, it states: ‘while Mr Scrase was owner of The Coombe these lands have been so far encroached upon by him and his farmers that there are now not a full rod of ground up above 10 acres, as White of Chiltiongton has measured the same’ [10]

1707 estate shown on a map [5]10 Pitlands shown as two field: None Such (7a 7r 10p, with pit), and The Rail Field (5a 3r 5p);

1763 10 two pieces called The Petlands and The Rail Piece, occupied by John Bridger and William Howell, leased to Thomas Dennett of Lewes, gent, for 14 years at £27 [9]

1780 estate shown on a map [5]1840 tithe map shows cottages and gardens on tithe 334 (opposite Picketts Cottage),

gone by 1873

Acquisitions and sales by the estate (centred at TQ 393124)1279 acquired the overlordship of 28 acres of land and 1 acre and a half of meadow

in Hamsey and Allington, with meadow with the appurtenances namely with pasture for 60 sheep and all other things from Richard and Alice de Thornwell, tobe held by the rent of a red rose [19]

<1596 barn and three crofts (15a) called Pyecombes at Offham [P125/U6] and a croft (3a) called Precious Lye sold off [part tithe 122 in P125/U4]

<1596 other elements sold off to Thomas Coulstock of Hamsey, yeoman, John Stafford the younger of Hamsey, yeoman, John Vinall of Kingston, yeoman, and Thomas Comber of Lewes St John, gent; part of this may include a field called Brakeside, a meadow called Bentons Wish and a meadow called Upland Wish (4a), which were excluded from an annuity charged on the manor in 1595 [and sold to Samuel Norden clerk in 1596: P125/87] [12]

c1610 perhaps acquires a tenement and 7a from Thomas Comber [P125/U12]1614 cottage and 1a called Pipers Croft sold [P125/90]1616 acquires from Samuel Norden a house occupied by Sackville Porter, two barns

and land (75a+) in Hamsey and Lewes St John with pasture for 200 sheep, [P125/U6]; includes 3a meadow in The Shyte, 5a called The Lidds [9]

1618 P125/U4 [tithe 122] sold to John Pierce1638 cottage and 1a called Pipers Croft purchased [P125/90]1639 land in Mill Laine purchased [P125/70]1665 6½a arable in Mill Laine and pasture for 40 sheep in the tenant flock of Offham

purchased [P125/71]1710 acquires 7a copyhold at Barleys Banks, probably part of P125/791712 acquires Brakeride [P125/87]1718 Swann Nicholas [P125/U5]1730 small slip of land (SW: John Bridger’s Pond Field) purchased out of The

Pimbles [P125/72]1738 acquires estate including Upper Washers Field and Great Bennetts Croft1741 sells Upper Washers Field and Great Bennetts Croft to P125/25 (re-acquired

with that property in 1768) and acquires from P125/25 Bryants Close otherwise Barn Plot (½a) (S: Plumpton - Offham Road; W: John Middleton’s Coney Croft; N, E: this estate, late Mrs Shore), freed from the quitrent which applied to the tenement [M505/41] of which it was part

1742 8a called Two Vants, The Long Vant, Pookhams and the Rood (N: Mrs Shore) purchased from P125/79; later sold to P125/40 [?in 1753]

1744 croft of land [part tithe 212 and 215] one acre adjoining The Pimbles (eastern arm of tithe 235] purchased from Thomas Payne [P125/91]

1747 barn, close and 15a called Pyecombes in Offham, croft of meadow called Tylecroft (2a) and crop of grass of 2¼a in Upland Wish purchased from the Offham House estate [P125/15] [part tithe 345-346]

1749 acquires cottage and acre at Offham from George Alchorne; cottage demolished [P125/94]

1753 3a called The Wish, cut of 3r in Upland Wish and 1a in Upland Wish acquired from P125/40

1754 acquires brookland in Shy Brooks by exchange with Robert Day [P125/77]1760 3½a, partly laid into the Great Pond, acquired by exchange with Richard

Verrall for 3½a in Fridays Wood [P125/26]1763 3½a in Fridays Wood given in exchange for Stonefield (3½a) acquired and

partly laid into the Great Pond [P125/26]; re-acquired with Holters Green in 1788 [P125/29]

1764 Brakeride and other land sold to Thomas Dennett1764 large amounts of land formerly Richard Payne purchased from Thomas Dennett

of Lewes; details under [P125/59] does this include Fiddlers Down, purchased [P125/73]

1766 purchase of The New Inn at Offham Street [?P125/64] from the Hamsey Place Estate [P125/2]

1768 Tulleys Wells purchased from Thomas Dennett for £1850 [P125/25]1771 agreement between the owner and his major tenants not to lease sheepleazes or

glebe from Hamsey Hamsey Parsonage, to warn off people hawking, shooting and hunting, and not to farm Barleys Banks land, which is for sale [14]

1774 the owner was contemplating ‘making some alterations to his grounds round Hamsey in order to make them complete’ and proposed to give 8 rods to the rectory in exchange for the right to enclose 28a in Coombe Common Laine and to extinguish its pasture-rights for 24 sheep; this was accomplished by a grant of ten rods of land in the same year [15], and shown on Marchant’s map of 1780 [5]

1785 the glebeland, barns and tithes (except the parsonage house, garden and croft behind of ½a and the field (2a) in front adjoining the road) leased to the Coombe Estate for 99 years at £200 [9]

1786 cottage and 1¼a in Mill Laine purchased from James Corner [P125/93] 1788 Holters Green purchased from Thomas Street [P125/29]1788 3a in The Shide [tithe 409] purchased [P125/69]1788 The Pimbles (15a 1r 5p) purchased from the Offham House Estate [P125/72]1788 three houses and a croft [P125/65] and Tilecroft [P125/68] sold to the Offham

House Estate1790 house, garden, orchard and acre purchased from Sarah wife of Thomas Wilson,

gent [P125/19]1803 The Shide (3a brookland, tithe 410) sold off from M505/1 to the Coombe

Estate with an apportioned quitrent of 2d [3]<1815 cottage at North End purchased [P125/78]c1820 draft map of parts of the estate [16]1821 four acres (M505/12) purchased [3]1827 entire estate shown on map of 1827 [11]<1838-1841+ Mansion House (341), lawn, wood, water, 9 cottages: land 151a 2r 15p, [1]1851 cottages at Offham purchased (P125/59-61)1861 cottage at Hamsey purchased (P125/11, M505/39)

1878 tithe 338 from this property and 325 from P125/25 (Tulleys Wells) exchanged with the Burrell estate for tithe 332 and 332A [7]

1887 site of eight cottages near tithe 31 sold off, having been previously granted on a 99-year lease [5] [= P125/86]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 393124)1634 shown on map as a double-pile house (possibly with central courtyard since a

pinnacle projects behind the roof of the front range), two projecting gables, three chimney stacks, dovecote and outbuilding (all tiled), two large barns (the northern one L-shaped), both thatched, all in front (east) of the house; garden enclosed by wall, larger orchard with walks, all behind (west) of the house [5]

1699 inventory of the house and outbuildings; * indicates fireplace: great parlour*, little parlour*, hall*, kitchen*, store-house, bunting room, larder, milk-house, brew-house, men-servants’ chamber, cellars, little garret, maids’ garret, buttery chamber, little chamber, red chamber*, yellow chamber*, passage room, kitchen chamber*, blue chamber, parlour chamber*, hall chamber*, green chamber, purple chamber, closet; wheat barn, barley barn, granary; wheat, farm equipment, 19 hogs, 9 horses, 6 cows, 300 sheep, 12 working oxen; in all £626 19s 0d [18]

1707 shown on map roughly as 1634, except: north gable far larger than the south gable; six chimneys; buildings extend further to north, fronted by formal garden; small enclosed garden behind house, two large gardens in front of house; outbuildings to west and north, barns and kitchen garden to east of road; dovecote and barns gone [5]

1730 sketch [SHR 2829-30]1733-1735 building works by Arthur Morris and Richard Belson of Lewes, total cost

£1504 (£178 for wood, £7 7s for 10,000 bricks, £18 10s Portland stone, £33 glass, £28 17s lead, £33 tile) [22]

1752 shown on map as house with carriage-road in front; ‘the seat of J Bridger esq’ [8]

1765-1782 £6441 spent on building works and £905 on furniture, tabulated in [22]; includes papier-mache mouldings by Stark 1765, three carved chimney-pieces (£50 10s) by Langridge the carpenter 1774, 36100 bricks by Billingshurst 1774; new offices designed by William Robinson of Greenwich before 1775, pigeon house by Morris, 1778 [22]; ‘I am busy in pulling down the stables’, has 20-30,000 bricks a proportionable quantity of boulders and a great deal of very fine rough sand’; discusses levelling the land; designs for this work survive [14] but see 1780

1780 shown on map in plan and elevation (in vignette), with agricultural buildings around a courtyard, a [?cricket] square in front of the house, plantations and lawns [5]; drawing by James Lambert also shows stable-block with clock and wind-pump [by Thomas Marchant, 1779 - see SHR 2028, 2837), octagonal gothick pigeon-house and gothic lodge on hill [SHR 2836]; neither of these detailed depictions shows the offices to the north of the house which were planned (or perhaps still extant) in 1775

1827 shown on map as a square building with isolated coach-house and stables [5]<1838-1841+ mansion House, lawn etc (48a 2r 9p) (341) [1] 1844-1845 plans by John Cuthell for alterations and new approach road [14]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1790 the assessment attributable to Coombe Place descended from £53 to £46 [2]1791-1832+ in 1791 the assessment attributable to Coombe Place descended to £34 10, and

to £37 10 in 1793 [2]

Owners<1270-1270 Matthew de la

Cumbehis estate passed by final concord to Ralph de Radmeld in 1270; Richard de la Cumbe put forward his claim [19]

1270-1279+ Ralph de Radmeld his acquisition of an estate in Hamsey from Matthew de la Cumbe in 1270 can probably be seen as the core of the Coombe Estate; in 1279 party to a final concord by which he acquired an estate called Thornwell [19]

<1300-1300+ John de Radmeld held Coombe of Geoffrey de Say by half a knight’s fee [12]

<1322-1322+ William de Radmeld son of John [12]

<1534-1548+ Richard Cook gent listed in scot of 1537 for 15 acres and 11 acres that Peter Sander occupies [28]; between 1539 and 1548 he is listed as the tenant of a manor of Southover tenement, quitrent 8d, ‘part of The Coombe in Offham’, as Richard Cook of the Isle of Wight [26, 27]; this family owned extensive property in Goring, Rustington and Littlehampton [31]

<1560-1560 John Cook gent with Richard Lee, sold to WC and JC in 1560 [12]

1560-1561+ John Comber of Shermanbury, son of William Comber; they purchased 1560, final concord 1561, to him and the heirs of William Comber; as John Comber the elder he was still alive in 1595, when he received from his son WC an annuity of £20 charged on the manor [12[], and in 1598 when he sold it to Thomas Pelland, the father of the purchaser of Coombe, for £300 [9]; for the Comber family, see [13]

<1593-1597 William Comber gent of Shermanbury, son of John Comber; MP for Bramber 1596; in 1593 WC and his wife Martha sold parts of the manor to Samuel Norden clerk, Thomas Coulstock late of Hamsey, yeoman, and John Stafford the younger of Hamsey [9]; in 1597 William and Martha Comber sold it for £973 6s 8d to John Pelland, with warranty against WC’s father JC and grandfather WC [12]

1597-1605 John Pelland yeo of Lewes in 1597 [12]; of Kingston, and his sons John and Edward of Hamsey, in 1600 [4]; buried at Hamsey in 1604; his will of 1603 excepts the manor of Coombe; in 1605 he and his mother Tamsin Pelland of Hamsey, widow of Thomas Pelland, conveyed the manor for £1300 to TS, subject to an annuity of £12 to John Cobby of Southover, gent [12]

1605-1633 Tuppen Scrase esq (1583-1633) son of Richard Scrase of Blatchington and Juliana daughter of John

Tuppen of Brighton; of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and the Inner Temple [13]; of West Blatchington, gent, when he purchased 1605 [12]; overseer of Hamsey 1614; of Hamsey, gent, in 1616 when he purchased land from Samuel Norden, subject to a lease to Sackville Porter, gent; to his son RS [9]; between 1629 and 1634 he and his son Richard Scrase mortgaged the estate to Simon Stone of the Middle Temple, which in 1639 gave rise to litigation in Chancery which has not been followed up [9]; of Blatchington at his death, when his son Richard Scrase renounced administration of his estate [4]; buried at Preston 9 Dec 1633 [13]

1633-1634 Richard Scrase esq (1609-1634); of Blatchington in 1616; on 19 Mar 1634 he sold for £1125 to JR, who by another deed of the same date paid £1300 to the mortgagee Simon Stone in discharge of his interest [9]; buried at Preston, 9 July 1634 [13] in July 1634 his brother William entered a caveat in the archdeaconry court [4]

1634-1641 James Rivers esq (1603-1641), son of John Rivers of Chafford in Kent, bt, whom he pre-deceased [13]; purchased for £2425 (£1300 to the mortgagee Simon Stone, £1125 to Richard Scrase) in 1634, and mortgaged back to Scrase for £1125; this mortgage was assigned by Edward Blaker of Buckingham in Shoreham, son and executor of Edward Blaker, to Henry Scrase of Shoreham in 1654 [9]; MP for Lewes 1641; died 8 June 1641 and buried at St Bartholomew the Great, London; widow Charity (1602-1655) daughter of Sir John Shurley of Isfield, buried at Hamsey; the estate descended to their son Thomas Rivers [13]the copyhold descent lagged behind events: JR’s death was presented 1658, heriot a horse; customary heir is youngest son James Rivers; he was admitted by attorney Charles Goodwyn in 1667, and despite the sale to Richard Bridger in 1658 did not surrender his interest to Walter Bridger until 1672 [3];

1641-1657 Thomas Rivers bt (c1630-1657) MP for Sussex 1655 and 1656 [13]; on 13 Feb 1658 his executors (Nizell Rivers of Combe, George Courthope of Ticehurst and William Dike the younger of Frant) contracted to sell to Richard Bridger for £2400, subject to the mortgage of 1634 [9]

1658-1699 Richard Bridger esq (1620-1699) of Ashurst and Coombe,

brother of John Bridger of Westerham, who had married Mary, sister of Sir Thomas Rivers, the previous owner [9]; MP for Lewes 1679-1694, colonel in the militia; with the aid of a mortgage for £2000 from his father-in-law Walter Burrell of Ockenden in Cuckfield, esq, purchased for £3100 in 1658, of which £700 was paid to Edward Blaker and Henry Scrase in discharge of the mortgage of 1634 [13]; £1000 of Burrell mortgage paid off in 1658, £500 in 1662 [9]; in 1672 RB was admitted to copyholds as guardian of his eldest son Walter Bridger (d1689) [3]; by his will of 1689 bequeathed his estate to his son RB, and instructed his son Henry Bridger (who in 1690 had been admitted to the copyholds to which his brother Walter had been admitted in 1672) to surrender to RB [3]; buried at Warminghurst

1699-1729 Richard Bridger esq of Coombe in Hamsey; admitted to copyholds in 1701; death presented 1736 for M505/56-57, heriots two oxen; only son JB; also M505/81-87 qv [3]; buried at Hamsey 28 Feb 1729 [21]

1729-1765 John Bridger esq (1703-1784); entered New College Oxford 1722; made major additions to Coombe in 1733-35 [22]; admitted to copyholds 1736 [3]; partner in ‘the Lewes Merchants’, part-owner of a 100-ton brig The Coom, at Shoreham in 1753 [17]; insolvent in 1758 when he settled with his creditors at 10s 0d in the £ [17]; perhaps absconded in 1762 when his daughter made a catalogue of his book ‘left in his study at Coombe’ 12 Aug 1762 [14]; list in 1765 he surrendered M505/23, 56-58 to his son JB [3]; local creditors paid by his son Sir John Bridger in 1767; retired to Wimbledon in 1765 [14]; will proved in PCC in 1784 [15]

1765-1816 John Bridger kt of Combe in Hamsey; for life, in trust according to the settlement on his marriage with Rebecca Eliot of St George Hanover Square, spinster; JB described as of Wellingham in Ringmer, late of Combe, 20 Feb 1765; death presented 1817, heir is only daughter MS [3]; Land Tax returns treat George Shiffner as the owner from 1791 [1]

1816-1842 George Shiffner bt (1762-1842), son of Henry Shiffner of Pontrilas; owned Coombe in the right of his wife Mary, daughter of John Bridger [3]; Land Tax returns treat George Shiffner as the owner from 1791 [1]; MP for Lewes 1812-1826; baronet 1818; died 1842

1842-1857 Henry Shiffner bt (1789-1859), vice-admiral, RN; married 1825, died without issue, when the estate and baronetcy passed to his brother George

1857-1863 George Shiffner bt and clerk

(1791-1863); rector of Lewes St Anne and Hamsey 1818-1848, a new parsonage built for him in 1820 (see P125/46); canon of Chichester and, from 1848, vicar of Amport in Hamsphire; on his death in 1863 the estate descended to his son GCS

1863-1906 George Croxton

Shiffner bt and clerk

(1819-1906); rector of Hamsey 1848-1906, rural dean of Lewes 1867, died 1906; estate descended to his son JS

1906-1914 John Shiffner bt (1857-1914); Royal Artillery; ‘accidentally shot whilst cleaning guns at Bevern Bridge’ in 1914 [25]

1914-1918 John Bridger

Shiffner bt (1899-1918); killed in action at Gricourt, 24 Sep 1918; estate descended to his brother HBS

1918-1941 Henry Burrows

Shiffner bt (1901-1941); killed in action at Tobruk 22 Nov 1941; estate descended to his son HDS

1941-1952 Henry David

Shiffner bt (1930-2007+); Coombe Place sold by the trustees of the estate in 1952

1952-1999 Richard Canon former tenants, purchased with his wife, for c£55,000; his widow offered the house for sale in 1998 and sold in 1999

1999-2007+ Martin Armstrong

Occupiers - mansion<1539-1542+ John Rowlandson [27]<1543-1546+ Edward Rowlandson [27, 32]<1598-1598+ John Pelland attorned tenant to his father Thomas

Pelland [12]<1612-1630+ Tuppen Scrase esq owner-occupier; children baptised at

Hamsey in 1612-1622 and one buried 1630; his wife Susan buried at Hamsey 1631; an Elizabeth Scrase was buried at Hamsey in 1599 so had TS previously been tenant?

<1629-1632+ William Scrase citizen of London and brother of Tuppen Scrase [17]; married at Hamsey 1629 and children baptised there 1630-1632

1633-1634 Richard Scrase esq will as of Hamsey, although buried at Preston [13]

<1658-1658+ Nizell Rivers esq executor of former owner James Rivers; calls himself ‘of Coombe’ in the contract for sale of Coombe to Richard Bridger [9]

1658-1699 Richard Bridger esq resident in Hamsey in Mar 1659, when his son Henry baptised there [21]

<1715-1727 Frances Goring widow daughter of Richard Bridger (1620-1699); of Coombe when she wrote her will in 1715, proved 1728 [11]

<1704-1728 Sarah Alford spinster sister of Richard Bridger’s wife Elizabeth, daughters of John Alford

(1645-1691); her will proved in 1728 [6, 11]

1699-1729 Richard Bridger esq owner-occupier; buried at Hamsey 28 Feb 1729, and his widow Elizabeth on 12 Oct 1729 [21]

<1738-1744 John Alford lord of the manor of Hamsey; of Coombe when he made his will in 1738; died 1744 [6];

<1766-1765 John Bridger esq retired to Wimbledon on his son’s marriage in 1765 and died in 1784

1765-1816 John Bridger bt took possession of Coombe on his marriage to Rebecca Eliot in 1765; also had a town house at School Hill House, Lewes

1791-1840+ George Shiffner bt owner-occupier [1]1906-1910 John Shiffner bt moved to Coombe from Bevern Bridge

in Chailey on his father’s death in 1906 and back to Bevern Bridge in 1910, a move which supposedly attributed to the budget [25]

<1927-1927+ Lady Shiffner OBE, JP [24]; Elsie Burrows (1872-1972), for an appreciation see [25]

<1928-1928+ Davidson [23]<1930-1930+ Henry B Shiffner bt owner-occupier [30]<1935-1938+ Ernest

W Herbert

Barry esq [24, 29, 30]

1939-1945 Army requisitioned as Searchlight Regimental HQ [25]

<1948-1948 Ronald Owen Lloyd

Armstrong-Jones

(1899-1966, barrister) and Gwendoline C Q A-J [30]; lived at Coombe with his son Anthony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon

1949-1999 Richard Canon on electoral register from Nov 1949 [30]; purchased property in 1952 [29]

Occupiers - farms and cottages1771-1771+ William

SamuelThomasJohn

PrattEllisEllisVerrall

yeomanyeomanyeomanyeoman

of Dentonof Hamseyof Hamseyof Court House; tenants granted new leases in 1771 [14]

c1820 GHG

TG

HowellKnowlesLaverLangridgePannettBusseyWrightSandallsIresdale

tenants at Offham listed on draft map [16]; these may include tenants of the Offham House Estate [P125/15]

<1838-1840+ James Wright +others in cottages; JW is merely the first-

named occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A11.20v (Stephen Baker, 1599); W/B 6.182 (Tuppen Scrase, 1634); W/B 6.196

(Richard Scrase, 1634)5 ESRO SAS/SH 390 (map of 1634), 391 (map of 1707), 394 (map of 1780)6 TNA PROB 11/621 (Sarah Alford of Hamsey, 1728); PROB 11/735 (John Alford of

Coombe, 1744)7 WSRO Burrell 8/C/1-258 ESRO MOB 16999 ESRO SAS/SH 948 (lease to Dennett); 573 (Norden to Scrase), 568-85 (manor of Coombe),

438-445 (glebe and tithes)10 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8); Hamsey Glebe Terrier11 ESRO SHR 1, 1563A, 2854 (map of 1827); 401-8 (executorship of Sarah Alford)12 VCH Sussex 7 83-8713 John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Horsham Centre (Cambridge, 1931) 63-6, 238-41

(Comber); Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge, 1933) 230-1 (Rivers)14 ESRO SHR 2030, 2752, 1342, 880-903, 2829-284115 ESRO SAS/SH 940-942; 664-516 ESRO ACC 3612/3/160 (draft map, watermark 1820)17 ESRO SHR 2720-5218 ESRO SHR 38719 SRS 7 (1908) 751, 88520 ESRO SAS/SH 1-2021 ESRO PAR 357 (Hamsey)22 David Brock, ‘Coombe Place’ Georgian Group Journal (1996)23 Lady Wolseley, ‘Coombe Place’ Sussex County Magazine 2 (9), 1928 386-90, 39424 Printed Directories25 Jack Harmer, Our Parish; Tales of Offham, Hamsey and Cooksbridge; 199126 BL Harl Roll D20, D21 (microfilm at ESRO ACC 8008)27 TNA SC6/HenVIII/3498; SC6/EdwVI/45328 ESRO GLY 8429 Private collection30 ESRO C/C 70/238-40 (electoral registers)31 SRS 14 (1912) 266-28032 SAC 17 (1865) 85 quoting subsidy of 1543

~23~HAMSEY – GREAT AND LITTLE HEWENSTREET FARM P125/23

Manorial tenure: GHS = former demesne of the manor of Hamsey; for LHS see P125/92 [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 1, 4-5, 7-11 (Little Hewen Street, 61a 2r 30p in 1752); 14, 17, 18, 20-23, 29,

34-44, 52-54 (Great Hewen Street, 107a 0r 7p in 1752) [6]

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 398157)<1751 Great Hewen Street; for Little Hewen Street before its purchase by the manor

of Hamsey in 1751, see P125/921751-1807 farms called Great Hewen Street (107a 0r 7p) and Little Hewen Street (61a 2r

30p), with woodland called Lower and Upper Alfords Woods and Reynolds Woods (130a) [5]

1777 Holmans Bridge Cottages and 1½a in Barcombe (P113/16, tithe 389), acquired as part of Little Hewen Street (see P125/92), sold with this farm out of Hamsey Place and descends with it until 1813

1807-1814 Great Hewen Street reduced to 88a 3r 38p by a sale of P125/24 to Jeremiah Price; the lands re-united with the estate in 1814 [5]

1808 messuage, cottages, barn, stables, buildings, yards and land (named), part used as a brickyard (88a 3r 38p); barn and 60a 0r 19p called Little Hewen Street; woodland (49a 3r 26p) [5]

1810 part (Upper Jointure, Lower Jointure, Long Field and Fourteen Acres, 45a 1r 30p, with a right of way) sold off with Little Hewen Street; see P125/92 [5]; were the cottage and buildings at tithe 41-42 built at this date?

1811 Upper Jointure, Lower Jointure and Fourteen Acres (37a 2r 2p, with the right of way) and former Reynolds Wood, now arable (8a 2r 11p) sold back to GHS; at the same time the owner granted a new right of way from the turnpike road near Bevern Bridge through Alford’s Wood [5]

1814 re-acquires P125/24 [5]<1838-1841+ House and garden, cottage and garden, barns, yards: land arable, pasture,

meadow 222a 2r 18p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 398157)<1838-1841+ House and garden (35), cottage and garden (41) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]1792 Great (27); Little (15); wood (33)1828-1840 £28, £20, £12

Owners<1777-1777 HAMSEY PLACE demesne of the manor of Hamsey, see

P125/2; in 1777 George Wenham Lewis of Westerham in Kent, esq, sold an estate as described at P125/2 to JM for £11,725 [5]

1777-1792 Joseph Mighell esq of East Kennett, Wilts, formerly of Hamsey; in 1792, with Philip Mighell of Brighton, gent, sold this to RJ for £5750 + timber, = £8585 [5]

1792-1808 Richard Jay gent of Applesham in Coombs; of Hamsey, yeoman, in 1805 when he and his son William Jay mortgaged the estate to the Lewes Bank; sold off P125/93 in 1807 and

this to HU for £1046 in 1808 [5] 1808-1813 Henry Uridge yeo of Hurstbarns in Chiltington [5]; in 1827,

when he was granted the site of three cottages from the waste [M505/133], called of Hamsey, timber-merchant [3]; in 1810 he sold Little Hewen Street and parts of Great Hewen Street to John Guy, received some of that back in 1811 and in 1813 sold the whole to JG for £6000 [5]

1813-1827 John Guy yeo of Hamsey; in 1814 he purchased P125/24 for £800; in 1817 he mortgaged to James Brooker of Seaford, gent, for £1000; his sons (Nathaniel and Henry Guy) and mortgagees sold to GS and HS for £4970 in 1827 [5]

1827-1840+ George Shiffner bart [1]; purchased by George Shiffner bt and Henry Shiffner RN and MERGED with the Coombe Estate [5]

Occupiers<1667-1667+ Edward Manfield [5]<1752 Edward Raynes former occupier [5]<1752-1752+ Francis

JohnJohn

NappAlchorneWenham

Little Hewen StreetGreat Hewen Streetwoods in hand [6]

<1792-1792+ JohnWilliamJoseph

HowellBullMighell

Little Hewen StreetGreat Hewen Streetwoods in hand [5]

1817 John Cheesman 28 [2]1817 Henry Uridge 20 [2]1817 Henry Uridge 12 owner occupier [2]1828 Samuel Holman 28, 12 Andrew Best 20 [2]<1833-1840+ Thomas Holmden [1, 2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 1-536 ESRO MOB 1699

~24~HAMSEY - opposite Galleybird Hall P125/24

Manorial tenure: no individual manorial tenure

Tithe numbers [1]1840 25-27, 45-48, 50, 51

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 405157)<1807 NOT FORMED; part of P125/231807 in 1807 the owner of Great Hewen Street sold off a newly-built messuage,

Hilly Field (10a 1r 11p, formerly two fields) and Two Acres, the Sawpit Field (7a 2r 38p) and the southern part (2a 2r 27p) of Upper Alfords Wood; the farm was bought back by the owner of P123/24 but a separate tenancy was maintained [5]

<1838-1841+ House and buildings, land: arable, pasture, wood 24a 3r 18p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 405157)1807 messuage newly built on the Hilly Field [5]<1838-1841+ House and buildings (47) [1]

Land tax assessments [2]1817-1840 10

Owners1807-1809 Jerh Price yeom

an[2]; of Chiddingly, purchased for £625; of Hailsham by 1811 [5]

1809-1814 George Peckham of Cliffe, music-master; bought for £1050; in 1811 he mortgaged for £600 to John Marshall of Ovingdean, clerk; in 1814 he sold to John Guy, the owner of Great Hewen Street [P125/23] from which this had been separated in 1807 [5]

1814-1827 John Guy yeo of Hamsey; in 1814 he purchased P125/24 for £800; in 1817 he mortgaged to James Brooker of Seaford, gent, for £1000; his sons (Nathaniel and Henry Guy) and mortgagees sold to GS and HS for £4970 in 1827 [5]

1827-1838+ George Shiffner bart [1]

Occupiers1807-1809 Jerh Price yeo owner-occupier [2]1809-1809+ George Peckham yeo owner-occupier [2]1817 Henry Uridge [2] owner occupier1828 Johnson [2]<1833-1838+ John Johnson [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 41-53

~25~

HAMSEY – Tulleys Wells Farm/ Barleys Banks P125/25

Manorial tenure: messuage, barn, garden, orchard and a yardland (4a) in Hamsey, formerly parcel of Coombe; freehold of Hamsey manor, quitrent 9d [M505/41]Includes Pole Roaf’s Yardland (9a) with pasture for 12 sheep, copyhold of Hamsey manor, quitrent 7s 0d [M505/40, P125/88] from 1719on the sale to Sir John Bridger in 1768 the vendor’s liability for a quitrent of 4s 8d to the manor of Southover was attached to this property; it had formerly applied to P125/59

Tithe numbers [1]1840 128-131, 215-216, 220-242, 244, 323-328, 330-332, 335-337, 408, part 413,

424, 425, 417, 245; for part of tithe 413, see P125/281878 tithe 338 from P125/22 (Coombe Place) and 325 from this property exchanged

with the Burrell estate for tithe 332 and 332A [7]

Land tax assessments [2]1828-1840 86

Descriptions of property1627 includes piece of land in Hamsey, part of Combe [7]1686 messuage, barns, 50a; common for 40 sheep [3]1715 called Lidlow’s Land [7]1719 acquires Pole Roaf’s Yardland (9a) [M505/40; P125/88], which is located on

the map of 1752 [6]; that holding continues as M505/20-21; and Herseys Croft and 2a meadow [3]

<1723 by 1723 the owner of this also holds a barn and 70a land called Wickhams with pasture for 50 sheep on Allington sheep-down in Lewes St John, and formerly part of the Coneyboro Estate; copyhold of Allington manor, quitrent 16s 0d [M506/15]; this was leased with Tullys Wells in 1758 [3]

1741 acquires Upper Washers Field and Great Bennetts Croft from P125/22 and sells Bryants Close otherwise Barn Plot (½a) (S: Plumpton - Offham Road; W: John Middleton’s Coney Croft; N, E: John Bridger, late Mrs Shore) to P125/22; this is part of M505/41, and passed free of the 9d quitrent, which P125/25 continued to pay [5]

[1752] house shown on map of Hamsey Manor as ‘Richard Ridge’; this also shows M505/40 [6]

1756 Lidlows can be partially reconstructed by reference to a map [4] of the estate of Robert Day [P125/77] which names Mr Ridge as a neighbouring owner to many parcels; that information, combined with the field-names and locations from a map [5] of the Combe Estate in 1780, equates to tithe numbers 113 (Clover Field), 125 (Rushey Field), 115 (Island Field), 123 (Plough Ox Pasture), 221 part (Lower Washers), 126 (The Hams, 9a, of which 3a = Pauls Rofe copyhold, possibly part of or enclosed in respect of M505/40), 229 (house, orchard and barn) and Lower Bennetts Croft (part tithe 232)not part of Lidlows, but located by the map, are Upper Washers (tithe 225) Upper Bennetts Croft (part tithe 236) [4-5]also part of the estate in 1740 is P125/88 Barn Field late Coulstock (tithe 230) [3], and in 1764 is Beach Wood cottage and garden, tithe 127 [P125/18]In 1754 Goat Acre abutted E on land of Richard Ridge occupied by Samuel

Ridge [3]1766 estate as sold:

Lidlows (messuage, barns and 50a with pasture for 40 sheep of Offham Down) [3]Herseys Croft (6a) abutting The Crink2a abutting The IlandsUpper Washers FieldGreat Bennetts Croft

1768 Lidlows sold to Coombe Estate with Herseys Croft [P125/89], a meadow (2a) Upper Washers and Great Bennetts Croft [3]

<1838-1841+ House and buildings, farm buildings, land: sheep down, arable, pasture, wood 628a 1r 23p [1]; barn built on tithe 242 between 1780 and 1841

Owners<1622-1627 John Vinall in 1622 he had licence to let his copyhold

land to Roger Parris for seven years; death presented 1627, heriot an ox (£6); heir is eldest son JV [7]

1627-1627+ John Vinall [7]<1686 William Coulstock [7]; Barn Field (tithe 230) described as late

Coulstock<1686-1715 Thomas Lidlow of Hamsey in April and of Laughton in

October 1686, when he mortgaged for £200 to Thomas Tourl of Lewes, butcher; still of Laughton in 1715 when he sold to RR [3]

1715-1756 Richard Ridge of Upper Stoneham in South Malling, gent, in 1715; in 1741 he sold half an acre to the Coombe estate [5]; by will to eldest son WR [3, 7]

1756-1766 William Ridge in 1766 he sold to TD for £1850, who mortgaged back to WR [3, 7]

1766-1768 Thomas Dennett he conveyed to JB for £1850 [3]1768-1768+ COOMBE ESTATE merged with P125/22

Occupiers<1686-1686+ Edward Langridge [3]<1715-1715+ Richard Bridger esq<1754-1766+ Samuel Ridge of Hamsey; occupier in 1754; took a lease of

Tulleys Well and Upper and Lower Wickham for 11 years from 1758 at £100 [3]

<1840-1840+ William Lamb [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 786-796, 826, 8404 ESRO ADA 2465 ESRO SAS/SH 394. 922-9236 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey

~26~HAMSEY - Stoneford (1840) P125/26



Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397136)1680 piece of land called Stoneford (4a), part of P125/29 [5]1760 sold off from P125/29 to the Coombe Estate, described as a piece of land (3½a)

partly covered by water and laid into John Bridger’s Great Pond, heretofore meadow or pasture [5]; the vendor acquired in exchange 3½a in a close called Fridays Wood (the northern end of tithe 216), which was sold back to the Coombe Estate in 1788

<1838-1841+ land: pasture 1a 3r 38p (209), 2a 3r 12p (207) [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 397136)<1838-1841+ no house [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ not separately assessed

Owners<1760-1760 Richard Verrall yeom

anpart of P125/29 until given in exchange in 1760; [2, 5]

1760-1760+ COOMBE

ESTATE acquired by exchange in 1760; maintains separate tenure [2, 5]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Lindfield [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR 862-877

~27~HAMSEY - P125/27

Manorial tenure: tithe 407 part of a freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 1½d [M505/45] [3]tithe 409 freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 0d [M505/22 and 114] [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 406118)1752 shown as pieces of brookland near the river in separate ownership, separated by

a parcel of glebe [4]1764 tithe 407 purchased from P125/59 by the Coombe Place Estate [P125/22] and

shown on map as land in Common Shide Brooks [5]1788 tithe 409 purchased from P125/69 by the Coombe Place Estate [P125/22]<1838-1841+ Brookland: pasture 5a 2r 11p [1]

Descriptions of house <1838-1841+ no dwelling [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1840 not separately assessed

Owners<1838-1838+ George Shiffner bart [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Benjamin Morris [1] tenant of North End Farm [P125/2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO MOB 16995 ESRO SAS/SH 394

~28~HAMSEY - Pellbrook (385) and Bath Brook (387) P125/28

the descent of the endowment of the former Offham Chapel has been placed under this number; that land is shown as two plots in the Sewer Commissioners’ map of 1620, with a chapel standing to the North [4], but after 1671 they seem to have been rationalised into one piece, tithe 385, which is described in conveyances as two acres and by the tithe apportionment as 1a 2r 8p; the area was further complicated by the creation of the Paper Mill Stream c1801, but it seems likely that the easternmost of the two parcels shown in 1620 lay to the West of tithe 413.

Manorial tenure: Pellbrooks subject to a rent of 6s 0d payable to the crown [5]


Descriptions of property (385 only)1620 shown on map of the River Ouse [4]1632 ‘a broken down chapel etc at Offham in Hamsey’ [7]1670 1 piece of ground called Pell Brooks with a hill on the South side

thereof (2a)2 a little piece of meadow (1a) with a chapel plat thereunto belongingat Offham in Hamsey [5]

1671 1 as 1670, but two pieces2 where a chapel sometime stood, but now demolished [5]Descriptions of property (385 and 387) (centred at TQ 403118)

<1838-1841+ Land: oziers 4a 0r 25p [1]

Owners<1537-1537+ William Denman rated for 1a 3r towards the cost of the new

harbour at Newhaven; possibly a tenant; recte Denham of P125/65? [10]

<1616-1616 John Shurley esq of Greyfriars, Lewes, serjeant at law (died 2 Oct 1616); to his son [11]

1616-1631 John Shurley esq seised at his death in Oct 1631; presumably by descent to his son JS [7]

1631-1637 John Shurley esq died aged 17; heir his sister Frances Shurley, 15

<1652-1652+ Isaac Sedley kt of St Cleres in Ightham, Kent; owed 6s 0d a year rent for brooklands in 1652 [8]

1661-1670 George Prettyman kt (1638-1715) of Loddington in Leicestershire; in 1661 he married Elizabeth, aged 20, widow of Sir Robert Houghton of Shelton in Norfolk and daughter and ultimately heiress of Isaac Sedley of St Cleres in Ightham, Kent; the manor of Broadwater in West Sussex follows the same descent [9, 11]; he sold to WW for £20 in 1670 [5]

1670-1671 William Wade clerk of Loddington in Leicestershire; in 1671, of Broadwater, he sold to FC for £10 [5]

1671-1680 Francis Challoner draper

of Lewes; livery of seisin granted by WW’s attorney Richard Symes of Lewes, gent, witnessed byJohn Smith and William Marshall [5]; his will proved in PCC in

1680 [6]; his widow Mary Chaloner quitclaimed to her son John Chaloner in 1697 [5]

1680-1697 John Challoner draper

of Lewes; sold to WN for £15 in 1697 [5]

1697-1697+ William Nelson esq MERGED with Offham House [P125/15]; purchased by the Coombe Place Estate in 1747 [5]

<1838-1838+ George Shiffner bart [1]

Occupiers<1670-1670+ John Bennett [5]<1697-1697 John Chaloner owner-occupier [5]

<1838-1838+ Kester Rice [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO SRA 6/13/2 (1620)5 ESRO SAS/SH 677-846 TNA PROB 11/363 (Francis Challoner of Lewes, mercer, 1680)7 SRS 14 (1912) 947 (IPM of John Shurley)8 SRS 36 (1931) 198 - rental of rents reserved on chantry land, 16529 GEC[ockayne] Complete Baronetage 1.173 (Sedley), 3.328 (Prettyman)10 ESRO GLY 8411 VCH Sussex 7 87; VCH Sussex 6(1) 70

~29~HAMSEY - P125/29

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 4d [M505/21]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 217-219; 220 bought in and added

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 394138)1615 3a arable of which 1a (with a newly-built house) occupied by Thomas Read,

carpenter, and 2a by Samuel Norden [5]1620 messuage and 3a (S, W: road from Beechwood to Offham and Hamsey; N: land

of Thomas Faulkener deceased; E: land of George Goring kt)1637 messuage with malthouse and newly-built barn and 3a [5]1668 1 messuage, malthouse, barn and piece of land late Norden

2 piece called Stoneford (4a)3 piece called Hamcroft (2a) in Lewes St John and Hamsey

1699 purchase: piece of meadow or pasture (10a) in Green Common; 5a arable in Herseys Croft (this in 1710 abutted land late John Shore clerk called The Crinks) and 5a in Green Common; this is formerly P125/58 [5]

1719 11a of the land acquired in 1719 sold to Mr Ridge = P125/88 [5]1737 1 messuage, malthouse, barn, stable, millhouse and hovel, two orchards,

garden, piece called The Hogplot and piece of meadow (3a; N: John Middleton gent called The Malthouse Mead)

2 Stoneford (4a) E: John Middleton’s Oakfield; S: John Bridger’s Pondfield; N: road)

3 four pieces called Green Commons (12a; S: field of Thomas Paine gt and the road)

1760-1763 exchange with the Coombe Estate by which Stoneford (2 in 1737, see P125/26) was given in exchange for land in Fridays Wood (4 in 1788) below [5]

1788 On purchase by the Coombe Estate, the property was described as:1 messuage, malthouse, barn, buildings, garden, orchard and 3a called

Houlters2 Green Common Croft (1½a)3 three pieces (11a) called Green Common (N: John Bridger’s The

Laggs; S: John Bridger; E, N: road from Barley Banks to Holters Green

4 land (3a 2r) adjoining Hoppers Lane and lying in a close of pasture called Fridays Wood

<1838-1841+ cottage and garden, garden and orchard, field; land: pasture 3a 2r 15p[1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 394138)1615 newly-built house [5]1627 undertaking to build a malting-house or room; the house called Holters Green

[5]<1838-1841+ cottage and garden [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1840 not assessed

Owners<1615 Samuel Norden clerk bond given on sale in 1615 against claims by

him and by Thomas Coulstock deceased, father of John Coulstock of Arlington [5]

<1615-1615 Samuel Norden gent of Lewes; in 1615 he and his mother Ann sold to TR, reserving the sheep-pasture belonging to the holding [5]

1615-1636 Thomas Read carp of Hamsey, carpenter; in 1620 he mortgaged for £60 to Richard Bloomer of Lewes, joiner; in 1622 Read and Bloomer sold to Henry Godman of Lewes, dyer; in 1627 he seemingly mortgaged the property by lease for 21 years back to Read, who undertook to add a malting-house or room to the messuage; if he dies or wishes to leave within the term the property to be valued; was this in fact a series of mortgages by TR?; in 1636 Godman conveyed and Read quitclaimed the property to RW [5]

1636-1653 Richard Willard husb of Chiltington in Westmeston in 1636 when he purchased; of Hamsey in 1637 when he mortgaged to William Newman of Lewes, shoemaker; in 1653 Newman’s brother and heir John Newman of Steyning, yeoman, joined Willard’s executors (William Scrase of Hamsey yeoman and William Bennett of Wellingham in Ringmer, yeoman) to sell to EV [5]

1653-1668 Edward Verrall yeo of Hamsey; by his will of 1668 he bequeathed this, late Norden [cf P125/58] to his youngest son TV [5]

1668-1714 Thomas Verrall of Hamsey, yeoman, in 1700 when he acquired Green Common [P125/58] of which he had been tenant in 1697; in 1710 he sold Herseys Croft to his son RV; maltster in 1714 when he bequeathed this to his son RV [5]

1714-1774 Richard Verrall yeo of Hamsey; called maltster in 1719 when his father’s purchase of Green Common was confirmed to him by fine (mortgaged to John Sayers of Lewes, farrier, in 1720), and in 1737, when he mortgaged this to William Tutty of Hamsey, yeoman; by his will of 1752 he bequeathed his estate to his wife MV; she compounded for three heriots in 1774 [5]

1774-1787 Mary Verrall wid by her will of 1782 she bequeathed this and her house at Hailsham to her nephew TS [5]

1787-1788 Thomas Street of Ditchling, perukemaker1788-1788+ COOMBE ESTATE purchased by Sir John Bridger [5]<1838-1838+ George Shiffner bart [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ John Satcher [1] also occupied an isolated field of

Winterland (tithe 243) [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)

2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 849-889

~30~HAMSEY - P125/30



Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403118)

<1780 this is the remains of Three Cornered Brook, already part of the Coombe Place Estate in 1634, which was severed from the southern part of that field by the cutting of the Paper Mill Stream in 1801 [4, 6]; the stream is however shown on the draft OS of 1797 [5]

<1838-1841+ Land: pasture 3a 0r 38p [1]


Land tax assessments [2]1840 not individually assessed


Occupiers<1838-1838+ Samuel Smith [1]; a blacksmith of this name owned

P125/62 between 1852 and 1854

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO SAS/SH 389, 390, 3945 BL Maps OSD 93.3.2 (1797)6 ESRO SHR 2032

~31~HAMSEY - P125/31



Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 399121)<1838-1841+ Land: pasture 1a 3r 13p [1]; formed by Coombe Estate from Lower Packhams

Descriptions of house <1838-1841+ no dwelling [1]; occupied by the owner of the Blacksmith’s Arms [P125/35]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1780+ not identifiable


Occupiers<1838-1838+ Mary Tucker [1]; owner of the Blacksmith’s Arms

[P125/35]


~32~HAMSEY – Lower Tulleys Wells P125/32

Manorial tenure: probably originally the holding described as P125/U3, although by tithe P125/32 had been recreated from other Coombe Estate lands not originally part of this holding

Tithe numbers [1]1840 162, 113-115, 121-123, 125, 126, 132-135, 206, 210-212, 247-248, 429

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 398138)<1838-1841+ House and garden, cottage and garden, barn and yard; arable, pasture, meadow

112a 3r 24p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 397137)<1838-1841+ House, yard, garden (211) cottage and garden (212) [1]; for tithe 212 see

P125/90; for part tithe 126 see P125/88

Land tax assessments [2]1840 not identifiable

Owners<1838-1838+ COOM

BEESTATE George Shiffner bt [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Dinah Wadey [1] a George, son of James and Dinah

Wadey, was baptised at Hamsey in 1816 [4]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO PAR 357/1/2/1

~33~HAMSEY – land and ozier-bed P125/33

Manorial tenure: demesne of the manor of Hamsey [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 410120)<1789-1789 NOT FORMED part of Hamsey Place Farm (P125/2)1789 sold off from the demesnes of Hamsey as a piece of ground called The

Foreright Cow Brook (11a 2r 18p) in Hamsey (NW: a large sewer called The New Cut; S, SW: the River Ouse; SE: the Left Hand Cow Brook; NE: the Milking Plat adjoining Hamsey Place garden), formerly part of a piece of brook ground or marshland called The Cow Brook, now in three pieces, with a right of a wagon road on the bank of the New Cut through the Milking Plat to the road leading from Hamsey Place [7]

<1838-1841+ land: pasture, arable, oziers 10a 0r 22p [1]

Descriptions of house <1789-1841+ no dwelling [1]<1848-1907+ mortgage of 1848 includes cottage built by owner [7]


Owners1789-1830 Christop

herSpencer bmkr of Lewes, basket-maker; owner-occupier [1,

2]; purchased for £579 13s 9d in 1789, when he added this as further security for a mortgage to Sarah Ridge of Iford, widow, of three houses in Cliffe; in 1803 her executors assigned to John Marten of Firle, gent, who made a further advance in 1805, and whose administratrix Jane wife of John Langridge the elder of Firle assigned, with a house in Regent Street, Brighton, as further security, to Jane Marten of Southover, spinster; CS left this by his will of 1819 to GS for life, remainder to his son CS, and died in 1830 [7]

1830-1832 Grace Spencer widow

took a life estate under the will of her husband CS; buried in Friends’ Burying Ground, Brighton [7]

1832-1846 Christopher

Spencer bmkr of Lewes, basketmaker, in 1819; inherited on the death of his mother in 1832; of Brighton, basketmaker, in 1835 when the mortgage was assigned, and in 1846 when he sold for £500 to HD [7]

1846-1848+ Henry Davey sadlr of Lewes, saddler and harness-maker; he mortgaged for £433 at 5% to John Smith of Lewes, gent, and Charles Beard of Rottingdean, gent; in 1846 William North of Cliffe, tea-dealer, purchaser of the former Spencer estate in Cliffe, covenanted to

produce the deeds; when the mortgage was assigned to Eliza Marshall Guy of Ringmer, spinster, in 1848, it included a cottage built by Henry Davey [7]

1907-1920 BURRELL ESTATE purchased back into Hamsey Place Farm in 1907 for £550 and sold to Kenward [?with HPF] in 1920 [7]

1920-1920+ Kenward purchased [?with HPF] in 1920 [7]

Occupiers<1791-1840+ Christop

herSpencer owner-occupier [1, 2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/7 WSRO Burrell 9/B/1-13, 21/C/1-125

~34~HAMSEY - P125/34

Manorial tenure: leasehold of the manor of Allington, quitrent 50s 0s; M506/5 is the related freehold [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397145)1599-1599+ 26a, part of Beechwood, a waste of the manor of Allington in Lewes St John

Without, leased for 1000 years by the manor of Allington at 50s 0d 10 May 1599; this field alone in Hamsey [5]; this identification rests on a map-book of the Coombe Estate of 1829 which appears to be wrong in including Chapel Barn and this parcel in the leasehold tenement held by Thomas Tourle

1829 shown in map book as a field of 1a 3r 39p, part of a group of leaseholds comprising Chapel Farm in Lewes St John Without, but see above [5]

<1838-1841+ Land: arable 1a 3r 39p1891-1921+ part of Beechwood in Lewes St John when purchased by the Coneyboro Estate

and retained on sale of Beechwood in 1921 [10]


Land tax assessments [2]1840 not recorded

Owners<1798-1798+ Stanford ‘Mr Stanford’ is shown as a neighbouring

owner on a map of Beechwood, belonging to Mr Tourle, c1798, so the manor of Allington may have attached the leasehold rent to the wrong holding [8]

<1831-1838+ William Stanford [1, 9]<1890-1891 Arthur

BBlaker gent of Lewes; sold to JGD in 1891 [10]


ESTATE purchased by John George Dodson Lord Monk Bretton with Beechwood in 1891 and retained when Beechwood sold in 1921 [10]

Occupiers<1723-1723+ William Verrall [6]<1838-1838+ Thomas Tourle [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO AMS 2134 (will of Thomas Tourle the elder of Lewes, 1723, and Thomas Tourle of

Lewes, 1768)5 ESRO SAS/SH 68-92, 383-388, 389/126 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO ACC 3412/3/270

9 ESRO ACC 3412/1/8610 ESRO ACC 6506/32

~35~HAMSEY – The Blacksmiths Arms P125/35

Manorial tenure: freehold and copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 1d (M505/127) and 6d (M505/69) [3]


Discussion [1]In 1792 Richard Hollingdale owned the Rainbow at Cooksbridge {P125/8] and the Blacksmiths Arms at Offham [P125/35]; both are assessed for Land Tax. When his death was presented in 1792 only The Rainbow was included [M505/38], but in 1798 his death was presented again for two freehold tenements, a messuage and ½a late Markwick before Hobbs before Smith before Terry, quitrent 1d [M505/127, P125/56] and a messuage built on former waste, late Thomas Beach [M505/69]. RH’s father RH had held only M505/69, perhaps suggesting that is to be identified with the Blacksmith’s Arms. It was probably a piece of waste granted to Thomas Beach in respect of P125/U5 between 1651 and 1664; the freehold messuage which descended with that holding until its partition in 1664 = P125/94. The names associated with M505/127 (P125/56) do not appear in the court books of the manor of Hamsey, and may (especially since they were not included in 1771] have been held of another manor.

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 400122)1752 shown as two buildings, the northernmost parallel to the road [?the freehold],

the southernmost [?the copyhold] at right angles, but facing a piece of subsequently enclosed waste; listed as a copyhold measured as 4 perches [6]

c1766 was the sign transferred from P124/64 at about this date?1768 freehold messuage, brewhouse, stable, garden and orchard at Offham [4]1771 M505/69 described as a cottage built on former waste in Hamsey [3]1823 freeehold called The Blacksmith’s Arms with brewhouse, stables, buildings and

gardens [4]<1838-1841+ Inn The Blacksmith’s Arms; land: 20p [1]; the owner occupied P125/31

Descriptions of house (at TQ 400122)<1838-1841+ Inn [1]

Land tax assessments [2]1840 2

Owners<1752 Thomas Beach [3]<1752-1770 Richard Hollingdale victu

aller[6] death presented 1771, no animal; by will of 18 May 1768 to son RH [3, 4]

1770-1790 Richard Hollingdale shopkeeper

already owned P125/8; called victualler in his father’s will of 1768 [4]; by will of Dec 1789, described as shopkeeper of Cooksbridge [P125/8], to his wife MH [3, 4]

1790-1795 Mary Hollingdale wid widow; in 1792 she and her husband John Henderson surrendered P125/8 to the use of her will but there is no further mention of this tenement [3]; Land Tax has Mrs

Hollingdale [?widow of RH] as owner-occupier until 1795 [2]

1796-1823 Thomas Tucker owner-occupier [2]; the elder of Offham, innkeeper, when he left this to his wife Mary for life with remainder to his son Henry [4]

1823-1840+ Mary Tucker owner occupier [1,2]

Occupiers<1817-1822 Thomas Tucker owner occupier [2]1823-1840+ Mary Tucker owner occupier [1,2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A62.219 (Richard Hollingdale, 1770); W/A74.904 (Thomas Tucker, 1823)5 ESRO SAS/SH 68-926 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 2854

~36~HAMSEY - P125/36

Manorial tenure: waste of the manor of Hamsey, never formally enclosed [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 41051210)1752 not shown [6]1780 not shown [5]1827 shown as Turnpike Gate [and tollhouse] [7]<1838-1841+ The Toll House; (land; 5p) [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 41051210)<1838-1841+ Toll house [1]


Owners<1838-1838+ Turnpike Trustees [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ William Hollingdale [1]


~37~HAMSEY - P125/37

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d [M505/133] [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 398151)1827 FORMED by grant from the waste of a piece of land long since enclosed (E:

land of Timothy Shelley, bt; W: Lewes – Chailey Turnpike; N, S: waste)1831 tenement partitioned by creation of M505/134; reduced to messuages and

buildings and 1r 18p quitrent for this reduced to 4d<1838-1841+ 3 cottages and gardens (1r 14p) [1]1898 partitioned:

1 two cottages, buildings and 27p (N: 2; S: Lord Monk Bretton, late John Wicks; W: Lewes – Chailey road); quitrent 2d

2 cottage and 31p (N: waste; S: 1; W: road); quitrent 2d

Descriptions of house (at TQ 398151)<1838-1898+ 3 cottages [1, 3]


Owners1827-1843 Henry Uridge grant to Henry Uridge of Hamsey, timber-

merchant; in 1831 he sold off part (M505/134) and mortgaged for £300 at 5% to Ann Creasy of Ripe, spinster; death presented 1843; by will of 1838 to sons Henry Uridge of Chiltington, farmer (died in HU’s lifetime), William Uridge of Wivelsfield, farmer and son-in-law William Swaysland of Southover, cabinet-maker; in Sep 1843 they sold for £490 (including the mortgage) to CG [3]

1843-1884 Charles Goring esq Charles Goring of Highden, esq; died 1884; death presented 1890; heir is sister AEG; in 1890 his widow, then wife of Robert Godolphin Cosby of Stradbally Hall in Queens County, Ireland, esq, colonel in the Militia, released dower for £250; deed includes a manor of Barcombe tenement at Piltdown [3]

1884-1898 Aug Ez Goring Augusta Elizabeth Goring of Englehurst, Englefield Green in Surrey; in 1897 she gave a power of attorney to Augustus Ranking of 21 Mincing Lane, London, esq; in 1898 she sold 1 above to Richard Best of Cooksbridge, brewer for £197 10s and 2 above to Ernest Best of Cooksbridge, brewer’s assistant [3]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Henry Uridge and others [1]<1843-1843+ John

WilliamWilliam

WalderStevensonChatfield


~38~HAMSEY – Boundary Hall P125/38

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d, heriot 6d certain (M505/73); from 1780 adds copyhold ex-waste, quitrent 6d, heriot 6d certain (M505/76) [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 396153)<1719-1719 NOT FORMED granted from the waste in 1719 [3]c1750 cottage on former waste with an orchard and little parcel of waste called

Boundaries Hall (3 rods) in Hamsey [3]1780 new grant of waste: three rods of waste (W: land occupied by James Newman;

E: road; N, S: waste) [3]1781 shown as neighbouring owner on estate map of 1781; the roadside strip, un-

numbered on the tithe map, is indicated as ‘John Tower’, presumably to be identified with the John Towner who was tenant of Boundary Hall in 1773 [6]

<1838-1841+ 2 cottages and gardens; land: pasture 1a 2r 3p [1]1891 dwellinghouse called Boundary Hall, carpenter’s shop, wood-lodge, hovel and

pigstye, garden orchard and meadow (1a 3r 34p, all in Hamsey except 4 rods in Lewes St John) [7]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 396153)<1838-1841+ 2 cottages [1]

Land tax assessments [2]1840 not taxed in Hamsey

Owners1719-1727 Richard Valentine granted to him from waste 1719;

surrendered to WT 1727 [3]1727-1773 William Tutty husb of Hamsey, husbandman in 1727; death

presented 1777; who is heir? [3]; by will of 1767, proved 1773, to son JT [5]

1773-1785 John Tutty WT’s only son John Tutty admitted in 1780 when he received a new grant of 3 rods of waste; surrender to JH 1785 [3]

1785-1789 John Holman yeo of Hamsey, yeoman; in 1789 he surrendered to TP [3]

1789-1790 Thomas Pockney of Lewes, coach-master; in 1789 he had a licence to cut and sell six elm trees, assigned by the wood-reeve John Caplin; he was admitted in 1790 and immediately surrendered to SW [3]

1790-1794 Stephen Weller drpr of Lewes, draper; in 1794 he surrendered M505/73, 76 to BR

1794-1798 Benj Ridge gent of Chailey; admitted to M505/73, 76 in 1798 and immediately surrendered to WL

1798-1814 William Lindfield gent of Hurstpierpoint, admitted to M505/73, 76 by attorney William Acton; death presented 1814; heir is Nathaniel Borrer of Hurstpierpoint, gent, youngest son of

William Borrer esq and Mary Borrer deceased, née Lindfield, only child of Nathaniel Lindfield that left issue (the other having died a spinster), NL being the only brother of WL’s father John Lindfield

1814 Nathl Borrer gent of Hurstpierpoint, admitted by attorney John Haddock Lardner of Lewes, gent, and surrenders for £148 to LV according to letters of attorney [3]

1814-1834 Lucy Verrall wid of Hamsey, widow; she mortgaged for £170 at 5% to John Verrall of Barcombe, yeoman; paid off to his surviving executor Henry Morley in 1826 when a new mortgage for £80 obtained from Harriet Simmons, widow; in 1834 Harriet (now wife of James Leonard) acknowledged payment and Lucy surrendered to her son HV [3]

1834-1891 Henry Verrall crptr of Hamsey [1]; in 1834 he mortgaged for £150 at 5% to Richard Cruse of Chailey, tile-maker; payment acknowledged by his executors (John Norman of Chailey, brickmaker, and Stephen Siffleet of Newick, yeoman) in 1863, when it was assigned to SS, paid off 1872; licence to cut two elm trees assigned by William Cox, then reeve, in 1867; enfranchised 1872 [3]; mortgaged to Alfred Hammond of Lewes, gent, in 1887; died 1890, sold by executor and mortgagee to JGD for £370 [7]


ESTATE purchased by John George Dodson, Lord Monk Bretton, in 1891 [7]

Occupiers<1767-1781+ John Towner [5, 6]<1838-1838+ Henry Verrall owner occupier [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 882 (will of William Tutty 1767, proved 1773)6 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor7 ESRO ACC 6506/33

~39~HAMSEY - Park Villa P125/39

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8d, heriot 1s 0d certain (M505/26) [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402136)<1627-1627 NOT FORMED granted from the waste in 1627 [3]1627 piece of waste 60 feet by 16 feet at Drove Lane End by Cooksbridge, now

built upon; grant from waste [3]1639 messuage at the Drove Lane End with a garden [3]1684 late waste [3]c1750 messuage or cottage and garden in Hamsey (W: road from Offham to

Cooksbridge; N: droveway from the road to Hamsey Church) [3]1752 Shown as house and 1r 5p on the E side of the road S of Cooksbridge [7]<1838-1841+ House and garden, garden; land: 1r 26p [1]1848 William Ticehurst agreed to become tenant at will to Edward Partington

[P125/16] of roadside land which he had lately enclosed [8]1876 house called Park Villa, stable, coach-house, outbuildings and gardens at

Cooksbridge owned and occupied by William Ticehurst [3]1881 17 rods (W: road from Lewes to Cooksbridge; N: wasteland formerly held by

William Ticehurst as tenant at will; S: road leading to Hamsey Common; E: land of Edward Partington esq) with the stable, coach-house and outbuildings standing on it [3]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 402136)1639 messuage [3]<1838-1841+ house and garden [1]1876 house called Park Villa, stable, coach-house, outbuildings and gardens at

Cooksbridge owned and occupied by William Ticehurst [3]


Owners1627-1639 John Beale granted to him in 1627; in 1639 he

surrendered to TW [3]1639-1639+ Thomas Wigsall the younger; admitted 1639 [3]<1649-1649 Thomas Hersey surrendered out of court to JW [3]1649-1650 Joseph Whiteman admitted 1649; in 1650 he surrendered to

WR and ER [3]1650-1684 William Rootes and his wife Elizabeth; by 1684 when her

death was presented Elizabeth was the wife of Thomas Stapley, late widow of William Rootes; who is heir? [3]

1684-1692 Mary Bunce Mary youngest daughter of Elizabeth Stapley; wife of John Bunce when admitted in 1684, and in 1692 when she surrendered to WP [3]

1692-1700 William Pollington husb of Hamsey, husbandman; in 1692 admitted

for life, remainder to his wife Sarah for life, remainder to WP’s heirs; in 1700 they surrendered to RB [3]

1700-1710 Richard Bridger of Coombe in Hamsey, esq, admitted by his attorney Benjamin Ellis; annotated ‘where Goring dwells 1704’; RB appointed John Smith, clerk, his attorney to surrender to DW [3]

1710-1715 David Wood bckth of Barcombe, blacksmith; in 1715 surrendered to WB and MB [3]

1715-1744 William Banks and his wife Mary Banks; in 1719 they mortgaged for £26 at 5% to Stephen Kenward of Lewes, yeoman (paid off 1723); in 1733 Mary, a widow, mortgaged for £28 7s to John Bridger of Coombe, esq; paid off 1744; her death presented 1744, youngest son OB [3]

1744 Offington Banks immediately on admission surrendered to TA [3]

1744-1754 Thomas Alchin yeo or Alchorne of Hamsey, yeoman; surrendered to EM in 1754 [3]

1754-1777 Elizabeth Minyon wid widow; death presented 1777; by will of 24 Dec 1770 to EH [3]

1777-1823 Elizabeth Howell Elizabeth wife of Thomas Howell of Hamsey, yeoman, for life, remainder to TH’s daughter Elizabeth Howell [3]

1823-1843 Elizabeth Weston Elizabeth Howell; admitted 1824; wife of William Weston by 1823, when they mortgaged to Thomas King of Cliffe, butcher, for £70 at 5%, paid off 1831; in 1833 they mortgaged for £55 at 5% to Warren Lee of Lewes, printer; paid off 1835, when they mortgaged for £120 at 5% to William Martin of Ringmer, builder; paid off 1845; death presented 1843; by will of 1842 to her husband WW [3], who was listed as owner-occupier by tithe [1]

1843-1846 William Weston yeo of Cooksbridge in Hamsey, yeoman; Martin mortgage paid off 1845 when WW mortgaged for £150 at 5% with power of sale to Thomas Huggett of Lewes, cordwainer; in 1846 the mortgage was paid off and WW sold to WT [3]

1846-1877 William Ticehurst of Lewes, stable-keeper in 1848 [8]; of Lewes, postmaster; death presented 1877; by will of 1876, proved 1877, to trustees for sale (Richard Wisdom of Lewes, solicitor’s managing clerk, and Isaac Funnell the younger of Lewes, merchant’s clerk), who were admitted in July and in August surrendered to JN (with freehold) for £530 [3]

1877-1881 James Nightingale trnr of Lewes, trainer; in 1879 he mortgaged this and freehold (see above) for £700 to

Thomas Blenkiron of 123 Wood Street in London, warehouseman, who in 1881 foreclosed on the mortgage and sold the property to WB for £700 [3]

1881-1901 William Burton of 55 High Street, Marylebone, London, horse-dealer; in 1882 he mortgaged for £700 to Thomas Arthur Howland of 55 Great Portland Street, London, Charles Claridge Howland of 297 Caledonian Road and Robert Howland of 389 Holloway Road, all licensed victuallers [3]; sold to the Coneyboro Estate in 1901 [5]


ESTATE purchased for £800 by John William Dodson, Lord Monk Bretton, in 1901 [5]

Occupiers<1704-1704+ Goring [3]<1838-1838+ William Weston owner-occupier [1]1896-1896+ Agnes Parkes wife of Albert William Parkes of 27 College

Road, Brighton, esq; took a lease for 21 years at £60 in 1896 [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO ACC 6506/41 (deeds)6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO ACC 6506/45

~40~HAMSEY - WILLMETS FARM P125/40

Manorial tenure: seven freehold and three copyhold tenements of the manor of Hamsey [M505/1-4, 11-12, 18, 59 and 116+118, 119], quitrents 4d, 10d, 3d, 13s 4d, 1s 9d, 1s 6d, 5s 0d, 5s 0d, 8s 2d and 5s 0d [3]Lardors Field [CW 8, Tithe 275] said to be held of manor of Allington but no tenement found in M506 [5]Rose Field [M505/79, tithe 182] held with this until 1629

Tithe numbers [1]1840 270-275, 277, 301, 433

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 407128)1633 The Link [tithe 288], and 2¼a in the Long Furlong, sold to the lord of the

manor [P125/2]<1698-1702+ the core of this property is either M505/4, a messuage, barn and 14a, or

M505/116, a messuage, barn, close called The Two Acres, close (6a) called High Vant, close called the Link [M505/118], 2¼a in the Long Furlong, ½a in the Long Vant; copy, 8s 2d [3]

1712 8a called Spearhams (tithe 277, P125/49, M505/59) acquired by the owner’s under-age daughter; effectively descends with this holding [3]

1715 M505/1-3 purchased [3]1717 Messuage, barn and virgate [3]1729 M505/11-12 (P125/83+) described in lease to the owner of P125/40 (which

later purchased them) as part of a messuage, barns, stable, garden, orchard and farm:1 piece of land called Stonehams (4a)2 piece of land called The Well Field (5a), The Inhams (1a), little croft adjoining The Vants (1a)

<1746 presented that the owner of M505/11-12 [= P125/83+] had sold them to the owner of this before her death in 1746; these had been leased since 1729 [8]

1752 M505/1-4 shown as a house and 44a 1r 20p; house = 11 = tithe 272 [7]1753 M505/18 acquired from the Combe Estate (which had purchased in 1742 -

SAS/SH 924] = P125/84 [3]; is this an exchange with the next?1753 Sale of part of this to the Combe Estate; - parcel of brookland called The Wish

(3a) in a parcel called The Sight; crop of 3r fresh marsh and brook called Upland Wish; 1a in Upland Wish [5]

1787 Estate shown on map [5]1803 The Shide (3a brookland, CW 18 tithe 410, M505/126) partitioned from

M505/1 and sold off to the Combe Estate and the quitrent apportioned to 2d [3] and a field (1½a) in Hamsey Common also disposed of [1, 7]

1821 four acres in Hamsey (M505/12) sold off to the Combe Estate as a new site for Hamsey Parsonage [3]; = 1752 Cruttenden Weller 15-16; see P125/83

1823 taxed with P125/49 from1823 [2]c1830 owner granted seven elm trees on this tenement for repairs [3]1829 owner granted three ashes and an elm for repairs [3]<1838-1841+ House, barn, yard etc and land: arable, pasture, wood 44a 2r 35p [1]1847 three pieces of land (1a 1r 37p, plan), part of M505/18, were sold to the

LB&SCR for £192 6s 0d and enfranchised

Descriptions of house (at TQ 409129)1635 owner’s will names kitchen, hall, buttery, milkhouse, chamber over the hall and

a long list of chattels [4]

<1838-1841+ House, barn and yard etc. [1]

Land tax assessments [2]1779 251780-1783 291784-1789 281790 381791-1792 341793-1795 301796-1840 31

Owners<1622 Samson Coulstock former owner of some elements of the estate

[3]<1622-1634 Thomas Longley yeo

manexecutor of his father-in-law Richard Scrase and mother-in-law Elizabeth Scrase in 1621 [4]; in Jan 1622 he forfeited The Link for carrying off two cartloads of hay without licence; in Aug 1622 it was re-granted; in 1629 he settled the larger holding on his [second] marriage with Mary Coulstock, and surrendered Ladderfield to his son [with Ann Scrase - see M505/15] Ralph Longley and Rosefield [see P125/43] to his daughter Tamsin; in 1632 TL and Mary mortgaged The Link for £25 to Edward Manfield; in 1633 he surrendered to them and once admitted they immediately surrendered The Link, and 2¼a in the Long Furlong, to John Alford, lord of the manor; in 1634 out of court (W: Edward Manfield and George Reade) he mortgaged High Vant for £21 to Martha Hawkins, who surrendered back to his son Ralph Longley in 1639 [3]; his will of 1634 names rooms in his house [4]

1634-1639+ Ralph Longley [3]; he was under age in 1635, the son of Thomas Longley [4] and his wife Ann, sister of William Scrase [M505/15]; admitted to High Vant 1639; sold to SC [3]

<1663-1667 Samuel Cruttenden haberdasher

of Lewes; purchased from RL; surrendered to will in 1663; by will of 1667 to eldest son SC, subject to life estate of widow HC and charged with payments to son JC and daughters Mary and Sarah [3]

1667-1678 Hannah Cruttenden in 1678 her son Samuel Cruttenden was admitted to reversion on her death and they immediately surrendered to JC [3]

1678-1698 John Cruttenden of Lewes, haberdasher, when admitted in 1678; in 1681 amerced for failure to repair tenant way called Drove Lane; death presented 1698, heriot a horse; by his will of 1695 to his widow for life, remainder to his son John; heir is only son JC, but widow Ann C ought to hold for life by the custom

[3]1699-1702 Ann Cruttenden wid admitted to widow’s bench in 1699; in 1702

John Cruttenden was admitted to the reversion and surrendered to SW

1702-1736 Stephen Weller death presented 1736 for M505/1-2, 89 and 90, four heriots; by will, but to whom? [3]

1736-1752 Hannah Weller wid death 1752, no animal; heir is only son Cruttenden Weller by her husband Stephen Weller [3]

1752-1803 Cruttenden

Weller death presented 1803 for M505/1-4, 11-12, 18, 89, no animal; by will of 1783 to son SW [3]; will proved at Lewes 1803 [8]

1803-1807 Stephen Weller Stephen Weller; death presented 1807 for M505/1-4, 11-12, 18, 89; six heriots but only one horse seized [3]; by will of 1806 to wife MW for life, remainder to Mary Glover spinster; will proved PCC 1807 [8]

1807-1821 Mary Weller wid [2]; death presented 1821, no animal; under will of her husband SW to Mary Glover [3]

1821-1850 George Wilmot [2]; in 1809 he married Mary Glover, beneficiary of the will of Stephen Weller [3, 8]; succeeded ‘Mr Glover’ as owner of P125/49 in 1811 [2]

1850-1866+ Edward Wilmot esq [1, 2]; of Lewes; paid £6 fine for cutting timber ‘for which a licence was inadvertently omitted to be applied for’; in 1866 he surrendered M505/1-4, 11, 18, 59 and 89 to trustees

Occupiers1678 Jenner [3]1695 John Cruttenden Owner-occupier [3]<1698-1702+ John Herriott [3]<1779-1780 James Morris also occupied P125/49 [2]1781-1787 Joseph Morris also occupied P125/49 [2]1788 in hand [2]1789-1832 Richard Knight also occupied P125/49 [2]1833-1840+ Nathaniel Guy [1,2] also occupied P125/49 [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A 15.147 (Richard Scrase, 1617); W/A 18.17 (Elizabeth Scrase, 1621); W/A 22.1

(Thomas Longley, 1635)5 ESRO SAS/SH 933-4, 395 (map); ACC 7633/956 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO SAS/SH 260-264

~41~HAMSEY – Winterlands Farm P125/41

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 9d (M505/99) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 57, 58, 68-74, 91-93, 95, 111, 112, 243

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397148)1596 part of the manor of Coombe sold off to John Stafford; is this all or part of

Winterlands? [5]<1609-1635+ northern part of tithe 91 (‘The Mines’ in 1781) held as glebe of Hamsey

rectory, described as ‘one acre in Moynes Field upon which standeth a small cottage’ [9]; this had been absorbed into Winterlands by 1781 [5]

1616 Parcel called Winterland; includes field called Mapleward [4]1636 acquires P125/97<1731-1731+ isolated field (tithe 243) called Crow Barrow (1a) (WSN: Newfield [later

Gatefield]; E: the Pimbles) let to surrounding owner John Bridger of Coombe [5]

1767 described in lease as a house and 72a with land where a house purchased of one Valentine stood [P125/97, M505/113] [8]

1781 Map by Thomas Marchant shows house, buildings and 73a 3r 24p; does not include southern portion of Tithe 112; accompanying letter comments on proposed letting in parcels and describes the land and house (see below) [8]

1800 estate valued; outgoings include 2s 3d quitrent [8]<1838-1841+ House and garden, farm buildings; land: arable, pasture, waste 63a 2r 30p [1]1867 tenant to erect a new dairy in return for a rent of £140 and the deduction of

land-tax [12]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 399149)1730 house and buildings ‘very much out of repair’ and £10 a year allowed out of the

rent [8]1748 tenant allowed £14 8s 4d for laying a new barn floor and other repairs to the

barn [8]1757 tenant allowed £1 15s for thatching and £1 10s for paving the kitchen [8]1762 tenant allowed £4 for repairs [8]1767 includes land where a house purchased of one Valentine stood [P125/97,

M505/113] [8]1771 allowed Brooker’s bill for plank £7 9s 8d1772 tenant allowed £17 13s 0d for repairs and 8s 3d for three years’ quitrent [8]1775 tenant allowed £7 16s 5d (Standley), £3 3s 2d (Billinghurst), £2 2s 5d (Stiles)

[8] and £2 14s 10d (Norris) in 17761779 repairs to house, barns and stable: carpenter £2 16s 10½d, bricklayer £14 3s 8d,

blacksmith 7s 8½d, shopkeeper 2s 4½d, sawyer 18s 0d [8]1781 Map by Thomas Marchant shows a house and two large, two small and one tiny

outbuilding; accompanying letter states: ‘I think you need not be at the expense of pulling it down, for it seems as if the wind would soon do that business for you. However if the worst part of it was taken down and the other a little repaired I should think (as it seems to be too large) it might answer the end as well or better than now. The last high winds have so disjointed it at several places that if something is not done to it soon, it will stand a fair chance to fall.’ [8]; described in lease as a messuage, barns and stables [12]

1800 estate valued; ‘the farm house is very old and will be in continual want of a little repairs being done to it, but may be kept up for a lease of 14 or 21 years’;

mentions two barns and pigsties [8]<1838-1841+ House and garden [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1768-1779 31?1780 apparently not assessed1781-1792 21 (25 in 1788)1793-1800 191801-1840 20

Owners<1608 Robert Randoll the abuttals to P125/12 suggest that RR may

have been a former owner of part of Winterlands [11]

<1606-1606 John Stafford of Hamsey; he left leasehold land in Hamsey to his eldest son JS, and land in Wellingham in Ringmer [4]

<1616-1616 John Stafford yeo of Hamsey; by his will of 1616 he left to his eldest son JS a parcel of land called The Winterland and The Werd Land; The Slitters Land and the Hame Land to youngest son Edward, + The Mapleward belonging to Winterland if not allowed to enjoy his bequest [4]

1616-1644 John Stafford [4]; in 1636 he acquired P125/97; in 1644 he sold P125/97 to Edward Young and his wife Elizabeth, almost certainly as part of a conveyance of this tenement [3]

1644-1644+ Edward Young and his wife Elizabeth [3]; perhaps the EY of Kingston whose will was proved in PCC in 1680 [6]

<1699-1716 Robert Young clerk abuttal in 1699 and 1713 [P125/12]; admitted to King’s Cambridge from Eton in 1661; born at Kingston, Surrey, in 1643; ordained, made domestic chaplain to Prince Rupert and a canon of Windsor in 1663; died 10 Aug 1716 [10]; death presented 1718, no animal; descended to his eldest son, who had sold to TC [3]

1716-1718 Charles Young TC calls him his cousin in his will [8]1718-1728 Thomas Cleaver clerk TC was appointed a lay clerk of St George’s

Chapel Windsor in 1668, became a minor canon in 1672 and died in 1728. By his will of 7 Nov 1719 he left a small farm called Winterlands in Hamsey to the canons, which was sold in 1905 [7,8]

1728-1905 Minor Canons

of Windsor [1,2]; in 1731 they let the isolated Crow Barrow to John Bridger of Combe [5]

Occupiers<1699-1713+ Nath Hosmer abuttal to P125/12<1719-1719+ Thomas Killingbeck [8]<1734-1767 Thomas Tippen held at £37; allowed £6 a year for repairs in

1738-39; renewed at £37 in 1754 [12]; in

1765 the leases were renewed three years before they expired ‘for the conveniency of his nephew the new tenant’ [8]

1767-1781 James Newnham yeoman

[2]; of Hamsey, held at £37 [8]

1781-1783 John Newman farmer [2]; of Hamsey; held at £40 [8, 12]1784-1787 James Newman called Newnham in the landlords’ accounts

so is he the same as the tenant who left in 1783? [8]

1788-1825 Richard Christmas yeoman

[2]; of Falmer; held at £40 in 1787, raised to £122 10s 0d in 1815 [12]

1826-1829 George Mott [2]1830-1840+ Isaac Leney [1, 2]; late tenant in 1865 [12]<1864-1865 Alfred Jordan farmer of Old Windsor, Berkshire; unexecuted

lease to him at £122 from 29 Sep 1864 [12]1865-1868 Thomas Doe public

anof 6 Stanley Road, Balls Pond Road, Mx, publican; held at £160; his widow assigned to [the real occupier] GG in 1868 [12]

1868-1885 George Gosling farmer of Winterlands; lease renewed to him at £140 in 1872 and 1880; bankrupt by 1882 when his assignees (to whom he had mortgaged his lease in 1880) took on the lease, which they surrendered in 1885 [12]

1885-1885+ George Norman brewer of Hamsey; took a lease at £130 in 1885 [12]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A12.130 (John Stafford, 1605); A15.164 (John Stafford, 1616)5 ESRO SAS/SH 946; 5696 TNA PROB 11/3627 Edmund H Fellowes, The Vicars and Minor Canons of HM Free Chapel of St George in

Windsor Castle (Windsor, 1945) 40-41]8 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,

including map by Thomas Marchant, 17819 WSRO Ep II/17/8910 Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses11 ESRO SAS/PN 46912 ESRO AMS 6242 - deeds, 1754-1885

~42~HAMSEY - Crowborough P125/42


Tithe numbers [1]1840 243 PART OF WINTERLANDS P125/41

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 396133)1781 ‘The last piece called Crowborough (marked Q) lies about half a mile south

westerly 17 degrees from the farm house, and is environed on the south, west and north by Sir John Bridger’s Combe Estate and on the east by Mr George Verrall’s land. It is so swampy and boggy that (in its present state) it is worth little or nothing. The best way of improving it would be to plant it with osiers or willows, but that would be some expense, and it would be a considerable time before it would yield any profit.’ [4]

<1838-1841+ Land: Pasture 1a 0r 15p [1]


Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1840+ taxed within P125/41

Owners<1719-1838+ Minor Canons of

Windsorpart of P125/41 [1]

Occupiers1731-1731+ COOM

BEESTATE in 1731 let to John Bridger of Coombe Place

[5]<1838-1838+ John Satcher [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,

including map by Thomas Marchant, 17815 ESRO SAS/SH 946; 569

~43~HAMSEY - Hamsey House P125/43

Manorial tenure: four copyholds of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 1s 0d+ [3]M505/77 messuage, barn, orchard and 10a (5a in The Cottery, 1½a called The Link, 1¼a in Short Furlong, 1½a called The Crooked Croft, 1a called The Stonefield Croft, a cut of hay in the upland wish 9 rods square, 1½ common in the Wood Green Common, in Hamsey); copy ?dM505/78 half a yard called The Ryes in Hamsey copy ?d = U9M505/79 half a yard called Rosefield in Hamsey copy 6d = U9M505/80 Hawles Acre in Hamsey, late Marks, before Hother; copy 6d heriot 6d = U11

Tithe numbers [1]1840 303, 302, 309, 213; see P125/44 for the same estate in the ownership of a

different member of the same family

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 409127)1627 day given to William Young, Thomas Longley, Edward Chatfield,, John

Dawson, Henry Hawkins, William Marks and Robert Cowlstock to mend the way from The Parsonage to Stones Barn by St Bartholomew sub pena 5s 0d

c1631 manorial tenement split from M505/65 (Rades Croft, P125/48), from which the quitrent was apportioned in 1662 [3]

1640x1672 acquires P125/U91644 M505/77 = messuage, barn, garden, 5a called The Cotterell in The Cotterell,

1¼a in the Short Furlongs, 1½a called The Crookes Croft, 1a called the Stonefields Croft, the first [cut] of ½a in the Upland Wish and 1½ commons on The Tenants Green, with 1½a called the Link, rent 6s 8d [2]

1651 future owner of this acquires M505/79 from P125/401674 newly-acquired land [same title as U11] settled on marriage =

1 toft, tenement, barn and garden Pookham otherwise Vines (E: road; N: late Henry Hawkins; S: Halls Acre copyhold); probably = Easternmost part of tithe 302

2 Lydd Acre (W, S: Hamsey demesne; N: now or late Ralph Longley; E: late Richard Burdett)

3 Round croft (E: late John Wincton, before Longley, before Dawson; S: late Edward Chatfield; W: road; N: late Edward Marks)

4 acre of brook ground in Upland Wish [11]1752 shown on map as a house, garden and 21a 3r 25p, tithe East part 301, 302, 303,

181, 152, with 1½a in Hamsey Common [7]1796 1½ leazes on Wood Green Common sold to P125/15 [3]<1838-1841+ House and garden, land, pasture and wood 11a 3r 4p [1]1856 tithe 309 given to P125/2 in exchange for part of late Comber’s [P125/7] and

glebe [P125/46]; these exchanges plotted onto map of 1810 [9]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 410128)1600 the house, tithe 303, probably = Hawles Acre, P125/U111622 owner’s will listed a hall, inner loft and chamber; chattels included a cheese-

press [4]1752 called Cottery House [7]<1838-1841+ House and garden (303) = M505/77 [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1817-1840+ 14 (Rev B Whitfield)

Owners<1622-1627 William Young by 1622 he had sold three acres to Thomas

Earl [?M505/124]; in 1622 Richard Knight and WY ordered to make ditches and receive water and cut hedges in Cowles Lane against the land at The Ham [3]; his will of 1622 proved in 1627 [4]

1627-1635+ Joan Young widow

of William Young of Hamsey; in 1625 he was granted licence to lease The Link, the Butts in Upland Wish and the common in the Wood Green for five years; in 1628 she surrendered a messuage, barn and 18a to herself for life, remainder to her son John Young on condition he make specified payments to his brother Hart, his brother William Young and sister Reade; the surrender was made void, with the consent of all the parties, in 1631 [and the tenement partitioned – see M505/6, 65 - partly to create P125/48]; before 1632 she settled P125/77 (described as all the land she had not already surrendered) on herself for life, remainder to her son WY for life, remainder to his son HY; she was admitted to that estate in 1635; later stated to hold for life as widow’s bench, remainder to her son WY for life, remainder to his son HY [3]

1635-1656 William Young held for life, remainder to his son Henry Young; in 1644 he had lately surrendered M505/77 to the lord to the use of Robert Firins and his wife Ann, who were admitted to all but The Link in 1644; death presented for a messuage, barn and 10a in 1656, no animal; heir is his daughter Joan, wife of John Fryer, youngest sister and heir of his son Henry Young deceased [3]

1656-1656+ John Fryer in the right of his wife Joan; when admitted to M505/77 they settled to themselves for their lives, remainder to the survivor, remainder to their heirs [3]

<1672-1708 John Smith gent John Smith, gent; had already acquired M505/79 (formerly part of P125/40) from Samson Coulstock’s trustees; see P125/U9) by 1651; by 1674 had assembled M505/77-80 and probably U11, which he settled on his marriage with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Lane, gent; in 1706 he mortgaged M505/77-80 for £410 to WB, who was admitted on forfeiture in 1708 [3]

1708-1735 Walter Brett grocer

the younger of Lewes; in 1712 he mortgaged M505/77-78, 80 to Walter Brett the elder for £250 at 5%; his death presented for M505/77-80 in 1736, heriot a black mare;

by will of 5 Oct 1734 in moieties to his daughters EB and AB [3, 4]

1735-1783 ElizabethAbigail

BrettBrett

spinsters

Abigail’s death was presented in 1736, no animal; by will of 19 May 1736 to her sister Elizabeth [3, 4]; died 1783 [6]; her death presented 1784, no animal; by will of 18 July 1783 to CB [3]

1783-1832 Catherine Brett spinster

[2, 7]; in 1796 she sold 1½ leazes on Wood Green Common otherwise Hamsey Common to Thomas Partington, lord of the manor of Hamsey [3]; died at Hamsey and buried at Lewes St Michael, aged 93, 30 Jan 1832 [8]

1832-1833 Thomas Whitfeld [2]; Francis Whitfeld of Lewes grocer had married Elizabeth daughter of William Brett at Lewes St Michael in 1767 [8]

1834-1851 B Whitfeld Revd [2]; is this the Revd William Brett Whitfeld, son of Francis Whitfeld and Elizabeth Brett, vicar of Lawford in Essex (1769-1847) [6]?

1852-1875 Thomas Whitfeld esq son of Lewis Whitfeld (1747-1812), born 1790, died 1875; presumably nephew of William Brett W and Francis W; partner in Lewes Bank; owner-occupier [1, 2, 9]

1875-1891 George Whitfeld esq partner in Lewes Bank; the estate was sold on his death in 1891 [10]

Occupiers<1780-1787 Thomas Gorringe [2]1788-1792 James Morris [2]1793-1828+ Joseph Morris [2]<1833-1834 Joseph Morris [2]1834-1840 Benjamin Morris [2]1840 Thomas Whitfeld Esq owner occupier [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A20.56 (Willaim Young, 1627); W/A55.62 (Walter Brett, 1735); 55.119 (Abigail

Brett, 1736)5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/1111 (Elizabeth Brett of Lewes, spinster, 1783), PROB 11/2066 (William

Brett Whitfeld of Lawford in Essex, 1847)7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO PAR 4149 ESRO AMS 6599/110 ESRO SAS/PS 29211 ESRO SAS/PN 487

~44~HAMSEY - P125/44

Manorial tenure: 182 half a yard called Rosefield in Hamsey; copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d [M505/79] [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 414133, 413138)<1838-1841+ Field by Park Field and Rose Field: meadow 12a 1r 5p[1]


Land tax assessments [2]1840 not individually assessed

Owners<1838 see P125/43<1838-1838+ Thomas Whitfeld Esq [1]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ Benjamin Morris [1]


~45~HAMSEY - P125/45

Manorial tenure: demesne of the manor of Hamsey, subject to the rights of commoners [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 408133)<1752-1840+ rights on Hamsey Common are shown on the map of the manor of 1752 [4] and

listed in this document under tenements P125/7, 15, 40, 43, 79 and 81. By 1840 all the rights had been amalgamated in the hands of the lord of the manor (11) and the executors of Richard Barnard Comber (2) [P125/7]

<1838-1841+ Hamsey Common Land: pasture 13a 1r 9p [1]

Descriptions of house 1830 30 rods at the SW corner of the Common granted as the site of a windmill [5]<1838-1841+ map shows a windmill [1]1875 a post-mill in excellent condition, with a brick-built round-house, two pairs of

stones and a flour machine [7]1887 the mill had burnt down by 25 June 1887, when the grandson of the lessor

invited the surrender of the lease [5]; said to have been burnt down on bonfire night one year after 1880; ‘It is the opinion of several olds millers that Hamsey Mill was quite an ancient structure, which seems to suggest that she must have stood elsewhere for some years prior to being erected on this site.’ [7]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780-1840+ apparently not assessed

Owners<1838-1838+ Thomas

GeorgePartingtonComber

(late) [1]; owned 11 of the 13 rights in 1851 [6]

<1887-1887+ Thomas Partington vicar of Netherfield, TP’s grandson, owner of the reversion of the lease of 1830 [5]

Owners - leasehold mill<1830 NOT FORMED 1830-1830+ Christop

herKell gent a Lewes solicitor, he obtained a 99-year

lease, rent £1, from Thomas Partington of Offham on 29 Sep 1830 [5]

1835 ‘awaiting a tenant’ [7]<1838-1838+ James Aylwyn of Offham Farm; listed as tenant of the

Common in the tithe apportionment, probably in respect of the mill [1]; he ran the mill at Offham [8]

<1887 Amos Oden of East Chiltington; a letter from the grandson of the lessor of 1830 was forwarded by him to the new tenant in 1887 [5]

<1862-1867+ Mary Martin Mrs [8]<1875-1878+ John

RichardMartin [7, 8]; the benefit of the lease seems to have

remained in his family (see 1887)

<1887 Charles Saunders he also took over the Offham smock-mill c1880 [7]

<1887-1887 Sarah A Marten wrote from Cinder Farm, Chailey, to surrender the lease on 30 June 1887 [5]

Occupiers<1838-1838+ James Aylwyn of Offham Farm [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO MOB 16995 ESRO ACC 6506/456 ESRO SAS/SH 147 HES Simmons ‘The Old Windmills of Lewes’, Sussex County Magazine 15 (Nov 1941) 342-

53 at 352.8 Trade directories.

~46~HAMSEY - Hamsey Manor (formerly Hamsey Rectory) P125/46

Manorial tenure: glebe

Tithe numbers [1]1840 163, 201, 202, 285, 289-294, 296, 298, 299, 304, 414, 427, 428, 431, 432

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 411127+scattered residual strips)<1239 the rector was entitled to a cartload of corn from the tithes of ‘the ancient

demesne of Richard de Cumba [P125/22]; in that year he agreed with Lewes Priory, the owners of the remainder of the same tithes, to accept an annual pension of 3s 0d instead [12]

1291 three virgates of arable and 10 acres of meadow valued at £13 6s 8d [10]<1627 in 1627 it was presented that many years ago John Beach had let to Edward

Wood, clerk, parson of Hamsey, one acre of copyhold and one acre of freehold in Rishly in lieu of two acres of glebeland in Claycroft, which Edward Wood had let (with a further two acres of glebe) to Tuppen Scrase, gent, in lieu of four acres in Bentons Wish; in 1627 he had licence to let 1a in The Common Risly for 7 years; by 1635 he had surrendered out of court (W: George Reade and William Rennolls) to JB [3]

1609-1635 glebe terrier [7]1 one field of meadow called The Seven Acres lying on the end of the parsonage barn to the east a tenant way leading to the Cowlease being only between the said field and barn.2 another field of meadow (2a) lying before the Parsonage house towards the south.3 three acres of tenant measure in a common field called the Short Furlongs joining to the hedge on the north side of that field and being by common account the one half of the said field.4 11a 1r in the common laines of Wogham commonly called the twelve acres (W: the Coombe Lands; E: lands of John Constable; S: the tenant way on the south); while Mr Scrase was owner of the Coombe lands have been so far encroached upon by him and his farmers that there are now not a full rod of ground above 10 acres as White of Chiltington hath measured the same, viz ten acres 33 rods5 one acre in the field called the Long Hamme (W: the lands of John Vinall; E: the lands of Mr Aucock; S: the tenant way); the fence of that was cut up by John Hatch deceased6 two acres in a common field called The Rishley7 one headland acre in the Thornwell (N: lands of Mr Aucock; W: North Wish Lane; E: land of John Vinall); the fence also of the said land was cut up by Hatch aforesaid8 two acres called The Clay Croft (S: George Read [P125/13]; N: John Beach and his heirs [P125/74]; E: road; W: Rishley)9 one acre in the Mapleward (E: lands of the heir of John Munger; W, N: lands of John Stafford; S: lands of Mr Threele)10 three rods more in the Mapleward (E, S: lands of William Lullam; W, N: lands of John Stafford)11 one acre in Moynes Field upon which standeth a small cottage (N: lands of Phillip Bennet; W, S: lands of John Stafford; E: highway) [part tithe 91]12 one acre lying in a field called Bats Furres on the east side of that field (N: William Lullam; E: lands of John Beach his heirs)

13 one lot acre in the Upland Wish where the parson hath only the first crop of hay as the other tenants.14 in the common Shite two acres (E: the river; S: land of <the heirs of> John Perse; W: the Coombe Lands)15 to the Glebeland at Offham there belong leases on Offham Down for 24 sheep16 the Parson of Hamsey hath always time out of mind used to have a way through the lands of William Lullam called the Werde to one acre and three rods of his glebelands lying in the field called Maple ward.17 Item there belong to the Parsonage of Hamsey the pasture of the churchyard, the parsonage house, one garden before the parsonage house, one orchard behind the said house, one barn with closes thereunto belonging and another close before the dwelling house. The closes, garden and orchard with the plots of ground whereupon the dwelling house and the barn do stand do contain about one acre of ground.18 Memorandum. That Samuel Norden, Parson of Hamsey and immediate predecessor to the present incumbent Edward Wood, did let to Edward Alford, lord of the manor of Hamsey, one half acre of glebe land parcel of the seven acres lying at the end of the parsonage barn on the east for the making of a new great dike which half acre lieth on the north side of a close of pasture in Hamsey called Link Croft. And the said lord in lieu of that did let to the said Samuel three rods of ground lying on the north side of the orchard belonging to the said parsonage which three rods of ground the present incumbent doth still enjoy.

1752 shown on a map as seven parcels amounting to 14a 3r 13p [11]1774 acquired 8 rods in Coombe Common Laine in exchange with the Coombe

Estate to extinguish common rights and sheep-leazes [P125/22]1780 Clay Croft (2a 3r 26p) included on map of the Coombe Place estate [5]1785 the glebeland, barns and tithes (except the parsonage house, garden and croft

behind of ½a and the field (2a) in front adjoining the road) leased to the Coombe Estate for 99 years at £200 [5]

1821 acquisition of a cottage and orchard near the rectory (tithe 298, P125/82, occasionally owned by rectors of Hamsey since 1629), and a four-acre field (tithe 299, P125/83)

<1838-1841+ House, lawn, gardens, orchard, glebe, Paper Mill Stream, and churchyard. Land: arable, pasture, ozier bed 28a 3r 19p + churchyard 1r 29p

1855 acquisition of tithe 300 (a plot of 2r 6p in the lawn of the rectory) from P125/7 [14]

Descriptions of house and buildings (at TQ 41051290)1297 the bishop of Chichester petitioned the king to remove certain laymen who

were occupying Hamsey church and the buildings (domos) belonging to it [13]

1609-1635 the parsonage house, one garden before the parsonage house, one orchard behind the said house, one barn with closes thereunto belonging and another close before the dwelling house. The closes, garden and orchard with the plots of ground whereupon the dwelling house and the barn do stand do contain about one acre of ground [7]

1752 map shows two buildings, presumably a house and barn [11]1820-1822 house rebuilt on new site:

11 September 1820: Sir George Shiffner notes in his diary that he met a Mr Keal, builder, from Tunbridge, who had come to draw plans for ‘George’s Parsonage’; 7 May 1821: went … to mark out foundations for the new Parsonage; 23 October 1822: dined at the Parsonage for the first time; 25 May

1824 slept at Hamsey Rectory; in the Rectory field was a barn, possibly older than the house, of which the foundations can still be seen today. In this barn was housed the Parish Hearse [9]

<1838-1841+ House, lawn, garden 4a 0r 17p [1]

Land tax assessments [2]<1780- 1041840 174

Owners - advowson<1100-1780 HAMSE

YMANOR P125/2; the advowson descended with

the manor until its sale for £2500 by George Wenham Lewis to Sir John Bridger of Coombe in 1780 [5]

1780-1840+ COOMBE

ESTATE P125/22 [5]

Owners - rectors of Hamsey1147- Edwin<1239-1239+ Thurstan in 1239, called Magister Thurstan, he

agreed with Lewes Priory to take a pension in lieu of his entitlement to the tithes of corn of the ‘ancient demesne of Richard de Cumba’; among the witnesses was Geoffrey, chaplain of Hamsey [P124/22] [12]

1260- Philip1266- Richard1281- Roger1306- Peter de

Molendinis1357- Walter de Lyndrig1368- John Dautry1371- John de

Northleeche1371- Richard Mariot1383- Richard Mendham1392-1402 John Holt1419- John Standare1468-1504 Thomas Bains1505-1521 James Doddesley1521-1538 John Rowlandson1541-1555 Giles St Barbe1555-1556 Thomas Helior1556-1559 Ralph Jackson1559-1563 Christoph

er Green

1563-1568 Thomas Lewknor1568- William Pett1577- Daniel Gardiner1582-1605 Samuel Norden1605-1641 Edward Wood1641-1669 John Smith

1669-1674 John Leversidge1674-1722 John Shore1722-1752 John Fortrie1752-1765 John Davis1766-1773 John Wenham1773-1784 Henry Hemmington1784-1818 William Gwynne1818-1848 George Shiffner1848-1906 George

Croxton Shiffner

1906-1936 Edward Shiffner

Best

1936-1957 Richard Sidney Hansford

Ward

1958-1964 James Godfrey Victor

Strangeways

1964-1970 Rex Edward Ambrose

Lloyd

1970-1975 Michael Diamond1976-1983 Raymond

Newham1984-2007+ Derek Bastide

Occupiers<1780-1780+ Richard Care leased Clay Croft from Coombe Estate at

£1 1s 0d [8]<1838-1838+ George Shiffner +others [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 438-4456 TNA PROB 11/7 WSRO EpII/17/898 ESRO SHR 13779 Jack Harmer, Our Parish; Tales of Offham, Hamsey and Cooksbridge; 199110 VCH Sussex 7.8711 ESRO MOB 169912 TNA E40/801013 TNA SC8/331/1560014 SAS/SH 270-272

~47~HAMSEY - P125/47

Manorial tenure: perhaps freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent unknown [M505/ 121] [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 75, 77, 78

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 399147)1609 does the abuttal to P125/17 (N, W: late Stafford’s) indicate that P125/47 is late

Stafford, or that P125/47 has not been formed and that these abuttals are to Winterlands, P125/41? was this all part of Moines Field (see P125/96) ?

<1627-1638+ is this P125/U8? The former ownership of Abraham Edwards and the marriage of Elizabeth Tillinghast to Robert Tully [?recte Tutty] at Goring in 1639 might explain the descent

1773 this seems to be the messuage occupied by J Crutes which was bequeathed by William Tutty to his grandson William son of John and Philadelphia Tutty [4]

1781 shown as a strip of land running back from the road, owned by William Tutty [8]

<1838-1841+ house and garden (77), plot (75) and garden (78); 1a 0r 12p [1]

Descriptions of house (at TQ399147)<1838-1841+ tithe 77 [1]


Owners<1609-1609+ Stafford abuttal to P125/17<1773-1773 William Tutty bequeathed to his grandson WT, son of John

and Philadelphia Tutty [4]1773-1785 [William] Tutty husb neighbouring owner on map of Winterlands

[7]; neighbouring owner on map of Shelley’s Folly [8]

1786-1799 John Cheesman brewer

of Cooksbridge [2]

1800-1801 Henry Funnell [2]1802-1811 Richard Funnell [2]1812-1826 William Funnell [2]1827-1827 John Funnell [2]1828-1837 Henry Uridge the elder [2]1838-1840+ John Lashmar the elder [2]<1840-1840+ George Langridge [1] failure to tally with Land Tax not

explained

Occupiers<1773-1773+ J Crutes [4]; can this be an error for Croucher?<1780-1797 John Croucher [2]1798-1800 Richard Funnell [2]1801-1801 Henry Funnell owner-occupier [2]1802-1826 Richard Funnell [2]1827-1827 Huggett and others [2]

1828-1832 Henry Uridge the elder [2]1833-1838 George Best [2]1838-1840+ John Lashmar the younger [2]1839-1840+ George Langridge [1] owner-occupier

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A62.798 (William Tutty, 1773)5 ESRO SAS/SH8826 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,

including map by Thomas Marchant, 17818 ESRO AMS 6775; map of Shelley’s Folly estate, [1773x1777]

~48~HAMSEY - Black House/barn now lost P125/48

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey called Rades Croft, quitrent 4d (M505/65) [3]


Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 414130)c1631 FORMED out of M125/77 [P125/43]1662 messuage and acre of land, part of a messuage and virgate of land late Young

and now Smith [M505/77]; rent apportioned to 6d1752 house, orchard and croft by Lon Furlong (1a 1r 15p) [7]1783-1848 merged with P125/1<1838-1841+ 179 arable plot of 3r 12p retained by Benjamin Morris

180 cottage and garden shown by the tithe map as sold to Burrell and tenanted by Henry Guy as part of his farm, but probably mistakenly as a result of Guy renting the cottage [1]

1864 Described in particulars as a messuage in two dwellings, a large garden (1a 1r 15p) with fruit trees called Rades Croft, north-east of the rectory house, with a description of rooms [8]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 414130)1752 house shown on map [7]1840 shown on tithe map [1]


Owners<1628-1632 Joan Young wid in 1628 this formed part of her surrender of

M505/77 to her son John Young [3]1632-1632+ John Young admitted 1632 [3]<1662-1662 William Young death presented 1662, no animal; heir is

youngest son WY [3]1662-1667 William Young in 1667 (out of court, W: Samuel

Cruttenden and Edward Manfield) he surrendered to RF [3]

1667-1681 Richard French death presented 1681, no animal; heir only son JF [3]

1681-1696 John French aged 16 in 1681, custody to Thomas Rogers; in 1696 he surrendered to JA [3]

1696-1700 John Alchorne shpd of Hamsey, shepherd; admitted by attorney Benjamin Ellis in 1697; in 1700 he surrendered to JW [3]

1700-1715 John Wells husb of Hamsey, husbandman; surrendered to the use of his will in 1711 [8]; gent when his death presented 1715, no animal; by will of 3 Nov 1710 to wife MW for life, remainder to kinsman TG [3]

1715-1726 Mary Wells widow [3]1726-1732 Thomas Gorringe remainderman under JW’s will; surrendered

to will 1728; surrendered to TD in 1732 [3]1732-1769 Thomas Dobson or Dabson of Hamsey, husbandman;

admitted 1736; his death presented 1769, heriot a cow; his widow MD entitled for life [3]

1769-1772 Mary Dobson or Dabson, widow; death presented 1772, heriot a cow; the property was inherited by her son William Dabson/Dobson who was admitted (unnecessarily) in 1787 to make a good title to a purchaser

1772-1783 William Dobson in 1779 he mortgaged for £50 at 5% to John Holman of Hamsey, yeoman, paid off 1783; in 1787 he was admitted on a supposedly first proclamation of his mother’s death to enable him to surrender to JM [3]

1783-1796+ Joseph Morris butcr the younger of Lewes, butcher; bought 1783, recorded by the manor in 1787; enfranchised the copyhold in 1796 [3]

1783-1848 MERGED With P125/11848-1852 Philip Garard carptr of Lewes, carpenter; bought for £240 in

1848, mortgaged to Henry Grundy Renshaw of 356 Strand, London, bookseller, for £120; sold to JC in 1852 [8]

1852-1865 John Comber fmr of Hamsey, farmer; mortgaged for £215 to William Mercer of Lewes, greengrocer, who sold as mortgagee in possession in 1865 [8]

1865-1876 Dorothy Guy wid of Hamsey; she died in 1874 and the property was sold by her son John Guy of Willingdon, farmer, for £315 to CE [8]

1876-1887 Charles Ellis fmr of Beddingham; of Rodmell by 1883; in 1887 his executors (Charles Frederick Ellis of Sniggs Foot Brewery, Ormskirk, brewer, Archibald Ellis of Franklands, Sedlescombe Road, St Leonards, timber-merchant and William Mannington of Laughton, gent) sold to the Burrell Estate for £300 [8]

1887-1887+ MERGED with the Burrell Estate (P125/2)

Occupiers1697 Rickford widow [3]1700 Joan Alchorne widow [3]<1780-1780 William Dobson owner-occupier [2]1781-1782 James Heriot [2]1783-1789 Robert Smith [2]1790-1817 Francis Farrant [2]<1828-1833 Reid [2]1834-1839 Henry Herriott [2]1840-1840+ Morris in hand; owner occupier [2]<1852-1852+

<1852-1864+

Abram

Eli

Alcorn +

Collins

AA occupied the Green; this cottage unoccupied in 1864 [8][8]

<1876-1876+ [blank] Deacon [8]

Sources

1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 1699 – map of Hamsey manor [1752]8 WSRO Burrell Mss 17/D/1 – deeds, 1697-1887

~49~HAMSEY - Spearham P125/49

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 5s 0d (M505/59) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 277; absorbed into P125/40 since 1712

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 411131)?1632 Two crofts called Ladderfield in Hamsey, part of Fryes, quitrent 5s 0d [3]<1644-1709+ two pieces1752 shown as a field of 6a 0r 18p called Spearhams ‘near the common’ [7]1854 licence to fell an oak for repairs in 1854 [3]1712 effectively MERGED with P125/40

Descriptions of house c1625 ‘the house down’ [8]<1629-1841+ no house recorded [1, 3]

Land tax assessments [2]1768 41779 £4 2 61780-1789 31790 81791-1792 61793-1840+ 5

Owners<1629-1629 Thomas Longley in 1629 he surrendered to his daughter EL

[3]1629-1643 Eunice Longley wife of William White by 1643 when they

surrendered to WK [3]1643-1692 William Kemp esq admitted 1644; surrendered to will 1689;

death presented 1692, heriot an ox; by will of 27 Apr 1689 to EB and WB in tail [3]

1692-1706 Edward Burtenshaw gent death presented 1706, heriot an ox; heir is only son WB [3]

1706-1712 William Burtenshaw gent admitted 1709 in tail by his mother Elizabeth; in 1712 he barred the entail by recovery and surrendered to AW [3]

1712-1765 Ann Weller aged 11, daughter of Stephen Weller, appointed her guardian; her death presented 1765 as Ann Ade, widow, formerly Weller; heir was her only daughter MG [3]

1765-1792 Mary Glover wife of James Glover of Croydon, mercer; admitted by her attorney Cruttenden Weller; her death, as a widow, presented 1792; heir her only child MG [3]; land tax calls this ‘Mrs Ade’ up to 1788 [2]

1792-1810 Mary Glover aged 18; Stephen Weller of Lewes, draper, appointed guardian [3]; land tax has this as ‘Mr Glover’ 1789-1810 [2]

1810-1840+ Geo Wilmott esq in 1823 he began to be assessed for P125/40

[2]

Occupiersc1625 Harvey [8]1689 Thomas Wigrom [3]1780 James Morris [2]1781-1789 Joseph Morris then follows P125/40 [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO PAR 357/1/1/1 f 40-42

~50~HAMSEY - P125/50


Tithe numbers [1]1840 187, 188, 192 (by this date merged with P125/1)

Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 412134)<1627 sold off from P125/80 [3]; were these the two fields of 3a, which in 1601 had

been lately purchased by the owner of P125/80 from Thomas Trayton of Lewes?

[1752] meadow, house and garden, 2a 3r 11p [7]1627-1769 two crofts of meadow (2a) in Hamsey, part of Bulls Land; for other parts of

Bulls, see M505/2, 107, 115 and 120 [3]1752 two meadows, house and garden (2a 3r 11p) [7]1794 merged with P125/1

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)<1752-1840+ house present [1, 3, 7]


Owners<1627-1627 Richard

JohnHoulterHoulter

since 1603 owners of P125/80 in reversion on the death of their mother Margaret Holter; by 1627 they had sold to EM [3]

1627-1627+ Edward Manfield [3]; also held part of Bulls [M505/107] (but apparently not this holding) at his death in 1671 [3]

<1691-1691 John Hill in 1691 he had sold to RM [3]1691-1724+ Richard Markwick of Barcombe; probably the land from which

he and John Holman encroached 60 rods onto the tenant way between Barcombe Church and Hamsey Common in 1724 [3]

<1752-1765 James Beadle yeoman

[7]; of Southover; not mentioned in his will, proved 1765 []; his death presented 1769, no animal; heir is only son JB [3]

1765-1769+ James Beadle [3]<1779-1781 Nicholas Tourle [2]1782 Nathaniel Tourle [2]1783-1793 Nicholas Tourle [2]1794-1832+ Joseph Morris butch

er[2] merged with P125/1

Occupiers<1768-1768+ [James] Beadle owner-occupier [2]<1780-1788 Nicholas Tourle owner-occupier [2]1789-1793 Alex Hicks [2]1794-1832+ Joseph Morris owner-occupier [2]<1840-1840+ Benj Morris

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A61.226 (James Beadle of Southover, 1765)5 ESRO SHR6 TNA PROB 11/7 ESRO MOB 1699

~51~HAMSEY - P125/51

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 3s 0½d (M505/64) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 already merged with P125/7 within which it cannot be identified

Descriptions of property1622 free land called The Hames<1667 Merged with P125/71724 two barns and six pieces called The Hame (15a) and Lessen Lands (5a)

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)no houses recorded

Land tax assessments [2]not individually assessed [2]

Owners<1610 Robt Randoll [3]<1610-1619 Thomas Darrington of Lewes St Michael; married Margery

Twine at Lewes St Michael on 13 Oct 1593; by undated will of <1610 he left all his real estate to his daughter Ann (who married Richard Knight at Lewes St Michael on 8 Jan 1610), with power to his widow Margery to distrain on his land at Hamsey for her annuity (so had this been her land?); codicil and probate 1619 [4]; death presented 1622, heriot a gelding in the lord’s stable; heir is only daughter AK [3]

1619-1633+ Ann Knight Ann wife of Richard Knight, gent; in 1622 RK and William Young ordered to make ditches and receive water and cut hedges in Cowles Lane against the land at The Ham; he was a defaulter in 1629; in 1632-33 he had not repaired his hedge and ditch against the Ham Barn

<1671 Langley [3]<1671-1671 Richard Barnard Death presented for freehold 1671, heriot a

cow, but death already presented for copyhold M505/61-63 in 1667; by that date this must have been merged with P125/7 [3]

Occupiers

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A28.91 (Thomas Dorrington of Lewes St Michael, 1619)

~52~HAMSEY - P125/52

Manorial tenure: three freehold tenements of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 4d (M505/1), 10d (M505/2) and 3d (M505/3) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 since 1715 merged with P125/40 within which it cannot be identified

Descriptions of property1667 8a free land (M505/1), barn and 3a, formerly part of Bulls, late Hoather

(P125/53, M505/2) and one acre (M505/3)[1752] Alling Field and Lardour (8 and 9) and 2a in Shy Brook (16)1803 the barn on M505/2 no longer standing [3]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)no house recorded


Owners<1630 Claggett1630-1667 Richard Burdett on 5 Aug 1630 at Portslade RB of Lewes

All Saints married Elizabeth Cleggar [sic] of Lewes St Michael with a Faculty Office licence [BT]; death presented 1667, no animal; heir is son JB [3]

1667-1715 Joshua Burdett gent in 1715 he sold to Stephen Weller [3]1715-1715+ MERGED with P125/40

~53~HAMSEY - P125/53

Manorial tenure: freehold tenement of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 10d (M505/2) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 since 1715 merged with P125/40 within which it cannot be identified

Descriptions of property1803 the barn on M505/2 no longer standing [2]

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)no house recorded


Owners<1681 part of Bull’s (which seems to = M505/2, 68,

107, 115 and 120)<1681 Hoather [3]1681-1681+ John Smith one of this name amerced in 1681 for failure

to repair a tenant way called Drove Lane [3]1715-1715+ MERGED With P125/40

~54~HAMSEY - Offham Mill (also called The Race Mill or Steere’s Mill) P125/54

Manorial tenure: long leasehold on Hamsey Place Down (demesne) [7]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 part of 416 [1]

Descriptions of property1791 described when let for 99 years in 1791 as piece of land 40’ x 40’ on Hamsey

Place Down within 40 yards of the crossroads [7]1810 shown on estate map as circular structure South of the crossroads [5]1821 further lease for 69 years (timed to expire with the first) of a piece of land 50

feet E-W and 20 feet N-S with a newly-built granary, with a right of way from the windmill, for 69 years from Sep 1821 at £1 1s 0d

Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)1791 lease includes term that the tenant may build a windmill, stable and granary

over it, the sweeps of the mill not to come within 3’ 3” of the ground, and the stable not to exceed 10’ square; the tenant may take the mill and buildings away in the last year of the term paying the landlord £5 5s 0d [7]

1901 mill demolished after storm-damage

Land tax assessments [2]1794- 5

Owners<1791-1791 HAMSEY PLACE FARM P125/2; in 1792 the land was let by the

owner of HPF and his tenant to JH [7]1791-1798 John Hoather miller of Lewes; in Sep 1792 he mortgaged for

£130 to James Ingram of Rottingdean, gent, (who in 1793 assigned to John Bridger of Brighton, gent), and in Oct 1792 assigned a moiety of the lease for £150 to Charles Hoather of Lewes, miller; they were both dead by 1798, when Bridger assigned the mortgage to Samuel Ellis of Hamsey, farmer, and JH’s widow Ann Hoather assigned a moiety of the lease to JS [7], who had been assessed for Land Tax since 1794 [2]

1798-1803 AnnJohn

HoatherSicklemore

widowmiller

of John Hoatherof Lewes; in 1801 they assigned the mortgage to Richard Knight of Hamsey, gent, to whom they sold the lease for £593 10s (less the outstanding mortgage, now £250) in 1803 [7]; JS assessed for Land Tax as owner until 1814, anad as tenant until 1816 [2]

1803-1815 Rich Knight gent of Hamsey; in 1815 he sold the lease for £800 to JK [7]

1815-1818 Jesse Cook miller of Lewes; in 1815, described as a corn-chandler, he sold the lease for £850 to JS and WS [7]

1818-1860 James Steere miller both of Lewes, brothers; in 1821 they

Will Steere miller obtained a lease of the land on which a newly-built granary stood; JS died in 1840 and WS in 1858; in 1860 WS’s executors sold the lease for £900 to JA [7]

1860-1874 James Aylwin yeo of Offham in Hamsey; died 1874 [7]1874-1885 exors Aylwin executors of James Aylwin (John Aylwin of

Plumpton, farmer, Ebenezer Aylwin of Farnham in Surrey, butcher, Benjamin Aylwin of Eastmeon in Hampshire, miller, James Aylwin of Offham in Hamsey, farmer); in 1885 they sold the lease for £50 to JB [7]

1885-1888 James Broad of Lewes, merchant; he surrendered to the Burrell Estate in 1888 [7]

Occupiers<1794-1816 John Sicklemore [2]1817-1817+ John Steere owner-occupier [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO AMS 65996 TNA PROB 11/7 WSRO Burrell 9/D/1-15

~55~HAMSEY - P125/55

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 5s 0d, heriot 10s 0d certain [M505/42]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 370 [1]

Descriptions of property1752 waste [6]1759 piece of waste (1r) near the turnpike at Offham in Hamsey (E: road; W: John

Bridger's field called The Pyecombs; N: a footpath leading into The Pyecombs; S: turnpike fence adjoining the turnpike gate) where a messuage in two dwellings has lately been built [3]

Owners<1759 waste [3]1759-1762 John Alchorne husb of Hamsey; death presented 1762, by will of

7 Aug 1759 to wife Mary for life, remainder to son JA [3]

1762 John Alchorne his mother Mary already dead; after his admission he surrendered to the lord of the manor to extinguish the copyhold tenure of the plot [3]

1762-1762+ John Wenham clerk of Beckenham in Kent, lord of the manor of Hamsey [3]; did this pass with the sale of the New Inn [P125/64] in 1766?

<1780-1840+ COOMBE

ESTATE shown on estate maps of 1780 [5] and 1827 [7]; owned by George Shiffner in 1840 [1]

Occupiers<1840-1840+ James Wright and

othersJW is merely the first-named occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages [1]


~56~HAMSEY - P125/56


Tithe numbers [1]1840 almost certainly part of 367; see P125/35

Descriptions of property1 messuage and ½a in Hamsey [3]

Owners<1771 Terry [3]<1771 Smith [3]<1771 Hobbs [3]<1771 Markwick MERGED with P125/8 [3]1771-1792 Richard Hollingdale [3]

~57~HAMSEY - P125/57

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2d by apportionment (M505/134) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 418-419 [1]

Descriptions of property1831 FORMED by partition of P125/37 (N: garden of M505/133; E: land of

Timothy Shelley, bt; W: Lewes – Chailey Turnpike; S: waste); two messuages built by 1837 [3]

1840 418 house and garden [1]419 cottage and garden [1]

1858 (N: Charles Goring esq; E: John George Dodson esq; W: Turnpike; S: road); let to Mrs Scrase in 1855

Owners1831-1850 John Wicks John Wicks of Lewes, coachman; in 1837

he mortgaged for £100 at 5% TO Kate Wilbar of Brighton, spinster; paid off 1840, when JW mortgaged for £150 at 5% to Anthony Nott of Lewes, clerk; paid off 1850, when JW sold to JK for £200 [3]

1850-1855 Jenny Knight wid Jenny Knight of Cliffe, widow; by will of 1855 for benefit of sisters’ children; executor Edward Dunn of 16 Newgate Street, London, chemist, renounced in 1858; executor HC admitted 1858 [3]

1855-1860 Henry Card bldr builder, trustee; in 1860 sold for £180 to TK [3]

1860-1882 Thomas Knight fmr Thomas Knight of the Folly Farm in Hamsey, farmer; by will of 1878 to sons Thomas Knight of Laughton, farmer, and Eli Knight of Cooksbridge, farmer, in trust for sale; proved 1881; in 1882 they sold for £250 to JGD [3]

1882-1882+ CONEYBOROESTATE

John George Dodson of Coneyboro Park, MP [3]


~58~HAMSEY - HOLTERS GREEN P125/58



Descriptions of property1549 tenement and land in Hamsey and Allington [4]1691 four pieces (14a) called HG Common otherwise Earls Croft [3]1699 piece of meadow or pasture (10a) in Green Common; 5a arable in Herseys

Croft ([P125/89]; this in 1710 abutted land late John Shore clerk called The Crinks) and 5a in Green Common [5]

1717 messuage and 14a; does this include P125/29?

Owners<1549-1549 John Holter of Lewes All Saints; bequeathed to his

daughter Joan and her heirs, remainder to his daughter Judith and her heirs [4]

<1691 Mabb [3]; probably the Nicholas Mabb of Lewes whose will was proved in PCC in 1590 [7]

<1691 Norden [3]; Samuel Norden owned P125/29 in 1615; is the next entry an error or a temporary alienation? [5]

<1691-1691 John Humphrey by 1691 he had sold to [?his son-in-law] TF [3]

1691-1697 Thomas Freeland of Brighton, mariner [4]; married Joan Humphrey at Brighton in 1643 [6]; by will of 1697, ‘being very aged’, to his executrix Joanna wife of Henry Piercy [4, 5]

1697-1699 Joanna Piercy by 1699 she was the wife of William Whiting; they sold to Thomas Verrall; by 1719, when they conveyed by fine to Richard Verrall, she was the wife of John Lucas of Brighton, mariner [5]

1699-1699+ MERGED with P125/29

Occupiers<697-1697+ Thomas Verrall [4]; subsequently purchased; see P125/29

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A2.3 (John Holter of Lewes All Saints); W/A43.125 (Thomas Freeland, 1697)5 ESRO SAS/SH 849-8896 ESRO PAR 255/1/1/17 TNA PROB 11/76

~59~HAMSEY - WOODCOCK COTTAGE P125/59

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 0d (M505/44) [3]

Manorial tenure of larger estateM505/46 three acres in Hamsey, freehold, 1s 2dM505/47M505/48M505/50M505/54 piece called The Ham, formerly Shermans or Combe, freehold, 1s 4d

freehold tenement of the manor of Southover, quitrent 4s 8d, follows this descent until 1770, when it was attached to the sale of P125/25 by Thomas Dennett to Sir John Bridger

Tithe numbers [1]1764 tithe 407, and part 411-412 (Shide Brooks)

tithe 248-249 (land) and 429 (buildings), The Ham [M505/54]1840 356 ?+ 355 [1]

M505/46 ?= Green Common, Z on map of 1780 [5]

Descriptions of property1626 acquires P125/U4, late John Pierce [passes direct to the Coombe Estate from

Dennet and does not follow the descent via Offham House]1630 acquires tithe 407 from P125/U3, late George Goring [passes direct to the

Coombe Estate from Dennet and does not follow the descent via Offham House]

1656 acquires land from John Constable, for the earlier descent of which see P125/65

1678 John Plawe, owner of P125/U10 acted as Hannah Pellatt’s attorney in 1678; was he the tenant of this?

1691 part of an estate in Lewes All Saints and Hamsey settled on the marriage of Richard Payne with Mary daughter of Hannah Pellatt, daughter of William Alcock, described as a farm and barn given by William Alcock to Hannah Pellatt, including two parcels of another farm of WA in Hamsey and used by him with it [5]

1698 messuage, barns, garden and 97a called Gorings [7]1707 lands of Richard Payne shown as abuttals to map of the Coombe Estate [5]<1744-1744 in 1744 two separate acres near the Great and Little Ponds were sold off to

the Coombe Estate [P125/91]1752 shown as E-W building, straddling an enclosure which also includes another

building, shown N-S, to its W, both entitled ‘Mr Thomas Payne’; 1r 8p [6]1764 sale by Thomas Dennett to John Bridger:

1 piece of brookland (4a) (E: John Wenham’s brook; S: river; W: glebe; N: brookland belonging to Coombe Estate) [this had been George Goring in 1620]2 2a brookland in The Common Shide Brook [5]

probably included in same sale by Thomas Dennett to John Bridger:piece of land called The Ham (11a 2r 22p); M505/54

<1765 the house was until c1765 the centre of a large estate which was sold by Thomas Dennett of Lewes to John Bridger and merged with the Coombe Estate at an uncertain date; 1765, when Woodcock Cottage was sold by Thomas Dennett to William Howell, seem a likely date for this partition

1797 messuage or cottage in two tenements, buildings and garden in Offham, with an adjoining piece of land [?part of tithe 354] on which another cottage formerly stood [5]

1841 shown on the tithe map; the cottage to the W has by now disappeared; 32p + 7p [1]

1851 two cottages; described in printed particulars [5]

Descriptions of house1752 shown as E-W building, straddling an enclosure which also includes another

building, shown N-S, to its W, both entitled ‘Mr Thomas Payne’; 1r 8p [6]

Owners<1626-<1631 John Awcock acquires P125/U4 in 1626 and U3 in 1630;

before 1631 he surrendered to his wife Alice for life, remainder to his eldest son John Awcock [3]

1631-1631+ AliceJohn

AwcockAwcock

admitted together in 1631 [3]

<1672-1672 William Alcock gent of the Friars, Lewes; in 1672 it was presented that his heir was his younger daughter Mary wife of William Pellatt, gent, who on 16 May 1673 (sic) had surrendered to [her sister] Hannah wife of Thomas Pellatt of Lewes, gent; for freehold portion see M505/53 [3]

1672-1692 Hannah Pellatt Hannah wife of Thomas Pellatt of Lewes; admitted in 1678 by John Plawe; widow in 1684 when she and [her mother] Elizabeth Alcock, widow, paid 10s 10d relief for the freehold tenements of which WA had died seised; in 1688 she surrendered to her will; in 1692 she surrendered to [her son-in-law] RP [3]

1691-1729 Richard Payne esq the younger of Lewes; estate settled on his marriage with Mary Pellatt in 1691 [5]; in 1698 he mortgaged a house and 97a called Gorings to Henry Pelham of Lewes [7]; his death presented 1729; heir was youngest son JP but he has died; heir is JP’s brother TP [3]

1729-1763 Thomas Payne gent of Lewes; in 1736 mortgaged for £100 at 5% to William Brett of Lewes, apothecary; death presented for M505/44-55 in 1763; no animal; only son THP [3]

1763-1764 Thomas Holles

Payne admitted by attorney John Buckoll 1764 and sold to TD; of Redhill in Burstow, Surrey, in 1781 when he confirmed to the Coombe Estate land sold off in 1744 [P125/91] [3]

1764-1765 Thomas Dennett gent of Lewes; 1765 surrendered to WH [3]1765-1773 William Howell yeo of Hamsey; will proved 1773 [5] and death

presented 1777; by will of 3 Nov 1773 to grandson WH [3, 4]

1773-1789 William Howell son of Thomas Howell; in 1788 he mortgaged for £60 at 5% to Samuel Ellis of

Hamsey, yeoman and for a further £20 in Mar 1789; both sums were discharged on the sale of the property to Thomas Walley Partington in 1789 [3]

1789-1851 Thomas Walley

Partington esq of Offham, lord of the manor of Hamsey; MERGED with the Offham House estate [3]; sold in 1851 to the Shiffner estate [5]

1851-1851+ COOMBE

ESTATE esq purchased and MERGED with the Coombe Estate [5]

Occupiers1678 John Plawe acted as Hannah Pellatt’s attorney in 1678;

was he the tenant? [3]<1691 John Sparrow late occupier [5]1698 John Cripps

Thomas Manningoccupiers of a house and 97a called Gorings [7]

1773 William Howell owner-occupier [3]1797 R Paul and John Care occupied at £5 [5]1836 William Capelin and

Charles Care[5]

1851 Pannett and Care occupied at £8 [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A63.286 (William Howell, 1775)5 ESRO SAS/SH 13-14, 767, 935-6, 391 (map of 1707)6 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SAS/D 489

~60~HAMSEY – SITE OF COTTAGES AT OFFHAM P125/60


Tithe numbers [1]1840 423 (9p) but this is only the frontage; the backland of the historical tenement

thrown into other land; probably includes 355 [1]

DiscussionM505/37 and M505/71 are probably the same tenement; both have the same quitrent of 2d, the earliest previous tenant of both properties is Kidder, and both were left in the will of William Howell in 1773. It was possibly the bequest of different parts of the same tenement which persuaded the manor of Hamsey to create two separate tenements with different previous owners (which can in fact be demonstrated to be consecutive) in 1777. The tenements have been treated here as though they relate to the same property, but one of them remains as P125/U10 to accommodate their separate ownership 1775-1797 and the possibility that this interpretation is mistaken.

Descriptions of property1716 a small cottage in Offham Street1748 ‘very ruinous and decayed and at my coming of age required more laid out in

repair than would answer’ [7]1752 shown as a square building; no owner listed [6]1754 messuage in two dwellings with garden (24r) [5]1797-1802 house described as with NW and SW parts in two occupations [5]1817 messuage in three (previously two) dwellings, with the newly-erected cottage

on its West, with the ground in the front and the gardens and outbuildings at the rear (N: 60 feet 7 inches; S: 51 feet 9 inches; E: 114 feet 3 inches; W: 110 feet 7 inches) (E: Thomas Partington late Care [P125/61]; W: Thomas Partington late Howell [P125/59]; S: land of George Shiffner; N: road, formerly a highway from Lewes to Ditchling but now stopped up by Act of Parliament); shown on sketch-plan for sale as one large, one medium and two small cottages [5]

1841 open land on the tithe map [1]

Owners<1681 Kidder [3]<1681-1689 John Plaw amerced for failure to repair tenant way

called Drove Lane in 1681 [3]; administration granted to widow Mary in 1686, inventory £33 17s 0d [4]; death presented 1689, heriot a steer; heir is eldest son Richard Plaw, aged 13 [3]

1689-1689+ Richard Plaw aged 13 [3]; Nizell Rivers of P125/15 named him as his servant in his will of 1695 [4]; he married Rebecca Barnes, widow, at Southover in 1710 [6]; he occupied a house and malthouse in Lewes St Michael sold to Henry Shelley in 1721; might this property have passed with it? [7]

<1730-1736 Henry Shelley esq of Lewes; owned this property c1730; he had also purchased a house and malthouse in Lewes St Michael occupied by Richard

Plaw, and this property may have passed with it; on his death in Feb 1736 to his son HS [7]

1736-1748 Henry Shelley esq of Lewes; on coming of age he sold this, with an orchard, to JB for £52 10s 0d [5, 7]; HS came of age in 1748 [8]

1748-1748+ John Bridger esq he retained the orchard [tithe 355 + equivalent land to East] and presumably sold this to RC [5]; retained land shown as ‘a piece of garden ground belonging to George Shiffner’ on SAS/SH 67

<1754-1754 Richard Care bcklr of Offham, bricklayer; recorded in the court book in 1755 [3, 5]

1754-1773 William Howell fmr of Offham the elder; purchased for £70 [5]; in 1767 he surrendered to the use of his will; will proved 1773 [5]; death presented 1777, heriot a horse; by will to his grandson TH [3]

1773-1797 Thomas Howell son of Thomas Howell; in 1797 he sold the NW part for £40 to DG and in 1799 the SW part to him for £40 [3, 5]

1797-1802 Daniel Grover vict of Cliffe; in 1802 he sold to SE [3, 5]1802-1815 Samuel Ellis yeo of Hamsey; purchased for £140; settlement

of 1807 with his nephew TH; by will to his nephew TE [3, 5]

1815-1817 Thomas Ellis yeo of Hamsey; present by attorney Richard Knight; in 1817 he sold to TP [3, 5]

1817-1851 Thomas Partington esq of Offham, lord of the manor of Hamsey; purchased for £315 and MERGED with the Offham House estate [3]; sold in 1851 to the Shiffner estate [5]

1851-1851+ COOMBE

ESTATE purchased and MERGED with the Coombe Estate [5]

Occupiers<1730-1730+ William Care held at £2 [7]<1748-1748+ John Bridger of

Coombe[7]

1754 John Alchorne and John Chapman

[5]

1773 Widow Howell and William Lower

[5]

<1797 John Alchorne NW part [5]1797 Samuel Hollingdale NW part [5]<1799 Thomas Howell SW part [5]1799 Richard Baldy SW part [5]1817 Richard Baldy

James WadyWilliam Phillips;Edward Holder

messuagenewly-built cottage on the West [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)

3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/B11.16v (John Plaw, 1686); W/A42.77 (Nizell Rivers, 1695); W/A63.286 (William

Howell, 1775)5 ESRO SAS/SH 13-14, 54-676 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SAS/DN 1848 John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge 1933) 251.

~61~HAMSEY – COTTAGES AT OFFHAM P125/61

Manorial tenure: not known

Tithe numbers [1]1840 357-365 (1a) [1]

Descriptions of property1752 not shown [6]; was this part of P125/60 and retained by Richard Care on his

sale to William Howell in 1754? It is clear from the conveyance [SAS/SH 54] that RC retained land in the vicinity

1797 messuages or cottages, workshops and one acre [5]1836 eight messuages or cottages ([the eastern] two lately erected by Thomas

Partington on part of the carpenter’s yard), carpenter’s yard, workshop and one acre [5]

1841 row of cottages set back from the road [1]1851 listed in printed sales particulars and plan as six cottages let at £16,

wheelwright’s cottage shops and yard let at £20, two cottages let at £8 [5]

Owners<1797 John Care of Offham; he sold to TWP [5]<1797-1851 OFFHA

MHOUSE ESTATE

esq purchased by Thomas W Partington and MERGED with P125/15

1851-1851+ COOMBE

ESTATE esq purchased and MERGED with the Coombe Estate [5]

Occupiers1797 John Capelin

John CareJohn Care the youngerMary AlchorneAnn Chester

at rents totalling £16 [5]

1836 William Capelin and others

[5]

1841 Thomas Sandal and others

[1]

1851 Simmons, Howell, Holder, Widow Allcorn, Goddard and Bussey; John Oden; Bonniface and Hollingsdale

[5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 136 ESRO MOB 1699

~62~HAMSEY – COTTAGES AT OFFHAM P125/62

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent ? [M505/117]; does this later re-emerge as the freeholds M505/131-132, quitrent 3d and 1d?from 1772 adds a grant from the waste, quitrent 7d [M505/70]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 366 (1a) [1]

Descriptions of property1631 [Cottage deleted] <messuage>; is this related to M505/26?c1635 Cottage, smith’s forge and garden in Hamsey (N, E: Offham – Lewes road;

S: land of John Langworth called Pickhams; W: garden of Thomas Paris [3]1715 house and smith’s shop [5]1752 the map shows a building aligned on the road, owned by James Glazebrook

[6]1772 extra land granted from the waste:

1 piece of waste (1 rood) at Offham in Hamsey with the messuage built on part of it, with a garden behind it (E: road; W: a field called Pickhams; N: the garden; S: brewhouse belonging to the messuage)2 piece of waste (3 rods) at Offham with the blacksmith’s shop built on it (E: road; W: the garden in 1; N: the brewhouse; S: passage between this and M505/69)

1800 part of a freehold cottage and garden formerly Deans and another part being a smith’s forge; parcels of waste 1r and 3r [5]

1827 shown on map of this year as L-shaped building [7]1841 map shows building at right-angles to the road (pink), with an area extending

into the road (grey); cottages (21p), no forge [1]1852 part said to be rented from the heirs of [blank] Tucker for 4s 0d [5]

Owners<1622-1622 John Lucas death presented 1622; heir only son AL [3]1622-<1631 Alexan

derLucas admitted 1622 aged 14; custody to his

mother Joan, then wife of John West; before 1631 he had surrendered to JB [3]

<1631-1631 John Beale admitted 1631 and surrendered to EH [3]1631-1632 Edward Hemsley admitted 1631; in 1632 he surrendered to

WR [3]1632-1635 William Rennols admitted 1632; by 1635 he had surrendered

out of court (W: Edward Manfield and Richard Beale) to MP [3]

1635-1636+ Michael Parsell admitted 1635 [3]; probably MP, the son of William Parsell of Beeding, farrier, named in his will of 1629 [4]; married Susan Dean at Hamsey in 1636 [8]

<1684-1715 William Parsell blacksmith

of Southover; married Mary Sicklemore, widow, at Southover in 1684 (James Sicklemore was the occupier in 1733, and probably from 1715) [8]; by will of 1715 to his grand-daughter Mary Beale, daughter of Richard Beale and WP’s late daughter Mary [4, 5]; they had married at Streat in 1711 [8]

1715-1772 James Glazebrook blacksmith

of Patcham; he married Mary Wilson at Hamsey in 1736; in 1733 he mortgaged for £70 to Thomas Simmons of Patcham, blacksmith; in 1756 his grandson assigned to John Simmons of Brighton, carpenter and joiner, and in 1767 to Robert Killick of Brighton, mariner; after he had obtained the copyhold grant in 1772, James G surrendered to his son JG [3, 5]

1772-1817 John Glazebrook blacksmith

of Hamsey, blacksmith; in 1784 he mortgaged 2 above for £100 at 5% to Edward Boodle of Brook Street, St John Hanover Square, gent, in trust for Thomas Whalley Partington, lord of the manor; in 1800 he settled this on himself for life, remainder to his son JG the younger and his wife Sarah daughter of Thomas Ellis of Hamsey, deceased, for their lives; in 1816 they all surrendered to William Newnham of Lewes, saddler, according to the same trusts [3]; the deeds include a sale of the household furniture, and state that the transaction is in trust for Sarah Glazebrook; in 1817 the mortgage was discharged and Sarah G and William N conveyed to SH for £350 [3, 5]

1817-1826 Stephen Holden of Cuckfield, hairdresser; mortgaged back to SG for £300 at 5%, paid off 1824, when he mortgaged for £200 at 5% to John Hope in trust for Thomas Partington, lord of the manor; surrender absolute to TP in 1826 [3]

1826-1852 Thomas Partington esq MERGED with the Offham House estate [5]1852-1854 Samuel Smith black

smithof Offham; purchased for £315; sold in 1854 to TN [5]

1854-1854+ Thomas Norman publican

of Offham [3]

Occupiers<1715-1733+ James Sicklemore [5]; probably the step-son of the owner

William Parsell, and probably the occupier from his marriage, of Hamsey, in 1715 [8]

<1756-1756+ James Glazebrook owner-occupier [5]<1778-1778+ John Glazebrook the elder; owner-occupier [5]<1817 John Glazebrook the younger [5]<1817 Sarah Glazebrook widow [5]1817-1831+ Daniel Wells [5]; LT treats him as owner until 1826 [2]<1852-1852+ Samuel Smith owner-occupier from 1852 [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A20.155 (William Parsell of Beeding, 1629); William Parsell of Southover, 1715)5 ESRO SAS/SH 68-92

6 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO PAR 357/1/1/2; Marriage licences

~63~HAMSEY - P125/63

Manorial tenure: unknown


Descriptions of property<1752-1759+ still part of Hamsey Down in 1752 [6]; not mentioned in boundary of P125/59

in 1759 [3]1810 shown as ‘garden at Offham’ [8]1827 shown as a cottage and enclosure [7]1840 cottage at Offham [1]

Owners<1752 part of Hamsey Down [6]<1810-1827+ BURRELL ESTATE part of Coombe estate in 1810 [8];

ownership ambiguous 1827 [7]; seems already to be part of Coombe c1820 [9]

<1840-1840+ COOMBE ESTATE owned by George Shiffner in 1840 [1]

Occupiersc1820 Bussey [9]<1840-1840+ Henry Guy [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO AMS 6599 (map of Burrell Estate, 1810)9 ESRO ACC 3612/3/160 (draft map, watermark 1820)

~64~HAMSEY - P125/64

Manorial tenure: former waste of the manor of Hamsey, sold as freehold in 1766 [5]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 372-375 [1]

Descriptions of property1752 waste [6]1764 messuage called the New Inn with stables, buildings, yards and garden in

Offham Street [5]; possibly occupied tithe 372-3781766 messuage or inn (with the ground on which it is built) called the New Inn at

the south-east end of Offham in Hamsey in the road leading from London to Lewes, and all yards, gardens, stables and outhouses [5]; was the sign transferred to P125/35 at about this date?

1810 shown as E-W building, land behind and open yard (apparently still waste) in front [8]

1780-1840 shown as a cottage [5, 7, 1]

Owners<1766-1766 HAMSEY MANOR waste of the manor, leased with a house and

buildings known as the New Inn in 1764 and sold in 1766 [3, 5, 6]

1766-1840+ COMBE ESTATE purchased by Sir John Bridger for £315 in 1766 [5, 7, 1]; 1810 map confirms owner as ‘Bridger’ [8]

Occupiers<1764-1764+ James Grayling innho

lderleased to him for 21 years at £20 in 1764; late occupier in 1766 [5]; Grayling is a blacksmithing name; was the sign transferred to P125/35?

<1840-1840+ James Wright and others

and others; JW is merely the first-named occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 937-9396 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO AMS 6599 (map of Burrell Estate, 1810)

~65~HAMSEY - P125/65

Manorial tenure: messuage, garden, orchard and croft (1a) in Hamsey called Swan Nicholas, freehold, quitrent 1s 4d [M505/82]; messuage and 1a, freehold, quitrent 1d [M505/84]

Tithe numbers [1]1838 house and two acres = part of 315 [1]

3r in Middle Furlong of Mill Laine = part of 345-346enclosed two-acre croft = ?part of 351

Descriptions of property1633 1 messuage, barn, garden and croft (2a) (W: road; S, E: demesne lands

of Hamsey; N: lands late Thomas Savage and John Hoather)2 piece of land (3r) in the Middle Furlong of the Mill Laine above

Offham (N, S, W: late John Beach; E: customary land late John Denham [part of this]

3 enclosed croft (2a) (N, W: common laines of Offham; S, E: road)4 pasture for seven sheep

1661 deed endorsed: Burges house and Pierce’s Croft [5]1752 shown as two houses and land belonging to John Bridger esq [6]1759 [5]1780 shown as a cottage, garden and land [5, 7]; house and 2a croft sold off to

Offham House estate [P125/15], the remainder retained1788 three messuages (of which two were lately erected) occupied by six tenants,

with barn, garden and croft of land adjoining (2a) (W: road Cooksbridge – Lewes; E, S: demesne of manor of Hamsey; N: land late Richard Payne) and croft called The Tilecroft [P125/68] purchased from Coombe Estate for £1000 [5]

1797 already demolished and laid into the Paddock (46a) attached to Offham House [5]

Owners<1610-1610 John Denham [5]; of Hamsey; he bequeathed the house

where he lived and one acre to be sold; among the trustees was John Draper [4]

1610-1623 John Draper yeoman

of Hamsey; presumably bought the property out of the estate of John Denham; bequeathed it to his eldest son SD, subject to the life of his widow Alice; his personal estate amounted to £114 18s 4d [4, 5]

1623-1633+ Alice Draper widow

she held a life estate, with remainder to her son SD [5]

1623-1633 Samuel Draper yeoman

of Warningcamp; in 1634 he sold to RF and RF for £80, subject to his mother’s life estate [5]

1633-1641 Roger Fillary tailor

of Hamsey, with his son and heir Roger Fillary [5]; of Offham when administration of his estate (£119 17s 4d) was granted to his widow Joan in Sep 1641 [4]

1641-1648 Roger Fillary hosier

of Lewes, presumably the second purchaser of 1633; in 1648 he sold for £151 to FP and his wife EP [5]

1648-1664 Francis Pierce yeoman

of Hamsey; purchased with his wife Elizabeth; in Mar 1654, of Offham, he mortgaged it for £50 to Edward Raynes of Barcombe, gent; in Jul 1654, of Bidborough in Kent, he and his wife Elizabeth further charged the property to Raynes for £80; mortgage assigned to William Coby in 1660 and in 1663 to Robert Swan, who purchased from Francis Pierce, now of Goudhurst, for £123 in 1664 [5]

1664-1672 Robert Swan maltster

of Lewes; purchased 1664 [5]; death presented 1672; heir is deceased daughter Elizabeth’s only son AN; he also held 2½a late Pierce, before Draper before Denham and owed three heriots; the quitrent amounted to 6s 8d. That is the total of the rents of M505/58 (copyhold), + 82-84 [3]; by will to his grandson AN, subject to the payment of £100 to his sister Hannah Nicholas [4]

1672-1699 Abraham Nicholas admitted 1672 aged 20; by 1699 he had sold to TB [3]

1699-1718 Thomas Burgess in 1718 he sold to Richard Bridger [3]1718-1788 COOMBE ESTATE MERGED with the Coombe Estate [3, 5];

descended (except the two newly-built house, which may have been built on waste) from Richard to John Bridger, who mortgaged the estate for £450 to Thomas Waterhouse of Wadhurst, yeoman, in 1759; in 1788 his son Sir John Bridger sold house and land East of the main road to Thomas Walley Partington and retained the land in the laines and the eight sheep-leazes [5]

1788-1840+ OFFHAM HOUSE [5, 1]

Occupiers<1648-1648+ Francis Pierce yeoman; owner-occupier [5]<1660 William Middleton [5]<1664-1664+ Edward Manfield [5]<1761-1761+ Edward Stiles

James GlazebrookThomas BrownGeorge Mills

[5]

<1788-1788+ Richard SandallElizabeth Smith, widowWilliam AlchorneJohn Corner the elderJohn Corner the younger

with deleted not ‘Mr Phopes, the tenant of the upper cottage, will immediately remove’ [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)

2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A13.22 (John Denham, 1610); W/A18.87, W/B5.129 (John Draper, 1623);

W/B7.290 (Roger Fillary, 1641); W/A33.10 (Robert Swann, 1672)5 ESRO SAS/SH 13, 394 (map of 1780), 667-73, 693-4, 719, 742-43, 746, 7606 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 2854

~66~HAMSEY - Wellcroft P125/66

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Warningore, quitrent 3d

Tithe numbers [1]1840 part of 315 [1]; this entry includes a larger estate of which Wellcroft formed

part and of which the descent is virtually identical.

Descriptions of property1574 messuage, barn, 26a land, 4a meadow, 17a pasture, 2a wood in Hamsey and

Offham and pasture for 50 sheep [5]1574x1591 added by purchase: 15¼a arable in the common laines with common of

pasture for 50 sheep [= M505/48] [5]1612 messuage, close and garden occupied by John Alcock (S,E: tenement of John

Draper, late Denham [P125/65]; W: road; N, E: lands of John Hoather); barn and close adjoining (½a)12a 1r in Offham Laine (E: George Goring; W: glebe; N: John Vinall; S: road from Offham to Allington), purchased by Stephen Botting from Abraham Edwards before 1591three acres called Green Common (E: Samuel Norden and [blank] Coulstock called Green Common; N: late Baker; W: Coulstock; S, W: Thomas Fawkener) [5]

1612 Wellcroft = land [5]1656 croft called Wellcroft (2a) in Offham, late Hoather (S: messuage [P125/65];

W: road; N, E: lands of Edward Alford [demesne of Hamsey]) [5]1656 messuage, close and garden (S,E: tenement of John Draper, late Denham

[P125/65]; W: road; N: land of John Constable, late Hoather); barn and croft adjoining, now called Tainter’s Croft [5]

1741 close of land adjoining the house of Richard Payne [8]1752 shown on map as owned by the Revd Thomas [recte John] Davies, owner of

Offham House (for which see P125/15), whose successor sold it to Thomas Walley Partington [6]

1775 by this date stables had been built on this land [8]1797 laid into the Paddock (46a) attached to Offham House (P125/15) [5]

Owners<1612-1612+ John Hoather abuttal to P125/65<1574-1574 John Sherman gt of Lewes; in 1574 he sold to SB [5]1574-1574+ Stephen Botting of Plumpton; he purchased 15¼a and 50

sheepleazes from Abraham Edwards; descended to his son SB [5]

<1591-1591 Stephen Botting in 1591 he sold to JE [5]1591-1596 John Earle citizen and merchant tailor of London; in

1596 he sold to WS and his son John Savage [5]

1596-1612 William Savage clk of Rottingdean and his son Thomas; in 1612 they sold to JC [5]

1612-1630 John Constable yeo of Uckfield; bequeathed it with other land in his will of 1630 to his son RC [4]; death presented 1631, four heriots for M505/50, 46-48; heir is eldest son JC aged 12 [3]

1631-1656 John Constable aged 12 in 1631; of Leigh in Surrey in 1656 when he sold this and P125/66 to WA [5]

1656-1656+ William Alcock gent of Lewes [5]; by descent (see P125/59) to<1734-1734 Richard Payne of Lewes St Anne, died 17 Jan 1733 aged 39

[9]; death presented at Warningore, 1734; to his son RP [8]

1734-<1741 Richard Payne before his death, presented at Warningore in 1741, he had sold to Stephen Heaver, who had bequeathed it to his eldest son Thomas [8]

<1741 Stephen Heaver ?of Lewes; by will to his eldest son TH [8]<1741-1741+ Thomas Heaver [8]<1752 [John] Davies [6] merged with P125/15<1752 OFFHAM HOUSE

Occupiers1612 John Aucock

John Verrallmessuage [5]barn and close [5]

1630 John Constable he called Wellcroft (P125/66) next to his dwelling house in his will of 1630 [4]

1656 William Constable messuage and croft [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A20.194v (John Constable)5 ESRO SAS/SH 13, 394, 719, 742-43, 746, 7606 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO ADA 186-187 (court boooks of the manor of Warningore)9 Monumental inscription, Lewes St Anne

~67~HAMSEY - Pyecrofts and Hamsey Malthouse P125/67

Manorial tenure: freehold of Hamsey manor, quitrent 10s 0d (M505/91) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 260, 262 [1]

Descriptions of property1684 four pieces (9a) called Pyecrofts [3]1689-1701 messuage, barn and four pieces (9a) called Pencroft/Pacrofts [3]1752 shown as a house (probably tithe 254-5) and land [6]<1777 malthouse sold away from land1777 initials IV EV and date 1777 cut into bricks on malthouse1797 1 9 acres, formerly the estate of John de la Chambre, purchased by

Thomas Walley Partington from Charles Gilbert esq and upon which four messuages or cottages are standing [P125/67]

2 lately erected malthouse adjoining land purchased from Charles Gilbert esq [tithe 260-262] [9]

c1820 cottages and malthouse shown in detail on draft map [8]1840 merged with New House farm by this date P125/161854 seven cottages [9]1919 initials HH and HH and date 1919 cut into bricks on malthouse

Owners<1596-1596+ John Earl abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) [5]<1612 Michell abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) [5]<1612-1612+ John Chambers abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) [5]<1671 Lawrence de la

Chambrekt

<1671-1672 John de la Chambre

esq abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) in 1671 [5]; death presented 1672, heriot an ox; heir is eldest son WC [3]

1672-1672+ William de la Chambre

gent [3]

<1683-1683 John Hook wrt wheelwright [4]; death presented 1683 [3]; in his will of 1683 he bequeathed it, late William de la Chambre, to his younger son JH [4]

1683-1701 John Hook under age in 1683 when this bequeathed to him by his father, profits to his mother Mary [4]; death presented 1701, heriot a cow; by will to his son JH [3]

1701-1745 John Hook death presented 1745, heriot a cow; widow EH [3]

1745-1745+ Elizabeth Hook wid<1752-1752+ John Hook shown as owner on map [6]1752v1777 between these dates the malthouse was sold

away from the land. The malthouse was sold by John Verrall to TW Partington in 1790 and the land by Charles Gilbert before 1797

<1777-1789 John Verrall LT at £5 for his malthouse from 1780 [2]; he sold to TWP

1790-1900 OFFHAM HOUSE [1]; Thomas Walley Partington first assessed for Land Tax in 1790 [2]; retained when Offham House sold in 1851 [9]

Occupiers1777-1781 John Verrall owner-occupier [2]1782-1793 Thomas Harben [2]1794-1826 Robert Chester

Cooperlate RC Cooper from 1814 [2]; in 1797 he paid £20 rent [9] of Lewes

1827-1840+ Mary Tucker and John Cheeseman

[2, 9] John Cheeseman was the owner of the Cooksbridge Brewery [P125/6] and Mary Tucker the owner of the Blacksmith’s Arms [P125/35]

<1851-1851+ Sandals and BreachHolder, Wright, Lower and AllcornCheeseman’s executors

two cottages, rent £6 10s 0d; tithe 254-255 four cottages, rent £14; tithe 256-258

malthouse with drying kiln etc, rent 326; tithe 259 [5]

1853-1883+ George Norman

Richard Satcher, William Sandals, Widow Breach, Widow Holder, John Wright, James Lower and Thomas AllcornStephen Reed and Widow Walker

of Cooksbridge, brewer; granted a six-year lease of the malthouse at £12 in 1853; lease includes list of fixtures; yearly tenant in 1883occupiers of seven cottages in 1853 [9]

occupiers of cottages at tithe 253 in 1853

1883 Wickens, Turner, Harding, Gabriel Parker, a new tenant late Curtis and Richard Satcher

at rents of between £2 10s 0d and £3 10s 0d [9]

1899 George Norman son and executor of the lessee of 1853 [9]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 591, 764; SH 146 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 ESRO ACC 3412/3/1609 ESRO ACC 6506/45

~68~HAMSEY - Tilecroft P125/68

Manorial tenure: freehold of unknown manor

Tithe numbers [1]1840 part of 260 [1]

Descriptions of property1596 2a meadow (W: road; N: land John Earl called Tilecroft [?recte Pyecroft]; E:

land John Mitchell gent; S: demesne of Hamsey called Stonefields) [5]1612 2a meadow (W: road; N, E: land of John Chambers late Mitchells called

Pyecroft; S: land of Samuel Norden) [5]1671 piece called Tilecroft (1s; W: road; N, E: land of John de la Chamber called

Pyecroft; S: land of John Langford)1752 shown as a house and land [6]1788 on its purchase by the Offham House Estate described as arable, formerly a

nursery garden, before meadow [5]

Owners<1596-1596 William Comber sold to SN [5]1596-1596+ Samuel Norden [5]; dead by 1616 when his widow Ann

Norden made a will, which does not mention real property [4]

<1612-1612 William Savage of Rottingdean; sold to John Constable in 1612 [5]

1612-1631 John Constable death presented [for other tenements] in 1631; heir is son JC [3]

1631-1656 John Constable [5] aged 12 in 1631; of Leigh in Surrey when he sold to WA in 1656 [5]

1656-1671+ William Alcock granted a lease in 1671 [5]<1752-1788 COOMBE ESTATE shown as owned by John Bridger on maps of

1752 and 1780 [6, 7]; sold, with P125/65, by Sir John Bridger to T W Partington in 1788 [5] and MERGED

1788-1840 OFFHAM HOUSE owned by the Offham House estate in 1840 [1] for details see P125/16 and 67

Occupiers1671 Robert Mercer of Hamsey, blacksmith; an acre of it leased

to him [5]1771-<1788 John Bedford tenant under a 21-year lease from 1771 at £2

10s 0d [5, 7]<1788-1788+ William Howell [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A15.219v (Ann Norden, 1616)5 ESRO SAS/SH 591, 693-6, 7646 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 1377

~69~HAMSEY – piece of brookland (3a) in The Shyde P125/69

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 0d [M505/22 and 114]


Descriptions of property<1658 M505/114, extracted as a separate tenement, has been provisionally identified

as identical to M505/221658 piece of brookland (3a) in a brook called The Shyde (N: two acres of

brookland, part of the glebe; E: the river; S: land of Richard Burdett [of Southover]; W: land now Richard Bridger, gent) [5]

1752 shown on a map as a strip of land adjoining a similar strip of glebe of the NE, against which there is no fence [6]

1788 merged with Coombe Estate [P125/22]; see P125/27

Owners<1635 Sherman named as former owner in 1644 [3]<1635-1635+ Pierce his heirs held in 1635 [8]<1644-1644 Edward Pierce by 1644 he had sold to JM [3]1644-1644+ John Middleton acquired from EP [3]<1653-1658 William Middleton yeo in 1653 he mortgaged to Joan Bodle of

Brighton, widow; in 1658 she assigned the mortgage to Charles Smith of Hamsey, gent; the title purchased by the Coombe Estate in 1788 was the leasehold created by this mortgage, and accordingly the mortgagees have been treated as owners from this date [5]

1658-1694 Charles Smith gent of Hamsey; by his will of 1694 he left his freehold to trustees for sale [4]

1694-1699 Dorothy Smith wid she made George Tye of East Grinstead, yeoman, her executor, who in 1699 assigned to T Tourle of Lewes, butcher

1699-1723 Thomas Tourle but of Lewes, butcher; by his will of 1723, TT the elder of Landport in Lewes, bequeathed it, with property in Lewes, to his son-in-law John Dean [5]

1723-1730 John Dean his son John Dean died a bachelor and his daughter married Sergison; c1730 he put Ann Webb in possession [5]

c1730-1754 Ann Webb of Wimbledon, the heir of Thomas Tourle; John Dean gave her possession c1730 according to a recital of 1788; her death presented in 1754 [3]; passed to her executrix [?and daughter] SH [5]

1754-1788 Sarah Hartley wife of Joseph Hartley of Somerset Place, Strand, London, gent; the manor of Hamsey presented Sarah Hartley as owner in 1784 [3]; in 1788 Joseph and Sarah Hartley were joined by the executors of Ann Webb’s daughter Sarah Wilson (John Tourle of

Landport and William Tapsfield of Lewes, gents), Francis Sergison of Cuckfield and his wife Ann, daughter of Sarah wife of Michael Sergison, the daughter of John Dean, to sell to John Bridger, kt, in 1788 [5]

1788-1788+ COOMBE ESTATE [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A42.22 (Charles Smith, 1694); (Dorothy Smith, 1694)5 ESRO SAS/SH 890-8936 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)

~70~HAMSEY – Scrases Yardlands in the Mill Laine in Hamsey P125/70

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8s 0d [M505/56]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 eastern part of 344 [1]

Descriptions of property1700 customary virgate (9a) in the Mill Laine [3]; shown on map of 1707 as 8a 2r

8p [5]1752 shown on map as 8a 3r 14p [6]

Owners<1612-1612+ Samuel Norden abuttal to P125/71<1627-1627 Richard Newman in 1627 he surrendered to TH [3]1627-1627+ Thomas Hawkins [3]<1639-1639+ Elizabeth Hawkins [3]<1639-1639 Henry Hawkins by 1639 he had surrendered the reversion on

the death of EH to his son TH [3]<1639-1639 Thomas Hawkins by 1639 he had surrendered to James

Rivers, with no mention of the reversion [3]1639-1639 COOMBE ESTATE descends with P125/22 [3]

Occupiers

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 3916 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)

~71~HAMSEY – Land in the Mill Laine in Hamsey P125/71

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Southover, quitrent 3s 8d [M505/56]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 western part of 344 [1]

Descriptions of property1612 6a 3r in Mill Laine (E, S, SW: sheep pasture or down of Edward Alford; W,

N: land of Tuppen Scrase, gent; N, E: Samuel Norden)1665 piece of land in Mill Laine (6a; S: Chesterdean Bottom; E: hill; N: other land

of Robert Constable) with crop of yearly cut of 3r in Upland Wish and 40 sheep leazes [3]

1707 shown on map of 1707 as 6a 0r 12p [5]

Owners<1612 ? part of P125/66<1612-1612 William Savage clk of Rottingdean; he and his son Thomas

Savage sold this and P125/65 and 68 to RC [5]

1612-1629 John Constable yeo of Uckfield in 1612 [5]; by his will of 1629 to his son RC [5]; in 1655 his widow Mary Bowyer gave [?other] land and a messuage at Offham to her eldest son John Constable [9]

1629-1654 Robert Constable of East Grinstead, wheelwright; by will of 1652 to executors John Squire and Edward Lucas of East Grinstead, yeoman, in trust for sale [5]; seems to descend to his brother WC

1654-1665 William Constable yeo of Little Horsted; joined by his brother’s executor Edward Lucas in 1665 to sell for £100 to Richard Bridger of Coombe, esq [5]

1665-1665+ COOMBE ESTATE descends with P125/22 [3]

Occupiers

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A20.194 (John Constable, 1629);5 ESRO SAS/SH 746, 5906 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 28548 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO ACC 2327

~72~HAMSEY – two virgates called Pimbles (13a) P125/72

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 0d [M505/104]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 244 (8½a) and possibly part of 429 [1]

Descriptions of property<1668-1683+ Combeham Wood, Ripiards Field and Thornewell (14a) [4]1690 meadow and pasture called Pembles (16a) in Offham [5]1730 sold off: small piece or slip of ground (E-W 112 feet; N-S 16 feet), part of

The Pimbles (SW: John Bridger’s Pond Field) [5]1788 15a 1r 5p [7]

Owners<1627 Sherman [3]<1627-1627 John Vinall death presented 1627, heriot an ox (£5); heir

is eldest son JV [3]1627-1627+ John Vinall [3]<1668-1668 Edward Verrall yeo of Hamsey; by will to his eldest son EV [4]1668-1668+ Edward Verrall inherited in his father’s will; had a brother

Richard Verrall [4]<1684 Richard Verrall [4]<1684-1684 John Hook whe

elerdeath presented 1684 for this and M505/13, 91, heriots a horse and a cow sold to his widow Mary Hook for £5; heir is eldest son [blank] aged [blank] [3]; in his will he listed land bought from his brother-in-law Richard Verrall (described under 1668-1683 above) which although differently described may relate to this property [4]

<1690-1693 Richard Bonner clk rector of Wivelsfield; in his will of Jan 1690, proved in 1693, he mentioned that the property had passed to Samuel Botting is the younger son of his niece Naomi Botting [3], whom the manor of Hamsey treated as the owner on 1694 [3]

1693-1756 Samuel Botting gent of Chailey in 1713 when he mortgaged to Nathaniel Trayton; of Cliffe in 1750 when he left residue to his daughter Ann [4]; SB was buried at Fletching on 12 december 1756 [12]; this property descended to his grandson RV [5]

1756-1757 Ann Verrall wife of William Verrall, landlord of the White Hart in Lewes and author of a book on cookery, published 1759; she was buried at Lewes St Michael on 22 Aug 1757 [11]; descended to her son RV, born 1751 [5]

1757-1781 Richard Verrall gent of Cliffe; in 1770 mortgaged to John Jenner [5]; shown as neighbouring owner on map of Winterlands in 1781 [10]; dead intestate and without issue in 1781; his heir was his sister EJ [5]

1781-1782 Elizabeth Jenner wife of John Jenner of the Excise Office, London, gent, whom she married at Fletching in 1771; settled it in 1781 and sold to TWP and EB in 1782 [5]

1782-1788 OFFHAM HOUSE Thomas Partington and Edward Boodle sold this in 1788 to John Bridger, owner of the Coombe Place Estate [5]

1788-1788+ COOMBE ESTATE purchased 1788 [5]

Occupiers<1713-1713+ Richard Bridger [5]<1768-1780+ George Verrall [2, 5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683); W/D8.111 (Samuel

Botting of Cliffe, AWA 1759)5 ESRO SAS/SH 894-9116 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO ACC 232710 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,

including map by Thomas Marchant, 178111 ESRO PAR 414/1/1/312 ESRO PAR 323/1/1/3

~73~HAMSEY – Fielders Down, formerly waste P125/73


Tithe numbers [1]1840 206 (8a 3r 10p) [1]

Descriptions of propertygeneral Tithe 136 and 201-206 all seem to have been enclosed from the waste,

although only this tenement has a description which states the fact unequivocally. No evidence has been found to show how this land was acquired by the Coombe Estate, which did not own it in 1634 [P125/22] The map of the Coombe Estate in 1707 appears to show the road to Wivelsfield forming the Western boundary of tithe 205; had the road been moved W by 1754, when it formed the Northern boundary of Oak Field (part tithe 205)?

<1780-1827+ 8a 1r 11p [5, 7]

Owners<1780-1840+ COOMBE ESTATE [3, 5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 757

~74~HAMSEY – Dudleys P125/74

Manorial tenure: the name perhaps suggests that the northern element was part of, or an allotment from waste in respect of, the demesne of the manor of Hamsey, owned by Edmund Dudley and his son John Dudley 1502-1526 [P125/2]; this belonged to William Lane by 1707 [5]

the southern element tentatively identified as a copyhold tenement of the manor of Hamsey called Ivy Croft, quitrent 2s 0d [M505/36], associated with an un-named freehold four acres, quitrent 2s 0d [M505/100]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 205 (5a 0r 32p) [1]

Descriptions of property1707 west end only shown on a map of 1707; depicted with road on south side [5]1792 forms the north part of the southernmost of the two pieces of land in Hamsey

now called Lanes Field [3]

Owners<1584-1584+ Stephen Botting abuttal from P125/13; this relates to the

Northern element

<1644-1650 Edward Dodson his custody granted to his mother Joan Dodson in 1644; death presented 1650, no animal; heir is brother RD [3]

1650 Richard Dodson on his admission he surrendered to his [?step] sons Edward Holmwood and TH [3]

1650-1689 EdwardThomas

HolmwoodHolmwood

admitted 1650 although only EH did fealty; TH, gent, surrendered to will 1675; death presented 1689, no animal; by will of Jun 1688 to HH for life, remainder to his cousin Thomas Wood, son of Thomas Wood of Southwark in tail male, successive remainders to his cousins Henry and Thomas Howard, eldest and second sons of George Howard, esq, successive remainders to Thomas and Edward Monke, sons of Henry Monke of Horsmonden in Kent, remainder to Walter Brett of Lewes [3]

1689-1701 Hester Holmwood widow; admitted 1691 by attorney Thomas Wood, gent; in 1696 she obtained licence to lease for 6 years; her death presented 1701 [3]

1701-1715 Thomas Wood gt admitted in tail male, 1701; death presented 1715, no animal; heir is only son TW [3]

1715-1728 Thomas Wood gt admitted in 1716, aged [blank], by attorney Richard Verrall according to the will of Thomas Holmwood; Mr John

Newlun of Chalton in Hampshire, clerk, appointed guardian; in 1728 barred the entail by a common recovery and surrendered to Edward Medley of the Middle Temple, esq [3]; freehold element conveyed by fine and recovery [6]


ESTATE MERGED with Cooksbridge Farm [P125/12]; owned by George Medley in 1780 [5]

Occupiers<1674-1674+ Anthony Ade [3]<1689-1689+ Thomas Fowle [4]; with 4a freehold by Cooksbridge<1792-1792+ John Berry [3]; occupier of Cooksbridge Farm [P125/12]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A 5 ESRO SAS/SH 391, 3946 ESRO SAS/PN 499, 501 (deeds)

~75~HAMSEY – Bremps Field and Martins Field (4a) P125/75


Tithe numbers [1]1840 part 136

Descriptions of property1533 2a in dispersed in Martinsfield (½a in the N side of the field = N: lord of

Hamsey; S: John Parker gt; E: road Lewes – Chailey; W: Rishley Common;2a = E: road Lewes – Chailey; W: Rishley Common; N: John Parker; S: Thomas Sherman)

1560 6a called Brunesfeld (N: Edward Lewknor; S: John Sherman; W: Rishley Common; E: road from Cooksbridge to Lewes)4a (N: William Denham; S: heirs of Thomas Beche; W: Rishley Common; E: road)

Owners<1533-1533 Thomas Cook of Hamsey; he sold 2½a in Martinsfield to

TS [9]1533-1533+ Thomas Sherman gent the elder of Hamsey<1560-1560 John Sherman gent of Lewes; in 1560 he sold to the overseers

of the will of John Brook of Ringmer for the benefit of his daughters JB and AB [9]

1560-1560+ JoanAlice

BrookBrook

[9]

Occupiers

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 7576 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO SAS/PN 455-50110 ^

~76~HAMSEY – Tanners Lag P125/76

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey called Tanners Croft, quitrent 1½d [M505/29]the descent of this tenement seems to apply to the land to the north

Tithe numbers [1]1840 southern part of tithe 119

Descriptions of property1699 an abuttal in the conveyance of The Werd [P125/12] to Thomas Wigsell

includes ‘S: Mr Bridger’s Tanners Lag’; however, the descent of M505/29 follows that of The Werd; these are possibly two fields, and Tanners Lag already part of the Coombe Estate by 1699

1707 Tanners Lag (2a 1r 25p) shown on map of the Coombe Estate [5]c1708 ‘lately’ acquires Tanhouse Lag [P125/76]; this had certainly happened by 1713,

but a bond in £110 by Richard Bridger of Hamsey to Thomas Medley of Barcombe, to keep the covenants in a deed of even date, 2 March 1708, would fit a conveyance of Tanhouse Lag perfectly [10]

<1713 in 1713 ‘lately’ sold to P125/12 and MERGED1738 Tanhouse Lag (2a 0r 10p)

Owners<1634-1713 COOMBE ESTATE [5, 9, 10]1713-1840+ CONEYB

OROESTATE [6]; abuttal to P125/12 in 1713 ‘Tanhouse

Lag lately purchased by Thomas Medley from Mr Bridger’ [10]; MERGED with Coneyboro Estate

Occupiers<1738-1738+ Thomas Wigsell [6]; tenant of P125/12

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 391, 579, 7576 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO SAS/PN 489-49210 BL Add MS 38486 f179-83, Add MS 38485 f152

~77~HAMSEY – East Allington and Barley Banks P125/77


Tithe numbers [1]1840 house = 333 + land

Descriptions of property1613x1638 acquired messuage called Bakers with 16a in Hamsey and Lewes St John [5]1638 includes messuage called Bakers in Hamsey and Lewes St John; croft (½a)

called Beles Hawe in Hamsey, held of the crown in chief by knight service [11]

1659 manor of Allington and 160a in Chailey, Wivelsfield, Hamsey and Lewes St John, and a tenement called Bakers (16a) in Hamsey and Lewes St John [5]

1754 exchange:1 Oak Field 5a (N: road Cooksbridge – Beachwood; W: Richard

Verrall; S: Samuel Botting’s Pimbles; E: Thomas Payne of Brighton gent [tithe 245])

2 brookland in Shy Brook occ John Bridger (E: Cruttenden Weller agreed to be purchased by Bridger); N, W: John Bridger; S: Great River and Landport Brooks)

3 acre of brookland or first cut in Lot Brook (E,W,N,S: Hamsey Place Farm)

4 Horse Croft 3a (E: common march of John Bridger, John Turle and Mary Killingbeck widow; S: John Bridger; W: George Medley’s Court House Farm and land of Mary Killingbeck; N: John Bridger) [W pt tithe 222]

5 Cony Croft 2a (E: John Bridger’s Barley Banks; S: Robert Day; W, N: road from Court House and sheepdown) [tithe NW part 337]

all part of the manor farm of East Allington otherswise Barley Banks, held of the manor of [blank]for:6 Goat Acre in Offham 5a (S: road from Plumpton across Offham

Laine to Offham; W: Robert Day’s Stretham Garden and John Bridger; N: Robert Day and John Bridger; E: Richard Ridge occ Samuel Ridge) late occ John Pickett; held of the manor of Warningore

7 Bennetts Croft freehold 2a (N, S: Richard Ridge; E: Robert Day’s Hoppers; W: tenant highway from Offham Laine); late John Bridger, held of manor of Hamsey

8 Furzy Field freehold 3½a (S: Richard Ridge; E: Richard Ridge, Canons of Windsor occ Thomas Tippen; N: Canons of Windsor; W: Richard Ridge, Robert Day), occ John Bridger, held of the manor of Hamsey [tithe 114]

9 copyhold arable (½a) as now staked out and divided, part of Seven Acres formerly Hawkins in Hamsey Great Corn Laine (W,N: the remainder; S,E: Robert Day) occ John Pickett [part M505/57]

10 Streatham Garden (1½a) freehold (S: Robert Day; W: tenant way out of Offham Laine to Tulleys Well; N: Robert Day; E: Goat Acre); held of the manor of Warningore; occ John Pickett

in all 14a, parcel of Barley Banks1756 House and 137a 0r 17p (Hamsey land = Sand Hilly Field meadow = tithe 162;

The Leggs pasture = 130-1; The Alders woodland = 124; Malthouse

Meadows = 132 = Days Oak Field; Bushy Croft pasture = SE pt 221; Lower Hoppers pasture = S pt 216; coppice = 233; Bennetts Croft pasture = pt 232; Upper Hoppers pasture = E+S pt 236; Upper West Streets arable = 226; Lower West Streets = NE pt 227; Hogs Croft arable = 228; Eight Acres arable = W pt 238; Picketts Farm = 333; Godleys Croft = 335) shown on map [9]

1771 for sale in this year, when Sir John Bridger of Coombe covenanted with his major tenants that they would not lease it without his permission [12]

1780 House called Piggots and land shown in 1756 now merged into the Coombe Estate [5]

Descriptions of house1638 includes a messuage and 16a called Bakers [11]1756x1780 the house had lost some of its croft to Hogs Croft; by 1840 it had lost it all

Owners<1612-1613 Thomas Faulconer [3]; abuttal to deed of Green Common in

1612 [P125/65]; buried at Chailey Feb 1613, when his heir was his daughter Ann aged 18 on 1 Aug 1613, who married Arthur Middleton of Horsham gent at Chailey on 1 Jul 1613 [13]

1613-1638 Arthur Middleton gt of Horsham; West Street abutted onto land of AM in 1616 [5]; an unplaced defaulter in 1629 [3]; purchased Bakers and 16a from William Clagett gent; IPM on death in 1638, held as above; settled in 1630 on self and wife Ann for life, remainder to son Francis in tail male, remainder to son Arthur in tail male [11]

1638-1673 Francis Middleton gt of Hurstbarns in Chailey by 1648 [15]; aged 17y 7m in Nov 1638 [11]; in 1659 he settled this on his marriage with Rose, sister of Thomas Roberts of North Mymms in Hertfordshire, gent; Edmund Middleton citizen and haberdasher of London trustee [5]; will, mentioning wife Rose and daughter Rose (under 21), proved 13 Jun 1673 [14]; descended to his son JM, subject to the life of his widow Rose; she married Thomas Worge of Eastbourne in 1678 [16] and her death, as Rose Worge widow, was presented in 1718 [3]

1673-1750 John Middleton gent of Hurstbarns in Chailey; he leased this property on 4 Jan 1750 [5]; it descended to his daughter Frances wife of Robert Day [10]; his death presented 1752, heriot an ox [3]

1750-1756+ Robert Day gent of Wivelsfield; held in the right of his wife Frances; in 1751 he settled the manor of Allington and a large estate in Hamsey, Chailey, Westmeston, Lewes St John, East Chiltington and Warnham; dead by 1764 [9, 10]

<1764-1764 Frances Day widow [9]; her death presented 1769, heriot

a black horse; homage have heard that she left the property to William Attree of Newick, gent [3]

1764-1772 Thomas Attree bequeathed to trustees who sold it to John Bridger [9]

1772-1772+ COOMBE ESTATE [5]

Occupiers1750-1771+ John Pigott/Pickett took a 21-year lease in 1750 [5]; still holding in

1771 [12]<1780-1790+ Samuel Ellis ‘Trees Land’; 1791 merged with Late Ridge [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 572, 829-8476 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO ADA 24610 ESRO SAS/C 1911 TNA C142/568/12412 ESRO SHR 203013 John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge 1933) 11214 TNA PROB 11/342, copy at ESRO SAS/ND 8915 ESRO AMS 5897/5816 SRS 6 (1906) 51

~78~HAMSEY – cottage at North End P125/78



Descriptions of house[1752] Shown as a house and 1r 34p at North End, S: road, EWN: Dr Russell [6]1840 described as cottage and garden [1]

Owners<1752 Newnham [3]<1718-1748 Shadrack Pocock hus

bof Hamsey, husbanrman, when he married in 1718 [8] but there is nothing to associate him with this property; buried at Hamsey 10 Sep 1748 [4]; death presented 1754, heriot; his son John Pocock inherited [3]

1748-<1752 John Pocock sold to JF [3]<1752-1754+ John Faulkner [3, 6]<1781-1812 Richard Bridger esq [2]; of Church Court, Walbrook, London

and the Bank of England, died 1812; death presented 1815; heir is his brother Sir John Bridger [3]; executors assessed for Land tax 1812-1822 and ‘Bridgers Esqs’ thereafter [2]

1812-1840+ COOMBE ESTATE MERGED with the Coombe Estate [3]; it does not appear on the map of the estate in 1827 [5] but is part of it in 1840 [1]

Occupiers<1781-1783 John Stoneham [2]1784-1786 Thomas Wright<787-1823 Joseph Breach [2, 3]1824-1831 George Avery [2]<1832-1840+ Morley [2]; tithe apportionment names James

Wright who is merely the first-named occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages [1]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 394, 572, 829-8476 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO PAR 3578 SRS 6 (1906) 220

~79~HAMSEY – cottage near Hamsey Common P125/79

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 17s 0d [M505/17]the cottage probably represents the messuage of this manorial holding, to which the descent below relates

1725: rent reduced to 12s 0d by creation of M505/431776: rent apportioned to two moieties of 6s 0d

Tithe numbers [1]1840 269 (house), part 193 (land); by this date the land had been allotted to Offham

Farm [P125/16]

Descriptions of property<1644-1721 messuage, barn and two virgates [3]1710 it seems that 7a copyhold at Barley Banks, sold to Richard Bridger of

Coombe in 1710, were part of this holding [5]1725 copyhold reduced by the creation of M505/43 and its sale to P125/801742 a further 8a called Two Vants, The Long Vant, Pookhams and the Rood (N:

Mrs Shore) sold to P125/22; cf P125/83; later merged into P125/40[1752] house, buildings, Common House Fields and croft (13a 0r 24p) [6]

Descriptions of house[1752] house and buildings [6]1851 double cottage and garden [5]

Owners<1639 Story [3]<1639-1639 Henry Hawkins yeo

man

Henry Hawkins; in 1622 he had licence to let two acres to John Lover [3]; will, of Hamsey, proved 1639 [4]; descends to his widow MH [3]

1639-1643 Martha Hawkins Martha Hawkins, widow; buried at Hamsey 1643; death presented 1644; heir is SH, youngest son of HH [3]

1643-1667 Samuel Hawkins admitted aged 9 in 1644; death presented 1667, heriot an ox; heir is son Samuel Hawkins, subject to the life of his mother Mary; she remarried Thomas Rotherham [3]

1667-1709 Mary Rotherham wife of Thomas Rotherham; in 1681 he was amerced for failing to repair the tenant way called Drove Lane [3]

1709-1721 Samuel Hawkins admitted in 1709, of full age, as only son of SH and MH; sold 7a at Barley Banks to the Coombe Estate in 1710 [5]; death presented 1721; by his will of 12 Sep 1720 he left the reversion (on the deaths of his sisters Jane Hawkins of Hamsey and Mary Champion of Cliffe) to his niece, MC’s daughter Elizabeth Spillman, Mary Tuttey daughter of his half-sister Elizabeth Tuttey and to Richard Verrall junior, son of Richard Verrall, maltster; RV married MT; Jane

Hawkins and Mary Champion admitted 1724 [3]

1721-1749 JaneMary

HawkinsChampion

M505/43 sold to Dr Richard Russell by Jane Hawkins and Mary Champion, widow (tenants for life) and Thomas Spillman and his wife Elizabeth (remainderman); rent not apportioned but rent of M505/43 = 5s; Mary survived Jane; her death presented 1749, Elizabeth Spillman, Mary wife of Richard Verrall the younger (née Tutty) admitted [3]

1749-1752 Elizabeth Spillman death presented for this and M505/18 in 1752; who is heir?; see M505/18 [3]

<1752-1776 Richard Verrall death presented 1776 for a third; heir is RS [3]

1776-1788 Richard Spillman in 1777 he mortgaged for £190 at 4% to Joseph Morris of Lewes, butcher; increased in 1787 to £248 at 5%; after the partition and until his death, Richard Verrall enjoyed a messuage, barn, garden and orchard called The Common House and orchard (1r 33p), a croft of 1a 0r 13p near the house, Hither Common House Field otherwise Four Acres (5a 0r 20p), Further Common House Field otherwise Three Acres (3a 0r 8p), The Leem (2½a), a Pitle in the Little Cottery (1r 29p), 1r 27p in the Great Cottery, in all 13a 0r 10p in Hamsey, with two leazes on Hamsey Common, occupied in 1788 by Joseph Morris; then Mary V widow and Richard Spillman enjoyed the same until her death in 1787; in 1788 RS was admitted to the remaining third of which MV had died seised, paid off the mortgage and surrendered to the lord of the manor Thomas Whalley Partington

1788-1788+ T W Partington lord of the manor of Hamsey; MERGED with P125/15 [3]

Occupiers<1788-1788+ Joseph Morris [3]<1851-1851+ Walker

Read[5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A26.40 (Henry Hawkins, 1639); W/U2.85 (Martha Hawkins, 1640); W/A31.12

(Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 14, 920-9216 ESRO MOB 1698, 1699

~80~HAMSEY – farm at North End P125/80

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 0d [M505/97]copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 5s 0d [M505/43, apportioned from M505/17]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 by tithe this holding had been divided between the Offham House and Burrell

estates, the road used as the dividing line; at its greatest extent in 1752, it consisted of tithe numbers part 149 and part 159 (= M505/43) and 150, part 149 and part 154 (=M505/97) [1]

Descriptions of property1461 messuage formerly John Towne in Hamsey, in which John Wyrgar lately

lived, with all its lands, meadows, feedings and pastures lying dispersed in the fields of Hamsey [5]

1481 a messuage, 12½a land and 2½a meadow called Townes in Hamsey [5]1484 lands and tenements, rents and services called Townesland and one acre of

pasture called Kentyngesacre in Hamsey, 16a in all [5]1502 free tenements and yard of freehold land called Touners; one acre free land

called Kentyngisacre [7]1513 lands and tenements, rents and services called Townesland, and an acre of

meadow called Kentyngesacre (16a) in Hamsey [5]1601 house, barn and land [5]1604 described in a recovery as a a messuage, 13a land, 3a meadow, 3a pasture and

2a wood in Hamsey and Lewes [5]<1616-1620 messuage, barn and 16a lands called Townesland and Kentinges Acre [5] <1627 P125/50 sold off1635 described in a fine as a messuage, orchard, 10a land, 3a meadow, 3a pasture

and 1a heath in Hamsey [5]1692 messuage and virgate (15a) called Townlands and Kentisacre [3, 5]1725 acquires Row Croft (part of tithe 149) and Stephens Gate (part 159) in all 5a,

partitioned from P125/791752 Willow Acre (1a 3r 11p), Row Croft (2a 1r 39p), Six Acres (6a 3r 2p), house

and field at North End (3a 0r 26p), Upper Stephen Gate Brook (3a 1r 19p), an acre in Lower Stephen Gate Brook (0a 1r 34p); = 18a 0r 11p [6]

c1780 the land on the E side of the road sold to Joseph Mighell [P125/2] and that on the W side to Thomas Walley Partington [P125/15]

Descriptions of house1752 shown as large E-W house with crosswing to the E end; N-S building [?barn] to

the E [6]

Owners<1461 John Towne [5]1461-1461+ Richard Cooke in 1461 Sir John Clynton, Lord of Clynton

and Say and lord of the manor of Hamsey, granted the tenement to RC; but is this an enfranchisement? [5]

<1481-1481 John Towne quitclaimed to WC in 1481 [5]<1481-1484 William Cooke John Towne quitclaimed to WC in 1481;

WC is also said to have been enfeoffed with

William Randolffe and William Erle by the grant of John Skotte, kt; in 1484 they enfeoffed John Towne and his wife Margery for life with remainder to John Thatcher [5]

1484-1484+ John Towne and his wife Margery; they held for life with remainder to John Thetcher [5]

<1502-1502 Henry Towne of Barcombe and his son John; in 1502 they quitclaimed to JT [7]

1502-1513 John Thatcher gent of The Broyle in Ringmer; in the quitclaim he is described as son of John Thatcher the elder deceased [7]

1513-1513+ Richard Holter purchased in 1513, when Thomas Chamber of Laughton, son of one of the vendor’s feoffees, quitclaimed to him [5]

<1532 John Holter [5]<1532-1532 John Holter of Lewes St Michael; describes this as part

of property bequeathed to him by his father: to his wife Joan until his son JH comes of age, with successive remainders to testator’s children Thomas and Joan [5]

1532-1532+ Joan Holter widow [5]<1601-1603 John Holter butch

erthe elder of Lewes St Michael; by his will of 1601 he left this, described as bequeathed to him by his grandfather Richard Holter, with two fields of 3a lately purchased from Thomas Trayton of Lewes, to his wife Margaret for life, remainder to his son John for life, remainder to his son Richard Holter [5]; they probably sold off P125/50 after their mother’s death

1603-1603+ Margaret Holter widow [5]1617-1620 John Holter butch

er[3] of Cliffe; inherited on the death of his mother; in 1617 barred the entail of this and a croft in Lewes AS in trust for himself; the trustee was Robert Goldham; with his wife Bridget he sold for £180 to RG in 1620 [5]

1620-1631 Robert Goldham butch of Cliffe; in 1631 he sold for £150 to WK; he and his wife Eleanor confirmed by fine in 1635 [5]

1631-1635+ William Kemp yeo of Hamsey [5]<1692-1692 William Kemp esq death presented 1692, heriot an ox; heir is

only son WK [3]1692-1724 William Kemp esq death presented 1724, heriot an ass; widow

for life, remainder to daughter [3]1724-1724+ Kemp widow [3]1724-1763 Richard Russell dr of South Malling, doctor of physic; inherited

M505/97 in the right of his wife; purchased M505/43 in 1725; surrendered to his will in 1728; death presented 1763, heriot an ox; his eldest son WK admitted according to his will of 8 May 1759 [3]

1763-1779+ William Kemp esq son of RR, sergeant at law; he barred the entail created by his father's will and was admitted [3];

<1782 by 1782 the property had been sold to Joseph Mighell (£5) and Thomas Walley Partington (£7); MERGED with P125/2 and P125/15 [2]

Occupiers<1461 John Wyrgar [5]<1603-1603+ John Draper [4]<1620-1620+ Edward Read occupied at £11 10s 0d rent [5]<1768-1768+ Hook widow [2]<1779-1779+ John Hook [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A11.189 (John Holter the elder, 1603); W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668);

W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 WSRO Burrell 9/A/1-206 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SAS/E389

~81~HAMSEY – farm at North End P125/81

Manorial tenure: copyholds of the manor of Hamsey called a Yard of land, part of Vallerys Copyhold (12a), quitrent 10s 4d, [M505/5], Rose Field Croft (6½a) quitrent 6s 8d [M505/6], Lesson Lands against the Long Furlong (4a), quitrent 4s 0d [M505/7] and seven pieces called Lesson Lands, Three Mawcombs Mead, Smiths Garden and one acre in The Cottery (12a 3r) [M505/8]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 part 148, 181, 183, 189, 190 (house), 191, 276, 278

Descriptions of property1546-1580 Cottage and virgate called late Troberrys in Hamsey, late John Marks, quitrent

10s 4d [8]1644 Messuage, barn, garden and 10a [3]<1694 M505/7 acquired, late Ann Longley, before 1629 her father Thomas Longley

[3]<1694 P125/85 (M505/6 Rose Field) acquired from P125/43 [3]1752 house and 36a 1r 27p:- 1 Mawkhams (4 1 11), 2 House Field (4 1 24), 3

house and yards (0 2 9), 4 Pith (0 2 3), 5 Four Acres (3 1 29) 6 Rose Field (6 2 38), 7 Eight Acres (9 0 32), 8 Acre Piece by the Common (1 0 28); 9 3a in Hamsey Common (3 1 14), 10 half acre in little furlong (0 2 1), 11 pightle in Little Cottery (0 2 30), 12 two acres in Great Cottery (1 2 28) [6]

1780 numbers 8 and 10-12 sold away from the estate to P125/16 [7]1808 the Mawkhams otherwise Balcombes (4a 1r 11p), The Housefield (4a 1r 1p),

the house and yard (1a 2r 9p), The Four Acres and The Pitch (3a 3r 32p), The Rosefield (9a 0r 32p) and the Half Acre in the Long Furlong (2r 1p) [5]

Descriptions of house1644 Messuage and barn [3]1752 shown as a large E-W house with two N-S outbuildings behind it [6]1840 shown as 1752 with different enclosures [2]

Owners<1546-1546 Thomas Marks death presented 1546, heriot a cow; heir is his

son Richard M [8]1546-1546+ Richard Marks aged 4 at his father’s death in 1546; custody

to his mother Marion, who claims to hold for life as her bench [8]

<1580-1580 Robert Marks death presented 1580, heir is his son WM [8]

1580-1580+ William Marks aged 4 at his father’s death in 1580; life interest claimed by his mother Agnes, now wife of John Randall [8]

<1629-1631+ Robert Coulstock and his wife Alice; in 1631 he mortgaged for £30 to Samson Coulstock of Lewes, who immediately re-granted to Alice Coulstock for life, remainder to RC and AC’s son [another] Samson Coulstock; she was a widow in 1640 (M505/78) [3]

<1644-1644 Samson Coulstock and his father’s widow Alice wife of Stephen Reade; they surrendered to JS in

1644 [3]1644-<1671 John Smith clerk admitted 1644; his death proclaimed a

second time in 1671 [3]<1671-1694 Charles Smith gent admitted on second proclamation of JS’s

death 1671; amerced for failure to repair tenant way called Drove Lane in 1681; death presented 1694 for M505/5-8, four oxen heriots; heir is youngest son JS; by will of 27 May 1694 to wife Dorothy for life, remainder to youngest son JS on condition he pay £200 each to siblings John, Charles, Benjamin, Mary, Dorothy and Elizabeth Smith [3]

1694-1702 Joseph Smith aged 1+ in 1694; admitted 1695, by which time his mother was dead, by attorney George Tye, who obtained licence to let for 5 years; death presented 1702, no animal; heir is brother of the whole blood BS, an infant [3]

1702-1709 Benjamin Smith death presented 1709, no animal; only brother JS [3]

1709-1749 John Smith clerk surrendered M505/5-8 to use of will 1710; death presented 1749, three animals only; heir is only son JS [3]

1749-1752 John Smith esq of East Grinstead; admitted 1749; in 1752 he sold M505/5-8 to John Davis [3]

1752-1766 John Davis clerk of Offham in Hamsey; late of Canterbury, DD; death presented 1766, three black horses as heriots but no stock for the fourth; heir is only son JD [3]

1766 John Davis esq in 1766 as John Brewer Davis of Lincolns Inn esq son he surrendered to CG [3]

1766-1766 Charles Gilbert of Lewes; Thomas Gilbert of Lewes grocer admitted in trust for him [3] [trustee for George Wenham Lewis; MERGED with P125/16]

1766-1840+ HAMSEY

PLACE retained when New House Farm [P125/16] sold to TW Partington in 1780; conveyed with Hamsey Place Farm [P125/2] to the Burrell Estate in 1808 [5]

Occupiers<1620-1620+ Edward Read occupied at £11 10s 0d rent [5]<1776-1780+ William Knight he held under a lease from George Wenham

Lewis [5]<1808-1808+ John Guy occupied with Hamsey Place Farm [P125/2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 WSRO Burrell 9/A/1-20, 19/B/1-56 ESRO MOB 1698, 1699

7 ESRO AMS 65998 ESRO ACC 7818

~82~HAMSEY – orchard near the parsonage (site of Hamsey Poorhouse) P125/82

Manorial tenure:copyhold of the manor of Hamsey called (in 1621) a messuage and 3 rods, part of Whiteheads otherwise Lyes; copy 1s 2d, fine 12s 0d certain [M505/66] [2]


l Descriptions of property<1629-1749 MERGED with P125/83; conveyed [in trust for the parish] in 17491713 parcel of leasehold land and barn in Hamsey [P125/83] with the house,

orchard and gardens adjoining to it, being copyhold [P125/82] [4]1752 house and orchard near the parsonage house (2r 9p) copyhold [5]1821 shown on map as Hamsey Poorhouse and garden [6]; MERGED with the

rectory [P125/46]1840 orchard with small outbuilding [1]

Descriptions of house<1621-1681+ messuage and orchard [3]1713 house and barn (includes P125/83) [4]1752 shown as square building in the NW corner of the plot [5]1835 messuage or site of a messuage [3]

Owners<1622-1622 Thomas Longley in 1621 he surrendered to JD [3]1622-1629 John Dawson gent admitted by his attorney William Dawson in

1622; in 1629 he surrendered to AW [3]1629-1631+ Anthony Wood aged 6 in 1629, younger son of Edward

Wood, clerk, rector of Hamsey; no fine certain after this date; in 1629 his father obtained a licence to let for 7 years [3]

<1666-1666 Nicholas Curle [of Lewes, haberdasher]; death presented 1667, two heriots for freehold (M505/11-12) [3]; freehold by will to widow Judith for life, remainder to fourth son Samuel [4]

1666-1667+ Judith Curle widow; in 1667 she had licence to let for 7 years; [3]; her will, of Lewes, proved 1679 [4]

<1670-1670 Pasco Curle [son of Nicholas Curle]; in 1670 he surrendered to [his brother] JC [3]

1670-1681 Joshua Curle admitted 1671; death presented 1681, heriot 40s by composition; his widow AC admitted by attorney for life, remainder to their son [NC] [3]

1681-1704 Ann Curle widow; in 1704 she surrendered to her son Nathaniel Curle, the remainderman, who immediately surrendered to PS [3]

1704-1725 Philip Shore clerk rector of Woodmancote, youngest son of John Shore, rector of Hamsey; admitted 1704 by attorney William Nelson the younger; in 1710 he had licence to lease for 5 years [3]; by will of 1713 to his wife

Catherine, proved 1725 [4]1725-1746 Catherine Shore widow; heir is nephew JS [3]1746-1749 John Shore esq admitted by his attorney Thomas Trusfield

in 1749 and immediately surrendered to WT [3]

1749-1767 William Tutty husb in 1767 he surrendered in trust for the churchwardens and overseers of Hamsey [3]

1767-1817 John Bridger kt of Coombe; admitted in trust for the churchwardens and overseers in 1769 [3]

1817-1821 Mary Shiffner wife of George Shiffner, esq; conveyed to GS 1835, consideration of £140 paid 23 Nov 1821 [3]

1821-1867 George Shiffner clerk death presented 1867; heir is youngest son BS [3]

1867-1867+ Bertie Shiffner captain in the 61st Regiment [3]

Occupiers1749-1821 paupers [6]1821-1821+ HAMSEY RECTOR

YMERGED with P125/46 and presumably demolished soon after [6]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A30.297 (Nicholas Curle, 1666); WA35.101 (Judith Curle, 1679); W/A52.53

(Philip Shore, 1725)5 ESRO MOB 1698, 16996 ESRO SAS/SH 260-264

~83~HAMSEY – P125/83

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey called Six Acres, quitrent 1s 9d [M505/11] = ? part tithe 275 = CW 8freehold of the manor of Hamsey called Four Acres, quitrent 1s 6d [M505/12] = tithe 299 = CW 15+16

Tithe numbers [1]1840 part 275, 299

Descriptions of property1713 parcel of leasehold land and barn in Hamsey [P125/83] with the house,

orchard and gardens adjoining to it, being copyhold [P125/82] [4]1729 P125/83 described in lease to the owner of P125/40 (which later purchased

them) as part of a messuage, barns, stable, garden, orchard and farm:1 piece of land called Stonehams (4a)2 piece of land called The Well Field (5a), The Inhams (1a), little croft adjoining The Vants (1a)

1752 two fields Pitle over the Way (CW 15) and Stonehams (CW 16), part of P124/40

1821 CW 15 and 16 now thrown together as Stonehams (4a 0r 7p) (N: Charles Burrell, Richard Barnard Comber; S: RBC, road from Barcombe to Hamsey church; W: RBC, road from Offham to Barcombe); and sold away from P125/40 as a new site for Hamsey rectory; plan incorporated in SAS/SH 263 [7]

Descriptions of house1713 house and barn (includes P125/82) [4]1752 large barn, on the corner of the plot against the road, shown on map [6]

Owners<1627 Denham [3]<1627 Tuppen Scrase gent in 1622 the homage were ordered to enquire

what free lands he had sold; in 1627 it was presented that many years earlier he had exchanged four acres in Bentons Wish with Edward Wood, parson of Hamsey, who had given him two acres of glebe and two acres exchanged with John Beach for glebe (see M505/58)

<1627-1641 Edward Wood clerk rector of Hamsey; seems to follow descent of P125/82

<1667-1667 Nicholas Curle death presented 1667, heriot two horses [for M505/11-12]; by will to fourth son Samuel Curle [this is a shaky attribution, but cf descent of copyhold (M505/66) to Catherine Shore] [3]

1667-1725 seems to follow descent of P125/821725-1746 Catherine Shore widow; in 1729 she leased land to Stephen

Weller [7]; her death presented for M505/12 and 66 in 1746; to whom has she left them to by will? [3]

<1752-1803 Cruttenden Weller in 1752 it was presented that CS had sold

them to him; as M505/1; MERGED with P125/40

<1821-1821 Mary Weller widow; admitted for life; death presented 1821, no animals; by Stephen Weller’s will of 1806 to MW, then Mary Glover [3]

1821 Mary Wilmott née Glover, wife of George Wilmott, esq; in 1821 her trustees sold M505/11 to GS [3]

1821-1821+ George Shiffner esq of Coombe Place; purchased for £440 and merged with Hamsey Rectory [3]; the proposal was to convey to GS’s brother who would exchange it for all the glebe land lying in the open fields and laines of Hamsey [9]

Occupiers<1729-1729+ Nathaniel Avery [7]1876-1876+ L McQueen Col Hamsey rectory and 13a leased to him [7]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A30.297 (Nicholas Curle, 1666); WA35.101 (Judith Curle, 1679); W/A52.53

(Philip Shore, 1725)5 WSRO Burrell 9/A/1-206 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SAS/SH 260-264

~84~HAMSEY – P125/84

Manorial tenure: The third share of a half-yardland (22a) was apportioned, described as 8a called The Two Vants and the Long Vant, The Pook Hams and the rood adjoining N on Weller’s land, late Shore [M505/18]; copy, 5s 0d

Tithe numbers [1]1840 unlocated, but in the region of 274 [1]

Descriptions of property1753 8a called The Two Vants and the Long Vant, The Pook Hams and the rood

adjoining N on Weller’s land, late Shore

Owners<1752- follows descent of P125/79 [3]1752-1753 Elizabeth Spillman as M505/17, which is probably included in

the descents and rent; she held a third share; JS admitted 1753 [3]

1753-1753 Joseph Spillman youngest son of ES; her share was apportioned at his admission in 1753 when he and Richard Verrall the younger and his wife Mary surrendered to John Bridger of Combe in Hamsey, esq, who immediately surrendered to CW; [it seems likely that this was a tidy-up of this area and Bridger merely sold on the quitrent of the whole but kept some land] [3]

1753-1753+ Cruttenden Weller MERGED with P125/40


~85~HAMSEY – P125/85

Manorial tenure: Parcel called Rose Field Croft in Hamsey (6½a); copy, 6s 8d [M505/6]From core from which this is split see M505/77

Tithe numbers [1]181

Descriptions of property1644 7a called Rosefields, rent 6s 0d [3]1752 M505/5-8 shown as a house and 36a 1r 27p; this tenement = 6 [3]

Descriptions of houseno house recorded on this property

Owners<1625-1632 Joan Young wife of William Young; in 1627 WY

granted licence to lease for five years; widow by 1628; in 1628 this formed part of M505/77, surrendered to her son John Younge and his son John Young [3]

<1642-1642 John Young in 1642 out of court (W: Edward Manfield, messor, George Reade and Richard Longley) he surrendered to EH [3]

1642-1644+ Edward Holmwood [3] owner of P125/74; impossible to tell how long he held this croft, but the tenement was not presented at his son’s death in 1674

<1694-1694 Charles Smith owned by CS at his death in 1694 [3] so already MERGED with P125/81

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A39.40 (Thomas Holmwood of Lewes, gent)

~86~HAMSEY – P125/86

Tithe numbers [1]1840 near tithe 31

Descriptions of property1885 land (40p) with the four cottages in the course of erection by Trayton Stevens

of Hamsey, brickmaker, in Hamsey and Lewes St John Without (N, E: land of Coombe Estate; W: Coombe Estate brickyard and Lewes – Chailey road) [3]

1887 now with eight houses [3]

Owners<1885-1887 Coombe Estate in 1885 it granted a 99-year lease at £2 and

released the reversion in 1887 [3]1887-1887+ Trayton Stevens of Hamsey, brickmaker; in 1885 he

mortgaged his lease to Richard Bodle of Burgess Hill, merchant, as collateral security for a mortgage of property at Newhaven; assigned to Albert Bodle of Alfriston, grocer, for £500 in Jan 1886, and to Richard Markwick of 7 East Street, Lewes, for £250 in Jul 1886; purchased freehold reversion in 1887 [3]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 93-99

~87~HAMSEY - Brakeride P125/87Freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 9d [M505/81]; M505/125 is associated with this, for which see P125/U2

Tithe numbers [1]1840 tithe 224

Descriptions of property1596 sold out of the manor of Coombe with Tilecroft, Bentons Wish and a crop in

Upland Wish (in all 22a) [3]1 Brakeside (12a) (W,N: demesne of Allington; N: Thomas

Coulstock’s Horsecroft; S: land called West Street in Offham; E: Thomas Coulstock’s Bushy Crofts) [tithe 224]

2 Tilecroft (2a meadow) W: road; N: land of John Erle called Tilecroft; E: land of Thomas Mitchell gent; S: demesne land of Hamsey called Stonefields) [tithe 260]

3 4a in Upland Wish S,W: land of William Goring and William Evans, gent; E, S: river; N,E: tenant land; N: Long Laine) [tithe 388]

4 Bentons Wish (4a) W: demesne land called Cowleze and land of Thomas Longley; S,E: part of demesne called Horse Brooks; N: land of John Hoather, Henry Roberts and [blank]) [tithe 173]

1622 free lands in Hamsey called Brakeride, part of The Coombe held by heriot, wardship, marriage and relief; see also M505/125

1715 piece called Brakerides (10a) [4]1840 11a 2r 32p arable Brakes Rides [1]

Owners<1596-1596 William Comber [4]; of Shermanbury, gent; he sold to SN

in 1596 [3]1596-1601 Samuel Norden ck [4]; of Hamsey, clerk; sold to JC in 1602

[3]1601-1612 John Coulstock of East Allington in Lewes St John; in

1612 of East Grinstead when he sold to EB [3]

1612-1621 Edward Burtenshaw yeo of Hamsey; death presented 1621, heriot an ox; heir is only son JB [4]

1621-1696 John Burtenshaw aged 3 in 1621; seize his body and lands as a ward [4]; of Newhaven, gent; mortgaged to John Spence of South Malling in 1684 [3]; buried at Newhaven, ‘Mr John Burtenshaw aged 77’, in 1696 [6]; administration to his son EB, estate valued at £79 13s 10d [4]

1696-1704 Edward Burtenshaw gent

of Lewes, woollendraper in 1696 [4]; Newhaven; by will of 1704, ‘ill of the smallpox’, left his freehold land in Hamsey to his wife Elizabeth in trust for sale for the benefit of children Mary, Ann, E+J [3]; buried at Newhaven, ‘Mr Edward Burtenshaw’, 31 Dec 1704 [6]; will proved 1675 [4]

1704-1712 Elizabeth Burtenshaw widow of Edward B; she sold to RB in 1712 [3]

<1715-1715 Ann Burtenshaw widow; by 1715 she had sold to RB [5 – this is the manor’s version]

1712-1729 Richard Bridger esq MERGED with Coombe estate; sold to Thomas Dennett in 1764 and re-acquired in 1766

Occupiers<1684-1684+ Richard Verrall [3]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 591-6014 ESRO W/B12.91v (John Burtenshaw of Newhaven, 1696); W/A 45.325 (Edward

Burtenshaw of Newhaven, 1705)5 ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey6 PAR 426/1/1/3

~88~HAMSEY – Pole Roaf’s yardland P125/88

Pole Roaf’s Yardland (9a), with common of pasture for 12 sheep on the tenant downs; copyhold of Hamsey manor, quitrent 7s 0d [M505/40]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 merged into Coombe Estate [1]

Descriptions of property<1719-1719 part of P125/29 and sold off in 1719 [3], with the following description:

The Hursey Croft (6a); 2a adjoining E: The Islands occupied by Richard Bridger esq; three pieces called The Green Common (NW: John Middleton’s The Legs; S: Richard Paine esq; E, N: road from Barleys Banks to Holters Green); in all 11 acres

1717 6a of the 8a are by Richard Verrall’s dwelling-house [7]1752 shown as a lozenge-shaped parcel ‘Poals Roaf’ (3a 1r 11p - S portion of tithe

126) and a hatchet-shaped parcel, ‘Pole’s Roaf piece in Laine’ (9a 1r 13p - part tithe 337) [6]

Owners<1715 Willard [7] part of P125/29<1715-1715 Thomas Verrall death presented 1715 for M505/20-21, 40;

son RV [7]1715-1719 Richard Verrall admitted 1717; in 1719 he surrendered to

RR [7]1719-1719+ William Ridge MERGED with P125/125 [7]; purchased by

Coombe Estate 1768 [P125/22]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 786-3, 826, 8894 ESRO ADA 2465 ESRO SAS/SH 3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey

~89~HAMSEY – Herseys Croft P125/89

held of an unknown manor, quitrent 3d [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 merged into Coombe Estate since 1768; in region of tithe 337 [1]

Descriptions of property1616 land described as 5a in Herseys Croft, suggesting an open field [5]1710 piece of arable called Herseys Croft (5a) adjoining land late John Shore,

clerk, called The Crink [3]; part of P125/29, previously P125/581719 sold with 2a meadow (E: The Islands, occ Richard Bridger esq; W, N: road

from Holters Green to the Beechwood Green) and Pole Rofe’s yardland [3]1780 shown on map of the Coombe Place estate as Hersey’s Croft [5]

Owners<1616-1616 Samuel Norden of Lewes; sold to TS [3]1616-1616+ Tuppen Scrase [3]<1697-1697 Thomas Freeland of Brighton; bequeathed it to JP in 1697 [3]1697-1700 Joan Peircy inherited from TF; married William Whiting

of Brighton, mariner, and by 1719 John Lucas of Brighton, mariner; sold to TV in 1700 [3]

1700-1710 Thomas Verrall sold to RV [3]1710-1719 Richard Verrall of Hamsey, maltster; in Nov 1719 the estate,

purchased by his father, was confirmed to him by John Lucas of Brighton, mariner, who had married Joan Peircy; in Dec 1719 he sold to RR [3]

1719-1719+ Richard Ridge MERGED with P125/87 [7]; purchased by Coombe Estate 1768 [P125/22]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 572, 782-784, 8664 ESRO ADA 2465 ESRO SAS/SH 3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey

~90~HAMSEY – cottage and 1a Pipers Croft P125/90

Tithe numbers [1]1840 house = 212 (1r 8p) – see P125/32 and 215 [1]

Descriptions of propertyidentified from abuttal on SAS/SH 927 of 1744

<1614-1614 part of the manor of Coombe [3]1616 piece of land with a house built on it (E: Mr Threele; S,W: lands called

Fridays Wood; N: road) [3]1634 house shown on map [5]1638 sold back to manor of Coombe [3]1707 house shown N-S with gable end to the street with croft behind [5]1780-1827+ house as 1707, no croft [5]

Owners<1614-1614 Tuppen Scrase of Coombe; with John Verrall of Hamsey,

yeoman, he sold to TH for £22 [3]1614-1617 Thomas Hawkins yeo of Lewes St John; sold to NL in 1617 for

£30, giving warranty against his wife Elizabeth [3]

1617-1638 Nicholas Lee hus of Hamsey; in 1638, of West Firle, sold to James Rivers of Coombe, his son and heir Thomas Rivers and brother Nizell Rivers, with warranty against his wife Denise [3]

1638 COOMBE ESTATE MERGED

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 586-884 ESRO ADA 2465 ESRO SAS/SH 390 (1634), 391, 3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey

~91~HAMSEY – croft of 1a P125/91

Tithe numbers [1]1840 part tithe 212 and 215, eastern neck of 235 [1]

Descriptions of property1707 shown as neighbouring land on map of the Coombe Estate [5]<1744 attached to Woodcock Cottage [P125/59]1744 1 piece of land (1a) (E: ground called The Pimbles; W: ground of John

Bridger called Gatefield; [S: glebe]; N: John Bridger’s Pond Field)2 croft of land (1a) (N: road; S: John Bridger’s Pond Field; W: Pipers

Croft; E: land of Thomas Verrall [Stoneford]) [3]

Owners1614 John Threele abuttal of P125/90<1707 part of P125/59<1744-1744 Thomas Paine gt of Brighton; sold to John Bridger in 1744; in

1781 this grant was repeated, with a fine, by his son Thomas Holles Payne of Redhill in Burstow, Surrey, who had inherited P125/59 in 1763 and sold it off the following year [3]

1744-1744+ COOMBE ESTATE merged

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO SAS/SH 719, 727-7314 ESRO ADA 2465 ESRO SAS/SH 391-3946 ESRO MOB 16997 ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey

~92~HAMSEY – LITTLE HEWEN STREET FARM P125/92

Manorial tenure: freehold tenement of the manor of Hamsey called Hewenstreets (60a) near Holmwood Bridge, quitrent 2d [3]

referred to c1630 by John Rowe as former customary land [10]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 1, 4-5, 7-11, 14, 17, 18, 20 [1]

Descriptions of property1589 that part sold by Cook to Aderton consisted of:

1 Molhilly Mead (3½a) and Great Meadow (8a) near Holmwood Bridge (N: watercourse; E; Road = tithe 12 Little Wood (9a; N: 1; E: road) = tithe 43 two crofts and 7a on S of 2 = tithe 54 Great Wood (10a) = tithe 24all part of the North end of lands called Hewen Street [5]

1594 land and meadow (20a) called The Hewen Streets between the land of John Cook and his son John Cook [5] = tithe 8+11

1609 to judge from the abuttals of the conveyance of Great Hewen Street to Philip Bennett (see P125/17), the remainder of the holding, to the West, was already demesne of Hamsey Manor (owned by Edward Alford)

1664 barn and land [5]1688 acquires Holmans Bridge Cottage and 1½a in Barcombe (P113/16, tithe 389)

which descends with this holding until 1813: see P125/231752 shown on maps as a barn and 14 other pieces of land, with a cottage called

Drapers [= Holmans Bridge Cottage] in Barcombe, total 61a 2r 30p [6]1792 Little Hewen Street (61a 2r 30p) [5]

Owners1552-1552+ John Cook possibly same as next; in 1552 a substantial

estate was granted out of the manor by Edward Lewknor to John Cook, but this was possibly an enfarnchisement [5]; John Rowe refers to this tenement as former customary land [10]

<1587-1594 John Cook yeo of Barcombe; in 1587 settled tithe 1, 4-5 and 24 on the marriage of his son JC with Mary Board, and retained tithe 8+11 until 1594 when he sold them to John Allen, clerk, parson of Itchingfield; in 1595 JA sold to Matthew Allen of Horsham, clerk, who in 1597 sold to Roger Aderton, who had acquired the remainder from JC the younger the year before [5]

<1587-1596 John Cook yeo [10]; the younger of Barcombe; sold to RA in 1596 [5]

1596-1602 Roger Aderton gent [10]; of Lewes when he purchased tithe 1, 4-5 in 1596 and tithe 8+11 in 1597 [5]; of Barcombe when his will was proved in PCC in 1602 [12]

<1630 Denham [10]; an Atherton Denham of Barcombe, gent, married Dorothy Michelbourne at

Newick in 1623, baptised children at Barcombe 1623-1646, and was buried in Aug 1648

<1630-1646 John Hall gt [10]; of Petworth; by his will of 1643 he left a legacy of £300 to his son William Hall, gent, which was unpaid when his son and executor John Hall died in 1646 [5, 12]

1643-1653 John Hall gt of Petworth; his will was proved in PCC in 1653 [12], his widow married Henry Bulstrode and his heir was his daughter Mary Hall an infant [5]

1653-1663 Mary Hall the estate was ordered to be sold to William Whitlock by a chancery decree in a cause William Hall v his sister Mary Hall, infant, by her guardian Henry Bulstrode of the Inner Temple and his wife (her mother) Mary, 1663, in order to pay a £300 legacy to William Hall + damages; she to make a further conveyance when of age [9]

1663-1664 William Whitlock esq of the Middle Temple when he sold to WB [5]

1664-1671 William Board of Bordehill; he mortgaged this and other land for £1000 to Henry Bulstrode of the Inner Temple, to be paid as should be appointed in 1671 by HB’s wife Mary; in 1671 she appointed in favour of her daughter Mary Hall, who had married William Peachey [5]

1671-1685 William Peachey died 1685; by will to his son HP [5, 12]1685-1737 Henry Peachey bt of Petworth; by will of 1737 to James

Peachey [12]; death presented 1742, no animal; customary heir was John Peachey [3]

1737-1751 James Peachey esq of St George Hanover Square, Mx; sold to John Wenham for £750 in 1751 and MERGED with Hamsey Manor [5]

1751-1792 HAMSEY MANOR see P125/21792+ HEWEN STREET

Ssee P125/23

Occupiers1587 John Godley

Thomas Markwicktithe 1tithe 4-5, 24

1594 Roger Comber tithe 8+11<1752-1752+ Francis Napp [6]<1773 Edward Raynes [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 1, 17-19, 333, SAS/D 53, 71, 75, 79, 86, 89, 369-706 ESRO MOB 1698, 1699, SHR 2849

7 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO AMS 31710 SRS 34.196 Book of John Rowe11 TNA C9/233/103 (1655), C10/66/80 (1662) Hall v Bulstrode12 TNA PROB 11/99 (Roger Aderton, 1602); PROB 11/195 (John Hall, 1646); PROB 11/228

(John Hall, 1653); PROB 11/381 (William Peachey of Petworth, 1685); PROB 11/685 (Henry Peachey of Petworth, 1737)

~93~HAMSEY – Cottage and three roods at Hamsey, three roods in the Mill Laine P125/93

Manorial tenure: two copyhold tenements of the manor of Hamsey: cottage and three roods, quitrent 1s 0d, heriot certain; three roods in Mill Laine, quitrent 8d, heriot certain [M505/15-16] [3]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 353 (cottage), part 352 [1]

Descriptions of house<1621-1685 ½a with a house built on it [3]1689 upon which a house was formerly built [3]1701-1702 messuage and ½a called formerly part of a yardland called Scrases at Offham

[3]1716 messuage and ½a [3]1752 M505/15 and 16 shown on map as a cottage and enclosure (1a 0r 10p) at the

end of a lane leading out of the main road [6]1780 shown as blank on map of the Coombe Estate [5]1786 acquired by Coombe Estate

Descriptions of land1629 M505/16 created and 8s 0d fine certain established; 3 rods adjoining land of

Francis Langford in Offham [3]1689 Adjoining land late Langford/Longford [M505/111]

Owners<1622-1622 Samuel Henty younger son of [John] Henty deceased; in

1622 he was admitted and immediately with [his mother] Joan Henty widow of John Henty surrendered to RS [2]

1622-1629+ Richard Smith in 1629 he acquired from George Read the three rods in the Mill Laine adjoining land of Francis Langford [M505/16], which was created as a separate tenement out of P125/13 and 19 [2]

<1677-1677 William Scrase of Hamsey, will proved 1677 [4]; death presented 1679, heir is nephew Ralph Longley of full age, son of WS’s only sister Ann, widow of Thomas Longley; on admission he immediately surrendered to his eldest son SL [2]

1679-1685 Samuel Longley in 1685 he surrendered to CS [2]1685-1689 Charles Smith gt in 1689 he surrendered to MK for life,

remainder to TK [2]1689-1700 Mary

KingKingKing

wid Mary King of Offham, widow [of Nicholas King] and her son Thomas King; admitted 1689; by 1700 she was wife of Thomas Earle; with her youngest son Thomas King they surrendered to FC in 1700 [2]

1700-1716 Francis Corner 1689 entry annotated ‘now Dame Corner 1704’; FC’s death presented 1716; by will to mother Joan Alchin for life, remainder to nephew FC; she has died, FC admitted [2]

1716-1752 Francis Corner in 1752 he surrendered to his son Francis Corner [2]

1752-1769 Francis Corner hus of Offham in Hamsey, husbandman; on admission in 1752 he settled on himself and his wife Jane; death presented 1769, heriot a cow; widow Jane holds for life [2]

1769-1771 Jane Corner wid in 1771 she surrendered her life interest to Henry Maker of Hamsey, husbandman [2]

1771-1779 Henry Maker hus of Hamsey, husbandman; he held for the life of [?his wife] Jane Corner; her death was presented 1779, no animal; her youngest son JC admitted 1784 [2]

1779-1786 James Corner youngest son of Francis Corner deceased and Jane; in 1786 he surrendered to John Bridger, owner of the Coombe Estate [2]

1786-1786+ COOMBE ESTATE MERGED with P125/22

Occupiers1700 Thomas Earle and

[blank] Nelson, esqland only [2]

<1716 William Nelson esq late occupier, land only, 1716 [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A34.278 (William Scrase, 1677)5 ESRO SAS/SH 391, 394, 7576 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO SAS/PN 489-492

~94~HAMSEY – site of a cottage garden and one acre at Offham


Tithe numbers [1]1840 part 354[1]

Descriptions of house1634 owner ordered executor to allow his wife Elizabeth ‘the low parlour where I

now lie’ with half the adjoining milk-house, and to build a chimney in the low parlour for her use [5]

1665 house, barn and croft of ½a [3-5]1749 acquired by Coombe Estate, described as a messuage, garden and piece of

land (1a) in Offham (W: a lane); the estate subsequently pulled down the cottage and sold the materials to Care to build a cottage [Myrtle Cottage: P125/14] on the turnpike road [5]

c1750 the materials of a cottage [P125/94, in the vicinity of Woodcock Cottage] demolished by John Bridger sold to Richard Care, bricklayer (the grantee) and used to build P125/14 [5]

1752 already pulled down by 1752 [6]1780 shown as an enclosure on map of the Coombe Estate [5]1787 in 1787 a deposition describes the demolition; the house was freed by the lord

of the manor and had a right to water from a well now filled up by Mr Partington c1782, but arched over c1750 in the time of Mr Davis

Owners<1627-1634 John Beach yeo of Hamsey; see P125/U5; by his will,

proved 17 Jan 1635, he left his freehold to his kinsman John Beach, son of Nicholas Beach, with remainder to NB’s son William Beach [5]

1634-1651 John Beach son of Nicholas Beach; aged 7 when admitted to the copyhold [P125/U5] in 1635; death presented 1651, heriot 6d for the cottage and a sheep for the yardland; heir is youngest son TB, subject to widow’s bench of his mother EB [3]

1651-1651+ Elizabeth Beach widow

held a life estate [3]

1651-1664 Thomas Beach yeo of Hamsey; in 1664, with his wife Jane, he sold this to George Alchin and the land [P125/U5] to Robert Swan and Abraham Nicholas [5]

1664-1665 George Alchin shepherd

of Hamsey; purchased from Thomas Beach [P125/U5] in 1664; by will of 1665 to his son George Alchin [4]

1749-1749 George Alchorne husb

in 1747 he sold to John Bridger, owner of the Coombe Estate [5]

1749-1749+ COOMBE ESTATE MERGED

Occupiers<1664-1664+ Joan Corner, widow occupier of the house sold by Thomas Beach to

George Alchin in 1664 [5]

<1749-1749 George Alchorne owner-occupier [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A30.235v (George Alchin, 1665)5 ESRO SAS/SH 932, 394 (map of 1780); 6686 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/33

~95~HAMSEY – South-eastern and upper portions of Shelley’s Folly [P125/17] P125/95


Tithe numbers [1]1840 South-eastern portion: probably 85-90, 99-100 [1]

Upper portion: probably 2, 6, 12-13

Descriptions of property1587 lands, tenements and hereditaments called Hewenstretes in Hamsey and 43a

(W: land called Hewenstretes sometime Robert Holter [P125/17]; S: road from Lewes to Chailey; E: road from Lewes to Newick; N: land called Hewenstretes sometime Robert Holter) [2]

1587 acquires P125/961590 1 lands, tenements and hereditaments called Hewenstretes in Hamsey

and 43a (W: land called Hewenstretes sometime Robert Holter; S: road from Lewes to Chailey; E: road from Lewes to Newick; N: land called Hewenstretes sometime Robert Holter)

2 messuage or tenement with a close (3a, formerly three closes, of which one was called Goteacre) (S: land of the heirs of [blank] Sheppard; W, N: land of John Barneden; E: road)

3 piece of land called Moynes Field (E: road; S: Church Landes; W: lands of John Comber; N: land of the heirs of Nicholas Cooke)

other land retained (tithe 2, 6, 12-13) 1596 seven pieces of land of which six are together called The Wood (…a with a

barn a dwelling-house at the end thereof), adjoining meadow called Mowfield (7a), a meadow (4a) on the W side of The Mowfield, The Great Field (9a) on the S side of The Mowfield and the meadow, field (6a) on the W side of The Great Field, adjoining piece (3a), meadow (5a N: the river; E, S, W: John Cooke the younger), all occupied by JC, formerly part of lands and tenements called Hewenstreates in Hamsey [2]

Owners<1587-1587 John Cook yeo the elder of Barcombe; in 1587 he sold to

AS for £138; sale confirmed by JC and his wife Joan in 1590 [2]; he retained the upper portion of the land, which in 1596 he mortgaged and the following year sold to James Plumer [2]

1587-1590 Andrew Stone merchant

of Cliffe; purchased P125/96 later the same year; in 1590 he sold the whole estate to James Plomer and his son Henry, who had acquired P125/17 the previous year [2]

1590-1590+ MERGED with P125/17 [2]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO Preston manor deeds ES/CK; CKS U1475 T278

~96~HAMSEY – The Place at Worth otherwise Breach’s Tenement; Brewers and Goteacre

P125/96

Manorial tenure: tithe 76 = an acre called Gotts, freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1d [M505/92]tithe 97 = Werds Breach, freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 3½d [M505/93]

Tithe numbers [1]1840 76, 97 [1]

GeneralThe early deeds of these two properties, although in a secure archival context, present difficulties of interpretation and seem to relate to a larger holding called The Swyrd (or Werd) or Breache’s tenement. They have been entered here for want of a better home. The manor of Hamsey called the tenement Gotts ‘late Palmer’, which may allow its alternative name Moynes Field to be associated with the College of South Malling, granted to Sir Thomas Palmer in 1547, although it does not appear in the particular for that grant, published in SAC 21 (1869) 169-72.The boundaries and field-names of this and neighbouring tenements suggest that Moines Field may originally have encompassed tithe 75-78, 91 and the upper oblong portion of 96.

Descriptions of property1465-1489 messuage with a garden, 4a 3r of land called The Place of the Worth in

Hamsey, of which:1 messuage and two acres (N: road; W, S: John Baker; E: land called

Gothaghe)2 two acres (N: messuage; N: the street)3 three rods (S: land called Battis Firs)

1574 tenement, kitchen and four crofts of land (5a) called The Swyrde in Hamsey [12]

1582 messuage and 5a called Breaches Tenement in Hamsey, occupied by AB [12]1584 1 croft called Goteacre (1a; NE: road; E: heirs of Sheppard; NW: Alan

Brewer; W: Marion Costydell, widow)2 piece of land (1a) in The Clayecrofte in Hamsey (heading E: road; S:

Stephen Botting; W: Rishlye; N: lands of Hamsey Parsonage)3 croft (½a) in Hamsey (heading W: land called Werdes; E: road; S:

tenement of Nicholas Cooke; N: John Comber, gent)only the first of these tenements may belong to this holding, and seems to form the southern portion of tithe 97 [12]

1586 messuage with one close or field (formerly three), one called Goteacre (4a) in Hamsey (S: heirs of [blank] Sheppard; W, N: John Barneden; E: road)

1587 97 Messuage with an adjoining close (3a) (formerly in three closes of which one was called Goteacre) in Hamsey (S: land of the heirs of [blank] Sheppard; W, N: land of John Barneden; E: road)

76 close called Moynes Field in Hamsey (E: road; S: The Church Lands; W: land of [blank] Comber; N: land of Nicholas Cooke) [14]

1590 97 Messuage with an adjoining close (3a) (formerly in three closes of which one was called Goteacre) in Hamsey (S: land of the heirs of [blank] Sheppard; W, N: land of John Barneden; E: road)

76 close called Moynes Field in Hamsey (E: road; S: The Church

Lands; W: land of John Comber; N: land of the heirs of Nicholas Cooke) [14]

1609 97 messuage and land (5a) called Brewers (S: land occupied by Thomas Hardinge; N, W: land now or late Nicholas Longley; E: road)

76 field called Goteacre (2a), part of Brewers (E: road from Lewes to Chailey; N, W: land late Staffordes; S: glebe land of Hamsey Rectory) [12]

[1773x1777] shown on estate map [11]76 The Acre and a Half (1a 1r 1p)97 The Shoulder of Mutton Field (2a 3r 32p)for a discussion of the dating of this map, see P125/17

1840 76 Plot (1a 1r 23p) [1]97 Shoulder of Mutton piece (2a 2r 39p)

Owners

<1465-1465 John Lynder chaplain

his cousin and heir Richard Lunsse quitclaimed to John Wydgar in 1465 [12]

1465-1489 John Wydgar quitclaimed to him in 1465; in 1489 Andrew Scrase, son and heir of Alan Scrase, quitclaimed his right in the tenement; he conveyed to William Breach and his feoffees in 1489 [12]

1489-1489+ William Breach conveyed to him and his feofees in 1489 [12]

<1574 John a Breach husb

he was dead by 1574, and his widow Elizabeth married to Gardiner [12]

<1574-1574 heirs of Breach in 1574 JB’s daughter Elizabeth Breach of Hamsey, spinster, conveyed her share to Thomas Harding for £10, with warranty against the dower of Isabel West, widow, and her mother Elizabeth Gardiner; in 1582 her sister Joan conveyed her share for £15 to Alan Brewer; in 1584 her husband Abraham Edwards of Lewes, yeoman, sold her interest [12]

1574-1574+ Thomas Harding husb

of Hamsey; became owner in 1574 [12]

1582-1586 Alan Brewer carpenter

of Hamsey; purchased one of the shares in 1582, confirmed in 1584, and presumably acquired the other interests before his sale of the whole in 1586 [12]

1586-1587 William Storer carpenter

of Lewes; purchased 1586 and sold to Andrew Stone in 1587 [12, 14]

1587-1590 Andrew Stone merchant

of Cliffe; MERGED WITH P125/95, which he had purchased in April 1587; in 1590 he sold the whole estate to James Plomer and his son Henry, who had acquired P125/17 the previous year [2]

1590-1590+ MERGED with P125/17 [2]

Occupiers

<1574-1574+ Thomas Harding of Hamsey, husbandman; became owner-occupier in 1584 [12]

<1582-1582+ Alan Brewer of Hamsey, carpenter; became owner-occupier in 1584 [12]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A12.128 (John Bokes, 1605)5 ESRO D536 TNA PROB 11/112 (James Plomer of Southover, 1608); PROB 11/132 (Philip Bennett the

elder, 1618); PROB 11/363 (Thomas Woodcock, 1680); PROB 11/410 (Theobald Shelley 1692);

7 ESRO MOB 16998 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,

including map by Thomas Marchant, 178110 SRS 14.14 IPM of Philip Bennett11 ESRO AMS 677512 ESRO ACC 8997 ES/CK; CKS U1475 T27813 SRS 34.196 Book of John Rowe14 BL Add MS 58828

~97~HAMSEY – cottage and half an acre P125/97


Descriptions of property1636 Cottage and 1a [3]1636 customary land of Thomas Valentine lately contained one acre lies between

the house of John Stafford and the road therefree land late Thomas Valentine containing one acre lies on the W side of the land there called Meaply Meadthree acres of glebeland lie between the land of John Stafford, viz: 1a at Bennetts Croft, 1a E of Meaply Mead adjoining the land of William Lulham on E, 1a against the house of [blank] Munger on the E [3]

Descriptions of house (at approximately TQ 400149)1636 cottage and 1a [3]

Owners<1629-1636 Thomas Valentine in 1629 he had demolished and sold a barn

built on the lord’s waste by Resting Oak; in 1636 he sold to JS [3]

1636-1644 John Stafford admitted 1636; in 1644 he sold to EY and EY [3] MERGED in Winterlands [P125/41]

1644-1644+ Edward Young and his wife Elizabeth [3]


~U1~HAMSEY – Little tenement and 1a P125/U1


Tithe numbers [1]1840 unknown

Descriptions of property1686 small tenement or dwelling house with the croft adjoining (1a) (N: land of

Robert Young DD; E, S: Hannah Pellatt, widow; W: glebe of Hamsey) [9]1731 small tenement or dwelling house with adjoining croft (1a) in H (N: Robert

Young DD newly deceased; E, S: Edward Medley late Wigsell formerly Pellatt; W: glebe); late estate of John Bridger’s father Richard Bridger, before Care, formerly Lulham, late occupied by John Kember [10]

Owners<1686-1686 Richard

JohnLulham Colvill

husthr

of Keymer of Chailey, thatcher; in 1686 they sold for £15 to JC [9]

1686-1724 John Care hus of Hamsey and his wife Eleanor; in 1724 JC [?another] and his wife Elizabeth sold to Richard Bridger for £40 [9]

1724-1731 COOMBE ESTATE purchased by Richard Bridger [9]; descended by 1731 to RB’s son John Bridger of Coombe, who sold it (with Tanners Lag, P125/76) to Edward Medley of Coneyboro in Barcombe, esq [10]


ESTATE MERGED into P125/12 [10]

Occupiers<1731 John Kember [10]<1738-1738+ Thomas Wigsell [6]; farmer of the P125/12 into which this was

merged

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 391, 7576 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO SAS/PN 489-49810 BL Add Ms 38486 f179-183

~U2~HAMSEY – Little tenement and 1a P125/U2


Descriptions of property1622 messuage and appurtenances at Offham [1]

Owners<1622 Sherman [1]<1622 Norden [1]<1622-1622 Edward Burtenshaw [1]1622-1622+ John Burtenshaw follows P125/87 but not mentioned after

1622

~U3~HAMSEY – former holdings of George Goring P125/U3


Descriptions of property1619 house, barn and 50a in Offham and sheep down [5]1707 shown as part of the lands of Richard Payne [5]1840 includes: tithe 133 (from abuttal), west part of tithe 323, tithe 325 [1]

Owners<1612-1622 George Goring esq abutter in 1612; death presented for

M505/53 in 1622; heir is his eldest son [blank] Goring [3]

1622-1630 George Goring of River Hall, in 1619 he mortgaged to William Goble of Petworth who, of WG of Middlesex, assigned to Henry Barlow of Chichester in 1625; he was joined by George Goring of Burton to convey to William Alcock of Offham in 1630 [5]

Occupiers<1619 Robert Randall [5]<1619-1619+ John Hatch [5]<1630-1630+ Edward Hamper [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)5 ESRO SAS/SH 748-756, 391 (map of 1707)6 ESRO MOB 1698, 16997 ESRO SHR 2028/78 WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)9 ESRO SAS/PN 489-492

~U4~HAMSEY – former holdings of John Pierce P125/U4

Manorial tenure: includes freehold tenement of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8d

Descriptions of property1611 1 messuage, close and garden in Offham occupied by John Awcock and

a close of 4a in Rishley (W: land of Samuel Norden gent called Preciously; S, E: Rishley Common)

2 Verlye Croft (3a) adjoining 1 above (E: John Beach; N,W: land of the heirs of Lulham)

3 Green Common (3a) (E: land of Samuel Norden and of the heirs of Coulstock called Green Common; N: late Baker; Coulstock’s heirs; S, W: Thomas Fawkener) [this goes into P125/65 the following year] [5]

1618 two fields of arable and meadow (8a) called Precious Lye and Rishley in The Common Rishleys (S: George Goring [U3]; W: Arthur Middleton late Fawkener’s and parcel of glebe; N: Threele’s and Lulham’s [P125/12]; E: Common Rishley]; this seems to = tithe 122in 1596 other elements of Precious Lye sold out of the manor of Coombe to Samuel Norden of Hamsey, clerk, which seems to be that sold (W,N: John Threele esq; E: John Beach; S: Samuel Norden) by William Savage of Rottingdean to John Constable of Uckfield in 1612, which passes to William Alcock in 1656: see P125/65-68

1627 M505/52 described as 4a in Bottings Rishley and Furs Field, 3a late Brookes, 3a in Precious Lye part of The Coombe, 4a 2r in Rishley [3]

Owners<1611-1611 William Savage ckl of Rottingdean; with his brother Thomas

Savage he sold to JP [5]1611-1626 John Pierce yeo of Barcombe; purchased 1611 above in

1611; of Chiltington in 1618 when, with John Killner of Newick, her purchased 1618 from the owners of the Coombe Estate [5]; had owned M505/52 before 1627, by when he had already sold to JA [3]; this manorial transaction seems to represent SAS/SH 753, JP’s sale to JA of 1618, part of M505/52 and 2 in 1611 above [5]

1626 John Awcock [5]

Occupiers1626 John

JohnAwcockConstable

[5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 745-7, 753

~U5~HAMSEY – former holdings of Abraham Nicholas P125/U5

Manorial tenure: yardland in Hamsey, quitrent 4s 3d [M505/58]

Descriptions of property1634 [P125/94]: owner ordered executor to allow his wife Elizabeth ‘the low

parlour where I now lie’ with half the adjoining milk-house, and to build a chimney in the low parlour for her use [5]

1664 1 messuage, barn, garden and piece of land (1a) in Offham, occupied by Joan Corner, widow [P125/94]; sold away from the land in this year [4]

2 two pieces (7a) occupied by Thomas Beach, Edward Green and Robert Mercer; does this = 3+4 in 1706? [5]

1665 Cottage, garden and one yardland in various places in Offham Field [3]1706 a yardland containing several pieces:

1 2a 3r pasture or brookland in the common brook2 2a meadow next to Ham Barn (N: Richard Paine esq; S: Offham

Laine) [= S part of tithe 248-9]3 piece of arable (5a) in Offham (E: road; N: other lands of Richard

Bridger; S: other lands of William Nelson) [= tithe 351]4 3a arable in Mill Laine (E: road; W: Richard Paine) [= near tithe 352]5 croft (2a) (S: enclosed next the lane to Coombe; N: Offham Laines)[5]

1727 freehold croft (2a) (S: enclosed next the lane to Coombe; N: Offham Laines)customary yardland [M505/58]

Owners<1627-1634 John Beach yeo of Hamsey; in 1627 it was presented that

many years ago he had let to Edward Wood, clerk, parson of Hamsey, one acre of copyhold and one acre of freehold in Rishly in lieu of two acres of glebeland in Claycroft, which Edward Wood had let (with a further two acres of glebe) to Tuppen Scrase, gent, in lieu of four acres in Bentons Wish; in 1627 he had licence to let 1a in The Common Risly for 7 years; by 1635 he had surrendered out of court (W: George Reade and William Rennolls) to JB; by his will, proved 17 Jan 1635, he left his freehold to his kinsman John Beach, son of Nicholas Beach, with remainder to NB’s son William Beach [5]

1634-1651 John Beach son of Nicholas Beach; aged 7 when admitted in 1635; death presented 1651, heriot 6d for the cottage and a sheep for the yardland; heir is youngest son TB, subject to widow’s bench of his mother EB [3]

1651-1651+ Elizabeth Beach widow

held a life estate [3]

1651-1664 Thomas Beach yeo of Hamsey; in 1664, with his wife Jane, and with warranty against his late brothers

John and William Beach, he sold the freehold land to Robert Swan and Abraham Nicholas, son of AN of West Hoathly [5], and surrendered the copyhold directly to Abraham Nicholas [3]

1664-1664+ Robert Swan yeo of Lewes; bought the seven acres of land with Abraham Nicholas, only son of Abraham Nicholas of West Hoathly, yeoman; house [P125/94] sold to George Alchin; his daughter Elizabeth married Abraham Nicholas at Westerham in Kent on 16 Sep 1641, and the vendor of 1706 was their son [5]; for descent see P125/U6

<1672-1706 Abraham Nicholas yeo of Ardingly; sold freehold and copyhold to WN in 1706, subject to a mortgage for £120 to Henry Johnson of Glynde, yeoman, and his wife Elizabeth, who joined the conveyance [5]

1706-1706+ William Nelson esq MERGED with Offham House [P125/15]; the manor of Hamsey treated the mortgage to Henry Johnson as a conveyance of the freehold and in 1727 Elizabeth, now wife of Henry Arnatt of Glynde, conveyed to Robert Nelson, owner of P125/15

Occupiers<1664-1664+ Thomas

EdwardRobert

BeachGreenMercer


~U6~

HAMSEY – Two virgates (16a) in Hamsey, part of Pycombes P125/U6


Descriptions of property1593 barn and three crofts (15a) called Pycombes at Offham; croft (3a meadow)

called Precious Lye at Offham; this was only part of The Pycombes, which in 1616 was sold to the manor of Coombe [5]

1616 sale of the house occupied by Sackville Porter, two barns and land in Hamsey and Lewes St John [5]; is the house the present Coombe Place [P125/22], or the present Offham house [P125/15]?

1627 15a part of Picombes, 2a called Tilecroft [P125/68], 2a in the Upland Wish, 1a part of Picombes and 1a 1r part of Shermans, and a messuage and ½a in Offham

1672 sold to P125/15 and MERGED

Owners<1593 William Comber gt of Shermanbury; part of the manor of

Coombe; he sold this to Samuel Norden, clerk, before his sale of the manor in 1593 [5]

<1593-1596+ Samuel Norden clerk confirmed to him by the feoffees of the manor of Coombe in 1596; to his son SN

<1616-1616 Samuel Norden gent of Lewes; in 1616, by two conveyances, he sold the house occupied by Sackville Porter, two barns and land in Hamsey and Lewes St John [5]

<1627-1627+ Richard Newnam in 1627 he obtained licence to let all his copyhold for seven years; at the same court a deleted entry records the sale of this to FL [3]

1627-1627+ Francis Langford [3]<1635-1635+ John Langford abuttal to M505/111<1672-1672 John

JohnLangfordLangford

of Bolney andof Chailey; they sold by 1000-year lease to Nizell Rivers of Offham House in 1672 [5]; are the subsequent entries an oversight?

<1681-1681 John Langford death presented 1681, heriot an ox; heir is only son JL [3]

1681-1681+ John Langford of full age [3]

Occupiers<1616-1616+ Sackville

EdwardPorterHenty

esq held at a combined rent of £39 10s 0d [5]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A5 ESRO SAS/SH 568-9, 667-73

~U7~HAMSEY – former holdings of Thomas Pierce P125/U7


Descriptions of property1635 messuage, garden, orchard and five acres at Offham (E: road; N: lands late

John Beach; W: lands of William Awcock; S, W: tenement and croft of John Burtenshaw, late Norden, once Sherman [M505/125]), with 8 sheep-leazes [5]

Owners<1635 John Pierce bequeathed to his son TP [5]<1635 Thomas Pierce husb of Herstmonceux; he sold for £72 to JF [5]1635-1635+ John Fryor husb of Offham in Hamsey [5]

<1662-1662 Francis Corner yeoman

of Offham; in 1662, with John King, he sold to Nizell Rivers [5]

1662-1662+ MERGED with Offham House [P125/15]

Occupiers<1635-1635+ Joseph Verrall [5]


~U8~HAMSEY – cottage and half an acre P125/U8

Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent unknown [M505/121]

is this P125/47?

Descriptions of property1629 messuage and half an acre in Hamsey [3]

Owners<1627 Coulstock [3]<1627 Abraham Edwards [3]<1627-1627 Francis Langford in 1626 he sold to ST [3]1627-1638 Simon Tillinghast glover [3]; of Lewes, glover, according to the

will of a ST, which does not however mention any property in Hamsey; he left what he had to his daughter Elizabeth at age 20 [4]

1638-1638+ Elizabeth Tillinghast was she the ET who married Robert Tully [?recte Tutty] at Goring in 1639? [5]

Occupiers

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/A25.152 (Simon Tillinghast, 1638)5 Sussex Marriage Index

~U9~HAMSEY – cottage and half an acre P125/U9

Manorial tenure: half a yard called The Ryes, copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent unknown [M505/78]half a yard called Rosefield, copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6D [M505/79]

Descriptions of property1622 half a yard called The Ryes [3]1627 day given to William Young, Thomas Longley, Edward Chatfield,, John

Dawson, Henry Hawkins, William Marks and Robert Cowlstock to mend the way from The Parsonage to Stones Barn by St Bartholomew sub pena 5s 0d

Owners<1622-1629+ Robert Coulstock and his wife Alice; in Jan 1622 he

forfeited M505/78 for carrying off three cartloads of hay without licence; re-granted Aug 1622 with a licence to carry off three cartloads; RC a tenant in 1629 [3]

<1640-1640 Alice Coulstock in 1640 she surrendered to SC [3]1640-1640+ Samson Coulstock the elder [3]; he had been admitted to

M505/79 in 1636 on the surrender of Edward Lipscombe and his wife Tamsin, daughter of Thomas Longley [see P125/40]; he died in 1651 and his trustees sold M505/79 (but not 78) to John Smith, owner by 1672 of P125/43

<1672 MERGED with P125/43


~U10~HAMSEY – messuage and garden P125/U10


Descriptions of property1678 John Plawe acted as Hannah Pellatt’s attorney on her admission to P125/60 in

1678; was he the tenant?1681 messuage and garden [3]1836 piece of ground where two messuages or cottages formerly stood, now used as

a shrubbery [5]

Owners<1681 Kidder [3]<1681-1689 John Plaw amerced for failure to repair tenant way

called Drove Lane in 1681 [3]; administration granted to widow Mary in 1686, inventory £33 17s 0d [4]; death presented 1689, heriot a steer; heir is eldest son Richard Plaw, aged 13 [3]

1689-1689+ Richard Plaw aged 13 [3]; he was named as the servant of Nizell Rivers of P125/15 in his will of 1695 [4]; he married Rebecca Barnes, widow, at Southover in 1710 [6]; he occupied a property in Lewes St Michael sold to Henry Shelley in 1721 and this property may have passed with it [7]

<1773 Bridger [3]<1773-1775 William Howell fmr will of 1773 proved 1775 [5]; death

presented 1777, heriot a horse; by will to his grandson WH [3, 4]

1775-1797 William Howell [3]

Occupiers1773 Mary Alchorne [4]

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO W/B11.16v (John Plaw, 1686); W/A42.77 (Nizell Rivers, 1695); W/A63.286 (William

Howell, 1775)5 ESRO SAS/SH 13-14, 54-676 ESRO PAR 413/1/1/27 ESRO SAS/DN 184 (rental of property of Henry Shelley, 1716

~U11~HAMSEY – cottage and one acre called Hawles Acre P125/U11

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6s, heriot 6d certain [M505/80]

Descriptions of property1600-1610+ cottage and one acre [4] in 1600 described as (S: land of Joan Hawkins called

Pokeham; W: Stephen Lowdwell; N: Joan Hawkins, John Draper; E: Lewes - Barcombe Road)

1627 day given to William Young, Thomas Longley, Edward Chatfield,, John Dawson, Henry Hawkins, William Marks and Robert Cowlstock to mend the way from The Parsonage to Stones Barn by St Bartholomew sub pena 5s 0d

Owners<1595 Randall [5]<1595-1600 Edward Corps a dispute over the title to this land, which

EC claimed in the right of his wife Mary, daughter of Randall, against her uncle Robert Randall of Hamsey, was in course of arbitration at the Bull in Lewes when RR alleged that MC was already the wife of Edward Pelland when EC married her; this led to an action of defamation in the court of the Archdeacon of Lewes in 1595 [5]; in Apr 1600 he and his wife Mary surrendered to JD, presented 1603 [4]

1600-1609 John Draper in 1609 he surrendered to NL and EL [4]1609-1609+ Nicholas Longley and his wife Elizabeth [4]<1610-1610 John Wilson in 1610 he surrendered to JH [4]1610-1610+ John Hother [4]<1627-1627+ Edward Markes said to be late Markes; neighbouring land

was purchased from John Hother by Edward Marks; on his death the freehold land passed to his only brother JM [6]

<1674 John Markes inherited from his only brother EM; by 1674 he had sold to JS [6]

<1674-1674+ John Smith esq MERGED with P125/40

Sources1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments) 3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals4 ESRO ACC 78185 WSRO EpII/5/6 f61-36 ESRO SAS/PN 487

~U12~HAMSEY – tenement and half a yardland (7a) called Geerings and Cobbs at Offham

P125/U1

Manorial tenure: freehold of unknown manor; freehold tenement of Hamsey consisting of two half-acres in the Common Rishley called Valliers and Denhams, [M505/123], may be related

Descriptions of property1601 tenement and half a yard of freehold land (7a) called Geerings or Cobbs at

Offham in Hamsey, occupied by Thomas Comber [1]1627 homage of manor of Hamsey ordered to enquire who held two half-acres in

the Common Rishley called Valliers and Denhams [M505/123]

Owners<1598-1598 Thomas Valyer yeo of Hamsey; by his will of 1598 he left his

house and land at Offham to be sold by his friends Thomas Comber and George Randoll for the benefit of his three daughters Elizabeth Penyfold, Tamsin Worger and Susan Weller [2]; in 1601 his son quitclaimed to the occupier Thomas Comber [1]

1598-1601 Edward Valyer quitclaimed to Thomas Comber [1]1601-1601+ Thomas Comber gent of Allington in Lewes St John [1, 3]; not

mentioned in his will of 1612 so perhaps sold to Coombe by that date [2]

Sources1 ESRO SHR 9602 ESRO WA 10.252; A28.473 John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge, 1933) 65-73 (Comber of

Allington)

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