~1~
HAMSEY – North End Farm
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/1
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 10s 0d [M505/90]
Tithe numbers [1]
153, 155, 179, 184, 185, 187, 188, 192
<1838-1841+
1848
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 412135)
messuage, barn, garden, orchard and 5 pieces (10a) in Hamsey
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
cottage and land (187, 188 and 192 = 2a 2r 30p) acquired (P125/50) [3]
toft, barn, garden orchard and three (formerly five) pieces; a leaze on Green
Wood Common sold
Cottage, farm buildings, 14a 0r 26p land [1]
Cottage and Rades Croft sold off: see P125/48
[1752]
1781-1782
1783<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)
house on east side of road; buildings only by 1840 [7, 1]
Land [2]
Land, house [2]
Cottage on west side of road (187) [1]
<1781-1782
1783-1787
1788
<1833-1840
Land tax assessments [2]
6
6+2
5+2
2+2+5
<1631-1631+
Owners
Joan
Lover
1631-1642
Richard
Beale
1642-1651
Thomas
Rootes
1651-1679
Margaret
Heward
1679-1681
Thomas
Rootes
<1631-1726
1783
1794
1796
widow In 1631 she surrendered to herself for
life, remainder to RB [3]
Admitted to reversion in 1631;
surrendered out of court (W: John
Winton, George Reade and Stephen
Reade) to TR in 1642 [3]
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]
Formerly widow of Thomas Rootes,
who held for life; death presented 1679,
TR’s heir is TR [3]
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
<1726-1726
John
Jenner
1726-1736
Stephen
Weller
1736-1796
Sarah
Weller
1796-1827
Joseph
Morris
1827-1840+
Benjamin
Morris
In the right of his wife Henrietta Maria,
daughter of TR; in 1726 they
surrendered to SW
Of Lewes; by his will of 23 Jan 1731 he
left this to his daughter SW [3]
Admitted 1742; she married Joseph
Morris; in 1783 Morris acquired
P125/48; death presented 1796, no
animal; heir is youngest son JM [3]
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]
[1]
<1781-1827
1827-1840+
Occupiers
Joseph
Benjamin
Morris
Morris
[2]
[1]
grocer
gent
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/1727 (Joseph Morris of Lewes, gent, 1827)
ESRO MOB 1699
WSRO Burrell Mss 17/D/1 – deeds, 1697-1887
~2~
HAMSEY –Hamsey Place Farm/Black House/Part of Cow Lease
Manorial tenure:
1840
1237
1272
1552
1594
1633
1667
1
P125/2
demesne of the manor of Hamsey, itself held of the Barony of Lewes
[3]
Tithe numbers [1]
180, 181, 183, 190, 191, 276, 278, 284, 288, 310-313, 381, 384, 388, 390401, 405, 382, 383, 371, 375, 168, 416
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ411124)
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]
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]
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]
1
manor of Hamsey
2
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]
The Link, and 2¼a in the Long Furlong, purchased from P125/40 [3]
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
1752
c1765
1766
1776
1777
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 Manfield
10
messuage, garden, orchard, barn and 10a arable called [blank],
occupied by Edward Manfield
11
The Horselane Field, The Furzie Field, The Birchett Field, The Horse
Field, field called Fox Earth occupied by Mark Knight
12
The Inner Cowleaze, occupied by John Smyth and Charles Smyth,
gent
13
The Compes and Birchettes (16a), occupied by Edward Raynes, gent
14
The Northends (10a), occupied by William Wymark
15
the advowson of the rectory and church of Hamsey
16
the manor of Offington in Broadwater, Goring and Bramber [7]
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]
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]
sale of The New Inn at Offham Street [?P125/64] to the Coombe Estate
[P125/22]
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]
the estate as sold in 1777 consisted of:
1
1-14 above
2
70a land and wood called Hewen Streets with a barn thereon erected,
formerly occupied by Edward Raynes, gent
3
all GWL’s other land in Hamsey and Barcombe occupied by Joseph
1780
c1780
1789
1789
1791
1792
1792
1796
Mighell, Richard Knight, William Pannett, John Cheesman, <John
Bridger, kt> and Richard Hollingdale [7]
the lordship of Hamsey, a house and 186a 2r 24p sold to T W Partington [see
P125/15-16]
purchased part of P125/80 [2]
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]
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]
in 1791 the estate granted a 99-year lease of the site of a windmill on Hamsey
Place Down, for which see P125/54
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]
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
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
1808
1810
<1838-1841+
1871
1321
1667
1752
1792
<1838-1841+
1855
1856
1808 - 1840
Neck in Hamsey and Ringmer
taken by them in extending and improving the river through those pieces of
land [7, 25]
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 ?]
estate shown on map of this date, by which time Drove Cottages at tithe 313
have been built [9]
House buildings, 3 cottages: land 500a 0r 37p land including Hamsey Sheep
down, gardens and plots [1]
land sold to enlarge Hamsey churchyard [7]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 412123)
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]
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]
map shows house and buildings on present site and a barn and yard west of
Hamsey church [8]
messuage where John Winton lived, now called Hamsey Place, occupied by
James Andrew, before by JM, with stables, barns, buildings, dovehouses [7]
house and buildings (391), 4 cottages (180, 190, 313, 371) [1]
two leazes on Hamsey Common sold to Edward Partington [P125/15] for £42
[26]
exchanges with P125/43
Land tax assessments [2]
£198 15s
<1066
Owners
Wlfgifu
<1086-1086+
Ralph
de Chesney
c1100
<1146-1149
Ralph
John
de Chesney
de Chesney
she held of King Edward for 25 hides;
of which 11 were in the Rapes of
Pevensey and Arundel by 1086 [11]
Hamsey formed the head of 14 fees;
passed to his son RC [11]
[11]
his three sons died without issue and the
estate passed to his two daughters [12]
<1168-<1199
Alice
Emma
de Chesnay
<1199-1214
Geoffrey
de Say
1214-1230
Geoffrey
de Say
1230-1272
William
de Say
1272-1295
William
de Say
1295-1322
Geoffrey
de Say
kt
before 1168 Alice married Geoffrey son
of William de Say, Emma married
Michael Belet; the whole inheritance
passed to de Say [12]
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]
died in Poitou in 1230, and buried at
Dover [14]; to his son WS [11]
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]
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]
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
1359-1375
William
de Say
1375-1382
John
de Say
1382-1382+
John
de Say
<1395-1395+
Isabel
Deneford
kt
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]
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
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]
son of Geoffrey de Say and Maud, aged
30 in 1382,a nd heir under the
settlement of 1341 [15-16]
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
1399-1404
William
Heron
1404-1431
William
Clinton
1431-1464
John
Clinton
1464-1488
John
Clinton
1488-1502
John
Clinton
1502-1510
Edmund
Dudley
esq
1510-1526
John
Dudley
kt
1526-1528
Edward
Lewknor
esq
kt
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]
held by the curtesy of England until his
death in 1404 [14]
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]
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]
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]
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]
(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
(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]
of Kingston Bowsey; on his death in
1528 Hamsey descended to his son
Edward [11]
1528-1553
Edward
Lewknor
esq
1553-1557
CROWN
1557-1589
Dorothy
Lewknor
wido
w
1589-1594
Edward
Lewknor
kt
1594-1634
Edward
Alford
esq
1634-1649
John
Alford
esq
1649-1649+
Frances
Alford
wido
w
<1667
Edward
Alford
kt
<1667-1691
John
Alford
1691-1744
John
Alford
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]
by the attainder of Edward Lewknor
[22]
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
of Kingston Bowsey and Denham Hall
in Suffolk; he and his wife Susan sold
Hamsey to Edward Alford in 1594 [11,
17]
of Offington in Durrington; purchased
the manor in 1594; it was settled on the
marriage of his son John Alford in 1632
[11]
aged 30+ at his father’s death; of
Offington, his will was proved in May
1649 [6, 11]
of John Alford; she held for life with
remainder to his brother Sir Edward
[11]
a Royalist, the manor was placed in the
hands of Henry Goring of Highden,
Henry Goring of Burton and Edward
Baldy, gent [11]
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]
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
1768-1773
John
Wenham
clerk
1773-1777
Geo Wen
Lewis
esq
1777-1807
Joseph
Mighell
gent
1807-1808
trustees
Mighell
1808-1838+
Charles M
Burrell
1808-1920+
BURRELL
ESTATE
bart
Occupiers – Hamsey Place Farm
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]
(1740-1773) rector of Hamsey from
1766; bequeathed the manor to his
godson GWL in 1773 [6, 7, 11]
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]
[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]
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]
[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]
[7]
1296
William
de Capella
<1327-1332+
Idonea
de Say
<1667
<1667
<1667-1667+
John
Samuel
Samuel
Winton
Midmore
Midmore
<1752-1752+
<1777-1789
Benjamin
Joseph
Davis
Mighell
esq
1789-1789+
James
Andrew
yeo
<1791-1803
James
Andrew
fmr
1804
John
1805-1818
1819-1838+
John
Henry
Guy
Berry
Guy
Guy
1874-1886
Charles
Ellis
1886-1886+
John
Kenward
wid
ow
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]
of Geoffrey de Say; assessed in the hundred
of Barcombe for £1 0s 04d in 1327 and £1
0s 2d in 1332 [19]
[7]
[7]
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]
tenant on survey of 1752 [8]
owner-occupier from 1777; of East Kennett
in Wiltshire by 1791 [7]
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]
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]
Messrs Guy and Berry 298 [2]
198 [1]
[1]
of Preston House, Beddingham, in 1875
when he complained about damage by
flooding; rent reduced and covenants
adjusted, 1881; his executors surrendered,
1886 [7]
‘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
1804-1804+
1
2
3
4
5
John
Miles
Berry
Berry
gent
gent
described as part of HPF [7]
of Firle
of Cooksbridge in Hamsey; they took a
lease of 170a for three years at £300 from
10 Oct 1803 [7]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR 1-20
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
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)
WSRO Burrell 9/C/1-8, 9/D/1-15, 19/B/1-5, 21/H/1, 10/H/1
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO AMS 6599/1 (copy of WSRO Add Ms 2000)
SRS 44 71-3 (escheator’s inquisition on the death of William de Say)
Victoria County History; Sussex 7 (1940) 84-5
SAC 44 (1901) 140-3; J H Round, ‘Note on the Sussex Domesday’
TNA escheators’ inquisitions: C134/70/4 (Geoffrey de Say, 1322)
GEC[ockayne] Complete Peerage 3 (1913) 315-7 (Clinton); 11 (1949) 464-78 (Say)
Calendar of Close Rolls 1381-1385 157, 234-5; SRS 23 1922, 2668
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem 15 847
SAC 17 (1865) 70-103 Robert Chapman, ‘The parochial history of Hamsey’
Westminster Abbey Muniments 4063; see SNQ 3 133-5.
SRS 10 (1910); lay subsidy rolls, 1296, 1322, 1327
ESRO SAS/D - calendar of deed of 2 Jan 1526, no longer in the collection = ESRO AMS 298
ESRO GLY 84
ESRO SAS/D 53, 105
ESRO AMS 298-9
PRO E179/258/15 (Hearth tax, 1662)
ESRO SHR 2032: papers relating to new cut, 1796
ESRO ACC 6506/45
Times, 10-12 Jun 1789
SRS 2 (1903) 341
~3~
HAMSEY – 7 Offham Village
Manorial tenure:
1840
copyholds of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 6d each [M505/23]
Tithe numbers [1]
368-9
1765
1780
1827
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ )
waste [6]
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]
cottage 1 said to be ‘near the place where the turnpike gate lately stood’ [3]
shown as two small buildings (1a 21p) Martin’s Farmhouse and garden
[5]
shown on map as two small buildings [7]
Cottages and gardens (1r 17p) [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ400122)
Cottage [1]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
1754-1840+
Owners
John
1752
1754
1754-1754+
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
P125/3
Bridger
Occupiers
Thomas Earle
William Martin
James
Wright +
others
esq
of Combe Place; granted to him in 1754;
descends in the COMBE ESTATE [3]
cordwainer
tailor
[3]
(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]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
~4~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
1777
1773x1777
1831
<1838-1841+
<1838-1841+
<1780-1840+
P125/4
apparently none [4]; perhaps previously part of M505/38, for which
see P125/8 [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
101, 106
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403144)
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]
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
‘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]
part of a house, garden, shop, wheeler’s shop and smith’s shop, 1r 2p land [1]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 403144)
Part of house, garden and shop, and wheeler’s shop (101)
Part of smith’s shop (106) [1]
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable in 1840
Owners
c1795
1
2
3
4
5
Bland
<1831-1832
Edward
Bland
black
smith
1832-1840+
Samuel
Baker
black
smith
<1840-1840+
Occupiers
Samuel
Baker
shown as neighbouring owner on map of
land to the north, datable to 1790x1796 [5]
of Cooksbridge in Barcombe; in 1831 he
bequeathed the land, described as above, to
Samuel Baker of Barcombe, blacksmith [4]
of Barcombe in 1831 [4]; owner-occupier in
1840 [1]
owner-occupier [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A77.622 (Edward Bland of Cooksbridge in Barcombe, blacksmith, 1832)
ESRO AMS 6775
~5~
HAMSEY - Cow Lease Farm
Manorial tenure:
demesne of the manor of Hamsey; see P125/2 [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
154, 156-161, 164-167, 169,170, 172-175, 189, 280, 281
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 418135)
house, buildings, cottage: land 170a 2r 13p land [1]
1752
<1838-1841+
1
2
3
4
5
6
P125/5
Descriptions of house (at TQ 418135)
buildings only [6]
house and buildings (157) [1]
cottage and garden (189)
<1817-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
100
1803
<1808-1840+
Owners
Mr
Charles
Mighell
Burrell
bart
1803
1808
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
James
Andrew
John
Guy
Nathanl Guy
yeo
<1840-1840+
Henry
Guy
of Knepp in Shipley [5]
[2]
[1]; his will of 1845, leaving his farming
stock to his son Henry Guy, was proved in
1846 [4]
[2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A82.285 (Nathaniel Guy)
WSRO Burrell MSS.
ESRO MOB 1699.
~6~
HAMSEY - Cooksbridge Brewery
Manorial tenure:
1840
1738-1822+
1822
<1838-1841+
1852
1874
P125/6
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]
98
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402143)
NOT FORMED; shown as part of Little Mead [P125/25] on map of the
Coneyboro Estate of 1738 [7]
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]
house, brewery, garden: land 3r 6p [1]
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]
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
1912
Descriptions of house (at TQ 402143)
house, brewery etc ( 98) [1]; buildings shown in detail on map of 1827 [8]
brewery, dwelling-house, stable, store and buildings; land as above, with six
perches of land on the South side [4]
the brewery destroyed or badly damaged by fire on 7 August 1912 [6]
<1840-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed in Hamsey 1840 unless with malthouse
1822-1836
Owners
John
Cheesman
1836-1852
John
Cheesman
1822-1912
1867
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]
[1]; death presented 1852; by will of 1850
to brother TC and friend JM in trust for sale
[3]
1852-1867
trustees
Cheesman
1867-1874
George
Norman
1874-1905
George
Norman
1905-1912
Harry G
Telling
1912-1912+
CONEY
BORO
ESTATE
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Occupiers
John
Cheesman
brew
er
brew
er
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]
of Cooksbridge; purchased for £2800; died
17 Nov 1874 [4]
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]
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]
MERGED [4]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO ACC 6506/47
ESRO AMS 6584/1
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
~7~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/7
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]
176-178 279, 282, 283, 286, 287, 295, 297, 305-308, 300
1855
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 411125)
P125/51 merged
8a called Cows Croft, 4a and acre adjoining brook and parcel of rood called
Hilliers; copyhold
M505/61
land called Forestones, tenement called Stoners; freehold
M505/62
Smiths Orchard, Stoners Croft and tenement called Rogers
M505/63
The Hame, Lesson Lands, 2 barns and 6 pieces (15a and 5a)
M505/64
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]
location annotated onto map of this date [8]
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]
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]
tithe 300 (a plot of 2r 6p in the lawn of the rectory) to to the rectory [P125/46]
1752
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 411125)
house (15 = tithe 305-7), barn (12 = 177) and cottage (4 = 295) [7]
house, barn and yard (306), barn and yard (177) [1]
<1780-1780+
<1789-1790
<1791-1791+
<1798-1798+
<1808-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
25
24
19 10s
18
19 10s
<1590-1590
Owners
Nicholas Mabbe
<1627
<1627-1629
Edward
Randall
Chatfield
1629-1639
Edward
Chatfield
<1667
1667+
[1752]
1810
<1838-1841+
1855
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]
Cf P125/51
in 1627 obtained licence to lease for seven
years; surrendered in extremis in 1629 to us
of EC; no animal [3]
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
<1662-1662
Edward
Chatfield
1662-1667
Richard
Barnard
1667-1724
Thomas
Barnard
gent
1724-1742
Thomas
Barnard
Esq
1742-1764
Richard
Barnard
Esq
1764-1771
Frances
Barnard
Spr
1771-1779
John
Waterman
Gent
1779-1817
Richard
Comber
gent
1817-1819
Richard
Barnard
Comber
Esq
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]
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]
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]
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]
of Lewes; death presented 1742 for
M505/61-64, heriot four oxen; heir is
brother RB [3]
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]
death presented 1771, no animal; JW
admitted [3]
of Ashford; admitted as remainderman
under the will of Richard Barnard; death
presented 1779, heriot; RC admitted under
will of Richard Barnard [3]
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]
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
1855-1855+
BURRE
LL
ESTATE
<1590-1590+
<1768-1787
1788-1789
1790-1813
1814-1817+
<1823-1830+
<1833-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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]
Charles Merrick Burrell of Knepp Castle,
bt; enfranchised 1855; but was the
farmhouse purchased?
Occupiers
Roger
Keme
[6]
John
Richard
Benjami
n
William
Richard
Henry
[2]
Owner-occupier [2]
[2]; requisitions recite lease to Thomas
Marchant at £125, 1809 [9]
[2]; held at £85 [9]
[2]
[2]
Holman
Comber
Comber
Elms
Verrall
Guy
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/76 (Nicholas Mabbe of Lewes, 1590; extract in SAC 17.86)
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO AMS 6599/1 (copy of WSRO Add Ms 2000)
ESRO SAS/SH 270-272
~8~
HAMSEY – The Rainbow at Cooksbridge
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1746-1746
c1750
1752
1756
1772-1772+
1777
<1838-1841+
1884
P125/8
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]
Tithe numbers [1]
103
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403143)
NOT FORMED
granted from the waste in 1746, but presumably as an
addition to P125/56 [3]
one rood with a little pound lately enclosed from the waste (N: [blank]
Shelley esq; E, S, W: road) [3]
house, forge and garden (1r 12p) [7]
described by the owner’s will of this date as a messuage and garden in his
own occupation [3]
the new owner already had a cottage (P125/35) [3]
described as a messuage, blacksmith’s shop, orchard and garden at
Cooksbridge, occupied by Susannah Tourle, spinster, and Thomas Bland [3]
no description: land 1r 2p [1]
messuage and shop now used as a public house called The Rainbow with the
yard, cart-house, stable, buildings and garden [3]
1749
1752
1827
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 403143)
datestone on front of building with the initials IM [James Markwick]
shown on map as a house, forge and garden (1r 12p) [7]
buildings shown in detail on map of 1827 [5]
no description [1]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
2 (?) described as a house 1833
1746-1756
Owners
James
Markwick
1756-1772
James
Markwick
1772-1792
Richard
Hollingdale yeo
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]
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]
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
1792-1834
Mary
Hollingdale wid
1834-1840
John
Henderson
1840-1845
Henry
Henderson
pbcn
1845-1850
John
Langford
brwr
1850-1854
Frederic
Langford
1854-1857
trustees
Langford
1857-1884
Lewes
Bank
1884-1886
Jane
Elmsley
spr
1886-1886+
John W
Lyell
brwr
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
Henry
Henderson
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]
death presented 1840; by will of 1838 to his
children HH and EH [3]
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]
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]
by will of 1851, proved 1854, to trustee for
sale [3]
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]
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]
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]
of Gothenburg in Sweden, brewer [3]
[1] Mr Henderson [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A66.330 (Richard Hollingdale of Hamsey)
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO MOB 1699
~9~
HAMSEY - cottages at Cooksbridge
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1719-1719
1729
1746
1752
1754
1773x1777
<1838-1841+
1843
1850
P125/9
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 6d, heriot 1s 6d certain
(M505/9) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
102, 104, 105
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403143)
NOT FORMED; granted from the waste in 1719 [3]
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)
parcel of waste [3]
Shown as six buildings and 3r at ‘Cooksbridge Street’ [7]
‘waste whereon was lately built one messuage and one stable’
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
house, garden, two cottages: land 1r 38p [1]
messuage, cottage, garden, wheeler’s shop and 2 rods [3]
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]
1752
1828
<1838-1841+
1850
Descriptions of house (at TQ 403143)
shown on map as six buildings and described as ‘several tenements’ [7]
will of 1728 calls it copyhold land and shop
house and garden (102), cottages (104, 105) [1]
see above
<1817-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
2
described as house
1719-1729
Owners
David
Wood
1729-1752
Eliz
Tasker
1752-1754
Thomas
Tasker
bcks
mith
David 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]
wife of John Tasker of Barcombe, wheeler,
for life, remainder to JT; his death presented
1746; her death presented 1752 [3]
sold to HF in 1754 [3]
1754-1760
1760-1773
1773-1807
1807-1815
1815-1852
1852-1866
1866-1873
1873-1873+
1817
<1828-1841+
1
2
3
4
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]
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]
Henry
West
wheel of Barcombe, wheelwright; death presented
wrigh 1807; by will of 1804, describing it as the
t
house in which he lived held of the manors
of Barcombe and Hamsey, to trustees MB
and JH [3]
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]
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]
Richard Howell
wheel Richard Howell of Alciston, wheelwright;
wrigh death presented 1866, heir is youngest son
t
DH [3]
David
Howell
wheel David Howell of Rottingdean, wheelwright;
wrigh in 1873 he sold to JGD [3]
t
CONEYBORO ESTATE
purchased by John George Dodson MP of 6
Seymour Place, Mayfair [3]
Occupiers
Mrs
West
John
Howell
owner occupier
owner-occupier [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A84.293 (John Howell of Barcombe)
5
6
7
8
ESRO
TNA
ESRO
ESRO
SHR
PROB 11/
MOB 1699
AMS 6775
~10~
HAMSEY - cottage at Offham
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/10
unknown; probably an unlicensed encroachment on the waste of the
manor of Hamsey [M505/129]
Tithe numbers [1]
376
c1820-1827+
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 400121)
not shown on map of the Combe Place Estate [5]
shown as a N-S cottage, with land to the East running South behind P125/64 [8]
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]
shown on map as L-shaped building, not part of the Combe Place Estate [7, 9]
cottage and garden (376) [1]
<1840-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
1780
1810
1815
Owners
<1810-1810+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Guy
<1838-1840+
George
Langridge
<1838-1840+
Occupiers
George
Langridge
[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]
[1]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO AMS 6599 (map of Burrell estate, 1810)
ESRO ACC 3412/3/160
~11~
HAMSEY - cottage on Beechwood Lane
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/11
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d, heriot 6d certain
(M505/39) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
214
<1787
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 396137)
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]
NOT FORMED as a manorial tenement: granted from the waste, with a
cottage, in 1681 [3]
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]
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]
land to S late occupied by Samuel Ellis in 1787 [3]
House, garden: land 1r 24p [1]
1634
1681
1707
1752
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 396137)
cottage shown on estate map [5]
cottage already built when granted from the waste [3]
cottage and orchard shown on map [5]
house and building shown in L-formation on map [7]
House and garden (214) [1]
<1817-1841+
Land tax assessments [2]
1
<1681-1681
Owners
WASTE
1681-1698+
Thomas
Harvey
1698-1725
Thomas
Harvey
1725-1769
Thomas
Vinall
1769-1780
Richard
Care
1780-1787
John
Care
<1634-1634+
<1681-1681
c1750
1752
waste with a cottage; granted to occupier
TH in 1681 [3]
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]
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]
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]
Richard Care the mortgagee admitted on
forfeiture in 1769; death presented 1780;
only son JC [3]
in 1781 he paid £1 5s 6d for a licence to cut
four elm-trees for sale; in 1787 he
surrendered to GE [3]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1787-1805
George
Earle
husb
1805-1861
William
Lindfield
lab
1861-1861+
COMBE ESTATE
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]
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]
George Croxton Shiffner, clerk [3]
1681-1698
<1817-1841+
Occupiers
Thomas Harvey
William Lindfield
[3]
[1, 2] owner occupier
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 390 (map of 1634), 393 (map of 1707)
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
~12~
HAMSEY - Cooksbridge Farm, formerly Wigsells Farm
Manorial tenure:
1840
1608
1648
1699
c1708
P125/12
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]
96, 107-110, 116-119, 136, 205
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402141)
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
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 Edwards
4
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 Down
6
croft (1a) late Valentine [1643 adds: formerly sold by Edward
Valentine]
1
messuage, barn, stall, gardens, orchard and 10a
2
23a called The Werd
3
1a before Abraham Edwards
4
1a at The Werd (W: Hamsey Glebe)
5
toft with 9a in five parcels
all late William Lulham
6
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)
‘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
1713
1728
1731
1822
1815
<1838-1841+
Barcombe, to keep the covenants in a deed of even date, 2 March 1708, would
fit a conveyance of Tanhouse Lag perfectly [10]
as 1699 above, except:
4
(W: Hamsey Glebe; E,S,N: the remainder of the land being sold),
formerly Thomas Beach
5
toft with 9a, formerly in five parcels
near 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]
acquires P125/74
acquires P125/U1
Cooksbridge Brewery sold out of this estate [P125/6]
grant from waste: E: turnpike road; W: CCCJ; N, S: running to points;
M505/128
house, buildings: land 75a 2r 10p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 402141)
are the buildings shown on this map? [7]
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]
house and buildings (107) [1]
<1780-1780+
<1789-1790
1791-1791+
<1803-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
39
36
31
29
1752
1797
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
1608-1648
William
Lulham
tanner
1661-1672
William
Alcock
esq
1672-1691
Hannah
Pellatt
1691-1699
Richard
Shelley
esq
1699-1713
Thomas
Wigsell
yeo
1713-1838+
Thomas
Medley
<1713-1713+
<1780-1803+
<1808-1813+
<1815-1823+
Occupiers
Thomas Wigsell
John
Berry
Ann
Berry
George
Berry
<1828-1833+
<1840-1840+
Thomas
John
Bell
Waters
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]
of The Friars, Lewes; on his death it
descended to his daughter Hannah Pellatt,
wife of Thomas Pellatt [10]
it passed from her to her daughter Hannah,
wife of Richard Shelley [10]
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]
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]
MERGED with the Coneyboro Estate [2]
the elder; owner-occupier to 1713 [10]
[2]
[2]
[2]; he acted as tenant when CCC Jenkinson
admitted to M505/128 in 1815 [3]
[2]
[2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/B 2.165
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/76 (Nicholas Mabbe of Lewes, 1590)
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SAS/PN 489-492; SAS/C592, SAS/SH 757-758; AMS 5897/44-59
BL
Add Ms 38485 ff204-7
ESRO ACC 3712
~13~
HAMSEY - part of Cooksbridge Nurseries (FRIENDLY HALL)
Manorial tenure:
1840
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1d (M505/25) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
203, 204
1635
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 401136)
part of Goteacre; this = 1a in Claycroft (E: road; S: Stephen Botting; W: Rishly;
N: glebe)
P125/19 and 93 (adjoining the land of Francis Langford) sold off from this
holding
land of George Read [9]
House and garden, plot: land 1a 2r 6p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 401136)
House and garden (203) [1]
<1840-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
<1584-1584
Owners
Abraham
Edwards
yeo
1584-1584+
<1627-1627
Alan
Thomas
Brewer
Reade
carp
1627-1644
George
Reade
1644-1644+
<1681
<1681-1681
Thomas
Edward
Reade
Bennett
Valentine
1681-1681+
<1715-1715
1715-1754
Eleanor
Thomas
Stephen
Valentine
Medley
Cooper
1754-1803
Robert
Cooper
1803-1815
Samuel
Ellis
1815-1840
Thomas
Ellis
1840-1840+
George
Merricks
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
George
Merricks
1584
1629
1
2
3
P125/13
wid
esq
yeo
in 1584 he sold this, with Goteacre, to AB
[7]
of Hamsey
death presented 1627, heriot a cow (£2 10s);
heir is eldest son GR [3]
death presented 1644, heriot a cow; heir is
eldest son TR [3]
[3]
[3]
death presented 1681, no animal; widow
Eleanor Valentine holds for life [3]
held a life estate [3]
by 1715 had sold to SC [3]
death presented 1754, heriot a hog; only son
RC [3]
only son of SC; by 1803 he had sold to SE
[3]
of Hamsey, yeoman; by will to nephew TE
[3]
present by attorney Richard Knight; by
1840 he had sold to GM
owner-occupier [1]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
4
5
6
7
9
ESRO
ESRO
TNA
CKS
WSRO
W/A
SHR
PROB 11/
U1475/T278A/3
EpII/17/89
~14~
HAMSEY - MYRTLE COTTAGE
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1752-1752
c1750
1752
<1838-1841+
P125/14
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 6d, heriot and fine 2s 6d
certain (M505/19) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
251
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 400133)
NOT FORMED;
granted out of the waste, a house already standing, in
1752 [3]
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]
Shown as ‘new house and garden by the road, 27r’, on the W side, N of the
junction of the road to Chailey [7]
Cottage, garden: land 1r 10p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 400133)
house already standing when the land was granted from the waste [3]; shown
on map of the same year [7]
Cottage (251) [1]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
1752
Owners
<1752-1752
1752-1755
Richard
waste
Care
1755-1782
Eliz
Alchorne
1782-1807
Samuel
Alchorne
1807-1834
Richard
Paul
1834-1883
Richard
Paul
1883-1883+
William
Paul
<1838-1841+
Occupiers
Richard Paul
husb
granted to him, the house already built, in
1752; sold to EA 1755 [3]
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]
of Kingston, husbandman; admitted 1784;
death presented 1807; by will of 1799 to his
mother Betty Allcorn for life, remainder to
RP [3]
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]
[1]; Richard Paul; death presented 1883;
only son WP [3]
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]
[1]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR 2028/33
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
~15~
HAMSEY – Offham House
Manorial tenure:
1840
1661
1662
1672
1697
1699
1701
1706
<1752
1776
c1780
1780
1788
1788
1789
1790
1796
<1797
1797
P125/15
includes freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d M505/102 [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
314-317, 319, 351, 379, 380, 423, 253-259, 269, 356-377
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403125)
messuage, barn and croft of two acres [5]
purchased messuage, garden, orchard and 5a by 1000 year lease at 1d
[P125/U7] [5]
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]
purchased Pellbrook (2a) and an acre with the site of a demolished chapel
[P125/28]; no more is heard of this property
1
messuage, barn, garden, close and croft of 2a
2
messuage since converted into stable, garden, orchard and 5a in
Offham, being meadow land adjoining the croft, and 8 sheepleazes
3
barn, close and 15a called Pyecombes in Offham and croft called
Tyecroft (2a) [5]; Offham House taken out of this
2 above called The Clover Field [5]
purchased an enclosed croft (2a) S: the lane leading to Coombe; N: Offham
laines from Abraham Nicholas [P125/U5]
purchased Wellcroft (P125/66)
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]
purchased part of P125/80 [2]
purchased the lordship of the manor of Hamsey and part of the demesnes [ for
details see P125/16]
purchased P125/79, of which the land (tithe 193) was attached to P125/16
purchased three houses and a croft [P125/65] and Tilecroft [P125/68]
purchased Woodcock Cottage (P125/59); sold 1851
purchased P125/67
acquired a leaze on Wood Green Common from P125/1 and 1½ leazes from
P125/43
purchased P125/61; sold 1851
settled estate described as [13]
1
manor of Hamsey
2
capital messuage, purchased by TW Partington from William Stanford
3
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 Lewis
4
Offham Farm (195a), let to Richard Knight [details under P125/16]
1817
1826
<1827
<1838-1841+
1851
1851
1854
1855
1864
NB
1634
1662-1675
1676
1707
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]
purchased P125/60; sold 1851
purchased house and blacksmith’s forge at Offham [P125/62]; sold 1854
purchased P125/68; sold 1851
mansion house, garden, orchard, farm buildings, 20 cottages: land 51a 0r 30p
[1]
sold Woodcock Cottage [P125/59], P125/60-61
mansion and land sold to Coombe Estate for £4570 (tithe 351, 423, 356-365,
315, part 316, 379, 319, 380) [5]
sold house and blacksmith’s forge at Offham [P125/62]
two leazes on Hamsey Common purchased from Charles Merrick Burrell
[P125/2] for £42 [13]
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)
Hamsey malthouse and cottages discussed with P125/67
<1838-1841+
shown, more roughly, as house of 1707 [5]
Nizell Rivers 9 flues 1662, 12 flues 1675
sundial on house NR 1676 = Nizell Rivers
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]
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]
rainwater heads have JD 1749 = John Davies
shown without identification on map [6]
view by James Lambert [12]
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]
Mansion house, farm buildings (351) cottages (253-259, 269, 356-377) [1]
<1817-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
£30 10s
<1661-1661
Owners
Robert
1747
1749
1752
c1780
1797
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
1695-1698
Dorothy
Rivers
1698-1723
William
Nelson
esq
1723-1746
Robert
Nelson
esq
1746-1747
Norton
Nelson
esq
1747-1747
John
Bridger
esq
1747-1766
John
Davies
clk
1766-1766+
JB
Davis
<1768-1768+
Thomas
Dennett
<1773-1773
John
Wenham
clk
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
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
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]
on homage 1745; by his will of 12 Aug
1745 NN bequeathed to NN [5, 6]
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]
owner of the Coombe Estate; a house and 5a,
this property, sold [?immediately] to his
brother-in-law JD, but the remainder retained
[5]
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
John Brewer Davis of Epsom and Lincolns
Inn esq (1741-1817) [5]; he must have sold
to Thomas Dennett [10]
assessed for £8 late Nelson’s Land in 1768
[9]; must have sold to JW [8]
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
1791-1841
Thomas
Partington
esq
1841-1851
Penelope
Partington
wid
1851-1851+
COOMB
E
ESTATE
<1662-1694
1747
<1773-1791
Occupiers
Nizell
Rivers
Howell
TW
Partington
1791-1841
1841-1851
<1857-1857
1864-1866+
Thomas
Penelope
Catherine
George
Partington
Partington
Gillham
Lyall
<1871-1875+
HJ
Pattison
esq
esq
wid
spr
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]
[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]
died 1851; estate sold by her son Edward
Partington to Sir Henry Shiffner [5]
[8] owner occupier until his death
occupier when sold to John Bridger [5]
Thomas Walley Partington, barrister; owneroccupier
[1] owner occupier
widow of TP
buried from Offham House 1857
of 14 Gloucester Square, Hyde Park; leased
for seven years at £175 in 1864 [5]
leased for 14 years at £175, 1872 [5]
problem with descent of Offham House
Although 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.
1
2
3
4
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A42.77 (Nizell Rivers, 1695); 35.163 (Robert Baker, 1679)
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
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)
TNA PROB 11/751 (Robert Nelson, Dec 1746)
ESRO MOB 1699
TNA E179, ESRO XA 5 (hearth tax)
ESRO SHR 2028/33 (deposition of John Bridger, 1787), 75 (Land Tax, 1768)
ESRO ADA 186-187 (court books of the manor of Warningore)
WSRO Burrell 9/C/1-8, 9/D/1-15, 19/B/1-5, 21/H/1, 10/H/1
BL
Add Ms 5677 f23
ESRO ACC 6506/45
~16~
HAMSEY - Offham Farm (New Farm)
Manorial tenure:
1840
1707
1752
1780
1797
P125/16
demesne of the manor of Hamsey [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
120, 137-141, 143-151, 193, 196-198, 252, 260-268, 318, 320, 406, 171.
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 408131) Copyhold Farm
Lam’s Wish shown as an abuttal [5]
House, farm yard, buildings: land 170a 1r 24p [7]
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]
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
<1838-1841+
1851
1752
1790
<1838-1841+
1851
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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
House, farm yard, buildings: land 216a 1r 38p [1]
sold; house and 243a 3r 14p detailed description in particulars [5]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 400126)
house and three outbuildings at Offham [7]
P125/67 acquired
House, buildings etc (318, 268) [1]
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]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
£84 10s
<1780-1780
Owners
HAMSEY
MANOR
1780-1900
OFFHAM
HOUSE
1900-1900+
CONEYB
ORO
ESTATE
1672-1672+
Occupiers
Edward Raynes
<1752-1759
John
Alchorne
1759-1768+
1823
1833
<1834-1900+
John
Richard
Thomas
James
Alchorne
Knight
Partington
Aylwyn
formed part of the demesne land of the
manor [P125/2] until the sale to Thomas
Walley Partington in 1780 [P125/15]
[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]
[9]
gt
of Coneybrough in Barcombe; took a lease
of most of this for 21 years at £28 in 1672 [8]
[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]
assessed for £71 land tax ‘for his farm’ [2]
[2]
[2]
called Alwyn on apportionment [1, 2]; in
1851 he paid £256 15s 0d rent [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A60.104 (John Alchorne, 1759)
ESRO SAS/SH 391 (map of 1707); SH 14 (sales particulars of 1851)
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SAS/PN 486
ESRO ACC 6506/45
~17~
HAMSEY - Shelley’s Folly
Manorial tenure:
1840
GENERAL
1552>
1579
1587
1588
1590
1597
P125/17
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]
59-67, 79-90, 97, 99, 100, 142, 2, 6, 12, 13, 76, 16
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 404149)
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 P125/95-96
4
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
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]
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]
P125/92 and P125/95 sold off
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]
P125/95-96 acquired
acquisition of Little Hewen Street (tithe 2, 6, 12-13), described as formerly part
1609
1617
c1620
1634
1651
1681
1689
1773x1777
of the lands called Hewen Streets [12]
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]
Philip Bennett solely responsible for the whapple-way as 1588 above [13]
formerly customary lands called Hewenstreet in Hamsey [13]
1 Great Hewenstreet otherwise Hewarstreet and Cookspile otherwise Parkfield
2 Brewers and Gotacre [M505/92]
3 Lesser Hewenstreet otherwise Hewarstreet
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 Tagg
2
barn and 29a called Little Hewen Street, occupied by John King
1
messuage, barns, stables and 140a called Great Hewen Street
2
messuage and 30a called Little Hewen Street
3
27a coppice in hand; all in Hamsey and Barcombe
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
shown on a map as a house, buildings and 188a 2r 21p (134a 0r 17p plain) [11]
1
mansion and land called Great Hewen Street
2
Barn Field, Bushy Field, Middle 3½a, Well Field
3
Lower Land Brook
4
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
1781
<1838-1841+
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.
tithe 76 shown as ‘Mr Shelley’ on estate map [8]
House, cottage, farm buildings land: arable, meadow, pasture, wood 187a 2r
32p [1]
1752
1773x1777
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 404149)
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]
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]
shown as ‘The Folly’ on map [7]
shown on a map as a house, buildings and 188a 2r 21p (134a 0r 17p plain) [11]
House and garden (84) cottage and garden (88) [1]
1752
Descriptions of house (at TQ 405165)
barn and dwelling house at West end of The Wood [?tithe 7] [7]
<1780-1780
1781
1784
1788
1789
1791
1798
1808-1817
1833-1840
Land tax assessments [2]
64
52
50
46
47
40
36
41 4s
41 5s
<1579
Owners
Richard
Holter
<1579-1579
heirs of
Holter
1579-1589
Thomas
Glyde
1688
1712
possibly the RH of Barcombe,
administration of whose estate was granted
to his widow Katherine in 1562 [4]
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]
yeom of Etchingham; in 1589 he and his wife
an
Joan conveyed to James Plumer and his son
Henry Plumer [12]
1589-1608
James
Plumer
yeo
1589-1609
Henry
Plumer
merc
hant
1609-1623
Philip
Bennett
gent
1623-1634
Philip
Bennett
gent
1634-1671
John
Bennett
gent
1671-1680
Thomas
Woodcock
kt
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
(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
1681-1692
Theobald
Shelley
esq
1692-1719
Mary
Shelley
wid
1719-1740
John
Shelley
esq
1740-1771
1771-1790
Timothy
John
Shelley
Shelley
esq
1790-1844
Timothy
Shelley
bart
1845-1855
John
Shelley
esq
1855-1858
1859-1897
John
George
Dodson
Dodson
<1579-1579+
<1605-1606
Occupiers
Thomas Comber
John
Bookes
1606-1609+
<1687
<1687-1712
Agnes
Gerard
Nicholas
John
John
Thomas
Timothy
Edward
Boakes
Burt
Tagg
King
King
Woodcock
Shelley
Pollington
<1772-1773+
17801808
<1828- 1840
1855-1870
1871-1871+
William
John
Richard
James
Thomas
Eli
Howell
Howell
Knight
Lashmer
Knight
Knight
<1651-1651+
<1670-1681+
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]
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]
she later married John Tredcroft, probably of
a Horsham family of that name; died without
issue, when the property passed to her
nephew JS
of Champneys in Thakeham and Fen Place,
Worth, son of Timothy Shelley (clerk of the
peace, d1671) and great-nephew of Timothy
Shelley
of USA and Horsham; to his son JS
(1729-1790) of Field Place in Warnham [2];
to his nephew TS
(1753-1844) of Field Place and Castle
Goring [1,2]; Mrs Shelley assessed for land
tax in 1817
(1806-1866, younger brother of PB Shelley),
of Avington Park in Hampshire; he sold to
JD
1st Lord Monk Bretton
yeoma
n
widow
kt
leased to him at £16 [12]
part leased to him by Henry Plomer and his
wife Ann at £40; he died in 1606 [12, 4]
Great Hewen Street [12]
Little Hewen Street [12]
Great Hewen Street [12]
Little Hewen Street [12]
Great Hewen Street [12]
[Little Hewen Street] [12]
owner-occupier [12]
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]
[14, 4]
[2]
[2]
[1,2]
of Streat [15]
son of TK
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
1901-1906+
Arthur
Biden
<1910-1910+
1915-1920
Lady
Smith
major
Queensbury
<1930-1930+
<1934-1934+
George
Claude
<1938-1938+
Patrick
D
Murray
De WarrenTyler
Stewart
of Gosport, director of brewing companies;
house only
[16]
her son Lord Alfred Douglas occasionally
in residence
surgeon-commander
Lieutenant-Colonel
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
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)
ESRO D53
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);
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,
including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
SRS 14.14 IPM of Philip Bennett
ESRO AMS 6775
ESRO Preston manor deeds ES/CK, WS/AI/1, ES/EQ/1; CKS U1475 T278
SRS 34.196
Book of John Rowe
ESRO SHR 3686
ESRO MOB 1172A
ESRO IRV 1/38 353
History of Parliament
~18~
HAMSEY - cottage on corner of Beechwood Lane and Allington Lane
Manorial tenure:
1840
unknown; associated with M505/40-41
Tithe numbers [1]
127
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 390142)
house, garden and orchard of William Ridge [5] = probably part of Lidlows,
[P125/25], in an abbuttal to which it is mentioned
no description : land 2r 36p [1]
1752
<1780-1780+
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 390142)
shown on manor map but not identified [6]
shown on estate map [5]
shown on tithe map [1]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
not recorded in 1840
<1764-1764+
<1780-1838+
Owners
William
COOMBE
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
Henry
Satcher
<1764-1764+
1
2
3
4
5
6
P125/18
Ridge
ESTATE
abuttal to P125/25
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 799
ESRO MOB 1699
~19~
HAMSEY - COOKSBRIDGE NURSERIES
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/19
copyholds of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 8d, 1s 0d and 6s 4d
(M505/13-14, 60) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
249, 250, 322
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 399133)
Croft as below; created out of George Read’s tenement and fine certain of 10s
0d established [3]
newly-built messuage and croft (1a) by the lands late George Goring, esq [3]
Messuage or cottage and 1a of pasture, part of the customary land of Denham,
occupied by Robert Norman [3]
building shown at angle to junction [6]
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]
Messuage or cottage, garden, orchard and 1a [3]
grant of M505/60, 3 roods of land (W: acre in M505/13; E: road) [3]
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]
Nursery garden, plot: land 7a 0r 34p [1]
1631
1662
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 399133)
newly built [3]
Robert Mercer assessed for one flue [10]
none
<1780-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
<1629-1629
Owners
George
Read
1629-1635
Thomas
Read
1635-<1649
Richard
Markwick
<1649
John
Morris
1649-1664
Jane
Morris
1664-1671
Robert
Mercer
1671-1684
John
Hook
1629
1631-1635
1702
1752
1757
1763
1766
1792
in 1629 he surrendered to TR but remained
a tenant of the manor [3]
in 1631 he mortgaged for £32 to RM and
released to him in 1635 [3]
of Barcombe in 1631; admitted 1635; before
1649 he had surrendered out of court to JM
and JM [3]
and his wife Jane Morris; he was long dead
in 1649 when she was admitted [3]
she surrendered to RM out of court
(witnesses: John Smith the younger, Samuel
Cruttenden) in 1664 [3]
admitted 1665 and again in 1667; in 1671
he surrendered to JH [3]
death presented 1684; heir is son [blank]
Hook, aged [blank], but widow Mary
entitled to bench [3]
1684-1702
John
Middleton
1702-1716
Stephen
Botting
1716-1724
John
Alchorne
yeo
1724-1752
Hannah
Alchorne
wid
1752-1763
William
Alchorne
thatc
her
1763-1769
Thomas
Tippen
yeo
1769-1790
Ann
Tippen
1790-1790
Sarah
Wilson
1790-1838+
COOM
BE
ESTATE
<1757-1757+
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
Occupiers
George
Bartholomew
Sarah
Aldrich
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]
of Hamsey; admitted 1702; in 1716 he
surrendered to JA [3]
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]
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]
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-inlaw TT 1763 [3, 4]
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]
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]
wife of Thomas Wilson, gent; admitted by
her attorney Joseph Wheatley, gent; she
surrendered M505/13-14 to JB [3]
John Bridger admitted 1790 [3]; George
Shiffner bt 1838 [1]
[8]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A51.251 (John Alchorne, 1721); W/A62.40 (Thomas Tippen, 1766); W/A62.798
(William Tutty, 1767)
ESRO SAS/SH 591, 764
6
7
8
9
10
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 14 Nov 1757
ESRO W/U4/11 (Hannah Alchorne, 1752)
TNA PRO E179/258/15 (Hearth tax, 1662)
~20~
HAMSEY – brickyard and cottage, part of Hewen Street Farm
Manorial tenure:
part of the demesnes of the manor of Hamsey
1840
<1838-1841+
1
2
3
4
P125/20
Tithe numbers [1]
32, 33
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397158)
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]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 397158)
cottage and garden (33)
<1780-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
<1838-1838+
Owners
COOMBE
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
George
Best
ESTATE
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 22-24
ESRO MOB 1699
George Shiffner bt [1]
[1]
~21~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
1620
c1765
1786
<1838-1841+
parts of several individual tenements
Tithe numbers [1]
350, 342, 344-346, 352-355, 410-412
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397122)
tithe 410 owned by William Claggett and 411 held in common [5]
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]
cottage and land (tithe 353) purchased; for earlier history see P125/93
Cottage and garden, farm buildings, wharf, pasture and arable land 75a 2r 19p
[1]
1752
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 397122)
house and land [6]
cottage and garden (353) [1]
<1780-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed or unidentifiable
<1765-1838+
<1780-1783
1784-1798
1799-1804
1805
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
6
P125/21
Owners
COOM
BE
ESTATE
Occupiers of wharf
William Price
Mr
Gaston
Mrs
Gaston
COOM
ESTATE
BE
Harmer
George Shiffner Bt in 1838 [1]
[2]
[2]
[2]
in hand; last called a wharf in this year [2]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO SHR 2032/21
ESRO SRA 6/13/2 (1620)
ESRO MOB 1699
~22~
HAMSEY – Coombe Place
P125/22
Manorial 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]
1840
1239
1270
1300
1561
1597
1616
1634
Tithe numbers [1]
19, 15, 24, 28, 30, 31, 49, 186, 338-349, 321, 124, 207, 208, 246
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 393124)
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]
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]
held of the manor of Hamsey by half a knight’s fee [12]
manor of Coombe and tenements in Hamsey, Offham, East Chiltington,
Chailey, Newick and Ringmer; 1593 adds Clayton; 1605 adds Lewes St John
[12]
the manor of Coombe; lands and tenements called Picombes in Hamsey [9]
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?
estate shown on a map [5]:
house
1
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 Craught
6
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 0d
12
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
1635
1707
1763
1780
1840
1279
<1596
<1596
c1610
1614
1616
1618
1638
1639
1665
1710
1712
1718
1730
1738
1741
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.
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]
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);
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]
estate shown on a map [5]
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)
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]
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]
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]
perhaps acquires a tenement and 7a from Thomas Comber [P125/U12]
cottage and 1a called Pipers Croft sold [P125/90]
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]
P125/U4 [tithe 122] sold to John Pierce
cottage and 1a called Pipers Croft purchased [P125/90]
land in Mill Laine purchased [P125/70]
6½a arable in Mill Laine and pasture for 40 sheep in the tenant flock of Offham
purchased [P125/71]
acquires 7a copyhold at Barleys Banks, probably part of P125/79
acquires Brakeride [P125/87]
Swann Nicholas [P125/U5]
small slip of land (SW: John Bridger’s Pond Field) purchased out of The
Pimbles [P125/72]
acquires estate including Upper Washers Field and Great Bennetts Croft
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
1744
1747
1749
1753
1754
1760
1763
1764
1764
1766
1768
1771
1774
1785
1786
1788
1788
1788
1788
1790
1803
<1815
c1820
1821
1827
<1838-1841+
1851
1861
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]
croft of land [part tithe 212 and 215] one acre adjoining The Pimbles (eastern
arm of tithe 235] purchased from Thomas Payne [P125/91]
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]
acquires cottage and acre at Offham from George Alchorne; cottage
demolished [P125/94]
3a called The Wish, cut of 3r in Upland Wish and 1a in Upland Wish acquired
from P125/40
acquires brookland in Shy Brooks by exchange with Robert Day [P125/77]
3½a, partly laid into the Great Pond, acquired by exchange with Richard
Verrall for 3½a in Fridays Wood [P125/26]
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]
Brakeride and other land sold to Thomas Dennett
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]
purchase of The New Inn at Offham Street [?P125/64] from the Hamsey Place
Estate [P125/2]
Tulleys Wells purchased from Thomas Dennett for £1850 [P125/25]
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]
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]
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]
cottage and 1¼a in Mill Laine purchased from James Corner [P125/93]
Holters Green purchased from Thomas Street [P125/29]
3a in The Shide [tithe 409] purchased [P125/69]
The Pimbles (15a 1r 5p) purchased from the Offham House Estate [P125/72]
three houses and a croft [P125/65] and Tilecroft [P125/68] sold to the Offham
House Estate
house, garden, orchard and acre purchased from Sarah wife of Thomas Wilson,
gent [P125/19]
The Shide (3a brookland, tithe 410) sold off from M505/1 to the Coombe
Estate with an apportioned quitrent of 2d [3]
cottage at North End purchased [P125/78]
draft map of parts of the estate [16]
four acres (M505/12) purchased [3]
entire estate shown on map of 1827 [11]
Mansion House (341), lawn, wood, water, 9 cottages: land 151a 2r 15p, [1]
cottages at Offham purchased (P125/59-61)
cottage at Hamsey purchased (P125/11, M505/39)
1878
1887
1634
1699
1707
1730
1733-1735
1752
1765-1782
1780
1827
<1838-1841+
1844-1845
<1780-1790
1791-1832+
tithe 338 from this property and 325 from P125/25 (Tulleys Wells) exchanged
with the Burrell estate for tithe 332 and 332A [7]
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)
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]
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]
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]
sketch [SHR 2829-30]
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]
shown on map as house with carriage-road in front; ‘the seat of J Bridger esq’
[8]
£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 2030,000 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
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
shown on map as a square building with isolated coach-house and stables [5]
mansion House, lawn etc (48a 2r 9p) (341) [1]
plans by John Cuthell for alterations and new approach road [14]
Land tax assessments [2]
the assessment attributable to Coombe Place descended from £53 to £46 [2]
in 1791 the assessment attributable to Coombe Place descended to £34 10, and
to £37 10 in 1793 [2]
<1270-1270
Owners
Matthew de la
Cumbe
1270-1279+
Ralph
de Radmeld
<1300-1300+
John
de Radmeld
<1322-1322+
William
de Radmeld
<1534-1548+
Richard
Cook
gent
<1560-1560
John
Cook
gent
1560-1561+
John
Comber
<1593-1597
William
Comber
gent
1597-1605
John
Pelland
yeo
his estate passed by final concord to Ralph
de Radmeld in 1270; Richard de la Cumbe
put forward his claim [19]
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]
held Coombe of Geoffrey de Say by half a
knight’s fee [12]
son of John [12]
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]
with Richard Lee, sold to WC and JC in
1560 [12]
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]
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]
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
1633-1634
Richard
Scrase
esq
1634-1641
James
Rivers
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]
(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]
(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
1658-1699
Richard
Bridger
esq
1699-1729
Richard
Bridger
esq
1729-1765
John
Bridger
esq
(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]
(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
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]
(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’, partowner 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
1816-1842
George
Shiffner
bt
1842-1857
Henry
Shiffner
bt
1857-1863
George
Shiffner
bt
and
clerk
1863-1906
George
Croxton
Shiffner
1906-1914
John
Shiffner
bt
and
clerk
bt
1914-1918
John
Bridger
Shiffner
bt
1918-1941
Shiffner
bt
Shiffner
bt
1952-1999
Henry
Burrows
Henry
David
Richard
1999-2007+
Martin
Armstrong
<1539-1542+
<1543-1546+
<1598-1598+
Occupiers - mansion
John
Rowlandson
Edward Rowlandson
John
Pelland
<1612-1630+
Tuppen
1941-1952
Canon
Scrase
esq
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]
(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
(1789-1859), vice-admiral, RN; married
1825, died without issue, when the estate
and baronetcy passed to his brother George
(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
(1819-1906); rector of Hamsey 1848-1906,
rural dean of Lewes 1867, died 1906; estate
descended to his son JS
(1857-1914); Royal Artillery; ‘accidentally
shot whilst cleaning guns at Bevern Bridge’
in 1914 [25]
(1899-1918); killed in action at Gricourt, 24
Sep 1918; estate descended to his brother
HBS
(1901-1941); killed in action at Tobruk 22
Nov 1941; estate descended to his son HDS
(1930-2007+); Coombe Place sold by the
trustees of the estate in 1952
former tenants, purchased with his wife, for
c£55,000; his widow offered the house for
sale in 1998 and sold in 1999
[27]
[27, 32]
attorned tenant to his father Thomas
Pelland [12]
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
1633-1634
Richard
Scrase
esq
<1658-1658+
Nizell
Rivers
esq
1658-1699
Richard
Bridger
esq
<1715-1727
Frances
Goring
widow
<1704-1728
Sarah
Alford
spinster
1699-1729
Richard
Bridger
esq
<1738-1744
John
Alford
<1766-1765
John
Bridger
esq
1765-1816
John
Bridger
bt
1791-1840+
1906-1910
George
John
Shiffner
Shiffner
bt
bt
<1927-1927+
Lady
Shiffner
<1928-1928+
<1930-1930+
<1935-1938+
Henry B
Ernest
W
Herbert
1939-1945
Davidson
Shiffner
Barry
Army
<1948-1948
Ronald
Owen
Lloyd
ArmstrongJones
1949-1999
Richard
Canon
bt
esq
citizen of London and brother of Tuppen
Scrase [17]; married at Hamsey 1629
and children baptised there 1630-1632
will as of Hamsey, although buried at
Preston [13]
executor of former owner James Rivers;
calls himself ‘of Coombe’ in the
contract for sale of Coombe to Richard
Bridger [9]
resident in Hamsey in Mar 1659, when
his son Henry baptised there [21]
daughter of Richard Bridger (16201699); of Coombe when she wrote her
will in 1715, proved 1728 [11]
sister of Richard Bridger’s wife
Elizabeth, daughters of John Alford
(1645-1691); her will proved in 1728 [6,
11]
owner-occupier; buried at Hamsey 28
Feb 1729, and his widow Elizabeth on
12 Oct 1729 [21]
lord of the manor of Hamsey; of
Coombe when he made his will in 1738;
died 1744 [6];
retired to Wimbledon on his son’s
marriage in 1765 and died in 1784
took possession of Coombe on his
marriage to Rebecca Eliot in 1765; also
had a town house at School Hill House,
Lewes
owner-occupier [1]
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]
OBE, JP [24]; Elsie Burrows (18721972), for an appreciation see [25]
[23]
owner-occupier [30]
[24, 29, 30]
requisitioned as Searchlight Regimental
HQ [25]
(1899-1966, barrister) and Gwendoline
C Q A-J [30]; lived at Coombe with his
son Anthony Armstrong-Jones, later
Lord Snowdon
on electoral register from Nov 1949
[30]; purchased property in 1952 [29]
1771-1771+
c1820
Occupiers - farms and cottages
William Pratt
yeoman
Samuel
Ellis
yeoman
Thomas Ellis
yeoman
John
Verrall
yeoman
G
HG
T
G
<1838-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
James
Howell
Knowles
Laver
Langridge
Pannett
Bussey
Wright
Sandalls
Iresdale
Wright
+others
of Denton
of Hamsey
of Hamsey
of Court House; tenants granted new
leases in 1771 [14]
tenants at Offham listed on draft map
[16]; these may include tenants of the
Offham House Estate [P125/15]
in cottages; JW is merely the firstnamed occupier of all the Coombe
Estate cottages [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A11.20v (Stephen Baker, 1599); W/B 6.182 (Tuppen Scrase, 1634); W/B 6.196
(Richard Scrase, 1634)
ESRO SAS/SH 390 (map of 1634), 391 (map of 1707), 394 (map of 1780)
TNA PROB 11/621 (Sarah Alford of Hamsey, 1728); PROB 11/735 (John Alford of
Coombe, 1744)
WSRO Burrell 8/C/1-25
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SAS/SH 948 (lease to Dennett); 573 (Norden to Scrase), 568-85 (manor of Coombe),
438-445 (glebe and tithes)
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8); Hamsey Glebe Terrier
ESRO SHR 1, 1563A, 2854 (map of 1827); 401-8 (executorship of Sarah Alford)
VCH Sussex 7 83-87
John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Horsham Centre (Cambridge, 1931) 63-6, 238-41
(Comber); Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge, 1933) 230-1 (Rivers)
ESRO SHR 2030, 2752, 1342, 880-903, 2829-2841
ESRO SAS/SH 940-942; 664-5
ESRO ACC 3612/3/160 (draft map, watermark 1820)
ESRO SHR 2720-52
ESRO SHR 387
SRS 7 (1908) 751, 885
ESRO SAS/SH 1-20
ESRO PAR 357 (Hamsey)
David Brock, ‘Coombe Place’ Georgian Group Journal (1996)
Lady Wolseley, ‘Coombe Place’ Sussex County Magazine 2 (9), 1928 386-90, 394
Printed Directories
Jack Harmer, Our Parish; Tales of Offham, Hamsey and Cooksbridge; 1991
BL
Harl Roll D20, D21 (microfilm at ESRO ACC 8008)
TNA SC6/HenVIII/3498; SC6/EdwVI/453
ESRO GLY 84
Private collection
ESRO C/C 70/238-40 (electoral registers)
SRS 14 (1912) 266-280
32
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]
1840
<1751
1751-1807
1777
1807-1814
1808
1810
1811
1814
<1838-1841+
Tithe numbers [1]
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)
Great Hewen Street; for Little Hewen Street before its purchase by the manor
of Hamsey in 1751, see P125/92
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]
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
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]
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]
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?
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]
re-acquires P125/24 [5]
House and garden, cottage and garden, barns, yards: land arable, pasture,
meadow 222a 2r 18p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 398157)
House and garden (35), cottage and garden (41) [1]
1792
1828-1840
Land tax assessments [2]
Great (27); Little (15); wood (33)
£28, £20, £12
<1777-1777
Owners
HAMSEY PLACE
1777-1792
Joseph
Mighell
esq
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]
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
1808-1813
Henry
Uridge
yeo
1813-1827
John
Guy
yeo
1827-1840+
George
Shiffner
bart
<1667-1667+
<1752
<1752-1752+
<1792-1792+
1817
1817
1817
1828
<1833-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
Occupiers
Edward Manfield
Edward Raynes
Francis
Napp
John
Alchorne
John
Wenham
John
Howell
William Bull
Joseph
Mighell
John
Cheesman
Henry
Uridge
Henry
Uridge
Samuel
Holman
Thomas Holmden
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]
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]
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]
[1]; purchased by George Shiffner bt and
Henry Shiffner RN and MERGED with the
Coombe Estate [5]
[5]
former occupier [5]
Little Hewen Street
Great Hewen Street
woods in hand [6]
Little Hewen Street
Great Hewen Street
woods in hand [5]
28 [2]
20 [2]
12 owner occupier [2]
28, 12 Andrew Best 20 [2]
[1, 2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 1-53
ESRO MOB 1699
~24~
HAMSEY - opposite Galleybird Hall
Manorial tenure:
1840
no individual manorial tenure
Tithe numbers [1]
25-27, 45-48, 50, 51
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 405157)
NOT FORMED; part of P125/23
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]
House and buildings, land: arable, pasture, wood 24a 3r 18p [1]
1807
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 405157)
messuage newly built on the Hilly Field [5]
House and buildings (47) [1]
<1807
1807
1817-1840
1
2
3
4
5
P125/24
Land tax assessments [2]
10
1807-1809
Owners
Jerh
Price
1809-1814
George
Peckham
1814-1827
John
Guy
yeo
1827-1838+
George
Shiffner
bart
1807-1809
1809-1809+
1817
1828
<1833-1838+
Occupiers
Jerh
Price
George
Peckham
Henry
Uridge
Johnson
John
Johnson
yeom
an
yeo
yeo
[2]; of Chiddingly, purchased for £625; of
Hailsham by 1811 [5]
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]
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]
[1]
owner-occupier [2]
owner-occupier [2]
[2] owner occupier
[2]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 41-53
~25~
HAMSEY – Tulleys Wells Farm/ Barleys Banks
Manorial tenure:
1840
1878
1828-1840
1627
1686
1715
1719
<1723
1741
[1752]
1756
P125/25
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
1719
on 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]
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 P125/28
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]
86
Descriptions of property
includes piece of land in Hamsey, part of Combe [7]
messuage, barns, 50a; common for 40 sheep [3]
called Lidlow’s Land [7]
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]
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]
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]
house shown on map of Hamsey Manor as ‘Richard Ridge’; this also shows
M505/40 [6]
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
1766
1768
<1838-1841+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Ridge [3]
estate as sold:
Lidlows (messuage, barns and 50a with pasture for 40 sheep of Offham
Down) [3]
Herseys Croft (6a) abutting The Crink
2a abutting The Ilands
Upper Washers Field
Great Bennetts Croft
Lidlows sold to Coombe Estate with Herseys Croft [P125/89], a meadow (2a)
Upper Washers and Great Bennetts Croft [3]
House and buildings, farm buildings, land: sheep down, arable, pasture, wood
628a 1r 23p [1]; barn built on tithe 242 between 1780 and 1841
<1622-1627
Owners
John
Vinall
1627-1627+
<1686
John
William
Vinall
Coulstock
<1686-1715
Thomas
Lidlow
1715-1756
Richard
Ridge
1756-1766
William
Ridge
1766-1768
1768-1768+
Thomas
COOMBE
Dennett
ESTATE
<1686-1686+
<1715-1715+
<1754-1766+
Occupiers
Edward
Richard
Samuel
Langridge
Bridger
Ridge
<1840-1840+
William
Lamb
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
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]
[7]
[7]; Barn Field (tithe 230) described as late
Coulstock
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]
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]
in 1766 he sold to TD for £1850, who
mortgaged back to WR [3, 7]
he conveyed to JB for £1850 [3]
merged with P125/22
[3]
esq
Sources
TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
SAS/SH 786-796, 826, 840
ADA 246
SAS/SH 394. 922-923
MOB 1699
ADA; manor of Hamsey
of Hamsey; occupier in 1754; took a lease of
Tulleys Well and Upper and Lower
Wickham for 11 years from 1758 at £100
[3]
[1]
~26~
HAMSEY - Stoneford (1840)
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/26
no individual manorial tenure
Tithe numbers [1]
207, 209
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397136)
piece of land called Stoneford (4a), part of P125/29 [5]
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
land: pasture 1a 3r 38p (209), 2a 3r 12p (207) [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 397136)
no house [1]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
not separately assessed
<1760-1760
Owners
Richard
1680
1760
1760-1760+
COOM
BE
Verrall
ESTATE
yeom
an
part of P125/29 until given in exchange in
1760; [2, 5]
acquired by exchange in 1760; maintains
separate tenure [2, 5]
Occupiers
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
Lindfield
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR 862-877
~27~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
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]
Tithe numbers [1]
409, 407
1788
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 406118)
shown as pieces of brookland near the river in separate ownership, separated by
a parcel of glebe [4]
tithe 407 purchased from P125/59 by the Coombe Place Estate [P125/22] and
shown on map as land in Common Shide Brooks [5]
tithe 409 purchased from P125/69 by the Coombe Place Estate [P125/22]
Brookland: pasture 5a 2r 11p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]
<1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not separately assessed
<1838-1838+
Owners
George
Shiffner
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
Benjamin
Morris
1752
1764
1
2
3
4
5
P125/27
bart
[1]
[1] tenant of North End Farm [P125/2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO MOB 1699
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:
1840
Pellbrooks subject to a rent of 6s 0d payable to the crown [5]
Tithe numbers [1]
385, 387
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (385 only)
shown on map of the River Ouse [4]
‘a broken down chapel etc at Offham in Hamsey’ [7]
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 belonging
at Offham in Hamsey [5]
1
as 1670, but two pieces
2
where a chapel sometime stood, but now demolished [5]
Descriptions of property (385 and 387) (centred at TQ 403118)
Land: oziers 4a 0r 25p [1]
<1537-1537+
Owners
William
Denman
<1616-1616
John
Shurley
esq
1616-1631
John
Shurley
esq
1631-1637
John
Shurley
esq
<1652-1652+
Isaac
Sedley
kt
1661-1670
George
Prettyman
kt
1670-1671
William
Wade
clerk
1620
1632
1670
1671
rated for 1a 3r towards the cost of the new
harbour at Newhaven; possibly a tenant;
recte Denham of P125/65? [10]
of Greyfriars, Lewes, serjeant at law (died
2 Oct 1616); to his son [11]
seised at his death in Oct 1631;
presumably by descent to his son JS [7]
died aged 17; heir his sister Frances
Shurley, 15
of St Cleres in Ightham, Kent; owed 6s 0d
a year rent for brooklands in 1652 [8]
(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]
of Loddington in Leicestershire; in 1671,
of Broadwater, he sold to FC for £10 [5]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
1671-1680
Francis
Challoner
drape of Lewes; livery of seisin granted by
r
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]
drape of Lewes; sold to WN for £15 in 1697 [5]
r
esq
MERGED with Offham House [P125/15];
purchased by the Coombe Place Estate in
1747 [5]
bart
[1]
1680-1697
John
Challoner
1697-1697+
William
Nelson
<1838-1838+
George
Shiffner
<1670-1670+
<1697-1697
Occupiers
John
John
Bennett
Chaloner
[5]
owner-occupier [5]
<1838-1838+
Kester
Rice
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO SRA 6/13/2 (1620)
ESRO SAS/SH 677-84
TNA PROB 11/363 (Francis Challoner of Lewes, mercer, 1680)
SRS 14 (1912) 947 (IPM of John Shurley)
SRS 36 (1931) 198 - rental of rents reserved on chantry land, 1652
GEC[ockayne] Complete Baronetage 1.173 (Sedley), 3.328 (Prettyman)
ESRO GLY 84
VCH Sussex 7 87; VCH Sussex 6(1) 70
~29~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
1615
1620
1637
1668
1699
1719
1737
1760-1763
1788
<1838-1841+
P125/29
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 4d [M505/21]
Tithe numbers [1]
217-219; 220 bought in and added
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 394138)
3a arable of which 1a (with a newly-built house) occupied by Thomas Read,
carpenter, and 2a by Samuel Norden [5]
messuage and 3a (S, W: road from Beechwood to Offham and Hamsey; N: land
of Thomas Faulkener deceased; E: land of George Goring kt)
messuage with malthouse and newly-built barn and 3a [5]
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
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]
11a of the land acquired in 1719 sold to Mr Ridge = P125/88 [5]
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)
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]
On purchase by the Coombe Estate, the property was described as:
1
messuage, malthouse, barn, buildings, garden, orchard and 3a called
Houlters
2
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
cottage and garden, garden and orchard, field; land: pasture 3a 2r 15p[1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 394138)
newly-built house [5]
undertaking to build a malting-house or room; the house called Holters Green
[5]
cottage and garden [1]
<1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not assessed
<1615
Owners
Samuel
1615
1627
Norden
clerk
bond given on sale in 1615 against claims by
him and by Thomas Coulstock deceased,
father of John Coulstock of Arlington [5]
1
<1615-1615
Samuel
Norden
gent
1615-1636
Thomas
Read
carp
1636-1653
Richard
Willard
husb
1653-1668
Edward
Verrall
yeo
1668-1714
Thomas
Verrall
1714-1774
Richard
Verrall
yeo
1774-1787
Mary
Verrall
wid
1787-1788
1788-1788+
<1838-1838+
Thomas Street
COOMBE ESTATE
George
Shiffner
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
John
Satcher
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
bart
of Lewes; in 1615 he and his mother Ann
sold to TR, reserving the sheep-pasture
belonging to the holding [5]
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]
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]
of Hamsey; by his will of 1668 he
bequeathed this, late Norden [cf P125/58] to
his youngest son TV [5]
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]
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]
by her will of 1782 she bequeathed this and
her house at Hailsham to her nephew TS [5]
of Ditchling, perukemaker
purchased by Sir John Bridger [5]
[1]
[1] also occupied an isolated field of
Winterland (tithe 243) [1]
2
3
4
5
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
W/A
SAS/SH 849-889
~30~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/30
no individual manorial tenure
Tithe numbers [1]
386
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 403118)
<1780
1
2
3
4
5
6
<1838-1841+
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]
Land: pasture 3a 0r 38p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not individually assessed
<1838-1838+
Owners
George
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
Samuel
Smith
Shiffner
bart
[1]
[1]; a blacksmith of this name owned
P125/62 between 1852 and 1854
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO SAS/SH 389, 390, 394
BL
Maps OSD 93.3.2 (1797)
ESRO SHR 2032
~31~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1
2
3
P125/31
no individual manorial tenure
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
426, 430
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 399121)
Land: pasture 1a 3r 13p [1]; formed by Coombe Estate from Lower Packhams
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]; occupied by the owner of the Blacksmith’s Arms [P125/35]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
not identifiable
<1838-1838+
Owners
George
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
Mary
Tucker
Shiffner
bart
[1]
[1]; owner of the Blacksmith’s Arms
[P125/35]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~32~
HAMSEY – Lower Tulleys Wells
Manorial tenure:
1840
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]
162, 113-115, 121-123, 125, 126, 132-135, 206, 210-212, 247-248, 429
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 398138)
House and garden, cottage and garden, barn and yard; arable, pasture, meadow
112a 3r 24p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 397137)
House, yard, garden (211) cottage and garden (212) [1]; for tithe 212 see
P125/90; for part tithe 126 see P125/88
1840
<1838-1838+
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
P125/32
Land tax assessments [2]
not identifiable
Owners
COOM
BE
ESTATE
Occupiers
Dinah
Wadey
George Shiffner bt [1]
[1] a George, son of James and Dinah
Wadey, was baptised at Hamsey in 1816 [4]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO PAR 357/1/2/1
~33~
HAMSEY – land and ozier-bed
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/33
demesne of the manor of Hamsey [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
402-404
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 410120)
NOT FORMED
part of Hamsey Place Farm (P125/2)
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]
land: pasture, arable, oziers 10a 0r 22p [1]
<1789-1841+
<1848-1907+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]
mortgage of 1848 includes cottage built by owner [7]
<1791-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
5
<1789-1789
1789
1789-1830
Owners
Christop
her
Spencer
bmkr
1830-1832
Grace
Spencer
wido
w
1832-1846
Christop
her
Spencer
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]
took a life estate under the will of her
husband CS; buried in Friends’ Burying
Ground, Brighton [7]
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
1907-1920
BURRELL ESTATE
1920-1920+
<1791-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Davey
Kenward
Occupiers
Christop Spencer
her
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]
purchased back into Hamsey Place Farm in
1907 for £550 and sold to Kenward [?with
HPF] in 1920 [7]
purchased [?with HPF] in 1920 [7]
owner-occupier [1, 2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/
WSRO Burrell 9/B/1-13, 21/C/1-125
~34~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
1599-1599+
1829
<1838-1841+
1891-1921+
P125/34
leasehold of the manor of Allington, quitrent 50s 0s; M506/5 is the
related freehold [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
94
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397145)
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
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]
Land: arable 1a 3r 39p
part of Beechwood in Lewes St John when purchased by the Coneyboro Estate
and retained on sale of Beechwood in 1921 [10]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not recorded
Owners
<1798-1798+
Stanford
<1831-1838+
<1890-1891
1891-1921+
William Stanford
Arthur B Blaker
CONEY ESTATE
BORO
<1723-1723+
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Occupiers
William Verrall
Thomas Tourle
gent
‘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]
[1, 9]
of Lewes; sold to JGD in 1891 [10]
purchased by John George Dodson Lord
Monk Bretton with Beechwood in 1891 and
retained when Beechwood sold in 1921 [10]
[6]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO AMS 2134 (will of Thomas Tourle the elder of Lewes, 1723, and Thomas Tourle of
Lewes, 1768)
ESRO SAS/SH 68-92, 383-388, 389/12
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO ACC 3412/3/270
ESRO ACC 3412/1/86
10
ESRO ACC 6506/32
~35~
HAMSEY – The Blacksmiths Arms
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/35
freehold and copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 1d
(M505/127) and 6d (M505/69) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
367
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.
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 400122)
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]
was the sign transferred from P124/64 at about this date?
freehold messuage, brewhouse, stable, garden and orchard at Offham [4]
M505/69 described as a cottage built on former waste in Hamsey [3]
freeehold called The Blacksmith’s Arms with brewhouse, stables, buildings and
gardens [4]
Inn The Blacksmith’s Arms; land: 20p [1]; the owner occupied P125/31
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 400122)
Inn [1]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
2
<1752
<1752-1770
Owners
Thomas
Richard
Beach
Hollingdale
1770-1790
Richard
Hollingdale
1752
c1766
1768
1771
1823
[3]
victu [6] death presented 1771, no animal; by will
aller
of 18 May 1768 to son RH [3, 4]
shop already owned P125/8; called victualler in
keepe his father’s will of 1768 [4]; by will of Dec
r
1789, described as shopkeeper of
Cooksbridge [P125/8], to his wife MH [3,
4]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1790-1795
Mary
Hollingdale
1796-1823
Thomas
Tucker
1823-1840+
Mary
Tucker
<1817-1822
1823-1840+
Occupiers
Thomas Tucker
Mary
Tucker
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 owneroccupier until 1795 [2]
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]
owner occupier [1,2]
owner occupier [2]
owner occupier [1,2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A62.219 (Richard Hollingdale, 1770); W/A74.904 (Thomas Tucker, 1823)
ESRO SAS/SH 68-92
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
~36~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
P125/36
waste of the manor of Hamsey, never formally enclosed [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
378
1752
1780
1827
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 41051210)
not shown [6]
not shown [5]
shown as Turnpike Gate [and tollhouse] [7]
The Toll House; (land; 5p) [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 41051210)
Toll house [1]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not identifiable
<1838-1838+
Owners
Turnpike
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
William
Hollingdale
Trustees
[1]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
~37~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
1827
1831
<1838-1841+
1898
P125/37
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d [M505/133] [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
420-422
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 398151)
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)
tenement partitioned by creation of M505/134; reduced to messuages and
buildings and 1r 18p
quitrent for this reduced to 4d
3 cottages and gardens (1r 14p) [1]
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
<1838-1898+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 398151)
3 cottages [1, 3]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not identifiable
1827-1843
Owners
Henry
Uridge
1843-1884
Charles
Goring
1884-1898
Aug Ez
Goring
esq
grant to Henry Uridge of Hamsey, timbermerchant; 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]
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]
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]
<1838-1838+
<1843-1843+
1
2
3
Occupiers
Henry
Uridge
John
Walder
William Stevenson
William Chatfield
and others [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~38~
HAMSEY – Boundary Hall
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1719-1719
c1750
1780
1781
<1838-1841+
1891
P125/38
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]
Tithe numbers [1]
55, 56
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 396153)
NOT FORMED
granted from the waste in 1719 [3]
cottage on former waste with an orchard and little parcel of waste called
Boundaries Hall (3 rods) in Hamsey [3]
new grant of waste: three rods of waste (W: land occupied by James Newman;
E: road; N, S: waste) [3]
shown as neighbouring owner on estate map of 1781; the roadside strip, unnumbered 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]
2 cottages and gardens; land: pasture 1a 2r 3p [1]
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]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 396153)
2 cottages [1]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not taxed in Hamsey
1719-1727
Owners
Richard
Valentine
1727-1773
William
Tutty
1773-1785
John
Tutty
1785-1789
John
Holman
1789-1790
Thomas
Pockney
1790-1794
Stephen
Weller
drpr
1794-1798
Benj
Ridge
gent
husb
yeo
granted to him from waste 1719;
surrendered to WT 1727 [3]
of Hamsey, husbandman in 1727; death
presented 1777; who is heir? [3]; by will of
1767, proved 1773, to son JT [5]
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]
of Hamsey, yeoman; in 1789 he surrendered
to TP [3]
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]
of Lewes, draper; in 1794 he surrendered
M505/73, 76 to BR
of Chailey; admitted to M505/73, 76 in
1798 and immediately surrendered to WL
1798-1814
William
Lindfield
gent
1814
Nathl
Borrer
gent
1814-1834
Lucy
Verrall
wid
1834-1891
Henry
Verrall
crptr
1891-1891+
CONEY
BORO
ESTATE
<1767-1781+
<1838-1838+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Occupiers
John
Towner
Henry
Verrall
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
of Hurstpierpoint, admitted by attorney John
Haddock Lardner of Lewes, gent, and
surrenders for £148 to LV according to
letters of attorney [3]
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]
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]
purchased by John George Dodson, Lord
Monk Bretton, in 1891 [7]
[5, 6]
owner occupier [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 882 (will of William Tutty 1767, proved 1773)
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor
ESRO ACC 6506/33
~39~
HAMSEY - Park Villa
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1627-1627
1627
1639
1684
c1750
1752
<1838-1841+
1848
1876
1881
1639
<1838-1841+
1876
P125/39
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8d, heriot 1s 0d certain
(M505/26) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
199, 200
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402136)
NOT FORMED
granted from the waste in 1627 [3]
piece of waste 60 feet by 16 feet at Drove Lane End by Cooksbridge, now
built upon; grant from waste [3]
messuage at the Drove Lane End with a garden [3]
late waste [3]
messuage or cottage and garden in Hamsey (W: road from Offham to
Cooksbridge; N: droveway from the road to Hamsey Church) [3]
Shown as house and 1r 5p on the E side of the road S of Cooksbridge [7]
House and garden, garden; land: 1r 26p [1]
William Ticehurst agreed to become tenant at will to Edward Partington
[P125/16] of roadside land which he had lately enclosed [8]
house called Park Villa, stable, coach-house, outbuildings and gardens at
Cooksbridge owned and occupied by William Ticehurst [3]
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)
messuage [3]
house and garden [1]
house called Park Villa, stable, coach-house, outbuildings and gardens at
Cooksbridge owned and occupied by William Ticehurst [3]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not identifiable
1627-1639
Owners
John
Beale
1639-1639+
<1649-1649
1649-1650
Thomas
Thomas
Joseph
Wigsall
Hersey
Whiteman
1650-1684
William
Rootes
1684-1692
Mary
Bunce
granted to him in 1627; in 1639 he
surrendered to TW [3]
the younger; admitted 1639 [3]
surrendered out of court to JW [3]
admitted 1649; in 1650 he surrendered to
WR and ER [3]
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]
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
1700-1710
Richard
Bridger
1710-1715
David
Wood
1715-1744
William
Banks
1744
Offington
Banks
1744-1754
Thomas
Alchin
yeo
1754-1777
Elizabeth
Minyon
wid
1777-1823
Elizabeth
Howell
1823-1843
Elizabeth
Weston
1843-1846
William
Weston
1846-1877
William
Ticehurst
bckth
yeo
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]
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]
of Barcombe, blacksmith; in 1715
surrendered to WB and MB [3]
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]
immediately on admission surrendered to
TA [3]
or Alchorne of Hamsey, yeoman;
surrendered to EM in 1754 [3]
widow; death presented 1777; by will of 24
Dec 1770 to EH [3]
Elizabeth wife of Thomas Howell of
Hamsey, yeoman, for life, remainder to
TH’s daughter Elizabeth Howell [3]
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]
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]
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
1881-1901
William
Burton
1901-1901+
CONEYB
ORO
ESTATE
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]
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]
purchased for £800 by John William
Dodson, Lord Monk Bretton, in 1901 [5]
Occupiers
<1704-1704+
<1838-1838+
1896-1896+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
William
Agnes
Goring
Weston
Parkes
[3]
owner-occupier [1]
wife of Albert William Parkes of 27 College
Road, Brighton, esq; took a lease for 21
years at £60 in 1896 [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO ACC 6506/41 (deeds)
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ACC 6506/45
~40~
HAMSEY - WILLMETS FARM
Manorial tenure:
1840
1633
<1698-1702+
1712
1715
1717
1729
<1746
1752
1753
1753
1787
1803
1821
1823
c1830
1829
<1838-1841+
1847
1635
P125/40
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]
270-275, 277, 301, 433
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 407128)
The Link [tithe 288], and 2¼a in the Long Furlong, sold to the lord of the
manor [P125/2]
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]
8a called Spearhams (tithe 277, P125/49, M505/59) acquired by the owner’s
under-age daughter; effectively descends with this holding [3]
M505/1-3 purchased [3]
Messuage, barn and virgate [3]
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)
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]
M505/1-4 shown as a house and 44a 1r 20p; house = 11 = tithe 272 [7]
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?
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]
Estate shown on map [5]
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]
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
taxed with P125/49 from1823 [2]
owner granted seven elm trees on this tenement for repairs [3]
owner granted three ashes and an elm for repairs [3]
House, barn, yard etc and land: arable, pasture, wood 44a 2r 35p [1]
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)
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]
1779
1780-1783
1784-1789
1790
1791-1792
1793-1795
1796-1840
Land tax assessments [2]
25
29
28
38
34
30
31
<1622
Owners
Samson
Coulstock
<1622-1634
Thomas
Longley
1634-1639+
Ralph
Longley
<1663-1667
Samuel
Cruttenden
1667-1678
Hannah
Cruttenden
former owner of some elements of the estate
[3]
yeo executor of his father-in-law Richard Scrase
man 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]
[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]
hab of Lewes; purchased from RL; surrendered
erda to will in 1663; by will of 1667 to eldest son
sher SC, subject to life estate of widow HC and
charged with payments to son JC and
daughters Mary and Sarah [3]
in 1678 her son Samuel Cruttenden was
admitted to reversion on her death and they
immediately surrendered to JC [3]
1678-1698
John
Cruttenden
1699-1702
Ann
Cruttenden
1702-1736
Stephen
Weller
1736-1752
Hannah
Weller
1752-1803
Cruttende
n
Weller
1803-1807
Stephen
Weller
1807-1821
Mary
Weller
1821-1850
George
Wilmot
1850-1866+
Edward
Wilmot
wid
wid
wid
esq
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]
admitted to widow’s bench in 1699; in 1702
John Cruttenden was admitted to the
reversion and surrendered to SW
death presented 1736 for M505/1-2, 89 and
90, four heriots; by will, but to whom? [3]
death 1752, no animal; heir is only son
Cruttenden Weller by her husband Stephen
Weller [3]
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]
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]
[2]; death presented 1821, no animal; under
will of her husband SW to Mary Glover [3]
[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]
[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
Occupiers
1678
1695
<1698-1702+
<1779-1780
1781-1787
1788
1789-1832
1833-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
John
John
James
Joseph
Richard
Nathaniel
Jenner
Cruttenden
Herriott
Morris
Morris
in hand
Knight
Guy
[3]
Owner-occupier [3]
[3]
also occupied P125/49 [2]
also occupied P125/49 [2]
[2]
also occupied P125/49 [2]
[1,2] also occupied P125/49 [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A 15.147 (Richard Scrase, 1617); W/A 18.17 (Elizabeth Scrase, 1621); W/A 22.1
(Thomas Longley, 1635)
ESRO SAS/SH 933-4, 395 (map); ACC 7633/95
TNA PROB 11/
7
8
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SAS/SH 260-264
~41~
HAMSEY – Winterlands Farm
Manorial tenure:
1840
1596
<1609-1635+
1616
1636
<1731-1731+
1767
1781
1800
<1838-1841+
1867
1730
1748
1757
1762
1767
1771
1772
1775
1779
1781
1800
P125/41
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 9d (M505/99) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
57, 58, 68-74, 91-93, 95, 111, 112, 243
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397148)
part of the manor of Coombe sold off to John Stafford; is this all or part of
Winterlands? [5]
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]
Parcel called Winterland; includes field called Mapleward [4]
acquires P125/97
isolated field (tithe 243) called Crow Barrow (1a) (WSN: Newfield [later
Gatefield]; E: the Pimbles) let to surrounding owner John Bridger of Coombe
[5]
described in lease as a house and 72a with land where a house purchased of one
Valentine stood [P125/97, M505/113] [8]
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]
estate valued; outgoings include 2s 3d quitrent [8]
House and garden, farm buildings; land: arable, pasture, waste 63a 2r 30p [1]
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)
house and buildings ‘very much out of repair’ and £10 a year allowed out of the
rent [8]
tenant allowed £14 8s 4d for laying a new barn floor and other repairs to the
barn [8]
tenant allowed £1 15s for thatching and £1 10s for paving the kitchen [8]
tenant allowed £4 for repairs [8]
includes land where a house purchased of one Valentine stood [P125/97,
M505/113] [8]
allowed Brooker’s bill for plank £7 9s 8d
tenant allowed £17 13s 0d for repairs and 8s 3d for three years’ quitrent [8]
tenant allowed £7 16s 5d (Standley), £3 3s 2d (Billinghurst), £2 2s 5d (Stiles)
[8] and £2 14s 10d (Norris) in 1776
repairs to house, barns and stable: carpenter £2 16s 10½d, bricklayer £14 3s 8d,
blacksmith 7s 8½d, shopkeeper 2s 4½d, sawyer 18s 0d [8]
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]
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’;
<1838-1841+
mentions two barns and pigsties [8]
House and garden [1]
<1768-1779
1780
1781-1792
1793-1800
1801-1840
Land tax assessments [2]
31?
apparently not assessed
21 (25 in 1788)
19
20
<1608
Owners
Robert
Randoll
<1606-1606
John
Stafford
<1616-1616
John
Stafford
1616-1644
John
Stafford
1644-1644+
Edward
Young
<1699-1716
Robert
Young
clerk
1716-1718
1718-1728
Charles
Thomas
Young
Cleaver
clerk
1728-1905
Minor
Canons
of Windsor
<1699-1713+
<1719-1719+
Occupiers
Nath
Hosmer
Thomas Killingbeck
yeo
the abuttals to P125/12 suggest that RR may
have been a former owner of part of
Winterlands [11]
of Hamsey; he left leasehold land in
Hamsey to his eldest son JS, and land in
Wellingham in Ringmer [4]
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]
[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]
and his wife Elizabeth [3]; perhaps the EY
of Kingston whose will was proved in PCC
in 1680 [6]
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]
TC calls him his cousin in his will [8]
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]
[1,2]; in 1731 they let the isolated Crow
Barrow to John Bridger of Combe [5]
abuttal to P125/12
[8]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
<1734-1767
Thomas
Tippen
1767-1781
James
Newnham
1781-1783
1784-1787
John
James
Newman
Newman
1788-1825
Richard
Christmas
1826-1829
1830-1840+
<1864-1865
George
Isaac
Alfred
Mott
Leney
Jordan
1865-1868
Thomas
Doe
public
an
1868-1885
George
Gosling
farmer
1885-1885+
George
Norman
brewer
yeoma
n
farmer
yeoma
n
farmer
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]
[2]; of Hamsey, held at £37 [8]
[2]; of Hamsey; held at £40 [8, 12]
called Newnham in the landlords’ accounts
so is he the same as the tenant who left in
1783? [8]
[2]; of Falmer; held at £40 in 1787, raised
to £122 10s 0d in 1815 [12]
[2]
[1, 2]; late tenant in 1865 [12]
of Old Windsor, Berkshire; unexecuted
lease to him at £122 from 29 Sep 1864 [12]
of 6 Stanley Road, Balls Pond Road, Mx,
publican; held at £160; his widow assigned
to [the real occupier] GG in 1868 [12]
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]
of Hamsey; took a lease at £130 in 1885
[12]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A12.130 (John Stafford, 1605); A15.164 (John Stafford, 1616)
ESRO SAS/SH 946; 569
TNA PROB 11/362
Edmund H Fellowes, The Vicars and Minor Canons of HM Free Chapel of St George in
Windsor Castle (Windsor, 1945) 40-41]
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,
including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
WSRO Ep II/17/89
Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
ESRO SAS/PN 469
ESRO AMS 6242 - deeds, 1754-1885
~42~
HAMSEY - Crowborough
Manorial tenure:
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
243 PART OF WINTERLANDS P125/41
<1838-1841+
<1781-1841+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]
<1780-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
taxed within P125/41
<1719-1838+
1731-1731+
<1838-1838+
5
no individual manorial tenure
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 396133)
‘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]
Land: Pasture 1a 0r 15p [1]
1781
1
2
3
4
P125/42
Owners
Minor Canons of
Windsor
Occupiers
COOM
ESTATE
BE
John
Satcher
part of P125/41 [1]
in 1731 let to John Bridger of Coombe Place
[5]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,
including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
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 ?d
M505/78
half a yard called The Ryes in Hamsey
copy ?d = U9
M505/79
half a yard called Rosefield in Hamsey
copy 6d = U9
M505/80
Hawles Acre in Hamsey , late Marks, before Hother; copy 6d heriot 6d = U11
1840
1627
c1631
1640x1672
1644
1651
1674
1752
1796
<1838-1841+
1856
Tithe numbers [1]
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)
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
manorial tenement split from M505/65 (Rades Croft, P125/48), from which
the quitrent was apportioned in 1662 [3]
acquires P125/U9
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]
future owner of this acquires M505/79 from P125/40
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]
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]
1½ leazes on Wood Green Common sold to P125/15 [3]
House and garden, land, pasture and wood 11a 3r 4p [1]
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]
1752
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 410128)
the house, tithe 303, probably = Hawles Acre, P125/U11
owner’s will listed a hall, inner loft and chamber; chattels included a cheesepress [4]
called Cottery House [7]
House and garden (303) = M505/77 [1]
<1817-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
14 (Rev B Whitfield)
1600
1622
<1622-1627
Owners
William
Young
1627-1635+
Joan
Young
1635-1656
William
Young
1656-1656+
John
Fryer
<1672-1708
John
Smith
wido
w
gent
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 M505/7780 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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
1708-1735
Walter
Brett
1735-1783
Elizabeth
Abigail
Brett
Brett
1783-1832
Catherine
Brett
1832-1833
Thomas
Whitfeld
1834-1851
B
Whitfeld
1852-1875
Thomas
Whitfeld
1875-1891
George
Whitfeld
<1780-1787
1788-1792
1793-1828+
<1833-1834
1834-1840
1840
Occupiers
Thomas
James
Joseph
Joseph
Benjamin
Thomas
Gorringe
Morris
Morris
Morris
Morris
Whitfeld
groce
r
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]
spinst Abigail’s death was presented in 1736, no
ers
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]
spinst [2, 7]; in 1796 she sold 1½ leazes on Wood
er
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]
[2]; Francis Whitfeld of Lewes grocer had
married Elizabeth daughter of William Brett
at Lewes St Michael in 1767 [8]
Revd [2]; is this the Revd William Brett Whitfeld,
son of Francis Whitfeld and Elizabeth Brett,
vicar of Lawford in Essex (1769-1847) [6]?
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]
esq
partner in Lewes Bank; the estate was sold
on his death in 1891 [10]
Esq
[2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
owner occupier [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A20.56 (Willaim Young, 1627); W/A55.62 (Walter Brett, 1735); 55.119 (Abigail
Brett, 1736)
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/1111 (Elizabeth Brett of Lewes, spinster, 1783), PROB 11/2066 (William
Brett Whitfeld of Lawford in Essex, 1847)
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO PAR 414
ESRO AMS 6599/1
ESRO SAS/PS 292
ESRO SAS/PN 487
~44~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
P125/44
182 half a yard called Rosefield in Hamsey; copyhold of the manor of
Hamsey, quitrent 6d [M505/79] [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
152, 182
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 414133, 413138)
Field by Park Field and Rose Field: meadow 12a 1r 5p[1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house
no dwelling [1]
1840
Land tax assessments [2]
not individually assessed
Owners
1
2
3
<1838
<1838-1838+
Thomas
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
Benjamin
Whitfeld
Morris
Esq
see P125/43
[1]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~45~
HAMSEY -
P125/45
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1752-1840+
<1838-1841+
1830
<1838-1841+
1875
1887
<1780-1840+
<1838-1838+
<1887-1887+
<1830
1830-1830+
demesne of the manor of Hamsey, subject to the rights of commoners
[3]
Tithe numbers [1]
194
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 408133)
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]
Hamsey Common Land: pasture 13a 1r 9p [1]
Descriptions of house
30 rods at the SW corner of the Common granted as the site of a windmill [5]
map shows a windmill [1]
a post-mill in excellent condition, with a brick-built round-house, two pairs of
stones and a flour machine [7]
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]
apparently not assessed
Owners
Thomas
George
Thomas
Partington
Comber
Partington
(late)
Owners - leasehold mill
NOT
FORMED
Christop Kell
gent
her
1835
<1838-1838+
James
Aylwyn
<1887
Amos
Oden
<1862-1867+
<1875-1878+
Mary
John
Richard
Martin
Martin
[1]; owned 11 of the 13 rights in 1851 [6]
vicar of Netherfield, TP’s grandson, owner
of the reversion of the lease of 1830 [5]
a Lewes solicitor, he obtained a 99-year
lease, rent £1, from Thomas Partington of
Offham on 29 Sep 1830 [5]
‘awaiting a tenant’ [7]
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]
of East Chiltington; a letter from the
grandson of the lessor of 1830 was
forwarded by him to the new tenant in 1887
[5]
Mrs [8]
[7, 8]; the benefit of the lease seems to have
remained in his family (see 1887)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
<1887
Charles
Saunders
<1887-1887
Sarah A
Marten
<1838-1838+
Occupiers
James
Aylwyn
he also took over the Offham smock-mill
c1880 [7]
wrote from Cinder Farm, Chailey, to
surrender the lease on 30 June 1887 [5]
of Offham Farm [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ACC 6506/45
ESRO SAS/SH 14
HES Simmons ‘The Old Windmills of Lewes’, Sussex County Magazine 15 (Nov 1941) 34253 at 352.
Trade directories.
~46~
HAMSEY - Hamsey Manor (formerly Hamsey Rectory)
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1239
1291
<1627
1609-1635
P125/46
glebe
Tithe numbers [1]
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)
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]
three virgates of arable and 10 acres of meadow valued at £13 6s 8d [10]
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]
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 rods
5
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 deceased
6
two acres in a common field called The Rishley
7
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 aforesaid
8
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)
1752
1774
1780
1785
1821
<1838-1841+
1855
1297
1609-1635
1752
1820-1822
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 sheep
16
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.
shown on a map as seven parcels amounting to 14a 3r 13p [11]
acquired 8 rods in Coombe Common Laine in exchange with the Coombe
Estate to extinguish common rights and sheep-leazes [P125/22]
Clay Croft (2a 3r 26p) included on map of the Coombe Place estate [5]
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]
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)
House, lawn, gardens, orchard, glebe, Paper Mill Stream, and churchyard.
Land: arable, pasture, ozier bed 28a 3r 19p + churchyard 1r 29p
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)
the bishop of Chichester petitioned the king to remove certain laymen who
were occupying Hamsey church and the buildings (domos) belonging to it
[13]
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]
map shows two buildings, presumably a house and barn [11]
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
<1838-1841+
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]
House, lawn, garden 4a 0r 17p [1]
<17801840
Land tax assessments [2]
104
174
<1100-1780
1780-1840+
Owners - advowson
HAMSE MANOR
Y
COOM
BE
ESTATE
Owners - rectors of Hamsey
1147Edwin
<1239-1239+ Thurstan
1260126612811306-
Philip
Richard
Roger
Peter
135713681371-
Walter
John
John
137113831392-1402
14191468-1504
1505-1521
1521-1538
1541-1555
1555-1556
1556-1559
1559-1563
Richard
Richard
John
John
Thomas
James
John
Giles
Thomas
Ralph
Christoph
er
Thomas
William
Daniel
Samuel
Edward
John
1563-1568
156815771582-1605
1605-1641
1641-1669
de
Molendinis
de Lyndrig
Dautry
de
Northleeche
Mariot
Mendham
Holt
Standare
Bains
Doddesley
Rowlandson
St Barbe
Helior
Jackson
Green
Lewknor
Pett
Gardiner
Norden
Wood
Smith
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]
P125/22 [5]
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]
1669-1674
1674-1722
1722-1752
1752-1765
1766-1773
1773-1784
1784-1818
1818-1848
1848-1906
1984-2007+
John
John
John
John
John
Henry
William
George
George
Croxton
Edward
Shiffner
Richard
Sidney
Hansford
James
Godfrey
Victor
Rex
Edward
Ambrose
Michael
Raymond
Newham
Derek
<1780-1780+
Occupiers
Richard Care
<1838-1838+
George
1906-1936
1936-1957
1958-1964
1964-1970
1970-1975
1976-1983
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Leversidge
Shore
Fortrie
Davis
Wenham
Hemmington
Gwynne
Shiffner
Shiffner
Best
Ward
Strangeways
Lloyd
Diamond
Bastide
Shiffner
+others
leased Clay Croft from Coombe Estate at
£1 1s 0d [8]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 438-445
TNA PROB 11/
WSRO EpII/17/89
ESRO SHR 1377
Jack Harmer, Our Parish; Tales of Offham, Hamsey and Cooksbridge; 1991
VCH Sussex 7.87
ESRO MOB 1699
TNA E40/8010
TNA SC8/331/15600
SAS/SH 270-272
~47~
HAMSEY -
P125/47
Manorial tenure:
1840
perhaps freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent unknown [M505/
121] [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
75, 77, 78
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 399147)
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) ?
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
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]
shown as a strip of land running back from the road, owned by William Tutty
[8]
house and garden (77), plot (75) and garden (78); 1a 0r 12p [1]
<1838-1841+
Descriptions of house (at TQ399147)
tithe 77 [1]
<1780-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
2
1609
<1627-1638+
1773
1781
Owners
<1609-1609+
<1773-1773
William
Stafford
Tutty
1773-1785
[William]
Tutty
husb
1786-1799
John
Cheesman
brew
er
1800-1801
1802-1811
1812-1826
1827-1827
1828-1837
1838-1840+
<1840-1840+
Henry
Richard
William
John
Henry
John
George
Funnell
Funnell
Funnell
Funnell
Uridge
Lashmar
Langridge
<1773-1773+
<1780-1797
1798-1800
1801-1801
1802-1826
1827-1827
Occupiers
J
Crutes
John
Croucher
Richard Funnell
Henry
Funnell
Richard Funnell
Huggett
abuttal to P125/17
bequeathed to his grandson WT, son of John
and Philadelphia Tutty [4]
neighbouring owner on map of Winterlands
[7]; neighbouring owner on map of Shelley’s
Folly [8]
of Cooksbridge [2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
the elder [2]
the elder [2]
[1] failure to tally with Land Tax not
explained
[4]; can this be an error for Croucher?
[2]
[2]
owner-occupier [2]
[2]
and others [2]
1828-1832
1833-1838
1838-1840+
1839-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Henry
George
John
George
Uridge
Best
Lashmar
Langridge
the elder [2]
[2]
the younger [2]
[1] owner-occupier
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A62.798 (William Tutty, 1773)
ESRO SAS/SH882
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,
including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
ESRO AMS 6775; map of Shelley’s Folly estate, [1773x1777]
~48~
HAMSEY - Black House/barn now lost
Manorial tenure:
1840
c1631
1662
1752
1783-1848
<1838-1841+
1864
P125/48
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey called Rades Croft, quitrent 4d
(M505/65) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
179-180
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 414130)
FORMED out of M125/77 [P125/43]
messuage and acre of land, part of a messuage and virgate of land late Young
and now Smith [M505/77]; rent apportioned to 6d
house, orchard and croft by Lon Furlong (1a 1r 15p) [7]
merged with P125/1
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]
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]
1752
1840
Descriptions of house (at TQ 414130)
house shown on map [7]
shown on tithe map [1]
<1780-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
2
<1628-1632
Owners
Joan
Young
1632-1632+
<1662-1662
John
William
Young
Young
1662-1667
William
Young
1667-1681
Richard
French
1681-1696
John
French
1696-1700
John
Alchorne
shpd
1700-1715
John
Wells
husb
1715-1726
Mary
Wells
wid
in 1628 this formed part of her surrender of
M505/77 to her son John Young [3]
admitted 1632 [3]
death presented 1662, no animal; heir is
youngest son WY [3]
in 1667 (out of court, W: Samuel
Cruttenden and Edward Manfield) he
surrendered to RF [3]
death presented 1681, no animal; heir only
son JF [3]
aged 16 in 1681, custody to Thomas
Rogers; in 1696 he surrendered to JA [3]
of Hamsey, shepherd; admitted by attorney
Benjamin Ellis in 1697; in 1700 he
surrendered to JW [3]
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]
widow [3]
1726-1732
Thomas
Gorringe
1732-1769
Thomas
Dobson
1769-1772
Mary
Dobson
1772-1783
William
Dobson
1783-1796+
Joseph
Morris
1783-1848
1848-1852
MERGED
Philip
Garard
1852-1865
John
Comber
1865-1876
Dorothy
Guy
1876-1887
Charles
Ellis
1887-1887+
MERGED
remainderman under JW’s will; surrendered
to will 1728; surrendered to TD in 1732 [3]
or Dabson of Hamsey, husbandman;
admitted 1736; his death presented 1769,
heriot a cow; his widow MD entitled for life
[3]
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
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]
butcr the younger of Lewes, butcher; bought 1783,
recorded by the manor in 1787; enfranchised
the copyhold in 1796 [3]
With P125/1
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]
fmr
of Hamsey, farmer; mortgaged for £215 to
William Mercer of Lewes, greengrocer, who
sold as mortgagee in possession in 1865 [8]
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]
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]
with the Burrell Estate (P125/2)
Occupiers
1697
1700
<1780-1780
1781-1782
1783-1789
1790-1817
<1828-1833
1834-1839
1840-1840+
<1852-1852+
<1852-1864+
<1876-1876+
Abram
Rickford
Alchorne
Dobson
Heriot
Smith
Farrant
Reid
Herriott
Morris
Alcorn +
Eli
[blank]
Collins
Deacon
Joan
William
James
Robert
Francis
Henry
widow [3]
widow [3]
owner-occupier [2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
[2]
in hand; owner occupier [2]
AA occupied the Green; this cottage
unoccupied in 1864 [8]
[8]
[8]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699 – map of Hamsey manor [1752]
WSRO Burrell Mss 17/D/1 – deeds, 1697-1887
~49~
HAMSEY - Spearham
Manorial tenure:
P125/49
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 5s 0d (M505/59) [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
277; absorbed into P125/40 since 1712
?1632
<1644-1709+
1752
1854
1712
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 411131)
Two crofts called Ladderfield in Hamsey, part of Fryes, quitrent 5s 0d [3]
two pieces
shown as a field of 6a 0r 18p called Spearhams ‘near the common’ [7]
licence to fell an oak for repairs in 1854 [3]
effectively MERGED with P125/40
c1625
<1629-1841+
Descriptions of house
‘the house down’ [8]
no house recorded [1, 3]
1768
1779
1780-1789
1790
1791-1792
1793-1840+
Land tax assessments [2]
4
£4 2 6
3
8
6
5
<1629-1629
Owners
Thomas
Longley
1629-1643
Eunice
Longley
1643-1692
William
Kemp
esq
1692-1706
Edward
Burtenshaw
gent
1706-1712
William
Burtenshaw
gent
1712-1765
Ann
Weller
1765-1792
Mary
Glover
1792-1810
Mary
Glover
in 1629 he surrendered to his daughter EL
[3]
wife of William White by 1643 when they
surrendered to WK [3]
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]
death presented 1706, heriot an ox; heir is
only son WB [3]
admitted 1709 in tail by his mother
Elizabeth; in 1712 he barred the entail by
recovery and surrendered to AW [3]
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]
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]
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]
Occupiers
c1625
1689
1780
1781-1789
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Thomas
James
Joseph
Harvey
Wigrom
Morris
Morris
[8]
[3]
[2]
then follows P125/40 [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO PAR 357/1/1/1 f 40-42
~50~
HAMSEY -
P125/50
Manorial tenure:
1840
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d (M505/68) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
187, 188, 192 (by this date merged with P125/1)
1752
1794
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 412134)
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?
meadow, house and garden, 2a 3r 11p [7]
two crofts of meadow (2a) in Hamsey, part of Bulls Land; for other parts of
Bulls, see M505/2, 107, 115 and 120 [3]
two meadows, house and garden (2a 3r 11p) [7]
merged with P125/1
<1752-1840+
Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)
house present [1, 3, 7]
<1780-1780+
Land tax assessments [2]
2
<1627
[1752]
1627-1769
<1627-1627
Owners
Richard
John
Houlter
Houlter
1627-1627+
Edward
Manfield
<1691-1691
1691-1724+
John
Richard
Hill
Markwick
<1752-1765
James
Beadle
1765-1769+
<1779-1781
1782
1783-1793
1794-1832+
James
Nicholas
Nathaniel
Nicholas
Joseph
Beadle
Tourle
Tourle
Tourle
Morris
<1768-1768+
<1780-1788
1789-1793
1794-1832+
<1840-1840+
Occupiers
[James] Beadle
Nicholas Tourle
Alex
Hicks
Joseph
Morris
Benj
Morris
yeom
an
butch
er
since 1603 owners of P125/80 in reversion
on the death of their mother Margaret
Holter; by 1627 they had sold to EM [3]
[3]; also held part of Bulls [M505/107] (but
apparently not this holding) at his death in
1671 [3]
in 1691 he had sold to RM [3]
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]
[7]; of Southover; not mentioned in his will,
proved 1765 []; his death presented 1769,
no animal; heir is only son JB [3]
[3]
[2]
[2]
[2]
[2] merged with P125/1
owner-occupier [2]
owner-occupier [2]
[2]
owner-occupier [2]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A61.226 (James Beadle of Southover, 1765)
ESRO SHR
TNA PROB 11/
ESRO MOB 1699
~51~
HAMSEY -
P125/51
Manorial tenure:
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 3s 0½d (M505/64) [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
already merged with P125/7 within which it cannot be identified
1622
<1667
1724
Descriptions of property
free land called The Hames
Merged with P125/7
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]
<1610
<1610-1619
Owners
Robt
Thomas
Randoll
Darrington
1619-1633+
Ann
Knight
<1671
<1671-1671
Richard
Langley
Barnard
[3]
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]
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
[3]
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
1
2
3
4
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A28.91 (Thomas Dorrington of Lewes St Michael, 1619)
~52~
HAMSEY -
P125/52
Manorial tenure:
1840
1667
[1752]
1803
three freehold tenements of the manor of Hamsey, quitrents 4d
(M505/1), 10d (M505/2) and 3d (M505/3) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
since 1715 merged with P125/40 within which it cannot be identified
Descriptions of property
8a free land (M505/1), barn and 3a, formerly part of Bulls, late Hoather
(P125/53, M505/2) and one acre (M505/3)
Alling Field and Lardour (8 and 9) and 2a in Shy Brook (16)
the barn on M505/2 no longer standing [3]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)
no house recorded
Land tax assessments [2]
not individually assessed [2]
Owners
<1630
1630-1667
1667-1715
1715-1715+
Richard
Joshua
Claggett
Burdett
Burdett
MERGED
gent
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]
in 1715 he sold to Stephen Weller [3]
with P125/40
~53~
HAMSEY -
P125/53
Manorial tenure:
freehold tenement of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 10d (M505/2) [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
since 1715 merged with P125/40 within which it cannot be identified
1803
Descriptions of property
the barn on M505/2 no longer standing [2]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)
no house recorded
Land tax assessments [2]
not individually assessed [2]
Owners
<1681
<1681
1681-1681+
1715-1715+
John
Hoather
Smith
MERGED
part of Bull’s (which seems to = M505/2, 68,
107, 115 and 120)
[3]
one of this name amerced in 1681 for failure
to repair a tenant way called Drove Lane [3]
With P125/40
~54~
HAMSEY - Offham Mill (also called The Race Mill or Steere’s Mill)
Manorial tenure:
1840
1791
1810
1821
P125/54
long leasehold on Hamsey Place Down (demesne) [7]
Tithe numbers [1]
part of 416 [1]
Descriptions of property
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]
shown on estate map as circular structure South of the crossroads [5]
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
1901
Descriptions of house (at TQ 412134)
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]
mill demolished after storm-damage
1794-
Land tax assessments [2]
5
<1791-1791
Owners
HAMSEY PLACE FARM
1791-1798
John
Hoather
miller
1798-1803
Ann
John
Hoather
Sicklemore
widow
miller
1803-1815
Rich
Knight
gent
1815-1818
Jesse
Cook
miller
1791
P125/2; in 1792 the land was let by the
owner of HPF and his tenant to JH [7]
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]
of John Hoather
of 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]
of Hamsey; in 1815 he sold the lease for
£800 to JK [7]
of Lewes; in 1815, described as a cornchandler, he sold the lease for £850 to JS
and WS [7]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1818-1860
James
Will
Steere
Steere
miller
miller
1860-1874
1874-1885
James
exors
Aylwin
Aylwin
yeo
1885-1888
James
Broad
<1794-1816
1817-1817+
Occupiers
John Sicklemore [2]
John Steere
both of Lewes, brothers; in 1821 they
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]
of Offham in Hamsey; died 1874 [7]
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]
of Lewes, merchant; he surrendered to the
Burrell Estate in 1888 [7]
owner-occupier [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO AMS 6599
TNA PROB 11/
WSRO Burrell 9/D/1-15
~55~
HAMSEY -
P125/55
Manorial tenure:
1840
1752
1759
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 5s 0d, heriot 10s 0d certain
[M505/42]
Tithe numbers [1]
370 [1]
Descriptions of property
waste [6]
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
1759-1762
John
Alchorne
1762
John
Alchorne
1762-1762+
John
Wenham
<1780-1840+
COOMB
E
ESTATE
<1840-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Occupiers
James Wright and
others
husb
clerk
waste [3]
of Hamsey; death presented 1762, by will of
7 Aug 1759 to wife Mary for life, remainder
to son JA [3]
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]
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?
shown on estate maps of 1780 [5] and 1827
[7]; owned by George Shiffner in 1840 [1]
JW is merely the first-named occupier of all
the Coombe Estate cottages [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
~56~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
P125/56
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1d (M505/127) [3]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
almost certainly part of 367; see P125/35
1
Descriptions of property
messuage and ½a in Hamsey [3]
Owners
<1771
<1771
<1771
<1771
1771-1792
Richard
Terry
Smith
Hobbs
Markwick
Hollingdale
[3]
[3]
[3]
MERGED with P125/8 [3]
[3]
~57~
HAMSEY -
P125/57
Manorial tenure:
1840
1831
1840
1858
1
2
3
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2d by apportionment
(M505/134) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
418-419 [1]
Descriptions of property
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]
418
house and garden [1]
419
cottage and garden [1]
(N: Charles Goring esq; E: John George Dodson esq; W: Turnpike; S:
road); let to Mrs Scrase in 1855
1831-1850
Owners
John
Wicks
1850-1855
Jenny
Knight
wid
1855-1860
Henry
Card
bldr
1860-1882
Thomas
Knight
fmr
1882-1882+
CONEYBORO
ESTATE
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]
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]
builder, trustee; in 1860 sold for £180 to TK
[3]
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]
John George Dodson of Coneyboro Park,
MP [3]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~58~
HAMSEY - HOLTERS GREEN
Manorial tenure:
1840
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 4d (M505/21) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
220 [1]
1717
Descriptions of property
tenement and land in Hamsey and Allington [4]
four pieces (14a) called HG Common otherwise Earls Croft [3]
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]
messuage and 14a; does this include P125/29?
<1549-1549
Owners
John
1549
1691
1699
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
P125/58
Holter
of Lewes All Saints; bequeathed to his
daughter Joan and her heirs, remainder to his
daughter Judith and her heirs [4]
<1691
Mabb
<1691
Norden
<1691-1691
John
Humphrey
1691-1697
Thomas
Freeland
1697-1699
Joanna
Piercy
1699-1699+
MERGED
[3]; probably the Nicholas Mabb of Lewes
whose will was proved in PCC in 1590 [7]
[3]; Samuel Norden owned P125/29 in 1615;
is the next entry an error or a temporary
alienation? [5]
by 1691 he had sold to [?his son-in-law] TF
[3]
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]
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]
with P125/29
<697-1697+
Occupiers
Thomas Verrall
[4]; subsequently purchased; see P125/29
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A2.3 (John Holter of Lewes All Saints); W/A43.125 (Thomas Freeland, 1697)
ESRO SAS/SH 849-889
ESRO PAR 255/1/1/1
TNA PROB 11/76
~59~
HAMSEY - WOODCOCK COTTAGE
Manorial tenure:
P125/59
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 0d (M505/44) [3]
Manorial tenure of larger estate
M505/46
three acres in Hamsey, freehold, 1s 2d
M505/47
M505/48
M505/50
M505/54
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
1764
1840
1626
1630
1656
1678
1691
1698
1707
<1744-1744
1752
1764
<1765
Tithe numbers [1]
tithe 407, and part 411-412 (Shide Brooks)
tithe 248-249 (land) and 429 (buildings), The Ham [M505/54]
356 ?+ 355 [1]
M505/46 ?= Green Common, Z on map of 1780 [5]
Descriptions of property
acquires P125/U4, late John Pierce [passes direct to the Coombe Estate from
Dennet and does not follow the descent via Offham House]
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]
acquires land from John Constable, for the earlier descent of which see
P125/65
John Plawe, owner of P125/U10 acted as Hannah Pellatt’s attorney in 1678;
was he the tenant of this?
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]
messuage, barns, garden and 97a called Gorings [7]
lands of Richard Payne shown as abuttals to map of the Coombe Estate [5]
in 1744 two separate acres near the Great and Little Ponds were sold off to
the Coombe Estate [P125/91]
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]
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
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
1841
1851
1752
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]
shown on the tithe map; the cottage to the W has by now disappeared; 32p + 7p
[1]
two cottages; described in printed particulars [5]
Descriptions of house
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
John
Awcock
<1672-1672
Alice
John
William
Awcock
Awcock
Alcock
1672-1692
Hannah
Pellatt
1691-1729
Richard
Payne
esq
1729-1763
Thomas
Payne
gent
1763-1764
Thomas
Holles
Payne
1764-1765
1765-1773
Thomas
William
Dennett
Howell
<1626-<1631
1631-1631+
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]
admitted together in 1631 [3]
gent
gent
yeo
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
of Lewes; 1765 surrendered to WH [3]
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
1789-1851
Thomas
Walley
Partington
esq
1851-1851+
COOM
BE
ESTATE
esq
1678
<1691
1698
1773
1797
1836
1851
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Occupiers
John Plawe
John Sparrow
John Cripps
Thomas Manning
William Howell
R Paul and John Care
William Capelin and
Charles Care
Pannett and Care
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]
of Offham, lord of the manor of Hamsey;
MERGED with the Offham House estate [3];
sold in 1851 to the Shiffner estate [5]
purchased and MERGED with the Coombe
Estate [5]
acted as Hannah Pellatt’s attorney in 1678;
was he the tenant? [3]
late occupier [5]
occupiers of a house and 97a called Gorings
[7]
owner-occupier [3]
occupied at £5 [5]
[5]
occupied at £8 [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A63.286 (William Howell, 1775)
ESRO SAS/SH 13-14, 767, 935-6, 391 (map of 1707)
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SAS/D 489
~60~
HAMSEY – SITE OF COTTAGES AT OFFHAM
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/60
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2d (M505/37) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
423 (9p) but this is only the frontage; the backland of the historical tenement
thrown into other land; probably includes 355 [1]
Discussion
M505/37 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 17751797 and the possibility that this interpretation is mistaken.
1716
1748
1752
1754
1797-1802
1817
1841
Descriptions of property
a small cottage in Offham Street
‘very ruinous and decayed and at my coming of age required more laid out in
repair than would answer’ [7]
shown as a square building; no owner listed [6]
messuage in two dwellings with garden (24r) [5]
house described as with NW and SW parts in two occupations [5]
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]
open land on the tithe map [1]
Owners
<1681
<1681-1689
John
Kidder
Plaw
1689-1689+
Richard
Plaw
[3]
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]
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
1736-1748
Henry
Shelley
esq
1748-1748+
John
Bridger
esq
<1754-1754
Richard
Care
bcklr
1754-1773
William
Howell
fmr
1773-1797
Thomas
Howell
1797-1802
1802-1815
Daniel
Samuel
Grover
Ellis
vict
yeo
1815-1817
Thomas
Ellis
yeo
1817-1851
Thomas
Partington
esq
1851-1851+
COOM
BE
ESTATE
<1730-1730+
<1748-1748+
1754
1773
<1797
1797
<1799
1799
1817
Occupiers
William Care
John Bridger of
Coombe
John Alchorne and
John Chapman
Widow Howell and
William Lower
John Alchorne
Samuel Hollingdale
Thomas Howell
Richard Baldy
Richard Baldy
James Wady
William Phillips;
Edward Holder
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]
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]
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
of Offham, bricklayer; recorded in the court
book in 1755 [3, 5]
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]
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]
of Cliffe; in 1802 he sold to SE [3, 5]
of Hamsey; purchased for £140; settlement
of 1807 with his nephew TH; by will to his
nephew TE [3, 5]
of Hamsey; present by attorney Richard
Knight; in 1817 he sold to TP [3, 5]
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]
purchased and MERGED with the Coombe
Estate [5]
held at £2 [7]
[7]
[5]
[5]
NW part [5]
NW part [5]
SW part [5]
SW part [5]
messuage
newly-built cottage on the West [5]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/B11.16v (John Plaw, 1686); W/A42.77 (Nizell Rivers, 1695); W/A63.286 (William
Howell, 1775)
ESRO SAS/SH 13-14, 54-67
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SAS/DN 184
John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge 1933) 251.
~61~
HAMSEY – COTTAGES AT OFFHAM
Manorial tenure:
1840
1752
1797
1836
1841
1851
<1797
<1797-1851
1851-1851+
1797
1836
1841
1851
1
2
3
4
5
6
P125/61
not known
Tithe numbers [1]
357-365 (1a) [1]
Descriptions of property
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
messuages or cottages, workshops and one acre [5]
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]
row of cottages set back from the road [1]
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
John
OFFHA
M
COOM
BE
Care
HOUSE
ESTATE
ESTATE
Occupiers
John Capelin
John Care
John Care the younger
Mary Alchorne
Ann Chester
William Capelin and
others
Thomas Sandal and
others
Simmons, Howell,
Holder, Widow
Allcorn, Goddard and
Bussey; John Oden;
Bonniface and
Hollingsdale
esq
esq
of Offham; he sold to TWP [5]
purchased by Thomas W Partington and
MERGED with P125/15
purchased and MERGED with the Coombe
Estate [5]
at rents totalling £16 [5]
[5]
[1]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 13
ESRO MOB 1699
~62~
HAMSEY – COTTAGES AT OFFHAM
Manorial tenure:
1840
1631
c1635
1715
1752
1772
1800
1827
1841
1852
P125/62
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]
366 (1a) [1]
Descriptions of property
[Cottage deleted] <messuage>; is this related to M505/26?
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]
house and smith’s shop [5]
the map shows a building aligned on the road, owned by James Glazebrook
[6]
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)
part of a freehold cottage and garden formerly Deans and another part being a
smith’s forge; parcels of waste 1r and 3r [5]
shown on map of this year as L-shaped building [7]
map shows building at right-angles to the road (pink), with an area extending
into the road (grey); cottages (21p), no forge [1]
part said to be rented from the heirs of [blank] Tucker for 4s 0d [5]
<1622-1622
1622-<1631
Owners
John
Alexan
der
Lucas
Lucas
<1631-1631
1631-1632
John
Edward
Beale
Hemsley
1632-1635
William
Rennols
1635-1636+
Michael
Parsell
<1684-1715
William
Parsell
death presented 1622; heir only son AL [3]
admitted 1622 aged 14; custody to his
mother Joan, then wife of John West; before
1631 he had surrendered to JB [3]
admitted 1631 and surrendered to EH [3]
admitted 1631; in 1632 he surrendered to
WR [3]
admitted 1632; by 1635 he had surrendered
out of court (W: Edward Manfield and
Richard Beale) to MP [3]
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]
black
smith
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]
1
2
3
4
5
1715-1772
James
Glazebrook
black
smith
1772-1817
John
Glazebrook
black
smith
1817-1826
Stephen
Holden
1826-1852
1852-1854
Thomas
Samuel
Partington
Smith
1854-1854+
Thomas
Norman
<1715-1733+
Occupiers
James Sicklemore
<1756-1756+
<1778-1778+
<1817
<1817
1817-1831+
<1852-1852+
James Glazebrook
John Glazebrook
John Glazebrook
Sarah Glazebrook
Daniel Wells
Samuel Smith
esq
black
smith
publi
can
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]
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]
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]
MERGED with the Offham House estate [5]
of Offham; purchased for £315; sold in
1854 to TN [5]
of Offham [3]
[5]; probably the step-son of the owner
William Parsell, and probably the occupier
from his marriage, of Hamsey, in 1715 [8]
owner-occupier [5]
the elder; owner-occupier [5]
the younger [5]
widow [5]
[5]; LT treats him as owner until 1826 [2]
owner-occupier from 1852 [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A20.155 (William Parsell of Beeding, 1629); William Parsell of Southover, 1715)
ESRO SAS/SH 68-92
6
7
8
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO PAR 357/1/1/2; Marriage licences
~63~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
<1752-1759+
1810
1827
1840
P125/63
unknown
Tithe numbers [1]
371 [1]
Descriptions of property
still part of Hamsey Down in 1752 [6]; not mentioned in boundary of P125/59
in 1759 [3]
shown as ‘garden at Offham’ [8]
shown as a cottage and enclosure [7]
cottage at Offham [1]
Owners
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
<1752
<1810-1827+
BURRELL
ESTATE
<1840-1840+
COOMBE
ESTATE
c1820
<1840-1840+
Occupiers
Bussey
Henry Guy
part of Hamsey Down [6]
part of Coombe estate in 1810 [8];
ownership ambiguous 1827 [7]; seems
already to be part of Coombe c1820 [9]
owned by George Shiffner in 1840 [1]
[9]
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO AMS 6599 (map of Burrell Estate, 1810)
ESRO ACC 3612/3/160 (draft map, watermark 1820)
~64~
HAMSEY Manorial tenure:
1840
former waste of the manor of Hamsey, sold as freehold in 1766 [5]
Tithe numbers [1]
372-375 [1]
1780-1840
Descriptions of property
waste [6]
messuage called the New Inn with stables, buildings, yards and garden in
Offham Street [5]; possibly occupied tithe 372-378
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?
shown as E-W building, land behind and open yard (apparently still waste) in
front [8]
shown as a cottage [5, 7, 1]
<1766-1766
Owners
HAMSEY
MANOR
1766-1840+
COMBE
ESTATE
<1764-1764+
Occupiers
James Grayling
1752
1764
1766
1810
<1840-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
P125/64
James Wright and
others
waste of the manor, leased with a house and
buildings known as the New Inn in 1764 and
sold in 1766 [3, 5, 6]
purchased by Sir John Bridger for £315 in
1766 [5, 7, 1]; 1810 map confirms owner as
‘Bridger’ [8]
innho
lder
leased 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?
and others; JW is merely the first-named
occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 937-939
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO AMS 6599 (map of Burrell Estate, 1810)
~65~
HAMSEY -
P125/65
Manorial tenure:
1838
1633
1661
1752
1759
1780
1788
1797
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]
house and two acres = part of 315 [1]
3r in Middle Furlong of Mill Laine = part of 345-346
enclosed two-acre croft = ?part of 351
Descriptions of property
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
deed endorsed: Burges house and Pierce’s Croft [5]
shown as two houses and land belonging to John Bridger esq [6]
[5]
shown as a cottage, garden and land [5, 7]; house and 2a croft sold off to
Offham House estate [P125/15], the remainder retained
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]
already demolished and laid into the Paddock (46a) attached to Offham
House [5]
<1610-1610
Owners
John
Denham
1610-1623
John
Draper
yeo
ma
n
1623-1633+
Alice
Draper
1623-1633
Samuel
Draper
1633-1641
Roger
Fillary
wid
ow
yeo
ma
n
tail
or
1641-1648
Roger
Fillary
hosi
er
[5]; of Hamsey; he bequeathed the house
where he lived and one acre to be sold;
among the trustees was John Draper [4]
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]
she held a life estate, with remainder to her
son SD [5]
of Warningcamp; in 1634 he sold to RF and
RF for £80, subject to his mother’s life
estate [5]
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]
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
yeo
ma
n
1664-1672
Robert
Swan
mal
tste
r
1672-1699
Abraham
Nicholas
1699-1718
1718-1788
Thomas
COOMBE
Burgess
ESTATE
1788-1840+
OFFHAM
HOUSE
<1648-1648+
<1660
<1664-1664+
<1761-1761+
<1788-1788+
1
Occupiers
Francis Pierce
William Middleton
Edward Manfield
Edward Stiles
James Glazebrook
Thomas Brown
George Mills
Richard Sandall
Elizabeth Smith,
widow
William Alchorne
John Corner the elder
John Corner the
younger
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
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]
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]
admitted 1672 aged 20; by 1699 he had sold
to TB [3]
in 1718 he sold to Richard Bridger [3]
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]
[5, 1]
yeoman; owner-occupier [5]
[5]
[5]
[5]
with deleted not ‘Mr Phopes, the tenant of
the upper cottage, will immediately remove’
[5]
2
3
4
5
6
7
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
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)
ESRO SAS/SH 13, 394 (map of 1780), 667-73, 693-4, 719, 742-43, 746, 760
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
~66~
HAMSEY - Wellcroft
Manorial tenure:
1840
P125/66
freehold of the manor of Warningore, quitrent 3d
Tithe numbers [1]
part of 315 [1]; this entry includes a larger estate of which Wellcroft formed
part and of which the descent is virtually identical.
1775
1797
Descriptions of property
messuage, barn, 26a land, 4a meadow, 17a pasture, 2a wood in Hamsey and
Offham and pasture for 50 sheep [5]
added by purchase: 15¼a arable in the common laines with common of
pasture for 50 sheep [= M505/48] [5]
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 1591
three acres called Green Common (E: Samuel Norden and [blank] Coulstock
called Green Common; N: late Baker; W: Coulstock; S, W: Thomas
Fawkener) [5]
Wellcroft = land [5]
croft called Wellcroft (2a) in Offham, late Hoather (S: messuage [P125/65];
W: road; N, E: lands of Edward Alford [demesne of Hamsey]) [5]
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]
close of land adjoining the house of Richard Payne [8]
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]
by this date stables had been built on this land [8]
laid into the Paddock (46a) attached to Offham House (P125/15) [5]
<1612-1612+
<1574-1574
1574-1574+
Owners
John
John
Stephen
Hoather
Sherman
Botting
<1591-1591
1591-1596
Stephen
John
Botting
Earle
1596-1612
William
Savage
clk
1612-1630
John
Constable
yeo
1631-1656
John
Constable
1574
1574x1591
1612
1612
1656
1656
1741
1752
gt
abuttal to P125/65
of Lewes; in 1574 he sold to SB [5]
of Plumpton; he purchased 15¼a and 50
sheepleazes from Abraham Edwards;
descended to his son SB [5]
in 1591 he sold to JE [5]
citizen and merchant tailor of London; in
1596 he sold to WS and his son John Savage
[5]
of Rottingdean and his son Thomas; in 1612
they sold to JC [5]
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]
aged 12 in 1631; of Leigh in Surrey in 1656
when he sold this and P125/66 to WA [5]
1656-1656+
<1734-1734
William
Richard
Alcock
Payne
1734-<1741
Richard
Payne
<1741
<1741-1741+
<1752
<1752
Stephen
Thomas
[John]
OFFHAM
Heaver
Heaver
Davies
HOUSE
1630
Occupiers
John Aucock
John Verrall
John Constable
1656
William Constable
1612
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
gent
of Lewes [5]; by descent (see P125/59) to
of Lewes St Anne, died 17 Jan 1733 aged 39
[9]; death presented at Warningore, 1734; to
his son RP [8]
before his death, presented at Warningore in
1741, he had sold to Stephen Heaver, who
had bequeathed it to his eldest son Thomas
[8]
?of Lewes; by will to his eldest son TH [8]
[8]
[6] merged with P125/15
messuage [5]
barn and close [5]
he called Wellcroft (P125/66) next to his
dwelling house in his will of 1630 [4]
messuage and croft [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A20.194v (John Constable)
ESRO SAS/SH 13, 394, 719, 742-43, 746, 760
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO ADA 186-187 (court boooks of the manor of Warningore)
Monumental inscription, Lewes St Anne
~67~
HAMSEY - Pyecrofts and Hamsey Malthouse
Manorial tenure:
1840
1684
1689-1701
1752
<1777
1777
1797
c1820
1840
1854
1919
<1596-1596+
<1612
<1612-1612+
<1671
P125/67
freehold of Hamsey manor, quitrent 10s 0d (M505/91) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
260, 262 [1]
Descriptions of property
four pieces (9a) called Pyecrofts [3]
messuage, barn and four pieces (9a) called Pencroft/Pacrofts [3]
shown as a house (probably tithe 254-5) and land [6]
malthouse sold away from land
initials IV EV and date 1777 cut into bricks on malthouse
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]
cottages and malthouse shown in detail on draft map [8]
merged with New House farm by this date P125/16
seven cottages [9]
initials HH and HH and date 1919 cut into bricks on malthouse
Owners
John
John
Lawrence
Earl
Michell
Chambers
de la
Chambre
de la
Chambre
<1671-1672
John
1672-1672+
William
<1683-1683
John
de la
Chambre
Hook
1683-1701
John
Hook
1701-1745
John
Hook
1745-1745+
<1752-1752+
1752v1777
Elizabeth
John
Hook
Hook
<1777-1789
John
Verrall
abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) [5]
abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) [5]
abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) [5]
kt
esq
gent
wrt
abbuttal to Tilecroft (P125/68) in 1671 [5];
death presented 1672, heriot an ox; heir is
eldest son WC [3]
[3]
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]
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]
death presented 1745, heriot a cow; widow
EH [3]
wid
shown as owner on map [6]
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
LT at £5 for his malthouse from 1780 [2]; he
sold to TWP
1790-1900
1777-1781
1782-1793
1794-1826
1827-1840+
<1851-1851+
1853-1883+
1883
1899
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OFFHAM
HOUSE
Occupiers
John Verrall
Thomas Harben
Robert Chester
Cooper
Mary Tucker and John
Cheeseman
Sandals and Breach
Holder, Wright,
Lower and Allcorn
Cheeseman’s
executors
George Norman
Richard Satcher,
William Sandals,
Widow Breach,
Widow Holder, John
Wright, James Lower
and Thomas Allcorn
Stephen Reed and
Widow Walker
Wickens, Turner,
Harding, Gabriel
Parker, a new tenant
late Curtis and
Richard Satcher
George Norman
[1]; Thomas Walley Partington first assessed
for Land Tax in 1790 [2]; retained when
Offham House sold in 1851 [9]
owner-occupier [2]
[2]
late RC Cooper from 1814 [2]; in 1797 he
paid £20 rent [9] of Lewes
[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]
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]
of Cooksbridge, brewer; granted a six-year
lease of the malthouse at £12 in 1853; lease
includes list of fixtures; yearly tenant in 1883
occupiers of seven cottages in 1853 [9]
occupiers of cottages at tithe 253 in 1853
at rents of between £2 10s 0d and £3 10s 0d
[9]
son and executor of the lessee of 1853 [9]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
ESRO SAS/SH 591, 764; SH 14
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
ESRO ACC 3412/3/160
ESRO ACC 6506/45
~68~
HAMSEY - Tilecroft
Manorial tenure:
1840
1596
1612
1671
1752
1788
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
P125/68
freehold of unknown manor
Tithe numbers [1]
part of 260 [1]
Descriptions of property
2a meadow (W: road; N: land John Earl called Tilecroft [?recte Pyecroft]; E:
land John Mitchell gent; S: demesne of Hamsey called Stonefields) [5]
2a meadow (W: road; N, E: land of John Chambers late Mitchells called
Pyecroft; S: land of Samuel Norden) [5]
piece called Tilecroft (1s; W: road; N, E: land of John de la Chamber called
Pyecroft; S: land of John Langford)
shown as a house and land [6]
on its purchase by the Offham House Estate described as arable, formerly a
nursery garden, before meadow [5]
<1596-1596
1596-1596+
Owners
William
Samuel
Comber
Norden
<1612-1612
William
Savage
1612-1631
John
Constable
1631-1656
John
Constable
1656-1671+
<1752-1788
William
COOMBE
Alcock
ESTATE
1788-1840
OFFHAM
HOUSE
1671
Occupiers
Robert Mercer
1771-<1788
John Bedford
<1788-1788+
William Howell
sold to SN [5]
[5]; dead by 1616 when his widow Ann
Norden made a will, which does not mention
real property [4]
of Rottingdean; sold to John Constable in
1612 [5]
death presented [for other tenements] in
1631; heir is son JC [3]
[5] aged 12 in 1631; of Leigh in Surrey when
he sold to WA in 1656 [5]
granted a lease in 1671 [5]
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
owned by the Offham House estate in 1840
[1] for details see P125/16 and 67
of Hamsey, blacksmith; an acre of it leased
to him [5]
tenant under a 21-year lease from 1771 at £2
10s 0d [5, 7]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A15.219v (Ann Norden, 1616)
ESRO SAS/SH 591, 693-6, 764
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 1377
~69~
HAMSEY – piece of brookland (3a) in The Shyde
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1658
1658
1752
1788
P125/69
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1s 0d [M505/22 and 114]
Tithe numbers [1]
409 [1]
Descriptions of property
M505/114, extracted as a separate tenement, has been provisionally identified
as identical to M505/22
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]
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]
merged with Coombe Estate [P125/22]; see P125/27
Owners
<1635
<1635-1635+
<1644-1644
1644-1644+
<1653-1658
Edward
John
William
Sherman
Pierce
Pierce
Middleton
Middleton
yeo
1658-1694
Charles
Smith
gent
1694-1699
Dorothy
Smith
wid
1699-1723
Thomas
Tourle
but
1723-1730
John
Dean
c1730-1754
Ann
Webb
named as former owner in 1644 [3]
his heirs held in 1635 [8]
by 1644 he had sold to JM [3]
acquired from EP [3]
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]
of Hamsey; by his will of 1694 he left his
freehold to trustees for sale [4]
she made George Tye of East Grinstead,
yeoman, her executor, who in 1699 assigned
to T Tourle of Lewes, butcher
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]
his son John Dean died a bachelor and his
daughter married Sergison; c1730 he put
Ann Webb in possession [5]
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1754-1788
Sarah
Hartley
1788-1788+
COOMBE
ESTATE
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]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A42.22 (Charles Smith, 1694); (Dorothy Smith, 1694)
ESRO SAS/SH 890-893
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
~70~
HAMSEY – Scrases Yardlands in the Mill Laine in Hamsey
Manorial tenure:
1840
copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8s 0d [M505/56]
Tithe numbers [1]
eastern part of 344 [1]
1752
Descriptions of property
customary virgate (9a) in the Mill Laine [3]; shown on map of 1707 as 8a 2r
8p [5]
shown on map as 8a 3r 14p [6]
<1612-1612+
<1627-1627
1627-1627+
<1639-1639+
<1639-1639
Owners
Samuel
Richard
Thomas
Elizabeth
Henry
Norden
Newman
Hawkins
Hawkins
Hawkins
<1639-1639
Thomas
Hawkins
1639-1639
COOMBE
ESTATE
1700
abuttal to P125/71
in 1627 he surrendered to TH [3]
[3]
[3]
by 1639 he had surrendered the reversion on
the death of EH to his son TH [3]
by 1639 he had surrendered to James
Rivers, with no mention of the reversion [3]
descends with P125/22 [3]
Occupiers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
P125/70
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 391
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
~71~
HAMSEY – Land in the Mill Laine in Hamsey
Manorial tenure:
1840
1612
1665
1707
P125/71
freehold of the manor of Southover, quitrent 3s 8d [M505/56]
Tithe numbers [1]
western part of 344 [1]
Descriptions of property
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)
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]
shown on map of 1707 as 6a 0r 12p [5]
Owners
<1612
<1612-1612
William
Savage
clk
1612-1629
John
Constable
yeo
1629-1654
Robert
Constable
1654-1665
William
Constable
1665-1665+
COOMBE
ESTATE
yeo
? part of P125/66
of Rottingdean; he and his son Thomas
Savage sold this and P125/65 and 68 to RC
[5]
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]
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
of Little Horsted; joined by his brother’s
executor Edward Lucas in 1665 to sell for
£100 to Richard Bridger of Coombe, esq [5]
descends with P125/22 [3]
Occupiers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A20.194 (John Constable, 1629);
ESRO SAS/SH 746, 590
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2854
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO ACC 2327
~72~
HAMSEY – two virgates called Pimbles (13a)
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1668-1683+
1690
1730
1788
P125/72
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 0d [M505/104]
Tithe numbers [1]
244 (8½a) and possibly part of 429 [1]
Descriptions of property
Combeham Wood, Ripiards Field and Thornewell (14a) [4]
meadow and pasture called Pembles (16a) in Offham [5]
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]
15a 1r 5p [7]
Owners
<1627
<1627-1627
John
Sherman
Vinall
1627-1627+
<1668-1668
1668-1668+
John
Edward
Edward
Vinall
Verrall
Verrall
<1684
<1684-1684
Richard
John
Verrall
Hook
<1690-1693
Richard
Bonner
clk
1693-1756
Samuel
Botting
gent
1756-1757
Ann
Verrall
1757-1781
Richard
Verrall
yeo
whe
eler
gent
[3]
death presented 1627, heriot an ox (£5); heir
is eldest son JV [3]
[3]
of Hamsey; by will to his eldest son EV [4]
inherited in his father’s will; had a brother
Richard Verrall [4]
[4]
death 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1781-1782
Elizabeth
Jenner
1782-1788
OFFHAM
HOUSE
1788-1788+
COOMBE
ESTATE
<1713-1713+
<1768-1780+
Occupiers
Richard Bridger
George Verrall
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]
Thomas Partington and Edward Boodle sold
this in 1788 to John Bridger, owner of the
Coombe Place Estate [5]
purchased 1788 [5]
[5]
[2, 5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683); W/D8.111 (Samuel
Botting of Cliffe, AWA 1759)
ESRO SAS/SH 894-911
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO ACC 2327
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,
including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
ESRO PAR 414/1/1/3
ESRO PAR 323/1/1/3
~73~
HAMSEY – Fielders Down, formerly waste
Manorial tenure:
1840
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 4d [M505/55]
Tithe numbers [1]
206 (8a 3r 10p) [1]
<1780-1827+
Descriptions of property
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)?
8a 1r 11p [5, 7]
<1780-1840+
Owners
COOMBE
general
1
2
3
4
5
P125/73
ESTATE
[3, 5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 757
~74~
HAMSEY – Dudleys
Manorial tenure:
P125/74
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 15021526 [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]
1840
1707
1792
Tithe numbers [1]
205 (5a 0r 32p) [1]
Descriptions of property
west end only shown on a map of 1707; depicted with road on south side [5]
forms the north part of the southernmost of the two pieces of land in Hamsey
now called Lanes Field [3]
<1584-1584+
Owners
Stephen
Botting
abuttal from P125/13; this relates to the
Northern element
<1644-1650
Edward
Dodson
1650
Richard
Dodson
1650-1689
Edward
Thomas
Holmwood
Holmwood
1689-1701
Hester
Holmwood
1701-1715
Thomas
Wood
his custody granted to his mother Joan
Dodson in 1644; death presented 1650, no
animal; heir is brother RD [3]
on his admission he surrendered to his
[?step] sons Edward Holmwood and TH
[3]
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]
widow; admitted 1691 by attorney Thomas
Wood, gent; in 1696 she obtained licence
to lease for 6 years; her death presented
1701 [3]
admitted in tail male, 1701; death
presented 1715, no animal; heir is only son
TW [3]
gt
1715-1728
Thomas
Wood
1728-1840+
CONEYBO
RO
ESTATE
<1674-1674+
<1689-1689+
<1792-1792+
1
2
3
4
5
6
Occupiers
Anthony Ade
Thomas Fowle
John Berry
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]
MERGED with Cooksbridge Farm
[P125/12]; owned by George Medley in
1780 [5]
[3]
[4]; with 4a freehold by Cooksbridge
[3]; occupier of Cooksbridge Farm [P125/12]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 391, 394
ESRO SAS/PN 499, 501 (deeds)
~75~
HAMSEY – Bremps Field and Martins Field (4a)
Manorial tenure:
1840
1533
1560
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 8d [M505/35]
Tithe numbers [1]
part 136
Descriptions of property
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)
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)
<1533-1533
Owners
Thomas
Cook
1533-1533+
<1560-1560
Thomas
John
Sherman
Sherman
1560-1560+
Joan
Alice
Brook
Brook
gent
gent
of Hamsey; he sold 2½a in Martinsfield to
TS [9]
the elder of Hamsey
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]
[9]
Occupiers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
P125/75
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 757
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO SAS/PN 455-501
^
~76~
HAMSEY – Tanners Lag
Manorial tenure:
1840
1699
1707
c1708
<1713
1738
<1634-1713
1713-1840+
<1738-1738+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
P125/76
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]
southern part of tithe 119
Descriptions of property
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
Tanners Lag (2a 1r 25p) shown on map of the Coombe Estate [5]
‘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]
in 1713 ‘lately’ sold to P125/12 and MERGED
Tanhouse Lag (2a 0r 10p)
Owners
COOMBE
CONEYB
ORO
ESTATE
ESTATE
Occupiers
Thomas Wigsell
[5, 9, 10]
[6]; abuttal to P125/12 in 1713 ‘Tanhouse
Lag lately purchased by Thomas Medley
from Mr Bridger’ [10]; MERGED with
Coneyboro Estate
[6]; tenant of P125/12
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
ESRO SAS/SH 391, 579, 757
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO SAS/PN 489-492
BL
Add MS 38486 f179-83, Add MS 38485 f152
~77~
HAMSEY – East Allington and Barley Banks
Manorial tenure:
1840
1613x1638
1638
1659
1754
1756
P125/77
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6s 0d [M505/10]
Tithe numbers [1]
house = 333 + land
Descriptions of property
acquired messuage called Bakers with 16a in Hamsey and Lewes St John [5]
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]
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]
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 Banks
House and 137a 0r 17p (Hamsey land = Sand Hilly Field meadow = tithe 162;
The Leggs pasture = 130-1; The Alders woodland = 124; Malthouse
1771
1780
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]
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]
House called Piggots and land shown in 1756 now merged into the Coombe
Estate [5]
1638
1756x1780
Descriptions of house
includes a messuage and 16a called Bakers [11]
the house had lost some of its croft to Hogs Croft; by 1840 it had lost it all
<1612-1613
Owners
Thomas
Faulconer
1613-1638
Arthur
Middleton gt
1638-1673
Francis
Middleton gt
1673-1750
John
Middleton gent
1750-1756+
Robert
Day
gent
[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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
<1764-1764
Frances
Day
1764-1772
Thomas
Attree
1772-1772+
COOMBE
ESTATE
1750-1771+
Occupiers
John Pigott/Pickett
<1780-1790+
Samuel Ellis
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]
bequeathed to trustees who sold it to John
Bridger [9]
[5]
took a 21-year lease in 1750 [5]; still holding in
1771 [12]
‘Trees Land’; 1791 merged with Late Ridge [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 572, 829-847
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO ADA 246
ESRO SAS/C 19
TNA C142/568/124
ESRO SHR 2030
John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge 1933) 112
TNA PROB 11/342, copy at ESRO SAS/ND 89
ESRO AMS 5897/58
SRS 6 (1906) 51
~78~
HAMSEY – cottage at North End
Manorial tenure:
P125/78
freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2d [M505/24]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
186
[1752]
1840
Descriptions of house
Shown as a house and 1r 34p at North End, S: road, EWN: Dr Russell [6]
described as cottage and garden [1]
Owners
<1752
<1718-1748
Shadrack
Newnham
Pocock
1748-<1752
<1752-1754+
<1781-1812
John
John
Richard
Pocock
Faulkner
Bridger
1812-1840+
COOMBE
ESTATE
<1781-1783
1784-1786
<787-1823
1824-1831
<1832-1840+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Occupiers
John
Thomas
Joseph
George
Stoneham
Wright
Breach
Avery
Morley
hus
b
esq
[3]
of 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]
sold to JF [3]
[3, 6]
[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]
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]
[2]
[2, 3]
[2]
[2]; tithe apportionment names James
Wright who is merely the first-named
occupier of all the Coombe Estate cottages
[1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 394, 572, 829-847
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO PAR 357
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 M505/43
1776: rent apportioned to two moieties of 6s 0d
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
269 (house), part 193 (land); by this date the land had been allotted to Offham
Farm [P125/16]
[1752]
Descriptions of property
messuage, barn and two virgates [3]
it seems that 7a copyhold at Barley Banks, sold to Richard Bridger of
Coombe in 1710, were part of this holding [5]
copyhold reduced by the creation of M505/43 and its sale to P125/80
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
house, buildings, Common House Fields and croft (13a 0r 24p) [6]
[1752]
1851
Descriptions of house
house and buildings [6]
double cottage and garden [5]
<1644-1721
1710
1725
1742
Owners
<1639
<1639-1639
Henry
Story
Hawkins
1639-1643
Martha
Hawkins
1643-1667
Samuel
Hawkins
1667-1709
Mary
Rotherham
yeo
ma
n
[3]
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]
Martha Hawkins, widow; buried at Hamsey
1643; death presented 1644; heir is SH,
youngest son of HH [3]
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]
wife of Thomas Rotherham; in 1681 he was
amerced for failing to repair the tenant way
called Drove Lane [3]
1709-1721
Samuel
Hawkins
1721-1749
Jane
Mary
Hawkins
Champion
1749-1752
Elizabeth
Spillman
<1752-1776
Richard
Verrall
1776-1788
Richard
Spillman
1788-1788+
TW
Partington
<1788-1788+
<1851-1851+
Occupiers
Joseph
Morris
Walker
Read
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]
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]
death presented for this and M505/18 in
1752; who is heir?; see M505/18 [3]
death presented 1776 for a third; heir is RS
[3]
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
lord of the manor of Hamsey; MERGED
with P125/15 [3]
[3]
[5]
1
2
3
4
5
6
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
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)
ESRO SAS/SH 14, 920-921
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
~80~
HAMSEY – farm at North End
Manorial tenure:
1840
1461
1481
1484
1502
1513
1601
1604
<1616-1620
<1627
1635
1692
1725
1752
c1780
1752
P125/80
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]
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 property
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]
a messuage, 12½a land and 2½a meadow called Townes in Hamsey [5]
lands and tenements, rents and services called Townesland and one acre of
pasture called Kentyngesacre in Hamsey, 16a in all [5]
free tenements and yard of freehold land called Touners; one acre free land
called Kentyngisacre [7]
lands and tenements, rents and services called Townesland, and an acre of
meadow called Kentyngesacre (16a) in Hamsey [5]
house, barn and land [5]
described in a recovery as a a messuage, 13a land, 3a meadow, 3a pasture and
2a wood in Hamsey and Lewes [5]
messuage, barn and 16a lands called Townesland and Kentinges Acre [5]
P125/50 sold off
described in a fine as a messuage, orchard, 10a land, 3a meadow, 3a pasture
and 1a heath in Hamsey [5]
messuage and virgate (15a) called Townlands and Kentisacre [3, 5]
acquires Row Croft (part of tithe 149) and Stephens Gate (part 159) in all 5a,
partitioned from P125/79
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]
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 house
shown as large E-W house with crosswing to the E end; N-S building [?barn] to
the E [6]
<1461
1461-1461+
Owners
John
Richard
Towne
Cooke
<1481-1481
John
Towne
[5]
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]
quitclaimed to WC in 1481 [5]
<1481-1484
William
Cooke
1484-1484+
John
Towne
<1502-1502
Henry
Towne
1502-1513
John
Thatcher
1513-1513+
Richard
Holter
<1532
<1532-1532
John
John
Holter
Holter
1532-1532+
<1601-1603
Joan
John
Holter
Holter
1603-1603+
1617-1620
Margaret
John
Holter
Holter
1620-1631
Robert
Goldham
1631-1635+
<1692-1692
William
William
Kemp
Kemp
1692-1724
William
Kemp
Richard
Kemp
Russell
1724-1724+
1724-1763
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]
and his wife Margery; they held for life with
remainder to John Thetcher [5]
of Barcombe and his son John; in 1502 they
quitclaimed to JT [7]
gent of The Broyle in Ringmer; in the quitclaim
he is described as son of John Thatcher the
elder deceased [7]
purchased in 1513, when Thomas Chamber
of Laughton, son of one of the vendor’s
feoffees, quitclaimed to him [5]
[5]
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]
widow [5]
butch the elder of Lewes St Michael; by his will of
er
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
widow [5]
butch [3] of Cliffe; inherited on the death of his
er
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]
butch of Cliffe; in 1631 he sold for £150 to WK;
he and his wife Eleanor confirmed by fine in
1635 [5]
yeo
of Hamsey [5]
esq
death presented 1692, heriot an ox; heir is
only son WK [3]
esq
death presented 1724, heriot an ass; widow
for life, remainder to daughter [3]
widow [3]
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
<1782
<1461
<1603-1603+
<1620-1620+
<1768-1768+
<1779-1779+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Occupiers
John
John
Edward
John
Wyrgar
Draper
Read
Hook
Hook
esq
son of RR, sergeant at law; he barred the
entail created by his father's will and was
admitted [3];
by 1782 the property had been sold to
Joseph Mighell (£5) and Thomas Walley
Partington (£7); MERGED with P125/2 and
P125/15 [2]
[5]
[4]
occupied at £11 10s 0d rent [5]
widow [2]
[2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A11.189 (John Holter the elder, 1603); W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668);
W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
WSRO Burrell 9/A/1-20
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SAS/E389
~81~
HAMSEY – farm at North End
Manorial tenure:
1840
1546-1580
1644
<1694
<1694
1752
1780
1808
P125/81
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]
part 148, 181, 183, 189, 190 (house), 191, 276, 278
Descriptions of property
Cottage and virgate called late Troberrys in Hamsey, late John Marks, quitrent
10s 4d [8]
Messuage, barn, garden and 10a [3]
M505/7 acquired, late Ann Longley, before 1629 her father Thomas Longley
[3]
P125/85 (M505/6 Rose Field) acquired from P125/43 [3]
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]
numbers 8 and 10-12 sold away from the estate to P125/16 [7]
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]
1644
1752
1840
Descriptions of house
Messuage and barn [3]
shown as a large E-W house with two N-S outbuildings behind it [6]
shown as 1752 with different enclosures [2]
<1546-1546
Owners
Thomas
Marks
1546-1546+
Richard
Marks
<1580-1580
Robert
Marks
1580-1580+
William
Marks
<1629-1631+
Robert
Coulstock
death presented 1546, heriot a cow; heir is his
son Richard M [8]
aged 4 at his father’s death in 1546; custody
to his mother Marion, who claims to hold for
life as her bench [8]
death presented 1580, heir is his son WM
[8]
aged 4 at his father’s death in 1580; life
interest claimed by his mother Agnes, now
wife of John Randall [8]
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]
1
2
3
4
<1644-1644
Samson
Coulstock
1644-<1671
John
Smith
clerk
<1671-1694
Charles
Smith
gent
1694-1702
Joseph
Smith
1702-1709
Benjamin
Smith
1709-1749
John
Smith
clerk
1749-1752
John
Smith
esq
1752-1766
John
Davis
clerk
1766
John
Davis
esq
1766-1766
Charles
Gilbert
1766-1840+
HAMSE
Y
PLACE
<1620-1620+
<1776-1780+
Occupiers
Edward
William
Read
Knight
<1808-1808+
John
Guy
and his father’s widow Alice wife of
Stephen Reade; they surrendered to JS in
1644 [3]
admitted 1644; his death proclaimed a
second time in 1671 [3]
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]
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]
death presented 1709, no animal; only
brother JS [3]
surrendered M505/5-8 to use of will 1710;
death presented 1749, three animals only;
heir is only son JS [3]
of East Grinstead; admitted 1749; in 1752
he sold M505/5-8 to John Davis [3]
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]
in 1766 as John Brewer Davis of Lincolns
Inn esq son he surrendered to CG [3]
of Lewes; Thomas Gilbert of Lewes grocer
admitted in trust for him [3] [trustee for
George Wenham Lewis; MERGED with
P125/16]
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]
occupied at £11 10s 0d rent [5]
he held under a lease from George Wenham
Lewis [5]
occupied with Hamsey Place Farm [P125/2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
5
6
7
8
WSRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
Burrell 9/A/1-20, 19/B/1-5
MOB 1698, 1699
AMS 6599
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]
1840
l
<1629-1749
1713
Tithe numbers [1]
298 [1]
1840
Descriptions of property
MERGED with P125/83; conveyed [in trust for the parish] in 1749
parcel of leasehold land and barn in Hamsey [P125/83] with the house,
orchard and gardens adjoining to it, being copyhold [P125/82] [4]
house and orchard near the parsonage house (2r 9p) copyhold [5]
shown on map as Hamsey Poorhouse and garden [6]; MERGED with the
rectory [P125/46]
orchard with small outbuilding [1]
<1621-1681+
1713
1752
1835
Descriptions of house
messuage and orchard [3]
house and barn (includes P125/83) [4]
shown as square building in the NW corner of the plot [5]
messuage or site of a messuage [3]
<1622-1622
1622-1629
Owners
Thomas
John
Longley
Dawson
1629-1631+
Anthony
Wood
<1666-1666
Nicholas
Curle
1666-1667+
Judith
Curle
<1670-1670
Pasco
Curle
1670-1681
Joshua
Curle
1681-1704
Ann
Curle
1752
1821
gent
in 1621 he surrendered to JD [3]
admitted by his attorney William Dawson in
1622; in 1629 he surrendered to AW [3]
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]
[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]
widow; in 1667 she had licence to let for 7
years; [3]; her will, of Lewes, proved 1679
[4]
[son of Nicholas Curle]; in 1670 he
surrendered to [his brother] JC [3]
admitted 1671; death presented 1681, heriot
40s by composition; his widow AC admitted
by attorney for life, remainder to their son
[NC] [3]
widow; in 1704 she surrendered to her son
Nathaniel Curle, the remainderman, who
immediately surrendered to PS [3]
1
2
3
4
5
6
1704-1725
Philip
Shore
clerk
1725-1746
1746-1749
Catherine
John
Shore
Shore
esq
1749-1767
William
Tutty
husb
1767-1817
John
Bridger
kt
1817-1821
Mary
Shiffner
1821-1867
George
Shiffner
1867-1867+
Bertie
Shiffner
1749-1821
1821-1821+
Occupiers
paupers
HAMSEY
RECTOR
Y
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]
widow; heir is nephew JS [3]
admitted by his attorney Thomas Trusfield
in 1749 and immediately surrendered to WT
[3]
in 1767 he surrendered in trust for the
churchwardens and overseers of Hamsey [3]
of Coombe; admitted in trust for the
churchwardens and overseers in 1769 [3]
wife of George Shiffner, esq; conveyed to
GS 1835, consideration of £140 paid 23 Nov
1821 [3]
death presented 1867; heir is youngest son
BS [3]
captain in the 61st Regiment [3]
[6]
MERGED with P125/46 and presumably
demolished soon after [6]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A30.297 (Nicholas Curle, 1666); WA35.101 (Judith Curle, 1679); W/A52.53
(Philip Shore, 1725)
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SAS/SH 260-264
~83~
HAMSEY –
Manorial tenure:
1840
1713
1729
1752
1821
1713
1752
P125/83
freehold of the manor of Hamsey called Six Acres, quitrent 1s 9d
[M505/11] = ? part tithe 275 = CW 8
freehold of the manor of Hamsey called Four Acres, quitrent 1s 6d
[M505/12] = tithe 299 = CW 15+16
Tithe numbers [1]
part 275, 299
Descriptions of property
parcel of leasehold land and barn in Hamsey [P125/83] with the house,
orchard and gardens adjoining to it, being copyhold [P125/82] [4]
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)
two fields Pitle over the Way (CW 15) and Stonehams (CW 16), part of
P124/40
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 house
house and barn (includes P125/82) [4]
large barn, on the corner of the plot against the road, shown on map [6]
Owners
<1627
<1627
Tuppen
Denham
Scrase
gent
<1627-1641
Edward
Wood
clerk
<1667-1667
Nicholas
Curle
1667-1725
1725-1746
Catherine
Shore
[3]
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)
rector of Hamsey; seems to follow descent
of P125/82
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]
seems to follow descent of P125/82
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]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
<1752-1803
Cruttenden
Weller
<1821-1821
Mary
Weller
1821
Mary
Wilmott
1821-1821+
George
Shiffner
<1729-1729+
1876-1876+
Occupiers
Nathaniel
L
Avery
McQueen
esq
Col
in 1752 it was presented that CS had sold
them to him; as M505/1; MERGED with
P125/40
widow; admitted for life; death presented
1821, no animals; by Stephen Weller’s will
of 1806 to MW, then Mary Glover [3]
née Glover, wife of George Wilmott, esq; in
1821 her trustees sold M505/11 to GS [3]
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]
[7]
Hamsey rectory and 13a leased to him [7]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A30.297 (Nicholas Curle, 1666); WA35.101 (Judith Curle, 1679); W/A52.53
(Philip Shore, 1725)
WSRO Burrell 9/A/1-20
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SAS/SH 260-264
~84~
HAMSEY –
P125/84
Manorial tenure:
1840
1753
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]
unlocated, but in the region of 274 [1]
Descriptions of property
8a called The Two Vants and the Long Vant, The Pook Hams and the rood
adjoining N on Weller’s land, late Shore
Owners
1
2
3
<17521752-1753
Elizabeth
Spillman
1753-1753
Joseph
Spillman
1753-1753+
Cruttenden
Weller
follows descent of P125/79 [3]
as M505/17, which is probably included in
the descents and rent; she held a third
share; JS admitted 1753 [3]
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]
MERGED with P125/40
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~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 property
7a called Rosefields, rent 6s 0d [3]
M505/5-8 shown as a house and 36a 1r 27p; this tenement = 6 [3]
1644
1752
Descriptions of house
no house recorded on this property
1
2
3
4
<1625-1632
Owners
Joan
Young
<1642-1642
John
Young
1642-1644+
Edward
Holmwood
<1694-1694
Charles
Smith
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
ESRO
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]
in 1642 out of court (W: Edward Manfield,
messor, George Reade and Richard
Longley) he surrendered to EH [3]
[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
owned by CS at his death in 1694 [3] so
already MERGED with P125/81
Sources
TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
W/A39.40 (Thomas Holmwood of Lewes, gent)
~86~
HAMSEY –
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
near tithe 31
1887
Descriptions of property
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]
now with eight houses [3]
<1885-1887
Owners
Coombe
Estate
1887-1887+
Trayton
Stevens
1885
1
2
3
P125/86
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 93-99
in 1885 it granted a 99-year lease at £2 and
released the reversion in 1887 [3]
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]
~87~
HAMSEY - Brakeride
P125/87
Freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 9d [M505/81]; M505/125 is associated with this, for
which see P125/U2
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
tithe 224
1715
1840
Descriptions of property
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]
free lands in Hamsey called Brakeride, part of The Coombe held by heriot,
wardship, marriage and relief; see also M505/125
piece called Brakerides (10a) [4]
11a 2r 32p arable Brakes Rides [1]
<1596-1596
Owners
William
Comber
1596-1601
Samuel
Norden
1601-1612
John
Coulstock
1612-1621
Edward
Burtenshaw yeo
1621-1696
John
Burtenshaw
1696-1704
Edward
Burtenshaw gen
t
1704-1712
Elizabeth
Burtenshaw
1596
1622
ck
[4]; of Shermanbury, gent; he sold to SN
in 1596 [3]
[4]; of Hamsey, clerk; sold to JC in 1602
[3]
of East Allington in Lewes St John; in
1612 of East Grinstead when he sold to EB
[3]
of Hamsey; death presented 1621, heriot
an ox; heir is only son JB [4]
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]
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]
widow of Edward B; she sold to RB in
1712 [3]
1
2
3
4
5
6
<1715-1715
Ann
Burtenshaw
1712-1729
Richard
Bridger
<1684-1684+
Occupiers
Richard Verrall
esq
widow; by 1715 she had sold to RB [5 –
this is the manor’s version]
MERGED with Coombe estate; sold to
Thomas Dennett in 1764 and re-acquired
in 1766
[3]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 591-601
ESRO W/B12.91v (John Burtenshaw of Newhaven, 1696); W/A 45.325 (Edward
Burtenshaw of Newhaven, 1705)
ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey
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]
1840
<1719-1719
1717
1752
Tithe numbers [1]
merged into Coombe Estate [1]
Descriptions of property
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
6a of the 8a are by Richard Verrall’s dwelling-house [7]
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
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
<1715
<1715-1715
Thomas
Willard
Verrall
1715-1719
Richard
Verrall
1719-1719+
William
Ridge
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 786-3, 826, 889
ESRO ADA 246
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey
[7] part of P125/29
death presented 1715 for M505/20-21, 40;
son RV [7]
admitted 1717; in 1719 he surrendered to
RR [7]
MERGED with P125/125 [7]; purchased by
Coombe Estate 1768 [P125/22]
~89~
HAMSEY – Herseys Croft
P125/89
held of an unknown manor, quitrent 3d [3]
1840
1780
Descriptions of property
land described as 5a in Herseys Croft, suggesting an open field [5]
piece of arable called Herseys Croft (5a) adjoining land late John Shore,
clerk, called The Crink [3]; part of P125/29, previously P125/58
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]
shown on map of the Coombe Place estate as Hersey’s Croft [5]
<1616-1616
1616-1616+
<1697-1697
1697-1700
Owners
Samuel
Tuppen
Thomas
Joan
Norden
Scrase
Freeland
Peircy
1700-1710
1710-1719
Thomas
Richard
Verrall
Verrall
1719-1719+
Richard
Ridge
1616
1710
1719
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Tithe numbers [1]
merged into Coombe Estate since 1768; in region of tithe 337 [1]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 572, 782-784, 866
ESRO ADA 246
ESRO SAS/SH 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey
of Lewes; sold to TS [3]
[3]
of Brighton; bequeathed it to JP in 1697 [3]
inherited from TF; married William Whiting
of Brighton, mariner, and by 1719 John
Lucas of Brighton, mariner; sold to TV in
1700 [3]
sold to RV [3]
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]
MERGED with P125/87 [7]; purchased by
Coombe Estate 1768 [P125/22]
~90~
HAMSEY – cottage and 1a Pipers Croft
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
house = 212 (1r 8p) – see P125/32 and 215 [1]
1634
1638
1707
1780-1827+
Descriptions of property
identified from abuttal on SAS/SH 927 of 1744
part of the manor of Coombe [3]
piece of land with a house built on it (E: Mr Threele; S,W: lands called
Fridays Wood; N: road) [3]
house shown on map [5]
sold back to manor of Coombe [3]
house shown N-S with gable end to the street with croft behind [5]
house as 1707, no croft [5]
<1614-1614
Owners
Tuppen
Scrase
1614-1617
Thomas
Hawkins
yeo
1617-1638
Nicholas
Lee
hus
1638
COOMBE
ESTATE
<1614-1614
1616
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
P125/90
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 586-88
ESRO ADA 246
ESRO SAS/SH 390 (1634), 391, 394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey
of Coombe; with John Verrall of Hamsey,
yeoman, he sold to TH for £22 [3]
of Lewes St John; sold to NL in 1617 for
£30, giving warranty against his wife
Elizabeth [3]
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]
MERGED
~91~
HAMSEY – croft of 1a
1840
1707
<1744
1744
1614
<1707
<1744-1744
1744-1744+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
P125/91
Tithe numbers [1]
part tithe 212 and 215, eastern neck of 235 [1]
Descriptions of property
shown as neighbouring land on map of the Coombe Estate [5]
attached to Woodcock Cottage [P125/59]
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]
Owners
John
Threele
Thomas
Paine
COOMBE
ESTATE
gt
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO SAS/SH 719, 727-731
ESRO ADA 246
ESRO SAS/SH 391-394
ESRO MOB 1699
ESRO ADA; manor of Hamsey
abuttal of P125/90
part of P125/59
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]
merged
~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]
1840
Tithe numbers [1]
1, 4-5, 7-11, 14, 17, 18, 20 [1]
1792
Descriptions of property
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 1
2
Little Wood (9a; N: 1; E: road)
= tithe 4
3
two crofts and 7a on S of 2
= tithe 5
4
Great Wood (10a)
= tithe 24
all part of the North end of lands called Hewen Street [5]
land and meadow (20a) called The Hewen Streets between the land of John
Cook and his son John Cook [5]
= tithe 8+11
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)
barn and land [5]
acquires Holmans Bridge Cottage and 1½a in Barcombe (P113/16, tithe 389)
which descends with this holding until 1813: see P125/23
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]
Little Hewen Street (61a 2r 30p) [5]
1552-1552+
Owners
John
Cook
<1587-1594
John
Cook
yeo
<1587-1596
John
Cook
yeo
1596-1602
Roger
Aderton
gent
1589
1594
1609
1664
1688
1752
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]
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]
[10]; the younger of Barcombe; sold to RA
in 1596 [5]
[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
<1630-1646
John
Hall
gt
1643-1653
John
Hall
gt
1653-1663
Mary
Hall
1663-1664
William
Whitlock
1664-1671
William
Board
1671-1685
1685-1737
William
Henry
Peachey
Peachey
bt
1737-1751
James
Peachey
esq
1751-1792
1792+
HAMSEY
HEWEN
MANOR
STREET
S
1587
1594
<1752-1752+
<1773
1
2
3
4
Denham
Occupiers
John Godley
Thomas Markwick
Roger Comber
Francis Napp
Edward Raynes
esq
[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
[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]
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]
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]
of the Middle Temple when he sold to WB
[5]
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]
died 1685; by will to his son HP [5, 12]
of Petworth; by will of 1737 to James
Peachey [12]; death presented 1742, no
animal; customary heir was John Peachey
[3]
of St George Hanover Square, Mx; sold to
John Wenham for £750 in 1751 and
MERGED with Hamsey Manor [5]
see P125/2
see P125/23
tithe 1
tithe 4-5, 24
tithe 8+11
[6]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
ESRO SAS/SH 1, 17-19, 333, SAS/D 53, 71, 75, 79, 86, 89, 369-70
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699, SHR 2849
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO AMS 317
SRS 34.196
Book of John Rowe
TNA C9/233/103 (1655), C10/66/80 (1662) Hall v Bulstrode
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
Manorial tenure:
1840
<1621-1685
1689
1701-1702
1716
1752
1780
1786
P125/93
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]
353 (cottage), part 352 [1]
Descriptions of house
½a with a house built on it [3]
upon which a house was formerly built [3]
messuage and ½a called formerly part of a yardland called Scrases at Offham
[3]
messuage and ½a [3]
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]
shown as blank on map of the Coombe Estate [5]
acquired by Coombe Estate
1689
Descriptions of land
M505/16 created and 8s 0d fine certain established; 3 rods adjoining land of
Francis Langford in Offham [3]
Adjoining land late Langford/Longford [M505/111]
<1622-1622
Owners
Samuel
Henty
1622-1629+
Richard
Smith
<1677-1677
William
Scrase
1679-1685
1685-1689
Samuel
Charles
Longley
Smith
1689-1700
Mary
King
King
King
1700-1716
Francis
Corner
1629
gt
wid
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]
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]
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]
in 1685 he surrendered to CS [2]
in 1689 he surrendered to MK for life,
remainder to TK [2]
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]
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
1752-1769
Francis
Corner
hus
1769-1771
Jane
Corner
wid
1771-1779
Henry
Maker
hus
1779-1786
James
Corner
1786-1786+
COOMBE
ESTATE
1700
<1716
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Occupiers
Thomas Earle and
[blank] Nelson, esq
William Nelson esq
in 1752 he surrendered to his son Francis
Corner [2]
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]
in 1771 she surrendered her life interest to
Henry Maker of Hamsey, husbandman [2]
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]
youngest son of Francis Corner deceased
and Jane; in 1786 he surrendered to John
Bridger, owner of the Coombe Estate [2]
MERGED with P125/22
land only [2]
late occupier, land only, 1716 [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A34.278 (William Scrase, 1677)
ESRO SAS/SH 391, 394, 757
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO SAS/PN 489-492
~94~
HAMSEY – site of a cottage garden and one acre at Offham
Manorial tenure:
1840
1634
1665
1749
c1750
1752
1780
1787
unknown
Tithe numbers [1]
part 354[1]
Descriptions of house
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]
house, barn and croft of ½a [3-5]
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]
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]
already pulled down by 1752 [6]
shown as an enclosure on map of the Coombe Estate [5]
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
<1627-1634
Owners
John
Beach
1634-1651
John
Beach
1651-1651+
Elizabeth
Beach
1651-1664
Thomas
Beach
1664-1665
George
Alchin
1749-1749
George
Alchorne
1749-1749+
COOMBE
ESTATE
<1664-1664+
Occupiers
Joan Corner, widow
yeo
wid
ow
yeo
she
phe
rd
hus
b
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]
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]
held a life estate [3]
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]
of Hamsey; purchased from Thomas Beach
[P125/U5] in 1664; by will of 1665 to his
son George Alchin [4]
in 1747 he sold to John Bridger, owner of
the Coombe Estate [5]
MERGED
occupier of the house sold by Thomas Beach to
George Alchin in 1664 [5]
<1749-1749
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
George Alchorne
owner-occupier [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A30.235v (George Alchin, 1665)
ESRO SAS/SH 932, 394 (map of 1780); 668
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/33
~95~
HAMSEY – South-eastern and upper portions of Shelley’s Folly [P125/17]
Manorial tenure:
1840
1587
1587
1590
1596
1
2
P125/95
no individual manorial tenure
Tithe numbers [1]
South-eastern portion: probably 85-90, 99-100 [1]
Upper portion: probably 2, 6, 12-13
Descriptions of property
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]
acquires P125/96
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)
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]
<1587-1587
Owners
John
Cook
yeo
1587-1590
Andrew
Stone
mer
cha
nt
1590-1590+
MERGED
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]
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]
with P125/17 [2]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
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:
1840
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]
76, 97 [1]
General
The 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.
1465-1489
1574
1582
1584
1586
1587
1590
Descriptions of property
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)
tenement, kitchen and four crofts of land (5a) called The Swyrde in Hamsey
[12]
messuage and 5a called Breaches Tenement in Hamsey, occupied by AB [12]
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]
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)
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]
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
1609
[1773x1777]
1840
Lands; W: land of John Comber; N: land of the heirs of Nicholas
Cooke) [14]
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]
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
76
Plot (1a 1r 23p) [1]
97
Shoulder of Mutton piece (2a 2r 39p)
Owners
<1465-1465
John
Lynder
1465-1489
John
Wydgar
1489-1489+
William
Breach
<1574
John
a Breach
<1574-1574
heirs of
Breach
1574-1574+
Thomas
Harding
1582-1586
Alan
Brewer
1586-1587
William
Storer
1587-1590
Andrew
Stone
1590-1590+
MERGED
Occupiers
cha
plai
n
hus
b
hus
b
car
pen
ter
car
pen
ter
mer
cha
nt
his cousin and heir Richard Lunsse
quitclaimed to John Wydgar in 1465 [12]
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]
conveyed to him and his feofees in 1489
[12]
he was dead by 1574, and his widow
Elizabeth married to Gardiner [12]
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]
of Hamsey; became owner in 1574 [12]
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]
of Lewes; purchased 1586 and sold to
Andrew Stone in 1587 [12, 14]
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]
with P125/17 [2]
<1574-1574+
Thomas Harding
<1582-1582+
Alan Brewer
of Hamsey, husbandman; became owner-occupier
in 1584 [12]
of Hamsey, carpenter; became owner-occupier in
1584 [12]
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 rentals
4
ESRO W/A12.128 (John Bokes, 1605)
5
ESRO D53
6
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 1699
8
ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor,
including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
10
SRS 14.14 IPM of Philip Bennett
11
ESRO AMS 6775
12
ESRO ACC 8997 ES/CK; CKS U1475 T278
13
SRS 34.196
Book of John Rowe
14
BL
Add MS 58828
~97~
HAMSEY – cottage and half an acre
P125/97
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8d [M505/113]
1636
1636
1
2
3
Descriptions of property
Cottage and 1a [3]
customary land of Thomas Valentine lately contained one acre lies between
the house of John Stafford and the road there
free land late Thomas Valentine containing one acre lies on the W side of the
land there called Meaply Mead
three 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]
1636
Descriptions of house (at approximately TQ 400149)
cottage and 1a [3]
<1629-1636
Owners
Thomas
Valentine
1636-1644
John
Stafford
1644-1644+
Edward
Young
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]
admitted 1636; in 1644 he sold to EY and
EY [3] MERGED in Winterlands
[P125/41]
and his wife Elizabeth [3]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~U1~
HAMSEY – Little tenement and 1a
Manorial tenure:
1840
unknown
Tithe numbers [1]
unknown
1731
Descriptions of property
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]
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]
<1686-1686
Owners
Richard
John
Lulham
Colvill
hus
thr
1686-1724
John
Care
hus
1724-1731
COOMBE
ESTATE
1731-1731+
CONEYB
ORO
ESTATE
1686
<1731
<1738-1738+
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
P125/U1
Occupiers
John Kember
Thomas Wigsell
of Keymer
of Chailey, thatcher; in 1686 they sold for
£15 to JC [9]
of Hamsey and his wife Eleanor; in 1724 JC
[?another] and his wife Elizabeth sold to
Richard Bridger for £40 [9]
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]
MERGED into P125/12 [10]
[10]
[6]; farmer of the P125/12 into which this was
merged
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
ESRO SAS/SH 391, 757
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
ESRO SAS/PN 489-498
BL
Add Ms 38486 f179-183
~U2~
HAMSEY – Little tenement and 1a
P125/U2
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 0d [M505/125]
1622
Descriptions of property
messuage and appurtenances at Offham [1]
Owners
<1622
<1622
<1622-1622
1622-1622+
Edward
John
Sherman
Norden
Burtenshaw
Burtenshaw
[1]
[1]
[1]
follows P125/87 but not mentioned after
1622
~U3~
HAMSEY – former holdings of George Goring
P125/U3
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 11d [M505/53]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1619
1707
1840
Descriptions of property
house, barn and 50a in Offham and sheep down [5]
shown as part of the lands of Richard Payne [5]
includes: tithe 133 (from abuttal), west part of tithe 323, tithe 325 [1]
<1612-1622
Owners
George
Goring
1622-1630
George
Goring
<1619
<1619-1619+
<1630-1630+
Occupiers
Robert
John
Edward
Randall
Hatch
Hamper
esq
abutter in 1612; death presented for
M505/53 in 1622; heir is his eldest son
[blank] Goring [3]
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]
[5]
[5]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A31.12 (Edward Verrall, 1668); W/36.128v (John Hook, 1683)
ESRO SAS/SH 748-756, 391 (map of 1707)
ESRO MOB 1698, 1699
ESRO SHR 2028/7
WSRO Ep II/17/89 (ESRO XA 23/8)
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
1611
1618
1627
1
2
3
4
5
Descriptions of property
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]
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 122
in 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
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]
<1611-1611
Owners
William
Savage
ckl
1611-1626
John
Pierce
yeo
1626
John
Awcock
1626
Occupiers
John
John
Awcock
Constable
of Rottingdean; with his brother Thomas
Savage he sold to JP [5]
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]
[5]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
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]
1634
1664
1665
1706
1727
Descriptions of property
[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]
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]
Cottage, garden and one yardland in various places in Offham Field [3]
a yardland containing several pieces:
1
2a 3r pasture or brookland in the common brook
2
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]
freehold croft (2a) (S: enclosed next the lane to Coombe; N: Offham Laines)
customary yardland [M505/58]
<1627-1634
Owners
John
Beach
1634-1651
John
Beach
1651-1651+
Elizabeth
Beach
yeo
wido
w
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]
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]
held a life estate [3]
1651-1664
Thomas
Beach
yeo
1664-1664+
Robert
Swan
yeo
<1672-1706
Abraham
Nicholas
yeo
1706-1706+
William
Nelson
esq
Occupiers
Thomas
Edward
Robert
Beach
Green
Mercer
<1664-1664+
1
2
3
4
5
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]
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
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]
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
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 667-73
~U6~
HAMSEY – Two virgates (16a) in Hamsey, part of Pycombes
P125/U6
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 1d [M505/111]
1672
Descriptions of property
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]
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]?
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
sold to P125/15 and MERGED
<1593
Owners
William
Comber
gt
<1593-1596+
Samuel
Norden
clerk
<1616-1616
Samuel
Norden
gent
<1627-1627+
Richard
Newnam
1627-1627+
<1635-1635+
<1672-1672
Francis
John
John
John
Langford
Langford
Langford
Langford
<1681-1681
John
Langford
1681-1681+
John
Langford
<1616-1616+
Occupiers
Sackville
Edward
Porter
Henty
1593
1616
1627
1
2
3
4
5
esq
of Shermanbury; part of the manor of
Coombe; he sold this to Samuel Norden,
clerk, before his sale of the manor in 1593
[5]
confirmed to him by the feoffees of the
manor of Coombe in 1596; to his son SN
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]
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]
[3]
abuttal to M505/111
of Bolney and
of Chailey; they sold by 1000-year lease to
Nizell Rivers of Offham House in 1672
[5]; are the subsequent entries an
oversight?
death presented 1681, heriot an ox; heir is
only son JL [3]
of full age [3]
held at a combined rent of £39 10s 0d [5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 568-9, 667-73
~U7~
HAMSEY – former holdings of Thomas Pierce
P125/U7
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 6d [M505/102]
1635
1
2
3
4
5
Descriptions of property
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]
<1635
<1635
1635-1635+
Owners
John
Thomas
John
Pierce
Pierce
Fryor
<1662-1662
Francis
Corner
1662-1662+
MERGED
<1635-1635+
Occupiers
Joseph
Verrall
husb
husb
bequeathed to his son TP [5]
of Herstmonceux; he sold for £72 to JF [5]
of Offham in Hamsey [5]
yeom of Offham; in 1662, with John King, he
an
sold to Nizell Rivers [5]
with Offham House [P125/15]
[5]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A
ESRO SAS/SH 667-73
~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?
1629
Descriptions of property
messuage and half an acre in Hamsey [3]
Owners
<1627
<1627
<1627-1627
1627-1638
Abraham
Francis
Simon
Coulstock
Edwards
Langford
Tillinghast
1638-1638+
Elizabeth
Tillinghast
glover
[3]
[3]
in 1626 he sold to ST [3]
[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]
was she the ET who married Robert
Tully [?recte Tutty] at Goring in 1639?
[5]
Occupiers
1
2
3
4
5
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/A25.152 (Simon Tillinghast, 1638)
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]
1622
1627
1
2
3
Descriptions of property
half a yard called The Ryes [3]
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
<1622-1629+
Owners
Robert
Coulstock
<1640-1640
1640-1640+
Alice
Samson
Coulstock
Coulstock
<1672
MERGED
and his wife Alice; in Jan 1622 he
forfeited M505/78 for carrying off three
cartloads of hay without licence; regranted Aug 1622 with a licence to carry
off three cartloads; RC a tenant in 1629 [3]
in 1640 she surrendered to SC [3]
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
with P125/43
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
~U10~
HAMSEY – messuage and garden
P125/U10
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2d [M505/71]
1678
1681
1836
Descriptions of property
John Plawe acted as Hannah Pellatt’s attorney on her admission to P125/60 in
1678; was he the tenant?
messuage and garden [3]
piece of ground where two messuages or cottages formerly stood, now used as
a shrubbery [5]
Owners
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
<1681
<1681-1689
John
Kidder
Plaw
1689-1689+
Richard
Plaw
<1773
<1773-1775
William
Bridger
Howell
1775-1797
William
Howell
1773
Occupiers
Mary Alchorne
fmr
[3]
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]
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]
[3]
will of 1773 proved 1775 [5]; death
presented 1777, heriot a horse; by will to his
grandson WH [3, 4]
[3]
[4]
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO W/B11.16v (John Plaw, 1686); W/A42.77 (Nizell Rivers, 1695); W/A63.286 (William
Howell, 1775)
ESRO SAS/SH 13-14, 54-67
ESRO PAR 413/1/1/2
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]
1600-1610+
1627
Descriptions of property
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)
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
1
2
3
4
5
6
<1595
<1595-1600
Edward
Randall
Corps
1600-1609
1609-1609+
<1610-1610
1610-1610+
<1627-1627+
John
Nicholas
John
John
Edward
Draper
Longley
Wilson
Hother
Markes
<1674
John
Markes
<1674-1674+
John
Smith
esq
[5]
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]
in 1609 he surrendered to NL and EL [4]
and his wife Elizabeth [4]
in 1610 he surrendered to JH [4]
[4]
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]
inherited from his only brother EM; by
1674 he had sold to JS [6]
MERGED with P125/40
Sources
ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
ESRO ACC 7818
WSRO EpII/5/6 f61-3
ESRO SAS/PN 487
~U12~
HAMSEY – tenement and half a yardland (7a) called Geerings and Cobbs at Offham
P125/U12
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
1601
1627
1
2
3
Descriptions of property
tenement and half a yard of freehold land (7a) called Geerings or Cobbs at
Offham in Hamsey, occupied by Thomas Comber [1]
homage of manor of Hamsey ordered to enquire who held two half-acres in
the Common Rishley called Valliers and Denhams [M505/123]
<1598-1598
Owners
Thomas
Valyer
yeo
1598-1601
1601-1601+
Edward
Thomas
Valyer
Comber
gent
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]
quitclaimed to Thomas Comber [1]
of Allington in Lewes St John [1, 3]; not
mentioned in his will of 1612 so perhaps
sold to Coombe by that date [2]
Sources
ESRO SHR 960
ESRO WA 10.252; A28.47
John Comber, Sussex Genealogies: Lewes Centre (Cambridge, 1933) 65-73 (Comber of
Allington)