Add MS 5700

A collection of various papers relating to lands in Sussex, viz.

1. Printed portion of Domesday Book, relating to Sussex (page 1)

2. Surveys of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Dated 5-30 Hen. VIII (page 31)

3. ‘Carta Radulphi fil. Stephani (Camerarii Regis Hen. II) concessa monachis de Stanley, in Com. Wilts. 5-30 Hen. VIII (Ex orig. penes Tho. Astle) (page 35)

4. Letters of Attorney from Edward [Somerset], Earl of Worcester, and Sir Robert Johnson, Knight, appointing Paul Tarway, gentleman, and John Cadweil of Southover, to receive seisin of the Manor of Langney and Willingdon, granted to them by letters patent. Dated 25 May 3 Jac. I (page 36)

5. Indenture of Sale from Sir George Rivers of Chauford, Kent, Knight, to Thomas, Earl of Dorset, K.G. of the Manor of Ringmer, the half hundred of Luxfield, the advowson of Iffield, and the Manors of Langney and Willingdon. Dated 18 November 3 Jac. I (page 44)

6. Indention of sale from Edward [Somerset], Earl of Worcester, and Sir Robert Johnson, Knight, to John Sedley of Aylesford, Kent and George Rivers of Chauford esquire of the said Manors etc. Dated 12 June 3 Jac. I (page 52)

7. Fine for the said Manors. Dated 7 May 4 Jac. I (page 59)

8. The Boundary of Parcel of the Demesnes of the Manor of Langney, ascertained on a survey made 18 July 6 Eliz. (page 60)

9. A series of Charters transcribed from the Cartulary of Lewes Priory (Ms. Cott. Vesp. F.XV) relative to land in Langney, Westham, Burne, Bivelham, Bixle, Heefield etc. (page 63)

10. Extent of the Manors of Goryngges, Hayton, Dadesham, Prestone, Milheres, Hamme, and Bargham; taken 14 Edw. II (page 87)

11. ‘Relaxatis Johannis Comitis warennie pro muris clandentis in villa de Lewes.’ Dated Wynton, 28 December 52 Hen. III (page 91)

12. Presentation of William Trenerth, clerk, to the church of Pevensey by the King, on account of the abbey of Hyde being vacant. Dated Westminster, 2 June 9 Hen. IV (page 91)

13. Descent of the family of Tregoz (page 92)

14. ‘Compositio inter Thomam, abbatem de Dureford, et Abbatem de Hyde, super Cantaria in Ecclesia de Dureford.’ Dated 1327 (page 93)

15. Series of extracts from Charters in the Cartulary of Lewes (Ms. Cott. Vesp. F. XV) relative to various lands in Sussex (page 96)

16. ‘The Book of all the ancient customs heretofore used amonge ye Fishermen of the Towne of Brighthelmstone in ye County of Sussex, and orders out of ye saide customs by the said Fishermen taken and made, and afterwards, viz. The XXIIIth day of July in ye yeare of ye Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth XXII, by the Right Honourable the Lorde Buckherst and Reverend Shelly esquire at Brighthelmstone aforesaid, in ye presence of the said Fishermen redd. ratified and confirmed’. Including ‘a note of the Great Ordnaunce and other munition and furniture in Brighton’. (folio 133)

17. Two orders relative to admission of undertenants at Brighton, dated June 1589. And the assessment of the inhabitants, dated 6 February 1592 with warrant for the execution of the said orders. (page 148)

18. Memorial of Anthony Joseph, Lord Viscount Montague, to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, praying for a grant of the Kings interest in the reversion of the manors of Poninges, Perching, Preston, Ponynges, Pigden alias Pyngedon, Ashecombe, Chinting alias Chintyng Porynges, and Walderne alias Hanyngale, and divers other lands. Dated 28 January 1782 (page 150)

19. ‘Inquisitiones capta apud Bellum, Ukkefeld, Lewes, et Arundel, ao. r. r. Hen. VI. sexto, de Feodis Militum infra Rapas de Hastyngs, Pevense, Lewes, Arundell, et Brembre, et de personis seisitis et possessionatis in eisdem; item Inquisitiones captæ apud Lewes, Boxgrave, Cicestriam, et Arundell, ao. r. r. Hen. VI. sexto, de diversis prebendis ecclesiæ Cicestrensis, de numero Personarum, de vero valore ecclesiarum, etc. (attested copy from the original in the Exchequer) (page 153)

20. Survey of the Manor of Pevensey alias Pemsey, sometimes styled the Manor of Aquila, with the Rights and appurtenances thereto belonging, late parcel of the possessions of Charles Stuart, King of England. Dated 15 October 1649 (with the tenants names that hold lands or tenements in Portreeve service) (page 199).