Add MS 6351

The 9th of 19 volumes which comprise the Collections towards a History of Sussex made by the Reverend William Hayley, Rector of Brightling, and form an excellent supplement to Sir William Burrell’s collection for the same county.

Sussex collections in Quarto, marked by Mr. Hayley, D.

‘Sussex, viz. a collections of, and extracts from, charters, deeds, records, etc. relating to the county of Sussex. By W. H.’ (100 pages)

1. Copies of original charters in the possession of John Nicoll of Mundfield [Mountfield] esquire, 1764, relative to the lands in Mundefeud, alias Mondefeld, or Montfeld. (pages 1-14)

2. Copy of Henry VIII’s grant of St. Pancrase in Southover, near Lewes, and of Castle Acre in Norfolk, with the advowsons and lands belonging thereto, in the counties of Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, Surrey, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Wiltshire, Devon, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, to Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Keeper of the Privy Seal. Dated Westminster, 16 February, 29 Hen. VIII [1537/1538]. (pages 15-36)

3. An account of the Knights Fees in Sussex, extracted from Hearne’s Liber Niger Scaccarii, edit. 1728. (pages 37-42)

4. Copy of a charter of Ralph [de Luffa], Bishop of Chichester, confirming the possessions of Lewes Priory, Dated ao. 1121, taken from a transcript made from MS. Cott. Vitel, E. x. 27. Subjoined is the copy of a note from John Elliot to the Reverend Mr. Austen, sending the transcript. Dated 14 February 1774. (pages 43-46)

5. Copy of a grant of confirmation from Sefrid [Seffrid], Bishop of Chichester, of the impropriation of diverse churches to the Priory of Lewes, and the indowment of Iford, Kingston, and Rottingdeane Vicarages, extracted from an old register book belonging to the parish church of Kingston near Lewes. (pages 47-49)

6. Valor Beneficiorum in Decanatu de Lewys (made by Pope Nicholas), taken from a Manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Annexed is the copy of a note from John Elliot to Mr. Austin on the subject. Dated 19 February 1774. (pages 50-52)

7. Exceptiones Registro Cartarum Prioratus de Lewes, in Bibl. Cott. Vesp. F. xxv. with the copy of a short note from John Elliot to Mr. Austen. Dated 17 March 1775. (pages 53-69)

8. Copy of a fragment of a register of the Priory of St. Pancrace at Lewes, in MS. Cott. Vesp. E. ii. 4 with notes by Mr. Elliot and Mr. Hayley. (pages 70-71)

9. Copies of original charters in the possession of John Helder of Robertsbridge, 1777, relative to lands in Robertsbridge. (pages 73-77)

10. Copy of charter of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, relative to land in Lewes, from the original in possession of Lord Pelham, 1778. (pages 77, 78)

11. Copies of original charters penes John Fuller of Rose Hill esquire, 1784, relative to lands in Bricthing alias Brighlyng [Brightling]. (pages 79-84)

12. Copy of ‘A Book of the Tenures of the Mannor of Enlewykes [in Arlyngton and Urlmonton] and of the ordering of the same mannor in every thing, and of the true value of it etc.’ from a paper in the hands of John Fuller esquire, 1785. (pages 85-98)

13. Abstract of lease from John Acton of Ripe, alias Achington, alias Echington, gentleman, to John Fuller of Waldron esquire, of lands in the manor of Otham. Dated 13-14 November 1692. (folios 99, 100)