Catalogue description Mortgage (by demise for 400 years) to secure the payment of a legacy of £3,000

John Reeves of Petersfield (co. Hants), gent. (eldest son and one of the devisees and executors of the will of John Reeves, as in Add Mss1677, decd.) to William Reeves of Petersfield aforesaid, gent. (another of the sons, devisees and executors)

Manor of Deane, etc., as in Add Mss1676 (but the land from which issues the rent and services now spelled 'Stanley'; barn and lands called Standley, now called Standley alias Standley Lyth; Dean or Standly Mead now called Deane & Standley Mead; Little Mill Lands now in the tenure or occupation of Nicholas Lintott; arable and pasture grounds in Deane, arable and pasture grounds about Mill Land House, coppice in Deane (alias Deare) Lands, Mill Land Wood and other grounds, part of Mill Land Wood below the rails, etc., and tenement, barn and lands called Furz Hill, now in occ. of said Nicholas Lintott; cottage and ground called Furze Hill now or late in occ. of said Nicholas Lintott; close of Deane Lands now in occ. of [blank] Valler or (a) or said Nicholas Lintott; the Mill Ground or Liggatts now in occ. of John [illegible], Nathaniel Lintott and Nichololas [sic] Lintott; Deane Wood & Hanger now in occ. of Nathaniel Lintott; wheat mill and malt mill now in occ. of John Burby and Nathaniel Lintott; the Mill Mead now in the tenure or occupation of John Burby; arable and pasture grounds in the Warren now in the tenure or occupation of Richard Knight; rough and wood grounds in the Warren now in occ. of Richard Knight; Pleystowe Hill Feilds, Deane Land Feild, barn and lands called Standley alias Standley Lyth, piece of coppice grounds, the Yards, and the house wherein John Pannell heretofore dwelt, now in occ. of William Piper; Deane & Standley Mead now or late in occ. of said William Piper; Little Farthings and North Lands now in the tenure or occupation of said William Piper; Sare Lands & Lucketts now or late in the tenure or occupation of Thomas Abram; the waste grounds, etc. lying on N. side of Pleystone Hill now further described as between the wastegrounds or commons of the said manor of Deane called Deane Rudging on W.; and omitting all meadows, etc. with all waste grounds, etc. on N. side of Liggate Heath, and Heathers Lands alias Durrants alias Dunnants [which are listed in a separate section below]), and lands (5a.) called Clarks Deane heretofore in occ. of John Bettesworth, late of [blank] Valler and now of Nicholas Lintott, and tenement and lands (4a.) heretofore in the tenure or occupation of Roger Willard, and now in occ. of Thomas Abram or (a); messuage with all buildings and all the lands, arable or pasture (40a.) belonging, late in the tenure or occupation of John Heather, formerly of William Steere, late in the tenure and occupation of Nicholas Ayling, since in occ. of William Fey, and now in the tenure or occupation of William Erwicker, in Chithurst; lands (72a.) above the hill called the Chappell Lands or Brewers, together with the house, barn, orchard, garden and outhouses where Thomas Preston dwelt, called the Chappell Howse, with a tenement adjoining and orchard heretofore in occ. of William Waller, in Trotton, with the commons and fernlaynes belonging, in occ. of said Nicholas Lintott; lands, arable and pasture (110a.) above the hill also [sic] called Ripsly alias Ripslys with two barns, carthouse and stable, in occ. of Nicholas Lintott [no parish named]; lands (69a.) called Yalcrofts in Trotton, with the common and fernlaynes belonging, in occ. of said Nicholas Lintott; messuage, barn, stable, outhouses and land (12a.) with the ponds belonging, called Old Mead in Trotton, late in the tenure or occupation of Nicholas Burby, and now in occ. of said Nicholas Burby and John Whitehead, esq.; two closes of land, arable or pasture (30a.) in Trotton adjoining to Woolmore Forest, late in the tenure or occupation of Nicholas Burby and now or late of said Nicholas Lintott: all which properties were lately conveyed by Thomas Stewart alias Steward to (a). Manors of Rogate College and Rogate Bohunt, with all lands, messuages, etc. belonging which at any time during the space of 20 years before 23 Jan. 1583/4 had been taken as part thereof; annuity of 18s. 4d. issuing out of lands and pastures called Great Mill Lands in Trotton, which annuity used to be paid to the late priory of Boxgrove; annuity of 3s. 0d. issuing out of lands called Lawrences in Minsted in Stedham, which annuity was wont to be paid to the manor of Tocking [sic]; all which properties were leased, 23 Jan. 1583/4, by John, Lord Lumley to Thomas Bettsworth, gent., for 10,000 years, and which term was lately vested in said Thomas Stewart alias Steward, esq., and by him lately granted to (a)

Lands (160a.) called Bettleswell & East Langley in Trotton, now or late in the tenure or occupation of John Lintott and Richard Knight, formerly held by copy of court roll of the manor of Rogate by Nicholas Turner and Joan Chase, wid., and which lands were leased, 4 May 1565, by Henry, [19th] Earl of Arundel, and John, Lord Lunley and w. Jane (dau. of the said Earl) to Nicholas Turner of Trotton, yeo., for 10,000 years, and which term was vested in Thomas Stewart alias Steward, esq., and by him lately assigned to (a)

All lands, meadows, pastures, etc. reputed to be part of the said manor or farm of Deane, or the demesnes or copyholds of the said manor, together with all other wastegrounds, heaths, furzes, commons, woods [and] waters on N. side of the common called Lygate Heath, and the copyhold or customary lands heretofore of Roger Heather called Heathers Lands alias Durrants in Iping

Recites: (i) that said John Reeves, decd., in his will (dated 4 Dec. 1716 and proved 3 Aug. 1718 by (a) and (b) in P.C.C.) devised £3,000 to (b) to be paid out of his estate, real and personal; (ii) that this sum of £3,000 remains unpaid and yet (b) has permitted (a) to take several absolute conveyances of the above properties

Signature and seal (a)

Witnesses - Jos. Shutt, J. Childe, John Lacy, clerk to Mr. Child

[Endorsed with assignment, 15 July 1726, from said William Reeves to Thomas Ayles of London, esq., in trust for Thomas Ridge of Portsmouth (co. Hants), esq.]