Catalogue description Settlement (lease and release) on the marriage of Warden Sergison and Mary Ann Kerr

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Details of Add Mss 37,542-37,543
Reference: Add Mss 37,542-37,543
Title: Settlement (lease and release) on the marriage of Warden Sergison and Mary Ann Kerr
Description:

Between (a) Warden Sergison of Butlers Green in Cuckfield, esq

 

(b) William Kerr of Northampton, doctor in physic and Mary his wife

 

(c) Mary Ann Kerr of Northampton, spinster, eldest dau. of (b) and

 

(d) Sir William Wake and Robert Jefferson

 

The moiety of the manor or manors of Haywards otherwise Heyworth and Trubweeke otherwise Trubwicke; the capital messuage or dwelling-house in Cuckfield called Butlers Green in occ. of Capt. Douglas, and lands called Butlers, Stocklands, and Cookes; a messuage or tenement and the Naldrett (2½a.); Bugshopscroft otherwise Wigperry croft (5a.), all in Cuckfield, Lindfield and Wivelsfield; a messuage or tenement called Wigperry House; a messuage &c. near Butlers Green called Kids otherwise Kidsland and part of Cannons (14a.); four pieces of land (16a.) anciently called the Parkland and then Gurnords otherwise Gurners land in Cuckfield; a freehold house called Pellands land or Verrals and the Goldingfields (30a.) in Cuckfield; 3 pieces, Perryfield, the Heath Garden and Upper Bakers croft (7a.); 5 closes in Cuckfield, formerly called West Groves and Westfield (24a.); 5 fields, theretofore called Bakers croft, the Rent mead, the Southfield and Westfield, then called Pages Lands (21a.); a messuage, tenement and land (4a.) near Haywards Heath in Wivelsfield called Whites; a messuage and 4a. land formerly parcel of the waste of the manors of Hayward and Trubwicke called Parramount; another parcel of waste (3r.) and another (1½a.) abutting to lands called Parramount; ½a. parcel of common land called Heywards Heath, formerly the lord's waste in Cuckfield adjoining Little Haywards; a cottage and a little parcel late waste called Paddock Hall near Paddock Lane in Cuckfield, bounding S. on lands called Bulltrough; a messuage &c. called Vinalls at Heywards Heath in Cuckfield near a place where the Muster Oak formerly grew (2a.); a messuage &c. in Cuckfield theretofore called Holcombe and Jacks croft (6a.); a barn, granary &c. and lands in Clayton (90a.), theretofore called Stuttford Land, all which messuages &c. farm and lands in Cuckfield and Clayton were then called Bridge Farm, containing 120a.; a freehold messuage &c. and farm called Awbrook or Chawbrook in Lindfield (160a.); 3 pieces of land called Hamms in Wivelsfield (12a.); a messuage &c. in Clayton called Heaswood (80a.); 5a. in Cuckfield and Clayton called the Well crofts; 2 pieces of land called the Cants otherwise Fragbarrow (8a.), late parcel of 6 pieces called the Cants (26a.) in Keymer; a slip (out of 5a. field and the Roundhole field) containing about 20r., parcel of Fullers farm in Cuckfield; a freehold garden in Cuckfield called Tanners (½a.); a cottage and 4a. near Broad Street in Cuckfield called Blakers or part of Hatchland. Also all that the manor of Marshalls in Cuckfield and elsewhere; the capital messuage called Marshalls in Cuckfield; All the Tithes of corn and grain called the East portion in Cuckfield; the manor of Slow in Cuckfield and the capital messuage called Slow Place and Slow Farm in Cuckfield (130a.); a messuage, wheelwright's shop &c. adjoining to Slow; two messuages with barns; lands called Ansty lands, Riddens and Sloops or Cloops (75a.), all in Cuckfield; a portion of Tithes formerly of Thos. Peckham and late of Richard Crow; 2 tofts of land whereon 2 messuages formerly stood and 10a. called Smiths mead and Skinners field in Slaugham; also the manor or lordship of Franklyns otherwise Franklands; A capital messuage, farm and lands called Clevewaters in Wivelsfield; and all messuages, lands &c. belonging to the said manor, as follows: The Wish (4a.3r.); the Breakspears (13a.1r.); Clevewaters meadow (2a.2r.); the Camber field (6a.1r.); the Spickett (4a.); the Grove field (10a.); Upper Pit field (12a.); Middle Pittfield (7a.); Lower Pitt field (1a.) and 2 fields (12a.); also fields parcel of Franklyns: the Barnfield (11a.); the Bramble croft (3a.); the Ox pasture field (8a.); Longcroft or the Lyewood field (11a.); the Broomcroft (5a.3r.); the Oat Ersh (10a.); 2 crofts of meadow (5a.3r.,); the Collwell (7a.); the Plain Purchase (12a.); the Rough Purchase wood (25a.), all in the occ. of Henry Jeffery sen.; a rent of 5s. from the Hurst wood in Wivelsfield (27a.); a messuage and dwellinghouse in Brighthelmeston in the possession of Warden Sergison; another messuage in Brighthelmeston called the Octagon House; all which messuages, lands &c. were devised to or in trust for the said Warden Sergison by the Will of Francis Warden late of Butlers Green dated 1 October 1784

 

Also a messuage theretofore a capital messuage or mansion house called Paynes, then used as a farm, situate about the middle of the lands next mentioned, viz: Woodland called Gutterlug Field (2a.3.); 6a.2r. of arable also called Gutterlug field; wood and furze called Kiln field (4a.); arable called Kiln field (4a.3r.); the Nine acres, arable (9a.2r.); pasture called the Amberley (4a.2r.); meadow called Seven acres (7a.); arable called the Upper part of the Church Mead (7a.); meadow called the Lower part of Church Mead (5a.); arable called the Lower (16a.) and shaw (9a.); woodland (4a.2r.); the Hop garden (2a.); the Green House garden and Pigeon house orchard (5a.); the Brickfield, arable (6a.); the Little Brickfield (1a.); the Old Orchard (1a.); the two acres mead (2a.); the Five acres (5a.); the Hither Mud mead (6a.3r.); the Horse pasture (9a.3r.); the Ten Acres (10a.); the Farther Mud mead (5a.3r.); the Upper Four acres (5a.); the Lower Four acres (4a.); the Nine acres against the Brook, (9a.); all in Cuckfield called Paynes Farm in the occ. of John Packham; and all tithes arising from the last mentioned lands and out of 2 fields adjoining formerly of Henry Michell; all lately purchased by the said Warden Sergison from Christopher Muston, Margaret Butt, widow and others

Date: 9,10 July 1792
Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Formerly SAS C717 and C718

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