Catalogue description Covenant to levy a fine and to lead the uses thereof

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Details of Add Mss931
Reference: Add Mss931
Title: Covenant to levy a fine and to lead the uses thereof
Description:

(a) Thomas Friend of Midhurst, victualler, and w. Ann, and John Friend of Midhurst, sadler, their son and heir apparent, (b) William Collins, late of Chichester, and now of London, gent., (c) Owen Apps of Chichester, joiner, and w. Elizabeth, (d) William Burnett of Chichester, butcher, and w. Mary, (e) Thomas Ewen, late of Midhurst and now of Lewes, husbandman, (f) William Milton the younger, as in Add Mss928, (g) John Westwood of Halnaker [in Boxgrove], gent., (h) Walter Harford of Chichester, bricklayer

 

I. Messuage, outhouses, orchard, garden and yard in 'the Parish of Saint Bartholomew without the West Gate' of Chichester, formerly in the tenure or occupation of John Friend, late father of said Thomas Friend, and late of said Thomas Friend, and lately purchased by (e) of (a)

 

II. Property, as in Add Mss928, but the adjoining tenement and garden on E. part, now in occ. of [blank] Williams, and the property itself lately purchased by (f) of (b)

 

III. Messuage or dwellinghouse, garden, orchard and parcel of land (½ a.) in Halnaker in Boxgrove, late in the tenure or occupation of John Tuer and now of (g), and lately purchased by (g) of said Owen Apps

 

IV. Messuage with backside and garden, formerly in occ. of Christopher Caplin, Thomas Knight and Peter Calloway, between a messuage where John Friend heretofore dwelt on E., a messuage where Henry Burnett formerly dwelt on W., the highway on N., and an orchard of John Linter, formerly in occ. of Thomas Alberry on S.; and plot of ground, heretofore used by Thomas Knight as a garden, containing in length from E. to W. 52½ feet and in breadth from N. to S. 43 feet, between a fence of posts and pales on the backside belonging to the said dwellinghouse of John Friend on N., the said orchard of John Linter, in occ. of Thomas Alberry, on S., the Lavant Course on E., and the garden belonging to the said messuage and backside on W., which plot of ground was heretofore parcel of the said messuage where said Friend formerly dwelt and of the said orchard in occ. of Thomas Alberry, and which were heretofore purchased by said John Linter of Thomas Stamp: all in the said parish of St. Bartholomew and lately purchased by (h) of (d)

 

The fine to be levied as to the property in I to the use of (e), as to the property in II to the use of (f), as to the property in III to the use of (g), and as to the property in IV to the use of (h)

 

Signatures and seals of all parties

 

Witnesses, to the signatures of (a) - John Boxall, William Wakeford; to that of (b) - Henry Gawler, William Atherfold; to those of (c) and (d) - William Wakeford, William Fletcher; to those of (e), (f), (g) and (h) - William Wakeford, Thomas Gregory

Date: 2 Apr. 1748
Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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