HAMSEY - Pellbrook (385) and Bath Brook (387)
HAMSEY - Pellbrook (385) and Bath Brook (387)P125/28
the descent of the endowment of the former Offham Chapel has been placed under this number; that land is shown as two plots in the Sewer Commissioners’ map of 1620, with a chapel standing to the North [4], but after 1671 they seem to have been rationalised into one piece, tithe 385, which is described in conveyances as two acres and by the tithe apportionment as 1a 2r 8p; the area was further complicated by the creation of the Paper Mill Stream c1801, but it seems likely that the easternmost of the two parcels shown in 1620 lay to the West of tithe 413.
Manorial tenure:Pellbrooks subject to a rent of 6s 0d payable to the crown [5]
Tithe numbers [1]
1840 / 385, 387Descriptions of property (385 only)
1620 / shown on map of the River Ouse [4]
1632 / ‘a broken down chapel etc at Offham in Hamsey’ [7]
1670 / 1piece of ground called Pell Brooks with a hill on the South side thereof (2a)
2a little piece of meadow (1a) with a chapel plat thereunto belonging
at Offham in Hamsey [5]
1671 / 1as 1670, but two pieces
2where a chapel sometime stood, but now demolished [5]
Descriptions of property (385 and 387) (centred at TQ 403118)
<1838-1841+ / Land: oziers 4a 0r 25p [1]
Owners
<1537-1537+ / William / Denman / rated for 1a 3r towards the cost of the new harbour at Newhaven; possibly a tenant; recte Denham of P125/65? [10]
<1616-1616 / John / Shurley / esq / of Greyfriars, Lewes, serjeant at law (died 2 Oct 1616); to his son [11]
1616-1631 / John / Shurley / esq / seised at his death in Oct 1631; presumably by descent to his son JS [7]
1631-1637 / John / Shurley / esq / died aged 17; heir his sister Frances Shurley, 15
<1652-1652+ / Isaac / Sedley / kt / of St Cleres in Ightham, Kent; owed 6s 0d a year rent for brooklands in 1652 [8]
1661-1670 / George / Prettyman / kt / (1638-1715) of Loddington in Leicestershire; in 1661 he married Elizabeth, aged 20, widow of Sir Robert Houghton of Shelton in Norfolk and daughter and ultimately heiress of Isaac Sedley of St Cleres in Ightham, Kent; the manor of Broadwater in West Sussex follows the same descent [9, 11]; he sold to WW for £20 in 1670 [5]
1670-1671 / William / Wade / clerk / of Loddington in Leicestershire; in 1671, of Broadwater, he sold to FC for £10 [5]
1671-1680 / Francis / Challoner / draper / of Lewes; livery of seisin granted by WW’s attorney Richard Symes of Lewes, gent, witnessed byJohn Smith and William Marshall [5]; his will proved in PCC in 1680 [6]; his widow Mary Chaloner quitclaimed to her son John Chaloner in 1697 [5]
1680-1697 / John / Challoner / draper / of Lewes; sold to WN for £15 in 1697 [5]
1697-1697+ / William / Nelson / esq / MERGED with Offham House [P125/15]; purchased by the Coombe Place Estate in 1747 [5]
<1838-1838+ / George / Shiffner / bart / [1]
Occupiers
<1670-1670+ / John / Bennett / [5]
<1697-1697 / John / Chaloner / owner-occupier [5]
<1838-1838+ / Kester / Rice / [1]
Sources
1ESROTD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
2ESROLT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
3ESROADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
4ESROSRA 6/13/2 (1620)
5ESROSAS/SH 677-84
6PROPROB 11/363 (Francis Challoner of Lewes, mercer, 1680)
7SRS 14 (1912) 947 (IPM of John Shurley)
8SRS 36 (1931) 198 - rental of rents reserved on chantry land, 1652
9GEC[ockayne] Complete Baronetage 1.173 (Sedley), 3.328 (Prettyman)
10ESROGLY 84
11VCHSussex 7 87; VCH Sussex 6(1) 70