| Description | Parties:
1) Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea
2) Nicholas Toke, Godington, Kent, esquire, Richard Hulse, Beddersden, Kent, gentleman
3) William Dickinson, London, gentleman, Joseph Dowson, London, citizen and draper
Property: site, church and capital messuage of Watton Priory; parcel called the Nunnes adjoining the site; 45 tenements or cottages; parcel called the Milking Common; a piece 'of marish or Carre grounds' called the Sleights; closes called the Pangles or the Eller Pangles, Layth Garth, Langshawe, Swan Maire, Horse Close, Horse Meadow, Cony Garth, Great and Little Milgraves, the Farmerye Shawe, Great and Little Tile House Leyes, East and West Southleyes, North Leyes, Fowlers Close, Upper and Lower Barkers Leys, Hobmans West Lays, Thorney Cote Leyes and Ings, West Closes, North Close, the Oakes and Calf House Garth; Barker's Tenement and Hobmans Tenement; closes called the Rawes with a slip of ground adjoining called the Cawsway, Hobman's and Barkers Scite Closes or St Loys Chappells Closes; three Shaw Closes (formerly called the Hoppetts), four closes called the Cowleys or Cow Close, Fish Pooles, two Carrs Closes; parcel called Honney Holmes all in Watton; tenants named and locations specified (also mentions Newbrigg or Anderson's Close, Newspring Dyke, Angram Farm, Thorne Row, Smithey Croft, Oxpastures, High Furth Cross Parke, Townesend Close, the Butts, Watton Mill Dam, Potts Close and the site of the old fulling mill)
Witnesses: Thomas Lee, William Leigh, Thomas Brown, George Benyon, Robert Greene, Thomas Mascall, Timothy Harleston, J Pownell
Attached is a schedule of the debts of the Earl of Winchelsea amounting to £5150 10s |