Sir Thomas Style (1671)

Post date: Jan 14, 2013 7:32:38 PM

In the Lincolnshire archives is a Deed of covenant for making a jointure 2 RED 1/1/1 13 December 1671 of which an extract relating to Wateringbury and some surrounding parishes is shown below:

Contents:

Sir Thomas Style of Wateringbury, Kent, baronet and Thomas Style, Esq. (son and heir of Sir T. Style), Sir John Read of Brockett Hall, Hertfordshire, baronet & John Morris of London, Esq. of the 1st part, Stephen Langham, of London, Esq. and Mary Langham (only dau. of St. Langham) of the second part, and Sir James Langham of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, knight and baronet and William Langham of Walgrave, Northamptonshire, Esq., of the third part.

Property:

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23) freehold manors, messuages, cottages, etc. in the parishes of "Watringbury" (Waterinbury), "Merewood" alias Mereworth, "Newstead", "Ashdowne", East Malling & West Malling, Kent.

24) manor, grange or farm of Wrenstead als. Renstead, Kent.

25) all houses, lands, tenements etc. in Wrenstead reputed to be part of the manor of Wrenstead.

26) 300a. of wood called King's Wood in Aylesford, "Merewood" als. Mereworth, Malling & Hunton als. "Huntington", Kent.

27) manor called Fulkes & Merewood with appurtenances in Mereworth, Kent

28) messuage or tenement called Wardens with barn, stable, stalls, outhouses, closes, gardens, orchards, hopp grounds, lands, arable, meadow and pasture containing 45a. situate in Wateringbury, Kent, and now or late in the tenure or occupation of John Symons.

29) messuage or tenement, millhouse and watermills with the mill stones, ponds, etc. with appurtenances, containing 8a. situate in Wateringbury, Kent, adjoining the afore mentioned messuage late in the tenure of Wm. Peirce, and now of John Symonds.

30) parcel of woodland containing 4a. in East Malling, Kent, now or late in the tenure or occupation of John Symonds.

31) 1 messuage & 24a. of land in Wateringbury, Kent, called Rawlins abutting upon the Abbotts lands west, and south to the lands of Robt. Cod, north, and to the highway east.

32) 1 messuage and 1 piece of ground called Griggs' Croft in Wateringbury, Kent

33) 1 messuage, 2 gardens, & 2 pieces of land whereof (a) is called Colkins & lies east of the highway and (b) lies on the east side of the way & to lands called Knights against the west, to lands now or late of John Claie south and to the Vicarage lands north.

34) all messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments in East Malling and Wateringbury, Kent, now or late in the tenures or occupations of John Symonds, John Pattenden, Thomas Archall and John Medhurst.

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Consideration: intended marriage; £7000.

Signatures and seals: Thomas Style; Thomas Style; John Morris.