Papers concerning the title of Popes Farm, Ditchling HIL/6/41/1-14 [1767]-1830
These documents are held at East Sussex Record Office
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An abstract of title (HIL/6/41/11) states that John Pope died intestate in 1767 and his property, (unspecified), passed to his nephew John Nye and Thomas Lintot, son of Pope's sister Mary and her husband Henry Lintot. In 1773 John Nye's devisee John Shoubridge of Horsham, mercer, and others mortgaged a messuage and lands called Spartham, Goachers, Woodbrooks and Fletchers otherwise Fleetes (36 acres) and a further seven acres in Spartham Lane, Ditchling (abuttals given) to Sarah Caffyn of Horsham and in 1778 sold the property to Thomas Agate of Ditchling
On Stephen Agate's death in 1794 the 36 acres passed to trustees for the life of his wife Susannah, with the remainder in trust for the benefit of his cousins Peter, Daniel, Jane, Susannah, Mary, Ann, Stephen, Hannah and William Rowland. In 1815 the trustees sold to James Brown of Ditchling, mercer, James Burtenshaw of Clayton and Richard Mercer of Ditchling, gentleman, who in 1830 sold part of the property to Philip Jenner of Keymer, farmer (HIL/6/41/13-14). The bundle contains a sale particular and map of the entire Agate property in 1830 (HIL/6/41/1), a bundle of extracts from parish registers and notes on the Agate family (HIL/6/41/2) and copy affidavits, observations and legal opinions on Agate's title (HIL/6/41/3-10)