HAMSEY – Winterlands Farm P125/41
Manorial tenure: freehold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 2s 9d (M505/99) [3]
Tithe numbers [1]
1840 / 57, 58, 68-74, 91-93, 95, 111, 112, 243Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 397148)
1596 / part of the manor of Coombe sold off to John Stafford; is this all or part of Winterlands? [5]
<1609-1635+ / northern part of tithe 91 (‘The Mines’ in 1781) held as glebe of Hamsey rectory, described as ‘one acre in Moynes Field upon which standeth a small cottage’ [9]; this had been absorbed into Winterlands by 1781 [5]
1616 / Parcel called Winterland; includes field called Mapleward [4]
1636 / acquires P125/U9
<1731-1731+ / isolated field (tithe 243) called Crow Barrow (1a) (WSN: Newfield [later Gatefield]; E: the Pimbles) let to surrounding owner John Bridger of Coombe [5]
1767 / described in lease as a house and 72a with land where a house purchased of one Valentine stood [P125/97, M505/113] [8]
1781 / Map by Thomas Marchant shows house, buildings and 73a 3r 24p; does not include southern portion of Tithe 112; accompanying letter comments on proposed letting in parcels and describes the land and house (see below) [8]
1800 / estate valued; outgoings include 2s 3d quitrent [8]
<1838-1841+ / House and garden, farm buildings; land: arable, pasture, waste 63a 2r 30p [1]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 399149)
1730 / house and buildings ‘very much out of repair’ and £10 a year allowed out of the rent [8]
1748 / tenant allowed £14 8s 4d for laying a new barn floor and other repairs to the barn [8]
1757 / tenant allowed £1 15s for thatching and £1 10s for paving the kitchen [8]
1762 / tenant allowed £4 for repairs [8]
1767 / includes land where a house purchased of one Valentine stood [P125/U97, M505/113] [8]
1771 / allowed Brooker’s bill for plank £7 9s 8d
1772 / tenant allowed £17 13s 0d for repairs and 8s 3d for three years’ quitrent [8]
1775 / tenant allowed £7 16s 5d (Standley), £3 3s 2d (Billinghurst), £2 2s 5d (Stiles) [8] and £2 14s 10d (Norris) in 1776
1779 / repairs to house, barns and stable: carpenter £2 16s 10½d, bricklayer £14 3s 8d, blacksmith 7s 8½d, shopkeeper 2s 4½d, sawyer 18s 0d [8]
1781 / Map by Thomas Marchant shows a house and two large, two small and one tiny outbuilding; accompanying letter states: ‘I think you need not be at the expense of pulling it down, for it seems as if the wind would soon do that business for you. However if the worst part of it was taken down and the other a little repaired I should think (as it seems to be too large) it might answer the end as well or better than now. The last high winds have so disjointed it at several places that if something is not done to it soon, it will stand a fair chance to fall.’ [8]
1800 / estate valued; ‘the farm house is very old and will be in continual want of a little repairs being done to it, but may be kept up for a lease of 14 or 21 years’; mentions two barns and pigsties [8]
<1838-1841+ / House and garden [1]
Land tax assessments [2]
<1768-1779 / 31?
1780 / apparently not assessed
1781-1792 / 21 (25 in 1788)
1793-1800 / 19
1801-1840 / 20
Owners
<1608 / Robert / Randoll / the abuttals to P125/12 suggest that RR may have been a former owner of part of Winterlands [11]
<1606-1606 / John / Stafford / of Hamsey; he left leasehold land in Hamsey to his eldest son JS, and land in Wellingham in Ringmer [4]
<1616-1616 / John / Stafford / yeo / of Hamsey; by his will of 1616 he left to his eldest son JS a parcel of land called The Winterland and The Werd Land; The Slitters Land and the Hame Land to youngest son Edward, + The Mapleward belonging to Winterland if not allowed to enjoy his bequest [4]
1616-1644 / John / Stafford / [4]; in 1644 he sold P125/97 to Edward Young and his wife Elizabeth, almost certainly as part of a conveyance of this tenement [3]
1644-1644+ / Edward / Young / and his wife Elizabeth [3]; perhaps the EY of Kingston whose will was proved in PCC in 1680 [6]
<1699-1716 / Robert / Young / clerk / abuttal in 1699 and 1713 [P125/12]; admitted to King’s Cambridge from Eton in 1661; born at Kingston, Surrey, in 1643; ordained, made domestic chaplain to Prince Rupert and a canon of Windsor in 1663; died 10 Aug 1716 [10]; death presented 1718, no animal; descended to his eldest son, who had sold to TC [3]
1716-1718 / Charles / Young / TC calls him his cousin in his will [8]
1718-1728 / Thomas / Cleaver / clerk / TC was appointed a lay clerk of St George’s Chapel Windsor in 1668, became a minor canon in 1672 and died in 1728. By his will of 7 Nov 1719 he left a small farm called Winterlands in Hamsey to the canons, which was sold in 1905 [7,8]
1728-1905 / Minor Canons / of Windsor / [1,2]; in 1731 they let the isolated Crow Barrow to John Bridger of Combe [5]
Occupiers
<1699-1713+ / Nath / Hosmer / abuttal to P125/12
<1719-1719+ / Thomas / Killingbeck / [8]
<1734-1767 / Thomas / Tippen / held at £37; allowed £6 a year for repairs in 1738-39; in 1765 the leases were renewed three years before they expired ‘for the conveniency of his nephew the new tenant’ [8]
1767-1781 / James / Newnham / yeoman / [2]; of Hamsey, held at £37 [8]
1781-1783 / John / Newman / [2]; held at £40 [8]
1784-1787 / James / Newman / called Newnham in the landlords’ accounts so is he the same as the tenant who left in 1783? [8]
1788-1825 / Richard / Christmas / [2]
1826-1829 / George / Mott / [2]
1830-1840+ / Isaac / Leney / [1,2]
Sources
1 ESRO TD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)
2 ESRO LT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)
3 ESRO ADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals
4 ESRO W/A12.130 (John Stafford, 1605); A15.164 (John Stafford, 1616)
5 ESRO SAS/SH 946; 569
6 PRO PROB 11/362
7 Edmund H Fellowes, The Vicars and Minor Canons of HM Free Chapel of St George in Windsor Castle (Windsor, 1945) 40-41]
8 ESRO ACC 9421; copies of documents in the archive of the Minor Canons of Windsor, including map by Thomas Marchant, 1781
9 WSRO Ep II/17/89
10 Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
11 ESRO SAS/PN 469