STRAY DOCUMENTS

15 Feb 1719. 6 Geo 1. Lease for a Year.

John Thorpe of Hawkhrst, gent., & Ann his wife, & John Thorpe of Goudhurst, chirurgeon, eldest son of said John Thorpe & A; to Thankfull Thorpe of Hawkhurst, chirurgeon, another of the sons of John Thorpe & A and one of the brothers of John Thorpe of Goudhurst:

For five shillings, one messuage divided into two dwellings, One barn, Two gardens, One orchard, & One piece of land (previously two), 2a, lately made into a Cherry garden, in Goudhurst, occupied by John Thorpe of Goudhurst & Jane Stringer, widow, abutting to lands of Richard Horsmonden, gent, E; to lands late of John Austen and to the highway S; to a footway called Stony Lane to the lands late of JA, W; and to lands heretofore of Thomas Seibley, N.

Signed: John Thorpe, John Thorpe, Thankfull Thorpe.

Goudhurst docs. Note that names may only be of witnesses

Peter Paris of Goudhurst, gent, to John Groombridge of Goudhurst, gent, & Elizabeth Paris of Goudhurst, spinster; Noe Mead and the Fower Acres, in Goudhurst; Junior Highams or Highams; Nicholas Dudson; Millers Land or Millers Fields; Winchet Hill; Borough of Ruckhurst; John Groombridge of Linton, yeoman, and Alexander Groombridge of Goudhurst, clothier; John Groombridge of Goudhurst, mercer; John Paris, Alex Homesby; Rev Thomas Hooper of Beckley & the Rev. John Davis of Lewes; Edward Umanden, Francis Poeale, Samuel Dunant; William Fuggle of Goudhurst, mercer & tallow chandler; William Lambert of Goudhurst; John Lambert of Goudhurst, carpenter; Thomas Stephens of Goudhurst; John Fuggle the younger of Brenchley, Butcher; William Hoarth; Humphrey Wickham & John Pope; Bull Inn, Cranbrook; Sam Attwood & Geo. Johnson, Churchwardens; John Lingham & W. Christian, Overseers; William Elgar of Maidstone, grocer, William Dodson of Goudhurst, grocer, & William Jennings of Goudhurst, peruke maker; James Birch of James's Place, Hackney Road, Bethnal Green; William Mynn; poor-house; Stoney Lane; William Hunt; William Witherden of Rolvenden, miller, Thomas Witherden of Rolvenden, miller; William Fullagar Witherden; Charles Field; & Ann Matthews, widow, Stephen Britainicus Matthews, clerk, & Marian his wife, & Richard Springett & Ann Elizabeth his wife.

Elizabeth Shephard, Robert Shephard, late of Mexworth, Kent, Martyn Shephard of East Mawlinge, Kent, esq., & Elizabeth his wife, Beniamyne Robus of Kenarton/Kenardington; Robert Moyle, esq; Sir Robert Dorrell kt., Mill Bancke; manor of Tynton; Warehorne; Pimercrouche Bridge, Sir Nicholas Kilbourne, kt., Thomas Lucas, Robert Whitfold, gent, Herbert Whitfold; Joseph Burchett, Richard Shepharde, Thomas Pilcher; Tho: Russell, Regnould Robars.

White Lion Inn, Tenterden; Hatch & Waterman; Miss Winser'. Vendors: Albert Winser; Edward Winser Hilder; Beech House.