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Archived Documents & Archdeacon Court records:
East Sussex Record Office , County Hall, Lewes, BN7 1SF
RYE/ 29/ 147 - 31st March 1624 -(click) George Hawke son of William Hawke of
Hastingleigh, Yeoman indentured to John Ffolkestone a Hopdresser of Rye in
Sussex. The document is written in English on one large sheet. It is signed by
Sa: Landsdale, George Hawke, William Hawke & John Landsdale and details
the agreed terms of the indenture. [archive of Rye Corporation]
BUR/ 2/ 2/ 301 - 1920 documents relating to Coombe Grove Farm, Hastingleigh
[archive of Burtenshaw & son of Hailsham - Auctioneers]
DUN/ 15/ 3 - 12 Sep 1639 - The sale of lands by Edward Parke, Yeoman of Hastingleigh & John Coveney, Gentleman of
Hastingleigh to William Dulvye of Battle in Sussex.
[archive of the Roberts Family of Boarzell in Ticehurst and of Stonehouse in Warbleton]
VID/ 6/ 65/ 30 - 1924 Sale by Auction of South Hill Estate, Hastingleigh - photograph and catalogue.
[archive of Viderler & Company, Estate Agents of Rye] (click for images of same auction catalogue from my family's papers)
Canterbury Cathedral Archives, The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2EH
Archdeaconry Court Miscellaneous
DCb/PRC/18/1/19 ; 29 Jan 1588/9 Plaintiff Thomas Rowlands of Elmstone; Defendant: Thomas Stroude of Hastingleigh
DOCUMENT: Arts; CASE: D
DCb/PRC/18/1/38 ; [not dated] Plaintiff : John Hawke of Hastingleigh; Defendant: Rooke;
DOCUMENT: Interrog; CASE: Disc
DCb/PRC/18/1/42 ; 28 Feb 1588/9 Plaintiff : Lakes (brawling in church); Defendant: John Hawlke of Hastingleigh;
DOCUMENT: Arts; CASE: Disc
DCb/PRC/18/4/68 ; 24 Mar 1595/6 Plaintiff: Henry Wayland Rector of Hastingleigh; Defendant: John Hawlke, Richard Hawlke, son of John;
DOCUMENT: Lib; CASE: T
DCb/PRC/18/9/30 ; 20 Jun 1610 Plaintiff: Rose Hedd also Payne [daughter, admix]; Defendant: John Payne of Hastingleigh;
DOCUMENT: Arts; CASE: Test (Joan Payne widow, Hastingleigh)
DCb/PRC/18/21/129 ; 25 Oct 1631 Plaintiff : Edmund Hogbin executor; Defendant: Thomas, John, Elizabeth & Mary Berry children;
DOCUMENT: All & Sent; CASE: Test (Henry Berry of Hastingleigh)
DCb/PRC/18/23/21 ; 14 Jun 1636 Plaintiff: John Tayler clerk & parson Hastingleigh; Defendant: James Crux of Hastingleigh;
DOCUMENT: All; CASE: T
DCb/PRC/18/30/47 ; 24 Mar 1662/3 Plaintiff: n.s.; Defendant: n.s.;
DOCUMENT: Exh; CASE: Test (Edward Coveney of Hastingleigh) Letters of administration granted to Thomas Coveney, brother
DCb/PRC/18/30/51 ; 3 Apr 1663 : Plaintiff: Thomas Brett gentleman; leg; Defendant: Thomas Coveney brother, executor;
DOCUMENT: Repl; CASE: T (Edward Coveney of Hastingleigh)
DCb/PRC/18/40/36 ; 2 Dec 1695 Plaintiff: Greg Smithson nephew, leg; Defendant: William Stickles nephew;
DOCUMENT: All; CASE: Test (John Mount widower of Hastingleigh)
DCb/PRC/18/40/37 ; 2 Dec 1695
DCb/PRC/18/40/36 ; Plaintiff : Greg Smithson nephew, leg; Defendant: William Stickles nephew;
DOCUMENT: Exh; CASE: Test (John Mount widow of Hastingleigh)
(There are some 92 documents relating to Hastingleigh held at the archives)
London Metropolitan
Archives, 40
Northampton Rd, London
EC1R
0HB
(many
documents,
mostly
relating to St Thomas'
Hospital lands in
Hastingleigh.) Click for
transcriptions of select
documents
National Archives,
Richmond, Surrey TW9
4DU
Online
Records
available to
purchase through
their website, include 5 Wills, 1 Death
Duty Register, 4
Servicemen's records for
Hastingleigh & the Domesday Book
entries.
Many other
documents
and maps
are available
for
viewing in
person.
The links to the
Wills are in the WILLS section
(click)
Centre
for
Kentish
Studies
,
County Hall, Maidstone ME14
1XQ
(some 20 documents,
descriptions will be
added here in due
course)
Dorset History
Centre, Bridport Road,
Dorchester,
DT1
1RP
D1398/1
- A bond
relating to the
Mortgage of a property in Hastingleigh
dated
1788 //
NB:
Dorset Archive reports
that
this
document has now been
transferred to
Maidstone
Archive for Kentish Studies,
but the new
location
and
reference number is not yet
known.
East Kent Archives , Honeyfield Road, Whitfield Dover CT16 3EH [Note: it is closing in 2012 and the collections will be moved to Maidstone]
C/ES/134/ 1/ 1 - 1879-1903 Bodsham School manager's minutes [includes list of prizes and inspectors reports]
C/ES/134/ 1/ 2 - 1903-1948 Bodsham School manager's minutes [note: a section of about 6 pages are closed till 2044, but the bulk
of it is readable.]
Much of the information contained in these books is transcribed or noted in the (click) Bodsham School History section.