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John Dunmole & Thomas Haselden, Leigh 1612
This indenture (CKS: U/1000/5/T8) between John Dunmole of Wadhurst in Sussex and Thomas Haselden of Leigh was written by John Hooper, notary public and parish clerk of Tonbridge whom John Dunmole appointed his attorney.
Wadhurst is about ten miles south of Tonbridge. There were Haseldens recorded in Leigh with the wills of two yeomen having survived: that of Thomas Haselden proved in 1572 and that of Edward Haselden in 1601. Neither has been transcribed.
The Hooper family wrote a large number of wills between 1558 and 1650, many of them decorated, the decoration often including the Hooper mark as does this indenture. Two originals have survived. One has a number of minor crossings out and this was probably the one written first. Then a copy would be made on the same piece of paper so that each could have a writing, the two copies matching by the way they had been divided: an indenture.
The writing concerns some land in Tonbridge and Leigh which had been mortgaged by Richard Polhill, gent. twelve years previously and, because of “the non payment of the sum of one hundred and ten pounds (due) at a certain day now long past” had been forfeited to John Dunmole who was now selling it to Thomas Haselden.
Dunmole/Haselden Indenture written 4th December 1612
To all christian people to whom this present writing shall come, I, John Dunmole of Wadhurst in the County of Sussex gent., do send greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Know ye that I, the said John Dunmole, for and in consideration of a certain sum of good and lawful money of England to me, by Thomas Haselden of Leigh next Tonbridge in the county of Kent, yeoman, well and
truly at the ensealing of these present in hand paid, whereof and wherewith I do acknowledge my self to be well and truly contented and satisfied and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof, do acquit and discharge the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs, executors and administrators, and every of them, for ever by these present have granted, aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed. And by this my present writing do grant, alien, enfeoffe and confirm unto the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs and assigns. All those seneralls or parcels of land, meadow and pasture and woodland with th'appurtenances called by the names of Collens, Baldenton, Williams and Conges or by what other name or names they or any of them are, or have been, called or known, containing in the whole, by estimation, thirty and nine acres, whether more or less thereof be add together, lying and being in Leigh aforesaid and Tonbridge in the said county of Kent. That is to say lying to the watercourse and to the lands of those of Andrew Firminger against the southeast, to the Ridgeway there leading from Tonbridge to Leigh against the northwest, to the land sometimes John Wallers
Esquire, deceased, against the west and to the lands of John Children, the younger, called Hedgeland, to the land of the heirs of John Carpenter and to the land of Lowtnor, gent. against the southeast. All which premises with th'appurtenances, one Richard Polhill, gent., by his writing indented of the nature of a mortgage, bearing date the first day of January in the two and fortieth year of the reign of the late queen Elizabeth, for the non payment of the sum of one hundred and ten pounds at a certain day now long past according to the condition specified in the said writing indented, hath forfeited to me, the said John Dunmole, mine heirs and assigns, for ever. And also for the consideration aforesaid, I have granted, assigned and ?? unto the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs and assigns by these present, the said ?? writing, indented and all other collateral and
mean, conveyance and assurance to me made and declared touching and concerning the premises only, or only any of them, together with all and every my reversion, remainder, right, estate, demand
and interest of, in and to the said land and premises with th'appurtenances and of, in and to every part and parcel thereof, To have and to hold all the said seneralls or parcels of land, pasture and woodland with th'appurtenances. And all other the premises by these present granted, withall and singular th'appurtenances, unto the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs and assigns for ever (of the chief lord or lords of the fee or fees thereof by serving thereof to them first due and of right accustomed). And I the said John Dunmole and mine heirs, all the said seneralls or parcels of land, meadow, pasture and woodlands and all other the premises with th'appurtenances unto the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of the said Thomas, his heirs and assigns for ever against me the said John Dunmole and mine heirs only and against all other persons coming in
or claiming by, from or under me or mine heirs shall and will warrant and enmore? defend by these present. Furthermore know ye, that the said John Dunmole have by these present made and constituted John Hooper of Tonbridge aforesaid, notary public, my true and lawful attorney for me in my name and place to enter and upon all and only the said seneralls or parcels of land, meadow, pasture and woodland with th'appurtenances, or into or upon any of them, in the name of all of all the rest and, after such entrance, to take thereof for me and in my name full possession and seizure. And, after such possession and seizure so had and taken, then to deliver lyverie and seizure for me and in my name and place of rest unto the said Thomas Haselden, his heirs and assigns, for ever
according to the tenor and true meaning of these present. Ratifying and by these present allowing whatsoever my said attorney shall do touching the premises for me and in my name by virtue of the same. In witness whereof I have to this my present writing set my hand and seal yeven the fourth day of December in the year of reign of our sovereign lord James, by the grace of god king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. viz. of England France and Ireland the tenth and of Scotland the six and fortieth.
On the back:
This Inde. being first sealed and delivered by the within named John Dunmole to his said Attorney in the presence of
Richard Morhead
William Polhill
Sealed and ?? of seizin of the premises within mentioned by the within named Attorney to the within named Thomas Haselden according to the tenor within written, delivered in the presence of
Henry Crittenden
Richard R Haselden
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