Conveyance (feoffment) for £400, 14 Dec 1619. 1
Richard Payne of Clapham, yeoman, to William Nicholas of Ardingly, yeoman
Messuage, shop, barn, stalls, stables, land and wood called Stone Place otherwise Stone Lands (60 acres) now occupied by Thomas Payne and Edward Payne (W: road from Hapstead Green to Turners Hill; E: land of Thomas Comber, yeoman; N: lands of Robert Milles, yeoman; S: lands of Thomas Barksholl and Andrew Brown), subject to annuities of £5 10s 0d granted by Richard Payne to John Atkyn of Ardingly, deceased, and his heirs, and of £3 6s 8d granted by Richard Payne's father Thomas Payne to John Payne deceased and his heirs.
Witnesses: Richard Cleare, James Smyth, Thomas Bridges, Thomas Payne
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Sole executor and residuary legatee of his father’s Will (1622)
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Sale of an annuity of £3 6s 8d, 3 May 1627. 2
Edward Payne of West Hoathly, yeoman, to William Nicholas of Ardingly, yeoman
Annuity of £3 6s 8d charged on William Nicholas's Stone Place, given to Edward Payne by his brother Henry Payne in his will of 25 Jan 1596, and given to Henry Payne by his father John Payne in his will of 16 May 1581.
Witnesses: Henry Faulconer, Richard Teynton, Charles Sharpe
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Churchwarden in 1633
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Release of annuity of £5 10s 0d, 10 May 1636. 3
John Adkins of Lindfield, yeoman, to William Nicholas of Ardingly, yeoman
An annuity of £5 10s 0d charged on William Nicholas’s lands and tenements called Stone Place in Ardingly, bequeathed to John Adkins by the will of his father John Adkines, 28 Feb 1611
Witnesses: John Killingbecke the writer, Francis Gasson, Francis West and Francis Parson
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Bond, 27 Jan 1640. 4
By JAMES WICKENS of Shelley in Crawley, blacksmith, to WILLIAM NICHOLAS of Stone in Ardingly, yeoman, and ABRAHAM NICHOLAS his son - in £200 - for performance of covenants in a deed of even date.
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