Copy of court roll, manor of Houndean, 19 Jul 1574. 2
Admission of John Dumbrell, only son and heir of William Dumbrell, to the reversion on the death of Agnes Dumbrell, widow, who held as her widow's bench a messuage and a yard of land called Hantye in Wivelsfield, quitrent 6s 0d.
No heriot due on the death of tenants for life, as appears by a copy of court roll of 31 May 1536.
Agnes had no animal; fine £3 6s 8d for the moiety of Lord Abergavenny.
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Copy of court roll, manor of Houndean, 22 Jul 1575. 3
Admission of John Dumbrell on the death of his mother Agnes Dumbrell of a messuage and a yard of land called Hantye in Wivelsfield, quitrent 6s 0d.
Enrolled by William Necton, surveyor.
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Copy of hallmoot court roll, manor of Houndean, 22 Jul 1575. 4
Licence to John Dumbrell to lease a messuage and yard called Hantye for 7 years from 29 September 1575.
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In Jan 1580 John Dumbrell was one of the overseers of the Will of his cousin John Anstye of Cuckfield.
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Copy of court roll, manor of Houndean, 12 Sep 1582. 5
Licence to John Dumbrell to lease a messuage and yard called Hantye for 7 years from 29 September 1582.
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The Will of John Dumbrell of Wivelsfield and Portslade and Cuckfield, yeoman, was written 28 Aug 1599, and proved 2 Oct 1602. At the time he wrote his Will, John Dumbrell was a yeoman of some standing, having property or moveable stores in Cuckfield, Keymer, Ditchling and Wivelsfield in Sussex. He also must have had property in Portslade because he sat as a juror at the manor court there on 8 Apr 1600. Between 1600 and 1601, he also sat three times as a juror in the manor courts of Keymer and Houndean (Wivelsfield). In 1601, he successfully applied for the removal of 2 doles of timber from St. John's Common, Keymer, to repair the barn at Leyland's Farm, which he held in addition to Hantye. Leylands Farm was about half a mile west of Antye, on the north side of today's Leylands Road in Burgess Hill.
On his death, he left his property at Cuckfield to his elder son, John, but the property in the remaining parishes he left to his younger son, Richard, after the death of his wife, according to the customs of inheritance. He bequeaths ten shillings each to the poor in Cuckfield and Wivelsfield, and six and eight pence to the poor of Portslade. He names Richard Dumbrell of Basden (now Bawlsdon, near Rottingdean) as one of the overseers of his will which strongly suggests a blood relationship; moreover, he paid him an annuity of 10 shillings a year thereafter for his trouble. 6
Marriage Information:
John married Elizabeth. (Elizabeth Dumbrill, widow, was buried 4 Nov 1604 in Wivelsfield, Sussex, England.)
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Abstract of the Will of Elizabeth Dumbryll wife of John Dumbryll late of the Parish of Wivelsfield, deceased, written 11 September, proved 10 Nov 1604. 7
(Names of family members are underlined.)
Wills that her body be buried in the churchyard of Wivelsfield.
Gives and bequeaths 10 shillings to the poor of Wivelsfield.
Gives and bequeaths to her daughter Mary Vincent (Vencent) wife of Hue Vincent her two best gowns, her stamell petticoat, and her felt hat lined with velvet.
Gives and bequeaths to Dorothy Dumbrell daughter of John Dumbrell a chest and all that it contains, her new red petticoat, her white petticoat and her best taffeta apron.
Wills 10 shillings each to Robert Vincent, Hue Vincent, John Vincent, Jeane Vincent and Mary Vincent.
Gives 10 shillings each to the children of John Walker born of his first wife Elizabeth Dumbryll her daughter.
Gives 10 shillings each to Richard Dumbryll, Mary Dumbryll and Elizabeth Dumbryll, children of Richard Dumbryll, payable to them when the reach the age of twenty-one years.
The rest of her goods she wills to her son Richard Dumbryll whom she makes sole executor of her last will and testament.
Desires that Thomas Lucas and Thomas Godman Jr. be the overseers of her last will and testament.
(her mark)
Witnesses: Thomas Lucas, Thomas Godman Junr.
