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Bartholomew Pusane

• Marriage*: Bartholomew Pusane married Ursula Longley, daughter of George Longley, on 12 February 1559 at Frant, Sussex, England^B, Note: 12 Feb 1559/60. The marriage does not say that Ursula is a widow.¹
• Death*: Bartholomew Pusane died in 1583 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.
• Burial*: Bartholomew Pusane was buried on 27 November 1583 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.²

George Longley

• (Witness) Will: George Longley is mentioned in the will of Alexander Farmer dated 23 January 1558 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B; Note: 23 Jan 1558/59.¹
• Death*: George Longley died in 1590 at Sussex, England.
• Burial*: George Longley was buried on 17 March 1590 at St Denys, Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.²

Bridget Fermor

Parents:

• Birth*: Bridget Fermor was born on 4 June 1547 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.¹
• She was the daughter of Alexander Fermor Esq and Elizabeth Fowle.

Alexander Fermor

Parents:

• Baptism*: Alexander Fermor was baptized on 13 September 1553 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.¹
• He was the son of Alexander Fermor Esq and Elizabeth Fowle.
• Death*: Alexander Fermor died in 1554 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.
• Burial*: Alexander Fermor was buried on 22 April 1554 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.¹

William Fermor Esq

Parents:

• Birth: William Fermor Esq was born in 1624 at England.
• Baptism*: William Fermor Esq was baptized on 24 February 1624/25 at St Denys, Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B, "gentleman."¹
• He was the son of Alexander Fermor Esq and Mary Fowle.
• (Witness) Will: William Fermor Esq is mentioned in the will of Anthony Fowle dated August 1647 at Newick, Sussex, England^B; (TNA: PROB 11/201/617.)
• Marriage*: William Fermor Esq married Mary Pickering circa 1650 at England.
• Marriage*: William Fermor Esq married Margaret Buck in 1657 at England Margaret Goddin [Godden], widow of Maidstone in Kent.²
• (Witness) Will: William Fermor Esq is mentioned in the will of Alexander Fermor Esq dated 18 December 1662 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.³
• Marriage*: William Fermor Esq married Martha Thomas, daughter of Tristram Thomas Esq, in 1666 at England.
• (Witness) Will: William Fermor Esq is mentioned in the will of Margaret Fermor dated 22 November 1683 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.
• Will*: William Fermor Esq left a will made on 9 August 1684 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.^4,5
• Will/Adm Transcript*: Will of William Fermor of Rotherfield, 1686
  (ESRO: PBT 1/1/37/129)
  Made: 9 Aug 1684
  Codicil: 4 Mar 1685
  Probate: 26 Jun 1686 (date of probate supplied from the act book, ESRO: PBT 1/3/11 f14)
  In the name of God Amen the Nineth day of August in the six & thirtieth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland Frances & Ireland King Defender of the faith etc Annoq Domini 1684 I William Fermor of Retherfeild in the County of Sussex Esqr being in good health & of sound mynd & memory (thanks being therefore given to Almighty God) & knowing the certainty of my death but the uncertaine tyme when doe therefore make this my last will & testament in writeing in manner & forme following First I give & bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hopeing assuredly to bee saved thorough the merits & passion of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour & Redeemer & my body I comitt to the earth to bee decently buryed And as for that reall estate wherewith it hath pleased God to blesse mee I doe hereby dispose of the same as followeth And first I give & devise all that my messuage or Tenement barne buildings & appurtenances thereunto belonging called Hosmers & now in the occupacion of John Alchorne & Nicholas Alchorne or their assignes & all that peice or parcell of land called Pales Croft now in my owne occupacion & all that peice or parcell of land called Walsh Reed & Mote Reed now in the occupacion of William Ovenden or his assignes leading from my dwelling house called Walshes to Crowborrough in Retherfeild aforesaid, unto James Fermor one of my younger sonnes & to the heires of his body to bee begotten & for want of such heires unto Charles Fermor one other of my younger sonnes & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten & for want of such heires unto John Fermor one other of my younger sonnes & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires unto William Fermor my eldest son & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires unto Frances Fermor my daughter & to the heires of her body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires To my right heires for ever Item Whereas in Trinity terme Anno Domini 1677 I leavyed one fine in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster unto William Dyke of Fant in the said County Esqr & to Henry Selby of the Inner Temple Esqr & to their Heires of a Certaine messuage & lands called the Foord brooke lands & Each Reed [Inchreed] land the Lodgefeild wood & Foord brooke Coppice Wyland wood or Coppice the upper & lower Grey Bircketts the Mill Coppice with a forge house backside & lands parte of a forge lately bought of William Byshop & Anne his wife conteyning by estimacion one hundred & eighty acres more or lesse & are scituate lying & being in Retherfeild aforesaid & in Mayfeild & Buxted in the said County or in one of them to the use of mee & my heires And whereas I have suffered one Comon Recovery in the Court held for the Mannor of Framfeild in the said County of a parcell of Coppyhold land holden of the said Mannor called the three acres conteyning by estimacion six acres with a forge & a barne thereon built to the use of mee & my heires & made then & there a surrender thereof to the use of my last will & testament All which premisses are now in the severall tenures or occupacions of mee William Fermor & of Thomas Ongley & Richard Humphery or their assignes And first of all I give & devise All that parte of Foord brooke & Each Reed [Inchreed] lands with the Messuage barnes & buildings ponds & waterlayes in the same with the appurtenances As also the Lodgefeild wood & Foord brooke Coppice now in my owne occupacion & in the occupacion of Christopher Parker & Henry Baker or their assignes unto the said Charles Fermor my sonne & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten & for want of such heires unto my said sonne James Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires unto my said sonne John Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires unto my said sonne Henry Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires unto my said sonne William Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires unto my said daughter Frances Fermor & to the heires of her body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires to my right heires for ever Item I give & devise All that other parte of Foord brooke & Each Reed [Inchreed] lands the Upper & lower Grey Bircketts or the Mill Coppice the Wyland wood or Coppice the forge house & other the buildings thereon with the backside & that East end of little Buxted forge heretofore purchased by my father of one William Byshop & Ann his wife with thappurtenances & also all that piece of Coppyhold land conteyning by estimacion six acres with the forge called little Buxted forge & barne thereon built all which premisses are now in my owne occupacion & in the occupacion of Thomas Ongly & Richard Humphery or their assignes & are scituate & being in Retherfeild Buxted and Mayfield aforesaid to the said John Fermor my sonne & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten & for want of such heires to the said Charles Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten & for want of such heires to the said James Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires to the said Henry Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten & for want of such heires to the said William Fermor & to the heires of his body lawfully to bee begotten & for want of such heires to the said Frances Fermor & to the heires of her body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires to my right heires for ever Provided alwayes that my said sonne Charles my other said sonnes & daughter & their severall heires on whom that parte of Foord brooke & Each reed [Inchreed] lands now settled on my said sonne Charles in this my will shall descend & come shall allow to my said sonne John Fermor his heirs & assignes & to my other forenamed sonnes & daughter his her & their heires & assignes in like manner or free licence & authority of ingresses egresse & regresse to carry wood coales Iron or other materials & to goe or ride over & thorough the same in the usuall ways there And also to pen up water or draw water in the foord brook pond at any tyme or tymes for the benifitt of his forge called little Buxted forge soe as he or they or his or their tenants to the said forge doe keep & maynteyne the gates or barrs in the said wayes & the bayes dams floodgates & sluces in the said Ford brooke pond with all needful & necessary reparacions Item I doe hereby give & devise All that my messuage or tenement with thappurtenances called Jarvises with the greate Mead & Uper Cony mead & lower Cony mead now or late in the occupacion of Robert Baker the tenement called Heywards als Haywoods close in myne & Thomas Latters occupacion with the smithes & Butchers shop thereon built The Sparrow land meade & that parte of my mannor of Walshes called the Sydshale farme conteyning foure peices of land late in occupacion of one Thomas Snatt Also one other parcell of my mannor of Walshes called the Lottsmans farme with the fishponds woods Woodgrounds with a barne thereon built now or late in the occupacion of John Ovenden or his assignes And also one parcell of land divided into foure peices or parcells of my said mannor of Walshes called Eachdeans & the Ashetts now or late in my owne occupacion all which premisses are scituate& lying in Retherfeild aforesaid unto the said sonne William Fermor & to the heires males of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires to the said Henry Fermor & to the heires males of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such to the said James Fermor & to the heires males of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such to the said Charles Fermor & to the heires males of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such to the said John Fermor & to the heires males of his body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such to the said Frances Fermor & to the heires of her body lawfully to bee begotten And for want of such heires to my right heires for ever Upon this Condicion that my said sonne William Fermor his heires & assignes & all & every of my said sonnes next in remainder as aforesaid & all & every of their heires & assignes to whome the premisses next above lymitted shall descend & come shall pay unto the said Frances Fermor & her assignes during her natural life one Anuity or yearly rent chardge of Thirty & five pounds by the yeare yssuing & payeable out of the said premisses at the two most usuall feasts or termes in the yeare that is to say the feaste days of the Annunciacion of the blessed virgin Mary & St Michaell the Archangell by equall porcions The first payment thereof to begin & bee made on the first of the said feast days which shall next happen after my decease And I doe hereby will & appoint that if defalt of payment shall bee made It shall & may bee lawful to & or the said Frances Fermor & her assignes not the lands & premisses soe chardged to enter & the same to have hold & inioy untill the said Anuity or Rent chardge with the arrerages thereof if any bee unpaid together with her costs & chardges in the law bee fully satisfied & paid Provided always that if my said sonne William Fermor his heires or assignes or any of my said other sonnes or their respective heires or assignes to whom the premisses shall descend or come shall pay unto my said daughter Frances the summe of Three hundred & fifty pounds of lawfull money of England or that the messuages or tenements called the White harte als Whitehart Court at or neer the Grate in Turnmill streete shall descend & come to my said daughter by the death of my said sonne William Fermor That then this present Anuity or rent chardge shalbe voyd cease & determine to all intents & purposes whatsoever And I do hereby further will & appoint That if all my said sonnes & my said daughter shall happen to dye without heires of their bodyes whereby the lands & tenements hereby devised shall descend and come unto my sisters Elizabeth now the wife of Walter Lapps Esqr and Mary now the wife of Richard Smith gent or either of them or their or either of their heires That then my said sisters & their heires shall pay unto my loveing wife Martha the summe of Foure hundred pounds of lawful money of England within three moneths next after the said lands & premisses shall descend or come to them or either of them or to their or either of their heires And I doe hereby further will and appoint that if my said Sisters or either of them their or either of their heires shall refuse or neglect to pay the said foure hundred pounds to my said wife in manner aforesaid That then my said wife Martha & her assinges shall have hold & inioy all my said lands & tenements hereby given or devised for & during the terme of her naturall life Item I give to the poore of the parrish of Retherfeild aforesaid the summe of Forty shillings Item I give to my said sonne William Fermor six of my best physick books to bee chosen by himselfe one greate bible three other bookes of Divinity such as shalbee thought fit by my overssers the Workes of King James Littletons tenures with my Lord Cookes Comment on it Wingates Abridgement of the Statutes The Earle of Dorsetts & my Unkle Henry Fermors & Grandfather Squires pictures the plates and backs of Iron in my Chimneys at Walshes my Iron chest the tables in the hall & parlor there & all the hoppoles in my hop-gardens there & else where that are cut Item I give unto my said sonne John Fermor the working tooles & Colewaynes belonging to his forge All the rest of my goods chattells & personall estate whatsoever (my debts legacyes & funerall expences being first paid & dischardged I give & devise unto my said loveing wife Martha whom I make sole Executrix of this my last will & testament & Guardian to all my said Children during their minorityes & to educate them & place them out to good trades & callings And I doe make Charles Amherst of Bayhall Esqr Humphery Fowle of Retherfeild Esqr & Richard Isted of Lewes gent Overseers of this my will And if any controversye shall happen to arise amongst any of my said Children about any matter or thing mencioned in this my will That then I doe order & appoint such of my said Children between whome any such controversye shall soe arise to submit & refer themselves to my said overseers to determine the said matter between them And I doe hereby chardge & require them to stand to & abide such arbitracion as my said Overseers or the survivor of them shall make therein Item I doe will and appoint that my said sonne William shall pay out of the lands & tenements hereinbefore devised unto him unto my said other sonnes Henry James Charles and John att their severall & respective ages of one & twenty yeares the summe of One hundred & fifty pounds of lawfull money of England apeice that is to say to every one of them one hundred & fifty pounds And my further will & mind is that if my said sonne Henry (sic) shall refuse to pay unto my said other sonnes or any of them the said one hundred & fifty pounds each at their several & respective ages That then it shall & may be lawfull to & for my said younger sonnes & every of them whose money shall remayne unpaid after the same shalbee come due & payable to enter into & upon all & singuler the lands tenements hereditaments & premisses hereinbefore devised to my said sonne William (Subiect neverthelesse to the rent chardge of Thirty & five pounds per annum payeable to my said daughter Frances) & to receave & take the rents yssues & profitts thereof untill my said sonne William shall have paid or they shall have receaved out of the rents & profitts thereof theire severall & respective summes of one hundred & fifty pounds a peice And my will & meaning is that in the first place the said Anuity or rent chardge shalbe paid to my said daughter & the residue of the rents & profitts of the said lands to bee equally devided amongst my said other younger sonnes untill they are paid their said severall summes of one hundred & fifty pounds each as aforesaid In witness whereof I have to every sheete hereof being five in number sett my hand and seale the day & yeare first abovewritten Willm Fermor Signed sealed and published in the presence of Richard ……rd Robert Hammond junr Thomas Watton
  
  Bee it knowen That whereas I William Fermor Esqr made my last will & testament in writeing bearing date the Ninth day of August in the six & thirtyeth yeare of the raigne of the late King Charles the Second That now for asmuch as I have changed my mind touching certaine things in the same last will conteyned And for & concerning All other things in the said last will mencioned (other than such as I shall not hereby otherwise dispose of) I doe by this present Codicill confirme & ratify the said last will And whereas by my said last will I did give and devise unto my eldest sonne William Fermor & to the heires males of his body with remainders over (amongst other lands) All that my messuage or tenement with thappurtenances called Jarvises with the greate mead & Upper Cony mead & lower Cony mead now or late in the occupacion of Robert Baker The tenement called Heywards als Heywoods close in myne & Thomas Latters occupacion with the Smithes & Butchers shops thereon built The Sparrow land mead And that parte of my mannor of Walshes called the Sydshale farme conteyning foure pieces of land late in the occupacion of one Thomas Snatt my will now is & I doe hereby give & devise unto my sonne James Fermor & to the heires males of his body with the same remainders over as I have lymitted & intayled other lands given unto him in & by said will All & singuler the messuages or tenements barnes buildings lands tenements hereditaments & premisses above perticulerly mencioned & expressed subiect nevertheless & shalbee lyeable to make good the yearly rent chardge or annuity of thirty & five pounds given unto my daughter Frances Fermor for her life in & by my said will And my will is That this Codicill or schedule bee & bee adiudged & taken to bee parcell of my last will & shalbe affixed to my said last will In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the fourth day of March in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred Eighty & five Willm Fermor Signed sealed and published in the presence of William Palmar Thomas Shelley Ann Burges
  According to the Keep catalogue this will was proved 26 June 1686.
  (Transcribed by Rosie Ansell December 2020.)
  
• Death*: William Fermor Esq died in 1686 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.
• Burial*: William Fermor Esq was buried on 20 May 1686 at Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B.
• Mon-Inscr: A gravestone inscription at St Denys, Rotherfield, Sussex, England^B, for William Fermor Esq was recorded as
  Beneath resteth William the son of Alexander Fermor, Esq. of Walsh als Walshes, by Mary daughr of Anthony Fowle Esq. of this parish. He had three wives. Mary Pickering, Margaret Buck and Martha Thomas. By the First he had one Son Alexander, by the Second He had William, Anthony and a daughter Frances. By the last He had Henry, James, Charles and John. He was born 1624 and Dyed 1686.⁴
• Probate: His estate was probated on 26 June 1686 at Archdeaconry of Lewes, Sussex, England.