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Name: Sackville, Thomas Title: Sir
Aliases:
Date of birth: 1622 Date of death: 1693
Earliest known date: 1651 Latest known date: 1662
Place of birth: Place of death:
Place(s) of residence: Sedlescombe, East Sussex
House/Home/Estate:
Nationality: Role(s): Owner/landlord of ironworks
Notes: East Sussex Record Office, DYK/781 2 Oct 1651
Articles of Co-partnership
Stephen Penkherst of Trogers in Mayfield, esq, and Thomas Sackvile of Sedlescombe, esq
(i) Recites that at Cursuplea (Coushopley) Furnace in Mayfield and Wadhurst there are 700 loads of coal and 700 loads of iron mine, the property of SP
(ii) SP and TS are to enter into partnership and share the stock. TS is to pay £500 as his share of the coal and iron
(iii) The parties are to share the profits of iron manufacture
(iv) SP is to undertake repairs for the furnace except for leathering the bellows and making the hearth
Witnesses: Thomas Grey, Ja. Welby, Robert Yarway, scrivener, Nath. Godwyn, William Warne, servant of the scrivener.

East Sussex Record Office, DUN 27/3 9 May 1662
Counterpart assignment of a 21-year lease
Samuel Gott of Battle, esq, and Peter Farnden of Sedlescombe, gent, to Thomas Westerne and Charles Harvie of London, ironmongers
Two ironworks called Brede forge and furnace in Brede, Sedlescombe and Udimore, and woods and underwoods in those parishes and in Ewhurst, leased by Thomas Sackvill of Sedlescombe, esq, to Nathaniel Powell of Ewhurst, esq for 21 years, 28 Feb 1652, assigned by Powell to SG and PF (with a bargain of woods and underwoods in Brede and Udimore sold him by John Porter, esq on 13 Dec 1651), 30 Dec 1659
SG and PF may work out their stock of coal and sows into bar-iron at the forge, not prejudicing the blowing of the furnace, until 1 May 1663, for which they will pay £20, but they must have finished all carting away by 29 Sep 1663
W: Thomas Bard, John Hedger, William Cogger; John Busbridge, Robert Sturtupp.

East Sussex Record Office, AMS5691/5/1 4 May 1674
Chancery answer of Thomas Sackville to bill exhibited by Sir Nathaniel Powell, taken at Sedlescombe
NP has claimed that a quitrent of 2s is payable to his manor of Bodiam from TS's house Brede High and that Thomas Bristow has suborned Bodiam tenants to his manor of Brede. TS cannot tell in what parishes the house's lands lie since the parishioners of Brede, Ewhurst and Udimore are currently in dispute about their boundaries but he denies that NP cannot establish the extent of his manor
TS admits that the rent was paid during the civil war because he did not want to offend NP, a JP and 'gunfounder to the state' on account of negotiations concerning ironworks and stock leased from TS by NP for which the latter had refused to pay 'pretending he blowed the stock for the state'
TS denies that the land has been kept without animals to avoid distraint and that distress was taken in November 1672, replevied and that NP began an action in King's Bench but instead of continuing with it entered his bill in chancery
Taken before Walter Evernden, John Dyne, John Purfield.

The National Archives, CP 25/2/737/28/29CHASIIHIL, 28-29 Charles II (1676-7)
Feet of Fines
Thomas Sackville Kt of Sedlescombe, Sussex, to John Browne of Sprivers, Horsmonden, Kent
Sale of Brede Furnace and Forge
Person Connections: Browne, John (b.1645, d.1677) is Thomas Sackville's successor
Farnden, Peter (b.unknown, d.1681) is Thomas Sackville's tenant
Gott, Samuel (b.1613, d.1671) is Thomas Sackville's tenant
Harvie, Charles (b.unknown, d.1672) is Thomas Sackville's tenant
Penkhurst, Stephen (b.1629, d.1657) is Thomas Sackville's partner
Powell, Nathaniel (b.1601, d.1675) is Thomas Sackville's tenant
Sackville, John (b.1621, d.1645) is Thomas Sackville's brother
Sackville, Thomas (b.unknown, d.1639) is Thomas Sackville's father
Sackville, Thomas (b.unknown, d.1639) is Thomas Sackville's brother
Western, Thomas (b.1624, d.11/1/1707) is Thomas Sackville's successor
Western, Thomas (b.1624, d.11/1/1707) is Thomas Sackville's tenant
Iron Site Connections: Brede Furnace and Forge - Owner 1645-76
Coushopley Furnace - Part Owner 1651-7
Non-Iron Site Connections:
References: Cleere, H. F. and Crossley, D. W.. (1995) The iron industry of the Weald. Merton Priory Press. Cardiff
(for this connection see page(s) 324)

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