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- Later in the 1600’s Holt Street was occupied by the Gay family, who also held land in the Tenderden area in West Kent. When Edmund Gay, gentleman of Nonington,Kent, died in 1651 he was followed as tenant by his son, Jeremy. During the English Civil War Jeremy took the King’s side and suffered accordingly, his landlord, Major John Boys, had been on the opposing side. In 1670 Jeremy Gay and Robert Kingsford jointly leased Holt Street from Major Boys at Fredville who was by then heavily in debt to various creditors.
The estate consisted of:
A capital messuage and appurtenences together with barnes stables pidgeon house and out-houses thereto belonging or thereto used to enjoy (Holt Street Farm). And all the arable lands meadows pastures down-lands and woodland thereto belonging containing 252 acres more or less at or near Holt Street in the parish of Nonington in Kent.
And all that messuage with the appurtenences and all the land meadows and pasture thereunto belonging containing 14 acres lying in or near Holt Street now or late in the occupation of ? late in occupation of George Cork/Cock or his assigns. (Holt Street Cottage, adjacent land, and part of the land across the road on Cook’s Hill).
* And all the messuage of 4 acres of land in Nonington and in the occupation of ? Rist, widow, or her assigns
And the messuage and 3 acres of land therein enjoyed near Holt Street late in the occupation of Edward Symonds and his assigns.
And the barn called Symons’s Barn and the appurtenences being in the place or yard of the messuage last before mentioned and then occupied by Edward Symonds but now of Richard Kingsford or his assigns. (Now Ingleside in Holt Street, the barn was demolished in 1970’s).
And the messuage or tenement and appurtenences and 3 acres of land more or less thereto butting or adjoining aforesaid at or near Holt Street in the occupation of Thomas Packton or his assigns.
*And the messuage and 4 acres of land more or less being in Nonington also in the occupation of Thomas Packton or his Assigns (believed to be the present Butter Street Cottage).
*And the messuage or tenement and 4 acres of land more or less thereto belonging or the same used occupied or enjoyed situated in Womenswold occupied by John Morris.
+And 2 pieces or parcells of arable land called Chapman’s Close and thereof 8 acres or by what other name the same are called containing 20 acres in Nonington and in the occupation of Richard Kingsford or his assigns.(Chapman’s Close: the embanked field at the top of Chapman’s Hill, south side).
And the cottage or tenement and appurtenences and 1 acre of land more or less ( -?- ) near Holt Street within the lands occupied of George Cork/Cock and then or late of Samuel Turvey and his assigns (On the Holt Street cross-roads, the house was demolished and the land became Johnston’s Terrace around 1910).
*And a cottage or tenement and 1 acre of land by estimation in Nonington in the tenure of Samuel Browning and his assigns.
*And a cottage or tenement and 2 acres in Nonington in the occupation of George Marsh.
*And a cottage or tenement and appurtenences and 1 acre of land by estimation thereto belonging in Nonington and in the occupation of Wm Fagg and his assigns.
~And that wood and woodland called -?- Wood containing 13 acres and one half in Nonington in the occupation of Jeremy Gay.
Jeremy Gay, junior, was the subject of two court orders in 1672. Presumably Jeremy senior, his father, had died and Jeremy junior appears to have had got into debt as in January 1671 (1672) an ” Order after reciting the outlawry of Jeremy Gay of Nonington, Kent, and the seizure, 29 Jan., 1671–2, of his lands therein described at Tenterden on a motion on behalf of Edward and Samuel Curteis that on their giving security to abide the order of the court all further proceedings against the said lands be stayed” was issued. Edward and Samuel were the sons of Edward Curteis, senior, and Dorothy, the sister of Jeremy Gay, junior. Edward Curteis, senior, had been Mayor of Tenterden in 1663.
Later in the year an Order of the Court at Dover of 6th June, 1672 concerned the seizure of the property of Jeremy Gay, junior, of Tenterden and Nonington, Kent, for debt and his being made an outlaw.
After the court order, the Kingsford’s took over as sole tenants.
[Source: http://www.nonington.org.uk/holt-street/]
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