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Wealden Iron Research Group: First Series Bulletin No. 11, 1977, edited by David Crossley, published 1977 (Wealden Iron Research Group) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

The Field Group in 1976, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, p.2) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Sources of Ore for Bloomeries, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, p.3) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

The Late Use of Bell-pits at Ashburnham, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, p.3) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Pippingford Cow Park Bloomery: Preliminary Report, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, p.4) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

A Water-powered Bloomery at Woolbridge, Mayfield, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, p.5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Inventory of Sites, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, pp.6-8) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Sites Scheduled as Ancient Monuments, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, report, p.9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Iron Sites on Ashdown Forest, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, article, pp.9-13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

An Aid to Ashburnham Navigation, by C. C. Ennever and C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, article, p.14) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

It is, we think, well known how important navigation was to the business success, over a period of nearly three centuries, of the Ashburnham ironworks complex. This is briefly referred to by Straker (Wealden Iron p.372) when in 1664 the rights of navigation from Kitchenham Forge to Boreham Bridge were re-affirmed. From Boreham Bridge there were, of course, navigational facilities to the sea at Pevensey.

The Casting of Bronze Guns in the Weald in the Seventeenth Century, by R. Towes, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, article, pp.15-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

The castings of bronze guns at Brenchley, in the Weald of Kent, has been overlooked in the many excellent accounts of Wealden gun founding. Yet the Browne family of gun founders were casting bronze guns there from 1634 to (approximately) 1670, and John Browne in 1638 cast the 102 bronze guns for the famous 'Sovereign of the Seas' - the show-piece of Charles I's ship-money Navy, the first English three-decker, with a distinguished record in the Dutch Wars of the Commonwealth.

A Dispute over Iron Ore between two County Grandees, edited by Judith Brent, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, article, pp.20-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Given below are extracts from correspondence between Sir Richard Sackville and Sir Edward Gage in 1560 and 1562 which is deposited with the Sussex Archaeological Society. (G6/50) Sir Richard Sackville, first cousin to Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth, had established himself as a prominent member of the rising gentry before her accession, having grown rich by the exploitation of secularised monastic and chantry property. In 1558 he was elected M.P. for Kent and in 1563 for Sussex. Sir Edward Gage's father, Sir John Gage, a prominent and successful courtier under Henry VIII and Queen Mary, had also waxed rich through the purchase of monastic properties but the continuing allegiance of Sir Edward Gage to Roman Catholicism may have sapped somewhat his local standing and power. Rest Hills, the copyhold in question, lay on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest in the Manor of Maresfield but in the parish of East Grinstead adjoining the highway from Newbridge to Forest Row and consisted of 111/2 acres of arable and 511/2 acres of woodland.(see G6/10).