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said bank or wall lyeth between ditches belonging to the grounds on each side unto the
River Thames and unto the Cuckhold's Poynt by the said River, containing by estimation
Eleven hundred perches in length, more or less.
1696 Plan.
An original Plan, by which it appeared that all the way or road from the turnpike
gate, now called Fort Place Gate, to the Bridge over the Mill Pond at West Lane, was
a wall called Gallow or Sally Wall. That another Wall called the Long Wall, extended
from the Boundary post near Blue Anchor Lane, round to Saint Helena Gate and to
Cuckhold's point. And that another Wall called the Gaily Wall, extended from the
Road leading to the Green Man Turnpike to the Long Wall. That gates were formerly
at the end of such Walls. And that the same were then the freehold of Thomas
Traps, Esq., then Lord of the Manor of Bermondsey.
1696.
It also appeared by a recital in a Lease after mentioned, that by an indenture, dated
24th March, 1696, a lease of Pynfolds and said Walls was gran ted bv James Young
and Margaret his Wife, formerly the Wife of Peter Hughes, deceased, and Thomas
Trapps, to Jacob Saunders for Seventy-one Years.
22nd and 2.3rd Juno, 1713.
By these deeds, the said Walls are conveyed by the same description to Edward
Thurland, Esq. and Henry May.
2nd and 3rd July, 1717.
By these dec's, the said Walls are conveyed to Peter Hambly, Esq., by the same
description, and in a Schedule to this conveyance, a lease of the 24th June, 1696, from
Thomas Trapps and James Gay and Margaret his Wife, formerly Margaret Hughes,
to Jacob Saunders, for 71 years from Michaelmas, 1695, at the yearly Rent of £22, is
excepted.
It also appeared that the said Manor and Lands afterwards became the Estate of
Mrs. Eleanor Hambly, Widow deceased, and that she by—
10th March. 1763.
Indenture of this date, in consideration of the surrender of a former lease of the
premises thereinafter mentioned, bearing date the 24th dav of March, 1696, made and
granted by James Gay and Margaret his Wife, formerly the Wife of Peter Hughes,
deceased, and Thomas Trapps to Jaeob Saunders, and since bccame vested in the said
William Randall of Bermondsey, gardener.
Demised the said Land called Pynfolds, and also the said several Walls for 51
years from Lady-day then next, to the late Mr. William Randall, bv the following
description, ALL THAT parcel of land, meadow and pasture, formerly divided into
two parcels commonly called or known by the name of the Pinfold or Pinfolds Mead,
containing by estimation nine acres, be they more or less, formerly in the tenure of
Charles Arthur, since that of William Smith, late of Christopher Randall, and then of