Thorp, John. 71. Grislings. My Father and Mother when I was a boy lived at Brownings, 8 acres, at Grislings Common, then belonging to Kenward of Ridgewood Farm, Uckfield. Our family lived there nearly 100 years. My Father left it in 1829. I was born and brought up there. Kenward used the land. I well remember that while I lived there Kenward always summered his stock on the Forest and used to fetch litter every year from the Forest to litter them down. It was all grass.

After my Father and Mother left the house the land was let to Charles Shaw (dead). After our time, Brownings was used by:

• Charles Shaw (dead).
• Penticost, Thomas (dead).
• Turner. Went abroad.
• Bysshe (dead).
• Grinstead, William (dead).
• Weston, Trayton at Newick.
• Mepham, James.
• Lusted. Present occupier.

It was a little place, all grass, and most of the occupiers worked on it themselves and did not employ labour so that evidence cannot be got from laborers.

Formerly Park Wish, 2 acres, which is said to have had rights on the Forest. Belonged to Brownings. Kenward sold it to Sir Thomas Wilson.