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Gooses was a legacy in the wills of Ambrose Spitty of Rayleigh proved in 1772, and George Spitty of Rettendon in 1784.

Described as a copyhold messuage or tenement and farm called Gooses together with the outhouses barns stables meadows pastures marshes hereditaments and premises to the same belonging or appertaining containing by estimation eighty acres more or less called by the several named of Five Acres otherwise Pittfields, Calloways otherwise called Cowls, Long Croft otherwise Long Land otherwise Coles Mead now called Upper Shedfield and Lower Shedfield, Larkins, Madgedown, Stonehill otherwise Hilland all which said premises are situate lying and being in the Parish of Rettenden aforesaid and are now in my own occupation and holden of the Manor of Rettendon leading from Gooses Common to Rettendon Church.