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RELATIN G TO
HENRY SMITH, Eso.
SOME TIME ALDERMAN OF LONDON ;
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THE ESTATES BY HIM GIVEN TO CHARITABLE USES;
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THE TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY HIM,
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TO THE
NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN,
THE TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATES
OF
HENRY SMITH, Esa deceased,
BY whoſe Attention thoſe Eſtates have
been very much improved, and a great In-
creaſe made in the Allowances to the poor
Relations, and the Clergy in particular, as
well as to the Pariſhes in general,
The following Account of that Gentle-
man and his Eſtates, and of his original
Truſtees, is, with the greateſt Reſpect, in-
ſcribed by, *
Their moſt obliged,
and moſt obedient,
**...* humble Servant,
Feb. 1799. *
WILLIAM BRAY.
5 )
C O L L ECTION S
RELATING TO
H E N R Y S M I TH, Esq.,
THE charitaole donations derived from the bounty
of Mr. Henry Smith are ſo many, ſo widely diffuſed,
applied to many purpoſes, and gladden the hearts of ſo
many perſons in very different ſtations of life; that it
is natural to enquire who it was that was enabled to
beſtow ſuch large benefactions; how he became poſ-
ſeſſed of his wealth; what were his habits of life; and
who the perſons were to whom he confided ſo conſi-
derable a truſt.
We are now at too great a diſtance from the time
in which he lived, to get at all thoſe circumſtances
which might have been learned with eaſe, had curio-
ſity been awakened at an earlier period; but, if we
cannot recover every thing, we may at leaſt colle&t
and tranſmit to poſterity ſomething. |
From his monument in the church of Wandſworth,
in Surrey, it appears that he was born in that place
(about the year 1548); that he was an alderman of
A 3 London;
1 *
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London; and that he died 30 Jan. 1627, being then
near 79 years of age. \
This monument mentions ſome few of his benefac-
tions, but gives no farther information.
From its being ſtated that he was born there, it
might be thought that he was of a family of the name,
who poſſeſſed the manor of Dunsford *, in that pariſh;
but I believe this was not the caſe. Their name was
ſpelled with a y, Smythe, or Smyth, his with an i :
this variation, indeed, is ſo common, that it would
not diſprove the identity of the family; but, as I find
that the manor did not come into their hands till about
1569, which was ſome years after his birth, and con-
tinued in the name till 1664, which was long after his
death; and he, in his will, ſpeaks of no other relations
than ſiſter’s children, and intimates that they were
poor; it is more than probable that he was not con-
ne&ted with this family.
It is believed that he was by trade a filverſmith; and
the place of his reſidence may be conſidered as ſome
confirmation of it, as it is known that he lived in Sil-
ver-ſtreet, Cheapſide.
On the 9th of Feb. 1608, he was eleēted alderman
for the ward of Farringdon Without, in the room of
Henry Wylett; and in the Corporation books he is de-
ſcribed as citizen and ſalter + ; the books, however, of
that company having been burnt in the great fire, 1666,
no information can be got from thence {.
This trade, at all times profitable, will much bette
account for his acquiſition of wealth, than the idle
ſtory of his going about as a beggar, followed by a
dog; a ſtory which, however abſurd, has generally
prevailed; and, in many of the pariſhes which receive
his bounty, he is to this day ſpoken of by the appel-
lation of Dog-Smith. They add, that he was whipped
* This family ſold it, about 1664, to an anceſtor of Lord Viſ-
count Midleton, who is the preſent owner, and is one of the
truſtees of Mr. Henry Smith's eſtate.
ºf Communicated by Mr. Chamberlain Clarke.
; From the information of Mr. Baſkerficla, one of the Čompany.
through
*
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through two or three pariſhes in Surrey, and that he
left nothing to thoſe pariſhes on that account. If there
wanted any thing to diſprove the tale, it would be
furniſhed by this fact, that every pariſh in the county
partakes of his benefactions.
The ſtory probably originates in that of the Lam-
beth Pedlar, who gave an acre of land to that pariſh,
and whoſe figure, with a dog following him, is ſtill
preſerved in the South Eaſt window of Lambeth
church *.
Mr. Smith was poſſeſſed of very confiderable pro-
perty in land and money; and having loſt his wife,
by whom he had no child k, he determined to diſpoſe
of his wealth to charitable uſes.
It is ſtated in his epitaph, that in his life-time he
gave,
* The tradition was, that this pedlar gave an acre of ground to
the pariſh of Lambeth, for leave to bury his dog in the church-
yard. This tale may be equally idle with that of Mr. Smith's dog:
but it appears, that the pariſh had poſſeſſion of this acre in 1504,
and that the pane of glaſs in which was his figure was repaired
by order of veſtry in 161 o The acre adjoins the river, and lies
near the Eaſt end of the Surrey abutment of Weſtminſler bridge; it
did not get the title of Pedlar's Acre till 1690. The rent has been
applied to repair the church ; and it is curious to ſee what has
been the amount of it at different periods. It will ſhew the won-
derful increaſe in the value of land there, which has been occa-
fioned by the increaſe of commerce, and by the crection of Weſt-
mir/fer Bridge.
- d. f.
Anno 1505 the rent was ** tºº 4. 2 8
1516 * *** " – o 4 O
I 520 *ms eamme tºº º o 6 o
I 52 I tºº -* tºº o 5 o
1556 * * tºº o 6 8
1564 * * - " - o I 3 4.
1581 * — tº-ºn I Ó 8
1651 gº *-e * 4 O O
1705 — * - 4 o o
Some years ago smºsºs ** IOO O O
and a fine of 4.8oo was paid for a leaſe at that rent. Nichols's
Bibliothcca Topographica, Lambeth.
t College of Arms; and ſo ſtated in the bill which he filed in
chancery againſt his truſtees, as after mentioned.
y A 4 To
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To the town of Croydon, tºº — ſ. Iodo
Kingſion upon Thames, IOOC)
Guildford, — -- IOOO
Farnham, tºº I OOO
Godalming, ſºmºmº iº 1 OOO
Dorking, — mºnº IOOO
After this, by deed, dated 20 O&t. 17 Jac. I. 1620,
he conveyed all his eſtates, by the deſcription of his
eſtates in Suſſex, the city of London, Middleſex, and
elſewhere, to the following truſtees:
. Robert, earl of Eſſex and Eu.
. Richard, earl of Dorſet.
. Sir Edward Francis.
. john Middleton, Eſq.
. William Wingfield, Eſq. -
. George Whitmore, citizen and alderman of Lon-
don, and
7. Richard Amherſt, Eſq.
By another deed of the ſame date, he aſſigned all
his ready money, except £. Ioo, and all his ſecurities
for money, and all his houſehold goods, to the ſaid
john Middleton, ,
William Wingfield,
George Whitmore,
and Richard Amherſ.
And by this deed he declared, that his real eſtates,
and the aſſignment of his perſonal eſtate, was upon
truſt; that out of the rent of his lands he ſhould be
paid £, 5oo per annum for his own uſe; and the re-
mainder of the rents, with the profits of his perſonal
eſtate, were to be applied to ſuch charitable uſes as he
fhould by his will appoint; and, if he did not make
ſuch appointment, then to ſuch charitable uſes as the
firſt-mentioned truſtees, their heirs or aſſigns, ſhould
think moſt meet. º
This deed contained a power of revocation.
22 June, 22 Jac. 1624, he made two other deeds,
in which he ratified the conveyance of his land and
the
:
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the affignment of his money, and releaſed the power
of revocation. .
And, by a third deed of this date, he added to the
number of his truſtees, and appointed the following:
The Earl of Eſſex,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill,
Sir Richard Lumley,
. Sir George Crooke,
Sir Edward Francis,
George Whitmore,
Richard Amheiſt,
john Middleton,
9. William Wingfield,
Io. George Lowe,
11. William Blake,
12. William Rolfe,
13. Richard Garnett, (or Gurney);
and he releaſed and revoked all power of appoint-
ment reſerved to him by will or otherwiſe; and de-
clared, that the rents of his land and profits of his
money ſhould be employed by theſe gentlemen, or
any ſevén or more of them, or by their heirs or aſ-
ſigns, to
Relief of poor priſoners;
Hurt and maimed ſoldiers;
Poor maids marriages; *
Setting-up poor apprentices;
Amending the highways;
Loſſes by fire, or ſhipwreck;
or otherwiſe to ſuch charitable uſes as they, or any ſe-
ven or more of them, their heirs or aſſigns, ſhould think
moſt meet. He made the ſame reſervation of £.5oo
per annum, for his maintenance for his life, as in the
former deed. &
After this he became diſſatisfied with what he had
done; and filed a bill in chancery againſt his truſtees,
ſtating, that he was ſeiſed of divers eſtates, and poſ-
ſeſſed of money, jewels, &c. That
Sir
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Sir Edward Francis was indebted to him £. gooo
john Middleton, Rºº. Cºsmº 50oo
(for £. 15oo of which he had no ſecurity)
Sir Richard Lumley, cºme * I OOG)
Serjeant Amherſt, sº sº I OOO
William Wingfield, * tºº 6ooo
and divers others were indebted to him in large ſums;
that, having no child, and having purpoſe to beſtow great
part of his eſtate on charitable purpoſes, and being
then old, and repoſing much confidence in Sir Richard
Lumley, &c. to aſſiſt him in diſpoſing of his eſtate,
but not intending to diſcharge any of the debts due
from them, he did make the deeds beforementioned;
that the ſame were made without [valuable] confide-
ration; that he ſtill continued in quiet poſſeſſion of
his eſtates and property, and continued to inhabit his
houſe in Silver-ſtreet, and to receive the intereſt of his
monies; that ſuch deeds were intended in the nature
of a will, to take effect after his deceaſe, in caſe he
ſhould not otherwiſe diſpoſe thereof during his life,
and to prevent the granting of an adminiſtration and
diſpoſition of his eſtate contrary to his intent, there-
fore he ſuffered thoſe deeds to remain in force till
June laſt º, about which time, repoſing great truſt in
Sir Edward Franci, and john Middleton, he was by
them, and by the indirect practices of ſome he much
truſted, drawn, without any valuable] conſideratico,
to ſeal ſeveral deeds releaſing the power of revocation
in the firſt deeds contained, and another deed grant-
ing his eſtates to the Earl of Eſſex, &c.; that theſe
deeds being prepared by Sir Edward Francis, john
Middleton, and ſome others, whom he truſted, he
ſealed them, not doubting that he ſhould have con-
tinued in the management of his eſtate, and that his
truſtees would have re-conveyed to him when deſired
ſo to do; that he finds the eſtates being ſo veſted in
his truſtees would be ſubjećt to their debts and in-
cumbrances; and he being minded himſelf to ſettle
the premiſes for relief of his kindred, and other cha-
* 22 Junc, 1624.
ritable
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ritable purpoſes, as he ſhould think convenient, had
deſired the truſtees to re-convey, and thoſe who owed
him money to repay him; that the Earl of Eſſex, Ne-
vill, Lumley, Crooke, Whitmore, Amherſ, Wingfield, Lowe,
Blake, Rolfe, and Gurnett, ſeemed willing to do ſo, if
it could be ſafely done, but were diſſuaded by the
others, (i. e. Francis and Middleton).
As the decree, which was afterwards pronounced in
this cauſe, ſtates very little of the anſwers put in by
the defendants to this bill, it is to be regretted that
none of them are to be found in the tower, where pro-
ceedings in chancery of this date are lodged, as it
would be deſirable to know what was ſaid by Sir Ed.,
ward Francis and Mr. Mddleton, who were particularly
charged in the bill ; but, amonſt the papers belonging
to the truſt, is a draught of Sir Richard Lumley's an-
ſwer, which contains ſome curious particulars.
Sir Richard admits that ſuch firſt deeds were made
without conſideration ; and ſays, that, in June laſt “,
there was word ſent to Mr. Smith, from Edward Lind-
ſey, Eſq. that he was fallen into great forfeiture and dam-
gers, and would be proſecuted; and thereupon, Mr.
Smith ſaid, he would abſolutely confirm and ſet over
his eſtate to Sir Richard Lumley, and the other perſons
in the bill named, to prevent any forfeiture or danger
that might be unjuſtly brought upon him by his ad-
verſaries, and thereupon defired Serjeant Amherſ to
draw up ſuch other deeds as in the Bill are mention-
ed; that Lumley and Amherſ adviſed with Sir George
Crooke, in preſence of ſeveral other of the defendants,
and the deeds were engroſſed, and read over to Mr.
Smith, who executed the ſame ; and the defendants ex-
ecuted counterparts, and gave them to Mr. Smith, and
the originals, by direétion of the earl, were given to
Sir Edward Francis ; he admits the debt due from him,
and is ready to pay or ſecure it; and he ſays, that, before
Mr. Smith executed the laſt deeds, he called Sir Richard
Lumley, and Serjeant Amºerſ, into his parlour, and
privately aſked, whether, if he executed them, and
* 1624,
afterwards
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afterwards was clear and free from any danger, he
might have his eſtate again To which the Serjeant
anſwered, he thought he might. Sir Richard ſubmits
to act as the Court ſhould direct.
The cauſes of forfeiture, and the nature of the dan-
ger alluded to, do not appear; but, at the time when
the Court of Star-Chamber was in the plenitude of its
power, no man poſſeſſed of wealth was free from danger,
eſpecially if he had an adverſary who had weight at
Court.
Perhaps ſome light may be thrown on this matter
by knowing, that the Earl of Dorſet (then lately dead)
was indcbted to Mr. Smith in conſiderable ſums; and
that it appears, by a record preſerved in Rymer's Fa:-
dera “, that this Edward Lindſey, who ſo threatened
Mr. Smith, had, together with Serjeant Amherſ and
Sir George Rivers, joined with Richard earl of Dorſet,
in giving ſecurities for him to ſeveral perſons, upon
bond, &c. and that they had ſuch intereſt at Court, as
to obtain from king james a writ to ſuſpend the law,
in order to prevent the creditors from recovering the
debts due to them; and the ſame was renewed by king
Charleſ. * 49
It is addreſſed to Sir Thomas Coventry, lord keeper,
and to all judges, &c. and uſes the following words :
“We of our Prerogative Royal, which we will not
“ have argued or brought in queſtion;” and it grants
protećtion to their perſons and eſtates, “any law, ſta-
“tute, &c. notwithſtanding.”
20 June, A625. The cauſe was heard before Sir
Thomas Coventry, being then lord keeper, and the
truſtees were clearly acquitted from any claim; but
that part of the prayer of the bill which requeſted,
that Mr. Smith ſhould have the receipt and diſpoſition
of his rents during his life, appeared ſo reaſonable,
that it was granted.
The decree ſtates, that Serjeant Amherſ and Mr.
Middleton attended in perſon, and the reſt of the de-
fendants by their counſel; and the Court, with the
--- * Vol. XVIII, p. 722.
t free
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free aſſent of Mr. Amherſ; and Mr. Middleton, and of
the counſel for the others, decreed, that the then truſ-
tees ſhould convey " and aſſign to
the Earl of Eſſex,
Mr. Juſtice Crooke,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill,
Sir Richard Lumley,
William Wingfield,
George Lowe,
William Blake,
William Rolfe,
and Richard Gurnett tº,
and ſuch others as Mr. Smith ſhould nominate, upon
truſt, to permit him to have the uſe of his houſe in
Silver-ſtreet, for life; and to permit him to receive the
rents of his eſtates, and intereſt of his money, for life,
and to diſpoſe of it for his own maintenance, and for
ſuch charitable uſes, and otherwiſe for the benefit and
relief of his kindred, as he ſhould think fit; and after
his deceaſe, that the truſtees, or any ſeven of them,
their heirs or aſſigns, ſhould apply the ſame to the
charitable uſes aforeſaid, and purchaſing and reſtoring
to the church of impropriations for the maintenance
of learned, godly preachers, and for ſuch other cha-
ritable uſes as Mr. Smith ſhould by will or deed ap-
point; and, in default of his appointment, to ſuch
charitable uſes as they, or any ſeven of them, ſhould
appoint; and when the number of truſtees ſhould not
exceed ſix, then thoſe ſix, or the ſurvivors, ſhould
make a new conveyance to themſelves, and ſuch others
to be nominated by the Archbiſhop of Canterbury, or
Lord Keeper of the great ſeal, as ſhould make up the
full number of thirteen at the leaſt.
* The legal eſtate having been veſted in the firſt truſtees by the
firſt deeds, the laſt deed executed by Mr. Smith could not"convey
any thing to the new truſtees there named in addition to the for-
mer; which made this neceſſary.
f Sir Edward Francis died before the hearing of the cauſe.
The names of Whitmore, Amheft, and Middleton, are here omitted.
/ And
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And it was decreed, with the like aſſent of Amherſ?,
Middleton, and Lumley, that they ſhould pay or ſecure
the debts due from them to Mr. Smith; and that the
deeds, evidences, and writings, concerning the ma-
nors, and lands, and perſonal eſtate, ſhould be brought
into Court, there to remain for ſafe cuſtody *.
And the Court declared, that Amherſ; and Middle-
ton + had behaved juſtly and uprightly, and eſpeci-
ally in ſo freely conſenting to ſecure the ſaid debts,
which were diſcharged by law; and the Court not only
diſcharged them from blame, but eſteemed them wor-
thy of commendation, and wiſhed Mr. Smith to eſteem
of them accordingly.
On the 24th of January following (2 Car. I. 1626),
Mr. Smith executed a deed poll, by which, after recit-
ing the ſeveral deeds and the decree before mentioned,
he did, for the better performing the ſaid charitable
uſes, and ſettling the ſame ſo as to have continuance
for ever, declare his intent to be, and did intreat, the
faid Earl of Eſſex, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard
Lumley, Sir George Crooke, George Whitmore, George
Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe, and Richard Gur-
mett, with the addition of Henry jackſon, of London,
cheeſemonger, (who, by Mr. Smith's will, appears to
have been his nephew, but is there called grocer,) to
ſee the ſame performed, which he hoped they would
do, the ſame tending to the furtherance of religion,
piety, and charity. He dire&ts his money to be laid
out in purchaſes of lands for thoſe purpoſes; in which
purchaſes, they were, as near as might be, to purchaſe,
for every ſ. Iooo, manors, &&. in fee ſimple, of the
clear yearly value of Ioo marks above all charges f.
He deſired his truſtees to procure a licence for the go-
vernors of Chriſt's Hoſpital to take theſe eſtates in mort-
* Great ſearch has been heretofore made, but theſe deeds could
not be found in any of the Maſters' offices.
+ Why Sir Richard Lumley was not mentioned in terms of equal
reſpeſt, docs not appear; as, though he was not preſent in Court,
he conſented, by his counſcl, to ſecure the debt due from him.
f Ioo marks is 1.66 13s. 4d. ; this would make exactly 15
years purchaſe, which was probably the current price of land at
that time, †
maſſ],
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*
main *, but his truſtees were to diſpoſe of ſuch of the
rents as he did not diſpoſe of in his life-time. He
then directs, for avoiding corruption in the colle&tion
and diſtribution of the monies to be paid out of any
rents for the yearly relief of the poor of any pariſh,
or marriage of poor maids, or putting forth children
to be apprentices, that the churchwardens and over-
ſeers, before they meddled with the rents, ſhould give
bond to the parſon or vicar, to colle&t and beſtow the
ſame according to the intent of theſe preſents. He
direéts the monies to be given for
The relief of aged poor, or infirm people.
Married perſons having more children than their la-
bour can maintain. &
Poor orphans. -
Such poor as keep themſelves and families to labour,
and put forth their children to be apprentices at the
age of 15 ; |
And to provide a ſtock always in readineſs to ſet
ſuch perſons to work as are able;
And not to *
any given to exceſſive drinking,
whoremongers,
common ſwearers,
ilferers, or otherwiſe notoriouſly ſcandalous;
f or who have been incorrigible or diſobedient
fervants;
vagrants, ſuch as have no conſtant dwelling,
or receive 1mmateS :
or, have not inhabited the pariſh 5 years
next before the diſtribution;
or, being able, refuſe to work +.
He directs the churchwardens, once in every month
at leaſt, on the Sabbath day, after evening prayer, to
meet in the church, and confider which of the poor
have moſt need of relief; and, between Eaſter and
Whitſuntide, in every year, after evening ſervice, (giv-
ing notice of ſuch meeting after he morning prayer,)
* This was not done; the hoſpital refuſed to accept the truſt.
+ Perhaps a more proper ſelection of thoſe to whom the money
ſhould, or ſhould not, be given, could hardly have been made.
to
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to make a book of their receipts and payments, to be
read in the church on the next Sunday; and a copy
ſigned by the churchwardens and overſeers, to be
fixed to the wall of the church, and to remain there
14 days, for inſpection of the pariſh, that exceptions
may be reformed.
Such money as was to be given to the aged and im-
potent poor, was to be laid out in apparel of one co-
lour, with ſome badge or mark, that it might be
known to be his gift; or elſe in bread, and fleſh, or
fiſh, upon each Sabbath day, publicly in the church.
And he direéted, that the churchwardens and over-
ſeers ſhould bargain for leaſes, to the intent the beſt
yearly value might be made thereof; and leaſes to be
granted to ſuch perſons as they ſhould by writing un-
der their hands and ſeals appoint, not exceeding 21
years, or 3 lives in poſſeſſion, ſo as they be lett at the
moſt improved rents.
On the 24th of April following, 1627, Mr. Smith
made his will, and thereby gave the following le-
gacies : *
To Henry Henn, gent, ſometime his ſervant, ſ. Ioo
To be laid out in purchaſe of lands of 4.60
a year, for relief and ranſom of poor cap-
tives, being ſlaves under Turkiſh pirates *, IOOO
To be laid out in purchaſe of lands of £.6o
a year for the uſe and relief of the pooreſt
of his kindred, ſuch as are not able to work
for their living, viz. ſick, aged, and impo-
tent, perſons, and ſuch as cannot maintain
their own charge *, IOOO
To buy land for relief of the poor of
Wandſworth +, 5oo
In like manner for the poor of Riegate #, IQOO
# The rents of the Kemſington eſtate are applied to theſe pur-
poſes. This purchaſe is directed to be made at ſomething above
16 years and a half's purchaſe. *
+ It does not appear that Wandſworth has any ſeparate eſtate, but
it receives a ſhare of Stoughton eſtate. .
# A farm was purchaſed at Ruſeer, in Su/ex, and is now in poſ-
ſcſſion of the pariſh. t
To
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To Mary Counteſs of Dorſet, “to be
“ diſpoſed by her to and amongſt her chil-
“dren equally, or otherwiſe, as to her ho-
“nour ſhall be thought fit *”, A. 200
£. Io,000, or thereabouts, owing to him
by Sir Edward Francis, Sir Richard Lumley,
and john Middleton, to buy impropriations for
relief and maintenance of godly preachers,
and the better furtherance of knowledge and
religion +. IO, COO
He directs, that all, or moſt part of the
money given for relief of the poor of any
pariſh or place, ſhould be for ſetting on the
poor at work, binding them apprentices, and
teaching and education of poor children,
“ as is now uſed or begun, within the town
“ of, Dorcheſter, in the county of Dorſet #,”
and according to his laſt deed of uſes.
A. 150, to buy a Fellowſhip in Cambridge,
in ſome college there, to continue 8 years,
and ſo long to be enjoyed by Mr. Coffender’s
ſon; and, at the end of the 8 years, “to be
“ ſurrendered by him to my nephew Henry
“jackſon, ſon of Henry jackſon the elder,
* She was wife of Edward Earl of Dorſet, who ſucceeded his
brother Richard, before named. She was daughter and heireſs of
Sir George Curzon, of Croxall, in Derby/ire; and brought that and
a great eſtate into the family. She was (ſays Collins, Peerage, vol. I.
p. 444,) a lady accompliſhed with all virtues, and an excellent
judgment, whom King Charles I. intruſted with the tuition of his
daughter; and her condućt was ſo remarkable, that when ſhe
died, in 1645, the Lords and Commons, ſitting at Weſtminſter, ot-
dered that her funeral ſhould be at the public expence.
f The great tythes of Alfriſon, in Suſſex, and part of thoſe of
Mayfield, in the ſame county, have been bought, and the rents are
given to poor clergy. At this time, by the increaſe of rents, 1 a
clergymen receive £. I5 each at Chriſtmas, yearly.
f Dorcheſter hoſpital was built 1616. This ſeems to have been
a kind of workhouſe. Sir joſah Child, in his Treatiſe of Trade,
commends Dorcheſter method of employing the poor, under the
care of the governors and aſſiſtants. After having been applied
to other uſes, it was again, in 1744, converted into a workhouſe
for reception of the poor of the three pariſhes.
Hutchins’s Hiſt, of Dorſetſhire, vol. I. p. 382.
B ** One
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* one of my executors, and to continue to
“ him for life;” then to ſuch of his kindred
as ſhould be capable of the place, from time
to time *, *
£. Ioo, to be lent to ſuch perſons as ſhould
need, gratis, for half a year, 4. 20 in a par-
cel; and when repaid, to lend it to ſome
other for 6 months; and ſo from time to
time, taking good ſecurity +, IOO
To Mrs. Price then, or ſome time, a teacher .
of children, his kinſwoman,
To Sir Robert Phillips, his lady and chil-
dren £,
£. 150
IO
I OG
* It does not appear that any followſhip was founded.
+ There is no tracc of this money having been ſo lent.
# Sir Robert Philips, or Philipps, was of a family originally from
Walcs, but part of which ſcſtled in Some ſet and Dorſet. He was
ſon of Sir Edward Phelipps, knt. who ſettled at Montacute, in So-
merſet, where he built the noble manſion now ſtanding; it was
begun in 1580, and finiſhcd in 1601, and now remains in his de-
ſcendants. Sir Edward was Maſter of the Rolls, Chancellor to
Henry Prince of Wales, and Speaker of the Houſe of Commons,
in thc reign of Quccn Elizabeth and jame, I #. Sir Robert, his
ſon, was membcr for Eaſloo, in Cornwall, in the firſt parliament of
james I. ; for the county of Somerſet, 12 and 18 james I. ; for the
city of Bath, in the 18th james I. ; and for the county of Somerſet,
in the 1ſt and 3d years of Cha, les I, f In March, 1620–1, Ed-
award Sackville (afterwards Earl of Dor/et) was M. P. for Suſſex,
and cle&ted chairman of a Committee for inſpecting abuſes in the
Courts of Juſtice; but, on ſome indiſpoſition, Sir Robert Phelipps
ſupplied his place #. In 19 james, he was committed to the
Towcr by the King, with Sir Edward Coke, being one of thoſe
whom King James called ill-tempered ſpi, its $. He was a deter-
mined oppoſer of the Duke of Buckingham, and a frequent ſpeaker
in Parliament |. Coke, in his Detection, ſays, that Sir Robert was
one of thoſe who were appointed Shcriffs by the Duke's means,
to prevent his bcing returned in the ſceond parliament of King
Charles : but, whatever was intended, this did not take place, for
he was choſen for the county. By the liſt of Sheriffs in Collinſon,
it appears, however, that the ſame gentleman who had ſerved the
office the year before continued to ſerve it this year, which looks
as if there had been ſome difficulty about the appointment of a
new one. He died in 1638 ºff.
* Collinſon's Hiſtory of Somerſet, vol. III. p. 314.
+ Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria, vol. III.
Collins's Peerage, § Ruſhworth, vol. I, ſub anno,
| Ibid, ºf Collinſon,
To
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To the eldeſt Lady Delaware, wife of Tho-
mas late Lord Laware *, & £. Iod
Á. Io and a mourning gown to Mr. Dočtor
Lloyd, IO
Aſ. Ioo to Henry jackſon and john Walker;
to be diſpoſed of by them to ſuch poor as
they think fit. I GO
To Henry Smith of Old Change, 5
A. Iooo owing to him by Mr. Serjeant
Amherſ, to buy lands for the poor of Rich-
mond, to continue to them as his gifts to
other towns do +, food;
Henry Henn, to be one of his Feoffees, in the room
of Sir Edward Francis.
He recites ſhortly his firſt conveyances in truſt, and
the power of revocation in them; and ſays, that “fi-
“ thence by ſome indirect and colourable pretences,
“ by ſome deed ſince made, it is pretended that I
“ have releaſed the power of revocation,” which re-
leaſes, if any, he ſays, are contrary to his intent; and,
that Sir Edward Francis, Middleton, Amherſ, and Lum-
ley, owe him great ſums of money; he wills his exe-
cutors to get in the ſame. *
He gives to his executors after named, and to their
heirs and aſſigns, all his manors, &c. in London, Mid-
dleſex, Kent, Suſſex, Glouceſter, and Worceſter t, or elſe-
where, and all his goods, upon truſt, for the purpoſes
expreſſed, and which may be expreſſed by writing,
under his hand and ſeal; and, for want of ſuch ap-
pointment, then to charitable uſes, to the relief and
maintenance of poor towns, “in the ſame manner as
“I have formerly appointed to the towns of Wandſ:
“worth and Kingſion,” at the diſcretion of his execu-
torS.
* He was captain general of Pirginia in 1609, and died in his
return to England. His lady was Cicely, daughter of Sir Thoma;
Shirley, knt. Collins's Pecrage, vol. IV. p. 130.
...t It is not known that any particular land was bought with this
º but Richmond has a large allowance out of the Kenſing
f I have no trace of any eſtate in Worcºfferſhire; nor is there any
mention of it in Dr. Naſh's Hiſtory of that County.
B 2. He
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IIe appoints as Executors,
w George Witmore, alderman of London,
George Lowe,
William Blake, -
William Rolfe, Eſq.
Richard Guruard, clothworker,
and p
Henry jackſon, grocer.
And,
Mr. Juſtice Cooke,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill,
Mr. Alderman Parkhurſ?,
and George Duncomb, Eſq. ,
to be overſeers of his will.
This will is atteſted by 4 witneſſes, to be ſubſcribed
with the proper hand of Mr. Smith, and to be ſealed,
publiſhed, and declared, by him.(who was of perfeót
memory), to be his laſt will, in preſence of 5 wit-
neſſes, one only of whom ſubſcribed to the handwrit-
ing of Mr. Smith, viz. Thomas Canon.
At the end is a memorandum that, after making his
will in writing, Mr. Smith did, on or about the 28th
of September, 1627, by word of mouth, give to his
nephew Henry jackſon, ſ. 1 ooo, and ſome other ſmall
legacies to his ſervants Michael Montgomery and Mary
Davaſour; being preſent George Lowe, Henry jackſon,
Michael Montgomery, and Mary Davaſour.
At another time he gave to Sir Thomas Canon, knt.
to buy him a ring ſ. 5, and ſome other ſmall legacies,
and, being aſked which of his kindred he meant by the
words “the pooreſt of his kindred,” in the legacy of
£, Iooo bequeathed by his will, made anſwer, “the
“pooreſt of his ſiſters children, and their children
“fucceſſively ºr
On the 3d of January following, 1627–8, he died.
On the 23d of that month Sir William Blake, George
Lowe, Richard Gurnard, and Henry jackſon, four of
his executors, proved his will in the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury. Another probate was taken by William
* The original Will, with the above Memorandum added to it,
is in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
A. Rolfe
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Rolſe and George Whitmore, two other of the executors,
on the 19th of June, 1628.
On the 7th of Feb. 1627–8, he was buried at
Wandſworth, as appears by the following entry in the .
books of the Heralds' College:
“The worſhipfull Mr. Henry Smith, gent. and citi-
“zen of London, departed this mortall life at his houſe
“ in Silver-ſtreete, London, the 3d day of January *,
“ 1627, being of the age of 79 yeares at May next,
“whoſe ſunerall was worſhipfully ſolemnized in the
“ pariſhe church of Wandeſworth, in the county of
“Surrey, and his body interred in the chauncell of
“ the ſaide church, the 7th daye of February follow-
“ inge, being his deſire there to be buried becauſe it
“ was the parriſh of his nativity. He married only
‘‘ one wife, who died long ſince, but never had any
“ iſſue by her. The executors of his laſt will and
“ teſtament are, Sir William Blake, of Kenſington neare
“ London, knight, George Whitmore, alderman of Lon-
“don, William Rolfe, of Londom, eſquire, George Lowe,
‘‘ of London, merchaunt, and Richard Gurnett, citizen
“ and mercer of London, and Henry Jackſon, citizen
‘‘ of London. The officers of arms that attended the
“ ſaid funerall were, Samſon Lennard, Blewmantle de-
“puty for Sir Richard St. George, knt. Clarencieux
“Kinge of Armes, and Thomas Tomſon, Rouge Dra-
“gon, who ſerved for himſelf, by whom this Certi-
“ficate was taken +.”
In the chancel of Wandſworth church is a flat ſtone
with this inſcription:
Depoſitum Henrici Smith, ſenatoris Londinenſis.
Mole ſub hac quaeris quis conditur, optime leótor,
Cujus et qualis, quantus in orbe fuit *
A dextri muri ſtatuam tu cernere poſſis
Oranti ſimilem, marmore de Pario;
Subter quam ſtatuam cernatur tabula ſculpta
Auratis verbis, quae tibi cuncta notant.
* This ſeems to be a miſtake for the 30th.
t Regiſter I, 23, 29, in Coll. Armor'.
B 3 Againſt
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Againſt the Eaſt wall, under an arch ſupported by
2 pillars of the Ionic order, is the effigies of Mr.
Smith, kneeling on a cuſhion before a table, on which
lies a book. He is dreſſed in a long gown with red
ſleeves, holding a death's head between his hands; a
ruff round his neck, a beard, his hair cut ſhort, leav-
ing his ear uncovered. Over the entablature is a ſhield
with his arms, differing from thoſe in the books at the
Heralds' College, having quarterings added “.
Over the pillars are the figures of 2 boys; that on
the dexter ſide points with the finger of his right
hand to the inſcription below; the left hand is broken
off; the boy on the finiſter ſide holds an hour-glaſs in
his right hand, and in the left"a ſpade, on which he
reſts his foot. At the top is a ſhield with the arms;
as is ſeen in the engraving of the monument.
Underneath is this inſcription, which, however, does
not tell the reader every thing, as was promiſed, by the
former.
“Here lieth the body of Henry Smith, eſq. ſome
“ time citizen and alderman of London, who departed
“ this life the 30th day of January, anno Dom. 1627,
‘‘ being then neere the age of 79 yeares, whome,
“while he lived, gave unto theſe ſeveral townes in
“Surry following one thouſand pounds apeece, to
“buy lands for perpetuity, for the reliefe and ſetting
“poor people at worke in the ſaid townes, viz. to the
“towne of Croydon, one thouſand pounds; to the towne
“ of Kingſton, one thouſand pounds; to the towne of
“Guildford, one thouſand pounds; to the towne of
tº Dorking, one thouſand pounds; and, by his laſt will
“ and teſtament, did further give and deviſe, to buy
“lands for perpetuity and ſetting the poore a-worke,
“ unto the towne of Reigate, one thouſand pounds;
“ to the towne of Richmond, one cfpccialtye or debt of
“a thouſand pounds; and, unto this towne of Wandſ-
* At the Heralds' College the firſt quarter is only given. Theſe
arms alſo differ from thoſe on the ſeal annexed to his will, and on
that annexed to his articles with the town of King/lon, as appears by
the engraving here given.
“worth,
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** worth, wherein he was borne, the ſum of five hun-
“dred pounds, for the ſame uſe as before; and did
“further will and bequeath one thouſand pounds to
‘‘ buy lands for perpetuity, to redeem poore captives
“ and priſoners from the Turkiſh tyranny ; and, not
“heere ſtinting his charity and bounty, did alſo give
“ and bequeath the moſt part of his eſtate, being to a
“great value, for the purchaſing lands of inheritance
“ for ever for the reliefe of the poore and ſetting them
“a-worke: a pattern worthy the imitation of thoſe
“whom God has bleſſed with the abundance of the
“goods of this life to follow him therein.”
By whom this monument was erected does not ap-
pear; but it muſt have been ſoon after his death, as the
inſcription is copied in the edition of Stow's Survey,
printed in 1633.
The times immediately ſucceeding the Reformation
were perhaps peculiarly adapted to encourage chari-
table donations. That motive which had induced our
anceſtors to endow monaſteries, however miſtaken in
its application, had its origin in the moſt reſpectable
and the moſt amiable feelings of the human mind; it
aroſe from a deep ſenſe of religion, ſo far as knowledge
then went, and from benevolence to the poor. The
revenues of religious houſes were not given merely for
the ſuſtenance of lazy monks; they were intended alſo
for the ſupport of the poor, and much of them was
really applied to that purpoſe. It is well known, that
there were no poor-rates till after the ſuppreſſion of
thoſe houſes.
The original idea was ſtrong in the minds of thoſe
who lived at the time of the Reformation; it was en-
forced by ſeeing the diſtreſs of the poor, from the want
of their uſual aſſiſtance; and perhaps ſome ſcruples of
conſcience might ariſe as to the appropriation of the
whole of the monaſtic eſtates to private uſe. Perhaps
it was thought, that the dedication of part to the
founding of ſchools, &c. would be a compoſition for
B 4 retaining
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retaining the reſt. The infancy of manufactures, new
ver to be carried on without money, pointed out, that
it was an act of charity, as well as of public ſpirit, to
promote their extenſion by loans to young and poor
traders; and, though a ſmile may be excited in the
countenance of a London merchant, or a Mancheſter
manufacturer in theſe days, at hearing it ſuppoſed that
a loan of ſ. 20 could be of any poſſible uſe in a comr
mercial light, there is no doubt that in thoſe days it
was of ſubſtantial benefit to many. It was adopted by
Sir Thomas White, the munificent founder of St. John’s
College, Oxford *; by that truly venerable prelate Arch-
biſhop Abbot ; and by many others, as well as by Mr.
Smith.
The
* There is, however, a remarkable circumſtance in the hiſtory of
Sir 7 homas J4%ite, which ſhews that, in a Corporation, gratitude for
benefits reccived does not always laſt even ſo long as the life of the
benefactor; and that, aſter his death, every regard to his intentions
is utterly laid aſide. It is upon record, that Sir Thomas White had
carrical his benevolence to mankind in general ſo far, as not to
have made a competent proviſion for his wife; that, having given
the city of Coventry a ſum of A. 14oo, towards purchaſe of an eſ-
tate, part of which was to be applied in lending ſ, 40 a year to in-
duſtrious young men of Coventry, to enable thcm to ſet up in
trade; and, after a certain period, to be lent to the towns of North-
ampton, Leicºſier, Nottingham, and Warwick, in rotation, for the
ſame purpoſe; he aſterwards requeſted the Corporation of Coveniry,
to ſecure ſ. 40 a year to his wife for her life, if ſhe ſurvived. It’
appears that they refuſed to do it; and it appears, that they con-
verted the rents of the eſtate, which about 17 . . was increaſed to
upwards of £.900 per annum, to the private purpoſes of individuals
of the Corporation, defrauding their own poor of their due ſhare,
and the other towns of every part of the donation. Fortunately
in this country, the law protećts, the property of the poor as well
as of the rich ; and, ſoon after the beginning of the preſent cen-
tury, their rights were reſtored to the poor of Coventy, and the
other places *.
This tranſaction is more fully ſtated in “ An Account of
the benefactions and charities given to the City of Coventry,”
printcd in 1733; where it appears, that in 1695 an Information
was filed againſt the Corporation, to obtain an account of the fur-
plus profits; that it was diſmiſſed by Lord Keeper Wrighteſin I; oo,
bnt on an appeal to the Houſe of Lords the decree was reverſed,
their lordſhips declaring, that the increaſe of the value of the
gº * Mich. Term, 17eo; 2 Vernon's Reports, p. 397.
eſtate
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The eſtates of which Mr. Smith died ſeiſed, ſo far
as can be aſcertained, conſiſted of
His houſe in Silver-ſtreet, London,
Knole-houſe and Park, with the manors of Knole, Se-
venoaks, Kemſing, and Seale, in Kent, and the advow-
ſons of Sevenoaks and Seal, and lands there.
The manor of Warbleton, in Suſſex, with the advow-
ſon of the church, and divers farms and woods there.
The manor and farm of Iwood, and a manſion houſe
in Warbleton.
The manor of Southwicke and Eaſtbrooke, in the pa-
riſh of Southwicke, in Suſſex. i
The manor of Longney, in the county of Glouceſter,
the impropriate reëtory and lands there,
Meſſuages and lands in Kenſington, Chelſea, and St.
Margaret, Weſtminſter. *
Meſſuages and farms at Stoughton, in the county of
Leiceſter.
What perſonal eſtate he died poſſeſſed of does not
appear, but it muſt have been confiderable, as the fol-
lowing eſtates were in the hands of his truſtees, and
ſeem to have been purchaſed by them : -
The moiety of the manor of Worth, in Suſſex, and
of divers farms and lands there. -
A ſmall farm at Longſtock Harrington, in Hants.
The manor of Longſtock Harrington, and a meſſuage
and farm there.
eſtate ought to be applied towards the augmentation of the ſeveral
charities. The Corporation delayed the proceedings as much as
poſſible, and it was 9 years before an account could be got; at laſt,
A. 2241 was reported due from them. They then prevailed on the
other towns to enter into a private compromiſe, and made leaſes
to their own families and friends for long terms at ſmall rents.
This being diſcovered, a new Information was filed by the Attor-
ney General in 17 Io; when, the Corporation not having paid the
money reported due, the eſtate was ordered to be conveyed to
łł'illiam Bromley, Eſq. and others; and it was conveyed accordingly,
and remained in their hands till 1722, when the Corporation ap-
plied to the Court of Chancery for a re-conveyance, ſtating, that
they had paid the money due, and they obtained it.
The
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The impropriate reëtory of Alfriſon, in Suffºx.
Part of the impropriate reëtory of Mayfield, in
Suſſex.
A farm and lands in Telſcombe, in Suſſex.
A meſſuage and farm, called Hall farm, in Farring-
don, in Hants. t
Some cloſes, called Mynley, ten acres; and a cloſe
called Burge, in Aſh, in Surrey.
A capital meſſuage, called Gardiners; and another
meſſuage and lands in Ruſper, in Suſſex.
Some lands in Great Bookham and Fetcham, in Sur-
frøy.
ºrhe manor of Unſeed and Unſeed-farm, in Shalford,
in Surrey.
A capital meſſuage, watermill, and 9 oxgangs of
land, and other lands in Bottesford, in the county of
Leiceſter.
... A capital meſſuage, and 6 cloſes of meadow or
paſture, containing 61 acres, and 48 acres of arable land,
in Carſhalton, in Surrey. º -
Several pieces of meadow in Deptford, in Kent, and
Surrey. *
The manor of Froddeſwell, in the county of Stafford,
and lands there. - *
A capital meſſuage in Hartlepool, in Durham, and a
meſſuage and lands there. ſ
A meſſuage and lands at Shalden, in Hants.
A meſſuage in St. John's, within the Soake of Win-
cheſter. -
A nieſſuage and lands in Chihnyche, in Shropſhire.
A farm and lands at Tolle/hunt Darcey, in Eſſex.
Small as the gift to his poor relations was, it is now
of real ſervice to their deſcendants; and perhaps he
made uſe of the only poſſible method to perpetuate it
to their poſterity. The diſtribution reſting entirely
with the truſtees, there is nothing that can be offered
to ſale. Many of theſe relations are now in low ſituati-
ons, and their predeceſſors ſeem always to have been
ſo. Each of theſe now receives ſ. 28 a year; and
there is ſtill a ſurplus, which is occaſionally applied to
put
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put out their children apprentices, or to relieve parti-
cular diſtreſs. -
The allowance uſed to be very trifling to each, as
they were about 15 in number, and there was only ſ. 6o
a year to divide amongſt them all ; but it was raiſed to
the preſent amount in conſequence of there having
been no application on behalf of captives for many
years. That money had been from time to time laid
out by the truſtees in the purchaſe of ſtock, and the
dividends were added to the capital as they were re-
ceived, by which a conſiderable ſum had accumulated.
In 1772, the truſtees obtained from Parliament power
to give the dividends of this ſtock to the poor rela-
tions, when there ſhould be no claim made for cap-
tives. No ſuch claim has been made ſince that time.
Of the donations to the principal market towns in
Surrey, I have got the moſt information from Kingſton
upon Thames. The articles which he entered into with
that corporation are now amongſt their archives *.
They are dated 11 June, 1624. By theſe it appears,
that he veſted in the Corporation [.. I ooo, they pay-
ing to himſelf for his life ſ. Ioo per annum; and,
after his deceaſe, paying £. 8o per annum for ever,
for the uſe of the poor of that town, to be employed
in providing materials for ſetting poor people to work,
affording relief to the poor, putting out apprentices,
&c. . In 4 Charles I. the money was laid out in the
purchaſe of the manor of Waterville Eſher, alias Mil-
bourn, and certain lands in Eſher, which were ſold to
them by Robert Hatton, Eſq. then their recorder. In
the 4 Geo. I, the manor was conveyed, by the cor-
poration, under an act of parliament, to Thomas Holſes,
Duke of Newcaſtle, (who lived at Claremont in Eſher,)
in confideration of an annuity of ſ. 95, which was ſe-
cured by the ſame act. The preſent income of the
eſtate is in the whole £. Ioff.
* A copy of them is given in the Appendix.
C The
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The ſeal to this deed is the ſame as that annexed to
his will, viz. a feſs between 3 fleurs de lis”.
The £. Iboo given to Guildford was, with other mo-
ney, laid out in the purchaſe of the manor of Poyle, and
eſtates of which the town-mills are part. The rents are
annually diſtributed by the corporation at Chriſtmas.
of the money given to Farnham, the table of bene-
factions in the church ſays,
“ 1650. , Henry Smith, Eſq. gave £. Iooo, laid out
“in lands in Farringdom in Hants, and Aſh in Surrey,
“ now of the yearly value of £. 72, received by the
“ churchwardens and overſeers, and by them diſpoſed
‘‘ of to aged and infirm people, and thoſe who have
“large families, and for the marriage of poor maidens,
** and putting forth apprentices, but not to thoſe who
“ are drunkards, ſwearers, whoremongers, pilferers,
“ diſobedient ſervants, vagrants, &c.”
It appears by deeds in the hands of the truſtees, that
the lands in Farringdon had been purchaſed of Ed- .
ward Knight, gent, and thoſe in Aſh of William Maun-
Jell, gent, before the year i 653; but the exact time is
not known. Theſe lands paſſed with the other truſt
eſtates in the conveyances to new truſtees till 1689, a
little before which time it is ſuppoſed the poſſeſſion was
given to the town. z * \
Godalming is in poſſeſſion of a farm in Shafford, called
the Manor of Unſted, near Unſted bridge, which was
purchaſed by the truſtees of john Auſten, Eſq. and
Margaret his wife, and paſſed with the other eſtates
, till 1689; about which time it is ſuppoſed, that this,
like the Farnham lands, was put into the hands of the
town. It conſiſts of a farm-houſe, buildings, and
* From the original deed, and the information of Mr. jemmett
Town-clerk of King/ion, and Mr. Strange, there. r
\ - 9I A.
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91 A. o R. 30 P. of land, now lett at £.73 Ioſ, rent,
the tenant paying one fourth of the land tax, which is
£, Io a year in the whole.
Dorking has a farm at Bottesford, in Leiceſterſhire,
which paſſed with the other eſtates till 1689, about
which time it is ſuppoſed to have been given up to the
town. It is deſcribed as a capital meſſuage or manſion
houſe, with the appurtenances in Botteſord, in the
county of Leiceſter, and alſo the water-mill, and nine
oxgangs of land, and all other meadows, paſtures, &c.
On an incloſure of the pariſh in 1770, the tenant offered
to undertake all the charge, if they would lett him a
leaſe for 31 years at the old rent; they accepted the
propoſal, as the diſtance from Dorking is ſo conſider-
able that it would have been difficult and expenſive to
have overlooked the work; beſides that, they had no
money to do it with. The preſent rent is £.5o.
In lieu of theſe nine oxgangs of land in the common
fields, there was an allotment of 130A. 2 R. 25 P. *
Reigate is in poſſeſſion of a farm, called Gardners, at
Ruſper, in Suſſex, which the truſtees purchaſed of Henry
johnſon, gent, and of ſome land, called Cowis's in New-
digate, in Surrey, purchaſed by them of Sir Thomas
Greſham. Theſe were given up to the town about the
ſame time as the laſt mentioned eſtates. The former
confiſts of a houſe and offices, 7 acres of meadow and
about 39 acres of arable, lett (in 1798) at £.17 a year;
the latter of about 90 acres of poor land lett at £. 23
I55, a year.
In 1625, Mr. Smith gave ſ. ſooo for the benefit of
the town of Croydon. He veſted it in Sir john Ton/ial,
and other truſtees, to the intent to pay him £. Ioo per
* Nichols's Hiſtory of Leiceſterſhire, vol. II. p. 90.
C 2 * 427, 224?
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annum during his life, and the principal to be laid out
in a purchaſe of lands, the profits whereof were to go
for ever for relief of the poor of the ſaid pariſh, by
raiſing a ſtock for ſetting them to work.
The articles with Mr. Smith are not amongſt the
town's deeds.
16 June, 1630, a meſſuage, farm, and lands, con-
taining about Ioo acres, called Stockingden, alias Stock-
ingdens, alias Stankendens, in Lymesfield, in Surrey, was
purchaſed with this money, and conveyed to Sir john
Tonſtall, and others, in truſt, and has been from time
to time conveyed to new truſtees.
In 1 jac. I, this farm was lett at £.70 per annum;
lately, at A.5c. * sº
Beſides this eſtate, Croydon has the lands at Deptford
mentioned in the conveyances as “divers meadows
and paſture grounds in Deptford, in the counties of
Kent and Surrey, then lett at £. 40 a year, or there-
abouts, purchaſed of Sir Richard Gurney.” In a deed
of 20 Dec. 1641, this rent was ſettled on the church-
wardens and overſeers of the town of Croydon. It re-
mained under the management of the truſtees longer
than thoſe of the other towns. In 1712, they lett it
on leaſe for 21 years, at 4.46 a year. Since that it
has been in poſſeſſion of the town. In 1799, it was
advertiſed to be lett on leaſe for 21 years to the beſt
bidder, at the New Croſs Inn, on the 19th of March,
by the following deſcription:
“Garden ground lying behind the ſaid
Inn, and adjoining on the Eaſt to the road
leading to Greenland Dock, containing 5 A.
3 R. and 29 P. more or leſs, and 8 A. 2 R.
and 29 P., more or leſs, of meadow land ad-
joining, now in the occupation of Mr. Ro- A. R. P.
bert Edmonds. 14 2. 18
{
* From a particular of the charity eſtates belonging to the
town, communicated by Mr. Drummond, of Croydon.
* ** Meadow
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A. R. P.
Brought over 14 2 18
“. Meadow land lying at a ſmall diſtance
from the above, late in the occupation of
Randall Trunley, and now of the ſaid Robert
Edmonds. t 8 2 21
“A field of meadow land lying near the
lower road to Deptford, late alſo in the oc-
cupation of the ſaid Robert Edmonds. 1 2 13
f 24 3 I2
This eſtate was lett for 4. Io; a year. *
The pariſh of Fetcham, in Surrey, is in poſſeſſion of
lands in that pariſh and the adjoining one of Great
Bookham, which the truſtees bought of Sir Francis Win-
cent, bart.; they were conveyed, with the other eſtates,
till 1689, before which time it is ſuppoſed they were
put into the hands of the pariſh of Fetcham.
They confiſt of
2 or 3 cloſes in Fetcham,
and lands in the common field there,
in all 17 acres, and
one ſmall meadow in Great Bookham,
and lands in the common field there,
in all Io acres and half.
The whole in 1798, let to Mrs. Hankey, of Fetcham
Houſe, at about £.30 a year *.
Of the capital meſſuage, 6 cloſes containing 61
acres, and 48 acres of arable, in Carſhalton, I cannot
get any account whatever.
* From the information of the Rev. Samuel Cooke, vicar of
Great Bookham.
C 3 Fr.ddeſwell,
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Froddeſwell, in Staffordſhire, is a conſiderable eſtate
lying cloſe to Chartley Park. By the above deed of
20 Dec. 1641, the rents were ſettled as follows:
Tamworth, Ǻmº £. I4
Litchfield, $ºmº 18
Stafford, tºmº – 14.
Newcaſtle under Lyne I 2
It ſeems to have been purchaſed by the truſtees from
the Earl of Eſſex, but has not been in the management
of the truſt ſince 1689. It is now in poſſeſſion of
Parl Ferrers, and the rents are not paid to the above
towns. &
The eſtate in Hartlepool, in the biſhoprick of Dur.
ham, is deſcribed as one capital meſſuage in Hartle-
pool, and divers other meſſuages, lands, and tene-
ments, there, purchaſed of Rorbert Perrett; and, by
the deed of 20 Dec. 1641, ſ. 30 per annum thereout
was ſettled on that town. It is ſuppoſed to be now in
their hands,
At Shalden, in Hants, one meſſuage, and divers
cloſes and parcels of land, meadow, wood, and paſture
and one meſſuage or tenement in the pariſh of St. john,
within the Soake of the city of Winton, purchaſed of
William Rolfe, at the rent of £24 for the firſt meſſuage
and lands, and ſ.4 for the laſt meſſuage, were allotted
by the deed of 20 Dec. 1641, as follows:
St. john, on the hill, within the Soake of
Winton, sº ſºmº tºº I I
St. Peters of Cheſhill (Cheeſehill), in ſaid
Soake, *res tºmº tºº
ſºmºyº IO
St. Michael, in ſaid Soake, — 5
St. Bartholomew, in ſaid Soake, emºnsº 2.
This eſtate has been out of the hands of the truſtees
"fince 1689. In the church of St. john there is hung
up a map of the eſtate at Shalden, which is now lett at
4.26 a year. *
Of
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Of the meſſuage and lands at Chilmyche, I know no-
thing. -
In the ſeſſion of parliament which began 13 Oét.
1675, john Pettus, of the county of Suffolk, knt.
who had married Elizabeth, one of the two daughters
and co-heirs of Sir Richard Gurney, and was member
of parliament for Dunwich, procured a bill to be
brought into the Houſe of Lords, by the Biſhop of
London, for the regulation of this charity; in which he
ſtates, amongſt other things, that application had been
made to the governors of Chriſt's Hoſpital to take a
conveyance of the eſtates, but that they had refuſed
to accept it; that the eſtates for many years had not
been applied according to the truſts, chiefly occaſioned
by the deaths of all the original truſtees, and the want
of a known public place where the perſons concerned
might receive their money; and he propoſed, that a
houſe ſhould be procured for meeting of the truſtees,
who ſhould be called “ Maſters and Governors of the
Charity,” and that they ſhould be incorporated.
This bill was read once; and, before any thing far-
ther was done, the parliament was prorogued to the
15 Feb. 1677. *
On 4 March, 1677–8, this bill was taken up and
referred to a committee, conſiſting of *
*s The Lord Privy Seal, *
Earls of Angleſey,
Huntingdon,
Bedford,
Bridgewater,
Northampton,
Mancheſter,
Rivers,
Peterborough,
* Rapin's Hiſtory of England, vol. II. p. 679.
C 4 Clarendon,
*
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Clarendon,
Eſſex,
Cardigan,
Craven,
Aileſbury,
Burlington.
*
Viſcounts Conway,
º Stafford,
Halifax.
The Archbiſhop of 2′ork.
The Biſhops of London,
Sarum,
Peterborough,
Rocheſter,
Briſtol, |
Gloceſter, • * ,
Bath & Wells,
Chicheſter,
Llandaff,
i Lincoln,
Oxford,
Exeter, ,
Lords Ferrerſ,
Paget,
North,
Chandois,
Hunſdon,
Petre,
Maynard,
Culpeper,
Hollis,
Delamere,
t Frechevill,
Arundell of Trerice.
14 March, 1677, this committee made an order for
hearing all perſons concerned; and, on the 26th of
the ſame month, Lord Delamer reported that the com-
mitttee
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mittee found that the then truſtees had behaved them-
'ſelves well in the execution of their truſt, and they
found no cauſe for paſſing the bill; and, on the queſ-
tion, whether the bill ſhould be engroſſed, it paſſed in
the negative *. *
Whilſt the bill was depending, Sir John Pettus
printed a paper which he called a caſe and juſtification
of himſelf reſpecting this bill, (and another relating
to a charity at Kelſhall, in Suffolk,) in which he aſſigns
his reaſons for bringing it forward. He ſays, he mar-
ried Elizabeth, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of
Sir Richard Gurney, one of the original truſtees, who
had been very active in the truſt for 20 years, who in
his will ſtates himſelf to have been ſo, and to be poſ-
ſeſſed of many evidences, books, and writings, relat-
ing to Mr. Smith's eſtates, which he requires his co-
heirs and truſtees to be very careful of ; and he charges
them, out of the remaining undiſpoſed eſtates of Mr.
Smith as the ſame ſhould come in, to get the eſtates
ſettled on Chriſt's Hoſpital.
That, after all the original truſtees were dead, he
and Thomas Richardſon, Baron of Cramond in Scotland,
then deceaſed, who had married the other of Sir
R. Gurney's daughters, applied to Chriſt's Hoſpital,
who refuſed to accept the truſt, as the trouble was
great, and the gift no way ſuitable to the conſtitution
of their Hoſpital.
That he had with all poſſible care preſerved the
books and evidences ſafe, through all dangers of fire,
plague, and removals, except ſome which he lodged
with Lord Lumley, who promiſed to reſtore them.
That, under theſe circumſtances, he thought him-
ſelf obliged in honour, juſtice, and charity, and in
requital to Sir Richard Gurney's love to him, to uſe his
utmoſt endeavours to ſee that part of his will per-
formed; and to have it ſettled in ſome known diſtinét
place, and upon known and eminent perſons, who
may manage it according to the donor's intentions.
* Lords' Journals.
The
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The truſt was renewed in 1653, and 1658,
1675,
1689,
I 704,
I 724,
1758,
I775,
* 1798,
in which laſt year the eſtates were veſted in the fol-
lowing gentlemen: #
Of the old truſtees,
The Earl of Aſhburnham,
Lord Onſlow,
Lord Pelham,
Viſcount Sydney,
Lord Grantley,
Wiſcount Midleton,
Right Honourable Thomas Pelham,
Honourable Thomas Onſlow,
Sir Robert Clayton, Bart.
Sir Frederick Evelyn, Bart.
Samuel Blunt, Eſq.
john Smith Budgen, Eſq.
Lord Gwydir, ,
james Fox, Eſq.
William Man Godſchall, Eſq.
Sir Richard Onſlow, Bart.
james Scawen, Eſq.
and
Henry Dormer Pintent, Eſq.
To whom were added,
The Duke of Norfolk,
Lord Romney,
Lord King,
Honourable john Thomas Townſhend,
Honourable and Reverend George Pelham,
Honourable Chapple Norton,
Sir john Frederick, Bart,
Henry
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Henry Boulton, Eſq.
Thomas Budgen, Eſq.
William Currie, Eſq.
Reverend Samuel Man Godſchall,
Reverend Arthur Onſlow, Dean of Worceſter,
Arthur George Onſlow, Eſq.
Reverend George Walton Onſlow,
Thomas Page,
Thomas Sutton, |
Charles Townſhend,
john Kemeys Tynte,
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ROBERT, EARL of ESSEX,
was ſon of that unfortunate nobleman who was once
ſo great a favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and who was
attainted and beheaded in 1601. He was born in
1592, and was reſtored to his honours by King james,
in his firſt year. His firſt wife was Frances, daughter
of Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, the ſtory of whoſe divorce
from him, and her ſubſequent marriage with the Earl
of Somerſet, then King james's great favourite, is well
known. By Winwood's ſtate papers it appears, that
there was confiderable difficulty in obtaining the di-
vorce; and there is a letter of the Earl of Southamp-
ton, in which he plainly ſays, that the King's inter-
ference made ſome of the biſhops who were againſt
it alter their minds in favour of it *. *
He was about the age of Henry Prince of Wales,
and was a great favourite with him, though once a
quarrel aroſe after a game at tennis, in which the
Prince having uſed ſome harſh expreſſion, the young
earl ſtruck him. His recreations were, riding the
great horſe, running at the ring, and the exerciſe of
arms; but he did not neglect, his ſtudies. After his
divorce he went to the wars in the Netherlands, and
* Vol. III. p. 475. f
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from thence to the King of Bohemia. Iſe returned to
England a little before the death of King james, and
went out in the expedition ſent by King Charles I. to
Cadiz, where nothing was effected, the hands of the
commanders being tied up. After his return he went
again to Holland; but, at the importunity of his
friends, he came home, and married Élizabeth, daughter
of Sir William Paulet, by whom he had one ſon, who
died very young. This match does not ſeem to have
been much more fortunate than the former, as he fe-
parated himſelf from her ".
In 1639, he was made lieutenant general of the ar-
my againſt the Scots, being then the moſt popular
man in the kingdom, and the darling of the ſwordmen.
He was ſo pleaſed with this promotion, that he was
capable of any impreſſion the King would have fixed
upon him +. In 1641, the King took the chamber-
lain's ſtaff from the Earl of Pembroke, and gave it to
him #. &
He was appointed general of the parliament army,
which he reſigned when the ſelf-denying ordonance
was paſſed in 1645. He died at South'ton, in Sept.
1646; Lord Clarendon ſays, without being ſenſible of
ſickneſs Š; but Mr. Codrington ||, a particular friend of
his, and who drew up an account of his life, ſays, he
was ſeized with a violent ſickneſs, which confined him
to his bed, many of the nobility attending him there
to his laſt moment. .
Lord Clarendon, as may be ſuppoſed, does not ſpeak
favourably of him, and yet is forced to admit ſome
things favourable to his charaćter. He ſays, that he
had a weak judgement, ſome vanity, and much pride;
that he had no ambition of title, office or preferment,
but only to be kindly looked upon, and kindly ſpoken
* Mr. Codrington's Account of his Life, in a volume of papers
extraćted from the Harleian Miſcellany, p. 155.
f Ibid.
f Lord Clarcndon's Hiſt, vol. I. pp. I 14, 162.
§ Ibid. vol. III. p. 42.
| Mr. Codrington, p. 17 I.
to,
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to, and quietly to enjoy his own fortune. No man in
his nature more abhorred rebellion than he did, nor
could he have been led into it by any open tempta-
tion, but by a thouſand diſguiſes and cozenages. His
pride ſupplied his want of ambition, and he was angry
to ſee any man more reſpected than himſelf, becauſe
he thought he deſerved it more and did better requite
it, for he was in his friendſhips juſt and conſtant, and
would not have pračtiſed foully againſt thoſe he took
to be his enemies. His vanity diſpoſed him to be His
Excellency; and his weakneſs, to believe he would be
general in the houſe as well as in the field, and be
able to govern their counſels and reſtrain their paſſions,
as well as to fight their battles, and that he ſhould by
this means become the preſerver, and not the deſtroyer,
of the King and kingdom *.
SIR CHRISTOPHER NEWILL, }
was ſecond ſon of Edward Lord Abergavenny. He
was ſeated at Newton St. Loe, in the county of Somer-,
ſet, was made one of the knights of the bath at the
coronation of King Charles I. He married Mary
daughter and co-heir of Thomas Darcey, of Tol/hunt
Darcey, in the county of Eſſex, and died in 1649.
His deſcendant ſucceeded to the title of Abergavenny
in 1694, on failure of his cláer brother's iſſue tº.
RICHARD EARL of DORSET,
was an amiable nobleman, a patron of ictters, and
bounteous to diſtreſſed worth #. He was grandſon of
* Lord Clarendon's Hiſtory, vol. II. p. 208.
+ Collins's Peerage, vol. IV. p. 115.
, ; Pennant's Tour in Scotland, vol. III. P. 358.
º Thomas
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Thomas Lord Buckhurſt, lord high treaſurer to Queen
Elizabeth, and created Earl of Dorſet I jac. I. He
died in 1608, and was ſucceeded by his ſon Robert,
who died the next year, leaving his ſon this Richard
his heir, who, two days after his father's death, mar-
ried the famous Anne Clifford, daughter and heir of
the Earl of Cumberland, and who, after his death,
married the Earl of Pembroke *. Her portrait is at
Knole, with black curling hair, and immenſe rows of
pearl round her neck. His portrait is there alſo.
By his hoſpitality, tilting and maſking in honor of
Prince Henry, eldeſt ſon of King james the Firſt, he
greatly incumbered his patrimony; though, by a rental
taken of his lands, manors, and other poſſeſſions, in
the year 1619, it appears, that his yearly income
amounted to 10,3431. 18s. 3.d. ſterling. He ſold
Knole (to Mr. Smith) and many other eſtates. He
died without iſſue male, at Dorſet Houſe, near Fleet-
ſtreet, London, 28 March 1624, and was buried at
Withiam, in Suſſex +.
SIR RICHARD LUMLEY,
by the will of John, Lord Lumley, who died in 1609 f,
ſucceeded to his eſtates. He was knighted by King
James, at Theobalds, July 19, 1616, and created Viſ-
count Lumley, of Waterford, in the kingdom of Ire-
land, by letters patent 12 July, 4 Car. I. 1628 S. He
fortified Lumley caſtle for King Charles, and was with
Prince Rupert at the ſiege of Briſtol. He died in
and his ſon john having died before him, he
was ſucceeded by his grandſon Richard.
* Haſted's Hiſtory of Kent, vol I. p. 347.
f Hiſtory of Lewes, p. 406, and Haſted, vol I. p 347.
# There is a monument for him at Cheam, with a long in-
ſcription giving an account of his family, copied in Aubrey's
Surrey.
. § Collins's Peerage, vol. III, p. 459.
SPR
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SIR GEORGE CROKE
was deſcended from a family called Le Blount. His
anceſtor taking part with the houſe of Lancaſter, was
obliged to conceal himſelf whilſt that of York had
the power, and, the better to do ſo, took the name of
Croke. When Henry VII. obtained the crown, he
wrote himſelf Croke alias Blount ; but when Sir George's
elder brother, Sir John, married the daughter of Sir
Michael Blount, of Maple Durham, in Oxfordſhire, his
father diſcontinued the name of Blount, and that of
Croke only has been uſed by the family ever ſince.
Sir George was third ſon of Sir John Croke, by Eliza-
beth, daughter of Alexander Unton, Fſq. He was born
about 2. Eliz. (1560), was ſent to Oxford, and thence
to the Inner Temple, where he was double reader. On
29 June, 21 jac. (1623), he received his writ to be a
ſerjeant, was knighted, and made King's Serjeant. On
11 Feb. 22 jac. (1624), he was created one of the
juſtices of the Common Bench. On the death of that
King, the judges patents becoming void, King Charles
ſignified his pleaſure to the Lord Keeper, that all in
judicial places ſhould retain them as before, and be
new-impowered. The judges, however, conceived it
ſafeſt, that none ſhould intermeddle till re-authoriſed
by new patents, and ſworn anew. Patents were ac-
cordingly made out, and he was re-ſworn at the Lord
Keeper's houſe, as one of the juſtices of the Common
Bench.
In Michaelmas term, 4 Cha. I. (1629), on the death
of Sir John Doddridge, he was advanced to be one of
the juſtices of the King's Bench.
He gave his opinion againſt the legality of ſhip-
money *.
* Whitelock.
At
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At the age of 80 he petitioned the King, that, in
conſideration of his age, and dullneſs of hearing, and
other infirmities, whereby it had pleaſed God to viſit
him, and finding himſelf diſabled to do that ſervice in
the courts which his place required, he might be diſ-
penſed with further attendance in the courts. The
King, in anſwer, expreſſing a full approbation of his
ſervice, diſpenſed with his further attendance in the
courts, but continued him one of the judges of the
bench, and ordered all fees and duties to be paid to
him as uſual, ſaving the allowance for the circuits.
He then retired to his houſe at Waterſtoke, in Ox-
fordſhire, and died in 1641, in the 82d year of his
age. He was buried there, where a tomb was erected
to his memory by his lady *, daughter of Sir Thomas
Bennett, with the following inſcription:
Georgius Croke, Eques Auratus, unus Juſticiario-
rum de Banco Regis, judicio linceato & animo prae-
ſenti inſignis, veritatis hares, quem nec mina mec honos
allexit; Regis authoritatem & Populi libertatem aquà
lance libravit +; Religione cordatus, vità innocuus,
manu expanſà, corde humili pauperes irrogavit; Mun-
dum & vicit & deſeruit anno aetatis ſuae Lxxx11, anno-
que Regis Caroli xv II, Annoque Domini MD cr1.1.
Sir Harebottle Grimſton, who married his daughter,
gives this charaćter of him :
“He was of a moſt prompt invention and appre-
henſion, which was accompanied with a rare memory,
by means whereof, and through his indefatigable in-
duſtry, he attained to a profound ſcience and judge-
* There is a portrait of this lady at Gorhambury, dated 1626.
Whitelock gives her great merit in her huſband's decifion in the
caſe of ſhip-money. He had, it ſeems, reſolved on the contrary
fide ; but, appearing to waver, was told by her, “ that ſhe hoped
he would do nothing againſt his conſcience, for fear of any dan-
ger or prejudice to him or his family; and, that ſhe would be con-
tent to ſuffer want, or any miſery with him, rather than be an oc-
caſion for him to do or ſay any thing againſt his judgement or
conſcience.” Pennant's Journey from Cheſter.
f This probably alludes to what he did about Ship-money.
D In lent
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inent in the laws, and to a ſingular intelligence of the
true reaſons thereof, and principally in the forms of
good pleading. . He was of an univerſal and admira-
ble experience in all other matters which concerned
the commonwealth. He heard patiently, and never
ſpake but to the purpoſe, and was always glad when
matters were repreſented to him truly and clearly. He
had this diſcerning gift, to ſeparate the truth of the
matter from the mixture and affection of the deliverer,
without giving the leaſt offence. He was reſolute and
ſtedfaſt for truth; and, as he deſired no employment
for vain-glory, ſo he refuſed none for fear; and by
his wiſdom and courage in conſcionably performing
his charge, and faithfully diſcharging his conſcience,
and his modeſty in ſparingly ſpeaking thereof, he was
without envy, though not without true glory. To
ſpeak of his integrity and forbearing to take bribes
were a wrong to his virtue. He was of a ſtrićt life to
himſelf, yet in converſation full of ſweet deportment,
and affable, tender, and compaſſionate, ſeeing none in
diſtreſs whom he was not ready to relieve ; nor did I
ever ſee him do any thing more willingly than when
he gave alms. He was every way liberal, and cared
for money no farther than to illuſtrate his virtue. He
was of great modeſty, and of a moſt plain and ſingle
heart, of an antient freedom and integrity of mind,
eſteeming it more honeſt to offend than to flatter or
hate. He was remarkable for hoſpitality, a great lo-
ver and much beloved of his country, wherein he was
a bleſſed peace-maker, and in thoſe times of confla-
gration was more for the bucket than the bellows,
often pouring out the water of his tears to quench
thoſe beginning flames which others did ventilate. In
religion he was devout towards God, reverent in the
church, attentive at ſermons, and conſtant in family
duties. Though now dead, he ſtill continues to do
good, being the founder of a chapel, which he cauſed
to be dedicated and ſet apart for the ſervice and wor-
ſhip of God, and for the eaſe of the inhabitants of
Stukeley, (being an hamlet and member of Beckley, in
Buckinghamſhire, and at leaſt two or three miles from
the
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the pariſh church), as alſo of an hoſpital for poor peo-
ple; both which he endowed with a liberal revenue.”
This account is prefixed to the 3d vol. of his Re-
ports, ſigned Harebottle Grimſton, dated “from my
manor-houſe of Gorhambury, May 7, 1657.”
There is a half-length pićture of him in his robes at
Gorhambury ",
SIR GEORGE WHITMORE,
haberdaſher, was ſon of William Whitmore, citizen and
haberdaſher, of London, who was ſon of Richard Whit-
more, of Chareley, in Shropſhire. He was ſheriff of Lon-
don in 1621, 19 ja. I. was alderman of Langbourn ward,
and lord mayor in 1631, 7 Cha. I. F. He lived at
Hackney, and built a large houſe, now (1799) uſed
for the reception of inſane perſons. He ſuffered for
his loyalty to King Cha. I. and died 12 Dec. 1654 f.
George and Thomas Whitmore, of London, Eſqrs. had
grants of divers lands in Kent, 8 jac. I. § Thomas
was ſon of Sir William Whitmore, brother of Sir George,
was created a baronet in 1641, and was a knight of
the Bath ||.
RICHARD AMPIERST
was called to the degree of ſerjeant at law, 2 Aug.
21 fa. I. "I He purchaſed the manor of Bayhall, in
* Pennant's Journcy from Cheſter, p. 247.
t Strypc's London, vol. II. p. 240. His inauguration was ccle-
bratcd by Thomas Heywood (who ſeems to have been poct laureat
to thc City) in ſundry triumphs, pageants, and ſhews, at the CX-
ponce of the ſociety of Haberdaſhers.
f Lyſons's London, vol. II. p. 488.
§ Haſted's Hiſtory of Kent, vol. I. pp. 99, 217.
| Ibid. p. 539. And from the information of Sir Iſaac Hard.
* Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales.
D 2 the
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the pariſh of Pembury in Kent, of Richard Earl of
Dorſet, made it his refidence, and died there in 1632 *.
From his brother jeffery, the late Lord Amherſ? is de-
ſcended tº.
*
HENRY HENN,
deſcribed by Mr. Smith as having been ſome time his
ſervant, was afterwards of Wingfield, in Berks. He
was created a baronet, I Oét. 1642, and, what ſeems
remarkable, had a grant of arms in the December fol-
lowing. In that grant it is ſtated, that the anceſtors
of the ſaid Sir Henry Henn, alias Hene (which lat-
ter was the way he wrote his name), were originally
of South Wales, from whence his grandfather tranſ-
planting himſelf into the county of Surrey, died
there, leaving William Henn, alias Hene, his ſon, fa-
ther of Sir Henry. In the Viſitation book for Berks,
in 1665, this William is deſcribed as of Dorking, in
Surrey #, and Sir Henry, as of Wingfield, aged 88.
Henry is ſtated to be his ſon, aged 33. He became
the ſecond baronet, married a daughter of Sir John
Corbet, Bart. and had ſeveral ſons. He was one of
thoſe intended to have been made a knight of the
royal oak, on the reſtoration of Cha. II. if that deſign
and been carried into execution. In the liſt returned
or that occaſion, he is ſaid to have an eſtate of A. 6oo
per annum Ş. He was ſucceeded by his own ſon Henry,
who was baptized 14 Oét. 1651, buried 16 Jan. 1705.
Richard, ſon of the laſt Henry, became the baronet
on his death ||, but he ſeems to have left no iſſue, and
* Haſted's Kent, vol. II. p. 358.
+ Ibid. Note O.
f Where ſome copyhold land remained in the family till 1710,
when it was ſold by Sir Richard, who ſucceeded his father Sir
Henry in 1705. From the Court Rolls of thc manor.
§ Wotton's Baronetage.
| Court Rolls of the manor of Dorking, in Surrey,
the
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the title is now extinét #. After his death, Mr. Ben-
net, and Mr. Druſt, who probably married ſome of
the family, and by that means became poſſeſſed of
Foljambe Park, ſold it to Lord Henry Beauclerk, who
ſold it to Mr. Towry, a commiſſioner of the vićtualling
office, and he, in 1798, to Mr. Bingley.
There are letters from the ſecond Sir Henry, dated
from Follyjohn +, by Maydenhead poſt. In one of thoſe
to Mr. Byne (clerk to the truſtees), dated 11 Nov.
1674, he ſays, as to the writings he has, he would gladly
part with them if he could be diſcharged; that thoſe which
belong to the market towns ſhould be delivered to them,
becauſe no treaſurer ever received their moneys but themſelves,
though ſubječi to the truſt as well as others, therefore
ſhall give them to ſuch places as they belong to ; for the
reſt he only deſires a diſcharge.
In another letter, dated the 19th of the ſame No-
vember, he ſays, he ſhall not diſown what he has re-
ceived, nor make advantage of it, but only purſue the firſt
intention, believing it as ſafe in his, as in other hands.
As to the market towns in Surrey, he ſhall keep their
zwritings till he meets the feoffees, and then ſubmit to their
judgement; but ſince Lichfield, Shrewſbury, and Hartle-
pool, are truſted with their writings, thoſe in Surrey
will think hardly of their countrymen, to be denied the
fame privilege. For the other writings, they are in a box
by themſelves, ready to be delivered.
In ſome of his letters he ſpeaks of his couſin Heme,
as acting for the truſt. And by other letters it ap-
pears, that this Mr. Hene went, in 1670, to Dublin,
with Lord Robartes ; and he writes from thence, that
he left all Mr. Smith's deeds in a trunk in his ſtudy in
the Temple, and thought they had been delivered to
Mr. Byne. In the conveyances in 1658, and 1675,
this Mr. Hene is deſcribed as of Tandridge, in Surrey,
Eſq. and in the latter, he is ſaid to be one of the ba-
rons of the exchequer in Ireland.
* From the information of Sir Iſaac Heard.
t Properly called Foljambe, the name of a manſion-houſe in
h'ingfield, formerly belonging to the Črown.
D 3 SIR
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SIR WILLIAM BLAKE,
who had been º before Mr. Smith's death, was
of the family of Blake, of Seton Delaval, in Northum-
berland *. He had an eſtate at Kenſington.
WILLIAM ROLFE.
His name appears as a witneſs to the execution of
the articles between Mr. Smith and the bailiffs of
Kingſton; and, having added ſcr' (ſcriptor) after it, as
was uſual at that time, I ſuppoſe he was a ſcrivener.
From an entry in a Viſitation-book at the College of
Arms, in 1633, it appears, that he was, or had been,
of London, and Totteridge in Herts, his ſon, William,
citizen and goldſmith, of London, being then living h.
SIR. RICHARD GOURNEY, or GURNEY,
Hays Lord Clarendon, was a man of wiſdom and cou-
rage, and being lord mayor of London on the King's
return from Scotland, 25 Nov. 1642, gave him a great
entertainment, at which the Queen, Prince, and the
whole court of lords and ladies, were preſent; and
on their return to Whitehall, they were attended by
the whole city. When the outcry againſt the biſhops
was at the height, Sir Richard, with great courage,
oppoſed the fanatic humours of the courts of alder-
* From the information of Sir Iſaac Heard,
F Ibid,
T]]CI).
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men and common council, and thereby made him-
ſelf ſo obnoxious to that party, that his houſe was
no leſs threatened and diſquieted by the tumults than
the houſe of lords. He apprehended ſome of the ri-
oters, and committed them to the cuſtody of the ſhe-
riffs of London in perſon, to be carried to Newgate;
but they were reſcued in Cheapſide, and the ſheriffs
forced to ſhift for themſelves *.
On complaint of the commons, the lords committed
him to the Tower, for cauſing the King's proclamation
againſt the militia to be publiſhed; and he was by the
lords, in preſence of the commons, adjudged to be
put out of his office of lord mayor, to be incapable
of bearing office in the city or kingdom, and of all
honour and dignity, and to be impriſoned during the
pleaſure of the two houſes of parliament h. He con-
tinued there till within a month of his death, which
happened 3 O&t. 1647, at his country houſe, within
ten miles of London f. This probably was Pointer's
Grove, at Totteridge, as his wife ſurvived him, and re-
ſided there in 1652 S.
He left two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth, and
Anne; Elizabeth married Sir john Pettus, of the county
of Suffolk, Knt. about 1636; and Anne married Tho-
mas Richardſon, Eſq. afterwards Baron of Cramond, in
Scotland, about a month before her father's death.
In his will, dated 27 Sept. 1647, he ſays, “And
“ whereas Henry Smith, of London, Eſq. deceaſed, did
“ make me, amongſt divers others of his feoffees, a
“feoffee in fee fimple of divers manors, meſſuages,
“lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with the ap-
“ purtenances, in ſeveral counties, of good yearly va-
“lue, in and upon truſt and confidence, and towards
“ the performance of divers charitable uſes for ever;
‘‘ and did alſo make me one of the executors of his
“laſt will and teſtament, in writing, for the better
“ performance of the charitable uſes by him intended
* Clarendon's Hiſtory of the Rebellion, vol. I. 322.
t Ibid. p. 700.
; Sir John Pettus's Juſtification.
§ Lyſons's Environs of London, vol. IV. p. 43.
D 4 ** and
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** and appointed to be performed; whereupon I have
“intermeddled as a feoffee and executor, amongſt
“many others, and have taken much care and pains
“...for the performance of the ſaid truſt and confidence
“ for 20 years together now laſt paſt, or thereabouts,
“ to my extream trouble and dammage, in diverting
** me from my neceſſary care and managing my own
“eſtate and affairs; I do hereby proteſt before God,
** and to all the world, that I have dealt therein to the
“beſt of mine underſtanding, according to the true
** meaning of the ſaid Henry Smith and the truſt in me
** in that behalf repoſed, and as to equity and Con-
** ſcience hath appertained, as by the evidences,
‘‘ books, and writings, concerning the ſame, if they
“may be ſafely preſerved and in all duc ſeaſons pro-
“duced, will I hope appear : and whereas, all the
“ ſaid feoffees, excepting myſelf, and the Right Hon-
“ourable Lord Ric/ard Lumley, Sir Chriſtopher Nevil,
“ Knt. of the Bath, Sir Henry Henn Bart, and Henry
“ jackſon, Gent. and all the ſaid executors, except
“myſelf and the ſaid Henry jackſon, are deceaſed,
** whereby the ſaid truſt (which for the future will re-
** quire a great and Conſtant care, labour, and charge,
“for the well managing thereof) may be in ſome dan-
** ger to be ſuppreſſed, neglected, or miſ-governed, if
“ ſome ſpecial care be not taken to prevent the ſame ;
“ and my heirs or executors may peradventure be
“charged or incumbered for what I have already
** done therein, if the ſaid evidences, books, and writ-
“ings, ſhould be aboliſhed, concealed, or miſlaid;
* I do therefore, upon this occaſion, wiſh, adviſe,
** and require, my co-heirs and executors aforeſaid, to
“ be very careful for the preſerving of the ſaid evi-
** dences, books, and writings, for the better clearing
“ of my eſtate and credit in that behalf, and my co-
“heirs and executors from all trouble and danger con-
“cerning the ſame. And I do further admoniſh and
{{ require them, by the advice of learned, good, and
* ſufficient counſel in the law, to take a ſpeedy
“ courſe, and to do and procure all neceſſary acts, at
% the charge of the remaining and undiſpoſed eſtate of
* * * * 4, £º the
6
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** the ſaid Mr. Henry Smith, as the ſame ſhall come in,
“ for the ſettling of the ſaid manors, meſſuages, lands,
“tenements, hereditaments, and premiſes, in and
“upon the corporation of the hoſpital of Chriſt Church,
“ London, for ever, by act of parliament, or other
“good means, for the better continuing and manag-
“ing of the charitable uſes, truſts, and confidences,
“which are to be performed by the conveyancer's
“will, and intention of the ſaid Henry Smith, for
“ever; with allowance of a competent recompence
“ and profit, to and for the ſaid hoſpital, and the cor-
“poration or members thereof, in perpetual ſucceſ-
‘‘ fion, as ſhall be found moſt agreeable to reaſon,
“ equity, and good conſcience, and to the true inten-
“tion of the ſaid Henry Smith #.”
He made his daughters, Elizabeth Pettus and Anne
Richardſon, executrixes +.
Sir john Pettus ſays, he can make it appear that he
ſuffered above ſ.30, ooo loſs, merely for his loyalty to
his King, and fidelity to ſupport the city of London's
rights #,
ROBERT PARKHURST
was 4th ſon of Henry Parkhurſt, of Guildford, in Sur-
rey, whoſe family is of great antiquity as yeomen in
that neighbourhood; was ſheriff of London in 22 jac. I.
1624; alderman of Portſoken ward in 1633; was
knighted, and became lord mayor in I I Car. I. 1635 §.
He purchaſed Purford Houſe and park near Ripley in
Surrey, which was ſold by him or his heirs to Sir Rich-
ard Onſlow, and is now the property of Lord Onſlow.
In Trinity church, Guildford, there is a monument for
* Sir John Pettus's Juſtification.
+ Ibid.
# Ibid.
§ Stripe's London, vol. II. 230.
him
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him, on which is his ftatue, in the lord mayor's habit,
with the regalia of the city of Londom ; at his feet is a
woman kneeling, and On a tablet is the following in-
infcription :
Hofpes
Ne forte nefcias quanto-
rum fint hæc quas cernis
nominum imagines Marmor
hoc te paucis docebit.
Prima eft fpe&tatiffimi viri Domini Roberti Parkhurft,
Equitis Aurati, Civitatis Londinenfis Senatoris ampliffi-
mi atque haud ita pridem prætoris ejufdem : in illo
Hemifphærio poftquam diu gravitate morum, probi-
tate vitæ, religionis zelo ; prudentiâ regiminis fum-
naque animi integritate fulfiffet, noviffo poft prætu-
ram anno difparuit, defiderium fui relinquens. Anno
falutis Chriftianæ I 635, ætatis fuæ 67.
Eroxima eft venerandæ matronæ, Dominæ Eleono-
ræ, uxoris ejus, tam pietatis ftudio, quam affeétus
caftitate vere comparis, quæ per quadraginta plus mi-
nus annos piiffima Tori comes cum effet, cumque a
marito diutius divelli vix fuftineret, dile&tum fuum
mortalitatis paffibus mox fecuta, conceffit naturæ,
gloriofam in Chrifto refurreétionem expeétans, anno
redemptionis 1638, ætatis autem 6o.
Ad lævam tertia eft leétiffimæ feminæ Dominæ
Elizabethæ Parkhurft, di&ti Roberti junioris, nuper
dulciffimæ conjugis ; filiæ vero Domini Henrici Baker,
Militis et Baronetti ; quam in ipfo ætatis flore, cum
nondum 29 annos compleverat, ex oculis hominum
mors eripuit, fed non ex animis aut memoriâ : Fuit
enim et mentis candore, et innocentiâ vitæ et firmi-
tate fidei, et inviétâ patientiâ et omni virtutis laude
adeo præftantiffima, ut inter ipfos mortales immorta-
litatem fit affecuta, antequam moreretur.
At the front of this monument, towards the bottom,
Monumentum hoc Dominus Robertus Parkhurft,
miles, pietatis ergo, cum lachrimis pofuit, ut jufta
faceret
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faceret ſimul et parentum memoriae, et conjugi fibique
locum haberet in quo, poſt decurſa vitae ſpatia, placidè
cum ſuis obdormiat atque conſcribatur.
The above is taken from Aubrey's Surrey, the mo-
nument itſelf being now concealed by wainſcot under
the gallery. When the church fell down in 174 , it
eſcaped from the ruins, was put up in the new church,
and then covered over.
GEORGE DUNCOMBE
was of the family of that name ſettled at Ruingho, in
Bucks, and Battleſden in Bedfordſhire. He was ſecond
ſon of Roger Duncombe, of Littlington, in Bedfordſhire,
by a daughter of Edmund Conqueſt, Eſq. of Houghton
Conqueſt in that county “; was bred to the law, and ſet-
tled at Weſton Houſe, in Albury, in Surrey, and lord of
the manor of Weſton Gumſhall, in that pariſh (now the
ſeat and eſtate of William Man Godſchall, Eſq. one of
the preſent truſtees). He was an eminent Court-keeper,
and acquired a very confiderable eſtate, of which the
only part that remains in any of his deſcendants is
Afold Park (now a farm), belonging to William Wood-
roffe, Eſq. and a farm in Shere, another in Wonerſh, and
one in Merrow, which belong to the Rev. George Chat-
field. Some branches of the male line were ſettled at
Tangley, and Shalford, in Surrey. One of Tangley was
created a baronet by Cha. II, but left no ſon, and all
the male line is now extinét, except the Rev. Thomas
Duncombe, rector of Shere, in Surrey.
The laſt of the name who inherited any part of the
eſtate was an attorney at Kidderminſter. About 30 or
40 years ago, he ſold what remained at Shal/ord and
Womerſh, and died, leaving only a daughter married to
Mr, Ingram.
* Pedigree of the family.
RENTALL
RENTALL of THE ESTATES
OF
HENRY SMITH, Esq. DEcEASED.
Dividends Dividends
Rents in Rents in on Stock on Stock
1768. I793. in 1768. in 1793.
1. s. d. /. s, d: I. s. d. l. 3. d.
Alfriſton tythes, Suſſex, 76 o o 180 o o
Mayfield tythes, Do. I3 o o 8o o o
Bexhill, fee farm rent, Do. 130 o o 130 o o
Eaſtbrook, Do. 5o o o 7o o o
Iwood, Do. 68 o o 90 o o
Dividends of Stock -
bought with º O O O O O O. o o o 29 I3 9
cut from this farm,
Kemſing and Hedding-
ton, Kent, Oxf. º IOA. o O 292 I5 o
Surrey.
Kenſington, Middleſex, 151 o o 151 o o
Dividends on Stock, O O O o o o 24I I6 Io 274 I5 2.
Longney Manor, profits
uncertain on an ...} 49 13 5 49 I3 5
rage of 30 years, Glo.
Dividends on Stock, O O O o o O I 5 o o 35 4 4.
Longney Farm, Glou. 200 o o 268 8 o
Quit-rents, Do. 56 19 8 56 19 8
Longſtock, Hants. Igo o O 3oo o o
Stoughton, Leiceſter, I76 o O 315 o o
Silver-ſtreet, London, 38 o o 8o o o
Telleſcomb, Suſſex, 8o o o 143 o o
Warbleton, Do. I7o o o 17o o o
Worth, Do. 18o o o 183 3 o
Dividends of Stock
bought with º O O O O O O o o o 55 I9 o
cut from this eſtate,
Bulls and Harrowdens
copices in Worth, b
in hand, cut at about f *W*8° * Out Io o o
I4 years growth
#989 9 2569 19 1 256 16 Io 395 12 3
ACCOUNT
OF THE
RENTS AND DISTRIBUTION
OF
MR. SMITH'S ESTATES,
IN 1768, AND 1793.
BEXHILL, a Fee-farm Rent.
1768. 1793.
£. s. d. £. s. d.
Original Al- Addington, - I O O I O O
lotments the Beddington, — 2 o o 2 O O
ſame as at Bermondſey, — 20 G O 2O O O
preſent. Clapham, * 2, O O 2, O O
Carſhalton, tºº 2 O O 2 O O
Chaldon, tºº I O O I O O
Caterham, * 3 O - O 3 O O
Chelſham, *mºnº 2, O O 2 O O
Limpsfield, *mºs 2, O O 2, O O
Mitcham, — 4 o o 4 o O
Merton, I O O I O O
Morden, I O O I O O
St. George, Southwark, 20 o o 2O O O
St. Olave's, Do. 3o o o 3 O O o
St Saviour's, Do. 28 o o 28 o o
Sanderſtead, I O O I O O
Sutton, gººmºsºsº 2, O O 2 O O
Titſey, *mºnº 2, O O 2 O O
Tooting, 2 O O 2 O O
Woodmanſterne, I O O I O O
Woldingham, I O O I O O
Warlingham, 2, O O 2, O O
I3O O O I3o o o
Original EASTBROOK.
Allotments.
A. J. d. *
3 O O Byfleet, tºº 2, IO O 3 I5 Ö
2, O O Biſley, cºmmºns I I4 5 2. Io 8
IO O O Chobham, — 8 9 7 I2 Io 8
IO O O Egham, tºº 8 9 7 I2 Io 8
4 o o Eſher, ºtºsº 3 7 Io 5 o Io
4 o o Long Ditton, — 3 7 Io 5 O Io
2 O O Stoke Dawborne, I I4. 5 2. Io 8
3 O O Pitford, 2 I O J O 3 I5 6
4 o o Thames Ditton, 3 7 Io 5 O IO
4 o o Thorpe, pºs 3 7 Io 5 o Io
4 o o Weybridge, * 3 7 IO 5 O Io
Land Tax, — 4 IQ O 7 o o
5o o o * *
47 7 o 69 17 Io
E IWOOD,
IwooD.
Original I '768. I 702.
Allotments. . 7 793
A. s. d. A. s. d. A. s. d.
IO O O T}ookham Great, 7 4 6 13 5 6
5, o o Bookham Little, 3 I2 3 6 12 9
25 o o Chertſey, * 18 I 3 33 7 II
I 2, O O Cobham, — 8 13 5 I6 - 5 5
4 O O Effingham, * 2 I7 Io; 5 I2 9.
8 o o Leatherhead, 5 I 5 9 II 5 9
4 O O Peterſham, * 2 I 7 Io; 5 I2 9
2, O O Moulſey Eaſt, l 8 II 2 17 6
2, O O Moulſey Weſt, I 8 II 2 17 6
8 o o Walton upon Thames, 5 I 5 9 I I 8
*-- Land Tax, tº-ºn 9 o o Io 16 4
8o o o gºmº. -->
66 IG 6 II9 I9 Io
KEMSING AND HEDDINGTON.
Orignal Barnes, * 3 o o 7 I4 4
Allotments Batterſea, tºº 4 O O Io 4 9
the ſame as in Camberwell, – 4 o o Io 4 9
1768. Lannbeth, *- I O O O 25 J2 o
Mortlake, tº- 3 O O 7 I4 4.
Newington, —— Io o o 25 I2 o
Putney, ºssº- 6 o o 15 7 8
Richmond, – 4o o o Io2 II o
Rotherhithe, I O O O 25 I2 O
St. Thomas's 4 o o Io 4 9
Streatham, * * 3 O O 7 I4 4
Wimbleton, 3 O O 7 I4 4.
Land Tax, º O O O 36 8 o
3 -
Ioo o o 292. I4 3
LONGINEY.
Original
Allotments.
* d.
£.
IO
IO
IO
IO
IO
IO
3
5
3O
4.
IO
9
5o
IO
4.
6
IO
IO
YO
I O
I 2
A.
O
O
LONGNEY.
O
1768.
AE. s.
Batheaſton, *0 8 Io
Chriſtchurch, 8 Io
Chedeſton, tº-ºººº- 8 Io
Chipping Barnet, 8 Io
Chippenham, - 8 Io
Calne, *- 8 Io
Horne, 2 II
King's Langley, 4 5
Newton St. Loe, 25 Io
Northill, º 3 8
Odiham, - 8 Io
Ormelkirk, * 7 I3
Perſhore, * 42 Io
Stanton Prior, 8 to
Streatham, cºme 3 8
St. Thomas, Southwark, 5 2
St Sepulchre, 8 Io
St. Olave, Old Jewry, S Io
St. Foſter, or Vedas, 8 Io
St. Giles, Cripplegate, 8 Io
St. Martin, — Io 6
Radnor, -> 4 5
Warbleton, * 6 I6
Land Tax, º 23 18
Bailiff's Salary, and riding
Expences, about 8 o
249 I2
4.
d
1793.
£.
I I
II
I I
I I
II
II
3
5
35
5
I I
IO
59
I I
4.
7
I I
II
I I
I I
I4.
5
9
6
325
J.
I8
18
I8
I8
I8
I8
I I
I9
I5
IQ-
18
14.
I2,
I8
I5
3
18
I8
I8
I8
6
I9
IO
4.
T 2.
7
The repairs of the cribs uncertain, but always confiderable:
I
O
IQ
LONGSTOCK.
LONGSTOCK.
Original
Allotment
the ſamcas in
1768.
Original,
Allotments,
J.
#.
I
1768. I793.
A. J. d. A. s. d.
Broughton, tºº. 7 o o 7 5 7
Cheſter le Street, 5 o o 5 3 9
Charlton, IQ O O Io 7 7
Dorking, sº IO O O Io 7 7
Gateſhead, * 5 o o 5 3 9
Haſlemere, — 17 o o I7 I3 9
Haſeldon, wº IO O O Io 7 7
Harting, ºmºsºme 5 o o 5 3 9
Ludgerſhall, * 7 o o 7 5 9
Longſtock, - 5 o o 5 3 9
Lumley, —— 15 o o 15 12 8
Mourton, ** 5 o o 5 3 9
Singleton, — I5 o o I5 I2 8
Stoughton, tºº 5 o o 5 3 9
Winkfield, tº-º 13 o o 13 Io 8
Woolderton, 5 o Q 5 3 9
Weſtbourne, 2O O' O 2d IG 8
Longney, gº 6 I6 o 8 6 8
Land Tax, gº 2, 2, I O 7 7 o
Quit Rent, • o 6 o O O O
Dedućt for Barn Floor, o o o 8 I 8 8
188 3 o 189 19 I
jº
STOUGHTON.
Andover, tºº 6 I6 o 13 I 5 o
Broadhinton, 4 15 2% 9 I2. A
Bedworth, Hººg 5, 8 9% II o 2
Blcdlow, tºº 3. 8 o 6 17 6
Dover Court, 4 Io I# 9 3 3
Eaſt Grinſtead, Io 4 O 2, O I I I I
Eaſt Dcarham, 2. I4. 5 5 Io 6
Ramſey, tºº 4 Io 8 9 3 3
Ryegate, tºº I3 I2 O 27 9 o
Carried over 55 19 2% II 3 2 II
2.
I
8
2.
6
Brought
A. J. d.
82 6 8
7 o o
5 o o
J. I O O.
2O O O
2O O O.
2O O. O.
IO O Q
6 13 4
2,O O O
IO O O
8 o o
***
22O O. O
{
STOUGHTON continued.
1768. I793.
W. £. s. d. A. s. d.
Brought over 55 19 2% II3 2 II
St. John Bedwardine, 4 I 5 2. 9 J2 4,
Shapwick, º 3 8 o 6 17 6
St. John, Cheſter, 4 I 7# 8 5 4
St. Michael, Do. 3 8 o 6 17 6
St. Giles, Cripplegate, 13 12 o 27 9 o
St. Botolph, Alderſgate, 13 I2 o 27 9 o
St. Sepulchre, I3 I2 O 27 9 o
Thetford, sº 6 16 o I3 I 5 o
Waterbeach, 4. Io 8 9 3 3
Wandſworth, I3 I2 O 27 9 o
Warminſter, 6 16 o I3 I 5 o
Weſtbury, sº 5 8 9% I I O 2.
Land Tax, 12 16 8 Q O O
Mr. Darker's Salary for
colle&ting and remit-
ting Rents, 4 o o O O O
Timber for Repairs, O O O I2 I5 5
I66 8 13: 315 o 5
*
TELLESCOMB.
Culkerton, º 6 o 6# r1 1 Io
Chobham, -- 6 o 6+ I I I IO
Banbury, —— II 6 8 22 3 4.
Henly, * 23 I4 5% 44 6 4
Richmond, II 6 § 22 3 4.
Southton, II 6 8 22 3 4.
Land Tax, 7 Io o IO. O. O.
77 5 6%. I43 o or
WORTH.
Original
Allotments.
A. s. d.
4 O O.
8 o o
3 O O
8 o o
YO O O
2 O O.
4 o o
J O O
2 o o
2 o o
5 o o
2 o o
4. O O
7 o o
6 o 'o
To o o
5 o o
• 2 O O
5 o o
5 o o
4 o o
4 o o
Io o o
4 O O
3 O O
4 o o
5 o o
6 o o
4. O O
IO O O
2 O O
5 o o
4 o o
16o o o
' ( ,
WORTH.
1768. I 793.
A. J. d. A. s. d.
Aſhted, tºsºs 3 I2 o 4 o Io
Abinger, tºº 7 4 o 3 o 5
Banſted, * 2 I4. O 2 19 9
Bletchingly, 7 4 O 8 o 5
Betchworth, 9 o o Io o 6
Buckland, tºmº I IG o I 18 7
|Burſtow, tººs 3 12 o 4. O IO
Coulſdon, {..º. o I9 7 I O 4.
Chiſington, I 16 o I 18 7
Chipſtead, * I 16 o I 18 7
Charlewood, 4 IO O 5 O 3
Crowhurſt, * I IG o I 18 7
Cheam, tºº 3 12 O 4 O IO
Epſom, tºº 6 II 4 6 19 Io
Ewhurſt, ºmmºn 5 I7 o 6 o 2
Ewell, tºº 9 O o Io o 6
Godſtone, tºº 4. IO O 5 O 3
Gatton, tºº 1 16 o 1 18 7
Horley, tº gº 4 IO O 5 O 3
Horne, * 4. IO O 5 O 3
Headley, * 3 I2 O 4. O IO
Leigh, sº 3 I2 O 4 o IO
Lingfield, tºº 9 or o Io o 6
Mickleham, 3 i2 o 4. O IO
Merſtham, sºme 2. I4 O 2 I9 9
Nutfield, tºº 3 I2 O 4 o Io
Newdigate, – 4 Io o 5 O 3
Ockley, tºº 5 8 o 6 o 2.
Oxted, tºnºmºsº 3 I2. O 4. O IO
Shire, *ººmsº 9 16 o Io o 6
Walton, mºsº it, sº I 16 o I 18 7
Wootton, êºse 4. Io o 5 O 3
Tandridge, tºº 3 I2 O 4 O IO
Land Tax, and Militia, 25 Io of O O O
Land Tax, and Repairs, o o o 55 I5 7#
171 I 11%. 215 18 II;
WARBLETON,
Original
Allotments.
4. s. d.
I
I
I
-I-º
tºmº,
16o o o
WARBLETON.
Albury, sº
Alfold, *=
Aſh, *
Bramley, sººn
Capell, pºss-mºs
Cranley, *
Compton, *
Chiddingfold,
Dunsfold, *
Eaſt Clandon,
Eaſt Horſley,
Elſted, cºmmºn
Frenſham, *
Farley, ººmsº
Frimley, , *Tºº-ºº.
Hambledon,
Haſlemere, tºº
Horſell, gº
Haſcombe, tºº
Merrow, tºsº
Maldon, ſº
Ockham, *
Puttenham, *sº
"Pepperharrow,
Pirbright, *sº
Seale, * ºns
Stoke, next Guildford,
Send, and Ripley,
Shalford, tº
Thurſley, º
Wonerſh, $ºmº
Witley, º
Windleſham,
Wiſley, ſº
Woking, amºs ºº
Worpleſdon,
Weſt Horſley,
Weſt Clandon,
Land Tax, º
1768. I793.
£, s, d A. s. d.
5 2 o 5 8 4.
4 5 O 4. IO 3
5 2. O 5 8 4
5 2 O 5 8 4
3 8 o 3 I2 3
6 IG o 7 4, 6
I 19 O I IG 2
4 5 o 4 IO 3
5 2. O 5 8 4
2 I I O 2 I 4. 2
I I4. O I 16 a
I I4. O I 16 2.
5 (2 o 5 8 4
I I O o 18 o
I I4. O I 16 2
I IO O. I 7 2
2 16 o 2. I4. 2.
I I4. O I 16 2
2 16 o 2 I4. 2.
2 I I O 2 I 4 2.
I 8 5 I 7 2
I IQ o I IC 2
I I4. O I 16 2
I 2, O o 18 o
I I4. O 1 IG 2
2 I6 o 2 I4. 2
Io 4 o Io 16 4
6 I6 o 7 4 6
5 2 O 5 8 4
3 8 o 3 I2 3
6 I6 o 7 4 6
3 I5 o 3 I2 3
6 16 o 7 4 6
o 17 o o 18 o
8 Io o 8 19 o
3 8 o 3 I2 3
I I4. O I 16 2.
4 5 O 4. IO 3
I9 4 O 25 I 2 4
158 == 17o o
I
( 67 )
AGREEMENT between Mr. SMITH
and the BAILIFFs and FREEMEN of
KINGSTON UPoN THAMEs, on his
giving them I oool.
ARTICLEs of Agream indented hadd made
and agreed upon the Eleaventh Day of june
in the Yeares of the Raigne of our So-
veraigne Lord james by the Grace of God
of England Fraunce & Ireland Kinge De-
fender of the Faith &c. the Twoe and
Twentieth and of Scotland the Seaven and
Fiftith by and betweene Henry Smith of
London Eſq. of th'one Parte and john Gold-
wyer & Thomas Snellinge Bayliffes of the
Towne of Kingſton upon Thames in the
Countie of Surrey and the Freemen of the
fame Towne for and on the Behalfe of
the poore People there on th'other Parte.
IMPRIMIS, Whereas the ſaid Henry Smith of a
pious and charitable Diſpoſition towarde the poore Peo-
ple of Kingſton aforeſaid and to th’entent the Poore
ôf the ſaid Towne may immediatly from and after his
Deceaſe for ever afterwarde receave a provident Al-
lowance towarde their Releefe and Mayntenance by
the Chriſtian Care and Proviſion of the ſaid Henry
Smith and that nevertheles the able Inhabitants of
the ſaid Towne may not be freed of the ordinary Rate-
illent
( 68 )
ment they ought to be charged withall towards the
releefe of the Poore ther Hath given to th'above
named Bayliffs and Freemen the Sum of One Thou-
ſand Pounds of lawful Money of England to th’end
that they ſhall immediatly from and after his De-
ceaſe uſe and employ the Rents and Profitts thereof
ariſinge to and for the Releefe Mayntenance and
ſetting on Work of the poore People of the ſaid
Towne and for the Education and bringeinge upp of
poor People ther in ſome good and Chriſtian Courſe
and Trade of Life from Tyme to Tyme as herein is
more fully declared.
And therefore the ſaid Bayliffs and Freemen for
themſelves their Succeſſors and Aſſignes doe cove-
nante and graunte to and with the ſaid Henry Smith
his Heirs Executors and Adminiſtrators by theis Päts
in Manner and Forme followinge viz. That they the
ſaid Bayliffes, and Freemen their Succeſſors and Aſ-
fignes ſhall and will well and truly ſatisfie and pay or
cauſe to be paid unto the ſaid Henry Smith or his Aſ-
ſignes yearly duringe his naturall Life the Some of One
THundred Pounds of lawful Money of England att the
nowe dwellinge Houſe of the ſaid Henry Smith fituate
in Silver-ſl, cete London att Fower Dayes in the Yeare,
that is to ſaie One the Twelveth Day of September on
the Twelveth of December on the Twelveth Day of
March and on the Twelveth Day of june by equall
Porčons The Firſt Payment thereof to begine and to
be made on the Twelveth Day of September next en-
ſuinge the Date hereof And immediatly from and
after the Deceaſe of the ſaid Henry Smith if the ſaid
Thouſand Pounds or any Parte thereof ſhall not be-
fore that Tyme bee laid out and beſtowed upon Lands
Tenements Rents or other Hereditam's therew" to be
purchaſed That then the ſaid Bayliffes and Freemen
their Succeſſors or Aſſignes ſhall and will yearely
ymediately from and after the Deceaſe of the ſaid
Henry Smith until the ſaid One Thouſand Pounds
ſhall be beſtowed upon Lands Tenements or other
Hereditaments anſwere ſatisfie and pay or cauſe to be
paid for and towards the Releefe and Mayntenance
of
( 69 )
of the poore People of the ſaid Towne the Some of
Fowerſcore Pounds of lawful Money of England in
ſuch manner as hereunder is more fully declared And
that they the ſaid Bayliffes and Freemen their Suc-
ceſſors and Aſſignes ſhall and will, ſo ſoon as conve-
niently they may diſburſe and lay forth the ſaid Thou-
ſand Pounds in the Purchaſe of Lands Tenem's Rents
or other Hereditam” And that from and after the
ſaid One Thouſand Pounds or any Parte thereof ſhall
be diſburſed and laid out upon Lands Tefits or other
Hereditam” the ſaid Bailiffes and Freemen their Suc-
ceſſors or Aſſignes from and after the Deceaſe of the
ſaid Henry Smith ſhall and will imploye convert and
beſtowe all the Rents Iſſues and Profitts that ſhall be
made or rayſed by or out of the ſaid Lands Tefits and
Hereditame to th'only Benefitt Uſe and Behoof of the
poore People of the ſaid Towne And alſoe ſhall and will
yearely anſwere and paie or cauſe to be paid towards
the Releefe of the poore People of the ſaid Towne af-
ter the Rate of Eight Pounds in the Hundred by the
Yeare for ſoe much of the ſaid Thouſand Pounds and
ſo longe as the ſame after the Deceaſe of the ſaid Henry
Smith ſhal be unbeſtowed and unlaid forth upon Lands
to bee purchaſed as aforeſaid And furthermore that
they the ſaid Bailiffes and Freemen their Succeſſors
and Aſſignes ſhall and will from and after the De-
ceaſe of the ſaid Henry Smith beſtowe their beſt En-
deavours to convert imploy and beſtow the whole
Rents and Profits that ſhall be made or received for
or by reaſon of the ſaid One Thouſand Pounds and
of the Lands therewith to be purchaſed to and for the
Uſe and Behoofe of the poore People of the ſaid
Towne by providinge Stocks of ſome Kinde of Wares
or Goods to keepe them in worke by byndinge forth
poore Children Apprentice by inſtructinge poore Peo-
ple in ſome Kinde of Trade or Courſe of living
whereby they may honeſtly and lawfully maynteine
themſelves and their Families and in releevinge the
Poore Ageed and Impotent according to their Ne-
ceflities as to the Bayliffes and Freemen from Tyme
F 2. tC)
( 7o )
to Tyme in their Diſcretofis ſhall ſeeme moſt available
and beneficiall to the Poore ther.
And furthermore that ſuch Perſon or Perſons as the
ſaid Bayliffes and Freemen or their Succeſſors ſhall
aſſigne depute or appoynte to take receive or diſ-
burſe the Rents or Profitts of the ſaid One Thouſand
T'ounds or of any Parte thereof or of the Lands Te-
nem's or Rents therew" to be purchaſed as aforeſaid
ſhall once every Yeare viz. within Two Monthes after
the Feaſt of St. Michaell Th'archangell publicquely in
the Guild/Will of the ſaid Towne before the ſaid Bay-
liffes and Freemen or their Succeſſors make declare
and yield upp a true and 1uſt Accompt and Reconinge
of all Receipts and Diſburſem" that ſhall be made or .
occaſioned ſor or about the Premiſſes aforeſaid And
the ſame Accompte ſhall cauſe to be farely ingroſſed
and entered into a Booke for that Purpoſe to be pro-
vided whereby it may made playne and evident as well
howe and in what Manner the ſaid Rents and Profitts
are diſpoſed of as alſoe the charitable and bountifull
Guift and good Worke of the ſaid Henry Smith and
his greate Care and good Deſire to have the ſame
honeſtly and uprightly managed governed and di-
rečted for the moſt Good of the poor People of the
ſaid Towne from Tyme to Tyme.
And further the ſaid Bayliffes and Freemen to
th'end and Purpoſe, that theis pſite Articles may
be inrolled of Record in his Maº High Court of
Chancery have made conſtituted authorized and ap-
poynted and in their Steed and Place putt and by
thcis Pits doe make conſtitute authorize and ap-
oynt their truſtie and wel-beloved in CHRIST Ed-
ward Hurſt of King/ion aforeſaid Gent. their true
and lawfull Attorney for them the ſaid Bayliffes and
Freemen and in their names to acknowledge theis
pñte Articles to be their Deed foe that the ſame
may be inrolled in the ſaid High Courte of Chaun-
cery to remayne of Record ratefyinge and by theis
pñts confirminge all and whatſoever their ſaid At-
torney ſhall lawfully do or cauſe to be done in that
Behalfe.
And
( 71 )
And further the ſaid Bayliffes and Freemen for
them and their Succeſſors doe covenante and graunt
to and with the ſaid Henry Smith his Executors and
Adminiſtrators by theis Päte that they the ſaid Bay-
liffes and Freemen and their Succeſſors ſhall and
will within One Yeare after the Deceaſe of the ſaid
Henry Smith cauſe theis Piite of Agream fayrely
to be ingroſſed in Parchment and the ſame foe in-
groſſed to faſten in a Table or Frame of Wood to be
hanged upp and placed in ſome convenient Place in
the Church or Chauncell of Kingſion aforcſaid to the
End that the Charitie and Bountie of the ſaid Henry
Smith may be made knowne to all the poore Perſons
of the ſaid Towne and that his good Intentions towards
them may not be concealed or neglected.
And further that the ſaid Bayliffes and Freemen.
and their Succeſſors and Aſſigns ſhall and will within
One Weeke after every Accompte yearly to be made
as aforeſaid cauſe the ſame Accompte to be entered
into the ſaid Booke of Accompts and a true Copie
thereof to be yearely written and the ſame to hange
upp in the Church or Chauncell neere the ſaid Table
or Frame by the Space of Six Weekes togeather to
th’end that the poore People aforeſaid may take Notice
of the Receipts and Diſburſments accompted for and
of Diſpoſitions and Diſtributions thereof to the Uſe of
the poore People aforeſaid and that noe fraude Deal-
inge may be uſed therein.
And for the avoiding of all Corruption Abuſe and
Miſdemeanors which may hereafter be uſed or ſuffered
by the ſaid Bailiffs or Freemen their Succeſſors or
Aſſignes in the orderinge uſeing imployinge govern-
inge or convertinge of the ſaid One Thouſand
Pounds or of the Rents and Profitts that ſhall or may
thereof be hadd or made and to th’end that the ſaid
One Thouſand Pounds may be imployed and conty-
newed to the charitable and pious Intente and Purpoſe
of the ſaid Henry Smith it is hereby further expreſſed
graunted concluded and agreed upon by and be-
tweene the Ta ties to theis Preſents That the moſt
Reverend Father in God George nowe Lord Arch-
biſshopp
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biſshopp of Canterbury and his Succeſſors ſhall or
may from Tyme to Tyme at all Tymes hereafter
have full Power and Authoritie to examyne as well the
Imployme of the ſaid. One Thouſand Pounds or the
Rents and Profitts thereof as alſoe all and every the
Miſemploym" of the ſame and all and every the
Accompts and Reconninges that ſhall or ought to
be made of the Rents of the ſaid Premiſſes or the
Lands therewith to be purchaſed and from Tyme to
Tyme if there ſhall be Cauſe to correóte and reforme
the ſame as to them in their Wiſedome ſhall ſeeme
meete and convenient and to make and declare ſuch
good Orders and Conſtitutions for the imployeing and
beſtoweing of the ſame to the Uſe Benefit and Re-
leefe of the poore People of the ſaid Towne of King-
ſton as the ſaid Lord Archbiſshopp and his Succeſſors
ſhall conceive and ſet downe to be moſt beneficial and
availeable to the Purformance of the true Intente and
Meaninge of theis Päts. In witnes whereof to th'one
Parte of theis Pits indented remayneinge with the ſaid
Bayliffs and Freemen the ſaid HenrySmith hath put to
His Hand and Seale and to th'other Parte thereof re-
mayneinge with the ſaid Henry Smith the ſaid Bayliffes
and Freemen have ſetto theire Common Seale of the
ſaid Towne the Day and Yeare firſt above written
I624.
HENRY SMITH (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered in the Preſence of Wil-
liam Rolfe Sen. Michael Mountgomery
SOME ACCOUNT
of THE
s E V E R A L E S T A T E S
BELONGING TO THE TRUST,
And of the PAR Is HEs in which they are ſituate.
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The Houſe in Silver-ſtreet, in the Pariſh of St. Olive,
London,
contains in front next the ſtreet 2 I feet 6 inches; in
depth on the Weſt fide 115 feet; on the Eaſt ſide 123
feet; and on the back part on the South 35 feet.
It was conveyed by — Hordſon to Mr. Smith,
who lived in it. After his death it was occupied by
his nephew, Henry jackſon. It was burnt in the
great fire in 1666; and, in 1670, the ſite was lett to
john Warren, carpenter, on a building-leaſe, for 61
years from Michaelmas 1671, at the rent of £. I2, he
agreeing to lay out £.5oo at leaſt in building one or
more houſes.
In 1776, it was lett to Mr. Moore, a refiner, at £.8o
per annum, nett rent; and was quitted by him at Chriſt-
mas, 1767. -
. It was afterwards lett from Michalmas 1799, to Mr.
Ponting, at a nett rent of ſ 60, he doing all repairs.
The rent is applied to the general expences of the
truſt.
G The
8 Jac. I.
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Sevenoak.
Knole,
Kemſing,
and
Seale.
Knole,
Knoke and
Seycnoak.
The Capital Manſion-houſe and Park called Knole,
in the Pariſh of Sevenoak, in Kent, and the
Manors of Knole, Sevenoak, Kemſing, and Seale,
in that County.
THE manor of Sevenoak was, from very antient
time, the poſſeſſion of the Archbiſhop of Canterbury.
The manors of Knole, Kemſing, and Seale, in the
reign of King john, belonged to Baldwin de Betum,
(who enjoyed the Earldom of Albemarle, in right of
his wife, daughter and ſole heir of William le Groſs,
Earl of Albermarle!. He gave them to William Marſhal,
Earl of Pembroke, in frank. marriage with his only
daughter Alice. They then came to Hugh Bigod, Earl
of Norfolk, who married the eldeſt fiſter of the Earl
of Pembroke. Roger, nephew, and heir of Hugh, ſold
to Otho de Grandſon, whoſe grandſon, Thomas, con-
veyed Knole to Geoffry de Say. From the family of Say
it paſſed to that of Fynes, one of whom was ſummoned
to parliament as Lord Say and Seale, and whoſe deſcen-
dant ſold it to Thomas Bouchier, Archbiſhop of Canterbury.
He, being thus ſeiſed of the manors of Sevenoak and
Knole, obtained from King Edward the Fourth great
privileges for his manor of Sevenoak; rebuilt the ma-
nor-houſe of Knole; incloſed a park round it; reſided
much there; and, on his death, gave it to the ſee of
Canterbury for ever. His ſucceſſor, Archbiſhop Mor-
ton, reſided and improved it. In the 29th of Henry
the Eighth, Archbiſhop Cranmer gave up this eſtate
among others to the King, to ſave the reſt, Edward
the
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the Sixth granted the houſe and the manors of Knole
and Sevenoak to ſohn Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and after-
wards Duke of Northumberland, who ſoon after re-con-
\ veyed the manor of Sevenoak to that King. On the Sevenoak.
\ Duke's attainder, in the Firſt year of Queen Mary, Knole
was ſeized by the Queen, who granted that and Sevenoak Knole and
to Reginald Pole, Archbiſhop of Canterbury, for his Sevenoak.
life. On his death they came to Queen Elizabeth.
She granted Sevenoak to Henry Carey, Lord Hunſdon, sevenoak,
and Knole, to Sir Robert Dudley, afterwards Earl of Knole.
Leiceſter, who ſurrendered his grant; and the Queen,
in her Eighth year, gave it to Thomas Sackville, Earl of
Dorſet, Lord High Treaſurer. His grandſon Richard -
º; Sevenoak, about the year 1612, of Henry Sevenoak.
ord Hunſdon.
As to the manors of Kemſing and Seale, on the death Kemſing
of Thomas de Grandiſon abovementioned, they de- , and
ſcended to Sir William de Bryene, and from him to the *
Fynes. The ſon of that Lord Say, who was beheaded,
ſold to Sir Geoffry Bulleyn, great grandfather of Anne
Bulleyn, who was married to King Henry the Eighth.
Her father dying without male iſſue, 30 Henry VIII,
the King, who had before beheaded his daughter,
ſeized on theſe manors, and ſettled them on his Queen,
Anne of Cleve, who held them for her life. On her
death, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, they came into the
hands of the Crown, and were granted by Queen Eli-
zabeth, in the firſt year of her reign, to her kinſman,
Sir Henry Carey, whoſe father had married the fifter of
Anne Bulleyn. His ſon George ſucceeded him, but dy-
ing without male iſſue, his brother john inherited theſe
manors, and his ſon ſold them, 15 Jac. I. to Rich-
ard Earl of Dorſet above mentioned. -
He thus became poſſeſſed of the manſion-houſe and
the four manors, and ſoon afterwards (on the 27 Feb.
22 jac. I.) in conſideration of A. Io, ooo, conveyed
the whole to Henry Smith, Eſq.
The Dorſet family, however, continued to live at
Knole, taking leaſes of the manſion-houſe and eſtates.
Io Dec. 1641. The Earl of Eſſex, Viſcount Lumley,
Sir Richard Gurney, Knt. and Bart. Lord Mayor of
G 2 the
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the city of London, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir George
Whitmore, William Rolfe, Henry Henn, and Henry jack-
ſon, ſurviving feoffees of Mr. Smith's eſtates, divided
the rents of this amongſt ſeveral pariſhes in Surrey.
The rent of the capital meſſuage and manſion-houſe
commonly called Knole Houſe with the Park of Knole,
thereto adjoining, in leaſe to Edward Earl of Dorſet,
at £. Ioo per annum, they gave to
£.
St. Saviour, Southwark, - 28 f
St. Olave, º tºº, 3O |
St. George, tºº - 2 O.
Bermondſey, ºpºses ſº 2O |
Clapham, * * Ø £.
* *pays IOO
The rent of the manors or lordſhips of Sevenoak,
Kemſing, and Seale, with the meſſuages, farms, lands,
tenements, and hereditaments, thereto belonging, re-
puted to be of the clear yearly value of A.Ioo, they
allotted to
£.
St. Thomas, Southwark, 4.
Redriffe, smmºdº tºmº IO
Newington, tºº - I O
Lambeth, * tºº IO
Camberwell, tºº, tºº 4.
Stretham, * tºº, 3
Putney, tºº tºº 6
Batterſey, * *ys 4.
Mortlake, — - 3
Richmond, *y tºmº 4O
Wimblefon, H — 3.
Barnes, * * º 3. £.
*-s , IOO
And
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And the rent of certain woods, coppices, and wóod-
grounds, in Sevenoak, Kemſing, and Seale, in leaſe to
the Earl, at £.3o, they divided between
Chaldon, tºº Hºmº
Sutton, sºme ſº
Mitcham, tºº º
Tooting, tºº ſº
Beddington, ºmsº
Carſhalton, ſº lºmº
Martin, cºmmº ſºmº
Morden, tº-e
Addington, gº º
Sanderſted, tºº tº-
Woodmanſtern, gº
Limpsfield, = , ſºmº
Katerham, tº º tº-sº
Cheſham, gº gº
Titſey 9 gººms Cºmmºn
Worlingham, tº ºn *
Wolingham, — tºº
£.
3O
*
30 March, 1653, Lord Lumley, and Sir Henry Hene,
the only ſurviving truſtees, granted to Richard Earl
of Dorſet a leaſe for 82 years, of the manor-houſe
and Park of Knole, with the royalties of fowling, fiſh-
ing, hawking, and hunting, in ſuch parts of the ma-
nors of Knole, 'Seale, and Kenſing, as belonged to the
truſtees, and the advowſons of Sevenoak, Seale, and
Kempſing, at the rent of £. Ioo. *
And, by another leaſe of the ſame date, they de-
miſed to the Earl, for a like term, all the woods and
underwoods growing in or upon any part of the
waſte grounds and commons belonging to the ſaid
manors of Knole, Sevcnoake, Kenſing, and Seale, or on
Rumſhett Common, and Riverhill Common, containing
about 60 acres; and on Weſtwood Common in the out
boundaries of the pariſh of Sevenoake, containing about
20 acres, being the commons and waſtes to the ſaid
II].31]OTS
( 8o )
manors of Knole and Sevenoak belonging; and all wood
upon the waſtes of the manors of Kemſing and Seale,
containing about 418 acres, (therein deſcribed,) at a
rent of £30. This leaſe was granted in conſideration
of the Earl paying £.3oo for arrears of rent incurred
in the time of Edward Earl of Dorſet deceaſed.
By another leaſe, of the ſame date, they demiſed to
the Earl, for a like term, the manors of Knole, Seven-
oake, Kemſing, and Seale, at a rent of £. Ioo.
Soon after the Reſtoration, 1 3 Cha. II. an act was
paſſed for ſettling the manors of Knole, Seale, and Kem-
ſing, in Kent, on the Earl of Dorſet, and his heirs;
and for charging the manor of Bexhill, and the manor
or farm of Cowding, and other lands in Suſſex, with a
rent charge of £,130 in lieu thereof. It recites that
the Manor-houſe and Park of Khole had been the ſeat
of the anceſtors of Richard then Earl of Dorſet, whoſe
uncle Richard had mortgaged to one Henry Smith
(amongſt other manors and lands) ſaid houſe and
park, and the manors of Knole, Seale, and Kenſing, and
which were afterwards abſolutely purchaſed by Smith,
who conveyed to truſtees; that Lord Lumley and Henry
Hene, the only ſurviving truſtees, in 1653 had leaſed
to the earl the Manor-houſe and Park of Knole, and
other wood-grounds as abovementioned, at the rents
of £. Ioo, and £. 30.
That the poor of the pariſhes, amongſt which the
rents were divided, had no other benefit from the pre-
miſſes than the ſaid two rents;
That the ſame were not likely to be improved, as
Knole Houſe would require ſ.150 per annum charges to
keep it in repair;
That, in regard the houſe was only fit for a perſon
of honour, and the things lett by theſe leaſes were fit
to be enjoyed together with the houſe for the accom-
modation of the perſon who ſhould live in it;
That the Earl had propoſed, in lieu of the rents re-
ſerved by the leaſes, to grant a rent charge of £. I 3a
payable out of an eſtate at Bexhill and Cowding;
It was enađted that the Manor-houſe and Park, as
then incloſed, the royalties of Fowling, &c. in the
II].8/10!'S
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manors of Knole, Seale, and Kemſing, the advowſons,
and the woods in the waſtes, ſhould be veſted in the
Earl, his heirs and aſſigns, diſcharged of the ſaid
rents and all charitable uſes; and that an annuity of
A. 130 ſhould be from thenceforth charged on the
Earl's eſtates of Bexhill and Cowding, to be employed
for the benefit of the poor intitled to the rents under
thoſe leaſes.
The manors ſtill remaining in the truſtees, in 1684,
Sir Henry Hene Bart. Sir Edward Thurland Serjeant
at Law, Sir William Hayward Knt. Sir Cyrill Wyche
Knt. Ambroſe Scudamore, Arthur Onſlow, Roger james,
Anthony Thomas, Anthony Bowyer, George Evelyn, Stephen
Harvey, Roger Gardner, Thomas Lee, and james Read-
ing, Eſqrs. in whom the truſt was then veſted, applied
for a grant of a monthly market on the third Tueſday
in each month, and a fair on the 1ſt of O&tober to laſt
four days; and, if that day falls on a Sunda", then on
the Monday, following. A charter was accordingly
granted to them, dated 28 April 34 Cha. II.
In 1724, the Duke of Dorſet propoſed to give land
in exchange for the manors, but on enquiry it was
found that it was objećtionable, being ſubječt to great
repairs of the ſea-walls; the truſtees, however, de-
clared a readineſs to exchange on a proper offer being
made. Nothing further was done in it; but,
In 1726–7, an act of parliament was paſſed *, by
which fixteen acres, ſeventeen perches and a half, part
of the charity eſtate which lay adjoining to Knole Park,
and there ſtated to be of the annual value of A. 8, ſub-
jećt to taxes, were veſted in Lionel Duke of Dorſet
and his heirs, in lieu of a clear rent-charge of £. Io
per annum, (part of a fee-farm rent of £.4o, belonging
to the Duke, and iſſuing out of the manor of Hed-
dington with the Hundred of Bullingdon in the county
of Oxford), which was veſted in the truſtees. £.8
was therefore taken off from the rent which reduced
it to ſ.92, and the ſ. Io was paid in lieu of it.
In 1736, the leaſe of the manors being expired,
a leaſe was granted to the Duke for three lives, viz.
* * 13 Geo. I. cap, 14.
4-1-
ºë
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the Earl of Middleſex, Lord john, and Lord George
Sackville, his Grace's ſons, at a nett rent of A. 94, a
dedućtion of ſ.3 having been before made for land-
tax, at 2s. in the pound.
Lord George Sackville ſurvived his brothers, took the
name of Germain, was afterwards created Viſcount Sack-
ville, and died in 1786. Some propoſals for a re-
newal had been made in his life-time; but the Duke
did not like the terms, and on his death declined to
give the rents at which the eſtate was eſtimated by the
pariſhes who had had 1t ſurveyed. The truſtees there-
fore took it into their own hands and held courts. .*
A committee of the truſtees went to Sevenoak, and
ſtayed there ſome days examining into the parti-
cular. It was found that many parcels of the waſte
had been incloſed, and that Lord Amherſ had taken
in about 17 acres at Riverhead, and built part of his
houſe there (which he called Montreal) on it.
The truſtees repaired the houſes, and lett them and
the lands at advanced rents, and got rents for ſome of
the encroachments. There were no copyholds within
any of the manors, and the caſual profits did not pay
the expence of holding courts and colle&ting the quit-
rents. The rents then ſtood thus;
£. s. d.
6 acres, part of the manor
field lett to the Duke, 24 O O
2 acres, Mr. Francis Auſten, 8 o o
3 acres, Mr. john Auſten, I 2, O O
3 acres and half Mr. Hooper,
gardener, I4 O O
the manor n ... ſ
houſe, É. Mr. Children, 31 ſo o
a ſhed, ă Mr. Bowra, o 15 o
a building, | 3 || Mr. Brigden, 2 Io o
a ſhed, . } 3 Mr. Sharvill, 1 o o
a houſe, ... Mr. Neigh, 4 o o
a ſhed, : Mr. Correll, 2 o o
markethouſe §
and tolls, J. " LMr. Bartram, 4 o o
I O2 O O
brought
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£. J. d.
brought over 1 oz o 9
£. s. d.
Redland's, Mr. Crowther, 9 O
a chalk-pit and land at Kenſing,
Mr. Wigzell, 8 o o
land at Seal, Mr. Ralph, o 18 o
an encroachment, Mr. Lane, I I o
the quit-rents, per ann. about 45 o o
— 167 14 o
ſome other encroachments
were not ſettled.
Lord Amherſ's land 2.O O C)
William Auſtin's farm 42 O O
— 62 o o
229 I4. O
For this the Duke paid a nett rent of A. 94
In 1790, the Duke propoſed to give the truſtees
other eſtates in lieu of this, except the farm lett to
William Auſtin at £.42 a year, and Lord Amherſt's land,
which were to remain in the truſtees. An agreement
was at laſt made; and, in 1791, an āčt of parliament
was paſſed, by which the Sevenoak eſtate (except Auſtin's
farm and Lord Amherſ?’s land) was veſted in the Duke
and his heirs, in exchange for
. . d.
A farm called Clayhall, in Riegate, con- £
taining 176 acres, lett at I6o o o
2 cottages there tºº º 5 I5 O
a fee-farm rent iſſuing out of the manor
of Mount Bures, in Eſſex, º 25 Q o
and the remainder of the fee-farm rent
iſſuing out of Heddinton, in Oxfordſhire, 3o o o
22O I 5 o
An offer was made to Lord Amherſt, to include his
land in the act, if he would charge a proper eſtate with
H a nett.
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a nett rent of £.20 a year; but he declined it, from
delicacy to the Duke, as he ſaid. In 1793, however,
he renewed the treaty, and got an act paſſed at his own
expence, by which a farm of 79 acres in Horley, in
Surrey, was charged with a nett rent of £.20, in lieu
of the land at Riverhead, which was veſted in him.
The rents then ſtood, and are now, thus:
£, J, d.
From the eſtates given by the Duke in
exchange 22O I 5 o
the farm lett to William Auſtin, 42 O O
the rent-charge granted by Lord Amherſ, 20 o o
282 15 Q
".
EAST.
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*n_i_{~~~1. Æ à *…* -*— *—A. *_k_ —rai º *—t * *
—r-
EASTBROOK or SOUTHWICK,
IN SUSSEX,
*—r-a- f
conſiſts of a farm houſe or cottage, about 78 acres,
2 roods, and 27 perches, of land, in the common
fields, and 35 acres and I rood of incloſed land.
This eſtate was purchaſed by Mr. Smith of Charles
Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham, Knight of the Gar-
ter, and Lord High Admiral of England, for £550.,
by the deſcription of,
º All that his manor of Southwicke and Eaſt.
© broke, alias the Manor of Eaſtbrooke, with the
appurtenaces in the pariſh of Southwicke in
the county of Suſſex, late parcel of the diſ-
A. ſolved Priory of Riegate in Surrey, a meſ.
ôo ſuage barn and 60 acres of arable land, and
certain land under the cliffe, containing by
16 eſtimation 16 acres; a meſſuage called South-
28 houſe, and 28 acres of arable and paſture
thereto belonging; a meſſuage called Swanes,
barns, buildings, and land, and paſture, con-
17 taining by eſtimation 17 acres; a meſſuage
called Shorts, alias Shorté-houſe, barns, build-
44 ings, and 44 acres of arable and paſture
— thereto belonging; 6s. Quit-rent out of a
165 ' tenement called Norton's, in Southwicke, with
the courts-leet, courts-baron, profits, and
perquiſites of courts and leets, waifs, ſtrays,
m" H 2 goods
26th of April,
37 Eliz.
Now waſhed
away by the
ſea.
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1o Decemb,
1641.
goods and chattles of felons, and fugitives,
and outlaws; wreck of ſea, fowling, fiſhing,
hawking, hunting, rents, iſſues, ſervices,
fynes, and all other liberties, royalties, pro-
ts, privileges, and commodities, to the ſaid
manor and premiſſes belonging.
Inrolled in Chancery, 5 June, 37 Eliz,
In this deed Mr. Smith is called Salter of London,
The conveyance is made to him, William Bond haber-
daſher, and William Meggs draper, citizens of London;
who, by deed poll 27 July, 2 jac. I. inrolled in Chan-
cery, releaſed their right to Mr. Smith.
The Earl of Eſſex, Lord Lumley, Sir Richard Gurney,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir George Whitmore, William
Rolfe, Henry Henn, and Henry jackſon, ſurviving fe-
offees, ſettled the rent of this farm, then £.50 a year,
on the following pariſhes in Surrey, viz.
£. 3. d.
Byfleet, º lºº 3 o o
Biſley, tºº f tºmº 2, O O
Chobham, tº- ſº-ºº- I O O O
Egham, *g * I O O O
Eſher, sºme ſºmº 4. O O
Long Ditton, tºº — 4 O O
Stoke Dawborne, º 2 O O
Pirford, — gº 3 O o
Thames Ditton, º 4 o O
Thorpe, tºº º 4. O O
Weybridge, {º tºº 4 O O
5o o o
It ſeems that Elizabeth counteſs dowager of Peter-
borough, ſole daughter and heir of William Lord How.
ard of Effingham, who was ſon and heir of Charles Earl
of Nottingham *, of whom Mr. Smith had purchaſed,
had by ſome means got poſſeſſion of part of this eſtate;
for, amongſt the papers is a bond dated Io june 1665,
from Henry Hene of the Inner Temple, Eſq. to Richard
* Collins's Peerage, vol. II. p. 152.
Guin,
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Guin, of London, Gent. for payment of £.25 to Guin,
“within one year after the recovery of certain lands
“ in Eaſtbrooke, Suſſex, by the truſtees of Henry Smith,
“Eſq. deceaſed, againſt Elizabeth counteſs dowager
“ of Peterborough or her aſſigns, or actual poſſeſſion
“ of the truſtees, which lands the ſaid Counteſs lately
“recovered againſt the ſaid truſtees.”
There is a copy of her will dated 23 Nov. 1669,
proved 30 Nov. 1671 ; but it throws no light on this
buſineſs.
By a minute made at a meeting of the truſtees on
8 Dec. 1671, it appears that a deed was diſcovered,
and this 4.25 was ordered to be paid, but nothing
more is found relating to this buſineſs.
There is a particular ſurvey of this farm made by
Mr. Charles Goodwyn in 1674, in which are ſpecified,
a meſſuage, a barn,
A. R.
47 1 260 in the common fields, of which
1 35 then remained in South furlong.
If 8 of the poles made an acre, as is ſaid in Mr.
Bridger's letter which follows, the quantity of com-
mon field land at that time was 71 A. I. R. 4 P.
At that time the incloſed lands were,
A. R. P. now in 1798.
the great Butts, 4, o o 3 o o
the long Butts, 2, O O I I O
the South 18 acres, Io o o I 1 o o
the North 18 acres, 16 o o 15 o o
the Round croft, 1 2 o I 2 O
the Gooſe croft, o 2 o o 2 o not known
on Eaſt ſide of by the name.
com. Butts, I 2 O O 3 37
on the ... ſide of
. . . . Butts, O 2 O qu. eat up.
36 o o
making in the
whole 1 of . I 4.
beſides which the tenant had the cut of the following
paſture lands,
A. R. P.
The paper is
here torn,
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al
If not waſhed
away, is now
arable.
A. R. P. †
1 o o lying to the bounds dividing Bramber Rape,
and Lewes Rape,
o on the Eaſt ſide of the Laylands,
... O
o 9 bounding to the lands of john Engliſh to-
wards the Eaſt,
o o 5 Do. Do.
I 2, O Do. Eaſt and Weſt,
O 2, O Do. South,
2. O O Goddard Newington, South,
8 o 14
Mr. Goodwyn adds,
the farm will keepe 160 ſheep in the tenant flock,
the lay being of right 180,
the incloſed lands laſt abovementioned will keep in
the winter go ewes and 30 lambs very well,
the farm will keep all the year, in the tenantry and
after-paſtures, 6 oxen, 4 cows, 3 horſes, 4 calves, and
Io hogs,
for the after-paſture, when the harveſt is in, no man
is ſtinted, but may put into the ſtubb what he may
keep upon liis lands all the year.
By a letter from Mr. Harry Bridger, dated 17 Aug.
1743, it appears, that previous to that time the whole
South Furlong had been eaten up by the water; it con-
tained 124 poles, of which 86 belonged to this farm.
8 of theſe poles made an acre, ſo that the loſs of the
truſt eſtate in this place was ſo acres and 3 quarters.
ſn this letter he obſerves, that Gray, the tenant of
this and other farms, had for ſeveral years paſt den-
ſhired and plowed all the beſt of the ſheep down, for
which he paid conſiderable increaſe of rent to ſome of
the landlords.
In 1782, the truſtees joined with the other pro-
prietors of land in the common fields, and threw many
little parcels together, ſo as to make it more convenient
for occupation. The ſeveral parcels belonging to the
truſt in theſe fields amount to 78 A. 2 R. 27 P. as .
follows:
NAMES
NAMES of FUR LONGS.
Home Furlong,
Middle Furlong,
Bramble Dean, Weſt Furlong,
Bramble Dean, Eaſt Furlong,
Weſt Down,
The ſhort Lands or Peart,
Croſs Ham,
Long Ham,
Furlong next the Gore of Friern Court,
Weſt Ham next ſhort Fields,
Woorde Eaſt Furlong,
Woorde Middle Furlong,
Short Field, (North Furlong,)
Short Field, (South Furlong,)
Woorde Furlong,
Eaſt ſide of Brann ble Dean Crofts,
Weſt fide, ditto, (furz part,.)
Ditto, (arable part)
-Eaſt Furlong South from the church way,
Weſt Furlong, ditto,
North Furlong of Eaſtbrook,
The Butts,
Thoſe are the contents of the exchanged lands,
Incloſures,
tºmºsº
Qºmºmº
*
cºmmasº
*
&ºmºsº
tºmºsº
*
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ºsmºsºmsº
tºmmemº
*
tºº tºº
ºmsºmº ºmmasºmeº
Bramble Dean Croft,
A piece in the Lurkins, which is an incloſed field lying be-
tween the farm-houſe and the church,
tºmº
ſºmeºmº
TMr. Vallence.
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Truſtees,
Mr. Pierpoint.
to WNERS.
Mr. Tidy.
Mr. Hall.
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The truſtees have never been in poſſeſſion of any
manor, nor is there any known by the names de-
ſcribed in the conveyance. There is no principal ma-
nor in the pariſh; ſome parcels of land in it are held
of the Duke of Norfolk's manor of ; Mr.
Bridger's manor of Horton; Mr. Shelley's of Sullington;
and Mr. Sergiſon's of Slangham.
The church, and ſquare tower at the W. end, hold-
ing three bells, are built of flints. The tower is ſur-
mounted by a ſpire covered with ſhingles. In the S.
wall of the church, there appear to have been three
large arches now filled up with flints, in one of which
is the door, protećted by a porch; in the tower are
two rows of arches, in each face, the lower confiſting
of two round arches of ſtone with ſmall pillars, the
upper, two more ſlender obtuſe pointed arches joining
each other, and over them are two circular openings.
The roof of the church covers the place where the
lower round arches would have been on the Eaſt ſide.
The tower has in ſome part got out of the perpendicu-
lar, and ſome cracks are to be ſeen near the top. There
has been a door on the N. ſide, of the church, but it
is walled up. The church conſiſts of a nave only, the
chancel ſeparated by a ſlight ſcreen. In it, three
prebendal ſeats remain on the S. fide; thoſe on the N.
ſide have lately been taken away in making a new
pew : they face the Eaſt.
About 740 ſheeep are kept in the pariſh.
The reëtor has the great tithes of one part of the
pariſh ; only the ſmall tithes of the reſt, of which the
great tithes belong to Magdalen college. . The living
is about 150l. a year. The reëtor reſides in ſome diſ-
tant part, and letts his parſonage houſe for barracks.
The making the harbour of Shoreham has occaſioned
much damage to the pariſh, the ſea daily gaining
ground. Some cottages were waſhed away in 1798.
The truſtees of that harbour are obliged to make ſatiſ-
I faction
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faction for all property ſo deſtroyed. All the land of
which the tenant had the cut, under the cliff, has
been long ſince carried away. If an alteration which
has been proječted ſhould take place in the harbour
of Shoreham, much of the land which has been ſo
eaten up would be recovered, and this eſtate im-
proved.
WARBLETON,
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W A R B L E TO N.
The Manor of WARBLEToN, in the County of Sussex,
the Advowſon of the Church, and ſeveral Farms
and Lands there.
THE quitrents amount to £13 12s. 7d. paid for
freehold, copyhold, and leaſehold, eſtates. The copy-
holds are only nine, which are in ſix hands. The
fines are at the will of the lord.
A. R. P.
Courtlodge Farm conſiſts of a meſſuage, &c.
Cottage, and &ºmº gºsº 22 O O 2 O
Chantry Farm, a houſe, &c. and 19 fields
containing * — 1 16 3 26
Batsford Farm, a houſe, &c. and Ioé o 20
Ruſhlake Furnace, is a wood of about 4. O O
Great and Little ſwood, woods -** Io8 I o
In all tºº tºº &º 553 1 26
The advowſon of the reëtory worth about 4.300
per annum.
This eſtate was purchaſed by Mr. Smith of one Mr.
Stollion, previous to 1616; but the right to ſell was
controverted by Mr. Stollion's family, and the diſpute
was not finally ſettled till 1639, when Mr. Stollion's
grandſon releaſed to the truſtees, on having a leaſe
granted to him for 99 years from Michaelmas 1640,
at the rent of ſ. 160.
I 2 It
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It appears from the original papers now in the Tower,
that on 19 June, 1626, ſoon after Mr. Smith had
conveyed his eſtates to his truſtees, a bill in Chancery
was filed by Robert Earl of Eſſex and Ewe, Serjeant
Amherſ, Mr. Middleton, Sir William Wingfield, and Sir
George Whitmore, againſt jane Stollion widow, and Tho-
mas Stollion her ſon. In this bill it is ſtated, that Tho-
mas Stollion, late of Warbleton, Gent. in the 12th jac I.
for a valuable confideration, conveyed to Henry Smith,
Eſq. the manor of Warbleton, and divers lands, &c.;
that Mr. Smith conveyed the ſame to the complainant
and others, for charitable purpoſes; that the .
fendants pretended to have a title, and to be in
poſſeſſion of deeds; that an ejećtment had been
brought by Chaſe, as leſſee of Stollion, againſt Thomas
Ruſſel; and the bill prayed, that the charitable uſes
might be carried into effect, and the deeds, if any
they had, might be delivered up.
To this bill Mrs. Stollion and her ſon put in their
anſwer within ten days. Mrs. Stollion ſtates, that, ſhe
being intitled to a confiderable fortune in poſſeſſion
and expectancy, a treaty of marriage was ſet on foot
between her and her late huſband Thomas Stollion, whoſe
father, Thomas Stollion of Warbleton Gent. promiſed
to ſettle ſ.600 per annum on his ſon ;
That by deed dated 28 Sept. 39 Eliz. in conſidera-
tion of the intended marriage, he did ſettle ſo much,
of the manor of Warbleton as he had purchaſed of Her-
bert Pelham, Eſq. and which Mr. Pelham had pur-
chaſed of Sir Nicholas Parker, deceaſed, and other
lands;
That Mr. Stollion, the father, kept the deed in his
own hands to defraud his ſon, againſt whom he filed
two bills at different times, to ſet aſide the deed ſo
entered into, but did not proceed on them;
That, about 1617, he brought a bill into the Houſe
of Commons, to enable him to ſell, charging fraud in
the deed which he had entered into, but the bill was
thrown out;
That,
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That, being indebted to Mr. Smith in ſ.10,000, he
conveyed to him his eſtate at Warbleton, in ſatisfaction
of the debt;
That her late huſband had levied a fine to Mr.
Smith of Iwood-Houſe;
That, about 1616, Mr. Smith filed a bill in Chan-
cery againſt Thomas Stollion the father, Thomas her
late huſband, and Richard Stollion ; and that her huſ-
band died before an anſwer was put in.
And ſhe and her ſon inſiſt on the validity of the
ſettlement.
No further proceedings in the Court of Chancery
have been found, but the diſputes were at laſt termi-
nated in 1639, by an agreement to grant Mr. Stollion a
leaſe of the manor and about 400 acres of land for
99 years, at the rent of £. I60.
13 june, 18 Cha. I, ſuch a leaſe was accordingly
granted for 99 years from Michaelmas 1640, by the
Earl of Eſſex, Sir Richard Gurney Knt. and Bart. Lord
Mayor of London, Viſcount Lumley, Sir Chriſtopher
Nevill of Newton St. Loe K. B. Sir George Whitmore
Knt. and Bart. alderman of London, William Roffe,
Henry Henn, and Henry jackſon. In this leaſe it is re-
cited, that divers ſuits at law and in equity hid been
depending for divers years concerning the title to the
manor and lands; that three verdićts at law had paſſed
upon trial at the bar of the Common Pleas, the firſt
paſſed for the Earl, and the two laſt for Mr. Stollion.
In 1671, Mr. Stollion complained to the truſtees, that
the value of the land was very much fallen by reaſon
of the low prices and values of the wood ground of
which the farm chiefly conſiſted, and he had an abate-
ment of A. 20 per ammum out of his rent.
In 1679, the truſtees came to an agreement with
him that he ſhould ſurrender his leaſe, that all arrears
of rent ſhould be diſcharged, and he ſhould have
A.20 per annum for life, have the houſe in which he
lived, with the garden, orchard, and cloſes of land
adjoining to it, and then in his poſſeſſion, for his life;
and his leaſes at rack-rent ſhould be confirmed.
He
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He died ſoon after; and there was ſome difficulty in
getting the Court Rolls, &c. out of the hands of his
executors, but it was at laſt accompliſhed. He had
enfranchiſed ſeveral copyholds whilſt he held the leaſe;
and his under–tenants are ſaid to have altered their
leaſes. Nothing further is found reſpecting theſe
In atterS.
30 April 1651. The Viſcount Lumley and Sir Henry
Hene, ſurviving truſtees *, allotted the rent of this
eſtate amongſt the following pariſhes:
Weſt Clandon, tº tº gº
Capel, fºº º tºº
Bramley, tºº amº
Albury, , dº ſº
Alfold, — tºmº summº
Shafford, ſº-sº tºº
Dunsfold, º sºmº,
Haſcomb, &nºmºſ *mºnº
Cranley, gº tºº
Womerſh, gº º
Stoke next Guildford, ººms
Merrow, * mº,
Send and Ripley tºº
Malden, º º
Eaſt Clandom, gº gº
Eaſt Horſley, sº sº
Weſt Horſley 5 & sº *
Aſh, Gººg ſº
Worpleſdon, º gº
Woking, sº gºmº I
Ockham, tºº wº
Wiſley 5 º *
Windleſham, sº ſº
Horſell, sº
Frimley, tºº?
|
:
I
–
tºmºmºmº
carried over 123 Io o
* So flylcd in the deed; but Sir George Whitmore was living
in 1658. &
brought
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- £. 3. d
brought over 123 Io o
Pepperharrow, gº - I O O
Compton, ſº dº 2, O O.
Puttenham, ſº - 2 O O.
Hambleton, — sº I I O O
Witley, 4 ºf ſº 4. O O
Thurſley, wº wº 4. O O
Chiddingfold, tºº – 5 o o
Eſted, gº º 2 O O
Seale, sº tºº 3 O O
Frenſkºm, tºº, &º 6 o o
Farley, gºmº. ..— I O O
Haſlemere, tºº — 3 o o
Purbright, ſº tº a 2, O O
16o o o
In 1708, Mr. Lade had a leaſe granted to him of
the above for 34 years, at the rent of A. 16o.
In 1765, a leaſe was granted to Mr. john Chilton,
for the lives of the Earl of Aſhburnham, George Viſ-
count St. Aſaph, and Mr. Young ſon of Robert 2 oung
of Battle Surgeon, at the rent of 4.17o, out of which
the land tax at 4s. is allowed, £.25 12s. Od.
His Lordſhip letts Courtlodge, and Chantry Farms, at
, the old rents, amounting together to £. Ioo; Bats-
ford's, at A.30, and he keeps the woods in hand which
are cut at 12 or 14 years growth. Wood here pays
no tythe.
The truſtees have uſually made grants of the next
preſentation to the restory; two of theſe are now out-
ſtanding, one in 1728, the other in 1738.
The manor of Warbleton, or Warbylton, belonged to
a family of that name, from Edw. I. to Richard III.
john de Warbleton had free warren ¥.
8 R. II. Alice de Warbleton held the manor, with the
advowſon +.
* Tower Record, N°. Io, . # Ibid, Nº. 40.
6 H. VI.
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6 H. VI. William Warbylton and his tenants, and
others, held two fees and a half in Warbleton and Weſ?-
field, formerly john Warbleton's.
E. IV. William Warbylon held this manor; formerly
Thomas Warbylon's, by two knights fees and a half, im-
mediately of the caſtle of Haftings.
E. IV. Sir George Puttenham held the manor of War-
bilton, formerly Thomas Warbilton's.
1 R, III. Margery Warbeton held it #.
2. R. III. Richard Fenys de Dacres, Mil. Lord Dacres,
held it +. *
32 H. VIII. Edward Pyers, alias Peers, died ſeized,
12 Mar. Thomas Pyers, ſon and heir #. r
14 Eliz. Herbert Pelham was found ſeized.
4o Eliz. Thomas Stolyon found ſeized $.
The living of Warbleton is a rećtory appendant to
the manor. The parſonage-houſe is a very mean
building, and in 1798, was unoccupied and much
decayed, Mr. Harcourt, the rector, living in a houſe
of his own in the pariſh. There are about 38 acres of
glebe, which with the tythes produce about 4.300 per
&11/11/???. * *
Anthony Nethercott was re&tor in 1689. Roger Callow
was preſented about 1708. Thomas Barton in 1732.
Mr. Harcourt, the preſent rector, ſucceeded Mr. Bar-
tom on his death in 1761.
The pariſh of Warbleton lies between Heathfield,
Dall ngton, Aſhburnham, and Hurſtmonceaux. The ſoil
of the Down called Warbleton next Heathfield, is a
poor black ſand ; ſo poor, that incloſures formerly
made from it have not been thought worth keeping
up ; of late, however, ſome of them have been fenced
in again. The reſt of the pariſh is clay, and the roads
very bad; but they have adopted a ſenſible mode of
mending them, which, in a courſe of time, will make
* Tower Record, Nº. 39.
+ Ibid. Nº. 30. -
: Bodley MSS. vol. CLXXXVI. p. 25.
§ Bodley MSS. The above with the references are from Sir
William Burrell's Suſſex Colle&tion, in the Muſæum.
I them
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them good through the pariſh; they colle&t a rate of
about one ſhilling in the pound by common conſent,
without the expence of applying to the ſeſſions; and
this, and the common ſtatute duty, is laid out in a re-
gular and real a mendment, beginning in one year
where they left off in another. There are ſeveral ſub-
ſtantial yeomen who occupy their own lands. Ruſh-
lake Green is conſidered as the pleaſanteſt part of the
pariſh, and here are the ſhops and the Inn. The ſur-
face is uneven, conſiſting of various little hills, in the
vallies between which are ſome ſmall rills of water,
but no large ſtream.
Oaks grow to be uſeful timber, but not to a large
ſize. Some hops are planted; and, to ſupply poles, they
plant ſallow, willow, and aſh, together; the two for-
mer are ſoon fit to cut, and pay expences, whilſt the
aſh is growing, which is proper for uſe in 20 years, by
which time the ſallows and willows begin to decay,
and in 40 years they go off entirely. *
The rents rated to the poor are 4.2151; to the land
tax 4.1256, which is to raiſe £.25o 7 s. 6d. at 4s. rate.
The Priory Farm is occupied by Mr. Lade, to whom
it belongs. In the 14 Hen. IV, the King, by patent,
reciting that the church of the Holy Trinity in Haft-
ings, and the dwellings of the prior and convent, had
been deſtroyed by an inundation of the ſea, granted
licence to Sir john Pelham, to give them certain lands
and tenements in Warbilton, to build a new church
and habitation, which they had then begun to erect “.
According to Tanner, Sir john Pelham, by deed dated
at Warbilton, 4 Sept. 9 H. VI. granted to the prior and
convent lands in Warbilton ; whether theſe were in
addition, or it was only a confirmation of the firſt,
does not appear. Part of the preſent houſe is built of
ſtone, and was, perhaps, part of the buildings of the
priory; there is a very large room in it. In a wall,
now part of a cart-houſe, was a door-way with an
arch, now built up, and on the outſide are re-
mains of ſtone buttreſſes. The ſtable has the appear-
* Dugd. Mon, vol. II. p. 84.
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ance of part of the old buildings. The foundations of
many walls are ſeen here, much of them having been
pulled down at no diſtant period. The houſe ſtands
on a ſmall knoll, with higher grounds on the South-
ward, from a ſpring in which water is conveyed by
leaden pipes to the houſe.
This probably paſſed, after the diſſolution, in the
grant of Haſtings priory to john Baker, 29 Hen. VIII.
It belonged to the Roberts's in the laſt century, and
came from them to the Lade's on the death of Mrs.
Ann Roberts 1722. r
The church of Warbleton ſtands on riſing ground
on the ſide next Heathfield, and about a mile from that
church. It is built of ſtone, with a tower at the Weſt
end in which are five bells; it is very neatly pewed,
and the whole is in excellent condition. Here are two
ailes, divided by pointed arches, and one of the ſame
ſeparates the chancel from the South aile. The com-
munion table is incloſed within high rails. The font
is of white ſtone, in ſhape of a cup, at the Weſt end
of the North aile. The South windows of the body,
and the Eaſt window in the chancel, are modern ; the
South and North windows in the chancel, and thoſe in
the North aile, are ancient, of tracery work. In the
North window in the chancel are the arms of Pelham,
impaling Lewknor; Lewknor, the wife's arms loſt;
Cheney; Lewknor again with his wife's arms; and ano-
ther impaling Lewknor. In the South window of the
chancel are ſome ſmall remains of painted glaſs,
amongſt which a head remains perfeót, though the co-
lours are much decayed. On the outſide of the chan-
cel, in the South wall, is a low arch, and in it a
ſtone table as for a figure, but there are no remains
of one.
In the North aile is a large monument of veined
marble for john Lade, Eſq. who had been many years
in parliament for Southwark, and died in 1740. It is
ſaid to have coſt £.5oo. In the centre is a white mar-
ble buſt of him. Over it are his arms, I and 4 ar. a
feſs ſa, between 3 eſcallop ſhells of the ſame; 2 and 3,
gu, a lion rampant az. Underneath is this inſcription:
• ** Here
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“Here lies interred the body of Sir John Lade, of
St. Saviour's Southwark Bart, the fifth and youngeſt
ſon of Thomas Lade, ſome time of this pariſh, Gent.
He was 5 times choſen member of parliament for the
borough of Southwark, where he lived from 14 years
old to the day of his death. He was a juſtice of Peace
for more than 30 years for the counties of Surrey, Suſ-
ſex, Kent, and Middleſex, one of the deputy lieute-
nants of the borough of Southwark, and of the lieute-
nancy of the city of London. In all theſe poſts he
behaved himſelf with great integrity. His candour,
courage, zeal, and ſkill, rendering him remarkable
in all his acts of power. A friend to monarchy,
and the eſtabliſhed church of England, yet without
acrimony to diſſenters. A true friend to thoſe to whom
he profeſſed amity; and, although he lived in party
times, could never be biaſſed againſt his judgement,
either by place, power, or honour, but, as a true Eng-
liſhman, deſpiſed all for what he thought the good of
his country. He died a batchelor the 30th day of
July, 1740, aged 78 years. And, after having done
great favours to his friends and relations, he left the
bulk of his eſtate to the grandſon of his eldeſt bro-
ther, John Inſhip, now John Lade, Eſq. who, in grate-
ful remembrance thereof, to his memory has erected
this monument.”
He died without iſſue, and the title became extinét ;
but, in 1758, was revived in the grandſon of his brother,
who married the ſiſter of Mr. Thrale, and was father of
the preſent baronet.
The Lade's became poſſeſſed of their property here
from the family of Roberts, as it ſeems by an inſcrip-
tion on a monument againſt the North wall of the
chancel, to the memory of john Roberts, of the priory,
in this pariſh, Gent, who died Aug. 25, 1688, at. 58,
and Anna his wife, who died jan 20, 1722, aged 90 ;
which monument was erected by John Lade, Eſq.
their nephew, in grateful remembrance of their care
of him, his brothers and fiſters. -
The Roberts's came out of Kent, as appears by a
black ſtone againſt the wall by the pulpit, on which
- K 2. is
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Broken off.
Broken off.
is inſcribed, “Here lyes buried in this church Tho-
mas Roberts, Eſq. fonne and heire of Sir Walter Ro-
berts, of Glaſenburie, in Kent, Knt. and Baronet, who
married Elizabeth, the ſole daughter and heire of Sir
Mathew Howland, Knt. and dame Elizabeth his wife,
and died the 23d of Janualie, 1638.”
In the chancel, before the communion table, on a
flat ſtone, .
** In the vault under this ſtone lie interred the bo-
dies of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Barton, many years Rec-
tor of this Pariſh, who departed this life the ſecond
day of January, 1761, in the 56th year of his age;
and both his wives, Catherine and Frances. The for-
mer died the 24th of July 1749, aged 40, the latter
the 27th of April, 1757, aged 57 years.” tº
Adjoining the head of this, on a flat ſtone, is a
- ſº 8.5 9 3.
large whole figure, in braſs, of a man in a long gown,
on the two borders of which, beginning at his left
ſide, is engraved, “Credo quod redemptor meus vivit,
et in noviſſimo die de terrà ſurreóturus ſum, et in
carne mea videbo Deum Sanatorem meum.”
A braſs has run all round the ſtone, but it is now
broken in two places. It begins over his head;
“Willmus Preſtwyk mundi vaga culmina plauſus
linquens nunc [jacet hic ſub duro marmore clauſus
vir conſtans patiens humilis devotus amenus juſti-
ciam faciens Xpm luet omnis egenus] Clerus eum
flebit vulgus plus corde dolebit curia lugebit tanto
quia patre carebit. Providus ille fuit conſultus nor-
mula morum, prodolor ecce ruit qui pater et tutor mi-
norum extenſis membris vehit hinclux prima Novem-
bris [Anno M. quater C] ter duodeno. Totum pecca-
men fibi Chriſtus deleat Amen”
Over the head on a ſcroll, holding a pelican feeding
her young, - g
“Sic Xps dilexit nos.”.”
* The writing on the parts now broken off has been ſupplied by
a poor man in the pariſh, a tomb-ſtone maker, who had copied it,
when perfect. -
Preſlwyk's
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Preſwyk's epitaph was thus tranſlated by the per-
ſon who furniſhed the copy.
Leaving this world's aſpiring views,
Unſtable as the wav'ring blades;
Here Preſtwyk lies, (whom praiſe purſues)
And o'er him this hard marble ſpreads.
A conſtant, patient, humble, man,
In mind devout, of temper ſweet;
Who, in a courſe of juſtice ran,
And each poor man will him acquit.
For him will flow the clergy's tears;
The vulgar's grief will touch the heart;
His Cure in ſorrow deep appear,
From ſuch a father doom'd to part.
Provided with wiſe counſels, he
A pattern of good morals ſtood;
Our youth have loſt (how ſad to ſee!)
A father and a tutor good.
From ſtretch'd-out limbs his ſoul did riſe,
Born on November's primal light,
One thouſand, with four hundred, thrice
Twelve years, the time declareth right.
That CHRIST may wipe off ev'ry ſtain
Of fin from him, let's ſay AMEN.
Againſt the North wall, oppoſite the door, is a
ſmall whole-length figure of white marble, leaning on
an urn of the ſame, and under it,
“Martha Harcourt, wife of the Reverend Henry
Harcourt, , of this pariſh, died xIxth September,
MDCCXCVI, aged Lxxix years.”
On a ſhield az, a chev. ar. charged with 3 ſtars ſa.
On the floor in the N. aiſle,
“Here lyeth ye body of Paul Beeſton, genº, who
dyed Sept, yº 2d, 1681, aged 45 years, and 5 months.
He gave 2 pieces of land lying in the pariſh of
Maidſtone in Kent, containing about 5 acres, to yº
poor of the pariſh of Warbleton, for ever.”
IWOOD,
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Iwo OD,
In the Pariſh of WARBLEton, in Sussex,
is a reputed manor, and conſiſts of a houſe, barns,
ſtables, and offices, and 298 A. I R. 13 P. of land, of
which 177 A. 3 R. 29 P. are arable and paſture, the
reſt is wood and roads. It was ſold to Mr. Smith by
the Stollion's, and ſeems to have been purchaſed before
he bought the manor of Warbleton.
The houſe was very large, and was the manſion houſe
of the lords of Warbleton. It ſtood about the middle
of this eſtate on one of the little hills, the ground fall-
ing to the South-Eaſt and North-Eaſt; the well,
however, is only about 30 feet deep. In 1722, the
houſe was reported to be in a ruinous ſtate, and an or-
der was made that it ſhould be leſſened, and fitted for
a farm houſe. It does not appear how much was pul-
led down ; but what remained in 1796 was of brick
60 feet ſquare, four ſtories high above the cellars,
with pointed dormer windows in the roof; on the
ground floor were eight large rooms, ſome of them 20
feet long. A court in the front was incloſed with ſtone
walls, entered by a ſmall arched door, on the key-
ſtone of which was cut, “This gateway was built
1591.” In 1795, the houſe was found ſo totally de-
cayed as to be unſafe for habitation ; It was, therefore,
ordered that it ſhould be taken down. Though the
outſide
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outſide was brick, the inſide of the walls was found to
be only loam, and the beams were ſo decayed that they
reſted by the ſlighteſt hold, and ſome of them were
entirely rotten.
A new and very commodious houſe was built (under
the direétion of Mr. Clutton, ſurveyor to the truſtees,)
on part of the ſite of the old one, containing a kit-
chen, parlour, brewhouſe, pantry, and dairy, on the
ground floor; five chambers on the next floor, and
garrets over them, with a back ſtaircaſe for the ſer–
vants, and cellars under the kitchen. A new ſtable has
been ſince built.
Near the houſe is a ſpot of gravel, and in the land
there has been a pit of fine building-ſand, but it is
nearly worn out. There is one on the adjoining farm
called the Priory, and probably the ſame ſand might
be found in the land next to that farm.
Io Dec. 1641. By deed inrolled in Chancery, the
Earl of Eſſex, Wiſcount Lumley, Sir Richard Gurney
Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of London, Sir Chriſ:
topher Nevill, Sir George Whitmore, William Rolfe, Henry
Henn, Eſqrs, and Henry jackſon, Gent. ſurviving feof-
fees, allotted this eſtate, then lett at £. 80 a year, to
the following pariſhes;
£.
Chertſey, tºº tºº, 25
Walton on Thames, tºmmy 8
Cobham, * I 2,
Weſt Moulſey, ſºmºs 2
Eaſt Moulſey, — 2.
Letherhead, wº 8
Great Bookham, tºº IO
Little Bookham, essº 5
Effingham, tºº 4.
Peterſham, ſº 4.
8o
In 1671, the rent was reduced to ſ. 70, on complaint
of the tenant of the low value of wood ground ; it was
afterwards lett at £.68, but, in 1784, raiſed to £90.
The
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The Manor and Rećtory of
L O N G N E Y,
in the County of GLouces TER.
THIS eſtate conſiſts of the manor of Longney; a
good farm houſe and demeſne lands of the manor,
containing about 250 Acres ; and the rectory, im-
propriate with the tythes of corn, grain, and hay.
There are 33 eſtates held of the manor, paying
quit-rents amounting to 4.56 195. 8d. per annum.
Theſe eſtates are granted for three lives, ſome by copy
of court-roll, ſome by leaſe. The fines commonly
taken are, three years of the nett rent after dedućting
quit-rents and all taxes, for adding one life to two;
ſeven years for adding two lives to one. If all the lives
drop, it is at the option of the Lords to re-grant the
eſtate, or to keep it in hand. Where it has been re-
granted, about 14 years have been taken for putting in
three lives. Theſe fines are more moderate than thoſe
taken in ſome other places, where 4, 8, and 16 years
are paid, dedućting only quit-rents, or perhaps land-
tax, out of the groſs rents. i
This pariſh adjoins the Severn, in which river the
Lords had formerly a fiſhery, but it has been loſt many
years.
The
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The land next the river is very rich, but is in con-
tinual danger of being carried away, or overflowed by
the rapidity of the current and violence of the tides.
To protećt the banks, frames of timber-work filled
up with ſtones are carried out into the river; they are
called Cribs, and are in frequent want of repairs, which
are expenſive: two of theſe the eſtate is bound to re-
pair. There have becn ſome others, now ſuffered to
go to decay. Beſides theſe, there is a bank to protećt
the lands from floods, and there are ſewers to carry
off the water ; theſe (except the mouth of one prin-
cipal ſewer, which is called the ſconce, and is repaired
by the eſtate,) are maintained by the pariſh, and a tax
called a pool-rate is levied for the purpoſe.
In 1791, ſome barge-maſters indićted theſe cribs as
a nuiſance; and, perhaps from miſtake, preferred two
ſeparate bills. The cauſes were carried down to Glou–
ceffer to be tried ; but the proſecutors could not main-
tain their indićtments. This unlucky miſtake of pre-
ferring two bills occaſioned a good deal of additional
and uſeleſs expence.
The impropriators repair the chancel. Their de-
meſne land pays no tithe to the vicar. About 1693,
he demanded tithe ; but the tenant was forbidden to
pay, and did not pay, and no claim has been made
ſince.
Certain meadows in the pariſh, not having paid tithe
in the memory of any man, claimed to be exempt;
but, it being underſtood to be the law of tithes, that a
mere non-payment was not ſufficient to excuſe it, and
that the particular right muſt be ſhewn, a bill was
filed in the Exchequer by the truſtees orders, in the
name of William Fryer, their leſſee, againſt ſome of the
occupiers of theſe lands. One of the defences ſet up
was, a unity of poſſeſſion of their lands, and of the
tithes, in the abbey of Great Malvern; another, that
their lands being held of the manor, they were por-
tioniſts of the tithes. On hearing the cauſe in 1792,
the Chief Baron Eyre ſaid, that the defendants had
failed in both their defences; but they might have
pleaded non-payment, and therefore, to avoid ſº
ultS,
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ſuits, he ſhould decree for them : he not only diſ-
miſſed the bill, but diſmiſſed it with coſts. His ſuc-
ceſſor, Sir Archibald Macdonald, has held the contrary
to be law, and has compelled the claimants of ex-
emption to ſhew their title to it.
In 1779, there was a propoſal made, by ſome of the
land-owners, to incloſe the common fields; the truſ-
tées conſented ; but the owners could not agree toge-
ther, and it was dropped. They have in many in-
ftances changed lands with one another, and then made
an incloſure, much to the detriment of the truſt eſtate,
as the incloſures ſo made are generally laid down in
graſs, and the impropriators thereby loſe the tithe.
T he truſtees have ordered ſuch new incloſures to be
thrown open.
20 Dec. 1641. By deed inrolled in Chancery, the
Earl of Eſſex, Richard Viſcount Lumley, Sir Richard
Gurney Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of London,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir George Whitmore, William
Rolfe, Henry Henne, Eſqrs. and Henry jackſon, Gent.
the then ſurviving truſtees, allotted the rents of the
farm and rectory, and the quit-rents, to
£.
Perſhore, Worceſterſhire, — 5o
Warbleton, Suſſex, *** 8
Longney, Glouceſter, º I 2,
St. Gules Cripplegate, London, I O
Northill, Bedfordſhire, * 4.
Ormſkirk, Lancaſhire, *sº 9
Calne, Wilts *
'Chippenham, 9 iſ O
St. Vedaſt, Foſter Lane, * I O
St. Olave, Old jewry, }. London, I O
St. Sepulchre, - IO
Barnet, Herts, tºº IO
St. Thomas, Southwark, tºº 6 :
Strélham, Surrey, *g 4.
Cheſion or Chedeſion, Suffolk, IO
Chrºſt-church, London, º IO
Odiham, Hants, * I O *
Radnor,
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Radnor, Wales, sº 5
King's Langley, Herts, tºº 5
Horné, Surrey, tºº 3
Stanton Prior, - I O
Newton St. Loe, ). Somerſet, 39
Bath Eaſlon, I O
The church of Longmey is dedicated to St. Lawrence,
and conſiſts of a body with a chancel at the Eaſt end,
which is ſeparated on the South ſide by two pointed
arches from another chancel, or, as Vir. Rudder in
his Hiſtory of Glouceſterſhire) calls it, a chapel. This
South chancel, or chapel, extends to about the middle
of the church, where is a ſquare tower, in which are
ſix bells. The church is very neatly fitted up and
pewed, by the care of the preſent vicar, Dr. Cheſter;
but the South chancel being uſeleſs and in decay, the
arches which ſeparate it from the other were walled
up, and it has now no communication with the church.
A ſmall door into it from the church-yard is only uſed
to get at the belfry, to which there is no other en-
trance. The Dočtor has repaired and fitted up the
vicarage-houſe, which adjoins the church-yard. The
font is a ſlender wainſcot column, holding a ſmall ba-
ſon ; but the old oétagon font was removed into the
church-yard when the church was repaired and pewed,
it being thought that it took up too much room, where
there was very little to ſpare.
At the entrance of the chancel againſt the South
wall, on a white marble tablet,
“In memory of the Reverend Mr. Richard Little-
ton, M.A. who was miniſter of this place 58 years.
He was pious, painfull, and profitable in his office.
He finiſhed his courſe, and was gathered among his
people, Oétober the 6th, Anno Domini 1713, aged 79.
L 2. Here,
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Here, alſo, lyeth Mary his beloved wife, who dyed
Auguſt 24, in the 86th year of her age, 1714.
Alſo, in memory of William his ſon, who was bu-
ryed December the 3d Anno Dom. 1695, aged 22,
vita perit mortis gloria non moritur.”
Over this is a ſmall buſt, half-length, yellow curling
hair, a band on, his hands joined. At the bottom is a
death's head.
This pariſh lies on the banks of the Severm, which
runs along its whole extent, from Elmore to Epney.
The river is here very violent, and often encroaches
on the land, though all the care is taken that can be
to prevent its doing ſo. In the winter of 1768, it
broke down part of the inner wall, and overflowed a
great deal of land. At preſent (1798) the courſe of
the current has, in a great degree, ſhifted to the op-
poſite ſide, and is making its depredations there. The
planting of ſedge on the banks ſeems to have a good
effect for their preſervation, the roots fixing the looſe
earth and ſand. The land is good, a great deal of it ara-
ble; there are many orchards ; and an excellent cyder is
made from an apple which is called, from this place,
the Longney Ruſſet. They make ſome cheeſe.
The manor was given to the monaſtery of Great
Malvern, in Worceſterſhire, founded in 1085, by one
Oſbert. In the 15 E. I. that monaſtery pleaded their
right to court-leet, free-warren, and felons goods, &c.
in this manor, and their claim was allowed.
To whom it was granted on the Diſſolution does not
appear; but, in 2 ja. I. Lord Lumley conveyed it to
Mr. Smith. Sir William Bond appears as lord in 1608;
but he was only a truſtee for Mr. Smith.
At
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By Atkyns's By Rudder's
aCCOUnt a CCOUInt
I7I 2. 1778. I799.
Inhabited houſes, 6o 57
Inhabitants, 26o 217 308
Barns, 3 I
Stables, * 23
5. - £. s. d.
In 1779 the poor-rate was only 5o 15 8%
1796. *sº tºmº I75 II 5%
1798 tºº tºº tºº I 3 I o II :
Average 9 years 1779–1788 both
incluſive 92 O I
9 years 1790–1798 incluſive* 139 17 2
Church-rates, 1779–1788 do. 180 19 I+.
1789–1798 254 5 93
Average of rates for repair of the cribs,
Io years 1779–1788 both incluſive 26 4 1:
1789–1798 do. 25 I 2:
Average of pool-rates for repairing banks,
10 years 1779–1788 both incluſive 6 3
1789–1798 do. 9 1 I
* In the account ſent me the year 1788 was omitted. The ave-
rage of poor rates is therefore taken on the firſt and laſt nine years.
L 3 TELLESCOMB,
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*–
——
º
T E L L E S C O M B,
IN SUSSEX.
WHETHER the eſtate which belongs to the truſ-
tees was bought by Mr. Smith in his life-time, or by
his truſtees afterwards, I do not find ; but, in the con-
veyance from the old to the new truſtees in 1658, it is
deſcribed as
A capital meſſuage;
Demeſne lands of arable or paſture, in ſeveral
fields in Teleſcombe, containing 217 acres;
The herbage or feeding for 495 ſheep on Telſ.
combe Down, and elſwhere, within the ſaid manor;
With the herbage or ſeeding for 22 bullocks, in
and upon the downs and commonable-places within the
ſaid manor, from the 1ſt of May yearly, to St. An-
drew's tide;
Alſo, the feeding or keeping of 7 horſes for the
ſame time;
And 29 tunnes or loads of good and ſweet hay, to
be yearly taken as belonging to the ſaid manor, out
of certain meadows or meadow-grounds, commonly
‘ called . . . . . . . or elſewhere;
All which premiſſes are, and are reputed to be, the
demeſnes of the ſaid manor of Telſcombe, in the coun-
ty
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ty of Suffex, and then were in the occupation of Ro-
bert Plummer, Gent. * -
1674. By a terrier taken by Mr. Goodwyn for the
truſtees +, with the ſeveral abuttals, it appears that
there were -
one farm-houſe,
One Cottage,
3 barns, -
202 A. 2 R. in the common-fields. -
The particulars of the incloſed lands are torn off, but
I find they hardly exceed 3 acres.
He ſays, . *
the tythes are taken according to law, except
for the fall of every calfe 6d.
for every cow's milk for a year 1d.
for one year's growth for every young bullock 6d.
for working cattell nothing, * .
noe timber of wood upon the ſame,
noe quarries of ſtone or myne, but chalke enough
£or uſe. .
... Mr. Plumer hath ſould to Mr. Blunden, a parcel
land to incloſe his cloſe.
There are 14 yard-lands and an half belonging to
the ſaid farm ; every yard-land keepeth twenty ſheepe,
viz. tenn ewes and tenn weathers, from Mich'as to
our Ladyday ; and, from our Ladyday to Mich'as,
to keepe 25 of the ſame ſort, and 5 of the five and
twenty are to be dry ſheepe, viz. taggs or weathers;
and 50 ſheepe dry, from Mich'as to our Ladyday,
and 6o from our Ladyday to Mich'as, being more
then is kept in the whole pariſh beſides, as a peculier
priviledge belonging to the farm; and, for the halfe
yºlands, halfe as many as a yard-land keepes per
7°411/ \ſ.
The farm may keepe İo rams all the yeare, if the
farmer pleaſeth.
*. He was then lord of the manor.
t Probably copied from one on parchment, kept in the pariſh,
in which every piece of land in the pariſh is abutted.
# So in the paper.
i They
( 114 )
The paper is
torn in this .
place.
They have the keeping of all their lambs belonging
to their ewes, from their falling until Mich'as follow-
ing, and noe longer.
They are to keepe two beaſts for every yard-land,
viz. two cowes, or elſe one oxe and owne Cowe, and
the calves whilſt they ſucke; and
for every two yard-land, one horſe and one weane
hand calfe, and for the halfe yard-land per ratu”.
The farmers may keepe ſeaven weaned calves all the
yeare uppon the ſaid farme. &
The farmer to keepe noe hoggs but what every one
keepes on his owne cloſes, except from harveſt untill
wheate is ſowed, and noe more than two for every
yard-land.
There is belonging to the ſaid farme, by computa-
con', about 30 loads of hay yearely.
The cuſtome for hay growing uppon certaine
brooke-lands lyeing in Southeaſe parriſh, belonging to
the parriſh of Tel/combe, which, by cuſtome, is to bee
layed of to bee mowed att our Ladyday, and to be
mowed betweene St. Peter's day to Lamas day, or elſe
to bee loſt.
The names of the Brookes,
viz. The North Wiſh, the Little Wiſh, and the South
Wiſh. -
In the North Wiſh there is belonging to every ſix
yard-lands, in Telſcombe, one hide and a clout, viz. 2
acres to a hide, and an . . . halfe . . . which
te ... unded and ſett out on . . . S day as
. . . lotts is caſt where each . e e º e º º
iſh there is to every s. x yard-land .
. . . . . . aboveſaid . . . . . .
In the South Wiſh there is to every ſix yard las
© 0 g , aboveſaid &
©
. . . . . . . . cuſtom d . Q
Hee that hath 14 yard-lands may have . . tº 9
* e o e e e o e deſcent his ſheepe is to
bee turned out. - .
* So in the paper,
1692,
( II5 )
1692, the tenant complaining of damage done by
the rabbits out of an adjoining warren, he was ordered Book of
to take them if they came on his land, and the truſtees minutes.
would juſtify him. .
1706, a leaſe of this farm was granted to Richard
Parker for 15 years, at the rent of £.60, by deſcription
of a meſſuage, cottage, and 202 acres, more or leſs,
pigeon-houſe, three barns, ſtables, ſheep-downs, Com-
mons, common of paſture, and appurtenances. The
tenant was at liberty to plow the ſheep-downs called
the Tye, and Weſt-downe, by eſtimation 50 acres. He
was not to plow, break up, or convert into tillage any
of the incloſed land, or the then arable lands called
the South-lane, in Tcl/combe, lying next the warren of
Heathcombe and Teſcombe warren, but lay it off for
aſture; -
Nor plow, denſhire, or convert into tillage, any part
of the lands called Aleſden or Barnſden;
Not to ſuffer any of the cuſtomary hay belonging
to the farm, and yearly to be taken out of Southeaſe
Brooke; or any other hay, ſtraw, &c. to be carried
away. .
james Blunden, now (1798,) aged 84, occupied a
ſmall farm (which had been his grandfather's,) from
1744, for Io years; in this time he kept 9, cows one
year, and 10 the other; now, none are kept in the pa-
riſh.
He ſays, and it was admitted by others preſent as a
known fact, that, beſides the uſual allowance of ſheep
to a yard-land, this farm is intitled to 40 for the pi-
geon-houſe, and uſes the right; but no tags are kept
for this. - - -
Telleſcombe is a ſmall pariſh on the South-downs,
about a mile and half from the ſea, about ſix miles
from Lewes and three from Newhaven. The church,
and the houſes, Io in number, with their barns and
outbuildings, form a ſmall groupe in a bottom, be-
tween two hills; ſome very ſmall incloſures adjoining,
almoſt without a tree, and the inhabitants reſorting to
M - a deep
( 1 16 )
a deep well for water. The reſt of the land, except
The Hodderm, is divided into ſix farms, the rents of
which are about 4.8oo a year; the reëtor receives
about £. 120 for the tythe, has no houſe here, and
performs duty once on a Sunday, morning and after-
noon alternately. The Hoddern contains about 246
acres, and was formerly a rabbit-warren belonging to
the Duke of Dorſet. The farmers of the pariſh took
it of the duke at a rent of A. 15, to get rid of the de-
predations of the rabbits; and afterwards advanced it
to 4.25, on having liberty to plow the ground, each
farmer plowing a part in proportion to the number of
yard-lands which he held in the pariſh *. In 1795, it
was lett by the Duke, as a farm, to Mr. Shergold, of
Brighthelmſtone, who has taken a leaſe at £.245 a year,
and built a farm-houſe on it. -
Telſtomhe, with Io hides of land, was given by Edred,
brother of Edmund, to the new monaſtery of Wincheſ-
ter, called Hyde +. -
King Edgar confirmed this grant with ſome addi-
tion f.
And, in 16 Edw. I the Abbot of Hyde claimed
warren in his demeſne lands in this place, and the ad-
joining pariſh of Sutheys (i. e. Southeaſe). §
But, in 7 E. I. john Earl of Warren was ſeized of
the manor of Telleſcomb || ; and, in 11 Hem. IV. john
de Warren, Earl of Surrey, claimed liberties “ſ.
Richard Baker and others, held the lordſhip in ca-
pite, in 2 Eliz.
In 1 jac. I. Thomas, Lord Buckhurſt, held courts as
lord, and from him it deſcended to Richard, Earl of
Dorſet, who died in 1624. It was aliened to William
Garfoote, Gent, who was owner in 1625 and 1626. In
* Information of James Blunden, aged 84, in 1798,
+ Dugdale's Monaſticon, vol. I. 209.
† Ibid. 211 a.
§ Placita Rot. 28, 16 E. I.
| Sir William Burrell's Colle&tions, Lewes Rape, p. 330.
* Records Tower, a”. 8 R.I.V.
1632,
( 1 17 )
1632, Richard Gurney, afterwards Sir Richard, one of
Mr. Smith's original truſtees, appears to have been
lord, and to have held courts till 1642; but there is
no trace of the manor having been part of the truſt
eſtate. In 1657, Robert Plomer, Gent. held his firſt
court, and it continued in that family till 1690, when
Henry Shelley, Eſq. became lord; and from him it has
deſcended to Henry Shelley, Eſq. the preſent owner,
(1798). * g *
The farm-houſe belonging to the truſt is confidered
as the manor-houſe, and the courts are held there. A
common fine of 13s. 4d. is paid by this pariſh to the
hundred court, which is held ſometimes at Newhaven,
ſometimes at Rodmell, but never here. Sir William
Burrell ſays, every yard-land, except the lords de-
meſnes, contributes 5d. per annum towards the com-
mon fine, every cottager 2d. and every ſervant Id. ;
and that the headborough has, towards his payment, one
bullock-leaze in that pariſh within the hundred where
he lives; and the conſtable hath a bullock-leaze in the
other pariſh of this burrowe --, (that is, Southeaſe.)
The whole number of yard-lands is 36, of which
the demeſne is 14 and an half .
The church appears to be of great antiquity; per-
haps built when the donation was made to Hyde Abbey.
It is ſmall, of ſtone; there is a ſquare tower at the
Weſt end, on which is a ſpire, one bell only. Three
round arches on round maſſy pillars, on the North fide
of the nave, ſupport the roof, which is not cieled, and
which, on that ſide, is of great length, and reſts on a
wall not more than five or fix feet high from the
ground, leaving very little ſpace between it and the
pillars. The wall on the South ſide is much higher.
* Sir William Burrell's Colle&tions, from the Court Rolls,
Lewes Rape, p. 330. # Ibid.
: Information in the pariſh.
M 2 The
( 118 )
The font is a ſquare ſtone ſupported by a ſmaller
ſquare pillar; the fides of the baſon are carved in four
compartments; the ſtem in two.
In the chancel are two ſmall white marble tablets,
one on each fide; one is for Mr. Higgins, rector of
this pariſh, and vicar of Pidinghoe, who died in 17 ,
aged 73 ; the other is for Mr. , alſo rector
and vicar of theſe two pariſhes, who died in 17 .
There is no other ſtone or inſcription.
WORTH
( . 19 )
WORTH Est ATE, IN WORTH AND
BALCOMBE, IN THE COUNTY OF
SUSSEX,
confits of a good houſe and farm, called Lodge-farm,
with two barns, two ſtables, a granary, and arable,
meadow, paſture, wood and heathy-ground, ſcattered
over with wood, lett to John Braſier; to which is added
part of the old warren, Plowman-reed coppice, and
Barnfield-wood.
A coppice called Bulls, is in land;
As is another called Harrowdens.
A meſſuage, barn, and lands, called Stanninghall-
farm, lett to William Hills.
A meſſuage, barn, and lands, called Hole-farm, in
Worth; and a meſſuage, barn, ſtable, and lands, cal-
led Monk's-farm, in Balcomb, to Mr. Streatfield.
A meſſuage, ſtable, and lands, called Whiteley-hill
warren, lett to William Budgen.
A parcel of rough ground, ſcattered over with wood,
called the Compaſs-rough, part of the old warren, lett
to the reverend Dr. Bethune.
6 cottages, with gardens, which pay ſmall quit-rents.
16 Feb.
( 120 )
16 Feb. 1629–30, john Middleton Eſq. of Horſham,
and Thomas Middleton his ſon, conveyed to the truſ-
tees (probably in ſatisfaction of the debt due from the
father to Mr. Smith,)
“All that the moiety of the 4th part of the
manor of Heighley in Suſſex with the Courts
Baron; the moiety of all theſe lands in Suſ-
ſex being or reputed to be parcel of the
Foreſ of Worth and lately allowed allotted
or aſſigned to one john Farneham of Lon-
don Eſq. by partition thereof heretofore
made ; the moiety of all thoſe meſſuages
cottages lands tenements and heredita-
ments in the pariſhes or hamlets of Worth,
Bawlcombe, Ardingley, Slawham, Crawley, and
Iffield, in Suſſex, heretofore conveyed and
aſſured by Sir Thomas Sherley the elder Knt.
and john Baker Eſq. to ſaid John Middleton
and his heirs; the moiety of the 4th part of
the free foreſts free parks free warrens
waifs eſtrays profits and advantages ariſ-
ing by reaſon of the ſaid foreſt in the ſaid
pariſhes; the moiety of all that part por-
tion or purparte of ſaid foreſt.”
15 June, 1630, Sir George Crooke, Lord Lumley, Sir
Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir William Blake of Halehouſe in
the county of Middleſex Knt., William Rolfe of the In-
mer Temple London Eſq., George Lowe of London Eſq.,
Richard Gurnard clothworker of London, Henry jack-
fon citizen and grocer of London, and Henry Hene of
London Eſq. demiſe the above eſtate to the ſaid john
Middleton and Thomas Middleton his ſon and heir ap-
parent, for a term of 80 years from Ladyday then laſt
under the rent of ſ. 160; and the leſſee had hiberty to
cut and carry away all woods underwoods timber
and trees growing and to grow thereon.
This eſtate continued to be held in undivided moie-
ties, lett at the old rent, till 1773, when john Newn-
ham Eſq. of Mareyield, in Suſſex, then owner of the
other
( 121 )
other moiety, agreed with the truſtees to make a divis
ſion, which was effected by writ of partition, and the
following parts were allotted to the truſtees;
A. R. P. Rent.
Lodge-farm, – 475 2 7 55 o o
A meſſuage and lands, 138 3 18 3o o o
Ditto, * *s Io o 32 4. Io o
The Hole-farm, - I4 I I 33 28 o o
Whiteley-hill-warren, 89 I 18 4. O O
Monk's-farm, tºmmº I 24. I 22 O O
and the following woods valued at
Old-warren, *sºng 169 3 3 I 5 o o
Barnfield-coppice, 13 3 33 3 Io o
Plowman-reed-coppice, 37 3 3O 3 I4. O
Oaken-coppice, I7 3 24. 2 I 3 O
Bull's and Harrowden's
coppices, Cºmº 42 2 3o 6 8 o
1261 3 35
the 6 cottages, paying quit-rents, I 13 o
176 8 o
The timber on this part was valued at £. 1492 Ios.
The manor, Iojo A. o R. 4 P. of land, and three
cottages, were allotted to Mr. Newnham.
Timber has ſince been from time to time cut on
this eſtate to a confiderable amount, and the money
has been laid out in the purchaſe of reduced 3 per
cent. Bank Annuities, the dividends on which are di-
ſtributed amongſt the pariſhes in proportion to their
allotments of rent *.
In 1784, part of Lodge-farm, containing about 90
acres of rough ground, was taken from thence and
lett to the reverend Dr. Bethune reëtor of Worth, at
£.9 a year. Other lands late lett to Booker, and the
Old-warren, the Barnfield-coppice, Plowman-reed-coppice,
* In 1799, £.2886 2.s. 5d, ſtock had been bought, but part was
laid out in the purchaſe of land-tax.
and
( 12.2 )
and Oaken-coppice, which hitherto had been kept in
hand, were added to the Lodge then lett to Mr. Bra-
fier, and the rent made £.92 Ios. In 1792 a cottage
was repaired by the truſtees for this farm, and the rent
of 20s, added.
Bull's and Harrowden's coppices containing 42 A.
2 R. 30 P. were, kept in hand; and, in 1788 were
cut at about 14 years growth, and ſold for £.163 5s.
4; d. being an average of about £. 13 a year; but out
of which the pariſh taxes are to be deducted, having
been paid by the truſtees.
Dugdale, in his Monaſticon Anglicanum ſays, that
Henry Earl of Ewe, ſon and heir of jobn Earl of Ewe,
(who died in 1170, 17 H. II,) and of Alice, daughter
of William de Albini Earl of Arundell, gave to the
monks of Robertſbridge in Suſſex, “Wertham cum
“combá juxta foreſtam mean de Briſtling *;” in his
Baronage he tranſlates this “ his lordſhip of Worthe,
“ with the valley adjoining to the Foreſt of Briſtling.”
Ralph de Tſenden married Alice daughter and heir of
this Henry, and confirmed all grants made to theſe
monks tº.
King Richard the IId in his 10th year, confirmed
theſe and other grants by a charter, in which it is called
“Terram de Werth & de Cumb.”
The Comba here mentioned probably means the ad-
joining pariſh of Balcombe. The Foreſt of Worth is
known, but the name of Briſtling is not ſo.
It ſhould ſeem that Wertham did not mean the ma-
nor, as that belonged to john Earl of Warren and Sur-
rey in 7 E. I. and will be traced down to the time of
E. IV. when it ſeems to have changed its name for that
of Highleghe ; but there is a farm in Balcombe, called
Monks, probably ſo named from having belonged to
Robertſbridge. ---
This Earl of Warren in 7 E. I. was queſtioned be-
fore the Juſtices Itinerant, by what authority he
claimed free-warren in Worth, and other lordſhips in
* Vol. II, p. 920. # Ibid.
Suſſex ;
( 123 )
Suſſex; he pleaded, that all his anceſtors had faithfully
adhered to the Kings of England; and, that when Nor-
mandy was loſt, they being Earls of Warren there, loſt
their lands becauſe they would not adhere to the King
of France, againſt King jobn ; and, in confideration
thereof, they had compenſation for the ſame, by the
grant of other lands in England, with this privilege,
that they and their heirs ſhould have free-warren in
thoſe, and all other lands which they, then had, or
ſhould have, in regard of their ſurname of de Warenna,
which plea was allowed *.
john, his grandſon, having no iſſue, gave the inhe-
ritance of all his lands to King E. II. and his heirs,
(anno 1316); amongſt thoſe ſpecified is the manor of
Worth +. After this he obtained a grant for life, with
remainder to john and Thomas, his ſons by Maud de
Nereford, of part of the eſtates which he had ſo given
to the King. He died 21 E. II. 1347; and, on the
inquiſition taken on his death, it was found that he died
ſeized of the manor of Worth it. Alice, his fiſter, then
the wife of Edmund Earl of Arundel, was his heir, and
carried this and other great eſtates into that family;
they were forfeited on the execution of Richard her
ſon for treaſon in 21 R. II. § ; but in the ſame year
that king granted the manor of Worth, with the two
Parks thereto belonging, to Thomas de Mowbray Earl of
Nottingham, juſt then created Duke of Norfolk, who
had married Elizabeth daughter of this Richard Earl
of Arundel ||. Yet Thomas, the ſon and heir of this
Richard, who was reſtored in blood I H. IV. is ſaid
to have died ſeized of this manor 3 H. V. leaving four
ſiſters and co-heirs, viz. Elizabeth widow of the firſt
Duke of Norfolk; joane married to William Beau-
champ Lord Bergavenny; Margaret married to Sir
Rowland Lenthale; "| Dugdale in this place adds a
* Dugd. Bar. vol. I, p. 70.
t i. p. 81. P º
i Ibid. p. 82.
§ Magna Britannia, vol. V. p. 519.
| Dugd. Bar, vol. I, p. 129,
‘ſ Ibid. pp. 320, 321.
N - fourth,
( 124 )
fourth, Alice, married to john Charlton Lord Powys;
but the authority he quotes in the margin ſeems
doubtful, and when he gives the account of the Lords
Powys, no ſuch marriage appears; and this eſtate ſeems
to have been divided into thirds, not fourths; for, in
16 E. IV. Edward Nevil Lord Bergavenny (who had
married Elizabeth, ſole daughter and heir of Richard
Beauchamp, the ſon and heir of the above William
Beauchamp and joane) was found to have died ſeized
of one third of the Foreſt of Worth #. -
This Thomas firſt Duke of Norfolk died 1 H. IV.
leaving two ſons, Thomas and john. Thomas was ſoon
beheaded; john ſucceeded him, and had livery of his
lands 8 H. IV. His grandſon john had confirmation
of the title of Duke of Norfolk, and died 15 E. IV.
ſeized of the manor of Highleghe 3. This is the firſt
time that the manor is called by this name.
It is probable that on the death of Thomas Earl of
Arundel in 3 H. V. leaving four or three ſiſters, this
eſtate was divided between them, and this will account
for its diviſion into fourths or thirds. If Margaret
Lenthale died without iſſue, and there was in reality no
fourth ſiſter, or being ſuch if ſhe died without iſſue,
the Duke of Norfolk would become intitled to one moi-
ety, and the Lord Bergavenny to the other. -
And, though on the inquiſition on death of john
Duke of Norfolk 15 E. IV. it was found that he held
the Manor of Highleghe, it is not unreaſonable to ſup-
poſe that it might be a miſtake for part of it, as, in
the next year, Lord Bergavenny is ſaid to have died
ſeized of ; of the Foreſt of Worth. -
That the whole eſtate did centre in theſe two fami-
lies is manifeſt. . . * *
William Earl of Arundel died in the latter end of
Hen. VIII. and was ſucceeded by his ſon Henry, whoſe
daughter Mary married Thomas Earl of Surry after-
wards Duke of Norfolk, (beheaded by Queen Élizabeth,)
* Collins's Peerage, vol. IV. pp. 105, 108. -
+ Sir William Burrell's Collection, in the Britiſh Muſeum,
quoting Tower Record, 17 E. IV. N”. 58.
- and
( 125 )
and by him had a ſon, Philip, who claimed and en-
joyed the Earldom of Arundell in right of his mo-
ther #, -
On the death of this Duke his eſtate here was ſeized
by the Queen; but preſently afterwards (anno 23) ſhe
granted it to the ſaid Philip his ſon, William Dix and
William Cantrell, (who were only truſtees for the Earl,)
who, by indenture I july 24 Eliz. conveyed it to
john Farmeham of London Eſq. one of the Gentlemen
Penſioners, by the deſcription of, One 4th of the Ma-
nor of Highleghe, and one moiety of the Foreſt of Worthe,
and of divers premiſſes cottages lands grounds and
hereditaments in the Foreſt of Worthe or in the ground
called the Foreſt of Worthe in Worthe, Bawlcombe, Ar-
dingligh, Slawgham, Crawlie, and Ifield, except ſuch li-
berties as they had therein as parcel of the Barony of
Lewes by letters patent granted by E. IV. to john
Duke of Norfolk; and, by the Queen's confirmation
thereof, to the late Duke ; and, except ſuch lands
tenements meadows paſtures woods and heredita-
ments as Edward Moore Eſq. and john Everſield
Gent. hold by copy of Court-roll of the ſaid manor
of Highlagh; and except the moiety of the Foreſt of
Worthe and of the meſſuages cottages lands and he-
reditaments in ſaid Foreſt or in the ground called the
Foreſt of Worthe which the Earl of Derby has or
claims or pretends to have. .
This Edward Earl of Derby married Dorothy,
daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk; but what his
claim to this eſtate was does not appear, nor does he
ſeem ever to have obtained poſſeſſion.
It ſhould ſeem that whilſt Farneham was in poſ-
ſeſſion of this moiety, a partition was made between
him and Lord Bergavenny, or whoever then held the
other moiety. After every ſearch that can be made
the inſtrument by which it was effected cannot be
found. Dr. Bethune, however, who has purchaſed Mr.
Newnham's part of the eſtate, has a paper intitled,
* Collins's Peerage, vol. I. p. 14.
N 2 “A Survey
( 126 ) -
“A Survey of the Foreſ of Worth, taken by Richard
Benton, Meaſurer, 15 O&#. I 583,”
and ſtating, that the Weſt part of the A. R.
Foreſt divided into 5 ſquares, con-
tains tº gº tºmº * 2567 2
The Eaſt part in 5 ſquares, &º 2567 o
The whole Foreſt, — 5 I 34 2.
Some parts of this are deſcribed as going to Tilgate
pale; other part, between Balcombe-way and Stradgate-
tale.
"About this time, it may be preſumed, the partition
was made; and, though no conveyance from Farne-
ham can be found, it is probable that he ſold to Sir
Thomas Shirley, for, by bargain and ſale inrolled in
Chancery, dated 28 jam. 44 Eliz. Sir Thomas Shirley,
of Wiſion, in Suſſex, Sir Thomas Caryll, and others,
conveyed to the Queen one fourth of the manor of .
Heyghlegh, and a moiety of the lands then, or late, part
of the Foreſt of Worth, in diſcharge of £1200, part
of a debt due to the Queen from Sir Thomas as trea-
ſurer of the warres. From this deed it appears, that
Sir Thomas had conveyed to john Baker of London
Eſq. who had conveyed to Sir john Caryll and others,
probably with a view to protećt the eſtate againſt any
claim for debts due from Sir Thomas ; but that the
Crown had iſſued an extent and ſeized it, and Sir Thomas
and his truſtees now join in conveying to the Crown,
in order that it might be granted to john Middleton
and Anthony Fowle, who were to pay that ſum for it.
On the 1ſt june following, the Queen, by Letters
Patent inrolled in Chancery, granted to john Middleton
and Anthony Fºwle this eſtate, which is the Eaſt part
of the Foreſt. *
Middleton conveyed his undivided moiety to Mr.
Smith's truſtees as above ſtated; Mr. Fowle's undivided
moiety came to Mr. Newnham, who, as beforemen-
tioned, made a partition with Mr. Smith's truſtees, and
afterwards ſold his part to Dr. Bethune, the preſent
poſſeſſor, -
. . AS
( . 127 )
As to Lord Bergavenny's moiety;
Sir William Burrell in his Colle&tions ſays, that his
Lordſhip ſold a moiety of the Foreſt, viz. Tylgate to
Sir Waller Covert and Sir Edward Culpeper, and Strud-
gate to Sir Edw. only, but that he retained a moiety of
the manor of Heighligh. - &
Tilgate Foreſt, ſo now called, and containing about
15oo acres, belongs to Mr. Sergiſon.
Strudgate, a farm in Ardingley, now belongs to Ad-
miral Peyton, and adjoins to Wakehurſt-park, which
alſo belongs to the Admiral and lies in Ardingley and
Worth. It was formerly much larger than it now is.
He calls it the Manor of Wakehurſt. It formerly be-
longed to Liddell, afterwards to Clarke. The houſe
was originally a quadrangle, now reduced to a half H.
Mr. Blunt has a manor called Worth, in Worth, and
about 200 acres of land lying between the truſt-eſtate,
Dr. Bethune's, and Tilgate. *i. -
Mr. Shelley of Field-place, has a manor called alſo
Worth, or one fourth of the Manor of Highley, and 4 or
5oo acres of foreſt-land in Balcomb and Slaugham.
Mr. White, of Horſham, has a farm of about 300
acres, in Worth, called the Great Park and Little Park.
The pariſh of Worth adjoins on the North to thoſe
of Horne and Burſlow, and on the Eaſt to Godſtone in
Surrey; to Balcombe in Suſſex on the South, to Crawley
on the Weſt. It is very extenſive, being about eight
miles long and four or five wide, containing about
250 families. The ſoil is clay, in general poor, very
much of it woodland, chiefly birch; but with a great
deal of unplanted land intermixed with the woods,
which are cut at from 12 to 14 years growth. For-
merly there were ſeveral iron forges, all of which are
now deſtroyed. -
Rowfant, a good old ftone manſion, in a pleaſant
bottom, is the ſeat of Dr. Bethune, the preſent rector
of the pariſh. - -
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The church ſtands on a knoll, and is a very lofty
building, the chancel, not ſo high, is round at the Eaſt
end. There is a ſmall chancel on the South ſide. On
the North ſide is a low ſquare tower of ſtone annexed
to the church, but not having any internal communi-
cation with it; over the tower is a wooden belfry hold-
ing 5 bells, and terminating in a ſmall ſpire. The
floor of this belfry is ſupported at each corner in the
infide by the trunk of a large cheſnut tree, ſome of
which are decayed in the middle, leaving only an out-
ſide ſhell. The church conſiſts of a body only, with-
out any ſide aile. The Eaſt chancel is ſeparated from
the body by a lofty round arch, reſting on ſemi-round
pillars proječting from the walls, and under it is an
open wooden ſcreen.
The floor is conſiderably higher than that of the
church. In the S. wall is the niche for holy water, and
in the ſame wall there is a ſtone feat under a low
obtuſe pointed arch. * -
The window over the Weſt door is of 3 lights with
tracery work at the top, in the centre of which the
arms of Warren Earl of Surrey remain on glaſs. There
is no other painted glaſs.
The font is a very rude ſquared ſtone, a large
round pillar ſupporting it in the middle; and a ſmall
round pillar at each corner.
The parſonage-houſe ſtands on the South ſide of
the church, the ground ſloping into a little valley,
beyond which riſes another hill, moſtly covered with
wood. Some modern additions to the houſe by the
preſent rector Dr. Bethune, and his predeceſſor Dr.
Weller, have made it a very good as well as pleaſant
houſe. In a window in the old part are ſome panes
of ſtained glaſs, with the name, Anthony Linton Rec-
tor I 592. *
In the pariſh regiſter there is a liſt of rectors, by
which it appears that there had been but 7 from 1558,
the firſt year of Qu. Eliz. to 1745, when William Hamp-
lin died rector.
The floor and walls of the church are full of in-
ſcriptions, * -
Within
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Within the communion rails, on the floor;
Here lyeth interred Mrs. Dorothy Smith, late wife of
john Smith of Crabbetts Eſq, daughter to the late Hon.
Nicholas Weſton, and grand-daughter to the Right Hon.
Lord Richard Earl of Portland Lord High Treaſurer of
England. She died in the 26th year of her age, and
left behind her 3 children, Margaret, Dorothy, and
john. She died in childbed 9 jan. 1678–9, on
whoſe ſoul Jeſus have mercy. And her infant jobn
deceaſed.
Here lyeth interred Ann Byſhe wife of Roger Byſhe
of Fenne Place Eſq. She died 28 Oct. 1661.
Sir John Smith Knt. died 12 Nov. 1662.
Catherine Courtenay, daughter of Edward Southcott,
of Merſham, in Surrey, firſt wife of john Smith of
Crabbetts Knt. ſince married to Sir William Courtenay
Knt. and Bart. only ſon of Thomas Courtenay, of Pow-
derham in the county of Devon. She died 25 June,
1672.
On a ſmall braſs plate on a ſtone within the rails,
looſe, Thomas Otzwell and Alice his wife on whoſe ſouls
Jiu, have mercy, I 539.
Againſt the North wall of the chancel on a ſmall
white marble tablet, To the memory of 4 children of
Léonard and Catherine Gale of Crabbetts.
Againſt the ſame wall, another white marble tablet
for Leonard and Sara Gale, of Crabbetts. She died
13 Nov. 1746, he 24 June 1750.
Natură duce & ratione unde venerant, quo abituri,
memores, in Chriſti meritis confidentes. Diſce.
On the floor,
Roger only ſon of Roger Byſhe Eſq. born Nov. 1663,
died 30 July 1679.
Margaret,
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Margaret eldeſt daughter of john Smith, of Crab-
bets.
On a black ſtone ſet on the floor againſt the S. wall,
Sir john Smith, whoſe firſt wife was Ann daughter
of Sir Nicholas Parker of Ratton, and his ſecond,
Catherine daughter of Edward Southcote.
jobn Shelley ſon of john S. of Fenn Place Eſq. and
Helen his wife died 7 Oct. 1772 at. 76.
Roger Byſhe of Fenn Place Eſq. died 21 Mar. 1702
aet. 81, left 2 daughters, Eliz. married to Francis Wyatt
of Freemans in Suſſex, and Helen married to john
Shelley of Fenn Place Eſq.
In a vault lies Byſhe Shelley, ſon and heir of jobn
Shelley and Helen.
Againſt the North wall, at the top, arms of Heath
on a black tablet.
“Neer this place lies interred the body of Ann the
daughter of Sir Robert Heath Knt. Mr. Solicitor to the
King's moſt excellent Ma" which Anne being born of
the Lady Margaret his wife the 16 day of May changed
this life the ſixt day of September following 1602.
A babe in ragges I was by death untimelie ſlayen
A babe in robes ſaith Death ſhall not me long retaine
In death I am in duſt in aſhe and miſerie
Yet hopeing to ſee Death's death in triumphant glee.”
Near the above againſt the wall on white marble,
for john Shelley, of Fenn Place, of the ancient family
of Shelley of Worminghurſt, died 1739, married Helen
daughter of Roger Byſhe, by whom he had 9 children.
“He was remarkable for that exalted part of humanity
forgiving injuries how great ſoever and for many other
eminent
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eminent virtues, a recital of which this monument
could not contain.”
On the floor in the South chancel.
Mary daughter of Henry Mildmay of Grace's in
the co. of Eſſex, late wife of Charles Goodwin of Row-
fant Eſq. died jan. 17, 1723 aet. 65.
Thomaſin daughter of Sir Samuel Oldfield Knt. of
Lincolnſhire, and wife of Deane Goodwin of Bleching-
ley in Surrey Eſq. died 18 Mar. 1711 aet. 86.
There are mural and other inſcriptions for Whitfields,
of the ancient family in Northumberland.
Charles Hampton, rector of this pariſh, and of Bleach-
ingley where he died 2 June, 1704.
O The
The RECTORY IMPROPRIATE of
ALFRISTON.
THIS eſtate conſiſts of a barn, about an acre and
half of glebe lying below the church-yard, extending
to the river, and the great tithes of the pariſh, in
which is much fine corn-land at the foot of the
downs. p.
It is ſubječt to a fee-farm rent of £. 13 6s 8d, and
to the repair of the outſide of the chancel.
The rent of this, as well as of Mayfield, is divided
amongſt poor clergymen. -
In 1696 the barn was blown down, and the te-
nant had an allowance towards re-building it.
In 1698 the vicar having had an allowance of £.5.
a year under this truſt as one of the poor clergy,
claimed it as a right, on which the payment was ſuſ-
pended.
In 1735 this eſtate was lett to Mr. Batchelor at £.76
per annum, the truſtees not being able to get £.8o,
which they attempted to do. It continued at this rent
till 1769, when it was lett by auction, and three far-
mers in the pariſh took it at 4.131, for ſeven years,
at
at the expiration of which they took it for a ſimilar
term at the ſame rent; and Mr. Raſon, one of them,
afterwards extended it to a further term of 7 years;
this expired in 1790, when Mr. Harben of Lewes of
fered to give ſ. 18o clear of taxes, on a leaſe for 21
years, and Mr. Raſon declining to give that ſum, a
leaſe was granted to Mr. Harben, who does not pay
too much. t
There are about 881 acres of arable land in the pa-
riſh : 133 acres of meadow, of which 8 belong to the
vicar; and 1482 acres of ſheep down.
1845 ewes are kept.
The lands have been lately valued, and the poor-
rate at about Io.s. in the pound is charged on the full
rents.
The truſtees have purchaſed the land tax.
A L. F. R. H S T O N
is a village four miles from Seaford, ſix from Newha-
ven, and nine from Lewes. It is at the foot of the
Downs, which here deſcend very ſharply, and ſtands
on a bank, below which runs Cuckmere river, emptying
itſelf a little lower down into the haven of that name,
a place which might be much improved, and made of
great uſe to mariners in bad weather. Boats come up
as high as the village, and might go higher. The
church is handſome, lofty, and neat, on a little emi-
nence which ſeems artificial. It is built with flints.
The entrance is at the Weſt end. A tower of ſtone
in the centre, holding five bells, is finiſhed with a
handſome ſpire, ſhingled. There is a North and a
South tranſept. In the N. tranſept is a ſmall figure in
the upper part of the window, in biſhop's robes, a
ſtaff in his left hand; under it is written “Stephen.”
The font is placed here againſt the wall, and is a plain
ſquare baſon on a plain ſquare pillar. In other win-
2. dows
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dows are ſome ſmall fragments of painted glaſs. In
the chancel, in the South wall under pinnacled arches
are three ſtone ſeats, all of the ſame ſize and height,
ſeparated by ſmall round pillars; the middle one has
a ſolid ſtone partition, of the heighth to reſt the el-
bow on. Eaſt of theſe is the piſcina, under a ſmall-
pointed arch. In the North wall is an altar-tomb with-
out figure or inſcription, under an obtuſe pointed
arch. The North and South doors have been ſtopped
up. The pariſh whitewaſhed and cleaned the chancel
with the reſt of the church about a year ago.
Mr. Williams, the preſent vicar, lives at Seaſord.
In and near this pariſh are many barrows or tumuli
chiefly made in the ſhape of a bell, with a hollow on
the top. Some are ſingle, ſome double, ſome treble,
a few long ones. One in this pariſh is 55 yards long,
with three hollows, one at each end and one in the
centre, with a deep ditch at each ſide from whence the
earth was taken which compoſes it. A gentleman here
had lately (1763) one of the circular ones opened, be-
ginning at the South ſide, and at the diſtance of a
few feet found a ſkeleton of a man lying on his ſide
in a contračted form, with his head to the Weſt, the
bones firm and hard. In further digging were found
1o knives of different make, iron-ſpikes, charcoal, a
thin plate of yellow metal, bones of animals, &c. In
the middle under a pile of flints was found an urn,
with about four feet of earth over it; this urn was of
unbaked clay, and had rude ornaments on its verge.
Mr. Lucas, of Alfriſton, has the urn, knives, &c. *
He is now dead and his family gone, and what became
of theſe things is not known. ,” -
At the latter end of the ſummer 1765, a perſon
digging flints near this place, and opening a barrow
found three urns of different ſizes, carefully placed
with their mouths downward filled with burnt bones
* Sir William Burrell's Colle&tions.
and
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and aſhes; but the urns were too much decayed to be
preſerved whole *. *
In Domeſday, the manor of Alvriceſtone is ſaid to
belong to the Earl of Mortmain. - 3.
The abbot and convent of Begeham, in Suſſex, had
lands in Seford and Alvricheſ une, given them by Ralph
de Dene +. -
This eſtate is probably what was granted in 31 Hen.
VIII. to Sir Edward Braye Knt. and joane his wife,
to hold to them and the heirs male of Sir Edward, by
the deſcription of “the ſcite of the Manor of Alfriſton
“a meſſuage toft garden loo acres of meadow and
“ paſture 6oo acres of heath with the lands to the
“ ſaid manor belonging which john Chapman held with
“ the paſture called the Haſpe f.”
Sir Edward Bray died 1 Eliz. 1558, ſeized of the
manor of Alfréſion $. -
34 Eliz. John Brown died ſeized, leaving William
his ſon and heir ||.
In the 8th E. II. the abbot of Greſteno, an alien
priory, had a grant of free warren in Africhton ".
I4 E. III. Philip de Endlenwyke had the manor of
Alfriſon # *.
12 Hen. VIII, in an inquiſition on the death of Sir
john Earle chief juſtice of the Common Pleas, it was
found, that amongſt other manors he held Uckfield and
Alfriſon + +.
At this time there is no manor by the name of Al-
friſton; but there are two ſmall ones, of which, one
called Dean's Place lately belonged to the family of
Batchelor, and is now the property of Mr. Diamond.
The other called Charleſton, belongs to john Bean, Eſq.
* Sir William Burrell's Colle&tions.
t Dugd. Mom. vol. II. p. 637. a.
f Sir William Burrell, quoting Regiſter of Grants in Surveyor
General's Office, vol. II. p. 71. See alſo the grant at the Rolls.
§ Ibid. quoting bundle of writs in office of Mr. Oſborn.
| Ibid. quoting Bodley MS. vol. CLXXXVI, p. 122.
* Sir William Burrell, quoting Tower Records, N° 16.
** Ibid. Ibid. Nº 46.
tº Ibid. quoting Cole's Colle&tion from the Court of Wards
7 vol. and Harl. MS. lib, inqu, p. 209.
-- A good
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A good deal of the pariſh is in the manor of Lul-
lington, a village on the other ſide the water; and one
ſide of the ſtreet is in the leet of Alcifton, a neighbour-
ing village, the name of which differs ſo little as to
have occaſioned many miſtakes *.
* In Dugd. Mon, vol. I, 319 a. Alfreſon is named amongſt the
poſſeſſions of Battle Abbey inſtead of Alcifton, which did belong ta
that hoiſe.
Part
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Part of the Rećtory of
M A Y F I E L D,
in the County of Sussex.
6 7ULY 1632, john Baker Eſq. of Mayfield, granted
to the Earl of Eſſex and others, all the tithes of corn
graſs hay and all other tithes to the parſonage of
Mayfield belonging, upon the lands tenements and
hereditaments in Mayfield on the Weſt ſide of the
highway leading from Street end at Cotesford bridge to
the end of Baynden lane, and which doth lie on the
South ſide of Baynden lane leading from the end there-
of to Spade croſs; and on the South ſide of the high-
way leading from Spade croſs to the meſſuage called
Clayton's and ſo to Dudeſ;land; and on the Eaſt
ſide to the highway leading from thence to Waldron
downe; and alſo, upon 20 acres of land in the occupa-
tion of Robert Stevens lying on the North ſide of
Baynden lane, except the tithes of the lands of Thomas
Aynſcombe Eſq. containing 180 acres lying on the South
ſide of the highway leading from Spade croſs to Du-
deſland, and upon the lands of Edward Edmund Turby
Eſq. 120 acres lying on the South ſide of the ſame
* highway;
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highway; and alſo except the tithes of the woodlands
of the ſaid john Baker in Mayfield.
In 1695, Mr. Goodwyn, agent for the truſtees, lett
theſe tithes for one year for £.20.
After this the truſtees for many years accepted a
compoſition of 33. an acre for wheat, and 13. 6d. an
acre for Lent corn, taking no notice of hay or wood,
which produced about £.20 a year, out of which was
dedućted land tax and poor-rate and highways, leav-
ing about £. 14 nett.
In 1789, they employed Mr. Middleton to ſurvey
this part of the pariſh, which he did, and reported
that the lands tithable by the truſtees conſiſted of
A. R. P. Value of
Down and waſte land, 21 1 3 37 Tithe.
Arable, * 484 3 I I
Meadow, – 3:53 2 26
Paſture, ſºmº 448 o 24
gººmºsºmºsºmºsºmºs ºsmºs A. J. d.
1498 2. 18 176 8 11
Wood, ſº 456 2 3 31 6 2.
gº ºsmº * gººms
I955 O 2 I 207 I 5 I
but it being alledged that the wood in that part of
the country was not tithable, the value of that is
placed ſeparately, leaving ſtill ſ.176 8s. 11d. Wheat
was then at 7 s. 6d. the Wincheſter buſhel. This plan
coſt £. I 59 8s. 8d.
An offer was made to the pariſhioners to lett them
the tithes at much leſs than the eſtimate, but they
would not give it, in conſequence of which they were
advertiſed to be lett at the Angel Inn at Tunbridge
PWells on the 19 April 1790, and were there lett to
Mr. Beadle at £.98 clear of all taxes, the inhabitants
then bidding within 20s. of that ſum.
Mr. Beadle being willing to relinquiſh, and the pa-
riſh offering a nett rent of £.8o for a term of ſeven
years from Michaelmas 1791, it was agreed to accept
this, and a leaſe was granted accordingly. Th
e
( 139 )
The truſtees have purchaſed the land tax, which was
£ 4, 63. per annum.
This re&tory, with that of the adjoining pariſh of
Wadhurſt, and the advowſons of the vicarages, with
the manor, manſion-houſe, and parks, of Mayfield and
Frankham, were part of thoſe poſſeſſions of the See of
Canterbury, which archbiſhop Cranmer was obliged to
give up to Hen. VIII. who, in the ſame year, granted
them and other eſtates to Sir Edward North Chancellor
º Court of Augmentations, and dame Alice his
W1ſe.
Sir Edward, in the ſame year, conveyed to Sir John
Greſham, whoſe grandſon Sir Thomas, by will dated
5 july 1575, deviſed to his couſin Sir Henry Nevil,
who had married his niece, daughter of his brother
john Greſham.
6 May, 4o Eliz. Henry Nevil of Billingbear Eſq.
conveyed the manor of Mayfield, and all the glaſs and
wainſcot of the chief manor-houſe or manſion of the
ſaid manor, diſparked park, reótory and glebe-lands,
tithes, and advowſon of the vicarage, to Thomas May,
of Burwaſh, Eſq.
17 Nov. 16 ja. I. 1617, dame jane May, widow of
Sir Thomas May, late of Mayfield, and Thomas M ty,
ſon and heir of Sir Thomas, conveyed to John Baker,
of Mayfield Gent. the manor, manſion-houſe, parſo-
nage-barn, court-mead thereto adjoining, orchards,
&c. and the diſparked park.
This Mr. Baker ſold the abovementioned tithes t ,
Mr. Smith's truſtees. His ſon john Baker, by deed
inrolled in Chancery, dated Io Dec. 1706, granted to
his ſon Peter, whom he had before preſented to the
vicarage, the advowſon with the vicarage-houſe and
glebe, and the tithes of corn, grain, and hay, within
that part of the pariſh called Five Aſh ºuarter wherewith
the vicarage was endowed, and all ſmall tithes; and
by his will dated in the ſame month, deviſed his ma-
nor-houſe, called Mayfield Place, and his manor of May-
field, and half hundred of Loxfield, to his eldeſt ſurviv-
P *
1ng
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ing ſon Peter Baker, and to George Baker, upon truſt
to ſell.
In 1724, they conveyed the manor and half hun-
dred to Henry Pelham Eſq. whoſe . . . . john, gave
the manor to his brother Henry Pelham Eſq. Com-
miſſioner of the Cuſtoms in 1774 *.
Mayfield Place has been a very confiderable manſion-
houſe, and was often the reſidence of the Archbiſhops
till Archbiſhop Cranmer was obliged to give it up to
ſlen, VIII.
Eadmerus, a monk of Canterbury, in his life of
Archbiſhop Dunjian ſays, “Idem pater a Cantuaria in
“ remotiores villas ſuas opportunis ſpatiis hoſpitia ſua
‘‘ diſponens apud Magaveldam ſicut in aliis hoſpiti-
“ orum ſuorum locis ligneam eccleſiam fabricavit,
‘‘ quam ipſemct dedicans, dum ex more circumiret
“ & eam ad aequinoćtialem ſolis ortum minime ver-
“ ſam pertiperet; fertur quod tranſiens humero ſuo
“illam aliquantulum preſſit, moxque mutatam a pro-
“ prio ſtatu in medium Orientis tramitem pro voto
“ convertit. Quod ipſum facile potuiſſet (adds the
“good monk,) nemo ambigit niſi qui verbis Domini
“Chriſti quibus fiden ſicut granum finapis habenti-
‘‘ bus promittit quod etiam montem dićto transferant,
“incredulus exiſtit +.”
From hence becoming an occaſional reſidence of
the Archbiſhops, many of their inſtruments and deeds
are dated here #. Their courts were kept, cauſes
heard, and decrees pronounced, ſometimes in the
church, and ſometimes in their manſion-houſe Ś.
A” 1332, a Provincial Council was held here ||.
1362, another Council.
Archbiſhop Mepham, died here in 1333,
Stratford, in 1348,
Iſlip, in 1366,
* Sir William Burrell's Colle&tions.
+ Ang. Sacra, II, 217.
ºf Spelman Concil. II. pp. 5oo, 609.
§ Dupin, Eccl. Hiſt. 14 Cent. III.
| pupin, in his Eccl. Hiſt. 14 Cent. p. 3, ſays, at Maccleſield;
buſ Mayfield is probably the place meant. }
tile
**
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the laſt of which falling from his horſe into a dirty
ſlough, as he was riding between Sevenoak and Tonebreg
in his way to Maghfeld, went on without changeing
his cloaths; and, when he got to his houſe, falling
aſleep in a ſtone chamber, had a ſtroke of the palſy
which occaſioned his death *.
12 R. II. 1389, the collegiate church of the Arch-
biſhop of Canterbury was burnt, with almoſt all the
town.
The church of St. Dunſtan de Maghfeld was made
a Prebend in the church of South Mallyng, in this
county ºf .
45 H. III. the Archbiſhop obtained a grant of a
weekly market now diſuſed, and two fairs, which are
ſtill held on the feaſts of St. Dunſtan and Aſl Souls,
old ſtile. Theſe were renewed and confirmed by
Edw. II. and Rich. II f.
Of the palace, ſo much remained of the old build-
ings, as were, within ſome years paſt, the dwelling of
the Bakers; but it has ſince been converted into a
farm-houſe. Mr. Baker of the lower houſe ſaid, in
1777, that the roof of the great hall was taken off by
Mr. Michael Baker in his memory. The ruinous un-
covered ſkeleton of what is ſaid to have been the great
hall, was ſtanding in 1777; its dimenſions within
were 63 feet by 35. There were three noble arches
ſtanding, which formed and ſupported its ceſtudo ;
and, as the intermediate vaulting with the roof was
deſtroyed, they ſtood each ſingly. The fall of ſome
plaſter at the Eaſt end diſcovered a mitre formed of
roſes, carved in ſtone. In each of the ſide-walls were
three very lofty windows, and what would have been
a ſpace for a fourth, on each fide at the lower end,
ſeems to have been joined by other buildings, into
* Ste. Birchington, pp. 18. 41. 46.
+ Tanner's Notitia, ſub South Mallyng.
# Tower Rolls, Vaſcon, quoted by Sir William Burrell.
P 2. which
( 14.2 )
which there is a door-way on each ſide; there is ano-
ther ſmaller door-way in the middle of the lower end
wall. In the center of the upper end was a ſeat or
throne, the ſtone fret-work of whoſe back remained in
the wall. The ruins of the reſt of the building have
ſupplied materials for ſeveral ſtructures in and about
the town. The gatehouſe, or porter's lodge, remains
entire ; and, with the gateway built up, makes a
dwelling houſe. There is a very large room remain-
ing in the habitable part, which is called Queen Eli-
zabeth's, ſhe having viſited Sir Thomas Greſham here,
as tradition ſays ; it was probably, when ſhe made her
Kentiſh progreſs in Auguſt 1573, when ſhe was at Lord
Abergavenny's ſeat at Eridge, within fix miles of this
place, where ſhe ſtayed fix days. There was one
jhield of arms of the See of Canterbury at the place,
on one corner of a mantle, and on the other was cut
in the ſtone what was perhaps the badge of ſome Arch-
biſhop, ſeeming to be two ſtraps or bows of leather
interlaced.
In a chamber of the farm-houſe called the kitchen-
chamber, on the chimney is carved 1371, and on the
dexter fide of the door of the ante-room adjoining, is
the coat of the See of Canterbury, impaling 3 lozenges,
2 and I, in chief a goat's head couped.
JMr. Baker of the lower-houſe ſaid, he had the arms
of Sir Thomas Greſham on glaſs, brought from the
place “.
* Sir William Burrell's Papers in the Britiſh Muſeum ; ob-
ſervations made in 1777, and 1778. ,
The
The Manor of
LONGSTOCK HARRINGTON,
near STOCKBRIDGE, HANTS,
conſiſts of a farm-houſe, barns, &c. 554 A. and 37 P.
of arable land, 156 A. I R. Io P. of down, 18 A.
2 R. 14 P. of paſture, and 47 A. I R. 1 P. of wa-
ter-meadow, in all 778 A. and 1 P. of which a ſmall
part lies in the coarſe meadows there, but they have
the benefit of being flowed from a fine trout-ſtream.
The reſt lies on the downs. The ſheep-walk is ſepa-
rate property, not liable to be fed by the flocks of any
other farm.
This eſtate formerly belonged to William Lord Sandys
and Sir Walter Sandys Knt. and was afterwards the pro-
perty of Lord Lumley, and was purchaſed of him by
Mr. Smith's truſtees, the rent then being ſ. I 59.
There were two parcels of the land granted by copy
for lives; but they long ago fell in, and are now lett
with the farm.
In 1675, the truſtees lett this eſtate to Richard
Viſcount Lumley, for 21 years, at the rent of ſ. I 59.
In 1679, part of the building was pulled down, and
the materials were imployed towards building a barn.
A leaſe
( 144 )
A leaſe was afterwards granted to Lord Scarborough,
Tord Lumley's deſcendant, at £. I65 per annum; and,
about 1701, he built a new brick houſe which coſt
him upwards of £.200, but his leaſe expired about
1708, and he did not renew it.
In 1733, Roger Cole took the eſtate at the rent of
£. I Io.
It was afterwards lett to john Ranger, at ſ.190.
In 1773, he took a new leaſe at the ſame rent, he
paying the land-tax at 3s. in the pound, and the quit-
rent, removing a barn, building a waſh-houſe, and do-
ing all the repairs; but the truſtees were to allow £. Io
towards it, and build a ſtable, which was done.
In 1782, a propoſal was made by the other land-
owners, to divide and incloſe the lands, laying them
together; and there being few of them, and thoſe able
to act, an agreement was entered into, and it was effect-
ed without an act of parliament. The tenant planted
the quickſet hedges at his own expence.
1791, a barn was blown down, the truſtees allowed
the tenant timber to rebuild it.
An exchange of a ſmall piece of meadow was made
with Mr. Elwall, the right of watering remaining to
the truſt as before ; but they gave up to Mr. Etwall
their right of fiſhery againſt North Moor, and Little
North Moor; and he agreed, not to interrupt the game-
keeper appointed by them, which he had threatened to
do, he claiming the manor of Longſtock.
1794, a deputation of the pariſhes viewed this eſ-
tate previous to the expiration of the leaſe; and Ed-
ward Ranger, ſon of the former tenant, took a new
lcaſe for 21 years, at a nett rent of A.300, the truſtees
laying out 4.300 in building a cottage, barn, and ſta-
ble, and making a pond. This was done accordingly.
In 1798, The whole land-tax charged on the pariſh
was ſ. 141 14*. 8d.
J. d.
which was raiſed by a rate at 1 6 in the pound,
the poor-rate was *sº 3 6
the church-rate, ſº O 3
tlic highways, *º o 6
20 Dec.
( 145 )
20 Dec. 1641, the Earl of Eſſex, Richard Viſcount Inrolled in
Lumley, Sir Richard Gurney Knt. and Bart. Lord Mayor º I. Apr.
of the city of London, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir George * -- *
Whitmore, William Rolfe, Henry Henne Eſq. and Henry
jackſon Gent. the then ſurviving truſtees, allotted the
rents of this eſtate as follows;
£.
To Weſtbourn, 2 O
Waulderton, 5
Singleton, in Suſſex, I 5
Charlton, I O
Stoughton, 5
Long ſtock, º Hants 5
Lumley, * I 5
Heſeldon, | I O
Mourton, Durham, 5
Cheſter in the Street, l 5
Gateſhead, 5
Broughton, Hants. 7
Haſlemere, Surrey, I 7
Winkfield, Berks, I 3
Iudgerſhall, Wilts, 7
Dorking, Surrey, | O
Harting, Suſſex,
to repair the highways near adjoining
called Newood, which leadeth from
Harting to Rogate, 5
I 59
STOUGHTON,
( 146 )
S T O U G H T O N,
in the County of LEI CESTER,
conſiſts of a meſſuage and 315 A. 3 R. 9 P. of land in
Stoughton, Houghton, Evington, and Buſbie, or ſome of
them. It was purchaſed by the truſtees of William
JRolfe, at the then rent of £.220, but the rent was af-
terwards reduced.
1676 a leaſe for 21 years was granted to Wiliam Dar-
ker and john Spencer of two meſſuages barns and 250 A.
of land by eſtimation, heretofore parcel of the manor
of Stoughton, rent £. 128.
A. R. P.
A leaſe of other part called Blackpitts, 31
2 37
and Neales Sythorp, *º- -º-º: 8 I 3
4o O O
was granted to Thomas Redley for 21 years, rent £.24.
A. R. P.
168o a leaſe of other part called Buſhes-
cloſe, sºmeºmº tºº-ºº- * 35 I 9
and Forman's Sythorp tºmº 4. 2. 32.
4O O I
was granted to William Cobley, for 21 years, rent A22.
1699
( 147 )
1699 Mr. John Darker took a new leaſe for 20 years
of his part at the ſame rent, and &
17oo he had a term of 21 years added to the 20, he
laying out £.200 in building and rebuilding and re-
pairing one of the meſſuages.
1738 on the expiration of theſe terms, a new leaſe
was granted to Mr. Michael Darker for 21 years, at
the ſame rent of £. I28.
In 1759, Mr. Michael Darker took a new leaſe for
21 years, at that rent. In 1771 the pariſhes filed an
information in chancery againſt Mr. Darker and the
truſtees to ſet aſide the leaſe, alledging that it was lett
greatly under its value. On hearing the cauſe in May
1773, before Lord Bathurſt then Lord Chancellor, it
appearing that though the land was at that time of
greater value, it had been lett at a fair rent according
to the courſe of lands in the neighbourhood at the
time of granting the leaſe, his lordſhip would not ſet
it aſide, but he ordered that a plan for future lettings
ſhould be ſettled by the Maſter. Accordingly the
Maſter was attended, and the following rules were
agreed on ;
That future leaſes ſhall be lett by auðtion;
That 12 months before the expiration of all leaſes,
the clerk to the truſtees ſhould give notice to each
pariſh, and ſhall give one month's notice of the time
and place of letting, and advertiſe it in the Leiceſter and
Northampton journals, and in one or two of the London
evening papers, once a week for three months before
letting; and that an agent for the pariſhes attend and
lett if they think proper to ſend one, and if not, an
agent for the truſtees ſhall attend and lett.
In Auguſt 1779, the farms were lett at Leiceſter by
auðtion,
Q Mr. Darker's
£. J. d.
Mr. Darker's at º º 3I 5 O
Mr. Oliver’s º º 54. Io o
Mr. Stephens tºº- tº- – 5o o o
419 Io O
clear of taxes. But it was ſoon found that the prices
were ſuch that the tenants could not hold the farms.
In 1781 they were again advertiſed and lett,
3. d.
Mr. Darker’s at tºº º 245 o o
Mr. Oliver’s tºmmºns º 36 o o
Mr. Stephens — — — 34 o o
3I 5 o o
Theſe rents have been well paid ever ſince.
20 Dec. 1641. By deed inrolled in Chancery, 1 April,
18 C. I. the Earl of Eſſex, Wiſcount Lumley, Sir Rich-
ard Gurney, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir George Whitmore,
William Rolfe, Henry Henne, and Henry jackſon, the
then ſurviving truſtees, divided the rents in the fol-
lowing manner;
£. s. d.
To St. John Bedwardine, Worceſterſhire, 7 o o
Proadhinton, — Wilts, 7 o o
Weſtbury, ºsmºs Do. tºº-ºº: 8 o o
Bedworth, tºº Warwickſhire, 8 o o
Andover, tºº- Hants, I O O O
Warminſter, amºmus Wilts, IO O O
Thetford, º Norfolk, IO O O
Shapwick, º Somerſet, 5 o o
Eaſt Dereham, Norfolk, 4. O O
Rygate, tº-ººººººº. Surrey, 2O O O
Eaſt Grinſtead, Suſſex, I 5 o O
St. John, º Cheſter, I I O O
Wandſworth, Surrey, 2, O O O
T
O
( 149 )
A. s. d.
To St. Giles, Cripplegate, O O O
St. Botolph, Alderſgate, *{ 2O O O
St. Sepulchre, 2O O O
Bledlow, Dºmºsº Bucks, 5 O O
Waterbeach, tºº Cambridgeſhire, 6 13 4
Ramſey, Eſſ 6 13 4
Dover Court, } €X, { 6 13 4
The truſtees have purchaſed the land tax.
In 1798 the land tax charged on the pariſh was
£. Io'ſ 7s. 4d, which was raiſed by a rate of 1s. 2d. in
the pound, the poor and church rates 8d.; the high-
way and conſtables rate Iod.
The manor of Stoughton was given by Robert Boſſu,
Earl of Leiceſter, to the abbey and convent of Leiceſter
in I 157, when he became a canon regular there, ad
ſiſtentationem ſuam. It contains about 1.5oo acres. Af-
ter the diſſolution, in 1552, the Grange was granted to
Thomas Farnham Eſq. a teller of the Exchequer. In
1557 the manor was ſold by the Crown to William
Drewre for £,433 15s. 8d. After this it became the
property of the ſame Mr. Farnham, whoſe daughter
and heir carried the eſtate into the family of Beaumont,
an heireſs of which carried it in marriage to Mr. Keck
the preſent owner. The Grange however got back
into the hands of the Crown, as Queen Eliz. in 1595
granted it Roger Alford and George Burden.
The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was
built by the abbot and convent, has an embattled tower
in which are four bells, over which is a handſome
crocketted ſpire. A large North aile is ſeparated from
the nave by two round and two pointed arches, the
greateſt part railed off as a burying chapel for the own-
ers of the Grange. The South aile is ſeparated from the
nave by four pointed arches. There are ſeveral monu-
ments for the Beaumont's, and ſome for the Darker’s “.
* Nichols's Hiſtory of Leiceſterſhire, vol. I. p. 851.
Q 2. KENSING-
15o )
KENSINGTON, CHELSEA,
AND
ST. MARGARET, WESTMINSTER.
THIS eſtate conſiſts of ſome meſſuages and 84A.
2. R. 22 P. of land, part of which has been built upon
by Mr. Novoſielſki, who took an underleaſe from the
leſſees of the truſt eſtate. The land is moſtly garden
ground.
Mr. Smith having by his will direéted that £.1ooo
fhould be laid out in the purchaſe of lands of 4.60
a year, for relief and ranſom of poor captives; and that
another ſ. 1doo ſhould be laid out in the purchaſe of
lands of 4.60 a year for the relief of the pooreſt of his
kindred, by which as he afterwards declared he meant
his ſiſters children, and their children ſucceſſively;
this eſtate was purchaſed and has been appropriated to
anſwer thoſe purpoſes. -
Soon after the purchaſe it was lett on a leaſe of 7o
years at A. 130 rent.
At the expiration of this leaſe an agreement was
made to lett it at £.25o per annum; but ſome years
after this was reduced to 4.2 oo per annum, and this was
- afterwards,
( 151 )
afterwards, on a repreſentation from the leſſee of the
ruinous ſtate of the buildings, further reduced to 4.17o
for the firſt ten years of a term of 70 years, and
4.200 for the remainder thereof; and on 24 June 1760,
a leaſe was granted to Dr. Buckmall for 70 years at the
rent of 4.151. The land is now very valuable.
The relations part at length became ſubdivided into
ſo many ſhares, that it allowed very little to each indi-
vidual.
No application for money to redeem captives was
made for many years, and that part of the rent was
from time to time laid out in the funds, and the divi-
dends added to the ſtock as they were received, till it
amounted to £,9158. 153. new South Sea annuities.
In 1772 the truſtees finding that this money was
uſeleſs, applied to Parliament for leave to divide the
£.6o captive money, and the dividends of the accumu-
lated ſtock amongſt the poor relations, in every year in
which no application ſhould be made to redeem cap-
tives, and an act was paſſed accordingly.
The relations amongſt whom this donation was di-
vided in 1771, were the following;
Pedigree ~~~
number. in 1799.
1. Friend, Charles, Rugge and Kelſick.
2. Groſvenor, John, ſame.
2. Lanham, Eliz. Lanham her ſon.
3. Swaſh, Richard, Swaſh and Horſley.
4. Saunders, John, - his children.
5 and 9. Webb, Richard, ſame.
3. Webb, Bridget, extinct.
6. Allen, Joſeph, extinét.
7. Parſons, Richard, Parratt,
8. Gwilt, Richard, Gwilt and Beynon.
9. Burton, Elizabeth, Glaſby late Day.
Io. Morgan, Elizabeth, Treaſure and Whitney.
1 1. Prothero, Ann, ſame.
II. Richards, Alice, extinct.
II. Herring or Simpſon, Mary, extinct.
This
( 152 )
' This has been a moſt ſeaſonable and effectual relief
to the kindred, who were moſtly in very low ſituations.
No claim for captives has been made ſince, and the
relations now receive £.28 a year each, by quarterly
payments, and the ſurplus is applied in putting out
their children apprentices, and in giving occaſional
aſſiſtance to thoſe who ſtand moſt in need, and if no
fuch claims are made, any refidue that there may be is
divided at Chriſtmas.
There is nothing to ſhew whether Mr. Smith had
more than one ſiſter.
The earlieſt date in which the names of the kindred
receiving money appear is in june 1670, when the fol-
lowing names are ſtated;
£. s. d.
Chriſtopher Sexe, receiving Cºmmº 3 O O
Suſan Buffard, at twice, tºº cºmmº 6 Io o
Charles Goodridge, gºssºmsº ſº — 3 o o
Mary Williams, ſº iºnºsmºs ** 4. IO O
jaſper Avery, — * 4. IO O
Elizabeth Ruſhen, gººmsº tºº 2 I O O
Joan Plumer, º tºº mºmº I I O O
In 1677 Eliz. wife of Richard Gwylt as one
of the kindred was to be allowed 6 o o
The grandmother of Mr. Groſvenor (one of the
kindred living in 1798,) died in 1754, aged 9o, an
uſed to tell him that ſhe was daughter of Suſan Buſtard,
whoſe mother Sarah Fall, was niece of Mr. Smith.
From Buffard, Avery, and Gwylt, all thoſe are deſ-
cended who now partake of the benefaction to the
kindred; of the others named above no account can
be given, but that the pedigrees of thoſe who now
claim may not depend on the loſs of the ſingle book
in which I have entered them, it may be right to ſtate
them here. It may hereafter be of conſiderable impor-
tance to them.
No. 1.
Aerºs
s
No. 1.
Sarah, niece of Hen. Smith Eſq. as Mr. John Groſvenor was informed by his grandmother, who died about 1754,-F . . . . Fell.
aged 9o, and who was grand-daughter of this Sarah.
l
Suſan, living in 1676, and then wife of Richard Buffard=Richard Buffard.
T *º-
Sarah, T-William John Groſvenor, firſt=Mº, ==Swaſh, ſecond huſ- Martha=Saunders. Ann-webb. Suſan=Allen.
Friend. huſband. (ſee No. 2.) 5and. (ſee No. 3.) (ſee No. 4.) (ſee No. 5.) (ſee No. 6,)
, I. t T-—. T e I J º
Philip, died Mary, died Charles Friend, died in Feb.-FAnn Bevis. Suſan,-John Parſons. Richard had 12 children
without iſſue. unmarried. 1779, aged about 72. (ſee No. 7.) who all died young. He
died about 1750.
| —l
Catherine Bexley Friend,+John Rugge, died 1761. Elizabeth, died in 1771. Fjohn Kelſick, of Whitehaven, in Cumberland.
|
H — H
John, died at== I. Chºles Fr end 2. Montgomery, 3. Iſaac, 4. Ann-Hwill. Alex- 5. Iſabel=Richard 6. Jane.
Phi adelphia in Kelſick, born a ſhopkeeper, at mate of dead in ander. Kelſick, 7. Sen-
Nov. 1794. He bout 1753, a factor Whitehaven, a merch- 1795. her cou- houſe,
married there. in Gºined, dead dead in 1795. ant ſhip, fin. both
| in 1795. dead in dead in
r— I 795. F–—l | . , 1795.
Eliz. Frances Rugge, Betſy. William. Iſaac, living

tº º 1 * * ! rº's . * * * *
living at Philadelphia in 1795.
I797.


s
No. 2.
(See No. 1.)
Groſvenor =Mary Buſtard, died=Swaſh, ſecond huſband,
Iſt huſband. about 1754, aged 90.
—
T
John Groſvenor, died 17.3 8.T.
*ē-
John Groſvenor, perfumer, in Holborn=Sarah . . . . Elizabeth-Lanham.
born about 1727, died 15 July, 1799. born ºf º
I
John, born 1749, died Sarah, born
in 1784, without iſſue. 1756.
John Lanham, -6 Sept. 1779, Ann
born 6 Sept. 1757. Munden.
ſ
I *
=James Gregg. George Royle=Martha=Upchurch. George=Eliz. . . . Catherine,
T Iſt huſb. f. p. b. 1758. b. 1762. bo. 1766.
Iſabella Gregg.
F-
John, born Dec. 1788.
T Martha.
*-.
Geºrge Sarah. 2. died young, Charles and Eliza.

No. 3.
(See No. 1. and 2.)
Mary Buffardº . . . . Swaſh, 2d huſband,
*. yºs
Richard Swaſh, born at Eltham,R . . . .
1706, died 8 July, 1779. |
º
T- & sº I Adº. T *T
Barnaby Swaſh, a ſoldier-FSarah Parker. Richard, jour-ºf-Sarah Buck. Martha, Rocheſter, H=}ſary, =John Horſley,
in the 56th reg. of foot neyman wor- bo. 1758, firſt huſ. | born worſted wea- >
in the famous fiege of fted-weaver at died ſband. 1755, ver, at Nor-
Gibraltar I 779, bo. I 744, Norwich, bo. 8 June wich.
died 13 Jan. I 795, at I 75 I. I793, un-
Norwich. married.
f- r—— | I - \ 1 I-
Sarah, born Barnaby, born Sarah, born Richard, born John, bo. Sarah, born Mary, jeremiah, born
12 . I 85, 2 June, 1787. I 9 Jan. 1776, 20 Mar. I 779, 28 Feb. 11 Nov. 1787. born
died 1789. : died in 178o. died Io June 1782. died 1791. 28 Dec.
- I794. I778.
2 I Jan. 1782.

gº
s
No. 4.
(See No. 1.) "
Martha Buſtard, died 1728,-F : ... Saunders,
John Saunders, died FDinah Clarke. Iſaac, died with-Richard, loſt at ſea in the viáory,
about 1739. | out children. died without children.
John, of Brompton near Chatham, died 4 June 1791.==Mary Lovegrove,
——
Mary, married 1787, HRWilliam Barnaby. Diah, born
Jºhn, married 30 Sept.==Elizabeth Wilſon;
born 16 Sept. 1768.
25 June, 1770. 1795, bo. 31 Oct. 1773.
| Elizabeth, born 1796. May, born 1798.
Salah, born 23 Dec. 1789. Suſanna, born April, 1792, Merºy, born March, 1796. Mary, born March, 1799,

s
No. 5.
(See No. 1.) fº
Ann Buſtard, died in 1724.HE . . . . . Webb,
Thomas webb-F © º e º 'º *
Elizabeth, died March 1784-Thomas Burton,
Sarah, -.... Day. (ſee No. 9.)
Thomas Webb.R . . . . .
p —1–
Richard, died 1799.-FSophia . . . . . Bridget, died ſingle 26 June 1779.
l -º-º-º.
! ---....
Mary, married=will. Dicken-Richard wil-F. Cordelia'sophia FThomas Geo. William,
26 April 1789, ſon, ſailmaker. liam, born born 28 Dec. | Price. born 14 July,
bo. 22 Jan. 1765. 9 Mar. 1766. I772. I779.
- A—- I - I
Elizabeth, born Richard, born James, Henry, Sophia, Thomas, George. Richard.
18 Sept. 1790. 8 Oct. 1798.

Thoma, born=Eliz. . . .
23 June 1761.
Joſeph. Elizabeth, May.
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163 )
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‘pieļyną uſyns
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2-
s
:
(See No. 1.)
Suſan Friend=John Parſons.
|
Richard Parſons, ded==
25 Oét. 1777. |
F-
Thomas Parratt, born 9 Dec. 1781.
John Collier, 1ſt huſband,=Elizabeth Parſons==William Parratt, 2d huſband,
, no children. | married in 1780.
l
Ann, born 4 June 1753,
died 7 O&t. 1783,
unmarried.

3.
No.
8
Elizabeth, alive 1677, H=Richard Gwili, ſilk-ſtocking
d-ad 172c. | flame weaver.
F-
Elizabeth, H=More.
——
Robert, died about 1757
, without iſſue.
... I
Richard, peruke-maker-F
born in St. Saviour’s,
Southwark, died 1771.
, , T *
Richard, houſe-goods broker, Biſhopſgate-F
ſtreet, born 1736, died 1784.
|
George, *
bo. 1746.
I
Sarah, T-Rice Beynon, Surgeon,
bo. 1751. in Newgate-ſtreet.
|
John Gwilt, alive 1720,-F
|
died about 1733.
I
Jane Jemima, born
31 May, 1779.
. . .
Elizabeth, born
6 June 1775.
, Gs orge, born
8 May, 1777.
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Joſeph, botn
Aug. 1779-

*
s
No. 9.
(See No. 5.)
Elizabeth, T-Thomas Burton.
Thomas Glaſby, 2d huſband.:6 Aug. 1787, Sarah, T-Richard Day, 1ſt huſband,
only child. died 6 Oct. 1786.
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William Day, born 17 May, 1777-F
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Jaſper Avery, alive 1676, dead 1689-F
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tº * Mary. Eizabeth, died 1695; Thomas James.
F- -ºx
Thomas Parry, 1ſt huſband,+Mary James, died 26 Feb. 1747. --Evan Jones, of Llandu, near Brecon, 2d huſband, (ſee No. 11.) —
L– -
1–3
T
Wm. Ireland, 1ſt huſbandºlabel Parry, died 17 July, 1790. =John Morgan, 2d huſband, (ſee No. 12.)
*
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I- T - Hºt
Henry, born 1739, went Thomas, died about 1768,
Join, bo.-F1762, Joſeph Treaſure, a butcher, at Catherine Hill near
to North America. & without iſſue.
1741. Frome, Somerſet; now at Portway, Burghill, Herefordſh. S-
I- - - ... I' F---— { §. H-T-TTH *
Joſeph, b. =Mary Box, Elizabeth,<=in 1798. Joan, bo.- Jane, born John, Hannah, 6 other children died
20 Aug. of Frome. born 22 16 June, 2 June, 1775. b. 1781. b. 1785. young, before 1785.
1763,6ead. f Sept. 1765. 1770.
T
Elizabeth, born 21 June, 1791. Mary, born 29 May 17 3.

No. 1 I.
(See No. 10)
Mary James, died 26 Feb. 1747.-FEvan Jones, of Llandu, near Brecon, 2d huſband.
!
T , I
H Ann=Ezekiel Prothero, Fra. Adams, – Alice.H-Cha. Rich-
of Cmdu, near
§) Brecon.
Margaret Pro-
thero, born
April, 1767.
1ſt huſband, ards, of dead with-
no iſſue. Frome, 2d out iſſue in
huſband. I773.
Elizabeth Richards,-James Harriſon.
died without iſſue,
in 1797.
I. º
Catherine, - Evan Lewis,
of Llanga-
toc, taylor.
Water= Herring ==
Simp- 2d huſ-
ion, 3d band a
huſband, ſailor.
no iſſue.
T ems
Mary,i-Biggs,
born 1ſt huſ- S
about band, no 99
I -35, iſſue.
d : d in
| 1 8-,
with-
out iſſue
living.
T-
Catherine, born about 1766, died in .774,

s
No. 1 2.
(See No. 10.)
Elizabeth Parry, widow of Ireland, died 17 July, 1790. Hjohn Morgan, 2d huſband,
T
I —ºn.
a daughter a daughter Elizabeth, died Ann, died about Ann, born=married 8 June, 1776, to Thomas
died with- died with- 1771, without 1755, without iſſue. I755. Whitney, of Burghill, Hereford-
out iſſue. out iſłue. iſſue. ſhire, labourer.
-* º I
T I º T
Thomas Whitney, born John Whitney, william, born Elizabeth, born James, born
1778, a taylor. born 1780. 1785. I 790. 1796.

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T O L S HUNT DAR CY E,
in the County of Essex.
ALTHOUGH this eſtate is now under the manage-
ment of a different ſett of truſtees, it ſeems proper to
give an account of it. -
This eſtate conſiſts of a meſſuage and lands called
the New-houſe or White-houſe farm, and contains 301
acres 1 rood 19 perches, with the tithes of the ſame.
By Morant's Hiſtory of Eſſex, vol. I p. 397, it ap-
pears, that the family of Darcy had in this pariſh the
manor of Tolſhunt Tregoz, otherwiſe Tolſhunt Darcy,
and that of Gernons or Werli, and the parſonage ; that
on the death of Thomas Darcy in 1593, the eſtate de-
ſcended to his five daughters and co-heirs, one of
which, Mary, married Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, and on a
partition 290 acres, with the great tithes of the ſame,
were allotted as her ſhare.
In 1635 Sir Chriſtopher and his wife, and his ſon and
his wife, joined in a ſale of this farm to Mr. Smith's
truſtees, it being then lett at £. 140 a year.
The following notices were ſent me by the gentle-
r º who now receives the rents, from the books which
1C I)3.S.
“Henry
* ( 178 )
“Henry jackſon of London Gent. one of the executors
and feoffees of Henry Smith late of London Eſq. de-
ceaſed the 27 Nov. 1637 did ſend and give to the poor
of Braintree 12 pounds, which was laid out in ſix pieces
of grey cloth, and in making garments of it to cloath
them, and therewith were made 16 coats for poor men
and gowns for poor women which were all given out
to the poor on St. Thomas's day 1637; and about 2
yards of cloth which was left was then alſo given to
another poor woman.”
“Henry jackſºn of London Gent, one of the feoffees of
the eſtate of Henry Smith late of London Eſq. deceaſed
by him given to charitable uſes by the only means of
William Lyngwood, Gent. hath cauſed to be ſettled by
the Right Hon. Robert Earl of Eſſex and the ſaid Henry
jackſon and diverſe others feoffees of the ſaid Henry
Smith by their deeds indented 20 Dec. 1641 upon the
churchwardens and overſeers of Braintre the yearly ſum
of A .6 out of meſſuages and lands parcel of the manor
of Tolſhunt Darcie, alias Tolſhunt Tregooze &c.”
20 Dec. 1641, the rents were allotted by the Earl of
Eſſex, Viſcount Lumley, Sir Richard Gurney, Sir Chriſ:
topher Nevill, Sir George Whitmore, William Rolfe, Henry
Henne, and Henry Jackſon, to the following pariſhes;
now increaſed to
£, 3. d. -*. £. J. d.
Bungay, T ſ 16 o o I6 5 9
St. Peter’s,
South Elmham, #Suffolk 2 * 4 O O 4. I 5
St. Margaret, l - -
Ilket/hull, U 2 O O 2 o 8;
Braintree, 6 o o 6 2 2
Henham, } Eſſex, { I 2, O O 12 4 3
St. Paul's Walden, Herts. 14 o o I4 5 O
Terling, Eſſex, 14 o o I4 5 O
St. Mary on the
Hill, Cheſter, 5 o o 5 I 9
carried over, 73 o o 74 6 of
|
brought
( 179 )
£. s. d £. J. d.
brought over, 73 o o 74. 6 of
Fletching, 18 o o 18 6 5:
Hurſt Pierpoint, Suſſex, 8 o o 8 2 Io
Rotherfield, 9 o o 9 3 24
Tolſhunt Darcy, Eſſex, 12 o o 12 4 3:
Torant, Suſſ. 8 o o 8 2 19:
Southover, **, 12 o o 1 2 4 3:
14o o o 142 io o
In this deed it is deſcribed as, divers meſſuages
lands tenements and hereditaments parcel of the
manor of Tolſhunt Darcye alias Tolſhunt Tregoſe in the
county of Eſſex, with all the lands tenements mea-
dows commons and hereditaments thereto or to the
rečtory there belonging late in the occupation of Sir
Chriſtopher Nevill, at the rent of A. 14o.
It was from time to time conveyed with the other
truſt eſtates to new truſtees as late as 1675, between
which year and 1689 when (on a new conveyance of
the truſt eſtates being made this was omitted by name,
though it would paſs by the general words), this ſeems
from the following inquiſition, to have been conveyed
to a different ſett of truſtees. • *
In 1669 a commiſſion for charitable uſes was exe-
cuted at Witham, in the return to which the commiſſi-
oners ſtate Mr. Smith's deed of uſes, that the eſtate at
Tolſhunt Darcey containing 301 A. I R., 19 P. (men-
tioning the particular fields) and the tithes thereof,
being part of the reótory of Tolſhunt Darcey, had been
purchaſed by the Earl of Eſſex and others, truſtees of
Mr. Smith; that, by indentures of leaſe and releaſe,
dated 1, 2, Aug. 1693, Sir john Stapley Bart. William
Dyke Eſq. Thomas Brand Eſq. and William Coby Gent.
the ſurviving truſtees, (not mentioning how it became
veſted in them,) conveyed to George Nevill, (then Lord
Abergavenny,) Sir William Dawes, and others; that
ſome of the truſtees lived at a great diſtance and others
refuſed to act; that the eſtate had been lett at leſs
than the old rent; that one Alſtone had received di-
vers ſums of money and paid the pariſhes ſome part :
|U - it
( 180 )
it is ordered, that the ſurviving truſtees ſhould convey
to Sir Anthony Abdy Bart. and others; that in future
the number of truſtees ſhould be 24, not reſiding more
than 20 miles from Tolſhunt *. &
In conſequence of this, a new conveyance to Sir
Anthony Abdy and others was executed by George Lord
Abergavenny and others, the ſurvivors of the old truſ-
tees +.
New conveyances were executed in 1739, 1758, and
1790 ft. -
Mr. Alſtone mentioned in this inquiſition, and Mr.
Merrion an attorney at Braintree, had received conſide-
rable ſums from the rents, and had not accounted for
them, and on a reference were ordered to pay, but
whether they did do ſo does not appear. .
It ſeems as if the new truſtees were not more careful
than thoſe had been whom they ſucceeded, for in
1766 the rent of 301 acres of land, tithe-free, which
had been lett at £. 140 per annum in 1635, was reduced
to ſ.75 per annum; ſince that time, however, the gen-
tlemen who have acted in the truſt have paid great at-
tention to the intereſt of the pariſhes. In 1772 they
raiſed the rent to 4.125, and in 1796 it was increaſed
to £15c. - -
They meet at Witham annually on the laſt Monday in
April, and examine the accounts Š.
* From the return at the Petty-Bag Office. *
+ From the Minute Book in the hands of Mr. Rice Manning
the agent to the preſent truſtees (1799).
; From the information of Mr. Manning.
§ Ibid. -
INDEX.
( 181 )
I N D E X.
º Page
Account of Mr. Smith, — —- 5
Gifts to towns in his life time, —- — ibid.
His firſt deeds of truſt, tººse ——— 8
Objećts of his charity, tºº º sºme 9, 15
Bill in Chancery filed by him againſt his truſtees, tºº-ººº- 9
Sir Richard Lumley's anſwer, • — I I
Decree, tº-º- ºr- . * -º-mºnº I2.
Mr. Smith's laſt deed of truſt, ºmsºmºmy I4
His will, {-º-º-º-º: mºmsºme 16
Account of ſome of the legatees in it, gººmsºmºmºmº 17, 18
His executors and overſeers, - amºn º 2O
Account of his funeral from the Heralds College, 2. K
His monument in Wandſworth church, ibid.
Circumſtances relating to Sir Thomas White's charities in
Coventry, 24
Liſt of Mr. Smith's eſtates, 25
Mr. Smith's donation to Kingſton, and the articles between
him and the corporation, *s 27, 67
Eſtates not under the management of the preſent truſtees.
Guildford, — ” - 28
Farnham, — tºmºsºmºmºmºs - ibid.
Godalming, *msºmºsº — ibid.
Dorking, — — — 29
Reigate, * *memº *sº ibid.
Croydon, * —- ibid.
Fetcham, *memº * sºmºmºmº 3 I
Carſhalton, * ºmºsº asºmº ibid.
Froddeſwell eſtate, tºmº º 32.
Hartlepool, -— cºmmºn mºmmas ºsº ibid.
Shalden, º-mºm. *mºnº - ibid.
Chilmyche, º * *ºme 33
Tolſhunt Darcie, — tº ºmns 177
Sir John Pettus's propoſed ačt of parliament in 1675, - 33
Renewals
( 18? )
Renewals of the truſt,
Some account of the original truſtees.
Earl of Eſſex, —— ** tº tº
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill; * - tºº
Richard Earl of Dorſet, tºº *ºº
Sir Riehard Lumley, * *mº
Sir George Croke, ‘ºº Cºmmammº
Sir George Whitmore, - s ſº
Serjeant Amherſt, *mºnºmºmº tº º Ǻmº
Henry Henn, dºm - cºmmº
Sir William Blake, - tº sºme
William Rolfe, tº-mºnº -
Sir Richard Gurney, --> tº me my
Alderman Parkhurſt, * ense. , *_º
George Duncombe, * * * { P_**
Pedlar's Acre, at Lambeth, account of . *º ſº.
The ſeveral eſtates.
Silver-ſtreet, London, *mº
Knole, Sevenoak, Kemſing, &c. *-ºsmºsºmeºs
Clayhall in Riegate, iºnºmº
Eaſtbrook or Southwick, in Suſſex emºuses tºmº
Warbleton, in Suſſex, &ºmºp
fwood, in Suſſex, Rºmº
tongney, in Glouceſterſhire, * *mºnº,
Telleſcomb, in Suſſex, tº ºne º
Worth, in Suſſex, *mºms ºmmºne
Alfriſton, in Suſſex, $ºmºsºme
Nayfield, in Suſſex, * * sº
Longſtock Harrington, in Hants, *me
Stoughton, in Leiceſterſhire, º *
Kenſington, tºms ºnema tº ammºma tººse
Pedigrees of the relations, **wæ * ºn wº
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ACCOUNT OF THE ESTATES
BELONGING TO
(Lipt QCrugterg
OF
MR. SMITH'S CHARITY.
CONTINUED FROM THE ACCOUNT PRINTED IN 1800.
L O N D O N :
PRINTED BY JOHN NICHOLS AND SON,
s PARLIAMENT-STREET.
1825.
ACCOUNT
OF
T H E E S T A T E S, &c.
ALFRISTON AND MAYFIELD.
THE tithes of Alfriston remained on lease to Mr.
Harben, at the rent of £180, until 1811, when they
were let for sé400 to Mr. Cooper, of Lewes, who held
them at that rent until Michaelmas 1819. They were
then let, together with the tithes of Winton Down
(which had before been separately rented at #22. 10s.)
to Mr. Pagden, and other farmers of the parish, for
the term of 14 years, at a rent of sé420. p.
2%. Tithes of Winton Down were recovered by Award
in 1812, having before that time been claimed and
withheld as extra-parochial. : h
The Mayfield tithes continued on lease at sé84
until 1806, when they were taken by some farmers in
the parish, for 14 years, at #6110. In 1820, when
the lease expired, a rent of £87 only was obtained;
in the next year =#75; and, in the years ending at
Michaelmas 1823 and 1824, 2665. The same per-
sons have agreed to take them for the present year at
3685.
The great depression in the value of the Mayfield
tithes was occasioned by a quantity of land in the
parish being thrown out of cultivation.
A
4.
The Land Tax on the Alfriston and Mayfield pro-
perty has been redeemed, by borrowing ºffé56.6s. 8d.
Reduced Three per Cents. from the Worth estate.
BEXHILL.
The rent-charge of sæ130 is now paid by the
Duchess of Dorset, and is distributed in the same pro-
portions as formerly.
EASTBROOKE.
This farm continued on lease at #370 until Michael-
mas 1809, when Mr. Hall agreed to take it for 21
years at the rent of £120.
In 1811 the sum of £1 11 was received from the
Trustees of Shoreham Harbour, by way of compensa-
tion for land washed away by the sea, and was laid
out in the purchase of £187.6s. 8d. Reduced Three
per Cents.
In 1822 the sum of sæ123. 5s. 5d. was received
from the Trustees of the new Road between Brighton
and Shoreham, for land taken by them, and was in-
vested in the purchase of £147. 5s. 2d. like stock.
An abatement of sæ2 is to be allowed to Mr. Hall for
the land so taken from him. The Land Tax was dis-
charged under the Act of the 46th Geo. III. c. 133.
IwooD.
This farm continued on lease at 2690 until Mi-
chaelmas 1805, when Mr. Waters took it for 21 years
at the rent of £136.
The produce of the timber cut and sold on this
farm has been applied in redeeming the Land Tax, and
in the purchase of sæ1,902. 7s. 5d. Three per Cent.
A
5
reduced Annuities, of which ºf 243. 1 1s. 5d. has been
lent to the Tellescomb estate, to redeem Land Tax.
KEMPSING, HEDDINGTON, &c.
The farm at Clayhall remained on lease at the rent
of 2.É160 until Michaelmas 1804, when it was taken
by Mr. Staning at #250 for 14 years. At the end of
of that term it was let to Mr, Nash, of Reigate, for 21
years from Michaelmas 1818, at the rent of £210.
The two cottages at Clayhall are now let for £10.
The fee-farm rents, amounting to se?2 clear of
Land Tax, remain as in 1800; but in the printed
book the Heddington fee-farm rent was by mistake
stated to be ºf 30 instead of sæ40.
Austin's Farm, let at £42, was in 1811 exchanged
for a farm belonging to Mr. Woodgate at Sevenoaks,
called Hale Oak, and then rented by Mr. Sanders at
sé89. On this exchange Mr. Woodgate purchased,
and transferred to the Accountant General of the Court
of Chancery, for the use of the Charity, 43418.13s. 11d.
Consols, being the difference of the value of the tim-
ber on the two farms.
The farm at Sevenoaks was in 1812 let to Mr.
Sanders at £122, but he was unable to pay it, and in
1818 it was put up to auction by desire of the parishes
interested.
The auction was unsuccessful; but Mr. Stone after-
wards agreed to take a lease for 21 years from Michael-
mas 1818, at a rent of af25, which has since been
reduced to sº;0.
The farm contains 136 acres of very poor land,
lying in four different parishes.
The sum of sé680. 12s. 6d. Reduced Three per
Cent. was borrowed of the Worth estate, to redeem
the Land Tax; but the produce of some timber sold
at Clayhall and Sevenoaks has enabled the Trustees
to pay off that debt, and to make investments which
now amount to £636. 12s. 1d. Three per Cent. Re-
duced Annuities.
KENSINGTON.
In 1806 the lease of this estate, granted to Dr.
Bucknall at the rent of £151, was set aside by the
Court of Chancery, and the sum of £1,472 Consols,
was purchased with arrears of profits which the lessee
was compelled to account for. &
The leases of the under-tenants were not vacated,
and stood as follows: Af
Ground, containing 14 a. 24 p. let on a building-
lease to Mr. Novosielski, for a term expiring the 15th
of March 1830, at #140 a year. The houses at Bromp-
ton, called Michael's Place, stand upon this ground.
Garden ground, containing 14 a. 2 r. 2 p. called
Quail Field, at the back of Michael’s Place, then let to
Mr. Malcolm at the rent of sæ80. The lease is now
expired, and he occupies it under an agreement for a
year at the rent of £120.
Land, containing 1 a. 2 r. 21 p. then on lease to
Mr. Mollard for a term expiring in 1823, at the rent
of sæ15. Mr. Bonnin lately took it on a building
agreement, and has built eight houses and a cottage,
of which leases have been granted for 61 years from
Michaelmas 1823, at ground-rents amounting to sé42.
It is called Onslow Terrace, and is a little beyond Mi-
chael's Place on the opposite side of the road.
Garden ground, containing 8 a. 3 r. 18 p. let at the
period of the Suit in Chancery to Mr. Haspinall, at a
rent of £56. 14s. but he being unable to pay the
rent, it was taken by Mr. Harrison, from Lady-day
1815, for 21 years, at aff;0. It adjoins on the East
to Onslow Terrace. *Nº.
A house and garden ground, containing 5 a. 1 r.
25 p. then let to Mr. Gibbs, for a term expiring at
Lady-day 1822, at the rent of £50. A lease is now
to be granted to him for 21 years from that time at
sé60, a considerable sum having been laid out by the
tenant in repairs and additional buildings.
7
A house and grounds, containing 7 a. 2r. 14 p, then
held by Mr. Cowper, at a rent of af 186, for a term
expiring at Midsummer 1824. It has been since let
to him for fourteen years from that time at #240.
Land, containing 7 a. 1 r. 29 p. adjoining to Mr.
Cowper's premises, held by Mr. Malcolm at a rent of
&#347. 5s. when Dr. Bucknall's lease was set aside, but
his term having expired, he now holds it under an
agreement at the rent of £60.
A small house and garden, containing 1 a. 0 r. 30 p.
then let to Mr. O'Connor for a term which expired at
Michaelmas 1823, at £42. It is now occupied by
Mr. Cocks, under an agreement for five years from
Michaelmas 1824, at the same rent.
Ground, containing 2 a. 1 r. 13 p. on which six
small houses have been built, let to Mr. Thomas for a
term which will expire at Michaelmas 1829, at the
rent of sæ15.
Land, containing 18 a. 2 r. 24 p. then let to Mr.
Hancock, on a lease expiring at Christmas 1820, at
a rent of £100. Part of it, consisting of a cottage
and small garden, is now let to Mr. Cooper for 21
years, at a rent of £30, and the remainder to Mr.
Street, a nurseryman, for fourteen years, at &#182.
Ground, containing 2 a. 3 r. 22 p. then on lease to
Mr. Wells, at 2.É42. The same rent is now paid by
his successor, Mr. Cocks, as a yearly tenant. .
The rents, therefore, of the whole estate on Dr.
Bucknall's lease being set aside, amounted to #773.19s.
They are now =#1,023, and will be greatly increased
in 1830, when Mr. Novosielski's term expires. The
amount of Old South Sea Stock, being ºf 9,158. 15s.
4d. remains as in 1800.
An account of the relations who now receive the
income will be found in the annexed Pedigree. There
has been no application for money to redeem captives,
and on enquiry at the office of the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, the Treasurers were informed that
it was believed there was no Englishman now in cap-
tivity within the Barbary States, the respective Con-
8
suls having instructions to watch narrowly the arrival
of any British subject who may be made prisoner,
and immediately to claim his release. )
}:
LONGNEY FARM, TITHES, & QUIT-RENTS.
The farm, with the tithes of the parish, were let for
sé300 until 1808, when they were let by auction to
Mr. King for £900. On the inclosure in 1813 the
tithes were commuted for a corn-rent of £198.8s. 4d.
and the rent of the farm was reduced to ºff000.
In 1816 Mr. King's effects were taken in execution,
but the greater part of the arrear of rent was recovered.
Mr. Longney, the present tenant, then took a lease of
the farm for 11 years, from the 5th of April 1817, at
a rent of aff;00.
The Land Tax has been redeemed by stock bor-
rowed from the Worth estate.
The quit-rents produce, as formerly, sfS6. 19s. 8d.
out of which the Land Tax, amounting to about sé6,
is allowed.
The Bailiff's salary for collecting the corn-rents and
Quit-rents, and superintending the repairs, is ºf 17. 12s.
The outgoings on this estate are very great, in con-
sequence of the Trustees being liable to keep in repair
two of the cribs against the Severn, and a part of the
Sea-wall.
LONGNEY MANOR AND SILVER STREET.
On the inclosure of Longney parish, in 1813,
different estates held of the manor were laid toge-
ther, by which their value was much increased, and
the fines on renewals of copyholds and leaseholds may
be expected to produce, on an average, considerably
more than before the inclosure.
The quantity of copyhold and leasehold land granted
for lives is about 860 acres.
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The House in Silver Street continued on lease at
sé60 until Lady Day 1820, when Mr. De Gruchy
took a repairing lease for 21 years at £82.
It has been lately very much injured by a fire in
the adjoining house, but the insurance made by the
Trustees will cover the loss.
LONGSTOCK.
At Michaelmas 1815 the rent of this farm was in-
creased from sé800 to #550, on a 21 years' lease.
The tenant pays the Land Tax.
STOUGHTON.
In 1802 this farm was let by auction to Mr. Sarson
for 21 years, at the rent of sé558, being an increase
of ºx48 on the old rent.
. The lease expiring at Michaelmas 1823, it was let
by auction to Mr. Keck at a rent of £600.
He has agreed, in consideration of an allowance of
sé300 for repairs, and an extension of his term to
21 years absolute, to drain the land with tiles instead
of turf, as formerly done.
TELLESCOMB.
This farm continued on lease at #3143 until 1808,
when Mr. Marten took it at a rent of sé220.
The common field land belonging to the farm has
been laid together under an Act of Parliament, and
contains 181 a. Or. 8 p.
Mr. Marten died in 1822, and it is now held by
Messrs. Verral, at a rent of £200, under an agree-
ment, for a term which will expire at Michaelmas
1829.
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WARBLETON.
Pursuant to the recommendation of the Commis-
sioners for enquiring into Charities, the Attorney
General filed an Information in 1822, to set aside
Lord Ashburnham's lease of this estate, which was
granted in 1764. Lord Ashburnham, in his Answer,
admitted that the annual produce had been of late
greater than the rent which he paid under his lease,
but said that it was the reverse when the lease was
taken by his father, and that it was done for the bene-
fit of the Charity.
The Court decided that the lease was void, and that
Lord Ashburnham should account for the rents from
Michaelmas 1822.
The rents were then and are now as follows:
Court Lodge and Chantry Farms, containing 297 a.
0 r. 29 p. in the occupation of Mr. Stephen Potter, at
the rent of ºf 125.
Battsford farm, containing 106 a. Or. 20 p. occupied
by Mr. John Pattenden, at the rent of £44.
A cottage and land occupied by Mr. William Wa-
ters, at the rent of 3/310.
A cottage and land occupied by Mr. John Brook, at
the rent of sé4. 10s.
The woods, containing 142 a. 1 r. 17 p. are in hand,
and are valued by Mr. Clutton at #345 a year.
The quit-rents and small rents, for lands taken from
the waste, are about £30, but a Court of Survey is to
be held, pursuant to an order of the Trustees, when
the precise amount will be ascertained.
The produce of timber sold on this estate has been
invested in purchases of Reduced Three, per Cent.
Annuities, now amounting to £993. 15s. 7d.
;
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WORTH.
At Michaelmas 1800 Mr. Brazier renewed his lease
of Lodge Farm for 21 years, at the rent of 36110.
The farms occupied by Hills, Streatfield, and
Budgen, at rents amounting to £81, becoming
vacant in 1811, they were let by auction, together
with the coppices, which had been previously in hand
to Mr. James Cooke, at a rent of sæ352, which he
paid until 1813, when he became a bankrupt. . They
were then taken by Mr. Brazier, at a rent of af200,
which was afterwards abated to 2.É120.
At Michaelmas 1820 Mr. Brazier took a lease of
Lodge Farm, and all that he had previously occupied,
except the Hole and Monks farms, for 21 years, at
the rent of sæ210; and Mr. Stubbs took a lease of
the latter, for the same term, at the rent of sæ70.
The land lately held by Dr. Bethune was taken by
Mr. Crawshay on lease for 21 years, from Michaelmas
1823, at the rent of sæ25.
The public-house is now on lease to Messrs. Beard
for 21 years, from Michaelmas 1821, at the rent of
sé20.
The cottages pay rents amounting to £7. 13s.6d.
The stock purchased by sales of timber amount
altogether to sá6,012. 0s. 11d. of which sé1,169.
7s, 3d, has been lent to the Longney estate, 26804,
10s. 7d. to Stoughton, afé56.6s. 8d. to Alfriston and
Mayfield, and #647. 18s. 7d. to Tellescomb, to redeem
Land Tax. -
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PEDIGREE of the Families of CARRERE, KELSICK, AND ALEXANDER.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith.-E. . . . Fell.
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Susan FellºF Richard Bustard.
T-
Sarah Bustard.--William Friend.
TT
T-
Charles Friend.-F-Ann Bevis.
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Catherine Bexley Friend=J ohn Rugge. - Elizabeth Friend.--John Kelsick.
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John Rugge.--Diana Phillips. Ann Kelsick.<=William Alexander. Isabella.-R. Kelsick.
--- | | |
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Elizabeth Frances Rugge.--Charles Carrere. William Alexander, Betsey Alexander, Francis Kelsick, born
born Oct. 1787. born July 1786. July 1797.
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Amelia'Elizabeth, born Charles-John, born Elizabeth, born March Maynard-Edward, born May
July 1798. Sept. 1801. 1809. 1813.
Caroline-Catharine, born William, born July Catherine-Davis, born Louisa-Amelia, born Nov.
January 1800. 1805. Sept. 1811. 1815.
The whole allowance is divided into three parts, of which one is received by Elizabeth Francis Carrere, who lives at Charles-
own; one by William and Betsey Alexander, living at Liverpool; and the other by Francis Kelsick living at Whitehaven.

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No 2.
PEDIGREE OF THE GROSVENOR FAMILY.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith=. ... Fell.
Susan Fell-F Richard Bustard.
Mary Bustard.-E.John Grosvenor, first husband.
John Grosvenor.-F. . . . . . . .
Tº T
T-
John Grosvenor.--Sarah,
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Sarah Grosvenor.-FJames Gregg.
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Isabella, born March
1784.
John, born July
1786.
George Grosvenor=Elizabeth. Catharine, unmarried.
George, born July John, George, born=. . . . . . Sarah, born Feb. Sophia-Eliza-
1790. born April 1791. 1794. beth, born
William, born Jan. Dec. Catharine, born Aug. 1803.
1793. 1788. One child. Nov. 1799.
The yearly allowance is divided equally between Sarah Gregg, George Grosvenor the elder, and Catherine Grosvenor.


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PEDIGREE OF THE LANHAM FAMILY.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith-F . . . . Fell.
Susan FellºFRichard Bustard.
T-
Mary Bustard,==John Grosvenor.
yºuntana-F
F--
John Grosvenor= e tº Q Q tº º o de
Elizabeth Grosvenor.-F. . . . Lanham.
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John Lanham, born Sept. 1757–Ann Mundem,
John Lanham receives the whole of the allowance. He lives at Coventry.

3.
PEDIGREE OF THE SWASH FAMILY.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith:=. . . . Fell.
Susan FellºF Richard Bustard.
Mary Bustard.-H.... Swash, second husband.
H
| Richard *T tº e º e º e º 'º
Barnaby Swash, dead= Sarah. Richard Swash, born 1751, living= Sarah Buck.
Barnaby Swash, born June 1787.-FMary. Jºhn Swash, born Feb. 1782.-FElizabeth.
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May-Ann Swash, born James, born Feb. Richard, born Sarah, born May Richard, born Jan.
June 1814. 1820. March 1824. 1806. 1816. -
Barnaby, born April William, born Mary-Ann, born
1818. April 1822. - Jan. 1813.
One share is now (since the death of Thomas Parratt) divided between Barnaby Swash, born in 1787, and Richard Swash,
born in 1751. The allowance of the latter is increased by an extra sum, on account of his age and infirmities, making it
altogether sé60. They live at Norwich, and are in indigent circumstances. w" *


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No 5. -
PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILIES OF ROCHESTER AND HORSLEY.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith= . . . . Fell.
F-
Susan Fell.-E.Richard Bustard.
Mary Bustard.-H.... Swash, second husband.
Richard Swash.<=. . . . . . . .
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Mary Swash, born 1755–F. . . . Rochester, first husband,+John Horsley, second husband.
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Mary Roches--EJoseph Jeremiah, born=. . . . william, born ==. . . . Sarah, born ==Law- Richard, John=. tº e e
ter, born Dec. | Seaman. Jan. 1782. Aug. 1787. March 1790. rence. born born
1778. 1792. 1785.
F--T-T—T-— T. | H-T- H--l r—T-T—T-1 f |--
Joseph, born Oct. 1803. Jeremiah-Ro- Mary, bo. 1810. Three other Four John, born Mary, born Thos.-
Mary Ann, bo. Oct. 1805. bert, born William, bo. 1814, children. children. Dec. 1807. 18OS. Henry,
Other children. March 1810. Richard, bo. 1816. 1817.
One share is now (since the death of Thomas Parratt) divided between these families. They are all in indigent circumstances.



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No 6.
PEDIGREE OF THE SAUNDERS FAMILY.
Sarah, niece of Henry Smith, Esq=. . . . Fell.
Susan Fell.-F-Richard Bustard.
F-—
Martha Bustard.<=.... Saunders.
I-——
John Saunders.==Dinah Clarke.
John Saunders.==Mary Lovegrove.
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Mary, born 6th Sept. 1768-FWm. Barnaby. Dinah, bo. June 1770.-.... Cacutt. John, bo. Oct. 1773.-FElizabeth Wilson.
| sº
Susannah, born=Edmonds. Mercy, born April Mary 'Ahn, born April 1807. Elizabeth-Sarah, born 1796.
March 31, 1792. 1797. Martha, born May 1809. John-Joseph, born Jan. 1803.
F--- William, born July Eliza, born May 1811, Mary-Ann, born Sept. 1805.
Several children. 1800, *
The yearly allowance is divided equally between Mary Barnaby, Dinah Cacutt, and John Saunders.


PEDIGREE OF THE WEBB FAMILY.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith:==.... Fell.
.
Susan Fell=Richard Bustard.
F--
Ann Bustard.-E. . . . Webb.
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F---
Thomas Webb. ==. . . . . .
F--—
Thomas Webb.-E. . . . . .
r
Richard Webb.-FSophia.
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Thomas F. May,+.... Dick HEdward Richard wil-F. Cordella-Sophia;=Thomas Geºrge William=.... is
Webb, born enSOn, Hardes- liam Webb, Webb, born Price. Webb, born CR
born Jan. first hus- | ty, se- born March Dec. 1772. July 1799.
1761 ; 1765. band. cond 1766. -
dead. husband.
ſ T 1– | L -T !--T— I I H-H -——
Joseph, HE. . . . Mary,+Wil- Elizabeth Dick- George- James, born Sophia, George- =.. Richard-William,
born born liam enson, born Henry May 1796. born Richard, born Feb. 1804.
May May | Col- Sept. 1790; Hardesty, Henry-Smith, Dec. born William-Henry,
1786. 1802. lyer. marr. Thomas born Oct. born June 1796. 1800. born Oct. 1806.
F—— F-—— Atkins.== 1804.-E 1798.-F F--- Joseph, born Nov.
Two children. One child. F-—— F-— F--- Two children. 1810.
Children. One child Two children. John, bo. Dec.1813.

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Charlotte, born Oct. Sarah, born March Emma, born August Elizabeth, born Sept. Eliza, born May 4 others.
1802. 1806. 18O8. 1810. 1814.
The yearly allowance is received by Joseph and Mary, the two children of Thomas Webb, deceased, Mary Hardesty, Richard-
William Webb, Cordelia-Sophia Price, and George-William Webb.
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No 8. -
PEDIGREE OF THE WECK AND MAPLESON FAMILIES.
Elizabeth, acknowledged as one of the relations in 1677-F-Richard Gwilt.
|
John Gwilt=........
. . *
Richard Gwilt.==. . . . . . . .
I
Richard Gwilt.==. . . . . . George Gwilt.==. . . . . . Sarah Gwilt.==Rice Beynon.
| _l F-– F——
Jane-Jemima Gwilt=FThomas Mapleson. Joseph, George. Elizabeth Beynon=Samuel Veck.
* I
Jane-Jemima, born Henry, born J ohn, born Mary, born Thomas, born Ann Veck, born Elizabeth Veck,
May 1800. May 1805. - Feb. 1808. Sept. 1812. July 1814. Oct. 1808. born Dec. 1809.
The allowance is divided into two parts; of which one is distributed equally between the five children of Jane-Jemima
Mapleson, and the other equally between Ann and Elizabeth Veck. Joseph and George Gwilt are in good circumstances,
and do not stand in need of any portion of Mr. Smith's bequest.



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PEDIGREE OF THE DAY FAMILY.
Sarah, niece of Mr. Smith.<= . . . . Fell. *
l
Susan Fell.-F-Richard Bustard. -
r——
Ann Bustard,= . . . . Webb.
r——
Thomas Webb.<=. . . . . .
F--T
Elizabeth Webb-EThomas Burton.
—
I-
Sarah Burton.-F Richard Day.
I-—
William Day-FDeborah Thornton.
T T *
Debºrah, born March 1808. Sarah, born Jan. 1805. Elizabeth, born June 1807. Amy, born Jan. 1809. william-Richard.

The whole allowance is paid to William Day, who is a mast and block maker at Rotherhithe.
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No 10.
PEDIGREE OF THE TREASURE FAMILY.
Jasper Avery, acknowledged a relation in 1676.<=
-
Elizabeth Avery.==Thomas James.
—l
F-—
Mary James=Thomas Parry.
Elizabeth Party-william Ireland, first husband.
—l
F-
Joan Ireland.-FJoseph Treasure.
l
f
Joan, bo.-FC, Wilkinson,-.... Mills, 2d Elizabeth-William Dawe, Jame=. ... Law- John, - . . . . Han- • * * * * *
1770. first husband. husband. T wheelwright. i Ten Ce. tailor. mah. Reece.
ſ -* | -]
John, born 16th Feb. 1799, william, born 2d william. James. Several children. Several children.
a carver and gilder. Jan. 1801. Ann. Edward.
The yearly allowance is distributed in 5 equal portions; one to Joan Mills (who also receives sé20 per annum extra), one to
Elizabeth Dawe, one to Jane Lawrence, one to John Treasure, and one to Hannah Reece.
The three eldest children of Dawe have been apprenticed out by the Trustees. John Wilkinson has received considerable
sums to set him up as a carver and gilder.

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No 11.
PEDIGREE OF WILLIAM BEVAN.
Jasper Avery=. . . . . .
|
Elizabeth Avery=Thomas James.
J
Mary James.==Evan Jones, second husband.
Ann Jones.==Ezekiel Protheroe.
Margaret Protheroe.-E. Howell Bevan.
|
william Bevan, born June 1791.==. . . . . .
I
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Margaret. Ann. Sarah. Thomas.
The whole yearly allowance is received by William Bevan, who lives at Crickhowell. He held a small farm some years ago,
but is now represented to be in indigent circumstances.

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No 12. *
PEDIGREE OF THE WHITNEY FAMILY.
Jasper Avery=. . . . . .
F--—
Elizabeth Avery.==Thomas James.
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Mary James.==Thomas Parry, first husband.
Elizabeth Parry.==John Morgan, second husband.
*-
Anne Morgan.-F-Thomas Whitney.
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Thomas Whitney,-F. . . . . . John, born 1780,--...... William, born 1785, James, born 1796, Elizabeth, born 1790;
born 1778, a tai- a wheelwright a wheelwright at a tailor at Here- marr. . . . . Godsall.
lor at Burghill. at Kemchester. Hereford. ford.
—l
F-
Four children. Three children.
The yearly allowance is divided equally among the five children of the late Ann Whitney.
#,
John Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street.
*
D E c R E E,
D E E D of U S E S,
A N D -
w I L L,
C F
HENR r SMITH, Eſq;
B Y w H 1 c H
' DIVERS ESTATES are ſettled to
CHARI TABLE USES.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES,
1781.
Martis Vice/imo Die junii,
Anno Regni Caroli Regis,
primo, inter Henricum
Smith, Arm' Quer’ praeno-
Ailem Robertum Com' Eſ-
ſex, & Ricardum Lumley,
mil’ & al. Defendentes.
* HER EAS the ſaid Plaintiff being convºy.
charitably minded and diſpoſed, did, ance from
in Ottober, decimo ſeptimo Jacobi Regis, by ſº
Deed convey and aſſure to the ſaid Earl gº
Eſſex, Richard late Earl of Dorſet, deceaſed, Sir p
Edward Francis, now alſo deceaſed, Mr. Robert
Amhurſt, john Middleton, William Wingfield, and Oéoér
George Whitmore, and their Heirs, the Mānors” ”
of Warbleton, and the Farms of South-Woodland,
Iwood, with the Lands thereunto belonging, in
the County of Suſſex, and divers other Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments of a goodyearly
Value; and by another Deed of the ſame Date, Same D
did alſo grant to the ſaid Mr. Robert Amhurſt, ºft.
George Whitmore, john Middleton, and William ºperſonal
Wingfield all his the ſaid Plaintiff’s ready Money, Eſtate.
except One Hundred Pounds, and all his per-
ſonal Eſtate, Goods and Chattles whatſoever.
But in each of the ſaid Deeds did contain a
Power of Revocation at his Will and Plea-Power ºf
ſure at any Time after during his natural Life;”
and by another Deed of the ſame Date, did Same Date
A 2. declare,
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Declara-
declare, that the ſaid ſeveral Deeds and Cori-
veyances of the ſaid Manors and perſonal E-
* ºf the ſtate were made upon this ſpecial Truſt, and
Truſts.
A.
Confidence, That the ſaid Plaintiff Henry Smith
ſhould receive out of the Profits of the ſaid
Premiſes yearly, the Sum of Five Hundred
Pounds, for, and towards, his Maintenance;
and that the ſaid Parties truſted ſhould diſpoſe
of the Reſidue of the Profits of the ſaid Pre-
miſes, and of the ſaid perſonal Eſtate, in ſuch
Sort, and to ſuch charitable Uſes, as the ſaid
Plaintiff by his laſt Will and Teſtament in
Writing, to be by him ſealed at any Time
during his natural Life, ſhould nominate,
limit, and appoint, and in Default of ſuch
Nomination, Limitation, or Appointment,
then to ſuch charitable Uſes as the ſaid Earls
of Eſſex and Dorſet, Sir Edward Francis, George
Whitmore, Robert Amhurſt, john Middleton, and
Milliam Wingfield, their Heirs or Aſſigns ſhould
think fit. And whereas the ſaid Sir Edward
Francis was at the Time of the making and
ſealing of the ſaid ſeveral Deeds indebted to
the Plaintiff in the Sum of Three Thouſand
Pounds: And the ſaid john Middleton was alſo
indebted to the ſaid Plaintiff in the Sum of
Four Thouſand Pounds, or thereabouts, to be
forthwith cleared and perfeóted by Account:
And the ſaid Sir Richard Lumley was then alſo
indebted to the ſaid Plaintiff in the Sum of
One Thouſand Pounds: And the ſaid Mr. Ro-
bert Amhurſt was alſo indebted to the ſaid Plain-
tiff in the Sum of One Thouſand Pounds,
moſt of which Debts were in Strićtneſs of Law,
contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of
all the ſaid Parties releaſed and diſcharged by
Some of the
Truſtees
indebted to
Mr. Smith
f the
( ; )
the ſaid Deeds, and a Deed hereafter mention-
ed. And whereas alſo the ſaid Plaintiff con- Rel,
tinuing his charitable intention in the Month; ;
of june, viceſimo ſecundo Jacobi Regis, for ſome Revoca-
Reaſons and Perſuaſions him moving, by other tian
Deeds of the ſame Date, did releaſe the ſaid º
ſeveral Powers of Revocation in the former”"
Conveyances mentioned : And by another Another
Deed of the ſame Date made between the Pºſ”
Plaintiff of the one Party and the ſaid Earl ofanepal.
Eſſex and Mr. Juſtice Crook, Sir Richard Nevill,
the ſaid Sir Richard Lumley, Mr. Robert Am-
hurſt, john Middleton, William Wingfield,
Sir Edward Francis, deceaſed, and George
Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe, and Rich-
ard Garnet, Defendants in this Suit, of the
other Part, did declare his Intention and
Meaning to be, That the Rents, Iſſues, and
Profits of the ſaid Manors and Premiſes, to-
gether with the ſaid perſonal Eſtate ſhould
be employed and beſtowed by them the ſaid
Earl, and other the Defendants laſt named,
and their Heirs for and towards the Reliefclaritatſ,
of poor Priſoners, hurt and maimed Soldiers, Uſes to
poor Maids Marriages, Setting up of poorºº hiº
Apprentices, amending the High Ways, Loſſes º:
ſuſtained by Fire, or Shipwreek, or other-, i. º
wiſe, to or for ſuch charitable Uſes as they
the ſaid Parties truſted, or any ſeven, or more
of them, their Heirs or Aſſigns ſhould, from
time to time, think moſt meet and con-
venient; notwithſtanding which laſt Deed,
the ſaid Plaintiff, for that all the ſaid F.ſtate
did move from him, and did proceed merely
from his pious and charitable Intention, in
which Reſpešt he did ſtill deſire that he him-
* ſelf,
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Mr. Smith ſelf, during his Life, might have the Em-
º,” ployment and Diſpoſition thereof, and that
*... he might declare limit, and appoi
, , , º, he might, declare, limit, and appoint to
Eſlaf, du- what good and charitable Uſes, and how,
ring Lºſe and in what Manner the ſame ſhould be em-
%. ployed or diſpoſed, either in his Life-Time,
2...br after his Death; and in caſe no ſuch
Uſes, Declaration ſhould be made by him while he
lived, then to the End to have the ſame
more ſurely performed after his Death, he
much deſired that the Diſpoſition thereof
might be ſettled in ſuch Sort as is hereafter
and file, a expreſſed; and for the better effecting there-
Bill fºr of did exhibit his Bill into this Court againſt
** all the ſaid Defendants, who did all make
* their Anſwers thereunto, wherein they have
confeſſed, That the ſaid ſeveral Deeds and
Conveyances were freely and voluntarily made
by the ſaid Plaintiff of his own mere Motion,
without any valuable Conſideration at all : .
Alſº they, the ſaid Sir Edward Francis, Sir
7......” Richard Lumley, john Middleton, and Robert
* Amhurſt did alſo confeſs, that they were and
are reſpectively indebted to the ſaid Plaintiff
in the ſeveral Sums before mentioned, and
did all of them ſubmit to the Order of this
Honourable Court, both. concerning the ſaid
Manors, Lands, and perſonal Fſtate, and alſo
concerning the Payment or ſecuring of the
ſaid Debts. Whereupon the Truth of the ſaid
Cauſe appearing to be as aforeſaid, it is this
preſent Day upon hearing Counſel on all Sides,
and by and with the free and voluntary Aſſent
of the ſaid Richard Amburst and john Mid-
dleton now preſent in Court, and by and with
the full Conſent of the Counſel of the reſt of
the
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the Defendants, ordered, adjudged, and de- Decret.
creed, That the Eſtate and Intereſt of the ſaid
Manors and Lands, and alſo of the ſaid perſonal
Eſtate, ſhall forthwith, by good and ſufficient
Conveyance and Aſſurance in the Law, be ſet-
tled and veſted by ſuch of the ſaid Defendants,
in whom the Intereſt thereof doth now remain,
in and upon the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Mr. Juſtica
Crooke, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lum-
ley, William Wingfield, George Lowe, William
Blake, William Rolfe, and Richard Garnet, and Mr. Smith
in ſuch others as the ſaid Plaintiff ſhall nomi- to have bit
nate and appoint; upon Truſt and Confidence, # /*
that they, the ſaid Parties truſted, and their £fe,
Heirs ſhall permit and ſuffer the ſaid Plaintiff
to have the Uſe of his Manſion-Houſe in Silver
Street, London, for and during the Term of his
Life; and upon this further Truſt and Confi-
dence, that the ſaid Parties truſted, and to
be truſted, ſhall ſuffer the ſaid Plaintiff and to receive
his Aſſigns, during his natural Life, to receive * #.
the Rents, Iſſues, and Profits of the ſaid Ma- 6. entſ,
nors, Lands, Leaſes, and perſonal Eſtate, and
the Intereſt of his Money, and to diſpoſe of the
ſaid Rents, Intereſt, and perſonal Eſtate, for
his own Maintenance, and for and towards ſuch
charitable Uſes, and otherwiſe for the Benefit
and Relief of his Kindred as he the ſaid Plain-
tiff ſhall think fit, nominate, and appoint: And
to this further Intent and Purpoſe, and upon
this further Truſt and Confidence, That they &
the ſaid Parties truſted, or to be truſted, or Se- i.%.
ven of them at the leaſt, and their Heirs and ..., Žá.
Aſſigns ſhall, after the Death of the ſaid Plain-poſe of
tiff, employ, beſtow, and diſpoſe of the Rents, ***
} Iſſues,
( 3 ) . *
Iſſues, and Profits of the ſaid Manors and
, c, Lands, and of the ſaid perſonal Eſtate not diſ.
... }...poſed of by the ſaid Plaintiff in his Life-Time, to
aforeſaid, and for the charitable Uſes aforeſaid, and to
and for the purchaſing and reſtoring to the
and ſuch Church of Impropriations for the Maintenance
#. a; ,9f learned godly Preachers; and to and for
#;"ſuch other charitable Uſes as the ſaid Plaintiff
ſail ... by his laſt Will and Teſtament in Writing, or
red?; by any Writing to be by him ſealed and deli-
" vered in the Preſence of three Witneſſes of
more, ſhall nominate, declare, limit, or ap-
point, or in default thereof to ſuch charitable
2, a 2. Uſes as ſhall be declared, limited, or appoint-
J.i.ed by the ſaid Perſons truſted, or to be truſted,
ofa, Truſ or any ſeven of them, And it is further or-
* /*all dered and decreed, That in the ſaid new Con-
* veyance to be made, Proviſion ſhall be, that
whenſoever ſo many of the ſaid Parties truſted/hall
º die, as that the Number of them that ſhall ſur-
when vive ſhall not exceed Six, that then the ſaid Six,
Truſtee; or the Survivors of them ſhall make a new Con-
º: “veyance, and ſettle the ſaid Manors, Lands, and
4. ...perſonal Eſtate upon themſelves and ſo many more
Truſtees, to be nominated by the Lord Archbiſhop of Cânter-
bury, and Lord Chancellor, or Lord-Keeper of the
Great Seal for the Time being, as ſhall make up
the full Number of Thirteen at the leaſt to the In:
tents and Purpoſes aforeſaid. And it is further
ordered and decreed by and with the like Aſſent
of the ſaid Rāśhard Amhurſt, john Middleton,
and Sir Richard Lumley, That the ſaid, fohn
Truffle, Middleton, Robert Amhurſt, and Sir Richard
* Lumley ſhall well and truly pay, Ör ſufficiently
&#. ſécure the ſaid ſeveral Debts by them ſeverally
for Dºº, and reſpectively owing as aforeſaid, to the ſaid
Feoffees,
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Feoſfegs, as the ſame Security to be by Mort-
gage of Land, or ſufficient Securities in ſuch
Sort as Mr. Juſticc Crooke ſhall think fit, on, or
before the Feaſt of St. Bartholomew the Apottle
next coming, to be paid in with Intereſt to the
ſaid Plaintiff at reaſonable Days, to be appoint-
ed by the Plaintiff for that Purpoſe. And laſt-
ly, it is ordered an decrecyd, That the Deeds,
Fvidences, and Writings concerning the ſaid ſº j.
Manors and Lands, and perſonal Eſtate, ſhall ...
forthwith be brought into this Court by ſuch of
the Defendants as have the farne, to the Intent
the ſame may there remain in ſafety, to be fur-
ther diſpoſed of as this Court ſhall think fit.
And this Court doth declare, That the ſaid
Richard Amhurſ; and john Middleton who have
aſſented to this Decree, have therein, and all
Things elſe appertaining to this Court, behaved
themſelves juſtly and uprightly, and eſpecially
in that they have ſo freely and willingly conde-
ſcended to the ſecuring of the ſaid Debts, which
were in Law diſcharged; for which Cauſe this
Court doth not only free them of Blame, but
eſteem them worthy of Commendation, and
therefore this Court doth wiſh the ſaid Mr.
Smith to eſteem of them accordingly.
arv 1626.
Smith, of London, Eſq; ſendeth Greet- %.
ing, in our Lord God everlaſting. Deed ºf
Čhereag the ſaid Henry Smith, by Indenture º
bearing Date the twentieth Day of Ożober in the 3. tº dº ſº.
ſeventeenth Year of the Reign of our late Sove-
reign Lord King james of famous Memory, made
between him the ſaid Henry Smith of the one
Part, and the Right Honourable Robert Earl of
Eſſex and Ewe, the Right Honourable Richard
Earl of Dorſet, Sir Edward Francis of Yetworth,
in the County of Suſſex, Knight, john Middleton,
in the County of Suſſex, Eſq; William Wingfield,
of London, Eſq; George Whitmore, Citizen and
Alderman of London, and Richard Amhuráž, of
Lewes, in the ſaid County of Suſſex, Serjeant at
Law, by the Names in the ſaid Indenture ex-
preſſed of the other Part, reciting, that whereas
the ſaid Henry Smith by Indenture made between
him the ſaid Henry Smith of the one Part, and
the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Earl of Dorſet, Sir Edward
Francis,john Middleton,William Wingfield, George
Whitmore, and Richard Amhurſt of the other Part,
and bearing Date and being together delivered
with the ſaid recited Indenture, hath, for the Convey:
Confideration herein expreſſed, granted, bar-. #.6
B 2. i. gained, *
Tºg) aſ Chriſtian people, to whom this . .
x r . . . . . . 20 Janu-
preſent Writing ſhall come, Henry
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gained, ſold and confirmed unto the ſaid Earf of
Pºſſex, Earl of JDorſet, Sir Edward Francis, john
Middleton, William //img field, George Whitmore,
and Kichard Amhurſt, all thoſe the Manors of
Warbleton, South weeke and ſwood, with their Ap-
purtenances in the County of Suſſex, and all that
his Mcflugge with the Appurtenances in Silver
§l, ect, JLondom, wherein he then dwelt, and now
dwelleth, and all other his Manors, Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments, Leaſes for
Years, Extents, Rents, Charges, and Annuities
due and payable, or to be due and payable-unto
the ſaid Henry Smith, by Reaſon of any Eſtate in
Fee Simple, Fee Tayle, for Life, Lives, or Years,
or by any other Ways or Means whatſoever ;
and all other the Manors, Lands, Tenements,
and Hereditaments of the ſaid Henry Smith in the
ſaid County of Suſſex, City of London, and in the
County of Middleſex, or elſewhere, within the
Realm of England; and all Deeds, Charters, and
Writings,for touching and concerning the ſame,
Ça Łagº, totă, attº eitſop, all and ſingular the
ſaid Manors, Lands,Tenements, Hereditaments,
Leaſes, Extents, Rents, Charges, and Annuities,
and all other the Premiſſes, with all and ſingular
their Appurtenances whatſoever, unto the ſaid
Earl of Eſſex, Earl of Dorſet, Sir Edward Francis,
john Middleton, William Wingfield, George Whit-
more and Richard Amhurſt, their Heirs and Aſ-
ſigns for ever, with a Proviſo or Condition of
Revocation or making void the ſaid recited
Grant, Bargain, and Sale, and the Eſtate therein.
limited by the ſaid recited Indenture, whereunto
Relation being had more at large, it doth and
may appear; and therein further reciting, that
whereas the ſaid Henry Smith by one other In-
denture
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denture made between him of the one Part, and
the ſaid john Middleton, William Wingfield,
George Whitmore, and Richard Amhurſt of the
otherPart,and bearing the Date of the ſaid former 4.º
recited Indenture, did for the Conſiderations %fEſtate,
therein expreſſed, grant, aſſign, and ſet over unto
the ſaid john Middleton, William Wingfield, George
Whitmore and Richard Amhurſt, all his ready Mo-
ney, except one hundred Pounds thereof, and all
his Debts, of what Nature, Kind, or Condition
foever, and all his Bonds, Bills, Statutes, Re-
cognizances, and Aſſurances whatſoever for the
ſame; and all the yearly Sum and Sums of Mo-
ney due and payable, or to be paid upon any
Mortgage or other Condition or Agreement;
and all his Houſhold Stuff and Implements of
Houſhold whatſoever; and all his Goods and
Chattles real and perſonal of what Kind, Quality,
or Condition ſoever, except alſo as in the ſaid
Indenture is excepted, as in and by the ſame In-
denture likewiſe more at large appeareth. And
it was in and by the ſame Indenture publiſhed,
expreſſed,and declared,that it was the true Intent
and Meaning of all the ſaid Parties to the ſame
Indentures, that the ſaid Grant, Bargain and Sale,
and the ſaid Aſſignment of the ſaid ready Money,
Pebts, Goods, and Chattles, and all other Goods
in the ſaid recited Indenture mentioned and ex-9/*
preſſed, was to theſe Intents and Purpoſes, viz.
That of the yearly Rents and Profits of the ſaid º #.
Manors, Lands, and Premiſſes ſhould yearly be }.}
paid and anſwered to the ſaid Henry Smith five per Annum.
hundred Pounds per Annum for and toward his fºr Pºſt-
Maintenance and livelihood; and all the Reſidue
of the Rents, Iſſues, and Profits of the ſaid Ma-
• nors, Farms, Lands, and Premiſles ſhould be paid
and
( 14. )
and employed to and for ſuch Uſes, Intents, and
Juch U/es Purpoſes, and to ſuch Perſon and Perſons, and for
... ." ſuch Time and Times, and in ſuch Manner and
ſºli,g, Form as the ſaid Henry Smith by any Writing or
ºr ºl. Writings to be by him ſealed, ſigned, and deli-
4.4 * vered in the Preſºn 2 of two credible Witneſſes
2/21/ e or more, or by laſt Will and Teſtament in
Writing to be by him ſigned, ſealed, and allowed
as his Will in the Preſence of ſuch Witneſſes, as
aforeſaid, ſhould be limited, aſſigned, nominated
and appointed to ſuch charitable Uſe and Uſes
for Relief of poor Priſoners, hurt and maimed
Soldiers, poor Maids Marriages, Setting-up of
poor Apprentices, Amending of Highways, Loſ-
ſes ſuſtained by Fire or Shipwreck or otherwiſe,
as they the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Earl of Dorſet, Sir
Edward Francis, john Middleton, William Wing-
field, George Whitmore, and Richard Amhurſt, their
Heirs or Aſſigns, ſhould from time to time,
think moſt meet and convenient, as in and by the
ſaid Indentures, Relation being thereunto had
more at large, it doth and may appear.
12 June, 2nd Yubtreag alſo the ſaid Henry Smith by his
22 Jameſ Indenture, bearing Date the twelfth Day of june,
I. in the two and twentieth Year of the Reign of our
ſaid late Sovereign Lord King james, of England,
&c. and of Scotland the ſeven and fiftieth, made
between him the ſaid Henry Smith of the one Part,
and the ſaid Robert Earl of Eſſex, Sir Edward
9 ºr Francis, George //hitmore, Richard Amhurſt, john
#. 4. Middleton, and William Wingfield of the other
ance with Part, hath ratified, allowed, and confirmed the
Áeleaſe of ſaid Grant, Bargain, and Sale of all and ſingular
”/" the Manors, Lands and Premiſſes in the ſaid firſt
recited Indenture mentioned unto the ſaid Earl
of Eſſex, Sir Edward Francis, George Whitmore,
Richard
Reſidue to
Uſes.
( ; ; )
Kichard Amhurſt, John Middleton, and William
Žingfield; and hath thereby remiſed, releaſed,
and revoked the Proviſo or Condition for Power
of Revocation therein mentioned, as in and by
the ſame indenture, thereunto Relation being
had more at large appeareth.
3ith tubercag alſo the ſaid Henry Smith by
one other Indenture bearing Date the ſaid twelfth 12 June,
Day of june, and made between the ſaid Henry ‘’’ jº
Smith of the one Part, and the ſaid George Whit-“
more, Richard Amhurſt, john Middleton, and Wil-
Jiam Wingfield, of the other Part, hath ratified, al-
lowed and confirmed the ſaid Grant and Aſſign-ºff”.
ment of all and ſingular the Premiſſes in the ſineſ...” sº
Indenture mentioned, unto the ſaid George Whit-
more, Richard Amhurſt, Yohn Middleton, and Wil-ºrd,
/iam Wingfield, and hath thereby alſo remiſed, re-of Proviſ,
leaſed, and revoked the Proviſo or Condition
therein alſo mentioned, as in and by the ſame
Indenture likewiſe appeareth.
3tibiohereag alſo in and by one other Indenture
bearing Date the ſaid twelfth Day of june, in the 12 June,
two and twentieth Year of his late Majeſty's Reign 22 James
of England, &c. and of Scotland the ſeven and”
fiftieth, made between him the ſaid Henry Smith of
the one Part, and the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Chriſtopher
Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir George Crooke, Sir
Edward Francis, George Whitmore, Richard Am-
hurſt, john Middleton, William Wingfield, George
Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe, and Richard
Garnet of the other Part, it was expreſſed and de-
clared, and the true Intent and Meaning of all the
Parties to the ſame was,thatoutoftheyearly Rents
and Profits of the ſaid Manors, Lands, and all
other the Premiſſes, there ſhould be yearly paid
and anſwered to the ſaid Henry Smith five hundred
Pounds
( 16 ) • *
Pounds per Annum, for and towards his Main-
tenance and Livelihood : And the ſaid Henry
Mr. Smith Smith did by the ſame Indenture, grant, ratify, al-
... low, and confirm unto the ſaid Earl of Eſſex,
Truffee; Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir George
tº ſºlº Crooke, Sir Edward Francis, George Whitmore,
4.º7. Richard Amhurſt, john Middleton, William Wing-
Rºº. field, George Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe,
and Richard Garnet, the full Nomination, Limi-
tation, Aſſignment, and Appointment of all and
ſingular the Rents, Iſſues and Profits of the Ma-
nors, Lands, and of all other the Premiſes before
mentioned to ſuch Uſes, Intents, and Purpoſes as
are before in the ſaid recited Indenture ſet forth, as
they ſhould from time to time think meet and
convenient: And the ſaid Henry Smith did thereby
Releaſesa premiſe, releaſe, revoke, and make void all Power
?... of Limitation, Aſſignment, or Appointment of
Aſſignment the ſame or any Part thereof, to any Uſe or Uſes
in himſelf, before by the ſaid recited Indenture to him reſer-
ved, either by his laſt Willor otherwiſe, as freely
and abſolutely as if no ſuch Power had been there-
by reſerved to him the ſaid HenrySmith,anddid alſo
thereby expreſs, publiſh, and declare, that the
Rents, Iſſues, and Profits of all the ſaid Manors,
Lands, and Tenements, and all the ſaid Goods,
Chattles, and Credits, and other Things, ſhould
be beſtowed and employed by the ſaid Earl of Eſ-
ſex, Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir
George Crooke, George Whitmore, Richard Amhurſt,
john Middleton, William Wingfield, George Lowe,
William Blake, William Rolfe, and Richard Garnet,
7 or more or any ſeven or more of them, or by their Heirs
or Aſſigns, to ſuch charitable Uſe and Uſes for
Uſes, and towards the Relief of poor Priſoners, hurt and
maimed Soldiers, poor Maids Marriages,Setting-
up
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tip of poor Apprentices, Amending the High-
ways, Loſſes ſuſtained by Fire or Shipwreckor
otherwiſe, to and for ſuch charitable Uſes as
they the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill,
Sir Richard Lumley, Sir George Crooke, Sir Ed-
ward Francis, George Whitmore, Richard Am-
hurſt, john Middleton, William Wingfield, George
Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe, and Ri-
chard Garnet, or any ſeven or more of them,
their Heirs and Aſſigns ſhould, from time to
time, think moſt meet and convenient: And
for theſe Purpoſes the ſaid Henry Smith did by
the ſaid laſt recited Indenture for the Confide-
ration therein ſpecified, grant, bargain, ſell,
aſſign, and ſet over unto the ſaid Earl of Eſſex,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir
George Crooke, Sir Edward Francis, George
Whitmore, Richard Amhurst, john Middleton,
William Wingfield, George Lowe, William Blake,
William Rolfe, and Richard Garnet, their Heirs
and Aſſigns, all his Manors, Lands, Tene-
ments, and Hereditaments, and all his Leaſes,
Debts, Bonds, Statutes, Goods, and Chattles,
with the like Power and Authority unto them,
as in and by the ſame Indenture is granted and
allowed unto them or any of them, except and
always reſerved as in and by the ſaid former
recited Indenture is excepted, for the Main-
tenance and Livelihood of the ſaid Henry Smith,
during only the Time of his natural Life, as in
and by the ſaid recited Indenture, whereunto
Relation being had, likewiſe more at large it
doth and may appear, f
Øut tubercag notwithſtanding the ſaid ſeveral
Conveyances, Releaſes, or Revocations were ºrital ºf
abſolute, yet in regard the ſaid Manors, Lands, “"“”
Tenements, and Hereditaments, and the ſaid
.' C Leaſes,
( 18 )
I.eaſes, Money, Debts, Bonds, Statutes, Goods,
and Chattles of the ſaid Henry Smith, herein
before mentioned and recited, were his free
and voluntary Gift and Aét, without any Con-
ſideration from any of the ſaid Parties truſted;
and for that ſome of the ſaid Parties truſted,
who were indebted to the ſaid Iſenry Smith at
the Time of the making of the ſaid ſeveral
Conveyances, did not endeavour the Perfor-
'mance of the ſaid Truſt repoſed in them, ac-
cording to the true Intent and Meaning of the
ſaid Henry Smith : Therefore the ſaid Henry
Smith for Redreſs thereof did exhibit his Bill
into his Majeſty's Honourable Court of Chān-
cery, againſt them the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Sir
Christopher Nevill, Richard Lumley, Sir George
Crooke, Sir Edward Francis, George Whitmore,
Richard Amhurſ, john Middleton, William
Wingfield, George Lowe, William Blake, William
Rolfe, and Richard Garnet, unto which Bill
each of them the ſaid Parties did put in his
Anſwer, and thereby did confeſs that the ſaid
ſeveral Conveyances were made by the ſaid
Henry Smith freely and voluntarily, without
any valuable Conſideration; and did ſeverally
and reſpećtively ſubmit themſelves to the Order
and Direction of the ſaid moſt Honourable
Court concerning the Premiſſes: Whereupon
the ſaid Cauſe coming on to be heard in open
Court the twentieth Day of june now laſt paſt
before the Date hereof, it was in the Preſence
of Council learned on all Parties, and in the
Preſence of ſome of the ſaid Parties adjudged,
ordered, and decreed by and with the Conſent
of them the ſaid Richard Amhurſt and john
Middleton, that they the ſaid Richard Amhurſt
and john Middleton ſhould by good and ſuffi-
- . . . C1éIlt.
‘,
}
( 19 ) t
cient Conveyance and Aſſurance in the Law,
convey and aſſure to the Reſidue of the ſaid
Parties truſted, and their Heirs, Executors,
and Adminiſtrators, all ſuch Eſtate, Title,
and Intereſt as the ſaid Henry Smith had con-
veyed unto thern by the ſaid ſeveral Convey-
ances herein before mentioned; and that the
Reſidue of the ſaid Parties truſted, ſhould,
during the natural Life of the ſaid Henry Smith,
diſpoſe of the Rents, Iſſues, and Profits of the
ſaid Manors, Meſſuages, Lands, Tenements,
and Hereditaments; and the ſaid Leaſes,
NMonies, Goods, Chattles, Debts, Bonds,
- Statutes, and other perſonal Eſtate, to ſuch
of the ſaid charitable Uſes before herein men-
tioned, or for the purchaſing of Parſonages
and Rećtories Impropriate for the Maintenance
of religious preaching Miniſters, or ſuch other
charitable Uſes, and to be employed in ſuch
Manner as the ſaid Henry Smith ſhould think
fit to limit, declare, and appoint, as in and
by the ſaid Bill, Anſwers and Decree, Reia-
tion being thereto had, more at large it doth
and may appear.
32 on therefore further know ye, that for the
better Performance of the ſaid charitable Uſes
and Settling thereof, in ſuch ſort as that the ſame
may have Continuance for ever, according to the
true Intent and Meaning of the ſaid Henry Smith,
the ſaid Henry Smith doth hereby limit, appoint,
and declare his true Intent and Meaning to be,
and doth hereby intreat them the ſaid Earl of
Eſſex, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lum-
Jey, Sir George Crooke, George Whitmore, George
Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe, Richard
Garnet, and Henry jackſon of London Cheeſe-
monger, to ſee the ſame performed accor-
t 2. dingly,
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dingly, which he hopes they will vouchſafe
to do, the ſame tending to the Advancement
of Religion, Piety, and Charity: That is to
ſay, that they the ſaid Farl of Eſſex, Sir Chriſtopher
Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir George Crooke,
George Whitmore, George Lowe, William Blake,
William Rolfe, Richard Garnet, and Henry
Jackſon, and the Heirs of the Survivor of them,
ſhall employ and beſtow ſuch Monies as they
§ ſhall receive of the Rents and Revenue of the
ſaid Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Here-
ditaments, and of the Monies, Debts, or
other perſonal Eſtate of the ſaid Henry Smith
before mentioned, for the purchaſing of
Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Heredi-
taments to themſelves, or ſo many of them
as ſhall be then living and their Heirs, but
with this Proviſo, that the true Intent and
7, after, ſo Meaning of the ſaid Henry Smith is, and is
cºey to hereby declared to be, that they the ſaid Earl
* of Effex, Sir Chriſſopher Nevill, Sir Richard
% Lumley, Sir George Crooke, George Whitmore,
Hoſpital. George Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe,
Richard Garnet, and Henry jackſon, or the
Survivors of them, or the Heirs of the Survi-
vor of them, ſhall with all convenient Speed
procure from his Majeſty, his Heirs or Suc-
ceſſors, a Licenſe under the Great Seal of
England, to be granted to the Governor or
Governors of Chriſt's Hoſpital in London, and
their Succeſſors, to receive and take the ſame
in Mortmain; and that ſo ſoon as the ſaid
Licenſe ſhall be ſo procured, the ſaid Earl of
Eſſex, Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lum-
ley, Sir George Crooke, George Whitmore, George
Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe, Richard
Garnet, and Henry jackſon, and the Survivor
of them ſhall by good and ſufficient convº
. aſl
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and Aſſurance in the Law, convey and aſſure,
as well the ſaid Manors, Meſſuages, Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments herein before-
mentioned, as the ſaid Manors, Meſſuages,
Lands, Tenements, and other Hereditaments
to be purchaſed as aforeſaid, to the Governors
of the ſaid Hoſpital and their Succeſſors, diſ-
charged of all Incumbrances, done by them
and every of them to be by them employed, ac-
cording to the true Intent and Meaning of the
ſaid Decree, and of theſe Preſents; and for and
concerning ſuch and ſo much of the ſaid Ma-
nors, Meſſuages, Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments, whereof the Profits ſhall not
be diſpoſed of by the ſaid Henry Smith during
his Life, the ſame ſhall be employed and diſ-
poſed by the ſaid Earl of Eſſex, Sir Christopher
Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir George Crooke,
George Whitmore, George Lowe, William Blake,
William Rolfe, Richard Garnet, and Henry jack-
ſon, according to the true Intent and Meaning
of the ſaid recited Conveyances and Decree.
In which ſaid Purchaſe and Purchaſes ſo to be
made of Manors, Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments as aforeſaid, the ſaid Henry
Smith doth deſire that the ſaid Earl of Eſſex,
Sir Chriſtopher Nevill, Sir Richard Lumley, Sir
George Crooke, George Whitmore, George Lowe,
MŽilliam Blake, William Rolfe, Richard Garnet
and Henry jackſon, and the Survivors of them,
and the Heirs of the Survivor of them, ſhall
ſo near as may conveniently be, obſerve the
Proportion to purchaſe for every thouſand
Pounds, that they ſhall diſburſe and lay out,
Manors, Lands, Tenements, and other Here-
ditaments in Fee Simple of the clear yearly
Walue of one hundred Marks, above all Char-
ges
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ges and Repriſes; the Charges of the making,
drawing, and paſſing of the ſaid Aſſurances,
and of the procuring the ſaid Licenſe to pur-
chaſe in Mortmain, and all other Charges for
or by Reaſon thereof, or concerning any other
Thing in or touching the Premiſſes, to be paid
and borne out of the Rents, Iſſues, and Profits
of the ſaid Manors, Meſſuages, Lands, Te-
nements, and Hereditaments ſo to be conveyed
as aforeſaid. -
3tem, for the avoiding of Corruption in the
Colle&tion, Receiving, Diſtribution, and Pay-
ments of the ſeveral Sums heretofore given,
limited, appointed, or aſſigned, and hereafter
to be given, limited, appointed, or aſſigned
by the ſaid Henry Smith during his Life-time,
or to be purchaſed or conveyed by the ſaid
Earl of Eſſex, Sir Christopher Nevill, Sir Richard
Lumley, Sir George Crooke, George Whitmore,
George Lowe, William Blake, William Rolfe,
Richard Garnet, and Henry jackſon, or the Sur-
vivor or Survivors of them, or the Heirs of
the Survivor of them, after his Deceaſe, and
to be yearly paid out of the Rents, Iſſues, or
Profits of the ſaid Manors, Meſſuages, Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments hereafter to
be purchaſed according to the true Intent and
Meaning of theſe Preſents, for the yearly Re-
lief of the Poor of any Pariſh, or for the Mar-,
riage of poor Maids, or Putting-forth of poor
Children to be Apprentices, ſhall yearly be re-
ceived, as the ſaid Rents ſhall grow due and
payable by the Church-wardens and Overſeers
of the Poor of each of the ſaid Pariſhes reſpec-
tively, that is to ſay, the Church-wardens and
Overſeers of the Poor of each of the ſaid Pa-
riſhes reſpectively, to receive the Rent of ſo
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much Lands as is or ſhall be given, limited,
aſſigned, or appointed to be employed as afore-
ſaid, within that Pariſh wherein they ſhall be
Church-wardens and Overſeers as aforeſaid.
3tem, the ſaid Henry Smith, for the better
Security of the Performance of the ſaid chari-
table Gift, doth hereby limit and appoint, and
declare his Intent and Meaning to be, that the
Church-wardens and Overſeers of the Poor of
each of the ſaid Pariſhes, for Relief of whoſe
Poor ſuch Gift, Aſſignment, Limitation, or Church-
Appointment ſhall be made aforeſaid, imme-wºn"
diately after they ſhall enter into the ſaid Of- ºr.
fices, and before they ſhall meddle with the . Bond.
Receipt of the ſaid Rent or any Part thereof,
ſhall become bound by Obligation in double
the Value of ſuch Receipt to the Parſon or
Vicar of the ſaid Pariſh, to colleót and receive
the ſaid Rent, and to employ and beſtow the
ſame according to the true Intent and Mean-
ing of theſe Preſents: which ſaid Parſon or
Vicar to whom ſuch Security ſhall be ſo given,
ſhall, before the ſaid Church-wardens or Over-
ſeers of the Poor of the ſaid Pariſh intermeddle
with the Receipt of the ſaid Rents or any of Certificate
them, certify the ſaid Obligation uncancelledº. &
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to the Governors of the ſaid Hoſpital for the ...
Time being; and in Default of ſuch Security
to be ſo given, or Certificate made of the ſaid
Obligation, that Pariſh wherein ſuch Default
ſhall be made to loſe the Benefit of the ſaid
Gift, Limitation or Aſſignment ſo made, or to
be made, for that Year, wherein ſuch Default
ſhall be made as aforeſaid.
3telu, for the better Direétion of the Church-
wardens and Overſeers of the ſaid ſeveral Pa-
riſhes in the Diſtribution of ſuch Sums of
* Money
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Deſcrip-
tion of
£er/oms t
whom the
Charity
Jhall be
given.
Money as are or ſhall be given, aſſigned or ap-
pointed to the ſaid charitable Uſes before men-
tioned, the ſaid Henry Smith doth hereby limit
and declare, and doth think fit and appoint that
the ſaid Church-wardens and Overſeers of the Poor
of the ſaid ſeveral Pariſhes reſpectively ſhall give
and diſtribute the ſaid Momies given, limited, aſ-
'ſigned or appointed to the ſaid charitable Uſes to
and for the Relief of aged, poor or infirm People,
married Perſons having more Children born in law-
ful Wedlock than their Labours can maintain, poor
Orphans, ſuch poor People as keep themſelves and
Families to labour and put forth their Children
Apprentices at the Ages of fifteen, wherein each
of the ſaid Church-wardens and Overſeers of each
of the ſaid Pariſhes are to obſerve ſuch Courſe
Perſonsex-
cepted.
in diſpoſing of the ſaid Rents, as that a Stock
may be provided and always in Readineſs to ſet.
ſuch of the ſaid Perſons to work as are able to
labour and take Pains, and not to or for the
Relief of any Perſons who are given to exceſſive
Drinking, Whoremongers, Common Swearers, Pil-
ferers, or otherwiſe motoriouſly ſcandalous, or to
any Perſons that have been incorrigible or diſobe-
dient to thoſe whoſe Servants they have been, or
to any vagrant Perſons, or ſuch as have no con-
ſtant Dwelling, or receive any Inmate or Inmates
to dwell in Houſe with them, or bave not inhabited
in that Pariſh by the Space of five Years next be-
fore ſuch Diſtribution to be made, or being able,
refuſe to work, labour and take Pains.
3tem, the ſaid Henry Smith, to the Intent
and Purpoſe aforeſaid, doth further limit, aſſign
and appoint and declare his Intent and Mean-
ing to be, that for the better Ordering and
Government of the Poor of the ſaid ſeveral
Pariſhes, and diſpoſing of the Sums of Money
- given
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given to the Uſes aforeſaid: The Church-Church-
wardens of each of the ſaid Pariſhes ſhall, du- †.
ring the ſaid Time they ſhall continue in the , ºft.
ſaid Offices and Places, once in every Month
at the leaſt, upon the Sabbath Day, after Even-
ing Prayer, meet in the Church of the ſaid Pa-
riſh, to conſider of the Eſtate of the Poor of the
ſaid Pariſh, which of them have moſt need of Re-
lief: And ſhall alſo between the Feaſts of Eaſter /
and Whitſuntide next after the End of every Year,
wherein the ſaid Church-wardens and Overſeers
of the Poor of that Pariſh or of any of them, ſhall
have continued in either of the Offices or Places,
openly and publickly in the Church of the ſaid
Pariſh after Evening Prayer upon ſome Sabbath
Day, upon Notice and Warning thereof given
openly in that Pariſh Church immediately after
the end of Morning Prayer, make a true and per go
feót Account in a Book to be fairly written and #.
kept for that Purpoſe, of all their Receipts and Whit/an-
Diſburſements for and during the Year then next tide enter
before, of all ſuch Sums of Money as they or any *... the
of them ſhall receivedf the ſaid Monies given to" “”
the Uſes aforeſaid, which ſaid Account ſhall be such A-
openly read and publiſhed in the Church of the count to be
ſaid Pariſh on the Sabbath Day next enſuing, up- gº
on the taking of the ſaid Account immediately.”
after the End of MorningPrayerthere,and a Copy A copy
thereof fairly written and tranſcribed under the to be fixed
Hands of the ſaid Church-wardens and Overſeers 3. .
that make the ſame Account, ſhall cauſe to be”
affixed to a Table to the Wall of the ſaid Church
in ſome convenient Place, there to remain by the
Space of fourteen Days to the Intent the ſame be
publiſhed, ſeen, read and peruſed, and Exceptions
reformed and amended; and further, that the ſaid
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Church-wardens and Overſeers of the Poor that
ſhall have ſo paſſed the ſaid Account, ſhall within
ten Days next following after the End of the ſaid
fourteen Days ſendor deliver, or cauſe to be ſent
or delivered under the Hands of the Parſon or
Vicar of the ſaid Pariſh and of the ſaid Church-
º %, wardens and Overſeers, as ſhall paſs the ſaid Ac-
ca cu ſuf /0 1
Ż.), to count, and ſuch others as ſhall be preſent thereat,
the Gover- a Copy of ſaid Account to the Governors of the
” ſaid Hoſpital for the Time being; and that if the
ſaid Church-wardens and Overſeers of the Poor of
any of the ſaid Pariſhes ſhall fail in Performance
Penaltyor of any of the ſaid Premiſes, that then as a Penal-
* ty, Mulét or Puniſhment for ſuch Neglect, the
Poor of that Pariſh ſhall not have of the Gift of
the ſaid Henry Smith for one Year then next en-
ſuing after ſuch Negle&t, but the Benefit there-
of to go for that Time to the ſaid Hoſpital.
3tem, the ſaid Henry Smith doth further by
theſe Preſents, limit and appoint, and declare his
Intent and Meaning to be, that the ſaid Sums of
& Money, given, limited, aſſigned or appointed to
For the or ſor the Relief of the impotent and aged Poor of
*: the ſaid Pariſhes reſpectively,ſhall be diſtributed,
º beſtowed and employed in Apparel of one Colour,
Žiarel. with ſome Badge or other Mark, that the ſame
may be known to be the Gift of the ſaid Henry
Breadand Smith, or elſe in Bread and Fleſh or Fiſh, upon
flº/upon eachSabbath.Day publickly in the Pariſh Churches
*9" of each of the ſaid Pariſhes.
3tºm, the ſaid Henry Smith, doth further by
theſe Preſents declare his Intent and Meaning to
be, that although the Eſtate and Intereſt, as well
of all the ſaid Manors, Mcſſuages, Lands, Tene-
ments and Hereditaments by the ſaid Henry Smith.
conveyed as aforeſa.d, as thoſe that are hereafter
* ..., tC)
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to be purchaſed, are hereby dire&ted to be ſettled
in the Governors of the ſaid Hoſpital, and their
Succeſſors, yet ſuch Leaſes, Copyhold and cuſto- Leaſe, to
mary Eſtates as are to be made thereof ſhall be be ºar-
bargained and contraćted for by the Church-war- %. ſ.
dens and Overſeers of the Poor of ſuch Pariſh for.”
the Relief of the Poor, whereof the Profits of the and Over-
faid Lands ſo to be uſed or diſpoſed, are or ſhallſeers.
be according to the true Intent and Meaning of
theſe Preſents aſſigned, limited or appointed to be
employed, to the Intent the beſt yearly Value may
be made thereof; and that the ſaid Governors
of the ſaid Hoſpital and their Succeſſors ſhall
make ſuch Leaſes and Eſtates, and to ſuch
Perſons, as the ſaid Church-wardens and Over-
ſeers ſhall appoint in Writing under their
Hands and Seals, reſerving ſuch Rent, and with
ſuch Covenants, Conditions and Agreements
as they ſhall agree upon, ſo as ſuch Leaſes or
Eſtates exceed not the Term of one and twen-
ty Years or three Lives in Poſſeſſion; and ſo as
the Lands ſo to be letten be in the beſt Man-
ner that may be letten at the beſt improved
yearly Rents, and not for great Fines and finall
Rents, except for copyhold Lands only, which
may be granted upon Fines.
3.n mitileſg whereof the ſaid Henry Smith hath
hereunto ſet his Hand and Seal, the ſix and 7 wenty-
twentieth Day of january, in the ſecond Year ſixtſ of
of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord gharlesſ...}}
by the Grace of God, King of England, Scot-cº I.
Jand, France and Ireland, Defender of the 1626.
Faith, & c. 1626.
Et Memorandum quod Die & Anno ſupraſcript'
prefat’ Henricus Smith Ar’ venit coram dićto Do-
D 2 mino
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mimo Rege in Cancellar' /ua, & recognovit /criptum
prediá' ac o/amia & /ingula in eodem comtemt' &
/pecificat' im Forma fupradiá'.
jur' vicefimo /exto Die jamuarii Ammo prediá',
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mºv– —r— y F. -z
Mr. SMITH's W I L L.
Extračied out of the Regiſtry of the Court
for Probate of Wills and granting Ad-
miniſtrations.
32 the 32 ame of Bºgo, amen. The four 24, 22
and twentieth Day of April, in the third April, 3d
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord ºft.
cHARLEs, by the Grace of GOD, King of V* *
England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defen-
der of the Faith, &c. I Henry Smith, of Silver
Street, in London, Eſq; being in Health of Body,
and of good and perfeót Memory and Under-
ſtanding (Thanks be therefore given unto GOD)
do make and ordain this my laſt Will and Teſ-
tament, in Writing, in Manner and Form fol-
lowing: That is to ſay, Firſt, and principally,
I commend my Soul into the Hands of Al-
mighty GOD, my heavenly Father, truſting aſ-
ſuredly by the only Death and Paſſion of J Eºs
CHRIST his Son, my only Saviour and Rc-
deemer, to have Remiſſion of all my Sins, and
to be made an Inheritor of eternal Life. And
I recommend my Body to the Earth whereof it
is made, to be buried in ſuch Place, and in ſuch
decent Manner, as to my Executors hereafter
named ſhall be thought fit, there to remain in
Chriſtian Burial until the Reſurrečtion of all
Fleſh, which I aſſuredly believe and expe&t.
And as touching the diſpoſing of my Lands
and Goods wherewith it hath pleaſed GOD to
bleſs
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bleſs me; Firſt, I give and bequeath unto Henry
+Henn, Gent. ſometimes my Servant, the Sum of
One Hundred Pounds; to be paid unto him with-
in one Year after my Deceaſe; for which One
Hundred Pounds I have given him my Bond al-
ready. Item, I give and bequeath for the Uſe
of the poor Captives, being Slaves under the
1oool, to Turkiſh Pyrates, the Sum of One Thouſand Pounds;
º which Sum of One Thouſand Pounds my Will
...'..." and Meaning is, ſhall be laid forth and beſtowed
siſ, Py. in the Purchaſe of Lands of Inheritance to the
rateſ. Value of Threeſcore Pounds per Aunum at the
leaſt, the Rents and Profits whereof ſhall be
yearly paid, and diſtributed unto ſuch Perſon
and Perſons, as from time to time ſhall be ap-
pointed and intruſted for the Colleótion of the
Charity of well diſpoſed Perſons, with the In-
tent that the ſame my Gift ſhall continue in
Perpetuity, and ſhall be paid and delivered at
the Direétion of my ſaid Executors and their
Heirs, and of the Survivors of them, and of
the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of
Iondon for the Time being, for, and towards
the Relief and Ranſom of the ſaid poor Cap-
tives and Slaves. Item, I give and deviſe for
the Uſe and Relief of the Pooreſt of my Kin-
dred, ſuch as are not able to work for their Liv-
ing; viz. ſick, aged, and impotent Perſons,
and ſuch as cannot maintain their own Charge,
1 oool, to the Sum of One Thouſand Pounds, which ſaid
*** One Thouſand Pounds my Will and Meaning is,
** ſhall be ſaid forth and beſtowed in the Purchaſe
of Lands of Inheritance of the Value of Three-
ſcore Pounds per Annum at the leaſt, and the
Rents and Profits thereof to be paid yearly unto
them, and to be diſtributed amongſt them by
my
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my ſaid Executors and their Heirs, and by the
ſaid Lord Mayor of London, and the Sheriffs
for the Time being, as moſt Need ſhall be from
time to time. And my Will and Meaning is,
that in the beſtowing and diſtributing of my
Eſtate and Goods to the Poor to charitable Uſes,
which is according to my Intent and Deſire,
thoſe of my Kindred which are poor, aged, im-
potent, or any other Way unable to help them-
felves, ſhould be chiefly preferred and reſpected.
Item, I give and deviſe unto the Children of one w
Deborne, late of Richmond, Carpenter, de-
ceaſed, to be divided amongſt them, Part and
Part alike, the Sum of Fifty Pounds, to be paid
within three Months next after my Deceaſe.
Item. I give and deviſe unto Richard Owen,
Gent. Servant to the Dean of Weſtminſter, the
Sum of One Hundred Pounds, to be paid unto
him within one Year next after my Deceaſe.
Item, I give and bequeath unto, and for the Uſe
of the Poor of Wandſworth, the Sum of Five fool. 12
. Hundred Pounds, which ſaid Five Hundred Pounds”?"
* * º & worth tº
my Will and Meaningis, ſhall be paid untoſome ...,'...
ſufficient Inhabitants of the ſaid Town of Wandſ-
worth in Truſt, to buy Lands of Inheritance,
the Rents and Profits whereof to be yearly paid
to, and for the Relief of the ſaid Poor for ever :
For the true Performance whereof, according to
the Purport of ſuch Articles as are already a-
greed on by the Bailiffs and Burgeſſes of tie
Town of Kingſton in that Behalf, Iny Will and
. Deſire is, that my ſaid Executors upon Pay-
ment of the ſaid Money, ſhall take ſome ſuf-
ficient Covenants and Aſſurances from the ſaid
Inhabitants of the ſaid Town of Iſandſworth as
ſhall be by my ſaid Executors thought meet.
º Item,
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Item, In the ſame Manner to be beſtowed and
ſecured, I give and deviſe unto, and for the Poor
of the Town of Reigate, the Sum of One Thou-
lº. ſand Pounds. Item, I give unto the Child of
K.’ my Servant Michael Montgomery the Sum of Ten
Pounds, and to my Servants Michael and Mary
Twaſour to each of them per Annum, Ten Pounds
during their Lives. Item, I do clearly releaſe
and forgive unto john Walker of Billingſgate the
Sum of Two Hundred Pounds, which he oweth
a unto me upon ſeveral Bonds for Money lent
him. Item, I give unto the Right Honourable
Mary Counteſs of Dorſet the Sum of Two Hun-
dred Pounds, to be paid unto her within a Year
after my Deceaſe, to be diſpoſed by her to, and
amongſt her Children equally, or otherwiſe, as
to her Honour ſhall be thought fit. Item, I
give, will and deviſe the ſeveral Debts and
Sums of Money due, and owing unto me by Sir
Edward Francis, Sir Richard Lumley, and john
looool. Middleton, amounting to Ten Thouſand Pounds
Jorlºr" in the whole or thereabouts, to and for the pur-
*” chaſing and buying in of Impropriations, for
the Relief and Maintenance of Godly Preachers,
and the better Furtherance of Knowledge and
Religion, to be beſtowed at, and by, the Diſ-
cretion of my Executors accordingly. Item.
My Will and Meaning is, That all, or the moſt
Part of the Legacies and Sums of Money, which
by this my laſt Will, or otherwiſe I have given,
or intended to the Uſe or Relief of the Poor of
any Pariſh, Town or Place ſhall be ſo ordered,
continued or managed yearly, or from time to
How his time, for the Setting-on the Poor on Work, and
Money is to * * * b º
..ft. for binding them Apprentice, and for the Teach-
tuted, ing and Education of the poor Children as is
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how uſed or begun within the Town of Dor-
cheſter in the County of Dorſet, and according
to my Deed of Uſes laſt made. Item, I give
and deviſe the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty #
Pounds, for the Buying of a Fellowſhip in Cam- #ſº
bridge in ſome College there; to continue for. A
eight Years, and ſo long to be enjoyed by Mr. bridge.
Coffender's Son ; and at the End of thoſe eight
Years to be ſurrendered by him unto, and to
the Uſe of my Nephew Henry jackſon, Son of
Henry jackſon the Elder, one of my Executors
hereafter named, to continue to him, during his
Life; and after to fuch of my Kindred as ſhall
be capable of the Place of Fellowſhip from time
to time: And my Will and Meaning is, that
my Executors hereafter named, ſhall, at their
Diſcretion, lend the Sum of One Hundred Pounds
to ſome ſuch Perſon as ſhall need, Grafis, for
one Half Year, by Twenty Pounds in a Parcel;
and when the ſame is repaid, to lend it out to
others for other Six Months; and ſo to continue
from time to time, my Executors taking good
Security for the Repayment thereof. Item, I
give unto my Executors hereafter named, and to
my Feoffees which I have truſted for the Behoof
of the Poor, to each of them the Sum of Five
Pounds to buy them Rings. Item, I give unto
one Mrs. Price, now, or ſometimes a Teacher
of Children, my Kinſwoman, the Sum of Ten
Pounds to be paid within one Year after my
Deceaſe. Item, I give to Rebecca Collins, Daugh-
ter of George Collins, the Sum of Ten Pounds.
Item, I give unto Mr. Hughs the Sum of
Ten Pounds. Item, I give to the two Daughters
of Sir William Bond Winifred and Eliſabeth the
Sum of Fifteen Pounds, whereof Five Pounds is
E. a Debt
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a Debt due to me by their Brother john Bond.
Item, I give to the Poor of the Pariſh where I
dwell Five Pounds. Item, I give to the Poor of
St. Anne's Pariſh the like Sum of Five Pounds.
Item, I give to the Poor of St. Dunſtan's in the
Eaſt the Sum of Five Pounds. Item, I give to
Mrs. Butcher the Sum of Ten Pounds. Item, I
give to Ferdinando Clerke the Sum of Twenty
Shillings. Item, I give to Sir Robert Philips and
his Lady and Children One Hundred Pounds. Item,
I give to the eldeſt Lady Delaware, Wife of
Thomas late Lord Laware, the Sum of One Hun-
dred Pounds. Item, I give Mr. William Row-
ley the Sum of Twenty Pounds. Item, I give to
john Franklyn, and one Weaver, and jane Floyd,
my Neighbours, to each of them Twenty Shil-
lings. Item, I give to Mr. Dočtor Lloyd a
Mourning Gown, and Ten Pounds in Money.
Item, I give to my Nephew IHenry jackſon
one of my Executors, and to the ſaid john Walker
the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, to be diſpoſed
of by them to ſuch Poor as they ſhall think fit.
Item, I give and deviſe unto Godfrey Mazlehill,
the Sum of Five Pounds. Item, ſ give and de-
viſe to Henry Smith of Old Change, Five Pounds :
and to Good Wife Seabright Twenty Shillings;
and to Mr. Paytie Ten Shillings. Item, I do
hereby will and deviſe unto the Poor of the
ycool to Town of Richmond the Sum of One Thouſand
*** Pounds, due and owing unto me by Mr. Ser-
jeant Amhurſt, to be laid out and beſtowed by
my Executors, for the Purchaſe of Lands of In-
heritance, and for the Uſe of the Poor of the
ſaid Town, in Perpetuity to continue unto them
unto the ſaid Truſt, as my other Grfts to other
Towns do; and my Will and Mening.
that
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that Mr. Henry Henne ſhall be one of my Feof.
fees in the Place of Sir Edward Francis. Item,
I give to Auguſtine Daborne the Gardener Ten
Pounds. And whereas, by an Indenture bearing
Date the Twentieth Day of Ołober, in the Se-
venteenth Year of our late Sovereign Lord King
7AMES, over this Realm of England, &c. I
did grant, bargain, ſell, and confirm unto the
Right Honourable Richard, then Earl of Dorſet,
ſince deceaſed, Robert, now Earl of Eſſex, Sir
Edward Francis, Knight, john Middleton, Wil-
liam Wingfield, George Whitmore and Richard
Amhurſt, then Eſq; now Serjeant at the Law,
and to their Heirs in Truſt and with Power of
Revocation, all thoſe the Manors and Farms of
Warbleton, Southwood, and ſwood, with the Ap-
purtenances in the County of Suſſex, and my
Meſſuage in Silver-ſtreet, wherein I now dwell;
and all other my Manors, Lands, Tenements,
Hereditaments, Leaſe for Years, Extents, Rents, .
Charges and Annuities, to me due, or to be due
and payable, by Reaſon of any Eſtate in Fee,
Simple Fee, Tayle for Life, Lives or Years, or
by any other Ways or Means whatſoever: And
alſo all other my Manors, Lands, Tenements,
and Hereditaments in the ſaid County of Suſſex,
City of London, and County of Middleſex, or
elſewhere, within the Realm of England. And
whereas alſo I did by another Indenture of the
ſame Date, grant, aſſign, and ſet over unto the
ſaid john Middleton, William Wingfield, George
Whitmore and Richard Amhurſt, with the Power
of Revocation, all my ready Money (except One
Hundred Pounds) and all my Debts, Bonds, Bills,
Statutes, Recognizances and Aſſurances for the
ſame; and all yearly Sum and Sums of Money
& E 2 due
( 36 )
due and payable upon any Mortgage, Condi- .
tion, or Agreement, and ail my Houſhold-Stuff,
Goods and Chattles, real and perſonal whatſo-
ever (except as in the ſaid Indenture is excepted)
which Lands and Premiſſes were ſo conveyed in
Truſt to Uſes, and with Power left in me of
&evocation or Alteration at my Pleaſure, as by
another Indenture bearing Date the ſaid Twen-
tieth Day of Obłober, appeareth: And whereas
ſithence by ſome indireét and colourable Preten-
ces by ſome other Deed ſince made, it is pre-
tended, that I have releaſed and diſcharged the
ſaid Power of Revocation or Alteration of Uſes
left and reſerved, which Releaſes (if any ſuch be)
were, and yet are contrary to my true Intent and
Meaning: And whereas the ſaid Sir Edward Fran-
cís, John Middleton and Richard Amhuráž, and onc
Sir Richard Lumley, Knight, ſtand ſeverally in-
debted unto me in divers great Sums of Money
upon ſeveral Aſſurances, which Debts and Suns
of Money, my Will and Meaning neither is,
nor ever was, to releaſe unto them, or any of
them: And therefore I do hereby give and de-
viſe unfo iny Executors hereaſter named, and to
their Heirs and Aſſigns upon Truſt, and to the
Uſes herein before (xpreſſed, all ſuch Debts,
Sum and Sums of Money, as are, or were ow-
ing or ought to be due or payable unto me by
the ſaid Sir Edward Francis, Sir Richard Lumley,
John Middleton, and Richard Amhurſt, or any
of them to the Uſes aforeſaid ; and all Manors,
Meſſuages, Lands and Tenements whatſoever to
me ºranted, mortgaged, or aſſured, of or for
the ſame: And my Will and Meaning is, and
Idohereby expreſsly declare and appoint my ſaid
Executors hereafter named, to have and take,
demand
( 37 )
demand and require of and from the ſaid Earl
of Eſſex, Sir Edward Francis, John Middleton,
William Wingfield, and Richard Amhurſt, and of
and from all other Perſon or Perſons which by
Virtue or Colour of any Truſt or Grant by me
made to, or had and repoſed in them, or any of
them, or otherwiſe ſhall have, or receive any
Sum or Sums of Money, Rents, or other Profits
whatſoever, which did, or ſhall belong unto
me from time to time, juſt and true Ac-
compts thereof, and to their utmoſt Power ſhall
ſee the ſame to be juſtly and truly beſtowed and
given, according to the true Meaning of this
my laſt Will and Teſtament. And I do hereby Daviſ, to
give, grant, and deviſe unto my ſaid Executors his Execu-
hereafter named, and to their Heirs and Aſ-º. of his
ſigns not only all my Manors, Meſſuages, #.
Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments whatſo-table Uſer
ever, with their Appurtenances, ſituate and be-a, he hath
ing in the City of London, and in the Counties' ſº-
of Middleſex, Kent, Suſſex, Glouceſter, and //or Pº
ceſter, or in any of them, or elſewere within
the Realm of England; but alſo all and ſingular
my Goods, Chattles, Plate, Houſhold-Stuff,
Debts, Sum and Sums of Money, Jewels, and
all other my real and perſonal Eſtate whatſoever
(my Debts and Funeral Expences firſt diſcharg—
ed) upon Truſt and Confidence, and to the Uſes,
Intents and Purpoſes expreſſed and declared
herein ; and by my laſt Deed and Writing by
me ſealed for Declaration of my Uſes, and now
enrolled lately in his Majeſty's high Court of
Chancery; and which from time to time ſhall
be limited, and declared by me by Writing un-
der my Hand and Seal ſufficiently teſtified; and a
for Want of ſuch Limitation, Declaration orſ.”
Appoint-
( 38 )
Appointment, then to be paid and beſtowed in
# P” charitable Uſes to the Relief and Maintenance of
0'UU72.J., &J . . -
2.’ “poor Towns, in the ſame Manner as I have here-
wanaſ in formerly appointed to the Towns of Wandſ.
worth andworth and Kingſton, at the Diſcretion of my Exe-
:#; cutors: And my Will and Meaning is, that all
Žion %'..ſuch Sum and Sums of Money as by the true
Executors. Meaning of this my laſt Will ſhould be beſtow-
ed in charitable Uſes, or ſhould come to the
Hands of the Poor therein mentioned, ſhall, with-
in Six years next after myſ)eceaſe,or ſooner, if the
ſame may be conveniently gotten in, be paid and
diſtributed amongſt them accordingly. And my
Willis, that all my ſaid Executors, and the Sur-
vivors of them from time to time ſhall join
jointly in the Truſt hereby repoſed in them, and
ſhall yearly make a juſt and true Account of all
their Proceedings therein unto my Overſeers
hereafter named, who ſhall in all Differences and
Doubts ariſing amongſt my ſaid Executors com-
poſe the ſame according to their beſt Diſcretions.
And I do hereby, as much as in me is, revoke,
repeal, and diſannul all former Wills and Teſta-
ments by me made, granted to any Perſon or Per-
ſons whatſoever, touching or concerning my ſaid
Landsor Goods, or any of them which have been
by me queſtioned or complained of in his Ma-
jeſty's high Court of Chancery. And..I do hereby
make, nominate and appoint George Whitmore
Executors. Alderman of London, George Lowe, William Blake,
William Rolfe, Eſq; Richard Garnard Cloth-
worker, and Henry jackſon Grocer of London, to
be the Executors of this my laſt Will and Teſta-
ment duly performed. And I do hereby nomi-
nate Mr. Juſtice Crooke, Sir Chriſtopher Nº.
I’,
( 39 )
Mr. Alderman Parkhurſt and George Duncomb,
Eſq; to be Overſeers of this my laſt Will and
Teſtament, 3n mitneſs whereof, I the ſaid Henry
Smith to this my preſent laſt Will and Teſtament
containing ſeven Sheets of Paper, have ſeverally
ſubſcribed my Name, and have ſet to my Seal at
the Top thereof, the Day and Year firſt above-
written. Henry Smith ſubſcribed, as aforeſaid,
With the proper Hand of the ſaid Henry Smith,
in the Preſence of Thomas Canon, ja. Aſton,
William Rowley, Thomas Carter; ſealed, publiſh-
ed and declared by the ſaid Henry Smith (who was
of perfeótMemory) to be his laſt Willand Teſta-
ment, in the Preſence of us, Witneſſes, whoſe
Names are hereunder written, Thomas Canon,
. Thomas Cofferdine, Edw. Brightwen, Francis Bil-
Jing, john Houghbourne. .
49emotanbum, That Henry Smith, late of St.
Olave's in Silver-ſtreet, London, after the making
and declaring of his laſt Will and Teſtament in
Writing, did, on, or about the twenty-eighth of
September, One Thouſand Six Hundred Twenty-
ſeven, by Word of Month, give and bequeath
unto his Nephew Henry jackſon, the Sum of One
Thouſand Pounds, and to his Servants Michael
Montgomery, and Mary Davaſour Ten Pounds a-
piece; but willed, that the ſaid Ten Pounds be-
gueathed to the ſaid Michael ſhould not come to
his Hands, but ſhould be preſerved and kept for
his the ſaid Michael's Child; being preſent George
Lowe, Henry jackſon, Michael Montgomery and
Mary Davaſour. Item, He did at another Time
give and bequeath to Sir Thomas Canon Knight to
buy him a Ring Five Pounds. Item, To Thomas
Nokes Ten Pounds. Item, To jane Magſon of
Boſton, Five Pounds. Item, He bequeathed to
, john
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john Tench his Chirurgeon, Ten Pounds and a
mourning Gown. Moreover, the ſaid Teſtator
being aſked which of his Kindred he meant and
intended in and by thoſe Words, The pooreſt of
his Kindred, &c. in the Legacy of a Thouſand
Pounds bequeathed in his Will, to be laid out and
beſtowed in the Purchaſe of Lands of Inheritance
of the Value of Sixty Pounds per Annum; and the
Rents and Profits to be paid yearly unto them,
&c. made Anſwer, That his Meaning was there-
by the pooreſt of his Siſters Children, and their
Children ſucceſſively ; and like in Effect.
43robatutit, &c. Viceſimo tertio Januarii, Anno
Domini in & c. 1627.juramentis Domini Willielm.
Militis, Georgii Lowe, Richardi Garnard, &
Henrici Jackſon, Executorum, &c. Reſerata, &c.
4Probatum, &c. Decimonono Junii, Anno Domi-
mi 1628. juramentoWillielmi Rolfe Armigeri Exe-
cutoris, etiam &c. Reſerata, &c. Georgii Whit-
more, &c.
Barrington 2.
TREASURER, Mr. William Bray,
Great Ruſſell Street, Bloomſbury.
F I N I S.
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