KNIGHTWICK
Cnihtawiche (x cent.); Cnihtewica (xi cent.);
Chenitwica (xii cent.); Knythwyk, Knhittewyk
(xiii cent.).
Knightwick is a parish containing 857 acres, of
which 8 acres are covered with water, on the Herefordshire border of the county, on the right bank of
the River Teme. Sapey Brook forms part of its
western boundary. The Worcester and Bromyard
branch of the Great Western railway passes through
the parish and has a station called Knightwick station
just outside the parish boundary on the east. Suckley
station, on the southern boundary, is in this parish at
Knightwick Row. Two roads branch off from the
Bromyard road near Woodford House in the north
of the parish. One branch passes over the Teme at
Knightsford Bridge and leads north to Martley, and
the other branch leads southwards past Knightwick
station to Malvern. From the latter road a branch
passes south-west to Knightwick Row, and is connected
by a cross road with the village of Knightwick. At
the south-east of the parish near Suckley station is an
early 17th-century half-timber cottage of one story
with an attic, known locally as 'the old house.'
Adjoining it to the west is a cart-shed, also of halftimber. The village contains a few cottages and
houses, of no architectural interest, the rectory, a
mortuary chapel erected in 1879 on the site of the
old church of St. Mary the Virgin and a graveyard.
The present church of St. Mary the Virgin for this
parish and Doddenham is at Knightsford Bridge in
Doddenham and was built in 1856. The manorhouse, the residence of Mr. Thomas Lawson Walker,
J.P., stands to the west of the village. It is a
red brick two-story house of U plan with tiled
roofs, built in the Queen Anne period partly on the
foundations of an earlier 17th-century building.
The entrance front is on the south-east, with the main
doorway covered by a light wooden porch in the
centre. The four angles of the main block are
pilastered, while the windows are long and narrow
and glazed with small square panes; at the ends and
back of the house are blank window recesses designed
to complete the symmetry of the elevation. Above
the hipped roofs two chimneys rise from the centre
of the main block and two from the ends of the
projecting wings at the back. There is a cellar under
the south part of the house, the two-light mullioned
openings to which on the south side retain the sandstone dressings of the earlier building. The hall, which
is entered directly from the main doorway, has the
parlour and dining room on the south, some domestic
apartments on the north, and the staircase on the
west, with a modern addition at the back filling the
space between the two wings. Above the hall fireplace there is a carved oak panelled chimney-piece of
the latter half of the 17th century, the panels being
divided by pairs of slender turned balusters supporting
a cornice. The walls of the parlour are covered
entirely with Jacobean panelling in small squares with
a fluted frieze. A recess on the south flanked by
fluted Ionic columns supporting a cornice surmounted
by a broken curved pediment is contemporary with
the rebuilding of the house in the Queen Anne period.
At the back of this recess is a painting of four nude
children, probably of contemporary date. The plaster
ceiling is divided into four deep panels with moulded
edges. Above the modern fireplace is a piece of
carved oak overmantel of the Charles II period. The
stairs to the first floor are modern, but above there
is an early 18th-century dog-legged stair with a
moulded handrail and turned balusters.
The scenery of the valley where the River Teme
has broken its way through the hills is very beautiful.
The hills are usually rounded and wooded, but in
places precipitous cliffs fall straight to the river as at
Rosebury Rock. To the north are some old brickworks.
The north of the parish lies in the valley of the
Teme, but the land rises rapidly to the south, reaching
a height of 400 ft. above the ordnance datum at the
south-eastern boundary. In 1905 Knightwick contained 290 acres of arable land and 487 of permanent
grass. (fn. 1) The subsoil is Keuper Sandstone, the soil
loam, clay and marl, producing crops of wheat, beans,
fruit and hops.
Kenswick, formerly a chapelry of Knightwick and
an extra-parochial district, became a separate parish in
1857. (fn. 2) It lies to the south-east of Wichenford, and
is separated from Knightwick by the parishes of Lulsley
and Broadwas. It contains 425 acres, of which 96
are arable land, 276 permanent grass and 21 woodland. (fn. 3)
The Tenbury and Worcester high road passes
through it, and Kenswick House, the seat of the Hon.
Mrs. Britten, on the south side of this road, and the
Kedges on the north are the only two houses of any
importance in the parish. Kenswick House is a
stuccoed three-story building dating probably from
the early 17th century, but so modernized inside and
out that it is difficult to say of what the original
house consisted. The lower parts of two brick
chimney stacks surmounted by square shafts, which
belong to the rooms on either side of the entrancehall, are of the original date. The dining room,
which is contained in a projecting wing on the northeast, is lined with Jacobean panelling brought here
from Wichenford Court. The elaborate oak overmantel has a carved shield upon it, which suggests
that it may have been erected by Anthony Washbourne (d. 1573) or his son John (d. 1633), but the
heraldry is not quite clear. Various modern additions have been made at the rear, the present
kitchen and offices being contained in a projecting
wing on the east, and a billiard room in a corresponding wing on the west. A stable to the southwest of the house occupies the site of a Roman
Catholic chapel; some parts of the original brick
walls appear to be incorporated in the present building.
Portions of the original moat remain, out of which
the two ponds to the south-east of the house are
formed. The road is carried over the Laughern
Brook, which forms the southern boundary of Kenswick, at Pig Bridge.
The soil is clay with a subsoil of Keuper Marl,
and the chief crops are wheat, beans, peas, barley and
roots.
Seventeenth-century place-names which have been
found in connexion with Knightwick are Dales,
Hollowe Orchard, Stitching Furlong, Coppearn
Grove, the Lakes, the Holmes, Howley, Wallcroft. (fn. 4)
MANORS
Amongst the manors said to have been
freed for the monks of Worcester by
King Edgar in 964 from all royal
exactions Knightwick was included. (fn. 5) At this time
and in 1086 it formed part of the manor of Grimley, (fn. 6)
and so was probably included in the grant of Grimley
to the church of Worcester by Beorhtwulf, King of
Mercia, in 851. (fn. 7) The manor was assigned to the
support of the monks, and had been leased by them to
a certain Eadgyth, a nun, who held it, performing
the services due for it, as long as the brethren could
dispense with it. In the time of King William,
however, their number increased and Eadgyth restored
the manor to them. She was living at the time of the
Domesday Survey and was willing to testify to this.
At the time of the Survey, however, the hide of
Knightwick was in the hands of Robert le Despenser,
brother of Urse the Sheriff. This hide rendered in
the manor of Grimley sac and soc and all services
due to the king. (fn. 8)
Like most of the rest of Robert's possessions in
Worcestershire, Knightwick passed to Walter de
Beauchamp, son-in-law of Urse the Sheriff. (fn. 9) The
overlordship remained with Walter's descendants the
Earls of Warwick, the manor being held of their
honour of Elmley, (fn. 10) but the overlordship is not mentioned after 1325.
Walter de Beauchamp apparently held the manor
in demesne in the time of Henry I. (fn. 11) From this
time until about 1280 the history of the sub-tenants
of this manor is very obscure. In 1220–1 John
Clerk and his sister Julia released to Henry Fitz
Ralph all their claim in a virgate of land at Knightwick, (fn. 12) and in 1255 Auda widow of Godfrey de
Gamages granted the manor of Knightwick to
William de la Were. (fn. 13) William died in 1269, and
his brother Peter succeeded to the estate, (fn. 14) which he
apparently held in 1274–5. (fn. 15) These deeds do not
appear to refer to the capital manor of Knightwick,
which was probably already in 1274–5 in the possession of the Prior of Great Malvern. (fn. 16) The prior
probably derived his title from the family of Mans,
who held the chapel of Knightwick in the 12th
century and endowed the priory of Little Malvern
with land at Knightwick towards the end of that
century. (fn. 17) Simon de Mans, the benefactor of Little
Malvern Priory, had two sons Walter and William.
Walter, the elder son, had a son William, who died
childless, a daughter, Avice wife of Bartholomew
Marshall, and a second daughter, who married Walter
Mapnor and had a son Walter. (fn. 18) The estate at
Knightwick evidently passed to the Mapnors, and
was given by Walter de Mapnor or his daughter
Lucy to the Prior of Great Malvern before 1274–5. (fn. 19)
Lucy apparently still lived at Knightwick or held
some estate there in 1280, for she paid 12d. in that
year towards the lay subsidy, while the Prior of Great
Malvern paid 20s. (fn. 20) In 1283 the manor was given
by the Prior of Great Malvern to Bishop Godfrey
Giffard in compensation when the title of Westminster to Great Malvern was finally settled. (fn. 21)
The bishop leased the manor in 1318 to Master
Peter Fillol, rector of the church of Martley, (fn. 22) and
in 1324–5 to John Collan for life. (fn. 23) It was again
leased in 1336 for the lives of William de Massington
and Agnes his wife. (fn. 24) In 1460–1 the bishop leased
the site of the manor to Thomas Romney of Lulsley,
Isabel his wife and John their son for a term of
seventy years. (fn. 25) The manor was valued at £8 in
1535. (fn. 26) It was confiscated by Edward VI (fn. 27) on
Bishop Heath's deprivation in 1552 and was granted
in the following year to Lord Robert Dudley and his
heirs and William Glasyer. (fn. 28) Lord Robert Dudley was
attainted and sentenced to death in the same year for
taking the part of Lady Jane Grey, and though he
was pardoned in October 1554 (fn. 29) this manor seems
to have remained in the Crown until 1560. (fn. 30) It
was among the manors taken from the bishopric by
Queen Elizabeth under the Act of 1558–9, which
enabled her to take into her hands certain of the
temporalities of any bishopric which fell vacant, recompensing the value with parsonages impropriate. (fn. 31)
Lord Robert Dudley was restored in blood in
March 1557–8 and created Earl of Leicester in
1564. (fn. 32) The manor of Knightwick must have been
restored to him, (fn. 33) and his and William Glasyer's
interest passed to Sir Richard Sackville, whose son
Thomas Sackville Lord Buckhurst sold the manor
in 1568 to Lancelot Romney. (fn. 34) Lancelot died seised
of it in 1595, when it passed to his son John, (fn. 35) to
whom livery was made in 1605. (fn. 36) It was probably
this John who was outlawed for felony and murder
in January 1628. By an inquisition taken in 1630
it was found that John on the day of his outlawry
was seised for life of a capital messuage and land in
Knightwick. This estate was granted in September
1630 to Thomas Cooke during the lifetime of John
Romney. (fn. 37) John was evidently restored, for he died
seised of the manor about 1640, when it passed to
his son Lancelot. (fn. 38) Lancelot died in 1643, leaving a
son John, aged eleven, and three years after the estate
was sequestered for Lancelot's delinquency in arms.
In 1648 John Evett, grandfather and guardian of
John Romney, begged to compound for the estate,
but before the sum could be raised Evett was imprisoned for debt in Worcester Castle. The guardianship of the child passed to Henry son of John Evett,
and he in March 1651 offered to pay the debt.
When Charles came to Worcester in 1651 John
Romney joined his standard, under compulsion, as
he stated, by the Scotch soldiers quartered at his
uncle's house. Though he did not take part in
the battle his estate was forfeited, and when in 1659
his property was ordered to be sequestered for his
complicity in Sir George Booth's rising it was found
that it was already sequestered for his engagement
with the Scots. (fn. 39)
In 1666 John Romney and Elizabeth his wife,
William Robbins and John his wife, Henry Evett and
Francis Powle sold the manor of Knightwick to
Thomas Foley. (fn. 40) His grandson Thomas Foley was
created Lord Foley of Kidderminster in 1712, (fn. 41) and
the manor descended with the title (fn. 42) until 1830 (fn. 43) or
later. It must soon after have been purchased by
John Williams of Pitmaston, from whom it passed
under a settlement made in 1838 to his son Francis
Edward Williams. He was lord of the manor until
his death in 1885, (fn. 44) when the estate passed to his son
John Francis, who assumed the additional surname
Greswolde. He died without issue in 1892, having
devised the manor to his nephew Francis Wigley
Greswolde Greswolde-Williams of Bredenbury Court,
Herefordshire. (fn. 45)
Foley, Lord Foley. Argent a fesse engrailed between three cingfoils and a border all sable.
Williams. Gyronny ermine and erminees a lion or sprinkled with drops of blood.
At the time of the Domesday Survey a hide of land
at KENSWICK (Checinwiche, xi cent.; Kekingwyk,
xiii and xiv cent.; Kekonwyche, Kekynwych, xv
cent.; Kengewyk, xvi cent.), which formed part of
the manor of Wick Episcopi, was held by Urse. (fn. 46)
His heirs the Beauchamps, afterwards Earls of Warwick, held the overlordship as part of their honour of
Elmley, and it followed the same descent as that
honour. (fn. 47) William Savage at the end of the 16th
century claimed the wardship of Giles Blount, forcing
the latter's friends to compound with him for this
right, (fn. 48) but this appears to have been the last occasion
on which the rights of overlordship were exercised.
Wulfwine is the earliest known tenant of Kenswick,
but before 1086 he had been succeeded by a certain
Walter. (fn. 49) Walter de Kekingwik occurs in 1205, (fn. 50)
and held 2½ hides at Kenswick in the time of
Henry III, (fn. 51) and it may be assumed that Sir Walter de
Kekingwik, who was patron of the church in 1270, (fn. 52)
was also lord of the manor. Walter was succeeded
apparently by John de Kekingwik, and it may have
been this John and his son William who were keepers
of the king's goshawks in 1306. (fn. 53) John died about
1316, and his son William inherited the property,
which then consisted of a messuage and a carucate of
land at Kenswick. (fn. 54) It was probably this William
de Kekingwick who was rewarded in 1339 for good
service at Carisbrooke Castle and was custodian of the
port of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight in 1340. (fn. 55)
John de Kekingwik held a fourth and a twentieth
part of a knight's fee in Kenswick and Eastbury in
1346, and Walter de Hoklington held a tenth of a
fee at Kenswick. (fn. 56) John presented to the chapel of
Kenswick in 1361, (fn. 57) but Alice Spelly, lady of Kenswick, presented in the following year. William
Vallet presented in 1366 (fn. 58) and styled himself lord of
Kenswick in 1366–7. (fn. 59) It would seem that Alice
and William must have held the manor during the
lifetime of John de Kekingwik, for his daughters and
co-heirs were minors in the custody of Thomas Earl
of Warwick when the latter forfeited his possessions
in 1396, (fn. 60) and the inquisition on John's possessions,
which included Kenswick Manor, was taken in 1397,
though the date of his death is not given. (fn. 61) In
1411–12 John Aston, clerk, conveyed the manor,
which was then held for life by William Yoxhale,
to Fulk Stafford, clerk. (fn. 62) William Yoxhale was still
holding the manor in 1428, (fn. 63) but it had passed before
1431 to Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton, (fn. 64) nephew
of Fulk Stafford, mentioned above. (fn. 65) Sir Humphrey
was slain in Jack Cade's Cade's rebellion in 1449–50, (fn. 66) and
by his will dated 1442 he had bequeathed Kenswick
to his son Sir Humphrey. (fn. 67) The latter was attainted
and executed in 1485, and his lands became forfeited
to the king. (fn. 68) The manor of Kenswick was granted
by Henry VII in 1486 to John Darell and John
Pympe in tail-male. (fn. 69) Pympe died in 1496, leaving
a son Henry, two years of age. (fn. 70) He died in 1518,
and the property reverted to Sir Humphrey Stafford,
son of the attainted Sir Humphrey, who had been
restored to favour by Henry VIII in 1514–15. (fn. 71) Sir
John Darell died in 1509, leaving a son and heir
John, (fn. 72) but this part of the manor was also restored to
Sir Humphrey Stafford. (fn. 73) It is doubtful whether
John Darell was ever recompensed, for in 1515 he
found it necessary to obtain a pardon for all entries
on the manor of Kenswick. (fn. 74) Sir Humphrey Stafford
died in 1546, (fn. 75) and his son Humphrey sold the
manor in 1565 to George Blount. (fn. 76) Francis son of
George died during the lifetime of his father, his son
Giles inheriting the manor from his grandfather
George while still a minor. (fn. 77) It was the wardship of
this boy which was claimed by William Savage. (fn. 78)
Giles Blount was indicated in 1633 at quarter sessions
for neglecting to repair the highway from Martley
which passed through his estate, and three years later
he was presented on account of the ruinous state of
Blackmore Bridge. (fn. 79) Giles died about 1650, (fn. 80) when
he was succeeded by his son Robert Blount, (fn. 81) who
sold the manor in 1669 to Robert Foley. (fn. 82) The
latter died about 1676 and was succeeded by his son
Robert, (fn. 83) who conveyed the manor in 1679 to Roger
North, probably for a settlement on his marriage with
Anne daughter of Dudley Lord North. (fn. 84) Robert was
succeeded by his eldest son North Foley in 1702. (fn. 85)
He died in 1727, when the manor passed to his son
Thomas Talbot Foley, (fn. 86) who died without issue, the
manor passing to his sister Anne before 1789. (fn. 87) In
that year she and Francis Plowden conveyed the
manor to James Seton and others. (fn. 88) The manor
was purchased about 1872 by Daniel Britten, who
was succeeded in 1892 by his son Rear-Admiral
Richard Frederick Britten, J.P. On his death in
1910 the manor passed to his widow, the Hon. Mrs.
Britten, the present owner.
An estate at Knightwick afterwards called PITHOUSE was apparently held of the Despensers, for
Thurstan Despenser and Alda Bluet his mother confirmed a grant of the estate to the Prior and convent
of Little Malvern, and apparently thereby renounced
their overlordship, as nothing further is heard of it. (fn. 89)
Under the Despensers the land was held by Simon
Mans, who granted it towards the end of the 12th
century, as a virgate of land in Knightwick which had
belonged to Robert de la Putte, to the Prior and
convent of Little Malvern. (fn. 90)
The estate remained in the possession of the Priors
of Little Malvern until the Dissolution, when it
passed to the Crown. (fn. 91) It was granted in 1544 to
William and Francis Sheldon, and then consisted of
a messuage called 'Pyte-house' and a virgate of land
and a grove called 'Pytegrove.' (fn. 92) William and
Francis sold it in the same year to John Alderfull or
Alderford, (fn. 93) who died seised of it in 1556, leaving a
son John his heir. (fn. 94) John Alderford sold the Pithouse
in 1578 to John Washbourne, (fn. 95) who obtained licence
to alienate it in 1587 to Roland Berkeley, (fn. 96) but it
had passed before 1617 to Simon Clent, who died
seised of it in that year, leaving as his heir his nephew
John son of his brother William. (fn. 97) It is probable
that at about this time Pithouse became annexed to
the manor of Mapnors (q.v.), for further references
to it have not been found.
An estate called the manor or capital messuage of
MAPNORS in Knightwick was held by John Alderford at the time of his death in 1556. It was held
as of Elmley Castle, (fn. 98) and, from its name, had
evidently been held at one time by the Mapnors,
once lords of Knightwick. Habington states that
the Alderfords came into possession of this manor by
the marriage of Walter Alderford, father of John (the
purchaser of Pithouse), with Joan daughter and heir
of Thomas Brooke of Knightwick. (fn. 99) The manor
passed with Pithouse to John Clent, (fn. 100) and belonged
in 1802 to Lord Foley, (fn. 101) but does not now exist.
The first mention of a mill at Knightwick occurs
in 1630, when a water grain-mill on the Teme was
granted with the capital messuage of Knightwick to
Thomas Cooke. (fn. 102) Ten years later this mill is described
as a water-mill on the brook of Thunder near Knightwick. (fn. 103) There is now a corn-mill, called Knightwick
Mill, on the Teme in the north of the parish.
CHURCH
The church of ST. MARY THE
VIRGIN, built in 1856 at Knightsford
Bridge in Doddenham, serves for both
Knightwick and Doddenham, and will be described
with the latter parish, which is in the hundred of
Doddingtree.
The site of the previous church is on a small hill
about a mile to the east of Knightsford Bridge. It
was an old black and white timbered structure with a
fine wooden porch, and was pulled down by John
Francis Greswolde-Williams in 1879, and a mortuary
chapel built on its site in the churchyard. On the
floor of the chapel is a portion of the circular bowl
of a 12th-century font with wide lines of zigzag
ornament. On the west walls are slabs from the
previous church to Grace and Dorothy Lane of
Bentley, Staffordshire, who died in 1721, and are
said to be sisters of Jane Lane, who did so much to
secure the escape of Charles II after the battle of
Worcester.
There is one bell in a western bellcote.
The plate consists of a silver cup of 1676, inscribed
'Knightwick Chalice 1676,' a cover paten of the
same date, a paten of 1874, a flagon of 1882, a
bread-knife with an agate handle, a plated almsdish,
a pewter almsdish, and one of tin There is no
separate plate for Doddenham.
The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) baptisms 1539 to 1687, burials 1617 to 1687, marriages
1542 to 1684; (ii) baptisms 1695 to 1812, burials
1702 to 1812, marriages 1695 to 1753; and (iii)
marriages 1756 to 1811.
ADVOWSONS
The advowsons of the chapels of
Knightwick and Doddenham were
given by Simon de Mans about
1177 to the Prior and convent at Worcester for the
souls of his father and mother and himself. (fn. 104) This
grant was confirmed by Roger 1164–79, (fn. 105) Robert
1191–3, (fn. 106) and Henry 1193–5, Bishops of Worcester,
and by William de Mans, grandson of the donor, in
1231. (fn. 107) The advowson remained in the possession of
the Prior and convent until the Dissolution, (fn. 108) when it
passed to the Crown. It was granted in 1542 to the
Dean and Chapter of Worcester, (fn. 109) and confirmed to
them in 1609 by James I, (fn. 110) and has since remained
in their possession. (fn. 111)
The living is united with that of Doddenham, the
union having perhaps taken place about 1655, when
it was found by inquisition that the cure of Knightwick was always supplied by the minister of Doddenham, and that the two churches were 'neere about
equal bigness, and fit to be united together.' (fn. 112)
Land given for lights and obits in the church of
Knightwick was leased in 1560–1 to William Dalby. (fn. 113)
This land afterwards formed part of the endowment
of Martley grammar school. (fn. 114)
The chapel of Kenswick was subject to the church
of St. Helen, Worcester, (fn. 115) in the 11th century. The
advowson has always belonged to the lords of the
manor, (fn. 116) but it is not mentioned in deeds of conveyance of the manor after 1411–12, though the site
of the chapel is mentioned in such deeds until 1669. (fn. 117)
The last presentation to the chapel was made in 1415
by William Yoxhale, (fn. 118) but Nash notes that Anthony
Moggridge was incumbent of Kenswick in 1675. (fn. 119)
In 1782 the chapel was in ruins, but fifty years before
service was performed in the chapel once a month,
the owner of Kenswick paying £10 a year. (fn. 120) The
chapel was taken down about 1860. (fn. 121)
A pension from the chapel was paid yearly to the
Prior and convent of Worcester until the Dissolution. (fn. 122)
This pension was granted in 1542 to the Dean and
Chapter of Worcester. (fn. 123) By an Order in Council
25 October 1898, to take effect on the next voidance
of the benefice, Kenswick became part of Wichenford
for ecclesiastical purposes. (fn. 124) The order took effect
in 1908, but since 1910 Kenswick has been part of
the new ecclesiastical parish of Broadheath, formed in
that year from Hallow, Wichenford, and St. John's,
Worcester.
CHARITIES
This parish is entitled to receive
as stated in the church table, 20s. a
year from land in Much Marcle,
co. Hereford, under the gift of the Rev. Isaac Ailway.
This sum was applicable in the purchase of coats for
three poor men.
In 1726 Mrs. Dorothy Lane, as stated in the same
table, left £20, the interest to be given to the poor.
The legacy is on deposit at the Worcester Old Bank,
producing 10s. a year.
In 1761 John Freeman by deed charged certain
property, known as the Gaines Estate, in the neighbouring parish of Whitbourne in Herefordshire, with
an annuity of £2 10s. for the benefit of the poor.
The income of these two charities is distributed in
money gifts.
The charities of John Francis Greswolde-Williams.
—In 1890 John Francis Greswolde-Williams by deed
founded six almshouses situated in the parish of
Doddenham, and endowed the same with £6,000
2½ per cent. annuities, four of the almshouses to be
allotted to residents of Knightwick and Doddenham,
or either of them, and two to residents in the chapelry
of Lulsley.
The same donor erected a residence for a nurse for
poor sick persons resident in the same three parishes,
but died without completing a conveyance to trustees.
In 1893 the premises were daly conveyed by Thomas
Suckling, who, in conjunction with Agnes Elizabeth Baynton, provided a sum of £2,040 15s. 10d.
2½ per cent. annuities as an endowment fund, producing £51 a year.
The same donor, by his will proved at Worcester
12 August 1892, bequeathed £1,000, the interest to
be distributed to the poor of Knightwick and Doddenham on 23 October yearly, in the form of orders
upon tradesmen, or in the form of money for paying
rent. The legacy was invested in £1,030 18s. 7d.
consols with the official trustees, producing £25 15s. 4d.
yearly, which is applied chiefly in providing flannel
petticoats and serge gowns.
The official trustees also hold a sum of £1,030
18s. 7d. consols, representing a legacy by the will of
the same testator, for the benefit of the Church of
England school at Doddenham, in the hundred of
Doddingtree.