BRINKLEY
The parish of Brinkley, which covers 1,303 a., lies
5 miles south-west of Newmarket and 10 miles east
of Cambridge. (fn. 1) It is long and narrow, being 5 miles
from north-west to south-east and less than a mile
across at its widest point. Between 1816 and 1886
c. 33 a. to the south of the village, known as Carlton
field and Spring Close, became part of Carlton
parish. (fn. 2) In 1886 a detached part of Brinkley, called
Norney, was also amalgamated with Carlton. (fn. 3) Much
of Brinkley's north-east boundary is marked by a
long break of trees which may follow the route of
an ancient green way. South-east of the Dullingham
road it follows a stream for some way before joining
the road from Burrough Green to Great Bradley
(Suff.), while the eastern end of the south-east
boundary follows the river Stour from just above
Sipsey Bridge. Another stream crosses the northwest end of the parish.
Like other parishes in the area Brinkley stretches
from chalk heathland in the north-west to the originally wooded area of boulder clay in the east,
above the 300-ft. contour. From the north-west the
land rises quite steeply from c. 125 ft. to 300 ft., and
then more gently to 375 ft. It falls slightly to 275 ft.
in the south-east near the river. Brinkley wood, near
the middle of the north-eastern edge of the parish,
covers c. 20 a.
The village of Brinkley lies on high ground
towards the south-east end of the parish, along what
was in the 18th century the high road from Suffolk
and Essex to Cambridge. (fn. 4) That road runs the length
of the parish from Sipsey Bridge to Six Mile
Bottom, crossed at the north-western edge of the
village by the Linton-Newmarket road, and at
Chalk Pit cross-roads 1½ mile north-west of the
village by a minor road. Beyond the south-eastern
edge of the village the high road is joined by the
road from Carlton. The village was formerly grouped
along a green which before inclosure in 1816 covered
c. 25 a. The green comprised a large area on each
side of the Newmarket road, a broad strip along
either side of the main street up to the junction with
the Carlton road, and a large triangular area at the
junction. The older houses set back from the road
originally stood along the edge of the green. The
church, the old rectory, and Brinkley Hall lie in the
angle between the main street and the Newmarket
road. The Poplars or Brinkley House at the northwestern end of the main street, and the Grove and
the school at the south-eastern end have long marked
the extent of the village. In 1919 the parish council
asked that at least six new houses might be built,
and in 1937 a similar request was made. After the
Second World War small housing estates were built
on Beechcroft Road, opposite the Hall, and along
Old School Lane. (fn. 5) Houses were later built by a
private developer south-west of the village, on the
Weston Colville road. A village hall was built in
1920 as a war memorial at the south-east end of the
main street. (fn. 6) The Fulbourn Charity Farm on the
south-west side of the main street was the only
farm-house left in the village after inclosure. Lower,
Chalk Pit, and Hill Farms lie north-west of the
village, on the road running the length of the parish,
the first two being there by 1824. (fn. 7) New Farm and
Cockerton's Farm lie along the same road, to the
south-east of the village.
The Cambridge-Newmarket railway line crosses
the northern corner of the parish; the nearest station
is 4 miles from the village, at Six Mile Bottom.
In 1086 16 inhabitants were enumerated in
Brinkley, (fn. 8) and 101 adults were taxed there in 1377. (fn. 9)
In 1563 there were 29 households in the parish (fn. 10)
and 37 houses in 1666. By 1674 the number had
fallen to 34. (fn. 11) In 1728 although there were thought
to be only 14 families there were c. 150 people. (fn. 12)
In 1801 the population totalled 275. It rose gradually
to 375 in 1851, and then fell over the next 100 years,
to a low point of 169 in 1951. Numbers then rose to
204 in 1961 and 355 in 1971. (fn. 13)
The Red Lion, which stands at the north-western
edge of the village, by the crossroads, occurs from
1709 onwards. (fn. 14) The Rose and Crown stood in 1885
at the south-east corner of the Green, on the Carlton road, and the old White Hart, offered for sale
in 1944, near the centre of the village; both were
private houses in 1975. (fn. 15)
Manors and Other Estates.
Brinkley
appears to be represented in the Domesday survey
by the 3 hides in Carlton held by Earl Harold in
1066 and by Countess Judith in 1086. Along with
Whittlesford and Kirtling they formed the marriageportion of Judith's daughter Alice when she married
Ralph de Tony. (fn. 16) Alice and Ralph's daughter Godehold married William de Mohun c. 1160, and her
marriage-portion was the manor of BRINKLEY,
called MOHUN'S in 1390, held of the de Tony
barony of Kirtling. (fn. 17) In 1201 their younger son John
gave 20 marks to have seisin of land in Brinkley
which his brother William had given him. (fn. 18) In 1208
William's son Reynold de Mohun of Dunster (Som.)
established his right to the mesne lordship of a fee
in Brinkley as his grandmother's heir. John de
Mohun was still in possession and Roger de Tony
was the tenant in chief. (fn. 19) With the extinction of the
male Tony line in 1309 the overlordship passed
through Alice, sister of Robert de Tony, to the earls
of Warwick, descendants of Alice's second marriage
to Guy Beauchamp, earl of Warwick (d. 1315). It
afterwards passed, with the barony of Kirtling, to
the Norths, of whom Brinkley was held in 1521, (fn. 20)
and in 1816 Francis North, earl of Guilford,
received 4½ a. at inclosure for his overlordship. (fn. 21)
The mesne lordship descended with the barony of
Dunster, (fn. 22) which in 1375 fell into abeyance between
the three daughters of John de Mohun. In 1390
Philippa, the second daughter, and her second
husband Sir John Golafre, occupied 14 a. in Brinkley. (fn. 23)
William de Mohun, presumably a descendant of
John de Mohun, held 3 hides in Brinkley in the
1230s. He still held land in Brinkley in 1261, and by
1285 the fee was held by Andrew de Mohun. (fn. 24) In
1390 the manor was held in demesne by Sir John
Engaine and other feoffees. (fn. 25) In 1403 two-thirds
of the manor passed from Thomas Engaine to
Richard and Thomas Stutville and others. (fn. 26) Richard
was alive in 1434, (fn. 27) and another Richard Stutville
was said c. 1504 to have been seised of the manor in
which he enfeoffed Roger Hunt of Balsham. (fn. 28)
Nevertheless William Stutville (d. 1534) was succeeded in the manor by his grandson Nicholas. (fn. 29)
In 1602 Thomas Stutville died holding Brinkley
manor and left as heir his grandson Roger, although
in 1620 Roger's mother Jane and her second husband
Gilbert Rolleston held the manor in dower. (fn. 30) Roger
was said to be mad in 1638. (fn. 31) He was dead by 1658
when his wife Agnes and her second husband,
Richard Rich, held the manor with reversion to her
son, Roger Stutville (d. 1666). (fn. 32) Roger was succeeded
by a third Roger Stutville who c. 1689 sold Brinkley
manor to Richard Godfrey. (fn. 33) Godfrey died in 1699
leaving four daughters, from whom Brinkley seems
to have passed by 1711 to John Godfrey, high
sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 1746. (fn. 34) The manor was
conveyed in 1753 to Richard Godfrey and in 1778
to Henry Godfrey. (fn. 35) It was advertised for sale, with
686 a. of land in 1796, and by 1801 was the property
of William Frost, whose father had been a tenant of
the Godfreys. (fn. 36)
At inclosure in 1816 over 700 a. were allotted to
Frost. (fn. 37) He died in 1818 and the manor descended
to his grandson, Robert William King (d. 1869) (fn. 38)
and the latter's son of the same name (d. 1920). (fn. 39)
The estate next descended to Dr. Colin King whose
brother Capt. Donald King occupied Brinkley
Hall. (fn. 40) After Colin King's death most of the land
was detached from the Hall and after several changes
of ownership the house and park (c. 15 a.) were sold
in 1952 to Col. D. R. B. Kaye who still occupied
them in 1975, (fn. 41) and farmed the central area of
Brinkley along with land in other parishes. Brinkley
Hall incorporates parts of a small house of the 17th
or 18th century, to which a new front block of brick,
5 bays long, was added c. 1800. There have been
subsequent minor additions and internal alterations.
In the early 1230s William le Breton (d. 1261)
held land in Brinkley of William de Mohun. At his
death 56 a. there passed to his son John. (fn. 42) In 1286
John of Brigham released to John le Breton his
right in a messuage and 1 carucate in Brinkley. In
1306 John le Breton granted Edmund le Breton
240 a. in Brinkley and other parishes. (fn. 43) In 1353
Thomas Breton leased all his lands in those parishes
to Sir Thomas Walkefare. No later reference to the
land in Brinkley has been found. (fn. 44)
In 1597 Thomas Stutville the younger sold to
Thomas Stewkley c. 60 a. in Brinkley. (fn. 45) Stewkley
at his death in 1639 held a messuage in Brinkley
called NAWNEY with his manor of Great Carlton.
The land formed the detached part of the parish,
called the hamlet of Norney, which was transferred
to Carlton in 1886. (fn. 46)
In 1449 William Spencer, Roger Philpot, and
William Thomas were licensed to grant to Bateman's
chantry in Burrough Green 80½ a. and a liberty of
fold in Brinkley. (fn. 47) In 1548 a messuage in Brinkley
called COKYNS, late a possession of Bateman's
chantry, was granted to Gilbert Claydon, who in
1553 was licensed to grant 124 a. in Brinkley to
Thomas Humfrey. (fn. 48) The Brinkley land was
apparently separated from the rest of the chantry
estate; Humfrey still held it on his death in 1557.
In the 1580s his son John sold Cokyns to Roger
Gooddaye, but Gooddaye claimed to have been
misled over the number of sheep for which there was
liberty of fold, and when John Humfrey died in
1597 he was still said to hold Cokyns. (fn. 49) In 1620 his
son, also John, and in 1658 John's daughters and
their husbands were involved in disputes with the
lord of the manor over the same question. (fn. 50) Cokyns
is not recorded thereafter.
In the late 12th century Ralph de Tony gave 30 a.
in Brinkley to Warden abbey (Beds.). In 1390 the
abbot of Warden claimed that he had given in fee
to William Bateman and Nicholas Westerdale all
his lands in Brinkley and other parishes, and that
they had given them to Robert Knatchbull and
John Kent. (fn. 51)
A messuage and 15 a. in Brinkley which in 1384
had been acquired by Lewes priory was held in 1551
by the heirs of Sir Thomas Elyot as of the manors
of Carlton and Willingham. (fn. 52) In the 1530s Gilbert
Claydon held 4 a. of pasture in Brinkley of Markyate
priory (Beds.) which had received them when one
of the Stutville family became a nun there. (fn. 53)
William Farmer's charity at Fulbourn was
founded in 1712 with money used to buy a house
and 68 a. in Brinkley. In 1816 at inclosure the
charity owned a house on the main street and was
allotted 40 a. for its 59 a. in the open fields. (fn. 54)
At inclosure in 1816 St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, was allotted 25½ a. from the estate of the
earl of Aylesford, in exchange for land in Burrough
Green. The college sold 8 a. in 1847 and the remainder in 1881 to the trustees of the Six Mile
Bottom estate. (fn. 55) In 1975 all the land in the northwest part of the parish, from Chalk Pit cross-roads
to Six Mile Bottom, was part of that estate, belonging to Lady Delamere. (fn. 56)
Economic History.
In 1086 the demesne
land amounted to half of the 3 hides presumed to
have been in Brinkley, and had 2 plough-teams and
2 servi. There was meadow for 1 plough-team and
woodland for 12 pigs. The 12 villani and 2 bordars
shared 6 teams, the total number of teams matching
the land available. In 1066 three sokemen holding
4½ a. and a man of Earl Alfgar holding 2 a. did
watch and ward. (fn. 57)
By 1521 wheat, oats, barley, peas, and vetches
were grown in Brinkley. (fn. 58) In that year William
Stutville, son of the lord, left his wife and son
200 sheep each, and in the early 17th century the
lord of the manor had sheep-walk for 480 sheep. (fn. 59)
The Stutvilles were involved in frequent disputes
with the tenants of Cokyns and of a piece of waste
called Sprotts Hill, whose flock they succeeded in
limiting to 180. They also claimed that although
their tenants had a customary right to pasture cattle
on Sprotts Hill any sheep were there by special
permission. (fn. 60) In the late 18th century the manor had
sheep-walk for 600 sheep. (fn. 61)
In the earlier 17th century land in Brinkley was
divided between infields and outfields, and in 1816
the fields towards the north-west end of the parish
were known as the outfields. Nearer to the village
were Bramble, Mill, Kimmings, Stubble, and Little
Low fields. In the south-east part of the parish lay
pasture called the Lammas ground and the Shrub,
and in the north-west tip was the heathland. (fn. 62) The
inclosure award of 1816 dealt with c. 1,000 a. of
open-field and common land and 372 a. of old inclosures. There were 19 allottees, but almost half the
land in the parish, 718½ a., went to William Frost,
lord of the manor. The rector received c. 235 a. for
tithe and glebe, John Frost c. 53 a., and the Fulbourn charity c. 40 a. No other allotment was over
15 a. (fn. 63) During the 19th century the chief crops were
wheat, beans, barley, and oats. (fn. 64) By 1905 c. 995 a.
were devoted to arable, 168 a. to grass, and 50 a. to
woodland. (fn. 65) After inclosure Lower, Chalk Pit, and
Hill farms were all formed from William Frost's
allotment. New farm was formed from the glebe,
and in 1975 was called Glebe farm. (fn. 66)
John Frost, who in the early 19th century farmed
over 100 a. in Brinkley, was a maltster. (fn. 67) There was
a smith in the village in 1709, and two in the late
19th century. (fn. 68) From the mid 18th century the Hart
family ran a bell-foundry in Brinkley, and in the
mid 19th they became agricultural engineers. The
firm closed in the 1950s on the death of the last
member of the family. The workshops which stood
near Charity Farm were demolished to make way for
new houses. (fn. 69) There was a shop in Brinkley from
the late 18th century, and throughout the 19th century the village served as a shopping centre for its
neighbours. In the 1930s the Commercial Stores
contained several departments, (fn. 70) but by 1975 it was
a small village shop.
A windmill was recorded in Brinkley in 1600 (fn. 71)
and a corn windmill was offered for sale in 1815. (fn. 72)
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the mill
stood north-west of the village by the Six Mile
Bottom road. It seems probable that an earlier
mill stood on the other side of the road, in what was
called Mill field. The mill had been demolished by
1975. (fn. 73)
In 1253 William de Mohun and his heirs were
granted a weekly market on Wednesdays at Brinkley
and a fair there for three days at Michaelmas. No
later record of the fair has been found. In 1261 the
market day was changed to Tuesday. (fn. 74) A road in
Burrough Green in the 17th century was called
Brinkley market way. The market had ceased by
1807, but an old inhabitant then remembered the
tradition of a weekly market, and that a market-cross
had been standing in his childhood. (fn. 75)
Local Government.
In 1543 Sir Edward
North, lord of the honor of Kirtling, held a court
leet and view of frankpledge in Brinkley. (fn. 76) By the
early 17th century the Stutvilles received the profits
of the court. Court minutes survive for 1673–80 and
1728. The court seems to have been held annually
at those times. (fn. 77)
In the 18th century Brinkley showed opposition
to direct highway rates, and continued to use indictments and conditional fines. (fn. 78) In 1776 £38 was spent
on the poor. By 1803 expenditure had risen steeply
to £152 but that was still the second lowest figure
in the hundred. It continued to rise, reaching £360
in 1817, and later fell to £191 in 1834, being consistently the second or third lowest in the hundred.
In 1803 19 adults and 7 children received regular
relief, and 5s. was spent on materials for them to
work on. By 1813 72 were being permanently
relieved, but the figure fell to 57 and then 50 in the
succeeding years. (fn. 79) From 1835 Brinkley was in the
Newmarket poor-law union, and remained part of
the Newmarket Rural District, (fn. 80) being included in
1974 in East Cambridgeshire.
Church.
A church was recorded at Brinkley in
the late 12th century when it was among those
granted by William de Mohun to the canons of
Bruton (Som.). (fn. 81) In 1260, however, Roger de Tony
was the patron, and although in 1305 the advowson
was assigned as dower to Isabel wife of Hugh Bardolf (fn. 82) in 1315 it was held, along with the barony of
Kirtling, by the earl of Warwick. It descended with
Kirtling, and remained with the lords North until
1625. (fn. 83) The advowson was exercised during forfeitures and minorities by Sir John Bushy in 1399
and by the Crown in 1397, 1401, 1447, 1494, and
1505. (fn. 84) In 1626 Dudley North, Lord North, sold
the advowson to Robert Sendall, the rector, and in
1672 Sendall's grandson, also Robert, sold it to
Thomas Watson. In 1691 Watson, then bishop of
St. David's, granted it to St. John's College, Cambridge, which still held it in 1975. (fn. 85)
The rectory was valued at 15 marks c. 1217, at
10 marks in 1254, and at 18 marks in 1291. In 1534
it was valued at £13 6s. 8d. (fn. 86) In 1638 the rector had
a house, c. 12 a. of inclosed pasture, 20 a. of arable,
and the great and small tithes of Brinkley, besides
tithe corn from land in Carlton cum Willingham and
Weston Colville that was held of Brinkley manor. (fn. 87)
In 1783 the living was worth £120. (fn. 88) At inclosure
in 1816 the rector was allotted 13½ a. for glebe and
201½ a. for tithe. (fn. 89) In the following year the gross
income was £260, rising to £450 in 1858. (fn. 90) After
the First World War Glebe or New farm was sold
to a Mr. Sharpe. (fn. 91)
The parsonage house in 1783, consisting of an
older part and a newer part built c. 1740, was too
large and dilapidated to maintain, and it was recommended that at least part be pulled down. (fn. 92) The
rectory was rebuilt c. 1825 on the site in Hall Lane
where it had been in 1638. (fn. 93) In 1802 the glebe farm
buildings, then near the rectory, were burned down,
and later rebuilt in Common Road as New Farm.
In 1937 the rectory was used as a boarding house.
A new rectory house was built in High Street in
1957. (fn. 94)
A vicarage had been established by 1351 when the
bishop granted it in commendam to the rector of
Brinkley, and later record of it has not been found. (fn. 95)
The parish often had non-resident rectors. In the
mid 14th century William Cotesbrook was repeatedly
licensed to be absent, as was Thomas Morton who
in the early 15th century was also dispensed to hold
two benefices. (fn. 96) In 1536 John Boner, the last prior
of Anglesey, was presented to the living. (fn. 97) He employed curates in Brinkley, one of whom, Thomas
Hupsely, was slow to abandon the old rites and in
1549 was ordered to minister reverently, not showing the bread to the people. (fn. 98) He was also to stop
the parishioners' use of beads, and take down images.
In 1552 a parishioner refused to give up a silver
pyx. (fn. 99) The rector in 1561 was a royal chaplain and
thus non-resident, but kept a curate. (fn. 100) In 1591 the
curate was presented for serving two cures and
preaching without a licence. (fn. 101) In 1650 Robert
Sendall, rector since 1625, was called a good preaching minister. (fn. 102) Heigham Perne was rector for 50
years from c. 1663. (fn. 103) His successor, Christopher
Anstey, was resident in 1728, but in 1756 also held
a living in Hertfordshire and had been deaf for
many years. (fn. 104) In the early 18th century Brinkley had
two Sunday services and quarterly sacraments with
c. 26 communicants. (fn. 105) In 1770 the rector held
another living in Bedfordshire, and in 1775 lived
in Lancashire but kept a curate at Brinkley who
provided one Sunday service and three communions
a year. (fn. 106) In 1807 there was again a curate and the
rector lived at St. John's College, Cambridge. (fn. 107)
The rector in 1817 held another living in Nottinghamshire, and by 1836 was also chaplain to Lord
Scarsdale; he was non-resident in 1857. (fn. 108) In 1836
R. W. King of Brinkley Hall had complained that as
there was still only one Sunday service his servants
could not attend church. By 1851 there were two services: 65 people attended in the morning and 121
in the afternoon. (fn. 109) By 1897 a Bible class had been
started and weekly communions introduced for c. 34
communicants. There had been a Sunday school
from 1836. (fn. 110) By 1922 Brinkley was held with Burrough Green, and since the 1950s the rector has also
held Carlton. In 1975 he lived at Brinkley. (fn. 111)
The district church of St. George at Six Mile
Bottom, built in 1933 just within Brinkley parish,
is annexed to the parish of Little Wilbraham whose
rector serves it. (fn. 112)
The church of ST. MARY, so called by the 18th
century, (fn. 113) is built mostly of field stones and clunch
rubble with stone dressings, and has a chancel,
aisled and clerestoried nave, west tower, and south
porch. The much rebuilt chancel dates from the
13th century; the four-bay nave was rebuilt in the
early 14th century, and the two-stage tower and the
brick south porch were added in the 15th century.
The pulpit and some pews survive from the 17th
century; other pews are 18th-century. In 1644
William Dowsing removed two brass inscriptions
and broke ten superstitious pictures. (fn. 114) In 1874–5
the church was extensively restored under the direction of Frederick Thomson. The chancel was largely
rebuilt and the chancel arch enlarged; the clerestory
was added to the nave, the roof renewed, the walls
refaced outside and plastered inside, and the floor
repaired. Green glass was put into most of the windows, but a little 14th-century stained glass survives
in the chancel. (fn. 115) A chancel screen survived c. 1910
but has since disappeared. (fn. 116) There are 16th- and
17th-century monuments to members of the Stutville family. (fn. 117)
In the late 14th century the church had three
silver chalices. (fn. 118) By the mid 16th century there were
one silver chalice and paten, a copper and gilt cross,
and a silver pyx. (fn. 119) The plate includes a cup and
cover paten given in 1570, and a paten dated 1669
given in 1677. (fn. 120) In 1779 a faceless clock was put
into the church tower. It survived in 1975 when it
stood at the base of the tower. (fn. 121) There were six
bells in 1975: (i) 1820, Dobson of Downham
(Norf.); (ii) and (iii) 1609, John Draper; (iv) 1723,
Thomas Newman; (v) 1671x1687, William Hull;
(vi) 1727, Thomas Gardiner of Sudbury (Suff.). (fn. 122)
The parish registers begin in 1685, but transcripts
survive from 1599. (fn. 123)
Nonconformity.
In the 18th century the
Baptist minister and hymn-writer Robert Robinson
spent some time in the parish (fn. 124) but apparently exercised no influence there. In 1893 three Brinkley
families regularly attended the Salvation Army
meetings at Carlton. (fn. 125)
Education.
In 1722 Elizabeth March of Fulbourn left land for the teaching of poor children in
Brinkley and four other parishes. A year later all five
had established schools. (fn. 126) In 1728 Brinkley's share
of the endowment was paid to the schoolmaster of
Burrough Green who taught the older children,
while a mistress taught the younger ones at Brinkley.
By 1775 all the teaching appears to have been done
in Brinkley. (fn. 127) In 1818 the master received £22 a year
besides fees from the wealthier parents. (fn. 128) In 1833
the school was attended by 11 boys and 23 girls. (fn. 129)
In 1845 a schoolroom and teacher's house were
built on a site in Stubble field, at the east end of the
village, given by R. W. King. It was used by the dayand Sunday schools, which by 1846 were united to
the National Society. (fn. 130) The annual income of £121
in 1871 consisted of £34 from the endowment, £6
from school pence, and the remainder from contributions; any deficit was supplied by a voluntary
rate. There were 41 pupils. (fn. 131) Average attendance
fell to 25 in 1881, rose to 52 in 1889, and dropped
to 25 again in 1919. (fn. 132) In the 1930s the school was
attended by seniors from Carlton and Westley, but
in 1947 all the older children were transferred to
Bottisham village college. In 1959, when there were
only 18 pupils, the school was closed and the children were transferred to Burrough Green. The
school building was demolished in 1963 to make way
for new houses in Old School Lane. (fn. 133)
Brinkley's share of the March charity was from
1914 devoted to prizes, equipment, exhibitions, and
apprenticeships. (fn. 134)
Charities for the Poor.
In 1837 the parish
clerk of Brinkley held ¼ a. in Carlton for the poor of
Brinkley, worth 5s. a year, which ceased to be
recorded after 1864. (fn. 135)
In 1728 there was a stock of £40 for the benefit
of the poor, and in 1775 there was also a legacy of
£50, the interest to be distributed to the poor. (fn. 136)
Dividends from both sums were distributed at
Christmas, but by 1806 had not been claimed for
some years. In 1806 the principal and dividends,
totalling £61, were reinvested; the dividends were
allowed to accumulate for 6 years, and then distributed, with preference given to large families. In
1837 the charities, called the Town Money, had a
capital of £53. In 1975 the annual income was less
than £2, (fn. 137) distributed amongst 3 or 4 old inhabitants.
By wills proved 1904 and 1924 Miss L. E. Maulkin and Miss M. E. Maulkin each left £50, the
income to be given to the aged poor of Brinkley. In
the 1960s the income thus distributed was c. £5
a year. (fn. 138)