TOTTERIDGE
Taterugg, Titerege (xiii and xiv cent.); Tateryche, Thariges, Taregh (xv and xvi cent.); Tatteridge (xvii cent.).
The parish of Totteridge is entirely separate from
the rest of the hundred, and lies about 10 miles
south of Hatfield. It was till 1892 a detached
chapelry of Hatfield parish, being an outlying part of
the possessions of the Bishops of Ely, lords of the
manor of Hatfield. It adjoins the parish of Arkley
on the north, and on the south, east and west is
surrounded by the neighbouring parishes of Middlesex.
The Dollis Brook forms the eastern boundary.
The parish has an area of 1,603 acres, of which
20 acres are arable land, 1,424½ acres permanent
grass and 2 acres wood. (fn. 1) The subsoil is London
Clay.
The land attains a height of 400 ft. in the
centre of the parish, from which it falls towards
the north and south to a little under 300 ft., and
in the east, towards the Dollis Brook, to about
230 ft. The road from Whetstone to Mill Hill
runs through the parish from east to west along
the central ridge, and the long and straggling village
of Totteridge follows its course. At the eastern end
is Totteridge Green, which runs south from the
road, towards Laurel Farm. A short distance further
up the hill westwards is the church of St. Andrew, on
the north side of the road, and Copped Hall, with
an extensive park, on the opposite side. Near the
hall is a 17th-century timber barn with a tiled roof,
and a similar barn is near the church. Further west
along the village street are the Grange, the property
of Sir Charles Nicholson, and Totteridge Park, on
the site of the old manor-house, the residence of
Mr. A. Barratt. Poynter's Hall (formerly when in
the possession of the Paget family called Poynter's
Grove) is the residence of Mrs. Harmsworth; the
old house called the Priory that of Miss Foss.
Richard Baxter, the Nonconformist divine and
author, lived for a time at Totteridge after his discharge from prison in the reign of Charles II. Rachel
Lady Russell also had a house in this parish where
she sometimes resided after the execution of Lord
Russell.
The nearest railway station is that of Totteridge
and Whetstone, a short distance beyond the eastern
boundary of the parish, on the High Barnet branch
of the Great Northern railway.
MANORS
Totteridge
TOTTERIDGE is not mentioned in
the Domesday Survey. The first record
of it seems to be in 1248, when Hugh
Bishop of Ely received licence 'that during any
vacancy of the see four chaplains appointed by the
said bishop to celebrate mass daily for the souls of the
king and queen, his ancestors and successors, and for
the souls of the bishop, his predecessors and successors, shall receive yearly from the issues of the
manors of Totteridge and Brumford, which the said
bishop bought for that purpose, 20 marks by the
hands of the keepers of the said manors, 10 marks at
Michaelmas at the Exchequer of Ely and 10 marks at
Lady Day.' (fn. 2) It seems probable that the bishop had
bought out the under-tenant and that the manor had
always been an outlying member of Hatfield, for as
parochially Totteridge was a chapelry of Hatfield
there must have been some ancient connexion between
the two places, and in 1277 it was returned as
'accustomed to return half a knight's fee in the
manor of Hatfield.' (fn. 3) In the second half of the 13th
century the manor seems to have been held by
Laurence de Brok for life, for in 1275 Matilda
widow of Laurence claimed a third of the manor in
dower from Bishop Hugh and had it duly delivered. (fn. 4)
Possibly Laurence de Brok was the tenant who sold
the manor to the Bishop of Ely.
The Bishops of Ely continued to hold the manor (fn. 5)
until 1561, being allowed to keep it when the manor
of Hatfield was sold to the king in 1538. (fn. 6) In 1561,
however, Totteridge was acquired by Queen Elizabeth
in exchange for a pension to the bishop. (fn. 7) Before
this a lease of the manor had been granted by the
Bishop of Ely to John Brockett, who sold it some
time later to Richard Peacock for £1,100. (fn. 8) In
1579–80 Elizabeth granted the court leet and view
of frankpledge and the profits of the manor to John
Moore for twenty-one years, (fn. 9) and in 1590 she
granted the manor to John Cage, to hold for onetwentieth of a knight's fee, of the honour of Hampton
Court. (fn. 10) About 1603 John Cage and Richard
Peacock had a prolonged lawsuit for the possession of
the manor. (fn. 11) John and Katherine Cage and Richard
their son and heir released their right in 1607, (fn. 12)
apparently in favour of the Peacocks, for it seems to
have descended to another Richard Peacock, who
married Rechard Grigge, who was holding the manor
in 1678 (fn. 13) and died before 1689. (fn. 14) Rechard had
fourteen children, and, surviving her husband and all
her sons, sold Totteridge in that year to Sir Francis
Pemberton and Isaac Foxcroft. (fn. 15) They apparently
conveyed it to Sir Paul Whichcote, who was lord
of the manor in 1700. (fn. 16) The latter sold Totteridge
in 1720–1 to James Duke of Chandos, (fn. 17) from whom
it passed to his son Henry in 1744. (fn. 18) Henry
Duke of Chandos conveyed it in 1748 to Sir
William Lee, Lord Chief Justice of the King's
Bench, (fn. 19) who was succeeded by his son William, (fn. 20) and
before 1786 by his grandson, also Sir William Lee,
who took the additional surname of Antonie. (fn. 21) Sir
William Lee Antonie died in 1815, when Totteridge
passed to his nephew John, the son of his sister
Harriet and John Fiott. This John, who was a
scientist and collector of antiquities, assumed the
surname of Lee, and was holding the manor in 1821, (fn. 22)
Upon his death without children in 1866 Totteridge
was inherited by his brother the Rev. Nicholas Fiott,
who also took the name of Lee. (fn. 23) Sir Samuel
Boulton, bart., is the present lord of the manor. (fn. 24)
Free warren was granted to the Bishop of Ely at
Totteridge in 1250–1. (fn. 25) About 1580 the office of
keeper of the pheasants and partridges was surrendered by Augustine Sparks and was granted to John
Pratt, with a fee of 4d. a day and £1 6s. 8d. for a
yearly livery coat. (fn. 26) In 1611 the reversion of this
office was granted in survivorship to Alban Coxe and
John his son. (fn. 27)
A new windmill is mentioned at Totteridge in
1277. (fn. 28)
Totteridge seems to have had courts of its own
separate from the manor of Hatfield, (fn. 29) although view
of frankpledge is not mentioned in connexion with
it until 1580, when court leet and view of frankpledge were granted by Elizabeth to John Moore
for twenty-one years, for a rent of 3s. 4d. (fn. 30) The
rights of the Bishops of Ely in Hatfield probably
extended to Totteridge as a member of that manor. (fn. 31)
Hare, Lord Coleraine. Gules two bars and a chief indented or.
A capital messuage, held of the manor of Totteridge
by knight's service, was purchased from the trustees
of John Cage at the beginning
of the 17th century by Hugh
Hare and his brother John,
who were jointly seised of it. (fn. 32)
John Hare died in 1613,
leaving his house in Totteridge
to his honest bailiff Richard
Hare and his wife for their
lives, (fn. 33) after which it seems to
have passed to his son Hugh,
who in 1625 was created Lord
Coleraine. (fn. 34) The latter died
and was buried at Totteridge
in 1667, and was succeeded
by his son Henry, second
Lord Coleraine, who died in 1708. At the death of
Henry Hare, grandson of the second baron, in 1749
the peerage became extinct. (fn. 35) The house is said to
have been afterwards the residence of Sir Robert
Atkyns, K.B., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
but it was pulled down shortly before 1821 and
another house built on its site by John Fiott, (fn. 36) lord
of the manor of Totteridge.
Copped Hall
COPPED HALL in this parish is perhaps identical with a capital messuage held in the 16th century
by one John Copwood, who died seised of it in 1543,
leaving a daughter Sophia. (fn. 37) It seems to have passed
soon afterwards into the possession of the family of
Clyffe. Richard Clyffe held a 'manor or capital
messuage' in Totteridge at his death in 1566, leaving
it to his illegitimate son William Clyffe or Smyth,
with remainder to Richard's brother Geoffrey and
his son Richard. (fn. 38) In the following century it was
held by Edward Clyffe, who died about 1635, leaving
two sons, William, on whom the property was settled,
and Edward. (fn. 39) Copped Hall was for some time
owned by William Manning, father of Henry Edward,
Cardinal Manning, who was born there in 1808. (fn. 40)
Since 1875 it has been occupied by Sir Samuel Bagster
Boulton, bart., A.I.C.E., F.R.G.S., J.P., D.L., who
has enlarged the house.
Serlesfield
SERLESFIELD, which is mentioned in 1277, (fn. 41)
was in the 16th century in the tenure of Richard
Snowe, who between 1544 and 1549 conveyed 'land
called Serlys' to William Blakewell and Margaret his
wife. (fn. 42) It appears at the same time in connexion
with 'Beauchampfeld' or 'Beauchampsted,' which was
also conveyed by Snowe to William Blakewell. (fn. 43) By
1689 Serlys, then called Searles, had become united with
the main manor. (fn. 44) A close or croft called 'Dyngleys'
was conveyed by John Snowe, perhaps the son of
Richard, to the Blakewells in 1555. (fn. 45)
'Gladwyns lands,' apparently freeholds of the
manor, were in the possession of William Gladwyn,
husbandman, in the 15th century. (fn. 46) After the death
of his son John there was an action in Chancery in
1481–2 between John's widow and executrix Juliana
and Joan wife of John Osborne and Agnes Gladwyn,
the two daughters of John Gladwyn, (fn. 47) to whom the
lands probably descended. In 1548 the estate was
conveyed by William Copwood to William and
Margaret Blakewell. (fn. 48)
CHURCH
St. Andrew
The parish church of ST. ANDREW,
which stands on a hill in the middle of
the village, consists of a chancel with
apsidal termination, north vestries, south organ
chamber, nave, and west porch. The material is red
brick. The present church dates wholly from the
18th and 19th centuries, but is on the old site, and
in the churchyard is a yew tree 27 ft. in circumference.
A church is known to have existed here at least from
the end of the 13th century.
In 1702 a wooden tower and spire were built to
the then existing church, which from an engraving of
1730 would appear to have been not older than the
preceding century, and to have had wooden casement
windows. In 1790 the present nave was built. The
west porch was added in 1845, when the parapets
were removed. In 1869 the east wall was taken down
and the present chancel built, and at the same time
the spire was removed, the smaller vestry and the
organ chamber were built, stone windows were inserted,
an open timber roof was erected over the nave, and
a west gallery was demolished. The larger north
vestry was built in 1897.
On the north wall of the nave is a monument from
the old church to Dorothy Taylor, 1673, and Susanna
Turner, 1672, daughters of Richard Turner.
The pulpit, of early 17th-century workmanship,
was brought here from Hatfield parish church.
There are two bells in the gable which are inaccessible. One is by John Waylett, 1727, and the other
by Samuel Newton, 1707.
The plate includes a silver gilt cup of 1599;
there is also a cup of 1876 and a flagon of 1867,
besides two patens of recent date.
The registers, beginning in 1570, are in five books
as follows: (i) all entries 1570 to 1720; (ii) all
entries 1723 to 1746 (fn. 49) ; (iii) baptisms and burials
1746 to 1812 and marriages 1746 to 1753; (iv) marriages 1747 to 1753; (v) marriages 1754 to 1789. (fn. 50)
ADVOWSON
The church of St. Andrew at
Totteridge has changed its invocation
since the 16th century, (fn. 51) when it
was dedicated in honour of St. Etheldreda or Audrey,
an invocation evidently borrowed from Ely. (fn. 52) It
is suggested that St. Andrew is a corruption of
St. Audrey. (fn. 53)
Totteridge remained a chapelry of Hatfield, from
which it is about 8 miles distant, until 1892, a curate
being appointed by the rector of Hatfield (fn. 54) (q.v.).
In 1892 it was made a vicarage in the gift of the
same rector. (fn. 55)
In 1650 the commissioners recommended that it
should be made a separate parish. (fn. 56)
In 1638 and 1693 the curate's house at Totteridge
had pertaining to it 'one orchard garden with a litell
Backside contayning by estimacon 2 roods,' and
7½ acres of pasture land. (fn. 57)
In 1307 the parson of Hatfield obtained a grant
of free warren in the demesne lands of his church in
Totteridge. (fn. 58)
In 1471 John Sugden, rector of Hatfield, left a
torch to the chapel of Totteridge. (fn. 59)
Various meeting-places for Protestant Dissenters
were certified in Totteridge from 1823. In 1827
a chapel was built, which was still in existence in
1884, (fn. 60) but there is now no Nonconformist place of
worship in Totteridge.
CHARITIES
The following trusts for the direct
benefit of the poor are regulated by a
scheme of the Charity Commissioners,
namely, the charities of—
William Sheppey, founded by will, 1808, trust
fund, £2,105 5s. 3d. consols.
Sukey Richardson, will, 1828, trust fund, £48 3s. 7d.
consols.
Martha Barrett, being an annual sum of £1 13s. 4d.
received from the Haberdashers' Company, London.
William Campion, will, 1720, being an annual
sum of £2 payable out of copyhold lands at Tottenham
Court.
Waste Lands Charity, being £66 13s. 4d. consols,
set aside in 1799 by William Manning in consideration of permission to inclose certain land.
William Manning, being £100 consols, established
in 1810 in commemoration of fiftieth anniversary of
King George III.
Volunteer Corps, £36 3s. 9d. consols, representing
balance in hand on dissolution of corps in 1810.
Sir Alexander Maitland, consisting of £73 11s. 4d.
consols, representing a legacy received in 1820.
Louisa Arrowsmith for poor, trust fund, £89 13s. 7d.
consols.
The several sums of stock are held by the official
trustees, producing £62 19s. 8d. in annual dividends,
which with the income of Barrett's and Campion's
charities are applied in the distribution of fuel.
In 1789 Mrs. Elizabeth Williams by her will
bequeathed £400, the interest to be applied—subject
to keeping in repair her husband's tomb—towards
the support of her Sunday school. The legacy is
now represented by £539 8s. 1d. consols with the
official trustees, producing £13 9s. 8d. yearly, who
also hold a further sum of £234 4s. consols, producing £5 17s. yearly, known as the Louisa Arrowsmith's Education charity.