THORNBOROUGH
Torneberge (xi cent.); Tornburuwe (xiii cent.);
Thornborowe (xvi cent.).
The parish of Thorn borough covers 2,392 acres on
the east bank of the Ouse, which forms its western
boundary. Of the total area 1,579 acres are under
permanent grass and 580 acres are arable. (fn. 1) The
soil is clay on a subsoil principally of cornbrash, and
the land has an elevation of 300 ft. except in the
centre of the parish, where a small stream, called in
the 17th century the Cowarde Brook, (fn. 2) flows westward
into the Ouse. In this valley is the village. Its main
street, crossed and re-crossed by the stream, runs east
and west; there is a parallel Back Street to the north.
There are many 17th-century stone houses and
cottages with thatched roofs. The New Inn is an
interesting example of a 17th-century timber-framed
house with brick filling of a later date. On the
green are the stocks, now much decayed.
The church of St. Mary is in the centre of the
village on the south side of the street. To the west
of it is Manor Farm, which belongs to Magdalen
College, Oxford. This is a two-story Elizabethan
house built of stone with a small 17th-century addition
at the north-west which was at one time detached. In
the old hall on the west is an original wide stone
fireplace with moulded jambs, low arch, and sunk
spandrels; the 'Court room' above has a heavy
collar-beam truss with a carved central boss. The
hall is entered through a two-storied porch with
original windows and an old studded inner door. On
the south gable of the east block is an incised sundial.
On the other side of the street is the Manor
House, a 17th-century stone house of two stories
with tiled roofs. Its old gateway, flanked by stone
posts, still remains; outside the inclosing wall is the
old tithe barn. (fn. 3) The house has always belonged to
the owners of the principal manor and rectory, and
in the 18th century was the residence of the Woodnoth family. (fn. 4) It is perhaps on the site of that
capital messuage which belonged to Robert de Fresne
and passed to Luffield Priory in 1303. (fn. 5) There
must also have been a capital messuage on the manor
of the Damorys to account for the domestic chapel
mentioned in the 13th century. (fn. 6) The foundations
of the chapel were found in the pasture land west of
the village shortly before 1735. (fn. 7) When this manor
became the property of Barton's chantry its manorhouse was apparently used as the dwelling of the
chantry priest. (fn. 8) A capital messuage which the Abbot
of Biddlesden acquired from Alan de Fresne in the
reign of Henry III (fn. 9) is presumably the manor-house
of the abbot and convent mentioned in a charter of
Sir Richard Damory. (fn. 10)
Thorneorough Village and Stocks
South of the village, on the high road running
west to Buckingham, is Windmill Hill. The watermill of Thornborough is in the north of the parish
where the Ouse makes a curve to the east; it is
perhaps on the site of the mill which existed here in
1086. (fn. 11) A mill in Thornborough was granted in
1244 (fn. 12) to the hospital of St. John, Oxford, and
is again mentioned in 1279. (fn. 13) It was probably
identical with the mill of 'Stakforde' mentioned as
a boundary mark at about that date. (fn. 14) Near the
mill the road running north from Thornborough to
Leckhampstead crosses the river. Here must have
been the 'Totesbrig' which was the subject of
dispute in the late 14th century between the Master
of St. John's Hospital and the inhabitants of Leckhampstead and Foscott. Judgement was given in
1389 that the Master of the Hospital was responsible
for half the cost of its repair. (fn. 15)
A tributary of the Ouse is crossed on the road to
Buckingham by Thornborough Bridge, which is an
interesting structure dating from the 14th century.
It is 12 ft. wide and spans the river by six low arches,
of which all the four middle are moulded and two of
them strengthened by ribs; the two outer arches are
plain, and possibly of later date. There are three
sterlings on the south side carried up to form refuges,
and between the two western arches on the north is a
rectangular recess probably for the same purpose. The
bridge has been repaired and the parapets are modern.
The division between the parishes of Buckingham and
Thornborough is marked by a boundary stone in the
middle of the bridge. Near the bridge on the north
side of the road are Thornborough Mounds, two
tumuli in which Roman remains were found in 1839. (fn. 16)
In 1268 the freeholders of Thornborough made
an agreement with the Abbot of Biddlesden by which
they were to have common of pasture in 'le Breche,'
a 'culture' which belonged to the abbot. (fn. 17)
The village contains a Baptist chapel dating from
1829, a Wesleyan chapel built in 1832, and a
Congregational chapel built in 1872. There are
brick and tile works in the south-west of the parish,
near a large farm called Coombs.
An Inclosure Act for Thornborough was passed in
1797. (fn. 18)
Manors
Fourteen hides and 1 virgate in
THORNBOROUGH were held as one
manor by Thori, a thegn of Edward the
Confessor. In 1086 they were
held by Berner of Manno
the Breton, ancestor of the
barons of Wolverton. (fn. 19) Thornborough represented one
knight's fee in the barony
and owed ward to the castle
of Northampton. (fn. 20) This service in 1254 was rendered
by a payment of 15s. 10d.
from the whole vill. (fn. 21) The
lords of Wolverton claimed
rights of overlordship in
Thornborough as late as
1618. (fn. 22)
Hamo son of Meinfelin,
probably grandson of Manno, (fn. 23)
granted the church of Thornborough and a hide of land
to Luffield Priory in the reign
of Henry II. (fn. 24) This hide
formed the nucleus of the
LUFFIELD PRIORY MANOR. The grant was
confirmed by Hamo's grandson William, (fn. 25) who in 1242 acquitted the prior of
hidage, scutage and suit of court. (fn. 26) Further grants
to Luffield were made by Hamo Hasteng and Hugh
son of William in 1241, (fn. 27) by Robert de Westminster
in 1255 (fn. 28) and by Reynold de Fresne. (fn. 29) The holding of the prior in 1279 amounted to 5½ hides, of
which 3 hides and 3 virgates were held in demesne. (fn. 30)
The manor was granted with Luffield Priory, after
the dissolution of that house in 1494, (fn. 31) to the Abbot
of Westminster, (fn. 32) and after the general dissolution
was given by Edward VI to Sir Nicholas Throck
morton. (fn. 33) It then followed the descent of the manor
of Luffield (fn. 34) (q.v.) till the second division of the
Throckmorton estates in
1701, (fn. 35) when Thornhorough
was allotted to Thomas Lennard, Lord Dacre and Earl of
Sussex, (fn. 36) a grandson of Sir
Arthur Throckmorton's third
daughter Elizabeth. (fn. 37) The
Earl of Sussex sold the manor
in 1707 to Benjamin Woodnoth, sen., and Benjamin
Woodnoth, jun., (fn. 38) the latter
of whom was in possession in
1735 and 1736. (fn. 39) In 1747,
however, it was conveyed by
Alexander Townsend (fn. 40) and
his wife Elizabeth to Ralph Lord Fermanagh, afterwards Earl Verney. (fn. 41) Mary Lady Fermanagh, niece
and heir of the last purchaser, was lady of the
manor in 1813. (fn. 42) It has since followed the descent
of Middle Claydon (q.v.), Sir Harry Calvert Verney,
bart., being the present owner.
Throckmorton. Gules a cheveron argent charged with three gimel bars sable.
The only important lay tenants of the lords of
Wolverton in Thornborough in the 13th century
were the family of Fresne
(Fraxino). (fn. 43) The Henry de
Fresne who held half a knight's
fee of Hamo son of Meinfelin
in 1166 (fn. 44) was probably their
ancestor. Hugh de Fresne
appears to have held land in
Thornborough in the late
12th or early 13th century, (fn. 45)
and Reynold son of his son
William (fn. 46) was returned as
tenant of the knight's fee here
between 1232 and 1236. (fn. 47)
Reynold had a son William, (fn. 48)
whose services were granted
by John son of Alan de
Wolverton to Luffield Priory. (fn. 49) William's son
Robert (fn. 50) had nothing in Thornborough in 1279 but
a capital messuage and 5 acres of land, held of the
Prior of Luffield, (fn. 51) the rest of the fee having been
alienated by his family and their sub-tenants in part
to Luffield itself (fn. 52) and in part to Biddlesden Abbey. (fn. 53)
Robert was hanged for felony in 1302, (fn. 54) and the
remnant of his estate passed to Luffield by grant of
the Crown, (fn. 55) so becoming part of the priory manor. (fn. 56)
De Fresne. Gules two bars party fessewise and indented argent and azure.
The BIDDLESDEN ABBEY MANOR consisted
of an accumulation of land granted by various donors,
for the most part during the
13th century. Alan son of
Hugh de Fresne, who gave
his dwelling-house and 2 virgates of land, (fn. 57) was one of the
earliest. His sons Alan and
Ralph and his nephew and
overlord Reynold confirmed
the gift. (fn. 58) Roger Foliot and
Floria his wife, tenants of the
Fresnes, gave 3½ virgates in
1251. (fn. 59) Alice daughter of
Ralph Moryn and widow of
Alan de Fresne gave 1 virgate and John Hasteng gave
4 virgates, also during the reign of Henry III. (fn. 60) A
more important grant was that of Hugh de Dunster,
who gave 2 hides in the fee of Wolverton, probably
in the early years of Edward I, and certainly before
1279. (fn. 61) This gift was burdened with a rent-charge
of 40s. to the nuns of Ivinghoe, which was paid
until the Dissolution. (fn. 62) In return for a subsequent
grant from Hugh of 20 acres the abbot undertook to
maintain a priest in the chapel of St. Giles of Littlecote, (fn. 63) Stewkley.
Biddlesden Abbey. Argent two bars with a quarter gules.
In 1279 the holding of Biddlesden Abbey amounted
to 6 hides and 1 virgate (fn. 64) ; its annual value in 1291 was
£6 4s. 4d. (fn. 65) and in 1535 £10 7s. 2d. (fn. 66) Courts were
held for this manor till the Dissolution. (fn. 67) In 1542
evidence was taken as to its customs, the tenants
claiming that they held for life, while the late abbot
declared that they held at will. (fn. 68)
Lands at Thornborough late of Biddlesden were
granted for life in 1540–1 to John Joslyn. (fn. 69) A similar
grant was made to Robert Eton, 'servant of the
pantry,' in 1553. (fn. 70) From a survey of three years
later it appears that the annual value of the manor was
£41 16s. 2d. (fn. 71) Elizabeth in 1567 granted the reversion to Thomas Newenham for twenty-one years,
and in 1573 made a similar grant to Christopher
Edmonds. (fn. 72) In March 1590–1 a grant in fee was
made to Edward Downing and Roger Rant. (fn. 73) They
sold their interest soon afterwards to Sir William
Spencer, who died seised of the reversion in 1609, (fn. 74)
leaving authority to his executors to sell it. The
purchaser was John Phillips of Foscott. (fn. 75) The manor
is said to have been acquired later by Sir Richard
Temple of Stowe and to have descended with
Bartons (fn. 76) (q.v.).
The MAGDALEN COLLEGE MANOR developed
out of grants of land from the Wolverton fee originally made to the hospital of St. John without the
east gate of Oxford. The most important of the
gifts that are recorded were made between 1243 and
1245, when William de Morton gave 1 hide 1 virgate, Robert son of Alan a virgate and a mill, and
John Hasteng 3 virgates. (fn. 77) Some of this may perhaps
be identified with the land held in Thornborough
under Gervase Paynel (c. 1154–94) by Reynold son of
Adchur, which was acquired by the hospital before
1291. (fn. 78) In 1254 the hospital had 5 hides all but
a virgate and view of frankpledge with exemption
from suit of county or hundred. (fn. 79) The view was
claimed under a charter of about 1243, and though in
1279 the warrant was said
to be unknown, in 1286 a
charter of 1266 was referred
to. (fn. 80) In 1279 the extent of
the holding was given as 4
hides. (fn. 81) It was transferred
with the other estates of the
hospital to the college of St.
Mary Magdalen, Oxford, in
1457, (fn. 82) and was called a
manor in 1595, when John
Standish, had a lease. (fn. 83) This
was the only manor in Thornborough for which a court
baron was held in 1797. (fn. 84) It
still belongs to Magdalen
College.
Magdalen College, Oxford. Lozengy sable and ermine and a chief sable charged with three garden lilies proper.
The manor of BARTONS, so called after its possessors in the 15th century, belonged in the 12th
century to the fee of Doyley. It is not mentioned
among the lands of Robert Doyley in 1086, but it
seems probable that the omission was accidental.
Two-thirds of the tithe of its demesnes were granted
by the younger Robert in 1149 to Oseney Abbey
with the chapel of St. George in Oxford Castle (fn. 85) ;
probably these tithes were already part of the endowment of the chapel. (fn. 86) The Doyley family continued
to hold an overlordship here, which about 1245
belonged to the Countess of Warwick, Margaret,
niece and heir of the last Henry Doyley. (fn. 87) It
appears to have been attached to the barony of
Hook Norton in Oxfordshire, and the reversion consequently passed by royal grant in 1253 to Margaret's
second husband John du Plessis, (fn. 88) whose descendants
held it during the 13th and early 14th centuries. (fn. 89)
The tenants of the Doyleys here as elsewhere
were the family of Damory of Bucknell in Oxfordshire, probably the descendants
of the Gilbert who held Bucknell of Robert Doyley in
1086. (fn. 90) The established pedigree of the family begins with
the Robert Damory who made
a grant to Godstow Nunnery
about 1138. (fn. 91) His son and
successor Roger (fn. 92) had a son
Ralph, who confirmed his
father's gifts to Godstow about
1150, (fn. 93) and also made a grant
to Oseney Abbey. (fn. 94) Both his
charters mention his wife
Hawise and son Robert. (fn. 95) The latter, who was his
heir, had a son also called Robert. (fn. 96) The younger
Robert was succeeded before 1245 by Roger called
son of Robert, (fn. 97) who appears to have held the manor
till about 1280. (fn. 98) Roger's son Robert (fn. 99) survived him
by a very few years; in 1284–6 Juliana Damory held
a third of Thornborough of his heir as her dower. (fn. 100)
This heir was Robert's son Richard, (fn. 101) tenant in
1302–3. (fn. 102) He had a grant of free warren in 1312, (fn. 103)
and two years later made a grant of the manor to Giles
de Lisle and Aline his wife for their lives. (fn. 104) He was
summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1326, (fn. 105) and
died in 1330. (fn. 106) His son and heir Richard, then a
minor, came of age five years later. (fn. 107) He granted a
life interest in the manor of Thornborough to Adam
de Courtenhall, (fn. 108) and in 1346 sold the reversion to
William son of Laurence de Linford. (fn. 109)
Damory. Barry wavy argent and gules.
William de Linford was succeeded before 1351
by a son Laurence, (fn. 110) whose son and heir Thomas
settled his lands here in 1385 on his issue by Joan
daughter of Esmond de Broke and Margery his wife. (fn. 111)
By an obscure transaction in 1444 or 1445 the
manor appears to have passed from Robert Stafford,
cousin and heir of Thomas Linford, to Isabel Barton
of Thornton, widow of John Barton the younger. (fn. 112)
Her trustee Richard Fowler (fn. 113) conveyed it in 1472
to Thomas Blaklawe, chantry priest of Barton's
chantry in Thornton Church, (fn. 114) and it appeared as
Bartons Manor in Thornborough among the possessions of the chantry at its dissolution. (fn. 115) In 1550
it was granted to Edward Chamberlain, (fn. 116) who
conveyed it six years later to Henry Chytting. (fn. 117)
Chytting was perhaps a trustee for the sale to
William Sargeant, who was in possession when he
died in 1561 (fn. 118) ; he had settled the manor on his
son Richard and Marion his wife. (fn. 119) Richard died
less than a year after his father, (fn. 120) and William Sargeant
his son succeeded. (fn. 121) He sold the manor in 1601
to John Temple of Stowe, (fn. 122) who gave it to
Alexander his younger son. (fn. 123) Alexander sold it in
1607 to his elder brother Sir Thomas Temple, (fn. 124) and
this manor descended with Stowe (q.v.) to the
Marquess of Buckingham, who held it in 1813. (fn. 125)
The Duke of Buckingham was lord in 1862, (fn. 126) but
the manorial rights have since apparently lapsed. (fn. 127)
Gervase Paynel (c. 1154–94) granted to the
priory of Tickford all the land of his fee in Thornborough, and the rent of 10s. which was paid by
Reynold son of Adchur. (fn. 128) This rent was subsequently paid by the Master of St. John's Hospital, (fn. 129)
and belonged to Tickford at the Dissolution. (fn. 130) It
appears to have been annexed to the manor of
Tickford. (fn. 131)
The Prior of St. John of Jerusalem claimed view
of frankpledge in 1286 for lands here and elsewhere in Buckinghamshire, but his holding in
Thornborough was apparently inconsiderable. (fn. 132)
Church
The church of ST. MARY consists
of a chancel measuring internally 27 ft.
by 13 ft. 6 in., nave 52 ft. 6 in. by 19 ft.,
north aisle 10 ft. wide, west tower 12 ft. square,
north-west vestry and south porch; it is built of
rubble with stone dressings partly coated with cement,
and the roofs are covered with slates and tiles.
Some herring-bone masonry in the south wall of
the nave indicates the existence of a church here in
the 12th century consisting of the present nave and
probably a small chancel. A north aisle was added
in the mid-13th century, and the chancel was rebuilt
about 1290. In the 14th century clearstory windows
were inserted above the nave arcade and the aisle was
probably widened. The tower was built early in the
15th century and the south porch about 1480, while
the lighting of the church was increased by the insertion of large windows in the 15th and early 16th
centuries. The fabric has been restored at a modern
period and the vestry added.
The chancel is lighted from the east by an original
three-light window with interlacing tracery and from
the south by three windows with depressed heads, the
easternmost being of three lights and dating from
about 1520, and the others of two lights with tracery,
dating from about 1480. In the tracery of the
westernmost window is some contemporary glass including the figure of St. Thomas, part of another
figure, and a fragment of an inscription. The lower
part of the middle window has been removed to
make room for a 17th-century doorway, to the west
of which are traces of another doorway, long since
blocked. At the west end of the north wall is a small
two-light window of the 14th century, the lower
part of which has been built up, and in the
tracery are some 15th-century quarries and a shield.
The chancel arch, doubtless dating from the late 13th
century, is acutely pointed, and of one chamfered
order. A plastered ceiling conceals an old timber
roof, the wall-posts of which protrude below it.
The nave opens to the north aisle by a mid-13thcentury arcade of four pointed arches of two chamfered
orders, supported by octagonal pillars and responds
with moulded capitals and bases. Above the arcade
are three circular clearstory windows, the middle
window having restored tracery, while the others are
quatrefoils. At the east end of the north wall is a
rood-loft stairway, which is entered by a four-centred
doorway in the north aisle, and provides access to the
loft by a pointed doorway placed high in the wall of
the nave. On the south side of the nave are three
large windows, each of three cinquefoiled lights with
perpendicular tracery under four-centred heads; those
at the east and west ends have a transom between the
lights and the tracery and date from the end of the
15th century, while the other has no transom and is
of slightly later date. The south doorway, inserted
in the early 15th century, has a wide moulded splay
and a four-centred head. The pointed tower arch
in the west wall of the nave dates from the 15th
century, and is of three chamfered orders supported
by responds, the moulded capitals and bases of which
were restored in the 17th century. There is a stone
bench on both sides of the south porch, and at the
north-east corner is the octagonal pedestal of a holy
water stoup enriched with trefoiled panels. The
square-headed windows in the lateral walls, each of
two cinquefoiled lights, and the entrance doorway,
which has a pointed arch under a square head, are
all original, as is the moulded timber roof. Above
the entrance is a cinquefoiled image niche. The
porch is supported at the angles by diagonal buttresses
and has a plain parapet with a flat gable on the south.
The north wall of the aisle, which has a brick
plinth, was considerably repaired in the 18th century.
Near the west end is a 14th-century window of two
trefoiled lights with flowing tracery under a pointed
head, and further east are two windows of about
1500 with tracery under four-centred heads, the
eastern of three and the other of two lights. In the
east wall is a two-light window of the same character
as the last two. The north doorway, which has a
four-centred head and continuous mouldings, was
also inserted in the 15th century. It is now blocked,
but still retains its mediaeval door.
The tower is of three stages divided by stringcourses and surmounted by an embattled parapet, the
two lower stages being supported by straight buttresses
at the western angles. In the west wall of the ground
stage is an early 15th-century moulded doorway with
a pointed head, above which is a contemporary traceried
window of two trefoiled lights; a modern doorway
to the vestry has been inserted in the north wall.
The second stage is lighted by small trefoiled windows
with square heads, and the bell-chamber by windows
of two trefoiled lights with tracery under pointed
heads; all of these are original.
The font is modern. In the nave is a slab with
brass figures of a man and his wife, the former in a
long cloak and a hood and the latter in long cloak and
veil head-dress, matrices for two brass shields, and the
inscription 'Hic jacet Willielmus Barton qui obiit
festo Translationis Sancti Benedicti Abbatis anno
domini Millesimo ccc°lxxxix° et Regni Regis Ricardi
Secundi xiii incipiente quando dies dominicalis accidit
super literam C hora vesperarum cujus anime propicietur deus amen.' On the sill of the middle window
in the aisle is a brass plate with the inscription, 'Hic
jacet Johannes Crowche capellanus qui quondam hic
celebravit pro animabus Johannis Barton senioris et
junioris qui quidem dominus Johannes Crowche obiit
viii die maij anno domini mcccc°lxxiii litera dominicale
C. cujus anime propicietur deus.' On the sill of the
east window of the aisle are small brass plates to John
Woollhed (d. 1709), Elizabeth his wife (d. 1696),
and Dorothy, wife first of John Butcher and afterwards
of John Stephens (d. 1685). On the north side of the
chancel are two mural monuments with arms, one to
Margaret wife of John Corrance of Rendelsham and
daughter of Sir John Hare of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk
(d. 1715), and the other to Charles Woodnoth (d. 1778)
and Ann his sister (d. 1780), while on the south wall
is a mural tablet to Elizabeth Townsend (d. 1765).
The communion table dates from the 17th century,
and there is a chair in the chancel of the same period.
Two large oak pews of the 18th century almost
entirely occupy the western part of the chancel, leaving
only a narrow passage between them. In the vestry
are two plain chests, probably of the 16th century,
and a small table of the 17th century. On the floors
of the nave and aisle are many mediaeval encaustic
tiles.
The tower contains a ring of five steel bells by
Naylor Vickers & Co., Sheffield, 1860–1. These
replaced a ring of four, the inscriptions on which are
entered in the marriage register under date 13 June
1861, and, rearranged according to the sizes given,
are: treble, 'Assit Principio S[an]c[t]a Maria Meo'; second,
'Edward Hall made me 1736'; third, 'In multis
annis resonet campana Johannis'; tenor, 'Henry
Knight made this bell anno Domini 1610. Whose
name is called Gabriell.' There is also a small bell
without inscription, probably of the 17th century.
The plate consists of a chalice and paten.
The registers begin in 1602.
Advowson
The earliest mention of the church
of Thornborough is the grant of it
made by Hamo son of Meinfelin to
Luffield Priory in the reign of Henry II. (fn. 133) It was
evidently appropriated to the priory at an early date,
for a vicarage was ordained before 1223. (fn. 134) In 1260
Simon de Boycot, then vicar, made an agreement
with the Abbot of Biddlesden about the small tithes
from the abbey lands. Without admitting that his
lands were liable to tithe the abbot made the vicar a
grant of 3 acres of land in satisfaction of his claim. (fn. 135)
The advowson has followed continuously the descent
of the Luffield Priory Manor of Thornborough. (fn. 136)
The tithes, however, seem to have been alienated
between 1786 and 1797 by the lord of this manor
to the Marquess of Buckingham. (fn. 137)
Robert Damory, probably one of the three Roberts
who lived in the 13th century, had licence from the
Prior of Luffield to have divine service celebrated in
his chapel of St. Laurence. (fn. 138) A dispute about this
chapel between Luffield Priory and Biddlesden Abbey
was settled by the Archdeacon of Buckingham in 1290
in favour of Luffield. (fn. 139) The chapel is not afterwards
mentioned.
Twenty pence rent from a messuage and yardland
in Thornborough maintained an obit in the church. (fn. 140)
At the visitation of Bishop Atwater in 1519 it was
found that the master of the college of St. Thomas
Acon, London, ought to maintain a cantarist in
Thornborough Church, but had not done so for
twenty years. (fn. 141) This was probably the chantry
served by John Crowche. (fn. 142)
Charities
This parish is entitled under the
will of William Hill, dated in 1723,
to receive an annuity of 20s. for a
coat for a poor man, and 20s. for poor attending the
sacrament, the annuities being charged upon an estate
in Bierton and Hulcott. The annual sum of £2 is
usually distributed among five aged poor.
The poor's allotment, acquired under the Inclosure
Act, contains 16 a. 1 r. 20 p., which is let in garden
allotments producing about £20 a year. The rent
is applied in tickets for coal.
The church allotment, acquired under the same
Act, containing 5 a. 0 r. 19 p., is let at £7 10s. a
year, which is carried to the churchwardens' general account.