ST. HELEN'S
Down to the 16th century the parish of St. Helen's
included not only the modern ecclesiastical parishes
of Dry Sandford and Shippon, but also those of
Radley and Drayton. (fn. 1) In theory Radley and Drayton
(q.v.) were part of St. Helen's for a much longer
period, but the livings were for all practical purposes
independent of the mother church after the Dissolution. Shippon was separated for ecclesiastical purposes in 1865 (fn. 2) and Dry Sandford in 1867. (fn. 3) For
civil purposes that part of the old St. Helen's parish
which is within the modern borough of Abingdon is
now included in the large parish of Abingdon (q.v.),
which was formed in 1894. The rest, that is to say
the ecclesiastical parishes of Dry Sandford and Shippon,
form a civil parish known as St. Helen's Without.
Shippon lies a mile to the north-west of Abingdon,
on the high road to Fyfield. A farm called the Manor
House is on the Fyfield road, the site of the ancient
building known as Calcott's Place, which existed here
at least as early as 1422. During the 15th century it
was leased by the kitchener of Abingdon, who was
lord of the manor of Shippon, to the chapel-wardens,
who made a large profit by letting it out to lay
tenants. (fn. 4) In a survey made during the Commonwealth Calcott's Place is thus described (fn. 5) : 'All that
scite of the manor of Shippon called Calcott's Place
in Shippon butting south-west upon the highway
leading to Frefield, and north-east with Northfeild,
consisting of a hall, a parlour, a kitchin, a milkehouse, two little buttries, two little wood houses, four
chambers, one barn, an old cart house, and a dove
house with an orchard. 'Here the courts of the
manor were kept. (fn. 6) Another house, called 'Sherwood's
Messuage,' is mentioned at the same time. The lessees
of both had to undertake to plant a certain number of
trees, oak, ash, or elm, every year, for the manor had
lost all its trees during the time 'when Abingdon was
a garrison.'A recent disastrous fire had destroyed
many of the buildings; so Shippon at this date must
have been desolate enough.
Two miles further to the north-west is the little
village of Dry Sandford. The two manors adjoined
each other, in fact some of their common fields were
intermingled, and every year 'kermen,' or 'meadmen,'were elected, two for Dry Sandford and two
for Shippon, to draw lots for the shares of the two
manors in the meadow land. (fn. 7) In 1538 there was a
'manor-house called West Sandford,' (fn. 8) and a farm
there is still known as the Manor.
To the east of Shippon, on the other side of the
road leading north from Abingdon to Sunningwell,
is the hamlet of Northcourt. Here the Abbots
of Abingdon built a huge tithe barn, which still
exists. Barton Farm lies to the south of Northcourt,
on the bank of the Thames and just outside the town
of Abingdon. It was once the head of the most
important manor in the hundred, but probably there
was never any considerable village here, at least after
the abbey was built and the town began to spring up.
In 1327 the rebellious townsmen burnt the abbot's
houses at Barton and Northcourt. (fn. 9) Perhaps little but
the large mansion-house of the abbot was rebuilt. The
ruins of this are still to be seen near Barton Farm, and
their extent shows that the house was of considerable
size. For a century it was the residence of the Reade
family, who twice entertained Charles I within its
walls. (fn. 10) The house was so near the eastern entrance of
Abingdon, and so easily approached from the river,
that it was naturally used as a base for an attack upon
the town during the Civil War. 'The enemy,'
wrote Colonel Payne to General Browne in 1646,
'came between Thrupp and Norcott to Barton House,
where they kept covert till daylight.' (fn. 11) The Parliamentary garrison resolved to 'smoke them out,' and
seems to have done so very effectually. The old
beams which were built into the farm-house bear
traces of fire, and cannon balls have been found in
the ruins. (fn. 12) In 1663 Sir Compton Reade was permitted to hold his office of sheriff without living in
the county, where he had no fit residence. (fn. 13) His
family settled at Shipton Court in Oxfordshire.
There is a Baptist chapel at Cothill in Dry Sandford.
The industries of the part of this parish outside the
borough are entirely agricultural; 1,536 acres are in
cultivation, (fn. 14) and various grain crops are raised. The
soil is various, the subsoil Kimmeridge Clay and
Corallian Beds.
Manors
The manor of ST. HELEN'S developed
out of an estate on the banks of the
Thames in what is now the town of
Abingdon. This is said to have belonged in the 7th
century to Cilla, the niece of King Cissa and the
sister of Hean. (fn. 15) According to tradition, she had
licence from her uncle and from his successor Caedwalla to found a nunnery there, which she dedicated in
the honour of the Holy Cross and St. Helen. (fn. 16) After
the death of Cilla, who was herself the first abbess,
the nunnery was moved to Wytham. (fn. 17) This story
is possibly a romance, and it may be that the site
known as Helenstow (fn. 18) took its name from the church
there which was and is under the invocation of
St. Helen.
The site of the supposed sisterhood must have been
granted at an early date to Abingdon Abbey. It is
probably to be identified with the 3 hides in Barton
which in 1086 were held of the abbot by one
Rainald, (fn. 19) elsewhere called Rainald de St. Helen. (fn. 20)
They had been held previously by Alward, a priest,
and Lewin, a goldsmith.
Rainald de St. Helen had a son Turstin, (fn. 21) who
is recorded to have given the abbot land near the
bridge of 'Yccheford' for land in Helenstow near
the old weir. (fn. 22) His successor was probably the
Richard de St. Helen, a knight of Abingdon, who
incurred the displeasure of King Stephen. (fn. 23) Abbot
Ingulf was ordered to disinherit him, but fearing that
the abbey would lose its right in Richard's estates he
preferred to give him money to pay his fine. This
he did by stripping the gold and silver coverings
from twelve reliquaries of the
church. John de St. Helen,
the successor of Richard, held
of the abbot in 1166 three
knights' fees (fn. 24) lying in Abingdon, Frilford, Hendred and
elsewhere. He was succeeded
by a son John whose lands
were forfeited by King John (fn. 25)
and restored by Henry III. (fn. 26)
The younger John had two
daughters and co-heirs, Meliora
and Maud, the wives respectively of John de Turberville
and Philip de St. Helen, perhaps a kinsman. (fn. 27) An
entry in an ancient rental of Christ's Hospital suggests
that part of the manor had already been granted to
the gild of the Holy Cross. (fn. 28) The rest came by
partition to Maud and Philip, (fn. 29) from whom William
de St. Helen, the tenant in 1330, was presumably
descended. (fn. 30) William had a son Philip (fn. 31) and a
daughter Maud. (fn. 32) Philip was dead in 1373, when
his wife Alice was holding the manor for her life in
accordance with a settlement on her husband and
herself in tail. (fn. 33) The reversion belonged to Maud,
who conveyed it to Aumary de St. Amand. (fn. 34) Alice
subsequently attempted to dispose of the manor as
though she held it in fee simple, (fn. 35) but Aumary was
able to make good his claim. In 1402 he settled it
on himself and his wife Eleanor with remainder to
trustees. (fn. 36) He died in the same year, and Eleanor
entered on the manor by her attorneys. (fn. 37) She died
in 1426, (fn. 38) when she held no land in Berkshire, and
the manor was shortly afterwards in the hands of
John Golafre of Fyfield, to whom it had probably
been conveyed by the trustees.
St. Helen. Gules six lions argent.
John Golafre was an official of the gild of the Holy
Cross, and seems to have acquired the manor for that
fraternity. In 1434 he conveyed it to the gild with
lands in Sutton Courtenay and elsewhere, which had
belonged to Eleanor de St. Amand. (fn. 39)
The fraternity continued to hold the manor till its
dissolution in 1547. (fn. 40) Six years later the new foundation called Christ's Hospital was established by
Edward VI, who endowed it with the lands of the
gild of the Holy Cross. (fn. 41) The hospital still holds
the land included in St. Helen's Manor, but the
manorial rights have lapsed.
BARTON (Bertune, le Berton, xi-xv cent.) must
have been among the lands granted to Abingdon Abbey
at the earliest period of its history, (fn. 42) though the name
is not found till the time of the Domesday Survey.
Abingdon and the surrounding lands were taken from
the abbey by King Alfred at the time of the Danish
invasions. (fn. 43) Eadred in 955 restored 20 hides
which were said to have been originally granted by
Caedwalla, (fn. 44) and in the same year Edwy granted
20 hides at Abingdon which seem to have extended
north as far as Sunningwell. (fn. 45) The manor of Barton
was thus restored to the abbey. In 1086 it included
about half the hundred of Hormer–all, in fact, that
was not included in the other great manor of
Cumnor. (fn. 46) Shippon, Dry Sandford, Bayworth, Sunningwell and Kennington were all members of Barton.
The town of Abingdon is not mentioned by name
in the Survey at all; evidently it also formed part of
this manor. (fn. 47) The whole estate had formerly been
assessed at 60 hides, and in 1086 was assessed at 40.
It included land for forty ploughs, two mills and
five fisheries, and two mills 'in the court of the
abbot.' (fn. 48)
The abbots continued to hold Barton as a demesne
manor till the Dissolution, and though most of its
members are mentioned as independent manors before
that time, it seems probable that courts were held here
for a large district. In the 12th century the kitchener
had the right to demand from Barton three 'summagia'
in the year, that is three men to do such errands as
'carrying fish for the kitchen.' (fn. 49) They were to provide their own horses and pay their own expenses.
Five thousand six hundred eggs were rendered by
Barton in each year, (fn. 50) and a hundred and thirty-six
hens. (fn. 51) If any of the hens were not fat, or died on
the way, they were rejected. (fn. 52) The straw for spreading on the refectory floor was also supplied by Barton,
at the rate of five loads three times in the year. (fn. 53)
The large mansion of the abbots at Barton, which
existed in 1538, was perhaps built shortly after
1328. (fn. 54) Katherine Audelett had a lease of it at the
Dissolution. (fn. 55) No evidence has been found for
the statement sometimes made that subsequent lords
of the manor were bound to entertain royalty there
when called upon. (fn. 56) The manor was granted in
1547 to Sir Richard Lee, (fn. 57) who in the same year
conveyed it to Edward Herman. (fn. 58) Probably Herman
was an intermediary in a sale to Thomas Reade, to
whom he conveyed the manor a few months later. (fn. 59)
Thomas Reade died in 1556, (fn. 60) leaving a son and heir
Thomas, (fn. 61) who settled the manor in 1596 on himself
and his son Thomas for life,
with remainder to his son's
wife, Mary Brocket, and the
heirs male of the younger
Thomas. (fn. 62) The latter was
knighted and served as Sheriff
of Berkshire in 1606. (fn. 63) He
took the Royalist side in the
Civil War, and in 1645 was
captured while carrying despatches, (fn. 64) but there is no
record of his compounding for
his estates. He died in 1650, (fn. 65)
when his heir was his grandson Compton. (fn. 66) The latter,
though a very young man in 1645, is always
supposed to have distinguished himself among the
supporters of the king. (fn. 67) He received a baronetcy
in 1661, (fn. 68) and was first on the list of the proposed
knights of the Royal Oak for Berkshire. (fn. 69) His son
Sir Edward, who succeeded him in 1679, was Sheriff
of Oxfordshire in 1685. (fn. 70) He died in 1691, and his
son Sir Winwood, then a boy of nine, only survived till
1692. (fn. 71) He was succeeded by his younger brother
Thomas, who lived till 1752 and had a son and heir
John. (fn. 72) Sir John died in 1773, and was succeeded
by a son of the same name. (fn. 73) The son of the latter,
Sir John Chandos Reade, was in possession of the
manor in 1808. (fn. 74)
Reade of Barton, baronet. Gules a saltire between four sheaves or.
Not long afterwards it was sold to the Bowyer
family of Radley, (fn. 75) who seem to have held it till late
in the 19th century. (fn. 76) The present owner is Mr.
Player Isaac. The manor is represented only by a
single farm, and there are no manorial rights.
The Abbot of Abingdon had a grant of free warren
here in 1252. (fn. 77)
NORTHCOURT (Norchote, xii cent.; Northcote,
xiii cent.; Norcott, xvii-xix cent.) must have been
granted to Abingdon Abbey with Barton (q.v.). It
formed part of the manor of Barton in the 12th
century. (fn. 78) and till the Dissolution. (fn. 79) The tithe of
the vill was paid towards the support of the fabric. (fn. 80)
In 1547 Northcourt was granted to John Lyon, (fn. 81)
an alderman of London, who died in 1564, leaving
a nephew and heir Richard. (fn. 82) Richard Lyon settled
the manor, as it was then called, on himself, his wife
Isabella, and John Lyon, his son. (fn. 83) John Lyon
succeeded and died in possession in 1631; his heirs
were William Giffard, his nephew, and Humphrey
Hyde, his great-nephew. (fn. 84) The latter seems to have
bought out his co-heir; he died in possession of the
estate in 1652. (fn. 85) His son Humphrey, who succeeded
him, (fn. 86) died without issue in January 1676–7. (fn. 87) He
had four sisters, one of whom, Anne, was married to
a distant cousin, Richard Hyde, afterwards the owner
of the manor of Wootton and Boreshill (fn. 88) (q.v.).
According to Wood, Humphrey Hyde left his estate
away from his sisters to 'one Seymour', (fn. 89) but, as
Richard Hyde and Anne appear in possession of a
fourth part of it in 1679, (fn. 90) this story must be discredited. The Wootton branch of the family seems
to have come into possession of the whole manor of
Northcourt, (fn. 91) which in 1707 was sold by Anne Talbot,
Michael Hyde and Francis Hyde to Sir John Stonehouse of Radley. (fn. 92) From this date Northcourt
followed the descent of the manor of Radley, passing
from the Stonehouse. family into the possession of
the Bowyers. (fn. 93)
SANDFORD (Sondford, is cent.; Sanford, xi
cent.; West Saunford, xiii, xv cent.; Dry Sandford,
xviii cent.) was said to have been among the places
granted to Abingdon Abbey by King Caedwalla. (fn. 94)
At the time of the Survey Hugh the cook was holding
of the abbot 2 hides here with 1½ hides in Barton
which in the time of Edward the Confessor were
held by Lewin and Norman. (fn. 95) He had one and a
half ploughs on his estate and one bordar. Altogether
there was land for two ploughs, and the value of the
whole was 40s. The tithe of Sandford appears in the
kitchener's account of about 1377. (fn. 96)
In 1545 the manor was granted to Thomas Denton
and his wife Margaret. (fn. 97) They had licence in 1556
to alienate it to John Fettiplace of Bessels Leigh, (fn. 98)
whose ancestors the Bessels family had held certain
lands and rents here under the abbey. (fn. 99) John Fettiplace died in possession, (fn. 100) and was succeeded by his
son Bessel. (fn. 101) The latter settled part of the estate on
himself and his son Richard and Richard's heirs male
in 1596. (fn. 102) The remainder, including the capital
messuage or manor-house, he had conveyed to John
Hawkins of Marcham for a term of 2,000 years, (fn. 103) no
doubt for the purpose of raising money.
Sir Richard Fettiplace, the son of Bessel, (fn. 104) appears
in possession of the manor of Sandford, (fn. 105) but it is
doubtful whether this means only the entailed estate
or whether he had reclaimed the rest from John
Hawkins. He conveyed it in 1612 to Peter Yate,
clerk, and Simon West for purposes not specified. (fn. 106)
The manor does not again appear among the lands
of the Fettiplace family, though they continued to
hold some land here, (fn. 107) which has followed the descent
of their manor of Bessels Leigh (q.v.), and is now held
by Miss Lenthall.
The manor of Sandford is next mentioned in
1639, when it was conveyed by John Walter and
Juliana his wife to William Franklyn. (fn. 108) The Franklyn family continued to hold it for several generations, but very little is known about them. Henry
Franklyn was in possession of the manor in 1689. (fn. 109)
and Frances Franklyn, widow, appears to have sold it
to Charles Broome and Susanna his wife two years
later. (fn. 110) This or another Charles Broome conveyed it
in 1720 to Richard Potenger, (fn. 111) possibly trustee for
John Wright of Oxford, who purchased this manor,
and seems to have died in 1766. (fn. 112) He left it to his
two daughters, Dorothy wife of Edward Atkyns and
Mary Wright. (fn. 113) John Atkyns, apparently the son of
Dorothy, (fn. 114) dealt with a moiety of it in 1788. (fn. 115) He
took the additional name of Wright in 1797, probably on succeeding to the other moiety, (fn. 116) and sold
the whole manor in 1801 to Benjamin Morland (fn. 117)
of Sheepstead in Marcham parish. Mr. Benjamin
Henry Morland, grandson of the latter, died in 1912,
leaving a life interest in Sandford to his sister Elizabeth Morland, with remainder to Mr. John Thornhill
Morland of Abingdon. (fn. 118)
SHIPPON (Scipene, Sipene, xi cent.; Schupene,
xii cent.; Shepyn, xv cent.) was held in the reign of
Edward the Confessor by Eadnoth, the king's constable (fn. 119) or 'staller.' According to the Abingdon
Chronicle (fn. 120) he held the vill of the abbey. The
Domesday Survey, however, which also records the
fact of Eadnoth's tenancy, denies that Shippon belonged in his time to the abbey. (fn. 121) Probably Eadnoth,
who was a person of influence and importance, (fn. 122) had
managed to defy the abbot's claim to overlordship.
Eadnoth's lands here and elsewhere were granted
at the Conquest to Hugh Earl of Chester, (fn. 123) who
before the date of the Domesday Survey conveyed all
his right in the manor of Shippon to the Abbot of
Abingdon. (fn. 124) It was held in 1086 by a certain
Rainald, to whom the abbot had let it out in mortgage. (fn. 125) He was doubtless raising money to pay Earl
Hugh, who did not make a free gift of his lands.
The Abbey Chronicle records that he learnt that the
vill belonged of right to the abbey, and accordingly
made a public renunciation; but it adds that he
demanded in return the sum of £30 and the benefit
of the brethren's prayers for himself and his family. (fn. 126)
The date of this transaction is given as 31 March
1090. (fn. 127) It is obvious from Domesday that there is a
mistake here of some years. The two accounts are
in other respects consistent.
The manor of Shippon was assigned by Abbot
Ingulf (1130–58) to the kitchener of the abbey, (fn. 128)
who in the 12th century derived from it an income of
£9 and 3s. from the court. (fn. 129)
About 1377 he received a
rent of £20 from the demesne
land. (fn. 130)
Shortly after the Dissolution Shippon was assigned to
the duchy of Cornwall. (fn. 131) It
has remained a member of the
duchy down to the present
day. During the Commonwealth it was purchased from
the trustees for the sale of
Crown lands by Martin Wright, an alderman of
Oxford. (fn. 132) He lost it on the Restoration, but received
a grant of £200 out of the fines due on renewals of
leases by the tenants of the manor. (fn. 133)
Duchy Of Cornwall. Sable bezanty.
Churches
The description and history of the
parish church of ST. HELEN are
dealt with under the borough of
Abingdon (q.v.).
The church of ST. HELEN, Dry Sandford, was
built in 1855 of stone in the 13th-century Gothic
style, and consists of a nave of five bays, a chancel of
two bays terminating in a semicircular apse, and a
south porch. Over the chancel arch is a gabled
bellcote containing two bells. The windows are of
lancet form, the roof is of steep pitch and covered with
stone slates. In the churchyard is a timber lych-gate.
The church of ST. MARY MAGDALENE,
Shippon, built in 1855, is of stone in 14th-century
style from the designs of Sir Gilbert Scott. It consists
of chancel, nave, north porch and western turret with
spire.
Advowsons
The chapels of Dry Sandford and
Shippon under the church of St.
Helen existed in 1284 (fn. 134) and are
mentioned again in 1401. (fn. 135) Only Radley and Drayton, however, are mentioned as chapels of St. Helen
in the reign of Henry VIII, (fn. 136) and it seems probable
that those at Dry Sandford and Shippon had fallen
into decay. They were evidently not in use in
1658, when a jury of inquiry reported that the church
of St. Helen was insufficient for the people of Abingdon, with the four county villages of Shippon, Dry
Sandford, Northcourt and Barton. (fn. 137) In 1733, however, the ruins were still visible. (fn. 138) As already stated,
separate ecclesiastical parishes were assigned in 1865
and 1867 to the modern churches described above.
The Bishop of Oxford is the patron of both livings.
Charities
The parish of St. Helen's participates in the charities for the borough
of Abingdon.
Under the scheme for Christ's Hospital the poor
of St. Helen's receive £10 a year in respect of a devise
by a codicil to the will of John Morris, 1681, which
is distributed at the hall of the hospital on Christmas
Eve. Under the same scheme the National school
receives the dividends on £160 consols, amounting to
£4 a year, derived from the will of Richard Mayott,
1715, and also the dividends on £193 5s. 9d. consols,
amounting to £4 16s. 8d., under the will of Martha
King, proved at Oxford 18 November 1869.
Twitty's almshouses, founded and endowed by will
of Charles Twitty dated in 1705, and subsidiary
endowments, consist of the following charities, namely:
Twitty's endowment, the almshouses situate on the
north side of St. Helen's churchyard, trust fund, £310
consols, and an annuity of £60 secured on an estate
called Headington Wyke in the parishes of Headington and Stowood, Oxon.; Edward Beasley's charity,
deed 1817, trust fund, £600 consols; John Bedwell's
charity, will proved in 1799, trust fund, £300 consols;
Samuel Cripps's charity, will dated in 1819, trust
fund, £181 4s. 6d. consols; James Cole's charity, by
codicil to will proved in the P.C.C. 23 December
1835, trust fund, £193 5s. 9d. consols; Martha King's
charity, by codicil to will proved at Oxford 18 November 1862, trust fund, £214 15s. 3d. consols; Thomas
Griffin's charity, will proved in the P.C.C. 8 March
1855, trust fund, £93 17s. 5d. consols; Edwin James
Trendell's charity, will proved at Oxford 2 November
1900, trust fund, £301 consols; Charles King's charity,
will proved in the P.C.C. 16 April 1842, trust fund,
£200 consols; Fanny Pickman's charity, will proved
in the P.C.C. 30 April 1852, trust fund, £200 consols;
the Emma Hyde gift, deed poll 5 May 1904, trust
fund, £1,747 6s. 8d. consols. The several sums of
stock are held by the official trustees, and produce
£108 10s. 4d. in annual dividends.
There are seven houses, the nurse occupying the
centre house and three men and three women the
others, each receiving 8s. a week. Each inmate
(excepting the nurse) also receives 17s. 6d. at Christmas and 3s. 4d. on New Year's Day from Blacknall's
charity. The nurse also receives £1 yearly for
clothing and the almspeople £10 7s. every other year
for clothing among them.
Elizabeth Hawkins's charities, founded by will
proved in the P.C.C. 30 June 1780, for bread, trust
fund, £1,747 6s. 8d. consols, producing £2 0s. 8d. yearly;
for sermons on certain specified days, trust fund,
£135 12s. 6d. consols, producing £3 7s. 8d. yearly;
for church fund, £525 4s. 9d. consols, producing
£13 2s. 8d. yearly. The several sums of stock are
held by the official trustees, the income being duly
applied by the vicar and churchwardens of St. Helen's
and the rural dean of Abingdon.
St. Helen's Church estate now consists of a shop
formerly the inn known as the 'Cock and Bottle' in
Ock Street and two houses and shops adjoining, of
the rental value of £44 a year, and £168 consols,
producing £4 4s. a year. The net income is paid
by the feoffees to the churchwardens and applied
by them for the general purposes of the church of
St. Helen.
The corporation of Abingdon, under their charter
of 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, pay to the vicar of
St. Helen's 5s. a year, (fn. 139) also a further sum of 6s. 8d.,
the origin of which has not been traced. Under
their charter of James II, 1686, the corporation pays
£20 a year to the vicar by way of augmentation of
his benefice.
In 1863 the Rev. Christopher Cleobury, by his
will proved at Salisbury on 31 December, bequeathed
to the poor of St. Helen's, where he was born, the sum
of £100, represented by £108 19s. 11d. consols with
the official trustees, the annual dividends, amounting
to £2 14s. 4d., to be applied in the distribution of
bread, fuel and clothing on St. Thomas's Day.
Ecclesiastical District of Dry Sandford.—Charities
founded by will of Mary Mutrie, proved, with three
codicils, at Oxford 9 August 1865:—
The educational branch, trust fund, £1,007 7s. 9d.
London Corporation 3 per cent. stock, producing
£30 4s. 4d. yearly, which is applicable under a
scheme of 2 January 1883 for the benefit of any
public elementary school in Dry Sandford.
The non-educational branch, trust fund, £1,000
like stock, producing £30 a year, of which £10 is
applicable under the same scheme in the distribution
of fuel, and £10 in clothing among the poor inhabitants of Dry Sandford, and £10 in supporting the
burial-place of the testatrix's family at Bessels Leigh.
The two sums of stock are held by the official trustees.
The same testatrix bequeathed £1,000 stock for
the endowment of the benefice, which in 1882, on
the determination of certain life interests, was transferred to the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty.
Charity of Benjamin Pratt, by will proved at
London 13 June 1862, consisting of trust fund, £288
consols with the official trustees, producing £7 4s.
yearly, which is received by the incumbent of Dry
Sandford.