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| Folios 45-47. Letter from John D Taylor [John Dobede Taylor], Clerk to the Guardians of the Bishops Stortford Poor Law Union, to Edwin Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor Law Commission, enclosing: Sale of Parish Property Form 1 dated 14 February 1838. The Much Hadham parish officers and inhabitants request the Bishops Stortford Poor Law Union guardians to apply to the Poor Law Commissioners to consent to the selling of parish property including a dwelling, a barn, outbuildings, yards and a garden (the garden being let to William Green at an annual rent of £6, but formerly used as a bowling green) to the value of £600, the whole being copyhold by the Manor of the Rectory of Much Hadham where Thomas Randolph is Rector; situated in the Street of Much Hadham, formerly an inn called The Saracen's Head, later called The White Lion, but most recently used as the Much Hadham Workhouse. The premises are subject to a fine of two year's value on death or alienation and to an annual 'quit rent' of two shillings and sixpence, being vested in Jonathan Woor, a yeoman aged 44 years of Much Hadham, Andrew Speller the younger, a plumber and glazier aged 48 years of Much Hadham and James Chambers, a yeoman aged 33 years of Much Hadham, all of whom were made trustees of Much Hadham Parish at a court held on 14 April 1829. The proceeds of the sale, after deduction for expenses and the cost of enfranchisement, to be spent for the permanent advantage of the parish after the payment of £200 to Thomas Samuel Mott of Much Hadham due to him under a mortgage from 1774, then the payment of £65, also to Mott, being the balance of money originally lent by Sir Richard Knight (deceased) for the purchase of the premises, but paid off by Mott in 1828. Dated 14 February 1838 and signed by James Knight and John Clark, Churchwardens, James Chapman and E H Anthony, Overseers. Also named are Thomas Randolph, Rector, William G Times, Thomas Samuel Mott, Thomas Morris, William Randle, Andrew Speller, John Wilson, Francis Moore, William Green, R Thurgood, James Spencer, John Chambers and Richard Woor. Sale of Parish Property Form 2 to the Poor Law Commissioners for 'consent to sale' concerning the above described property. Dated 9 March 1838 and signed by the following guardians: Frederick Chaplin of Bishops Stortford, W Stacey of Bishops Stortford, William Whitehead of Great Hallingbury, Charles Hicks of Stansted, James Clements of Bishops Stortford, William Chapman of Little Hadham, [William illegible] of Henham, Thomas Green of Thorley, George Billings of Sawbridgeworth, Joseph Garritt of Sawbridgeworth and [Chamberlain Vale] of Braughin. Annotated: to request the earliest grant of the property and the last admissions and abstracts. It states that the mortgage may be discharged but the sum of £65 may not. Finally it states that the enfranchisement will result in a deduction from the price of the sale of the freehold which will go to the Rector and cannot be appropriated other than by a voluntary agreement. Paper Number: 2660/A/1838. Poor Law Union Number 167. Counties: Hertfordshire and Essex. |
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