HN10/353/Roberts1

Letter from Joseph K. Aston, secretary and treasurer for the Bounty Office of 8 Deans Yard, Westminster to Rev. J.M. Hamilton concerning the benefice of Ridgmont… 'In reply to your letter of the 4th inst. I send you the particulars respecting the origins &c of capital held in trust by the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for the Benefice of Ridgmont: - Date: 1728 Grant from Queens Anne's Bounty: £200 Private Benefaction: £200 Property acquired: Expended in 1763 in the purchase of the N end of a messuage of 20a 3r 0p and a gore part enclosed in Lidlington with common right - a moiety of 1a 2r 11p of this property was sold in 1847 to the London & Northern Western Railway Company and the proceeds invested in £214/8/8 Reduced This stock is still in hand. - 1801, 200; - 1815, 1200; This sum was invested in £1357/17/- Reduced and is still in hand. - 1850, 200; to meet a Rent-charge of £20 per annum private Benefaction. - 1851, 200; to meet a Rent-charge of £20 per annum private Benefaction. The grants of 1801, 1850 & 1851 together £600 money are still in hand. The Governors have also received an account of Tithe Redemptions the sum of £85/10/- which they invested in £88/0/7 Reduced upon the money and sums of Stocks above referred to, interest and dividends are paid to you amounting to the gross annual sum of £69/6/2'. The letter also includes a return of church property and revenues made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the 17th Nov 1887: - 'Permanent Gross Income of Benefice Rent of Land: £22/10/-. - Acerage of land belonging to living 11a or 11p - Situation of land belonging to Lidlington, Bedfordshire - Situation of land belonging to Segenhoe, Ridgmont - The land at Lidlington was demised from a private Benefaction of £200 (A.D.1728) met by a grant of £200 from 2.A.B. and produces £21/10/- per annum. - The land was purchased A.D. 1763 - Tithe Rent charge commuted at £40 Grant from Common Fund Ecc: Commissioners £50 - Payment from Ecclesiastical Commissioners in respect of Benefaction £50 - The Benefaction of £1500 was given by William 8th Duke of Bedford - Queens Anne's Bounty - Grants £60/4/8 interest on £1957/17/- stock - Dividends on stock £6/8/8 on £214/8/8 - Dividends on stock £2/12/10 on £88/-/7 - The stock £214/8/8 was the proceeds of a sale to the London & Northern Western Railway Company of a moiety of the Glebe Land at Lidlington refereed to above - The stock £88/-/7 was purchased by £85/10/- which was the sum paid for the redemption of the small tithe (£2/4/8) on Brogboro' Farm and 12/- on land at Segenhoe - The sum £4 is paid by Duke of Bedford as stipend to the Vicar: this is an original charge on Duke of Bedford's Estate - The average outgoings on repairs to glebe £2/17/1'.

9 Nov 1887, 17 Nov 1887

From: 1887 To: 1887

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Aston, Joseph K.,
Queen Anne's Bounty,
Hamilton, J.M.,
London & North Western Railway Company,
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England,
Bedford, William, 8th Duke of

Queen Anne's Bounty, clergy names index, tithes, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, glebe, Ridgmont Brogborough Farm, stipends, RIDGMONT, LIDLINGTON, Segenhoe, BROGBOROUGH