Reference
X21/9
Title
Harlington Charity
Date free text
9 Oct 1683
Production date
From: 1683 To: 1683
Scope and Content
Inquisition at the White Hart, Ampthill, before 6 (sic) Commissioners (William Daniel, Richard Stone, John Lowe, Montague Pickering, Samuel Rhodes, Simon Urlin and Thomas Cheny), appointed 2 August to conduct enquiry under Act 43 Elizabeth to redress the misemployment of lands etc given to charitable uses.
Jury: Thomas Arnald of Ampthill, John Beale, Thomas Bigge of Toddington, Richard Denbigh of Beckerings, Thomas Skiling of Holcote/Holcot?, John Pitkin junior of Kempston, William Bedell of Wilstead, John Odell of Salford, Matthew Ansell of Shillington, Charles Richards of Ampthill, Thomas Crawley of Milton Bryant, Simon Taylor of Woburn.
The rents of the lands specified below, to the value of £5.9s per annum, have for 40 years, been taken by Sir Francis Wingate or by his mother Lettice, and they have paid only £1,6s 8d to the churchwardens.
Francis Wingate senior, pulled down a house; and he and his father John (grandfather of Sir Francis) pulled down the boundary hedges; and Sir Francis recently cut down 2 oaks, value 40s.
----- Lands in question: A toft, 1/2 acre, or piece of pasture ground whereon a house stood; Churchwicks pightle, 1 acre; a close 1 acre, next Long Lane (leading from Harlington to Grange Mill); 2 acres 1 rood in the open fields: Near Wadloeford; Church balk leading into Middle Mead; in Hord Field behind Froghall house and before Froghall gate, beyond the bridge, next Sharpenhoe Field, abutting on the brook, a place called the Munt, and at Fordstone leading to Sundon Holt. Names mentioned: John Coles, Thomas Fells, William Sinfield and Samuel Page.
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