Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BS562
  • Title
    Bedford: Christie Charity. Draft memorandum to the Lord Chancellor by the Attorney General, on the information of John Hempsted, vicar of St Pauls and All Saints, Bedford, that the management of the Christie charity has been taken out of his hands. [Details given]
  • Date free text
    No date, probably 1782 - 1784
  • Production date
    From: 1782 To: 1784
  • Admin/biog history
    BRA Stamp 328 from Messrs Farrer & Co
  • Scope and Content
    Details given: Thomas Christie of Bedford, esquire, was seised in fee simple of the impropriate rectories of St Pauls and All Saints. By his will, 10 May 1697, he charged them with the following payments after the death of his wife (the rectories being her jointure; till her death the payments were to be charged on the testator's lands at Wootton): 52 shillings yearly to the churchwardens and overseers both of St Pauls and St Marys, to provide a dozen loaves weekly for distribution to the poor after the morning service; and one shilling weekly to each of the inhabitants of eight almshouses built by him. He also devised the said rectories and the site of the almshouses on trust to brother Samuel, and failing his heirs to cousin Samuel, to repair the chancel and almshouses; the residue to be paid to the vicar of St Pauls. Thomas Christie died 9 July 1697; his widow 4 September 1709; Samuel Christie did not execute the trusts, and therefore the then vicar [apparently A Leith, died 1732; F Hunt, 1732 - 1738; R Lambe, 1738 - 1749] took over the execution of them. William Smith [1749 - 1782] leased the tithes to Thomas Field for £70 per annum. On the death of William Smith, the patron, Lord Carteret, presented the said John Hempsted to the living. Thereupon Christie Skinner, claiming to be the heir-at-law of Samuel Christie, took over the management of the trust, ordered repairs or adornments costing £36 to be made to the chancel and almshouses, substituted Edward Read Thong as lessee of the tithes, claimed dues for burial in the chancel, and has rendered no account to the vicar.
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