A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



Adam de Brome, the founder of Oriel College, 

 Oxford, was rector of Hanworth in 1315."' Of 

 his early life nothing is known. He was Chan- 

 cellor of Durham in 1316, Archdeacon of Stowe 

 in 1319, and was made vicar of St. Mary's, Ox- 

 ford, in the same year. He obtained a licence to 

 found a college at Oxford in 1324, and died in 



Samuel Croxall, D.D., whose well-known 

 Aesop' i Fables were published in 1722, was the son 

 of the Rev. Samuel Croxall, rector of Hanworth, 

 and of Walton on Thames. 1 " 



In i 548 there was a ' guild church ' "' in Han- 

 worth, to which belonged a church-house used for 

 the 'assembelling of officers of the guild to drinck 

 and thereat to gather money for the reparacion of 

 the church.' '" This house may perhaps be the 

 same as a tenement in Hanworth which was in 

 the occupation of the guardian of the church 

 for the support of a 'gildar' or 'church iles,' 

 granted in 1562 to Cecilia Pickerell, widow of 

 John Pickerell, in part payment of a debt owed to 

 her late husband by Edward, Duke of Somerset, 

 in whose household John Pickerell occupied the 

 posts of treasurer and confessor. 1 " 



In 1745 the Right Hon. Lord 



CHARITIES Vere Beauclerk gave an annuity of 



6 for the poor chargeable upon 



certain copyhold property. The annuity is paid 

 by Mr. Alfred Lafone, of Hanworth Park. 



Poor's Land. Under the Hanworth Inclosure 

 Act (40 Geo. Ill), 33. I r. lip. were allotted to 

 the churchwardens and overseers, now represented 

 by the parish council, let at 14 a year. 



Fuel Allotment. Under the same Act an allot- 

 ment, containing 173. i r. 9 p., was awarded for 

 the poor in compensation for the right of procur- 

 ing fuel. The land is let at 60 a year, which, 

 together with the income of the preceding chari- 

 ties, was in 1906 distributed in coals to 200 

 persons. 



In 1820 the Rev. James Burges, D.D., gave 

 1,500 consols to the rector of Hanworth in 

 trust to promote the education of youth. The 

 charity is regulated by scheme of the Charity Com- 

 missioners dated 12 April 1878. 



By an order dated 15 October 1897, made 

 under the Local Government Act, 1894, 500 

 consols, one-third part thereof, was apportioned 

 as the Ecclesiastical Charity of Dr. Burges, and 

 1,000 consols, two-third parts thereof, as the 

 Educational Charity of Dr. Burges. The trust 

 funds are held by the official trustees. The 

 dividends of 12 los. and 25 are applied for 

 purposes connected with the Sunday school and 

 for educational purposes respectively. 



LALEHAM 



Leleham (xi cent.) ; Lalham, Lelham (xiii-xv 

 cent.) ; Laneham (xvi cent.). 



The parish of Laleham lies on the level ground 

 between the road from Staines to Kingston and 

 the River Thames. It is long and wedge-shaped, 

 the point of the wedge lying towards the south, 

 and the Thames forms almost the whole of the 

 western boundary. There is no railway line in 

 the parish, and the nearest stations are at Staines, 

 zj miles to the north-west, and at Shepperton, 

 2i miles to the east. The main road from Staines 

 to Kingston runs just within the northern boun- 

 dary, and roads from Staines, Ashford, and Shep- 

 perton converge on the village. The parish is 

 sparsely wooded, and is laid out almost entirely 

 in fields. The village lies near the Thames, about 

 midway betueen the northern and southern ex- 

 tremities of the parish. It is a typical river village 

 of the kind that is found on the lower reaches of 

 the Thames. The pleasant street, very quiet 

 except in the summer months, winds among 

 private houses and shops, and after passing round 

 the church, widens out into the road to Ashford, 

 and the houses continue northwards. A new street 

 of small villas ha? been 1 uilt towards the river, 

 and there are a few houses of the bungalow type 

 facing the tow-path. The Thames is here com- 

 paratively wide, and a fine open stretch affords 



"' Diet. Nat. Biag. vi, 392. 



Ibid, niii, 246. 



111 Possibly thi meant that part of 



good mooring for the house-boats which lie along 

 its banks in the summer. There is no bridge over 

 the Thames in this parish, Chertsey Bridge lying 

 just beyond the boundary, but a ferry (punt) plies 

 from a point near the village to the opposite 

 Surrey bank. 



A triangular piece of ground of about 200 acres 

 on the Surrey side of the river is known as Lale- 

 ham Burway. It is part of an island formed by 

 an offshoot of the main stream, and is divided 

 from the Abbey Mead of Chertsey on the south by 

 a stream called the Burway Ditch, and by another 

 stream from the meadow of Mixnams on the 

 north. This land is included in Chertsey parish, 

 and belongs to the manor of Laleham. It is men- 

 tioned as the Island of Burgh in the original en- 

 dowment of Chertsey Abbey between 666 and 

 675, 1 and is described as separated from Mixten- 

 ham by water, which formed part of the boundary 

 of the abbey lands," but it is not clear which of 

 the two lay within the bounds of the abbey. 

 Tradition says that the Burway originally belonged 

 to Chertsey, and that in a time of great scarcity 

 and famine the inhabitants of Laleham supplied 

 the abbey with necessaries which those of Chertsey 

 could not, or would not provide, in return for 

 which the abbot granted them the use of this 

 piece of ground.' Whatever the truth of this 



the church was used by the gild ; or 

 that they had a chapel there. 



la8 Chant. Cert. 34, no. 167. 



lss Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. iii, m. 40. 



396 



1 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 55-6. 



Cott. MS. Vit. A. xiii. 



' Manning, Hist. afSurr. iii, 104. 



