BROADWATER HUNDRED LITT le munden 



ora pro nobis ' and maker's mark D. I. (John Danyell) ; 

 (3) b yJ- Briant, 1816 ; (4) a mid- 15th-century bell, 

 with inscription 'Sit nomen Domini benedictum' 

 and the royal arms, which is probably also by John 

 Danyell ; (5) by Warner & Sons, 1859; and 

 (6) modern. 



The plate consists of a silver chalice and a silver 

 paten ; there is also a flagon. 



The registers begin in 1680, and are contained in 

 two books : (i) baptisms 1610 to 1812, burials 1680 

 to 18 1 2, marriages 1680 to 1753; (ii) marriages 

 1754 to 1812. 



The advowson of the church be- 



JDFOlf'SON longed to the lords of the manor 4 



until about 1 81 8, when it was sold 



to Francis Riddel Reynolds, who presented in 1819.' 



He sold it about 1 830 to the Rev. C. Jollands, 6 who 



d hold it until 1867, when it was acquired 



Meeting-places for Protestant Dissenters in Little 

 Munden were registered from 1709 onwards. In 

 1809 a chapel was registered, 12 but there is now no 

 Nonconformist place of worship in the parish. 



This parish was in possession of 

 CHARITIES detached pieces of land and cottages 

 which were supposed to have been 

 derived under a devise by will of Ralph Fordham, dated 

 in 1 591. The land and two cottages were sold in 

 1886, and the proceeds invested in £399 5/. consols 

 with the official trustees, producing £9 1 9/. 4^. yearly. 



In the parliamentary returns of 1786 it is stated 

 that donations amounting to £60, being the gifts of 

 Thomas Hall, 1643, John Kent, 1665, and others, 

 were made for bread to the poor. These gifts are 

 now represented by £69 9/. \d. consols with the 

 official trustees, producing £1 14/. 8^. yearly. 



In 1883 George Pooley by his will, proved at 



Little Munden Church : The N 



by Lieut.-Col. Loyd. 7 The latter died about 1891, 

 when the advowson passed to his wife, who held it 

 until 1 900. 8 It continued in the hands of her trustees 

 for the next two years, after which it came into the 

 possession of Mr. Llewellyn Loyd, the present patron. 5 



Early in the 1 3th century a vicarage seems to have 

 been endowed, for upon the presentation of Andrew 

 de Scales by William de Scales, which must have 

 occurred shortly before 1209, a vicarage was reserved 

 to William de Standon. This vicarage consisted of 

 1 acre of land, the tithes of the whole parish, and of 

 the vill of Haultwick. 10 This arrangement seems to 

 have been only temporary. 



In 133; William de Munden had licence for an 

 oratory in his manor in the parish of Munden Frevill. 11 



London 29 June, bequeathed £1,000, the income 

 to be applied towards the maintenance and support 

 of the poor under the title of 'The George and 

 Mary Ann Pooley Trust.' The legacy was invested 

 in £984 os. 2d. consols with the official trustees, 

 producing £24 12s. yearly. The income of these 

 charities was in 1908 applied mainly in bonuses to 

 members of coal and clothing clubs, interest on 

 children's bank, and in temporary relief in money. 



In 1906 Joseph Singleton by will, proved 25 June, 

 left a legacy, represented by £269 12s. Sd. consols 

 with the official trustees, the annual dividends, amount- 

 ln S t0 £fi I 4- f - 8a 1 ., to be applied in bread (or in 

 such way as minister approves) for poor of sixty years 

 of age and upwards on 1 January yearly. 



"> Rot. Hug. Wills (Cant. and YorkSoc), 

 s Ibid. i, 94. " Line. Epia. Reg. Burghersh. 



11 Utwick, op. cit. 600. 



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