A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



9. George Smyth, for poor, by will proved 1871, 

 irust fund, £j6z 1 8j. io</ consols. 



The several sum; of stock, amounting in the aggre- 

 gate to £i,6j2 7/. consols, are held by the official 

 trustees, producing an annual income of £\\ 16/. 



The scheme provides that the full number of alms- 

 people shall be eight in number and that every alms- 

 person shall be in receipt of a properly secured income 

 of not less than 5/. a week, either from the charities 

 or other sources, a yearly sum of not more than 

 £58 10;. out of the net income of the charities to be 

 applied for this purpose. The residue of the income 

 is directed to be applied for the benefit of the poor 

 generally, including donations to a dispensary, hospital, 

 &c., or any provident club ; also in contributions 

 towards the provision of nurses, and also to the extent 

 of .£10 a year in the distribution of articles in kind 

 and in medical aid in sickness. 



Charity of Rev. Thomas Alleyn for four poor 



men . M — The sum of £$ 61. 8</. is received from 



Trinity College, Cambridge, and duly applied. 



In 1668 the Rev. Thomas Chapman by his will 

 devised certain messuages and lands in Stevenage, 

 subject to the payment of £8 per annum, to buy 

 cloth and bread for the poor of this parish, Ashwell, 

 St. Paul's Warden and Norton. The property charged 

 has been sold, and, being difficult of identification, the 

 payments have ceased to be made. 



'The Eadon Fund' consists of £113 cj>. U. 

 Tasmaniao Government 3 per cent, inscribed stock, 

 arising under the will of Elinor Maria Frederics 

 Eadon, proved at London 4 January 1902. The 

 stock is held by the official trustees, and the annual 

 dividend, amounting to £$ 8/., is in pursuance of a 

 scheme, joNovember 1909, applicable in apprenticing 

 a boy who is a baptized member of the Church of 

 England, the income to accumulate until sufficient 

 for the purpose. 



TOTTERIDGE 



Taterugg, Titerege (xiii and xiv cent.) ; Tate- 

 ryche, Th.iriges, Taregh (xv and xvi cent.) ; Tatte- 

 ridge (xvii cent.). 



The parish of Totteridge is entirely separate from 

 the rest of the hundred, and lies about IO miles 

 south of Hatfield. It was till 1892 a detached 

 chapelry of Hatfield parish, being an outlying part of 

 the possessions of the Bishops of Ely, lords of the 

 manor of Hatfield. It adjoins the parish of Arkley 

 on the north, and on the south, east and west is 

 surrounded by the neighbouring parishes of Middlesex. 

 The Dollis Brook forms the eastern boundary. 



The parish has an area of 1,603 acre '> °f which 

 »o .ere. are arable land, i.ia+j acre, permanent 

 grass and 2 acres wood. 1 The subsoil is London 

 Clay. 



The land attains a height of 400 ft. in the 

 centre of the parish, from which it falls toward, 

 the north and south to a little und^r 300 ft., and 

 in the cast, towards the Dollis Brook, to about 

 230 ft. The road from Whetstone to Mill Hill 

 runs through the parish from east to west along 

 the central ridge, and the long and straggling village 

 of Totteridge follows its course. At the eastern end 

 is Totteridge Green, which runs south from the 

 road, towards Laurel Farm. A short distance further 

 up the hill westwards is the church of St. Andrew,on 

 the north side of the road, and Copped Hall, with 

 an extensive park, on the opposite side. Near the 

 hall is a l"th-century timber barn with a tiled roof, 

 and a similar barn is near the church. Further west 

 along the village street are the Grange, the property 

 of Sir Charles Nicholson, and Totteridge Park, on 

 the site of the old manor-house, the re>iicnce of 

 Mr. A. Barratt. Poynter's Hall (formerly when in 

 the possession of the Paget family called Poynter's 

 Grove) is the residence of Mrs. Harms.vorth ; the 

 old house called the Priory that of Mis; Fo.s. 



Richard Baxter, the Nonconformist divine and 

 author, lived for a time at Totteridge after his dis- 



quoting Inq. of ii- 



charge from prison in the reign of Charles II. Rachel 

 Lady Russell also had a house in this parish whc:e 

 she sometimes resided after the execution of Lord 

 Russell. 



The nearest railway station is that of Totteridge 

 and Whetstone, a short distance beyond the eastern 

 boundary of the p.iriih, on the High Barnet branch 

 of the Great Northern railway. 



TOTTERIDGE is not mentioned in 

 MJSORS the Domesday Survey. The first record 

 of it seems to be in 1248, when Hugh 

 Bishop of Ely received licence 'that during any 

 vacancy of the see four chaplains appointed by the 

 said bishop to celebrate mass daily for the souls of the 

 king and queen, his ancestors and successors, and for 

 the souls of the bishop, his predecessors and suc- 

 cessors, shall receive yearly from the issues of the 

 manors of Totteridge and Brumford, which the said 

 bishop bought for that purpose, 20 marks by the 

 hands of the keepers of the said manors, 10 marks at 

 Michaelmas at the Exchequer of Ely and io marks at 

 Lady Day.' 2 It seems probable that the bishop had 

 bought out the under-tenant and that the manor had 

 always been an outlying member of Hatfield, for as 

 parochially Totteridge was a chapelry of Hatfield 

 there must have been some ancient connexion between 

 the two places, and in 1277 it was returned as 

 'accustomed to return half a knight's fee in the 

 manor of Hatfield.' 3 In the second half of the 1 3th 

 century the manor seems to have been held by 

 Laurence de Brok for life, for in 1275 Matilda 

 widow of Laurence claimed a third of the manor in 

 dower from Bishop Hugh and had it duly delivered.' 

 Possibly Laurence de Brok was the tenant who sold 

 the manor to the Bishop of Ely. 



The Bishops of Ely continued to hold the manor 6 

 until 1561, being allowed to keep it when the manor 

 of Hatfield was sold to the king in j 538.° In 1 561, 

 however, Totteridge was acquired by Queen Elizabeth 

 in exchange for a pension to the bishop. 7 Before 



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