BRAUGHING HUNDRED bishops stortford 



by a saddler, in which is a ceiling ornamented with 

 some plaster work similar to that in the hall at Wind 

 Hill House. 39 Several other houses on the same side 

 of the street have gabled roofs. An old house called 

 Feckinghams or Fockinghams in Basbow Lane was 

 polled down between 1870 and 1880 by the owner, 

 Mr. G. E. Sworder. 40 



The most important event in the later history of 

 the town was the construction of the canal called 

 the Stort Navigation by George Jackson (afterwards 

 Sir George Duckett, bart.), under Act of Parlia- 

 ment passed in 1 765. 41 The canal was begun 

 in 1766 and finished in 1769. The improved 

 water communication stimulated the manufacture of 

 malt, which has always been the chief industry. 4 ' 

 Between 1 801 and 1 89 1 the population increased 



about fifteen years ago by Messrs. Benskins. Other 

 industries include brickfields, limekilns, coach and 

 sacking works, a hatters' furrier manufactory, and a 

 foundry. The corn exchange at the corner of 

 Market Place was built in i8a8. 44 The fairs held 

 on Holy Thursday and Thursday after Trinity Sunday 

 were abolished in 1893, but the corn market is still 

 held in Market Square and cattle and poultry markets 

 at Northgate End and North Street. The tolls have 

 been recently given to the town by Sir Walter Gilbey, 

 bart., lord of the manor, and are now collected by the 

 urban district council. 4B 



Petty sessions were held at Bishop's Stortford for 

 that parish, Thorley and Sawbridgcworth before 

 1832, but it was not until that year that it was 

 nake a separate division of those parishes, 



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from 2,305 to 6,595, an unusual increase for a rural 

 parish. 43 The opening of the Great Eastern railway 

 also increased the trade, and large quantities of malt 

 are now exported to London. The old Stortford 

 Brewery, which occupies a large site between Water 

 Lane and Northgate End, was founded by Messrs. 

 Hawker & Co. in the 1 8th century, and was bought 



i-tivii-I-, 



, Bishop's Stortford 



which were then included in the divis 

 but were said to comprise together more thar. _._ 

 third of the population of the hundred of Braughing." 

 Stortford was made the head of the new petty 

 sessional division thus formed. The sessions are held 

 at the police station. In 1866 the Local Govern- 

 ment Act was adopted by the parish, 1 ' and a board 



39 Information supplied by Major F. 

 Skeet. 



40 For this house see Com. Pleas D. 

 Enr. Mich. 39 Eliz. ; Hil. 6 Chas. I, m. 9. 



" Glasscock, Rec. of St. Michaels, 

 Bishop's Stortford. Sir George Duckett is 

 buried in die churchyard. As George 

 Jackson he was for many years secretary 

 to the Navy Board and Admiralty. Port 

 Jackson In New Zealand and Port Jackson 

 in New South Wales were called after 



1 by his 



take the n 



friend Captain Cook the 

 e was created a baronet in 

 1797 he obtained licence to 

 : and arras of Duckett, his 

 wile being an heiress of that family. See 

 Duthetiana, by Sir G. F. Duckett, and 

 G.E.C. Baronetage, v, 273. 



"About 1636 the justices of the 

 peace for Hertford returned lhat the 

 maltsters of Stortford and other towns 

 in the county were chiefly employed in 



2.J5 



making malt for the provision of the 

 houses of the neighbouring gentry, who 

 sent their own barley to them for this 

 purpose {Cal. S P. Dom. .636-7, P- 3*3). 

 18 Hens, and Esse 



1901. 



', 3° 



•. of Her. 



Hund. 109. 



" Information fromMr. J. L. Glassco 

 16 Sets. R. (Herts. Co. Reel, ii, - 3 S 

 47 Load. Gas. 7 Dec. 1866, p. 6S35 



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