BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



£1 131. \d. yearly, which is distributed to the poor 

 in the same manner as Blossom's Charity. 



In 1694 William Delawood by his will gave £5 

 yearly to the poor. The annuity is paid out of an 

 estate called Hormead Hall, and is distributed to 

 the poor in the same manner as Blossom's Charity. 



By an award made in pursuance of an inclosure in 

 i8i2 60 a piece of land containing 2a. 36p. was 

 allotted for a public stone and gravel-pit. The land 

 was sold in 1854 and the proceeds invested in 

 £109 14/. consols in the names of four trustees. 



The annual dividends, amounting to £2 *4 ; 

 are applied towards the repair of the roads. 



In 1710 Marmaduke Tenant, by his will 

 7 February, gave £4 yearly out of a farm called 

 Street Farm for instructing eight poor boys, 

 sum is received by the school managers. 



The Congregational Chapel Manse and 

 Property comprised in indentures of 18 May 

 and 1 3 November 1 844, and indenture of ^ 2 1 

 1888, is regulated by a scheme of the Charity 

 missioners dated 3 June 1908. 



This 



Trust 

 1803 

 June 



Com- 



EASTWICK 



Flore 



ind oi 



Esteuiche (xi cent.) ; Estuic (xii cent.) ; 

 Estwyk, Estwyke (xiii cent.) ; Estwyk at 

 (xiv cent.) ; Eastuick (xvi cent.). 



The parish of Eastwick is a narrow strip of 1 

 840 acres lying between the parishes of Gilston and 

 Hunsdon. On the south it is bounded by the stream 

 called Canons Brook, which here divides Hertfordshire 

 from Essex. The height above sea level is greatest in 

 the north, where it attains about 260 ft. in Eastwick 

 Wood. The village stands about 135ft. above ordnance 

 datum and from it the land slopes still further to the 

 banks of the Stort Navigation and Canons Brook, a 

 district much liable to floods. In 1905 there were 

 422J acres of arable land, 152^ of permanent grass 

 and 118 of woods and plantations in this parish. 1 

 The geological formation is London Clay. 



There is no line of railway within the parish. 

 The chief road is a branch road from the main road 



to Newmarket, which 

 village and thence runs 

 the Stort Navigation, to 

 at its south-eastern com 

 the church is situated ii 

 the Stort, is very small. 



nters the parish at Eastwick 

 westward along the valley of 

 enter the parish of Hunsdon 

 r. The village, which with 

 the south of the parish near 

 The rectory stands close by 



the manor-house of Eastwick Ha 



A road leads to it from 



inder the name of Cock- 



:k Wood in the extreme north 



the r 





the chui 



descendants of the founder of Bourne Abbey through 

 the marriage of Baldwin's daughter Emma to Hugh 

 Wake. s Baldwin Wake, lord 

 of Liddell in Cumberland and 

 descendant of this Hugh, was 

 holding Eastwick in chief of 

 the king at the time of the 

 Testa de Neviti, 7 and died 

 seised of it in 1282. 8 The 

 overlordship descended with 

 the barony of Wake' till the 

 death of Edmund Earl of 

 Kent in 1408 without issue, 

 when the rights of overlord- 

 ship in Eastwick, if not already 

 lapsed, are no longer traceable. 



In 1086 the tenant in demes 

 Geoffrey de Bech was Rainald, 

 nothing further 



the church ; 

 considerably 

 the village ai 

 robin Lane t( 



of this parish, and thence into Sawbridgeworth. In 

 Eastwick Wood is the fragment of a homestead moat. 

 At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 MANOR the manor of EASTWICK was held by 

 Geoffrey de Bech, successor to Ilbert, the 

 first Norman sheriff of the county.' It is not known 

 i the heir or successor of Geoffrey de Bech, 

 ;i38 Baldwin son of Gilbert de Clare gave 

 rch of Eastwick to the abbey of Bourne in 

 :, by his foundation charter to that monas- 

 tery.* It seems reasonable to suppose that Eastwick 

 Manor was also in his hands at that date, for early in 

 the 13th century it is found forming part of the 

 honour of Bourne (Brunne),' held by the Wakes, the 



i at Eastwick under 



of whom, however, 



In the 1 2th century it 



eld by the family of Tany, of whom Ascolf de 



Tany is found holding 

 eirly as 1131, 11 and various 

 other members of the Tany 

 family occur frequently with 

 such holdings on the 12th- 

 century Pipe Rolls and in the 

 Red Book of the Exchcq-ier. * 

 The earliest specific mention 

 of a Tany at Eastwick is, 

 however, in 11 94, when 

 Richard de Tany, son of 

 Reginald de Tany, 13 sued the 

 Abbot of Bourne in Lincoln- 

 shire for the right of pre- 

 sentation to the church of 

 Eastwick." Early in the 13th 

 Tany held ' two fees in " 

 the honour of Bourne,' '* 

 another Richard son of 

 whom Henry III made 

 weekly market on Tuesday and 1 

 feast and morrow of St. Botolph. 



E< -■ 



ind Herts.' 



mtury Richard de 

 Eastwick and Bengeo of 

 and later in the century 

 Peter was holding, 16 to 

 grants of fre< 



the vigil, 

 2S3-" This 



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