BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



J. Briant, 1787 ; the seventh, dated 1668, and the 

 eighth, 1652, both by Anthony Bartlett. 



The communion plate consists of cup and cover 

 paten, 1660, and modern chalice, paten and flagon. 



The registers are in five books, as follows : (1) 

 baptisms 1546 to 1675, burials 1546 to 1679, 

 marriages 1546 to 1674; (ii) baptisms and burials 

 1679 to 1730, marriages 1680 to 1729 ; (ill) 

 baptisms and burials 1734 to 18 12, marriages 1734 

 to 1753 ; (iv) and (v) marriages 1754 to 1772 and 

 1772 to 1812. 



A priest is included among the 



JDVQWSON tenants of Hunsdon Manor recorded 



in the Domesday Survey, and the 



church is mentioned in the taxation of Pope Nicholas 



(1291). 6 At this date Merton Priory possessed an 



HUNSDON 



with the manor,™ and henceforward follower. I the 

 same descent." After the death of Mr. Charles 

 James Phelips in 1903 Hunsdon advowson was sold 

 o Mr. John Henry Buxton, the present P a " on - 



The Poor's Land and Stock 

 CHARITIES Charities are regulated by a scheme 

 of the Charity Commissioners 17 

 January 1906. They comprise the charities of : 



1 George, Lord Hunsdon, founded by will 

 proved in P.C.C. 27 September 1603, under which 

 he gave a sum of money which was invested m 

 land for the benefit of the poor of Eastw 1C k and 

 Hunsdon. . 



2. Henry, Lord Hunsdon, founded by indenture 

 dated 1 February 1615. The endowment of these 

 two charities originally consisted of four pieces of land 



Hunsdon Church 



annual pension of ^8 from Hunsdon Church, 7 and in 

 1350 we find the lord of Hunsdon Manor (John 

 Engayne) suing the Prior of Merton for the right of 

 presentation to the living. 8 There is no record of 

 the termination of the suit, but Merton continued to 

 present until the Dissolution. The copy of a patent 

 granting the advowson of Hunsdon Church to the 

 Prior and convent of Merton Abbey is said to have 

 been in the possession of Thomas Cromwell, 9 but no 

 further trace of this patent has been found. The 

 advowson seems to have passed to Sir Henry Carey 



known respectively as Godfrey's Piece, Puke's Piece, 

 the Town Lands and Oldburys, which were sold in 

 1905 and the proceeds invested in stock. The en- 

 dowment for the parish of Hunsdon consists of £448 

 North-Eastern Railway 4 per cent. Guaranteed Stock, 

 producing £iy 18s. 4J. yearly, and ^30 13/. 1 id. 

 consols, producing 15.1. 4^. yearly. (See also under 

 parish of Eastwick.) 



3. Robert Chester, founded by will dated in 1 730. 

 The endowment originally consisted of land called 

 Mallons, containing about 1 z acres, which was sold 



« Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec Com.), ii 



7 He still held this pension in 

 (Feud. Aids, ii, 466), but there is no r 

 of it at the Dissolution. 



8 DeBancoR.j62,m.J9d.j363,n 



9 L. and P. Hit,. Fill, ? 



10 See Memo. R. Mich. 2 

 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bka 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Si 



, 9n W- ofF.Div. Co. Hil. 18 & 19 Chas.H; 



as. I, rot. So; Herts. East. 23 Chas. II ; Recov. R. 



txiii, 240. Mich. 17 Geo. II, rot. 379 ; Hil. 19 



z), ccxh-i, Geo. Ill, rot. 23 ; Feet of F. Herts, 



v, 9; j Feet Ttin. 46 Geo. Ill ; last. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



