BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



The living of St. James, High Wych, is a vicarage 

 in the gift of the vicar of S a wb ridge worth. 



The Sawbridgeworth United Cha- 

 CHJRITIES rities are regulated by a scheme of 

 the Charity Commissioners dated 

 6 March 1908. They comprise : — 



1. The Church and Poor Lands (exclusive of the 

 Sawbridgeworth Ecclesiastical Charity) comprised in 

 an indenture dated 20 July 1652. The endowment 

 consists of a moiety of the income derived from the 

 following property: — 



The bowling green, containing 31. zip, used as 

 a recreation ground for boys ; 



Three cottages occupied as almshouses by three 

 poor women who receive parochial relief; 



P is hoc roft Gardens, containing about 5 acres, near 

 High Wych, let in allotments and producing about 



£9 >°>-; 



And a sum of £720 i<H- $d- consols in the name 

 of the official trustees, producing £18 OS. 4^. yearly, 

 arising from the sale in 1898 of a rood of land in Church 

 Street, with the dwelling-house and school buildings 

 thereon. The net income is distributed to the poor. 



2. Charity of John Salmon for the poor, founded by 

 will dated in 1729, whereby a yearly rent-charge of 

 20s. issuing out of a croft called Little Hempsall was 

 devised for distribution in sums of 21. at Christmas to 

 ten poor families. 



3. Charity of Richard King, founded by will dated 

 in 1748, whereby a rent-charge of £1 issuing out of 

 a messuage and land in Sawbridgeworth was devised 

 to be distributed to twenty poor widows. 



The Sawbridgeworth Ecclesijstical Charity. — By an 

 Order of the Board of Charity Commissioners dated 

 17 March 1896 a moiety of the net income of the 

 Church and Poor Lands was severed from the rest of the 

 endowment and called the Sawbridgeworth Ecclesias- 

 tical Charity. The income is applied to church expenses. 



John Salmon also devised a sum of £1 yearly, 

 issuing out of the croft called Little Hempsall, for 

 beautifying and ornamenting the church. This sum 

 is carried to the Church Expense Fund. 



STAN DON 



In 181 1 Mr. Orchard gave a sum of £2 5 stock, 

 now represented by £25 consols with the official 

 trustees, producing 1 21. ^d. yearly, which sum is paid 

 to the oldest widow in the parish. 



In 1864 Daniel Brown, by will proved at London 

 c May, gave £100 stock, the interest to be applied 

 in keeping in repair the tomb of testator's family in 

 the churchyard and any residue to be distributed to 

 the poor on the first Sunday after Christmas Day. 

 The dividends on the endowment amount to 

 £2 %!. yearly. 



In 1910 £\ Js. 6d. was spent in repairs to the 

 tomb and twenty-six old people received 2s. each. 



In 1895 Miss Frances Lane, by her will proved 

 8 October, gave £300 to be applied, so soon as land 

 should be given for the purpose, in building and 

 endowing an almshouse or almshouses for the benefit 

 of married couples of sixty years and upwards. The 

 legacy, less duty, was invested in consols, and the 

 dividends are being invested in consols in augmenta- 

 tion of the principal sum, which in May 1909 

 amounted to £341 fs. \d., in the names of the 

 Rev. H. A. Lipscombe and two others. 



The same testatrix bequeathed £100, the income 

 arising therefrom to be applied in keeping the family 

 tomb in the churchyard in repair, and any residue to 

 be distributed to the poor ; also a further sum of 

 £100 to the Sunday school. These legacies, less 

 duty, were invested in £161 I Is. $d. consols, pro- 

 ducing £4 os. Sd. yearly. In 1910 a sum of 

 18/. yd. was spent in repairs to the tomb, £1 is. yd. 

 was carried to the Sick and Needy Fund, and 

 £2 os. ^d. was paid to the treasurer of the Sunday 



The same donor by her will also bequeathed a sum 

 of money, the interest arising therefrom to be applied 

 at the discretion of the vicar for the good of the 

 district of Spelbrook. The legacy was invested in 

 New Zealand 3^ per cent. Inscribed Stock, producing 

 £14 6j. yearly in dividends. One moiety of this 

 amount is applied to church expenses and the other 

 to the church school. 



STANDON 



Standone (si cent.); Staundon, Stondon, or Staun- 

 den (xiii cent, and later). 



Standon is a large, irregularly shaped parish of about 

 7,738 acres, including 30 acres of water. Of this 

 extent about half is arable land, rather less than half 

 permanent grass, and the rest, about 500 acres, 

 wood. 1 The soil varies, the subsoil being chalk and 

 clay. The ground lies high with an altitude even in 

 the Rib valley of from 200 ft. to 300 ft. above the 

 ordnance datum, and rising to the cast and west of 

 the river. The highest point is 410 ft. on the 

 extreme north-west of the parish. A very large 

 proportion of the parish was covered by the 

 common fields before the inclosure award 1 

 in 1835 under an Act of 1 8 3 1 . la Among the 

 fields were the Half Acres, immediately to the east of 

 the village, Pockendon, Pudding Dane, and Cobbin's 



Hill on the east of the river, Puckeridge, Stanboro, 

 Shan field. Widen, Barwick, Stapleford, Nimdell, 

 Ragborough, Ody (Old Hall), Perry Field, and 

 Heme Commons on the west of the river. 2 Other 

 interesting field-names which occur are Great Bacchus, 

 Upper Bacchus to the east of Colliers End, Bacchus 

 north of this, Great and Little Artie, Strickups (once 

 Strepock), the last three now part of the park of 

 St. Edmund's College, Poundrield, Hop Ground, 

 Hoppett and Colliers Croft (the last two part of 

 Riggories Farm), all on the west of the parish in the 

 neighbourhood of Old Hall Green ; The Park, 3 

 Monk's Croft (south of Great Southey Wood), 

 Thundermarsh (on the west bank of the river to the 

 east of Youngsbury), Gunpowder Hill' 1 (about half a 

 mile north of Thundermarsh), Noah's Garden, 6 Old 

 Field, close to Wadesmill, all on the south-west of the 



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