BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



The vicarage- ho use and grounds and the land in 

 Chapel Lane designated the ecclesiastical charity of 

 Sir Edward Baesh is regulated by a scheme of the 

 Charity Commissioners dated 3 June 1902. The 

 vicarage-house is for the use of the vicar of Stanstead 

 Abbots, subject to the payment of \zd. yearly to the 

 non-ecclesiastical branch, and the yearly income 

 derived from the land in Chapel Lane is applied 

 towards the salary of the clerk to the parish church. 



In 1908 the net income of the non-ecclesiastical 

 branch was applied in payment of Ji. weekly to the 

 six poor widows in the almshouses, and a premium of 

 £9 8/, was paid for apprenticing a poor boy. 



THORLEY 



Sir Edward Baesh by the above-mentioned deed 

 also gave a rent-charge of £20 out of the manor of 

 Stanstead Baesh for a schoolmaster of a free grammar 

 school in Stanstead. This sum is annually paid to 

 the governors of Hertford Grammar School. 100 



In 1802 Randle Cheney gave a sum of £20 

 3 per cent, reduced annuities, now a like sum of 

 consols in the name of the official trustees, producing 

 [Or. yearly, the interest to be applied in the repair 

 of the tomb in the churchyard of the testator's wife 

 and any surplus to the poor. 



The dividends are accumulated and distributed 

 from time to time among the poor. 



THORLEY 



Torlei (li cent.) ; Thorleia (sii cent.) ; Thorley 

 (.iiicent.). 

 Thorley is a small parish of 



gle. Th. 



internal 



parlour ; the north 



north kitchen 



wing contains the old 

 nd of the hall and probably a 

 disappeared. The eastern 





the county of Essex on the east. 1 The road from 

 Sawbridgeworth to Bishop's Stortford passes through 

 the east of the parish. The parish lies on the London 

 Clay and consists for the most part of agricultural 

 land, the chief crops being wheat, barley and beans. 

 Thorley Wood in the south-east is the only wood of 

 any size. From the road the ground slopes upward 

 towards the west, this higher part lying about 300 ft. 

 above the ordnance datum. On the high ground 

 about three-quarters of a mile from the road are 

 situated Thorley Hall (now a farm-house) and the 

 church of St. James. Thorley Hall stands in a 

 moated inclosure to the east of the church. It is a 

 building of two stories, the older parts of which on 

 the west are timber-framed and plastered. It pro- 

 bably dates from the early part of the 1 6th century. 

 ft now consists of the southern end of the old hall, 

 with a south wing and a projecting staircase in the 



100 See above and article an 'Schools ' V.C.H, lltrts. a, . 



part of the south wing is modern and the whole of 

 the -south front has been encased with brick. The 

 hall was originally open to the roof, part of which 

 remains, but a floor is now inserted under it. The 

 original roof, of which only one queen-post truss 

 remains, has a span of about 25 ft. ; the tie-beam, 

 which is 1 2 in. square, has been cut away between 

 the queen-posts, which stand on coarsely moulded 

 octagonal bases, the profiles of which resemble capitals 

 more than bases. The tie-beam and straining- beam 

 above are supported by curved brackets and the 

 purlins are strutted ; the tie-beam with the brackets 

 and wall-pieces under is splayed ; the roof is ceiled 

 on the rafters and at the level of the straining- 

 beam. There is a wide fireplace with ingle seats at 

 the south end of the hall, now the kitchen, and 

 above the tiled roof is a large early i^th-centurv 

 brick chimney stack of square shafts set diagonally. 



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