BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



and the 'priest's messuage' and garden which had 

 been the prior's. 80 



A, the Taxation of 129' the church was valued 

 , t /40 and the vicarage at £2 ip. 4<^ 1 The 

 advowson was often in the king's hands together 

 with the other temporalities of the priory by reason 

 of wars with France. 32 On the suppression of alien 

 priories it was granted by Henry V to the Carthusian 

 monastery of Sheen.* 3 It was farmed out by the 

 monb for £±o. si After the Dissolution the rectory 

 and advowson of the vicarage and all lands belonging 

 were granted by Henry VIII to Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, 85 with whom they have since remained, 

 Trinity College being now the lord of the rectory 



The church is mentioned as a collegiate church in 

 1504," 'but there seems to be no evidence as to when 

 the college was formed. Master Edward Haseley 

 was dean of the college at that date. 



The chantry of Helen Bramble was founded in 

 1470. Helen Bramble, whose brass is in the north 

 transept of the church, was the daughter of John 

 and Margery Cook and married first William Bramble 

 and secondly Richard Warburton of London. By 

 her Will proved 9 September 1454 she desired to 

 be buried in the parish church of Ware next the 

 tomb of Margaret her mother. She left I zd. to the 

 clerk and \zd. to the sub-clerk or sacrist, 5 marks to 

 the fabric of the church, and after several other 

 bequests the rest of her property to works of charity 

 and the repair of altars. 87 The chantry was founded 

 by Brian RoudifF, baron of the Exchequer, and 

 John Marchall. Mass was to be celebrated at the 

 altar in the chapel of St. Mary for the present and 

 future kings of England, for Brian and John and 

 Master William Graunger, and for the souls of 

 Helen, her two husbands, of William Bramble her 

 son, and of her parents. The chantry was endowed 

 with lands to the value of £io. 8a Thomas Beal 

 left p. 40*. to the repair of the chantry by his will 

 proved in 1 506, a9 and lands were left to its use by 

 Richard Shirley (will proved 15 to). 80 When the 

 chantry was dissolved in the reign of Edward VI it 

 had rents accruing to it from the inns called the 

 'Cardinal's Hat ' in Amwell and the ' Bull's Head,' 

 a tenement in the Myddel Row with a garden m 

 Kybislane, a tenement called Wodehouse in Gardiner 

 Lane and a croft called Sowrecroft, amounting to 

 £9 14/. %d. and goods and ornaments valued at 

 fi. 4^. 91 The chantry priest's chamber was granted 

 in 1549 to Sir John Perient and Thomas Reve. 92 

 At this time the serving of the church fell entirely 

 on the chantry priest and the curate hired by the 

 vicar, although the parish contained at least 1,200 

 inhabitants. 93 This led to the inhabitants appointing 

 a 'morrow mass priest,' whose wages were collected 

 from among them, some giving zd., some \d. and 

 some Id., according to their devotion ; if a sufficient 



WARE 



sum was not collected the deficit was made up from 

 the common fund. 04 



There were at least two gilds or brotherhoods in 

 the church, the brotherhood of Jesus and the brother- 

 hood of Corpus Christi. Bequests to these date from 

 about 1490. Uu Thomas Ware, whose will was proved 

 in 1 505, left a brass pot of four gallons, a brass pan 

 and three spoons of silver 10 the latter fraternity. M 

 The brotherhood of Jesus had an alderman and four 

 masters ; it met every year on the feast of Jesus, 

 when the masters rendered their account to tie 

 alderman and brethren, and a new alderman and 

 masters were chosen. This gild was entirely de- 

 pendent on the voluntary gifts of inhabitants of the 

 town and strangers ; these gradually decreased in 

 value, and the gild was dissolved about 1525. Its 

 possessions then included a large brass pot, a little 

 silver cup for wine, twelve stiver spoons, and three 

 velvet coats embroidered with gold for the image of 

 Jesus in the church. 97 



There was also an obit founded by William Kinge 

 (date unknown), which at the Dissolution was main- 

 tained by a yearly sum of los. paid by Thomas 

 Kinge, of which 6s. was paid to the poor. 9 " 



St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, founded by 

 the late Mr. Constantine Ketterer and served from 

 Hertford, is in Church Street. The registrations by 

 the archdeacon of earl;- Nonconformist meeting-places 

 are lost, but a number of registrations before the 

 magistrates are recorded from 1672 onwards. 59 There 

 are now two Congregational chapels, one in Church 

 Street, built in 1778, and representing a cause 

 dating from 1662, and the other, in High Street, 

 founded in 181 1 and rebuilt in 1859. In the New 

 Road are a Wesleyan 10 « and a Baptist chapel. The 

 Salvation Army have quarters in Baldock Street built 

 in 1907. A place of meeting was certified for 

 Quakers in 1699,' but the Meeting House, which 

 was in Kibes Lane, fell into disuse after the death 

 of Mrs. Hooper (daughter of John Scott), who was 

 its chief supporter. 2 In the hamlet of Wareside is a 

 Wesleyan Methodist chapel. 



The history of the Free School 

 CHARITIES and Wareside School has already been 



The combined charities are regulated by a scheme 

 of the Charity Commissioners dated 26 January 

 1909. They comprise : 



1. Almshouses of Lawrence Armatridinge. — These 

 consist of five tenements in Crib Street inhabited by 

 ten poor women. The date of foundation is un- 

 known, but an old benefaction table in the church 

 dated 5 July 1722 records that Lawrence Arma- 

 tridinge gave twenty twopenny loaves of bread to 

 twenty widows out of the rent of these five tene- 



2. The Bell Close.— An indenture of feoffment 

 dated 20 March 1612 recites that a donor unknown 



170. 



Load. Epis, Reg. Gilbert, fol. 



81 Pifit Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 14. 

 ■Ctf.P«r. 1334-8, p. S i 9i 1381-5, 



pp. 364, 3 S 4-; 1405-8, p. 184. 



■ Pat. 3 Hen. V, pt. ii, m. 3°- 

 -PibrMcd. (Rec. Com.), ii, 53. 

 !s Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. vi, m. iqi 

 -«Pa.- 3 ja,I, pt . llvli / 

 B P.C.C. Will, S Holgrave. 

 " P.CC. 1 Stokton, 



» Chant. Cert. 27, no 

 inc. Bks. lxvii, fol. 726. 

 « 2 Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt.i 



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