A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



remained appendant to the manor from this date 

 until the 1 6th century, the rectors, as a rule, pre- 

 senting to the vicarage. 14 In 1+79 Edward IV 

 granted the advowson of the parish church of 

 Cheshunt to the Dean and canons of St. George's 

 Chapel, Windsor, with licence for them to appro- 

 priate the church in mortmain, on condition that 

 the vicarage of the church should be sufficiently 

 endowed and a sufficient sum of money should be 

 distributed yearly amongst the poor parishioners of 

 the church." As a result, however, of an action 

 brought by Margaret Countess of Richmond, who 

 claimed in right of her grant of the manor, the 

 Dean of St. George's Chapel quitclaimed his right 

 in the church in 1 497,** and the Countess of Rich- 

 mond presented to the rectory in 1491 and i+94- s; 

 She granted the advowson to the Abbot of West- 

 minster, 1 ' who presented as rector in 1503 and 

 1 516," and whose right to the advowson was con- 

 firmed by the Act of I 530-1 which confirmed the 

 manor of Cheshunt to Henry Duke of Richmond. 60 

 The advowson of the vicarage was granted by Mary 

 in 1554 to the Bishop of London, 61 in whose hands 

 it apparently remained until it was assured by Act of 

 Parliament 'in 1606 Co Robert Earl of Salisbury and 

 his heirs." From this time it followed the descent of 

 the manor of Theobalds. The Marquess of Salisbury 

 is patron at the present day. The descent of the 

 rectory is traced under the descent of the rectory 

 manor (q.v.). 



The chapel known as 'Saint Laurence in the 

 Busshe of Wormeley ' was in the parish of Cheshunt, 

 and was probably founded in the nth century. 03 

 It belonged to the canons ofThetford, and in 1538 

 the chapel, with lands belonging to it, was granted to 

 William Cavendish. 6 * 



The living of St. James's, Golf's Oak, is a vicarage 

 in the gift of the vicar of Cheshunt, as is also that of 

 Holy Trinity, Waltham Cross. 



During the 17th century Cheshunt was a strong- 

 hold of Nonconformity,' 5 licences being granted 

 for meeting-places from 1672. The tendency was 

 probably increased by the establishment of Cheshunt 

 College in 1792. The Congregational Church in 

 Crossbrook Street, representing a cause dating from 

 1600, was built in 1705 and the present building was 

 erected in 1 857 on the old site. The Wesleyans also 

 have a chapel in Crossbrook Street. There are two 

 churches of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, 

 one in High Street, which wa, rebuilt in 1889 ; the 

 other at Tumford was built in 1834- The Primitive 

 Methodist chapel at GofFs Oak was built in [868. 

 A licence was granted to a Baptist teacher at ' Ches- 

 ton in [672." A Baptist chapel was opened in 

 Cheshunt tn 1 909. 



In Waltham Cross is the Roman Catholic Church 

 of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph, and a 

 Baptist chapel (1895) in King Edward Road. 



The Beaumont Trust comprises 

 CHARITIES a considerable part of the charitable 

 endowments of the parish, the prin- 

 cipal parts of the lands lying at a place called Beau- 



M Clutterbuck, op. cit. li, roq-i 



** MSS. of D. and 

 46SS (pr C!! 17, shelf, 



i: Clutterbuck, o F . . 

 court, R rftrl . i, g, 9 . 



moot Green, whence, it is conjectured, the title was 

 derived. The endowments consist of the Beaumont 

 Farm, containing 2 2 a. 3 r. ; the Curtis Farm, Nazeing, 

 containing i 8 a. ; Boundary Lodge, Waltham Crou, 

 2 a. or thereabouts ; Colesfield Farm, Cheshunt, 

 13a.; and house and land at Cheshunt, S a. 3 r. ; 

 the rental to Lady Day, 1910, being £i+o 17/. ; 

 a rent-charge of 13/. \d. out of Wormley Bury, gift 

 of William Purvey, 1677 ; and the following sums of 

 stock:- — £5,187 7/. ;/ Local Loans 3 per cent, 

 stock, £13 6s. id. consols, representing redemption 

 of a rent-charge of 6s. So*, formerly paid by the 

 governors of St. Thomas's Hospital under will of 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Friend, 1562, and £1,199 ' 7 s - 9^< 

 New Zealand 3) per cent, stock, producing together 

 in annual dividends £197 191. 



The trust properties had their origin for the most 

 part from the following sources, namely, the compen- 

 sation of King James I for inclosing a large piece 

 of common for increasing Theobald's Park, £;oo, 

 £180 of which was expended in the erection of 

 almshouses at Turner's Hill and the balance of 

 £320 in the purchase of Curtis Farm, Nazeing ; 

 legacy of £100 for the almshouses by will of Lady 

 Jane Mico, 1670 ; £200 by will of Humphrey 

 Flint, 1610; £200 by will of Sir Edmund Scott, 

 1638 ; £900 stock, gift of Mrs. Sarah Gwilt, 1783 ; 

 £2,000 by will of Samuel Brookland, 1799. 



In 1810 Frances Leeson, niece of the said Samuel 

 Brookland, also bequeathed to the trustees of the 

 Beaumont Charity £400 stock for the poor in the 

 almshouses on condition that £1 is. be paid to the 

 clergyman on r June yearly, 10s. 6d. to the clerk 

 and zj. (id. to the sexton, and that her burial-place 

 be kept in repair. 



In 1620 Richard Coulter by his will left £100, 

 which was invested in a house in Cheshunt Street, 

 ioj. to be given yearly to the vicar for a sermon on 

 the first Sunday in Lent and the residue to forty 

 aged poor. 



In 1814 Elizabeth Auber, by deed, gave £500 

 stock, the interest to be distributed amongst the 

 inmates of the almshouses. 



The income of the Beaumont Trust, after pro- 

 viding for the ecclesiastical payments above mentioned 

 and for the Beaumont educational trusts after men- 

 tioned, is applied for the benefit of the almshouses at 

 Turner's Hill for ten poor widows and the alms- 

 houses, known as the Spiial Houses, for five poor 

 widows, the origin of which is not precisely known. 



The following charities are likewise administered 

 by the Beaumont trustees :— 



The Dewhurst Almshouse Charity founded in 1641 

 by Robert Dewhurst. By an order of the Charity 

 Commissioners 7 February 1905 the governors of 

 the Free school were authorized to pay to the Beau- 

 mont trustees a yearly sum of £13 to be applied in 

 payment of 6d. a week to the ten inmates of Turner's 

 Hill almshouses, and 3 yearly sum of £8 for providing 

 coals for the same inmates. 



In 1880 Dr. William Buchanan, by deed, gave 

 £105, now represented by £102 gs. 6d. Local 



