HERTFORD HUNDRED 



In 1610, as stated in the Parliamentary returns of 

 1? 86, — Piggott by his will gave a stall in the market- 

 place to the poor. The charity is now represented 

 by £133 61. 8<A consols with the official trustees, pro- 

 ducing £3 61. %d. yearly, which is distributed biennially 

 in money doles to about eighty recipients. 



Dr. Layfield's Charity, founded by will of the Rev. 

 Charles Lay field, D.D., dated 10 February 1710, for 

 apprenticing in Tewin and four other parishes, is 

 endowed as to this parish with a sum of £*73 9/. 3</. 

 consols with the official trustees, producing £6 1 61. $4. 

 yearly. In 1907-8 a premium of £9 was paid for 

 apprenticing. 



Charity of Sir Francis Butler. — See under Bishop's 

 Hatfield. This parish is entitled to nominate one 

 poor widow for the benefit of this charity. 



In 1748 Margaret Sabine by deed poll gave 

 £zoo, now represented by £'9' 5*- consols with the 

 official trustees. The annual dividends, amounting 

 to £4 15/. \d., are applicable— subject to keeping 

 in repair the tomb of donor's husband — in clothing 



WORMLEY 



poor boys. The income is accumulated and applied 

 from time to time in supplying boys with suits of 

 clothes and boots. 



Almshouses — as appears from an old parish register, 

 dated in 1717 — were built out of the poor's money 

 on the Lower Green, of which £30 was given by 

 will of William Gare and £20 by Dr. Fulk Tudor, 

 the rector. The almshouses were converted into the 

 parish workhouse. 



In 1 841 Henry Cowper, by his will proved in the 

 P.C.C. 4 January, founded a Sunday Savings Bank, 

 the endowment of which now consists of £ 1 ,807 Sj. id. 

 consols with the official trustees, producingX59 '8^.40'. 

 yearly. The income is applied in augmenting the 

 savings of poor married persons, poor widows or 

 widowers. Subscriptions of not less than 6d. and not 

 more than zr. a week to be paid every Sunday, the 

 bonus being one-fourth of the amount subscribed. 



In 1909 there were thirty-six depositors, the 

 amount deposited was £180 10/., and the bonus 

 paid £4; 2). 6d. 



WORMLEY 



Wormley (Wurmelea, Wermelai, xicent. ; Wermele, 

 xiii and xvi cent.) is a long, narrow parish stretching 

 east and west and wooded at its western end. On 

 the east it is bounded by the River Lea. The New 

 River flows through the eastern end of the parish, and 

 east of the river and parallel with it is the main road 

 leading from London to Hoddesdon. The parish is 

 946 acres in area, and the proportion of arable is 

 about one-sixth of the total area. 1 The soil is loam, 

 the subsoil sandy loam, and the chief crops are wheat, 

 oats, barley and roots. 



The original settlement lies almost surrounded by 

 Wormley Bury Park, about half a mile off the high 

 road from London to Hoddesdon. It now consists of 

 the church and Wormley Bury, the Manor House, the 

 seat of Mr. Henry North Grant Bushby, J.P. (built 

 by Mr. Bushby in 1908), the Bury Farm, Hill House, 

 occupying the site of an older house called Fernbeds, 

 the rectory and one or two farms and cottages. 

 Wormley Bury is a three-storied brick house with an 

 Ionic portico on the principal or north front, built 

 by Abraham Hume in 1767. It was decorated by 

 Adam and Angelica Kauffmann. Probably at an 

 early date the village migrated to the high road 

 along which it now lies. On the west side of the 

 road is a 17th-century house called the Manor Farm 

 House. It is timber framed, coated with rough- 

 cast, and is of two stories with attics. The public 

 elementary school, which was built in 1864 and 

 enlarged in 1877 and 1899, stands in the village. 



West End, a hamlet consisting of a farm {called 

 Manor Farm, but modern) and some cottages, lies 

 about I mile to the west of the Manor House. Here 

 is Westlea, the residence of Lady Georgians Peel. 



An inclosure award was made in 1858 and 

 amended in 185 g. s 



WORMLEY was one of the manors 



MANOR which were granted by Harold son of 



Godwin to the canons of Waltham Holy 



1 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



1 Blue Bk. lnd. Awards. 



* Dugdale, Man. Aug!, vi, 56. 



' Colt. MSS. vi, 2. 

 jubtful authenticity. 

 6 Cart. Antiq. M z ; 



Cross. 3 At the time of the Domesday Survey, when 

 it gelded at 5 hides, it was still held by the canons of 

 Waltham. Two other manors are mentioned in the 

 Survey ; Wormley, i£ hides, which Wimund held of 

 Earl Alan and which had been previously held by 

 Alsi, one of Eddeva's men, who could sell it. This 

 land is described as belonging to Cheshunt. The 

 remaining manor, z£ hides, was held by Alwin 

 Dodesone of the king. It had been formerly held by 

 Ulward, one of Asgar the Staller's men, who could 

 sell it, and it was sold for 3 marks of gold after King 

 William came. This manor may have been identical 

 with the t.\ hides in Wormley which were granted 

 to Westminster Abbey by Edward the Confessor,' and 

 which are not mentioned amongst the possessions of 

 the abbey in the Survey. The other estate perhaps 

 became absorbed in the Waltham manor, or it may 

 have been attached to the manor of Beaumont Hall 

 in Cheshunt which had appurtenances in Wormley. 

 This manor was held by the monastery of Waltham 

 until the Dissolution. In the reign of Henry II, when 

 the secular canons were expelled by Pope Alexander III, 

 the king granted Wormley with the church to the 

 regulars of the Augustinian order who replaced them, 

 and the grant was confirmed by Richard I. s In 

 122a the canons of Waltham constructed a conduit 

 for carrying water from Wormley to the monastery. 6 

 The Quo Warranto returns of 1278 show that the 

 abbots of Waltham, under the charters of Henry II, 

 Richard I and Henry III, claimed the following privi- 

 leges in Wormley and their other lands in Hertford- 

 shire : sac, soc, thol, theam, infangenthcof, utfangen- 

 theof, flemenesfrith, grithbriche, foratal, hamsokene, 

 blodwyte, ordeal and oreste, view of frankpledge and 

 return of writs, and liberty from shire and hundred 

 courts and all payments. 7 In 1 2 8 7 the abbots further 

 claimed in their manor of Wormley gallows and 

 right of assize of bread and ale," For 1 carucate 

 in Wormley the Abbot of Waltham was obliged to 



at ii of e Had. MS, 391, fol. t-6, 13-15* 



' Plac. de Quo tVarr. (R«. Com.), 283. 



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