By Sir Charles Ilohliouse, Bart. 



187 



So, though the lands themselves have, I believe, been chopped 

 about, yet the glebe acreage in 1881 is to a fraction what it was in 

 137:2, or five hundred years ago. 



The tithe rent charge is assessed at £192 per annum, inclusive of 

 £7 assessed on the glebe, but receiving an addition of £10 per annum 

 from the occupant of the manor house and estate, and the usual 

 corn averages. 



The land liable to tithe rent charge is :— 



A. R. p. 



Arable land 356 3 7 



Homesteads, gardens, and orchards 23 1 6 



Woodland 25 3 26 



Pasture land 354 1 26 



Acres 760 1 25 



The Parish Registers. 

 They commence thus : — " The Book of Weddings and Baptisms 

 and Burials of ye Parish of Monkton Farley made in ye year of our 

 Lord God 1570 and day of August by John Williams Hector 



eidem." 



The following analysis represents their value and condition, but 

 not the omissions and losses, which must, I am convinced, have 

 been much more considerable than would appear : — 



1570 — 1608. Well- written. One handwriting, perhaps Parson 

 Bragge, and partly at least copied in all at once. 



1608 — 41. Generally ill- written, probably by the churchwardens, 

 John Butler and Walter Grant; with an entry, "Good reader, 

 pardon." 



1641 — 53. Well- written by Parson Allambrigge. 

 1653—67. With difficulty deciphered. 



1677 — 1788. Well-written and well kept as to baptisms and 

 weddings, but burials deficient. Parchment disused for a time 

 after 1699. 



1780—81. Well kept and written. 



There are various entries in these registers, not strictly proper to 



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