By Sir Charles Hohhouse, Bart. 



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together with the tenths of the priory estates generally, paid to the 

 King, and there were apparently certain special payments adjudged 

 against our manor, which more than swallowed up the whole profits 

 of it, viz : — 



£ s. d. 



To the Trustee of Eaton College hy feod " firm " 38 0 0 

 Annua Pencio Priori de Lewys 0 13 4 



Distributed to the poor on the day of the CsensB 

 Domini et Paschenes on the anniversary of 

 Humphrey de la Bound Fundatur huj ' priorat " 2 0 0 



Making a total of £40 13 4 

 After the Dissolution, first the Somersets, and after them the 

 Bretons, paid the above sum to Eton College, and a pension of 

 46s. Sd. to the Crown, in the tenth and twelfth of Elizabeth's reign; 

 but in the eighteenth Elizabeth the then Earl of Hertford paid a 

 sum down on account of this pension " due for the house and site 

 of the Priory of Farley in order that the said Earl eundem situm 

 clamavit in perpetuum " and thereafter I find no traces of these 

 payments, nor in fact of any State charges upon the manor at all, 

 except in a general way under the names of " quit rents, pensions, 

 portions, annuities, fees, tithes, troubles and incumbrances/'' some of 

 which were apparently due to the Crown. 



But when we come down to present times we find ourselves in 

 the midst of a posse of rates and taxes, which I will as shortly as 

 possible put on record, premising that our present rateable valuation 

 is £3955, and that all these rates and taxes fall more or less directly 

 upon it. 



1. Income tax, schedules A. and B., at 5d. and Z\d. in the pound 

 respectively. ( 



2. The poor rate, which now includes the sanitary and school 

 and the county main road rates, at an average of 2*. in the pound. 



3. The highway rate, now a district rate, and falling on this 

 parish at from 9d. to Is. in the pound. 



4. The tithe rent charge at perhaps 5 per cent, on about half the 

 total acreage of the parish. 



