CAKE & COCKHORSE The Magazine of the Banbury Historical Society

7 Vol. I, Nos. 5Z 1960/1961

Issued four times yearly, September, November, January, March

Price CO non-members, one shiZling and sixpence Chairman : J.H. Fearon, Fleece Cottage, Bodicote. Nr. Banbury. Oxon. Hon. Treasurorr A.W. Pain, A.L.A. c/o ~croughLibrary, Ean3wy. (Tel: ?anbury 2282)

Hon. Editor 8 Dr, C,F.C. Beoson, Westmy Cottage, Adderbury, Sm3ury. (Tel. Adc?er$q 272. )

Hc2. -*.-..ck._eeo 1 o gi c al Dir actCT : V. Eronley,

Hail. Rcsearcli Adviser: E.B.C. Brink.mrtin, &Aa F.R.Hist.Soc. 81 CAKE AND COCKHORSE

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The Magazine of the Banbury Historical Society Issued to Idembers four times a year.

For the New Year three meetings have been arranged, including an additional one for February. We have been very fortunate in securing three speakers who are all leaders in their own fields. It is hoped that members will respond by attending in large numbers, to give them the audience thcy dcserve. All meetings are held at 7.30 p.m. in the Court Room of the Town Hall. -Tuesday, 31st Jmuary

_y'IPzrish Govornmcnt in the 18th Century 2 Wi,Tginton and its Records" Nr. by F.D, Price, Dean of Kzble College.I Although this talk concerns Tligginton, it is just as applicable to any local village. Mr. Price, who spcnds his vacations in Vigginton, has brought to light many fascinating glimpses of ordinary rural life and conditions as they were two hundred ycars ago.

Tuesday, 28th February "The Civil in North Oxfordshirett by Miss Margarot Toynbee. Those who cane to Edgehill in May, 1959, will have pleasant memories of the last time Xiss Toynbec visited us. Edgehill was by no means the oylly event of significance in this area during the Civil Far. The sicGC of Banbury Castle, and the inportant Battle of Cropredy Bridge form only part of a subject in which Niss Toynbce is one of the forenost experts.

Tucsdzy, 28th Nlnrch_wI 13srrow Diggers of the 19th Century" by Nr. Hwnphrey Case, N.A. ,F.S.A. Nr. Cssc is Scniiir Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean E~~uscw:, and this summer hcadcd a joint Anglo-French cxcavnticn in 3rittany. His account of the beginnings of interest in archaeology znd the somewhat surprising methods used is sure to be both interesting and amusing. 82. R E .S E A R C H -t

PARISH REGISTERS Mr. Gibson is now copying the registers of the Chapelry of Epwell, formerly in the parish of Swslcliffe. Nlnrrizges have been copied completely from 1580 to 183T9 and Baptisms and Burials in the two voluiies covering the 16th and 17th century. The complete registers of the parish of Swalcliffe itself and the other chapelry of Shutford have already been copied. The marriages from the first and second volumes of Cdardington registers, at present deposited in the Bodleian Library, for 1 the period 1603-1694, have a1 so been copied. OXFORDSHIRY CLOCKIUXERS I In response to the appeal made on p067 of the November number information haa been given by Mrs. E. Gillett, Bedford, IfreM.L. Dix Hamilton, Lindfield, Dilr. F.D. Price, !'Jigginton and Elrs. KO Taylor, Elsfield, for which me are most grateful. . Apropcia of Dr. Brinkworth's article in this number it rnw be interesting to note that Tnomas Gainsborcugh' s brother the Rev. Humphrey Gainsborough, Congregational Minister at Henley on Thames, 1748-1776, was an engincer of note and the inventor of an unusual kind of rolling ball clock. Humphrey's accomplish- ments obtained public notice through the efforts of Philip Thicknesse and particularly by a letter abcut the clock which Thicknesse wrote to the Gentleman's Magazine on 14 November, 1785 under the pseudonym r'Polyzena't. After Humghrey diod Thomss gave the clock to Thicknesse who presented it to the British IItIuscum on 6 December 1788. Unfortunately it has since disappeared but a drawing of it by Thicknesse and later descript- ions have been preserved. Ancther tine-keeping device based on a sundial, also constructed by Humphrey Gainsborough, passed into the possession of Tkic'messc, was presented to the British Nusewn in 1784 and was duly lost. C.F. C.B. 83 9 REVIEW

OXFORDSHIRE CLERGY, 1777-1869. A study of the Established Church and of the role of its Clergy in local society, by Diana IvTcClatchey, (Clarendon Pressg 1960. 45/-).

For all who are intsrested in the ecclesiastical and social history of Oxfordshire this book is quite unusually rewarding. It covers a century of ferment and chan~,which transformed a remarkable and largely medieval set-up surviving into the nineteenth century, and realised the Unitarian ideal of a priest resident in every country parish, however small, and comfortably housed in the mansions, which now litter the countryside like white elephants. But the scope of the book is limitad to a study of the men who lived in the parscn- age houses rather than the priests ministering before their altars, The readcr must therefora not be surprised to find little direct refercnce to the Evangelical and Oxford movcrnents and only rare allusions to the spread of High Church practices, which were bsginning to cause alarm in parishes like Bloxharn totvctrds the end of the period, In the earlier chapters the evils of pluralities and absentoeism are carefully analysed. In 1793 it was still considered quite pmper that the Master of Dr, Radcliffe's School at Steeple Aston should serve the churches at Duns Tetv and Barford St. Michael, and that John Francis, officiating minister at Swinbrook should live at Rurford and serve in addition the churches at Shilton and Westwell. Richard Pretyman, rector of Niddletcln Stoney survived until 1856, enjoying an income of M9006 derived from his Chmrch preferments, but giving active unpaid service to the community as a magistrate. Orders in the Church of England were regmded as a profession until a changing climate of opinion, assisted by legislation and fostered by Bishop Wilberforcz with his newly founded training college at Cuddesdon, raised them to a vocation. Incid-entally a fuller account migbt have been given here of the Whig reform in the 1830%, and there is no mention at all of the outstanding services rendercd to the Church in this connection by Bishop Biomficld of London. But the zeal and bustling energy of Samuel Wilberforce are evident in all that was achieved for improving the status and siccerity, the inccmo and the influence of the country clerg, A chapter devoted to educational advance disclosed the astonish- ing fact that about half the schools in ths county were either built or enlcrged in the 1840% 2nd 1850's. And these, of course, were all Church schools. Bor was the activity of the clergy as teachers of 84. their €locks ccinfincd to church and day scho2l. Many c village must still retain its Roading born (a revealing title), where in Unitcrisn tints, 3s a-t DoJJinglytm, evoliing classes and lihrarics l;Tert? ,r,-anised and the local clara wcrc wont tc give 1:m.tcrn lecturzs on any subject from China to Peru. ban; other rclics of this era can cny'sody now pr55uce a specimen of the Tlixks- Giving Papcrs ,3ven to discharged potients tc be presented to their awn ministers as a teken of &retitnde to God for the mercies they had received in the Radcliffa Infirmary? Eany other aspcts of clerical lifc in the Oxfordshire parishcs ara LLscri'ucd in this notcblc: book, b~dthere is a scnsitive agv-aren3ss to the &\;per issues involvod.

(E.P. Bcker)

PIiILIP TIIICli7\TTSSSE iJTD TRC STEME CIRCLE By E.R.C. BrinlsimAh, M.A.

Some time ngo I was &ven a copy Jf Eorclce's Ohs, edited by David 7Jetsnn and printed at Lon&n in 1709, which turned out to have m intcrcsting lccctl assscintion. For at page 138 is the sipaturc of Pl-iilip Tliicknessc, tho notzble 18th czntury vriter ad eccentric whc w3.s bmn at his fztbzr's rzct:\ry at 7nrthin;;hoe on 10 Lupst, 1719. HG W~Seducated at ignhoc Free Grammr Sch?ol and at 2estninster. Intended for the melical prL,fossimhe sOon care it up for tho amj 2nd evcntunll-y, in 1753, bsccme licutenant-gmernor of Landgnrd Ibrt in Essex. Tkickmsse c3inbined a militsry c-recr with gezt intcrcst in the erts. He it was wh persunclod the ysung G9,insborouZh to lcavc Ipsvich for fashicnable B-th, and for same twenty years was his p-.trcn, In 1766 Thickncsse resipcd his commmd and henceforward IA.the life of a dilettante, with frcqucnt chan@s of abode in 5is c-,untry interspcrsed by tJurs zbroad. Iiis sitpr,turc in my 3racc. is fcllovxd by the words, "Celcis, 1771tr9and I h2ve v\?rifid tl-.-,t hz w2s thzro in that y3:r. (Ke vcs iict tke first r l-st tr, pxk "the lzyaan's breviary" as a travdlinl;. c;mpmi;n. ) Thicknzsse merried, as his t!iird wife, 1m.n Fwd, a yrung lady of graat bceuty, wit and outstandin; talent 2s a write2 and musician. GainsSorough' s portrait (ncw in the Cincinatti Art GaliEry.) shows her sitting with a guitar in her hand and a viol de gamba in the beckpourid. R constant stream of boaks and pamphlets poured frm Thicknesse's pen : cn travel, chess, "singular pcrsms now living", cyphcrs, mn- midwifery, the city of Bath, and his omn life. Dr. Ji.hnson told Boswell that he thought them entertaining 'to read once'. Philip Thicknesse was e man of sbility in several fields and he had some admirable qualities. But he was obsessively quarrel some. Often the issues were trifling. The story of his differences over a long period with Dr. Moore, later Archbishop of Canterbury, is indeed an absurd one. It bepan when Moore W~Sa young curate staying at Hinton Rectory as the guest of Dr. Greg. "I found hip tgarccn de farnille", writes Thicknesse, "much esteemed by my Srcther-in-law and sister, and much admired, I dare say, by thoir fcur dauchters, for he was a very handsome ycung man; and if I mistake not, he admired one of them particulsrly". It wc?s during the fistrop !'Jells season and Thicknesse and ?%?re were the two mzlle players in a gme calle2 'Crjnmerce', in which the fGrfeit involved me of the female players. "1 had an early speciinentt, acidly and somewhat confusedly comments Thicknesse, Itof the great susccptibility so trifling a matter excited in b!r- Elloore's bosom, relative to a decisicn on which neithar of us was interested, than on behalf of our fair friends". For years he was at odds with IiIoore, as preber,dary of Durham, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Canterbury, the good man returning soft answers but alwg-ys to no avail, Dr. Moore on one occasion asked him fr,r Ira sin,gular weather ccick" and paid a guinea f.sr it. Years later Thicknesse denied that he had been paid. Moore sant another guinea "enclosed between two cards and another very temperate, civil letter accompanying it". It was this letter that Thicknesse took to amuse Dr. Dodd, the famous parson-forger then in prison under sentence of death. Philip Thicknesse, indefatigable traveller to the end, died in his eighty-first yesr on 18 ITovember, 1792, et Boulogne, ancl was buried thorec Joyce Thickncsse, Philip's sister, married Richard Grey, thc young and eli;.ible Wictor of Hinton-in-the-!ledges. He w8s chaplain, secret- ary an& friend of Batlinniel, Lord Crewe of nearby Steane, Bishop successively cf Oxford and krham. Grey became Archdeacon of Bedford and a PrebeWhry of St. Pad's. These appcintments he held without giving up Hinton where he spent most of his time, devoting himself to the care of the parish, to Lord Crewe's interests, and to scholzrship. d good many books stand to his credit, most c;f them skilful 86. con-:-ensations of larrer works by other hands. One at least is still uscful x his "System of Enslish Ecclesiastical Law, cxtr-cted from Bishop Gibson' s CodexI1. Several of his special sermclns wEre published, including ono preached on 3 %ay, 1752, "at the renewing of divine scrvice in Steanc Chapel and the aumefitation made in thz rectory of Steane in order to units it with the rectory of Iiinton". Richard GrGy and his vife lie buried at the east end of the nave of Hinton church. Philip Thicknesse gives a charming account of how this devoted pir first met. He explains that within a mile of Farth- inghoe stsod a Seautiful littlc church (Sfeane) and near it the mansion of Lord Crewe. The "proud 3nd stately prelate" was much visited by people of all ranks from far and near and he was affronted when so near a neighbour as John Thick-nesse, Rector of Farthinghoe, cmitted to call. So he sent his chaplain Richard Grey to find the mason. "And it so happened that before Mre Grey had seen my father, he had met my sister, an object which .' attracted much of his attmtion; and when he came into my ' father's study, instead of disciosing his business, he asked my father wlieiher a young lady he had soan in the courtyard was his daughter. Xy father informod hin he had two daughters and .! that possibly it Eight be. 'Bless mo', said Mr. Grey, 'it mado my heart leap to saa so fine a girl in such a country village'. This offendcd Mr. Thicknesse much and Richsrd Grey, quickly noticing it, hastensd to explain the object of his visit. And qy fcther, finding him to be an ingenious young man, began to feel as much partiality to the young parson as the parson had conceived for his youngest daugkter. Mr. Grey repeated his visits adbefore my sister wzs well out of her white frcclc, she bGcame the Rectar of Hintonls wife, tvhere she xay ba seen at this day, in her eighty-fourth year, with many traces yet remain- ing of thzt beauty which so suddenly caught the attention of her d-.parted husband". Among thcir circle of friends at Hinton the Greys' numbered Lord avld Lady Thr?nt?t of Newbottle, a csuple not so happy as they were, for nhilo her lxlyship was a,chowledged a scat nit, his lodship was rcgarded as a great borc, nuch addictcfi to the re-t~;lliiig of lengthy anecdotes. Grivcn to despsration, Lady Thaa,t cmsulted Dr. Gr2g about a passible seperntion. He advised c&nst it; but she went. Philip is again our mthority: "Her la.dyship always celled Wewbcttle, Dullbottle, whom she declared, she had often heard the samc clull stories told over and over again so Tftcn that it was one of her chief reasons for quitting her lord and mansion". Lady Thanct once asked Mrs. Grey if her husband also was given to reiterant anecdctage and she admitted that there was just one story he often recounted. It concerned his friend and patron Lord Crewe, who on the death of his beloved young wife Dorotbg had erected a handsome monurnent to her in Steane Chapel and had formed the habit of sitting by it almost daily for hours together. The sculptor had put a particularly ghastly alabaster skull at the bottom of the monument and it worried the old man. Gne day he said to Dr, Grey, "1 wish, Dick, that horrid skull had not been put thcre". So the Rector, wishing to relieve him, privily sent to Banbury for a carver and zsked him to turn the skull into something pleasing. The result was the finely executed bunch of' grapes which may still be seen there. Notes, L , 1. John Thicknessc became Rector of Farthin&oe, in 1694- He was descended from an ancien; Staffordshire family of Balterley Hall. Philip was the scventh son. Among his brothers, also born at Farth- inghoe, was George, who became High Master of St. Paul's School and raised it to peat r3puta:ion; indeed, he has been called the secmd founder. He was a reforme-., too, and "considered boys as retional beings, to be governed by zeason, not by the rod". Upon retirement he went tc live with an cld frienC, 'Villiam Holbech, at Arlescote, a hamlet which lies at thc foo-5 of Edgehill. At his own request George Thicknesse was burled on the north side of the churchyard at Warmington and the place left unmcrked. 2. Aynhoe Grammar School was founded in 1671 by Richard Cartwright. The endowment, consisting of a yearly rent charge of Z20 and a sm in consols arising from the sale of the Gramar School building was applied to the National School built in 1903. The building is now a private house. 3. One of the daughters of Dr. 2nd Mrs. Grey married the Vicar of King's Sutton and bacamr? thc? mother of the poet William Lisle Bowlcs who was born there. Bowzes' work was highly thought of in his day; among his admirers were Yiordsworth and Col eridge. 4. At Steane the Elizahthm Manor House stood in a walled park of 150 acres, It was a rectangular building with a balustraded gallery round the inner area. Atout the middle of the 18th century it was demolished except for thc kitchen and part of the interior offices. aa.

5. ITewbottle Idanor House stood just north of the church and ivas a huntiiig seat of the Earls of Thanet, It was taken down mrly in the 19th century. 5. Astrop, near King's Sutton, was one of the many locally fashionable spss of the late 18th century. It had a recognised scason, Assembly Rooms, balls, brctkfasts and cayd parties. 7. Fhilip Thicknesse's mother Joyce was the deughter of Sir John Blencowc, Justice of the Common Pleas and Baron of the Exch-cquer. Memorials to members of the family adorn the walls of the parish church at Udarston St. Lawrence. 8. It was generally thought that Dr. Richard Grey would have become a Bishop had it not been for his association with Lord Crewe who was rcgzrdzd by many as a time-scrving sycophant. It is true that his lordship trimmed to all the winds of changz from the reip of Charles I1 to that of the first George. But on the cradit side it must be remembered that he was a gocd c bishop. There is a pcrtrait of him in the Town Hall at Banbury. I 0

NOTES- VJARDIIJGTON Pmm REGISTERS, VOL, TWO, foe 37.

An Account of those that were touched by King James the second at Embury 73cr ye 3th 1687 for ye distemper called ye Kings evil, Septenbcr ye 2d Anno Domini 1687 3 Reg. Jac. 2 A Certificate was thm granted to John Davis of Willimscott for Richard the son of the aforesaid John Dzvis. Ditto. a certificate granted to William Mcacock of Vardin,"con in behalf of James the son of the aforesaid 'Jilliam Msacock per me, Francis Stanier, Vicar ' i:pteHber 4th An. Dorn. 1687 3 Beg. Jac. 2 Certificate was then panted to Isabcll Gre.. .. c?f 7illiamscott t;o recomrcend her to his majesties favour to be touched for the f cvill. I by me, Francis Stnnier, Vicar 89 BATE3URY PARISH REGISTER

The Vicar of Eanbury hns dram my attention to the following intriguing entry in the parish register: Baptisms, 1795 "ITeithrop, Cherlcs son of YJi1I.m. Claridge, labourer, by Susannnh his wife, August 5th.

Note: (in margin) For Charles son of Villrn. Claridge etc. read Charlotte daughter of V?illm. Claridge, etc.

This correction was mrde by me, T.8. Lancaster, Curate, and is attested by Susannah Claridge the mother of the said Charlotte Claridgo as witness her hand this 6th Bovember 1815.

Sushanna C1 aridge" i Unfortmately there seems little likelihood discovering the necessity for making such a corrcction, no less thzn twenty years after the original entry. J. S. W. G,

B.WURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Members, 1960.

Life Meabers

Bicester, The Lady R Gillctt, Miss M.Me Erysns, MeC. Jzkcmail, KOS.C. R Chcney, Professor C.R. R King, P.I. Cox, S.D. R Loveday, Miss H. R Dorchester, The Lord Bishop of R Nackay, Xiss C.H, E;glesfield, G,F. R Rose, A.D. R EI'kcington, A.E.H. Shsiv, Mrs. E.G. , R Ellcott, G.J.S. Stone, Brigadier JaSo!7. R Billmore, &Ire eC Krs. L.J. R Stratford, 1.W. Frost, Tne Rev. 1.5 Thccker, Professor TeB. R Gibson, J,S.W. Withey, S.A.

I. L BANBURY HISMRICNi SOCIETY - Membersp 1960. ( Continued)

Ordinary Kcmbers Adkins , J. Herrington, P.F. Andrews, Miss J. Hi’ubert, Mrs. J. Ankar, F.H. Hickman, A.V. Barrett, H. Horton-Smith, R. R Beeson, Dr. C.F.C. Kirby, H.T. Bigwood, R.K. Langl ey , J .L. Brachi, P. Lawscn, G.F. R Brinkworth, Dr. E.R.C. Marshall, E.R. Bronley, V, McLuckie, D. Brown, Mrs. H. Miller, ROB. Brownett, C.E. Neal , J.M. Burden, J.W. Nealil, R. Carpenter, The Rev. R.P.R. Pain, Mr. & Mrs. A.W. Chaplin, 0. Partridge D. A. C1 ark , W. A. Pearscn, Lady Coffin, I@. & Mrs. J.C.B. Rilcy, K.E. Coles, Eh, & Mrs. A.J. Robinson, E. C. R Cox, Go Rushefi, P,C. Dzvies, Miss G.W. Saye and Sele, R,T7J. The Rt. Hon. Lady I Edge, Lord and I Edgson, R.G. Shirlcy, Xrs. D.K. Ellacott, Mrs. S.T. Si5son A. W. I R Elton, The Rt. Hon, Lord Simms C J W. 1 Farwell, C.G,B. Simpson, Mr. & Mrso O.B. i Fearon, J.H. Simpson, R. Fearon, ROD.J. Stanley-Smith, Miss M. Fearon, C. Stevens, Miss ld. Gsrdam, Dr, & Mrs, G.E. Stockton, Miss X. Gibson, Mrs. V.M. Stokes, bliss M.Ge Goodway, A.J. Taylor, Xiss 1i.M. Gbodway, G.N. ’Prinder, B.S. Green, Miss P. Wagstaffe, A.V. Grecnvor,d, Edrs. E. Tlalklett, L,C. Hanscomb, Ur. & Nrs. Vi. West, Tks. R.G. I Har-tlc?nd9 GoC. J. mitehorn, Miss bl. I Hawley, Miss D.M. I I 91

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New l!e~bors. Bishop, Ilrs. BOIL Six Ash Fmm, Hook Norton, Ban3ury. Booth, Miss ?l.K. Xlykham Park Lodge, Banbury. Canning, Fdrs, D.J. 12 Park Road, Sa~bury~ R Clark, Sir C-eorge Tho Hcllsnds, Kings Sutton, Banbury. R Dix Hamilton, ?4.L, The Yhite CLttzge, Liiidfield, Sussex. Grimsley, LIP. & 14rs. 57 Grange Roadg BEmn-ixwy. R Hahn, Yrs. R, , Lexton House, TZiddleton Chekiey, Banbury. R Eills, Phs, E.US Vestbank, Ldfierbuiy Wcst, Sarzbuq, Hills, Niss, Wastbank, Aciderbury Vest, Banbury. R Loveday, Dr. To ',iillimscote, Banbury, Moreton, The Revd., 24 Elizsbeth Rise, Banbury. I R Price, F.D. Lyndon, 'iligginton, Banbury. Purdie, Mrs. c/o Morris & Harper, Lincoln Chambers, Market Place,

3mbUry 0 Szuiiders, J. , The School House, Horley, Bznbury. R Shadbqlt, Fhs. L.G., Pcnn Stowe, Pcnn, Bucks. Sxith, %issK.?I,, 46 Bloxham Road, Eanbury. 'R7la1liri9 P. Olaf E., I4 Plorzgetan, Stxkholm, Sweden. White, Nrs. J,C, 25 High Street, Zanbury.

Corporate Members.

Banbury, s_- The Sanbury fidvortiser Ltd. , Gcttteridce Street, The 3anbury Guardian Ltd. , 51 Pcrsons Street, Borough Library, 1larlboroue;h Road. -Birmingham. The Reference Library. The University, Ediriund Street.

B1 oxhan SChGol. Buckinghmshire County Library. Coventry Public Library. BAN3LRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Members, 1960. (Continued)

Corporate Members. (contd. )

London. College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.4. Guildhall Library, E. C. 2. Institute of Historical Research, London University, Senate House, W.C.1. London Library St. James' s Square , S. W. 1. Society of Antiquaries, 3urlington House, Piccadilly, W.1.

Northampton Central Public Library, Abington Street. Countjr Library, 1ing;cl Street,

Oxford. Ashtnz~lem liluseum. Bodleian Library. City Library, St. Aldates. County Record Office, County Hall. County Library, Ncrhnrn Gardens.

Shakespeare's Birthplace Library, Stratford-upon-Avon, warn. Tudor Hall School. Warwickshire County Record Office, Shire Hall , Warwick.

U. s. .A. California, Henry E. Huntington Librqy, San Marino. ldassachusct ts, Harvard Law School Library, Langdell Hall, Cambridge 38. PiTas sachuset t s , New Ehgland Historic Ger?ealo&ical Society, 9 Ashburton Place, Boston 8, New.- York, Cornell University Librar~,Ithsca. .!tab, Genealogical Society, 80 North &in Strest, Salt Lake City. ?ir@nia, Historical Society, 428 Worth Boulevard, Richmond 20. Virginia, State Library (Serials), Richmond 19. 93. BlSBURY HISTOKICLX, XOCISTP - Jlml,crs, 1960. (Continued) - - PI__ I_ Ob ituza Mrs. Butters, R. Rowntree, Nr. H.G. --= --= N.J. Mr. Sears.

Re have been sorry to receive the rcsi&natinns of the following:- Nr. & Tdrs. L.T. Davies, Kr. & Nrs. P. Iiallett, Niss A. Lillio, E4rs. RODeLobcl, Mr. S.V. Lovell, b1rs. J.M, Neal, ElIiss C. St. Lcgor, Mrs. HOGeSs;2rs9 The folloTjdng have not rejoined:- Elr. P. Austin, Nr. L. Beily, Kiss D. Barford, Yrs. ’doE. Bennett, Xiss $,Le Bennett, Miss X. Clnrkc, Miss SOYoClzrk, Mr. i?.M. C311i?.rd9 Mr. B: Nrs. H. Crone, Xr. S. Crowe, Mr. E.J. Dse, Dr. c?c Xrs. D. Drew, I’r. & Iirs. DOJOFairisairn, Thc 2ev. & ErS. TOW, Griifiths, Er. H.K. Iiipmod, Ur. J,V. Hipwocd, Mr. J.G. Jerkins, Kr. P. Ord, Ers. G.X.C. Snaehan, ldr. P.E. Slim, Mr. C,J. Snirthwnite, b5ss B. Whecler, Mr. N. Wilson.

Similar lists are preserved in tl?e Nsrthmptonshire Iiscord Office in Dclapre &bey fsr mmy othcr psrishGs in the county for the yeers 1762, 1771, 17r!.().p1777 and 1781. Names crossed out are cf those consii?orz& by ths I)eputy Lieutenants 2nd Justices of the Peace not to be liablo undar the 1761 Idilitin Act. Thc,se who signcd the enclosed lists were J.-hn Dlcncowe of Karston St. Lawrence (died 1777)9 the 2.ovd. Richcrd Grey, Archdeacon of Bebford, Rector of Einton, 1720-1771, the Rcvd-. John Spencer, Ractor of Chipping Warden, 1719- 1773, and Sir John Dryden of Canons LshLy (died l7\/C). Originally conpiled for the purpose of selecting the parish quota of militiamen, these lists are now of great importance oving to the fact that thzy give the occupation of each man namd.

(by P.I. KING - Archivist, NorthamptGnshire Record Office) 94- MIDDLETON CHENEY

A list 0- a1 the men usually and at this time Lmlling within the constablewick of Middleton Cheney between the ages of eighteen and forty five years, November the 20th 1762.

Servants:- John Samcns CYilliam Bull Henry Hall James Thornton John Barrett Richard Douglas Eiichael Bilsdon John Heyns Vki.11i.m Bonnin Willism Ward Jonzithan B1and John Eees Samuel Taylor Edward Bartlett (1) Thomas Carter Richard Taylor George Maltus Richard Gascoign Thomas Williams John Andrews !7illiam Hawkins John Nuett Nehmiah Szben rned crossed out John Carter George Baker (1) N,. and marked ttlameft

Farmers Sons 8- John Merivale John Dumbleton John Aris Hichard Wise William his I'Jilliam Uerivale John KnibS Edwzrd his John Xiso Labourers:- Samuel Braginton Joseph Hartwell William Mold Samuel Trefus Thomas Fcld David Barret William Vaters James Ihld Killiam Larner John Clark I'Jilliarn Nakepeace William Robinson John Riorns Thomas Taylor Thomas Perm Charles Lock Robert Ckambcrlain Journeymen Framework Knitterso- Richard Hitchcox John Buckingham Thornas Jeffs Thomas Buckingham James Lock Willim Blencowe Master Framework Knitters:- Rob ert Go 1b ey Thomas Lock Thomas Joncs John Pinfold Crescent Jeffs Wiliian Gascoign Will iam Zoberts George Tuckey 95. Cordminers :- John Wise Thomas Gulliver Mward Upstone Southam Pratt

Blacksniths 8-

' Daniel1 Pinfold Richard Pinfol d Thomas Finfold (1) (1) Name crossed out and naked "deaf" Masons I- Thomas ?Vilkins (1) Samuel Golbey James Bull (1) Name crossed out ad marked "infirm" Beavers ,o- William Golbey Jmes Simkins Wheelwrights :- John Webb (1) Thomas CJilliams (1) ??me crossed out and marked "lame" Shagweavers I- William Chamberlain John Middleton Carpenters:- Thomas VJilliams John Walker Flaxdressers :- Villiam She1swell Jarnes Golbey Staymakerss- Samuel Lock John Lock %a1t sters 8 - V3.11 iam Knight William North Husbandmen 8 - John North Thornas North Wool1comber:- Ricbard Willizins (1) (1) Nzme crossed out and marked "infirm"

Cooper 8- Benjamin Lord Tanner :- John Drayson TKhi t t aw er8 - Thomas Rroof Baker:- John Evans Butcher :- hen Buckingham Clockmaker:- Biomas Pinf old Gentlemans- John Wilkins Hogdealers:- Richard Watt s Georgo Watts ($To occupation) Matthew Neal (1) (1) Name crossed out and m&ed "dischar(g2)d from the Light Hors o 96. Constables- William Cooper Headborough :- Thomcs Evans

Churchwardens P- Robert Perm Willi am Wi11 iarm Overseer of the Poor:- William Williams at Pool Surveyors of the Highwaysx- Thomas Golbey Thomas Herbage Will iam Buckingham Officer of Excieer- John Pearson Lame:- Abel Williams Killiam Baker Villiam Cook Thomas Treadwell Apprenticeso- John Lamprey Thomas Herbage Robert Penn Richard Wilkins John 23tenan Pi erpoint Gascoign John Golbey William Guy Poor men with three children born in wedlockr- Joseph Miller Samuel Pettifer Richard Stanley Thomcs Elmcr John Pinfold Willim Lamence Samuel Hartwell Will i am Hicol 1s Will iam Hartwell With three children born in wedlock:- John Smith, VJoollcomber Richard Pinfold, blacksmith Thomas Holmer, taylor Edward Jolinson joiner Richard nil1ims wheelwright Jonathan lxlmbl cton, schoolmaster Richard Wadup, frame knitter Matthew Rise, baker Thomas Roberts, ditto John Rodnight , glazier Robert Gascoign, ditto Richard Golbey wheelwright Richard Simonds, shepherd John Stanlcy, taylor Note: !be whole of the lame, apprentices and poor men are crossed through, as are John Smith air? Richard TL‘Jilliams. November 29th 1762 verified upon oath Jno, Blencowe D.L. Ri Grey J Spancer In the original which is arranged in three columns the totals of each column are 51 50 BC 44. Idarked on the outsiclo 116.

(To be continued)