One close, two acres, bounded by Lady-wood-lane.
Parsons-meadow, two acres, bounded by the lands of Thomas Smith, Sir Richard Gough, and Sir Arthur Kaye.
Horse pool-croft, half an acre, bounded by Bell's-barn-lane, [Brickiln-lane] the lands of Robert Phillips and Samuel Smallbrook, Esqrs.
Tythe of all kinds of grain: but instead of hay, wool and lamb, a due of 12d. in the pound rent, called herbage, in all the parish, except foreign, wherein the custom is 4d. per acre for meadow land; 3d. per acre for leas; 3d. for each lamb; 1d. 1/2 for a cow and calf: and except part of the estate of William Colmore, Esq; with the Hall-ring, Tanter-butts, Bell's-barns, [No. 1, Exeter-row] and Rings; for the herbage of which is paid annually 13s. 4d. and also, except part of the estate of Samuel Smallbrook, Esq; for which he pays 8s. per annum; and, except the estate of Thomas Weaman, called Whittall's-farm, [Catharine-street] for which he pays 2s. 8d.
All the above estates pay the customary modus, whether in or out of tillage.
SURPLICE FEES.
| Rector. | Clerk, | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | s. | d. | ||
| For burying in the church, | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ditto church-yard, | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Churching a woman, | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Marrying by licence, | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| Ditto without, | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| Tythe pig, if seven or upwards, | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Easter dues, man and wife, | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| ---- each person above sixteen, | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Clerk's salary 20s. paid by the wardens; also 2d. | |||||
| from each house keeper atEaster. |
From the above terrier, I am inclined to value the income at about 90l. per annum.
The benefice, in 1771, was about 350l. per annum: the late Rector, John Parsons, procured an act, in 1773, to enable the incumbent to grant building leases; the grant of a single lease, in 1777, brought the annual addition of about 170l. The income is now about 700l. and is expected, at the expiration of the leases, to exceed 2000l.