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"Instructions from the Executors of the late Mr. BARNABAS FELTHAM, to SELL by AUCTION, on Thursday, July 19 th, at Six o'clock in the Evening, at the Norfolk Hotel, the following Property, situate in the City of Norwich.
Lot 1. – A Brick Tower WINDMILL, (formerly known as Spratt’s Mill,) with four patent sails, drives three pairs of 4ft. 6in. stones, two flour mills and jumper; also a stable cart-house and piggery adjoining. – The Mill is occupied by Mr. Mark Feltham, stand well for wind, in a very populous district, near the Victoria Railway Station, and possession may be had at Michaelmas.
Norfolk Chronicle - 23th June 1855
To be SOLD by Private Contract,
ALL that capital Brick TOWER WINDMILL, situate at Lakenham, near the Victoria Railway Station, and formerly known as “Spratt’s Mill,” with four patent sails and driving three pairs of 4 feet 6 inch stones, two flour mills, and a jumper; with a stable cart-house, and piggery adjoining, now in the occupation of Mr. Mark Feltham.
Also two newly-built Dwelling-houses, adjoining the mill, with gardens, each house containing a parlour, kitchen, wash-house, and three sleeping-rooms.
For further particulars apply to Messrs. Brightwell and Son, Surrey-street, Norwich, or to John Feltham, of Saxlingham.
Norfolk Chronicle - 19th January 1856
The mill had 4 sails of 100 feet diameter until 1915 when they came off. The mill stands 80 feet high on 8 floors.
The last millar was Charles Edward Woodrow. Flour production ceased in 1870 and went over to grist milling. The mill was damaged by fire in 1914. From 1922 flour was milled by electricity. It closed in the 1960's on Woodrow's amalgamation with Read City Flour Mills.
Will of Samuel Parker, Grocer, Draper and Tailor of Wymondham, Norforlk, dated 12th October 1885. His business was carried out at Browick, Wymondham and all Businesses carried out in the name of Parker and Sons also belong to him. He has no shares in the Fancy Boot and Shoe Business in the names of Parker and sons or as Parker’s Fancy Stores except as a Creditor, they belong to his son James.
He names his wife, Caroline Parker and Solicitor Edward Boyce Pomeroy of Wymondham as Executors. He names his children as James Sparkhall Parker (also to be a Trustee), Caroline Laura Parker, Leonard Samuel Parker (also a Trustee and named Leonard James Parker elsewhere in the document) and Jessie Limmer Parker.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
Later documents deal with the Bankruptcy of the Company in the early 1900’s. The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
Letter from Lydia Cook, cousin of Charity (Rowland) Claydon regarding the death of his wife Charity (cousin to Lydia). James would be dead by the time this letter arrived in Greenfield, so the executor would probably have received it and passed it along to Claydon heirs. Nephew Henry Claydon and family would arrive in 1880. Descendants of Henry's daughter, Nora Claydon Bentley, would inherit the documents.
Sunbury, March 27, 1876
My dear Cousins
Dear Cousin Claydon,
I read a letter from Harriet last week saying dear cousin Charity was dead & that you was confined to your bed. So she heard she saw she or Ben were both sick at the time or they would tried to get there to the funeral. I feel to sympathize with you in your bereavement yet I know our Father in Heaven will sustain you in your affliction & take you softly to the mansion he has prepared for you. You & I won't tarry long behind. When I last bade you good bye I did not think I should see this day. But the Lord has let me live on his foot-stool [end of page]
now than 4 years since. If God had permitted I should have been happy to be with you & C during your sickness and attended to your wants. But that was not to be. Our Heavenly Father has blest me with better health the past winter than usual, bless the Lord o my soul & forget not all his benefits I would like to know the particulars of dear C [Charity] sickness & death. Did she die happy in her Saviour & rejoice that she was going home? She was a good kind christian woman & I believe she is happy. May the Lord bless you & restore you to health if it is his will.
I cannot refrain from expressing my gratitude to you for your kindness to me & mine when we last visited you & Charity. Finally you have been kind for which I must express my gratitude here I may never have another opportunity.
May our good Lord bless & keep you for his own glory.
- Lydia Cook
Spencer joins with me in love to you
NOTES:
Harriet Cook Edwards: daughter of Lydia and an heir of James Claydon.
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Letter dated 11th September 1897 from E.F. Buxton, Director Barclay & Co. Gurneys Bank, Norwich to Edward Pomeroy, Solicitor, re account of Samuel Parker and sons.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
Later documents deal with the Bankruptcy of the Company in the early 1900’s. The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
Brass figures of a pet dog with belled collar & lion sit at the feet of Thomas de Cruwe / Crewe 1418 & 1st wife Juliana 1411 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1M72b4 in the south chantry chapel he built after her death. The shield is that of Juliana's step son William Clopton, his executor and residual legatee. The severed foot is the Cruwe badge
In the two decades following World War 2, Acton, which lies just north-east of Sudbury, was a medium-sized village with a population of around 550. Since the mid-60s, however, several building programmes have seen whole estates spring up where once there was just farmland; the population has almost quadrupled to about 1,900.
Standing remote on a small hill at the end of a long lane in the north-west of the village, All Saints seems somewhat aloof from all this modern development. Although nowhere near as grand as the parish churches of neighbouring Long Melford or Lavenham, the towers of which can both be seen from here, All Saints is not a small church. There are aisles on both north and south sides: the former extending eastwards flush with the east chancel wall, the latter even further by the Jennens mausoleum. The Jennens being an influencial local family.
William Jennens, known as the "Acton Miser", made his money loaning money to gamblers and was Britain's richest commoner at the time of his death in 1798 at the age of 99, though he outlived his nominated executors and beneficiaries under his will. The case was litigated throughout the early 19th century until the whole estate (worth c. £2 million) had disappeared in legal fees. The case of Jennens v Jennens formed part of the inspiration for the Jarndyce v Jarndyce case at the centre of the plot of Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
The original church was built around 1250 in Decorated style and the canopied tomb on the north side of the chancel is probably the founders tomb. In the 15th Century the South aisle and the porch were added with the Jennens family vault below. In the late 19th Century the top of the heavily buttressed tower was pulled down and was rebuilt in 1923 with the bells rehung in 1926. The chancel opens to the De Bures Chapel on the north side, with a fine 13th century canopied arch and cusping. The church has some fine brasses; the most famous being that of Robert de Bures (died 1302). The brass of Dame Alyce de Bryene has a figure under a triple canopy. There is also a brass of Henry Bures (died 1528). There is a monument to Robert Jennens (died 1732) who was adjutant to the Duke of Marlborough.
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Description: Micalago "Lion Tamer," No. 980, A.H.H.B. Bred by the Executors of the late Hon. A. Ryrie, M.L.C.
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date: 1920
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Description: Micalago "Monte Carlo 3rd," No. 732, A.H.H.B. Bred by the Executors of the late Hon. A. Ryrie, M.L.C.
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date: 1920
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Description: Micalago "Neptune.
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date: 1920
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Description: Micalago "Lion Leaf.
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date: 1920
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/611.
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Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904. List several previous Indentures etc.plus value of any houses and what and what cannot be built on the Land. First 19th & 25th March 1799 redemption of Land Tax by John Garrett.
Amongst many others:
28th August 1866 Indenture between Sir Robert Garrett, George Young, Edward Newman, Robert Beckford Johnstone, John Francis Bontenis.
7th July 1876 John Frederick Clark died. His wife Mary Ann Clark and son-in-law Birches Frost Wills are named as Executors and Trustees
2nd December 1878 Agreement between John Frederick Clark and Jennings Butler for £100.
28th December 1896 Jennings Butler died and by his Will of 1895 Thomas Newman, Alfred Thomas Brewer and his Niece Isabella Butler Long made Trustees and Executors of his Will.
5th March 1898 Isabella Butler Long died.
15th September 1902 Indenture of Mortgage between Mary Ann Clark, Widow of Ramsgate, Birches Frost Wills, Carpenter, Ramsgate, Sarah Kingdom Klug of 112 Clifton Hill, St Johns Wood, London, Widow.
John Frederick Clark born circa 1821 at Ramsgate was a Carpenter/Builder. He married twice: Elizabeth Hooper Moses 30th June 1844 at Ramsgate and Mary Ann Bobey 23rd October 1871 at St. Lawrence, Kent.
Church of St Peter,
Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.
The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’
The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:
Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;
Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;
Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;
Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.
Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’
Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.
The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.
Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’
www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015
detail of the sarcophagus
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4th October – 9th December 1902 details of the meetings re the renunciation of Leonard S Parker and James Parker as Trustee of their father Samuel Parker’s Will due to Bankruptcy.
Leonard and James Parker were the son’s of Samuel Parker and Caroline Sparkhall. Along with their mother Caroline and sisters Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker inherited under the Will with Property held in Trust.
The daughter Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
A statue in Williams Park, St. Pete celebrates Thaddeus Kosciusko (1746-1817), the Polish hero of the American War of Independence. The inscription outlines his bequest for the freeing and education of slaves, for which Thomas Jefferson was named as executor. Given that Jefferson was himself a slave owner, one must wonder how diligent he was in carrying out Kosciusko’s wishes.
Draft Will of Philip Bowgen, Painter & Plumber, Glazier, Wymondham, Norfolk. Dated 28th August 1879. Solicitor White, Renard & Pomeroy, Wymondham.
Named son Philip Bowgen, Samuel Peter Bush of Thurston, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Builder & Edward Boyce Pomeroy, Solicitor as Executors and Trustees. Names his wife, Sarah Ward Bush Bowgen and leaves bequest to his other Children.
Philip Bowgen born 1818 Wymondham, Norfolk was the son of Philip Bowgen and Ann Bush (married 6th October 1816 at Wymondham). He married Sarah Ward Bush at Suffolk in 1852. Sarah was born 28th February 1829 at Thurston, Suffolk the daughter of Peter and Susannah Bush.
The 1871 census shows them living at Damgate Street Wymondham. He died 1st October 1879 at Wymondham.
Draft revised Will of Agnes Petley, Nash Court, Margate, Margate, Kent, 24th December, 1888. Address in 1886 was 2 Newton Place, Newton Road, Faversham.
Executor, brother, Frederick Petley, in 1886 was sister Sybella Petley. Beneficiaries, Fredrick Petley, Sybella Petly and Clara Petley, crossed out in 1888 changes.
Church of St. Mary,
Monument to Mrs Everilda Thornhill †1743, and members of her family. Marble, above north arcading of central aisle. Commissioned by the executors of her will on her orders.
The inscription is illegible, but clarified in the photographs. Everilda Thornhill was a spinster from Burnham, who died aged 44. The other members of her family included in the inscription, and buried in a vault nearby, were: her mother, Ann Thornhill †1724; her uncle Thomas Harris †1726; and her brother John Thornhill †1741.
The inscription, under an angel head is set under a broken pediment, with (presumably) the now illegible family coat of arms. It is framed by dark, doubled, Corinthian piers, above gadrooning and a double curved apron. The elegant monument is not signed (or if it had been the signature is now lost) but close to, but more complex than, contemporary monuments by Norwich sculptors, notably John Ivory’s monument to Mary Slater †1748 at Hingham.
detail of the bottom of the monument
Letter re the Estate of William Blomfield of Sparham Hall Farm, Necton, Norfolk who died 18th September 1886. His wife Olivia Jane, nee Whistler, Blomfield remarried in 1890 at the Strand Registration District, London to Edward Lewis. Edward Lewis born circa 1849, Farmer and Miller at Gayton, Norfolk was also one of the Executors of William Blomfield’s Will. She needed to fill in forms to record her change of name to Lewis by marriage to ensure the dividend from her husband’s estate continued to be paid to her.
Letter from Whites, Solicitors, 28 Budge Row, Cannon Street, London sent to Whites and Pomeroy, Solicitor, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Draft preparations for Summons & details of People to be sued for non-payment of Medical services by Dr. Morton. 1903, Aylsham, Norfolk to be Summoned by Thomas Purdey, Solicitor executor of Dr. Richard John Morton deceased Aylsham, Norfolk, who died 20th October 1902. For up to 4 years after his death payments were still being made and collected by his Solicitors and his wife and recorded. 1903.
Richard John Morton was born in 1849 the son of Richard Kay, also a Surgeon and Eliza Mary Needham Morton. He married Mary Ann (Marion) Magar 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth. Morton of Aylsham Family Papers.
Draft Will of George Burges, Classical Scholar of 28 Hardres Street, Ramsgate, Kent dated 24th October 1861.
George Burges born 1786 Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, he was educated at Cambridge. He was a noted Scholar and author. Named in his father’s will, Thomas Burges of Calcutta, India, dated 1798 along with Elizabeth Burges as his natural children. He left 60,000 rupees for their keep.
George Burges named his wife Jane Burges and his four daughters; Maria Burges, Anne Burges, Fanny Burges and Jane, nee Burges, Hill the wife of Charles Thomas Hill as beneficiaries. The Reverend Henry Richards Luard and Charles John Hill as Executors. He states that he makes no mention of his three sons in Australia as he has already done the best he can for them. George died 11th January 1864.
Crônica de Joca Souza Leão no Jornal do Comércio de 2 de março de 2010
"O prefeito do Recife sabe muito bem que prefeito, qualquer um, de qualquer lugar, não é nada mais nada menos que um mandatário. Também sabe, estou certo, o que mandatário quer dizer. "Aquele que recebe mandato ou procuração para agir em nome de outro; executor de ordens ou mandados, de atos autorizados pelo mandante, em cujo nome e sob cuja responsabilidade age". Exemplo: vereador e prefeito são mandatários do povo. Não inventei nada. Tá no Dicionário Houaiss (só os grifos e exemplos são meus).
Pois bem, quem ordenou, mandou ou autorizou que se construísse um shopping center na Tamarineira, em área (9,13 hectares) tombada pelo patrimônio histórico estadual? O mandatário atual diz que não mandou, que nem sabia de nada (sic). Como a coisa foi feita à sorrelfa e já faz algum tempo, vai ver que se algum mandatário mandou, foi o anterior. Não interessa. Um ou outro, se alguém mandou, usurpou. Porque o povo e as entidades que o representam não foram consultados. E nem ele, o mandatário, tem poder para destombar nada.
Recebi dezenas de e-mails e telefonemas sobre a ameaça de construção desse shopping na Tamarineira. Nada a favor. Aliás, tudo, rigorosamente tudo, que vi, li e ouvi até hoje é contra qualquer coisa de pedra e cal que se pretenda construir ali. Uns mais, outros menos contundentes, mas todos contra. Se havia alguém a favor, não aparecia. Não botava a cara. Nem dava o nome. Era um projeto órfão.
Semana passada, finalmente, os protagonistas dessa novela sinistra saíram das sombras e botaram a cara ao lume. A Santa (e misericordiosa) Casa e a carioca Releasis Empreendimentos Imobiliários assinaram e publicaram uma nota conjunta, em que a primeira diz que alugou (não vendeu) e a segunda conta (como favas contadas) que vai construir um shopping.
A Santa (e misericordiosa) Casa pode muito, é rica e poderosa, mas, até onde se sabe, não permite ou deixa de permitir que se construa nada nesta cidade. E o comprador (ou inquilino, como revelaram agora), idem; também não permite ou deixa de permitir coisíssima alguma. Pelo menos é o que se imagina.
Eu disse anteriormente que o projeto do shopping era “órfão”. Mas, melhor dizendo, era de pai desconhecido. Era. Porque as investigações de paternidade revelaram fortes indícios de que o pai seria Dom José Cardoso Sobrinho, à época o mandão da Santa (e misericordiosa) Casa. Seguinte: tudo faria parte de um ardiloso plano de vingança de Dom Cardoso, que teria ido às forras contra o Recife, porque o povo amava Dom Hélder e o ignorava solenemente. (Posso, até, imaginá-lo lá no esconderijo onde se refugiou, vociferando com sua voz cavilosa: “A vingança será maligna!”).
Mas não tem nada perdido. Desde a década de 50 que a Santa (e misericordiosa) Casa ameaça vender a Tamarineira. E já naquela época, o cronista Mário Melo questionava a legitimidade dessa propriedade, citando documentos do século XIX, existentes no Instituto Arqueológico, Histórico e Geográfico. Recentemente, a historiadora e pesquisadora Virgínia Pernambucano de Mello desencavou um documento de 1925, do governo de Sérgio Loreto, que coloca a Tamarineira sob a gestão do Estado de Pernambuco.
Ora, ora, conterrâneos, como dizem os juristas, “o Direito é bom”: o mandatário não manda (e não mandou), a área é tombada e, de quebra, ninguém pode alugar o que não é seu.
À luta! À justiça! À vitória! Ao Parque Público da Tamarineira (sem shopping). E viva o tema da Campanha da Fraternidade 2010: Vocês não podem servir a Deus e ao dinheiro.
PS. Como o tema que abordei em janeiro, antes de sair de férias, está em pauta, antecipei o meu retorno ao batente."
Joca Souza Leão é batizado, crismado, eleitor no Recife e morador do Espinheiro, bairro adjacente à Tamarineira.
This was a unique dance. It is called "Henry" and is about the 6 wives of King Henry VIII (It has executors, guillotines and everything!)
(Brasília - DF, 05/08/2020) Presidente do Senado Federal, Davi Alcolumbre conversa com a imprensa.
Foto: Isac Nóbrega/PR
M. E. Church
Chesterton, Ind.
Date: Circa 1927
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Brooks Photo (#513)
Postmark: Unknown
Collection: Mike Fleming
Remark: This photograph was taken facing northwest at the southwest corner of the intersection of Second Street and Porter Avenue. The church parsonage is visible to the far right in this image. The parsonage was later moved to a lot located on Park Avenue, just east of Eleventh Street in Chesterton, Indiana, and now serves as a residence. After the parsonage was removed, a parking lot was put into its place.
The church edifice was designed based on a nearly identical design of the Methodist Church located in Flora, Carroll County, Indiana.
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The following news item appeared in the July 1, 1926, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
METHODISTS TO BUILD HOUSE OF WORSHIP
Indications now are that Chesterton Methodists are to have a house of worship that will be a credit to the community, and to the congregation. For some time a committee of faithful citizens has been laboring hard on the matter of formulating plans for the building of a new church for this congregation, and are at last able to report progress.
Capital life was injected into the undertaking when J. A. Johnson and H. F. Carlson, executors of the estate of the late Par A. Johnson, made the committee a concrete offer. The executors are custodians of a fund left by the late P. A. Johnson, to be disbursed of as in their judgment seems fit, and they submitted a proposition to the church committee offering to donate $20,000 from this fund for the erection of a Methodist church edifice in Chesterton, when the congregation raises an additional $30,000. The committee, consisting of the following well known gentlemen, Charles L. Jeffrey, H. A. Flynn, C. O. Wiltfong, Roger Holcomb, Charles Smith, Ernest Lilywhite and J. A. Johnson, after investigation and consultation, accepted the generous offer.
For some time the committee has been looking up plans for the proposed new church. Many towns were visited and churches inspected. Last Saturday the committee, accompanied by other member of the church and citizens to the number of 46, journeyed to Flora, Ind., and inspected the M. E. church edifice there. After careful inspection it was agreed that a similar building would suit the needs of the congregation here, and after this opinion was made the executors of the estate of Par A. Johnson at a quarterly conference held Monday evening of this week submitted in writing their offer.
Some of the conditions of the offer are that the new building shall be a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Johnson. The board accepted the offer and has now set itself to work of collecting the $30,000 needed.
The new building will be erected on land immediately south of the M. E. parsonage, corner of Porter avenue and Second street. Its dimensions will be 75x80 with 17 rooms, to be used for church work and including an auditorium that will seat 450 persons, and arranged so that it many sit 600 by throwing open a connecting room. The edifice will follow the design of the building in Flora.
That the idea is taking form root in the hearts of the public is apparent in the fact that V. U. Young, of Gary, has donated a beautiful pipe organ to the congregation for the new church.
While the edifice is to be used by the M. E. church, it may also be con--?-- the church of the American --?--king protestants of this section. Besides the Lutherans and the Catholics, we have no other churches in Chesterton but the Methodists, Swedish and English. It is where people who belong to other faiths or who have no church affiliations are buried in, are married in if they have a church wedding, and go to when the want to hear the word of God. It may be called "The Little Brown Church Around the Corner." It is God's way ---?--- for the weary and oppressed. It commands the respect and support of all Chesterton needs this new place and it should be considered a privilege to be permitted to subscribe to the fund that will make it doable. The Tribune is heart and mind in the good cause, and commends it to our readers as a worthy cause.
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The following news item appeared in the July 8, 1926, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Architect Stephens of Huntington, Ind., has been employed to draw up a set of plans for the proposed new M. E. church to be built here. He expects to have them ready in about two weeks.
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The following news item appeared in the July 15, 1926, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
PLANS FOR THE NEW CHURCH ARE PROGRESSING
The Building Committee of the First Methodist church has employed an architect to draw plans and make specifications for the new church. The plans will be completed and in the hands of the committee by July 26. The committee expects to be able to submit the plans for bids on the new church at an early date.
The committee on finance has planned its work to start August first. They expect to complete the work by August 10th.
The work is progressing very satisfactorily to those who have the matter in hand and we believe August 1st will be a day of victory for the congregation of the First Methodist church.
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The following news item appeared in the March 10, 1927, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Contractor W. R. Duncan, of Flora, Ind., arrived in Chesterton, Monday morning, and began immediately the work of starting construction on the new Methodist church building, corner of Second street and Porter avenue. Material has been arriving on the ground for several days, and workmen began to show up on the job Tuesday. the contract calls for the completion of the job by August 1st, but the contractor says he will attempt to deliver the job to the congregation by July 1. If he does he will break some records for speed.
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The following news item appeared in the March 31, 1927, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
LAY CORNER STONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Next Sunday will be a big day in the history of the First Methodist Episcopal church when, at 2:30 in the afternoon, the cornerstone for the new church edifice will be laid with impressive services. Rev. A. E. Bagby will have charge of the services and a general invitation is extended to the public to attend. Some years ago the congregation purchased two lots at the corner of Second street and Porter avenue, and a short time later a handsome parsonage was built on the north lot and the corner reserved for a new church building, when the time came for the erection of such a structure.
The ambitions of the congregation have been realized and a handsome building is now going up on the site, and Sunday afternoon's service will mark the first service for the new structure.
Dr. B. D. Beck, of South Bend, and Rev. E. p. Swan, superintendent of the Chicago district of the Swedish M. E. church will be present and both will take part in the exercises with addresses. The following ministers from a distance have been invited to participate in the services: Rev. C. A. Brown, Rev. F. R. Briggs, Rev. H. V. Deal, Rev. F. O. Fraley and Rev. Charles Roush.
The Methodists began their work in this community in the year 1861, and Elder Daniel A. Grime was the first pastor. On Dec. 15, 1861, Pastor Grime baptized Jearard Whitmore, Mary, his wife, and their son, John. Previous to this date, on Jan. 25, 1861, Grace Pelham, James Asher, Louisa Ingraham and Lovenia C. Shoemaker were received as probationers, the first on the circuit. Louisa Ingraham was living in Calumet (now Chesterton), the others being from the Jackson Center neighborhood.
In those days the meetings were held in the homes and school buildings. The circuit rider came around once or twice a month, holding meetings on Saturday evenings, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. The circuit was made up of McCool, Calumet, Jackson Center, Furnessville and possibly another point or two. McCool's chapel seemed to be at the head of it.
The first wedding ceremony on the circuit was performed by Pastor Grimes on Oct. 22, 1862, the contracting parties being Henry C. Richman, of Chicago, and Mary E. Drew, of Calumet.
As stated above the entire circuit had but four member in 1861. The next year they added three more to their membership and one was dropped from the list. The next year they did better and added five to the list, all of whom proved faithful. A great revival was held in 1866 and there were twenty-four named added to the records. In 1870 the circuit of four churches came into the Northwest Indiana Conference, with a membership of 83, 140 were enrolled in the Sunday school with eleven officers and teachers, and has since been known as the Chesterton circuit.
The congregation has made a steady growth in membership, until today it stands at 273, with a prospect of reaching the 300 mark by Easter Sunday of this year.
The church building at the corner of Second street and Indiana venue, occupied for many years by the congregation, was built in 1865, as a Union church. Later is was deeded to the Methodist church by the trustees. This building, just one room, heated by stoved and lighted with oil lamps, served the congregation until 1913, when under the leadership of Rev. C. A. Brown, it was raised, a basement dug underneath, a heating plant and electric lights put in. This added greatly to the space of the building, giving twice the room it formerly contained. The cost of this work was more than $2,000.
The beautiful parsonage on Second street now enjoyed by the pastor and his family, was built in 1917, at a cost of more than $6,000 under the leadership of Rev. Frank R. Briggs.
Early in 1926, at a meeting of the official board, the matter of a new church was discussed as it had been many times before. After a short discussion it was moved by one of the members of the board that a building committee be appointed to go into the matter and report to the board as to the probable cost of a building suitable to the needs of the congregation. The following committee was appointed: C. L. Jeffrey, J. A. Johnson, Chas. H. Smith, Dr. C. O. Wiltfong, H. A. Flynn, Roger Holcomb and Ernest Lillywhite. The committee organized for the task and Mr. Jeffrey was chosen as chairman, Rev. A. E. Bagby, secretary, and E. L. Morgan treasurer.
Investigations were made regarding a suitable plant a number of churches were visited. Finally a plan was outlined to Architect Stevens, of Huntington, who drew the plans for the new church. At a meeting of the quarterly conference on June 28, 1926, it was unanimously decided to build the new structure, adopting the plans drawn by Mr. Stevens. The contract was let on Aug. 2 to W. R. Dunkin & Son, of Flora, Ind., for the sum of $49,120.
A contract also has been let to Hilgren, Lane & Co., of Alliance, Ohio, for a new pipe organ to be installed in the church at a cost of $5,000. The building is to be completed by Aug. 1st of this year, at which time the congregation expects the building to be ready for dedication.
The following ministers have served the church in Chesterton since its organization in 1861:
D. A. Grimes, C. A. Jesse, Chas. S. Smith, H. C. Weston, B. W. Smith, J. S. Wright, M. B. Wood, A. G. Deutch, J. W. Harris, B. H. Beall, D. G. Lesourd, A. L. Umpleby, W. W. Jones, J. T. Stafford, J. Harrison, C. O. Smock, E. A. Andrew, Fred H. Clutton, Levi Moore, Glenn Wishard, J. B. Smith, J. E. Wilson, Wm. Crapp, C. A. Brown, Z. Lambert, F. R. Briggs, Wm. West, H. V. Deal, H. A. Lawrence, A. E. Bagby
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The following news item appeared in the April 7, 1927, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
CORNERSTONE LAID SUNDAY OF NEW CHURCH
A crowd of several hundred persons stood in the mist with bowed heads Sunday afternoon as simple and impressive ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the First Methodist Episcopal church in Chesterton was performed.
Intermittent spurts of rain throughout the morning and early afternoon had threatened to result in postponement of he service but shortly before the ceremony was started the sun appeared and shone like a benediction over the scene and disappeared behind the cloud again when the service was completed.
Rev. A. E. Bagby, pastor of the church, marked the laying of the stone. The dedication sermon was delivered by Rev. B. D. Beck, superintendent of the South Bent district. The congregation attended the service overflowed the intersection of 2nd street and Porter avenue.
The program started with community singing of the hymn, "I Love Thy Church, O God," led by members of the church choir, accompanied by the congregation and spectators who attended the ceremony.
Following this the ceremony of marking the stone was performed by Rev. Bagby.
Rev. Beck's sermon was concerned with the meaning behind the ceremony of the cornerstone and he briefly traced the history and symbolism of the rite which he said has come down with religious practice throughout the ages.
The elements of sacrifice and endeavor are predominantly symbolized in ceremony, the speaker said. In early times the sacrificial element was emphasized with the offering of human life, but with later enlightenment this was abandoned but the element of sacrifice is still preserved in a changed but no less real form, he said.
Christ is the chief cornerstone of life, the speaker declared, and he represents the strength, beauty and endeavor toward which all should strive.
Rev. E. P. Swan, superintendent of the Chicago district of the Swedish M. E. church, and other ministers were to have attended the ceremony but the inclemency of the weather forced them to cancel the engagement.
The building is expected to be completed by August when the dedication services will be held. The basement and first floor now are finished and the structure will be two stories high. It is estimated he total cost will be close to $60,000. The church will be equipped with a $5,000 pipe organ, a $2,000 thermostat control, a ventilation system that will cost $700 to install and improved lighting fixtures valued at several hundred dollars.
The church now has a membership of 273 but with the enrollment of a new class at Easter, it is expected the membership will be increased to 300.
With the approval of the official board of jurisdiction of the appointment of the building committee the first steps toward erecting the structure were taken early in 1926. The building committee was comprised of C. I. Jeffrey, J. A. Johnson, Dr. C. O. Wiltfong, H. A. Flynn, Roger Holcomb, Charles H. Smith and Ernest Lillywhite.
Cl. L. Jeffrey, E. L. Morgan and Rev. Bagby were chosen executive heads by the group and it was through the endeavors of the members of the committee and the executive heads that the success which has attended the undertaking was achieved.
The general contract was let to W. R. Dunkin and Sons of Flora, Ind., at a figure just under $50,000 and the excavation work was started last July.
Incased in the stone was a copper box 7x8x10 inches donated by Claude Williams and the following articles were placed within the box before being sealed up: Conference minutes of Northwest Indiana conference for 1926, Official Board Roll, names of building committee, names of officers and teachers of Sunday school, history of the church, report of Ladies' Aid, reports of Men's Aid and program of Men's Aid shows 1927, copy of Boy Scout movement, copy of Western Christian Advocate, April 2, 1927, a copy of Chesterton Tribune of March 31, 1927, population of town 2,000, bank statement of the Chesterton bank, membership roll, the pastor's bible, one that he purchased while at college, pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Par A. Johnson, copy of Methodist Discipline, 1924, Methodist Hymnal donated by Mrs. J. Castleman, Cradle Roll and the names of all the pastors that have served the church.
Rev. A. P. Hardt, of St. John's church attended the exercises and offered the prayer and Rev. Wacknitz, of Porter, gave the benediction.
In the list of ministers published in our last issue the names of two who had been in the service were omitted. They were Rev. John Ayling and Rev. O. P. Berry.
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The following news item appeared in the May 12, 1927, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
LOCAL-SOCIAL-PERSONAL
W. R. Dunkin & Son, who have the contract for the new Methodist church building are making rapid progress on the work and the new edifice will be ready for dedication early in August. The outside work has been practically completed and roofers started putting on the shingles Tuesday morning, laying a heavy asbestos shingle that is fire-resisting and should last for many years. The contract has been awarded for 220 individual church chairs for the auditorium and 72 opera chairs in the balcony. Room for 86 will be made in the young people's room. A layer of celotex will be laid between the false floor and the hardwood flooring of the auditorium as a noise-deadener and all outside walls will have a coat of water-proofing on the inside. Four built-in cupboards for books and Sunday school supplied will be placed in various parts of the building.
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The following news item appeared in the October 13, 1927, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
MANY ATTEND M. E. CHURCH DEDICATION
Last Sunday, October 9th, was a day of victory and rejoicing for the people of Chesterton, and especially the people of the Methodist church. The church building that is to be the home of the members and friends of the Methodist church was dedicated to the Service of God by beautiful ritual ceremony.
Bishop F. D. Leete, D. D., L.L. D., of Indianapolis, the Bishop of this Episcopal area, was present for this happy occasion and preached two wonderful sermons, one at 10:30 o'clock in the morning and another at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The morning service was brought to a happy climax when the pastor, Rev. A. E. Bagby, announced that the new building cost $65,100, and that $2,000 was needed to cover the cost of the building. About twenty minutes was used in securing pledges -- the congregation giving in cash and pledges, $1,915. After the Bishop's sermon in the afternoon, pledges were again called for by the pastor and more than enough to make the $2,000 was secured.
The Bishop and congregation then succeeded to dedicate the building to the Service of God. At the close of the afternoon service, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harvil had the Bishop baptize their twin boys, Fred and George. This was a fitting climax to the service.
The evening session was a great spiritual blessing to all present. Dr. F. O. Learenby, of Hammond, in his masterful way, preached a sermon fill of truth and spiritual power.
The music of the day was wonderful, the choir, under the leadership of Mr. H. F. Carlson, sage at each service. Their music was spiritual and uplifting to all. Mr. H. F. Carlson sang a solo for the morning service, and Virginia Kinnaird, of Ft. Wayne, sang for the afternoon service, and Mr. John Nordstrom sang for the evening service.
The following ministers for out-of-town were present: Rev. F. O. Learenby, Michigan City; Rev. Chas. A. ---?---, South Bend; Rev. B. D. Beck, South Bend; Rev. F. R. Briggs, Valparaiso; Rev. H. V. Deale, Hammond; Rev. E. P. Swan, Evanston, Ill.; Rev. ?. G. Learenby, Hammond; Rev. Hardt and Rev. Ring were also in attendance.
St. John's congregation set a beautiful bouquet and with it their congratulations to the Methodist congregation and pastor.
In all there were about a thousand people in attendance at the three services of the day.
The program continues throughout the week. On Tuesday evening Rev. E. J. Gratz, D. D., of Chicago, is to speak. This services i for all, but specifically for the young people. Service begins at 7:30.
Wednesday evening is "Good Will ---?---." The church keeps open-house for the community. Everyone welcome. Come and look the building over. Rev. ?. ?. Fraley speaks at 8:00 o'clock.
Thursday evening all former pastors are expected to be present. On Friday evening the ladies serve supper from 6 to 8 in the new dining hall.
Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock, Mr. ---?--- Gerber, of Chicago, will give an organ recital on the new Hillgreen-Lane pipe organ. Mr. Gerber is an outstanding artist on the organ. Tickets on sale at $1.00.
The following out-of-town people attended the dedication services during the day and evening:
Mr. and Mrs. Kinnaird and daughter, Virginia, of Fort Wayne.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith and Senator Oliver M. Holmes, of Gary.
Mrs. Sam Batsel, of Hammond.
Mrs. James Sanderson, Mrs. Martha ---son and daughter, Mrs. Henry ---?--- and daughter, Betty Jane, Mrs. Elois Neff, of Argos.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Rockwell, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ruth and many others from Valparaiso, Michigan City, Hobart, Wheeler, Crisman, Burdick and ---?---.
Mr. and Mrs. Heller, Plano, Ill.
Mrs. Minnie Jones, Whiting.
---?--- Seltina and Ella Jeffrey, Chicago.
Sources:
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; July 1, 1926; Volume 43, Number 17, Page 1, Column 1. Column titled "Methodists to Build House of Worship."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; July 8, 1926; Volume 43, Number 18, Page 8, Column 2. Column titled "Social and Personal."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; July 15, 1926; Volume 43, Number 19, Page 1, Column 6. Column titled "Plans for the New Church are Progressing."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; March 10, 1927; Volume 43, Number 52, Page 8, Column 3. Column titled "Social and Personal."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; March 31, 1927; Volume 44, Number 3, Page 1, Columns 1-2. Column titled "Lay Corner Stone Sunday Afternoon."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; April 7, 1927; Volume 44, Number 4, Page 1, Columns 1-2. Column titled "Cornerstone Laid Sunday of New Church."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; May 12, 1927; Volume 44, Number 9, Page 5, Column 4. Column titled "Local-Social-Personal."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; October 13, 1927; Volume 44, Number 31, Page 1, Column 1. Column titled "Many Attend M. E. Church Dedication."
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Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.
This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.
Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation
detail of the apron with coat of arms
Mes derniers lego, franchement j'aime bien cet échelle, ça permet d'avoir des lego de vaisseaux capitaux abordables.
GOD MANCHESTER
MANCHESTER. EARLS AND DUKES OF MANCHESTER
The Manchester title, in the English peerage, belongs to a branch of the family of Montagu (q.v.).
The first earl was HENRY Morrnov (c. 1363-1642), grandson of Sir Edward Montagu, chief justice of the king's bench 1539-1545, who was named by King Henry VIII. one of the executors of his will, and governor to his son, Edward VI. Sir Henry Montagu, who was born at Boughton, Northamptonshire, about 1563, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and, having been called to the bar,was elected recorder of London in 1603, and in 1616 was made chief justice of the king's bench, in which office it fell to him to pass sentence on Sir Walter Raleigh in October 1618. In 1620 he was appointed lord high treasurer, being raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, Huntingdonsbire, and Viscount Mandeville. He became president of the council in 1621, in which office he was continued by Charles 1., who created him earl of Manchester in 1626. In 1628 he became lord privy seal, and in 1635 a commiasioner of the treasury. Although from the beginning of his public life in 1601, when he first entered parliament, Manchester had inclined to the popular side in politics, he managed to retain to the end the favour of the king. He was a judge of the Star Chamber, and one of the most trusted councillors of Charles I. His loyalty, ability and honesty were warmly praised by Clarendon. In conjunction with Coventry, the lord keeper, he pronounced an opinion in favour of the legality of ship-money in 1634. He died on the 7th of November 1642. Manchester was
married three times. One of his sons by his third wife wasfathcr of Charles Montagu, created earl of Halifax in 1699
Euwluw MoNncU, and ear] of Manchester (16o2-1671),eldest son of the rst earl by his first wife, Catherine Spencer, granddaughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, was born in 160:, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
He was member of parliament for Huntingdonshire 1623-1626, and in the latter year was raised to the peerage in his father's lifetime as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, but was known generally by his courtesy title of Viscount Mandeville. ‘His first wife, who was related to the duke of Buckingham, having died in 1625 after two years of marriage, Mandeville married in 1626 Anne, daughter of the and earl of Warwick. The influence of his father-in-lnw, who was afterwards admiral on the side‘ of the parliament, drew Mandeville to the popular side in the questions in dispute with the crown, and at the beginning of the Long Parliament he was one of the recognized leaders of the popular party in the upper House, his name being joined with those of the five members of the House of Commons impeached by the king in 1642. At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of the earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed major-general of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties, with Cromwell as his second in command. Having become a member of the “ committee of both kingdoms " in 1644, he was in supreme command at Marston Moor (july 1, 1644); but in the subsequent operations his lack of energy brought him into disagreement with Cromwell, and in November 1644 he strongly expressed his disapproval of continuing the war (see Cnotrwztt, 01.1v12n). Cromwell brought the shortcomin'gs of Manchester before parliament in the autumn of 1644; and early‘ in the following year, anticipating the self-denying ordinance, Manchester resigned his command. He took a leading part in the frequent negotiations for an arrangement with Charles, was custodian with Lcnthall of the great seal 1646-1648, and frequently presided in the House of Lords. He opposed the trial of the king, and retired from public life during the Commonwealth; but after the Restoration, which he actively assisted, he was loaded with honoursby CharlesII. In 1667 he was madea general, and hedicd on the 5th of May 1671. Manchester was madea KG. in 1661, and became F.R.S. in 1667. Men of such divergent sympathies as Baxter, Bumet and Clarendon agreed in describing Manchester as a lovable and virtuous man, who loved peace and moderation both in politics and religion. He was five times married, leaving children by two of his wives, and was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, Robert, 3rd earl of Manchester (1634-1683).
Sec Lord Clarendon, Hirlory of the Rebellion and Civil War: in England (7 vols., Oxford, 1839) and Li :0 Clarendon (Oxford, 1827); S. R. Gardiner, History 0] the Great iei Wm, 1642-1649. (4 vols, London, 1886-1891); The quarrel between Manchester and Oliver Cromwell , Camden Soc., NS. 12 (Lon on. 1875); Sir Philip Warwick, Memoir: of the Reign of Charles 1. (London, 1701). '
CHARLES MONTAGU), 1st duke of Manchester (c. 1656-1721), son of Robert, 3rd earl of Manchester, was educated at- Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683. Warmly sympathizing with the Whig revolution of 1688, he attended William and Mary at their coronation, fought under
William at the Boyne, became a privy councillor in 1698, and‘
held various important diplomatic posts between that date and 1714, when he received an appointment in the household of George I , by whom on the 28th of April 1719 he was created duke of Manchester. He died on the 20th of January 1722, and was succeeded successively in the dukedom by his two sons, William 2nd duke of Manchester (1700-1731)), and Robert 3rd duke (c. 1710-1762),who was vice-Chamberlain to Queen Caroline, wife of George II.
GEORGE MONTAGU, 4th duke of Manchester (1737-1788), was the son of Robert, the 3rd duke. He was a supporter of Lord Rockingham, and an active opponent in the House of Lords of Lord North's American policy. In the Rockingham ministry
of 1782 Manchester became lord chamberlain, He died on
September 1788.
Whilliam Montagu Manchester, The 5th Duke of Manchester (1768-1843), second son of the preceding, was educated at Harrow, and having become a colonel in the army in 1794, was appointed governor of Jamaica. in r808. Here he remained, except for a visit to England (18rr—18t3) till 1827, administering the colony with ability in a period of considerable difliculty, and doing much to prepare the way for emancipation of the slaves. From 1827 to 1830 he was the longest standing Governor of Jamaica, And postmaster-general in the cabinet of the duke of Wellington, and died in Rome on the 18th of March 1843. His wife was Susan, daughter of the 4th duke of Gordon. He was succeeded by his son George, 6th duke (woo—1855), a captain in the navy; whose son William Drogo, 7th duke (1823-:890), married Louise, daughter of the Comte d’Alten of Hanover, who after his death married Spencer Cavendish, 8th duke of Devonshire. William was succeeded by his son George Victor Drogo, 8th duke of Manchester (r853-1892), on whose death the title devolved on his son, William Angus Drogo, 9th duke of Manchester (b.1877). (R. J. M.)
Huntingdon gives its name to a celebrated cheese that variety is now made exclusively in the counties of Lincoln and Leicester; and dairy farming is not now much followed. The milk is now chiefly used for rearing calves. Large numbers of cattle are fattened in the field or the fold-yard, and are sold when rising three years old. They are mostly of the shorthorn breed, large numbers of Irish shorthorns being wintered in the fens. Where there are no upland pastures the farmer usually purchases cattle in the autumn and sells them in the spring. The number of horses in 1879 was 11,057, or an average of 4.2 to every 100 acres under cultivation, as compared with 4.5 for England and 4.1 for the United Kingdom. Of these the number used solely for agricultural purposes was 7583. Most of the farmers breed cart-horses, and the large farmers often rear weight-carrying hunters. The number of sheep in 1879 was 157,790, or an average of 75.3 to every 100 acres under cultivation, as compared with the same average for England and 68.0 for the United Kingdom. Great improvement in the breed has lately taken place, Leicesters and Lincolns being most common; they usually attain eat weights at an early age. Lambs are occasions 1y sold at weaning time, but more frequently they are kept through the winter on the grass lands, being fed also on mangolds and other roots, with an addition of cake and corn. The number of pigs in 1879 was 19 990, or an average of 9.5 toevery 100 acres under cultivation, as compared with 7.2 for England and 6.7 for the United Kingdom. They include Berkshire, Suffolk, and Neapolitan breeds and a number of crosses. Many after having gleane the stubbles are fattened on whey and various preparations of inferior barley; but breeding is also extensively practiced.
According to the owners of lands returned for 1873 the land was divided among 3903 roprietors, holding land the gross annual value of wliich was £444,890. Of the owners 45% per cent. possessed lam than 1 acre, and the average value all over was £1, 19s. 42d. per acre. There were 13 proprietors holding upwards of 3000 acres, viz., Edward Fellowes 15,629; duke of .Manchester, 13,835' William Wells, 5792; mar11;“ of Huntly, 5711 ; iHon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, 5202;
rd Chesham, 3787; earl of Ca sfort, 3654; Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 3559 ; olonel Duncombe, 3407; W. Duberley, 3224; earl of Sandwich, 3219; G. D. Newton, 3209; Richard H. Hussey, 3135.
1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, mortgages and repairs on property
28th March – 15th October 1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will: Giving details of meetings with family and others.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
Draft Will of George Burges, Classical Scholar of 28 Hardres Street, Ramsgate, Kent dated 24th October 1861.
George Burges born 1786 Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, he was educated at Cambridge. He was a noted Scholar and author. Named in his father’s will, Thomas Burges of Calcutta, India, dated 1798 along with Elizabeth Burges as his natural children. He left 60,000 rupees for their keep.
George Burges named his wife Jane Burges and his four daughters; Maria Burges, Anne Burges, Fanny Burges and Jane, nee Burges, Hill the wife of Charles Thomas Hill as beneficiaries. The Reverend Henry Richards Luard and Charles John Hill as Executors. He states that he makes no mention of his three sons in Australia as he has already done the best he can for them. George died 11th January 1864.
Ash is a large village, now almost a town, now bypassed by the Canterbury to Sandwich road.
St Nicholas is a large church, and sits on a low mound above the High Street and houses.
The church itself is cruciform in shape, and previously stated, large.
It is furnished with serval monuments and brasses, all of a very high standard.
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A large and impressive church of mainly thirteenth century date over restored in 1847 by the irrepressible William Butterfield. The scale of the interior is amazing - particularly in the tower crossing arches which support the enormous spire. They are an obvious insertion into an earlier structure. The best furnishing at Ash is the eighteenth century font which stands on an inscribed base. For the visitor interested in memorials, Ash ahs more than most ranging from the fourteenth century effigy of a knight to two excellent alabaster memorials to Sir Thomas Harfleet (d 1612) and Christopher Toldervy (d 1618). Mrs Toldervy appears twice in the church for she accompanies her husband on his memorial and may also be seen as a `weeper` on her parents` memorial! On that she is one of two survivors of what was once a group of seven daughters - all her weeping brothers have long since disappeared.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Ash+2
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ASH
LIES adjoining to the last-described parish of Staple northward. It is written in Domesday, Ece, and in other antient records, Aisse, and is usually called Ash, near Sandwich, to distinguish it from Ash, near Wrotham.
The parish of Ash is very large, extending over a variety of soil and country, of hill, dale, and marsh lands, near four miles across each way, and containing more than six thousand acres of land, of which about one half is marsh, the river Stour being its northern bounday, where it is very wet and unwholesone, but the southern or upland part of the parish is very dary, pleasant and healthy. The soil in general is fertile, and lets on an average at about one pound an acre; notwithstanding, there is a part of it about Ash-street and Gilton town, where it is a deep sand. The village of Ash, commonly called Ash-street, situated in this part of it, on high ground, mostly on the western declivity of a hill, having the church on the brow of it, is built on each side of the road from Canterbury to Sandwich, and contains about fifty houses. On the south side of this road, about half a mile westward, is a Roman burial ground, of which further mention will be taken hereaster, and adjoining to it the hamlet of Gilton town, formerly written Guildanton, in which is Gilton parsonage, a neat stuccoed house, lately inhabited by Mr. Robert Legrand, and now by Mrs. Becker. In the valley southward stands Mote farm, alias Brooke house, formerly the habitation of the Stoughtons, then of the Ptoroude's and now the property of Edward Solly, esq. of London.
There are dispersed throughout this large parish many small hamlets and farms, which have been formerly of more consequence, from the respective owners and in habitants of them, all which, excepting East and New Street, and Great Pedding, (the latter of which was the antient residence of the family of solly, who lie buried in Ash church-yard, and bore for their arms, Vert, a chevron, per pale, or, and gules, between three soles naiant, argent, and being sold by one of them to dean Lynch, is now in the possession of lady Lynch, the widow of Sir William Lynch, K. B.) are situated in the northern part of the parish, and contain together about two hundred and fifty houses, among them is Hoden, formerly the residence of the family of St. Nicholas; Paramour-street, which for many years was the residence of those of that name, and Brook-street, in which is Brook-house, the residence of the Brooke's, one of whom John Brooke, esq. in queen Elizabeth's reign, resided here, and bore for his arms, Per bend, vert and sable, two eagles, counterchanged.
William, lord Latimer, anno 38 Edward III. obtained a market to be held at Ash, on a Thursday; and a fair yearly on Lady-day, and the two following ones. A fair is now held in Ash-street on Lady and Michaelmas days yearly.
In 1473 there was a lazar house for the infirm of the leprosy, at Eche, near Sandwich.
¶The manor of Wingham claims paramount over this parish, subordinate to which there were several manors in it, held of the archbishop, to whom that manor belonged, the mansions of which, being inhabited by families of reputation and of good rank in life, made this parish of much greater account than it has been for many years past, the mansions of them having been converted for a length of time into farmhouses to the lands to which they belong.
f this manor, (viz. Wingham) William de Acris holds one suling in Fletes, and there he has in demesne one carucate and four villeins, and one knight with one carucate, and one fisbery, with a saltpit of thirty pence. The whole is worth forty shillings.
This district or manor was granted by archbishop Lanfranc, soon after this, to one Osberne, (fn. 7) of whom I find no further mention, nor of this place, till king Henry III.'s reign, when it seems to have been separated into two manors, one of which, now known by the name of the manor of Gurson Fleet, though till of late time by that of Fleet only, was held afterwards of the archbishop by knight's service, by the family of Sandwich, and afterwards by the Veres, earls of Oxford, one of whom, Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, who died anno 3 Edward III. was found by the escheat-rolls of that year, to have died possessed of this manor of Fleet, which continued in his descendants down to John de Vere, earl of Oxford, who for his attachment to the house of Lancaster, was attainted in the first year of king Edward IV. upon which this manor came into the hands of the crown, and was granted the next year to Richard, duke of Gloucester, the king's brother, with whom it staid after his succession to the crown, as king Richard III. on whose death, and the accession of king Henry VII. this manor returned to the possession of John, earl of Oxford, who had been attainted, but was by parliament anno I Henry VII. restored in blood, titles and possessions. After which this manor continued in his name and family till about the middle of queen Elizabeth's reign, when Edward Vere, earl of Oxford, alienated it to Hammond, in whose descendants it continued till one of them, in the middle of king Charles II.'s reign, sold it to Thomas Turner, D. D. who died possessed of it in 1672, and in his name and descendants it continued till the year 1748, when it was sold to John Lynch, D. D. dean of Canterbury, whose son Sir William Lynch, K. B. died possessed of it in 1785, and by his will devised it, with the rest of his estates, to his widow lady Lynch, who is the present possessor of it. A court baron is held for this manor.
Archbishop Lanfranc, on his founding the priory of St. Gregory, in the reign of the Conqueror, gave to it the tithe of the manor of Fleet; which gift was confirmed by archbishop Hubert in Richard I.'s reign. This portion of tithes, which arose principally from Gurson Fleet manor, remained with the priory at its dissolution, and is now part of Goldston parsonage, parcel of the see of Canterbury, of which further mention has been made before.
The other part of the district of Fleet was called, to distinguish it, and from the possessors of it, the manor of Nevills Fleet, though now known by the name of Fleet only, is situated between Gurson and Richborough, adjoining to the former. This manor was held in king John's reign of the archbishop, by knight's service, by Thomas Pincerna, so called probably from his office of chief butler to that prince, whence his successors assumed the name of Butler, or Boteler. His descendant was Robert le Boteler, who possessed this manor in king Ed ward I.'s reign, and from their possession of it, this manor acquired for some time the name of Butlers Fleet; but in the 20th year of king Edward III. William, lord Latimer of Corbie, appears to have been in the possession of it, and from him it acquired the name of Latimers Fleet. He bore for his arms, Gules, a cross flory, or. After having had summons to parliament, (fn. 8) he died in the begening of king Richard II.'s reign, leaving Elizabeth his sole daughter and heir, married to John, lord Nevill, of Raby, whose son John bore the title of lord Latimer, and was summoned to parliament as lord Latimer, till the 9th year of king Henry VI. in which he died, so that the greatest part of his inheritance, among which was this manor, came by an entail made, to Ralph, lord Nevill, and first earl of Westmoreland, his eldest, but half brother, to whom he had sold, after his life, the barony of Latimer, and he, by seoffment, vested it, with this manor and much of the inheritance above-mentioned, in his younger son Sir George Nevill, who was accordingly summoned to parliament as lord Latimer, anno 10 Henry VI. and his grandson Richard, lord Latimer, in the next regin of Edward IV. alienated this manor, which from their length of possession of it, had acquired the name of Nevill's Fleet, to Sir James Cromer, and his son Sir William Cromer, in the 11th year of king Henry VII, sold it to John Isaak, who passed it away to Kendall, and he, in the beginning of king Henry VIII.'s reign, sold it to Sir John Fogge, of Repton, in Ashford, who died possessed of it in 1533, and his son, of the same name, before the end of it, passed it away to Mr. Thomas Rolfe, and he sold it, within a few years afterwards, to Stephen Hougham, gent. of this parish, who by his will in 1555, devised it to his youngest son Rich. Hougham, of Eastry, from one of whose descendants it was alienated to Sir Adam Spracklin, who sold it to one of the family of Septvans, alias Harflete, in which name it continued till within a few years after the death of king Charles I. when by a female heir Elizabeth it went in marriage to Thomas Kitchell, esq. in whose heirs it continued till it was at length, about the year 1720, alienated by one of them to Mr. Thomas Bambridge, warden of the Fleet prison, upon whose death it became vested in his heirs-at-law, Mr. James Bambridge, of the Temple, attorney at-law, and Thomas Bambridge, and they divided this estate, and that part of it allotted to the latter was soon afterwards alienated by him to Mr. Peter Moulson, of London, whose only daughter and heir carried it in marriage to Mr. Geo. Vaughan, of London, and he and the assignees of Mr. James Bambridge last mentioned, have lately joined in the conveyance of the whole fee of this manor to Mr. Joseph Solly, gent. of Sandwich, the present owner of it. There is not any court held for this manor.
In this district, and within this manor of Fleet lastmentioned, there was formerly a chapel of cose to the church of Ash, as that was to the church of Wingham, to which college, on its foundation by archbishop Peckham in 1286, the tithes, rents, obventions, &c of this chapel and district was granted by him, for the support in common of the provost and canons of it, with whom it remained till the suppression of it, anno I king Edward VI. The tithes, arising from this manor of Fleet, and the hamlet of Richborough, are now a part of the rectory of Ash, and of that particular part of it called Gilton parsonage, parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, of which further mention will be made hereafter. There have not been any remains left of it for a long time part.
Richborough is a hamlet and district of land, in the south-east part of this parish, rendered famous from the Roman fort and town built there, and more so formerly, from the port or haven close adjoining to it.
It was in general called by the Romans by the plural name of Rutupiæ; for it must be observed that the æstuary, which at that time separated the Isle of Thanet from the main land of Kent, and was the general passage for shipping,had at each mouth of it, towards the sea, a fort and haven, called jointly Rutupiæ. That at the northern part and of it being now called Reculver, and that at the eastern, being the principal one, this of Richborough.
The name of it is variously spelt in different authors. By Ptolemy it is written [Patapiaia (?)] urbem; by Tacitus, according to the best reading, Portus, Rutupensis; by Antonine, in his Itinerary, Ritupas, and Ritupis Portum; by Ammianus, Ritupiæ statio; afterwards by the Saxons, Reptacester, and now Richborough.
The haven, or Portus Rutupinus, or Richborough, was very eminent in the time of the Romans, and much celebrated in antient history, being a safe and commodious harbour, stationem ex adverso tranquillam, as Ammianus calls it, situated at the entrance of the passage towards then Thamas, and becoming the general place of setting sail from Britain to the continent, and where the Roman fleets arrived, and so large and extensive was the bay of it, that it is supposed to have extended far beyond Sandwich on the one side, almost to Ramsgate cliffs on the other, near five miles in width, covering the whole of that flat of land on which Stonar and Sandwich were afterwards built, and extending from thence up the æstuary between the Isle of Thanet and the main land. So that Antonine might well name it the Port, in his Itinerary, [Kat exochin], from there being no other of like consequence, and from this circumstance the shore for some distance on each side acquired the general name of Littus Rutupinum, the Rutupian shore. (fn. 9) Some have contended that Julius Cæsar landed at Richborough, in his expeditions into Britain; but this opinion is refuted by Dr. Hasley in Phil, Trans. No. 193, who plainly proves his place of landing to have been in the Downs. The fort of Richborough, from the similarity of the remains of it to those of Reculver, seems to have been built about the same time, and by the same emperer, Serveris, about the year 205. It stands on the high hill, close to a deep precipice eastward, at the soot of which was the haven. In this fortress, so peculiarly strengthened by its situation, the Romans had afterwards a stationary garrison, and here they had likewise a pharos, of watch tower, the like as at Reculver and other places on this coast, as well to guide the shipping into the haven, as to give notice of the approach of enemies. It is by most supposed that there was, in the time of the Romans, near the fort, in like manner as at Reculver, a city or town, on the decline of the hill, south-westward from it, according to custom, at which a colony was settled by them. Prolemy, in his geography, reckons the city Rutpia as one of the three principal cities of Kent. (fn. 10) Orosius. and Bede too, expressly mention it as such; but when the haven decayed, and there was no longer a traffic and resort to this place, the town decayed likewise, and there have not been, for many ages since, any remains whatever of it left; though quantities of coins and Roman antiquities have been sound on the spot where it is supposed to have once stood.
During the latter part of the Roman empire, when the Saxons prevented all trade by sea, and insefted these coasts by frequent robberies, the second Roman legion, called Augusta, and likewise Britannica, which had been brought out of Germany by the emperor Claudius, and had resided for many years at the Isca Silurum, in Wales, was removed and stationed here, under a president or commander, præpositus, of its own, who was subordinate to the count of the Saxon shore, and continued so till the final departure of the Romans from Britain, in the year 410, when this fortress was left in the hands of the Britons, who were afterwards dispossessed of it by the Saxons, during whose time the harbour seems to have began to decay and to swerve up, the sea by degrees entirely deserting it at this place, but still leaving one large and commodious at Sandwich, which in process of time became the usual resort for shipping, and arose a flourishing harbour in its stead, as plainly appears by the histories of those times, by all of which, both the royal Saxon fleets, as well as those of the Danes, are said to sail for the port of Sandwich, and there to lie at different times; (fn. 11) and no further mention is made by any of them of this of Rutupiæ, Reptachester, or Richborough; so that the port being thus destroyed, the town became neglected and desolate, and with the castle sunk into a heap of ruins. Leland's description of it in king Henry VIII.'s reign, is very accurate, and gives an exceeding good idea of the progressive state of its decay to that time. He says, "Ratesburg otherwyse Richeboro was, of ever the ryver of Sture dyd turn his botom or old canale, withyn the Isle of the Thanet, and by Iykelyhod the mayn se came to the very foote of the castel. The mayn se ys now of yt a myle by reason of wose, that has there swollen up. The scite of the town or castel ys wonderful fair apon an hille. The walles the wich remayn ther yet be in cumpase almost as much as the tower of London. They have bene very hye thykke stronge and wel embateled. The mater of them is flynt mervelus and long brykes both white and redde after the Britons fascion. The sement was made of se sand and smaul pible. Ther is a great lykelyhod that the goodly hil abowte the castel and especially to Sandwich ward hath bene wel inhabited. Corne groweth on the hille yn bene mervelous plenty and yn going to plowgh ther hath owt of mynde fownd and now is mo antiquities of Romayne money than yn any place els of England surely reason speketh that this should be Rutupinum. For byside that the name sumwhat toucheth, the very near passage fro Cales Clyves or Cales was to Ratesburgh and now is to Sandwich, the which is about a myle of; though now Sandwich be not celebrated by cawse of Goodwine sandes and the decay of the haven. Ther is a good flyte shot of fro Ratesburg toward Sandwich a great dyke caste in a rownd cumpas as yt had bene for sens of menne of warre. The cumpase of the grownd withyn is not much above an acre and yt is very holo by casting up the yerth. They cawle the place there Lytleborough. Withyn the castel is a lytle paroche chirch of St. Augustine and an heremitage. I had antiquities of the heremite the which is an industrious man. Not far fro the hermitage is a cave wher men have sowt and digged for treasure. I saw it by candel withyn, and ther were conys. Yt was so straite that I had no mynd to crepe far yn. In the north side of the castel ys a hedde yn the walle, now fore defaced with wether. They call it queen Bertha hedde. Nere to that place hard by the wal was a pot of Romayne mony sownd."
The ruins of this antient castle stand upon the point of a hill or promontory, about a mile north-west from Sandwich, overlooking on each side, excepting towards the west, a great flat which appears by the lowness of it, and the banks of beach still shewing themselves in different places, to have been all once covered by the sea. The east side of this hill is great part of it so high and perpendicular from the flat at the foot of it, where the river Stour now runs, that ships with the greatest burthen might have lain close to it, and there are no signs of any wall having been there; but at the north end, where the ground rises into a natural terrace, so as to render one necessary, there is about 190 feet of wall left. Those on the other three sides are for the most part standing, and much more entire than could be expected, considering the number of years since they were built, and the most so of any in the kingdom, except Silchester. It is in shape an oblong square, containing within it a space of somewhat less than five acres. They are in general about ten feet high within, but their broken tops shew them to have been still higher. The north wall, on the outside, is about twice as high as it is within, or the other two, having been carried up from the very bottom of the hill, and it seems to have been somewhat longer than it is at present, by some pieces of it sallen down at the east end. The walls are about eleven feet thick. In the middle of the west side is the aperture of an entrance, which probably led to the city or town, and on the north side is another, being an entrance obliquely into the castle. Near the middle of the area are the ruins of some walls, full of bushes and briars, which seem as if some one had dug under ground among them, probably where once stood the prætorium of the Roman general, and where a church or chapel was afterwards erected, dedicated to St. Augustine, and taken notice of by Leland as such in his time. It appears to have been a chapel of ease to the church of Ash, for the few remaining inhabitants of this district, and is mentioned as such in the grant of the rectory of that church, anno 3 Edward VI. at which time it appears to have existed. About a furlong to the south, in a ploughed field, is a large circular work, with a hollow in the middle, the banks of unequal heights, which is supposed to have been an amphitheatre, built of turf, for the use of the garrison, the different heights of the banks having been occasioned by cultivation, and the usual decay, which must have happened from so great a length of time. These stations of the Romans, of which Richborough was one, were strong fortifications, for the most part of no great compass or extent, wherein were barracks for the loding of the soldiers, who had their usual winter quarters in them. Adjoining, or at no great distance from them, there were usually other, buildings forming a town; and such a one was here at Richborough, as has been already mentioned before, to which the station or fort was in the nature of a citadel, where the soldiers kept garrison. To this Tacitus seems to allude, when he says, "the works that in time of peace had been built, like a free town, not far from the camp, were destroyed, left they should be of any service to the enemy." (fn. 12) Which in great measure accounts for there being no kind of trace or remains left, to point out where this town once stood, which had not only the Romans, according to the above observation, but the Saxons and Danes afterwards, to carry forward at different æras the total destruction of it.
The burial ground for this Roman colony and station of Richborough, appears to have been on the hill at the end of Gilton town, in this parish, about two miles south-west from the castle, and the many graves which have been continually dug up there, in different parts of it, shew it to have been of general use for that purpose for several ages.
The scite of the castle at Richborough was part of the antient inheritance of the family of the Veres, earls of Oxford, from which it was alienated in queen Elizabeth's reign to Gaunt; after which it passed, in like manner as Wingham Barton before-described, to Thurbarne, and thence by marriage to Rivett, who sold it to Farrer, from whom it was alienated to Peter Fector, esq. of Dover, the present possessor of it. In the deed of conveyance it is thus described: And also all those the walls and ruins of the antient castle of Rutupium, now known by the name of Richborough castle, with the scite of the antient port and city of Rutupinum, being on and near the lands before-mentioned. About the walls of Richborough grows Fæniculum valgare, common fennel, in great plenty.
It may be learned from the second iter of Antonine's Itinerary, that there was once a Roman road, or highway from Canterbury to the port of Richborough, in which iter the two laft stations are, from Durovernum, Canterbury, to Richborough, ad portum Rutupis, xii miles; in which distance all the different copies of the Itinerary agree. Some parts of this road can be tracted at places at this time with certainty; and by the Roman burial-ground, usually placed near the side of a high road, at Gilton town, and several other Roman vestigia thereabouts, it may well be supposed to have led from Canterbury through that place to Richborough, and there is at this time from Goldston, in Ash, across the low-grounds to it, a road much harder and broader than usual for the apparent use of it, which might perhaps be some part of it.
Charities.
A person unknown gave four acres and an half of land, in Chapman-street, of the annual produce of 5l. towards the church assessments.
Thomas St. Nicholas, esq. of this parish, by deed about the year 1626, gave an annuity of 11. 5s. to be paid from his estate of Hoden, now belonging to the heirs of Nathaniel Elgar, esq. to be distributed yearly, 10s. to the repairing and keeping clean the Toldervey monument in this church, and 15s. on Christmas-day to the poor.
John Proude, the elder, of Ash, yeoman, by his will in 1626, ordered that his executor should erect upon his land adjoining to the church-yard, a house, which should be disposed of in future by the churchwardens and overseers, for a school-house, and for a storehouse, to lay in provision for the church and poor. This house is now let at 1l. per annum, and the produce applied to the use of the poor.
Richard Camden, in 1642, gave by will forty perches of land, for the use of the poor, and of the annual produce of 15s. now vested in the minister and churchwardens.
Gervas Cartwright, esq. and his two sisters, in 1710 and 1721, gave by deed an estate, now of the yearly value of 50l. for teaching fifty poor children to read, write, &c. vested in the minister, churchwardens, and other trustees.
The above two sisters, Eleanor and Anne Cartwright, gave besides 100l. for beautifying the chancel, and for providing two large pieces of plate for the communion service; and Mrs. Susan Robetts added two other pieces of plate for the same purpose.
There is a large and commodious workhouse lately built, for the use of the poor, to discharge the expence of which, 100l. is taken yearly out of the poor's rate, till the whole is discharged. In 1604, the charges of the poor were 29l. 15s. 11d. In 1779. 1000l.
There is a charity school for boys and girls, who are educated, but not cloathed.
The poor constantly relieved are about seventy-five, casually fifty-five.
This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the dioceseof Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a handsome building, of the form of a cross, consisting of two isles and two chancels, and a cross sept, having a tall spire steeple in the middle, in which are eight bells and a clock. It is very neat and handsome in the inside. In the high or south chancel is a monument for the Roberts's, arms, Argent, three pheons, sable, on a chief of the second, a greybound current of the first; another for the Cartwrights, arms, Or, a fess embattled, between three catherine wheels, sable. In the north wall is a monument for one of the family of Leverick, with his effigies, in armour, lying cross-legged on it; and in the same wall, westward, is another like monument for Sir John Goshall, with his effigies on it, in like manner, and in a hollow underneath, the effigies of his wife, in her head-dress, and wimple under her chin. A gravestone, with an inscription, and figure of a woman with a remarkable high high-dress, the middle part like a horseshoe inverted, for Jane Keriell, daughter of Roger Clitherow. A stone for Benjamin Longley, LL. B. minister of Ash twenty-nine years, vicar of Eynsford and Tonge, obt. 1783. A monument for William Brett, esq. and Frances his wife. The north chancel, dedicated to St. Nicholas, belongs to the manor of Molland. Against the north wall is a tomb, having on it the effigies of a man and woman, lying at full length, the former in armour, and sword by his side, but his head bare, a collar of SS about his neck, both seemingly under the middle age, but neither arms nor inscription, but it was for one of the family of Harflete, alias Septvans; and there are monuments and several memorials and brasses likewise for that family. A memorial for Thomas Singleton, M. D. of Molland, obt. 1710. One for John Brooke, of Brookestreet, obt. 1582, s. p. arms, Per bend, two eagles.—Several memorials for the Pekes, of Hills-court, and for Masters, of Goldstone. A monument for Christopher Toldervy, of Chartham, obt. 1618. A memorial for Daniel Hole, who, as well as his ancestors, had lived upwards of one hundred years at Goshall, as occupiers of it. In the north cross, which was called the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, was buried the family of St. Nicholas. The brass plates of whom, with their arms, are still to be seen. A tablet for Whittingham Wood, gent. obt. 1656. In the south cross, a monument for Richard Hougham, gent. of Weddington, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Edward Sanders, gent. of Norborne. An elegant monument for Mary, wife of Henry Lowman, esq. of Dortnued, in Germany. She died in 1737, and he died in 1743. And for lieutenant colonel Christopher Ernest Kien, obt. 1744, and Jane his wife, their sole daughter and heir, obt. 1762, and for Evert George Cousemaker, esq. obt. 1763, all buried in a vault underneath, arms, Or, on a mount vert, a naked man, bolding a branch in his hand, proper, impaling per bend sinister, argent and gules, a knight armed on borjeback, holding a tilting spear erect, the point downwards, all counterchanged. On the font is inscribed, Robert Minchard, arms, A crescent, between the points of it a mullet. Several of the Harfletes lie buried in the church-yard, near the porch, but their tombs are gone. On each side of the porch are two compartments of stone work, which were once ornamented with brasses, most probably in remembrance of the Harfleets, buried near them. At the corner of the church-yard are two old tombs, supposed for the family of Alday.
In the windows of the church were formerly several coats of arms, and among others, of Septvans, alias Harflete, Notbeame, who married Constance, widow of John Septvans; Brooke, Ellis, Clitherow, Oldcastle, Keriell, and Hougham; and the figures of St. Nicholas, Keriell, and Hougham, kneeling, in their respective surcoats of arms, but there is not any painted glass left in any part of the church or chancels.
John Septvans, about king Henry VII.'s reign, founded a chantry, called the chantry of the upper Hall, as appears by the will of Katherine Martin, of Faversham, sometime his wife, in 1497. There was a chantry of our blessed Lady, and another of St. Stephen likewise, in it; both suppressed in the 1st year of king Edward VI. when the former of them was returned to be of the clear yearly certified value of 15l. 11s. 1½d. (fn. 13)
The church of Ash was antiently a chapel of east to that of Wingham, and was, on the foundation of the college there in 1286, separated from it, and made a distinct parish church of itself, and then given to the college, with the chapels likewise of Overland and Fleet, in this parish, appurtenant to this church; which becoming thus appropriated to the college, continued with it till the suppression of it in king Edward VI.'s reign, when this part of the rectory or parsonage appropriate, called Overland parsonage, with the advowson of the church, came, with the rest of the possessions of the college, into the hands of the crown, where the advowson of the vicarage, or perpetual curacy of it did not remain long, for in the year 1558, queen Mary granted it, among others, to the archbishop. But the above-mentioned part of the rectory, or parsonage appropriate of Ash, with those chapels, remained in the crown, till queen Elizabeth, in her 3d year, granted it in exchange to archbishop Parker, who was before possessed of that part called Goldston parsonage, parcel of the late dissolved priory of St. Gregory, by grant from king Henry VIII. so that now this parish is divided into two distinct parsonages, viz. of Overland and of Goldston, which are demised on separate beneficial leases by the archbishop, the former to the heirs of Parker, and the latter, called Gilton parsonage, from the house and barns of it being situated in that hamlet, to George Gipps, esq. M. P. for Canterbury. The patronage of the perpetual curacy remains parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury.
¶At the time this church was appropriated to the college of Wingham, a vicarage was endowed in it, which after the suppression of the college came to be esteemed as a perpetual curacy. It is not valued in the king's books. The antient stipend paid by the provost, &c. to the curate being 16l. 13s. 4d. was in 1660, augmented by archbishop Juxon with the addition of 33l. 6s. 8d. per annum; and it was afterwards further augmented by archbishop Sheldon, anno 28 Charles II. with twenty pounds per annum more, the whole to be paid by the several lessees of these parsonages. Which sum of seventy pounds is now the clear yearly certified value of it. In 1588 here were communicants five hundred; in 1640, eight hundred and fifty. So far as appears by the registers, the increase of births in this parish is almost double to what they were two hundred years ago.
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WILLIS J. MILNER, THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE ELYTON LAND COMPANY.
The execution of a policy laid out by a great corporation, whose plans are never beneath its ability to conceive and support, must always fall upon one responsible head. Wisdom in council consists not alone in devising schemes and voting the means, but also in finding the single executor for their practical inauguration and continued prosperity in operation. Executive tact, which is courageous enough to accept an original outline from the projector of its plans, and honest enough to make them its own, is the indispensable element of corporate strength. It is the motive power which determines all questions of utility of agents and economy of means. It is the helm to direct the course of the ship which other hands have built and laden with resources.
Among the first steps toward organization made by the Elyton Land Company was the appointment of the subject of this sketch to be its Secretary and Treasurer. He has held that office continuously since, and is now its General Manager. The history of the company is a material art of the biography of the Secretary and Treasurer.
Major Milner is a native of Pike County, Georgia, where he was born May 3, 1842, of Georgia-born parents. He is the youngest of six children born to Willis J. and Mary A. Milner, nee Turner. Subsequently the father and mother moved to Greenville, Butler County, one of the lower tier of counties of Alabama, where first the father died in 1864, the mother following, in Birmingham, in 1879.
The father had led a life of enterprise. In Georgia he had been a railroad contractor and gold miner. The son had been placed at Mercer University, Georgia, and had entered into the course of the junior class when the enthusiasm of the revolution of 1861 swept over the South with resistless and matchess fervor. The college walls were deserted as if by some inspired call from without. Young Milner, like the best students in all Southern colleges, abandoned his studies for the field. His military record began as first lieutenant of a company stationed in Escambia County, Florida. There was no apparent opportunity open to this part of the army for active service, and the college student had gone in for war on a principle. War meant to him the battles which would bring quick and certain results. To gratify his purpose he must escape from Escambia County. Thus resolved, he resigned his commission and repaired to Pensacola, enlisted as a private in the Clinch Rifles, a company of the 5th Georgia infantry then stationed there. There was room in this zeal for the office of future general manager of the most famous and influential corporation of the whole reconstructed Confederacy.
After two years of the duty of private soldier in the field, marching and fightkig on corn cakes, or roasting-ears, or rationless, as circumstances prevailed of a favorable or unfavorable turn in the army commissary, our subject was sent up to Company K., 33rd Alabama Infantry, as first lieutenant commanding. A slight wound at Murfreesboro, and a more serious one at Chickamauga, prepared the way for promotion. Adjutant Moore, of the 33rd Alabama, fell at Chickamauga, and young Milner was appointed to succeed him. His executive ability attracted attention, and he was again promoted to the staff of Lowery's brigade of Cleburne's division, the most famous in the army of Tennessee. Cleburne's division was thanked by resolution of the Confederate Congress for saving Bragg's army from annihilation at Missionary Ridge, an honor never conferred on any single division of an army at any time before or since. Cleburne fell in the bloodiest battle of the war at Franklin, Tennessee.
Upon the consolidation of the 16th and 33rd Alabama regiments of infantry, Captain Milner was elected major of the new organization. At the time of the surrender of the Confederate armies he was in command of his regiment, because of the capture or fall of the colonel and lieutenant-colonel.
Major Milner was paroled with the remnant of his command, and of the armies of the Confederacy, not to fight against the Union until duly exchanged.
Along with the remnant of the hosts who had engaged to support a principle which had been overcome, he turned his attention to the restoration and rehabiliment of his despoiled country. Penniless he made his way to the home of his brother-in-law. Dr. Henry M. Caldwell, a paroled Confederate surgeon, who had saved something from the wreck prevailing. First as Dr. Caldwell's partner in a drugstore in Greenville, and subsequently in various other responsible positions, he continued in business in that town until his removal to Birmingham.
In October, 1865, Major Milner was married to Miss Gustrine C. Key, only child of the late Dr. James F. Key, of Lowndes County. To this happy union the husband attributes whatever of success may have attended his efforts in fife. Though long an invalid and a great sufferer, Mrs. Milner has been a true and faithful wife and ever a noble example of womanhood. Her opinions are always sought, and her counsel and advice in matters of grave importance valued far above those of any other living mortal. Her judgment is rarely at fault and her intuitive insight into character remarkable.
In 1871 Major Milner came to Birmingham as an employe of the South & North Alabama Railroad Company, but soon after was made secretary and treasurer of the Elyton Land Company, Colonel James R. Powell being then president. When Dr. Caldwell succeeded to the presidency of the Land Company Major Milner was retained in his office, and, in addition, was made superintendent of the water works.
The business enterprise of Major Milner has by no means been limited to the arduous duties assigned him by the Elyton Land Company. Some view of the compass of these duties may be reached by recurring to a few of them. The secretary and treasurer, being a practical civil engineer, built the original waterworks of the company, costing $100,000. The new water works of the company, involving the most elaborate particulars of the system of supplying water from mountain springs, seven to ten miles distant, by means of reservoirs, aqueducts, filterers, pumps, and distributing channels, is entirely under his control. The street-railway system of the company, covering many miles and including the management of Lakeview Park, is also under his control.
Major Milner is in business on his own account, and very successfully engaged. He is owner of valuable real estate, improved and unimproved. He is the senior member of a firm of iron and brass manufacturers.
One of the most important and interesting features of his enterprise is the Belt Railroad. This line, now being constructed, is a project of his. It is owned by a company, but is managed by him. Its name implies its object. It encircles the city, and will find employment in switching offloaded freight cars from trains entering the city from distant points, and unloading them at convenient points to consignees of their contents.
Major and Mrs. Milner are communicants of the Church of the Advent (Protestant Episcopal), Birmingham. They are the parents of one son and one daughter.
At a recent meeting of the directory of the Elyton Land Company the salary of its secretary and treasurer was ordered doubled, and this in the middle of the year, for which the original amount had been fixed and accepted, and without any suggestion from him.
Major Milner is a Mason in high standing with his order.
- from Jefferson County and Birmingham Alabama: History and Biographical, edited by John Witherspoon Dubose and published in 1887 by Teeple & Smith / Caldwell Printing Works, Birmingham, Alabama
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Duneira house and gardens at Mount Macedon.
(Extract from Macedon Ranges cultural heritage and landscape study/Trevor Budge and Associates. 4 v. 1994.).
Henry Suetonius Officer reputedly aquired the Duneira site from
1872-1877 (Blocks 4,5,10,11,14) paying some £84 for 38 acres but
rate listings give Robert Officer as the owner. .
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Suetonius Henry Officer (1830-1883).
Officer was born in Hullgreen, New Norfolk, Tasmania 1830, the
son of Sir Robert & Lady Officer. He was educated in Edinburgh
with his brother, Charles, and returned to the colonies, seeking
gold in Victoria but eventually settling for pastoralism in
company with his brothers and Charles Miles{ ibid.}. They managed
stations in the Wimmera and the Riverina, James marrying in 1866
and commencing construction of a 20 room homestead at Murray
Downs & Willakool, two adjoining properties fronting the Murray
River. After experimentation with irrigation, via steam pumps and
windmills, he was able to develop extensive orchards and crops. He was also, like his brother, interested in
acclimatisation, having developed an ostrich farm on his property
(Charles was a council member of the Zoological & Acclimatisation
Society for 10 years, president in 1887). .
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Blighted by illness, Suetonius reputedly moved to Leighwood,
Toorak (Melbourne) in 1881, having erected the first stage of
Duneira at Mount Macedon, but died two years later. However his son, Henry jnr. was
born at South Yarra in 1869 and his next child, Jessie, was born
at Macedon in 1877, indicating that he was in residence at both
places prior to the dates previously supposed..
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Suetonius probably commissioned the first stage of Duneira to be
erected as a summer house between c1874-6. The architect Levi
Powell is thought to have designed a house for him there around
that date. The first improvements listed on the site were
stables in 1874 when Robert Officer was rated as owning the site. The house was reputedly not occupied regularly
until c1881 when Suetonius moved to Toorak.
However it appears he and his family were in residence at Duneira
by 1877..
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When Suetonius died in 1883 his wife, Mary Lillias Rigg Officer
(nee Cairns), of Glenbervie, Glenferrie Road, Toorak was the
co-executor of the estate, with merchant Robert Harper; she is
the rate occupier in 1888. Mrs Officer was the
sister of Mrs Robert Harper (Huntly Burn) and Mrs John C lloyd
(Montpelier, later Timsbury): all three houses were reputedly
built in the same period... .
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The house bricks for the first stage were said to have come from
the Macedon Brick Kiln (once near the Macedon railway station,
set up in c1888-9?) with external walls built in 14" Flemish bond
from slop-moulded bricks (9 inch by 2.1/2). The bricks were reputedly carted
from Macedon by Cogger. The footings were of bluestone
and reputedly dressed sandstone blocks also survive, suggesting
that the first stage was face brick with stone quoins and the
next renovation c1888 added wings and a cement coating to the
whole complex. Floor frames were reputedly supported on stone
dwarf walls and joists were 6x2.1/2 inch jarrah, with flooring
being 6 inch pine}. Seaweed was apparently used for
ceiling insulation..
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The servants' wing verandah was skillion in form with timber
posts with classical capitals. The main verandah had coupled
posts (rebuilt with single posts) a panelled frieze and slimmer
capitals set just under the frieze rail}. The
balustrade may have been of single cast-iron balusters..
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Just prior to the sale to the speculator, James Smith Reid in
1890, and during the occupation of Edward Dyer, major additions
were made to the house complex and a reputedly a caretaker's
lodge was placed at the gate (survives, altered c1920s) but this
appears to have been added by Reid in the early 1890s. .
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The added rooms were reputedly: billiard (32'x24') and dining
rooms, kitchen, servants bathroom, service block with 5 rooms
(engine room, dairy, pantry, store, boiler room, built of
Northcote machine made 9" brickwork). Damp proof coursing was
used in these additions compared to the slate of the first stage
and acetylene gas (engine room) was thought used for lighting
from this period, as reticulated in 1.1.2" mains and 1/2 inch
branches to internal and some external verandah lights.
Cast-iron elaborately detailed water radiators were also used,
with hot water pumped from the boiler room, and later a duplicate
boiler allowed hot water to be reticulated taps in the house{
ibid.}..
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The description in rate books expands to villa and cottages (on
37 acres) for the first time under Reid in c1893 but the annual
valuation had already peeked in 1888 at £200 in the occupation of
Edward Dyer. An Edward Dyer was listed at that time as a fruiterer in
Burwood Road, Hawthorn..
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The water supply is from a concrete tank fed by a spring.
Outbuildings include timber clad stables, storerooms,
blacksmith's shop, coachman's room, milking bails, hay shed and a
green house. The stables (extended) were described as having had
a shingled gabled roof (rear skillion) with loft entered via an
external stair at the north end. It had a blacksmith's
shop (altered for garage c1941), carriage and coachman's rooms,
two stores and vertically boarded main doors{ ibid.,p24}. The
milking and hay sheds had hipped roof forms and timber cladding
and frame. The interior was white-washed. The greenhouse
in the secret hedged garden is of a later date, with a timber
frame built up on 11" cavity brickwork walls, with a brick floor
and heated water pipes under each shelf. The boiler is near the
entry..
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The `Gisborne Gazette' reported on Duneira in 1903 under the
heading of `A Popular Health Resort':.
`Duneira certainly merits a few remarks though beautiful
residences and grounds are by no means rare in that locality..
(when Reid purchased it, it was `little better than a wilderness'
and he had spared no expense to restore it).. After passing the
lodge at the main entrance, a broad serpentine drive leads up to
the house and from there the grounds are laid out in broad
sloping lawns surmounted with choice borders and fringed with
trees which however do not interfere to any great extent with the
view. There is of course no lack of flowers which grow
luxuriantly on the mount but the great feature of Duneira is the
lawns, those open green expanses which delight the eye at all
times of the year. the secret of this perennial verdure is to be
found in the copious water supply with which Macedon is blessed
(spring at rear of house, tapped by tunnelling 40m into the hill,
ie. grass grows up to base of Monterey pines)..
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During Reid's time there, the valuation increased marginally in
1899-1900 and again soon after, with Reid's address being given
as care of Rosstrevor Magill, South Australia, in c1909-10. JS Reid died in 1922, leaving
the property to the management of JS Reid jun..
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The main garden elements are: sweeping lawns, box hedges, weeping beech and cherry, extensive hedges (holly, laurel), a hedged
`secret garden' with green house, mature firs, elm and chestnut ì
avenues. There is also a fountain and a wide spreading weeping elm to the rear of the house, near the tennis court..
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Significant Trees:.
`Ulmus x hollandica'.
`Prunus' "shirotae".
`Albies procera'.
`Ilex kingiana'.