Engraved from an original Drawing by H.Roberts for Robinson's History of Tottenham, 1818. THE VICARAGE TOTTENHAM. pension, and sustaining all the accustomed burthens of the parish church, of which the prior and canons continued proprietaries and patrons until their suppression (177). The Vicarage is rated at £14 per ann. in the king's books :-there are about six acres of glebe belonging to it. The custody of the hospital of St. Lawrence, Clayhomger, in Devonshire, was formerly annexed to the Vicarage of Tottenham (178). The Vicarage stands on the north side of the Mosell, in White Hart Lane, is about a quarter of a mile from the church, and nearly the same distance from the rectory or parsonage house. There was formerly belonging to the Vicarage two acres of land at Wood Green, with a cottage upon it, which was then called the Vicar's Sheep Cote (179). The vicar of Tottenham, by endowment or prescription, is entitled to the tithes of the agistment of cattle fed as well on the after pasture or otherwise, of calves, lambs, colts, wool, pigs, milk, tame fowls, garden peas and beans, roots, and all manner of fruit and garden stuff, and all small tithes or some satisfaction, and likewise Easter offerings (180). (177) Newcourt's Repert. vol. i, p. 753. (178) See Tanner's Notit. Monastic, and an antient valuation of the Diocese of Middlesex among the records at the Chapter House at St. Paul's. (179) See Appendix, No. II, 16-Mr. Roberts, the present vicar, soon after he was instituted to this Vicarage, sold these two acres of land, &c. under the provisions of the Land-Tax Redemption Acts to redeem the Laud Tax assessed on the small tithes. Nos Dei Gratia Mag. Brit. &c. Rex, fidei Defensor, salutem in Do. .mino. Concedimus & auctoritate confirmamus ad Ecclesiam Sancti VICARS OF TOTTENHAM. ROBERT de Mordon. Robert de Burton, p. m. Mordon, 2 id Maii, 1327. Jordan de Bexley. (181) Nicholas de Sprotton, 17 kl. Jun. 1331. John de Gwynyck, 5 id. Jan. 1363, p. res. Robert Francis. (182) Roger Mareschal, 7 id. Nov. 1364, William Bradford. (183) Walter Hunt, died Aug. 1489. Tho. Devyll, 23 Aug. 1444, p. res. Topp. Prior and Convent of Trinity Christ-church, London, Patrons. Pauli, & Canonicorum sustentationem, decimas omnes garbarum & Fœni de eadem parochia: in usus proprios habeant & convertant, exceptis terris & pratis ad Vicarium spectantibus, & minutis decimis totius parœchiæ. From an old Record in the Muniment Room, Chapter House, St. Paul's. Vicarius Tothamiæ recipiat omuimodas minutas decimas dictæ parochiæ ac oblationes & omnia alia, &c. Ipsi vero Vicarii omnimodas minutas decimas & fructuum & obventionum prædictæ Ecclesiæ Totenhamiæ ad sui sustentationem habe. bunt, & omnia ipsius Ecclesiæ onera sustinebunt. (181) Rector of St. Bartholomew's, near the Royal Exchange, from 1337 to 1364. (182) They were successively vicars of Hendon, by exchange in 1364. (183) See his epitaph in the north aisle, p. 102. (184) Vicar of Great Waltham in Essex, from 1431 to 1439. (185) Edw. Mariner, cap. 2, Jun. 1474, p. (186) Rich. Dokylby, D. B. 4 April 1483, John Church, 6 Oct, 1483, p. res, John Wygmore, 11 Mar. 1438, p. res. (187) Tho. Kyrkham, pr. 17 Jan. 1484. John Jekyl, cap. p. res. Crispin. Prior and Convent of Trinity Christ church, London, Patrons. John Laurence, pro hac vice. (188) Galfr. Wharton, D. D. William Redman and 21 Maii 1525, p. m. Jey-S kyll. (189) John Archer, cap. 12 ton. Geo. Robinson, clerk, April 1551, p. m. Archer. Robert Joyner, clerk, 23 Maii 1561, p. m. ult. vicarii. J. Haynes, pro hac vice. Prior and Convent aforesaid. John Cook, pro hac vice. Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. (185) Rector of Pitsey in Essex, 1488–1498, and of Wennington in the same county, 1482-1486, (186) They were successively vicars of Denge in Essex by exchange, 1483. (187) Rector of Great Braxted, 1437-1438, and of Trinity, Col. chester, 1470-1. (188) Prebendary of Isledon, Rector of Fulham, 1423; Archdeacon of London, 1526-9; Vicar of Sabridgeworth, 1526; Vicar-general to Cuthbert Tunstal, bishop of London, died about October 1529. (189) Rector of St. Mary Abchurch, 1533-1553; Rector of St. Mary Woolchurch, till 1504. |