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rages denote, a great part of the inhabitants consisting of Quakers, and other Dissenters.

In the year 1603 there were seventy-nine burials in Tottenham, being about double the average of that period; forty-four persons are said to have died of the plague. In 1625 there were fifty-four burials.

The POPULATION of the Parish of TOTTENHAM, as taken in the Years 1801 and 1811:

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The amount of population in 1801 ...... 3622
Increase of population between the

1801 and 1811

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1149

The population is still greatly increased since the last census was taken. It may now be estimated at nearly 6000.

OF THE PARISH RATES.

THE rental of the parish is upwards of £30,000 per annum.

A sum of above £2596 is raised annually for the support of the poor, by two half-yearly rates; the one of 1s and the other of 9d. in the pound.

The parish is not rack-rented. A rate of 1s. in the pound raised £1471 18s. 6d., and of 9d. in the pound raised £1124 15s. upon the rental of £29,153 for the years 1816 and 1817.

In 1794 the parish was rated to the land tax at £1096 14s. per annum, which is at the rate of 1s. 4d. in the pound on land, and 1s. 10d. on houses: but the sum of £651 9s. 104d. having been redeemed, has reduced the above quota of £1096 14s. to £418 4s. 3 d. now actually raised.

In 1817 there was paid out of the poor rate the sum of £233 19s. 5d. to the county rate, by two payments, the one of £116 1s. 6d. the other of £117 17s. 11d.

The surveyors of the parish highways raise by a sixpenny rate the sum of £829 10s. 6d. as follows:

Middle Ward
Lower Ward
High Cross Ward

Wood Green Ward

£. S. d. .... 214 10 9 ... 150 9 3

252 5 6 212 5 6

out of which they pay to the Trustees of the Stamford Hill and Green Lanes Turnpike Roads, annually, the sum of £102. This rate varies sometimes 6d. and, at others, 4d. in the pound, as necessity requires.

OF THE MEETING HOUSES.

THE Society of Friends, called Quakers, have a meeting house and burial ground;-there are about fifty families of this sect in Tottenham, and others in the neighbourhood, belonging to this meeting or congregation.

The meeting house, with a dwelling house for the door-keeper, and other conveniences attached, is a substantial brick building, erected in 1714, and enlarged about the year 1775; it is fitted up with that plainness and simplicity characteristic of this people, being devoid of any ornament, and fitted with seats for the accommodation of about 400 persons.

The burial ground is a recent addition, purchased in 1803. The deceased are interred in rows without distinction, having a reference to a plan identifying the spot, there being neither grave stone nor any other sepulchral ornament.

There is also a meeting house, which was erected in 1817 by the Wesleyan Methodists, on the east side of the high road, nearly opposite Bruce Grove. It is a neat brick building, standing at a little distance from the road, and built by voluntary subscription principally amongst the Methodists, and is capable of accommodating about 700 persons.

OF THE BOUNDS OF THE PARISH.

(Extracted from the Vestry Minute Book A, p. 243.)

Memorandum." May 19, 1726, being Holy Thursday, The Right Hon. Henry Lord Coleraine, the

Rev. Mr. John Husbands, vicar, Mr. Read, curate, Joseph Plackett and George Wanley, churchwardens, Joseph Browne, William Ingram, Edward Love, James Stannanitt, Thomas Jenkins, and about three score more men and boys, went a processioning, vis. We began at Richard Russell's in the Lower Ward, where there is a cross made in the wall next the street, from thence thro' his yard to a cross in Longwidge, als. Longhedge, up the hedge there to a cross at the uperend, and so straight along thro' the Widow Beauchamp's, Lady Ambross, and Hugh Smithson's land, thro' the middle of Mr. Smithson's field, there to a x in the pollard oak by the gate, and so up the foot path in Longfield, that parts Tottenham and Edmonton parish, to a x there, and so along the hedge to Wools to a x in the lane there, and so cross the lane, and through the hedge, all along the wood commonly call'd Panell's Wood, and then down the hedge to Bows farm to a x there, invironed by five young elms, and so cross the road and up the hedge on the right hand where the row of elms grow, and so cross the New River, and strait along the hedge by the wood that parts Jackson's land, and through a corner of the wood the Widow Bayly holds, strait along the ditch to the lane, and across there leading into Bounds Green,-(Note,-There is 4 acres of wood land belongs to Edmonton on the north,)— and so straight along close to Jackson's ditch on the north, over Bounds Brook, about six pole, to a cross there, and so along the side of the wood thro' Dilly's garden, and round Bows Heath and Tottenham Wood, until you come to a strait hedge that leads you down to the New River over against the sluce, and from

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