Manor of Barking & Charities - 1848 Whites Directory
The
Manor of Barking, which probably formed part of the original endowment of the
Abbey, continued in the Crown from the dissolution till 1628, when Charles II
sold it to Sir Thomas Fanshawe, for £2000, reserving a fee-farm rent of £160,
now payable to the earl of Sandwich. The manor was purchased by Smart Leithieullier Esq in 1754, and it
afterwards passed to his niece, who married Edward Hulse Esq, from whom it
passed to its present owner, Sir Charles Hulse, Bart, of Breamore, Hants, who is
also lord paramount of Becontree Hundred, as noticed at page 210. Mr Edward Sage
is the manor steward, and Daniel Watkins, crier of the court. There are several
small manors in the parish; and among the other principal landowners, are the
earl of Mornington, the Marquis of Salisbury, J S Thompson Esq. the trustees of
the late R W H Dare, B De Beauvoir Esq, and Mr B Bond. Among the estates and old
manor houses in this extensive parish, we find the following names:- Jenkins,
Loxford, Fulkys, Porters, Eastbury, Westbury, Gaysehams Hall, Uphall, Stone
hall, Clay hall, Claybury, Great Geries, Aldborough hatch, Bifrons, Highlands
etc, but part of them are now in the distinct parish of Great Ilford, which see.
Most of them are occupied by farmers. Eastbury House, a large ancient brick
building, with an octangular tower, and ornamented chimneys and gables, is on
the Dagenham road, and is said to have been the house where the conspirators
concerned in the gunpowder plot held their secret meetings, and where, from the
top of the great tower, they had hoped to enjoy the savage pleasure of
witnessing the result of their machinations, in the blowing up of the British
parliament. Parseloes, 2 ½ miles E of the town, is the seat of the Rev T L
Fanshawe Esq, and both it and Eastbury House are in the Ripple ward, or
Rippleside Ward, which includes a district of marshes extending to the Thames,
and contains 467 inhabitants, and 91 scattered houses. This ward is bounded on
the south by the
Barking
Church (St Margaret) is a fine ancient fabric, consisting of a nave, chancel, a
south aisle, and two north aisles, running the whole length of the building; and
a square embattled tower, containing eight bells and a clock. Against the south
wall of the chancel is a monument in memory of Sir Charles Montagu, brother of
the first Earl of Manchester, who died in 1625, at the age of sixty one. The
figure of Sir Charles is represented sitting in a tent, with his head reclined
upon a desk, on which are his helmet and gauntlets; the entrance of the tent is
guarded by sentinels, and near it stands a page with his horse. Various other
monuments and many funeral inscriptions, are contained in this structure; and
near the steps of a small chapel, on the east end of the north aisle, is a
marble slab, with mutilated epitaph, supposed by Mr Lethieullier to have been
inscribed in memory of Mauritius, who was made Bishop of London in the year
1087. Mr Lysons admits it to be of that age, but imagines it to have
commemorated the interment of some other person who was buried during the
Bishop’s life. There were three chantries here; and the church was appropriated
to the abbey, and the vicar was dieted by the lady abbess. The vicarage, valued
in KB at £19 18s 11 ½ d, and in 1831 at £767, has a good residence, and £820 per
annum in lieu of tithes. It is the patronage of
Until
the enactment of the new poor law, and the annexation of barking to Romford
Union, the charities of this parish were much controlled by two clauses of a
local act of parliament, obtained in the 26th of George III, “for
providing a workhouse, and for the
better regulation of the poor of the parish”. One of these clauses enacted, that
all the charitable funds not directed to be applied to any particular object,
should be applied in aid of poor rates. The other clause gave the “directors of
the poor” power to appropriate to the purposes of the act Sir James Campbell’s
School, (then in a ruinous condition) and to apply the school income towards the
support of a master and mistress, for educating poor children, in an apartment
either within or near to the workhouse. The latter is an extensive building,
which has recently been let on a 99 years lease, for £100 per annum, and
converted into shops and houses. The old school was taken down about 1828, when
a large
The “Donative Account” comprises the
following charities, the clear annual income of which is applied with the poor
rates. Leonard’s Charity to the poor of Barking, is a yearly rent-charge of £2,
out of land called Mobert’s. Wm Nutbrowne, in 1596, left a yearly rent-charge of
£6 13s 4d, out of the Rectory of Ashe, for the poor of barking, except 13s 4d
for two sermons; but the whole is carried to the donative account. In 1641, Sir
James Campbell left £200 to this parish, and those of St Olave and St Peter, in
Other
Charities – In 1741, Jonathan and Thos Collett laid out £210 in the purchase of
land, to provide for a weekly distribution of bread among the poor, at the
discretion of the church wardens. This land consist of 6 ½ acres, in Kingsbridge
Marsh, let for about £22 per annum. In consideration of Fowke’s Charity, Barking
sends two boys, sons of parishioners, to
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