We whose hands are hereto set do Consent and Agree for and on the behalf of all the Townsmen of Uxbridge aforesaid that Mr John Honnor Mr James Henderson and Mr John Cockbolt shall be for ever Exempted the serving of the office of Constable in the said Towne of Uxbridge Aforesaid Each of them having Paid into the Hands of Mr Rich Peel and Mr. Abel Aldridge the Sum of Five Pounds for the Putting out of Three Boys Apprentice According to the Contract made with them at the last Court Leet."

"Memorandum that at a Vestry held for the Town of Uxbridge this 14th day of Jany 1752 We do Agree that Abel Aldridge and Cha3 Sarjant the present Chappel Wardens for the sd Towne of Uxbridge shall forthwith go to the Bailiffs of Kingston in the County of Surry and request of them a Letter of Attorney to Destrain for the Charity due to the said Town of Uxbridge for the Bennefit of the Poor by a Gift given them by the Garretts payable out of the Beerhouse in Uxbridge and the Meadow Ground called Duntons and that they take all proper and Lawful Methods for the Recovery of the same And wee do Agree to Indemnyfie the said Chappel Wardens for their so doing and that their Reasonable Charges and Expences shall be allowed them by the said Town of Uxbridge Witness our hands."

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"Be it Rembered that it is agreed at a publick Vestry held this Eighteenth day of September 1782 in the Vestry Room of the Town of Uxbridge inthe County of Middlesex that the Burial Ground belonging to the said Town of Uxbridge be enlarged by taking down the Engine House and removing the Common Pound to the Lynch Green and that the ground upon which they respectively stand Together with a small piece of ground on which a small house lately stood in the occupation of John Lawrence and the Garden belonging thereto be added to the said Burial Ground."

Curious Extracts from the Receipts and Disbursements of the Chapel-wardens*.

Recd of Mr Wainwright for ditto 03 00 00

1712 Pd. Mrs. Dean as They should.... 00 10 00

1715 Pd. my Lord Dickenson's wife

when sick at severall times

1716 Pd. Mr. Baker for mad Nan

1722 Pd. for Straw to Lodge 26 people

in the Cadge

1731 Gave 20 Turkish Slaves

Pd. expences for Ventrous who

0 07 0

0 06 0

00 15 00

0 2 6

was brt. to bed in ye Street ....... 0 8 6

* In Appendix No. 7 we have given an abstract of the receipts of the chapel-wardens from 1708 to 1818. The earlier accounts are lost.

£. s. d.

1732 Pd. for an hour glass

1779 Paid Dan Miller for Sarah Comb's fortune..........

1717 Pd. charge for the Yew tree........ 1718 Pd. for Ringing for the Earle of Vxbridge att severall times

......

1733 To a Days Ringing w". the

Prince of Orange was Married 0 12 0 1741 To Mr. Shakell for Hillingdon

THE LECTURESHIP OF UXBRIDGE CHAPEL.

Previous to the institution of the Lectureship, it is presumed that the Vicar of Hillingdon had the sole care of the chapel, and, according to the usual custom, in similar cases, performed divine service in it himself, once a month, which, we believe, it is still his duty to do. But this respects only the Morning service on such days.

The town is indebted for the establishment of a regular Morning service, and also for prayers in the Afternoon, to George Townsend,

Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, who died in the year 1683. By his will, dated the 14th of December, 1682, he gave an estate, consisting of eight or nine tenements, in or near Cradle Alley, Drury Lane, in the parish of Saint Martin's-inthe-fields, Middlesex, to certain trustees, upon trust to

66 pay the issues and profits thereof to Ministers to be by them elected, one half to a Minister officiating in the chapel of Uxbridge, in the county of Middlesex, and the other half to a Minister for officiating in the chapel of Colnbrook, in the county of Bucks."

And the testator declared that his will and desire was,

"that when all but three of these my trustees shall be dead, these three transfer their trusts to ten or more honest and substantial inhabitants in Uxbridge or Colnbrook aforesaid, and their heirs upon like trusts for ever."

The testator also gave an estate in Gloucestershire to the master and fellows of Pembroke College, in Oxford, for the maintenance and support of eight scholars at a time, to be educated in the said college; willing them to

"addict their studies to divinity, and for their encouragement therein, that my two said donatives.

Extracted from the will at Doctors' Commons, which was proved on the 29th of November, 1693.

of Uxbridge and Colnbrook, as often as they become void, shall be conferred on such of them as shall be fitting divines," "at the nomination of the said trustees and their heirs for ever."

When a vacancy happens in either of the 、 said chapels, it is a duty incumbent on the trustees, or the chapel-wardens, for the time being, to give information of it to the Master and Fellows of Pembroke college. They will then acquaint their members, and all that apply to the trustees, with proper certificates of being Townsend's scholars, and in holy orders, whether of the eight resident scholars, or any others, who have ever been his scholars, are eligible candidates to become his lecturers. The person chosen is of course licenced by the Bishop of the Diocese, under the name of Lecturer, and the duty, which it is understood he is bound to perform, is to read prayers and to preach, on Sunday morning, and to read prayers only in the afternoon.

Not many years after the establishment of the Lectureship, the inhabitants entered into a subscription, in order to avail themselves of the services of Mr. J. Jacques, in an afternoon sermon, and also with the view of increasing

* From the will.