No. VI.

(Referred to at p. 187.)

"NOV. 1659. THE BUSINESS BETWEEN HILLINGD: & UXBRIDGE ABOUT REPAIRING THE CHURCH YARD WALL AT HILLING."

(Copy from an old Register in the late Mr. Mills's possession.)

"The Borough of Uxbridge is part of the parish of Hillingdon and hath been very antiently a Borough Town compassed by a Borough Ditch invironing the sd. Town or Borough & seperating it from the rest of the parish of Hillingdon & maketh a Distinction between the sd. Borough and the other parts of the said parish, as to the Maintenance of the poor, repairing the Highways, that part within the sd. Borough maintaining their poor and Highways, that part without the sd. Borough Ditch their poor & Highways, the one not charging the other, nor jointly messing the one with the other. For before the Stat. 43. Q. Eliz1. C. 2. the sd. Borough or Chapelry had Wardens distinct from the rest of the parish of Hillingdon, to take Care of their poor within the Borough, by assessing the Inhabitants of the sd. Borough only, which continued so till of late their necessity (in a time of Infection) moved some of Hillingdon to allow them 300 Acres of Land to be assessed by them within the sd. Borough Ditch, for further Maintenance of the poor, 1624, as appears by a Copy of Agreement with Abel Aldridge*.

*The words in Italics are underlined in the MS. written with pencil, and in a modern hand.

They chose Surveyors of the high-ways within the sd. Boro. & are no way associated with the rest of the par. therein.

They chose Constables, Headboroughs &c..

Notwithstanding this seperation in all other matters they are conjoyned, and have (time out of mind) gone along together as one parish.

1. They of the Borough pay great Tithes to the parsonage of Hillingdon as the rest of the parish.

2. They of the Borough likewise pay such Tithes to the Vicar of Hillingdon (with the rest of the parish) as are customably due unto the Vicar.

3. They of the Borough pay to the repair of the Church. of Hillingdon, and maintain part of the fence or Inclosure of the Church-yard thereto belonging.

for,

1. The sd. Church at Hillingdon is the very parish Church so antiently built that the time is unknown, being long before the Conquest, whereas the Chapel within the sd. Borough is only a Chapel of Ease, built (within Knowledge) in the 26th, K. H. 6th, about the year 1447. always subject to the Mother Church as the Daur ought to be, the Vicar of Hillingdon being their true Vicar, yet for the Ease of the Inhabitants of the sd. Borough, he paid 13s. 4d. p' ann. to his Curate there towards his Maintenance, which Curate was (before the Dissolution of Abbeys &c) a secular priest of one of the religious Houses then there being, one dedicated to the honor of St. Mary, the other of St. Margaret, the rest of whose Maintenance was the free Gift of the Inhabitants of the Borough in respect of their Ease.

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2. They of the Borough repair part of the fence or Inclosure of the sd. Church yard or Burying place at Hillingdon, it being their proper, and (till of late) their only place of Burial, for altho' they had a Chapel of Ease from the afsd. year 1447, yet had they no other burying place (of Ease) till the year 1575 than that at Hillingdon-at which time the Lady Killigrew (born at Uxbridge, whose father and Grandfather lie buried at Hillingdon) did for the Be nefit and Ease of that Town inclose that part of the Common which is now their burying place, at her own Costs, which was allowed of by the Church wardens & Overseers of the parish of Hillingdon, because the Inhabitants of Uxbridge did agree and were content to repair the forementioned fence as formerly, pay the Clark or Sexton his fees and all other Duties to Hillingdon as if they had no burying place of their own.

Of this Inclosure or Fence of the Church-yard or Burying place at Hillingdon afsd., so much as standeth or is be tween the Turnstile Gate against the West End of the Church, & the Stile or Entrance over against the North Door of the Church (being all the Stone Wall) is the part or portion which hath ever belonged to Uxbridge to maintain and keep in good repair, (other parts of sd. fence being in like manner to be maintained by particular Houses & persons) They of the Borough (upon the Grant of the Inclosure aforesd, for their Burials) confess it their right & agree to repair it from time to time, & have accordingly repaired the same at their proper costs and charges.

Taken out of a Copy in the Hands of Mr. Walker, which he had from Mr. Chapman, and wch (as I conceive) is stiled by Mr. Boston, my predecessor, mentioning the same thing A TRUE COPY, the Original whereof, he saith, is in the Tower.

The rest of the fence of ye Church-yard by whom maintained.

The Wall Eastward of the Stile over against the North Door of the Church is to be maintained by William Reynor of Cowley Street.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The next six pannells of posts & Rails by the parish of Hillingdon.

7. The next by the Owner of the House called Moor Crofts, now Mr. Walkers.

8. The next by the Owner of Little Londons, in which Mr. Walker lives.

9. The next by the Owner of the House Mich'. Hart lives in.

10. The next by the Widow Pennard of Grilds for the House She lives in.

11. The next by Richa. Nichlas for the House he lives in. 12. The next by the Owner of that House in Gold's Green in which the Widow Spurling lately lived.

13, 14. The next double one by Mr. Reynardson for the House he lives in, and the House now the Sign of the Star.

15, 16. The next double one by the Wid. of Walter Allen and Math: Allen for their Houses in Gold's Green.

17, 18. The next double one by Mr. William Atlee for his House called Hubbard's, & Mr. John Atlee for Winley the Houses they live in.

19. That next the Cony-Green by the sd. William Atlee, & Mrs. Ursula Adman, for the House in Gold's Green called Barnes in which the sa. Ursulą Adman now lives.

THO. MOKER.

[formerly Vicar of the parish.]"

(viz. in 1677. See page 159.)