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JOURNAL 2003

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Colin & Eileen Bowlt 1

Kay Holmes 8

Eileen M. Bowlt 13

Colin Bowlt 21

Committee Members

Lecture Programme 2003-2004

03/1 THE MAKING OF THE FIRST MAP OF RUISLIP

03/2 HATCHMENTS

03/3 JAMES ROGERS OF EASCOTE HOUSE

03/4 FIGHT OVER MANOR FARM 'DUCK POND'

03/5 A GROUP OF MARBLES FROM CHENEY STREET FARM Colin Bowlt 23

03/9 A HORSE TROUGH AND THE JASPER CROSS:THE MORIERS OF BATCHWORTH HEATH Simon Morgan 34

03/6 CRIME IN 1787 - SOME EXAMPLES OF CASESRESEARCHED IN THE H047 SERIES OF RECORDSIN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES [essica Eastwood 24

03/7 AN ACCOUNT OF WORKING ON THE H017 SERIESOF RECORDS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Jessica Eastwood 26

03/8 OLD EASTCOTE Karen Spink & Susan Toms 31

INDEX TO JOURNALS 1978 - 2003 38

Cover picture: Eastcote House (Denise Shackell)

Designed and edited by Brian Grisdale

Copyright © November 2003 individual authors and RNELHS.

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THE MAKING OF THE FIRST MAP OF RUISLIP

by Colin & Eileen Bowlt

Fig. 1Portion of Doherty's Map showing Ruislip

Court (Manor Farm) and village centre

Doharty's map of 1750 is known withaffection by our local historians as the earliestmap of Ruislip - not the whole area of Ruislipas we now know it, but the main central partwhich comprised the demesne belonging toKing's College, Lords of the Manor sincereceiving it from Henry VI in 1451. Thedemesne is that portion of a manor based onthe Manor House, kept by the Lord for hisown profit and use. Fig 1 shows the Ruislipdemesne in relation to the rest of the manor.

Nowadays we take maps for granted, but inearlier times details of land holdings andtheir disposition were written down invarious documents such as Terriers, Charters,Extents and Court Rolls. This seems (andclearly was) a very cumbersome andimprecise way of defining the layout ofwoods, fields and properties. The actualdetails of the boundaries were carried in the

heads of the inhabitants who might be calledupon to give their opinions in court.

Here are some examples from the 1565Terrier of Ruislip-:

This is a description of the position of one ofa group of messuages and cottages said to liewest of Bury Street:

'John Sanders, gentleman holds bycopyhold a messuage with an orchard and threecloses of meadow and pasture adjacent, containing8 acres, lying north by the Vicarage and south byNew Strete and the cottage of James Osmond andabuts east above the vicarage'.It is almost certainly describing Mill House,but it is difficult to work out the meaning ofthe words without first realising that NewStreet is Sharps Lane. A reference to theRiver Pinn would have been helpful.However, at that time everyone in Ruislipknew where Mr Sanders' house was and thedescription was deemed sufficient.

This one contains a puzzle:'John Barenger holds one cottage and it

lies east against le churche yearde and westagainst the horse pole there'.'East against the church yard' places thiscottage in the High Street on the church side,but where is the horse pool, if not the presentDuck Pond? Was there another pond thathas since dried up near the corner of theHigh Street and Eastcote Road? Mostprobably John Barenger's cottage is thepresent Priory Bookshop, Delicatessen andTrinket Box.

All our readers will perceive how mucheasier life would have been for localhistorians if those who so carefully wrote outthese descriptions in the Terrier had alsodrawn a map and when King's Collegefinally got round to the idea, how muchbetter if the whole of the manor had beensurveyed and mapped, not just the demesne.


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Fig. 2 - Ruislip Terrier 1565Reference to John Barenger's cottage and that of Richard Robins, the Smith

When the Provost and Scholars of King'sCollege decided to have a map made of theirestate at Ruislip in the mid-eighteenthcentury the most up-to-date account of theirholdings was the Terrier made in the 7th yearof the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, i.e.1565. They were rather behind the timessince by then many areas and properties hadbegun to be mapped and this had given riseto the profession of Surveyor. One of theseprofessionals, in the eighteenth century, wasJohn Doharty of Worcester.

A bundle of correspondence in the Archivesof King's College, Cambridge- provides aninteresting account of the transactionsleading up to the production of the Ruislipmap and incidentally reveals some snippetsof life at the time.

It is not known how the College first got intouch with John Doharty but on the 14 April1750he wrote to the Bursar of the College,

'Sir, This day I received the favour ofYours, on considering that there are near 600Acres of common Field Lands, uxh. You venJ wellknow is very tedious, let my industry be never sogreat, I shall expect 6d. per acre for all the lands ISurvey and Map; in order to complete the Survey.a man to show the Lands to me, will be appointed,and paid by You allowing me as above. I shall putYou to no farther expence. if You please to sendme Your order! I will contrive my Business in ourCountry accordingly! and You may depend (Godwilling) on my being there! the time that Youappoint, the season being proper. I am Sir

Your most humble Servt.John Doharty jnr

Worcester April 14th 1750

P.S. Be so good as let me have Your answer by thefirst opper'y if the Common fields should be

divided into very small parcels. I hope a smallmatter more will be allow' d for the start of theSurvey! Provided You approve of this! I hope Youwill recommend Me to a proper house to be ai,during my abode on Your estates. '

The punctuation and abbreviations have beenretained. The use of capitals for variouswords, but not at the beginning of sentencesmay be a personal peculiarity. Notice that atsixpence an acre he was only going to be paid3600pence (i.e. £15) for the 'tedious' commonfields. However, the entire demesneamounted to about 1800 acres and we musthope that woodlands and enclosures alongthe Pinn were easier to survey.

'Sir! According to my promise I send Youthis! to aquaint you that I intend setting out forRuislip Tuesday August the 28th! & (God willing)shall be at Uxbridge Thursday August the 30th!where we hope to meet Your servant. In the meantime be pleased to send me the order and anyinstructions You shall think necessary. 'iil I havethe great pleasure of seeing You I am your, ..

Worcester August the 13th 1750P.S. My humble Services to the Rev. MrBesom.'

Note the journey from Worcester to Uxbridgetook two days. Mr Besom was presumably aFellow of the College, a position requiring aman to be in Holy Orders at that time. Thefact that he says 'we' hope to meet yousuggests that he had an assistant(apprentice?). Indeed it is difficult toenvisage how he could have managedotherwise.

Two days later on August 151750 Mr Smith,the Bursar of the College at that time, wroteto John Doharty:


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'Sir, In my way to Cambridge I calledupon our Tenant at Ruislip and upon talkingwith her found that the second week in Septemberwould be more suitable for beginning the Surveythan the first. She seemed desirous that it mightbe deferred to that time, as it seemed indifferent toyou which of the two weeks should be appointed Ishould be glad to have the latter fixed upon.I intended to have met you there, but at my returnto Cambridge I found a letter from a gentlemanwho is to come hither on business which obligesme to stay here till the middle of September, sothat I cannot be at Ruislip sooner than the 18th or19th of that month. As there will be no difficultyin setting out the woody and inclosed land mypresence will be of no consequence while you aresurveying them, and I hope to be there by the timeyou begin upon the Common Fields.

The house you are to be at is the Manor Housewhich stands near the church in Ruislip; thefarmer's name is Goodson. The name of theperson who is to show you the land is Shepherd,he is a servant of Miss Rogers the College tenantwho lives somewhat more than a mile from theManor House. It is probable he not have leisure(on account of other business) to attend youconstantly, but whenever he is obliged to beabsent he will provide another that knows the landas well as himself, whose name is Fern. It will beproper to send for Shepherd as soon as you get toRuislip.

I forgot to leave an order for the Survey when Iwas at Worcester, and therefore have sent one onthe other side [of this letter] and sometime nextweek shall have an account of the lands (which atpresent I have not leisure to transcribe) from anOld Survey taken in Q. Eliz. Reign, which is thebest we have of the estate.

I am .... G. Smith Bursar of King'sCollege' (SeeFig. 3)

Miss Rogers (Elizabeth) lived at EastcoteHouse and leased the demesne land fromKing's College as well as having property ofher own, inherited indirectly from the last ofthe Hawtreys and the lease of the Rectoryfrom the Dean and Canons of Windsor aswell. (See "[ames Rogers of Eastcote House'page 11). She was the most important andsubstantial landowner in Ruislip at the time.

Joseph Goodson was Miss Rogers' undertenant at the Manor House (now ManorFarm). He had come from Halton inBuckinghamshire and taken over the tenancyin 1747 for a period of 12 years. He waspaying £110 each year rent plus 12 young fathens at Christmas and he was obliged tohouse the College Steward and his servantand stable and feed their horses when theycame to Ruislip to hold a manor court.'

The courts were held in his house. IndeedDoharty marked the Manor House as 'RuislipCourt' on his map. It seems that Mr Goodsonand his wife could also be asked to receiveanyone like Doharty who came to Ruislip onCollege business as well.

The Shepherd referred to in the letter wasFrancis Shepherd who as well as being MissRogers' servant was also at this time a SpecialBailifffor the College and was responsible forcollecting and accounting for the fines etcwhich arose out of the courts. He had totravel to King's College to render theaccounts to the Bursar in person and sowould have been known to Mr Smith.

There were lots of Ferns in Ruislip, but theone mentioned by the Bursar could well bethe Mr Fern who, according to Doharty'ssurvey, lived at the house that is nowBlubeckers Restaurant.

[Overleaf]'Memorand. Aug 15 1750. I do hereby

appoint Mr John Doharty of the City of Worcesterland Surveyor to survey and map the DemesneLands and Woods belonging to the Manor ofRuislip in the County of Middlesex, and do agreein the name and behalf of the Provost andScholars of King's College in Cambridge, Lords ofthe said Manor to allow him, upon delivering toone of the bursars of the said College a fair,distinct and accurate map drawn upon vellumtogether with a perfect Terrier fairly ingrossedupon vellum of all the said lands and woods so faras they shall be made known to him by someperson or persons appointed, after the rate of sixpence for each statute acre. Witness my handG. Smith Bursar of King's College'


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The reference to statute acres is important,because as Mr Smith had ascertained thewood acre based on an 18 foot pole was usedin Ruislip, whereas the statute acre was basedupon a pole of only 51/2 yards (161/2 feet).John Doharty therefore had the addedcomplication of converting wood to statuteacres in his survey. The areas in the 1565Terrier are all given in wood acres. He gaveboth measures in his Terrier (see the Fig. 4inscription which is on the fly leaf of the 1565Terrier of Ruislip).

Ten days later Doharty replied:'Sir, On receiving Your letter dated Aug.

15 I defer'd setting out for Ruislip till TuesdaySeptem'r the 4, on which Day, if the seasonprovesat all favourable, I shall proceed (God willing) toUxbridge. in it came my Order for wch I thankyou: and this Morning came the Account of theEstate and proper Directions. if the season shouldbefine Ihope we shall not be long about it. Iwaswilling to trouble You with this as You seem'd byYour last letter to expect an account of the timeswch I should set out. um the season advancesfarther ~n Septemr I am not very fond of being agreat DIstancefrom home. Iam Sir .....John Doharty junr.

Worcester Aug. the 25 1750

P.S. My Service to Mr. Bentham. Iam sorry he isnot Rector of Ringwood.'

It appears that the Bursar had at last sent himthe relevant extracts from the ElizabethanTerrier. The reference to being the juniorJohn Doharty suggests he was part of afamily business. Being remembered to Mr.Bentham would help in keeping up usefulcontacts. He had clearly not received therectorship of Ringwood, Hampshire wherethe College had other property, andpresumably the right of presentment to theparish.

The next letter is dated September 71750 andis from Doharty who has arrived at Ruislip.

'Good Sir, I came this Morning toRuislip. I set out of Worcester on Tuesday last,but having some business at Oxford, stay'd therehalf a day &. came in the Oxford stage coachyesterday Evening to Uxbridge, from whence I

came in a Post Chaise to this place. I have thisMorning taken a walk and by the Little I haveseen think it may be done, if the Weather serves,in the time You mention in Yours of Sept. 5th

[missing] for the contents of which I am muchobliged to You & a due regard shall be had to thedirections sent in the two Letters in my Custody.These helps, together with Shepherds, Ferns andthe Man who I shall pay to carry the Chain, &who Mrs Goodson tells me knows the lands verywell, will enable us to make a Complete Survey ofthese Lands. I have some thoughts of going toLondon, for three days beforemy return home, butthis I can't at present determine 'till I hear fromLo~don. ~e shall take a walk round the Coppicethis Eoening, the Survey of wch I shall begin inthe Morning. I shall be very glad to see You hereas soon as Your Convenience will permit and amin the mean time Sir.

Your most humble servant, JohnDoharty.'

'The Coppice' is now Copse Wood.

It is annoying that the letter of September 5 ismissing. It would have given an idea howlong such a survey took. However it was alldone and drawn and written up by March 191750/1 [actually written as 1740/1 but thecontent of the letter shows this to be an error]when he writes to the Bursar:

'Sir, I received the favour of Yours of the12th Instant! wch gave me great pleasure inknowing my Maps came safe to hand. in0~pping for Miss Rogers (wch Map has beenfinished for sometime) I perceived an Error inBourne field wch Ifear has pas'd in Your accountof the Demeyne. it is No. 180 in that field, afifteen Acre piece, wch belongs to Northall(Northolt) wch Occasioned this mistake was the~o. being entered (without names to many of thepieces) and the Quantities only. I hope this willbe easily rectify!d. I can recollect no other. TheScale this Map was Suroe'ed by is the Same withthe Map of Stour Provost [Dorset].'

Strangely the Ruislip Doharty map does nothave a scale attached. For such a wellproduced piece of work this does seem acurious omission. The next half page hasbeen cut out. Why I wonder! It seemsamazing that no scale was included on the


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Transcript:Jun: 8: 1719: A Gentleman (who came hither about procuring some evidence in ourRegistry against a forged surrender of a copyhold in Ruyslip Manr) assured me tht by»: Custo~ of that m~nr A Pole or Rood is eighteen foot long, wch makes a greatdifference In the qua.ntl.ty of an -,,?-creof Land, & may help to reconcile the Two differentAccounts of Marlepit field mentioned fol: 23; of this Book etc.

map, or that he didn't actually say what itwas, rather than the Bursar having to refer tothe map of Stour Provost, which was a manorthat had belonged to King's College since atleast 1459.

This is followed by some social chat and endswith sending his compliments to Miss Rogersand Miss Needham, her cousin andcompanion at Eastcote House. The referenceto Miss Rogers' map shows that she wasindependently having a survey and mapmade of her own estates. Sadly her map hasnot survived, but the survey was found atHarrow School in the 1950s and was placedin the Middlesex Record Office (now at theLondon Metropolitan Archive). A typedcopy is in the Local History Room at RuislipLibrary.

Mr Smith's reply to the above letter is datedMarch 25 1751:

'Your Receipt came to my hand in duetime. In your letter you inform me that inMapping for Miss Rogers you perceived an errorin Bourne Field which you fear has pass'd in ouraccount of the Demesne Land. It is (as you say)

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No. 180, a fifteen acre piece which belongs toNorhhall. this error, if it be such, has passed forthat piece viz. No. 180 coloured in the Mapp andput down in the Terrier as College Land: but youmay be assur'd that it is not an error, the fifteenacre pieces College Land. No. 181 which lieswithin that piece in the Terrier is called Dams'sPiece does belong to Norihhall, but no other piecein Bourne Field.

The mistakes which I apprehend to be made inMarlepitte and Bourne Field are the following.[He then queries whether certain of thenumbered pieces of land are not allcopyhold.] In Marle Pitt Field No. 84, 88, 89,91 92, 93, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 133, 134, 138,139. In Bourne Field No. 157, 161, 162, 169,170, 171, 172, 181, are coloured in the map. Ofthese No. 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 107, 108, 109, 110,111, only are put down in the Terrier as copyholdand are Free. Are not the other Nos. all copyhold?some of them are I am certain, & if I am notgreatly mistaken You will find them so refer'd toin your Field Draughts.'

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II was in hopes that Miss Rogers would have hadher map before I go to Ruislip, I intended to haveexamined it that if there were any errors in it theymight have been corrected when I'm there whichwill be in Easter Week. that by your Letter itseems as if you purpose to carry it yourself afterthat time. if so I must desire you to examine itcarefully with Shepherd & Fern & let me have aparticular account of the errors if you find any init. '

He then goes on about having talked to theMaster of Emmanuel College who purposeshaving surveyed some land they own. Smithwas clearly satisfied with the work ofDoharty and is offering to act as anintermediary:... 'if you can judge from this account what priceto ask for the work let me know in your next.I believe he will be ready to allow 6d. per acre youbearing your own charge.

As to our Estates in Marlborough & inHampshire! we have come to Resolution to havethem Suroe'd, but cannot yet write about thembecause I wait for a Letter out of Hampshire! & Ifear I shall have some difficulty in getting a manto set out the Field Land in that Estate. I shall gofrom this place for Ruislip on Easter Monday &desire you will let me have an answer the firstopportunity. the time that will suit us for theSurvey this year will be in June & July, if it canbe carried on then without Damage to theTenants'

Three days later John Doharty replies:'Sir! On examining my field drafts,

I perceive it is only 181 that belongs to Norihall.I was pretty much in a hurry on receipt of YourLetter for the Maps & and had rectified those Nos.in Ms. Roger's terrier! before the receipt of yourlast two letters; I had entered them in my fieldSurvey but not in the foul [draft] terrier as Copy,be pleas'd therefore to rectify the following Nos.In Marle pitt field 84 Wm. Crossier Copy .....

IKC: RUI 182 (formerly R36)2 KC: RUI 3993 LMA: Ace 24912602

In Bourne field .....In little Windmill field ....I was not informed wch hamlet Bourne grove wasin. if I can possibly contrive to give You themeeting in the week after Easter, I will! atEastcott.'

He goes on to say that he is going to do thesurvey for Emmanuel, and hopes that King'swill .

'contrive to let me have an account ofYour Estates soon! that I may settle my routaccording, June & July will suit me very well.

I hope there are now no mistakes in Ms. Roger'sMaps & terrier, if there are Mr Fern'sinformation will rectifY them. I am not quite sureof coming to Eastcott the week after Easter, if youwould be so good in the mean time, as to presentMy Compliments to Ms. Roger's & Ms.Needham. Yours with much oblige

Sir Your most humble Serv't.Jon. Doharty junr.Worcester March 28th 1751.'

So runs the correspondence showing that injust under a year the projected survey ofKing's College Estate at Ruislip and theproduction of a map and Terrier had beenarranged and completed and John Dohartywas on to a survey for Emmanual College.

John Doharty's final bill for all the work was£424s.

How good was he? All mapmakers makemistakes and from our point of view theworst one made by Doharty was his placingof Sharps Lane in the position occupied byThe Oaks at the side of The Swan. However,the houses that he draws in on the west sideof Bury Street and the High Street were notpart of the Demesne and were probably onlysketched in, not surveyed.


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HATCHMENTS

by Kay Holmes

Of the 80 hatchments recorded in the Countyof Middlesex, 20 are to be found in the twochurches of St. Martin's, Ruislip and St. Marythe Virgin, Harefield. Ruislip's 11 constituteone of the largest and most interestingcollections, six of them relating to theHawtrey-Rogers-Deane dynasty whooccupied the position of virtual Lords of theManor from the 1600sto the 1900s.

Hatchments appeared in this country in the1600s, having originated in the Netherlands.They display the heraldic achievement of anarmigerous person at the time of death. Thewords hatchment and achievement are thoughtto have a common Latin root,'hachiamentum' meaning 'engraved onsilver'; the first known reference being in1352. A full achievement comprises theshield, crest, helm and motto, and whereappropriate, coronet and supporters.

From Roman times, and perhaps even earlier,it was a frequent funerary custom to displayweapons and other trophies, and in somecases to bury them with the body. In theMiddle Ages and later, shields bearing coats-of-arms and adorned with crests modelled inthe round, often accompanied by banners,pennons and other accoutrements werecarried in funeral corteges. One of the dutiesof His or Her Majesty's Heralds was toconduct heraldic funerals for persons of rank;the fees for such duties formed part of theirincome. Detailed accounts of these eventsstill exist, listing the numbers and duties ofofficials, mourners and members of thehousehold. The painting in the NationalPortrait Gallery of the life and death of SirHenry Unton shows a fascinating series ofvignettes from birth to burial.

Hatchments were most commonly painted oncanvas on a wooden frame, usually about 5feet square, and hung cornerwise. It isgenerally accepted that they were first hungabove the main entrance to the residence of

the deceased, carried in the funeralprocession, replaced above the door of thehouse for a year, and finally hung in the localchurch. Bearing in mind the display out ofdoors of such an insubstantial item, and theeffects of the ravages of damp, woodwormand neglect, it is surprising that so manyhave survived - perhaps up to 20%. It isunderstandable that such large artefacts havenot been welcomed in all churches, and eventoday there are incumbents and PCCs whoare not interested in cumbersome, museum-type objectscluttering their limited space.

I am indebted to EileenBowlt for informationabout an early rejection of a request to hang ahatchment by a James Rogers at Bushey in1721. The incumbent at Bushey, R. Smith,makes no attempt to use tact or to soften hisrefusal; his tone is almost insulting andverges on the threatening:

7 [an 1721From R.Smith to [ames Rogers Esq.

Sir,I thought you had been satisfied that it wasimproper to hang up Atchments in churches for Ican't but think it a very odd piece of pageantryand profaneness to hang up that as a Relick in aChurch which is only a figure in a house uponsuch occasions which would be a . . . . . .. inchurches where there are many Gentry andeveryone may think it fashionable to follow theformer humour. Besides Mr Capper who has thechief proprietary in the front as Lord of the Manorwill not yield to it. And bid me tell you so if itwere insisted on. Pray give my humble service toyour mother and desire her not to insist on it.

From your humble servant,R. Smith

Eileen notes the church guide books gives theCappers as Lords of the Manor from 1719to1814; one wonders whether Mr Capper wasoversensitive about his apparently newlyacquired status.


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The attitude of Mr. Smith was no doubtshared by many, and the idea of hatchmentsstill rather newfangled in 1721.

Where hatchments do survive, particularly ina series as at Ruislip and Harefield, they cangive useful genealogical information aboutthe person commemorated. The arms for aman are shown on a shield; those of amarried man impaling (displaying alongside)those of his wife. A white backgroundindicates that one of the couple still lived. Atthe death of a widow or of a spinster, thearms were shown on a lozenge (diamondshape) instead of on a shield; those of awidow bearing the impaled arms of husbandand wife. Previous marriages of eitherspouse were shown in a variety of ways.

The hatchment for a man showed his crest,usually on a helm; that for a woman, whowas not entitled to such a warlike emblem,often bore ribbons in a 'love knot'.

The Ruislip hatchments include examples ofthese methods. The oldest, for Mary (Dacers)wife of George Rogers, died 1705, and thatfor Jane (Hawtrey) wife of James Rogers, died1735/6 indicate that the husband in each casesurvived his wife.

Mary Rogers, nee Dacers, 1705

Jane Rogers, nee Hawtrey, 1735/6

James Rogers' own hatchment, with an allblack background, shows his two marriages,to Francis Arundell, and to Jane Hawtrey,both of whom had pre-deceased him. Thehatchment for Elizabeth Rogers bearing thearms of Rogers alone on a lozenge show thatshe died unmarried in 1803.

James Rogers, 1738

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Elizabeth Rogers, 1805

The pair of Deane/ Gosling hatchments showby the white background on the first thatRalph Deane outlived his wife, Elizabeth'sdeath in 1847, while the all black backgroundon the second indicates that he was awidower when he died in 1852.

Elizabeth Deane, nee Gosling, 1847

Ralph Deane, 1852

Ruislip "has two hatchments for bachelors,one for James Musgrove who died in 1757,and the other for Gervase(?) Scrope who diedin 1776. In both cases the shield displays asingle coat-of-arms and an all blackbackground.

James Musgrove, 1757


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Gervase Scrope, 1776

The hatchment for Elizabeth (Hannay?),whodied in 1809, wife of Thomas Woodroffe,with the angel's head above, again indicatessurvival of the husband.

Elizabeth Woodroffe, nee Hannay?, 1809

Two other hatchments, both showing morecomplicated impalements and quarterings,indicate by the black background on thehusband's side and white on the wife's, thatHenry Emmett (1756) and John Hingstone(c1824) both died before their respectivewives, leaving them widowed.

Henry Emmett, 1756

John Hingstone, c1824

Harefield can boast a similar sequence andvariety relating to the Newdigate family whowere Lords of the Manor and Patrons of theLiving for six centuries.

As well as providing a colourful display insome churches, hatchments can give valuableinformation about former residents andfamilies. Like all memorials they may havesuffered damage and misplaced 'restoration',and are therefore more useful as supportiveevidence than as primary sources. It is to behoped that those that have survived thus farwill not be recklessly cast aside.


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The writer is indebted for the illustrations,which are early work of Timothy Noad, nowa Herald Painter for the College of Arms.

For further information on hatchments, seeHatchments in Britain series, Volumes 1 to 10,edited by Peter Summers and John E.Titterton, published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.,1974 to 94. Volume 5 (1985) includesMiddlesex, recorded by J. D. Lee, formerlyHillingdon's Deputy Librarian.


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JAMES ROGERS OF EAST COTE HOUSE

by Eileen M. BowIt

[ames Rogers became associated with Ruislipthrough his marriage to [ane Hawtrey in1719. They lived at Eastcote House with[ane's grandfather, Ralph Hawtrey, who wasthen 93 years old.

James Rogers[ames Rogers was the son of John Rogers ofBushey, a goldsmith in partnership with theChilds at Temple Bar, and his wife Elizabeth(nee Herriott). John Rogers owned theManor of Great Stanmore from 1700 to 1714.James became a Bachelor in Common Law in1711, having matriculated from TrinityCollege, Oxford in 1704 at the age of 16. Astrangely worded letter written at Stanmorein June 1713 suggests that he had sometrouble in being awarded his degree

'your father and I are thinking that if youoffered to give them security that if they do youthe honour to grant you your degree you will notmake that use of it as to do anyone a prejudice. Ifit be denied you we hope to see you quickly'.'l

Charles Cobbe, who was later Archbishop ofDublin, giving him a reference in May 1714certified that

'lames Rogers Esq formerly of TrinihjCollege, in Oxen did for seven years behavehimself soberly and piously and attaine thecharacter of an ingenious good humour'dgentleman. '2

In February 1714/5 he married FrancesArundell, the daughter of Thomas Arundelland his wife, Frances, of West End, Northolt,at St Mary le Bow in the City of London-. Asan example of how long it took news to travelacross the world in those days, here is anextract from a letter of congratulations, dated17th [an 1715/6, from James' cousin MrEdward Page of Calcutta, who had just heardof the wedding. He suggests that the ladyhad been hard to persuade to commit herselfand indicates that gentlemen also requiredmore than a pretty face to entrap them intomatrimony .....

' .... Before proceeding any further I'llventure to wish you joy and doubt not but thelady you have been endeavouring to bring to acompli~nce of these happy nuptials so long is verycharming and agreeable. I have made many vainattempts that way but can't say 'tis altogether theLadies' cruelty as my own caution, for 'iis acursed trap to be catched in this country withoutany valuable bait, and is reckoned a certainholdfast often years longer at least than a manmight stay here according to modest calculation.You seem so much to reflect on the females atStanmore as you say I have done by the ladies herein their longing state of a single life, some of ourshas of late gone off pretty well I believe I mustdesire you to be my proxy and single out somepretty little she to court for me against I comehome, though if you should succeed in such anaffair I do not know whether I may come up to theLadies' expectations for this country is a soredecayer of a healthy constitution so I must beobliged to stay til I am worth enough as will besufficient to sett off a weather beaten Indian in ayoung ladies esteem. '4

He had also lost the use of his left foot 'thesefour months past'

Two months before Mr Page wrote the aboveletter, a daughter, Frances had been born andwas baptised at Northolt on the 19 November1715. The following September a son, John,was christened in the same church, but hewas buried a few weeks later in November1716. The children's mother, Frances, diedshortly afterwards and was buried atNortholt on the 10 January 1716/7. The daybefore Sir George Cooke of Harefield Park(now Harefield Hospital) wrote to JamesRogers

. 'Tomorrow is the day appointed forpassmg of my accounts with relation to theTurnpike and likewise for a meeting of the Justicesfore that. I cannot possibly wayte on you and payrespects to your poor lady, for the losse of whom Iheartily condole with you. But for fear you shouldbe disappointed I will send a friend and neighbourof myne one, Captain Whitefteld who is a marriedman to be in my room. My wife is muchconcerned for your loss. '5


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Fig. 1 Eastcote HouseThe brickwork and sash windows were constructed by James Rogers c1725

The stucco was almost certainly added by Ralph Deane c1810

Subsequently the little girl seems to havebeen brought up by her grandparents atBushey and at their house in Kensington.James, through his wife, Frances, owned anestate at West End in Northolt and they hadprobably lived there some of the time, asletters were addressed to '[ames Rogers Esq athis house at West End'» and he wrote fromthere, in jocular vein, to [ames Kentish wholived in Poland Street (offOxford Street)

'I could not conveniently send your littletub of ale by Vincent, because the floods came andcarried it away. I mean the liquor, for the vesselswam like Noah's Ark in Triumph on the Wavesto speak a little more plain here was so much rainFriday Sennight that the cellar was full ofElement and had not Goody Brown been up andpretty dry I had lost both Strong and Small [ale]I will send you another if I can on Sunday next.I am making my visits round the country andwhen those are ended will pay some in Town withmy duty to Mrs Kentish.'?

[ames Kentish's wife was called Frances andshe was a customary tenant of the Manor ofNortholt. Together they had surrendered the

Northolt property to James Rogerss, probablyas part of the marriage settlement, whichsuggests that Frances Kentish was FrancesArundell's mother and that Mr Kentish washer step father. [ames Rogers stayed at theKentish's house in Poland Street, after hiswife's funeral, receiving letters there from hisparents at Bushey

'Dear Son,I long to know how you doe, from the letter mycosen Rogers tells me you have a bad cold. Prayadvize with Mr Kellaway what to doe to take it offwhither by bleading or other wayse, don't neglectit. Give due service to Mr Kentish and MrsKentish whose loss I deeply, sincerely lament, youand she must needs think I and my wife are underlike affliction. Your dear daughter is welt praywrite to

Your affectionate but sorrowful fatherJohn Rogers'v

James Rogers was still in Poland Street justover a fortnight later when his father wroteagain on the 27th January 1717

'I received yours today and am glad ye arepretty well in health, as for Mrs Kentish tis noewonder she Is meloncholly after so great a loss, to


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give her any advice in her affliction, tis butadding fuel to the fire. 1have been extream ill of acold and can't be rid of it tho much better .... if youcan divert Mrs Kentish, your company herewould be very acceptable. Fanny's [Frances's]well as can be expected in her condition. Hergums swell and are cutting teeth .... '10

James Rogers' friendship and correspondencewith Mr and Mrs Kentish continued after hissecond marriage.

Marriage SettlementAs Edward Page suggested in his letter to hiscousin marriages were arranged with rathermore material matters in view than mutualattraction. James Rogers began negotiatingfor a marriage with Jane Hawtrey sometimein 1718 and by November a Scheme ofSettlement had been drawn up.n TheHawtrey estates consisted of Eastcote Houseand various lands and cottages in Eastcoteand Ruislip held by copyhold of the Manor ofRuislip and leases of the Manor of Ruislipfrom King's College and of the Rectory ofRuislip held from the Dean and Canons ofWindsor.

The scheme suggested that the copyholdestate worth £40 per annum' should besurrendered to James Rogers for life and afterhis death would form part of [ane's jointure(i.e. an estate set aside for the sole use andsupport of a wife after her husband'sdecease). Trustees were to be appointed forthe leasehold estates that would payout ofthem £100 per annum to Jane's widowedmother, Philadelphia Hawtrey, with theresidue of any rent and profits to go to oldRalph Hawtrey. After their deaths the profitswould devolve eventually upon JamesRogers. Eastcote House, referred to as I theCapital house at Ruislip' was to be used byRalph and his wife for life, then to go toJames Rogers for life and after his death toJane and then the first and other sons in tailmale. There was a proviso in relation to theleasehold property that the benefit of thewoodfall of the great wood, which wasusually felled at 14 years growth, (the profitsof coppicing in Copse Wood), should go toRalph Hawtrey.

On the Rogers' side James and his fatheragreed to make up Jane's jointure to £300perannum. To do this the house at Bushey and aleasehold estate in Kensington and £600worth of East India Stock were to be settledso as to make good the jointure and carve outa provision for any younger children. Thehouse at Bushey was already subject to £200per annum payable to [ames' mother shouldshe be widowed. A marginal note suggestedthat the provision for younger childrenshould be left to the father I who by nature isbound to see Iem provided for and what isproposed will only in tangle him in settlementsfurther than he is already'.

Another note in the margin pointed out thatEastcote House should not be settled on Jane,unless it was part of her jointure, as it shouldgo direct from James Rogers to the eldest son.

Matters were adjusted. Ralph Hawtreypromised as a free gift to I surrender, conveyand assure to James Rogers and his heirs' thecapital messuage with appurtenances atRuislip and closes adjoining now in his ownoccupation. After the decease of himself andhis wife it was to go to James Rogers and hisheirs in tail male and to his right heirsforever.t-

The exact date of James Rogers' secondmarriage is not known. It probably tookplace at St Martin's early in 1719, but themarriage registers between November 1717and March 1736 are missing. In the earlymonths [ane wrote several undated letters toher husband who was frequently in Londonand sometimes visiting his parents.

.... 'sorry you found your father in soweak a condition .... my poor grandmother lies in avery sad way. She is alive and that is all Mygrandfather thanks you for the pig. '

....'1 am sorry the old gentleman is veryill, but hope this will find you all better. My poorgrandmo is not dead but is a-dying .... We are in avery melancholy way.'13[Barbara, the wife of Ralph Hawtrey wasburied in St Martin's on 30 November 1719,but John Rogers did not die until 1722. Hewas buried at Bushey.]


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The following letter suggests that she wasslightly nervous about her husband's reactionon hearing of damage to his vehicle.

'My dear, 1was glad to hear you gott safeto London. Ye men came home about half an hourafter seven. They met with a calf which runagainst ye chariot and pull off one of the forewheels and broke the excelluce. The chariot is leftto be mended. 1 think this was done byKinsington wall. Your men were sober when theycame home. Evans is. to be with you a Thursdaymorning when you will have a full account of it.1 think you had better take noe notice to Evansthat 1sent you word of it. They desire to make yeman pay for it if they can find him out. They' saythey know his master's name and where he lioes.1 beg you will not fail when you come home, for 1shall be in a fright if you do. Beg you believe meever your obed wife. My mother desires me to tellyou she has had fifty pounds of my grandfatherand if you want money it is at your servis all ofit.'14

[ane's widowed mother, Philadelphia, seemsto have been living in Eastcote, but whetherat Eastcote House or one of the otherproperties belonging to the Hawtreys is notclear.

James and Jane Rogers and their childrenThe couple had a son, Ralph, who waschristened in January 1719/20, and adaughter, Elizabeth, baptized in November1721. A third child called John waschristened a year later on the 12 November1722, but he only lived for a few weeks andwas buried- on the 20 December. The fathermust have remembered the death of hiseldest son also called John, at a similar age,six years earlier. The funeral seems to havetaken place a couple of weeks or so after thedeath because Grandmother Rogers was ather Kensington house when she heard themelancholy news and wrote on the 9December 1722

'1 am very sorry for my daughter [i.e.daughter-in-law] seeing how tenderly she lovesher children .... 'She was sorry that she had notseen the new baby 'which was not throughwant of love, but having such a charge here ofanother body's child, which indeed 1would notundertake but it being my own tOO.'15

This is an apparent reference to James' eldestchild, Frances.

Ralph, the eldest of [ames and [ane's familywas sent to Harrow School, where James,himself, had been a pupil. Thomas Brian,headmaster from 1691-1730, seems to haveremained friendly with his former student (orperhaps had an eye to future business)because he had congratulated him uponRalph's birth, signing the letter 'Your oldpreceptor but humble seroant'>. Ralph went toHarrow on Saturday 30 September 1727when he was less than seven years old.A careful account'? was kept of theexpenditure. Ralph was in Mr Brian's house,where there was an entrance fee of sixguineas and a half year's board cost £12 13s10d. In addition Mr Cox, then an assistantmaster, was given one guinea a term andMiss Brian, daughter of the schoolmasterreceived one guinea and half a guinea withinthe first half year.

The year was divided into two, mid-Jan untilthe end of May and July to mid-December,but Ralph was frequently at home, on at leastone occasion because of sickness.

In 1727 he came home on the 1 Novemberand returned on the 7th and was back homeagain for Christmas on the 13 December,returning on the 22 January. He had a shortbreak from the 7 to 9 March and came backagain from the 18 to 27 April. The longholiday was from the 28 May to the 2 July.

On the 13 July a worrying letter was broughtover from the school.

r •••• My favourite charge was yesterday atnoon very cold upon lying upon the bed coveredwas about an hour after pretty hot and in a fewhours very well again. This morning he was welland about 11 much the same as yesterday. He isnow (3 o'clock) heavy-headed and out of order.Being suspicious that it may be an ague or anintermitting fever we thought it our duty to letyou have timely notice of it. '18

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home sick of an ague'. Happily he recoveredsufficiently to go back to school on the 21July, but was home again from 26 to 29 andagain from the 2 to 11 August and the 13 to18 September. He then stayed at school untilthe 25 October, came home, then went back

. again from the 7 November to 29. Hereturned to Harrow on the 3 December andbroke up for Christmas on the 13 Decemberas in the previous year.

There is no clear information about how longRalph remained at Harrow. Dr Cox,followed Thomas Brian as headmaster in1730, but led a disorderly life and numbers atthe school fell during his headship. RalphRogers may have been one of the pupils whowere removed. He was at Abbots Langley onthe 21 July 1735 when he wrote to his father,reminding him of his parental obligations inmost respectful terms.

'Honour'd SirHaving the opportunity of a bearer I thoughtproper to put you in mind to send for me thebeginning of next month (if you please). I hopemy mamma and sister are both well to whom Ioffer my duty and love in the most humblemanner this is all at present from Sir,

Your dutiful son,Ralph Rogers'

Early the following year his mother, [aneHawtrey died, being buried on the 5February 1736 at St Martin's. Ralph followedher to the grave on the 27th of the samemonth. The cause of their deaths is notknown and they may have beenunconnected, but their coming so closetogether perhaps suggests some contagiousdisease. James Rogers was left at Eastcotewith his daughter, Elizabeth.

[ames Rogers and his business affairs[ames Rogers' business affairs are a littledifficult to follow. He banked at Childs atTemple Bar, his father's partners, andreceived letters addressed to him there. Hisfather and an uncle, Henry Rogers, were bothgoldsmiths, but there is no evidence that hefollowed in their footsteps. Nor does heseem to have embraced the legal profession.He was, however, a man of property.

Apart from the Eastcote House and theManorial and Rectorial leases, he hadleasehold houses in Cleveland Row adjoiningSt [ames's Park and the house in Kensingtonwhere his mother lived during herwidowhood with his elder daughter, Frances .There was also the house at West End andthere is at least one reference to a house inGreat Marlborough Street.

From the correspondence he does not seem tohave been a particularly good landlord.A tenant, possibly at the farm at West End,Richard Holmes, complained bitterly inSeptember 1718

'I was in hopes that you would haveprevented my giving you this trouble by havingrepaired the house as you weare pleased to tell meyou would, the winter approaching and the housenot habitable, it being neither wind tite nor watertite, the repairs if not speedily prevented mustinevitable increase. It is the common talk herethat you never will repaire while I am in it andthat you intend to live in it yourself If that beyour reason for not making it habitable the fairerway would be to let me know your intentions ....I have aready laid one 100 lode of dung upon themeadows ... and have bought as much more to layon which you may see..... There is neither gate norstile in the whole farm but one ... the house if notrepaired will damage my family's health when badweather comes.'19

The following May he was even moreindignant and explained his grievances to anAttorney-at-Law, Mr John Widson. Hedirected his letter 'to be left at the TempleExchange Coffee· House, against St Dunstan'schurch in Fleet Street', as was commonpractice, much business been done at CoffeeHouses. Mr Rogers had encouraged him tolay all the dung on the meadows andpromised to carry out the repairs, but hadfailed to do so.

... 'and never so much as sent either torepair or stop the wholes in the roof and walls tillI had a child almost drowned in his bed. He hasby this means got all my dung and improvementsby which I can prove by the neighbourhood ingeneral that the estate is 10sh [shillings] per acrebetter than it was before I had improved it. '20


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His relationship with tenants in ClevelandRow were equally unsatisfactory.E. Hampden, acting on behalf of Mrs Smith,left a letter for him at Robert Child's housenear Temple Bar in June 1721.

'Mrs Smith says she has been twice at MrRoger's shop [perhaps John Rogers had agoldsmith's shop of his own] to have noticethat she earnestly wishes to speak with you anddid also by letter give you an account of themiserable condition the kitchen was in by theoverflowing of the well and did hope you wouldhave brought workmen to view it, but not hearingfrom you, she desired your kinsman to come andsee it, but could not preoail, and by her letteracquainted yoU.'21

She had been obliged to bring in workmenherself

'The well never having been cleaned sincethe house was built there were several loads ofmud to be taken out for the draynes of the wholeRow ran into it and the timber rotten as willappear when you come. All which has been verychargeableand troublesome. The pumpman's billwas £4 9s. She has paid him £4 5s: the bricklayer,carpenter and plumber are yet unpaid ... The wallnext the Park being only lath and mortar is riptup and if not very speedily remedied, the housewill be in great danger. '22

Even making allowances for the tendency oftenants to exaggerate their grievances, JamesRogers does seem to have been at bestindifferent to the state of his property. It istrue, however, that rents were not alwayspaid promptly. Cat Stevens, also living inCleveland Row and apt to find fault with theaccommodation, wrote in June 1736, toexplain why she was in arrears. She and twochildren had been extremely ill and it hadcost her £100 only a fortnight before to sendtwo daughters to Boston in New England.

Furthermore'Furnishing my house has put me much

behind this year, but after September I shall takecare never to be so behind again.'23

This was a vain hope and Cat Stevenscontinued to be a thorn in the side of JamesRoger's daughter, Elizabeth.

However neglectful he might have been ofhis leasehold property, [ames Rogers seemsto have been responsible for the modernisingof Eastcote House, originally a timber-framedbuilding. In the Fig. 1 photograph we see anearly-mid eighteenth century facade, coveredin stucco. The addition of the stucco wasdone at the instigation of Ralph Deane whocame into full possession in 1810 and whosebeautifying of the house is mentioned inBrewer's 'Beauties of England and Wales',published in 1816. The brick facade underthe stucco, the new windows and work onthe interior was done under the direction of[ames Rogers.

An account in a bundle dated 1722 to 173824

lists:'Work to be done in my hall £40in my Gt Parlour £50Staircase and lobby £50Gt Matted Room £50Lt Matted Room £40Brickwork two fronts £100Raising a roofetc £36Lath and plastering £202 sashes £6For making good joinery work, carpentryand painting £20A sashfor thefirst room £3Brick layers' work for the chimneys andsmith's work to tye in the front andmaking good the roof £15'

This amounts to almost £400.

According to James Rogers' account thestaircase was installed by him c1725.(See Fig. 2)

James Rogers increased the size of the estatein Ruislip by purchasing St Catherine's Farmin Howletts Lane in 1725, from the executorsof Thomas Powell.>

At the time the tenement was known asCoatshaw and Howletts Lane appears tohave been called Holders Lane." The landwas called Lowys and included 27 acres,some of it former wood ground in Harefieldparish between New Years Green Lane andBreakspear Road North.


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Fig. 2 - Eastcote House Staircase

The King's College leases were renewedevery seven years, when a fine (a sum ofmoney) had to be paid for renewal. The rentspecified in the lease had to be paid annually.In 1718 Ralph Hawtrey had been paying £1966s per annum, £52 being in lieu of an earlierpayment of malt in kind. The fine was £320.The profit in 1718 arising out of rents and theprofits of the manor courts was £343 14s.27John Reading, Gentleman, who was theundertenant living at the Manor House (nowManor Farm) paid Mr Hawtrey an annualrent of £180 plus five couple fat pullets andone lamb or 42s in lieu each Christmas.s'

The Rectory lease was cheaper, £25 perannum, and a fine of £130 payable every fouryears. . The rectorial tithes collected by MrHawtrey in 1718 amounted to £250.29

When James Rogers was dealing with theleases from the time of his marriage to JaneHawtrey, he worried about the costs, havingheard that the fine upon renewal was to beraised. He was assured by the Bursar, MrMann, that the increase would not beexorbitant.v He was dilatory in paying theannual rent and had to be reminded on more

than one occasion that the College had madeseveral demands for money. Leases werebought in advance, perhaps as a hedgeagainst inflation. Mr Rogers had obviouslybeen trying to negotiate a lower fine. A newBursar, J. Smith, told him in December 1733that the new fine had not yet beendetermined and went on

'you make no objection to our valuation ofany part of our estate, can find no reason for anabatement in the fine. As to want of tenants(which in your case I apprehend is not owing tothe value we set on our estate, but the badness ofthe times for farmers) I acknowledge it is amisfortune to any gentleman, but then it ought tobe considered that the seven years which you arenow about to purchase, will not followimmediately but after the expiration of 13 years:and what reason can there be to think that thoseyears will prove bad rather than that the goodnessof them will make amends for the badness of thepresent times the fine will almost certainly be£500 as usual.'31

This was not the reply that Mr Rogers hadhoped for and he wrote again, only to receivethe following in January 1734

'the times are now growing better forfarmers the price of corn is considerably risenalready as to the expense of stocking yourfarms that can be no reason I apprehend for anabatement, for what landlord ever made adeduction in rent upon letting an estate becausethe tenant must be at the expense of stocking it?And is not the produce and advantage of the stocksupposed to answer and make amends for theexpense of laying it in?'32

The new lease commencing 13 years aheadwas not destined to be his problem because[ames Rogers died in July 1738, apparentlyunexpectedly, as he made his will only on theday he died and failed to name a guardian ortrustee for his daughter, Elizabeth, to whomhe left all the Ruislip part of his estate. Hebequeathed the Cleveland Row houses to hiselder daughter, Frances, but all that propertyalso descended to Elizabeth when herGrandmother Rogers and her half sister diedwithin days of each other in August 1739.


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Elizabeth Rogers was 16 years old at the timeof her father's death and 17 when hergrandmother and half sister died. She wasleft not only with the Eastcote estate andRuislip Manorial and Rectory leases, but alsohad London property to manage.

How did she cope? That's another story.

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FIGHT OVER MANOR FARM 'DUCK POND'.

by Colin Bowlt

In a bundle of eighteenth century papers! inthe archives at King's College, Cambridge,there are two notebooks in the hand of theBursar of the time, Mr G. Smith, who appearsto have done much travelling-to the variousestates owned by the College. This shortmemorandum shows that village life was notall pastoral peace.

It is reproduced here with spelling andpunctuation as in the originaL

'Memo.The Inhabitants of Ruislip Town claim a Right ofwatering their Cattle at the Pond in the Store-yard lying between the Barn yard and the streetunder a pretence that this yard was formerlywaste ground; as a proof that it was so, it isalledged that the Fence on the west side was firstmade in the memory of some persons now living,& that before that it had always laid open on thatside. The under-tenant complained to me Apr. 151748 that this claim frequently occasions greatincovenience to him, & desired to know whetherthere be any foundation for it. It should seem thatthere is none, unless they can claim byprescription, for this yard was the Court-Yard ofthe scite of the Manor, and not wast Ground(notwithstanding it may sometimes by neglect ofthe Farmer have laid pen on the west side) asappearsfrom the abuttments of a Copyhold Cotagestanding west of the Gate & situate between thestreet on the South & the said yard on the Northside. Vid. Survey anno 7 Eliz. Vol. 13.9 - RicusRobins Smyth tenet per Copiam unum aliumCotagium cum le yarde Cont. di. Rodam et jacetBoreal. Versus le Carte yearde, et austr. VersusHighe Strete, et abutt. Orient Sup le Carte -Gate. I [Translation: Richard Robins, Smith,holds one other cottage with the yardcontaining half a rod and it lies north againstthe Court yard and south against the HighStreet and abuts east upon the Court Gate.]

'Memo.To search the Court-Rolls, Presentments .. .for theRight of the Lesseeof the Demesne Lands to keep

Cattle & ... upon the Common: it is pretended bythe Copyhold Tennants ... that he has no right.[This suggests that the local inhabitants weretrying to get their own back.]

CommentThe barnyard referred to is now the grassyarea between the Great Barn, the Library, theCow Byre and the Stables and Guide Hut.The Store yard is now the Bowling Green andthe area around the pond. Doharty's mapshows the present Bowling Green filled withhay ricks.

The 'Survey 7 Eliz' which Mr Smith consultedis the 1565 Terrier of the Manor of Ruislips.In that document the pond was called 'thehorse pool'. The cottage that was then ownedby Richard Robins, the smith, is nowBlubecker's Restaurant. It was given a brickfacade and new windows and possiblyextended in the eighteenth century and wasdivided into two cottages either then or in thenineteenth century. John Doharty called thecottage 'Mr Fern's house and garden', whenhe carried out his survey in 1750. .Someresidents of Ruislip will remember when thewestern end was the Village Sweet Shop andthe eastern end was Haleys.

Elizabeth Rogers was the College tenant from1738-1803,leasing the demesne and woodsfrom King's College, as her Hawtreyancestors had done in. the seventeenthcentury. She lived at Eastcote House andsub-let the Manor House or Ruislip Court asit was known. Joseph Goodson was there atthe time of Mr Smith's memo and is the'under tenant' and 'Farmer' mentioned. MrGoodson had come to Manor Farm fromHalton, Bucks in 1747and had taken over theproperty for 12 years, paying Miss Rogers£110 per annum rent and 12 young fat hens.He also had to house the Steward of King'sCollege and his servant and stable theirhorses when they came to Ruislip to hold aManor Court'.


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Demesne

The Demesne was the portion of the Manorreserved by the Lord of the Manor for hisown profit and use. In Ruislip the demesnewas large and stretched from the northernboundary of Copse Wood, through the centreof the manor to roughly the line of Station,Approach, South Ruislip. (Seemap on page)The copyhold tenants had cottages and landsoutside the demesne and certain rights suchas pasturing cattle and sheep on thecommons and waste grounds.

It is possible that the copyhold tenants hadbeen watering their cattle at the pond (nowthe Duck Pond) by default for some years

I KC: RUI 51 (formerly Q43/1)2 KC: RUI 182 (formerly R36)3 LMA: Ace 249126024 See Bowlt, EiIeen M. 'The Goodliest Place inMiddlesex', pp 578-61, for a full discussion of thispoint.

past and when [oseph Goodson tried to keepthem out, they retaliated by trying to keep hisanimals off the common.

CopyholdIn medieval times the copyholders had beenobliged to work on the demesne a certainnumber of days per week. These labourservices had been commuted to a payment ofa Quitrent 'to be rid of all services' by the latemedieval period. The process was beginningin Ruislip as early as the mid-thirteenthcentury.s The title of the manorial tenants totheir lands was a copy of the entry in theCourt Roll, hence the term Copyholder.


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A GROUP OF MARBLESFROM CHENEY STREET FARM, EASTCOTE, MIDDLESEX

by Colin Bowlt

At the beginning of January 2003the ownersof the sixteenth century Cheney Street Farminformed me that they had discovered a lot of'musket balls' among debris inside a brickstructure adjoining their fireplace. Thehollow semicircular structure appears to bethe support for an early staircase risingaround the chimney. It is now capped at justbelow ceiling level of the ground floor. Theowners in removing some of the looseinfilling under the capping had found anumber of items including the 'musket balls'.In addition there were many shreds ofprinted paper, probably newspaper, datingfrom the seventeenth century to nineteenthcentury.

The balls were made of some sort of stoneand not lead as would be expected of musketballs. They were submitted to Geoff Egan ofthe Museum of London for inspection, whowrote:

'106 marbles were found in a structure beside adomestic fireplace in the farm building. They allappear to be of stone, probably a variety oflimestones. Marbles like this were made by beinghand-held against polishing wheels in Mills.Dimensions vary between 12 and 18mm. Mostare a range of greys or buff (a few have areas ofdark mottling that presumably represents somematerial they have accidentally come into contactwith) and one is black. Several exhibitsedimentary weathering, which may have beenvalued by players, though there seems to be nocontemporary recorded evidence for this.

Just under a handful of the gre1Jish ones areprobably true 'marble' (though nothing like asgood in quality as the Carrara marble from Italythat was used for the most expensive versionsavailable). Also absent are any of the red-streakedones particularly prized by children. One appearsfire-damaged, with three areas of spalling. Thereis a rougher, naturally rounded pebble that ispresumably an addition. This large group isremarkable in having no ceramic marbles at all,perhaps an indication despite the different sizesthat (the natural pebble aside) it is an integralgroup. Precise dating is difficult at this earlystage of development of the subject, but they areprobably from the eighteenth or early nineteenthcentury, after which glass became the preferredmaterial.'

This is the largest group of such marblesfound in England currently known to theMuseum. Marble production seems to havebeen concentrated in parts of Europe withfast water supplies used in 'rounding' themarbles. Measurements on the Eastcotespecimens showed them to be remarkablyspherical. A tricky thing to achieve butnecessary if they were to roll regularly.

However most of the present interest appearsto be in the USA which has resulted in abook:Colonial Period and Early 19th century ChildrensToy Marbles, R. Gartly & J Carskadden 1998Zanesville, Ohio.


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CRIME IN 1787 - SOME EXAMPLES OF CASES RESEARCHED INTHE H047 SERIES OF RECORDS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

by Jessica Eastwood

All the volumes in the Records contain awealth of details about individuals at just onelow point in their lives, that is when they hadcommitted a crime or were accused of acrime. Then their names had been writtendown, they had been tried; judgement waspassed; they were sentenced; friends andneighbours petitioned for clemency and 215years later I am reading about them puttingtheir names on a list ready to be indexedregardless of whether they were innocent orguilty. The volume I researched covers theyear 1787 and below are a few examples ofthe cases contained therein.

The convicts are a mixed lot. There is JohnSmith, an experienced sailor, who missed hisship because the wind changed direction andit sailed away with all his possessions andmoney on board leaving him in London.He decided to walk through Kent to pick upthe ship at a Channel port, but he was notused to walking and collected blisters on hisfeet. His money was on the ship so indesperation he resorted to highway robbery,got caught and finished up in gaol. He wrotehis own petition - four closely written pagesgiving his life story. He had sailed from theEast Indies to the West Indies to Africa andAmerica, was shipwrecked, captured by theFrench and rescued. He was found guiltysentenced to death but had been reprieved.His final sentence was not known but hewould probably have been sent to sea forseven years, as sailors were needed with warwith France looming.

Then there was Amelia, wife of Mr Gill, whowas convicted of taking five yards of calicofrom the shop of William Armfield inSheffield by hiding it under her stays.The petition on her behalf states that she wasof a flighty disposition, and hinted that shewas not quite normal in the head.

Shoplifting in 1787 seems to have been awoman's crime, as it is today. Women werenot usually transported in 1787,most seem tohave been sentenced to one year's hardlabour in a House of Correction.

Then there were those who were led astray.Henry Stansfield, the son of a shopkeeper inHatton Garden, aged 14, got into badcompany and was talked into breaking into adwelling house and stealing a bed! and someclothes. He was caught and sentenced.His petition is signed by his father, Titus,mother, Hannah, and other shopkeepers, allgiving their names, shop addresses andtrades. His father also wrote that his motherwas ill with the worry of it. His fate is notstated but as he was very young it is unlikelythat the punishment would have been be toosevere.

In the petition of one fairly wealthyobviously guilty young man called ThomasCollingwood, was the comment that he hadbeen spoilt by his mother and seven oldersisters. Whether this cut any ice with LordSydney is not known. What is of interest isthat his father was the Secretary of theFoundling Hospital. The youth had hissentence reduced from death totransportation.

Sheep stealing was the most common ruralcrime and there was much detail of sheepmarks being changed. A larger problem ofidentification arose when a sheep had beenslaughtered and very little remained and thedefendant claimed to have bought the sheepelsewhere.

Horse stealing was as prevalent as carstealing is now. There is one case whereJoseph Moreland, a carpenter, was accused ofstealing a gelding from Dame CatherineHardy and leaving it at The Turks Head Innin Reading.


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An accomplice had come round from theGeorge Inn and taken it away. In his petitionJoseph said that he had found the horse andthat he had a wife and four children tosupport.

Then there is the man who went off in acarriage after dinner at an Oxford Hostelrywith a silver spoon belonging to the Hoteland who was chased all the way to Banbury,was caught and tried and sentenced(punishment not known).

There are some very sad stories. A prisonChaplain was so very concerned at thebehaviour of one feeble minded young manin Aylesbury gaol that he wrote a petition onhis behalf. The prisoner was swallowingmice whole, for a halfpenny a mouse, toamuse the other prisoners and the Chaplainfeared for hisheaIth.

Thomas Foster of Aylsham in Norfolk wasaccused of stealing books from twobooksellers in Norwich for whom he beencataloguing books. He also ran his ownbookshop in Aylsham, the inference beingthat he was stocking his shop with stolengoods. His petition said he had five childrento support.

Charles WaIter Wyatt in charge of the post atWitney was accused of stealing bank notesfrom letters. His petition states he was veryyoung.

Finally there was William King, who hadbeen a soldier in the Royal Regiment ofArtillery, who was tried at York for highwayrobbery and sentenced to death. The judgereprieved him on the grounds that his crimewas an unpremeditated consequence of a dayspent in a Disorderly House and he wassentenced to a further seven years in the landservice (Army).


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AN ACCOUNT OF WORKING ON THE H017 SERIES OF RECORDSAT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

by Jessica Eastwood

This account of working on the Records atthe National Archives (formerly the PublicRecord Office), shows the method ofextracting the required information from theoriginal documents, using as an example thepapers from the case of W. H. Reynolds, whowas convicted of the attempted assassinationof General Burton at the Old Bailey in 1824and sentenced to death.

For background to this work I refer to thearticle in the RNELHS 2002Journal by SusanToms, 'Experiences of working on the HO 47Series of Records at The Public RecordOffice', which explained that the Judges wererequired to write reports on the convicts whohad had petitions sent to the Home Officepleading for the King's mercy to mitigatetheir sentences. We·volunteers have almostcompleted working on these records and weare now beginning indexing the HO 17 series.These differ from HO 47 in that the Judgesreports are missing, either because they werenever written or were just not retained.The Home Office having dealt with thepetitions sorted the papers into bundles andfiled them in boxes. At the start of thisproject the papers were again sorted intoindividual cases and put into A5 acid freepaper envelopes by the staff at NationalArchives. The envelopes were then filed inboxes, approximately two boxes per yearbetween the 1820ls and 18501s.

My box with its envelopes concerns petitionsreceived in 1824, and its file number is HomeOffice (HO) DK which was the original HomeOffice reference number, and then eachpetition with its associated correspondence isnumbered consecutively. A Catalogue Sheet(see example) is completed for each case.

The details from the Catalogue Sheet will beentered into the computer at a later date foruse by researchers and the public.

For the purposes of this article I shallconcentrate on the case mentioned in myintroduction.

Firstly I copied the reference number writtenon the envelope, i.e. ref HO 17/30 DK 21,onto the Catalogue Sheet and removed thecontents. There were four pieces of loosecorrespondence and a thick wad of paperstied up in faded red ribbon. I tackled theloose papers first.

Paper 1 A letter sent to W. H. Reynolds atNo. 2 Little Peter St., Sun St., BishopsgateThe letter began Dear Husband, and wassigned by Elizabeth Reynolds .It said that shewas well and had gone into the country one milebeyond High gate, and would not trouble GeneralBurton.

Paper 2 A note dated 29 Jan. 1824 fromArchdeacon Blomfield to Home SecretaryRobert Peel requesting a meeting concerningReynolds.

Paper 3 A letter from Newgate Gaol writtenby the Prison Surgeon and dated 26 May 1826stating that William Reynolds was in betterhealth, though he was suffering from consumptionand needed better air.

Paper 4 A petition written by ElizabethReynolds stating that her father had been thelate Ensign Meadley of the 60th Foot, and that herhusband 1 s attempt to assassinate General Burtonhad occurred because his mind had been biasedand his reason suspended. The petition issigned by 33 petitioners who also added theiraddresses. All appear to have been local toBishopsgate and its environs, e.g. J. N. Lloyd,Gun Street, Spitalfields.

I then untied the red ribbon and counted 13pieces of correspondence, which I decided toread in the order in which they had beenbundled up.


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Paper 5 A short letter from William Cavillierof Whitby addressed to Dear Madam andreferring to William Reynolds' wife Elizabethwho had been a blot upon the creation of theAlmighty's works ever since she was ten.

Paper 6 Another letter from ArchdeaconBlomfield to Robert Peel Home Secretary,complaining about the deficiencies of thedefence during the trial at the Old Bailey.The Attorney had only briefed the DefenceCounsel minutes before the trial and had notcalled all the witnesses. He also referred tothat woman's behaviour with GeneralBurton.

Paper 7 A series of eight closely writtenpages on poor quality paper described asdepositions and all written in the same hand.They appear to be evidences given byneighbours, friends and the employer ofWilliam Reynolds presumably to be sent tothe Home Secretary. The name of eachwitness was given and then their evidence.For reasons of space I will give the mainpoints to emerge from their depositions.It appeared that Elizabeth Reynolds was inreceipt of many presents from GeneralBurton, e.g. a scent box, good clothes andvegetables from his country estate, and shebought him grapes. The General had offeredto attempt to procure a separation for herfrom Reynolds, had offered her sanctuary athis house in Worcestershire, and had sent herfive pounds for transport. General Burton'scoach had been seen parked outside theReynolds' house, and Elizabeth was observedto enter it and kiss the General before thedoor was closed.One witness, John Blake, stated that this wasWilliam Reynolds' second marriage andmentioned that Elizabeth was bigamouslymarried to him, and that she collected £20 ayear from Somerset House. The midwifeElizabeth Witt, who had attended Elizabethat her last confinement, reported that theGeneral had asked Elizabeth sometime beforeif she was in the family way, and she hadsaid no. The neighbours also accusedElizabeth of flirting and of loose behaviourwith their lodger.

John Reynolds, William's brother, said thathis brother was very distressed about hiswife's affair and did not know what to doabout it.

Paper 8 A list of all the previous deponentsgiving their addresses and employment:William Jones, 87 BrookSt.Edmund Knight, Bishopsgate, a timbermerchant.Frederick Andrews, Little Peter St. Owned adrug milL Employed W. Reynolds on acasual basis.Mrs Sayers, Reynolds' lodger at 2 Little PeterSt.Elizabeth Goddin, 29 Hatton Wall.George Crenidge, 37 Sun St. Coachmaker.Thomas Simpson, Clifton St., Finsbury Sq.Cabinet maker.John Blake, 44 Holland St. Blackfriars.Mrs Jones, 87 Brook St.Mrs Reynolds, (mother) and John Reynolds(brother), 3 South Rd, WhitechapeLJohn Witt, 3 South Rd.Elizabeth Witt, 3 South Rd.Charles Sayers, Reynolds' lodger, 2 LittlePeter St.

Paper 9 Containing character references forall the above witnesses.

Paper 10 The second petition -signed by 84neighbours and parishioners of St. Botolphs,Bishopsgate, pleading the former goodcharacter of Reynolds who had been drivento distraction by his wife.

Paper 11 This is a small folded piece of paperwritten by the Churchwardens of St Botolphsand clarifying Elizabeth Reynolds' maritalaffairs. She was married to and still wasmarried to a sailor, and was thereforebigamously married to Reynolds, but sheclaimed that she was single in order to obtaina pension of £20 a year from Somerset House.The Churchwardens had also visited GeneralBurton in his villa at High gate, but he wouldnot answer their questions until his servanthad left the room, and was apparentlyembarrassed by their visit.


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Paper 12 A letter from Elizabeth Reynolds toHome Secretary Robert Peel asking him toreturn to her the memorial concerning herfather Ensign Meadley. (He didn't becausewe still have the memorial.)

Paper 13 The memorial. This is an extremelyfragile piece of paper beginning todisintegrate along the fold lines. Thesubstance of this paper is that Meadleyserved with distinction in the French Warswith the Coldstream Guards. In 1806he wasrecommended for promotion by GeneralBurton, whereupon he was transferred to the6th Battalion of the 60th Regiment thenserving in Jamaica.' His wife and youngdaughter Elizabeth accompanied him.On the 28 March 1809whilst walking on theParade Ground he was knifed to death byPrivate Christian Beuker; no reason wasgiven for his action. However the Officersofthe 60th Foot were sorry for Meadley'sdependents and organized a collection tosend them back to England together with thismemorial. (Elizabeth must have beenentitled to a pension as long as she wassingle.)

Paper 14 A letter dated 27 July 1826 fromRev. C. T. Chester (Vicar)to Henry Hobhousepleading for Reynolds to be moved from theinfirmary at Newgate Gaol to better air tosave his life.

Paper 15 A letter dated 2 July 1827 fromA. W. Robarts to Spencer Percival, sent with apetition (which petition is not clear)requesting that Reynolds be released fromprison. (He was by now on a Prison Hulk offChatharn and unwell). A note on the back ofthis letter dated 12July 1827says Refused.

Paper 16 This is the petition from Reynoldshimself in which he told the whole story. Hiswife and General Burton had pursued atorrid love affair. Reynolds, distraught fromjealousy, had bought a pair of pistolsintending to shoot the General.

He had gone to the General's house in NewStreet, Paddington, and found his wife there.He had shot at General Burton but missed,for which he was now heartily thankful. Hehad taken up religion and hoped to bereleased so that he could care for his threechildren. There are 44 signatures on thispetition. I believe that this petition was sentfrom the Hulk at Chatham via A. W. Robarts(seepaper 15),and turned down by Peel.

Paper 17 This is another petition signed by222 Londoners, including the 12 jurymenwho convicted him, and therefore must havebeen sent in 1824 and have helped in thecommutation of the original sentence ofdeath to imprisonment. This petition wasconsidered at the King's Council held on 26May 1824.

All the papers are now read, and I cancomplete the Catalogue Sheet with theimportant details (see the completedexample) which will be entered intocomputer.

I am also left with a fascinating glimpse intolife in Bishopsgate in 1824, involvingattempted murder, adultery, bigamy,obtaining a pension falsely, plus a botchedtrial at the Old Bailey, imprisonment inNewgate and the Hulks, a past murder inJamaica, and the scandalous testimonies ofthe Reynolds' neighbours and friends.

For the serious local historian andgenealogist there are names and addresses onthe four petitions. There are letters to HomeSecretary Peel and other Government figures,and the memorial about Ensign Meadley.

Unfortunately we shall never know the endof the story and what actually happened after1827 - was William Reynolds released?, andwhat happened to his shocking wife?


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GUIDED WALKS

As a contribution to National Local History Month in May 2003, the RNELHS organisedthree guided walks around the original Parish of Ruislip led by members of the Society.These walks were entitled:

Old Eastcote - led by Karen Spink and Susan Toms (4 May)Historic Ruislip - led by Eileen Bowlt (11May)Hamlet to Town (Northwood) - led by Simon Morgan (26May)

The circumstances and portrayals of the Eastcote and Northwood walks warrantedrecorded descriptions and these are embodied in the following two articles.

OLD EASTCOTE

by Karen Spink and Susan Toms

On a warm sunny Sunday afternoon a groupof some 15 people met at Haydon Hall carpark for a walk to explore more of oldEastcote. We reversed the order of last year'swalk to start at Haydon Hall which we hadviewed previously through an approachingevening gloom.

We met on the site where two substantialhouses had once stood. The first was built in1630 for Lady Alice, Countess of Derby ofHarefield Place and was replaced in 1720bya mansion for Thomas Franklin. It was thislatter house that was much extended in the18708and 1880s by the then owner Lawrence[ames Baker who employed the architectsErnest George and Harold Peto to improvethe house and design attractive workers'cottages for his extensive sporting estate.Haydon Hall became the centre for villageentertainment when Captain and Mrs HarryBennett-Edwards, the novelist, were inresidence and it was they who allowed theground to be used by Eastcote Cricket Club.Nothing of the house remains, but we werepleased to see the cricketers in action as weset off across the park to Southill Lane.

Southill Cottages, now known as Findon,(see RNELHS 2002 Journal page 25) werethree cottages built in about 1880 to a designby George and Peto for Haydon Hall Estateworkers. They were converted to one houseearly in the 20th century.

Southill Farm, next door, (see Fig.1)was builtin the early 18th century and replaced anearlier building.

At the end of Southill Lane, on the edge ofHaydon Hall grounds, we admired the veryhandsome Haydon Lodge with its decorativepargeting and seven fine carvings around theporch representing figures from British andforeign culture. The lodge house was alsodesigned by George and Peto and built in1880at a cost of £1100.

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On the opposite corner of Southill Lane wesaw The Case Is Altered public house whichwas largely reconstructed after a fire in 1890.An earlier cottage on the site was mentionedin the 1565 Terrier as being owned by AnnaSlepe. One explanation for the origin of itsname, which is born out by the pub sign, isthat it derives from the Spanish casa desaltar, a place of entertainment, which datesfrom soldiers returning from the PeninsulaWar.

We continued along the High Road to TheGrange, a timber-framed building whoseoriginal two-storey house in the centre datesfrom before 1550 and was listed in the 1565Terrier. The white weather-boarding wasadded much later, in 1924,when the ownersMr and Mrs Noel Dore completely restoredthe building and linked the west barn to themain house with an elevated passageway(see article by Eileen Bowlt in RNELHS2001Journal).

An added bonus of our walk was animpromptu invitation by the owners ofGrange Cottage, a separate building in frontof The Grange, to come and see their gardenand house. This was followed by a similarinvitation by the owners of The Grange to seeinside their house and grounds. It wasfascinating to hear their experiences 'fromthe horse's mouth' of restoring and living insuch listed buildings.

Next along the High Road we viewed TheOld Shooting Box, another timber-framedbuilding which originally comprised threecottages, one of which was thought to datefrom the end of the 16th century. Laterresearch indicates that the present housedates from the early 18th century (see articlesby Pat Clarke and Eileen Bowlt in RNELHS2002Journal).

There used to be a row of cottages in the 19th

and early 20th century in front of The OldShooting Box called Park and then JacobeanCottages and one of these cottages served asEastcote's first Post Office in 1861.

The next building on the High Road westopped to admire was Ramin which wasalso mentioned in the 1565 Terrier.The oldest part of the house is a remnant of atimber-framed section with the jettyoverhanging the road and this dates fromthe 16th century. However by the mid-19th century the present building was inuse as three separate cottages and remainedlike that until it was converted by thepurchaser John David Marshall to thesingle residence we see today. He wasalso responsible for the name Ramin sinceit was believed the house had been aninn called The Ram (see articles by PatClarke and Eileen Bowlt in RNELHS 2002Journal).

We then turned left up Catlins Lane tolook at St Catherine's Farm, passing arow of villas on the left that were builtbetween 1903 and1913, and which rathercharmingly have retained their house namesand have no numbers. These houses werebuilt by local builders. One of them, Charles[acques, may well have been influenced byarchitects George and Peto as some of hishouses, egoThe Moorings, feature decorativepargeting.

St Catherine's Farm, on the right-hand side,was a 15th century hall house which has beenmuch altered over the centuries (see articleby Karen Spink in RNELHS2001Journal).It ceased to be a working farm when, afterWorld War I, the house and grounds weresold to Charles Jacques for use as a builder'syard and market garden. The rest of the landwas split up and sold off in lots.

Daymer Gardens was built in the 1970s onfour acres of farmland that had beenpurchased by Frank Welch. He built himselfa house called High Meadow and helped theWesleyan Mission in London run boys' clubsin his grounds. He bequeathed a piece ofland to the RNUDC to be developed as flatsfor old people. This was built in 1969and isknown as Frank Welch Court. It is nowthreatened with re-development.

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We then turned right off Catlins Lane andtook the public footpath across open land,once part of Cuckoo Hill Farm which forthree centuries had been owned by theHawtrey Deanes of Eastcote House.

Cuckoo Hill Farm (see Fig. 2) is most famousfor an event that took place in June 1880. Ahay-rick caught fire (a not uncommonoccurrence) and the Uxbridge Volunteer FireBrigade were called to put it out. The nearestwater was the River Pinn at Horn End,Cheney Street, some 350m away, whichmeant forcing the water up hill. To makematters worse, the haymakers refused to cutthe rick to enable the fire to be put outbecause the rick had been 'distrained uponfor rent'. So the rick was lost at a value of£150.

In 1930 this piece of farmland was sold fordevelopment, and the plan was to build aroad connecting Catlins Lane to Cuckoo Hill.This plan fell through partly due to theefforts of Mrs Alan Dore who lived atEastcote Point and was a member of theMCC. The land was zoned public openspace.

Eastcote Point was rather difficult to seebeing well-screened by trees. This large red-brick building was built about 1897for parishcouncillor Edmund Bluhm. It was bought byAlan Dore (brother of Noel Dore at TheGrange) in 1917. Later in the century it wasdivided into several residences.

We turned into Cuckoo Hill, the boundarywith Pinner Parish, passing the front ofCuckoo Hill Farm, and stopped further downto glimpse Mistletoe Farm, (see Fig. 3)another timber-framed 16thcentury building,gentrified in the late 19thcentury.

We crossed the road, and walked a little wayup Cheney Street to the bridge over the RiverPinn, and then followed the river along themeadow known from the 16th century asLong Meadow or Well Green. We crossedthe next bridge into Eastcote House Gardensfor the conclusion of our tour.

Unfortunately, Eastcote House itself, whichremained in the possession of the Hawtreyfamily and their descendants the Deanes for400years, was demolished in 1964. But threestructures remain: the early 17th centurycoach house, the 18thcentury dovecot and 'thewalled garden where some of the bricks datefrom the 17thcentury.

We had to rely on these to imagine what itwould have been like as ·the site of one of thegreat houses of Eastcote. On a moreoptimistic note, discussions are taking placeto bid for Heritage Lottery funding to restoreand enhance the remaining buildings andgrounds of Eastcote House.

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A HORSE TROUGH AND A JASPER CROSS:THE MORIERS OF BATCHWORTH HEATH

by Simon Morgan

Most survIvmg horse troughs have beenmunicipalised and are now in a very differentenvironment from when they were in use.They have often been moved, used asplanters or surrounded by modern paving.The one on the corner of RickmansworthRoad and Copsewood Way in Northwoodremains surprisingly unaffected by thepassing of the horse as a means of transport.It usually contains rainwater and couldperhaps still be used for its original purpose.What is most remarkable is that it retains itsstable paviours leading to the road - thespecial bricks with drainage grooves thatassist horses' hooves to grip in wetconditions.

The Horse Trough at Northwood

In preparing to lead a walk aroundNorthwood for the Local History Month, Iconsidered it prudent to be able to saysomething about this trough, so I inspected itin detail. Most troughs in the London areawere erected by the Metropolitan DrinkingFountain and Cattle Trough Association andare labelled with the name of thatphilanthropic organisation, but that was notthe case here. There is an inscription, but theletters are weathered and it cannot be readentirely by eye.

However, tracing a finger along the shallowindentation did enable it to be deciphered:

IN MEMORYOFVICTORALBERTLOUISMORIER.

ERECTEDBYHISMOTHER.

This aroused my interest in finding out moreabout Victor Morier and why he had pre-deceased his mother.

I already knew that in the churchyard ofHoly Trinity there is the grave of Sir RobertMorier and his wife. It seemed unlikely thatthere would be two unconnected Morierfamilies in Northwood, so I assumed therewas a connection. The tomb records that SirRobert died in 1893 and his wife, Alice, in1903. If Victor was their son, there weretherefore 10 years during which the troughmight have been erected by Alice alone,without Sir Robert, a period that fits wellwith the apparent age of the trough.

This grave of Sir Robert Morier is one of themost important monuments at Holy Trinity,and is mentioned by Robbins, Kemp andPevsner. It is surmounted by a large greenstone cross that is apparently of solidSiberian jasper and the gift of the penultimatetsar, Alexander 1Il, in appreciation of SirRobert's work as British Ambassador toRussia since 1884. Prior to being at StPetersburg, Morier had been ambassador toPortugal and Spain. However, he is chieflyremembered for his earlier postings to thevarious states of Germany during the period1853-76, where he is credited with havingbeen Britain's foremost expert on Germanaffairs and having assisted the .process ofGerman unification, achieved in 1871.

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Bismarck's agents accused Morier of havingleaked information on Prussian troopmovements during the Franco-Prussian warof 1870,very serious charges which he wasable successfully to refute. Morier wasknighted in 1882 and also became a PrivyCouncillor.

Wherever he went, he seems to have been amost able diplomat, receiving accolades notjust from his masters in the Foreign Officeand the Palace but, by immersing himselffully into the life and culture of each hostcountry, earning also the admiration of itsleaders. As well as the tribute from the tsar, aI cross of arums and foliage' was sent byQueen Victoria to his funeral and was buriedwith the coffin.

Kemp records that Sir Robert and LadyMorier lived at Batchworth Heath House.This substantial brick-built ivy-clad housewas one of the three dower houses of MoorPark. The first Lord Ebury let it to Sir Robert,who was said to be a close friend of theGrosvenors and a frequent visitor to MoorPark. At the time of the sale of the whole ofthe Moor Park Estate in 1919, the house hadfour reception rooms with ceilings 10 feethigh, five 'best' bedrooms and four atticrooms, plus butler's pantry, kitchen, sculleryand cellars.

Outside there was a coach house andstabling, and the walled pleasure groundsincluded a rose garden, front lawn, tennisand croquet lawns and a heated greenhouse.There was also a kitchen garden with fourlight brick pit, and an apple orchard. Thehouse still stands on the west side ofBatchworth Heath.

Some internet research uncovered a Frenchgenealogy of the Morier family whichconfirmed that Victor Albert Louis wasindeed the son of Sir Robert and AliceMorier. It showed that he died en mer (at sea)on 27May 1892,at the young age of 25.

Sir Robert was a lifelong friend of theeminent classicist, Benjamin Jowett, havingstudied under him at Oxford. Jowett waselected a Fellow of Balliol College while stillan undergraduate, became Regius Professorof Greek in 1855,Master of Balliolin 1870andViceChancellor of Oxford University in 1882.He is noted for his translations of Plato,Thucydides and Aristotle, and well as for histheological writing that was somewhatradical for the tastes of the day and delayedhis academic advancement. It was said thathe had made time to see everyundergraduate in the college once a week,and energetically encouraged interest inmusic and the theatre.

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A picture of how he was regarded by hisstudents emerges in this piece of doggerelpenned in the 1880s:

Here Icome, my name is JowettAll there is to know, I know itWhat I don I t know, is not knowledgeI am the Master of this College.

Benjamin Jowett 1817-93

Much of the correspondence between Morierand Jowett survives at Balliol College,whichhas custody of both the Jowett and the MorierPapers. There is also a portrait of Morier atBalliol. These letters have survived becausethe men arranged for their correspondence tobe returned to the other when either of themdied. Reading the letters in full woulddoubtless give a much deeper insight into therelationship between these two eminentVictorians and into their family and privateconcerns, but the index to these papers,available on the internet, gives enough cluesto be confident of explaining Victor Morier'stragically short life.

At first, the two men discuss politics, foreignpolicy, the church and each other's writings,but gradually the letters become morepersonal. In 1860~for example, Jowett urgesSir Robert to give up heavy drinking andsuggests he should marry. In 1864 [owettagrees to baptise the Morier's first child, whois not mentioned in the genealogy, sopresumably did not survive.

The first we read of Victor Morier is in 1883when there is a discussion of him going toOxford and Jowett professes to be impressedwith his abilities. The following year apossible tutor is named, but AL Smith takeson the task and reports very favourably onVictor. However, in December there is newsthat Victor has failed Littlego. This is anentrance examination usually held during thefirst term.

In March 1885 Victor's health is reported tobe improving, indicating that the problemhad started that would lead to his earlydeath. Presumably he re-sat and passedLittlego, as in 1886 we first read first thatVictor's academic career is not going well.The following year there is grave concernover Victor, and Jowett reports to Morier "ananecdote of his bad behaviour over a party inBallioland his suicidal depressions". ByJuly1887Victor has left Oxford, but he continuesto be a cause of concern to both men whodiscuss him frequently - sometimes he isbetter and sometimes worse. In October 1891[owett's own health is failing and he bidsfarewell to Morier in case he does notrecover. There is nevertheless optimism overVictor's 'rehabilitation'. But in Decemberthey discuss again what to do with Victorand how to 'keep him out of danger'.

By the following June, Jowett is writingMorier a letter of condolence over Victor'sdeath. The manner of Victor's tragic end isnot mentioned, nor is the nature of the seavoyage he was undertaking, but one cannothelp but conclude that his depressive illnessproved fatal and that his death was bysuicide.

From their subsequent letters, it is clear thatMorier never recovered from Victor's death.Suffering also the loss of Jowett in October1893,Sir Robert himself died in Montreux on16 November that same year, aged 67. Hisbody was brought back from Switzerlandand was buried five days later in HolyTrinity churchyard.


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The Grave of Sir Robert andLady Morier in Holy Trinity

Churchyard

The following day, the remains of his friendLord Ebury were interred in the sameground, Lady Morier sending a floral tribute.Sir Robert and Alice were survived byVictor's younger sister, Victoria. She marriedRosslyn Wemyss, who became the First Lordof the Admiralty during the First World War.In 1911 she edited and published her father'sletters and memoirs.

Sources

The Jowett Papers and The Morier Papers atBalliol College, Oxford(index at web.balliol.ox.ac.ukjlibrary jjowett)

Kemp, WAG, The Story of North wood andNorthwood Hills, RNELHS 1982

Pedrick, Martyn, Moor Park: The GrosvenorLegacy, Riverside Books 1989

Pevsner & Cherry, The Buildings of England:London 3 North West, Penguin Books 1991

Robbins, Michael, Middlesex, Collins 1953(reprinted Phillimore 2003)

Morier family genealogy at:www.diesbach.comjbellerochejlennepj morier.html

Frederick, Empress, A Memoir, chap 18, [amesNisbet & Co. 1913(from: www.kaiserinfriedrich.de)

Ray, Martin, Benjamin Jowett, AberdeenUniversity(from www.abdn.ac.ukjenglishjjowett.htm)

Bibliography

Murray, Scott W, The Early Career of RobertMorier, Greenwood Press 2000

Bonneval, Jean de, Lafamille Morier enAngleterre, in Revue Historique Vaudoise, June1955

Wemyss, Mrs R (ed), Memoirs and letters of theRt Hon. Sir Robert Morier, Edward Arnold,1911


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INDEX TO RNELHS JOURNALS 1978 - 2003

This index refers to every article relating toan historical subject or to an individual inany edition of the RNELHS Journal, whichwas first published in 1978 and annuallythereafter. The RNELHS Bulletin, thepredecessor to the Journal, last produced in1977 is not included, nor are the recentNewsletters. Reports of Society and LAMASmeetings, visits and other activities are alsonot included. Obituaries are indexed, but notbrief references to the deaths of members.Only complete articles are identified, notindividual pages within them.

year/article No. They also appear in theContents for Journals from 1997onwards.To find articles which cover particularsubjects, refer to the Keyword Index. Thisgives the major themes (up to 12) of eacharticle, sorted alphabetically. It is not acomplete list of all names or placesmentioned, but aims at least to cover all caseswhere there is a paragraph or moreconcerning a subject, place, building orindividual. Locations are identified bymodern street names, not by the names in useat the time in question.

The Author Index enables contributions by aparticular author to be found.How to use the Index

The index is in three parts, the first of which,Articles by Year and Reference, is the key tothe reference numbers used in the other two.These references uniquely identify eachcontribution and which Journal it is in by

This Index will be re-published after severalyears to form a cumulative reference, so anycorrections or suggestions for improvementwould be welcome.

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Articles by Year and Reference

Re! Title Author

78/178/278/378/478/578/678/778/878/978/10

Memories of the Society: 1964- 1977Excavations at Manor Farm[ames Ewer's 'Diary'The Barn, Field End Farm, EastcoteThe Employment of the Poor in Ealing: 1700-1834The Old Yew Tree in St Martin's ChurchyardSome Thoughts on Miles and such like CreaturesBishop Winnington-Ingram SchoolA LocalSonnetGeneral Fuller GCH of High Grove

Doreen L EdwardsColin Bowlt& Robert BedfordEileen M BowltRonEdwardsRon LightningColin BowltEAChingAlison HumphreysRonEdwardsJimMcBean

79/1

79/2

79/379/479/579/6

St. Martin of Tours (Church), Ruislip Ron EdwardsSome Geological Observations on the Memorials of S W Hester

St Martin's Old Churchyard, RuislipThe Northwood Church Schools Alison HumphreysTax Assessment, Ruislip, 1815 Eileen M BowltThe Chapel at Mount Vernon Hospital Charles NewmanExcavation at the Cow Byre, Manor Farm, Ruislip, 1978 Colin Bowlt& Robert Bedford


Journal 2003

79/779/8

Lawrence James Baker and the Haydon Hall EstateSir Christopher Cowan (Obituary)

JimMcBeanRonEdwards

80/1

80/280/380/480/580/6

80/7

80/8

Local Surnames and their Significance related to a Eileen M BowltCustomal of c 1245

Recollections of Northwood in the Early 1900's W J DayHeraldry in the Parish Church of St Martin Kay HolmesJohn and Matthias Christmas Jim McBeanThe Medieval Floor Tiles in St Martin's Church Colin BowltHigh Grove, Eastcote, and the House of Commons [im McBeanNineteenth Century Attitudes to Education for the Alison HumphreysWorking ClassesWatford Road, Northwood JimMcBean

81/1

81/2

81/381/481/581/681/781/881/981/1081/11

The Ruislip Park EstateHeraldry of the West Window in St Martin's Church,RuislipMiss Braybrooke remembers Eastcote from the 1920'sJim Tapping's Memories of Eastcote ForgeHigh Grove, Eastcote, December 1980George Sitwell & George Woodroffe of Haydon HallA Note on Glydde Street, EastcoteThe Origins of Scouting in Northwood & EastcoteNortholt from the 1861 CensusEdwin Gunn, ARIBA1878 -1958Seventy Years On (Coronation Festivities in 1911)

Eileen M Bowlt

KayHolmes

Celia CartwrightCelia CartwrightJimMcBeanJimMcBeanEileen M BowltFrank EdwardsCelia & Martin CartwrightJimMcBeanElizabeth Krause

82/182/282/382/482/582/682/782/882/9

David TottmanLittle King's EndFather Toovey, Vicar of Ruislip 1970-81Sacred Heart Diamond Jubilee 1921-81The Saga of Oak Grove Bridge, EastcoteClay Pipes found in a garden in Wood LaneThe Heyday of 'The Ship', EastcoteWooden GraveboardsBishop Winnington-Ingram School

RonEdwardsEileen M BowltHelenHoareEileen M BowltAlan JacksonRon LightningJimMcBeanColin BowltMonica Stevenson

83/183/283/383/483/583/6

83/7

83/8

Ruislip Vicarage ExcavationThe Rev Christopher Packe, Vicar of Ruislip 1834-78Ruislip Manor Methodist Church - OriginsHaphazard, EastcoteWarrender Park Gates, EastcoteThe Long Family of EastcoteThe Hogs Back & Hundred Acre Farm, Northwood

HillsWoodmans Farm, Bury Street

Colin BowltEileen M BowltRobert SteelJimMcBeanJimMcBeanColleen A Cox

JimMcBean

JimMcBean

84/113th Century Habitation at the Site of Park Hearne in

Reservoir Road, indicated by Pottery FindsColin Bowlt


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84/284/384/484/584/684/784/8

Sunnyside & Laurel Cottage, Eastcote1892 from the Middlesex & Bucks AdvertiserSome Aspects of Ruislip Wills of the 17th CenturyNotes on the Will of John Hawtrey 1663Ickenham Village SchoolEarly Years of Wesleyan Methodism in NorthwoodSigers & Eastcote Cottage, Wiltshire Lane

Karen Spink, [im MeBeanH DavidJimMcBeanJimMcBeanHG WinchColleen A CoxEileen M Bowlt

85/185/285/385/485/5

85/6

85/785/885/9

The Ruislip Non-Ecclesiastical CharitiesThe Golden Jubilee of Lady Bankes' SchoolsClay Tobacco Pipes found in RuislipWoodman's Farm, Silver Street Green, Bury StreetThe Ruislip Park Estate from 1870From Horsens to Ruislip College:

Celia CartwrightThe Story of Battle of Britain HouseElla Morris 1910-1985 Leonard Krause17th Century Wills in the Commissary Court of LondonJim McBeanAn Appreciation of Helen Hoare Eileen M Bowlt

Robert SteelSheila Jones-OwenRon LightningEileen M BowltValery Cowley

86/186/286/386/486/586/686/786/886/9

The Hearth Tax 1662 - 1689The Northwood Park (Denville Hall) EstateThe Development of King's End and Wood LaneFrederic Herbert Mansford, FRIBA 1871-1946Early Ruislip MemoriesPotter Street HillThe Far PavillionGifts to St Lawrence Church, EastcoteGrand Junction Canal Feeder

JimMcBeanEileen M BowltColleen A CoxEileen M BowltHugh MansfordCelia CartwrightLeonard KrauseCelia CartwrightDenise Shackell

87/187/287/387/487/587/687/787/8

Domesday Book & the Hundred of ElthorneThe High Street/Wood Lane/ Ickenham Road triangleConserving the Wall Paintings in St Martin's ChurchChurchyard Memorials: St. Martin's, Ruislip16th Century Wills of RuislipField End: A Glimpse of Life in the 19th CenturyHistorical Development of Rights of Way & FootpathsJohn Goodman & Mistletoe Farm

Research GroupEileen M BowltValery CowleyJimMcBeanDerek JacobsKarenSpinkGeorgeCampColleen A Cox

88/188/288/388/488/588/688/788/888/988/10

Extracts from "Remembrances of my Childhood"Northwood High Street16th Century Ruislip HomesRuislip Probate Inventories 1662 - 1724Discoveries at Bury Farm, RuislipAdam Mordon's WillA Foundling Hospital Country Nursery at IckenhamSome Thoughts on the Study of Local HistoryAn Eastcote Jubilee 1938 - 88Ruislip in 1937

E Molly JeffersonDenise Shackell, Colleen CoxDerek [acobsJimMcBeanColin BowltCeha CartwrightEileen M BowltSheila Jones-OwenLeonard KrauseKaren Spink (ed.)


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89/189/289/389/489/589/6

·89/789/889/989/1089/11

Good Pub Guide 1851- 1881Some 16th Century Ruislip FamiliesLetter from Private Henry Lavender, 1847The Hermit in the South AisleBeetonswood Farm and Ickenham GreenAn Original Shuttered WindowEastcote House 1939Eastcote 1989A Norman Motte & Bailey CastleBury FarmShoe 'burial' in Ruislip

Colleen A CoxDerek Jacobs

Valery CowleyEileen M BowltColin BowltLeonard KrauseShelia LibertyRobert BedfordEileen M BowltColin Bowlt

90/1

90/290/3

90/4

90/590/690/790/8

90/9

90/10

Extracts from the First Log Book of Holy TrinityPrimary School

Denise Shackell

Eileen M BowltCelia Cartwright

Nos. 5 to 15 High Street, RuislipEarly Memories of Mrs Lucy HaywardObservations on a 13th Century Pottery Kiln in Robert Bedford

Potter Street, NorthwoodSome Christening & Burial Statistics for Ruislip Derek JacobsA Soldier to God (St.Martin of Tours) Valery CowleyWithy Lane c 1940 Eileen M Bowlt (ed.)50 Years of Northwood School Eileen CampAn Archaeological Investigation at Beetonswood Farm, C li B I

Ickenham, 1989 0 ID ow tCorrunemorative Counter Finds from Beetonswood Colin Bowlt

Farm Site

91/191/291/391/491/591/691/791/891/991/1091/1191/12

Unique in Northwood (circular air-raid shelter)Cyril Vincent GalleyChristmas 1940The Mint with a Hole in itThe Bennett Edwards of Haydon HallDrained Lido Reveals SecretsDom Paul Grammont: 46th Abbot of Bec-HellouinThe Station Master's HouseCrop Markings: a Prehistoric Connection?Ruislip Man makes Bad Smell in CityThe Winchesters & 'Blackes'The Relation between County & Local History

Leonard KrauseEileen M BowltEileen M BowltEileen WatlingJimMcBeanColin BowltValery CowleyEileen M BowltRobert BedfordEileen M BowltDerek JacobsRon Lightning

92/1

92/292/392/492/592/692/7

Heraldry of the Hawtrey, Rogers & Deane Families in KayHolmesSt Martinis Church, RuislipNortholt Race TrackA Hunting We Will GoFrank WelchFootnotes to Park HouseCourt Rolls & other 16th Century SourcesManor of Ruislip Book of Entries 1589 - 1681

Denise ShackellEileen M BowltAlexander GanderValery CowleyDerek JacobsJimMcBean


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92/8 Quferry Gate Ron Harris92/9 Counter Move at Northwood (Police Station) Eileen Watling92/10 St Matthew's Church, Hallowell Road, Northwood Eileen M Bowlt92/11 The Rev Richard David Fenwick Dorrit Dunn92/12 St Edmund the King, Northwood Hills Marjorie Pimm92/13 Rev John Joseph Roumieu, Curate of Ruilsip 1870-78 KarenSpink

93/1 The Rickmansworth-Pinner Turnpike JimMcBean93/2 Graffiti in St Martin's Church Derek Jacobs93/3 Struck by Lightning Eileen M Bowlt93/4 Powick Bridge Phillip Toms93/5 Harry Edgell & his Commemorative Window Valery Cowley93/6 The Roumieus KarenSpink93/7 Methodism Alison Akerman93/8 Childhood Memories: Northwood Hills 1930's & 40's Pearl Gardner93/9 A Rediscovered Sand Mine in Northwood Eileen M Bowlt

94/1 Eastcote Grange: Report on the Fabric Patricia A Clarke94/2 St Martin's Church: The Reredos & Chancel E Window Valery Cowley94/3 The Head & the Quadruped (wall paintings) Valery Cowley94/4 Some Ruislip Cases in the Court of Requests JimMcBean94/5 Home Farm, Ickenham Eileen M Bowlt94/6 The Barn at Home Farm, Ickenham Colin Bowlt94/7 Ruislip War Memorial Colleen A Cox94/8 Ruislip Cottagers' Allotments Charity Eileen M Bowlt94/9 Home Farm, Ickenham Patricia A Clarke

95/1 The Ship P.H., Eastcote JimMcBean95/2 John Kirton, 17th Century Tilemaker JimMcBean95/3 The End of Hostilities in Eastcote RonEdwards95/4 Field End Farm, Eastcote Patricia A Clarke95/5 The Distressed Areas Denise Shackell95/6 Remembering a Raid of some 53 years ago George Young95/7 The War comes to St Martin's Approach, Ruislip Arthur Young95/8 From Blacksmith's Cottage to Village Tea Rooms Colleen A Cox95/9 A Windmill on Haste Hill Eileen M Bowlt95/10 The Donkey Tale Eileen Watling

95/11 Highgrove and the Hume-Campbells:Valery CowleyThe East Window in St Martin's Church

96/1 Ickenham Manor Moat Colin & Eileen Bowlt96/2 The Gawdy Papers JimMcBean96/3 Mad Bess' and a Local Wood Valery Cowley96/4 The Nave West Window in St. Martin's Church Valery Cowley96/5 Scout Camp in Ruislip in 1915 KayHolmes96/6 Many-quartered Coats of Arms KayHolmes96/7 Scout Chapel in Mad Bess Wood KayHolmes96/8 The American Base, South Ruislip 1949-72 Eileen M Bowlt96/9 The Oerlikon Gun Factory, Ruislip Gardens Eileen M Bowlt

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96/10 Four Maintenance Unit & RAF Records96/11 Griffinhurst

Eileen M BowltMaryPache

97/1

97/297/397/497/597/697/797/8

97/9

97/10

WA Telling and the Development of 'The Grange'Estate, Northwood

The Changing Shape of 'The Fells'Hilliard Road, Northwood - The Early YearsCharms Hall & the Decharms Family in RuislipA Cottage at Eastcote 1835Memories of a Hole by the LidoIan Tait 1909-1997Reminiscences of CotefordTwo Soldier-Saints and Two Wheatsheaves:

More St Martin's Stained GlassUpda te on St Martin's 19th Century Stained Glass

Simon Morgan

Simon MorganColleen A CoxEileen M BowltEileen M BowltJohn SullivanLeonard KrauseAlison Ferguson

Valery Cowley

Valery Cowley

98/198/298/398/498/5

98/6

98/798/898/998/1098/1198/1298/1398/14

Archaeological Discoveries at Manor FarmAn Archaeological Survey in Bury Street: April1998Ruislip in 1841Bourne Farm LodgeThe Development of the Retail Trade in EastcoteThe Story of Ruislip Common Water Pumping Stationand its Curious AftermathSt Martin's Chancel South WindowMemories of Acre WayKenneth James McBean 1912-98Munitions in Ruislip during the First World WarThe Stone Cross at The Grange, NorthwoodThe Horn End FeteRuislip Bowls Club: The Early Years 1911-1924John and John Paul Rowe of Northwood

Alison SteeleEileen M BowltColleen A CoxColleen A CoxRonEdwards

Colin Bowlt

Valery CowleyPearl GardnerEileen M BowltEileen M BowltSimon MorganEvelyn HarrisRon LightningGeoffSaul

99/199/299/399/499/599/699/799/899/999/1099/11

Catlins Lane, EastcoteThe Missing Link: A Writer at South Hill FarmHallowell Rd: A Street Research ProjectPlockettes to Eastcote PlaceEastcote Cottage: The StructureA Middlesex Village: Northwood in 1841Eastcote in the ThirtiesThe D Ring Road ProblemLong Distance Rail Services in 1947Ruislip Bowls Club: The Move to Manor Farm, 1940RNELHS: Thirty-five Years

KarenSpinkKarenSpinkDenise ShackellEileen M BowltPat A ClarkeColleen A CoxRonEdwardsRonEdwardsSimon MorganRon LightningRonEdwards

00/100/200/300/400/5

Field End RevisitedDomesday Park Bank & Ditch at RuislipThe Holdford FamilySt Martin's Chancel North-east WindowThe Defence of the Realm

Colleen A. Cox & Karen SpinkColin BowltColleen A CoxValery CowleyEileen M Bowlt


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00/6 The Northwood Chapel of Ease Simon Morgan

01/101/201/301/401/501/601/7

Catlins Lane, Eastcote (Part 2)A Gainsborough Painting at Eastcote LodgeThe Grange at Well Green, EastcoteA 'Pedigree' of the Arms of HillingdonThe Arms of MiddlesexMunitions in Ruislip during the First World WarThe Roads of Eastcote

KarenSpinkEileen M BowltEileen M BowltKayHolmesKayHolmesEileen M BowltRonEdwards

02/102/202/302/402/5

02/6

02/702/802/902/11

Well Green, EastcoteRamin, Eastcote High RoadThe Old Shooting Box, Eastcote High RoadThe Moore Family of EastcoteFore Street, EastcoteCoincidences and Connections:

The Barters and the PowellsThrills and Swoon in EastcoteThe H047 Records at the Public Record OfficeCoins from a Ruislip Archaeological InvestigationJim Golland: Obituary

Eileen M BowltPat A ClarkePat A ClarkeColleen A CoxDenise Shackell

KarenSpink

MaryPacheSusan TomsColin BowltJessica Eastwood

03/103/203/303/403/503/603/703/8

03/9

The Making of the First Map of RuislipHatchments[ames Rogers of Eastcote HouseFight over Manor Farm 'Duck Pond I

A Group of Marbles from Cheney Street FarmCrime in 1787-H047 Records in the National ArchivesThe H017 Records in the National ArchivesOld EastcoteA Horse Trough and the Jasper Cross:

The Moriers of Batchworth Heath

Keyword Index

Acre Way, Northwood 93/8,98/8Addison Way, Northwood 98/8Air-raid shelters 91/1Allen, Lucy 90/3Allotments 94/8Ambridge, Joseph & family (C19th) 00/1American Base, South Ruislip 96/8American Base, West Ruislip 96/10Anchorage, Catlin's Lane 99/1Anderson, John & family (C20th) 99/4Archaeological finds 78/2,83/1,84/1,

85/3,85/4,88/5,89/11,90/10,98/1,98/2,02/9

Colin and Eileen BowltKayHolmesEileen M. BowltColin BowltColin BowltJessica EastwoodJessica EastwoodKaren Spink and Susan Toms

Simon Morgan

Arnold, Thomas & Roger 94/4,97/2Ashbourne, Ickenham Road 96/10Ashover, Catlin's Lane 99/1Asp Cottage, Joel Street 93/8Assize of Arms 00/5Atlee, John & Elizabeth 92/6Ayres, Fred (C20th) 00/1Babb, John Humphrey 80/6Baily, Arthur Ernest 86/7Baker, Lawrence I & Agnes (nee Peto) 01/2Baker, Lawrence James 79/7Bakere, John (market trader) 91/10Barns 94/6


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Bartalozzi's (now Pizza Piazza) 90/2Barter, George (C19th-20th) 02/6Barter, William & Priscilla (C19th) 02/6Barter's Walk, Pinner 02/6Batcher Heath Farm, Northwood 86/2Batchworth Heath House 03/9Battle of Britain House 85/6Bec-Hellouin, Abbey of 91/7Beerhouses 89/1Beetonswood Farm, Ickenham 89/5,90/9,

90/10Bell, Cissy 90/3Bennett-Edwards, Harry & Ada 91/5,02/7Berries, The, Bury Street 85/4Berry Street House, Ruislip 97/4Bignell, John, Jane & family 93/3Bishop Winnington-Ingram School 78/8,

82/9Black Horse, Eastcote 93/3Blackes, Park Hearne 91/11Boddy, Percy C (architect) 86/3,97/1Book of Entries 1589-1681 92/7Bourne Farm and Lodge 98/4

Bourne Farm Cottages 83/4Bowles, Edward (C18th) 01/3Bowls Club, Ruislip 98/13,99/10Braeside, Catlin's Lane 99/1Braybrooke family 81/3Brickfield, Elkington's 93/9British Restaurant 98/5Bunce, [ames 89/10Burial statistics 88/7,90/5Bury Farm, Bury Street 88/5,89/10,89/11,

02/9Bury House, Bury Street 98/2Bury Street 98/2, 03/1Bury Street Farm 85/4, 98/2Calderon, George (author) 99/2Camp House, Ickenham Road 96/10Canal feeder 86/9Carew, Frank MMH (C19th) 99/3Carlton & Priors (milliners) 95/1Castle, motte & bailey 89/9,98/1Catholic (RC) Churches 82/4,92/10,00/1Catlin's Lane 99/1, 01/1Census enumerators 83/6,98/3Censuses 98/3, 99/6Chapel of ease, Northwood 83/2,83/7,

00/6Chapel, Mount Vernon Hospital 79/5Charities, Ruislip 79/1,85/1,94/8

Charms Hall, Ruislip 97/4Cheney Street Farm 83/6, 03/5Chestnut Cottages, Withy Lane 90/7Christening statistics 90/5Christmas 1940 91/3Christmas, John & Matthias (sculptors) 80/4Church Avenue 85/5Church Place, Ickenham 94/5Clarke, Rev Thomas 82/2Clarke, Thomas Truesdale (C19th) 01/3Clay pipes 82/6,85/3Clay Street, Eastcote 99/4Clere's Lane, Ruislip 87/2Clifton Road, Northwood 88/1Coinage 02/9Collins, Elizabeth 89/3Commissary Court of London 85/8,87/5Consistory Court of London 87/5Copse Wood, Ruislip 03/1,03/3Copyhold Tenants 03/4Coronation festivities, 1911 81/11Coteford School 97/8Cottagers' Allotments Charity, Ruislip

85/1,94/8Court of Requests 94/4Court rolls 92/6Cow Byre, Manor Farm 79/6Cowan, Sir Christopher 79/8Creuze family (C19th) 01/2Cricket matches 89/1Crime 02/8Crime in 1787 03/6Crop Markings 91/9Crosier, Alexander & family 94/4Crosier, John, Elizabeth 85/4Crosier, John, Sarah, William 94/5Cross, Councillor T.G. 01/1Curates of St Martin's 92/13,93/6D Ring Road (proposed) 99/8Daily Mirror Cottage, Kingsend 86/5de Grey family (C17th) 96/2Deane, Francis Henry 99/4, 02/1Deane, Ralph 97/5,98/4,99/4,03/3Decharme, David & family 97/4Demesne, Manor of Ruislip 03/4Denville Hall 86/2Denville, Alfred 86/2Devon Parade, Field End Road 98/5Distressed areas 95/5Doharty, John 03/1Domesday Book 87/1,00/2Donkeys 95/10


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Dore, CNG (C20th) 01/3Dowdall, Hon. Mary (C20th) 99/2Duck Pond, Ruislip 03/4Earthworks,Saxon 98/1Eastcote Catholic Church 00/1Eastcote conservation areas 89/8Eastcote Cottage 99/4, 99/5Eastcote Cottage, Wiltshire Lane 84/8Eastcote Forge 81/4Eastcote Grange 94/1,01/3Eastcote House 89/7,02/1, 03/3Eastcote Lodge 01/2Eastcote Methodist Church 93/7Eastcote Park Estate 89/8Eastcote Place 99/4Eastcote road names 01/7Eastcote Station 99/7Eastcote Village Conservation Area 99/1Eastcote, 1920-30 81/3Eastcote, C19th 87/6,00/1Eastcote, C20th 98/5,99/7,01/7Eastcote, cottage at, 1835 97/5Eastcote, Old 03/8Eastcote, wartime in 95/3Eastfield, Catlin's Lane 99/1Eau Naturelle (company) 98/6Ebury, First Baron 03/9Edgell, Harry 79/4,81/1, 93/5Education, working class 80/7Election, 1945 95/3Elkington, Thomas 93/9Elthorne, Hundred of 87/1Emmanuel Infants School 79/3Ewer, James 78/3,82/2,89/10Fairacre, Wiltshire Lane 84/8Fairlight House, Ickenham Road 96/10Fearnfamily (C16th) 89/2Feke, Gilbert Carlyon 86/6Fellowes-Prynne, G 94/7Fells, Rickmansworth Road 97/1,97/2,

00/6Fenwick, Rev Richard David 92/11Fern, John 94/4Ferne, James, John & Thomas (C16th & 17th)

01/3Ferns, The, Breakspear Road 90/7Field End 87/6Field End Cottage/ s 00/1,02/6Field End Farm, Eastcote 78/4, 95/4, 00/1Field End House Farm 02/6Field End House, Eastcote 87/6,00/1Field End Road 98/5,99/4,99/7,00/1

Field End Villas, Eastcote 00/1Field View, Fore Street 02/4Findon, Southill Lane 79/7,02/4Fiveways, Kingsend 87/2Flag Cottage, Eastcote High Road 01/2Floor tiles, medieval 80/5FIye,John 98/2Footpaths 87/7Fore Street Cottages 81/6Fore Street Farm 02/5,02/6Fore Street, Eastcote 02/5Forge, Eastcote 81/4Foundling hospital nursery, Ickenham 88/7Four Elms Farm, Fore Street 02/5Four Maintenance Unit, Number 96/10Franklin House, Ducks Hill Road 85/6Frog Lane, Eastcote 02/5Fuller, General SirJoseph 78/10Gainsborough, Thomas (artist) 01/2Galley & Walker (builders) 91/2Galley, Cyril Vincent (builder) 91/2,01/1Garrett, May Rowland 97/1,98/11,00/6Gate, The (PH) 92/8Gawdy, Lady Ann 96/2Geology of grave-stones 79/2George, Sir Ernest (architect) 79/7Gladwyn, Doreen 90/7Glydde Street, Eastcote 81/7Golland, Jim 02/11Goodman, John 87/8Graffiti, St Martin's Church 93/2Grammont, Dom. Paul 91/7Grand Junction Canal feeder 86/9Grange, Eastcote 94/1,01/3Grange, Northwood 97/1, 97/2,98/11,

98/14,00/6Graveboards, wooden 82/8,87/4Great Central Railway 99/9Green Close, Green Lane 97/1,00/6Gregory, Mary (C19th) 99/1Griffinhurst, Field End Road 96/11,99/7Grigg,John(shoemaker & census enumerator) 99/6Gunn, Edwin (architect) 81/10Half Mile Lane, Northwood 88/2Hallowell Road, Northwood 99/3,02/4Hammonds (cottage) 87/2Haphazard, Eastcote 83/4Harewood, Catlin's Lane 99/1Haste Hill 95/9Hatchments, funeral 92/1,03/2Hawtrey, Jane 03/3


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Hawtrey, John & [ames 90/2,84/5,87/5Hawtrey, Ralph, Barbara & Ann 96/2Haydon Hall & estate 81/6,79/7,02/4,

02/7Hayward, Frank (butcher) 90/3Hayward, Lucy 90/3Hearth tax 86/1Heraldry 80/3,81/2,92/1,96/6,01/4,01/5Hesdin, Ernulf de 87/1,98/1High Grove (house) 78/10,80/6,81/5High Meadow, Eastcote 92/4High Street, Northwood 88/1,88/2High Street, Ruislip 87/2,90/2,90/3Highfield Crescent, Northwood 93/9Hill Farm, Orchard Close 82/2,78/3Hilliard family 94/5Hilliard Road, Northwood 97/3

Hilliard, Edward (Sen & Jun) 85/4,86/3,87/2,88/2,97/3

Hillingdon, London Borough of 01/4Hingeston, John (C19th) 01/2Hingeston, Revd Robert (C18th) 01/2Hoare, Helen 85/9Hog's Back, Northwood Hills 83/7,94/8Holdford Robert & family (C18th & 19th)

00/3Holy Trinity Church, Northwood 03/9Holy Trinity Primary School 79/3,90/1Home Farm, Ickenham 94/5,94/6,94/9Homes & contents 97/5,88/3Homestead, The, Wiltshire Lane 81/6Hope Farm, Pinner 02/6Hopkyttes, Eastcote 02/1Horn End, Cheney Street 98/12Horse Trough, Northwood 03/9Horsens, Ducks Hill Road 85/6House of Commons, Deliverer of Vote 80/6Hume-Campbell, Juliana 95/11Hundred Acres Farm, Northwood 83/7Hunting 92/3Ickenham Green 89/5Ickenham Manor 96/1Ickenham Village School 84/6Ingleby, Catlin's Lane 99/1Inquests, coroner's 89/1Inventories 88/3,88/4,97/5Ivy Farm, Wiltshire Lane 02/6Jacketts Farm, Jacketts Lane 86/2Joel Street 84/2,94/8Jowett, Benjamin (Oxford don) 03/9Kemps Hale, Wood Lane 87/2

Kent, George Barton 92/5Kiln, pottery 90/4King's End 86/3,87/2,94/4Kingsend, Ruislip 86/5Kirton, John (tilemaker) 95/2Laburnham Grove 98/2Lady Bankes' Schools 85/2Laurel Cottage, Eastcote 84/2Lavender, Henry 89/3Lavender, William & family 87/6Lawrence, William & family (C19th) 87/6,

00/1Lee, Mr, Sunnyside, Eastcote 84/2Library, Ruislip 88/10Lido, Ruislip 91/6,97/6,86/9,98/6Lightning strike 93/3Litcombe, Catlin's Lane 99/1Little King's End 81/1,82/2Local history, study of 88/8Long, Richard, Daniel & family 83/6Mad Bess Wood 96/3,96/7Manor court 92/6,92/7Manor Farm, Ickenham 96/1Manor Farm, Ruislip 78/2,79/6,98/1,

99/10,03/4Mansford, Frederic Herbert (architect) 86/3,

86/4,86/5Mansford, Hugh 91/8Mansford, Hugh 91/8,94/8Marbles, limestone 03/5Market traders, Ruislip 91/10Martin of Tours (saint) 90/6Maze Farm, Ducks Hill Road 86/2McBean, K Jim 98/9Memorials, St. Martin's Church 87/4Merydale, John & Mary (C17& 18th) 01/3Methodist churches 83/3,84/7,93/7Michels Green 98/2Middlesex & Bucks Advertiser 84/3Middlesex history 91/12Middlesex, County of 01/5Mile (measurement unit) 78/7Militia (C16th -19th) 00/5Milles family (C19th) 01/2Mint, Royal 91/4Mistletoe Farm 87/8Mitchell, James 80/6Moor Park Estate 03/9Moore, Alfred, Amelia & family(C19th-20th)

02/4Moore, Robert, Emma & family (C19th) 02/4Moorings, The, Catlin's Lane 99/1


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Mordon, Adam 88/6Morford Way & Close 98/5Morford, WaIter (developer) 00/1Morier, Sir Robert (diplomat) 03/9Morier, Victor (C19th) 03/9Morris, Ella 85/7Moulder, John W (baker) 90/2,90/3Mount Pleasant, Field End Road 00/1, 02/6Mount Vernon Hospital 79/5, 86/2Munitions factories 01/6Munitions factory 98/10Murch, William & family (C19th & 20th)

00/1Murdons Green, Clack Lane 88/6Murphy (donkey) 95/10Nash Ltd, TF 99/7National Archives Series H017 03/7National Archives Series H047 03/6National Filling Factory No. 7 01/6Nelhamfamily (C16th) 89/2Nelham, John & Robert 94/4New River Company 98/14Nicholas family (C16th) 89/2,94/4Nichols, William & Frederick (C20th) 01/1Nightingale Cottages, Field End Road 00/1Nightingale, James & family (C19th) 87/6,

00/1Non-Ecclesiastical Charities, Ruislip 85/1Northolt Magazines 01/6Northolt Racecourse 92/2Northolt,1861 81/9Northwood Hills 93/8Northwood House, Rickmansworth Road

97/2,00/6Northwood Methodist churches 84/7,93/7Northwood Park Estate 86/2Northwood School 90/8Northwood Station 99/9Northwood, C19th 99/6Northwood, C20th 80/2,88/1Norton, Daniel 86/2Nurseryman's Cottage, Catlins Lane 01/1Oak Grove bridge 82/5Oakwood, Catlin's Lane 99/1Oerlikon Gun Factory 96/9Ogier, Peter & Elizabeth (nee Davison)

(C19th) 01/2Old Cheyne Cottage, Wiltshire Lane 00/3Old Post Office, Ruislip 95/8,97/4Old Shooting Box,Eastcote High Road 01/3Old Shooting Box, Eastcote High Road 01/3,

02/1,02/3

Orchard Bungalow, Ickenham Road 86/3Orchard Cottage, Kingsend 81/1,86/3,87/2Orchard Dell, Breakspear Road 90/7Orchard Farm, Eastcote 00/1Orczy, Baroness (author) 99/2Packe, Rev Christopher 83/2Page, William & Daniel 90/2Parish registers 88/7,90/5,93/2Park (at Domesday), Ruislip 00/2Park Cottages 90/3,02/1Park Farm, Eastcote 87/6,00/1,02/6Park Farm, Northwood 86/2Park Hearne 84/1, 91/6, 91/11Park House, Ruislip 81/1,85/5,92/5Park Lane 90/3Park, Bertram (C20th) 02/1Pavillion, The, Field End Road 86/7Perogative Court of Canterbury 84/4, 87/5Peto, Harold Ainsworth (architect) 79/7Petteridge(s), Eastcote 84/2Pinner Road 93/1Pinner Road Council School 88/1Pizza Piazza (previously Bartalozzi's) 90/2Plockettes (now Eastcote Cottage) 99/4,

99/5Plough, The (PH) 85/4Poem, Eastcote resident's, 1893 78/9Police Station, Northwood 92/9Poor Law 78/5Poor's Field, Great, Little & Eastcote 94/8Poplars, The 87/2Population statistics 87/1,90/5,99/6Potter Street 90/4Potter Street Hill 83/7,86/6Potter Street School 90/8Pottery Kiln 90/4Powell, Henry, Charlotte & family

(C19th - 20th) 02/6Powick Bridge 93/4Prehistoric times 98/1Priest family (C16th) 92/6Primrose Hill Farm, Wood Lane 86/3Priory of Ruislip 98/1Priory Restaurant 90/2Pritchard, James (C19th) 02/1Probate Inventories C17th & 18th 88/4Public health & sanitation 84/3Public Houses 82/7,89/1Public Record Office H047 Series 02/8Quantocks, Catlins Lane 01/1Quferry Gate 92/8Ramin, Eastcote High Road 02/1,02/2


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Randalls (wasteland) 87/2Ravendean, Dene Road 88/1Reading rooms 94/8Reading, John (17th) 95/2Reservoir Road 84/1Retreat House, Field End Road 00/1Rickmansworth-Pinner Turnpike 93/1Rights of Way 87/7Road names, Eastcote 01/7Robyns family (C16th) 92/6,89/2,89/10,

94/4Rogers, family 03/3Roman remains 98/1Roumieu, Reginald St Aubyn 93/6Roumieu, Rev John Joseph 92/13,93/6Roumieu, Robert Louis 93/6Rowe, John & John Paul 83/7,98/14Ruislip College 85/6Ruislip Combined Charities 94/8Ruislip Common 98/6Ruislip Common chapel 93/7Ruislip Manor Methodist Church 83/3Ruislip Maps 03/1Ruislip Park Estate 81/1,85/5Ruislip Reservoir see LidoRuislip Terrier 1565 03/1Ruislip Village Trust 90/2Ruislip, 1086 87/1Ruislip, C19th 98/3Ruislip, C20th 86/5,88/10Ruislip, Northwood & Eastcote LocalHistory Society 78/1,99/11Ruislip-Northwood Small Holding &Allotment Society 94/8Sacred Heart Church 82/4Saich, Matthew, Emma, Algernon, Cyril

94/5Sand mine 93/9Sanders, John & Thomas 90/2Saxon remains 98/1, 98/2Schools 78/8,79/3,80/7,82/9,84/6,85/2,

88/1,90/1,90/8,97/8Scout Chapel 96/7Scouting 81/8,96/5,96/7Seaxe (Saxonweapon) 01/5Ship, The (PH) 95/1,82/7Shoe burial 89/11Shops 98/5Sigers, Field End Road 84/8,87/6,00/1Sigers, Wiltshire Lane 84/8Silver Street Green, Bury Street 85/4,98/2Sitwell, George 81/6

Smith, [ames (C19th) 99/1Smythe, Edmund 94/4Smythe, John 94/4Snail Holes, Northwood 86/2Snapes (field at Well Green) 01/3Soames, Nathaniel (C19th) 83/7,97/2,00/6Somers, John & Mary Ann (C19th) 00/1Sorediche, Nicholas & Juette 96/1South Hill Farm, Eastcote 99/2South Hylton 95/5Southcote manor house 94/4Southill Cottages, Southill Lane 02/4St Andrews Church, Eastcote 88/9St Catherine's Farm, Eastcote 83/6,99/1,

01/1,03/3St Edmund's Church 92/12St Lawrence Church, Eastcote 86/8St Martinis Approach 95/7St Martinis Church 78/6,79/1,79/2,80/3,

80/5,81/2,82/8,87/3,87/4,89/4,92/1,92/5,93/2,93/5,93/6,94/2,94/3,95/11,96/4,97/9,97/10,98/7,00/4

St Martinis Church Hatchments 03/2St Matthew's Church 92/10Stained glass, St Martinis Church 81/2,

93/5, 94/2,95/11,96/4,97/9,97/10,98/7,00/4

Staples, Edward & Ann 87/8Station Master's House, Ruislip 91/8Steel, Jeremiah 83/7Stone, Orlando 90/2Stonecroft, Catlins Lane 01/1Stubbs, Richard & Agnes 94/4Sunnyside, Eastcote 84/2Surnames 80/1,84/4,85/8,89/2Surveyors of highways 83/6Swan Alley 90/3Tait, ran 97/7Tapping, [im, Ted & Frederick 81/4Taxation 79/4,86/1Teasdale, William 97/3Telling Ltd, (WA/Brothers) 89/8,97/1,

97/2,98/5,99/7Telling, William Alfred 97/1The Willows, Catlins Lane 01/1Thomas, Richard & Agnes 94/4Thompson, Cornelius & Fanny 92/5Tilehouse, The, Tile KilnLane 95/2Timber-framed buildings 78/4,83/8,85/4,

88/5,90/2,94/1,94/5,94/6,94/9,95/4,99/5,01/1,01/3,02/1,02/2,02/3

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Tooke, Arthur William 83/7Toovey, Rev Kenneth 82/3Toronto, Green Lane 97/1Tottman, David 82/1Townsend Way, Northwood 98/8Tudor Lodge, Field End Road 00/1Turnpike road 93/1Valuations, land, C11th 87/1Vicarage, Ruislip 83/1Vicars of St Martin's 82/3,83/2,92/11Victoria Hall, Ruislip Manor 85/2Village Tea Rooms/Sweet Shop 95/8, 97/4Vincent, Matthew 94/4Walden, Kingend 86/5Wall paintings, St Martin's Church 87/3,

89/4,94/3Walleston, John (C16th) 01/1War Memorial, Eastcote 00/1War Memorial, Ruislip 94/7War, First World 98/10War, Second World 95/3,95/6,95/7,96/9,

98/5Warren Farm, Breakspear Road 96/5Warrender Park gates 83/5Water extraction & supply 86/9,97/6,98/6,

98/14Watford Road, Northwood 80/8Weedon, George Thomas 87/2Welch, Frank 92/4Welch, Frank (C20th) 01/1Well Green (alias Long Marsh), Eastcote

02/1

Wesleyan Methodism, Northwood 84/7West Ruislip Station 99/9Westwood, Green Lane 97/1Wheeler, FW (architect) 79/5Whins, Ruislip 97/4White Bear (PH) 86/3White Butts, Ruislip 94/4Whitefriars, Sandy Lodge Way 91/1Whiting, John (C19th) 00/1Wilkins Farm 87/2Wills, C15th 88/6Wills, C16th 87/5,88/3,89/2Wills, C17th 84/4,84/5,85/8,88/4Wilshin, Jason 86/3Wiltshire Lane 84/8Winchester, John & Agnes, William 91/11Winchester/Mower family (C16th) 89/2Windmills 95/9Window shutter 89/6Withy Crofts (demesne land) 86/3,87/2Withy Lane 90/7Wood Cottages, Fore Street 02/4Wood Lane 86/3,87/2Woodbine Cottage, Tile Kiln Lane 95/2,

02/6Woodman, Henry & family 85/4Woodman's Farm, Bury Street 83/8,85/4,

89/6Woodroffe, Ge6rge 81/6Workhouse, Ealing 78/5Workhouse, Ruislip 78/3Yew Tree, St Martin's Church 78/6

Author Index

Akerman, Alison 93/7Bedford, Robert 78/2,79/6,89/9,90/4,91/9Bowlt, Colin 78/2,78/6,79/6,80/5,82/8,83/1,84/1,88/5,89/11,89/6,90/10,90/9,91/6,94/6,96/1,98/6,00/2,02/9,03/1,03/4,03/5Bowlt, Eileen M 78/3,79/4,80/1,81/1,81/7,82/2,82/4,83/2,84/8,85/4,85/9,86/2,86/4,87/2,88/7,89/10,89/5,90/2,90/7,91/10,91/2,91/3,91/8,92/10,92/3,93/3,93/9,94/5,94/8,95/9,96/1,96/8,96/9,96/10,97/4,97/5,98/2,98/9,98/10,99/4,00/5,01/2,03/1,03/3Camp, Eileen 90/8Camp, George87 /7

Cartwright, Celia 81/3,81/4,81/9,85/6,86/6,86/8,88/6,90/3Cartwright, Martin 81/9Ching, E A 78/7Clarke, Pat A 99/5,02/2,02/3Clarke, Patricia A 94/1,94/9,95/4Cowley, Valery 85/5,87/3,89/4,90/6,91/7,92/5,93/5,94/2,94/3,95/11,96/3,96/4,97/9,97/10,98/7,00/4Cox, Colleen A 00/1,83/6,88/2,83/6,84/7,86/3,87/8,89/1,94/7,95/8,97/3,98/3,98/4,99/6,00/3,02/4David, H 84/3Day, WJ 80/2Dunn, Dorrit 92/11


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Eastwood, Jessica 02/11,03/6,03/7Edwards, Doreen L 78/1Edwards, Frank 81/8Edwards, Ron 78/4,78/9,79/1,79/8,82/1,95/3,98/5,99/7,99/8,99/11,01/7Ferguson, Alison 97/8Gander, Alexander 92/4Gardner, Pearl 93/8,98/8Harris, Evelyn 98/12Harris, Ron 92/8Hester, S W 79/2Hoare, Helen 82/3Holmes, Kay 80/3,81/2,96/5,96/6,96/7,92/1,01/4,01/5,03/2Humphreys, Alison 78/8,79/3,80/7[ackson,Alan 82/5[acobs,Derek 87/5,88/3,89/2,90/5,91/11,92/6,93/2[ones-Owen, Sheila 85/2,88/8Krause, Elizabeth 81/11Krause, Leonard 85/7,86/7,88/9,89/7,91/1,97/7Liberty,Shelia 89/8Lightning, Ron 78/5,82/6,85/3,91/12,98/13,99/10Mansford, Hugh 86/5

McBean,Jim 78/10,79/7,80/4,80/6,80/8,81/10,81/5,81/6,82/7,83/4,83/5,83/7,83/8,84/2,84/4,84/5,85/8,86/1,87/4,88/4,91/5,92/7,93/1,94/4,95/1,95/2,96/2MollyJefferson,E 88/1Morgan, Simon 97/1,97/2,98/11,99/9,00/6,03/9Newman, Charles 79/5Pache,Mary 96/11,02/7Pimm, Marjorie 92/12Saul,Geoff 98/14Shackell,Denise 86/9,88/2,90/1,92/2,95/5,99/3,02/5Spink, Karen 00/1,99/1,99/2,84/2,87/6,88/10,92/13,93/6,01/1,02/6,03/8Steel,Robert 83/3,85/1Steele,Alison 98/1Stevenson,Monica 82/9Sullivan, John 97/6Toms,Phillip 93/4Toms,Susan 02/8,03/8Watling,Eileen 91/4,92/9,95/10Winch,HG 84/6Young,Arthur 95/7Young,George 95/6


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