Soham.
Of
all the Glebe Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Tithes, portions of Tithes,
and other Rights, belonging to the Vicarage and Parish Church of Soham,
in the County of Cambridgeshire, and Diocese of Norwich, and now in the
use of and possession of the Reverend George Haggitt, Vicar, there
taken and made and renewed according to the old Evidence and the
knowledge of the ancient Inhabitants, at a Vestry holden the 26 Day of
April, 1827, pursuant to a notice given in the said Parish Church, on
Sunday last for that purpose.
Imprimis.
The Vicarage
House built with bricks and covered with tiles and slates,- standing
near the Church Yard, on the south side of the Parish Church hath
within the last 20 years undergone a complete repair, and been nearly
rebuilt. The dimensions of the House, which contains first and second
floors, and attics throughout with Cellars under the Kitchen, as
follows:- viz, the length of the front from East to West, seventy-nine
feet, width of the East end, twenty-six feet ix inches, width of the
West End, twenty-five feet. Adjoining to the West end of the House, a
Building, twenty-six feet long, and twenty feet wide, which contains
the Brew house and Dairy or Larder. Behind this & adjoining to
it
on the North side another Building twenty-nine feet long and fifteen
feet wide, containing a Laundry and Coal-house. Adjoining this
Coal-House on the East side, and fronting the Brew house and Kitchen on
the North side a newly-erected Dairy, thirteen feet two inches long,
and eleven feet five inches wide, built in lieu of the aforesaid old
Dairy or Larder, which it is intended to pull down.
ITEM.
A
Barn which is divided into two Stables and Coach-House, in length
forty-three feet six inches, width twenty-seven feet six inches, the
walls of which are studded and clayed over, the Roof is thatched with
reeds.
ITEM.
A piece of ground adjoining the House,
containing one acre and a half, ( more or less ) which is occupied as
Yards and Gardens, it is bounded on the North by the Church-Yard, on
the West is an Alley leading thence into Clay-Street, and on the South
by Clay-Street, these two sides are fenced by the Vicar, ( with boards
). On the East side the Rector makes the fence, about fifty-eight yards
from North to South, then the Vicar forty-four yards. Next Mrs
Elizabeth Wilkin fences from East to West near thirty yards, and from
North to South, thirty-eight yards and a half. And lastly, the Feoffees
of Mr Thomas Pecheys Alms Houses standing next Clay-Street, the
remaining part of the fence, about twenty yards in length.
ITEM.
Five Acres ( more or less ) of Fen Land, through the middle of which
passes a Drove way, from Brook-Street to Soham River.
ITEM.
All
the proedial Tithes great and small arising from all the Home stalls in
the Parish, and from the improved Fen Grounds, excepting the Tithes of
a place called the Mere, which pays a Modus of thirteen Shillings and
four-pence to the Rectory in lieu of all Tithes, as determined by a
Judgment in the Exchequer, Anno. 1693.
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ITEM.
All
the proedial Tithes arising from many other particular Grounds, arable
and pasture in several other places in all parts of the Parish. And all
sorts of Tithes arising from the Lands in the Hamlet of Barway.
ITEM.
The
Tithes of the Increase of all living Creatures all over the Parish, or
a Modus for them, excepting the aforesaid Mere, as before determined.
ITEM.
All kinds of customary oblations for communicants, Marriages,
Churchings of Women, Burials, &c.
ITEM.
There
are no customs in the Parish for not paying Tithes in their proper kind
two-pence for a Garden, one penny for the Wood spent in the hearth, and
three-halfpenny or two-pence for the milk of a Cow, and six-pence for
every Calf, and five Shillings for a Dove-House, and five Shillings for
every Mill.
ITEM.
The profits of the Vicarage arise chiefly
from the Tithes of about nine thousand acres of Fen Land, above three
quarters of which are subject to inundation by Water.
ITEM.
A
Flagon with cover and gilt cross on the top, and Cup, both of silver,
and two silver plates, one for the Communion Bread, and a smaller one
on which the Alms are collected at the Sacrament.
ITEM.
A
crimson Woollen Cloth and a white linen Cloth for the Communion Table,
also two crimson Velvet Cushions and two Books of the Communion
Service, &c, for the same.
ITEM.
A pulpit Cushion, two
Surplices, a Doctor of Divinity, and a Master of Arts' Hoods, a Bible
and common Prayer Book of the largest and best sort.
ITEM.
Ten Bells with Frames, Hangings and Ropes, complete.
Inscription on middle of
the Flagon.
Above
Inscription on the large Plate.
G Haggitt N.T. There is an B?-opinion of resistance here.
J.D. Merest.
Wm. Sizer.
Julius Ceaser Martin.
Edward Lloyd Knowles.
Thos Peek.
Raplh Eden.
Jno. Slack. ( Churchwarden )
Ellis Staples junior. ( Churchwarden )
Robt Peachey.
Chas Martin.
William Playford.
