LITTLE BADDOW, a scattered village on the picturesque accli- vities above and near the confluence of the river Chelmer and the
Sandon Brook, 4 miles E. by N. of Chelmsford, has in its parish 2,738 acres, and 592 inhabitants, including MIDDLE MEAD hamlet, which has 175 souls, and about 500 acres, locallysituated in Dengie Hundred.
Lord Rayleigh is lord of the manor, but part of the soil belongs to
the Strutt, Piedger, and other families. The copyhold fines are equal to 1 year’s rent, and there is in the parish about 306A. of woodland.
The manor house of Tofts is the seat of Major General Strutt, and was formerly a residence of the Barrington family. The CHURCH (Virgin Mary,) is a small ancient fabric, with atower and four bells. In the chancel is a stately marble monument of that great warrior, Sir Henry Mildmay, who died in 1639, and resided at Graces, in this parish ,
anciently a seat of the Le Grass family. Sir Henry was knighted on the field of battle, in the Irish wars, and his statue is represented clad in armour, in a reclining posture. At the foot of the monument are two kneeling female figures. In a recess in the south wall are the effigies of two females, supposed to represent the founders of the church. The benefice consists ofa discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8. 2s. 2d. , and a sinecure rectory, valued in K. B. at £7. 13s. 4d.
The glebe is 44A. , and the rectorial tithes have been commuted for £363. 17s.; and the vicarial, for £197. 5s. 6d. per annum. Major Genl. Strutt is patron, and the Rev W. B. Adey is the incumbent, and has a good parsonage house. Here is an Independent Chapel, with a house for the minister, built about 1670, by one of the Barringtons, for a minister who was ejected from Boreham. Attached to it is a Lancasterian School, endowed with £25 a year from Butler’s Charity, for the education of 13 boys and 12 girls. Twenty of the children are also clothed and provided with books, at the expense of the same charity, as noticed with Boreham. Two tenements and an acre of land have long been vested with the parish officers for the use of the poor.
Adey Rev. William B. Vicarage
Dennis Thomas, butcher
Edwards James, grocer, &c.
Jaggs Thomas, carpenter Johnson Capt. W. W. P., R.N. Livermore Benj. Edward, miller
Morrell Rev. Stephen (Independent)
Moss Wm. Henry, horse breaker
PigottJohn & Son, millers & coal merchants.
Pullen Mary, victualler, Rodney
Purkis Samuel, well borer
Ratcliff William, salesman
Saward Richard, bricklayer
Smith Charles, baker, &c.
Strutt Major Genl. Gooday, Tofts
Blacksmiths.
Blanks Thomas
Maddocks Joseph
FARMERS . (* are Owners. )
Brown Joseph
Joslin Hy . White
*Pledger Jeremiah , Hammonds
Pledger J. jun. , Holly Breads
Rayner Joseph
Simmons John ,
New Lodge
Yell Joseph, Graces
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