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Tithe Apportionment for Bapchild

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Bapchild Tithe award schedule      78KB - signed 26th April 1835
    With names of landowners, occupiers and fieldnames with acreages, and tithe payments

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Bapchild Tithe award schedule - signed 26th April 1835

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Owner	Occupier	No.	Description	Cultivation	Quantities	Vicarial	Appropriator	Remarks
Sheet 1 John Barling Frances Bradley Esq James Blaxland Thomas Denne William & Samuel Fairman Owner	John Barling Frances Bradley Esq James Blaxland William & Samuel Fairman Occupier	116 162 172 78 79 80 121 122 125 171 117 119 124 173 118 120 127 123 126 128 129 9 28 31 25 24 27 26 42 109 164 43 107 108 No.	--- Part of Pol? Part of Pol? Stickfast Field Corner of Andrews Field Part of Dully Farm Part of 12 Acres Griggs Wood Street Field Luddington little field Little Dully cherry Little Dully cherry Pt Little Dully cherry Pt Little Dully cherry Cottages & Garden Little Orchard Park Field Dully chalk Hole Wood Street field Part of Scuddington Part of Scuddington ?Somes Castle Field Humphreys Field Part of Mill Field Humphreys House Shop & Gdn Humphreys House & Part of Ludington Great Frognall Field Part of Mill Field Part of Middle Field Part of Frognall House Cherry Part of Middle Field Extraordinary charge on 5a 3r 27p of Hops Description	Wood Wood Wood Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Orchard Orchard Orchard Garden Garden Pasture Pasture Chalk Shaw Wood Wood Arable Arable Arable Orchard Garden Garden Meadow Arable Arable Arable Orchard Orchard Hopland at 8s 6d Cultivation	1.2.28 1.2.24 12.2.24 14.1. 8 11.3. 5 0.0. 6 5.1. 4 7.2. 9 19.2.37 1.1. 2 1.1. 2 1.3.29 1.1.23 0.0. 6 0.1. 8 1.0.17 10.2.26 0.1. 5 0.1. 5 7.2.39 12.2.24 53.1.18 17.3.30 7.1.24 1.2. 2 0.2.28 0.0.16 0.0.21 5.2.23 33.1.24 65.2.19 12.3.21 5.3.32 1.3.33 2.2.18 5.3.27 94.3.30 per acre Quantities	0. 4. 6 1.19. 0 10. 4. 0 4. 4. 0 12.12.3½ 2.10.3½ 15. 2. 7 Vicarial	23. 6.10 18. 5.10 53.12. 7 Appropriator
Sheet 2 William Gascoyne Esq	William Gascoyne Esq	11 15 29 44 53 63 66 70 16 54 55 72 12 14 56 65 69 73 5 51 57 64 67 81 82 89 90 48 52 76 13 20 58 68	Cox perry field Fox perry field Nutberry field {Gravel pit field {Cold Crouch {Long reach {Land bank {Banky piece {Chalk Hole field {26 Acres {20 Acres One Acre piece Cottage & Garden Church Field Solomons Downs Fox Meadow Lodge Meadow Horse Meadow New Meadow Stones Little Home Hamfords Morris Morris Court Pond Field Stable & Lodge & Orchard Morris Court chestnut Bapchild Court Lodge House Hanfords Cottage Church field Cottage Wheelers Shop Turners Cottage & Shoemakers Shop House & Garden Cottage & Garden Part of Chalk Hole field Morris Court chestnut Wig field Cottage Garden Barn & Yards Ponds & Stables House & Yard Bapchild Barn Lodge & Yard Church Chalk pit	Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Orchard Orchard Orchard Orchard Orchard Orchard Orchard Plantation Garden Garden Garden Garden Garden Garden Garden Hops Hops Hops --- Homest'd Homest'd Homest'd	11.2.21 27.1.26 8.0.22 134.0.31 1.0.19 0.3.15 35.1.32 35.0. 8 5.0.16 2.2. 0 1.1.18 3.3.20 3.0. 7 0.3.20 3.2.31 1.2.21 3.2.34 5.0.11 7.0.32 0.2.28 0.3.32 0.1.13 0.0.26 0.1. 2 0.0.34 0.0.29 0.0.10 0.3.10 1.3.28 6.0.23 1.0.30 0.0.14 0.1.28 0.1.14
Sheet 3 late Sir Edward Hales William Hope Charles Lake	late Sir Edward Hales William Hope Charles Lake	75 45 46 47 71 74 77 185 152 153 154 155 156 170	Morris Court Farm House Chestnut Plantation Part of Golden Wood Busby's Hole Solomons Downs Tall of Elms Wig shaw Extraordinary charge on 8a 3r 21p of Hops Upper Golden Part of 18 Acres Stable field Cherry Extraordinary charge on 3a 1r 5p of Hops Part of Newbury field Wood Field Part of Pet Wood	Homest'd Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood at 8s 6d Wood Hops Arable Orchard at 8s 6d Arable Arable Wood	1.2.28 1.3. 7 4.0. 0 0.2. 4 0.1.36 0.1. 5 0.1. 3 314.2.28 per acre 14.2. 9 3.1. 5 2.0.39 2.0.12 7.2. 9 per acre 15.2.23 3.0.31 6.2.33 25.2. 7	44.2.6¼ 3.15.5¾ 47.18. 0 1.18. 6 2.10. 7½ 1. 7.10½ 3.18. 6 1.19. 6	152.14. 0 0.17. 7 7.11. 1
Owner	Occupier	No.	Description	Cultivation	Quantities	Vicarial	Appropriator	Remarks
George Lake John Lake Sheet 4	George Lake John Lake	30 32 33 34 167 36 166 22 35 165 37 93 94 97 99 103 104 38 41 96 106 39 101 105 100 98 95 102	Old Rye Grass Three Corner Field Long Mill Acre Piece Brick Kiln Field Part of Pantry field Brick Yard & Meadow Seed Mill & Meadow Cottage & Garden Brick & Garden Seed Mill & Gdn Partt of Great Field Hop ground field Pet field Road? Field Chalk Pit Rye Grass Plot Pond meadow Pt of Carpenter's Fld Pt of Carpenter's Fld Handkerchief Lane Slip pasture Cottage & Garden Road Field House & Radfield Cottage & Road Cottages & Road Field Pet Field Barn & Yd Road Field Barn & Yd Extraordinary charge on 3a 1r 5p of Hops	Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Pasture Pasture Garden Garden Garden Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Pasture Pasture Orchard Orchard Orchard Orchard Garden Garden Garden Garden Hop Grd Homest'd Homest'd at 8s 6d	5.2.34 2.3. 7 1.0.28 5.1. 6 2.0.30 1.3. 2 1.2. 3 0.0.26 0.1.29 0.0.30 21.0.35 0.1.35 52.1. 8 50.1. 0 20.1.38 0.2. 0 2.3.29 3.3.18 0.3.25 1.1.25 2.1. 1 1.0.29 0.0.29 0.2.25 0.2. 0 0.0.17 17.1. 1 0.1.33 0.2.20 156.1.16 per acre	2. 5. 0 26.10. 7 7. 6. 8 33.17. 3	11. 9. 2 75.19. 4
Mrs William Lake Martha Leese, Johama Mary & John Bedingfield, Sheet 5 William James Lushington Esq	Sarah Crisp Mrs William Lake William Kennett William James Lushington Esq	40 136 140 133 134 135 92 130 131 132 137 138 139 21 174 175 177 179 183 178 176 181 180 182 184	Radfield Cottage Stable & Garden Wood Street field Late Ozier Bed? Apple Orchard Great Cherry Orchard Little Cherry Orchard Cottage Wheelwrights Yard & Garden Wood Street House Cottages & Gardens Barn & Yard Tall grove --- Chestnut Plantation Cottage & Garden Part of Mullberries Green Field Part of Long reach East field NE end of Long reach Bottom Field Part of long reach Mullberries Part of Golden (Ash Plantation) Shaw of 179 Pt of Golden Wd (??) Part of Golden Great Extraordinary charge on 3a 0r 16p of Hops	Garden Arable Arable Orchard Orchard Orchard Garden Garden Garden Homest'd Wood Wood Wood Garden Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable at 8s 6d	0.1. 9 6.1. 9 0.3.31 1.0.16 3.2.34 1.2.36 0.1.29 0.3.13 0.0.28 0.0.13 0.1. 0 2.0.10 0.2.11 18.0.30 0.0.19 3.0. 6 36.0. 9 3.2. 5 4.0.38 8.3. 3 3.0.16 2.0.33 6.0.34 0.2. 5 2.3.38 10.3.21 81.2. 8 per acre	0. 4. 0 5.19. 3 7.11. 2 1. 6. 4 8.17. 6	3.15. 8 21. 6. 5
Owner	Occupier	No.	Description	Cultivation	Quantities	Vicarial	Appropriator	Remarks
John Matson Esq St Johns College Henry Reeves John Matson Esq Elizabeth Shrubsoles	John Matson Esq Rev John Poore DD William Spie? & Henry Reeves Thomas Denne St Johns College Cambridge Samuel Champion Elizabeth Shrubsoles	141 187 188 189 87 85 86 19 88 7 8 186 91 83 84	Upham's field Grave pit field Grave pit field Cottage & Garden Rose & Thistle Public House --- Rose & Thistle House Shop & Gdn Blue Coats House & Cottage Field Cottage Barn & Yard Woodland Baker Shop Stables & Garden Shrubsoles Shrubsoles House & Garden	Arable Arable Orchard Garden Garden Orchard Orchard Garden Garden Arable Homest'd Wood Garden Orchard Garden	6.0.23 8.2.16 3.2.27 0.0.20 12.1.23 0.0.12 0.3. 6 1.1.27 0.0.17 0.0.24 2.2. 6 16.1. 6 0.0.20 16.1.26 3.3.15 0.0. 9 0.3. 3 0.1. 4 1.0. 7	0. 8. 4 2.16. 6 1.16. 0 1. 6. 0 0. 9. 0 0.13. 0	3. 4. 6 3. 8.10 10. 6. 0
Sheet 6 Trustees of William Staines viz Richard Halford? & John Furley Samuel Steevens Miss Sarah Strouts James Smith	George Lemmey Samuel Steevens Miss Sarah Strouts James Smith	6 142 143 147 150 151 149 148	Dock field Pt of Mulberry Farm Bapchild Plot House Premises & Garden Bapchild Plot House Bonds Farm Bonds Farm Bonds Farm Bonds Farm	Arable Meadow Garden Garden Orchard Arable Orchard Garden	18.1. 6 3.2.13 0.1.36 4.0. 9 0.0.32 0.3.34 1.3.38 0.3.24 0.3.38 4.3.14	1. 6. 0 0.18. 0 0. 4. 0 1.11. 0	9.13. 8 0.16. 0
Owner	Occupier	No.	Description	Cultivation	Quantities	Vicarial	Appropriator	Remarks
Edward Thomas Colonel Tyler William Vallance	Edward Thomas Edward Strouts Colonel Tyler Samuel Saywell William Vallance	2 3 4 157 159 161 145 146 158 160 144 168 169 17 18	Orchard Orchard & Pond Cottage & Garden Great Birch Dens Late Hop ground Pt of Pet Wood Field Malt House Cottage & Meadow Adjoining above Pet Wood Field Barn Plot Lodge & Pt of Ludgate Farm Part of Pet Wood Part of Pet Wood Fox & Goose Public House Offices & Fox & Goose Cottage	Orchard Orchard Garden Arable Arable Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Orchard Wood Wood Garden Yard	2.0.10 3.3.27 0.0.33 6.0.30 42.2.27 1.1.15 4.2. 9 1.3. 5 3.2.17 2.0.13 0.1.18 3.1.28 1.3.27 61.3. 9 4.3.30 ?4.2.10 0.0. 8	4. 0. 0 6.18. 0 0.12. 0 0. 9. 0	21.16.11
Sheet 7 Edmund Walcot Sympson Elizabeth Warren Thomas White Dean & Chapter of Chichester (Rectorial Glebe) Rev William Woollams Holland ( Vicarial Glebe)	Charles Murton Elizabeth Warren Thomas White William Gascoyne Esq Rev William Woollams Holland	110 111 112 113 115 114 163 23 1 10 190 49 50 62 61 60 59	Part of Barn Field Hog yokes Lower Ricklings Fld Upper Ricklings Fld Upper Ricklings Fld Upr Ricklings Shaw Upr Ricklings Wood House Shop & Gdn Swans Court Field Vineyards College ground College ground Barn & Yard Extraordinary charge on 3a 0r 16p of Hops At Great Tree in Church Field Vicarage orchard Vicarage House & Bapchild churchyard	Arable Arable Arable Arable Meadow Wood Wood Garden Arable Arable Arable Hop Land --- at 8. 6d Arable Orchard Garden ---	6.3.33 2.1.14 10.1.31 5.3.22 3.2.21 0.1. 9 2.1. 0 31.3.10 0.1.13 5.2.33 1.0. 8 6.3. 1 2.1.10 3.0.26 0.1. 5 5.3. 1 per acre 0.3.20 0.1. 3 0.0.35 0.2.10 1.3.28	2.12. 0 0. 5. 0 0.10. 1 0. 9. 6 1. 5. 6 1.15. 0 0. 7. 3	12.14.11 4. 5. 8 1.10. 0 0. 7. 3

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misinterpretation, visitors to this site need to recognise that there will be errors. Visitors who wish to verify information
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Some Monumental Inscriptions of St Laurence Church, Bapchild

Some Monumental Inscriptions of St Laurence Church, Noted by Pat & Paul Tritton in 2003.

1. Sarah daughter of C.WILDISH gent, late of Morris Court and wife of J LAKE of Radfield in this parish, died 26 January 1788 aged 26 years. Her her child an infant son died a short time before her. Ann the second wife of J. Lake and daughter of T.DENNE gent of Watmer Hall in this county died 11 November 1815 aged 45 years. Elizabeth her eldest daughter died 4 August 1811 aged 18 years, and 2 infants before that time. Surviving issue 3 sons and 4 daughters. Thomas Lake (of Rainham Parsonage) son of the above John and Ann Lake, who departed this life 31 July 1834 aged 32 (bottom of stone inscribed Blaxland Milton)

2. Here lieth the body of Anne widow of William LAKE late of Wood Street in this parish who departed this life 22 April 1844 aged 77 years

3. In this chancel lie interred the remains of Sarah died April 9 1798 aged 4 years. Eleanor died October 7 1808 aged 7 years. Emily died February 27 1812 aged 3 years. Martha died April 22 1817 aged 19 years. Children of William and Anne LAKE of Woodstreet in this parish

4. Sacred to the memory of Henry LAKE of 10 Lincolns Inn London. Fifth son of William and Ann Lake who died April 3 1863 aged 55 years and was buried in the cemetery at Highgate

5. Sacred to the memory of Robert LAKE. Third son of William and Ann Lake late of Woodstreet in this parish. He died 26 October 1875 aged 75 years and was buried at Milton in Canterbury

6. Sacred to the memory of Charles LAKE of Bargains Hill Rodmersham. Fourth son of William and Ann Lake late of Wood Street in this parish who died January 2 1867 aged 62 years and was buried at Rodmersham

On other walls of the chancel.
7. In this chancel lie the remains of Edward LAKE of Abbotts Court Hoo, youngest son of William Lake late of Woodstreet in this parish and of Anne his wife , who died 19 April 1845 aged 34. Also of Emily Finnis Lake, his youngest child by Mary-Anne his wife who died 8 August 1845 aged 9 months. Also of Mary Anne wife of the above Edward Lake who died 5 September 1861 aged 45

8. To the memory of Elizabeth LAKE, daughter of John and Ann Lake who departed this life 4 October 18?? aged 19 years. Also Ann the second wife of J. Lake, daughter of T.DENNE Esq of Watmer Hall in this county, died 11 November 1813 aged 45 years

9. John LAKE of Radfield, 50 years churchwarden of this parish. Eldest son of John and Elizabeth Lake departed this life December 4 1844 aged 70 years. His third wife Mary daughter of the late Mr CHITTENDEN still survives. During the whole course of a long and active life he devoted a powerful intellect entirely to the service of the public and to the provision for his family leaving behind an unblemished character impressed with a deep sense of their loss. With feelings of sincere gratitude this tablet is erected by his family

10. In a vault underneath this chancel lieth the body of William LAKE Esq. eldest son of John and Anne Lake of Woodstreet in this parish who departed this life 2? November 1849 aged 58 years. Also Elizabeth wife of the above and daughter of John PREBBLE Esq. of Shorne in this county who departed this life April 24 1872 aged 78 years leaving issue three children Elizabeth Ann and William

11. Memorial high on wall of chancel opposite that to memorial of Edward LAKE. William Lake of Woodstreet in this parish yeoman. Second son of John and Elizabeth Lake departed this life September 14 1835 aged 67 years. He married Ann daughter of Christopher WILDASH of this parish and had fourteen children of whom 6 sons and 4 daughters survived him amply provided for by his judgement industry and prudence, Gratitude for his kindness and example , Respect for his character in all the relations of life and veneration for his memory prompt the erection of this tablet by his surviving widow and children

Ledger stones in floor of the chancel.
12. Small stone. Here lyeth the body of ?Thom the 4 son of Thom and Eliza LAKE. He died in March and was buried the 20 day aged 3 months ?1681

13. Other stones. M.L., J.L., 185, 1834, J.L., 1844

14. Stone now partly under altar in chancel. W.L. 1849

In the windows.
South aisle.
15. Jane LAKE died ?? (illegible)

16. Large west window. John LAKE died 1844 . William Lake died 1835

In Bapchild churchyard.

17. Sacred to the memory of George LAKE formerly of Oakley Higham, eldest son of William and Ann Lake late of Woodstreet in this parish. He died February 20 1863 aged 72 and was buried in St Mary’s Church Higham

18. Sacred to the memory of John LAKE of No.10 Lincolns Inn London, Second son of William and Ann Lake late of Wood Street in this parish who departed this life after a lingering and painful illness on the 23 February 1853 aged 62 years

Index of Names and Places

Names Index
CHITTENDEN 9
DENNE 1, 8
Finnis 7
LAKE 1 - 18
PREBBLE 10
WILDASH 11
WILDISH 1Places
Abbotts Court, Hoo 7
Bapchild
   Morris Court 1
   Radfield 1, 9
   Wood Street 2, 3, 17
   Woodstreet 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 17
Bargains Hill, Rodmersham 6
Blaxland, Milton 1
London
   Highgate Cemetery 4
   Lincolns Inn 4, 17
Milton in Canterbury 5
Oakley, Higham 17
Rainham Parsonage 1
Rodmersham 6
Shorne 10
St Mary’s Church,
   Higham 17
Watmer Hall, Kent 1, 8

General
churchwarden 9