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		<title>Gregory Palmer: on the winning side?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The legal case between Samuel Clerke and the charity trustees gives one of very few glimpses of West Haddon at the time of the Civil War. There is already a question over the Vicar, Gregory Palmer, concerning the disappearance of the pre-1653 parish register. The taking of sides became more open in the course of &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/gregory-palmer-on-the-winning-side/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Gregory Palmer: on the winning side?"</span></a></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-336 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="198" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg 270w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" />The legal case between Samuel Clerke and the charity trustees gives one of very few glimpses of West Haddon at the time of the Civil War. There is already a question over the Vicar, Gregory Palmer, concerning the disappearance of the pre-1653 parish register. The taking of sides became more open in the course of this dispute.</p>
<p>A chest had been bought, with three locks and keys, for the deeds relating to the charity estate. It was kept in a private place in the parish church. Samuel Clerke kept one of the keys and the chest was only to be opened in the presence of himself and the trustees. These deeds would, of course, show just who had been party to the purchase of the various properties and lands. But &#8211;</p>
<p><em><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-467 alignleft" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Parish-chest-WH-300x232.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="232" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Parish-chest-WH-300x232.jpg 300w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Parish-chest-WH-768x593.jpg 768w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Parish-chest-WH-1024x791.jpg 1024w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Parish-chest-WH.jpg 1955w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />The chest was broken up and the locks broken when the King&#8217;s army came into these parts and the deeds and evidences taken away and stolen, which the trustees believe was done by Samuel Clerke himself (he being a notorious cavalier attending the King&#8217;s army.) </em>So, in effect, Vicar and village were claiming loyalty to the parliamentary (winning) side. How convenient.</p>
<p>Furthermore, they declared that by the summer of 1647 the church steeple had become so ruinous and in danger of falling that the villagers were compelled to take it down, at a cost of more than £200. To raise the money they had had to mortgage the charity estate. Samuel Clerke, as lay rector, was responsible for church repairs (in return for a hefty annual tithe payment) and he had failed to foot the bill. It is safe to say the relationship between the people of West Haddon and their manorial lord had broken down.</p>
<p>This story has a strange postscript. In about 1888 someone (the famous Anon.) wrote a narrative poem about a parish chest which was printed and sold to raise funds for the church restoration. The story was vague on detail, but concerned lost keys and a chest in the church which was broken open when part of the church stonework collapsed and fell on it. Was this a folk memory mash-up of the dispute and the spire demolition, passed down through generations of villagers?</p>
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		<title>Samuel Clerke: provision for the poor</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Samuel Clerke was lord of the manor in West Haddon. He was buried here in 1688 but there is no evidence that he ever lived here. Had he done so he might not have found himself at odds with the freeholders of the parish, leading to  a legal dispute with them in the Court of &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/samuel-clerke-provision-for-the-poor/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Samuel Clerke: provision for the poor"</span></a></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-336 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="198" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg 270w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" />Samuel Clerke was lord of the manor in West Haddon. He was buried here in 1688 but there is no evidence that he ever lived here. Had he done so he might not have found himself at odds with the freeholders of the parish, leading to  a legal dispute with them in the Court of Chancery. It is the record of that court case that gives us the earliest information we have about the establishment of the West Haddon Charity Estate.</p>
<p>The case is dated 1648 and refers to an initiative of about 20 years earlier. This may relate to a very bad harvest in 1630, which had left many starving. A number of freeholders in the village got together and set aside a piece of land and some cottages which could be rented out to raise money to support the poor. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-464 alignleft" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Watford-1760-WH-charity_edited-1-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="359" height="215" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Watford-1760-WH-charity_edited-1-300x180.jpg 300w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Watford-1760-WH-charity_edited-1-768x461.jpg 768w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Watford-1760-WH-charity_edited-1-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Watford-1760-WH-charity_edited-1.jpg 1213w" sizes="(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px" />Later an adjoining close over the parish boundary in Silsworth, Watford, was added to the estate. It was administered by a group of trustees &#8211; some of their names are already familiar to us &#8211; Gulliver, Wills, Gutteridge, Worcester, Miller, Ward and Elmes.</p>
<p>The funds were also used for the public good of the village as a whole, for example, to pay for road repairs. There were no county councils in the 17th century. The inhabitants of West Haddon were responsible for the upkeep of all the roads and bridges in the parish &#8211; buying materials and paying labourers. Before the charity estate was set up the work would have been funded by a levy on all householders &#8211; like the Poor levy (the charity eased, but did not replace, the work of the Overseers of the Poor.)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-462 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3La4-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3La4-300x225.jpg 300w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3La4-768x576.jpg 768w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3La4-1024x768.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>The charity fields lay on the south side of the road to Crick, down in the dip where a stream runs under the road and marks the boundary between West Haddon and Watford. They are still there, and still administered by village trustees.</p>
<p>But was the original initiative Samuel Clerke&#8217;s idea, and did he put up the money to buy the land? That&#8217;s what the dispute was about.</p>
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