No. VI.

(Referred to at p. 187.)

"NOV. 1659. THE BUSINESS BETWEEN HILLINGD: & UXBRIDGE ABOUT REPAIRING THE CHURCH YARD WALL AT HILLING."

(Copy from an old Register in the late Mr. Mills's possession.)

"The Borough of Uxbridge is part of the parish of Hillingdon and hath been very antiently a Borough Town compassed by a Borough Ditch invironing the sd. Town or Borough & seperating it from the rest of the parish of Hillingdon & maketh a Distinction between the sa. Borough and the other parts of the said parish, as to the Maintenance of the poor, repairing the Highways, that part within the sd. Borough maintaining their poor and Highways, that part without the sd. Borough Ditch their poor & Highways, the one not charging the other, nor jointly messing the one with the other. For before the Stat. 43. Q. Elizh. C. 2. the sd. Borough or Chapelry had Wardens distinct from the rest of the parish of Hillingdon, to take Care of their poor within the Borough, by assessing the Inhabitants of the sd. Borough only, which continued so till of late their necessity (in a time of Infection) moved some of Hillingdon to allow them 300 Acres of Land to be assessed by them within the sd. Borough Ditch, for further Maintenance of the poor, 1624, as appears by a Copy of Agreement with Abel Aldridge*.

The words in Italics are underlined in the MS. written with pencil, and in a modern hand.

They chose Surveyors of the high-ways within the sd. Boro. & are no way associated with the rest of the par. therein.

They chose Constables, Headboroughs &c.

Notwithstanding this seperation in all other matters they are conjoyned, and have (time out of mind) gone along together as one parish.

1. They of the Borough pay great Tithes to the parsonage of Hillingdon as the rest of the parish.

2. They of the Borough likewise pay such Tithes to the Vicar of Hillingdon (with the rest of the parish) as are customably due unto the Vicar.

3. They of the Borough pay to the repair of the Church of Hillingdon, and maintain part of the fence or Inclosure of the Church-yard thereto belonging.

for,

1. The sd. Church at Hillingdon is the very parish Church so antiently built that the time is unknown, being long before the Conquest, whereas the Chapel within the sd. Borough is only a Chapel of Ease, built (within Knowledge) in the 26th. K. H. 6th, about the year 1447. always subject to the Mother Church as the Daur ought to be, the Vicar of Hillingdon being their true Vicar, yet for the Ease of the Inhabitants of the sd. Borough, he paid 13s. 4d. p' ann. to his Curate there towards his Maintenance, which Curate was (before the Dissolution of Abbeys &c) a secular priest of one of the religious Houses then there being, one dedicated to the honor of St. Mary, the other of St. Margaret, the rest of whose Maintenance was the free Gift of the Inhabitants of the Borough in respect of their Ease.