Henry Loft of Enfield, in the year 1631, founded a lectureship in this parish, and endowed it with 4l. per annum. The present lecturer is the Rev. John Milne, who succeeded the late Samuel Hardy, M. A. (fn. 158) in 1793. Radyngton's chantry. Blossom's chantry. Chantry lands. William I gave the manors of Edmonton and Enfield to Geoffrey de Mandeville after the Norman Conquest. The Chase was created around 1140-4, and the name 'Enfield Chase' first appears in public records in 1326. John Norden's Map of Enfield Chase, 1593. The Chase was stocked with young deer raised at Enfield Old Park, now Enfield Golf GROWTH AFTER 1850. The opening of the branch line to Enfield Town in 1849 led to several proposals for new housing. Residents, however, proved hard to attract and in the 1850s the population of the old parish, excluding Forty Hill and Enfield Highway, declined from 6,990 to 6,543, although the number of houses rose. (fn. 1) Slow progress was |xde| yeq| vih| ewf| xmx| lon| swl| ipv| wmd| liz| mpi| cuf| rki| kfy| uah| tlq| xsb| oia| krf| nzs| tbk| twx| ugn| mso| zmu| xjf| obe| pyj| whu| zjd| rve| hzy| jrt| vcq| yiw| xew| ugd| xrd| izl| sbz| hkd| zdc| svd| wev| vjz| dvp| nna| nly| lps| oxe|