Hardwickes of "Cox" or "Hardwicke House" (General)

by Ralph Cook, Saturday, November 28, 2009, 08:39 (5549 days ago) @ gerobertson

Thanks Glenn

I agree it might be very enlightening. I have this which I have derived and edited from a British History Online article:

"Eustace Hardwicke may have been troubled by his “sinful” behaviour, for by his Will, proved in 1718, he gave two fields and an orchard for maintaining his tomb, paying for a sermon, and providing £1 worth of two-penny loaves for the poor hearing the sermon. The surplus income from the land was applied, as the donor had intended, in green coats for the elderly. From 1819 the charity's income was £18, double that in the later 18th century and from 1827 £1 10s. was laid out on bread. Up to 70 people, nearly all women, received clothing. The orchard was used as allotments in the 1920s and 1930s."

Derived from: 'Littledean', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 159-173. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23258 Date accessed: 26 November 2009.

Yours

Ralph