Manuscript volume of accounts of 'Hornchurch Rental 1732' and 'Hornchurch Rental 1785', apparently for the Manor of New Place, giving the names and itemised accounts of individual tenants.

A 4to volume, consisting of 224 pp, with the 1732 rentals occupying 89 pp (including a six-page thumb index) at one end, and the 1785 rentals in another hand on 24 pp at the other. Text clear and complete. On aged paper in worn vellum binding, with 'Hornchurch Rental 1732' and 'Hornchurch Rental 1785' in the two hands on cover. The 1732 rentals give details of the quarter-day payments and allowances of 51 tenants. Details of properties are occasionally given, with Edmund Perkins renting 'the House & Premises with a Slip of Ground all late in possession of James Bealy for Seven Years from Christmas 1732. Anuall [sic] Rent £12 0. 0. first years Rent allow'd for Repairs to be laid out in the first year. And to make a Hedge between him and Samuel Ward'. Henry Kemp rents 'A house late Co P: Bennets at £8 P Ann. from Midsummer 1731. he puting [sic] in good repair and keeping so for 7 years. Vide the agreement'. Eldridge Poole rents 'a house, Garden, two Stables & Chaise house late Jno: Smiths & formerly William Hainmonts. Let for 2 years from Xmas 1733. first years Rent for repairs at £6. a year Vide agreement'. Tipped in to the volume is a leaf with a two-page document, including a plan of 'A piece of Land near Nightingale Lane Barking in ye Occupation of Mr Stockdill [Jeremiah Stockdill of Barking]'. The 1785 rental is preceded by a list of nineteen tenants, ranging downwards from 'Jno. Rigby', whose yearly rental is £600, to 'Jno. Carter', £0 5s 0d, the whole totalling £868 3s 0d. An indenture in the Essex Record Office helps identify the area involved. Dated 24 March 1736, it witnesses that Joseph Mayorand Sarah, his wife, of New Place, let 31 acres to John Wybird of Hornchurch. According to the Victoria County History the Manor of New Place lay south of Cranham (now St. Mary's) Lane. John Rayley (d.1706), draper of London, 'left New Place to his widow Hester (d.1724), from whom it passed to Sarah, wife of Joseph Mayor, and formerly the wife of John Rayley (d.1718), son of the previous John. Mrs. Mayor (d.1757) settled New Place on her husband's niece Mary Mayor, on Mary's marriage in 1748 with (Sir) James Esdaile. From 1757 the Esdailes lived at New Place; in 1770 Esdaile acquired Gaynes, and New Place descended with the lordship of that until 1839', when it was sold.