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St. Mary's, the church of the Thorney manor, was from an early dateappropriated to the monastic kitchen. (fn. 113) Its value was £13 6s. 8d. in 1217 and 1254, (fn. 114) and£22 13s. 4d. in 1291. (fn. 115) By 1535 it had risen to£46 7s. 1d. (fn. 116) Of this sum, £26 13s. 4d. was accountedfor by the farm of the rectory. (fn. 117) The vicarage seems t...

In the Middle Ages there were manyguilds in the town, but none of any greatwealth or importance. In 1542 there wereten guilds in St. Mary's parish and two in St. Andrew's,rated to the lay subsidy at 30s. in two cases, 20s. infour, and 10s. in the remainder. (fn. 158) There was also aguild of St. Thomas the Martyr, a tenement called'Thomas Beckett's...

There were ninety-six Dissenters in Whittlesey in 1676.At the end of the 17th andbeginning of the 18th centuries there was a regularBaptist congregation there, worshipping under J. Cooperand T. Shearman. (fn. 161) In 1715 Thomas Speechley, an'Anabaptist' preacher, had a congregation of 160, including 3 forty-shilling freeholders, at Whittlesey andM...

There is some evidence for the existenceof schools in Whittlesey at the end of the16th century, (fn. 172) but the first permanentprimary school in the town dates from more than ahundred years later. Adam Kelfull, by his will dated1735, gave 17 acres of pasture at Lipnea and 12 acresof fen at Wype, from the issues of which a sum of £15was to be devo...

The charities of Whittlesey werevery considerable in 1837. (fn. 195) TheTown Lands, which at that date comprised 262 acres bringing in £309 9s. 6d. a year, werethe accumulation of a number of bequests of moneyand land dating from the 17th century and earlier.They were managed by twelve trustees known asGovernors, and were let annually by public auc...