Darrow School - Shaker Post Yearbook (New Lebanon, NY)

 - Class of 1936

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1936i TheiPeg Board l' l .Al ANOTHER VIEW OF CHADWVICK HALL Courtesy of Mr. Hurry E. Palfrey In I803, Mr. Carpenter, ofChadwick Manor, published a treatise on Agriculture It was printed for the author by Heming of Stourbridge and dedicated to the Hon. Edward Foley and William Lygon Esquires, representatives in Parliament for the County of Worcester: To you, Gentlemen, well known as friendly encouragers of that most ancient and noble art of agriculturegl' and contains a long list of Subscribers, many of whom were gentlemen of this town and neighborhood. The work contains engravings of a plow, called The Worcestershire Plough, a model farm-house Cnot unlike two barns side by sidel with ground plan, and a model barn fvery similar to the housel with ground plan. In this work Mr. Carpenter states that he has sown a considerable quantity of flax, for many years, and recommends the sowing of the best Riga flax seed. The bounty then al- lowed by government, after being dressed in the stone, was of some consideration, as he received sixty pounds at one time, for flax and hemp, by an order from Sessions at Worcester! From the Birmingham Por! fAbout August l930,Z-- The Manor or reputed manor of Chadwick came into prominence a few years ago when a portion of it, 414 acres in extent, was presented by Mr. Edward Codbury and his brother to the National Trust with the object of preserving an agricultural and pastoral oasis in the midst of what may become a merely urban or suburban district. This intention presupposes that the farms will remain farms and will not become parks or playgrounds. The capital messuage a large handsome house of late seventeenth- century date, brick built with stone dressings, lies in a hollow to the right of the main road from Birmingham to Brumsgrove about a mile beyond Ruberg, and may be approached by a public footpath. Immediately above it are Spring Pools, a beauty spot which claims the attention of every passer+by. The site of the house is snug and sheltered, but by no means one which would be chosen by early builders for defensive purposes. 1 William Cotton, Chadwick Manor, 1881. Mr. Palfrey appends the following note: Contemporary with the above named J. Carpenter of Chadwick, the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter was minister at the Dissentmg Know Ullltlfllhl Chapel at Stourbridge. I have seen a reference to this Rev. B. Carpenter in connection with Bromsgrove. but at present am un able to trace same. It will be seen, however, that Stourbridge, Chadwick, and Bromsgrove were associated in various instances and this probably would have some bearing on Frederick Evans' association with Chadwick if it could be investigated. 71

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The Peg Board 1936 bread and ale at Chadwick, and unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his suit at Bromsgrove. Successive Masters of St. Wulfstan's held the manor until the hospital was dissolved in the 16th century. Henry VIII sold the manor to Richard Morrison in 1540, adding in 1544 a rent reserved in 1540. In the following year Richard Morrison released it again to the king, receiving other lands in exchange, and in 1546 Chadwick was given to the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The whole of the Chadwick estate was sold by the Dean and Canons in 1904 to the Chadwick Estate Ltd., with the exception of the site of the reservoir, which is on lease to the East Worcestershire Waterworks Co. for 99 years from 1902. A John Lacey, writing in 1778, states that the ancient mansion-house had belonged in the 17tl1 century to the Lowe family, from whom it came by marriage to Henry Vaughan Jeffries. His son Humphrey sold the lease of it in 1777 to John Hutton of Birmingham. In 1813 the manor-house was put up for sale. It afterwards came into the hands of John Carpenter, a gentleman farmer, the author of a treatise on agriculture, who mortgaged it to Mr. Penn. On the bankruptcy of the latter it was bought by Mr. Wilcox, who left it to his nephew John Osborne, the owner in 1826. In 1849 Manor Hall was the property of Francis T. Rufford. Chadwick Manor is now a farm-house. In addition to the extract just quoted we have these notations graciously submittedto us by Mr Harry E. Palfrey of Stourbridge, England: The manor house of Chadwick is a square brick-built residence, situated in a valley, and so surrounded that it cannot well be seen, until close to it. It has a fine stream of water running close by it, and extensive pools of water in the rear. It is now tenanted by Mr. D. Stevenson and forms a commodious farm-house. Near the house there was once a chapel, dedicated to St. Chad, but it has long since disappeared. Chadwick, probably so named from its numberless springs and wells, was one of the twelve manors which formerly existed in the parish Cof Bromsgrovej. By some it was called Chadwells, and is now sometimes called Chaddeswick. A portion of this manor be- longed to Dodford Priory and was called Willingwick, the value of which in 1485 was three pounds, seventeen shillings, sixpence per annum. In this manor was the Lickey Beacon and a spring, called Chadwick Holy Well. This well probably gave the name to the farm known as Holy Well Farm. The manors of Chadwick and Willingwick were parts of the barony of the Castle of Worcester in the time of Henry III, and were held in fee form of the King by William de Beauchamp, the heir of D'Abetot. Ralph, son of Roger de Lench, had a wood in Chadwick, which he gave, for perpetual alms, to the prior and con- vent of Worcester, and afterwards William de Abyston, with the consent of his wife, Isabelle de Lench, resigned to the prior and convent all the title which he had in the right of his said wife to their wood, called Southwood, given him by Ralph de Lench. The manor fell to the Crown by the attainer of Edward Plantaganet, Earl of Warwick, the heir of the Beauchamp family, 1499, fifteenth year of Henry VII, and Henry VIII by patent dated October 1, A.R. 37 granted the manor of Chadwick and Priory, with the Parsonage of Clanes, and various other lands, parcel of the possessions which his majesty had, by exchange with Richard Morrison Esq., amounting in the whole to fifty- seven pounds, two shillings per annum, to the college of Christ Church, Oxford, to which the manor of Chadwick now belongs. By them it was leased to the Lowes, from whom it passed, by marriage, to Henry Vaughan Jeffries of Worcester, whose son Humphrey sold the lease ofit to john Hutton, the historian of Birmingham, in 1776, who thus refers to the purchase:- I bought the manor and estate of Chadwick 4500 pounds, upon a promise, from an attorney, of supplying me with what money I should want. I let it for 300 pounds a year and kept it one year, when it appeared that I could not fulfill my bargain, because my attorney had deceived meg nor the seller his, because in some places he had charged me near twice as much land as there really was. He was pleased that I had secured a tenant at an advanced rent, and we mutually agreed to dissolve the contract. My family re- joiced, but I lamented. The lease is now held by Francis Tongue Ruffor Esq. fof Stour. bridgej. 70



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The Peg Board 1936 In 1086 Chadwick formed part ofthe very extensive manor of Bromsgrove, and as such was the possession of Urso d'Abi tot, descending-as did all that great man's vast estates- to the Beauchamps. In 1232 the house and part of the land was exchanged by Roger de Lens for a house in Worcester, and St. Wulfstan's Hospital became the owners. After the Dissolution, one Richard Morison received a grant of the estate from the King, and six years later fin I 5461 Christ Church, Oxford, acquired it, selling it in 1904. The house itself-or an earlier one on the site-'was held in the seventeenth century by the Lowe family, and has had various owners subsequently, having been sold several times. Tolstoy and the Shakers N THE possession of the North Family at Mount,Lebanon is a letter from Count Leo Tolstoy to Elder Frederick Evans and copies of three letters from Evans to Tolstoy. Two of the copies are in Evan's handwriting, and one is typewritten, but signed by him. These letters have already been printed in a Shaker broadside and in the Manyesto, but have not had a very wide circulation and may be of interest to readers of the Peg Board. For those reasons we reproduce them here. For permission to reprint them we are indebted to Eldress Rosetta Stevens of the North Family. Sister Emma insists that Tolstoy also corresponded with Elder Alonzo Hollister of the Church Family. We have no doubt that her assertion is well founded, for Tolstoy had much in common with the Shakers-his doctrine of non-resistance, and his views set forth in The Kreutzer Sonata. The editors of the Peg Board are searching diligently in the hope that additional Tolstoy letters may come to light. In reprinting the letters now in ourhands, we have followed the spelling and punctuation of the originals. Those of Frederick Evans show a number of mistakes, but it must be remembered that they are merely copies, perhaps hastily made for his own files. Mt. Lebanon, N. Y., U. S. A. Dec. 6th. 1890 Leo Tolstoy Dear friend: I am deeply interested in you 81 your work, so far as I understand both ou 81 it. Y Wisdom says, I love those who love meg 81 we love those who are in the same truths that we ourselves are in. It is wonderful how clear are your ideas in relation to the definition of the words Christian 81 Christianity. Calvin Green fsome of whose writings you have seenj was an inspired man. He was spiritually impressed about the future of Russia: 81 he was enthusiastic upon the subject. Leo Tolstoy seems to be inspired to begin the fullfillment of the prophecies of Calvin Green. I purpose to send you some of my writings to read 81 to criticise, 81 in so doing, I shall be much obliged. Why should not theologic problems be sub- ject to the same rigid logic that mathematical problems are subject to? And why should not theologians be as cool 81 self-possessed as are mathematicians? If possible, they should be far more so: they should love each other, 81 that would be like oil, in all parts of a complicated piece of machinery. You are pained at our ideas about Ann Lee, 81 spirit intercourse between parties in 81 out of mortal bodies. I suppose it to be caused by mis- conceptions of what our views have been 81 are now, at this present writing. What they were, when the ' Millennial Church ' was written, leave to the people of those times. Paul says, When I was child, I thought 81 spake as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things, 81 thought 81 spake as a 72

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