Possibly William Budd’s House, Wanborough, Surrey
William BUDD was son John Budd and inherited the Wanborough farm and appears in the Court Rolls held at Surrey History Centre.
There are two cottages listed in the Court Rental documents, I am not clear if these were sub-let to agricultural labourers working on the farm or two shares in the same house, or different houses one of which is the farm house previously shown.
William seems to have had a keen interest in agriculture. He was a correspondent of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and he wrote to them on parsnips, and rearing black cattle[1]
Chancery (C10)
Possibly one the most interesting and important document for the history of Wanborough has been found at the National Archives at Kew[1]. John BUDD attempted to pay his debt to Thomas BURNETT of Hornsey later Longford Middlesex but the “Bill of Exchange” “bounced”.
William BUDD seems to have claimed that John’s assets were insufficient to pay his debts and therefore the debtors were unpaid.
Obviously unhappy they sued through the “Kings Bench” court and when paid still did not materialise they sued through Chancery.
The result is we have a detailed “complaint”, “reply” and even more exciting a detailed inventory of John BUDD’s house and farm in Wanborough.
House :
[Great] Hall
Kitchen
Pantry
[Bed] Room over Pantry
Bed Chamber
Best [Bed] Chamber
Maids Room
Inner Garrett
Middle Garrett
Carter’s Garrett
Outbuildings? :
Lumber Room
Carpenters Room
Apple Room
Passage and Staircase
Milk House
Room over Milk House
Brewhouse
The document contains detailed descriptions of the rooms, for example
HALL – seven maps, one picture, a slate, three armed chairs, three tables, a wainscot bureau, a book case, a cupboard, a long folding board fixed, a deal cupboard
Two roasting Dogs, shovel, tongs, and bellows, a form, a cleaver, a pot of warmer, three spits, a tin dripping pan, a tin cover, two copper coffee pots, a chaffing dish, four brass candlesticks, two iron ditto, two snuffers, four box irons, three stands, a tobacco shovel and tongs, a bell, twenty four books of Different sorts.
Closet joining to hall, a plate basket, seven Delf dishes, two plates, two stone ditto, six white stone patty pans, two basins, six drink mugs, a decanter, six glasses, a bowel, four tea pots, three china basins, six odd cups and saucers, three mahogany hand Boards sugar hatchet a knife box with a dozen of knives and a dozen of forks, a carving knife and fork, six desert knives and forks.
The Farm inventory lists
- 109 Sheep
- 12 twelve small oxen
- One cow, two oxen
- Five old horses, one colt in yard, one four year gray
- 58 hogs?
- Four black horse and oxen and yokes
- Three dozen? poultry
- Wheat, Oats, Pease, Clover, Hay, Apples
- Hop Poles x 10,000
“BUDD” Field names matched to those on an early 19th Century map are in marked yellow.
Locations Named
Long croft (sheep/oxen)
West Veer Hill (sheep)
Wheat Barn (wheat),
Barley in the Barley Barn,
Upper Mow in the Pease Barn,
lower Mow in the Pease Barn,
Oat Barn
Lower Oat Rick (oats)
second Rick, (oats)
Barley in the third Rick,
Wheat old Rick and twenty one load in the other three,
nine quarters of pease in the hick, thirty six tons of hay in the rick yard,
Inwood Veer (hay),
Butt Veer (hay)
Greencroft (wheat)
twenty five acres ditto in old coppice,
fifteen acres ditto in Wanborow Wood,
ten acres ditto inWashveer,
eight Acres ditto in forty acres Hill,
[1] The Annual Register 1782