. The history of Ailington, Aylton, or Elton. on and Rector. To Thomas Ball, , succeeds in the ownership of the advowsonthe Rev. Samuel Ball, also Rector and Patron, who marries Ann, daughterof Mr. William Fuller. This Samuel Ball borrows money of his father-in-law, assigning as security the advowson of Elton. At his death thisloan, with large arrears of interest, remaining unpaid, Fuller takespossession of Balls estate, including the advowson. In 1760 litigation ensues, and as the result the advowson is sold tothe Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford, the conveyancebeing execu
. The history of Ailington, Aylton, or Elton. on and Rector. To Thomas Ball, , succeeds in the ownership of the advowsonthe Rev. Samuel Ball, also Rector and Patron, who marries Ann, daughterof Mr. William Fuller. This Samuel Ball borrows money of his father-in-law, assigning as security the advowson of Elton. At his death thisloan, with large arrears of interest, remaining unpaid, Fuller takespossession of Balls estate, including the advowson. In 1760 litigation ensues, and as the result the advowson is sold tothe Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford, the conveyancebeing executed by all the parties concerned in the law suit, viz.,Sir Matthew Lamb (as executor of the late Rev. Thomas Ball), FrancesFawkes, Jane Fuller, Thomas and Elizabeth Ball. The date of theconveyance is 22 and 23 December 1760. In 1884, powers having been granted to the authorities of certainColleges to alienate their Church Patronage under certain circumstances,the advowson of Elton is sold by the Master and Fellows of University * See page o 3- oo THE HISTORY OF ELTON. 59 College, Oxford, under the sanction of the Land Commissioners forEngland (Sir James Caird, Lord Lyttleton, and Colonel Leach), toAugusta, elder daughter of the late James Watts, Esq., of Battle, in thecounty of Sussex, with the consent of her husband, the Rev. Rose FullerWhistler, now (1892) Rector. Coopers Hospital. This consists of four small tenements on the high road fromPeterborough to Oundle. It was founded in his lifetime by deed of gift,dated 22 June 1663, by the Rev. John Cooper, Rector and Patron ofElton, for the habitation, finding, sustentation, and relief of maimed,poore, aged and needy, or impotent persons .... not exceeding thenumber of foure, to be a body corporate, with full power to purchaseand to hold as well goods and chattels as Manors, Tenements, andHereditaments, so that the same exceeded not the yearly value of100 marks above all charges and reprizes; and also that they shouldhave a
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