| Sackville College Church Street East Grinstead |
Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1835 | The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 386 |
| 1868 | Notes on East Grinstead by J. C. Stenning ⇒ p. 155 |
| 1883 | Pelton's Illustrated Guide to Tunbridge Wells by J. Radford Thomson, M.A. ⇒ p. 189 |
| 1904 | Highways and Byways in Sussex by E.V. Lucas ⇒ p. 227 |
| 1906 | The History of East Grinstead by Wallace Henry Hills ⇒ p. 96 |
| Historical records | |||||
| 1608 to 1616 | History | Sackville College | Horsfield's Sussex | ||
| Sackville College.- Robert, the 2nd Earl of Dorset, by his will, dated the 10th of February, 1608, left £1,000 to build a college for a certain number of the poorer sort of men and women, and endowed the same with £330 per annum for their maintenance, and the necessary expenses connected therewith. .... This college was not built in the life time of Robert, Earl of Dorset, but afterwards by his son and heir, Earl Richard, and the executors and trustees named in Earl Robert's will, and was completed in or about the year 1616. | |||||
| 27th Feb 1609 | History | Sackville College | The History of East Grinstead | ||
| Extract from Robert Sackville's will: Whereas I have been long and still am purposed to build and erect an Hospital or College in the said Town or Parish of East Grinstead, in the County of Sussex, and to bestow on the building thereof the sum of one thousand pounds, or such a sum as shall be necessary, and to endow the same with a rent charge of £330 by the year, to be issuing out of all and singular my lands and tenements in the said County of Sussex, or elsewhere within the Realm of England, for ever, towards the relief of one and thirty single and unmarried persons, thereof one and twenty to be men and the other ten to be women, there to live, to pray, serve, honour, and praise Almighty God : I therefore will and devise that mine executors, if I shall not live to perform the same in my life-time, shall bestow a sufficient sum of money in the purchase of a fit place in the said Town or Parish of East Grinstead, to thereupon erect and build a convenient house, of brick and stone, with rooms of habitation for the said one and thirty persons, employing and bestowing thereupon such reasonable sums of money as they shall think fit in their discretions, and that they shall incorporate the same, according to the laws and statutes of this Realm, by the name of Sackville College for the poor. | |||||
| 1637 to 1684 | History | Sackville College | Horsfield's Sussex | ||
| The said Earl Richard, soon after his father's death, is understood to have sold and incumbered several of the estates, manors, &c., till at length, considerable sums in arrears being due to the college which could not be obtained, a bill, was in consequence filed in Chancery, and a decree of that court issued in 1637, charging all the estates, manors, &c., originally possessed by the said Earl Robert at the time of his death with the payment of a proportionate part from each to make up the sum of £330; as is set forth in a written particular, prepared and made by one of the then masters of the said Court. From 1637 to about 1684 many suits at law were instituted between the purchasers of such estates, manors, &c. (which had been sold by the said Earl Richard) and the pensioners of the college ; such purchasers contending that no understanding, covenant, or provision was given or made in their respective conveyances to render them liable to any proportionate part to be paid by them to the college, either under the will, decree, or otherwise ; so that on the bearing of these cases they were decided against the claims of the college, and the sums of £113 7s. 3d. thereby extinguished, leaving only £216 12s. 9d. for its future support, namely, from the year 1684, or thereabouts, to the present time. | |||||
| 1813 to 1835 | History | Sackville College | Horsfield's Sussex | ||
| It was subsequently considered that so great a deficiency in the revenue, and dividing the sum of £216 12s. 9d. among the original number of persons named in the founder's will was totally inadequate for their maintenance and support ; consequently, under the sanction and direction of the former patrons and the present [1835], the numbers have been gradually reduced to the present establishment [six men and six women] from 1813, and their pay accordingly augmented with a view of increasing their individual comfort, and to keep them if possible from the assistance of parochial aid. The revenue or rent charge of £216 12s. 9d. is the amount received for the support of the college for nearly 150 years, without any diminution, misapplication, or addition whatsoever, and from such persons who from time to time are possessed of the fee of such estates, manors, &c. as were apportioned, and remaining available under the decree. It may also be observed that some of the spare apartments are occupied by widows, who reside therein gratuitously by permission of his grace the Duke of Dorset. | |||||
| Sarah Andrews, F, age 70 to 74 | Sarah Andrews | ||||
| 6th Jun 1841 | Census | Thomas Palmer, M, Head, age 65 to 69, born Sussex; occupation Warden | Thomas Palmer | Sackville College | 1841 Census East Grinstead, Sussex |
| Harriot Palmer, F, [Wife], age 60 to 64, born Sussex | Harriot Palmer | ||||
| Richard Crouch, M, age 86, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Richard Crouch | ||||
| Thomas Ledger, M, age 80 to 84, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Thomas Ledger | ||||
| Richard Evershed, M, age 84, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Richard Evershed | ||||
| Edward Wickenden, M, age 86, born Sussex; occupation Pensioner Of The College | Edward Wickenden | ||||
| John Hoare, M, age 71; occupation: pensioner of the college | John Hoare | ||||
| William Weller, M, age 71, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | William Weller | ||||
| Ann Alfrey, F, age 74, born Sussex; occupation pensioner of the college | Ann Alfrey | ||||
| Elizabeth Hooker, F, age 53, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Elizabeth Hooker | ||||
| Elizabeth Furminger, F, age 70 to 74, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Elizabeth Firminger | ||||
| Mary Payne, F, age 84, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Mary Payne [Head] | ||||
| Ann Hall, F, age 73, born Sussex; occupation: pensioner of the college | Ann Hall | ||||
| Elizabeth Langridge, F, age 74, born Sussex; occupation: inmate of the college | Elizabeth Langridge [Thomset] | ||||
| Jane Eve, F, age 71, born Sussex; occupation: inmate of the college | Jane Eve | ||||
| Ann Holmes, F, age 78, born Sussex; occupation: inmate of the college | Ann Holmes | ||||
| Mary Edwards, F, age 71, born Sussex; occupation: inmate of the college | Mary Edwards | ||||
| Martha Bailey, F, age 72, born Sussex; occupation: inmate of the college | Martha Bailey | ||||
| Elizabeth Lucas, F, age 22, born Sussex; occupation: servant | Elizabeth Lucas | ||||
| 30th Mar 1851 | Census | Head; occupation Minister | Benjamin Slight | Sackville Cottage | 1851 Census East Grinstead, Sussex |
| Wife | Charlotte Slight [Twiss] | ||||
| Servant, occupation: house servant | Eliza Briggs | ||||
| 30th Mar 1851 | Census | Head; occupation COLLEGE WARDEn | Reverend John Mason Neale, D.D. | Sackville College | 1851 Census East Grinstead, Sussex |
| Wife | Sarah Norman Neale [Webster] | ||||
| Daughter | Katherine Ermenild Neale | ||||
| Servant; occupation SERVANT | Emily Wells | ||||
| Servant; occupation: servant | Abagail A. Martin | ||||
| Servant; occupation: servant | Sarah Sanders | ||||
| Lodger; occupation pensioner | Sarah Andrews | ||||
| Lodger; occupation: former servant | Elizabeth Hooker | ||||
| Lodger; widowed | Elizabeth Alcock | ||||
| Lodger, widowed | Jane Beard | ||||
| Lodger; widowed | Mary Wren | ||||
| Lodger; occupation: pensioner | William Everest | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; handicap: blind; occupation: former publican | George Taylor | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; occupation: pensioner | Richard Jenner, farm labourer | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; occupation: pensioner | Edward Martin | ||||
| 30th Mar 1851 | Census | Lodger, occupation: labourer | Benjamin Chapman | Sackville College | 1851 Census East Grinstead, Sussex |
| Lodger; occupation: parish relief | Elizabeth Histed | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; occupation: parish relief | Anne Hoare | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; occupation Parish relief | Sarah West | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; handicap: blind; occupation PARISH RELIEF | Sarah Ongley | ||||
| Lodger; handicap: blind; occupation PARISH RELIEF | Elizabeth Ongley | ||||
| Lodger, widowed, occupation: parish relief | Sarah Comber | ||||
| Lodger; widowed; occupation: parish relief | Sarah Bish | ||||
| Lodger; occupation INMATE | Arabella Swaysland | ||||
| Lodger; occupation: porter | William Wren | ||||
| Visitor | Mary Ann Beard | ||||
| Visitor | Eliza Carman | ||||
| Lodger; occupation: pensioner | Elizabeth Smith | ||||
| 1855 |  | J.M. Neale and family, Sackville College, East Grinstead photographed by Joseph Cundall | Reverend John Mason Neale, D.D. | Private collection | |
| 1860 |  | Sackville College, East Grinstead by M & N Hanhart | Stenning's East Grinstead | ||
| 3rd Apr 1881 | Census | George Covey, M, Head, married, age 39, born Hampshire, occupation: surgeon | George Covey, surgeon | Sackville College, Church Street | 1881 Census East Grinstead, Sussex |
| Helen C. Covey, F, Wife, married, age 38, born Tonbridge, Kent | Helen C. Covey | ||||
| Ernest G.W. Covey, M, Son, age 13, born Hampshire, occupation: scholar | Ernest G.W. Covey | ||||
| Edith M.H. Covey, F, Daughter, age 12, born Hampshire, occupation: scholar | Edith M.H. Covey | ||||
| Alexander J.S. Covey, M, Son, age 1, born East Grinstead | Alexander J.S. Covey | ||||
| Ada Mary Covey, F, Daughter, age 9, born Hertfordshire, occupation: scholar | Ada Mary Covey | ||||
| Esther Cherryman, F, Servant, widowed, age 35, born East Grinstead, occupation: nurse | Esther Cherryman | ||||
| Esther C. Fry, F, Servant, single, age 28, born East Grinstead; occupation: housemaid | Esther C. Fry | ||||
| Mary Conyear, F, Servant, single, age 40, born Yorkshire, occupation: cook | Mary Conyear | ||||
| Sarah Knight, F, Other, widowed, age 74, born Lingfield, Surrey | Sarah Knight | ||||
| Elizabeth Simmons, F, Collegian, widowed, age 79, born Somerset | Elizabeth Simmons | ||||
| Edward Gardner, M, Collegian, widowed, age 85, born West Hoathly | Edward Gardner | ||||
| Jane Ann Gardner, F, Collegian, single, age 46, born East Grinstead | Jane Ann Gardner | ||||
| Susannah Bather, F, Collegian, widowed, age 79, born Laughton | Susannah Bather | ||||
| Jane Staplehurst, F, Collegian, widowed, age 69, born Lingfield, Surrey | Jane Staplehurst | ||||
| Ann Searle, F, Collegian, single, age 78, born London | Ann Searle | ||||
| Susan Collman, F, Visitor, widowed, age 80, born Dorset | Susan Collman | ||||
| Clara Targett, F, Visitor, single, age 11, born Surrey | Clara Targett | ||||
| Eleanor Backshall, F, Collegian, widowed, age 71, born Fletching | Eleanor Backshall | ||||
| Richard Day, M, Collegian, widowed, age 76, born East Grinstead | Richard Day | ||||
| Eliza Brace, F, Collegian, widowed, age 61, born East Grinstead | Eliza Brace | ||||
| Susannah Hooker, F, Collegian, widowed, age 76, born East Grinstead | Susannah Hooker | ||||
| Mary Hooker, F, Collegian, single, age 51, born Worth | Mary Hooker | ||||
| Sarah Page, F, Collegian, widowed, age 85, born Lingfield, Surrey | Sarah Page | ||||
| Helena M. Page, F, Visitor, single, age 10, born East Grinstead | Helena Mercy Page | ||||
| Michael Hartfield, M, Collegian, widowed, age 78, born Buxted | Michael Hartfield | ||||
| Thomas Shelton, M, Collegian, single, age 59, born Northamptonshire | Thomas Shelton | ||||
| George Warley, M, Collegian, single, age 62, born Sevenoaks, Kent | George Warley | ||||
| 5th Apr 1891 | Census | George Covey, M, Head, married, age 48, born Basingstoke, Hampshire; occupation: surgeon and general practitioner | George Covey, surgeon and general practitioner | The Sackville College | 1891 Census East Grinstead, Sussex |
| Helen C Covey, F, Wife, married, age 46, born Tunbridge, Kent | Helen C Covey | ||||
| Edith M H Covey, F, Daughter, single, age 22, born Tiffield, Hampshire | Edith M H Covey | ||||
| Ada M Covey, F, Daughter, single, age 19, born Puckeridge, Hertfordshire | Ada M Covey | ||||
| Lilian B Sennins, F, Visitor, single, age 26, born Swainswick, Somerset; occupation: wood carver | Lilian B Sennins | ||||
| Horace W Twiss, M, Visitor, single, age 26, born 32 Chester St, London; occupation: solicitor | Horace W Twiss | ||||
| Esther Cherriman, F, Servant, widowed, age 45, born Chailey, Sussex | Esther Cherriman | ||||
| Annie S Perrin, F, Servant, single, age 38, born Pevensey, Sussex | Annie S Perrin | ||||
| Arabella Itches, F, Servant, single, age 22, born East Grinstead, Sussex | Arabella Itches | ||||
| Minnie Draper, F, Servant, single, age 18, born East Grinstead, Sussex | Minnie Draper | ||||
| George Warley, M, College pensioner, single, age 72, born Pevensey, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | George Warley | ||||
| Thos Shelton, M, College pensioner, single, age 69, born Wollaston, Nottinghamshire; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Thos Shelton | ||||
| Michael Hartfield, M, College pensioner, single, age 89, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Michael Hartfield | ||||
| George Trice, M, College pensioner, single, age 72, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | George Trice | ||||
| William Denniss, M, College pensioner, widowed, age 67, born Lingfield, Surrey; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | William Denniss | ||||
| Edward Wise, M, College pensioner, widowed, age 77, born Bath, Somerset; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Edward Wise | ||||
| Mary Brace, F, College pensioner, widowed, age 72, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Brace | ||||
| Mary Hooker, F, College pensioner, single, age 60, born Lingfield, Surrey; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Hooker | ||||
| Mary Knight, F, College pensioner, widowed, age 84, born Lingfield, Surrey; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Knight | ||||
| Jane Ann Gardner, F, College pensioner, single, age 59, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Jane Ann Gardner | ||||
| Jane Higgins, F, College pensioner, single, age 54, born Liddington, Oxfordshire; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Jane Higgins | ||||
| Mary Wing, F, Inmate, single, age 60, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Wing | ||||
| Ann Jordan, F, Inmate, single, age 72, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Ann Jordan | ||||
| Jane Longhurst, F, Inmate, single, age 66, born West Hoathly, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Jane Longhurst | ||||
| Mary Ann Settford, F, Inmate, widowed, age 70, born West Hoathly, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Ann Settford | ||||
| Ann Owden, F, Inmate, widowed, age 70, born Not Known; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Ann Owden | ||||
| Mary Warner, F, Inmate, widowed, age 81, born Isleworth, Middlesex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Warner | ||||
| Mary Pobgee, F, Inmate, single, age 66, born East Grinstead, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Mary Pobgee | ||||
| Eliza Stone, F, Inmate, single, age 70, born Worth, Sussex; occupation: inmate of Sackville College | Eliza Stone | ||||
| c 1899 |  | Part of the 6 inch to 1 mile map of Sussex produced in 1899 by Ordnance Survey | Sackville College | ||
| 1903 |  | Sackville College, East Grinstead | Private collection | ||
| 1904 |  | Sackville College, East Grinstead | Private collection | ||
| 1927 |  | The Quadrangle, Sackville College, East Grinstead photographed by Frank Betts | The Sussex Highlands | ||
| 1930 |  | Sackville College, East Grinstead | Private collection | ||
| 1936 |  | Sackville College, East Grinstead | Private collection | ||
| 1936 |  | The Hall and Minstrel Gallery, Sackville College, East Grinstead photographed by Francis Frith | Private collection | ||
| 1939 |  | Sackville College, East Grinstead | Dick's Sackvilles | ||
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