keeping the accounts, and preserving order in the almshouses.  The other men have yearly stipends of £26, and the widows, of whom there are generally 2 or 3, have each £16 per annum.  They are all clothed, and supplied with coals and medical aid, at the expense of the charity.  A decree of the Court of Chancery was obtained in 1824, for the better regulation of the charity, and the appointment of new trustees, consisting of Sir Thos. Neave, Digby Neave, and Messrs. Mashiter, Surridge, Cooper, Truston, and others.  When there is any surplus, after paying all the expenses of the almshouses, &c., the trustees are required, by the decree, to distribute it in clothes and provisions, among the poor of the above-named parishes.

The parish has £100, left by Lady Burleigh, to be lent, free of interest, to five poor tradesmen.  Two houses, given at an early period, by Robt. Ballard, for repairing the highways, were let in 1824, for 61 years, at a yearly rent of £20,--the lessee covenanting to lay out £500 in rebuilding the houses.  The churchwardens apply the rent in preserving the highways and paths, by the erection of wooden posts and rails, to prevent mischief being done by cattle on market days.  In 1669, Lewis Betts left, out of Lyon Mead, a tenement in Collier Row Ward, and Golden Lion farm, three rent charges, viz:--£4 for apprenticing poor boys of Romford; 20s. for repairing the church foot path; and £2 for equal division among eight decayed husbandmen of Collier Row and Town wards.  The poor of Romford have distributed among them, at Christmas, £19. 13s. 6d., arising yearly, as follows:--40s. out of a farm at Hay Green, left by Wm. Armstead; £7 from an acre of land, purchased with the legacy of Robt. Palmer; £3 out of two tenements, on the east side of the White Hart Inn, left by Andrew Reynolds, in 1626; £3. 13s. 6d. from Navy five per cent. Annuities, left by Hannah Richardson; and £4 from Webster's Tile Kiln, which lets for £8 a year, half of which belongs to the poor of Hornchurch.  Several lost charities are mentioned in the parish register.

ROMFORD SAVINGS' BANK, for the Hundreds of Barnstable, Chafford, and Ongar, and the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, has cashiers at Brentwood, Billericay, Ongar, and Orsett.   It was established in 1817; and in Nov. 1846, it had deposits amounting to £71,802, belonging to 2,421 depositors, several Charitable Societies, and 7 Friendly Societies.  O. Mashiter and Benjamin Graves, Esqrs., are two of the trustees; Thos. Weston, Esq., is manager; Mr. O. Adams, actuary; and Mr. J. R. Ward, clerk.  Mr Jas. Monkhouse is actuary at Brentwood; and Mr. T. S. Richardson, at Ongar.

ROMFORD UNION comprises the ten parishes of Romford, Barking, Hornchurch, Dagenham, Upminster, Rainham, Great Warley, Havering, Cranham, and Wennington, which contain an area of 59 square miles, and had 19,521 inhabitants in 1831, and 22,216 in 1841,--consisting of 10,967 males, and 11,249 females.  The average annual expenditure of the district, on the poor, during the three years preceding the formation of the Union in 1836, was £11,958.  In 1838, the total expenditure was £8,209; in 1840, £9,130; and in 1846, £15,032, including salaries, county and police rates, &c.   The WORKHOUSE, which stands on five acres of land, half a mile south of the town, was finished in 1838, at the cost of £9,500, and has room for 460 inmates.  The able-bodied paupers are employed in grinding corn, cultivating the garden ground, &c.   Mr W. H. Clifton is clerk to the Board of Guardians; Mr Edmund Griffin, of Great Ilford, is superintendent registrar; Messrs. John Benj. Miller and Richd. Parker, relieving officers; Rev. Thos. Donkin, chaplain; and Mr. T. and Mrs. Sellars are master and matron of the Workhouse.  Charles Godbold in the miller; Walter Easton, schoolmaster; Martha Howman, schoolmistress; and Wm. Hawes, porter.  Eight surgeons are employed by the Union.  Mr. R. A. Bowers is registrar of births and deaths, for Romford; and Mr. R. W. Quennell for Hornchurch district.  A MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL ASSOCIATION, for the Unions of Billericay, Romford, and Orsett, was formed in 1847, and holds quarterly meetings in the above-named towns, and at Brentwood, alternately.

ROMFORD DIRECTORY

Marked 1 are in High-street; 2, Hornchurch-lane;¹ 3, Market-place; 4, North street; 5, Waterloo-road, or NEW ROMFORD; 6, in HARE STREET; 7,

¹ Now known as South Street.

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