The house at Hartley charged by Richard Miller was, or later became, a pub called the King’s Arms. It was still operating as such in 1871, but subsequently became the farmhouse of Hartley Bottom Farm, long the home of the Glover family.
   Besides those recorded in the registers, there were other Ash charities, notably one founded by the Revd Samuel Atwood in the eighteenth century and another, already mentioned, by James Lance in the early nineteenth century. Some detail of these will be given in later chapters. For the present, it remains to deal with the charity of Mr Nutbrown.
   On the flyleaf of the second volume of the registers is a note made and initialled by the Revd Thomas Lambard which reads:-
       ‘Disputes having frequently arisen between the Rectors of Ash & the Churchwardens of Barking in Essex relative to Mr. Nutbrowns Charity, the latter insisting that the whole sum of £6.13s.4d. should be paid by the Rector of Ash without any deduction whatever, the others’ alledging that the Land-Tax ought to be allowed for & that it had invariably been deducted. It was finally agreed in the Year 1763 between the then Rector of Ash & Mr. Rashleigh the Incumbent of Barking on behalf of that Parish (Counsels opinion having been first had) that the Annuity shall contribute

to the Land Tax of the whole Rectory & that in future the sun of 16 shillings shall be deducted from the Charity money & no mere’.
   That note is followed briefly by another:-
       ‘The sum of, paid since 1840 - £5.14.0 from which the income tax  each year was deducted.
                                                                 R.S.
   The initials ‘R.S.’ were those of Richard Salwey, the Mr Salwey who had been concerned to recover the register book from Josiah Rolls. He was, apart from Maxfield’s successor, William Baker, the only rector ever, to have held Ash and Fawkham in plurality. He was rector of Fawkham from 1829 to 1873 and rector of Ash from 1840 to 1894 and not long , there were still people in the locality who remembered the parson who had come to these parts in the reign of George IV. At Ash, Salwey had followed another Thomas Lambard; he himself had married Mary, youngest of the nine children of Multon and Aurea Lambard of Sevenoaks. Mary, whose father was long lord of Ash, was born in 1801 and died, leaving a young family, in 1848. She rests in the churchyard in one of a little row of graves with Lambard associations, near the east end of the church.⁶  When her husband died long years after, much local history died with him.