men and three boys, as well as enjoying the assistance of a ‘Farmers Son’ and two ‘Farmers Daughters’.
   Terry’s Lodge Farm evidently had its attractions for ‘foreigners’, since Cleghorn's successor was a Huntingdonshire man who seems to have farmed at St Neots and then, for a time, in Cambridgeshire. The newcomer, working in 1871 a reduced acreage of two hundred and seventy-three acres, may have been finding things difficult; he made do with two ‘Farmers Sons’, two labourers and two boys. If the present was hard going, the future would be more so.
   The early associations of Idleigh with the Allens of Scadbury have already received mention. Those associations were renewed about the year 1811, by which time James Wade had departed and the farm had come into the tenure of Ann Allen. Ann, who was born in 1770, was the younger daughter of Robert Allen and his wife, Eleanor Deane. For some time she farmed Idleigh on her own account, but

from about 1817 the occupiers became ‘Allen & Andrus’. Almost certainly, the second partner in this joint venture was one Merdecai Andrus, who farmed nearby in the easterly reaches of the parish of Longfield and was the husband of Ann’s a elder sister, Elizabeth.^16a   Then, in 1822, the two sisters’ brother, the last Robert Allen of Scadbury, died and the Andrus family took over Scadbury, where they remained into modern times. When, some years ago, the old house was sold and the Andrus family returned to live in Mordecai's parish of Longfield, nine generations of Allens and Andruses had lived there.
   It may be supposed that Robert Allen’s death did not leave his younger sister unprovided for and she was in fact able, not long after, to buy Idleigh from the Coventry family. By then, Ann Allen must have seemed a confirmed spinster but subsequently, to the surprise, no doubt, of the neighbourhood, she married one John Swaisland, who was of much the same age as herself.