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THE FIFTY-SEVENTH REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC 
 RECORDS, 
 
 TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 
 
 May it please Your Majesty, 
 
 I respectfully beg to submit to Your Majesty a Report 
 of the proceedings in the Public Record Office during the year 
 1895, pursuant to the Act 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. § 17. 
 
 The year has been signalised by the completion of a large and 
 important block of buildings facing Chancery Lane. (See § VIII.) 
 
 § I. LEGAL AND LITERARY SEARCH ROOMS, 
 
 The number of registered applications for the production of 
 Records, State Papers, &c. in the year 1895 has been — 
 
 In the Legal Search Room - - 12,432 
 
 In the Literary Search Room - - 39,622 
 
 Total - 43,054 
 
 The value of stamps purchased by the public and cancelled in 
 the Legal Search Room has been — 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 For 737 copies - 490 13 6 
 
 „ 17 attendances - - 8 10 0 
 
 „ 2,190 inspections - - 109 10 0 
 
 „ 197 general searches - 24 12 6 
 
 Total - - - 633 6 0 
 
 Stamp duty on the same - 9 2 0 
 
 Fees to the value of 39/. 25. 6d. have been remitted to certain 
 Departments or State. 
 
 / 93120. Wt. 9388. A 2 
 
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 § II. DEPARTMENTAL SEAKCH ROOM. 
 
 The following table shows the number of applications and 
 searches made on behalf of Government Departments whose 
 archives are deposited in the Public Record Office, and the 
 number of volumes or bundles issued or inspected, during the year 
 1895:— 
 
 Department. 
 
 Applications 
 and Searches. 
 
 Treasury - 
 
 110 
 
 267 
 
 Home Office 
 
 6 
 
 22 
 
 Foreign Office - 
 
 21 
 
 89 
 
 Colonial Office 
 
 28 
 
 G8 
 
 War Office 
 
 1,981 
 
 3,168 
 
 Admiralty - - 
 
 127 
 
 963 
 
 Charity Commission - - 
 
 27 
 
 279 
 
 Total - 
 
 2,300 
 
 4,561 
 
 _ 
 
 Issues and 
 Inspections. 
 
 The following table shows the number of volumes or bundles 
 inspected by private searchers provided with permits from 
 Government Departments to consult their archives, deposited in 
 the Public Record Office, but not open to the public: — 
 
 Department. 
 
 Treasury - 
 Home Office 
 Foreign Office 
 Colonial Office 
 War Office - 
 Admiralty - 
 
 Lord Chamberlain's Department 
 Customs - - - 
 
 Total 
 
 Inspections. 
 
 5 
 
 412 
 863 
 5,513 
 109 
 276 
 3 
 
 240 
 
 7,421 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OB' THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
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 § III. TRANSFERS. 
 
 The following books and documents were received at the 
 Public Record Office during the year 1895 : — 
 
 From the Foreign Office :— 
 126 volumes of Treaties. 
 
 From the Patent Office : — 
 
 Specifications of Patents, 1880, Nos. 1 to 5517. 
 
 From the Treasury : — 
 
 Treasury Papers, 18 parcels. 
 Registers.. 8 Vols. 
 
 § IV. CALENDARS. 
 
 Patent Rolls : 
 
 I have stated in previous Reports that I had made arrangements 
 for a systematic Calendar of the Patent Rolls, and that identical 
 instructions had been given to the different officers employed 
 upon the work. Reserving the reign of Henry III. for future 
 treatment, the object of my scheme is to provide an English 
 Calendar to these invaluable documents from the reign of 
 Edward I. to that of Henry VII. inclusive. The work has been 
 ■started at five points : — 
 
 Edicard I. — A volume, embracing the period between the 
 twenty-first and the twenty-ninth years inclusive, was pub- 
 lished in 1895. (See § X.) Four sheets of the succeeding 
 volume, which will extend to the end of the reign, were 
 completed at press in 1895. 
 
 Edward II. — Eighteen sheets of the second volume for this 
 reign were completed at press in 1895. 
 
 Edward III. — The third volume for this reign was published 
 in 1895. (See § X.) A considerable amount of material 
 for the fourth volume was also prepared. 
 
 Richard II. — The first volume for this reign was published 
 in 1895. (See § X.) Nineteen sheets of the second volume 
 were also completed at press. 
 
 Edicard IV. — Thirteen sheets of the first volume for this reign 
 were completed at press in 1895. 
 
 Certain initial difficulties having been overcome, I hope that 
 4his important series of Calendars will proceed steadily. 
 
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 THE Fl FTV - SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 
 
 Ancient Deeds: 
 
 Eighteen sheets of the third volume of the Descriptive 
 Catalogue of Ancient Deeds, mentioned in previous Reports, 
 were completed at press in 1895. 
 
 Ancient Correspondence : 
 
 Further progress has* been made with the Calendar of 
 mediaeval Letters. 
 
 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the 
 Reign of Henry VIII.: - 
 
 The second part of Vol. XIV. was in the binders' hands 
 at the end of 1895. 
 
 Twelve sheets of Volume XV. were also completed at 
 press in the course of the year. 
 
 State Papers relating to Ireland, of the Reign of 
 Elizabeth : 
 
 A volume dealing with the years 1598 and 1599 was 
 published in 1895. (See § X.) Materials were also collected 
 for another volume. 
 
 State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of 
 Charles I. : 
 
 The editorship of the supplementary volume begun by the 
 late Mr. W. D. Hamilton, was entrusted to Mrs. Everett 
 Green, but the work has been again interrupted by her 
 death. 
 
 State Papers, Colonial Series : 
 
 This work was interrupted by the death, in March 1895, of 
 the editor, Mr. \V. N. Sainsbury. The task of completing 
 the volume which was then in the press, was entrusted to 
 the Hon. J. W. Fprtescue, and he almost brought it to a 
 close by the end of the year. 
 
 Close Rolls : 
 
 The third volume of the Calendar of Close Rolls of the 
 reign of Edward II. was published in 1895. (See § X.) 
 The text and the index of the fourth volume were completed 
 at press. Thirty-one sheets of the first volume for the reign 
 of Edward III. were similarly completed. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OP THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
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 Inquisitiones Post Mortem: 
 
 Further progress was made with the Calendar of 
 Inquisitiones post mortem of the Courts of Chancery and 
 Exchequer in the reign of Henry VII. By the end of 1895, 
 thirty-five sheets of the first a volume were completed at 
 press. 
 
 State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of 
 Charles II. : 
 
 The late Mrs. Everett Green completed her section of this 
 work last year, bringing it down to the end of 1670. 
 (See § X.) 
 
 Mr. Blackburne Dauiell, completed a volume dealing with 
 the first eleven months of the year 1671. (See § X.) He 
 has also made considerable progress with another volume. 
 
 § V. LISTS AND INDEXES. 
 
 Inquisitiones Post Mortem: 
 
 Some further progress was made with the alphabetical 
 arrangement of the tabular Index of Inquisitiones post mortem 
 of the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, and Wards and 
 Liveries, between the reigns of Henry VII. and Charles I. 
 inclusive. 
 
 Early Chancery Proceedings : 
 
 The tabulated List of Bills and Answers filed on the Equity 
 side of the High Court of Chancery, before the reign of 
 Elizabeth, has undergone further revision, with a view to the 
 publication of a first instalment of it at an early date. 
 
 Chancery Proceedings : 
 
 Further progress was made in 1895, with the printing 
 of a similar List of Bills and Answers addressed to Sir 
 Nicholas Bacon, in the reign of Elizabeth, but not noticed in 
 the three volumes issued by the Record Commission in 
 1827-1832. 
 
 Court Rolls : 
 
 A great part of the comprehensive List of Court Rolls 
 preserved in the Public Record Office was passed for pre?s 
 in the course of 1895, 
 
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 Subsidy Accounts : 
 
 Further progress was made with the List of these 
 documents mentioned in previous Reports. 
 
 Rentals and Surveys : 
 
 Further progress was made with the List of these 
 documents mentioned in previous Reports. 
 
 Enrolled Accounts : 
 
 The manuscript of a List extending down to the end of the 
 reign of Richard III. was almost completed in December 
 1895. 
 
 Early Accounts: 
 
 Some additions were made to the List of original Accounts 
 of expenditure mentioned in previous Reports. It has not 
 yet been printed, but a fair copy of it was begun for the use 
 of the public in the Search Rooms. 
 
 Sheriffs : 
 
 The List of Sheriffs, based upon entries in the Pipe Rolls 
 and the Fine Rolls, which was mentioned in my last two 
 Reports, was completed in manuscript. 
 
 § YI. CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT. 
 
 A great deal of time and attention has been devoted during the 
 past year, as during the previous eight years, to the classification of 
 documents hitherto unoorted, and the identification of documents 
 insufficiently described in existing Calendars and Lists. A List 
 of Early Accounts of the Exchequer having been completed as 
 mentioned in my last Report, the documents, numbering about 
 15,000, have been re-arranged and labelled so as to correspond 
 with the List. The remainder of the documents formerly known 
 as the Ancient Miscellanea of the Exchequer (Q.R.) have also 
 been classified and re-numbered. In the course of arrangement 
 considerable additions have been made to the Ancient Deeds, the 
 Inquisiiiones post mortem, and the County Placita. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
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 § VII. OPERATIONS BY REPAIRERS AND 
 ATTENDANTS. 
 
 
 
 XvOllS, 
 
 Files, 
 
 or 
 Suits. 
 
 Bundles. 
 
 • 
 
 Membranes. 
 
 Leaves. 
 
 Volumes or 
 
 Numbered 
 
 55,798 
 
 811 
 
 9,138 
 
 25,034 
 
 38 
 
 Flattened 
 
 — 
 
 
 10,672 
 
 273 
 
 — 
 
 Repaired, 
 
 — 
 
 
 23,877 
 
 29,817 
 
 — 
 
 Sized 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 34,829 
 
 — 
 
 -Guarded 
 
 
 ._ 
 
 12,169 
 
 35,789 
 
 — 
 
 Sewed - 
 
 
 
 1,765 
 
 13 
 
 115 
 
 Bound - 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 
 120 
 
 Ticketed 
 
 
 334 
 
 8,40G 
 
 
 4,079 
 
 Filed - 
 
 
 
 31,273 
 
 
 
 Arranged and 
 dusted. 
 
 
 553 
 
 
 
 
 Stamped 
 
 
 
 
 175,798 
 
 The classes to which most attention lias been given have 
 been Ancient Correspondence, Decree Rolls, Ancient Deeds, 
 (Series A., A.A, B., B.B., C, CC, D... D.D., E., F., F.F., L., 
 L.L., L.S.), Depositions, Warrants for Privy Seals, Chancery and 
 Exchequer Proceedings, Surveys and Rentals, Exchequer 
 Accounts, Feet of Fines, Admiralty Letters and Petitions, 
 Colonial Letters and Papers, Court Roils, Audit Office Declared 
 Accounts, State Papers Domestic, &c, Minister's Accounts, Home 
 Office Papers, &c. 
 
 § VIII. BUILDINGS. 
 
 A further sum of 8,500/. was voted by the House of Commons 
 for the financial year 1895-96 towards the erection of a new block 
 of the Public Record Office, the total cost of which was estimated 
 at 79,650/. A sum of 7,000/. was also voted at the same time 
 for iron presses and furniture for the new block, and the expenses 
 of removing Records into it. 
 
 This, the third instalment of the General Repository of 
 Records, was completed in the autumn of 1895, from designs bv 
 Mr. John Taylor, OB. of Your Majesty's Office of Works and 
 
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 THE FIFTY-SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 
 
 Public Buildings, on a site occupied before by twelve houses in 
 Chancery Lane and the southern part of Rolls Yard. In general 
 character it is very similar to the portion previously erected by the 
 late Sir James Pennethorne. Inasmuch, however, as the stone 
 used by him has shown signs of decny, Portland oolite has been 
 substituted for Church Anstone sandstone, and Babbacombe 
 limestone for Kentish rag. 
 
 The facade to Chancery Lane is 225 feet long, with a depth of 
 44 feet at the northern end, and 65 feet at the southern end. 
 The height from the basement floor to the top of the parapet is 
 84 feet, and there are four ranges of windows. There is a 
 central tower over the gateway, and there are octagonal turrets at 
 the north-western, south-western, and south-eastern angles. 
 
 The whole building is of fireproof construction, and the floors 
 have been made on the Fawcett system. Hydrants have been 
 placed on each floor. All the corridors and rooms have been 
 provided with electric light. 
 
 The rooms in the northern part of the new block have been 
 fitted with steel presses and slate shelves for the reception of 
 documents of different departments of State. The rooms in the 
 southern part are for the use cf the Deputy Keeper, the 
 Secretary, and other members of the staff, who were formerly 
 located in Holls House. On the ground floor is a Library of 
 printed books for the use of officers of the Department. A room 
 on the first floor, immediately over the gateway, will serve as a 
 museum of documents of special beauty and interest, until the 
 completion of another block of the Public .Record Office. 
 
 Two statues have been placed in niches over the gateway on 
 the eastern side ; — that of Henry III. who founded the House 
 of Converts on this site, and that of Edward HI., who united the 
 office of Keeper of the House of Converts with that of Keeper of 
 the Rolls of Chancery. 
 
 The removal from Bolls House into the new building was 
 effected in October 1895. Without going into further particulars, 
 it may be well to state that the lightness of the rooms in the 
 latter is of great advantage to those who are occupied in 
 deciphering ancient manuscripts. 
 
 In an Appendix to this Report I give some account of the 
 Rolls Chapel, which has been recently demolished, 
 
 § IX. THE ACT 40 & 41 VICT. o. 55. 
 
 The Inspecting Officers appointed for the purposes of the first 
 section of the above-mentioned Act have continued their duties 
 in accordance with the Rules of which Your Majesty's approba- 
 tion was declared by Order in Council on the 30th of June 
 1890. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECOKDS. 
 
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 Further progress lias been made with the Schedule of 
 Documents from the Office of the Registrar of the Chancery of 
 the County Palatine of Lancaster, which has been mentioned in 
 previous Reports. The completion of it has, however, been 
 again deferred, for reasons already stated, and because the various 
 removals of documents, consequent upon the erection of a new 
 block of buildings, involved other work of a more pressing nature. 
 
 For similar reasons, the Second Schedule of Home Office 
 documents which have been removed to the Public Record Office, 
 has not yet been quite completed, though it is in an advanced, 
 state of preparation. The Inspecting Officers have again had the- 
 assistance of Mr. Moran of the Home Office. 
 
 The Schedule of Documents of the High Court of Chancery- 
 relating to the practice before the Masters in Ordinary, which 
 was mentioned in my last Report as being in course of prepara- 
 tion, required the most careful consideration. It was, however, 
 completed in the year 1895. After having been submitted to 
 Lord Justice Lindley, who agreed with all the thirty-six recom- 
 mendations contained in it (except one touching the disposal of 
 copies of wills), it was duly approved by the Master of the Rolls. 
 
 The Pay Books of the Roynl Navy, of which there appear to 
 have been at one time no less than five concurrent series, occupied 
 a great amount of valuable space. After they had been subjected 
 to a very close inspection, it appeared that there was not 
 any reason for preserving more than two of these series. 
 Mr. Follett Pennell, the Deputy Accountant-General of the 
 Navy, was associated with the Inspecting Officers in the con- 
 sideration of this subject, and employed several clerks of his 
 department to make an independent examination of the documents 
 under his supervision. In the end it was agreed that if one- 
 series, known as the Treasurer's, and another known as that of the 
 Ticket Office, were preserved, the rest might safely be destroyed. 
 A Third Schedule of Documents removed from the Office of 
 the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High 
 Admiral to the Public Record Office was accordingly prepared. 
 It was submitted to the Master of the Rolls, who gave his 
 approval, and it was also approved by the First Lord of the 
 Admiralty. 
 
 Owing to the near approach of the prorogation of Parliament, 
 neither of the two last-mentioned Schedules was laid before the- 
 two Houses in the year 1895, but the subsequent proceedings in 
 relation to them will be noticed in my next Report. 
 
 Various documents included in Schedules which have already- 
 been submitted to the two Houses of Parliament have been 
 found, from time to time, during the process of sorting, and have 
 been duly sent to the Controller of Tour Majesty's Stationery 
 Office for destruction. 
 
 Suggestions have been received from Your Majesty's Office of 
 Works touching the destruction of documents of the Insolvent 
 Debtors' Court at Somerset House, in order to give more space 
 
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 to the Inland Revenue Department. As, however, the particular 
 documents have not yet been included in any Schedule, and as 
 the Senior Registrar in Bankruptcy had not expressed any desire 
 to have them included, the Inspecting Officers did not take any 
 action in the matter. 
 
 In sorting the Journals and Logs of the Royal Navy for the 
 purposes of the Schedule in which those of no value are included 
 for destruction, discoveries continue to be made of valuable Logs, 
 &c. not previously known to exist. 
 
 -Application having been received from Your Majesty's 
 Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from the 
 President of the Board of Agriculture, and from the Registrar of 
 Friendly Societies, for an extension of the rides made by the 
 Master of the Rolls under the above-mentioned Act, tj their 
 Departments, a new rule was made and approved as appears 
 below : — 
 
 "I, the Eight Honourable William Baliol, Baron Ester of Esher, in the 
 •county of Surrey, Master of the Rolls, in exercise of the power conferred 
 upon me by the first section of the Public Record Office Act, 1877, do 
 Jhereby make the Rule following : — 
 
 " The Bnles made by me of which Her Majesty declared Her approbation 
 by Order in Council on the 30th day of June 1890 shall extend to docu- 
 ments of the Department of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State 
 for Foreign Affairs, the Board of Agriculture, and of the Registry of 
 Friendly Societies. 
 
 " 11th June 1895. " ESHER, M.B. 
 
 " The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury approve of this 
 Rule. 
 
 " RICIID. K. CAUSTON. 
 " W. A. McABTHUR. 
 
 " Further approved by the heads of the following departments : 
 
 " Foreign Office, KIMBERLEY. 
 
 " Board of Agriculture, HERBERT GARDNER. 
 
 " Registry of Friendly Societies, EDWARD W. BRABROOK." 
 
 § X. CALENDARS PUBLISHED. 
 
 Calendar of the Patent Bolls, preserved in the Public 
 Eecord Office, prepared under the superintendence of the 
 Deputy Keeper of the Records. 
 
 Three volumes of this new series were published in 
 1895:— 
 
 Edward I. 1292-1301. — This volume was prepared 
 by Mr. J. G. Black, B.A. of the Public Record Office. 
 
 Edward III. 1334-1338. — This volume was prepared 
 by Mr, H. F. Isaacson of the Public Record Office. 
 
 Richard II. 1377—1381. — This volume was prepared 
 by Mr. G. J. Mom*, M.A. of the Public Record Office. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
 Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public 
 Record Office, prepared under the superintendence of the 
 Deputy Keeper of the Records. 
 
 One volume of this new series was published in 1895 : — 
 
 Edward II. 1318-1323. — This volume was prepared 
 by Mr. \V. H. Stevenson. 
 
 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the 
 Reign of Charles II. preserved in the Public Record 
 Office. Edited bv Mary Anne Everett Green. 1670. 
 With Addenda, 1660-1670. 
 
 With this volume the late Mrs. Green brought her 
 work on the State Papers of the reign of Charles II. to a 
 close, in accordance with the arrangement made in 1892, 
 that Mr. F. H. Blackburne Daniell should continue the 
 Calendar from the year 1671 downwards. The Addenda 
 papers till nearly one hundred pages, and consist of 
 documents which had been misplaced in the collection ; or 
 were for other reasons not forthcoming when the earlier 
 volumes in the series were being prepared for press. 
 Among other interesting matter in them, there is a 
 detailed description of the great fire, and an account of 
 the sale of the pictures and furniture of Charles I. 
 
 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the 
 Reign of Charles IT., January to November, 1671, 
 preserved in the Pub'ic Record Office. Edited by 
 F. H. Blackburne Daniell, M.A. 
 
 The contents of this volume differ slightly from those of 
 the preceding volumes issued under the editorship of 
 Mrs. Everett Green. The Levant Papers are no longer 
 included, but the other documents calendared are largely 
 increased by the addition of the Irish State Papers and of 
 the Signet Books, which consist chiefly of copies of letters 
 to different officials in Ireland. 
 
 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the 
 Reign of William and Mary, 13th February, 1689 — 
 April, 1690, preserved in the Public Record Office. Edited 
 by William John Hardy, F.S.A. 
 
 In this first volume of Calendar dealing with papers 
 relating to events immediately after the Revolution there 
 are few allusions to the all-important changes which had 
 taken place within a few months. The documents 
 relating to the condition of finance, the army, and the 
 navy, are specially deserving of attention. Of greatest 
 
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 THE FIFTY-SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 
 
 historical importance are perhaps the papers relating to 
 General Kirke's expedition for the relief of Londonderry 
 and to the operations of King William's army in Ireland 
 generally, under Schomberg's command ; the correspond- 
 ence about the Jacobite rising in the Highlands, and the 
 death of Dundee. A large number of documents relating 
 to continental affairs have been found in the series of 
 Domestic State Papers, chiefly among those formerly 
 preserved in the King's private cabinet, known as " King 
 "William's Chest.'' Noticeable among those of which 
 abstracts appear in this volume are the Earl of Portland's 
 letters on the affairs of Holland, and the details given by 
 the Prince of Waldeck of the progress of the allied forces 
 on the Continent. 
 
 "Calendar of State Papers, relating to Ireland, of the 
 Reign of Elizabeth, 1598, January — 1599, March, pre- 
 served in the Public Record Office. Edited by Ernest 
 George Atkinson. 
 
 This volume covers a period of fifteen months only, the 
 most important event occurring within the time upon 
 which new light is thrown by the documents being the 
 defeat of Sir Henry Bagenall by the rebels, near Armagh. 
 This and other reported " overthrows " of the Queen's 
 forces seem to have produced the most marked effect in 
 the province of Munster, the President of which, Sir 
 Thomas Norreys, was continually reporting the excesses 
 committed by the rebels, and asking for reinforcements 
 and supplies. The disgraceful treatment by their officers 
 of the English soldiers sent over to quell the rebellion, in 
 the matter of dier, lodging, and care of such of them as 
 were ill or wounded, is illustrated in many curious papers. 
 
 • 
 
 Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating to 
 English Affairs, existing in the Archives and Collections 
 of Venice and in other Libraries of Northern Italy. 
 Vol. VIII. 1581-1591, Edited by Horatio F. Brown. 
 
 The papers calendared exiat in the the State Archives 
 at the Frari, and in the Mareian Library, at Venice. 
 During the period covered by this volume the Republic 
 maintained no ambassador in London ; and the chief 
 sources of information concerning England are the 
 despatches from Spain, France, and Constantinople, the 
 minutes of the Senate, and the series of news books. The 
 three main lines of English history illustrated by these 
 means are the relations between England and France on 
 the subjects of Elizabeth's proposed marriage with the 
 Duke of Alencon, and the death of Mary, Queen of Scots ; 
 
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 Drake's operations in the West Indies, at the Azores, and 
 on the Spanish seaboard, and the destruction of the 
 Armada; and the missions of William Harborne and 
 Edward Barton to the Porte. 
 
 Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers, 
 relating to the negotiations between england and 
 Spain, preserved at Simancas and elsewhere. Edited by- 
 Don Pascual de Gayangos. Vol. VI. Part II. Henry VIII. 
 1542-1543. 
 
 The long negotiations for a treaty of closer alliance with 
 England, conducted by the Imperial resident Ambassador 
 and his colleagues, form the almost exclusive subject of the 
 present volume. The letters of the Queen of Hungary 
 and of the Emperor to Eustace Chapuys, and those of 
 Chapuys himself, fill the most important part. 
 
 Calendar of Entries in the Papal Eegisters, relating 
 to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters. Vol. II. 
 1305-1342. Edited by W. H. Bliss, B.C.L. 
 
 The text of the present volume has been prepared upon 
 the system described in the preface to the first volume of 
 this series of Calendars. Greater liberty has, however, 
 been taken in the rendering of proper names. The entries 
 in the registers being, for the most part, based upon 
 petitions and other documents from different countries, the 
 scribes constantly misread doubtful letters, having no local 
 or personal knowledge to guide them. 
 
 § XI LISTS AND INDEXES PUBLISHED. 
 
 Although considerable progress has been made with several 
 works belonging to this series, as mentioned above (§ Y.), no List 
 was completed at press during the year 189;">. 
 
 § XII. CHRONICLES AND MEMORIALS OF GREAT 
 BRITAIN AND IRELAND DURING THE 
 MIDDLE AGES. 
 
 The following volume was issued in 1895 : — 
 
 Chronicle of Henry Knighton, Canon of Leicester. 
 Edited by the Rev. Joseph Rawson Lumby, D.D. Lady 
 Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cam- 
 bridge. Vol. II. (Publication sanctioned in 1885.) This 
 volume, which completes the work, deals with the period 
 between the years 1337 and 1395 inclusive, but there is an 
 
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 unfortunate gap for the ten years between 1366 and 1377, 
 and the events of some other years are noticed very briefly. 
 The editor has added a general Introduction and an Index 
 to the two volumes. 
 
 The number of volumes of the Chronicles and Memorials sold 
 for Your Majesty's Stationery Office during the year 1895 was 
 657, making a total of 54,708. 
 
 At the end of the year there were four works belonging to this 
 series in the press, all of which were sanctioned before my 
 appointment to he Deputy Keeper of the Records : — 
 
 Year Books of the Reign of Edward III. Vol. VII. 
 Edited and translated by Luke Owen Pike, M.A. Barrister- 
 at-Law. (Publication sanctioned in 1879.) 
 
 Ranulf de Glanvill ; Tractatus de Legibus et 
 Consuetudintbtjs Anglle. Edited and translated by 
 Sir Travers Twiss, Q.C., D.C.L. (Publication sanctioned in 
 1884.) 
 
 The Red Book of the Exchequer. Edited by Hubert 
 Hall, F.S.A. of the Public Record Office. Parts I. IT. 
 and III. (Publication sanctioned in 1885.) 
 
 Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey. Edited by Thomas 
 Arnold, M.A. Vol. III. (Publication sanctioned in 1885.) 
 
 § XIII. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 Acts of the Privy Council of England. New series 
 Vol. X. A.D. 1577-1578. Vol. XI. A.D. 1578-1580. 
 Edited by John Roche Dasent, C.B. Barrister-at Law, M.A. 
 
 The publication of these two volumes in 1895 shows that 
 this series is making very satisfactory progress. 
 
 § XIV. RESEARCHES IN FOREIGN ARCHIVES. 
 Rome : 
 
 Mr. W. H. Bliss has continued his researches in the 
 archives of the Vatican, being engaged upon the following 
 works : — 
 
 Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, 
 relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal 
 Letters, Vol. II. A.D. 1305-1342. 
 
 This was published in 1895. (See § X.) 
 
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 Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, 
 relating to great britain and ireland. 
 Petitions to the Pope. Vol. I. A.D. 1342-1419. 
 
 The printing of the text was completed in 1895, and the 
 Index was in type at the end of the year. 
 
 Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, 
 relating to great britain and ireland. papal 
 Letters, Vol. III. A.D. 1342-1362. 
 
 Two sheets of this were printed in 1895, and three more 
 sheets were in type at the end of the year. 
 
 Venice : 
 
 Mr. Horatio F. Brown has continued his researches in 
 the Venetian archives. A volume of his Calendar of 
 documents and entries relating to English affairs was 
 published in 1895. (See § X.). Some material for the 
 next volume was received from him in the latter part of the 
 year. 
 
 Spain, Brussels, and Vienna: 
 
 Don Pascual de Gayangos has continued his researches. 
 Another volume of his Calendar of documents relating to 
 English affairs was published in 1895. (See § X.) 
 
 Major Martin A. S. Hume has made considerable progress 
 with his Calendar of documents in Spain relating to English 
 affairs between the years 1580 and 1586. 
 
 France : 
 
 Transcripts of certain despatches from French ambassadors 
 in England have been made at Paris, in order to fill up gaps 
 in the series formed for this Office by the late M. Armand 
 Baschet between the years 1870 and 1885. 
 
 Mr. J. H. Round has been authorised to prepare a 
 Calendar of early documents in France relating to England. 
 His work will be founded upon the series of transcripts 
 made for the old Record Commission and now preserved 
 in this Office, but an examination of original manuscripts at 
 Paris, in Normandy, and elsewhere will also be necessary. 
 
 § XV. HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. 
 
 The work of this Commission has, as in former years, been 
 conducted at Rolls House and in the Public Record Office, the 
 Deputy Keeper of the Records being the Acting Commissioner, 
 and the Secretary of the Public Record Office being the 
 Secretary. 
 
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 Some of the Clerks of the Public Kecord Office have been 
 employed in calendaring the Cecil Manuscripts of the reign o£ 
 Elizabeth from Hatfield House, out of office hours, and others 
 have, also out of office hours, compiled indexes to the Calendars 
 and Reports issued by the Commissioners. 
 
 All which is humbly submitted to Your Majesty. 
 Dated this 15th day of August, 1896. 
 
 (Signed) H. C. MAXWELL LYTE. 
 
 I humbly certify to Your Majesty that this Report is made by 
 the Deputy Keeper of the Records, pursuant to the 17th section 
 of the Statute 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. 
 
 (Signed) ESHER, M.R. 
 
 N Q Jp llQ'GJP - — *^ JKX^i/u.~~, 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 The building recently known as L tbe Rolls Chapel was originally /yjLj, IF 9^ 
 the Chapel of the House of Converts, which was founded by t ,' 
 Henry III. for the reception of Jews who had embraced the JCf 'L u 
 Christian faith. ' The annals of that establishment offer various tIS^o^/o 
 points of interest ; but, in the present Report, I propose to deal y^CXL 
 with those facts only which concern the Chapel. 1 
 
 The earliest specific reference to the House of Converts occurs 
 in a royal charter dated 16th January 1232, by which the 
 founder assigned a yearly sum of 700 marks for the maintenance 
 of the inmates, <e and for the construction of their church and 
 their buildings." 2 Three months later, he made provision for 
 two chaplains celebrating divine service in the chapel which he 
 had caused to be erected (erigi) for the use of the converts, which 
 implies that the building was at any rate begun. 3 
 
 Matthew Paris, the chronicler of St. Albans, states that 
 Henry III., about November, in tiie seventeenth year of his 
 reign, 1 233, built at his own expense " a certain church proper 
 u and sufficient for a conventual congregation with some adjoining 
 " buildings " at the place where he established the House of , o (1 
 
 Converts in London, not far from the Old Temple. 4 Opposite ! 
 to this passage, there is in the margin of the MS. at Corpus 
 Christi College, Cambridge, a coloured drawing of a small 
 church, which has been supposed to be an actual representation 
 of the Chapel of the House of Converts as it existed between 
 1233 and 1259, lhe year of the chronicler's death. 5 It certainly 
 corresponds with the building in question in so far as it shows a 
 nave of three bays, with a square turret projecting southward 
 at the eastern end of it, and a short chancel with lancet windows, 
 but other details have evidently been supplied from memory or 
 from imagination. It should, moreover, be observed that the 
 drawing near the corresponding passage in the shorter Chronicle 
 of Matthew Paris, preserved in the British Museum, is somewhat 
 different. 6 Furthermore, the architectural eVidence throws some 
 doubt upon the theory that the turret was part of the original 
 fabric, as will be seen later in this Report. 
 
 The original design of the chapel appears to have been altered 
 as early as 1275, for, in that year, Edward L authorised John de 
 
 1 Many particulars concerning the inmates of the House of Converts hare been 
 given by Mr. W. J. Hardy in a paper printed in " Middlesex and Hertfordshire 
 Notes and Queries." 
 
 2 Charter Eoll, 16 Hen. Ill.m. 18 (printed in Evmer's "Fcedera," vol. i. p. 201). 
 
 3 Close Roll, 16 Hen. III. m. 14. 
 
 4 " Chronica Majora," (ed. Luard) vol. iii. p. 262. _ C*L. 
 
 5 A woodcut is given in Mr. Hardy's paper.^wuL d S^v-^T2-^ ( *T^7„ M 
 « Royal MS. 14 C. VII. f. 121. A *u*ytj. VjuJtT NfQ Vo<JXil^pJl 
 
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 St. Denys, keeper of the House of Converts, to take stone from 
 the side aisles of their chapei of the Holy Trinity, in order to 
 extend the body thereof lengthways (linealiter). 1 The light of 
 the Holy Trinity in the chapel of the Converts is mentioned in 
 the will of one of the chaplains called Hugh le Convers, which 
 was proved in 1274. 2 The Chapel, however, appears to have 
 been dedicated to the Virgin Mary. 3 Edward I. Edward II. 
 and Edward III. alike made grants for the maintenance and 
 adornment of the fabric. 4 
 
 Out of nine persons who were keepers of the House of Converts 
 between 1307 and 1377, no less than eight were mlso keepers of 
 the Rolls of Chancery, 5 their secular services to the Crown being 
 thus rewarded, in part at least, out of ecclesiastical revenues, 
 and the arrangement proved so convenient that Edward III. in 
 the last year of his reign, definitely assigned the House of Converts 
 to the clerk for the time being in charge of the Rolls of Chancery, 
 granting the patronnge of the offices thus amalgamated to the 
 Chancellor of England or the Keeper of the Great Seal. His 
 letters patent, dated 1377, recite that William de Burstall, the 
 then keeper, had found the House, the Chapel, and other buildings 
 in a ruinous state (quasi totaliter in ruina), and that he had spent 
 a considerable amount of his own money in repairing them. 6 
 This union of the two keeperships, so different in character, was, 
 at the request of Burstall and his successor, confirmed in the 
 following reign. 7 Thenceforward, the Chapel of the House of 
 Converts came to be known popularly as the Rolls Chapel. 
 
 Dr. John Yong, Master of the Rolls and Dean of York, who 
 died in 1516, left directions in his will that his body should "he 
 <( buried in the chapell of the Rollys," and <f that a tombe " should 
 " be made over the place of" his "sepulture." Richard Alington 
 of Lincoln's Inn, was buried in the Chapel in 1561, his wife being 
 i^i^flii^fa sister oi Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, and she was 
 QX^c^€i nrobably buried in the same vault in 1604. The next interment 
 Jl/^^^^Secorded is that of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, Master of the 
 let f^^i ISjZr Rolls, who died in 1611. In that year, his successor, Sir Edward 
 aUJcXl C*- ^Phelip^, set up in the windows four panels of fine heraldic glass, 
 and three more, uniform with them in size, were added in the 
 later part of the seventeenth century. Marriages were some- 
 times performed in the Chapel, as in 1608, when William 
 Cavendish, afterwards Earl of Devonshire, married Christiana, 
 ^(daughter of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, Master of the 
 Rolls, and in 1615, when Sir Julius Caesar, Master of the Rolls, 
 married M rs - H ungate, who was given away by her uncle, 
 
 1 Close Roll, 3 Edw. I. m. 6. 
 
 2 Sharpe's "Wills proved in the Hustings Court," vol. i. p. 17; Patent Roll, 
 9 Edw. II. part i. m. 20. 
 
 3 Patent Poll, 13 Edw. III. part ii. m. 32. 
 
 4 Patent Roll, 8 Edw. I. m. 15 (printed in " Foedera," vol. i. p. 582); Close Roll, 
 7 Edw. II. m. 8 (" Ecedera," vol. ii. p. 247) ; Patent Roll, 4 Edw. III. part i. m. 45. 
 
 5 See Mr. Hardy's paper. 
 G Patent Roll, 51 Edw. III. m. 9. 
 
 " Ancient Petitions, no. 888 ; PateD* Roll, 5 Ric. II. part. i. m. 22; Patent Roll. 
 6 Ric. II. part iii. m. 12. 
 
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 Sir Francis Bacon. The fact that a marriage between John 
 Levingston and Mrs. Marwood took place at the Rolls in 
 February 1619, 1 goes far to discredit the oft-repeated statement 
 that the Chapel was being rebuilt at that time. For this state- 
 ment there is no authority earlier than that of Thomas Pennant, 
 who in his "Account of London," published in 1805, asserts 
 that the Rolls Chapel " was built by Inigo Jones ; begun in 
 " 1617, and finished at the expence of two thousand pounds," 
 and proceeds to say that "it was consecrated by George 
 " Mounteigne, bishop of London, and the sermon preached by 
 <( the famous Doctor Donne." Inasmuch as Mounteigne did not 
 become Bishop of London until September 1621, the alleged 
 consecration could not have taken place any earlier, and the 
 Chapel would presumably have been unfit for use in February 
 1619. It is, however, practically certain that Pennant somehow 
 confounded the Rolls Chapel with the neighbouring Chapel of 
 Lincoln's Inn, for every one of the five statements quoted above 
 with regard to the former proves to be true with regard to the 
 latter. The rebuilding of Lincoln's Inn Chapel was undertaken 
 in 1617, "the consideration of a fit model" for it was "com- 
 mended to Mr. Inditho Jones," the estimate came to upwards of 
 2,000/., the new structure was consecrated by Monteigne, Bishop 
 of London, on Ascension Day 1623, and the sermon on that 
 occasion was preached by Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's. 2 There 
 is, in fact, no evidence whatever to connect Inigo Jones with the 
 Rolls Chapel, and the episcopal registers of the time do not 
 contain any allusion to the alleged consecration. That the building 
 was to a great extent reconstructed in the seventeenth century 
 is unquestionable, but the date of the work is probably forty or 
 fifty years later than that erroneously assigned to it by Pennant. 
 
 The existence of two chaplains and of converts from Judaism, 
 four in number, is mentioned for the last time in 1608, and 
 in the reign of Charles I. we read of a preacher at the Rolls 
 during the law term, admitted by the Master of the Rolls with 
 the approbation of the six Clerks of Chancery. 3 Although the 
 converts for whose benefit the Chapel had been founded by 
 Henry III. had ceased to exist, the Master of the Rolls did not 
 obtain the exclusive use of it. In 1708, it was reported that the 
 preacher received 10/. a term from the Master of the Rolls, and 
 that the salary was made up to about 100/. a year by the Masters 
 in Chancery. 4 As late as the beginning of the present reign, 
 " the Masters, six Clerks, Registrars, and other officers " of the 
 Court of Chancery were entitled to seats in the Rolls Chapel, 
 on payment of fees amounting to about 49/. 2s. Sd. a year, to the 
 preacher, who also received rents for pews let "to persons not 
 entitled to seats." 5 
 
 1 State Papers, Domestic, James I. Vol. 105, Nos. 71, 83, 103, 124. 
 
 2 Spilsbury's " Lincoln's Inn," pp. 66, 81 ; State Papers, Domestic, James I. 
 Vol. 145, Mo. 65 (printed in "Court and Times of James the First," vol. ii. 
 p. 402). 
 
 3 State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. Vol. 406, No. 58. 
 
 4 Hatton's " New View of London," p. 536. 
 
 5 7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. cap. 46. 
 
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 Under the Presbyterian regime, it was resolved by the Lords- 
 and Commons in Parliament, in December 1645, "that the 
 " Chappell of the Kolls, the two Serjeants Innes and the fower 
 " Jnnes of Court shall be a Province of themselves/' " that the 
 " Presbytery of the Chappell of the Rolls, the two Serjeants 
 " Innes and the fower Innes of Court shall be divided into two 
 " classis," and " that Lincolnes Inne, Graves Inne and Serjeants 
 " Inne and (sic) Chancery Lane and the Rolls shall be one 
 " classis." 1 
 
 Almost immediately after the Restoration, the Master of the 
 Rolls was empowered by Act of Parliament to ^rant leases of 
 portions of his official estate ; but " the Chappell of the Rolls ' : 
 was specifically excepted from the scope of it, and there are 
 indications elsewhere that it was regarded as national property. 
 
 At some time in the middle of the seventeenth century, the 
 Rolls Chapel was seriously mutilated. No written record has 
 been found showing the date or the nature of the work done, and 
 we have to rely exclusively upon architectural evidence. From 
 this it appears probable that the chancel was entirelv demolished 
 and a new wall built at the eastern end of the nave, that the 
 other three walls were considerably altered, that a new roof was 
 made over the nave, that most of the mediaeval windows and doors 
 were blocked up, and that two or three monuments and four or 
 five panels of heraldic glass were taken dow T n and refixed. 
 
 Particulars will be given later in this Report, but it may be 
 desirable to suggest here that, if all these changes were made at 
 one time, the date must be sought between 1648 and 1667. 
 That it cannot be earlier than the middle of the seventeenth 
 century seems clear from the general character of certain frag- 
 ments of stone and marble which were used for filling up two of 
 the windows on the south side. With a little trouble it has been 
 found possible to put together several pieces of an oval shield, 
 surrounded by scroll-work and stiff drapery, which bears the 
 following arms : — On a chevron between three annulets, a 
 crescent, impaling, on a saltire a rose ; and this proves to be the 
 shield of George Goring, Earl of Norwich, w T ho married Mary, 
 daughter of Edward Nevill, Lord Abergavenny. Inasmuch as 
 both these persons were buried in Westminster Abbey, it is 
 difficult to account for their arms being found at the Rolls Chapel,, 
 except upon the theory that the mason employed to fill up the 
 windows supplemented the material which was ready to hand 
 with useless fragments from his own workshop. However this 
 may be, it is certain that the Countess of Norwich died in 1648 
 and the Earl in 1663, and so the former year appears to be the 
 earliest possible date of the closing of the windows. 
 
 That the chancel had disappeared by 1667, is clear from 
 Hollar's map of London, published in that year, 2 which is con- 
 
 1 " Journals of the House of Lords," vol. viii. p. 50. 
 
 2 The reduced facsimile in Loftie's " History of London " is taken from a unique 
 copy in the Print Room of the British Museum. 
 
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 firmed by the larger map issued by Ogilby and Morgan ten years 
 later. It may possibly have been injured in the Great Fire of 
 London, and consequently demolished. A letter received at 
 Clay don House on the 9th of September 1666, contains the 
 following passage : — " Your friends in Chancery Lane are safe, but 
 " the fire was near them, behind the Rowles, where it gott a great 
 i( check, so that we hope it is stopt." 1 * Among other premises 
 which were either burned or pulled down at that time, mention is 
 made of several tenements held by John Howe, gentleman, " situate 
 " in Fetter Lane, built upon part of the garden called the Rolls 
 " Garden ; " 2 a messuage held by Benjamin Hill, citizen and 
 clockmaker, " built upon a parcell of ground, parcell of the garden 
 called the Rolls Garden; " 3 " foure new houses/' on the west 
 side of Fetter Lane, " over against unto a certain stret called 
 New Street," and extending westwards from 106 to 123 feet "to 
 the wall of the said Rolls Garden ; " i and also the St. John's Head 
 tavern in Chancery Lane, upon the estate of the Bishop of 
 Chichester. 5 
 
 In this connexion it may be mentioned that some fragments of 
 wrought stone work not older than the fifteenth century, which 
 were found in the walls of the chapel, show signs of having been 
 exposed to the action of fire. At the same time it is clear from 
 other fragments that the interior cannot have been burned, and 
 Hollar's map, already mentioned, shows trees growing in the 
 Rolls Garden. Furthermore, a date somewhat earlier than 1666 
 for the removal of the monuments is suggested by the fact that 
 some hexameter lines in praise of Dr. Yong, which are given in 
 Weaver's Funeral Monuments, which was published in 1631, are 
 not mentioned in the first edition of Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales 
 which was printed shortly before the Great Fire of London. 
 
 Edward Stillingfleet, who afterwards became Bishop of 
 Worcester, was Preacher at the Rolls in 1664. Eleven years 
 later, Gilbert Burnet was appointed to that office, but he was 
 ejected from it under somewhat remarkable circumstances. Having 
 occasion to preach in the Chapel on the Fifth of November 1684, 
 on the anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, he 
 took as his text " Save me from the lion's mouth, thou that hast 
 heard me from the horns of the unicorns." According to his 
 own positive statement he <c made no reflection " on " the two 
 supporters of the King's scutcheon," but he showed " how well 
 popery might be compared to the lion's mouth," and mentioned 
 " that wish of King James the First against any of his posterity 
 " that should endeavour to bring that religion in among us." A 
 report of the sermon was carried to the Court, and there the text 
 was thought to be " levelled against the King's coat of arms." 
 
 1 For this extract I am indebted to the kindness of Lady Verney. 
 
 2 lire Decrees at the Guildhall, vol. i. f. 507. 
 
 3 Add. MS. in the British Museum, 5064, f. 258. 
 
 4 Add. MS. 5063, f. 192. 
 
 5 Add. MS. 5067, f. 301. 
 
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 Accordingly, at the end of the law-term, the Lord Keeper wrote 
 to Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the Rolls, saying "that the 
 " King considered the Chapel of the Rolls as one of his own 
 " chapels," and that having dismissed Burnet from the Court 
 " as a person disaffected to his government/' he would not have him 
 suffered lc to serve any longer in that chapel." Burnet adds that 
 his <c employment at the Rolls would have fallen in course within 
 a month if the Court had delayed " his ejection " from it in such 
 u an open manner, for that worthy man, Sir Harbottle Grimston, 
 " died about Christmas." 1 This explanation is interesting as 
 showing that the position of Preacher at the Rolls was not 
 regarded as a benefice, and that it naturally determined upon the 
 occurrence of a vacancy in the office of the Master of the Rolls. 
 
 Two other eminent preachers at the Rolls deserve a passing 
 notice in this place — Francis Atterbury, who was appointed in 
 1709, and Joseph Butler, who was appointed in 1718, It may 
 also be well to state that, although a Liberty of the Rolls is 
 mentioned in 1664, 2 the Rolls Estate is often described in 
 documents of much later date as being in the parish of 
 St. Dunstan in the West, and that it was in the church of 
 St. Dunstan that Sir Harbottle Grimston and other officers of the 
 Court of Chancery made their formal communion soon after the 
 passing of the Test Act. 3 
 
 In « A New View of London," by E. Hatton, published in 1708, 
 we read : — " The Chapel is an ancient structure, built of brick, 
 " boulder, and some freestone (the doors and windows are of the 
 " Gothic order), roof covered with slate. The ornament of the 
 <e presses for Rolls on the inside is columns and pilasters of 
 " the Ionic and composite orders. It is in le[ngth] 60 foot, 
 " br[eadth] 33." The writer proceeds to mention the monuments, 
 and adds that " at the N.W. angle of this chapel is a bench, &c. 
 " where the Master of the Rolls hears causes in Chancery out of 
 es term time." 
 
 John Strype, in his edition of Stow's "Survey of London," 
 mentions " the old and decayed house " of the Rolls as " much 
 wanting new building " and expresses an opinion that the chapel also 
 "would admit of new building." This was published in 1720; 
 but it must have been written some years earlier, for in 1717, 
 Colin Campbell, the architect, was appointed e - to pull down the 
 ei House of Converted Jews in Chancery Lane and build a new 
 " edifice for the use of the Master of the Rolls, and likewise to 
 u repair and improve the Chappel of the Rolls and other appur- 
 " tenances of the said House." The whole cost of building the 
 Rolls House between the years 1717 and 1724 inclusive, was 
 defrayed out of the Exchequer ; but although minute accounts 
 have been preserved of the expenditure on labour and materials, 
 they do not afford any information as to the exact nature of the 
 
 1 " History of bis Own Times." Sir Harbottle Grimston died 2 January 1685. 
 
 2 " Middlesex Kecords " (ed. Jeaffreson), vol. iii. p. 337. 
 
 3 20 April, 1673. Harl. MS. 1472. 
 
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 alterations then made in the Chapel. 1 Architectural evidence, 
 however, shows that Colin Campbell must have been instructed to 
 connect the Rolls House with the Chapel, so that the Master of 
 the Rolls and his family might be able to attend divine service 
 without going out of doors. This he did, by erecting between 
 them a small lobby, over a narrow vaulted passage sloping down 
 eastwards from Rolls Yard to the basement of the new mansion, 
 and by cutting a large arched opening through the north wall of 
 the Chapel. The latter operation involved the destruction of the 
 lower part of the only remaining lancet window of the thirteenth 
 century, and the closing of the upper part. Inasmuch as the 
 floor of the lobby was several feet above the pavement of the 
 Chapel, there were no means of communication from the one to 
 the other ; but a raised pew was provided for the Master of the 
 Rolls, which formed a sort of gallery projecting from the north 
 wall of the Chapel and accessible only through the lobby. It was 
 probably at this date that a Gothic doorway on the north side of 
 the chapel was demolished, and a new entrance substituted for it 
 at the west end of the building, almost opposite to the gateway 
 from Chancery Lane into Rolls Yard. 
 
 An engraving by B. Cole in the 1756 edition of Maitland's 
 " History of London," shows that at that date there was only 
 one window in the south wall of the Rolls Chapel, the two 
 eastern ones having been blocked up as mentioned above. The 
 turret still had a low four-sided spire, and there were two 
 buttresses dividing the south wall into three bays. These 
 buttresses, however, were removed, and the turret was altogether 
 hidden from view, when, pursuant to an address of the House of 
 Commons, in 1784, a building was erected immediately south of 
 the Chapel, for the use of the Clerk of the Records in the Rolls 
 Chapel, and of the Secretaries of the Master of the Rolls. 2 
 Then, or very soon afterwards, a thin external layer of flints 
 was placed over all those rubble walls which were not protected 
 from the weather by adjoining buildings. 
 
 There is no record of the date at which the Chapel of the 
 House of Converts began to be used as a repository of the 
 national archives. The proper place for the permanent preservation 
 of the rolls of Chancery was the Tower of London, and thither 
 they were from time to time transmitted. 3 Some were, however, 
 temporarily kept at the residence of their custodian, 4 and it is 
 probable that the number of these increased after the assignment 
 of the House of Converts to the Keeper of the Rolls of Chancery 
 in the later part of the fourteenth century. The earliest 
 reference to the House of Converts in this connexion is in 1558, 
 when a sum of 50/. was paid to the Master of the Rolls, " for so 
 
 1 Audit Office Declared Accounts, bundle 2494, roll 407. 
 
 2 " Journals of the House of Commons," vol. xl. pp. 419, 427. 
 
 3 Close Kolls, 11 Edw. III. part 2, m. 23, and 14 Edw. III. part 2, m. lOd. 
 
 4 Close Roll, 15 Edw. III. part 1, m. 34c?. (printed in " Fcedera," vol ii 
 p. 1151.) 
 
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 " muche by him bestowed uppon the making of presses to kepe 
 P the recordes in the Rolles," but the Chapel is not specifically 
 " mentioned. 1 
 
 Nine years later, Queen Elizabeth^ considering that it was 
 not meet that the records of her Chancery, which were accounted 
 a principal member of the treasure belonging to herself, and to 
 her crown and realm, should remain in private houses, directed 
 Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, to deliver to the 
 keeper of the records in the Tower of London all the rolls and 
 records of the Chancery from the reign of Richard III. to that 
 of Edward VI. inclusive. 2 
 
 It is clear, however, that this mandate was for some reason 
 disregarded. John Stow, writing in 1598, mentions "a fair 
 " church now used and called the chapel for the custody of the 
 <fi rolles and records of Chauncerie." 3 Powell's " Directions for 
 Search of Records," published in 1622, states that certain in- 
 formation must be sought " in the Chaple of the Rolls," 4 and 
 again, in 1645, we read that the Decrees in Chancery were kept 
 there. 5 In 1671, and afterwards in 1712, some Chancery Bills 
 and Answers were ordered to be sent to the Tower of London, 
 not avowedly because that was the proper place for them, but 
 because there was " no place in the Chapel of the Rolls to lay 
 the same in." 6 
 
 From a return made by the Clerk of the Chapel of the Rolls 
 in 1731, it appears that he had the actual custody of the principal 
 records of the Chancery from the reign of Richard III. to that 
 of William III. Some of these were kept in five presses ie con- 
 veniently placed in the body of the chapel " against the walls, 
 others " in several benches in the body of the chapel," and others 
 again " in a large room over the chapel," partly on shelves and 
 partly on the floor. Although he himself appears to have been 
 fairly satisfied with the condition of things, a Committee of the 
 House of Commons reported that the documents in the Chapel 
 were " exposed too much to the heat of the sun in the summer 
 season, and to dampness in the winter." 7 
 
 Another Committee of the House of Commons reported, in 
 1772, that the records in the Chapel were " in danger of destruc- 
 tion, by being placed close to the walls " which were damp, and 
 that those in the room over the Chapel were "continually 
 receiving injuries " from rain and heat alike, and that the floor 
 would scarcely bear their weight. They therefore recommended 
 " that the body of the said Chapel or such part thereof as may 
 be found necessary " should " be forthwith fitted up for receiving 
 
 1 State Papers, Domestic, Docquets, vol. i. 
 
 2 Ayloffe's Calendar of Ancient Charters," p. xxviii. 
 
 3 " Survey of London." 
 
 4 Page 13. 
 
 5 " Sixth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission," App. p. 64. 
 
 e " Reports from Committees of the House of Commons," vol, i. pp. 534, 535 
 " Ibid, pp.446, 520, 521. 
 
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 " the same records, so as to prevent further damage to the same, 
 " leaving a sufficient space for the celebration of divine service," 
 and the House resolved that an address should be presented to 
 the King, praying that he would give directions " for the better 
 preservation of the records in the Rolls Chapel." 1 A great part 
 of the body of the Chapel was accordingly fitted up with presses 
 soon afterwards, and the house built on the south side of the 
 Chapel about fifteen years later was utilised for searches and 
 copying. 2 
 
 In 1833, Sir Robert Inglis and Mr. Hallam visited the Rolls 
 Chapel., on behalf of their colleagues on the Record Commission, 
 and drew up tiie following statement : — 
 
 (t It was fitted up in 1812 by the late Sir Thomas Plumer, 
 when Master, and exhibits a most remarkable specimen of the 
 extremest economy of space, the very seats of the Chapel being in 
 fact cases for Records ; and access to the Records in the upper 
 part of the Chapel being by a gallery so narrow that the ladder 
 necessary to mount higher can hardly be placed in safety. 
 
 ** On the ground floor are the Patent Rolls, in a spot so dark 
 that no one can see to read any one there ; and a candle is 
 properly not allowed. They can be removed, therefore, only by 
 guess matured into habit. On the ground floor are also some of 
 the early Close Rolls. 
 
 " In the gallery, and the room above, are the other Close 
 Rolls. 
 
 " In the room above are also the Parliament Rolls, and the 
 Decrees of the Court, from the beginning of the reign of 
 George III. There is some space, but there would be danger in 
 further loading the floor. 
 
 " In a narrow passage round this room are Inquisitions Post 
 Mortem, scarcely accessible ; some are repairing and binding. 
 There are here also Confirmation Rolls." 3 
 
 If, as stated above, the Chapel was fitted up by Sir Thomas 
 Plumer, the date — 1812 — cannot be correct, as he did not become 
 Master of the Rolls until 1818. The true date is probably 1821. 
 At any rate, it was between 1820 and 1824 that heraldic glass 
 was provided for the east window. 
 
 An important change was made in 1837, by a statute which 
 enacted that the whole of the Rolls estate, including the Chapel, 
 should thenceforth be vested in the Crown, and should not again 
 be granted to the Master of the Rolls for the time being. 
 Provision was, however, made for the performance of divine 
 worship " in the said present chapel, or upon, or near the site 
 thereof," a yearly sum of 225/. for the salaries of the preacher, 
 the reader, and the clerk, being charged upon the Consolidated 
 Fund. 4 The Act does not clearly specify the person or persons 
 
 1 " Journals of the House of Commons," vol. xxxiii. p. 791. 
 
 2 " Report from the Select Committee on the Public Records," 1800, p. 88. 
 
 3 " Proceedings of the Commissioners on the Public Records," p. 283. 
 
 4 7 Will. IV. and I Vict. cap. 46. 
 
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 for whose benefit the religious services were to be maintained- 
 The Master of the Rolls was, indeed, entrusted with the apportion- 
 ment of the yearly grant of 225 1. ; but, on giving up the titular 
 office of Keeper of the House of Converts, he lost the right to 
 live on the premises in the building known as the Rolls 
 House. Nevertheless, the letters patent issued in favour of 
 Sir John Romilly, in 1851, being inadvertently modelled on the 
 form used on previous occasions, professed to grant to him for 
 life " the custody of the House, or Hospital, of Converts, for the 
 " habitation of the Keeper, or Master, o£ the Rolls, Books, Writs, 
 " and Records " of the High Court of Chancery. The mistake 
 was not repeated in 1873, when Sir George Jessel was appointed 
 Master of the Rolls without reference to the House of Converts. 
 
 Sir Francis Palgrave, the first Deputy Keeper of the Records, 
 describes the Rolls Chapel, in 1842, as " becoming more and 
 more inconveniently crowded " with documents, and mentions 
 some recent alterations made by the Commissioners of Woods and 
 Forests " in the dark passages under the galleries containing the 
 " Patent and Close Rolls, for the purpose of admitting more 
 " light and air," by the substitution of iron gratings for the floor 
 boards of the galleries. 1 Four years later, he describes the presses 
 for records as " partly standing against the walls, and partly at a 
 small distance from them." The Chapel was at that time " ceiled 
 with stucco, in imitation of stone," and the space between the 
 ceiling and the timber roof above was " filled with documents." 2 
 Some new racks were erected <c in the Record room in the roof of 
 the Rolls Chapel" in 1846, 3 and transmissions of documents from 
 the House of Lords, from the Petty Bag Office, from the 
 Enrolment Office, and from other places, continued to be made to 
 the Rolls Chapel until 1859. 4 
 
 Soon after the completion of the first block of the Public 
 Record Office, in 1856, the records of the Chancery, previously 
 kept at the Tower of London, were removed into it, and these 
 were followed, within the next few T years, by successive instal- 
 ments of analogous but later documents from the Rolls Chapel. 5 
 By the end of 1861, consequently, there were no records left in 
 the body of the Chapel. 6 The last to remain were those which 
 were stowed away in lockers, which, on Sundays in term time, 
 served as seats for some of the congregation. The room in the 
 roof was not finally cleared until 1895. 
 
 In the meantime, soon after the removal of the principal sex'ies 
 of Records from the body of the Chnpel, the Office of Works and 
 Public Buildings undertook extensive alterations therein. The 
 
 1 "Third Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records," pp. 15, 25. 
 
 2 " Seventh Report," p. 28. 
 
 a "Eighth Report," p. 15; "Ninth Report," p. 4. 
 
 4 " Twenty-first Report," App., p. 48. Some Rolls of Parliament were received 
 as late as 1860. " Twenty-second Report," App. p. 54. 
 
 5 " Eighteenth Report," p. 3 ; "Nineteenth Report," p. 2; "Twentieth Report," 
 p. 6 ; " Twenty-first Report," p. 7. 
 
 6 " Twenty-third Report," p 86. 
 
To -face -p. 29. 
 
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 galieries on the southern and western sides, the presses for 
 Records, and the raised pew of the Master of the Rolls were alike 
 taken down, and the arched opening into this pew was filled up. 
 The pavement was for the most part relaid, new pews were 
 provided, the inner walls were replastered and painted, and, in 
 order to give an ecclesiastical character to the building, a vaulted 
 roof, in the late Gothic style, was made of lath and plaster. 
 
 The foregoing account shows that the Rolls Chapel was used 
 not only for divine worship, but also for the preservation of the 
 records of Chancery. Its third character was that of a meeting- 
 place for creditors and debtors. In 1641 it is mentioned as the 
 place at which Charles I. was to repay a loan of 2,000/. made to 
 him by Sir John Lambe, 1 and four years later a Mrs. Staveley 
 sent her agents thither to receive the alimony which her husband 
 had been ordered to pay. 2 
 
 Recently, the Rolls Chapel was the place at which mortgagees 
 or their representatives were ordered to wait for an hour, or some- 
 times for two hours, before proceeding to foreclosure. A repre- 
 sentative of the Public Record Office had to be present, and the 
 fees received by him for such attendances went to the credit of the 
 Department. This anomalous system was terminated in December 
 1889, when the Lord Chancellor agreed to the substitution of a 
 room in the Royal Courts of Justice for the Rolls Chapel as the 
 try sting-place for mortgagors and mortgagees. 3 
 
 Two years later, it was enacted that the yearly payment of 
 225/. for the expenses of the Rolls Chapel, which had been 
 charged upon the Consolidated Fund in 1837, but which had in 
 recent years been defrayed out of the Parliamentary Vote for 
 Civil Services, should altogether cease on the next vacancy in the 
 preachership. 4 The House of the Converts from Judaism had 
 long since disappeared ; the Master of the Rolls had surrendered 
 his official estate to the Crown, and had furthermore severed his 
 connexion with the Chancery on becoming a judge of the Court 
 of Appeal ; and the Masters in Chancery had been abolished. 
 There was therefore no normal congregation on Sundays, and the 
 number of strangers attending morning prayer was rarely more 
 than five, while it was often two or even one. No service has 
 been performed in the Chapel since the Long Vacation of 1895. 
 
 The result of successive repairs and alterations at the Rolls 
 Chapel was that, seven years ago, there was not a particle of 
 mediaeval work visible within or without. The inner roof was of 
 lath and plaster, put up about forty years ago, and the inner walls 
 were lined throughout with plaster. The external walls were 
 covered with a thin layer of flint, except in places where there 
 were patches of comparatively modern brick, stone, and stucco. 
 The buttresses had been removed or mutilated, and the four large 
 
 1 State Tapers, Domestic, Charles I. Vol. 467, No. 5. 
 
 2 " Sixth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission/' App. p. 53. 
 
 3 " Sixteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records," p. 15. 
 
 4 54 & 55 Vict. cap. 24, s. 5. 
 
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 ■windows were devoid of tracery. Altogether it was a mean and 
 ugly building, entirely without architectural merit, and interesting 
 mainly on account of its monuments and its panels of stained glass 
 Even these could not be properly seen, the former being in the 
 eastern part of the Chapel, which was very dark on the brightest 
 day in summer, and the best glass being high up in the western 
 window. 
 
 In 1889. the house known as 1, Rolls Yard, which adjoined 
 the south side of the Chapel, was demolished, arid the removal of 
 it disclosed some features of which the existence was not 
 previously known. Further operations were carried on in 1895, 
 with a view to finding mediaeval remains and ascertaining what 
 portions, if any, of the structure could be retained. The Act of 
 1837, already quoted, clearly contemplated a possible demolition 
 of the Chapel, 1 and in the plans for the Public Record Office 
 made by Sir James Pennethorne in 1850, the whole site of the 
 Chapel had been allocated to rooms intended to serve as- 
 repositories of documents. On further consideration however, 
 it was thought that it might be possible to incorporate the Chapel 
 in the new block of the Public Record Office, removing only the 
 roof, which, being made of wood, could not be permitted to form 
 part of a Lmiiding which had to be fire-proof. A design was 
 accordingly prepared for erecting massive piers on the south side 
 of it, which would have allowed the old wall to show between 
 them. There are at least two precedents for such a course, one 
 at Southampton, where a Norman house was incorporated in the 
 town walls of the fourteenth century, the other at Rimini, where 
 the walls and windows of a mediaeval church show under the 
 Renaissance arches erected by Alberti for Sigismondo Malatesta. 
 This scheme was, however, abandoned when it was found that the 
 old walls we»e thoroughly rotten, stonework and mortar having 
 alike decayed with age. The rubble walls were, in fact, rent 
 with long fissures, and there was no architectural work that could 
 be " restored " without being altogether remade, mostly from 
 entirely new designs. Under these circumstances, the First 
 Commissioner of Works decided, with great reluctance, that the 
 Chapel should be pulled down. Special treatment will, however, 
 be givt n to that portion of the new building which will occupy 
 it s site, and the old monuments and stained glass will be refixed 
 therein. 
 
 Having watched the operations from day to day, I now submit 
 a detailed account of the structure, which could not have been 
 written if the walls had not been demolished. Many of the 
 more interesting features were actually discovered during the 
 present year, but it seems better to describe them now than to 
 postpone all mention of them to a future Report. The series of 
 accompanying illustrations does not represent the state of the 
 Chapel at any one date, the object of tbem being mainly to make 
 the following account intelligible. 
 
 1 7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. cap. 46. 
 
To face -p. 31 
 
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 The upper part of the west wall was of red brick, and 
 contained a plain square-headed window, which gave light to the 
 room over the vaulting of the Chapel. After the removal of the 
 outer coating of flint, the lower and greater part of the wall was 
 found to be of rubble. A number of squared stones, evidently 
 » of older date, had been inserted casually here and there, and the 
 faces of some of these had been scored with intersecting lines, 
 so as to make them appear no larger than their neighbours. In the 
 middle of trie wall was a large pointed window, without any traces 
 of mullions or of Gothic mouldings. Under it was a plain round- 
 headed doorway of Portland oolite, painted stone colour, which 
 served as the main entrance to the Chapel. At the two angles 
 were plain buttresses projecting westward encased with slabs of 
 stone, mended in places with stucco. In the heart of the west 
 wall, about a yard above the ground level, was found the head 
 of an ecclesiastic of the thirteenth century carved in stone, which 
 had been damaged by fire, This seems to have been originally 
 the dripstone of a hood moulding over a doorway or a window. 
 The whole wall was, moreover, found to be resting on a layer of 
 wrought stones which appear to have been portions of the jambs 
 of a doorway of the thirteenth century. 
 
 . In the absence of direct documentary evidence, the date of the 
 west wall cannot be stated with certainty. Upon architectural 
 evidence, however, the upper part may safely be ascribed to the 
 middle of the seventeenth century. The lower part may have 
 been older, but it clearly was not part of the original structure of 
 Henry III. The doorway probably dated from the reign of 
 George I. 
 
 The upper part of the south wall was of red brick, with a plain 
 coping of stone. Immediately below the brickwork was found an 
 irregular layer of wrought stones, the inner faces of which showed 
 mouldings of the thirteenth century, the exposed faces being quite 
 plain. Some of these had evidently been taken from the chancel- 
 arch described below ; others were fragments of windows and of 
 vaulting-ribs, a few of these retaining traces of mediaeval colouring. 
 The remainder of the wall, which overhung its base by about 
 6 inches, was of rubble and thoroughly unsound. If it had not 
 been tied inwards by the wooden beams of the roof, it might have 
 fallen down Jong ago, and it had to be shored up before the 
 commencement of the demolition. 
 
 The south wall had only one buttress at the western end, but 
 there were traces of two others, which were removed in 1784, 
 when the house known as 1, Rolls Yard, was built against part 
 of it. This buttress was, like those of the west wall, encased in 
 slabs of plain stone and mended with stucco. Close to it were 
 found the mutilated remains of a pointed doorway, the sill of 
 which was about a foot below the modern level of the floor of the 
 Chapel. It can hardly have been part of the original structure 
 for some of the stones of which it was composed had been used 
 before for some other purpose. After a considerable period, 
 presumably in the middle of the seventeenth century, an iron grille 
 
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 was, for some unexplained reason, placed in the head of it, and 
 the outer mouldings were hacked off in order to be used for 
 filling up the lower part. At a still later date, the whole doorway 
 was filled up with rubble, which was in its turn covered with 
 flints in or about 1784. 
 
 Almost immediately over this doorway buried in the thickness 
 of the wall, was a window with plain chamfered mouldings and 
 a segmental head, which could not have been older than the 
 seventeenth century, and which may indeed have been even later 
 in date. On the removal, however, of the plaster with which the 
 inner splays were lined, it was found that the inner arch was of 
 chinch, slightly pointed, and possibly a work of the time of 
 Edward III. Of tracery or mullions there were no traces 
 whatever. 
 
 In the middle bay of the south wall was found a window., of 
 which the inner arch was of chinch, slightly pointed, like its 
 western neighbour. The outer jambs and arch were, however, 
 of Caen stone, possibly inserted by William de Burstall in the 
 reign of Edward III. At some subsequent date, the lower part 
 of the window had been filled up with brick within and with rubble 
 without, and two plain slabs of roach Portland stone had been 
 placed across it in order to form a sill to the upper part still left 
 open. Still later, presumably in the middle of the seventeenth 
 century, the tracery had been demolished, and the upper part of 
 the window filled up, partly with brick and partly with rubble in 
 which were some fragments of its own former mullions. 
 
 In the eastern bay of the south wall were found the remains 
 of a window which probably dated from the early part of the 
 reign of Edward I. It originally had three lights and two open 
 spandrels, the central light being a good deal higher than the side 
 lights, which had a single cusp on .either side. The jambs and 
 mullions were of Caen stone which had suffered little from age, 
 but which had been barbarously mutilated when the window was 
 closed up, presumably in the middle of the seventeenth century. 
 When the monument of Richard Alington was placed imme- 
 diately behind this window, the inner part of it was filled up 
 with brickwork, and the outer part was filled up with such 
 materials as came ready to hand. Among these were not only 
 fragments of some of its own mullions and pieces of tracery in 
 Caen stone belonging to a large window of the later part of the 
 fourteenth century, but also fragments of marble columns and 
 other vestiges of monuments which cannot have been older than 
 the seventeenth century. It can hardly be supposed that these 
 monuments could have been deliberately destroyed so soon after 
 the date of their erection, and so I venture to suggest that the 
 fragments discovered were imperfect pieces of work which had 
 been lying in the mason's yard until utilised for filling up the 
 window. In this connexion, I have already called attention to 
 the fact that the Earl and Countess of Norwich, whose arms were 
 carved on some of the stones found here, were both buried in 
 Westminster Abbey. 
 
To fuve-p. 33. 
 
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DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
 33 
 
 In the heart of the eastern part of the south wall, immediately 
 behind the monument of Kichard Alington, there were several 
 fragments of an Early English string-course and other pieces of 
 wrought stone-work mixed with rubble. It would, however, be 
 difficult to determine whether that portion of the wall dates from 
 the time of Edward I. or Edward II L or merely from the middle 
 of the seventeenth century. 
 
 At the eastern end of the south wall was a square turret 
 projecting southward, the southern and western sides of which 
 were revealed in 1889, by the demolition of the house known as 
 1, Rolls Yard. There was a comparatively modern doorway lead- 
 ing into it from that house, and another doorway leading from it 
 into the south eastern corner of the Chapel. The quoins were of 
 Caen stone, very much decayed, and the portion above the roof of 
 the adjoining house had been covered with stucco as a protection 
 against the weather. The rest of the walls were of rubble, except 
 below the modern level of the ground, where there were several 
 courses of ashlar. A plain square-headed slit on the east and 
 another on west formerly gave light to a spiral staircase within, 
 leading up to the room above the chapel and on to the roof. The 
 whole turret has been supposed to be part of the original 
 structure of Henry III. but, on removing the winding steps it was 
 found that one of the lowest of them was resting on an Early 
 English base for a shaft. Altogether it is very doubtful whether 
 any part of the turret, except perhaps the ashlar work beJow the 
 modern level, was built before the reign of Edward I. 
 
 The upper part of the east wall was of brick, with a square 
 window in it, corresponding with that in the west wall, and giving 
 light to the room over the Chapel. The lower part was mainly of 
 rubble, with a later coating of rlinf. There were two buttresses, 
 presumably of the seventeenth century, but made of old materials. 
 In the middle was a large window with a segmental head, 
 evidently of no great antiquity. Here it was that one of the most 
 interesting discoveries was made while the Chapel was being 
 demolished, the removal of some of the rubble revealing the 
 existence in the core of the wall of a fine chancel arch of the time 
 of Henry III. the very existence of which had not been suspected. 
 The apex of it had been removed, presumably in the seventeenth 
 century, to make room for the window, but the stones fco removed 
 were fortunately found in the north and south walls, and there 
 was enough standing in situ to show the exact line of curvature. 
 Some of the internal ashlar also remained on the north side. The 
 arch, which was of clunch, sprang from corbels of delicate early 
 English foliage carrying abaci of Purbeck marble. A notch cut 
 through the mouldings on either side of the western face of the 
 arch showed the level at which a beam for the rood or part of a 
 rood-loft had been inserted. After the removal of the rubble and 
 brick filling up the space between the arch and the window, the 
 former was traced down to its base, which proved to be about 
 
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 THE FIFTY-SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 
 
 two feet below the level of the pavement of that part oi the 
 Chapel. To have cleared the whole space under the newly found 
 arch down to the original level would have necessitated the 
 destruction" of several vaults and graves and the removal of the 
 coffins in them, and as this course was not considered expedient, 
 the arch was eventually taken down. Every stone of it was, 
 however, numbered and put away, and the intention is to re-erect 
 it on a higher level near its original position, completing it with 
 the fragments which were discovered in the north and south walls 
 of the Chapel. 
 
 Close to the chancel arch there were found buried behind the 
 plastering of the south wall the mutilated remains of a piscina, 
 which must have belonged to an adjoining altar under the rood- 
 beam. Although standing in its proper position, it cannot have 
 formed part of the original structure, inasmuch as two of the 
 stones of which it was composed had earlier mouldings on sides 
 which were imbedded in the wall. 
 
 The north wall of the Chapel was divided into four bays by 
 three buttresses, which may have been erected in the reign of 
 Henry III. Their nosings and the lower portions of them had, 
 however, been removed, and they were resting upon brick arches 
 of the reign of George I. spanning the passage which led down 
 from Kolls Yard to the basement of Rolls House. 
 
 The eastern part of the north wall was of brick in two thick- 
 nesses, of which the inner was certainly the older, having been 
 put up in order to stop an entrance into a gallery or perhaps into 
 a rood loft. The outer layer appears to have been added in the 
 reign of George I. 
 
 In the second bay of the north wall were found the decayed 
 remains of a three-light window of the time of Edward I. cor- 
 responding in design with that opposite to it in the south wall, 
 but made of clunch, the mouldings of which had crumbled away. 
 The upper part had been clumsily restored at some unknown date. 
 Several of the stones used in the lower part of the jambs were 
 found to bear on the inside, that is to say on parts imbedded in 
 the w r all which were not visible until removed, mouldings of the 
 time of Henry III. doubtless taken from the side aisles in 1275. 
 The central light and the western light of this window appear to 
 have been blocked up from the inside with brickwork when the 
 monument of Lord Bruce of Kinloss was set up against it, but 
 there are grounds for believing that the eastern light was left 
 open somewhat longer. Eventually the whole window was blocked 
 up with bricks inserted from without. Most of the old ironwork 
 and a few very small fragments of painted glass were found here 
 between the two thicknesses of brick. 
 
 Underneath this window there were found in the wall some 
 traces of a pointed doorway, of which all the mouldings had been 
 hacked off before it was filled up with rubble and brick. In the 
 
% fcuse, -p. 34. 
 
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 middle of it was a small wooden frame of comparatively modern, 
 date, which seems to have been connected with a flue for 
 admitting warm air from Rolls House into the Chapel. 
 
 In the third bny of the north wall was found the head of the 
 only original lancet window of the time of Henry III. that had 
 survived the many vicissitudes to which the Chapel has been 
 exposed. Being of clunch it had sutfered much from exposure to 
 the weather, and it had been filled up in the reign of George I., 
 when the lower part was removed in order to make room for an 
 entrance into a raised pew for the Master of the Rolls. The 
 inner arch was different in shape from any of the others found 
 beneath the plaster. 
 
 The only window in the north wall which had not been blocked 
 up in the seventeenth or the eighteenth century was that in the 
 western bay. It was exactly similar to that on the opposite side, 
 and already described, and it may perhaps be attributed to the 
 time of Edward III. 
 
 Just outside the Chapel, near the north-western angle, was found 
 an ancient well, lined with stone, but filled with rubbish. 
 
 The bell-turret probably dated from the middle of the • 
 seventeenth century. 
 
 The modern floor of the western part of the chapel was a foot 
 above the old level ; that of the eastern part, which was approached 
 by two steps, was two feet above the old level. The existence of 
 the steps is mentioned as early as 1708, 1 and it is almost certain 
 that they were made soon after the demolition of the original 
 chancel, so as to form a ritual chancel in the eastern part of the 
 nave. Several of the stones supporting the pavement near the 
 south-eastern corner bore Early English mouldings, and the 
 discovery of them in this position tends to show that the new 
 chancel was made at a time when there was old material available, 
 presumably in the middle of the seventeenth century. However 
 this may be, it is clear that the monuments of Dr. Yong and 
 Richard Alington cannot have been set up in the positions which 
 they recently occupied until after the demolition of the original 
 chancel, inasmuch as their bases were upon the new and higher 
 level. 
 
 All the monuments were carefully protected during the 
 demolition of the Chapel, and, although they were eventually taken 
 down, they will be re-erected before long. A very short descrip- , . 
 tion of each will therefore suffice. That of Dr. Yong, mentioned *%[Jj^{q 
 above, has long been the chief ornament of Rolls Chapel, and it is f g ( >^'X_ 7 y 
 one of the finest examples in England of the monumental art of 7 
 the Italian Renaissance. By a will dated 25 April 1516, John 
 Yong, Master of the Rolls and Dean of the metropolitan church 
 of York, directed that his body should be buried " in the chapell 
 of the Rollys, there as the organs nowe doth stand," and that " a 
 tombe " should be made " over the place " of his sepulture. 2 He 
 died on the very day of the execution of the will, and no time 
 
 Wills at Somerset House. Holder, f. 17. 
 Hatton's " New View of London." 
 
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 was bst in giving effect to it. As, however, we have no indication 
 of the former position of the organ, the original site of his grave 
 is unknown ; perhaps it was in the chancel. For more than two 
 hundred years the monument has stood at the eastern end of the 
 north wall, in an arched recess contemporary with it. The 
 recumbent effigy of the deceased, attired in a red gown, with 
 tippet and hood, is finely modelled in coloured terra cotta. The 
 hands are crossed on the breast, and the head, which bears a 
 square cap, rests on two pillows, showing traces of ancient 
 gilding. The stone sarcophagus rests on two lions' paws, 
 between which there is a long scroll bearing the inscription, 
 "Dominus firmamentum meum." On the richly moulded pedestal 
 below are three panels, two of which contain shields of the Yong 
 arms, formerly coloured, surrounded by arabesques. The larger 
 panel in the centre, made of white marble, has arabesques at 
 either end, and bears the inscription <c Jo. Yong, LL. Doctori, 
 <s Sacrorum Scriniorum ac hujus domus Custocli, Decano olim 
 " Ebor. vita defuncto xxv. Aprilis, sui fldeles executores hoc 
 *' posuerunt. mdxvi." 
 
 In the lunette of the recess above the effigy are heads of Our 
 Lord and two cherubs, all in high relief, and made of terra cotta. 
 " The type of the Christ is a common one in the Florentine art of 
 " the period." 1 It is affixed to a large block of Caen stone, on which 
 are carved some clouds below the figure, and a nimbus round the 
 head, painted with radiating lines. The cherubs' heads are so 
 disproportionately large and of such inferior design that they can 
 hardly be ascribed to the skilled hand which modelled the head 
 of Christ and the effigy of Dr. Yong. In fact, they may have 
 been made when the whole monument was moved, presumably in 
 the middle of the seventeenth century. These last have long 
 been believed to be the work of Pietro Torregiano, who made the 
 tomb of Henry VII. in Westminster Abbey, and who, very shortly 
 after Dr. Yong's death, undertook to set up the high altar in that 
 king's chapel. ts Allowing for the thicker ermine-lined robes of 
 4S the king, the cast of drapery is so precisely similar to that in 
 " Henry VI I. 's monument that there can be no doubt that they 
 " were either designed by the same person or copied the one from 
 i( the other. The intelligent differences between them, however, 
 " preclude/' in the opinion of Mr. Alfred Higgins, (( the idea of a 
 mere copy by an inferior artist," 
 
 Fresh confirmatory evidence of the connexion between the 
 monument of Dr. Yong and that of Henry VII. was found as 
 recently as July 1896, while the former was being removed to 
 a temporary place of deposit. Mutilated fragments of an 
 elaborate stringcourse were then discovered on the backs of the 
 stone to which the head of Christ is affixed, and t wo other stones 
 in the lower part of the monument in Rolls Chapel, and, on careful 
 
 1 See an illustrated description of this monument by Mr. Alfred Higgins in the 
 " Archaeological Journal," vol. li. I am authorised by the writer to say that he now 
 agrees with me in the opinion that the archivolt of the recess is contemporary with 
 the figure and the sarcophagus. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
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 examination, they proved to be very similar to certain carvings in 
 the chapel of Henry VII. at Westminster. On one fragment is 
 the headless figure of a demi-angel, with the right arm extended 
 towards a large Tudor rose, formerly surmounted by a crown. On 
 another is part of a demi-angel, whose drapery is made of feathers. 
 Corresponding figures are to be seen at Westminster, above the 
 arcade and elsewhere in the chapel. That these carved frag- 
 ments were ever actually used at the Abbey is extremely unlikely, 
 but it is quite possible that they may have been models, carved 
 by way of experiment. If so, they would not have been wanted 
 after the completion of the work, and Torregiano may have been 
 able to secure them on easy terms for the monument at Rolls 
 Chapel. Casts of them have been taken. 
 
 Another very recent discovery in connexion with Dr. Yong's 
 tomb must also be mentioned here, inasmuch as it will affect the 
 general appearance of it when re-erected. Until quite lately the 
 arch over the recess in which it stood was slightly below the 
 surface of the adjoining wall. When, however, the plaster was 
 removed from the wall, it was discovered that the outer moulding 
 of the archivolt was also made of that material, and that the 
 whole archivolt was intended to project beyond the face of the 
 wall to which it was originally affixed. Deep below the plaster 
 was found a surface of smooth stone, showing traces of painted 
 scroll-work, which must once have extended over the adjoining 
 part of the wall on the same plane. The exposed portion of the 
 archivolt was thickly coated with whitewash, and some false joints 
 had been cut into it, in order to continue the lines indented in the 
 surface of the modern plaster on the wall. The masonry behind 
 the arched recess was of rubble and brick, dating presumably' 
 from the middle of the seventeenth century. 
 
 Weaver, writing in 1631, gives the inscription which remains 
 on Dr. Yong's monument, and adds that there were " upon an old 
 table hanging by " the following verses " written in text hand " : — 
 
 " Hie jacet ille Johannes Yong cognomine dignus 
 Tali, quod nunquam marcesceret utpote eharus 
 Omnibus, apprime summo testante dolore 
 Quern neque celabant neque dissimulare valebant. 
 Dum sternit Juvenem mors immatura labentem, 
 Quis non defleret Juvenis miserabile fatum ? 
 Ex quo multorum pendebat vita, salusquc ; 
 Horum, inquam imprimis, quos ille benignus alebat 
 Impensis, donee vitales carperet auras. 
 Nec satis illi erat hoc privatis consuluisse 
 Rebus, quinetiam prudenter publica gessit 
 Munia, sive forensia sive etiam extera, summa 
 Cum laude, ilia quidem dum sacris prefuit olim 
 Scriniis, hasc vero legati functus honore." 1 
 
 1 " Funeral Monuments," p. 230. I have slightly altered the spelling and punctuation. 
 
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 The Latinity of these punning verses does not show the influence 
 of the Eenaissance which is so evident in Torregiano's beautiful 
 monument. They are not quoted in the first edition of Dugdale's 
 " Origines Juridiciales" printed in 1666, and they had certainly 
 disappeared by 1708. 1 The allusion in the last line is to the 
 diplomatic functions with which Dr. Yong was entrusted by 
 Henry VIII. but it is somewhat remarkable that neither the tomb 
 nor the verses give any indication of the fact that he was titular 
 Bishop of Gallipoli. 2 
 
 Almost opposite to the tomb of Dr. Yong. immediately west of 
 the door from the Chapel into the turret, stood the Alington 
 monument, a fine example of the Elizabethan period. The will 
 of Richard Alington, of Lincoln's Inn, is curious for its mention 
 of the appearance to him in infancy of " a picture of the Crosse 
 and Christe nailed thereon/ and of a subsequent dream that he 
 saw "a monstrowse greate blacke fowle like a raven, having 
 behind her in her hinder partes a deathe's hedd." It also contains 
 a provision for the establishment by certain persons, who are 
 known to have been opponents of the Reformation, of somme 
 
 " foundacion or erection to be devised daylie or 
 
 " weekely giving or representing some lively remembraunce of 
 " the passion of Christe." The choice of a church for his 
 burial was specifically entrusted to his executors, of whom one 
 was his wife and another was her brother, Sir William Cordell, 
 Master of the Rolls, 3 and the place selected by them was the 
 Rolls Chapel. 
 
 The monument set up in memory of Richard Alington is mainly 
 of alabaster, resting upon a base of Purbeck marble, but there 
 are two columns of black marble with composite capitals, and 
 various inlays of the same. In two recesses with semi-circular 
 coffered heads are kneeling figures of the deceased and his wife, 
 facing each other, the former, partly in armour, holding a helmet, 
 the latter holding a book. Above each recess is a mask and some 
 delicate festoons of fruit and foliage in relief. Between them, in 
 a circular recess, is a ball of black marble, which used to be 
 shown to visitors as the cannon ball by which Richard Alington 
 was killed, whereas, in point of fact, he died of smallpox. 4 Above 
 this, on the central panel of the entablature is the following 
 inscription : — " Ricardus Alington armiger, qui hie sepultus est, 
 obiit xxiii die Novembris 1561." On another tablet lower down 
 are the following lines : — 
 
 " Hospes, qui fuerim quondam si quasris, amice, 
 
 Nomen Alington us, stirps generosa fuit. 
 Haec monumenta mihi conjux fidissima struxit, 
 
 Quaeque mihi struxit destinat ilia sibi. 
 
 1 Hatton's " New View of London." 
 
 2 " Letters and Papers, Henry VIII.," vol. iii. p. 340. 
 
 3 Wills at Somerset House. Davey, f. 42. 
 
 4 Machyn's Diary (Camden Society), p. 274. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 39 
 
 Charaque conjngii tres natre pignora nostri 
 
 Sunt, vultus quarum marmora sculpta tenent. 
 Cum matre ras omnes precor ut post funera summe 
 Oselica perducas in tua regna, Deus." 1 
 
 Figures of the three daughters are accordingly shown in lo\V 
 relief, kneeling towards the deceased, on a tablet between the 
 figures of their parents. Below this again is a shield of arms, 
 painted and gilded, with delicate arabesques on either side. 
 There are traces of gilding elsewhere 
 
 The following passage occurs in the will of a Jane Allington, 
 ei late the wief of Richard Allington esquier deceased," which was 
 dated 15 July 1G02 and proved 7 January 1604; — "My 
 " will is that my bodie maye be buried in •the Chappell of the 
 " Holies of (in) the same vault that my late welbeloved husband 
 " Mr. Allington nowe lieth buried in." 2 
 
 The letters " S.E." and the inscription fe Edinonde Medhoppe, 
 January e 31, an° Dom. 1604," roughly cut on the side of the 
 dado of one of the columns, appear to be mischievous additions. 
 
 Irrespective of the evidence furnished by the vaults, which will 
 be noticed below, there are several reasons for believing that the 
 position recently occupied by the A.lington monument was not 
 that in which it was originally fixed. Firstly, the base of it was 
 about two feet above the old level of the floor of the Chapel. 
 Secondly, it stood close against an ancient window, in the filling 
 of which were fragments of carved stone and marble posterior to 
 the date of Richard Alington's death. Thirdly, the monument, 
 although most carefully wrought and carved, was put together in 
 a clumsy manner. 
 
 Above the Alinglon monument was a tablet of w T hite and 
 Siena marbles, bearing a coloured coat of arms and the following 
 inscription : — " In this Chappel lyeth buried the Right Honour- 
 " able William Foi tescue of Buckland Filleigh and Fallapit in 
 " the county of Devon, Esquire, who, having been one of the 
 " Barons of the Court of Exchequer and afterwards one of the 
 " Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, was made Master of 
 '* the Rolls the 5th day of November 1741, and dyed the 16th 
 u day of December 1749, in the 63d year of his age." 
 
 On the north side of the Chapel, a little to the west of 
 Dr. Yong's monument, were two mural tablets. The upper one, 
 a white marble slab, with coat of arms above, bears the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " To the memory of the Right Hon. Robert, Lord Gifford, 
 " Baron Gifford of St. Leonards in the county of Devon, Master of 
 " the Rolls, who died the 4th September 1826, in the 48th year of 
 u his age. 
 
 " Also to the memory of his widow, Harriet Maria Gifford, who 
 f died May 20th 1857, and was buried at Albury in Surrey. 
 " Requiescant in pace." 
 
 1 I have extended some abbreviations. 
 
 2 Wills at Somerset House. Harte, f. 9. 
 
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 The lower one, a white marble slab with funeral urn above and 
 coat of arms below, bears the following inscription : — 
 
 "To the memory of the Et. Honble. Sir Thomas Sewell, 
 " Knt. Master of the Bolls, and one of His Majesty's most 
 " Honourable Privy Council, this monument was erected in 
 " pursuance of the will of Mary Elizabeth, his widow, who long 
 " survived him and who, with their child, lies buried in the same 
 " vault in this chapel. 
 
 " Her Ladyship was of the family of Sibthorpe of Ganwick in 
 " the county of Lincoln, representatives in many Parliaments for 
 :c the City of Lincoln/' 
 
 A little to the west of these two tablets, stood the largest 
 monument in the Chapel, that of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, 
 Master of the Eolls, who died in 1611. It is mainly of alabaster, 
 which in places shows remains of the original painting and gilding. 
 Above the entablature, which is carried by two black marble 
 columns with composite capitals, there is a panel containing a 
 shield of the Bruce arms with helmet and crest above, supporters 
 on either side, and the motto "Fuimus" below. There are also 
 subsidiary shields of Bruce impaling Clerk, and Bruce alone. At 
 the top of all is an hour-glass resting on a winged skull. 
 Between the two columns is a shallow recess with semicircular 
 head, in the lunette of which is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Sacrge memoriae Domini Edwardi Brucii, Baronis Brucii 
 " Kinlossensis, Sacrorum Scriniorum Magistri, dicatum, qui obiit 
 " 14° Januarii salutis 1610, setatis 62, Jacobi regis 8°. 
 " Brucius Edwardus situs hie et Scotus et Anglus, 
 
 Scotus ut ortu, Anglis sic oriundus avis. 
 Regno in utroque decus tulit auctus honoribus amplis, 
 
 Regi a consiliis regni utriusque fuit. 
 Conjuge, prole, nuru, genero, spe, reque beatus, 
 Vivere nos docuit, nunc docet ecce rnori." 
 On the main sill above the base of the monument is a large 
 recumbent effigy of the deceased wearing a furred robe, his head 
 supported by his right arm which rests upon a cushion. Below, 
 in front of the base, are four detached figures, kneeling on cushions, 
 all facing a projecting pedestal. The smaller of those on the 
 west side is certainly that of Christian, daughter of the deceased, 
 so called because born on Christmas Day 1596, who, on the 
 10th of April 1608, was married in this Chapel to William 
 Cavendish, being then Cf a pretty red-headed wench " of less than 
 thirteen. 1 According to some pedigrees, Lord Bruce of Kinloss 
 had an elder daughter named Janet, who married Thomas Dalyeli 
 of Binns, but, on the other hand, Christian Cavendish has been 
 described as his " only daughter." 2 However this may be, the 
 larger of the two female figures probably represents Magdalen, 
 Lady Bruce of Kinloss, who survived her husband. The figure 
 
 1 Lodge's " Illustrations of British History" (ed. 1791), vol. iii. pp. 350-353; 
 " Dictionary of Natural Biography," vol. ix. p. 343. 
 
 2 Pomf ret* s u Life of Christian, late Countess Dowager of Devonshire " (1685), 
 p. 18. 
 
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 of a young man in armour, on the east side of the pedestal is 
 that of Sir Edward Bruce, K.B. who succeeded his father in the 
 peerage, and was killed two years later by Sir Edward Sackville, 
 in a duel fought near Bergen-op-Zoorn. 1 The smaller figure 
 behind is that of Thomas Bruce, who became third Lord Bruce 
 of Kinloss, and was created Earl of Elgin. Inasmuch as the 
 elder of these two sons of the first Lord Bruce of Kinloss is stated 
 to have died unmarried, while the other did not marry until 1622, 
 the allusion to a step-daughter in the epitaph is worthy of notice. 
 
 The base of the Bruce monument, partly concealed by the 
 modern pavement, went down to the level of the original floor, 
 and rested upon a solid foundation of old red bricks, Altogether, 
 there is much less evidence of a removal of this monument from 
 some other position than there is with regard to the monuments 
 of Dr. Yong and Richard Alington. But for numerous breakages 
 in it, and the absence of the bones of the deceased, there would 
 be every reason to believe that it had never been moved. 
 
 After the demolition of the walls of Bolls Chapel, all the space 
 below the pavement was carefully examined, but none of the 
 coffins were disturbed. Immediately in front of Dr. Yong's 
 monument was found a skull and a few bones, probably removed 
 from the chancel or some other part of the building, without any 
 traces of a coffin. In an open brick grave, a little to the south, 
 were found two coffins, of which the lower is that of William 
 Fortescue, who died in 1749, and the upper is that of Lord 
 Gifford, who died in 1826. Further south, in a similar grave, 
 were found two coffins, of which one is clearly that of a child, 
 while the other is probably that of a woman, as it measures only 
 14 inches in breadth. Adjoining this grave, and immediately in 
 front of the position recently occupied by the Alington monument, 
 is a large vault containing five coffins. The lowest on the south 
 side is that of Sir Joseph Jekyll, who died in 1732. Above 
 it is that of Lord Alvanley, who died in 1804, and above that 
 again is an old leaden coffin in very bad condition. On the north 
 side is the coffin of Sir Thomas Plumer, who died in 1824, and 
 beneath it a large coffin of comparatively early form, the position 
 of the head being marked by a square projection, In this vault 
 was also found a large vase of red earthenware, containing a skull 
 and some fragments of bricks. 
 
 Another vault to the west of this contains the coffins of Sir 
 Thomas Sewell, who died in 1784, Lady Seweli w T ho died in 1820, 
 and their daughter. In a vault immediately north of this is the 
 coffin of Sir John Trevor, who died in 1717. An open grave 
 further north contains the coffin of Arthur Trevor who died in 
 1759 at the age of 85, and beyond this is that of a child. Sir 
 Thomas Clarke, who died in 1764, lies buried in a brick vault 
 within a foot of the site of the Bruce monument, under which no 
 traces of any interment were found. If the coffin of Lord Bruce 
 
 1 Collins's "Peerage of England (ed. Brydges), vol. ii. pp. 151-157. 
 
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 of Kinloss is one of the two old ones in the vault at the south- 
 eastern angle of the Chapel, the body of Jane Alington does not 
 lie in the vault with that of her husband. Altogether the 
 evidence of the interments seems to support the theory previously 
 formed of a great change in the Chapel in the seventeenth 
 century. 
 
 The four earliest panels of heraldic glass in the windows of the 
 Rolls Chapel date from the year 1611, and bear the following 
 inscriptions : — 
 
 (1.) " Thomas Baro Ellesmere, Anglia3 Cancellarius, quondam 
 " Sacrorum Scriniorum Magister." 1 
 
 (2.) "7611. Henricus, praepotentissimi Regis Jacobi, Magnse 
 
 Britannia^ et Francia? Regis, fllius primogenitus, Princeps 
 " Wallioe, Dux Cornubia? et Comes Cestrias." 
 
 (3.) " Dominus Robertus Cecil], Comes Sarisburias, Viceeomes 
 " Cramburnia3, Baro Cecill, Summus Anglia3 Thesmrrarius, 
 *' illustrissima? Regia3 Majestatis Principalis Secretarius, Curias 
 " Wardorum et Liberationum Prasfectus, illustrissimi Ordinis 
 " Garterii eques." 
 
 (4.) " Edvardus Phellips, miles, serviens serenissimi domini 
 " Regis Jacobi [ad] legem, et primi sub dicto domino Rege 
 " Parliament]*, quod, in quinque sessiones continuatum, per septem 
 " annos duraverat, Prolocutor, Sacrorum Scriniorum Magisler, et 
 " illustrissimi domini Henrici Wallias Principis Cancellarius." 
 
 Three of them were recently in the west window, and the 
 fourth was in the north window, but it is quite clear that the 
 positions which they occupied were not those in which they were 
 originally fixed. The shield of the Prince of Wales is surmounted 
 by a coronet and some scroll-work which seems to have been 
 made to fit the head of a pointed window, and the panel of the 
 Phelips arms, which, like the other three, is two feet five inches in 
 width without the border, could not have been put up in the north 
 window until after the removal of the mullions. Any one of them 
 would have fitted the only surviving lancet window in the north 
 wall very well, and there may have been similar lancets in the 
 demolished chancel. 
 
 The next two panels in point of date are practically uniform in 
 size with the preceding, and bear the following inscriptions : — 
 
 (5.) "1660. Harbottellus Grimston, Barronettus, primi Parlia- 
 " menti sub serenissimo domino Rege Carolo Secundo, anno regni 
 " sui duodecimo Prolocutor, et Sacrorum Scriniorum Magister." 
 
 (6.) '? H. Powle, M.R., 1691." with two monograms, each 
 composed of two letters H and P. 
 
 Both of these were in the south window. 
 
 One more, also uniform with the above, was in the north 
 window. It bears the inscription : — 
 
 (7.) "J. Trevor, Sacrorum Scriniorum Magister," the name 
 being an enlarged copy of the signature of this Master of the Rolls. 
 
 1 I have extended the abbreviations in these inscriptions. 
 
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 The later panels of heraldic glass are of various sizes and of 
 very inferior execution. They bear the foil ow ing inscriptionsj ^_^/3 *yo _ 
 
 5ttV (o^^ 
 
 (8.) "Johannes Leach, miles, obiit l^Beptember (sic) 1834, rpc^ ^ 8 4<*p 
 " astatis suae 74, Cancellarins Ducatus Cornubiae 1816, Capitalis ywy*Jr 
 " Justiciarius Cestrise 1817, Vice Canceilarius Angliae et • 
 " RegiaB Majestati e Secretioribus Consiliis 1818, Scriniorum 
 " Sacrorum Magister, 1827." 
 
 This was in the south window, as was also the next. 
 
 (9.) " Robert us, Dominus Gifford, Sacrorum Scriniorum 
 " .Magister, 1824." 
 
 (10.) "Henry, Baron Langdale, Master of the Rolls, 19 th 
 " January, 1836." 
 
 This was at the top of the west window. 
 
 (11.) "The Right Hon. Sir John Romilly, Knight, Master of 
 " the Rolls, 28th March 1851/' 
 This was in the south window. 
 
 (12.) "G. J. 1874." 
 
 This memorial of Sir George Jessel was in the west window. 
 
 All the glass recently in the east window appears to date from 
 about the year 1821, and is artistically of very little value. It 
 consists of a huge representation of the royal arms of that period 
 and a series of twenty shields of various Masters of the Rolls, 
 from John Frank in the reign of Henry VI. down to Sir Thomas 
 Plumer in the reign of George IV. The shield of Sir John 
 Churchill (1684), which belongs to this series, was for some 
 unknown reason omitted from its proper place, and inserted in 
 the south window. 
 
 Like almost everything else connected with the Rolls Chapel, 
 the Register of Burials and Marriages is irregular. Instead of 
 being a contemporary record kept by the officiating minister, it is 
 an imperfect series of notes collected by a layman. The entries 
 are so few that I give them for what they are worth : 
 
 " August, 1738. — Sir Joseph Jekyll was buried in the Rolls^j T , 
 Chapell in Mr. Allington's vault, near the little door which in » e ^T 10 ^. , per ; 
 leads upstairs. Joseph Jekyll, Esq. principal mourner, I * oim . ec L l Dy £ lcnarcl 
 Mr. Hill, Mr. William Rooke, Mr. Mortimer, and some few y £ i • ^ 
 others, attending the funeral!, which was private. J 1S c ap am. 
 
 December, 1749. — William Fortescue, Esquire died on" 
 Saturday morning the 16th December, 1749, about one o'clock, 
 and was buried in the Chapei of the Rolls, on one side of, and 
 close to the Communion Table, on the north side, on Tuesday 
 the 26th of December, about two of the clock in the after- 
 noon. A grave was made (there being no vault just there) 
 sufficient only to hold his coffin, a very wide one. His son- 
 in-law, Mr. Spooner, and his relation, Mr. Dennis, were 
 mourners. Messrs. Holford, Bennett, Allen, Burroughs, 
 Edwards, and Lane (Masters in Chancery) supported the 
 pall, attended by myself (H. R.), his two secretarys, and two 
 registers. 
 
 Funeral service per- 
 formed by Dr. Ter- 
 rick, his chaplain. 
 
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 1764. — ' Sir Thomas Clarke, Master of the Rolls, died Tuesday the 13th of 
 ' November, 1764, a little after 9 o'clock at night, and he was buried in the 
 < Chapel, 21st.' 
 
 The above minute is copied from an entry in the hand writing of the late 
 Mr. Rooke in his Office Account Book of the year 1764, now in my 
 
 possession. 
 
 John Kipling. 
 
 1784. — The Right Honorable Sir Thomas Sewell, Master "| 
 of the Rolls, died on the sixth day of March, at the Rolls ' 
 House, aged 72, and was buried in the upper part of the 
 Chapel of the Rolls, in a grave which had been made large 
 enough to hold three coffins, inclosed with bricks, wherein his 
 infant daughter and only child by Lady Sewell, who survived 
 him, had been a few years before buried ; which grave 
 adjoins to the north on one of Sir John Trevor, formerly 
 Master of the Rolls, whose grave adjoins to the north on . 
 that of Sir Thomas Clarke, also late Master of the Rolls, r was P erlormed D ? 
 which last-mentioned grave adjoins to the north on the 
 supposed place of interment of Edward Lord Bruce, formerly 
 also Master of the Rolls. Mr. Sewell, the eldest son of Sir 
 Thomas Sewell, Mr. Wm. Sewell, and the Rev. George 
 Sewell, preacher at the Rolls Chapel, two other sons, the 
 undersigned John Kipling, Mr. Deaves, and Mr. Mendham, 
 his two secretaries, and others, attending the funeral, which 
 was private. 
 
 The funeral service 
 
 John Kipling. 
 
 1804, March 26. — The Right Honorable Richard Pepper, - ] 
 Lord Alvanley, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common 
 Pleas, and previously Master of the Rolls, died at his house 
 in Great George Street, the nineteenth day of March, aged 59, 
 and was buried in Mr. Alington's vault in the Chapel of the 
 Rolls, on the 26 of the same month. The coffin was placed 
 over that of Sir Joseph Jekyll, on the south side of the vault. 
 The entrance to the vault was discovered to be under the 
 steps leading to the Communion Table, by removing three ' 
 courses of stone from Mr. Alington's monument. The 
 funeral, which was private, was attended by Mr. Smith, chief 
 secretary to the Master of the Rolls and late secretary to 
 Lord Alvanley, Mr. Broad, associate and marshall to Lord 
 Alvanley, Mr. Charles Broad, cryer at nisi prius in the Court 
 of Common Pleas, Mr. Gordon, his Lordship's clerk, and 
 others, in the presence of J 
 
 The funeral service 
 was performed by 
 the Rev. Dr. 
 Strache}-, Preacher 
 at the Rolls Chapel. 
 
 J. K. 
 
 John Davies, Clerk to Mr. Kipling. 
 
 1820, 26 September.— Dame Mary Elizabeth Sewell, widow"] The funeral service 
 of the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Sewell, late Master of was performed by 
 the Rolls, died 16 September 1820, aged 79 years, and was W the Rev. Mr. Smed- 
 buried in the Chapel of the Rolls on the 26 day of, the same ley, Reader at the 
 month, near to the said Sir Thomas Sewell, in the presence of J Rolls Chapel. 
 
 J. K. 
 
 John Davies, Clerk to Mr. Kipling. 
 
 1824, 1 April. — The Right Honorable Sir Thomas Plumer, 
 Master of the Rolls, died the 25 day of March at the 
 Rolls House, aged 70, and was buried in Mr. Alington's 
 vault. The funeral (which was private) was attended by" 
 Thomas Hall Plumer, Esq., his eldest son, and four other 
 sons, and also by his executors and others, in the presence of ^ 
 
 ("The funeral service 
 performed by the 
 Rev. Mr. Sandford, 
 preacher at the 
 Rolls, assisted by 
 the Rev. Mr.Smed- 
 iey, Reader there. 
 
 J. K, 
 
 John Davies, Clerk to Mr. Kipling. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
 45 
 
 1826, September. — The Right Honorable Robert, Baron 
 Gifford, of Saint Leonards, in the county of Devon, Master 
 of the Rolls and Deputy Speaker of the House of Peers, died 
 at Dover, the fourth day of September, in the forty-eighth 
 year of his age, and was buried in the Chapel of the Rolls on 
 the twelfth day of the same month. The coffin was placed 
 upon that of the Right Honorable William Fortescue, 
 formerly Master of the Rolls, in a grave on the north side of 
 the Communion Table. His Lordship's two brothers, 
 Mr. William Gifford and Mr. Charles Gifford, attended as 
 chief mourners. The pall was supported by John Earl of 
 Eldon, Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of the 
 King's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 
 the Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, the Right Honorable Sir 
 William Grant, late Master of the Rolls, Mr. Justice Bayley, 
 Mr. Justice Park, and Mr. Justice Gaselee. The funeral was 
 also attended by His Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor- 
 General, Sir James Mcintosh, Sir Charles Forbes, Mr. Ser- 
 jeant Cross, Mr. Serjeant Adams, his Lordship's two 
 secretaries, and some others, in the presence of 
 
 J. K. Thomas Palmer, Clerk to John Kiplin 
 
 The funeral service 
 was performed by 
 the Rev. Mr. Row- 
 latt, reader at the 
 Temple Church. 
 
 Esq. 
 
 There does not appear to have been any Register Book of Marriages kept at the 
 Rolls before the year 1736. The chaplain or reader there for the time being 
 making a private note thereof, which they took away with them upon their 
 promotions. 
 
 The Date. 
 
 The Persons Married. 
 
 Dec. 7th 
 
 Feb. 1st 
 
 May the 21st 
 
 June the 3d 
 
 May the 23d 
 
 June 24th 
 1738. 
 
 Dec. the 4th, 
 1738. 
 
 1736. 
 
 Edward Frewen, of St. Michael le Quern, 
 London, batchelour, and Mary Stevens, of 
 Culham, in the parish of Wargrave, in the 
 county of Berks, spinster. 
 
 The Reverend Mr. Richard Fletcher, of Wool- 
 wich, in the county of Kent, batchelor, and 
 Mary Hayre, of the same place, spinster. 
 
 1737. 
 
 Richard Glover, of the parish of St. Martin's 
 Orgars, London, batchelor, and Hannah 
 Nunn, of the parish of Saint Bartholomew 
 the Great, London, spinster. 
 
 Joseph Skidmore, of Christ Church, in the 
 county of Middlesex, and Hannah Prior, of 
 St. George the Martyr. 
 
 1738. 
 
 William Fellows, of the parish of St. George, 
 Hanover Square, and Sarah Bliss, of the 
 same parish. 
 
 James Turner, of Stoke Newington, widdower, 
 to Martha Spencer, of the same place, 
 spinster. 
 
 William Martin, of Wooborne, in the county 
 of Bucks, batchelor, and Margaret Parker, 
 of Harmondesworth, in the county of 
 Middlesex, spinster. 
 
 The Minister. 
 
 Richard Terrick, 
 Preacher at the 
 Rolls. 
 
 James Bate, Rector 
 of Deptford. 
 
 The Right Revd. 
 the Lord Bishop 
 of Londonderry. 
 
 The Revnd. Mr. 
 Clark, Reader at 
 the Rolls. 
 
 The Revnd. Mr. 
 Clark, Reader at 
 the Rolls. 
 
 Tho. Wilson, Rector 
 of Saint Stephen, 
 Walbroke. 
 
 Richd. Terrick, 
 Preacher at the 
 Rolls. 
 
46 
 
 THE FIFTY- SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 
 
 The Date. 
 
 The Persons Married. 
 
 The Minister. 
 
 Jan. 20th, 
 1738. 
 
 Dec. the 17th 
 
 May 13th - 
 Nov. 14th - 
 
 May 19th - 
 May 31st - 
 
 Feb. 5th - 
 May the 3rd 
 
 March 6th - 
 
 June 8th - 
 May 29th - 
 
 Walter Grimstead, of the parish of Saint j Richd. Terrick, 
 Gregory, London, batchelor, and Rachael Preacher at the 
 Barnes, of Hayes, in the county of Kent, Roils, 
 spinster. 
 
 1741. 
 
 Thomas Pochin, of Loughborough, in the 
 county of Leicester, batchelor, and Dame 
 Prudence Jenkinson, of the parish of 
 St. George the Martyr, in the county of 
 Middlesex, widow. 
 
 1742. 
 
 Thomas Immines, widower, of St. Giles, 
 Cripplegate, and Elizabeth Immines, of the 
 parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, London, 
 widow. 
 
 James Cawthorn, of the parish of Saint Anne, 
 Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, 
 batchelor, and Mary Clare, of the same 
 parish, spinster. 
 
 1743. 
 
 William Sergeant and Anne Jolly, both of 
 the parish of St. George. Qre. whai parish 
 of St. G eorge. 
 
 Samuell Cook, of the parish of Saint Martin in 
 the Feilds, in the county of Middlesex, 
 batchelor, and Elizabeth Wilson, of the same 
 parish, spinster, 
 
 Godfrey Langhelt, of the parish of Saint 
 Margarett, Westminster, and Barbarah 
 Herbert, of the same parish, spinster, 
 
 1744. 
 
 William Massingberd, Esq. of the parish of 
 Gunby, in the county of Lincoln, widower, 
 and Elizabeth Drake, of the city of Lincoln, 
 spinster. 
 
 1745. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Richard Ward, of the parish of 
 Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, 
 batchelor, and Elizabeth King, of the same 
 parish, spinster. 
 
 1746. 
 
 Charles Boylaud, of St. Bride's, London, 
 widower, and Anne Willis, of the same 
 parish, widow. 
 
 1747. 
 
 Nicholas Dennys, of Lions Inn, in the county 
 of Middlesex, batchelor, and Elizabeth Bel- 
 feild, of the Liberty of the Rolls, in the 
 parish of Saint Dunstan in the West, 
 London, spinster. 
 
 Richd. Terrick, 
 Preacher at the 
 Rolls. 
 
 Tho. Clarke, Reader 
 at the Rolls. 
 
 Tho. Clarke, the 
 Reader at the 
 Rolls. 
 
 Tho. Clarke, the 
 Reader at the 
 Rolls. 
 
 Tho. Clarke, Reader 
 at the Rolls 
 Chapell. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Thomas 
 Clarke, the 
 Reader at the 
 Rolls Chapell. 
 
 Richard Terrick, 
 Preacher at the 
 Rolls. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Has- 
 sell, of Acton, in 
 Middlesex. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. 
 Clarke, Reader 
 at the Rolls. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. 
 Joseph Butler, 
 the Minister of 
 Shad well. 
 
DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. 
 
 47 
 
 The Date. 
 
 The Persons Married. 
 
 The Minister. 
 
 
 1748. 
 
 
 June 30th - 
 
 John Dowding, of the parish of St. James, 
 Westminster, widower, and Elizabeth Long", 
 of the same parish, widow. 
 
 1749. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. 
 Clarke, the 
 Reader at the 
 I?olK. 
 
 April 6th - 
 
 The Revd. Thomas Chapman, Doctor of Laws, 
 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cam- 
 bridge, batchelor, and Elizabeth Barnewell, 
 of St. Catherine Coleman, London, spinster. 
 
 The Rev.Dr. Rooke, 
 Master of Christ 
 College, Cam- 
 bridge." 
 
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