Hip 11 'liiilil ■iiiiliili MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES, (IN CONTINUATION OF THE BIBLIOTHECA TOPOGRAPHICA BRltANNlCA,) N- L CONTAINING Mr. BARTLETT's MANDUESSEDUM ROMANORUMj being the History and Antiquities of the Parlfh of MANCETER, [including the Hamlets of Hartshill, Oldbury, and Atherstone j] and alfo of the adjacent Pa- riih of ANSLE Y, in the County of Warwick. fPaiCE Half a Guinea.] Ar^IONG the various Lnbonrs of Literary Mea, there have always been certafii Fragments whofe Size could not fecure them a general Exemption from the Wreck cf Time, which their intrinfic Merit entitled them to furvive ; but, having been gathered up by the Curious, or thrown into Mifcellaneous Colleflions by Bookfellers, they have been recalled into Exiflence, and by uniting together have defended themfelves from Oblivion. Original Pieces have been called in to their Aid, and formed a Phalanx that might withftand every i^ttack from, the Critic to the Cheefemonger, and contributed to the Ornament as well as Value of Libraries. With a fimilar View it is here intended to prefent the Publick with fome valu- able Articles of British Topography, from printed Books and MSS. One Pare of this CoUefiion will confift of P».e- publications of fcarce and curious Trafts ; an- other of fuch MS Papers as the Editors are chiefly poflelTed of, or may receive from their Friends. It is therefore propofed to publifh a Number occafionally, r.ot confined to the ferae Price or Quantity of Sheets, nor always adorned with Cuts; but paged irv fuch a Manner, that the general Articles, or thofe belonging to the refpe^^ive- Counties, may form a feparate SuccefiTion, if there fhould be enough piibliflied, to bind in fuitable Clafles ; and in general it is intended that each Traft Ihall be Com- pleted in a fingle Number. Into this Colleftion all Communications confiftent with tlie Plan will be received with Thanks. And as no Correfpondent will be denied the Privilege of contro- •serting. the Opinions of another,, fo none will be denied Admittance without a faic and impartial P»xafon^ -^ .. " Manduejfedum Romanorum : BEING THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE PARISH OF M A N C E T E R, [INCLUDING THE HAMLETS OF Hartfhill, Oldbury, and Atherftone], AND ALSO OF THE ADJACENT PARISH OF A N S L E Y, In the County of WARWICK. By th£ LATE BENJAMIN BARTLETT, Esq^ F. A. S. ENLARGED AND CORRECTED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF SEVERAL GENTLEMEN RESIDENT UPON THE SPOT. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, PRINTER TO THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. M.DCC.XCI. •^ ADVERTISEMENT. TH E late worthy and refpecSlable Charadler whofe name is prefixed to this publication employed, it is well known, a conliderable portion of his leifure for many years on the fubjedt of this little volume ; and it would have been for- tunate if his uncommon diffidence had not procraftinated the arrangement till illnefs which terminated in death prevented the completion of his defign. It being Mr. Bartlett's full intention that the " Hiftory of Manceter" fliould appear as a number of the Bibliotheca TopoGRAPHiA Britannica; he had leveral converfations with the prefent Editor on the fubjedl ; which regularly concluded with a refolution to prepare the manufcript for the prefs. On his deceafe in 1787 •••, the papers whence the w^ork is now at length produced, with many of the drawings, became the pro- perty of Dr. Combe ; who very handfomely complied with the intention of the Author, by prefenting them, fuch as they were, to the Editor ; w'ho has endeavoured, as far as he was able, to * Mr. Benjamin Bartlett, F. A.S. died of a confirmed dropfy at Hertford, on Friday, the'2d of March, I'Sy, in his 73d year; and was buried in the Quakers burying-ground at Hartfhili, on Sunday, the nth of March, 1787. Me had been an eminent apothecary at Bradford, in Yorkfliire, where he fucceeded his father, who had for his apprentice the afterwards celebrated Dr. Fothcrgill. The Doftor introduced his fon to London, who, on his heakh declining, religned his bufinefs to a partner, Mr. French, of Red Lionflrcct. His knowledge of the ancient coinage of this kingdom was cqunl to the valuable colledions he had formed in its ftvcral departments, from the Sixon to the prefent time, befi.^es variety of curious fcals, celts, and other antique articles ; which, by the fatality (o common to the collcflors of the prefent time, came L.nder Mr. (jcrrard's hammer. All tha* he ever pub- liflied was a memoir '* On the l':piri;opal Coins of Durham, and the Monalfic Coins ot eading, minted during the Reigns of Edward 1. II. and HI. apj^ro; riated fo their relpe6tive O-vncrs." Archaeologia, vol. V. p. ^35. Mr. Bartlett lull his wife Jan. I, 17851 and his only Ion, Benjamin Newton Bartlett, who furvivtd him but fevcn months, came to a melancholy end, Oct. 20, 1787. A celLa 82^ 101 vi ADVERTISEMENT. collc^fi: from the chaotic mafs a regular and connecfted Hiftory ; which wovild, however, have been far more incomplete than it is, it" the aliillance of fome literary friends on the fpot had not contributed largely to its improvement. The Rev. Mr. Glare, vicar, and impropriator and patron, of Mancete/\ and Mr. Baxter of Atherjlon^ have on this account a fair claim to acknowledgement; and by Mr. Atkyns of HartJiyUl^ no imall portion of the embellilhments were fupplied : but the j)rincipal merit is due to John Ludford, Efq; of AfiJIey HaU\ not only for an exa6t account of his own paridi, but for a minute and patient inveftigation of the whole, by which many of the errors have been weeded out, and feveral deficiencies fupplied. By thefe aids, the Hiftory of Manceter now appears, it is hoped, in a manner not difreputable to the name of the original Collecflor ; and is fubmitted to the publick as the firft number of a new feries of Topographical Antiquities. December 31, 1 791. J* N. The following letter to Mr. Bartlett, communicated by a worthy friend fince this work was printed, refers to the difco- veries in and near Oldbury camp, 1773, p. 15 ; and will throw light on fome paflages in the early period of the Hiftory of Manceter. *' Whittington^ 19 Nov. 1781. " 'Tis very true, my dear Mr. Bartlett, that I have been ftrangely negligent in refpecft of you and your letter ; and when I look at the date of the letter, I am perfectly afliamed of my- felf. However, I have now found it, and will endeavour to make fome amends for my former negligence by an immediate reply ; and if any thing I may happen to fuggeft is fo lucky as to afford you any fatisfadtion, I fliall efteem it a felicity. *' In the firlt place, I have no doubt but the camp at Oldbury, being a fquare, or rather a double fquare, as you reprefent it, was Roman ; ADVERTISEMENT. Vll Roman*; that being a form, which, if the ground allowed it, that people invariably chofe to ufe. " 2. The Tumulus, though three quarters of a mile diilant from the camp, I conceive to be Roman too. And the brick pavement, not at all like the teflelated flours of the Proetorin, murt have been defigned for the placing the urn, or the body, upon ; believing that there w^s generally (tor I will not fay always) fomething of that nature both in Kift-vaens and in Tumuli. " 3. Your flint-axe is doubtlefs a curiofity, fuch Britifli remains being now very fcarce : I call it Britilh, becaufe the Romans, when here, knew the ufe both of iron and copper, and would fcarcely ufe fl:one or flint for fuch implements. But how, you will fay, came a Britiih tool into a Roman tumulus ? This is the very queflion ftated in your letter; and I anfwer, There is no ne- ceflity to fuppofe that the party interred in the Tumulus was a Roman ; fmce at this time the Britons were many of them be- come allies of the Romans, and had many of them adopted their manners ; and thus, though they followed the Roman manner of interment, for example, they retained their own utenfils : probably they might have no other to ufe ; and you are fenfible that it was a common pradice to bury tools and im- plements, with other valuable articles, along with their defunct poifeflbrs. " 4. The holes at each corner of the pavement were pro- bably intended to difcharge any water that might ooze down upon it. " Thefe, Sir, are my fentiments on the matter ; but how far they may coincide witli your own ideas, you can bell judge. I iliall be haj>py to find we judge and think alike; and am. Sir, Your atfedlionate and n\oX obedient fervant, Samuel Pegge." * The authorities of Mr. Camdea and Sir Wiiliani Dugdaie are fufficicnt to prove the fort at Oldbury to be Roman. 3 D 1 R E G- .V I [ viii ] DIRECTIONS to the BINDER. %* This Number contains Twenty-four Plates ; viz. ■■*I. Map of the Aiden, — — — •*JI. Plan of the Fois Road from High Crofs to Newark upon Trent, I. Homaii Milliary, found near LeiceRer, II. Mifcellaneous Antiquities and Natural Hiftory, — *1II. Map of the Pariih of Manceter, — . III. Mandueflcdum Romanum {on the Letter Prefs), — IV. Seal and Arms of Polefworth iVlonaltery, ■■ *IV. South Weft View of Oldbury, — — V. Ground Plan of the Foit at Oldbury, VI. Ground Plan of Hartlhill Caftle, and North Door-way of Anfley Church, ' *VI. Bird's-eye View of Churches from Hartlhill, — VII. A Cottage on Hartfliill Green, called the Chapel, — VIII. Seals of HardrelhuU, — — IX. Monument of Sir John de HardrelhuU, X. Seals of Bee, Merevale, 8cc. — — — XI. Earl of Stafford's Arms, from Maxftoke Caftle Gates, ■ ■ *XI. Seal of the Earl of Chelkr, Warwick, &c. — — XII. North Elevation of Atherfton Chapel, — *X1I. The fame Plate, with a Variation of the Tower, — XIII. Roman Coins, Atherfton School Seal, and Tradefmens Tokens, XIV. N. E. View of Hartlhill Caftle, — — XV. Views of Atherfton Chapel and Anfley Church, with Figures from the Windows of Manceter and Anfley Churches, — XVI. South View of Manceter Church, and Seals, — — XVII. South Eaft View of Anfley-Hall, p. z V'S '4 15 29 4t 45 io. ^5 47 49 5«> 51 58 77 79 80 90 ib. 91 97 9S 99 P- 131 Pedigree of Mancestre Hardredeshull ■ colepeper Signatures : A- P.iges V — viii ; -Q.; 0.4—7; ^>^i s, *T- — 118; *iig — *i24; 121. 137— I4ii •143—146; !43— 168. — to face p. 30. — p. 50. — - p. 60. .*Y; T— Ts; U— Y. 122; 121 — 136; *x37 — 167; P. JD3. 1. 10. for «• Ufa," r. •« Ufa." THE THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES O F M A N C E T E R. MANCETER, or Mancester, the Mandueffedum of the Romans, now including, in the parifli, the hamlets of Manceter, Qldbiiry, and Hartpnlly and the town of Atherjloriy is bounded on the North-eaft by the Watling Street and the river Ankor, on the North-weft by Merevale, on the South-eaft by Caldecot and Nun Eaton, and on the South by Anfley, con- taining about nine fquare miles. It is fituate in the hundred of Hemlingford, in the North part of the county of Warwick, a part of the antient and ex- tenlive foreft of Arden, of which her native poet and induftrious Antiquary lings *, " Mufe, firft of Arden tell, whofc footfteps yet are found ** In her rough woodlands more than any other ground *' That mighty Arden held even in her height of pride ; ** Her one hand touching Trent, the other, Severn's fide. i( , , , — — — ^ *' When Britain fiift her fields with villages had fill'd, *' Her people wexing fiill, and wanting where to build, * Drayton, Polyolbion, Song XIII. B " They 2. HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S *< They oft diflodged the hart, and fet their houfes where " He in the hroom and brakes had long time made his leyre, « Of all the forefts here within this mighty ifle, <* If thofe old Britons then me foveraign did inftile, " 1 needs muft be the great'lt." Of the Rivers in Arden. " How Arden of her rills and riverets doth difpofe ; " By Alcefter how Aln to Arro eas'ly flows ; *' And mildly being mixt, to Avon hold their way : *< And likewife tow'rd the North how lively-tripping Rhea, *' T' attend the luftier Tame, is from her fountain fent : " So little Cole and Blyth go on with him to Trent. " His Tamworth at the lall he in his way doth win : " There playing him a while, till Ancor fliould come in." The Aln runs by Henley in Arden, and into the Arrow al Alcefter ; Avon by Rugby, Warwick, and Stratford [upon Avon, the birth-place of the famous Warwickfliire bard, William Shake- fpear] ; Rhea by Birmingham; Tame by Afton juxta Birmingham and Tamworth; Cole and Blythe by Colelhill ; and Ankor through Hartlhill, Manceter, Atherfton, and Polefworth, where was a very antient nunnery, " Whofe facred walls the holy Edith graced." The Arden here celebrated by our poet was, as he fays, the largeft of all the forefts in Britain, extending from the banks of the Avon, which wafhes the whole South fide of this huge Avild, to the Trent on the North, to the Severn on the Weft, and Eaft to an imaginary line drawn from High Crofs to Burton -"••■. This extenlive wild was folely appropriated to the pafturage of the Cornavian and Huiccian cattle, attended by their keepers * See a map of the Arckn in Plate *I. a the Tljl^\ p. ^erbmiio Zactcdorum O F M A N C E T E R. 3 the Ceangi of the different tribes. If we except a few hovels for the herdfmen, there were at that time no other habitations fave at fome of thofe ftations on the road going through the Ardcn, which the Romans at their fecond vifit to this country difcovcred to lead from their landing place to the Irifli fea, and which was called by the Britons the Getbling Street. Of thefe Itations there were five in this foreft ; that in the middle by the Britons called MmidneJJedum, fignifying a place of refidence for the baron or principal of the Ardenian Ceangi \ in after-days the Saxon Man- cea/ler\ and in thefe n\o(\Q.T:a ixiwQS ManceJIer ov Manceter^ this village yet carrying with it the church and its parochial ho- nours. What its firft conftru^tion was, whether an habitation for the Ceangian baron and his Ambailon, or one of thofe places of defence Caefar calls a Britilh town, is not knov/n, nor is its form defcribed by any of the moft antient authors. The Romans, no doubt, made many improvements; and as was their cuftom to inhabit thefe llations, fo improved by themfelves, here as in other places they built a town for the Britons, which they called Caer Mandii Guidb. Of the Cornavii, who are more often mentioned as the inha- bitants of thefe midlands than the Huiccii, we only know that fome of them ferved under the later emperors, as appears by the breviary of the Weliern empire. " Sub difpofitione viri fpedlabilis ducis Britannorum ■ • " Item per Lineam Valli '' Tribunus Gohortis Cornaviorum Ponte ylUu." • Of the Huiccii or Wiccii, that they were governed at that time by a chieftain of their own nation, Vcnufius, of all the Bri- tains after Caradlacus the grcateft for military fkili and valour, and who after the death of the great Cunobeline had married his widow Cartifmandua, in her own right queen of the Brigantes. E 2 The 4 HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S The firft vifit which the Romans paid the Arden was in the year 50, under the command of PubUus Oftorins Scapula, the fuccefibr of Aukis Plautius. He led the Roman troops from the hanks of the fouthern Oufe, and the adjacent ilation of LaBodorum •■••" (where they had remained from the departure of Plaiuius) northwards, following the courle of the VVatling Street, and fixing their encampments on the fites of the Britilli ftations,, as they had done fince they firft begun this march acrofs the iiland. His firft ftation v/as Bennavenjia in the neighbourhood of the cxtenfive wilds of the Arden : here finding three lofty hills adjoining the Watling Street, on thefe he formed and intrenched as many large camps, in order to fecure to himfelf and troops a fafe retreat, in cafe he fliould meet with any repulfes from the hardy forefters, the Wiccian Ceangi, in his rout through their dreary thickets, or from the neighbouring tribes, from fome of whom t he met with a good deal of trouble ; but as it is not my intention here to write a hiftory of the Romans, except fo far as immediately relates to the Arden, I fliall omit them, and go on with Oftorius's march, Whilft he was finifliing thefe works, he entered into a treaty of alliance with Venufius the Huiccian chieftain, which, prevented any future difputes with the Wiccian Ceangi daring his life ; he then marched to the banks of the Avon,, and there fixed his firft. Ardenian ftation. iyipQnt'iu7n^ which feveral of our modern antiquaries fay was. at Lilborn. The author of the Avon a poem, fpeaking of the Roman encampment there, fays, " Where nov/ their place beneath a happier Iky " Lilborn's white flocks and peaceful fwains fupply."' * Old Stratford on the rifin^ "round above, the. river. *}r The Iceni,. Here The rol's-A\^av riale 7/ p s Saxi'nd/il£ Xrttinohtnn Little u^Tewark F/77/ilon CarcfiuLft/TTi Mi/ieyA/i/Ti ' to Biripham Cropue/J Great G-ofnve/I Oitthorpe niurmastoji N ToU-gaU^ ALeic&fter JiiJ^' jiif'i „v" ..,...■'*"• Enderhy ^TT, —tppfhet^frne 2i^ariwrouifh^ I miter jf/n Eatu- .. * Av// v . * ttiimtt >n Siif>t/'tr . ^liarnftTti \Broiu/htrii astie\- \jToie.f worth I davhrook' Hwh trr>/} OF M A N C E T E R. «5 Here he entered this huge and extenfive foreft, and pur- fuing the courfe of the Watling Street along the North Eaft iide thereof, named his fecond ilation Venoms or BenonsSy now Cleybrook. Here the road divides; Richard fays, " findit in duas *' partes." The later writers, who had not feen Richard, fay that here the Fofs crofles the Watling Street ; but v.hether it was done by Ortorius for a road to the Iceni, or for what purpofe, it went to Ratie Coritanorum or Coitmor, whilft the other, the Watling Street, continued its courfe to the Irifh fea. At this place there was antiently a tall pole fet, wliich foon obtained the name of High Crofs, but falling down through age and decay in 17 1 2, an elegant ilone pillar was erefted and infcribed *. Here turning a little to the left. Oftorius marched to the banks of the Ancor, and our Britifli ftation oi Mandueffediun, which our early etymologifts fuppofed to be fo called from a number of ftone pits thereabouts t, though at prefent none are to be feen. The more modern etymologifts take a different ground, and call it the place or capital ftation of the Huiccii t- The fourth ftation is called Etocetu7n; and the fifth and-laft in the Arden Pennocrucium-, a length, counting from Tripon- tium, of fifty-eight miles. Oftorius now approaching the Irifii fea was recalled by forae commotions amonglt the fouthern Brigantes, which he quickly appeafed. Thefe were the Siftuntii of Lancalhire, who, having been invaded and fubdued by the Brigantes about the Chriftian t€ra, were by the conquerors obliged to take their name, which they continued to bear until the fubjedtion of the Brigantes by Petilius Cerealis, when being freed from their yoke they refumed their antient name, by which they were long after diltinguUhed. * See the Infcription, Hiftory of Hinckley, p. 121 ; and views both of the oU pole and the prefent pillar in p. 371. t See Camden, Dugdale, &c. % See Baxter, Henry. A. Dk « HISTORY AND ANTIQJLJITIES A, D. 5 1 the Silures difliking, as the Iceni had done before, the terms on which the Dobuni had formed their alliance with the Romans, made a defcent upon them ; to retaliate which, as well as to defend their new allies, Oftorius marched to meet the Silurian commander the valiant Caradtacus, who had removed from that country to amongll: the Ordovices at Caercadoc, after thefe two commanders met and a moft bloody and obftinate fight, Ortorius remained viJtor. Caradtacus flying to his mother-in- law Gartifmandua, was by her infamoufly delivered up to the Romans. Ottorius returning now to his entrenchments deter- mined as much as poffible to prevent fuch frequent inroads upon the Roman allies and conquefts, as tended to an entire prevention of a civilization taking place amongft them, by build- ing forts, and forming entrenched camps on the Avon and Se- vern, of which we have three yet remaining. " Pr^fidium Antonini quail dicas Warwick, Arx Uigantum, " ftatio, juxta librum Notitia3 Praspofiti Equitum Dalmatarum " frenandis Arduennie Sylvae Geangis, atque etiam Dumnoniorum. " Alauna hodie Akejler in confluentia duorum fiuminum Auln " five Alauni et Arrow five Garumnas. " Mediolanium Ptolemaei ad Sabrinam amnem hodie Bewd- i. ley ftJ." And at Aver Arley about five miles higher up the river a camp on the banks nearly a fijuare, with double and on one fide treble ditches; this the late Dr. Lyttclton fuppofed to be one of the camps which Oilorius formed on the banks of the Severn, during his confiicfls with the Silares, who ever reftlefs made feveral other attacks upon tlie Romans, and in general with fo much fuccefs as to embitter the mind of Oftorius, who finding the tide of viclory to be turned, and his laurels to wi- * Thefc three froir Baxter. ther, OF MANCETER. -j ther, M'ithdrew to his entrenchments near Eennavenna, where he linilhed his conrie. Tacitils fays, " Tscdio curarum feflus " Oftorius concellit vita; l^tis holhbus tanquam ducem non fper- *' nendum etfi non prxlium certe belhinn ablumpfit *". Oftorius finking under the weight of his anxieties, expired to the great joy of the enemy, that a captain fo confiderablc, though he had not fallen in battle, had yet perifhed in the war. It is with great probability fuppofed that he was interred on the plain near the great weftern camp, under a tumulus called OJler^s Hill in Weft Haddon Field, Bridges, in his Ihftory of Northamp- tonfhire +, fays, *' In Weft Haddon Field is an eminence called " Oftor Hili ; under which, according to vulgar report, are " the remains of fome great barons llain in battle + ;" from whence he infers that it is a tumulus or fepulchral monument, and from the name conjecStures that it is the tumulus of Pub- lius Oftorius Scapula the celebrated Roman propraetor, under the emperor Claudius ; and though neither the exacft place of his death nor burial are recorded in hiftory, no place can be afligned more probably than this, in the neighbourhood of the great military uorks at Gilfborough and Daventry, faid to be of his ere(ftion, and the memory of it fnfficiently preferred, by the name itfelf, by its vicinity to thofe encampments, and by- the con fufed remains of obfcure tradition. He was fucceeded by Aulus Didius, during whofe admini- flration Venullus, refenting the condu6t of the Romans in Cartifmandua's affair, broke his alliance with them, and draw- . ing along with him his Huiccii joined the Silures. This breach of friendftiip occalioned the total conqueft of the Huiccii,.. under the fucceeding adminiftration of Suetonivis Paulinus, and. confequently the entire reduftion of the Arden to the Romaa. * Tacit. Ann. xii, 39. -j- P. 599. goverEment, I HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES government, who to accuftom them the better to their new yoke, began to build towns in order to allure their new fub- jeSis to the pra<5lice of their modes of living, and of their laws, arts, 8cc. and for themfelves fummer camps on more elevated ground, as well for the benefit of more airy fituations, as for the conveniency of places wherein to perform their exer- cifes, &c. For thefe purpofes few or any of their ftations furniflied them with a more agreeable fituation than ours; the river Ancor, which had run parallel with the Watling Street for fome length of way, approaching the camp, fuddenly turns to the right, and crofTes the road in the front thereof, betwixt which and the river the ground gently falling to the South gave fufficient fpace for their intended city ; and for their fummer camp the adjoin- ing lofty hill of Oldbury on the left provided a moft pleafmg lite as well as profpetfl: hence they had a full view of the city with the road on each fide, and on a clear day a diltant pro- fpe(5l of the great works at Daventry. This camp, which is of an oblong form, and before fome alterations were made on the South Eaft, is faid to have contained fcven acres; the high ram- parts owing to- the care of the owners yet, 1777, in full per- fedion. Sir William Dugdale informs us, that in his time there were dug up a little to the North of this camp feveral flint celts, each about four inches long, which he looked upon as curiofi- ties, there being no flints in this county, nor within forty miles thereof fo large as thefe; fo that he fuppofes by their having been fetched fo far, tliat they were ufed for arms, as they cer- tainly were. Perhaps this place had been ufed as a fpecular ftation by the Vriccii, and thefe celts left there by the watchmen. To the South Ball: of this camp, and at the bottom of the hill on that fide, a large plain extends itfelf to the South, and is ter- minated O F M A N C E T E R. 9 minated by another fmall camp fcarcely noticed. This lall: camp appears to have been conftrucled for a guard againft any of the forellers attempting to furprize the garrifon wlien performing their exercifes, or the Mandueffcdians enjoying their diverfions on this elevated and beautiful plain, the Campus Martins of Manduelfedum^ which was not forfaken by the departure of the Romans, here having been two tumuli, perhaps the remains of many more, left compleat, one of them tolerably large, the other much fmaller, the bottom of which was covered with a brick pavement, and in it a molt curious fmall ftone-axe, the iifes from its fize not fo obvious. Sir William Dugdale fays that fome flint celts were dug up near the fummer camp, I think, in his time, which from the lliape. See. were as certainly the manufailory of the Huiccians as the flone axe and brick pavement were of Provincial Britons. From this period the Romans being engage.! with the reftlefs Silures, and the daring revolt of the Iceni under their illnftrious queen Boadicea, made no attempts to go further North till A. D. 72, when Petilius Cerealis marched againft the Brigantes. He re- fumed the praftice which his predeceffors had ufed of making or repairing a road ; and fixing ftations at proper places and diftances, he began at hindum Colonia^ and there turning to the North Eaft, went through the domains of tlic Brigantes, where, after feveral bloody engagements, equality of valour giv- ing way to inequality of difcipline, the Brigantes reluctantly fubmitted. I muft now return to our ftation of Manduejfeduiii^ and the new-built city by the antient Britons called Manchgned or Caer Manduguidb. This ftation, the third in the Arden, the eighth in the fecond iter of Antoninus, and the ninth in the firft iter of Richard, is diftant from the Milliarium commonly called Loridou G Stor.f lo HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S Sione in Watling Street 102 miles, and by modern menfuration from the bars in Holborn 99 miles. This ftation, litnate in the province of Flavia Maxima, has been taken notice of by all the writers and commentators on the Itineraries and interior geographers of Roman Britain, of which in the order of time in which they wrote. Camden in his Britannia, an. i6oo, 4to. *' hi orientali hujus latere ad Watlingrtreete (fie militarem " Romanorum viam vocamus) MandueJJedum oppidum longe " vetullillimum ab Antonino memoratum locum habuit quod " fuo nomine non omnino viduatum, nunc Mancejier dicitur, " Nennii Catalogo Caer Manchgued. Quod nomen cum lapi- " dicinia adjacent, e qua ftrudtiles lapides effodiuntur, a lapidi- " bus effoffis et excifis impofitum fufpicare liceat; e Britan- " nicie enim linguse glolTariis Main Lapidis, Fojfwad efFodiendi " fignificationem habere docemur, quae conjundla antiquum " illud nomen MandueJJedum fatis expreffe referre videantur, " quantum autem et qualecunque olim fuerit viculus hodie " perexiguus vix quatuordecim aediculas numerat, et nihil an- " tiqua proeter molem antiquam oftendit," Sir William Dugdale, Warwickfliire, ed. 1656. " Defcending lower on this fide the Anker, I come next to " Manceter, heretofore a Roman ftation, as the form of that " entrenchment, through which the great way called Watling *' Street pafieth, doth manifeft, where divers coins of filver and " brafs have been by digging and plowing frequently brought '* to light ; but now it is no more than an ordinary country " village, containing Hartfliill, Oldburie, and Atherfton, within <' its parifli," Burton's OF M A N C E T E R. II Burton's Antoninus, 1658, p. 139. " MandueJJ'edum, a famous Roman flation, as appears by *' Antoninus. To find out where it flood amongft the antiqua- " ries will be to little purpofe ; the difficulty, I fuppofe, arifes " from taking improper methods of inveftigation. Our learned " Camden, by taking a fure courfe along the W'atling Street, " hath at a proper diitance from Etocetum found it. Nennius " gives it a place amongft the antient cities, to which the learned «' Uflier affents." Gale, Iter Antonini, p. 59, voce ManduelJedum. ** Manduessedo, Mancejler^ in agro Warwicenfi, a Lapitidinis " fuis nomen habet; eft enim Britannis Maen Lapis, et fi locum *' adeas Lapicidinas invenies hie xrea Romanorum Imperato- " rum plurima, et aliquoties in raanus agricolarum deveniunt ** capita ^. ' Baxter gives us a different derivation, p. 168. " Manduejfeduni Antonino dicitur vetuftum Corigaunorum " oppidum, quod hodie in finibus eft Pagi Proefidiarii live War- " wiccani, fed in ruderibus jacet nomine Mancejler^ quod urbs *' eft Mandueffedum. Hoc Nennio noftro vitiofe fciibitur Caer " Manchgued pro Caer Mandu guidbj quod eft ci vitas Mandu in " fylvis. Siquidem Conventus ifte primis temporibus fere con- " ftabat Arduennx y^//«. Superius oftendimus Britannis vcte- ** ribus Mandu fuifle pro patria^ etfi fit in fabella Caledonii ** Regis Cul-huchi etiam Maendv pro Regia vel Lapided domo. " Efjedin etiam five hodierna fcriptura Tfl\'dhyn pro fede eft ; *' unde et carpentum bellicum veterum Celtarum EJJ'edin ap- " pellatum eft. Erat igitur Mandu Effedin tanquam patria. * In a copy with his fon Roger's MS. norcs, bow in the hands of Mr. Cough, is added, " Intcrfliiit vicum ho.iienuim et antiquum fluvius Anker qucm per ponrcm " tranfgieditur Via Wdtlingiana riidcribus Roa'.iin^ urbis ad Aullrum poilea iii- " terl'eftis 800 tirciter pedes a ponte.'' C 2 *' fedei. 1? HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S " Jed£s. Curia hjec videtur fuiffe five Bafilica veternm Uigan- *^ turn five Icenorum, cui quidem fucceflit inclyta Urbs Con- " ventria five Coventry vel CoiTL'ent Fee (Arbor fcilicer, five '' Crux Conventus) Anglis appellata, atque hsec nobis Man- " dueffedum novum eft." Horfeley is very concife liere : " Nor do I fee any reafon to queftion, but the next ftation " of Manduejfeduni miift be at Manceter^ where many Roman " coins have been found." Natlianiel Salmon in 1726 publifiied a fmall pamphlet, in- tituled, " A Survey of the Roman Antiquities in fome of the " Midland Counties." In this work he attempts to alter many of the ftations, efpecially that of Manduejfedum, which he removes to Warwick, allows a namelefs ftation at Oldbury, but entirely deftroys the exiftence of one at Manceter; reprobates the name of Watling Street as of Britifii or Roman impofition; and afl'erts that it had that name from Watford Gap. The very great im- probabilities introduced in fupport of his abfurd fcheme pre- vented any of his contemporary or fucceeding writers from inveftigating any of his extenfive ideas. Dr. Henry, in the firft volume of his Hiftory of Britain, Append, p. 524, note 8. " All our antiquaries have agreed to place Manduejfedum at ** Mancefter, which ftands on the Roman military way, called ** Watling Street, and where many Roman coins *" have been " found. Camden and Gale derive its antient name from Maen, " a rock; Mr. Baxter, from Mandu Effedin, a family feat or city ; " but perhaps it really was from Mandu Huiccii, the feat or *' capital of the Huiccii, the antient inhabitants." * In 1763 an urn full of Roman coins was dug up in the parifh of Polefworth at Aucote, and at the fame place, and not long after, a flint arrow head (lee pp. 9. 17.). In 1778, another ura and coins io the manor of Knovvle and parv(h of ILunpton in Arden. 2 In OF IM A N C E T E R. i.j In the year 1723 or 1724, Dr. Stukcley vifiteJ the ftations on the Wathng Street to the North of High Crofs, which jour- ney, under the title of " Iter Boreale," makes a part of the fecond volume of his " Itinerarium Guriofum," publilhcd fince his death in 1776, in whi.h he lays: " MandueJJ'edum lies a little to the fouth of the bridge (Wi- " therly *), is an oblong Iquare of fix hundred feet in length " and four hundred in breadth, divided equally by the Watling " Street; that half which lies on the Leiceilerlhire fide is called " the Oldfield, that on the Warwickfiiire fide Caftle Bank; the " ditch and banks yet perfect, with a fpring at the North- " Eaft gate. The inhabitants informed me that bricks and cx»- " ceeding firong mortar, with coins of brafs, filver, and fome ** gold, had been dug up, as alfo found in finking of wells ; " that feveral vaults go quite through, and that cattle have " fometimes dropped into them ;. that houfes reach from the " caftle to the bridge, and that in a piece of ground called the " Furlongs foundations of houfes have been found ; that the *' prefent church ftands on a hill, where feems to have been a *' camp, the intrenchments very deep, but too irregular to have " been Roman." The Docftor adds, that " Oldbury is a great camp on a high " hill, whence a moft defightful profpeif, Shugbury, Erdbury, " and Borough near Daventry, with the Watling Street as far as *' Watford Gap, are all in view." All thefe writers agree that at or near the remaining camp, on the Watling Street, was the fite of the antient ftation, by the Romans called iV/'^«fl'^if^'^«;;z ; Salmon only excepted, who, taking no notice of this camp, and entirely difallowing the antiquity of the Watling Street, fixes the Nation at Oldbury, * In the county of Lciccfler. undoubtedly 14 H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I QJJ I T I E S undoubtedly their Statio ^Eftiva. Camden and Gale derive the name from Maen^ a rock; but there is none nearer than Oldbury and Hartfliill; and the narrow limitation of Manduejjedimt to the city alone offers a feeming difficulty, which entirely vaniflies if we do but enlarge our view : a fine fituation on that road guarded by the camp, and waflied half round by the river, a lofty fummer camp, a fpacious plain, and that guarded on the further lide by another camp defended by a morafs, are all flrong proofs of the great judgement of the Romans in the choice of a rifmg fettlement in the vaft Arden ; and as no other names were impofed on thefe appendages fave the general one whilft the Romans remained here, they would only be known by the an- tient name of MandueJJedum^ and fo far as yet appears it con- tinued fo until the coming of the Saxons, A. D. 78. Agricola fucceeding to the government of this ifland, then nearly fubjugated to the Roman yoke ; in order to prevent their future defection, engaged the Provincials as much as pof- libly he could to inhabit the new founded cities, to embelifli them with temples, porticos, and baths, &c. and to improve their late formed roads, the completion of which fome think was re- ferved for the more happy days of Trajan and his fuccelTor Hadrian; and this is confirmed by the late difcovery 1773 of a milliarium at Thurmaflon, on the Fofs road, two miles from Leicefler *, infcribed, IM]^ CAES DIV TlAIAN FAR'E'' F DIV NER TaIAN. HADRIAN AVG R POT IV. cos. I. III. VA. RATIS II. * See an engraving of tliis milliarium in plate I. here annexed, from Archajolo- giu, v')l. VII. p. 89 ; and another, in its prcfcnt llace, as placed near the Belgrave ijjxc in LciccIicT, in Nichols's Colkdions for Leicefterlhire, plate XXX. p. 718. As v^>^,^^p^ -^ j^^^^ js,^^^^^,^,,,,^^^^^^^: iAIAIVTAPxiir rv. RAIAlVHA[miA-N^VG ^0TMC05IHVARATI.S H jPlaJx H.p.15- Fioip-13- Fiy.4.piT- FKf.t'p-n- r- 'r\ /i^.-z.ptS- t'if sp-n- OF MANCETER. 15^ As Hadrian entered his fiiil: confulate a few months before he was made emperor, and as the fetting up of mile ftones is ufually the lalt work on the road, this -Iter at leaft was finiflied in Trajan's days. In the year 1773 a cottager in Hartfliill having obtained leave to enlarge his little croft, inclofed an unnoticed tumulus which rtood about one mile and three quarters South Eaft from Oldbury. This tumulus (engraved in plate 11. fig. 1.) is feventy-five feet wide at the bottom, eighteen feet acrofs the top, and about twenty-five feet high, the height of the top being about twelve feet. On cutting down the tumulus, he found at the bottom, a little lower than the level of the fur- rounding ground, a brick, pavement, about fix feet fquare, with a hole at each corner, which he deftroyed. The next year dig- ging or plowing this ground over again, he found the ftone exactly engraved in the fame plate, fig. 2. In 1777, the firft time I had any intelligence thereof, I vifited the place, which having been frefh ploughed, I picked up fome fragments of bricks, the remains of the floor, one piece of a fine red, the other nearly vitrified, but both have been glazed, un- lefs the efFeds of the fire by which the vitrification was pro- duced. There is another tumulus or barrow adjoining the North Wefi: corner of the cailellated wall of the old manor houfe, but much larger. As the Britons did not make bricks, nor the Romans ufe ftone inftruments, was not this the property of fome Romano-Briton in the beginning of the fixth century when the Roman arts were many of them totally loft ? From this time hillory is entirely filent with regard to any tranfa^ftions in the Arden untill the coming of the Saxons. The Romans quitted this iiland in the year 42 i. We are told they left it in a flourilhing condition, that the inhabitants were pof- fefied of large and fplendid cities, good towns, and well inhabited villages, i6 HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S villages, and that thefe were united by means of fubftantial roads. Amongft the firft Nennius ranks our Caer Mandugiddh ; but how- ever large and populous the city might have been, and however elegant the buildings public as well as private were, nothing now remains except the camp upon the road, to inform the en- quiring traveller where the city of Manduejfedufu once ftood ; fo that it may with the ftrideft propriety be faid, " Nunc gramen eft ubi Troja fuLt." The chafm betwixt the departure of the Romans and coming cf the Saxons into the Mercian domains, being a period of about one hundred and fixty-five years, feems to have pafTed over in peace and filence ; no hillorian mentioning any quarrels or dif- putes to have happened in the Arden. During this long con- tinuation of quiet, the Britons, a jieople extremely attached to their antient laws, cuftoms, and habits, being no longer un- der the compulfive power of the Romans, infenfibly returned to their original manufadtories, with fome fmall improvements, as appears by the ftone battle-axe found in the barrow on Hartf- hill heath. Before I quit this fubje<5l it may not be amifs to mention, from Sir William Uugdale, his account of the flint axes found on the North fide of the camp at Oldbury, which had certainly been fabricated by the Britons before the Romans came over, and flone inftruments Inch as they had been accuftomed to make and ufe before the Romans fettled amongft them, as appears by fome of the firft fort havinc; been found at Oldburv in the time of Sir William Dugdale, which he thus defcribes : '* On the North part of this fort have been found, by plough- " ing, divers flint-ftones about four inches and a half in length, ** curioufly wrought by grinding or fome fuch way into the " form here exprelled ; tiie end fhaped much like the edge of *^ a pole-axe; which makes me cpnjevfture, that confidcring there " is OF M A N C E T E R. '17 *' is no flint in all this country, nor within forty miles from " hence, they being at firft fo made by the native Britons and ** put into a hole bored through the fide of a ftaff, were made " ufe of for weapons, in as much as they had not then attained " the knowledge of working iron or brafs to fuch ufes." Of the fecond fort of Itone, which is a very beautiful one, of a very different lliape from that above defcribed, this being wrought into the fliape of a fmall battle-axe, with a hole in the centre -■••, through which the ftaff was to be put, one of the ends is ground very Iharp, the other very blunt. It is of the hard blue ftone of the country, but from age or the foil in which it has lain is now covered with an elegant olive-coloured patina. This was found by a cottager on the Campus Martins, now Hartfhill Common, in 1770. He having obtained leave to enlarge his little croft, cut down a fmall unnoticed tumulus, the bottom of which was paved with bricks, which by the heat of fire had been nearly vitrified. From the fliape of the flint inftruments it may be faid, that they as well as the arrow heads of the flime materials, one of which was fome time ago found near Polefworth +, were the manufadlure of the antient Britons ; but that the ftone axe was undoubtedly the fabrication of a Provincial or Romano-Briton, is evident, from its fhape an improvement on the flint ones, and from its refting on a brick pavement t, which the Britons were ignorant of making. Another and much larger tumulus ftands * See plate II. fig. 3. -f- One of thefe, a blackifli flint, one fule white, was foutid a few years ago In Aucote in Aval Cour wood, in the parifh of Polefworth, nor far from the place where the urn full of Ro:Tian brafs coins of the Lower Empire (fee p. 12.) was dug up. See plate II. fig. 4. X Such a pavement covered the bottom of an antient Roman tomb difcovered at York, in 1768, infcribed leg. ix. hisp. vie; one of the remaining foldiers, who after the fatal overthrow by the Iceni under Boadicea were incorporated into the fixth legion llacioned at York, yet retained their old name. See p. 14. D ' about 18' HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES about a quarter of a mile to the North Weft of this, but has not yet been opened : having been induded in the Hmits of the great wood, the Sylva Hugonis^ it is preferved entire. This tu- muhis, except on one fide, has a very deep fofs round it, the earth taken out having been employed in raifing it; on the Southern fide clofe adjoining, Hugh de Hardrefhull built his caftle or manfion. Credda was the firft Saxon commander who vifited the Arden, which was in the year 585, about 135 years after their arrival in England, and about 165 years after the final departure of the Romans, when, having overrun all the midland counties, they founded the large kingdom of the Mercians. The Saxons difliking the narrow bounds of the Romano-Britifli towns, which they did not want for their garrifons, the Provincials being either driven away, or totally fubdued, foon formed dif- ferent fettlements. A few fixed on the Campus Martins of the departed Romans, and called their infant hamlet, ArderCs Hill\ afterwards, changing the N into an R, Arder/hill, fo after- wards written in Domefday. Some fettled near the great or fummer camp, which they called Ealdbury. A larger num- ber laid the foundation of a town a little to the North of the old city, and upon the Watling Street, to which they gave the name of ArderCs I'owny foon after called Adderejlorty and after- wards in Domefday Ardeftm. After this we find other towns rifing in the Arden. A. 757 * at Sekindon Ethelbald the tenth king of Mercia, attended by his barons (amongft whom Leofric progenitor of the great Leofric earl of Mercia is numbered), fought with Cuthred king of the Weft Saxons t; and in the fuc- ceeding reign, we find a royal palace built at Tamworth, where * 111 755. Chron. Sax. \ Henry of Huntingdon, B. IV, p. 341. fjys that Cuthred ufed a red or golden dragon in this battle. " Aciebus igitur dilpolitis Edelhun prsecedens Weftfaxenles, Regis infigne, draconem fcilicet aureiim, gerens, traasforavit vexilliferum hollilem.'* See Camden's Oxfordliiire, Burford Bryants 6 the OF M A N C E T E R, -i^ the great Oflra, and his fucceflbrs, Coenwulf, Bertulf, and Bur- gred, exercifed their regal powers. OfFa's charter to the monks at Worcefter concludes, " Ego *' OfFa fedens in regali palacio in Tamaworthige feciindo dio " nativitatis Domini, in die feftivitatis beati Stephani martyris *< concedens donavi, anno ab Incarnationis Chrifti DCCLXXXI. '' Indi6lione quarta." Coenwulf concludes. . ** A Rudding's (hare in procefs of time was divided into feveral parcels, one of which is the property of John Lloyd, grand-foii of Robert. Lucia, the third daughter, married Peter Prilly, whofe fort Thomas dying without ifflie in the reign of Henry VI. Anne their daughter and heir general married Thomas Waver *, who left a fon. She married to her fecond hufband Thomas Porter, but he did not live long with her, for 2.8 Henry VI. 1450, flie joined in the fale of the advowfon by the name of Anne Porter. Her grand-fon, Richard Waver, fold his third part, 7 Henry VII. 1492, to Richard Cave of Stanford in Northaraptonfliire, who July 20, 9 Henry VIII. 1518, exchanged it with Henry Field- ing, Efq. of Newnham, whofe great grand-fon Bafil fold the fame to lady Alicia Dudley or Duddeley t, who in the fame year fettled it in fuch parcels as flie thought proper, upon fix poor vicarages as by the patent of fettlement will more fully appear. The manerial rights flie afligned to. the vicar of Stoneley. * Waver bears, Argent, on a fefs Sable tliree efcalops Or. -j~ The daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, and the wife of Sir Robert Dudley of Kenelworth, by whom ftie had four daughters. In order to avoid feme malicious profecutions Sir Robert obtained a licence to go abroad for three years, which he carried into execution, leaving his lady and their four daughters at home. He was foon after recalled, but refufed to return, for which his eftate was feized, and vefted in the crown during his natural life. He fettled at Florence, where he was much honoured by Cofmo II. and his confort, the emperor Ferdinand II's fifter, who made him her great chamberlain, and alfo procured for him a patent dated March 9, 1620, creating him a duke of the holy Roman empire, by virtue of a difpen- fation from the pope; he married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Robert South- well, whom he had engaged to accompany him abroad. This marriage occafioned that fingular (tatnte, allowing lady Alicia to fell or otherwife difpofe of her join- ture during Sir Robert's lifetime; by virtue of which, 22 James 1. (he by her lad: will gave out of the manor of Faufley in Northamptonlhire forty pounds per annum, for the fujiport and repair of the chapel at Warwick, built by Richard Beauchanip; the ftirplus, if any, to the poor of the hofpital of Warwick of the foundation of her father, Robert Dudley earh of Leiceller, fo created by queen Elizabeth. Lady OF M A N C E T E R. n Lady Alice Dudley in the fame year, July 20, conveyed this eftate to king James, which he granted by her diredions to five poor vicars of the county of Warwick. Extra6t of lady Dudley's fettlement of an eftate in Mancefter by grant of James I. July 20, h. R. 20. on fix vicars of Man- ceter, Leeke Wotton, Afliow, Kenelworth, Monks Kirby, and Stoneley, for the augmentation of thefe fmall vicarages, twenty pounds per annum apiece, provided the faid incumbents preach one fermon every Sunday throughout the year, and upon every Whitfunday a commemoration of the faid lady Dudley and her daughter Alicia then deceafed, who by her will bequeathed molt of her eftates to her faid mother, to be difpofed of as flie thought fit, in Warvvicklhire. " Alice lady Dudley, wife of Sir Robert Dudley of Killingworthy alias Kenelworth, co. Warwick, knt. in purfuance of the will and verbal directions of Alizia Dudley her daughter, bearing date October 16 19, having purchafed of Bafil Fielding, Efq. William lord vifcount Fielding and Sir Thomas Brook, Knt. the fee and inheritance of the manor of Manceter, alias Mancefter, with the appurtenances thereto belonging, did by his majefty's confent, and by John Kent and John Chelfea, of St. Giles in Middlefex, fervants to her the lady Dudley, convey to his ma^ jefty, to be by him regranted to fuch poor vicars, and in fuch portions as (lie fliould nominate and appoint, the fame confift- ing of the aforefaid manor of Manceter, with all the rights, members,, and appurtenances thereof, and all thofe meadows, clofes, and paftures, called Morelcife, the Little Harpers, the Mid- dle Harpers, and the two meadows adjoining, the one called the Hay-meadow, the other the Morley meadow, a meffuage, houfe and homeftead, and one clofe called Stocking Laund, one clofe call eil Crab tree clofe,. one meadow called Stockinglaund meadow, the 38 HISTORY AND ANTlQ^UlTIES the pallure called the Launds, four acres of inclofed lands in the tenure of William Mofeley, ten acres of arable land lying next Atherfton, one parcel of ground called Bucklee More, a clofe called Bondfield, one clofe parcel of the Bottomfields, all thofe clofes called Bottonnfieids and Purley Park, and all thofe woods called the Out Woods, containing by eftimation forty acres or thereabouts, all that Myln, Myln Holme, and the Hemp- leek, with all the meffuages, cottages, tofts, mills, dovehoufes, orchards, gardens, demefne lands, tenements, meadows, paftures, feedings, woods, underwoods, moors, heaths, waters, fifliings, commons, rents, reverfions, fervices, courts, leets, liberties, fran- chifes, rights, royalties, jurifdidtions, emoluments, profits, com- modities, hereditaments, whatfoever to the faid manor and pre- mifes, or any part thereof belonging or appertaining or reputed, taken or known as part, parcel, or member, thereof, lying and being in the parifhes, towns, and hamlets, or fields of Manceter, alias Mancefter aforefaid. " Et memorandum quod quarto die Septembris, anno fupra^ fcripto, prefat' Johannes Kent et Johannes Chelfeg, gen. venerunt coram didto D'no Rege in Cancellaria fua, et recognoverunt in- denturam predidl' ac omnia et fingula in eadem content' et fpe- cificat' in forma preditfla. *' Irrotulat' quarto die Septembris an' predidl'." A true copy of the original record, remaining in the chapel of the Rolls, having been examined. Hen. Rook, Clerk of the Rolls. Thefe lands See. are thus divided, viz. To Richard Abell, iVL A. the meffuage houfe, one clofe called Stockinglaund, the Crabtree clofe, and the Stockinglaund mea- dow. The Bondfield. The OF M A N C E T E R. 39 The Myln, Myln Holme, and Hempleek, One clofe called the Seven Acres, part ot" the manor of Man- ceter, with all appurtenances and rights to the faid premifcs belonging. To Nicholas Langridge, the lands containing by eftimation eighteen acres, one dole called Fox Clofe four acres, ten acres lying in the town field of Manceter next Atherftone, Berchley- moor feven acres. To Timothy De Lene, B. A. two parts in three to be divided of the two clofes called Bottom Fields, feventy-two acres, with all the rights, members, and appurtenances, rents referved, 8ic. To John Buft, M. A. the third part of the two clofes called Bottom Fields, Parley Park, fifty acres lying in the town fields of Manceter, with the melTuage and buildings thereon. To Richard Stapylton, B. A. one moiety or half of the Fower jMorleys, of the Little Harpers, and of the two meadows called Hay- meadow and Morley-meadow. To Richard Belingham, B. A. one moiety or half of the afore recited Fower Morleys, the Little Harpers, and the two meadows called Hay- meadow and Morley-meadow. The Middle Harpers or Wood Clofe in the town fields of Man- ceter, and alfo all and fingular fuch and the fame reft and lefidue of all and fingular the faid manor of Manceter or Mancefter. This lady had a patent granting her powers to ufe the ftyle of dutchefs. She died January 22, 1668-9, and was buried in. Stoneley church. In the year 1726, December 13, died Mr. James Grammer, citizen and goldfmith of London, being in right of his mother heirefs to the Glovers. He gave by will two thoufand pounds for the building and endowing an alms houfe capable of entertain- ing fix perfons, by the following claufe :. 6 ** I give^ 40 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S " I give two thoufand pounds for the endowment of an alms houfe for fix poor men, to be built in my orchard in Mancef- ter, adjoining the church-yard ; the wall now parting the faid orchard and church-yard to be taken down, and palifadoes to be put before the faid alms-houfes of fix or eight yards deep, the alms-houfes to be about ten feet high between the floors and cielings, and a different apartment for each poor man, and all of them to be wainfcoated, fafhed, and ftrong built with the belt bricks, and to be folding-doors in each apartment for the con- veniency of a bed, and a chimney to each room ; to have a pump in the faid court-yard for all the fix men in common if it can poflibly be made. The abovementioned two thoufand pounds to be laid out in land, and the interell to be applied for the maintenance of the fix alms-men at five fliillings each weekly, the overplus to be laid out in repairs as occafion fiiall require. The charge of building the faid alms-houfes to be paid for out of my eifate, over and above the faid two thoufand pounds. The men that are to inhabit the faid alms-houfes to be threefcore years of age, having always borne an honeft character of good churchmen, and fuch as have been houfe- keepers in Mancefter or Atherfton, neverthelefs the houfekeepers of Mancefter to have the preference as vacancies fliall happen. And that all the poor men fiiall be obliged to receive the facrament three or four tim.es a year, and to hear and join in the prayers of the church upon all Sundays and holydays, provided that they are in health ; and I do order that in cafe any of the faid poor men, after they are admitted into the faid alms-houfes publicly beg or afk alms, that then they lliall immediately be turned out, and another poor man placed in his room." In OF MANCETER. 41 In 1728 the alms-houfes were built and finifhed agreeable to the will. In the centre is an ornamented compartment, and at the top a fhield of his arras, Sable a lion rampant between fix billets Or. He alfo left ten pounds per annum to the poor of Atherflon ; and two doles, the rent of which he dire6ts to be laid oat in grey coars and hats for fuch a number of poor men as the faid rent will provide. W s<" j/rn-/it:r //.//.I/// @ /'A/A ///// //.| O L D B U R Y, MiUKhu-fseiliini KoiiKUioriiin 42 HISTORY AND, AN T I CL^ I T I E S O L D B U R Y, A L D B U R Y OR W O L D B U R Y. I N this village, undoubtedly a part of the Ronia« Maniuef- y/edum *, a chapel dedicated to St. Lawrence, with fome buildings inhabited by fome nuns from Polefworth, were erecSled before the Conqueft ; the time indeed uncertain. Bifhop Tanner -f- fays the account given of this place in the Monafticon is legendary. Towards the latter end of the Conqueror's reign, Robert Mar- mion, lord of the caftle of Tamworth, drove away the nuns from Polefworth, who retired hither. The next year he recalled them, leaving a very few of the lifters behind. Leland J gives us the following charter of the faid Robert Marmion and Millecent his wife : " Notum fit omnibus nos conceffiiTe Ofannae priorifTae ad '* relig. inftaurandam fanftimonialium ibi ecclefiam fandaa " Edithas de Polefwordia cum pertinentibus, ita quod conventus " dc Aldeberia ibi fit manens." In the Conqueror's Survey Oldbury is not mentioned. It was given with the reft of the eftate late Edwin's to Htigb Lupus, and by his defcendant, as is related in Mancefer, to Walter de HaftingSy which faid Walter and Athewife his wife, in the pre- fence of Roger de Clinton bifliop of Coventry, by their fpecial charter, gave to the nuns of Polefworth then inhabiting the cell at Oldbury, the fite thereof as at the time when Ofanna was * Of which fee the plan in p. 41. ■f- Not. Mon. !■>. 570. note. % CoUea. I. 27. 4 priorefs, OF MANCETER. 43 priorefs, with all Stiperfliull, in fields and woods down to the midft of the valley on that lide of Manceter ; alfo a certain part of the woods lying on the South Eall of Oldhury, and extend- ing to the rivulet which comes from Ilardreiliull, and all thofe grounds called Calve Croft and Birchley, lying betwixt the two ways, Jcilicet Mere Street and Birchley Street, unto Hugh's Wood, now Hartfliill Hays. See Appendix, N°' II. and III. The grant abovementioned was confirmed by a fubfequent one of Hugh fil. Richard. " See Appendix, N° ■-•■III. ' This Hugo filius Ricardi, or de Hatton, of which he was lord, was a great friend to the monks. He founded the mo- naftery of Wroxhall, confirmed the manor of Newnham in this county to the canons of Kenel worth, and alfo gave them lands in Lillington. To the priory of Warwick he gave the church of Snitfield, and to the nuns of Polefworth confirmed the grant: of Oldbury of his fee. This grant was confirmed by the bifliop of Chefter, then lord of the fee. Soon after this, Walter de Hafl:ings gave Old- bury to Wakeline de Mancejlery who confirmed his predeceflbr's grant to the faid nuns, ufing the words conceffi and confirmavi, and defcribing the lands and bounds as in the aforefaid charter of Walter de Haftings. The manor of Oldbury contains five hundred and eighty acres, four farms, and one cottage: to the Weft is a place called Ridge- lane, in which are fome houfes that do not belong to this manor. A modus or annual payment of i /. 5 j. 10^. is paid to the vicar of Manceter in lieu of the tythe agiftment given to the. church by Harrington. Drayton. G 2 From> 44 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S From the Rolls in the Tower of London. Tallagium contra W. Hamelyn, terap. Edw. I, •*' Villata de Manceftre. Prima medietas dim' marci. Secunda medietas xvi s. ii d." From the Exchequer, N° 34. From the book of fifteenths and tenths. ■" Manceter villa xviii s." Ralph Boteler gave to the nuns here refiding two yardlands in Waverton with his daughter, whom he placed there to be a nun ^. Robert de Betun, bifliop of Hereford, about 1135, in the reign of Stephen, remitted fifteen days penance to all fuch as would contribute to the nuns' buildings here. In the reign of Edv/ard I. a long and tedious controverfy be- twixt thefe nuns and the parfon of Manceter about the rights to the oblations made in the chapel of St. Laurence at this place, and the tythes of corn of two pieces of inclofed land, lying :one piece on the South, and the other on the North fide of the houfe, was determined, viz. that the nuns fiiould peaceably' enjoy them ; in confideration whereof, they lliould yearly on Michaelmas day bring to the church of Manceter three pounds of wax, and there before noon deliver the fame to the parfon on the high altar. Provided neverthelefs if it did happen that any great miracle there wrought flrould bring a multitude of offer- ings, fuch extraordinary gifts to be equally divided betwixt the faid nuns and the parfon. And alfo provided, that the prieft officiating here fnould not admit any of the parilhioners of Manceter, on Sundays or holydays, either to the facrament or * Dugdalcj ex autog. pen. J. Ropcr, arm. divine PI. IV. ix*6v\i-lv/' ^i£OXfft OV^..^.^/^.^ S«^iv..^ r/^ Seed of the. Mancu>tcn/ of Taleo n^>?i/i . /f^^^ die. Ortj^^-uxl (yrv tkey^-icc^vcrUation/ Office. Joc^vc iST i/S() ■ Ji roune}' deiaiT OF M A N C E T E ]\. AS divine fervice, without the exprefs licence of the parfon or his deputy. This agreement bears date on the eve of the teall of St. Phihp and St. James the Apollles, 1284, 12 E(hvard I. * The lands lying in Oldbury and belonging to the nuns were 26 Henry VIII. valued at fix pounds, ten pence; and coming to the crown with the monallery of Polefworih 36 Henry VIII. were in the thirty-third of the fame reign granted to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk^ by the name of " Dominium ct mane- " rium de Oldburie, ac capitale melTuagium ile Oldburie, Sec. " monafterio de Polefworth duduni fpe6lans." The duke immediately pafTed the fan'iC unto Robert Green f, who 3 Elizabeth fold it to James Symmmgs^ M. D. He did not keep it long, for 2 i Elizabeth, Jajper Fi/Jjer died feifed thereof, leaving it to Catharine Nortvood, widow, and Anne the wdfe of Richard Woolrich^ his coufins and heirs. After this it came again to the crown, for in the 3d of James I. Sir Edzvard Stan^ hope and Edward Littlewortb had a grant of it in fee. From them it came to Richard Whitehall^ whofe grand-daughter P(5ro//6y conveyed the fame by marriage to John Farmer^ Efq. of Badgley, whofe grand-fon John devifed the fame to his ne- phew .Roa'/^;^^ Okeoverj whofe fon Row/and Farmer Okeover now enjoys it |. January 31, 1565, 7 Elizabeth, Robert Green fells to Robert Broughton all the tythes within the manor of Oldbury, with the * Dugdale, ex autog. pen. J. Roper arm. f The duke fold the fame to Robert Green, by deed dated xxvi February, anno regni Reg' Henrici Oaavi Angl' Fr' et Hib' Reg' Fidei Defenf ct Ecclef ' Angl' et Hib' Suprem' Capit' xxiii. to be held of the king in capite by the twentiedi part of a knight's fee, and the annual rent of thirteen (hillings and eight pence. The arms of Polefworth abbey were Az. a fefs'corized between fix crofs crof- lets Or. See plate IV. X The arms of Okeover, Ermine on a chief Goles three bezants. Burton, Leiceflerlliiie, p. 275. oblations 46 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S oblations and obventions which he as lord of Oldbury had re- ceiveu, and which he had piirchafed of Margaret Booth, May 24, 1549, 4 Edward VI. January i, 1575, 17 Elizabeth, Robert Broughton releafes to Robert Holt the tythes of hay, corn, &c. of Oldbury. From him they came to Thomas Perkins, John Swift, Bartholomew Laxton, and Nicholas Rolf; and thence 7 James I. 1609 to Richard Whitehall. Qu. To whom did Robert Broughton demife or fell the Eafter book or offerings ? To the lofty fituation of Oldbury, thefe lines of Leland, from his " Genethliacon Edwardi Frincipis," are applicable : " Unde licet velut e fpecula quofcunque jacentes " Circum monticulos, vallefque videre feraces." The ramparts of the Fort at Oldbury are about twenty feet broad at the bottom, and about fix feet high. See plate V. here annexed. The South Eaft fide has been built upon, fo that the length that way cannot be determined. According to Sir William Dugdale, it contained ^bout feven acres. II ARTS MILL.. >. N. jfi'v /-'n/ OF M A N C E T E R. 47 H A R T S H I L L. Hartshill, the third village in the pariih, the Campus Mar- tius of the Romans, and by them included in the general name of Mandueffedunii was firft fettled and inhabited by the Saxons, M'ho called it ArdenJJnll. By the Conqueror it was let to farm with Anfley to Nicholas, a man of note in thofe days, at too fhillings, as in Domefday, where it is called ArdrefJjill^ and with Anfley contained two hides and feveral caracutes. Tiiere were thirteen villans with five caracutes more, alfo fix acres of mea- dow; all w^hich had been valued at four pounds, but now at loo fliillings. Not long after this cenfus was finiflied, the Conqueror gave this lordfliip with the reft of the parifh, and the adjoining one of Anfley, to Hugh Lupus earl of Chefter, whofe nephew and heir Ranulph de Mefchines gave Hartfhill and Anfeley to his kinfman Hugh. By him and his defcendants it was called Aldre^ dujhull *, Hardre/hull, Harder bull^ Hardejhull, HarteJJjull., and in later days Hare/hull and Hart/hill. The village (fee plate VI.) is built on the North end of the hilly plain, formmg a ruftic fquare, near the centre of which ftands an old building (now a cottage) called the chapel, which name 1 find it bore in the reign of James I. -f-; but when it was ufed for any religious purpofe does not appear. On the Weft fide of the vil- * Alfo HardreduJIiuU, Hartejhidl, and HardrkheJhuU. ■\ In 1608, In Cook's deed of fale it is termed a cottage, called the chapel. May 6^ 1621, Jane Wright, widow of ChriHophcr Wright, of Happesford, and daughter of Francis Purefoy of Cnldecot, leafcs to R.alph Parker for eight years, the houfe called the chapel ilauding in the middle of the village. lage 48 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S lage is a large wood ftretching up near the camp at Oldbury, the remains of the woods of the Arden, in antient days called from its pofTeffors Sylva Hugonis, and Sylva Willielmi^ and now 1'he Hays, in the fide of which, adjoining the caftle, is a large tu- mulus coeval with that in which the ftone axe was found, but it has not been opened. From the village the grounds fall gently to the river Ankor, which runs pleafantly through this manor, directing its courfe from South Ealt to North Weft. Drayton, in complaifance to the place of his nativity, with poetic exaggeration fings, " Our floods, queen Thames for fhips and fwans renown'd, *' And ftately Severn for her fliores is praifed, " The chriftal Trent for fords and fiih renown'd, *' And Avon's fame to Albion's cliffs is raifed, *' Caerlegion Chefter vaunts her holy Dee, ** York many wonders of her Ouze can tell, " The Peak her Dove, whofe banks fo fertile be, " And Kent will fay her Medway doth excell, *' Cotfwold commends her Ifis to the Tame, " Our Northern borders boaft of Tweed's fair flood, " Our Weftern parts extoll their Willy's fame, " And the old Lea brags of the Danifli blood. *' Arden's fweet Ankor, let thy glory be, *' That fair idea onely lives by thee." And again, addrefling his miftrefs Ann Goodyer of Coventry, " Say thus, fair brook, when thou fhalt fee thy queen, " Lo here thy fliepherd fpent his wandering years, " And in thefe fliades, dear nymph, he oft had been, *' And here to thee he facrific'd his tears, *' Fair Arden, thou my Tempe art alone, *' And thou, fweet Ankor, art my Helicon." On lire k I I LI.IStiTOy MOSrXTAX. ycaacjsrax 4 /UKOOT X.A 5 i ycirTo:v KEGis % Twrctioss SH-lhERSToy COXGHSTOK rCUPF CTLST ■^.^^H'rrnrRfxr MMOSWORTH Sakyrosr Stttos Chex^t ■^ k I'KCia.ETOX £AJUi SBILTOIF -VTTA^ GOLMifG *■ -i V I WEMHynTOX •■"S*i Ih. "^^ BntTOXB-is rixos T/u.< nr„f,Uv„ /;■„„, /{ fit,rf/,f:,.l„„im,rV/,'//..,- ,t/ f/ur/.,/,;// /„ J{i./,:'.1Miru S (i,>rec/^r,/ /ion, Pr(,./i J/n/l OF M A N C E T E R. 49 On the further or North-eail fide of the river the grounds gently rife again, until the bounds are determined by the Wat- ling Street. The hilly part or plain is one large and very deep rock, breaking when dug up into fmuU and very irregular pieces, more 'fit for the repair of the highways than buildings, , very great quantities having been carried away for fomc years pall for that purpofe. The interftices of this ftone are in many places filled with a reddilh fluid, of the ferrugineous kind ; and though this rock in feveral places appears on the furface, yet the ground is very fruitful, gratefully repaying the induftrious cul-- tivator for his comport and labour. From this hilly plain is feen a moft beautiful and fruitful landfcape, interfperfed with a very great number of churches, more than forty of which may be feen with the unarmed eye*. Hence alfo you fee the ruins of Alhby houfe, and a little nearer the Red Mere, or Plain, which gave the crown to Henry the Seventh, now a well-cultivated fpot ; and a little to the South Eafi, on the boundaries of the village, . Nun Eaton, with the neglecfted ruins of its once famous mona-- ftery, feveral more churches, and the lofty fpires of Coventry, " Hinc aurce dulces, hinc fuavis fpiritus agri." Hugb^ to whom Ranulph de Mefchines had given this manon" with that of Anfley about 11 25, afTuming the name of de ' Hardrrjbullj built himfelf a fair manor-houfe, fituate at the ut-- moft point of a ridge that fi:retched itfelf betwixt tw'o narrow" vallies, commanding a fine view of Atherilone. This houfe he - furrounded with a fl:rong and lofty wall, with loop-holes, as reprefented in plate XVI. fig. 4. cut in large fquared ildnes, and at each angle buttreffes of the fame : the other parts of the wall are of the rough ftone of the place. This wall, excepting in its height, is tolerably entire, fave the gate which is pulled down, and a large breach left in its room. From a very fmall remain it * See Plate *VI. H appears 50 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S appears to have had an oflangular tower on each fide of the gate- way. On the North is the chapel, which, (landing due Eaft and Weft, breaks the hne of the wall which forms the North fide of this building ; round the bottom is a thick double torus of fquared ftone, the Eaftern and other windows with a buttrefs and corners of the lame. The Eaftern half of this chapel is entire, but converted into a ftable ; the manlion-houfe entirely gone ; £o that with the poet we may truly fay, " of other times, the feat *' Of heroes now refign'd to fate, " Where often mirth relax'd the foul, " And midnight crown'd the rofy bowl, " Where fprightly mufic fwelTd the found, " V/hile bloomy beauty tript around, *' They 're vaniQi'd as they ne'er had been, " No lyre is heard, no maid is feen, *' No more the tuneful lyrift warms; *' Death long fince rifled Beauty's charms.'* Hugh alfo imparked a trade of ground adjoining to Caldecot on the South Eaft, and bounded by the river on the North Eaft, a i)art of which yet retains the name. He was fucceeded by his fon, Robert'-'^ who married the daughter of William de Seleby of the county of Lincoln; and about the year i T 50, 15 Stephen, in- creafed his eftafe -by the bounty of Ranulnh de Gernonis t, the fon and heir of his father's benefaflor. Ranulph, having lately joined Stephen, obtain.ed from him a grant of the eftate of Roger de Builly, a friend of the emprefs Maud's, lying in the county * In Robert's tiine an agreement \v,s made betwixt Raimlf de Gernonis and Robert Boila e.irl of l.eiceflcr, that no callle lliould be built betwixt Hinckley and Coventry, or Hinckley anii HardrefluiH, by either of thein ; or that, if any other perfon (hould ereft fucli, tbfv fhould miuuaiiy alTifl each other in deniolifhing the fame See this uoreement at !ai,-•,. Thai CidpepperJDns de HardredisfuU^ Wm? Butkr d< jM-idek &^.ronc:trrr in xdste/(j:I.Sen JT^lExulspilo^pid Joh .Car: JBrooke, de CoU. Armor.) Fw.4.p.6jy. \ \ I'enar F.L udford. Arm.zo. S.y Fia.J.p.30. J". Atkins del. lyS^ r c.u yi Caitti^ ail' Ha/rtd^/vdl Ch'i^cn^ caMt:<^the^C/ui^i /'/. I III.} Fi-{■' On a window-frame of an antlent barn, on an outhoufe, and on a chiinney- picce at IVeftoa hiili in Aylesford, are three (hields, the right and left HardrefhuU quartering Colepeper, in the center Colepeper alone betwixt T. C. above a date 1 102, this data Mr. Haded fays (II. 175, where it is esa^ily engraved) is by feme thought to be fpiirious, as the arms of Hardrefiiull had no alliance with Cole- pspcr before the reign of Edward III. Mr. Haded fuppofes the date to apply to the time when the family firft fettled there, and not to the time when it was en- graved, on which account alfo the arms mud have been one of the Pepcnbury jainiiy. j Ueg. Buckenham epi Lincoln. § IbiJ. ried OF M A N C E T E R. 63 lied the daughter, and then, by the death of her only ]>rother John, fole heir to her father, of John de Bcdgbury and Joan his wife, of Bedgbnry in the parifli of Goudherll: in Kent, which place he made his future habitation, and which his poderity enjoyed for many generations, fome of their tombs remiining in Goudherft church. Having now two manfions in that county, the caftellated manor-houfe at Hartfliill w-as occupied by "tenants, and hence we may date the decay thereof ■-'•■ : yet the great re- gard he had for his mother Ehzabeth de Hardrediull and her progenitors, appears in that in all his feals -f the arms of Flardre- Ihull poffefs the firft quarter, and this continued for feveral defcents. In 1396 he ferved the ofhce of flieriff for Kent; in December 24, 1399? he prefented to the church at Aflienc William Body X ; ^nd 4 Henry IV. 1403, he fettled a long dif- pute with William Brinklow, then parfon of Manceter, about the tythes of his wood in Hartlhill called the Hays, formerly Sylva Hugonis, and paid for the fame with all arrears then due ten pounds, thirteen Ihillings, and four pence ||. 8 Henry V. he had a grant from Thomas Mayne of Cortenhale, and his wife Joan daughter of John Machon, and others of lands, &c. in Rode, Hertwell, and Aihcn, which they held after the deceafe of Simon Machon chaplain of Rode §. He was fucceeded in Har- drediull, Anefley, and Adiene, by his elded fon Sir yobn Cole- peper of Adiene, fo called by Sir William Dugdale, or of Exton CO. Rutland as Mr. Wright. He v/as returned to parliamei^^t 9 Henry V. and 5 Henry VI. for the county of Rutland, and * About this time Sir William Dugdale fays, that Plumpton a member of Kingfbury was pulled down by Sir John Bracebridge, and that a Danifli battle--.i\c ufualiy ftylcd the charter of Plumpton, was removed to the manfion-houfe in Har:- (hill, inhabited by William de Plumpton, and remained there a long time after. -j~ In plate VII. may be feen five I'eals of this family. t '^^g- Bsaufort epi Lincoln. jl See Appendix, N' VIII. § See Appendix, IP IX. • ferved 64 II 1 S T O R Y A N D A N T I Q^U I T I E S lerved the office of llierifF for the county of Northampton TO Henry VI. 1432. He married Juliana daughter of Ralph Crunv.vel. Dying without iffue male; JValter Colepepcr, his younger brother *, by the heirefs of and owner of Bedgbury, fucceeded to his eftates of Hardrefliull, Anfley, and AlTiene ; and in Mart, term 16 Henry VI. 1438, levied a fine betwixt John Brunfpatli and Juliana his wife "j-, plaintifs, and Walter Colepepsr, deforcient, of the manors of Hardrefliull, Anfley, and Monwood, jus Julianse ; and the faid John and Julian grant them to Walter Colepeper and his heirs, and for want of fuch heirs to Sir John Hardrefliull of Clavord. 36 Henry VI. 1458, he cancelled the grant made by Sir William de Hardrefliull to Robert Ynge of lands in Anefley, about 1299, by cutting of the feal, and making an indorfe- ment on the back of the deed, which with an extra<5t of the grant I have given in the Appendix N" X. Walter died 1460, having married Agnes, daughter of Edmund Roper of St. Dunilan's in Canterbury, who was buried in the church of Goudhurfl:, and by whom he left a fon, Sir John Colepeper, who ferved the office of flieriff for Kent, 7 Edward IV. 1457* In the fifteenth of the fame reign 1465, Bryan Talbot, who 11 Edward IV. 1461, had ferved the of- fice of fiieriff for Rutlandfliire, in right of Catharine his wife, the daughter of Walter Colepeper by the heirefs of Bedgbury, laid claim to the manor of Afliene, which Sir John difputed, but agreed to refer the cafe to Sir Thomas Billing, lord chief jufl:ice of the Common Pleas, and laid himfelf under the obligation of one thoufand marks, to abide by his decifion, which was in his * Mr. Hailed, II. 355. makes Wiilter of GoudhurftyJ« of Sir Thomas by Eleanor Green. f Fii). du dlv. com. lev. 15 Maitin. 16 Hen. VI. (^lory, if t;he faid Juliana was not the d.uighter of Sir William Colepeper, or rather the widow of his elder brother dcccafed .'' favour. OF M A N C E T E R. 65 favour*. He died 22 Edward IV. 1482, as appears by the fol- lowing inquifition : " 22 Edwarti Qnarti. " Job amies Colepepcr tenuit die quo obiit manncrium de " Hardlull de Henrico domino de Grey, per quod fervitium ig- " noratur; et valet per ann. 10 1. et tenuit mannerium de Anfiey " et Monwode de Ricardo priore ccclefiae cathedralis beatae " Marice de Coventry per redditus 5 s. per ann. pro omnibus *' fervitiis, et valet per ann. 10 s.; et quod Alexander Colepeper *' armiger eft filius et beres propinquior ejufdem Jobannis, et '* aetatis 2 i ." jilexander Colepeper, Efq. accordingly took tbe eftate, but in the next year, i Richard III. 1484, was attainted; perhaps, fays Sir Wdliam Dugdale, for his adherance to tbe duke of Bucking- ham; his eftate taken from him, and the manor of HardfuU given to Sir Charles PilkuHon^ knight of tbe body to the king -j-. But this attainder feems to have been taken off foon after the accef- lion of Henry VII. for in his third year, Alexander preiented to the church of Rode, Chriftopber Bonefaunt, pbr. March 6 +. 15 and 22 Henry VII. 1500, he ferved tbe office of flierifF for Kent II, in which laft year he received tbe honour of knighthood. 23 Henry VII. he prefented to tbe church of Rode April 5, 1508, Richard Armerer §. 20 Henry VII. be pafied in fee farm to John Ludford, gent, his officer and receiver of tbe manors of Hartf- hill and Anflev, much of the demcfne in Anfley. 6 Henry VIII. 1515, he was a third time appointed flieriff for the county of Kent. The next year be prefented to the church of Rode, Jan- * Rot. Clauf. 15 Edw. IV. m. 17. •f Ror. Confirm, i Ric. HI. X Reg. Ruflel cpi Lincoln. !| He with fome others had a grant of the wardfliip of Tcy in Kent. ^, Keg. Smith epi Lincoln. K uarv 66 HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S nary 31, John Day -••'. 30 Henry VIII. he ahened his manor of AQiene to the crou n, a (inc being levied betwixt the king and Alexander thereof, and of a moiety of the church aUb, which in the thirty-third of the fame king 1542 was annexed to the manor of Grafton -j-, and the poUeflbrs- who have lince enjoyed it have held it of the crown by leafe. Sir Alexander impaled Ilardrelhull with Colepeper, as ap- pears by his feal affixed to a deed, dated May 12, 20 Henry VII. He married Conft antia, daughter of Sir Robert Chamberlaine, by whom he left iirue a fon, T'bomds Colepeper, who married Elizabeth one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir William Haut of Hautfoorn %, He was the laft of that family that had any thing to do at HartHiill, for in the beginning of the reign of Edward VI. he fold that manor and eftate, after it had been in one family, niale and female included, four hundred and fifty years, to Sir Anthony Cook. And about the fame time his younger brother John Colepeper fold the manor, and remaining deraefne lands o^f Anfley, to Edmund and George Wyethe of Loughborough, co. Leicefter, gentlemen. A few years before this fale was made, the lands in Hartfhill, which had belonged to the lately diffolved monaftery of Merevale, were by Henry VIII. in his thirty-firft year 1540^ granted to Sir William Devereux lord of Chartley and Henfmale, in right of his wife Ann fole daughter and heir to William lord Ferrers of Chartley, lord * Reg. V/. Atwater epi Lincoln. In the time that John Day held the church of Rode, Afliene was feparated and Gonflitiited an independent reftory, in 1535, 26 Henry VIII. rated at 10 1. 3 s. 6 fl. out of which to be allowed 3 s. 6d. for fynodals and procurations. Bridges, I. 321. t Rot. Fin. '30 Hen. VIII. MSS. Hatton. Bridge?, ib. X He obtained a grant of the church of Leeds, Yorkfliire, part of the poffef- fion of the monaftery of the Holy Trinity of York, diflblved 30 Henry VIII. ' ex auiftoritate parliament! dudum fupreffi et in manibus noftris ad prefens exillentis.' His fon Alexander fold the faid advowfon to Rowland Cowick of London, gent. Chartley, . O F M A N C E T E R. 67 Chartley, by the names of a pafture in Hartfliill witliin the pa- rifli of Manceter calletl Parfon's Meaclo\v, demifed under the rent of fix fliiUings, and of a toft with two crofts demifed under the rent of thirteen fliilUngs and four pence; which Sir Wilhani gave tViem to his younger fon Sir Wilham, w^ho by his will dated 22 EUzabetli 1580, gave them, after the demife of his lady Jane, to his nephew Walter Devereux, vifcount Herefcrd, and earl of Effex, father to Robert earl of Effex, the great fa- vourite of queen EUzabeth ; which Robert being beheaded in 160 1, his eiiate were forfeited, but reftored to his fon, after- wards general of the parliamentary forces. He dying without ilTue male 1 646, the marchionefs of Hereford, one of his filters and coheirs, with her hufband, fold them to John Rimington, from whom and his defcendants they are now the property of the Author of this Hiftory. Edward VI. in his third year granted by letters patents, dated December i, 1549, all the tythes and other the ecclefiartical emoluments of Hartfiiill to Richard Venables and John Maynard, efquires, to be held as of the manor of Ea(t Greenwich ; which they regranted to Amias Hill, who did not keep them long, for in 4 Edward VI. 1550, Margaret Booth conveyed them to Robert Green of Wefton, from which Robert they came by the Parkers to the Cooks. Sir Anthony Cook, of Giddyhall in Effex, was the fon of Sir John Philip Cook, by Elizabeth one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir Henry Belknap of Ridlingfwould in Kent ■■••, and the great grand-fon of Sir Thomas Cook, the founder and builder of Giddy- hall, who in April 15, 1465, 4 Edward IV. being then lord mayor of London, was with feveral others created a knight of * And in her riglit poflefled of lands in Wapenbury and Derfet, and by pur- chafc in Stockinford, all in the county of Warwick. In 1564, Sir Anthony pre- fenied to the church of Derfet. K 2 the 6S H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I Q^U I T I E S the Bath, the better to grace the coronation of the queen, late tlic la being but ten years old, he appears by his own words f to have been page to fome perfon of honour, able to conftrue his Cato and other fentences, and folicitous with his tutor to make f/mt a poet. * Choice Poems by Sir Afton Cockain, Lend. 1669, 8vo. •f See his Elegies, in his epillle to Henry Reynolds, Efq.' of Poets and Poetry. His OF M A N C E T E R. 71 His " Barons' Wars, England's Heroical Epiftles, Sec." were firft printed without date in the reign of king James, with a dedica- tion in verfe to Sir William Allon -'■'. His '' England's Heroical Epilliles" were enlarged and reprinted 1598. They are twenty- four, with a funimary at the end of each in fourteen lines, and profeffedly written in the manner of Ovid, on which account William Browne, in his " Britannia's Pallorals, B. 2. addreffes the following lines to him i " Our fecond Ovid the moft pleafing mufe " That Heav'n did e'er in mortals brain infufe, " All-loved Draiton in foul-raping ftraines, " A genuine noate of all the nimphifli traines " Began to tune ; on it all eares were hung, *' As fometime Dido's on Eneas' tongue." In the undated odavo edition there are near twelve dedications of as many Epiftles to the author's particular friends. From that to Edward earl of Bedford we learn that the author's mufe was firft patronized by Sir Henry Goodere, who recommended him to the countefs of Bedford, and to whofe daughter and her huf- band his nephew, a namefake, he dedicates two pair more. His other more early and famous hiftorical poems are intituled " Legends'' of Robert duke of Normandy, Matilda, Gavefton, and Thomas Cromwell earl of Eflex, dedicated in his folio edi- tion to Sir Walter Afton, illuftrated with notes omitted in the fucceeding folio edition. His Sonnets were fome of them written before the death of queen Elizabeth, and five of them he omit- ted in his own folio edition. There was an edition of all or moft of the poems abovementioned publillied in 1605, another 1610, and a third undated. His Odes were written before the * In his own folio edition of his works this dedication is in -profe, and the poems illuftrated by marginal notes by the author; all omitted in the edition of i74^' death yz HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S death of queen Elizabeth, inferted in his ov/n folio, but omitted in the other, as alfo his " Fable of the Owl," a pretty allegorical fable firft publiflied 1604. In 1626 in the title of one of his }X)ems he is ftyled poef laureat. In 1627 was publiflied in fmall folio with his effigies as beforementioned the fecond volume of his poems, containing 'Ths Battle of Agincoiirt^ 'fbe Mifenes of ^een Margaret, Nymphidia or the court of farieSy The queji of Cyn- thia, The Shepherd's Sirena, The Mooncalf, Twelve Elegies, The Vifion of B,Jonfo7i on the mufes of his friend Michael Drayton, In i 630 he publilhed another volume of poems, intituled. The Mufe's Elogium on ten fundry Nymphalls, with three divine poems on Noah's flood, the hiftory of Mofes, and David and Goliah ; but all thefe and four of the Elegies are omitted in the edition of 1748. In 1593, he publifhed a colledtion of paftorals under the name of " Idea^ the Shepherd's garland fafliioned in nine Eglogs, with Rowland's facrifice to the Nine Mufes, dedicated to Mr. Pxobert Dudley," 4to. with fome other poems, and reprinted in 1 619 in the firft folio edition of his works with corrections under the title of " Pafiorals,^' but omitted in the late folio edition of his work 1748, which are profeffed to be given complete with additions. Our poet was one of the foremoft in Apollo's train who wel- comed James to England with a congratulatory poem publiflied in 1603, which had like to have proved very hurtful to him; which he refented with as much freedom as was then con- venient both in profe and verfe. In i 6 1 3 he publiflied the firft part of his Polyolbion, which he dedicated to prince Henry, from whom he had received fome marks of favour, and of whom a fine portrait exercifing his pike is prefixed. This work he left unliniflied on the prince's death, till the patronage of Sir Walter Afliton encouraged him to refume it. This flrft part contained only eighteen fongs, illuftrated with notes by Mr. Selden. OF M A N C E T E R. 73 Selclen. In 1622 it was reprinted with the addition of twelve more fongs with notes and maps, dedicated to prince Charles, to whom he gave hopes of heftowing the hke pains on Scotland. He fpent many of his younger years at Polef worth in the family of Sir Henry Goodyere, to whom he addrefles his odes; " Thefe Lyric pieces fliort and faw, " Moft worthy Sir, I fend to you, " To read them be not weary, ** They may become John Hews his lyre, *« Which oft at Powlfworth by the fire " Has made us gravely merry." And his more advanced ones in the fervice of Sir Walter Alhton of Tixall in StafFordfliire, whom he attended as one of his efquires when he was made knight of the Bath at the coro- nation of James I. and whofe feat he gratefully celebrates in thefe beautiful lines, in his Polyolbion : " To Trent by Tixall grac'd the antient Afliton's feat, *' Which oft the mufe hath found her fafe and fweet retreat, *' The noble owners now, of which beloved place, *' Good fortunes, them and theirs, with honoured titles grace, " May Heaven Ifill blefs that houfe, till happy floods you fee, " Your felves more graced by it, than it by you can be, " Whofe bounty ftill my mufe fo freely fhall confefs, " As when flie fliali want words, her figns fhall it exprefs." His great love for his native Ardern and her river Ancor, fo often exprefled in his juvenile poems, did not leave him in more advanced age, when he wrote his Barons' Wars ; at the clofe of the fecond canto of which, he has the following apoftrophe : " Oh bloody age ! had not thefe things been done, " I had not now, in thefe more calmer times, " Into the fearch of thofe paft troubles run ; *' Nor had my virgin unpolluted rhimes L *' Alter'd 74 HISTORY AND A N T I QJI I T I E S " AlterVl the couiTe wherein they firft begun, " To iing thefe horrid and unnatural crimes, •' My lays had ftill been of ideas bower, *' Of my dear Ancor, or her loved Stour." He died in 1631, aged 68, and was buried in the Poets' cor- ner in Weftminfter abbey, near to the graves of Chaucer and Spenfer. A handfome table- monument of blue marble was erected the fame year, adorned with his buft laureate, on one fide is a creft of Minerva's cap, and on the other Pegafus in an efcocheon on the tablet, and the following infcription afcribed to his friend Ben Jonfon : " Michael Drayton, Efq. A memorable poet of this age. Exchanged his laurel for a crown of glorj', 1631. ! Do, pious marble, let thy readers know. What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whofe facred dufl We recommend unto thy truft. Proteft his memory and preferve his {lory. Remain a lading monument of his glory. And when thy ruins fliall difclalm To be the treafurer of his name. His name that cannot fade fhall be An everlafting monument to thee." Many of his contemporaries * bore teftimony to his abilities as a poet and hiflorian ; one of whom, Sir Afhton Cockain before cited, writes, " Phoebus, art thou a God, and canft not give " A priveledge unto thy own to live ? " Elfe ftill, my Drayton, thou hadft liv'd and writ, ** Thy life had been immortal as thy wit." "*' Shakefpear, Jonfon, Beaumont, Burton, Selden, Sec. And OF M A N C E T E R. 75 And in our days he has not been negleded. His " Polyolbion" appears in moft of our county hiftories ; and many defcriptive poets have paid him comphments, which may be fcen in his life in the old edition of " Biographia Biitannica," note [E]. Dyer, in his " Fleece :" " He whofe ruftic Mule " O'er heath and craggy holt her wiug difplay'd, " And fung the bofky bourns of Alfred's fliires." James Fitz Patric, in his " Sea-piece," Canto 2. *' Drayton, fweet antient bard, his Albion fung, *' With their own praife her echoing vallies rung ; " His bounding mufe o'er every mountain rode, " And every river warbled where it flow'd." William Burton, the Leicelterfliire antiquary, fpeaking of him as his near countryman and old acquaintance, adds, " who tho *' thofe Tranfalpines account us tramontani^ rude and barbarous,. " holding our brains fo frozen, dull, and barren, that they can " afford no invention or conceits ; yet may compare either with *' their old Dante, Petrarch, or Boccace, or their neoteric Mari- " nella, Pignatello, or Stigliano : but why fliould I go about to " recommend him, whofe own works and worthinefs have fuffi- " ciently extolled to the world ■■■• ?" A great modern critick fays, *' Drayton, no dcfpicable genius <' at the epiftolary mode of writing, has left us forae good fub- " je6ts, though not very artfully handled. In his ' Barons' " Wars' there are many ftrokes not unworthy of Spenfer, and " his * Nymphidia' muft be allowed a perfect pattern of paftoral *' elegance t." * Defcription of Leiceflerfliire, p. 92. •\ Warton's Effay on the Genius and Wiiiings of Pope, vol. I. p. 295. 2d edit. \, ^ A T H E R- ^6 HISTORY AND ANTI QJ^ I T I E S ATHERSTON. THE town and manor is bounded on the Eaft by Manccter ; on the North by the Ankor, on the further banks of which are the parifhes of Witherley and Sheepy, in Leicefterlhire ; on the Weft by Whittington and Merevale ; and on the South by Bentley. The town ftands on the WatUng Street, and confifts of one tolerably well-built ftreet of half a mile in length, with a fquare market-place lying on the North fide of the ftreet about the mid- dle. It has on the further fide the friary church, near which ftood the friary, but that is entirely gone. That this town was founded by the Saxons is certain, but the particular time cannot be afcertained. Its firft name was Ardejlon, the town in Arden, or in the great wood*, altered afterwards to jiderejlon^ j^ldredejioriy Edredefton f , Ardredejlo}!., Adtherejlon^ and now Atherjion^ or Jlone. In the Confeflbr's days it was the property of the covmtefs Godiva^ and by the Con- queror given to his nephew Hugh Liipus. In Domefday it is written Aderejion^ and is there rated at three hides and five caracutes, the woods then belonging thereto being * Arduen, Ardven, or Arden, fignifies the great wood. See Whitaker's Man- chefter, p. 26. •f- Ex autogr, pen, prsepof. et fchol. coll. regalis Cantab. efteemed /•/,/. i.y. J J. feadt'itirto W<^^s"'S«xio J'/iitr X.p. yj T' T /■'l,/ 1 ft. SI J'C.i U..jT- which award, bv what sg;reement is not known, .the prior and convent continued inthe poiTeflion of this manor until the diffblution of this houfe, and King's college received from them the faid yearly penfion of fiKteen pounds per annum % M'hich they yet continue to receive. 26 Henry VIII. 1535, a furvey was taken of all the religious houfes, from wdiich it appears that the abbey of Merevale had mefTaages and lands in this place of the yearly value of fix ])ounds, two Ihillings t. There yet indeed remains a tax of fix fliillings payable to the vicar of Merevale, out of fix dwelling houfes, fome of which were the fame meffuages t. Some time after this the diirolution of the monafteries took place; and 28 Henry VIII. 1537, the court of Augmentations was efta- bliflied, from whom Amias Hyll of this place, and one of the queen's houflioJd, obtained a leafe for twenty-one years of the public bakehoufe, and fixty-two acres, of bind. This bakehoufe had. been long eftablilhed, for^we find 12 Richard II. 1388, fe- veral inhabitants ^yere fined for not baking at the public bake- houfe §. * Dr. Thomas's edition of Dugdalfi^s Warwickfiiire, p. 1084, ex epiflolis Riclu Harding, Coll.iieg. foe. ■f- From the roll in thelFirfl; Fruits office, " Et de 6 1. 2 s. reddic. affife de Ahcr- flon vel Adderefton." :|; In the ye;ir;i7''/8 the inhabitants of thofe houfes, as in the vicnr's book, were Mrs. Re\nolds, Joieph Spencer, Jofeph Baker, Samuel Orton, Mr. Jefcote, and Mr. Hunt. § Th's Ixilcehoufe was fold in 1672. The name yet remains in a very fliort (Ireet going out of the market-place, called Bakehoufe-lane, and wheie, 1780, ftands the horfe-mill ac which the lord's tenants are obliged to grind their malt. N. 13. In the Hillory of Manchefler it is remarked, that at Knutsford in Che- lliire the payment at the lord's oven was an obolus for every bufliel of wheat baked into bread. 5 Two OF M A N C E T E R. 83 Two years after, 30 Henry VIII. 1539, this manor was granted to Henry marquis of Dorfety and 'Thomas Duport, and to the heirs of the faid marquis for ever ^ ; yet in the reign of Edward VI. this manor is valued, as hy the court-roll taken by George Medley, Efq. Robert Burdet, and others for the mar- quis of Dorfet. " The demayn lands - ^ - - " Two mills, viz. one on the river Anker, and one " a horle mill in the town " The bakehoufe - « = " A barn in the market place " Rents from ciiftomary tenants f - - " 120 acres in the outwoods, at 6 s. Sd. £' J. d. 14 e 12 8 7 13 4 1 10 6 8 1 1 9 4 38 73 12 The heriot the tenant's beflbeaft. On the attainder of the marquis of Dorfet, i Mary, it returned again to the crown, and i and 2 Philip and Mary was granted to JViiliam Devereux, Efq. which William, afterwards a knight, died feifed thereof, 2,1 Elizabeth, 1579, leaving Margaret the wife of Edward Lyttleton of Pillaton hall, co. Stafford, and Barbara the wife of Edward Haftings, his daughters and heirs. SxT Jobjt Repingiojiy knr. of Amington in this county, mar- rying Margaret the daughter and heirefs of Edsvard Littleton, .- brought this manor into his family. * Pat. 37 Hen. VIII. p. 13. -j- Among the cufhjmary tenants are. The guild for their burghs and land . <► - . • . . • • • • The chan'ry . , , • M 2 1 /. X. d I 10 10 19 61 14 5 3 4 52 This 84 HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S This family of the Repingtons are defcended from Simon, who lived in the reign of WilHam Rufus. Roger Repington, grand-fon of Simon, was cofferer to the emprefs Maud. Sir Richard Repington, fon of Roger, was feifed of the lord- Ihips of Faukingham, Danderbie, and Thorpe in the Willows, as is mentioned in a deed dated anno Domini 1173. He lived in the twentieth year of king Henry II. and was (lain at a juft, holden at VVoodftock, in the triumph before the king, anno i 178. Thomas fon of Sir Richard Repington w'as at the battle of PoiiStiers in the reign of king Edward III. and being taken pri- ibner and diltrefled, he was conftrained to fell his lands in the county of Lincoln (the lordlhips of Repington, Faukingham, Danderby, and Thorpe in the V/illows, cum membris) to Sir Henry .Marm ion, knt. lord chief jnflice, anno 40 Edw. Ill; and lyeth buried in the monaftery of Sempringham. Matthew, fon of Sir Richard, married Barbara daughter of Thomas Kaye of Okenfliaw in the county of York : fne bears Argent two bendlets Sable. Adam Repington, Efq. ekleft fon of Thomas, was flandard- bearer to king Richard II. and had by the gift of the faid king the wardfhip of Marian, afterwards his wife, daughter of Henry Lambard, from wdiom defcended certain lands in Long Sutton in the county of Lincoln, Oldgate, Gan-nock, Sutton St. Edmond's, Horfemore, and Lutton, and who died the laft of Richard II. and lies buried at Long Sutton. This Adam w'as juflice of the peace and quorum, and cuftos rotulorum of Hollaiid and Kirton, commonly called the king of Elloe, Kirton and Scirebeck hundreds, who took the abbot of Crowland prifon^r *, 1397, 21 Richard II. for which fervice he * Thomas de Overton 1392, died 1417. was OF M A N C E T E R. 85 was rewartkd by Robert vifcouiit Fitzwalter, general of the field,, wirh a denn antelope Gules for his crefl, maned, bearded, tufked, and hoofed Or, and billetted Argent to be borne by him and his pofterity for ever. William Repington of the county of Suffolk, fon of Adam, lived in the year 145 i, 30 Henry VI. being auditor to Richard Nevill, the noble earl of Warwick, and died the fame year. Matthew Repington. Adam Repington. William Repington in the time of Henry VI. married a daugh- ter of ... . Thurrtan. William Repington, married Alicia daughter of Roger A6lon. John Repington 3 Henry VII. married Colletta daughter and coheir of John Goldfmith of Goldfmith hull, near Melton, co. Leicei^er. William Repington died 36 Henry VIII. 1545, having mar- ried Joan daughter of Robert Stokes of Folkftone near Coventry. Francis Repington died 4 Edward VI. 1550, having married Mary daughter of Richard Coton of Ridfvvare co. Stafford. Thomas Repington, Efq. died December 14, 1615, having married Frances daughter of William Stanford, one of the juf- tices of the Common Pleas. John Repington died January 23, 1625. He was the firft owner of Atherfton, and married Margaret daughter of Sir Edward Lyttleton of Pillaton hall co. Stafford, knt. Sir John Repington, knt. his fbn married Elizabeth daughter of Edward Sebright of Besford co. Worceller, hart. Sebright Repington, Efq. 1633, married Catharine daughter of Thomas Burdet of Foreraark co. Derby, and died without ilTue. Edward 86 HISTORY AND ANTI QJLJ I T I E S Edward Repington died 1663, without ifTue, having married Mary daughter of Sheringtoii Talbot of Laycock co. Wilts. Their fon Gilbert Repington married Jane daughter of Sir Thomas Vernon, knt. of London. Charles Repington married Matilda Vernon. Charles Edwai'd Repington unmarried, now (1779) an officer in the 6th regiment of dragoons. Repington bears Gules a feJiS double dancet Ermine betweeai lix billets Argent. A lift OF MANCETER. ti A lift of charitable bequefts belonging to the town of Atherrton. r Mr. Richard Abell a houfe Mr. Harrington Drayton Mr, Martin, out of lands called Caufeway clofes Mr. Sharp gave land Mr. Strong gave money vefted m the vvorkhoufe, per annum Ditto vefted in the fchool- mafter's houfe Mr. Bracebridge out of the lands in Hartfliill to be diftributed by the vicar I' 2 s. 5 5 5 12 O lO O I ISh'S. Alice Coney, out of lands in Hartfliill, to be diftributed by the church- ■wai'dens and ovcrfeers o o < to place out appren- tices. to find jerkins and hats for women. to find coats and hats for men. to put out appren*- tices in Atherftoa and BoAvorth. for bread. 'and to fourteen wi- dows. I o o to the poor. jC 26 13 4 a o o to the poorc THE SS HISTORY A X D A N T I QJJ I 1 1 E S THE FRIARY. WITHIN the preciacSts of this town was an antient cha- pel, to which in the beginning of the reign of Henry II. the monks of Bee gave twelve acres of land, at the fame:time enter- ing into an agreement with the parfon of ' Manceterj as in the hiil:ory of the- faid church is fully expreffed. How- long this agreement w^as obferved is very uncertain;, not longer than- the reign of Edward II. for on the ides of July 1329^,3 Edward III. leave was granted- to Robert Freeman of Atherflbn, by Richard Northbrook, bifliop of Coventry and Lichfield, to have divine fervice celebrated in the chapel of that town for three years *': after this time no furtiier licences are recorded. In the forty-ninth of the fame reign, Ralph lord BafTet of Drayton founded here an houfe for friars hermits of the order of St. Auguftine on twelve acres of land f; at the fame time they began to build^ th€ cBurch, fubjedl to -certain articles with the parfon of Manceter; This chlirch-- Teems to have been founded on the lite of the old chapel, and the lands to have been thofe which had been given to the old cliapel, at leait thofe adjoining the fite of the friary ;- the parfoir nc doubt readily afTenting, being thereby excufed from attendance there. To this I add, that many human bones have been- lately dug up in the cemetery of this church, and none that I have heard of in any othsr part of the town; anJ as neither traces of the building, nor tradition of its fite are to be found, until a happier conjecflure offers, this may account for the difpofal of the antient chapel. * II Idus Julii T339, Rogerus de Northbrook concefTit Rober-o Freeman de Atherfton, ut poffit divina tacere celebrari in capclla de Atherftoii per triennium. Rej^. Northbrook, f. 6. a. -j- Pat. 49 Edw. III. \\ 2. in. ij. This OFMANCETER. 89 This church and buildings were not compleated till the reign of Richard II ; lord Baifet their founder, by his will ''• bearing date at London, September 2, 1382, 7 Richard II. giving them a legacy of five hundred marks for the compleating thereof f ; and this feems to have been all the legacy given to that friary, except fo late as i Henry VIII. that Sir Walter Raleigh of Farnbo- rough gave them ten pounds, by his will dated June 20, 1509. In 26 Henry VIII. their eftate was valued at thirty fliillings and four pence per ann. over and above reprifals, and came to the crown the next year by the adl of dilTolution 27 Henry VIII. 15. Richard Devereux a friar, one of the commiflioners and vili- tors, in his letter of the 25th of May to lord Cromwell, fays of Atherflon : *' Atherfton, a houfe of Auftin friars, but fo poor that they were not able to pay my cofts nor give me one penny of the ac- cuftomed contribution due to their vifitor, has got land lying con- tiguous leafed out at four marks per annum, the furniture but worth xc fliillings, except a chalice and a bell. That the late prior had felled and fold feven fcore good elms, a chalice gilt of ^^ ounces and ten ounces, and a cenfor of thirty-fix ounces, tu'o great brafs pots each able to feeth a great ox as men fay, fpits, parcenys, and other things, fo that in the houfe there is no furniture left; there I found in his coffers eleven bulls of the bifhops of Rome, above a hundred letters of pardons, and in all the books in the gallery the bilhop of Rome ftanding as he did twenty years ago. 1 have fet a poor friar to keep mafs there, and have provided for his board and living to be paid fixteen pence per week j." ^ Ex autog. pen. Will, vicecom. Stafford. Dugd. Warwickfii. ubi fiip. -f- This lord Baffet, founder of this friary, the lafl: lord Baffet of Drayton, dying without iffue, was magnificently entombed in Lichfield cathedral, on the South fide of St. Chad's fhrine, but his monument has been totally deftroyed. J See the whole letter, Appendix, N' XIII. N The 90 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S The nave or wetlern end . of this church was fome time after granted to the inhabitants for a chajx;! of eafe to the church of Maticefter ; and at the fame time all burials, baptifms, &c. were to be performed at Mancefter. Camden in the laft edition of his Britannia publilhed by himfelf in 1607, fays, *' Atherfton " mercatus frequens ubi fraterculorum aedes in capellam con- " verfse quas tamcn ecclefiam de Mancefter ut matrem ag- *' novit '•••." In ... . the late .... Bracebridge gave to the vicar of Man- ceter ten pounds per annum, in conllderation of a fermon being preached here every Sunday afternoon; which with fome more fmall bequefts occafioned it to be returned to the governors of Queen Anne's charity, at eleven pounds five fliillings per ann. -j-. And in ... a South aile of brick was added to the nave of this church, which has entirely deftroyed the beauty thereof, and to compleat the deformity of the whole have taken down the antient plain tower fo well fuited to fuch a building, and in the room thereof have erected an humble imitation of a modern Gothic one |. See it engraved plate XII. The chancel was very early appropriated for the free-fchool. The fite and circuit of the houfe, with a dove coat, barn, or- chard, and two melTuages, {landing on the fame ground, were in the year 1542 granted to Henry Cartwright and his heirs, to hold by the thirtieth part of a knight's fee § ; which Henry fold them II to Amias Hyllj from whofe defcendants they came by * Ic appears from the omiffion of this paragraph in all the tranflations of this valuable author, except Holland's and the republication of biQiop Gibfon's lyyZf by Mr. Scott, I. p. 454, that this laft edition of 1607 had been paffed by witijoiu notice. -j- See Dr. Thomas. X A facetious auftioneer faid one day, that he fuppofed the architeft had been bred a paftry-cook or confeftioner. § Pat. 35 Hen. VIII. p. 3. jl Ibid. p. 18. 7 purcliafe pi.:aiLp.c fit/.i.p.oi- Fie]. 2.p .pi Fiff.4.p^pi. Piff 5P- Fig.6p. i-^ig-s P-9^- The Seal ot' the Free Gramtnar School in ^Jther.rtonc. Fuj.j.p.^i. ^iff-7P 9i- OF M A N C C T E R. 51 purchafe to Sir John Repington, then owner of the manor, ^vho built himfelf a fair houfe of brick, where he refided till he died 1625. One of his defcendants fold it to ... . Bracebridge, who took the fame down, and built the prefcnt manfion houfe, w hich very lately has been much improved, alfo the grounds about it. In doing of this, the old cemetery being dug up, amongft the human bones was found an amulet or female ornament of ferpentine Hone-'-. It had been highly perfumed; and though it has now been feveral years out of the earth, yet retains fome of its fmell. The free grammar- fchool of Atherilon was founded 15 Eli- zabeth, 1573, by Sir William Devereux (then refiding at Mere- vale), Thomas Fulner, and Amyas Hyll ; Sir William having- obtained leave to purchafe lands for the endowment thereof, the greateft part of which lye at Dofthill ; and for a fchool-houfe appropriated the chancel or Eaftern end of the friary church t, in which the fame continues to be kept. In 1607 the governors were, Chriftopher Goodall, Edmund Shecpy, Richard Abell, Thomas Launder, John Roper, Edward Drayton, and Francis Grew; who, with Francis Purefoy, Reward of the court of Dofthill, met there April 11, 1607, when Chriflopher Goodall and Richard Abell were elecSted bayliffs, and in the fame year obtained a decree in chancery for the fettlement of their lands, and in the fucceeding year a charter of incorporation with a common feal "^. * Pat. 15 Eliz. p. I. -\- See a view of it, with the chapel, in Plate XV. fig. i. X See this engraved in plate XIll. fig. 3. In the fame plate, fig. i. and 2. are two of the Roman coins mentioned in p. 12. Of the tradefmens tokens, fig. 4, 5, 6, were ilTued at Atherflon; fig. 7, 8, at the neighbouring town of Tamwonh ; and fig' 9. by the bailiff of Heplingford Hundred. N a At 98 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S At which time the rents were, For lands in Doflhill, a cottage rent of the Moor in Whittington rent of Sheepy's houfe rent of Sadler's houfe rent of WiUiam Drayton's rent charge of Ralph Goodalfs rent of widow Drayton's rent of Amyas Hyll's land, i6 T3 4 In 1 6a I, Amias Mabell built a fire-place in the fchool ; and left twenty pounds, the intereft one half to be applied for pur- ehafing coals in the winter feafon, and the other half for buy- ing books for the poor fcholars. Over the chimney the following lines are but very indif- ferently engraved : ** Parve, quid horrefcas brumali tempore mufas, *' En tibi quam pulchrum condidit ifte focum. " Amias Mabell." X. s. d. 9 o o o lO o 3 o o I 6 8 o 13 4 o 5 o o 6 8 o 5 o I 6 c The truftees for this bequeft were, Francis Grew, Walter Drayton, Richard Goodall, Henry Sheepy, John Roper, Thomas Byard, Philip Griffin, John Abell. In 1698, Henry Badderly was appointed Englifii mafter, to teach writing and accompts, purfuant to the will of William Symons, of Atherfton, deceafed. This fchool was firll kept in the lower part of the grammar-fchool, but now is feparated by a brick wall ereiled in 17 . . . A lift OF MANCETER. 93 A lift of fchool mafters, 1 608, James Crawford. 1 6 1 2, Thomas Whitehead. 1 614, Chriftopher Davenport. 1622, John Maibn. 1623, Thomas Bedford, by refignation. 1632, Obadiah Grew; he took his degree of M. A. in 1635; and religned in 1642, upon liis being eleded minifter of St. Mi- chael's, Coventry. 1643, John Perkins in 649 quarelling with the truftees ob- tained a commiffion of charitable iifes to enquire into their con- du6V. Two of the commillioners, Waldive Willington, Efq. and Walter Newton, took examinations at Nun Eaton, and afterwards made a decree at Colefliill, which gave fo much umbrage to the trultees, as to induce them to try by a bill in chancery to fet the decree alide; but that not fucceeding, the contending parties entered into articles of agreement and fettled the fame. 1695, Charles Crook. 1698, April 26, Thomas Shaw. 17 I 2, November 27, Richard Blore. 1721, Rev. William Finch, LL. B. fellow of St. John's college, Oxon. 1726, Rev. Thomas Shaw. I 748, Rev. William Biddle. ^773) Rev. John Mitchell, redtor of Grindon. Of writers, natives of this town, I find only two, Obadiah Grew and his fon Nehemiab. Obadiah Grew was born at Atherfton, in the pari Hi of Man- cefter, in the county of Warwick, in November 1607. He was principally educated under the care of his uncle Mr. John Deni- fon. <94 H I S T O 11 Y A N B ANT 1 Q_ U I T I E S fon, and admitted at Baliol college, Oxford, 1624, ttnder the tuition of Mr, Richard Trimnell. In 1632 he was elected maf- ter of the frce-fchool in Atherfton; in 163^ he took the degree ■of matter of arts, and v/as ordained at the age of twenty-eight hy Dr. Robert Wrighf bifliop of Coventry and Lichfield, hi 1642 he refigned his fchool, being eled^ed minitler of St. Mi- chael's, Coventry, in which he difcharged the duty df a faith- ful and diligent pafton Jn 1 651, he accumulated the degrees in divinity, and the next year compieated that of do6lor; about which time he preached the Concio ad Clerum with applaufe, hi 1654 he Was appointed alliilant to the cornmiiiioners for ejecting fuch as were then called fcandalous minifters and fchool- rnafters *. At the Relloration he quitted the church, but re- mained at Coventry, where he died Odlober 22, 1689, aged eighty-two, and was buried in the chancel of St. Michael's t. Anthony Wood fays of him j, that in the beginning of the civil war he fided with the Prefbyterians, took tlie Covenant, and in 1642 at the delire of the mayor, aldermen, and principal citizens of Coventry, accepted the church of St. Michael's, in %vhich place the foundnefs of his dodrine (as thofe of his per- fuaiion have told me), the faniiity and prudence of his conver- fation, the vigilancy and tendernefs of his care, were of that con- ftant tenor, that he feemed to do all that which St. Gregory wrote .a whole book " de Cura Paftorali," to tell us fliould be done, by which means he ever obtained the love and refpe6t of the city of Coventry, and his ends for their good amongft the citizens thereof. Of his integrity and courage they alfo further add this inftance, in the year 1648, when Oliver Cromwell, the lieutenant general of the forces in England, was at Coventry in * Dr. Calamy's Continuation of the account of ejefted minifters, 11. 850. t Wood, Ath. Ox. II. 837, 838. Calamy, ib. 736. X Ath. Ox. vol. II. p. 636. his OF M A N C E T E R. 95- liis march to London, the faid Obadiah Grew took his opportu- nity to reprefent to him the wickednefs of the defign on foot then more vilible of taking of the king, and the fad confequences thereof fliould it take effedl, earneftly preffing him to ufe his. endeavours to prevent ; it and obtained his promife for it : and. afterwards, when the defign was too apparent, he wrote a letter to him to the fame purpofe, and to remind him of his promife, which letter was conveyed by an honeft gentleman (fince alder- man and mayor of Coventry now or lately living) to a meffen- ger then waiting at Whitehall, and by him delivered into Crom- well's own hand. He publiflied, in 1667, " A llnner's jultification by Chrift,. the Lord Jefus Chrift our righteoufnefs, delivered in feveral fermons on Jeremiah xxiii, 6." 8vo. And in 1678, " Meditations on our Saviour's Parable of the Prodigal Son, being feveral fermons of the 15th chapter of St- Luke's Gofpel," 41 o. Dr. Nehemiah Grew, the fon of Obadiah Grew, D. D. and Ellen his wife, was born at Atherfton, and baptized at Manceter September 26, 1641 ; was bred up by his father in the Puri- tan way, and fent abroad to compleat his education in one of the foreign univerfities, where he took the degree of dodlor of phyfic. On his return to England he refided fome time at Co- ventry, but at length refolved to fettle in London, where he foon by his merit obtained a large lliare of pradtice, which re- commended him to the notice of the Royal Society, of which he was elected a member, and, on the death of their fecretary Mr., Oldenburgh, fucceeded on St. Andrew's day 1677 to that poft which he held to his death'. In 1672 he was appointed cu- rator to that Society for the anatomy of plants * ; and publiflied, feveral curious pieces on that fubjetSt. " The Anatomy of Vege- tables, 167 I ;" '' Continuation of it 1673 f " An idea of a phyto- * See Preface to his Anatomy of PlantSj p. 5. logicali 96 H I S T O R Y A ^7 D A N T I Q^U I T I E S logical hiftory propounded, 1673 ?" *' Comparative Anatomy of the trunks of plants, with an account of their vegetation, 1675." Thefe, at the requeft of the Royal Society, he republiflied all to- gether, with feveral others read before them, in one folio volume, intituled, " The Anatomy of Plants, &c." with 83 copper-plates. In Sept. 1680, he was admitted an honorai^ member of the Col- lege of Phyiicians, and in 1681 publiflied in folio his " Mufeum Regalis Societatis, or catalogue of the natural and artificial ra- rities belonging to the Royal Society, and preferved at Grefliam college," which he had drawn up puriuant to an order of the council of the iSth of July 1678. It is dedicated to Daniel Colwall, Efq. founder of the Mufeum, who was at the expence of engraving the plates, and is a catalogue raifonne of the col- ledion with many learned obfervations. The fame year he pub- lilTied his *' Comparative Anatomy of the Stomach and Guts." He alfo wrote fome papers printed in the Philofophical Tranf- adions, N°' 92. 141. 142. 159. 194. 202. 330. and printed 1695 a fmall traft " De falis cathartici amari in aquis Ebefha- menfibus, &c. Lond. 1695," i2mo. In 1701 he publilhed his *' Cofmologia Sacra, or a difcourfe of the univerfe as it is the creature and kingdom of God, chiefly written to demonftrate the truth and excellency of the Bible, which contains the laws of his kingdom in this lower v/orld. In five books," fol. This was univerfally read, attacked by Mr. Bayle, and defended by Le Clerc in his " Bibliotheque Choifie," tom. 5, in which work, tom. i, 2, and 3, he had given an abridgement of the " Cofmologia." Thus Dr. Grew pafTed his time with the reputation and advan- tage of a learned author, and an able pra(5lirioner in his profef- fion, till his death, which happened fuddenly at London on Lady- day 171 1, at the age of 70, His works breathe a fpirit of fin- cere piety and goodnefs, calculated to promote the glory of God and the good of mankind, and to encourage and recommend vir- tue and true religion. Manceter OF M A N C E T E n. 97 Manceter churcii-, dedicated to St. Peters is fituate in the deanry of Arden, and archtieaconry of Coventry, within the bi- fliopric of Coventry and Lichfield. It is a vicarage, vaUied in the king's books at lol. 13 s. 4d. per annum \ tenths 1 1. is. 4d. W \ether the Chriii:ian fyftem was ever pubUflied to the Ro- man or Britilli inhabitants of ATandueJJedum is now uncertain. The converfion of the Saxons in thefe interior parts of the Arden was about the year 656, when Peada the fiftli king of the Mercians was baptized, and in the fame year Duma appointed the firll bifliop of Lichfield. Soon after this, churches or oratories, plain perliaps and rude, were ere6led ; and fuch an one was here about A. D. 930; but whetlier it was dellroyed by fire or by what other means does not appear, mod probably by Canute in his deltrudive march through the Midland parts of England, there being neither church nor prieft here ; at leaft the Conqueror's Survey, Doomfday, is totally filent on that head. In the time of Athelftan, about 930, Leofwine predecefTor of Leofric is faid to have had the church of Manceter. Not many years ago the Rev. Arthur Millar making fome addi- tional gardens and other improvements to the old manor-houfe, a very large quantity of human bones were dug up, which tend to prove that a cemetery had been here long before either the prefent church or manor-houfe had their exiftence. Of the time when the prefent churcii was built records are filent. 1/ we may draw any conclufions from the very great re- femblance which the walls and buttreffes of the South aile and the chancel bear to the yet remaining walls ■'•• of the caftellated manfion of Hugh de Hardrelhull at Hartlhill, which were erected in the reign of Henry I. it is moll: probable that they were built * See plate XIV. O ■ about 98 HIS T O R Y AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S about the beginning of the reign of Henry II. and perhaps by Wakehne, to whom the eftate was given. The North aile is certainly of much later date, and yet we have nothing here to dire6t our fearches fave the form of the windows, more efpe- cially of the Eaftern one, the top of which is filled with elegant tracery, which forms together with painted glafs were not in- troduced till about the middle of the reign of Henry III. Sir William Dugdale '•■ informs us, that there were remaining in his time in this window two figures oi Manceter and Crophull; fee plate XV. fig. 1,2. As Crophull was contemporary with Sir Guy de Manceter, who bore his arms with a plain bend, which his fon Edmund altered ; and as Roger de Cranhull obtained an exchange of Sydington in the Ifle of Ely for this of Manceter with John Hule about that time ; is there not the greateft probability that Sir Guy built this aile in the reign of Edward III. and that Sir John Crophull was a benefaclor, and very probably gave this elegant window i ? The firft benefactor we find recorded is Walter de Manceter, fon of Wakeline, who 1196, 7 Richard I. gave a meflliage and three acres of land in Manceter in perpetual alms to God and the church of Manceter, in confirmation whereof the fame year he with Henry Chud levied a fine J. In the reign of Henry II. the monks of Bee in Normandy, to whom Hugh earl of Chefter had given the manor of Ather- fton, gave to the antient chapel in Atherfton twelve acres of land, agreeing with the parfon of Manceter that he and his fuc- ceiTors fliould caufe divine fervice to be performed there three * Ed. Thomas, p. 1079. -f- Roger de Crophull died reftor of Manceter, 1333, 7 Edward III; Sir John Crophulf 1383, 6 Richard II. :J; Fin. levat. 7 Rich. I. inter Walterum de Manceter, Pet. et Henric. Chud, de tribus acris et vin. meff. cu. ptinent' in Manceter, quod idem Walterus dedit Deo et ccclef de Manceter in puraiB et gpetuam elymofinam. 3 times Fl. Mj.f ,i<, riga.p.33 Fuf.ii.pS^. SupViun JohoTvrif de Mancestrc JUi/rtis A' 12 £dj£x ^piloijia Joh CanSrooIx de ColL-lrm F1/J..1 p. 4ff. fig.3 .P.JIl JupJIieiv (ruidam\' de Manccjttcr.A': ^.EfM- \Ex AjpU Jrh Car Unvh de Call.^-irrrwr. Vff&- tT.JieuItba dtl.i^fij yi doutn Tf'r/r c/ A[amx/:er C/iu/r/t . OF M A N C E T E R. 99 times a week, Sundays, Wednefdays, and Fridays, holydays, to be accounted, and nfiafs to be celebrated on St. Peter's day; on thefe conditions all the tythes and oblations arifing out of Ather- fton lliould lie paid to Manceter, yet burials and baptifms to be performed at Atheriton for the inhabitants, except by particular defire. This agreement was ratified by Richard Peche biliiop of Coventry and Lichfield *. 15 Edward I. 1287. Sir John de Mancefter prefented Hugo de Stanford to the church of Manceter, the firft incumbent taken notice of. 12 Edward III. 1338. Guido de Mancefter with his fon Edmund, and Edmund Truffell of Billelley, levied a fine of the advowfance of the church at York, on the feaft of St. Michael f. 19 Edward I. 1291. The church of Manceter is valued at twenty-two marks, or fourteen pounds fifteen fliillings and four pence per annum, in the valuation of livings known by the name of Pope Nicholas's Valor. 49 Edward III. 1375. Lord Baffet founded a houfe of friars hermits at Atherfton, with twelve acres of land, for which they agreed to pay twenty Ihillings per annum to the parfon of Man- ceter in lieu of tythes; and if they fliould obtain any more land in that place, to pay tytlies in kind for fuch t- 4 Henry IV. May 5, 1403. Thomas Culpeper, fon of John by Elizabeth the eldeft daugliter of Sir John Hardrelhull, made an agreement with William Brinklaw, then parfon here, to pay * Richard Pecbe appointed to the fee of Coventry, 1 162, 8 Henry II. He died in 1182, 2 Richard 1. -j~ The feals of Sir John and Guy de Manceter, kniglits, from drawings in the colleiftion of J. C. lirooke, Efq. Somerfec heralj, are engraved, with the view of Manceter church, in plate XVI. i This agreement was made in the prefence of faid lord Baflcr, the abbot of Leicetter, Thomas Harcourt lord of Bofworth, and John Bray the prior, "John Combe being their procurator or Warden. O 2 ' him loo HISTORY AND A N T 1 Q^L' I T I E S liim ten pounds thirteen fliillings and four pence, being in full for all the tythes due from, the woods in Hardrediuli at that time; the fame, as ai)pears from the agreement, having been for many years withheld. 28 Henry VI. 144Q. Thomas Arblafter and Alice his wife, Anne the widow of Thomas Porter, Robert Armbriigh, Reginald Armburgh, Clement Draper, Joan the widow of William Harpur, Ralph Holt, and Elene his wife, fell the church and perpetual advowfon, with all other the tythes, emoluments, rights, and privileges thereto belonging, &c. to the abbot and monks of Merevale, who foon after obtained from William Booth, biiliop of Coventry and Lichfield, the appropriation and endowment there- of, referving to himfelf the prefentation for that time, there being then a vacancy ; the endowment take in the words of the original * : " Salva portione congrua vicarii perpetui in eadem, quam autoritate noflra ordi- ** naria taxamus et liinitamus ad fiimmam fexdecim marcarum ad quatuor anni " terrainos; et quod abbas &c. expenQs fuis propriis intra biennium faciant, ordi- " nent, et edificant unam manfionem fuiBcient' pro vicario di^i vicarii et fuccef- " foribus ejus." The convent were to receive all the revenue; and in return to build the vicar a houfe, and pay him fixteen marks, or ten pounds thirteen fliillings and four pence, every year, by four equal portions ; alfo to pay to the bifliop of Coventry thirteen fhillings and four pence; to the archdeacon of Coventry four fliillings and four pence; and to give to the poor of the parifh of Manceter three fliillings and four pence, the fame to be di- vided by the faid vicar within eight days after the Annunciation of the Bleffed Virgin. * Reg. Bothe, f. 61. a. See the copy at large, Appendix, N° XIV. 37 Henry HISTORY OF MANCETEK. loi 37 Henry VT. the abbot and convent of Merevalc founded a chantry at the altar of the Holy Trinity within this church, to celebrate divine fervice dayly for the foul of king Henry VI. after his departure out of this life, and for the fouls of Thomas Slawteley, Alice and Catharine his wives, and all the fouls of the faithful deceafed. And in the fame year, 37 Henry VI. a gild was founded at the inftance of John Ruggcly, then abbot of Merevale, confifting of divers inhabitants of both fexes of Ather- fton and Manceter, who met every year upon Trinity Sunday, to chufe two matters for the better rule and government of the fociety, to which did belong one prieft to celebrate divine fervice at the altar of the Bleffed Virgin in this church, for the good eftate of king Henry VI. and his queen during this life, and for their fouls afterwards, and alfo for the good eftate of all the brethren an 112 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S In or about 16 , Ifaac Cook then owner of lands in Man- ceter, charged two clofes lying there (which in 1782 were oc- cupied by ... . Cafs) with the perpetual expenfe of finding bell ropes for the three largefl: bells, which is punctually ob- ferved. This donation is laid to have been occalioned by the following accident : Ifaac Cook being out one winter evening Avhen the ground was covered with fnow, miffed his way, and wandered fo near the banks of the river as to have been in the greateil danger, when the curfew bell beginning to ring directed him to that village ; the next day difcovering the great danger he had been in he immediately made the fettlement. The wake is kept on the Sunday next after the 8th of Sep- tember, the nativity of the BlelTed Virgin. Infcriptions OF M A N C E T E R. ,,3 Infcriptlons on the Monuments and Graveftones in Manceter Church, 1789. Ill tlie North aile, on the fide : ' " ' A mural monument of white veined marble, "with the arms of Bracebrid-re, Verry Argent and Vert a fefs charged with a crefcent. In memory of Abraham Bracebridge, and Mary his wife, ' •. ■ • The former of whom died Oft. 11, 1743, aged 65 : and the latter, Feb. 2, 1745-6, aged 63. , .. As alfo of " ' Walter Bracebridge, fon of the faid Airaham and Mary, who died Jan. 3, 1746-7, aged 33 ; and of ' ~ Elizabeth their youngeft daughter, who died Aug. 9, 1760, aged 48. i\Iary Bracebridge died Feb. 14, 176S, aged 58. Mary Bracebridge, wife to Abraham, and youngeft daughter of John Stiles of Uxbridge, died Jan. 24, 1776, aged 65 years. On a mural monument of white marble, arms Bracebridge impaling Church, viz. Argent a fefs betwixt three greyhounds heads erafed Sable collared Or. Sacred to the memory Of Theodofia, fixth daughter of William Church of Tunflal in the county of Salop, Efq. and late wife of Walter Bracebridge of Atherfton, gent. who, being adorned with the virtues and graces of the Chriftian life, crowned them all with exemplary humility and fweetnefs of temper;- for ihe had learned to put on that goodly attire in the fight of God and man of fo great price, the ornament of a meek and quiet fpirit furniflied with armour of God. She palTed this vale of tears with that compofure and peace of mind which is the blefling promifed to the meek in fpirit, and in that favour both of God and man which feldom fails to attend the lowly in heart. She lived beloved, and died lamented, but efpecially by her difconfolate hufband, who, as the leaft token of his unfpeakable grief, caufed to be ercded this monument of his never dying love. She died December 20, 1742, aged 25. , ' ■ (^ A fmall i,4 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S A fmall mural- monument of white marble, with the arms of Bracebridge, affixed to the Eafl wail of the faid North aiie : Inter facros hofce parictes Juxta reconduntur exuvioe Thorns; Bracebridge, Viri defideratiffirai. Obiit i6 Aug. 1695. In cujus memoriam Samuel Bracebridge de Lindley com. Leiceftr. Hoc pofuit. In the chancel, on the North fide : A marble monument, a half buft placed on two fiilclds, H'tnion. One partle per fefs danc^te Qr and Sable, fix flowers-delis counter charged, impaling Argent on a bend Gules betwixt three pellets, as many fwans of the firft. The other, Hinton impaling Or, two bars Azure in chief a lion of the fecond. Juxta heic jacet Edwardus Hinton arm. Hujus cemitatus vicecomes pro an. 1683. Pacifque confervatorum unus; Vir juflus et fortis, Regi et Ecdefiit Anglicanje (uti pater totaque familia) femper fidelis, Samuelis Hinton de Lichfield LL. D. per Eliz. - ; ■ ilHam Roberti Chefter de Royllon in com. Hertf. Eq. Aur. filiorura trium primogenitus, Maris Johaunis Gregory de Styvichal juxta A ^ Coventry arm. filias : Deinde ElizabethtE Thomre Clark de Nethercot in com. Warwici gen. filice natu maximse, raaritus leftifilmus, fine prole defunfto 4'^° die Januarii 1689. Samuel frater ejus numerofa fobole beatus , . in patrinionium fucceffit. Difta Elizabetha vidua moeftifllma hoc monumentum, amoris indeljbilis ergo, poni curavit. Underneath is added : Near to this lies alfo the body of Fleetwood Hinton (late of Atherfton) gento ■who died 24 of February, 1766, aged 63. And Frances his wife departed March 4, 74, aged $$• A mural monument in flone : On the North fide of the chancel, within the communion-raiis, lie the bodies of Hichard arkl Samuel Drayton, gentlemen, patrons and impropriators of the church. The father departed this life the 25th5 and the fon the 27th of March, in the year •«f our Lord 1717- LoveJy "S OF 1\I A N C E T E R. Lovely in life, in death too near allv'd. Not death itfelf their friendfhip could divide. To whiofe pious memory Tliomas Clare of Atherfton the prefent impropriator, Grandfon of the faid Mr. Richard Drayton, did ereft this monument, September 1736. On two flat ftones on the South fide of the communion-table; To preferve from interruption, the remains of Thomas Clare, who was the patron of this church and impropriator of the parilh, this flone records that his body lies here intombed. ^ He was born May 8, 1704; and died May 5, 1 775. In the fame tomb with that of her hufband , ' is depofited ' ' - . . . . the body of Mary the wife of Thomas Clare, who was the eldefl furviving daughter of Thomas Muxloe, Efq. of Swepfton in the county of Leicefter. She was born July 27, 17 12, . , and died February 21, . ■ 1776. In the North Weft corner, within the rails : Memorise Sacrum Optimi conjugis Haringtonis Drayton, Gen. Hujufce ecclefis patroni, hoc monumentum, M. D. non fine lacrymis fieri fecit. Filios duos Haringtonum et Richardii, 4que filias, Barbara, Maria, Anna et Catharina, habuerunt, et vitie caducs fortem cum cccleftis rcgni perennitate commutavit 0^2 Anno J i6 HISTORY AND A N TI Q^U I T I E S Anno astatls fuse 68, et Salutis noftrie 1671.. Qui legis in propriam difce de par * . . • . urni Mature cineres. Qui fapit ilk fapic. Without the rails, on- the North fide: To the memory of Edward farmer, Gent. who died 13 March, 1766, aged 62. And in the fame grave is interred Dorothy his wife, who died the 17th of December, 17315 aged 38. Here lycch the body of Capt. Edward Re3'nolds, late of Atherfton in the county of Warwick, Efq. who departed this life the twenty-fourth day of May, aged 50 years, aijd in the year of our Lord 1737- On the South fide: Captain James Adams, dyed the 9th day of Auguil, 1729. Mrs. Elizabeth Barges, fifter to the faid captain dyed Auguft 24, 1735. There is alfo an old alabafter grave flone with the infcriptlon cut round the verge, but fo worn as not to be legible, and another blue ftone, but nearly covered, with the South Weft corner of che rails. A mural marble monument in the South Weft corner : In hopes of a joyful refuiteftion to the life immortal. Beneath this monument lyes inter'd the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Simmonds, late wife of Thomas Simmonds of Merevale abbey in this county, Gent. She departed this life in the true faith and ft;ar of Almighty God, on Feb. 14, 1744. aged 44 years, 2 months, and 28 days. * The orighial is here not legible. ^ . * Since M7 OF IvI A N C E T E R. Since every one who lives is boru to dye, And none can boafl fincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear. Nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend. The world's an inn and death the journeys end. Vivit poll funera virtus. On a marble tablet underneath : Thomas Simmonds, Gent, died the 5th of November 1747, aged /^C years. , Flat flones in the nave, returning from the chancel : Edwardus Hinton Ar. obiit 4 Januar. A. Dom. 1689, A' jetat fux 60. Hie jacent exuvis Francilci Gramer, nuper de Athirflon in com. Warwic. gen. Francifci Gramer de Killingworth in agro predifto gen. filius: Tres duxic uxores ; e duabus poflerioribus feptem reliquit liberos, quorum Francilcus (uhi;i,£e uxoris filius unicus) cum tribus lecuudfE filiabus hoc monumentum fieri curavic. Obiit die Martis vicelimo fexto, anno atatis fexagefimo tertio, annoque Dom. 1659. . . Serius aut citius metam properamus ad unam. Here lyeth the remains of Francis Burges, Gent. He departed this life June 30, 1773, in the 70th year of his age. , - ' ■ Here lies intered the body of • Mr. Mathew Abell of Atherflone, -- - _ . ■who departed this life 18 of January, in the year of our Lord i 730, aged 55 years. Here lies interred the body of Mr. Mathew Abell, jun. of London, Citizen and Refiner. Wlio departed this life the 16 of Oi Paull Londoni ac refidentiarii in- eadem ad hoc fufficienter didtam ecclefiam de Mancefter cum fuis juribus et pertinenciis univerfis noltra ordinaria prefaus abbari et conventui et eorum luccefforum ac monafterio eorum predict* unimus, anneximus, .... ac in ipforum proprios ufus perpetuo poffidend' con- cefTimus, et noOram fententiam five decretum noftrum in iiac parte tuiiraus et pro- mulgavimus in hiinc modum. In Dei Nomine Amen. Aiiditis plenius et intellcftis ac plenarie difcuffis per nos Wiiiielnuim miferacione divina Coventr' et Lich' cpifcopuni meritis ct circumitantiis negotii appropriacionis ecclefiffi parochialis de Mancelter dift' noflr* diocccios, vo- catis in hac parte venerabili viro Rogero Wall archidiac' noftro Coventrienli infra cujus archiadeconat' ambitum difta ecclefia fuuatur, ct aliis omnibus et fingulis quo- rum interelt feu intereffe poterit in hac parte, teftibuf'que et aliis .... generibus p partem religioforum virorum abbatis et conventus monalV de Merevall' nollr' diocef antedict' in hujufmodi negotio pro did' et exhibet', ac p diet' teftibus rite et legitime admiffis, examinatis, eorumque attcftacionibus publicatis informacione, fufEclenti et legitima in hac parte prehabita et recepta, quia per probacion' et in- formacion' hujufmodi comperimus et invenimns evidenter fuggefta nobis in hac parte pro p^rte prefatorum abbatis et conventus fuiffe et vera parte eorund* abbatis et conventus coram nobis fufficienter et legitime competente et fententiam five decretum per nos in difto negotio ferri petente caufas et fuggelU . . . vera et jufta fuilVe et ecclef decernimus, declaramus, ac ad honorem omnipotentis Dei beatiffimaeque Virginis Marine matris Chrifli nomine primitus invocato ac folura Deum occulis noftris prseponentes, de voluntate et confenfu capitulor' eccleharuni noftrar' cathedr' Coventr' et Lichfield, et dicli Rogeri Wall archidiacon' noitr* Coventr' predicl' cum quibus de et fuper premiffis traftatum habui;v.us diligenter,' et folempni licentia excellentfffimi in Chrillo principis Henrici Dei gratia regis Anglie et Francie et Dom' Hibernie, ac voluntate et confenfu omnium quorum in- terefl; in hac parte intervenientibus, et prehabitis juribus, ordine, et ceteris in hac parte requifitis in omnibus obfervatis prefatam ecclefiam parochialem de Manccfter cum fuis juribus et pertinentiis univerfis abbati et conventui monafterii predifti et eorum fuccefforibus, diftoque monafterio aucloritate noftra ordinaria et diocefana, vinimus, aneclimus, incorporamus, et appropriamus, ipfamquc eccleliam cum fuis juri- bus et pertinentiis univerfis difti monafterii abbati et conventui modernis et eo- rum fuccefforibus in ipforum proprios ufus perpetuo poffidend' concedimus, eilJem- que abbati et conventui quod liceat eis per fe vel eorum procuratorem legitimuni diftam ecclefiam parochialem de Mancefier jam vacantem et ejus pofleffioncui in- gredi, apprehendere, et nancifci, ac etiam libere et legitime retiuere et continuare frnftus, redditus, et proventus ejufdem ecclcfie parochialis, falva portione c.n- gi ua vicarii perpetui in eadem quam autoritate noflra ordinaria taxamus, affignamus, et limitamus ad fummam fexdecim marcarum ad quatuor anui terminos viz. fell* Pafche, nativitatis Sti Johannis Baptifti, Sti Michaelis Archaugeli, et Natalis Do- mini, p equales portiones fideliter perfolvendas, cujus quidem vicarie ecclefie paro- chialis de Mancelter predidae fie per nos dotate primam coUocationem nobis hac K. vice 122 HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S viee tantum fpecialiter referTamus, ac deinde in perpctuum ad prefentationem prefa- toriim abbatis ct conventus legitime inftituend' licite recipere leu percipere, et ha- bere ac libere difponcre de iifdem licentia noftia feu alcerius cujufcunque ad hoc ahter nra petita vel obtenta. Volumus tamen ac ordinamus ac dccernimus per prefentes quod abbas et conventus monafterii predidli expencis fuis propriis infra biennium faciant, ordinent, et edificant, feu ordinari et edificari facianr unam man- lionem competentem, congruanij et fufficientem pro vicario di6ti vicarii et ejus fuc- ceflbribus quibufcunque ct didlam manfionem fic faflam et ordinatam difto vicario et ejus fucceffbribus affignabunt et liberabunt. Et quia ex predifta unione et ap- propriatione nobis et fuccefforibus noftris Coventr' et Lichf eplfcopis ac archidia- conis noftris Coventrienf predift' multa et varia incommoda poffunt pervenire, in faturum volumus, ftatuimus, et decernimus, quod in debitam recompenfationem dampnorum et incommodi hujufmodi abbas et conventus raonafterii predi(fli pro tempore exiflen' diet' ecclef prefatarum ecclefiarum cathedral* Coventr' et Lichf epifcopo cuicunque trefdecim folidos quatuor denarios, et archi- diacono Coventr' quatuor folidos quatuor denarios de fructibus didle ecclefie de Mancefter in fefto Sti Michaelis archangeli fingulis futuris annis in perpetuum fol- Tere teneantur. Quas quidem penfiones ratione indempnitatis predifte termino pre- didto ut promittitur folvendos p fequeftrationem fruftuum di£le ecclefie et per quaf- cunque cenfuras ecclefiafticas exigi volumus et teneri, diftique monallerii abbatem et conventum pro tempore exiftentes ad folutionem fummarum ratione in- dempnitatis predifti compelli et coarclari decernimus etdeclaramus ; volumus etiam, ac diflis abbati et conventus imponimus, quod abbas et conventus di(ni monafteriL pro tempore exiftentes in futurum de frudtibus et proventibus difle ecclefie paro- chialis de Mancefter fic eis appropriati inter pauperes parochianos ejufdem ecclefie magis indigcntes in fuftentatiouem vite earum tres folidos quatuor denarios infra oflo dies port feftum anunciationis beate Marie fingulis annis in perpetuum juxta difcretionem et arbitrium vicarii ecclefias parochialis antedifte ac bonorura cufto- dum ejufdem diftribui et perfolvi faciant cum efFeftu, premiflaque omnia et fingula modo et forma premifforum recitata prenuntiamus, decreviraus, et diffinimus pcrpe» tuis futuris temporibus inviolabile obfervari. From the Survey of the Religious Houfes made 26 Henry VIII. 1535. From the Roll in the Firft Fruits Office. The abby of Mirevalle had inter alia the vicaridge of Mancefter vel Manceter. Et de 34 1. 13 s. 4d. de ferm. decimas garbar. et feni ecclefise parochial, de Man= ceter per an. Et de 6 1. 2 s. reddit' aflifffi de Athereflon vel Adderefton. Et de 8 1. 1 s. reddit' affifse in Manceter com. War'. Et allocatur eidera monafterio pro redditu refoluto priori et convent' ordin' Car^ thufiorum de Mountgrace pro terris in Addereflon per an. ill. 6 s. Et allocatur eidem pro penfione annuatim vicario de Manceter pro fallario fuo per an. 10 1. 13 s. 4 d. 6 Et OF MANCETER. 12'. Et allocatur eidem pro penllone annuat' folut' epifcopo Conventriens. et Lich- field' exeunte de ecclefia parochial per an. 1 1. Decano et capital, (jufd' ecclefict;^ 6 s. 8 d. Archidiacono ejufd' ecclefias tam pro penfion. ex eadem quam pro procurationi- bus et fynodal' per an. i 2 s. 4 d. Et allocatur eidem pro vadiis Willi Green balivi de Manceter, Addereflon, et Baxterley, 1 1. 6 s. 8 d. Ecclelia parochal' de Mancefter : Diis Radulphus Barefoot vicarius ppetuus ibidem. Appropriatur abbati et conventui monafterii de Miravalle, et valet in denariis numeratis fibi annuatim folutis p manus predifl' abbat', 10 1. 13 s. 4 d. Cantaria tundat' in ecclefia parochial' de Manceter doo^' Thomas Adams cuflos predict' cantarie, et valet in terris et tenementis per an. ultra, 14 s. 5 d. pro redditu refoluto et ultra xx s. datos in elymofina pro anima fundatoris, 6 1. 7 s. 3d. Gilda Stce Marine de Mancefter dus Robertus Barefoot ftypendiarius ejufd' gildae ex fund' fundatoris folut' p maous magiflri gildse ibidem in denariis numeratis per an. et habet p;)etuitat', 6 1. In 1555, Thomas Hughes the lall incumbent of the chantry enjoyed aa an- nuity of 5 1. per annum. The abby of Polefvvorth had the cell at Oldbury. Et de 6 1. lod. in Oldbury de redditu terrarum et tenementorum. Rentale omnium feveralium tenementorum et aliorura pofleffionum dift' Gilds Sti Marine apud Mancefter fundat' an. R. H. VI. 37mo in Atherftone baliat. Johannis Weftwood ecclef de Mancefter. Per firmam unius tenement! cum horreis Sec. in Atherfton in tenura Johannis Hutchinfon, Per firmam unius tenementi in tenura Rob. Hinck, Per firmam in tenura Tho. Hawes, Per firmam in tenura Roberti Drayton, : . . ■ . • Per firmam in tenura Margarette Green, Per firmam in tenura Johan. Abell, Per firmam in tenura Johan. Walker, Per firmam in tenura .... Hall, Per firmam in tenura .... Hall, Per firmam in tenura Willielmi Pratts, Per firmam in tenura Willielmi Perkins, Per firmam in tenura Henrici Hart, Per firmam in tenura Willielmi Draper, Per firmam in tenura Henrici Piper, Per firmam in tenura Ricardi Brown, Per firmam in tenura Johan. Chapman, Per firmam in tenura Gregorii Lawfon, Per firmam in tenura ejufdem Gregorii, Per firmam in tenura Henrici Everer, Per firmam infra pafturam in Whittington vocat' Great Moor, ___ J. 23 6 13 10 10 2Z 14 16 6 6 4 5 5 4 4 JO 6 I 12 26 d. 4 S 4 o 6 8 o o 8 8 o o o o o o 8 4 o o R 2 10 7 10 September 124 HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES September 4, 1775- At the Rolls Chaple is a long grant to Richard Venables and John Maynard, amongfi: which the redlory of Manceter alias Mancelter, con- taining Atherltone, Manceter, Hartfhill, Oldbury, and Watling Street,, with all the emoluments and advantages to the faid reftory belonging, fubjecl to two rents of two fliillings and four pence ifluing out of faid reftory, the firft to the earl of Warwick, the fecond to Dated 21 Dec. an. 3 regis Edward VI. From the aforefaid Richard Venables and John Maynard fo much of the faid reftory and emoluments as belonged to Hartlbili, defccnded to or were purchafed by Cook lord of Hartfliill, and Sir John Poingts, who in 160S fold fuch of the faid lands of Hartfliill, with the tythes and all eccleliaftical de-nands as then were there, &c. at the fame time alfo the tyrhes of the lands late Robert ear! of .EiTex to Remington the tenant, who afterwards purchafed the faid lands of the marquis of Hereford, and the marchionefs, one of the daughters and co- iicirelLs of Robert earl of Effex deceafed. P. 102. In a book of Inrollment of leafes in the reign of king Henry the Eighth, remaining in the Augmentation Office at Weflminfter, it is contained (amongft other things) as followeih : Hec indentura fca int' excellentiffimu princlpem et diim dlim Henricu oftavu Dei gra &c. ex una parte, et Amiam Hill de hofpicio dni regis geiiofum ex altera parte, teflat' qd idem dhs rex p advifament' confilii curie augmeiuacon' revencunia corone fue tradida, conceffit, et ad firmam dimifu prefat' Amie Hyll oiries et onimod' decimas, privat' oblacoes, obvenc' et alia ^ficua quecunq' tempore pafcali, ac ob- Jacoes quatuor principlm dier' feu fellor' anni vulgarit' nuncupat' lez fouer prin- cipal! offryiig dayes, ac eciam decimas lane, agnellor', lini, canabi, aucar', por- cellor' et vitulor' et alias minut' decimas quecunq' rcorie de Mancettor in com' Warr'. Ac eciam oines decimas feni in campis de Mancettor cirra aquam de Anker ac omes decimas granor' in campis de Adderilon dee rcorie fpeclan' et ptinen', que quilem fcoria de Mancettor nup monaflerio de Merevale in dco com* V/arr' modo diffolut' dudum fpettabat et ptinebat hend' et tenend' decmias pdift' et cetera pmiffa cum ptin' pfat Amie Hyll et aflign' fuis a fello Sci Michis archi prox' fu- tur' ufq' ad finem termini et p terminum viginti et unius anno' extunc prox' fequen' et plenarie complend' reddend' inde annuatim dco dno regi, heredib' et fucceflorib* fuis viginti libras undecim folid' et quatuor denar' legalis monete Anglie ad tefla annunciacois bte IVIarie virginis et Sti Michis archi, vel infra unu raenfem poll utrumq' feitum feftor' illor' Sec. Et pdcus diis rex vult et p pfentes concedit qd ijSe, heredes et fucceflbres fui fex folid' et o£lo denar' annuatim allocand' et lolvend' pro pane, vino, cera, et aliis neceffar' expendend' in ecctia de Mancetto' pdift' ac fex folid' et ofto denar' folvend' annuatim decano et capitto ecctie catbis Lichef p pencone exeun' de ecctia de Mancetto' paid:', necnon duodecim folid' et quatuor denar' annuatim folvend' arcbo Coven' p fmodal' et jDcuracoib' de ecclia pdicl' ac decern libras trefdecim folid' et quatuor denar' annuatim folvend' vicario de Man- cetto' pdift' p falario five ftipendio fuo annuatim folvent feu folvi facient Sec, Dat' apud Weftm' vicefuao oftavo die Julii anno regiii dci dai regis tricefimo fexto. P. 82. OF RIANCETER. 125 P. 82. In a book of Inrollments. of leafes in the reign of king Henry tlie Eighth remaining in t;ie Augmentation Office at Weftininlter is contained (amongft other things) as follovveth : Hec indentura fca int' excellentiflimij principem et diim diim Henricii oftavi^ Dei gra 8c:. ex una. parte, et Aniiam Hyll de Aiherllon in parochia de Manfetter in com' Warr' valectii came dne Kutlne regine Anglie ex alta parte teftat' qd idem diis rex p advilamentij confilii cur' augmentacionu revencionii corone fue tradidit, concefiif, et ad firmam dimilit pfato Amie totam illam coera piftrinam ville de Athcrllon in parochia de Manfetter in com' Warr' modo in tenura et oc- cupaci )ne pd:i Amie nuper monafterio de Mounrgrace in com' Ebor' modo difTo- lui' dudum IpeAan' et p inen' ac parcell' poffeflionu inde exiften' necnon viginti et quatuor acr;.s et dimid' unius acre tre arabilis jacen' et exirten' in campis de Ennege et Alkiche in parochia de Manfetter pdca, ac triginta et fex acras et diraid' unius acre tre niibilis jacen' et exiften' in campo vocat' Wyndemylnefeld in paro- chia pdca, necnon duas acras terre arabilis jacen' et exiften' in Rye buttys in pa- rochia pdca dco nup monal'tio dudvi fpeftan' et ptinen' ac parceil' poflefiionvi inde exiften' ac tmia ali:i ^ficua, coia, conioditates, advantagia, et eraolumenta quecunq' eifdem piftnnae et tirris quaiitcunq' fpeftan' vel ptinen', &c. Hend' et tenend' piftrinam et terr' pdc.i &c. pfato Amie Hyll et affign' fuis a fefto nativitatis Sci Johis Bapte ul:imo preterite ufq' ad iinem termini et p terminum viginti et unius annor' &c. Reddend' annuatira dcu diio regi, hered' et fuccefTorib' fuis quatuor libras et derem folidos, vidett pro pJca pifhrina triginta foHdos et p pdcis terris fexaginta foiidos legalis monete Anglie ad fefta Sci Martini in yeme et nativitatis Sci Jofiis Bapte vel infra unu menfem poft utrumq' feflu feftaq' illor' ad cue* pdcam p equalcs porciones annuatim folvend' durante termino pdco 2cc. Dat' apud Weftra' fcdo die Julii anno regni dci dni regis triceiimo feptimo. P. 103. 104. Coppy of part of the conveyance of the church of Manceter with, the reci:orial tythes, &c. to Amyas Hill de Atherfton, 3 Edward VI. Omnibus Chrifti fidelibus ad quos hoc prefens fcriptia pervenerit, Ricardus Venables et Johannes Maynard armigeri falutem. Sciatis nos prefat' Ricardum et Johan' pro quadam pecuniis fumma nobis p Amifium Hill vulgariter nuncupat', Amyas Hill de Atherftone in com' V^^arr' prte manibus bene et fidelitcr pfolut' unde fatemur nos plenarie fore fatisfaftos et contentatos, eundemque Amifium Hill, he- redes, executores, et adminiftrat' fuos inde acquietatos efie, p prefentes tradidiire;^ feofaffe, vendidiffe, bardiganalfe, concelliire, et p toto prefenti fcripto noflro con- firmalfe prefato Amifio Hill totam illam redloriam et ecclefiam noftram de Manceter, alias diet' Mancefter, ac advocationem, donationem, libera difpofitionem, et jus patro- natus vicarie ecclefie parochialis de Manceter alias did' Mancefter, cum fuis juribus, juridictionibuSj et pertmentiis univerfis in com' Warr' nuper monafterio de Merevale in eodera com' modo dilToluto dudura fpe^lant' et pertinent', ac parcel!' poiTelHo- nuxn. 32« H I S T O H Y A N D x\ N T I Q^V I T I E S num, juriu, feu reventium inde tiuper exiften* ac etiam omnes et omnimodo decl- mas noftras quafcunque, obkciones, obventiones, redditus, reventiones, • truflus, ac alia jura, juridltftiones, proficua, commoditaces, emoliimenca, et hereditamenta nof- tra qua?cunque cum peitinentiis snnuatim et de tempore in tempus provenient' five crefcend' in villis, campis, parochiis, hamblettis de Manceter, Watlingilreet, Witlierley, Oldcbury, HarteihuU, Anker, et Atherfton in di£t' com' Warr' ac alibi iibicunque in eodem com' Warr' dicle reflorie ec ecclefie de Manceter quoquo modo I'pedand' vel pertinend' aut ut parcell' ejul'dem reftorie et ecclef pabit' .... .accept' unitat' feu reputat' exiftent* ac reverfionem et reverfiones quafcunque om' £t fingiilor' premilVor' et inde parcella nee non redditus et annualia proficua quecunque refcrvat' fuper quibufcunque divifionibus et conceffionibus omnibus de preiniflis feu de aliqua inde parcellor' quoquo modo faft' Exceptis tauien femper et nobis, heredibus, et affi^natis noftris omnino refervatis, decimis bladorum, gavbarum, et granorum accrual' et de tempore in tempus pro- -veniend' et crefcend' in Hartefliall predid' ac decimis lan^, agneilor', vitulorum, porcellor', aacar', canabi, et lini, et aliis proficuis, corriditatibus, et emolumentis qui'jufcunque provenient' et crefcent' de duobis meffuagiis et duobus cottagiis ac omnibus terris et tenementis modo vel nuper in feveralibus tenuris feu occupationi- bu3 Kici Robinfon, Kici Barefote, Johannis Scot, €t Johannis Coddy in Oldebury predifta, preterquara oblaciones et obventiones in Oldebury predicT;' et preterquam omnes decimas foeni de predifl;' meffuagiis, cottagiis, terris, et tenementis, et ceteris premiffis modo vel nuper in feparalibus tenuris prediftor' Rici Robinfon, Rici Bare- foote, Johannis Scott, et Johannis Coddy, quas quidem oblacion' obvention' et decimas foeni in Oldebury predifl' nos prefat' Riccts Venables et Johannes Maynard tradidimus, liberaviraus, dimittimus, conceffimus, et confirmavimus, et p prefentes iradimus, liberavimus, dimittimus, concedimus, et confirraamus prefato Amifio p prefentes. In cujus rei teftimonium hulc prefenti fcripto noftr' figilla noftra appofuimus. Dat' viceilimo fecundo die Decembris anno regni Edwardi Sexti Dei gratia Angl', Franc', et Hibern' regis, fidci defeaforis, et in terra ecclefise Anglie et Hibern* ("upremi capitis tertio. Schedule or fhort abftra£t of Deeds relating to the Tythes of the Hamlet of Hartfliill in the Parifh of Mancefter in the County of Warwick. P. 104. 3 Edward VI. 1549, Dec. 21. Grant from king Edward the Sixth to Richard Venables and John INIaynerde, efquires (inter alia) Tot' ill' reftoriam et eccliam jirara de Manceter ats d\£i' Mancefter, ac advocacoem, donacoem, liBam difpoficoem, et jus patronatus vicarie ecclefie pochialis de Manceter ats dift' Mancefter cum fuis juribus, jurifdidlionibus, et ptin' univerfis, in com' iiro Warr' nup' monafterio de JVIeryviile ia eodem com' modo diffolut' dudura fpe(5lan' et ptinea' ac pcell' pof- feflion' OF M A N C E T E R. 127 feffion' feu reveniion*^ inde nuper exifleni' ac etiam omnia et fingula mefluagia, domos, edificia, horrea, flabula, columbar', ftagna, vivaria, hortos, pomaria, gardina, terras, prat', pafcuas, paftur' cou vafta, bruer', marilcos, aquas, pifcarias, bofcos, fubbofcos, rtdJit', revliones, svicia, decimas, oblationes, ac alia jura, jurifdicoes,. plicna, comoditates, emolumenta, et hereditamenta nra quecunque ac ptin' in villis,. campis, pocliis, et hamlettis de Mancerer, Watlyngftrete, Wythcrley, Oklebury, Hertfhali, Ajik>.r, et Atherfton in dco com' iiro Warr* et alibi ubicunq' in eodem com' dee reftcrie et ecctie de Manceter quoquo mode fpcftan' vel ptin' auc uc pcell' ejufdem reftorie et ecctie ante hac hit' cognit', accept', ufitat', feu reputat', ex- illen'. Damus ulterius, &c. omnes et omiod' bofcos, fubbofcos, et arbores, Sec. &c. necnon redditus et aniiaiia pficua quecunque refervai' fup' quibufcunque dimiffio- aibus et coDCeffionibus, &c. &c. p prefentes concediraus pfat' Rico Venables et Johi Maynerde omnia et fingula pmiffa fupius expreiTa et fpecificat' cum ptin' adeo plene, libe, et integre, ac in tam amplo modo et forma put ultimi abbes, priores, ^bbiffe, prioriffe, et ceteri gubnatores dcor' nup' monallerior' et priorat' vel ali- quis vel aliqui pdeceflbr' fuor feu eor' alicujus in juribus nup' monafterior' et priorat' illor' feu eor' alicujus aut aliqui ca:uarifte, capellani, vel incumben' aut alii miniftri feu gubnatores dear' nup' cantar' et libar' capellar' gildar' et colle- gior' aut aliquis alius five aliqui alii piiifTaaut aliquam hentes, poffidentes, et fi inde exiften' eadem aut aliquam inde pcell' unquam huerunt, tenuerunt, vel gavili fuerunt, &c. et adeo plene, libe, et integre, ac in tam amplo modo et forma put ea omnia et fmgula ad manus nras rone et ptextu cujufdam aftus de diverfis collegiis, cantariis, iibis capellis, gildis, et fraternitat' diffolvend' et determinand' in parlia- mento tento apud Weft' anno fni iiri primo inter al' edit' et pois aut' rone vel p textu fepaliia dilToiut' dcor' nup' monafterior' et priorat* feu quocunque alio modo jure feu titulo devenerunt, feu devenire debuerunr, ac in manibus iiris jam exiften', &c. Que quidem reftorie, meffuagia, terre, &c. &c. modo in toto extenduntur ad clarum annuii valorem 131 1. 19 s. iid. Except' tamen femper et nob' heredibus €t fucceiTor' iiris omnino refervat' omnibus campanis et toto plumbo de infuper om- nibus fingulis praiffis exiilen'. To hold to and to the ufe of the faid Richard Venables and John Maynerde, their heirs and affigns for ever, to be held of the king, his heirs and fucceffors, as of his manor of Eftgrenewiche in the county of Kent, by fealty only in fee foccage, and not in capite, by the rents and fervices, &c. The king further grants the dues,, rents, and profits of the faid meffuages, &c. except a yearly penfion of 6 s. 8 d. ta the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Lichfield, and 10 1. 13 s. 4d. per ann. to the vicar of Mancefter for the rime being, and 13 s. 10 d. to the archdea- con of Coventry for fynodals, and 20 s. to the bifhop of Coventry, and 6 s. 8 d. per ann. for bread, wine, "wax, and oil, to be yearly fpent in the fame church. 4 Edward VI. 1550, May 24. Grant from Margaret Booth, gen', to Robett Green of the tythes of Hartifliill and Oldburye, except (as by Mr. Okeover's deed' q. V.) viz. the tythes granted by faid Margaret Booth and Richard Venables to Amias Hill. 4 and" 123 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES 4 and 5 Philip and M-iry, 1558, February 6. Releafe from Robert Crene to Michael Park ar and Edmund ParUar ot Hartifhill, in fee in their poffeffioQ then beini^ of all his right, title, &c. of, in, and to all and all manner of tythes, of all and all manner of grain yearly arifing, &c. in Hartilhill, or in the lordfhip thereof to the rc>ftory of Mancelter only belonging. Eafler Term, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. Indentures of fine between Michael Parkar and Edmund Parkar, plaintiffs, and Piubert Grene, gent, and Dorothea his wife, deforciants, of the tythe of all manner of grain and corn of every fort and kind with the appurtenances in Hartyfliill in the parifli of Maucetter. 10 Elizabeth, 1568, June 24. Grant from Robert Hyll of Atherflon (fon of Amias), gent, to Michael Parker and Edmund Parker of Hartlhill, in fee of the tythes of hay, wool, lamb, flax, hemp, geefe, and hogs, gardens, orchards, woods, underwoods, herbage, money, and the Ealter book of Hartfell, mortuaries, and all other cultomary oblations, &c. within the lordfliip of Hartfliill. 10 Elizabeth, 1568, June 20. Releafe from faid Robert Hyll to faid Michael and Edmund Parker of all his right to faid lafl mentioned tythes, in conftderatioa of CO 1. 16 Elizabeth, 1574, February 16. Grant from Edmund Parker to his uncle Michael of fame tythes. 18 Elizabeth, 1576, December 28. Counterpart of indenture between faid Mi- . chael Parker and Robert Parker, his fon and heir of the one, and Chriflopher Wright of Happisford in the county of Warwick, and Oliver Wright of Extall, p-entlemen of the other part, being a fettlement on intended marriage of faid Roberc Parker and Katharine eldefl daughter of Andrew Broke, of the tythes of corn, hay, wool, lamb, &c. ?>zc. and other tythes whatfoever predial and perfonal, great and fmall, arifing in the Town fields, lordiliip, and territories of Hartfhill, to hold TO faid Chriftopher and Oliver, and the heirs of furvivor to the following ufes, as to the whole tythe to the faid Michael Parker untill the marriage, remainder to faid Chriftopher and Oliver and their heirs, and the heirs of furvivor as to one moiety to the ufe of faid Michael and his afligns for life, and to hold the other jnoiety to faid Robert Parker and Katharine for life, and life of longer liver, re- mainder to the heirs of the body of the faid Robert, remainder to the right heirs of faid Michael for ever. 31 Elizabeth, 1589, February 20. Indenture between Sir Henry Goodiere of Polefworth, knt. and Frances his daughter of the one, and William Cook of the parifh of St. Martyn's in the Fields in the county of Middlefex, Efq. and Francis JSacon of Gray's Inn, Efq. and Wefton Shaw, fervant to William Cooke of the otJier part, in confideration of 300 1. faid Henry Goodere and Frances his daugh- ter, grant, bargain, and fell unto the faid Francis Bacon and Wetton Shaw cind their heirs, all the tythes of corn, hay, wool, lamb, &c. &c. in Hartfhill, toge- ther with all fuch right as they the faid Sir Henry and his daughter have by virtue, of an indenture dated 6th July, in the 25th year of her majelly, between Robert , Parker OF M A N C E T E U. 129 Parker of Hartfhill and Katharine his wife of the one, and the faid Sir Henry Goodere and Frances his daughter of the other parr, to hold to and to the ufe of the faid Francis Bacon and Wefton Shaw in fee, fub'ieft to a condition. Hillary Term, 3 i Elizibeth. Indenture of fine between Sir Henry Goodere, knt. and Frances his daughter, plaintiffs, and Robert Parker and Katharine his wife, deforciants, of all tythes both great and fmall in HardefhuU, alias Hartfliill, in the pariOi of Mancefter alias Manceter. 31 Elizabeth, June 13. Afiignment from Francis Bacon and Wcdon Shawe to Mr. Cooke of the tythes of Hartfhill. October 1 8, 1704. Grant from Frances Jacob, wido\V, one of the daughters and coheirs of William Roberts, of Sutton Cheney in the county of Leicefler, Elq. and Elizabeth his wife, deceafed, late one of the fillers and coheirs of William Glover, Efq. deceafed, in confideration of 4° s. paid by George Wright, John Tweils, and Ezechiel Wright, Eiq. of all and all manner of tythe and tenths as well great as fmall, and all oblations, offerings, mortuaries, and other fpirituai and eccleliallical dues arifuig in the Town fields, liberties or territories of HartlhilF alias Hardrefliull in the parilh of Manceter, and all his eftate, right and title in and to the faid tythes, to hold to and to the ufe of the faid George Wright, John Tweils, and Ezechiel Wright, and their heirs and aiTigns for ever. The following particulars fliould have been inferted p. 124, 1. 14. Sir William Cook and Sir John Poyntz paffed thefe lands undernamed to Ralph Burton, Efq. Francis Purefoy, Efq. and Edward Lewes, g-nt. the 6th of James I. One meffuage and one cottage, wherein Thomas Hev/et dwelt, and Littlefield, Nurfelfield, divided into two parts, Ferney croft, Johns croft, the Leyes, Broom clofe, the Paddoks, Aldermore, three clofes called Rideings, the herbage and weed- ing of Hafelhnore and Hillmore. William Migh the younger, i meffuage, 1 croft, Cinder hill, the Middlefield or Cornfield divided, the Newes, the Nether meadow, the Furmoore meadow, the Leys, the Ridmore, the Furmoore, and tlie herbage and weeding of a fpring wood called the Moore. Thomas Holt, a grift milne, a garden and orchard, the mihi dam, the miln ftream fifhing, the miln holm, the hither home, and the farther home. John Ward, i meffuage, i little croft, the Wallnut yard, the I'own crofr, the ^Tine Lands, the WardfhiU as divided, the I'infold croft, and the Mill lane end. Edmund Harris, i meffuage, the Town croft, the Hall crofr, or Tophill?, the Pinfold croft, the Mill lane end, and the Pittle or Pingle. Ralph Parker, the Marlepit flat, a Pingle in the MoOre meadow, the' Vv-eedirgs of two orchards, the Moore corner, the Moore belonging to the Brent houfe, the Moore meadow, a Moore with the priviledge of pafturing called Ground Mnore ^ meadow, with the dor wafl, and green goods. Yard End an orchard near fhe Hol- lows the new taken in in two parts. Henry Stanley, its hay, one garden, one yard, the Rails flaf, Alcots fiat or 12 lands, the Wardell, the Hemp yard, the Sope meadow. S William 130 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S Wiir.ain Remington, one meffuage, one garden, one orchard, the Pinfold crofr, the s^reat Wardell, the l.eale, the Moore, the Caldwell as it is divided, the Web- land leafl, the Webland, Eaton lane end, and the Slade meadow. R. Remington, one cottage, one garden, the Wardell, the Wardell croft, the Hill clofe, the BuUmear meadow, one piece of meadow in Slade meadow, the her- bage and weeding^ in Allen's moore. John Wood, one mciujage, one orchard, one workhoufe, one liable, one garden and orchard, the Yard's end clofe. John Alcok vel Alcot, one melTuage, one orchard, one garden, one pafture calltrd the Yard, the Hiilficld, the Woolvey Oakfield, the Conygree, Eatonlane end, the Moor meadow. Joyce Paikcr, one meffuage, one orchard, one garden, one little orchard, and oxlioufe yew, one clofe called the Yard, the Town croft, the Nine Lands. One cottage and backfide, the Six Lands. One cottage and backfide called rinio'd croft. One little meadow, half Gunne meadow, the new taken in, the Rydeing, the Barn yard. Roberr Barbage, one meffuage, one barn, one garden, one orchard, one little yard, the Yard's end croft, the Slade clofe, and one piece of meadow, the Dearef- bank, Burbridge's IMoore meadow, the herbage and weeding of Burbridge's Moore Vfood. William Mights, one meffuage, one liable, one garden, one orchard, the Hoggs Eyon divided, the Falls' being two clofes, the great Wardell, the upper Wardell, and nether Wardell, the Bednalls, the Broom clofe, the Pyngle, the Moore mea- dow. Might's Moore, half the Gun meadow. Alexander Wefton, one meffuage, one flable, one garden, one barn, one orchard, the JumbcU Flatt or Mill-lane end, one piece of arable land called the Voxhill clofe, the houfe and loft, Weflon's ke corner in two pieces, Wefton's Slade hill, the llookes, the Heath, the nether Slade, the herbage and weedings of Wefton's ]Moore. Richard Bentley, one cottage, one garden called the Chappell. Thomas Holt, one meffuage called Wolbey houft, one barne, one liable yard and orchard, one croft and barn, Wolvey iield, the Barkers be two feveral fields, three toftes called the Newfo, the nethar mead fometime parcel of Barkers, the middle mead, the Pingle, and the Sweet Moore. See in p. IJ9. extracts of two deeds, dated the 8th and 25th of Elizabeth, from Sir Anthony Cook, and Anthony his grandfon, which relate to the manor houfe of Hartfhil:. A N S L E Y. OF M A N C E T E R. jji A N S L E Y, ** BOURNE, paflingon about a mile below F/7/(?;«o-/^^ church, iS enlarged with another torrent that rifeth in Anjley^ of which place I am next to take notice. In Edward the ConfefTor's time the Countefs Godeva (of whom I have fpoke in Coventre) en- joy'd it ' : but after the Norman Invafion, being in the king's hands, it was, together with Coventre and the other lands which belonged to that Countefs, fermed ^ out to one Nicholas ; and in the general furvey then taken (where it is writtea i^annet) is joyned with l^attfl)ttl, there alfo recorded by the name of ^tlJttQjtU^ » hoXh. which were valued at c J-. as alfo from Henry I's time, for many ages afterwards, poffeft jointly by a family of good note, whofe chief feat being at HartJJjill^ aflumed that place for their furname. But by a daughter and heir of Hardre/hulij came at length to Culpeper, as the defcent in Hart" /bill doth fhew. Which family of Culpeper having their principall feat at Bedgebury in Kent (for the moft part), made little reHdence in this Country ; fo that in procefs of time they fold away all their intereft here, Sir Alexander Culpeper, knight, firft pafling ^ in fee-ferm unto John Ludford, gentilman, (his receiver and ♦ of- ficer for this mannour and Hartjbill) much of the demefns in 20 H. VII. A. D. 1 505. And afterwards John Culpeper (a younger* fon to the faid Sir Alexander), on whom it feems this was fetled, all ' the reft, together with the mannour, unto Robert and Edmund • Domefday Lib. » Ibid. ' Ex autog. penes G. Ludford gen. " Ibid. s Ex Coll. Edw. Bering, Bar. * Rec. de T. Hill. 4 & 5 Edw. VI. Rot. 148. S iT^eibe, 133 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES JVyetbe, of Loughborough in Com. Leic, gentilmen. Which Robert and Edmund in 5 Hen. VIII. for the fumme of xlviii //. granted ' it to John RamptoHy of Atherjlon^ yeoman ; of whom George U^jghtman, ol Elmejlhorpe in Com. Leic. gentilnian, having purchafed ' it in i Eliz. paft ' it in mortgage unto IVilliem Glover^ Citizen and Dyer of London, in 34 of the faid Queen's reign ; who in 43 Eliz. obtained a releafe ' from T'ho. Wtghtman^ of BurbagCy gentiUnan, fon and heir to the faid George^ of ail his right and title therein. To which Will. Glover (afterwards a knight and alderman of London) fucceeded Sir 'Thomas Glover^ of Wiljdon in Com Midd. knight, his fon and heir; who, together with the lady jinne his mother, fold ' it in 6 Jac, unto James JVi^htman, of Brack- man in the faid countie of Leicejler : which James 10 JameSy 1 6 1 3, pafl ' it unto George Ludford^ of Anjley, gent, (defcended frorn the before-fpecified John Ludford) who left ilTue '■Jolm'^C [who by Catherine the daughter of James Pre/cot of Warwick^ gent, had iflue five fons and three daughters ; Jane the eldeft of the daughters, married Mr. Thomas Bracebridge, vicar of Kettleby, in. the county of Leicejler (defcended from the ancient family orf the Bracebridges of Kingsbury, in Warwickfljire) ; whofe youngeft fon Thomas was by the laft will of his uncle James Ludford, dated 7th November, it William III. and A. D. 1699, confti- » Ex autog. penes prsef. G. LudforcJ. ^ Sir William Dugdale, in 1656 edition, has made a miftake; which Thomas, in his edition of 1730, has copied; and confequently made a generation more in the Ludford family than there was. Sir William Dugdale fays, " who left iiTiie George, now owner thereof." Thomas follows, by faying in page 1037, " and he John'" whereas the faid John was the eldeft fon and fucceiior of the firft and only George Ludford, as appears both by the MS. pedigree in the poffellion of the prefent Joha Ludford, Efq. and alio by a marginal note in an old family edition of Sir William Dugdale's Warwickthire, 1656, p. 747, a line being drawa under the word George, and John written in ihe margin. 3 See Dugdale's Warwickflure, 1656, p. 747. tuted OF MANCETER. »35 tilted his heir, on condition he afflimed the name and arms of I.udford, as were alfo the heirs male of his body lawfully ifTue- mg ; and for default of fuch ilfue, it was bequeathed by the faid will to Sajnuel the eldeft fon of the faid I'bomas and Jane Bracedridge, upon the fame conditions ; and he the faid 1'bo?nas dying without iffue, it defcended accordingly to his faid eldeft brother Satjjuel, who by Catherine^ daughter of John Lewis of Guildford Com. Sur. gent, left iffue John Bracebridge Ludford^ who in the year 1733 married Juliana the youngelt daughter of Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbury and Harejield, baronet, and departed this life i6th November, 1775, leaving ifllie by the aforefaid Juliana (who furvived him to 19th January, 1780) three daughters Juliana, Frances, and Millifent, (after having buried two, viz. Elizabeth and a former Juliana), and one only fon John, who was born 17th Auguft 1756 at Anjley-hall, and is the prefent owner thereof. The faid John Ludford^ on 1 6th June 1778, married Elizabeth the eldeft daughter of John Bo/well, late of IViiton near Birmingham, gent, by whom he now has iffue (viz. A, D. 1790), three daughters, Elizabeth Juliana, Frances Millifent, and Alary Ann '.] *' The Church ' (dedicated to S. Laurence) being given to ' the nuns of Pole/worth, in king John's time, by IVilliam de Hardre- dejhull, fon of Robert, and grandchild to Hugh, was appropriated to them fhortly after ; and thereupon an affignation made '^ of what the perpetual vicar fliould have for his pains in ferving the cure : which being found too little, and complaint made to the biftiop, there was an augmentation ' thereof by virtue of a provincial conftitution, which the archbifliop of Canterbury and the reft of the bifliops within his province had made to that ' Communicated, with the family pedigree, by John Ludford, Efq. of Anfley Hall. * See a view of it, Plate XV. fig. 2. :' Pat. 21 Pv. II. p. 3. m. 22. per Infp. 4 Ex autog. penes Edw. Stratford. * Ibid. S a purpofe, 134 H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I CL^ I T I E S purpofe, ^iz. that whereas the fmall tithes and obventions per- taining to the altar were valued but at l s. and the tithe-coni at xxiv. marks, the vicar and his fucceffors lliould thenceforth have the fifth flieaf of the tithe-corn throughout the whole pa- rifli, to be delivered out of the tithe-barn belonging to the faid nuns, after it fliould be gathered in by them, at their charge. This was done by Mr. Simon de Ba/idoHj official to the bifliop of Coventry and Lichfield^ and by authority from the faid bilhop, on Friday next after the feaft of S. Dennis^ An. 1275 (3 ii. I.) In An. 1 291 (19 E. I.) the re^Story here was valued ' at vi, marks, and the vicarage at half a mark: but in id H. VIII.] the fame vicarage was rated * at vi //. vi s. viii d. over and above iij. iy d. allowed for procura/ions ciiidjynoda/s.'' After the diffolution of the monafteries in 30 Hen. VIII. and A. D. 1539, the redlory or great tythes of Anlley were moft probably granted by the King to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, together with the other pofleflions belonging to the nuns of Polefworth. To whom it was granted by the Duke of Suffolk, or whether it ever reverted back to the Crown, is un- certain. But in the year 161 5, 12 Jac. I. Robert Stratford of London was poffefled thereof; as by his will, bearing date the fame year, he charges it with 20^. yearly to be given in bread on Good Friday to poor perfons in Anfley ; and further devifes it to his nephew Edward Stratford, when he attains the age of a8 years; from whom it has defcended in lineal fucceffion to the late Francis Stratford of Merevale, efq. and it is now vefted in Richard Geafl, of Blythe Hall, efq. the defcendant and fuc- cefTor of Sir William Dugdale, in right of his wife, the eldeft daughter of the faid F. Stratford as is hereafter mentioned. The OF M A N C E T E R. i^s The tenths, xiis. \i\d. ^vcre difcharged by an Acfl of Parlia- ment in ^n. 1706, and the clear yearly value thereof returned to the governours of Queen Anne's bounty, was lix/. The church is in the diocefe of Lichfield and Coventry, the archdeaconry of Coventry, and deanry of Arden. About the year 1756 the church was entirely new-pewed, at the expence of the late J. Ludford, efq. the old gallery which darkened one of the large windows pulled down, and the porch on the fouth fide fliut up and enclofed for a veftry, the u'eft door only being kept open for the ufe of the inhabitants coming to church. The recflory is now vefted in Richard Geq/i, efq. of Blithe Hall, as trullee, and (in right of his wife) heir of the late Francis Stratford^ of Merevale, efq. from whom the late John Lud-- ford, efq. on the 2 2d of December, 1749, obtained a leafe of the chancel for 1000 years, in exchange for a pew belonging to the Ludford family, in the body of the church: the faid John Ludford having previoully erecfled two new pews, with feats under them> for fervants, the whole length of the old chancel, and having afterwards, A. D. 1760, built an entire new room at the end thereof of hewn Hone eighteen feet fquare, which riffcs three fteps above the old part of the chancel, and wherein the altar now ftands. In the arch which feparates the old from the new chancel on each fide the Iteps ftands on the North fide the monument of John Ludford, efq. the in- fcription of which is inferted p. ^152; and, on the South fide^ that of Samuel Bracebridge Ludford, efq» the iufcription of which is inferted p. *I52; and, in the South-Eaft corner of the old chancel the monument of Mifs Ludford, as mentioned p. * 153. The communion table is of marble, fupported by iron brackets j on each fide of which are two pillars fupporting an arch ; MS. in Scaco f MS. penes S. A. eq. aur. f. 61. a.. paintedl 136 HISTORY AND A N T I aU I T I E S painted in imitation of marble; under the arch is a glory, and IHS ; and under it a pi>fture of the publication of the birth of Chrifl: to the fhepherds, Luke, chap. II. v. 8. Sic. No mention being made of a church at Anfley in Domefday Book, it has been conjectured there was none there at that period; and the lift of incumbents (fee p. *i6o} commencing only about the reign of King John, or King Henry III. makes the conjecture more plaufible ; but, though a great part of the church is modern enough to juftify this aflertion, yet the arch which divides the old chancel from the body of the church is doubtlefs of greater antiquity, being in the exadt form, though larger, of the Saxon arch over the North door, now flopped up, and the drawing whereof is inferted in plate VI : and there is reafon to doubt the authenticity of Domefday refpeding churches, it being well known there were many churches, in various parts of the kingdom, previous to that furvey, which are not noticed in it. The tower, at the Weft end of the church, from the buttreffes, feems to be of parallel date with the buildings of Hartfhill caftle, and Manceter church, being entirely of the fame conftrudiOn. It is of hewn ftone, and meafures 72 feet and upwards in height, and 18 feet by 17 feet fquare at thebaic, is very regular and well-built, and one of the belt towers for fo fmall a village in the county, if not the whole kingdom of England. There is a well ftair-cafe through the tower from the floor to the leads under the battlements, confining of 81 fteps. A tradition prevails in the parilh that the ftone of which this tower was built was got out of a pit in the center of a piece of ground of 40 acres and upwards, lately put together, and now known by the name of the New Park ; but, though the under ftratum of this country is a rock, nothing appears pofitively to juftify this idea, it being more probable the ftone was brought from Whitacre, being the fame whereof the new chancel is 4 built. OF MANCETER. 137* built. The roof of the body of the church is now leaded ; but it manifeftly appears, that the original roof was tiled. It is fupported like that of Weftmialler hall wiih brackets and tranfverfe beams. The fecond on the North, and fourth on the South fide, are of ftone, the reft of wood. From an infcription upon one of the old ones, I. G. I. H, 171 6, the time of their ereffiion is fixed. Owing to decay and the damp weather in yln. 1^85, one of them, being rotted through, fell down, which occafioned a fearch into the remainder, and they were all found {o bad, that it was necelTary to place new ones in their ftead: the fecond on the South fide of which is infcribed T. A. I. A. 17S6. Had not the ftone brackets above mentioned aflifted, and the fearch been timely made, probably this might have caufed the utter iiiin of the whole body of the church. The pinnacles at the top of the tower were burft and loofened through age, and upon infpedlion not capable of repair ; they were therefore all four taken down in 1789, and new ones are now about to be eredted. In the vault made 1760 underneath the new chancel lie interred the bodies of the late J, Ludford, efq. and Juliana his wife, who both died in the 69th year of their age, on the days above mentioned ; alfo their eldeft daughter, above men- tioned ; and, by leave of the family, Mifs Chichefter, lifter of the now Earl of Donegall ; and the late vicar, Dr. Cotterel, both relations of the family, Dr. Cotrerel's mother being the lifter of Samuel Ludford, Efq. and Mifs Chichefter, the daughter of the lifter of the late Mrs. Ludford. The railed mounds on the South and North- Weft lide of the church-yard being in a verj ruinous condition, were by agreement of the perfons charged with the repair thereof rebuilt with ftone, 1789 ; the ftone be- ing given by the prefent J. Ludford, out of a quarry, about j 00 yards Eatl of the church, behind the manor- houfe in a field called the Woodwards* About 13 yards from the South-Eaft buttrefs *i38 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S buttrefs of the new chancel, ftands the bafe of one of the large crofTes ere(Sled in moft church yards before the Reformation, and dertroyed, with many other vahiable reUcs of antiquity, by the fooHlh and furious zeal of the Ohverian reformers of the Church of England. The fhaft and crofs, like moft others, are gone, though there now remains one in Fillongley church- yard, with a fhaft 7 feet high, and only the crofs broken. BRET'S HALL. <' In this parifh there is a place, though but of mean confi- deration, yet noted in the common maps by the name of 35t0t'2» l^dll^ from a family of that name, fometime owners thereof. Of which the firft, as I thinke, was IVilUam, unto whom Will de HardreJJjuIl (lord of ^Ufli^P in Hen. III. time) gave ' certain lands here : from which William defcended an- other William, unto whom the bifhop of this diocefe, in 34 Edw. III. granted licence ^ to have divine fervice celebrated, for the fpace of two years, in a private oratorie here. But from thefe Brets, who pofTeft ^ it till the beginning of Hen. IV. time (which is above two hundred years), it came "^ to Nicholas Palmer of ^ttllltOll in com. Leic, and by the' daughters and coheirs of William Falmer, to Harecourt and William Fouchin. Which IVilliam Poucbin, in 37 Hen. VIII. paft^ away his intereft to John Purefey, it being then reputed a mannour. Whereupon in 1 4 Eliz. ■' partition was made betwixt the faid Johi and George Harecourt, To which John Purefey fucceeded Micbaell-, who fold^ liis part thereof unto John Wbite^ of Bujhy\ in %^t\{X^tX%\Xt^ ' Ex autog. penes G. Ludford. * Strett. f. 3. b, ' Ex autog. penes Thomam White. * Ibid. 5 ibid. * Ibid. ' Ibid. !Ibid. [la OF IMANCETER. 139" [In this family it continued till the 15th of December, 1658, when Thomas White tlie elder, and Ellen his wife, and Thomas White the younger, paffed it by indenture, bearing fimilar date, with other hereditaments, to William Thornton, of Manceter ; and in Hillary t6rm, 1658-9, a fine was levied of one meflliage, two cottages, three gardens, two orchards, 20 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pafture, 7 acres of wood, and com- mon of pafture for all cattle in Bret's Hall, Anfley, Hartlhill, and Stockingford ; wherein William Thornton aforefaid was plain- tiff, and Thomas White the elder, and Ellen his wife, and Tho- mas White the younger, and Francis Bacon, clerk, and Barbara his wife, deforcients. The faid William Thornton, on the 3d of April, 13 Charles II. and A. D. 1661, conveyed it to John Stratford, efq. of Horfton Grange, in the parifli of Nun Eaton ; whofe defcendant Francis Stratford, late of Merevale, efq. on the loth of 06lober, 6 Geo. II. A. D. 1732, exchanged it for a fpring wood, called Hoare-park, in the hamlet of Bentley and ' parifli of Shuftoke, and in confideration of ^.180. with the late John Ludford, efq. whofe fon John above mentioned in Anfley is now pofTefTor of it. . " . .1 The iite, as is hereafter obferved, as well as moft of the de- mefnes, are inclofed in the park at Anfley Hall. Part of the dwelling-houfe and the oratory above-mentioned, were ftanding at the time it was purchafed by the late Mr. Ludford : it was furrounded by a moat, which now remains, though divided into two parts ; the fides of the N. E. part of which were raifed, . and the whole enlarged fome years ago, and carried round an adjacent piece of land, fo as to form a complete ifland ; in the centre of which flands a Chinefe temple, built A. D. 1767, from the 2d figure in plate VI. of Sir WiUiam Chambers's Chi- nefe deligns ; and in a cell underneath is ere6^ed the monument «T of *i4o HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES of the Purefoys : a drawing whereof is engraved in Dngdale's Hiftory of Caldecote', fig. 4; and which was pulled down and thrown away into the church-yard when the church was re- paired about 1766; from whence it was removed in 1778, in order to be preferved in its prefent fituation. The South-weft part of the moat ftill retains its proper name;^ and about 17 yards Weft of it is a well of very good fpring water, 31 yards deep, which is always full to the top, and in wet weather runs over. The houfe and oratory were pulled down about the year 1750, and the ftones of the oratory re- moved into the old gardens of Anftey Hall, where in a fmall dale they w^ere formed into a cell for an hermitage, and at pre- fent remain fo. The late poct-lauicat, Mr. Warton, wrote the annexed copy of verfes there at the tim.e mentioned at the top of them. Verses, written by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, of Trinity- College, Oxford, and left under a Stone in the Hermitage, at Anfley Hall, in Warwickfhire, in April, 1758. I. Beneath this ftony roof reclin'd, I footh to peace my penfive mind ; And while to ftiade my lowly cave, Embowering trees their umbrage wave ; i And while the maple diQi is mine. The beechen cup unftain'd with wine : I fcorn the gay licentious crowd. Nor heed the toys that deck the proud. II. Within my limits lone and ftill. The blackbird fings in artlefs trill : * Ed. Thomas, yol, II. p. 1098 j & Ed. Dugd, 1656; p. 790, Faft OF MANCETER. ^. i4i» Faft by my couch, cogenial guell, The wren has built her moffy neft ; From fecial fcencs, by Nature wife, To Ivirk, with innocence, flie flies, Here hopes in fafe repofe to dwell. Nor ought fufpedls the fylvan cell. ■ III. At morn and eve I take my round, To mark how blows my flowery mound, And every budding primrofe count. That trimly paints my blooming mount ; * ' Or o'er the fculptures, quaint and rude, . _ .-^ Which deck my gloomy folitude : I teach, in many a wreath to ftray, Fantaftic ivy's gadding fpray. IV. While fuch pure joys retirement wait, :: . . Who but would fmile at guilty ftate ? Who but would wi(h his holy lot. In calm Oblivion's thoughtful grot? , . :_ Who but would caft his pomp away, ' - To take my ftafF and mantle gray, And to the world's tumultuous ftage Prefer the peaceful Hermitage ? " T. W. M O N W O D E. ' " This lying on the Weft fide of 2iti^t^i and in the fame parifh, had heretofore the reputation of a mannour ; for by that name did Sir yobn de Hardre/hull call it in 39 Edw. III. at which time he fettled it ' with i^nCIep and J^artirCfl^ttU in the hands of certain feoffees ; and fo by records' of later time, hath ' Ex autog. penes W. Sheldon ar. ^ Clauf. 15 Edw. IV. in d. m. 17. Efc. 22 Edw. IV. n. 6. *T 2 it *142 HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES it often been termed : but as it was originally a member of ^llECp* fo is it now deemed to be ; no part (that I know) re- taining the name, but a piece of wafte ground lying on the utmoft fldrt thereof, called £^OUia)DDe %tt,' [Though, as Sir William Dugdale obferves, there is no part of Anfley retains the name of Monwode, except Monwode Lee, yet this is ovving more to the lands having been veiled in one family for a number of years, and conveyed with other parts of Anfley, than for want of veftiges of the ancient manor ;. both the Hardrefliulls and Colepeppers being ftyled above, on p. 60, lords of the manor of Monwode ; and Nature feems to have left a boundary to the manor, when Tradition is filent : a direct line drawn North from Anfley-mill to Hoare-park, cut- ting off a corner of the parifli of Anfley, containing about 400 acres, and bounded nearly all round by lanes, which probably was the whole of the manor. Within this boundary are two places, which, from their names, appear to have been capital mahfions, the one now deftroyed called the Moat-houfe, and the moat of which ftill remains on the South lide of Monwode Lea, a lliort way after you enter it from Anfley church ; and the other, now called the Old-houfe, with two pieces of land adjacent, called the Great and Little Paddock. And here it is obfervable, that either our anceftors frequently changed their manfions ; or capital houfes were much more numerous formerly ; as within the parifli of Anfley, befides thefe two and Bret's Hall, there are no lefs than three others which appear to have been fuch, viz. the manor houfe of Anfley, fituate at the church-end; a houfe called New Hall, fituate upon the Colliery ; and the prefent capital manfion, of Anfley HalL] An/ley^ OF M A N C E T E R. J43» Anjle)\ like moil: other places in England, owing to the per- petual variation of the Englilh language in former times, has "been called by different names. The following is the copy of Domefday as far as concerns this place : W A P. W I C S C 1 R E.. "'> XV. Terra Comitiss^ Godevje in Coleshelle no.. Ipfa Gomitifla tenuit in Ardreshille 7 H^nslei ii . hid. 't i . _- '7 . H Tra . c . VII car . Ibi funt xiii . utti cu . v . car . Ibi vi . ac pti. "Valuit . iiii . lib . Modo . c . folid.. , • »; : .•.. Here it is called Iianjlei\ in Edon, Anfeley\ by Speed, Auntkyi in the old Manerial Court Rolls, Anceley ; and in old deeds of the Hardrefiiulls, Anjele^ Ainjley, Anejlkye^ Anjleky, Anejlley^ Aiiajleley^ and Anjley. The name it is called by in Dugdale^. and has ufually gone by, except in the Court Rolls, where Anceley is ftill made ufe of, but never Annejley, which is not only a family name, but the name of feveral other places in England ; whereas An/ley or Anceley is only applied to this place,, and no where elfe that is known. The derivation appears to be from the Saxon word HEAN *, Hgnifying altus, or high, and LIE -f-, which in the Britifli is the fame as locus in Latin ; and in the Saxon Ley lignifieth ground untilled, as ufed above in Monwode Lea : fo that the fignifica- tion differs very little from Arley, to which it joins, and is much higher in point of fituation; that being called by Sir William Dugdale locus altus. It is fltuated in the Hemlingford hundred of the county of Warwick, 52 degrees 31 minutes North of the equator, and in I degree 34 minutes Weft longitude of London, from whence * See Dugdale, p. 80. • ^j- Ibid. p. 67. it *i44 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S it is diflant by the N. W. road 105 miles ; 13 miles N. from Coventry, both through Nun Eaton and Fiilongley ; five from Nun Eaton; 23 miles W. of Leicefter ; 7I miles E. of Colef- hill ; 17I from Birmingham ; 19 miles South of Litchfield, through Kingfbury and Fafeley ; and 1 3 from Tamworth by ditto, nearly the whole of which is turnpike-road. That through. Anfley from Nun Eaton to Whitacre was eredted by a<5t of Par- liament, the ift of June, 1762. It was anciently, as is obferved in Hartfliill, a part of the foreif of Arden ; and its prefent ap- pearance juftifies the idea, the S. W. part of the parifli carrying now much the appearance of fome of the partially cultivated parts of North America, according to the obfervalions of gen- tlemen who have been there. Its fituation is very high, being a kind of unequal plain on the top of an extenfive hill, which terminates here towards the South ; at Hartfliill and Oldbury to the Eart ; at Merevale to the North ; and at Over Whitacre to the Weft. The form of the parifh is nearly oval ; the longeft diameter of which along the turnpike-road is 4 miles, and the breath about three. It contains 2869 acres and upwards, according to a furvey taken in 1759; and by a furvey of the inhabitants taken by the prefent vicar anno 1784., it then contained 568 perfons, of whom only 4 (Roman CathoHcs) diffented from the Church of England. There are here 1 1 1 houfes, and 1 1 full teams kept. The parilh regifter begins in the year 1637 ; the number of baptifms to the year 1656 was 289 ; marriages 48 ; and burials 71. From 1688 to 1707, baptifms 246, marriages 47, and bu- rials 198. From OF MANCETER. "; 145* From 17 31 to 1750, baptifms 235, marriages 67, and bu« rials 163. From 1760 to 1779, baptifms 435, marriages 100, and bu- rials 245. From 2780 to 1789, baptifms 220, marriages 4o> and bu- rials 157. It is mentioned above in the account of the manor and parilli, copied from Sir William Dugdale's Warwicklhire, that this place is joined with Hartfliill in the Conqueror's furvey ; upon which it is to be obferved, that the conftable of Anfley, chofen annu- ally the day after Chriftmas-day, at the manor houfe of Anfley, by the parifhioners, is alio the conrtable of Hartfliill ; from which it appears, that the conftablewick is a more ancient divi- lion than manors or parifhes. The manor is valued in Domefday at 100 fliillings, being a knight's fee ; and is now, including the value of the woods and mines, not far off 3000 pounds. There are about 50 acres of woodland flill preferved in different parts of the pariHi, as fpring wood ; but moft of the hedge-rows abound with oak and zih, to the growth of which the foil feems naturally adapted, and which occafions the foreft appearance above-mentioned. The reft of the land is moftly arable, though there are fome good upland meadows and paftures, but very little of what the gra- ziers call prime-land (except about 50 acres in the manor of Bret'S'hall) ; it bears very good crops of wheat and oats ; but is not fo favourable to barley, being naturally ftrong land inclin- able to a marley clay. About half a mile from the North-eaft fide of Anfley-hall lies the mine of coals'"'- mentioned in the deeds, page 138 ; which in this parifh confifts of upwards of 200 acres ; but the vein con- tinues into Nun Eaton South and Oldbury North ; and for * See the zd deed of the Hartlhills, on p. 137 — 138, under the word Carbo Maris. many *7^6 HISTORY AND ANT I Q^U I T I E S many miles both ways to the borders of Stafford (liire, and be- yond the city of Coventry, they have been feveraJly worked for many years, and fupply all this country Vvith coals. Upon the Eaft or BafTet lide of the coal runs a vein of iron ftone, which W'as worked formerly, but not of late years j and a fe\v hundred yards from the South or deep fide of the coal, and on the South- weft fide of Anfley-hall, lies a vein of lime-ftone, which likewife accompanies the coal into the neighbouring parillies : the ma- nor of Anfley being in this place the narroweft, and not far exceeding half a mile in breadth. The lime is ufed not only in building, but alfo as a manure for the land, to which, being applied in fufficient quantities, it is a beneficial improvement. The coal-pits are from 38 to 88 yards deep; and the lime- pits about 15 yards. At Anfley-hall, which is fituated between the two delfs of coal and lime (though the miners have con- jeilured there might be coal under it at a very great depth), there are feveral wells of excellent water at 33 feet; and what is very remarkable, at the new houfe about half a mile Weft of it, a well was funk, and no water could be found till they got to 80 feet deep; and at a cottage between the two houfes, the cottager, a collier, attempting to fink a well, nearly ruined him- felf, and was obliged to give up the purfuit, not having come to water at the depth of the new houfe well, and the damp pre- venting him proceeding farther ; and what renders this ftill more remarkable, there is at an old farm-houfe, not above 100 yards Weft of the new houfe, a draw-well of good water not exceed- ing three yards deep; ai.d the fpiing of which is fo ftrong, that it frequently runs over the top. About the year 1750, the late John Ludford, Efq; enciofed a fmall piece of ground for a park, which he afterwards enlarged to 100 acres, the prefent fize, con- taining the fite, demefnes, and part of the manor of Bret's -hall, 4 and O F I\I A N C E T E R. j^y* and alio part of the parifli of Nun Eaton ; in this has frequently occurred the circumitance mentioned by Dr. Plot, in his Iliftory of Staffordlliire, ch, VII. kct. 63, p. 25CS, viz. " Fawns call with " their lower jaws fo fliort that they cannot fuck ; and fo con- " fequently all die; all of which are white, as if white was an *' imperfection in animals, as well as in plants." Dr. Plot is certainly right in his conjecture, that they are all white which are born fo imperfect; and it is further obfervable, they are al- ways buck fawns ; they have been brought home alive, and tried to be fuftained by cows milk without fuccefs ; but the Do£tor is certainly miltaken in his idea of white being an im- perfe(5tion in deer, becaufe there are many milk-white deer in this park ; and it has been obferved, both in the bucks and does, that they are larger and fatter deer when killed than any of the other colours. Two other circumftances in Natural Hiftory which have hap- pened at this place may not be unworthy obfervation, viz. In the year 178 1 an ewe flieep yeaned one ram-lamb; and in about eight or ten days after, which was the 3d of April, flie again yeaned two lambs, viz. one ewe and one ram. The firft-yeaned lamb and the ewe-lamb were left with her, and the youngeft ram-lamb was taken from her and reared a kade ; the ewe-lamb died in four or five days, the other lamb being too ftrong, and taking all the ewe's milk from it : the ram-lamb which was reared a kade, was killed on the 21 it of December, 1785, as a wether (after being flieared four times], and weighed 1 1 1 pounds when dreffed. On Monday the 17th of May, 1 7 84, three rearing cow-calves about three months old got into a drying yard, where there was a yew-hedge (out of the croft into which they were turned to grafs by a gate being left open), and, as is fuppofed, eat very -*U plentifully *i4S HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S plentifully of the yew ; they were fuckled as ufual in the after- noon ; and the next morning, viz. Tiiefday, the 1 8th of May, two were found quite dead ; and the third dying, to which they gave a few fpoonfuls of oil, and it did not live half an hour after. They were opened and fkinned, and the entrails thrown upon a muck-hill, where the dogs got to them, and eat fome of them ; and a Dane-dog went out with the fervants and horfes, and was obferved to drink at a fpring, foon after which he was feen to leap up at the horfe's nofe as if to catch a fly from it, which he had frequently ufed to do, and dropped down dead immediately; upon bringing him dead home, being much alarmed for the fafety of a favourite blood-hovind, and not then having been informed of the other dog dying immediately after drinking, fome fvveet oil it was thought might relieve him, and a common drenching horn full was accordingly given him, in about five minutes after which he died in much the fame way as the other dog before. Many other dogs had eaten of the fame entrails, but none elie received any hurt, particularly two pointers, who were feen to eat voracioufly of them, one of which is ftill living, and the other died of old age in January, 1790. The method which is fuppofed rendered yew innoxiovis to them was, the moment the effedt of liquid was perceived by the death of the other two dogs, they were tied up and kept without water or any liquid for 24 hours ; and this leems to prove that yew is innoxious to the ftomach unlefs thrown into a ftate of fermentation by liquids drank after it. The yew-leaves quite green were found both in the entrails of the calves and the dogs killed by it; and they were perforated through with fmall holes, which certainly occa- fioned their death. The OF M A N C E T E 11. 149' The torrent, or rivulet, mentioned by Dugdale, rifes in the moft Northern corner of the parifli ; from wlience it runs in a South diredion to a pool called Wagftaff's pool, where it unites with another fmall ftream, which bounds part of the North-weft fide ; and from thence runs in almoft a dire6l line North-weft for nearly two miles to Anfley-mill, which it works ; and from thence turns again Southwards, and forms not only the South-weft boundary of this part of the parilh and manor, but alfo of the two hundreds of Hemlingford and Knightlow. Upon the entrance of Arley, it is united with an- other fmall brook, which rifes at Nuthurft-Heath, and forms likewife this boundary line between the two parilhes and hundreds. There are feveral other fmall brooks in the parifh, one of which rifes near the new park above mentioned, and runs Eaft till it joins a third, which rifes on the other fide of Nuthurft-Heath, and forms the South bounds on this fide. At the jundion of thefe two ftreams (as \vell as at a fmall diftance up a fliort brook, which falls into the Mill-brook before it en- ters Arley), there are ftill remaining cinders of iron ftone, from M'hich it appears there anciently has been two fmall fmithies at thefe places for the melting of the iron ftone, though no other tradition of them remains. A little lower on this ftream a fourth joins it, which rifes not far from Anfley Hall, and forms the South and Eaft bounds between this manor and the manor of Stockingford, in the parifli of Nun Eaton ; to which place thefe united ftreams continue their courfe, and fall into the Anker. A fifth rifes in Bret's Hall wood, and continues its courfe to Nun Eaton, but in a different direcStion. A fixth rifes on the North Eaft fide the colliery, and forms the bounds be- tween here and Oldbury and Hartfliill ; this alfo runs to Nun Eaton (but in another courfe the greateft part of the way), being *U 2 firft *i5o HISTORY AND ANTICLUITIES firft joined by the Bret's Hall brook, and then by the Nuthnrft Heath brook, within half a mile of the junction with the Ankor. A feventh ftream rifes at Birchley Heath, and forms the bounds between Anfley and Bentley North-weft till it enters the parilli of Over Whitacre, through which it runs, and unites with the Bourne, near Whitacre, Furnace End. Infcriptions OF MANCETER. iji» Infcripdons in the Church *. 1. Upon a plate of brafs, fixed on a marble grave-flone in this church : ©rate pro animabtts Joljanrtc, que fuit tiror Kobertt palmer, ntipcr cc &font* Stanton genttlman, unius fororum iuLlilUclmi 15ret nitpcr De aiiffelc\? gcntilman, ac pro aiiimatiiis io^annts ^ Gli^abett) Ubcrorum Dictt Hobcrti t Sjoljannc ; que quu Hem 3|oljatma obitt ultimo Die menOs jTctobriB anno Domini ^illefimo CCCiZEttrr. quorum animabus propitictur SDcus ;amcn. iI3ec non pro bono &atu cujufoam jKobcrti, ?iKHiUtcImi, JaicarDi, l^cnrict, 3]oljaitne, Kocofe, $ ^jrsarettc, filiorum f fiUarum preDictorum Koberti i Joljanne. 2. In a window on the North-fide of the church is this infcriptlon : £)rafe pro bono ftatn Uoliaiinis JluDforD, i ^licie tjrcris. 3. On a brafs plate fixed to the wall of the church : " John Perkins, gent, who departed this life 19 of April 1618, and lieth buried in the middle alley of this church, did devlfe by his will in writing unto William Holbech, gent. George Ludford, Efq. John Vere, Thomas Sadler, and William Hill, and their heirs, two clofes called the Newes, upon trufl that they and their heirs (hall yearly upon the fifth day of November, in Anceley church, prefently after morning prayer, give and diflribute the rents and profits thereof unto the mofi: poor, needy, aged, and impotent perlbns dwelling and abiding in the parilh of Anceley ; that when three of them fiiall be dead, a new feoffement to be made to the moft fufficicnt and honed freeholders of Anceley, by the furvivors, upon like truft ; and fo to be renewed from time to time for ever. Pietatis ergo hoc gratje raemori^ dedicavit Bjrnabus Holbeach." 4. On flat ftones : " George Ludford,- Efq. was buried here A. 1627. And alfo John ludford, Efq. his fon, A. 1675. James Ludford,Efq. departed this 1 ife Decern. 29, A. 1 699, in the 44th year of his age. Thomas Ludford, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxon, departed this life the ift Sept. A. 1687, in the 28th year of his age. Underneath was firft interred Thomas eldeft fon of George Ludford, Efq. who died young." . ;r * Of thefe infcriptions N°' i. ancr?. were in Diigdale's edition of 1656; 3, 4, J, 6, were added by Dr. Thomas ; the others by. Mr. Bartlett. , ..•jjffif^rnud ?: 'He,z HISTORYAND ANTI Q_U I T I E S 5. At the bottom of the church * : *' Hie jacet Francifcus Bacon, SacrjB Theologice Profeflbr, Eccl. Lichfeld Pra:bendarius, Hujus Eccl. Vicar. Obiit an. Dom. MDCLXXXir. annoque set. lxxxiv." 6. In the chancel, on a fquare pedeftal of black marble adorned with an urn, thefe arms quarterly ; i. Azure, a chevron between three boars heads Or, 2. Or, on a chevron Azure three leopards' heads of the firft. 3. Gules, two bars Or, 4th as ifl impaling, Sable, a chevron between three owls Argent. *' To the memory of Johu Ludford of Anfley, fecond fon of George Ludford, of Wirherley In the county of Leicefter, Efq. Who married Catherine, daughter of James Prefect of Warwick, gent, by whom he had iffue five fons and three daughters, viz. Jane, John, James, Michael, Thomas, Catherine, George, and Merial. Jane married Mr. Thomas Bracebridge, vicar of Kettleby in Leicefterfhire, all the reft dying young or unmarried. James, the longert; furvivor, a gentleman of great ingenuity, good learning, fingular piety, did, by his laft will and teftaraent, conftitute his nephew Thomas youngeft fon of Mr. Bracebridge aforefaid, heir of all his lands, on condition that he afiumed the name of Ludford. The faid James departed this life December 29, 1699, in the 44th year of his age. Catherine the difconfolate relift of the faid John Ludford, Efq. as a teltimony of her dearelt affedlion to her hufband and children deceafed, and in this chancel interred, caufed this monument to be erefted, December 1700." 7. In the chancel, oppofite the other, on a fquare pedeftal of white ftatuary mar- ble adorned with an urn of black veined marble, with a gold phoenix at top, thefe arms, quarterly Azure a chevron between three boars heads Or. 2. Sable a chevron between three owls Argent. 3. Vairy Argent and Sable a fefs Gules. Fourth as firft. " M. S. Samuelis Bracebridge Ludford, arm. Nat. an. Salut. 1680 ; denat. 1727. Qui patrimonio in Ephebis orbatus, Et Thomffi tratri juniori pofthabitus, illius morte, Jacobo avunculo paululum fuperftitis, Res^avitas obtinuit. Fuit , jlle Incorrupta fide et amicitia. Paterfamilias indulgens ; Erga omnes humanitate fumma. Fidus reipublicos civis ; , * This epitaph is entirely gone, ftone and all. Quod OF MANCETER. 153* Quod autem officiorura fons eft, Et inftar omnium, Vera in Deum pietate, in Chriftum fide, Ejufque cupiens viia referre difciplinam, Ecclefiam Anglicanam priiricevse proxi:T,am prascipue coluit. Johannes B. Ludford fil. nat. max optiiTio patri L. M. M. P. 1761." 8. "To the memory of Elizabeth the eldeft daughter of John B. Ludford, Efquire, and Juliana his wife, youngeft daughter of Sir Richard Newdigare of Arbury, Baronet ; born 4 February i733-4> died loth May 174IJ and was bur'ed in the vault belonging ■ to the Newdigate family at Harefield in^Middlefex ; but removed to the vault here in Oftober iJ^S'" 9. Upon a tabltt over the vicar's feat : ** Sarah Ebdell died April 9, 1745, aged 25." 10. On a board affixed to the wall of the church: " Mary Oughton, widow, buried April 29th, 1713, gave five pounds to be paid to the vicar of Anfley, the intereft one year, for Primmers and Teitaments, tbe other for fnoes for poor children for ever. . , Tiie money is now laid out in rebuilding poors houfes, and the mterelt is to be paid by the overfe'ers, April 6, 1767." 1 1 . An atchieyqnent of John Stratford, Efq. of Merivale, [buried here Septem- ber 6, 1724,] in the chancel : Argent, a lion rampant Gules, upon 5 bars Sable, impaling Vert 3 horfes Argent. Crell, an a'med arm proper. .tli' *:S4 HISTORY AND ANTI Q_U IT I E S 12. Over the chancel door, before Mr. Stratford white-waflied it about 1736 at ke reqiielt of T. E. vicar, was this infcription ■'■■ : " Mr. Robert Stratford, gent, buried the 30th of Auguft, 1615, gave twenty {hillings yearly for ever to be given in bread to the poor of Ancelcy ; befides other gifts which he gave to the church." N. B. The bread was always given to the poor of Anfley on Good Friday, by Mr. Stratford of Merevale, and his father before him, &c. &c. &c. 13. Over the communion-table was written this text; " Matt. xi. 28, 29. Come unto me, all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you reft. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye (hall find reft unto your fouh." 14. Over the monument: " Prov. iii. 9. Honour the Lord with thy fubftance, and ** with the firft fruits of all thine increafe." Behind the monument: " Prov. iii. 3. Let not mercy and truth forfake thee " bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thine heart." 15. In the aile of the church : " Samuel Ludford, Efq. died Nov. 17, anno Domini 1727, aged 47 years. " Mrs. S;irah Ebdell, wife of Gilpin Ebdell, of Long Itchington, and daughter of Martin Holbeche, of Fillongley Hall, gent, departed this life April 9th, 1745, aged 25. Alfo Elizabeth their daughter, Auguft 5th, 1745, aged 4 Months." In the church-yard next the church-door : 1 . " Here lies the body of Elizabeth Oughton, the loving wife of Francis Oughton, of this parifli, who departed this life the 20th day of Dec. 1725, in the 77th year of her age." 2. " Here lieth the body of Thomas Power, who had iffue by Elizabeth his wife, three fons and two daughters, and departed this life April the 3d, anno Do- mini M. J. 17 16, aged 52 years." 3. " Here lieth the body of Arthur Higham, who deceafed this life June 7th, 1704, aged 59 years." 4. " To the memory of Elizabeth Power, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Power, late of Anfley, who departed this life Oftober 20, 17 14, in the 19th year of her age." • This infcription, and N" 13 and 14, are all gone, as the title exprefles. 9. " To OF MANCETER. *i55 5. " To the memory of F.d\va.rd Parker, who departed this life May 2jth, 1760. Alfo Sarah Parker, who departed this life Odober 27th, 1761, aged 38." 6. " To the memory of Elizabeth, the wife of Clement Bettridgc, of this paridi, who departed this life 1757, aged 66." 7. " Here lieth the body of the late Rev. Thomas Ebdcll, who was near thirty years vicar of Anfley ; he died Sept. 3, 1759, ag'^'^^ 69 — A moft faithful pafi;or, a good hufband, and a tender father. " The body of alfo Mrs. Mary Ebdell, his widow, who died Dec. 11, 1765, aged 85. 8. " Beneath this flone is depofited the body of Hannah Archer ; flie disparted this life January 16, 1782, aged 3+." 9. " In memory of John Day ; he departed this life Dec. 25, i/So, aged 65." 10. " Sacred to the memory of Ann, wife of Robert Smith, of Atherflone, and formerly of Birmingham; fhe died the igx^h of October, 1777, '" ^^^^ ^^'^ y^^"" °^ her age. Catherine their daughter died the 17th of Augufl, 1755, in her infancy. '• Alfo of Robert Smith, hblband of the above Am, died October 25, 1779, aged 66 years." 11. " In memory of Edward Ebdell -, he departed this life the 12th of June, 1785, aged 16 years. Boafl: not, Reader, of thy might, I was well at noon and dead at night." 12. Rebecca, daughter of Edward and Deborah Ebdell, who died April the 23, 1752." On the back : " Happy the babe, who, privileg'd by fate To fhorter labour, and a lighter weight, Receiv'd but yeffcrday the aC\ of breath, Order'd to-morrow to return to death." 13. " Here lies the body of Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Smart, and daughter of liichard Lucas, gent, by Rebecca his wife ; fhe departed this life Augutl the loth, in the year of our Lord 1767." 14. " Here lieth the mortal remains of Elizabeth Barns, wife of Thomas Barns, of Anfley; {he departed this life February the 13th, 1771, in the 39th year of her age. A loving wife and tender parent." «X 15. " Here *i56 HISTORY AND ANTl Q^U I T I E S ir. " Here lieth the body of Edward Jordan; he departed this life NovembcP the 19th, 17S7, aged 37 years." 16. " The dead Jhall be rat fed incorruptible." " To the merr.ory of Sarah, the daughter of Andrews, of White- cliurch in Shropfnire, and widow of Roger Hickfon, who was born 17 14, and died the 13th of March, 1781. She came into fervice as houfe-keeper at Anfley- Hall in 1747, which fhe quitted on her marriage, the 29th of September, 1749 ; and reaffumed on the 5th of March, 1760, after her hulband's death, and con- tinued in it till whhin a fhort time of her death. John Ludford, Efq; whom fhe appointed her executor, caufed this to be erefled 1786." 17. '* To the memory of Elizabeth, the daughter of Philip Long and Ann his wife (daughter of George Clare, late of Atherftone, gent.) who was born the nth of September, 1723, at Wrexham in Denbighlhire, and died the loth of July, 17S3. She came into fervice at Anfley-Hall, on the 26th of September, 1750, and ■continued therein to her death. John Ludford, Elq. her Executor, and whom fhe nurfed in his infancy, caufed this to be ereded, 1789." 18. " John, elded fon of Charles and Elizabeth Nixon, born the nth of June, 1788, died the iSth of January, 1789." *^* P. *i5[. N° I. The marble grave-ftone is gone; but the brafs plate is now in the library at Anfley-Hall. N° 2. is partially lofl ; the refl in the South window of the old chancel. F. *i52. N" 5. entirely gone, flone and all. P. *i54. N° 12 and 14. gone as the title exprefTes. Plate XV. Figures N° 1,2, and 4, gone ; N° 3 now in the South window of the old chancel above-mentioned, p. 125. Befides OF MANCETER. #137 Befides the charities above mentioned, it appears from the donation return, made according to Ai5l of Parliament on the 28th of September, 1786, there are the following, viz. Saint John Tvvycrofs, heretofore vicar of Anlley (prior to the year l6o5) gave 20 marks to be laid out in the purchafe of land, the yearly produce of which was to be expended as follows : one moiety or half part to be diftributed amongft the poor of Anflcy yearly, by the truftees, within eight days of Chriflmas or Ealler ; the other moiety in amending and repairing the hi"h- ways moft needful to be repaired ; which fum being encreafed by theparifli to ^.17. was layed out in the purchafe of an eilate, now rented at jC-io. per ann. bhaktfpear alfo becpieathed the fum of ^(".3. at what time is unknown : tbe intereft to be given yearly to the poor of Anlley in bread. The fum of 6 J". 8^. yearly was alfo charged upon a fmall cottage and croft, late in the occupation of George Izon, to find bell-ropes for the church-bells; but by whom is not now known ; which cottage and croft, about 1765, was purchafed of theparifli by the late John Ludford, Efq. for ^.30; which, together witli Shakefpear's and Oughton's gifts, as above men- tioned, was expended in rebuilding the poors' houfes, and the income is now paid by the overfeers of the poor. The truftees of all the above charities (except Mr. Stratford's) at the time of the donation returns w^ere, John Ludford, Efq. John Wagftaff, John Barber, John Johnfon, Thomas Chcfliire, William Topp, Richard Harrifon, Robert Harrifon. X 2 Tlic *J38 HISTORY AND A N T J Q^U FT I E S The nioiety of Mr. Tvvycrofs's eftate, ai.led by a confiderable fl-jare of the income of Mr. Perkins's, Has, lince the year 1743, been given to the poor inhabitants of Anfley annually upon St. Thomas's-day, at Anlley-Mall ; and the remainder of the rent of Mv. Perkins's ellate is expended' in paying furgeons' bills, buying cloathing-for the poor, and giving them other occalional relief aC the difcretion of the truilccs. The poors rates of Aniley, as in moft other places, have lately encreafed very much. ]n the year 1734? they amounted only to I 2 lixpenny levies of about ^T. 3. each; in the year 1760, 24 levies were granted ; in 1780, 48; and in 17 S3, 1784, and 1785, the, three years returned j according to the A(5t of Par- hament before mentioned, 72 each, being j(". 2 1 7 • 10s. in eacli year ; at which rate they have generally continued lince. The land-tax charged upon this parilli is ^^ 17 5. 12 J", ^d. an- nually. .Since the account given on p. 136, there has been another more ancient infcription difcovered upon the centre of the beam which fupports the roof over the Saxon arch, mentioned p. 135, viz. " 1633, T. S. — C. S." There are on the fides of this in- fcri[irion above the arch, two atchievements of the late John Ludford, Efq. and Mrs. Ludford, viz. Quarterly, Ludford and Bracebridge, Azure, a chevron between 3 boars heads, Or, and vaire. Argent and Sable, a feile Gules, impaling Newdigate, Gules, 3 lions gambs rafed Argent ; that on the North lide has alfo the Ludford crell, a boar's head couped, Or, on a wreath. The churchwardens in 1716 were John Griffin and John Har- rifon 'j in 1 7 86, Thomas Atkins and John Archer. See p. 135. Extrafted OF M A N C E T r. R. *ii9 Extradcd from the fecoiul Old Pariih Regiflcr. Jan. 25, 1747. On Monday laft died at Polcfworth, aged 77, the Rev. Mr. Cotterell, vicar of that place. It would be injuftice to the memory of fo valuable a perfon, not to mention, upon this occafion, that his neighbourhood has loll: a moft agreeable compa^ nion, a found divine, and a primitive Chrifiian. He was a man of unwearied application to the bufiiiefs of his function, of great hofpitality and munificence, of fcricl juilice and unbiaffcd inte- grity ; an affe6tionate hufband, an indulgent parent, a kind re- lation, a worthy matter, a lincere friend, a father to the poor — in every part of his conduifl exemplary and great : but v»hat eminently dillinguidied him, was a peculiar faculty of reafoning upon all points of learning, and particularly upon the do6trines of the Chriftian Religion, which he defended with fuch becom- ing and aportolical zeal, and withal, with fuch clear and perfua- five eloquence, as rendered him one of the mod fliining orna- ments of his profeffion, and the delight of all who had the hap- pinefs of his converfation and acquaintance. His virtues had no allay of aufteric pride or affedation ; but, op the contrary, all the heightening and improvement which they could receive from the greateft humility, courtefy, politenefs, and fweetnefs of difpofition. He died beloved, honoured, and lamented by all who knew him. N. B. He was above 30 years vicar of Anlley, and a- great benefador to the houfe, garden, and glebe; and removed from hence to Polefworth about A. D. 1727. Mofes Cotterell, LL. D. only fon of the above worthy father, was inftituted to the vicarage of Anfley, July 19, 177 i ; and was buried in the vault under the chancel, March 7, 1774? ^Y ^cave of the late John Ludford, Efq. . Ansley *i6o HISTORY AND ANTTCLUITIES Ansley Church. Patron! Vicaris. Abbatiffa et conventus de Polefworth. D. Phillippus de Somerville hac vice. AbbatifTa et conventus de Polefworth. The. Cope de Polefworth ratione conceff. abbatiffse et conventus de Polefworth. Philip, et Maria K. et Regina. Elizabetha R. Angl. Rich. Chamberlain, arm. Rex. Incumbentes, & tempora inftitutionis. Dom. Nicholaus. D. Rad de Thamworth, cap. an. 1248. ' Roger de Eton cap. John fil. Ric. de Pollefworth x cal. Mart. 1 3 15, vacat' par mort' Pvogeri de Eton die domin. proxime pofl: fefl.' Sti Hil- larii.* Johannes de Warton cap. iii cal. Oft. 1349. (v. p. r. Ric. le Graunger.) ^ Tho. Fraunceys pbr. xix Jan. 1430. * Henry Pynfon pbr. xxvi Feb. 1430. V. p. r. Thorn. Fraunceys. ' Will. Haghmond (Rr. deRcthyng Plum- bea Lond. dioc.) in Dec. 1440. per- inut. cum Henr. Pynfon.* Walter Styrton pbr. xi Mart. 1444. ' Johan. Oredakyr cap. iv Jul. 1481.V. p. r. Walt. Styrton. ^ D. Edward. Bower xx Junii, p. m. Johan. Tvvycrofs.9 Thomas Wilfon cler. vii Nov. p. r. Georgii Chapman. '° Henr. Hondys cler. xv Jul. 1557. " Robert Coope cler. xn Jul. 1561, [v. p H. Hondys] poftea deprivatus. '* Thomas Arnfeild cler. xxvii Jul. 1574.'' Rob. Cope II Mart. 1575. '" Will. Foxe cler. xxii Dec. 1591. '5 Jac. Bufh cler. x Junii, i6co. "" Francis Bacon, A. M. xiii Sept. 1625, Francis Bacon, xiv Jan. 163S, ob. 1682*. '7 Samuel Garmfton cler. xi Mali, i682.'7 1543. i554> V. r. * In the parifli regifter I find the following note : This book was returntd by William Wilfon late regiller of Andey to me Francis Bacon vicar of Anfeley, April 2^, i66i. This William Wilfon had afted as regifter from the ait's taking place by wliich the late vicar was difpoffefled. ' Ex autog. pen. dec. et capit. Lichf. •* Heyw. f. 21;. b. ' Hales, f. 29. a. "^ lb. f. 30. a. '* Overton bund. C. » lb. ' Sampf. f. 40. b. '3 lb. f. 4S. b. '7 Offic. Prim. ' North b. f. Ji. a. ' lb. f. 43. a. Sampf. et B. f. 8. b. " lb. f. 10. a. '* lb. f. 46. b. '5 Overton bund. E. ' Langton. f. 40. a. ' lb. f. 39. a. Ricardus OF MANCETER. *i6i Ricardus Newdigate. Robert Waldroa cler. A. M. xvi Nov. 1682. ■' Rex. Robert Waldron cler. A. M. xvii Nov. 1682. Rex et Regina. Joh. Robinfon cler. A. M. viii Apr. 1690, per ceflf. Rob. Waldron. Mofes Couerell cler. A. M. iv Junii, 1694, per ceff. Joh. R.obinlon. Rex. Will. Nellon cl. Nov. 1727, per ceff. Mofes Cotterell. Thomas Ebdell cl. Odt. 1 731, per mort. Will. Nelfon. Thomas Ebdell cl. Dec. 2, 1759, per mort. Thorn. Ebdell. Mofes Cotterell, LL.D. July 19, 1771, per mort. Thom. Ebdell. Hen. Homer cl. M. A. Mar. 1774, per mort. Mofis Cotterell. Jof. Hutchinscl. B. A. i4Maii, I779,per ceff. Hen. Homer. »» Cart. Sol, A Terriei ' i62 HISTORYAND ANTI Q^U I T I E S A Terrier of the profits belonging to the Vicarage of Anfley, in the County of Warwick and Diocefe of Litchfield and Co- ventry, Aiiguft 12, 1775. The parfonage-houfe, with a barn and flables, fold-yard, and garden, about 3 roods. Church-yard about one acre. N. B. a fraall bit added thereto for convenience of accefs to water, is rented of John Ludford, Efq. by the vicar. Three clofes of pafiure, near to or adjoining the houfe, about 7 acres. Three other clofes of arable and pafture, called the Three Fields, lying Weft of the houfe, about 14 acres. The tythe-hay of two meadows near the houfe, one called the Izards, the other Oughton's Meadows. One fifth part of all the tythes of corn and grain throughout the parifa, brought home to the vicar by the impropriator. Payments yearly on the 12th of Auguft, in lieu of fmall tythes, called Lammas-dues, amounting to upwards of j[2/\.. per year. Surplice fees : marriages by bands 4J-. 6^. ; by licenfe 5J". ; burials i J". ; churching 4^. ; Eafter offerings ^d. per houfe. Clerk's wages ^. r . 1 oj". per year, paid by levy ; Eafter dues ^^d. per houfe ; marriages by banns iJ". ; by licenfe is. 6d.; biurials 2^. Signed, Henry Homer, Vicar. John Archer, T T .-Churchwardens. John Johnson, J N, B. A Terrier verbatim with the above was delivered into the bilhop's court at Colefliill, July 3, 1779, ^^^ ^Ifo 1783. Signed, J, Hutchins, Vicar. Thomas Atkins,! ^, JOHN Archer, J Churchwardens. Pedigree \ OF M A N C E T E R. 137 N° I. Anfley. Carta Willielmi dc HardredeflHill, tempore Flen. III. Sciant prefcntcs et futurl qnoJ ego Wilts de HardredeHiuU dedi, conccfli, et pre- fenii carta mea confirmavi Waltero de Anflcy clerlco, pro honiagio et fervicio fuo, ilia dua effarta in Anfley que idem Walter us habuic et effartavit p cefTionem diii lladulphi de Hardy quando fuit in cuftodia fua, que difta effarta C()ntiiiet fcpretn acras terre, et terram ilia quam Wilts Le Hoar effartavit tempore predict Radulphi, que continet una acram terre cum omnibus ptinentiis fuis. Habenda et tenendam eidem Waltero et heredibus fuis de me et heredibus meis libere et quiete, pacificc et hereditarie, cu omnibus libertatibus et liberis confuetudir.ibus infra villam ec extra, reddendo inde annuatim mihi et lieredibus meis prediftus Walterus et lie- redes fui oflo denarios et quatuor fagittas ad tres terminos anni, fcil' ad Pafcale Domini quatuor denarios, ad Pentacoltam quatuor fagittas, et ad Natalem Sanfti Johannis Baptift' quatuor denarios, pro omni fervicio feculari ; et ego predict' Wilts et heredes mei totam prediftara terram cum ptinent' fuis ficut predidtum eft pre- diclo Waltero et heredibus contra omnes genres ^p predido fervicio warantizabimus. Et quia volo quod hec mea donatio ftabilis et inconcuffa remaneat in ppetuum earn figilli mei munimine roboravi. Hiis teftibus, Hugo' de Mancefler, Hugo' de Cuiili, Wilto de Bafevill, Henric' de Liilebiirne, Hugo' de Lilleburne fii' fuo, Ingenulpho Le Defpenfer, Henric' de Lilleburne, juniore, Roberto de Caldecote, Hadulpho de Packinton, Henrico Le Defpenfer, Gervafio de Stockeford, et aliis. N. 13. The leal is gone. N" 2. Hartftiill, 24 Edw. L 1296. Carta Willielmi de Harderdefliull, prefat* Johann' filii. Sciant prefentes et futuri quod ego Wilts filius Johan' de Harderdelhull dedi, conceffi, et hac prefenti carta mea connrmavi Henrico Ynge, pro homagioet fervicio fuo, et pro triginta folid' quos mihi dedit in manibus, tres acras terre in common* de Wafto meo in Bofo de Hardrcdilhull, habend' et tenend' fibi et heredibus fuis et afTignatis fuis de ms ct heredibus meis et affignatis meis cum omnibus ptinentiis libere et quiete pacifice et heriditarie in ppetuum, reddendo inde annuatim mihi et heredibus meis duodecim denarios ad duos anni terminos, videl' ad Palcam lex de- narios, ad feflum Sti Michaelis fex denarios, pro omni fervicio exactato ct deman- dato, falvo forinfcco fervicio dift' terre ptinent'. Et ego Wilts et heredes mei diftos tres acras ter-re cij ptinentiis d\6\' Henrico et heredibus et ailignatis fuis p T prcdift' 138 HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S predift' fcrlptum contra omnes homines warainizabimus, acquietabimus, et defen-, tiemus. Siita contingat quod Carbo Maris fuper terram diet' Henrici inveiiiant, quod es'o Wilis ec heredes noflri fodere faciamus didta carbonem ad voluntatem noftr', et difto Henrico et heredibus et affignatis fuis bonam et plenam refutution* alibi in manerio de Hardredeiliul faciamus. In cujus rei tettimonium hijic prefenti fciipto figiUum meum appofui. Hiis teftib' Ricard' le Pleydur, Wilts Brian, Henric' le Brer, Ricard' de Ricardole Scot, Robert' Ynge, Henrico le Boteler. ■■" The feal^a lion rampant. N. B. He afterwards ufed a fhield of arms, viz. a crofs engrailed with, a mart- let in the firft quarter, to which Burton adds a baton. N° 3. Anfley. Carta predi£li Williel;ni de Hardeniull. Sciant prefentes et futuri quod ego Wills filius Johaiis de Hardefhul dedi et conceffi et hac. prefenti carta mea confirmavi Roberto Ynge, pro homagio et fervicio luo, et pro triginra folldos quos mihi dedit in manibus, duas acras et unam rodam terre cum ptinentiis de vallo meo de Bircheley, habend' et tenend' libi et heredibus fuis et affiguatis fuis de me et heredibus meis vel affignat' meis cum omnib' ptinentiis libere et quiete, pacifice, et hereditarie in ppetuum, reddendo inde annuatim mihi et heredibus meis novem denarios ad duos anni terminos, videlicet ad Pafcam qua- tuor denarios et unum obolum, et ad feftum Soorum Apofl' quatuor denarios et unum obolum pro omni fervicio . . . exadtato et demandato, falvo forinteco fervicio de didx' terra ptiuent'. Et ego Wills et heredes mei didas duas acras et unam rodam terre cu ptinentiis dicto Roberto, heredibus et affignat' p predift' fcriptum contra omnes homines warrantizabimus, acquietabimus, et defendemus. Et fi ita contingat quod Carbo Maris fuper dift' terram di£li Roberti inveniant, quod ego Wills et heredes mei fodere faciamus diftam carbonem ad voluntatem, noRram, et difto R.oberto et heredibus vel affignatis fuis bonam et plenam refti- tutionem alibi in manerio de Hardredefhul faciamus. In cujus rei lellimonium huic prefenti fcripto figillu meu appofui. Hiis teftibus, Ricard' le Pleydur, Wills Bryan. N. B. The feal is cut off", and on the back of the deed is the following in- dorfement, viz. Mem'. QS Walteru Colepeper armig' dns de Hardrefhul cartam figillat' fibi die Lune vicefimo quarto die Oftoli. a° Henr'Sexti xxxvi'". Penes Wilfm Ludferde filiu Henr' Ludferde de Anfele. N" 4. OF M A N C E T E R. 139 N' 4. Ainfly. ' • ^ Carta Johannis de Hardrefliiillj 13 Edw. II. Pateat univerfis p prefcntes me Johalim de HarJreniuU milirem conccfilfTe ^> rffe et'hered' meis, quod Henric' le Bret de Aneftlcye et hered' fui licitc et libere poflunt includere et inclaufum tenere fibi et hered' fuis iilam viam fubtus domum fuam que vocat' Brettes Lone, videlicet a cornciio farduns fui iifq' Ikinettes ftile, et ilbm viam foflf.ire, et in eadem aibores y)laiuare, domes edificarc, ct coniodum fuum inde facere pro voluntate fua, abfq' aliqua contradidione vel impedimento mei vel heredu meorum in ppetuum. In cujus rei leltimonium huic fcripto fi^illum meum appofui. Iliis teltibus, dno Petro de Lymefy et Ricardo de LymelV militib', Sacro de Rochford, Philippo de Hardrefliull, Henrico ^e Lyle, Willielmo Scot, Ricardo de Stanerton, Willmo de Felde, et aliis. Dat' apud Aneftleye die Sabat' prox' pofl: feftij hn£tov' Tiburtii et Valeriani, anno regni reg' Edwardi fil' regis Edwnrdi terciodecimo. A fmali oval feal with his arms, a chevron betwixt ten inartlets, furmounted with a helmet ornameoted. N' 5. Ainfley. Carta Johannis de Hardefliull, 24 Edw. III. Sciant prefentes et futuri quod ego Johannes de Hardefhull miles dns de Harde- fhull et Anfleley dedi, coiicTsfH, et hac prsfent* carta mea confirmavi Ricardo fil* Rog' Valle de Wychaker et Agneti uxori fue totum ilium meffuagium et omnes terras et tenementa cum omnibus fuis ptinent' quod et que Johan' Gybones quon- dam de me tenuit in villa de Anfteley. Habend' et tenend' totum prediflu mef- fuagium etvomnes prediflte terr^e et tenementa, cum omnibus fuis ptinentiis, Ricardo et Agneti uxori fuo et hercdibus de corpore ipfms legitime procreat', de me, he- red' vel afiignatis meis, libere, quiete, bene, et in pace. Reddendo inde annuatim mihi heredes vel alTignatis meis lex folidos argenti ad quatuor anni terminos in villa de Anfleley ufuaies conflitut' p equates portiones pro omnibus ferviciis. Et ego predidi' Johannes de Hardefnull miles et heredes mea totum predicfb' meffuagias et oranes predidias terras et tenementa, cum omnibus fuis ptinentiis, prediflo Ricardo et Agnet' uxori fue et heredib' de corpore predicSto rite et legitime procreat' contra omnes genres warantizjibimus. In cujus rei teflimonium huic prefenti carte figillij meum appofui; hiis tellibus, Ricardo de Pvarton, Henrico Inge, Johanni Scott, Gil- berto de Holbach, Johanne de le Viberes de Anfteley et aliis. Dat' apud Anfteley die in feft' Sti Martin epifcop' anno regni reg' Edwardi tertii poft conqueft. vicefimo quarto. The feal larger than the preceding, the knight on horfeback with his ftiield of arms, and his horfe caparifoned with the fame. T 2 . N^ 6. 140 HISTORY AND A N T I QJU I T I E S N' 6. Anfley. Sciant prefentes et futuri quod ego .Wills Brijn dom' ferviens de HardrefliuU dedi, concefTi, et hac prefenti carta mea confirmavi Wilto fil' Rob' de Scot de Anef- leley clerico, filiolo meo, ad fe promovend' et ::d fchobs excedend'. una cultra terre in villa de Anefteley qd Anglice vocat' Cruehanc, ficut foffat' et fepib' circumduft' jacet infra cultra terre Henrici Synge et altam viam quod de Anafleley verfus Byrchel ducit Habend' et tenend' de me et de heredibus meis libi et heredibus fuis, ut unicuiq' dare, vendere, legare, vel aliquo modo affignare vokiit in imitate vel in egritudinc, exceptis capitali,.* dirinis, viris reiigiofis. et Judeis, adeo libere, et quiete, integre, lieredirarie, in ppetuii, ficut ego eam tenui, fecundam tenore carte quam a diflo Wahero clerico liabui. Volo et con- cedo pro me et pro heredibus meis prcdift' Wilio filiolo meo et heredibus fuis vel fuis affignac' in ppetij cxcambiu toti predi(ft' cultri in longicudine vel latitudine fi necefle fuit iicut carta teftat' quam a dicfto Waltero clerico habui, reddend' inde anuuat' mihi et heredibus meis vel meis alTignatis duas fagittas barbatas line fleechis ad Pentccofta, pro omnibus ferviciis fecularibus, wardis, releviis, maritagiis, auxiliis, fcutagiis, leftis, cuicunque curie hundred!, et pro aliis demand' fecular4b' quod ali- quo mode exigi poterunt. Et ego et predift' Wilts Brian et hered' mei totam predidl' cultra terre cii fuis ptinent', et excambium fi opus fuerit, predid' Wilto filiolo meo, et heredibus fuis, vel fuis afiignatis per preditt' fervicium, ficut predict' ell contra omnes homines et feminas in perpetuum warantizab', acquietab', et defendemus. Et ut hec aute mea donacio conceffio et carta mea confirmata, rata, et ftabilis in ppetu remaneat, huic prefenti fcripto figillum meum appofui. Hiis teflibas : Ricardo de Stanton de Anef- teley, Henrico Synge de eadem, Wilto le Boteler de eadem, Wilto Bret de eadem, Wilfo foreftario de eadem, Gervafio de Stockyford cleric', et aliis. Patroni. HISTORY OF MANCETER. 141 N° 7. Anfley. Noverlnt univerfi, per prefentes, me Alexanckum Culpeper, arm. feofalTe, ordi- nafle, conftituiffe, locoque meo polTuilTc, dile6>os ir.ihi in Chrillo Hugonem Cor.geL- ton & Thomam Adderilon iiieos vcros & legitimos attornStos, conjurnTtim Sc di- vifira, ad intrandum pro me, vice ct nomine meo, in omnia ilia duo campa five crofta, quorum unus vocatur Anfteley hey, quod Johannes Ludford, geu. modo occupat, & aliud campum vocatum Oxhey, quod Jolics Adderfton fen"" nuper occupavit & te- nuit ad firmam, & predifta campa five crofta jacentes &c exiitentes in Anfteley, in com. Warwici, necnon in omnia ilia terras & tenementa vocat' le Hal Grounds in Anfteley predifta, quas prffidi£tus John Adderfton nuper occupavit & tenuic ad firmam, ac etiam in omnia ilhis terras Sc tenementa mea jacentes & exiilentes in tlad- clyf, in com. Leyceft', cum fuis pertinentiis, ac poffeffionem 8c feizinam inde pro me,, vice et nomine meo, capiendum ; & omnem & omnimodum pcrfonam expellendum. & amovendum; & pod ingreiTum fic inJe captum & habitum, ad dcHberandum inde pFO me, vice & nomine mto, plenam & pacificam poffcilionem h feizinam pra?fatO' Johi Ludford, hasredibus & affignaris fuis, fecundum formara & effecium cujufdam chartje indentatie inde prcefato Joliis Ludford faflam ; ratum & gratum habcntem & habitjrum totum & quidquid dicli attornati raei fecerint, feu eorum alter faciat in premiffis, prout ibidem perfonaliter intereffein, p prefentes. In cujus rei teftimonium huic prefenti fcripto meo figiilum meum appofui, dai" decimo quinto die Martii, anno regni regis Henrici Septimi vicefimo. The feal, Hardrelhill impaling Culpepper is engraved, Plate VII. fig. 4. N* 8. Anfley. Grant from Sir Thomas Colpeper, Knight, to Henry Lutteford, of certain Clofcs- of Pafture Land in Anfteley, called Ley Lawndes and Moncwod Hall Fclde,. and a piece of Land between Anfteley-Hall-Gate and the Drypitt, and a Garden called Thereue Laughton. Dated at Anfteley, the Feaft of St. Margaret, the 1 2th of Henry IV. Hec indentura fa£la teftaf q ego dns Thomas Colpeper miles diis de Hardrc- fhull dedi, con-reffi, et hac pfenti carta mea confirmavi Henrico Lutteford de An- fteley unam pafturara in Anleley preditfl', vocat' Ley Lawndes, int' bofcum vocat* Alftoneftray ex una pte, et viam vocat' Thenejly-Way ex alta pte, quara quidcm pafturam Johnes Cartwright quonam tenuit ; et aliam pafturam vocat' Monewod- Hall-Felde, jacentcm int' Pankmilne ex una pte et bofcum vocatum Monewod ex alta pte, quam quidem pafturam Johnes Steel quondm tenuit -, ac etiam alir.m peciatn terr' jacentera in eadem villa int' Anftelcy-Hall-Gate ex una ptc et le Drypitt ex T 3 alter*: ,42 H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I aU I T I E S altera pte, cum uno gardino vocat' Thereue Laughton, jacentem inter cimitm de Anfteley pdca et viani que ducit verfus Atherfton ; hnd' et tenend' cms pdictas pal- turas cum omnibus pea' pfat' Henrico, heredibus et affignat' fuis, in perpet', , reddendo inde anmiatim michi pfato Thome militi, her' et affign' meis, viginti qua- tuor foiid', decern denar', legalis monete, ad quatuor anni tminos in Anfteley ufuales n equales portiones, impfion j) oranib' jurib', exad:ioneet demanda qiiocunq; de nobis exirenda. Et fi contirigat pdcm annualem redd' aretro in parte vel in toto ad aliqueni terminum pJi£l', tunc bene liceat michi pfato Thome, her' et affign' meis, in omnibus pdic' paftur cum ptn' diftringere, et diftriftiones abducere et retinere quoufque inde plenar' i'uerit fatisfaciend'. Ec ego prefatus Thomas et heredes raei o'es pdid:' paftur' cum omnib* fuis ptin' pfato Henrico hered' et affignat' fuis contra omnes genres warrantizL^bimas et defendemus imperpetuum. In cujus rei teftimon' pfenti carte mee indentate figiU' huic appofui. Dat' ap Anfteley in fefto See Margarete anno regui Henrici quarti poll: Conqueftum duodecimo. The feal, quarterly Hardrefliull and Colepepper is engraved, Plate VII. fig. 2. N" 9. Anfley. Sciant pfentes et futuri qd ego Jolies de Hardredefhul miles dedi, conceffi, et hac pfenii carta mea confirmavi Robto Scot, filio Willi Scot, de Anefteley, tota ilia tram et mora, cu viis, femit', cu toto prato, bofco, et meffuag', que tenet in vilT et in teritorio de Anefteley et Hardredefl^ul, cii omnib' ptin* fuis, ficiit fepib' et foffat' includunt' cu libera commna in omnib' coib' bofcis, locis, et paliuris quibufcunq ^ dece marc' argenti quas di<5t' Robtus dedit pre manibus : Hend' & tenend' de me et heredibus meis, eid'm Robto et heredib' libere, quiete, pacifice, integre, bene, et hereditarie, inperpm, reddendo inde annuatira mihi et heredibus meis dcs Robtus & heredes fui trefdecem folid' argenti tantii ad quatuor anni tminos, viz. ad natalem Dni quadraginta denar', ad Pafch' quadraginta denar', ad nativitate Sci Johis Bapte quadraginta denar', et ad feftu Sci Michis qua- draginta denar', ^p oib' sviciis fecuhuibus, viz. heriott', ward', releviis, homagiis, maritagiis, fcutagiis, kSi' cur', & ;p ombus aliis exacconib', feiftibus, & demand'. Et ego dcs Jc'hes St heredes mei ofiiia pnoiata ut fup' fcript' eft dco Robto & heredibus fuis contra omnes gentcs warrantizabim', acquietabimus, & defendem' imppm. Et ut hec mea donatio, conceffio, & hujus carte confirmatio rata et ftabilis in omnibus & firma pmaneant, cidem carte figillu meu appofui. Hiis teftibus, Waltero Bretum, PetroBretum, Hugo' de Lillebne, Wilto Brian, Henr' Inge de Anfteley, Wilto Bret' de eadem, Wilto Boteler de eadem, Wilto Wodeward, cum multis aliis. The feal, his arms. A (hield in a ring or circle ; Argent, a border of ten mart- lets Gules, is engraved, Plate VIII. fig. 2. being the fame feal as that of the deed printed in page 147 of the Appendix. N' 10. OF M A N C E T E II. '43 N' lo. Anfley. Notu fit omnitj clericis & laicis ram futuris quam pfentiB, qd ego Wilts filius RoBti de H'tlreUill dns dc H'drcfuU & Anftcley dcdi & cceffi et hac pfenti carta mea cfirmavi Siwardo difpenfatori meo terram quam olim Jotics fili'TutSci tenuir, 8c qviatuor acs tfe & dimidiam de Udeinorc, curtilagium cum edificiis in vico ecctie de Anftelcy, jacent' int' rcgiam viaru ducentem a portis aule uiq ad Nuters hethe ex pee Orleiual' & tras dominicales ex pteAullral'; tenend' de me & meis heredib' fibi 8c fuis liedib' pro fuo ferviclo libeie & qe:e ab omi fcrvitio p.tinent' in 8c in oib' aliis locis, reddend' inde annuati mihi & heredib' meis quatuor gallinas in fefto Nativitaiis Dui. In cuj' rei teflimonium figiir meii appofui. Hiis teftib' ; set, Hugon' filio Robti, Willo, Hug', Wilto filio Gulphi, Hugone filio ejus, Geynaflb de Stocky ngforde, cum multis aliis. The feal, a knight in mail on horfeback, with his fword drawn in his right hand, and a falcon on his left, is engraved, Plate VIII. fig. i ; lee alfo p. 51. / N° II. Anfley. Wilt fil' Robti de Hardrelliilla omib* amicis 8c hoib' fuis ta pfentib* quam fu- turis fal'. Sciatis me dcdiffe 8c cceflifle &c hac pfenti carta cfirmafle Warino de Bafevilla &C Alicie uxori fuo fepte vgatas tre 1 Anftleia cu omib' ptinentiis T libura maritagiu : banc vo pdidla tra dedi pfato Warino & Alicie uxori fuo 8c eor' heredib' ad tenendu de me 8c meis heredib' libe, qete, 8c honorifice, cu omib' libta- tib* ad pdifla tra ptinentib' in bofco 8c piano, I ptis 8c pafcuis, in viis & femitis, in agris ?£ molendinis, & in omib' aliis libtatib', tenend' de me 8c meis hedib' 1 perpe- tuii, falvo forinfeco fervitio. Si aut' pnominata tra pfato Warino Sc Alicie uxori fuo warantizare no poto, eis alia tra eque comoda efcambiare curabo. Hiis ted* ; Hugone fil' Rob', WiUo filio Ode de Bafevilla; Henco de HeflcomauUa ; Phi- lippo de Befebi; Wilto fil' Affulphi ; Siwardo ; Osb de Baflevilt; Wilto filio Walto de Bardenai; Hufrido de Hechon j Johe filio Affulphi ; 8c aliis muhis. The feal, a knight in mail on horfeback, with his fword drawn in his right hand, and a falcon on his left, is engraved Plate Ylll. fig. i ; fee alfo p. 51. N° 12. Extraft •i44 HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U 1 T I E S N» 12. Extrafl from the oldeft Regifter of Anfley. Compofirio faft' inter abbatilTara et conventum de Polefworth et vicarium de Anfley, ut fequitur. Omnibus Chrifti fidelibus ad qaos literc prefenres pveneiint, magifler Simon de Balydenc, domini epifcopi Covenir' et Lichefeldi official', falutem. Quum quamplures vicarii ppetui in ecclefiis reiigioforum per provlnciam rainif- trant' minus habent fufficientem fuftencacionem ad onus iuum in divmo officio por- tand' : Ideo, ex au6toritate venerab' patris Cantuar' archiep' conftitut' et ceteror' epifc' provincial' decretum eft, ut portiones eorum qui minus habent canonice emendant' et augmentent'. Cum vero nos, p legitima taxatione et eftimatione, et p facraraent' bonorum viroru et fide dignorum. fidelitare fafta pro certo recepimus, quod ponio Rogeri vicarii ppetui de Anfley, confiftens in minuiis decimis et obventionib' ad altare fpeflantibus, taxata p facramenta prediftornm ad valcntiam l ioiidor', mi- nima-eft, et ad ipfius fuftentationcm infufficiens, etiam ipfi fpeclantes ad proprios ufus monialium de Polefworth, q taxata eft in decimis bladi torius paroch' fingulis annis et communibus ad valent' xxiiii marcarum: Nos, qui p dift' authoritate, nec- non et auctoritate diii noftr' Coventr' et Lichfeld' epi, habito coufilio viror' difcre- tor', dictas taxationes et porciones concedent' predift' vicario quinta garba dccim.e bladi totius proventium in tota parochia de Anfley, in angmentura fue vicarie, affignavimus, & authoritate dmni nri in plenaria et corporale inftituimus, ut ipfe et fuccelfores fui vicarii in eadem ecclefia in futur' miniftraut' poffint in divino obfequio rationabiliter prout decet fuftentari, quod ipfi vicar' quicumq' pro tempore fuerint quietabunt; in hoc concefium eft, quod ad hofpitium horrei abdl'e de Polef- worth exiftent' in Anfley carriabunt oes decimas garbar' de parochia de Anfley^. ct colligunt in campis, fumptibus abiffe et convent', et in horreo, fa(fla divilione corundem in quinq' partes, vicarius pcipiat quinta partem. In cujus rei teltimo- nium prefenti fcripto figillum noftram appofuimus. Dat' apud Erbury, die Veneris XX poft feftum Sti Dionifii, anno Dni MCCLXXV. " Compofitionem banc ideo hie inferui quia fcriptum chartaceum (quod hakji " folum) ^gre potuit ad pofteritatem dedi. F.Bacon, V. Aullei, 1645." N°i3i OF M A N C E T E R. *r45 N" 13. E;itra6l from the oklcfl: Re:^irt^r of Ande)'-, on the back of the leaf v\hcre the Compofition is tranfcribcd. 3'^ Junii, 1649. Com' Warr'. In Rotlo compom miniftroru de anno x.v"^° regin' Eliz' inter ai' cortinetur ut fequitur. Pencones pcelle nng' prlorat' de Ccvcntfy.-^ S. de VIS. VIII (J. de quadm pencone reccpt' de guardian' ecclie diS' Anncfley excun' de revercon' dee ccclie de Annefley ^ licenc' fepcUend' more' i.ifra- pcinft' dee nup prlorat' p annu folvend' ad fell' Sei Micliis Archi tantum. Sm' VIS. vnia". This record is mlftakcn ; for the money ought to be charged upon Allefley. Exam', J] Abrahamum Boune. Com' Warr'. In quodm libro compom Thome Waight, receptoris gen' com' ejufu', coram Francifco Philips, arm', auditore, compertnm exiilit. Of the church-wardens of Alvetley. Portio decim' ibm in compotis penSin' vid. vuid. p ann*! vis. vrii^. A retro^p fex annis, — — xls. Exiu' p Abrahamltm Boune. Thefe records were fearched out, and heare inferted for the benefit of pof[erity of the parilh of Anfley, if the like occafion flrall hereafter happen ; for the yearly pencon, with all the arrears, were by Mr. Robinfon, receiver of the tenths, de- manded as payable by the churchwardens of Anfeley, being raiflaken for Aufeley, or Alvedey. Francis Bacon, Vic' ibm, Nlarch 9, 1649. When, in purfuancc of the ftatute of 26 Geo. III. cap. 87. fcfl:. 13. application was made for the purchafe of the fee-farm rents in this parilh of Anfley, the fe- cretary of the commiffinners was requeued to tranfmit an account of all the fee- farm rents within this parifli and manor j and he did accordingly fend doAn a printed fchedule of them, in which this rent of 6 s. 8d. Hands charged as payable by the church of Annefley, as it is therein called, though (as is before obferved), it was never called by that name in any deeds or inftruments whatfoever befides (fee p. 143) ; and the purchafe-money required for it was ^^.lo. Upon which, every enquiry was made amongft the oldelt inhabitants, without effefl -, and to the receiver of the county of Warwick, who laid the rent was paid to Michaelmas, 1787, and the receipt given for Annefley, though he did not know the perlons by whom it was paid. .And this entry in the regifter had then, and till now, clcaped notice. So that it ftill appears, that in the Crown Books the name of Annefley Hill Hands inftead of Aufeley, or Alvefley, near Coventry, by the churchwardens of which parifl.1 this rent is paid regularly, and probably has never been demanded from Anfley iiuce the year 1649. T 5 N. a- *i46 HISTORY AND ANTI CLU I T I E S N* 14. The Communion Plate. The communion plate at Anfley church confifts of ounces. One chalice, or flagon, infcribed with a Glory and I.H.S. in the middle ; and on the foot I. L. Arm. D. D. D, 1 748, ANSLEY ; weight 60 One falver, with a Glory and I. H. S. in the centre; weight 18 One cup, with no infcription ; weight ■ ' 12 One fmall falver, infcribed M . ROBERT . STRATFORD . DID. GIVE . TO . INLARGE . THIS . COUP . 3 . POUND . THEN . C . WARDENS . DANIEL . OUGHTON . THO . KENNON .1619; weight — — — 3 93 Infcription upon Anfley Bells. jfl. OO.H.R.C.H.R.ei.r.H. 2d. FEAR . GOD . AND . HONOR . THE . KING . 66g. 3d. BE . YT . KNOWNE . TO . ALL . THAT . DOTH . MEE . SEE . THAT . NEW^COMBE . OF . LEICESTER . MADE . MEE . 1609. The names of the churchwardens in 1633 were Thomas Shakefpear and Chad Sadler. See p. 138. C MS 3 APPENDIX. N° I. (Page 30.) TH E defcent of the Hattings of Fillongley, afcerwarJs barons Bergavenny and earls of Pembroke. 1. Walter (in Dugdale's Baronage, I. 574. William) de Haftings by the grant of Randolph de Mefchines, was lord of Manceter and Oldbury, which Walter gave Mancefter to Wakeline and Oldbury to the nuns there, as in the particular hif- tories more at large appears. He was ft«ward to Henry I. His fon 2. Hugh married Erneburga daughter of Hugh de Flamenville. 3. William, fteward to Henry 11. married Margery, daughter to Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk. He left iluie two fons Henry and William. Henry dying illue- lefs was fucceeded by his brother 4. William who died 10 Henry III. His fon 5. Henry married Ada, fourth daughter to David earl of Huntingdon by Maud, one of the lifters and coheirs of Ranulph de Blundevilie, the lalt earl of Chefter of that name. He died 34 Henry III. His fon 6. Henry married Joan, filler and heir to George de Cantalupe, baron de Berga- venny. He died 53 Henry III. • His elded fon 7. John, now baron de Bergavenny, married Ifabel, daughter of William, and fifter to Adomar de Valence earl of Pembroke. He died 6 Edward II. His fon c. John married Julian, daughter and heir of Thomas de Leiburn, and died 18 Edward II. His fon and heir 9. Laurence, 13 Edward III. being of full age was declared earl of Pembroke. He married Agnes daughter to Roger earl of Mortimer, earl of March, and died 22 Edward III. His fon 10. John earl of Pembroke and baron Bergavenny, 43 Edward III. married Ann, daughter of Sir Walter Manny, knt. He entailed his eflate on his coufm William Beauchamp, but leaving a fon the entail did not take place. This fon 11. John earl of Pembroke, &c. dying 13 Richard II. 1390, Reginald lord Grey his couiln fucceeded to the honours and eftate of the Haftings of his family. 12. At his death the fee of Manceter became the property of his fecond fon John, to whom he had already given Barwell in Lciccflerfliire ; and of the faid manor of BarwcU, Manceter is now hoklen. N°I1 144 APPENDIX TO THE N' II and III. (Page 30 and 43.) Charta Walteri de Haflings et uxoris ejus de Oldburi et Snpcrfliull. " SCI ANT tam prefentes quarn futuri quod Walterlus de Haflinges cum usore fua Athawis dedit et confirmavit jure perpecuo Deo et Sto Laurentio, et Ofannje prioriffse, et omnibus fanftimonialibus fub ejus difciplina Chriflo militan- tibus, et in prefentla Rogerii Coventrienfis * epifcopi, fuum loci de Aldaburia et totam StiperfhuUam in piano et in nemore ufque ad medium valli ex parte Mangeceflrije, ct quandam partem nemoris ex futeft de Aldaburia ufque ad torrentem qui venit de Hardrefliulla et totam terram de Calve Croft et Birchefleiam, illam fciiicet ter- ram qute jacet inter duas vias de Mereftret et Bircheleiaftret ufque nemus Hugonis. His teftibuK, Hugo de HadrefliuHa. Vv'illielmus de Wellefburia. Petrus facerdos de Wiredela. WiUielmus facerdos de Sto Martino, et multls aliis." Printed in Mon. Angl. I. 199. Ex autographo penes T. Corbin gen. Confirmatio Rogeri Epifcop' Coventr' chartce Walteri Haflings. Rogerus f , Dei gratia Coventrice epifcopus, omnibus, &c. Noverint tam prefentes quam futuri Walterum de Haflings et Hadevifam uxorem ejus in mea prefentia dediife et concefifTe et religion! et converfationi pauperum mulierum deputafle lo- cum de Aldeberia cum omnibus fuis pertinentiis ita quod nihil proprii juris vel dominii vel advocationis terrene inibi fibi retinuerint preter hoc quod eundem locum debent munire et protegere contra omnes importunitates ut fuarum elymo- fioam. Eapropter volo et firmiter precipio ut locus ille in ea libertate jugitur perfeverat quam Walterus et Hadevifa eidem annuerunt. Et ego eorum precibus eandem libertatem confirmavi et ratam et conflantem fore ftatui. Si quis autem aufa temerario fciens hujus mese confirmationis et teflimonii tenorem predifti pau- peris loci libertatem minuerit vel in aliquo turbaverit, aut manum laicalem vel poteftatem terrenam in ejus pofTelEones exercurit, anathematis fententia dampnetur, ct Dei malediftionem et beatorum Apoftolorum Petri et Pauli incurrat. Valete. * Not Ccilrctijis as in the Monafticon. t Roger Ci' :a eledted 2^ '' iry I. 1129, died 15 Stephen 1149. Page 53- HISTORY OF M A N C E T E R. 143 N° III*. (Page 43.) Carta Hugonis fil' Ricardi. Omnlbvis fidelibus famf^se ecclefia; Hugo filius Ricardi et uxoi ejus Margareia in Ciirifto falutem. Nocuui fit omnibus quod ego cum uxore mea et filiis meis con- cedo et confirmo in elemofinam jure perpetuo, pro anima patris et matris mese, ct pro anima patris et marris uxoris me:e, et omnium par;;ntum meorum, quicquid Walterus de Haftings er uxor ejus Echewis dederunt Lnclimonialibus de Oldburia, ficut earum carta commemorat et teftimonium perhibet; hoc eft, totam Calvecroft fcilicet illam terran qu:^ jacet inter duas vias de MerclT^ret et Bjrcheliaftret ulque ad Nemus Hugonis per circuitum, et Ccet=ra omnia qus faniftimoniales tenuerint et habuerint ex dono ec confeniu ipfius Walteri et uxoris ejus Ethavvis. His teflibus; Margarita uxore Hugonis et filiis ejus. Willielmo Jordano de Sto Edwardo. Roberto de TuberviiJa. ' G. de Tutaburia. Pagano de Stopfort ; et multis aliis qui hoc viderunt et audierunt. Page 53. Inquifitio fafta an' regn' reg' Hen' fil' Johan' zS""-'. Gracia de Infula ten' i. f. m. in Salebi et 40 s. in eadem ; eadem Gracia ten' ibid. I. f. m. de Petronilla de Croun, et eadem Petronilla de dno reg' in cap. Gracia de Infula ten' 9. part' i. f. m. de Wilto Blanchard et ide Wilts de Hon. de Lancailer. Et altera terra fua foil' 4 bovat' pro inveniendo un'fervient' in Wallia ad pceptu dni cu' Johan' Haech de vetero fefFeament. Gracia de Infula tenet 1. f. m. de Thoma de Scotiney et ide Thorn' de dno rcj^' in cap. Ead' Gracia ten' ibid' i. f. m. de Thoma de Gwyby et id' Thorn' de dno rege in cap. Gracia de Infula ten' i. f. m. de feodis Tho' Ernby. Ead' Gracia ten' dimid' f. m. de Honore de Lancafler. Ead' Gracia ten' 22. part' f. m. de Hon' epil' Ebor'. Willielmus de Hardrefliuli ten' 3tia part' i. f. m. de com' de Arundel ds vet' feoffcimento. ■ Idem Willielmus ten* dimid' f. m. de com' de Lincoln' et ipfe de dno reg'. By an inquifition taken after 4^ Henry III. we Had that William dc Hardri- cheftiull held lands of the king in capite in South Kelche, and the manor of Cuke- vvald com. Lincoln. U N° IV. 146 APPENDIX TO THE. N° IV (Page 44.) Carta Walchelini de Manceftria. Univerfis faniflie matris ecclefis filiis tam futuris quam prefentibus, Walchelinns de Manceftria falutem. Sciant omnes tam futuri quam prefentes quod ego Wal- chelinus conceiTi er hac prefenti carta mea confirmavi Deo et See Maria?, et Sco Laurentio, et ecclefis Sci Ediths de PoUefvvorth et fanflimonialibus ibidem Deo fervientibus, fitum loci de Aldeburia et totam Stiperefliallam in piano et neinore ufque ad medium valli ex parte Maneceflria?, et qiiandam partem nemoris ex futhefl de Aldeberia ufque ad torrentem qui venit de Hardrelhulla, et totam terram de Chelvecrofr et Birchleiam, fcilicet illam terram quse jacet inter duas vias de Mere- ftret et Birchileiftret ufque ad nemus Willielmi de HerdredelhuUa par circuitum, pro falute animse mes ct uxoris mea et liberorum meorum et omnium anteceflb- rum meorum, in liberam et quietam elemofinam de me et de hsredibus meis jure perpetuo tenendam libere et quiete et honorlfice abfque omni fervicio fecuiari et conluetudine et exaclione et placitis et querelis. Nam ego et hceredes mei adquie- tabiraus totam fupradiftam terram de toto forinfeco fervitio. His teftibus. Rogero Candel Hou. Willielmus de Bromchot. Gaufrido prefbytero. Richerio de Overtona et Sivardo prefbytero. Rogero fratre ejus. Adam prefbytero. Adam de Wellefburga. Reginaldo clerico de Grendona. Helia de Odeftonas. Jordano de Peneleia j et multis aliis. N° *IV. (Page 51.) N O T U' fit omnib' clericis et laicis tam futuris quam prefentib* quod ego Wilt filio Robti de H'di'efull dominus de H'drefull et Anfleley dedi et conceffi et hac prefenti carta mea affirmavi Siwardo diipenfatori meo terram qm olim Jhes filius Roberti tenuit quatuor acras terrs et dimidiam de udemorCy et unum curtilagium cum edificiis in vice etctie de Aniteley jacent' inter regiam viam ducentem a Sortis aule ufque ad Nuters bethe ex parte orientali et tras dorcinicales ex parte auf- irali, tenend' de me et meis heredibus fibi et fuis heredibus pro fuo fervicio libere ac quiete ab omni fervicio pertinenti in univei' in filvis qu„m in planis, in pcis ac in aquis in planis et in omnibus aliis locis, reddendo inde annuatim mihi ct heredibus meis quatuor gallinas in fefto nativitatis l?>omini : in cujos rei teOi- moniuin fi<;il!um ntenm appofui. Hiis teftibus, fcilicet, Uugone filio R.oberti, Willielmo Hugonis filio, Hugone filio ejus, Gervafio de Stockynforde, cum muhis aliis. HISTORY OF MANCETEU. 147 N° V. (Page 54.) liartflilll, 52 Hen. III. 1268. Carta Joliannis de Harderfhull, qui fratri fiio primogeiiito Roberto apud Evoe- (ham interempto fucccffit. Sclant prefentes et futuri quod ego Johannes' de Harderhull filius et heres dom' Willielmi de Harderhull dedi et concefTi, et hac prefcnti cjrta mea confinnavi doni' Margarette reli^le dom' Huberti quondam fratris infi, nuie cujiifdam t-xcambie, quadratam terram in villa de Keleley noflr' doti dift' Margarerie periinentc, et totas terras et tenenienta que Gilbertus lleyne nativus mens tcnuit in Hardcrliull, et totain terram quam Walterus Joy nativus mens lenet in eadem villa, et totas terras et tenementa que Adam' Andrew, Robert' Joye, Robert' de Rolthing, Walterus fir Petri, Ifoida de la Sernere, Alicia de la Sernere, (TJlbert'de la Sernere, Simon de la Grave, Thorn' Payfe, Gilbert' Dod, Hugo de la Fude, Richard' fii' Hugonis, Robeit' le Runcere, Johan' fil' pred' Hugon'ct Hugo faber, teneni in villa de Henef- ley, et iplbs omnes cum totis fequelis fuis et carallis, videlicet toto tempore vita dicle Margarette. Inluper dedi et conceffi, et hac prefenti carta coufirmavi, totum fervitium, tarn in rediiibus quam in homagiis et omnibus aliis pertinentiis, in quibus Willielmus Lorian et Willielmus VVoodwarde de me tenent in villa dc Heinefleyee, exceptis duobus folidis annuatim redditis, quod ditftus Willielmus Lorian folcbat reddere Eddemundo de Watteford ; et infuper dedi et conctlli, et hac prelenti carta mea confirmavi, did' Margarette, molendinum meum de Harderefhull, ad percip'end' de eodem quadraginta lolidos annuatim redit' et ad deliband' fi quod rehduum fuit per manus dift' Margarette michi et heredibus meis, falva tamen didlo dom' Johanni libera multura ; habend' et tenend' dift' dom' Margarette, de didlo domino Johanne vel ejus heredibus vel affignatis, totus terras et tenementa predifta, cum omnibus nativis predidlis et liberis hominibus inwardis, releviis, elchcatis, mari- tagiis, et omnibus aliis quocunque modo accidere pofiunt ad predidla tenementa tam de liberis quam de nativis predict' toto tempore vite dift' Margarette fine ali- qua coercone did' dni Johan' hercdum fuorum vel affignatorum fuorum. Per banc autem donationem, conceflionem, ac confirmationem, diCta Margaretta dedit, concef-. fit, et omnino quictum claniavic, ratione iftius excambie, difto domino Johanni, ct ejus heredibus vel a'Tignatis, totas terras et tenementa quas hahuit in villa de North Kelefey note dotis. Et ego prediiH;' Johannes et heredes mei vel ailignaii totas terras et tenemen;a predict' ficut prediftum ell diet' dom' Margarette toto tempore vite fue vyarranrizabimus, acquietabimus, et contra omnes hommes ulque ad tempos prediftum defendemus. In cujus rei teftimonium huic prefenti fcripta in medium chirographi confirmai' prefentes ligilla lua alternaum appoluerunt. Hiis lefiibus, WiUielmo Hodingfells, Andrew de Glee, Hugone de Lilleburn, Piogero dc Attelerchee, Rogero de Rodda, Simone de Sutelhxha, Waltcro Clerico de Aneftelee. The feal, his arms: Argent a border of x martlets Gciles. U 2 N' VI. 148 APPENDIXTOTHE N° VI. (Page 5 5.) Carta Wiilielmi de Hardrefhull" de terra in Anefley temp' Edw' primi. Sciant prefentes ec futuri quod ego Willielmus filius Johannis de Hardefhull dedi, conceffi &c. Roberto Ynge, pro homngio ei fervicio fuo et pro triginta foli- dis quos mihi dedit he. duas acras et unam rodam terre cum pertinenriis in vaflo meo de Bircbeley habend' &c. in perpetuum &c. reddendo inde annuatim mihi &c. novem denarios ad duos anni terminos, videlicet ad Pafcam quatuor denarios et obo- lum et ad feftum Stor' Apoftoloru quatuor denarios et uiwm obolum, cum omni fervicio (falva forinfeco) demandata &c. Et fi ica contingat quod Cfrbo Maris fuper diftam terram inveniant, quod ego Willielmus et heredes m.ei fodere faciamus diiTram carbonem ad voluntatcm noftrara, et difto Roberto et heredibus vel afligna- tibus fuis bonam et plenam reftitutionem in manerio de HardredefhuU faciamus. In cujus &c. See this charter at large p. 138. On the back of the deed the following indorfement : Mem. Qd Walter' Colepeper armigr diis de Hardrefhul carta figillat' fibi die Lune vicefimo quarto die Od' a° Hen' fexti XXXVIto g Wiltm Ludferde filiij Henr' Ludferde de Anferle. N" VII. (Page 57.) Entiuiled Do magno Confitio tenendo apud Weftmonafterium, Clauf. 15 Edw. IIL part. 2. m. 38. in dorfo. Rex diletlo et fideli fuo Johanni de Hardredefliull falutem. Quia fuper qui- bufdam arduis negotiis nos etv ftatum regni noftri Anglie et aliarum terrarum nof- trorum, ac etiam recuperationem jurium noflrorum fpecialiter contingentibus, vo- bifcum et. cum ceteris prelatibus ac magnatibus di£li re;?,ni nodri apud Weilminfter die Lune in craftinp Claufe Pafche proximo future colloquium habere volumus et traclatum, vobis in fide et diled:ione qnibus nobis tenemini mandamus firmuer injungentes quod omnibus aliis pretermiflis diftis die et loco perfonaliter interfitis-j et cum ceteris prelatis et magnatibus predi(51is fuper premiffis traflaturis, veftrumque confilium HISTORY OF M A N C E T E R. 1-19 conlTIium impenfuri : et hoc ficut nos ec honorem noftrum ac falvationera et defea- fionem difti regni noHri diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. Telle rcge apud Weflm. xxv die Februarii per ipfum regera. Inquifir. lo Ric. II. Atherflon. ^ John Bredon et Alice ^p abbe e diftiibuted at Whitfuntidc, and to be fuited to the ages and capacities of the children they are dcfigned for. The children to be nominated by the majority of the inhabitants of Hartfhill, at their Eafter meeting for chuiing the overfeer of »^he poor. The parents not to apply in perfon, but to gite in their names to the overfeer before the meeting, otherwife to be excluded from this fmall charity. And this yearly payment I charge out of the houfe and garden I now inhabit. I likewifc give one {hilling a year more to be paid to the overfeer out of my houle and garden aforcfaid, for his trouble in entering the names and diftributing the books to thofe appointed to receive them. The firft giving of thefe books to be at Whitfuntide come twelve-months after my deceafe. And I give full power to the overfeer of the poor of Hartfhill, with the confent of the inhabitants concerned in pariQi bufinefs, to feize upon the premifes for the twenty-one fiiilbngs a year, the fame as if it was for rent, and to recover all rea- fonable charges in fo doing, if not paid in ciue time. 6 N" XVI. HISTORY OF ]\I A N C E T E R. 159 N''XVI. ADDITIONS and CORRECTIONS. P. 4. 1. 3. Following the courfe of the VVatling-ftreet, and fixing his future flations on the fites of the Biitifli, which though very rude yet ferved as a fure guide to the Grangers, who without this afKllance would very probably have been often expofed to great dangers araongfl fo inhofpitable a race as the Wiccian Ceanoi are by fome authors reprefented, he led the Roman troops from the banks of the fouthern Oufe, and the adjacent ftation of Laftodoruin where they had remained from the departure of Plautius northwards. Through or rather on the North Ball fide was carried a road called by the Britons Gatheling Street, and at proper dift- ances ftations, fome of which were thofe towns that Ccefar defcribes to have been ufed by them in time of war. P. 5. 1. 7, 8. after of the Iceni and Cortanni (or Coitanuori), their Situation, &c. add Mr. Pegge, from Richard, concludes that the Iceni and Coitanni were fometimes taken as one people, but divided by the different parts where they inhabited ; thofe on the German ocean, and to the confines of NorthamptonOiire were continued by that name of Iceni, and the other part inhabiting the Silva Caledonia by the Bri- tains called Coic ; thence Coitanni, as Lindum was called Caer Lind Coit. This explanation and divifion of the two tribes account for the early attack on the Iceni by Oftorius, and perhaps for the divifion of the road at Bcnones in order to come at them, and on this principle we may eafily account for the Lindum Colonia being called the capital of the Iceni in Boadicia's days. The Cangi being another name for the Cornavii was perhaps the viftory mentioned by Tacituc over them. P. 6. 1. 16. for " quafi dicas," r. «' hodic ;"— 1. 23. r. " Over Arley." P. 7. 1. 24, Before " Aulus Didius," r. " A. D. 53." lb. 29. To " Paulinus," add, " A. D. 59." P. 9. 1. I. The " fmall camp" is called " Camp Hill." lb. 1. 23. After period, add, " A. D. 39." lb. 1. 24. One of thefe rencontres is thus defcribed by Tacftus : " Et viftor Britannus, Petilio Ceriali, legito legionis nonae, in fubfidium obventanti obvius, fudit legionem, et quod peditum interfccit: Cerialis cum equitibus evafit in callra et munimentis defenfus eft." Annal. lib. xiv. cap. 32. P. 10. 1. I. r. " Cannon Street." P. 12. 1. 3. r. *' vel Conventree j" 1. 20. r. " eccentric ideas." lb. 1. 20. After this line iVlr. Bartlett has written, " O Nathaniel, peace be to thy manes." P. 15. 1. 16, The drawing intended to have been engraven in Plate If. as fi > 2. is not to be found among Mr. Bartlctt's papers ; nor any explanation of fig. 7. P. 17. Fignres 5. and 6 in that Plate rcprcfenc fome fpccimens of na-'ural hiflory. Fig. 5, is a cornelian, and fig. 6, a bioodltonc, found at Kenehvorch cattle. P. 20. r^o A P P E N D I X T O T H E P. 20.1. 17. r. "In 716." P. 23. 1. 15. r. " duke William." p. 25. 1. 3. for " remarried," r. " married." P. 26. 1. 15. add Her fon Ralph de Gernons, by her fccond hufband Ralph earl of Chefter, died 1153 *. See his feal (from Aichoeol. IV. plate IV.) in our plate *XI. p. 80. P. 29. 1. 8. r. " mod of which are farmers." P. 30. 1. 13. r. " fecond fon." lb. note \, for her read his charter. P. 31. 1. 2.r. " Savenby." P. 32. 1. 18. for " reprefentative," r. " knight cf the fliirc." lb. 1. 20. r. " 2 Edward II ;" 1. 27. r. " 54 Hen. III." P. 35. 1. The feals of John and Guido de Manceter are engraved In Plate XVI. .p. 99. fig. 1, 2. P. 34. I. 4. r. " three daughters." P. 35. 1. 18. r. " and Thomas Ludford of Witherley, who,^' &c. P. 38. 1. 28. To Richard Mabcii, M. A. add, " then vicar of Manceter." P. 39. 1. 5. r. " Nicholas Langiidge then vicar of Leek Wootton." lb. 1. 9. " Timothy de Leni, B. A. then vicar of Afliowe." lb. 1. 12. " John Ruft, M. A. then vicar of Kenilworth." lb. 1. 15. " Richard Stapylton, B. A. then vicar of MonkJkirby." lb. 1. 18. " Richard Belingham, B. A. then vicar of Stoneley." As it is printed now, it appears that the divifion was made to the parties above men- tioned as in fee-.fimple for their own benefit, and not as vicars of the above places, (Seep. 37.) In Mr. Bartieti's MS. the names of the vicarages are inferted in the margin againft each name. P. 41. Plate III. confifts of Statio MJliva, the fummer camp at Oldbury ; and iii the South Eaft corner is the fmall advanced camp at Camphill, about a mile or more diftaut, commanding a view of Nun Eaton, and all the circumjacent country. It is probable, from appearances, that the fortifications on the South Welt fide ex- tended nearly, if not all the way, from thence to Oldbury. The two round rings are the fites of the two tumuli^ one near Hartfliill caftle, and the other deftroyed upon Hartfliill (liuts, or common. P. 43. 1. 23. for " filius" read " filiis;" P. 45. 1. 12. for " James," r. '* John ;" and add, " 1560." lb. 1. 22. add, " k. 1779." P. 47. 1. 18. flrike out " fee Plate VI." and add, " See a view of this chapel, PI. VII. fig. I. lb. I. 20. The name of CZ'^/'^r ««». — o 10 o bread for the poor at St. Thomas's. Richard Abel). An houfe, prefent rent /i^r <7rtn, — 480 to place out apprentices. " Willianii i66 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. C. s. d. William Simmonds. Land, preient rent ^^r ^?/«. — 482 rent to be expended in bread for poor \v.ido\vs, a loaf each, at Man- cetcr church, every Sunday. William Simmonds. Charge upon land, /"^r ^r rt«K. — 26 o o to buy coats and halts for poor parithioners of Atherflon at Chriftmas. Richard Martyn. LaUvl, prefent rent per ann. — 20 o o to buy coats and hats for j^oor men, parifhionris, at Whitfuntide. Of Mavtyn's charity, three coats and hats are given yearly to Manceter and Hartfliill ; two to one place, and one to the other, alternately. Rent charge upon an houfe in Atherftone, formerly the property of . Shellard, now of Thomas Carver, />#/■ ann, — 0^8 for the ufe of poor widows. Annual rent charge upon the fchool-houfe in Atherftone, 068 for the ufe of poor widows. Annual rent charge upon premifes in Henley in Arden, ;— 100 for the ufe of the poor. P. 119. In the monumental infcriptions, 1. 5. after Barnard, read viz. Argent, a bear rampant Sable, muzzled, Or, impaling, Sable, a chevron between three antique ihields, Or creft, a demi bear ereft Sable, muzzled, Or. Ibid. 1. 6. after Pew, read viz. Okeover, Ermine on a chief Gules, 3 bezants impaling. Langjlone, Or a chevron Gules, in chief two rofes proper and in baf?, a dolphin embowed of the laft. Edward ADDITIONS AND CORRECTION?. 167 Edward Goddard's defcription of Manceter, Oldbury, and Atherftone, written about 70 years ago. Mancrtter, Oldbury. Mandnejfedim, a town of very great antiquity, mentioned by Antoninus, the Emperor, in his Itinery, no Mancefter and Mancetter; and in Ninnius, Catalogue Caer I^Ianccgued, which name (fince a quarry of free-done lies near it) 'tis prubable was given it from the flone there digged and hewed : for in the Gli-lTaries of the Britifh tongue mam fignifies a flone, o.ndfofviad, in the provincial language, digging; which, being joined together, feem aptly enough to exprefs the name Mandveffe- dum, Befides the finding of coins of filver and brafs, as alfo pavements and caufe- ways upon digging and ploughing, are a further confirmation of its antiquity ; and if Oldbury were a fort belonging to it, as 'tis alledged by Mr. Camden, it will add more to its antient luftre; for there, upon a particular eminence on the North fide of a fair old feat belonging to the Farmers, and before to the Whirehales, is a quadrangular fort, containing 7 acres of ground ; in the North part of it, there hafe been found feveral flint (lones about 4 inches in length, curioufly wrought by grinding, or fome fuch way ; the one end fhaped like the edge of a pole-axe; and by Sir William Dugdaje they are thought to have been weapons ufed by the Britains, before the making of brafs and iron arms : they muft have been brought hither for fome extraordinary ufe, becaufe there are no flints to be found within 40 miles of the place. Now whether Oldbury were a fort belonging to iVIandu- efledum, which lies a mile from it South-wefl over a common, I will not difpute ; but by the pavements found and coins digged up, fome works of earth caft up, whereof one called Old Fort, on the North-eall of JNIanceter, it feems more than probable, that this ftation extended itfelf this way over the river Anker, and be- yond the Roman military way, called Watling-ftrecr, unto the place now called Wytherley. This way cutting between the two towns, which are not half a mi'e apart, and by the pavements, cnfigns of war, &:c. found here, the trafts of anti- quity, this feems rather to have been a part of the antient Mandueffedum than Oldbury with Mr. Cam.den, or Atherfton according to the tradition of the inhabi- tants : but whatever note Manceter was of formerly, 'tis now a very fmali village, but has a parochial church j to which are members, Atherfton, Hartfliill, Oldbury, Atherstone, Which, as I have obferved before, is a member of Manceter, and lies Weflward from it an eafy mile ; it is fituate pleafantly upon a gently rifing hill, having de- lightful woods and parks on the North, and the open fields to the Sonlh thereof; the town confifts principally of one long ftreet, through which paffcs the Wat- ling-flreet way, by which I guefs it is of Roman antiquity ; it had formerly a monaftery of Auguftine friars, dependants to the monks of Beck in Normandy, out of whofe ruins, at the diflblution of monafteries in the time of Hen. VIII. there arofe a fair houfe, the feat of the lords of this town, and now belonging to Ed- ward Repington, Efq. lord thereof. Alfo a fmall chajiel, but long neglecfted, and made little or no ufe of, till Samuel Braccbridge, Gent, an inhabitant of this town. i68 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. town, 1673, fettled per aim. to the parfon of Manceter, to preach there every other Sunday during the Winter feafon ; which, by being augmented fince out of the fame worthy family, there is divine fervice there conilantly once a fortnight, and prayers twice a week, Wednefdays and Fridays, by the donation of my friend, Thomas Bracebridge, Gent, deceafed ; which pious benevolence is the greateft ornament of the place. y\s alfcr a free-fchool, built in the time of Queen Elizabeth, with the endowment of £-8o. per ami. under the government of twelve feoffees, inhabitants of the towne. *' Cujus Gymnafii in teneris annis fur " difcipulus." It has a palTabie market on Tuefdays ; and is well if ored with, inns; from which it is, I think, that the inhabitants boaft, " that the town is walled with ale, and paved with marble, from a black hard llone dug in the outwoods, as they call them, hard by, with which it is moftly paved. P. *i44. 1. 19, /or " breath," read " breadth." 1*. 138. 1. 8, add. This feal is engraved, Plate VIII. fig. 3. P. 139. 1. 16, add, Engraved. Plaie VIII. fig. 4. Ibid. 1. ult. add, Engraved, Plate VIII. fig. 5, Ibid. Plate *VIII. fig. 2. Deed N^ 1. See p. 147. APPENDIX P. 147. 1. ult. io Gules, add, Engraved, i'late VIII. fig. 2, See p. 139. P. 148. I. 18, add. See p. 138. P. 152. 1. penult. /or " Tuefdays," rtad " Teufdays." FINIS. V ^ N \ V N MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIESv (IN CONTINUATION- OF THE BIBLIOtHECA TOPOGRAPHIC^ BRITANNICA) N° IL CONTAINING^ A Sketch of the History of H A WKHERST.. [Price Two Shillings.] AMONG the various labours oF Literar}' Men, tliere have alwnys been certain Fragments whole Size could not fecure them a general Exemption trom the ^\Veck of rinie, which their intrinfic Merit entitled them to furvive ; but, having been gathered up by the Cuiious, or thrown into Mifcellaneous Collections by Eookfellers, they have been recalled into Exigence, and by uniting together have . r OaD *' Is term'd the civirft place of all this ifle; <<■• I -'-•-" i;.,^': 'H " Sweet is the country, becaufe full of riches; ; lo T •.'•. •: o ■;- " The people liberal, valiant, zdive, worthy." > Shakspeare. ' ■'\ ' Mr. Nichols, .jC- IN conformity to my promife in the Gentleman's Magazine, .Vol. LVII. p. 564, I fend you a tranfcript of fome papers I colle6ted towards furnifliing the parochial hiilory of Hawkherft, written at various times, and amidll avocations of a different nature ; I am not confcious they pofTefs any other merit than that of fidelity and accuracy. H AWKHERST is a large village, fituated in theSouth of thecounty of Kent, 48 miles from London, by a rivulet which divides that B county 2 THE HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S county from Suflex. It is furrounded with the parifhes of Goud- herft, Cranbrook, Beuenden, and Sandherft, in Kent; and Bodiam^ Saleherft, Etchingham, and Ticeherft in Saffex. A very fmall part of this parifli called Hqfe/den lies within the county of Suffex and hundred of Shroyfwell (only two houfes and a little land to each) ; the remainder is in Kent, in the bailiwick of the feven hundreds ; lathe of Scray, Weft divifion of the county, and lower divifion of juftices in that lathe *» The parilh is in the hundreds of Great Barnfield and Selbrittenden, with a very fmall part in the hundred of Cranbrook. The hundreds are, according to the antient divifion of Kent, again fubdivided into boroughs, of which fo much as is in the borough of Hawkherft, otherwife South Borough, or in the North Borough, is in the borough of Great Barnfield ; what is in the Weft borough, in the hundred of Selbrittenden ; and the refidue, which is in the borough of Crothall, in the hundred of Cranbrook f . In the charge X of the tenth and fifteenth, made in the 1 3th of Elizabeth, that part of Hawkherft in the hun- dred of Barnfield is rated at 3I. i8s. 4d. and that which is in the hundred of Selbrittenden at 5 s. 8d.l. the other being fo fmall has no charge. The borough of Hawkherft hath a court- leet of itfelf, where the borfholder of that borough is chofen, and the inhabitants of it owe no fervice to the court-leet holden for the hundred of Great Barnfield, but at that court an inha- bitant of this borough may be chofen conftable of that hun- dred §. The fubdivifion of hundreds into tithings feems to be moft peculiarly the invention of Alfred the Great, and is a branch of that admirable fyftem of government he introduced, and which modern refinement but vainly attempts to improve. The realm * Kilburn. • i" Kilburn. J Lambard. § Kilburn. being S^//7/r I/. fy>/hrr /^ ^ . \y Ky —^Z^>ruJ^*Ut^C -^It/A '. OF II A W K H E , R S T. j being divided into (hires, thefe fliires fubdivided into lathes, as in Kent ; rapes in Suflex ; trithings or ridings in Yorkfliire ; thefe again into hundreds, and the hundreds into tithings, com- poied of ten freemen, every inhabitant of which was fecurity for the good behaviour of the other, and a man, whofe credit was fo low that his neighbours would not become pledges for him, was committed to prifon left he fliould become hurtful to the community. In Kent, the divilion, which in many coun- ties was called a tithing, is termed a borow, from the Saxon- word Bo7-h, which fignifies a pledge or furety, and the chief of the pledges a borfliolder, or borough s-ealder, that is, the dif- creeteft man in the borough, or tithing, as in cities he is called the ealderman, or alderman. Hawkherft is indebted, for a peculiarly accurate topographical defcription, to Richard Kilburne, efq. who was a refident in the village at a houfe called Fowlers, and publiflied a Survey of the County in 1659. The ancient ftate of the place muft be almoft a tranfcript from his work, with additional obfervations, that may ferve to elucidate his account. As he wrote in the time of the Commonwealth, his expref- fions on ecclefialtical jurifdidion are ail in the paft tenfe ; and of Hawkherft he fays, this parifli was in the deanery of Charing, and diocefe of Canterbury. The church ftands in the hundred of Great Barnfield, and was called St. Lawrence. He obferves, that the parilh is very populous, and one of the moft numerous as to inhabitants of any in the county not having a town in it. Upon a colledion of the number of communicants, in every pa- rilh in the county, he fays, four pariflies only exceeded it, which were Maidftone, Cranbrook, Feverfliam, and Goudherft:, all having towns in them. There is no reafon to bcheve that the number of inhabitants have decreafed fmce Mr. Kilburne's pub- ^j • B 2 lication. 4 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES lication. The number of adults, which are, it is prefumed, the perfons meant in Kilburne's eftimate, have been, within thefe few years, calculated at 1300. He complains of the very great charge for the maintenance of the poor, which was, in the year 1653, ;C«209 gs. 3^. and, in the year 1549, only 7/. 2d. but he does not appear to advert to the different fyllem introduced by the celebrated a6l of Elizabeth, which totally altered the ftate of the parochial poor, and Hawkherft might alfo receive a large burthen of poor's rate by the decreafe of the woollen manufadory which was brought from Flanders under the patronage of king Edward III, and at that time began to decline by a removal into other counties. To this fource the weald of Kent owed much of its wealth and profperity. The old farm-houfes are in the Flemifli ftyle of building, and many of the rooms ftill fliew that they have been ufed in the various branches of the manufadture of woollens. Lambard, who wrote in 1570, difcuffing the artificers of the county, fays, " they be makers of coloured woollen cloths, '* in which laft feat they excel, from whom is drawn both fuffi- " cient ftore to furnilh the wear of the bell fort of our nation at ** home, and great plenty to be tranfported to other foreign coun- ** tries abroad." A few clothiers remained at Cranbrook till the beginning of the prefent century, and there was one left within the laft thirty years, but the whole race of manufacturers are now extincft. Kentifli grey is ftill the county livery, and, at the general eledlion in 1790, the three gentlemen managers for the candidates were drefled in an uniform of that colour. Hawkherft was a dependent on the manor of Wye, and con- fequently became a part of that vaft eftate with which William the Norman endowed his abbey of Battel in SulTex, founded by him for the repofe of the fouls of the multitude killed in the adion of 1067, which fecured him the fovereignty of England. Kilburne OF H A W K 11 E R S T. '5 Kilburne gives the following account of the tenure ; " Moll of *' the lands in this parilh are within the liberty of Wye (anciently " belonging to the abbey of Battel in Suffex) ; and Odo, abbot ** of Battel, and the convent there, by charter without date, *' granted to the owners of the laid lands, by the name of his *' men of Hawkherft, and their heirs, the ville of Hawkherll:, *' paying yearly ten pounds, twenty hens, and two hundred " and fifty eggs, with divers relfridions. But, afterwards, De- " cember 5, 14 Edward I. Henry, abbot of Battel, and the " convent there, granted to them and their heirs (^by the name " of their tenants of Hawkherfl) all the tenements there which " they held of his fee, viz. in the dens of Hawkherft, Am- " boldeiTcrs, Delmynden, Seffele, Bertylts, FifTendenne, Mark- *' denne, Frechele, Wynefle, Wynchenden, Chittenden, Wi- *' theringhope, in houfes, gardens, lands and woods, plaines, *' meadow, and paftures, to hold freely and in peace, paying " yearly ten pounds, twenty-five hens, and two hundred and " fifty eggs, and referved fuic to his court of Wye from three " weeks to three weeks by two men only ; and for that the *' abbot took into his hands Anglingle, which formerly was *' part of this tenancy ; he, by compofition, abated forty fnillings " per annum of the ten pounds, and, for the hens and eggs fo " referved, they compounded to pay him yearly eight fliillings ; " and for the faid fuit of court fix Ihillings and eight-pence j fb *' the moneys paid by them ever fince (to the abbey ; and, the " fince owners of Wye), is eight pounds fourteen fhillings and " eight-pence. " And the tenants ufually kept here a three \teeks court, *< called Slipmill, otherwife Moorhoufe-court, for determination *' of matters under forty fliillings ; and accordingly fuch a court " was in my memory there kept, though now difcontinued. " They 6 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES " They had alfo power, by the grant laft before mentioned, *' to have a reeve of their own, and they had at leaft once in " every year a court, which was aUb called by the name afore - " faid, where they did apportion the rent aforefaid, payable to " the abbey, and choofe their reeve, which court is ftill there *' kept ufually once in the year, about Eatter, but for fixty '' years laft paft was ftyled The Court Baron of the Lord, '■'■ and there they prefented the alteration of tenancies, and " eledled two beadles to gather the rent. On the 3d of June, ♦' in the 33d year of the reign of king Henry Vlll. that king *' granted the royalty and rents at Hawkherft belonging to Wye " to Sir John Baker; and on the 20th of March, in the firft *' year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, flie granted Wye to " Henry lord Hunfdon. Afterwards a controverfy arofe be- *' tween the tenants at Hawkherft and Sir Richard Baker (heir «* of the faid Sir John) touching the validity of their former *' grants ; and January 31, in the tenth year of the reign of *' queen Elizabeth, the tenants obtained a decree againft the " faid Sir Richard for quiet, enjoying their tenements aforefaid " as formerly; and, on Febrtiary la following, the faid Sir " Richard releafed his claim to them, and after fuits between " the heir of the faid Sir John, and the heir of the faid lord " Hunfdon, touching the royalties and rent aforefaid, the faid *' heir of Baker on the loth of November, in the 17th year of *' the reign of James I. granted his right in the fame to the faid " heir of the faid lord Hunfdon, fo that now the lord of Wye " is owner of the faid royalties of rent there." The court thus recited by Kilburne continues to be kept under the fame form, for the purpofe of prefenting alterations of tenancies and th6 choice of reeves, who collect the referved rent ftill paid to the Finch family, who are owners of the roy- 5 alty, OF HA W K H ERST. 7 alty, but have no other claim on the property of the free- holders. George Finch Hatton, efq, is the prefent poflefTor of this right. The church is a handfome ftone building, much fnperior in its ltru(5lure to moft village churches, which may eafily be imagined from its having been founded by the abbot of Battel in the reign of Edward III. The building at the Eaft end, which was noticed in Gent. Mag. LVII. p. 564, 659, cannot ever have been a chapel, as its dimenlions are too faiall, its litu- ation precifely againft the altar, and no appearance of any roof; it has moft probably been a burial-place, at the time of the foundation of the church, with which it appears coeval, for fome great family of the place. Kilburn fays, " The arms of Edward III. and his fons are at *' the top of the furtheft of the three North \vindows in the '* North chapel or chancel there ; and the arms of the abbey of ** Battel, and of Etchingham, and PaQiley, two ancient fami- " lies then refiding in the adjoining pariflies, are in glafs at the ** top of the firft of the faid three windows ; and on the great ** beam at the top of the faid chancel was carved the arms of " Congeherft, a very ancient family in the parifli." The name of Congeherft was extindt in the parifli about the middle of the fixteenth century, by the marriage of the heirefs into the family of Scott, but the houfe flill remains, bearing the family name; and the fite of a former manfion can be pointed out, which was burnt by the Danes at a very early period. In the North windows of the chapel before-mentioned, were alfo pictures in glafs of twelve men and their wives kneeling, which were im- perfedl in the time when Kilburne wrote, and have now very little remaining. They were traditionally reported to be the owners of the twelve dens held of Wye; but he juftly appre- hends that was not the hiftory of them, and that they were twelve 8 THE HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S twelve principal inhabitants of the parifli at the time the church was founded ; the names he has preferved are, the Chriftian name cf the firft Robert', the fecond Joan^ the wife of the faid Robert, and Simon their fon, principal founder of the faid chapel ; the third illegible ; the fourth Ockley ; the fifth Bel- mynden ; the fixth Siejley ; the feventh Cockjhott ; the eighth Badcock ; the ninth Bartilt ; the other three are not difcernable. ]t is probable, that the divifion of the manor into dens was guided by the lands held by fome of thefe ancient families, and of the others which are not names of dens — there are ftill lands in the parifli which bear the names of Ockley^ Cockjhott, and- Badcock. In the middle window of the great chancel were, ac- cording to Kilburne, paintings in glafs of the good kings of Ifrael, and of the prophets in their times. Thefe, he recites, had been lately defaced and fpoiled, a confequence of the unfettled fiate of government at that period, and the irregular method in which the orders which came from the ftate were executed. The arms of king Edward and his fons are 11:111 perfed: in theEaftern- moft window of the North chancel ; and the arms of Battel *, Etchingham, and Pafliley, are in good prefervation on the Weft- ernmoll. The kneeling figures remain at the top of the mid- dle window ; but they have been fomewhat defaced, and the remainder mentioned by Kilburne are totally deftroyed, except fome ornamented pieces, which it is prefumed ferved to com- plete and fill up the window in the fpaces between the figures. In the South chancel of the church was anciently the image of the Virgin Mary ; and feveral tapers or lights were alfo in this * Thefe are blazoned bj' Hafted, II. p. 73, note j. Quarterly, 1,4, a fword, Arg. 2, 3, a crovVD, Or. According to bifliop Tanner, they are Gules, a crofs, Or, between two fwords and two crowns. The iwords are pomelled, Or. The other coat given by Halted is frelty, Az. three fleurs de lis, Or. church, OF HAWK n ERST. 9 'Church, called the Beam light, the Pafchal light, Judas can- ■art of the county, according to Kilburne, about the year 157 1, by pur- -chafe of the manllon of Edward Roberts, vvhofe father, John Roberts, was buried at the foot of the reading-defk *, with an effigy and infcrip^ion of brafs, which laft was taken away during the Civil Wars ; the ftone remains, with two elegant figures in brafs -j-. The engraving of the figures, with the drapery, is per- fedlly frefh, though from Kilburne's account it has been fub- je*^ to the wear of feet for two centuries and a half. Beneath the principal figures, which are a tiian and woman with hands raifed and cb.fped in a praying attit\ule, arc two leparate groups of fix children in the lame polture ; thofe under the female fi- gure, from their drefs and long hair, are eafily difcovcred to be * The Otuation of the pulpit and reading-deik has been fince aheicJ, for th; gcner.l conve:;ience c'f iljc church. -|~ Sec the annexed phie. C girls, lo THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES girls, and thofe unc'er the man, the engraving on which i^ more worn, aj^pcar to be boys. Four Saxon Ihichis, all on i'ejia- late pieces ol" brafs, form a correfponding ornament to the li- •Tiires. Many memorials of the interment of the Bovs lamilv, for the laft two centuries, arc in the South iile, the fuit of which appears to be Richard Boys, 1605; and the lilt is a marble on a pillar over the family feat in the church, with the fol- lowing infcription : " Tn memory of Samuel Boys, efq. He lieth hurled in tl.c South porch ; died at Salehurft in Suffex, 29 January, 1753, aged 71 ; marrieci Jane, one of the daughters of Sir Richard Newdigate, of Arbury in Warwickfhire, Baronet. And of his eldeft foD, Samuel Boy?, efq. who lieth at his right hand. He di(.cl at Hawkherfl 16 May, 1772, aged 66. He maried Ehzabeth, eldell daughter and coheirefs of Thomas Hicks, of Munfieldin Sufl'ex, gent."' In the church are alfo flat (lones in memory of the families of Mercer. Auften, 1610 ; Fix, 1668 ; Woodgate, 1680 ; Courthorpe, 1740. Before the altar is a fmall ftone, on which is infcribed : " Here lies the body of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Glover, of this parilTi, vicar, who died Oftober 9, 1737, aged 33 years- He was nephew to the late Kifhop Spratf.'* Richard Kilburne, efq. author of the Survey, is buried in the North chancel, with his daughter Brewer and her fon ; on a flat OF H A W K H E R S T. u a flat flone over his grave is infcribed : *' Hie jacet RicarJus Kilburne, arm. Quinquics Principalis Hofpitii Stapiilenfis, London : Patrije ornamentum, emolumentum, ob. 15 Nov. 1678, St. 74, III the middle aile, under a plain Hone, on which is mcreW iRfcribed his name, and the year of his death, I 7 i 8, is buried Sir Thomas Dimk, knt. a confiderablc benefador to the pariih. An oval marble tablet has lately been erected, on the orna- mental part of which it is fufficient to obferve, that it is exe- cuted by the firll: itatuary oi' the age, Bacon. On the upper part of the oval is a Bible, open at the firll page of the New Te'damentj lurrounc'ed by rays of light, with the motto running through it, God faid, '• Let there be light, and there was light." Aiid on a black marble in the centre : " Nad^aniel Larcincr, D. D. Drew his firft and lateft breath at Hall Ho\ife in this pari.'h. Benevolent ns a Gentleman, ii^defaiigable as a Scholar, exemplary as a Minifter, wherever he relided. His Ufcfulp.efs was prolonged to his 86th year, When, having eilablifhed the Hiflorical Credibility of the Piccoids of our common Ulvaiion, without partiality, and beyond reply, their promiles became his eternal inheritance, July 8, 1768. From reverence to the memory of his uncle, thefe truths were infcribed by David Jennings, 1789." C 2 The 12 THE HISTORY AxND ANTI QJJ IT I E S The pariHi hath fcveral laiwls belonging to it, left to i^ious iifes, which are recited on a table fixed in the church ; the words of ICilburne are, *' Henry Paribn, and William his fonne, 13° Junij, 2 ad Hdward IV. ccmveyed to the ule of tlae parifli for *' ever a melluace and acre of land, which meiruage was of '* late times called The Church Houfe, and adjoincth to *' the' church-yard ; and the rent thereof, aiid of the land '* thereunto, is employed towards reparation of the church, and- *' upon part of the land is eredled an alms-houfe, which isem- " ployed to the ufe of the poor of this parilh ; and in the clofc ** of the faid nieffuage is another houfe ufually called The Sex- " ton's Houfe, the fame having been for about iixty years pall *' ufed for the habitation of the fexton of the parilh, and thefe *' meffuages and lands are enjoyed accordingly. Likewife Tho- ''mas Iddendon, 3 April, 1556, willed leveral meffuages and " lands, lying at and near a place in this parilli called High Street, *' to be for ever employed for pious ufes in that pariQi ; arid the *' fame being detained from the parifli feveral years, at lengtli, " upon an inquiiition taken before commiffioners for charitable " ufes, 1 2 December, 14 king James, the aforefaiil will and cha- *' ritable ufes were found, and the iaid mefTuages and lands (by " thofe commiffioners, 29 April foUowmg,) decreed to be en- " joyed and employed accordingly ; the truil:ees and their man- " ner of employment thereby fettled, and the fame are enjoyed *' accordingly. Alfo Thomas Gibbon, 3° December, 15° Eliz. " granted to truilees fcr ever an annuity of forty-three lliillings " and four pence per annum out of his meiruage, and three *' pieces of land upon Amboldeflierfl: in that parilh, containing ■' i'tven acres, which annuity was purchafed from him by the -* parifliioners, to be employed towards the maintenance of the " faid OF H A W K H E R S T. 13 "faid church, and the fame is enjoyed and employed accoid- *' ingly." A more fplendid modern l)enefa(5lion is alfo recorded on the table in the church : *' Sir Thomas Dunk, kr.ight, by his will dated 8 July, 17 18,, *' gave the lum of 200I. to be employed, together with the like " fum of queen Anne's bounty, in the purchafe of land in fee " limple, for the augmentation of the Jiving of the minifter of this " parilh, and his fuccefTors forever, which faid lands were accord- *' ingly purchafed, and rae lituate in Peppermill-lane, and at Del- " mynden-Green ; he alfo gave the further fum of 2C00 1. to be *' laid out in building and endowing a fchool and fix alms-houfes- *' at Highgate (in this parifli) ; the fchool-maller to receive 16I. *' and the alms people 61. per annum; which faid fchool and *' alms-houfes v/ere accordingly erected and endowed by William *' Richards, efq. his executor, who, to make the building and *' endowment more complete, added to the faid 2CC0I. above *' 600 1. of his own money ; and did, moreover, by his will, or- ** der, tliat a further lum, not exceeding 250 1. fliould be laid *' out in the purchafe of lands, the income of which fliould be ** employed to augment the lalary and penlions payable to the " fchool-matter and alms-people; in purfuance of which bequeft ** the right honourable George Dunk earl of Halifax, who mar- ** ried Anne, the only daughter aiid heirefs of the faid William *' Richards, in the year 1753, did, in confideration of the faid *' 250 1. (and of 70I. more railed by the fale of timber from Tilden " eilate, iettled before on the faid chaiitv") convev to the trurtees ** of the fame and their fuccelTcrs for ever, a melfuage and lands " lying near Fourthrowes, in the parilhcs of Mawkherft and ** Sandheril, of the yearly value of 16L by which means the. " falary- I- T n E lil STORY AND ANT I Q^TT I T I E S " falary ot" the fchool-mailer was augmented to 20 1. and the " penfions of the ahiis-people to 7 1. each, per annum." The ichool and ahns-houfes thus endowed are a plain and handfomc brick llrudture, fituated by the road fide at liigh- gate (Sir Thomas in his will having e-xprefltd a wilh, that the objeifts of his bounty fliould rather look for tlieir comfort within than without the building) ; and are under the management of refpedable truftees. Kilburne complains very heavily of the poor provifion which was made in his time for the parochial minifler, and gives the followine account at' its rtate from the diilbhuion of the abbev : " The abbot of Battel was patron of the church, and, till the " dilTolution or furrendcr of that abbey, there was always a *» redor incumbent, of one of \Vhich number, viz. John Crane, *' a monument of brafs, mentioning the fame, was, till of late "times, upon a fair tomb-rtone in the great chancel of this " church ; and one Henry Simons, at the time of the appropria- ■*' tion herein after-mentioned, was parfon incumbent there ; but " Trin. 30 Hen. VIII, the abbey being furrendered to the king, ** he 19th Martij that year granted the pr.tronage and prefenta- " tions of the re6lory to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, and " that king, 11 December, 38 of his raignc, granted the par- *' fonage to the dean and cha[)tcr of Chrill Church, Oxford, " and appropriated the fame thereunto immediately after the *' death of Simons the incumbent, and appointed, that the faid " dean and chapter fliould prefent an able clarke to the ordinary, *' who Ihould be named perpetual vicar of this church, and " fliould bear all charges, except reparation of the chancel, and "fliould have a dwelling, 12I. tos. i od. yearly penfion, and " fliould pay the king yearly for his tenths -255. id. and be " charged with firft fruits, which beini; done without the con- ^' fent of the faid duke, and no act done by him that appeareth, no " vicar OF HAWK II ERST. 15 ** vicar was endowed, but the office of curate was ever fmce givca *' by the i'aul dean and chapter as a donative, and no firll fruits *' were i)ai(l, but onlv 1 1 s. 8d. as a llinendiary." He proceeds to recite, that the dean and chajiter granted, 10 Feb. 3 Philip and Mary, to Sir William Peter, ^.'i per (inn. out of the parfonagc, for tlic churchwari-ens to receive and pay to the viair; and Mr. Edwaul Godwin, the ilipendary ir.cumbent, who was fuf- pended under the ordinance of the l^ong Parhament, received of- the dean and chaj)ter 20]. per annum, falary, the profits of the Eafter book, then of ibme value, ibme rooms in the p.irfbnage houfe, called the vicarage-rooms, a fmall held called the vicarage Croft, and the herbage of the ch\irch-yard. On his iufpenfion, the parilh was fourteen months without a minil^er, and were then obliged to provide one at their own charge. They eleded Mr. Nicholas Thoroughgood, of New Inn Hall, Oxford, a na- tive of the county, and a man of confiderable learning and emi- nence. The parifliioners made up his income lool. perann. but, u])on obtaining an augmentation from the State of 50I, per ann. their fubfcriptions were withdrawn. Mr. Thoroughgood continued at Hawkherft near feven years, and quitted it becaufe he did not chule to take the engagenient in. 1651, which was a- declaration of allegiance to the Commonwealth, as eftablifhed without the king and the lords, an oath that was very generally objedted to by the Prefbyterian clergy who had received their preferment under the Long I'arliament. After this period the augmentation from the State was withdrawn ; and at the time of Kilburne's narrative the income, from the decreafe of value in the Barter book, was but 24I. perann. At the Rertoration, it may be preiumed, the curacy reverted into its old channel, and it appears, that Mr. Ephraim Bothcl was ejetfled from it by the act of Uniformity in 1662. The incumbents of many benefices- in ;#6 TIVE HISTORY AND A N T I QUI TIES •in the neighbourhood, viz. Cranbrook, Benenden, Biddenden, Goudherll", Lamberhcrft, Ilorfmanden, Rolvenden, Stapleherrr, and Tenterden, all adjacent towns and villages, are mentioned in Calamy's lilt, as minirters filenced by that a6t ; and there is ftili a confiderable number of Diflenters in thofe places, particularly in the parifli of Cranbrook. The value of the curacy at nawkhorn", with the augmenta- tions by queen Anne's bounty, and Sir Thomas Dunk's bene- fad;ion, has, doubtlefs, increafed in fome proportion with the wealth and the opulence of the place. Whatever it may at pre- ■fent be, no one, who i^ acquainted with the amiable manners and excelletit charaiSler of the incumbent, will deem it more than adequate to the attachment he has {hewn the parilh in relinquilliing all other claims to preferment, and, durhig the 'Courfe of a verv lon$^ refidence, devotiny; the whole of his time to the clerical duty of the place. Hawkherll had anciently a market, by a gJiMOt of tiie 5th of Edward I. to the abbey of Battel, which was kept every Tuefday upon the green againlT: the houfe of the family of Boys ; but it had, in Kilburne's time, been long discontinued, though there were perfons who remembered the marketK:rofs ; and he writes, that in his own recollection a fmall horde, called St. Margaret's Crofs, was remaining, in which the corn was put v^hich was unfold on market-days during the exigence of the market, and that fome of the Ihops w^ere ilill llanding. A fair is yearly held in the parifli, near the church, on the loth of Auguft, St. Lawrence's day, the patron of the church, under a grant from king Edward I. the 5th of March, 1277, to the abbey of Battel, to hold for three days, the vigil, day, and morrow of the faint ; but, as the religious part of the cere- monial ceafed, and fairs were converted to civil purpofes alone, 7 it ^O F II A VV K 11 L R S T. ij it has l)een for raore than a century held on tlic Saint's clay and the fohowing clay only. Another fair is mentioned by Kilbtirnc, having been kept on •the 14th of February, in a field near the Moorhoufc, a large houfc fome time iince pulled clown, a little to the Ealhvard of the church, but that fair had, when he puhlilhed, been for many years d-ifcontinued. There were antiently five crofTes, which Kilburne alfo terms watcli-houfes ; one at BadGock's Green, called Badcock's Crofs ; another between flighgate and High-ftreet, at the \Vei\ cor- ner of the turning to Slipmill, formerly called Cook's Crofs, and afterwards Philpot's Crofs ; a third at Skelcrouch, at the turning in the road from Kent bridge to Hawkherft church, called Skelcrouch Crofs ; another at Highgate ; and the fifth at the Four Trowes, called Fourthrowes, or Pipfden Crofs ; which two laft remained when Kilburne wrote. It is eafy to be appre- hended, that a parifli conneiffed with a religious inilitution, wealthy and impoitant, like the abbey of Battel, would not be deficient in thofe means which were accuftomed to exhort to piety, in the dark ages of Popery. Such were thefe crofi^cs. As the light of the Retormation had dertroyed the objedts of fu- perflition, the remains of the ftrudture might be converted into watch-houfes, which will account for Kilburne's ufing them as fynonymous phrafes for the fame building. He mentions alfo a watch-houfe and beacon in a field near the Fourthrowes, which was one of thofe ereded in the counties of Kent and Suflex, by order of the lord lieutenant, on the alarm of the SpaniQi Ar- mada in 1388. It connecfletl the chain between Tenterden and Brightling, where there were al(b beacons ; and the field ap- pears well adapted for the purpofe, as the light might be feeii at fea Eaftward, and to the center of the county Weflward. D That iS THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES That part of the parifli called High^ate^ which the modem' road-books, following the provincial mode of fpeech, have termed Hyegate^ is named from one of the gates which was placed there to inclofe the commons belonging to the tenants of Wye;, and being on a higher hill than the others, the gate and houfes adjoining were called Highgatc. Kilburne concludes his ac- count with a defcription of an alteration made by the eredlion of a new bridge in the road from Hawkherft to Hurrt Green,, by which the ground of the parilh was apparently taken away, but the fite is only interefting by a view of tiie fpot, and the information valuable only as a parochial record. To the work of this accurate topographer is prefixed a prinf, engraved by T. Crofe •■•■, in a ftyle rather fuperior to moft of the book engravings of his day, reprefenting him in his lawyer's gown, broad band, fliort hair, pointed beard and whiikers, iii his 52d year, Sept. 24, 1657 ; and, as there is a charader in the countenance, it is, moft probably, what k is ftyled^ '* Vera Effigies Richardi Kilburne, Armi"eri."' For the ftate of the pariQi during nearly a century and a half, no refource is to be had from Kilburne. The weald of Kent and Suffex, one of the moft delightful parts of England, was for a long time acceftible to travellers only in the fummer months, from the miferable ftate of the roads, which, being naturally made on a clayey foil, overfhadowed with wood, and very narrow, were ill calculated for any carriage but the common waggon of the country, which was in moft places drawn by oxen, and even the horfe-track required a ftout and a<5live beaft to get on with any thing like expedition. The projec5f of turnpikes, though a heavy expence to the country, has ren- dered the roads (except in very rainy feafons) excellent ; and, by * This is probably Thomas Crofs, mentioned in lord Orford's Catalogue of Engravers, p. 30, between 1646 and 1684. Granger gives it Crofs, the OF n A W K H E R S 1 19 the adriition of u Toft ilone of that countrv, which foon "hnds to a fand, and forms a good nuxturc Avith the native clav, a great part of the village of Ilawkherft is plealingly lituated oa the ridge of a hill, many of the houfcs commanding on both fides an extent of view froni ten to tifteen miles, diverfified by •innumerable breaks of ground, much woodland, fmall inclo- fures, interf|>erfed with cottages, and noirefling molt of the re- quiiites of a perfedr landfcape, except a large ftream of water, it has been ibught for of late years as a very defirable refulcncc. E/Jord, the manlion of the family of Boys, has a jurt claim of preference in the village. It is a large building near the church, witli Ibme modem rooms, whicii, though they add to the convenience, do not take from the refpediability of the an- tient llrudture. The prefent poirtiTor, Samuel Boys, Efq. an adlive and iifeiul magilhate in the counties of Kent an-d Suifex, ferved the office of high-lberiff for the county of Kent in 1782. The owner c^i Ha\.vkberjl Place is apportioned in the largeft fum of the referved rent to the manor of Wye of any of the freeholders cf Hawkherft. This houle was anciently in the family of I'ix, a name once of much confe-quer.ce in the parilli, fince which time the ertate has been in the Feckham family, of iridge in Saleherlf, Suflex ; bu*", that faraih' being now extindl in the male branch, •it defcends by marriage to a gentleman of the name of Mickle- thwaite. The houfe, hov.'evcr, has been unoccupied, except as a farm-houfe, for a long time, aiul is very much out of rt;}")air. Mali Houje, tlie lands of which lie between the two elhitcs iart mentioned, was for above two centuries in the family of Mercer. Thomas Mercer, the poil-eiii)r of the eltate in 149c, left a bequeft to the altar of Hawkherll', and for the finding a lamp burning in St, Mary's cha]>el of Hawklierll: for twenty years. By ])urchafe, in 1662, it came into the jioHelTion of Nathaniel Collyer, efq. formerly a grocer in London ; and from him to ' ~ D 2 his 23 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES his orandfon, Dr. Nathaniel Lardner, whofe merits, as a writer oil' Eccleliaftical Hiftory and. the Evidences of Chriil:ianity, are iini- verfally acknowledged. Dr. Lardner, being a fingle man, left his property at Hawkherft to his filter's daughter and her hul- band, Mr. Joleph Jennings, who died in the year 1782 ; and it is now in the poflelhon of his fon. 'TongSy the refidence of Sir Thomas Dunk, is a fmall mo- dern built houfe, \n a retired part of the parifli, and conveys- no idea of the magnificence which has fince been attached to- the name of Dunk by the addition of Montague. Sir Thomas was a nati\ e of the parilh, and acquired a large fortune by the- tradc of a faddler, in VVellmintler. He left a fum of money amongli his poor relations, and other perfons at Hawkherfi, be- fides the telliiTiony of affedlion to the place of his nativiby, in the endowment of the rchool and' alms-houfes, which have been before-mentioned. The entail of his eflate devolved upon the daughter of Mr. Ricbards, his execvUcr, \vhofe family was the firlf in the remainder created by Sir Thomas's will. This lady marrying the earl of Halifax, and his lordfliip alRiming the name of Dunk, which was the condition upon which the Berkfliiie- efiates were to be taken,- the property at Hawkherft came into the poflelfion of lord Halifax, who, when hedifpofed of the free- hold eftates there, ftill retained the fee-fimple of the manfion- houfe, granting a long leafe, which made it equivalent in value.; - but, sir Thomas Dunk having annexed the vifitorJhip of the foundation to the poflTeflbr of his houfe, it itill remains with the earl of Sandwich, who married the daughter of lord Halifax. No claufe appears in Sir Thomas Dunk's will to oblige the pofleflbr of his fortune to affume the trade of a fackller, which from com- mon report the publick leem to have apprehended. Tongs, after ibme intermediate changes, is now the property of Fre- derick VVillbn, efq. a gentleman formerly in the India fervice. The O^ F U A \\- K H E R S T. £-1 The turnpike road leading from London to Rye, branching from the Haftings road at a hamlet called Flimwell, runs through rhis parilh, and, winding moft part of the way for four miles, on rhe top of the hill commands the view of it on both fides. At the firif entrance, on the South fide of the road, is a good brick houle, built by William Gray, a fmuggler, who died under fen- ^nce of tranfportation in Newgate. The exploits and depreda- tions of this gang of banditti is within the memory of many perfons. They travqjled in large bodies, with fire arms and ex- cellent horfes, till at length they became fo great a nuifance to the country, and fo very prejudicial to the revenue, that about the year 1748 government found itfelf compelled to exercife the ilrong hand of power againft them, and many of them fuffered capitally for offences which richly deferved the utmoft feverity of the law. By this means the gang was broken, and, though the contraband trade is Ifill very prevalent on the coalt of Kent and Suflex,. yet the fmugglers have never prefumed to conduit themfelves with the violence and outrage they did before that period. Of their expedition to Goudherlt fome account is given in Gent. Mag. vol. LV. p. fSvq. The writer does not mention that two of the fmuggiw-rs were killed 1/y the fpirited ^xerticn^ of the towns-people, who defended themfelves in the church. Gray's houfe, which he built on a fmall common, called Sea- cock's Heath, by inelofures and plantations has been rendered a very pleafiiig fpot. From the height of its fituation it com- mands a view, though very diftant, of the fea, and is now the property of John Hogarth, efq. a gentleman returned from India. A mile farther on the fame fide of the road, the late John Baker, eiq. receiver-general for the county, built a good mo- dern brick houfe in the place of an old family one; but Mr. Baker 21 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES Baker dying in 1774, his family have not refided there for any time fince. This part of the village, frcim its fitua'ion, is termed Higf.h- Jireet, aiul the continuation of the road on the gentle afcent oi' a fmali hill-is called Highgate, of which Kilburne has explained the etymology. At Highgate are the almllioufes and fchool founded by Sir Thomas Dunk, a new houfe built by Mr. Richarfel Turner, an inn, and rfome other buildings and fliops, forming a fort of village within itfelf. At a point of the hill, which com- •mands the beft profpe6l over the adjacent grounds into Siiflex, is a new houfe eredted by Charles Wilkins, efq. a gentleman wliofe name is in equal fame and elteem with the publick for his deep refearches into Afiatic literature. When the grounds about his 'dioufe are laid out in the flyle and with the taite he propoles, they will form a plantation of pleafui'fe-ground, which can ifcarcely l>e exceeded in fuch an extent of land. The general view will alfo be advantaged by plantations which are forming on the oppofite fide of the road, about the houfe formerly Kilbnrne's, now the property of Sir John Brewer Davis, knt. who, from his fecond name, it is prefumed, is a defcendant in the female ^line from the author of the Survey. Sir John refides at another feat in the Eartern part of the county, but his houfe at Hawk- herft has lately received many confiderable improvements, and may now rank with the molt convenient and conliderable in the place. There are fome other gentlemen of confideralil-e landed eftate refident in the parifli, John Dunmole Mercer, eiq. Mercer Durant, efq. and John Ofborne, efq. of Lilliefdcn ; but, except the lall houfe (which is a new-built one, and thti grounds difpofed in the n^, k<. a proof how much fuperior native good fenfe is to unmeaning civility and parade. He was occafionally an anonymous writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, and his ftyle and character are fufficiently marked to thofe who were acquainted with him. A Difquilition on Spiders darting their Webs was one of his fubje6ls of contro- verfy-, in which, like many theorifts, he maintained the im- poffibility of the fadl till experience had convinced him of the fallacy of his principle. He died, after a long and painful illnefs, Odlober 1774, at the age of 67. Such a man was truly the ornament of his native village. 5 Sept. 1 7 93. * Vol. XXXVI. p. 580. XXXVII. pp. 70. 344. 438 ; and the defeacea of the faft, Ib.XiXVil. pp. loi. 285. MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES, (IN CONTINUATION OF THE BIBLIOTHECA TOPOGRAPHICA BRITANNICA.) N^ III. CONTAINING Mr. BLORE's HISTORY of the MANOR, and MANOR- HOUSE, of SOUTH WINFIELD. [Price Ten Shillings and Six-pence.] *=,f* This Number contains Two Engraved Half Sheet Genealogical Tables ; Four Engravings of Views of Winfield Manor- Houfe; AND A Plate of Engraved Seals, &c. A N HISTORY OF THE MANOR, AND MANOR-HOUSE, OF SOUTH W I N F I E L D, IN DERBYSHIRE. By t H O. B L O R E, Of the Society of the Middle Temple, and F.S.A. " Time has feen, that lifts the low " And level lays the lofty brow; " Has feen this broken pile complete, " Big with the vanity of flate." Dyer's Gronzar HilL LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. NICHOLS. AND SOLD ALSO BY J. SEW ELL, CORN HILL; B. AND J. WHITE, FLEET STREET; R. FAULDER, NEW BOND STREET j AND T, AND J. EGERTON, AT THE MJHTARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL. MDCCXCIII. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE FERRARS TOWNSHEND, EARL OF LEICESTER, BARON DE FERRARS OF CHARTLEY, BOURGCHIER, LOUVAINE,. BASSET OF DRAYTON, AND COMPTON OF COMPTON, PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, &c. &c. &c. My Lord, . ■ - 1 HE delight with which the generality of thinking men treafure me- morials of pail: ages, the eagernefs with which they purfue the traces of ancient times and manners, and the pious regard which leads them to. preferve the monuments of the fplendour and tht; magnificence of their anceftors, have given to topography a refpeflable ftatlon amongfl: the ftores of literature. The mite I now offer, to encreafe the ftore of topography, has for it's fubjeft a manor and manfion heretofore the inheritance and, rcfidence of feveral illuflrious perfons. In the hiftory of their poflelTbrs will be found an account of your Lordfhip's anceftors, the Peverells, which, without a difcovery of new information, differs materially, and, I am perfuaded, on juft grounds, from Sir William Dugdale and our other writers, in the aflignation of the fadls recorded refpeding that part of your Lordfhip's family, • • B The [ ^ 3 The manor of South Winfield in Derbyflilre, vvhofe manor houfe was once the moft ftately refidence in that part of the kingdom, (not coming within the defcriptlon of or accounted a Caftle) though it has not been totally negleded by topographers, has, perhaps, been lefs attended to, by them, than any other place of equal confequence in this country. The manor houfe, great even in it's decline, is now fwiftly mouldering to the dufl from which it was raifed. Some affaults during the civil wars of the laft century, and the more deliberate attacks of it's fubfequent owners, have brought it to a ftate of irreparable ruin : and my wi(h to preferve a more correal account of the fucceflion of the poffeflbrs of the manor, with a more accurate and particular defcription of the manor houfe than hath hitherto been publifhed, and to give to the world a fpecimen of what it is my intention to offer in the Hlftory of the County of Derby, (for the Firft Part of which my Propofals have fbme time been circulated) have induced me to the prefent publication. Winfield is a name common in England, faid to be derived from the circumftance of a vidtory obtained at the place to which it is given. It is yet, however, to be difcovered that a battle was fought at this place anterior to it's receiving the name ; and it may not be amifs to obferve, that we rarely meet with a field of vi£tory whofe honour is not tarnifhed by it's having been alfo the field of defeat. Another attempt has been made to derive the name of Winfield from it's having been a vineyard, (Campus Fini;^ i.e. Wine-field) but we never yet heard of a vineyard at Winfield, except in the conjectures of ety- mologies ; nor has any good reafon been given to the pubhck to induce * Archaeologia, Vol. I. p. 330. ^ to [ 3 ] to a belief that any ever did exifl there ; and this derivation I therefore think is as improbable as the former. Thus much for former conjeclures : I will now offer what further occurs to me refpefting this name. Win or Whin is the more ancient name for the Gentfa Spmofa, i. c. Furze or Gorfe; and by the name of Win or Whin that plant is ftill com- monly known in Derbyiliire, Yorkfliire, and other counties of England farther northward. And as there yet remains much gorfe on the hill eafrward of and f^icing to South Winfield, and fome within a7i hundred yards of the manor houfe, it feems not unlikely that the etymon of the name may be Whin-field or Gorfe-field. But there is another derivation of the name, which is not very f\ir fetched, and which muft therefore be noticed. Gui?i in the Britifh fignifies water; and probably the Norman Clerk who made the minutes from which Domefday Book was tranfcribed, writing from the ear, would write it Win, and then the etymon may be Guin-field or Water-field ; which conjefture is fomewhat ftrengthened by the frequent floods from the little river that runs through Winfield, and which overflows the valley fo much, that three or four times every winter the pavement of the church of Winfield is nearly a foot under water. In Derbylhire there are two manors of the name of Winfield : viz. South Winfield, and North Winfield. Of* the manor of North Winfield I (hall briefly obferve, that it was, at the time of the General Survey of England, made by order of King William the Conqueror, and entered in the Book of Domefday, dependant on the manor of Pinneflei, now a trifling village called Pilleflcy, and then of the fee of Walter D'Eincourt, and that it long continued in the pofleffion of his defcendants. This notice it was neccfliary to take of North Winfield, to prove more decifively B 2 " that [ 4 ] that the following account, taken from Domefday Book, applies to the manor of South Winfield. — Before the time of the General Survey,' Elnod had a manor in Winefield rated to the geld at two carucates of land, the arable land whereof was three carucates: and at the time of the Survey, Robert held it of Alan Earl (of Britanny and Richmond), under William Peverel, and had one carucate. At the latter period there were a pricft, and eight vlUani, and two bordarij, with three carucates, and tlierc were four acres of meadow. The value was then as it had been before the Survey, (viz. In the time of King Edward the Confeffor) twenty flilllings. This mention of William Peverell, of whofe barony the manor of South Winfield afterwards appears to have been held, and the clrcumftance of North WInfield's being part of the D'Eincourt pofiLflions, enable me to decide, with certainty, that the defcription of Winefcld, here taken from the Book of Domefday, appertains to this manor, though the diftiutlions of North and South are not inferred in the General Survey. I mufl: here obferve, that the defcription of this Winfield, In the record whofe authority I have cited, is given between the account of the lands of Roger de Poi£lou (Rogerl Pldavenfis) and the account of the lands of Henry deFer- rieres. The record, after enumerating feveral manors of Roger de Poiiflou, fays, " Thefe lands had Roger de Poiclou : noiv they are In the poffeflion " of the King."- After thefe words follows a blank to the bottom of the .' Liber Domefday, Tom. I. fo. 273. b. «' M.' WINEFELD Elnod. IL car. t'ra ad g'ld. " T'ra III. c;ir. Rob't. ten' de Comiie Alano fub Will'o Peurel & h't I. tar. Ibi p'b'r & VIII " uiU'i & II. bord' cu. III. car. Ibi IIII. ac' p'li. valuit & ual. XX. folid." [int. 16°. &20^ Gul. Conq.] ~ Lib. Domefd. id. fo: " Has t'ras h'b. Rog. Piflau. m^. funt in manu Regis." column; [ 5 ] column ; and at the top of the fucceeJing column we have the clerciiptlon of this Winfield : it is therefore doubtful whether Winfield ever were part of the pofleflions of Roger de Poi£tou : but if it were, it was, after the feizure of thofe pofl'effioiis by the King, added to the barony of William Peverell. Though, however, it may be doubtful whether Roger de Poidou ever enjoyed this manor, yet as it does not appear under the poffcflions of anv other of the Derbylhire tenants in capite, as they arc recorded ia Domefday Book, it will here be proper to give fome account of him. Roger de Montgomery, a noble Norman, and a perfon prudent, fkilful, fpirited, and valiant, was amongft the Counfellors who advifed William the Conqueror in the invafion of England, and led the centre of his victorious army at the battle of Hafi:ings : for which, and for many other fervices, tlie King conferred upon him the Earldoms of Arundel and Shrewlbury. His eldeft fon, Robert de Belefme, fucceeded him in his lands and honours in Normandv ; and Hus;h, fecond fon ot Earl RoH:er, fucceeded in the Earldoms of Arundel and Shrewlljurv. The latter was killed in the year 1098, [12°. Gul. Ruf.] near t!ie fea fhore, in the Ille of Anglefey, by an arrow, fhot from a fliip of Magnus, King of Norway ; and, having no iflue, his Earldoms defcended to Robert his eldefl brother.' The third fon of Earl Roger, cidled Roger after his flither, and Plclaveniis, (i. e. of Poictou) from his having married a wife out of the county of Poictou, being a younger fon, enjoyed no part of his father's great in- heritance ; but diftinguifliing himfelf in arms, received from the Con- queror the Earldom of Lancafter- and all tiie land^ between the rivers of Ribble and Mcrfey in that county ;' and divers manors and lands in the ' Dusdale'*s Baronage, V. I. p. ;6, 27, &c. » lb. p. 3?, ' Lib. Domcfd. T. 1. {o. 269. t. & 270. counties [ 6 ] counties of York/ Nottingham/- Lincoln/ Norfolk/ Suffolk/ and Effex,- and four or five manors in Derbyfhire.^ Being thus a man of great pofTeffions, he became a confiderable bene- fa£lor to the abbey founded by Eail Roger his father at Shrewfbury •/ and by his charter/ in which lie fllles himfelf Rogerus comes Picla- •venjisy and to which Sibilla his daughter is a witnefs, he gave the church of St. Mary in Lancafler and divers churches and lands to God, and the monaftery of St. Alartin at Sals, " Sagicfijls" in France, (which his father and mother had reftored) for the health of his foul, and of the foul of Roger Earl of Shrevvfbury his father, the Countefs Mabilla his mother, his brethren, and his friends. But in the year iioi, joining with his elder brotiier, Robert De Belefme Earl of Slirewfbury, who then took up arms againfl: King Henry the Firft, in the behalf of Robert Curthofe Duke of Normandy, eldefl fon of the Conqueror, and being vanquifhed in that conteft, he was driven out of the kingdom for his offence, zud fome cf his pojfejfions were given, by King Stephen, or King Henry the Second, or both of them, to Ranulph Earl of Chefter.'° Dugdale fays " all his " poffeffions" were given to the Earl of Chefter : but in this he mufl: be mlftaken ; for, though the Earls of Chefter uuqueftionably enjoyed that part of his lands lying between the Ribble and the Merfey, yet none of them ever had thofe lands mentioned in Domefday Book to have been enjoyed by him in Derbyfhire : and, indeed, the Derbyfhire effates appear to have reverted to the Crown long before his unfuccefsful enterprife in » Lib. Donicfd. T. I. fo. 332. ' lb. fo. 290. ■'' lb. fo. 3^2. « lb. Tom. II. p. 243. 5 lb. p. 346,-353. & p. 281. b. ' lb. p. 89. ' lb. Tom. I. fo. 273. b. * Monafticon Anglicinum, T.I, p. 37S. 380. 3S3. * Pat. 15. R. 2. p. i. m. iS. — Men. Angl. T. I. p. 566. '° Dugdak's Baronage, V. I. p. s?. and 39. behalf [ 7 ] behalf of Curthofe; and this manor, hi fome way, became annexed to the barony of William Peverell. But before I proceed to fpeak of the Peverell s, I mufk notice Earl Alan ; under whom the manor of VVinfield was at the time of -the General Sur- vey, held by Peverell. This Alan, furnamed Rufus, from his red hair, was fon of Eudo Earl of Britanny in France.* He was from his youth vahant ; and being a near neighbour to William the Conqueror, before his acceflion to the Crown of England, he was remarkable for the fearlefliiefs of his carriage towards that powerful Prince/ He accompanied him in his fortunate expedition into this country, and commanded the rear of his army at the battle of Haftings:^ and in the year 1069 he was with the Conqueror at the fiege of York,'^ and was then for his great fervices re- warded with all the towns late of Earl Edwin (i. e. of Edwin who before the conqueft was Earl of Mercia) in Yorkfhire, which lands were after- wards fliled the honour of Richmond.' The King alfo gave to him many great eftates in the counties of Dorfet,* Hants,' Cambridge,^ Hertford,' Northampton, '° Nottingham," Lincoln/- Effex/^ Norfolk, ''^ and Derby.'s He was the founder of the great abbey in the city of York, dedicated to St. Mary,'^ and a benefador to the abbey of St. Sergius and Bacchus in Normandy, by the gift of the church and tithes of Swavefey in Cam- bridgefliire, and the tithes of many other places ; wdiich church of Swave- fey, in after times, was a cell to the laft mentioned abbey.'^ He died I - 3 4 s Regiilrum Honoris de Richmond : Dugdale's Baronage, V. I. p. 46 : & Lib. Domefd, T. I. fo. 309,-313. * Lib. Domefd. T. L fo, 79. ^ lb. fo. 44. « lb. fo. 189, 193. b.— 195. 9 lb. fo. 136. b. & 137. '° lb. fo. 224. " lb. fo. 282. b. " lb. fo. 347, & 348. '3 lb. Tom. IL p. 35.3. & 35. b. ■■» lb. p. 144,— 151. b. •5 lb. T. L fo. 273. b. »* Mon. Angl. T. I. p. 385, 386, 387, Sc 391.— and Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 46. " Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 57*. without [ 8 ] without Iffue, (and probably unmarried) A. D. 1089.' It is liiid he was ever ftudious for peace, a great lover of the poor, an efpecial honourer of the religious, and that his death, without iflue, occafioned no little fadnefs to all good people.- I now come to the family of Peverell ; of which family, the firfl: perfon I meet with of this line is William Peverell, who was the natural fon of William the Conqueror by the wife of Ranulph Peverell, ' and had, of the gift of his father, very confiderable poffeflions, the principal part of which was in Nottinghamfhire. And yet I am perfuaded the feat of his barony was in Derby fhire; becaufe, though Ordericus Vitalis mentions his having the cuftody of the newly built caftle of Nottingham committed to him by the Conqueror, m the feeond year of his reign,'' yet no mention is made of that or any other Nottinghamfhire caftle in Domefday Book amongfl: his pofleflions ; whereas, the cajlk in the Peak Foreft (in Derbyfhire) is ex- prefsly mentioned at the head of his manors. He had in Nottingham 5 forty-eight houfes of merchants, and twelve houfes of Knights; and thirty- nine manors, with many dependant villages in Nottinghamfhire :^ (according to Dugdale,) forty-four lordfhips in Northamptonfhire ;' (according to the fame,) two in- Eflex.^ He had one manor and a dependant village in Bed- fordfhire ;'' tv.-o towns in Oxfordfhire ;'° eight manors and their depend- ancies in Buckiwghamfliire ;" and, befides this manor of Winfield, twelve manors and their villages in Derbyfhire.'^ ' Regift. Hon. de Richmond. ^ Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 46, ^ 4 ib. p. 436. -' Lib. Domefd. T. I. fo. i8o. '^ Ib. fo. 287. 288. ' Ib. fo. 225. I fay according to Dugdale j becaufe, in Northamptonfliirc, manors are not fpeclfied in Domefday Book. ^ Lib. Domefd. T. II. p. 90. " Terra Will'i. Piperclli." « L. Domefd. T. I. fo. 212. b. \° Ib. fo. 157. b. » lb. fo. 148. " Ib, fo, 276. • ■ On [ 9 ] On the rupture between King William Rufus niul Robert Curthofe his elder brother, this William PcVlixH, with 800 men, hcKl t!ie caftle of Helme In Normandy for the King; but, on its being bditged, was obliged to furrender it." William Peverell (his fon,"-) in the time of King Henry the Firfl, founded the priory at Lenton near Nottingham, for Cluniac monks, and for the health of the fouls of King William and Qiieen Matilda, and of then and his parents, and of King Henry and his Qiicen Matilda, and of their children William and Matilda, (the latter of whom flrft married to the Emperor Henry IVth, and afterwards to GcofFrLy Plantagentt Earl of Anjou, and by her lafl: hufband was mother of King Henry lid.) and alfb for the health of his own loul, and of the Ibuls of Adeline his wife, his fon William, and all his (the founder's) children, he gave thereto many lands in Derbyfhire and Nottinghamfliire,' to which his knights and great tenants made confiderable additions.'* He gave to ihe abbey of St. Mary In York, founded by Alan Earl of Britanny, eight carucates of land in Rudflan;^' and having founded an abbey of Black canons, in honour of St. James, ^ near the town of Northampton, died, according to the » Dug. Baron. V. I. p. 437. - MS. Hail, in Muf. Brit. N\ 807. fo. 22. b. ; 3 •* Mod. Angl. T. I. p. 645, &: 646. &; Cart. jo'. E. II. n. 50. This foundation muft have been in or after the 4th year of King Henry the Firfl ; for that year the Emprefs Matilda was born. Speed's Hift. of Britain, p. 464. 5 Won. Ang. T. I. p. 388. This donation Dugdale afcribes in his Baronage, V. I. p. 437. to William Peverell of Dover ; but as there appears to have been fome connexion between the Derby- fliire Peverells and Alan Earl of Britanny, the founder of York Abbey, it is prob.ible Dugdale is not in this refped correft. ' Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 437. — IMon. Ang. T. II. p. 49.— and Tanner's Notitia by Nafinith. C reglfter regifter of that abbey, cited by Thorotoii, p. 488, oa the 5th of the calends of February, A. D. 11 13. (ii.H. I.)^ William Peverell, fon I prefume of the Lift named William, was one of the temporal lords who attended King Stephen in the great council held at Oxford in the ift year of his reign, in which the King granted his charter of indulgences to the people and privileges to the church :* and in the 3d year of King Stephen he conduded the Nottinghamfhire forces into York- fhire againft the Scots ; and in that expedition he, at the fiimous battle fought near North Allerton in Yorkshire, called Bellum de Standardo, fliared in the honour of a glorious victory obtained by the EngUfh under the command of WiUiam Earl of Albemarle, in the company of Robert de Ferrars, then Earl of Ferrars, and afterwards created Earl of Derby. ^ But in the 5th or 6th year of King Stephen (i 140) he experienced a wide reverfe of fortune : for continuing firm in his attachment to the King; and the affairs of the Emprefs, who had then raifed an army to aflert her right to the Crown, taking a favourable turn ; Ralph Paganell Baron of Dudley, one of her adherents, fet fire to the town of Nottingham, and this WiUiam Pfeverell immediately afterwards fighting ftoutly at Lincoln, in the army of Stephen, againft the army of the Emprefs, headed by Robert the Conful, Earl of Gloucefter, he was there taken priloner with the King, and the government of his caftle at Nottingham was given by the Emprefs to the before-named Ralph Paganell.+ But in the following year ' Nota All. Dom. 1113. Sc An. 11. Hen. I. are not accordant. The date fliould probably either be A. D. 1 1 13. & An. 1.4.. Hen. I. or .'\n. D. 11 10. & An. n. H. I, " Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 437. and Holinflied, p. 365. and 366, ^ 3 Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 437. 6i. and 259. " Dug. Bar. V. I. p, 437, and 431. — auJ Speed, p. 473. I am .iivare this aiflion and all the other [ " ] - year the foldlers of William Pcverell by ftratagem in the night recovered it again.' King Stephen being at Nottingham, at the very earned entreaty of this William Peverell (the third) and of Oddona his wife, and Henry his fon, confirmed to the moiiaftery of Lenton what William Peverell, father of this William, or this William himfelf, or any other benefaftors had given thereto.* This William Peverell, (the third) it fee ms, had taken from the canons of Lenton the churches of Hecham and Randia, which had been given to them by William his father : but afterwards, repenting of w hat he had done, he with the confent of his heir, William the younger, reftored them. liis deed being attefled by many witneffes, and, amongft others, by Robert de Heriz.^ William and Henry, the fons of the third William Peverell, it is moft likely d-ed before him, and without ijjue ; for, if we attend to dates, it is a reafonable prefumption that it was William Peverell the third of whom it is related that in h. D. 1153, i^^"- Stephani) he poifoned Ranulph other occurences I have related refpcfling this family, except the donation to York Abbey, are annexed by Dugdale to one and the fame William Peverell. But bclide that the regiftcr of St. James, near Northampton, offers evidence (notwithflanding the ciifagrcemcnt between the year of our Lord and the year of the King's reign) that William Peverell the founder, whom for didinflion I will call William Pcverell the fecond, died in the time of King Henry lit. it is highly improbable that the firft William Peverell, who by the Comjucror, a jealous and wary man, was entrufted with the cuftody of the callle of Nottingham in the 2d year of bis reign, fliould be capable of fighting floutly for Stephen 74 years afterwards. And, indeed, I think it is evident it was not him, but his grandfon, W illiam Peverell the third, who fought for King Stephen. ' Dii£^. Gar. V. I. p. 437. » Thoroton's Nottinghanifl). p, ji8. s lb. p. 488. C 2 Gernons [ 12 ] Gernons Earl of Chefter. For this crime, (fays my authority) fearing the feverity of Henry lid. who foon afterwards fucceeded to the Crown, he fled to a monaftery of his own patronage, (conjedtured to be Lenton) and was there fhorn a monk : but being informed King Henry, in his way from York, was about to pafs through the place in which he had cloiftered himfelf, he threw off" his religious habit and privately fled, leaving his caftles and pofTeflions to the mercy of the King. What became of him afterwards I know not. But his lands were granted to John Earl of Moreton, afterwards King John.* Margaret, daughter and heir of William Peverell, (the third I prefume) married Robert de Ferrars, the younger Earl of Derby, who in her right often failed himfelf Earl of Nottingham.' But though William de Ferrars Earl of Derby, fon of Robert, appears to have had the poflreflion of the manors of Hecham (Higham Ferrars), Neobote (Newbottle), and Bllfewrthe (Blifeworth), in Northamptonfliire,' which were part of the Peverell poffeflions, yet he was obliged partly to pay and partly to give fecurity for 2000 marks, to have the quiet enjoyment thereof, in the i6th year of King John.'^ Little, however, as the family of Ferrars poflefled of Peverell's lands, the defcendants of Ferrars by Margaret Peverell, left off their paternal ' Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 437. . ' - Dugdale in his Baronage, V. I. p. 259. fays flie was married to William de Ferrars, fon of Robert; but, if it were fo, there could have been no pretence for Robert's ufing the title of Earl of Nottingham. And the regifter of Tutbury (fome parts of which I fliall hereafter have occsfion to introduce to the notice of the publick) proves that Dugdale is very erroneous in his account of the early defcents of the Ferrars family. ^ Liber Niger Scaccarij, T. I. p. 218. & T. II. p. 639. « Oblata 1°. Joannis, pars i. m. 22. arms. [ 13 ] arms, Argent. Jix horfe Jhoes fahle^ and bare tliofe of Peverell; viz. Valre or. & Gules. Probably not admitting that Earl Ranulph was poifoned by William Peverell, and conlidering the charge as a pretence of Henry lid. to get pofleflion of Peverell's lands : and it is further probable, they might intend, by bearing his arms, to preferve a ftrong memorial of their claim to his lands as their right and inheritance. But it is my defign to enter more fully into the difcuffion of this fubje^V, when, in the County Hiftory which this is intended to announce, I come to the Hiftory of the Earls of the County of Derby; of whom your Lordfliip is the hereditary re- prefentative. The following pedigree may probably render what I have faid refpefling the Peverells more intelligible. r< "^ G 3 — - t^ ^ (0 « rS -o W • S -o , II •^ -.2 S S p: o = fcQ o ■T3 t2 O 1^ . 11- -3 . >, ^ o u > Si O Pi 3 Q ^ Sh % • • (A • 04 But before the felzure of Peverell's lands. It is very likely the family of Heriz had become poflefled of the manor of South Winfield, holding it of Peverell's barony. Of this family Robert de Heriz, (probably the fame Robert who is mentioned in Domefday Book to hold Winfield of Earl Alan, under William Peverell) on the foundation of the priory of Lenton, by by the fecond William de Peverell, amongft the other men or great tenants of that nobleman, contributed to the provifioii made for the priory, by the gift of two parts of the tithe of his demefne in Hefsburna and Oflecrofc' Ivo de Heriz, (fon of Robert) in the 5th year of King Stephen, gave account of feveral fums of money of the old farm of Nottinghamlhire and Derbyfliire, (whereof it feems probable he had the cuftody) and of five great or led horfes, that he might hold the land of Welgebi in fee farm ; and of two of them he acquitted himfelf to the King at Winchefter, before Miles Earl of Gloucefter, and of the other three m Normandy. - This Ivo g-ave to the canons of Lcnton los. vearlr, at the fame time that Robert his father gave to them his mill at Wyftandon.^ William de Heriz, fon, or grandfon of Robert, gave to the canons of Darley juxta Derby, all his tenure of Derby within the borough and without; which gift was afterwards confirmed by King Henry lld.^i- William de Heriz, grandfon, I prefume, of the firft Robert, in the I2tli year of King Henry the Second held four Knights fees of the Earl of Lincoln,i and in the 18th year of King Henry the Second he is returned in the fcutage of the Barons who neither attended the King in perfon into Ireland, nor fent him foldiers nor money for that fervice, to have paid into the Exchequer 4I. for his Knight's fees.* After this his lands were feized into the King's hands ; and in the 20th year of King Henry lid. he gave a fine of one hundred pounds to repoflefs them.7 » Mon. Angl. T. I. p. 646. = Rot. Pip. 5°. Steph. 3 Thoroton, 295. ♦ Mon. Angl. T. II. p. 230. 5 Lib. Nig. Scacc. T. I. p. z-ji. * Rot. Pip. i8. H. II. Nott. & Derb. ' lb. ao, H. II. Nott. & Dcrb. This [ 15 ] This William de Heriz, for the health of his foul, and of the foul of Adeline his wife, (daughter and heir of Rohcrt de VVhatton) and for the foul of Robert de Heriz, his brother, gave Arnald, his man, of VVidmere- pole, with his uhole land, being four bovates, and all cuftonis and fervices thereto belonging, and his mill at Widmerepole, and wood out of his woods at Huccanal, to make and m.end it forever ; and half his mill at Gonoldefton, and the like power in his woods there, and divers other things, to God, and the church of Lenton, upon the great Altar, he and h,is wife there offering it in the prefence of many witnefles ; amon^^ft W'hom were Robert de Heriz, William his uncle, and Robert the Sheriff.' In the 25th year of King Henry 11. the Sheriff accounted for 78s. and 4d. being the farm of the lands of this William de Heriz,- he being then dead, and his lands probably in the cuflody of the King, by reafon of the minority of his heir. Befide his wife Adeline, he is faid (by Bugdale in his Baronage, V. I. p. 684. who cites the authority of Robert Glover, Somerfct-Herald) to have had another wife, Matilda, lIic daughter of Ralph Lord BafTet of Drayton, in StafFordfhire. But this cannot be true : for in the 26th year of King Henry lid. this William de Heriz being dead withoui ijfue, Robert his brother and heir, paid an hundred pounds for livery of his inheritance -,3 and the William de Heriz who married Matilda Baflet had iJJ'ue; which ilTue enjoyed, under an intail, part of the lands of the laft Ralph Lord BafTct of Drayton. ' Thoroton's Notts, p. 39 and 40, " Reg. de Lemon, 109." - Rot. Pip. 25. H. II. N'ott. & Derb. ^ Rot. Pip. i6. H. II. Xott. & Derb. Adeline, [ ^6 ] Adeline, the wife of William de Heriz, furvived him, and 26°. H. II. gave a fine to the King of one hundred marks, that flie might not be compelled to marry any other perfon than fuch as fhe fliould chufe.' The gifts of William de Heriz to the church of Lenton, Robert his brother, grandfon of the firfl Robert, confirmed ; and gave the whole portion of corn, growing on his land at Widmerepole, to be " chriftianly " buried" at Lenton.* ... Robert the grandfon, by deed without date, remifed and quit claimed to God and the church of the Blefled Mary at Darley, and the canons there ferving God, his right of advowfon of the church of Winnefeld, with its appurtenances and liberties in pure and perpetual alms, for the health of Ills foul, and of the fouls of his wife and his friends. ^ To this Robert de Heriz, (Heric) John Earl of Moreton, before he came to the Crown, granted that he (hould have hunting, an huntfman, and all other liberties and free cuftoms in his wood, and in his land of Winefeld, without vexation and without regard of the Earl's forefters. And that he (hould have quiet carriage from the wood aforefaid, for gift and for fale, fo that he enclofed the wood in fuch manner that the Earl's beafts iliould not be able to enter.^ And ' Rot. Pip. 26. H. II. Nott. & Derb. - Thoroton, ut fup. 3 Ex autoj. penes Adam Wollcy, jun. de Matlock. Com. Derb, gen. * Cart. 1". Joannis, p. 2. m. 16. n. 102. *' Rex conceffit Ivoni de Heric fil. Rob'ti de Herk " U li'cdib'z fuls pofl cum imp'petuu' q'd h'eant Venatum & Venatorem & om'es alias lib'tates *' & lib'.-js confiictudines iu bofco fuo & in t'ra fua dc Winefeld fine vexac'one & fine regardo " forcflariot' [ ^7 ] And afterwards John, on his acceffion to the Crown, by his charter, dated at Worcefler on the iith of April, in the firfl year of his reign, granted to Ivo de Heric, fon of Robert de Heric, and to his heirs for ever, ' the hke liberties, exprefsly referring to the charter, which he (the King) had whilft Earl of Moreton granted to Robert de Heric, fitlier of Ivo ;' and for this grant or confirmation, Ivo de Heric gave to the King tea marks of filver, to be paid on demand ; five marks at Eaftcr, and five marks at IMichaelmas.^ In the 1 6th of King John, Ivo de Heriz gave a fine to the King of 300 1. for certain lands of Ralph Bafiet :5 and foon after, in the conteft between the King and his Barons, he joined the latter in their ftruggle for liberty ; for which the King feized his lands. •'■ But it was not long ere he gave to King John a fine of forty marks for the King's grace and benevolence 'J and, fays Dugdale, on the accejfwn of King Hetiry the 'Third, and'ihe rejloration of the realm to quiet, his lands were re/lored.^ - " Ralph Fltz-Simon and Mabilia his wife, in the loth year of King Henry the Third, releafed to John de Heriz the third part of the manors o^ PFinesfeud, Tibefchelf, Gonoldefton, and Widmerepole ; which Ralph " foreftarior' n'ror' Et q'd quietum h'eant cariagium de bofco p'd'co de dato & vcndito Ita tainen " q'd ipfe claudat nemus p'no'i'atum ne bellie n're iiemus illiid ingredi poflint. Has lib'tates con- " ceffimus ei & h'edlb'z fuis de iwU' & h'edib'z n'ris in feudo & hereditate, fcut carta li'ra quam " Rob' to lie Herk fri ip'ius I-vonis fcchnus dum cjjcmiu Comes Moreton r'ouabilu' tejiatur. Dat, apud *' Wigorn. sj. die April. Anno r'ni n'ri prinio." ' Cart, ut fup. - Oblata 1°. Joannis, ni. 4. 3 Rot. Pip. i6\ Joannis, Nott. & Derb. * Baronage, V. I. p. 684. citing Clauf. i. H. III. m. 18. This, however, is an erroneous reference, ' Fin. 16, & 17. Joannis. f Dug. Ear. V. I. p. 6S4.. . D claimed [ i8 ] claimed as the reafonable dower of Mabilia, out of the freehold of Ivo de Heriz, her former hufband/ Ivo de Heriz was a benefador to the canons of Felley in Nottlngham- ihire, as was alfo Robert his father; the charter of the latter (viz. Robert) being vvitnefled by Robert his fon, Geoffrey de Heriz, &c. and the charter of the former (viz. Ivo) being for the health of the foul of his brother, William, and attefted by William de Heriz of Wyverton, Simon the chaplain of Wynfeld, &c. ; and John de Heriz, fon of Ivo, was alfo a benefador to the fame canons.* It feems, however, that Ivo de Heriz had a brother Hugh, (probably an elder brother) who by deed without date, confirmed to God and the canons of Darley, the right of advowfon of the church of Winnefeld, which Robert de Heriz his father gave to them, with lands inUlkerthorp, for the health of his foul, and of the fouls of his father, mother, predeceflbrs, and friends.' And by another deed he granted to the fame canons a bovate of land in Winnefeld; viz. lo acres in tiie Affart, which Gilbert Gierke held, and two acres adjoining thereto, weflvvaids.''- And by another deed he granted and confirmed to God, and the before- mentioned canons of Darley, for the health of his foul, and of the fouls of his anceftors, %vith the body of Hawife Briewer his wife, and for the health of her foul, and the fouls of their fuccefibrs, fix acres of land in the territories of Winnefeld, in pure and perpetual alms.i ' Fin. in divers. Comitat. lo. H. III. Derb. ^ Thoroton's Notts, p. ajj. ' 4 s Ex. autog. penes A. Wolley, jun. „ y • . * Jollll John cle Heiiz,* (foil of Ivo) In the reign of King Jolin paid 60s. by the hands of William de Wiverton, for his fee in Wynefcld, on the coUciilion of the aid to the King (by the fcutage of two marks) towards the mar- riage of the King's fifler to the Emperor (King) of the Romans.* This payment by William de Wiverton Jhr John de Heriz is prefump- tive evidence that John de Heriz was then within age, and ^hat Ivo his father \yas dead; fo that the reference of Dugdale to Clauf. 1°, H. III. m. 18. (before mentioned) Is not merely erroneous as a reference, but the latter part of the ftatement fupported by it is erroneous alfo. King Henry the Third on the ifl: of April, In the eleventh year of his reign, gave refpite to John de Heriz, fon of Ivo, for receiving the honour of Knighthood until Pentecoft In that year : and the SiierifF of Notting- hamfhire was commanded that he fhould not trouble him on account of his not receivinp; it at Eafter.- This John de Heriz held the manor of Wynnefeld, with Tybefhelf and Oxcrofr, for two Knights fees of the honour of Peverell ; for which he was only to perform fuit of Court from three weeks to three weeks, at the Court of Peverell, in the county of Derby.^ By a deed without date, John de Heriz declared that the abbot and convent of Darley had, at his requeft, granted to him and his heirs to have divine fervlc.e performed by a chaplain, at the expence of him and his helrs^ In the chapel at Linbery, (faid to be near a place In the parlfh of Winfield, now called Ufton Hall) faving the jurifdidion of the church of Winnefeld in confeffions, obventions and profits thereto belonging, as "^ Tefta de Neville. » Clauf. 1 1. H. III. m. 14. 3 Tefia de Neville. D 2 well [ 20 ] well from him and his heirs as from his family and houfhold. And he further declared that he had engaged upon his corporal oath, that if any- thing (hould be celebrated in the chapel of Linbery to the hurt of the jurifdidion of the mother church of Winnefeld, it (hould be feen unto : and that if he fhould retain a chaplain yearly with him, he would prefent that chaplain to the abbot of Dailey, who fiiould adminifter to the chap- lain a corporal oath for the indemnity of the mother church : and that If the church fliould be In any wife injured by this chantry, it fliould be lawful for the abbot to Interdi£t the chapel until fatisfaftion fliould be made by him and his heirs.' John de Heriz died before the 30th of Henry the Third, leaving Sarah his wife furvlving j^ who afterwards married Jollan de Neville,^ a juftlce itinerant, and a man of great note In his day; more efpecially eminent for having compiled the curious record before cited, called the ^ejla de Neville^ Henry de Heryz, fon of John de Heryz, A. D. 1255, granted to Walter, abbot of Darley, and his fucceffors, the Innd of Wiftanton, (Weflington in Com. Derb.) which he had of the gift and conveyance of Ralph Fltz- Ralph, or of his father, with the capital meffuage of that town ; to hold to the abbot and his fucceffors for ever ; rendering to Henry and his heirs, at every entry of the King into Wales, one war horfe of the value of four fhlUlngs, one Hick of the value of fix-pence, and an halter of the value of an halfpenny ; and, upon the renewal of every abbot of that abbey, twenty fliillings of filver in the name of a relief.''- ' 'Ex. autog. penes A. Wolley. * 3 Rot. Pip. 30, H. III. Line. ♦ Peek's Monaflicon Int. MSS. Harl. in Muf. Brit. N°. 4937. fo. 129. ,. . ..._ , On > I 21 ] On the 1 8th of February, in the ift year of King Edward the Firfl, ■the Kinc^ took the fealty of John de Heriz, brother and heir of He iry •de Heriz, deceafed, for all the lands and tenements Henry his brother held of the King in capite on the day he died. And the King rendered thofe lands to him, on condition that John, on the firfl: coming of the King into England, (hould come tn the King and do his homage for them : and the efcheator had command to deliver feifin accordingly.' This John, fon of John, fon of Ivo de Heriz, releafed to the priory of Thurgarton the iiomages and fervices due to him for lands in Gonaldefton, which Ivo his grandfather granted to Philip, fon of Odo, and Philip gave to the priory ; and which lands John de Heriz, foa of Ivo and father of John, had before confirmed.- John de Heriz, the grandfon of Ivo, died in or before the 27th year of King Edward the Firft : for by the inquifition taken at Wynnefeld on the ift day of July, that year, it is found that he held of the King, in capite, of the honour of Peverell, the manor of Tippefchell, (Tibfhelf) in the county of Derby, by tiie fcivkc of one Knight's fee. And that fie held the manor of Suth Wynnefeld of Lawrence de Pavely, by the fervice of one Knight's fee. And that there was there a certain capital meffiiage jnfufficient for the fuftentation of the family. That there were in demefne three bovates and an half, and three acres of land; worth together iis. and 3d. That there was a certain park whereof the herbage was worth los. perann. That there were there three free tenants; viz. Nicholas Cotys, who paid for his tenures 9s. Ralph Coher, ps. and 2d. and Simon de Morewood, 12s. and 3d.: the whole rents of free tenants amount- ing to 30s, and 5 d. That there were the following cuftomary tenants ; f Fin. I. E. I, m. 24. * Thoroton,, 599, viz. [ 22 ] viz. Nicholas Atteftonehende, {^'■adji^mn v'dle"') who paid 6s. per annum; William Bateman, i6s. and 8d. Stephen, fon of Godus, 13 s. and 4d. Symon "Atteftonehende," 7 s. and 6d. William Bercher, 6 s. and 8d. and others for their feveral tenures : the whole rents of the cuftomary tenants amounting to iil. los. 8d. There were alfo eight cottagers, every one of whom held a toft and paid 2 s. per annum ; in the whole i6s. : fo that the whole manor of Suth Wynnefeld was then of the annual value of 17I. 1 8 s. 8d. The jurors further found that John, fon of John de Heriz, was his next heir, and of the age of 21 years at the Feaft of St. Gregory the Martyr, then laft.* And on the 13th of July, in the 27th year of King Edward the Firfi:, the King took the homage of John, fon and heir of John de Heriz deceafed, for all the lands and tenements which John his father held of the King in capite as of the honour of Peverell, and thereupon rendered to him his lands, and gave command to the efcheator to deliver feifin accord- ingly, faving to Matilda, the widow of John, her reafonable dower.' The laft John de Heriz, by fine in the 18th year of King Edward the Second, fettled his manors of Wynefeld and Tybesfhelf, and his manor of Gonaldefton in Nottingham (hi re, on himfelf for life, with remainder to Roger Beler for life ; remainder to Roger, fon of Roger, and to Margaret, the elder, daughter of Richard de la Rivere, Knt. and the heirs of their bodies ; remainder to Thomas, fon of Roger Beler, and to Margaret, the younger, daughter of Richard de la Rivere, and the heirs of their bodies ; remaiiider to the right heirs of the /aid John de Heriz^^ ' Efc. 27. E. I. n. 36. = Fin. 27. E. I. m. 12, 3 Thoroton, p. 4.0. and 300.— Trln. 18. E. lU - And [ 23 ] And by the inqulfition taken at Chefterfield on Saturday the Feafl. of St. Katherine the Virgin, in the 3d year of King Edward the Third, the jurors found that the faid John de Herice held in his demefne in fee, on the day of his death, in the county of Derby, 50 s. annual rent in Brakcn- thwayt, Ifluing from the tenements of frank tenants, which rent he held of WiUiam D'Eyncourt, by the fervice of ids. per annum. That he alfo held the manor of Tybesflielf of the King as of his honour of Pevereli, then in the King's hands ; and that he held, for term of his life, of the grant of Thomas de la Forthe, clerh, ajid Robert de Couland, by fine between them levied, the manor of JVynefeld of Lawrence Pavly, by the fervice of half a Knight's fee. And that after the deceafe of the faid John de Herice, the manors of Tybesflielf and Wynefeld were to remain to Roger Beler (then deceafed) for the term of his life; remainder to Roger, fon of Roger Beler, and to Margaret, elder daughter of Richard de la Rivere, then living, and to the heirs of their bodies. And the jurors faid that the fum total of the value of the manors of Tybesflielf and ^^"yncfeId was 40 1. 7s. 4d.; and that Matilda de Herice, next of blood [confangiiinea) of the faid John de Herice, whom Richard de la Rivere had taken to wife, was next heir of the faid John de Herice, and of the age of 30 years and upwards.^ There was an hofpital at Brodbulk, in Gonaldefton parifli, (which, I believe, is ftlU In being) founded by fome of the Heriz family, (according to Tanner, by WiUiam de Heriz; in the time of Henry III.-) and to which John, fon of John de Heriz, was a benefactor. ^ As to the foundation, however, there muft be a mifliake either in the date or the perfon ; for William de Heriz, Lord of Gonaldeflion, was dead in A°. 25. H. II. ' Efc. 3. E. III. n. 57. J Tanner's Not. and Cough's Camden, V. II. p. 289. ^ T-inner. By [ 24 I By an Iiiquifition taken at Alfreton on Monday next after the Feaft of the Tranflatlon of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the i8th year of King Edward the Third, it is found not to the damage of the King or any other, that the King fhould give licence to Alice Beler and Roger Beler, Knt. to grant the manor of Cruche to Roger, the fon of Roger Beler, and to Margaret, the Jaughici of John Grey of Codnor, to hold to Roger, fon of Roger,, and to Margaret, and to the heirs of their bodies ; remainder to the faid Roger Beler and Alice, and to the right heirs of the faid Roger Beler, And the jurors further found thai the faid Alice and Roger had bejides 20/. land and rent in Wynejeld and 'Tybjhelfe^ held of the King as of his honour of Peverell, by Knight's fervice,\ And by an inquifitlon taken at Derby on the 20th of December, in the 4th year of King Richard the Second, it is found that Roger Beler and Margaret his firft wife,- daughter of Richard de la Rivere, Knt. held iointly the manors of Wynefeld and Tybfchelf to them and the heirs between them lawfully begotten; and that the faid Margaret his wife died fixteen years and upwards before tKf faking the. Inquifition : that about feven years before the taking the inquifition, the faid Roger Beler gave np to Robert de Swyllyngton, Knt. and to Margaret his wife, daughter of the faid Roger, and to the heirs of their bodies, all right and claim to the manors of Wynefeld and Tybfchelf; rendering for. them and for the manors of Wldmerepole and Gonaldeflon, in Nottinghamfhire, 200 marks ' ' Efc. 18. E. III. n. 64. ^ She muft have died between 3. E. III. and 18. E. III. and confequently thirty-fix years at leaft before this incju'ifition was taken ; for flie was his wife, 3. E. III. and the inquifition refpeding hij fetilement on a fecond wife, live daughter of Grey of Codnor, is in Efc. iS. E. III. n. 64. peif r ^5 ] per annum to Roger for his life : and that the manors of Tybfchelf ancf. Wjnefeld were of the annual value of 67 1. ; viz. Wynefeld 3^5 i. 13?. 4d^ and Tybfchelf 33 1. 6 s. 8d. ; and that the latter ivds held of John Pavely, Knt. by the moiety of one Knight's fee. That the faid Roger Beler died the 8th of October, then laO, leaving Margaret, tl.e v -fe of Robert de Gwyl- lyngton, Knt. daughter of the faid Roger, (by his full wiic, Alargaret, elder daughter of Richard de la Rivere, Knt.) and Thomafine, the daughter of the faid Roger, (by Katherine his third wife) his next lieirs : Ivlargaret aged 30 years and upwards, and Thomafine aged 7 years at the Feaft of St. George, then lafl:. It is alio found that he held the manor of Crich, and that the abbot of Dnrley held of him two Knights fees; Nicholas de Longford, Knr. one Knight's fee ; William de Chaworth, on: Knight's fee ; Thomas de Rerefby, Knt. and the heir of Roger de Rerefby, one Knight's fee; John de Annefley, Knt. two Knights fees; William Dethek, and the heir of William de Wakebrigge, half a Knight's fee; and the heirs of Thomas de Birchover, half a Knight's fee,' The family of Bellers or (as it is frequently written in records) Beler was of good antiquity in Leiceflerfliire, deriving it's defcent from the fame flock with the noble houfe of Moubray.- Roger Bellers, of Kirkby Bellers in Leicefterfhire, the firft of the name who appears to have had an intereft in Winfield, was a defcendant (I prefume of a younger branch) of the family of Bellers of Kettleby upon Eye in that county, and began to ere£l a chantry at Kirkby in the pth year of King Edward II. ^ and in the 13th year of Edward II. endowed it for a cufl:os and twelve chaplains to » Efc. 4. R. II. n. 14. » MS. Harl. N^ 1178. and N". 1067. 3 Tanner's Notltia fcjr Narmitb, & Mon. Ang. T. II. p. 344, E perform [ 26 ] perform divine fervlce for the health of his foul, and of the fouls of Alice his wife, William Baler his father, Amicia his mother, Roger Beler his grandfather, Amicia his grandmother, Ralph Beler of Kettleby, &c.' He was killed in a valley near Rerelby in Leicefterfliire, by Euftace de Folvillc and others, on the 4th of the calends of February, 1326.* Alice, the widow of this Roger, and Roger Bellers their fon, in 1359 appropriated the chantry of Kirkby to the ufe of canons regular of the order of St. Auguftine ; of which order it continued a priory till the diflblution of monafteries.^ ^ ■: ,;, ^ ,. Roger, the fon, appears to have been a perfon of confiderable confe- quence in Derbyfhire, having ferved the office of Sheriff for the counties of Derby and Nottingham in the 35th, 36th, 43d, 44th, 45tb, 46th, and 47th years of King Edward the Third ;'^ an office which was not in thofc days entrufted to peribns of low efleem or narrow fortune. This Roger Bellers had four wives. Firft, Margaret, eldeft daughter of Richard de la Rivere, Knt. by whom he had a daughter Margaret, who (befide the manors of Winfield, Tibflielf, Widmerpole, and Gonaldefton, which were of her mother's inheritance, and were given up to her in her father's life-time) had on the partition of her father's lands, the manor of Boney in Nottinghamfliire, and divers mefluages and lands in Thorpe- Secheville, and Kyrkeby upon Wreke in Leicefterfliire. 5 He fecondly married Margaret, the daughter of John Lord Grey of Codnor, who died ' Tanner's Notitia by Nafmith, Sc Mon. Aug, T. II. p. 344. ^ Mon. Ang. T. II. p. 346. and Burton's Leicefterfli. Tit. Kirkby Bellere. 3 Tanner's Not.— Mon. Ang. T. II. p. 346- & Burton ut fup. " Fuller's Worthies Dcrbyfli. ^ Efc, ^. r. ji. n. 14. '^'^ i,,i.'itrj ./i ' without r ^7 1 . without iffue : thirdly, Katherine, by whom he had a daughter Thomafiue, who had the manors of Kyrkeby upon Wreke, and Somcrby, in the county of Leicefter ; and lands in Boney in Nottinghamfhire, on the partition of her father's inheritance.' His fourth wife was named Mary : (he furvived him, and had the manor of Criche in Derbyfhire, and the hundred of Framland, and lands and rents in Grymflon, Eflwell, Gouteby, (Godeby) Scaldford, and Thurlington in Leicefterfhire, &c. for her dowry : and died feifed of the manor of Criche on the 4th of March, in the 15 th year of King Richard the Second ; having, after the death of Roger Bellers, married John Seynt Clere, Knt/ •. . The heir general of Bellers, of the blood of Heriz, married Into the family of Swyllyngton, and carried with her a great inheritance, as appears by what hath already been related. The latter family had it's feat at and derived it's name from the manor of Swyllyngton, near Pontefraft Caflle, In Yorkfhire,^ and was of lb high eftimation, that Adam de Swyllyngton, one of the family, had fummons to Parliament amongfi: the Barons of the realm, in the 20th year of King Edward the Second, and the ift and 2d years of King Edward the Third.-^ This family is laid to have pofleffed lands to the amount of 2000 marks yearly^ long before the time of King Henry the Eighth. 3 By an inquihtion taken at Derby on Tuefday next after the Feafl: of St. Bartholomew, in the 15th year of King Richard the Second, it is found that Robert de Swyllyngton, Knt. died the i ith of July, then h{\, and that Robert (Roger it fhould be) de Swyllyngton was his (on and next heir, and ' Efc. 4. R. II. n. 14. - lb. 15. R. II. p. I. n. 5. 3 Leland's Itin. Vol. IV. pt. i. fo. 19. * Prynne's Reg. of Pari. Writs, part i. p. 323. s Leland ut fup. E z then r 28 ] tlien of the age of 21 years. He was felfed at the time of his death, iti right of Margaret his wife, of the manor of Wynefeld, with its appur- tenances ; and there were there a capital meflliage, with an hall, many- chambers, a dovecote, and other buildings, (domib'z) worth nothing by the year beyond reprifes ; a carucate of land, fallow, (frifche) with •meadows and paftures, worth 33s. per annum; a park worth 40s. per annum; rents of free men, natives, and cottagers, to the amount of 14I. 17s. id. per annum; a clofe called Ufton Wood, the herbage whereof "was worth 3 s. 4d. ; and two water mills, worth 20s. per annum, beyond reprifes. And it was found that the manor was held of John Pavlty, but by what fervice the jurors were ignorant. He alfo held the manor of Typfhelfe in right of his wife, and had the caftle of Horfton in Derby- ihire, by the grant of the King for the term of his life.' He at the fame time alfo held, in right of his wife, the manors of Boney, Widmerepole, and Gonaldefton, and the advowfons of the churches -of Widmerepole and Gonaldefton, and tlie chapel of Brodbufk in Notting- "hamfliire. He had alfo, in right of his wife, the manors of Kyrkeby upon Wreke, and Somerby, in Leicefterfliire ; and, in his own right, a tnoiety of the manor of Newhall, and of the advowfon of the church of Thurlefton, and divers lands in that county ; the manor of Prinowe, and divers lands in Northamptonfliire ; the manors of W^fete, Weftleton, Wefthall, Yoxford, and Thurfyngton, and divers lands in Suffolk ; and the manors of Shelf ', Swyllington, Fairburne, Bradford, and Alaiondbury, and divers lands in Yorkrtiire ; befide the hundred of Stafford, and tlie manor of Burgwaleys in that county, which he held for the term of , , " Efc. K. R. II. n. 61, pars i. his [ ^9 ] his life.' Margaret, the wife of this Robert de Swyllyiigton, furvlved him; and afterwards married to John de Eylesford or Eynesford, Kiit.* By an inqulfition taken at Derby on the 6th day of September, in tlie 5th year of King Henry the Fifth, it is found, that in the oftaves of St. Michael, in the pth year of King Richard thp Serniul, a fine was levied between Ralph de Forthyngton, clerk, and William Caudray, plaintiffs, and Robert de Swyllyngton, Knt. and Margaret his -wife, deforcients of the manors of Wynefeld and Tibesflielf in Derbyfliire, and eftates iu Nottinghamshire ; which were thereby fettled on Robert de Swyllyngton and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Margaret. That Robert and Margaret had iflue Roger de Swiilington, Knt. That Robert died; and Margaret his widow afterwards married John de Eylesford, Knt. then deceafed : which John and Mar- garet his wife, by their charter, dated in the Morrow of the Nativity of the Blefied Mary, 20. R. II. granted the manors of Criche, VVynfeld, nnd TibesfhelfF, to Roger de Swyllyngton and his heirs, referving yearly daring the life of Margaret, no marks. That the manor of Wynfeld was held of the heirs of John Pawley, but by wliat fervice the jurors were ignorant. And that Roger de Swyllyngton died the 6th of Augufl, then laft; leaving John his foa and heir, aged 25 years and upwards.^ By an inquifition taken at Chefterfield on St, Bartholomew's-day, in the 6th year of King Henry the Fifth, it is found that John Swyllyngton, Knt. was felfed at his death of the manors of Cruche, Wynfeld, and Tybbeflielf, in Derbyfliire ; and of tlie manors of Wydmerepole and Go- iialdefton, in Nottinghamfliire ; and the advowfons of the churches of \ Efc. 15. R. 11. n. 61. pars i. \ lb. 15. R. II. p. 1. n. j. s lb. j. H. V. n. 46. Widmerepole, t 3*= ] Widmerepole, Gonaldefton, and Stanton on the Wolds. That he alio 1 held the manor and advowfon of the church of Stanford on Sore, whereof he was jointly enfeoffed with Johanna his wife, by the name of John, fon and heir of Roger Swyllyngtou, Knt. and Jolianna his wife, by William de Leke and others ; that the fald John Swyllyngton, Knt. died the 2d of April, then lail ; leaving Margaret, the wife of John Gra, Knt. his filter and heir, of the age of 30 years and upwards : and that the manor of Wynfeld was value per ann. beyond reprifes, 7I. 9 s. i id.' By an inquifition taken at Derby 25th Otflober, 8th Henry Vlth, the jurors find the fine levied in the 9th year of King Richard the Second^ whereby the manors of Wynfeld and Tybesfhelf were fettled on Robert de Swyllyngton and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies; with remainder to the right heirs of Margaret. That Robert died ; Margaret furviving, who was fince dead ; after which the premifes defcended to Robert de Swyllyngton, fon of Roger, as grandfon (confang.) and heir of Robert de Swyllyngton, Knt. and Margaret ; viz. fon of Roger, fon of Robert and Margaret. That Robert the grandfon was feifed, and died feifed of the premifes ; after which they defcended to Margaret, the wife of John Gra, Knt. as fifler and heir of Robert the grandfon. That Mar- garet Gra was feifed, and died feifed, In fee tail without Iflue ; after which the premifes had remained, did remain, and ought to remain to Ralph Cromwetl, Knt. Lord Cromwell of Taiejl.mle, as coujin and heir of Margaret, Kvife of Robert de Swyllyjigton, Knt. viz. as being fon of Ralph, fon of Ralph, Ion of Avicia, fifter of Roger [Sellers], father of Margaret, the wife of Robert de Swyllyngton, Knt. becaufe there tvas no ijfue remaining ff Robert and Margaret.- . .... ..; .: ... ':.;■-•:- ... ._ ' Etc. 6. H. V. n. 14. = lb. 8. H. VI. n. 40. :-''■;,/ • But [ 3t I . But notu'ithftanding the finding of the jury In the mquiiitlou I have Lift flated, " that this ejlate ought to remain to Ralph Lord Cromwell" it doea not appear that he had the quiet enjoyment of it till fome time after- wards : for in, or about the 19th year of King Henry the Sixth,' there was a great fuit between the Lord Cromwell and Henry Pierpont, Knt* for the manors of Winfield and Tibflielf, in ibis tuuutj, and the manors of Gonaldefton and VVidmerepole, in Nottinghamshire ; the Lord Crom- well claiming as heir of Margaret Gra, of the inheritance of Beilers, and Sir Henry Pierpont claiming as heir of the hiheritance of Margaret Gra, defcended from the family of Heriz : the event of which fuIt appears to have been a compromife, by which the manors of Gonaldefton, Widmere- pole, and Tibflielf, were veflied in the family of Pierpont ; and this manor of Winfield was aflljred to the Lord Cromwell. -■■!■; ''--'-' -rx^J ■.■■.■'■ :'.\,-. .)■'■: '.,.:.:■. .:;.• ..^ i.X I:: .;; i!5-;-;-.-7 jj'ti "^o It muft, however, be here obferved, that upon the evidences ftatecf, every thing given to the Lord Cromwell upon this compromife, was fo much more than his right-, becaufe, as the fine levied in the 9th year of King Richard the Second was incapable of aff-ecting the iffue of Thomag Beilers and Margaret his wife, to whom a remainder in tail in the premifes was limited by the fine of the i8th year of King Edward the Second, it could only operate to create a bafe fee, determinable on the failure of iffuc of the bodies of Robert de Swyllington and Margaret his wife, if, at the time it was levied, Thomas Beilers and Margaret his \vife, or their iflue were in being. But if, at the time of levying the lafl mentioned fine, Thomas Beilers and Margaret his wife were dead, and had no furviving iflue, then that fine, beuig competent to extinguifli the eftate tail veiled in * Irrot. inBanc. Hil. ig. H. VI. rot, 321. &r. 137. ' ■ Margaret, . [ 32 ] Marearet, the wife of Robert de Swyllyngton, as heir of the body of Roser Bellers and Margaret his wife, the laft mentioned eftate tail was thereby merged in the reverfion and inheritance in fee firaple limited to the right heirs of John de Heriz by the fine of i8. E. II.; and Henry Pierpont, Knt. being, in the 8th year of King Henry the Sixth, by the failure of ifl'ue of the other braiiLhes of the Heriz family, become the heir at law of John de Heriz, ought to have fucceeded.' '' The fimily of Cromwell was of great antiquity in Nottinghamfliire, and derived it's name from the Lordfliip of Cromwell in that county; whereof Alden, anceflor of Ralph Lord Cromwell, was owner at the time of the Conqueft/ And that it was of long Handing in Derbyftiire, is evident from the grant of King Henry the Third to Ralph de Crumbwell, of free warren in all his demefne lands at Crumbwell, Com.. Nott. and Halumer (Weft Hallam) in Com. Derb.5 The connection of the Cromwells with the manor of Winfield originated in the marriage of Ralph de Crumwell, Knt. with Avicia, the fifter of Roger Bellers. Ralph Cromwell, Knt. fon and heir of Ralph and Avicia, married Matilda, the daughter of John Bernake, fifter and heir to her brother William, who died in his minority ; which John Bernake was fon and heir of William Bernake, Knt. and of Alice his wife, fifter and heir of John de Driby, who was coufin and heir of Robert de Tateftiale, a Lord of Parliament in the time of King Edward the Firftj^ and by this marriage ■ Vide the cafe of Martin ex dim. Tregonnel v. Strachatn in B. R. Hil. 16. G. II. - Thorotoi^ p, 353. and 354. 3 Cart. 41, H. III. m. 3. * Plac. de Banco. 3S°. E. III. rot. 396. Line, ,?:••!.-: - the [ 33 3 the Cromwells became poflefTed of the manor of Tatefhale in LIncohifhire-, which was afterwards defigned the feat of their Barony. Ralph Lord Cromwell (grandfon of Ralph Lord Cromwell and Matilda Bernake) fucceeded Margaret, the wife of John Gra, in the manor cf Winfield, as hath before been ahferved. ., ,^ To this Ralph Lord Cromwell, King Henry the Sixth, on the i ith day of Auguft, in the i irli year of his reign, granted the office of Treafurer of the Exchequer; to hold, with all things appertaining, to the office, during the King's pleafure:"^ and in the 14th year of King Henry the Sixth, he was retained to ferve the King, in the relief of Calais, with one Knight, twelve men at arms, and one hundred and feventy-five archers/ On the 3d of Oiflober, in the fame year, the King granted to him, by the name of Ralph Lord of Cromwell, Treafurer of England, the office of Mafler of his Hounds and Falcons ; to hold to him, with the wages, fees, and other commodities whatever, as entirely, and in the lame manner, as the King's moft dear uncle, John Duke of Bedford, or Edmund, then late Duke of York, deceafed, in his life-time had the office.^ And on the 22d of September, in the fame year, the King granted to him, for his fervices, 40 1, during the royal pleafure, to be yearly received out of the iffues of the manor of Wkafshyngburgh in Lincolnfliire, then in the King's hands by the death of the Duke of Bedford.^ On the 14th of July, in the 17th year of King Henry the Sixth, the King, at the requefl; of this Ralph Lord Cromwell, granted to him and to the King's uncle, Henry bifhop of Winchefter and others, patrons of the • Pat. II. H. VI. p. 2. m. 13. ' Dug. Bar. Vol. II. p. 45. 3 Pat. 14°. H. VI. p. 1. m. 23. •• lb. 14°. H. VI. p. I, m, 12. F parifli C 34 ] parifli church of Tatefliale, and to their heirs and afl'igns, licence to make the church of Tatefliale collegiate, in honour of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, St. Peter the Apoftle, St. John the Baptift, and St. John the Evangelift, for feven chaplains, {ix fecular clerks, and fix choirlflers ; (of ^vhich chaplains one was to be mafter or keeper) and alfo to ere ^ \ •;; =- ^ 1 =5 ^ ^ V ^ <> ■< 5; -^ J; ^ s ■^ =$ r| •S S :^ V ' ^ ^. ^.- ^' ^ < " ^ ■v; ^ s- is- \ h -J -^ f ■n i ^-.^^ ^: i^ 5 5->^ 11 1 I— "5^ Co^t-^ mm\^~. •^1 V ^ ,^ ^ "^1^ 5 «J =^ ^ ^ 11 N =t •^ 5 ^ 1;=! V V n ■« ^ ~* J. '-< 1-;S ^S4 "* ?-- "^ K ;■«: T- It 5-5 <5 5 Ji -5 c2 V. It^ 1 1 .^ ^ 1 ^ -i =1 •-: 4 ■s: ii i 4 v^ 4 73^ [ 57 ] For the defcent of the Barony of Cromwell, after the deceafe of this Lord Cromwell without iflbe, as alfo for the particulars of the defcent of the families of Heriz, de la Rivere, Bellers, Swyllyngton, Cromwell, and Pierpont, as far as they were refpeclively interefted in :he manor of Win- field, I refer the reader to the genealogical table annexed : but there is a ftory of Francis Vifcount Lovell, a defcendant of the Cromwell family, which though it hath been before printed, and though he could not have fucceeded to this manor, becaufe Ralph Lord Ciomwcll fold it away, may yet, as the Lord Lovell had a co-claim to the Barony of Cromwell, without impertinence be again related in this place, ■ , ;; The Vifcount Lovell was with the Earl of Lincoln at the battle of Stoke, near Newark upon Trent, on the i6th of June, 1487, fighting in the behalf of Lambert Simnel againft King Henry the Seventh ; and fome of our hiftorinns report that the Earl of Lincoln, the Lord Lovell, and others of their party, were, after the battle, found dead ' in the field, in the places they had occupied during the adion ; and that they had defended their flations valiantly, neither turning fruui tiieir adverfaries nor yielding their ground.- Of the Lord Lovell, however, it is reported by others that he endeavoured to efcape by flight from the battle, and fwam acrofs the river Trent on horfeback ; but that being unable to afcend the oppofite bank, by reafon of the fleepnefs of its acclivity, he was drowned in the river.3 And a third report lays he was not drowned, but having ' Stowe's Chron. edit. i. p. 791. Thoroton, p. 179. Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 560. Howe's Chron. p. 472. Holinfiied, V. II. p. 1431. Baker, p. 255, and 256. Speed, p. 94S. Bacon, vide inf. - Holinflied, V. II. p. 143 1. Baker, p. 255, and 256. Speed, p. 94S. Bacon, vide inf. ^ Hclinfhed, V. II. p. 143 1. Baker, p. 25;, and 256. Bacon, vide inf. effeded [ 38 ] efFe£led his efcape, he long time afterwards led his life in a fubterraneous cavern,' where at laft he was ftarved to death, through the treachery or the negligence of the perfon to whom he had entrufted the fecret of his retirement, and on whofe afliftance he depended. The latter report was fome years ago ftrongly authenticated : for on pulling down the houfe at Minfter Lovell, in Oxfordfliire, formerly the refidence of this Lord, in a vault was difcovered the body of a man, richly appareled, feated in a chair, with a table and a mafs book before him. The body was apparently entire when the workmen opened the vaults but from the admiflion of air it foon mouldered away : and there is every reafon to believe this was the body of the Lord Lovell, who confiding himfelf to the care of a fervant, was fuffered to perifh, either through treachery or fear, or by fome accident which had difabled that fervant from performing the office he had under- taken.^ This Nobleman had tafted in an exquifite degree the uncer- tainty of human enjoyments. He had been taught by fevere experience, that . *' The tide of bufinefs, like the running ftream, . .' •. " ' <« Is fometimes high, and fometimes low, - '" «< A" languid "ebb, or a tempeftuous flow, ■ ../fi; 2^ ; . ;[■ . '; ' ^ , *■<■ And ahiays in txtremi." ' \ ■■ , j,-,..,',o ..... ,.-.-. ., , J Dryden. ., * " Uiuverfos autism duces in acie cecidiffe ; nempe, comitem Lincolnia;, comitem Kildaris, ** Francifcum dominura Lovellum, Martinum Swartum, et Thomam Broughtonum, omncs fortiter " pra;liantes, nee tcrga vertentes, aut retro ccdentcs. Tantum de Lovcllo cxiit fermo quod e prxlio " fiigcrit, et flumen Trend equo tranfnataverit, fed adrerfiim littus propter ripae prrecipitium *' confcenderc non jjotuit, unde in fluvio fubmerfus eft. At alius fcrmo cum in fluvio non relinquit j •' fed refert, quod diu poll in caverna quadam fiibterranea vitam produxerit." ' . . Hidoria Regni Regis Henrici Septimi. \ ... . . Bacon's Works, printed by Millar 1753, Vol. III. p. 549. *i ♦- • ■ - * Hift. of the Houfc of Ivcrv, V. I. p. 280. . ' In [ 39 ] • In the time of Richard the Third the fun beams of royal favour rcpofcd unclouded on his fortune ; and wealth and honours followed in his train, to encourage the ardour of his ambition. A few years pafled, and Richard paid with his life the forfeit of his cruelties. Lovell fought with his mafter at Bofworth, and then faved himfelf by flight : but after iiaving for fome time wandered about, and encountered the ftorms of adverfity, he made a defperate effort to re-efl:abli(h himfelf in the pofleflion of his fortune, by efpoufing the caufe of Lambert Simnel ; and, in that purfuit, his fate was confummated, and has left a dreadful kflba to thofe who flatter themfelves in the fecurity of profperity. Valet ima fummis *' Mutare, et infignia attenuat Deus, *' Obfcura promens : hinc apiccm rapax *' Fortuna cum ftridore acuto " Suflulit, hie pofuifTe gaudet." HoR. Lib. I. Car. xxxW. The laft Ralph Lord Cromwell, in the time of Henry VL fold the reverfion, after his death, in the manor of Winfield, to John Talbot, fecond Earl of Shrewfbury ; as partly appears evident from two inqui- quifitionsj the one taken after the Earl's death,' and the other after the death of his fon ;* by which it is found, that being feifed in fee of the manors of Bamford, Eyam, Middleton, Bafslow, Bubbenhill, Folowe, and Braflyngton, in Derbyshire, he, by his charter, dated 27 March, 36. Hen. VI. had thereof enfeoffed James Earl of Wiltshire, Nicholas Wortley, John Wombwell, Robert Barley, Thomas Everingham, and Robert Eyre, Efquires, io the intent that the feoffees JJiould pay all debts ' Efc. 38. & 39. H. VI. n. 58. Derb, » lb. 13. E. IV. 11. 51. Derb. •which r 40 ] which he owed to Ralph Cromwell for the pur chafe of the manor of Wync" felde: and that he had it in the time of Henry VI. and not till after the death of Ralph Lord Cromwell, is evident from the firf accounts'^ of the Earl's auditor or receiver, overfeers and bailiff^ for the lordfhips of Win- field and Crich, commencing Michaelmas, A°. 36. H. VI. which was two years, at leaft, after the death of Ralph Lord Cromwell. . John, fecond Earl of Shrewfbury of the family of Talbot, (who waa tke purchafer of this manor of Winfield) on Whit-Sunday, the 4th year, of Henry VI. received the honour of Knighthood at Leietfler, on the feaft, held there upon the reconciliation of Cardinal Beaufort and the Duke of Gloucefter :' and in 20. H-. VI. he attended his fit^ier in the wars of France ;3 being the year in which his father (whoie valour and vvifdom were the ilay of the Englifli authority in that country) was created Earl of Shrewfbury. And in 24. Hen. VI. (when his father was created Earl of Waterford) he was appointed Chancellor of Ireland ;''■ and hold- ing that office in A. D. 1451, complaint was made againft him that " abfque Regis Licentia" he employed a deputy.^ In the month of July, 31°. H. VI. his father attempting to relieve Chaflillon, then befieged by the French, terminated a life of military glory ; being killed, with his fon, the Lord Lifle;^ whereupon this John, his eldeft fon, (then 40 years of age,) fucceeded him in his Earldom of Shrewfbury and other .hereditary honours, and was the fecond Earl of Shrewfbury of his houfe: and in 32'. H. VI. he had a livery of the lands of his inheritance, and had ' The originals of thcfe account?, on roUs of parchment, are in the pofTeii^on of Mr. A. Wolley, who has indulged mc wiih the iifc of them : and, as they contain foiiie curious Items, I fiiall give the fubflancc of ihcm at the conclufion of this Work, - Holinilial, V. II. p. 1234. •' Rot. Franc. 20. H. VI. m. 24, * Pat. 24. H. VI. j>. J., m. 9. ' Cox's Hin, of Ireland, p. 163. ^ HolinflieJ, p. 12S5. refpite L^ ^J u s •^ ~^ ^ S; ." s s. \ vi -^ ?; \ "< c ? = ■^ ^^v> >s~^ s: ^w >i -^ ^ ■$ ^' * ^e.5 < < -.s ^ -5 w- •i>^s • nil -■S T ? ^ 11 K VI N ;S-;V ■ Vi ^£ -J ■=! ^ >l^ T ^*s ^IS ^ ^ s. 'S ■^v. 1. V E - > 5:s =«5 T SiK l^s- ^ - *-? 5^^ &« •«-« ■^■^c 3 \-s Hh|s ja ■«!. ,1: 5^ S'^ Jl} - S-* < .^ =554 ^^v; •s^ I'i; ^-Iv 1^1 ->:: ft >» Ill It > 5; ^4' \ :.. .1§. ■4 ss '^ T^s s4 I * 3- K f? ^ ri "^ ^ "? i^W^ lil'^y "S >S 5 J t "^ J I il >^ -< ^=1 A ^ 1 K * ^> - S ilC < ■ 'Si lP'41' 4^. i-%- l^t [ 41 ] refplte of his homage.' In 35. Hen. VI. he was appointed Lord Treafiuer of England.'- On the 4th of May, ^^. Hen. VI. (1457) he was inftallcd a Knight of the Garter.^ On the 24th of Fehruary, ^y. H. VI. (1458) he was conftitiited juftice of Chefter :^ and on the 19th of Decenaber, 38. Hen. VI. in conllderation of tlie charge he had been at in tlie King's fervice, he obtained a grant of an hundred marks per annum during his life, out of the revenues of the lordfliip of Wakefield, in Yorkfhire, for- feited by the attainder of Richard Duke of York. 5 And on the loth of July following, this Earl,*' and Chrirtopher his brother, no ways degene- rating from their noble anceftors, but fighting valiantly for King Henry VI. ngaiiift the Yorklfts, at Northampton, were both of them flain -J after which, the Earl's body was carried to Worklbp, and depofited in Our Lady's Chapel hi the priory.^ And by the iiiquifition taken at Bolfover,^ on the 3ifl of Oclober, 39. H. VI. It is found, that befides the manors whereof he had enfeoffed ■ Rot. fin. 32. H. XL in. 3. - Pat. 35. H. VI. p. i. m. 16. 3 4 Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, V. I. p. 3+1. ^ Pat. 38. H. VI. p. i. ni. 16. ' Holinflied, 1299. ? Dug. Bar. \'. I. p. 331. ' With this Epitaph — " Sepulchrum raagnanimi, atcjue prxpotentls domini, domini Johannis de " Talbot Comitis Salopis fecundi, ex Regie fanguine ducentis originem. Qui Henrico Regi fidiffi- " mus, Belle apud Norlhamptoniam gefto, ante figna ftrenue pugnans, honefta morte occidit die decimo " Julij anno domini nodri Jhefu Chrifli MCCCCLX. Cujus animx propitietur Dcus. Amen," " Salopiae Comitis Lapis hie tegit ofla Johannis " Cui nihil antiqulus quam fuit alma fides " Hie ut fcrviret Rcgi, tornienta fubivit " Intrepidus ferri fanguincainque necera. " Ergo licet parvum condat fua Vifcera faxum, " Virtus Angligenum liiftrat in onine foluni." Dug. Bar. ut fiip. ' Efc. 38. & 39. H. VI. n. 58. Derb. G his [ 42 ] his feoffees as before flated, he held the manors of Monyafti, Clieh-nerdon, and Berd ; and lands in Shatton, Whitfield, Shallcrofs, Ferniley, Bowden, and Fairfield ; and a rood of land at Buxton,' by Hallywall ; all in Derby- fhire : and died the i ith of July, then lad:, leaving John Earl of Shrevvf- bury, his fon and heir, 13 years of age and upwards, when the inquifition was taken. His eldeft fon and fucceflbr, John Talbot, third Earl of Shrewibury, was born, according to Lodge,- the 17th of October, 1448; but, if the inquifition jufl flated be correft, at leafl: a year before ; and, fo early were the youth of thofe days trained to the profeffion of arms, that, when fcarcely 14 years of age, he attended Queen Margaret to the fecond battle of St. Alban's,3 fought Feb. 17, 1460; immediately after which. Prince Edward, fon of Henry VI. conferred upon him the honour of Knighthood.^ He feems, however, not to have been included in the number of thofe who, on the acceflion of Edward the Fourth to the Crown, were attainted for their adherence to King Henry the Sixth :^ and in the 4th of Edw, IV. he had livery of his father's lands, though he was not then of full age.^ On the 25th of Odober, 1470, (10. E. IV.) he was with the Earl of Warwick when King Henry the Sixth was brought from the Tower, and, by a momentary fport of fortune, reftored to authority.' but it is doubtful whether he was led by attachment to Henry, or by fear of the Earl of Warwick; though 1 think the latter more probable, becaufe in 11. Ed. IV. when Edward had regained the peaceable poflefTion of the kingly oflice, ' The rood of land at Buxton, by Hallywall, is the fcitc of the hall, and bath, at Buxton j and the Hallywall is the Holy-well, or St. Anne's well. T. B. - Peerage of Ireland, V. I. p. 341. 3 AVil. VVyrc. « s lb, ' Pat. 4. E. IV. p. I, rn. 6. ' Holinflicd, p. 1325. the [ 43 3 the Eail of Shrewfbury was made Chief Juftice of North Wales,' with commiffion- to array and arm all perfons, of ability, in the counties of Salop and Stafford, and in tlie marches of North Wales, for relieving that country from the danger of the tumultuous aflemblies then frequent iu thofe parts. In 12. Edw. IV. he was conftituted one of the King's Com- miflloners' to treat with the Commiflioners of James the Third of Scotland refpedling the ditferences between the Englifli and the Scots ; and died on Saturday next after the Feafl: of the Nativity of John the Baptlft, 13. Ed. 1V.+ being then feifed of the manors of Monyafh and Chelmerdon, and lands in Ferniley, Bowden, and Whitwell ; and entitled iu reverfion, after the death of Gilbert Talbot, to the manor of Stretton ; all in Derbyfhire. He was alfo entitled to the manors before flated, to be vefted in truftees, to raife the purchafe money for Winfield ; and held, jointly with Katharine his wife, [daughter of Humphry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham] which Katharine furvived him, the manor of Wyndefeld, then of the annual value of 20I. the manor of Criche, and the manor of Ufton ; George, his Ion and heir, at the time of taking the inquifition being ^ years of age. 5 The Countefs Katharine held in dower divers lordfhips in the counties of Salop, Glouceflier, and Buckingham ;^ and, by an inquifition after her death, taken at Derby, 24th July, 16. E. IV.' it is found that Katharine, then late Countefs of Shrewlbury, alfo held, in Derbyfhire, the manors of Monyafshe, and Childerfton alias Chelmerdon, for her life, of the in- heritance of George, then Earl of Shrewfbury ; and that Henry Stafford, Knt. (fon of Humphry, then late Duke of Buckingham) John Barre, Knt. William Comberford, and others, were feifed of the manors of Wynfeld, • P.it. II. E. IV. p. r. m. 7. "- lb. m. 3. ' Rot. Scot. 12. E. IV, m. ig. " Efe. 13. E. IV. n. 52. •' lb. ^ Pat. 15. E. IV. p. 2. m. 12. ■ Efc. 16. E. IV. n. 58. G 2 Criche, [ 44 ] Criche, and Ufton, and granted them to John, then late Earl of Shrewf- bury, and Katharine his wife ; to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the Earl's right heirs : that the Countefs was accordingly feifed thereof at her death, which happened on the 26th of December, then laft ; and that George, then (4th) Earl of Shrewibury, her fon and heir, was 7 years of age, on Thurfday next after the Feaft of St. Hilary, then laft. George, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, on the 18th of April, 15°. E. IV. when little more than fix years of age was made a Knight of the Bath, with Edward, Prince of Wales, and others :' and previous to the battle of Bofworth, the forces of this Earl of Shrewfbury, confining of 2000 men,* were led by his uncle, Sir Gilbert Talbot, to the affiflance of Henry Earl of Richmond againft King Richard the Third ; and having given him the meeting at Newport in Shropfhire, accompanied him to the battle fouglit near Bofworth, on the 22d of Auguft, 1485, where Sir Gilbert Talbot commanded the right wing of the Earl of Richmond's army ;5 and for this fervice was knighted in the field,+ and made a Knight Bannerett on the 28th of Oftober following,^ (i. H. VII.) In the I ft year of King Henry VII. the Earl of Shrewfbury had livery of his lauds.'' In the 2d of Henry VII. he met the King near Notting- ham, in his way to the battle of Stoke, fought againft Lambert Simnel, on the 1 6th of June, 1487, and having Ihared in the vidory that day obtained by the King," he, for the reward of his fervices, was immediately afterwards made' a Knight of the Garter.^ ' Howe's Annals, p. 429. - ^ -i ^ lb. p. 46S, 469, 470, and 471. * Pat. 1. H. VII. " Baker, p. 255. * Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 342. y In [ 45 ] In April, A°. 6. H. VII. (1491) he was amongfl: the great, and ex- perienced men, who were convened to London upon the difputes between the Emperor Maximilian, and Charles, King of France:' and on the i6th of O£tober following, (7. H. V'll.) after the demolition of the town of Ardrcs, he was with the Earl of Oxford at Morgifon, in Picardy, when he met King Henry and accompanied him, in behalf of Maximilian, to the ficgc of Boulogne J where peace was concluded between the Englilh. and the French. - In the i(\i year of King Henry VIII. he was conftltuted one of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer,^ High Steward of the King's houfehold,* and a Privy Counlellor,5 In the 5 th of Henry VIII. (1514) he led the van of the Englifh army into France ; and arriving at Calais the middle of May, commenced the fiege of Therovenne on the 29th of June following ; where, being on the 20th of July joined by King Henry, and having fought at the battle of Spurs, (lb called from the precipitate flight of the French horfe) he, on the i8th of Auguft, entered the town of Therovenne, then lurrendered by capitulation, and on the 21ft of September led the van guard of the Englifli army to the fiege of Tournay, which was alfo taken. ^ On the 7th of June, 12. H. VIII. (1520) he was prefent at the inter- view between King Henry and King Francis the Firfl, of France, between Guifnes and Ardres; and he was alfo at the celebrated warlike exercifes performed there during feveral days afterwards. ^ ' Vita Hen. VII. p. 572. = Howe, 476.— Baker, 258. -' Pat. i. H. VIII. p. i. m. ;. ■♦ 5 Baker, 272. * lb, p. 276, and 277. ' Howe, 508. In [ 46 ] In April following, he was one of the judges who fat on the trial of the Duke of Buckingham :' and in 14. H. VIII. he was appointed Lleutenant- General of the North, to oppofe an invafion then intended from Scotland, by the Duke of Albany : and having by his letters prepared the counties north of Trent, he marched towards Scotland with an army of 28,000 men; by which preparations the Duke of Albany's fchemes were de- feated.* In 17. H. VIII. he was appointed Conftable of tlie caftles of Radnor and Wigmore ;3 and in 1537, (29. H. VIII.) on the infurredlion in the North, called the Pilgrimage of Grace, he of his own authority raifed an army for the fupprefiion of the rebels : but doubting whether this voluntary fervlce might not bring upon him lome trouble, he immediately fent to the King, to juftify his conduct, and to requeft the royal authority to proceed. To this precaution he was probably induced by the fufpicions fpread amongft: his forces that his attachment to the King was queflionable; to remove which fufpicions, he fwore, in the prefence of the whole army, to perfevere in his fidelity : after which, the King fent to his afliflance the Duke of Norfolk and others of the nobility, with a great army ; which being united with the Earl's army, at Doncader, the rebels were there difperfed.'f His Lordfliip died at Winfield the 26th of July, (1541) 33- H. VIII. 5 having, by his teftament, dated 21ft Augufl:, 29. H. VIII. bequeathed his body to be buried in the church of Sheffield, by the fide of Anne, his firft ' Bakci-, p. 285. - Holinflied, p. 1522, and 1523. ^ Pat. 17. H. VIII, p. 1. '^ B.iker, p. 503. 5 Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 342, and Dug. Bar. V, I. p. 532. wife; [ 47 ] wife; where he appointed a tomb of marble to be fet over his grave, with the images of himfelf and his two wives.' He left behind him this cha- radler; that he was a perfon noble, wife, and moderate in all his adions— « *' Vir nobilis, fapiens, ac in omnibus vitze partibus moderatus."' Two of his daughters, Anne and Dorothy, were born at Winficld.^ Francis, fifth Earl of Shrewfbury, eldefl: fon and fucceffor of George, was born at Sheffield Caftle, A=. 1500, (16. H. VII.*) and had fummons to ParHament, amongfl: the Barons, on the 17th of February, 24. H. VIII. s wliilfl iiis father was living. In ^^. H. VIII. he had a grant from the King of the fcite of the priory of Workfop, and divers other lands belong- ing to diflblved monafteries.^ In 34. H. VIII. he was with the Duke of Norfolk in the army fent into Scotland, to punlfli the attront offered to this kingdom by the King of Scots having entertained the northern rebels: and entering Scotland on the zift of Oiflober, he was at the burning of ' Dug. Bar. ut fup. — He was accordingly buried at Sheffield, where a noble monument wzs creeled to his memory ; on which, round the verge of the lid, is the following infcription : " Hie fitus eft illurtris vir Georgius Comes Salopic, Weflifordie, et Waterfordie, Dominus Talbot, " Fornivalle, Vardon, ac Strange, atq. ctiam Primarius Architriclin's Regie Dom's inviclif- " fimi Regis Henrici odavi, et Miles nobiliflimi illiu. ordinis dc Garter. Hie quoq. jaccnt " Corpora Domine An'e et Elizabeth cj. uxoru. quarum quidem ilia nata fuit Domini " Haflyngs Prefeftus Cubiculi Primarij Sereniffimo Regi Edwardo Quarto; Hec vero Filia " fuit D'i Ricardi Walden militis. D. ille Georgius obijt xxvi. die Julij Anno Domini " M.D.xxx.vni." Nota. His fecond wife was not buried at ShefSeld, but at Eiith in Kent. Vide Lodge's Illuf- trations of Britifli Hiilory, V. I. p. xii. ■' Dug. Bar. ut fup. ^ lb. " lb. ^ lb. <- Pat. 33. H. VIII, p. 4. feveral [ 48 ] feveral towns and villages.' In 1543, (35. H. VIII.') he had an order from the Duke of SufFolk, then the King's Lieutenant in the North, 5 dated at Newcaftle the 12th of Augufl, to prepare 100 archers and 200 bill-men, ready armed for war, with a gentleman to be Captain of each 100 men, and with their Petty Captains, who were to march to Berwick, and to be under the command of RaufFe Eure, Knt, as foon as the Duke fhould fend his appointment for that purpofe.+ And by a letter, dated the 22d of January following, it appears that the Earl of Shrewfljury had then obtained the office of Lieutenant-General of the North :5 though Dugdale, who cites the authority of Lord Herbert, ftates him to have obtained it in 36. H. VUL' In 36. H. VIII. in the quarrel between the Engllfli and Scots concern- ing the treaty for marriage of Prince Edward to tlie young Queen, Mary, of Scotland ; to which the Scots refuled their confent ; he was with the army fent into Scotland, to revenge the affront the Englifh conceived themfelves to have fuftained from the Scots in that treaty ; and landing in ' Holiufiicd, p. 1587, mifprinted 1J95. — In Mr. Lodge's lUuftrations of Briiifli Hiiloiy, ^^ I. pp. 36, and 37. is a letter of the Duke of Norfolk to the Earl of Shrewibury, written from York tiie igth of September, (1542) previous to the expedition into Scotland ; by which the Duke defires the Earl to defer fctting out fix days longer, and to be at Newcafilc, with his men, on the 7th of Odober, then next. The Earl, it fcems, was defirous to receive conJui?!: money, and money for cots, (liveries) and the Treafurer of War not being prepared with money for the payment, the Duke rcquefts the Earl to Ic patient. It is no unreafonable prefumplion that the great men of thofe days found themfelves unavoidably incumbered with expcnces, in the ferviee of the Crown, which were with much grialcr cafe incurred, than they could afterwards procure them to be reimburfed. - 3 -t Holinflicd, p. 1589. and Lodge's lUuflrations of Britifli Hidory, V. I, pp. 51, and 52. 5 lb. p. 50. " Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 333. Scotland [ 49 ] Scothnd the 4th of May, he commanded the rear of the Englifh army at the bcfiegiiig and taking of Leith, which was followed by the burning of Edinburgh, Leith, and many other places ; and by dreadful devaftations committed by the Englifh there, and in the circumjacent country, from that time till their return to Berwick on the iSth of May.' In 1545, (^^J. H. VIII.) the Earl of Shrewfbury, after having con- dufted himfelf in the office of Lieutenant of the North greatly to the fatlsfaclion of his Sovereign, was fuperfeded ;- and in reward for his fervices, he was inflalled a Knight of the Garter the 17th of May, 1545 :^ after whicli, the Earl of Hertford being appointed Lieutenant of the North, the Earl of Shrewfbury had a command from him, on the 2 2d of Augufl, in the lame year, to furnifli his prefcribed number of his fervants and tenants, who were to repair to Newcaftle on the 2d of September, to punlfli a threatened invalion from the Scots. '^ In May X547, he had again obtained the office of the Lieutenant of the Nortiiern Counties ; and, hearing of the warlike preparations of the Scots, ordered the neceflary mufters, within the counties in his jurifdidlion, for the defence of the realm:' and on the loth of Augufl, 1547/ (i. E. Vl.) a requeft was fent to him from the Prote£tor, Somerfet, to attend at Berwick on the 6th of September foUowijig in that fervice. In the 2d'of Edward VI. he was fent into Scotland with 15,000 men, againfl the Scots and French, whom he compelled to raife the fiege of Haddington ; and, after having vidualled and reinforced the town, and ' HollnQied, pp. i^qi, and 1593. — Baker, jog. - Lodge's lUuft. V. I. p. 107. ' lb. p. xiii. * lb. pp. 107, and io3. — Baker, 311. > LoJije's IlUift. V. I. pp. 116, and 117. * lb. pp. 118, and 1 19. H made [ 50 ] made an ineffectual attempt to bring the enemy to aftion, he deftroyed Dunbar, and then returned into England. It is faid by HolinQied, that when the noble Earl of Shrewft)ury entered Haddington, he found the diftrefles of his gallant countrymen, by whom it was garrifoned, had been fo great, that he could not refrain from tears.' The fame year he was appointed Juftice in Eyre of the forefts north of Trent :^ and, in 0£lober 1549, (3. E. VI.) he was one of the Lords who ligned the firft proclamation declaring the Proteftor, Somerfet, a traitor :^ in confequence of which, Somerfet was, for a while, committed to the Tower. The Earl of Shrewfbury was of the Privy Council^ to King Edward ; one of the chief mourners at the King's funeral ;5 and, after the death of the King, being one of the Lords of the Council who had engaged their allegiance to Lady Jane Grey, he fubfcribed the letter to Queen Mary, dated the 9th of July 1553, denying her right to the Crown. *" But this was {o little refented by Mary, that on her acceflion to the Crown he was immediately pardoned ;7 and foon after appointed Prefident of the Council in the North, and Lieutenant of the Northern Counties :^ and on the 17th of April 1554, (1°. Mariae) he was one of the commifiioners on the trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, for a confpiracy in Wyat's infur- redion :^ in which, after Sir Nicholas had condu£led himfelf with great fklll and ingenuity, and was acquitted by the jury, the judges compelled the jurors to enter into recognizances of 500I. each, for their appearance in the Star Chamber; and on their appearance there, the jurors were all committed to prifon for their verdiifl. In this extraordinary trial, the ' Holinflieil, pp. 1637, ^"'^ '^'jS. " Pat. 2. E. VI. p. 2. 3 Holinflied, p. 1 7C0. * s Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 3+3. * ? Holinnicd, p. 1717. ' Lodge's lUuft. V. 1. pp. 195, 198, &c. 9 Holinflied, p. 1737, &c. notes [ 5^ ] notes of which ihoold be recommended to thofe who are difcontented with the prefeiit times, the Earl of Shrewfbury's moderation is unimpeached ;' though feveral of the judges appear to have behaved in a very reprehenfible manner. On the 1 2th of November, i°. and z°. P, and M. he carried the Cap of Maintenance^ before the Queen, in her proceffion to Parliament with the King. In 06lober 1557, (4°- and 5°. P. and M.) on an Invafion threatened by the Scots, he, in virtue of his office of Lieutenant of the North, aflembled an army in Northumberland, to refifl: their entry into England ; by which timely precaution, the defigns of the enemy were defeated ; and their forces, then drawn together on the borders, were difperfed.^ At the funeral of Queen Mary, he was one of the four Noblemen appointed to ride as affiftants on each fide of the chair with the Pre- fentatlon.''- ■ Throckmorton. " My Lords, I pray you make not too muche haft with mc, neither thinke " not long for your diner, for my cafe requireth leyfiire, and you have wel dined when you have " done juftice truely, &c." Bromlet. (Ch. Juftice.) " I can forbeare my dinner as well as you, and care as little as you " pcradventurc." Shrewsbury. •'Come you hither to checke us Throckmorton? wee will not bee fo ufcd, " no, no, I for my parte have forborne my breakfaft, dinner, and fupper to ferve the Queene." Throckmorton. " Yea my good Lord I know it right wel, I meant not to touche your Lord- " fliip, for youre fervice and pains is evidently knowen to al men." Holinflicd, p. 173S. ' Holinflicd, p. 1759. ' Lodge's Illuft. V. I. p. 290. "> Lodge's Peerage, V. L p. 343. H 2 -On [ 50 On the 2 1 ft of November 1558, four days after Queen Elizabeth's acceflion to the Crown, the Earl of Shrew{bury, with the Marquis of Winchefter, and the Earl of Derby, were ordered by the Lords of the Council to attend the Queen, at London, on the Wednefday following, with their fervants and train; and to give notice to the reft of the nobility, alfo, to attend her/ The Earl of Shrewfl^ury was one of the com- miflioners appointed to receive claims of fervices to be performed at her Coronation ;^ after which ftie immediately appointed him of her Privy Council :5 and in May 1559, he was put in commiffion for levying a fubfuly'^ then granted by Parliament: and he had the honour to be con- tinued in the office of Prefident of the Council in the North. > The next year, he, and the Vifcount Montague, honeftly, though mil- takenly, refufing to adopt the compliant fpirit of the reft of the Par- liament, ftood alone in oppofition to the bill then pafled for the abolition of the Pope's fupremacy in England, and for the reformation of religion:^ but foon afterwards, viz. 2jft September, that year, (1560) the Earl of Shrewftjury died.^ " This is the man whofe greatnefs was but the fervant to his goodnefs; " and whofe honour, tlie Inftrument of his virtue : who was reverenced " like the heavens, [whofe ftamp] he bore, for his beneficence, as well as " his glory. He faw four troublefome reigns, but not troubled himfelf ; " as one that was fo efpoufed to the common and grand concerns of man- *' klnde, as to be uninterefted in the particular and petty defigne of any ' Lodge's Illuft. V. I. p. 5or. » Pat. i°. Eliz. ^ Baker, 349. " Lodge's lUuft. V. I. p. 304- 5 lb. p. ;o6. ' Camden's Hill, of Q;. Eliz. ' Lodge's Peerage, V. I. P- 343- " party [ S3 ] " party of it."' In times when politicks were continually uncertain, and varying ; and often contradi6lory ; and when countenance and f:ivour, were, with moft men, but the preludes to humiliation and ruin, he lived in honour, refped, and confidence with hia fovereigns : " he had friends " (and none more fure to them, or more devoted to that facred thing " called Friendship) to eafe his heart to, to fupport his judgement by, to " reformc, or at leaft to oljferve his defed in, to compofe his mind with ; *' but none to countenance in a fadlion, or fide with in a quarrel." * He left behind him the reputation of the chiefeft counfellor, *' and *' moft eminent fcholar of his agej"^ and was buried with his father, at Sheffield ;+ but without a monument. His heirs, probably, confidering his name as too great for eulogium, and as incapable of being rendered more durable by brafs, or marble, George, fixth Earl of Shrewfbury, only furvlving fon and fucceflbr of Earl Francis, on the 7th of Oclober ISSJ, (3- and 4. P. and M.) was fent by his father with 1600 men to Alnwick in Northumberland, to prevent an expefted invafion from Scotland ;5 and, proceeding from Alnwick on the I ith of Oclober, to the afliftance of the Lord Warden of the North, his father fent him a reinforcement of 600 men from Newcaftle :* and in this fervice, having at length the command of 3000 men, he proceeded to Lowick, and relieved the Earl of Northumberland, who was there pent up by the Scottish forces.' » = i Lloyd's Charaaers of Statefmen, Sec. temp. H. VIII. &c. printed 1665. pp. 342, and 3+3. * Lodge's Peerage ut fup. s Lodge's lUuft. V. I. pp. 283, and 284. * lb, p. ^84. ' Infcrip. fup. Turn, apud Sheffield. At [ 54 ] At the funeral of Queen Mary, in 1558, he was one of the Noblemen's fons, who were armed at all points, except the head, each of them carry- ing in his hand a pole axe, and riding on a courfer, richly caparlfoned.' The 23d of December 1559, (2°. Eliz.) the Duke of Norfolk being appointed to have the dire6lion of an army, to be fent into the North, to counteradl the defigns of the French refpe£ting Scotland,^ this George, then called Lord Talbot, (his father, Earl Francis, being ftill living) had dire£lions to raife forces in Derbyfliire : and in that fervice he had the command of a regiment of 500 horfemen, on the borders.^ In September following, he fucceeded his father in the Earldom of Shrewsbury; and on the 24th of April 1561, (3°. Eliz.) he was eleded a Knight of the Garter, and inftalled at Windfor on the 1 7th of May."^ In 1565, he had the office of Juftice in Eyre of the forefts north of Trent ;5 and the fame year, (7°. Eliz.) he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the counties of York, Nottingham, and Derby.* In January 1568, (11°. Eliz.) when the Queen of Scots was committed to his cuftody, he was fworn of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth. ^ In 15°. Eliz. (1572) upon the arraignment of the Duke of Norfolk for treafon, in attempting to marry the Queen of Scots, the Earl of Shrewfbury was appointed Lord High Steward of England^ for his Grace's trial ; and after the Duke's execution, the Earl of Shrewfbury was, on the 2d bf January 1573, (16°. Eliz.) appointed to fucceed him as Earl Marllial of England ;9 and to hold tlie ' Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 344. » Holinflied, p. 1S03. J Lodge's Illuft. p. 30S — 311. Sc Infciip. fup. Turn, apud Sheffield. ■• Lodge's Peerage, V. L p. 344. s Lodge's lUulh V. L p. 350. * lb. p. 351. ' lb. V. n. p. 7. " Camden's Eliz. » Lodge's I'cerage, V. I. p. 344. office [ 55 ] office for life. In 1589, (31°. Eliz.) he was Lord Lieutenant of the counties of StaiTord, Derby, and Nortinghairii' and died the i8th of November, ^2- Eliz. (1570) leaving Gilbert Earl of Shrcwfbury, his eldcft: furviving fon and heir: who, on taking the inquifition tlie 13th of April following, was found to be of the age of 37 years/ The Queen of Scots was firfl: committed to the cuftody of Earl George, hi January 1568, (11°. Eliz.) in the caftle of Queen Elizabeth, (belonging to the Duchy of Lancafter) at Tutbury in StalTordfliire ;' and continued under his care till the month of September 1584.'^ In this fervice he pre- lerved his fidelity to Elizabeth unfhaken : but he was (b perpetually teized by her fufpicions, and thofe of her minifters, that his office, which might otherwife have been dcfirable to fo great a Nobleman, as a diflinguiflied mark of honour and confidence, appears to have inflidted upon him a feverlty of punifliment little inferior to that of his unfortunate captive. The fear of Elizabeth's difpleafure induced him, at times, to a morofenefs in his behaviour to Mary, which implanted in her bofom fentiments of diftafte and refentment, that her high fpirit could not be fubdued by her fufFerings to diflemble ; whilft, at other times, by real, or colourable marks of kindnefs, and attention to Mary, he drew upon himfelf the malevolence of a wife, 5 ever alive to jealoufv, and prepared to empoifon his comforts ; and the fufpicions and rebukes of his Queen, who had ' Lodge's IllulL V. 11. p. 387. ^ Efc. 33'. Eliz. n. 1&6. p. 2. As this iiKiuii'uion cont.iiiis an account of the vaft poffefTions then enjoyed by the Shrewftury family, :in abftrad of it will be given in the Appendix. ? Camden's EH2- and Lodge's llKill. V. H. p. 7. " Lod-c's llluu. V. H. pp. 307, and 308. • His fecond wife, Elizabeth HardwicLc. no [ 56 I no trifling fatisfaftion in mortifying and humiliating the greateft of her fubjedts. His Lordfhip was burled in the church of Sheffield, where he had eredled for himfelf a coftly monument^ which ftill remains, to preferve his memory.' He ' This infcription was placed upon his monument in his life-time ; a blank being left for the time of his death, which has not been fupplied. " Chrifto opt. max. et Poftcritati Sacrum. " In fpem certam future refurreflionis, illuftris hie conditur heros, GecM-gius Salopiae Come?, " fui nobilifCnii generis, longa fcrie, a Normannorum conqueftu derivati ; nuUaquc unquam perfidin " labecula afperfi. Comitum ordine fextus ; fummus Regni Marefcallus ; i Talbotto, Furnivallo, " Verdun, Lovetoft, Extraneoque de Blackmere, honoribus ampliffimis, dominus infuper ct Baro *• nuncupatus : Garteriani qu>.que equeftris ordinis, fane prseclariffimi fodalis digniffimus. Francifci " comitis unicus, qui fupererat, filius, et fucceflbr ; omniumque virtutum, ex afle hires. »Qui, " quantum Pacis, Bellique artibus ; omnibufque corporis atque animi dotibus exinniis unitis potuit.; " id omne, fecundum pietatem in Deum, uni patrii, ejufque principibus impenderc folcbat: Ut, qiit *• MarisE Reginffi temporibus, in Northunibrenfis comitis fuGcurfum, i patrc turn fiiperftiic, ac Belli '• duci primario, cum tribus armatorum millibus, ad Lowicum, in Scotiam, ire jufTus, llrenu^, fum- " maque cum laude, bcllicani illam pratfefluram adminillrabat : Parique cum laude, etnon minorj " fucceffu, pauk) poft Berwicum, hofti in occurfum miflus, quingentorum cataphradorum equitum " cohortu fiipatus fult ; concomitantibus Barone Grayo, ftrenuo eq.uite Drurio, aliifquc militaris *' fcientise p.ecitiiTiinis, Bellique principatum, tuna gerenie Weftmario Comitc. Deindc, Regnante " Elizabciha, Anglorum Regina, cum Scotorum Regina Maria, prflio domi fuperata, in Angliam *' compulfa eft; atque apud Scotici limitis prsfeflum primum diverteret: donee in utriufque "Regni perniciem, magna molire eft comperta; huic illuftri comiti tutiiis cuftodienda tradita An. *' MDLXVIII. Quern penes, honorifice et fplendidc fatis, ufque annum RIDLXXXIIII. per tria " amplis luftra eft hofpitata, non fine magna ipfius hofpitis impenfa, curaque anxia vix exprimenda. " Qi}', dlvina providcniia guberaante, in caufa tara ardiia, cujus magnitude graviilima, utiliias pub- •' lica fuir, tam laudate ac foeliciter fegeflit, cum virura fidelcm, non minus quam providum, atque " prudcntcm, ipfa invidia judicare debet. Quamque fcmpcr ab omni fufpicione perfidix fuerat •' alicnus, [ 57 I He married two wives. The fecond was Elizabeth, daughter, and, af length, lole heir, of John Hardwicke, of Hardwicke, Com. Derb. Efq. and widow fucceflively of Robert Barley, Efq. and William Cavendilh, and William St. Lo, Knights. She had no ifliic either by Barley, St. l,o, or by she Earl, her fourth hufband. The great objeds of her life were the in- dulgence of her own pride, and the aggrar.difement of her children by Sip William Cavendifli, to which fhe facrificed every other confiueration. She appropriated to herfelf the greatefl part of the fortunes of her fiill and third hulLands, and made the marriage of her cldefi: fon with one of the Earl'of Shrewlbury's daughters, and of the Earl's fecond fon, and fucccflbr, with her youngeft daughter, the inftruments of continual vexation to her. fourth hulband, whom (he aUb furvived. By his hril: wife, the daughter of the Earl of Rutland, the Earl hat? many cliildren. Francis Lord Talbot, his eldeft.fon, died in his life-tirae " alienus, illiid deciarar; cjiiod, licet amalevolis, propter furpC(5tam turn captiva Regina familiaii- *' tatem fepius male audiret. Cum tamen ejufdem Reginse caiifa, ex fenatus Regnl confuhu :i ** proceribus, in arce Fodringhamenli cognofceiida eflet, inter magnates, qui rcatus fui, in tefti- " monium ae vindiflam admittendi erant, hunc nobilillimum Coniitein, fercniffiina Regiua Elizabetha " notum efle voluit r illumque, port jiadicium latum, ejufdem fententiar tranfaiflorem conflituif; dato " ab hoc Diplomate regie, magno llgillo Anglia communito. Ita vir jfle, genere clarus, publicis " bene geftis magiilratibus clarior, domi ac foris clariflimus ; illuftris erga principem, et patriam " fidei, et fummi apud omnes honoris, quern ad fatalem mature fencflutis horam, fine fortune " ludibrio perduxerat, eterno numiui fpiritum a quo acceperat, firmum in chriflo fijem, placidc et " tranquilic reddidit, [XVIIl die] menfis [Novembris] anno Redemptoris Chrifti MD[XC]. *' Ex priore conjugeD. Gartruda, ThomaeRutlandix comitis nata, utriufque fexus prolem fufcepit "egregiam : Francifcum fcil. primogeniluin, ct fiipcrllitcm, c vivis fublatum; Gilbertum hsn dum " futurum ; Edovardum, Hcnricum ; Catherinam Herberto regulo copulatam, ct fine fobolc ex- " tindam ; Mariam, Georgio Savillo equiti defpoDfatam 5 et Graciam Henrico Caveudifliii cqoitis •' hscredi, nuptum." I (1582) [ 58 3 {1582) without Ifl'ue : Gilbert, his fecond fon, was his fucceflbr : Henry, his third Ion, was reprefentative of the county of Derby in the Parliaments of 27. and 28. Ellz.' and left two daughters : and Edward, his fourth fon, was the fucceflbr of Gilbert in the Earldom of ShrewlLury. The mar- riages of the daughters of Earl George will be found in the genealogical table of the Talbot family. Gilbert, feventh Earl of Shrewlbury, eldeft furviving fon and fucceflbr of Earl George, when 18 years of age was eledled one of the Knights to reprefent the county of Derby In Parliament ; and continued it's repre- fentative from the commencement of the Parliament which began at Weftminfler the 8th of May, 14th Ellz. (1572) till it's diffolution, i8th March, 23d Eliz. 1580.^ During this time he was a frequent attendant on the Court of Elizabeth ;3 but without any employment, either of profit or confidence. For though we find him in company with the Earl of Lincoln,''- who was fent on an embafiy to France, for ratification of a league between the Englifli and the French, in A°. 15°. Eliz. yet, it feems, he was rather fent, being the eldeft fon of one of the greatefi: Peers of England, as an ornament to the train of the Earl of Lincoln, than from any perfonal refpe£l to himfelf. In the 2 2d of Elizabeth, a fliort time before the death of his father, he was fummoned to Parliament amongft the Barons ;5 and on the 20th of June 1592, (34. Eliz.) he was inftalled a Knight of the Garter/ In September 1596, (38. Ehz.) he was fent to Henry the Fourth of France, to adminifter to him the oath for the obfervance of the treaty ' Willis's Notithi Parliamentaria. - lb. 3 Lodge's Illufl. V. II. pp. 100. 169. &c. ■♦ Camden's Eliz. ^ Dug. B.ir, V. I. p. 334. * Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 345. entered [ 59 ] > entered into between Henry and Qiieen Elizabeth ; and alfo to prefent Sir Anthony Mildmay as the Englilh Ambaliador to the Court of France, in the room of Sir Henry Unton, deceafed ; and to inveft King Henry with the infignia of the Order of the Garter/ - On • This employment of the Earl of Shrevifbuiy is mciuioued by Camden in the Hiftory of Queen Elizabeth ; but a more full account of it is given in Howes' Annals, from which the following note will not, I truft, appear obtrufive. The Earl departed from Dover the i6th of September 1596, the day on which he wrote the letter to Lord Burleigh, inferted in Lodge's lUurtrations of Britifli Hiflory, (V. III. pp. 76, and 77.) and arrivino' at Dieppe, in France, the Thurfday fe'nnight following, was there nobly entertained ; ^fter which, on the 27th of September he fet forwards on his journey towards Rouen, and was met on hi» way by Monf. de Feriiaques and his train, who conducted him to the caflle of Claire. The next mornin", when he was arrived within two miles of Rouen, he was met by the Duke de MontpenGer, the King's Lieutenant of that city, attended by 200 of the nobility and gentrj', on horfeback, who condudted him to his lodgings in the market place, where he had an houfe richly furniflied with han his brothers. In tliefe he appears to have re- lapfed from the dignified carriage, and fuavity of manners, by which he was generally diftinguifhed ; and in a quarrel with his brother Edward, ^ who oppofed him with firmnefs and humility, his letters are couched in terms of infolence, meannefs, and prevarication, difgraceful to a gentleman : but we mulT: recoiled that, in the moft brilliant chara<£lers fome clouds have irrefiftibly (and, as it were, in the common courfe of things, to prove the imperfedlion of human nature) arifen to diminifti the blaze of glory : that ' Pat. 1°. Jac. - Lodge's Peerage, V. I, p. 345. ^ Camden's Bntaimia — Shropftiirs. * Lodge's Illuftrations. s lb. V. IIL p. 92. and Howes' Annals, p. 78^. * Lodgc'j Illuft. V. II, p. 293. ' lb. V. in. pp. 50— 64. -. thefc [ 62 ] thefe varieties of character might be ftrongly influenced by the times in which he lived ; — times not fully emerged from feudal barbarifm ; and whofe tin(Sure may palliate, though it cannot juftify, his conduft : — and that we cannot, without flagrant injuftice, try the a£lions of men living in the reign of Elizabeth, or James the Firft, by the flandard of manners in the latter end of the i8th century. Earl Gilbert was married, when fcarcely 19 years of age, to Mary, third daughter of William Cavendifh, Knt/ by Elizabeth Hardwick, and had iflue three daughters, who (bared the greatefl part of his inheritance, and between whom his numerous baronies, being baronies in fee, lay in abey- ance; 'till, by the death of two of the daughters without iflue, the baronies became entirely vefted in the family of Howard. Edward, only furviving brother of Gilbert, fucceeded him in the Earl- doms of Shrevvibury, Wexford, and Water ford ;* and in 1617 was ap- pointed of the Council to William Lord Compton, Prefident of Wales ;5 and died the i 7th of February, the fame year, without ifllie.'* He was buried in the chapel of St. Edmund, in Wefl;minfl:er Abbey, under a (lately monument ere£led by his wife, Jane, daughter and coheir of Cuthbert Lord Ogle J who, furviving her Lord, was afterwards buried with him. 5 The ' Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 334. » 3 4 s Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 34. On the monument uhlcli contains the images of the Earl and Countefs, in their robes, is the following infcription : •' Memorix S. " EdvvarJo ex inclyia Talbotorum familia, oflavo Comitt Salopise, Weifhfordix, et WaterforJ, " Dom". Talbot. Comin de Badenhagh, Valence, Monchenfy, Strange de Blackmere, Gilford de " Brimesfeld, Clifford de Corfliam, Furnival, Verdon, et Lovctoft ; Viro omnibus titulis iindequaque " pari ; [ 63 ] The titles of Earl of Shrewfbury, &c. after the death of Earl Edward, pafled to George Talbot, great great graiidfou of Sh- Gilbert Talbot, third Iba of John, fecond Earl of Shrewfbury, for whofe defceut I muil refer to the Talbot pedigree. .. . • I now come to the daughters and coheirs of Gilbert, feventh Earl of Shrewfbury; of whom Mary, married in 1604 to William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke;' Elizabeth, married to Henry Grey, feventh Earl of Kent;* and Alathea, married to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.^ - William, third Earl of Pembroke, was Lord Chamberlain of the Houfe- hold to King James the Firfl:, by whom he was made Knight of the Garter, and Governor of Portfmouth. He was alfo Chancellor of the Univerlity of Oxford ; and appointed by King Charles the Firfl:, Lord Steward of his Houfchold ; Warden, and Chief Jiiflice in Eyre, of all the forefl:s Ibuth of Trent; Warden of the Stannaries; and a Privy Counfellor.+ The Earl of Clarendon, ^ in his account of thofc who were the great Officers of State upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham, (1628) gives this mafl:erly character of the Earl of Pembroke, *' pari ; moribus etiam adeo integris juxta ac fuaviffimis, ut carum Laudi nihil omnino detraxerit " Titulorum mngnitudo; Candore et Pieiate haud minus quam genere fuit infignis, nee ullo proccrura " folcmni vitio Tiniflus ; fine failu nobilis ; fine jaflantia potens ; fine fuperftitione religiofus ; mentc " ac manu muiiificus ; fortunse femper fccurus, tota illi vita fit, nee metam nee tcrminum rccepit. *' Ita demum pcnterliatis certus per confcientiam (dum viator erat) et fama jam fruiter defecatilliina, " et ea, poft vitse irumnas, reqiiie ciijus fe participem in horas exoptat moertifiima conjux Jana, *' Cuthberti Baronis Ogle hareduin primogenita, qus lachrymis immerfa pie Monumentum hoc P. *' Obiit die 8°. Februarii 1617, anno iEtatis 57." ' Lodge's IHuil. V. III. p. 23S, &c. and Dug. Bar. V. I. p. 334. * s Dug. 1 Collins 's Peerage, Edit. 1735. V. H. p. 63. i Hift. of the Rebellion, V. I. p. 56.— Edit. Oxford, 1732. « William- C 64 ] *' William Earl of Pembroke was the moft univerfally beloved and " efteemed of any man of that age ; and, having a great office in the «* Court, he made the Court itfelf better efteemed, and more reverenced in *' the country : and as he had a great number of friends of the beft men, " fo no man had ever the confidence to avow himfelf to be his enemy. " He was a man very well bred, and of excellent parts, and a graceful " fpeaker upon any fubje£l: ; having a good proportion of learning, and a " ready wit to apply it, and enlarge upon it : of a pleafant and facetious " humour, and a difpofition generous, affable, and magnificent. He was " mailer of a great fortune from his anceftours, and had a great addition. " by his wife ; but all ferved not his expenqe, which w^as only limited b}f " his great mind, and occafions to ulb it iiobly» " He lived many years about the Court, before in it;, and" never by it;. " beinp- rather regarded and efteemed by King James, than loved and " favoured. After the foul fall of the Earl of Somerfet he was made Lord " Chamberlain of the King's houfe, more for the Court's fake, than his " own ; and the Court appeared with more luftre, becaufe he had the *' government of that provinae. As he fpent and lived upon his own " fortune, fo he flood upon his own feet ; without any other fupport than " of his own proper virtue and merit : and lived towards the favouritea «' with that decency, as would not fufi«r them to cenfure or reproach his " mafter's judgement and eledion, but as with men of his own rank. He " was exceedingly beloved in the Court, becaufe he never defired to get " that for himfelf which others laboured for, but was ftlll ready to promots " the pretences of worthy men. And he was equally celebrated in the " country, for having received no obligations from the Court which might " corrupt or f^vay his affcdioiis, and judgement : fo that all who were ♦' difpleafed [ 65 ] *' difpleafed and unfatlsfied in the Court, or with the Court, were always *' inclined to put themfelves under his banner, if he would have ad- *' mitted them ; and yet he did not fo reject them, as to make them " chuCe another flielter, but fo far fufFered them to depend on him, that *' he could reftraiii them from breaking out beyond private rcfentments- " and murmurs. " He was a great lover of his country, and of the religion and iuftice, *' which he believed could only fupport it; and his friendfhips were only " with men of thofe principles : and as his converfation was moil: with *' men of the moft pregnant parts, and underflanding ; fo towards any " fuch, who needed fupport or encouragement, though unknown, if fairly *' recommended to him, he was very liberal. Sure never man was planted " in a Court, that was fitter for that foil, or brought better qualities with " them to purify that air. *' Yet his memory mufl: not be flattered, that his virtues and good m- *' clinations may be believed. He was not without fome allay of vice, ** and without being clouded with great infirmities, which he had in too *' exorbitant a proportion. He indulged to himfelf the plcalures of all *' kinds ; aliTK)fi: in all excefles. To women, whether out of his natural *' conftitution, or for want of his domeftic content and delight, (/;; ivhich " he was moji unhappy ; for he paid much too dear for his wifes fortune, by " taking her perfon into the bargain) he was immoderately given up : but •' therein he likewife retained fuch a power and jurifdivflion over his very *' appetite, that he was not fo much tranfported with beauty and outward *' allurements, as with thofe advantages of the mind, as manifefted an *' extraordinary wit, and fpirit, and knowledge j and adminiflered great K *' pleafure i 66 } *' pleafure in coiiverfatlon. To thefe he facrificed himfelf, his precious ^' time, and much of his fortune. *' About the time of the death of King James, or prefently after, he was " made Lord Steward of his Majefty's houfe, that the flafF of Chamberlain *' might be put into the hands of his brother, the Earl of Montgomery, " upon a new contraft of friendfhip with the Duke of Buckingham ; after *' whofe death, he had likewife fuch offices of his, as he moft affedled, of *' honour and command : none of profit ; which he cared not for : and *' within two years after he died himfelf, of an apoplexy, after a full and *' chearful fupper, " He died exceedingly lamented by men of all qualities, and left many " of his fervants and dependants owners of good eftates, raifed out of his *' employments and bounty. Nor had his heir caufe to complain : for *' though his expences had been very magnificent, (and it may be the lefs *' confidered, and his providence the lefs, becaufe he had no child to *' inherit) infomuch, as he left a great debt charged upon the ellate ; yet, ■" confidering the wealth he left in jewels, plate and furniture, and the " eflate his brother enjoyed in the right of his wife, (who was not fit to *' manage it herfelf) during her long life, he may be juftly faid to have " inherited as good an eftate from him as he had from his father, which " was one of the beft in England." The Earl died in London on the loth of April 1630, aged 50 years, having had iffue an only fon, Henry, who died when fifteen days old.' From what has fallen from the noble hiflorian, in his charafter of the Earl ' Collins ut flip. of [ 6; ] of Pembroke, it feems, the Countefs, his furvivor, laboured under feme incapacity ; in confequence of which, his brother and fucceflbr, Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, had the management of her eftate. Her fliare of the manor of Wintield paflld into the family of Savile ; and, by an inquifition taken at York the i8th of September, 21. Car. 1°. it is found, tiiat William Savile, Bart^ (grandlbn of Mary Talbot, fifter of George, iixth Earl of Shrewfoury) on the 24th of January 1643, *-^'^^ feifcd thereof^ kaving George Savile, Bart, his (on and heir, aged 10 years and 2 months at the taking of the inquilition.^ Sir George was created B;iron Savile of Eland, in Yorkfhire, and Vif- count Halifax, on the 13th of J;^.nuary, 19°. Car. II.:- in i6;9, Earl of Halifax;^ and in 1682, Marquis of Halifax.^ He was in the wavering councils of Charles the Second more than once ; and more than once in oppolition to his miniflries : fometimes guarding againft, and fometimes- favouring, the interefts of tlie Duke of York. On the acceffion of James the Second, he was appointed Prtfident of the Council p' but diflenting from the meafures which immediately afterwards were adopted, he was difmifled from his fervice.^ He was made Lord Privy Seal^ in the ift year of William the Third, but foon withdrew from the Court,^ and continued in oppofition till his death, which happened in April 1695.' BiOiop Burnet fays'= he was " a man of a great and ready wir, full of lite, and " very pleafant : much turned to fatyr. He let his wit run much on • Hail. MSS. .no. Cole's Efc. V. II. f. S7. "- Dug. Bar. V. III. p. 463. 3 Burnet's Hid. of his own Time, V. I. p. 469. ■» Kimber and Joluifon's Baronetage, V. I. p. 69. ' Rapin's Hiil. of England, V. XV. p. 6. " Burnet, V. I. p. 654. 7 lb. V. II. p. 4. s lb. p. 34. 9 lb. p. 149. io lb. V. I. pp. 267, and 268. K 2 «' matters [ 68 ] ' matters of religion : fo much, that he paffed for a bold and determined * Atheill ; though he often protefted to me he was not one ; and faid he ' believed there was not one in the world. He confefled he could not ' fwallow down every thing that divines impofed on the world : he was a ' Chriftian in fubmiflion : he believed as much as he could ; and he hoped ' that God would not lay it to his charge, if he could not digeft iron as ' an oftrich did, nor take into his belief things that mufl burfl: him. If ' he had any fcruples, they were not fought for, i>or cherifhed by him ; ' for he never read an atheiftical book. In a fit of ficknefs, I knew him ' very much touched with a fenfe of religion. I was then often with ' him. He feemed full of good purpofes, but they went off with his ' ficknefs. He was always talking of morality and frienddiip. He was ' pundlual in all payments, and juft in all his private dealings : but, with ' relation to the publick, he went bacTcwards and forwards, and changed ' fides fo often, that in conclufion no fide trufted him. He feemed full ' of commonwealth notions: yet he went into the worfl part of King ' Charles's reign. The livelinefs of his imngiuation was always too hard ' for his judgement : a fevere jeft was preferred by him to all arguments ' whatfoever ; and he was endlefs in confultations : for when, after much ' difcourfe a point was fettled, if he could find a new jeft, or make even ' that which was fuggefted by himfelf feem ridiculous, he could not hold, ^ but would ftudy to raife the credit of his wit, though it made others call ' his judgement in queftion." We muft recolieifl, however, by way of qualification to this charafler, that the Bifhop had himfelf experienced the feverity of Lord Halifax's wit ;' though the Marquis's political conduct, ?,s interwoven in the Jiiftory of the times, feems ftrongly to juftify the in- ' Cunningham's Hift, of G. Brit. V. I. p. 145. liability [ 69 ] {lability of charader which the Bifhop has given to Iiim. He wrote a book of advice to his daughter, concerning the duty and behaviour of women, after the manner of Tully's Offices/ William Marquis of Halifax, his fon and fucceflbr, left three daughters, coheirs, who married into the families of Bruce, Boyle, and Tufton, as appears by the pedigree. And in the i6th year of King George the Second,^ an A£l of Parliament was pafled, intituled " An Ad for confirm- *' ing and eftablifliing a partition made between the coheirs of the right " noble William, late Marquis of Halifax, deceafed, of divers lands, *' manors, and hereditaments therein mentioned ; and for fettling their *' divided (hares thereof to fuch ufes as their refpedive undivided fhares " before flood limited ; and for other purpofes therein mentioned :" by which Ad of Parliament the third part of the manor of South Winfield, and divers other eftates in Derbyfliire, were vefled in truflees for the benefit of the then Earl of Thanet and his funily.' And the Earl of Thanet is now the owner of one third part of the manor ; but his father, the late Earl, fold the greatefl part of his lands at Winfield to diiterent purchafers. Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, hufband of Elizabeth, fecond daughter of Gilbert Earl of Shrewfbury, died the 21ft of November 1639 ;* and his Countefs, the 7th of December 1651 ;5 both without iflue. But, it feems, her fliare of this manor had, long before her death, pafled to her uncle, Edward Talbot, eighth Earl of Shrewfbury ;* who, a fhort time before ' Cunningham'i Hiii. of G. Brit. V. I. p. 1 1 1. - Statute Books, i6. Geo. 11. ' Abilraifis of the Earl of Thanet'i title, delivered to purchafers. " Collins's Peerage of England, Edit. 173;. V, I. p. 133. 5 Ex relat. J. C. Brooke Ar. Scrncrfa. ' Ex. autog. pen. Tho. Pearfon de South Winfield. his [ 70 ] his death, viz. by indenture dated the 30th of December, 15. Jac. L* fettled his eftate at WinfieU and other places in the neighbourhood, to fuch ufes, that in the year 1638 his Ihare of this manor flood limited to John Talbot, tenth Earl of Shrewibury, for life; with remainder to George Talbot, eldeft fon to John, the tenth Earl, and his heirs males. And on the x8th of January 1638,^ this fliare of South Winfield was part of the lands granted in fettlement, previous to the marriage of George Lord Talbot, who was then 14 years old, with Mary, daughter of Piercy Herbert, Knight and Baronet, (afterwards Lord Powys) : but George Lord Talbot dying before his father, without iflue, Francis, brother of George, and eleventh Earl of Shrewfbury, fucceeded;^ who in 1651 (whilfl: his father was living) raifed a company of fixty horfemen, and carried them to the affiftance of King Charles the Second at the battle of Worcefler ; and, efcaping with the King, after the defeat of the royal army, he was one of the few perfons of the King's party, who had the good fortune to enfure their fafety by flight out of the kingdom -A and, having fuivived the reftoration, died the i6th of March 1667, of a wound received in a duel with George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.s Charles, twelfth Earl of Shrewfbury, eldefl Ion and fucceflbr of Francis, is fpoken of as a diflinguifhed Patriot. He was educated in the Roman Catholick religion, but abjured it in the year 1679;^ and at the Coro- nation of King James the Second, (23d April, 1685) bore the Curtana, or Sword of Mercy.' He had the command of a regiment of horfe,^ and the office of Lord Chamberlain of the Houfehold, under that King:' ' - Ex. aiitog. pen. Tho. Pearfon c'.c South Winfield. ' Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 349. * Hifloire des Revolutions d'Anglcterre, par le Pere d'Oileans, Edit, a la Haye 1729, Tome III. pp. 99, 100, 107. 5 Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 349. '' Bayle's General Diftionary, V. IX. p. 568. ' ^ " Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 350. but, [ 7^ ] but, afterwards, diflik'ing the proceedings of James the Secoiid, went wAa Holland' to the Prince of Orange, and was greatly inftrumentai in cffedl- hig the Revolution. - On the 14th of February 1688, he was appointed of the Privy Council,' Secretary of State,'* and a Commiffioner to determine the claims for fervices to be performed at the Coronation of William and Mary:' and on the day of the Coronation, the nth of April following, bore the Curtana,** as he had done for James the Second. In March 1689, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Hertford ;'' and in April following had a grant of the fame authority, in the counties of Worcefter and Hereford.^ In 1690 he left the Court in difguft;'' but \n 1693 ^^^ ^^^^ perfuaded by the King to re-accept the office of Secretary of State :'° and on the 30th of April 1694, he was created Duke of Shrewfbury, and Marquis of Alton, in the county of Stafford :" and on the 5th of June, that year, he was in- ftalled a Knight of the Garter/' In 1695 and 1697, he was one of the Lords Juflices of England, '3 whilfl: the King was abroad : he was alfo a Governor of the Charter-houfe i'-'- and having refigned the office of Secretary of State in May 1699, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Houfehold the 25th of 0£lober following.'-' The laft office he refigned in the ifl: year of Qiieen Anne; and then went on his travels for the reinftatement of his health.'^ On his return he was conftituted Lord Chamberlain of the Houfehold, '^ 15th April 1710, and fworn of the Privy Council :'* and on the 29th of April 171 2, he was made Lord Lieutenant of the county of Salop. '9 On the 24th of November 1712, he was ap- ' Cunningham's Hill. V. I. p. 83. ^ Burnet's Hifl. V. I. pp. 763, 766, 780, 793, 79,, Sci, 8io. 3 Lodge's Peerage. * Buniet, V. II. p. 3. s 6 7 s Lodge's Peerage, V. I. p. 3;o, .-ind 351. » Burnet, V. II. p. 45. '<> lb. p. 123. " '= '^ '* '^ 16 Lodge's Peerage. '■ Burnet, V. II. p. 546. " '» Lodge's Peer.ige. pointed [ 7^- ] pointed Ambaflador to the Court of France ;* and went to that CourJ in December :* but in the articles of commerce, of which he was then treating, purfuing ftrenuoufly the interefts of his country, he received ibme marks of coldnefs from the French, which led him to foHcit his return ; and he had his audience of leave on the 17th of Auguft 1713.^ He at- tended the Queen at Windfor the 4th of September ^ and nine days after- wards was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.''- He opened the Par- liament at Dublin, the 25th of November,' and continued there till June following ;^ and on tlie 30th of July 1714, the Qiieen, on her death-bed, made him Lord Treafurer of Great Britain :' fo that, at her death, he had the three great offices of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord High Treafurer of Great Britain, and Lord Chamberlain of tlie Houfehold ; which never before had been held together by any one perfon. He was one of the Lords appointed by King George the Firfl: to govern the nation till his arrival from Hanover:^ and on the 26th of September 17 14, he was made Groom of the Stole, and Lord Privy Purfe.' The ifl: of Odober he was fvvorn of the Privy Council ; conftituted Lieutenant of the county of Worcefler; declared, the 17th, Lord Chamberlain of the Houfehold :'° and the 8th of March i7'-4-, he had a grant of a yearly penfion of 3000I. during the King's life;" and afterwards, on the 4th of July 171 5, refigned his Chamberlain's ftaft.'- He died the ifl of February 1717, without iirue,'^ and the titles of Duke and Marquis cealed with him. " He " feemed" fays Burnet,'+ " to be a man of great probity, and to have a " high Cen^e of honour. He had no ordinary meafure of learning: a cor- *' re£l judgement, with a fweetnefs of temper that charmed all who knew " him." His lady, Adelhida, was defcended, by her mother, from Robert ' Lodge's Peerage. = Buriiet, V. II. p. 613. 3 4 s c 7 « 9 >o n 12 13 Lodge's Peerage* '•• iJ.irnet, V. I. p. 763. Dudley, [ 73 ] Dudley, foil of Robert Earl of Leicefter, the favourite of Qiieen Elizabeth. She was Lady of the Bedciiamber to Queen Caroline, when Princefs of Wales; and died the 23d of June 1726.' The Duke had a younger brother, John, who was killed the 2d of February 1685, in a duel with Henry Duke of Grafton." . , His Grace of Shrewlbury, by indentures of Icafe and releafe, dated 15 and 16 February 1709,^ conveyed five fixth parts of his third part of this manor and eftate, to Thomas Leacroft, of Wirkfworth, Com. Derb. Gent, for 2504I. 4s. od. then paid, and 2504I. 4s. od. to be paid the 13th of February 17 10. Mr. Leacroft left the eftate equally between his two younger fons, Robert and John.''- ........... Tho. Leacroft, Gent._ Ellen, d. of Rob. Mellor, of Ideridgehay, C. Derb, Gen. I. Thomas 2. Rob. Leacroft, Gen. —Bridget, d. of Edw. 3. John Leacroft, ^LD. ob. s.p. bur. 1 1 Jan. I -79,5 bur. 10 June, Becher, of Southwell, Efq.Barr.at Law, Efq. ob. s. p. 9 Sept. 1787. Mary, Elizab. ISIiriam, all s. p. II II i.Edvv.Btcher 2. Tho. Leacroft, — Jane, d. of Geo. 3. JohnLeacroft,_Eliz. d. ot Bridget, Leacroft, Efcj. Efq. bap, i April, bap. 30 Sept. 1741.' '737-* Holcombe, Clerk, Efq. bap, 3 June, Archdeacon of '743'' Caermarthcn. William bap. 17 Swymmer, Aug. 1739,5 Efq. mart. Rob. Cheney, Efq. I III George F^. A. i. Corbetta C. S. t. John 3. William S. 2.LouifaL a. Rob. 4, Edward. Bridget B. Julia H. Mr. Robert Leacroft left his fhare, by will, to his two younger fons, Thomas and John, in equal fhares : fo that each of them is now entitled ' Lodge's Peerage. * lb. V. I. p. 349. 3 Ex autog. penes Joannem Leacroft ar. * Ex relat. Edw. B. Leacroft ar. s At Wirkfworth. L to [ 74 ] to a moiety of a moiety of five fixths of one third part (i. e. ^V) of the inanor or lordfliip of South Winfield.' John Leacroft, third fon of the firfl Thomas, dying without iffbe, his fliare defcended to my very worthy friend, Edward Becher Leacroft, (eldefl fon of his brother Robert) as heir at law ; who is now entitled to a moiety of five fixth parts of one third part (i. e. ^°-) of the manor or lordfliip of South Winfield.- One fixth part of a third part was purchafed by the anceftor of Winfield Hakon, Efq. about the fame time, from ths Duke of Shrewfbury ; of which fliare, Mr. Halton is now the owner. ^ Thomas Earl of Arundel, who married Alathea, the youngeft of the three daughters of Gilbert Earl of Shrewfbury, and had in her right a third part of this manor, was grandfon of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who "was beheaded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, (2 June, 1572) for his defign to marry the Qiieen of Scots,''- and fon of Philip Earl of Arundel ; who, from the year 1584 to the time of his death, (19 November, 1595) was a prifoner in the Tower; having been condemned to die, partly for re- ligioUj and partly upon a furmife of favouring the Spaniards:' but wlio was by a truly chara6leriflick flroke of Elizabethan clemency, pardoned his life, that he might linger it out in prilon. Earl Thomas was reflored in blood in the ifl: year of King James the Firfl-, and had the office of Earl Marflial of England, as it had been enjoyed by his anceftors. He was Knight of the Garter, and a Member of the Privy Council, and Lord Steward of the Houfehold. He was alfo appointed Chief JulVice of the forefls north of Trent, by Charles the Firfl: ; and was General of the Army, in the firfl: ' - Ex rclat. Edw. B. Leacroft ar. ^ Ex autog. penes Rev, Lane. Greenthwait Halton, Clcr, ^ * Colllns's Peerage, Edit. 1735, V. I. p. 14, 15, and 16. expedition [ 75 ] expedition into Scotland, A°. 1638; niul flit as Lord High Steward of Euo-land at the tiial of the Earl of Strafford. He was created Earl of Norfolk, 6 June, 20. Car. I. and died at Padua, 14 Sept. 1646, anno XX. 61.' ■ . .< • ■' '-■ ■ '•■-.'- k;-. The Earl of Arundel, " in his own right and quality," fays Lord Clarendon,* " preceded the refl of the Council" of King Charles the Firft, ♦' He was generally thought to be a proud man, who lived always iviibin *' himfelf, and to himfelf; converhng little with any who were in common " converfiition : lb that he feemed to live, as it were, in another nation; *' his houfe being a place to which all people reforted, wiio reforted to no •' other place. He reforted fometimes to the Court, becaufe there only was " a greater man than himfelf; and went thither the feldomer, becaufe *' there ivas a greater man than himfelf. He lived towards all favourites, *' and great officers, without any kind of condefcenfion ; and ratlier fuffered " himfelf to be ill treated by their power and authority, (for he was often " in difo-race, and once or twice prifoner in the Tower) than to defcend in *' making any application to them. And upon thefe occafions he fpent a great " interval of his time, in feveral journies into foreign parts ; and, with his " wife and fimily, had lived fome years in Italy; the humour and manners »' of which nation, he feemed moft to like and approve, and affeded to " imitate. Pie had a good fortune by dcfcent, and a much greater from ♦' his wife ; but his expences were without any meafure, and always ex- " ceeded very much his revenue. He was willing to be thought a fcholar, *' and to underftand the moft myflerious parts of antiquity, becaufe he ' Collitis's Peerage, Edit, 1735, ^' ^' P- '+> 'S. and i6. ' Hill, of the Rebellion, V. I. L 2 mads [ 76 ] <* made a wonderful and cofrly purchafe of excellent ftatues, wliilfl: he was *' in ItaJy and in Rome ; (feme whereof he could never obtain permifllon " to remove from Rome, though he had paid for them) and had a rare ** colleclion of the mofl curious medals. As to all parts of learning, he *' was almoft Illiterate, and thought no other part of hiflory fo confiderable " as what related to his own family : in which, no doubt, there had been *' fome very memorable perfons. It cannot be denied, that he had in his " perfon, in his afpe(fl, and countenance, the appearance of a great man; *' which he preferved in his gait and motion. He wore, and affeded, a *' habit very different from that of the time; fuch as men had only beheld *' in pitftures of the moft confiderable men : all which, drew the eyes of *' mojl, and the reverence of many^ towards him ; as the image and repre- *' Tentative of the primitive Nobility, and native gravity of the Nobles, *' when they had been mofl: venerable. But this was only his outfide : *' his nature and true humour, being much difpofed to levity and delights, *' which indeed were very defpicable and childifli. He was rather thought *■* not to be much concerned for religion, than to incline to this, or that *' party, of any : and had little other afte£lion for the nation, or the ** Icingdom, than as he had a great fhare in it ; in which, like the great *' Leviathan, he might fport himfelf : from which he withdrew, as loon *' as he difcerned the repofe thereof was like to be diflurbed ; and died " in Italy, under the fame doubtful charaSer of religion, in which he " lived." ' The noble colleclion of ancient marbles made by this Earl, reluctantly as it is complimented by Lord Clarendon, and from whatever motive the colledion was made, (even fuppofing it merely from oftenftation) is a moft valuable I 77 1 valuable acquifition to the lovers of antiquity, and defeives a better tcflU mony of gratitude to the Earl's memory, than' that which it has received from the noble hiftorian. The marbles were taken out of the ruins of the ancient cities of Afia, Greece, and Italy; and in 1627 dcpofited In the gardens of Arundel Houfe, London : and fuch of them as furvived the rapacity of the troublefome times of the ufurpation in the laft century, being about 130, (little more than half the number originally brought to Arundel Houfe) were given by his grandfon, Henry, to the Univerfity of Oxford/ , ,...,„,.,.•.';..,,■;;..;,)., ;.,.;- ,-,,• •■ ■ . The third part of Lady Alathea Talbot, wife of Thomas Earl of Arundel, in the manor of Winficld, defcended to Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, their fecond (but eldell: furviving) fon and heir. Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, eldeft fon and heir of Henry, was reftored in the 13th of King Charles the Second to the Dukedom of Norfolk; but dying without iflue, 1678, was fucceeded as Duke of Norfolk, &c. by Henry his brother, (fecond fon of Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel ;) which Henry, Duke of Norfolk, and Jane his fecond wife, (daughter of Robert Bickerton, Efq.) conveyed the (hare of the Howards in this eflate, on the 28th of May 1678,- to Imanuel Halton, Gent. Thomas Platts, and !Michael WilUamfon ; and VVinfield, great grandfon of Imanuel, is now the owner of that third part of this manor, formerly the property of the Countefs of Arundel: fo that he is now entitled to one third part, (viz. y^) derived from her ; and to one fixth of one third part, before ftated to be derived from the Duke of Shrewlbury, (being ^V); making together Li. * Bayle's General Didionary, Vol, VIII. pp. 535, and 536. - Ex autog. penes A. Wollcy. Will. [ 78 ] Will, de Haltoii, of H. C. Lane, and Greenthwayte, C. Cuinb.—Margery, d. of Ric. de Knott. 1346, ig.E.III. I 3. Kic. 1. Adam H. of Chepin,__ Alice. C.Lanc. ob.g.H.VI. I John, 1470.—. Alice. Miles, 1480., John, s. p. James, i493._.Ifab. Miles.— J.inetta, d. &h.of Joli. Head, of Raughton, C. Cumb. mar. 1^44. 2. Lane. 4. Peter. 3. Anih. 5. James. 1. John, ob. 1623.:^ Mabel, d. of Will. Simfon. John. — I Geo. Emanuel, o. v. p. i6io._Marg. Miles Haltoii, Efq. born_Dorothy, d. of 1599, Shcritfof Cumber- 1 Wibcrg. land, 8<:ob. 1652. I f Emanuel. -3 \ J. Timothy, D.D. Imanucl HaIton,_Mary, d. of John 3. MilesH.— i. Dor. 4. William, Cler. Gen. ob. 1699, 5. John, Clcr. xu 72. Newton, of Okcr- of Bohon, I 3. Mabel, thorpe, Gen. C.Wclfm. 2. Mar^. married Lowther. I 5. Mary inanied Merrils, I.John, 2. Timothy. 5.Timothy,_Frances,d. 6. Imanuel.^^Mary, d. Mary ob. s. p. 3. Miles. ob. 1748. » . . -r-i - 174.9, 4. Sam. '■ "■ •■ Rp.- ". &h.ofTho. Robfon. &h.ofJ. Mary. Sare. s. p. 4. Barbara j married Rebecca Williams, & Dorothy m. Gates. "Dorothy. Mary. Frances, Arabella. I. Inianuel Hakon, Efq. — Rebecca, Miles Halton, Clerk. ob. 17 Feb. 1784. d. of Edw. Thorpe. I 3. 4- [ John. Salathiel.;— i.W infield Halton, Efq. — Anne, d. of John Bateman, Gent. 2. Lancelot Greenthwait Halton, Clerk, Frances mar. Lnanuel, b. 14 Hanna iNL A July, 1785. Frances L. Ex flemm. pcnrs Rev. L, G. Halton, Imatuiel r 79 ] "^rrianuel Halton, the flrfl of the family who rcfided at Winfield, wns the eldeft Ton of Miles Halton, Sheriff of Cumberland, in 1652. He was fometime a Student of Gray's Inn : and afterwards, being employed as Auditor to Henry Duke of Norfolk, he was, through that conne<5lion, introduced into Derbyfliire ; and fpent the latter part of his life, which was devoted to mufick and the mathematicks, at Winfield manor. In the Appendix to Fofter's Mathematical Mifcellanies are fome pieces of this perfon ; and in the Phllofophical Tranfa6lions, 1676, is an account of an Eclipfe of the Sun, obferved by him at Winfield. But the greater part of his manufcripts, through negligence, have unfortunately been deflroyed. :,:• I- In deducing the defcent of the manor of Winfield, though I commenced w^ith the paramount or fuperlor Lords, yet, I found it neceflary, after having difpofed of the Peverells, to take hold of tlie Lords in oclual pojftjfion, and to follow the clue through them to the prefent time, in order to avoid a repetition of feveral inquifitions refpedting the manor. '. • . William de Peverell, it appears, enfeoffed Robert de Pavdli and his heirs in Winfield and Rlfley, In Derbyfliire, and Piry and Houghton, in Nor- tham.ptonfliire ;' which feoffment muff have been made (unlefs it were merely confirmatory) before A. D. 11 09 : for William Peverell confirms' the donation of Robert de Pavelliaco of two parts of the tithe of his demefne of Hodon (Houghton) to the Canons of Lenton ; and Gerard, Archbilhop of York,^ who was elecled to that See in iioi, and continued in it between feven and eight years, witneffes the confirmation."'- ' Tlioroton's Nottinghamfliire, p. 65. Pat. i». E. III. p. ::. m. ;6. - Mon. Ang. T. I. p. 646. -' Godwin's Catalogue of Bifliops, p. 577. * Mon. Ang. T. I. p. 646. The : [ So ] The eflate, however, which was derived by Pavely under this feoff- ment, was only an intermediate feigniory between Peverell and Heriz, and between Peverell's reprefentatives and the defcendants of Heriz ; and fome-' times, as in page 19, the manor of Winfield is faid to be held of the honour of Peverell, without noticing the tenure under Pavely ; and in other inftances it is ftated to be held of Pavely, without noticing it's dependance on the honour of Peverell: as in 27°. E. I. of Lawrence de . Pavely, (fee p. 21) ; in 3°. E. III. of Lawrence Pavly, (p. 23) ; in 4"^. R. IL of John Pavely, Knt. (p. 25); in 15°. R. II. of John Pavely, (p. 28) ; and in 5°. H. V. of the heirs of John Pawley, (p. 29) : after ^vhich, I find no evidence of the Pavelies having any thing to do with the manor of Winfield. The family of Pavely divided into feveral branches ; of one of which, a pedigree is given in the Hillory of Northampton£hire, by Bridges, V. I. p. 597 i and of another, there is a pedigree in Thoroton's Hiftory of Not- tinghamfhlre, p. 65. Thefe pedigrees I have attempted to unite; and the fuccefs of the attempt I fubmit to candid enquiry. I muft, however, obferve, for the affiftance of hiveftigation, that the eftate at Rudington in Nottinghamfliire, of Geoffrey de Malquincy, the uncle of Geoffrey de Pavely, who was ancef1:or to the Pavelies of VVelford in Northampton/hire, paired to that branch of the Pavelies which was connefted with Winfield;' and that Thoroton ftates Geoffrey de Pavelli and Robert, from whom I derive the other line, to be brothers.' ; ■■' • '; ^^ i ■ ■ ,f' J- ' ::;ii'i'*' ' • In the 14th of Henry the Third, Robert de Pavelli (fon, I prefume, of the laft named Robert) was in the King's fervice beyond the feas ; being ^_^ ^ - Thoroton's Nottinghamfliire, p. 65, and 66. ^iir ■ the [ 85 ] {MANOR. HO USE.) The early manfion of tlie Lords of Winfitld (uiilefs it were at the place already mentioned, called Bakewell Hall) there is feme reafon to believe, from the authority given to John do Heriz' to have divine fervice in the chapel at Linbery or Linbury, (faving the right of the mother church at Winfield) was near to the Peacock Inn, on the turnpike road between Derby and Chefterfield, occupied by Mr. Jonathan Kendal : for the fcite of the chapel of Linbury is faid to adjoin to the Peacock Inn ; and the fcite of Ufton Hall, which was vin<^uefl:ionably one o^ the. innnnr-houfes of the Lords of Winfield, is within an hundred paces of the Inn. Ufton is un- doubtedly on the Roman road, leading from Little Chefter, near Derby, towards Chefterfield ; but I think it has no pretenfions to have been a Roman flation,' whatever antiquity the name of Linbury may import: for as the diftance of Ufton from Little Chefter, purfuing the line of the Roman road where it can be traced, and where it cannot be traced, making reafonable allowance for deviations from a redtilinear direcflion, is very little more than twelve miles ; and as the ftation mentioned by Richard of Cirencefter is at the diftance of fixteen miles from Derventio, or Little Chefter, the ftation muft: be carried forward to Higham, or perhaps ftill farther to Stretton ; the latter being not four miles, and Higham but two , miles from Ufton: though the Peverell road, mentioned by Dr. Pegged as leading from Bolfover to South Winfield, and the name of which he conceives to be fufficient authority for the conclufion that William Peverell built the caftle of Bolfover, might, perhaps, had he given it greater an- ' See p. 19. * See Pegge on the Roman Roads, p. 8. ' See Pegge's Hift. of Bolfover and Peak Caflles, p. 3. tiquity [ 86 ] tlquity than the name of Peverell carries, have aflifted to fix a Roman flation at Linbury or Ufton. Thus much for the ancient manor-houfe of the Lords of South Win- field. I come now to notice the prefent manor-houfe ; which, according to Camden, was built by Ralph Lord Cromwell in the time of King Henry VI.' This Lord Cromwell, I have already obferved, was Treafurer of England ; and the teftimony of Camden, that he ere£led the prefent manor-houfe, is ftrongly corroborated by the bags, or purfes of ftone, (alluding to the office of Treafurer, which he filled) carved over the gate- wav leading into the quadrangle. For bags, or purfes, are mentioned to have been carved on the manor-houfe of Coly Weflon in Northampton- Ihire, augmented by this Lord Cromwell :^ and there were alfo fimilar ornaments carved in wood, removed about a century ago from Winfield manor to the houfe of one Haflam, in Crich, the adjoining Lordfhip.^ Leland, who wrote in the time of Henry the Eighth, fpeaking of this place, fays, " Winfeld, or Wenfeld, in Darbyfiiire, is but a maner place, " but yt far paffith Sheffeld Caflel."^ What the building was in it's original ftate, a more perfedl idea may be formed from the view of it. No. L taken from an old painting, the property of Winfield Halton, Efq. ; but this being a bird's-eye view, I had the view No. it. taken, to fhew it's aftual appearance on the fame fide, and to give an idea of it's elevation above the valley. It's fituation, though the neighbourhood of Winfield has not thofe romantick features ' Camden's Britannia— Derbyfliire. - Leland's Itiji, V. I. fo. 25, and V. VI. fo. 31. ■3 Ex autog, penes T, B, •* Itin. V, V, fo. 94. by r 87 ] by which Derby/hire landfcapes arc generally dlftlngulfhed, is bold and majeflick, with the advantage of beautiful profpe6ts, in almoft every di- rection. The diftant approach to it from the nortli, when aflifted by a fun nearly funk into the horizon, has .1 moft affedling air of grandeur. Here imagination eagerly plunges into the fafcinating fcenes of antiquity, and the mental eye gazes in rapture on the fplendid and hofpitable revels of the days of Chivalry : . " Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold " In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, " With ftore ot ladies, whofe bright eyes " Rain influence, and judge the prize " Of wit, and arms ; while both contend " To win her grace, whom all commend." Milton's l'Ali,egro. A nearer approach calls us back to contemplate the fad devaflations of time. We fee walls which erft have reared their heads in proud defiance of the tempeft, fpread in dilorder and confufion ; and here the pilgrim oft' " At dead of night, 'mid his oraifon, hears ! " Aghaft the voice of Time, difparting towers," Dyer's Ruins of RojMe. which fternly awed the turbulent fpirits of the people of barbarous ages. The building confifls of two fquare courts ; one of which, to the north, has been built on all fides, and the fouth fide of It forms the north fide of the fouth court, which has alfo ranges of buildings on the eafl: and wefl: fides, and on part of the fouth. The latter court feems principally to have confifted [ 88 ] confifted of offices. The firft entrance is under an arched gateway on the eafl: iide of the fouth court. The arch of this gateway, being a femicircle, I prefume, muft have been erefted fubfequent to the reft of the building. From hence the communication with the inner court is under an arched gateway in the middle of the north fide of the fouth court. The ap- pearance of the building, a few paces to the right-hand of the entrance into the north court, the view No. III. will give a better idea of, than any language I can command. One half of this range of building feems originally to have been ufed as an hall, which received light through a beautiful oftagon window, and through a lauy^c uf gothick windows to the fouth, now broken away, (fee No. III.) and a correfpondent range to tlie north, altered, as In the view No. I. into two ranges. This part of the houfe, fubfequent to it's firft eredion, was divided and fubdlvlded into feveral apartments, which have fuffcred the fime fate as the noble hall, whofe magnificence their erection deftroyed. In the other part of this range are the portal, and the remains of the chapel, and of the great ftate apartment, lighted through the other rich gothick window, reprefented in the view No. III. the kitchen, &c. No part of the buildings on the eaft (ide of the court (except a low wall) now remains. The greater part of the building on the fouth and weft fides of the north court, is reprefented In the view No. IV. Of the range of buildings on the weft of this court, only the outer wall, and fome broken turrets, furvlve. In the reign of Elizabeth, Wlnfield was, at times, made the place of confinement of Mary Queen of Scots, under the Earl of Shrewftjiiry. Her fulte of apartments, tradition informs us, was on the weft fide of the north court. court. This, in tiie memory of perfons now living, was the moft beautiful part of the building : it communicated with the great tower ; from whence there is aUo a tradition, Ihe had, fometimes, an opportunity of feeing the friends approach with whom flie held a fecrct correfpondence. And he mufl: have an hard heart, indeed, who could pafs it over with cold and thoughtlefs inattention. It is here the bofom that can feci, recalls the memory of a great and unfortunate lady, indulged in her youth in the foft enjoyments of pleafure, and tafting in the fucceffion of years a fucceflion of refinements on mifery : and here it furveys the crumbling walls which \vere once lefs obdurate to her Ilghs, than were the hearts of her enemies. It here yields alternately to Impreffions of forrow and Indignation : and here the Englifliman, in defpight of the enthufiaflick regard for his Sovereign, which " grows with his growth aiid ftrengthens with his *' flrength," cannot recall the memory of Elizabeth, amldft her parade of mercy and juftice, without pronouncing it dctefted. How different was the fituation of Mary here, from that in which once fhe fhone " In fcepter'd ftate, in Beauty's higheft noon ; " When Hymen decked his youthful bow'rs, *' And Fancy, ever new," awoke " the laughing hours." Mary Queen of Scots, an Ode, by John Sargent, Efq. Her confinement here, probably commenced in the year i '^69 : in which, year an attempt was made by Leonard Dacre to liberate iier from her con- finement at Wlnfield :' after which, Elizabeth becoming fufplcious of the Earl of Shrewfijury, under pretence of Shrew{bury's being in an ill ftate of health, gave diredllons to the Earl of Huntingdon- to take the ■» Camden's Eliz. and Lodge's lUyfl. V. II. p. 22. "- Lodge's llhift. V. II. p. 21, and 22. N care [ 90 ] care of the Queen of Scots, in Shrewfbury's houfe : and her train was reduced to thirty perfons.^ The period tradition fays (he was confined here, is nine years. She was certainly in the cuftody of the Earl of Shrewfbury from 1568 to 1584; but in that time (he was at Buxton, Sheffield, Coventry, Tutbury, and other places, as well as at Winfield : and if her confinement here continued any thing near fo great a length of time as nine years, it muft have been with many intervals of abfence. It is probable, however, the attempt- made to liberate her, by a Mr. Hall, and the younger fons of the Earl of Derby, and others, were at this place ; as George Rolfton, Gentleman Penfioner to Queen Elizabeth, who difcovered the defign, was fon of Francis Rolflon, Gent, of Lea, a place about four miles from Winfield, and within half a mile of the houfe of Anthony Babington, at Dethicke; who was afterwards executed for a confpiracy againft the life of Queen Elizabeth ; to which he was led by his inclination to liberate the Queen of Scots from her confinement. The manor-houfe is fiid^ to have fird fufFered from an attack of the Parliament army, in the time of Charles the Firft. When, however, we confider that the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (who, as the committee of his brother's widow, was interefted in this eftate ; and who, I have {ecn by his letters, fometimes relided here) was himfelf of the ' Lodge's Illuft. V. II. p. 21, and 22. ' Camden's Eli/5. — Lodge's Illuft. V. II. p. 51. — The latter work contains many particulars of tlic private hiftoiy of the Talbot family, into which the narrow bounds of the prcfent publication do not permit nic to enter. I have found the lUullrations of Britifli Hiftory, Biography, and Manners, replete with curious anecdote, and intercfung intorm.ttioii ; and I hope my tellimony to the merits of Mr. Lodge's labours cannot do ihcm an injury. 3 Topographer, V. I. p. 578. and Pilkington's Derbyfli. tit. S. Winfield. Parliament [ 9' ] Parliament party, it will appear a more probable prefamption that the firft violence it fuftained was from t!ie Royalifts ; a party of whom, under the command of William Cavendifli, Marquis of Newcaftle, in the month of November 1643, " ^°°^ '^'" %5 ^'^ Lady,' " by ftorm." After which, the fame Lady informs us, that the Marquis appointed Henry Haftinos, Lord Loughborough, Commander in Chief of all the Forces in Derbyfliire and Leicefterftiire; and then departed, leaving no vilible enemy behind him, in Derbyfliire, " £we only an inconfiderable party in the town of Derbv *' which they" [the Parliamentarians] " had fortified, not worth the labou-r " to reduce it." ■ ' ' - . This inconfiderable party was a regiment of foot, raifed for the fervice of tlie Parliament, under a commiffion from Robert Earl of Eflex, by Sir John Gell, of Hopton, in Derbyfhire, Bart, a fpirited gentleman, of confiderable intereft in that county ; of which regiment, Thomas Gell, Efq. younger brother of Sir John, a Barrifler of the Inner Temple, of extenfive practice, Recorder of the borough of Derby, and Reprefentative of that borough ia the laft Parliament of Charles the Firil:, a perfon of diftinguilLed courage and abilities, was Lieutenant-Colonel. And, inconfiderable as the Lady Newcaftle was difpofed to rate this party, her Lord, who was much im- portuned by Haftings to give it amioyance, left it undiilurbed for better reafons than it's infignificance.- Sir John Gell having alfo raifed a regiment of horfe for the fervice of the Parliament, fhortly afterwards fent Major Sandars, one of his officers, with the horfe to WInfield, where they took prifoners^ two Captains and ' Life of the Duke of Newcaflle, by his Duchcfs, p. 50. "- ^ " A true account of the raifinge and iinploying of one foot regiment, under Sir John Gell, N 2 " from [ 92 ] and feveral other officers, and foldiers, of Sir John Fitz-Herbert, a Colonel on the part of the Kuig : and in Auguft 1644/ Winfield manor was retaken by Sir John Gell, the aflault being commenced from Pentridge Common ; and Colonel Dalby, then the Governor, was killed during the fiege:' after which, on the 23d of June 1646, the Parliament direded the garrifon of Winfield to be difmantled.^ -, . The papers of the neighbouring gentry, and the traditions of the in- habitants, about Winfield, intimate it to have been the fcene of other more trifling fkirmifhes. Cannon balls have frequently been found about, and amongft, the ruins of the building. When it was garrifoned for the King, Colonel Roger Molineux^- (a younger brother of the houfe of Teverfale in Nottinghamfliire) had for fome time the command of the garrifon. From this time the building has been much negledled ; and it had been fortunate for the admirers of fo venerable an edifice, had that negligence been uni- form from thence to the prefent time : but a fmall part of it having been occupied by the family of Halton, and a partition of the eftate taking place, fome years ago, under a decree of the Court of Chancery, the manfion was allotted to the late Mr. Halton, who began to build an " from the beginning of Oci. nun. doni. 1642, untill the raiJdel of Fcbiuary 1643." S'j;r.cd " John " Gell — Geo. Grefley — The. Gcll," (the t.vo latter being Lieutenant-Colonels to Sir John). MS. penes Ph. Gell, de Hopton ar, • • •' ' -- * ■ • " A perfect Table of 343 Vii^oiics obtnincd fincc the King's Attemjit to enter into Hull, at the " Beginning of thcfe Wars. July 26, 1642, to Sept. 14, 1646. By their Excellencies the Earl of " Effex and Sir Thomas Fairfax, Captains Generals of the Parliament's Forces. Printed for William " Ley." With engraved heads of thofc Generals, and cuts in wood of the other Generals of the Parliament army. - Pilkington's Derbydiirc. 3 Order " Printed for J. P. in the Old Balie, 1646." * Ex autog. jienes T. B. _ ' •- J - -• -w . -. houfe [ 93 ] lioufe at the foot of the hill near to the manor; and fince that time, fome of the mofi: beautiful parts of the old building have been pulled down for file fake of the materials. And here, my Lord, I clofe the Hiflory of the Manor, and Manor- Houfe, of South Winfield ; in which, wherever I may have differed in opinion from refpeftable writers, or wherever I may have noticed au inattention to accuracy in tiieir writings, I perfuade myfelt it will not appear that I have done lb on flight grounds, or with a difpolition to depreciate the merits of their labours, but from a real regard to the truth of hiftory, and an anxiety to fupport the purity of it's refources. It cannot favour much of arrogance, my Lord, if I obferve that I here lay before you the refult of confiderable labour, and of painful refearch. If there fliould appear any offenlive peculiarities in the ftile of my language, the confideration of my being educated to the Law, the formalities of whofe written proceedings are ant to cramp that freedom of expreflion which diftinguifhes claflical elegance, may at leall; weaken, if it cannot avert, the feverity of criticifm. I alk for no extraordinary portion of indulgence. Ignorance and incapacity, are but poor apologies for ob- truding upon the world a work unworthy of its notice ; and unlefs my labours can (kreen themfelves under a ftouter fliield, they mufl: perilh. I offer the prefent as a fpecimen of a manerial Hiflory, previous to the pub- lication of the Firft Part of the Hifliorv of Derbvfhire. It muft be ob- ferved, that // Is a fpecimen of the manner only, and totally unconnected with the typography of the intended publication, wliich is propofed to be printed in folio. I Hiould [ 94 ] I fhould be guilty of unpardonable ingratitude, were I here filently to pafs over the very weighty obligations conferred upon me by your Lordfliip's condefcending countenance of my literary undertakings ; or the indulgent favours I have received from Thomas Aflle, Efq. Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, in permitting to me a liberal recourfe to the moft valuable coUeftion of records in this kingdom ; or, perhaps, in any nation of the world. Accept, my Lord, my beft thanks for the diftinguifhed honour conferred by your Lordfliip's name upon this publication. Neither the pecuniary advantages, nor the vanity, of book-making have been my objects. The art of trading in literature will not be fufpetted to be nicely refined in one unufed to tread the mazes leading to fuccefs in literary purfuits. I have already explained my reafons for fending thefe fheets into the world ; and, however affet^ted the declaration may appear, I can truly lay that I am lefs anxious for their fate than are many of my friends. I have the honour to be very gratefully, and very faithfully October i, 1793. My Lord, Your Lordfiiip's mofl: obliged, and mofl obedient Servant, fHO. BLORE. APPENDIX, NOTES, &c. N". I. P. 13. Pedigree. An the Monafticon Angl. Torn. III. p. 59. are two charters j the one of William Pcverell of Nottingham, and the other of Avicia de Lancafter, his wife : by which charters, the church of Bol- forer, Com. Derb. is granted and confirmed to the Canons of Darky juxta Derby. Which William Pevereli this was, I cannot affirm ; but I prefume he had no ifTue by Avicia de Lancafter, as, if he had, flie would probably have noticed fuch iflue in her charter. N". II. P. 16, and p. 18. Donations of Winfield Church to Darley Abbey. From the charter of Henry del Luy, inferted in Mon. Ang. Tom. III. p. 59. whereby he grants Ulkerthorpe (Okerthorpe) as an appurtenant to PentriJge, to the Canons of Darley ; and from the donation of Pentriz, (Pentridge) in the faAie Volume, p. 5S. by Ralph Fitz-Stephen, the King's Chamberlain, to the Canons of Darley ; I conclude that the grant of the church of Winfield, by Ralph Fitz-Stcpheii, to the fame Canons, (inferted in the l:ift mentioned page) was merely oi fuch right as Ralph Fitz-Stephcn had therein, as being Lor J of the Manor of Okerthorpe, % N". III. Pp. 22, 23, &c. . The following extraft from Brldgcs's Hiftory of Northamptonfliire, V. II. p. J77. feems to relate to a family couneiTled with Winfield. " John le Breton, fon of John le Breton, died in the 34th of the fame reign, [Edw. I.] leaving his pofleffions here [Blatherwick] to John le Breton, his fucceflbr and fon." — " This John died under age, and was fucceeded by his filler, INIaud, the wife of Richard de la River. In the jth of Edw. III. Thomas de la Rivers levied a fine of this manor in Blather- wick. This gentleman appeareth to have left it to ^/f^ar^/ t/f /a ^>"iv;v, his brother, who having no male iflue, was fucceeded by Margaret, his daughter. She died in the 49th of Edw. III. under ' ■ ' ILLUSTRATED. TOGITHER WITH The Pedigrees of all the Families and Gentrt, both antient and modern, of that Pariih. By the late Rev. HENRY SANDERS, B.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, and Thirteen Years Curate of Shenstone, LONDON, Printed by and for J. NICHOLS, Painter to the Socikty of Antiouakies, 1794- ' >: [ V 1 To- THE WORTHY PARISHIONERS OF ShEK STONE,. IN THE County of Stafford. E plcafed to accept this Dedication of the following Hiftory as a fmall token of my Regard and Efteem. For, although [o long a time has elapfed fince I was refident at Shenftone, when my father had the care of that extenfive and happy Parifli, and, notwithrtanding the many viciffitudes in Families, fo that I may not he remembered by all the prefent ; yet no time or circumftance can obliterate from my mind the kindnelTcs I re- ceived from many, and that friendiliip I entertained for you in my infant years. You have here, my worthy Friends, prefented to you a P^iftory of your Forefathers, probably a more lafting monument than was ever erecfted to the memory of your de- Geafed Relatives. — Accept it as the labour of your faithful Paftor, who loved you, and was, he prefumed, beloved by you ; ac- cept it, as undertaken by him from pure love to all the Pa- ridiioners, and which had been never compleated, through its immenfity of labour, perhaps of expence, if he had imagined it would not have proved for the entertainment and benefit of mofl', and you would not have regarded it. Several of my efteemed Friends among you have been anxioufly defirous of jpofllffing this Work ; I therefore diligently fought a fit and 5 . con- VI DEDICATION. convenient opportunity of bringing it forward to public view ; and am much indebted to Mr. Nichols, the Friend of learned Antiquaries, for bis kind aliiftance in indulging niine and your wiflies. The ftudy offered to you in the fubfequent pages has been of o-reat utility to many families, both of fmall and confiderable property.- — Often was the Author employed in tracing the lineage of thofe who entreated his affiftance ; and, it is believed, many were greatly indebted to him for the difcovery of their juft and lawful inheritance. , - That this may be acceptable to you, whether on account of its utility or entertainment, is the fmcere wifh of Your faithful Friend, .,. >2::^:;t^w/. ^nd humble Servant, Loadoit, Match 18, 1754.. JOHN BUTLER SANDERS. ' -( i [ vii ] A Short ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR. SO M E account of the Author and his Family, though they were not defcended, as far as we can trace, from anv ilhiftrious anceliors, may not be unacceptable to, if not required by, the Reader. It is fuppofed that a rehgious perfecution, or the inconvenient lituation of Lorraine in times of war between France and Germany, occafioned a Mr. Titery, of Nantz in that dutchy, a perfon of piety and refpeftability, to take refuge in England, to avoid fome calamity which awaited him. His daughter, named Anne, was married to Thomas Rogers, of Wales, afterwards an eminent dealer in glafs at Holloway Head, near Stourbridge, Worcefterfhire. Thomas and Anne Rogers had a daughter, Sarah, who was married to Henry Sanders •'••, of Stourbridge. The iiTue of this marriage were Thomas Sanders of that town, a very learned and ingenious furgeon and ano- tliecary, much eiteemed by the celebrated George lord Lyt- telton, as alfo by a very populous neighbourhood, for his great fuccefs in inoculation, his perfonal charaf^er, and his ability in his profeflion ; Sarah, wife of William Grofvenor, of Kidder- minfter, apothecary ; Henry, Anne, Sufanna, Daniel, and John. As their father died during the minority of the younyer * A branch of this family has long been fcated in Effex. children, vm SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. children, they came under the care of their brother Thomas, who difpofed of each as circumilances and opportunities ferved. Henry feemed to be rather more favoured than his brothers Daniel and John, being, by education, good abilities, and the particular notice of the family of Rogers, well fitted for a fomewhat fuperior rank in life. Though defigned for the cloathing bufmefs, his genius and inclination led him to the ftudy of medicine. He was a noted and valuable apothecary and chemift at Dudley in Worcefterfliire, and was the inventor of a very ufeful medical compofition, v/hich, in that part of the world, is exceedingly admired, and for which receipt a con- fiderable premium was offered by a learned phylician. This H^nry married Mifs Rebecca Hawkes, of a refpedlable family, the defcendants of whofe brother live in great credit, and one, if not two of them, in opulence at Dudley. Henry Sanders had, by his wife Rebecca, eleven children living at one time, and at lealt nine at his deceafe ; the eldeft of whom was Henry, the author of the following Hifrory. Their father, with all his cpire and induftry, was unable to provide them any pecuniary advantages worth mentioning, hav- ing barely a competency to fupport himfelf and daughters in the decline of life, A circumflance particularly favourable, how- ever, attended his three eldeft fons, the benefit of a grammar fchool, which was highly bleiTed with two fucceeding mafters ; the former a rel.itiGn, the Reverend Pynfen Wilmott, M A. afterwards vicar of Hales- Owen, Salop; and the latter the Re- verend Benjamin Clements, B. A. afterwards prebendary of the collegiate church, miiiiiter of St. John's, and head mafter of the grammar-fchool, in Wolverhampton. Henry, having at- tained an excellent clalhcal education, was well qualified for eitiier of the three learned profeHions, and the clerical fuited more the dif- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. ix difpoiltion of his mind, while the other two decidely chofe the medical. At length a great difFiculty arofe how he could be fup- ported at the Univerlity, even in the molt frugal manner, fincc his father could fpare but little from fo large a family. A cir- cumftance indeed occurred, which by many perfons would have been eagerly embraced. There was a contort l)ctween two dif- tinguilhed houfes for the reprefentation of the county in parlia- ment ; and it was confidently faid, that a nobleman made an offer to farther the education of Henry, and advance him in future life, if his father would confent. Such a friendfliip might l)e, per- haps, owing to his lordfhip's erteem 'for a near relation ; but the father would by no means accept the offer, his intereft and re- gard being entirely devoted to the lervice of the noble family at Himley. By dint of induftry and ability, however, Henry pro- cured an exhibition or clerkfliip in Oriel College, and was ap- pointed by that focicty to perform duty in king Edward's Hof- pital "•••, a fmall dirtance from Oxford, before he was in orders. By great prudence, many friends, and the favour of the Col- lege, he combated every pecuniary difficulty, and took the de- gree of B. A. ; which w'hen he had determined, he left the Uni- verfity, being delirous of encountering no farther trouble in the purfuit of academical degrees. But, although he had abandoned fuch inconveniences in the Univerfity, he had another ftill to flruggle with immediately, and that was how to be admitted into holy orders, notwithftanding all his literary merit. He found it no eafy matter to obtain a title, as curacies were at that time fcarce, and the then bilhop of Worcefter treated him rather un- * A little hofpital, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, about luilf a mile Eufi; from Oxford, probably founded by Henry I. and piven by Edward III. 1328, to Oriel College, who were to maintain therein a chaplain and eight poor brothers. Tanner, Not. Mon. p. 421. b • . gra- X? SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. gracioufly ; Co that, between his difuppointments with the bene- •ficed clergy, his numerous journeys, many expences, and an ahnoft empty purfe, the whole ftory, as he related it, would incline the reader to laugh, though it would be impoffible not to lament - his fituation. Some time after, having received holy orders, he redded upon a curacy at Wednefbury, about four miles diftant from his native town, the annual income of which did not exceed 36/. Whiiri: he officiated at that place, a relpeitable and rather vrealthy family attracted his elleem, which foon terminated in his marriage with the eldeffc daughter, Elizabeth Butler. Happy as the married couple were in themfelves, one circumftance thwarted their views. Fortune feemed unpropitious ; for her fa- mily was not fatisfied with her choice of a hufband pofleffed of fuch a fmall income, and they were compelled to fupport themfelves, and afterwards their infant, m.ore than two years, upon 30 /. ftipend,and the vicarage houfe in an adjoining parifli, Weft Bromwich. It was laid, that her marriage was the only circumftance in her life in which flie difobliged her father; but, as fome excufe of that deviation in the duty of both, the father at fome times confented and at others objefted to their marriage. Providence at length, after fuch a con- tented ftruggle with adverfity, interpofed in their behalf, and they were removed to Shenftone, a place not only delightful in its litua- tion, but abounding with a number of worthy inhabitants. The author was no fooner appointed to this comfortable curacy, than he was invited to be one of the reading and domeilic clergy- men to Samuel Hill, efq. whofe family is copioufly treated of in the following pages. In him he not only obtained a friend, but a confiderable increafe of income, infomuch that the dif- oblieed father abovementioned became fo reconciled to his daughter as to fettle upon her the portion of a child. This funfliine of felicity was, neverthelefs, foon to be loft in a dark cloud of adverfity : he not only loft by death his worthy bene- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. xi benefactor Mr. Hill, who would in all probability have been his patron ; but his amiable wife did not furvive her going to Shen- ttone perhaps more than four years ; a lady whofe pious life, and glorious death, were the admiration of all the country, ef- pecially ot thofe perfons who had the happinefs of her acquain- tance. The evening (Sunday) before flie departed, flie defired to fee her only child, v/ho was not five years old ; after giving him fome important inftructions for his future life, it was her exprefs order, that he fnould choofe no other profelhon thaii that of a minifter of Ghrift ; that, be his fortune ever fo fmal!, he fliouid difregard lucre, care of preferments, See. ; for that that employment, prOperlv dilcharged, was fuperior to any otiicr in the world. The next morning, about feven o'clock, ilie fpoke in tranfporc of the eternal jovs which aivaited her, fang an hymn, .and inlxantly expu'Ld. Snrlice it to fay, that her fon is of the facred profeffion, now refident in London -. Our author Ifill continued his curacy of Shenftone, in his ov.-n words, " loving and beloved by his parifliioners," till about the Ciid of thirteen years, when, unhappily for himfelf, and difagree- ably to all hi& flock, he accepted- a Itation in king Edward the Sixth's fcliool, at Birmingham, with a dengn to fuperintend the education of his fon, and oi)tain rbr him an exhibition to college. Within two years of his leaving the curacy of Shenlfonc, he was engaged by Humphry Minchin, efq. now member of par- liament for Boffiney, as private tutor to his two cldeif fons, who, removing to Birmingham for education in that fchool, reprefented their former inftruclor in fuch a favourable view to the Ke- verend Mr. Brailsford, head mailer, that the then vacant place of afTi ft ant-teacher to the upper boys proved an allurement, v. ith a curacy, and the idea of fuperintending his fon's education,, to * Curate of Sr. Alban's, WooJ-flrcet; Lcdturer tf 3u Olave's, C'd Jewry; and late fellow of WorceltcrC. liege, Oxford* b 2 with- xu SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. withdraw Mr. Sanders from Shenftone. His heart, however, bc- in^'- with his beloved people, and uneafy from the place he fo de- lighted in, he was frequently occupied in preparing the Hiftory of the PariQi where he had fpent the happiefl time of his life. Though he afterwards gained a comfortable fettlement as mafter of the free grammar-fchool at Hales-Owen, Salop, by the lavour of George lord Lyttelton, and through the recommenda- tion of fome friends, and alfo the perpetual curacy of Oldbury chapel, to which he was prefented by the Reverend Pynfon Wil- mot ; yet no place afforded him coniblation like Shenllone ; where, though he had it not in his power to end his days, agreable to his wiflies, his will exprefsly charged, and it has been particularly complied with, that his remains Ihould be clepofited in the church where his paftoral duties had been fo particularly acceptable. From the tiaie of his appointment at Hales-Owen, which was in the year 1771, till his deceafe, which happened in T785-'-, few circumftances intervened worth recording. He had laid allde all thoughts of preferment, feemed little anxious about popular efteem, and devoted himfclf to retirement and If udy. Having always a paffion for learning, he was tolerably con- verfant in almolt every branch of Literature, more efpecially in Theology, Hiftory, and the Claffics. Had his abilities met with due encouragement in the early part of life, he uould have made a confpicuous characfter in the learned world. The Reader, however, will be pleafed to accept the following work as the production of a grateful mind, and as a token of regard for his pa- riiliioners. Nor think it an unprofitable purfuit. The lUidy of antiquity has not been confidered beneath the attention of the moft enlarged underifanding. To this the greatell empires in modern times have been indebted, by making improvements on * The fon v.as at that tiaie rainifter of the Englifli church at Gottcnburg. former SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. xiii former manners, cnftoms, and inventions. View Britain in the zenith of her glory, flourifliing in every art and fcicnce ; what has flie not derived from former ages r Surely then it can- not be confidered a trifling employment, to develope the hif- tories of ages part, to bring to remembrance our deceafed anceflors, and to honour the worthy with a grateful tribute of our eftcem. It is true, our aurhor has paid more attention to a limited part of that itudy, than to the liudy of antiquities in general: but, the cafe is fimilar in almoin every art and profefTion. Where is the artift, whether in Sculpture or in Painting, that does not devote his Ikill to fomc one branch of the art? Is the fame perfon equally Skilful and fuccefsfui in every thing ? So alio in Medicine and Law. Some of their profefTors are peculiarly excellent in fome cafes, who fuffer their judgement to give place in others. Suffice it, therefore, to eileem merit however limited it may appear. Upon this ground of reafoning we may fairly decide, that the following pages l)ave their peculiar worth. The Hiilory of Shenlfone is, doubtlefs inferior to that of Warwicklhire^ yet is it on a fimilar plan; but, fo long as England exilts, the name and merit of Dugdale will neither be forgotten nor defpifed. We might prefent to you examples of the mofi: eminent writers in very antient times, and point out the advantages of their la- bours. We might recall to mind the celebrated names of thofe who, a few centuries ago, attached themfelves to this ftudy in France. We might enumerate many of this kind in our own country, and of the prefent age, who have afforded ample tef- timonies of the value of their literary purfuits *. * In antient times, Thucydides, Polybius, Livy, Suetoniii?, Tacitus. In France : Hiflory of Provence, by CtfarNoitradanius ; of Languedoc, by Gnil. Catcl, &c. &c. . In our own country, Lelnnd, Camden, Dugdale, Burton, Chauncey, Somner, Drake, Borlafe^ Hutcliins, ILifted, Naili, &:c. S:c. 2 Rut, \W SOME ACCOUNTOF THE AUTHOR. But, fctting afide the idea of any utility in fuch purruits, the human mind has certainly fome claim to the indulgence of harmkfs recreation, and to re-vifit the manfions of departed worth. In fa6t, when the learned mind is diredled to a ftudy of this foit, it proves, hy being introduced into families, a con- ftant monument of thofe we knew, and the numbers we eftcemed ; and this monument may remain when all others are effaced and defiroyed through the wall:e of time. But this is not all : we cannot too much encourage the ftudy of Parochial An- tiquities, or the Antiquities of Counties, with refpecfl to its vaft utility and importance. How many are deprived of their juft in- heritance by being unacquainted with their proper lineage I How many large and Imall eftates defcend in an unlawful channel, while thofe who ftiould poflTefs them may be involved in poverty and forrow ! Many were the inftances that occurred to our Au- thor, whereby he was enabled to affift the enquirer after little, as well as extenfive property ; and, now he is removed from the fight of men, he had done, while living, what he could to make his time profitable to furvivors. It is believed there were more pofthumous works than the prefent, which would have been ferviceable to the publick if tranfmntted to the prefs ; but, as he had l)equeathed one to a noble lord, fince deceafed, in hopes he would have condefcended to have publiihed it, there were together \Mtli it carried many, very many manufcripts, which, we fear, are removed beyond the reach of recovery. The prefent Hiftory of Shenstone, drawn up with great care and attention,, after a long and painful difcharge of the im- portant duties of his facred office, was, as has been already ob- ferved, prepared for the prefs by the Author during his refidence at Birmingham, where he had an inclination to have printed it; and was afterwards from time to time improved during his refidence at Hales SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. XT Hales Owen. At the diftance of twenty years, it is at length fubmitted to public infpecflion as left by Mr. Sanders, except with the addition in a very few places of a date, and occafionally of a fupplementary link in the connexion of a pedigree. The xMSS. of Dr. Wilkes and Sir Simon Degge, fo frequently quoted in this work, are now in the poffeffion of the Reverend Stebbing Shaw, junior ; who is engaged in preparing from them, and other large collections, his intended Hirtory of Staffordlhire. By the kindnefs of this gentleman, and of another learned friend, Samuel Pipe VVolfcrnlfan, efq. of Statfold (whofe local fituation and accurate attention to genealogical refearches peculiarly quali- fied him for the talk), the reader is prefented with a few ad- ditional pages, which not only corredf fome errors of the prefs, but contribute in a great degree to complete the imperfedions of the original MS. . - J. B. S. ] THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES o F SHENSTONE. SHENSTONE, or as it is written in ancient records Scertejian^ is fituated in a pleafant part of the county of Stafford, by all travellers admired as a beautiful and well-watered fpot, that part of it efpecially fo named ; neither may we wholly except fome of its diftridts, which in fome meafure deferve notice, as will be evidenced when we treat feparately of them. Such a me- thod feems eligible, that this little account may be free as is pof* fible from perplexity, and lefs obnoxious to cenfure. Elegance of expreffion will not be expelled in fuch defcriptions ; but our aim fliall be flriclly to adhere to truth, and the beft authority we can meet with to revive the hiftory of this parifli, and thereby engage, from fome perfons of leifure, who have better oj-tportunities than my occafions have afforded me, more ufeful and agreeable obfcrvations. Whatever is here offered to the perufal of the Publick arofe at firft from a love of An- tiquity and my private amufement. B Shenftone 2 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Shenftone is ufually divided into two great diftri61s, under which the inhabitants in tranfading their feveral concerns are from prefcription arranged. Thefe have the appellation of SbenJio7ie and Stonhall. The fubdivifions are termed Shenjlone^ the Mofs, Wood-end^ Radley Moor- end, AJlon^ Little Haye, Foot her ley, Lower or Nether Stonhall, Upper Stonhall, Lynne, BoJJes, T'bornes, Cheflerfield, Wall, Hilton, and Swinjen. The lall of thefe is not in the parifh, though in the conilablewick, and a manor fub- je6led to the lord of Shenftone. Knowing no better reafon for it, or any more certain proofs, I have ventured to fay, that the two more general divilions of this place are from prefcription. Thefe are conjectured to have fub. iifted from time immemorial, or from the diffolution of the mo- naftic inftitutions in the violent reign of king Henry VIII. The jjeople to this day have fome cuftoms that indicate there were two feparate churches and pariflies. One churchwarden is always ehofen by the Stonhall inhabitants ; and though fome attempts have been made to break in upon this rule by the minifter's chufing his officer from the Stonhall fide, yet have thefe on the other hand fteadily preferved their claim by chufing the other officer even out of the oppofite part. Overfeers of the poor, overfeers of the highways, and the conftables, are ap- pointed with the fame caution, and not lefs tenacioufiy. When the bad roads of Shenftone hamlets have been indidled, the other part would pay no proportion. How the late a6t of parliament niay have, fet the overfeers of the high-roads or parifii-ways upon the fame footing, we cannot fay*; but ftill the ufual me- thod is "maintained in the choice of them, and in coUedling the rates, as it is alio in the churchwardens levies. There may, indeed, be offered fome reafons why the Stonhall people are ob- ilinate in this refpecl ; this being obvious to every man, that '■- It may here be proper to obfcrve, that the prefent Hiftory was compiled in 1769. I their O F S H E N S T O N E. ^ 3 their roads miift always be in a better condition than the others, ariling in fome degree from the nature of the foil, which is a light fand, and likewife from having the great road frcm Lon- don to Chcfter pafs by them, as it were, in a corner, and there- fore not often out of repair, or, if it happen, have very little to amend, and plenty of materials at hand. But of Shenftone it may be faid, though the village itfelf ftands on a fandy and dry fituation, yet as the country round is nearly furrounded with water and marlhy ground in confequence of it, it muft necef- farily be more inconvenienced, and the ways repaired at a much heavier charge. Large as the pariili is, and extenfive in circuit, it cannot be called populous, there being not more than two hundred and ten houfes in it ; the people, however, now refiding therein (befides what tradition hath delivered to us) fliew us in every hamlet where many have fallen, or have been fuffered to decay, that the land allotted to them might be conveniently annexed to the adjoining farms. The bounds of the parifli are, Sutton Cold field, with its park and chace running towards that part of Barr on which ftands the fa- mous beacon belonging to Aldrich, part of Walfall wood, near the Shire Oak, Cannoc Wood, Ogley Hay on the edge of it, Muck- ley, and the high road from Wall towards Chefter, part of Wall town, as feparated by the fame way, called one of the Roman roads, part of St. Michael's belonging to the city of Lichfield, proceeding on ftill to Swinfen and Sweeford Hill to Sutton park. LelTer limits, the neareft and moft direcSt way, begin at Cats Hill. From the bank or barrow to Hilton are two miles, to Wall nearly one and a half, to Swinfen the fame diftance along the Street- way, to Little Hay one mile and a half, thence to Afton three miles, to the extent of the parifli lands in Sutton-chace two B 2 ' miles, 4 THE HISTORY AND A NTI Q^U I T I E S miles, back to Afton Mill two miles, to the hand polt on Druid- Heath one mile, from this place to Lazy-Hill one mile, ta Shire Oak upwards of a mile, and to the barrow at Ca's Hill about the fame meafure. This reckoning by no means takes in the real meafure ; for the whole, being computed on an exadt furvey with the account of the outlets on the extremes, was found to be about thirty-one miles in compafs, and fo delivered in to the prefent lord by Mr. Thomas Sheriff, of Cleobury Mor- timer, a mofl- accurate furveyor. To this we may add a ftory of a large portion of land upon the common heath, loft by ne- glect or indifcretion to the parifli of Aldrich, which fome perfons confidently tell vis, but with the air and. circumftance of a fable. In three feveral" parts the parifli is between five and fix miles diameter; but running out in different necks of land gives it an irregular form, neither oval nor round, ■:;li ^v;.;i ;;o' , S H E N S T O N E. The village of Shenjlone is firft to be treated of, as having- the church in its center, and giving name to the whole ; alfo containing- many of the other berwics and feats, as the Park, the Mofs, Wood- end, Radley Moor-end, Afton, Fotherly, the Boffes, and Little Haye. Shenitone Hands nearly South of the city of Lichfield, at the diftance of three meaiured miles ; fix from Tamworth, a good market town; thirteen from Birmingham, feven from Walfall, both large places, thirteen from Wolverhampton, nearly the fame from Dudley, a place of note in very early times, famous for a cafi:lc built about the year 716; four miles from Sutton Cold- O F S II E N S T O N E. 5 Coldtield, one of the moll delightful villages in this part of the kingdom. The church is built nearly in. the center of the town, on the lummit of a hill gradually rifing every way in the midft of an exteniive vale. This file affords moil engaging profpecfts of Hintz and Weeford hills, Allon hall, Barr beacon, Cannoc wood, Beaudefert, the feat of the Earl of Uxbridge, and the title of his barony, with its fine hanging wood, and that of Gentleiliaw,. and Stilecop ; Hangewich chapel, Lichfield cathedral, St. Mi- chael's lofty fpire in that city, the churches of AlJrich and Whittington, Filherwick, the feat of Arthur earl of Donegal *,, the churches ot Lullington and Clifton ; with various places in Leicelterfhire. The afcent on which this Ifrudure ftands is a, foft fandy rock of a red caft ; and the edifice itfelf was unquef- tionably built of a Hone got a little mile off of a nature like the mines of Thomas Hill, of Tern in Salop, and of John Dolphyn, ofthe Mofs, efqrs. nov/ or lately worked, in this parilh. When-, firft cut out of the rock, it is foft, and eafiiy formed into a prcr- per lliape; but, if it L'e expofed fome time to the open air, be- comes hard and durable, changing its colour to a whitilli brown that looks tolerably handfome. The ffrudure carries- with it the face of antiquity, and hath been railed at feveraL times,, the body of it being fupported with divers i\one pillars ; the porch to the South is modern, built of brick, and faced w ith poliflied rtone at the fame tin^^e with the new chancel ; the tower, old as it appears, has been erecfted long fince the church,, of the fame kind of ftone, and of an height proportionable. Seen from the Birmingham and Sutton roads it greatly pleafes,, feeming to furmovmt a fine clump of fir trees in an adjoining * The prefent niarq^uis of Doneg^.l (1792) is an Englifh peer, by the title of baron Fifhcrwick, field,. 6 THE HISTORY AND ANT I QJU I T I E S jfield, planted on an eminence about a furlong from it. In the fteeple are five good bells. Having no records to refer to, it is moll difficult to afcertain the reign in which the church was built; but we are convinced that lord Robert D'Oyley found or ereifted one here foon after the Conqueft. The prefent was probably erected before it came to the Grown, in the reign of Henry VI, by Richard Nevil earl of Warwick and Salifbury, called Make-king^ who was known to live in great hofpitality, and was ready to do a6ls moll bountiful, even u.niblicited, and which did not appertain to him. I may be miilaken ; but, I judge good part of it mull have been ere6led at leafl as early as Henry VI. And who was fo likely to do it as that great man, who affected to fatisfy every one, from a confummate policy and third of popularity, efpecially if requelled to do his dependents and homagers fuch a favour ? It is in the hundred of Offlow, and in the deanry of Tam worth. Something might in this place be offered to fliew its greater antiquity, fuppofing the church not to fland due Eaft and Weil, the Eaft end de- clining to the North, and the Well end Southwards. The compafs being generally fuppofed to be invented before the year 1300, if the archite6l had really no afllftance from it, it will follow that its foundation is prior to that date; yet this is fcarcely credible. If the foundation of it was early, moll likely all thedi- reition then had was from the fun itfelf, which riling in fum- mer more or lefs to the Northward, and in the winter propor- tionably to the Southward, might caufe this and many others to decline from the Eaft and Weil points, according to the time of the year wherein they were founded. The form of it is that of a' crofs ; but whether it were lb at firft is hard to fay, unlefs we grant that there was fome building refembling that on the South fide, called the Stonhall chancel. It is dedicated to St. ■ John OFSHENSTONE. y John the BaptiJJ, and confifts of a nave, one aile on the North lide, and three chancels ; that to the North feems to he of equal date with the church, huilt of the fame kind of ftone, and fupported with outward works to keep it from giving way, or faUing through the injuries of time ; that to the South is moftly of brick work, on two fides of which are the form of St. Peter's keys in bricks, burnt hard, of a blue caft, very large, and in the front of it are different figures of croffes of the fame colour. The bell: and principal chancel, and which only is ufed as fuch, is an elegant modern ftrudlure, built by the late Samuel Hill, efq. of Shenftone Park, in the Venetian tafte, at the expence of about four hundred and fifty pounds. The carved fi:ones for capitals in the windows, and thofe with which the floor is laid, are white, brought from a noted quarry near Billlone ; the others were dug out of that be- fore-mentioned, belonging to Mr. HilL The beauty and neat- nefs of this building, which indeed appears to advantage from the Lichfield road, much engages the attention of curious travellers, who are obferved, not rarely, to itop and exa- mine it, and take the views from the church-yard, which extend to Bardon hills near Leicefiier, with feveral parts of Derby fiiire. The advowfon of this church being in Robert lord D'Oyley, came to his brother, who left lord Robert D'Oyley his fon and heir, founder of Ofeney abbey, upon an itiand made by the river Xfis near the caftle of Oxford, at the earnefh requefl; of his wife, on the following occafion, as the monkifli writers fay. *' She, with her gentlewoman, ufed to walk out of Oxford cafi:le fre- quently for recreation, when her hufband refided there ; and feveral times amufing herfelf near the river fide, faw many pyes gathered together on a great tree, making a great chattering as if 8 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES if they were faying fomething to her. She, much marveling at the matter, fent for Ralf a canon of St. Fridefwide's (now ChrilT: Church college), a man of virtuous life, her confeffor, to advife with him ; who, obferving the manner of their chatter- ing when file came, artfully anfwered, they were not pyes as flie fuppofcd, but fo many fouls in purgatory, uttering complaints for relief, hoping flie would do fomething for their fuccour, and the health of hers and her pofterity's fouls, as her hufband's uncle did in building a collegiate church. She promifed her beft endeavours to bring thofe wretched fouls to reft ; and by her importunity with her hufband, with the confcnt of the archbifliop of Canterbury ■•'■■, the bifliop of Lincoln f , her fons Henry and Gilbert, prevailed upon him to 'build a monaftery in that place in the yearn 29', to fettle large endowments upon ir, and make Ralf the canon prior of it |. Among others, the churches of S^neflan or SbeneJJon, with all its rights and lands, was given to this abbey of Ofeney by the founder by Ro- bert lord D'Oyley, his uncle, which church and lands affuredly were before, viz. 1075, annexed to St. George's collegiate church at Oxford, founded by his uncle, the firft baron D'Oyley, and fo continued till the founding of Ofeney, 1 129, when that church with all its revenues, and among the reft thefe churches, were pafted over to it by a fpccial charter §> confirmed by the King ;^ and again by a charter of Henry D'Oyley, fon of lord Henry D'Oyley, in the reign of John, or Henry III. with the confent of Robert D'Oyley 1| his brother, and his freemen who held of his fee, and then confirmed by the king •'■'*. The fecular canons of St. George's college at firft deputed fume of their members to take care of the church, and o'.hers * Theobald. f Alexander. X T.eljnd, Iiin. vol. 11. pp. 19. 20. Men. Angi. vol If. p. 136. Tanner, Not. Men. p. 419. § Tanner, ib 418. 11 Son of King Henry I; brother by the mother to Lord Henry D'C'yIey the elder. ** Mon. Angl. vol.11. J'. 137, 138. of OFSHENSTONE. $ of the lands and farms, as did the regular canons of Ofeney, of the order of St. Augulline, and had, befide the vicarage for the refidence of the clergy who were to officiate here, a grange near the church for receiving and ftoring their corn and fruits. At the Diflblution Henry VIII. kept the lands that appertained to Ofeney in his own hands for three years ; and how this place was difpofed of is not faid, though in all likelihood it continued in the crown till very lately. The great or re(5lorial tythes were un- doubtedly fold by the crown, and feem to have been long in the Brandreth family till purchafed in the reign of George I. by the honourable and reverend Richard Hill, by whom they were fettled upon his nephew, Samuel Hill, efq. On his deceafe, by virtue of the entail in 1758, they went to Thomas Hill, of Terne, efq. with the advowfon of the living which Samuel Hill, efq. had procured from the crown in exchange, as I have been informed, for the living of Colchefter in Effex. Thomas Hill, efq. paffed it with the tythes to Samuel Hill, efq. his Ion and heir ; who dying unmarried, Noel Hill, efq. member of parUa- men for the town of Shrewfbury, his brother and heir, enjoys them. It may not be a vain conje^fture to imagine, that as the earls of Warwick were heirs to the living at the DifTolution, if there had been no attainder after the battle of Barnet in 1471, John Dudley earl of Warwick, defcended of that family, might claim it, and, being the grearcll fubjecfl in England, might enjoy it alfo till the reign of queen Mary, and that Arabrofe earl of War- wick might have it reitored. This family, we know, did claim many eftatcs of their maternal anceliors, earls of Warwick, and were allowed them by particular grants. Ambrofe died without iffue in 1589; and though he left his eftate to the famous Sir Robert Dudley, made a duke of the Empire, king James I. got G them 10 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES them in a great meafure annexed to the crown; it maybe that the tythes were given away or fold to the Rugeley family, who were fv.cceeded in Shenrtone by the BraJtdretbs. The late Samuel Hill, efq. was a noble benefatflor to the church. After he had got the advowfon, he paid two hundred pounds to obtain queen Anne's bounty of the like fum, and joined with the people of Tamworth in purchafing of land at Thatchmore, near Fillierwick, in 1734- ^" "^ divifion made be- tween the two pariihes, about thirty-four acres were allotted to the minifter of Shenftone, now in the holding of Mr. John Wright of Lichfield, and Brooks of Thatchmore. The vicarage-houfe ftands near the church, Weftward, on a pleafing defcent, having a profpeil delightful enough, but by no means equal to the church-yard, and is in good condition, more than a hundred pounds having been expended upon it by the late vicar to rebuild one part, and repair the reft ; adjoining to it are a barn, a ftable creeled by Samuel Hill, efq. convenient gardens, and three acres and a half of glebe land. The firft vicar we can trace out was Mr. Robert Bervis in .queen Ehzabeth's reign ; the next Mr. Gervis, unlefs they are one and the fame perfon, which from the bad writing I could not diftingnilli. He was in 1C03 fucceeded by the Reverend Arthur Crefict, living in 16 10, from which time to 1655 no account of the vicars can be found ; that year the Reverend Gamaliel Tunftall was both vicar and regifter, as he figns himfelf*. In 1663 the Reverend Michael Walford held the living. He died in Sep- tember 1665, and was buried here on the 14th. We meet r.ext with the reverend William Grace, A. M f ; and after him in * The regifter-office was inftituted bv rhe proieiflor Oliver Cromwell. \ Who died in 1690, a^eJ i^o and upwards aee p. 14. a lit- OF SHENSTONE. II a little time the reverend Robert Grace, it may be fon of Wil- liam ; Robert was living in 17 21, but very aged. The next, 1723, was the Reverend George Grifpe, who died July 173 1, and was buried the 24th of that month. This gentleman had a large fchool of gentlemen boarders, many of whom yet furvive, and for him was the fchool-houfe ereifled or enlarged, now termed the veftry-room. His widow, a perfon of fair charader and known hofpitality, long furvived, dying in November 1766, at the age of 81, or more, and has left ilFue one fon and two daughters. The minifter who pofleired the benefice on the de- ceale of Mr. Grifpe, was the Reverend John Leigh, of the ancient family feated at Rulhal-hall. He died in March, 1743-4, leav- ing one daughter, living in 1768. The Reverend Mr. Manwaring was the next vicar, but refigned it in three or four years ; and was fucceeded by the Reverend Thomas Cox, A. M. of Walfall, matter of the Grammar- fchcol in that town, minifter of Bloxwich ; which gentleman taking the living of Dunton-BafTet in Leicefterlliire, by the law againft holding pluralities without a difpenfation, vacated this, to which, in Fe- bruary, 1759? the Reverend Edward Harwood, A. M. fellow of Clare-Hall^ Cambridge, was prefented ; all which three perfons were living in 1768. It is recorded of the Reverend Robert Grace, that he was the incumbent at this place 58 years; and that Rowland Smith, his clerk, held his office upwards of 57 years ; the prefent clerk has had it 30 years. The a6t of parliament firft ordering regifter books to be kept in every parifh paffed in 1538, 29 Henry Vlll ; exprefling that the clergyman fliould write the day and year of every wed- ding, chriftening, and burial, and in thofe books fet down every perfon's name fo married^ chriftened, or buried. This was at the inlligation, and by the particular intcrpofition, of that great re- G 2 former 12 THE IIISTORRY AND ANTIQUITIES former Thomas Cromwell, baron Okeham and earl of EiHx, vicar general, and vicegerent of king Henry VUI over all ec- dciiaftical perfons in this kingdom, by virtue of wliich hi^h oiiice he fat uppermoft in the convocations above all the clergv, the archbilhops not excepttd. If fuch regilter was ever kept at Shendone, it mvift have been deftroyed, fur nothing of this nature appears till the year 1 57Q} ^ i Eliz. In the month of March, amongft other notable occurrences, a vilitation is recorded to have been holden at Shenftone upon Auguft 6, 1606, attefted by Arthur Creffet, vicar, John Syl- vefter, and John Hunt, churchwardens; and to this time the archdeacon of Staffordfhire (at prefent, Edmund Law, D. D. a moft ingenious learned divine and metaphyfician, head of St. Peter's college, Cambridge) holds his vifitation in this village in November, yearly. Likewife on July 14th, 1600, remark is made of a great vifitation held by Richard * archbifhop of Canterbury, at Lichfield ; at which time a copy of the re- gifler was delivered in to his officers or commiffioners. In 1655-6, notice is taken of an officer named the regifter, banns of marriage being thrice publiflied in the church, [ohn Smith, lockfmith, the regifier, and Alice Garner, w^ere married February 1 3th before Richard Floyer, of Hintz, efq. I'uftice of the peace, by orders given by Oliver Cromwell 4!, figned Gamaliel Tuntall, the vicar, and John Smyth, regifter. In June 1636, the banns being publilhed on three Lord's days, * Bancroft. X Oliver Cromwell's parliament of 1653 pafTed an a(5l that all marriages fhould be made by a judite of peace, and the banns a&ed three leveral davs in the next market. None were tobdden to be married by a niinifter, but without a juflice ot peace the marriage w aged 65. The i6 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES The following gifts are fairly preferved on feveral tables in the church. Richard Ruggeley, of Hawkfyard, efq. by his laft will (proved in the prero- gative coiirc of Canterbury, 1623), gave the rents of feveral parcels of lands called Bulmores, lying in this parifli, to the poor inhabitants of the fame, to be diflributed yearly on the feaft day of ^St. Thomas for ever. [Thefe lands are 48 acres, of which twelve acre^ are in the holding of Ridding of Upper Stonhall, twelve held by John Salt of the fame hamlet, twelve held by John Sedgewick of Hilton, and about twelve more under a leafe of 21 years to Thomas Adcock of Lyndon, at the yearly rent of 131. 2s. yd. I ; which money is faithfully diflributed to the poor of each hamlet without any de- du£Hon, in proportion to the wants of every perfon, and agreeable to lifts given in by the officers and othtr inhabitants on the day appointed by the donor. Widows are firft confidered, and have not lefs than five fliillings apiece if their circum- ftances in any degree require it; much to the commendation of thofe that diftribute this charity, who thereby pay the greatefl; refpeft in their power to the memory of the pious benefaiSor, and their thankfulnefs to God, who difpofed his heart thus t© befriend the poor. J Rowland Fryih, efq. lord of this manor, purfuant to an agreement made be- tween his father, Edward Fryth, gent, lord of this manor, and the freeholders of the townfliip of Footherly, concerning the inclofing a wafte piece of ground called Radley-moor, within the faid townfliip, did by deed convey one piece of the fald •wafte ground called the Poor's Piece to truftees for the ufe of the poor inhabitants of Footherley for ever ; the rent to be diflributed to and amongft them annually, by the major part of the -freeholders of that townfliip. This land is twelve acres and a half, let at five pounds ten fliillings. Granada Brown, the relift of the faid Edward Fryth, and mother of the faid Row- land, left the fum of fifty pounds In the hands of her faid fon, in truft ; that he fhould lay out the fame in lands, or otherwife, as he thought fit, fo as the profit ftiould be given, forever, amongft the poor widows of the townfliip of Lynn, and the two Stonhalls ; or, for want of poor widows, to and amongft the other pooreft in- habitants of the faid townfliips ; and be diftrlbuted annually upon the day of her death, which happened on the Feaft of St. Matthias, 1696. Mr. Thomas Cooper of Lynn, by his laft will proved at Lichfield, 1667, gave ten ftiiHIngs for ever to ten poor widows, or the pooreft inhabitants of Lynn and the two Stonhalls ; to be ilTued out of lands called Nickln's Farm, to be diftrlbuted annually on the Feaft of St. Thomas the Apoftle for ever. 3 Mr. OFSHENSTONE. 17 Mr. Wenloe Sedgewick, of Little Aftcn, gave the fum of three pounds to the poor inhabitants of' Little Aflon, and left the fame in the hands of his fon James to be difpofed of accordingly, "the interelt of this is diflributed to the poor of Litde Afton by James Mofs, tenant to John Butler, gent. John Stubbs, of Huntington near Cannoe, gent, (to whom or family John Butler devifed the eftate at Afton, formerly Sedgewicks) fays, his tenant Jackfon pays yearly five fhillings to Aflon poor. A crimfon velvet pulpit cloth, with a cufliion of the fame, fringed and taflfeled with gold and filk fringe, was given by Dr. "William Gibbons of London, fellow of the College of Phyficians there, whofe mother was a native of this parifli, daugh- ter to Mr. Fryth of Thornes. [Thefe (from the great care taken of them) remain yet fre(h and handfome, and are an ornament to the church and pulpit.] A fmall filver falver was given for the fervice of the communion by Mrs. Eliza- beth Fryth, wife of Rowland Fryth, lord of this manor. The dial in the church-yard was given and fet up at the only charge of the faid Rowland Fryth, efq. [Notice is taken, that the lafl table was fet up in 171 1, by John Collins, and Thomas Dickin fon, gentlemen, churchv/ardens.] Mr. Robert Greifbrooke, of Shenftone, left 305. to a fchoolmafter at Shenftone, for the fchooling of four poor children of Shenftone, to be ifTuing out in the fame village, given by will to his nephew Greilbrook Cramp, to be paid yearly for ever. This was fet up by Thomas Barfoot, and J. Jackfon. John Sylvefter, of Overftonhall in this parifh, bachelor, departed this life July r, 1726. He gave ten (hillings for ever to the poor widows in the townftiip of Over Stonhall ; and left one acre of land lying in the Hill field-piece on the Weft fide, under the hedge of Mr. Thomas Dickinfon, in the year 1727. This memorial was fet up by Thomas Barfoot, and John Jackfon, gentlemen. William Smyth, citizen and barber-fnrgeon of London, did by will, dated Au- guft 12, Anno Dora. 1720, give, devife, and bequeath, unto the minifter of the parifh of Over Stonhall for the time being, and his fucceffors for ever, the annual fum of five pounds, to be iffuing and payable out of that part of his eftate before devifed to his nephew John Smyth, which he purchafed of Mr. Turner, clear of all charges and deductions whatfoever, upon this fpecial truft and confidence, that he the faid minifter for the time being, and his fucceffors for ever, fhall yearly, D wich ,8 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S with the faiJ fum of five poands, place and put out to apprentice one poor boy, foa of fome poor inhabitant of the town or village of Over Stonhall aforcfaid, adding, that his will and mind is, that the faid poor boy be put apprentice to a barber from time to time, if he (hall be thought thereto qualified by the faid minifter for the time being ; bur, if it fliall happen that there fhall not be found one poor boy of the faid town or village, yearly to be placed out, then he wills that the faid annual ium fhall be laid up by the faid minifler for the time being ; and if in three years a boy be fo'Ond, that then the rhoney fo laid up fliall go toward the advancement •f the faid boy, and fo from time to time as often as it fliall happen that fuch poor boy cannot be found out yearly to be put out apprentice. This table was fet up' 1 75 1, by John Crump, and Rowland Hodgkin, churchwardens. fThe lad donation hath been of the greateft ufe, m.any tradefmen not only in the faid hamlet and parifti of Shenflone having received it when fet out apprentices, but others that are well fettled in other places, though we mufl indeed obferve from the liberty allowed of the boys " being thought qualified for bnrbers by the rainifter," they have been placed out to better trades. Such have been ready for the money for many years, fo that none could be footed up by the truftee, at the fame time no deduction or charge hath been made to the lelTening the f?.id fum of five pounds that we know of.] In the aile on the North fide is a ilone monument of a pyra- midical form againft the wall, but it is by no means curious : on it this writing : Here Iveth the bodys of Alexander Adcock, and Jane his wife. He departed this life June 7, 1721, aged 71. She died September 9, 1729, aged 78. Wil- liam, their Ton, departed this life February 21, 1731, aged 5^. Thefearcofa family fettled at Nether Stonhall a long time. For the benefit of the Englifii reader here is given a free tranflation of the Latin monument of WiUiam Grace and Joan his wife. For ever. Amen. Here lie the remains of William Grace, Mafter of Arts, formerly vicar of this church, according to the En^lifli Eftablilhnient. 3 Near O F S H E N S T O N E. ij Near him lies Joanna, or Joan, Kole, wife of the aforefaid William Grace. She departed this life in the year of Chrifl's nativity 1668, aged about 52. He furvived to the age of about ninety or more, and at length departed * with a full truft in Chrift, on the 7th of the ides of November, ia the year of the Chrif- tian £era 1699. Job Grace, treafurer of the cathedral church at Lichfield, and fon of the faid William and Joanna, dedicated and fet up this fepukhral memorial and infcription to his parents. Matters worthy notice, or that have any thing particular re- lating to them, in the church-yard, are, A neat monument of azure coloured flone, of a very fine grain, and well polifhed, flanding upon a foundation of white ones ; at the four corners are pillars of white ftone, neatly cut and poliflied. This is placed over the body of a gentleman of 25 years old, fon of Richard and Mary Burgefs, of Quarndon in the county of Leicefler, who put an end to his own life at the Welch harp in Upper Stonhall, whither he came as a traveller in the ftage coach. On a grave- ftone : Here lies the body of John Sheullone. He died Augufl: 14, 1727, aged 73. And thefe lines : Weep not for me, I am at reft, To dwell with Chrift is ever beft; Your lofs in me is Chrift his gain. There we (hall ever with him remain ; Then ftrive to gain the glorious crown, Till here by me you do lye down. Two ftone tombs ftand near each other in the center of the church-yard, on the South fide of the church, with the follow- ing infcription: Alexander Ward, his corps here doth lie, A perfon of renown'd integrity ; * Was buried on the loth of November, D 2 Who 20 THE HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S Who at Freefort did live, and died there, Jehovah his creatour hee did feare ; The teuth of December buried was he. And in the year of our Lord fixty-three. By one dear wife children nineteen had hee, A wonder's wonder this feera doth to me : At Leichfield city heead bailiffthricehee was, Which office none foe oft did therethrough pafs; A friend to the needy, a fuccour to the poor. An image of unparrel virtue fliure. Not of the world, but himfelf a vigour hee. Thus greater then Alexander the Great could bee. ^tatis fuse 75. On this are feveral efcutcheons cut in the ftone, but no arms are found. Henry Ward intomb'd alfoe is here, A kinfman to the other was he moft neare. The eighteenth of November buried was In the year fixty-one he did not pafs. Together liv'd they, death did them fecate. The thread of life foe wilt thou feparate. Death feizeth all when time expired is. Youth, age, and ftrength, it none of ihefe doth mifs. Theis brothers are therein, which all be nuft. The graves, our long home, (hall be in the dull Though dead they are, of them who more can fay. In perfon dead their fames will not decay. What though their roots be gone, their buds remain ; The trees being dead, their fruit doth fpring again. /Etatis illius 70. The letters are all capitals, and fo defaced as to be hardly legible. On OFSHENSTONE. «i On a flat ftone : In memory of Edward Lake, (ge)nt. who departed this life .... Februarj', (ser«) Cbrifliana: 1701, (£eta)tis fuse 83. The inclofed letters are worn out. Upon a ftone to the memory of Robert Collins, and Mar- garet his wife. Remember mc When this you fee ; As I am, fo mufl: you be. Therefore prepare to follow me. Four lines more are entirely gone. Upon a grave-flone over the corpfe of Sarah Ingram, who died in 1 7 5 1 > aged 8 1 . A loving wife, a tender parent, z good neighbour, ready to do good to all in her power. The monument of William Smyth, furgeon and barber, re- mains in ruins, as it hath done many years, to the reproach of the inhabitants of Upper Stonhall, who have a claim to his cha- rity, and to thofe who have received of his bounty and are in. good circumftances. In the church-yard wall remains a ftone hollowed out in the Romifli times for the reception of holy water, found a few yeai's flnce when the church was repaired ; it ftood near the North door, againft the wall on the left hand. Over it ftood the figure of a lamb cut in ftone, with other ornaments, and there yet is a carving much like the half of a wheel in ftone, Churchwardens were unqueftionably of very ancient inftitu- tion ; but we cannot pofitivcly fix the time, though we may the date, of the overfeers of the poor. Before the diftblution of the monafteries, all the poor were maintained by thofe religious houfes ; t% THE HISTORY AND ANTI Qjl I T I E S houfes ; but after king Henry VIII. had demoliflied them, the poor became not only diftreffed in themfelves, but alfo a public grievance ; on which an ad: of parliament palTed in the 4 ,d of Elizabeth for their relief, and appointing overfeers for that end. The dedication of churches in memory of fome faint is taken notice of by St. Augutline, who fays, " The nations erected temples to their Gods ; we ere(5l them to our martyrs, but not as unto Gods, but memorials as unto dead men, whofe fpirits are flill living with God." And again, " To them," fpeaking of angels and faints, " we appoint no churches, becaufe they are net to us as Gods." Whence it is manifeft, that they are confecrattd or dedicated to God only, though it v/as in memory of fome particular faint, either becaufe by the miniitry of the faints it pleafed God to flrev»' fome rare effedt of his power ; or elfe in regard of death, which thofe faints having fuffered for the tef- timony of Jefus Chrift, did thereby make the places wliere they died veneral)le ; and again, becaufe good and virtuous men were dclirous of giving fuch occafion of mentioning them often, to the end that the naming of their perfons might caufe encpriry to be made about them and their good lives, and give occafion for meditating upon their virtues. In the time of king Edward I. a decree was made by Robert de Winchelfea, archbifhop of Canterbury, in his metropolitical vi- jfitation, and confirmed by Walter Reynolds, his fucceffor in that fee, that the parillrioners throughout all the archdeaconries of his province (liould take care that the image of that faint, to whofe memory the church was dedicated, be always eredled in the chancel of each parifh chvrrch ; but thefe were pulled down in the reign of king Edward VI. or queen Elizabeth. It is cultomary to go a proceffioning, or bannering, as the people term it, once only in about feven years in this parifli, on account OFSHENSTONE. 23 account of the expence, or at the change of the lord of the ma- nor, or the coming in of a new vicar ; the nature of w hich cuftom, and whence it hath its rife, may pleafe the reader. At the. time of the Reformation, when proceffions, which made part of the folemnity in the Gang week, were abohfhed by reafon of the abufe of them, yet for retaining the perambu- lation of the circuits of parilhes, it was enjoined in the reign of queen Ehzabeth, that the people fhould once a year at the ufual time, with the minifter and fubftantial m.en of the parifli, walk round the parifli as was cuftomary, and at their return to church make the common prayers, provided that the minifter at convenient places (hall admonifli the people to give thanks to God for the increafe and abundance of the fruits of the earth, repeating the 103d pfalm. At which time the minifter fliall inculcate this and fuch like fentences, " Curfed be he that re- moveth his neighbour's landmark." No fuch prayers have, in- deed, fince been appointed ; but there is a homily divided into four parts, the three firft parts to be ufed on the Monday, Tuefday, and Wednefday, and the fourth on the day when the parifliioners make their proceflion. One author fays the fervice formerly appointed in the Roga- tion day of proceftion was the 103d and 104th pfalms, with the Litany, and Suffrages, and the Homily of Thankfgiving -, (7 Eliz.) the two pfalms were to be faid at convenient places in the common perambulation ; tlie people thus giving thanks to God in the beholding of God's benefits, the increafe and abund- ance of his fruits upon the earth ; at their return to church they were to fay the reft of the fervice mentioned and enjoined. Gang week is what we call Rogation t week. The word Eang is Saxon, fignifying a v/alking or going about, and was par- • Bifhop Sparrow's Rationale of the Common Prayer, p. 118. •f From the Gofpel now ufed, which teaches us how to alk of God fo as wc may obtain, ticularly 24 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES ticularly applied to this week, from the cuftoin obfervecl of walking the bounds of a parilh. 1 he Brownifts (fedlaiies of note in Charles 1.) make it the 23d article of their charge againft the Church ot England, terming it exprefsly " The Gang week, and praying over the corn and grafs ;" a charge that is fufhciently invalidated by what is above faid. It may not be amifs to fay fomething of the Feaft of Dedica- tion, commonly called the Wake, kept the firil Sunday after St. John the Baptift's day. That fitch fellivals were very ancient, we have the evidence of the Scripture ^-; and St. Augullin fays, the Jews ufually ce- lebrated the day when their temple was confecrated. That they were originally kept annually 'on the fame faint's day, unto . whofe memory the church was dedicated, no doubt can be made : which duty fo performed by Chrillians was by St. Bafil termed a worfliip of God, and a reverence to the martyrs; neither can we do lefs than fuppofe, that the pious and devout munificence of the founder and endower of the church was likewife then gratefully remembered, as a particular fervice was iifed in that folemnity. From the people alfembling in the church, and with praifes to God watching all night there, in imitation of the fliepherds watching over their flocks by night, came the name of a wake or waking. A legendary manufcript of St. John the Baptill records, " that the people came to the church with candles burning, and would wake ; and come with lieht towards nig-ht ro the church in their devotions ; afterward they fell to fongs and dancing, harping, piping, alfo to glut- tony and fin ; thus they turned the holynefs into curfednefs, on which the holy fathers ordained, that the people fliould leave that waking, and ifall the even." This the learned Antiquary, * John X. 22. who OFSHENSTONE. 2; -J who gives this account, thinks to have been prohibited in the year 1362 (36 Edward III.) by Simon Jflip, archbiniop of Canterbury, in virtue of a decree made by pope Gregory IX. In procefs of time, inconveniencies ariling from the obfervance of the very days of keeping the feftival, efpecially fuch as hap- pened in harveil, many of them were altered, and tlie folemnity transferred to the next Sunday following. We are told a fair was granted to the village of Shenftone, and that a few years ago people here remember attempts made to revive it upon the Wake Monday ; but, lying ib near Lich- field and other market towns, or not being fupported with a becoming fpirit, it met with no fuccefs. The origin of fuch meetings, called Fairs, was from the Wake or annual Feaft for the Dedication of Churches, when traders brought goods under the very churches, and in the church-yards, on the Sunday. Thither multitudes coming from the adjacent places, and dan- gerous tumults arifing frequently, the government laid reftraints upon them, allowing fuch meetings only by particular charters. We fliall obferve fomething of pariflies in general, from the beft authority, and then proceed to fpeak efpecially of this. A parifh is that circuit of ground in which the fouls under the care of one parfon or vicar do inhabit. How ancient parifhes are is difficult to afcertain, for it feems to be agreed on all hands, that, in the early ages of Chriftianity in this iiiand, they were unknown, or at leafl llgnified what a diocefe now does. No particular church had the dues, but every man was at liberty to give his tithes to whatever pried or church he pleafed, provided he did it to Ibme ; or they were paid to the bilhoj). Camden fays, England was divided into pariflies by archbilhop Hcnorius, * about the year 630. Sir Henry Spelman affirms they * The fifih who fat in the chair of Canterbury. E were t6 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES were ere<5led by the Laterrai council in 1179. A very inge- nious writer fays they are both millaken ; for we find them, and even mother churches, in being in 970, mentioned in. the laws of king Edgar, which appointed, that all tenths fliould be given to the principal church to which the parifli appertained '•■. This proves that the kingdom was then divided into parities; which divilion probably happened not all at once, but by de- grees ; for it feems pretty clear and certain, that the boundaries of them were originally afcertained by thofe of a manor or ma- nors, fince it very feldom happens that a manor extends itfelf over more parillies than one, though there are often many manors in one parilh, as is the cafe in this of Shenflone. The lords, as Chrirtianity fpread itfelf, began to build chinches on their own demefnes, or waftes, to accommodate their tenants in one or two adjoining lordfliips ; and, in order to have divine fervice regularly performed therein, obliged all their tenants to appropriate their tythes to the maintenance of the officiating minirter, inftead of leaving them at liberty to dif- tribute them among the clergy of the diocefe in general : and this tradl of land, the tythes whereof were fo appropriated, formed a dirtindl parifli, which will fufficiently account for the frequent intermixture of pariflies one with another ; for if a lord had a parcel of land detached from the main of his eftate, but not fufficient to form a parifli of itfelf, it was natural for him to endow his newly erecSted church with the tythes of thofe disjointed lands, efpecially if no church was then built in any lordfliip adjoining to thofe outlying parcels. Some lands, either becaufe they were in the hands of irreligious owners, or fuch Jis were carelefs, or were fituate in forefts, or defert places, or « Ut dcntur omnes decimje primaris ecclefice ad quam parochia pertinet. for OF S H E N S T O N E. 27 for other unfearchablc reafons, were never united to any parifli, and therefore continue extra-parochial, and their tithes by curtoni immemorial payable to the king, in truft that he will dilbibute them for the good of the church ; yet extra-parochial vvaftes and marfli lands, when improved and drained, are to be af- fefled to all parochial rates in the next adjoining paridi. In the Northern parts were neither churches nor fonts ; and therefore Paulinus, who firil: converted thofe people to the Chriftian faith, baptized them in the river Swale, about the. year of our Lord 627. Yet in England pariflies were appointed by Honorius aforefaid in the year 636, or, as we noted, in 630, for in this eminent Antiquaries do not agree, " that he might affign to every prieft the particular flock, on which he Ihould have the charge *." In the primitive times of the Englifli-Saxon church (faith Selden -}-), viz. about the year 684, the bilhop and the whole clergy of the diocefe were as one body, living upon their endowments belfowed on the bidioprick, and their treafure that came from the fundry places of devotion, whither fome one or other of ihem, at the bilhop's appointment, was fent to preach the word, and adminifter the facraments, every clerk having his dividend for his maintenance. Cuthbert, the eleventh archbiQiop of Canterbury, about the year 752, obtained of the pope, that the bodies of the dead fliould be buried in church-yards within the cities ; whereas, before, the cuftom was to carry them out of the walls to be interred, hi a fvnud at London, anno 1102, held by Anfelm, archbifliop of Can- terbury, it was ordained, that the tenths fliould be paid to the churches, a proof that they were given at liberty ; and even in the year 1200 the laity paid tythes to what church they chofe. * Ut (ingu'.is miniflris fingulos grcges quos curarent polTeC attiibuere. t Hill, of Tythes, p. Z54. E 2 Shenftonc 28 - THE HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S Shenl^one village, adjoining to the church hill, has fome- thing in its api)earance very pleafing. The houfes in general look neat ; many of them have little courts or gardens in front, which adds to their rural appearance, and are in number about thirty-five, in which reckoning we do not include the feats of thofe gentlemen who live at a diftance from the village, though called properly in its hamlet. The foil is a mixture of earth, inclining to a red caft, and fand ; hence it is generally dry, even foon after great rains. The fituation is accounted very healthy, and the air fine, but rather fliarp enough for very infirm confi:itutions, or thofe that labour either imder confump- tive complaints or aflhmas. As a proof of the wholefome fitua- ation, were lately two fchools for the inftruc^ion of young ladies, which flonrifiied greatly, not more on this account than for the polite education of many gentlewomen now at the head of very good families. The Reverend Mr. Crifpe had alfo a large fchool of gentlemen ; but, there being no endowment for the future fupport of it, it ceafed with him. A charity fchool was erecSed here by a voluntary contribution, under the diredion of the late Mr. Barfoot ; and a number of truftees accepted the care of it, all of which are deceafed except Jofeph Parker, gent, of Lichfield ; the fmall maintenance allowed to the m after, and the great age of the prefent diredlor, are no fmall hindrances to its being ufeful ; the houfe and fchool-room are fit for the purpofe, and are in good condition. S H E N* OFSHENSTONE. a^ SHENSTONE HALL. At the diftance of a quarter of a mile from the church ftands a good houfe, named Shenftone Hall, or the Old Hall, though modern- built, from its being heretofore the feat of an antient family, and built in the manner of thofe times, half of tim- ber, and the other part plaiftered walls. It ftood fomewhat lower than the prefent habitation, on the fite where the ftables are, and nearly fronting it, and was eredled by the Rugeleys. The houfe we now fee makes a good appearance, is of brick, edged with ftone of the fame kind with that of the quarries aforefaid, with a large porch of the fame materials in the fore part, and a handfome court, and round it a high ftone wall, ad- joining to the great road leading to Lichfield ; alfo two good gardens walled round, and a tliird for the ufe of the kitchen. In the beft of them lying to the road is a noble terras, exceed- ingly well fhaded with much- admired elms or fycamores of large growth. Clofe to this, on the other fide of the garden-wall, was a rookery ; but this was deftroyed by the prefent polfeflbr, as being a nuifance, not only to himfelf, but to the farmers in the neighbourhood. Near this manfion are a malt-houfe, ex- cellent ftables, a large barn, with other conveniences, and ca- nals for fifh. The barn and ftables were additions made by the late Samuel Hill, efq. and Thomas Hill, of Terne, efq. and yet the building of the faid manfion very much injured the declining fortune of the gentleman who owned it. The firft family that we know certainly to have pofl^efled this feat was that of the Ru^eleys^ of whom very old records Ipeak. Geoffrejr 33 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Geoffrey and Henry de Rugele granted lands to Robert de Wolfeley, to which Richard de Hintz was an evidence. This deed is without date, and probably as early as king Henry III. in which reign we find Richard de Hintz named as a gen- tleman on a fpecial jury, with Richard de Thickbroom, William de Strethay, and others. In 4 Henry III. Robert de Rugeley was witnefs to the charter of Nefta de Cokefield (reliift of Thomas de Burgh), giving lands (Ailonlhoe wood) near to Kerfey monaftery in Suffolk. In the fame r^ign the prin- cipal feat of the family was Hawkfyard in Staffordfliire, where then relided Humphrey Rugele, whofe fon and heir was Tho- mas, whofe heir was Willirm, who was obliged to fly out of the kingdom for killing Robert de Byfkeland ; but, 26 Edward I, having done fome great and faithful fervice to the Englilh army in Flanders, he received a pardon for that crime. Under this prince, and king Edward II. Rugeley, efq. was feated at Longdon near Lichfield. Francis fold his eftate there, and a feat named Chefthall, with the demefne land belonging to it, to « Huffey -••■, of Albrighton ; but in the reign of Edward IV. it was re-purchafed from Thomas Ridley, efq. by Rugeley, efq. of the former family, who bore the fame arms, and had to wife daughterof Sir John de Freeford, knight, or rather Treffordt, of whom we have this record, that his daughter and heir mar- ried into the family of P.ugeley, who had a feat at Trefford, and had the prebend of Trefford, and fome other advantages * HiifTey fold ibe eflate to Barlow of Derbyfhire, who paffed it to I,:uirence Wright. From 7 to 44 Edward III. it was held by Simon Ridley, who had Richard, father of Thomas. One author fays, it was in the reign of Henry VI. that Huffey purchafed the eftate; if fo, it was, as we obferve, fold twice. ■f- William Trefford, of Swithamley (1673) '^^ Staffordihire, married Clare, daughter of Sir Edward LongucTiile, of Woollertoa in Bucks, baronet. with OFSHENSTONE. 31 \\'ith her. This branch bore TrefFord's arms, and were in being in the reign of king George I. Thcl'c Tretfords bore two coats, one was Argent, a crols engrailed Sable ; the other a griffin fegreant, Gules. In the reign of Henry VI. we find the family fettled in Longclon ; and about the end of Henry VII. Ilvimphrey Rugeley, of Longdon, gave Eleanor his daughter in marriage to Richard Broughton, of the fame place,*efq. by whom flie had ilTue Edward, living 1583, then aged 40, alfo four daugliters, Frances, Catherine, Matilda, and Elizabeth. The faid Humphry married another daughter, Elizabeth Rugeley, to Nicholas Baglhaw *, efq. fan of Nicholas Bagfliaw, of Abeney, Derbyfliire, who had by her fix fons, of which Nicholas, the eldefi, of Abeney and Farwel, near Longdon, in right of his wife, married Joan, daughter of Robert Linacre, efq. and had two daughters, Elizabeth aged 7, (1583) and Nazareth, wife of Thomas Harcourt, efq. of Eur, rough-hall t, defcended of the Ranton Harcourts. 10, 13, and 14 Edward III. Simon de Rugeley, being high-flieriff of Salop and'StafFordlhire, ]iad the caftJe of Shrewfbury committed to his cuftpdy, bearing then the title of Valettus Regis, which fliews he' was the king's attendant in an honourable condition. One of his daughters married to Agar, efq. wliofe family was feated at Fofton near Sudbury, Derbyfliire. Richardus de Ruggele is men- tioned as a perfon of figure, that had a right to bear a coat of arms, in the reign of Richard II. and Henry IV. and has the title of an efquire. 14 Henry IV. Hugh de Ruggeley was one of the founders of a chantry or chapel at Knoll in Warwickfliire. Nicholas de Ruggeley was a perfon of note in the reign of Richard II. and 2 Henry IV, at which time he refided at Haufeyard, and had a * William Bagfliaw of Farwell, at a Vifitation of the Heralds at arms, 1585, was allowed to be a gentleman, and to have a right to a coat of arms. '{• In Gnofall, Statibrdlhire. grant 31 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES grant of the rangerfliip of Sutton Coldfield chace. He continued in this ofEce till the i oth or i ith of Henry VI *-' ; when, growing old, he became unfit for that employment, but was afterwards recorded among the knights and efquires of Warwickfliire, who themfelves fwore, and were commiflioned to take the oaths of all others in their feveral counties, to promote the peace of the nation, 12 Henry VI, and oblige all to obferve the articles concluded in parliament between the two royal houfes. We find him alfo employed in difcovering fuch perfons as were difaflfecfted to the Lancaflrian intereft, and favoured the York title to the Crown. This fame gentleman, and Edith his wife f , 8 Henry V, bought of Hugh Stanley, and Joyce his wife, a third part of the manors of Bordefley and Heybarne in Warwickfhire, on the death of Hugh lord Burnel, which were the eftates of Joyce his wife, daughter of Thomas fon of John lord Botetoiut. Nicholas de Rugeley alfo (10 Henry V.) pur- chafed the manor of Dunton in Warwickfhire of Sir Richard Stanhope, of Rampton in Nottinghamfhire, knight, for his hunt- ing-featj of which fport he was exceedingly fond. He died be- fore Editha his wife, who furviving left a legacy at her death in the reign of Henry VI. to an anchorite at Stirvichal chapel in War- wickfliire. By this Editha he left ifTue, i, Simon of Hawkfyard, or Hawkfley, who married Elizabeth, fecond daughter of Sir John Draycot, knight, defcended of Sir Philip, brother to William de Malbanc, firlt baron of Nantwich ; 2, Nicholas; 3, William, living 20th Edward IV. ; 4, Thomas, whofe daughter and heir, Editha, was married to Ralph Thicknefs, efq. a gentleman of good family, feated at Sutton Cheney and Balterley in Stafford- * Nicolas, 8 Henry VI. was high flieriff of Warwickfliiie, and fon of Thomas Ruggeley, temp. Hen. IV. •f- Daughter and heir of ■ Waldeive, efq. 3 ^"e; OF S H E N S T O N E. 53 Ji fliire) ; nlfo a daughter Jocofa or Joyce, married to Hugh Har- man^--, of Moorhall, near Sutton Coldfield, and lecondly to Simon Montfort of KingfliurU', VVarwickfliire efq. (temp. Hen. VIII.) of the great family long fettled at Colefhill. Nicholas living 33 Henry VI. had a fon William, who by Jane daughter of ■ MalTey, efq. had James of Warwick, 14 Henry VII. John, fe- cond fon of this Nicholas, married Joyce -f- daughter of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley, Worcelterfliire, efq. ; and had by her Ralph, who took to wife Rebecca daughter of Rowland Rugeley of Shenftone, efq. whole ion and heir, Sir Rowland, of Shen- ftone and Dunton, dying 1629, left William, by Elizabeth daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Knolles, knight. X^'iliiam, being a known loyalill; in king Charles the Firft's troubles, be- came very obnoxious to the prevailing party, and was obliged to compound for his eliate at the fum of thirty-three pounds three fliillings and four-pence. Rowland Rugeley the elder, as above, married Ellen daughter and fole heir of John Thirkell, of Smallwood, StafFordfliire, efq. by Jane daughter and coheir of Sir Lewas Bagot, knight, of Bagot's Bromley, by Emma Kniveton, the firft of his five wives, with whom he polTeffed the manor of Smallwood, but refided at Shenltone. This Rowland and Ellen Thirkill had iffue, i, WiUiam, living 1583 ; 2, Thomas, who married a daughter of Pegge, of Tettenhall, Staffordfliire ; 3, George ; 4, James, who married Margery daughter of ■ ' '- Clarke, efq. and two daughters, Joan wife of Thomas Rowley of Heykeley ; and Rebecca wife of Ralph Rugeley, of Dunton. William fuc- « In the 19th of Henry VIII. 1523, Hugh Harman, or Vefey, fnn of Willbm and Joan Harman, of Sutton Coldfield, brother and heir to the bifliop of Exeter, by Joyce de Rugeley, had four daughters, Joan, Eleanor, Margaret, ar.d Dorothy. ■f- She furvived, and re-married to Thomas Baikerville of Curdwortb. F ceeded, 34 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S cccded, and lived at Shenftone hall ; by Elizabeth his wife daughter of John Kiiutsford * of Malvern, Worcefterfhire, efq. lie liad iffue, I, Richard, aged 19 in the year 1583 ; 2, Rowland ; 3, Thirkel ; 4, Henry; aUb five daughters, Ellen, Jane, Anne, Margaret, and Penelope. On the 7th of December, 22 Charles I. I'homas Ruggeley, efq. of Shenfton, witnefled a deed con- veying lands of Roger Adams of Footherley to James Fletcher of the fame village; and in 1C49 evidenced the conveyance of a tenement paffed by the faid Roger Adams to J. Collier, and in 1648 to lands which Roger affigned to Robert Adams, his fon, at Footherley ; alfo, the fame year, of lands paiTed over by Roger Adams to Alexander Warde of Shenftone, or Wood-end. hi 158 1, April 23, was buried at Shenftone Mr. Rugeley, and in September that year Elizabeth Rudgeley. In 1590 Row- land Rudgeley had a fon Thomas baptized January 8, and a daughter Elizabeth in April, 1591. George Rugely of Shen- ftone, gent, was buried there the 29th of April, 1598. Wil- liam Rugeley, efq. Vv^as buried the 14th of June, 1602. hi the 1 6th of Henry VI. May 24, John Rugeley was made Ranger of Sutton Goldfield cliace by grant, on which I conjedlue he aded in that capacity for Nicolas, who was far advanced in years, and then fucceeded him 16 Henry VF. This John's feat was at Wiggington, Warwicklhire, and his wife was Margery only daughter of John Holt, efq. of Birmingham Afton. In the reign of Henry VII. Laurence Thicknefs, efq. of Batterley, mar- ried Rugeley's daughter, and had Ralph and Robert, feated * John Kiiutsford, of Malvern-houfe, Warvvickfnire, ferjeant at arms abont the rei^^n of queen Mary, or queen Elizabeth, married Joan eldeft of the five daughters and heirs to Richard Knightly, of Upton in Northamptonfliire, elq. -, coheirs alfo to Sir Edmund Knightly, knight, who died in the 34th year of Henry Vlll. puflcired of the gentry of Stafford- jQiirc of that date, whence I fuppofe him to have been the eldelt fon of John, who died in 1669; and Anne, living in 1692, to have been William's widow. Michael, and Mary his wife, had iflue Michael, baptized April 17, 1693, Anne, baptized July 17, 1694, John, baptized December 6, 1695, a child ftill-born, February 2, 1696, Elizabeth, an infant, born 1698, in November, and died foon after. The father died in 1705, and was buried July 29, and his relict Mary*, May 5, 17 13. She was one of the daughters and coheirs of Stanton, eiq. ; the other three coheirs married, one to Degge t, of Derby, efq. of whom Degge, of Worcefter, efq. another to Charlton of Stanton, and the fourth to Sachevereli, of Barton in Nottinghamll:iire, efq., who had Harry, Philip, Eli- zabeth, and Anne ; Elizabeth was w ife of Pole, efq, of Piadburn, who had a fon that died of an epilepfy in 176 1. Michael Brandreth, efq. was one of the commiHioners that coniirmed the affeffment of the poll-tax in 1692. By the bill all perfons (except fuch as received alms of the parifli, poor houfekeepers, and their children) were to pay twelve pence quar- terly for one year ; all tradefemen and artificers, having an eflate of the clear yearly value of 300I. and upwards^ ten (hillings ; all gentlemen, or reputed gentlemen, having an eftate of 300I. or more ; as alio all clergymen and teachers who had any eccle- fiaftical benefice, or contribution, to the value of Sol. per ann. or upwards, twenty fliillings ; every lord of parliament, fpiri- * Who died at Lichfield, of the fmall-po\-. ■f Simon Degge, of the parifli of Allhaliows, Derby, and Jane Stauntoiij were married at Shciiltone November 2, 1705. Vide rggi Iter. G 2 twal %4 THE H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I Q^U I T I E S tnal or temporal, the fum of ten pounds; and all perfons who fiiould refufe to take the oaths to their majellies, double the fums charged by the relpecStive heads. This gentleman's for- tune was upon the decline when he married : what he had with his wife helped to bear him up for fome time ; but having hurt himfelf by building, and other means, he was .ob- liged to fell feveral eftates, particularly in Chefterfield. On his marriage with Mary Stanton, Anne, his mother, left Shenfton© Hall, and went to Wilncote near Tarn worth, where was an eftate and manfion belonging to her hufband, deceafed ; on her death, at Wilncote, her body was conveyed to Shenftone, and laid near the remains of her hufband. Anne, daughter of Michael by Mary Stanton, married a citizen of London, whom I have not learnt *, but have fome lliadow of rcafon to fuppofe flie mar- ried a Mr. Degge. John aforefaid, fecond fon of John Brandreth, efq. and Anne his wife, married Mrs. Sparrow of Stone, and there fettling, died ilTuelefs. Anne, his filler, married the Reverend Mr. Tilly, and had iffue Michael Tilly, attorney at law in the city of Lichfield, who was buried at Shenftone. In 1686 mention is made of a marriage between Job Serjeant and Margaret Tilly. Mary married Radford, of Tamworth, clerk, and had Mary, who died under age at Tamworth. We return to Mi- chael, eldeft fon of Michael and Mary Brandreth, who fucceeded his father in the month of July, 1705, and was then about twelve years old. He fold, amongft other things, the tythes of Chefterfield, and part of Wall, to an attorney of Lichfield ; * I have fince been infermed, that the gentleman was Fitzgerald, efq. who had a place under the crown. She died without iffue, though we are not lure that llie did not marry twice; if fo, -^ Degge might be one of the Uii(bands. was O F- S H E N S T O N E. 45 was in the army fome time, and died abroad, being then a cap- tain of foot, without ilTue. This gentleman fold Shenrtone Hall, and the lands belonging to it, to the late Samuel Hill, efq. whofc puixhafe of them was made with part of the money re- fcrved for fuch purpofes by the will of the Honourable and Re- verend Richard Hill, his uncle, and entailed, by virtue of which entail they came into the poflelhon of Thomas Hill, efq. of Terne. hi I73i» Lionel Cranfield Sackville, duke of Dorfet, then made lord liculenant of heland, appointed the Reverend John Brandreth one of his chaplains, and fent him into that king- dom before him. In 1732, upon the 18th of February, king George il. by letters under his royal llgn manual to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, granted to the lleverend John Brandreth the deanery of the metropolitan church of Armach. What other preferments he had we know not, but underitand he gave this deanery up in exchange for that of Kilkenny ; af- terwards he was made dean of Emely in Ireland, and died there in the mouth of December, 1764, being then doiflor of divinity, and unmarried, aged 69. His principal heir was Degge,^ efq, now or late of Worcefter. Lady Elizabeth Germaine (of the Berkeley family), a lady well known in the polite world, gave him this character, '' that he " was as worthy an honeft fenhble man as any flie knew^ ;" and fuppofes, in one of her letters, that he was recommended to dean Swift's acquaintance. To the abovefaid account of Henry Brandreth, the committee- man, we add, that when the parliament called Praife God Bare- bones, 1653, framed an z6t out of an ordinance of the former council of ftate, for a lottery of the rebels lands in Ireland, in which one Methufelah Turner, a Hnen draper in Cheap fide, and one Brandreth. 46 THE HISTORY AND A N T i QJJ I T I E S Brandreth (Brandriffe*), a cloth- drawer, were named commif- fioners, and had already fat in Grocers Hall, with fuch other moft incompetent judges of the affair. Thefe were to difpofe of ten counties in Ireland to the adventurers, and to the foldiers for their arrears ; if thefe did not fatisfy, the county of Louth was to be added. Shenjlone Hall, fince the family of Brandreth fold it, hath been the manfion of fcveral gentlemen as tenants to Samuel Hill, and the family feated at Terne in Salop. Thefe were, Porter, John Eggington, efq. of the ancient houfe at Rodbafton ill Staffordaiire, fon of James Eggington, efq. by Catherine Lit- tleton ; John Houghton, efq. after of Colefliill Hall in VVarwick- fliire, and whole relict, Mary, yet hves at Hintz Hall. She was daught^-r of Lande, clerk, by daughter of John Rawlins, efq. town-clerk of Lichfield, who had iffue two fons and three daughters ; one married to the Reverend Mr. Lande, as before ; another to Richard Wake, gent, who died without iffiie, and the third to Jeremiah Hancox, braiier to his late majefty king George II. whofe iffue were two daughters ; of which one married to Polithiew, of London, the other to ^_ Haye, elq. whofe fon is a counfel at law. The two fons of John Rawlins, efq. were John, that died a batchelor, and Michael, cnptain in the guards, who married Bridgett, filler of Richard Dyott, efq. of Freeford, and aunt to Richard Dyott, efq. of the fame place, an ancient and reputable family. The prefent tenant to Noel Hill, eft], is Mr. Jofeph Elde, who has with it a farm of more than three hundred pounds per annum. * Heath's Chronicle, part III. pnge 352. Having O F S H E N S T O xN E. 47 Having thus given the bed: account in our power of Shen- ftone Hall, and the families belonging to it, we Ihall only ob- fer\'e farther, that Humphry Rugeley married, as wq noted, Maud, the feventh daughter of Richard Grolvenor, efq. by Ca- therine, third daughter and coheir of Richard Colton of Ham- ilall-Redware, who was heir to the manors of Thurcalion, Taymc, and Maplewell, in Leicefterfliire ; Coiliton and Rofiiig- ton, in Derbylliire ; Hamftall-Rcdware, Poefwood, and Afii- field in StafFordlhire ; Colton and Ofcroft in Chefliire ; whofe grandfather, Sir Richard Colton, knight, married, 31 tien. VI. Joan daughter of Richard Vcnables, baron of Kinderton in Chefliire, lifter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Venablcs, llain at the battle of Bloreheath, as Sir Richard Colton himlelf fcli at the battle of St. Albans, 33 Henry VI. Edmund Rugeley, efq. married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Robert WalfalL eicj, and had iffue by her a daughter and heir, Barbara Rugeley, married, 37 Henry Vlll. to Richard Lawley, of Spoonbill, efq. grandfather of Thomas, created a baronet by king Charles I. to which Richard Lawley, e{q. llie brought a large eftate. BrandreWs arms ; Sable, 5 mafcles. Or, the creft a lamb couchant. Bydulph's arms ; an eagle difplayed Argent, — ditto 3 fadring irons. Sable. SkeffingtorCs arms ; Argent, 3 bulls heads erafed, Sable, horns, Or. Stantofi's arms ; Ardent, two chevrons with a bordure. S H E N- 45 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES S H E N S T O N E PARK. Shenftone Park, or Shenftone New Hall, is bell known by the name of The Park, becaufe king Henry VIII. had a noble park here full three miles in circuit, well flocked with deer and other game. It was afterwards continued in the fame ftate, even in the years 1640, 1641, and 1642, for Mr. Lake's divifion of It was fo dlftinguifhed at that time, and reported by the com- miflioners, who gave in to the Crown an account of the parks in the county of Stafford to be ftocked with deer. 20 Henry III. •^-as the park fet out by one of the Grendons, who obtained a licence for that purpofe from the fuperior lord of this manor, provided he made fuch a fence round it that his foreft of Sutton Coldfield fliould fuffer no detriment from it. The Hall ftands on a low ground, gradually declining for a inile from the eminence upon which the church is fituated, but rather on riling land from the meadows around ; yet it is far from a good fite, without any diftant view, except a tolerable good view from the church. It feems probable that there was a hunting feat here, ereded by the family of the Doyleys foon after the Gonquetl, and no queftion is made of fuch a feat or lodge early in the reign of Henry III. In the 34th year of that king's reign, Richard de Grendon paid iocs, for a charter of free warren in his lands. The fame family had it till the reign of Richard II. or Henry IV. of which ;we fiidl fay fomewhat more particular hereafter. The next poffeffor of it feems to be one of the Nevils, who had a feat here that we are certain of, though they mod likely inherited from the great and noble houfe of the Beauchamps, 4 the OFSHENSTONE. 49 the laft of which was Henry duke of Warwick, in the reign of Henry VI. of the male Hne, who had any concerns here ; he died June it, 1445? 23 Henry VI, leaving only an infant daughter, who died in 1449, aged 6 years. Richard Nevil, earl of Warwick, July 23, 27 Henry VI. next had it, and for- feited it in 147 1 to the crown in the reign of Edward IV. ; and yet w'e think that George Nevil, lord Latimer of Danby, had a feat here, and the park ; for 1 find it in the hands of Thomas, fecond and vouncreft fon of the faid lord, who had fummons to parliament 10 Henry VI. having before purchafed the lord- fliip of Danby (and the other eftates of John Nevil lord Latimer being given him by his father on the death of the faid lord John, 9 Henry VI.). Sir George Nevil lord Latimer was third Ion of Ralph firft earl of Wellmoreland, by his fecond wife, Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt duke of Lancafter, fourth foa of king Edward III, and half fifter to king Henry IV. Thomas Nevil of Shenftone Park (2 Henry VIII.) left John of the fame place living in 1584, in the reign of queen Eliza- beth, who then had two fons, Fulk, aged 10 years, and Francis. In the next reign, or that of king Charles 1. the houfe and park were in the crown, for then we are told -•■, that king Charles granted it to a native of Scotland, named Balmerino, who fold the park to Laket, and Alexander Ward, an innkeeper in the city of Lichfield ; at which time we conje(fture there were three lodges belonging to it, one at the gate leading to Weeford and Little Hay, another towards Sutton Coldfield, and a third at Wood-end. * In the colle>.^ion of Wilkes, M. D. late of Willenhall, pen. Reverend Thomas Unctr. -\ Edward Lake, efq. was of Little Fenton in StafTordfhire, in the. reign of James I. and Charles I. H Mr, ro THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES Mr. Lake and Mr. Ward of the large park aforefaid made two parks, thus diftinguifliing their property ; the former gentleman likewife built a feat where the lodge-houfe il:ood, going towards Weeford and Little Hay. Roger Lake, in the reign of James L or Charles L married Dorothy daughter of William Crompton, efq. of Stone Abbey in Staffordfliire, and had by her a fon Roger, father, as I fuppofe, of William of Shenftone park, Edward alfo of the fame place, and of Roger; Dorothy ; and Jane, married June 5, 1666, but to whom it is not faid ; Roger died in September 1 696, and was buried September 14. William had a daughter, Ann, baptized April i, 1660; and, 1661, is in a deed mentioned as a creditor of Mr. Roger Adams of Footherley; April 13, 13 Charles II. Dorothy Lake w'as witnefs to a deed conveying lands to Walter Rawlins of Lit- tle Hay. In 1663-4, March it, was buried at Shenftone, Lydia wife of Edward Lake, which gentleman, in 1667, paid 14s. to the quarterly affeffment for his majefty's royal aid dated June it. Dorothy their daughter was buried here June ay, 1665. Ed- ward was living in 1692, in the reign of William III. This fame perfon witnefTed a bond of Thomas Alfop, of Little Hay, for money due to Elizabeth Parr, June 20, 1687. In 1692 paid one gviinea to the poll tax, a fhilling for his man. The regifter mentions Edward Lake, buried February 15, 1701, aged 83, which perfon I conclude to be the fam€ perfon. He had a fon Edward, termed in the aflelTraent for the poll-tax, 1692, Ed- ward Lake, junior, gentleman, who paid for himfelf one guinea, and alfo for his wife, for his man and maid two fhillings. What became of this Edward we know not ; but are aflured, that Shenftone park foon after came into other hands, viz. of Jofhua O F S H E N S T O N E. 51 Jofllua Head, efq. counfellor at law, who was heir to the fa- mily ; Ion in law as forae fay, or grandfon* as others, to Mr. Edward Lake, fenior. Lydia, daughter of Edward Lake, died in Mav, 1682; Jane, another daughter, wife of Sampfon Buikly, gent, died in January 1768 ; alfo Thomas their fon. Mr. Head fold the park to John Strickfon, efq. of the city of London, which gentleman's father carried on a large trade as a draper, a profeflion this John fome lime followed ; his wife was Amyc-Maria, daughter of Sandford, a gentleman of Salop, nearly related to Sir Samuel Daniel, baronet; they had iiRie two fons, Thomas, who was educated in the i^niverfity of Ox- ford, and died a bachelor; and Arthur, an crtering clerk of the cuftoms, or fome fuch office, in the city of London, living in 1764, but about that time died in a kind of frenzy or melan- choly. The father lived at Shenftone park with good repu- tation and much hofpitality ; but declining in his circumftances in the year 1723 or 1724, he fold his eftate here, and fome- thing more at Upperftonhall, either to the Honourable and Re- verend Richard Hill, or to the late Samuel Hill, efq. The faid Mr. Strickfon eretfted the manfion, of which to this time a good part now remains, removing the old materials from the houfe towards Little Hay gate, called the Lodge, to the fite on which ftands the prefent manfion ; he likewife built the large feat on the right hand as v.e enter the church, and the vault under it for his own burial-place ; but having fuffered much in the South- Sea fcheme, his misfortunes forced him hence ; and this vault was ufed firft for the interment of lady Elizabeth Hill, and after of her hufband Samuel Hill, efq. * Son of J. Head, of London, by his wife, a daughter cf Edward Lake. H 1 VVc 51 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S We have the following account of this family : that in the year 1726-7, January 20, Pvowland Hill, efq. was created a baronet by his majefty king George I. Of this ancient family of Hull, or Hill, of Court-hill, Wlonkellowe, Blore, Buntingf- dale, Malpafs, Soulton, and Bleachley, was Hull, father cf Hull or Hill, of Hill and Wlonkeilaw in Salop, efq. living in the reign of Edward I. or Edward II. married Eleanor, daughter andcoheir of Hugh de Wlonkeflaw, efq. and had ilTue William, living in the reign of king Richard II. whofe fon and heir was GeofFry Hill, in the reign of Henry IV. who married daughter of Warren, lord of Ightfield in Salop, and by her had a fon, Humphry, living in the reigns of Henry V. and Henry' VI. He, by Anne, daughter and heir of John Bird, of Charlton, efq. niece and heir of David de Malpals, had three fons; i, Wil- liam, ancellor to the Hills of Court-hill, Blore, Wlonkeflaw, and Buntingldale; 2, Ralph, of whom prefently; 3, Thomas of Malpafs. and Hodnet, whofe ilfue male failed in Sir Rowland Hill, knight. We meet with Thomas Hill *, efq. lord mayor of London in 1485, who caufed the conduit in Gracechurch-ftreet to be eredled at his own expence. In 1549? or 1550, Sir Rov.land,^ merger, was lord-mayor of that city, fon of Thomas Hill of Hodnet, who bore arms, viz. two Barrs Gemelles, Gules ; on a canton, Sable, three pheons, Argent, between them a chevron, and on it two eftoiles. Argent. His lady gave ten pounds towards erecting the offices at Guildhall f. This Sir Rowland, one of the richeft and moft con- liderable merchants of his time, did great ad:s of generofity, was an eminent benefador to the public, founded Drayton and other free-fchools, built Stoke and Hodnet churches, at which laft * Stowe's Survey of London. -f Stowe. men- OF -S H E N S T O N E. 53 mentioned place he was born. His wealth increafed his goodnefsj as well as. his honour ; for, being fenfible from whofe bleffing he received his eftate, he made the moll; grateful returns, by erect- ing fome lafting monuments to the glory of God. He gave- 600I. to Chrift's Hofpital in London ; and at his death forgave- all his tenants in his manors of Alderfey and Sponeley, in the county of Salop, a year's rent, and further enjoined his heirs- to make them leafes for twenty-one years for two years rent ;; moreover, he made leveral caufeways for man and horfe ; four bridges, of v.hich two of ftone, Alcham and Terne,- of eighteen arches each, for the fafe paiTage of travellers and. carriages, which were in thofe days looked upon as great in- ftances of charity, and beneficial to mankind. He was buriecL in St. Mary Woolchurch, Walbrook-ward, London, with the;: follovving infcription over him : A friend to virtue. And worthy counfellor ; A lover oF learning, A lover of -wifdom, A foe to vice. Of jullice a lurthercr : A vehement correifior, Lo ! here his corpfe lyeth ; A prudent perfon. Sir Rowland Hill by name. All truth fupporting. Of London late Lord Mayor, A citizen fage. And Alderman of fame. He left his large acquifitions to his four fifters and coheirs;, who were, 1, Agnes, wife of J. Cooper, efq. ; 2, Joan, married to George Dormaine, efq. from whom are the families of Cholm— ley and Leech ; 3, Jane, wife of George Greatwood, elq. from which family came the Levifons of Woolverham.pton in StafFord- fhire, and the Corbets of Stoke, baronets ; 4, Elizabeth, wife of John Barker, efq. of n'hom came the Leigh<^, barons of Stoneley in Warwickfhire. We are told, in refpeCt or the laft family, that Thomas 5i. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Thomas Leigh, fon of Roger, of Wellington in Salop, defcended of the Leighs, of High Leigh in ChefLiire, bred up under Sir Rowland Hill, became at length, for his fklU and diligence, his fadlor beyond fea, and underwent that truft fo well, that Sir Rowland, having no child, matched his niece, whom he much affedled, to him, viz. Alice, daughter of John Barker, of llamon iw Salop, upon whofe ifflie he beftowed the greateft part of his eft ate. This gentleman became very opulent, and, being a knight, was lord mayor of London, 1585, i Eliz. Dying 1 4 Eliz. he left by the faid Alice three fons, Rowland, Thomas, and William ; the eldeft of which was well provided for by Sir Rowland Hill, his godfather, in Gloucefterfliire, at Longborough, or thereabouts. Thomas remained at Stoneley ; the third fon fettled at Newnham in Warwickfhire ; and both had ample poffeffions fettled upon them by their father and mother, Ihe being joint purchafer in all, and lived at Stoneley to a very great age, dying in January 1603, having feen her children's children of the fourth generation, of which Sir Tho- mas v/as created a baronet by king Charles L This lady, Alice Leigh, 19 queen Elizabeth, founded an hof- pital for ten poor perfons, five men, and five women, all of them to be unmarried perfons, and nominated by her; but af- ter her deceafe, by Sir Thomas Leigh her fon, during his life, and his heirs for ever; to whofe maintenance flie charged 29I. per annum, to be paid out of Milbourn Grange, fituate in the fame parifn of Stoneley,. where the hofpital was built, viz. 5 2s. to each of the poor people at the feaft of St. John Baptift, St. Michael, the Nativity of our Lord, and the Annunciation of our Lady, by even portions ; fijc fliillings and eight-pence yearly to the churchwardens for the time being, w ho were appointed fu- pervifors of the faid poor people, as to their orderly coming to 2 church OF S H E N S T O N E. 55 church every Sunday ar.d Holy-day, except there were urgent caufe to the contrary : ten Ihillings yearly to the mayor of Co- ventry for the time being, whom fhe alfo appointed to fee to the performance thereof ; ten fliillings yearly towards repairing the church ; twenty-two fliillings and eight-pence to a minifter to preach four fermons there yearly ; all which queen Elizabeth by her letters patent (bearing date the 28th of June in the 29th year of her reign) confirmed. Sir Rowland Hill, knight, and Sir Thomas Leigh, knight, aldermen of Loiidon, bought Stoneley abbey, and fome of its lands, of William Cavendifli, efq. of Trimley St. Martyn, in the county of Suffolk ; and on the divilion of their purchafes- ' (3 Elizabeth) Sir Thomas Leigh had Stoneley abbey. We return now to Ralph, fecond fon of Humphry Hill, efq. who married daughter of Thomas Green, efq. of NortoUy by whom he had two fons ; i, WiUiam, anceftor to tbe Hills of Soulton and Blechley ; 2, Humphry, of Adderley, or Alder- fey, efq. who, by Alice his wife, davighter of ■ ■ — Bulk ley of StanloWj had three fons, Rowland of Hawkfione ; Thomas, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Dantfey, efq. of the county of Lancafler, but died iffuelefs ; and Robert, feated at Adderley, who left a fon, Humphry Hill, efq, Rowland Hill, of Hawkfton, married Mary, daughter of Tho- mas Dycher, efq. of Mucklell:on in Salop, and had iffiie by her a Sir Rowland, v»ho married Elizabeth, daughter of William Jolliffe, of Leek in Stafford fliire, and had iffue Rowland Hill, ot Hawklfone, efq. a gentleman remarkable for his great wif- dom, piety, and charity ; he fuffered much in the civil wars, on his coming to the relief of his father, whom the Parliamen- tarians had detained prifoner in the caltle near Hawkftone ; his wife was Margaret, daughter of Richard Whitehall, of Whit- church 56 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S church in Salop, by whom he had feven fons and feven daugh- ters, of which Rowland the eldell: fon died unmarried ; the fe- cond fon was the Honourable and Reverend Richard Hill, LL.D, V\'iio died unmarried at Richmond in Surrey, July ii, 1727, and was carried to Hodnet in Salop, and there buried. In the reign of king William III. he was envoy extraordinary to the court of Brufl'els ; and, in the fame reign, and in queen Anne's, to the courts of Turin, and all the other Italian princes, except to the Roman pontiff. In the time of king William III. he was ]>ay-mafl:er of the army in Flanders, where, by his remarkable, pundlual, andjuft dealings, he acquired fo great credit, as to be able by it to fubfift the armies there, when remittances of mo- ney came too flow from England for that purpofe. This great iervice gained him the favour of the king his mafter, who foon after the peace appointed him one of the lords commifTioners for executing the high office of lord high treafurer of England. His merit alfo recommended him to the favour of queen Anne, who, foon after her acceflion to the throne, appointed him one of the council to his royal highnefs prince George of Denmark, as lord high admiral of this kingdom; and in the year 1705 fent him to the duke of Savoy, a prince noted for his policy, with whom he fo prevailed as to bring him into the grand alliance. In the reign of George I. he retired from all civil employment, and be- came fellow of Eton college, near Windfor, which he held to the time of his death. He was a ftatefman of great abilities, and of eminent integrity, a man of general knowledge, well known for an exceeding fine addrefs ; he added much to his own private eilate, and fortune of itlelf confiderable, great part of which he gave among his relations in his life-time, and the remainder at his death. He augmented many poor livings, and was a con- liderable benefatlor to St. John's college, Cambridge, where he was O F S H E N S T O N E. 57 was educated, and was an ornament to that fociety. He left them five redlories, Ditchhigham, South and North Lopham united, the two Forncetts united, Sturftone, and Aldborough. His heirs are always to prefent to thole benefices, but obHged to make choice of a fellow of that houfe. Fie fubfcribed largely to \vork.s of charity, and did a great many private ones in a wife and well chofen manner. Not long before his deceafe, by the favour of king George I. in the 13th year of his reign, he obtained for his family this creation to the dignity of a baronet of this king- dom in the perfon of his nephew and heir at law, llowland Hill, of Hawkftone, efq. and his heirs male ; in default of fuch ifTue, to Samuel Hill, his nephew, of Shenilione Park, efq. in StafFordfliire, and his heirs male ; in default ro his nephew, Thomas Hill, of Terne Hall in Salop, with the fame provifo; remainder to the reverend Rowland Hill, rector of Forncett in Norfolk, and his male heirs. This gentleman was afterwards re6tor of Hodnet in Salop, and died unmarried uj^on the nth of July, 1,733. John Hill, of Lieteich or Lutwich, third fon of Rowland Hill by Margaret Whitehall, married daughter of ... . Stubbs, efq. of Shaw in StafFordlliire, and by her had iillie one fon, Sir Rowland, who was created baronet, Janiiry 20, 1726-7, and five daughters ; i, Margaret, wife of Richard Brooke, of Nor- ton in Chefliire, eldeft fon of Sir Thomas Brooke, baronet, who left by her Sir Richard Brooke, baronet ; 2, Eleanor married to Borlace Wingfield, of Prell:on in Salop, efq. and hath iflue Row- land, if no other fon, and three daughters. Rowland Wingfield was a fellow-commoner of Oriel college, Oxford, 1750, and hath married daughter of Sir Walter WagffafF Bagot, of Blythfield, baronet, and filter of Sir William Bagot, baronet : his relidence is at Shrewfbury. John Hill, efcj. and Margaret I Whitehall 53 T H E' II I S T O R Y AND A N T I QJLI I T I E S Whitehall had three other daughters. Sir Rowland Hill, baronet, 17^2, was appointed high-flieriff for the county of Salop; and, June 2, his marriage was inierted in the public papers, in thefe words, " On June 2, 1732, Sir Rowland Hill, baronet, a young *' gentleman of Scool. per annum, was married to Mifs Jane *' Broughton, daughter of the late Sir Bryan Broughton, baronet, *' of Broughton in StafFordfliire, and lifter of the prefent Sir *' Bryan Broughton." By her he had iflue two fons, Richard, and Rowland ; and two daughters, Jane, and Elizabeth. His arms are, quarterly, i, Ermine, on a fefs, Sable, a caftle triple towered, Argent, Hill; 2, Sable, a Lion rampant crowned, Or, betW'cen three crolTes, pattte fitchee, Argent, Wlonke/law\ 3, Per pale, Or, and Argent, an Eagle difplayed. Sable, BiKd\ 4, Gules, a chevron between three pheons. Argent, Malpajs ; Creft, on a wreath a caftle with five towers. Argent ; over it a garland of laurel, proper. His feat is at Hawkftone near Hodnet. Of Sir Rowland Hill, knight, citizen of London, and after- Wards lord-mayor, w-e find further, that he had a grant from the Crown of the manor of Newnham Regis in Warwickfiiire, on the attainder of John Dudley, the potent duke of Northumber- land, and earl of Warwick, in the ift year of queen Mary, whofe it was from the 7th year of the reign of king Edward VI, "The fame Sir Rowland had that part of Leek Wotton manor in -Warwickftiire called by the name of the Crofs Grange, w^hich before the Diflblution belonged to the monks of Kenilworth, with the church, both which he pafled over to Sir Thomas Leigh, with his niece Alice Barker, in marriage. The fame Sir Rowland, and Sir Thomas, purchafed Dunchurch manor in Warwickftiire, i and 2 Philip and Mary ; which, on a divi- 2 ' fion OFSHENSTONE. 59 Jlon of their purchafes, were allotted to Sir Thomas Leigh. In the fame manner went the eitates there, which, before the DifTo- lution, were the pofleffions of Pipewell abbey. One of the daughters of Rowland Hill, efq. and Margaret Whitehall married Barbour, eCq. a gentleman feated near Uttoxeter in Statfordfliire, who had iffue by her a fon Samuel, and one daughter. The anceftors of Barbour were fettled at Flaflienbrook in Staffordlhire, which manor was in the king's hands 20 William I. by the name of Fletefbroc, or, as others, in the bifliop's. 24 Edward I. Richard de Puifdea or Puifdon owned it, and left a fon Jordan, in whofe line it continued till the reign of Henry VI. or Edward IV. when one Brown, of the family or retinue of Humphry Stafford duke of Buckingham, or of Henry his grandfon (lineally de- fcended from the noble family of Bagor, by Melicent, heirels of Robert lord Stafford in the time of king John), had it in mar- riage with the heirefs of the Jordans, as they were then called, but originally Puifdons, and changed his name to that of Barbor, or Barbour. This Thomas Barbor * had iffue Robert, living 21 Henry VIII. whofe fon was John, father of John Barbor, efq. of Flaffibroke in Stafford (liire, 5 and 8 Elizabeth, and of George; which -George had a fon Nicholas, 19 Elizabeth, father of Richard Barbour, gent, who had iffue a daughter named Anne, married to Richard Wefton, efq. of Rugeley, of a London family, and of which two were knights at the fame time ; and George, who, by Mary his wife, daughter of John Rugeley, of Dunfton and Coventry, had a fon Leicefter, who accepted of a captain's commiflion from the Parliament party, and in other refpeds took an adive part againit his fovereign * Living 1 2 Henry VI. 12 i^illg 6o THE HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S king Charles I. Leiceiter married Mary, daughter of Thomas Adeliiead, of Milwich, and had by her Richard, living in the reign of Charles II. or James II. and nine other children. This Leiceller Barbour, or a fon of that name, was relident at Tam- worih in 1673. John Barbour, of Flafhbroke, elder brother of George, had two fons, Edward, and John. Edward had iflTue Dorothy, his only daughter and heir, married to Gerard Whor- wood, efq. of Stourton caftle in StafFordlliire, fon and heir of Sir Thomas Whorwood, knight, (v/ho died 14 James I.), whofe wife was Elizabeth, a natural daughter of Sir John Sutton, knight of the garter, and baron of Dudley cartle ; which Gerard (aged 40 years, 14 James T.) wp.s feifed of the manors of Kinfare and the caftle, Stourton, Kingfley, Brome, Whor- wood, alias Compton Hallows, in Staffordfliire ; Alvely in Salop; Kingford in Worcefterfliire ; and of divers lands in Ilalfcote, Tettenhall, Dewfley, Compton, Sedgeley, Areley, and Le Hoo, in the county of Stafford. This Edward Barbour, upon the payment of a fubfidy granted by the laity in parliament to the queen, 18 Eliz. was rated at ten pounds, and (over and above) found two light horfe- men for her majefty's army ; he was living in 1583. John, younger brother of Edward Barbour, married Anne, daughter of John Etwell, efq. and had by her John, who took to wife Dorothy, daughter of William Scott, efq. and had ilTue by her three fons ; John, aged 9, 1664, living in 1673, and then has the title of Efquire; 2, Edward ; 3, Leiceller. Thefe families made fome confiderable figure by their fervice and attendance upon Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter, the fa- vourite of queen Elizabeth, and afterwards of his countefs, who lived to a great age at her manor of Dray ton- Baffet, near Tam- worth. The O F S H E N S T O N E. 6t The laft mentioned John Barbour bore for his coat of arms, Gules, three mullets. Argent, a bordure Ermine. The Flalhen- brook family bore, Sable, three mullets engrailed. Argent ; fome of them added a dexter canton, Or. Samuel, fon of Barbour, by the daughter of Rowland Hill, efq. and Margaret his wife, was born about 1690 or 1691, near Uttoxeter, upon an eftate * that was his family inheritance, and was foon taken into the pecuhar protecftion of his uncle, the honourable and reverend Richard Hill ; and, when prepared under proper mafters for the univerfity, was fent to Cambridge, and entered in St, John's college, to which his uncle was fa great a benefai5tor, and of which he himfelf had been a mem- ber ; here he was foon taken notice of, as well for his good behaviour and regularity, as for a ftudious difpofition, and a capacity fitted for any attainments ; no pains were v/anting to cultivate his genius, and the beft of maflers and tutors v.ere chofen to inftru(51: him in the fciences, in which he made great improvements. On his leaving the Univerfity, he was fent abroad to vifit the moft polite courts of Europe, under the powerful re- commendation of his great friend, who had lived there in a pub- lic charader much efteemed, efpecially amongft the Italian princes. After vifiting the court at Turin, he went to Venice and Milan, places he was greatly delighted with, and from them to the other molt remarkable cities of Italy. Among other things he was cu- rious to view the clafllc ground, more particularly thofe parts of which thofe inimitable poets of the Augufian age, Horace and Virgil, treat in their immortal works. Of thefe, in his latter * Flalhbrook, as I am informed ; though the Barbours had an eftatCj and upon it a good manfioQ at Chathili in Staffordlhire. days, , 6i THE HI S T O Pv Y AND A N T I CLU I T I E S days, he fpoke with a kind of tranfport to myfelf, and received the higheft fatisfaction in refieifting that he had feen and vi- lited them at a time when his infirmities had vaftly impaired his conflitution, and rendered him almoft infenfible to any other enjoyment of hfe, or a plentiful fortune. He proceeded to France, and after fome years returned to England, with a large ftore of real knowledge, and without the vanity of moft of our young Englifli travellers ; fuperior to their fopperies of drefs, and all afie6latiou ; and withal confirmed in thefe fentiments, that the Church of this king- dom as by law eftablifhed was the heft conrtituted Church in the world, and that the Revolution principles were moft for the intereft of this nation ; profeffing to the day of his death, that thefe principles tended moft to the fecurity both of the pre- fent generation, and of our pofterity. Returning a moft ac- compliflied gentleman, he was introduced at court, and was moft gracioufly received by his majefty king George I. who foon after conferred upon him the office of Latin Secretary, with a falary of 200I. per annum ; alfo colleftor and tranfmitter of the ftate papers in both the fecretaries of ftate's departments ; for which he was fuppofed as well qualified as any gentleman in England ; and in the execution of which office no man was difappointed, hereby juftifying the good opinion that moft dif- cerning men entertained of him from his firft appearance and converfation. Some years after, he religned thefe, and was made regifter of the Navy, or reglfter of the high court of Ad- miralty, and likewife regifter of the court of Delegates by let- ters patent, which he held till his deceafe. He was alfo in parliament, being elected one of the members for the city of Lichfield, but did not long fit there, refigning of his own accord and motion, as not agreeable to his natural temper, which OFSHENSTONE. 63 ^vhich could not away with the manner of fpeaking and tranf- acling the public affairs in that honourable houfe. He af- terwards fupported Sir Rowland Hill, baronet, his coufin, when he flood candidate for the city of Lichfield, and was the principal means of his carrying his eledfion, his perfonal intereft and great chara6ler fwaying much with the inhabitants of that place ; and when Sir Lider Holt, baronet, of Arton Hall, near Birmingham, flood for the fame city, he gave him his interefl ; as he did likewiie to the late Sir Walter Wagllaff Bagot, of Blithfield, baronet, canvafling the county of Stafford in part with him, and procuring fuch votes for him and his friend as contributed, in a great degree, to their fuccefsful return in par- liament. In the year 1741, he Mas one of the commillioners appointed by adt of parliament to collect the land-tax in the city and county of Lichfield ; as alfo for the counties of Stafford and Warwick, which the following year was to raife the fum of two millions thirty- eight thoufand fixty-five pounds eleven fliillings and five pence, out of which fum the city of Lichfield was to pay four hundred and twenty pounds nineteen fliillings and four pence ; nor was he omitted in the other acfls of parliament or commiffions for the fervice of the kingdom in either of the abovefaid counties, as long as his health allowed him to acSl in public, or his relidence in England would admit of his exe- cuting thofe feveral offices. » In 1722 he purchafed the lands belonging to Hales Place, fo named from the owner, John Hales, clerk of the hanaper in the reign of queen Elizabeth, before called the Whitcfriars monaffery in the city of Coventry ; Sir Edward Hales, baronet, having pro- cured an acft of parliament for that purpofc, that the debts of Sir Chriflopher, his brother, might be paid off; thefe being pafTed over to John duke of Montague, were by him conveyed to 64 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U IT I E S to Samuel Hill, of Shenftone Park, efq. which eilates are yet in in his heirs. Early in the reign of king George the Second, on the deceafe of his wife, he went abroad to Italy and France, and continued fome years out of England, till time did in fome fort mitigate his great grief for his lofs. During his abfence the Park Houfe was rented by Snead, of Biiliton in Staffordfliire, efq. On his return home, though his table was the receptacle of men of learning and reputation, he led in general a retired and do- mertic life, fetting himfelf to make great improvements in his land, which he advanced to a high (late of culture. To effedl this, he employed great numbers of poor herein, purfuing the advice of a great mailer*, who, treating of the nature of li- berality, makes it twofold, and fays, w^e oblige thofe who ftand in need of our alTiitance, either from the advantage of labour or money ; the latter is the eafier way, efpecially where the benefactor is a perfoa of good eltate," but the bounty beftowed on labour and indutlry is the fairer and better of the two, the more honourable and better becoming a clear and generous mind, for though the will may be free enough in both, yet the one obligation is rather a debt to fortune, but the other to his virtue. By pecuniary didributions the fountain itfelf may be exhaurted, and one fuch benevolence is deftroyed by another; and, in the very a(5t, we lofe the means of obliging, Belides, the other is more extenfive ; more people, not to mention the prefent profits of exercife and health, being thereby rendered ferviceable both to their families and the public. Nor w-as this gentleman deficient in the other kind of libe- rality, feeing we could make it appear, that he found fuch oc- * Cicero. cafions OFSHENSTONE. 65 cafions of arTifting, and met with feveral objedls of his bounty in this way, whicli he thought juft and proper, either to help fuch as had opportunity to railc themfelves and famihcs in the world, by their application of mind and induftry, to a reafon- able good (ituation, or, in a method of true humanity and be- nevolence, to fucccur fuch as from unavoidable circumltances, though of ancient families, were in declining cafe ; a fort of generofity that Tully himfclf thought equal, and in fome in- llances allowable to be put in praclice, only with choice, and within compafs ; otherwife gentlemen of property, great as Mr. tiill's was, might eafily fquander away their whole ertates upon inconfiderate and ill-judged gratuities, which prudent men would term lightnefs, profulion, or excefs. It cannot be denied, that he might have fome perfonal ii- terell in view in the employment of the poor, viz. the improve- ment of lands ; if fo in any degree, it muffc be of no great weight, becaufe, having no ifflie, he was fure the benefits ac- cruing from them, by virtue of the entail on thofe very lands, would pafs, as indeed they did, to the heir at law, with the many new buildings, raifed at a vaft expence, upon his farms in this parifli ; and with regard to the poor themfelves, it was found by experience at his death, that his employing them had confiderably eafed the rates and taxes of the feveral places to which they belonged, but efpecially of Shenftone. Or if any fuch intereft is objedied as of moment, even this is a felf-love by no means meriting difpraife, but ufeful in all the concerns of mankind; men being culpable only when they exceed the proper bounds, and thereby become obnoxious to avarice or any other fpecies of ill. Such were his amufements at a time of life when he was unable to read, or enjoy the converfation of his friends. Some years before his death he was afflidt'jd with a rhcumatifm, or a K paralytic ^6 THE II I S T O E. Y AND ANTIQUITIES paralytic complaint, in fome meafure occalioned by his con- tinuing in marfhy grounds or drains with his labourers; having likewise hurt his legs twice, he became utterly unable to walk ; neither were the waters of the German Spa, thofe of Aix la Chapelle, and the pure air of South France, nor the Englifli baths, all which he frequented, able to reftore him. Being reduced to fuch circumiiances, tw^o gentlemen were appointed as companions, and to read to him, who were kept with him till his deceafe. In religious duties he v/as very exail, fetting an admirable example by his conllant attendance upon the fcrrvice of the church and its facraments, and by his refpecflful behaviour to his minifter, and the clergy in general. On the whole, we may term him a great and a very uleful man. As to his political principles, Mr. Hiil was a friend to the Revolution ; revered the memory of the prince who delivered thefe kingdoms from Po- pery and Arbitrary Government, and was fond of the eftablifli- ments made to fecure the crown in the prefent royal family. As a fcholar, he was well verfed in Greek and Latin ; Virgil and Florace of the Latin claflics were favourites with him ; but he moft admired Salluil, for his nervous Ityle and concife way of fpcaking. Of thefe authors efpecially he would frequently make large quotations, refpecling what was read before him or dif- courfed of, even in the lail fix months of his life ; and he well underftood the French, Italian, and German languages ; fpoke well, and with propriety, on almoft every fubjeft, and would make many ufeful obfervations where the matter required it. Having, befides the advantage of confiderable abilities, {een much of the polite and learned world; with a great memory and ftrong judgement, his mode of fpeaking was greatly in- ftruiiftive, commanding both refpc6l and attention. He had, a courtly O F S H I-: N S T O N E. •• 67 a conrtiv and fine manner of acldrefs, but could not away with or bear any thing of flattery ; as he was well read in mankind, he allowed greatly for all men who came far Ihort of his ovvu fine qualities, provided they were fincere and behaved with de- corum. In his domeliic charac5ler, of a good hufband, an excel- lent mafter to his fervants, a fincere friend and benefactor, per- fons that knew him of long time generally agree. That we may do this gentleman's memory fl:riv5l jullice, he is charged with many frailties, and who is free from them ? Such were his haughtinefs, referve, and a difpofition warm enough ; the laft no quellion was natural to him, and the others might proceed ■ from the manner of his education, and the great profpe^ls he . fet out in life with. In perfon he was genteel, of a good Ma- ture, and rather full of flelli than otherwife, of a ruddy coun- tenance, and was, as his form Ihewed, a man of confiderablc flrength. About the year 1721, the abovefaid Samuel Hill, efq. mar- ' ried lady Elizabeth Stanhope, fecond and younger daughter of Phili;) earl of Chefterfield, by lady Elizabeth his wife, one' of the da.ughters and coheirs of George Savil marquis of Halifax, by his fecond lady, Gertrude, daughter to the ho- nourable William Pierpoint, efq. Lady Elizabeth Hill is to this day mentioned by all that knew her as a perfon of the greateft merit, whether confidered in a religious or civil ca- pacity. She was very affable to all, and of a moil bountiful temper, all her aim appearing to be intended to render every one near her as happy as pofiible. She is defcribed as abound- ing in charity and good works, as a fupport and blefling to the poor and dillreffed, whom flie often perfonally vifited, and was regardful of their complaints, never leaving them without fuch relief as fhe was capable of beftowing, being difpleafed if any obje(5l of compaliioa was concealed from her notice. K 2 la ' 68 THE HISTORY A N D A In T I QJJ I T I E S In the year I'j'i'J, €ne went to attend the coronation of king George the Second, and at London was taken ill of the fmall- pox, .''lid died without ilTue, greatly regretted, upon the 24th day of November ; one author * fays, by mirtake, upon the 14th of that month. The corpfe, being put in a lead coffin, and over it one of wood, covered with fine black cloth, was carried to Shenftone, and interred in the vault belonging to the family at the Park, which, as we have already obferved, was made by John Strickfon, efq. for himfelf, but was never ufed till the remains of this excellent lady Hill were depofited in it, upon the 4th of December, 1727, as appears from the regifter-book. The infcription upon the coffin fays, that fhe died 24th of No- vember, at the age of 24 years. Mr. Hill furvived his wife many years, but never married again, dying iduelefs, upon the 21 ft day of February, 1758, and was buried upon Sunday the 26th, being then 67 years of age; his remains were depoiited alfo near h:s lady's in the fame vault.. For want of iffue, the Park, Shenftone Hall, the manor of Sutton Madoc, in the county of Salop, a third part of Wrock- wardine, of which Samuel Hill, efq. Pemberton, or Fludd, and Brook Forefter of Wenlock, efqrs. were joint lords, an eftate of value near the city of Coventry, the advowfon of Shenftone church with the tithes, befides other lands, went, by the power of the entail made by the honourable and reverend Richard Htli, to Thomas Hill, of Terne, in Salop, efq. One eftate, near Coventry, came to Sir Rowland Hill, of Hawkfton, Salop, Baronet ; and a third to Samuel Egerton, of Tatton Park in Ghefl-iire, efq. but this laft gentleman did not inherit from the entail, but as next heir to Samuel Hill, efq. who pur- chafed it. • Collins, in his Peerage. After O F S H E N S T O N E. 6> After the death of this gentleman, Shcnftone Park was leafed by the prefent tenant for fevcn years, Abraham Hofkyns, efq. fon of William Hofkyns, cfq. of Stafford, which Abraham was an ofTicer in the army in the reign of his late majefly king George II. and till he came to Shenflone Park, was fettled in the neighbouring parifli of Barr after he had difpofed of his commifFion. lie married Sarah, daughter of William Rowe, gent, of Birmingham, Warwickfhire, by Elizabeth his wife, who is yet living at Shenflone Park, aged near 80. Abraham Hofkins, efq. and Sarah his wife had ilfue William, who died at 17 years old in 1763; Abraham, aged 17 in 1768; and Ehzabeth, aged 15, 1768. Wilham Hofkins of Stafford had a brother Richard, father of Abraham, an attorney at law in Burton upon Trent, in Staifordfliire. , . The reverend Rowland Woodward Hill, reflor of Forncett in Norfolk, was of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Mafler of Arts, and had his nomination of Forn- cett's rectories, as united, from his own family, and afterwards of Hodnet in Salop. At his death, which happened in 1733, he left one hundred pounds yearly to the new Theatre at Cambridge ; alfo one hundred pounds to poor clergymen's widows in the county of Salop, To this Rowland Hill, who died unmarried, was the title of Baronet limited. This gentleman, as I con- jecture, was the fecond fon of Thomas Harv/ood, by Margaret, daughter of Rowland Hill, of Hawkfton, efq. Thomas Hill, efq. took the name as Samuel his coufin grr- man did, being before funiamed Harwood, of whofe family we fhall now proceed to treat. ' . • John JO THE H I S T O Pv Y AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S John Harwood was a conliderable tobacco and fiigar mer- chant in the city of London, and was a great lufferer by the great fire which made fuch defolation in that city after the plague in the reign of king Charles II. yet had a good fortune left, efpecially in fuch efteifts as were providentially lodged in Shrewfoury and elfewhere. His fon and heir was John, Dodor of Civil Law (of whom prefently, who had a filter); and his younger fon was Thomas, wiio married Margaret, daughter of Rowland Hill, efq. of Hawkftone in Salop, by Margaret, daughter of Richard Whitehall, of Whitchurch, efq. and had iffue by her (who was fifter of the honourable and reverend Richard Hill) two fons *, and two daughters, Martha and Anne. Martha was wife of Walter Gough, efq. of Oldfallings, near Wolverhampton in StafFordlhire, an eftate purchafed by Henry Gough, efq. in the 6th year of the reign of James I. which Walter was fon of Sir Henry, created a knight by king Charles II, and then was feated at Perry Hall in Barr parid-j, Staffordfhire. Walter Gough, and Martha his wife, had iflue four fons, Waiter, Thomas, •re6lor of Rifby, Suffolk, who died January, 1786; Richard, an Eaft India fupercargo, loft in the Northampton Indiaman, and Henry ; alfo daughters, of whom Maitha, the third, married to John Fifher of Springfield, near Knoll in Warwickfhire, efq. late high-fheriff for that county, who had by her a fon, who died at the age of 20, and two daughters f . Henry, ftill living, was in the Eaft-India company's fervice, but lately of Bufhbury in Staffordshire, and unmarried. Walter, who died Od. 4, 1773, one of his majefty's juftices of the peace for the county of Stafford, who married twice ; firft to Mary, daughter of John Hunt, efq. of •Thomas; and Rowland who was reflor of Thornton in Cheihire, and died unmarried. ^ •f" One of t'-.efe married >- Moland, efq. and died, leaving iffue by him ;four daughters. Her iiller is ilill unmarrieU living at Spnugneld. n Sutton OFSHENSTONE. 71 Sutton Cofield, and Winfom Green near Birmingham *, by ^vhon■^ he had i. Walter, who died young; 1. Henry, edu- cated at Repton fchool in Derbyfliire, afterwards lent to the Univerfity of Oxford, and entered fellow commoner at Chrift- chnrch ; he lolf his life by a fall from his horfe in hunting, No- vember 25, 1 769 + ; 3, John, who was a Ihort time with a filk merchant in the city of Coventry, and on the deceafe of his brother Henry entered a gentleman commoner at Oxford, and fucceeded to the eftate on the death of his father + ; and two daughters, the eldeft l^ill living unmarried; the youngeft married in 1772, Simon Oliver Taylor, efq. of h"t- lingborough, in the county of Northampton, and died in 1773, in childbed of her firit child. Walter Gough, efq. married, fecondly, June 15, 1758, the relidt of Clopton, efq. daughter and coheir of Brierley § of Handfworth in Staf- fordlhire, efq. by whom he had no iliue. Martha, wife of Walter Gough, fen. of Oldfallings, long furvived her hufoand, to the month of May, 1768, being old and full of days, and then died much lamented, with the reputation of a very good and hofpitable gentlewoman. Another daughter of the faid Martha by Walter Gough, was wife of Samuel Harvvood, of Hagborne in Berkfliire, and alfo of * At this lad place he had a good houfe, now belonging to his grandfon John Gough, efq. of Perry Hall. ■f He was on a vifu with his friend the Rev. Mr. Vernon, of Hanbury in Wor- cefterfhire, and they w-ent to dine wirh Mr. Ligon ; in coming home in the evening, with tW) or three gentlemen in company, Mr. Goiigh's horfe threw him and diilo- catcd his neck, anJ he was tound quite dead when the gentlemen returned from catch- ing his iicric. + He married in 1779, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Mitton, efq. of Shipton, Salop, by whom he had a fon, John, born 1780, a daughter, 1781, and flie died in child-bed of her third chid, a daughter, May 5, 178^. § She died July, 1781. Her fuler married — -— Sacheverel. Shrewfbury, 7t THE HISTORY AND A N T I O^U I T I E S ■Shrewfbury, eldeft Ion of John, LL. D. of Doctors Commons : which John was elder brother of Thomas Harwood of Terne, fa- ther of Thomas Hill, efq. of Terne, 1768. Samuel and Anne had two fons, and three daughters || ; Samuel, Watkin who went abroad and was in the army.; all unmarried. Samuel was of Ghrifhchurch college in Oxford, and, i 767, went to ftudy phyfick at the Univerlity of Edinburgh in Scotland, a young gentleman of merit, and married a daughter of Thomas Mitton ; Anne, their mother, was living in 1768. The eldeft fifter of Anne, wife of •Sam-uel Harwood, of Hagborn and Salop, was wife of Thomas Mitton, of Shipton in -Saio^^, efq. and had ifTue a fon, who mar- ried a daughter of Sir Henry Edwards, of Shrewfbury, bart. .and hath ilTue other fons and daughters ; the eldeft of the latter was married to John Gough, efq. of Perry Hall. Anne, fecond daughter of Thomas Harwood, of Terne, efq. hy the daughter of 'Rowland Hill, of Hawkftone, efq. was wife of John Kynafton, efq. of Hordley in Salop, nearly related to John Kynafton, efq. who petitioned for the barony of Powis, ^nd, after ferving feveral times in parliament for the county of Salop, died in 1733? poftefled of an eftate of 3000I. yearly, which he left to Corbet Kynafton, efq. his fon. John Kynaf- ton and Anne his wife had ilTue two fons, Edward and Roger, alfo a daughter, Amie, who died unmarried. Edward was member in the two laft parliaments for the county of Mont- gomery, and hath his feat at Hardwick in Salop. He married — ~ — , daughter of Floyde, efq. a great heirefs, but hath yet no child by her. Roger, the fecond fon, is a barrifter at law, by a daughter of Powel, efq. of Shrewfbury, hath ilTue three fons, John, Edward, and Roger; his wife died in 1 766 ; jind he in Ok^ober 1768 was a widower, and died ....... • Anne, Mary, and Martha. John O F S II E N S T O N E. 73 John Karwood ■-, LL.D. of Doflors Commons, elder brother of Thomas, father of the prefent Thomas Hill, ofTerne, efq. was feated at Hagburn in Berks; and had iffue, i, Samuel, as before, living in 1760; 2, James, a clerk, redlor of> Cliff in Kent, and vicar of Dartford, who married a daughter of Chafe, and hath children ; 3, Edward, who, by a daughter of Prince, efq. of the High Hall near Shrewfbury, had John, who died childlefs, Edward, and Simon, who married three wives ; firft, Ann Baftyne, relict of John Baftyne, coal- merchant in London, who died without iffue ; fecondly, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of — Hudfon, of Shrewfbury ; thirdly, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Sewell, efq. colledor of the cuftoms in the port of Chefter, yet living ; but neither had iffue by him. Edward, fe- cond fon of Edvv-ard, was educated in St. John's college, Cam- bridge, and took the degree of M. A. was afterwards vicar of Erith in Kent, and removing thence had the rectory of Thornton in Chefliire. He married two w-ives, firfr, Theodofia, daughter of John Trevifa, efq. of Crocordon in- Cornwall, by w^hom he had two fons, John and Edward, alfo one daughter, Mary. John died 17 36-7, being then a lieutenant in his majefty's navy, un- married ; Edward, educated in Shrewfbury fchool, was thence fent to St. John's college in Cambridge, and afterwards elecfted- fellow of Clare Hall in that Univerfity, where he took the de- gree of M. A. in 1759; made vicar of this parifli of Shenffone ; and January 7, 1768, married Anna Maria Foreman, only daugh- ter of Otho Foreman, of London, by Mary his wife, daughter of Stephenfon r, efq. of Northwich in Chelhire, colieclor of the fait duties there. Mary married, 1760, to James Folliott, * A Gfler of his v*'as married to jermey, efq. who had by her a daughter, living and unmarried in 1768. ■f He came oiu of the North of Englmd, and had been a conCderable merchant. L mer- cr.' 74 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S merchant in Chefler, fecond fon of James Folliott, cfq. who ferved at the fiege of Londonderry, in Ireland, in the reign of kin William III ; and is yet living, in Odlober 1768, being on half- pay, and 80 years old. James Folliott and Mary Harwood had iffue William Harwood Folliott, born 1761 ; and Theodofia, born 1762, who died in 1768 ; Mary, wife of James Folliott, merchant, deceafed 1764. Edward Harwood, redor of Thornton, married, lecondly, in the year 1738, to Elizabeth, relict of John (or Peter) Trevifa, captain in the African Company's fervice, who died on the coaft of Guinea, leaving Elizabeth, born in 1726, living in 1768, in Chefter; which Elizabeth, the widow, was daughter of John Grove, gent, of Okeley-green in the parifli of Bray, Berks; and yet furvives her fecond hufband, the Reverend Edward Har- wood, who died in 1760., without iffue from his fecond mar- riage. Captain John Trevifa abovefaid was brother to Theodofiay. firlt wife of the Reverend Edward Harwood. Ralph, fourth fon of Edward Harwood, married to — — — •• daughter of • at Molde in Flintfbire, and is lince dead ; but' his widow furvives ; and a daughter of theirs was, married in^ 1768. Thomas tlill, fon of Thomas Harwood, efq. by the fifter of' the Hon. and Rev. Richard Hill, was early taken into the par- ticular prote^lion of his uncle, who took all poffible care to have him educated as Samuel his couiin was, fettled in the fame manner a fortune upon him, and entailed Shenftone Park with- other eftates of great value upon him, which accordingly he be-^- came poffeffed of upon the deceafe of Samuel Hill, efq. in 1758. This gentleman and his iffue male are in the entail of the dig-- nity of a baronet of Great Britain, on deceafe of fuch iffue of the prefent Sir Rowland Hill, bart. He hath married two wives ; firft, ■ daughter of Sir Littleton Powis, knight, many _ . • . . years OFSHENSTOKE. 75 years one of the Juftices of the Court of King's Bench to his inajerty king George I. till, becoming fuperannuated, he had his quietus^ with the grant of a confiderable penfion from the crown, and t-hen retiring into the country, died March 16, T732, at his own feat in the county of Salop. By this lady Mr. Hill had Thomas, who died young ; a daughter, married to Burton, efq. of Altham, or Longnore, near Shrewfbury, who are both living, and have children ; alfo Margaret, married to Bennet Sherard •*, baron Le Trim in Ireland, earl of Harborough in England, by whom flie had iiTue twins, a fon, lord Sherard, and daughter, which, with the lady herfelf, died foon after the birth, 1767, as did the fon about a year after. Thomas Hill, efq'. married, fecondly, to Sufanna Maria, eldeft of the four daughters and coheirs of the honourable William Noel, who, being educated to the law, became one of the king's counfel, and, in 1741, member of parliament for the borough of Stam- ford in Lincolnfliire, alio recorder of that corporation, after made chief juftice of Chefter, and at length made one of his majefty's juftices of the Common Pleas ; fmce deceafed. He was alio in parliament in 1733, but abfent on the circuit when the noted bill for the excife was carried in the houfe. He was fe- cond and youngeft fon of Sir John Noel, baronet, by Mary- daughter and coheir of Sir John Clobery, of Winchefter, ba- ronet. Which Sir John Noel was fon of Sir William, by Mar- garet, daughter of John, lord Lovelace, of Hurley in Berks, fon of Verney Noel, created a baronet, t 2 Charles II. by Elizabeth, fecond daughter of Sir Wolftan Dixie, of Bofworth in Leicefter- Ihire, knight, and was defcended of the fame family with the parliamentary barons of Hilcot in Staffordfl:iire ; the vifcount ' Wentworth of Nettleftead, and the earl of Gainfborough ; all 1 • Elder brother to the pwefent carl. He died in 1770. L 2 ori- 76 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES originally of Ellen hall in StafFordfliire, and whofe anceftor was one of the adventurers of William the Firll", king of England. Thomas Hill, ef(]. and Sufanna Maria, daughter of the honour- able judge Noel, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Trollop, of Cafewick in Lincolnfliire, bart. had ilTue two Tons, Sa- muel and Noel ; and two daughters Sufanna Maria, who died 1 7 61-2, unmarried, and Mary who was married to the late Sir Bryan Broughton Delves, bart. from whom flie received a large addition of fortune by his laft will ; this lady is living and unmarried ■■■■■ ; flie had no iffue by him. Samuel was, with his brother, under the tuition of the Reverend Mr. Fletcher, who was alfo their private tutor when they were fent to the uni- verfity of Cambridge, where they were both entered fellow-com- moners of St. John's college, and went with one or both of them on their travels ; whether Samuel had an honourary de- gree in Cambridge I am not informed, but conjedture fuch an one was conferred upon him ; being taken ill of a fever, he died foon after, in the year 1766, unmarried, to the great re- gret of his family, at the age of 22 years or thereabouts, pof- fefled of Shenflone Park, which his father had conveyed to him. Noel Hill, efq. was his heir to the Shenftone ertates, which, be- fides other lands, confifts of the Old Hall, the Park, the advow- fon of the church, and the tythes. He was as above faid with his brother at the Univerfity, and at the time of Samuel's deceafe in Scotland purfuing his ftudies. He took the degree of Mafler of Arts in Cambridge, and performed regularly the exercifes requifite for it. In the year 1768 his father, who is ad- ■vanced in years, declining any farther attendance on parliament, he was chofen in his place, with lord Clive, for the town of Shrewlbury. * In 1769 fhe married to John Eirington, efq. In OFSPIENSTONE. 77 In the month of Odober, 1768, Thomas Hill, efq. of Cleve- land-court, St. James's, was living, and a widower, aged about 77 ; and Noel Hill, efq. member of parliament for Shrewfburv, his only fon, aged 23, a young gentleman of whom not only his family and friends have great expecflations, but alfo his country, from his known abilities and noblenefs of nature. In 1768 he married , daughter of Henry Vernon, efq. of Hilton in StafFordQiire, decafed, by lady Wentworth, dauo-h- ter of the earl of Stafford, and has ilTue a daughter, born Oc^ tober 4, 1769. Sir Rowland Hill, only Ton of John Hill, efq. 'of Lutwich in the county of Salop (third fon of Rowland Hill of Hawkftone, by Margaret Whitehall, by daughter of Stubbs, of Shaw ill Staffordfhire), was created a baronet •'•• by king George IT. out of his regard to the many fervices done this kingdom by the Honourable and Reverend Richard Hill, his uncle. In the year 1732 it was publicly faid, that this Sir Rowland FJiil was in poffeffion of eftates valued at almoft eight thoufand pounds per annum ; which I the rather obferve here to lliew how great a fortune the faid Richard Hill muft have had or acquired to raife fo many of his family ; as Sir Rowland Hill, the late Sa- rliuel Hill of Shenftone Park, Thomas Hill of Terne, and the^ Reverend Rowland Woodward Hill. • Sir Rowland f Hill, Ba- ronet, in the month of June, 1732, married Jane, eldeft of the 'two daughters of Sir Bryan Broughton, bart. (defcended of the' ancient family of Broughton who were leated at Long- don, near Lichfield in StafFordlhire), by his firft wife, Elizabeth, daughter of ^' Sir Thomas Del vfes, of Doddington in Chefliire, bart. by his firft - lady, • i^ janfe,. daughter of Sir Richard lb tuft d ' . fcirlj ; b£3b vi'jJr! ci I>an T /•';>■. . * January 2c, 1726-7. t High Sheriff of Salop for the year 17:^2. Knightlcy, 78 THE HISTOP.Y AND ANTIQUITIES Knightley, of Faweiley in Northamptonfhire, who was Knight of the Bath, with which Jane Broughton Sir Rowland had a for- tune of thirty thoufand pounds ; they have iffue feveral children, both fons and daughters. To conclude what we have to fay further of the family of Thomas Hill, efq. now of Terne, we find, on flridler obferva- tion, a knight, Sir Edward Harwood, from whom came John, who married a daughter of Allen, a merchant in London, and left three fons, viz Sir Edward, knight, a colonel in the guards ; 2, , a commodore ; 3, John Harwood, a mer- chant of London, and after of Shrewfbury, who married Martha, daughter of Edward Moreton, efq. of Shropfhire, and left three fons and four daughters ; John, Thomas, Edward, Martha, Anne, Mary, and Abigail. John was LL.D. of Do6lors Com- mons, as aforefaid, who married Anne, daughter of Bulteal, a Spanhli merchant, and had iffue by her only two fons, and one daughter, Anne ; which Ihews the information we received of his having a third fon, Edward, was a miftake, feeing he had only a fon Samuel and James, with Anne, a daugh- ter. Thomas was father of Thomas Hill, efq. of Terne, in Oc- tober, 1768; of Rowland, Martha, and Anne, of all whom we have already treated. Edward, the brother, and not the fon, of John, LL.D. married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hayes, efq. who refided near Shrewfbury, and left iffue John, Edward, Samuel, Ralph, Elizabeth, and Mary. John had a daughter, who died young ; Edward was redtor of Thornton, and died 1760; Samuel died a batchelor ; Simon died in 1767, and married as before ; Ralph had a daughter, who, in 1768, mar- ried Beoley, of Mold in Flintlhire. Ralph Harwood's widow was living in November, 1768. Elizabeth was married to Edward Burroughs, and is lately dead ; this Elizabeth was daugh- ter OF SHENSTONE. 19 ter of Edward Harwood by Elizabeth Hayes ; and Mary her filler married Bartholomew Greenwood, efq. Martha, eldeft daugh- ter of John Harwood of Terne, married Simon Hanmer, of Kennet in Salop, efq. ; Anne married Curtis, efq. eldeft fon of Sir George Curtis, bart. ; Mary died, unmarried, at Shrewlbury ; Abigail married John Congreve, efq. of Strettont m StafFordlhire, of whom came the Reverend Mr. Congreve of Leacroft Hall, near Cannock, and colonel Congreve ; a family- noted for having eftates in this county from the Conqueft. The park, and lands about it, which are of large circuit (three miles or more), claim a difcharge of tythes. As to the Fsdlorial or great tythes, they belong to Noel Hill, efq. whofe property thefe lands are, except fuch as came to Samuel Egerton, efq. Of thefe, therefore, we need fay little, as being in the hands- of their own tenants ; yet it may not be amifs to obferve, that Mr. Brandreth often regretted his incapacity to give them up' to the church, upon family accounts, when the tythes were in no cafe to be compared to the prefent value of them. What he could properly fpare he did, giving the minifter a yearly prefent of ten guineas, befides what was beftowed by way of gratuity from the gentlemen who poffefled the lands belonging to the- two parks. Neither may we omit to remark, that the late Sa- muel Hill, efq. and the prefent tenants Abraham Hofkyns, efq. and Mr, Elde, have never failed in extending the fame kindnefs to the vicar. But, as objections are made by others who hold part of the park lands, we fhall proceed to obferve, that thefe tenants plead a freedom from the pavment of fmall tythes, or thofe termed, vicarial, by a modus of one (hilling and ten pence for the whole park, or fome fuch trifling fum. On this fubject, therefore, we afhrm with perfons moft learned in the laws of this 8o THE HISTORY AND ANTI Qj] I T I E S this kingdom, and who nnderftand its conftitution, that what we call time of meniory is reckoned from the reign of Richard the Firft ; and any cuftom may he deftroyed hy evidence of its non-exiftence in any part of the long period from his days to the prefent. Wherefore as the modus or real compofition is fup- j3ofed to have been a juft and equal contra6t, or in other word?, the full value of the tythes at the time of making fuch agree- ment, it is a given rule and certain, " If the modus is fo much as to exceed the value of the tythes in the time of king Richard I, this modus is Je/o de fe (deftroys itfelf) ; for as it would be de- ftroyed by any dire<5l evidence to prove its non-exiftence at any time fince that reign, fo alfo it is deftroyed by carrying in itfelf fuch internal evidence of a much later origin ;" and it is not equal and fit that where fuch modus * does in no fenfe come to the value of the tythes of perhaps the pooreft tenant within the compafs of the park, it flio\dd deftroy itfelf, or be of no effeit? Let every unprejudiced perfon confider and deter- mine whether laws fliould not be founded upon the princi- ples of reafon, and then we think they may poflibly join us in opinion. With regard to the vicarage houfe and glebe, thefe pay no tythes to the re6lor, if held by the vicar or curate, nor vice verjd. It is termed prefcription to be difcharged of them, and to pay no compenfation for them, becaufe of the axiom f, " that a church pays not tenths to the church ;" but thefe kind of pri- vileges are perfonal both to king and clergy, for their tenant or leffee muft pay tythes of the fame lands, though in their own occupation they are not tytheable. * For the whole. i- Ecclefia decimas non folvit ecclefias. In O F S H E N S T O N E. 8i In this parifli, either at Wood-end or at Shenflone, hath fomctime relided a good family named Colyere, the laft fur- viving heir of which is Airs. Graciana Colyere, living here in November 1768 *. That the Colyeres were of note, we have an opportunity of fhewing from accounts well authenticated, and which we will lay before the' reader, efpecially as a well-known Antiquary \ affirms as follows : *' Mr. James Colyere owns Darlafton in Stafford Oi ire, whofe grandfather was firft a taylor, then a draper, and laft of all a vvool-ftapler, by which he got fo much money as to purchafe this manor, almoft all ftone, a pretty market town, and a thoroughfare to London ; alfo a goodly farm one mile from Trent Southwards, and two miles from Stone, being a grange belonging to the abbey of Cumbermere in Chelliire," a re- ligious houfe founded in 1 134, 35 Henry 1. for white monks. This was called Earfs Hyde, but now commonly Yarlet J, being anciently the property of Roger earl of Montgomery, and Be- lefme in Normandy, baron of Chichefter, earl of Arundel and Salop in England, containing one hide of land, which this ' lord gave to that abbey foon after the Conqueft ; the date of the foundation of Cumbermere fliews a miftake. Again, he fays, " Darlafton belonged, in the reign of king William the Firft, to the abbey of Burton upon Trent. Jeffry the abbot pafTed it to Ormus de Guidon, who, by a daughter of Nicholas de Beavichamp, Iheriffof this county, had a fon Robert, father of Aliva, wife of Engenulph de Grefley, who had Hawis de Darlafton, wife of Henry de Verdon (t. Edward II.). In the reign of Henry VIII. James Colyere bought it and Earl's Hyde grange, * And in 1774. Editor. f Erdlwiek. X An obvious corruption of i^earl I'de, M which ^o 8z THE HISTORY AND ANTIQl^ITIES which had been Roger de Montgomery's, but was given by Ro- bert de Bafkerville, and confirmed by Hugh Lacy, to the aforefaid abbey, 50 Henry III. It is certainly no obje6lion to the charadter of this family, that trade was their advancement, and we do not find any thing unworthy or vile laid to the charge of Mr. James Colyere ; we may, therefore, jullly fuppofe him to have been a perfon of fortune, or at leaft a man of great induftry and integrity in his dealings with mankind, elfe it feems very probable this writer would not have failed to have tranfmitted a worfe charadler to pofterity than to note only the low condition of a taylor, from whence he rofe fuddenly to great fortune. We muft alfo ob- ferve, that this fame gentleman hath been already charged with reporting idle fiories, or taking fabulous tales upon truft. Another gentleman *, fpeaking of thofe who had the church lands, names Colyere as one whofe family did not profper on ac- count of fuch purchafe or poflTefiions ; but fuch objedliions are above our knowledge to anfwer with fatisfa6lion ; nor do we choofe to fay any thing of fuch matters, as if judgements over- took all that had to do with the diffolved abbey lands ; but it would, however, be a chriftian oflice to reftore fo much as would decently fupport the minifters in all places where they have not a proper raaintainance, a circumfl:ance that is generally complained of, but without any hopes of redrefs. One account of the C O L Y A R E S of DarIafl:on. James Colyare, of Darlafion, efq. had Robert (living in 1583), who married Agnes, daughter of Sir Thomas Venables, of Kin- derton in Chelhire, a family ennobled by Hugh de Lupus de * Degge. Abrincisa OF S H E N S T O N E. 83 Abrincis, earl of Chefter, in whofe parliament they fat, by authority from king William I. till the county palatine was annexed to the crown by king Henry III. in 1238. Gilbert Venables, baron of Kinderton, held of Hugh, earl of Chefter *, the lordfliips of Eccle- flon, Aldburg, Torporley, Wettenhall, Herford, Lyme, Lee, Wy- mundhara, Brereton, in which w'ere two hydes geldable Cimbre- ton, Daneport, Wittune, and Blackenhale ; and in the account of fees belonging to the earldom of Chefter t, 37 Henry 111. as taken by Alan lord le Zouch, the chief juftice, we find a Ro- ger de Venables who held ten knights fees of it. In 1762 George \'enables Vernon, of the fame defcent, was created baron Vernon, of Kinderton in Chefliire, yet living at Sudbury in Derbyihire. Robert Colyere and Agnes Venables had ifTue James, Chriftopher, Richard, 'Ihurftan, and Robert; alio feven daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret, Ifabel, Cecily, Lettice, Mary, and Grace. Of thefe Elizabeth was wife of James Scrimfliire, of Norbury in Staffbrdfliire, efq. fecond fon of John Scrimfliire, by Dorothy daughter of John Talbot of Grafton, defcended li- neally from Sir Gilbert, who was a knight banneret, knight of the garter, governor of Calais, third fon of John, fecond earl of Shrewfbury of that name, in whom were the baronies of Talbot of Caftle Goodrich, Strange of Blackmerc, Furnival, Falcon- bridge, Lovetot ; the earldoms of Waterford, Wexford, and Valence, wath the barony of Dungarvon in Ireland, befides other honours. Jam.es and Elizabeth Colyere, of Scrimfliire, w'ere anceftors of the Norbury family. Robert Colyere, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, had I a coat of arms granted or confirmed, viz. Argent on a chevron Azure, * Lib. de Domefday. -^ Lib. Rubeus in Saccarfo. J Anna conceffa Roberto Colyar de Darlafton, per literas pat. anno prtmo Elizabeths reginx, per Gul. Hervey tunc Clarentieux regem am orum, *' Moms dimidiatus AlTyrii, coloris dextra tenens ramunculum querciuum, auriurn annulis per utrumquc aureis," in allufion it (hould leem to his natnc, quail Coa/ ear, i. e, B/aci: tar^ M a three 84' THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES three oakflips, acorns Or between three demy unicorns currant, Gules ; Crefl, on a wreath a demy Blackmoor holding an oak flip in his right hand Arg. acorns, Or. But a much more exadt defcent of this family with that of the Doryngton or Dodingtons, was lately in tjie hands of Mrs. Gratiana Colyere, which we alfo give with fome additions. Defcent of the DODYNGTONS, with another Account of the C O L Y E R family *. John de Dorrington had ifflie William, who had a fon Ro- ger, father of William, whofe fon and heir was Philip Doryng- ton, who had Thomas de Dodington (8 Hen. V.), in the county of Somerfet. William, father of Philip, by deed con- firmed to Nicholas Fitz Roger de Cantoe, for bis homage and fervice, all that land lying in Barnardfworth, in the manor of Doddeton, wTiich William his grandfather held, to have and to hold to him and his heirs, of William de Doddeton and his heirs, with all rights, liberties, and cuftoms, as his grand- father William had and held thofe lands. Thomas, as above, (living in the reign of Richard II, and 8 Henry V.) married two wives ; i, Beatrix, daughter of Bachelor ; 2, Joan — ■ — , of whom prefently. By the firft he had iffue John, his fon and heir (8 Henry V.), who, by Mary, daughter of Payn de Hutton, had ifTue John. He, by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Oliver Huffey, had, i. Richard, 2. John, 3. Thomas, 4. William, which two lafl died ifluelefs. Richard, by Elizabeth * Hoc ftemma prjeclaras et antiquas familia Coleioriim (\e Darlaflon, in comitatu Staff, cos deducens ab eorum adventu in Angliam qui fiiit tempore Men. \ Iti. et addenda una cum linea vetufta familia de Dodyngton, alias Doryngton, quantum fieri poflit. Ex evidentia Fran. Colyer, de Dailafton, regifque archivis diligentia ajc fide collefluiii eft verbatimi a (leramate. daughter OF S H E N S T O N E. 85 daughter and coheir of John Leigh, efq. had one fon John, alfo a fecond fon ^gidius, and two daughters, Jane and Joanna. John married Tliomafyne, daughter of Robert Duland of Devon- fliire. Thomas de Dodyngton abovefaid, by Joan -* his fecond wife, daughter and heir of John Guphay de Woodland, in the parifli of Mere, had PhiHp, who had iffuc John de Dodyngton, of Woodland in Wilts, father of Philip, who marrying Joan, daughter and heir of John Hugyns, had William Dodyngton, who married two wives; i. Jane, daughter of Poyntz ; 2. J daughter of Halfewell, of Somerfctfhire ; but read of no child he had by either. We return now to Sir John, fecond fon of John Dodingtoa and EUzabeth HulTey, who had an only daughter, Ifabel, wife, of Robert Colyere, a Frenchman, who came into England in the reign of Henry VI, and of whom the family tradition is, that he, during the wars in France, adhered to the interefts of king Henry, and, upon the lofles that there befel the Englifh,, he left his native country, and fettled in this kingdom, at Dar- lafton in the county of Stafford. Robert de Colyere of Dar- lafton and Ifabel de Dodyngton had iffue, i. James; 2. Thurf- tan, who died without iffue ; 3. George, warden of Manchetler ; 4. Robert, who had iffue John, a fervant in the houQiold of king Henry VIII. and queen Elizabeth. He married Elizabetlx Turck, but we know not whether he had any child. She bore for her arms. Argent, two lions rampant, Gules, between a crofs engrailed, Azure, on ic three bezants, Gules; his coat was the field Sable, on it a crofs fitch«^e, Gules. * John, fon of Thomas by Beatrix, batchelor, did give and confirm to Joan liis- mother- in-hiw an annuity of 46s. 3d. to be paid out of certain lands in Somerfet- fliire; and after her dcceafe to come to Philip her fon by his father, as by deed dated 8 Henry V.. James 86 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES James married a daughter of Lcvifon, of Wolver- hampton in Staffordlhire, and had Robert Colyer, of Darlafton (1583); 2. George, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Chilton ; 3. Francis, and fix daughters. Agnes, wife of ■ Serjeant de Cotes, of Staffordfliire ; Elizabeth married to ■ Auftyn ; Jane, wife of Woodcock of London ; Ifabel mar- ried to Illey ; Urfula, who was married to a Mr. Fox ; the youngeft daughter was wife of ■ Nicholfon. Robert mar- ried twice ; firft, to Agnes, daughter of Sir Thomas Venables, of Kinderton, knight ; fecondly, to Joyce, daughter of Scrim Qiire de Norbury, of StafFordfliire, efq. by whom he had an only child, Elizabeth, who was married to James Scrimfliire, of the fame family, efq. Robert Colyere and Agnes Venables had ifTue five fons and fix daughters, as faith the defcent -; i. Margaret, wife of Ralph Smith, alias Tarbox, fecond fon of William Tarbox, of Lan- cafter ; 2. Ifabel ; 3. Cecily, married to Thomas Harper, fon and heir of Walter Harper, of Chinner in Oxfordfliire ; 4. Lettice, wife of Thomas Kemplbn, of W'olfeley Park, Staffordlhire; 5. Mary, wife of Coyney f , younger fon of Coyne, of Wefton Coyney in Staffbrdftiire ; 6, Anne, wife of Edward Harcourt, fecond fon of Simon Harcourt, efq. whofe eftates lay at Raunton and Ellenhall in StafFordfliire ; defcended of Gervafe count de Harcourt, who came with the Conqueror, and of the fame line with Simon created earl Harcourt and vifcount Newn- ham, 1749. The five fons of Robert and Agnes Colyere were, * Penes dom. Gratian. Colyere, 1768. -f Adam Cuncy or Coyney, was third and youngeft Ton of John Cuney, of Wefton Coyne, efq. (1583); a family fcated there in the reign of William I. which had married into the noble lines of Burnel, Erdington, and others. Arms were Or, on a bend Sable, three fleurs de lis Argent. I. James; OFSHENSTONE. 87 I. James ; 2. Richard, who married Sarah, daughter of — — . Charnell ; 3. Chriftopher, of Yarlet or Earl's Hide, whofe ^vife was daughter of Sir Walter Ai^on, knight, of Tixall, of which family came lord Alton, baron of Forfar in Scotland ; 4. Thurllan, who married Elizabeth daughter and heir of ■ Tunftall, efq. and had a fon James, of Darlafton : 5. Robert, who married , relidl of — — Revel, of Ogftone in Der- bylliire. Robert Colyer * abovefaid purchafed the manor of Hilder- ftone of John lord Sheffield, whofe anceflor had, by a marriage with a daughter of Delves, efq. this lordfliip of Hiderftone in St;iffordfhire. This fame Robert in 1583 refided at Dar- lafton, and on a vifitation held that year in the county of Stafford was, on flri(ft examination, allowed to be a gentleman, and permitted to ufe the coat of arms we have already men- tioned. Thus feems to be confuted the tale given by Mr, Erdfwick, and to be confirmed the pedigree now or lately in the keeping of Mrs. Colyere of Shenilone. In the 1 3th of queen Elizabeth, Novembe/ i g, Dorothy Colyer, daughter of John, late of Dalby Lees in Derbylhirc, received a legacy left by her faid father from the hands of Ger- man Pole of Dalbery Lees, gent, and Ann his wdfe, her mother- in-law, the executrix of his will. We return now to the de- fcent. James, the eldeft fon of Robert Colyer, by Agnes Venablee, took to wife Jane, fecond daughter of Robert Needham, elq. of Crevac, Shavington, and Shentone, in Salop ; high fheriff of Salop in the 6th, 28th, and 37th of queen Elizabeth, a com- mander in Ireland, vice prefident of the council on the marches ♦ He had the manor of Crakemailh in Suffordlhh-e by purchafe from Chriftopher Sheffield, brother to lord Sheffield. o£ 8S THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES of Wales ; by Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Tixall ; which Jane was alio lifter to Sir Robert Needham, created by king Charles I. in 1625, vifcount of Kilmorey in the county of Clare, in Ireland, by letters patents. This James appears to have been a great wader of his eftates ; he fold the manor of Hilderftone and Crakemarfhe to Sir Gilbert Gerard, -marter of the rolls, in whofe family it was in 1730 ; the lordlhips of Stone and Darlafton he conveyed to Robert Needham, efq. his father in-law; Earl's Hyde he fold to Chrif- tophcr Colyer, his brother, whofe fon and heir Edward pofleffed itinT595, on the death of Chrillopher; which Edward married J daughter of — Allet, efq. of Sugnall in StafFordfliire, but we have no account of his children. James Colyer, efq. 26th of June, in the 17th year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, had a fliare in a bond for a confiderable fum of money due to him and ethers from Mrs, Ann Pole of Radburn, which Walter Sutton Df Lortgftoe in Hants, clerk, engaged to fatisfy. Francis Coiyere, fon of James and Jane as above, married two wives ; i. Anne Crompton ; 2. Anne, relict of William Hulme, of Rowley gate in Staff ordfliire. By the {irfl, Anne, daughter of William Crompton, of Stone Abbey and Stone Park, efq. he had ifTue 9 fons, and 6 daughters; i. Jane, wife of • Dody, of Hanchurch in Staffordlhire ; 1. Dorothy; 3. Anne; 4. Elizabeth; 5. Catherine, wife of Richard BafTano, •of Walthamftow in ElTcx ; 6. Alice. The fons were, i. Ro- bert ; 2. Thomas-; 3. Francis, who, by Martha, daughter of James Scrirafliire, of Norbury manor, efq. had ifTue Francis ; 4. George; 5. Richard; 6. John; 7. William; 8. Walter, who married Lettice, daughter of — Humphries, of Long- don in Staftbrdihire ; 9. Thomas. Robert, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Edv/ard Anfon, of Dunilon in Staffordfhire, 3 l^ad OFSHENSTONE. 89 liad one fon, James, and 6 daughters ; i, Anne, wife of — Whitefield ; 1 and 3, Marys ; 4, Elizabeth ; 5, Catherine ; 6, Margaret, wife of Barnsfield, of Dunltone. Both this Robert, and James his fon, arc faid to have fpent a principal part of their remaining eftates ; the family alfo fuffered much in the civil war in the reign of king Charles I, and under the Ufurpation ; fome of them are faid likewife to have been faulty in thofe times. In February 1645-4, Margaret, relidl of Edward Collier lately deceafed, petitioned the committee at Stafford •'••, to relieve her, touching her dower in certain lands within the manor of Yarlet ; upon which orders were given, that Ihe fliould receive 13!. 6 s. 8d. out of Yarlet farm, then in the holding of Francis Colyer, efq. and of John Biackmore ; a parcel of land in her own holding, valued at 5I. per ann. to be a part, and the half year's rent to commence on the 25th of March enfuing. John Blakemore ufually paid a rent of fixty pounds for his farm at Yarlet ; but on the 14th of March 1644-5, he was ordered by the committee to pay to Mr. Colyer only half of the ufual rent. The reafon is not given, but, in all likelihood, on account of the troubles, and the continual exadtions made upon him, he could not make the beft of his farm and his produce. In 1643, Sir William Fairfax, in his march through Stafford, January 17, took from Mr. James Colyer of Stone, a bay mare valued at 3I. 6 s. 8d., for the mounting of a trooper; on complaint, the committee ordered the conflable of Stone to levy the faid money upon the town of Stone, and therewith to pay Mr. Colyer; yet we find this gentleman fined one fliilling for fwearing. * Committee minutes In MS. in the hands of Mrs. Burney, of AMerfhaw jiear Shendoae. N March $(5 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES March 13, 1643-4, Robert Coliyer, of Darlafton near Stone, was brought to Stafford, that the governors there might compel: him to advance 30 1. upon the parhament propofitions. The re- fult of it was, that he was obliged to pay five pounds at that time, and to engage to give five more in three weeks, upon which, he was releafed, and had the pubHc faith of the king- dom for the money he was to advance, to which he fubfcribed his name, Robert Coher. April 17, 1644, ^^^^^ ^^"^^ °f Francis Colier, of Stone, efq. was fequeftered, he being a delinquent ; and it was ordered, that the weekly pay, due for his lands in Stone, fliall be repaid by Mr. Sankey and Mr. Thorley, folicitors for the fequeltrations, out of the rents of the faid Francis Colier, efq. and that Mrs. Colier, his wife, fhall be freed from that payment for the lands allotted her in Stone. We find that on the 2.3d of Auguft follow- ing, Mrs. Colier,, wife of Francis Colier, efq. was permitted to receive the rents of the Stone eftates, that ihe might be the. better enabled to pay the weekly alTefiiTients laid upon her in that conftablewick ; but this order was to continue only during the pleafure of the committee at Stafford. We now proceed to finifli the defcent. " James, only fon of Robert Cojier by Margaret Anfon (of the fame family with the late lord Anfon, of Shukburgh in Stafford Qi ire, baron of Soberton in Hants ; and the prefent member of parliament for Lichfield), married — daughter of Gifiord, of Water Eaton (related to the ancient family feated at Chillington in Stafford ill ire), defcended of the fame family with the Giffords, earls of Buckingham in England, and of Longueville in Nor- mandy (in the reigns of William I. and Wil]iam Rufus) ; and had iffue by her, i. James, who died an infant ; 2. Chriftopher ; 3- OFSHENSTONE. 91 3:. Francis; 4. Walter; alfo fix daughters; i. Maria; 2. Eliza- l>eth ; 3, Anne; 4. Bridget; 5. Dorothy; 6. Martha." Chrif- topher * was of VVocxl-end, in the parilh of Shenrtone, during the Ufe of James his father, who hved fome time at the man- fion called the Mofs, afterwards in Sheniione village, but died either at Rudgley or Cannock. To this ChrilVopher came the Yarlet eftate, and others, by will of Chriftopher Colier his god- father and relation ; but they were again fold by his father and himfelf to Mr. William Murral of Bagnal, and to Thomas Mur- ral his brother, of Whitchurch, valued nov/ at 300 1, per ana. It was by thefe gentlemen entailed upon John, fon of the fame Thomas ; which John, in November 1768, was living, an attorney at law, and unmarried. James Colier fold alfo an eftate of 50 1, per annum, lying at Ledal near Penrick in Staf- fordlhire ; and lands in Darlafton, which his fon Chriftopher confirmed. This gentleman married Hannah, daughter of the reverend Robert Grace, and had iffue only three daughters; i» Maria, who died of a confuraption in 1756, unmarried; 2, Gratiana (in whofe hands was the pedigree here given) living and unmarried ; 3. Elizabeth, wife of the reverend Jofeph Hamilton, both deceafed in 1.756 ; alfo an infant fon of theirs, who died foon after his birth the fame year. Chriftopher Colier, gent, died in 1735. ^^ have an account of two other families of the Coliers of fome note, living in this parifli, but not of the fame lineage. The regifter mentions Mr. William Colier, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, which two families lived, one in Overftonal and Footherley ; the other in Lyndon, of which was Thomas, who married Prifcilla, daughter of the reverend William Grace, who had ilfue Job, born in 1678; * Churchwarden of Shenftone in 17 15. N 2 Thomas, 92 THE HISTORY A N I> A N T I Q^U I T I E S Thomas, in 1682; Jofeph, in 1685-6; and,, befides others^ Pr.fcilla, a daughter, living in 17 10. July 4, 1649, John Colier bought an eftate of Mr. Roger Adams of Footherley, to which purchafe is witnefs Thomas Ruggeley. In June, 1667, Mr. John Coher was affefied to the tenth quarterly payment to the royal aid, for a part of the lands called Greenals, 1 1. los. 6d.; alfo 6s. id. for lands in Footherley. At the fame time Thomas Colier, of Upper Ston- hall, paid a fmall matter to the fame aid. Benjamin Colier * X)offeired lands called Bulmores, after fold to Gilbert Walmfley^ of Lichfield, efq. w^hofe heirs enjoy them. The family of the Graces long jpefided in Shenflone and Wood-end J the firft I find of this branch was John, who, i;> the reign of James I. married Patience, daughter of John Meynel, a royalill captain of foot, whofe fon I take to be Wil- liam Grace, A. M. who was ejeded from the reftory of Rerefby in Leicefterfhire. He was nearly related to Sheldon, bifliop of London, afterwards archbifliop of Canterbury, to whom appli=» cations were made for. him, but no relief could be obtained there, unlefs Mr. Grace would conform ; which if he would yield to, great matters were promifed, but this moved him not to aft againft his confcience. Some time after, it is faid by Dr. Calamy, that " the archbifhop recovered fo much humanity as ta " take fome care of two of his children." The reverend Michael Walford, vicar of Shenftone, died in- September 1665; and, as I do not find Mr. Grace mentioned before this period, I conclude he fucceeded him as vicar, efpe- cially as the prefent Mr. Colier, who is defcended from him,, * Living in the reign of James II. agrees OFSHENSTONE. 93 agrees with me, that he fucceeded Mr. Walford. If foj Mr. Grace muft either have been favoured, or have conformed. Befides the tradition of the family, we are affured from the infcription upon his monument, that he was vicar of Slicn- flone. In 1662 was pafled the Ad of Uniformity of Pubhc Prayers, and the Adminiitration of the Sacrament; by which every mi- nifter was obhged, on pain of lofing all his ecclefiaiUcal pre er- ments, to conform to the warQiip of the Church of England, according to the new book of Common Prayer, before the Feaft of St. Bartholomew next, from whence it was called the Bar- tholomew Adl. Every clergyman was alfo compelled to fign a declaration of his unfeigned affent and confent to all and every- thing contained and prefcribed in and by the Book of Common Prayer; and all were obliged to fign a- declaration, in which, they promifed to conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England, but hkewife to renoimce the folemn league and co- venant, declaring it to be an unJawful. oath, and impofed upon the fubjeds againft the known laws and liberties of the king- dom. None muft prefume to confecrate and adminiller the. holy facrament of the Lord's Supper before they were oidained priefts by epilcopal ordination, on the penalty of one hundred pounds for every offence. Not fubmitting to this adl of parlia- ment Mr. WiVliam Grace was, with about two thoufand other minifters, outed of. his preferments.- Bifliop Sheldon prefTed ftrongly the execution of this law, and, therefore it may be imagined. he would hearnothing in behalf of this his kinfman; yet it feems, from Dr. Calamy's account, fomething was done for his children, if he did not alfo procure for him this bene- fice. This William, A. M. manied Joanna, daughter of Woolley, efq. of Newton hall in the ThilHes, Leicefterfhire, nearly .94 T H E H I ST O R Y A N D A N T I Q^TT I T I E S nearly related to the Sheldons, and had iflfne feven fons and three daughters ; i . Job ; 2. Robert ; 3. Jonathan ; 4. Jofeph ; 5. Thomas; 6. Benjamin, born 1630-1; 7- William: the daughters were, i. Joan, or Joanna, jTiarried the ajth of Fe- bruary, 1665, to Thomas Potte *, of Weeford Hall, fon of Charles Potte, who died at V/eeford, 1,716, aged 93, by Ehza- beth his wife, who died there in 1^93 ; which Charles was defcended from John Potte, witnefs to a deed of Robert Le Lynns in Shenftone, conveying lands in Alderfliaw to William New- port, efq. in 1430, 8 Henry VI. Joanna Potte died March 4, and was buried the 6th, 1728-9, aged 91. Elizabeth, her daughter, married Scott, and w as buried here October 29, 1729, aged 64; 2. Prifcilla, wife of Thomas Colier, of Lynne, who had feveral children ; 3. Jemima Elizabeth, wife of Robert Greifbrook, of Shenftone, gentleman, had ifliie Thomas f, fon of Mr. William Grace by Mary his wife, who had a fon, Wil- liam, born 1683-4, who died 1685, and two daughters ; Eliza- beth, born 168 I, and died in 1691 ; and Mary, who died in 1691, Auguft 5. Mary, wife of Thomas, died in 1691, in which year he was churchwarden ; he died at Wood-end in March 1728,, leaving Sarah, wife of Samuel Jackfon of Auftrey in Warwickfliire ; which Sarah furvived her hufbanJ, and came to Wood-end, where flie died about 1753. They had three daughters ; Mary, Frances, and Jane, who all died unmarried. William or Jonathan, and Jofeph, were eminent tradefmen in LrOndon (one of them, betides other children, had Thomas, Jiving in 1767, in Leicefterlhire, gent.). Thefe were the two * Thomas Potte in 1667, then of Shenflone, paid is. 2d. to the royal aid quar- terly. A meadow in Shenllone is named from him Pottc's meadow. -f Thomas Grace, of Wood-end, paid is. to the poll-tax in 1692 ; his wife was daughter of Allen, of Wood-end. children O F S H K N 3 T O N ]•. 94 children of whom Dr. Calamy fpeaks, as before cited, page 92. And, indeed, Archbifl:iop Sheldon took more than ordinary care of them, giving them a good education, and providing not a maintenance only for them, but trades in which, with his farther aid, they acquired fortunes. Job and Robert \\ere educated at the expence of Henry Grey, earf of Kent, their relation on the mother's fide, who alfo fent them to the univerfity of Cambridge, and fupported them there feven years, till they had taken their degrees of Malkr of Arts, Job was afterwards vicar ' of Watford in Northampton fliire, and treafurer of the cathedral church at Lichfield. He married, and had ilfue two daughters ; Anne, who died unmarried, and Penelope, . v; ho married ;. to Vyfe, of Mulnanieeze in Staffordihire, gent, but had no child by him; 2. to Thomas, fecond brother of Sir Robert Clerk, knight, of Watford, by whom Ihe had two fons and one daughter ; Frances, wife of Booker, of the city of Pe- terborough in Northamptonfliire. The fons were George, and Job, who was in trade,, and died young. George was in holy orders, became chaplain to Sir Thomas Cave^ hart, znd died at Watford. Penelope Clerk, their mother, ched at Peter- borough in 1763. The reverend William Grace had alfo three daughters, who fell likewife into good hands, for lady Mag- dalen •'■■, filler of Henry earl of Kent, in the time of their father's dirtrefs, took them under her protedion either till her death, or till ibme provifion was made for them, and married as aforefaid This William, the vicar, was buried in this church November 10, itgg, in a good old age, being upwards of ninety, as ap- pears from the infcription upon his tomb-ftone, fet up in me- * Wife of John. Erown, of Strctton in the Fields, co. Leic. aiid Derby. mory 96 THE HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S mory of him by the reverend Job Grace, his fon, vicar of Watford. Joanna, wife of WiUiam, was buried in the church, February 2,3, 1698-9, aged 52 years. William -had a brother Oliver, who lived near Leicefter, and had ifilie two daughters, married to two brothers named Muxlow, one of Swebfton in Leicefterfhire, the other was a clergyman. Robert Grace is called the vicar of this parifli at the time of his marriage, January 4, 1672-3 ; which, no queftion, his fa- ther refigning for that purpole, -the benefice was by the crown conferred upon him ; and if he had polTeflion of it before the death of archbilhop Sheldon, which happened in 1667, in all likelihood he would, when the tendernefs of his father's con- fcience would not allow him to keep it, procure it for him. In 1692, the reverend Robert Grace paid 4s. poll-tax for himfelf, his wife, and two children. He or his children fold lands, and a meffuage, tothe late John Dolphyn, efq. To him alfo belonged the eftate cailetl the Afhcrofts, near the -village of Shenftone, by Elizabeth Sylvefter his wife, daughter and coheir of Rowland Sylvefter, of Shenftone. He had fix children, Sylvefter, Sa- muel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hannah, and Mary, who died unmarried Odtober 25, 171 8, aged 20. Hannah was wife of Chriftopher <]Iolier, gent, and, befides the children aforefaid, had a fon, Chriftopher Samuel, baptized January 18, 1726-7, who died in the February following. Sarah was Vv'ife of John Carteret, of Sutton Coldfield, and had an only child, Mary, living in 1768, who married thrice; 1, to John Broohall, of Tilftock in Salop, and had ifflie Mary, deceafed, Anne, and Martha; a. to Vin- cent, brother of John Broomhall, by whom ftie had John, Vincent, and William ; 3. to William Chetel. Elizabeth, eldeft daughter of Robert Grace, was wife of Thomas Hay ward, of Al- kington hall in Salop, by whom (lie had four daughters, Grace, Elizabeth, OF SHENSTONE. 97 Elizabeth, Mary, and Sarah. Samuel, fccond fon of Robert^ died about 1714, aged 27, unmarried. Sylvelter was of Bir- mingham, had many children, who all died young, except as follows; I.Robert, who married and fettled in America; 2. Sarah, wife of Henry Churchill, brother to John Churchill, of Hintz in StafFordfliire, by whom flie had one fon, James ; 3. Anne, wife of Edward Pool, who had three children ; all dead. Sylvefter Grace died in January 1757. Elizabeth died Auguft 23, 1728, buried 31, furviving her hufband, the reverend Robert Grace, fomewhat more than a year ; for he died Septem- ber 2 Si 1727* aged 88, with the charadler of good man, and a truly M'orthy divine. His tomb-ftone hath an infcription upon it, which confirms his being vicar 58 years. At the manfion-houfe now belonging to Mr. Houghton of Hintz, and which formerly was much more confiderable, re- iided a family of fome character, named Greijbrook. They are fpoken of in the regifter-book in 1580, and might have been found before this date if any earlier records of this place could be found. They were poflefled of much land here, par- ticularly that named 'The Stat folds and Littlefieldy which were purchafed by John Rawlins, efq. of Lichfield. After his death this manfion, with thefe and other lands, pafled to the late John Houghton, efq. in right of his wife, grand-daughter of the faid Mr. Rawlins, who now pofTefTes them. Greifbrook owned part of the Bull- moor fields, which be- came afterwards the property of Edward Smith, gent. Alfo land fold to Alfop, and from him conveyed to Thomas Bedle. A meadow, formerly part of the common field, called Broad Meadow, which came into the hands of the Latimers and Crefwells of this parifli; from them to the late Mr. Dolphyn, and to the prefent Mr. Dolphyn ; likewife a piece of the BuU- O moors, 9? THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES moors, afterwards the eliate of — Higgins, after of" Benja- min Colicr, and from him by purchafe to Gilbert Walmfley, of Lichfield, efq.and now in his heirs. Greifbrook, whence the family had their name, is a manor in Yorkfhire, which, in the reign of king Henry III. was in the great houfe of Mowbray, of whom the Greifbrooks held their lands. Roger de Greifbrook (t. Henry II.) is mentioned as holding of the fee of Alice, countefs of Augie, or Ewe, daughter of William de Albiney earl of Arundel, by queen Alice, relicft of king Henry I. Thomas Greifbrook and Elizabeth his wife had, befides other children, a daughter Margery, born in November, 1580 ; the fame month died Elizabeth his wife ; and in July, 1582, their daughter. Richard Greifbrook, fon of Robert, was baptized September 20, 1585. Rowland Greifbrook and Ifabel Yardley were maried in April, 1598; they had Thomas, who died young, Robert, and four daughters ; Grace, Penelope, Anne, and Elizabeth. Robert had a daughter, Sufanna, born in 1756. Robert Greifbrook % gent, and Jemima, daughter of Mr. William Grace, were mar- ried on July 8, and had ifTue, i. William, baptized May 6, 1673; 1. Robert, born 1674, and died in 1681; 3. John, born in February 168 1 ; 5. Robert; and five daughters; i, Elizabeth, born in 1676, and died in 1729 ; 2. Joan, born in 1679 ; 3. Jemima, born in 1685-6 ; 4. Sarah, born in 1693, and died in 1699 ; 5. Anne, who died in February 1698-9. John Walton, of Bagington, and Margery Greiforook, were married Auguft a 8, 1682. Thomas Cramp and Sarah Greif- brook were married January 19, 1 721-2. Robert married * He paid four (hillings to the poll-tax for himfclf, wife, and two children. 5 Elizabeth, OF S H E N S T O N E. 99 Elizabeth, daughter of Grofvenor, of Wolverhampton, or of Codfall, near it, but died without ifTue in 1727. Jemima, daughter of Mr. Grace, and wife of Robert Greifbrook * the elder, died in 1724, aged 77. In 1655 Robert Greifbrook was witnefs to a covenant of marriage between Ralph Thickbrooni and Margaret Cook, of Little Hay. In 1667 he paid is. 4d. to the quarterly royal aid ; and 3d. ob. for land of Mr. Floyer. Thomas Cramp and Sarah Greifbrook had four children ; Greifbrook, and three daughters, Sarah, Jemima, and Ruema, the latter living in 1768 unmarried; the tv»'o eldeft daughters married and had iffue, but both are dead. Greifbrook Cramp was heir to his uncle Robert, is a farmer at Cowerne in Here- fordfhire, and by his wife, daughter of — — Darlaflon, of llford in Staffordfhire, hath two fons. Sarah Griefbrook fe- condly married John Lea, and had Dorothy, Jane, and EUza- beth. In the manfion called Greenballs^ now Mr. Dolphin's, lived a gentleman named Wollafton, or Woollerfton, moft likely from a village of this name in Stafford fliire. A noted antiquary i, wdio fpeaks with feverity of many fa- milies in this county, has thefe w^ords : " Several of the gen- try would take it ill to be wrote lefs than efquires, of which he mentions alderman Wollafton's fon at Walfal, and William Wol- lafton of Chebfey and Oucote, or Oncoat Grange." To this we fliall make no reply, but let the following circumftances fpeak for< themfelves. Thomas Wollafton, efq. was a perfon of figure in the reign of Henry VII. in the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII. and fome years after he had the office of keeper of the * Robert Greifbrook the elder died in 1718. f Simon -Degge, .ann. 1-673. O 2 out- joo THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES outwoods, called Lyndiidge woods, in the county of Warwick, by a grant from the crown, and fo continued to the 15th oc 1 6th of Henry VIII. la 1565 we find William WoUallon * feated at Shenftone, but how much fooner is not known. That year John his fon by Elizabeth his wife was baptized in Septem- ber, and died 1666 ; alfo Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas WoL- lafton, gent, by his wife Sabina, was buried Februrary 26. William Wollafton, gent, died January 7, i James I. feifed of Trecot, a grange and mill in Overpenne, Galdwalds, land in Overton, Wathill or Otehill, in Trefful, Grange or Granfield^ in Halefowen in Salop, which he left to Hugh his fon, then fifty years old ; he, at his deceafe in 7 James I. left them to Edward his fon and heir, aged 12. William of Trefcot, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, married a daughter to John Barnfley, of Treaful, efq. younger brother of Barnfley in Worcefiierfliire, who had ilTue by him both fons and daughters. In the reigns of king Charles I. and king Charles II. Wollafton, efq. had a feat in Walfal, and John had a daughter Blanch, wife of John fecond fon of Ri- chard Pyott, of Strethey, efq. by Mary daughter of Sir William Skeffington, of Fiflierwick, knight. In 1767 was born Edward, fon of William and Elizabeth WoUafian, who died in 1685. Jofeph, their fon, was born in 1669, and died in 1697 ; and Elizabeth their daughter was born in 1671. Thomas Wollafton, gent, died at Shenftone in April 1674, who feems to be father of William, who alfo died in 1 69 1-2 ; as did Elizabeth his wife in 1692. Thomas, of St. Mary's parilh in Lichfield, was buried at Shenftone the 19th of April, 171 2 ; and Wilham, from the fame place, in 1738 ; * la 1667 he paid for part of Greenhalls eftate one fliilling and nine-pence. alfo OF SHENSTONE. loi alfo Francis Wollaiton, gent, of Birmingham, in 1752, who had purchafed Billefley manor in Yardley in VVorcefterfliire, of Byflel, gent, and Mr. Samuel Wollailon, of Lichfield, in 1755, with another of the family in 1756. WoUafton Pym, efq. an Hertfordfliire gentleman, now of WilloLighbridge in Staffordlhire, lately lieutenant-colonel of the 64th regiment of foot, was of the fame family by his mother, which gentleman fometime lived in Upper Stonhall, and has a fon Wollailon, born in 1766, and two daughters. The father of the famous William Wollafton fettled at Sben- flone, probably foon after the troubles cealed by the Reftoratioa of king Charles II ; though Colton Clanford in StafFordfliire was before his relidence. At this time his fortune was inconfiderabie, but defcended of an antient and worthy family feated at Colton Clanford ; this was the elder branch. The head of the fecond line was of Oiicoat in Staffordfliire, and afterwards removed to Shenton in Leicefterfliire. The grandfather of this eminent per- fon had. a handfome fortune, real and perfonal, M'ith an office of 700 1. per annum. William was born in 1659, March 2.6, at Colton ; and in 1668 went to u Latin fchool then newly opened at Shenftone, the relidence of his fatiier, where con- tinuing two years, or thereabouts, he was then fent to Lichr field, and at fixteen years old went to Sydney college, Gam* bridge, June 8, 1674. In 1681 his parents had left Shen- ftone, for we find that he paid them a vifit fome time after Mi- chaelmas that year at Bloxwick, where they then lived. On the TQth of Augull, 1688, his relation at Shenftone (coufin ger- man to his father), dying without male iffue, made him his heir to an ample eftate. In 1689, November 26, he married Catherine, daughter of Sir Nicholas Charlton, knight, and citizen of London ; flie died Voi THE- HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES died July 2 1, 1720. In 1722, he publifhed his noted per- formance calledj " The ReHgion of Nature dehneated." He died Oiftober 29, 1724, and was buried near his wife at Font- borough Magna. WiUiam Warburton, bifliop of Gloucefter, an able writer, attacked this work, as did Conyers Middleton, D. D. of Cam- bridge, a man of an artful addrefs, who commended it, and is allowed to have been a man of wit and learning. The late lord vifcount Bolingbroke condemns his fvftem as a ftrange theifm. Whatever were their opinions of this piece, thefe feveral cir- cumftances fhew the excellence of it, which yet remains unhurt. This great author had eleven children, of which four died be- fore him, and four were of Sydney college, Cambridge. William the eldeft fon reprefented the borough of Ipfwich in parliament during the iafl. parliament of king George II. Richard WoUaf- ton, efq. was one of thofe gentlemen who voted in 1702-3 againft agreeing to the Lords' amendment in the claufe of an a6l, which was farther to fecure the fucceffion of the crown in the > houfe of Hanover. The WoUaftons owned an eflate in Footherley. We find a gentleman fettled here named IVoljerfian^ tmquef- tionably a branch of the antient family long feated at Stafford in SrafFordlhire, in the reign of king Charles II. The GreenhaUs came from a village fo named, near Norton ■upon Trent, Stafforddiire, wdiich was by Thomas de Cadurcis, or Chaworth, given to the abbey de Bello Capite (Beauchief) in DerbyTnire ; and had a confiderabie eftate in Shenftone, of which feveral lands carry their name. Some of thefe lands were the Hardenbrooks, a piece of ground near the Church- hill, towards the Birniinghaiii road, Balls Crofr, and the two Green- OF SHENSTONE. 103 Greenhalls near it, Balls meadow on the read to the park, five or fix pieces near Pindlefields on the Tamworth road, with fe- veral others near their manfion. hi the reign of queen Ehza- beth Rowland Greenhall had a Ion Rowland, who by Catherine his wife, daughter of Rowland Rudding of Lynne, had a daugh- ter Alice, born 1608. Robert, Rowland, Simon, who lived at Swynfen "*, and had ifliie by Alice his wife, Simon, buried 1657, with his mother J and William of Swynfen, whofe wife Cecily- died in 1657* Robert of Shenrtone had ilTue Anne, born 1657. Rowland Greenhall married Sarah Sharpling in 1657, and had by her three fons and four daughters ; Robert, John, Jofeph, Elizabeth, Sarah, born 1 660-1 ; Mary, born 1665-6, and Anne, born 1674; all which daughters were married. Robert was a diftiller, and fettled in the city of Worcefler; he died without ilTue. John was killed by an accidental hurt from an harrow, and died without ifllie. Jofeph was heir to his bro- thers, and fold a good part of the remaining eftate to the late John Dolphyn, efq, Mr. Rowland Smyth lived in this fiime manfion of the Green- halls, and was the gentleman who gave one of the bells. The late Mrs. Crifp lived here till her death, in November 1766, aged near 83. Mr. William Dufour, a native of France, now holds the fame houfe of John Doiphyn, efq. We may not here omit to mention, that there lately refided in this village, at the houfe wherein Mrs. Colier now dwells, a genteel family named Parkhurft, of which was John, bifliop of Norwich in 1560, 2 Elizabeth, and redor of Bifliop's Cleve * He died at Erdington in 1680, and was buried at Shenftonc. in 104 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES ill Gloiicederfliire, born at Guildford in Surrey, fon of George Parkhurft, elq. Robert of Shenftone, in 1761, was third fon of Dormer Parkhurft, of Epfom in the county of Surrey, and of Catefby in North am ptonfhire. He was when a youth page to her royal highnefs the princefs of Wales, mother of his prefent majefty, thence removed to a lieutenancy of marines, and was in the fea fervice feme time ; he becam€ after this a cornet of horfe, and fliortly after captain in general Stuart's regiment of foot, in which capacity he fought at the glorious battle of Minden, when the infantry, unaided by the cavalry, defeated the French army, and was forely hurt by a mufket ball in the forehead, and by a blow from the but-end of a mufket. He was conve^-etl out of the battle, wounded, and infenfible. As foon as capable he returned to England ; his health being in fome meafure reftored, he returned to his duty, but the fatigues foon overfet him, and he was neceflitated to retire, as he did, to Shenftone. The injuries he received in the above engagement took him off in 1764, at Briftol Hot Wells, about a week after he got thither. He was a man of a military caft, of a generous and noble mind, with a be- coming fpirit ; to which we may add, great vivacity and> chearfulnefs ; which, aided by a courtly education, a know- ledge of the world, and an acquaintance with perfons of great figure, rendered him a moft agreeable companion. He married Ann Ogle Guyther, born at Annapolis in Mary- land, daughter of Guyther, efq. brother to the gover- nor of St. Chriftopher's of that name, by whom he had illue, George, aged 9, 1768; Charles, born in April 1762; and Anne, born in September 1763 ; ihc is yet living, and un- .iiiarried. The OF S H E N S T O N E. 105 The family of Huggefon, or Hig/on, had a houfc and lands in the village, who feem to have had their name from a manor in the parifli of Chartley in Staffordfliire, the eftatc of earl Ferrers, called Hicfon. In 1598 George Higgefon was of this place, who had'William •■■ that died in 1609, as did Bar- bara Higfon in 1675. Humphry Land of Walfal, and Eliza- beth Higfon of Shenftone, were married in 1603, January 30. In this name, befides other eftates, were the Bullmoors, which before were the lands of the Greifbrooks, and now in the Walmfleys of Lichfield. Higgefon's land and mefluage came to the Smyths^ of which line was Henry, whofe fon Henry married a perfon of fome for- tune, daughter of Jenkynfon, of Derby fliire (who, furviving her hufband Mr. Smith, married to her fecond huf- band Walter Aftley, gent, fon of Aftley, efq. of Tamhorne near Fifherwicke, Staffordfliire). By Henry f Smith flie had, be- fides other children, Paul. This Henry is faid to have built the prefent manfion at the time of his marriage as abovefaid, where Mrs. Jane Fidgeon now lives. Paul was an attorney, and lived both at Stafford and Shen- ftone. He married thrice ; by his firfl wife he had ifTue Edward, and feveral daughters ; I have not learned who his fecond wife was ; the lafl was Sarah, reli6l of — — Edenfor, of Birming- ham, eldefl fifler of John Dolphyn, of Shenflone, efq. which Sarah, outliving the faid Paul Smyth, died in 1730, and was buried at Sheniione ; her hufband was buried at Stafford ; by thefe two wives Paul Smyth had no children. Edv/ard married a wife * Father of Jane, born in 1579. \ Henry Smyth feems to have had two wive?, for the regifter fays, Anne, daugh- ter of Henry and Dorothy Smyth, was born in 1672, ; and Henry, fon of Henry and Catharine, in 1678, who died the fame year. P from tc6 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES from Uttoxeter, and had iffue only Edward, who died young. Edward, who was alio an attorney at law in Stafford, dying without iflue, left his eftate at Shenftone, part in the tenure of Mr. Eide and Mrs. Fidgeon, and the other part of Robert Ingram, to his wife, who demifed them to her nephew Samuel Bardfley of Tamworth, attorney at law, vvhofe widow ftill pof- feffes thefe lands. > The Aftleys have long lived in this place, and are noted for being one of the moft antient houfes who poffeifed lands in Staf- fordfhire. Roger Aflley was of Shenftone in the reign of queen Elizabeth, in 1584, had a daughter Alice, and died in 1602. In 1599 Richard Aftley and Elizabeth Collins were married here. In 1605 John (whom I look vipon as fon of Roger, and brother of Richard and Alice,) married Elizabeth Hcdgetts. John Black married Elizabeth Aftley in 1606. Sufanna Aftley died in 1658; Margaret in 1679. Thomas and Ann Aftley had a fon Thomas born in 16S4. This family gave name to a meadow near Shenftone village, to this time termed Aftley's meadow. Walter Aftley lived part of his days in a meflTuage at Footherly, or Wood-end, formerly the eftate of William Prieft, afterwards this Walter's ; from him it paflTed to — — » Thornton and Wigan ; and in 1767 to William Tenant, efq. lord of this manor. This Walter Aftley died at Cannock in 1730, and \vas buried here; as was Dorothy his wife in 1729, who, as we before noted, was reli<5t of Henry, and mother of Paul Smyth, of Shenftone, attorney at law. Lands, now John Marlow's, were the property of Walter Aftley, and others were left by him to his wife's friends. Daniel OF SHENSTONE. to; Daniel Skynner, gent, a goldfmith of London, citizen and alderman of the fame place, retiring from bufinefs, came to this village, and lived in the houfe now in the tenure of Mrs. Jane Fidgeon. By his wife, , daughter of ■ Wilfon of Lichfield, he had feveral children, who all died young. In 1734 died this gentleman's mother; in 1751 Sarah his wife ; in 1753 this Mr. Skinner himfelf ; and were all buried at Shen- ftone : Charles Howard, of Lichfield, gent, was his nephew and heir. In this place refided a good family named Everard^ but I am not fatisfied where they lived, but fuppofe in the village, and therefore have chofen to fpeak of them before I proceed farther. The elder branch was feated in Leicefterfliire, of which we have this defcent ; Richard Everard, of Leiceflerdnre, had a fon Richard, who took to wife Joyce, daughter of Langham, of Gopfhall, and had iflue, i. Robert, of Leicefterfliire; and a. William, who had iflue; 3. George; 4. Thomas. Robert fettled at Shenftone (living in the reign of qvieen Elizabeth, 1583), and married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Wolfreftan, of Wyford or Weeford, efq. by whom he had iffue, i . Richard, who took to wife Jane, daughter and heir of Richard Waterton, of Lincolnfliire, efq. and had by her Richard, aged 16, in 1583; 2. Humphry, of Whittington and Shenftone, who, on examination of the heralds at arms in their vifitation through the county of Stafford in the year 1583,, was allowed to be a gentleman by birth, and to have good right to the coat borne by the family with difference. His wife was Anne, daughter and heir of Richard Clarkfon, or Le Clerk, efq. of Whitting- ton, by whom he had children; Edward, John, and Michael; alfo four daughters, Frances, Catharine, Alice, and Joanna : the third fon of Robert Everard and Margaret Wolverftan was p 2 Sampfon ; io8 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES Sampfon ; 4. John ; and four daughters; i. Matilda, wife of Richard; 2. Joyce, wife of Thomas Barford, by whom (lie had Thomas ; 3. Mary, married to Sir Edmund Brudenel, knt. 4. Margaret, wife of Sampfon Wolverftan, efq. Arms of Everard ; Argent, on a chevron Gules, three mul- lets Sable, between three mullets. Of the Shenftone line the fame, with fix points ; of the fecond, a crefcent for difference. About the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign and in the reign of king James I. we find a gentleman at Shenfton!^ named Potter, Simon Potter, gent, by Barbara his wife, had a daughter Mary, born here in 1608 ; a fon Simon born in 1609, but we find no more of this name, owing to the deficiency of the parifli records. At the houfe belonging to Samuel Beardfley, and in the hold- ing of Jane Fidgeon, gentlewoman, formerly lived a family of fome tiote, named James, Edw'ard James, of this place, by Frances his wife, had a fon VViUiam Venables, born in the year 1702, on the 19th of June, and died in 1704; alfo Robert, born Auguft 15, 1703, a phyfician, and famous for his me- dicine called Dr. James's Fever Powder. Edward and Frances had iflTue likevvife a fon Stafford, attorney at law^, who refided lately at Brewood in Staftbrdfiiirc, who had two fons, both under the care of the late Thomas Sanders, of Stourbridge in Worcef- terfhire, chemift and apothecary. I'o the freeholders or other inhabitants of Shenftone village appertains a large field, called the Broad-meadow, upon which feveral of the poor.turn their cattle without expence, and at their pleafure. This field was more extenfive till encroachmencs were made, and but a few years fince a part of it was annexed to MuUener's farm ; alfo a part of it was in the families of Greif- OFSHENSTONE. 109 Greifbrook, Latimer, and Ciefwell, now in the poffciTion of Mr. Dolphjn. At a little diftance from the church is a water called Sf. John's zvell^ from the faint to whom the church is dedicated. This well was looked upon as facred from the miracles or cures performed \\ith the water of it on St. John the Baptilt's day. For this reafon, in the tinies^of Popidi fuperftition, many peo- ple, and thefe not of the common fort only, placed a fancftity in them, brought alms and offerings to them, and made vows at them. This fuperftitious devotion was named Well-worfliip, and, though ufed by the people, was not approved of by the heads of the church, being ftridlly prohibited in feveral Englifli councils in the days of king Edgar and Canute, and in a council held in London under Anfelm, archbifhop of Canterbury, in the year 1102. hi fome places within this county the cuftom continues, or hath not long been dilufed, of adorning fuch wells with boughs and flowers upon Holy Thurfday efpecially, aSAVas ufual alfo at all Gofpel-places, whether wells, trees, or hills. Upon fuch occafions the people frequently diverted themfelves with cakes and ale, mulick and dancing, with other like fports and amufements ; which were innocent enough, and tolerable in comparifon of what had formerly been pradtifed. Near St. John's well ftands a delightful manfion in the holding of Mr. Martin Wood, but the property of Thomas Biddulph, of Whitacre in Warwickfliire, whofe father built it, except the additions eredled by Mr. Gisborn, who held it prior to Mr. Wood. In the village is likewife a neat and pleafant houfe, fit for a private gentleman, the property of Mr, John Rawlins, in right of his Avife Dorothy, and of her fifter Elizabeth Lea, daughters of John Lea of Shenftone ; but the fituation of this is far inferior to that of Thomas Biddulph. I ASH- no THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES A S n G R O F T S. At the diftance of a quarter of a mile from the church is a manfion called T'be 4/Jjcrofts. The lands near it were the eftate of the Brandreth family, who moft likely purchafed it from the Rugeleys. William Syhejler * afterwards pofleffed it, of which family Rowland Sylvefter pafled it to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of the reverend Robert Grace, which Elizabeth and Sarah her filter were daughters and coheirs of the faid Rowland, fon of Rowland, fon of Roger Sylvefter, of a family antient as any in the parifh, and feveral of them were people in good cir- cumftances. Sarah, daughter and coheir of Rowland Sylvefter of the Afh^^fts, was wife of ■ Sheldon, attorney at law, of Beoley in Worcefterfliire, whofe iftue were John, and Sarah, wife of Annefley, of Fradley in Staffbrdfliire, who had by her James, living in 1768 ; and Elizabeth, wife of Nuthal, of Alreways. Of Mr. John Sheldon and Mr. Sylvefter Grace were purchafed the houfe where Mrs. Graciana Colyere now lives, and near twenty acres of land lying near it, by the late Hannah, wife of Chriftopher Colyere, gent, of which land the prefent Mr. John Cooke, of Woodend, purchafed 13 acres. To the aforefaid Sarah Sheldon belonged land named Kings Pieces^ which, in the 4th year of the reign of king Charles I. were Roger Sylvefter's, fon of William of the Aihcrofts in 1605, who died there in 1610. Thefe Kings * William Sylvefter of the Afhcrofts died in 1610-11, Pieces, O F S H E N S T O N E. fii Pieces, or part of them, were the property of John Lea, and very lately were in his heirs. The Aflicrofts coming into the hands of Sylvcfter, fon of Robert Grace, he transferred his right in them to Edward jid- cock^ whofe fon Edward enjoys this eftate, with a fmall new houfe ereded by his late father, who 'took down a large old one, which was half timber, in the old model of building, but with additional land purchafed a few years fince of ■ Hayes, of Lichfield, gent, who had it of ■ Waryng, of Hilltop near Edjial hall. The whole is now near 90 acres of land. In the reign of king Charles II. I find a gentleman here, but know not whence he came ; his name Francis Steward, who, by Elizabeth his wife, had ilTue Mary born in 1683, and Anne born in 1685. ^^^^ ^^"^ ^^'^ learn any thing farther of him. W O O D E N D. PARK HALL. Alexander Ward, in the reign of Charles I. purchafed a part of the old park of James Elphinfl:on lord Balmerino, of North Britain, anceftor of the unhappy lord who was in the late rebel- lion in the reign of George II, and for that crime was attainted and beheaded. Alexander Ward, and Lake, dividing the old inclofure, made each of them a park. Ward's land extended itfelf to the fold-yard adjoining to Shenfl:one Park Houfe, and fo on to- wards Woodend, where at the lodge he built himfelf a manfion. Whether 112 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES Whether the prefent houfe was of his building is uncertain, but moft likely it v/as, having fuch an antique appearance ; if fo, it was unqueftionably much larger, though there remain yet the fervants' hall, a large parlour, and fome rooms, having fome of the old-fafliioned wainfcot hanging upon them. The houfe ftands in the way to Woodend, upon the public road lead- ing to Birmingham, half a mile from Shenflone church, and hath before it a court furrounded with an high brick wall, full of yews, laurel trees, and fuch like evergreens. In the years 1640, 1641, and 1642, Ward's park was flocked with deer, as reported by the commiffioners who gave an account of the parks in StafFordfliire. This Alexander Ward had iffue, as I think, i. Thomas; 2. Alexander; 3. Henry; and probably others. Henry lived fome time at Freeford, near Lichfield, and was buried at Shenllone, November 18, i66r, aged 70. Alexander lived alfo at Freeford, and was buried here in 1663, aged 75, having been thrice head bailiff of Lichfield. He had ilTue 19 children by one wife ; 1. Alexander; 2. Tho- mas, of Footherley, who, by Alice * his wife, had Alexander, born in 1662, and died in 1666 ; John, who died in 1665 ; and others. I find alfo Thomas Ward, of Woodend Hall, or Park Hall, who, by Anne his wife, had ilTue Thomas, born 1665 ; Alexander, Richard, Anne, Elizabeth, and Mary, wife of William Mofs of Lichfield. Thomas Ward, gent, in 1667 paid il. IIS. 6d. to the quarterly alTefTment of the royal aid. In 1692, either this Thomas, or his fon Thomas, paid for himfelf and wife to the poll-tax 2S. In 1659 he was churchwarden, and died in 1693; Thomas, his fon, died in 1709-10, and was termed a gentleman. Alexander, by Elizabeth his wife, had * She died in 1666. ilTue OF S H E N S T O N E. ^ ,,- jlTue, I. Thomas, born 1683; 2. Alexander, born 1684, who foon after died ; alfo daughters, of which one was EHzabeth. In 1699 died EHzabeth, wife of this Alexander Ward; and Alexander in 1701 was found dead, feated in a chair at Tam- worth, as fuppofed of an apoplexy, and to this day it is fpoken of as fomewhat extraordinary, that to fome of the poor at his funeral, which was large, was given bread to the amount of fix or eight loaves each perfon ; fnch a dole ai bread was alfo diftributed to the poor at the interment of his wife. Thomas Wartl, called as above T/je Gentleman, or more frequently by the name of Noble Clove (from his extreme fondnefs for clove water), fucceeded his father in the Wood-end eftate, but his ex- cefles brought on his death (as we noted) in 1609-10. Dyino- without iffue, what remained of the etlate, which is faid to have been in a great meafure acquired by the family in the trouble- fome days of King Charles I, from the oppreffed Royalifts, palTed to Ward, of Banbury in W^arwickfliire, who fold it to Mr. Matthews. Of the Wards of Shenftone Park Hall we know little more than that Alexander firft mentioned was a purchafer of lands in Radley Moor, and in 1648 fold lands in the Broad Field and Old Fields, to which were witnelTes Henry Ward and Thomas Rugeley ; alfo that the fame, or rather Alexander of Freeford his fon, 12 Charles II. was an evidence to the felling of a te- nement with lands in Little Hay to Rowland Alfop, which had been fold not long before by the two lords of the manor ; and aoain with Thomas Ward, witnefs to a contrail for a fum of money paid by Rowland Alfop to Roger W^alker, and Edmund Whar- ton, both of Mofeley, who had fome poffeflions in Little Hay, 13 Charles II. Thomas was witnefs in 1671 to a con- tradl of Rowland Alfop, conveying an eftate to Thomas Alfop Q his .:ii4 THE HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S 'his fon. In 1675 Thomas Ward, of Shenftone Park Hall^ • paiiedover lands called Upper Hurleys, lying near to Carelefs's piece, with others in the park on leafe to Thomas Alfop and Richard Allen of Little Hay. In 1677 Thomas Ward, of Shenftone, gent, was truftee for the dower of Mary daughter of Henry Sedgewick, of Wild-green, gent, who married James Adamsiof Footherley. In 1686-7 Alexander, Thomas, and Anne Ward, were witneffes to the will of Rowland Alfop of ■ Shenrtone. In i68q Thomas was one of the perfons who ma- naged for the heirs of the faid perfon deceafed. In 1671 Ri- xhard and Dorothy Ward witnefled a deed of Adams of -Footherley, to Dorothy Sedgewick of Little Afton, In 1682 Anne and Alexander W^ard were evidences to deeds of Adams to Jofeph Hall of Afton Parva. In 1688 Alexander Ward, gent, entered, with others, into an obligation, that Row^- land Ward of Aldrich, and John of Whittington, Ihould levy a fine for lands to Thurftan Southern of Elmhurft, Henry Jack- Ion of Wall, and Alexander Ward. Richard Ward, about the Teign of queen Anne, was evidence to a bond of Jac. Adams of Footherley for money due to Richard Gretton of Sandford- i^reet in Lichfield ; and likewife to his purchafe of two burgage houfes from the faid Richard Gretton. Matthew, of More^oat hall in the parifh of Berkfwell, War- wicklLire, who purchafed Ward's eftate in Shenftone, had iffue, as I think, one fon and two daughters ; the fon fuc- ceeding fettled in the city of Worcefter, with his mother and two relations, daughters of Mofeley, of Aftbury in Shrop- fliire, gent. This Mr. Matthews is charged with putting an end to his life by fliooting himfelf, but fcveral circumftances feemed to indicate that he was taken otf ; befides, that it was fuppofed a will was forged in favour of the mother and the two relations afore- V OF S H E N S T O N E. .415 aforefaicl, one of which about that time married an officer in the array. Mofeley and the heir went to law with the parties ialpected, and recovered the eftates. The hves of the parties fulpedled were in danger, and tliey efcaped by bringing many evidences to prove, that the decealed was greatly inclined to me- lancholy, and was therefore, unqueltionably, his own executioner, Sarah Matthews had the eftate at Wood-end, and either allowed Mofeley a valuable confideration in right of his wife, de- ceafed, who, as I am told, was filter to the gentleman who was fliot, and to Sarah Matthews, which Sarah refided at the Hall-houfe with her tenant John Bott, or at the houfe now polfefled by John Cook, where Ihe built apartments for that purpofe. She fold the ellates in Shenftone to Samuel Hill, of Shenllone Park, efq. who, beiides the purchafe-money, allowed an annuity to Mr. Mofeley till his deceafc, which happened in 1757 only, a few- months before Mr. Hill's. Sarah Matthews died unmarried, and was buried at Hampton on the Hill ia Warwickfhire. Matthew was fon of John Matthew, defcended of Henry, alive in the reign of king Charles I. who was great grandfon of George, who was found to be twelve years old 13 Henry VIF. living in 1538 (Henry VIII.) fon of George and Alice his wife, who had ilTue four more fons and two daughters, which George was fon and heir of John Matthew, Ikinner, and flierifF of the city of Coventry, who, in the reign of Edward IV. married the daughter and heir of Del Botry, with whom he had the manor of Morecote in Warwickfliire, which John bore for his coat of arms, Sable, a Lion rampant, Argent, and was fon of George Mathew of Wales. Upon the deceafe of Samuel Hill, efq. thefe eftates, now in the tenure of John Cook and John Bott, with a fmall part of Jofeph Jobbern's farm, of Wood-end, came to Samuel Egerton, Q 2 of ii6 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES of Tatton-park in Chelliire, efq. nephew and heir to the faid Samuel Hill ; likewife a fine eftate lying on the river Merfey in Lancafliire, valued at more than four thoufand pounds per annum, and Fifherwick park near Whiltington in Stafford fliire, a manor formerly (24 Edward I.) held of the bifhop of Lich- field by Roger Durdent. Walter Durdent, becoming billiop of the fame lee, lerrled it on his own family ; and 4 Edward II. Nicholas Durdent was lord of it. The family of Skeffington had it from the time of king Henry Vlli. if not earlier. In king George the Second's reign it wai? fold by lord vifcount Malfareen, or his heirs, to Samuel Swynfen, of Swynfen near Shendone, efq. who foon after paflTed it to Samuel Hill, of Shenitone-park, efq. on whofe deceafe, Samuel Egerton, of Tattoo, efq. inhe- rited it, who fold it to Samuel Swynfen, of Swynfen, efq. the former purchafer, who, in a little time after, paflTed it to the guardians of the right honourable the earl of Donegal in Ire- land, the prefent pofleflTor. Samuel Egerton, efq. had other lands from his uncle; as a farm nearTamworth, which he fold to Samuel Swynfen, the prefent pof- felTor. Bole Hall, originally a member of Amington, now a mem- ber in the parilh of Tamworth, which, in the reign of Richard II. was in Sir John de Clinters, of Maxtock in Warwickfliire. In the reign of Henry VI. Edmund Montfort had it, but returning to the Clintons, Edward lord Clinton and Say, in the 29th year of the reign of Henry VIII. conveyed it to James Levifon, whofe daughter had it in marriage with Walter Allon. His grandfcn Sir Walter, knight and baronet, paflTed it to William Anfon, of whom William Cumberford of Tamworth, and Ann his wife, had it in the 1 3th year of the reign of James I. In .latter times the honourable and reverend Richard Hill pur- 6 chafed OFSHENSTONF. 'i;n7 chafed it *, who fettled the fame upon Samuel Hill his nephew* on whole deceale it came to Samuel Egerton, who lately fold Bole Hall and the lands thereto appertaining to the right ho- noura!)le George lord vifco.mt Townfliend, late lord lieutenant ot Ireland. Many other good eltates f Mr. Egerton enjoved, befide which, a curious library and a large perfonalty w^ere di- vided between him and his two lifters, of whofe family we ihall now fpeak. EGERTON FAMILY. Hugh de Abrincis, furnamed Lupus, fecond earl of Chefter after the Conqueft (fo termed, not becaufe it was made over this nat:o'i, but over king Harold, as appears from kin 9^ Wil- liam the FirlVs claim, and his offer to decide his right by lingle combat), fon of Richard de Goz vifcount de Avranches in Nor- mandv by Margaret his wife, half fifter bv the mother to William 1. had in his train a Norman officer of note, named Hugh, created one of his parliamentary barons in the county palatine of Chefter, by that great authority with which his' uncle had invefted him, and bore thenceforward the ftyle and title of baron de MalopalTu (Malpas). This lord Hugh left Ro- bert Fitz Hugh his fon lord Malpas, who in the furvey begun in the 14th year of the reign of William I. and finiilied in the * I am informed that Samuel Hill, efq. purchafcd it, which feems raoft likely, as Samuel Egerton had it. f As Hill-Hall in Sutton Colcfield. 2 0th n8 THE HISTORY AND ANT IQ^UITIES 20th year of the faid reign, called Domes-day book % is faid to have held by military fervice under Hugh Lupus the following lordiliips; Beddefeld, Biinvardefton, Hardingbury, Depenbeche, now called Malpas, Tillefton, Culteton, Eghe, Calraundelei, Hanlon, Lavorthedon, Bockington, Celelea, BrofTe, Oreton, Cuntiton, Shoclicke, Tufigham, Bichele, Bicerton, Bunvardefle fold by the earls of Edwyn and Morcar, Raventhell, Creuhale, Tidalllon, Builton, Boleberie, Tevcrton, Sporetan, Penretone, Sudtone, Buttelege, Croverthe or Goeneche. So that if what is alTerteil be jull, that the Normans fucceeded the Saxon ge- refa's or chiefs of the rural tythings in the fame power, except that William I. made this office of fuperiori'ty hereditary, Hugh lord Malpas or Robert Fitzroy muft have poflefTed at leaft three honours ; yet, as we before intimated, they feem to have fitten only as barons in thofe conventions of eftates that were held in the palatinate of Chefter, then comprehending fome part of Wales. In thefe days we conjedure, that every tything was an honour, and confilled of ten manors,and that every tything (after thisfupe- riority became hereditary) conftituted one barony or honour. Then the chiefs from Norman appellatives were called barons and feigni- ours, contra6ledly fires, and fuch their eftates, feignories, baronies, or honours. A neceflary qualification for one that held a par- liamentary barony was, that he Ihould poffefs thirteen knights' fees and a half, or a fourth part of a fee as fome ; each of thefe feoda or fees valued at 20 1. per ann. at leaft, a fum equal to 140I. per ann. in the reign of Henry VII. or Henry VIII. and to 300 1 yearly, or, as others, 500 1. yearly in George the Third's reign; /. e. 20I. per ann. would at that time purchafe * Lib. de Domefday in Chefliire. -■■•■■ as OF S H E N S T O N E. lip as much corn or other necefTaries of life as the largeft of thofe fums would in our clays, if not in king William the Third's. Robert Fitz Hugh dying without ilfue male, the barony of Malpas, with the lordlliip of Calmadelei (Cbolmley), Sec. de- fcended to Lettice his daughter, wife of Richard de Belvvard, whofe fon or grandfon William de Belvvard married Beatrix, daughter of Hugh Kevilioch, fifth earl of Chefter, and coheir to her brother Randal, earl of Chefter, which William, in right of his mother, was baron of Malpas, though it is faid by fome, that this man had only half the barony ; but it is agreed by Sir William Dugdale and other antiquaries, that he left iffue three fons, David, Robert, and Richard ; fo Collins * fays. A MS. account of Chefiiire, in my poffeliion, taken from a curious antiquary, fays, that Beatrix was fifter to Hugh Kevilioch earl of Chefter, daughter of Radulph de Gernon, and that (he married Radaulf (Ralph) baron de Malopaflu, by whom flie had Mar-? garet her daughter and heir, wife of David de Belward, called Le Clerc, from his having been clerk or fecretary to the earl of Chefter ; he fucceeding his father at Malpas, was alio named David de Malpas, and, in the 36th year of the reign of Henry III. was high fheriffof Cheihire. This David, as Collins obferves, left iffue three fons, of which Philip, the feccnd, feating him- felf at Egerton, left that furname to his poiferity, from whom the fa-T.ily of Egerton is defcendedj whereof the prefent duke of Bridgewater is derived. The MS. aforefaid adds, that David Clerc (who, in the 37th year of the reign of king Henry III. held three fees under the earl of Chefter) had a fecond fon named Philip Gough de * In title of cad Cholmley, 410 edition. . ■ •• Malpas,, ,ao THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S Malpas, who married Catharine, filter of Richard de Hurlton, and had iffue David de Egerton, of whom defcended Thomas Eger- ton, lord chancellor of England in the reign of James I. I ob- ferve here, that this David, in the reign of Henry III. held but three knights' fees, which might arife from fome of the family's being concerned in the troubles of thofe days, occafioned by Stephen's feizing the crown when the three competitors, king Stephen, Maud the Emprefs, and king Henry II. treated the barons that oppofed them as rebels, who before, under the feudal rights were fo many little princes : much of the lands being forfeited to the feveral contending fovereigns, as each prevailed they with them rewarded their refpedtive adherents. Hence arofe the old and new feoffments, which differed in the extent and portion of lands, and gave rife to the diilindtion of the greater and lefTer barons ; or the eftates of the family might be divided among feveral heirs, as we read indeed the barony was. Sir Richard Egerton, knight, in the reign of Henry VIII. had ilTue Sir Thomrs, a man excellently well read in the com- mon laws of England, made folicitor-general to queen Elizabeth in 1583; lord-keeper of the great-feal in 1596 ; and in 1603, in the reign of James I. advanced to the dignity of a baron of this realm by the title of lord Ellefmere, in the county of Salop, on the 3d of May, 1603 •-'■•, and made lord chancellor of Eng- land ; and November 7, i6i6(r4 James 1.), vifcount Brack- ley, of the county of Northampton, his fecond and only fon, by Elizabeth his firft wife, daughter of Thomas Ravenfcrofr, of Bretton in Flintlhire, was John vifcount Brackley, who, in 161 7, on the 27th of May, was advanced to the title and dignity of * 21 July, was created a baron at Hampton- court. earl OF SHENSTONE. 121 earl of Brid^ewater, in the county pf Somerfet, a man of in- com]iarable parts, both natural and acquired, a profound fcho- lar, and a good chriitian. He married Frances, fecond daughter of Ferdinand baron Stanley, Strange of Knodlon, of the Ifle of Man, and earl of Derby, and had iffiie by her John, fecond earl of Bridgewater of this line, who, marrying- Elizabeth dauohter of William Cavendiili, duke of Newcaftle and e:.ri Ogle, the famous general of Charles I. in the North of Eng- land during the Civil Wars, had iffue by her a third fon, Tho- mas*, feated at Tatton in Chefliire, who, by Efther his wife, daughter of Sir John Bufnby, of Addington in Buckingham- fhire, knight, had iffue John Egerton (born February 12, 1679), whofe fon and heir was John of Tatton (i735)» efq. He had ifTue that furvived him by ■ Barbour, filler of the late Samuel Barbour, or Hill, of Shenftone Park, efq. John, Samuel, and Thomas, who died unmarried ; alfo two daughters, wife of Tatton, of Widrenfhaw in Chefhire, efq. late high flierifF for the county of Chefter, and hath iffue, and Elizabeth, who died about 1766, at Shrewfbury, unmarried. John, the eldeft fon, of New Tatton in Chefliire, in April, 1735, married — , fecond daughter of Ward, efq. counfellor at law, of Chefhire, formerly member of parliament for New- ton in Lancafliire, with whom he had a fortune of 15,000!. By her he had iff\ie a daughter, who died at the age of feven years, and leaving his wife with child, flie was delivered of another daughter that deceafed in her infancy. Samuel fucceeded his brother John, and is now living at Tatton Park, where he hath a noble feat, ere6led in part by his father, but with great additions in a ftyle of magnificence made by himfelf ; the park he hath alfo enlarged, fo nnith as * Born March 1 6, 1651. R to 122 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES to take in a circuit of twelve miles. This gentleman was nnani- moufly elearcelled out this land to others, enjoining them to do fuch fervices, and to pay fuch rents as were appointed them ; ^o that, as the baron or great man was tenant to the king, the others of inferior degree to whom thcfe lands were parcelled out, became lords of manors and tenants to him, and their grantees tenants to them. Hence we obferve, that if the Mofs were formerly a manor, it hath ceafed to be fo, feeing it is requifitc that it Ihould be one real or nominal. A real manor conlifts in demefnes and fervices, and a coint baron as incident to it ; and it cannot be a real one if it wants freeholders, nor a cuitomary one if it wants copyholders, as in both fenfes is the cafe of this place ; yet I have been in- formed, from good authority, that the lord of the manor of Shenftone pays an annual crown rent for this, as a manor (of old time) within that of Shenftone. The Mofs houfe, or fome manlion near this fpot, was the property of the barons of Hook Norton, till one of them, Henry * Thomas Wilkes, of Willen-Hall.. lyOyley, OF S n E N S T O N E. 133 D'Oyley, high conftable of England, gave it to the abbey of Ofney in Oxfordftiire, whofe monks erected a grange here for their refidence, and that of their bailiffs, who colle(5led the rents and tythes appertaining to the church, with which it went (as far as we can learn) till the diflblution of the monafteries in the reign of Henry VIII. after which it was granted to Stanley, efq. of whom tradition fpcaks as related to the great family of the Stanleys, earls of Derby. The daughter of Stanley, or the heirefs of that houfe at the Mofs, carried the eftate by her marriage to one Dolphyn*. We find the name of Stanley early in the parifh records, in 1583, but nothing that afcertains the place of their refi- dence, except the Stanleys, near Thornes Hall, are of the fame lineage, or thofe of Lyndon, Overftonall, or Shenftone,. all which are mentioned ; but but we cannot difcern which branch introduced the Dolphyns into this place. Their name originally was Swanfliurft, fo named from Swanfhurft, an hamlet in the pariili of Yardley, near Birmingham, where to this day remains, as I fuppofe, the elder branch of the Dolphyns. How they came to change their name is not very clear. The tradition among them is, that it was affumed in early times by their an- ceftor, upon the taking in the wars of France a ftandard or banner belonging to the dauphin, fon of the French king. The probability we difpute not, but are not quite fatisfied with this reafon without good authority, feeing in former times it was not unufual for fons of the fame parents to ])ear different fur- names, either from remarkable circumftances attendinp- them, their fituation, as Swanfhurft, which means -a woody place where trees grow, but low on account of the unaptnefs of the * See the Collections of Thomas Wilkes, M. D. foil, 134 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S foil, much frequented by fwans, a repetition of their chriftian names, or the like ; having no family accounts to refer to, wc are, as heretofore, at a lofs, but fliall give what we can attain - relating to the Dolphyns. f^ William Dolphyn, in the 19th year of the reign of Edward III, was one of the perfons left in truft by Robert Folewood, firft vicar of Tamwcrth church, in Warwickiliire, afterwards united to Maxtoc priory, to find a prielt who lliould celebrate divine fervice at the altar of St. Mary for all the living and dead of the parilli, and for their benefacftors ; alfo to fay daily a placebo and dirige, with a fpecial commendation of him the faid Robert and his heirs ; to which purpofe he left lands in that parilli and Beaumont. In the 47th year of the reign of king Edward III. Richard Dolphyn, Richard Mountford, and others, founded a chantry in a chapel near Lapfworth church, in Warwickfliire, giving for that purpofe two melTuages, two carucates of land, twelve acres of meadow ground, and 1 6s . rent, all in Tamworth, called Woodard's Lond, Heath Lond, and Lirterley Field, which were confirmed by Thomas Beau- champ earl of Warwick, lord of the fee, for a prieft to ling mafs every day, to the honour of the BlelTed Virgin, St. Thomas the Martyr, and all the Saints. In the 4Qth year of the reign of king Edward III. Richard Dolphyn confirmed Thomas Bar- bour in the living of Preflon Bagot, in Warwickfliire. In 1379 Richard Dolphyn, prebendary of Maxtoc, and re6lor of Tam- worth, dying, was buried there, and an infcription being fet over him imploring prayers for the dead, it was ordered to be altered". Thefe quotations from antiquity fliew, that the name was as old as the reign of king Edward III. TJie * Ricardum Dolfyn cerne, homo, locus tenet ifle : iEternam lucem ei dare ne dedignaris Chrifte. The bifliop, on complaint, caufed it to be defaced, and the following fubftituted : 2 Jefiis. OF SHENSTONE. 135 The parifli records being loft, in which were the regiftered accounts from 1610 to 1655, we know not in what interme- diate year between thefe dates the family fettled at Shenftone, but, meeting with the name in 1659, conclude the perfon then mentioned to have been the fon of that Dolphyn who married Stanley's daughter, of the Mofs. John Dol- phyn*, in 1659, had ilTue John, baptized November 12 in that year; and by Sarah his wife, fecondly, WilHam, born in 1666; ' 3, Thomas, born 1672, died 1678; 4, Richard, born 1674;.. 5, George, 1675, exprefsly faid to have been buried in flannel, October, 1678; the daughters were Ann, born 1662, died 1667; Sarah, born 1666; Darnaris in 1668; Elizabeth iri 1670. Sarah, wife of this John, died in 1679, ^^^ ^^ '^^'^ 1699. Of the children, William died in 1701 ; and Darnaris was married in April, 1691, to Edward King of Worcefter, In 1682, John Dolphyn, gent, was one of the two perfons de- puted to give and take polTeffion of the feveral diviiions of the Radleymore lands, according to a decree in the high court of Chancery. John, fon of John Dolphyn aforefaid, fettled at Stafford as an attorney at law, and there became clerk of the peace, and eminent in that profeffion. In the reign of king George I. he ferved in parliament for the borough of Stafford ; was alfo fteward to the dutchefs of Hamilton or Queenfbury, and to the Jefus. Ricardum Dnlfyn cerne, homo, mortuum, locum tenet Chrifti. Sed noluic locum Chrilli vivus incrare ifte. This is blotted out, and below are thefe words : Supradiftus Ricardus obiit primo die Oftobris, anno Domini 1592. Dugdale's War\vick(Tiire, 2cl edit. p. 777. * In 1677 he paid 7s. for a quarter's airdlment of the royal aid. earl 136 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S earl of Uxbridge, and others. He married twice ; 1, to Helen, daughter of Howe, with whom be had in the end an handlome fortune; 2, to Ifabel Hoare, a widow, but had no •iffue by her. By the firft he had three fons ; i, Howe, born 1690, who died a bachelor; 2, John, who alfo died un- married; 3, Henry, born 1696; and daughters, i, Sarah, born 1 6 85, married firft to — Edenfor, of Birmingham; fecondly, to Paul Smyth, attorney at law, who lived both at Stafford and Shenftone. She furvived him, and was buried at Shenftone in 1730, dying without ilTue. 2, Catharine, born 1692, died in 1724 of a confumption ; 3, Damaris, wife of the Reverend J. Rann, A. M. now of Caldmore, near Walfal, late of the Delves in Wednefbury, and minifter of Weft Brom- •wich, yet vicar of Ruftial in 1769, aged 82 ; flie is yet living, but advanced in years. Their iffue were feveral fons that grew to manhood, and fome married, but all died without iffue ; and two daughters ; i, Sarah, wife of Mattox, attorney at law, and mafter in chancery, yet living in Salop, by whom flie, de- ceafing about 1755? left iffue feven children; 2, Damaris, wife of Peter Jones, minifter of Weft Bromwich, and prebendary of the collegiate church of Wolverhampton, by whom flie had iflue two children, both dead, as well as the parents. Ifabel, fecond wife of John Dolphyn, of Stafford, efq. was buried at Shenftone April 14, 1715. In 1692 I find both this John, and John Dolphyn, fenior, refident at Shenftone ; for, in the lift of thofe who paid to the poll-tax that year is John Dolphyn, fenior, mentioned to pay is. and John Dolphyn, junior, attor- ney, for himfelf, wife, and two children, 4s. This John died in 1724, in May, and was buried in the family vault in Shen- ftone church. William OF S H E N S T O N E. 137 William, fecond brother of this John, was fettled in llondon. By Catharine his wife, daughter and coheir of Thomas Hiifley, of Lincolnlliire, gent, he had iffue, 1. Catharine, living in 1769 at Shenftone ; 2. Sarah; and a fon William; who all died young, and unmarried. Howe, the eldeft fon, being for family reafons fet afide in the inheritance, though he lived many years after ; John, the fecond fon, was fettled at the Mofs in 1722, if not earlier; was many years in the commiffion of the peace, in which he aded with much reputation, and was an ufeful and valuable perfon in private life, continually employed in com- pofing differences and exerting all his power for that purpofe, for which he is by multitudes remembered, and fpoken of by all in terms of gratitude. He died in July 1756, a bachelor, and was interred in Shenflone church upon the 26th of that month. Henry aforefaid, youngeft brother of this John, was an at- torney in Stafford. He purchafed the eftate and manfion held by Samuel Whaley, of Footherley, efq. and deceafed in March, 1743-4, leaving ilTue by his wife, daughter of Vernon, and filler to the Reverend Mr. Vernon, of Airly in StafFordfliire, and to the wife of Perrot, of Belland in Worcellerfliire, and of Edgbaflon in Warwickfliire, efq. one of his Majelly's jufiices of the peace, one fon, John, and three daughters; i. Sarah, wife of Meiller, of Derby, efq.; 2. Catharine, wife of Whitby, attorney at law of the fame place ; both are living, and have children ; 3. Elizabeth, unmarried. John fucceeded his father in 1743-4, and his uncle John, of the Mofs, in 1756, from whom he inherited an handfome ell:ate at Shenflone, and elfewhere. This John Uolphyn pur- T . chafed, 138 'll.E HISTORY AND ANTIQJJTIES chafed, about the year 1764, sn eflate of 600I. per annum^ or upwards, called Highford, in Gloucefteiihire (a feat and mai^or in the hundred of Sloughter), of Francis Wanley, D. D. dean of Rippon, brother and heir to William Wanley, efq. of High- ford, who died May 4, 1762. This eftate was named Elford •and Elford Failures^ in king Stephen's daysy then valued at 2 81. I OS. 2d. yearly : the farm appertaining to it was valued at 41s. 8d. and belonged to the abbey of Evelham in Worcef- terfhire. I the rather mention this to flievv what change is made in the worth of lands fince that reign. The prefent gentleman was appointed high-flieriff for the county of Stafford in 1760, and the fame year carried up the county addrefs to king George HI. (an office which his uncle had before enjoyed in the reign of king George II.) ; he is alfa in the commiffion of the peace. In May, 1767, he married Margaret, daughter of Eeles, of Harley-ftreet, Cavendifh- fquare, London, efq. and hath iffue a daughter, Maria, born in February, 1768. John Dolphyn, efq. w^as educated at Eton fchool, and after- wards at Trinity college, Cambridge, and is now about thirty- eight years old. By Margaret, his faid wife, he hath iffue a fon, Thomas Vernon, born June 18, and baptized September 13, 1769. FOOTHERLEY» OF S H E N S T O N E. 139 FOOTHERLEY. Footherley, or, as the old maps of Staffordfl-iire have it, Fo- ierley^ is an hamlet that has its beginning half a mile South- Weft of the church, extending itfelf from a brook fo named, a mile and a half to Radley Moors on the right hand, and to the point of Wood-end on the left to the Birmingham road. The term feemingly derives itfelf of its fite from Shenftone village, and of he, which in the old Britifh tongue means a place * that lies unmanured and wildly overgrown. This place is not po- pulous, containing only fourteen or fifteen houfes (in which reckoning, we except the Bofles), though formerly there were many more, which are either fuffered to fail, or are taken away, that the lands appertaining to them might encrcafe the remaining farms, agreeable to modern practice. Footherly, adjoining in a great meafure to Wood-end, hath therefore many of its privileges in common with it, but in other refpccls hath the advantage, producing efpecially better barley ; herein ex- celling all other lands in Shenftone, as well as the country round about it. \w this diftri6l are fome lands tythe-free, fiiid to be fo as having been the eftates of Prieft, who purchafcd a confiderable part of the tythes ; as others fay, from their being church lands ; a matter we have already fpoken of under the account of Wood-end. The two hamlets have a good portion of land feparated by the public road lying towards Sutton Cole- . . * Vcrftcgan's Antiquities. ■ ' T 2 field 140 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UTxx:S field and Little Afton, called the Oldfield, being 25 acres of land; and Pleckfield, confifting of 30 acres, or thereabouts, each of which the inhabitants cuftomarily enclofe every third year, and cultivate for three feafons, then lay them open for the advantage of turning flieep upon them. Near to thefe fields is Wood-end, or Footherley, common, wliich anfwers the fame ends, ar;d is therefore farther pro- fitable ; not to mention here what we noted of the land belong- ing to the paupers of Footherley, which is rented at the fum of ' five pounds ten fliillings yearly. Either from this, or a place of the fame name, is a family called Footherley^ of which John Footherley, efq. was in May, 1 7 37, governor of the province of Pennfylvania. The houfe now pofielTed by John Prefton was formerly the property of a good family, named SyheJIer, of which was Ro- ger, who had iffue Thomas, in the reign of Henry VIII. father * of Roger, born in 1579. Roger the elder died in 1585. Ro- ger Sylvefter, the younger, had John and James, who married Alice Collins, and died in 1603. Jo^n, the youngeft fon of Roger, of Footherley, deceafed in 160T, leaving John, Robert, and James, who died in 1685. John died in 1669, and Ann, his widow, in 1674. Of this family we can find no more with any certainty. The next pofTeflbrs were named Smyth. How this family procured it is not faid, but we find William Smyth, of Foother- ley, at the Reftoration, who died there in 1663-4 '■> ^'^^ ^"^ 1679 William, his fon, married Joyce, daughter of Prieft, of the fame place ; dying without iffue, he left this eftate to S. Atwood, afterwards wife of Edward t, fon of James Handley, of * And of Frances, born 1580; alfoof John. -f- He married this Sufanna Atwood, April 11, 17 10. Chefter- OFSHENSTONE. . I4r Cheffcerfield, whofe daughter and heirefs carried it to Thomas Stanley, of Thornes ; from him it was purchafcd by the late John Dolphyn, of the Mofs, elq. whofc nephew and heir now enjoys it. At a fmall diftancc, on the right hand, ftands a neat manfion, delightfully fituated, and facing the church. This is modern in a great degree, the prefent poffeffor having expended upwards of 800I. upon it. The old houfe, in all probability, vvas eredted in the reign of queen Elizabeth, the earlieft date I can trace the families of note who had their refidence here ; but another was built by Brown, which the prefent gentleman altered at the abovefaid expence. Francis Floyer was fettled here in the time of queen Elizabeth, which gentleman I conjedure to have been a younger fon of the Hintz family. He died in December 1601, and was buried at Shenftone. The firfl" of the Floyers of this line svas of Ut- toxeter in Staffordfliire, who left Richard, lord of the manor of Wetton in the Moorlands, of Uttoxeter Moor, a manor that he purchafed upon the fale of it by the crown, then in leafe for a long term, as appears on an inquifition taken in the 7th year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, December 16. He left Ri- chard of Hyntz (a ffeat and manor purchafed by his grandfather, of Uttoxeter, of Edward BalTet -■••, efq. a younger fon of Ralph BafTet, of Blore in Staffordfliire),who was a barrifter of the Middle Temple; he married twice, i. daughter of Sir Richard Wefton, knight, one of the barons of the Exchequer, which lady died without ilTue ; a. Elizabeth, daughter of William,. fon of Zachariah Babyngton, living in 1660. Richard Floyer of Hintz was juftice of the peace during the Ufurpation j be- * Of Hyntz, 1583, as in the Heralds Vifuation, fore- 142 -THE, HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES fore him matriages were folemnized according to the afl made in Cromweli's time. In 1667 Robert Greifbrook paid for Floyer to the royal aid. I find alfo Richard Floyer, who had iflue a foil Matthew, who had iiTue a daughter, wife of George Aiitrobus, of Birmingham, M. D. that died without iffue ; alfo Catharine, who died unmarried, hi the reign of William III. lived at Footherlcy, Ralph Floyer and Margery his wife. In J707-8 died Lettice their daughter, and was buried at Shen- ftone. In the reign of George II. relided at the fame place Charles Floyer, efq. afterwards ,heir to his brother of Hyntz, father by Sufanna his viife, to Ralph of Hyntz, 1769; which Charles had iiTue born at Footherley ; Charles in 1743, Mary in I714, and Sufannah in 1745. Of this family were Sir John and Sir Peter Floyer, knights; Sir Peter, brother of Sir John, of London, and Chefhunt in Hertfordfhire, was a noted refiner in Fofler-lane, London, in which fituation he acquired an ample fortune. The relidt of Sir Peter died in 1732, at Chefhunt ; their children were a fon, colonel of the fourth troop of life-guards, who died March 23, 1733, without iffue, leaving the bulk of his fortune, about 6000I. per annum, to a fitter, and a daughter, Letitia, who lived at Iflington, near London, heir to her brother. Sir John, an eminent phyfician of Lichfield, married , daughter of — ' — Archibald * (with whom lady Elizabeth Stanhope, after- wards wife of Samuel Hill, of Shenflone Park, efq. was edu- cated), and had ilTue two fons, Archibald, who died without ilTlie; and John, of Longdon near Lichfield, who had iffue Sufanna, wife of Sacheverell Floyer, of Hyntz, by whom fhe had no ifiue ; fne fecondly married George Lea, of May field, and had * Sir Henry Archbald, knight, of Lichfield, in 1673. 2 by OF SHENSTONE. 143 by him one daughter, wife of Lea, counfellor at law, of Matherfiekl ia StafFordlhire. Sir John Floyer, knight, M. D. had a mefTuage and lands at Footherley, which were before the property of Edward Thorn- ton ; alfo land in the adjoining moors, which pays two wood hens, belides a chief-rent to the lord of Shenftone manor, which after- wards defcended to his great grand-daughter, wife of the aforefaid counfellor Lea (who, befides other lands, enjoys in her right the manor of Matherfield) ; fi:ie difpofed of the Footherley ellate to the prefent John Dolphyn, efq. who took down the farm- houfe, and annexed the land to other tenures. Sir John Floyer, knight, died at Lichfield January 31, 1733-4. Of the abovefaid John Floyer, of London, we add, that he left by will a confiderable eftate to John Burnes Floyer, efq. . of Alderfliaw, near Lichfield, yet in his minority, only fon of Richard Eurnes, of Alderfhaw (who deceafed in 1766), by Anne Leonard, of Wednefbury in Stafford fliire. I have here placed together what related to the Floyers, yet we find other perfons pofieifed of this manfion called Foother- ley hall, and lands about it, particularly a branch of the Svl- veflers. John Sylvefter feems to have fold it to the Browns, being exprefsly faid in the rolls to have been the owner j)rior to this family. Samuel Brown was of Footherley foon after the death of Cromw-eil, if not during his ufurpation. In 1666 Eleanor Brown was married to Nicholas Sylvell-er, v/ho, if de- fcended of John, as above, might induce this family to fettle here, it being pretty fure that they came out of Salop, from Wellington, or fome place near the Wreking. This Samuel Brown died here in September 1667 ; befides other children,, he left John. In 1667, John Brown, gent, paid 3s. 6d. quar- terly afll-flhaent to the royal aid, and to the addition made the. famcL: 144 THE HISTORY AND A N T I q_U I T I E S fame year 6s ; alfo is. for Perry's land. In 1674 John Brown, then called of Thornes hall, gent, purchafed ten acres of land in the Broadneld, of James Adams of Footherley ; in 1682, lixteen acres of John Birch and his wife, under a leafe of 500 years; that year he evidenced the receipt of a f«m of money for the Radley Moor pieces, purchafed by himfelf and others, ailing herein as an agent to the Fryths. He was alfo one of the churchwardens in 1690. His wife was Grenada, widow of Edward, and mother of Rowland Fryth, efqrs. who died in Fe- bruary 1695-6, without any iffiie from her fecond hufband ; when he died * I cannot find out. This Grenada Brown left by will fifty pounds to purchafe land, the profit of which was ordered to be diilributed among the poor widows, or for want of fuch widows, among the poor inhabitants of Lynn, and the two Stonalls ; this money remained in the Court of Chancery till 172 1. Samuel, of Footherley-hall, brother to John of Thornes hall, had iiTue John, Samuel, and Anne, who furvived her brothers, and lived fome time after their deceafe, at the fame houfe. She leaving it to a tenant, lived at Tatenel near Bur- ton, to a good age, and dying in February 1762, was interre>d at Shenltone, having never married. Mary, wife of Thomas Pickinfon, by whom Ihe had children ; flie lived to be 90 years old, dying at Upper Stonal in January 1767 wife of ..... Pryce, of Ludlow in Shropfliire j Jane, her daughter, is or lately was living at the Grove, near Drakelow in Derby(hire ; a fourth, Elizabeth, married Salt, of Hilton in this parifli, yet living at Dudley with her fon. John, the eldeft, became heir to John, his uncle, of Thornes, and was bred to * John Brown, gent, of Shenftone, was buried November 10, 1709. the OF S H E N S T O N E. H5 the law, biit did not clioofe to praclife it, except as his know- ledge of it enabled him to a«5l m the capacity of a fteward to lord WilloLighby de Broke, at whofe feat he mollly relided, and with whom he was highly in favour for his integrity. I fuppofe this to be the perfon Dr. Plott -'• means, when he obferves, that " Mr. Brown, of Footherley, fent the trunk of a fir-tree taken " out of the Peat-more to captain Lane for his examination," or his father more probably, from the time of its date, in the reign of James II. In 1692, Mr. Brown paid 6s. poll-tax for hiii felf, his wife, and four fervants, and one pound one fiiil- ling to the militia, and towards horfes to mount them ; where we muft underftand it of his father or uncle, feeing this John of Footherley was never married. Being an adive man in be- half of the parifli, upon the 12th of June, 1721, it was agreed, that the legacy of Mrs Grenada Brown to the poor wi- dows of Over Stonall, Nether Stonall, and Lynne, which, by a decree in chancery then lately made, was affirmed to be due unto them, remaining in the hands of a m'afler in chancery, fliould be got out of that court ; and that Mr. John Brown, of Footherley, Ihould be employed to get the fame : figned by many perfons prefent, Chriftopher Colyere, J. Jackfon, Fr. Rawlins, W. Hardwick, Edw Handley, Geo. Hawe, T. Biddle, Nic. Wyatt, Rd. Steel, Szc. The caufe was accordingly "profecuted, and the money re- covered ; but part of it being afterwards loft, it was judged moft prudent to lay it out in land, and with the faid money was bought the Poor's piece, adjoining to Cheil:erfield ley, the rent of which IS yearly diitributed as directed in the laft will of the aforefaid Grenada Brown. Mr. Brown, in 1713, was concerned in a * See the HiHory of ScafFcrdfliirc. U leafe 145 THE HISTORY. AND ANTIQ^UITIES leafe of lands from James Adams, gent, of Footherltv, to Wil- liam Henry, of Wood-end ; that year he witneffed a deed paffed between Jofeph and Thomas Alfop, of Little Hay, and is men- tioned for the laft time in the records, May 20, 1723. At his death he enjoined his executors to difpofe of his ellate. Oliver Brown, in 1667, paid to the royal aid for Pool-b; idge meadow and mills, with John Brown, gent. Samuel (brother and heir to John), itudying divinity, entered into holy orders, took the decree of Doctor in Divinity, and was made chaplain to queen Anne. By Elizabeth his wife, he had iffue, i.John, who died young ; 2. Francis, a clergyman, yet living at Old Swynford, near Stourbridge in Worceiterlhire, who married Anne, daughter of Sadler, of Whitacre in Warwickfliire, and hath feveral children (3), a daughter. Samuel Brown died in January 1724-5, and was buried the 30th, at Shenftone. Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Brown, died in 1703. In I 7 15 died Mr. Edward Brown, of Wiggington near Tam- worth, and was buried here. At the fame time that Henry Pitt * held the farm, lived in this manfion we are treating of Turton, efq. fon of — — - Turton, of Orgrave in Alrewayes, near Lichfield, defcended of William Turton of the Oaks in Weft Bromwich, by John his younger fon, about the reign of queen Elizabeth. This gen- tleman was unmLrried when this was written, but had left Footherley many years. The next family of note refident here, was Charles Floyer, efq. after of Hints, who had children born here, as before ob- * 1736, and afterwards. ferved, OFSHENSTONE. 14^ ferved, and, dying a few years lince, left three fons, and two daughters; I. Catharine, wife of Thomas Levett, of Whitting- ton (brother to John, of Which nore and Lichfield, late a can- didate to reprefent that city in parliament), by whom flie had- iffue ; (2) Mary, wife of Humberftone Cawley, efq. of Guerfylt, near Wrexham, in Denbighfhire. Of the fons, Charles, the fecond, lived at Sutton Coleiield ; Sacheverell, the youngeft, was in the Manchefter trade ; Ralph, the eldeft, fon and heir, a gentleman of fair reputation, refided at the family feat at Hints; After Charles Floyer, came to this feat John Porter, a gen- tleman who had followed trade in Birmingham, and retired from bnfinefs; he died in November 1731, aged 43 ; and Sa- rah, his widow, in November 174I) aged 41 ; both on the fame day of that month, viz. the 29th. Porter's family was fucceeded by Samuel Whaley, efq. fon of Daniel, by daughter and heirefs of Wright, which Daniel was third fon of Whaley, efq. of an ancient houfe at Whaley, in Lancathire ; whence the name. Of this gentle- man, well known for his benevolence and charity, I may not - fay much, left 1 fliould give offence ; nor ought I to fay lefs than that all his deportment is that of the well-bred man, and the Chriflian. H's wife is daughter of Blackham, nephew or great nephew of Blackham, of London, created by king Wilham III. in 1696, a baronet. He bore Az. 2 bars between 9 crofs croflets florc. This Samuel Whaley hath no ilTue. Footherley Hall is held in leafe by the aforefaid gentleman for the lives of himfelf and wife, but is the property of John Dol- ' phyn of the Mofs, being purchafed of the Browns by Henry Dolphyn, of Stafford, attorney at law. U 2 Adjoin- ,48 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJLJITIES Adjoining to it, is a fmall houfe, and farnn, which went with this, except that it was at one time the property of the Thorn- tons, who had other lands in this hamlet, viz. The houfe and grounds lately in the poffeffion of Thomas Badkyn, deceafed, in right of his wife, and of ... . Wygan, and of Benjamin Dawfbn, of Coventry, who married the daughter and heirefs of Thornton, by Ann his wife ; after his dcceafe married to Thomas Badkyn. This eftate was, before Thornton, in Walter Aftley ; and earlier in William Prieft *. The Thorntons, who were fettled here in queen Elizabeth's reign, if not fooner, poiTeffed alfo lands that were John Syl- vetter's, part of Radley Moor, and Mofs Moor. Lately EHza- beth Thornton had a meffuage and garden in Shenftoiie village, which William Thornton received from Sarah and Ann, daugh- ters and coheirs of Thom.as Cook, which Elizabeth, or William, fold to OakeS; whofe daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Aifopof Edinghall, enjoys them. In 1583 died Agnes Thornton ; foon after we find Nicolas and Thomas, probably her fons, which laft had feveral chil- dren. In the latter end of the reign of queen Elizabeth we find John Thornton, of Footherley, who had ifTue. 22 Charles I. William, who owned Mofs Moor, was witnefs to a deed paffing lands from Roger Adams to James Fletcher, of Footherley. In the fame reign, John Thornton was made one of the attorneys to enfranchize fome copyhold lands in Foother- ley. In 1665 Nicolas lived at Little Hay, in Shenftone. In 1662 William, of Footherley, had a part of Radley Moor from the lord of th& manor, Edward Thornton being one of the at- torneys, with John Dolphyn, to give and take poffeffion of them for that purpofe, in the prefence of Ed ward Thornton, ju- * See above, under Sbcnjlone and Wood-end. nior, O F S H E N S T O N E. ' 149 nior, and Robert, with others. Edward fold lands in the fame Moor to Robert Sylveller, of Wood-end; and, in 1721, was one of the perfons who figned the agreement to recover the le- gacy of Grenada Brown from the Court of Chancery. The aforefaid eltate, in the pofleffion of Thomas Badkvn's widow, and Benjamin Dawfon, was fold in 17 63 to the lord of the manor. A little farther, on the left hand, flood a houfe called Feres, from its owner, before the ertate of Cannon, with the lands appertaining to it, and formerly Nicolas Wyatt's, who -were felled here in the reign of queen Elizabeth. William Wyatt died at Shenilone in 1580, and left ilTue. Nicolas, in 160 2, married Mary Higginbotham, and had Nicolas of Foother- ley, who, by Elizabeth his wife that died in 1656, had William, born in 16 5. Thomas Wyatt, of Footherley, "Was married to Sarah Miller, of Chelterfield, according to Cromwell's ordinance, before Richard Floyer, of Hints, juifice of the peace, in 16^6. Nicolas, of Footherley, died in 1690, and Sarah, his widow, in i;oo. There were other branches of them in Upper and Nether Stonall. hi 1667 William and Nicolas, of Footherley, with Thomas, paid to the royal aid. In 1602 Sarah Wyatt, widow, of this hamlet, William, and his wife, paid 3s. poll-tax. The Veres were even lately a confiderable family in the neighbourhood, and at Attley in Warwicklhire, as they are now at London ; in all probability derived of fome younger branch of the great houfe of Vere, of which Aubrey was created earl of Oxford by Maud the emprefs, and king Henry II. her fon, which title ended in Aubrey, the 20th earl, in 1703. The name is from Vere, a town in Zealand. Some, rather too fanciful, derive the name from Verus, a Chriftian (anno Chrifti I50 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QIT I T I E S Chrifti 41), anceftor of Marcus Antonins Verus, the Roman emperor, and of Milo de Vere, duke of Angiers and Mayence (ann. 778), general to Charles the great, whofe filler he mar- ried. In later times I find Vere a chief agent of Oliver Cromwell, and lent by him to execute bufinefs (under a par- ticular commiffion) with cardinal de Retz, a noted French Hatef- raan. Of him arofe, as fome have it, a wealthy family in Lon- don, which had lands at Shenftone. Jofeph Vere owned this eftate at Footherley, which one of the name * and line fold to Charles Symplon, of Lichfield, attorney at law, a few years fince. In 1643-4 the committee at Stafford allowed William Vere to pafs through that town, on his paying 30I. In June 1644, Mr. William Vere, of Hints, was ordered to pay to the committee 5I. on their propofitions, but, as the committee were unacquainted with his circumftances, Swynfen, efq. capt. Barbour, and others, fliould add or lelTen that fum. In 1651, Jofeph Vere, of Afiley in Warwickfliire, was truftee in a mar- riage-contract between John Clark of that place and Alice Wyatt of Shenilone. In 1701 Richard Vere married Ann Afli- mole, of Wood-end in this parifli, and had ilTue Mary, after- wards wife of Job Serjeant ; and Ann Vere, widow, died in 1753. Arms of Vere ; quarterly Or and Gules, a mullet. Or. The neat manfion, near Thornton's, belonged to the family of Fletcher, who long refided here ; of which name we find in 1589, William, Rowland, Thomas, Francis, and John, who married Agnes Levett, in 1590. John had ilTue a fon, Francis, born 1598. John Fletcher, of Footherley, died in ♦ A banker of London. 1602. OF S H E N S T O N E. i5» 1602. James, of Footherley, had John, by Dorothy his wife, which Dorothy died m -65^. John married Mary VV^^tton, and died in 1680. James Fletcher, or Footherley, gent, (fon of Francis or James, by Elizabeth his wife) by Mary his wife had ilfue two fons, Richard, and Franciii, who died an infant; alfo two daughters, Mary, who died unmarried ; and Eleanor, who married Cooke, of Stone, attorney ar law, and ifeward to John lord Gower. James built the prefent houfe, and died in 1722- Richard married, i , of Stone ; 2. Anne, daughter of VViHiam Hardwick, of the Boifes. Richard, and Anne, his wife, died the fame day, and were entombeJ together,' Novembers, r-34, leaving no iHlie ; he paffed his ellate by will to Francis Salt, of Lichfield, who had married his coulin- german ; but .... Cook's fon difpuiing the validity of the will, much of the eilate. was \\aifcd; and at length the whole, at Footherley, was fold to Stephen Symplon, of Lichfield, attorney at law, in whofe family it ftill remains. In the 2 2d year of the reign of Charles I. James Fletcher bought Madleze-field, . in Footherley, of Roger Adams, with other lands, lying near his mother Cecily's laud, to which pur- chafe Thomas Rugeley, William Thornton, James Fletcher, Sec. were evidences. J rraes Fletcher, of Footherley, and James his fon, in 16S7, exchanged Wood-end piece with Francis Prieft, for lands in the Small-field, paying over and above to the laid Francis Prieft the lum of" forty and two pounds. This fa- mily had like wife a mefihage and lands in Footherley, or Wood- end, afterwards the property of Robert Sylveffer. In 1667, James Fletcher paid 5s. lod. to the royal aid, as alTefled ; and the fame year los. 3d. to the additional aireffment on that account. In 1692, James Fletcher paid 2s. to the poll- tax, lor himfelf and man. , . The 152 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES The farm lately in the tenure of Thomas Biddulph, and of John, his fon, now of John Dolphyn, efq. was formerly the eftate of the Grendons ; whether defcended of thofe concerned in the manor itfelf is uncertain. Some fields in Shenftone bear the name of Grendons leafows, formerly belonging to the Heaths of Hamerwich, now to the aforefaid gentleman ; and, moll: likely, in former times to the Grendon family. Thomas Grendon died at Footherley in 1656-7. Thefe lands were afterwards in a family of the Symonds, of this parifh, of which was Henry, who, in 1596, married Alice Stanley ; he died in 1600. Henry and Joan Symonds had ifiue James, born in 1603 ; and Joan in 1609. Thomas was buried here in 1607 ; and Ellen in 1609. Thomas Paflaw and Eliza- beth Symonds were married in 1686; and in 171 3 Jofhua Symonds married Margaret, daughter of .... Sedgwick, of Little Afton, gent. The abovefaid farm is John Dalton's, efq. Near this is a farm in the tenure of John Marlow, which, with lands about it, is the property of Slaney, or his heirs; it was formerly the eftate of Thomas Rugeley, efq. af- terwards it pafted to the Colliers, of w^hich family John Collier had it, and after him Benjamin Collier ; from them it came to the Clays ; and fince to Morton Slaney, gent, whofe lifter en- joys it. The Clays pofleffed likewife a meflliage and lands in Shen- ftone village ; afterwards in the hands of Samuel Hill, Thomas Hill, and now of Noel Hill, of Terne, efq. In 1661, Wil- liam Clay, with Alexander and Thomas Warde, of Wood-end, witnefled a deed of Rowland Alfop's, of this place ; he died in J 664-5. Henry deceafed in 1685. Thomas, of Shenftone, in 17 1 2, married Elizabeth Grice, of Womborn, and had ilRie 4 Mary D F S H E N S T O N E. 153 Mary (17 14); Elizabeth, daughter of and Mary Clay, was bom 1724-5. In 1667.... Clay, widow, paid to ~ the royal aid. Near the farm lately held by John Eiddulph zv? the re- mains of a tolerably good manlion, long polTeffed by a famiiv named Adams, who had confiderable eftates, Francis Adams died in 1589. John married Joan Stanley in i^^qG, at which time John, Roger, and Thomas, had families in this pariih. Roger had iffue John, born 1597, whofe fon feems to be Ro- ger ■-•-, father of John and James, and a daughter Eleanor. In the 3d year of the reign of king Charles I. the two lords of this manor enfranchifed for a fum of money, then paid to Rowland Fryth, their agent, the meffuage and lands of John Adams, and Alice (Sylvefter) his wife^ at Footherlcy, paying to the laid lord one fliilling yearly, and one hen, upon the icth of Ja- nuary for ever, and doing fuit and fervice at the court baron held after Eafter and after Michaelmas-day. In the 2 2d vear of the reign of king Charles I. Roger Adams, and Mary (Higgon) his wife, fold lands lying near the Bromleys, George's, and Mofs Moor, three felions in F,roadlield ground, lyino- on the Flax Butts, towards Radley Moor; one felion in Highfield, near the land of Edward Yardley, gent, and .... Wyatt ; with a fnur, named Sm.all-ends ; the deed is attefted by Thomas Rugeley, Wil- liam and Thomas Thornton, John Riddings, and James Oldfield. He alfo bought of John and. Alice, his parents, a mefAiage and lahds in Footherley ; and fold them, in 1661, to John his fon. John died, as I think, unmarried in 1670. James fold ten acres in Broadfield (in the reign of Charles II.) to John Brown, of Thornes, which before were the eltate of John Collier, and * Living ia 1667. X had 154 THE HISTOP. Y AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S had paffed to Roger and John Adams, his father and brother. In 1667, Roger and Jofeph Adams paid 3s. 6d. a quarter to the royal aid, and the fame year 6s. addition. Roger died in 1670. To JaiT^es above faid EHzabeth Higgons, of Aftbury, in Hales- Owen, Shropfliire, left by will an eftate at Aftbury. In 1662, he was one of thofe perfons who exhibited a bill in chancery againft Edward Fryth, lord of this manor, to compel him to an agreement for enclofing wafte ground at Footherley, in which bufinefs they fucceeded in 1682. In 1667, he fettled in truft to Thomas Ward, of Shenftone,, gent, and Henry Sedgwick, Smallfield field-piece, New Meadow, Broad Meadow, twelve acres in Broadficld, Highfield, and Pleck. Mofs-field, as a dower for Mary his wife, daughter of Sedgewick. In the reign of Charles II. (1673) Rowland FiT^h, Walter Fowler, of Pen- ford ; Thomas Scott, of Great Barr ; and Charles Hinton, vint- ner, of London, upon the payment of 50I. to Rowland Fryth, confirmed James Adams's right to land in Radley Moor. In 1634 Prieft fold lands to Walter Fowler, in Footherley Prieft had fold lands here to Anne Darlefton, of Elford, which the faid Walter, in 1691, afiigned over in truft for Jac. Adams, fon of James, as appears in a deed tripar- tjte betvv-een Walter Fowler, of Penford, on the firft part ; Wil- liam Prieft on the fecond ; and John Day, of Sutton Colefield, and Jac. Adams, on the third part ; for which the laft-named Derfon v/as to pay 6d. yearly chief rent. In 1692, Walter Fow- ler re-purchafed part of the fame eftate ; which Walter was de- fcended of William Fowler, who married the daughter and heir (Cecily) to Nicolas de Engleiield, grandfon of Richard, of Foxley in Buckinghamfliire, in the reigns of Henry V. and Henry VI. William by Cecily Englefield had iffue ; i. Richard, chancellor of the dutchy of Lancafter, whofe fon and heir, Sir Richard, in 1528, OF S H E N S T O N E. " 155 1528, was of Rycot in Oxfordfhire ; 2. Thornas, eiquii^'^ of the body to king Edward IV. of whom came Walter Fowler, of Pen- ford in Staffordfhire. James Adams, fon of James, was born in 1674. In 1688 he, or his father, levied a fine for his Birches piece ; that year he bought lands named Bromley Riddings, of John Darby, of Little Afton, and lands in the Pleck Mofs ; alio lands called the Bothams, wdth fome parts of Highfield and Broadfield, and then pofTeffed Dukesfield, in Footherley, and land in Little Sutton. In 1690, he purchafed a meffuage and lands in the Oidfield, Netherfield near Pickharefield, in the Broadfield, and Highfield; a croft in this hamlet ; and a piece in Wood-end, part of the Bothams, of Abraham Griflin, Edward Jackfon, of Little Hay, and Sufan, lifter Of Abraham, left them by John Sylvefter, de- ceafed. In 1691, he purchafed of William and Elizabeth Prieft, Webbfcroft lands in Smallfield, near James Sylve'iier's and John Yardley's, adjoining to the Broadfield, in the Bread- field, on Radlcy Moor Flatts, and in the Moor, Webb's flatt, in ' the Great and Little Plecknioft, on Hare-hedge, and in the Old- field. In 17 13, James Adams bought two burgages in Sandford- ftreet, Lichfield ; and fold Smallfield piece to Richard Smyth. Dying without ifiue, his filters were his heirs, of whom Eliza- beth fold ■•■■ her moiety at Footherley to Jofeph Alfop, and died in 1738. Jofeph Alfop was of Little Hay, of a family that had lands there in the year 1659. His eftate at Footherley defcended to his four daughters, Anne, wife of John Collins, of Hints ; Eli- zabeth, wife of William Whywell, of Birmingham ; Sarah, w'ife of John Cooke, who had this manfion in his wife's right ; and * 5 George U. X a Eleanor, 156 THE HISTORY AND ANTI Q^U I T I E S Eleanor, wife or Rowland Collins, of Little Hay, to whom this houfe pafTed, with lands about it, by agreement ; and at pre- ,fent is in his widow and fon. In this hamlet William Sylvefter had a houfc and farm, which went with his daughter and heir in marriage to Thomas Hinkes, of Anftrey in Leicefterfliire, from whom the lands pafled by purchafe to John Dolphyn and Stephen Sympfon, but the houfe was burnt by accident. Thomas Biddulph, of Footherley, owned lands in Broadfield and Footherley ; now in his fons, Thomas and John, both of Whitacre in Warwickfliire. RADLEY MOOR. Radley Moor End is a fmall hamlet, with few houfes, but containing in it the Moor, commonly reckoned at 340 acres, though both are more ufually comprized under Footherley, to which they adjoin, as they do upon the Afton road to Wood- end. In the year 1662, James Adams, of Footherley, and others, who had a right of common in the wafte-ground called Radley Moor, entered into an agreement (as it iliould feem, upon feme condition before made between them and the lord of the manor, to exhibit a bill in the High Court of Chancery, to oblige Edward Fryth, efq. lord of the manor of Shenftone, to con- fent OF S II E N S T O N E. 157 fent to the enclofing of the faid Moor ; to this the Court of Chancery aflented, and a commifTion was thereupon ifllied out (after a decree was made), fctting forth each perfon's fliare, and commillioners were deputed fur that purpofe ; conveyances were hkewife ordered to be drawn ; but before they could be exe- cuted the faid Edward Fryth, efq. died. Upon the deceafe of the lord of the manor, the fee-fimple was in Rowland Fryth, of Thornes Hall, efq. fon and heir of Edward, who, in 1682, April 7, as appears by an indenture made between him and James Adams, confirmed the agreement made with his brother, according to a decree of the Court of Chancery, by which Rad- ley Moor niould have been divided in eighteen equal jiarts, of which William Thornton and James Sylveifer, of Weeford,. were to have two parts ; and one part to be difpofed of for the life of the poor, as the major part of the owners Ihould from- time to time appoint, each divifion paying 6d. yearly, inz. 3d. upon the 25th of March; and 3d, upon St. Michael's day, to . Edward and Rowland Fryth, their heirs and affigns, for ever. John Birch, of Little Afton, had one fhare, v.ho, after the en- clofure, but before a conveyance was made to him by Edward or Rowland Fryth, efqrs. borrowed i 20I. of William Pretty, of Fafely in Warwickfliire, gent, and for fecuring it and intereft, the faid John, and Elizabeth his mother, upon the 20th of March in the 23d year of the reign of king Charles 11. amongll , other lands. Sic, fold and palTed over his fliare of Radley Moor, being 1 6 acres ; William Petty conveyed his right to James Adams; and, as rol. was paid to Edvvard Fryth, according to a covenant before made, and 50L more to Rowland Fryth, efq. the faid Rowland palFed it for ever to fames Adams, and his heirs, paying 6d. yearly, free from all claims under Edward his father, or Rowland his grandfather, deceafcd ; James Adams was 153 THE HISTORY AND AN T I QJ-TIT IE S was alio allowed feven years to confirm his title, at his own ex- pence ; arxd Rowland Fryth hereby referved to himlelf the li- berty to turn the water, and make trenches and bridges on the faid land. John Dolphyn, of Shenftone, gent, and Edward Thornton, of Footherly, were appointed jointly to give and take poffeffion, dated April 7, 1&82. Rowland Fryth fealed and delivered in the prefence of John Swynfen, Jofeph Surton, and George Bulk- ley. Edward Thornton gave James Adams pofTeffion ; prefent Edward Thornton, jun. Robert Thornton, W. Whilion, and Thomas Lander. The feveral portions allotted were by agreement to confift of twelve acres, though they are confiderably more ; that called Birches, is in the deed faid to be lixteen acres, owing, as fup- pofed, to his advancing more than his equivalent towards the law-fuit with the lord of the manor. The whole of Radley Moor, generally fpeaking, is in the hands of the following per- fons, n, of Lichfield, gent, and fifter of William JcKon, counfellor in the law; which Phineas became, in right of his mother, one of the coheirs to the learned Fowke, M. D. He had ilfue Phi- neas Huffey of Little Wyrley, efq. and a daughter Ifabella, both * Fowke. 2 un- i;4 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S unmarried ; alfo three other fons, Fowke, furgeon and apothe- cary ; Jofeph ; and Richard, a linen-draper in Wolverhampton, who, by , daughter of Becket, hath one fon and one daughter. The fecond fifter of the phyfician was married to John Holland, gent, father, by her, of John Holland, of Shrewfbnry, M. D. The youngeil: fifter was wife of Robert Huntbach, of Wolverhampton, gent, whofe daughter, wife of Helliere, efq. had iflue an only fon, Sir San.uel Helliei, of Woodhoufe, near Wombiirn in Staffordlhire, knight, late high-fheriff for the county of Worcefter, yet unmarried. The prefent Phineas Hufley, efq. is lord of a third part of Norton, Little Worley, in Norton, Brown Hills, lands in Landy-wood, near Cannock; Brewood hall, and its appurtenances, he fold in 1766, to Plymnley, gent. The family, for two or three hundred years, had Ogley Hay, one -third of which came to Fowke HuiTey, and either is at prefent in Phineas HulTey, efq. or in Richard Gildart, efq. lord of the manor of Norton under Cannock, by purchafe. We alfo add, that John Holland * lived at Brewood hall, was a man of abilities, and had another fon Fowke, linen draper in Salop. Arms of Fowke de Brewood ; Vert, a fleur de liz, Argent ; of Gunftone, the fame, with a crefcent for difference. The next poffelTors of Little Afton were the Ducies, by pur- chafe from the Fowkes, whofe family I fliall take fome pains to fpeak of, becaufe Simon Degge, who wrote in the reign of Charles 11. in his fpleen fays, that alderman Ducy's fon would take it ill not to be wrote ejquire. * He was alfo juflice of die peace. The O F S H E N S T O N E. 175 The family came out of Normandy, and had its eftates in the county of Stafford from the time of king Edward II. when Ducy, their anceftor, raifed a regiment for queen Ifabel againft that king, out of the Normans his countrymen, and was, molt probably, after the depofing that unfortunate j)rince, rewarded with lands in England. Ducy, in the reign of Henry VII. had iffue James, who married Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Pype, of Belton in the county of Derby, knight (fon of Richard Pype, of Wolver- hampton, efq. and father of Sir Richard Pype, flieriff of Lon- don in 1572, and lord mayor in 1578,); his fecond fon, Henry, married Mary, daughter and heir of Robert Hardy, efq. and had iffue Robert, a confiderable perfon in 161 8, being then a citizen of London, and alderman of Baffifl:iaw ward. At his own expence he glazed one of the windows of St. Lawrence Jury church, in which parifh he lived (others of the inhabitants finilhing the reft), w^as of the merchant-tailors company, one of the flieriffs for the city in 1620, knighted in 1628-9, ^'^^'^ mayor in the year 1 630-1, created a baronet in the 5th year of the reign of Charles I. by letters patent, dated November 28. This Sir Robert was a confiderable benefador to St. James's church, and to St. Trinity in Aldgate, London, being prefent at the dedication of the latter, and was the fame perfon to whom, as an encourager of learning and merit, was dedicated by an anonymous author, under the initial letters A. M. "- the edition of Stowe's Annals in folio, publiflied in 1633. Being immenfely rich, king Charles I. made choice of him for his banker, and at the beginning of the Civil War was indebted to him eighty thoiifand pounds, all which he loft ; at his deceafe, however, he left 40,0001. andupwaids, to his children. By his wife, Eliza- * Anthony Munday. ' . beth, 176 THE H i STORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S beth, daughter of Richard Pj'ott, alderman of London, he had iffue four fons, WilHam, Hugh, Richard, and Robert. Sir Robert, baronet, bore, Argent, a fefs vaire Argent and Azure, between 3 cinquefoils pierced, 2 and 1, in a chief, a right hand coviped at the wrifi. Of Hugh I find no more, than that he was created in the month of April i6Gt, one of the knights of the Holy Trinity, ufaally called knights of the Bath. Sir William fucceeded his father in the title of baronet, and in 1 66 1 was created knight of the Bath the fame day with Sir Hugh his brother. He lived fome time at Little Alton, and was fucceeded in the title of baronet by his brother Sir Richard, who was alfo refident at Afton hall, for, in 1667, Richard Ducy, of Afton, twice paid towards the afleflment for the royal aid. Au- guft 29, 1679, we find the fame perfon, or one of the name, buried at Shenrtone *. Of Robert, the youngeft, we learn f , that Sir Robert Ducy his father, alderman of London, purchaled Little Afton of Fowke, and gave it to Robert Ducy, his youngeit {en ; this muft have happened in king Charles the Firft's reign, feeing, in December 164.3, this Robert Ducy, efq. of Afton, was taken into cuftody by order of the committee at Stafford I, as a perfon no way devoted to ferve the parliament's defigns, and not re- leafed till he had given his promife, and a note under his hand, either to return to Stafford as a prifoner within one month, or to fend the committee lool.; the note I have feen, and it bears date January 6, 1643-4. This gentleman married Mary, daugh- ter of Sir Gabriel Lowe, of Newark, in the county of Glou- cefter, knight, by whom, as 1 conjecture, he had Robert and * See Regifter. -f- See Degge. X Committee cotes ; pen. Dom. Barks de Alderliiaw. Richard OF S II E N S T O N E. 177 * ' ' , ' liiGhard, who died, as above fald, in 1679; otherwife it will be ■ difficult to reconcile the parifli regifter with CoUins's Peerage, who calls Sir William and Sir Richard Ducy, baronets, uncles to Sir Robert Ducy's daughter and heir ; alfo a daughter named Elizabeth. We are pretty certain his wife furvived him, and re-married '^' to Thomas Jolliff, of Cofton in the. county of Wor- celler, efq. and was buried at Shenrtone in 1663; a lady of great goodncfs, and fine accompliihments. Robert Ducy, of Alion, efq. was buried at Slienftone, May 1 4, 1664, which perfon I look upon to have been fon of Robert aforefiiid, and grandfon of Sir Robert, firft baronet of this line. Another Robert lived at Aifon hall in 1673. We obferve in addition to the above account, that Sir Robert Ducy, baronet, among other eflates, purchafed Wickware, a large and corporate town in Gloucefterfliire, of the Delawars, . ' which went to Sir William Ducy, his grandfon, created lord vifcount Do'wne, in the kingdom of Ireland, v/ho leaving no iffue, his lifter became his heir, and married to Mr. Moreton. The Moretons have long pnlTeffed the lordOiip of- Engleton, in the county of Stafford. In 15B3, upon the viiitation of the heralds at arms, Adam Moreton, of Wilbrighton, and Edward, of Engleton, were allowed to be gentlemen by defcent, and to bear a coat. In the 3d, 4th -f-, and 14th, years of the reign of Charles I. • Thomas Moreton, of Engleton, efq. as lord of Shenftone, jointly with William Fryth, of Murival in the county of War- wick, paffed or enfranchifed lands in this parifli to fcveral per- fons, particularly in Nether Stonall and Footherley, in which laft deed he is named fon of Edward Moreton, of Engleton, alio * This docs not appear in the Jolliffe pedigree in Dr. Nafh's Worcefterfliire, I. p. 251. -f Chart, penes meipfum. A a ' , - in 178 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES in Little Hay. In May i 644, Moreton, of Engleton, efq. was imprilbned by the committee at Stafford, and orders given him to pay lool. and if not done in a week, that he fliould be tliirrained. In the reign of king Charles II. colonel Edward Moreton refided at Little Afton. Robert Ducie, the fourth fon of Sir Robert *, had only Eliza- beth, his daughter and heir ; heir alfo to Sir Richard and Sir William Ducie, baronets, her uncles. She was married to Ed- ward Moreton, of Moreton and Engleton, in the county of Stafford. Matthew Ducie Moreton, their fon, was on June 13, 1720, created by king George I. baron Ducie, of Moreton, in the county of Stafford. He died in 1736 f, and was fuccceded in the title and eftate by Matthew, his fon ; but his eldeft filler, Elizabeth, having, February 5, 1729, married to Francis Rey- nolds, efq. fon to Thomas Reynolds, formerly a South Sea di- retStor, the reverfion of the honour is fettled upon her iffue by the faid Francis Reynolds. Arms of lord Ducie Moreton, Argent, a chevron, Gules, be- tween three fquarc buckles Sable : Creft, out of a wreath a demi moorcock difplayed, proper, comb and wattles. Gules : Supporters, two Unicorns, Argent, armed, mained, tufted, and hoofed, Or, gorged Vvith a ducal coronet, party per pale, Or and Gule?;. Motto, F erf ever ando. In 1663 rcfided at Little Aflon Thomas JoUifF (whence his wife was brought to be interred), but whether as his home, or on a vifir, is not very certain. We add, though a little out of its place, that Richard Ducie, efq. of Frocefter in Gloucell:erfliire, was an active royalift in the Civil War, in the time of Charles I. and when his party was * Collins's Peerage. \ May 2, 1735. Collins. crulliedj O F S H E N S T O N E. 179 cruihed, befides his other loffes and fufferings, was obliged to pay the ufurpers, as a compofiticn for his eftate and to live itii- molel^ed, the fum of 846 1. To the Antiquary I offer an earlier pedigree of the Moretons. Geoffrey Moreton do Moreton, in the Qth year of the reign of king Edward II. (fo called from a low marihy ground) befides other eftates, had a moietv of Church-over manor, in the county of Warwick. Thomas de Moreton (in the reign of Henry VIII.) had Atheilfon lordfliip upon Stour, in the fame county. Moreton had iffue Andrew Moreton, . of Moreton, in the county of Stafford, wlio marrying • daughter of Knightley, of Knightiey in this county (and of Wyrley, near Cannock, in the 9th year of the reign of Edward II.), a younger branch of that ancient family had iffue 3 fons ; James, Thomas, and John, a prieft. James took to wife , daugh- ter of Done, of Flaxyards and Utkington, in Chelliire, and had iffue by her Thomas, of Moreton, efq. whofe fon and heir was Adam; both living in 1583. Adam died in the i 2th year of the reign of James I. feized of the manor of Moreton, with 5 meffuages, and 590 acres of land there ; alfo 5 mef- fuages, 3 cottages, and 1200 acres of land in Wiltridon ; one of his daughters was wife of James Fowler, of Penford, efq. In the reign of queen Elizabeth Robert Moreton, of Baltrey irj Staffordlhire, married , daughter of Sir John Markham, of Cothara, knight. Thomas, fecond fon of Andrew Moreton and Knightly, had the lordQiip of Engleton in Staffordfliire, which came into the family by a marriage with the heirefs of that ancient houfe of Engleton, or Ingleton. This Thomas, by Margery his wife, daughter to Shepherd, of Oakley, in the county of Staf- ford, efq. had iffue two fons, Matthew and Richard ; and A a 2 four i8o THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES four daughters; i. Elizabeth, daughter of StajDleton, of Liflewood, efq. 2. Joyce, wife of Thomas Rowley, of Hick- erley, efq; 3. Alice, married to George Parfons, of Samburn in Warwick (llire, efq ; 4. Jane, wife of John Home, of Stoke in vVarwickfliire, gent. Matthew Moreton, by Alice his wife, daughter of Thomas Dickers, of Morehall in Staffordlliire, heir to her mother (Editha, daughter of Thomas Corby n, efq. of Corbyn's-hail, a great royalift, by ... . daughter of More, efq. of More-hall), had Edward, and five daughters ; i. Mary ; 2. Conftance ; 3. Margaret ; 4. Ifabel, wife of John Egington, of Robinfon in StaflTordiliire, efq; 5. Alice, wife of William Dickens, efq. Margaret was wife of Francis Whit- wick, efq. This branch of the Moretons alllimed Engleton's coat of arms. Matthew Moreton died polTefled of Buckfande, a mefliiage in Engleton ; another called Knightley's lands ; two others called Cough's, one meffuage in Horfebrooke, called Cough's lands ; l^nds in Brewood and Water Eaton ; three mef- fuages in Adlon ; lands in Dunfton, Bednall, and Penkrich, in the tenure of one Southern ; in Clifby and Webb ; with two parts in three of the herbage and pannage of Ogley Hay, in or near Shenftone. After thefe families. Little Afton rrtanor paiTed by purchafe to Richard Scott, of Birmingham in Warwickfliire, gent. He erected the prefent houfe in the modern ftyle, of a neat brick, edged with pohflied ftone, upon a fwell, riling gently and gra- dually from the old manfion, which was in the manner of building in the reign of Charles I ; half timber, in a low, moift, and, unhealthy fituation ; a fmall part of it is yet {landing (and is ufed as a ifable), as it were to point out the falfe talle of thofe times. Elegant as this llru^luie was, and fine as its fituation, Mr. Scott fell into another error, cuftomary in his days, of en- clofing OFSHENSTONE. i8i clofing nil round him, and as it were hiding and fencing his manlioa vvi:h high hedges of holly and other evergreens, which gave it a gloomy ap})earance ; but, perhaps, the following de- fcription given of it will convey the bell idea to the reader. Ailoii- hall, in the parilh of Shenftone, is a capital modern-built houfe, with offices convenient for a large family ; to it belongs the manor of Little Afton, and a confiderable demefne of land, arable, pafture, and meadow ; has four large pools of water, and fevcral ftews for fifli. A noted trouc-brook runs through the manor, which is in a fine fporting country, adjoining to Sutton Chace, thrte miles from Sutiun, fix from the city of Lichfield, five from Walfal, and ten from Birmingham. The houfe is handfome, neatly fronted and faflied four ways, is four ftories high, and was built by Richard Scott, efq. This genlleman was a peifon of much merit and humanity, known in public life by his having ferved the office of high-fheriff of the county with reputation, and in private by an affable deportment to all about him, and his zeal to ferve and oblige the parifliioners with whom he refided. He married Anne, one of the daugh- ters of John Addyes, of Moor-hall in the parifli of Sutton Colefield, efq. and died, after being forely afHicted with the ftcne and gravel, aged 62, upon the 6th of June, 1734. His wife furvived hirn, and died of a cancer in her breail, November 25, 1754, aged 55. They left iiiue only one daughter, Mary,, born in 17 13, at Alton, baptized November 20, and married February 24 next after the death of her father, to Andrew Racket, efq., of MoxhuU in the county of Warwick, to whom Ihe carried Aflon hall and other eftates. Andrew Hackct's family were fettled in Lincolnfhire, of which I now Ihall lay what is come to my knowledge-of their genealogy. John iS2 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES John Hacket, bifliop of Lichfield and Coventry, his anceftor, Tv-as a ])eiibnage of high repute for his learning and public fpi- rit, which brought vipon him great fufFerings in the time of the rebellion.. He was born in the Strand, Weftminfter, and educated in the king's fchool there ; thence being removed to Trinity college, Cambridge, he was chofen fellow, and became a noted tutor to the children of many great families. Going into holy orders, he was chaplain to Dr. Williams, bifhop of Lin- coln, and lord chancellor of England ; afterwards chaplain to king James L recftor of Holborn, London, and of Cheam, in Surrey; in 1624, archdeacon of Bedford, alfo canon refiden- tiary and prebendary of Mora in the church of St. Paul. In 3 631, he collected feveral thoufand pounds to repair Holborn church, then greatly decayed, which the parliament feized, and employed in the war againil: king Charles I. with that which was iet apart for the repair of St. Paul's. He was of the committee to redlify the Liturgy, in hopes to difpel the florm falling upon the church, but this defign was quaflied by the bill for taking .away Epifcopacy. He even once put a ftop to the bill ; Holborn was taken from him ; and at Cheam he was difturbed and impri- foned for ufing the Liturgy, yet he held it till the Reftoration, when he was offered the biflioprick of Glouceller, but refufed it. In 1661, he was raifed to the united fees of Lichfield and Coventry. Upon the cathedral at Lichfield he fpent in eight years 19,0001. of his own, and money procured for that end, with 1000 1. given by the chapter on Chriftmas eve. In 1669 he confecrated that cathedral, and kept a feaii for three days together, to lliew his joy for accomplilliing fo noble a work, which is indeed the admiration of the prefent times. He alfo laid out loool. upon his prebendal houie, the old palace being deftroyed in the troubles. In his diocefe he was exa£l, a con- ftaat OF S H E N S T O N E. 183 ftant preacher, and ufed his utmoft endeavours to oblige his clergy to do the fame, and adorn their dodrine with religious lives. He was a great benefactor to Trinity college, and the public library, at Cambridge ; alfo to St. John's college, and Clare hall. The good bilhop, of whom T could not fay lefs, died Odober 28, 1670, and vt'as buried under a fun:iptuous monument, fet up by his fon in his own cathedral, hi 1671, were publiflied un^ der his name two books called " Chriltian Confolations ;" and a " Century of Religious Difcourfes," folio, London, in 1671;; with his " Life," written by Thomas Plume. Henry Hacket, of Grymley, Worcefterfliire, was a fufferer jn the Civil War, and obliged to pay 300 1. compofition for his eftate to the ufurpers. Whether he was related to the bifliop I have not learned. , ;. The prelate had iflue a fon, Sir Andrew Hacket, knight, one of the maftcrs in chancery, w-ho married one of three daughters and coheirs of Lifle, of Moxhull in the county of War- wick, efq. and by her had iffue three fons, Lifle, Andrew, and John, a clergyman, vice principal of Trinity college, Cam- bridge, under the famous and learned Dr. Beutley, and when ordered to read the order of the biiliop (vifitor of that college) to expel him, refufed to be concerned. Lille Hacket, of Mox- hull, efq. had an only daughter, Mary, married to Sir Juftinian Ifham, of Lambton in Northamptonlhire, baronet, member of parliament for that county, who died March 5, 1737, "^vithout ilTue by his lady. Andrew, brother to Lifle, was father to Andrew, late of Moxhull, now of Sutton Colefield, efq. by Mary his wife, now living, daughter of Richard Scott, of Little Alton in Shenrtone,, efq. and hath iffue Andrew, John, and Richard, clerk, who hath- a benefice in the county of Lincoln, and is yet unmarried^ Andre\^ ^84 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES ■ Andrew married -^ , daughter to John lord Leigh, of Stonely Abbey, Warwick flii re, and fifter to Sir Edward the pre- sent baron and baronet ; llie died in London of the fmall-pox in February, 1769, without ilTue. Andrew refides at the fa- mily feat at Moxhull, which his father gave up on his mar- riage about the year 1767. This Andrew Hacket, junior, was high'flierifffor the county of Warwick. John, fecond fon of Andrew Hacket, efq. of Sutton Cole- field, became in 1766 heir to his uncle, John Addyes, of Moore-hall, Warwicklliire, efq. and then took the name of Addves. This John Addyes Hacket, of Moore-hall, was mar- ried to Jane, daughter to Scott, of Barr in the parifh of Aldrich, efq. (by his wife daughter of .... Whitby, of Heywood, efq. now of Langley-hall, near Sutton, lately of •Colwich, in the county of Stafford) Auguft 3c, 1769. After the Scotts' family left Alion-hall it was in the tenure of Richard Banner, of London ; after of Perry Barre, efq. In J 741 he was named a commiffioner in the atSt of parliament, by the appellation of Richard Banner, of Aflon-hall, efq. He was a perfon of good breeding, and great humanity, efpecially towards the poor, fhewn, belides his continual benevolence in giving a whole beef and three guineas at Chriftmas, yearly, to the diftrelTed of his own parifli. His ftudy was fitted v.ith a collection of the mod choice and valuable books, v/hich were when he left this place, fold by Purcel, of Worcefter, his nephew, for feveral hundred pounds to Anfon, of Shuckborough, in the county of Stafford, efq. His wife was , filler to Griffith Davis, of Birmingham, aq eminent phyfician, diftinguiihed too for her charities, one inftance of which we remark, which was the keeping a Ihop of phyfical drugs, in the management of which fhe was direcfted by Sa- 2 muel O F S H E N S T O N E. i»i; miiel Swynfcn, of Swynfcn, efq. M. D. afterwards of Birming- ham, Mell known, and yet remembered for his fkill in his pro- feffion, and his care in his prefcription.s ; this good lady died of a cancer in her brealh Her niece, Mary Griffith, only daughter and heir to Griffith Davis*, M, D. with a fortune of 3000 1. was, iipon May 26, 1736, married in Shenftone church to Sir Thomas Cave, of Stanford, in Northamptonfhire, baronet ; her refidence being then at Afton, as ward to her uncle Richard Banner, efq. This manfion was next in the holding of John Petit, efq. as I am informed, from 1743 to 1762, or thereabouts, a gen- tleman of great abilities and knowledge of the polite world ; to thefe were added what was preferable, compaffion to the loweft of , his fellow-creatures, and great goodnefs. With him refided a brother, who had ferved in the army as a captain, equally wor- thy, hi one word, the charity of the whole family feemed (their ftation confidered) to have no limits. The gentlemen adminiltered phylic, and prefcribed to their neighbours of a middle rank, %vhoie circumlfances did not admit of much expence, as well as to the poor, not only of this parifli, but of Aldrich, Barr, Sutton, Hill, and the hamlets adjoining, and with this they frequently ad- miniltered money, and the neceiTaries of life. The lady of John Petit, efq. with her filler and daughter, gave freely to fuch poor families, and to fuch objecls of humanity, as came within their fphere, which alfo they fearched out themfelves, ordered to have recommended to their notice, employing themfelves at other times, like Dorcas among the primitive Chriftians, with making linen for the poor, efpecially women with child, or in the bed of ficknefs. In the year 1762, after the death of Mr. Petit, his widow left Alton, and fettled in Bloomfbury-fquare, JLondon, to the very fenfible lofs and regret of all ranks in this' * Lord of the manor of Thedingworth in Leiceftcrfliire i where a moDi-imeiu- is placed to his memory. He died in 1722, aged 5^, ' '" ' " B b '.' neigh- i86 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES neighbourhood. The captain (Peter) died in 176S, and Mrs. Petit in 1767. John Petit, efq. married Mary, daughter of Thomas Hayes, of Wolverhanfipton, efq. and had ilTiie John Lewis, M. D. of London, where he pradlifed with great fuccefs; and Mary Anne. John Lewis was educated at Queen's college, Cambridge, and took the degree of A. B. 1756, A. M. 1759, M. D. 1766, and in Novem- ber, 1769, married to daughter of Serces, efq. of Hounflow. He died May 27, 1780, leaving three fons, John, Peter, and Lewis, all now living. William Penn, gentleman, held this manfion upon the de- parture of John Petytt, efq. three or four years, at prefent of Aldrich ; his wife was Anne, daughter of Symcox, of Al- drich, gent, but hath no ililie. In the year 1765, Humphry Minchin, efq. took a leafe of the houfe, with the manor of Little Ailon and all its rights, for 99 years ; and, about the feaft of St. Michael in the fame year, came from the neighbourhood of Reading, in Berkfliire, to rehile at tills feat. Finding the place capable of improvement, he foon made great alterations, cutting down the fences and hedges, which gave the houfe the appearance of a monaftery, and laid out the many inclofures about it in the form of a park, for which the land was by its fituation well adapted. The water in the center, and which paffes through the park, is greatly in- creafed and enlarged, fo as to add to the beauty of the whole ; the trees, which were planted irregularly, and intercepted the view from the houfe, are fallen, inftead of which clumps are fet, which vary the fcene, and conceal a barren heath on Cannock wood, or, in a few years, will effedually do fo. The gardens adjoining to it vrere for the molt part rooted up, and new ones • made about a quarter of a mile South from the manfion, which now appears to the beft advantage, exceeding the opinion of 7 . , thofe O F S H E N S T O N E. 187 thofe who remember it fliut up with ever-greens and lofty firs, being indeed a bandlbme modern-built houl'e. Shenrtone church to the North of it, and Aldrich to the Welt, are plea- dng obje^ls of view from it. The prefent poflelfor, for whom I exprefs a particular refped:, having lived a confiderable time in his famit)', is a perfon of merit, of the greatell politcnefs and good-breeding, having been converfant in the manners of fe- veral courts in Europe, viz. England, France, Germany, and Italy ; in each of thefe countries he hath not only travelled, but long refided, and received, in part, his education. This gentleman is the only perfon who makes ufe of the pailla(fes (beds of ftraw) under feather beds, as I am told is frequent in France, and which are of ancient ufe at Ed burton manor in Bucks ; the other beds in the family are mattreffes. An elegant modern writer * hath a long note on fuch culloms in his Remarks upon Virgil, which will juftify my mentioning this circumftance. The family of Minchin took their name from Minchin-Hamp- ton, a market-town in the county of Gloucefler, of which place they .originally were. This is alfo called the monaftery of Hampton, becaufe it belonged to the houfe of nuns at Caen in Normandy, whence, about the time of queen Elizabeth or king James I. John, William, and a third brother Minchin, went into the kingdom of Ireland, and, there purchafing lands, fettled their feveral families. Paul, of Bogh, in the county of Carlow, was grandfon, or great grandfon, of one of the afore- named perfons ; and, marrying Henrietta, daughter of Bunbury, efq. of in Ireland, originally of England, and of the fame family with Sir Charles Bunbury, baronet, had ilfae Humphry, and two daughters, now living, Rebecca, wife of Daniel Toler, efq. of Ireland ; and Elizabeth, unmarried : Paul, of Bogh, efq. died in 1 7 64. ' ' • . • . * S pence. B b 2 Hum- i88 THE HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S Humphry Minchin, of Afton hall, efq. married Clarinda, one of the two daughters and coheirs of George Cuppidge, efq. a noted banker of the city of Dublin : Anne, the other daughter and coheir, yet living, is the relid; of John Dawfon, efq. fon of Arthur, a baron of the exchequer in Ireland, who died in 1767, without ilfiie. By Mr. Minchin his lady hath iifue four fons and five daughters ; Paul, Spencer, George, and Henry ; Henrietta, Anne, Clarinda, Louifa, and Georgiana. Maria, aged thirteen, died at Afton, and was buried in Shenftone church, March 31, 1767. Humphry Minchin, efq. was of Ganakilcaftle, in the county of Tipperary in Ireland, ferjeant at arms in Ireland, in the com- miffion of the peace, and a colonel of militia there, as his fa- ther was. We find, that Richardfon of PeirceButler, of Barrow Mount, in Ireland, captain of horfe, flain in 1650 in that kingdom, eldeft fon of Edward '•■ lord vifcount Galmoy, in the reign of Charles I. by . ' Anne his wife, daughter to Edward Woolley, D. D. bifliop of Clon- .fert, had iflue a daughter, wife of Minchin, of Tipperary. In I 72 1, Theobald Burke, of Kill and Moneycrower, in Ire- land, of the fame family as Sir John Bourke (de Burgo), vifcount Mayo, and baronet, married Catharine, daughter of Minchin, efq. by whom he had ilfue one fon, Arthur Annefley, who died at Theobald ; the father died in 1751, leaving four dauf^hters. • John Minchin, of Annagh in Tipperary, married Penelope, daughter of Jofeph CufF, efq. of Ca'.l;le-inch in Kilkenny, and iifter to John, created baron Defart f , in Kilkenny, by whom . * See Lodge's Peerage of Ireland. f By king Gecrj^c II, in 1733. he OI^SHENSTONE. 1S9 he had iffue four fons and three daughters ; Charles, Humphry, John, and Boyle ; Penelope married to Thomas Minchin, efq. her coufm-german ; Jane to Henry Stotefbury, of Freiliford, efq. who died in 1741 ; and Mary to Michael Lewis, of Kil- kenny, efq. Near Afton hall {lands a manfion, known for its having beea in poffeffion of a good family, named Sedgwick, and before them of the Offleys, as lay fome records ; yet it feems to me, that the Sedgwicks were prior to the Offleys in this place, con- firmed by fome deeds, which take no notice of the latter till the reign of king Charles II. nor indeed does the regifter. I am ready, therefore, to conclude, that they lived here at the fame time, and in feparate habitations. ^^ 155S (5 Mary), James Sedgewidi, by his wife, had children living, William; Mary, who died in 1606; and Elizabeth. William, of Litde Afton, died in March, 1607-8J having iffue by Mary his wife (who, furviving, died in 1609-10.) as I think, Wenlock, Roger, and Rowland. Wcniock had iffue William, born in 1656-7, died in 1660. Dorothy, his mo- ther, then a widow, died in 1673 ; Wenlock died in 1658. Michael, by Anne his wife, had iffue Henry, born in 1672. James Sedgwick married Mary Bowman in 1674, and had chil- dren, Raphael and Elizabeth. Michael, by Sarah his wife, hrd iffue Michael, born in 1682, died in 1686; and Sarah in 1702-. I find a Wenlock Sedgwick, brother to James ; and Henry, who lived at Pelfal, and married twice, but died without iffue, W^enlock fettled at Sutton Colefield, or Wild Green, near it, and left one Ion '••••, if no more. James as abovcfaid lived at Afton, but gave the eftate up to his fon Raphael upon his marriage with ■-' * Henry, living in 1677-S.. f9C THE K I S T O Fv Y AND ANTIQUITIES ^ daughter of Gougb, of Old Fallings, near Wol- verhap.spton, efq. and refided at Sutton ; as ditl alio afterwards Henry his brother, to whom Raphael, of Little Afton, gent, became heir. Raphael refided at Afcon in 1677, for that year he is named as a witnefs to the fettlement of a dower by James Adams, of Footherley, upon Mary (Sedgwick) his wife, and died in 1689-90. James Sedgwick, of Afton, gent, by Mary his wife (who died in 1712) had iifneWenlock (who died in i 7 15, at Lichfield), Henry, and James of Wolverhampton, who deceafed in 1735; Margaret, married in 17 13 to JoQiua Symonds, of Birmingham. Henry, by Elizabeth * his wife, had ifliie John, born at Afton in 1734 ; Henry, born in 1738; Anne, Mary. EUzabeth, and Sarah. We add, that in the 19th year of the reign of James J. John Sedgwick had lands in Stonall ; that Henry, in 1684, witnefted a deed of John Turner, gent, of Sutton, and Joan his wife, paffing lands in Stonall to John Stoftes of Oldfallings, but are not certain that thefe were of the Afton line. In 1667, the widow Sedgwick, and Henry her fon, paid to the afleffment for aiding the king. In 1692, James paid 5s. poll- tax for himfelf, his wife, and three children, all of Little Afton. In 1675, Michael Sedgwick married Elizabeth Sylvefter, who died with her infant ion Michael, in child-bed, in 1677. Thomas (whom I fuppofe to be fon and heir to James of Wolver- hampton) was of Wolverhampton, and Overpenne, docSlor of phy- lick : he married Anne, daughter and heirefs of Thomas Bardney, efq. of Netherpenne, and had iftiie by her a fon Thomas, who died 3ged 7. As Ihe had no other child by him, the eftates at Penne * Elizabeth Hilton, of Middleton. and OF S fl E N S T O N E. ](;l and elfevvherc, -which he enjoyed fomc years after her deceafc, paffed to Thomas Bradncy, cfq. of Penne, Ion of Thomas Brad- ney, of Wolverhampton, and in the commilhon of the peace, with the tythes of Upper and Lower Penne ; in faihire of male iffiie, lands of 500 1. per annum, and improvahle, defcend to William Hilliar, of Wolverhampton, and James Billingfley, fif- ter's fons of Thomas Sedgwick, M. D. and his heirs, by virtue of a fettlement made by Anne Bradney aforefaid, wife of this Thomas. Thomas Bradney hath iffue yet three daughters. William Flilliar-conveyed the Allon eftate to John Butler, of Wcdnefbury in Stafford fliire, gentleman. Butler (an appellation derived from Pincerna, the name of an office) had iffue James, of A Ire ways, near the city of Lichfield, who was father *' to John and Richard, who was in the iron trade with Tui ton, of the Oak in Weft Bromwich, and af- terwards lived at Hall-end in that Pariffi. He married Mary, daughter to Blackham, gentleman, and lifter to Sir Ri- chard, created a baronet in 1696, 7 William III. and to Charles Blackham, late of Birmingham, efq. John, the eldeft, fettled in Maryland, and had no iffue. Richard and Mary Blackham had iffue Charles, or Richard, who went to his uncle in Mary- land, and had iffue there ; John, and Thomas, of Wolver- hampton, deceafed, and left iffue ; alfo two daughters ; Eliza- beth, wife of Marfli, of Weft Bromwich, by whom, at her death, (lie left two fons and two daughters, yet living ; and Sarah married to Richard Mann, of London, living in 1769. John (died in 1768) married Anne, fole daughter and heirefs of Barnet (who died in 1755), and had iffue by her Richard, * By daughter of Gueft, of Worcefteifliiro, clerk, who ipt THE HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S who diet! young; John; Ehzabeth married (November 30, 1754) to Harry Sanders, clerk; they had iiTiiQ one fon, John Eutler, aged 14(1769); (lie died Odober 20, 1760; Anne, wife of George Coxe Stubbs, of Huntingdon, near Cannock, gent, who died in 1768, leaving iffue Eleanor, who die D d 2 the Z04 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES the paiifh, may deferve notice. They lie upon or near the Watlino-ftreet, and not far from Frog Homer; one of them hath been remarked by curious perfons, as never holding water for the leaft moment of time after the greateif Ihower, or the moft durable rain, though all the neighbouring pits are filled to the brim ; this is in circuit ninety yards. Dr. Plott ''•■ fays, he faw an experiment of this, for, after above a month's con- ftant rain, he found one pit as dry and as hard as the higheft gravelly ground in the ftreet-vvay ; the weight of himfelf and horfe not making any vifible imprelTion on the bottom of it, though all the reft about it then ftood brimful of water, and to all appearance lying higher, that is, not fo dead as this, and nothing interpofing but a fpungy heathy foil, which he con- feffed was utterly unaccountable, unlefs it were fufficient to fuf- pecV, that the bottom of the dry pit, though hard and found, may be a loofe open gravel through which water may prefently de- fcend ; and the bottoms and fides of the reft may be either a ftiif clay, or fome other earth that holds the water. An at- tempt was lately made to get gravel in this pit, but it was found to be utterly unfit for the purpofe, confifting of a fort of red fand, and a kind of pox ftone. Shire Oaks is the name of a farm upon the fummit of a hill fo called, lying to the great roads from Lichfield and Shenftone (which here unite), towards VValfall. A large oak in the valley, a quarter of a mile from this farm, feparates Shenftone from Walfall, or Walnill w^ood, and is named Shire Oak, from the word Scyre^ to divide, and is four miles from Shenftone church. Enclofure was made by John Smyth, lord of the manor, with the confent of the freeholders. Hence, as we noted, is a fine profpedl, but the place itfelf is remarkable for nothing more * Chap. III. § 10. n than OF SHENSTONE. 2C5 than a hnd-mark. In former times, when full of woods, it w'aS a den of thieves. \i Hes on the road hetween London and Cheller; one hundred ai:d fixty acres of it arc in tlie holdin?- of James Penn, under W ilUam Tenant, efq. I pon the decline of the eminence upon which flood the fort or cattle, Hands a neat modern-built hoiife, erecSled by Twyford; after the ellate of John fenton, fi nee of Ri- chard Whirehoufe, and Samuel his fon ; now of Peter Tomkis^ in right of his wife, widow of Samuel Whitehoufe. Somewhat lower ftands the old inn, called and known through the kingdom by the name of the Welch harp. This large houfs had its name from the railing of a booth, in order to fupply travellers upon the great road between London and Ghefler., From this beginning John Smith chietly raifed a good fortune ; he lefc John, William, and a daughter^ who married ..=..., Taylor, of Chefterfield. Upon her fon by him Ihe fettled part of her eftate, and then re-married to Thonias Smyth, of Lich- field, gent, at whofe houfe William Smyth, of London, died,- who left the legacy of five pounds yearly for tne fetcing out- poor boys apprentices from Over-ftonall. To the purchafes that John made, William, his nephe\v, added more, bought of the Readings, a very old family in this parifli, and poffeffed of much land, but now entirely difpofed of. William, dying a bachelor, left the greateft part of his acquifitions to John his nephew^, who immediately fet up tor a gentleman, keeping his chariot, and a pack of hounds. I'hefe things, with other extra- vagances, and neglect of bufinefs upon one of the moft fre- quented roads in England, lliortened his fortune. What is Hill notable of this family is, that a daughter of this John Smyth. became a pauper, and, in 1766^, was found ftarved to death- near Wall. The:- 2c6 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S The Welch harp, with 120I. per a7tn. lands, or upwards, pafled by purchafe to Jofeph Parker, of Lichfield, gent, who, having no iifue, hath fettled this eftate upon Jofeph Elde, of Shenftone, gent, and his iffue by Mary, daughter of Burton, of Derbyiliire, gent, defcended of the Burtons of Lind- ley in Leicefteriliire, in the reign of Henry VIII. of Falde, in StafFordQiire, and Highara, in the reign of Henry VL originally from Sir James de Burton, knight, ranger of Needwood foreif, as appears by letters patent in the reign of Richard I. By her he hath Jofeph, Thomas, and four daughters. The bufinefs of inn-keep- ing is laid afide, and the land is in the tenure of James Penn. In oppofition to the Welch harp, Rowland Frylh, efq. eredled a large inn near, upon the fame road, annexing to it a conlider- able farm. This is a very handfome and commodious houfe, the property of William Tenant, efq. in the tenure of the afore- faid James Penn, who hath lately made great alterations and improvements in the houfe and the offices belonging to it ; this bears the name of the Welch Harp and Swan. Near this houfe flood lately an old manlion half timbered, with a court walled out to the road ; and on each fide of the court were planted yew-trees, and other ever-greens, in the fame tafte. This, with lands valued at 40I. a year, John Sylvefter fold to Jofeph Parker, of Lichfield, gent, whofe property they are at this prefent (1770). John Sylvefter had ifTue a fon John, who died, aged 25, a bachelor; and a daughter, wife of John Yates, of London ; both which children, by their extravagance, helped to difhpate their father's fubftance, and thereby quite reduced a family that had lived here before the reign of queen Elizabeth. Richard Sylvefter is mentioned to refide at Upper- ftonall in the 1 3th year of the reign of king James I. Another, Richard OF SHENSTONE. 207 Richard (1654), fold lands in this hamlet to the Wyatts family ; part of them were called Carters-field. In the rebellion (king Charles I.) John Sylvefter, of this place, was an adlive parliamentarian. By Anne, his wife, he left John; he died in 1688 ; his wife in 1665. WiUiam, his fon, was living in the reign of king Charles II. I find alfo William, of the fame place (king Charles I.}. William, John, and Robert, of Stonall, paid to the royal aid in 1667. John Sylvefter, John his fon, with his wife, and Robert, in 1602, paid to the poll- tax ; all of Over-ftonall. At a little diilance from the town ftands a neat manfion, moflly half-timbered, except an additional part in 1769, well known by the name of Penford-houfe. Pen is a Britifli word, fignify- ing the top of a hill ; exadly the cafe here, for the rivulet fo named hath its rife in the higher ground, and maketh a wafii- way, or ford, near the houfe, and upon the road to Aldrich by- Coppice-hall, over Druids-heath. This eftate was purchafed of Reading, by whom I have not learnt ; that family, which I think was Vere's, fold it to John Strickfon, efq, of whom the honourable and reverend Ri- chard Hill purchafed it ; from Samuel, his nephew, of Shen- ftone-park, it came to Thomas Hill, efq. of Terne in Shropfliire, whofe Ion, Samuel, dying a bachelor, it paffed, with other lands, to Noel Hill, efq. John Vere, of Penford-houfe, died ' about 1742, reduced in his circumllances, being long fup- ported by Samuel Hill of Shenftone-park, from motives of com- pafilon towards a good family, that had been in poffellion of it. The Brandreths had lands in Upper-ftonall, part of which,, near the fields, called Briar's Flatts, purchafed of the Erpes, was in the tenure of John Smyth, named the Gentleman ; this was. 2o8 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES was Samuel Hill's, of Shenftone, and palTed to Thomas, of Terne ; Samviel and Noel, his Ions. Between Stonall and the VVhitacres are a parcel of lands named in the Sandalls, or Sandhills, from the oatnre of the foil, in the hands of feveral perfons. William Tenant, lord of the ma- nor, hath, befides other pieces, a wood of good timber, though much of it is fallen : John Taylor, of Walfall, gent, owns a fhare of them, on which grows fome fine young timber, but chiefly underwood, purchafed of Thomas Lander, of Aldrich, who bought it of Thomas Cooper, of Aldrich, gent, Allen, of the Welch Harp, had another dividend, w^hich palTed to — — , his daughter, wife of Thomas Everett, of Birmingham, late of Aldrich, who fold it to Sylvefter, of Hammer- wich, on whofe deceafe, in 1768, Webb, of Lichfield, enjoys the fame in right of his wife, fitter of ... . Webb. Three clofes, called Sandhills, were the eitate of Thomas PalTaw, of London, who, dying in 1768, left them to his father, Richard Pairaw, of Upper Stonall, yet living, with three clofes, called Hill fields, or Sandhill fields, adjoining ; the whole of the Sand- hills now enclofed is a mile in compafs. In this hamlet hath long been feated a family of note (who had a confiderable eftate here, though now fold or wafted), as being a collateral branch of the Haws, of Caldmore, near Walfall, the laft of which, an heirefs, lately married Parker, efq. of Park-hall in Staffordlhie, eldeft fon of lord chief baron Pi rker. hi the reign of king Charles II. we meet with George Haw, of Upper-ftonall, gent, who had ifTue, by Catharine his wife, George* William, born in 1678, and Walter, who was fettled * Who paid poll-tax in 1692. in OF S H E N S T O N E. 209 in the iron trade, in London, and acquired a good fortune ; he left ilTue Walter, who died unmarried : and William, of London, who was alfo engaged in the iron manufadlory. George, Ion of George aforefaid, his uncle, was in part his heir* Uving then at Stonhall ; he had liTne George, who fpent molt of his eftate, and died a bachelor (1760) ; Walter, and others. William Haw, in 1732, polTeffed lands in Carters-field, HilK field, near the Feathers, or Feather Ihut. George, who died in 1766, fold part of his eftate to William Tenant, efq ; and feveral tenements to Mofs, of Rufliall ; he had lands called Wollongs, a moor near Bulmores, and in the High-fields, but all the family eftates here are dillipated. Haw's arms : Sable, a chevron between two leopards heads erafed, Or, armed Gules. Many branches of the Readijigs were here before queen Eliza- beth's reign, in Over-lionall, Nether-ilonall, and Lyndon, hi T''l6iy William, two others named Thomas, all of this place, with William Reading, of Lynn, paid to the royal aid. Tho- mas Reading paid, in 1692, to the poll-tax; one of the na:ne yet lives in Upper-Stonall. Of the fame family came Cornelius and John Reading, of Pype-hill (i7;c), gentlemen. I take it, this name was found in the pariili in king Edward the Fourth's time, for I have feen an account, that Richard de Rudding leafed lands here in the year 1470. In the Sth year of the reign of James Y. Rowland Rudding purchafed lands belonging to the Mofs; and 13 James L the Calves-pieces in Over-lionall, with lands in Footherley. Penford, Quebbs, part of the W^elch Harp ellate, with lands in the tw^o Stonalls, and Lyndon, were in this family, fome of which bear their name. hi king Charles the Firft's time a family named Banhes had good property in this village, particularly at Lectsfield ; alio E e Banks aio THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Bunks moors *, near Cheflerfiekl ; Alexander and John Banks were of Over-ftonall, in the reign of king Charles I. John had iirue Edmund, born in 1656 ; John ; and Robert; with other children. A branch of the great family of Sekerton, or Seckingtorit had poffellions in Stonall, for William de Seckerton, redor of the church of Honton, defcended of William, brother to lord ■ Geotfry de Camvil de Clifton, who had Seckington manor, in the county of Warwick, from which place he took his name. In the reign of king Henry III. he palTed fuch lands to Hvigh Fitzvvilliam, Nichols de Allerfliale, and to Thomas his brother, lying in Stonall, in prefence of Radulph de la Wall, Thomas de Polelworthe, and others ; the deed is dated at Allerlhall, the firil: day after the feaft of St. Hillary, in the t 3th year of the reign of king Edward 111. after the Conqueii:, in 1340. King James I. had lands here, which he pafTed over, in the 8th year of his reign, to Peter Alport, efq. and to Rowland Fryth, efq. In the middle of the ftreet at Upper-ftonall flood a ftone crofs ; the bafe of ilone in which the pillar was fixed yet re- mains. What the intention of placing fuch an one here is not very plain. It might be fet .up at firft when a decree was made by the church, that every pariQi in places moll frequented Ihould fet up inch a, crofs. When the parifliioners examine their bounds in their proceffioning, the Gofpel is read at this llone^ and the ufual ceremonies repeated ; yet it cannot be as V^ limits, becaufe the parilli extends itfelf from it a mile, or more, every way. A crofs was fometimes erected in public places of - V* concourfe, to put people in mind of the great benefit God hath ■ ' ". ■ * And the Gonly moors, now in the pofl'effion of Jof. Wadam. ' ^^ ^ vouch- OF SIIENSTONE. an voiichfafcd for the redemption of mankind by the paflion of his Son, which, no quelHon, to all pious Ghrirtians was of very- good life ; however, upon pretence that they were idolized, they were generally demolilhed throughout the whole kingdom. 1 have ken one of thefe ftone pillars in the road between VValfall and Welt Bromvvich. They are of a round poliflied ftone, much hke thofe upon which dials are often placed (as in Shciillone church yard), but vaftly higher. Not being fatisfied with thefe accounts, and knowing no good reafon for the fetting \ip fuch pillars or croITes, I lliould gladly receive information on this head, or, indeed, in any matters mentioned in this trcatife ; it being impoliible not to err; and many perfons, who have it in their power, will communicate nothing towards making this account more ufeful. ,jf South and South-weft of Upper- ftonall, is a large common or heath, called Dr^/V/'j heath \ part of it is in Shenftone parilh, lying to the two Stonalls and Thornes, but the right of com- mon or pafture is in Nether-ftonall, that of the other Stonall being towards the Gaftles and Shire Oak on Cannock. The far greateft part is in Aldrich, and the whole fo called is in circuit four miles. Tradirion informs us, that on the Aldrich lide, upon a bank yet remaining, at a fmall diftance from Coppice hall, ftood a temple of the Druids. The beft account of them is, that among the Celtes in the earlieft times, the Curetes, and afterwards the Druids and Bards, were the interpreters of their laws, judged all cafes, whether criminal or civil ; and their fen- tence was reckoned fo facred, that whoever refufed to abide by it, was by them excluded from affifting at the facred rites. Af- ter this no man dared to converfe with him, fo that this pu- nifhment was reckoned the moft fevere of all, even death itfelf. E e 2 , They 212 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Thev were named Druids from the Greek word DruSs an oak, which tree was accounted holy both by the Scythians and Ccltes. They performed molt of their religious ceremonies near or under large oaks, if not in groves of oaks, and offered no facriiice without feme leaves from that tree. Caefar tells us they performed the facrifices and religious rites, were expounders of religion to the people, and inftruCted youth in all kinds of learning, fuch as Philofophy, Aftronomy, Theology, the im- mortality and tranfi-nigration of the foul from one body to another, which was both an incitement to virtue, and an an- tidote ag^inif the fear of death. Thefe they taught their dif- ciples by word of mouth, elteeming them too facred to be com- mitted to writing. Other more common fubjedts, fuch as their hymns to their deities, the exploits of their }>rinces and ge- nerals, their exhortations to the people in time of war, were all couched in elegant verfe, and recited, or rather fung, by them on all proper occafions ; though even thefe were alio kept from vulgar eyes, and either committed to memory, or, if to writing, the whole was a fecret to the laity ; the latter, indeed, feems moit probable, if what Gcefar intimates be exadlly juft, that thofe poetic records were in his time increafed to fuch a lize, that it took the voung bards near twenty years to learn them by heart*. We are like wife told, that thefe poets ufed to accompany their fongs with inltrumental mufic, fuch as that of the organ, harp, and the like. That they were held in fuch veneration, that if any army was engaged in battle, upon the appearance of one of thefe bards or poets, both parties inftantly* left off fighting ; fo that their fury gave way to wifdom, and Mars to the Mufes. But the true reafon was, that they were univerfally looked upon as prophets, fo that it was thought dangerous, as well as injurious, * DeBell. Gall. vi. 13, 14. to O F S H E N S T O N E. aij to difobey what they fuppofed came from the Gods. Thefe pro- phetic philofophers kept academies, which were reforted to by a great number, not only of their own youth, but thofe of other countries ; fo that their j^hilofophy and learning were carried into Greece and other countries. It was then the bufinefs and employment of thofe Druids and Bards to compofe hymns and fongs, to record therein the actions of thofe that lignalized themfelves in ftories, w^hich were afterwards fung at their games and folemnities, as well as when they went out to war, which had fuch an effect upon their foldiers, that they chofe rather to die than be taken priibners. We could enlarge yet more on thefe bards, but what we have faid will futhce to give the reader fome good idea of them, and of Druids heath. By de- grees they became cruel, and facrificed human vidirns ; bur,, we may reafonably conjednre, when fuch cuftoms were ad- mitted, they murt greatly have degenerated from their excellent inlfitution, and their original principles. Some author^ take notice of Druids meer on this heath, as prognorticating a dearth by its overflowing in abundance ; there is fuch a water or pool, of which the prefent William Mills, of Little Afton mill, near it, fays, that he hath known it twice to overflow, and obferved, that corn afterwards bore a larger i^rice than ufual. If this happened in a dry feafon, it would be more remarkable, but fuch omen or overflowing may, perhaps, be imputed to the great rains, which are frequently the occafion of a fcarcity of corn in England. "• Yet we may obferve, that at Billington, in this county, is a pool called Hungry Pit^ which, as people fay, foreflieus fcar- city. Some perfons fet up flicks in the mud, and forejudge the rife and fall of the corn in the markets by the rife and fall of the water upon thofe ilicks, and fo keep or fell their corn ac- • • . cordingly. 214 THE HISTORY AND ANT.I Q^U I T I E S cordingly. ITere, indeed, the motions of the waters are fome- "thing Grange, little regarding the quality of the weather ; for, this pit overflows fometimes in the greateft drought, and often is ereipt}' after great falls of rain : and, as to the pi;edidion, whether it he by chance or not is hard to fay ; but many ferious people in that neighbourhood have teftified, that the remarks made upon it by fome have been fo profitable to them, that they have thereby confiderably advanced their fortunes. Since the writing an account of the Cafiles aforefaid, in this dillriift of Over iionall, another hath occurred to me, which is as follows ; " That Cannoc, or Cane-wood {quaji Canuti Sylva)y was a name given to this foreft when the Danes, under Canute, had many difputes with king Ethelred, and Edmund Ironfide, his.fon, for the kingdom. Canute made feveral inroads into Mercia, efpecially in the years J 013 and 1016. Among other places, he poiTeffed himfelf of this foreft, called ftill by his name. Cane-wood. Upon the edge of it there ftill remains a large fortification, encompaffed with a double bank and trench, which are in a manner circular, except on the South-eaft fide, which runs pretty ftraight, fo that it feems to hold the figure of a theatre of about 270 paces diameter, which muft take in more of the Caftle land than what is commonly reckoned in this rampart. For the name fake, and becaufe it is upon the verge of Cannock wood, it may have been his work, and caft up by him ; but if we fuppofe it was caft up by the Mercians hereabouts, to defend themftlves againft Canute's incurfions into their own country, when he made the horrible devaftations mentioned by hiftorians, we can fee no abfurdity in giving it the name of Ca- nute's caftle, who was the caufe of its making, though it might gain another, either Old fort, or Oyles fort, after the Conqueft. Over- OF SHENSTONE. 211 Ovcr-ftonall does not contain above forty houfes at prefcnt ; but feveral have been taken down, or have fallen, within the memory of many of its inhabitants. H O R N E Is in this dif{:ri<5l ; but, as it is of fome note, and is often fpoken of as a village of itfelf, we Ihall conlider it as fuch. Some reckon a part of it in Lynne, but I think it fliould rather be annexed to Nether-fton'di, lyi'^g to the edge of it every way, and fe- parated by a common road from Lynne. It derives its name from 'thorne}\ a Saxon word, denoting a iituation among bulhes, and uncultivated foil ; for the fame realbn Weil:minlfer had the name of Thorney, in the Saxon times. This was a manor in the parilh of Shenltone, and belonged to a family of the name of T'hornes^ in the reign of Henry \\. who, moft likely, purchafed lands here from the lords of the manor, and, as was ufnal in rhofe days, and earlier, took the name of Thornes from the place. Thomas Thornes had iffue Thomas, who, in 1470, leafed this houfe to Richard, of the Rudding, which Thomas is faid to be of Salop. It did not con- tinue long in the Ruddings, or Readings, for, in 1497, Roger Thornes, of Thornes, again leafed it to Robert Jolliffe and his wife for fixty years, the chief or referved rent being only 6s. 8d. yea.ly ; 2 16 THE H I S T O Pv Y A N D A N TI QJJ I TI E S yearly.; to this leafe are witneffes Sir Humphry Stanley, knight; George Stanley, and John Whyrley, efqrs. Ten years after, the faicl Roger Thornes conveyed it ahfolutely to the fame Ro- bert JollifFe and his heirs for ever ; he had ilfue a fon, whofe daughter, Alice Jolliffe, conveyed it (as I think) in marriage to Edward Fryth, efq. Yet the fame antiquary, the late learned Dr. Wilkes, who gives us the chief part of this account, lliys, in another {)lace, that Balmerino, a Scotchman, who had it from king Charles, paffed Thornes, a member of the manor of Shenllone, to Rowlantl Fryth. If Edward Fryth abovefaid had only the maniion of Thornes, and not what is before term.ed a manor, and Rowland, ion or grandfon of Edward, purchafed of Balmerino the manor rights of Thornes, though fubject to Shenllone, it may reconcile the two accounts. We Ihall dif- tinwuidi too, by this means, at what time the Frvth familv fet- tied here ; and likewife lliall difcern when Shenftone manor itfelf came to them, namely, in the reign of king Charles I. as will hereafter appear. Thornes hall was, no queflion, a manfion of fome note in the reign of king Edward IV. erected by Thomas de Thornes, who laid out the lands belonging to it in thofe days, and, in all probability, Robert Jolliffe added to that flru6ture, or raifed a new one in a low iituation, under a hill and a covert of wood, without profpe6t, except from the hinder part of it towards Stonall and Cannoc wood ; on the front of it is a road from Bir- mingham Sutton, and Little Alton, over Druids heath, on the verge of which it ftands, by Nether-ftonall edge and Lyndon green, through Cranebrook and Hilton to Lichfield. The Fryths ereded another, which feems not older than the days of king William III. moftiy of brick, and ftrong. It mufl have been a large houfe from what yet remains j the two wings for offices or 2 ftables OF S H E N S T O N E. 217 ftables in the front, and much of the back building being taken away, the prefent part, now a farm in the tenure of Richard Farnell, is fpacious and convenient, with a handfomc court in the front placed high with brick, in the tlyle of the houfe itfelf. It had a dove-houfe, rookery, large walled gardens, court-yards, and orchards, but thefe are in a good meafm-e levelled or rooted up as unneccffary to a tenant with the farm. Near it is a place called the Butts, from its having been a ground let apart for the exercife of archers before iire-arms became lb frequent as they now are. Some perfons of feeming veracity have affirmed to me, that there grew a thick wood of large timber near Thornes, upon the adjoining eminence, which, about the year 1718, was all blown down in one night by a ilrong wind. Others fuppofed, that it was occafioned by an earthquake, and ob- ferved, that the roots of the thickcft and firmeft trees were ftrangely torn up, and lay out of the ground. Of the Fryths we mean to fpeak when we treat particularly of the lords of the manor. Oppofite to Thornes, in the fame ftreet, ftands a manfion, of itfelf not worth our notice, but as it belongs to a family of good extradlion, named Stanley, we may not omit it. This branch of the Stanleys, belides the agreement of their arms, is generally looked upon to be of the fame lineage with the earls of Derby, and, it is faid, one of the late earls was fatis- fietl of it ; but of this we can give no proof. It feems moft likely the Stanleys of Lyndon hall, and the two families at the Mofs and Thornes, were collateral branches of the great houfe of Derby, one of which was fettled at Elford in this county ; the family alfo we fpeak of had eftates in that place, or near it, alio at Edinghall, near Elford. F f We 2i3 THE HISTORY AKD ANTIQJJITIES We find, that Thomas, in 1583, of Shcnftone pariQi, had ilTue, I.Henry; 2. Thomas; AUce, married to Henry Sym- uionds, gent. ; Joan, wife of John Adams ; EUzabeth, and Mar- garet. Henry died in 1589, without iffue. Thomas, by Mar- garet his wife, had iflue Tliomas, Wilham, Margery, Dorothy, and Elizabeth. Thomas, by Joan his wife, had iflue another Thomas, born in 1664; and EHzabetli ; alfo Dorothy, wife of George Harrilbn, of Bloxwich, gent, grandfather to Har- riibn, of the fame place, gent. 1770. The father died in i 687. Thomas Uved fome time at Footherley, and, by Mary his wife had iirue Thomas, born in 1702; Edward, born in 1712; and Eieanov, wlio died in 17 1 5. Tliomas poflefled lands in Thornes, Footherley, Little Sutton, and efewhere ; by , daughter and heir of Handley, of Footherley, had ilTue Thomas, John, or Jofliiia, a tanner in the city of Lichfield, who died unmarried about the year 1755, and one daughter, married to Seale, of Edhighale, by whom flie had no ifllie ; fecondly, to Hill, of Edinghale, by whom Ihe hath a daughter, aged two years. Thomas, now of Thornes, is a bachelor. In 1767, Thomas Stanley paid 2s 6d. ob\ quarterly aflelTment to the royal aid. In 1692, widow Stanley, and fon, paid to the poll-tax. Und^r the article of Footherley I fpoke of the Browns, of that place, and Thornes, therefore I have not repeated the account here, but have lately met with the following remark, not inferted in Footherley ; *' That William Brown, of Thornall (Thornes *' hall), in the 18th year of the reign of James I. referved a " povx'er to fettle an ellate upon a wife by deed, and after mar- " ried Anne Lowe, widow, and upon her fettled the Thornals. *' He died in 1O44, ^^^^ ^^^ Committee at Stafford allowed her to *' poirefs OF SHENSTONE. £1^ ** poflefs her jointure. Signed Edward Leigh, H. Stone, Ph. •' Jackfon, Leicefter Barbour, and William Bendy." San:iuel Brown, mentioned at Footherley hall, probably was his fon* NETHER STONAL, Or, as it is often called, Stonall Inferior, and Lower Stonall, is in circuit three miles, feparated by the high road to Birming- ham and Afton Parva, from Mill green, Druids heath, and Thornes, leading over Lyndon green; from Stafford and Lich- field over Cannoc-wood ; and is bounded by Lyndon, Footherley, the Boffes, Thornes, and Druid heath, towards Aidrich, and by a fmall part of Over Stonall. It is, in fome degree, more noted than either of thefe hamlets, as being the place of worfliip for the inhabitants on this fide of the parifli. Robert de Olgio, fon of the baron of that place, or caflle, in Normandy, was one of the adventurers who attended William duke of Normandy, in his attempt upon England ; and, as a reward for his fervices had, among other goodly manors and lordfhips, this of Nether Stonall, which he granted •'•■ to the collegiate church of St. George, near Oxford ; his fucceifbrs * Terrain ile utraque Stonehala, ForeflhuUc, &c. cum capellis in eifdem, bofcis, villenagiis, reciditibus, dccimis, et aliis rebus de leodo ejus ecclefije Sii' Cjcor^ii pcrtincmibus, dedit Robentas Fitz Nigel de Oileo, cocnobio de Ofeneio, ann. 1 129. Monaft. Ang. II. 13!^. F f 2 coil- 240 THE HISTORY AND AN T I QJ.TI TI E S confirmed his charter, and of ihefe the charter of Henry the Second of that name haron D'Oyley and Hooknorton, in Ox- fordiliire, confirms the church of Seneilan, and other its rights, to Ofncy abbey ; to this is witnefs Robert U'Oyley, his brother, afterwards the fixth EngUdi baron of that family, in the reigns of king Pvichard I. and king John. I find certain lands, as demefne, continued in the abbey of of South Ofney till Robert King, the laft abbot, lurrendered the abbey, with its eftates, to king Henry VIII. in 1539, after be- ing annexed to it 410 years, among which are named its lands and rights in Over Stonall, Shen1l:one, Nether Stonall, and Thornes. Thefe remained in the crown till the reign of James I. who, in the third year of his reign, palTcd them away by letters patent, dated at Weftminfter, July 2, to Rowland Fryth, and Peter Alport, efq. and their heirs. Not only the people of this hamlet, but all the parifliioners of Shcnftone, have a tradition of a chapel in old times, fituate in the upper part of it towards Thornes and the road leading to Upper- llonall, but mixed with fable. Affuredly Ibme char- ters, dated in the reigns of Henry I. and Stephen, take notice of fuch chapel or chapels in Stonall. There is, as a farther evi- dence of it, a piece of land called the Chapel piece, confifting of three acres and an half, divided into two parts, one the pro- perty of Thomas Stanley, of Thornes, the other of Thomas Adcock, of Lyndon- Around this are feveral enclofures, called by the names of the Cliapel- field. Chapel hills, Church fields, and Church leafows, which, moft probably, w^ere lands for- merly appropriated for the maintenance of the clergymen who officiated at Shenllone church, or this chapel of eafe to it, at Nether Stonall. The very year when the chapel was taken away may in pait be known from this circumrtance ; that, in the year O F S H E N S T O N E. zzi 1545, in the reign of Henry VIII. it was ordered by a(ft of par- liament, that where the glebes, tythcs, and revenues, of a church, are not fufficient to find a priell or curate to minilter in a chapel, within a mile, or fomc fuch diliarjce, from the church ; and the repairs, ornaments, and duties, are too expenfive for the parifliioners of both churches, if one be not above the yearly value of fix pounds," as rated and valued to the king in his courts of firft-fi nits and tenths, by confent of the ordinary of the diocefe W'here they Itand, by the afient of the incumbent, and of fuch as had juft right, title, and jnterefh, to the patronage of them, being of full age ; they might be united, and as good in law, and to continue for ever confolidated in fuch manner and form as by writing or writings under the feals of the ordinary, incumbent, and patron, Ihall be declared and fet forth, referving to the king the firft fruits and tenths. As the abbey of Ofney was diflolved in the year 1539, and all its lands and rights feized and paffed to the crown, we may na- turally conclude, there was little or nothing left for the fnpport of the minifter at Nether Stonall, if, indeed, he was a different perfon from the vicar of Shenftone. From the tim.e "••••" of the Dif- folution under Henry Vlll. when fuch ravages were made upon the monalleries and the eftates of the church, ferious men have lamented, that a better provifion had not been referved for the maintenance of the clergy, who would thereby have been fecured from contempt and diftrefs. The South chancel of Shenftone church was built, it is faid, of materials taken from Nether Stonall chapel, which is not un- likely, being different from the reft of that ll:ru(51:ure, and chiefly of brick-work ; and, as that chapel was dedicated to Sr. * See FidJes'sLife of Cardinal Woli'ey. Pctcr^ 222 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES Peter, there is a memorial of it in the work, namely, the keys which are generally given him, and of large proportion, with two crofTes, one in the form of that on which our Saviour fuf- fered, the other a common one, framed of bricks burnt of a blue caft. In this chancel the lords of the leignory, named Fryths, had their feats, and in general the inhabitants of Thornes and the Stonall diilrids. Hzig/j de Twrne held Stonall, in the reign of William I. or William Rufus, which other lords held under him by military fervice, but all others under the lord of the fee of whofe barony it was. The faid Hugh, and thofe perfons who held under him, pafTed it by charter to the canons of Ofeney, in the ifle of Ofency, near Oxford, which grant was confirmed at that time by the fuperior lord Nigel de Olgio, and alfo in the reign of Henry I. by Henry d' Oyley. In the upper part of Nether Stonall, near the chapel-yard, ftands a very handfome new eredled manfion, built by Thomas Dickenfon, gent, of a family of fome note, and long fettled here. In the igth year of the reign of James I. John Dickenfon had lands in Nether Stonall. Thomas is mentioned in certain deeds to have poffeffed lands in the Heathfield in 1654. Henry, of this place, in 1658, was witnefs to the purchaiing of an eftate here, by Anne Bracegirdle, of Gorfcot, near Walfall, of Henry Hunt, of Nether Stonall. Thomas, in the 14th year of the reign of Charles II. had lands in the Nether Hookfield, and was refident here. John, in 1669-70, witneffed a deed of Ed- ward Wyatt's felling land here to John Wadams. The fame year John Dickenfon, of Afliby- de-la- zouch, in Leiceilerfliire, iron- monger, purchafed the Glafs-houfes, Long-crofts, and Buff- crofts, to which are evidences Thomas Dickenfon and Mar- garet Hall ; thcfc lands are in this hamlet. In 1667, Thomas paid OF S II E N S T O N E. 223 paid 6s. id. ob. quarterly, to the royal aid. la 1669-70, Tho- mas and John are witneffes to a deed of John Adcock's palung. lands to John Wadams ; and to Edward Wyatt's fale ot" lands to John Wyatt ; alio James Whitehall's iale of lancis to Thomas Ofsley ; all in Nether Stonall. In 1675, ^^^^ faid Thomas and John were evidences to the fale of an ellate by John Wadams to John Adcock of Nether Stonall. In 1667, Thomas, the elder, was truftee to the marriage fettlement between Alexander Ad-, cock and Jane Tomkys. In 166 1, we find John Dickinfon, of; Nether Stonall, gent, witnefs to a deed paffing lands from John Bulkley, of Little Afton, and Mary, wife of Jofeph Bulk- ley, fon of John, to John Wadams ; alfo to the fale of eftates from John Adcock, of Nether Stonall, to Alexander his brother ; , and from John Jobbern to the fame Alexander Adcock. Tho- • mas, fon of John Dickenfon (1692), and John his fon, paid the poll-tax for themfelves and wives, which Thomas was living here in 1 71 8. In the year 1714, the faid Thomas, with John, then of Tonge in Leicefterlliire, palled a fine of lands in this hamlet, to John Adcock, and Thomas Dickenfon living in r7 26, if not- in 1734, at Nether Stonall. Mary, widow of this Thomas, and daughter to Samuel Brown, of Footherley-hall, gent, lived to a great age, and happy in enjoying a good fiate of health till the time of her deceafe, in January, 1767, being then at leafl ninety years old. They had ilTue John, who, by , daugh- ter of Fox, of Colefliill, in Warwicklliire, had a fon, now of Bilftone, in Stafford (hire, and three daughters ; Mary, wife of Martyn Wood, of Shenftone, who died in 1 761, without iffue ; the others married to Shaw, of Wallall, and to , of Northampton. The laft mentioned Thomas Dickinfon, gent, took down the old manfion-houfe and rebuilt the prcfcnt hauufome one, with a neat , 2?4 'i'HE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES a neat court, and other conveniences, but at Inch an expence as to injure his family ; he ibkl it, with the lands adjoining, a part oi the BoiTes, which the family had long enjoyed, with the Caftles, in Upper Stonal!, to the late lord of the manor (ex- cept that an annuity was relerved for the fupport of his widow). Since what 1 cbferved of the Caftles in my account of Upper Stonall, 1 have learned, that they were formerly the poffcllion of Humphry Edgial, father of Hamlet, father of Humphry, an old man, yet living at Thornes, in this parifli, whofe anceftors "were of note, and gave name to Edjial hall, near Lichfield, the eftate of Fettiplace Nott, of Lichfield, efq. The manfion which "Thomas Dickenfon fold, with the BoflTes, and Caltles, are the ellates of the prefent lord of the manor. The Hunts feem to have been inhabitants of this place in early times. John Hunt, gent, died at Nether Stonall, in 1598, and left, as I think, John, who is mentioned in \ 606. They had lands in the Chapel-field, Heathfield, Middlefield, and others, named the Church Leafows, Ham, or Hands Riddings, Twenty-acre piece, the Flatts, Codcrofts, Stony-acres, High- alh pieces. Birch acres. Holy-lands, the Two Feathers, Flat- head, Little acres, Goril:y-gap, Sharp acres, with land belong- ing to Ofney abbey, and in the Nether Hook-field, molf, if not all, lying in this hamlet. The houfe or meflTuage that be- longed to this family, 1 take to have been that belonging to John Horton, lately deceafcd, afterwards to Edward Adcovk, and now to Edward Adcock, of the Aihcrofts, his eldeft fon. John Hunt, in the loth year of the reign of fames I. fold the Ham Riddings, formerly the eftate of the abbots of Ofney. He died about the x 6th year of the reign of James I. leaving Henry, his eldeit fon and heir ; Rowland, living in 1646 ; and Willi..m ; with three daughters, Mary, Margaret, and -, 6 wife O F S H E N S T O N E. 225 wife of Thomas Bibbe. In 1635, Rowland Fryth, efq. releafed to Henry Hunt his claim in a meiruage and lauds which he then held. He left ifllie, as I think, Henry, Rowland, and William. Rowland had iffue Henry, who, in 1658, fold to Anne Brace* girdle, of Gorfcot, near Walfall, a meffuage, with lands apper- taining thereto ; a parture and right of common which had be- longed to Oihey abbey, and were reputed parcel of the Mofs-houfe manor ; alfo Well-meadow in Nether Stonall before purchafed of Alexander Ward, gent. In the 14th year of the reign of king Charles II. the faid Anne pafled them away to Thomas Offley, of Gorfcot near VValla'll, and to Richard Offley^of Brynton in Stafford- fliire ; the fame year, Henry Hunt, grand fon of John, fold to Tho- mas Offley, of Gorfcot, and to Richard Ofiley, of Brynton, a mef- • fuage, with a dole adjoining, three Church leafows, Twenty-acre piece, land in K^ther Hookfield, Stony- acres, High-alli pieces, with the Birch- acres, Holylands, the Two-feathers, Flatt-heads, Little-acres, the flatt in Chapel-ficld, Gorfty-gap, Sharp-acres, with the timber and right of common on the wade grounds that belonged to the abbey of Ofeney, reputed as parcel of the Mofs- ' houfe manor, and which paid eleven fliillings yearly to the king. Henry died in 1652, leaving legacies to William his brother, ' and to his brother Rowland's cliildren : to Rowland himfelf 24 acres, alfo lands in the Chapel field, Middle-field, and Heath- field, with Codcroft, and a fiatt ; remainder to William, his fon ; , alfo to Elizabeth, wife of Rowland ; to three of his litters chil- dren, and her daughters, named Afhford ; to two children of _ Simon Bibbc, to Ifabcl Turner's fon, and to Ifabel, his own wife. Henry, eldeft fon of Rowland, was made chief heir to confide- rable polTeffions, under the direction of Alexander W^ard, gent, and others ; but he feems to have wafted his eftate, and to have G g ~ died 126 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES died before the year 1616, ns a deed I favv mentions his felling other lands a little before, near the tine of his deceafe. R.ow- land Hunt, of Nether Stonall, and Thomas Hunt, of Lyndon, in this p: ridi, [aid, in 1667, to thequaiterly aflefTment for aid- ing king Cliarles IL The fami!) of Br'fter'es, or Bu//an'es, were of note here about the time of queen Elizabeth. In tiie reign of James I. An- thony Butteries was concerned in the fale of lands by Richard Greenhall, of the Aflicrofts, to Rowland Ridding, of Nether Stonall ; in the fourth year of the reign of king Charles I. he and Rowland Hunt were empowered by the lords of the manor to give Anne Ridding feifin of Queb-meadows, which flie had- purchafed of the faid lords. His ilRie were Antony, Humphry, and Roger, who all had poflefllons in Over Stonall, Nether Stonall, and Lyndon, alfo in the Heath-field. Antony, in T667, paid to the affeffment for the royal aid; in 1^70, he fold to John Dickinfon, of Afliby de-la Zouch, in Leicefterlhire, gent, three clofes in Nether Stonall and Thome, called the Glafs- hoafes, Longcroft, and Buttcroft, at this time poffeffed by Tho- , mas Stanley, of Thornes, gent. The manfion of the Butteries family I fuppoie to be that in the tenure of William Swan, late the eftate of Martyn Wood, next of John Levett, of Whichnover, efq. now of John Dolphvn. Antony Butteries abovefaid retired to Barton upon Trent, and, dying therein 1676, was entombed at Shenitone. This i? th- latelt account I meet with of this family. The Pfyatts were of note in this parifli, being fettled in Footherly, Lynn, Over Stonall, and Nether Stonall ; bvit, a? tlieir ' principal manfion was in the laft-mentioned hamlet, I -"hofe to fpeak of them here. In all probability they have long b id pofFef- fions there, as we find them nearly as foon as the paiilh-reg!{ter begins. OF S II E N S T O N E. 722 begins. William Wyatt died in 1580, and William, as I think, his Ion, had iffiie William, Roger, John, Thomas, Nicolas, Harry, who died in 1O07, and Anne, wife of John Acock. The family in this place ended in a female (wife of Edward Swift), who ended her days in 1769, in the manfion formerly belonging to the Wyatts, built in the ftyle of thofe houfes that were ere6led in the days of king James 1. or Charles I. of half timbered and Dlartered walls, late the property of Martyn Wood, now of Joiepn W auams, gent. Robert Wyatt owned a meffuage and lands in Nether Stonall, which formerly belonged to the abbey of Ofney (moft likely conveyed to him by Rowland Fryth, and Peter Alport, efqrs, ), and paid a crown-rent of 4s. 4d. : thefe he paffed to Rowland Ridding, in the 8th year of the reign of James J. with a mef- fuage and lands in which Nicolas Wyatt then lived, and to which purchafe he is witnefs, and which, in the loth year of the reign of James I. w^ere farther confirmed to Ridding, with a meffuage held by Nicolas Wyatt. William Wyatt, in the 1 3th year of the reign of James I. was concerned in a deed paffing lands from Richard Sylvelter, of Over Stonall, to Rowland Ridding ; and from John Hunt, of Nether Stonall, to the fame Rowland, 19 James I. Ralph, whom I take to be brother to this William, was of Lynne, in which he purchafed an eitate of John Belt, and Elizabeth his " wife, which afore time w^as the property of William Milner. Belides other iffue, he had Mary, wife of James Whitehall, who, in 1662, fold land called the Nate to John Jennines, of Nether- Stonali, which Ralph Wyatt, in the 24th year of the reign of Charles I. bought of J. Bed, of Footherley. The faid James and Mary Whitehall, with John Brown, of Footherley, gent. (14 Charles 11.) fold other lands to Simon Wigan ; in 1664, G g 2 thejr 228 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ_U1TIES they fold lands to the fame John Brown, gent. I find a Mary Wyatt, who, on July 26, 1656, bought land called the Nare, (near that lb named of Ralph Wyatt's, and Alice his wife) of John Belt, and Elizabeth his wife, to which is evidence William, (as I fuppofe) her fon, who then refiding at Lichfield, in 1654, fold to Edward, his brother, of Nether Stonall, the nvelTiaage in which Edward lived, with a croft, a moor, ten acres in Leet- field and Chapel-field, the Flatts near Edward Fryth's land, the Sharps, High-aflie, land called the Birmingham-gate, in Middle- field, towards Heath-field hedge, with land in Hook-field. Pof- feflion was given by Henry Fry th, gent, attorney for William Wyatt, and Ehzabeth his wife, of which were evidences John Adcock, Rowland Serjeant, and William Stanley. The fame year a fine was pafTed at Weftminfier before Oliver St. John, Edward Atkyns, Matthew Hale, and Hugh Wyndham, Juftices, by Ed- ward Wyatt, • Rowland Serjeant, and Margaret, wife of William Malpafs, plaintiffs; and by William Wyatt, Elizabeth, his wife, |ohn Colyere, and Jane his wife, Nicolas Parker, and Joan his wife, John Manley, and Anne his wife, deforciants ; of two meflTii- ages, one cottage, two gardens, fifty-four acres of land and com- mon paiture in Nether Stonall, Over Stonall, and Aldrich ; this fine Edward difcharged to Thomas Wilbraham, flieriff of Staf- fordfhire, May 29, 1655. Alfo we find, that William Wyatt, and Elizabeth, his wife, of Lichfield, in the reign of Charles J. fold to Edward Qiiebb-meadow in Nether Stonall, lauds in Lee- field, Hook-field, on Perry-hill, near William Wyatt's and Tho- mas Dickenlbn's, which were purchafed by William, the father of William and Edward, for which was paid a crown-rent of IS. 7*3. ; Garters field in Over Stonall, lying between Rowland Edjials, Rowland and John Riddings, eaftwards of Thornes and Lynn, heretofore bought of Richard Sylvefter, gent, by William » Wyatt, OF S II E N S T O N E. 229 VVyatt, the elder, which paid a crown rent of Sd. Long meadow, and Moor, in Foothcrley, near Roger Sylveller's, then held by Ehzabeth Gibbons, widow ; land then held by Sybil Fletcher, widow, called Riddings, and in Leet-field, Hook-field, Ramfted Moor, between Mary Wyatt's and John Banks, in the Heath- field, on the Crofs pits, and near Stanleys, the Flatts near. Stanley's, paying 6d. crown-rent ; witnefles William and Mary Thornton, Edward Hollingham, and others. James Whitehall, and Mary his wife, in the i 8th year of the reign of Charles II. with Rowland Greenall, Sarah his wife, and Robert Greenall, pafied a fine to Samuel Brown, gent, to con- firm to him a mefliiaoe and twentv-one acres of land in F"oo- therley, before Orlando Bridgman, Thomas Tyrrel, Samuel Brown, and John Archer, jultices at Weftminfier. Edward Wyatt, brother to William, of Lichfield, had, befides other ilTue, two fons, William, and Nicolas. William, in 1675, was concerned with John Thornton, of Nether Stonall, in lelling lands in the Heath field, and the Stony acres ; and with John Jobbern in paflSng away land in the fame field ; in 1680, he alfo figned the title made by his father, difpofing of Ibme pro- perty in Nether Stonall to John Wadams. Edward, their father in 1667, paid a quarterly aifeffment to the royal aid of 2s. yd. at which time the widow W'yatt, of Over Stonall, paid to the fame. Nicolas had iffue, by Mary Hunt, of Nether Stonall, William, and other children.^ In 1687, he was concerned with Thomas and James Huniborn, and John Jackfbn, in a deed j^af- fing lands to John Wadams; and, in 1692, was one of the aflelfors to the poll-tax, to which William, his fon, and his wife, alfo Sarah Wyatt, widow, of Footherly, paid. Nicolas, fon of Nicolas, in 1695, married Sarah, slaughter of William Clare, of Tipton,, gent, a family long, fettled there, of good rank ;, 330 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES rank. Upon this, Sarah Clare, his wife, he fettled a mefTuage, gardens, the Flatts, land in Chapel-fields, and in three other fields in or near Stonall ; a meadow, with Greenall's meadow, Hook-clofe, Carters-clofe, Long-moors, with other lands ; to which fettlement were evidences William Clare, fenior, of Tipton, William Glare, junior, and Mofes Byrd, of Weft Bromwich ; alfo truftee to it. This Nicolas, in 1721, was one of the prin- cipal men of this parilh, that empowered John Brown, gent. to recover from Chancery the legacy of Grenada Brown, gentle- v/oman. This Nicolas and Sarah had ilTue Jofeph, and 1 think another fon, and two daughters; for, in 1724, Okfioher 7, Ni- colas and Sarah Wyatt, by deed, palTed over to Jofeph, their fon, their eftate at Nether Stonall, paying legacies on their deceafe to his lifter, or lifter-in-law, then v>ife of Henry Wollaton, of Hedgeford, near Cannoc ; and to his lifter, Sarah, wife of Ed- ward Swift, living in July, 1770; Sarah, his wife, died in 1769. Jofeph Wyatt, in 1728, pafled Greenall's meadow, a moor in Nether Stonall, and Carters field clofe, in Over Stonall, to Michael Wale, of Lichfield. In right of Nicolas, his father, he poftefled lands called the Twenty-acres, in Nether Stonall, and land adjoining to Quebb-meadows. In 1732, he fold to Jofliua Wafforn, of Stonely, gent, a mefiuage at Nether- ftonall, gardens, the enclofed Flatts in Chapel-field, with the Sharp- acres in the fame, a meadow near the houfe, Greenalls, Hook- clofes, Flatts, Flatt-heads, in Middle-field, Long-moors, Carters- field, Croffen-pits, land in Heath-field, ten acres enclofed in Chapel-field, in the tenure of Nicolas Wyatt, for the term of a thoufand years, paying a pepper-corn yearly ; and that he might make an end of what his anceftors had pofTeflTed in part before the reign of Elizabeth ; in 1734* ^^^ ^^^^ ^° Jofeph c Wadams, G F S 11 E N S T O N E. 23 Wadams, gent, nine cloies called the Flatts, alio ]->it-clo:e, Hill- clofe, Chapel-yard-clofe, Hook-clofe, lying near the lands, ot Heni7 Dolphyn and Thomas Dickenfon, ^ent. Carter-field-cloie in Over Stonall, other lands lying to Jofeph Parker's of Lichfield, and Thomas Dickenlbn's, gent, two clofes called the Long-moors, in Footherley, with other fields lying to Thomas Stanley's, Cooper's, Jofeph Wadams, and Richard Fletcher's, gents, which paid 4s. 3d. yearly to the lord of the fee. Notwithftanding his walling all the family eilatcs, he afterwards recovered him.felf greatly, living at fome diftance from Shenltone, and died in the prefent reign ; leaving his fecond wife a widow, and withal a handfome fortune to Sarah Swift, his filter, for her life, and to her fons, Jofepii Swift, of the BoiTes, John, of Lynne, with their fillers. The Adcocks had two good houfes in this hamlet, hut, as they have all left it, I intend faying Ibmething of the family in my account of Lynne, or Lyndon, where the principal heir refides. In this hamlet of Nether Stonall, we meet with a family of good account, named Wadams. Whence they came into the county of Stafford I could not learn, but find they had pofieihons at Longdcn, near Lichfield, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. for then .vas livit g ths.re Richard Wadams, who had Richard, that purchafed lands of Richard Hanley, and others, at Longdon ; the laft-mentioned Richard Wadams had ilTlie John, who, in 1646, was exscutor to Rowland Ridding, of Nether Stonall and in that capacity made a dividend of the ef- fe6ts, a third part of which was paid to Catharine, widow of Rowland Grcenall, of Shenftone, who bad alfo a claim to a Ihare of a meflRiage, a croft, and nine acres of land lying in the Nether-field in Lower Stonall, then held by Rowland Hunt. In 1648, z^i THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UlTIES 1648, [ohn Wadams releafed to Henry Hunt, of this place, the tythes of lands in the Chapel-fields enclofed by Rowland Hunt ; to which releafe were evidences Thomas Rugeley, efq. Thomas Bennet, and Rowland Hunt. In 1655 he made an exchange of lands in Hook-field, and on Perry-hill, lying l)e- tween the land of Edward Fryth, efq. and Mary Wyatt ; in 1667, he paid to the affeffinent for the royal aid, at w^hich time lived Richard Wadams, of Longdon, who had feveral eftates in that place, and at Bradley-fields. In 1699-70, John Wadams, of Longdon, Mary his wife, and John their fon, joined in purchafmg and alfo exchanging lands in Nether Stonall, and Chapel-fields, with Edward Wyatt, and William his fon. In 167 1, John Wadams, of Nether Stonall, and Catharine his wife, purchafed other lands of the Adcocks. in 1672, John Wadams, of Longdon, bought the Pear-tree crofts, and the Abbey butts, with other fields there, of William Slater and Richard Marfhall ; alfo, three years after, he, with John his fon paffed away lands in the Hook-field, in Nether Stonall, lying between the property of John Brown, gent. Row- land Reading, and Edward Wyatt ; alio in the Middle field, lying between that of Abraham Jordan, and William Hunt ; to the deed are evidence Thomas and John Dickenfon. In 1678, John Wadams, of Lower Stonall, purchafed fields named the Upper-ends, others lying near the Pitchley-fields, with part of the Gorlfy-moors of John Banks ; Elizabeth his wife, Edward, and Sarah, their children, all of Upper Stonall, feizine of which was given by John Brown, gent. William Stone, and Henry Farnel. About the fame time he w as concerned in the paffing away of lands, called the Stony-acres, in or near the Heath-field, by John and Ann Thornton, of Lower-Stonall. In 1686, he bought lands in the Hurft-fields, in Lyndon, with other fields lying O F S H E N S T O N E. 233 lying towards thcfe of Humphry Perfehoufc, gent, and William Botham ; alio others lying towards the eftates of Anne Brandreth, widow, Humphry Perfehoufe, John Bulkley, of Little Alton, and Margery, wife of Jofeph, fon of John Bulkley. hi i 6g 2, we find John Wadams, of Nether Stonall, paid towards the poll tax ; to Jofeph, fon of Jofeph Wadams, and father of the prefent Jofeph, an uncle left the manfion and lands lying in this ham- let. In 172-, Catharine Wadams paid eleven Ihillings for the life of the Pendrels heirs, who had fuch crown rents fettled upon them by king Charles II. for their endeavours to preferve him after the battle at Worcefter. In 1730-1 Jofeph Wadams paid the fame fum, and moft likely the prefent poifeiror pays the fame. In 1726, Jofeph Wadams, of Stonall, fon of Thomas,, of Longdon, married Anne, daughter of John Smallwood, of Great Barre, to whom were fettled as truttees John Stokes, of Dippings in Tettenhall, and William Adcock, of Nether Stonall, and upon her he fettled the meflliage here, lands named the Flatts, Crofley Pit pieces, Home Biddings, Quebb Meadows, the Moors, and the Chapel Hill pieces. By this Anne Smallwood he had ilTue one fon, Jofeph, and three daughters. This laft mentioned Jo- feph rebuilt the family houfe at Stonall. In 1758, he purchafed lands and a manfion adjoining of Martyn Wood, of Shenftone, gent, and, in 1760, the efliate near him, which had been long in the family of the Adcocks, but lat-ely in Ambrofe Tibbats, of Bilftone. This Jofeph Wadams married firft , daughter of John Cook, and fecondly, , daughter of Cox, of the Goffes near Bell Broughton, but hath no iffue. The feveral families of Sedgewick, Powell, OfHey, and Stokes, had eftates in Nether Stonali, but little is faid of them farther than has been already cbfcrved. H h Greenfbury, 234 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES Greenfbiiry, or Greenfberry Hill, in this harnlet, is a de- lightful raation, facing Druid's Heath, at a good diftance from the road leading from Sutton Colefield to Stafford. It hath only one farm houle, in the tenure of John Rawlins (fon of Francis, who held it), whofe family came from a place near Stafford caftle, which yet bears the name of Rawlins's pieces. The farm with the Peatmore and part of the Bofles is rated at 200I. yearly, but is the eftate of William Tenant, efq. lord of the manor. L Y N N E, or LYNDON. The hamlet of Lynne is one continued road from Upper Stonall to Shenflone village, extending itfelf full two miles, but hath not more than a dozen houfes. It is bounded by Shenflone, Footherley, Nether Stonall, Over Stonall, Chefterfield, and the Alh Crofts. There were two families, named, as I conjedure, from this place, fettled here, or at Allerfchal (Alderlhaw), in the neigh- bourhood, as appears by two deeds in my polTeifion, one of Adam de Lynn or Lynde, dated 13T1, and the other in 1315, 8 Edward II. of John Fitz Nicolas de la Lynde. Lynne Hall was, unqueftionably, the chief manfion in this hamlet. What figure it formerly made is hard to fay, but what OF S n E N S T O N E. 23- what remains of it at prefent is mean enough, and (lands upon little ground, exclulive of the barns and other outbuild- ings in the hands of a tenant, late John, now James Moic- ley, his fon. The firft family that 1 find poiTeflbrs of Lynne Hall, was that of the Stanleys^ and, as I think, in the reign of king Henry VIII. About the time of James I. or Charles I. it was alienated with other eftates of confiderable value, to ttie Erpes, by Tho- mas Stanley, efq. of Alderfey Hall, in Chefliire, father, or grandfather of Thomas Stanley, who was created a baronet by king Charles II. June 25, 1 660. Of the Erpes the lirll v/c meet with poffcffcd of Lynne Hall was Francis, in the reign of James I. or Charles I. who had ifTue a fon of the fame nan'se, a bufy man in the troubles in be- half of the Parliamentarians. In the ii*h year of the reign of king Charles XL he purchafcd the peal woods and coal pic leafows in Wyrley Parva, of Thomas Fowke, efq, and Ferrars Fowke, his fon, with other lands there adjoining; and at that time, or foon after, he puichafed a fourth part of the manor of Wall, with other ellates and tenements therein ; as a!fo at Shenflone, in Pipe, Hamerwick, Alderfliaw, and Lichfield, all in the county of Stafford, with leveral woods and coppices, two pieces called the Muck leys lying in Pipe and Wall ; two j)iece3 in Hamerwich, called the Lady Hayes, Wall meadows in Wall, and lands in Pipe near it, witii other premifes in Shenftone, Pipe, and Wall ; the pieces named the White Leafows near Wall, but in the parifli of Shenftone, but then under leafe from the fub- chancellor and vicars choral of Lichfield for more than fixty years from the year 1646 ; a burgage tenure in the Bridge-hreet in the fame city, a mcfTuage in Bacon-ftreet, with crofts and barns, a moor called Tavcrner's moor, a meadow called Alcfmore, fe- ll h 2 veral. 2^6 THE HISTORY AND A N T 1 Q_L] 1 T I E S vera! flats and parcels of 'field ground in the county of Lichfield, granted July 20, 1640. Alfo, foon after, three acres in Monkf- field, two acres in Smythfield, and one land in Hungerfield, in Lichfield field. In 1644 ^^^ ^^^^ Francis Erpe '••■, of Lynne I^ali, gent, was chofen by col. Chadwick, capt. Leicefiier Bar- bour, William Bendy, Crompton, • Gregg, capt. Henry Stone, &:c. part of the committee at Stafford, on their fide, one of the two airefTors of Edward Stamford, efq. of Perry Barre, with Thomas Jordan, of Perry, to fet the lands to the bell ad- vantage, and pay Dorothy, wife of the faid Edward Stamford, the fifths, alfo to allot her Perry-hall, and two clofes called Pale clofe, and Bromes leafow, at an appointed rent, her hufband being a delinquent, and in arms againlt the parliament, fhe on the one hand engaging to fecure Francis Erpe from the Royalilis, and the committee to protedl Thomas Jordan, and to pay weekly afieffments for what ihe keeps in her hands. In 1667, ■ Erpe, of Lynne, paid 3s. yd. oh. to the aflefiTment for the royal aid, for one quarter ; but this perfon feems to have been one of his fons. In 1646, the abovefaid Francis Erpe, the ac- tive governor of Rufiial houfe again 11 the king, Robert Tutbury, and Gabriel Parkhurit, refided in Dudley callle after its fur- render. Francis Erpe, by Lettice his wife, had iflTue John, William, Henry (who died in 1658), Richard, Thomas, and Francis ; alfo daughters. Lyndon Hall, r.nd the eflates of the Erpe family, were fold in parts about the reign of Charles II. and the hall was held by various tenants, if not fometime by the next purchafer, as by one Walkland, in whofe time of holding it Shenftone church was new pewed, as I have feen in a MS, and received by tra- * MSS notes of the StaflTurdfliire committee penes J. Burnes de AlderOiaw. dition. OFSHENSTONE. 237 dition. Next by Nock, after him by Richard Baldwyn, or William Wyvil, but I cannot fay which was the firil. Of the latter we have an account, that he was a perfon of circum- Itanccs, having an eftate of lixty or feventy pounds yearly ; that he came from that part of the Peak in Derbylhire that lyeth to- wards Leek ; but being inadvertently the death of a boy, this accident fo exceedingly injured and involved him, that he fpent moft of that fortune. I fhould have obferved, that he lived fome- time at Shenftone hall. His fons were Andrew, William, and James ; from thefe are defcended feveral families of the name, in the neighbourhood of Shenftone and Sutton Goletield. Lettice Erpe, widow of Francis, died at Lynne, Oclober 28, 1669, by which we may nearly afcertain the time of feating the church, the pews, in all probability, being torn in pieces during the ravages of the civil war. I have before faid, that the Erpes fold their eilates in parts ; but the purchafer of Lynne hall was Humphry Perfehoufe, fon of John Perfehoufe, gent, defcended of John Perfehoufe, of Walihal, who, in 1583, was, by the queen's herald at arms, declared by found of trumpet incapable of bearing the coat of arms he had ufurped, and orders were given at the fame time by the Somerfet herald, and others, at Lichfield, to the queen's lubje6ts, that as they tendered her difpleafure they fliould for- bear giving him the title or addition of efquire or gentleman. Humphry Perfehoufe left Lynne hall and lands here to Lydiatt, his miirrefs, and to his fon by her, for their lives, Thefe poiTeffions that John George Lydiatt fold to William, fon of the aforefaid Humphry. We have fome farther account of this family from a noted antiquary *, who fays, near Rufliall, at a place called Reynolds * Sir S. Digge. hall, J 38 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q_U I T I E S hall, is the feat of one John Perfehoufe, whofe father was a praditioner of the law, or his grandfather, and Hved in good repute. His fon adhered to the king, Charles I in the late war, and was forced to a compolition with the parliament, at the rate of 119L by the name of John Pierflioiife, of Reynolds haw, or hall, Walfal ; the faid John was prebend and vicar of Wefton Pen, and RolTe. The family had this feat in marriage with one of the daughters and coheirs of Walker, of Reynolds hall, whofe anceil:or married the daughter and heir of Reynolds, in whofe name and family it had for fome time continued. Walker's arms, to which the family of the Perfehoufe had claim, were ; Argent, a chevron^ Sable, charged with two bezants, Or, a crefcentof the firft, between three crefcents of the fecond. A pedigree of the Perfehoufe family is in my hands. John Perfehoufe, of Reynolds hall, the lawyer, had iflue Richard, who, by Frances, daughter of Humphry Wyrley, efq. had iflfue John (living in the reign of king Charles II), a very loyal perfon to king Charles I : he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Chelter, efq. and had iffue John, aged feven in 1663. Him I take to have been the father or elder brother of Hum- phry, who bought Lynne hall. It feems clear that fome of the family lived at this place; for, the regifter mentions the interment of Granada Perfehoufe, of Lynne, June 22, 165". W'illiam, Ion of Humphry, had iffue William, of Reynolds hall, in the commiffion of the peace, who died in March, I734> leaving Richard ■■■, and two daughters, by his wife, daughter of Parker, gent. He had a fecond wife, , daughter of Townihend, but find no iffue by her. One of the daughters married to John Douglas, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to the king, and canon of Windfor; the other to a clergyman of Hereford fliire. * Who married December iS, 1754, to Mifs RacLel Riley. Richard O F S H E N S T O N E. 239 Richard Perfehoufe, efq. was left a minor. In 1762, he was one of the three perfons pricked down for iheriff for the county of Stafford, but was not nominated or confirmed l)y the king. He became heir to Parker, of Bloxwich, gent, his mother's brother. He married two wives, both daughters of Ryley, of Worcei^er ; by the firlt he had feveral children, who all died infants, but none by the latter. He, himfelf, had a tender con- ftitution, and a thin habit of body which he greatly impaired alfo by his exceiTes, all which brought on a fever that carried him off in December, 1771, being not more than forty years old. By will he provided for his widow, bur left the chief part of his eftates at Reynolds hall, VVallall, in Piufliall, with a moiety of the tythes of the laft parilh in Lynne, Sec. to Morton Wal- houfe, fon of Walhoufe, efq. of Hatherton on Cannoc, by Frances, lifter of Sir Edward Lyttelton, of Pillaton, baronet. In order to linifh what I have to fay of Lynne hall, I fliall add, that I find one lames Erpe, of Lichfield, in the reign of Henry VIII, whofe fon lames married, in 1598, to Catharine Sherwood, of that city ; and Henry to Alice Seale, in 1605, at Stow church, one of which perfons I look upon to be father of Francis, who fettled in Shenftone, and there purchafed eftates. Pouke Houfe, a meffuage ^o named, formerly the eftate of Crowther, was the property of John Moleiley, late of Lynne hall, and is in James his fon at prefent : but of this te- nement and land heretofore appertaining to it, I obferve nothing- worth note but the name. Eaniwalh^ and BarnwoodSj are lands fo termed in this hamlet, which, as far as I can learn, went, as I have defcribed other eftates of the PtUgeleys, to the Brandreths, and fo to the family of the Hills, of Shenftone park, of which Noel Hill, elq. of Terne, is the prefent owner, in whom alfo remain the farms held 240 THE II I S T O P. Y AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S in part- by John, James, and Thomas Moleley, who hath erected a neat farm honfe adjoining to the hall aforefaid, and in the Carrington family, held in 1772 by Francis Walters. Though notice is already taken of the Rudgings or Riddings^ yet finding they were people of conliderable property in Lynne, I could hardly pafs through this hamlet without adding a word or two more of the family. It feems then, that they began to fettle here in the reign of Kenry VI. or Edward IV. but little mention is made of them till 1470, when they were purchafers of lands, and continued in a thriving fituation till the troubles of king Charles I. which ruined them as well as thoufands more. Rowland Rudding, in the reign of James I. was of the lame flock with James Rud- ding, who died here in 1581, by William his fon. This Row- land purchafcd lands in fee farm lying at Nether Stonall, and elfewhere, of Rowland Fryth and Peter Alport, efqrs. which they, in the third year of the reign of James I. had received by grant from the crown ; alfo in the thirteenth year of the reign of James I. other lands of Richard Sylvetter, in Lynne, to which are witnefles Laurence Serjeant, Sec. In the 19th year of the reign of James I. he, for 70I. bought of Rowland Green- hill of the Allicrofts a meffuage, croft, and nineteen acres of land lying near the land of Thomas Stanley, efq. to be held of the king in chief, as of the honour of Eaft Greenwich. In the lame reign, he had, from John Hunt, the Ham or Lome Rid- dings, in three parts, late part of the Mofs manor, before belonging to the abbey of Oleney. I conclude he died about the year 1646, becaufe at that time his executor Wadams, of Nether Stonall, paid part of her fortune to Catharine, his daughter, ^^•ife of Rowland Greenhill, of Shentlone. By Anne his wife he had iffue John Ridding, Mary, and Catharine, which 3 -■ ^I^iTj O F S II E N S T O N E. 241 Mary, in 1633, purchaied a mcfTuage and lands of William Binerton. An obferver of the difficult times of king Charles I. during the Civil War faid, efpecially of this family, *' The Rid- dings were a good family at Lyndon, by their profeffion Quakers, and in the troubles fuffered greatly, being twice in a very few days plundered of their cattle and provilions ; and, farther, obliged to advance confiderable fums of money on the propofitions of par- liament, belides the weekly afleffments enforced by the committee refiding at Stafford, and their troops. The rough lands or fields, yet fo named, were then covered over with flirubs and thickets, in a retired part of which thefe injured people had made con- veniences for their horfes and other cattle. The plunderers, then called the Puritans and Reformers of the times, after fre- quently ufing thefe people as aforefaid, affured them of fecurity for the future, againft all farther abufes, and engaged that they may bring home their cattle, but foon after feized both waggons and horfes." Such was the infelicity of thofe times, when the mol^ inoffennve people were not in fafety as to their perfons, nor fecure of their food even for an hour. In the year 1767, William and Nicolas, ofLynne; two of the name of Thomas, of Stonall ; William and Edward Rudding; all houfekeepers, paid to the afleiTment for the royal aid, fo often expreffed. The whole line is now at an end, or reduced to one poor family, refident in either of the Stonalls or Lyndon ; fuch ftrange viciffitudes does this life afford. The houfe chiefly of their abode in Lynne I take to have been that in the tenure of Thomas Adcock (1773), but do not pofitively affirm it. This manfion is at prefent a fmall farm-houfe, built but a few years lince, in other refpecfls convenient enough, having good barns and out-houfes, formerly, as I fuppofe, the property of the Ruddings, next of the Sylvefters, and afterwards of the I i Dolphyns, 242 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES Dolphyns, of the Moffe ; John Dalphyn being the prefent owner, to vvhich is annexed land of 200 1. yearly value, or thereabouts, which, however, hath been improved, to the great advantage of the owner and tenant. The Adcocks have been long fettled at Nether Stonall and Lynne; in 1584 died Robert Adcock of this parifli ; Anne, his wife, in 1595 ; they feem to have had iflue Thomas, John, Anne, Alice, and Mary, who all died before the year i6ci. John, of Lyndon, fon, as I think, to one of thefe fons, mar- ried Mary, daughter of Wyatt, in i6oc, and in 1602 John their fon was born ; John, the father, or one of the fame name, in the eighth year of the reign of James I. was witnefs to the feilin of lands paffed to Rowland Ridding by Rowland Fryth and Peter Alport, efqrs. and was a perfon of confiderable property; in 1652, he was executor to Henry Hunt, gent, John Adcock, living in the troviblelome times, was greatly ha- raffed ; the family ajid tradition fay, that his fortune was much leflened, and his dependants much abufed both by friends and enemies. Not to aggravate circumitances of ill ufage from his neighbours, two accounts are here given relating to his hard- fhips in the Civil War, which will at the fame inftant ex- emplify the conduct of the parliament committees and agents. Robert Tuthill, governor of Ralhall-hall garrifon ffir the par- liament in 1644-5, applied to the committee at Stafford* for fome farther fupport for his men, afhrming that the weekly ^fTignations were not fufficient, upon which the committee, Thomas Crompton, JoUiffe, — ■ — Swynfen, Edward Brougiiton, Gregg, Thomas Pudfey, William Bendy, Htnry Stone, John Simcox, Leicefter Barbour, Edward Leigh, * Minutes of the Committee. Ph. OFSHENSTONE. 243 Ph. Jackfon, Jof. Whitehall, pafTed an order to collcc5l 90 1. immediatelv, and to engage the public faith for it ; from each perlbn lubfcribed, the twentieth of their pcrlbnal eftates, and the fifth of their land rents were exa^led, 'viz. from Humphry Wyrley, of Hampftead, efq. 20 1. from John Adcock, of Nether Stonall, lol. from John Harrifon, of Aldrich, 61. from Tho- mas Harrifon, 4I. from Richard Stone, of Park-ftreet, Walfall, 12I. T. Ofborn, lol. John Cooper, of the Hil], both in Walfal, lol. from John Anintyn, of Wall, 20I. The following is a true copy of a receipt to John Adcock, of Nether Stonall, for advancing money to the parliament : " Forafmuch as John Adcock, of Nether Stonall, hath ad- vanced upon the propofitions of parliament the fum of eight pounds, and hath paid the fame into the receipt of this garrifon of Rulhal howfe, theis are therefore to command and charge all officers and foldiers under my command ; and to requelf all other the forces for king and parliament, not to moleft, vex, trouble, or offer any violence to the faid John Adcock, nor to pillage, plunder, or meddle with any of his goods or chattels ; he, the faid John, Itill continuing a friend to king and parlia- ment, and not doing, or confer.ting to the doinge of any thing prejudicial to the kingdom and ftate. Given under my hand at the garrifon of RuHial howfe, for king and parliament, this nynth day of May, 1645. Robert Tuthill." John Adcock, born in 1602, died in 16:54, or thereabouts, for then his will bears date ; he left iffue John, Alexander, and Anne, wife of H, Webbe, of Hamerwich, gent. John, in 1667, paid to the royal aid, and, in the reign of king Charles II. purchafed of Alexander Ward that eftate in Stonall which v/as aforetime the property of Thomas Rowe. In 1669 he was concerned in an exchange of lands with Edward li 2 Wyatt 444 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Wyatt and John Wadams. In 1671 he fold lands to the faid Wadams. He had iffue, as I think, John, Alexander, and • others, Alexander, in 1674, and other years, paid 13 s. 6d. crown rent for land in his poiTeffion, as part of the manor of the Mofs, of old time belonging to- the abbey of Ofney. He alio purchafed an eftate in Nether Stonall, of Richard Oflley, of Brynton, Staffordfhire,in 1687. In 1692 he is mentioned as paying to the poll-tax, a matter, that though given by the parliament in zeal to king William III. was thought a great hardfliip on the fubjedls of a free country, and therefore difcontinued. "By this bill* all perfons (except fuch as received alms of the parilh) were to pay twelve-pence quarterly for one year ; all tradefmen and arti- ficers having an eftate of the clear yearly value of 300 1. and upwards, ten Ihillings ; all gentlemen, or reputed gentlemen, having an eftate of 30OL or more; as alfo clergymen and teachers who had any ecclefiaftical benefice or contribution to the value of >^ol. per annum ^ or upwards, 20 s. ; every lord of par- liament, either fpiritual or temporal, the fum of lol. ; and all perfons who (hould refufe to take the oaths to their n.ajefties double the turns charged by the refpedlive heads. Alexander Adcock lived to the age of 71, dying in 1721. Befides lands, that he acquired by purchafe or otherwife, he had from his father the Church acres in Chapel f.eld, tbe Flatts on Chapel hill, lands near Unnamed, Hogs hill, part of tiie High afiies, and Heath field, part of the Church fields near Cock heaths. In 1677 he married Jane, daughter of William Tom- kys, of Lichfield, gent, with whom, befides a handfome for- tune, he had lands in Great Wyrley ; truftees were Thomas Ward, of Sheiaftone, and Thomas Dickcnfon, fenior ; John Ad- •* Toll-tax bilL cock. O F S H E N S T O N E. 245 Cock, the father, likewife at this time gave them in marriage a meffuage and clofe adjoining, with a flatt, feveral acres of arable land, a mefluage lately bought of John Brown, of Thornes, gent. Green crofts, bought of Thomas Artley ; Commons crofts, bought of John Belt, of Hintz ; pieces in the Chapel field, the Crofs pits, and lands bought of Alexander Ward, gent, ditto in the Heath field, Middle field, and at the Hook pits, a piece ex- changed with Lydia Malkyn, land on the Chapel hill, late AlcAander Ward's, and the Alli lands; to which were evidences William and Thomas Tomkys, and Ifaac Hinckley. By this Jane Tomk s, who died in 1729, he had iffue William, who died in 1731, aged 55; Thomas, born in 1984; John; and Elizabeth, wife of George Parker, of Whittington. John, eldeft brother of Alexander, in 1692, paid to the poll- tax ; in 1676 married Ruth, daughter of Vaughton, of Tamworth, upon whom he fettled in marriage a manfion, and about fitty acres of land, called the Cock heaths, part of Queb meadows, lands in Heath field, Chapel fields. Hook-field, and ;Middle fields ; witnefs Fr. Wolverlion, Alexander Ward, Alex- ander Adcock, J. Botte. By this Ruth, who died in 1687, he ha'1 ifilie John, and Jonathan. John married Ann Shipton, of Tamworth, who ftiUnded the holpital at London, named by him Guy's hofpital, by her he had ilThe John, and Jonathan, and, as I think, Edwar(', and others, by a iecond venture Edward, of the AfiiCiofts, manied Elizabeth, widow of Fr Rawlins, of Gr-enlberry hill (fon of John of Lyndon, who came from Raw- lins, near Stafford), who had ilfue Jolhua, John, James, of Uy)per Siomll, Francis, and daughters. John, now of Greenf- ben y hill, married Dorothy, daughter of Lea, and hath children. By this Elizabeth Smyth, of Wyrley, widow of Fr. Rawlins, 246 THEHISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES Rawlins, he lefc ilTue Edward, now of the AHicrofts, William Mary, wife of Henry Gurzon, of Hill, near Sutton Colefield. John Adcock had a tolerable good eftate in Lynn and Nether Stonall, though the family was vifibly on the decline; in 17 21 he married Catharine, daughter of Robinfon, fifter of Mi- chael of Oldwood, Staffordlhire, on whom he fettled a manlion at Nether Stonall, the Stoney acres, Coat Leafows, a meadow near, the three Flatts, Queb meadow, Twenty acre pieces, and two meadows adjoining ; he died in 1746, leaving John, Jo- nathan, who died lingle, 1772, Elias, wdio alfo died unmarried, in London, and three daughters; i. Mary, wife of Walter Bydulph, of Barton under Needwood, efq. uncle to Sir The- ophilus Bydulph, baronet, late of Elmhurll, Stafford fliire .... by whom flie hath iiTue, 2. Elizabeth, wife of Jofeph Swift, of the Bofles ; 3. Catharine, unmarried, John was bred an attorney, and was fteward to John OfRey, cfq. of Whichmore, Staffordfnire, member of parliament for Eaft Retford, Nottinghamfliire. He married Eleanor, daughter of Wright, and hath children. In 1756, March 26, he and Jonathan his uncle, the executors to John deceafed, fold the eftate at Stonall, and the family manfion, to Ambrofe Tibbats, of Bilftone, by which means one of the principal houfes of the name of Adcock ceafed here. In 1760 the fame eftate was pafled over to Jofeph Wadams. William Adcock, eldeft fon of Alexander, married Dorothy- Lea, of Shenftone village, in 1723; he is mentioned in fome writings to have gone before Henry Dolphyn, clerk of the peace, and there to have taken the oaths to king George 1. engaging at the fame time to regifter his eftate, and name, which was ge- nerally done through the kingdom ; for the adminiftering of which oaths, regiftering, and receipts, the faid Henry Dclphyn exaded O F S H E N S T O N E. 247 exaded from the whole country a confiderable fum of money. The reafon for proceeding in this manner in regard to the oaths, Sec. was on account of the plot in favour of the Pretender, for which Howard, duke of Norfolk, Charles Boyle, earl of Orrery, lord North and Grey, bilhop Atterbur/, and others, were fent to the Tower ; for which the bifhop was banilhed, and Chrillopher Layer, counlellor at law, executed. This William Adcock polfcircd a part of the land that made the manor of the Mofs, belonging of old time to South Ofney abbey, as appears by an account of the perlbns who owned them, ami who paid the Crown rents yearly for the ufe of the Pendrels, in the year 1731, of which this William was one; he died the next year, leaving iihae Thomas, William, immarried (1773), Elizabeth, wife of Simkin, of Swinfen ; and Dorothy, wife of John Biddle, or Biddulph, of Nether Whitacre, late of Footherley ; both which have children. Thomas Adcock, (1773), of Lynne, has a pretty eftate in that hamlet and Nether Stonall, to which is annexed a manfion houfe that hath long appertained to the younger branch of this family ; by induftry he hath added to his circumltances, and is a confiderable tenant upon an eltate belonging to John Dolphyn. This Thomas married Symkin, filter of Symkin, of Land wood, near Wyrley ; flie died, but left iliue. In the fame farm, and near the houfe in the land of Rydding, was a burial-ground of the Quakers ; it is to this day defignedly marked out in the circuit of it by large trees, to prevent its being by miftake ploughed up, and as a refpedful memorial. To the fame John Dolphyn l)elongs land formerly John Chat- ham's, afterwards William Stanley's (in the reign of king Charles II.}, in the tenure of John Molfe, of the Woodhoules in Ha- jnerwick, 248 THE HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S merwick, till 1747 ; and fince that date in the holding of Tho- mas Adcock, of Lyndon. The Whitacres were large open fields, lying to the Sandhills in Upper Stonall, Weftward of Lynne town about the fourth of a mile, and contains fomevvhat more than a mile in circuit, part of them have been long enclofed ; and, in 1762, the great open fields, named Neotsfield, near Lynne, Brookfields, near the Cranbrook, and the Whitacres were enclofed by an agree- ment between the owners, William Tenant, Thomas Hill, John Dolphyn, and Richard Perfehoufe, efqrs. but at the fole ex- pence of the tenants. Nates, or Neotsfields, were (in the reign of king Charles I.), or a part of them, the lands of fohu Beft and Elizabeth his wife, of Lynne, which, in 1656, they paiTed to Mary Wyatt, and which feemed aforetime to have been the property of Wil- liam Milner, to Mary Wyatt ; Henry Fryth, gent, gave feizin, in prefence of Thomas Sylvefler, Jofeph Green, and others. Mary, daughter of the faid Mary Wyatt (and Ralph), carried lands fo named (being a part purchafed of John Beft by Ralf Wyatt himfelf, as the deed exprelTes), in marriage to James Whitehall; they, in 1662, fold a clofe called Nate to John Jennings, of Over Stonall. In the 1 6th year of the reign of Charles II. they fold another clofe called Neate, with other lands in Lynne, near Beft*s, to John Brown, of Footherley, gent. That year John Jennings, and Eleanor his wife, paffed the Nate in their hands to Samuel Brown, of Footherley, gent. January 29, 1678, John Barton and Dorothy his wife, of St. Saviour's Southwark, confirmed a deed palTing land named the Nate, to Abraham Clifford Clifford, of Woburn, Bucks, for the ufe of Dorothy, wife of John Barton, and Henry Wigan, her fon by Simon Wigan, of Lynne. John Barton, and Do- I rothy OF S II E N S T O N E. 249 rothy his wife, at the fame time fold their moiety to the faid Henry, who, in 168 1, with his fifters, fold to Tho- mas and James Huniborn, and to John Jackfon, of Sutton- Colefield, the Neotfcrofts, the Half-nates, a meadow, a parcel of the Nate, and a houfe, all in Lynne ; they again, in the third year of the reign of James II. paffed them to John VVadams. In 1726, Thomas Wadams, of Longdon, and Su- fannah his wife, fettled them upon Jofeph their Ton, then of Nether Stonall ; and, as I conjedure, they remain in the polTef- fion of Jofeph their fon (1773). ' Francis Erpe, of Lynne, had a tenement and land, either in part of the Whitacres, or adjoining to them, which afterwards came into the name of Bayley, who were fettled here in the reign of James I. at which time lived John Bayley, of Lynne, who died in 1662; he had iflue John, Abraham, and daughters. Either the lalt John, or one of his name, paid to the poll-tax in 1692 ; and had iffue William and others. Benjamin Bayley, in the reign of George II. fold the aforefaid tenement and lands to Clement, alderman of Lichfield, in whofe family they lately were on his deceafe in the reign of George III. In this hamlet Jofeph Bayley had a meffuage and land, 1770, late Turner's, and heretofore • Moreton's, efq. The Serjeants were people of fome good property in this vil- lage and Thornes, at both of which they have refided ; amongil other lands, they had the VVrenplecks and Wallongs. The firil 1 meet with is Laurence Serjeant, who, in 1605, married Anne Adcock, and had iffue Rowland, William, and others. Rowland, of Thornes, in 1654, was executor to John Adcock, of Nether Stonall, and died 1667, after he had paid his aiTeifment to the royal aid; he left iffue, Rowland Edward, and Job. Rowland had iffue Job, born in 1695, who, irt 1725, married K k Mary, s^o THE HISTORY AND ANTIQITITIES Mary, danghrer of Vere, Another Job Serjeant, 1 68'?, mar- ried Margaret Tilly, of a good family in this neighbourhood. They had, as I am toid, William, who, in the reign of George I, or Geoige II, fold the reliques of the family eftate to Richard Paflaw, of Nether Stonall, and Job, who died lately. The Botbams had an eftate here as early as queen Elizabeth. This family had their feat at Bothams Hall, in the High Peak of Derbyfliire, whence a branch of them came to Michael Over, > Derbyfliire, and about king Charles the Hrft's time purchafed the ancient feat of the Burtons, of Lyndley or Lyndholme, in Loxley, near Uttoxeter. How the family came by lands in this place I cannot learn ; but find John Botham often evidence to the grants of lands by Rov.'land Fryth and Peter Alport, parti- cularly in the 8th year of the reign of James I. Rowland Botham, in the 2 id year of the reign of Charles I. owned part of the Hurftfield in Lynne, and lands named the Bothams in Wood-end, afterwards the eftate of Francis Prieft, who, in 1687, fold them to Walter Fowler, gent, as did Abraham Griffin fields lb named, near the Pleckmoors, both which, in 17 13, were in the Adams's, of Footherley. William Botham is mentioned of Lynne, 1685. His eitate, in part, went by purchafe to the Dolphyns ; John Dolphyn, efq. had it 1773 ; a part is in John Cook, of Footherley, or Adams's heirs, having fallen to them by purchafe of James Adams : to whom alfo Abraham GrifFyn fold a fhare left him by the will of John Sylvefter. Birchleys is an eftate and manlion in Lynne, fomewhat out of the road, and leaning towards Footherley. It was formerly the refidence of a younger fon of the Coopers, of which family mention is made in Little Afton. This place is fometimes called Owl-hall, from its retired lituation, and, with the farm belong- ing O F S H E N S T O N E. 251 ing to it, is in the tenure of George Botte. The Coopers had another farm here, formerly the poffellion of Thomas Handley. The family of Collins are found in this parilh as foon as the regifter begins, viz, 1579. They lived at Afton, Little Hay, Footherley, and Lyndon, and are hardly to be dhtinguiflied ; only of late years (in the reign of George L and Georoe II.), was Sampfon Cohins, of Lynne, who enjoyed an eftate of the Hunts, and paffed it to Thomas Barfoot of, Shenfione village. In the reign of king Charles II. lived here Thomas Barfoot, a clergyman, -who had iirue(i67 2) Thomas, and other children; he left Thomas an ufeful and adlive perfon, well remembered in the parifh, by , daughter of Hodgets ; he left five daughters, coheirs; one of them only is n arried, to James Rawlins, of Penford in Upper Stonall ; this farm is in the tenure of Edward Hofkyns, of Stonall. John Browne, gent, of Thornes and Footherley, was owner of a tenement and land here ; this came by purchafe to Daniel Stringer, whofe nephew and heir, now living, wafted it in part^ and then fold them to Sylvefter, and after to Webb, of Hamerwick ; John Swift holds them. The Whitleys are th'e name of a meffuage, croft, and lands,^ formerly the property of Rowland Ridding, and Thomas Rid- tiing, his nephew, of Lynne. In the 19th year of the reign of James I. a part of the Whitleys were in Rowland Fryth, efq. and his heirs, and are defcribed to lie on the Ickenild roatl. The family of Bejl had pofTeffions in Lynne, Footherley, Stonall, and Hintz, fome of which bear their name. John Beft, in the 23d year of the reign of king Charles I. and Eliza- beth his wife, fold lands to Roger Bulkeley, in Hurftfield, with a piece near Rowland Botham's, and lands late Francis Erpe's, K k 2 and 232 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES and other fields near the eftate of Jane Brandreth, widow : that year, being 'then of Hintz, they difpofed of a part of the Leet, or common fields, in l.ynne, with fields in the Thornyhiirft, near the rough Lealbws, and Gibriddings, others near the Ravenfcoate, a meadow held by John Collins, three pieces in the Hurftficlds, between Thomas Riddings and Jane Brandreths, held by John Hervey and Henry Anfon, of Lynne, who was to hold them under the chief lord, of the fee by the ufual cuf- toms ; witnelTed by Edward Scott, Roger Bulkeley, and Roger Adams. In the 24th year of the reign of king Charles I. they fold land in Lynne to Raphael VVyatt, viz. a clofe of Spring- wood, and a meadow in this hamlet, lately purchafed of Wil- liam Milner. This John Beft died before 1664, for then Eli- zabeth, his widow, fold a part of his eftate to Robert GrifFyn. John Befl (perhaps his fon), in the 17th year of the reign of Charles II. had lands left here unfold; but before 1677 John Adcock and others had in pofTeflion the Commons croft, and what was unfold by his parents John and Elizabeth, who, to- wards the end of the reign of king Charles I. lived at Footherley. The Bulkeleys are lands in this place, fo named of a family that owned them ; thefe came after to the Erpes, in part, and to John Wilcox, who married Dorcas Bulkeley, about the reign of queen Elizabeth or James I. Humphrey Bulkeley had them and other pofTeflions. Erpe's came to the Perfehoufe line, as before defcribed. Thefe Bulkeleys derived themfelves of the fame family with thofe of Stoke, in ShropQiire, and of thofe that were, in the reigns of Edward IV. and Henry VII. lords of Ghedleton and Stanlaw, Stafford fliire, and took the name of Stanlaw, originally of Eaton and Bulkeley, in Chefliire. What I find of them here is, that John, fon of Humphry, in the loth year of the reign of James I. had lands in Lynne, Hook-lane, 6 and O F S H E N S T O N E. 253 and Adon, in this parifh. Thomas and Roger were that year evidences to John Hunt's difpofal of lands to R. Ridding. John, in the 2 2d year of the reign of Charles I. bought lands in Lynne of J. Bell ; in the 2 3d year of the reign of king Charles II. George Bulkeley was concerned in the fale of an eftate by John Byrch, of Afton, to William Pretty, gent. John, and Jofeph Bulkeley his fon, of Afton, fold lands in the Hurftfields (Lynn), near the Bothams, in 1686. In the fame reign, Roger, alfo the wi- dow, and Thomas Bulkeley, paid to the royal aid in 1667. Shepherds Hayes, in this village, were the pofleffion of the Duttons, of Wall ; after of Crowther ; the late Edward Adcock, of the Aflicrofts, purchafed them, and Edward his fon enjoys them ; they lie near the Afhcrofts ; as do the Hobmoors, an eftate belonging to the Moretons, now inverted in Stephen Sympfon, of Lichfield, attorney at law, or Charles, his fon ; in the tenure of Arthur Smyth. In Lynne, half a mile from Shenftone, adjoining to the Afli- croft farm, are two well-timbered coppices belonging to Noel Hill, and John Dolphyn, efqrs. . , Near them is a meffuage and farm, formerly the eftate of Edward Haiidley ; after of Gilbert Walmfley, of Lichfield, efq. and cf Robert Walmfley, efq. regifter of Lichfield, who mar- ried, 1736, to , daughter of Afton, of Stow near that city, lately in the tenure of Nathaniel Gurzon, now of his daughter, wife of Spencer; this eftate is in the heirs of the Walmefleys. Hunibornes are lands probably fo named from the former poffefTors, and inclofed by the Huniborne family, often fpoken of in old writings. They were afterwards the property of — Barnes ; next of Simon Wigan, from whom they came to Jo- feph Wadams, gent, of Nether Stonall. $54 THE HISTOPvY AND ANTIQUITIES Rakemoors are rough pieces, or leafows, purchafed of Jo Jackfon, of Chefterfield, lying between that village and Lynne ; they were purchafed, in 1731, hy Richard Steel, Thomas Bar- foot, John Lea, Francis Rawlins, and others, with money be- longing to Stcnall and Lynn, for the ufe of the poor of thefe two hamlets. BuUmoors are a confiderable quantity of land lying between Hill Town, Lynne, and Chefterlield, given to the poor of the whole parilh, defcribed in one of the church tables, as aforefaid. Brandreth's pieces, in the diftridl of Lynne, were the eftate of Francis Erpe, in the reign of king Charles I. and went with thofe fold to the honourable and reverend Richard Hill, now (1773) in Noel Hill, ofTerne, efq. HILL TOWN. Hilton is fo denominated from its fituation on a rifing ground, in tbe road leading from Walfall to Wall. Though called a town, it in no degree deferves the term ; yet it feemed not im- proper to take notice of it, as the inhabitants of the Shenftone fide of it lay claim to the donation of William Smyth, of Lon- don, to put out poor boys apprentice in their turn, and have enjoyed it. They call themfelves, indeed, a part of Upper Stonall O F S H E N S r O N E. s^s^ Stonall hamlet, but with what juftice appears not. The village lies on Caiinoc wood, above the Crane brook, which is named in Lynne ; I fliould therefore fuppofe it a part of Lynne, or of Cherterfield, near which it is litnated, at the diftance of half a mile. Three or four mean families make up the whole belong- ing to Shenftonej and thefe (if I mirtake not) are chiefly tenants to John Dolphyn, of the Mofs, efq. Thomas Salt, of Hilton,, in the reigns of George I. and George II. had a meffuage, and Sandwell pieces, Welle pieces, or Wall lands, lands in Lynne,, Carters-field, Cocks-piece, a meffuage in the Well-piece, and an eftate at Blythbury ; his iffue were Thomas, , wife of John Price, of Drakelowe, Derbylliire ; and Mary, wife of Thomas Dickenfon, of Nether Stonall. Thomas had iffue John, who lived fome time at Blithbury, on his own eftate; John left Thomas Salt, of London ; and Samuel, late of Dudley,, The Hilton and Lynne eftates are fold. CHESTERFIELD. Chejlerfield is about two miles in circuit, reckoning the lands appertaining to it, being bounded by Shenftoiie village, the Aihcrofts, and part of Lynne lane, Lynne coppice, Crane brooke, Hilton (a manor purchafed by the late Curliror Smith, lord of the maaor of Shenftone), Wall, part of the great' ^55 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES great road leading thence to Swynfen, and the road leading from Shenftone by Pindle-fields to Lichfield and Swynfen, though the village extends irfelf not more than a quarter of a mile, and has not more than ten families, on the way towards Lynne, the Afhcrofts, and Shenftone village, and lying upon the river fometimes named of the townfhip, and frequently of the Bourne. Chefterfield has an obvious derivation from the Roman Caf- trum^ from the Saxon Ceajler, and the old Britifli Caer, of which we have many inftances through the kingdom, and field. Hence we may colledt that this place, probably to Shenftone church hill, was the line of encampment for the Roman forces senerallv ftationed at Wall, dole to it. I ftiould fuppofe that Chefterfield, or Campfield, was for- merly a place of fome confideration, and a manor feparate from Shenftone, to which it is now annexed. It is mentioned as early as king Richard I. as a village, fituate on the bank of the river Tame, which points out the antiquity of the place ; as to its having inhabitants in king Richard the Firft's time, but as to lying on the Tame, it is a miftake ; for, it lies on the Hamer- wick water, at this village, bearing different names as afore- faid ; the faid water, indeed, after a courfe of feveral miles, runs into the Tam.e. In that reign a family of note, called Cu?7iberford, owned this townfliip, and Alan de Cumberford was lord of the manor, called, by Holinftied, Chefterforde. There was Alan de Cum- berford in Henry the Firft's time. Alan de Cumberford (t. Vv''il- liam I. or William II ) had ifliie Alan (t. Henry I.) of Wiggington, near Tamworth, and Chefterfield in Scerteftan, or Shenftone ; his fons were Roger and Richard ; the latter had iflue three daughters: 'i. Agnes, wife of J. Shepey ; 2. Anne, wife of Alan OF S H E N S T O N E. 257 Alan Quilette, and Sybil of Richard Ilopwas. I find another ac- count lavs, there was an elder fifter Margery, wife of Radulph Bvinenghall or Bolehall, who had Richard, father of John, who had ilRie Alice, wife of John King, that died iiruelefs. Ri- chard Hopewas and Sybil had ifTue William, of whom John, father of William, who had Anne, heir to part of the Ciim- berford eftates ; fhe carried them to the Edenfors, of which line was Thomas (1583), of Cumberford, who married Do- rothy, daughter of Humphry Comberford, of that j^lace, and had Chriltopher Ednefor, and others. Ednejofs family arms were, Argent, 3 horfe-flioes, Sable, between a fefs, Gules. Roger Cumberford, fon of Alan, had a fon William, who, by Alice his wife, had John that died without ifTue, and Ri- chard, who, by Agnes his wife, had John, lord of Cumberford, and other eftates, who, by Joan his wife, had William, father of John, to whom he married his ward Joan, daughter and heir of John Paries (in the reigh of Henry VI. or Edward IV.), which Joan w^as a great heirefs, lady of the manors of Shittle Hanger and Handfworth, Staffordlhire, and others. They had ifTue Thomas, who, by Dorothy, daughter of Robert Fitzher- bert, had ifTue Margaret, wife of W^illiam Stanley, and Hum- phry, whofe wife was Dorothy, fecond daughter and coheir to John de Beaumont, lord of the manor of Wednefbury (of the blood royal of England and France), fon of Henry, by Eleanor, daughter of John Sutton baron Dudley, of Dudley catlle. Hum- phry had ifTue Thomas, Humphry, Mary, wife of Walter Har- court, and Ifabel of Gervafe RoUefton ; flie died without ifTue. Thomas, lord of Cumberford and Wednefbury, by Dorothy, daughter of William Wyrley, had ifTae William, Edward, and Elizabeth, wife of William Stamford, efq. William married, LI I. . 258 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES J. , relict of Spencer, of RatclifFe near London, but had no child by her ; 2. Mary, daughter of William Skeffing- ton, of Filherwick, efq, by whom he had Humphry, Tho- mas, John, William, Francis, Richard, John, Henry, Anne, and Mary, wife of W. Holte, of Afton, anceftor to Sir Charles Holte, baronet, 1773. Thomas, father of William and Ed- ward, died in the 40th year of the reign of queen Eliza- beth, feifed of the manors of Wiggington, Cumberford, and Wednefbury ; alfo of divers lands in Hopwayes, Cotton, Tam- worth, and Tamehorne. Humphry, fon of William Cumber- ford, married Mary, daughter of Robert Stamford, of Perry hall, efq. and had iffue Humphry Thomas, Robert, William, Anne, Joan, and Dorothy. I meet v.Y AND ANTIQ^UITIES Alice Robyns, of Lichtield, being then named Barn woods, with fields and meadows, near the two meffuages, and twenty-one acres elfewhere in thii village ; William Bowring and William Clarke, in 1667, paid to the aireiiment for the royal aid. A family of the Lanes had property here. Of this family, as I conjeiflure, was William Lane, who married Elizabeth Stanley in 1585. Edward Lane, clerk, had lands here and at Foother- ley, in 1647. John, in 1667, paid to the royal aid for his eftate in Cherterfield, though his refidence was then at Sutton- Colefield. John (probably his ton), was, in 1672, living here, and an evidence to the purchafe of lands by John Thick- brome, of Litrle Hay, of the lords of the manor. He had ifTue Elizabeth, born 1682, and next year died Mary his wife. As I find no notice of him in the lift that paid the poll tax in the reign of William III. I conjedture he was dead before that time, and, if any of the name and family remained to that date, they were removed from this place. Michael Gierke Tilly, about the reign of William IIL had an eftate here, and by Anne, daughter of John Brandreth, efq. had ilTue Michael, of this village, and, as I fuppofe, Margaret, wife of Job Serjeant ; part of the lands belonging to the Tillys were purchafed of two families named Mathews and Quintyns. William Walton had pofTeflions at Chefterfield about the reign of James I, or Charles 1. Thefe came to the JefTons, a family that lived near that time at Lichfield ; beforetime at Harehoufe, a little diftance from that city, and acquired a for- tune chiefly by farming and purchafing timber. In this name were eftates called Pates land, and Maple Hayes in Pipe, befides many others in Shenftone and Chefterfield. The firft named is about 1664. He had a fon, father of William, who had ifTue WiUiam O F S H E N S T O N E. 265 William Jefton, barrirter at Jaw, and a confiderable perfon. Part of his acquifitions went to his lilier's Ion Phineas, fon ot" Phineas Huffey, of VVyrley and Brewood hall, efq. but what he owned in this village paffed to the Smyths, whofe anceftor was Richard Smyth, of this place (1667), and was a few years fince ill the pofleflion of James Smyth, and the tenure of Jona- than Brooks. In 1745 were the feveral open fields in this diftridt divided to the feveral proprietors, and enclofed. Thcfe were chiefly Abel Smyth, and John Dolphyn, efqrs. John Jackfon, Richard Green- Ihield (yet living), Benjamin Derrington (in the family ftill), Edward Jackfon, of Wall ; the fields were named Church-field, Chefterfield crofts, Smyths flatt'^, the Balk, Common and Mea- dow pieces, Great-field, Little Church-field, and Horfely- fields, ail which, being well cultivated and improved, are become fruitful. The tythes of this hamlet were fold, by Michael Brandreth, of Sheniione Hall, efq. to John Porter, attorney at law, father of Sheldon Porter, lately deceafed. WALL. The Roman name given to this place feems to be Valhmi ; hence the Saxons called it Wall^ others Ktocetum^ and IValhlega, but whatever the true name was (for forne have given it M m the 266 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES the term -'• Mancluejfedum or Manceter, (though falfely,) it is very clear that it was a Roman flation at the time of their laying out and forming the famous way, now remaining, and called the Watling-flreet. One account fays, that two roads were carried on from the Acemancejler f and the ilreet called Aceman- Jlreet {(o named from the iick perfons or people with aches and diftempers that travelled that way fur a cure) to RataX^ and Manduejjediim, i. e. the village called the Wall, in Stafford ihire. This we obferved was a mirtake, and may farther appear \^ hen we come to treat of the Roman roads that are carried through Wall §. We have curious accounts of it, as follow : Wall, nov/ a fmall village, but anciently the Etocetum, which Antoninus in his Itinerary makes the next ftation to Mandue(fedum or Manceter. Mr. Camden for fome ti:iie was of opinion that Uttoxeter was the place ; but, having furs-eyed Wailing- llreet very accurately, he found he was raiftaken, and ingenu- oufly confefleth it ; in conclufion he politively determined this to be the place. His reafons for it are, that the diftance be- tween Manduejfedum (i. e. Man Britifli for exiguum little, and Cejlre^ Caf.rum, camp), and Etocetum exailly anfwers, and that he met with the ruins of an old city near the road fcarce a mile from Lichfield, which the inhabitants alfo believe and aver. The name of it at this day is Wall, from the remains of certain walls there which encompafs two acres of land retaining the name of the Cattle croft, as if one Ihould fay the field of the Caltle. * Hiftory of Oxford/hire. •f- Bath. Urbs jegrotorum hominum. j Leicefler. § See the Appendix. Near O F S II E N S T O N £. 26 Near this flood another antient city on the other fide of the way, which was demohlhed before the time of Wilham the Con- queror, as the inhabitants from the fame tradition tell us, and \vithal fliew the fituation of it ; gueffing it to be fo from the great foundation, which fecms the more probable from the abundance of rubbifli lying about it, and feveral coins of Ro- man emperors, which they produce ; thefe being always reck- oned the molt infallible proofs of antiquity. Dr. Giblbn adds, " Upon the Roman way near Lichfield, we find a village called Wall, which is fuppofed to have taken that name from the fragments of an old wall upon the North fide of Watling-lfreet ; Mr. Camden rightly iuppoies it to be the Elo- cetum of Antoninus, and the two antient pavements v.herein there appear Roman bricks, with the remains of antiquity dif- covered at Cheflerfield on the other Tide of the way put it be- yond all difpute." .Mr. Camden thinks the coins an infallible proof of its antiquity, and fo much the rather, becaufe the Ba- fiHcal flreet, (otherwife called the prcetorian, fometimes con- fular and military way,) called Watling-flreet, continues hence very fair and plain, and almofb without breach, till it is crofTecl and interrupted by the river Penk, which hath a ftone bridge built over it at Pennocrucium^ or Penkridge, and ftands at the fame diftance that Antoninus hath fixed. Another author ^ fays, '* A wall one mile and half S. S. W. of Lichfield, jufl at the diftance Antoninus fets between it and Mandueffedumy or Manceter, there remains in the lane on the , North fide of the flreet-way fome fmall fragments of a wall, Vv'hich, it is fuppofed, gave the prefent name to the village; and in the corn-field now termed the Butts, between the village * Dr. Plott. ' . . , M m 2 and 263 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S and ft)me fmall "cottages on the brook below, I was (hewn two pavements, one above the other, at lealt four feet. The up- permoli, which lay within eighteen inches of the furface, being made for the moft part of lime and rubble ftone, and the lower- moit of pebbles and gravel knitted together with a very hard cement, about four inches thick, laid upon a foundation of E.oman brick, and under them boulder Itone of a foot thick more. Above the uppermoft of thefe they often meet with Ro- man money, whereof 1 was Ihewn three pieces, of Nero, Domi- tian, and another emperor, lb eaten with ruft as not to be cer- tainly diftinguillied. Of this fort or wall little remains, except a part of the foundation, the rell having been at different times carried away for repairs of building, or turned up and removed with fome expe6tation of finding money and in part to level and cul- tivate the grovuid it ftood \apon. This, and fome old walls railed with a cement yet fublifling, which form the garden of Thomas Jackfon, gent, are all of the two cities that time hath fpared, begun or built, probably, by Julius Agricola, the Roman lieu- tenant in Britain under Vefpafian the emperor, in whofe time the Britains made great improvements, becoming more civilized;" expreffed by hillorians -•• in the following terms : " Whereas the Britons, hitherto harraffed with oppreiTion and wars, had little leifure or will to apply themfelves to things which accompany peace, and are the ornaments of civil and . fettled focieties ; and therefore were prone on every occallon to revolt and llir ; to induce them by pleafures to quietnefs and reft, he exhorted them in private, and helped them in public, to build temples, houfes, places of aifembly, and common refoit j * Speed. and OFSHENSTONE. 269 and likcwife provided, that the fons of their nobles fliould be inrtru(5led in the arts and fciences, commending the induftry and preferring the wits of the Britons before the ftudcnts of France, as being now grown curious to attain the eloquence of the Roman gentry, yea, even the gown, the habit of peace and ^peaceable arts, and to delight in gorgeous buildings, banquets, and baths." Now one can hardly luppofe a Roman governor, of fuch policy, fo well approved of by the natives, as is elfewhere defcribed, and who had fuch opportunity of carrying on great works, would nc'gle^t to form roads through the bogs, woods, and faflneffes, with which this land abounded, for the better fecurity of travellers, as w tU as for the farther eftablifhment of the Roman dominion here. Anovher reafon alio oflers, from his conqueils of North Britain, part of Wales, and the Ifle of, Anglefey, why the roads ihould be commodious for the march- ing of armies, and why manlions or liations fliould be erected at proper dirtances : fuch are fuppofed to be Manceter, Wall, Penkridge, Stretton, and others in this neighbourhood. I -■• the rather think thefe works were at this time efFeded, becaufe it is expreffed, that the Nortnera inhabitants of this ifland, more at liberty^ and emboldened by their bogs and rocks inaccejfible, fet themfelves in a few years after to witliltand their wrongs, to whom alfo many others joined their affe«5tions, whereupon fome bickering enfued with lofs and blood. Alter they were crulhed by Hadrian, it is added, *' the Southern Britons feemed not greatly to contend, but patiently bore the yoke of fuhjection, which time and cultom had made lefs painful, the rather for that they fav/ themfelves to Hand in need of the Romans help againit the inroads of their own countrymen, whofe cruelty was * Speed. 1 now 270 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES now as much feared as in former times the invafion of {Gran- gers, Whereupon they conformed themfelves more wiUingly to the Roman laws, both in martial and civil affairs." Or, perhaps, thefe works were to better effect carried on by Severus the emperor, who, as well as Hadrian, did great things in this ifland, in the way we have related, and refided at York ; on which it is obferved, that the ftations of the Roman colonies were the feed plots of all our cities and principal towns. Another writer fays •'•■, that Julius Agricola was not wholly taken up by war, but carefully informed himfelf in whatever related to the government of this province, and the moft pro- per methods to keep the fubjeils in obedience ; he alfo redreffed feveral abufes, which had been introduced by the greedinefs or negligence of preceding governors. In this fecond campaign, after making fome acquifitions, he obferved, that the Romans commonly loft in the winter what they had fubdued in the fum- rner, and that this was owing to their not daring to winter in fhofe countries, as being too much expofed ; he therefore re- folved (that this might be prevented for the future) to erect forts in the moft convenient places ; where keeping garrifons in the winter, they would always be in readinefs to repel the enemy. As he perfectly well underftood this branch of the art military, the forts were fo advantageoully fituated, and built in fuch a manner, that the Romans were under no neceflity of quilting, and the enemies could never mafter them. Ulpius Trajanus cruflied the revolted Britons, appointed the municipal laws at feffions and affizes, ordered the rods and axes to be prefented to the backs and necks of the common people, and enlarged the Roman roads here f . * Rapin. -f Leigh's Natural Hiftory. Theodolius. OFSHENSTONE. 271 Theodofius, being fent hither by Valentinian the emperor (who reigned anno Chrirti 364), fettled Britain in quiet, re-cdi- Jied the cities^ repaired the garrifon cqji/es, fortifying the frontiers with Jlanding watches and Jlrong fore fences^ or, as Rapin has it, *' fecured and re-eltabiillied London, rebuilt the fortifications and calfles which had been ruined, and put them in a condition to check any future invafions from the Northern people." Thefe authorities quoted fliew fufiiciently, that fuch forts as \ve are fpeaking of were eredled by Julius Agricola, and pro- bably this named Wall among the rell^, as being a pretoriaa or confular road. The reader, however, is left to his own fen- timents, whether Severus, Hadrian, Trajan, or Theodofius, ef- fecfted thefe matters. The following times were fo full of con- fufion, and the Roman empire fo harralTcd on every fide, that it feems unlikely fuch works were erecled, and fuch noble ways laid out and formed by the Romans, afterwards in Britain. Tradition and hiftory both fay, and this confirmed by the inhabitants, that Wall had its chapel, fituate on the ground leading to Cheflerfield, and in this pai"i(h of Shenftone ; pro- bably inclining to ruin after its lands were taken ai the Difll)- lution under king Henry VIII. Such chapel was convenient for the people of Wail, Cheflerfield, and Alderfiiaw. I have before mentioned the church lands in Cheflerfield ; and, no doubt, more was appropriated to it in the other hamlets, fwallowed up by the crown, and the avarice of greedy courtiers ; and flill, like other ecclefiaftical property, abfolutely neceffary for the main- tenance of the clergy, in the hands of laymen. Antiquaries and others alfo obferve, that in more antient times here was a tem- ple, confecrated, no doubt, to the Roman deities, and af-. terwMrds a church, pretending alfo to point out where it flood *. * Speed. Robert zjt THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES Robert de Wall, of this village, was witnefs to a grant of Thomas Cementarius (Mafon) palling a meiTuage and land here to Robert Fitz Godwyn, of Alrefage (Alderfhaw) *. This is not dated. Roger de Mora del Wall evidenced another deed of Galfridus Fitz Walter de Chefterfield, palling lands to Nicolas Fitz Ro- bert Fitz Godwyn de Alrefaw. This alio is without date. Hugh de la Wall, in 131 1, witneiTed the grant of Adam de la Lynde, of property to his fon ; and, in 131 5 (8 Edward II.) to John de la Lynde's grants of lands to Adam de la Lynde. Radulph de Wall witnelTed a deed of Nicolas de Lydiart, palling eftates to John, fon of Edmund de Lynde, dated 1 1 Edward III. 1338. Randolph de la Wall, witnefs (i 340) to the grant of W. de Seckerton of lands to Hugh, fon of William Nichols, in Stonall ; and the fame year, 1340, to the grant of Maud de Walters, of land in EccleQiall (Alderfliaw), to Simon, fon of William Nichols. Elena, lady of Wall, Adam, fon of Simon de Wall, Wil- liam and John Rygbye, William Rygbye, junior, William Tib- bins, of Wall, had right to pailure, and the common in Aller- fliawlde, as proved May 7, in the 43d year of the reign of Ed- ward 111. at Weitminfter -j-. Adam Thompfon del Wall, in the 46th year of the reign of Edward 111. witnefled a grant of Robert Draycott, of Lichfield, conveying lands to John Thomenhorne. Edward Timnefon de la Walle witnelTed a grant of lands from Henry de la Lynde to Adam de Redehull and John de Thomenhorne, dated 1374. * In the poffefEon of Anne Burnes, of Alrefhaw, widow. •^ Deed in my poffeffion. The OF SHENSTONE. 273 The tythes of this hamlet are in three proprietors ; the right honourable Arthur earl of Donegal, of Fiilicrwick ; < Swynfen, of Swynfen ; and the heirs of John Porter, of Lich- field. That part of the tythes that lies in Shenltonc parilli, with thofe of Chefter field, are in the I aft named heirs. John Porter, attorney at law, of Lichfield, purchafed thefe, as I think, . of Michael Brandreth, efq. By a daughter of Sheldon, gent, a lady of good fortune, if not an heirefs, he had iiTue Sheldon Porter, efq. pofTelTor of eftates in Wall, Pipe, Lichfield, Chefterfield, Weft Bromwich, and elfevvhere, who died unmarried, in 1766, at Wall, where he had ereiSled an handforae manfion on the foundation of an ancient family houfe in the name of Quintyn, or St. Quintyn. The pofieflbrs of Sheldon Porter's eftates are two fifters, coheirs ; Sarah, widow of Edward Jack- fon, of Wall, gent, and Penelope, yet unmarried ; both whofe refidence is at Lichfield. The manor of Wall is divided, as the hamlet itfelf is, by the Watling-ftreet, which paflTes through the middle of it. That part of it that is in Shenftone pariQi, and lies towards Chefter- field, belongs to William Tenant, efq. lord of the manor of Shenftone ; the other fide of Wall, on the Watling-ftreet, is in the parifii of St. Michael, in the city of Lichfield. The family of the Lytteltons^ of Pillaton hall, StafFordfhire, poflTeffed lands in the reign of Edward VI. Sir Edward Lyttelton, knight, owned them. Part of thefe lands paflTed afterwards to the name of Button, refident in Wall ; another portion of them to ■ Burnes of Lichfield, gent. Dutton's part lately paffed to the family of Burnes, by purchafe, as I think, in the year 1769. A fourth part of the manor of Wall, and other eftates therein, were in the name of Popham. Sir John Popham, a pcrfon mc- N n morable 274 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES morable for his noble defcent, ftridl juftice, and unwearied di- ligence, as lord chief juftice of the King's Bench, poffeffed them in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. and had his feats at Lit- tlecote, VViltfliire, and Wellington, Somerfetfliire. John Pop- ham, efq. of Littlecote, in the reigns of James I. and Charles I. fold the faid fourth part of the manor of Wall, lands lying in Wall, Shenifone, Pipe, Plamerwich, Alderfhaw, and Lichfield, Staffordfhire, to Francis ■'•• Erpe, gent. Sir Francis Popham, of Littlecote, had a daughter Loetitia, wife of Sir Edward Seymour, the fourth baronet of that family, whofe fon. Sir Edward, fifth baronet, alfo married Lsetitia, only daughter of Sir Francis Pop- ham, of Littlecote, knight of the Bath. Alexander Popham, in the reign of queen Anne, married Anne, daughter of Ralph duke of Montague, and had ilTue an only daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Montague vifcount Hinchinbroke, mother by him of John earl of Sandwich. ®uintyn, or St. ^lintyn^ is a name and family of note for antiquity and pofTeffions in Wall, Lichfield, and Longden ; but the firft I meet with fettled in Wall is William Quintyn, derived of French lineage that took their name from St. Quintyn, a town in Piccardy, and moft likely fettled in this nation in the reign of William I. William Quintyn, of Wall, fon of Wil- liam, who died in 1596, at Wall, married Anne (daughter, as 1 think, of John), Jackfon, in 1597. Dorothy Quintyn was mariisd that year to Richard Sylvefter, of Over Stonall, and had Richard, born 1599. Richard Quintyn, fon of William, was witnefs to the fale of lands by Richard Sylvefter to Rowland Rydding, in the 13th year of the reign of James L In 1631 lived John Quintyn of Wall, gent, who, in 1644-5, '^'^^ obliged * See Lynne. to OF S H E N S T O N E. 275 to pay to Robert Tuthill, governor of Rufliall houfe, 20 1. im- mediately, belides his weekly contribution, for the ul'e of that parliamentary garrifon. In 1647 William Quintyn, of Derby, Thomas Orme, of Afliborne in the Peak, and Elizabeth his wife, fold to John Quinton, of Wall, a meffuage, barns, orchard, garden, curtilage, in Wall; a clofe called Grof, a green, land named Round hills, feven acres of arable land in Wall, and Rakemoor meadow in Shenftone parilh, then in the tenure of the faid John ; witnefled by Richard Gladwyn, John Nevil, W. Ley ton, Thomas Mather, and William Quinton, of Wall ; John Quintyn died in 1658, poffeffed of conliderable eftates in Lich- field, Hamerwick, Shenftone, Wall, and elfewhere, leaving if- fue William, John, and Thomas, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Webbe, Mary, and Anne. This John Quintyn made, befides what is abovefaid, feveral purchafes, fome tenements of John Smyth, of Lichfield : the Muckleys in Wall, of William Bull, with a burgage in Geelee-lane, Lichfield ; land in Hamer- wick of Nicolas Smallwood ; and in Lichfield of Thomas Mar- tyn. To the faid John Quintyn's will, dated Augull: 16, 16 ;8, are vvitnefTes Thomas Nevil, Richard Gladwyn, and Sarah Wol- verftan. Eleanor, his widow, was living in 1664. William Quintyn, as appears by an agreement made in his life-time, was contraded to Alice, daughter of Thomas Button, of Wall, gent, who was to pay her 300 1. as her prefent for- tune, and I fuppofe the marriage was confummated. This Tho- mas Button is in the laid contrail named his coufin William, died in 1698-9, leaving John and Thomas, if no other chil- dren. Thomas Quintyn, of Freeford, brother, as I conjecture, of John father of William, died in 1704. Another Thomas died in 1706, at Wall. Elizabeth Quintyn, widow, died there in N n 2 I7ii> 276 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES 171 1, as did Sarah Quintyn ; alfo Thomas, in 171 3, poflefled of lands in Chefterfield and Wall. John, eldelt fon of William, was noted for a well-bred gentleman, and was then the head of this family, with an ertate of 200I. yearly, which he chiefly farmed himfelf; dying unmarried, Thomas, his brother, became his principal heir, who owned Leyfields, and other lands near Swynfen, but afterwards proved a waller ; ii> a few years his eftates were in mortgage to Turton, efq. of Hargrave, and afterwards were fold to John Porter of Lichfield, attorney at law, whofe fon, Sheldon Porter, in the prefent reign, ereded a hand- fome manlion on the fpot where flood the ancient family houfe of the Quintyns. Thomas Quintyn had ilTue three daughters, Elizabeth, who died young ; Anne, wife of < Jackfon, goldfmith, at Lichfield, who had iflTue one daughter, lately liv- ing ; and Alicia, wife of James Garlick, of Stourbridge, fur- geon, afterwards in that capacity in the army or navy, and a chief furgeon of the hofpital at Woolwich or Sheernefs, who died a few years fince, without ifTue ; flie was living in 1773. Leyfields abovefaid, near Swynfen, were fold by Thomas Quintyn to Capper, of Birmingham. Lands named Roifhall's, and part of the Rakemoors, paffed from Thomas Quintyn, to the Jackfons of Wall. James Garlick abovefaid had in his pofieffion feveral coins of Aile6lus, who affumed the purple and title of emperor A. D. 294, and, if I remember right, of Caraufius, his predeceffor in this ifland ; he alfo fliewed me many of the emperor Conftantine, and others found in Wall. Facing the ftreetway from Chefterfield towards Alderfhaw, in the way to Lichfield, ftands an ancient manfion of brick, with a court and wall in the front of the yard, and barns, feemingly eretfled in the reigns of king Charles II. or king William III. 3 in O P S H E N S T O N E. 277 in the family and heirs of the Buttons till of late, though in the village of Wall ; it is in St. Michael's parifli, I^ichfield. Thefe Buttons had their original from a good family of the name, well known and eiteemed in Cheihire, and in Wall and its neighbourhood, pofTelTed about 200 1. yearly, part of which Thom.as Dutton in the reign of George I. or George II. left to Thomas Stanley, of Edinghall, gent, his nephew, whofe family, feated fometimes there, and at Thornes, yet enjoys it. How long the Buttons have refided at Wall I have not learnt, but find Thomas Button, of this place, in the reigns of king Charles I. and king Charles II. Ann Button died here in 1687. Thomas, their fon, died here in 1689, and Mary, his widow, in 1 694 ; they left Thomas, whofe wife, Margaret, died in I707. This Thomas feems to be the perfon who made Thomas Stanley his chief heir, as beforefaid ; but as the family lived in another parifh, I could gather little more with certainty about it. The manfion and eftate remaining to feveral heirs, was, in 1769, fold to Anne Burnes, relidl of Richard Burnes, of Alderfhaw, efq. for the life of John Burnes Floyer, their fon, a minor of feventeen years of age, which Anne has fince fallen and difpofed of a quantity of excellent timber that grew upon it. About the center of Wall, facing the ftreetway, and in the view diredly towards Shenftone church, at two miles diftance, is an old habitation of the Jackfons, a family branched out of thofe fettled at Chefterfield, probably in the reigns of Elizabeth or king James I. of whofe line feems to have been the wife of William Quintyn, 1597, but it is fcarcely poffible to diliinguifh the feveral families, there being at leaft three at Wall and Chef- terfield. The habitation aforefaid hath generally been in fettlc- ment of the eldeft fon's wife, who, on the death of her hufband, retired 278 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQITITIES retired hither, but it is now nearly decayed ; the barns, ftables, court, and walled gardens are yet in being, but are in ruins, except the barns, that are kept up as conveniencies ; at the dif tance of two ftones caft behind thefe, and upon a delightful eminence, is the family manfion, to which confiderable addi- tions were made by Edward Jackfon, the lafl poffeffor. This branch poflefles a tolerable good eftate, which was much more confiderable, but hath been injured by fettlements, mortgages, and fale of much land in confequence, by no means the fault of the prefent owner. Of this family was Henry, who left iffue William and John, both named of Wall in 1631. William, as I think, left Henry, Elizabeth, and others. Henry, in 1664, had iiTue Henry, living in 1685, who married Dorothy, daugh- ter of Reynolds (at the fame time lived in this place Henry, fon of Edward Jackfon), who had iffue Edward and Henry (1705). Henry, their father, in 1688, Alexander Ward, of Shenftone park ; Francis Wheeley, of Aldrich ; John Bankes, of Over Stonall ; Thurftan Southern, of Elmhurft, &:c. joined in levying a fine for fecuring a meffuage, a cottage and no acres of land in Ogley Hay ; with whom alfo James Adams le- vyied a fine for his Birches pieces. Henry Jackfon married Anne, daughter of John Quintyn, of Wall and Longdon, or Gorftymoor green, in that parifh, with whom, as a daughter and coheir of that family, he had the farm called Mather's, in Wall, in the tenure of Thomas Mathers ; a farm called Nevil's, in Cheflerfield ; and the eftate of John Quintyn aforefaid, at Gorftymoor green, and other lands. They had iffue Edward, Thomas, Henry, a trdefman in Birmingham, yet living, and unmarried, Elizabeth, Sarah, Anne, who died young, and Ma- ria, all living. Edward, OF SHENSTONE. 279 Edward, the eldeft Ion, married Sarah, daughter of John, and iifter of Sheldon Porter, late of Wall, but by her,, who re- fides at Lichfield, had no child. He is dead. Thomas, the fecond fon, was fettled in the iron trade at Dudley, and upon the deceafe of Edward his brother, about 1764, removed to Wall; he fold the ertate at Longdon to Ri- chard Bayley, of Lichfield ; and another called the Wattages to John Dolphyn, efq. which is now in the tenure of John Black- more, of Shenftone, by , daughter of Nicklyn, of Dudley, gent. This Thomas Jackfon hath ilfue Thomas, maf- ter of the Grammar fchool at Dudley, Flenry, who married daughter of Thomas Adcock, of Lyndon, and hath ilFue Eliza- beth, wife of Thomas Mallett, of Swynfen, and Anne, of Higgenfon, of Wall. In this village, adjoining to the habitation of Thomas Jackfon., is a farm houfe and land belonging of old time to the corpora- tion of Lichfield, for the ufe of a fraternity or guild in that city ; geld, in the Saxon tongue, fignifying money, and fo named becaufe they were aflbciated either for charity, religion, or merchandize : and the members of it put together money, goods, or lands, for the fupport of the common charge; and had their annual feafts and neighbourly meetings. The purpofe of this guild was for fupplying Lichfield with good and frefh water, which by leaden pipes is conveyed near a mile, from the lands of John Burnes Floyer, at Alderlhaw. The fprings, Ci:^ or feven in number, are well fecured and covered with mafonry work, and the water is thence conveyed to a conduit in Lich- field ; the lands appropriated for this end are called the Conduit lands. At firlt fuch meetings were ufed by a mutual agreement of friends and neighbours, and particular licences were granted them sSo THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES them for conferring lan^Js or rents for the defigns abovefaid, in order to evade the ftatute of mortmain, by which fuch gifts would otherwife have been forfeited, hi the reign of Henry VIII, about the time of the feizing the church lands, this fra- ternity or guild, for fear of being feized was fpeedily enfeoffed with other lands, which I look upon to be the Wall eftate, let to Hicfon, or Higgenfon, at 48 1. yearly. Lands named the Lightwoods or Hellmoors were purchafed by John Porter, as I conjecSture of the Quintyns, and paffed to Shel- don his fon, now the eftate of his lifters and coheirs. The fame family poflefles another good old manlion, with a farm annexed, called by the name of the Moat-bank, which lies at the farther end of Wall, towards Ogley, Hay, and Cannoc wood. There are alfo fome few other houfes in this hamlet, but we find nothing obfervable of them more than that we barely mention them. We might add, that the Roman foldiers who feized St. Amphi- balus and his difciples (who had their place of worfliip, A.D. 286, at Chriftianfield, near Stickbrooke, a little diftance from Lichfield), were difpatched for that purpofe from this ftation of Etocetum^ or Wall. This perfecution was named Maximinian's. Lichfield (in which parifli one half of Wall is) had no name till that perfecution, and A. D. 67 2 was a fmall village ; nay, foon after the year IC75 the bifliop removed his feat from it, a decree being made in a fynod, that the fees of bilhops fhould not be in fmall villages. The billiop tranllated it to Ghefter. ALDER- [ ^8i ] A L D"'E R S H A W; So termed from a plantation of alder trees, andyZ'^-zt;, a name for many trees planted together, or the fhadow of trees. It was formerly a manor, as Wall and Chefterfield, but now ab- forbed in the manor and corporation of Lichfield. Being annexed to Wall, and near to it, I could hardly avoid taking notice of it, having received from the late worthy Richard Eurnes, efq. my friend and acquaintance, whofe feat is almofl the only houfe remaining in what was originally the manor of Alderfhaw, fome papers that have been ufeful to me in compiling thefe mernora' ble things of Shenftone and its hamlets. The following deeds^I received from his hands, and, agree- able to a promife made him, here infert tranllations from the Latin, in which language they are written. " Know, all men, prefent and future, that I Thomas Cementarius (Mafon), with the approbation and confent of Sarah my wife, have given and granted, and by this prefent deed have confirmed, to Ilobcrt fon of Godwin da Alrefage, his afiians and heirs, ail rhe third part of my meflliage, w::h the appurtenances, in A!reiau-e, vh. that part which lies nearefl: the warren, and a fourth part of the virgate of land which I recovered before the juftices of our faid lord the king, which fourth part contains fix acres lying in the free-field of Alrefage; alfotwo other acres, with their rights, to be held of me and my heirs, and to be held by him, his afTigns, and heirs, by their homage and fervice, in free inheritance and peaceably, with all ufual emoluments, paying to me, my wife Sarah, and our heirs, twelve pence yearly, at two ftated times, inftead of all fervice and demands, vix.. at the feaft of b"r. Michael fix pence, and at the iti.^ of St. Mary; for which gift and grant the O o afori'fsiJ 282 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJUITIES aforefaid Robert hath paid down one mark of filvcr, on which I Thomas and the alorefaid Sarah have warranted for evtr the aforefaid land, as fet forth to Robert alovenieniioiied, his affigns and heirs, farther confirmi).^ the agreement by pledging hands *, and that this my gift and grant, with the ;ree afltnt ot the abovelaid Sarah, may remain firm and liable, i have flrenothcned it by my hand and feal. WitnelfcS; Geoftry Poynins^s, Robert de Wall, Thonr.as de Sahams, Robert de More, Alexander de Mance[ler, Roger Fiiz Alan, Henry de Hair.erwiche, Nicolas Typper, and many others. This deed has no date. " Know, all men. Sec. that I Geoffrv Fiiz Walter de Cheflerfield •]- have given and g! anted, and bv this prefent deed have confirmed, to Nicolas Fitz R.obert God- \v)n de Alrefage, for his fuit and fervice, all that land whicii I held of my lord the bifliop in the fields called Licholvefrudwig, with iis rights lying upon the hill, and all the moor which I held of the bifhop, faving to my heirs one feliion of land lying to the quarry, to be held, &c. paying to rne, my heirs and affigns, yearly, one penny at the feaft of St. John the Baptift, infiead of fervice, exaction, and fe- cular demands. For this my gift and grant, and confirming this writing, he hath, however, paid me in hand five fliillings in filver; and 1 Geoflry, for myfelf, ir.y heirs and afiTigns, have confirmed the faid land, one felion excepted, and the moor, and have warranted the fame to the aforel.iid Nicolas and his heirs, againft all men and women for e^ cr, in evidence of whic'a I have hereunto let my hand and feal. Witnefies, Aiwyn de Wyriey, Hen. de Watre, Hen. de St. Angulo, Richard Andrew, Geoffry Fitz Maud, Roger de More de Wail, and others. This is not dated. " Know, all men, &c. that I Adam de la Lynde, have given, granted, and by this prefent writing have confirmed, to my fon, all the land and tenements I held of the gift and grant of Henry Nichols de Lechfield, with all their rights, to be held of the capital manfion in Alrefnal by John de la Lynde, my fon, his heirs, and affigns, paying due and lavviul fuit and fervice for ever, in teflim.ony of which I have hereunto fet my hand and feal this feventh day next after the feafl of the bleffed Virgin Mary, in the fourth year of the reign of Edward, fon of k'ng Ed- ward, of our Lord 151 1. Tell. Hugh de Wall, Rich, de Hardwic, Nic. de Ly- diat de Allerfehall. Dated at Allerfl-saU. " Know, all men, &C. that 1 John, fon of Nicolas de la Lynde, have granted he. to John, fon of Adam de la Lynde, my kinfman, his heirs and affigns, all the lands and tenements which the fame Adam, his father, had of the gift and enfeof- ment of tienry Nichols, in Allefchale, v/ith their rights, to be held of the capital manfion of the fee by the ufual cufioms for ever. Witnefs LIugh de la Wall, Hugh de la Byrde, Nicolas at Lydiat de Allifchale, Hugh de AUerlliall. Dated 7th next the ieaft of St. Mark the Lvangelifl, 8th of Edward, fon of king Ed- ward, 1315. "Know, all men, that I JefFry Lyiy grant unto Simon, fon of William deAllerrtiall, the full poITefiion of the lands before paffed to him, being my property in the * Fide nudis manibus interpofita. f Ceftrefield. Riddings OF S H E N S T O N E. 283 Riddings of AUerfliall, all the leafes of thofe lands which he holdeth in the matjor of Longdon. Dated at AUerfliall, ninth of Edward III. 1339. •' Know, all men, &c. that I William do Seckerton, rector of the church of Honton, have granted to Hugh Fitz William Nichols de Alierfliail, and to Simoa his brother, all the lands and tenements, with ihe moors, pallures, and oiher ap- purtenances thereto belonging, with all the land which i have and hold at Hull, Houfes in AUerfhali, Stonyhul!, Littlcmore, and Allerlhall mogges, to have and to hold, &c. In teftimony of which I have fet my band and feal to this pre- fent paper. Witnefles, Ralph de Wall, Nicolas de Alierfha!!, Thomas de Polef- wortb, Nicolas at Lydyard de Allerlhall, John de la Lynde de Ailerlhali. Dated at Alierfhall the firft day after the feafl: of St. Hilary, in the reign of Edward III. after the Conque't the thirteenth, 1340. " To all the faithful in Chrill ; know ye, that I Nicolas at Lydi^nrt de Alierfhall have paffed, to John Fi'z Adam de la Lynde de AlJerlhall, all the lands and tenements which Adam de la Lynde held of me in AUerlhal, and hereunto have fet my hand and feal. VVitnelfes, R.adulph de Wall, William Nichols, Robert Hayes, Thomas de Pollcfworth, and o:hers. Dated at Allerlhall, on Monday next after St. Pecer ad viiictila, eleventh year of the reign of Edw.rd 111. •• know, all men, he. that I Matilda lady de Walters, being in my widowhood and in full power, have given, granted, and confirmed, to Simon Fitz William Nichols CNicolas) de Alrefliaw, his heirs and afligns, all the lands and tenements, with their rights, of 11 y property, 'y'"g ^'^'•^ being in Lachelf mogges in Elalhale altogether, according to the mcafures and limits fer, to have and to hold, &c. for ever, of the capital manfion of the fee, by the ufual fervires. And I thealoiefaid Matilda, and my heirs, do vvanant the fame lands and tenements to the faid Simon and his heirs againfl: all men for ever. In evidence of which I have hereto fet my feal, in the prefence of Randolph de Wall, William le I'anner de Lichfield, Ni- colas at Lydiart de AUerfliall, Wiilinm Njchols de Allerlhall, Edward de Pipe Parva *, and others. Dated at AUerfliall in the thirteenth of Edward the Third after the Conqueft, on the feall of the blelled Virgin Pdary, and in 1340. " Know, all men, &c. that I John de la Lynde de Allerfhale, have granted to Hugh de Alierfhall (gent ), and Simon his 'brother, their heirs and afligns, one acre of land, Sec. lying in Allerfchale, in my field near the Midiileflallache, and one acre in the field called Dunningham or Wall field ; and eight feveral butts lying feparately in the fame. In teftimony, Sec. Vrirneires, \\ illiam Nicliols, John Attemore, Rcjbert Collins, William Clive, Kcbert Lccchc de Allcrihall, and others. Dated at Alierfhall on the feaft of St. Michael the Arch Angel, fixteenth of Ed- ward III. after theConqucfl, and in 1343. In the 43d year of the reign of Edward III. diredlcd to all the inhabitants of Alderfhall, and thofe near it, who have claim therein. " Edward III. by th.e grace of God, of Engjand and France king, lord ot Ireland, he. to the {hcrifi"of Staflbrdfhire, greeting ; Be it known, that Thomas Le Tanner, of Liciiheid, John de la Lynde, Adam de RedehuU, and Agatha his wife, with Alice her daugh- ter, Nicolas de Lydiart de AllerQiawlde, John lord of Pipe, Elena lady of Wud, * A village near Aldcrlliaw. O o 2 Henry i84 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES IL'nry de Leach de V'lpefbefJelke*), John de Herdefwic, Alicia his wife, William de Landy, and Editha his wife, Adam Fitz Simon de Wall, William Rygby de Wall, John Rygby de Wall, William Rygby de Wall, junior, John Lettreman, Agnes wife of Hich^Trd Birde, William Tibbius de Wall, have unjuflly claimed privileges in AUerihalle, having therein more beafts and cattle than is right. Ye ?re therefore to examine, &c. On which examinati n it appeared, that they had fuch righis, and had not over paflured Allerfliall fields. So confirmed at Weft- minfter, 43 Edward III. on the oaths of John de Afhborne, John Lyon, John Wahon, Richard Walton, William de Curborough, J'tln Lyon, Roger de Chefliire, Roger de Redvvare, John de Vv^ychale, Roger de Hmtz, John de tJadler, John Allefraere de Allerftiaw, Roger de Tuiton, Henry Puet, and Robert de Wathlone ; who affirm on oath, that each perfan who hath one melTuage and one virgate of land there, ought to have common pafture for fix oxen, four heifers, four cows, and one hundred fheep, but thefe only of their own cattle. Signed and attefted by the perfons abovefaid, in the year of our Lord 1370. " Know, all men, &c. that I Robert de Draycote de Lichfield have granted to John Thomynhorne de Allerfchall, Alice his wife, and their afligns, a moiety of the land lying in Middle wafte croft, formerlv the property of Editha Waters; in teftimony whereof I have hereunto fet my feal. Witnefles, x\.dam Pratt, William de Wyrley, Henry de Wache of Pipe Parva, Adam Thompfon del Wall, John de Lynde, and others. Dated at Lichfield on Monday next after the Afcenfion of our Lord 1373, 46 Kdward III. "Know, all men, &c. that 1 Thomas le Tanner, of Lichfield, have releafed for myfelf and my heirs, to II,;nry de Lymie and his affigns, all the right and claim which I have or may have in all the lands and tenements in Alderfcale, which were formerly the property of John de la Lynde, father of Henry de Lynde aforefaid, fo that I, my heirs, and affigns, may have no future claim ; in evidence whereof I have hereunto let my feal. WitnefTcs, 'i'homas de Ryder, R.ichard de Trafford, John de Wyrley, Hugh de Hopeways Henry de Tinmore and his fon Henry, John de Tinmore, and Simon de LichSJd, and others. Dated at Lichfield on the feafl of St. Mark, 47 Edward III. 1274. " Know, all men, that Henry de la Lynne grants to Adam de Redehul, and to John de Thomynhorne, all the lands and tenements in Alderlliale which were formerly John de Lynne's h'.s father. Dated at Allerfhale. WitnelTes, Robert de Swynfen, Henry ce Wache, James le More, William de Boweter de Lichfield, Edward Tim- nefonde"Wall, and others, 1374, Sunday after the feaft of St. DunPtan. " Know, all men, &c. that Sarah, daughter of Lambert Francigena (French), grants 10 Kobert, fon of Goodwyn, of Allerfchate, as enumerated in the deed of of Rol.ert Cementarius, whofe wife I look upon this Sarah to have been (fee the firftdeed). " Know, ail men, &c. that I Sarah Walters, relict of John de Walters, being in my fail widowhood, and in full power, have granted to John Thomyhorn of * Not intelligible. AUerfcbale O F S 11 E N S T O N E. 28 J -AUerfchale all that my lantl lying in the clofe named Wafrecrofr, leaning to the road ciilled Falfeway on the one fide, and to the land called Idefmoore on the other part ; alfo 1 have granted to the faid John all my land lying in Clerks- crofte, within the fee of Lichfield, between the land of Richard de Pcrton on the one part, and the land of Agnes de Draycote on the other part, to be held by the faid John de Thomynhorneand his heirs, of the capital manflon of the f;ud fee, by the ufual fervices and cufloms, viz. three-pence to the lord of the manor on St. John fhe Baptilt's day, and three-pence on the Nativity of Chrift, for all fervices and fecular demands ; on which I the aforefaid Sarah, and my heirs, warrant the faid lanJ.-; to John de ThaiT.enhorne, hi? heirs, 8cc. In evidence of which I have fet my feal to this deed. WitnefTes, William de Walters de Lichfield, Henry and Ni- colas de Pipe, Henry de Thamenhorne, William de Ferrers, John de IJeywood the Forefter, and others. Dated at Lichfield, on the feaft of t';.c Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 50th of king Edward IIL 1377. " Knjw, all men, &c. that I Richard de Redehul, fon and heir of Adam de Redehull, have granted, &c. to John de Allefchale, all that moiety of land lying in the clofc called Waftcrofte, lying to the Falfeway on one part, and the way called the Flydel- inere on the other, with their rights, being aforetime the property of the faid. Adam and Agatha his wife, and hereto I have {ct my feal, in prefence of Rcbcit de Swynfen, Thomas de Cook, Roger de Prelton, John de Heywood, John de Criven, and o:hers. Dated at Lichfield, i Henrv IV. 1399. "Know, all men, &c. that I John de Allerfcale have granted toSirWiliam NewpOit a croft called Waftcroft, in the fee of Lichfield, and four acres of land, with their rights, in Clerkcroft, lying near the land of Robert Ridway, W. de Packington, except one acre in the laid croft, called Wafrecroft, remaining to the vicars oi Lichfield ; which croft and four acres were formerly the property of Dame Sarah Walters, relid of John le Walters; and hereto I have let my feal. Wit- neffes, Henry Dean, J. Ruiter, Richard Chambers, Robert Bow\ er, John Scriven, and others. Dated at Lichfield the fecond day after the feaft of St. Luke the Evangelift, 11 Henry IV. 1410. " John de Allerfcale and Sybil his wife leafed the fame lands to Sir William New- port, paying yearly to them a red rofe on the Nativtiy of John the Baptilt. Dated at Lichfield, next day after the feafl of St. Simon and Jude, 1 1 Henry IV, 141c. " Know, all men, &c. ,that I Agnes, widow of Roger de la Lynde, have palfed to Sir William Newport all my claim in a parcel of land called Clog flntts in Al- lerfcale, and in a par:el of land injWall field, and Middle field. WitnelTcs, John de Barre, Richard de Colman, John Pott, and others. Dated at Lichfield, 20. April, 1430, 8 Henry YI." From the deeds aforefaid it fcems clear to me, that in early times, moft likely foon after the Conqueft, fome perfon fettled here took his name from the place Aikrfchale as it is written, a now 286 THE HI'S TORY AND ANTIQJUITIES now Akkrf/jaiv^ and polleded the rights of a manor here, if not iihb in Wall ; and the late poiTeiror had thoughts of claiming them, afTuring me he doubted not of making good fuch preten- tions from deeds and other memorials in his poffelTion ; and that this family had the manor, or pofiefTed lands in it, to the I ith year of the reign of king Henry IV. if not longer. After this time the principal eftate and manfion was, as I conjefture, in Sir William Newport's family. Either thefe, or a good eftate here,, were the property of the Lytteltons, of which family was Sir Edward, knight, who died polTefied of them in the reign of Edward VI. -and left them to Sir Edward, his fon ; which lands, or a conliderable part of them, have long been in the name of Burnes. Another part we faid was heretofore in the family of the Buttons, of V^^all, now likewife in John Burnes Ployer, efq. Of this name and family was John Burnes, early in Elizabeth's reign , alfo a member of the corporation of the city and county of Lichfield in 1583, who probably raifed and ellabliflied his houfe. He had iffue Thomas, who, by Margery, daughter of Nichols, of Walfal, had ilTue John, .who died in the life- time of his father, leaving John, who died in 1O82, amercer, and peribn of fortune in Lichfield, a very aftive man for the parliament in the civil war, and in the coramiflion of the peace in the time of Oliver Cromwell the protedlor. By Sarah, daugh- ter of Richard Pyott, of Strethay, near Lichfield, efq. he left a fon Richard, who died in 1692, who, by Dorothy, daughter of Ralph Hawkes, of New-ton, efq. (of the fame llock with < Havvkes, late of Hopwas wood, near Tamworth, efq.) had iffue John, who died young, Richard, and two daughters who died unmarried. Richard Burnes, elq. of Alderlhaw, died abont the year 1767, leaving by Anne, daughter of John Leonard, of Wednefoury, one fon, John Burnes Floyer, yet a minor, adopted OF SHENSTONE. -'^■" aS; adopted heir of John Floyer, late of Longdon, efq. and one daughter, Favoretta, aged 21. Information hath been given me, that Thomas Eurnes, in the reigns of queen EUzabeth and king James I. hatl a daughter, wife of Thomas Mynors, baihfF of Lichfield in the troublefome times of king Charles I. and a bufy man for the parliament inr- tereft, an adtive juilice of the peace, member of parliament under the protetStor, and founder of a free-fchool in Lichfield ; guardian alio of John Burns, the mercer, abovementioned. This Thomas Burns purchafed Alderfliaw and its manfion, then moated round, and in the firfi: year of the reign of James I. part of Alderfliaw, lands of Sir Edward Lyttelton, of Pillaton, called the Pamfields, with others adjoining named the Abnels. Le- monfley, near Alderfhaw, is a portion of lands belonging to the family of Burns in part ; another part was given to the fchool in ^ Beau Street, Lichfield, by Thomas Minors, its founder, as be- fore noted. The laft Richard Burns, of Alderfliaw, with Randolph Brad- burn, of Pipe hill, purchafed lands called the Upper Wattages, which palTed into the hands of Edward Jackfon, late of Wall, who (or fome perfon who recovered them from him) fold them foon after. In 1 741 an act of parliament paflTed for raifing the fnm of two millions thirty-eight thoufand fixty-five pounds eleven fliillings and five-pence, of which Lichfield was to raife four hundred and twenty pounds nineteen fliillings and fovir-pence ; Samuel Hill, efq. of Shenftone park, and Richard Burns, were commif- Honers, as they were in molt public affairs during their lives. Richard Burnes, efq. was one of the truflees for that fra- ternity in Lichfield, called St. Catharine's hofpital, for the fnp- port of fourteen poor women ; which charity being greatly abufedj s8S THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES abufedj the grievance was redrelTed in fome meafure by his in- ftigarion, and by the particular application of his friend the late John Floyer, of London, efq. who procured a decree in chancery for the better management of the faid charity. Alderfhaw ball is a neat and modern-built houfe, with walled gardens, and canals ; being fituated on a rifing ground, it affords a fine view of Lichfield cathedral, and part of the city. John Popham had lands in Alderlhaw, which pafTed with thofe men- tioned in Wall. S W Y N F E N. Swynfen is a village on the road from Hintz and Weeford to Lichfield. It is not, indeed, in the parilli of Shenftone, bnt in Weeford, yet, being in its conftablewic, I found myfelf under fome fort of obligation not wholly to omit it. What is pro- perly called the diftridl contains no notable manfion, except the hall itfelf, which is an elegant feat, begun by the laft pof- feiror, under the dire6lion of Benjamin Wyatt, late of Black- brook, in the parifh of Weeford (Wayford), a noted archite(St ; and which, though a deiigned wing is not yet completed, hath cort upw:.rds of fix thoufand pounds. The manor of Swynfen, being in the reign of king William L in the parilli of Weeford, appurtained to the bifhop, yet after- wards OF S II E N S T O N E. aSy wards was in the family of Ferrers ; for, Robert fecond earl of Ferrers confirmed the religious donations made here in or be- fore the reign of king Henry II. William de RoUefton feems to have held the manor of Swynfen under the family of Ferrers; for, in the days of William Rufus, or Henry I. this William, fon of Sir Henry Rollefton, of Rollefton, in Staffordfliire, :lying iffuclefs, gave two parts of the tenths of his demefne lands at Swynfen to the priory ot Tiitbury, in Derbylhire, which grant was confirmed by Robert earl Ferrers, fon of Henry the founder of it. How long it was in the name of Rollefton I have not learnt, though probably fome ages, as they were perfons of note in this county. Yet I find, that in the reign of Henry 1. Robert de Tonkes had one fee in Sudenfeyn (Swinefen) : in all likelihood, fome perfon in one of thefe families in time took the furname of Swynfen. In 1374, Robert de Swynfen witnefTed the grant of Henry de la Lynde to Adam de Redehill, and John de Thamen- horne, paffing lands in Alderlliaw. In 1399, Robert de Swin- fen (perhaps his fon) was witnefs to a deed of Richard Redehill, paffing lands to John de AUerfchale. In the 13th year of the reign of Henry VI. William Erdfwic Swinefen, of Swinefen, married Jocofa, or Joyce, daughter and coheir of William Spar- nore ; and in the reign of Henry VIII. John Swynfen, of this place, married Maria, daughter of William Repyngton, of Amyngton, near Tamworth, efq. The fon of this John feems to have been Richard Swynfield, who, at the vifitation of Glover, Somerfet herald alarms in 1583, was refident here, allowed to bear a coat, and acknowledged to be of a gentleman's Itock. This Richard I look upon to have had iflTue, befides other chil- dren, a daughter , wife of Dugdale, efq. of Cli- therow, Lancalhire, father of Sir William Dugdale, of Blythe P p hall, 290 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES hn]], rear Ccleihill, in the county of Warwick, the great an- tiquary. i find too WilHam Swynfen, of Swynfen, about the reign of kine: Edward VI. whether father or brother of the lail: Richard i cannot affirm, having never feen a genealogy of their hue, ■who married Dorothy, daughter of James Noel, of Hillot, in the county of Stafford, efq. (of a great houfe in tliis county, \\ ho poiTcired Ellenhall, Raunton, Seighford, Muhiameefe, and feveral other lordlliips). About * the reign of Elizabeth, Ri- chard Swynfen's daughter Eleanor was beftowed in marriage to Walter Chetwynd, elq. who had iffue by her William, and John, of Rudge, efq. John Swynfen, of Swynfen, was a noted perfon in the reign of Charles I. the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and in the reign of king Charles II. being a bufy man in behalf of the parliamentarians under every adminiftration. He was alfo of the committee of Stafford, and under that pretence harraifed the whole country, and even his own tenantry ; he had alfo gained fuch an influence, that many affairs of the county were chiefly determined by him, and when Mrs. Snead was plundered at once of 200I. 150I. and upwards was put into his hands. In 1643, December 22, he, Thomas Crompton Pudfey, William Bendy, Henry Stone, and others of that committee, gave forth the warrant, figned in their own hands, for the demolifhing of Staf- ford caftle. Such was his behaviour till the Reltoration. In the time of the long parliament, Ralph Snead, junior, and Ri- chard Wellion, efqrs. being eledted burgeffes of Stafford, they were outed in order to admit John Swynfen (ufually named Rulfet-coat, from his affeded plainnefs and pretences to lin- MSS penes. Dom. Chetwynd, vicccom. cerity),. OF SHENSTONE. a^f cerity), and Edward Leigh, of Rufliall hall, efqrs. In 1679 ^ he was adtive to raife the militia of London, Weftminfter, Soiith- wark, and the Tower hamlets, of Middlefex, and Surrey, by an addrefs to king Charles IL The next day, though Sunday, the Houfe of Commons ordered a bill to be brought in (pur- fuant to their refolve fourteen days before) to difable the duke of York to inherit the imperial crown of England. This bill was ordered to be drawn up by Mr. Bennet, Mr. Trenchard, Mr. Hampden, Mr. Sacheverell, Mr. Swynfen, and others. On this occalion the hiflorians "■•• obferve, that, " by thefe proceedings of the Commons, it plainly appeared, that they only fought oc- cafion to drive things to extremities." We may obferve alfo, that this John Swynfen, March 30, 1648 f, with Salway, and colonel Jephfon, was fent by the parliament to lord hichiquin, on fufpicion of his falling off from their intereft ; their inftruc- tions were prepared by the committee at Derby houfe. In 1667 he paid to the quarterly afleffment for the royal aidjT.i. I4J". 6d. ob» and died, as I think, in the year 1682. John, his fon, fucceeded him, and the fame year was witnefs - to an indenture between John Brown, of Thornes, gent, and . Alexander Ward, of Shenftone park. Whether this John was in parliament I am not certain, but think he v/as, being in other refpedls of confiderable note and efteem. In 1694 he is men- tioned as paying to the poll-tax in Shenilone one pound one fhilling, and ten fhillings for horfes. Mary Swynfen (probably his fifter in law) paid one pound one Ihilling ; Francis Swyn- fen, forhimfelf, wife, and fix children, one pound eight fhil- lings ; Mr. Swynfen alfo paid, for two grand-children and ^qsq.^ fervants, nine fhillings. This John had iiiue Richard Swynfen, * Echard and Pvapin. f Whitlock. P p 2 and 292 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES and Samuel, if no more ; and three daughters, one of which was wife of Smyth, of Long Whatton, Leicefterfliire, who had iffue by her two fons, Swynfen Smyth, who went abroad, and died childlefs, and John, of Shepey, Leicefterfhire, who was concerned in the iron trade. Another daughter of John was Mary, wife of Thomas WiUington, of Tam worth, gent. When this John Swynfen died I have not learnt, but find he had a brother, who married a niece of Matthew Ducie Mureton, lord Moreton. Richard Swynfen fucceeded, and was a member of the Houfe of Commons, and gentleman of the privy chamber ; but, dying without ilTue in the reign of George II. the next was his brother and heir, Samuel, a phyfician of fkill and great pradlice at Lichfield, in 1714, and feveral years afterwards; but removing from Swynfen hall to Birmingham, died there in 1736, leaving iffue, among others, George, a clerk, chaplain to the governor of Fort St. George, in the Eaft Indies, and John, who went fuper- cargo of a fliip in the Eaft India Company's fervice ; both of them died abroad unmarried ; like wife feveral daughters, of which are Frances, living at Lichfield ; , another, wife of Turton, efq. of Hargrave in Alrewas (defcended of the younger brother of Turton, of the Oak in Weft Brora- wich), now or late of Stafford, by whom ftie hath children ; and at leaft two more, unmarried. Samuel, the phyfician, removed, as I faid, to Birmingham ; and the family, being on the decline, f61d Swynfen and the old family eftates. The wife of this Sa- muel was Mabel, one of the two daughters and coheirs of Fretwel, efq. of Hellaby, near York ; which Mabel furvived her hufband many years, dying aged in the reign of George III. Dorothy Fretwel, the other fifter and coheir, married Richard Pyott, OFSHENSTONE. 293 Pyott, efq. of Strethay hall, near Lichfield, and had iflue by him a daughter , wife of Johnfon, counfellor at law, of York city, who had iffue by her a fon Richard, who died ifTuelefs ; and a daughter, wife of Sir John Heydon, of York- fliire. Some years before the death of Richard Swynfen, efq. elder brother of Samuel, was living, in the parilh of Shenftone, a per- fon named Samuel Swynfen, who, being poor, claimed to be a relation ; but this was not admitted, as he gave no interefting or clear proofs. Going afterwards to London, he became fervant to a Hamburgh merchant ; and, being a perfon of capacity and fidelity, the merchant affording him alfo, with a fmall flock, op- portunities of raifing a fortune, through the bleffing of Pro- vidence, he acquired a confiderable one, and then purchafed the family feat and eftate of Swynfield or Swynfen of the phyfician aforefaid. This perfon I take to be the fame who is named Samuel Swynfen, filhmonger, of London ; and, in June, 1736, paid the ufual fine to avoid ferving the office of ffieriff for that city. At his death he left a large fortune to Thomas Princeps, of Croxall, Staffordfliire, fon of Princeps, who married his filler, and by whom he had alio iffue a daughter — ■ — , wife of — — Bloomer, of Coleman hill, near Hales Owen, now an attorney at Birmingham, by whom flie hath children. Thomas Princeps hath by , daughter of Nuthal, of Birmingham, Thomas, and others. But Samuel Grundy, filler's ion of Samuel Swynfen, of , was the principal heir. Samuel Grundy, l^y obligation of his uncle's will, took the name and arms of Swynfen by ai5t of i^ailiament. This gen- tleman 294 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S tleman lived in a clofe manner, rather as a farmer. With money left for his ufe in the funds, in order to purchafe eftates in StafFordiliire, and his own favings, he had in his hands many capital manfions at one time, with feveral ma- nors, viz. Oxley, one mile from Wolverhampton, purchafed of ■ Wroughton, gent, who had married his filler < Grundy, of Appleby, Leicerterfliire, remarried to Samuel Huf- kyns, in whofe tenure it lately was. Samuel Swynfen re- built the manfion of this Oxley. I obferve, that it was one of the eighty-lix lordfliips beftowed by king WiUiam I. upon Wil- liam Fitz Aufculph, the firlt Norman baron of Dudley, Elm- huril hall and manor, near Lichfield, bought of Sir Theophilus Byddulph, baronet ; Fiflierwick, near Lichfield, purchafed of the earl of Maffarene, fold by Samuel Hill, of Shenitone park, efq. who leaving it to his nephew, Samuel Egerton, of Tatton park, efq. it pafTed again by purchafe to old Samuel Swynfen, who fold it to John Ludford, of Anfley, Warwickfliire, efq. as guar- dian for Arthur earl of Donegal, the prefent owner ; Swynfen, the family feat, which he rebuilt, and feveral others near Lich- field and Tamworth, or Hopewas. The faid Samuel Swynfen, efq. died at Swynfen, October 2, 1770, a bachelor, aged about 70. John Grundy, a brother's fon of the laft gentleman, was heir by virtue of the obligation and entail of Samuel Swynfen, of London, abovementioned. taking alfo the name and arms of the Swynfens. This John is about 25 years old, and, in 1769, married daughter of — — Abney, of Tamworth, efq. and hath ifTue. Hill Hall in Swynfen is a confiderable old'built manfion be- longing to the Porter family, of whom we fpoke in Wall, and, with the land thereto belonging, went from John Porter of Lich- iield OFSHENSTONE. 295 field to Sheldon his Ton, and upon his deceafe to his fifters ; they were by them let to Thomas Malletr, in whofe tenure they remain (T773); and, I obfcrve, they were in the Porters in 1667, for that year John Porter paid 5L 8s. 5d, to the tenth, quarterly payment affeiied for the royal aid. Dated June ii. To what we Lave noted of this hamlet, we may add, that Do6lor Plott, in Lis Natural Hiftory of StafFordil:iire •■, mentions a way to clear old trees from mofs, told him by Mr. Swynfen, of Swynfen, which fucks away the fap, and prevents them bear- ing iruit. This was to fire the mofs in divers places with a whifp of Itraw : this, he faid, would quickly run over the tree and clear it from fuch annoyance ; it was ufually done at Chriitmas, but particularly at Twelfth-tide. In the hollow way between the hills on Weeford heath, as we pafs between Swynfen and Gannal hall, tiie feat of Sir Ro- bert Lawley, baronet, in the fame parifh, lie divers heaps of lit- tle opake pebbles, which tradition fays -f were laid where a bifliop and his fervants that were robbed and murdered were found ; but the truth is, that biiliop Vefey, then living at Sutton Cole- field, employed poor people to carry them out of the road, to prevent horles tripping. In the fame village of Swynfen, or near it, is the moft emi- nent barrow or low in thofe parts, called Offlozv, which, though it be placed near Watling-llreet, feems not to be truly Roman, but is rather the tumulus or burial-place of fome eminent Saxon. Of thefe lows Dugdale + fays much in his Antiquities of War- wickfhire ; we have alio fpoken of them under Cats-hill, in Upper Stonall. Swynfen's coat of arms was, party per pale, a chevron, Ar- gent and Sable, 3 leopards heads of the firft. * Page 385. f Plott's Hiflory, c. 4. X In Knigblow hundred. Thus, • 96 THE HISTORY AND ANTK^UITIES Thus, as I prcpofed, I have given an account of Shenftone and its feveral hamlets. In the firlt dillri(5l are Shenftone, Shen- Hone park, the Mofs, Wood End, Radley Moor End, Afton, Footherley, the BolTes, and Little Hay ; nine diftridts. hi the fecond divifion, Over Stonall, Nether Stonall, Lyndon, Thornes, Chefterfield, Wall, Hilton, and Swvnfen, adding fomething of Alderfliavv, as near Wall and Chefterfield, and much connected with them ; nine diftricfts. Finifhed to this place, at Hales-owen, November 3, 1773- Ao?« Tw ©iu. 0f the "Manor of SHENSTONE, and the Lords in Chief. From a fuppofition that the foregoing account of the parilh of Shenftone would be deficient, though given with all the ac- curacy poffible, unlefs we could fay fomething of its lords in chief, and thofe that held the manor under them ; I refolved, if poflible, to trace thera out, and fet them before the reader. This hath been the more difficult, for the reafons already given, the want of proper materials, and of records that fhould afcertain them ; but fuch things as have occurred to me are given ; and, as I have propofed to lay thefe things down in or- der, they may amufe or give others opportunity of explaining matters more fully. I It OF S II E N S T O N E. 297 It was the cuftom of the Saxons to fet vipart a quantity of land for the pubhc fervicc, which was rented out and accounted for in the department to which it belonged. The crown, under the Saxon kings, had many of thefe lands, ■which were applied to the ordinary expence of government ; fo it feems to have been in fliires, to hear the expence of the ihire militia, and other exigences of the internal police of the fhires* Whence it came, that at the difiblution of the old govern- ment, in 1070, of the fliires, fuch a quantity of the land fell into the hands of the king, that be hardly knew how to difpofe of it. This land he divided into manors and baronies, and gave them away to his Norman nobility, gentry, and clergy, who held them as tiefs of the crown, whence come our court ba- rons, manor courts, and court leets. As to the internal policy of the country, he placed it in the hands of officers of his own making. Manors, then, in fubftance, are as ancient as the Saxon times, though, perhaps, differing a little in fome immaterial circum- ftances from thofe that exift at this day. Manerium comes a manendoy becaufe the ufual refidence of the owner feems to have been a diftrid; of ground held by lords or great perfonages, who kept in their own hands fo much land as was neceffary for the ufe of their families, which were called ierr(^ dominicales, or demefne lands, being occupied by the lord or Dom'inus Manerii and his fervauts. Manors were formerly named baronies, as they ftill are lordfliips ; and each lord or baron ^^•as empowered to hold a domeftic court, called the court baron, for redreffmg mifdemeaiiors and nuifances within the manor, and for fettling dilputes of property between the tenants. This court is a fe- parate ingredient of every manor ; and, if the number of fuitors Q q fliould 298 THE HISTORY AND xVN T I Q_U I T I ES flioulcl {o fail as not to leave a jury, or homage, /. e. two tenants av iL:ii', the manor would he loit. All manors exifting at this day mufl: have exifted by immemo- rial prelcriptionj or at leall ever fince the i8th year of the reign of king Edward I, when the ftatute ^^n'a emptores was made ; for no new manors can have been eredled fince that time, be- caufe it is effential to a manor that there be tenants who hold of the lord ; and that ftatute enads, that for the future no fub- je6l lliall create any new tenants to hold of him. Barons and lords of manors continued the fame till the reign of king John. Our hirtory, law, and records, convince us, that not only the peers of the realm, or nobles as they are now called, but all perfons who held their eftates in capite from the crown, were antiently ftyled barons *, though they were only commoners ac- cording to the prefent acceptation of the word ; nay, even great tenants to greater fubje£ls. The word baron hath been fo com- municated, that all lords of manors have been from old time, and are at this day, called barons, as in their ftyle of court barons. Shenftone, or, as it is written in antient records, Scertejlane^ in the reign of William I. was the king's demefne land. I find, in the lift of fuch places or manors as the king held, one named Scelfitone, but am not fure it was the fame ; neither can I fay who had it before the Conqueft, or till the great furvey in the 20th year of the reign of king William I. at which time one Leonilde held it of the king, in capite^ and moft likely his de- fcendants to the days of king John t, when it was holden of Henry D'Oyley's barony, which being a great houfe, and being * Seldcn's Titles of Honour. -f Hiftory of Staffordlhire. 6 barons OF S n E N S T O N E. 199 barons of this kin?dom, I fliall venture to give fome account of them. I have feen the addition to their Chriirian names, De Olgio and Ougi, from a town in France. The family is of great antiquity and honourable ; they were lords of Olgii, or Oyley, in Normandy, in the days of Edward the ConfefTor. The baron de Olgio had Robert, one of the ad- venturers with William his prince, after king of England, who, for his good fervices at the Conqueft, was rewarded with two baronies, St. Walery's in Normandy, and Oxford (as Dugdaie fays by miftake), or rather Hook Norton, in Oxfordlhire ; yet I find that, after the king had taken Oxford, in order to fecure it, he caufcd Robert D'Oyley to build a caftle on the Weft fide of the city, fortified with large trenches and ramparts. The fame Robert alfo beautified and repaired the walls of the city, thea much decayed. Oxford after this became cheerfully fubjed; to the Norman government; the caftle was eredfed in 1072, fo that it does not feem clear that he was baron of Oxford, yet he is fometimes called conftable of Oxford, and, as I think, the king's conftable. At the time of the general furvey, he w^as pof- fefl!ed of four lordfliips or manors in Berks, feven in Bucks, fourteen in Hertford, one in Bedford, three in Gloucefter, three in Northampton, one in Warwickfliire, twenty- eight in Ox- fordfhire; or, as another account has it, forty-two in Ox- fordfhirc, having at the fame time forty-two habitable houfes in Oxford, and eight which then lay wafte ; as alfo eighty- acres of meadow land adjoining to the walls, and a mill, valued at 1 6s. yearly. This lord is faid to have built the bridge or bridges at Oxford, and with Roger de Eyverio (Ivery), a man very familiar with him, and his fworn brother in war, (who had alfo promifed to fliare fortunes with him, on Q q 2 which ■3db THE HISTO.RY AND AN T I Q^U 1 T •, ." " Avhich account it is faid Robert gave him many eft ates, 5nd, as fome conjecture, the barony of St, Walery), to havefountlcd, in 1074-5, the collegiate church of St. George in Oxford caftle, for a dean and prebendaries, as' moft proper and agreeable to an uni- 'verfity, and to have endowed it with lands, tylhes, and reve- nues, out of their revenues ; as alfo the church of St Mary Magdalen, in the fnburbs of Oi:forcl, and three hides of land in Beaumont fields. This lord, Robert D'Oyley, was a witnefs to the founding of Selby abbey, in Yorklhire, by king William I. and attefted the charter of king WiUiam Rufus to the abbey of Eyniham in Ox- fordfliire. He died before the end of this reign, and was buried at Abingdon ; his wife was Algitha, daughter of Wygot, a noble Saxon, a perfon of great note in that age, lord of Wallingford (who entertained the king after the battle of Haftings), by 'whom he had iffue an only daughter, Matilda. This lady, in- heriting the valour of her anceftors, bravely defended the em- prefs Maud in her caftle of Wallingford. Her father gave her *m marriage, 1084, to Milo Crifpin, who had eighty-eight lord- 'fhips in England at thefurvey, of which Hillingdon, in Middiefex, is the chief feat, and thirty-three in Oxfordlhire. He dying in the 7th year of the reign of Henry I. the king gave her in marriage to Bryan Fitz Count, fon of Baldwyn de Rivers, earl of Devon- Ihire (by Lucie, daughter of Drue de Baladen, or Balun biron of Overwent and Abergavenny in Wales, fifter and heir of Hamelyn de Baalun lord of Abergavenny), to whom fhe brought the lordfliip of Wallingford, and other large eftates ; he had two fons that were lepers, but whether by Maud D'Oyley I am not certain. Robert D'Oyley, firft baron of Hoke Norton and St. Valery's, dying, in 1 090, without iffue male (both he and his wife O F S H E -K'-S'T one. 301 wife being buried in Abingdon abbey, to which, as well as to St. Mary's church there, they were bountiful benefacftors, and where, in 1084, king William, keeping his Ealfer, left his foa Henry under the care of this Robert D'Oyiey for his improve- ment}, he was fucceeded by Nigel, his next brother, baron of Hoke Norton, 1090, w-ho was the king's conftable. He came into England with Robert aforefaid, and Gilbert, a younger brother, who had lands in Oxfordiliire beftowed on him by the Conqueror. Nigel D'Oillei was witnefs to the charter of king Henry I. granting pri- vileges and lands to the abbey of Hyde near VVinchefter ; alfo to the charter of the fame king to Edwardfton priory in Suf- folk. When he died I have not learnt, but he left two fons, Robert, and Fulke who was buried at Enham, or Eynlliamj jn 1 1 26. The wife of Nigel is named lady Agnes. Robert Fitz Nigel fucceeded his father as lord high con flable and baron of Hook Norton. He was a gallant man,, and much efleemed by king Henry I. He is mentioned as a witnefs to that king's charters to St. Peters hofpital in York ; to Pontefradl priory; in 1 1 33 to Cirencerter abbey. He alfo gave eighteen denariats rent at Oxford, and twenty near that city, to the Knights Templars of St. John. In a catalogue of the lands be- longing to thofe knights drawn up by John Stillingfieet in 1 1 34, he, and Henry his fon, are faid to be donors of lands in Oxford and Gosford to thofe Templars. The fame lord Robert was an evidence to the emprefs Maud's charters, to St. Fridef- with's in Oxford, and to St. James's priory at Exeter, figned at Oxford. In 1 138, he llgned the charter of Sir Robert Gayte, founding Otteley, or Thame abbey, in Oxfordfliire. He was alfo witnefs to John St. John's charter, giving lands to Godrtow near Oxford ; and, in the reign of king Stephen, he gave Lambey. meadow 302 THE HISTORY AND AN T IQJ.TI T I E S meadow to the fame nunnery, one half of it being confirmed by that prince, and the other by the emprefs Maud, with a meafure of corn yearly. He is likewife named as an evidence to the charter of king Stephen to the priory of Alcefter in War- wickfliire. His wife gave lar.ds of her dowry in Welton to Thame abbey ; to which is a witnefs Fulk D'Oyley. King Henry II. confirmed to the fame religious houfe thirty-fix acres in Wefton, the gift of Robert bimfclf, who alfo built St. Mary's ' church in Ofney ; and, during the fiege of Oxford under the emprefs a new chapel called St. Thomas's, becaufe they durft not go to St. George's. On the whole, he appears to have been a devout perfon, but ftill more are we confirmed in this opinion from his founding the abbey of Ofney for regular canons of St. Auguftin '•-, 1 1 29, in the ille of Ofeneia, formed by the Ifis, near Oxford caftle. To this abbey he gave many efl;ates, and feveral churches, as Chadlington, Wefton, Hook Norton, Clain- don, Chefterton, and Seneftan, or Shenftone ; whence it appears, that this place was in the family in the reign of Henry I. and, by a fecond charter, he annexed to it lands in Forefthill, Burton, and both the Stanhales, or Stonhalls, in the parifii of Shenft:one, ' with all their rights and tenths. This fame lord built and richly endowed the abbey of MilTenden, in Bucks, in the firft year of the reign of king Stephen f . He was one of the witnefTes to the charter of the king's laws ; but, in the 6th year of the reign of king Stephen, when the emprefs Maud, attended by David king of Scotland, came with much triumph from Winchefter to Oxford, he delivered up the caftle to her. His wife was Editha, daughter of Forne, fon of Sigewolfe lord Greyftock, both great barons j, a lady highly efteemed by king Henry I. (having been * Monafticon Angl. f Dugdale, X Speed. his O F S H E N S T O N E. 305 his concuLIne^, by whofe procurement this lord married her ; his ifTue were two Tons, Henry and Gilbert ; alio a daughter named Editha. Robert Firz Nigel baron D'Oyley, of Hook Norton, was buried at Eynfliam abbey, near Oxford. Henry, his eldeft fon, fucceeded him, as alio in the office of conftable, and was fnerifFot" Oxfordlhire from the third to the fixth year of Henry II. He is exprefsly faid to have a caftle in Shenftone, called Old fort, and to have given or confirmed the manor of the Mofle in Shenftone to the abbey of Ofney, with a certain part of his manor of Shenftone called Stanhall, which Hugh de Twyne, who held it and other lordfliips of him by military fervice, had formerly beftowed on the canons of Ofney.^ This Henry D'Oyley is faid to have palTed away the manor to the family of Bray, and to have confirmed * to Radulph de Bray, chaplain to king William Rufus, the lands held under him by the faid Ralph's father ; but here muft be a miftake. Either Ralph might be chaplain to king Henry II. or fome of Henry D'Oyley's anceftors might grant it to the family of Bray, in the latter end of the reign of king William I. or William Rufus, which is not improbable, if this manor was granted foon after the great furvey taken by William I. to Robert or Nigel, predeceiTors of Henry lord D'Oyley. It feems clear, however, that the D'Oyleys continued lords in chief, or lords of the fee, as we fliall note hereafter. This Henry was witnefs to the charter given by king Henry II. to the priory of Plympton, in Devonfliire. In the 1 2th year of the reign of Henry II. upon an aftelTment t of the aid for marrying the king's daughter, he certified his knight's fee to be thirty-two and a third part of the old feoffinent, and one and a half, with a twentieth part of the new feoffment ; fof • See Wilkes's papers. -j: Dvigdale. which 304 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES which fees he paid 2 1 1. lis. id. In the 1 4th year of the reign of Henry II. the other twenty one IhilHngs for thofe de novo^ being then in arrear. In tliis fame reign Gervafe Paganel, baron of Dudley caltle, certified to the king, that Henry D'Oyli held one knight's fee under him, for which the fame lord Gervafe owed fcutage, or military fervice ; and Robert baron Stafford certified at the fame time, that Henry D'Oyley held three knights fees of him, which were held under Henry D'Oyley by Walter Fitz Tywa, Ralph Fitz Roger, and Ralph, each one; where thefe fees were I cannot be certain; but f find that about this time tlie D'Oyleys had large pofTeflions in Gnofall, Conley, and Raunton, in StafFordlliire. Henry D'Oyley was buried in 1 163, at Ofney abbey. His wife was Maud, or Margery, daughter of lord Humphry de Rohun, with whom he had the barony of Bra- enham •'•■ ; by her he had five children, Henry and Robert ; Mar- gery, at length heir to the family, a daughter, wife to Maurice Gaunt ; and a third daughter, wife to Thomas t lord of Daventry. Henry, the eldeft fon, was the fifth baron D'Oyley, and con- stable of England. He, as his father had done, confirmed to the canons of Ofeney the lands before mentioned lying in Shen- ftone ; and it feems probable, that this man paffed away the manor of Shenflone to the Brays ; to confirm this, certain papers in my poffefTion fay the lafl Henry D'Oyley was the perfon, yet it is certain, that the earl of Warwick was the lord, or fuperior lord, in the 20th year of the reign of Henry III. as heir to the D'Oyleys. Dugdale fays, this lord dying without iffue, the in- heritance of his efi:ates devolved to his two fifters. Another ac- count given is, that he married two wives, Sybil and Ma\id (who, furviving him, was remarried to the great baron William de * Dugdale. -|" Baronetage. Can- O F S II E N S T O N E. . 305 Cantelnpe, flierifF of Warwick, Leicefter, Worceftcr, and He- reford ; governor of Wilton and Hereford curtles, in the reign of king John, yet afterwards joined the barons), and h?.d ifliie an only daughter, Maud, fole heir to her father, but Ibe died young, and unmarried ; that he went with king Richard I. into Judea, and died in Auftria, 1192, and was buried there, though it is laid elfe where -■, that he lived till the year 1232. Robert, his brother, was the next baron, and conll:able of England, IherifF of Oxfordfliire in the reign of king Richard I, and one of the barons f that took up arms for the liberties of England againft king John. He cUed about the end of the year 1232 (16 Henry HI), without ilRie. His two fillers w'ere found to be his heirs, the eldeit of which, Margery, carried part of the family eftates to Henry de Newburgh de Eeilamont earl of Warwick, her hufband, who, by her h^d ifliie Thomas, earl of Warwick, and Margery ; which Thomas, on the death of his uncle Robert, had hvery of his lands (17 Henry HI.) doing his homage, and paying to the king lool. for his relief, with two palfries. He died in ] 242 (26 Henry III.), ifluelefs, pof- feffed of Shenllone, where, in the 20th year of the reign of Henry III. he gave licence for a park to be made, to which is added, that the faid manor was held of him. Margery, his filter and heir, married to John Marflial, bro- ther to William earl of Pembroke, who, by favour of king Henry III. was earl of Warwick, but died about half a year after Thomas earl of Warwick, his brother in law. She married, after his death, and by favour of Henry HI. to John de Placetis, a native of Poiclou ; alfo, by permiflion of the king, earl of Warwick, but had no ilfue by either of them ; flic was living in * Memoirs of Ofney. f Alfo an affiftant to the 25. R r : the 3o6 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S the 34th year of the reign of Henry III. but we find not the time of her deceafe. It is remarked, however, that Hugh, his fon, by Chriilian de Sandford, his former wife, fucceeded in the barony of Hoke Norton, and, in the 48th. year of the reign of Henry III. paid 100 1. relief for that and other eftates of the D'Oyleys, whofe fon Hugh was fummoned as a baron in the 25th year of the reign of Edward I. We note farther of the family, that the offices and honours went with Margery D'Oyley as aforefaid ; but Robert, fon of Gilbert D'Oyley, fucceeded in blood, of which line came the two families of Shottefliam, in Norfolk, and of Chiflehampton, Pxfordfliire, created baronets by king Charles II. AnTIs of the D'Oylies ; Or, 2 bendlets. Azure. Of this ^rC^^ family we obferve, that they founded the ab- beys of Ofney, and MifTenden, Bucks, and were great bene- fadors to the religious at Abingdon, Eynfliam, Godftow, Thame, and many others, both in England and France ; they alfo built the bridge or bridges at Oxford, and the caftle, of which they were caftellans, or conftables, till deprived by king Stephen. The manor feems to have continued in the earls of Warwick, but whether by purchafe of the other heirs defcended of Jo- hanna, wife of Reginald de Valletorta, filter and coheir with Margery D'Oyley, or by any other way, I am not certain ; yet 1 have feen an account, that William. Maledocflus (Mauduit) earl of Warwick, poffeffed it in 1263 (47 Henry III.), and after him William de Bello Campo (Beauchamp), earl of Warwick, in right of Ifabel his wife, fifter of the late earl, or rather heir to that earl ; for, though he and his wife furvived, and were heirs, as we may exprefs it, to the earldom, they had not the title. This earl died in the 26th year of the reign of Edward I. Guy OF S H E N S T O x\' E. 307 Guy de Beauchamp earl of Warwick was foa and heir of Wil- liam, in whofe line wc fuppofe Shenftone was rill the death of Henry Beauchamp duke of Warwick, and king of the Ifle of Wight, being fo crowned by the king's own hands. His death happened at the age of 22, in 1445 (23 Henry VI,). Anne, his only child, by Cecily his wife, daughter of Ri- chard Nevil earl of Salifbury, was his heir. She died January 1449, aged 6. The fame year Richard Nevil, called Make-king, was carl of Warwick, his claim being by his wife, filter of Henry duke of Warwick aforefaid. He was flain, with John Nevil marquis of Montague, his brother, at the battle of Barnet, 1471, bv kiny Edward IV. Being attainted, his ellates were fettled upon llabel and Anne, his daughters, then married to George duke of Clarence and Richard duke of Glouceller, brothers of Edward IV. amongft which are named Sutton Colefield and Yardlev, near Birmingham ; Walfall, Perry Bar, Patingham, and our manor of Shenllone, in the county of Stafford. The countefs, his wife, underwent great ditlrels, and was obliged to take fane- tuary in th^ abbey of Beaulieu, Hants, where Ihe continued for a long time in a mean condition, but thence privately got into the North, where flie was in great ftreights. Which of the daughters had Shenftone we do not find ; but king Henry VII. in the third year of his reign, having a mind to the eftates of the late earl (his daughters being both dead), by a new a6t of parliament annulled the former, as againft all reafon, confcience, and courfe of nature, and contrary to the laws of Gc)d and man ; and, in confideration of the true and faithful fervice and alle- giance borne by Anne, countefs of W^arwick, relict of the late Richard Nevil earl thereof to king Henry VI. as alio that fhe Dever gave caufe to a difinherifon, 'reftored unto her the ]iof- R r 2 fellion -'oS THE HISTORY AND ANT I QJJ I T I E S o fcffion of 115 lord0iips, of which Shenftone was one, with power to alienate the fame, or any part thereof; but, like him- fclf, with little purpofe that llie fliould enjoy them, for it ap- pears, that the fame year, bearing date December 13, and a fine thereupon, ihe conveyed them wholly to the king, entailing them with the ifles of Jerfey, Sarke, Guernfey, and Alderney, upon the iiTue male of his body, with remainder to herfelf and her heirs. Elfewhere it appears, that king Richard III. kept her in pri- fon during his life, and that flie was living in the 5th year of the reign of Henry VII. and then had Sutton Colefield allowed for her fupport. In what year flie died is not faid. The manor is faid to have pafled next to a branch of the Nevils lords Latimer ; and Thomas Nevil is mentioned to pof- fefs it, and to have been high llieriff for the county of Stafford in the 2d year of the reign of Henry VIII. as I formerly noted, feated at Shenftone park. In my opinion he was not the lord of the manor, but might have adled as an agent or deputy for the great earl of Warwick, his daughter Anne, who died aged fix, countefs of Warwick, or his relidl aforefaid ; or herein might ferve king Henry VII. and Henry Vllt.' In the reign of Edward VI. that prince granted it to that great fubjetft, John duke of Northumberland, earl of Warwick, mar- flial of England, lord high chamberlain, and lord admiral, vifcount Lifle of Kingftone Lifle, baron of Somery, Baffet de Drayton, and Tyes baron Dudley of Dudley cafxle, knight of the garter, general warden of the North, and warden of all the marflies towards Scotland ; this, with other eftates, he forfeited, and was attaint-ed, and beheaded, in the firft year of the reign of queen Mary I. Queen OPSHENSTONE. 309 Queen Elizabeth granted it to Ambrofe Dudley, farnamed the Good earl of Warwick; and, in the 2 2d year of the reign of that queen he was in poiTeflion of it. He was the eldefl: lur- viving fon of John duke of Northumberland, as above, and bro- ther to Robert earl of Leicefter, the great favourite of (^ueen Elizabeth. This Ambrofe died February 21, 15^9 (32 Eliz.). Anne, his widow, daughter of Francis Ruirell earl of Bedford, afterwards pofleffed the manor of Shenftone, as appeared on a view of frankpledge of the court baron of the moll noble lady Anne countcfs of Warwick, widow, late wife of the moll noble Ambrofe earl of Warwick, on the 7th of October, in the 33d year of the lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England,. France, and Ireland, queen, defender of the faith,' before Ro- bert Sheldon, gent, deputy of Edward Hake, efq, chief i'eneichal. to the faid countefs, and is thus enrolled : " To this court came Nicolas Collins in his own proper perlbn, and gave up a cottage or tenement, and a garden, with other premifes, in which the.- faid Nicolas now dwells, lituate, lying, and being, in Shenftone parifii, with intention that the fame might be palTed over to. Thomas Collins, fon of the laid Nicolas, which the faid Ro- bert Sheldon paffed over to Thomas, that he might have and hold the fime premifes to him and his heirs according to the cuftom of the faid manor, paying to the countefs and her heirs, yearly i6d. of lawful money of England, and doing proper fuit/ and fervice. Sec." Signed R.. Sheldon. On the parchment in which the faid conveyance is made, is infcribed, " The manor of Shenftone cum membris." The. countefs was living November 19, 1592. Sir Robert Dudley, fon of Robert earl of Leicefter, was heir to Ambrofe his uncle, earl of Warwick, and enjoyed many of the family eftates. In the reign of James I. he claimed the earl- a domfc 3IO THE HISTOP.Y AND ANTIQUITIES doms of Warwick and Leicefter ; but, being ill treated, he left the kingdom. He was afterwards recalled, but, not returning, his eftates were all feized, and verted in the crown during his na- tural life, by the ftatute of Fugitives. In 1620, he was created a duke of the Roman empire by the emperor Ferdinand II. and was called duke of Northumberland in foreign parts. His lady alio was by king Charles I. created duchefs of Dudley for her life, bearing date at Oxford, May 23, in the aoth year of his reign. She died January 22, 1668-9, aged 90. This great and able man died in September, 1549, aged 66. Shenlione, and other the eltates of Sir Robert Dudley, being in the crown, king Charles I. granted that of Shenifone to one Balmerino *, a Scotfman, who fold the park as before defcribed, to . Lake and Alexander Ward, and the feigniory, with Thornes, a member thereof, to Rowland Fryth, a matter in chancery, whofe great grandfon palTed it to Smyth, be- longing to the fame court. In refpe^fl of this, I fliould imagine Balmerino was only the title of this Scotfman who pofleffed Shenftone, his real name be- ing Eiphinftone, baron Balmerino, anceftor of Arthur lord Balmerino, beheaded for rebellion in the reign of George II. I am the rather induced to this, becaufe one Elphingftone is men- tioned as an attendant on king Charles I. 1628, whofe father, Sir James, was fo created in 1604; and alfo feeing the older inhabitants of Shenftone have a tradition, that the manor was given by king Charles I. to a Scots lord. After all, my fenti- ments are, that the great fee, or right in capite of the manor, continued in the crown, and was fo granted to Balmerino. * Wilkes's papers. Of OFSHENSTONE, 311 Of the Manor of SHENSTONE, and the leffer Lords of it. Sbenjlone, or Scertejlan, was in the hands of William the Conqueror, and, in the 20th year of his reign, was held of him by one Leonilde, whom I look upon to have been the owner of it under Edward the Confeffbr, in part frt)m his name, which feems to be of Saxon derivation. How long he or his family polTefTed it is not faid, but a noted antiquary * tells us, that in king John's reign it was holden of Henry D'Oyley's barony ; and, in the leign of Henry III. when Henry, firft earl of Warwick, had married Margery, fifter and heir of Henry D'Oyley, it was holden of him ; afterwards of Thomas earl of Warwick his fon, by Robert de Grendon, by the fixth part of a knight's fee de ve^ teri feofmejito^ who had illue Roger, father of Ralph ; and that one of tlie family held it till he forfeited it, or rather yielded it for the redemption of his hand, which fliould have been cut off for llriking in the court. This accour.t hath its errors, and is very deficient ; for, it was not Henry firlf earl of Warwick that married Margery D'Oyley, but the fixth earl who married her, who yet was not the heir, but the coheir and fitter of Henry D'Oyky the fourth baron, and of Rol>ert the fifth baron, being the children of Henry the third lord D'Ojley. The fillers and coheirs were Alicia, and Johanna, * Erdefwicke, wife 312 THE. HIS TORY AND ANTIQUITIES ■wife of Reginald de Valletorta, and, as the family defcent has it, of Thomas lord of Daventry. Alicia was wife of Maurice de Gaunr, anceftor of, or of the fame families with the earls of jLin- coln of that name, and the carls of Berkley. Robert de Grendon might hold Shenftone, as Erdefwicke fays, of Thomas earlef Warwick, but he. hath taken no notice of a fa- mily that had pofieiTion of it before the Grendons, or how they came owners of it. This was the Brays. Tanetine de Brai feems to have had it, probably, by marry- ing Leonilde's daughter and heir, which Tanetine, as I tliink, came in with king William I. and fo held it as of lord D'Oyley's fee. Tie had ifTue William, and Ralph de Bray, chaj)lain to king William Rufus ; to him Henry D'Oyley, the conftable to the king, granted the lands that Tanetine de Brai, his fa- ther, held here. This family * had the manor of Shenllone, and had their refidence in the place. William de Bray, moil likely heir to Ralph, the king's chaplain, had ifiiie a daugh- ter Avicia. To this man Henry lord D'Oyley granted or con- firmed the manor and his lands at Shenftone ; for his foul, and that of his family. The nuns of Poiefworth found two priefts, who were to celebrate divine fervice, and to offer mafTes for their health, and for all the faithful deceafed. We find many of the name of Brai, as William de Brai, who was witnefs to a charter of the Conqueror to Battle abbey ; and Milo de Brai, a benefactor to the abbey of Eye in Suffolk ; but we are not certain they were re- lated to Tanetine. The hufband of Avicia, daughter and heir to William de Bray abovefaid, was Sir Robert de Grendon, fon of Richard, fon of Roger (in the reign of king Stephen), who took the furnarne from the manor of that name in Warwicklhire, and * Wilkes's papers. was O F S II E N S T O N E. 313 was therein enfeoffed by Camville, who had it from Henry de Ferrers, or his fon, being, as I fuppofe, the fon of Thurftan of that place, in the reign of king WiUiam I. Sir Robert de Grendon, about tiie icth. year of the reign of Henry III. ob- tained, from Thomas de Beaumont earl of Warwick, licence to make a park at Shenftone, provided he made fnch a fence here that his foreft of Sutton Ihould receive no damage from it. If this were not Sir Robert, fon of the aforefaid Sir Robert and Avice de Bray, who, in right of his mother, and as heir to l;is grandfather William de Bray, became pofiTeffed of Shenftone, a fair lordihip in Staffordlliire. This was a confiderable perfon, being a juftice of affize in the 34th year of the reign of Henry lil. flieriff of the counties of Salop, Bruges (Bridgenortb), and Ellefmere -, at which time he gave one hundred fliillings for a charter of free warren in his lands. In the 33d year of Henry III. he adhered to the barons, but foon after to the king. He was contradted in marriage to Joan le Boteler, but did not receive her ; and next married Emma, daughter to William BafTct, of Sapecote, of the noble family there. He v.as a benefactor to the nuns of Poiefworth. • His iffue were Sir Ralph, John, and Alice, wife of John de Clinton. Sir Ralph de Grendon was one of the juftices for the gaol delivery at Warwick in the 2d year of the reign of Edward I. lord of the manors of Shenftone, Grendon, See. He had dif- putes with GeouVey de Camville about the fervices due for the latter manor, but, in the 4th year of Edward III. they came to an agreement, of which Dugdale f treats farther. In the 3Tft year of the reign of Edward I. he confirmed to the nuns of Poiefworth the grants of his anceftors, and to the chapel of Hoo * Dugdale's Waiwickfliire. f See Antiquities of WarwickUiirc. S S be- 314 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES belonging to them the lands beftowed for the fupport of two priells. Unlefs this be meant of Sir Ralj^h, his fon and heir, one of \yhom was fumraoned to parliameAt as a baron in the 28th, 5 2d, and 33d years of the reign of Edward I. but not after ; this, I fuppofe, was Ralph the father, who died in the 5th year of Edward III. He had two v/ives ; i. Joan, coufin to the bifliop of Bath, by whom he had Sir Ralph aforefaid ; 2. Alice de Clinton, by whom he had ilRie Margaret, wife of John de Freeford ; Alice, of Sir Philip de Chetwynd, and Joan, of Sir Roger de Chetwynd. Sir Ralph, the younger, had iiTue Robert, and Johanna, wife of John de Rochford, who had ilFue Sir Ralph de Rochford, father of Margery, his heir, in the Sth year of the reign of Richard II. Robert was a man but of weak underftanding, of which Sir Philip de Chetwynd, with John de Freeford, who had married his aunts, taking advantage, entered upon his eftates, under pretence of their wives right by virtue of an entail made in the 27th year of the reign of Edward I. and of Alice de Clinton, their mother, having a joint ertate with her hufband in all his lands. Robert thus prefied, and yet rightly advifed by fome friends, w'ho clearly difcerned that Robert would be overborne, applied for afliftance to Henry Tortcol (a potent man at that time), duke of Lancafter, yielding unto him the whole manor of Shenftone, to hold for term of his life, or the longer liver of them, conditionally that he would protect him in the polTeffion of Grendon, and his lands at CopQiul, Dordon, Sic. This be- ing performed, Robert fo prevailed, that the feveral parties - quitted their intereft to him and his heirs in the 17th and 19th of Edward III. and, dying without ifliae in the 23d year of the * Lodge in Chetwynd. reign OF SHENSTONE. 3 '5 reign of Edward III. his lands defcended to Sir Ralph Rochford, his nephew, who entailed them upon his ilTue hy Joan, daugh- ter of Sir Hugh Meynel, with remainder to his three fifters fuc- ceflively ; then to Sir Richard Stafford and his heirs ; according to which entail Shenflone and Grendon continued for divers years, until at length, Sir Ralf Rochford heing dead, the faid Joan his wife married again to Hugh de' Afheby, with w'honi Sir William Chetwynd making an accord -^j became pofiefled of a part of the eftates, having, in the sgth year of the reign of Edward III. compounded with Ifabel, the widow of Jt)hn de Rochford, for her title and dower therein, formerly granted to her by Sir Ralph Rochford, her fon-in-law. Grendon's arms were, Argent, 2 chevrons. Gules* Sir Roger UEflrange died t feifed of the manor of Shenllone, in the firft year of the reign of Richard II. but how it came to him is not faid ; probably by marrying to one of the family of Rochford. I find that Henry de Har court had lands in Shenftone, Alre- with, and Barr, all which he paffed away to Alice de Trumwyn, dated at Alrewith, by deed, in the loth year of the reign of Edward II. which Alice was wife of Sir William Trumwyn, of Sandon and Hardwic, StafFordfliire, where flie had her dowry in part, being a widow in the 24th year of the reign of Edward 1. Part of her lands Hie paffed over to Roger Trum- wyne. Where the poffeffions lay in the parifh of Shenftone I cannot learn, nor whether they were any of the leffer manors therein. Harcourt's fcal annexed bears Barry of fix, in a chief a label of three points. * Antiquities of Warvvickfhire. f Kennet. Wilkes's papers. S s 2 The . 3i6 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S The manor came afterwards to the Hugfords, a good fa- mily of Hugeford in Salop, of long landing, and of Emfcote, in Warwick 111 ire, where we meet with Robert Hugford, who, by Joyce his wife, had ilFue Thomas, who, by , had John and Thomas, of Prinfthorp. How long the family had it I cannot find ; but this John had it, as I conje6lure, in the reign of Henry VI. He died in the firft year of the reign of Henry Vil. feized of it, and left iffue three daughters ; Joan, wife of Humphry Beaufo ; Alice, of Richard Cotes ; and Anne, of Gerard Danet. Which poITefied Shenftone I know not, but a partition was made of his manors of Wolftone, Meifton, Wa- penbury, Eyethorpe, Badfley Clinton, Wolfthorpe, in War- wicklliire, and other eftates. On the 26th of November, in the firft year of Henry YII. on an inquilition, it was found, that George Stanley lord Strange received the profits of it, Mofl like- ly Robert aforefaid purchafed it, who, in the reign of Richard II. was receiver general to Thomas Beauchamp earl of Warwick ; and, in the 5th year of the reign of Henry IV. member for War- wicklhire. Thomas Hugford * was in the fame capacity under Richard and Henry Beauchamp earls of Warwick in the reign of Henry VI. alfo conrtable of Warwick caftle. John was How- ard to Richard Nevil earl of Warwick, and his conftable ; his fortune was greatly encreafed by marrying Margaret, daughter and heir of Nicolas Methley. King Charles I. beftowed it upon a Scotfman, as aforefaid, M'ho fpeedily difpofed of it to Rowland Frytb^ efq. or, as I fiioukl fuppofe, jointly to Edward Morton^ of Engleton, and this Rowland ; for, Thomas Moreton, and William Fryth, of * Thcmas Ncvil, efq. of Shenftone Park, Is called lord of the manor in the 2d year of the reign of Henry VIII j but I refer the reader to the account of the greater lords, p. 296. Murivaj, OF SHENSTONE. 317 Murival, January 10, in the 3d year of the reign of Charles I. as lords of the manor, freed a meffviage and lands at Footherley, the eitate of J. Adams. Of the Moretons I find Thomas, who by Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Moreton, of Engleton, efq. had ilTue Richard, 1, Thomas, 3. Edward, 4. Robert, and fix daughters. Richard died in 1634; Thomas died in 1662; and their mother in 1664; but Thomas left iffue Thomas, who diedin 17 10, lea- ving Thomas and Edward. Edward, the third fon, who was (or acled as joint) lord with William Fryth, by Mary, daughter of Yates, of London, gent, left a fon Thomas. Robert died in 1676, Probably the Moretons fold their lliares to the Fryths. A larger account of this family is given in Afton hamlet. The next poflelTors of the manor were the Fryths, of whom, we fpoke under Thornes in Over Stonall. We meet with the name in the pariih regifter in 1580 ; for,, in that year was baptized Ellen Fryth. I fliould. imagine the faj-. mily had their refulcnce here, and were of good account in the reign of H-nry VII. or Henry VIII. about wliich time Edward Fryth married Alice, daughter of- JollifFe, efq. of Thornes. In 1583 was a vifitation of the heralds at arms, at which, time Thomas Fryth, of Thornes hall in Shenftone parifn^ was declared to be one of the perfons who had prefumptuoufly, and without good grounds or authority, ufurped the name and. title of a gentleman, contrary to all right and the moft antieut cuflom of this land, and the ufage of the law of arms, and was admonifhed no more to take upon him any fuch title, upon fuch, farther pains and peril as by the earl marflial of England is to be in Aided ; the fiieriifs and clerks of the affizes, and of the peace, were alio admonifhed to forbear for tim.e to come to call him by the name or title of Bjquire^ or Gentleman. This faid Thomas Frythi 3iS THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T i E S Fryth, making no proper proof of his gentry, bearing no proper arms, was difclaimed by found of trumpet at Lichfield, Wed- nefdaj^, Auguft 14, T583. Signed by Glover, Somerfet herald, marflial and deputy to Norroy king at arms, and the commif- lioners attending. Arms were, in 1583, allowed him. This Thomas had iffue, as I fuppofe, Rowland, William, two fons named Thomas, who died infants, a third Thomas (living in 1599, '^^^^ ^^^"^^ year buried a daughter Alice), Edward, who died in 1587, Alice, Eleanor, &:c. by Elizabeth his wife, who died in 1608. William, called lord of the manor, I look upon as an agent for his father or brother Rowland, hi order to re- concile the antiquaries, and yet I fuppofe fuch concefTion has its difficulties, the words of one are, '* one Balmirino *, a Scotfman, fold the feigniory of Shenftone, and Thornes, a member thereof, to Rowland Fryth, a clerk in chancery, whofe grandfon, Row- land, fold it to Smyth, belonging to the faid court." The other •f fays, '^ The king in this laft age gaVe it to a Scotfman, who fold Shenflone park to Lake, efq. and Alexander Ward, of Lichfield, who have each of them feats there. The feigniory, and Thornes a member thereof, he fold to Rowland Fryth, a clerk in chancery, who made it his feat, and dying left it to Edward his fon, father of Rowland the herald. Edward lived upon it in 1660." I had lately in my pofl^eflion feveral deeds relating to this fa- mily, in which I find that Rowland Fryth, of Thornes (I am not certain he had then the manor of Thornes or Shenftone), and Peter Alport, of Elmhurft, gent, had, by letters patent, a grant from king James, dated July 2, at Weftminfter, in the third year of his reign, all that his manor called by the name of the * Wilkes's Colledlions. ^ Sir Simon Degge. Mofs. OFSHENSTONE. 315 Mofs houfe, in the county of Stafford, with its rights, members, appurtenances, ways, 8rc. in Shenftone, Over Stonall, Nether Stonal], and Thornes, or any of them to it belonging, late par- cels of the pofTeffion of the diffolved monaftery of Ofney in Ox- fordfliire, to have and to hold the fame manor, and to hold it of his manor of Eaft Greenwich by fealty only, in free and com- mon focage, and not in capite, nor by knight's fervice, yielding and paying yearly to the crown for the faid manor and other premifes, 9 s. Qd. at the Fealt of St. Michael, and the Annun- ciation of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, at the exchequer, or to the bailiff or receiver of the premifes for the time being in equal portions. In the 8th year of the reign of James I. September 20, and in the loth year of the fame reign, part of the lands were palfed to different perfons in the pariih, for whom Thomas Frythj, gent, and Thornton, a«5led as their attornies, to which con- veyance Thomas and WilHam Fryth figned as evidences. In the 8tli year of the reign of James I. July 18, other par- cels of the fame abbey lands were conveyed away by Rowland. Fryth and Peter Alport to John Hunt, of IMether Stonall, for the conveying of which, and to give feifin. were appointed as at-- tornies John Perfehoufe, gent, and Robert Molefley. In the loth year of the reign of James I, Rowland Fryth was evidence to John Hunt's difpofal of a part of the fame abbey lands to Rowland Ridding of Lynne. Rowland aforefaid feems to have been the purchafer of Shen- ftone manor, being, as I think, fon of Thomas of Thornes (1583), as John probably was, who died in 1 5 97. William was certainly lord of the manor ; for a deed I have feen fays, William Fryth, of Murival, and Thomas Morcton, freed lands in the parifli. If he were the eldefl fon of Rowland, /• 320 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES it may reconcile matters ; but then it will appear, that Sir Simon Degge and Dr. Wilkes have omitted to mention him. William Fryth, of Murival, and Thorrias Moreton, in the 3d year of the reign of Charles I. for a fum of money paid to Rowland Fryth of Thornes, gent, enfeoffed John and Alice Adams of certain lands, and freed them; paying i2d. yearly, and one hen, upon the 10th of January yearly, and doing fuit and fervice at the court baron of the faid lords after Eafter and Michaelmas. William Fryth and Thomas Moreton, as joint lords, pafled and enfranchifed lands in Little Hay to John Thickbrome ; alfo to Thomas and Joyce Collins, of Little Hay ; which feveral evi- dences will fuffice to fliew that William Fryth was lord, or joint lord, of the manor. Edward fucceeded William his brother, and feems to have held the whole manor, unlefs we may except 7\il:on Parva, where the Moretons had their feat. Edward is mentioned in a convey- ance of William Wyatt, of Lichfield, paffing lands to Edward Wyatt in 1647, and then figned as an evidence to another of the fame family in 1654, to which alio is witnefs Henry Fryth, but whether his brother or fon is not exprelTed. Edward Fryth, of Thornes, gent, and Grenada his wife, had ilTue Thomas, born in 1665, and, as I conjedture, had alfo Hugh (living in 1663, having a daughter born that year by Elizabeth his wife), Edward, Rowland, Charles, and Henry. Edward (the father probably) died in 1668. Edward feems to have been the eldeft furviving fon, and to have been in pofTeflion of the manor in 1673. This man Dr. Plott mentions in his Natural Hiftory of Staffordfliire, as giving him fome accounts relating to Shenflone parifli. At the fame Ume we cannot but obferve, that Charles Hinton, Walter Fow- ler, O F S H E N S T O N E. ;:, ler, Edward Fryrh, and Thomas Scott, are mentioned ns lords oi the manor (1664), and ading in that capacity in freeing lands and tenements, but to what parts they laid claim I h^ve not learnt; vet am of opinion, that three of them were concerned only in the diftridt of Allon, the feigniory as aforefaid being in the Fryths. Mrs. Fryth is f[3oken of as rcfiding at Lynne in 16C7, "^^-^^ as paying t 2s. 6d. ob. her quarterly levy to his majefty's aid. She was re- married to John Brown, of Foothcrley, gent, but had no iflue by him, and died in 1695-6. Rowland fucceeded as lord of the manor, but whether as heir to his brother we cannot fay, or to his father, owing to the per digree being burnt by a farmer at Stonall, not knowing its va- lue. This Rowland Fryth lived at Thornes hall, and was as abovefaid an agent here for William Fryth, of Murival, and Thomas Moreton, efqrs. in the 4th year of the reign of Charles I. In 1 647, Ocfubcr 0, he and Edward Fryth were witneiTes to a purchale of lands in the Old field by Thomas Sylveller. In I 68 2, lie, John Swynfen, and others, witneffed a deed palling lands in Radley Moor to James Adams, and again figning another conveyance (as lord of the manor) from John BroVv^n, of Thornes. April 7, 1682, he confirmed the agreement made by Edward, his father, .about the partitions of Radley Moor ; and at another time conveyed a part of it to the nfe of the poor. He alfo efta- blifiicd his mother's gift of 50I. before taken notice of, for the Door widov/s of Stonal], and crave the handfome dial in Shen- itone church-yard. H'is character ■■•• was, that " he was a man of great integrity, and remarkable for his lidelity to the king and church." * See monument of John Gibbons, St. Mary's, Warwick. T t " . Of 3-1 THE HISTORY AND A N T I OJJ I T I E S Of this t^entlernan we 'find farther, that he ]iad at leafl- two brother?, Charles and Henry. Cliarles Fryrh was colledor of the land an(i window rax for the county of Staflhrd, for the due execution of which Rowland was fecurity. The money received being, as was lu'^ual in thofe days, fent to London by a meffenger who had often been entrufted with the government's money, he fied with his charge into P'rance, and was no more heard of by the family. The crown officers then fell upon the fecurity, who was obliged to make up the deficiency to a confiderable amount. This greatly hurt Rowland, whole family was on the decline. After fome time, matters being properly reprefented, by aid of friends, and fome money paid in part of purchafe, he had an office amongst the heralds at arms. Going to take poffeilion of the place, be died in London, was brought to Shenifone, and interred in the church. Such is the information given me by feveral old peo- ple in the parifli. The antiquary •■■ names him *' Rowland Frvth the herald ;" adding no other circumftance, but that his father was Edward, fon of Rowland, a clerk in chancery, who made Thorne hall his feat. Charles abo\^efaid is defcribed to have been lame, and to have died before his brother Rowland. Of Henry we learn, that he was a tradefman of Wolverhamp- ton, and that they had two fillers, one of which killed herfelf by drinking coffee to excefs ; the other, wife of James Hayes, a noted apothecary, father, by her, to James, who was of the fame profclTion. I Ihould have added, that Rowland, out of oppofition to Smyth, of Over Stonall, or the Harp inn, ercvSted the Swan inn, jufk by, a handfome manfion, which, with other proje(5ls and lofTes, impaired his fortune, before de- creaiing; yet by the way we may remark, that the Harp inn * Sir Simon Degge. has "SO" O F S II E N S T O N E. 3:3 has been fomc years flint up, and for feven years before unno- ticed as formerly, and that the Swan is ari elegant and reputable houfe, in the hands of James Penn. Of Rowland we note, that he was diltinguiflied for his at- tendance upon raoft funerals, in order to preferve the parifli rights, and their claims to certain ways called Burial Roads, anarifli into two parts. The next conilderable river is alfo termed the Bourn in ge- neral, though in different places it hath other names. It rifes about that part of Cannoc wood towards Norton, called tlie Riddings, fomewhat below Wilmore hollies, in feveral little fprings, v.'hich are foon increafed by a little water from the Hol- lies ; thus, making a pretty current, it pafies by Hamerwick, and below Wall, to Ogley Hay, and thence towards Hilton, where it is named the Cranbrook, having here a bridge over it, though it is commonly low in fummer ; afterwards to the Moors and Chefterfield, where it again is termed Ghefterfield water ; thence to the AQicrofts, fo to the Holme (a little ifle formed from thefe brooks), where, after it hath been enlarged by the way with feveral ftreams, it unites with the river firft named the Bourn. Becoming now a large water, it fupplies Shenftone corn- mill, held by Thoma^ Woolley, and holds its courfe through the lands adjoining to Shenftone old hall, to Shenftone park, and by Thickbroom and Weeford heath, or park, to Weeford, where it gains the name of Blackurooke, and has over it a large handfome ftone bridge; thence it runs to the North lide of Drayton Baflet Park, the feat of the lord vifcount Weymouth, and near Fafeiy bridge falls into the Thame ; at Tamworth, it receives the Ancre, and thence runs into the Trent by Hopways, Fidierudc, Hafeler, Croxal, and Which novre. J./lon water riles in Coxe's Moors, about a quarter of a mile from Mill Green, amidlt Ibme alder trees in feveral fprings. Triefe uniting a little way from their head affjrd a confiderable ilream, and join the larger Afton brook in i:s courfe trom Aftoii mill OF S H E N S T O N E. 3^9 mill to the forge, by which waters the pool there is in a good meaiure fupplied for the working of iron oar. The Pen^ or Penkej a pretty rivulet, rifes in Upper Stonall, in the lands of Noel Hill, efq. called the Spring Pieces, moft delightfully bubbhng out of the earth in ten or twelve different places, nearly together. It runs in its channel for fix or feven hundred yards, above that part of the Stonall road that leads to Aldrich, and has in its way within that compafs two fmall refer- voirs. It continues its courfe upon the great road, but is feveral times diverted to water the neighbouring grounds, by which its ftrength is broken till winter, or rainy weather, when it greatly increafes in fpite of the farmer's endeavour, pafles down Stonall through the lands named the Wallongs, down to the Wall heaths, then joins the Quebb. The ^lebl) is a little water which rifcs near the Wall heath pieces, in the lands called Smith's marihes, and, uniting with the Fen, palfes to Birchley farm, near Lynne and Owls hall, to the Bourn, or Footherley brook, by which time it becomes a large water, runs next to the Holme, and into Cranbrook by Shenftone mill, and to Black brooke. The Pen is a moft excellent water, and, being the only one of any confequence in Over Stoniill, a dry and fandy foil muii needs be moft ufeful and agreeable. Indeed, there is a pool, termed Clay Pit pool, above this village, near the furamit or the eminence on which was the caftle or old fort, fed by fome fprings on the higher ground, which afforded an opportunity of moating round the caftles, fuch a trench being yet vifible. This rivulet runs on the fide of the village oppofite to the Penke, but in a wet feafon runs down the ftreet-way, and joins the Penke in the Peafe croft •••, near * Lands of William Tenant, cfq. U u the -o THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES JD the Swan inn. The Wallongs, beforementionod, were lands of the Hawes family, now of William Tenant, efq through whi^h tiie Penk pafles, as alfo through the town crofts, Cograve's upper, lower, and middle crofts, in the courfe we expreffed. Of Druidfmere pool vve fpoke in Upper Stonall, but what the noted Dr. Plott obferves •*, the notice it gives of a dearth by- overflowing, we could hardly avoid mentioning ; he adds too, that at other times it is nearly dry. This pool„ or lake, was named of the Bruids t, who were legiflators of Gaul and Britain, held the do6trine of Pythagoras, and pretended to the converfe of fome deity, holding the dodlrine of a future Ifate of rewards and punilhments. They were minifters of the facred rites, initiated into, and prefided in, the mylteries. They had their doctrine from Egypt, and celebrated the orgies of Bacchus. Their end and drift in initiation was to reftore the foul to the ftate w^hence it was fallen, as its native feat of perfeflion. Their moral precepts were, to revere the Gods, to offer fruist to them ; to honour their parents, to forbear cruelty to animals, and to amend their lives. They had their fmaller and greater myf- teries, their external and internal dodrines, as being the ge- nuine offspring of the Egyptian priefts, who fliared the govern- ment of the ftate. Over their myfteries they had a chief to keep matters orderly, and prevent mifchief to the ftate. As enough has been faid of them, we proceed to obferve, that another little water is found near Stonall, called 'TumbledcuDn, falling from land in or near the caftles, which joins the Bourn at the Hogmoors, between Lynn and Footherley. * Natural Hiftory of StalFordfliire, p. 228. -f- Ibid. p. 28d. The OFSHENSTONE. 331 The Mofs hake is the only water of note that we have not mentioned in this place, having remarked it in our account of the Mofs ; yet we may add, that it might with little expence be made an additional beauty to the Mofs houfe, efpecially by a little alteration of the road, and taking part of the meadow op- pofite. Thirdly, wefpeakofthe SOIL and L x\ N D. Here we find good pafture both in the meadows and higher ground, which laft is of fuch a nature as to be pleafed and fer- tile with much rain, being of a dry landy earth, producing, ac- cording to the pains beftowed upon it, plentiful crops of barley, oats, and fome good wheat ; but the parifli is mol^ly noted for excellent barley, not hereby excluding other grain, as vetches, peafe, &c. At the fame time I have been a witnefs to lands,' flarved to all appearance, and ftarving the tenants for genera- tions, being fo well cultivated as to produce very even unex- pe6led returns to the prefcnt pofieiTor, of which I inftance the caftle lands, and particularly Shire Oak farm, but I muft fay, at a vaft expence, even to the laying on earth upon ftones, and beggary itfelf ; fo much can induftry and afpiritof improvement avail. Nor by mentioning thefe lands do I mean to difregard the cultivation of many farmers who have notably diftinguilhed themfelves, but thofe I remark were bad as the dry and barren heath a few years fince. The have all contributed to raife a fweet and feeding grafs, both for cows and Iheep. One im- portant alteration hath been, the cultivation of turnips, and hoeing them, by which prudence and method thoufands of flieep U u 2 have 332 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S have been fattened, and that fo well known, as to caufe an in- creafe of tythes (lys) to Edward Harwood, the vicar. The corn lands too have returned greater a;.d almoft incredible fums to ihe prefent owner of the rectorial tenths, Noel Hill, efq. and have been improved accordingly (the fame year); many- people now paying double or treble more than was demanded antecedent to 1773. Butter, and particularly excellent cheefe, are made, and thefe in plenty through all parts of the panfh, a convenience too for the payments of rents, which w^ere alio advanced generally by all the land-owners in 1773. Marling is cuftomary in fome parts, but it is not equally good in all places ; there is, however, excellent narle under the ftone beds in the mines of Noel Hill, ?nd John Dolphyn, on the fide of Shenftone leading towards Swynten, and adjoining to the Pindle fields, and on the Stonall fide, which has been greatly ferviceable in the improvements made- Lime too has been a good article in improving and forcing crops of grain, but, though it be ferched only five or fix miles, from Hay Head, Rulhall, or Walfall, is a dear article, and yet feems abfolutely requifite on the Shenllone lands. Lime, as fome objeiS:, brought at 2 f s. tiie ^^ aggon load, by its heat pro- ducing a fermentation, makes a fi->ow for one or two crops, but afterwards is detrimental, efpecialiy if often repeated, as the barren calx left behind it is at belt a ufelefs load upon a good foil, if it does not contribute to canker the roots of whatever growls thereon. Experience oppofes fuch obje6lions ; for, lime certainly lightens the earth, and from its fixed falts muft be ufeful in ve- getation, and is iifed not only heje, but wherever it can be pro- cured ; indeed, it is often mixed with foil, or other manure, and is often turned, or till it becomes an excellent compoil ; and I have OF S H E N S T O N E. 333 have feen it fprcad upon grazing ground with good effedl:, fo as to freflien and ftrengthen the uleful food, enriching that, and killing the ufelefs or noxious herb. As to the barren calx, it is eafily removed, as other ftones that incommode the ground. A ftill greater improvement is the dung, and other manure, which is fetched in great quantities by the induftrious farmers, from Lichfield and Walfall, and is frequently acided to the comport beforementioned, and both together procure means and food to fatten fneep in abundance, oxen, and cows. Of the former the farmer will give thirty or thirty-five fliillings to lay on turnep lands, and fell them out with advantage ; of the latter, the late Jofeph Elde fed many on the lands near Shenftone park, to an amazing fize, which were commended as very good meat. Mines there are of ftone and clay, but no great quantity of either is got here. Half a mile from Shenflone village is a ilone quarry ; when firft dugout, it is of a red caft, and foft ; but, when expofed to the air, grow; hard and durable, .and no queftion in other inftances we might find ftone. Good clay is found in Shire Oaks farm, Lynn, Nether Stonall, and near Shenftone Hall, to which laft belong fome fields, called the Brick Kiln Pieces, where Brandreth got the clay to build the hall. Marie is found in Lynne, Stonall, and the Bofles. Some con- jedlure coal rniy.t be found at Afton, and, indeed, fo John Butler aflu: cd mt:, Irom the appearances of the water and other circumftaiRes. We can hardl ■ avoid fpeaking of the Peat heath, though in fome part of this coiuity it comes under the article of fuel, or fire, efpecially in the Moorlands. PCcit b- ing defcribed as a fort of ftringy and 'biruminous earth, which lies under the uppermoft turf in mooriih boggy ground, and being dug out of holes called Peat pits ' ' flze of bricks, they are fet to dry, as 534 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES as ill Oxfordfliire, Chefliire, 8cc. being a fuel for the poor ; but this is not the circumftance in this place. The Peatmore is a large tradt of marfliy ground, containing in its prefent reckoning about fix hundred acres, fourteen of which, ihat lay convenient, have fome years been improved into tolerable good land, as I fuppofe has happened here- tofore to the Darnhurils, or Darnelhurfts, a fpot of thirty acres belonging to the lord of the manor, held with the Greenf- bury hill farm, lying towords Footherley, on the extreme of the Peatmoor. This Peatmoor hath undergone great alterations, being much drained by the prefent tenant, John Rawlins, who hath opened the old trenches, that are faid to have been five yards deep, and made feveral large new ones very wide, and three yards deep, at a vail: expence, notwithftanding he was eafed by the gift of a conliderable quantity of wood dug out of it, and ufed for cokes, or wood coal ; he hath alfo made fmaller cuts tranfverfely, fe- parated the moor into two parts, and planted fuch trees as are agreeable to the foil, which will not only be ufeful, and a fence, but give a more pleafing appearance to a wild and dreary heath, limiting which, on one lide is a thick wood of twenty acres, full of timber, till a part was fallen a few years fince, and now in a thriving ftate ; but, being chiefly oaks, it is moftly encouraged for the under wood, being the property of William Tenant, efq. We might here have fpoken of various fprings, under the fe- cond article of Natural Hiftory, but they are not valuable, on account of the ill quality they partake of in their pafTage, and feem only to increafe the current of the Footherley brook. In thefe moorifli places are dug up a kind of fir trees, which, befides other ufes, are often fplit into thin pieces, or fpils, and are OF S II E N S T O N E. 335 are nfed on common occafions as candles, and, from their tur- pentine quality, give a good light. But of all the accidents that ever befel the trunks of trees, there is none more unaccountable than their being found in dif- ferent places buried under ground, as in the Peatmore, the land of Mr. Rowland Fryth, of Thornes, in an inland country, therefore many have fuppofed they were carried here by the de- luge, which feems a very idle ftory, as then we Ihould have had them in other valleys as well as where they are found. Befides, fuch as arc met with without their roots appear either to have been burnt afunder near the ground, or are found with the mark of the axe Hill icmaining upon them by which they were fevered from their llools, which are found Handing in many places in the fame pofture as when the trees ftood upon them, which has prevailed with others, who are fatisfied with this, to think that this Mofs wood (as they name it, from the moors or mofTes in which it is buried) was originally beech or alder trees, that delight to gro\v in fuch moift places, which, being fo:.ked fo many years in a bituminous turf, may become at length fo well impregnated, as to imitate fir both in fmell and burning ; which too are more agreeable to the fizes of thofe fubterranean trees than firs are, there being few found above a foot d-ameter at the but -end, whereas firs grow even to two yards diameter fome- times. To which may be replied, tiiat one realon why thefe trees are found fo may be, that all now found is only the heart of the tree, which was much bio-oer before the fap was con- fumed, which m.ay alfo be the reaibn why they are found fo k)ng. A reaibn for their Ivin^ thus covered in inland countries is given, that, not being natives of England, the firs were planted, here by the Danes and people of Norway, who, getting poflTef- lion of this country, endeavoured to make it as much like their own ^^6 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES own as they could, and planted thefe firs, which, after grow- ing many years, eitiier upon the maffacre of that people under king Ethelred, or their final lofs of dominion here after the death of king Hardicnute, that no memorial of then-i might remain, the trees tiiey had planted there were cut down ; and, as many of them as grew upon low moiif lands, lying inconve- nient for carrying away, were neglected, and in procefs of time were covered by alteration, thofe upon the hills and higher ground being long uled. Farther, the low grounds, where they are now found, when they flood and fiourilhed, in all probability were tolerably dry land; for, the trees whilft growing, notwith- fianding the wet and moilture Ihot iiito the valleys then as at this time, continually fpent it in their nourhhment, and their as conftant exhalations; but, when they were cut down, there being no way to expend it, the valleys at length grew into pools, the waters thereof being thickened with perpetual del.errations, or earth brought from the hills and higher grounds by lliowers in wet, and winds in dry weather, they came at laft to be fens or moffes, thus covering the trees, whicii we take to be the origin of many of our moffes, though afterwards increafed by new grafs and fedge, annually growing upon the rottings of the old in the former year, and fo onward. Such is Dr. Plott's account *. This Peatmore, with the farm late Hardwick's, at the Boffes, on the extremities of the moor, with Greenfbury Hill, the Whit- ages, a portion of land late Dickenfon's, purchafed by John Smyth, lord of this manor, and other premifes to the amount of four hundred acres, or upwards, are in the tenure of John Raw- lins, rented from March 25, 1772. * Hiftory of Staifordfhire, cap. 6. In OF S H E N S T O N E. DO/ In the moralfes about Deeping, in Lincolrtfliire, are ofieu diK]; u;) trunks of trees at two feet dejith, hub as firs as:d oaks, With tbeir fruits, all at full perfcdHon. This made t'ne learned Dr. Shucktord think they had lain from the Flood, which he attempts to prove was in autumn. As to the moralfes in general, they feem to be a compofition of leaves, feeds, flowers, if alks, roots of herbs, fruits, or flirubs, and, when become more clofe and ponderous, appear to be only a more perfe6t putrefadfion ; when it becomes black they are moit bituminous and fitteft for fuel. This feems to be nothing but the confummate putrefaflion of the plants that grov/ on fuch places, as Ekagnus, Ros Solis^ Erica^ 8cc. Ogley Hay, part of which is in Shenllone parilh, in its whole circuit was very extenfive, containing about two thouland feven' hundred acres, bounded by lands called Bull moors, Hilton ham- let, the StatTord road, Catts hill, and Muckley corner. In the reign of queen Elizabeth it was granted to the family of lord Stafford, which palTed it to the anceifor of lord Ducie Moreton, who fold it half freed * to feveral perfons ; at the fame time we obferve, that John Dolphyn, efq. had a twenty-fourth fliare fe- parate from that fo pafled away. Edward Jackfon, of Wall, gent, had two fliares of the freehold, which he fold to Chrif- topher Wood, of Norton, gent. Dorothy, widow of Quintyn, in the reign of Henry Vm. had a right of common pafture for all her eftate, which paiTed to William Quintyn her fon, in the reign of queen Eliza- beth. I have ken an indenture, dated the 24th of May, in the 41ft year of the reign of Ehzabeth, between Edward Stanley, of Tonge, Salop, on the firll part; Richard Jackfon, of Clements * Or in free copy. X X inn, 3.:8 T li E H I S I" O R Y AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S inn, Mkldlefex, Williairi Quyntyn, of Wall, Anne bis wife, and r.ubert Qiiintyn bis brotber, on the fecond part ; Jobn Jackfon, .of Licb field, tanner, zrd Tbomas Turner of Kelmfcote, Ox- fordihire, on the tbird part; in wbich, for 200 1. paid by Wil- iijm to Edward Stanley, and 50 1. by Robert to the faid Edward, Edward and Richard Jr.ckibn agreed to levy a fine to John Jack- ibn and Tbomas Turner, in a rnefTuage and barns, with a paf- ture called Horfe croft, alfo Lea fieki, a moor and dingle called Newland meadow, all in or near Wall ; Newland Leycroft, New- land Leyfwood, with eighteen acres of arable land in Wall field, and common pafture on Ongley hay for all cattle, with all rights, late in the occupation of William Quintyn, of his father and mo- ther ; alfo a cottage, orchard, and garden, in Wall, held by William Langley, a field named Croft-a-green, a piece called Round hills, feven acres of arable land in Wall, with a meadow called Rakemore in Shenftone, held by Robert Quintyn, and common palHire on Ongley Hay ; the fine to pafs to Richard Jackfon for life, next to William and Anne Quintyn his wife, remainder to William's heirs, remainder to Robert his brother, remainder to Thomas Webb and Margaret his wife, and her heirs, remainder to Roger Comerley, Anne his wife, and her heirs, the fame to Anthony Spicer and his wife Elizabeth, the fame to Edward Jackfon, Ifabel his wife, and heirs, remainder to Richard Sylvelfer, Dorothy his wife, and heirs, to Thomas Webb and Margaret his wife, and to William Quintyn's heirs for ever, referving fealty, and a penny rent at Michaelmas for all fervices. In another indenture other eftates were pafled from the afore- faid Richard Jackfon to Robert Quintyn, William his brother, Richard and Ellen Gibbons his wife, Anthony Spicer, and Eli- zabeth his wife, Roger Somerlay and Anne his wife, Edward Jack- fon OF S H E N S T O N E. 3J9 fon and Ilabel his wife, Richard Sylvefter and Don)tby his wifj, Thomas Webb and jNIargaiet his wife, and the heirs of Robcit Quintyn for ever ; all coniirmed by Edward Stanley, elq. or Sir George Vernon, knight. The chief rent and fervices were re- ferved to the lord of the fee, and the premifes therein named were leafed by Sir George Vernon to William Quintyn, deceafed, fon of William, Dorothy his wife, and William their lon, fnr their lives ; Edward Stanley, efq. was then feifed of Sir George \'trnon's part, and both coniirmed this deed. Dated at Tongc, his manor houfe, 1599. WitnefTes John Lakyn, James Al^ley, John Chadwick and, John Jackibn. In 1 656, in the i 8th year of the reign of king Charles II. was paffed an indenture between John Green, of Great Bloxwich, and ■ Mary his wife, John Darlefton, of Wiggmgion, and Anne his wife, and EHzabeth Quintyn of Wall, on the one part ; Richard Flinckley, of Lichfield, on the other ; expreffing, that Thomas Martyn, of Lichfield, fold to Richard Scott, of Great Earr in" Aldrich, for 99 years, lands in Ongley Hay, and others in the Leet field in Lichfield, called the Burrow Coup, held by Hum.- phry Tew, of Lichfield, gent, and others, but lately by Tho- mas Quintyn of Wall ; and Richard Scott, in 1632, paiTed them, or his part, in 1658, to Thomas Martyn; Thomas Quintyn paf- fed his fliare to his three daughters, Mary, Anne, a-.id Elizabeth, as proved by Thomas Quintyn, his fon and executor. John Green and Mary his wife, John Darlafion and Anne his wife, with Elizabeth their fitter, difcharged Richard Hinckley for 30 1. who purchafed the lands in the Leet field, paying 8d. yearly during the refidue of the 99 years, I'lz. the land lying near the eftate of Amon Perkyns, gent, and Sir Simon Werton, knight. To which deed were witnefiTes Zachary Babyngton, George Ma- fon, and Richard Baxter. X X 2 We 340 THE HISTORY AND A N T IQJJ I T I E S We now joroceed to the account of Ogley afcrefaid. Fowke Huffey, gent, had eight fliares ; < Worfey, of Rufliall, one; all which, and others, to the number of twenty- three fliares, Chriftopher Wood, of Norton, purchafed ; John Dolphyn's yet remaining to his heirs. The leafehold iharcs were in Hufley, Holland, and Huntbach, gents, and as chattels fold in chancery to Holland. Jane, relift of Holland, paffed them to Chriftopher Wood for 200 1. He paffed them for 230I. to Thomas Price, of Gofcote near Wal- fall, who, within five years (about 1734), refold them to the fame Charles Wood for 305 1. at which date were re-conveyed to him the two parts belonging to Edward Jackfon, for one hundred guineas. It has been obferved, that the Hays of Staf- fordlhire were fold, as of Cannoc wood, or the foreft ; but this muft furely be meant only of fuch Hays as originally lay upon it. The earls of Uxbridge were fuperior lords over the lands of Sir Edward Lyttelton, lord Afton, and Sir William Wolfeley, in this neighbourhood, with Whittington and Whittington heath, Nor- ton, Wyrley, and alfo of Harbourn, Smethwick, Huntington, and Cannock. John Smyth, efq. lord of Shenftone, endeavoured to make Ogley Hay a free warren, and for that end began a fuit at law with Charles Wood and John Worfey, of Ruflial, gents, but was obliged to give up the point. Charles Wood, often mentioned, and Henry his brother, of Wolverhampton, with five daughters, one of whom was wife of the reverend Edward Tonge, of Aldrich ; another of • — War- wick, of Manchefter; a third of , father to , wife of William Collins, of Afton, w'ere the iffue of the reverend Henry Wood, redlor of Aldrich and Yarborough in Lincolnlhire, pre- bendary of Lichfield, and facrift of Wolverhampton. Upon O F S H E N S T O N E. 341 Upon Ogley Hay, a few years fince, ^vas a rabbet- warren ; and. in 1765, Richard Gildart, efq. who had then lately pnr- chafed the manors of Norton and Ogley, reftocked it with rab- bets, and now refides in or near Norton. Many perfon^ of Lynnc, Upper Stonall, Wall, and Pipe hill, in right of their mefluages claim a liberty of pafture for flieep, without limitation ; paying eight-pence yearly for thefe mef- fuages. The arrears had not been demanded for 33 years, till ^7^5^ when Richard Gildart levied thirteen years payment in lieu of the whole. The foil varies according to the improvements made upon it, though a great part of Ogley is of a dry and fandy nature ; I have introduced it here, becaufe it has chiefly been the property of perfons who have had little connexion with the parifli of Shen- itone. ■ On the common adjoining is a vaft quantity of little white ftones, and the ground fo covered is of fuch a corapafs, that they appear as if they were an hail llorm ; greater ftill would be their appearance if the land were thinly turfed as they feem to be formed, or grow on or near the furface. Fourthly, v.e fpeak of F I R E, under which I muft note that of the elements. In June, 1764, upon a Sunday in the laft hot fummer, was terrible thunder and lightning, v.hich filled every houfe to the moft dreadful appearance. Many were carried out of their rooms and beds to parts of them that were fuppofed lefs dangerous, though to all appearance in the midft of flam.es ; yet I do not recoiled: that 3+i THE HISTOPvY AND ANTIQJJITIES that any perfons were burnt. In the intervals of the flaflies it was very dark ; in the fields and roads the lightning feemed to run upon the ground. The whold day preceding was extremely fultry to people of our cliaiate. Jofeph Elde loii one ox by the flames, and another was fo injured as never after to thrive. Mofes Col- lins of Hilton and others had thirty-three flieep killed to- gether in one direction, as if fcorched on one fide of their heads. Of fuel are turf and peat, and unquellionably coal, at leaft in the neighbourhood. Of the former no ufe is made, I mean for this purpofe. Of coals we have plenty at four miles diftance, at Brown hills on Cannof. Good coals are alfo brought from the works of Huffey, of Little Worley, efq. Vernon, of Hilton, elq. Effington Wood, and Wednef- bury, which being tolerably cheap, there is lefs occafion for peat as a fuel, though it might be got in plenty, efpecially on Sutton chace and Sutton park. At Little Afton Dr. Plott * found curious hollies bearing leaves prettily edged with yellow, of the fame colour with thofe in the phyfic garden at Oxford. Thefe were cut down by Humphry Minchin, efq. as giving an air of gloominefs. Dr. Plott obferves from the worthy Mr. Fryth of Thornes hall, of whom he learnt fome account of herbs, that about Shenftone they frequently ufed Erica Vulgaris^ Heath or Ling^ inftead of hops, to preferve their beer, which gave no ill tafte, and that fometimes they malted oats, which, mixed with bar- ley malt, was called dredge malt, of which they make an. excellent (juick frefli fort of drink. How it might be in his days we cannot fay> but we find no fuch cuftom at prefent, either in embittering their drink, or mixing their malt. * Natural Hiftory of Staffordfliire, cap. 6. in O F S H E N 5 T O N E. 343 In Cannoc, near which Shenftone is fituate, and out of which it w^as taken, if not on Sutton chace, is found excellent game, as groufe, woodcocks, and fnipes, in abundance, with partridges and hares, hi Shenltone too would be plenty of hares and par- tridges, if both gentry and poachers did not equally confpire to prevent it. The rivers in the parilli are noted for exquifite trout, and good pike ; gudgeons and chub were heretofore more plentiful. The land tax, in 1765, at 4 s. in the pound, amounted to 101 1. 13 s. 4d. The levies to the poor, a few years fince came to about 120I. vearlv. In October, 1769, Shenftone parifli was furveyed by Jofeph Wadams and Jofeph Swift, churchwardens ; James Rawlins and Thomas Woolley, overfeers, and valued at 4240 1. Of P L A N T S we have occafionally fpoken. As of the Erica Vulgaris. We find alfo the Narcijfus Silveftris Pallidus, wild Englhli Daffodil. The Millefolium aquaticum foliis foeniculiy fennel-leaved water Crowsfoot. The Fitis Idita tbymi foliis ^ Mofs berries, or Moor berries. The Mufcus multiformiter pyxidatus capitibus coccineis^ fcarlet headed chalice mofs ; a beautiful plant in its flouridiing condi- tion ; the cups are fet round with fcarlet eminences about as big as pins' heads. This, or a mofs equally beautiful, is found on Broad heath. The 344 THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S The Sambuciis fruBu albo, wliite berried elder, as I have been informed. la the parifn are five feats for gentry, as Shenftone hall, Shenrtone pdrk, the Mofs, Footherley, and AftoQ halls. /\t the dilhince of one mile is Swynfen ; at five Fifiiervvick, •the feat of Arthur marquis of Donegal ; at fix Drayton Bafllt, of the marquis ot Bath; at leven lord Middleton's ; at four Sir PvO- bert La.vley's of C unnal ; at five Thomas Hoo's, of Barr ; at three lord Irnham's of Four Oaks ; at two Ralph Floyer of Jlintz; and niany oihers near Lichfield, Sutton Colefield, and Birmingham ; fo that on the Nvhole Shenftone is a deiirable Situation. September 22, 1774. Of Shenilone we obfervc, that during the troubles in the reign of king Charles I. it was much harrafied by the garrifons of Stafford and Ruihal houfe, and protected or opprefTed as Lich- field was or was not in the Royalifts hands. In general the gen- try were loyal, as we have infianced in the families of Ducy, Boiver, and Adcocks. In 1644 the parilli was ordered to pay its weekly afFelTment, as fettled by the Stafford committee, with Cannal, Weeford, and Drayton, at leaft thofe parts of it that were in their power, to George Bowes and Thomas Willington, captains of horfe. To the Pendrels, or their heirs, as defcended from thofe of the name who were inltrumental in the prefervation of king Charles 'f are paiJ, by various tenants in the parifli, certain crown rent?, amounting to 4I. los. 4ld., being in reality part of the Mofs iioufe revenue?, at the half yearly value, to which we add the half yearly payment for the re61ory of Shenil:one 6 from O F S H E N S T O N E. 345 froni Noel Hill, efq. viz. 2I. 19s. yd. and yfd. as paid feparately by the late Samuel Hill, efq. alfo 2I. los. for Alcott mill. Thus I have, as far as was in my power, given an account of Shenllone, and with as much fidelity as poliible, to 1774'; Y^^ alterations do frequently happen in fo large a parifh, but, if any thing material hath fallen out, we may note it in an addition. Laus Deo ! September ^^y 1774. APPENDIX. Watling ftreet is one of the four great Roman roads * from one end of the land to the other, leading from Dover to Chefter. Sometimes thefe four roads, by way of eminence, are called Greets, Bafilical ftreets, the Prcetorian, Confular, and Military ways. This, named the Watling ftreet, cometh out of Warwickfhire in- to this county, remaining, generally fpeaking, high and good, being very little decayed or injured, either by time or the plough; it enters at Fafeley bridge, runs by Hintz, Weeford, near Shen- ftone park, by Swynfen, towards Wall, which it divides into two parts, one belonging to Lichfield, the other to Shenftone, thence near Frog hall by Occamly pits to Knaves or Knute's caftle, which an antiquary thinks were made for raifing this Itreetway from Eaft South Eaft to Weft North Weft as far as Four Crofles. There • Robert, monk of Gloucefter. Y y it 346 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES it turns a little, and bears fomewhat near the Weft, about Weft and by North, and fo enters Shropftiire near Sheriff Hales and Crackky Bank, paffing through to Chefter, but, as others fay*, into the fartheft part of Wales. That Watling ftreet was a work of the Romans is not to be doubted. Whilft Agricola (faith Tacitus) governed Britain, feveral ways were enjoined, and far diftant places, by the furveyor's commandment, that the country ftiould carry from the neareft camp, or wintering places, to thofe that were far off and out of the way ; and the Britains complained that the Romans wore out and confumed their bodies in clearing of woods and paving the fens, with a thoufand ftripes and reproachful indignities. We read in antient records t, that, in the days of Honorius and Arcadius, there were made in Britain certain beaten ways from fea to fea J. Bede fays §, thefe were the Romans' work. The Romans in- habited within the wall which Severus had made overthwart the ifland, towards the Southern fide, which the cities, churches, and ftreet-ways, there made, do witnefs at this day. From this road was the name of Wattle/bury in Salop, on which this village ftands ; and that antient city Ferulawy near St. Alban's, called in the Saxons time Wetlinga ceajler^ as ap- peared by king Ethelred's charter granting lands to the monaf- tery of St. Alban's in 926. Great was the coft and labour in carrying of ftones, gravel, and fand, for the making thofe ways firm and lafting, as may * Radulphus Ceftrienfis. •\ Dugdale's Warwickftiirc, p. 6, \ Camden. § Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, cap. 1 1. yet OF SHENSTONE. 347 yet be feen in divers parts, where the foil itfclf within many miles affords no fuch materials. It hath been obferved, that near St. Alban's, in digging the ground where this way antiently went, gravel and fand hath been found ten feet deep in the earth, and eighteen feet broad, with great flint ftones in the bottom, fuch as are fuppofed at firft to have been on the top thereof. We are told, that Au- guftus Casfar, and other chief men among the Romans, were appointed by the fenate to be officers to take care of thefe roads. Dugdale adds, that the ^diles fometimes took charge of them, as appears by the emperor Caligula's cauling the ^dile veftment of Flavius Vefpafian to be fluffed with dirt, becaufe he executed that office negligently ; and fometimes that employ- ment was committed to the Queflors. The Romans made particular laws for the prefervation of thofe roads, and committed them to the protedlion of the Gods, called Lares Viales. Thefe ways were in great account among the Saxons, as ap- pears by the laws of St. Edward, touching the peace of the four road ways ; and the ftatutes of Marlborough forbid diftrelTes on thofe highways. To fum up what we mean to fay on this head, we obferve, that thefe highways for the murching of armies, and paffage of carriages, as well as for their fecurity in countries abounding with woods, were made at firft of large flakes, and leffer wood woven between them, to keep up the earth and flones laid between, called by the Saxons watiks, whence this road is fince called WatUng Jlreet. It enters Salop near Boninghale, and thence paffing "by Wellington goes through the antient ftation called Urtconium or H^roxeter^ an old city, formerly three miles in circumference, built on a foundation of pebble ftones three Y y 2 . yards 348 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQ^UITIES yards thick, the metropolis fay fome *, the fecond city as others f , of the CornaviL The ftreetway, a httle way from this city, leads either through a ford or over a bridge ; hence it goes to Atfton Burnel, then to the three Street Towns, or Strettons, and fo on to Lenterdine in Herefordiliire, near which was the Roman fortification or camp, called Old Branodufiium ; fo into Wales, through the middle of which province it pafles to Car- digan, where it ends. ICKENILD STREET. Opinions differ as to this way, therefore I fliall note what is faid on the beft authorities. Though the Romans are ages fince departed from this ifle, yet they have left behind them fome things memorable, of which the moft confiderable are their public ways, which, though now broken and difcontinued by variovis accidents and length of time, have fuch large trails remaining, that, by an eafy conjedure, they may be difcovered to fatisfadtion. They were of two forts ; firft, Bafilical, confular, or prae- torian ; becaufe all mifdemeanors committed in them came under the cognizance of the king himfelf only. They were called by William the Conqueror Cbemini MajorcSy the greater ways, ♦ Camden. ■\- Burton. from O F S H E N S T O N E. \%g from the French word Cbeuiin, a way \ and of this fort there were hut four in England, Wathng ftreetj Erming fi"reet, the Fofle, and Ikenild ftreer, two of which ran through the iflund from fea to fea, and two the breadth- Secondly, the Vicinal ways, which lead from colony to colony, city to city, and borough to borough. All mifdemeanors committed upon thefe ways fell under the cognizance of the earl, who was the chief military governor. Cbemini Minores, or the leffer ways ; of which kind are thofe near Alcefter or Aldchefter, and the road ^d Fontes, or Colebrook, with the Akeman ftreet beforemetHioned. The Iceni inhabited Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Hunting- donfliires, with the Ifle of Ely *, and were fo named from Iken^ \\\ Britiih, a wedge, becaufe their country lay along the ocean in the form of a wedge. But this will hardly account for the name among the Cateuchlani and Cornaviiy the inhabitants of War- wick and StafFordlhires. I have indeed feen the remark of fome author, that there was a ftrong people named the Iceni, near or between the rivers Severn or Avon. There is a great road called Ikeneld ftreet in Oxfordfliire, Bucks, and Berkfliire ; but the greateft and true Ikenild way- has been difputed. \n thefe counties it was not caft: up in a ridged bank, or laid out by a deep trench, as others were, be- caufe it lies in Oxfordfliire, under the Chiltern hills, on a firm faft ground, having the hills themfelves as a fufficient direcftion, and feems to come from Norfolk and Suffolk, the dominions of the Iceni. Ickenild ftreet, one of the old Roman military confular and praetorian highways, crofTes the county of Stafford only in the hundred of Offlow. It remains high and lofty, as the Watling * Speed and Camden,, 6, ftreet 350 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJUIT lES ftreet does, which, as we noted, croffes Staffordfhire and the parifh of Shenftone another way, and is but little decayed. It feems to be raifed after a difFwrent method from thofe in other countries, not by digging a deep trench to lay a firm founda- tion, and then making a high ridge upon it, but by cafting up the gravel on each fide, as appears plainly at Little Afton. This cannot be the fame with that of Oxfordlhire, for that is fo called only becaufe it tends towards the Iceni in Norfolk and Suflfolk ; but this is fo named becaufe it paffes through the country of the Iceni between the Avon ami the Severn ; for, Tacitus mentions the Iceni in both places ; and Dr. Plott fays, he takes this Ikenilde ftreet to be one of the great Roman highways, and not that in Oxfordfhire, becaufe this is paved in fome places, and very fig- nal almoft in all places where it goes, which that in Oxford- (liire is net, an intimation, that the Iceni of thefe parts were the moft confiderahle people. One antiquary * obferves, that Strethay, or Streetway, of which the vill.ge of Strethey is named, is an antient Roman Toad that paflfeth by Lichfield, and is called the Ikenild. That it gives name to Stretton, near Burton upon Trent, and came through Little Chefter, by Derby, a Roman colony, and, as he takes it, ends at Portfmouth. The caufeway is plain to be feen upon Egington heath, and Alrewas Hay ; it leaves Burton alfo, and goes over the commons dir-^cSlly from Brandon to Monk's bridge, croffes the Dove at that place, thence paffeth over Bur- ton moor, and over the Trent at Whichnovre, thence over Alreways Hay to Strethey and Wall. This highway comes from Tinemouth in Nortliumbeland i, through Yorkiliire to Bolfover ; thence by Chellerfield, through * Sir Simon Degge. f Dugdale. Scarfdale, OF SH^NSTONE. 351 Scarfdale, pafles over Morley moor to Little Chefter near Derby, and fo over to Eggingtou heath, croiling the Dove at Monk's bridge, then over Burton moor, and pafTeth the Trent at Which- nover bridge, ^retching through Aldtiwas Flays, thence to Street-hey, and fo to Wall (anciently called Etocetwn) where it crolTes Watling ftreet, thence over Radley moor; leaving Little Afton on the right hand it er.tereth the lordfhip of Sutton, and fo extendeth itfelf to Alcefter in Warwickfliire ; thence over Bitford bridge (leaving (Jamlxlen in Gloucefterfliire a little on the left hand), to Stowe on the Wolds, where it crofTes the FolTe- way, from Stow bridge to Bur ford, and over Ifis at New bridge diredlly to Wallingfeird, and fo through Wincherter to South- ampton. Particularly in refpedt to Shenftone parifh, it enters it on the way from Sutton park to Little Afton, and leans by the old ftables belonging to Afl:on hall, thence through the village to Radley moor, Footherley houfe, the Alhcrofts, Chefterfield, and crofles the Watling-ftreet, a quarter of a mik from Wall^ to Strethey and Stretton, near Burton as aforefaid. Having been favoured with a lift of the people in this parifti, who refided in 1667, in the reign of king Charles II, I have ventured to give it, as it may be agreeable to the prefent inha- bitants, and point out to fome of them their anceftors, and by comparifon fhew what alterations have happened amongft them. This lift is the copy of an afleffment of the tenth quarterly affeffment for the aid of king Charles IL figned and fealed June 352 THE HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES ir, by his Majefty's juftices of the peace, John Wyrley and John Perfehoufe, efqrs. Shenftone Conftablewlck. £■ ^ John Brandreth, efq. forSyU vefter's houfe snd Wal- ford's Edward Lake, efq. — Thomas Warde, efq. — John Brown, gent, and Oli- ver, for Pool bridge mea- dow and mills Wollafton, gent, for part of Greenhalls — John Collyer for Greenhalls Dolphyn ■ Greifbroke and for Floyer Henry Smyth, gent. — John Broadhurft John Nevil ■ John Lea — — Thomas Nevil ■ ■ . James Mofeley Clay, widow — Richard Ingram William Wyatt John Crefwell William Cooper John Cook Ann Cooke, widow Rowland Sylvefler Henry Afhmole Wcllon, widow Jackfon Rowland Stanley William HoUyland — John Sylvefter John Malkyn Walter Rawlins Ralph Thickbroome Nicolas Thornton 17 I I o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 9 10 7 I 7 2 I 2 3 5 o o o o 1 2 2 O o o o d. 9 o 6 oi o| 4i o 4 5i II 7 3l 81 loi 6 8i 5i 4 £4- 104 7i 104 ici Rowland Alfop Sylvefter, widow < • Brown John Smart Humphry Heath Thomas Potte, gent. William Bartlett — Afton. Richard Ducy, efq. ■ — Birch, widow, and d. John Birch Sedgwick, widow Henry Sedgwick, gent. — John Darby Bayley, widow — John Cooke Cooke, widow John Payne Thomas Adams William Burnes — Richard Ingram John Cox — — Bradfliaw Robert Collyns Reft William Watfon Thomas Foley, efq. and the Forge Footherley. Thomas Foley, efq. John Brown, gent. — William Grace, clerk ■"-■' ■■■'■ Grendon — O II o 7 o 7 o o o o o o o o 4 I I I I I o O 12 51 4- 4i 4l 71 I 5i 7 3 10 036 053 o 411 John OF S H John Collier — . © Roger and Jofeph Adam o ' Sylveiler, widow, and George Sylvefter — o Nicolas Wyatt — o James Fletcher o William and Edw. Thornton o ■ — Prieft, widow, and William Prieft o Thomas Wyatt o 2 O 5 6 5 4 E d. o io| N S T O N E. John T.ane John Nevll VVilliam Peny Thomas Quintyn, gent. VVilliam Quintyn — Beft 6| Fryth's Bullmoors 61 2§ o o o o o Swynfen, efq. Hill /. 35i d. lo! o o c4 7 Hall, and inhabitants 2 14 W^ood End. Over Stonall and tjilton. James Sylvefter John Cotterel o o Smyth, widow, and William Smyth — Sylvefter, widow, and James Sylvefter John Sylvefter — Yardley, gent. Nicolas Allen Fletcher James and George Sylvefter, for the Durftall, or Durn hall o o o o a 2 z 3 2 o o 4 5' n o ^\' 8'- — —036 Chefterfield. James Allen, gent. — 083^ John Jackfon, gent. — o 5 10 Bowring 010 Richard Smyth — 013! Clarke John Watfon — — o 1 5 ^ John Heeley o 2 o[ Wall. William Dutton, gent. — o 5 if Henry Jackfon, gent. — 048 Thomas Reading — Hamlet Reading — Thomas Collier — Thomas Heatley Forden John Speed John Barton — — William Edjial William and John Sylvefter Robert Sylvefter — Thomas Reading • — Robert Reading — John Jennings William Reading Edward Reading Simon Parkes John Bankes — Thornes. William Stanley — Rowland Serjeant - Humphry Edjial James Beft ' Wyatt, widow Bayley, widow Richard Salt — — Roger Bulkley Zz o o o o o o c o o o o o o o o o 4 I o I I I I o o 1 2 2 I o ^ 1 lOl 2 7i 7- 2 8 J 5i 10 9 4 4 3l 7 I 9 Poor's r^54 THE HISTORYAND ANTIQJJITIES £. s. d. Poor's Bullmoors — ^019 . Fryth, widow o 12 h{ £. s. d. Nether Stonall. Lyndon. Michael Sedgewick Earpe Thomas Grcgge Nicolas Sylvefter Thomas Cooper William Reading Jofeph Green Botham, widow '■ — Gregg, widow — Nicolas Heading — Thomas Bedworch — Francis Willis — — Thomas Turner — Thomas Hunt — James Whitehall — Samuel Collins — Bed, widow Griffyn • Bulkcley, widow, and Thornes o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o D I0| 71 6| 9 71 10 2 7 5i 10 10 5 10 5 o Anthony Butteries 048 Simon Wigan " o o 10 John Jobbern — 025 John Wadams — 030 John Adccck — 051 Thomas Offley — 041 Edward Wyaft — 027 William Holyland — 019 Thomas Dickenfon — 061 Thomas Stanley — 045 John Harrifon — 020 Rowland Hunt — 007 John Rock — 010 Rowland Serjeant for the Black Lees — o i i Total 22 8 Thomas Ward, of Wood End, John Dolphyn, of the Moffe, John Darby, of Little Alton, Thomas Dickenfon, of Nether Stonall, Gents. Affeffors. A COPY OF S II E N S T N E. IS5 A C O P Y of another ASSESSMENT For A S T O N, F O O T H E R L E Y, and S Y W N F E N. Aflon. £• Richard Ducy, efq. — i Birch, widow, and John her fon, for Bed's and Sedgevvick's field land o Sedgewick, widow. d. o lo 12 and Henry Sedgewick, for Beft's meadow and Cook's field land * . Darby, ■ Bay- ley, widow, — Cook, widow John Cook John Payne William Burnes Thomas Adams John Cox for BradQiaw's Beft's houfe • Robert Collyns — William Walton Thomas Foley, efq. for Aflon Forge Footherley. Thomas Foley, efq. for the BoiTes John Brown, gent. — Ditto for Perry field — William Grace, gent. Ditto ^or Grendon's 'and John Colly er O 12 o o o o o o o o 6 9 ID 6 o 3 3 4 £. s. Roger and John Adams o 6 Sylvefter, widow, and George o d. o Thomas Wyatt James Sylvefier John Cotterell o o o Smyth, widow, and William o Sylvefter, widow,3nd James o 9 7 4 3 John Sylvefter — Yardley, gent. Nicolas Alien o o o 4 o 3 1 James and George Sylvefter for Durftall or Darnells o Swynfen. ^ John Swynfen, efq. and te- nants, John Porter, gent. Nicolas Wyatt for Bullaries o i James Fletcher o lo William and Edward Thorn- ton on 3 . Prieft, widow, and William o o 6 4 3 6 6 9 for Hill Hall 5 8 O I^ o o 6 o Thomas Warde, O I o 9 o o John Doiphyn, John Darby, . AfTefTors o 5 o Thomas Dickenlbn, O 10 6 Z Z 2 A Lift 35^ THE HISTORY AND A N T I Q^U I T I E S A Lift of the INHABITANTS that paid the Poll-tax in 1692, in the Reign of King William III. Each paid One Shilling, even Servants. Anne Brandreth — Brandreth, efq. Servants Edward Lake, fenr. Edward Lake, junr. efq. His wife Servants Thomas Ward and wife Alexander Ward wife and child Servants JohnDolphyn, fenr. — John Dolphyn, Junr. attorney at law ■ • — wife and two children I- o I I I o o 1 o Servants Robert Grace, vicar, wife, and two children Rowland Sylvefter — Dorothy Smyth and two fens Jonathan Afhmole — Barford, widow Rowland Greenhall and wife Richard Bull, wife, and child Robert Grielbrooke — wife and two children William Cooke and wife John Cooke — William Collier Richard Ingram two fervants ■ — s. d. I o 8 o I o I o 1 o 2 O 1 o 2 O I 3 4 I 3 I I «, 3 I 2 I I I 2 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Jofeph Alfop and wife ^ — John Johnfon — Rowland Lea ■ Edward Broadhurfl: — Robert Pretty and wife Thomas Alfop — Jofeph Carter — Aldrich, widow, and I- o o o o o o o maid Thomas Cotterel and wife John Yardley and wife — Thomas Grace — Rowland Collyns, wife, and child James Sylvefter and wife two fervants — Benjamin Collier, wife, and child fervant ■ Edward Thomfon and wife James Adams, wife, and two children James Philips and wife — James Fletcher and man Edward Thornton, wife, and two fons William Priefl:, wife, and child Sarah Wyatf, widow ~- Edward Milner — Jofeph Hall — Richard Walker and wife, two children, and one fervant s. 2 I 1 t 2 I I o 3 o a o 2 o I 3 2 2 3 I 2 o 6 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 040 020 020 040 030 010 010 010 050 William OF SHENSTONE. 357 William Smyth and wife, and two krvants — William Wyatt and wife James Scdgewick and wife, and three cliildren — 'j jomas Carelefs and wife, one man Humphry Shenftone and wife O J. d. Cooke, widow — o "William Bagnal and wife one maid Jofeph Cohnan, wife, and two fons — — William Brifborn, wife, and child George Jackfon and wife William Haruwick, wife, and two children — Mrs. Brown and four fervants Fr)th, efq. two fervants o o o o o o o o o o o Richard V^'right and wife Robert SylvelVr -— John Bartlet, wife, and child one lervant — John Smyth, wife, and two children — John Sylvefter — Sy:ve{fer, junr. and wife — — o John Eiijial — o Richard Bu'l and wife — o William Rending and wife o George Ha-ve — o William Bond — o John BayLy o Pilchard fedd — o Thomas Tudor, wife and child o Jofeph Gregg and wife — o George Thornton — o Samuel Moor — o Thomas Reading and wife o 4 o 2 O 3 2 I 2 I 2 I O 2 4 5 2 2 I 3 I 4 I 2 I 2 2 I I I I J , 2 1 1 2 O O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o. o o James and Thomas M 'ner John Hall and wife — William Steel — Smyth, widow Edward Han ley and fervant George Hodgetts — John Jackfon and family William Hall and wife — William Milner,wife, and child James Hanley, wife, and child Thomas Salt, wife, aid child Mother — Stanley, widow, and fon — Thomas Dickenfon and wife John Dickenfon and wife fervant — Richard Greaves — Alexander Adcock, wife, and child — John Adcock and wife — two children — John Wadams and wife ■ — John Swynfen, efq. — Mary Swynfen — Francis Swynfen, wife, and fix children two grandchildren — feven fervants — Porter, widow, three chiiuren, and one fervant Thomas Wadlliaw and wife two children — Jofeph Taylor, wife, and two children — Colly ns, widow, and fon — one fervant — Thoma'i Parker — Edward Marlow — Thomas Wjlkyns, wife, and child •=>■ — £• s. d. 2 o o 2 o o I o o I o o 2 o o I o o 4 o o 2 o o 3 o o ^ O o o 1 J o o I o o 2 a o 2 o o 2 o o I o o I o o 3 o o 2 o 2 o a 2 o I I o I I o I 8 o o 2 o o 7 o o 5 o o 2 o o 2 o o c o o 2 I I I o o o o Michael 35« ■ TUT. HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES jT. s. d. ^, J. d. Michael Brandreth, efq. i i o John Brown, gent. — i i o . . charge for the militia This lift and affeffment was figned April j^Qrfe — o lo o 4, 1692, by the king's Commiffioners, John Swynfen, efq for half Henry Gough, a horfe — — o 10 o John Whitwick, Rowland Fryth, efq. — 110 Michael Brandreth, and for half a horfe , 050 Rowland Fryth, efqrs. Shenftone Bells were caft in 1704, by Jofeph Smyth, of Edge- bafton. Their Weight is as follows : Firft Bell Cwt. 5 qrs. lb. I I Second 5 2 8 Third 6 2 25 Fourth Fifth — 7 9 I 16 3 II 34 3 5 It was the fuperftition of dark ages to fancy, that bells de- rived a power of difperfing tempefts, fuppofed to be raifed by evil fpirit5, from their baptizing them, which was performed with a great deal of (hew and ceremony. The natural caufe, the vibration of the air by the found, was little in their thoughts. Ringing ot bells was held a remedy againft tempelts. la 1573} '^he eleitor of Saxony iffued an order agaiiiit ringing for 6 the OF SHENSTONE. 359 the conjnrinp' of tempefts. This cuftom in Papiftical times, by an h J ('f ChriIVs I'acred inilicution, gave occafion to t! of oells, as if thereby they were endued with a ] ver hail and liorms. iifed at Sens and Paris in the days of king Clo* t^ died in 561. hi was condemned by the emperor Charles the Fat, V:-. ,.,. _- 8c T ; yet pope Johii XIV. fandilied it by his ex- ample, bapcizing a new bell in * 'a'" Lateran fteeple by the name of John's BeU In the middle ages ba;)>-izing them was attended with much feftivity, both in tlie towns and villages, and was of too great moment to be performej^ by a fufFragan, or common prieft ; the godfathers, who were unlimited, and chofen out of the moft wealthy, gave grand entertainments ; and this feitival was clofed with all kinds of licentious mirth. ADDENDA C 361 ] J)' J» ADDENDA Sc C O R 11 I G ,E N D A. Page I, line i, add a note, " Sccrteftan., or rather Sfeotefijn, is pofTibly Shufhton in Cudlefton, where Domefday puts Sceotcflan" for " Sweeford Hill," rend " Weeford Hill." line 21, read " famous Barr beacon, belonging to A'drich (a manor which is, or was once, fubordinate to another)^ called the manor of Barr and Aid rich." _,, for " Hangewich," read " Hammerwich chapel." 8, lines 17 and 18, read " by the founder, Robert lord D'Oyley, which churches." lines 24 and 26, rend " charter of lord Henry D'Oyley, with the con- fent of Robert his brothsrr." 12, lad line but one, for " Tuntall," read " Tunllall." 14, line 19, for " Gorton," read " Cofton." 19, line I, read" Joan, fole wife." 31, 21, read " Agard." 36, for " Mavifton," read " Mavefyn Ridware-," and for " Whichmore/' read " Whichnor." 37, line II, for " Michael Biddl?," read " Michael Biddulph." 38, for " Alrewvs," read " Alrewas." 41, line 21, read " John Noble and Jane Brandreth." 42, lines 14 and 15, dele " his grandfather." 46, II, 12, 17, read " John Eggington." " Jane Littleton," " John I'anghton," " Richard Wake, qnere Wakefield." line 21, read " Hey, efq. one of whofe fons is '1 homn<; Hey, D. D of Wickaam, Kent ; and anorlier, William, a counfellor at law, and (1787) a co.nmifTioner of the cufloms." 47, line 4, read " eiq. foil of Sir Robert." [to agree wich page •^51. 5, for " Ri- hard Colton of H;,m(la!l Redware," read " Richard Cotton of Hamflall Riuvare ;" and lb likewife read " Cotton" for '• Gol- tori" in (eyeral other lines, line 7, for " Coilllon," read " Boildon." N A a a 49, 3(Ja ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA. Page 40, lines 8 and 9, read " and the park. The faid lord had fummoDS." 57, laR line, dele '• and Margaret Whitehall." 69, lir.e 2, after " \ ears," read "to." 70, To the firft note add, " In p. 60, Rowland Woodward Hill, rcftor of Forncett, &c. is fuppolcd to be iecond fon to Thomas Haruood." 71, lines 12 and i :;, read " Northan^ptcn, now ot New Loc'g?, near Berkhamflead,'" " Breariev." lines 30 and 2j, read, " Eleanor, his coufin genrran." — " Chailes Chadwick SachevcreU, late of New Hall, VV'arwickfhire, efq." 77, line 8, read " deceafed." 78, 25, read " Samuel, Simon, Ralph." 85, 25 and 26, read *' James Skrym.lher and Elizabeth Colycre were ancedors of the Norbury branch of Skrymfher." ICO, line 3, for "15^5," read " 1663;" line c;, for " Trecot," read " Trefcot;" and hne 22, for '« 1767," read " 1667." 101, for " Bloxwick," read " Bloxwich." 102, lines 3 and 4, read " Finborough," line 22, for " StafflrJ," read " Statfold." The Everard jiedigree, 107, '08, is violently fufpefted, from many concurring circumfljnces, to belong wholly to Shenton, Leicefter- ' fhire. See Burton, and VVolferftan pedigree at the College at Arras. Whether Thomas Wolfreftan was of Weeford, or what other re- frdencc, after he left Culpho near Ipfwich, we ihould be glad of in- formation. 116, line 2.2, for " Clintei-s," read " Clinton." 122, 10 and II, the arms are unintelligible. 12^, 20, dele " of heregeats, or heriots and reliefs. "^ 1 25, 25. i'ov''jr.s;' read";C-i5-" 127, I, 7, and 9, read "piece of plate.' — " Samuel Beardfley." — " Elizabeth BeardOey." 129, line 15, for " Hamerwick," read " Hammervvich." 134, 7, read " firft vicar of Tanworth church in Warwickfhire, after it was appropriated." 22, dele " 49th year of the reign of king Edward III." 25 and 26, read " Richard Dolfyn became vicar of Tanworth. Another Richard, dying 1593) was" 137, lines 21, 22, and 25, read " Arley." — " Perrot, of Belue Hall." ." Mellor." 141, 21 and 24, read " left Ralph."- " purchafed by him of Edward Baflet, efq. fon of Thomas, of Barton Bakepuis in the county of Derby, afterwards of Hynts." lines 25 and 29, read " at leaft twice." — " Without iffue. (Q^) Laftly, Elizabeth, daughter of William Noel, of Kirkby, relict of Ralph Adderley, of Alrewas, and mother to Sir Charles Adderley, of Hamms. ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA. 363 Hamms. She died in 1661. His Ton, Richard Floyer, of Hynts, married a Babyngton, and was juftice." Page 142, lines 3 and 4, read " aid. Richard Floyer had iffue Matthew, who had, among many other children, a daughter." lines 10 and 13, " j'olin of Hynts), father by Sufanna Willington." " beCdes whom Charles bad iffue Charles, Sacheverell, Mary, and Catharine." line 29, read " Ley, of Mayfield or Matherneld." 143, I and 13, " Thomas Ley, counfellor at law, alfo of Mayficld in' " of Longdon." 147, lines 9 and 15, read" Hints, where he died, i6th November, 1793. Before Charles Floyer." — " Floyer's family." 157, line 22, read " Fafeley in Stafl'ordfliire." 158, 26, read " IMoreton Slaney's." 161, 16, read " had iffue Thomas, who had iff'ue Thomas, who had iiTue Richard." 162, lines 3 and 5, " Edward of Longdon, who died," " Statfold" 7, dele " 1772." 10, II, 12, add a note, " Impoffible, if (he died in 174.1, ihe Ihould have been wife of this William, who could fcarcely have a daughter born even fo late as 1653." lines 14 and 17, add a note, " Q^fome confufion here .' for, Edward, who is at top made nephew to this Edmund, of Longdon, efq. mar- ried A. W'olfreilan as early as 13th November, 1662." line 18, " Edmund, fon of A. Wolfrefian, married, 3d March, 1697, Mifs Littleton, daughter to Edward Littleton, efq. of Pilaten Hall, and had iffue Edward, born in January." 173, lines 19, 24, and 27, read " PhineasFowke, M.D." — " Sybil was wife of Jofeph Hufley, of London, who had by her Fowke Huffey." " Which Fowke became in right." 173, lines 8 and 9, read " o^ Richard Pype, of Bilfton in the county of Stafford, fon of Thomas Pype, of Biifton, efq." 177, Conel, read " Coften ;" and to the firft note add " But the epitaph in page 14 ante is pofitive." 178, To the firft note add, " From which we have here a confiftent account ; whereas pages 176 and 177 are contradidtorv both to Collins (though appealed to) and themfelves ; and quite unintelHgible." 179, line 21, for " Wiltridon," read " \Vilbrighton." i8o, 6, for " Dickers," read " Dickens." 183, 24, 28, and 3c, read " Lamport," "efq. who by Mary,'* ■ " efq. hath iffue Andrew." - 192, for " Gorfeot," read" Gorfcot." 194, line 6, for" fifter," read " aunt." A a a 2 201, 3^4 ADDENDA & C O R R I G E N D A. Page 20I, line 1 1, read " three quarters of a mile fouth of the great Roman" 214, II and 17, for " Cane" read "Cane." 219, 6 and 8, read " road from Birminghsm and Aflon Parva, through Mill (ireen,"— — " over Lyndon Green, and foro SafFord." 229, line 13, read "to John Walhoufe, fecond fon of Moreton Walhoufe." 245, 22, read " of Tamworth, related to fhomasGuy, who founded" 258, 29, for " Cumberfold," read " Cumberford." 265, 3, II, read " fon of Fowke Hulfey."' — " Dorringron." 269, 13, read " another." 289, 19 and 20, add a note, " Certainly at leaft as early as 13 Henry IV^ (vol. II. Topographer, p. 12.)" dele " Erdfwic." line 24, for '• Swynfeaid," read " Swynfen." 28 and 30, " Arthur Swinfen, of this family, had ilTue a daug- ter Elizabeth, wife of John Dugdale. efq. of the family of Cii- therow, Lancafhire, father by her of Sir William." 290, line 6, for " Hi Hot," read " Hilcot." 293 21, for " Stafford (hire," read " Derbydiire." 294, i-i, 16, and 23, read " fold to Samuel Hill," dele " old" " was (after his father of Appleby) heir." liiic!) 26 and 28, read " and, about 1767, ra.imed Mary, daughter of William Abney, of Tamworth, efq. and hath iliue Samuel, and another fon. He hath alfo iiTue by a fecand wife, filkr to Sir Prancis Ford, baronet." 295, line 29, read " per chevron. Sable and Argent, in chief, three leopards heads of the fecond." 298, line 20, Sbenjlone is not written Scertejlam either in antien: deeds or Domefday-book, but Seneftan. line 23, Sceifitcne, iu Domefday, is what is now called Shdlon, in the Pottery, in the hundred of Pirahill, though placed in Cudleflon in that curious Reccrd^ which is freql"e:n"tly confufcd as to the hundreds. 304, lines I, 2, 14, read " v.hich old fees he paid £z\. lis. id. in the 14th" — " of Henry II.; the reft, viz. feventy-one," " the manor of Eradenham." 311, lines I and 7, Shenjione is again erroneoufly called Scertejlan, and Leoni'de mifprinted. At the coDclufion of Domefday for this county, it is fa'd, that Levild, one of the king's thanes, heU Scectejlan in Cudiefton hundred, which cannot now, perhaps, be afccnamed. Ho\vever, it is clearly not Shenftone, as Mr. Erdiwick, as well as ^ir. Sanders, has al- ferted -, for, Seneftan was one of the lordfhips given by the Con- queror to Roger de Montgomery, and was held of him by Robert de Oilge, or D'Oyley. It then contained three hides. Ttic arable 4 land ADDENDA c^ CORRIGENDA. 565 land was twelve carucates. There were two carncates in demefne, with one bondman, tvvent\'-one villagers, and four bordaiers, wiio employed fourteen ploughs. Here was a mill rented at fixry-fix pence, and one acre of meadow : alfo a woo Lambeth for himfelf and his fucceil'ors; nor could Hubert want a new houfe, be- caufe, by exchange for the manor of Darenth, he foon became poffefFed of the maaor of Lambeth, with the houfe and all its appurtenances. But a chapel was- crefted upon the ground allotted to the canons, and they had apartments in the circumjacent area. At the difToluticn of this- collegiate body, through the prevail- ing interefl: of the monks of Chriftchurch at the Court of Rome, the chapel was . entirely demolifhed, and the buildings of the canons left in a dilapidated ftate. Wiiilll: the manor of Lambeth was in the Rocheller priory, the bifliops of than fee were accommodated with a lodo-incr in the manor-houfc, as often as their bufmefs called them to London ; and they were accuftomed to receive from the demefnes divers articles of provifion. In compenfaiion for thefe allowances, a yearly. pcnfion of five marks was granted to them, in perpetuity, payable out of the rec- tory of Lambeth ; and ground was affigned to Biihop Gilbert de Glanviile, whereon he built a houfe for himfelf and his fuccefTors. The ground is marked in the deed, as being near the church of the blefTed martyrs Stephen and Thomas, towards the • Eafl; and, when conveyrd to the Bifliop, there were upon it forae cf the dilapi- dated edifices of the diflolved college*. It was, therefore, a part of the circum- ■ jacent area, fo much enquired after. But what is now called Carlifle Houfe was the houfe belonging to the Eilhops of Rochefter, and is confequentJy on the fite of • the college of canons founded by Baldwin -j- ; nor, on account of its ditlance from • Lambeth Palace, could it ever be confidered as conneifled with the fite of that .■ iTianfion. Place is one rendering of the Latin word area, and the houfe of the - Bifhops of Rochefter was for centuries diftinguilhed by the title of La Place ;};. On the transfer of this manor to the fee of Canterbury, and ouits being made by . the archbilhops one of their places of abode, the houfe, with its appurtenances, was exempted from the ordinary jurifdiftion of the Bilhop of Winchefler, and fo ■ it has ever continued. In antient times the archbifliops appear to have aflumed an epifcopal authority over the whole parochial diftrift, of which they had the chief lordfhip ; and it has been fuppofed, upon no improbable grounds, that of the many parilhcs in different diocefes, fubjeft to their peculiar jurifdidlion, they might formerly be projirietors of the capital manor, though the eftate was after« ■ wards alienated from the fee- In a deed dated foon after, by whicli Baldwin confirmed all the mnnors, churches, &c. belong- - ing to the prioiy at Rochefter, he refers to tlie above cited paffage from the deed of exchange, which he calls an authentic writing ; Jicut continctur in autentico S^ripto inter ttos et ecclijiam et pre- fatos mmachos inJe coiifefio. HLA. of Pariih, Append. N° XIII. p. 20, and Regift. Rofteii. by Mr. Thorpe, p. 46- * Sec Append, to the Hifiory of the Parifh, p. 6. t Dr. Salmon, in Surrey, p. 24, concluded the fite of the college was afterwards Carlifle Koiife. — Hiflory cf the Pafiih, p. 18. J About 83, as concluded by Batteicy in Cantuar, Sacr, p. 43. Harrow LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 1^9 Harrow on the Hill, in the diocefe of London, is one of thefe peculiar parifhes, and Lanfranc being, by death, prevented from confecrating a church he had ercfled there, Anfelm perfifcd in conlecrating it, though, after the ceremony was begun, Bifhop Maurice fent two of the canons of St. Paul's Cathedral with a letter ro the Archbifhop, claiming the right of esercifing this office, bccaufe he was Bifhop of London. Anfelm afterwards advifed with Wollfan, bilhop of Worcefter, upon this queftion j- who, in his anfwer, owned his not having heard that this caufe was ever before fiftcd, becaufe no one had yet exilied, who was dilpofed to deprive the Archbifhop of this power — that in his diocefe Archbifhop Stigand, without confuhing him, confecrated ahars, and even fome churches, as well in lands he pofTefTed by gift from fecular perfons, as in lands received by ecclefiaf- tical inheritance — and that, knowing this to have been done in the diocelc of WorcL'fliT, he could believe it to be the practice in other diocefes. Anfelm, writes the hiftorian, ftrengthened in his opinion by thefe and other teftimonies, which it would be tedious to enumerate, — fecurely followed the cuftom of his predcccf- fors, uot only confecrating cliurches without confulting the bifhops of the diocefe?, but difcharging, by himfelf and his officers, all other divine ceremonies in all his- lands *. It is, however, moft likely, that this praftice of the Archbi'hiops of Canter- bury, though acquiefccd in from prudential motives by the Bifhops, might be ge- ■ neraily deemed an intrulion ; and there are not any traces of its being aliou'ed in the lubfequent acqnifitions of the Archbifhops. 1 his unlimited exercife of epifco- pal authority over the Parilh was cer:ainly not admitted on Hubert's obtaining the manor of Lambeth. For in iig*' (May 17), Godfrey, Bifliop of Winchefkr, • inflituted Biihop Gilbert de Ghanville to the reffory of Lambeth, on the petition of Archbifhop Hubert; and by the lame indrument he confirmed the grant of the yearly penQon of five marks, that was by agreement to be paid to the Btfhops of • Rochefter by the Reffors of Lambeth ^. To the deeds of exchange, between Archbifliop Hubert and the Prior and ih^-^- conveur of Rocheifer, the Biihop of Wincheffer, and feveral other Bilhops, were among the fublcribing witneiTes ; and, as Bifhop Godfrey did not make a referve of' his epilcopal authority over the church and parifh of Lambeth, it may be realon- ably inferred, that he confidered fuch a precautionary claufe as having a tendency ' to weaken an unqueflionable claim. Whereas, on the other parr, Hubert fcems to have fufpefted that his immediate jurifdin it. He has a doulit upon thai nueftion." I cannot coUeA, from any j>ait ol the trial, the name of the gentleman itiferred to t y Mr. 8. Whether LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 173 ceafed to be a part of a pari(h ; nor has i: ever lofl the privileges of this exemption. This was the fixed opinion of Dr. Donne, a hue rcdor, who, with his wonted di- ligence and accuracy, liad himfelf fearched into the rights of his parifii. And he has been often heard to declare his being flrongly inclined to believe, there mighc not be another epifcopal precinft in England, that has lb well preftrved its extra- parochial imnuinities. From examinations of the parilh books he was convinced, that as the aichbifhopshad never been legally affeflcd in any ra:es ftrictly parochial, fo they had avoided paying any. The only rifque which lie thought they had of being fubjefted to afreffments for the poor was, that by, defign ur fro:n intni- vertency, relief might be afforded by the ofHcers of the parilh to paupers, who had, by fervice, acquired fettleraents in the palace. It appears, from the report of the trial, that fuch a precedent niiglu have been eRabliihed in the cafe of a porter to archbilhop Seeker -, and, during the primacy of archbifhop Herring, a pauper having applied to an overfecr for relief, and been refufed, Dr. Denne cautioned the late Mr. Parry, who was for many years receiver to the fee, to be upon his guard in future. The following extracts from the churchwardens accounts fi:cw that there was a niifunderQanding between archbifhop Parker and the parilh, concerning fome trees placed without the church-yard, and which his grace doubtiels claimed as lord of the manor. " xi° die Marcii, anno vii' Regnx' Elizab. 1564. John Hammond, Henry Knight, and Thomas Bilacre, churchwardens. The fame daye & yere ye fd Church-wardens called a veSrye & in the prefence of certen of ye parilhoners, whofe names hereafter are wrytten, did declare there, that they had felled one of the elme trees Handing withouce ye church walle to- Whether tlie inftance I have to offer, of the prelates of two diocefes exercifing a part of the ordinary epifcopal jurifdiiSion in the fame paiilh, will be allowed to be a valiu exception to tiie avsrred general rule, it is not for me, who am not a lawyer, to decide. — But a fmall river di- vides the parfli of Lamberhurfl, it may be, into two nearly eqvial parts. One part is in that diftrift of the county of Kent that is in the diocefe of Rochefter; the other is in Suflex, the whole of which county is reputed to be in the diocefe of Chichefter. In confequence of this fituation of Laniberhurft, the bifliop of Chichefler ■» d hi officers, as well as the courts, conliftory and archdiaconal, of the diocefe of Rochefter, have claimed and exercifed a power of granting probates and wills, and letters of adminillration, when the deceafed perfon had been an inhabitant of that part of the parifli that is in Suffex. A marriage licence from the bilhop of Chichefter, though the woman might be an inhabitant of the fame part of the parifli, was objected to, both becaufc the parifli church is unqueftionably in Kent, and becaufe canonical obedience could only be due from the vicar to the biftiop of Rochefter, from whom he received inflitution. It fo happened, that the houfe in which the woman lived who was tamed in the licence, it fitnated in both counties ; and it is apprehended there may be f#verai pjiiflies on tlic borders of Kent, Surrey, and SulTex, fimilarly circumftanced, Z wa d; 174 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF wards the reparations of the churche, for which elmes my lord's grace of Canter- burye made clayroe thereto. And for as muche as the faide parifhe hathe beene of long tynie in poll'effion of ye fame trees, the faid parifhioners did agree that ye church- wardens, in defcni'e of the church righte, fliolde ftande to the order of the lawe, with my lord's grace, concerning the fame trees." s d PjiJ to Mr. Bowyer for councell when we were in controverue for the trees with my lord of Canterbury's grace - • lo o I'm, payd more to Mr. Bowyer - - - 5 o It'm, for writing a fupplication put up to my lord's grace, Jan. xvi. i o It'm, payd more for bote-hire, and the learned councell whether my lord's grace fhould lee our liger - - - 40 In 1627 and 1673, the parifh feem to have been of opinion, that the Arch- bifhops, as polTeffors of the palace, ought to pave a certain part of the highway, but it was probably not allowed by archbifhop Abbot; and certainly not by bheldon, though he voluntarily contributed towards the charge. The following entries re* late to this matter : I s d A. 1627. Paid for framing a petition to my lords grace about paving the highway - - - - - 018 Jt'm, for a journey to Ford concerning ye highway 2 a o A. 1673. The king's highway from Lambeth bridge towards Newingtoa Butts paved ; and the archbiihop contributed 50/* thereunto, with this provifo, that no claim fnouki from hence arile to his grace or his fucceflbrs for the amendment or re- pair thereof; nor do ihcy apprehend, that fuch repairs belong to the Parilh as a Farifli. It having been fo genera la praif^ice for lords of manors to build churches near their capital manfions, this affords a ftrong prelumptive proof that Lambeth palace may ftand upon the fite of the original manor houfe, though it may be venturous to determine that any part of the Saxon fabric is ftill fubfifting. Dr. Ducarel was of opinion that it might be little better than a good manor houfe, (Hill, of Palace, p. 10.) ; but, as it was the place of refidence of a king's filler, it is mod probable that it wasan h.ibitation fui table to a perfon of her exalted rank. The Doctor is for giving archbiihop Boniface the credit of being the firft foun- der of the prefcnt palace, but, as it appears to me, upon very infufficient grounds. In the papal grant to Boniface of a portion of the offerings at Hecket's (hrine, printed in the note to page 1 1, it feems to be fuggeflcd, that for forty years pad the arch- * This gift of archbifliop Sheldon is mentioned in one of the tables of benefaftions. — (Hid. of rarifii, p. 40.) bifliops LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 175 biQiops had expended money in repairing and improving the houfe, though there is an exprellion which lHvewile implies that the debts coucrafled by thefc works were not dilcharged. This was notorioufly the cafe refpefling the great hall of the pahice at Canterbury, as Boniface had complained * ; and one view of the papal grant might be to enable Boniface to clear off" incumbrances at Lambeth. There is indeed an allowance to this archbifhop to rebuild the houfe upon the fame or upon a more convenient fpot ; but there is no evidence of his availing himfelf of this permiffion ; nor, confidering the fubfequent incidents of his life, is it likely that he ever engaged in fuch a work. According to Wilkins, the papal bull is dated in 1 162 ; and, not long after that time, Boniface was fo cooly received by the king, an J perceived himfelf to be fo obnoxious to both clergy and laity -'p, that he judged ic expedient to retire to Savoy without any intention of returning to England. But, previous to his departure, he committed great wafle upon the eftates belonging to his fee, by cutting down woods, and granting leafes of the farms; and, in order to amafs the more wealth for his fupport abroad, he exaflcd various loans from his dependents, and pillaged the clergy of his province. CGodwin de Prseful. edit. Richardfon, p. 96.) Somewhat aftonifliing is it, that the monks of Chrifl: church, Canterbury, fliould have fo readily acquiefced in the papal grant to Boniface of a fourth part of the offerings of Becket's fhrine for rebuilding Lambeth palace, without flipuhiting that no bifhop fhould be confecrated within its walls, no councils held, no abbot ad- mitted, no orders conferred, &c. for fuch were the humiliating terms on which archbifliop Hubert was to be allowed to eftablifli a college of the Frsemonftratenfian order at Lambeth. And here it may be proper to notice an inadvertency of Dr. Ducarel, who, by a truly literal tranflation of one of the reftriclions, has rendered the paffage not only obfcure, but erroneous. In the original it is declared concern- ing thefe canons — in nominalione Archiepifccpi^ cum fedes Cant' vacaverit, nunquain audientur, which is thus conflrued, who Jhou'id not, however, be in the nom'mation of a new archbijhop, Jede vacante ; whereas the meaning is, that in the nomination of a new archbilhop, when the fee Ihall be vacant, thefe canons were not to have voices. (Hill, of Parilh, p.* 16.) Whilit the manor of Lambeth belonged to the priory of Rochefler, its bifliops, ' as already mentioned, often refided in the houfe; and with them, not unfrequently, the archbilhops of Canterbury. It mult, therefore, have been a manfion large and * Boniface, writes Somner, (Antiq. of Canterbury, p. 128.) was wont to boaft, mv preJeceJfort huilt the hall at a great expence. They did ivell indeed ; hut they laid out no inoncy ah.mt this building, except 'xhat they borrowed: I feem indeed to be truly the builder of this hall, hccaufe I paid their debts, \ Several years before, Boniface's infolent and barbarous treatment of the fub-prior of St. Bartholomew's had fo inecnfed the citizens of London, that his life was in danger, had he not got to the river fide, and efcaped in a wherry to Lambeth Palace ; from whence, as a fafe citadel, he iiTued the i^ctence of exconunuDication agaiuil his oppofers. (^Godwin de Prxful. p. 93,) Z z coaimo- 176 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF commodious. With an exception to Becket, there are, I think, traces of fome public a Laud waited on the king his, majeft:y received him with this addref?, My Lord's Grace of Canterbury, you are verv welcome. Orders were forthwith iflued lor expe- diting the tranflation ; and, by a letter to the archbifliop elect, dated September 8, the king " required him to ufe all fuch ceremonies and offices, and to carry him- fclf with the fame ftate and dignity, ar.d to aflTume fuch privileges and pre-emi- nences, as his predeceflbrs had heretofore iifed and enjoyed. In purluance of this dire(fVion, on September 19, the day of his coafirmution in Lambeth Chapel, the archbilhop kept a folemn and magnificent feaft at his houfe at Lambeth, his flate * He was, obferves FuUec (Ch.Hift. book X. p. lOo), of fo imperious and tlomineering :i fjjirit, that (as if the tenant was the landlord), though a ilranger, he offered to contri^ul the archbifliop of Ca.^te^bury in his own houfe, A a 2 being j84 addenda to the HISTORIES OF being fet out in the Great Chamber''^ of that houfe, and all perfons ftanding be- fore it after the accuftomed manner, his fteward, treafurer, and comptroller, at- tending with their white ftaves in their feveral offices. (Le Neve's Lives of the Archbifliops, vol. I. p. 127;, As, according to lord Clarendon, (Hiftory of Re- bellion, book ii.J within a month, or thereabouts, after the death of archbidiop Abbot, the archbifhop was fettled in the Palace of Lambeth, the houfe muft, in general, have been left, not only in a comfortable, but decent (late of repa- ration ; a circumftance tiot a little to the credit of Abbot, who, as it is well known. Was not a favourite chara^ler with Laud. To the account of the tumult at Lambeth Houfe, May 6, 1640, related in the Hiftory of the Palace, Appendix, p. 70, may be added, from Lord Clarendon's Hill. b. IL its being deemed fo juft a caufe of terror, that archbifhop Laud, by the king's command, continued for fome d.y^ and nights at Whitehall. And that the inhabitants of Lambeth defended the archbifliop againft the attack of thefe in- furgents, appears from the following entry in the churchwardens accounts : " Paid for training when the mutiny was in Lambeth agiinfl: the archbifliop, ll." In the Hiftory of the Palace, p. 18, it is mentioned, that Lambeth Houfe was for a while made a prifon for the royalifts. Guy Carleton, dean of Carlifle, was one of the perfons committed to it ; but he fortunately efcaped beyond fea. (Wal- ker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part ii. p. 214.) And bifliop Kennet fays, that of near an hundred miniflers from the Weft of England, who were imprifoned in Lambeth, almoft all died of a peftilential fever. (Regifter and Chronicle, p. 842.) But the regifter of the pari lb fhews, that they were not the clergy only who dietl under confinement, there being, under the year 1645, the following entries of burials : July 3. Ralph Peerefon, a prifoner in Canterbury Houfe. Aug. 13. St. George Bunckley, ditto ditto. Aug. 15. Lieutenant Ward, ditto ditto. Aug. 22. Thomas Powlet, gent, ditto ditto. Sept. 3. Thomas Lewis, gent, ditto ditto. Dec. 4. Mr. Thomas Weft, ditto ditto. The following minute is in the veftry bonk : A. 1656, Dec. 30. O dered by the veftrv, that care be taken by Mr, Burt, Mr. Searle, and i\Ir. John Gore, to preferve unro this parifli their right to the collendines belonging to the faid parifli, and that the charge thereof be defrayed by the churchwardens for the time being. Dr. Denne was of opinion, that not coUendiHes-, but corrodks, was the word in- tended, and that the order of veflry referred to the weekly gifts of provifion at the palace-gate, which were molt probably withheld aftei' the Long Parliament had * This feaft, it is plain, was kept in what is now called the Giiird Chamber ; on have r ither expefted, that his grace mighc have thought it mor« fuitable to his dignity held it in tlie Great Hall. one would to have feized LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 185 feized the revenues belonging to the fee of Canterbury. Of this dole there is a particular account in the note to the Hillory of the Palace, p. 31 j and, in fupport of Dr. Denne's conje^lure, it may be remarked, thar, among the fervile tenures of lands in the parilb of Lanchefter in Durham, it is mentioned, that, when the villans wowed the lord's meadow, they were to have from the lord their mefs, called a corrody. (Boldon Buke, as cited in the hillory and antiquities of Durham, vol. ii. p. 352). Upon which, Mr. liuichinfon, in a note, obferves, that the word crowdy is a name in general acceptation in the north for a mefs of oatmeal mixed with water, which is the diet of the Scotch (hepherds, and much in ufc among the com- mon people of the northern countries of England. OF ROYAL VISITS TO THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AT LAMBETH PALACE. 5. Henry VIII. A. 1513. Charles Somerfet was created earl of Worcefler at this palace; from which it may ,be prefumed, that the king was at that time viliting archbifliop Warham. Magna Britan. Antiq. et Nov. vol. VI. p. 25S. A. 15^3. Though in the inftancc next to be cired, the fame prince did not «nter witl.in the walls of the palace, yet his benevolent vifit at Lambeth Bridge to archbifliop Cranmer, the then moft reverend owner of the houfe, dcferves to be noticed. The occurrence alluded to is, the king's defign;dly coming one evening in his barge ; and the archbifhop Handing at the (tairs to pay his duty, his majefty called him into the barge, in order to put him in a way to fruftrate the malicious contrivances of bifhop (jardiner, and others, to accompliih his ruin. Strypc's Mem. of Cranmer, p. 118. ■A. 1556, July 21. The queen removed from St. James's in the Fields unto Eltham, paffing through the Park and Whitehall, and took her barge, croflmg over to Lambeth, unto My Lord Cardinal's Place. And there flic took her chariot, and fo rid through St. George's Fields to Newington, and fo over the fields to Eltham, at five o'clock in the afternoon. She was attended on horfeback bv the cardinal, &c. and a conflux of people to fee her grace, above ten thoufand. Strype's Ecclef. Mem. v. III. p. 304*. December 22. The queen removed from St. James's through the Park, and took her barge to Lambeth unto the Lord Cardinal's Place ; and there her grace dined with him and divers of the Council. And after dinner Ihe took her journey unto Greenwich, to keep her Chriflmafs there. Ibid. p. 310. A. 1557, July 15. The queen dined at Lambeth with the lord Cardinal Pole; and after dinner removed to Richmond, and there her Grace tarried her plcafure. Ibid. 379. Of the queens Mary and Elizabeth being at Lambeth no'dce is taken * Sept. ig, the queen, hr.ving been fome time at Croydon, the archbifliop's place, removed unto St. James's her own place, with the lord cardinal and others attending. Ibid, p, 305. I i« ^ iS6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF in the following tranfcripts from the Churchwardens Accounts ; and in fome of the items are marked their vifits to the archbiftiops of Canterbury. A. 1555 * — 1557- Payde to the ryngers when the king and ih e quene s. d. came from Haraton Court to Grenewich, in the monet of Augulf, o 8 To the ryngers, when the quene's grace came from Weftmlnfter to Lambet, in the mouet of July, - - - - 06 To the ryngers, Sept. ix. when the quene's grace came to Lambeth churchc, - - - - - - -04 A. 1565. For ryngyng the xii. of Maye, when the quene's majeftie •went to Grenwiche, and came again 10 Weftminfter the lame daye, i o A. 1565, Odtober 29. Payd for rynging, when the quene's majeftie went to Nonfuche, and at her comyng home, - - 20 A. 1566. For rynging when the quene's majeftie went to the erle of Suffex, - - - - - - -14 For ryiging when the quene's majeftie came from Richmond, - 08 A. 156H. For rynging when the quene's majeftie went to Grenwich, o 8 A. 1569. For ryngeing when the qnene's majeftie dined at my lorde's grace of Canterbury. It might be at this vifit, that her majefty, in founprincely a manner, thanked Mrs. Parker for her hofpitable reception, daclaring that (he knew not how to addrefs her — " Madam, I may not call you, and miftrefs I am alhamed to call yon, fo as I know not what to call you" — (Hiftory of the Palace, p. ^^). The compiler of the Regulations of the Officers of the Primate's Houfehold feems to have had no doubt in this refpec>; for when he mentions the archbifhop and his lady together, he terms them their graces, and Mrs. Parker he repeatedly ftyles her grace. Sec Append, to Hiftory of the Palace, pp.29, 30,31, he. 1571, April 20. For rynging when the quene's majeftie rode about St. George's Fields, - - - - - - 10 It was at this time that the archbifliop Parker had an interview with the queen upon Lambeth Bridge -f, after he had given offence to her, becaufe he had freely fpoken to her concerning his ofEce. The archbifhop relates this incident in a letter to laily Bacon — " I will not," writes he, '* be abafhed to fay to my prince, that I think in confcience in anfwering to my charging. As this other day 1 was well chidden at my prince's hand j but with one ear I heard her hard words, and with * In Strype's Memorials, v. III. p. 215, is this nrticlc from the journal of one vvho lived in thofe days: A. 1555, the 30th of the faid month of April, tidings came to Locidon, that the queen was delivered of a prince; whereupon was great ringing of bells through the city, &c. &:c. And in the churchwardens account of Lambeth is this item, paid to the ringers when tidings came that the quene was brought to bed, 6d. •\ It was in this year that the archbilhop repaired and beautified his palace, covering; the Great Hall with Ihingles, and making intirely the long bridge that reached taJhe Thames, &c. Lc. Life cf Parker, p. 332. the LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 1S7 rlic other, and in my confcience and heart, 1 lieard God. And yet, her highnefs being never (o much incenfed to be offended with me, the next day coming to Lambeth Bridge into the fields, and I, according to my duty, meeting her on the bridge, flie gave me her very good looks, and fpake fecretly in mine ear, that (he nuift needs continue mine authority, before the people, to the credit of my fervicc. Whereat, divers of my jirches then being with me, peradventurc mervailed; where peradventure fomebody would have looked over the ilioulders, and flily flipt away, to have abafhed me before the world." Scrype's Life of Paiker, p. 258. A. 1573, i^l'^rch 3. For making clene the church yard againft the s. d. Quenes Majcflie came to my lord of Canterbury's, - - 04 Payd to the ryngers on that day, - - - - 3 5 A. 1575. Payd for rynging when the queue's majedie took her coach here, -- -- , --26 A. 1576, April 21. Payd for rynging when the quene came from Grenwich and took her barge, - - • - 3 O A. 1579, Jnne a. Paid for rynging when her majeftie went to Grenwich, - - - - - 3 4 A. 1583. Paid to the ryngers when the quene's grace came from Piichmont to Barnfby's (or Barnfley's) houfe, - - 3 4 Alfo, when (he dined, and went to Grenwich, - - 3 4 A. 1585, February 26. Payd for rynging when the quene came to my lord of Canterbury (archbifliop Whitgift), - - 18 A. 1586, March 27. Paid for rynging, when the quene came to ray lord of Canterburv, - - - - 2 6 March 29. March 29. Payd for rynging when the quene went from my lord of Canterburye's to the Parliament Houfe, - - 2 6 April 6. Payd for rynging when the quene went from my lord of Can- terbury to Grenwich, - - - - - 26 October 22. To Denham, for calling the lome out of the palas into the church yard, againft the queue's majeftie coming to Lambeth, o 8 A. 1587. Paid to the ringers ^^4^en the quene came from Hounflovv to ray lord's grace, and the morrow when her majeftie went to Grenwich, 6 8 A. 1588. Paid for ringinge, when the queue's majeftie came from the camp to St. James's, - - - --30 A. 1602-3, February 19. Payd to the ringers, when the queen re- moved from Whitehall to Richmond, - - - 5 ° The day (February 19) does not correfpond with the time mentioned by hif- torians. Baker, in his Chronicle, p. 423, fays, that the queen ntireJ to ui.h- mond at the end of January ; and Dr. Robertfon (Hiit of Scotland, v. IL p. 2 -;3, 8vo edit.) fixes it to the lafb day of the rr.onth. 1 He dcxSor adds, that Ihe was im- patient to retire-, and that, removing in a ftormy day, her complaints increafed. Among the charges for ringing on public occations in the reiijn o-. Lliz ibeth, are ihefe items : A. 1571, jS8 addenda to the histories of s. d. A. 1 57 1. At the overthrowe of the Tourke, - - - i o The defeat of the Turkifh fleer, when a great many-of their fliips were deftroyed by the Chriftians in the Levant, is the event alluded to. In Strype's Annals, v. II. p. 105, is the queen's command, dated Nov. 8, to the bifliop of London, for a tbankfgiving prayer upon this occafion ; and, r.t p. 106, is an order of council^ directed to the lord mayor, to {hew public demonllrations of joy. A. 1586. For rynging, and for wood to make a bonfyre when the traytcirs were taken, - - - - I 4 The perfons here meant were the confpirators Babington, Bollard, and their alTociatcs, A. 1586-7. For rynging, when the Queen of Scots was put to death, i 4 This article is a glaring mark of the fpirir, or I may fay, of the barbarifm of the golden age of Elizabeth ; and adds weight to the many proofs that have been offered of the artifices devifed to inflame the people againfi; the unfortunate Mary, in order to countenance the refolution taken to put her to death. Much difhonour does it refleft upon the character of Wickham, bilhop of Lincoln, if what is re- ported of him is true, that in his fermon preached in Peterborough Cathedral at her funeral, he ufed thefe remarkable words, " Let us give thanks for the happie diffolution of the[high and mighty princefsMary, late queen of Scotland, and dowager of France." Bib!. Top. Britan. N° XL. p. 57). But if a prelate could thus prortrate his facred office, and a queen be capable of jefting, whilft fhe was figning a war- rant for the execution of a queen and her own neareft relation, (Robercfon's Hid. •voL IL p. 168.) can it be matter of furprize, that the ringers of a country parifli, fituated not far from the palace of their fovereign, fliould conlider the day of Mary's execution as a holyday, and exhibit their cuftomary demonfl ration of joy ! h. 1604, February 28. The day before the death of archbilhop Whitgift, his grace was vifited by the king; who, from his fenfe of the great need he Ihould have of him at that particular junflure, told him, he would pray to God for his life ; and that, if he could obtain it, he fliould think it one of the greateft tem- poral blefl'ngs, that could be given him in this kingdom. The archbifhop would have faid fomething to the king, but his fpeech failed him ; and though he made two or three attempts to write his mind to him, he could nor, the pen railing from his hand through the prevalence of his difeafe, which was paralytic. Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 578. A. 1694, Oftober 3. Queen Mary honoured archbifhop Tillotfon with a vifir, as appears from an entry in the Churchwardens Accounts of five {hillings, paid to the ringers on that occalion. This was only feven weeks before the archbifliop's dcceafe. In the preceding fummer, his grace had called an affembly of the bifhops at his palace at Lambeth, where they agreed upon feveral important regulations which were at firft deiigned to be inforced by their own authority : but upon mure mature confideration, it was judged requifite that they {hould appear under ihat of their maje{licS5 in the form of royal injun^ions. The q^ucen was at dilTerent times LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 189 times confulted by the archb.fliop concerning this bufinefs ; and it is not unlikely to have been a fubjeft of their converfation in her vifit to Lambeth Hou!e. Thefe jnjunftions were iflued in the king's name, February 15, 1694, ^'^"-^ ^^^ publiihed in Wilkins, Concil. v. IV. p. 624 They are alfo noriced in Dr. Birch's Life of Archbifhop Tillotfon, p. 307, &c. A. i^;97, February 27. Chriftopher Clarke, afterwards archdeacon of Nor- wich, and prebendary of the. 5th ftall in Ely Cathedral, was ordained prieft in Lambeth Chapel, in the prefence of the emperor, Peter the Great, czar of Muf- covy. Ivlr. Bentham's Hiftory of Ely. A. 1699. In the procefs againfl Watfon, bifhop of St. David's, on the fuit ex officio, before archbifliop Tenifon, and fix bilhops his affeflbrs, he was cited to ap- pear in the hall at Lambeth Houfe. Burn's Ecclefiaf. Law, v. I. p. 20S. The fine South view of Canterbury Cathedral, placed over the chimney in the library, (Hiftory of Palace, p. 57,) was a preftnt to archbifliop Herring, from the late Mr. B. Dad, bookfeller of Ave Mary Lane. ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF DOMESTIC CHAPLAINS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY, INSERTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE PALACE, APPENDIX, N° V. p. 21, &c. In a note it U obferved, that in the ancient regitlers they are called clerici, and fometimes clerici familiares ; facellani is another term by which they are diftinguilhede Wilkins, Concil. IV. p. 40. Chaplains to Archbishop Cranmer. BuUinghara, Nicholas, bifliop of Lincoln and Worcefter. He attended, as chaplain, at the confecration of bifhop Ridley, September 5, 1548*. Farrar, or Ferrar, Robert, D. D. created bifhop of St. David's by letters patent, July 31, 1548, was, according to A.Wood, made B. D. 1543, and about the fame time became chaplain to the archbifliop. His hiftorian mentions it as the obfervation of Parfons, the Jefuit, that it was by the example of archbilTiop Cranmer, Ferrar learned to get bimfelf a woman alfo under the name of a wife, and thaC by his grace's endeavours he had fome preferment in the church. That he had any benefice in the patronage of the fee of Canterbury, I have not difcovered. Iq Strype's Life of the Archbifhop, p. 184, and in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXI. p. 605, the character of bifhop Ferrar is vindicated from the malic'ou af- perfions caft upon hira by writers Popiflily inclined, in confeuuence ot his c m- mendable endeavours to correct the corruptions that had prevailed in his caihedial church. * Memorials of archbifliop Cranmer, pi 176. B b PoDct, ipo ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Ponet, ats Poyner, John, bifliop of Rocliefter and Winchefter. In Strype's Me- morials of urchbifhop Cranmer, p. 253, is a circumftantial detail of the ceremonies ufed at his confecration to the fee of Rochefter, June 29, 1550. Archbifhop Cranmer collatei him in 154-3 to the refcory of St. Michael, Crooked-lane, in Lon- don. (Newcourt, Repert. vol. I. p. 486.) j and it was probably by his grace's interefi that he obtained the tith flail m Canterbury Cathedral. In 1547, he was requefted by his friend Ro^er Afcham to prefent an application to the archbi(hr.p for a licence to eat fiefli. Memorials, p. 167. The fummer-houfe of exquifite workmanlliip, erefted in the f^arden of Lambeth Palace in the lime of archbifliop Cranmer, was cbitily the contrivance of his chaplain Dr. Poyner, who had great fkill and tafle in works of this kind (Hitf. of the Palace, p. 15) ; and he gave to king Henry VIIL a dial of his device, (hewing not only the hour of the day, but alfo the day of the monrh, the fign of the Sun, the planetary hour, and the change of the Moon. But what was more to his credit than being an eminent mathematician and an artift, he fliewed by his works, in Latin and in Englifli, that he was a man of great learning, and he is faid to have been preferred by kino; Edward VI. in regard of fome excellent fermons he had preachecl before his majelly. Godwin de Prasful. p. a'^S. Ridley, Nicholas, bifliop of Rochefter and London. It is fomewhat extraordi- nary, that the induftrious and accurate Strype fliould not have mentioned bifhop Ridley among the chaplains of archbilhop Cranmer. He was certainly a chaplain, and retired with the archbifliop to Ford in 15.^7, when the plague obliged his grace to leave Lambeth. Ridley's Life of bifliop Ridley, p. 135. In the year following, the archbifliop collated him to the vicarage of Heme near Canterbury, and he was the firft prebendary in the fifth ftall of Canterbury Cathedral. Becon, Thomas. Of him, and of Richard Harman, Strype obfervcs * that they feem to have been chaplains ; but I fee no reafon to doubt of their having officiated to archbifhop Cranmer in that capacity. Mr. Becon was eminent for his ufeful writings, and was one of the many confcientious clergymen who fuffered, for their religion, imprifonment and exile in the reigns of Lleury VIII. and Mary. He was one of the fix preachers in Canterbury Cathedral, and had afterwards the fourth prtbendal ftall in that church. Lie appears to have been polTeffed of the following parochial benefices : the vicarage of Brenfett, in the diocefe of Canterbury ; that of Chrift- church ; and, alfo, the rcdfories of St. Stephen Walbrooke, and of St. Dionis Backchnrch, in London ; and, if Nevvcourt was not millaken, of the reflory of Bnckland, in Llerts. In the certificate of the names and qualities of the clergy of London, required by archbilhop Parker, in 1561, he is thus returnexl : bachelor of arts, a married prieft, learned, a licenfed preacher, not refident, living at Canterbury, sad fometimcs at St. Stephen Walbrooke, which he held with the « Memoirs of Cranmer, p, 442, &C. Vicarage LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 191 vi-carage of Chriftchurch*. Newcourt marks him as S. T. P. when he was infii- tuied to the re£iory of St. Dionis, Buckchurch, Auguft 10, 1563 : and biihop Tanner -j- cbfcrves, that Becon having improved himfelf, at Cambridge, in phi- lofophy and divinity, rofe, throngh all academical honour", to the Theological Chair. And yet, in the above return, he is called bachelor ot arts; and in the lift of Lent preachers before the queen, in 1565, is only ftyled Mr. Becon J. Bifhop Tanner has "iven a lift of his numerous writinors, with other circumftances relative to him ; and his name frequently occurs in Strype's hiftorical publications, parti- cularly in thofe mentioned in the note §. He died June 20, 1567. Bernard, Thomas, was in attendance, as chaplain to the archbifliop, at the con- fecration of bidiop Ridley, by the bilhop of Lincoln. Memorials of Cranmer, p. 176. By the charter of foundation, he was appointed, in ^546, canon of the firft ftall in Chrift Church, Oxford ; but was deprived of it in the beginning of queen Mary's reign, and reftored in 1559. ^ licence to preach was granted to him in March 1550. Ecclef. Memorials, vol. H. p. 524. He died November 30, 1582, and was buried in the churchyard of Pyrton, in Oxfordfliirc, (Le Neve Faft. p. 237): ot which parilh he v/as probably vicar, it being in the patrocage of the dean and canons of Chrift Church. Harman, Richard, is fuppofed by Stryne to have been one of the archbifhop's firft chaplains. Memorials of Cranmer, p. 424. He removed from King's College to Jefus, where he commenced maftcr of arts with Cranmer. He was one of the Cambridge men elected into St, Fridifwide's College in Oxford, and a fufferer for his Proteltant opinions, but he afterwards relapfcd into Popery. According to Strype he was a canon of Windfor, though not mentioned as fuch by Le Neve. Langley, Thomas, was one of the archbifliop's chaplains mentioned as witnelTes in a charge of Herefy againft John Aftieton, prieft, December 8, 1548. Wilkins, Concil. vol. IV. p. 40. Efhop Tanner (Bibliothec. Britan. p. 466) notices Tho- mas Langley for an eminent poet ; but he has his doubts whether he were the fame perfon who was redtor of Boughton Malherb in Kent, and inftailed in the firft prebend in Winchefter Cathedral, Oftober 15, 1599. Sir Thomas VVotton was then patron of Boughton. Mirkham, Henry, M. A. ftyled by Strype chaplain to the archbifliop, when named among the twenty-five perfons ordained deacons by bifhop Ridley, June 24, 1550. Ecclef. Mem. vol. IL p. 257. He was admitted to the prebend of Ccnti m folidorum in Lincoln Cathedral, March 25, 1550, and inftailed the next day pre- centor of that church. B. Willis fuggefts that he died foon after. Survey of Cathedrals, vol. IL p. 183. Taylor, Rowland. Richard T'a^Xqv occurs in the Memorials of Cranmer, p. 176, as a chaplain in attendance at the confecration of bifliop Ridley ; but in the Chrif- tian name there is doubtlefs a miftake. Rowland Taylor was in 1549 appointed by * Life of Parker, p. 95. f Bibliothec. Britan. p. 85. J Life of Parker, App. p. 75. § Ibid. 72, 130, J28. Annals, v. L p. 304. Ecclef, Mem. V. I. 367, v. IIL 350, Lite of Grindal, p. 98. Ecclef. Mem. v, IL 519. Bb a the 191 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF tlie archbidiop one of ihe keepers of the fpiritualties of the diocefe of Norwich, on the v.cancy of tiv.ir jee, as alfo preferred by his grace to the reftory of Had- i.'y in Suffolk. Being remitted by bilhop Gardiner from London to Hadleigh, that he niiiht be burnt in his avvu par:(h, he there fuffered death as a firni believer of the golpcl. :>ce an account of h:in in the books cited below *. Tod, Gregory, oiEciated as chaplain at the consecration of bifliop Ridley. Whitewe;!, J 'h:i, who will be again noticed amonij the reclo:s of Lambeth. Gol Uvell, I homas. S. T. P. is imrxgined to have been Thomas Gcldvvell, the Jaft prior of Chriftchurch, Canterbury, who declined being a prebendary of thai cathedral, and accepted a peiifion of eighty pounds a year; but I have my doubts, becaufe Gokivvel!, who was chaplain to Pole, was not of Canterbury, but of All Suuls College in Oxford, where he commented B. A. in 1531. Bsing difinclined to the Reformation, he left England ; and, probably on account of his attachment to Pole, was excepted out of the general aft of pardon with which Edward VI. clofed the Parliament in 1552. The cardinal, before his return home, employed Gold- well on a meffage to cjueen Mary ; and, by his interelf with her majefly, his chap- lain was promoted in 1555 to the biPnopric of St. Afaph. In 155^, he was nomi- nated to the fee of Oxford, but the queen's death prevented a rellitution of the temporalities, as it did likewife his intended embaffy to the Papal Court, in the room of Sir Edward Carne. Goldwell feems to have had much influence with Pole; for, notwithftanding the fufpicions he had entertained refpei^ling 'Ihorneden, fuffragan bilhop of Dover, as not being well affected to the RomiHi religion, yet, by the intercellion of Goldwell, though not without great difficulty, 1 horneden was continued in his office, with more authority concerning thofe under his care than any bilhop in England. Pate of Worccfter, and Goldwell of St. Afaph, were the two bifhops, whom, at the requeft of feignior Priuli, the cardinal's exe- cutor, queen Elizabeth permitted to attend his funeral ; and Strype fuupofes that thefe prelates were the fpeakers, one in Latin, the other in Englifh, of the ora- tions delivered on that occafion. Goldwell foon went again abroad, and became cuftos of the College at Rome appropriated toEngHlh ftudents; (Kcckf. Memorials, vol. I. p. 312 -j-.) and he is faid to have been the only Engliiliman who was prefent at the Council of Trent in 1562, and fubfcribed its decrees. He was living in 1558, at the advanced age of fourfcore, but died, not long after, at Rome, and was there buried. He was, as Strype remarks, famous for nothing, that he knew of, but for obtaining of the pope, ivitb much ado ;}:, a renewal of the indulgences to thofe who made a pilgrimage to the well of St. Winefred in Flintffiire. Mr. Addifon, in his Travels, informs us, that he faw his pidlure in the Pope's Gallery at Ravenna. * Memorials of Cranmer, 192, 412. Burnet's Hifiory of the Reformation, vol. IL 281. Magna Britan. Antiq. Nov. vol. V. 297, + Gent. Mag. vol. LXII. p. 1075. J Magno conatii, magnas niigas. Multis precibus a Papa impetravit indiilgentias renovarj. Godwin de Prasful. 642. Of biHiop Gold.vell fee alfo Strype's Annals, v. I. 37. Ecclef. Mem. »ol. II. 396. III. 134, 463. Wood Ath. Ox. I. No. 135. Bifliop Sanders de Schifm- Angl. fcl. 157, b. Willif, Survey of St, Afaplu Clevockej, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 193 Clevocke, ats Clennock, Maurice, LL. B. the cardinal's cliaplain and domef- tic fervant, reflor of Orpiiio^ton, dean of Shorcham and Croiden; for, under thcfe tides Clevocke had a commiffion from the archbifliop, dated Augufl; 31, 1557, em- powering him to vifit the faid deaneries*. He was nominated to the fee of Bangor, but queen Mary died before he could be confecrated. After the acceflion of queen Elizabeth he went to Rome ; and the Englifli hofpital in that city being converted into a feminary for Englilh fludents, he Was appointed the firft mafter, and from that circumftance it was frequently called Maurice College. The pope, however, difplaced him in 1581 ; his extreme partiality for the Welfh fludents, who were his countrymen, having occaiicned perpe'ual coHtentions in the iociety -j-. Glazier, Hugh, another of Pole's chaplains, was a mendicant frier. In 1538, he was prefenred to the reflory of Hanworth in Middlefex, which, in 154.6, he ex- changed for the redtqry of Harlington, in the fame county. W'hilll: incumbent of Hanworth, in a fernwn preached m Lent at Kingfton, he declared, that whofoever came to church to feek God, he fhould not find him there, except he brought him with him ; and that men ought to put their truft in God's word, and to have bet- ter regard to good fermons and preaching than to the facrament of the altar, mafs mattins, or even fong. And, in a fermon at St. Paul's Crofs, in the firil Lent after the acceffion of Edward VL to the crown, he afferted the obfervation of Lent to be of humm iniiiturion. Being thus an avowed favourer of the Reformation, arch- biihop Cranmer, in 1541, appoinred him his commilTary at Calais, and procured for him the feventh prebendal (lull in the new-eftablilhed dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral. He, however, after the death of Edward, relapfed to Popery, and was in 15^3 prefented to the redtory of Deal in Kent ; and publithed a fermon, preached ac Paul's Crofs, Augufl 25^ 155 v Text, LukeXVIlI. v. io» Strype nonces it, as being in Stowe's collection of books. Glazier's name is in the commiffion ifluei by Pole, March 28, 1558, for proceeding againfl Proteftants as reputed heretics, but he furvived this difgraceful nomination only a few months ; for, it appears, by the regifter of Lambeth, that Hugh Glazier, the cardinal's chaplain, was buried in that church July the 27th, the fame year %. Holland, Seth, A.M. initalled dean of Worcefler, Auguft 22, 1557. He had been fubftituted warden of All Souts College in Oxford, in February 1555; but refyned, as it ihould feem, in favour of John Pope, whom Cardinal Pole appointed in his room. He alfo occurs incumbent of the very valuable rectory of Bifhop's * Strype's Ecciefiaftical Memoirs, vol. HI. p. 390. At the end of the -fame year a commiffioiv ■\ras granted to Thomas Chatham, bifliop of Sidon*, to do all things belonging to a bilhop. And Strype fuppol'es him to h^ve beeit the fuffragan bifliop, mentioned by Fofi to have broken his neck by falling down a pair of ftairs in the cardinal's houfe at Lambeth. Ibid. p. 3^1, •f Willis's Siirvey of Bangor, p. 105 ; and Athen. Oxon. vol. 1. 68?. J Ghzier, fee Strype's Eccl'-f. Mem. vol. I. p. 187, and vol. I^^p. 290. Life of Arch- bifliop Giindal, App. p. 45. Wilkins, Coacil. IV. 173, and Tanner Biblioth. Britan. 3*7. • Thomas, biihep of Sidon, aiMed at tb&confecralioa of bilbop Ridley. Life of Bilhop Ridley, p. 2 1 1. 1 Clceve 194 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Cleeve in Glouceflierfliire. Three or four d lys before the death of Pole, the cardinal fent his chaplain to the lady Elizf.beth, W;th a letter and a fecret meffage. The letter is printed by Strype, who offers his furmifes what might be the purport of this confidential commiflion. In 1559, Mr. Holland was deprived of his deanry, and died in the King's Bench Frifjn. He was buried March 5, 1560, in St. George's, Southwark " being in point of refpeft brought to the church by about threefcore gentlemen of the inns of court and Oxford *." Lilye, George, fon of the famous grammarian William Lilye, was of INIagdalcn College, Oxford ; but, leaving the univeifity without a degree, he travelled to Rome, where he was honoured with a gracious reception by cardinal Pole, and became eminent for his abilities and acquirements in various kinds of literature. The cardinal, after his promotion to the arehbifliopric, appointed Lilye to be his chaplain, and collated him in 1557 to the firft ftall in his own church; and it was probably by his intereft that he had the prebend of Kentiih Town in St. Paul's Cathedral. Lilye's works were chiefly hiftorical and biographical. They are noticed by bifliop Tanner, and by biftiop ISiicoUbn, in his liiltorical Library. He publiftied the firft exaft map that was drawn of this iflandf. Archbishop Parker. Bickley, Thomas, D. D. The archbilhop procured for him, whilR he was chap- lain, the wardenlliip of Merton College in Oxford ; and he was admitted to the archdeaconry of Stafford, and to a prebendal tlall in Lichfield Cathedral, within a 3'ear after bifhop Bentham was promoted to that fee : it is not unlikely that he niight be preferred by his grace's right of option. The archbilhop had fo high an opinion of his chaplain's talent for preaching, that he appointed him often to preach ^Defore the queen in Lent, and alfo at St. Paul's Crofs, and in many parifh churches in London, when divers incumbents, about the year 1566, were under fufpenfion for not complying with the ecclefiaitical orders %' Dr. Bickley was advanced to the bifhopric of Chiehefter in 1585. Bullingham, Nicholas, who had been chaplain to archbilhop Cranmer, ofFiciated as chaplain at the confecration of archbifliop Parker, December 17, 1559. Life of Parker, p. 57. Coldwell, John, M. D. is mentioned as chaplain in Strype's Anna's, vol. IL p. 489, and was collated by the archbilhop to the reftory of Aldington, in Kent, June I, 1572. He appears to have been in the archbifhop's family in 1574, being one of the witnefi'ts to the will of Matthew Parker, fecond fon of the archbifliop, that is dated November i. Li January, 1585, he was inftalled dean of Rochefter, and advanced to the biftiopric of Salifbury in 1591. (airteis, Richard, D. D. one of the chaplains mentioned by Strype in his Life of Parker, p. 509, promoted to the bifliapric of Chicheiter in 1570. » See Abingdon's Antiquities of Worcefter, p. 128 ; Nswcourt, Repert. vol. II. p. 34 ; and Strype's Annals, vol. I. p. 50, *2^5. f Tanner Bibliothec. 4.81. Newcourt. Rcpert. vol. L p. 171. \ Strype's Life of Parker, p. a 19, 510. Gheaff, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 195 Ghcaft, or Geft, Fdmund, D. D. attended, as chaplain, at the confecratlon of archbifhop Parker. His Cervices were, however, bur of (hort continu inco, be being Gonfecratcd biili.op of Lincoln January 21, '579. He was afterwards tranflated 10 Salifbury. In Dr. Diicarel's lifl: is Thomas Gordon, dean of Canterbury, and bilTiop of Bath and Well^-, by whom was certainly meant Dr. '1 homas Godwin, who held thefe preferments in the reign of Elizabeth. Rut I cannot find that he was chap- lain to archbifliop Parker : and I rather conclude he was not, becauie he ferved bilhop Builir.gham of Lincoln in that capacity. Robinfon, Nicholas, D. D. The charader given of him by Strype, in his I ife of Archbifliop Parker, is, that he was eloquent in the Engliih and Latin ton:^ues, and well fumifhed wi;h human learning and divinity. And, among the perfons re- commeiided to fecre^ary Cecil for the provoftfhip of Eton College, by bifliop Grinda'l, he is thus noticed, " Mr. llobinfon, chaj'Iain to my lord of Canterbury, who made a good fermon yefterday at the C'.rofs." An extraft from one of his fer- nions is given by Strype ; and there are in print fome of his fcrmons preached at St. Paul's Crcf;, at Welliinnfter, at Greenwich, and Richmond, being court fer- mons. In 1366, the archbifhop had recommended Hewitt for the vacant dioccfe of Bangor J but, lleing reafon a few days after to alter his mind, the fecre- tary propofed Mr. Fvobinlon, a Wcllh-inan, as a perfon well known and beloved in Wales, or who was much defired by the people of that country. He was ac- cordingly confecrated Oftober 20 *. Scambier, Edmund, D. D, was one of the archbilTiop's firft chaplains. Life of Parker, p. 518. Raifed to the bilhopric of Peterborough in February 1560; and tranflated to Norwich in 1584. Still, John, D. D. Archbifhop Parker's fentiments of him were thus exprelfed in a letter to the lord treaiurer, when he folicited for him the deanery of Norwich: " That he was a young man, being now (A. 1573) not above thirty, but that he took him to be more mortified than fome other of forty or fifty years of age ;, and, were he not his chaplain, he would fay, he were in all refpedls as fit as any he knew in England ; and that, had he not wifhed well to his country, he would have been very loth ro iiellowhim, or fpoil him in that place. The archbilhop collated him to the retlory of Idadleigh in Suffolk, commi(]!ioned him in 1572 to be one of the deans of Bocking in Elfex ; and, though he did not fucceed in his application for the deanery of Norwich, he procured for his chaplain a prebend of VVcf^minfler. Dr. Still was confecrated bifhop of Bath and Wells in February 1692 -j-. • Life of archbifhop Parker, p. loe, 204, 234, 509. Annals, vol. I. 299; and vol. II. Add. p. 26. Tanner, Biblioth. p. 638. -f- Strype's Life of Parker, p. 449, 510, Ncweourt, Repcf tor. vol. II. p. 67. Aldrich, 19^ ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Aldrich, Thomas, A. M. ele£red mafter of Corpus Chiifti College, in Cam- bridge, February 3, 1559, on the refignation of Dr. Pory, was by his recommen- dation appoinred chaplain to Parker. Dr. Pory farther entreated ilie archbifhop to ufe his interert, that Mr. Aldrich might be hivcwife his I'uccefTor to the prebend of Weftminfter ; and the ftaU was obtained for him, he being admitted to it No- vember 1570 *. The doctor was thus foUcitous to have Aldrich preferred, becaufe, as he wrote to his grace, " he knew hira to be an honefl young man, and fkiiied in the learned tongues, alfo in French and Italian, and, as he truflcd, like to be of fervice to the realm hereafter -|"." He was, however, miflaken in the charafler he had formed of the man, who foon became a zealous Puritan, and whofe be- haviour to the archbifhop was ungrateful and infolent. Aldrich renounced the chaplainlhip, with a declaration that he would oppofe the archbifhop to the utmoft of his power; and h: endeavoured to get fome great man of the Council to accept him for his chaplain, in order to fcrcen himfelf from the refentment of the primate, whom he nick-named Pope of Lambeth, and of Benet College. He had not tuken the degree of bachelor of divinity, as the (latutes of the college required, and he was charged with other articles of negleft and bad adminiftration. The college referred the cafe to lord Burleigh, chancellor of the univerfity; and a fentencc of removal from the maftcrfhip mud have cnfued, had not Aldrich, to avoid the difgrace, refigned it to the chancellor. And, fix months before, he refigned to the archbifhop his prebend of Weftminfter, of which he would otherwife have been deprived for non-conformity. The chancellor advifed him to make an hum- ble fubraiffion to the archbifhop, which he did, with a promife of amendment; but, though he remained fome time at Canterbury, expefting favour from the archbifhop, his grace declined placing any confidence in him J. After the deceafe of the archbifhop, he had interefl to obtain a reinftatement in VVeftminfler Abbev, though not in the fame ftall. This was in 1576, and he died the fame year. Alien, Matthew, of whom I can colle(ff no other memorial than that, as chap- lain, he read prayers, when archbiQiop Parker confecrated Dr. WiUiam Hughs, bifhop of St. Afaph, December 13, 1573, and that he attended at the archbifliop's funeral §. Batman, Stephen, D. D. had his education in the free fchool of Bruton in Somerfetfliire, his native place ; thence he removed to Cambridge, where he clofely applied himfelf to philolophical and theological fludies, and acquired the reputation of a learned and truly divine preacher ||. Archbifhop Parker collated hira to the reftory of Meflham m Surrey, probably in 1570, when that benefice * Widmoie, in his Hiftory of Wcilminfter Abbey, mentions, November 15, 1570, as the day of his being inftallcd ; Newcourt and Le Neve, on the authority of A. Wood, fuppofe Aldrich not to have had his prebend till iS73 » ^^^ Wood certainly niiftook between the year of his ad- niiffion and the year of his refignation, which was in 1573. f Matters, Hift. of C. C. C. C. p. 106. J Strype's Life of Parker, p. 419, &c. § Strype's Life of Parker, pp. 459, 496, ^ Tanner, Bibliothec. p. 80. was LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PAP.ISH. 197 was vacant, as noticed in the church regifler, by the death of John Wyftow, though the name of Batman does not occur among the number of incumbents and curates, whom Aubrey has copied from it. In 1582, he commenced dodi: r in divinity, and became chaplain to Henry lord Hunfdon, to whom he dedicated an enlarged and improved edition, in Englifn, of Bartholom:rus de proprktatibus rerum. The archb'fliop, with luccefs, employed Batman to coUecl books for him ; for, as cited by Strype from a book puhliflied in 158 1, entituled, "Doom warning all men to judgment," Batman, when fpeaking of the archbifhop, thus exprefTes himfelf; " With whom books remained (although the moft part of them, according to the time fuperftitious and fabulous, yet,) fome worthy the view and fafe keep- ing, gathered within four years, of divinity, aftronomv, hiftory, phyfick, and others of fundry arts and fcicnces, (as I can truly vouch, havh:g his grace's com- miflion, whereunto liis hand is yet to be feen), fix thoufand, feven hundred books, by my own travel. Several treatifes publiflied by Batman are fpecified by bifliop Tanner; but he has not noticed any piece of Englifli hiilory, only obferving, that he is ranged by 1 hynne with the writers of that clafs; and that Thynne, ad fin. HoHnfhed, HL m.d.lxxxix, fixes 13S4 for the year of the death of Batman, Bungev, John, a nephew by alliance to the arcbbifliop, was alfo a chaplain, and preferred by his grace to a prebend in the church of Canteibury. See Account of him in Mr, Matters's Hiftory of C. C. C. Cambridge; and among the redors of Lambeth. Cole, Humphry, occurs chaplain to the archbifliop, in MS. Ecclef. Cant, book H. He was admitted to the rectory of St. Mary le Bow, December 8, 1384, and re- figned it in 158S. Newcourt, vol. L p. 439. Mr. Harlefton attended the archbifiiop's funeral as chaplain, A. 1565. Harlfton was admitted a member cf Corpus Chrifti College in Cambridge ; and Mr. Matters imagines him to have been the fon of Simon Harlfion, of Mendielham in Norfolk, a brother of Mrs. Parker. He was probably the chaplain mentioned in Strype's Life of the Archbifhop, p. 496. Hill, John, though omitted by Strype, is noticed as a chaplain to archbifhop Parker, in Lewis's Lift of the incumbents of Mynflre in the Ifle of I'enet (Archic-p, Capellanus, p. 101) to which vicarage he was collated, March 14, 1570. He was ordained prielt by bifliop Grindal, March 14, 1560, (Lifeof Grindal, p. 50,) and in 1564 admitted to the 7th ftall in Weftminfter Abbey, which he refigned in 1568, by exchange -with Dr. Pory, rcclor of Lambeth, for the 6th prebend in Canterbury Cathedral, Auguft i, 1573. He had a difpenfation to hold the rec- tory of Chiddingftone in Kent with Mynftre. MS. Cantuar. Ecclef. B. He re- ligned IMynlbe in 1595, probably not long before his death, becaufe Dr. Whitaker, who was his fuccefTor at Canterbury, was inftalled May 10. A John Hill occurs redfor of Lid in 1575. Hafted's Kent, vol. IIL p. 517. Hoveden, Robert, D. D. was elected in 1561, warden of All Souls College in Oxford, and had prebends in the following cathedrals, Henftiidge in Wells, Clifton in Lincoln, and the third ftall in Canterbury. "Wood. Ach. Ox. v. L a^d^, A. C c 1604. 158 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 1604. He cflabliflied orders for the government of the fchool in Faverlliam (Jacob's Hift- p. 55)' -And in Le Neve Men. Anglic, vol. I. N°48, is his infcription upon a monument placed in the chancel of the church of Stanton Harcouit, Oxfordlhire, to the memory of his brother Chriflopher, who had been reflor of that parifli. Dr. rioveden died March 21, 1614, and was buried in the chapel of All Souls College. Leeds, Edward, LL^ D. was chaplain to the archbilhop, his prox^' at his in- thronization, and fo much in favour with his grace as to be appointed one of his vifitors in the diocefes of Canterbury and Ely, as well as afterwards in that of Peterborough. See more of him in Mafters's HiRory of C. C. C. Cambridge, P- 3i4- Manne, John, A. M. was elected from Winchefler fchool to New College in Oxford, in 1529, and was proftor of the univerfity for the louthern diftnci: in 1/540. He was afterwards expelled as an heretic, but made principal of White Hall, fince Jefus College, in 154.7. Being chaplain to archbifhop Parker, he was, in 1562, appointed warden ot Merton College, by his grace, as vilitor, upon a right of devolution *, and promoted to the deanry of Gloucefter in 1565. He occurs alfo prebendary of Bigg'ewede, in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1 537 he was lent by Elizabeth embaliador into Spain ; where, having fpoken fome things irreverently of the pope, he was excluded the court, banifhed into a country village, and the exerciie of his religion denied him -f-. The manner in which the queen refented this afiVont, offered to her ambullador, is mentioned by Sirype. Mr. Mann tranf- lated the common places of VVolgangus into Latin, and, obferves bifliop Tanner J, other books whofe titles are not known. He died March 28, 1568, which muft have been fuon after he was recalled from his embafly, and was buried in the chancel of St. Anne's church, near Alderfgate, in London; leaving h widow and leveral children, ol whom fome fettled in Llfex. Jvjiatchett, John, reftor of Lambeth. Norgate, Robert, D. D. By marriage he bore a relation to the archbifhop, who made him one of his chaplains, affiiled him in the promotion to the maftcr- fhip of Corpus Chrilli College, Cambridge, and prefented him to the reftory of Lackingdon in Efl'tx. Mafters's Hiftory, p. ir;. Dr. i^le.xander Newel, or Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, is clalTed as a chaplain by Dr. Di.carelj but on what authority I have not found. He is not mentioned in this capacity by either Newcourt or Strype, nor does it appear that he wasdiredtly preferred by the archbifhop. Strype notices him as chaplain to bifliop Grindal, wbilft b.lbop of London. Life of Grindal, p. 38. Pieilon, i\ndre\v, B.D. was both chaplain and almoner to archbifhop Parker, who collared him to the reclories of Brafted and Chiddingflone, and to the vicar- age of \^ rothami and procured for him, from the crown, a prebend in Canter- bury Cathedral. He alfo appointed him mailer of the faculties ; which office Mr. • Life of Parker, p. 115, 117, 150. f I'lagn. Britan. Antiq. et NoY. VL p. 78 J Biblioth. Bntan. p. 505. Pierfon LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 199 Pierfon rcfigned to archbifhop GrinJ.al. Upon a vacancy of the provoft of Eton, the archbi(hop recomn ended liim to that pofl — " as one, in whim he knew fo much fincerity and dexterity in governance, with honeft learning, that he would warrant his credit upon him, and would, it it was in his difpofition, name *. His grace bequeathed to him a handfoine gilt cup nnd cover, that h;id b.:en prefented to him by rhe queen, and nominated him one of the interpreters of his will. Maf- ters's Hidory of C. C. C. C p. 354. Simpfon, Nicholas, D.D. ;;s chaplain, attended the funeral of archbifhop Parker. Life by Strype, p. 496. He was a prebendary of Canterbury, and it appears by his epitaph that he was buried in that cathedral 101609. Batteley,Cantu2r. Sacr. App.p.9, Stallar, Thomas, D.D. was of Corpus Chiifti College, Cambridge; and, in 1568, when only A. B. and lately elected fellow, was a principal prrty in oppo- fing a vifitation under the ecclefiaftical coramiffion. And, as by his condufl he mufi: have offended archbifhop Parker, who had adopted this mode of correcting many irregularities in that fociety, it is not eafy to account for his grace's taking Stallai* into his family as a domcftic chaplain -[-. The parochial benefices pofllffed by him were, the reftory of All-hallows, Lombard-flreet, in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Canterbury, and the rectory of >t. Mary Hill, by prefentation from a citizen of London. He was alfo promoted, in 1574, to a prebend in the chnrch of Hereford ; which he foon rcfigned, and in 1595, many years after the death of the archbifhop, became archdeacon of Rochcfter J. The confiftory adts of that diocefe afford an inftance of his then being of a difpofidon fomewhat captipips and litigious §. He attended at the funeral of a.chbilhop Parker. Archbishop Grindal. Redmayn, or Redman, William, D. D. was collated by the archbifhop to the reflory of Bifhopfbourne, in Kent ; and, by his grace's intereft, became arcluieacon of Canterbury in 1576. For, on the tranflation of biQiop Freake from Rociielter to Norwich, that dignity was in the difpofal of the Crown ; and great inconvenience having arifen from its being held in coannendam by the bifhops of Rochefter, the archbifhop earneflly folicited lord Burleigh, that it might be no longer annexed. It was alfo his requeft, that it might be given to his chaplain, William Redman, a learned and deferving man, who had approved himfelf a good preacher by his fer- mou before the queen. When he renewed his application to the lord treafurer, he again mentioned the very good fermon, as he flyled it, his chaplain had made at court. The archbifhop appointed Dr. Redmayn one of his executors, and bequeathed him a legacy of 50!. and a horfe. Strype's Life of Grindal, p. 210, 289. He was promoted to the bilhopric of Norwich in 1594. * Collatttl to the re£lory of Harbledowne, Sept. i, i;8g. Haftcd's Kent. III. 5S3 ; inftituted reclor of Ilardres, June 30, 1580; refigncd 1582. Ibid. 735. t Mafteis's Kiftory, p. 135. % Ibid. 375. § Memorials of Rochcfter Cathedral in I\lr. Thorpe's Antiquities, p. 225. C c 2 Rq. 200 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Rob'nfon, Henry, D. D. wns provort: of Queen's College, in Oxford ; and it is fuid, that, by his advice, Sir Thomas Smith engaged in the obtaining of that excell-'nt att of Parliament of the iSth of Elizabeth, for referving a third part of the rent upon leafes granted by colleges to be paid in corn. Ke.inet's Paiochial Antiquities, p. 605. Archbifhop Grindal bequeathed to Dr. Robinfon, his chaji- lain, the advowfon of a dignity and prebend in the county of Lichfield, or the ad- vowfon of certain dignities and prebends in the ehurch of St. David's ; which Strype fuppofes (p, 294.) to have been options, and upon fufficient grounds. For, the archbilhop confirmed and confecrateJ bifhoji Overton, of Lichfield, in September 1580 ; and in December, 1582, bi(hop Mid ileton was confirmed in St. David's on his tranfi uion from Waterford in Ireland. Dr.Robinfon was advanced to the bifliopric of Carlilie in 1598. Young, John, D. D. At the commencement at Cambridge, in 1564, when bifiwp Grindal was, by a grace of the univerfity, created doftor of divinity, Mr. Young, his chaplain, preached for him the clerum fermon *. He occurs preben- dary of Southwell -f-, to which he was probably collated by Dr. Grindal, whilll archbifhop of York. He had the recommendation of the archbifliop for the mall er- lliip oi Pembroke Hall, and was promoted to the bifhopric of Rochelter in 1577. Blague, Thomas, D.D. See an account of him among the reftors of Lambeth. Chambers, John, M. A. Archbiihop Grindal bequeathed to his chaplain, Mr. John Chambers, an advowfon in the Church of St. Paul's, or fome other falling Toid,'--b^ which options were doubtlefs meant ;j;. As he is not mentioned by New- court among the dignitaries of St. Paul's, either the option in that cathedral did not becoiie vacant during the life of bilhop Ayluier, who was coniecrated by archbifliop Grindal, March 24, 1576, or Mr. Chambers might be previoufl^ pro- moted into fome other option. John Chambers was chofen fellow of Merton Col- lege in 1569, of Eton College in 15S2, and in 1601 canon of Windfor. He was a great benefaftor to Merton College, and a man eminent for his learning. He in particular much affected phvfick and aftronomy, and wrote fome books relating to judicial aftrology §. He having the fame Chriftian name with the archbiftiop's chaplain, together with the dates of his preferment, will warrant a furmife that he was the fame perfon. Johnfon, Philip, M.A. chaplain to archbifliop Grindal, was buried at Lam- beth, April 13, 1576. Par. Reg. He was appointed principal of St. Edmund Hall, in Oxford, September 24, 1572 {|. Bow, * Stiype's Life of Grindal, p 95, 310. f Tanner, Bibllothcc. p. 3. J Life of Griudal, p. 294. § Ath. Ox. I. N° 378. Ajiliffe's State of Oxford, vol. I. p. 274. And Mag. Britan. and Nov. vol. VL p. 652. II In the Hiftory of the Palace, p. 30, it is mentioned, that on the north fide of the chapel is a piece of ground, called the Burying Place ; but that there is not any « ritten evidence, nor other proof, of any perfons having been depofued there. And, as it appears from the paiifli re- gime r LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 201 Bow, George, Archdeacon Pvedmayn, and Thomas Bl;igi;e, < fficiated as chaplains at the confccration of Dr. Whitgifc, bi:hop of Worcefter. Life of Grindal, p. 229. Saj.cotts, John, was in attendance as chaplain at the confecrarion of Dr John Watfon, bifhop of Winchefter, September i8, 1580, in the chapel of Croydon. Life of Grindal, p. 256 "*. Tunftall, Rodolph, I\I. A. was donif-flic chaplain to Grindal, whilll: he was archbifhop of York, and preferred by him to the prebend of Knarefbjrough cum Bycheli, and canon refidentiary of York Cathedral, to the archdeaconry of Nor- thumberland, and to the wardenlhip of the hofpital of St. Mary Magdalen, near Ripon. He was alfo reftor of Long Newion, a benefice in the county of Durham, in the patronage of that fee, and inftalled a prebendary of Durham, November 9, 1680. He died in March 1618 f . Wilfon, William, D. D. as well as Mr. Sapcotts, was an ofRciuing chaplain at the confecration of biOiop Watfon, of Winchefter. He was of Merton College ia Oxford, and probably chaplain to Grindal, whilft bifhop of London, as he was poffelTed of the chancellorfnip, and of the prebend of Earld-ftreet, in St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1534 he was inlfalled canon of Windfor, and in September 16, 1586, prefented to the third prebend in the church of Rochefter. There is, or was, this epitaph over his grave in the Royal Chapel at Windfor. " Here, underneath, lies interred the body of William Wilfon, doctor of divinity, and prebendary of this church for the fpace of 32 years. He had iffue by Ifabel his wife, fix fons and fix daughters. He died the 15th of May, in the yere of our Lord, 1615, and of his age the 73d, beloved of all in his life, and lamented in his death." At the end are four trifling verfes like church-yard poetry J. Strype fuppofes Mrs. Wilfoa to have been archbifhop Grindai's nii.ce, and notices the archbilhop's having given, by will, to his chajilain Wilfon, the advowfon of the parfonage of Wonflow, ia the dioctfe of W'incheffer, which was an option on the conlecration ct bifliop Writfon §. He occurs redfor of Ciiffe, near llochefter, Sept. lo, 1586. Adf. Cur* ConClL Roffen. ful. io3 b. Archbishop Whitgift. Andrews, Lancelot, D. D. (afterwards bifhop of Ely and Winchefler,) in 1591, was fent to confer with Udal and other under fentence of death tor pablifhing ledi- gifier th^t bifliops Tonftall and Thirlebye were buried in Lambeth clnncel, and chaplr.in John- fon if not in the church, yet in the church-yard, the picfumption is, that it was aoc ullial to in- ter thofe, who died in the palace, within its precinfts.] * According to Newcourt (Rcpertor vol, I. p. 815.) John Snpcourt was adiTiittfd in 1333, reftor of Biickland, in Herts, and refigned in 15 ,3 ; but it is by no means probable that this Ihould ue the perfon who wns chaplain to archbilhop Grindal. ' t Life of Grindal, p. 164. Le Neve's Fafli, p. 3^;. Wood Athcn. Oxon. vol. I. p. 487. Oughton, Ordo Judic. p. 2, 232. Willis, Survey of Cathed. vol. I. p. 272. X Letter to Dr. Denne, from Mr, B. Wiilis, v/ho refers to the Antiquities of Eerklliire, § Life of Grindal, p. 294. ticus 202 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OP tious libels; and February 20, 1592, he preacheJ bt-fore the convocation in St. Paul's Cathedral. Srype's Life of W:iit,u;ift, p. 575, 397. Bancroft, Richard, D.D. (archbifliop of Canterburv,', was a chaplain feveral years, snd during his attendance preached, and printed, in 158S, a feriiion, main- taining the fuperiority of bifhops over their inferior brethren, jure divino. He alfo published, " A Survey of the pretended holy Difcipline of the Puritans," and another traft, entitled, " Dangerous Pofitions," &c. He ofliciated as chaplain at the confecration of three bifliops, June 1 3, 1596 *. Barlow, ^\'il!!am, D. D. (biihop of Rochefter and Lincoln,) vvas collated by the archbiOiop to the reftory of St. Dunftan in the Eaft, and was employed by his grace to v/fite an authentic relation of the tamous conference held at Hampton Court, in January 1603 -f-. He was prefent at the archbifliop's notifying the day of the in- tended dedication of the chape! of the hofpital at Croydon, and was one of the three chapiauis in attendance upon Whitgift during his laft illnefs %. Buckridge, John, D.D. (biihop of Rochefter and Ely,) was another of the chap- lains who prayed wit4i the archbifhop, and adminiftered to him his confolatory difcourfe in all his ficknefs. Life of Whitgift, p. 532. Goldfborough, Godfrey, D. D. (bifliop of Glouceller and Worcefter.) As he was of Trinity College in Cambridge, and collated by bifliop Yv'"hitgift to the arch- deaconry of Worceiler, he was probably chaplain to him before his tranflation to Canterbury. Ravis, Thomas, D.D. (bifliop of Gloucefter and of London,) was prefented by the archbiiliop in December! 691, to the vicarageof Allhaliows, Barking; and, in January 1696, he officiated as chaplain at the confecration of three bifhops. Strype's Life of Whitgift, p, 496 ; and Sir George Paul's Life of the Archbiiliop, p. 98. Redraayn, bifhop, mentioned among .the chaplains of archbifhop Grindal, vvas alfo chaplain to archbifnop Whitgift. He was fuppofed to be a candidate for the headibip of Trinity College in Cambridge, when Dr. Whitgift intended to refign. But, by the ftatutes of that fociety, neither mafter nor fellow iliould be married ; and Whitgift is judged to have objcfled to Redmayn's being his fucceffor, not from his having a wUe, but becaufe he underftood that he defigned ere long to change his condition. Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 76. Bilgar is clafled as a chaplain, becaufe Strype has placed him between Drs. Bearcroft and Ravis, who attended in that capacity at the confecration of three bifhops in June 1596. Carier, or Charier, Benjamin, D. D. was a fellow of Corpus Chrifti College in Cambridge. His firft parochial benefice was the re£lory of Paddlefworth, in the * According to Le Neve, Lives of the Proteftant Ardibifliops, vol. I. p. 76, Bancroft was chaplain almnjl jive years aaJ a half; but he muft have heen in that capacity for a longer term, for heisfollykd in 1588, and in 1596. See Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 293, 404, 496. t Hiftory and Antiquities of Rochefter, p. 163. % Life of Whitgift, p. 532, 578. 2 dioccfe LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 203 dicccfe of Rochcfter, which he refigncd in 1599, and was collated by archbifliop Whitgitc to the valuable f.necure reiflory ot W'eit Terring in SulTex '*. He was one of the chaplains in attendance upon his grace in his lad ilinefs, and the epitaph upon his monument in Croydon ('hurch was compofed by him. After the deaih of the archbifhop he was chaplain to the king, who nominated him to a prebend of Canterbury, and a fellowlhip of Chelfey College, and, as it is fuppofed, would have promoted him to preferments of greater dignity, had he not forfeited the roval favour by embracing Popery. His view in the letter which he fent to Ifaac Cafaubon, and to the king, was to efle<5t an union between the Church of Eng- land ard the Papal fee ; but the apoftate did not long furvive the writing cf the laft letter, dying obfcurely in a College of the Jefuirs in Flanders. In Featley's Clavis Myflica, p. 792, there is this marginal note relative to him : *' About this time, Dr. Carrier, who came over chajilain with Lord Wotton, preached a fcan- dalous ferraon in Paris, at Liixemberg Houfe, and not long after reconciled himfelf to the Romilh church, and, mifcarrying firll in his religion, and after in his hope of great preferment by the cardinal I'evon's n.cjns, in great difcontent ended his wretched dayes." For a more circumflantial account of him, fee Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 381, and Mafters's Hillory of C. C. C. p. 239. Grafton attended, as chaplain, at the confecration of Dr. Howland, bifhop of Peterborough, February 7, 1584. Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 216. Munford, Thomas, D. D. officiated at the confecration of three bifliops, in June 1596, and was the preacher at the dedication of the chapel ot the holpital founded at Croydon by archbifhop Whitgift -f. He was afterwards fufpended for three years, by the archbiftiop, for marrying, without banns or licence, the earl of Hertford to Frances Pranel, widow of Henry Pranel, Efq. ; but, on his fubmif- Con and earneil entreaty, he was abfolved, by the archbifhop himfelf, in 1601 J. Qu. Was he not the Thomas Montfoit mentioned by Newcourt as refidentiary of St. Paul's and prebendary of Weftminfler ^ ? Perne, Andrew, D. D. feems, as bifhop Tanner has remarked, to have been chaplain to archbiiliop Whitgift (1. He was a native of Bilney, in Norfolk ** ; but, as it miy be prefumcd, not the fon of a gentleman, who had a right to a coat of arms ; fince the grant to him from Garter king at arms was not of an ad- dition to paternal b^-arings. The worcs of the patent, which was dated June 15, 1579, rather implies him to have been the firil <'f the family received into the rauk of " noble" perfons ; an honour that was conferred upon him, becaufe * Collated to the rect.ry of Old Romney, June ly, 1603, and dtprivcd in 1614. Ilafled's Hifl, ofKent, vol.111 p. 521. + Strype's Life of Whitgifr, p. 532. J Ibid. 551. § Repcrtorium, vol.1, p. 1J4. II Bibliotliec. Britan. p. 593. The reference is to a treatife, flyled. The juft Rcprotf of Martin junior. ** Magn. Britan. Antiq. Si Nov. vol. 111. p. 302, he 204 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF he had long rendered hlmfelf illuftrious, by his virtue and his knowledge of ihe fciences*. Neither the time of his birth, nor of his admiffion iu Cambridge, has besn traced; but he was a fellow of Qjieen's College in ijs6, and one of the univerfity proftors the fame year -f-. A. 1551, March 12, Mr. Pcrne, and five others, were retained as chaplain to Edward VI. Two of them were to be always i:i waiting on the king, and four regularly employed as itinerant preachers over the kingdom, efpecially in the more remote counties. The number was afterwards reduced to fcnr, of whom Feme was one, and each had a yearly falary of forty pounds j\ Mr. Feme was inftailed in the firll prebend of Weflminfter, No- vember 8, 1552 § ; and he occurs incumbent of the reftories of Walpole i.nd Ful- ham, in'Norfnlk; of Somerfham, in the county of Huntington; and of Ballham, in Cambridgelhire. On the diffolution of the dean and chapter of Wertminfter, by queen Mary, Mr. Feme loft his flail; but, complying with the changes which {he had introduced into religion, he had previoully obtained tiie mafterlhip of Peter Houie in Cambridge, being admitted into the room of Ralph Ayn'worih, deprived, becaufe he was married || ; aixl in 1551 he was promoted to the deanry of Ely. He fubfcribed the articles agreed to in convocation, January 31, 1562; as alfo to twenty-one articles of propofals for difcipline **. And as on the accefliou of queen Elizabeth, he was in all other inftances a conformift, he did not mcur a for- feiture of his preferments. His inconflLincy, however, in matters of religion, ex- pofed him to much animadverfion. By Bradford, he was conlidered as one of thofe friends of the goipel, who frequented the idolatrous worlhip of the mafs to lave them.felves from danger; and, in the letter written by tliis pious fufferer to the • '* Strype's Life of Archbifliop Whitgift, p. 323. ^0 inclius igitur inter alios 7iobi'es rccipialur, ■et cademlxi dignitatc, quam multi cxcdUntei antea ohtiitucrint. — Diu miuute et optimarum fcientiarum omnibus claruit. Sec. The coat of arms granted was — Or, a chevron between three pelicans heads erafed, azure : AJiar of the field. The pelican was judged to be a proper bearing for the head of a literary coinmunity ; this bird having been ufed by the Eg)ptians as an hieroglyphic to denote the office of education, and of inftruftion in learning, as two of the duties of a father. Under this idea, we find, that a pelican, vulnerating her bieaft for her young, is a part of the arms of Corpus Chrifti College, in Oxford, founded by Fox, bifhop of Winchefter, who bore the fame arms ; and a pelican, in the fame attitude, was granted by the Heralds Office, on an application from archbifhop Parker, for an additional bearing in the feal of Corpus Chriili Col- kge in Cambridge. Mafters's Hiftory, p. 90. In Carter's Hiflory midlen are given to Perne, and not, as in Strype, from the patent, ajiar Or. But, as the bard who emblafoned the arms of archbifliop Parker, writes, — Stars give light, and beautify the fky ; So learning fnines wuh life accordingly. — Life of Parker, p. 50. \ Mr. Mafters's Hift. of C. C. C. p. 60 ; and Le Neve's Fafti, p. 394. \ Sirype's Life of Grindal, p. 7. § Le Neve FafV, 365. U Fuller's Hiftory of Cambridge, p. 132. ** Strype's Ann. vol. I. p. 29O, 3O4. univerfity LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 205 u::iverfity of Cambridge, after his condemnation, was this admouition, Oh ! Perne, repent ''. Againft a fuggcftion, that he was a favourer of all the Romifli errors and fuper- ftitions, abating the pope's univerfal blfhopric, he attempted to juftify himfelf in a public dilpute ; and the rumour increafing, in confequencc of fome expreffions which h^d theu dropped from him, he addreiied to archbifliop Parker a letter of explanation and jullihcation -f. And, foon after his death, his charafter was fe- vereU' treated by Gabriel Harvey, the poet, in a grofsly fcurrilous trafl: J. But, notwithilanding Dr. Perne had betrayed a want of the courage of a martyr, and of even the fpirit of a conteflbr, he was held in iiigh repute at Cambridge, and much efteemed by thearchbilhops Parker and Whitgift. He muft therefore have poiTefied commendable qualities, and have done iome meritorious aflions, to countervail the unfavourable opinions enterta'ned of him for the verfatility of his conduft. To his credit it is related, that, fo far from being fliirulated by the rancorous zeal too often difcernible in converts, he by his moderation prevented the burning of any one reforiner at Cainbridge§. And it is certain that Whitgift, at that time a fellow of Peter Houfe, efcaped, by the raafter's connivance, the fearch made after rc' puted heretics, when Cardinal Pole vifited the univerfity Ij. Dr. Perne, in his epitaph, is reprefented as having been a moft excellent patron of learned men ** ; and the following diftich in Latin is one of the mottos affixed to his portrait ia the combination room of Peter Houfe "f-f- : Libraria, libri, redditus, pulcherrima dona, Perne, pium mufis te philoraufe probant. Library, hois, rents, gifts, Perm! mojifair\ From you, the Mufes friend, thefe off' rings are. The whole of the other motto hx-SiMvui S" iv xyoiv-u Ephef.TV. v. 5. holding, or keeping the truth in lov&, was not equally applicable to his character in every part of life. At queen Elizabeth's fplendid vifit to Cambridge, Dr. Perne was one of the four doclors who fupported her canopy upon her arrival at King's College ; in which * Strype, Ecclef. Mem. vol. III. p. 230, 231. t Strype's Life of Parker, p. 176. X Life of Whitgift, p. 5. § " Let us give unto Dr. Pern liis deferved praife, that he quenched the fire of perfecution, •• or rather fufFered it not to be kindled in Cambridge, faving many the ftake by his moderation. *' Fuller, as before." In Queen Marj-'s perlecution he flcreened the univerfity by his flexible principles, fo that no gremial of the univerfity fufFered martyrdom. He is indeed blamed for altering his religion four times in twelve years; but it may be faid for him, that, if his compli- ance was faulty, his charity was fingular, who endangered himfelf to favc others, who elfe had been peii;cuted, and perhaps havs fell more foully. Magn. Britan. as before. II Life of Whitgift, as before. ** Hift. of Lambeth Parifli, App. p.44. ^f Carter's Hiil, of Cambridge, p, 36, 37. D d chapel 2o6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF chapel he delivered a fermon ad clerum, having for his theme, Anima fubdila fit pofef- latibus fup or eminent thus. Rom. xiii. i. And, before he left the pulpir, her Majefty, by the Lord Chancellor, fcnt him word, '■' It was the firft- fermon that ever flie heard in Latin ; and ihe thought flie fhould never hear a better*." But a few days after, when Perne was the principal opponent to profeflbr Hntton, in the Divinity A6>, on the queftion, " Major eft auihoritas Scripturte quam Fcclefia;,"' greater is tke authority of Scripture than of the Church ; he gave fome offence to the queen by preffing too warmly the Church's power of e.vcommunication -}~. He was named by the fecretary of ftate for one nf the Lent preachers in 1565, and was not accepted by archbifiiop Parker, to whofe revifal the lift was fubmirted ; pro- bably, becaufe he had rendered himfelf unpopular by having changed his reli- gion four times in twelve years. His grace, however, was willing to have a man, of his diftinguifhed learning, a co-adjutor in the trantlation of what was called the Biftiops' Bible. Ecclefiafles, and Solomon's Song, were the portions of Scripture aHigned to him ;};, In 1574, the archbiihop prefented a valuable colleffion of books to the public- library at Cambridge ; many more books were obtained, from the lord keeper, the- billiop of Winchefter, and other perfons of rank; and he feparately claffed thefe different parcels, that the donation of each benefactor might be better perpetuated. To the archbifiiop was fent an epiftle of grateful acknowledgments for repeated tokens of his bounty. It was elegantly written by the orator, who noticed in it- the ftudlous attention of Perne to his grace, and to the univerfity §. Dr. I'erne's feKices, as vice-chancellor, muft have been very ufeful and fatts- faftory ; for he was five times elected into the office 1]. And I am inclined to be- lieve that no other perfon was fo frequently honoured with this poft of trouble and pre-eminence. By ufing the word feems, bifhop Tanner muft have had his doubts whether Perne might have been a chaplain to archbiftiop Whitgift. Carter, without ci- ting any authority, fays exprefsiy, he was fo to Parker**; and I can find no other evidence of it than that in a letter he fubfcribes himfelf his grace's moft bounden orator. But, fuppofmg him- to have been engaged in this capacity to either of thefe primates, or to both, his call of duty at Cambridge muft have prevented any long re-fidence at Lambeth. Archbiftiop Parker fent his fon to Peter Houfe, being affured of the good difcipliiie of a college under a head fo active and difcreet. On fhe return of the young gentleman to college in 1564, the mafter fignificd to his grace how much plealed be was to fee him again at his ftudies ;. and he like- wife informed the archbiihop of the coutfe it was his intention his fon fliould pur- * Account by Dr. Robinfon, chaplain to archbifliop Parker. About the middle of the fer- mon. the queen fent lord Hunfdon to will Dr: Peine to put on his cap, which he did to the end. t Sfrype's Ann. vol. I. p( 404. % Lite of Parker, p. 404. ^ 7ui et AcaJemrtf amantiftmui Perne. Life of Parker, p. 484, 486. jl laiheyeari 1551, J556, 1559, 1574, and 1580 **' Hillory of Cambridge, p. 23. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 207 ft2e, having procured a very learned and affable man to read to him ; and he promifed on his own part that all poflible care Ihould be taken of him *; When Feme was in town, foliciting contributions to the public librar)', he was a part of the archbifhop's family ; and it is not unlikely that he was at other times the primate's gueft. The fcreening of Whitgift from the inquifition of cardinal Pole was not the only favour conferred on him by the mafter of Peter Houfe -f ; for, foon after his removal from Queen's College, he was dangeroufiy ill ; and, during his ficknefs, was indebted to Dr. Perne for his benevolent and beneficent attention to him. Of thefe kind and generous acts archbilhop Whiigift always prcferved a grateful remembrance i and, after his advancement co the fee of Canterbury, his treatment of Perne was friendly and affectionate. He was frequently entertained at Lambeth Houfe, and there deceafed, rather fuddenly, April 26, 1389, By his grace's direifiion he was decently interred in the chancel of that church ; and in a frcetcii of his character, written foon after his death, in anfwer to the afperfions propagated by Gabriel Harvey, there is this paffage, as quoted by Strype, from a trail en- titled, " Have with you to Saffron V/alden." Dr. Perne is calked up in lead, and cannot arife to plead for himfelf ; therefore I will commit this to ink and paper ia his behalf. Few men lived better, though, like David and Peter, he had his fall j yet the univerfity had not a more careful father this hundred years. And, if on no other regard, but that a chief father of our commonwealth loved him, in vvhofc houfe he died, he might have fpared and forbom him. Plis hofpitality was as great as hath been kept before, or ever fince, upon the place he had, being mafter of Peter Houfe, and dean of Ely. And as for his wit and learning, they that miflike, want the like wit and learning, or elfe they would have more judgment to dif- cern it J. A grave-done was placed over his remains by his nephew, Richard Perne; and I imagine the doftor had a great nephew, Andrew Perne, M. A. a fellow of Peter Houfe, who was prodlor of the univeriity in 1615; elected mafter of the Charter Houfe, December 3, 1614; and inftituted, February 24, 1615, to the vicarage of South Minfter, in ElTex, on a prefeatation from the governours of that hof- pital §. Wood, Richard, D.D. of Cambridge, and when B. D. incorporated at Ox- ford, appears to have been much efteemed by archbilhop Whitgift, and might be, * Life of Parker, p. 175. f From malice, and with the view of depreciating the archbifliop, Penry vented, in his Mar- prelate, the falfe tale, that he was Dr. Feme's boy, and bore his cloke-bag after him. Life of Whitgift, p. 6. J Ibid, p. 6, 322. Of his writing?, fee Lewis'* Preface to WiclifFe's New Tellament ; and hie benefa£tions are fpecified in Bromfieid's Cambridge Coiledion, p. 90. § Bearcroft's Hiftorical Account of Thomas Sutton, Efq, p. 159. And Newcor.rt, Rcper- 'tor. vol. n. p. 537. D d 2 as 2o8 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF as Newronrt believes, cne of his charla:.!'- Certain it is. that he was well pre- ferred by his grace, v?ho firfl: prelenied hih; -o the vicarage of Allhaliows, Barking; and, afterwards, to the redories of Booking and Stifled, in Eifex. He occurs alfo a prebendary of Weftrainfter, and was poffeffed of the prebend of PorrpoolCy in St. Paul's Catiiedral. He deceafed befoie the aSth of September, 1609. New- court, Repcrtor. vol. I. p. 200. Archbishop BA^'cROFT. Harfnett, Samuel, D. D. (bifhop of Chichefter, and Norwich, and archbifhop of York) appears to have been chaplain to Dr. Bancroft whilft bifliop of Lon- don ; as he was archdeacon of Effex; prebendary of Mapefbury, in St. Paul's Cathedral ; vicar of Chigwell ; and rector of St. Margaret's, New Filh-flreet ; pre- ferments in the patronage of that fee. From the archbifhop he had the rt-ftory of Stifted, in EffcK. Newcourt, Repert. vol. I. p. 73. Scrvpe notices, under the year 13S6, an account publi.Tied by Dr. Harfnet, biiliop Bancroft's chaj)lain, of the deteftion and conviftion of two inipoRors, who pretended to have a power of carting out devds. They were young miniders, and the examination was before tbe archbilhop and commiffioners ecciefiaJlical at Lambeth. Annals, vol. III. P- 432- Kavis, Thomas, bifhop, who had been chaplain to the archbifhop Whitgift,. was continued in the fame office by his luccefTor. Godwin de Prteful. p. 194. Barcham, or Barkham, John, D. D. firft of Exeter, and afterwards of Corpus Chrifti College, in Oxford. He occurs reffor of Finchley, in Midolefex ; and prebend of Brownfwood, in St. Paul's Cathedra! ; but was collated to thele prefer- meuts after Dr. Bancroft was removed from the bilhopric of London j and thou.ih, according to Newcouit, he was chaplain to him when crchbilhop of Canterbuiy, I do not find that he was promoted by him : for, archLiihcp abbot collated him, in 1615, ^^ ^^^ reftories of Lachindon and Paglefham; and appointed him dean of Booking the year following, jointly with Dr. Goad. Kepertor. vol. I. p. 123. The character given of him by A. Wood is, " that he was a perfon of great p^rts and learning, and Itrift lire and converfaiion *. Dr. Barcham particularly diftinguifhed himfelf as an Englifh antiquary and hif- torian. In Speed's Chronicle, the reigns of Henry 11. and John are afligned to him; and it has been obferved, that they are writ en in a manner anfwerable to the good opinion learned men had of him. The Difplay of Heraldry, publiihed in 1610, the icholaflic part efpecially, was moftly written by Barcham ; and a: the requefl of Laud he prefented him with a verv valuable colleftion of coins, which the archbiinop g^ive to the univerhty of Oxford ; and they are depohted in the Bodleian Library. When chaplain to Abbot, that prchte authorized him to obtain, and to bring to Lambeth, the remainder of Hooker's Ecclefiaftical Po- * Athen, Ox, vol. II. p. 9. Hty, LAMBETH PxVLACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 20 lity, then in the poireffion of Dr. Henry Kuig, afterwards bifliop of Chicheft^r ; and he fucceedcd in his commiirion. Barnwell, Henrv, B.D. was admitted to the fourth prebendal flail in Rochefter Cathedral, in 1615, by a reverfionary grant, dated February 10, 1605, being then chaplain to archbifhop Banerott. Cote's Reg. p. 219, 283. A. 1593, No- vember 20, that dean and chapter prefented him to the vicarage of Aylesford, in Kent. He was itiflituted to the rc^ory of Eaft Barming in June 1603; and occurs rector of Ridley parifli, in the fame county, in 1608. He died in 161 •/» his will being dated March 26, and proved the fame year, and was buried in Ro- chefter Cathedral. Childerlcy, John,. D. D. when a young man, and junior fellow of St. John's College, in Oxford, was preacher to the Englifh merchants at S:ade ; and, on his return, became chaplain to Dr. Bancroft, then bifhop of London, in whofe fa- mily he continued after his tranilation to Canterbury. The king pr( fenicd hiin to the re«Sory of St. Diinftan in the Kail:, in June 1606, on the promoiion of Dr. Barlow to the fee of Rochefter ; and he held with it the reftory of Shenfield, in FiFex. He \^as a very eminent and h-equent preacher j but, through age and continual labour, grew blind io'mc years before his death. Newcourt, Kepert. vol. I. p. 334. Fulhdin, Ed.vard, D. D. became chaplain to Bancroft when bifliop of Oxford. He was a ituden*- of Chr.ll Church, in that univerficy ; ekfted profeflbr of moral philofophy, juiaary ay, 1643; and executed the office of prodor in 1639. He was a member of t!ie convocation ailembled in 1640, and a flrenuous oppofer of the Faritan pirty. By bifliop Bancroft he was prefented to the vicarage of Bray, in Berks; ob.amedafteivvari.is the redturles of Wooton and of Hampton Po\le, both in Oxfordlliire ; and in 1641 he occurs prebendary of Ipthom, in Chichelter Caihedral, wnic.i he refiigned in 1682. On the reftoraiion of kir.g Charles II. he was promored to the canonry of Wiadfor, bc-ng inftilkd July 12, ibOo ; and dying December 9, '6^5, Wjs buried at Compion Ertbury. in Surrey. Dr. Fuller is noticed bv A. Wood (A. O. vol. il. Faft. p. 133) ; m Walker's SutTerings of the Gbrgy (pan II. p. is^i and his chara;:ter is given in /iichbifho}) Laud's Hiflory of his Cnancellorihip. Pasfield, Zachiry, B.D. was iu great favour with archbiftop Bancroft; and NewcouLt imat^ines that he might be h'.,. c upl.->in. Certain it is, that he was colL'ed by h m, when biihop of London, to thj prebend of Ne*ington, in Sr. Pau;'d Cathedral; -u -601 ; and, when archbiihop, to the red ory of Bocking. Plis . grace aho appointed him dean of Bocking, jointly with Dr. George Merton. Newcourt, Repert. vol. 1. p. 189. Archbishop Abtjot. Abbot, Edward, occurs chaplain in April, 1611. He was admittct precentor of Wells CitheJral, January 13, 1613, probably an optional prefenia ic.a on the confecration of bifhop Montague, April 17, 1608. It may be prclumed he died 5 . '^ tio ADDENDA TG THE HISTORIES OF in 1634, that being the year of the collation of St. Sebaftian Smith, his fuccefibrj into the lame ftall. Batch am, John. See chaplains to archbifliop Bancroft. Barnard, D. D. is mentioned, by Fuller, as domeflic chaplain to the archbilhop, and one of his nearefl relations. Church Hiftory, book XI. p. 128. Childerley, John. See chaplains to archbifliop Bancroft. Dunfler, John, INI, A. is mentioned by A. Wood (A. O. vol. I. N" 459) as a chaplain. He was a native of Somerfetlhire, made a Demy of Magdalen College, Ox- tord, in 1598, being then fixteen years of age, and perpetual fellow in 1602. In 16 11, when junior proftor, he preached before the univerluy on Eafler Monday; and a rehearfal of his fermon is publifhed in Dr. Featley's Clavis Myftica, p. 522. The theme of the rehearfal of the four fermons of this year was four rows of pre- cious ftones, or an illuftration of Exod. chap. XXVIII. v. 15 — 21, in which the myllic doctor alluded to the four preachers. The tliird row, ver. 19, a turkeys*, an agate, and an amethyft, he applied to Dunfter, the third fpeaker, and his doc- trine, who, as he obferves, " touching the infirmities of the clergy and laity, fo " feelingly refembkd the turkeys, which the jevvelilts make the emblems of com- *' paffion. His fermon, for the variety of good learning in it, was a curious agat, " and mofl; like that of Pyrrhus, wherein the nine Mufts were portrayed ; the •*' parts thereof were like the ameihyll, party-co'oured, partly like wine, partly *' like violets ; like wine, in his matter of confutation, .ftrong and fearching ; like " violets, in his exhortation, fweet and comfortable. His defcription of Chrid's *' bloody death vs'as like wine, the bhud of the grape \ but of the refurreftion, like *' violets, the firfl fruits of the fpring. The emboffment of gold, wherein thefe, *' gemmes of divine doflrine were fet, was his texr, taken out of Apocalypfe, " chap. I. verfe iS ; a booke, the reading whereof the ancient church elteemed fo *' profitable, and needful, that they enjoined all, upon paine of excommunication, " to reade it once a yeare, between Eafter and Whitfontide." Featley, Daniel, D. D. to be noticed among the reftors of Lambeth. Gell, Robert, D. D. of Pampsford, in Cambridgefliire, and of the fame family with Sir John Gell, a noted colonel in the parliament army, was, according to A. Wood, tor fome time, chaplain to the archbiQiop of Canterbury. And Mr. Lewis, in his Hiftory of the Tranflation of the Englifh Bibles, (p. 233), mentions his ferving archbifliop Abbot in this capacity. I do not fiml that he had any other preferment than the re(5fory of St. Mary Aldermary, London ; and as in the title-page of his fermon, preached in that church, Augufl: i, 1649, before the learned Society of Afl:rologer3, he is ftyled " Minifter of God's word there," it feeras to imply that he might obtain the benefice by an oidincmce of Parliament. The fubjedt of his fermon, which is dedicated to the learned Society of Artifl:s, or Stu- * So fpelt repeatedly in Clavis Myftica, and thus introduced, " Few there are but know the tur- *' keys, tanquam ungues digitafqiie fnos, wearing it tiiually. An excellent property it is faid to have of "changing colour with the lick party that wearcth it, and thereby expreffing a kind 01' lympathy." dents LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 2if tlents in Aftrologie, is Stella nova, a new ftarre, leading vvife men to Chiift, and, nonvithftanding fome realbns, which he offered, and many more that might be named, he fays, he found himlelf engaged, upon occafion of his fubjecr, to fpeak fomething concerning the concealed truth of God's governing the world by the ii^fluence of the ftars and angels, which he believed makes much for the glory of God, becaufe thereby his power is made known in retraining the ordinary. jiower of Nature, as he often dorh. In 1659, he publifhed an Elfay toward the atnendiyienc of thelaft trauflation of theEnglilh Bible. He was alfo reputed author of iill'HNlSCON, or a treatife of peace between the two vifible divided parties, pubiidied in i66oj under the name of Irensius Philadelphus Fhilanthropus, prcfoyter, ;ind profefTor of the more ancient dodtrine, i. e. of the Church of England. And aher his death, eut of his fermons and Icclures in St. Mary Aldermanbury Church, was colleded a volume, entitled, Gell's Remains, &c. It was licenfcd, in 1675, by Er. Hooper,, the archbiftiop's chaplain. Dr. Geil probably died in the fpring of the year 1665 ; for, Mr. Tomkins, another chaplain, who fucceeded him in this re^ory, was adniitred to it April 11. Goad, Thomas, D. O. Ibn of PiogerGoad, provoft of king's College, in Cam- bridge, was elected a fellow of that Society in 1592, and prelented to the redory of Milton, in Cambridgefliire ; a living, of which the advowfon was given to the college by his father. The other benefices, he required, were the precentorfhip in St. Paul's Cathedral; the refiories of Black Notley, in Effex, and of Hadley, in Suffolk ; the deanery of Bocking, jointly with Dr. Barcham ; the tenth prebend- in Winchefler Cathedral, and a prebend in that of Canterbury^ though the ftall is- not afGgned. In 16 19, he was fent to thefynod of Dort ; and, on being introduced, requited the prefident's fpeech with a pithy oration, promifing the utmoft of his- afliftance to the general good ; a promife, remarks Fuller, well performed by him, he afterwards giving ample teltimony of his general learning, and folid judg- ment in divinity; and no(hing being wanting in him but that he came too late 10 his employment in the lynod. Church Hiftory, book X. p. 80. See alio Newcourr,, Kepert. I. p. loi. Eachard's Hill, of England, p. 460. And Blometield's Col- leift. Cant. p. 136. Harris, Dr. is mentioned as chaplain in the parifh regifter of baptifms in 1626. Jeoffray, or Jeffrey, John, D. D. occurs chaplain to archbifliop Abbot in 1626 ; and was collated by him, in 1629, to the fixth prebend in Canterbury Cathedral. The dean and chapter prefented him to the the vicarage of Tifehuift, in Sufl[ex ;. and, on their prefentation, he was inftituted, February 27, 1642, to the vicarage of Faveriham, in Kent. Not long aftef, he was I'equeftercd from his preferments; and he muff have rendered himlelf very obnoxious to the then prevailing powers, if what Mr. Lewis* relates be well founded, of his having preached that the king may take not only part, but the zvhole, of his fubjetls ejlates, tf it pteafe him. The * Hiftory of Faverdiam, p. 74. Sec a farther account of him in Jacob's hiflory of the fame town J and alfo in Mi^n. Biitan. Antiq[. et Nov. vol. II. p. ia53i Doftor, Z12, ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Dodor, and Dr. Harris, another chaplain, were fponfors at the baptifm of an In- dian in 1626. Par. Reg. Mafler, William, inltituted vicar of FaverOiam. Mokett, Hici-.ard, D. D. elected warden of All Souls College in 1614. By- Abbot, as bifliop of London, he was, in 1610, collated to tiie redlory of St. •Leonard, Eaftcheap; and, as archbifhop, the year following, his grace prefented his cuaplain to the reftory of St. Michael, Crooked-lane. P'o.ti the fan e patron, Dr. Mokett had afterwards the reflories of Monks Rifl.)orough in Bucks, and of Ne^ving'^n in Oxforulhire *. Parkhuift, John, D. D. was, in 1572, proclor for the univerfity of OxTord, ibeing then fellow of Magdalen College ; and was elefted maiter ot Bilijl, Keh. 10, 1616 -}~. But, previous to this promotion, he had been chaplain to Sir Henry Nevil, embalTador at Paris-, who prclenfed him to the re 391. Arch> « -4C LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PAE.1SH. 213 Archbishop Laud. Sterne, Richard, D. D. (archbifhop of York) was his chaplain, and in fuch high efleem as to be fele£led by him to do the laft kind but melancholy office ot af- fifling his grace in his devotions upon the IcafFold. When the archbiQiop had finifhed his prayer, he gave his paper to Dr. Sterne, faying, " Doi^or, 1 give you *' this, that you may fhew it to your fellow chaplains, that they may fee how I *' am gone out of this world. God's blefling and his mercy be upon them !" Diary. See an account of him in Mr. Mafters's Hiftory of C. C. C. C. p. 376, of which fociety he was a fellow. Taylor, Jeremy, D. D. though a member of the univerfity of Cambridge, was, by the influence of archbifhop Laud, ele(5led a fellow of All Souls College, in Oxford ; and, when chaplain to him, prefenred to the re£lory cf Uppingham, in Rutlandfliire. Being ejefted from his benefice, he retired into Wale? i but, after the Reftoration, was prcmoted to the bifhopric of Down and Connor, io Ireland. Baylie, Richard, D. D. elefted prefident of St. John's College in Oxford, Ja- nuary It, 1632. He feems to have been chaplain to Laud, when bilhop of St. David's, fince he occurs chancellor of that cathedral *. By the fam.e prelate, after his tranflation to London, he was collated to the prebend of Chifwick, in St. Paul's ; and to the vicarage of Northall, in Middlefex ; the former he religned in 1626, and the latter in 1637 ; but he was appointed dean of Salifbury in 1635. In 1657, he was ejected from the headihip of his college, being charged wiih the higheft contumacy againft the authority of Parliament -f ; but he was reflored in July or Auguft 1660, when he was like wife reinftated in other preferments. Dr. Baylie refufed the bifliopric of Lichfield ; becaufe, as Kennet exprefles it, Dr. Frevven had fkimmed the fines and other emoluments of that fee before his tranf- lation to the archbilhopric of York J. Dr. Richard Gardiner, canon of Chrift- church, who preached the rehearfal fermon at Oxford, on Eafter Day, 1638, de- dicated it to Dr. Baylie, at that time vice-chancellor ; and in the dedication he Iketches the charader of Baylie, by comparing it with a former dean of Chrift- church, I fuppofe. Dr. Duppa, bifliop of Winchefter, to whom he vv.ss under great obligations. " I knowe" (he remarks) " from my own experience, that you are made up of the fame extraflions of goodneffe zwd gentlenejji ; your aflcftions alike poyfed, your pulfe beats in as even and /oft a temper; there is ^o fuUenncJfe, no roiighnejfe in it. As yet you dignifj an equal dignity in the church, you fill up the place of government with that general applaufe which was heretofore payd as his due §." Dr. Baylie died at Salifbury, July 27, 1667, In the 88th year of his age, * B. Willis's Survey, p. 156, f Ayliffe's Hift. of Oxford, vol. I. p. 235, X Regifter and Chron. p. 272. § The dedicator, alluding, as I imagine, to archbifliop Laud, terms him an arch-angel. *' I acknowledge in fincerity, not out of adulation (and yet, to fpeak truth of fomc is rendered, Ee "in 214 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF age, and was buried in the chapel of St. John's College, Oxford ; ^^'bere, upon Zi ftately momiinent, is his head, curioufly engraven in alabafler, that was faiJ to bear a ftrlking refemblance to him in the latter part of his life*. His epitaph is in Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana -f ; and he is noticed in the ether books cited below %. B:rkinhead, John, LL. D. From inadvertency, as it is believed, be is clafled by Dr. Ducarel among the chaplains to Laud; for, in 1639, when he was elected, from Oriel College, "Oxford, to be a fellow of All Souls, he was only amanuenfis to the archbifhop. In 1643, he -was chofen profeflbr of moral philofophy, in Oxr ford ; and in Ofiober, 1648, the parliamentary vifitors ejected him from his felr lowfliip. Soon after the Reftoration, he was created dodlor of laws, elected a re- prefentanve for Wilton, knighted, made a mailer of the faculties, and one of the matters of requefis. In 1661, he publifhed the Afiembiy Man, or the Ghai after of An AfTembly man, written in 1647 §. And, Augufl: 8, 1662, A Brief for a Charitable Collection, grounded on falfe Pretences ; being revoked by order of Council, Dr. Birkinhead was to take care that the advertifement was printed ia the next weekly news book ||. He died in 1679. His charafter and writings are noticed in the books referred to below **. The Imprimatur to Hudibras, 12% 1662, was {i2;ned Jo. Berken-head, Nov. 11, 1662. Bray, William, D. 1>. wasof Chrift's College, in Cambridge. He officiated as junior chaplain when Dr. Laud, as bifhop of London, confecrated the parifh church of Stanmore, in Middlefex, July 7, i632-|"|-» And by that prelate he was the fame year collated to the prebend of Mapi^lbury. in St. Paul's Cathedral; to the recr ory of St. Ethelburg, in London ; and to the vicarage of St. Martin's in the Fields. The aichbilhop likewile gave him the firft prebendal flail in Csuterburv ; pro- bably about 1637, on the promotion of Dr. Warner to the bidiopric of Rocbefter. In 1640, Dr. Bray was proctor in convocation, and with Dr. Oliver, another of his grace's chaplains, was appointed to compofe a prayer that was to be ufed in that *■ in the dialeft and bad comment of the malevolent, to flatter), that, by the piety and prudence of " the arch-angel oi oiir^church, the moft vigilant lentinell of our univerf.ty, Socinianifm is not dif. " fembled among us. The text of the doftor's difcoiirfe was Romans, chap. VII. verfe 11. The " fubjeft, as given in the title-page, wherein is proved the Son's equality with the Father, the " deity of the Holy Ghofl, and the refurredlion of the fame numerical body, againft the old and" " recent oppugners of thefe facred verities." The firft pafTage in the fermon is ; " My meflage " on Chriftmas Day was Chrift coming into the earth; my Eafter tidings are, that he came out of " the eanh." * Ncwccurt, Repert. vol. I. p. 140. + Vol. V. >>° 153. J Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part II. p. 117, Neale's Hiftory of the Puritans, vol. III. p. 464. And Grey's Anfwer to Neale, siA. II. p. 320. § Kennel's Rcgifter, p. 829. || Ibid. p. 740. ** Wal'ei's ii'ffcrings of the Clergy, part II. p. 98, Neale's Hift. of Puritans, vol. IIJ. p. 4(5. W od, Hilt and Antiq. Oxon. L. II. p, 43. ft Oughton, Ordo Juiidic. vol. II. p. 249. AlTembly, LAttlBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 215 Affembly *. He was cenfured the fame year by the Hoiife of Lords, for licen- Cng two of Dr. Pockllngion's pubhcations ; one a vifuation fermon, entitled Sun- day no Sabbath; and the other, a traft called The Chriftian Altar; and obliged to preach a recantation fermon -f-. At length, for his loyalty, his preferments were fequeflered ; and, after fuffering imprilonment, he judged it expedient to take refuge abroad, wliere be died in 1644I. Brown, Thomas, D. D, of Chriftchurch, in Oxford, and proftor of the univer- Cty in 1636. He was reflor of St. IMary, Aldermary, in London, probably on the prefentation of archbifhop Laud ; reftor of Odington, in Oxford(hire § ; and, in 1639, jnftalled a canon in Windfor. On being deprived of his preferments, he went to Holland, and became a chaplain to the princefs cf Orange. After the Re- ftoration he recovered his preferments ; and, dying at \N indfcr, December 6, 1675, was there ir.terred. And Voffius (whom the do<5lor had made his CMCcutor) executed a montiment to his memory, the infcripiion on which thus charafterifes him: '' Vir apprime doBus et ervditus ; criticns acuius ; faciindus craior; felix phi- "■ kjc'phus ; antiquituiis chrojiologieq^ue cultor fo'ertljjimus ; amgmatum dlie7iiinaluinque " cotifcie'iitiaruin dulntantium Oedipus adruodum Chriftianus" Notwithftanding this diplay of his intelleclual abilities and merit, his parif i jners of Aldermary are faid to have tendered agaiuft him, to his patron the archbifliop, a charge of blafphemy ; but Walker was fatisfied that it was a groundlefs imputation. Vofllus dedicated his Sybilline oracles to Dr. Browne. Echard has drawn his charafter || ; and there is an account of his writings in Bodley's Catalogue ; and in Magn. Britan. vol. IH. P- 55- Frank, Mark, D. D. Though in the Hiftory of Lambeth Palace he is the fiift on the lift of chaplains to archbifhop Laud, it may be doubted whether he was long in that office ; becaufe, among the clergy who were fufFerers in the national commotions of the laft century, he is only mentioned as being deprived of his fel- lowfhip of Pembroke Hall, in Cambridge **. An afl of delinquency, imputed to him, was a fermon preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, May 15, 1642. He became chaplain to bifhop Sheldon, of London, who collated him, in December 1660, to the archdeaconry of St. Alban's, and the treafurerfhip of St. Paul's ; and from the fame patron he had the prebend of Iflington \-\. In February following he was admitted to the reftory of Barley, in Herts, and in : 662 elefted mafter of Pembroke. He was one of the commiffioners who certified the having compared the printed form of prayers with the original; and in June 1662 was appointed a commit- * Synodiis Anglicans, by bifliop Gibfon, part II. p. 23. + Collier's Ecclef. Hift. vol. II. p. 798. Fuller's Ch. Hift. book XI. 172. I Xevvcourt, Repert. vol. I. p. 176 ; and Walker's Sufferings, part II. p. 6. \ Walker's Sufferings, part II. p. 93. || Hift of England, p. 898. ** Walker's Sufferings, part II. p. 124. And Grey's Anfwer to Neal, vol. IT. p. 149. ft Newcourt, Repert. vcl. I. p, 96. E e 2 Tioner 2i6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF fioner for vifiting the diocefe of Ely *. As chaplain to Dr. Henchman, bifliop of London, he thus fanftioned a republication of Archbifliop Bancrofi's Survey of the Holy Difclpline ; with another trafl ,entitled. Dangerous Pofitions, &c. Sape enivi ehariii imprmi non iniquwn, quod femper cordibus imprimi, non tarn ad doSirinam ecclefta AngliciriiT, quam ad difLiplinam tuto confervandam trqiium ejl -f. The imprimatur of the lawfulnefs of conformity, &c. is thus exprefled, Receiifui Traclatum hunc cut tituhis. The Grand Cafe, Grand equidem opus, fi quod intendit efficiat %. And of Dr. Richard Alleftree's fermon on the anniverfary of the king's relforation, he, in his imprimatur, dated July 9, 1662, pronounces it to be ccncio quo nihil non invenio tcclefia Anglicana: confonum ct authore dignum. He died in 1664, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. He publiflied a courfe of 5 \ fermons ; and one at St. Paul's Crofs, in 1641 ; fol. 1672. Hales, John, M.A. the ever memorable fellow of Eton College. That this excellsn: man was, however, in the family of archbifhop Laud is not a little queftionabie ; nor does it appear that he had any title in form to the office of chap- lain. After the lo; g converfiuion between his grace and Mr. Hales at Lambeth, in 1638, in which Mr. Hales vindicated the notions he had advanced in his Treatife upon Schifm, the archbifiiop (obferves A. Wood) was fo fatisfied with Hales, that he made him his chaplain, and preferred him in the church of Windfor ; but the expreffion of Mr. Long, in his remarks upon this traft, is, that after the con- ference they were very good friends, the archbifhop ifudying to prefer Hales, and he, as his chaplain, praying for the archbiiiiop. But there cannot be a doubt of Mr. Hale's obtaining, by bis grace's interefc, a canonry of ^Vindfor §. Heywood, William, D. D. A fellow of St. John's College, in Oxford, where he W2s in high repute as a tutor. Dr. Laud, when bifhoy of London, collated him to the prebend of Chamberlain Wood, in St. Paul s Cathedral, and the rec- tory of Laingdon, in Effex, in 1631; and in the year following he officiated as fenior chaplain at the confecration of the church of Sianmore, in Middlefex. About 1636 the biffiop gave him the vicarage of St. Giles's in tlie Fields; and in 1638 he he was promoted to a prebend of Weftrainfter. In the Long Pari'ament his pa- rifhioners exhibited articles of complaint againft him; imprifonment in the Comp- ters, and in Ely Hcufe, enfued, together with a deprivation of his preferments, by which he was reduced to great ilraits. Surviving the rt^ftoration of regal go- vernment, he was reinftated in his preferments. He was proflor tor the diocefe of London in the convocation which paffed the Book, of Common Prayer, and figned one of the collated books. Dr. Heywood die.i in July 166^5, eminent as a preacher, and as a man of learning, as well as for the meeknefs oi his temper and converfation {{. * Rennet's Reg. p. 841, S82. f Ibid. p. 729. % Ibid. p. 742. § Hiftorical and critical Account of the Lite, &c, of Mr. Hales, by R. Des Maizeaux, p. 34, an«l 43, in the notes. II Newcourt, Repertor, vol. I. p. 613 ; who refers to Ath. Ox. vol. II. p. 2i8, for a farther account of the doiflor, and a lift of his writings. Lay- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 217 Layficld, EJward, D. D. was half fiRcr's fon to archbiniop LaucJ, and edu- cated in St. John's College, in Oxford. He was chaplain to his uncle when biihop of London, and collated by him to the prebend of Harlllone, in St. Paul's. When tranflated, he alfo preferred his nephew to the archdeacontry of Effex, Feb 5, 1633, this dignity being for that time in the archbidiop's gift, perhaps as an option upon the confirmation of bifhop Juxon. In May, 1635, Dr. Layfield was prefented to the vicarage of AUhallovvs, Barking; and about the fame time he became doftor of divinity. As he had not this degree at Oxford by creation or admiffion, it was probably conferred upon him by the archbifliop's own authority. The other benefices, of which he occurs pofleffed, were a refidentiaryfliip in St. Paul's Cathedral ; and the reftories of Childingford and Barnes, in Surrey. His fulFerings for his attachment to the royal caufe are noticed by Walker, with a flcetch of his character *. He died about the beginning of the year 1680, and was buried in the chancel of Allhallows, Barking. Marfh,. Richard, D. D. In Kennet's Regifter-}- it is noticed, that Dr. Marfh was born, in 1585, at Finhampfled, in Hertfordlhire, by a miftake perhaps for Berks, there being a parifh of that name in this county, and n:>: one fo called, as I apprehend, in Hertfordrnire. Though he had been a fellow of All Souls College, he is mentioned as being of the univerfity of Cambridge, when he was created doftor of divinity at O.sford, in 1536. He was chaplain to Dr. Mat- thew, a'rchbifhop of York, by whom he was probably collated to the vicarage of Burflall, in that county ; and to a prebend in each of the churches of Southwell and Ripon. And by the king he was prefented to the vicarage of Hallifax, and the archdeaconry of the Weft Riding. In 1644, he was nominated to the deanry of York, but was not inftalled till after the Relforation, v/hen molt likely he mud have been reinftated in feme of the other preferments, from which he had been ejedlcd during the civil war. He died October 20, 1663, and was buried in York Cathedral, Martin, Edward, D?D. attended bifliop Laud as chaplain at the confecration of the chapel at Hammerfmith, June 2, 1631, and was the preacher upon that occa- fion. His text was, Exodus, chap. III. verfe 5 J. In Oftober of the fame year, he was elected prefidcnt of Oneen's College, in Cambridge ; and he occurs incumbent of the following redtories, Houghton Conqueft, in Bedfordfliire ; and of Doddington and Coningron, in Cambridgelhire. A. 1643, J^'^acch 13, the earl of ?»'Ianch . Tier, chancellor of Caa.bridge, ejected Mr. ivjartin from the mallerfliip of his cr41i-ge, by virtue of the ordinance of Parrraent, and by the authority of the Huufe of Lorus, the earl, as chancellor, reftored hira, Auguft 3, 1660 §. In * Part II. p. 48. See alfo Neale's Hift. vol. II, p. 389. And Grey's Anfwer, vol. I. p. 223. t P. 2<3, where there is a relcrcnce to Walker's Suffeungs, who notices hii having one or more fermons extant. X Oug.iton, Ordo. Juridic. vol. II. p. 274, § Kenne 's R'igifter, p. 2^1. See alio an account of him at p 670, 728, 882 and 3. In Walker's Sufferings, part U. p. 154. Neale's Hill. vol. ill. p- 119. And in Carter's Hiftory, p. 187, &c, and 194. De- 2i8 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF December, 1661, he figned in convocation the Book of Common Prayer; and was inftalled dean of Ely, by proxy, April 25, 1662 : but cied foon after. Mede, Jofepn, M. A. was certainly admitted into the number of archbifhop Laud's chaplains; for, he ftyles himfelf " Cultor ct Sacellantis obfervantiffimus," in . the fubfcripiion of the dedication to bis grace of the DiOertation on Churches. It does not, however, appear, that he was refident in the archbifhop's family ; and it is well known, that he never obtained, what was the utmoft objeft of his wiflies, a fmecure donative, in addition to his fellowiliip. The firft edition of the Diflerta- lion on Churches, 4to, 1638, had the imprimatur of Dr. Bray, the arcbbifhop's chaplain, dated June 4, with this fmgular reftri£tion, that» if it was not printed within three months, the licence flioutd be void ; though he admitted that the treatife might be pnnted with the public utility, containing nothing contrary to the orthodox faith or Ecckfiaftical Hiftory. In qua nihil reperio fidei orthodoxct, out Hijlori^ Ecdfiajiiccs, conlrarium, quo minus cum utilitate fublicu imprimatur, ita tamen, ut ft uon infra Ires menfes proxhne fequentes ijfis mandsiur, htec licentia fit omnino irrita. Oliver, John, D. D. a native of Kent, was firft a member of Merton College, in Oxford, and afterwards dem.y, fellow, and prefident, of Magdalen College. A. 1638, September 21, he was inftalled a prebendary of Winchefter ; and in Oc- tober, 1639, collated by archbifliop Laud to the reftory of Adilham, in Kent. In the convocation for 1640 he occurs proftor for the diocefe of Canterbury, as alfo for the dean and chapter of Winchefter; and, together with Dr. Bray, an- other of his grace's chaplains, was appointed to compofe a prayer that was to be ufed in the convocation*. Towards the end of the year 1647, he was ejefted from the prefidentiaryfliip of his college, becaufe he would not fubmit to a vifitation contrary to the local ftatutes : but was reftored by an order of the Houfe of Lords, May 18, 1660 : foon after, by the intered of the earl of Clarendon, who had been his pupil, he was preferred by the king to the deanery of Worcefter ; but he did not long furvive this promotiouj- for he died October 27, 1661, and was burled in the chapel of Magdalen College, the whole univerfity attending his funeral with exprelTions of very great concern for the lofs of fo excellent a man. See his cha- rader in Kennet's Regifter-f-, and he is mentioned with becoming refped by dean Fell, in his life of Dr. H. Hammond ;j;. Sydenham, Humphrey, M. A. fellow of Exeter College in Oxford, and thence nominated to a fellowfhip of Wadham by the foundrefs. Wood mentions his having been informed that Mr. Sydenham was chaplain to archbifliop Laud ; and, on the authority of Sir Philip Sydenham, gives this chara£ler of him, that he was a careful paftor over his parifhes, a perfon of quaint and curious ftyle, better at * Synodus Anglicana, part II. p. 23, •{■ P. 552, in the inargin, are references to Walker's Sufferings of the clergy, part II, p. 122. Afid The Public Intelligencer, lvl° 45. X P. 26, &c. practical LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 219 praQical than fchool divinity, and (o eloquent and fluent a preaciier that lie was called "filver-tongued Sydenham." He occurs poflelfed of the reclories of Afti Brittle, Pccklingron, and Odcome, vSomerfetfliire ; and prebendary of Wedmore Tertia in Well's Cathedral ; and died, as is fuppofed, about 1659, at Dulverton, when he had erefted a monument for himl'elt at I'ocklington. Atheu. O.xoa. \ol. II. p. 76. Walker's Sufferings, part II. p. 76. Turner, Thomas^ D. D. was born in the parilh of St. Giles, in Reading, and admitted of St. John's College, in Oxford, under the tuition of Mr. Jiixon, af- terwards archbilhop of Canterbury. He was collated to the prebtnd of Leicciler, in Lincoln Cathedral, Auguft 23, 1612, being then of Stoke Ilai^mondj in Bucks. Being chaplain to Dr. I/aud, whilit bilhop of London, he was colhted by him, in April 1029, to the prebend of Newington, and in Odober following to the chancellorlhip of St. Paul's Cathedral *. He was afterwards prefented by the Crown to the reffory of St. Olave, Southwark; to the deanry of Rochcller, in 1641 -, and to that of Canterbury, in 1641, being at that time in Scotland in attendance upon the king as chaplain.. April 14, 1640, he preached the feriTwn ;.t. the opening of the Convocation -j~, from niatth. x. 16. As he Ileadily adhered, to the caufe of his ro} :d mailer, he was not only deprived of his prcferirents, but fuf- fered iinprifonment for fome time. On the re:loration of Charles II. he declined a bilhopric ; being fully fitisfied with the dignities he had obtained, which he en- joyed fevcral years, dying at Canterbury in the 81 It year of his ,-ige. See an ac- count of hiin, bv Newcouri | 3nd Kennet §, in the fermon preached at his funersl by Dr. Peter Dii Moulin,, one of the prebt ndaries of Canterbury ; and in his epi- taph, printed in the Appendix to the Supplement of Batteley Cantuar. Sacr. |j. Archbilhop L:\ud, having imprudently fuggefted that in all his promotions he Would prefer fingie clerks to fuch as were married ; in order to remove the offence which this declaration had giv- n, he promoted a match for Turner, one of his chaplains, and performed himfelf the marriage ceremony. Harri.^, Hift. of Kent. p. 579, who cites Hv-ylin as his authority for this occurrence. Weeks, Jo!in, B D. inftalled prebendary of Briftol, May 3, 163:;. He occurs proftor for that dean and chapter in the Convocation of 1640, and was prefented by them to the vicarage of Barnwell, in Somerfetfhire. He was alfo reftor of Shervel, in Devonihirc, where he died, Juiy 14, 1669, ''g'^'^ 7^^ Hs married Bridget, the 4th daughter of the brave Sir Richard Grenville, vice admiral of EiTgiand in the reign of qaeen Elizabeth. Collins, Peerage, Bai'ons, vol. II. p. 423. Wilde, George, LL. D. See an account of him ia Hiftory of Lambeth Parifb, p. 61, 62. Worral, Thomas, D. D. was chaplain to Dr. Laud, whilft bifhop of London j but there may be caufe to doubt, whether he v.'ere in the archbifiiop's family aher * Willis, Survey of Cathedrals, vol. 11. p. 203. f Fuller's Ch. Hift. book XI. p. 16;-. J Rcpcrt. vol. 1. p. iij. § F. 451) 520, 362. II Append, to Stippl. p. 7. he 220 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF he fettled at Lambeth. Concerning this clergyman, Whitlock, in his Memorials*, thus writes from archbiniop Abbot's narrative : " My Lord of London hath a •' chaplain. Dr. Worral by name, who is fcholar good enough ; but a kind of free- " fellow-like man, and of no very tender confcience. Dr. Sibthorpe's fermon was " brought unto him, and hand over head (as the proverb is) he approved it, and " fubfcribed his nime to it; but was afterwards advifed, by a learned gentleman of " the Inner Temple, to fcrape out his name, and not fo much as lufi'er the fign of ;.uy " letter to remain in the paper ; which accordingly he did, and withdrew his " finger from the pye. But what the chaplain (well advifed) would not do, his "lord (bilhop Laud) without (licking accomplilhed ; and fo, being infenfibly " hatched, it came flying into the world. But my opinion is, that the book hath " perfuaded very few underflanding men, and hath not gained the king fixpence." The preferments Dr. Worral was poffefled of were, the reiStories of Finchley, in Middlefex ; and of St. Botolph, without Biihopfgate; and the prebend of Hol- bonrn, in St. Paul's Cathedral. To this flail he was collated in July 1627; of the dates of his adniiffion into the parochial benefices, Newcourt was not apprized. They, however, became void by his death, before November 28, 1639 -j~. Archbishop Juxok. Baker, Samuel, D. D. of Chrill's College in Cambridge, and for fome time a popular preacher among the Puritans ; but he was induced to relinquilh this fe£l by bifhop Juxon, who appointed him his domeftic chaplain. The firfl benefice he had was the reftory of St. Margaret Patten, in London ; his next, that of St. Mary Hill. The bifhop gave him the reftory of St. Chriftopher's ; which he ceded, by being collated to the vicarage of South Weald, in EfTex. He was alfo promoted to the prebend of Tottenhall, in St. Paul's Cathedral X- He could not have long furvived bifliop Juxon's tranflation to the fee of Canterbury ; for, November i, 1661, Thomas White was inflituted to the reftory of St. Mary Hill, on a vacancy by the death of Baker. From the partiality fhewed by him, in the difcharge of his duty as chaplain, in licenfing books, he contracted the envy of the Puritans ; and, being likewife confidered as a creature of archbifhop Laud's, it cannot be matter of furprize, that he fhould fuffer imprifonment, as well as a deprivation of his preferments, when they were in power. His imprimatur, dated February 8, 1637, is to the fecond edition of Chillingworth's Religion of Proteftants. Braybourn, William, created D. D. by archbiQiop Jnxon §. He was collated to the prebend of Broorafbury, in St. Paul's Cathedral, Auguft 25, 1660; and, pro- bably about the fame time, to the vicarage of Northall, in Middlefex |]. He was promoted to the prebend of Ewithington, in Hereford, September 24, 1660 i and * Vol.1, p. 444. t Repertor. vol. I. p. 158. X Newcourt, Repert. vol. I. p. 215. § Bifhop GayftrcU's Cafe, p. 40. || Newcourt, Repert. vol. 1. p, 1 19. 5 0° LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 221 on the :Sth, collated to the precentorftiip of that cathedral*. In 1660 he was prcctor for the chapter in the convocation which pafled the form of prayer, and a commiflioner for comparing the prinred books with the MS. He died in 1684, and was buried at Northall. Du Moulin, Peter, D. D. was, in the reign of Cliarles I. reflor of Wheldrake, in Yorkfhire. Archbifhop Neyle probably collated him to it, and for his loyalty he was deprived of it. Immediately after the Reftoration, he was nominated by the king to the fame prebendal Hall, in Canterbury Cathedral, that his father had poffeired, who died, March 10, 1658, at the viry advanced age of 90 ; and he had alfo a grant under the great feal of a finecure ; but, he appears not to have availed himfelf of it. In the regifler of Adifham, in K^-'nt, he is noticed as having been induced into the reftory of that parifli, 1 650 ; but ai ter being removed, in 1660, to have been collated to the fame, November 21, i66t. There is an account of him, and of fome of liis publications, in Kennet's Rcgifter, .(fee the pages referred to in the in'ex to that book) : and in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LIII. p. 369, are anecdotes of him from a MS. in his own hand-writing, in- ferted in a book which he prefented to the dean and chapter of Canterbury. He died Odober 13, 1684, in the 84th year of his age. A volume often occadonal fermons was publifhed the year he died; and he printed five other fermons : ift, On the death of Mabella Lady Fordvvich, preached in St. Martin's Church, in the fuburbs of Canterbury. Text, Dan. xiii. 2, 3, 4to. 1669. 2d, On the dcoth of Dr. Turner, dean of Canterbury, Phil. i. 21, 4to. 3d. Two on papal Tyranny, 410. S674. Texts, Rev. xviii. 4, 5; and Kom i. p. 16. Nichols, or Nicols, Daniel, B. D. Augufl: 15, 1662. This is the dare of his imprimatur, as chaplain, to Dr. Edward Boughen's fhort Expofition of the Cate- chifdi of the Church of England, in Greek and Latin -f-. In 166 j, March 15, he was admitted re£tor of Stifled, in Elfex, by prefentation from archbifhop juxon; but he dcceafed before February 13, 1665 ; becaufe, on a vacancy by his death, Thomas Cook v/as then inllituted to that benefice J. Pory, Robert, D. D. rettor of Lambeth. Archbishop Sheldon. Hooper, George, D. D, (bifhop of Bath and Wells), will be noticed among the reftors of Lambeth. , Parker, Samuel, D.D. (bifhop of Oxford), A. 1665. Mr. Parker, being then a fellow of the Royal Society, dedicated fome philolophcal efl'ays to aivhbifhop Sheldon; who, in 1667, made him chaplain, and promoted him to the archdea- conry of Canterbury ; to a prebend in that cathedral ; to the redtories of CharchaiTi * 'Willis's Cathedrals, vol.1, p. 541. ■f Kcnnet's Regifter, p. 842. % Newcourt, Repert. Tol. H. p. 562. Ff and 222 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF and Ickham, in Eaft Kent ; and to the mafterfliip of Eaftbridge Hofpital, in Can- terbury. In return for thefe favours, Dr. Parker, after his advancement to the fee of Oxford, blazoned the character of his patron in a very high ftyle of paue- gyric, contidering ic, however, as only a little memorial of fo great a man, and promifing to dec'icare to lilm a monument more fuitable to his dignity,, when, from a perufil of the primate's deeds, colleded by tiie archbilhop bimfelf, he fhould have it in his power to compile a juft hiflory of his life. Parkeri dc nhus fun tem- poris Commenfar. p. 4^, 46. Cooke, Thomas, B. D. mafter of Pembroke Hall, in Cambridge, was ordained deacon, March 10, 1660*. The archbilhop collated him to the reftory of Stifled, in ElTex, Tebruary 15, 1665 ; and by Dr. tienchman, bi'ihop of London, he was advanced, in December 1669, to the archdeaconry of Middlefex, and the prebend of Willefdon, in St. Paul's; and in March', 1671, to the treafurerihip of the fame cathedral. Newcourt imagines him to have marred a daughter of that prelate -f-. His imprimatur |', as doineftic chaplain (faceUanus domejikus) to archbifhop Sheldon, is prefixed to Wr. Boyle's Piefletfions upon occafional Subjefts -, and he expreffes it to be his opinion, that the book is by no means inferior to the other writings of the fame eminent author; and that be cannot fay any thing greater, nor ought he to fay any thing ieff, concerning it §. Dr. Pialph Cudworth's fermon, on i Corl xvi. 57, had alio the far.ftion of Mr. Cooke, dated from Lambeth Houfe, Oc- tober 3, 1664. He died before October 3, 1679. Campion, Abraham, D. D. was of Trinity College, in Oxford. He took the degree of M. Av in 166 j; and in November, 1673, being then fenior proftor of the univerfity, was elected prcfeflbr of moral philofophy. He occurs chaplain to archbilhop Sheldon in 1675, and v^'as preferred by him to the redlory of Monks Rifborough, in Bucks. In 1679 he was admitted to the prebend of I.eighton Ca- thedral, having previoufly held that of Weiton Painfnam ; and he was elefled dean April 17, 1700. His imprimatur, as chaplain, was given in 1677 to the life of the valiant and learned Sir Waiter Raleigh, knight, wi:h his trial; and he publi'hed two fermons, one of which was preached at the afhzes at Aylefbury in March, 1693-4 » the text, pialm csxvii. i ; the fubjefl concerning a national providence. It was printed by the command of lord chief juflice Holt; and, without his leave, dedicated to him, though it had nothing to jullify it but his lordfhip's command, " whom nothing can or does refill." Nor is the remainder of the dedication in a flyle ot panegyric parfimonious ; but which, from the reputed ftern and inflexible chatadler of the chief juftice, could hardly have been very grateful to him. The other fermon was preached at Whitehall, Augufl 11, 1700; and puhlilhed by order of the lords juflices ; text, Coliof. i. 12, The inheritance of • Biftiop Kennet'.s Hift. Reg. p 881. f Repertor. vol. I. p. 83. J Ex sdibus Lambcthanis, Februarii i, 1664. ^ Hie liber, &c. quern cenfeo reliquis ab eodcm cl. autore 'fcriptis (neque enim quicquam jnajiis de eo diccre pollum, ncc minus debeoj neqiilcquaiu ccdere. the LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 223 the faints in light, and occafioned by tlie premature desth of tlie duke of Gioucef- ter, " our young Jofiah ; the delight of the prefent, the great hope of the future " age." Dr. Campion did not long poffefs the deanry of Lincoln ; for, he deceafed, November 21, 1701, and was buried in that cathedral, with an infcription on the grave-ftone, that only denotes his name, and dignity, and the time of his death. Pell, John, D. D. of Trinity College, in Cambridge, and a very eminent ma- thematician. In July, 1663, he was prefented, by Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, bifhop of London, to the reftory of Laingdon, in Effex ; and, ujjon the promotion of that bifhop to the fee of Canterbury, in the next month, he became one of his grace's domeflic chaplains, and expefted, as Mr. Wood tells us, to be a dean ; but being not a perfon of aiflivity, as others who mind not learning are, could never rile higher than a reftor. The truth is, he was a fhittlels man as to worldly af- fairs ; ancf his tenants and relations dealt fo unkindly by him, that they cozened him of the profits of his parfonage; and kept, him fo indigent, that he wanted necellaries, even ink and paper, to his dying-day. D\ing in the parifh of St. Giles's in the Fields, December 12, 1685, he was interred by the charity of Dr. Bulbv, and Dr. Sharpe, reftor ot that parilh, in the reftor's vault under that church. See New and General Biographical Di6lionary. Article, Pell (Jt)hn). Saunders, i^nthony, D. D. I judge him to have been chaplain to archbilhop Sheldon, becaufe he dated from Lambeth Houfe fex adieus Lambeth) December 16, 1675; his imprimatur to Dr. Francis Gregory's fermon at the Oxfordfhire feaft, preached November 25. He was of Chrift Church, in Oxford ; and admitted D. D. July 3, 1677. He was collated to the chancellorfliip of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1672; to the redtory of Afton, in Middlefex, in Augulf, 1677; and afterwards, to the reflory of Buxtead, in the diocefe of Chicheiler, of which diocefe he was clefted proftor in feveral convocations. He died in 1719. Stradling, George, D. D. fourth fon of Sir John Stradling, of Donat's Caflle, in GlamorganOaire, was a commoner of Jefus College, in Oxford ; and elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1643. A. Wood has fuggefted, that he kept his fellowlhip during the ufurpation, from his being then accounted a rare Latinifl, and much valued by Dr. Wilfon, the mullcal profeffor ; but it was the opinion of Walker, grounded upon the opinion he had from the college, thai he ought to be clafTed among the ejefted fellows ; and bifiiop Kennet * has pertinently obfcrved, that bifliop Sheldon would not have taken Stradling for his chaplain, had he been a compiler with the times. He was favoured with a variety of parochial bene- fices, and dignities ; for, he may be traced in the polTelTion of the underwritten. Fuiham, \t^. (fine-cure) January 11, 1660. Hauwell, reft. Middlefex, February 25, 1660. Sutton at Hone, Kent, vie. Sept. 22, t666. St. Bride's, Fleet-ftreet, vie. April 23, 1672. Cliffc, near Rochefter, reel. * Regiftcr, p. 358. F f 2 Pre-: 224 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Prebend of Wenlakefburn, in St. Paul's, London, January ii, 1660. Prebend of Weftniinftcr Abbey, July 10, 1665. Precentor of Chichefter Cithedral, July 22, 1671. Dean of Chicheller, 1672. In the convocation of 1660, he was proftor for the diocefe of LandafF; and, If not beneficed in that diocefe, this complinnent might be paid to him as a native of Glamorganfhire. He was one of the commiffioners who figneJ the aft of review, and examination of the form of common prayer with the original IVIS. and was the third of the chaplains of biihop Sheldon, of London, to whom that province was aligned. Dr. Stradling printed, in his life time, a fermon preached before the king, January 30, 1675 ; ^^^^> Jol^°> ^ix. 15. And there is a pofthu- mous publication of a volume of 14 fermons and difcourfes, upon feveral oc- cafions, 8vo. 1692. Kennet, in his regifter, notices the imprimatur of Stradling to the following publications : Dr. Langbaine's Review of the Convent, July 15, 1661. Le Grofs's Sermon at Leghorn, Augull 24, 1662. ( Dat. ex ad. Sabaud). to Dr. South's Sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral Cathedral, Gen. i. 27, Novem- ber 12, 1662. To the Hiftory of the life of St. Athanafius, by N B. P. C. Catholick, November 23, 1662. And to Chillingworth's Religion of Proteflants (ex ad.) Lzrahtih, Odtober 16, 1663. His \mpx\a\^ixix (ex ^d. Sabaud. 0&.ohs:v 10, 1662,) is alfo to a fermon preached at Eaft Dereham, in Norfolk, May 29, 1661, by John VVinter, curate. And to the Holy Royalift, by Giles Oldfworth, reftor of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucefterlhire, December zo. Dr. Stradling died April 19, 1688, and was buried in V/eflminfter Abbey. Tomkyns, Thomas, B. D. is in Dr. Ducarel's lift, by mlflake, mentioned as being chaplain to archbiihoi) Juxon in 1669 ; he was then in that office to arch- bifliop Sheldon, and an account of him will be inferted among the re, Maurice, Henry, D. D. a na.ive of the lile of Man, a fellow of Jefus College, in Oxford. Archbifhop Sancroft collated him, in 16S0, to the redory of Che- vening, in Kent ; which he reflgned, in 1685, for that of Newington, in Oxford- fhire ■, and he had afterwards the fmecure redtory of Landrillo, in the diocefe of St. Afap'i. Being eledled lady Margaret's profeilbr of divinity, in Oxford, he fucceeded of courfe to the 7th prebendal flail in Worccfter Cathedral. Kis pub- lications were : A Sermon preached before the King, January 30 ; text, Ifaiah, xxxviii. 3, 4to. 1682. Remarks from the Country upon two Letters relating to the Convocation and Alterations of the Liturgy, A. 1689 ^. A Defence of Diocefan Epifcopacy, in Anfwer to Clarklbn's Primitive Epifcopacy, A. 1691 ^. And he wrote The Draught of an Anfwer to the Paftoral Letters of four Titular Bifhops of the Church of Rome, printed in Colle^anea curiofa, vol. 1. N° LXH. Lie died Odtober-30, 1691, of an apoplexy, and was buried at Newington ; but there is a monument to tiis memory in the chapel of Jefus College ; and the epitaph is in Abingdon's Antiquities of Worcefter, and in Le Neve's Monum. Anglic. j|. His departure to foon after he acquired the profeflbrlhip is noticed, as is its having prevented the executing of f^me great work he had in contemplation. Needham, William, D.D. wasof Emanuel College, in Cambridge; and being proftor of the univerfny in 1683, when Mr. Henry Wharton, who was afterwards his friend, and fellow-chaplain to the archbifliop, commenced bachelor of arts, he had the fatisfaflimi of defervedly conferring on him the highell honour when he took chat degree**. Dr. Needham was promoted to the chancellorfhip of St. David's in 16S9, which was his grace's option on the confecration of bifhop Wat- fon '^'Y ; and the reftory of Alresford, in Hants, of which he was incumbent, might likowife have- been an option on the confirmation of biihop Mew, of Winchefter. He occurs prebendary of Newton, in Lincoln Cathedral, May i, 1703 \X. * Englidi Hift. Library, pp. i6, 23. f Anfwer to Neal, vol.1, p. 486. X Birch's Life of Archbifliop Tillotfon, p. 19.;.. § Ibid. p. 5. |l Vol. V. N" 358 ** Life of Mr. Wharton prefixed to his fermons; tf B. Willis's Siirye)' of St, David's, p. 157. \X Grey's Anfwer to Neal, vol. I, p. 428. The 226 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF The following account of an interview between the archbilhop and Mr. Need ham, in September, 1693, is related in Biographica Britannica, under the article San- croft : " The archbifliop, being then weakened by licknefs, aud confined to his *' bed, gave Mr. Needham his blelung very affedionately ; and, after fome talk, " his grace faid this to him, ' You and 1 have gone different ways in thefe late " affairs ; but, I truft, Heaven's gates are wide enough to receive us both : what *♦ I have done, I have done in the integrity of my heart.' Upon Mr. Needham's *" modeft atteaipt to give an account of his own condu(ft, his grace was pleafed to " reply, ' I always took you for an honeft man ; what I faid concerning myfelf " was only to let you know, that what I have done, I have done in the integrity " of my heart, indeed in the integrity of my heart'." Dr. Needham publiQaed a fermon preached before the Lower Houfe of Convoca- tion, November 12, 1702, on a general thanklgiving ; text, pfalm xvi. 4 — 6*. And his Imprimatur, as chaplain, is to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon on Scripture and Tradition compared, November 28, 1687. He died at Alresford, and was there interrred. His epitaph is in Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, vol.11, p. 127. Thorpe, George, D. D. fellow of Emanuel College, in Cambridge. He was not archdeacon of Canterbury, as mentioned in Dr. Ducarel's Lift of chaplains ; nor was he collated to a prebend of that cathedral by archbifhop Sancrofr, for he had the fifth flail, which is in the gift of the crown. It is, however, likely, that he might obtain this dignity by the intereft of his grace, who conferred on him the redlories of Bilhopfbourne and Ickham, in Eaft Kent. Dr. Thorpe founded five fchoIariLips in Emanuel College, with an allowance of fifteen pounds a year to each fcholar, and he contributed ten pounds towards finilhing the chapel +. He was defervedly eminent for his piety and his preaching X ; aud had the charadter of a learned man of great humanity and benevolence, and who took a plealure in affifting young gentlemen in their rtudies §. He died, November 21, 1719, aged 83 years, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. * Sermons before that aiTembly had l)eeii imfrequent, and at this period were occafioned by the zealous attempts of a majority of the lower houfe to maintain almoft the fame degree of in- dependence on the archbifliop and bifliops of the province, that the Houle of Commons have on the Houfe of Peers. With this vien-. Dr. Ifliaiii, proclor for the clergy of the diocefe of London, was nominated to preach the year before, as appears by the following pafTage, copied from a trad, written, I believe, by Dr. Kcnnet .- " M'hilll the difpute fubfifted between the archbifhop " and the Lower Houfe to adjourn themfelves, inftead of obeying the fchedule of prerogation " fent by the aichbiQiop, Dr. Finch made a motion, that a i'ermon miglit be preached on the Fall " Day (April 4), and that Dr. Ifliam might be deilred to preach the laid lermon : none oppofing " the motion, (though fomewhat new) Dr. ]fliam was pleafed to accept it, and did accordingly *' pciform it in Henry the Vllth's Chapel." On this head fee a letter in " Bifliop Atterbury's •' Epiltolary Correipoiidence," dated ]\iarch 15, 1700-1. f Carter's Hiiloiy of Cambridge, p. 354., 563, { Magn. Brit. Atitiq et Nov. vol III. p. 332. He occurs mafter of St. Nicholas Hofpital, in Herbaldowne. Hafttd's Kent. vo). IIL p. 579. ■ § Lewis, Life of Mr. Johnfoj], vicar of Cranbrooke, MS. p. 2. Trum- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISfl. 227 Trumbull*, Charles^ LL. D. His imprimatur, ;i3 chaplain, to billiop Sprat's ler- mon at the anniverlary meeting of the ions ot the clergy, is dated Noveinbcr 14, 167?. Archbifliop Sancroft collated him to the reftory of Stilted, in Eflex, in 1679, and afterwards to the reftory of Hadlei^h, in Suffolk. lie was deprived for not taking the oaths on the revolution -|-. Wharton, Henry, M. A. To the memoir of bim, inferted in the Hiftory of the Palace, p. 63, &c. fli uld be added an incident in his conduft as chaplain, much to his credit, as well as that of Dr. Ncedham; that after archbiffiop SancrolC removed from the Palace, to a private houfe in Wellminitcr, (Auguft i, 1690), they continued to officiate to him in that capacity till near the time of his retiring to Freilinofielil. When his grace d'hniffed his domeftics, his addrefs to Mr. Wharton and Necdham was intheie terms : " You have hitherto ferved me to my " very great fntisfadtion ; bur, I think, the time is now come when we muft part." Upon his grace beipg afked why — "there is another come in my place, and ic " will now be dangerous to continue with me any longei'." Upon which, both agreed to render their fervices afrefli, in regard to their perfonal obliga- tion, tho'igh they had happened to differ from nim with refpeft to the public. Whereupon, with an air of fatisfaftion, he made them a quick and fliort return : " Say you fo ? — then go on in the name of God." And they did fo. Biog. Britan. In Appendix to the Hiftory of the Pa'ace, p. 71, it is mentioned, that all the fermons in the two volumes of Mr. Wharton's pollhumous difcourfes were preached in Lambeth Chapel. From the date cf the laft ferraon, in volume the firft, and the fubjeol, it feems to have been the defign of the chaplain to adminifter fpiritual ad- vice and confolation to his patron, under the change of fcene that was foon to take place. It was delivered May z|, 1689, when the archbiihop had declared his refo- lution not to take his oath of allegiance to king William and queen Marv, and his refufal fubjefted him, a few months after, to a deprivation bv law. The text is, John, chap. xiv. i ; and, if the reader will turn to p. 452 — 460, I am inclined to believe he uill concur in my opinion. By the removal of the archbiiiiop, his chaplain loil a patron, who would mofi: probably have raifed him to preferments of dignity. The effed the difappointment had upon Mr. Wnarton's fpirit and temper may in feme degree be colle(fled from an original letter written to Dr. Barker, a chaplain to archbifhop Tillotfon, and which, by rhe favour of the- worthy Dr. Samuel Pegge, was communicated to the editcr of The Gentleman's Magazine |. In this letter he complains of its being his lot to ha\e his labours confined to the teaching of plow-joggers, who looked upon what he faid to concern them but little, without a hope of his being placed in a liiuation, in which his learning, the fruits of much induflry, could be of ufe to the public, till advanced age had rendered him ahnoft unfit for active life, or he be indifpofed lu exert his remaining powers. • Not Turnbr,!!, as in Ducaiel's liil. + Newcoiirt, Repert. vol.11, p. 56^. J Vol. LX. p, 975. In 2z8 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF In the introdiiflion to the third volume of bifiiop Burnet's Hiflory of the Refor- mation* there is a paragraph which may ferve as a comment upon ihis letter, and which leads to a furmife upon what grounds Dr. Wharton apprehended his ac- quiring a higher ftaticn in the church might be a tar difrant event. He had, it feems, as he informed biOiop Burnet, a certainty of fucceeding to the next flali in Canterbury Cathedra!, that (hould be vacant in the gift of the archbifliop, had his old mafler not been deprived ; and he entreated the bilhop to fecure it for him from archbifnop Tillotfon. The archbifhop's anfwer was not favourable. He was averfe to the entering into any new engagement before a vacancy hap- pened, and he at the fame time intimated his unwiiJingneis to encourage afpiringmen. Mr. Wharton conceived there had been a lukewarmnefs in bifhop Burnet's folici- tatioD ; and, under that idea, he was prompted to publifh the famous anonymous traft, entitled, " Specimens of fome Errors and Defefts in the Hiflory of the Reformation." But the archbifhop afterwards declaring, that bifliop Burnet had preffed him to patronize Mr. Wharton, pardon was allced for ihe freedom he had taken, with an affurance, that, if the bifhop would procure any thing for him, he would difcover all he knew in the matter that had given offence ; refpe£\ing which, he faid, he was no more than an inftrumcnt. But this propofal the bilhop treated with contempt. Concerning Mr. Wharton's application for a flail in Canterbury Cathedral, it muft be admitted, that it was an attempt rather unfair; efpecially when made by a perfon who had been a domeftic chaplain in Lambeth Palace. Of the twelve ])rebends in that church, three only are in the difpolal of the archbifhop -j- ; and, whilll a chaplain, he mull have been aware, that the archbifliop wou!d not be inclined to omit the earlieft opportunity of collating one of his own friends and dependents, of extraordinary merit, to fo eligible a piece of preferment. Befides, he ought to have confidered, that he might probably be fupplanting his old friend. Dr. Barker, to whom he was obliged, as he acknowledges, for having brought him from college into the world. His views, however, in this life, were foon ter- minated; for, of the thirty years and more, to which he feems to have flattered hinifelf his life might be extended, he furvived very little above two, fuppofmg the letter to have been written, which it is likely it was, at the entrance into 1692-3. Archbishop Tillotson. Barker, Ralph J', D. D. To the memoirs of the chaplains related by Dr. Birch, in his life of this prelate, little addition can be requifite. Dr. Barker refigned the * p. 6, 8. t Defence of pluralities, p. 189. X Not Richard, as printed in Append, to Hift ry of the Palace, p. 61 ; and in the account of Mr. Wharton, in the liiilory, p. 64, 1. 6, for Dr. Baicr, r. Barker. rec- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 229 reftory of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fifh-flreet, London, on being collated to the reftory of BrafleJ, in Kent; and on the death of Dr. Bufby he was inftalled trea- furer of Wells Cathedral, April 13, 1695, which was probably his grace's option at the confecration of Bifhop Kidder. Mr. Barker proceeded in arts at Cambridge in 1666 and 1670,- but the arch- bifhop conferred on his chaplain the degree of doftor of divinity ; and it is men- tioned, in the lilt of Cambridge graduates, that he was, in i6g2, admitted to the fame in that univerfity, the word Lambeth being prefixed. Whether this mode of regiftering it were defigned for a compliment may be fomewhat dubious. Perhaps it might be intended to imply, that he was not entitled to all the privileges annexed to a do61or created by the univerfity; but only to fuch as accompany the admifilon, ad eundem, of a graduate from Oxford; and certain it is, that a perfon, ufually ftyled a Lambeth doftor, could not now appear in Cambridge in the doftor's habit without giving offence; nor, fuppofing his name to continue in the books, could he avoid keeping the courfe-aft required of all mailers of arts who are ftand- ing for the degree of bachelor in divinity *. Dr. Barker died in 1708. Hody, Humphry, D.D. was appointed chaplain in June, 1694. The reclory in Kent, in which he fucceeded Mr. Wharton, was Chartham, and not Charte, as mentioned in the Life of Archbilhop Tiliotfon. He was afterwards collated to the redtory of Monks Kifborough, in Bucks. He died January 20, 1706; and vvas buried in the chapel of Wadham College. His epitaph is in B. Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, vol. IL p. 446 ; and there is an account of him in the Anecdotes of Bovvyer, p. 1 65. Royfe, George, D. D. In the Life of Arclibifliop Tiliotfon, it is ment'oned, that Dr. Royfe publifhed only a few fermons. The following are noticed in Let- fome's Preacher's Affiflant:. I Cor. vi. 20, 4to. 16S9. Before the lord mayor. Paflion Sermon. Heb. xi. 33, 4ro. 1690. Before the king. John, i. 3, 4to. 1690. Before the king and queen. Prov. xvi. 32j 4to. 1705. Government of the paffions. Before the queen. Archbishop Tekison. Clavering, Robert, D.D. bifhop of Landaff, and of Peterborough. Gibfon, Edmund, D. D. biihop of Lincoln, and of London. See account of him among the archbifhop's Librarians, in Hiltory of Palace, p. 68 ; and he will be again noticed with the redlors of Lambeth. "D • Mr. Mafters, in Hift. of C. C. C. p. 173, 177, mentions extraordinary graces pafTed for ad- mitting Dr. William Stanley, and Dr. Thomas Grene, of that college, to this degree, with all its privileges, to which an archiepifcopal faculty would not have entitled them. ^ G g Grene, 233 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Grene, Thomas, D. D. bifhop of Norwich, and of Ely. See an account of him in Mr. Mafters's Hidory of Corpus Chrifti College, in Cambridge, p. 178. Potter, John, D. D. bilhop of Oxford, and archbifhop of Canterbury. In 1704, he commenced R.D. and foon after went to refide at Lambeth, as chaplain to archbifliop Tenifon, who conferred en him the rectory of Newington, in Ox- ford (hi re. Smalbrokc, Richard, D. D. bidiop of St. David's, and of Lichfield and Coventry. Sydali, Elias, D.D. bilhop of St. David's, and of Gloucefler. See an account of him in Mafters's Hiftory of C. C. C. C. p. 368. He officiated as chaplain at the reconciliation of the earl of Dunbarton to the Church of England. Hift. of Palace, Appendix, p. 62. Brooke, Edward, M. A. was collated Sept. 30, 1704, to the reftory of Wood- church, in llomney Marfh, and died Feb. 20, 1728-9. A pcrfon, of the fame Chriftian and fur-names, was inftitutcd to the vicarage of Hadlow, in the diocefe of llochefter, June 14, 1701, and ceded it in 1705. Hody, Humphrey, D.D. already noticed among the chaplains of archbifhop TillotfoD. Ibbetfon, Richard, D. D. reflor of Lambeth. Ibbot, Bsnjimin, D.D. firfl librarian, and afterwards chaplain, to archbifhop Tenifon. See Account of him in Hillory of the Palace, p. 70. He was in attend- ance as chaplain, when the earl of Dunbarton renounced tne errors of Popery, and was admirted a member of the Ef\ab!ifhed Church of England. Ibid. App. p. 62. Mandevillc, John, D. D. was admitted prebendary of Ketton, in Lincoln Ca- thedral, January 12, 1694, and inflallcd chancellor of the fame church, June 18, 1691:; it being probably an option at the confecration of bifliop Gardiner. In 1708 he vvas preferred to a canonry of Windfor ; which he ref.gncd, in May, 1722, for a prebend in Weflminfter Abbey. He was collated to the archdeaconry of Lincoln in October, 1709; and inftalled dean of Peterborough May 21, 1722. The only parochial benefice which he feems to have had, was the reftory of St. Mary Mag- dalen, Old Fifn Ifreet, to which he was inffituted. May 27, 1691, on the re- iignation of Dr. Barker *. He publifhed a fermon preached, before the queen, en "VVhitfunday, 1703. Text, i John, chap. III. verfe 24. Dr. Mandcville died, January 24, 1724; and was buried in the church of St. Margaret, Old Fifh- ilreer. Archbishop Wake. Lifle, Samuel, D. D. nominated to the fee of St. Afaph in 1743, and to that of Norwich in 1747. He was a native of Blandford Forum, in Dorfetfhire, com- menced M. A. at Oxford, in 1706; and, whilll: fellow of Wadham College, offi- ci£rted as chaplain to the fadory at Aleppo. On his retura to England, he had, * B. Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, vol.11, p. 105, 19-2, 514. ft firf^. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 2:1 O' firft, the reftory of Tooting, in Surrey ; and, afterwards, the reftor)' of St. Mary Le Bow, in London ; and the vicarage of Northal!, in Middlefex. In September, 1724, he was promoted to the archdeaconry of Canterbury ; and in Augult, 172S, inftalled in the 7th prebend in that cathedral. He was elefted warden of Wadham College in 1738, and refigned it in 1744. In the convocations, affembled in 1734 and 1 741, he was chofen prolocutor of the Lower Houfe ; and, in 1 742, Dr. George Reynolds, archdeacon of Lincoln, addrefled to him a printed letter, upon the rc- fufal of the Lower Hoiife to receive or read a paper concerning ecclcfiaftical qourts, clandeiline marriages, and other articles. The reading of this paper was obje^'led to, Icil: it ni'ght fubjeft the clergy prefent to a premunire, the king not having granted a licence to empower them to enter upon any bufmefs. Dr. Lifle publifned five fermons. 1. Heb. xiii. 17, 4to. 1723. Confecration of Dr. Baker, of Bangor, at Croy- don Palace. 2. I Cor. i. 21, 4to. 1735. Cone, ad Synod. 3. Ifaiah, v. 4, 4to. 1744. Fall for the war. Before the Lords. 4. Rev. ii. 5, 4to. 1745. Faft. Before the Lords. 5. Ifaiah, xlix. 6, 410. 1748. Prop. Gofpel. Mr. Hutchins (in Hift. of Dorfetfliire, vol. I. p. 77) mentions the bifliop's having publiflied a difcourfe about rural deans. He died, October 5, 1749, and was buried at Northall. Bateman, Edmund, D. D. was educated at Weflminfter fchool, and, though not upon that foundation, became a ftudent of Chrift Church, in Oxford, where he was admitted M. A. June 20, 1712, and D.D. in 1736. In 1731, he was ?p- pointed chaplain to archbifhop Wake ; who, the fame year, conferred on him the reftory of St. Dunflan in theEafI:; and, in 1733, the reftory of Chevening, as alfo the finecure reflory of Hollingbourne, both in Kent. March 26, 1737, he was inftalled archdeacon of Lewes, which might be the archbifliop's option, on the confirmation of doiftor Hare bifliop of Chichefter; and he occurs, in 1746, chan- cellor and refidentiary of Lichfield Cathedral. Four fermons Were publilhed by him. 1. I John, iv. 7, 4to. 1738. Spital. 2. 2 Kings, iv. i, 2, 4to. 1740. Ann. meeiing of the fons of the clergy. 3. Deur. xiii. 18, 19, 4to. 1740. Trullees of the colony of Georgia. 4. Ecclef. vii. 16, 4to, 1743. May 29, Trin. Sunday. The Spital Sermon, on the Wednefday in Eafler week, was criticifed by no friendly pen in, as it is believed, The Weekly Mifceilany. But, wnichever m-ghc be the newfpaper, the remarks were conveyed to the printer under the title of, A Letter to a Clergyman in the Country, N° VH. And the firfl paragraph is as follows : " Sir, 1 have fcut you the bifhop cf Oxford's fcrmon before the govcr- " Dours of our hofpitals. 1 know you will be greatly pleated to fee the moll ma- " terial objeftions to thefe charities fo fairly reiTioved ; the advantages of them to " fociety fo judicioufly enumerated; advice to the governors of them fo genteellv G g 2 , «' and 232, ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF " and artfully, but yet honeftly, inculcated j and, in the conclufion, a generous ' 'contribution fo ftrongly prefled, not in the old and beaten way, by a mere addrefs " to the paflions, but by a fair appeal to fober reafon and coo! reflexion. Could " I think this excellent compofuion of his lordfhip wanted any foil to adorn and " recommend it, I fliould have fent you with it Dr. B's difcourfe upon the fame " occafion. But you can diftinguifti good fenfe and fine writing without fuch a " comparifon." The writer then cites fome paffages from p. 7, 9, u, and 20, of B's fermon, which, it muft be admitted, have in thf^m fomevvhat of the profound and the obfcuie ; and he concludes his letter with this (liarp ftri(5lure on another lermon, without naming the author ; " When you have fufficiently diverted yourfelf with thefe flowers, you will think " the fermon deferves a place in your fludy, near that celebrated performance, " fome years ago, on the 30th of January, which I know you have carefully pre- " ferved as a curiofity, and in which you remember the enthujiajls that ivere got " ready to congratulate them on the triumphs of the catajlrcphe," Dr. Bateman died in April 1751. Byrch, William, LL. D. fellow of Trinity College, in Cambridge *, collated by the archbifliop to the reftory of Hadleigh, in Suffolk. The king, to whom he was chaplain, nominated him, in 1727, to the tenth flail in Worcefter Cathedral; in September, 1729, he was appointed chancellor of that dioceie, and admitted rec- tor of Fladbury ; and he had afterwards the vicarage of Blockley, in Worcefter- fhire. He publifhed the fermon he had preached at the confecration of Dr. Chandler, bifliop of Lichfield and Coventry, November 17, 1717. Text, i Tim. iii. 7. He died in February 1741 'i-. Carter, George, D. D. was ele<5ted provofl: of Oriel College, in Oxford in 1708 ; and in Oftober, 17 19, admitted to the fifth prebendal ftal! at Rochefter, that ha- ving been, not long before, annexed to the headihip of Oriel by Ail of Parliament. Archbifliop Wake collated him to the vicararge of Lydd, in Kent ; and, by his grace's favour, he had a prebend at Peterborough, which was the option at the confecration of bilhop Kennet. He alfo occurs prebendary of Brownfwood, in St. Paul's Cathedral, Oftober 26, 1726 t. His charafter and benefaftions are noticed by B. Willis. He died, September 30, 1727, and was buried in the chapel of Oriel College. Geekie, William, D. D. had the rudiments of his education under Mr. William Baxter, at Tottenham High Crofs, where that eminent grammarian and critic kept a Ichool for fome years, before he was chofen mafler of the mercers fchool in London §. Mr. Geekie was originally of St. John's College, in Cambridge; but removed * A B. in 1709, A.M. 1713. Qu. Had he not the degree of LL. D. by faculty from the arclibifliop ? f Oughton, Ordo furidic. vol. IL p. log. % Survey of Cathedrals, vol, IL p. 51S. § Confido tamen neque te dim noftrae arricitiae et puerilis inftitutionis poeiiiturum. Satis fcio tibi nondum excidifle, cjuod fsepiiis a me audieraa ; linguam fcilicet Romanoruni conftare fere ex obfolctis LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 233 emoved to Queen's College, and became a fellow of that fociety *. It appears from the firit of Mr. Baxter's lettfis to him, da.ed November 10, 1706, that foon after his adraiflion he received troiii the univerfuy a fpecial favour, rarely granted to fo young an academic, though of wlia*- kind it was there is no intimation ^f-. A pafl^age in the fecond Idter fbev/r that foon alter he was dangeroufly ill, and that Mr. Baxter bad, in a dream, an ala ining notice of his being near his end; accompanied, however, with a plcafing p'-ognoftic, of the fudden recovery of his young friend t. The fourth letter n-enrions IMr. Geekie and M. . Needham § having recommended it to Mr. Baxter, to p.iblilh a new edition of CoiumcUa de Re ^> obfoletis GrjEcii vocabu'.is. — Facis tuquidem, qiiodperpauci alii, ut ingenue agnofcas, qMantulum- cuiique id lit, quod opella; noflrac dcbi-as. I'hiloiu^-cal letters from Mr. Baxter to the late Dr. Geekie, when firll entered at Cambridge, publiflietl in Archiologia, vol. I. N XLlll. p. 206, 307. * A. B. 1710. A.M. 1714. S.T. B. 1723. S.T.P. 1729. + Gratulor tibi ex animo, Willis'nie diieftiliime, tibi omnia procedere refte, atque ex voto ; prscipue veio Almam Matrem Ac deniam tuo mcrito conceffitle, quod rarcntcr tironibus con- tingit, et c7;toXarixcv, et x^firiKO', de fua muniticenria. Pi*clara fane et egrrgia de tua indole at- que ingeiiio mecum fperant omnes tui ; tu etiam ipfe, modo fueris aulus, profedus dabis quod non expeftas. Ibid. p. ao6. X Nequto mini temperare, quin te certum faciam, me ineunte menfe ifto fuifle vi^u territum noclurno ; fiquidem tu viiiis es mihi per quietem in extremis agens, et quafi jam plane efflaturns animam : dercpentc tamen revixifle videbaris. Gratulor fanl l^etum tuilTe noftrti:ii aiigurium : in pofteniin fatis fcio diligentior eris tui. Niii.uala verficulorum tuorum adniodiim nobis placuere ; nam fucre ec gravia, et fatis fcita, et verba ipfa bene Latina : erratula adolefccntix videbantur condonanda : notli, puto, illud, " ubi pluia nitent," &c Forfan tu ad poctica minus appeliis animum, aliis rebus attentior . in hac tamen futurus egregius, modo collubuerit. Ibid. p. 207, In The Canterbury Nevvipaper, Auguft 15, 1767, was inferted this epigram, addreifed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, and faid to have been writ>en by Dr. Geekie ; " While meaner artirts vainly ftrive to trace " The outward lines and features of a face, •' Your magic pencil, Kneller, takes the foul; *' And when you paint the man, you paint him whole." § " Gratulor fane Needhamo tno, et inftitutuin laudo. Haud dnbito quin oper» f.itunim fit novam rei ruflicoe Scriptorum editionem moliri : verum heu ! ea modo state fuiu, ut nihil, vcl parum admodum, valeat nollra imbecillitas crticere." Peter Meedbam, fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge; A. B. 1696; A M. 1700; S. T. B 1707; and, 1717, S.T. P. by roy?.l mandate. In 1709 he pub!i[hcd Hieroclis Commen- tarius in Aurea Carmina, S:c. In the dedication to lord chancellor Co-vper, which is written with eleg:,nce, he has truly delineated the character of that eminent l.-',vyer. In 1721, he was editor of Theophrafti Charafteres, &c. which he dedicated to Dr. Moore, bifliop of Ely — " Ma- " cenitifuo femper colendo, propter fingularem a multis retro annis benevolentiam, et lenefc'x " mmr iollata," The recent favour here acknowledged was, as I apprehend, the reftory of Conington in Cambridgeihire. Mr. Needham alfo publifhcd, at the requcftcf the vice-chanf-ell jr and others, a fermcn prtached before the univerlity on St. Paul's D.ay^|^j-i6. The Tex, Luke xiv, 23. 234 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Ruftica, and of other antient writers upon hufbandry ; but the infirmities of in- creafing years would not allow of his engaging in this work. Mr. Geekie, it is believed, was for a fhort time in the army, but, finding a military life not agreeable to him, he entered into orders, and was domeftic chaplain to the duke of Somerfet, previous to his attendance upon archbifhop Wake in that capacity. His grace conferred on him the following parochial benefices, the reclory of W'oodchurch, in RoiT.ney Marfh ; the re£lory of Southfleet, in the diocefe of Rochelter ; an option, on the confirmation of bilhop Bradford •, the rcftory of Chevening, in Kent, for which he vacated Wcodchurch ; and in December 1732, he was prefented to the vicarage of All-hallows, BarCng ; with which, by difpenfation, he held Southfleet as long as he lived. In June, 1731, he was collated to the firft prebend in Can- terbury Cathedral; and in February, 1737, inftalled archdeacon of Gloucefter, on a prefentadon from the truftees of the will of archbiihop Wake, that being the option at the confecration of bifliop Benfon. Dr. Geekie died at Canterbury, July 22, 1767. Ibbetfon, Richard, D. D. reclor of Lambeth. Trimneli, DaviJ, D. D. of New College, in Oxford, and admitted M. A. Ja- nuary 14, 1700. He feem.s to have been chaplain to Dr. Wake, whilfi: bilhop of Lincoln, as he was pofleffed of thefe benefices in the difpofal of that fee; the rec- tory of Stoke Hammond, in Bucks ; the prebends of Tarenton and Caftor, in the church of Lincoln ; and the archdeaconry of Lincoln, to which he was collated May 17, 1715 ; which was a few months before his patron's tranflation to Canter- bury, by whom he was prefented, in 1718, to the preceutorfliip in Lincoln Cathe- dral, probably his grace'? option at the confecration of bifhop Gibfon. Dr. Trim- neli publilhed an Affize Sermon, 3vo, 17 14. Text, Ilora. xiii. 4. And died May 18, 1756, having almoft completed the eighty-firft year of his age. Walker, John, D.D. fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge*, and made D.D. by the king's mandate, April 25, 1728. Archbiihop Wake collated him to the redlory of Bocking, in EiTex, in November 1725 ; and in March, 1726, he was prefented, I fuppofe by Sir William Maynard, to the reclory of Great Eafton, in the fame county, which he feems to have exchanged for the reffory of St. Mary, Aldermary, in London. He occurs chancellor of St. David's in 1727; and in January 17:8 was admitted to the archdeaconry of Hereford, which might be the archbilhop's option at the confecration of bifhop Egerton. Dr. Walker died November 9, 174T. Wilkins, David, D. D. was librarian before he became chaplain. See Memoirs of him in the Hillory of the Palace, p. 71. Archbishop Potter. Bateman, Edmund, D. D. noticed among the chaplains of archbilliop Wake. Chapman, John, D.D. fellow of King's College, in Cambridge, became chap- lain in 1740 or 1741. He was firfl collated to the reftory of Aldington, with * A. B. 1713. A.M. 1717. Smeeth ; LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 235 Smeech ; and had afterwards the redlory of Saltwood, with Hyth, which he ceded for the redlory of Merfham. In 1741, the archdeacon prefented him to the arch- deaconry of Sudbury by right of option; and, being one of the executors of liis grace's will, Dr. Paul, the other executor, prefented him to the treafurerfliip of Chichefter Cathedral, which was likewife an option. He died Oclober 14, 1784. See a fuller account of him in Biblioth. Topograph. Eritann. N= XXX. Tiinflall, James, D. D. fellow of St. John's College, in Cambridge*, and elefted public orator of that univerfity, October 21, 1741. In 1739 he was pre- fented to the reftory of Sumner, in Effex ; and was created D. D. in July 1744. The fame year, at the recommendation of Dr. Chapman, he was appointed chap- lain to the archbi(hop, who collated him to the vicarage of IMynflre, in the ille of Tenet; and the rectory of Great Chart; and prefented him to the treafurer(hip of St. David's, which was an option. His parochial benefices in Kent were vacated by his inflitution to the vicarage of Rochdale, in Lancafhire, in 175S, that was given him by archbifhop Hutton. He died in 1762. Ward-Walter, Walker, D. D. had in 1747 a difpenfation for holding the reftory of Chiddingftone, with that of Hayes. He had been reiflor of Biddenden, and vicar of M.'.rden. He died in 1755. Archei?hop Herring. Forfter, Nathaniel, D.D. fellow of Corpus Chrifli College, in Oxford, was ap- pointed chaplain to Dr. Builcr in 1751 ; and, after his death, became chaplain, in 1753, to the archbiftiop. In January 1764, he was inftituted to the fixth prebend in Brillol Cathedral •, and in Augufl following was prefented to the vicarage of Rochdale in Lancafhire. He died O£lober 8, 1757. Hall, Henry, M. A. See memoirs of him among the librarians in Hiilory of the Palace, p. 75 ; and in Bibliothec. Topogr. Britan. N° XXX. Heaton, Henry, B. I), fellow of Corpus Chriiti College, in Cambridge, was collated by the archbifliop to the vicarage of Boughton under Blean, and the rec- tory of Ivychurcn; and appointed mafter of Eaftbiidge Hofpital. His grace alfo bequeathed him the option of the firft prebend in Ely Cathedral, to which he was admitted in 1760. He died July 10, 1777. See Biblioth. Topog. Britan. N° XXX. Herring, William, D. D -{~ fellow of Clare Hal!, in Cambridge, was chaplain to Dr. Herring, vvhilft archbifnop of York ; and collated by him to the prebend of Apefthorpe, in that Cathedral j and to the reftory of Bolton Percy, in the Eaft Riding. Heftft-as admitted dean of St. Al'aph, by right of option, May i, 1751. He died May 22, 1744. Hill, John, Samuel, D. D. fellow of St. John's College, in Cambridge J, vvaj chapL.m to archbiQiop Herring, both at Biihopfthorpe and Lambctli. He Jiad th: * A.B. 1727. A. M. 1731, S.T.B. 1738. S.T.P. 1744. t A. B. 1719. A.M. 1743. A. D. 1751, by fiiciilty from ihe archbifliop. X A.B. 1737. A. M. 1741. And it is likely that the archbiQiop conferred on him the Jey;ree ofP.D. pa- 236 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF parochial benefices of Thorneton and Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorklhire, which are not in the patronage of the archbiftiop ; but his grace, after the tranfla- tion to Canterbury, collated him to the finecure reftory of Hollingbourne, in Kent ; and prefented him to the option of the fixth prebend in Ely Cathedral, to which he was admitted in 1 751. He died September 8, r 737. Jubb, George, D.D. defied from Weflminfter College to Chrifl Church, Ox- ford, in I 73?. He was chaplain to Dr. Herring, whilft archbifhop of York, and, on his grace's tranflation to Canterbury, attended him in the fame ofBce. The archbifliop collated him to the reclory of ClifFe, near Rochefter, which he exchanged for the redory of Cheneys in Bucks; and, with the latter, he held, by difpenfa- tion, the reftory of Toddington, in Bedfordfhire. His grace bequeathed to him the archdeaconry of Dorfet, an option at the confecration of Dr. Hume, bifliop of Briftol ; but it did not become vacant before the removal of that prelate to the fee of Oxford. Bilhop Lowth collated Dr. Jubb to to the archdeaconry of Middlefcx, in 1779, which he refigned two years after for the prebend of Sneating, in St. Paul's. In 1780, archbifhop Markham preferred him to the chancellorfhip of York Cathedral ; and, the fame jxar, he was nominated regius profeflbr of He- brew in Oxford, that has a canonry of Chridchurch annexed to it. He died No- vember 13, 17S7. See more of him in the Obituary to the Genileraan's Maga- zine, vol. LVII. p. 1031 and 11 24. Archbishop Hutton. Hall, Charles, D.D. fellow of Corpus Chrifti College in Oxford. Wray, Thomas, D.D. fellow of Chrift's College in Cambridge*. Archbishop Secker. Porteus, Bellby, D. D. the prefent bilhop of London. Fowell, John, D D. fellow of Exeter College in Oxford, was collated by the archbifliop to the redories of Rifhopfoourne, and of Chartham, near Canterbury ; and to the finecure reflory of Eynsford, in the deanry of Shoreham, in the dio- cefe of Rochefter; but fubjedl to the peculiar jurifdid'ion of the archbifhop of Canterbury. Hall, Charles, D, D. who had been chaplain to archbifliop Hutton, was con- tinued in the fame office to archbifliop Secker, who collated him firft to the rec- tory of Allhallows, Broad- ftreef, and afterwards, to the reftories of Bocking and Southchurch, in Eflex. He died September 6, 1774. Plumptre, Charles, D.D. fellow of Queen's College, in Cambridge -f-. He was but a fliort time domeflic chaplain to the archbifhop, who collated him to the finecure reclory of Orpington, in Kent. His firft preferment was the vicarage of *A. B. 1743. A.M. 1747. S. T.P. 1746. t A.E. 1733. A.M. 1737. S. T.P. 1746. S. T.P. 1752. Harl- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 237 Harlfton in Cambridgefhire, which he ceded, on being inftitnted, by prefenta- tion from lord chancellor Hardwicke, to the reiflory of St. Mary Woliioth, in London. In January, 1752, Dr. Gooch, bifliop of Ely, collated him to the arch- deaconry of that diocefe ; and, in January 1757, he was chofen ledlurer of St. James's Weftminfter. He died in September 1779. Stinton, George, D. D. was collated by archbifhop Seeker, in 176^, to the reclory of WittrelTiam, in Kent ; which he ceded for the vicarage of AUhallows, Barking, in London, in 1767; and the fame year he was advanced, by right of option, to the chancellorlhip of Lincoln Cathedral. Archbifhop Cornwillis, to whom Dr. Stinton was alfo chaplain, collated him to the reftory of Haiited in Kent in 1770, and to the reories of Ruckinge, Wittrefliam, and Great Chart; and he vacated the two lafl: livings, by inllitution to the vi- carage of Rochdale in Lancafhire, in 1762. He died in 1778. Archbishop Cornwallis. Backhoufe, William, D. D. fellow of Chrifl's College in Cambridge*, was, pre- vious to his becoming chaplain, prefented by Dr. Thomas, dean of F.ly, and mafter of the college, to the vicarage of Meldreth in Cambridgefhire. On bifhop •Newton's refigning the reflory of St. Mary Le Bow, the archbifhop collated Dr. Backhoufe to it ; but he was removed in 1769, in confequence of a decifion of the Court of Common Pleas, that the prefentation was for that turn in the Grocers Company. He was, however, the fame year, collated to the reftory of Ickham, near Canterbury, and advanced to the archdeaconry of the diocefe. In 1776 he was preferred to the reftory of Deal, and in 1777 appointed mafter of Eaftbridgc Hofp.e choice of the befh affttt that had belonged to the teftator for a mortuary, the fame being due on a vacancy by his death, and payable within a year and a day after his deccafe. An inven- tory was exhibited to the bifliop (Lowe), and the apparitor reported his having chofen one coverlid or outer garment (ufiurn coopertorium) tor a mortuary. Fol. 2 3 i . b. A. 1456, June 7. At Lamehythe, in the manor of de Place, before the bifhop, probate was granted to the will of Robeit Chefeman. Fol. 291 a, 325 b. :?37 b. A. 1467, June 13. At Lamehith, in la Place, the will of John Henham was proved. Fol. 538 a. A. 147a, Sept. 28. Brother Thomas Burton, prior of the monaftery of the bleffed Mary Magdalen, of Tonbridg ; under fulpenfion at the ordinary vifitation, perfonally appeared and fubmitted to the judgment and correftion of the bifliop of Rochefler, (Alcock,) touching certain articles proved agaiuff him at the ordinary vifitation. And the judge enjoined him to appear at the next confiftory, unlefs, * Ang. Sacr. vol. I. p. 366. •{• Ibid. p. 374. X Godwin de Pr:cfiil. p. 112. § Ibid. p. 378. II P. 199, &c. — 111 the icgifter of John de Boale(ham, (v.ho was conffcrated July 4, i+oo,) there is an iiiftrumein dated February 28, 1462, from his inn in Suuthwark ^/a /'f/^iV/o _/»o in Svui/ideriJ, where he might be occafionally, while his houfe of La Place was repairing. in LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 243 in the mean time, the bifhop Ihould difpenfe with his attendance. He appeared before the bifliop at Lamchich, and was abfolved and difcharged. Fol. 6 b. A. 150:?, Nov. 15. A confiftory was held in an apartment of the rev. father Richard (Fitzjames) by divine permiffion, bifliop of Rochefter, within his manfion, near Lamehythe Marfli (in camera Ep'i infra manfum fuian juxta Lamehilh Marjh). Fol. 338 b. A. 1511, January 15. Bifhop Fifher held a court in his houfe at Lamhitb Marfli. The procefs was in a matter of difciphne. Fol. 12 a. A. 1 5 13, Feb. 16. 'Ihe court of the fame bifhop was kept iu the great room at Lamehiihe Marflie, on a fimilar procefs. It is obfervable, that, in all the conllflory afts after the year 1500, the appella- tion of La Place is altered to the bilTiop's houfe at Lambeth Marfli. For the va- riation I can afliign no other rtalon, than that at this time the liberty of the parifh, denominated marJh and tvall, might have become of greater value, and fuller of inhabitants, in conlequence of more of the lands being drained ; though the in- clofure of what is nearcfl; the river into parcels of an acre each was not made till towards the end of the followirg century *. But in the horrid account, related by Stowe, of the poifoning of many of bifliop Fifher's domeftics, with divers poor per- fons, it is faid to have been done at bis Place in Lambeth Marfli -('-. This execrable trnniaction is fomewhat differently told, and with circumftances not mentioned by Stowe, in Ur. Baily's, als. Richard Hall's Life and Death of Bifliop Fiflier, p. 101. For, obRrves this writer, "The bifliop efcaped a very " great danger; for, one R. Rofe came into the bifliop's kitchen (being acquainted *' with the cook) at his lioufe in Lambeth Marfli; and, having provided a quantity of *' deadly poyfon, whiles the cook went into the buterie to fetch him fome drink, " he took his opportunity to throw that poyfon into a mefs of gruell, which was " prepared for the bifliop's dinner; and, after he had flayed there awhile, went his " way : but fo it happened, that, when the bifhop was called unto his dinner, he " had no appetite ro any meat, but wiflied his fervants to fall to, and be of good " chear, and that he would not eat till towards night : the fervants being fet to " dinner, they that did eat of that poyfoned difh were miferably infedled, whereof " one gentlemr.n, nam°d Mr. Bennet Cawen, and an old widow, died fodainly, " and the rcfl never recovered their healths till x\i6.\ dying day. The perfon, that " did this wicked deed, was afterwards, for the fame offence, boyled alive in Sniithfield, in the 22d year of king Henry's reign %. " Shortly after this, continues the bifliop's biographer, there happened another " great danger to him in the fame houfe, by reafon of a cannon bullet that was fhot " through his houfe, clofe by his ftudy window (where he was ufed to fpend "much time in prayer and holy meditations), which made fuch a horrible noife * Hifiory of Lnmbcth Parifti, p, 31. t Ibid. p. 73. X On Tender Wednddzy, or VVednefday in tenebris, i. c. Wednefday in Paffion-week, on three of which days there was an office called in ttucbrii, I *' and <( 244 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF " and clatter as it went thorough, that all the houfe were fuddenly amazed ; upon " enquiry made from whence this mifchief Ihould proceed, it was found out how *' that it came from the other fide of the river, and out of the earl of Wihfhire's •' houfe, father to the lady Ann Bullein, which being told unto the bifhop, he " called all his fervants before him, and faid unto them. Let us trujfe up our baggage " and be gone, this is no place for us to abide in any longer ; fo he fet forwards in " his journey towards Rocheder." I'he miflake of Filher being the lafl bifhop of Rochefter * who enjoyed this houfe is in part conefted in the Appendix -f, where Hilfey or Heath is mentioned to have been the laft bifliop who refided there. Hilfey is the prelate alluded to, who, in the chapel of his houfe in Lambeth Marfli, confecrated Henry Holbeach, fuftragan bifliop of Bridol, March 24, 1537. Strype had inadvertently ftyjed it the bifhop of London's houfe .!; ; and, when Warton pointed out the error to him, he added, that this houfe was foon after conveyed fiom the fee of Rochefler to the Crown §. This alienation was made by bifhop Heath, who received the '.emporalities March (or May 31), 1540; and he had in exchange a houfe that had belonged to the prior of the dilTolved monaftery of St. Swithin at Winchefler, and was fituated in Southwark, near the houfe of the bifliop of that diocefe. The grant of bifhop Holbeach, to Joan de Sturdevant, to be keeper of this new manfion, is dated July 5, i543il- La Place was foon after transferred to Aldrich, bifhop of Carlifle, and from that circumllance acquired its prefent name of Carlifle Houfe. The prelate had it in lieu of Carlifle Houfe in the Strand, that had long appertiined to his fee. But why the bifhops of Rochelfer were not permitted to re.nain in their old manfion, and the bifliops of Carlifle accommodated with the houfe of the late prior of Win- chefter Cathedral, is rather myflerious ! Thas far is clear, that Heath was not fo attentive to the intcreft of his fucceffors as Aldrich ; who, befides his acquifition of the Houfe in Lambeth MarQi, referved a quit-rent of flxrcen pounds a year, payable out of the premifes of the houfe in the Strand, which the bifhops of Carlifle flill receive; whereas the houfe in Southwark was upon leafe, at the fmall annual rent of thirty-tour fhillings. Bifhop Heath, however, was not neglefiful of what more immediately concerned himfelf ; for, he procured a commendam (the firit as it is thought allowed to a bilhop of Rochefl:er) of the re£fories of Shoreham and Cliffe in Kent, and he enjoyed thefe benefices four years after his tranflation to the much more profitable fee of Worcefler. Bifliop Holbeach, who followed Heath at Rochefter, had alfo in commendim the reflory of Bromlgrove in Worceflerfhire, but I believe bilTiop Ridley was not "ivoured with ar,y fuch indulgence. And whea * Ibid. + P. 158. I Memoirs of archbifliop Cranmer, p. 63. § Ibid. Append, p. 257. II LiteiK patentes Nic. RofFen. Ep'i, Julii 5, 35 Henry VIII. concedentes Johanr.i Sturde- tant officium cuftodis domns five manfion' epifcopalls cum gardino juxta et prope sdes Winton. ep'i in Southu'ark, qus qndiem domus cum gardino quondam prioris monall' ij. Swithini VVin- taa. dudum fuppreffi et diUbluti. Reg. vol. I. Ecclef. HofFen. fol. 32 b. all- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 245 a licence was granted to bifhop Poyner, to retain with his fee a prebend of Cin- terbury, the vicarage of Alhford in Kent, and the redories of Towyn in Merio- rethlhire, and of St. Michael, Crooked-lane, in London. The reafon affigned was that he had no houfe to dwell in*. By this mufl: have been meant, that he had no houfe in the vicinity of London -, for, that in Southwark, which was called Rochef- ter houfe, was under a leafe for 31 years, from the late prior of St. S.vythin to Stephen Bekillam -f- . But the palace of Rochefter was then habitable; and the manor houfe of Bromley, if not that of Hailing, was in the bilhop's occupation. It is remarked (Hift. of Pari(h, p. 73.) that the bilhops of Kocheftcr were not lofers by the exchange. With rcfpcft to fituation, it is conceived, they wete not benefited, nor had they the advantage in the quantity of ground afligned to them for what they rehnquifhed ; the area of the premifcs of P.ocheller hoiile, containing in length towards the north 426 feet of affize ; and to the fouth 366 ; and in breadth, to the eaft, 128;- and to the weft icS feet. At page 74, there is a paragra[)h, v^ith errorN, copied from Spelman and Au- brey; it being mentioned that bilhop Aldrich leafed Carlille houfe at a fniall in- coniidcrable rent for divers years, not expired (according to .'Aubrey) in 1718. That there could not have been fuch a long-fubfifting leafe, is manifell from the following extract of a letter to Dr. Denne, from Mr. Jof NicoUbn, fecretary to the bifliup of Carliflc, dated July 9, i 744. *' Rev. Sir, *' Though I had, foitie years ago, made indexes to all the reg'.ders and rccordi *' here, yet, for fear of any oiniffion in regard to your enquiries, I have .^gain rcviewef " them all very carefully, and cannot find the leaft thing I doubt worth your " notice. " In the oldefl: rental here (except one in 1329) which is only 1626, I find the " London rents thus: The Lord Herbert, for rent in London, 81. — Lambeth Houfe, " but nothing elfe. And the firft leaTe we have now, in thele premiies, bears date, " July 31, 1061 ; whereby Pvichard (Stern) then lord biihop cf Carlille, demiied *' unto Sir J>hn Digby, of 'Alansficld Woodhoufe, in the county of Nottingham, *' knt. (in truil for William Walker, fon of William Walker, of London, merchant) " all that capital meffuage, or manfion place, called Cailifle Houfe, in l-ambeth " iMarlh, in the county of Surrey, as alfo all outhoules, edifices, buildings, barns, r * >trype, Ecr.lef. Merr. vol. IF. p. 210. t CoiKiterptiit of the Leaie in tlie Auhi^es of th«' i/itTioj) of Rochefter. Notivithllanding there was I'ucti a le^fe iubfilVing when tins houfe was granred to the fee of Rochefter, it fecins . probable that biib-ps Heath and Griilit 1 refidcd i-i i: : for, Ht^ath, as above relarcii, appointed a' fteward in the ho ;(e sfld garden; and Giifiith, who died Novtniher 20, 1558, was carried from Hi place in Souths ark, to be buried in the Church of St. Magous, near London Bridge. Ecclci. Mem. vol.Iil, p. 451. .-Vjinals, vol I. p. 30. I i " (labl -•?, 246 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF " flibles, orchnrds, gardens, ways, cafments, commodities, and appurtenances, Sec. ^'-lately in the tenure and occupation of Edmund Moigan, of Lambeth M;irih, Efq. " or his adi^ns, and all other rooms, ftablcs, Sec. with the faid capital n^e{^uage " ufed, or thcrewiiii heretofore cleniifed by the right reverend tather in GoU, Ro- " bt-rt (Snowdcn, I fuppofe), fome time lord bilhop of C:.v!ifle, to one Michael " Wickham, of R.ofe Callle, in the county of Cumberl.'.nd, gent, and late by " the rigin reverend father in (iod Barnabas (Potter) Lord bifliop of Carlile, to " the fairi Edward Morgan, to hold for twenty-one years, by and under the yearly " rent often pounds, in which flute it has ever fince continued, and was latt tencwed, *' April 29, 1741, lo llnberc Henlev, of the parifh of Sr. Clement Danes, in the '', County of Middlclcx, woodmonger. ." Indeed, in bifliop Nicolfon's MS. hiflory of the biHiops of this fee is the *' tranfcriptj i;37. The Hmife at La?nbrtb Majjh, &:c. which, as it is taken from *• Spelniaa's Reliquise, p. 21 1, I cannot hope that it will be new to you. •" The houfes, or at lead fome intered tlierein, have, I fuppofe, been all along " in the fame family, for the duke of Beaufort Hill pays that rent, which bilhop " Nicolfon calls a ground-rent, and fays, that a part of Beaufort buildings itill '*• carries the name of Carlifle Rents, out of which is paid an annual quit-rent of *' 161. and that the White Horfe Tavern, on the well fide of the faid buildings, *' where diflrefs was made by bilhop Rainbow for the laid rent, was then (17 16) " an alehoufe with the fame fign," &c. In a book of the contributions for the relief of the poor of the parilh of Lambeth, (which will be more particularly noticed in another place,) in the 6th year of king Edward VI. the bifliop of Carlifle is entered; from which it may be inferred that he occalionally refided in his houfe in Lambeth Marlh. It is an old parthmept book, entitled, Lambhlta { ^ Regifler Booke of the benevolence of the pa-T AnnoD'ni 1552. in \ rilhioners for the Pvcleife of the Pore, made in dcz.Ambrof^ com.Surr. [ Anno vi. Regis Edwardi Vl. et in [ Willowcs. J -NLCLII. THE CHURCH. That the parilh-church of Lambeth occupies the fame lite upon which ftood ihc collegiate church built by archbifhop Baldwin, will, in the opinion of the comjMler of the hiftory * admit of a doubt. It is, however, unqueftionable, that the two P. a?. facred LAMBETH PALACE AND L A MB E Til PAUlSri. ,24; Xacred edifices were fuhfifllnjT at the fume time; that of Baldwin's cre>nion being- placed to the eaft of Carlifle Houfe, as (hewn in a former page. It was dedicated to St. Stephen and St. Thomas, but the parifh-chiirch to the Virgin Miiry. The coni[iany of parifli-clcrks having firft appropriated this church to the Vivsjin Mary, as advanced by Maitland*, is a tale imaginary and pioiindlefs. In the velhy-book -j-, the churchwardens, in the year 1529, are called churchwardens of our Lade of Lamchyth, and in the following year ;|; of our Lady of Lamhcth. Bifliop de G anvillc was admitted to the rcitory ot the church of St. Mary de Lamhee §. It was under the fame denomination granted by Vv'iiliam Piufus to the prior and the convent of Rochefter Cathedral || ; and in Domefday Book, where the church is mentioned, the entry is, the manor of St. Mary is what is called Lam- hei**. When the countefs Goca, who was polTcfred of this manor in the reign of Edward the Confeflor, granted it to the monks of Rocheller, flie rcferved to hci- felf the right of the patronage of the Church ; perhaps becaufe (he had been th.e builder of it; and upon this fuppofition, if the Virgin Mary was her tutelar laint, flie might dedicate the church to her honour. Remains of fevcral parifh-churchcs noticed in Domefday are full difcernible. In fome, the old nave has been added to the chancel, and a new and more fpacious nave erefled ; whilft in others there has not been the like alteration. But at Lam- beth, both chauccl and nave are of fuch dimenfions, that they mull extend beyond the area of a country church built arfo early a period. All fearch, therefore, for any marks of the original fabric would be fruitlefs. Among the Defiderata in Antiquities, is the age of moft of our parochial churches; though ii was no: intended by our aiiceftors to leave us in ignorance as to this point, there being epifcopal conftituiions, which enjoined, that the year and the day of the dedication of a church, the name of the faint to whom it was confecrated, and of the prelate by whom the office was perfonned, (hould be infcribed openly and diftinftly, in a fuitable place, over the high altar ; and donations to the church, together with the number of days of indul_:;cnce granted to the cor.rributors, were rdfo to be recorded in the calentlar of the church ■f-J*. How few of thefe inlcrip- lious were duly attended to at the Reformation, when the altars were removed, is clear * Ilift. of London, p. 1216. f Fol. 4;. J Ibid. fol. 46. § Regift. RofTcn. p 13. || Ibid p. 383. ** HilK of Parilh, p. 3. tt Conditut. V/aheri deCantalnp Wigorii. Epifc. A. 1240. Aniuis aiitem ct dedicationls dies eccleliir'jm, q-j.-c confecrat* fue.int, et altariiiiii, et a quo confecr.Ux fuerint fupciicribantiu iUaribus evldcnter. Wilkins. Concil. vol. I. p. 666. Synodus Exon. Petri de Quivil Epilc. A. 1:07. Ut autem cociecrarifmis impenfi incmoria peipetiietur ; prKcipinr.is, quod dotis r^uantitas, quae rn dedicationc eccleila; eft culiata, dies dedicationis et annus, nomen conlecrantis, niimerus dienim indu'gentix coniccrante ccnceirx, in calendario ecclefis confcribantur. Ibid, vol. II. p. 138. Co.nlV.t. Synodales Oflbrienfes in Fibernia, A. 1320. In Ecclefiis vero dedka- tis, ar.aus et d:ei dedicationis earuin, et nomen in cujus honorcm dcdicatur, cum nomine dedi- I i 3 cantis^. 24^ ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIR-S OF clci'.r Froiii Mr. IVgge's S\lloge "•'•■ ; and as little inforinati -n is to be expeOed from wruir.gs, whch, it they ever contained accurtuc entries, foon perifiied hy the in- judicious iiitthi'd of ketjjing them locked up in cheflb in damp churches. With refpec't to Lamberli church, there is not the ieafl vcftige of an infcription, nor is tiierc ;uiy book of" accounts, or minutes of veftry, of an e>irlier date than 150;. PoffililVj were the regifters in the office of the bilhop of Wincheftcr examined, ;i ivemorial might he found of the JKfts rf confecraiiori of the whole church, or of particular pjrts of it, imd it is there only that an enquiry can be made with any piofpcct of fucccfs. From a furvey of the church, it is to be feared, no c'ecifive evidence can be drawn. The compiler of the hillory conceives it to have been ere6t-d in the pontificates cif Arundel f.nd Chicheley, and under their iiufpices, becaufe thefe prelates were great bniideis. Are there not, however, objcftions to this furmife that cannot be esdly obviated ? 1 he naves of Canterbury cathedral, and of the collecrhite church of Maidftone, are undoubted proofs of the munificence of Arundel in this way. But the llyle of architefture in both is widely different from that of Lambeth church, where the want of embellifliinents, and even of elegance, renders it improbable that it ftould have been built by his direflion and at his, expence. Befides, his arms do not appear at Lambeth church, an omilfion for which it is difficult to account, fuppoling him to have been a principal contributor to the fabric, there being in Maidltone church many fliields embl.:Zoned with his arms. Chicheley was archbiflToii from 1414 to 1443 ; and, if he were the conftruftor of the nave of Lambeth church, the work muil have been ill-ex;cutcd ; for, before the end of . the century, it was in a very dilapidated condition, lie gave liberally towards the building of Croydon church-)-; had he extended his bounty towards that of Lambeth, his biographer would hardly have negletTed the noticing of it. In attributing with certainty the windows in the chancel of this church to the reign of Edward IV. becaufe ftch large windows are faid to have come firft into fafhion at that period, a reaicn is ofiered, which will not, I fufpciH^, fland the teft. For, if I km not much tiiiilaken, I can point out a very large window that was made above a hundred years before. It is at the eafl end of the chancel at Dartford church ; and though, from oeconomical views, it was, not long fince, contrafied by the leffee of the parfonage, the fizc of the original window may be clearly feca in the outer wall. But this was the work of Haymo de Heihe, bifhop of Rochef- ter, in 1333 J; whole buft is 10 be feen, in good prefervation, on the fummit of cantis, et numero dienim inciulgentis in confecratione conceffx, diflinrte et aperte circa lunjus altare in loco ad hoc idoneo confiiruantur, ut aimiverfarius dies dedic:Uionis a parochijiiis mtrno- mer et rcverenter annis fingulis lolenniter feriandus obfervetur. Ibid. p. ^01, * BiliiiothrC.Topogr. Britann. N° XLI. » f Duck's Life ot Archbifliop Ci-.icheley in EngliQi. p. 174 1 See Addenda, p. 340. An engraving of this window li in Mr. Thorpe's Antiqiiitiss, Pl. xxix. ;he- LAMBETI-: PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 249 the. pointed arch. Ai Lambt -h ilie alterations of the windows are fiich, in dilTerent pares L-i' the church, that it is Icjrcely poilible to deduce any hitisiaftory conclufion as Co the age of thofe which reiay be of the.greatelt antiquity. The lime of the buildina o> this church engaged my father's attention, and the refult of his examination fiudi be communicaied in his own words, as tar as is in my power i his notes, which are upon detached pieces of paper, being much in- terlined. They are to this purport. " 1 have not been able to nave, with any certainty, from records or bowks, (lie " building of the parilh-church of Lambeth, fo that all that 1 can fay about it is " no more than probable conjecture, founded on the following ohfcrvations. There " is the head of a royal flacue (the body mutilated) at the north-ealt corner of " the fteeple, within the body of the church, over the organ-loft *. This I take *' to be the head of iidward L from the refc-mblance there is to what I have icen "in the bell: portraits of that king ; particulaily that engraved by Ver-.ue, from " the ftatue at Caernarvon Callle, as well as from the defcriptions of that prince's •' perfonage, which repretcnt him tall, and of a mofl; graceful iiiien, with his hair *' naturally curling, and an uncommon vivacity in his countenance. " Now,' if I am right in this point, I can fcarce be wrong in imagining that •' this church was built by his fifth fon, Tiiomns de B.otherton, and the flatue let " up by him in honour of his father, who had created hi.n earl of Norfolk, and *' hereditary earl-mar(hal of England, giving him the whole ertate of that earldom, " a part of which was their antient family-feat at Lambeth, that reverted to the " Crown upon the death of Roger Bigod, without iliue, 35 Edward L A. 1306.'' Collins, Peerage, 2d edit. vol. L p. 7. Speed's Hill, ot Great Britain, p. 649. Camden Biitan. p. 476. " Not but that there feem--! to be fome reafon to furmife, that the church was of " a later erection, and that owing to one of the Mowbray family, probably Thomas, " the firfl; duke belonging to it, fo created September zq, i i Richard IL A. 1397 ; •' whofe grandmother was the lole daughter and heireis of Thomas de Brotherton, " and whole mother Elizabeth was her only child by Thomas Lord Segrave." Col- lins, Peerage, vol. I. p. 469. " lie therefore, as heir general in her right, not " only inherited the Norluik eft.ice, but aflumed the arms of England, with a •' label of three points, the faine that were borne by Thomas dc Brotherton him- " felf ;and areftili quartered l>y Howards, duke of Norfolk, as his heirs general)." Britiili Compendium, 1725, p. 9. " And, to flrengthen this furmife, the arms of " Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, are to be fecn within a garter (of which o'-der he was " made knight, 19 Richard II. A. 1396.) upon painted glafs in a uindow on the *' North fide of the church, between the 2d and 3d corbels." Steele, p. 29, 30 -j-. ' This ilaiue^ it is btlieved, was taken clown on building the feats for the charity-children. f When the window was faflied, the arms were not replaced. Steele's Paj)ers, to wliich Dr. Denne rc-t'ers, is the copy of a MS. entitled .Monuiuentul Infcriptions, Arms, Sec. in the Church and Chu.'di-ynrd of 5t. Mary, in Lanibeih. " \av 2io ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF •' Nay, fanhcr, at theeafl end of w!iat is called Howard's Chapel, (fo termed from *' die name cf the family which fucceeded to Mowbray in this honour and eftate,) " wv diicover an antient carved ftone Ihield, that bears the ancient form of a lion •' riiuip Mit, the arms of Mowbray ; and on a (lone, oppofice to this, on the weft •' fide of the arch, is a like fliield, whereon is a griffin's head -crazed, which was " a creft belonging to the faid arms." Steele, p. 6, -38. "*For this I depend " upon the authority of Steele, though to me there feems to be a label round the '• nock, or out of the month, of the animal here reprefented ; and, if fo, it may be ** thought a leopard's not i\ griffin's head, correfpondent to an account we have " in the Peerage of England, (1 7 1 1 , v. I, part II. p. 268,) where king Richard II. " in the lyth year of his reifn, A. 1304, is faid to have acknowledged this peef's " right to bear for crefl: a golden legend with a -white label (which of right did " belong to tiie king's eidefl: fon), and to hav* -granted him and his heirs a coronet *' of filver, to be nfcd inP.ead of a label, about the neck of the leopard. It is " faid to be as now borne by the Howards duke of Norfolk, a lion paffant giiardant, " and his tail extended, gorged with a ducal coronet, as defcended from Margaret, " daughter atid heirefs of 1 homas de Broiherton, earl of Norfolk, 5th fon of Ed- •' ward I." Collins, Peerage, vol. I. p. 22. Thefe Addenda vvere tranfmitted to the prefs, and fomc fhects printed, before the compiler had the fatisfaflion of peruOng " The Environs of London i"- which will account for his not fooner noticing that interelling and amufing volume. One ot the original fources from which Mr. D. Lyfons drew his information was the Regiftry of the Bilhops of Wincheiter ; and, particularly, he found, in the Ke- gider of William of VVykham, -evidence conclufive of the building of a church at J,ambeth between the years 1374 and 1^77*. Ihefecond furmife, therefore, of Dr. Denne, concerning tire age of the prefent fabric, has acquired weight by this difcovery ; and the cxtraft from the Regifter farther (hews, that the volun- tary contributions were infufficient, there being a nece.Tiry for a compulfive mode of levying money to defray tl>e expence. It has not efcaped my attention, Mr. Lyfons' having fuggeiled, that " all the other parts of the church, except the tower, " were moft probably built in the latter end of the 15th and the beginning of the *' 16th centuries." I mull, however, take the liberty of exprcfling my diffent from this opinion, as far as the nave is affected by it, not conceiving it likely, that almoft the whole of the church fhoiild be fo ilightly conftruded as to con- tinue little more than a century; and the objeflion already made to the notion of the church's having been built by archbilhop Chicheley will here more forcibly * Environs of London, p. 277. " In the Bifhop's Regifters at Winchfiler is a commiinon to ** proceed againft fuch of the inhabitants of Lambeth as refufed to contribute to the rebuilding *' and repairs of tne church, dated 1374." Reg. W. Wykham, part IlL fol. 113. b. " Three " years afterwards there was another commilTion to compel the inhal;itints to build a tower for " their church, then ue-rtljr rebuilt, and -lo fucoilh it wijh bells.*' Ibid, fol. 162. b. 7 app'y. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 251 apply, it appearing fiom the Accounts of the Churcluvardens, that, foon after the commencement of the loth century, the church needed aa extraordinary repair, and underwent a great alteration. Dr. Den e's tr^nlcripts Irom the parifh-book will throw light upon this fub- jeill. of tyte to a man of Stretom, ixs. iiiid. ; to a tyler for his wages by the fpacc of iiii. liays and a half, taking uy tlie day vitd. iis. ; to a laboiirer to lervc the lyler for a day and a half, viJ. ; paid for iiii lb. and dim. of fo'.vder xxid. A. D. 1515 Payde for iii. loods of lyme iiis. ; for a loade of fande vi.d. for ii. pavyng tyall, iiiis viiid. A. D. I C2I. I'ayde for a loode of breeke, viis, viiid.^ f Secretary to lord tnafurcr Howard. J S:e Tables of Benefadion& in Uift. of Parifli, p. 38, ^ For penances. Lam- 252 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF I.ambeth ; and is mentioned to be the anceflor of the late lord Dacre *. And the maftei" of the- prerogative was Dr. Mompeflon, to whofe memory there is a monument on the fouih wall of the chancel -}~, which was cleaned, and the arms recmbiaZ')ned, by the care of Mr. Buckmafter, in 1773. The total difburfements in the account of 1521-1522 for repairs, and ordinary payments, amounted to lOil. 14s. 4Td. and the receipts to no more than 95I. 14s. 6id. fo that there was a deficiency of 5I. iqs. loJ. Alter intimating how con'i- deraWe the voluntary fubfcriptions and grants were, in the accounts of this and the precedin({ year, and how very large the payments tor ftone, lead, and timber, as alfo to mafons, plumbers, and carpenters. Dr. Denne obferves, that probably the churcli-roof was raifed, and new- leaded, in thefe years. Nor may it be deemed a very improbable furmife, that, before this repair, the roof was only vhat iscaUed a Ipan niof tiled, and without any cielm'g, and that it might now be coved, if not made ilar anc^ leaded, in the fame manner as the ailes now are. And might no: th;' corbel llones, embeliifhed with (hields of arms, be placed in order to fupport the timbers of the roof that was then ercdcd ? The roof was carried flill higher in 1681. That every (hield of arm« (except one) was intended to be commernorative of a contributor to the fabric, there can be little doubt. They have been lately white waflied, as appears to m-, unfairly, as well as injudiciouily, becaufe it ia fome meafure fruftrates the grateful defign of thole who put them up, and had the arms retained their proper colours they woald have been an orn,imenr ro the nave. The account of them in tiie Hiftory of the Parifh is not fatisfaftory ; perhaps Steele's defcription, with fome fur:nil"es, though n The Barret family had a feat in Effex called Belhoufe. The fifth corbel, Barry of four, Argent and Sai>le, per Pale countercharged. Steele. The arms of Barret, regifter of the prerogative. The late lord Dacre ob- ferved X, that the colours in pi. IX. N^ 3, Argent and Guks, were wrong. But in Collins's Peerage, Supplement, vol. II. p. 501, the arms of Barret lord Dacre are faid to be, Party per Pale, Barry of fix, countercharged, Argent and Gules. The fixch corbel. Argent, a crofs, and in the firft quarter a Canton Gules. Steele. On the fouth fide. The firft corbel. 1'he royal arms. Steele. And it appears that there was a fmall contribution from the king, this entry being in the churchwardens' book, *' Of the wyfFs of the king's gift, 6s. 8d." The fecond corbel has the arms of the fee of Canterbury, impaling Gules, a Fefs Or, in chief a goat's head erazed, and in bafe three efcallops Argent. Areh- bifhop Warham. Steele. With a label or motto infcribed Lord Wereha?n. Dr. Denne. The third corbel. Argent, a chevron between three cocks heads erazed. Gules (quartering Azure, three crefcents Argent. Dr. D.) Impaled with Argent, a Sal- tire Sable, in chief three efcallops Gules. Steele. The fourth corbel. Arge^it, (Or-y Dr. D.) a bend Sable, impaling. Gules, a chevron, between three lions rampant Argent. Steele. The fifth corbel. Gules, four lions paffant. Or. (quarterly Azure and Gules, Dr. D.) on a chief Argent three ogrefles. Steele. The fixth corbel. Gules three goats' heads erazed, (horned and bearded. Or. Dr. D.) Argent. Steele. As ftated in the firft Table of Benefadions §, the weft end of the church was rebuilt about the fame time that the nave was new-roofed. The arms of archbifhop War- ham being cut on a fmall fliield on the north fide of the door cafe, he is imagined to have been a great benefa£l6r towards it. And, as there is on a (hield on the fouth fide a pelican, John Fox, archdeacon of Winchefter, is fuppofed to be here marked as a large contributor. This was alfo the bearing of his relation and patron the biftiop of Winchefter ; but, from its not being impaled with the arms of that fee, it is not likely that the prelate Ihould be the perfon alluded to. The work, how- * Hift. of Par. App. p. 44. f Ibid. p. 161. % Ibii. § Ibid. K k ever. 254 ADDENDATOTHEHISTORIESOF ever, was certainly not completed at the expence of archbifliop Warhara and archdeacon Fox; for, in the Churchwardens' Account is this receipt, 1. s. d. Of the wyffs for the gardening of the weft window, - - i o o And among the payments is. Item, to glefl'yer, for glalTyng cf the weft window and mendyng of other windows, - - - - - 2 13 8 No entiy occurs in this book relative to the fteeple, moft probably ereded not long after 1377, there being a commifhon ifliied from the bifhop of Winchefter in that year*, to compel the inhabitants to build a tower for their church, thea newly built, and to furnilh it with bells -j-. The evident marks of a beacon, feen by Dr. Ducarel, he has not noticed. Not the leaft veltige of the iron, to which the needful utenfil muft have been fixed, is difcernible ; and the only fpecimen of fuch a relic of antiquity fo placed, which the doftor had probably in his thoughts, is at Hadley in MiddlefexJ. Indeed, a lighted pitch-pot muft have been a very hazardous appendage to the fteeple of a church ; and, had there been one at Lambech, the tower being at fo fmall a diftance from the great gate of the palace, that would have been in danger of fire, and the valuable writings of the prerogative-office kept in an infecure apartment §. But beacons were always raifed on an elevated fituation, which is the cafe of Hadley, but not of Lambeth Church ; and the carde of beacons, publiflied in Lambard's Perambulation of Kent, ihews that the eaftern beacon, neareft to London, was upon Shooters Hill, and that in Middlefcx to the Weft upon Hampftead Hill. The chapel on the north fide of the chancel, built by Thomas, duke of Norfolk,, was confecrated in 1522. In the Churchwardens' Accounts of that year is this entry : 1. s. d. Payd for candyls when the chapel was hallowed, - - 002 The next item is to my lady's grace for cloth for the awbys, i o o And in 1567 was payd for mending a piece of glaflTe in the crucifixe in the Dewk's chapel, - - - -014 The chapel on the fouth fide was erefted immediately after the building of the aile with which it communicates ; for, in the will of Sir John Legh, proved De- cember 10, 1523, he direfts his body to be buried in the chapel by him late built, .md the chapel to be repaired by the owners of Stockwell and Levehurft. De- fcriptions of his monument, and of the other monuments in this chapel, were given in the Appendix to the Hiftory of the Parifli. On a late alteration it was found neceffary to take down the table monuments. * Environs of Lrndon, p. 277. f A. 1644. Received for the crofs that v/as upon the fteeple, and other old iron, il. 3s. 6d. Cliurchwardens Accounts. J Topographer, N° VI. in which there is a print of it. ^ Hift. of Palace, p, 31. Sir LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 255 Sir John Legh was defcended from John, third fon of Sir Peter Legh, of Lyme, In Chefliire, knight banneret, by his fecond wife, Cicelie, daughter of Thomas de Hugh * ; and Sir Peter iffued from Piers Legh, of Maxfield (younger fon of Robert Legh of Adlington), who married, in November 1388, Margaret, widow of John Savage of Clitton, anceftors of the earls of Rivers -j~. In the times of Popery, the high ahar was not the only ahar in Lambeth Church, nor, as it is beUeved, in any other Parifh Church in England. The Churchwardens Accounts have references to altars to the Virgin Mary, to St. Thomas, St. George, to St. Nicholas, and to St. Chriftopher ; viz. 1. s. d. A. 1520. Received of John Chamberlin for the Vyrgin lyghtt, i 6 60b. A. 1522. Received of the dutches of Norfolk the xvii. daye of Julie of the Vyrgin lyghtt, - - - 368 Received of Richard Browne for the Vyrgin lyghtt, 120 Received of St. Thomas's lyghtt, - - - o 13 00b. Received of John Symonds for St. George's lyghtt, 022 Received of John Maffey of St. George's lyghtt, -016 Received of Harie Bull and John Syms for St. George's lyghtt, - - - - -022 A. 1523. Payd for ii lb. nex wex for St. Nicholas lyghtt, -038 Payd to Calcot for St. Chriftofer's banner, - 048 A. 1 5 19. Payd for 2 bords for the gabel end of St. Chriftofers lie :}:, - - - - - 024 Mary being the tutelar faint of that church, it can hardly be doubted that her image was fixed in the chancel, and the altar in honour of her not far from it. Where the other altars were placed cannot be afcertained ; but there was certainly an altar in Howard's Chapel, and one mofl: probably in. Leigh's Chapel. That of St. Chriftopher gave its name to one of the ailes. As there was an alrar to St. Nicholas, it is not extraordinary that the ceremony of the boy bifhop iliould be obferved on his feftival. The following articles in the Churchwardens' Accounts relate to it : 1. s. d. A. 1522-1523. Paid for a doffyn of mens glovys, - - 030 Paid for a doflyn and half of children's glovys, 016 Paid for the bufliopes glovys and the croflyer glovys, 004 * Collins's Peerage, Barons, vol. I. p. 230. f Sir Peter Leyceftsr's Antiquities of Bucklow Hundred in Chefliiie, p. 230. { " A chantry was founded in this church in 1312 by Thomas Romayne ; and endowed with " fix marks annual rear, ilTuing out of certain houfes in London, after the death of his wife " Juliana. And another chantry was founded by John Wynter, lord of the manor of Stockwell, *' at what period does not appear; it was reftored by Ralph Leigh, lord of the fame nuaor in " the reign of Henry VL and endowed with lol. annual rent. Sir John Leigh granted the lands " which had belonged tc this chantry to Henry VIIL" Environs of London, p. 295. K k z Paid 256 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Paid for the bufliopes foper, and they that dyd waj't upon him into the contrey, - - 031 Paid for the bufliopes dynner, and his company on St. Nycholas day, - - - - o 2 8 Paid to old John Gierke for his labor in going with the byflioppe, - - - oil In the Churchwardens' Books, fol. 309-314, are " accounts of the wardens of " the b ethren of Sent Cryftovar, kept wiihin the church of Lambeth in the time *' of Henry VII I." from which the underwritten payments are extrafted: 1. s. d. Imprimis, paid to Syr William Webfter for i year and i quarter, 8 6 8 Paid for a carpenter to mend the lyghtts, - - o i o Paid for a preeft when Syr William went on buiiuefs, o i o Paid for mending tapers, - - - 010 Paid for the expences of fefts, - - 411 Paid for the drawghts of the mortmayne, - -034 Paid for 2 new torches, - - - 0134 Paid for 2 tapers, - - - - 010 Paid for making the altar clothe, - - 080 Paid for cofts and charges of the fefte, - - 278 Chriftopher was a faint in fuch high repute, that the figure of him was frequently placed near the principal door of entrance into the church. He was prefumed to be the guardian againft violent and fudden death , but his proteftion was fuppofed to be in force from day to day, and to extend only to thofe perfons who had in the day an opportunity of contemplating his image *. Of by-altars only one feems to have been replaced on the revival of Popery in the reign of queen Mary, and that was the altar in Howard's chapel -f-. In the Churchwardens' Accounts, 1516-1517, are thefe items : Payed, for xvii elnes of buckram, price the elne vd. 7s. 2d. Item, for dyynge off buckram, for the httern clothes, 8d. Item, for payntynge the letiern clothes, 8d. item, for the lynyge of the lettern cloihes, 4d. Mr. Lyfons (Environs of London, p. 309) has noticed the three lafl: articles, with this difference, that for ktterne (as in Dr. D's extriidts) he reads ktty and lettny, adding, " probably thefe clothes were for " the proceffions in which they chanted the Htany on rogation days." But to me it feems more likely that lenten was the word meant, fignifying the feafon belong- ing to Lent, and that the buckram was for the cloth that was to be hung in Lent before the rood placed over the entrance into the chancel ; a rule that was then * Sunt qui certos divos certis quibufdam colunt ceremoniis. Alius Chriftopherum fingulis falutat diebus, fed non nifi confpefta ejus imagine, quo tandem fpeilans ? nempe hue, quoJ fibi perfuaferit fele eo die a mala morte tutum fore i Erafnii Opera, vol, V. p. 26. 2. t A. 1557. Paid to Nycholas Bryriilled, for making up the fyde awtor in my lady of Nor. folke's chapel, and paving in the churche, and for fande, 4s. 2d. 5 con- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PAllISH. 257 conftantly obferved. I the rather incline to this opinion from finding the follow- ing payments in the fame book: A. 1519-1520. Item, for a peece of fnialle clothe for the rode clothe, to draw rhe corceyne before the heye alter, 1 2d. ; and, A. 1 554-1 557. Payde to James Walker, for payntynge of a clothe that docth cover the roode in Lent, 3s. There was alfo another veil before the alter ; as ap- pears from thefe items : For a linen clothe to make a vale that is drawen before the awtor in the Lent, 6s. 6d. Item, for payutyng of the (aid vale cloth, 5s. All the utenfils and furniture that were of a fuperflitious call being removed in the reign of Edward VI. new were to be provided after the acceflion of queen Mary to the Crown ; and as the royal commillioners were apprehenfive, and not without reafon, that a lufficient fum of money would not be obtained by voluntary contributions, they enjoined the levying of an affeffment, and it is the firll: rate that occurs in this book. Happily for England, Mary's reign was of fhort du- ration ; and in that of Elizabeth the lately purchafed veflels, veftments, &c. were ordered to be fold. The following inventory of them, with the prices annexed, is copied from the Churchwardens' Book. A. 1565. The account of the churchwardens and others of the parifh of Lamb- hithe, who, by virtue of a recognizance dated the xxvi dave of March, and ex- hibited to my lord's grace of Canterbury the xxx day of June, for and concern- ing the fale of certain parcells of ornaments of the faid churche. 1. s. d. Firft, a crofle of fylver doble gilt, waying Ivi oz. - - 14 15 10 Item, for a chalice with a cover waying xxi oz. - - 5310 Item, for a verke clothe folde, - - 034 Item, for broken waxe folde, - - - -010 Item, for white plates, - - - - 005 Item, for broken veftments, and certen bannerols, and croffe clothes, and pendents, - - - • 058 Item, for the virgins partes, and the oifornes of a cope, - 070 Item, for an olde paire of organs, - - - i 10 o Item, for the holie water Uocke, and ii broken candlefticks, - 0210 Item, for olde laten and pewter folde af'er iiid. ob, the pound, 097 ab. Item, for a piece of an old cope of red velvet, - - 034 Item, for a clothe of the ftorie of the paffion, - - 018 Item, for a litel pewter ornett, - - - -002 • 2348 ob*. * Paid to mafter Allen for writing, when the crofs and chalice, and other Teftraents, were defaced, izd. ; for the dyners of mafter parfoii, churchwardens, &c. 6j. id. ; for writing this accompte when it was delyvered to my lords grace of Canterbury, 3s. 4d. ; paid for a copy of the recognizance wherein we flode boiiude to the queen's coinmiffioners, concerning the fale of ceitea of the churche goodes, 13d. A. 157a. tsB ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF A. 1570. Vicefimo quarto die Mali, anno Regins nunc Elizabethse xil". A note of all fuch ornaments with a roode lofte, in the pariftie church of Lam- beth, appreyfed and folde by thefe perfons, whofe names are hereunder wrytten, the daye and yere aforefaid. 1. s. d. Imprimis, the fy!inge of the roode lofte, - - -•30 Item, one defke, - - - - - -010 Item, two ftreamers, - - - - - 024 Item, a border of an olde cope, - - - -006 Item, for the borders of the herfeclothe, with certaine imbrodered im.ages, - - - - - - 034 Item, for two peces of whyte fatten, - - - 008 Item, for thre fraale clothes of whyte damafly the name *' of an altar." Dr. Featley, by trufting to his memory, was miftaken as to the frame about the communion table's being placed at the fole charge of Mr. Woodward, there being in the churchwarden's book a minute of the balance allowed him, ivbicb he was out of purfe, under tliat article ; and there is afterwards entered a farther account, made by Chriftopher Woodwarde, churchwarden, of the charge and difcharge of making the frame about the communion table, and alfo of the wainfcott and fetting at the upper end of the chancel, done this laft year, 1620. Imprimis, paid to James Slmpfon, joyner, for making the frame 1. s. d. about the communion, with fcrues and iron works, - ~ 5 S '^ Item, for lyme, fand, and works in levelling the chancel, - o 17 6 Item, for matting the frame about the communion table, - 060 Item, for wainfcott and fettling the upper end of the chancel, 266 8 15 o Among the names of the perfons contributory to this great charge, are Mr. Roger Jeflbn, 2I. ; Mr. Richard Woodward wainfcotted the upper end of the chancel, i\. 6s. 6d. ; Dr. Featley, los. ; Sir Gilford Slinglbie, is. 6d. -, Mr. Chriftopher Wormall, 5s.; Mr. William Beefton, 5s. Sum received, 71.6s. 2d; fo remains due to Mr. Woodward, \\. 8s. lod. Other entries in the Churchwardens' Accounts relating to the communion table and chancel: 1. s. d. A. 1615. Paid to Richard Carver for work done about the fcreens betwixt the church and chancel, - - - - i 1 1 o A. 1643. Paid for taking down the rails about the communion table, 010 A. 1644. Received for iron bars that were about the chancel, weighing 3421b. at ifd. - - ' - 230 A. 16^4. Paid to Edward Marfliall for 2 dayes work in levelling the chancel, - - - - - -040 To the carpenter for taking down the fcreenes between the church and chancel *>- - - - - -0130 * A. 1644. Paid to the painter for writing the X Comnaandments, si. 5s. od. A. 1645. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PAP.ISH. 261 A. 1654. The arch at the upper end of the church repaired vvliere it 13 joined to the chancel. Reg. Book of Veltry Orders, fol. 1-7. A. "1699, July 12. Expended with feveral gentlemen going to feveral churches in London to view their altar pieces, :2s. 6d. Augufl 11. At meeting the painters about the altar and king's arms at Charles Thorp's, il. 4s. 7d. I\Ir. Woodfall for extraordinary work in painting the altar, 2I. 3s. od. A. 1700, Dec. 24. Paid Mr. Woodfall at feveral payments for paynting the X Commandments, king's arms, &c. 30I. The cypher I. H. S. funnounced by a crofs, painted in the call window of the chancel, is noticed in the Hiltory of the Parifh, p. 30; and by Aubrey, in Anti- quities of Surrey, vol, V. p. 230 ; who ohferves, that they exprefs the initial letters and charafter of our Saviour, i. e. Jefus Ho-minum Servator. This was long a prevailing opinion, and has ftill its earneft and ingenious advocates '■* ; but it can- not be a diificult talk to fhew that the notion is jrroundlefs. Jehis having been a common name among the Jews ; and, as we read in Scrip- ture, appropriated to Chrift, as being the faviour of mankind; we fhould have recourfe to the Hebrew letters that compofe the word for its etymology, and for the ruyftical meaning, if any fuch were intended. And fo fenfible were the Jews, near the time of Chrift, how pertinent the name was to him, that they denied him the lafl letter of the name Jefus, becaufe they denied him to be a faviour -j^, Againft the uliial method of decyphering L H. S. it appears to be an objection of fome weight, that there is a felcflion of only three letters of the word Jefc, or rather Ihefus ; whereas, in anagrams and devices of the like kind, we find all the letters of a word introduced. Thus, in the verfes lubjoined to the eighth book of the Sibylline oracles, there is a line for every letter of the fix words to which the acroftick alludes % ; and, agreeably to the prsiftice among the antients to denote names by numbers, all the letters in Jefus, in the Greek, amounted to 888; and thofe in Chritl in the fame language to 1480 ; and the fame obfervii- tion holds good, when initial letters only are ufed. I will inftance in the artificial name of J;/,^^, a fith, which, we are told, was at an early period applied to Chi il- tians, fuppofed to be regenerated by the waters of baptifm, fome antient fathers having aflumed this name, becaufe all the letters in the Greek word comprize ;.ll ttie titles of Jefus Chriit, the Son of God, the Saviour (I'jtr:-!,- Xpifo;, ©;s; 'Tie?, ^xTr,f §). But in thefe examples omit one of the letters, or alter their arrangement, and the prefumed coincidence is imrncdiately diffolved. * See The Topographer, N°IX. p. 532 : and N XVI. p. 3, Sec. f Lightfoot's Works, vol, I. p. 99c. j ir,7a;- X'lro-:, ©£» 'Ti^!, Jiwtn^, raue":'' Jefus, Chrift, the Son of God, the Saviour, the crofs, Whifton's Vindication of the Sibylline Oracles, p. 43. § Bingham, Ecclef. Antiq. vol. IV, p. 146, L I That 262 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF That I. H. S. is the name abridged, and was not intended to exprefs the office of our Saviour in the initial letters of Latin words importing that office, is obvious from this circumftance, that the letters in the cypher are really an abbreviation of a Greek, and not of a Latin word. And it may be obferved, that L H. was a verv antient mode of coniraftion ; and that upon coins and old tablets I. C. and X. C, were engraved or written to fignify Ujft«i»« TO o-BT-rj^isir. Sed ha:c Chrifti nomen per I. H, contrac- tumipeftant ; in nuiiimis autem ac vcteribus tabellis fere IC. XC. fcribitur. De inferioris xvi niimifmatibus Diflertatio. Dufrefiie, Gloff. vol. III. App. p. 22. \ Bifhop Newton's Difiertations on the Prophecies, vol. III. p. 245. Obiit LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 26, Obiit hie T. C. fibiqiie feque Ih^tt miferere. On whis foule and all Xien foulls Ih'u have mercv. In the church of Bexley ui Kent. Cuftumale Roffen. pi. VI. p. 77. Whatfoever ray dedys have bee. Of me Allmyghty Ib'tt have mercy. On an old tomb in the fouth aile of Braunfton church in Northamptonfhire is left the effigies of a woman, and the following lines over her head : And of Alys that was his wyffe, Ih'u brynge their fowl is to everlafting lyffe. Brydges' Hift, vol. I. p. 31. And in Original Letters, vol. I. p. 202. . ■ Ihii have you in his blelTyd kepyng. Now I. H. S. as commonly explained, cannot poffibly apply to I. H. V. And I qxieflion whether there may be a word in Latin fi^nifying a Saviour that has V. for the initial letter. Conceiving then, that in developing thcfe cyphers the Latin has not any claim of preference to our own language, it is lubmitced to the judgment of thofe who imagine I. H. S. to denote Jefus Hominum Salvater, whether Jefus have us be not as plaufible an interpretation of I. H. V. The cypher in Lambeth chancel can hardly be antient. A cliarge of viiid. is an item in the Churchwarden's Account of 1567 for mending a piece of glafle in' the crucifixe in the Dewk's (Norfolk) chapel. Of this cruciiix there is not any veftige, and probably it was demoliOied by order of the parliamentary vifitors in the laft century. Nor would a cypher like that in queilion have been fuffered to remain, becaufe it was an offenfive objeft to thefe over zealoas regulators, under an idea that it prompted the congregation to make obedience at tjie recital of the name of Jefus, which they deemed a very reprel : "' '; adion. One of the crimes alleged againft Dr. Edward Layfield, vicar of ..-jws, Barking, was his ha- ving I. H. S. fet up in his church*; and a part of the firft article of complaint againft Dr. Featlcy, rcclor of Lambeth, when fummoned before the committee, was, that he preached for bowing before the name of Jefus. To which he an- fwered, " that, upon occafion of a fermon preached before a punie divine at Lam- " beih, in his abfcnce, who faid that Lambeth was the moll fuperftitious place he * Walker's Siifterings of the Clergy, part II. p. 48, • L I 2 ' " ever i64 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF cc ever came in; for, whenfoever he n;imed Jefus, they either bowed the head or " knee, or put off dieir hats, which he affirmed to be a popifh innovation, and " idoliiing; he, the next Lord's Day after, at the earnefl: entretie of the prime " getitlemen of the parifh, in a fermon, apologized for the canon of the ch'jrch, *' and the praflice of his parifh *." With the view of e.xciting the attention of the communicants, the words Lift up yctir hearts, are painted in capital letters over the table; a form of fpeech, which v.as the ufual preface to the eucharifiical or confecration prayer in antient liturgies, and is retained in ours. To Surfum Corda, in an epifcopal or collegiate chapel, there cannot be the lead objeflion ; but perhaps Dr. Gibfon, who was chaplain to archbifhop Tenifoii, and reftor of Lambeth, when the new altar-piece was placed, judged it more proper that an infcription. in a parifh-church fliould be in Englilh. \Vhat might have been tlie fize of the old font is not known ; it was, however, painted and lined with lead -f. The prefent marble font, with the cover and in- clolure of joiner's work, was given by John Hart, gentleman^. In allufion to the name of the donor, four heart?, of the fame metal were fixed within it. The molds, and the places of the rivets, are ftill to be feen. He is in the Churchwardens' Ac- counts noticed as the archbilhop of Canterbury's folicitor §. In the Regifler of Baptifms, in 1626, is this entry : George HorGin, an Indian, dwelling with the lord archbifliop of Canterbury his grace, being prel'ented at the font by Dr. Harris and Dr. Jeffereys, chaplains in the houfe ; and after the Indian had made confeffion of faith, and craving to be baptized, was by Dr. Feat- ley, then reftor, named George. A. 1619, October 29. Archbilhop Abbot and the duke of Buckingham were godfathers at a chrificning in Lambeth Church. Dr. Featley preached upon the occafion. Text, Mark, i. 9 -, fubjeft, the fpiritual Bethcfda. The fermon is printed in his collection, ft) led Ciavis Myftica, p. 207. At p. 214 are the following paffages. " Chrift travelled over a great part of Paleftine to Jordan, to receive John's " baptifme ; where ."^re they who will not flirre out of doores to receive Chrift's *' baptifme? Jefus came himfelf to Jordan, they will have Jordan by a fecrec pipe " conveyed into their private houfes. I goe not about to llreighien the bowels of " our mother the church, which in great charity and compalTion fendeth the water " of life in baptifme to infirm infants; and the bread of life in the other facrament * Spongia, p. 6. t A. 1565. Paid for painting the font, 14 s. A, 1621. Received for the lead of the old font, and for old pieces of brafs, 16s. X Kiftory of Parifli, p. 28, 59. § The next article in the Churchwardens' Book is, William Hutton, bricklayer, gave 1 000 bricks, 8s. They were probably ufed in laifing the font, A. 1615. Paid to Richard Yevans, carver, for mailing a frame for the X commandments, 3I. " to LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 265 " to ficke perfons, who are not able to fetch them. But, when the childe is ftrong, " the niinider provided, the congregation affembled, if perchance there fall a drop " of raine to wet their new fet ruffe, or there lye any dirt in the flreet to foul ** their flioes, upon fuch or the like fleight occafions and frivolous pretences, " to deprive God of his publike worHiip, the congregation of the fpiritual foode, *' the infant of the benefit of the prayers of the whole alTembly, argueth a great " negiedt of the folemne worfhip of God, and an infufferabie wrong to his church." P. 215. " Jefus was baptized in the open and comnion river Jordan. Where " are they who difdaine the common font ? no font will ferve them but a font of " gold new-made, or a filver bafon with their arme? on it. Sr. Paul teacheth us " that the way to Heaven is hard and rugged, a (tony and thorny way, through " many alllic^io.is ; thefe thinke togoe to Heaven treading all the way upon car- *' pets and rich leaves. Doe they thinke it is pleafant to God to keep ftate in " their march towards Heaven ? to receive the facrament of Chriftian humility in *' pride? to profeffe the renouncing of the pompes and vanities of tliis world, •' and. In the very profeffion thereof at the font, to fliew the pompe and vanity " thereof ? Caldire faculi fajlum mnjori fajlu, for which Plato juflly taxed Dio' " genes, Eut the time excludeth, and that whereof mine eyes afe now witncllcs " filenceth all fuch otherwife feafonable increpations. For wee all fee, and rej jIcc " to fee, this infant prefented by the parents to God, in the temple ; and re- " verently and modeflly brought, without difplaying the inftances of gentility, " to holy baptifme ; the publike miniftry is not neglected, the commont font- is " not defpifed. Such an aiTembly, fo honourable, (0 religious, fo full, wee rather " pray for, than hope for, upon the like occafion, in this place. Let the honour " of it redound to God, the benefit to the infant to be bap:lzed, thatihe peeres *' of this kingdom, and others of eminent quality, have for a time abfented them- " felves from the king's court, and now prefent themfelves in the courts of the " Lord's houle to add a lambe to Chrift's flock. Such an illuftrious conftellation " of fo many flarres, and fome of the firlt magnitude, bath feldom appeared in *' this horizon," &c. In 1645, this font was not to be ufed, there being this entry in the Churchwar- dens' Account, June 19, Paid for a bafin to be baptized in and for the frame, 5s. For near fourfcore years after the Reformation, a chalice feems to have been the only piece of hlver facramental plate of which the parifli was poifelTedj and at the choice of Oificers, it was generally minuted who of the churchwardens (hould have the cuitody of it for the year enfuing*. The chalice in ufe before that time was, in 1565, defaced and fold, there being then a payment of " is. to Matthew * In the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1699 is this entry : Paid to ]Mr. Jackfon, my lord's porter, for looking to the church plate, 5s, it being then judged that the archbifliop's palace was in no danger of an attack from burglarifts. For 1693, paid to the bifliop's porter, fortaking charge of the communion plate, los. " Al'en, 2^6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF " Allen, for writing when the crofs and chalice, and other veftments, were de- " faced *." Mrs. Joyce Featle)% *' by her will, dated April 20, 1630, bequeathed to the " church of Lambeth (in which parifli Ihe fpent the greateft part of her life, " and gave up her laft breath) a faire communion-cup, to be raifed from the " (Ide of her principal jewels. So that thefe ornaments, (I give it j'ou in her " own words, remarks Mr. Gataker, who preached the fermon at her funeral,) " that had adorned her while flie lived, might adorn the church of God when fhe " was dead." Her hufband, Dr. Feaciey, ratifying this requefl;, a gilt cup and paten were bought, on which is infcribed, Hunc calicem factum donavit J Obilt Oft. 29, 1637. Joycea. | Featle)^ Donum facravit Daniel, D. D. reftor Lambethce. On the cup are engraved the arms of Dr. Featley, impaling thofe of his wife. On the other cup is infcribed, " This belongeth to the church of Lambeth in Surrey, anno 1639. In which "> year there was a voluntary contribution towards furniihing the communion-table " with this cup, and two filver flagons." The ftate of the Account of Edmund Clay, churchwarden, was as under : Receipts by voluntary contributions from divers perfons ; and in the lift arc ihefe names : Sir Edward Peyton, Sir George Chute, The lady Paule, The Lady Salifbury, Mr. William Sherman, - Sir Edm. Morgan, Mr. William P>aker, Mr. Henry Elfui, Dr. Clarke, ' Mr. Thomas Woodward, Mr. Thomas Smith, Mr. John Learner, The lady Roper, Thomas Peterfon, Sum total, received, 35I. 3s. od. * 1637. Text, Afls vii. 59, title, St. Steven's laft Will and Teftament, p. 30. See alfo, in Hift, of PariQi, App. p. 163, an account of Mrs. Featley. a Pay- 1. s. d. 1. s. d. 2 Mr. John Goade, - 10 2 Mrs. Gouge, - 10 6 Mr. Thomas Jones, - 10 Mr. Henry Smith, - 5 Mr. Henry White, - 10 Jon. Scaldwell, . ■; Mr. Abraham Shipman, » 6 8 Mrs. Emerfon, . 2 Mr. Wormall, . o- 10 Mr. Befton, - 10 John Tredefkin, - 2 6 Received for the old commu- 5 0. nion cup, 180Z. and 6 pwts. 10 at 5s. 2d. oz. - 4 14 6 LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 267 Payments : For our new communion guilt cup, weighing 29 oz. 8 pwts. at 1. s. d. 8s. the ounce, - - - - _ - 11 li -i Item, for graving the cup and ftopes, - - o x 6 Item, for the cafe of the cup, - - _ . 076 Item, given to the lord of Canterbury's men, when his grace did con lecrate the plate *, - - - - o 11 o Item, for diverfe tymes going by water to the gokUmith, - 036- Item, for weighinge the two fligons, and goinge by water, 010 Item, for the two flagons, weighinge 72 oz. at 5s. the oz. and 2 pwts. 18 60 Item, for goiiigc feveral times to Goldfiniths' Hall, - 016 Item, lort by light gould, - - -.07 o 3^ 4 3 Reft in Mr. Clay's hands on this account, - - 289 The flagons feera to have been difpofed of in 1643, there being in the receipts of that year this item : For the parilh plate, weighing 72 oz. at 4s. pd. the oz, fold. And in the payments of the lam? year are thefe items : By vcrtue of a warrant from my lord general, for bedding for 1. s. d. the foldiers fent to Kingftone, - - - 8 14 6 . For a lliin of parchment, and writing the covenant, - 016' The flagons now ufed, as the infcriptions fhew, were bought at the charge of the parifhioners in 1664, And on a filver plate for collecting the offerings is infcribed ex dono A. B. St. Mary, Lambeth. The benefaclrefs was Mrs. Ann Barf- ton, to whofe memory there is a monument in the chancel -}-. Preaching having been fo unfrequent in parochial churches, before the 16th century, it was not to be expefted that much expence would be incurred in the ftru<5iure of a pulpit ; but, confidering the fituation of Lambeth church, it is fome- what ftrange, that in 1522, when it was judged expedient to have a new pulpir, the old one fliould not be worth more than eight pence J. The contributions towards making of a new pulpit were firft by mailer Parfon, 3s. 4d.; by Harrie Knighte, is. 8d.>; WiUiam Llyott, is.; Sir William Argall (the curate), 4d. ; * A. 1639. Paid to the lord bifliop of Winton's chapel clerk, at the confecrating a piece of plate, 2s. 6d. . . f Hiftory of Pariih, App. p. 46. + Received of John Bvro'.ve for the old pulpytt, viiid. Churchwarden's Account. There was a palfige of comiimnicaticn between the fide ailes, not far from the fteps leading up into the chancell. A. 1637. Received for a child of Dr. Clarke's buried in the crofs aile above the pjl- pit, th: child's bell, and no clothe, 10 s. lady ft63 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF lady Wylliams, 4(5. ; and for the workmandiip was paid, 20s. This pulpit was in ufe till 161 5, when archbifhop Abbot, of his own colts and chargesj, gave another that coft 151. It was placed againft the fouth-eall: pillar of the nave. For, when Dr. Featley was charged with bowing towards the call end of the chancel, his anfwer was,- *' if they meane.thereby bowing towards the communion- " table, at comming into the church, and going out, though fome men of good " account in the church both approve and ul'e it, yet neither I, nor my curate, *' ever do fo. But true it is, that as my pew is made, I kneele towards the eafl:, " as in the pulpit I doe towards the north, and at the communiontable towards the " fouth, bat without any manner of fuperllition. Some way I muft bow; and I " underiland not but that it is lawful to bow or kneel towards the eaft, after the " manner of all Chriitians in the primitive church, as well as towards the weft, "■ after the manner of the Jewes, fo it be not done with any opinion of hoUneile, " or devotion, to any part of the Heaven ; but in honour to him who made Heaven « and Earth *." To "thefe pulpits were affixed a frame for an hour-glafs, as appears by thefe charges in the Churchwardens' Accounts. A. 1579. Payd to Yorke for the frame in which the hower 1. s. d. ftandeth, - - - - - - 014 A. 1615. Payd for an iron for the hour-glafs, - - 068 In the Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Helen's, Abingdon, 4^. is charged in 1599 for an hour-glafs for the pulpit; and profeffor Ward obferved its being the firlt inftance he had met with. That in Lambeth church is only twenty years earlier; nor, for a reafon juft affigned, is it likely thn hour-glalfes were ufed for the fame purpofe before the Reformation -f-. Some have imagined that the antient fathers preached, as the old Greek and Roman orators declaimed, by an hour-glafs; on the contrary, it has been remarked, that the fe rmons of feveral of them were not of this length ; and it is particularly faid, that there are many fermons in St. Aullin's tenth volume, which a man might deliver with diftinclnefs and propriety in eight minutes, and feme in almolt half that time %. If a jitdgement may be formed from Dr. Featley's Clavis Myftica, the running of the fand one hour was not in general fufficient for a fingle turn of his myllic key. But he had the mor- tification of obferving, that even when in St. LMary's pulpit in Oxford, notwith- llanding the piety, learning, and ingenuity, difplayed in his fermon, embellifhed likewife with quaint and nearly ludicrous conceits, adapted to excite curiofity, he was not able to command the attention of his audience for fo long a period : and in his ASt Sermon, July 12, 16 13, he indireftly reproved them for not liften- ing to him. The text was 2 Sam. vii. 2 ; the fubjecf, the ark between the curtains; and this is the paragraph alluded to: " Thus I niight enlarge and fpread my me- " ditations to the full length of the curtaines in my text ; but, becaufe I fee the * Spongia, p. g. f Archaolog. vol.1, p. 16, 22. % Bingham's Antiquities of the Chriflian church, book XIV. chap. IV. §21. *' Time LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 269 " Time will oiitflrip mee, if I make not the more hade, and becaiife I fee many *' compoftng themfdves to their reft, and fome faft already, I will begin to draw the *' curtai/ies, and ihut up all that has been delivered with a briefe application to *' ourfelves *." Unlcfs, however, the doftor was rapid in his delivciy, his brief application mufl: have lafled half an hour. Concerning the prefent pulpit in Lambeth church there is this entry in the veOry minutes; June 14, 1698, whereas iVlr. Raphe Snowe, treafurcr to the archbifliop of Canterbury, obferving the pulpit to be old, and to fland at prefent inconveniently, hath given a new pulpit, reading dcfk, and clerk's pew, to be fixed in a more convenient place; it is this day ordered in veflry, that the new pulpit, &C. be placed againft the pillar joyning to the chancel on the fouth fide ; and that, to make room for them, the feats which are there at prefent may be taken away fo far as there fhall be occafion -j-. This pulpit, and the delks, are very lately removed into the chancel. Before the Reformation there were but few fixed feats in any of our parochial churches. At Lambeth, in the reign of Philip and Mary, there were, however, fo many pews as to make it expedient to diftinguifli by labels to whom they were allotted |. Concerning the pews there are many entries in the Churchwardens' Accounts, from which the following cxtrafts are copied. A. 1564. Mem. At a veflry called within the parifli of Lamhith, the fecond daye of January, A.vil". regne Elizabeth, wherein it was agreed, by the fame veflrie, for the feffment of feates and pewes, in the church, as foUoweth, toward the reparation of the churche. John Hamond, James Marler, William Tegge, churchwardens. Firft, we do agree, that all fuch gentlemen, or others, as fhall be placed in Sir John a Lee's chapell, fhall paye quarcerlie, towards the reparation of the churche, every of them for them and their wy ves, xii d. Item, we do agree, that all fuch gentlemen as fhall be placed in the chappell, called the dutchefs of Norfolk's chappeil, fhall paye quarterlie to the reparations of the churche, every of them, xiid. Thefe fomes over and befydes the clarke's wages. d. d Mr. Mote, quarterlie, above dark's Daniel Cranraer, - - - ii. wages, .... iiii, John Hammond, - - - H. ]i. Mr. Baker, quarterlie, - - ii. James Matter, Thomas Byfaker, - - - ii. William Tegge, - - - ii. Mr. Allen, dark of my L's kitchen, ii. &c. Sic. * Clavis Myftica, p. 570. t A. 1698, Nov. 25. Paid for the pulpit cloth and cufliion, 61. 18s. od. May 22, Received of Mr. Earl for the pulpit, los. % Paid for a ikin of parchment to wryte men's names upon the pewcJ, 4d. M m AH £70 ADDENDATOTHE HISTORIES OF AW other inhabiters uiih'm the parilh of Lamljith that will fitt in any pe«-e» Tvichin the chuixhe of Lamhiih, fliall paie quarterlie for their feates id, befides the dark's wages. Item, that the placing and difplacing of the parifhioners, fliali be always at the order and difcretion of the churchwardens. The names of the pariPaioners at the fame veftry confenting and agreeing to this order, be thefe that hereafter followe : Mr. Parfon, doflor Porye, Mr. Bafeley, Mr. Northey, Mr. Mote, &c. There were a confiderable number who fiibfcribed two pence a quarter; but not any notice is taken of thofe who were willing to pay a fhilling for feats in the fide chapels. Such as gave a preference to Sir John a I.ee's, muft have been biafled by an inclination to a higher feat in the fynagogue ; for, as the pulpit was then placed, the preacher mult have been indiflinSIy heard in that chapel. A. 1573. Paid for a fotc ftole in Mr. Fram ton's pewe, 8d. A. 1574. Paid to a joyner for ii. new pewes on the north fide of the church, at the upper end of the eyle, and for ii feats for the clerke and the ikolers to fit and faye farvyfe in, il. 4s. 8d. A. 158 1, Feb. 18. iVIemorand. It was agreed by the confent of the parfon and parifliioners, that the churchwardens for the ytre beinge by the confent of the parfon then fhall place the parifliioners in their pues, according as it hath been heretofore ufed, as well in all places of the body of the churche, as of the chappels *. A. 1582. Paid to Henry Findon for one daye's work in cutting down the par- tition between the church and the chancel -j~, and making new fetes, is. 2d. ^ A. 1584. Paid for removing the curate's pew, and mending the clerk's feat, 6d. A. 1608. Paid to the joyner for fetting up a feat in the fouth quier, for the cafe of women that come to be churched ^, 7s. lod. A. 1615. Paid the carpenter for 26 fingle feats, in the middle row On the north lide of the church, 26I. os. od. 4 new feats above the pulpit, next the chancel, for mending 6 feats for making the church-porch doors, and for the frames for the buckets, 14I. is. 6d. As mentioned in the table of benefadlions ||, the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants of the parifh, as alio of the landholders and others, towards repayr- * 1705, Nov. 8. The placing of parifliioners in the pews left to the difcretion of the church- wardens. . Veftry Book. ■j- And yet in the Churchwardens' Accounts, in 1615, is this item, To Richard Yevans, carver, for work done about the fcrecns bctv.ixt the church and chancel, il. lis. od. X Then follows this item to Henry Findon for cutting down the munions in the church is. § By Hat. 2 and 3 Edward VI. The woman Hiall come into the churche, and there fhall kjiele down in foine convenient place nigh unto * the place where the table flandeth j and tjie rriell Ttanding by her fliall faye thefe words, &c. U Hiftory ofParifli, p. 38. * The j*;V> deort, t Edward YL JDg lO o o Zacharie, wife of Jainc ;sln- 2 o o geliy. - 5 o 2 o o Mr. Nicholas Knight, - I lO 3 6 8 Mr. Chriilopher Woodward, I lO 2 o o Mr. Doctor Dove, . o xo 2 o o John Scotr, . o 10 2 o o Peter Marlowe, - o 3 4 Z o o Mr. Slaney, - o 2 6 2 o o Air. John Stock, . o 13 4 lO o o Mr. John Goffe, - o 6 Mrs. Jane Vaux, - I LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 271 ang and beautifying of the church, amounted to 106J. 5s. 6d. and the difburfc- ments to io61. 4s. 9d. The following perfons were contributors. 1. s. d. I. s. d. The lord Caron, Sir Thomas Hunt, knt. Sir George Paule, Mr. Auditor Gofton, Mr. Robert Bennett, Mr. Edward Ap John, Mr. Richard Barnefley, Mr. James HoUoway, Mr. Garrett Van Lee, Mr. John Scudamore, A. 1619. A farther account made by Henr\- Barnes, Edward Cjrpentcr, and Chriftopher Butler, of the voluntaric contribution by them received towards finifh- ing the feats in the church, and the difburfements for the fame. Among the con- tributors were. 1. s. d. 1. s. d. The lords grace of Canter- Sir William Fofter, knt. (de- bury, - - 500 ceafed) - - 200 Sir Robert Hatton, knt. 500 Mr. William Suthes, -100 Sir Gilfoi-d Slingfbie, knt. o 10 o Ladie Hunt, - -0100 Mr. Roger Jeflbn, -1200 Sir Francis Gofcon, - 200 The lord Ridgewaye, 200 ■ Sura total received, - - - - - 5^ 30 Payments to Robert Richardfon, joyner, in full, 36 7 S Payments to William Johnfon, carpenter, for 9 double feats in the middle row, on the fouth fide of the church, and the curate's and dark's feat, - ^a o o 58 16 8 So that the parilh is indebted to the churchwardens on this account, - - - - - - 2138 A. 1615. The gallery in the north ailewas built this year by Mr. Roger Jeflbn, of South Lambeth, -at his own cofts and charges, amounting to 55I* . A. 1699, Dec. 26. The gallery at the wcfl: end of the nave, or middle aile, ■was built by fubfcription, and the feats therein afligned to the fubfcribers in pro- portion to the fums contributed. Subfcrihers of five guineas in the firft or front row. Subfcribers of three guineas in the fecoud. (3^ * Hiftory of the Parifli, p. 2S, 39. Mm 2 Sub- *72 ADDENDATOTHE HISTORIES OF Subfcrlbers of two guineas in the third. Subfcribers of thirty fliiilings in the fourth. Subfcriptions of one guinea in the fifth, A. 1704, May 10. Oidered in veflry, that the oid gallery on the north fide of the church be pulled down, and a new one erefted, (by a four quarters rate, June 18). The licence of the ordinary for ihis work June 15. Received ot Mr. I'ottinger for the old gallery, 5I. os. od. 1708, June 7. Order of veftry for building a gallery on the fouvh fide of the church *, toward which, Ralph Snowe, Efq. bequeathed by will lool. and the money received by fubfcriptions this year amounted to 681. June 30. Paid Mr. Lee for a licence to build the gallery, 5I. 19s. cd. 1 72 1, Dec. 13. Ordered in veftry, that portals be made to the church doors within the church ; and the conftables pew be fitted up for the reception of the churchwardens and overfeers. Galleries have been lately erected in the fide chapels. In the gallery over the entrance into the chancel, which was more commonly called the rood loft, there was often an organ. The Churchwardens' accounts of Ldm- beth notice one in this church ; e. g. 1. s. d. A. 15 17. Paid {In frhnis) to Sir Wylliann Argall for the organs, © 10 o A. 1565. Received for an old paire of organs, - - i 10 o A. 1568. Paid to father Howe for his fee for keeping the organs one yere, - - - - - - -010 And there are the following entries relating to finging men and mufic books, and to proceffions to St. Mary Overe's church. I and 2, 3 and 4, of Philip and Mary, paid to fix fynging men on Trinite Sonday evyn, _ _ _ . Payd to the clerk of Sent Mare Overes, - Payd to John Spryngwell, fmythe, for fynging with the proceffion that day, _ . _ . . . Payd for five procellionals to fyngein the queer, at 2s. 3d. apiece -f-. Payd for a nantifoner % of parchment to fyng on, Payd for iii grayels of parchment, and one grayl of paper to fyng in the queer, - - - - - Payd for ii ymnalls to fyng In the queer, Payd for a nantefoner J of parchment and a venite book, Payd to Edward Smythe, fyngynge man, for his quarters Wages, dew at Mychelmas, the yere aforefaid, - . . Payd to the clerk of St. Mary Overes, - . - * Hiftory ofParifli, p. j8. + It is mentioned that the - -100 the cliurch-yarJ, - 2 10 o Mr.CiiridopherVVnodwartl, i o o Of the Ladie Hunt, Lambeth Mr. William Beefton, - o 10 o Deiine, - - o 12 o Lambehith in com. Snrr. 162-;. _ Mem. That this landfcott was granted unco the pariiliioners of Lambeth, by Sir Thomas Ridley, knt. ordinary tor Surry, for the enlaiging the church-yard, and other reparations to be done about the cii-jrchc, whereupon the chnrchwar- dcDS now beinge, as well with the moneys colledted by the fame landfcott, as alfo appeared by their account, as alfo with a gratuity of 20!. given by the lord archbiihop of Canterbury for that purpofe, did take downc the old walle on the fouth fide of the church-yard, and builded a new wall of brick clofe adjoining to the comaion fewer or ditch there, lo as the ehne trees ftar.ding upon the grounde, without the old uall, were digged down and fold by the churchwardens, which faid ground fo taken in to be added unto the church-yard conteynech in length from eafl to weft 127 foote and a half of affize, little more or lelTe ; in breadth at the weft head thereof, from the ncwe walls to a mark or ftake fct by the church- yard fide, 21 foote of afllze, litde more or leffe; and in breadth at the eaft head thereof, 12 foote of affize, little more or leffe. How foon this ground was confecratcd is not certain ; the fees paid to the bifhop's ofticers are entered among the dilburfcments of 1627 *. Dr. Featley preached upon the occafion ; and it appears by the firft paragraph of his fermon, that the number of inhabitants who had died of the plague, had rendered this new incio- fure neceffary. The text was Afts vii. 16 ; the fubje(ft Abraham his purchafe, and this the introduftory paffage -j-. " v.- on the hearing of my text read, I fuppofe many look for a funeral! fermon, " and have already fo cbrijlemd my future difcourfc in their preconceits. For here ** is the carrying of the dead, and the interring, together with a place for buriall, *' purchafed by Abraham fir him and his heirs for ever. But as Ifaac faid to his fa- ** ther Abraham, behold the fire and the wood, but zvhere is the lambe for a burnt '■'offering? fo they may reafon with themrei>-es, behold the bearers, and a fe- *' pulchre, and the ground, but where is the corpfe to be laid in it ? My anfwer *' hereunto muft be, a thankfgiving to God, whofe mercy hath altered the cafe " with us, becaufe his compaffions fail not. It flood lately with us, when the waies ^ ofSion mourned, becaufe none -walked in them ; and the gates of the fanBuary la- *<■ mented, becaufe almojl none, fpecially of the better ranke, _who left us defolate, ** entred at them. Wee faw, with weeping eyes and bleeding hearts, a preffe as " it were of dead corpfes ; and many fuing for a reverfion of a void roome in our * Paid for confecrating the church-yard, and for fees and other duties, i\. 13s. gd. A. 1626. Received of Sir George Paiile, for ftones left at the building the church-yard wall, 6s, t Clavis Mvflica, p. 825. Nn 2 "dor- ?8o ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF ]3rniUo-y ; hut now (God be bleded) we have a place given for huviall, and no ccr,j1'-s at th's prelem to take re Jl cind ccrp.-.rall "p^'jj'pjf^cn ihereof. How be " it, becaufe wliac hath befallen us heretofore, may alio hereafter, and if death •' flioufd (Irike ar.)' at this prefent w'.thout a writ cf remova/l, which cannot bet fujd " out of any court, for ooglu 1 know, againft the dead, wee know not where to " bello'A' them : wee could doe nee lefle in Chriftian charity and providence, than " procure the bounds of our Golgotha to be enlarged. For, though other boufcs " and tenements fiand void "with us, the grave Ihall never luant guejis, nor the " church-yard and v;iults under ground tenants againjl their zfi.'l. All men and " women are flowers, and all flowers will fall, and when they are ready to fall, " we fliall hzvsJJipj (I feare), but too many to plant this parcell of ground, which " «e have gained in by the gift of the father of this fichem.'"' The Doftor conclndts in the like fanciful flyle : *' All church-yards by the ancients are termed KOIMHTHPIA, dormitories or " dcrtcriis, wherein they lie, thst Jleep in Jefus. Now it is moft uncivil! to prefle " into, or any way abufe the bed-chamber of the living, and much more of the " dead. What are graves in this dormitory but facred vejlries, wherein we lay up " oiJt old garments for a time, and after take them our, and refume them mw die/fed " and trimmed, and ghrio!!/?y adorned, and xxm^q Jhining and exceeding white as fnozv, " (fo as no fuller on earth can white them). Thefe fhining raiments God beftow " upon us all at the lafl, for the merits of the death and buiiall of our Lord and " Saviour, &c." Concerning an intended acquifition of another piece of burial ground, and from the fame caufe, there is an order in the veftry minutes, 1665, Augufi: 29, " for " purchafin-^ a Icale of certain tenements, and piece of ground, brickwalled *' round, lying in or near Lambeth field, the ground to be forthwith ufed for a " burying place in refpeft of the great necefTities thereof in this time of vifita- ** tion of the plague*, and to be hereafter confecrated, or fo much thereof as " (hall * In the Churchwardens' Accounts are thpfe memoranda relative to the plague at different years, 1568. Received of my lord's grace of Canterbury at fondrie times, when the 1. s. d. town was infefted with the plague, - - - - o 10 o A. 1578 and 9. Payd for two books of the order fet forth by the quene for the plague, - - - - - • - 006 A. 1579. Payd to the viewers of the dcade, - - - 038 A. 1593. Payd for wrightinge a booke of them thr.t were vifited with the plague, 006 A. 1654. Payd for a book of orders for the fickneife, - - 006 A. 1625. Payd for two bookes for the faft, - - - - 016 A. 1640. Payd to Mr. Smith for bords for the peft houfe, and otiier timber, 300 A. 164.1 and 2. June 5, to M^iy. Mr, Hinde, the fenior churchwarden, died of the plague this year, and his accounts as churchwarden could not be found. Received by half a years' alTellment allowed towards the vifited houfes, 19 ig io| A. 1645. Payd to the bearers for carrying Edward Burleigh to be buried, who died of the plague, « - = • -089 Parilli LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 281 " fhall be hereafter agreed upon." If the leafe was purchafed, there was no fuch appropriation of the premifes. But fome years after archbilhop Tenifon granted to the parifli a piece of ground, wliich is now nfed for a place of burial *. In feveral pages of the Old C'hurchwardenb' Book, there are items of rent re- ceived for two houfes in the church-yard, the donor of which is not known. They were inhabited by the priefls, who officiated at the ciiurch, one of whom paid ten fliililngs a year for his houfe, and the orhi-r five Ihilling a year for his chamber; and another entry notices two pence paid by a woman for two days hire of a room-j-. From 1586 to 1604, the curate refided in one of thefe houfes, which from that circumflance was crJled the curate's or miniller's houfe. In 1586, it was agreed in Tcftry, that Mr. Hammond the curate, (hould pay xxxvis. and viiid. a year for his houfe, during the time he fliould continue curate; bur, June 22, 1592, the veflry raifed the rent to xl s. to his fuccelFor Sir Hargrove, who was alfo to mayntayne the reparations of the houfe. This houfe was afterwards occupied by Henry Gardener for feveral years, and when he died, by his widow, till 1623. The clerk or fexton lived in the other houfe, and twenty fhillings was the annual rent of ir. Thefe tenements being, in 1623, in manifeft decaye and dilapidated, and there being no church (tock, nor meanes whereby the churchwardens might repayer or re-edifie them, the parifhioners of veftry made a grant of ihem to John Baylie of Lambah, ftarchraaker. They are defcribed as Handing between the commou; Parilh Regifter. A. D. i6oi. In the months of Auguft, September, and O£loher, perfons buried, jt) A. D. 1603 (the year of the plague). In the fame months, - - . ^^i A D. 1624. In Jnly, Auguft, September, and Oiftober, - - * 93 A. D. i6i5 (yearof the plague). In the fame months, _ - . ^. A. D. 1665 Cyear of the plague). In Auguft, September, OSlober, November, 551 A. D, 1642. Payd for vifited houfes, , - . . A. D. 1643. Payd to the vifited houfes, _ . . . A. D. 1579. Payd to the viexers of the dead, - - . A. D. 1640. Payd to wid welk ft>ut up for fear of the plague, * Hiftory of Paiifli, p. 40. t A. iS'S- Received "f Sir William Argall for a yer's rent due at Michaelmas, xs. A. 1519,. Of Sir Alexlander Preeft for ii. yers rent of his chamber in the churche-yerde, xs. A. 1520. Of Sir Robert Collett for a quarters rent of on of the howftys in the churche yarde at Mid- furomer, xyd, A. 1520. Of a woman for on of the howllys in the churche yerde for ii dayi hyer, iid. fewer I. s. d. 42 2 6 39 9 4 3 8 8 6 282 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 'fewer* and the church-yard, with a garden plott, and a bacTifide or yard, and the premifes to conteyne in length from eaft to weft fiftie foote of aOlze, little more or leiTe, and from north to fouth twenty-one foot of affize, little more or lefl'e. They were demifed upon thefe conditions, that when rebuilt by Bailie he ihould hold them for thirty one years from Lady-day 1624, at the rate of a pepper corn for the firH two yeares, and of three pounds a yeare for the remainder of the term. He built four tenements; and by a new agreement in 1629 he re- linquiflied the original grant, accepting in lieu of it only the houfe next the vvaterlide, for the term of twenty-five years, upon paying yearly a pepper corn rent. But in confideration of the refignatian, as alfo for the payment of ten Ihillings yearly (after twenty-five years were expired) for ever, it was further fli- pulated, that the parifliioners fliould keep in good and fufficient repair the lomb- flone and monument lately erefted by John Baylie, in memory of Elizabeth his late wife, and her pofteritv, and that the ground under the tomb-ftone (hould not be otherwife ufed, but folie romaioe the fepulture for him and his fuccefTors. The monument is fixed, within the church, to the fouth wall of the fouth aile, near Leigh's chapel, and the infcription printed in the Hiftory of the Parifh -f-. Ac- cording to the table of benefaiftions, Baylie expended 45I. in rebuilding thefe houfes I ; and in the Churchwardens' Accounts are the following items relative to them. A. 1624. Paid to Mr. Adie for his counfell touching the church- 1. s. d. yardie and building there, - - - - o 10 o A. 1636. Paid for writing a certificate to my lord of Canterbury concerning Mr. Baylie's houfes, - - - * ° 3 9 which was moft probably the atteftatioD ia archbilhop Laud's regifter noticed by Dr. Ducarel §. Mem. That I have allotted a little part of the church-yard for George Den- bam, to inclofe for paffage from his houfe, paying therefore id. a yere ; and this to endure during the pleafure of me and my fucceffors. Thomas Blague. Written Junii 22, 1592. (Churchwardens' Account Book.) A. 1670, November 10. Ordered that a brick wall of feven feet high be cre^ed from the north-eaft corner of the chancel to my lord archbifliop's wall, to prevent all nuifances. Veftry Book. * A. 1570. Payd for vi pieces of tymber for a newe bridge over the dytche on the fonth fide the churche-yard, vi s. viii. Churchwardens' Accounts. f Append, p. 35. J Hift. of Par. p. 37. The prefent rent of thefe houfes is 23I. ^ Ibid. App. p. no. MO- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 283 MONUMENT \L INSCRIPTIONS IN STEELE'S PAPERS WHICH ARE NOT NOTICED IN THE APPENDIX TO THE HIS lORY OF THE PARISH. TiiE Chancel. Againfl: the eaft end of the Touth wall is a fmail but beautiful inonumcnt, of va- rious coloured Italian marble, being a tablet between two cantclievers, which fup- ports a pichr pediment, on whofe top ftands a globe or ball, behind which is raifed a pyramid. The infciipdt.n faith, " Near this place lye buried two fens and two daughters of the right reverend GEORGE H001*ER, late lord bif] op of Bath and Wells, and ABIGAIL his wife, daughter of llICiL^RD GUILFOUD, of this place, gent, who all died to their infancy. The h.ft in the year 1694. This monument was erefled to their memory by ABIGAIL PR0W3E, the only furviving child, widow of JOtlN PROWiE, of Axbridge, in the county of So- merfet, efq." In the bafe of the raon'-^ment is a Ihield bearing- gvronney of eight, OR and ER- MINE, a caftie triple towered SABLE. Im^'aled w;th OK, a faltire between four martlets SABLE *. The Middle Isle. On the floor lies a grey ftone infcribed : In memory of John Clayton, gentleman, of this parilh, who departed this life the 27th of Angull, 1723, ia the 35th year of his age. At the head of the laft, lies alfo a large ftone, and thereon the following ia- fcription : Here lyeth the body of Ewin Richins, who departed this life the 13th of Nj- Tember, Anno Dom. 17 15. Aged 40 years. At the weft end of the middle ifle, adjoining to the cupboard for the bread given by Mrs. Margaret Oakley '1-, on the caft fide, is a white marble table, with a compafs cornice adorned with ihiec flaming lamps, and hatb the following iii- fcription : * As in the Hiftoryof Lambeth Parifli Dr. Ducarel has omitted this memorial of bifliop Hooper's family, an enquiry was made whether there was any fuch monument remaining. And the an- fwer given was in tlie negative. But, on being noticed by Mr. Lyfons in the Environs of London, it was examined, and the deicription and inCcription in Steele's papers found to be correi^t. It i» ho'.vevcr, placed fo high, that from the floor all the letters are not difceiniblc. t Hift. of Par. p. j8. 6 f* Mc] 234 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF *' Memoriffi et virtutibus facrum " Nicholai Hookes Arraigeri *' Conditi in illo quem prope extruxit turaulo. " lin liolpes moriture virum "Qui " Siimmam dubiis rebus probitatem, " Sincera in Deum pietate, " Speftata in utrumque Carolum fide " Eximia in omnes charitate, " Moribus fuaviffimis, " Et limatiffimo ingenio " Omnibus elegantioris literaturae ornamentis exculto " Mire adornavit. " Hoc " Pignus pietatis monumentum pofuit " Johannes Hookes fuperftes " Nepos fi quis alius mceftiffimus " In iachrymarum confortio. " Obiit 7 Nov. 1 7 12. JEi. 84. " Elizabe'ha conjux chariffima obiit 29 Nov. i6gi. " Qu£ (cum fratre, forore et multipHci prole) " In eodem quiefcit tumulo." Beneath is a Hiield bearing Argent, a chevron between three owls, Azure. On a fcutchion of pretence of the laft, a chevron inter three pheons. Or, within a border Ermine. On the floor before this monument, at the foot of the gallery (lairs, lies a ftone, whereon is carved a flower de luce within a ducal coronet on a torce, between N. and H. Howard's Chapel. Under the gallery flairs is a white marble, infcribed : Here lyeth Joanna Maria Wayman, daughter of Mr. John Wayman, by Eve his wife; borne the 12th of January, 1618-19 ; died the 28ih of April, 1679. Near the laft, on a large grey ftone, is written; Here lyeth the body of Mr. Peter Schrieber, who departed this life the 26th of September, 1715, aged 57 years. Ghurch-yard. At the fouth fiJc of the eaft end of the church-yard is an altar tomb of ffone, yet raifed but a fmall height from the ground, and thus infcribed : "Here LAMBETH PALACE ANT) LAMBETH PARISH. 28^ " Here lyes what remains of Mrs. Ann Jcfferies. VVhofe maiden name was Heath. Ob. May 1735. Once - . . Neat and yet genteel, handfome and agreeable, Sweet in her manners, innocent in her lite. Generous and obliging, fenfible and difcreet. Now Food for worms, and cloathed With the deformity of the grave. ' . But, reader, don't think Such worth fhall lye buried in oblivion. No — be affured fhe (hall find ' : What flie ardently wifh'd for, A happy immortality. What though no collly urn preferves her duft, Nor hallowed walls fupport her marble buf!:. There is — from whom her form fhall never part Till the laft pang fliall tear it from his heart." I raufl: not omit (concludes Steel) that the learned Mr. Aflimole fauh his worthy friend, Thomas Sanderfin, Efq. died near Epfom, May 19, and was buried in this church May the 24th, 16S1. Afhmole's Diary, p. 64, and Par. Reg. Defcriptions of Monuments and Arms, from Steele's Papers. Middle Aile. Againfl the north wall, oppofite to the pulpit, Is a curious monument of white Italian marble, with an infcription * on a table between two pilafters that fupport a compafs pediment thereon, in the middle of an urn, from which proceed fef- toons of flowers extending towards a couple of camps. The bafe terminates on a cherub's head, above which is a fhield bearing Gules, fix crofs croflets fitchee, three, two, and one. Or, impaling Ermines, on a crofs quarter pierced Argent, four ferderaoulins Sable. The creft, on a torce, a phenix Azure, beaked Or, fa- crificing itfelf, proper. On the fame wall, betwixt two of the arches, is a hatchment, bearing Sable, three covered cups. Argent, on a icutcheon of pretence party per Pale AzviC and Vert, a chevron between three hinds trippant Or. * S A. 1 5 '5. D.tts owing to the church — My lord Edmond Haward (Howard) - - 2 * " ' 040 A. 151^1: o CO AD0ENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF A. 1516. Received of iny lord Edrannd Haward (Howard) for the Church Kroppys, - - - - -''040 A. 1564-1578. ■ During thefe years the annual tent was, - o 13 4 A. 1620. ileceived for a fvne 'for a' leaffi of Churdi Hopes,for ai •years, ^ - - - -.500 A.- 1646, December 16. Ordei^ed by.the veftry, that Mr. Edward Smith have a leafe of a parcel of ground, called the Church Hopes, for 61 years, at the rent of, ,-- - - 400 A. 1699. Received of Matthew Weymondfold, Efq. and juftice Jackfon, for Pedlar's Acre, - - - -400 A. 1702-. Received of jaftice Ifaacfon, - - -400 A. 158 1, February 4. If v^'as agreed by the confeht of the par'Ibh and parifliioners to defendl Johnfon their fervanc for the churchop he oxupieth. At the charge of the church box againft r\lr. Eadon, who chalicngeth a title' to ir. A. 1582. Paid for a counfellor in law, and expences for 16 days fpace for the church hopes, - - - - 160 A. 1640. Paid for quit rent and fearching the rolls concerning the church hopes, - - - - - - iiSio THE RECTORY. When Goda gave the manor of St. Mary, Lambeth, to the priory of Rochefler Cathedral, fhe referved in her own dilpofal the patronage of the church ; but, on the manor's being veiled in the Crown, the advowfon of the church was re-annexed to it, nor have they been fince difunited. The change between archbilhop Hubert and the priory was in one refpeft clearly advantageous to the incumbents of Lam- beth ; for, had the manor with the advowfon remained in the priory, the monks would hardly have failed m fecuring an appropriation of the redtory, fubjeft to aa endowment for the fupport of a vicar. This was a favourite plan with, them, an^ it is believed that they fucceeded in it in every benefice that belonged to their houfe. Bur, hi the aft of alienation to fhe archbilhop, the reftor d d not efcape a burden very commonly impofed upon the parochial clergy -, for, before Gilbert de Glanvilie would relinquifh the intereil the preLtes of his fee had in the manor, he obtained a yearly penfion of five marks, payable out' of the reftory to him and his fuccelTors. . ,. Confidering the extent of the maiior, and that in Domefday Book it'is recorded under the title of land of the church of Lambeth, it is fomewhat ftrange that the . ■ 3 quantity L A MB E T H PALACE A N D I. A MEET li P A R I S II. 301 qiianti'V nf land appertainiiiT to the rectory fhoul I be but little mare than two acres. That a large portion was originally allotted may be realonably prefumed, as alfo that it miL^ht be forcibly taken from the reftory ; and^who more likely to have been the Ip )iler than the rapacious Odo, billiop of Baieux ! It is certain that he was feiled of what is called in Domefdiy a culture of land in the church ; and in the fubfequent changes, the perfon r,ho had the belt right to it might be forgotten^ or his pretenlions difregarded. As the little plot of ground within which the parfonage barn is placed, is bounded on the cail by the garden-wail of Carliflc Houfe, which was the fite of the college founded by Bddwin, it may be fairly in- ferred that this piece of glebe land was alio a parcel of the twenty-four acres granted for the ule of the prior and canons * ; and, if io, it uiurt; have been fettled on the re<9:ors of Lambeth after the fuppreffion of that collegiate body. A houfe oppofiie to the fouth wall of tlie church-yard, (of which a fketch is given in the i'iftory of the Parilli, pi. IV.) was called the ref^ory houfe, a name it acquired by tradition, unfupported, as far as appears, by any other evidence ; and, as I have underflood, there is written evidence to countervail this notion, were it now of any moment to fearch for it. At the well end of that piece of glebe land which was near the manor pound there was a cpitage, and in fome of the entries of the court rolls; it is fet forth that a quit-rent, herrior, and relief, were payable for the reftory-houfe, and for that and another parcel of laud, as being copyhold of inheritance held of the manor of Lambeth. Bur what was called the parfonage-houfe is, in the pre- amble to the ad: of Parliament for building a recfory-houfe, admitted to have been freehold -|-. The probability, therefore, is that the old reclory-houfe was upon the fite of the cottage, though tb.ere are no traces of its having been inhabited by the reftors, becaufe before the Reformation they were generally, though I am in- clined to believe not always, donielVic chaplains to the archbifliops •, and, fmce that time, none of them thought it prudent, without the aid of an adt of Parliament, to expend fo large a fum of money as was neceffary for the ereftingof afuitable habitation. In an old taxation book of ecclefiaftical benefices, compiled 20 Edward I. (anno 1292), and ufually flyled Pope Nicholas's Valor, the reftory of Lambeth was rated at forty-five marks, befides^ as printed in Aubrey (Antiquities of Surrey, vol. V. p. 324), a penfion of ten marks. But it is imagined that this lafl item mufl be a miflake in the MS. or of the tranfcriber, there being no corroborative proof of the reflor's being fuhjedt to any other penfion than five marks to the bifhop of Rocheflcr. By the return made in the reign of Henry VIII. the computed annual value of the reflory was then 36I. 14s. od.; and, deducting 3I. i8s. pdl.for penfion, quit-rent, fynodals, and procurations, it is rated for firft fruits at 32I. 15s. adf. This furvey in general was taken with great flriiftners, and many preferments were charged above their real income. The entries in the books remaining in the office of the feveral benefices are not equally circumflantial. A copy of what relates to Lambeth redory * Addenda, p, 167. t Hift. of Parifl), p. 45. Qjl (hall Xllt nil xiii ii;i — — -Nviil vi - X » — ii 301 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF fiiall be Infertec], as well becnufe it affords a fpccimtn of the minutenefs and pre- cifion with which the king's coinmiffioners eraploved here purfiicd their enquiries, as chat it fliews in fome degree the ftatc of agriculture in this parifti at that period. An extrafl out of the records of fird fruits and tenths, returned into the ex- chequer of the county of Surrey, upon a furvey taken xlupuft 26, 1535, 27 Henry VKI. fo far as it concerns the reftory of Lambeth, Rich. Mar- lyndale procurator, ibid. 1. s. d. Pro manfionereftoriaj cum una donao, gardino, etdimid.acr^ terras*, i vi viii In decima granorum, viz. 1. s. d. 12 quarter frumenti {wheat) pro fing. vis. viiid. iv — — 20 quarter filiginis (>)f) profini^. ivs. viiid. iv 20 quarter ordei {barley) pro fing. iiis. viiid. iii 20 quarter avens {oats) pro fing. iis. -f- - vi — — .wiii vi viii In decima lans et agnorum [wool and Lui.bs) poroorum, pirorum, ct volemorum J, lu * The glebe muft be flated by conipiitation, not by meafurenient ; or perhaps one pnrcel of it might be overlooked. ■t Tlie quantity of arable bind c;\nnot be afccrtainod by thefc items refpefting the number of quarters of corn and grain which the tithe yielded upon an average. But in Dr. Featley s Spongia, already cited, at p. 13, is this remark, " Fir the land of the parifli, whereof there was wont " forme! ly ta be loco acres in tillage, there arc now not above 1:0, the parilliionfrs turning their «' arable land into pafuire for cow-keeping." To Mr. Lyfons the reader is indebted for the underwritten terrier of this parifli : " The parifii " is about fisteen miles in circumference. By a land-fcot levied about the beginning of the l.iil cen- " tury (Churchwardens' Book of Accounts) it appears to have conraincd ii6i acres of aiable land, " ]o:6 of pallure, 125 of meadow, 13 of ozier, 37 of garden ground, and ico of wood, making " in the whole :6i2 acres; the commons and wafte lands fuppofi-d to be about 330 acres not being " charged will encrcafe it to 2942 acres. At prefent the arable is fuppofed to exceed the grafs land " in a proportion of fix to four, and the meadows are fnppofed to be about a fourth part of the latter. " About 250 acres are now occupied by the market gardeners. Mr. Malcolm's nurfery grounds *' occupy nearly 40 acres. The foil is various, but confifls chijfly of gravel and fand ; there is no '• chalk. At the extremity of the pnrifh, towards Croydon, a well was lately funk to the dej)th of " near 300 feet, through an unvaried Il/atum of ajgillaceous earth." The Environs of London, vol. I. p. 257. J In this article of apples and psars, the dillinguifliing of the warden pears implies there being fcveral trees of that Uii t in the gardejis and orchards, and 4t appears to have been about that time a favourite fruit. Strype, when (Ecclei. Mcraorialf, vol. I. p. 376,) giving an account of the perfeciition of Mr. Quinby of New College by Dr. London, warden ol the college, relates this Ifory : " He was a(ked by his friends what he would eat, who laid his llomach was gone from all meat, " except it were a warden jjye. You 0iall have it, quoth they. I would have, faid he again, " but two wardens baked, I mean our -lu/jr^Va oi Oxford, and o\ir tuarden of Winchcf.cfy London^ " and Merc, For fuch a warden pye iiii^ht dg ms and Chrifl'j church sjood, whereas other w.ir- " deag LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 3^3 s, d. iv In dec'ima pcrcclloium ct niicaruni (/>/^j ^7: - - " i' ^'^^ i*^ pro loflagiis [dairy), . - - - . i — vjii Valet etiam per le Efter book in oblationib' ex devotiose (£'(7/?fr^«^j), iv v — per oblaiiones in die proparafc'jx et pafchcc in adorando crucera (l>y offerings on the day before Good Friday, and on Good Friday, at the adoration of the crofs') • — ■ ii — *' dens of the tree can do me no good at all.' And the clown in the Winter's Tale, acl w, f, 3' '■ lays, " I muft have fatfron to ccloui" the warden pies." * rirgata feni, I liippole, nfeans loads of hay, though this fignification of the word docs not occur in any gloflary I have examined. The hay is here valued at little more than 3s. id. a load. In 1498, Mr. Stow obfervcs, " Hay was iifually at 5s. but now it was 10 or 123. Chronicon Preciofum, where the prices of hay are fet as imder : in 1505, a load at 6s. — in ijio, 9s. — in 151 1, 5s. — in 1560, for a load of old hay, 12s. 6d — fcr a load of new, as bifliop Fleetwood liippofes, 6s. 8d. — in 1562, a load of hay, 13s. 4d. — a load of llraw, 6s. •J- lam not aware of any other evidence in fupport of the redor's claim to the tithe of fifli caught in the Thames ; nor probably, as it is a pcrfonal tithe, is a compofition now allowed for it to the inci;mbent of any parifli fitunted on the banks of this river. The vicar of Brighthelm- llone ufed to require as his due a quai ter out of a fliare of all fifliing-veflels belonging to that town.^ Magn. Britan. Antiq. ct Nor. vol. IV. p 511. J It was a charge againft Dr. Featley, that he prejf.it bard for 2!, Cjil. in the f.und of hit fa- ujhioners, until! it came nccic the cammcnc'ing of a fuit at !azv to pycvciit him. Mis aiilvver was, that, " for rent of lioufes, and the tenth part of the cleare gaines of merchants and artificers (according *' to the flatute of king Edward VI.) I never received a peny. For 2s. 9(1. [cr pound, 1 never de- •' manded it of any man, nor receive any more from them who live in the greatefl and faireft " houfes of Lambeth (and h.;ve not land there) than two pence, for their oblation at Eaffer; " fo little doth the food of their fouls ftand them in. How be it thus much truth is in the article, •' that when the nunifters and citizens of London referred the great difterence between them con- " cerning rent of houles, to the arbitration of his Majefty, and a propoCtion was made to all " the fuburbs and par's adjoyning, that they fiiould likewife fubmit all controverfies concerning " their tithes to his Majefty, for the preventing of litigious fuits, as well in fpiritual courts as at •' common law *, I, being lent to, appeared with the reft, and under my hand and feale bound " myfelf to ftand to his Majeflie's order; but the parifliioners, by the advice of M, HJboume, re- " fufed to fubmit to the fame, and fo nothing was done f." * Payd for a copy of an order to liis M.ijefty concerning tyiliei, ;s, fid. Chmchw.irUens Aceonats, A. ifijV-iSjS. t Spojjgia, p. J 3, 14, CLqa Valet 304 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Valet ctiam in oblationibus per mulieres inquinatas et in pannis I. s. d. cbrifraatoriis *, Reprife, ]. C)uiet' redd' archiep'o, iii Penfio folut. ep'o Roff', — Synodalia ep'o Winton', — Procurat. archiad.Surr', — vii viif s, d. vi viii ii V ii i iii xviii ix| u vm xxxvi viv — Reprifis deduflis, iii xviii ix| Reftat, xxxii xv ii| Errar. mutat. mutandis inter archiep. et epifc. RofF. RECTORS OF LAMBETH. Gilbert de Glanville, who in 1185, whilft domei^ic chaplain (ckrkus) to arcb- bifhop Baldwin, was railed by him to the bifliopric of Rochefter, is the firfl kiiovTii rector -f". Godfrey, biiTiop of VVinchefler, admitted him, May 17, 1197, on the pe- tition of archbifhop Hubert \ ; and as, by the Aime inftrumeni Godfrey confirmed the grant of the annual penfion of five marks, that was to be paid in perpetuity out of the parfonage to the bifhops of Rochcfler, it is not unlikely that the fecuring of this penfion to himfelf and his fucceffors might be the chief, if not the only motive that induced Glanville to take polleffion of this parochial benefice. He appears to have been chaplain to archbifliop Becket, and is applauded for not forfaking his principal from the time of entering into his fervice §. From the fame authorit)' we are aiTured, that the conduct of our prelate was good and upright, and that he conformed to the manners of the good with whom he converfed. But, notvviihflanding the fteadinefs of his attachment to Becket, and the refpedfulnefs of his charafter, he afterwards incurred the difpleafure both of the regulars of * Befides the pecuniary ofTering made by women on returning thanks after childbirth, the mi- iiifter had a right to the clo:h that covered the face of the child when baptized, if the child lived; but, if the child died, the cloth was ufed for a winding- iheet. This cloth was called the chryfome. t Oftert, who, 2 Richard I. (A. 1 190) was amerced half a mark for falfe judgement in the Hallimot Cotirt, is called prieft of Lambelh, (Hilt, of Parifli, p. 5.), and he might be rcdor, of the parifii. This amercement is faid to have been made at they«'> of Hugli Bardul and his aflio- ciates. Qii. were they not the jiiiiices itinerant then holdicg pleas within the county of Surrey, Jt plae'ith Hugonii Bartlul et foc'mum 9 \ Addenda, p. 169 ^ Angl. * Sacr. vol. I. Addenda, p. Soo. Ad quadiilogii calcem, » ViiaS. Thomi, A. W. Stephan. p.So Can- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 305 Canterbury and of his own cathedral. The monks of Chrift Church were provoked, becaufc he zealoufly elpoufcd the caiife of archbifhop Baldwin in his cor.teft with them ; and their brethren of St. Andrew forgave him not hving or dead, on account of his maintaining againd their encroachments the rights ar.d privVieges of his fee. Bifhop Glanvilie was one of the barons of the exchequer in the 5th and 6(h of Richard I. as aifo a jufticc itinerant in Kent in 1194, and again in 1213 * ; and from his having attained a commendable Ikill in both laws, was qualified for the difcharge of thel'e high offices. He died June 2,4, 1214; and, for a more particu- lar relation of him, the reader is referred to The Hiitory and Antiquities of Rochef- ter, p. 125, &c. as alfo to the Memorials of that cathedral, infcrted after Cullu- maie Rotfenfe, p. rS8. How long Glanvilie continued rfdor of Lambeth is nut known ; but if he held it as a commendam to his fee, and not merely for the pur- pofe I have affigned, he is the only exception I have met with to the obfervation made in a former page -f-, of no commendams having been allowed to the bifliops of Rochefler, before the time of bidiop Heath, in the middle of the 16th century. AfterGlanville, 1 have not difcovered the name of any reftor till 1 297, v.'hen malfer John deExton is fo flyled among the perf^ns empowered by archbilhop Winchclfey to receive the tenths ofecclefiaftical benefices granted for the war agaiuft the Scots 4. RECTORS, FROM DR. DUCAREL's LIST, HISTORY OF THE PARISH, p. 33, &c. WITH ADDITIONS AND REMARKS. Andrew de Bruggs, profeffur of civil law, was prefented 15 kal. March, 1311, by archbidiop Winchclfey. In W. de Dene's Hillory of the church of Rocheiler, or rather in his memoirs of bilhop Hyamode Hethe, M.Andrew deBregge is faid to have been ill attendance upon archbifnop Reynold, 15 kal. of September, 1316, w!-.en the archbifliop, in his chapel at Lambeth, admitted Ha» mo to the bilhopric of Ro- chefler on the eledion of the monks of that cathedral ; and in September follow- ing the prelate appointed de Bregge to be one of his proflors on a reference to the pope's legates concerning the validity, of liis elei^iori §. The regifters belonging to the fee of C.-Qterbury from 1327 to 1349, not being remaining in Lambeth Palace, Dr. Ducarel could not difcover any prefentatioa to the r^-flory within thofe years. But, as Mr, Lyfons has difcovered, John de Aulton was adir.itted in 13 12, and in the Kegifte.- of Haynio de Hethc, William dc Drax, ats Draper, and John de Colon, are mentioned as reftors, in confequence of their having queftioned the claim of the bifhop to the penfion charged upon that benefice. In a lecrtr dated the 8th of the ides of February, 1321, and addreffcd to arch- bi(h.>[) Reynolds, bifhop Haymo acquaints the archbifhop with the re<^lor of Lam- beth's having withheld fro.n him the annual penfion tnat had been paid out of the * Haftei's Kent, vol. II. p. 36. XScript. c. 1S4J. f P- 244-' X Wilkins, Concil, vol.11, p. 230, ^53. § Ang. Sacr. vol. I. p. 357, 35S, cha-ch -o6 ADDENDA TO THE FI I S T O 11 1 E S OF o chiircli of Lambeth to the bifhops of Rochefter for time immemorial ; antl he in- terms him, that though, out of reverence to the sichbifliop, the retlor being his domeilic chaplain, he had for the prcfcnt deferred all judicial proceedings againft him, thinking it moie advifable to wait the refult of his impartial deliberation than to engage in an rmgry and intricate difpute, yet, as the reflor had openly and cx- jilicitly refufed to give him fatisfaclion, he Ihould at length be condrained to feek icdrcis by law. He then apprizes the archbifhop, that he was contending for the rights of the fee of Canterbury, as well as that of Rochefter, the archbifhop being euiiiled to the profits during a vacancy; and he therefore humbly implores, that he will condefccnd to inform him by the bearer, whether he received tlie penfion du- ring the late vacancy, and through whofe hands it was paid to him ; and that he will be plcafed likewife to furnifli him with any other corroborative evidence that may be ii; his poffefllon. The archbiihop's anfwer, if any were returned, is not in the regifler-, but on an application to the prior and chapter of Chrid Church, Can- terbury, they tranfmitted a copy of the original gr.int of the penfion by archbifliop IIul)ert ; and, after fuggcfting that fome doubts may arife who was the archbifliop alluded to, his name being not written at length, but only marked by a fingle af- pirate, they recite the names of all the archbiiO-.ops from Becket to Reynold, and fliew that the letter H. as an initial was applicable to Hubert alont-. This inftru- meat is dated 14 kal. March, 1321 *. And in the Regifler it is followed by this ubfervation, which might be added by the bifhop himfelf : " It appears from the above, that the penfion was impofed nineteen years before tf.c Council of Lateran, and that it has been paid for a hundred and fixteen years without interruption." The natr.e of the bifhop is not fpecified in bifhop Haymo's letter, it being thought fupcrfluous, as he was in the archbiQiop's family ; but it feems highly probabls tf.at William de Drax was the perfon, and that he judged it expedient to acquiefce in the demand. It is certain, that William de Drax, who was inflituted in T. 32" -[- on the death of John de Aulton, paid the penfion for fome years, though the bifliop had afterwards caufe to fufpeft its being the intention uf the rcdor to litigate his right to it. For the prelate, by way of precaution, appealed to the pope, and to the archbifhop in his court, and the reftor was cited to appear before the arch- bifliop, or his official, on the next court-day that flrould be held after the fealt of the Holy Trinity, but in what year the deed does not mention. John de Colon, who fucceeded William de Drax ;}: in 1335 §, having declined poyir.g the penfion, a fuit was comimenced againlf him in the archbifhop's Court. Flaymo's appointment of William de Aurnallton and Stephen Northeye, to be his prcftors in the caufe, is dated 6 id. of May, 1342 ; and the reftor was adjudged to pay twenty marks for the arrears of four years to the preceding Eafler. A copy of Haymo's acquittance for this fum under his epifcopal feal, is entered in the * Prinretl in App. to Hiftory cf the Parifli, p. 7, 3. I Reg. R. (Reginald) de Aflerius Ep'i Wijiton, fol. igg. a. Ccmraunicated by Mr. Lyfons. X Called de Draper in the Regifler of Hamo dc Hcthc. 5 Reg. de Orleton, fol. 45. a. (Mr. Lyfons). Bifhop*s LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 307 Bifliop's Regifter. The inftruments from which this account of the penCon is taken> fhall be printed in the fupplemcnt. " Thomas de Elteflo ienior occurs redtor in 1348 *." " Thomas de Eltelie, junior, was prelonted by archbiihop Iflip, 7 id. Aug. 1357, *' in exchange, with Thomas de Lhcfle fenior." *' Richard vVodelard, prieft, prefcnted by archbifhop Iflip, 17 kal. Dec. 1361." The a'.chb (liop, a id. May, 1370, granted to Richard Wodeland a C'>miiiiffion to coMe(f^ and receive the profits of the fpiiitualities of the diocefe of Norwich, that (hould accrue during t;..e vacancy of the fee. The power given was full; for, it was to excrcife and uilch.rge every thing concerning the premifes, even though a fpe- cial mandate (hould be required, t'le archbiihop having, as he declared, full con- f5denre in the fidelity of \S odeiand -f. The will of Richard Wodeland was proved 3 kal. May, 1376 J. " Hugh de BuckenhuU, in 1375, exchanged Lambeth for the refiory or cuflody *■ of the free chapel of St. Radegund, in the church of St. Paul, London, v;ith " Nicholas Slake." In a lift of redtors to the year 1473, with which Dr. Ducarel favoured Dr. Dennc in 173S, it is remarked that this exchange was not coinpleted fh^ec pcrmutaiio mn emanavit), and Wachcnhall, not Buckenhall, is the name given to the former party. But it is obfervable, that, neither in Dugdale's Hiltory of St. Paul's, nor in New- couri's Repertory, as I believe, is the chapel of St. Radegund mentioned ; nor is the name of Buckenhall to be found in the Index to Newcourt. It however appears, that Nicholas Slake was admitted July aa, 1394, to the prebend of Wenlakefburn, and that he was likewife re(flor of St. Mary, Abchurch §. John Lime. Thilip Regges, by exchange with John Elme, 1388 j[. •' John Launce, :nfti uted in 1395 *- ; ana Nov. 7, 1399, exchanged Lnmbeth for " the rectory of Padlef.vorth, in the diocefe of Rocheiler, with Robert Rothbnry.',' This exchange is entered in the Regifter of J. de Bottlefliam-f -f , bifhop of Rochefler, as being completed November 25. John Launce, then prielf, had been inftituted to the redtory of Aih, near Wrotham in Kent, May 2, 1395, on the prefentation of John Radyngton, prior of the hofpital of St. John of Jerufalem J^ ; and July 28, 1 ;97, he was collated by William de Bottlefliam, bifhop of the lame diocefe, to thi redlcry of Southfleet §§. A. 1406, November 16, he was preferred to the pre- » Reg. W. de Edyndon Ep'i sVinton, parti, fot. 42. a. (Mr. Lyfons.) ° t V/ilkins, Concil. vol. III. p. 86. J Hi{l» of ParUh, App. p. 153. ^ Newcourt, Rtp. vol. I. p. 221, 431. II Reg W. dc Wykhani, part I. fol. 191, id. numbering. (Mr. Lyfons). ** Ibid. fol. 255. a. (Mr. Lyibns.) ft l''ol. 39. b, \l Reg. W. Bottiefham, fol. 63. a. §^ Ibid. fol. 106. fol. 89. a. oc8 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF ;) liend of Fide, in Chichefler Cathedral * ; and lie occurs prebendary of St. Da- vid's in 1422 -f. He ^vas LL. B. and conllitutcd official to bilhnp W. Bottle- fiuun, bifliop of the fame diocefe, to the redory of Southfleet j:. A. 1406, No- vember 16, he was preferred to the prel^end of Firle, in Chichefter Cathedral ^ j and lie occurs a prel:>endary of Sr. David's in 1422 j|. He was LL. B. and conlti- tuted official to bifhop W. Bottlefham, Oclober 13, i 397 ** ; vicar general to the fuc- ceflbr J. Bottlclham, Auguft 8, I400i--f, as alfo to the archbidiop of Canterbury, Sep- tember 14, 1404, on the vacancy of the feeofRochefter by the death of that prelate jj;. Robert Rothbury. He was prebend of Mapcfbury, in St. Paul's Cathedral, June 2 4, T-iiS^§. Robert Derby, Oflober 13, 1408, bv exchange with Robert Rothbury for the refiory of Newenden, in the diocefe of Canterbury. Thomas Gordon, March 8, 1409, by exchange with Robert Derby, for the retlouy of Wymondham, in the diocefe of Lincoln. In thefe two exchanges the account in the Hiilory of Lambeth Parilh is correfted, by Dr. Ducarel's Lift, fent to Dr. Denne. A Robert Derby was proftor of the imivcrfity of Oxford in 1360. Q^i. The fame perfon with the reflor of Lambeth? " Henry Wyncheflre, Oflober 14, 1413, by exchange with Robert Derby for " the ref^ory of Sandhurft, in the diocefe of Canterbury." *' Thomas Benham, May 14, 141 6, exchanged Lambeth with Roger Paternofler, " for the vicarage of Chedde, in the diocefe of Bath and Wells." Roger Paternofter was inftituted to the vicarage of Kenfington, in Middlefex, March 6, 1394 |!|| : and to the reflory of AUhallows, Lombard-Jlreet, Odfober 24, 1419, on the refignation of John Bury, in exchange for Lambeth. Dr. Ducarel calls it All-faints, Grace Church-dreet ; the word fireet fliould be omitted, but at that time the Grafs Market probably extended to the church. John Bury was inftituted to the rectory of Great Okeley, in Effex, January 30, 1422, on the prefentation of Sir John Howard, knt. He refigned Okeley in May, 14.32 ***'. The frequent inftitutions to the reclory of Lambeth, by exchange, is ftriking ; particularly as feveral of the incumbents muft have refigned it for benefices not fo conveniently fituated, and far lefs profitable. Padlefworth, accepted by John Launce in 1399, is a very fmall parifh, incommodioufly placed, and was raced in pope Nicholas's valor at only forty fhilling a year-j--}"f-. This is myfterious, and may * Reg. Epif. Ciceft. R. fol. 116 and 160. b. t Reg. J. Langdon Ep. Roff. fol. 15. a. X Reg. W. Bottlefliam,- fol. 106, b. § Reg. Epif. Ciceft. R. fol. no & 160. (1 Reg. J. Langdon Ep. Roff. fol. 15. a. ** Iveg. W. Bottlefliam. fol 89. a. +t Ibid. fol. 150. a. j| Ibid. fol. 187. a, §§ Nevvcourt, vol. I. p. 174. III! Ibid. vol. I. p. 6S0. *** Ibid, p 2J4, and vol II, p. 445. ftt Charged for firft fruits and tenths at 3I. 6s. 8d. See an account of Padlefv.orth in Thorpe's Antiquities, p. 138, as alfo a view of the old church, now converted by the only inhabitant of the paiifkinto a ftore- place for implements of hufbandry. I bring LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 301; bring to mind archbifliop Courtney's lettei, againft choppe churches, dated in Miucii I 391, and addreired to the bifhops of his province *. John Ierber(, or Jercbert, A. M. (omitted by Dr. Ducarel) is mentioned as rec- tor, June 6, 1441, in the Regirter of Wcllys, bilhop of Rochelter -(- ; and again, ■ Auguft 23, 1443, "hen ui attendance at that prelate's delivery of the papal pail 10 archbilliop Stafford |. John Sugdon. " Henry Jopper, or Jnppen, on the death of Sugdon." In Dr. Ducarel's lifl, fent to Dr. Denne, he is ityied Henry, bifhop of Joppa. (Epi/copui 'Joppcn.) " Nicholas Builfynche, April 8, 147:, by the refignation ot Joppen." "Thomas Aleyu, M. A. 1473, ^y refignation of ijullfynche." He was pro- bably fucceeded by Ambrofe Payne, bachelor of mufic, \vi:o, ns noticed in his epitaph §, was chap- lain to cardinals Bourchicr and Morton ; but by which of thcfe archbiibops he was prefented to this living is not known. He is entered as parfon in the firit page of the old book, entitled, "The Choyce of Churchwardens and their Accounts," as being prefent in vtftry, May 19, 150^; and the fame bov)k ihews that he paid much at- tention to parilh bufmefs. As he is not mentioned as chaplain to either arcbbifhop Deane or W'arham, the prefumption is that he did not refide in the palace. He had a filter who died in i 516, the fee to the parilh for her iutermer.t being an irem in the Churchwardens' Accounts of that year (|. Mr. Payne, in his life-time, gave to the church 2I. 3s. 4d. Alfo a legacy to the high altar, 3s. 4d. According to Dr. Ducarel, he reugned the reftory in 1627, which was the year before his death, he deceafing May 29**, 1528. " Robert Chalnor, LL. D. by refignation of Ambrofe Payne." Chalner, or Chaloner, occurs redor, A. 1531, i533> 34 and 35, in Act. Cur. ConGftor. Pvof- .fen. of thofe years. JohnWhytweil, B. D. was, on the death of Chalnor, prefented April 23, 154T, being both chaplain and almoner to archbiibop Cranmer. A. 1548, December 8, Mr. VVhyt.vell, and Mr. Lang'ey (another chaplain), tendered to the arcbbifhop, then fitting in court in his great room at Lambeth, a fchedule of heretical and damnable opinions avowed by John ACheton, prirfl, of Skitellington, in Lincolnfliire ; and. May 17, 1549, (being then flyled B. D.) Whytwell was prefent when Charles Tombe of London, butcher, renounced before the archbifiiop fome heretical te- nets -f^. And he was in attendance at the confecratioii of Bilhop Ridley in the chapel of the dean of St. Paul's, September 5, 1548 |:{:. There being no evidence * Wilkius, Concil. vol. III. p. 215. f Fo!. 160. a, t P. 1S9. § Hill, of Parifli, App. p. 43. || Vaydfor theberya' of the Parfm^sfyfier, vis. viiid. ** Mr. Lyfons, in The Envii-ons of London, notices there bc.ing a penfion of 30I. per annum allowed to Ambrofe Payne for life out of the reftory. A. 1527. (Reg. Fox.) In Steele's copy of the infcription, M.iy 28. ft VViikins, Concil. vol. IV. p. 40, 42, %% Sti^-ps's Life of Cranmer, p. 176, Rr of ion at 310 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF of his being deprived of his preferment in the reign of queen Mary, the prefumpt is, that he might conform to the changes in favour of Popery, or that he was, at leafl:, a lukewarm Proteftant. A. 1559, January 7, he figned, as reftor, the account of Robert Mote, churchwarden ; bur furvived little more than a year, March at, 1560, being noticed in the PariQi Regifter for the day of his burial. He bequeathed ten pounds to the poor. ♦' Thomas Hall, March, 1560, by the death of Whytwell." He was In veflry at pafling the Churchwardens' Accounts} from Oftober the firfl, in the firft year of Elizp.beth, to October the firft, in the third year of her reign, and likewife on the fettlino- of the accounts for the next year. But the living was foon after vacant by his death, he being buried March 19, 1562, on the north fide of the chancel. Par. Reg. John Byrchail, alias Burchnll, who was prefented June 23, 1565, held the rec- tcry only a few months, for he was buried i)ftober the i8th. It is not unlikely that he might die of the plague, which raged with violence this year. In hoc anno magna p.Jlilentia rignahat. Par. Pxcg. John Porie, alias Pory, D. D. was the fncceiTor of Byrchail, being prefented No- vember 5, 1 0?. He had been fellow of Stoke Clare in Suffolk when Dr. Parker was dean of tnat college; and, through the archbilhop's influence, was eleded maf- ter of Corpus Chrifti College in C:am'bridge, on December 10, 1557 *• ^'"' ^ S^'^ ''^^ archbilhop collated him to the fixth prebend in Canterbury Cathedral, which he ex- chanoed in 1567 for the feventh flail in Weftminfler Abbey. He appears to have refiued chiefly at Lambeth, poflibly in the palace ; and to his long abfence from Cambridge, together with the growing infirmities of age, were attributed the great irregularities that prevailed in the college under his adminiflration. The expe- diency therefore of his relinquifhing the maflerlhip was obvious; it was not, how<» ever, without repeated folicitation?, that the archbilhop could induce him to acquiefce in this propofal ; his academical ftation being, as he declared, the moft pleafmg to him of all his dignities. And when he at length refigned, which was February i, 1569, he complained that he had with it given up all hi-s jov. In the Churchwardens' Accounts of Lambeth, to Michaelmas 1567, is an entry of " a receipt, by Dr. Pory, of thirteen fhillingp, which was the gifre of the dean and chapter of Chrill Church, Canterbury;" but'it is not fpecified to what ufe it was to be applied. And a fev/ months before he ceafed to be rector, he is no- ticed as having paid thirteen (hillings and four pence, " being half the charge of a " newe Bible of the great volume, the refidue being defrayed by the parilh." As Mr. Matchett was prefented to the reftory July 10, 1570, on the refignation of Dr. Porie, he muft have quitted the preferment a very fhort time before his deceafe, becaufe his will, which I have read, was proved the fame month. This refigna- tion fecms the more extraordinary, fuppofini^, as the archbifhop was inclined to believe, '* the doctor was but a poor man, contrary to the world's opinion of him." * Mafters's Hift. of C.C. C. C. p. 104, &c. And LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH l^ARISH. 311 And fuch was the exprefi^on ufed by the archbifliop in a letter to fecretary Cecil, written with the view of clearing himfelf hom an afperfion thrown out, " of his " efpoufing the do(ftor, in hopes of being the executor of -a man reckoned to be rich ; " profcfiing at the fame time that he looked not to be advantaged five fliiliings by " him, nor would be the executor or fupervilor of his will*." The archbi(Lop is not named in the will ; and the will warrants a conclufion, that the teftator was no: in affluent circumftances. He intimates the Jeii-e things he had in his difpofal ; and his legacies to his nephews and nieces, and other relations, were of litile value -|-, To the church of Thropftone J, where he was born, he bequeathed 61, 1 3s. 4d. which was to be expended in repairs within fix months after his death; and to the poor of the parilli he gave, I think, the fame fnm, that was diilributed at twice. He did not men- tion his place of abode, nor where he wiflied to be interred ; but he requefled that Dr. Goodman, dean of Weltminfter, would preach his funeral fermon in the Aubey, and he left him a gratuity for his trouble. I believe it might be twenty fliiliings, but I trufl: to memory; nor pen, nor pencil, being allowed to the examiners of wills in the Prerogative-office. John Rlatchett, chaplain to archbifhop Parker, was prefented to the reftory July 10, 1570. He was in vellry at the paffing of the Churchwardens' Accounts, Cf>ober 15 that year, and October 21 in the following year, when he exerted the right of the redior to nominate a churchwarden without the cdhfent of the parilhioners. He occurs reftor of Thurgarton in Norfolk, March 15, 1574; archbilliop Parker, in a letter of that date, having direded him to repair to the bifliop of Norwich, and to inform him how felicitous the queen was, that the vain profhccyings, as the archbilliop terms them, of late fet up in feveral diflrifts, and particularly in the diocefe of Norwich, (hould be fuppreffed §. In the account of debts and funeral charges of the archbifhop is this item — " To redeem Mr. Matchett out of prifon, " 26I. 13s. 4d." And as this unfortunate man was not noticed in the archbifhop's will, it (hould feem that the e.\ecutors had private inftruftions from his grace rela- tive to this bufinefs ||. John Bungey, M. A. according to Dr. Ducarel, fucceeded Mr. Matchetr, but in v?hat year he has not mentioned. He was chaplain to archbifliop Parker, nephew to him by affinity, and much in his uncle's favour. In 1550 he was entered a member of Corpus Chrifti college in Cambridge, elected a fellow in 1557, and prefented by the fociety to the reftory of Granchefter in 1561 **. By collation from * Strype's Life of archbifhop Parker, p. 289. t I recoUeft, one was a black gown to his fifter-in-law, Urfula Pory. X Sic ; as 1 read it in the Regifter, I imagined it to be an error m copying the will, and de« Cgncd for Thrapltone in North aniptonihi re ; but, on enquir)-, there is no rr.eraorial of him ia that parifli. There is not in the Villa, Uc. any fuch parifh as Thropftone. Qu. might not Thurfton in Suffolk, or Thurflen in Norfolk, be the place > His being fo much noticed by arch- hidiop Parker, who had connexions with both counties, renders this a not improbable furmife. § Strype's Life of Parker, p. 460; and Strype's Annals, vol. II. p 321. 11 Life of Parker, App. p. 192. ** Mafters, Hift. of C. C. C. p. 255. Pvr 2 the J 2 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF the archbidiop he was inftalkd in the fourth prebend of Canterbury Cathedral, July 29, 1567, and inflituced, November 28 enfuing, to the vicarage of Lewidiam, in the diocefe of Rochefter, on a prefentation from the archbifhop, who had a grant of the advowfon. His Grace likewife conferred on him the reclory of Chart- ham, near Canterbury. Mr. Bungey attended, as chaplain, the funeral of his patron, who had appointed him one of the fupervifors of his will, with a bequeft of ten pounds for his trouble *. He died at Chartham, and was there buried, and to his memory in that church is a monument with the underwritten infcripcion : " Memorise facr. Vita mihi Chriftus, et mors lucrum. Here lieth the body of Mr. John Bungeye, clerke, one of the prebendaries of Chrifl; Church, in Cant, and parfon of this parlfli ; borne in Norwich, July 7, 1536; whoe married Margaret Parker, borne in the fame citie the 14th of December, A. D. 1547; who lived together 35 years, and had iffiie 8 Tonnes, 4 daughters ; which John bylded Myftole -f, and there dyed in the 57th year of his ae^e, the 20th of November, A. D. 1596. Boni Beati. 1595 has been fixed for the time of his death, and not without reafon, fuppo- fing, as Dr. Batteley has ftated, Dr. Fotherby, who fucceeded him in his prebend, to have been admitted to it in that year. And with the lefs fcruple one can impute the iwiftake to the writer of the epitaph, or to the ftone-mafon, there being this grofs error in faying that Mr. Bungey died in the 57th year of his age, after ha- vii g previoufly noticed that he was born in 1536. Mr. Mailers obferves, that he was generally llyled LL. D. though the time and place of his taking the degree is not known. In the epitaph, however, he is called Mr. ; and 1 fhould think this n-.ight be another miflake, were he not fo termed, without the addition of Dodor, in the confiftorial a6is of the diocefe of llochefter, in which it is entered in the form of a prefentirent, " Contr. Mag. Bungey, vie. de Lewifliam, for that we do not know " whether he beftoweth the 4th part of his benefice," fol. 25. a. Thomas Blage, alias Blague, D. D. was, on the rcfignation of Bungey, prefented, April 10, 1577, and induftcd on Trinity Sunday, June 2 j;. He was prettrred by archbilhop Grindal, to whom he was chaplain, as he had been to archbifhop Par- ker, whofe funeral he attended in that clafs§. In September 1570 he was infli- tuted to the reftory of Great Braxted, in Eflex; and was collated by archbifhop. Parker, September 2, 1571, to the reftory of St. Vedafl, Foller-lane, London, * Strype's Life of archbifliop Parker, p. 501 ; and App. p. 3. t Now ihe feat of the rev. Si;- John Fagg, hart, who favoured me with a copy of the infcripcion. J Parifli Regifter, after burials in 1612. ^ Strype's Lite of Parker, p. 459) 4^6. Life of Grindal, p. 229, beinsi' LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 313 being then only bachelor of nrts *. As Georsrc, ear! of Shrewfbury, was his patron at Braxted, he was very probably recommended to the archbilhop by the countefs, who was an intimate friend of Mrs. Parker. This appears from a MS memoran- dum on the title-page of an Englifli Pfalter remaining in the library of Lambeth Palace -j~. Before September 1578, Mr. Blague had refigncc the reftory of Vedafl ; and April 2, 1582, when chaplain to queen Klizabeth, he fupplicated for his de- gree of doftor of divinity at Oxford. A. 1591, September i, he was inftalled dean of Rochefler ; but he was not, as advanced by c\. Wood, mafter of Clure Hall, in Cambridge. To the reflory of Bangor, in Flintfliire, he was prefented in 1604. When he became poflcfled of the reftory of Crayford in Kent, I have not difcovered. It is obfervable that, upon the metropolicical vifitation in 1607, he is returned as reflor of Lambeth, Braxted, Crayford, and Banoor % ; and in the anfwer of the dean and chapter of Rocheftcr to archbifliop Abbot's interrogatories, it is added, " the dean pieacheth more in a year than all the deans fince the foundation, and " keepeth hofpitality §." Tliat he was not, however, fo attentive as he ow^ht to have been, in providing an affiflant for the parilh-church of Lambeth, even on a great feftival, may be inferred from this item in the Churchwardens' Accounts of 1 593 — " Layd out when we went to feek a myriider at Whytfontide, and for bote " hire, is. 6d." Dr. Blague died Odober 11 ; and by his vvill, which was dated only four days preceding his death, and proved November 9, he gave all his elfe£ls, movable and immovable, to his wife Alicia, with a power of difpofing of what might be neceffaryfor her fupport; but graiued the reCdue to his fons in fucceffion, and their iiTue. He bequeathed his books to his wife, to fell or give away ; and concerning his fermons there is this curious claufe, " My notes of my fermons £ " give to my fon John ; they are jeuells if he will ufe them right ||." It is unde- niable, therefore, that he conceived himfelf to have great m.erit in this fpecies of compofition-**. A.Wood fays, that the Doiflor publilhed certain fermons, one of which was preached in the Charter-houfe; Pfalni i. i, 2, Lond. 1703; and per- haps other things. The Parifli Regitter of Lambeth notices his marryino- Avles Brooke, April 10, 1577, which was the day of his being prefented to that living-; and, in the Churchwardens' Accounts of 1623, Mr. Blague is entered as paving 7s. 6d. to the poor. According to Wood, the fon John was, in the life-time of his father, a commoner of Oriel College -I"J~. Francis Taylor was the fucceflbr of Dr. Blague, being prefented October 161 1. He was tnaftcr of the free-fchool at Guildford, founJed by king Ed'.vard VI. ; and there educated archbilhop Abbot, his brother Richard, afterwards bifliop of Salif- * Newcourt, Repert. vol. II. p. 91 ; and vol I. p. 565. t Hiftory of Palace, p. 55. J Reg. Epi. Roften. t'ol, 2C2. b. § Reg. ;as prevailed upon to prefent him to the reftory of Adton. The date of his collation to Allhallows is not noticed by Nevvcourt, but it appears that he was inltituted to Afton in 1627. And, fome time after, but the year I have not dilcovered, he i-vas appointed Provoil of Chelfea- College *. In 1622 -f- Dr. Featley married Mrs. Joyce Hollowiy, who was his parifhioner, and relided in a commodious houfe | in Kenningion-lane. Mr. Gataker repre- ftnts her as " having a comelinefs of perfon and amiablenefs of countenance *' above and beyond many, if not the moft, of her lex ;" and he adds, " that her " infide was fuitable to her outfide — that in her private devotions the rule Ihe " invariably obferved for many continued years was, prayer four feveral times " each week's day, and fix on the Lord's day — and that within fome terms of '* years fiie had read the whole New Tefiament twelve times over, and that not " flightly and fupetficially, but fo as to obferve fomewhat that might be ufeful " to her, either out of, or upon, every chapter fhe read, as evidently appeared " by a multitude of notes fhe left behind her." John Featley terms her an an- tient, grave, gentlewoman ; and the difference in age between her and her hufband was probably great, the Do f Falete, ainici ; nunc temporis ego, ut alim Buccrus, fitin pila firtun^, qua non tjl omniiHS una. 0-atc pro me, rege, lege, grege. Iterum valele in Domino Jefu. Leo'l Funeral Sciinon, p. 29. t Succiiift Account, p. 15, 17. Dco: . 322 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Dr. Leo, truftlng to bis memory, after an interval of twenty' years, has blended the journey from Oxford to Lambeth with the ride from Croydon to Kenning- ton ; and, after a lapfe of thirty five years, John.Featley feems not to have re- coiledted, that his uncle was firft feized with his illnefs at Oxford ; nor, have either of thefe writers, under a bias from the concern for the fufferings of their friend, made due allowance for tlie archbifhop's apprehenfions, in a feafon fo pe- rilous and alarming. His grace might have, and probably had, fufficient caufe to be diffatisfied with the thoughtleifnefs of his chaplain ; for, it appears very likely, that, when the Doftor came from Oxford to Lambeth-palace, he found the arch- bifhop had removed his family to Croydon, and followed him thither. But the plague was certainly at that time at Oxford, and it then raged, perhaps more vio- lently, at Lambeth * ; and, Dr, Leo admits, that he and others were perfuaded that Dr. Featley had caught the infection. Under thefe circumflances, was not the archbiHiopjuftifiable in endeavouring, as far as was in his power, to prevent its extending to Croydon ? And the inconvenience and pain the doftor endured in his ride to Kennington was the confequence of his own imprudence, in not reti- ring, as he ought from the firft to have done, to his own houfe. Happily, his dif- temper proved to be only a fevere cold, accompanied with fome dangerous fymp- toms, but not at all infectious "l^. By proper medicines, with careful nurfing J, his health was re-eftabliflied ; and, on his recovery, he deferted the fervice of the archbifliop, and removed his books from the Palace. His own fufferings, and a fenfe of the general calamity, giving a turn to the doc- tor's thoughts, though not to his inclination, wrought a change in his wonted pradice of writing. He confefi'es that polemical divinity was to him a delight- ful exercife ; but that, being out of tune with his body, and having a fhaking weaknefs, he could not flretch the jarring firings of controverfy ; for which rea- fon, the public fervice of the Church being unfrequented on account of the dire- ful vifitation of the plague, he compofed, for the clofet, a manual of inftrudions, hymns, and prayers, which he called, " Ancilla Pietatis, or the Handmaid to pri- " vate Devotion §." The book had a very favourable acceptance; for, before the • The plague was then brought to Oxford by Sir Jaines Hufley, one of tbe Matters in Chancery, who died at New College the firft night after his arrival ; and, (hortly after, Dr. Chaloner, principal of Al- ban Hall, who had fupped that night with Sir James. Life of the Earl of Clarendon, p. 6. In July, Augufl-, September, and 0h •= verfes, together with their fevtral parts and commaes, even to the li-aft iota or tiitle, by the dircc- " tion and affirtance of God's holy ipirit, I will make ufe of in my application, if I may intreat *' your grace (heie he bowed to his j^race) and your honourable attention (here he turned to the Lords) " for a while in their explication.'' Clavis Myftica, p. 54. X Upon fo feri.jus and affedling a topic as the death of Dr. Ahbot, bifliop of Salilbury, under tho excruciating pains from the ftone, Dr. Featley could not forbear wri(iug this contemptible pun: '* The hour-glafs of his life run out the fooner for having the fand or gravel thereof ftopt." Fuller, Ch. Hift. B. X. 48, who refers to Featley's Life of the Bilhop, p. 549 " The favouiinefs of his fermons, " not altogether wit, for that had been to feed his hc.nrers with fawce inltead of meat ; nor altogether •' with difputation, for that were to feed them with flones inftead of bread ; but fetting before thtm " wholefome doftrines, in an exail method and acute exaftnefs." Lloyd's W oithies, 528-9. n " where- 3^4 A^DDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF <' wherefore, I marvel, M. P. H. (Peter Heylin) in his lafl: edition of his defence *' of St. George, iraduceth this palfsge, fith I impugn not his martyr, nor hath •' he reafon to defend this confeffed Arian." Not but that there might be a mif- nnderftanding and coohiefs, if not an open rupture, between the primate and Dr. Featley. Laud could hardly avoid being offended, that the reftor of a church, contiguous to the walls of his palace, Ihould perfift in a refufal to turn the communion-table altar-wife * ; and to this incident there is an obvious allufion in the following paflage of " The Gentle Lafh :" ' This courageous member of ' the Aflembly (meaning Dr. Featley) lookt the lion in the very face; nay, when * he ror'd he trembled not, whole holy table, when all turned altars, was no move' * able.' Befides, Dr. Featley was a vvitnefs againd the archbifliop, upon the charge of his having made fuperflitious innovations in Lambeth Chapel. The point refpefting which he gave evidence (and Sir Nathanael Brent concurred in it) was, ' that, in the time of Archbifliop Abbott, there was n« credentia on the South * fide of the Communion-table, no bowing to the table or altar, no ufe of copes -{-.' The convocation at Oxford, in the beginning of king Charles's reign, was not the firft of which Dr. Featley was a member ;|; ; for. Dr. Leo mentions their having alfo ferved together in the tuo lalf convocations of king James, of precious memory, to whom they had the honour of being chaplains : and, as Dr. Leo's ac- count exhibits a trait of the principles and fpirit of himfelf, and of his friend, and notices likewife an afTociation that 1 do not recoUeft the having read in any de- tail of thefe Synods, it fliall be inferted in his own words : ' In which convocations * five-and-forty of us, whereof he (Dr. Featley) was chiefe, made a folemn covenant * among ourfelves, to oppofe every thing that did but favour or fcenc never fo * little of Pelagianifme §, or Semi-Pelagianilme. And being elefled by the cler- ' gie of Surrey for to be a Gierke of the Convocation for this prefent parliament, ' and hearing me make proteftation in the face of that clergie (an occafion being * offered) in thefe terms, Atque odi ego Jrminianifmum ac Bellarminia nifmum, came ' and embraced me in his armes, and faid, " Well faid, good brother, I proteft * and v;ill fwear the like ||.' On this head fee pp. 259, 260, of thefe A;ldenda. f Rufiiwonh's Univerfal CoUedions, vol. II. p. 280. Featley was chofen proftor for the Church of RocheHer in Convocation, Jan. 8, 1620. Reg. Ecclef. Roff. VI. fol. 93. He was proflor for the diocefe of Winchellern 1640. Aft. Convocat. § Dr. Featley wrote agahift Arminius, and all his rabble, (hewing demonftrativeiy, that their tenets hey had from the patches and pieces of Pelagius, that Welch heritique, a monk of Bangor, whofe name was Morgan, for Ptlagius inLat'ine, and Morgane, in the Welch idiome, fignify both oiie and the fame party, that is to fay, Mor-gan. Mor is more, and gan is juxta mare, or Accola maris : one of the (hires in South Wales being called La Morgaajhire, for that it is fituated all along the fea-coaft. Le«' Sermon, p. 24, Leo s Sermon p. jz;. .. among LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 325 As Dr. Featley held fome do£lrinal tenets of the Calvinifls, he .was in 1642 ■appointed by parliament one of the Affembly of Divines, and he continued lon- ger with them than any other member of the Epifcopal perfuafion. But it is ob- served, by the writer of *' The Gentle Lafli," that he joined with the Aflembly as long as they joined the truth; and that, when they countermined it, he under- mined them. He appears, however, to have withdrawn himfelf, partly, in confe- quence of a meffage from the King, to whom he was Chaplain ; and it was fuggefted in the royal injunflion, that the AlTembly was dcfticute of full authority, becaufe convened without his Majefty's confent. ' In November, 1642, fome of the rebels foot foldiers being billetted at A61on, * in the county of Middlefex, they prefently enquire of their hofts what their * Doftor was (meaning Doftor Featley, their then reftor), and what divine fervice * they had. They anlwered, according to the truth, that he was a man who pre- ' cifely obferved the Canons of the Church, and fwerved not a tittle from the ru- * brick of the Common .Prayer, wearing the furplice, and ufing all the rites and ' ceremonies of the Church efl:abli(hed by law. Some of the red-coats replied, * " Doth he fo ? v/e will tesch him another leflbn, and make him leave thofe * Popifli fuperflitioRS, or he {hall rue it." Soon after, they repair to the Church ' at Afton, break open the doors by force, and in the chancel ihey find this fub- * fcription on the wall, " This Chancel was repaired and beautified, fuch 2 year, by * .Daniel Featley, D. D. re£for," which they utterly defaced. Then laying hands ' on the rails, they dealt with them as ducks do with a frog, tear them limblefs, * and afterwards burnt them in the ftreet, faying, " That, if they had the parfon * there, they would burn him with the Popifh trinkets." At Lambeth, foon after February 19, 1642-35 the fedtaries (as has been already related in the HiClory of the Parllh, p. 58) ' wrecked their fpleen, not upon pales, * or railes, or the fruits of the earth, as at Afton, but upon the bodies of Chrifl's ' fervants, on his own day, and in his own houfe and court; many of thcfe mur- * derers were heard exprelling their rancour againfl: the doctor; fome faying, " they " would chop the rogue as fmall as herbs for the pot, for fuffering pottage (for by " that naine they ufualiy ftyled the Book of Common Prayer) to be read in his '^ Church ; others, they would fqueeze the Pope out of his belly *." The doftor's fecefTion foon fubjedtcd him to an inquifition before the Committee for plundered minifters, upon feven articles -f-, exhibited againfl him by fome of his Lambeth * See the Kiftory of the Parifh, p. J9. There cannot well be a more flriking indance of the ab- furdity :uid violence of fanaticifm, than that a man (hould be purfued as a favourer of Popery, uho had fpent the principal part of his lite in the mod ardent defence of the Proteftant Religion. t ' Wee, whofe names are here under written, inhabitants of the p.irifh ef Afton, in the county of '* Middlefcx, being requefted by Doctor Daniel Featley, parfon of the pa'i(h of AQon as aforefaid, to * -cerijlie the time of buraing the barne, wherein the tythe corn lay belonging to the (aid parfonage, and T t «^he 326 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Lambeth parilhioners, whom he ftyles Semi-Separatids. He waited divers weeks upon the Committee ; and, at length, March lo, 1642, when M. White was in the chair, he was called into the Exchequer Chamber to anfwer to the charges. Previoufly to his entering upon his defence, the Doftor folicited proteftion for his perfon and eftate during his attendance, according to the cuitora of all Courts ; averring, that he could not come and depart without evident danger of his life, and offering thefe reafons as the grounds of his fears. ' The next day,' faid the Doftor, * after the bloody fray at Lambeth, as I landed 'at the ftaires, there a fouldicr, * that flood fentinell, one Alexander Bagwood, holding his muiket at my breft, * charged me, before div-rrs of the pari(h, that I was he who kindled the late Cre, * of whiche words of his I tooke prefent witneile, and promifed to call him to an ac- * count for them. On Tuefday following one of the fouldiers of Captain Andrewes * his company, being aiked when they meant to leave the Court of Guard at Lambeth, ' faid, they meant not to go away till they had made an end of me; this Thomas ' Adams tcftifieth upon oath. On Wednefday, being the faftday, one of Ken- ' nington told a Gentleman, my neighbour, that ihe hearde the fouldiers fpeake, * amongfi: themfelves, that they had m'tffed their mark ; and that they did looke for * me, if they could have met with tiie. The Monday following, one of the parifliioners * fent me word, that a gentleman in her hearing reported, that forae of Captain * Andreiucs his company faid, they had a warrant to plunder me*.' This reafon- able application was flighted by the Chairman, who hinted, he knew nothing of the matter ; and, therefore, required the Boftor to anfwer to his charge. His general anfwer to all the articles was in the negative, fo far as they con- tained any offenfive matter or criminal, punifhable by any law of God or man^ civil, canon, municipal, or common; and, he obferved, that they were patched up together by a tailor of two names, who was the accufer by the name of Ambvcjc < the value of it : wee do upon certain knowledge and true information, certifie all thofe whcm it * may concern, that the faid barn, being full of eonie, befides three bay offtabling, built by the ' faid Doftor himfelf, all valued at two hundred and eleven pounds, or thereabouts, as it was thea « prized by fome of the parifliioners appointed to that purpofe ; were all burned downe to the * ground the tenth day of November laft, by the Parliament's forces then quartered in the faid town* * And wee further ceitific, that this lofle fell above five weekes after the death of M. Henry Leeriucod * (to whom the faid parfonage had been farmed), and when the faid parfonage was in the doftor's hands, * before he had farmed it to any other. In wiinefle whereof we have hereunto fubfciibed our names,, ths * fiilldayofOaober, 1643. « John Needier, George Colle, « Thomas Needier, Henry Colle.. • Ed mend Biddle, » The Mark a\. of William Wells," Sbongia, p. 2t Clover, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 327 Qlover, but brought foi- a witncfs by the name of J?nbrofe Andrewes — that he had had time enough to have ftiiched them better, having cotifefl'cd, that he had beea a twelvemonth about them, but that they were milcrably botched, having neither order, nor coherence, nor fenfe, in them*. The llxth article of the offences imputed to Dr. Featley was as follows : ' When * the doftor was demanded what moneys he would give or lend to the King or P.ir- * liament, he ufed delayes in giving an anfvver, and at laft would do noihing, and * further, being demanded, by one of his parifhioners, whether it were good to * lend, he anfwered him it was not fafe for him to give or lend.* Anlwer. ' I never denyed to give or lend to the King or Parliament ; but it is * true, that feeing contrarie commands both publillied in jTint from his Majefly and * the high court of Parliament, I dehred at the firft thjt the colle<51ors would * repaire to the knights, ladies, and others of the chiefe rank of the parifli, and * fhew me what they gave or lent, which they refufed to doe : but, when thev came * a fecond time unto me, I appoynted them to meet me at the veftry, the Tuef- * day following, and there I would refolve them, but they never came unto me, yet * certified that i den}edto give or lend, and would have cert'.fied alio, that I dif- * fuaded others, but Mr. Clay, one of the colledors, firuck that cLaife our, faying, * there was no reafon to certifie that aS from me, which they never heard me * fpeake, but onely another man was faid could affir.ne as much. To the accu- * fation itfelt of not lending money, my anfvver is, that when Colonel Urrey was at * ASiorty he lay in my parfonage-houfc ; and his louldicrs not content with fuch * corne and hay as they received from my farmer at their owne price, demanded * the keys of the great barne, and had them in their hands for foure days, in which * time, through the careiefFnefs of one of the fouldiers that lay in the barne (if not * purpofely), the flack of corne was fet on fire, and the whole barne and two (tables * were burned downe to the ground ; the loff thereof, elfitnated by divers of the ' parifliioners, was two hundred and eleven pounds at the leaft. Bcfides this, when * the maimed fouldiers were placed in the Sa'.'oy, my whole ftipend v.as layd out to- * wards the buying of beds for them. In which confideration, 1 conceive, that this * honourable committee will hold me excufed from any further^gift or loane, being * not prefently furnifned with money, and having no temporal livirg nor eccleftaf- * tical dignirie, deanery, archneaconry, or prebend. ' For that one-Oi the parifu whom they afSrm I difT.va'^ed from lending to the ' King and Parli-iinent, Ideiire that he maybe called face to face. In 'e meanwhile * I offer this certificate under his own hand : " Meeting I). Featley a^ nit S. Mar- ' garci's Hill, by and after M. fVhiie, M. Good and fome others were appoynted " for Lambeth parilh, to fee what the inhabitants would do upon the propoiitions : ^^ af^er other difcourfe, I demanded of Dr. Featley what he thought of it ; he ^' replyed, that he thought the L ufinefTe would Ipecd the worfe, Lecaufe they had • Spongia, p. 4. T t 2 " made t 528 ADDENDA TO THE HIS^TORIES Of " made choice of fuch men as were not beloved In our parifti, nor came to our church ; " but whereas it is reported, that D. Fectley fliould difivvade me or any other to my " knowledge, it is falfly fuggefled, for beyond my ability I freely lent 581!. Per " }ne Neariah INlorraay." It is obfervable that Dr. Featley mentions his not being polTeffed of any private fortune; and that he muft confequently have expendcdor diflributed the profits of his two benefices; and, on its being objefted that he was a Pluralift, and not content with one living, the reply was, " What bofptality the revenues of A£lon " and Lambeth produced, Nezvingtcn will informe you. And time may tell you, '• whether the new incumbents bring not the year about with fuller purfes *." In his defence, he endeavoured to avail himfelf of his talent for clofe antf pointed reafoniiig ; but he defifted, or rather forbore ufing it for a few minutes, . on being told by a member of the Houfe of Commons, who happened to be prefent, — " Doftor, you forget yourfelf, you think, you are in the fchools/.' or words to the like effect -f. To the competency and credibility, as witnelTes, of John Goad, Am- brofe Andrevves, Edward Searles J, and John Hopkins, he made feveral objedtionsj and he urged particularly, that they were all indided at the feffions for voluntarily- and obflinately abfenting themfelves from divine fervice in their parilh-church. But Mr. White overruled the plea, and refafed to hear a Gngle witnefs in the doctor's' behalf §. By fo partial a Court a prefumed delinquent was not likely to be ac- quitted ; and the refult of the enquiry was, that four only, who were all that aitended* of the feventeen of which the Committee confjfled, voted Dr. Featley out of bis living, and appointed another psrfon to officiate for him. The. report of this order- was deferred for more than two months; bur, July. 11, RL White, or fome other- perfon, made a relation to the Houfe of Commons, of which the following is an abflradl : ' That Daniel Featlev, D. D. reiflor of Lambeth, hath not only endea- '■ voured to corrupt his parilhioners by his fuperftitious example of bowing toward' ' the Eafl in his church ||, and conftant bowing at the name of Jefus, and refufmg to ' give » Gentle Laft, p. 8. -|- Spongia-,- p. &. ; Seailes confefTcd that the caufe of their preferring arciclti againfl Dr. Fcathj was to ftay the pro- feculion of a bill againft him, the faid Semhs, at feflions, and faid, th'e (Dr. Featley and Dr. Leo) fcrved together in three convocations ; to wit, the lall two of king " James, of piouE memory, to whom w^r had the honour to be chaplains in ordinary." Page 29, " At my returne out of Germany, I with four merchants of Hamharough, and two of " my people coming to Embdcn, tock into our waggon a licentiatus in the emperial or civil law, &c." Page 23. In this page Dr. Leo thus no-ices a fon t Some fcven yeeres fithence 1 had a fon, fellow of ■ 1 Trinity in Cambridge; who being traveller for his college, I kept at Paris for a time hahltu dementif- ^^ fimo, in an uncouth habit, that he might not be knowne ; and he reforted daily, and had CDnfcreuce " in the Cleremont wi:h the Jefuiis." t Emeritus miles, and almuft a Silicernium, a man mere edentulus. But cum ncmini obtruji putejl ituf ad me — Yet, rather than 1 would wave the memorial of my endeared friend, I refolved to ondergo U u z the 336 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF ^s it flioLild feem, not a more proper perfon could have been felefled for the en7- ployrnenc, the preacher having been in habiis of intimacy and friendfiiip with the deceal'ed thirty-l'even years, and twenty of them palled at fo fmall a dillance from each other as Wandfworth from Lambeth. He has rcprefented Dr. Featley as being, in his nature, meek, gracious, affable,, merciful ; and mentions his havitig a proof of his friend's fincerity to the poor, when they had the honour of being returned with Sir John Lenthall and others, Juftices of Surrey, in a commiffion for pious ufes. The trontifpiece to his fermon is the model of a monument, and alfo an epitaph, the one never fet up, nor the other engraven. " There is a book," fays Aubrey, " called, The Dipper " Dipt, writ againft the Anabaptifts, printed fince his death, where the graver " hath made a handloaie monument* for him, but no memorial in the church." This book has alfo his portrait by W. Marfhall, which is mentioned but not de- fcribcd -{-, by Granger. Before the Reftoration, it was not likely that any fuch tri- bute the cenfure of thejudicion? for my plainnefs and firnpliciiy, of vvhkh qualities the next paragraph is a fpecimeii. " Truly I could willingly take up the lamentable cry of Elijlia for Elijah, he crying, O my '■ Father, my Father ; and I lamenting, O my Brother, my Brother, the chariots of Ifreel and the horfemen «' of the fame; for, we have loft a chiefe chariot of our churches, and an horfeman of the fiate ; not of " the pike, hut of the pen ; but why fhould I or any lament for him f of whom I may fay to you all that •• dillich which old £«;»»»j faidat. his death, and that with very little alteration, *■' Nemo ilium lachrymis decoret, p.eque tuncraflcta " Faxit. cur? volitat dida per ora virum."' Apoc. iv. 6. former part, is the test of Dr. Leo's ferrnon. Prefixed to the fermon is a copy of tl)€ verfes printed ia the Hiftory of Lambeth parifli, Appendix, p. 62 ; ' In Obitum reverendi viri, Danielis « Featlei, facrx Theol. Doftoris, et Ecclef. Anglic. Piepugnatoris acerrimus,' and fubfcribed " E Schola •' Re«ia Weftmonalt. Sic flevit F. Gregory." And there is added a Greek Extempore dekaflick, in honour of Dr. Featley, by Jo. Harman, Oxonienfis. * Engraved in the Hiftory of Lambeth Parirti, vol. V. p. 59. In the plate, prefixed to Dr. Leo's Sermon, there is not any reprefeiitation of lightning; and Refurgam ; and Matt. xxv. 36. are not engraved. The other text is printed at length over the figure. ■f- This alfo is engraved in the Hiftory of Lambeth Parifh, plate V. It is an oval (29), with a ruff, and in the clerical garb; his hairclipped fliort ; one hand on his breaft, in the other a Bible. At the upper corner, are his arms, a lion rampant Sable between 3 fleurs de lis; and his creft, a lion rampant Sable, holding a fleur de lis between his paws. At the bottom, on one fide a candle, juft I'ghted, with a book open ; on the other, a hand extinguifhing the candle, and another doling four books. Under the whole are ihefe lines (not printed in the Hiftory) : " O faniSa Imago digna cui cultum ferant Ciuincunque amant Featleijura, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 337 biite of eulogy fliould be fuffered to ])e paid to a then unpopular charadter ; and, afterwards, Dr. John Featley * might not be in circumftanccs to enable him to de- fray Erat i'le epitome &c iilla' us Theologias, Erat Attium conipendium. Bonis Amor, Odium Malis ; nequiit fatis Ab iis amari, ab his fugi. Cur nos fleamus Mortumii? Certum eft eum Obiifie, cui vixit, Deo." * He IV as curate of Lambeth in 1635 and 1636, as appears from entiies of burial-fees that were paid to him. (Paid to Mr. Featley for burying three poor people 3s. ; three children js. j a penfioner is. ; widow Jones's daughter 3s. A. D. 1635, June 26, paid Mr. Featlye for one buried from the barn isS) The Churchwardens accouins of 1636, and of the two following years, were figned by him. He was the fon of John Faiiclough, eldeft brother of Dr. Daniel Featley, but as to his father's fituatijn in life there is the fame refcrve as there is concerning the employment of his great uncle. He was a native of Northaniptonfliire, ana educated at AU Souls College in Oxford, but is faid to have left the Univerfity after taking his firll degree in arts, probably to bicome his uncle's alTiltant in Lambeth- or Afton. In his SucciniSl Hiflory ot his uncle is this paflagf. " It was the Doftor's refolution that he or me " ihould travel; for, he wa- unwilling that our mother, the Cluirch, fhould be deprived of us both in " one day; although I account myfclf oi;e of thf: fmalleft atomes, and as the leaft duft of the ba- " lance." The duifkir received an invitaticn from tlie Univerfi-ty of Leyden, to be a doflor of the Church for Divinity, but declined travtlling on accaont of his age and infirmities. The nephew was prcfled by a dear friend to withdraw to the ifland of Sr. Chrillopher's in the Weft Indies; a propofal which he accepted, and he failed with his wife, children, and fervants, from Tilbury Hope, June 24 1643. Very irkfome rauft the voyage have been to him, the (hip leins^, as he complained, fufficiently pcftered with Browniils, Anabaptills,, and Antinormills ; he had, however, the honour of bein" the firfl preacher of the Gofpel in the infancy of that mother colony. When he mentions the death of his uncle during his sbfence, he feelingly exprelTcs hi mfelf in the e terms : " Thus lived and thus died the *' deareft to me of all my ablefl friends : w ho very ofien profelTed, that ' all his earthly care was for me '• and mine.' Yet he was rendered unable to perform what he feriouil. intended me, fo I was made " incapable of his intended favours, by being then in my exile." See the Succinct Hillory, and Magn. Britann. Antiq. e.t Nov. III. 5S7. The nephew feemed to be as little aware as the uncle of the impropriety of a pun upon a fcrious topic ; for, in alligning his motives for writing this concife accoui>t of the Doctor's lire, he thus cxpreflcd. him- felf — " Neceffity is laid upon me, and I muft obey. Sighs abounding at this unwelcome office of ivhiJ- •• i;ig up in a Jl?eet an uncle fo loving, a friend (o faithful, an inftruflor fo learned and orthodox.'' After the Reftoratlon, he was appointed chaplain to the king, -who prefented him, Auguft 13, i66o» to the precentorfiiip of Lincoln, and in September following to the prebend of Milton Rofs, with Scamellelby in the fame cathtdtal. In 1661, he was created D. D. and had from the dean and chapter ot Lincoln the vicarage of Edwinton in Nottir.ghamfliire, worth about fixty pounds a year. He died at Lin col a -,^3 ADDENDA TO THE HI3T0RIE ■ OF fray the expence. The ne[)hew has indeed fuggefted, that, in his opinion, His uncle's literary works were a more iuitable mor.umeiit than one of marble, nnd that thefe memorials of his zeal for God and the King were luch, that, peradven- ture, Juture ages might alter the name in the poet to honour /jim with the verle; Marmora Feal!a;i vinaint Montimcnta LibeiU *. His printed works are numerous j and the titles -f of them Ihall be given belo\w. The Lincoln in 1666, asd was iiuerred in a cl.sjel in the catbedra!. Kennet'i Regifter, p. 230. He jnib- lifhed two of his uncle's tiafts, and pevbaps more. One was, " Dr. Feailcy Revived, 5ic." London, 8vo. 1660; w'nich he ded cated to t!ie King, Ibid. p. 194. The oilier "The League Illegal." In the dedication to Sir Edward Hyde he obfervcs, " that the King had entrufted him with ihe «' jewel of his ccnfcience, and that ihe iVJS. being his own, by the right cf an executor, he was the " rather eacouragerl to dedicate it to the Chancellor, becauie he prefumed the bed of uncles were not •' unknown to him, and hecaufe he had the honour of being his Lord(l;ip's contemp >r,ine3n at Ox- " ford." Two of the feveral fermons publifhed by dofVor John Fealley, were, i.To the Well-India Company, on Jofli. i. 9. Lend. 16:9. 2. At a Vifitation, on Heb. xiii. 17. Lond. 1636. And he was author of " A divine Antidote a2ainft the Plague, contained in Soliloquies and Prayer?, Lond, l66o"'(36). Ibid. \>' zi-i,. In the Churchwardens' Accounts the n?phe',v, as n ell as the uncle, wiota the same Featley ; but the dedication to lord chancellor Hyde is fubfciibcd John Fairclough, vulgo featley. ♦Succinft Hiftory, p. P;. f I. " The Life and Death of Jo. Jewell, fomettme Bilh. of Saliibury," an nbridgcment of the Bifhop's life, writicn by Laur. Humphrey, D. D. draun up by our author uhilll he was a lludent in C. C. Cull. an. 1609, at (he command of Dr. Bancroft, Aichbifliop of Canterbury, (Magn. Eritan, vol. III. p. 58) ; which, being by him concluded and fent to Lambeth, was fuddenly primed and prefixed to the faid Jewell's woiks, before he had time to revife it and to note the errata therein. The Church then in Convocation (on the motion of abp. Bancroft, 161 i,) pitched upon Featley, he being then twenty-four \ear3 oUI, to write the Life of Billiop Jewel. LloyJ's Worthies, p. 527. 2. " Hiftory of the Life and Manner of Death of Dr. Juh. Rainolds, Prefident of Corp. ChiiHi Col- ** lege in Oxon." t 3. " Life and Death of Rob. Abbot, D, D. fometimes Bithop of Salifbury." 4. " The Romifh Filher caught and held in his own Net. Or, a true Pvclation of his Conference •*• with Joh. Fifaei- and Joh. Sweet, Lond. 1624." r. " Appendix to the Fiflier's Net, with a Defcription of the Roinifh Wheel and Circle." 6. " A Defence of his Proceedings in the Conference, together with a Refutation of Mr. Fiftier's *' Anfwer (under the name of A. C.) to a Treatife, entituled, The Fiiher caught in his own Net. •' Lond. 1624," qu. 7. " The Sum and Subftance of that which paffcd in a Difputation between Dr. Featly and Mr. G, •* Mufket, touching Tranfubdaniiation, 21ft of April, 1621, Lond. 1624," qu. 8. " True Relation of that which palled in a Conference at the End of Pater-noftre Row, called, *' Amen, totichLng Traufubflantiation, 18 April, 1623," •9. " Con- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAWBETH PARISH. 339 The animadvcrfions upon a book, cntituled, " A Safeguard from Shipwreck to a " prudent Catholic/' was one part. of " the. double tafk" reconimendcd to him by the Q. '• Conference by wriiing between Dr. Featley and Mr. Jo. Sweet, a Jcfm't, touching the ground, *' and lal'tr Refoluiioii of Faith." 10. " Ancilla Pictatis. Or, the Handmaid to private Devotion, Lond. 1626," 8vo; after wiiicli were eight editions of it printed before ihe year 1676. 11. " The PratTkice of extraordinaiy Devotion." Printed with " Ancilla Pietatis." 12. '' Sum of faving Knowledge, delivered in a Catcchifmcorfilllng of 52 Sei.'tions, anfwcrable to ♦'-the Sabbaths throughout the year, Lond. 1626." 13. " Pelagius redivivus. Or, Pelagius raked out cfthe Aflies by Arminius and his Scholars, 1626." 14. " The grand Sacrilege of the Church ci RotnCj in taking a-.vay the facred Cup from the Laiiv at "• the Lord's Table, &:c. Lond. 1630," 410. 15. " Two Conferences: the former at Paris, now (lyled, by the Romanifts, Bifliop of Chalcedon ; "-another at London with Mr. Everard, a Romiih Frielt, difguifed in the Habit of a Lay- Gentleman, '♦ une.^tpefiedly met at a dinner in Noble-ftreet, 25 Jan. 1626." Printed ..ith the "Grand Sacrilege." 16. " Clavis Myllica : a Key opening divers difficult and my fterious Texts of Holy Scripture, in feventy " Sermons, Lond. 163&," fol. V/tiich fermons, having feveral matters in them againft the Papiih and.the Church of Rome, were, as Prynne faith, obliieraied before they went into the p/efs by the liceiife'' chaplain to Laud, archbifhop of Canterbury. See in Canterburies Doome, .p. 108, .254, 258, 260, alias 479, 284, 293, 527, &c. Clavis Myiticti was dedicated to the King; and for that reafon, probably, was publilbed without an imprimatur from the chaplain. 17. " Hexatexium : or, fix Cordials to flrengthen the Heart of every faithful Chriillan againft the " Terrors of Death, Lond. 1637," thin fol. 18. " Defence of Sir Hump's Lynd's Vita tuta, Lond. 1638," 410. 19. " .AnO.vcr to a Piece intituled, " A Cafe for a pair of Spet^acles, Lond. 1638," 410. 20. " TtanfubUantiation exploded againfl the Billiop of Chalcedon, Lond. 1638," 8vo. 21. " Several Funeial Sermors, one preached at the Funtral of Sir Humph. Lynd, Lond. i6'0." 21. " Vcttumnus Rotnanus. O^, a Difcourfe penned by a Roinilh PrieO, wherein he endeavours to '• prove that it is lavful for a Papill in England to go to a Proteftant Church, to receive theCotnmtinion, " and to taUe the Oaths of Allegiance and Supiemacy, Lond. 1642," 410. 23. " AnimadverfioDS upon a Book, intituled, 'A Safeguard from Shipivrecl: to a prudent Catholic * •' wherein is proved that a Catholic may go to a Pioteflant Church and take the Oaths of Allegi- • ' ance and Suprem cy, Lond. 1642," 410. 24. " The Gentle Lafli ; or, the Vindication of Dr. Featley, a known Cbainpion of the Proteflant " Religion." 25. His .^nfwer to the feven Ankles exhibited againft him to the Commitiee of Plundered Minifters by three mechanic Brownifts, in July, 1643. 26. His Manifeftp, cr Challenge. This was written upon repor: ha- he was turned Papitl, 27. " The Dippers Dipt. Or the Anabaptifls duck'd and p.ung'd ov.r l.'ead and Ears, at a Difputatii-g *' in Southwark, jy O.'. 1642, Lond. 16.^3." 7 28. " Tiac* .340 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF the Houfe of Commons *, and was publilhed with their approbation. The othc^ article was a tranflation of St. Paul's Epiitles, with an expofition and marginal annota" tions, which, though ready for the prefs, never appeared in print. We are told, by the writer of " The Gentle Lafh," of its being Dr. Featley's profoundnefs in learn- iprr that encouraged both Koules of Parliament to commit to his review this branch of the facred writings, and that he performed both the works in which they em- ployed him with folJd judgement and fingular fidelity. But his merit as a (ound and judicious expofitor may be reafonably quelfioned, it being; evident that he was more fanciful and refined in his refearches after vain fubtilties and myfterious meanings than in invelligatingand illuflrating the genuine fenfe of fcripture. Not a few chi- merical interpretations might be eafily produced from Clavis Myfiica; but I will cite only one fpecimen, which, as far as I can trace, had not occurred to the ima- o-ination of any preceding commentator. It is at page 153, in a fermon from r Cor. ii, 2, the title of which is, " The Tree of Saving Knowledge, or Schola " crucis Schola Lucis, the Crofs the School. of Light." The crofs (obferves the *' preacher), had foure parts : " I. An Arre£iorium, which was the maine tree faftened in the earth, and ftand- " ing upright to Heaven. " 2. Scabellum, a planke to which the feete v.'cre nayled. " 3. Lignum tranfverjum, a crofs piece of wood whereto the hands were nayled. *' 4. Verticem, the top or place above the head, where the infcription was pur. *' To the dimenfions of which parts the Apoftle feemeth to allude (Ephef. iii. ■** ver. 18.) in his facred mathematickes that, faith hee, you may bee able to -28." Traftate againft the Anabaptifts contained in Cx Articles." 30. " Remarkable Hillories of the Anabaptifts, with Obfervations thereupon." 30. " Anfwer to a Popifli Challenge, touching the antiquity and vi/ibility of the true Cliurch, and " other Queftions depending thereon, Lond. 164.4." 31. " Sacra Nemefis : the Levites Scourge, or Merc. Britannicus and Civicus difciplined, 164.4." •12. " Divers remarkable Difputes and Refolves in the Affembly of Divines related, Epifcopacyafierted, *' Troth righted." In this, which is printed with Sacra Neroefis," is Dr. Featley's learned fpeech sgainft the Covenant, fpoken in the faid AlTembly. %%, '• Pedum Partorale, cone. hab. ad Cler. Oxen, ad Joh. 21. 15. Ultrajedt. 1657," umo. 34. " Dr. Dan. Featley revived, proving that the Proteftant Church (and not the Romifh) is the only Catholic and true Church, Lond. 1660," i2mo. 31;. " The League illegal: or, an Examination of the folemn League and Covenant, Lond. i66g.'' 36. " Doflrine of the Church of England maintained, in a Juflification of the thirty-nine Aiiicles «' of the Church of England, againft Papifts and Schifinatics, &c. Lond. 1660," 4to. 37. " Antiquity and LTniverfality of the Proteftant Faith." Printed with the former. 38. He alfo publithed K. James's *' Cygnea Cantiq, Lond, 1629," 4(0; which contains a fcholaflic .duel between that monarch and our author. * .See p. 329. " com- L A U BET M PALACE AND L A M R E T [-1 P A R I S H. 341 *' comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth, and lengthy and depth, and height. " The breadth Icemeih to have reference to the lignum tranfverfum, 'the length to *' the arreclcr'ium, the depth to x.\\t fcabellum; and height to the vertex of the croffe." John White, ufiiaUy called the patriarch of DorcheOer, was appointed red:or on the deprivation ot Dr. Featley. There were rhree more competitors for t-he living, the doftor ha\'ing been told that it was defigned for Mr. Puttie, afterwards for Mr. Channel, then for Mr, Foreb , and laft of all for Mr. White *. He figned, as redor, the orders of Camberwell fchool, January 16, 1643, and An- guft 14, 1645. Leaving Lambeth he repaired to Dorchclter, where he died July 21, 1648 -j-. He was fucceeded in Lambeth re&ory by — See Hiltory of the Pa- rifli, p. 60. John Rawlinfon, who in the Regider of Baptifms is in fome places ftyled reftor, and in other minifter of God"s word. He figned the addrefs of the minifters in and near London, prefented to the king in November 1660, for his majefty's gracious conceffions in his declaration concerning ecclcfiaftical affairs 1^ -, and he was one of the commiffioners at the Savoy conference for a review of the liturgy ^, A. Dr. Rawlinfon was recommended to the univcrficy of Oxford, for a dotitor's degree, by lord chancellor Clarendon ||. Wylde, George, LL. D. ought to be clafled among the reftors, becaufe he was inilituted and inducted by prefeniation from the king though for realons affigned in the Hiftory of the Parilh**, he did not receive any of the profits. But, in 1663, Rawlinfon being removed for non -conformity, archbifhop Juxon prefented. Robert Pory, D. D. who was, as Newcourt had heard, a kin to him, and had been his domeftic chaplain whilfl bifliop of London. By this prelate he was collated in 1640 to the rectories of St. Margaret, New Fifh-flreet, and of Thorlcy, in Herts; but in the times of ufurpation, which foon followed, they were fequeltered. He was of Chrift's College, in Cambridge, and Auguft 2, 1660, was created doftor in divinity by royal mandate ^^. In the fame year he was admitted to thefe prefer- ments : July 10, to the archdeaconry of Middlefex -, Auguft 16, to the prebend of VVillefdon, in St. Paul's Cathedral ; and, Auguft 10, to the reftory of St. Botolph, Bifliopfgate. This he refigned in September 1662 for the redtory of Much Had- ham, in Herts, (that might be an option to archbilhop Juxon, on the confecration of bifhop Sheldon,) which he held with the reftory of Lambeth. By appointment from the crown he likewife became a canon-refidentiary of St. Paul's, and was therefore, as a pluralift, a fair mark for the ftridure of the compiler of Poor Ro- bin's Almanack, who is faid to have adopted that title in ridicule of Dr. Pory Xt- From inadvertency he had negtefted to take a difpenfation before he was collated to the prebend of Willefdon ; but he afterwards obtained one to keep with it the * Spongia, p. 3. f Ath. Ox. II. 114. J Kennet's Regifter, p. 312, § Ibid. p. 407. J Ibid. p. 672. Qu. The fame perfon who was redor of Lambeth ? ** P. 61, &C. \\ Kennet'j Regifler, p. 220. J J. Hiilory of Lambeth Palace, p. 62. X X arch- 342 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF archdeaconry of Middlefex, notwithflanding both flails were under the fame roof^ It was granted by the dean and chapier of Canterbury, ihat fee being ftill vycant; and tne reafon aiTigned was, that, the greater the adv.ancemenr in ficred learnin!?, the greater ought to be the recompence, and that an increafe of the daily necefh- ties of life requires a proportional increafe of necefl'ary fupplies *. A. 1661, May 31, Dr. Pory communicated to the Lower Houle of Convocation a form of prayer tor the Parliament and Convocation-; and he was appointed, December 13, one of the members tor examining and reviewing the Book of Common Prayer, and he figned the original book -j-. The lame year, July 5, he prefented to the Houfe of Lords a petition for the purpnfe of obliging Matthew Hardy to difcover where he and his accomplices had call the bones of archbiihop Parker j- In 1661, he iigned his imprimatur, with a commendation of the moft worthy author, to a treatife en- titled Pulpit Conceptions, Public Deceptions: or the grand Debate refiimcd in the Point of Prayer, wherein it appears, that xhatt free Prayers, fo earneftly contended for, have no Advantage above the prefcribcd Liturgy in public Adminiftrations§. He printed articles of enquiry previous to his vifitation of the archdeaconry of Middlefex ||, the only publication of his that I have found noticed. According, to Newcourt**, Dr. Pory died before November 25, 1669; and was fucceeded in the re^ory of Lambeth by Thomas Tomkins, fon of John Tomkins, organifl of St. Paul's; and grandfoii of Thomas Tomkins, an eminent organid and muiician to king Charles the firft-j-i-. He was born in the parifli of St. Botolph, Alderfgate, educated under the care of his uncle Nathaniel Tomkyns, a prebendary of VVorcefter, and entered a com- moner of Baliol College in Oxford in 163 1. In February 1,654, he took the de- gree of B. A. was elefted, fellow of All Souls College in 1657, and commenced i\I. A. in July 1653. He was proftor of the univerfity in 1663, admitted B, D. ia July 1665, and D. D. in May 1673. By archbilliop Sheldon, to whom he was chaplain, he was collated to the reftory of St. Mary Aldermary, which he voided by ceflion in 1669, being then removed to the reftories of Lambeth, and of Monks Kifborough in Bucks. November 8, in that year, he was inftalled chancellor of Exeter Cathedral, which might he the archbilhop's option on the confecration of bifhop Sparrow, and on the 13th of the fame month he was elefted a canon-refi- dentiary of that church. The archbilhop had fo high a regard for his chaplain,, that he promoted him to Lambeth, with a view of having a continuance of his fer- * Non objiante quod prffidiftiis archidiaconatus, five archidiaconalis dignitas, cum canonicatu ct prsbenda de Willdon pndiftis, in eadem ecclefia, ac fub uno eodemqiie tCiSo funt infimul. Majons in facris litensprogreirus pra;inia majora poUulant, et plures in vita quotidisna necefli- tatcs plura vita; neceflaria fubfidia reqiiirunt. Ougbton, Ordo Judiciorum, vol, II. p. 15&. t Kennel's Regiiler, p. 455, 579. J Ibid. p. 494. ;, and Hiflory of Pariflj, Appen. p. 154. § Kennet's Reg. p. 57J, || Ibid. p. 728. ** Repert. vol. i. p. 83, 832} Walker's Sutl'erings, part II, p. 81. ff Newcourt, Repertorium, vol. I, p. 436. Tices Lambeth palace and lambeth parish. 343 'vices in that capacity. As chaplain he (igned his Imprimatur to The Caufes of the Decav of Chriilian piety, or An Impartial Survey oKRuines of Chriftian Reli- gion undermined by unchiillian Doifirine, written by the author of the whole Duty of Man, London 1667, and ailigned as reafons for giving it the fanflion ot his name, that it was a truly Chriftian book — a book, which, from its primeval piety, exalted eloquence, and weight of realbning, cannot fail to make us all the true Chriftians fo accurately defcribed in it- — a book more worthy of a purer age, except that it might have fufficient efficacy to transform even the prefent into better days. May God grant this blellmg 10 the work and the author * 1 There is alfo his Im- primatur (dated March 27, 1675) to Glanvill's Eflays on feveral important Sub- js&s in Philofophy and Religion. Invidious mud have been the office of a lincenfer. For, however well qualified to judge of the merit of the book he was to infpe£>, there might be paffages in it he would find it necefTary to expunge, lell, by luffering them to remain, he Ihould give of- fence to his fuperiors in church or ftate : and he v;ould find it difficult to avoid rendering himfeif obnoxious, in confequence of his being under a bias trom the in- fluence of that partv to which he was himfeif attached. Unfortunately for Mr. lom- kins's fame, Paradife Loft was fubmitted to his review; it having been confidently averred, and never denied, that this incomparable poem was in danger of being fup- prefled, becaufe the licenier imagined he had difcovered treafon in that noblehmile, in the firlt book, of the fun in an eclipfe. Toland, the firft biographer of Milton, attributed it to the malice or ignorance of the licenfer ; hard word's, which one is rather furprifcd to fee applied by Dr. Newton, without any palliation, to fo refpec- table a man as Mr. Tomkins. But Dr. Johnfon feems to have been of opinion, that Milton was dealt with with tendernefs, and that he could expeft no kindnefs from a chaplain of the archbifhop of Canterbury. And yet, if, as Dr. Johnfon has obferved in another page, that " every line in this poem breathes fanftity of thought •' and purity of manners -j-;" can any plaufible reafon be offered, why it ought to have be\;n withheld for a time from the public eye ? That it would have been in the power of the licenfer to have configned it to utter oblivion is hardly probable. The cafe undoubtedly was, that Mr. Tomkins, abhorring the republican principles of Milton, perufed the poem with a very jealous eye ; and he was the more apt to cfpy what he fufpecled might be written with a traiterous intent, becaufe, from his controverfy with Baxter, he was in the habit of difcovering and expofing the falla- cious pleas of rebels to their fovereign. From an entry in the record's of the Stationers' Company it appears, that the im- primatur, dated Sept. 10, 1679, was granted by Mr. Tomkins to Paradife regained, * Hie liher •uere Chrijiianus ; qui fi frim^'vam fpelles pletateift, fummdm ehqucntianis rationum ponJus, nihH in ,o liceft, quo minus pojfit nos omncs quales tan: accurate dcfcribit vere Corijiianoi efficere, Puriori avofane dignijimui eft, niji quod tarn potens Jit, qui vd no/ttum faculum tramformarct in melius, Bc>u» dicat Dcui opcri et aulhoii. t Lives of the Poets, vol. I. pp. 197, 249. Xx i togethe: 344 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF tof^ether with Samfon Agoniftes *, in which dramatic poem there are fuch fevere ftriflures clearly pointed at the reftoration of Charles 11. and at the trials and fufFer- ings of Milton's party after that event, that Drs. Newton and Jortin wondered, not without reafon, the licenfer fliould have acquiefced in their being publilhed. No otheiwife can I account for this indulgence of Mr.Tomkins, than that, hurt with the cenfures to which he had fubjefted himfelf by his over-refined cavils at Paradife Loft, he might be unwilling to renew and increafe the obloquy by demurring at the ap- pearance of another poem of unqueftionable excellence, and which is founded upon ai>interefling part of Scripture Hiftory. The paffages alluded to in Samfon Ago- niftes are verfes 241-246 ; and verfes 678-700. And in Mr. Warburton's comment on the lafl lines are many ingenious inuendos, embelliflied, and ibmewhat aggra- vated, in the fpirit and ftyle of a crown lawyer pleading on an information for a libel. Paradife regained, &c. edit, by Newton. Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter Auguft 20, 1675, aged 37, and was buried in the chancel of St. Martin Hofintree in Worcefterfhire -j-. See a farther account of him, his charafter, writings, and epitaph, in Wood, Ath. Oxon. vol. II. N° 447, and in his Fafti, 105, 122, 191. George Hooper fucceeded Dr. Tomkins in the reftory of Lambeth, being then B.D. and chaplain to archbifliop Sheldon X- His father, George Hooper, gentle- man, of Grimfby in Worcefterfliire, fent his fon to St. Paul's fchool § ; but he muft foon have been removed to Weftminfter, becaufe he was elefted from that college to Chriftchurch in Oxford in 1657, where he regularly took his degrees in arts. The Latin fermon preached by him for his degree of B. D. July, 1672, was publilhed after his death, and he commenced D. D. July 3, 1677. Previoufly to his becoming chaplain to the archbifhop, he in that capacity had attended Dr. Mot- ley, bifliop of Winchefter, who collated him to the recflory of Woodhay, in Hants, and from the archbifhop he had the precentorfhip of Exeter cathedral, Oftober 1 6, 1675, by right of option on the confecration of billiop Lamplugh. Having been chaplain and almoner to Mary, princefs of Orange, he was, on her acceffion to the Crown with king William, appointed chaplain to their majefties, and by them ad- vanced to the deanry of Canterbury, in July 1691 **. Being eledted in 1700 prolo- * " Entered for his copie under the hands of Mr. Thomas Tomkins, and Warden Roper, a " copie or booke intituled Paradife regained, a poem in four bookes. The author, John Mikon, " to which is added Samfon Agoniftes, a dramatic poem by the fame author. Entered by J. Starkey." ■J- His uncle, Nathaniel Tonikyns, who died Ot'toberzi, »682, aged 83, was buried in the fame church. Willis's Survey of Cathed. vol. 1. 680, 841. In Edton's Thefaurus N. T. is men- tioned as patron of the benefice, and probably he was redor. X Dr. Ducarel has not noticed the date of the prefentation. As chaplain, he licenfcd, Nov. 17, 1675, Dr. Cell's Remains of Seleft Scriptures of the Old Teftameut opened and explained. Kennet's Reg. p. 170. ^ Knight's Life of Dean Colet, p. 434. ** Some Account of the Deans of Canterbury by Henry John Todd, M, A. p. 173. cutor LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 345- cutor in convocation,, he ftrenuoufly oppofed the archbifhop's right of continuing by fchedule without the aflcnt of the lower houfe, and other claims that the arch- biQiops of Canterbury, as prefidents of the provincial fynod, had long exercifcd. In the Biographical Didtionary it is fuggefted, that he unwillingly accepted queen Anne's nomination of him to the bilhopric of St. Afaph, in 1703 ; but it fliould feem, from, a letter of Dr. Atterbury, that the demur was occafioned by his not being for fome time allowed what he thought a fufficient commendam. An al- lowance ought certainly to be made for Atterbury's ftate of the cafe, he being ap- parently envious at the fuccefs of Hooper, and attributing it to the confequence he had givea the prolocutor. In a letter to bifhop Trelawny, remarks Atterbury, " Let the dean of Canterbury be as great as he will, I muft take the liberty to fay, *' that it was my poor labours that made him fo. For, had not that book I wrote *• procured a convocation, and given him by that means an opportunity of forming ** a ftrong body of the clergy, and placing himfelf at the head of them, he could " not have made it neceflary for the crown to take notice of him, in order to bring ** things to a temper, but would have continued dean of Canterbury {fill. In re- *' turn for this I know I am to be negleifted, and facrificed, as far as he is able to " bring it about *," &c. The article in the Biographical Difputes in convocation ; whereas he is generally al- lowed to have publiflied eleven tra<^s.. And hi the catalogue of his woiks, in The Biographical Diftionary, one is omitted which ought to be here noticed, becaufe it vras drawn up for the ufe of his parilhioners. It was printed on one lide of a large fheet of paper, and difperfed among all the families in Lambeth. The title is, "A Courfe of Catechifing in the Parifh of Lambeth throughout the Year, with a " brief Exhortation to Parents and Matters concerning their Duty herein." After reciting the la\v.s of the Church of England relative to catechifing, the writer obferves, " As to the proper times of catechifing children in the church, the rubrick (as •* we have feen) enjoy ns Sundays and holydays; bu: it is to be noted, that when that *' order was firll made, there were few fermons any where in the afternoon. And •' becaufe preaching and catechifing together would make the fervice too long, ef- " pecially in winter, it is thought more expedient to catechife upon particular holj' '* days, after the fecond leffon at morning prayer. •' In fuch parhhes as this, it would be impoffible to catechife children all at " once; and therefore, in the following fcheme, the paridi is divided \nio fifteen parts, " and one certain holyday is affigned for catechifing the children of each part every " year; that fo the work may be performed more orderly, and the minifter may " be better able to obferve, who are careful, and who are negligent, ia preparing " and fending their children and fcrvants." The fcheme referred to fhall be inferted in the Supplement. Bifliop Gibfon, at the requeft of Mrs. Gibfon, who died December 27, 1741^ oave thirty pounds to the poor uf Lambeth, and he bequeathed to them one hun- dred pounds. With the fee of Lincoln he held this reftory in commendaiti one year; and at the expiratioa of that term, the king, September3o, 1717, pre (en ted * Richard Ibbetfon. He was a native of Yorkfhire, and of Oriel College in Ox- ford, of which he was eltded fellow, and he proceeded M. A. October 14, 1701. From archbiiliop Tenil'on, to whom he was chaplain, and who conferred on hiai * Hiftorical Regifter. the 348 ■ ADDENDA TO THE -HISTORIES OE ■the degree of doctor of divinity, he had the re'ftory of Hadleigh in Suffolk, which, 1 luppofe, he ceded on becoming re£^nr of Lambeth. Archbifiiop Wake appointed him his chaplain ; by whofe favour he was inflailed precentor of Exeter cathedral in June 1723, and archdeacon of the diocefe in November 1726, both thefe dig- nities being probably in his grace's gift as options on the confccrations of bifhops Blackbuine and Wefton. Dr. Ibbetfon publilhed two fermons. i. 8vo. 1712, preached before the univerfity on the Epiphany, text i Tim. iii, 16; fubjeft, the divinity of our Bleffed Saviour proved from Scripture and Antiquity. In this dif- courfe, as mentioned in the tide page, Mr. Whifton's attempt to revive the Arian herefy is confidered. 2. preached at the afUzes at Croydon in Surrey, March 15, 1722; text, Romans, xiii. 4; fubjeft, the duty of obedience to governors. This fermon is dedicated to Peter Theobald, efq. high (heriff, and to the gentlemen of the Grand Jury, at whofe requefl; it was publilhed. He died at Canterbury, September 2, 173 1, and was buried in that cathedral. John Denne, D. D. was inflituted to the re^ory of Lambeth November 27, and induced November 29, 1731. He was archdeacon of the diocefe of Rochefter, to which dignity is annexed the 6th prebendal flail in that churchy and dying at Rochefter, Augufl: 5, 1767, aged 74, was buried in the cathedral. For particu- lars relative to his family, character, and writings, the reader is referred to Mr. Mafters's Hiftory of Corpus Chrifti College in Cambridge, p, 277 ; and to Memo- rials of Rochefter Cathedral, p. 232, &c. fubjoined to Cuilumale RofFenfe. Beilby Porteus, D. D. was the fucceflbr of Dr. Denne, promoted to the bilhopric of Chefter in January 1777, and tranflated to the fee of London in 1787. William Vyfe, LL. D. (the prefent redtor) fucceeded Dr. Porteus in 1777- He was in 1793 collated to the archdeaconry of Coventry. CURATES. !n the Churchwardens' Accounts from 1505 to 1520 thefe clergymen arc noticed, not one of whom, it is clear, could be redor of Lambeth. Sir John Lownd *. f A, 1^05, Received at the burial of Sir John Lownd for waAe of torches and wsx, iis. iiiid. 7 Si^ LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 349 Sir WilUam Argall *. Sir John Howell *'. Sir John -j-. Sir Alexfander X- Sir William Webfter §. Sir David ||. John Bochcr Clerk **. And Sir Robert Collett ff. Sir was a common tide of ecclefiafllcs in that age, efpeciaHy if they had taken the firft degree of arts at either univerfity ; and dill in Cambridge Dctninus in Latin, or in Englifli Sir, is the appellation of Bachelor of Arts. Several of the perfons here mentioned, it fliould feem, were priefts who officiated at the private altars, and only aflifted the reflor in the celebration of mafs at the high altar, on the prin- cipal teftivals, and on the anniverfary of the dedication of the church. But, from the manner in which Sir William Argall is noticed, I imagine him to have been, llri<5^1y fpeaking, the reftor's curate, as might be likewife Lownd and Webfter. To Argall there was a payment of xs. for organs; and he is recorded as a bene- faflor to the church. Three other perfons of the name occur in the Churchwar- dens Accounts j. J ; viz. John Argall, who died in 1516; Goodwife Argall, who was a colleftor of money for different purpofes ; and Thomas Argall, called the regifter. He was regifter of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and I conceive him to be the perfon, who, as a notary public of the diocefe of Winchefter, at- * Received of Sir William Argall, at the burial of Sir John Ko-.vell, for ditto, iiiis. iiiid. Of Sir William Argall, at the monethes raynd of Sir John Howell, for wafte of wex, xiid. Item, for brekyng of the ground within the church for Sir John Howell, vis. viiid. t Of Sir John that fyngeth for Mr. Hugh Peyntwyn, late archdeacon of Canterbury, for half a quarter rent of the chamber that Sir John Lownde liadde, xxd. f A. 1 5 15, Received of Sir Alexfander for howfe rents, iis. A. 15 19, Item, of Sir A!ex- fander Preeil for iii. yers rem of his chambers in the church-yarde, tos. A. 1520, entered as owing for rent. § A. 1516, paid to Sir William for making and iepyng of our book, vis. viiid. A. 1517, to Sir William Webfter, his fee, vis. viiid. A. 1518, the fafne. A. 1521, received of Sir Wil- liam Webft:er of his gi-ant for repair of the church, iis II A. 1518, received for the beryall of Sir David, iiis. viiid. ** A. 1518, Received of John Bocher Gierke for the berying of the parfon's farvant, xxtl. Of John Bocher Gierke for the yer's mynde of George Seymour, izd. t+ A. 1519, Received of Sir Robert Collett for a quart, rent of on of the hovvfeys in the church-yard to Mydfomer, xvd. %l A. I ji8, received of the goodwyfe Argall and the goodwyfe Hykks in money g^deryd of the parcyflonrs for the Tryndell's lyte before the rode, viis. ixd. A. i 520, received of Emmc Argall to the byldiiige of the church, vis. viiid. Of Thomas Argall, the rcgil^er, xxviiis. i d. A. 1521, received of goodwyfe Argall, and Borow's wyfe, of ok money, vis. viiid. A. 1521, received of Sir William Argall of his grant, xls. Of goodwyfe Argall for Tyell, viiid. Of Sir AVilliam Argall for old tymber and lyme, iiis. iiiid. Of Sir William Argall for the pnlpyt, iiiid. Of Sir Wylliam Argall for lym and fand, xvid. Of goodwyffc Argall tor lyme and fand, xiid. y y tcrtcd ^^^ ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF tefted an iofti-ument refpefling foine public afls of the fynod of the province of York that were confirmed by archbilliop Edward (Lee) June 14, 153.3, '" ^'^^ '^o"fe of his rc-fidence at Stockwell *. He, as regider, attended at the confecratioti of archbiihop Paricer -\-. Sir George Corn, curate, was buried Oflober 8, 1545. Mr. Thomas Bullock, as curate, figned the Churchwardens' Account to Ocloberi, in the 5th of Elizabeth (A. 1563); fo that he was probably appointed by Dr. Pory, To the account of the next year he was a witnefs as well as the reftor ; and he was one of the parilTiioners who confenied and agreed to the taking down of the rood- loft and the felling of the copes, and veftments, that had been ufcd before the Heformation. His name occurs as a fubfcribing witnefs to almofl all the accounts as long as he lived ; and it is entered in the regitler, that he was buried OiSlober 9, 1584. It does not appear that he ever became a beneficed clerk, though he dif- charged the cure of this very extenfive, and even then populous, parifi^, upwards of twenty years. Suppofmg him not to have had any preferment, he mufi: be deemed unfortunate; Lambeth palace, though in flriftnefs of law extraparochlal, being contiguous to the parifli-church, of which the archbifhops of Canterbury are the patrons. Archbifliop Tenifon, as mentioned in a former page, coufidered it as his parifn-church, and fo did archbiihop Herring. Richard Grainge, or Grainger, figns the parilh-regifter, as minifler, Auguft 15, 1-79; and in the Churchwardens' Accounts are thefe items of payments to Mr. Grainger ; for a fervice book, 4d. ; for writing the Regiller-book, 3s. 4d. ; and for writing the Churchwardens' Accounts, 3s. 4d. He was probably the Richard Graino'cr, M. A. mentioned in Hafted's Hitlory of Kent X to have been inftituted to the reflory of Fritrenden, Auguft 4, 1582, and who died in 1594. George Hammond is noticed in the Old Veftry Book and Regifcer as a curate, or minifter, from 1583 to 1592. See at p. aSi, of thefe Addenda, a minute of vellry concerning the rent he was to pay for the houfe in the church-yard. Edward Hargrave, curate, fo entered in account, June 22, 1592, as tenant of one of the houlcs in the church-yard, and to the account of the next year he fub- fcribes himfelf, the par/on bis deputy . He quitted the curacy in 1594, on his being inflituted, July 3, to the reftory of Frittenden, vacant by the death of Richard * A. D. MDXXXiii. June 14, coram nobis in quadam fuperiori camera infra xdes refidencix noftrie vulgariter nuncupatas "Stockwell." Wilkins, Concil. iii. 766, t Hiftory of Palace, Append, p. 26. Of the Argall family are thefe notices in Hafted's Hif- tory of Kent, vol. III. Thomas Argall, in 6 Edward VI. acquired by purchafe the manors of Godden snd Morgdieu in Tenterden, p. 97 ; and in the iiid year of the fame reign Richard Ar- gall married Joane Martyn, a cobeirefs of Robert Martyn, of Graveney-court, and by that alliance feems to have become poffeffed of the manor of Denfled in Chartham, of vvhidi his fon Thomas had livery in 7 Elizabeth, p. 19. X Vol. iii. p. S3. ^ . LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 351 Grainger J where he died in 1619,' and lies buried in the chancel. The infcription over his grave remains in brafs, but partly hid under the altar-rails*. Mr. Turner, Minifler. A. 1594, received of hin for his tyme rent for the church-houfe, lis. Sd. and paid bim for writing of the book of chrilleniugs, weddings, and burials, 2s. 6d. Churchwardens' Accounts. Mr. Baker, curate in 1594, mentioned as owing los. for the rent of his houfe. He was prefented by the dean and chapter of Kochefter to the vicarage of Darenth, June 24, 1595, and continued vicar till 1605. John Racfter was curate in the years 15951 1596, as appears by entries of peat paid by him, two years to Chriftmas. He figned the Churchwardens' Account to February 25, and aflcnted to the choice of churchwardens, but in the account of the year following he paid only a quarter's rent. He v/as of Cambridge, but in- corporated i\i. A. at Oxford, July 6, 1594 -f. Mailer Kenderecke, A. 159S, received of him for houfe rent, 15s. A. 1599, received ot him for houfe-rent for one year and three quarters, 4I. 5s. od. Paid to mafter Kendericke for writing the Regirter Book, 3s. Mr. Calfhill. In 1560 Dr. Blague paid for him rent for three quarters of a year, and it is noted tha: one quarter's rent was left behind. According to B. Willis^, John Calfhill was inflalled in the fifth prebend of Durham cathedral in 1607. Qu. The perfon who had been curate of Lambeth, and was he not the fon of that eminent divine Dr. James (or John) Calfhill, who was collated in 1565 to the deanery and redory of Rocking in Eflex, and foon after, by bifhop Grindal, to the archdeaconry of Colchefter ? and whom queen Elizabeth nominated to the biiliopric of Worcelf er, but who died without being conlecrated? Mr. Ratleefe, or Ratcliife, by the accounts of 1602, paid 20s. for half a year's rent, and was paid 3s. 4d. for writing the Regifter. In the account of 1603, there is an item of half a year's rent received of him. Mr. Hudfon, in 1603, paid half a year's rent, and received 3s. 4d. for writing the regifter. He fcems to have quitted the curacy next year from an embarrafl- ment in his circumdances. He was probably fucceeded by Mr. Renjamin Toncke, or Tonkys, concerning whom and his predecelTor there is this minute in the Churchwardens' Account : " 2° die, Junii 1611. Mem. That a cloak-bagg, with the number of 45 bookes, " which the late churchwardens found in the veflry, were faid to be the bookes of *' Mr. Hudfon, foraetimes curate of Lambehith, and there left for rent due to the " church, were, by order of the veftry, as may appear in the veflry-book, given to " Mr. Benj. Toncke, now curate, in liewe of his paynes for writing out the names " of baptifms, marriages, and burials, into the Ledger Booke, which were unwriten " before his tyme." The Regifter (hews that Mr. Tonckys was curate = ', 1615, and he figned the Churchwardens' Accounts May 22, 1614, and April it, '615. * Hafted's Hiftory of Kent, vol, iii. p. 58. t Wood, A. O. vol. I. Faft. 248. 1 Survey of Cathedrals, vol.1. 26;, Yy 2 Mr. 352 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Mr. Henry Pvigges, curate, was buried June i6, 1616. Par. Reg. Thomas Harward, miniiier, figned the Churchwardens' Account to June 2^ 16 1 7. He was collated to the vicarage of Hcrne, near Canterbury, February 12^ 1617, and died in- 1621 *. Richard Taylor, minifter, in 1617, figned an account of the receipts and d;?- burl'ements for the new feats in the chtirch; and as curate, July 16, 1618, figned the yearly account of the churchwardens. He might be related to Francis Taylorj reclor; and he was continued in the curacy by Dr. Featley, for he figned an ac- count June 13, 1620. in tne account to IMay 12, 1621, is a payment to him of il. for regidering all the chriflenings, buryals, and marriages, whick were omitted out of the Regirter for divers years. And in the account to June 3, i6z2, is this item, "to Mr, Taylor the minifler, for burying Symmond's fuppofed baifard child, is."-)' It is very probable Mr. Taylor was the perfon collated to the re61ory of Betherfden, in Kent, INIay 27, 1622 |, and who ceded that living on his being pre- ferred to the reftory of Halden, Febriiary 20, 1626. This Richard Taylor was buried in the chancel of Halden church §. Thomas Taylor was the fucceflbr of Richard in this curacy ; for he figned the following accounts of the churchwardens ; to May 6y 1624 11 j to July 14, 1625 ; :o May 31, i6a6; and to May 4, 1627. William Harris, minifler in 1633. Par. Reg. John Lavvthropp, minill:er in 1635. Par. Reg. John Featley was curate of Lambeth in 1635 and 1636 **. Roger Cocks, minifter, in 1639, figned the account of voluntary contributions, and payments, when new plate was provided for the communion-table, as he did t4ie Churchwardens' General Account, May 28, the fame year. And in the account to June 1;, 1641, is entered a payment of 1.3s. 4d. to Mr. Cocks, for preaching Mr. Holt's funeral fermon -{--f . iMr. Channel, in 1643, was appointed by the comnnttee of plundered minifters to officiate for Dr. Featley. The Doflor ftyles him a fubftitute ot Mr. White, of Dorchefter, and notices him as bearing his cha- rafter in his name, and flretching his Cievcril conkience (o far, as to gratify foms fchifmatical (eparatifts in Lambeth, by reading in the church a paper denouncing the illegal fentence of feque/lration +:}:. * Hafted's Kent, vol III. p. 624. t This item follows, to the quean that bare it, wailft fiie lay in, 6s. 8d. 1 Hafted's Kent, vol. III. p.. 243. § Ibid. p. 105, with a reference to Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part II. p. 378. D In this account is this item given to Harman, who preached here, 4s. ** Ste £r. accovint of him before, in thefe Addenda, p. ^37. -jf Under payments in 1642 is this Item, Nov. 5, to Mr» Ben for preaching that day. XI Spor-gia, p. 27, 28, Thomas LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 35- Thomas Perkins is mentioned in the Parifli-regifler as mlniftcr and curate within ihe years 1640- 1654. Qii. Whether he was nor vicar of St. Stephens in St. Albans, April it, 1665, and rector of Colne Engayne, in E;icx, January 16, 167 1 *. John Hadiey, curate, from 1667 to 1671, as appears by the Brief book. A perfon of the fame names was licenied to be. curare of St. Catharine Cree Church) July II, 1672, and deprived for not taking the oath of allegiance after the Uevo- lution §. Thomas Baker, curate, Augufl: iz, 1672. (Regiitpr of Chrifknings, and Brief-book). He was of All Souls College, in Oxford, and admitted, Pvl. A. Ja- nuary 12, 1677. Andrew Ncedham, curate, 1676-1 681. rarilli Regider, and Brief Book. He was probably related to Mr. William Needham, chaplain to archbifhop San- croft. John Barrow, M. A. He was bdrn in Nonhamptonfliire, and a member of Ed- mund H;dl in Oxford, where he took his degree, Mav 16, 1674. As cliaplain, he accompanied Sir William Temple in his embaffy to Holland •, and after his re- turn, was ledurer of St. Catharine Cree Church, and curate of Lambeth, to Dr, Hooper, then in attendance upon the prince of Orange. A. 1682, Augufl 26, Mr. Barro V was infialled a canon ot Windfor ; and he occurs vicar of Nev WinJ- for, in 16S3, being, as incumbent of that benefice, appointed by the bifliop of Salilbu'y to preach a vifitation fermon. It was puhliflied by encouragement from the prelate, The text was, Pail-i. v. 15-18, and in the dil'courfe, pointed prin- cipally at the Diffenting preachers, he dropt fome expreffions, which, if delivered from the pulpit in thefe happy days of toleration, would be heard with aix;at difla- tiifaCtion by the clergy as well as the laity. For he admonillied thoie of the laity, whofe office required it, to ufe all lawful means of putting a flop to the fort «f- preaching he had expofed ; adding, " if they (the preachers) will not, as one " would think by this time in confcience they Ihould dejijl ; I fball think it no hard- " conclufion to fay, it is you that ought in confcience to fupprefs them ; the place-- " you are in, and the oaths you have taken, will prefs vou more to it than 1 ihall *' now do;" p. 34, 35. In a former page (p 23) he mentions with regret, that the Diffenters were raifing new academiis to perpetuate the difference. A, Wood has noticed fome other writings of Mr. Barrow, and fkctched his charafterj. He- died March 19, 1684, in the 34th year of his age, and was buried at New ^^'i^dfc^. John Clarke, M. A. was curate from 1684 to 1692, and admitted redor of the united parifiies of St. Mary Bothaw, and St. Swithin London Stone, on a pre- fjentatioii from the dean and chapter of Canterbury, and molt probably by the in- * Nevvcourt, Repertor. v. i. 790, ii. 188. § IbiJ. v. i. X Ath. Ox. vol. II. 195. t^red 354 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF tereft of Dr. Hocper, whofe f.fler, Rebecca, he married. Mr. Clarke, having re- moved to Canterbury for the recovery of his health, died, after a ftiort continuance at the deanery, Oflober 29, 1700, and was buried in that cathedral. Thefe parti- culars are coHefted from the infcription on a fair monument erefted by Mrs. Cia:ke to her hufband's memory, in the Norih aile, called the Martyrdom. It is printed in Rawlinfon's Antiquities of Rochefler, p. 56. A. 1691, June 24, when the family of archbifliop Bancroft was difTolved at Lambeth, an alms was given to the poor of the parifli, and a prefent to the curate, Mr. Clarke. Life of Abp. Tillotfon, p. 146. Montague Wood, M. A. * feems to have been the next curate. Par. Rfg. and Brief-book. He was afterwards reftor of St. Michael Royal and St. Martin \ intry, in London -, for which preferment he might, like Mr. Clarke, be obliged to dean Hooper, the living being for that turn in the gift of the church of Canterbury, oa the death of Dr. Hody, in January 1706-7. John Garnet, M. A. f became curate in 1703, and afterwards lefturer, in which offices he was continued till 17 11, when he was prefented by the Crown to the reftory of Singlefton in Yorkfliire. His farewel fermon, preached at Lambeth, Auguft 12, was publiQied at the requeft of the parilhioners, and the introduction is addreffed to them. The text, Romans viii. 14, and the following paragraphs ia p. 23, have refpecl to Iiimfelf and his then fituation. " Another publick means God hath appointed for our religious improvement *' is preaching ; I might, perhaps for my own fake, if I had no further views, have " omitted to have faid any thing upon this head, being confcious to myfelf of my " inability (confidcring the great attendance to be given to parochial offices in " this parifli) to difcharge fo great a funftion in fo large and numerous an auditory: " but my confcioufnefs in this refpeft raifes (as it always has done, and always will " do) my grateful fentiments of the favours and civilities you have continually done " me fo much the higher. '* But what I intend is, i\vit preaching being an ordinance of God, we may hope " for his blciiing upon it, and for that reafon ought to give attendance to it, what- *' ever the capacity of myfelf, or thofe that are to fucceed me in this ftation, are, " as being fuch whom God hath deputed to minifter to you in this office; for in- '• deed, after all, it is not the perlonal qualifications of the preacher, though he *' could [peak with the tongues of meti and atigels, but a pious temper and difpofition " of mind in the hearer; and, above all, the grace of God, which renders the " good feed of the word fruitful." In the title-page Dr. Garnet is flyled chaplain to the duke of Devonfhire ; and it may be prefumed that his grace procured for him this valuable benefice. He was father of Dr. John Garnet, of Sidney College in Cambridge, lady Margaret's preacher in that univerfity, and chaplain to the duke of Dorfet, lord lieutenant of * Ke was of Catliarine Hall in Cambridge, and regularly proceeded in arts in i63i and i6Sj. t Was of Sidney College Cambridge. A. B. 1692, A.M. i6g6. Ireland, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 5-5 Ireland, and promoted to the biiliopiic of Ferns and Leighlin in 1752. TIic bifhop preached, Miiy 1755, a fermon, for the bc:ieiic of the boys charity-rcliool, in which he noticed the rehiioii his father had had to the parifli. Francis JefFereys was curate from 1707 to 1729, and during a part of the time lecturer. Brief-book, He vvas of St, John's College in Oxford, and admitted B. C. L. May 7, 1708. He occurs vicar of Wimple in Carabridgefhirc, vicar of Afhwell in Herts, and le>^urer of St. Bartholomew behind the Royal Exchange London. -John Pearfe was curate in 1711-1723, and prefcnted l->y archbilhop Wake in 1721 to the reclory of Cullefdon in Surrey. Jofeph Difney, M. A. was cnrnte, but in what years I am not certain. In 1725 archbifliop Wake conferred on him the vicarage of Cranbrooke, which he held by difpenfation, with the vicarage of Apledore, with the chapel of Ebeny annexed. He fucceeded the reverend John Johnfon in both thefe benefices, and died at Cran- brooke, far advanced in years*, AuguO: 3, 1777. ^^ ^^""^ '^^ King's College, Cambridge, and commenced M. A. in 1724. George Read became curate and lefturer in 1729. He was a native of Lincoln- fhire, and of Chriftchurch in Oxford, where he was admitted M. A, July 22, 1723. He continued curate to his death, which happened February 22, 1 744, when he was 47 years old. "William Welles, M. A. quitted this curacy in 17;^!, for the curacy of St. Mary Le Bow, and he was afterwards leflurer of St. Swithinj London-llone. He had been fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge. William Allen, B. A. f of St. John's College in Cambridge, fucceeeded Mr. Welles in 1731, and became lefturer on the death of Mr. Read. He commenced M. A. in 1748, and, by the favour of archbifhop Herring, was prefented in 1755 to the reftory of Rottingdean in SufTex. His grace, at the fame time, promoted the late reverend Francis Fawkes, then curate of Croydon, to the vicarage of Or- pington in Kent. In 1743, ^^iisn Ifaac Eeles, Efq. of Lambeth, ferved the office of high flieritF, Mr. Allen was his chaplain, and publillied the fermon he preached at the Lent affize. Text, Exod. xx. 16. He quitted both curacy and ledurelhip in 1758, and died in 1770. James Lea, B. A. Chriil Church College in Oxford, was fuccelTor to Mr. Read in the curacy, and to Mr. Allen in the lefturelhip. He was reftor of Crav/merfh in Oxfordfhire; died in 1769; and w:^s fucceeded by Jeffery Snelfon ; who afterwards refigued. Williams was curate from 1758 to Midfummer 1760; when he removed to the curacy of Chelfea. He was followed at Lambeth by Richard Harvey, M. A. of Corpus Chrilli College in Cambridge %, who con- tinued in the curacy two years; and in 1767, five years after he had quitted it, * Infomuch, remarks Mr. Hailed, that the vicnr, clerk, and fexton, mride toj^ether tlie amount of 254 years. The clerk, Samuel Jenner, died March 20, 1782, xt. 96, f.nd upwards. Hill, of K.e!:t, iii. 55. f He took his firft degree in 1730. j A.B. 1758 ; A.M. 1 761. He is the elder brother of Rear Adn.iral Henry Harvey, and of the lately-dtceafedillullriousCaptainJohn Harvey, of the BrunUvick. SeeGcnt.Mag.LXi\'.pp.673-5. c aich- 356 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF' archbiQiop Seeker collated him to the vicarage of St. Laurence, in the Ifle of Te- net ; and in 1772, archblQiop Cornwallis conferred on him the vicarage of Eaftry, near Sandwich. He is in the commilTion of the peace for the county of Kent. John Piggot, M. A. of Trinity college, Cambridge, the next curate, was appointed lefturer in 1769, on the death of Mr. Lea. He removed from Lambeth, on being pre- ferred byarchbilhopCornwailis, ini776, tothevicarageofSt.Peter'sin the iQeof Tenet. Thomas Pearce, M.A. of Oriel college, Oxford, became curate on the refignation of Mr.Snelfon,and fucceeded Mr.Pigott inthe kfturefbip. HeisnowD.D.aprebendary of Chefter cathedral, a minor canon of St. Paul's, and fubdean of the king's chapel. The present CtJRATES. John Lloyd, LL. B. of Magdalen college, Cambridge, who is alfo letTlurer. In 1793 he was collated to the finecure rectory of Little Mongeham in Keat ; and ia 1791 prefented to the reftory of St. Dunftan in the Eaft. William Battel, B. A. of Merton College, Oxford. OF THE CHURCHWARDENS. The Bid entry in the Antient Book of Accounts, fo often cited, relates to the choice of churchwardens. It is as follows : " However, by an order of veftry, datrd July 12, 1523, it was enacted by the " hool affent and confent of INIr. Ambrofe Payne, parfon of Lambeth, and all the " parilliioners of the fame, that from Jienceforth they (liall every yere affemble on " Relycke Son lay *, and after evyn fong, for to make and hear the Accounts of " the churchwardens, and alfo to elect and chelTe new wardens, and'ahvays one of " the old to rema)ne llill, and to eleft and cheffe two new unto him." For twenty-five years the eleftion was in one of the fummer months, but whether uniformly on Relycke Sunday is not clear ; and it certainly ceafed to be on thac day in the ad of Edward VI. when Relycke Sunday was no longer held in fucli high Veneration, and the fuperftitious ceremonies obferved on it were prohibited. Soon after Mxhielmas became the ufual time of choice to the year 1579, when it was altered to February ; nor was there any farther change, till, in compliance with the ecclei'aftical canons, which were ratified by the King in 1603, it was fixed in Ei'ier Week. Eaiter Tuefday, as far as appears, has been the conftant day I and 'he cullom of the Parith of Lambeth is for the rector, in perfon, or by his curate, firll to nominate in veftry one churchwarden, and for the parilhioners to elecl t =.0 oihtrs. * Dr. Deiine has menfioned the Sunday fortnight after Midfummer to have been Relick Surj- fixed LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISI-L 357 The veftry a£l of 1523 vnight be judged adyifablcj in order to have tlie affift- ancc of a perfou of experience in parochial bufinefs. But, though the word alway is in the minute, it was not an invariable rale to continue in office one of the former churchwardens, three new having been frequently chofen. This was the cafe in 1580 ; and the year before, the parilhioners concurring only in the choice of the upper warden, the matter was brought before the brfnop of Win- chefter, April 10, 1579, who " willed the parties prefent .to fet down certayn *' names of their neighbour?, whom they thought meete, and he would prick " them twayne." This direction being complied with, the perfons appointed by the bifliop were fworne in by the chancellor of the diocefe, after the accuftomed order of the law at the enfuing vifitation. And, notwithftanding there was an ac- quiefcence in the eleflion of churchwardens in 1580, a fufpicion feems to have been entertained, that the perfon, who, in that or the fubfequent years, was likely 10 have the chief management of the parifh-money, might not be in competent cir- cumftances to be entrufted with it; for, after the election, it was ordered, and, as it is believed, for the firfl: time, that " whoever taketh the church ftocke to cuftody *' fhall, before the receate thereof, put in furety for the anfwering for the fame." Two fureties v/ere accordingly bound, and this prudent precaution was ufed for many years. The entry of their names is generally toUowed by a minute, noticing to whom of the churchwardens the communion-cup v/as delivered. In 1682, the veftry endeavoured to fet afide William Jeanes, whom Dr. Hooper, the then reftor, had appointed churchwarden. He was, however, admitted at the biftiop's vifitation, as were two of the three perfons elefted by the parilli ; Peter Rich, efq. the third in their lift, being excluded. Another,' and a more fpirired attempt, was made in 1733, to deprive the rector of his right of nomination. At the veftry aflembled, after due notice, on Eafter Tuefday, March 27, for the purpofe of chufing parochial officers, Dr. Denne, rec- tor, firft named, as ufual, Stephen Fortee ; and Thomas Griffin and John Lilly were nominated by the pari(h. To this joint choice of three churchwardens the parilhioners prefent agreed, and moft of them Hibfcribed their nam.es in token of their aiTent. But, on May the 8th, a veftry, aflembled to fettle the poor rates, and to confider other fpecial affairs, took upon them to annul the above ?:omnafioa and ekdion, as dejlru5iive and fubverf.ve of the rights and liberlies, and the known aniient ufage of the parijh, and to declare, that William Starkey, being nota fecond churchzoarden, do, as cujloviary, fucceed unto and be, as of right he ought, the eldeji churchwarden of the pariJJj, and not Stephen Fortee. A caveat was afterwards en- tered in the Ecclefiaftical Court to prevent Fortee's being fworn into his office ; but, before the merits could be there determined, the Court of King's Bench granffd a prohibition upon thefe fuggeftions — that the cuftom of thepariih of Lambeth, con- cerning the appointment of churchwardens, was, for the fenior churchwarden to depart out of office at the end of the year ; for the fecond in that year to become the fenior the year following, and the third the fecond i and for the pariiliioners Zz 10 -8 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 3 to elefl; a third perfon to be the other churchwarden ; and that fuch regular fuc- ceirion had ye^iily, and ever}' year-, time out of mind, been had and ufed within the parilh, unlefs by death or incapacity in any of the three churchwardens in any year there was a vacanc}-. Dr. Denne, being well informed hew frivolous the plea was, and how broken and irregular the I'ucceflion of churchwardens had always been, refolved to main- tain the claim of the rector; and he the more readily engaged in the fuit, becaufe it was evident that the rights of the parifh were not lefs affected than his own by this pretended cullom, which, if eftablilhed, would leave to the parilh the free choice of only one churchwarden intlead of two. He therefore joined ilTue with the plaintiff, William Scarkeyj the late churchvvarden, in order to try the right at the enfuing aflizes for the county of Surrey. And it was worthy -of notice, that Scarkey, who had figned the nomination of ofEcers at the Eafler veflry, declared, when ferved with the rule of court, that he knew nothing of the matter, for that he went out of pince at Eafter. The following estr?cfs from the rc61or's cafe clearly exprefs the purport of the whole. They likewife llaew the ftatc of parilh politics at that time, and difcovtr the motives which in this contefl: acfuated the party in oppoStion. " If we confider (remarked Dr. Denne) this plain narrative of h&s verified by •' a lift of churchwardens in order, not of regular fucceiTion, but of free election *' for the fpace of two hundred and thirty years, wherein there are as great changes, *' I believe, as in any parifh in England ; it will be difHcult to conjefture in what *' mint this pretended cuftom was coined, which comes out with the ftamp of an- " tient and laudable upon it. As to its antiquity, they who urge it muf^ be ignorant *' of the original conftitution of the pariQi in regard to the eleftion of churchwardens^ " fince it appears fiom veftry books, particularly an old one which reaches from " the year 1503 to 1654, of which fo much care was taken as to number the very " leaves, as alfo from the bilhop's regillers, fupported in many particulars by li- *' ving evidence. Or, if they know the conffituiion, they muft have a deiire to over- " throw it; or, what is worfe, a difpofition to ferment differences in the parifh, which " muif be attended with ill-blood, confufion, and a great expence, that they may *' make a gain thereof, or gratify their paffions and perfonal refentments. As to its " being a laudable cuftom, no cuftom fure can be deemed fuch which deprives " both rector and parilhioners of their common and canonical as well as ancient " right, to make a Iree choice of fuch perfons every year as they (hall think beft " qualified for the office, efpecially in fo large a parilh as Lambeth, where " they have the leafing of the parilh eftates, and the manageir.ent of great fums of " money, in both which refpedfs there have been within memory very confiderable " failures and abufes. Seledl vcftries have been adjudged to be great grievances *' to parifhcs, and an infringement of common rights and liberties; and certain in- *' dependent churchwardens mud be more fo. 1 he true interefts, rights, and li- *' berties, of the parifh of Lambeth, do therefore depend upon the iffue of this 7 *' triaL L A M E E T H P A L A C E AND L A M B E T II P A U I S H. 359 *' trial. It was, indeed, the peace and intereft of the pari(h, not a love of power, *' much Itis an intenrion to deftroy (as is malicioufly fiiggefled) anti" fubvert tlie *' rights, liberties, or any known ancient ufage of the pnrifii (charges very different ** from the reftor's temper, or character in life), that determined him to exert his •• right of nominating a churchwarden, and to perfifl therein at a jnnflure when ■*' his parifli was in a flame, and every private animofity or pcrfonal rcfentmL-nt were ■*' thrown in to blow it up ; when former officers had been fo little niafters of their *' paffions as to have an information brought againll them by gentlemen for publi[h- " ing a libel in the church. At fuch a juncture it mull be the duty of a rcftor ■*' to exert his right, and he would have been guilty of a breach of truft, if he *' had not interjiofed, and nominated for churchwarden (as by law and cuftom *' he mighi) a perfon fo unexceptionable, that the whole vtftry agreed v.iih him ■*' in the choice*; a perfon, in whom he could himfelf confide, and - o 1618. - - o !6i9. Laid out at the pe- rambulation, - - if^io. - - - 1 1621. - - - I 1&12. " - - I 1623. - - - 1 162.4. " - I 1625. At the perambulation, 1 Item, for carrying the provifion to the Oke, o 1627. - - I 1 63 1. At the perambula- tion both days. - - i 1632. At the perambulation both daj's, - - I 1633. For going the peram- bulation, - - I 1634. When we went the bounds of the parilh, o — — When we went to Vi- car's Oke, -. - o 13 8 17 o 19 10 5 6 o 2 7 6 4 8 8 6 10 ?. 2 6 1 9 6 10 o 16 6 19 6 13 o 12 o 3 8 6 4 5 if^35. At the perambula- tion to Vicar's Oke, 1639. Paid the charges going the perambuldiioii, 3 'lays i6.jc. For two days peram- bulation, 1603. To Charles Thory for a diftncr on Afcenfion Day, P;.id frtr whij^plncj the bo\'s, - -02 1700, M;iy 9. Spent on the parifliioncrs going the our- bounds of the pajjfh, 15 i5 1704. Paid for loo lb. of cheefe fpent at Vicar'sOke, o 8 1707. Charges on tlie parilh boys, being Afcenfion Day, p lo I jc8. Ihe lame, -" i 14 9 4 6 o o o Mem. 17 j5,Deccmber i8. Dr.D nns paid Mr. Fortee, churchwarden, the rec- tor's part of the perambulation expences, 5I. 5s. od. OF PERAMBULATIONS AND BOUNDS. As In the copious tranfcripts before me from the Churchwardens' Accounts^ there are fo many notes, beginning in 1579, of the expences of going the bounds of Lambeth parilh, and not one of an earlier date; I am fomewhat inclined to believe, that the charges, whatever they might be, were before defrayed by indi- viduals. And the firft entry is fmall indeed, it being only fixpence ; but, in 1639, the item is 4I. 5. ^d. and three days were fpent in the progrefs. After the lleflora- tion there was, 1 fufpeft, an increafing charge, becaufe it was agreed in veflry^, January 28, 1668, that the churchwardens fhould be allowed no more than 61.; A a SI and 366 /iDDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF and March 9, 16S0, it was " ordered, that no perambulatirn be this year upon '• the narrow broad wall, but only ou the outfide of the parifh ; and in cafe they "will go all the parts of the parifli, then the churchv\arden to be allowed 5I. in " his account ; if his perambulation be only the outparts, then in his accounts to '* be allowed 4L and no more." From the annexed entries it appears, that for- merly it was not unufual to go fome pans of the bounds every year, but during the incumbency of Dr. Denne there was only one perambulation ; and, in order to pre- vent encroachments^ a perfon was occafionally employed to examine which of the pods were miffing, or wanted a repair. If 1 am not miftaken, the pofts are num- bered, and it would be an improvement were it minuted in a regifter where each pofl is fixed. The praflice of cutting crolTes upon trees which are decaying, or oa the ground which are foon filled up, ought for thcfe reafons to be difcontinued, and pofhs placed ; and as very fliort pofts would anfwer the purpofe, and might a;: an eafy expence be fixed by degrees in the largefl pariflies, it were to be wiflied that this mode of afcertaining boundaries was every where purfued. From the number of hcufes built of late years in Lambeth, fome parts of the boundary-line are become fo much interrupted, that it is in contemplation to have the whole accurately furveyed, meafured, and mapped. By computation this parilk is in circuit upwards of forty-five miles. The following articles in the Churchwardens' Accounts are under the year 1588 : Paid for drawing articles to give to my lord's grace about our abufe 1. s. d. at the Vicar's Oke when we went about our perambulation, o i o Item, for bothire, when we went to fetch out the letter to furamon Hammond of Penge to appear before my lord his grace for moleit- ing us in our perambulation, and for writing of the fame letter, and for one to ferve the fame furamon, - - - 0310 In 1639, at a meeting, to fet forth the parifh bounds in writing*, there was % charge of 2s. Cd. In the inquifition, taken June 28, 1658 -f, it is fet forth, that' neare thirty fa- milies, being diflant from Lambeth church above two miles, and two furlongs from Camberwell church '^, the jurors conceive it would be convenient, if the com- miffioners thought fir, that thefe families fhoiild be united to Camberwell. This union was oppofed by the parifhioners of Lambeth; for, A. 1658, Auguft 5, there was an " order of veflry for defraying all neceffary expences about the dif- " ference in queftion about taking away part of the faid parifh, and laying the * A. 1586, pajd for writing a bill of the ackers of ground within the parifli, 6d. Churchwardens' Accounts. t Hiftory of Parifli, p. 61, J, A chapel is lately btiilt not far from the road leading from Camberwell to Dulwich. " fame LAMBETil PALACE AND LAMBETH FAIUSH. 367 *'• fame to Carobcrwdl, which is to be tryed at Kingfton, Augull ihe 9th. The " iflue mult iiive been in favour of Lambeth." Lambeth being a parifh within the bills of mortality, the fiatiue of the 9t!i of Oiieen Aune, for building f.ity new churches, extended to it. And, in confe- quence of an order from the coinmifiioners appointed l.y that aft of I'atlisment, ir was refolvcd in veflry, November 10, 1711, that the ch',!rchwardens fliould em- ploy a furveyor to take a map or plan of the parilh, to be laid before the parilhioners. December 13, there is aii itein of 2s. 6d. for drawing a petition to the commillioners>; and four years after a notion certainly prevailed, that a purifli would be formed our of this diflri^t, bccaufe, 1715, April 19, fccurity was given by aS: of veftry, tt-.dC the money fliould be re-paid to pcrfons who h:id fined, in cafe they iliould be called on to ferve an ofHce in any ether paridi that fliould be taken out of Lambeth. There is not any furvey known to be extant, nor, as far as I can learn, is there eny charge for making it in the Churchwardens' Accounts. The prefumption, therefore, is, that the aft of veflry was not carried into esecuticnj and it is u) be regretted that it was not, becaufe a map of the pariQi would have been of laftin^- life. The petition prefented to the commiflloners muft ulfo have contained lonvi curious information relative to the ftate of the pai-ifli at that time ; but unfortunately it was not entered in the vertry-book, and it might be labour in vain to fearch for it in the public offices. In 163 1 the parifhioners of Lambeth were engaged in a fuit with the parili of St. Saviour's, Southwark. The ground of the conteft is not noticed, but the pariflies being then contiguous, it might be concerning the boundaries. By tiiC charges in the Churchwardens' Accounts the fuit feems to have been inflituted in the ecclefiaftical, but removed into a temporal court, money being paid to both civilians and common lawyers ; e.g. June 27. Paid for a pottle of wine at the tavern with the dcftor and - proftor, oil Paid to Mr. Davis, the proftor, to follow the fuit againft the parifliH^ners of St. Saviour's, Southwark, 200 — Paid to ferjeant Hendon for his fee, i o o Then follows this charge of the fuit againfi: Ercerfcn's, which is infertcd as a fpecimen of an attorney's bill at that time. For a copie of the bill, 18 1. s. d. flieets, o 12 o Drawing and engrofling the anfwer, 20 Iheets, 100 For a copie of the replica- 1. s. d. tion, 014 Drawing and ingroding inter- rogatories, 10 Iheets, 010 o I 12 o o II 4 A a a « Titt ;68 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Brought over, i 12 o The oath to the anfwer, and going by water to the Temple, 020 The attorney's fee, - 034 Soliciting this term, 010 o The attorney's fee, 034 Soliciting this term, 010 o Brought over, oil Two fubpoenas for the wit- neffes, o 5 For the auornies fee, o 3 For foliciting, o 10 To the examiner for five wit- neffes, o 12 6 4 RECEIVED FOR THE SEPULCHRE LIGHT. 1. s. d. 1. s. d. 150^. Of Sir John aLIgh, I 1517. - 13 4 Mr. Rauf a 1518. - 13 9 Ugh, I 1519. - II yob. — Waher Haward 1521. 9 oob. (Qu. Howard), 9 1522. 9 70b. • Sir William 1523. 19 7 ob. Willoughby, knyght, I 4 1554. Gatheryd at Efter, 2 8 1515. - - 13 1555- 6 8 1 5 1 6. Ot Sir John a Leyghe 1556. Gatherid in the for iiii years, 4 church at Efter, 6 8 ^ -I 1557- 6 8 PAYMENT FOR THE SEPULCHRE LIGHTS, kc. AND FOR THE PASCALL. 1505. For makiag of the 1. s. fepulchre lyght, 13 ' For making of the pafcall, o 2 For watching of the fepulchre light, to ii. perfons, o o 1515. For boots hyre, for carrying the pafcall to London and home ageynCj o d. — — To William Smythe 1. s. d. I for ii poleys for the pafcall^ For watching the fe- 3 6 pulchre four nyghts, and for meyts and drynk, For the fepulchre I 6 lyghts, 151 7. To the watchers 13 1 1 6 of the fepulchre, I 4 1517 LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 15 1 7. For themakyngand the vvafte of the palcall, c To the fekeften for watching the fepulchre, o 1518. For a quar. of colls to make the halowyd fyer, o For wacheii-ien to the fepulker, o 1519. For a quar. of collys for to make the halloyed fyer with, o For iiii men to watche the fepulker, o For brede and alle to the vvachcmen, o I. s. d. 10 ygiit. 152 1. For colys, For the ftpulchrc 1554. To the men watching of the pulchre, To the fextcn for 1. o o for le- his dener en gooJ Fry- day and Efter Evyne, For a fack of coles againft Eltcr, 1556. To ii men for watching the fepulker at Eder, To Roffe Adams for hys dynner on good Fry- daye and Efter Evyn, s. o II d. 6 4 ob. 6 8 I. o s. o d. 8 REMARKS. The receipts for the fepulchre light are very di.Tcrcnt, but feem to have arifen from general and voluntary contributions. The charge of the ftones ufed for the fmall building, which was to reprefent the fepulchre of our lord, together with the expence of making and painting it, amounted in the Abington Book to feventeen Oiillings and fixpence; and in the fame ac- counts are tliefe entries relatinsf to it. A. 1555. To the fextin for watching the fepulter two nyghtes, 1558. To the fextin for meat and drink, and watching the fc- pul'ure, according to cuftom, 046 To the bellman, for meat, drink, and codes, watching the fepukure, 017 It Was not, however, a cuftom peculiar to the parifli of St. Helen's, Abington, there being, as above ftated, fundry articles of the like kind in the Lambeth Book : and Fuller obferves, that in every year of the Churchwardens' Accounts of Waitham Abbey there is a payment ot four pence for watching the fepulchre. He adds, that, were he not loath to charge that age with more fiiperftition than it was clearly guilty of, he could fufpecl Ibme ceremony on Eafter Eve in imita- tion of the foldier's watching Chrift, That there was a pageant allufive to the Ue- furreftion on Eafter Day, appears from Dufrcfnc's Glollary, under the title Scpul- chri 3-/ 70 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OT ■ cbri Offiiiwn; and a fmilar iifiige is noticed in Lambardc's Topograplilcal Die-' fionary, as ciied in Mr. W'arton's tlifioiy ot Englifli Poetry (vol.1, p. 24.0). " In the days of ceremoniai religion, they u(cd, at Witney (in Oxfordfliire) to itt ■" fourthe yearly, in amantr of iho.v or interlude, the refurreftion of our Lord, ^c* " For which purpofe, and the more lyvely heareby to exhibite to the eye the holy " aClion of the Refurreclion, the ]>rieftes garniihed out certain puppettes, fepre- *' lenting the perfon of Chrilte, tl;e watchmen, Marie, and others. Amongefi: " the which, one bare the parte of a waking watchman, who efpiinge Chrifle to " arife, made a continual uoyce* like to the lound that is caiifed by the metyng of " two ftyckes, and was therefore commonly calkd Jack Snackner of VVytney." All the tapers and lamps in the church were to be exrin^uifhcd on Eafter Eve at the fixth, and re-lighted at the ninth hour with the hallowed fire. Du-Frefne's Gloll". Tit. Ignis Novus. In the Rubric of the Roman Miffal, decreed by ti;e Council of 1 rent, it is direded, that the new fire (liould be procured from a flint without the church ; and the ceremony of hallowing the burning coals was ui be performed, if poffible, before the church porch, or at the very entrance into the church. The form of lighting the tapers is alfo-fpecified. RECEIPTS FOR THE PASCHALL LIGHT, AND FOR THE PASCHALL OR COMMUNION PENCE, AND OF THE APPLICATION OF THAT MONEY. A. D. 1505. Received of the pafchall money, 151b. 1517. 15 1 9. of Mr. Par- fon, for the paflcall lyte, J520. 1. I I I I 4 10 14 I a for the pafcall money, i 152 1. ■ of the paf- call lyghte at Efter, i 1522. Item, at Efter, i 1523. of the pafcall 9 4 3 money, 1 1555' - - - 1 1556. Pafcall money, i 1565. At Efter for pafcall money, i I 6 5 5 d. 8 3 o ob. 4 6 Sob. 8 o 10 I. s. d< 1566. Pafcall money at Ellere, i 6 o 1567. Pafcall money dewe at Efter lafl paft, 170 156S. Pafcall money at Efter, I 7 10 1569. For pafcall pence, 174 1570. For pafcall pence, 160 157 1. For communion pence, 168 1572. For communion pences, i ir 10 1573. For bred and wyne of theym ythave received yc communion this yere, 197 i57<^. For communion pence, i 10 10 ^575' For the fame, i 8 11 LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 371 1. s. d. I. s. d. 1576. - I 9 1616. - "3 13 7 1577- - I 8 6 1617. - - 3 9 2 1578. - 1 9 2 16 1 8. - - 4 I 10 1579- - J 1 1 6 1619. - - 3 19 3 1580. - I 6 3 ob. 1623. - 3 17 7 1581. - I 17 7 1621. - - 2 2 8 1582. - 3 13 2 ob 1622. - - 2 4 I ^5^3' - 3 16 5 1623. - . 3 6 4 1504. - • 3 18 2 1624. At feveral commu- 1585. - 3 »9 6 nions, 4 4 10 1586. - 3 19 6 1625. In communion 155^7- - 3 19 6 pence, 4 18 4 1588. - 3 1 1 4 1626, 7, and 8, 6 18 3 1589. - 3 7 I I 1629. - " 4 16 II 1590. - 3 iC 6 - 1630. In communion pence 1591- - 3 7 7 for tokens, and collefted 1392. » 3 7 1 1 at the communion table 1593- - 3 5 10 for wine, 6 17 9 1594- - 3 3 3 1 63 1. In communion ^S9S - 2 18 7 pence, 4 1 1 II 1596. - 2 12 9 1632. - -4 10 4 1597- - 3 6 I 1633. In communion 1598. - 3 9 II pence. Qu. At Eafter, 5 3 z 1599- - 3 10 7 At other feveral 1600. - 3 7 9 times, for bread 1601. - 3 4 9 1 and wine, 2 I ]6o2. - 3 2 6 1634. In communion pence 1603. -. 3 7 I and coUeflions, 8 3 5 1604. • 3 5 1635. In communion pence 1605. . I 12 at Efter, 3 I K more, i 1636. At the Efter com- 1606. - 3 4 munions, 5 6 4 1607. - 4 1637. At Efter, 5 14 1608. m 3 2 8 163a. - ' 5 5 10 1609. » I 11 5 1639. - - 5 7 I I6IC. - - 5 4 8 1640. - - 6 3 9 I6II. - 4 8 6 1 641. Richard HInde, 1612. - 4 3 8 churchwarden, dying of 1613. - 4 5 3 the plague, his accounts 1614. - 4 13 4 could not be found. 1615. - 5 3 9 rf* 1642 V- ' <> ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 1642, For communion 1. s. d. pence, with collcclions for the pocr, "26!. 12s. aid. 164- With coUecrioDS /; for tlie poor, 210 4 1644. The fame, 10 10 10 1645. The fame, 484 1694. Of .Mr. Lamkin, for Eafter dues, 500 1695. for Eafter dues, 500 1698. for Eafter dues, 500 1698. — ^ fur Eafter dues, 500 169 j= ' • — for 1. parifti dues, 7I. Ss. cd. for Eafter dues, 5 lyco- ' parifh dues, Eafter dues, 131 OS. cd. for 17: parlfli dues, 73). 19s. pd. Eal- ter dues, 5 1703. Of Mr. Lamkin at 4 feveral paymenrs, for churchduties,53l. is.6d. lor Eafter dues, 5 1708, 9, and II, for Eaf- ter dues, each year, 5 PAYMENTS FOR BREAD AND WINE FOR THE COMMUNION. d. 15S2. For bread from the 1. Annunciation to June $, o wine for the fame time, i bread and wine, o s. I 1583. 1384. • — -^ wine the 9th of Mayy I — — bread, o 5 pottles of ■wine, and for bread, o xi salions 15^5' and a quart of wine, May 9, i bread, o 3 gallons of wine, and for bread, to February 22, o 13 gallons, 3 quarts, and a 9 6 6 1586 15 I 3 1587 •7 2 1588 15 I 2 1591 1591 8 6 1592 pint of wine for 1. s. d. the whole year, 117 o -^ — bread for the whole year, 020 — - wine and bread ffomMid- lenc Sonday to TrinitieSonday, i r5 o bread and wine for the yeare, for 2 13 the yeare, 216 wine from Micllent Sun- day to 3d of May, I 2 • bread the whole yeare, o 2 wine from 6 6 6 2 Midlent Sunday to Low Sunday, 158 ^593' 1594- ^595- 1596. 1597- 1593. 1605. 1606. 1608, LAMBETH Py\LACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 4 373 For bread and 1. s. wine the whole 2 II 2 o yeare, the fame. 6 o 18 2 2 12 . wine for the whole yeare, 213 • bread for the whole yeare, o 3 wine for the whole yeare, 213 — bread, o 3 wine for the whole yeare, i bread, o bread, o ■ wine, wyne for the hole yere, i 18 breade, o 2 Wyne for the communi- cants, 2 13 breade for the fame, o i wine, 3 4 ■ a quart of wine, o i 3 quarts on Chriftmas day, o 3 • a pinte of wine, o o ■ I quart of wine, Paflion Sunday, o i • 4 quarts on Palm Sunday, o 4 ■ - ■ 3 quarts on MaundayThurf- day, o 3 I quart on Good Friday, o i ■ I pinte on Eafler Eve, o o - — 12 quarts on EafterMondaye, o 12 8 o o 8 7 6 o 8 6 o 1608. l6l2. I6I5. I6I6. 1624. bread, o wyne this yeare, 3 bread, o bread and wine, 6 bread and wine, 4 bread and I 4 1626. 1627, 162^. wine for the year, 5 19 bread and wine this year, 2 3 wine, 817 mufcadellthe whole yeare, 4 4 Item, y^n- drew Pefl:, for the like, 2 2 1630. For wine this yeare, 6 18 1 63 1. wine, 7 o 1632. wine, 6 18 1 634. — — bread and wine. o 4 8 1 1 4 9 o 1635. bread and wme. 3 8 1635. bread and wine at Eader commu- nions, 6 1639. [bread and vvin^ at Eafter, 7 1640. bread and wine at Eafter commu- nions, 6 1642. — • — bread and wine, 9 I 1692. Mr. Ben- bridge, for communion wine, 8 12 1699. communion wine, 13 2 1 70c. Mr. Short, for facrament wine, 12 5 1706. Mr. Short, for facrameat wine, 26 15 Bbb 5 o 9 5 £ II 7 9 o 6 6 6 RE- 374 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF REMARKS* In fotne of the mod antient entries, the receipt is flatsd to be for the pafchalli light, in o hers it is ftylcd the pafchall money at Efter *, which k alfo the form in 153 J, aad in the years of the reign of Philip and Rlary, and fo continued to 1509, when it is called pafchail pence. Soon after communion pence is the ex- preffion adopted, and in 1573. it is minuted as received for bre.id and wine, of them that had received the communion that year. It feems, therefore, not unhkely, that in the times of Popery, a part of the colleftion was appropriated to the paf- chall light, and a part for providing facramcntal wafers. At St. Helen's, Abing^- tOD, there were two diftinft colleflions, one fjr the pafchal] light, the other for the holy loaf. The pafchall pence was a contribution, or payment, expefled from every, one to whom the facrament was adminiftcrsd at Eaftcr : and Walter Hickman is recorded as a benefactor, in having by his will, dated Qiflober 29, 1540, be- queathed a legacy of icl. to the church of Woodford, in Ellex, to redeem the payment of pafchal! money, fo that every body in the pariQi, bemg free from the payment of the fame when they came to God's borde, lay a pater nolter, and an ave for his foul and all Chriilian fouls -f-. By the flatute of 2 Edward \'I. the paflours and curates were, at their cofies and charges, to find bread and wine for the holy communion ; but in recompence of fuch ch;iTges, the parilhioners were to offer, at the time of the offertory, the juft valour and price of the holy loff. But by the flatute of the 5th of the fame king, curates and the churchwardens were to provide the elements at the charges ot the parilh, and the parhliioners were to be difcharged of fuch fums of money, or other dueties, which hitherto they had payde for the fame by order of theyr houfes everye Sundaye. After the ellablifhment of the Reformation, the ufage at Lambeth, un- doubtedly, was to coliedt voluntary contributions from every communicant, nor, for a long time, was there any church rate, of which the churchwardens could avail ihemfelves in defraying this expence. It was my wilh to have formed fome judgment of the number of communicants from the fum contributed for providing bread and wine for the facrament, but I have not fucceeded. That Cncc the Refloration the number has much decreafed in all places, cannot be unknown to any one who has given himfelf the trouble to purfue an enquiry. How many communicants there are in a parifh is a regular * A. 1558, at Eiler for the palkall lyghte, 34s. - for the holy loff, 34s. '559' " for the pafkall lyghte, 35s, for the holy loff, 34s. Archseol, vol, I. p. 13, ^ C»!li;i3j PscMge, Eads, vol, II. p. 427-, article LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH FAIUSH. ;75 article of enqui y previous to an epil'copal vifitation ; and on perufing a rttura made ill the diocefe of Rochefter at the beginning of the Jafl: century, and compa- ring^ it with the now flate of feveral pariihes, the diminution is found to be very confulerable, even where there is a large increafe of inhabitants. In fome pariflies there are not half fo many as there were in i6cS ; in others not a third part ; and in a few, if I am not mifinformed, there is a reduftion of nine in ten. This change, this notorious negleft, is as adonilliing as it is diftreOlng to every ferious perfor. All members of the Ellablifhed church are inftrudted in their Catechifm, on the authority of Scripture, that baptifm and the Lord's fupper are the two Chriftian facraments neceilary to falvation. But, notwithflanding the anxiety of all parents not to lufler their children to die unbaptized; how many of thofe parents are there who depart out of life, without having once obeyed the pofitive command of their Lord and Saviour to commemorate his death for their redemption in the facred rite indituted by himfelf ! So great a difproportion of communicants between former and prefent days led me at firft to fufpect, that the return abovementioned might be of perfons in each parifh who were of a due age to receive the facramcnt, and not of thofe who were really participants. But, on a more attentive examination, I am now inclined to the contrary opinion ; and for this, among other reafons, that a wilfu! neglect fubjefted p-rpetual recufants either to ecclefiaftical cenfures, or a pecuniary pe- nalty. And Dr. Feadey, in a fermon preached in Lambeth church, notices this moiive *. The rule was, (and the law enaf^ing it .is not repealed, though it is become obfolere,) that every perfon fhould receive the facrament three times in the year; and that Eafter Ihould be one of them. And it was partly on this account that the facrament wasfo frequently adminiftered about Eafter. The extracts (hew, that at Lambeth there were communions on PafTion and Palm Sundays ; on Maunday^ Thurfday, and on the four following days; and in Wilmington, which is a fmall parilh, I find, that in 1655, there were four communions at Eafler-f-. From the fame quantity of wine's being allowed at Lambeth for Chriflmafs day, and for * Clavis Myflica, p. 857. Chrift's lafting monument, a fermon preached on Maunday ThuTiday. Text, 1 Cor, xii. 26. " Wee never read of any (faith Calvin) that were blamed *' for drawing too much water out of the wells o( falvation ; neither do wee find ever any taxed "for too often, but for too feldom communicating; which is utterly a fault among many at ♦' this day, who are bid (fhall 1 iay) thrice, nay twelve times, every moneth once, before they ** come to the Lord's table ; and then they come (it is to be feared) more cut of feare of the " law, than love of the Gofpel." -f Entries in Churchwardens' Accoinits at Wilmington ; s, d. Bread and wine at Michaelmas, i i Ditto at Chriftiiiafs, 1 i Ditto at Eafter, four feveral communions, 6 10 Ditto at Whitfunday, 1 t B b b 2 Maundav 3;6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Maunday Thurfdaj^ it may be inferred, that there were nearly the fame number of communicants on thofe days. The caufe of this efpecial regard to M;iunday Thurfday m.ay be coUedled from a paffage in the lermon ot Dr. Featley already cited. " Now (remaiked the preacncr) above all days of this holieft week, this " hath one privijedge, that in it Chrilt made his laft will and teftament, and infti- " tuted the Sacrament of the Eucharift, and adminiftercd in his own perfon, deii- " vering both the coniecrated bread and cup ot blcffing to his apoftles with his " owne hands ; which nivile'ions actions of his were prehdents in all fucceeding •' ages, aod rules for the adminiltratiou of the bacrament to the world's end." P. 837. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. I. s. d. 3505. Received at the burial of Webfler's moder for wafl of wex, 004 • at the Verefmynde of Piers Palmer for waft of wex, 010 at the burial of a waterman's child for waif of wex, 002 • at the burial of Edmund Aleven for waft of torches, wex, and for his knylle, 050 at Edmund Aleven's monthys mynde for wsft of wex, 002 ■' for the knylle of Water Haward, and for his herfelyghr, 071 at the buriail of Robert Warde of Knygth's hille, for waft of wex. Of Mr. Rauf, a ligh at the chriftening of his child for wafl of torches, at the twelfthmonythy's mynde of Mawde Underbille for waft of wex, 009 at the buriail of a fervant of my lord of Canterbury, 090 at the buriail of Knyghts Maide or Knyghts HiUe for •waft of wex *, 008 ■ of Morgan Wife for the lamp light, 004 of my lady Lylee Chapleyn for waft of torches, lib. at the chriilening of the fteward's child, Payd for pathying of the grave whereat Hartyes wife lyeth buried, 008 * Wax is mentioned in all burial fees, and is generally charged at 2d. for children, and at 4d. for others, ar.d at izd, for a year's mind in this account. 1505- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 377 1505. P.ivd to the wex chandeler for inakynge of the roode light, 023 . " for inakyiii'; iiii. herfe tapers and xvi. fmall tapers, 020 for vi. nevve torches, i 1 8 8 for mak\ ng of a newe herfe light, o i 8 to William Sexton in a full contentation of his wages and vafhing for this yere, 034 — — to William Sexton for his wages for Midfomer quarter, 040 to the lay-i William for wafliyng of the church iiulT for the laid qusrier, 010 t) the feseon for his wages, 020 to William Sexton in a full contentation, &c. 1 5 14. Received for the beryall of my lady of Norfolk's gentylwoman, 078 of iny lord Fitzwaryn fervant, o j o 4 At the bying of our fenfures. 1. s. d. Imprimis of mayilrels B'jkley, - - - 200 Item, a gy/dyll io!d for, - - - - -C174 a chenc of fylver, and a pyece of fylver, fold for o 13 4 of her mavd, a? mych lackr fylver as was fold for o i S _._ of Sir\V;;'iiam ArguU, - - -034 of Mr. Parys, - - - - -034 of Umfrey Donne, - - • - - o 3 4 oi' Henry Sygons, - ; - " ° 3 4 of William Sexron, - - - 034 for a broken ch^lys, - - - i 3 4 of" kedtorth, - - - -010 of John Mylls, ofteler, - - - -004 Receyved at c'.ie making of our fev/tts of vellments. Imprimis, of bir John a Leyghe of Stokwell, - -100 of Mr. Parfone, - - - o 10 o of my lord Broyke, , - - -068 of John Cromwell, - - - 068 ofWylliam Elhotts, - • 068 , of mafter Kyrclcy, - - -068 of V\'YlHam"Smythe, - - - 068 ■ — of Henry Sygons, - - - 068 of Wyiliam Bever, - - - 068 of mavftrefs Eukley, - ■ - 068 Payments, for a bcllroire, - - ~ 017 , for a cord to the (liewyng off the crucyfiN-, 003 . for a ccnfure of l\lver, - - 708 : for the makyng of the lewue of veftmcnts, 6 13 4 1514. 378 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 1514. Payments for a yerd of velvetr, - _ « for gyrdyles, . _ - . ■ for halowying off the fayd veflments, j_5i5. Received for the beriall of John Cromwell's woman, • of mayfter Henry Ratclyve, ' of mayder comptroller of my lord of Canterberys houfe, ii. halve pound tapers that brente over mayfter Comptroller, the monthes mynde of Mr. Comptroller, IJ16. Received, that was found in thechurche, for the beryall of my ladye's mynftrell, for the beryall of the deane of Chicheller, Payd to the wex chaundelar for maiiyng the roode lyght agaiufl: Efter, — — for iili. torches wayinge fourfcore pounds and on • for ix. ellys of cloth tor the parfons furplyce, pryce the elne viii d. — — towards makynge of the fame furplyce, — — for the niakyng of two furplyces, < for a furplyce, - - - - for xvii. elnes of Buckram price elne, vd. [ for dyynge of Buckram for ye leiterne clothes, for the lynynge of letterne clothes, i_jiy. Received (or the beryall of my lady Norfolk's mynftrell, Payd for makyng of the trendell with ix lb. iiii quarters, wex^ to James Calatc for payntyng of Judas *, for pavyng of the fydmen from cyttinge, 151 8. Payd fur iiii. onllys of gavefyng rebonds at ix d. the ounce, for yowie fylke to Heche golde downe on the copys, for fowyg threde of dyveis colours, red, green, and blue, a quart, — — - i"or a piece of bluebokeram to ly ne thebefl cope with and oder, o — — Lo Thomas Rede Broderar for mendyng of divers copys and — — to -he fame Thomas fcr makyng of v. ftaclys and v. walans of a old Yt f^ement, 014 15 19. Received of D^vc Coper, fcribe, of theaudens that was gathered o* the doclors, of the Audyans lor theyr beyng abfent at the cort<- tyrae, 018 8 1, s. d. 9 4 I 8 4 13 8 II 8 3 2 2 18 4 I 5 I I 8 6 I 2 4 7 2 8 4 8 6 7 6 6 4 3 2 4 5 * A, 1554-1557, paid for a fiaffe for Judas Croffe, 4d, 1519- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARTSIL 379 1. s. d. 15 1 9. Payd for HI. yerds of herecloth for to cover the heye auter, o i o for yiii. yerds of wyglit tapys for gyrdells to veftments, o o i for a piece of Imalle corde for the rode clothe to draw the corteyne before the heye aulter, o o " 1520. Received for a lode of polys fold to W.lliam Tayler, -024. for uialkr Parys Pytte, - -068 Knyile, - - -020 Herfe, - - _ o I o Payd for a (houlder of motron, and ale, to hyra that gave the polys, (fee Hillory of Parifh, p. 38.), o o 10 1521. Received of the duchefs of Norfolk, for the bequefl of mafler Parvs, (only parr Hift. p. 38.), 26 13 4 of Arnold tor v^ and liii. pieces of old tyall, is. 8d, for i.ii''. of old tyall, is. 4d. Harye Kny^htr tor lode of tvmber carriage, is. Sd. of mayiirefs Kirkby or hyr own gyfc towards th^ herfe cloth, 400 of the executors of Thomas Kyrkeby of his bequtft towards an hcrf« cloth, (Hr.lory or I'iriih, p. ~^.:.), 600 Payd in Suchwerke at the receivyng of the emperor for Stowegh of the crols, the C'-'ops, and tiie cenlures, &c. 004 • for ii. yerds of clothe of gold, and a quarter, at xxxvs. vid. the yerd, 400 lii. yerds of pnrlpyll velvett for or herfe clothe, at xiis..the yerd, 1160 o viii. yards of buckrMn at vid. the yerde, - 04 ounces of fylke frynge at Xiiii. tne owufe, - 090 towards makyng of the herfe cloth?, - "374 1^22. Received of my lady Wylliams for tlie herlle at the buryall, and the monciies mynd of her hu'Ond, and for warte of torches, 034 "- for wafle of torches, and the buryall of Sir John Legiie's fervant from Stockwell, 014 for the buriall of maydrefs Bukley, (Hillory of Parifh, p. 39.), I o o for the burial of John Cromwell, (Hillory of the Parifh, p. 39.), 086 I5jj4. Payd for a croflTc cloche and a ftaffe for the crolTe, - 026 to ^557' ^ girdyll for the ' efl:, - o o I — — raakyng a luiplis igr the preff, - ; 004. 1554 3^0 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 155410 !• s. d. 1557. Payd for a (hryne to put in the facrament, - - o a 6 1366. Payd for vii. ells of Holland for a furpleffe, at xviid. the ell, o 9 11 ■ making a furpleffe, - -- - 0110 iiii. lode of lyme for the reparation of the almeflioufes, 040 ■ M. D. of bricke, for ii. newe chymnes in the fame, at ixs. 013 6 1567. Payd to Matthev/ Allen for to diftribute for the prefervation of grayne, according to a ftatute thereof made, o 15 o 1568. Received for c. c.c. of elme bordes, at vi s. c. - o 15 o Payd for vermyne, - - - - 0116 Payd for fcouring the church harnefs, and for carriage to and fro, and a man hired ta wear it before the juftice^-, o 3 S 1569. Received for the burial of William Rcynfcrofte for the iiid. bell - vid. for the black cloth ivd. o o 10 ■ of Jone Wilcocks for the grave, vis. viiid. for the knell iid, and the befl: cloth xiid. 098 1570. Payd for coales for the feffors of the vermyne in the veftrye, 008 for entering an olde precedente into the liger, - 010 to John Fletcher for vermyne, - - o 10 o 157 1. Received for a piece of black clothe, which was Mr. St. John's herfe clothe 040 Payd for a piece of tymber for the ftile in the church yarde, 014 ii lodes of lyme towards the reparations of Adam's houfe, 024 1572. Payd for c. c. c. of tyles for mending the almes houfes, -036 to Welt, the tyler, and his laborer, for vii dayes work about the fame, 0140 1573. Payd for half a hundred of pavyng tyles, for Mr. Knyghte's, and Mr. Browne's graves, 018 • xxxiii yards of matt at iid. the yerd, for the peopel to kneel on at the communion table, and for one hafTock for Mr. Bullock, 056 ' to the cunftable of the hundryth for the relief of the pryfoners, for one haif yere, to Ladye Daye, 024 1574. Payd to the cunftable of the hundred for relief of prifoners one yere, 040 1576. for fcorlnge of the armor, and for a new fcabbard for the fword, 040 to one yere's wages to the dark, - » 300 — — to the fexton one yere's wages, - - 168 1576. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. sSt J' 1. s. d. 1576. Payd to the fexron for wafliinge the churche cloihes, 0^8 1577. Payd for vii. ells of clothe for a firplis, - - 0140 making of the firplis, - - - 034 ^i^j- 3 /'ja/, and for bearers to c;irrie a poor Irifinvoman to churche which dyed in Fauke'i Hall, is. 8d. for the grave making and for the cl?rk, "6d. 022 1584. makingeof a plate locke key for the door called Sir John a Leighe his chappell, 010 1589. the mafon for a flonc to the fouih chappell dore, 034 1592. for fiik and velvet for mending diverfc fretts in the com- munion cloth, 036 1596. Received for one iron bound chefl:, - - - o 14 o i6cc. Mrs. Evers lying in xxs. for Joffelyn lying in in Lambeth Marfli, xs. i 10 o 1602. one that was brought to bed in Lnmbeth Marfh, i 00 1603. a woman brought to bed at Knight's Hill, 100 Mem. That James Cullcn, for love and good- will that he bared unto the parilhioners of Lambeth, gave and delyvered one pike into the churche for the ufe of the parifh, Roger Younge, Roger Winfloe, and John Filhweke, being churchwardens in 158B. 1607. Paid to the glazier for a panneli of glaffe, for the window where the picture of the pedier ftands. See Hiflory of Parifh, p. 30. 020 1 6 10. Received for the charges of the veflrie commiffion, as may ap- pear by the vedrie book, 2 ^^ ^ Paid for bote hire, going about the confirmation of the veflrie, May 28, 007 1613. Received, December 19, collected in the church for the poor by the judices warrant, for a woman being brought to bed, 1614. for a woman brought to bed at Kennington, ■ — for another wom.an brought to bed in Lambeth Marfli, 1615. Received for a baldricke, - . . . 1617. woman brought to bed in Edward Pace's houfe, woman brought to bed in Lambeth Marfli, corpfe brought through the parifh, 1618. Received of Mr. Richard Talboyes, by reafon his wife was brought to bed before he was marryed to her, 1622. Pteceived forthe old furplice, . . - Paid for ix. ells of Holland for a furf lice, at 3s. 6d. an ell, CCC l622» 16 3 10 13 4 I 2 6 2 10 6 8 10 3 I II 6 3 2% ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF s. A. o 1622. Paid for making the furplice, - - -06 1624. Paid for tiie black cloih, - - - 250 dog-killers, - - - - o 18 o 1626. Received of diverle parifliioners after the rate of one fourth parte of their contributions to the poor, to provide new buckets and hooks, II 16 9 Item of voluntary gifts for that pupofe, (buckets), - o 12 o More for that ufc, - - - - o 4 i| Paid for four dozen of new buckets, two hooks, a ladder, and for a frame to hang the buckets upon, - 1^3 5 1629. Payd for repayringe tlie almelhoufcs at the parting of the lord- Ihips, o 17 o 1630. Reiceived for Diana Pofthuma Theaber, buried in the night, ground knell, and black cloth, i 10 8 Mrs. Tubman, buried by night, - - 1 10 8 Col. Scot, great bell, black cloth, - 054, Capt. Skipwith, buried inihe chancel, - o :o 6 the burial of Sir John Townfnend, buried at Clap- ham, ' o c o o 1-634. a corpfe that went through the town, - 06 Paid for a furplice, - - - - 160 1635. Received for a corpfe brought over the water, - 068 Paid to Balh for giving notice of a corpfe that came over the water, 010 1636. Received for the bell and one ihilimg black cloth for burial of Sarah Chadock, 020 --■ ■ John Bartlet, a ftranger, the child's bell, and 2s. cloth, 040 Edic Sherie, the great bell, and no cloth, - 020 Ann Harris, penfioner, 3d. bell, and 1 2d. cloth, o i cr Paid to Bath for frankin fence for the ch jrch, - 016 the clerk for his attendance at the veflry the whole year, 100 1638. Paid to the fexton for tolling the bell when a corpfe came through the town, and to him that brought word of the corpfe, 016- J639, Received of fome that were tipling in time of divine fervice, 0196 for a corpfe going through the parifh, - 066 ■ ■ of Thomas Eafton for keeping an unlicenfed ale-houfe, o 15 o — for two cafes of glafs, - -200 1640. Paid for a new herfecloth, - - - 280 — — to George, the parilh clerk, for attending and writing in the Teftry, 100 1641. 1^ LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 3S3 1. s. d. 16^1. Received of John Huntley wliat he had in his Iiands towardj the pu; chilling of a Brkic well, 300 Paid, February 13, towards a bonfire at his Majefly's going to Pdrliamen:, o i 6 44. Received from perfons drinking snd tipling, - - 064. at feveral times for abufes on the Sa!)?.th an-' faOing days, 119 6 Paid ro George Waple for his attendance at the veilry, i o c 1645. Paid, January 19, to the ringers, at the regaining of Lechefler, 060 1695, September 4, paid to the coroner, &c. for fetting on the woman that had her throat cut at the White Lion at Lambeth, 2!. 3s. 2J. ArJ March 22, at Kingfton alTizes, concerning the man that murthered the woman ac the Waite Lion, 7s. 6d- 1701, May 15. It having been, and no'.v i^, the ufage and cuilom of other parifiies within the bills of mortality to pay a certain fum of money for breaking up th^ ground in the church yards for any corpfe to be buried there, it is thought fie and ordered by this veftry, that every corpfe that fhall be buryed in the church yard of Lambeth on the South fide of the church, fhall be charged the funi of four Ihillings, and every corpfe buried in the eaft end, towards the lord arch- bilhop's gate-way, and itable-yard, fliall pay the fum of two fl-iillings for being buryed there. September 21. Paid for twenty-one new buckets, - - 5 '^3 ^ 1694. Paid, July 22, for ten ells of Hoil-'nd, and making a furplice, 3 ij o 1703, March 6. Paid Mr. Price for a nev; glafs pedier *, - 2 o oj DiPourfed about a fuit in Chancery with lord Herbert, &c. 21 60 1704, Oftober 26, ordered that the late churchwardens be paid the (urn of 41I. 4s. cd. being charges of defending a fuit in Doctors Commonb-, commenced ajainft them by madam Angeil and others. Paid Mr. Counfellor Killingvvorth, and Mr. Bonwick, in a hear- ing againll Mrs. Angel and the parifh of Chriftchurch, 230 -^ — to Counfellor Ayliffe in the fame caufe, - -230 170.;. Money due to Mr. Lowman for Parliament bufinefs, - 20 o o lyoiS, November 19, paid Mr. Skinner a bill for profecuting Clark the diffenting parfon, 16 16 o 1710, Augult (5, paid for putting the church regalia -j- into the Gazette and Poftman, o Ij o 1713, December 2, and March 3. Orders relating to the expences of parilh meetings, at the elec- tion of officers, not to exceed o J * See this engraved in the Hirtory of the Parifli, p. 30. •j- See the Apjendix to the Parifti, p. 154. Ccc 2 iSa ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF At making the poor's rate, - - - - i o o — iettling the pcnfiontrs and orphans, and days of appeal, i lo o — « the vilitations, - - - - -200 PAID FOR GPvEENS TO ORNAMENT THE, CHURCH. 1. s. d. I. s. d. A. D. 1 51; 6. For hole and ive rofemary and bays againlt Chriftmafs, 6 for the church, z 6 1537- - 6 1693. December 28. For IS65. - . - 6 greens for the 1567- — « — - 6 church, and put- 1568. . 6 ting them up, and 1569. . 6 a dinner, i 5 8 1599- To old Baftard for holly and ivy at 1699, December 28. For g-.eens to beautify k Chnftmafs, 6 the church, i 8 6 1602. Holie and ive for the 1700, December 24. For church, 10 greens to beautify 1603. . -- . I the church, and 1606. ... I other charges, 2 8 6 1608. . I 4 1705* December 24. For 1613. To Small for holie flicking the church and ivie. I 4 with greens, and 1614. To the fame. 1 8 fervants expences, 10 2619. HoUie and ivie for 1707, December 24. For the church. 2 greens to the 1623. > _ . 10 church, 2 Q 1627. m - • •* I 1711. For greens for the 1631. . 2 6 church, I 6 1^35' . 2 To Tearve for flick- 1636. To the fexton for ing the church, 10 EX- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 385 EXTRACTS RELATIVE TO BOOKS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE CHUrXH. L s. d. I & 2. Payd for fyve proceffionals to fynge in the queer, at 2s. ^d. a 4 & 5. piece, on S of • a nautefoner (a) of parchment to fyng on - 168 Pliilip iii. grayels of parchment and on grayl of paper to fyng and in the queer, 2 13 8 Mary. ii. ymnalls, - - - -054 a nantcfoner of parchment and a venite boke, - 3 8 o o ^5^5' ^^ ^^'' Eullock for a boke of articles, - - o to the fame for a boke of praiers (b), - - o 1568, 1569. for a new Bible of the great volume, xxvis. viiid. of the which M.'. Jchn Porye, doftor of dyvynitie and parfon of Lambeth, paid xiiis, iiiid. and fo of the parifhe charge (c), 013 4- for a copie of the articles fet forth by the bufhope to be read to the parifhe (d), 004 i^yo. a newe booke of the common praier and adminiflration of the facraments, for the ufe of the churche, xxi" November, 054 booke of articles, - - - -006 1^71, the xxix. December, for ii. Pfalme Bookes, - 054 for the booke of articles, and canons, and degrees of marriage, 008 j^lfi. ■ a booke of prayer, - - - -006 ir-j^. to Mr. Bullock for ii. bokes of newe prayers (e), -006 . the regifter for a byll of articles, - - 008 for ii. Catechifmfs in Latten, fet forth by the clergy (f), o i o a byll of articles, - - - -00 jt-]^. the booke of articles of my lord of Canterbury's vifi- tation *, the boke of the expofycion of fartain chapters of the Old 1574' a new Sarvys Boke for the church, - -04 tabyll of the ten commandments, - - o z Teftament command} t to be had in our churche (g), 036 o I o O I o icj-j, dozen of bookes at the commandment of the or- dinary, jc-jS. • copy of the articles, - - -^ 010 to Mr. Grainger for a Service Book,. - - 004 * A. 1505, paid for beryng of the bill of deteftions to thf court for the vifitation, iid. »579> o SS6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 1. s. T :;79. Payd for a new Service Booke of Common Prayer, - ° 7 13S0. iii. bookcs of prayers (h), - - •• 010 1581. ■ the canons, injunflions, and articles, - - cog 1384. — a Prayer Book 3giinit the execution of Parry rO> 003 Book of Service for the queen's coronation (k) day, 004 1586. new bindin::^ the Piible, and for clafps, - - 076 a Book of Prayers and Homeiys to be read upon Wed- nefdays and Fridays in the time of dearth (1), 004 1587. delivering our prefentments at the bilhop's vifitation, and for a book of articles and ii. flieets of injunflions, 1583. a new Service Book, and a quire of paper, ji. Prayer Books of Thankfgiving for our fafe delivery from the Spaniards, * 1590. a Prayer Book to pray for the French king (ra), i6:'7. — the book of articles at the archdeacon's vifitation, 1617. a Bible, and Booke of Common Prayer for the churche, 1623. booke of articles, . . - book of articles at the archdeacon's vifitation, 1625. two books for the faft (n), - - - 1626. a book of articles for our othe, and a book of admo- monitions, 1627. Received for part of an old Service Book, Paid for two Service Books, . _ . - 1631 or 2. — — for a prayer for the queen's fafe delivery, 1633-4. Service Book, - . - 1635. Church Bible, - - - - 1640. king's injunftions, . - - REMARKS. (a) i.e. Antiphonar. In the year 1424, the monaftery of Crabhofe in Norfolk paid 17I. 6s. 8d. for two Antiphonars. Spelman GlofT. v. Antiphonarius. (b) An office of prayer and fading for the plague was iffued this year, as alfo a thankfgiving prayer for the ceaGng of the infe(ftion. Strype's Life of ArchbiQiop Parker, pp. 131, 132, 135; and his Life of Grindal, p. 71, 81. There is alfo in the Churchwardens' Accounts of Abington, an entry of 6d. payd for one boke of Wednefdays fading, which contains omelies. Arch^olog. vol. L p. 16. (c) This iT.uft have been a voluntary contribution from Dr. Porye. By an in- junction of king Edward VL v/hich, probably, was only a confirmation of an order in the preceding reign, the Bible was to be procured at the joynt expence of the parfon. I 4 / 8 4 I 2 8 I I I 6 10 4 16 6 8 6 2 16 I LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 3S7; parfon, or proprietary, and the paridi. P>ut, by the acfb of uniformity of queen EiJzjbeth, the paiifhioncrs were to defray the whole exjjcnce of books concerning the fervice ; and Mr. Lewis cites the flatutr of 2 and 3 of Edward VL as freeing the clergy from this burden. Complete Uill-ry of the Icveial TranQations of the Holy Bible, pp. 175, 176. The Bible here mentioned was doubtlcfs that printed in 136S, and calleti Parker's, or the Biftiop's Bible, becnufe of the learned divines to whom the archbifftop committed the traiftflation of c'iffcrent portions, the greatci.- number were bilhops. It was printed with a moft beautiful Eiiglifli letter, on royal paper, in a large folio. Lewis's Hift. as before, pp. 237, 240. In the Abington Accounts, under A. 1562, is this irem, " payde for a Bible for the church, us." Which profcflbr Ward fuppofed to be the (ieneva Bible in 4:0. on account of the fmall price of it. Itdoei not, however, appear that this Bible was authorifed to be read in churches ; and the injunctions in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI. and queen Elizabeth^ required the Bible of the hrgeft volumes to be procured. Though the editions of the great Bible of the tranflation, printed under the direftion of of Cranmer, were become fcarce before the publication of the Bifhop's Bible, yet an expreuion of archbiHiop Parker implies that fome were remaining. {Cumpiefa- irorujn Bibliortim A>7g!ica>ia editio qua in fingulis ecclefiis ex flaluto collocanda fuit jam. prope deleta defcciflet, rurfus cuJi curavit. De Antiq. Ecclef. Britan.). And. in 1562, a Bible was printed by Harrifon, according to the tranflation ordered to be read in churches. Lewis's Hift. p. 214. As to the price of the Bible in the. Abington Accounts, king Iknry VIH. fixed the price of Cranmer's Bible at los. unbound, and not above 12s. well bound and clafped. It was therefore an erro- neous obfervation made by Fuller (Church Hiftory, book VII. p. 387..) that few country parifhes could go to the high price of them; particularly as half the money was to be paid by the incumbent or appropriator. Many churches were, indeed deftitute of Bibles from another caufe, which was the averfion of not a fc\y. of the clergy, both fuperior and inferior, to the permillion given to the i^eople to read the Scriptures. A. 1576-1577, the churchwardens of Abington paid 40s. for a new Byble. This muft have been the fecond endition of archbilhop Parker's Bible, publifhed in 1572, though it is no' eafy to account for the advance in price, if, as Mr. Lewis (Hiih p. 257.) represents it, this Bible was on the fame fine pa- per and letter as the former edition, with only a few alterations and additions. (d) Thefe articles might have a reference to.' AnabaptiRs and other feffaries,, holding heretical opinions, who had lately come into England, and concerning whom the bifliops of the feveral diocefes were to make a.fpecial inquifition, in pur- fuance of the queen's command tranfmitred to them by archbilhop Parker. Life of Parker, p. 262; and in Strype's Life cif Grindal are that prelate's articles of en- quiry in fearch of ftrangers within the city of London, p. 123. (e) The prayers in this book were compofcd after the maflacre in Paris ; and, by the queeu's command, appointed to be read in October, the third prayer, which. was. 388 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF was tor the queen ; and the foiirch a prayer for the perfecuted and perfecutors, are printed in Life of Parker, pp.358, 359. (f) This Catechifm was written by Dr. Alexander Nowel, dean of St. Paul's, London. An account of it is given by Strype, in Life of Archbifhop Parker, P- 3°'- (g) Bifhop Cowper of Lincoln's brief expofition of the firfi; leffons from the Old Tel- tar.ient, appointed to be resd on Sundays. Archbifhop Parker ufed his befl endea- A'ours to have every church fupplied with it, recommendiDg to lord treafurer Burleigh as what he thought would be profitable for inflruflion, and neceffary for the un- learned minifters, but moil to the poor fubjeifls, who were certainly to be informed by the ftabiliry of this doftrine. Life of Parker, p. 465. (h) On account of an alarming earthquake which happened April 6, a form of prayer was appointed to be ufed upon Wednefdays and Fridays in both parifh ■churches and houfehokls, and there was a long prayer to be ufed on Sundays. By a rubrick, curates were direfted to call upon their parifhioners to caufe their fami- lies, every night before their going to bed, to fay the prayer fet out for that pur- pofe. Strype's Annals, vol. IL p. 668. At pp. 669, 673, and in the Life of Grindal, p, 248, and of EiOiop Aylmer, p. 78, are accounts of the extent of the earthquake, and of the damage fuflained. (i) The prayer was entituled, " An order of Prayer and Thankfgivlng for the Pre- fervation of the Queen's Life and Safety, upon the Difcovery of Dr. Parrie's Trea- fon." The particular direflions to the preachers and minillers are ftated by Strype, who has alfo printed the prayer, as containing Ibme hiftorical remarks. Annals, Tol. III. p. 260, 261. (k) Coronation was probably a miflake for inauguration ; the form of prayer to be ufed on that diiy (November 17) is noticed at large by Strype. Ann. vol. III. p. 355, &c. (1) See the proclamation concerning this dearth, and the caufes of it, in Strype's Life of Archbifliop Whitgift, p. 490. (m) The title of this prayer, which is publifhed by Strype, (Ann. vol. IV. p 41, Sec), is, " A Prayer ufed jn the Queen's M;ijeflics Houfe and Chapel, for the Profperity of the French King and his Nobility, aifailed by a Multitude of notorious Rebells, that are fupported and waged by great Forces of Foreigners, Auguft 21, 1590." (n) This fall was probably appointed when king Charles the Firft, at the infli- gation of the duke of Buckingham, was refolved to commence a war with Spain, and when 8060 men were ordered to embark for an expedition againft that country. The concluding fermon in Clavis Myftica, by Featley, is mentioned as being preached at Lambeth church at a public fad, and I had imagined on this occafion. But, on exam'ning the difcourfe, the following paffage rather implies its being deli- vered in 1 62 1, when king James was perfuaded to let a body of troops be fent in 3 aid LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 389 aid of his Ton in law, the king of Bohemia, and when the Hugoniils were grievoufly pcrfecuted in France : " Judgement is already begun at the houfe of God, the angel " hath poured out his viall of red wine upon the churches of Bohemia, and thtir " fields are thick fowne with the blood of martyrs ; the fame angel hath emptied an- *' other Tiall upon the churches in the palatinate, and the fweet Rhenifli grape '' yeelds in a manner now no liquor but blood ; a third viall runneth out at this " hour upon the reformed churches in France, and our fins as it were lioUoc to " him to ftretch his hand over the Narrow Sea, and caft the dregges of it on us, " who have been long fettled upon cur lees." p. 892. EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS RELATIVE TO THE REGISTERS. 1. s. d. 1-566. Payd for paper, ryall, for the chriflenynge boke, * 006 Matthew Allen, by the confente of the hole pari(he for Hewe writing of the olde boke of bsptifme, marriage, and burial, 068 1569. for writbg the regifter of burials and chriftenings for a hole yere, 020 1570. to Matthew Allen for kepyng the regifter boke of burialls and chriftenings for this hole yere, o z 6 1 57 1. for writing the liger book of burialls, weddyngs, and chrlftenings, for the whole yere, 026 1573. ■ for making the regifter book of weddings, chriftenings, and burialls, . 068 1574. — — for ii. quere of paper to make a boke, - -008 1575. — — for writing the regifter of chriftenings, weddings, and burialls, for ii. yeres paft:, 068 1576. ■ for one whole yere, 034 1^77. for one hole yere, 034 1577 and 1579. (Account for a year and a quarter) for writing a boke of chrift;enings and burials, 010 for writing the regifter book and this account, - 068 1579. -^ — of chrlftenings, &c. 034 1580. the fiimc, - 034 Ddd 1581. 59° ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 1. s. d. o 6 8 o 6 8 ^ o o 2 6 15S1. Paid for writing out the regifler and this accompte, 1582, 1583, 1584, 1586, The fame for each year, 1 593. Paid to the curat for writinge our book of chriftenings, weddings, and burials, 1594, Mr. Turner, minifter, for writing our book, &c. Item, to Mr. Turner, for writing our regifler book, being left unwritteen for the fpaee of three years, 068 i^^T for two paper bookes; the one for the clarke to fet downe the weddens, buryalls, and chriflenings, and the other for to fet downe the prechers, when they come with the brod fell to gather in the church, 022 i^f)^. to raafter Kendrecke for writing the regifler book, -030 1560. • to Mr. Calfhill for writing the regifler book, - 034 161 J, June 1 1. An order of veflry, for giving to l\Ir. Benjamin Toncke, curate,. 45 bookes, [eft by a former curate, for rent due to the church, Mr. Toncke to have the books in liewe of his paynes for writing out the names of baptifms, marriages, and buryalls, into the leidger booke, which were unwritten before his tyme. 1616. Payd for a regifler booke, - - - -040 1621. In account to May 12, among the difourfements are thefe items, for new binding the church regifler, with four quire of paper added thereunto, o 10 6 Item, to Thomas Taylor, for regiflering all the chriflenings, burials, and marriages, which were omitted in the regifler for diverfe years, 100 1634, June 26. Paid for perfe(fting the regifler, 100 TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE REGISTER. 1569, May 1 1. John Waters and Ifabel Denam, both fervantes to my lord's grace of Canterbury, married without banes by his command. 1653, November 7. Mark Perkins and Margaret Payne, married by Thomas Cooper, juflice of the peace. February 6. William Hinde and Anne Baylis, widow, of St. Botolph, Al* derfgate, by Thomas Lee, efq. 1654, March 28. Samuel Lawrence and Jane Ray, by Samuel Heyland, efq. April 6. James Tuckie and Joanne Harper, by Robert Warcop, efq. July 4. John Snowe of Stockwell, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mpore, by Francis Allein, efq. I6i4, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 391 1654, December 29. Right hon. Robert Bulkeley, and Mrs. Sarah Hawey, by Samuel Barnard, D. D. February 26. James Thompfon, miniftcr of Elftree in Herts^ and Anne Aley, of Lambeth, by Francis Allein, efq. 1 666, July 6. Buried, John Ward, killed with a thunderbolt. In the Obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine for 17S7, p. 645, Is this para- graph : " July 12, died at his houfe, near the Bifhop's Palace, Lambeth, at about ♦' a quarter before fix in the evening, by a flalli of lightning, Mr. Bacon, clerk to *' the Salt-office. At the beginning of the florm he was drinking tea with his wife ; •' the back windows of the one-pair of flairs to the South having been open all day, '* he went up for the purpofe of fliutting them-, and in the action of lifting up his " right arm received the ftroke, which tore his coat eight inches in length, and " four in breadth -, whence it entered his right fide, nearly oppofite his heart •' went through his body, and out at the left hip, and down his left leg to his buckle *' (which melted), and tore the upper leather of his flioe from the fole. His do"-, " being at that foot, was alfo ftruclc dead j after which the lightning penetrated the *' wainfcot and floor of the one-pair of fl.airs, and made its way into the front par- *' lour. North, where it tore the wainfcot in a fingular manner, and went off with " an explofion louder than any piece of ordnance. Another account fays, that *' he owed his death to a gun being laid acrofs the window, placed there to prevent " thieves from breaking into the houfe, which, on this occafion, operated as aconducflor " for the lightning ; for, at the inflant that he was fliutting the window, he re- *' ceived the electrical fire from the barrel of the gun, which he accidenthilly touched, " and was immediately ftruck dead. The violence of the ftroke was fuch, that it " tore out his inteftines, and made his body a molt fliocking fpeilacle." He was buried in the church- yard, and a monument is fixed to the South wall of Lambeth church, at a little diflance from the South-Eafl: door, on which is the underwritten infcription ; *• Near this place are the rei^iains of William Bacon, of the Saltofiice, London, gent, who was killed by thunder and lightning at his window, July the 12th, 1787. aged 34 years. By touch ethereal in a moment flain. He felt the power of death, but not the pain ; Swift as the lightning glanc'd bis fpirit flew. And bade this rough tempeftuous world adieu. Short was his paflagc to that peaceful fliore. Where ftorms annoy, and dangers threat, uo more.'' Ddd a ' COL- 392 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF COLLECTIONS AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE POOR. In the parifii-cheft is an old parchment book, intituled, A. D. LaiTibhith '5S'^ in com. Surr. A Regifler Eocke of the Benivolence of the Parilhioners for the Rcleife of the Pore made in A° vi. Regis Edwardi vi", et in Anno Dni dez. Ambrofs Willovves. j M. C. LIL A regifler booke gevyne by inaner Ambroofe Wylles, gentyhnan, unto the churche of Lambethe, wherein it is declared the benyvolence of the paryfboners of Lamtethe afforfaid towards the releiffe of the poore inhabitors there ; which be not of poors able to !y ve wytheoute the cheritye of the towne, as hereafter in this booke doothe appere, particularlye every man's nanae, and what his devolyon is to geve weklye towards the fuftentacion of yher poore neygbours according to the king's highnefs profedyngs. And alfo in another place of this boke, the diftrebutynga wekelye of the fame cherite by the coUeftors appointed for the tyme beynge.. My lorde of Canterbury's lordJJjip. My lorde of Canterbury's grace.. My lorde of Wynchefter*. My lorde of Suffrecane-f-. Mafler Parfon for half a year, los. My lord of Carl) 11. My lady Bridgewater, for a yere, 6s. 8d. from page 13 to 19. On Sundaye, Oiftober 30, there was nothing diftfybuted, bycaufe that mailer Wylles did extend his charitye among the poore houfeholders. p. 22. On Sundaye the 6th day of Auguife, mailer parfone did geve his cheritye to ihz- poor people, p. 43. The fums in general very fmall, and payable by the week, or by the quarter, and different Uims given in diilereni years by the fame perfons. * Dr. Poyntt, who had bfen chiphin to ardibifliop Craamen ■\ Some futFragan b;fhop. EX- LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 39^3 EXTRACTS FROM CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, AND FROM MLNUTES OF VESTRY RELATING TO THE POOR. 1614; Collcfted at feveral commu- nions for the poor, in the poor's box, 1615. Coliefted ac feveral cominunions for the poor, 1616. The fame, - - - . , 1617. Colleded for tlie poor'^s ufe at fandry communions. In the poor's box, - - . . . 1618. CuUeflcd at fundry communions for the poor, In the poor's box, ... 1619. Collefted at fundry communions tor the poor, 1620. The fame, ----_. 1621. The fame., - - - - - 1622. The fa 'lie, --..-. Of Mr. Blague for the poor, - - - 162.3. Colledtcd for tiie poor at Chriflmafs, - - . — at feveral communions, of the colledlors at the foot of their account, for the poor. 1. s. d. 2 9 I 2 9 1 II 4 r* - 3 7 1 18 1 1 1 12 8 2 4 3 5 3ab, 8 2 6 ;? 2 7 6 2 14 7 n I f 7 6 I 9 4" 4 10- 1 I 2 2 I 9 Allowed in difburf^ments, for taken oirt of the poor box, when it was robbed, il. os. 2d. and in the r.ext year's account a pavmeiit of' 14s. 4d. for a poor box. 1624. Collefted at Chiiftmafs, - - - - 130 for the poor at diverfe commiUnions, "" - 428 ■ of the colleftors, - - - 9 8 )0| more out of the book of colleclion for the poor, 6 8 icj l6z6. Received of diverfe parifliioncrs after the rate of one fourth parte of their contributions to the poor, to provyde new buckets and hooks, 11 16 g 1627. at the general fad for the poor, - - 2- iS' 3 1630. by extraordinary colleclions for the poor, - 10 16 4 November 5. Item, of Mrs. Woodward towards a ftocke to fet to the poore to work given by her hulband's will, 613 4 It was orciercd at the veftrie, holden January 9, 1630, that, by the confent of the executors and churchwardens, they Ihould have to dilpofc of 5I. of Mr, Smith's gift for the reliefc of the diflreffcd, ncd} e, and ficke poor, of the pariih of Lam- beth, it being a deare yeare of corn. 5 '^30^ ]. s. d. o 5 o 5 lO i6 4 7 2 6 7 lO ^ 6 8 10 4 7 7 I o I 14 6 394 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF 1630. Paid to Mr. Dr. Featlye for the poor of Kennington, • Mr. Scaldwell for the poor of Stockwell, Colleflions for the poor at the communion and at church, 1631. Received by a tax, intended for a ftock to fet the poor to work, 1633. at feveral colleflions for the poor, 1637. by quarterly coUedtions in the church for the poor, 1638. -^ in quarterly colleftions at the church for the poor, of Mr. Caudwell for the poor, ... Collected for the poor at the communion table, 1639. Received in colledlions for the poor at the communion and church, 7 10 10 1640. Received by fundry coUeftionsat the church and the commu- nion table, 15 7 7 1642. . in communion pence and collections for the poor, 26 12 2| 1650. Hoyden Cuper colleftor for the poor. 1652. Henry Forteeand Thomas Kent collectors for the poor. 1655, June 5. It is refolved by the parifliioners and inhabitants of the parifb, that the aflefFment for the poor fliall be made according to the an- cient cullom, and not by a pound rate. Veliry Minutes. 1655, February 20. 50I. granted out of the import: upon coals to the poor of the parifli. 7678, September 26. That one Johnfon, known by the name of Dr. Johnfon, for his good fervices in adminiftering phyficke "to the poor of this parifh, for which he hath required no fatisfadtion or allowance for the fame from the parifh, it is agreed that no fee, or allowance, be paid by him or his executors, for breaking the ground for a grave for him, when it fhall pleafe Almighty God to call him hence, but that the church duties and grave in the church be given gratis for fuch bis fervices. Veftry Minutes. 1693, February 19. Received of the Chamber of London for the ufe 1. s. d. of the poor, 10 o o 1699, April 3. - ' ■ the king's guift, from the chamber of London, So o o .1700. ' ■— ■ the king's gift from the chamber of London, 60 o o TABLES LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 595 TABLES OF BENEFACTIONS. 1739? April 44. ^Yhereas, b}' an order of veftry nude June 22, 1729, it was agreed, that a table^of benefaclions belonging to the paridi ; be forthwith put up in the chnrch ; and that the veflry-clerk coileft an account of the lame to be laid before the parifh for their approbation. And whereas the order aforefaid has not yet been complied with, and the reftor did now fignify, that he had himfcif made a confiderable progrefs in colkding an account of the faid pa- rochial benefactions, but that the regiflers at Doflors Com- mons muft be fearched to complete his defign. Ordered, that the churchwardens be hereby impovvered to bear the expences of fuch a fearch, and of copying all extraC^s of wills that Ihall be thought requifue by the redor ; and that when the whole account is finifhed it be laid before the geatle- nien of the parifli for their farther information and appro- bation. 1747, April 2,1. The redor reported that (purfuant to two orders of vefirj', the one made June 22, 1729, and the other April 24, 1739,) he had finifhed an account of the parochial benefacbons, and was ready to lay the fame before the gentlemen of the parilh. A committee was therefore appointed to receive the report. 3748, April 21. The reftor and churchwardens reported from the committee, that they had gone through the feveral writings relating to the be- nefadtions belonging to the poor of the parifh, and had put them into order in the parifli-chert ; and that the names and gifts of the benefactors were ready to be infcribed on tables when provided, TABLE 396 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF TABLE OF BURIAL = FEES, ; WITH MINUTES OF VESTRY CONCERNING THEM. T729, June 22. It was then agreed that a table of fees for the burial of man, woman, and child, be forthwith made and fet up in th« church. '735> April 8. Ordered, that the reverend Dr. John Denne, the churchwardens, overfeers of the poor, together with the prefent auditors, or any other parifhioner who is willing to attend for that purpofe, be appointed a committee to enquire into the furplice-fees due to the reftor, as well as to other fees relating to this pariQi, and that a report be made to the veflry when fuch enquiry has been made, what appears to have been the cuftomary fees. 1736, April 27. In confequence of the enquiry the following report was made to the veftry. Burials in the church. Redoi Churchwar- dens ground bell. c- s. d. s. d. s. d. In the chancel, - - - - inhabitants, i8 2 the ground, 5 C Grangers, I 16 4 In the middle ifle, - - - the grounds inhabitants. to 10 c 8 0' I 2 ftrangers. I I 4 I 10 4 in Howard's and Lee's chapels, inhabitants, 10 8 I 10 2 In North and South ides, - - ftrangers, i inhabitants, I 5 4 4 2 0'5 4 2J \o 10 8 I 10 4 Clerk. Sexton. srave. 1 beti. s. d. S. d. s. d. 9 S 1 10 i8 0. 10 3 8 5 10 4 8 2 5 6 I 3 10 8 5 10 '3 4 8 8 2 6 8 1 3 1 10 8 10 7 4 3 4 5 8 Agreed with the committee, that the table abovementioned contains the proper fees due to the feveral parties therein mentioned, according to the cuftoms of the parifh. OF LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 397 OF HOKTYDE. 1504-1505. Received of hokkj'ng money, - . - 1515-1516. Item, of the men for oke money. Item, of the wyfFs of oke money, 1516-1517. Item, for oke money of the men, Item, for ooke money of the wyfTs, 1518-1519. Item, of William Elyot and John Chamberlayne, for noke money gydered in the pareys, Item, of the gaderynge of the Churchwarden's wyfFes on Hoke Mondaye, ... 1519-1520. Item, of the weyffes for the hoke money, Item, gadered by the churchwarden's in hoke money, 1520-1521. Item of hoke money, - ■ - Item, of my lady of Norfolk of hok money, ljai-1522. Item, of good wyfF Argall and Barow's wyffe of ok money, - - - . Item, of Bever's wyfF of oke money. Item, in hoke money of the men, Item, of the women of oke money, 1522-1523. Item, of oke money that the women gadered. Item, of oke money that the men gadered, 1554-1555. Item, gatheryd at Hoktyde in the faid yere, 1555-1556. Item, gathered at Hoktyde, 'S5^"^557* ^^^"^' °f Godman RundelTs wyfe, Godman Jackfon's wife, and Godwj^e Tegg, for hoxce money by them received to the ufe of the church, - - o 12 R E M A P. K S *. Tranfcripts of the kind above ftated have not been, as far as I know, publiflied from the Churchwardens' Accounts of any other parifli. They evidently relate to the Hoke or Hockday, the Hoke or Kocktydc, which was heretofore a very cele- brated feftival in England. It was a day of fuch notoriety as to be ufed for afcer- taining any great public or private occurrence, and was diftinguiflied as a day tor * Extrafted from a Memoir on Hokeday, inferted in Archseologia, vol, VII. N" XXIX. E e c keeping I. s. d. 3 ^5 I 8 I ob. 5 6 4 3 9 8 9 3 1 1 ob; 6 I 12 3 30b. 6 8 13 3 5 4 8 6 ob. 10 3 4 I I 7 I 2 2 398 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF keeping courts, for the payment of taxes and rents, and for fixing the time of huf- bandry work and of pafluring ftock. There was alfo a payment denominated Hok Tuefday money, which was due to the landlord, that his tenants and bondfmen might folemnize the day ; and, in the accounts of Magdalen College in Oxford, is en- tered a yearly allowance from fome of their manors in Hamplhire, pro ftiulieribus hociantibus ; conflrued by Cowel in his Law Dictionary, for women hocking the men. The week of the fecond Sunday after Eafter * was the feafon of celebration, and Tuefday in that week is termed by an hillorian of credit the Hokeday-j~; though it appears that Monday was alfo kept as one of the days of merriment. According to Plot, in his Hiftory of Oxfordftiire, in his time the hokeday for the ■women was the more foleran, but was on a Monday, when they bare rule in the feaft, flopping all paffengers with ropes and chains, and laying hold on paflengers, and exacting fome fmall matter of them. With part thereof they made merry, and part they difpofed of to pious ufes, fuch as the reparation of the church, &c. Plot adds, that the Tuefday, which was for men, was inconfiderable. Should this have "been the practice in Oxfordfnire, and Dr. Plot not have fallen into a miftake |, which I rather fufped he has, there muft in that diltrict have been a deviation from the original cuflom, for it was clearly proved that Tuefday was the principal day. And Spelman, whofe authority is fuperior to Plot's, exprefsly fays, that, on Binding Tuefday, the women chiefly bound the men, and had the pre-eminence. Conformable to this was the ufage of the manors in Hampfhire, noticed by Cowel, where the men hock the women on Monday, and e contra on Tuefday, the meaning of which, as the learned Dodtor interprets it, is, that on that day the women, in merriment, flop the ways with ropes, and pull paflengers to them, defiring fomething, to be laid out in pious ufes. The cafe feems to have been, that the Hoktyde began on Monday, in the fame manner as fever.M feaftsof the dedication of churches and other holydays commenced on the day or vigil before, and was a fort of pre- paration for, or introduction to, the real feaft. On Hoke-Monday, it is plain that money was colledled at Lambeth for this purpofe ; and perhaps the men were re- folved to (hew fome diitinguifliing mark of fupremacy on Monday, knowing that, by the ufage of Hoktyde, they were on Tuefday to be publicly fubordinate to their wives. John (Carpenter) bifhop of Worcefter, in a letter to the clergy of his diocefe, dated April 6, 1450, and which contained an admonition and injunftion againfb the pefliferous abufe of the hokedays, mentions the cuftom of women binding the men, and men the women, on different days, and deplores its being productive of * Qiiindena Pafchas, + Matt. Paris in an 1228, edit. Watfii, p. 963. J Plott erroneonfly aflerts, that Matthew Paris makes the Hokeday fall on the quinfieme of Eafter, which, he fays, muft needs be Monday, whereas, he repeatedly mentions Tuefday as the Hokeday. Not Monday, but Sunday, muft literally be the Quindena Pafchx, and as Sunday was the firft day, the title of it gave the denomination of the week ; in the fame manner as Eafter Week, Rogation Week, Whitfuad Week, are called from the Sundays refpeftively pre- ceding. enormous LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 399 enormous fcandal, adulteries, and other crimes. The prelate alludes to the collec- tions made for pious ufes; but confiders the benefit of the church to be a mere co- lourable pretence, that was hazardous to the fou), and of moft pernicious example. Being, therefore, folicitous to provide a feafonable remedy for this cancerous and feigned perfection, left, under the appearance of diflembled devotion, deeds more grievoufly bafe fliould be perpetrated, he enjoined the difcontinuance of thcfe inde- cent fperts on the days commonly called Hokedays, under a threat of the greater excommunication to be inflidted on thofe perfons, who fliould controvert his admo- nitions and difobey his commands *. There not being any traces of the like attention to Hoktyde out of this country at the time of its being univerfally obferved among us, it will almofl warrant a conclufion that it was a local anniverfary founded upon fome occurrence very bene- ficial and pleafing to our ancellors ; and the general opinion is, that it was dcfigned to celebrate their deliverance from the dominion of the Danes. In the Hiftory of England, whilft harralTed by that people, are two events to which the Hoktyde has been thought to have a reference ; viz. the maflTacre of the Danes in the year 1002, in the reign of Etheldred the Second ; and the death of Hardicanute, the lad monarch of that line, at a marriage-feaft at Lambeth, June 8, 1042. The former, which was the moft common opinion, is fhewn by Mr. Bryant to be deftitute of any plaufible fupport-j-. Though the fecret commiffion difperfed by Ethelred through the kingdom, to excite his fubjefts tomaflacre all the Danes refident among ihem, on St. Brice's day, (Friday, November 13), was not probably fo fully obeyed as has been reported, the flaughter of them was undoubtedly very great, and attended with fuch a6ls of barbarity as cannot be read without abhorrence. But the meafure was as unwife as it was inhuman ; for, in order to revenge the murder of his coun- trymen, Sweyn, the next year, made a fecond expedition into England, and ravaged its weftern provinces with fire and fword. The conqueft of it foon fol- lowed, and occafioned fuch a feries of oppreffion and mifery as this country hardly ever fuffered before. It cannot then be conceived, as Mr. Bryant has juftly remarked, that a hol3'day could be inftituted to commemorate fo cruel an event, which afforded matter for humiliation and forrow, and not for triumphant mirrh. No fimilar objeflion can be offered to invalidate the notion that the deceafe of Hardicanute was celebrated at the Hokeday feaft, becaufe, by his death, the Englifh were for ever releafed from the wanton infults, and boundlefs exaiftions, of his countrymen. This was the opinion of Lambarde I, who obferves, that, ever after, the common people, in joy of their deliverance, have celebrated the annual day of Hardicanute's death, as the Romans did their feaft of Fugalia, or chafing out of the kings, with open paftimes in the ftreets. And, notwithftanding it was the idea of Spelman § that the Hoktyde might have a reference to the maffacre of the Danes, yet he thought the eftablilhment of it was owing to the abfolute and * Printed in Leland's Colledanea, vol. V. 291. f Obfervations upon the Potms of Thomas Rowley, part I. p. 295, &c, t Perambulation of Kent, p. 136. ^ See Gloflary. E e e 2 final 403 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF iinal expulfion of that people by Edward the Confeflbr. John Rofs, or Roufe, who mull have coUefled his materials for the Hiftory of Warwickfliire after the middle of the fifteenth century, is the earliefl writer 1 have met with, in which the origin of Hoktyde is noticed ; and he afierts *, that what was vulgarly called Hox Tuifday was a token of the deliverance of Englifhmen from the fervitude of the Danes by the death of Hardicanute. The word Hokeday occurs, indeed, in moft antient Chronicles, and other MSS ; but we cannot colleft from them either its commencement, or that it was a feafon of feftivity and joy. One reafon for this filence might be, the writers thinking fuch an explanation needlefs, from its being a day univerfally regarded ; and not one of their contemporaries could be fuppofed to be ignorant of the happy occurrence commemorated. We are therefore princi- pally indebted to tradition for the knowledge of a feftival fo highly honoured by our anceftors ; and the rights and ufages of a nation, particularly their holydays and fports, which are molt interefting to the common people, are ordinarily found to be moll faithfully conveyed in this channel. Againft the opinion of Hoketyde's having a commemorative allufion to the death of Hardicanute, it will perhaps be urged, what connexion can an occurrence on the 8th of June have with the fecond week after Eafter, which muft always happen in April, or early in May? Upon this obje6iion, I muft own, I lay not much flrefs, becaufe we find frequent changes of the days of annual feftivals, and by authority. In epifcopa! regifters many licences are entered for altering the dedication-feafts of parilh-churches ; and the pleas fuggefled by the perfons who folicited thefe indul- gences were, that either the work or the weather of the feafon rendered the days originally appointed inconvenient or hazardous ; or that they could not be duly ob- ferved, and with a becoming reverence, from their interfering with celebrities of a different clafs. Thefe licences, it fhall be admitted, concern parochial feftivals, which were more immediately under the controul of the bifliop : but we may in- fer, that fimilar regulations would be made as to national holydays ; and that, whe- ther eftabiiflied by the ftate, or inftituted by private perfons, and afterwards generally obferved, becaufe defigned to perpetuate the memorial of fome joyful public event, care would be taken, that, if accompanied with many fports and ex- ceffes, they Ihould not be kept on Sunday, or at a feafon fet apart for fafting and mortification. Hoktyde, it is manifeft, was a time of diverfions and licentioufnefs, for which reafon, when the 8th of June fell on a Sunday, the keeping of it on that day would not have been allowed ; and as, when Eafter was late, the 8th of June was likely to be one of the Ember-days in the Pentecoft week (a faft to be ftriftly obferved by people of all ranks) the prohibition would alfo have been extended to that fea- fon. This appears to have been a fufficient ground for the removal of the Hoke- tyde from June to the fecond week after Eafter. But though there would be a neceffity for changing the month, it might not be at all requilite to vary the day of the Vv-eek. Now Hardicanute is mentioned to have died on 'Tucfday (feria iii') the * Edit. Hearne, p. 105. 6th LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 401 6th of the ides of June, and it has been fliewn that Tttefday was the Hokeday ; a coincidence, as I conceive, which adds a degree of probability to my furmife con- cerning the origin of this feafl:. If the meaning of Hokctyde, could be afcertained, that might be a ftep gained towards fixing the rife of this celebrity. Several derivations of the word have been propofed, and not one of them is as yet judged quite fatisfaflory. Lambarde ima- gined it to be a corruption of lucxtyde, and to lignify a time of fcorning and mocking ; of which definition few have approved. And, if contumely and derifion had been chiefly aimed at, it is more likely that the feaft would have been called Lourdaine, as that, he tells us, continued to be in his time the by-word of rep:oach, inftead of Lord Dane, a title of dignity with which the Engliih complimented the Danes during their afcendency. Hock fignifying high, it is apprehended by others that Hockday means no more than a high day. But is not the generality of this interpretation of Hoketyde an obje^lion to it ? And, as it was doubtlefs in an age of extreme fuperllition when the holyday commenced, and acquired this appellation ; fuppofing it to denote an high feftival, fhould we not expedt to find it applied to a facred rather than to a civil anniverfary ; perhaps to commemorate the birth or the martyrdom of fome much-venerated faint. Etymology being fo often grounded upon mere conjecture has induced fevcral to wholly reject it on account of its uncertainty. But furely it ought to carry fome weight in the fcale of .evidence, when there is found to be as little variation and corruption in a word as can be reafonably fuppofed to have happened in a courfe of many centuries; and when the modern ufage of it bears a raanifeft alluiion to what appears to have been a primary lignification, and points to an hiftorlcal- occurrence that has been fo long perpetuated by it. Upon this principal, Sir Henry Spelman's derivation of Hockday, from the German word Hockcn *, equiva- lent to bind, will perhaps be found not very far from the truth, and that hence it might be flyled Binding Tuefday. Might not, then, this humorous frolic on Binding Tuefday have a retrofpeft to, as (like the May-day fports of later times) it was poffibly often followed by, that faft binding of the fexes till death do them part? And fuppofing there may not be now any authority for Hocken's being directly ufed by the Germans to fignify a wedding ; do not the three explanatory ■words employed by Spelman employ the whole procefs of the nuptial tyc — courtflnp — ihe ceremony — conjuramalion ? But, without infifting upon this metaphorical climax in the definition of Hocken, there is in the Teutonic language a word for marriage that feems to bear a clofer affinity to Hocktydc ; and that is Hochzeit, which, ac- cording to Bailey's Diflionary, is particularly applied to a wedding-feaft ; and to this day the German word for wedding is Hochzeit. * Vulgari tamen nomini bene convenit hodiernus celebrandi ritus : nam cum Hocken idem fit Germanice, quod obfuUre, cingerc, incubate; alii in hac celebricate alios obfident, capiunt, li- gant, (pra;fertini viros fccmina:), atque inde Binding Tueiday, i.e. diem martis ligatoruim appellant. As 402 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF As it was, then, at the celebration of the feaft at the wedding of Canute Prudan, a Danifh lord, with lady Githa, the daughter of Efgod Clape, a Saxon nobleman, that Hardicanute died fuddenly, our anceftors had certainly fufficient grounds for diftinguifhing the day denoting fo happy an event by a word denoting the wedding feafl, the wedding day, the wedding Tuefday. And, if the juftnefs of this conjec- ture fhall be allowed, may not that reafon be difcovered, which Spelman fays he could not learn, why the women bore rule on this celebrity ; for, all will admit, that at a wedding the bride is the queen of the day ? Hoketyde might be the appellation chofen, whether the death of Hardicanute at this nuptial entertainment was accidental or premeditated ; and, in the latter cafe, if Githa was only reputed to have been an inftrument in a confpiracy againft the king's life. Your lovynge wife, who erft dyd rid the londe Of lurdenes, is a paffage that occurs in the Poem of the Battle of Haftyngs. (N" I. v. 35, 36.) And if the poet's meaning was, that the abfolute freedom of England from the Da- nifli tyranny, which was the confequence of the death of Hardicanute, was owing to the macliination or the fpirit of a wife, I fhould readily quote fo ftrong a proof in point to fupport the above implied infinuation, would the evidence be allowed. But, as I fufped it will not, it may be prudent to let thofe engaged in the contro- verfy about the genuinenefs of Chatterton's Poems determine how be came by the knowledge of this tradition *. Though, when the deceafe of a perfon in the eminent flation to which Hardica- nute was raifed is fudden and opportune, it is not uncommon too haftily to attribute it to fome aft of violence ; yet many inftances there certainly have been of the unjuftifiable ufc of the dagger or the bowl for difpatching princes, even in ages and nations more enlightened and lefs civil than the Englifli were in the eleventh cen.- tury. To- free the people from the power of a tyrant is one of the pleas advanced for affaffinating a man who is beyond the reach of all legal penalties ; and another is, the vindication of the right of a lawful fovereign by dethroning an ufurper. The dominion of the Danes had long been extremely galling and oppreffivc; and Hardicanute, among other rigorous meafures, had rendered himfelf odious to the nation by reviving the Danegelt, in the exaftion of which tax, not many inonths before his death, he had been guilty of a mod wanton a£t of cruelty, by burning the city of Woicefter, and endeavouring to exterminate the inhabitants, becaufe two of his coUeftors had been accidentally killed in a fra}'. That he * Some have imagined that the poet alluded to the vulgar tradition of the women's joining in the murder of the Danes by the command of Etheldied ; and Watts, in Gloflary to Matt. 'Paris, fays, that the chief rule the women bore on Hoke Tuefday refulted from the great part they had in that barbarous deed. The fex is nor, however, accufed of it by a fingle hiftorian, and tome writers are copious in their recitals. Befides, the notion itfelf of Hoketyde's being a commemoration of that maffacre is clearly erroneous. might LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 403 might himfclf, therefore, fall a viftim to the indignation and refentment of fome of his fubjcfls, who could not but have a predileftion for the royal Saxon line, is no very improbable fuppofidon. Polydore Vergil obfcrves, that while Hardicanute fat drinking at a feaft in Lam- beth, he luddenly fell and died, not without a fufpicion of being poifoned, (non fine ^'u{p\c\one fumpii veneni *). He might have his information as to this particu- lar from traditional report ; at lead I do not rccollefl: the having read it in any pre- ceding hiftorian. The phrafe in Redburn is, that Hardicanute went the way of all flelh -f- ; and in Aildred's Life of Edward the Confeflbr |, and in the annals of the church of Winchefter §, the death of his predeceflor is only termed premature, la "WiUiara of Malmfbury ||, and in the chronicle of John abbot of Peterborough ••*,. the expreffion is, that Hardicanute died fuddenly at a drunken revel (fubilo inter pocula). But Knighton, Brompton, Diceto, and Simeon of Durham '\--\-., are more circumftantial in their narrations. The three former feem to have copied nearly from the author lall mentioned, who wrote his hiftory about a century after the Conquelt. fiis relation is, that at the wedding feafi, where Hardicanute, joy- ful, in health, and merry, flood drinking with the bride, and feveral men, whilfl; drinking, by a lamentable accident he fell to the ground, and fo remained fpeech- lefs till he expired. The compiler of the Saxon Chronicle, a contemporary, if not an earlier writer than Simeon of Durham, is very concife upon the fubject, for he only notices the year and the day of the death of Hardicanute. But, after mentioning the clcfticii of Edward to be king, he adds, he reigned as long cs God permitted him ;|;|. No fimilar expreffion is ufed, as I believe, by this annalifl, on relating the accefTion of any other king. And do not the words convey an idea of his concealing foine circumftance which it might not be advifable to affert in direft terms? Do they not imply an infinuation, that the predecefTor of Edward had not been fuffered to reign to the natural period of his life ? It was proper to ftate the accounts given by our hifl:orians of the caufe of Hardi- canute's death, and each reader will form his own opinion upon this fomewhat myf- terious event. I cannot, however, forbear obferving, that the confequences of it, with refpe£t to the Danes, and to the fteps taken to fix Edward upon the throne^ are left very obfcure and perplexed by the monkifh writers §§. In the Saxoa Chronicle it is faid, that, before Hardicanute veas buried, all the people eledted Edward to be king at London ; and yet, according to the annals of the church of * P. 179. t Hift. Mag. Winton Ang. Sac. I. p. 236. X X. Script. Coll. p. 375. § A.S. I. p. 290. II De Geft. Reg. Angl. p. 43. ** Edit, per Sparke, p. 40. tt X. f c. 2328, ib. 934. ib 474. ib. 179. %\ As Canute married Queen Emma (according to the Saxon Chronicle) in July 1017, Hardi- canute, at the lime of his death, might be about 24 years old, and it fhould feem from his nam* that he had a robiift conftitution. §§ See Milton's Hift. of England, p. 109. And Rapin's Hiilorj^, vol. I. p. 130, Win- 404 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Winchefter * (the compiler of which was likely to be well-informed) it is afferted, that, after the death of Hardicanute, Edward came to Winchefter, difguifed in a mean drefs, eating fometimes in the palace of his mother, and fometimes at the bifliop's houfe, but unknown, and affiduoufly exploring the affeflions of the people. But, to whatever caufe the death of Hardicanute may be attributed, it unqneftion- ably occafioned a revolution fo very fortunate for England as to afford a competent reafan for inftituting, by general confent, a yearly joyful commemoration of it. And I am inclined to imagine, that the long tradition of the Hokeday's having a re- ference to a deliverance from the Danes, whofe domination was confidered as an Egyptian bondage, its being celebrated on the day of the week when a perpe- tual deliverance was effed:ed, and the vulgar appellation of it, denoting the kind of convivial feafl: at which the deliverance happened, conjointly furnifli a prefump- tive proof of its origin. So miignificent, coftly, and gay, was the feafl: kept by Hardicanute on the mar- riage of his fiflier Gunilda to the emperor of Germany ; that, as William of Malmf* bury relates, when he wrote his hifliory, it was wont to be the fubjeft of fongs in the ftreets. And, according to Matthew of Weftminfter, even in his time, the players and the minftrels celebrated the fame with vocal and inftrumental mufic at private entertainments, and in taverns. The wedding feaft at which this king died was certainly an incident of much greater importance to the Englifh nation ; and, if Hoketyde was commemorative of it, it might reafonably have been concluded, that among the merriments there were fongs, if not dramatic interludes, referring to the hiftory of the day, had Dugdale not informed us of there being a play, called Hocks TuefJay, vvhi^h the men of Coventry exhibited before queen Elizabeth, at Kenelworth caflle -j". Rofs's Hiftory, the Churchwardens' Book of Lambeth, and Lambarde's Peram- bulation, concur in (hewing the hokedayjwas generally obferved to the middle of the fiXteenth century: Sir Henry Spelnian fays, it was not quite difufed in his time; and Dr. Plot has noticed fome vefliges of it fifty years later ; but, as far as I caa learn, it is now obfolete. Money, as has been obferved, was collefled at Hoketyde for pious ufes ; and, ■whilft Popery prevailed, it may be inferred, that a part of it was fuperftitiouHy ap- plied. I the rather incline to this interpretation of the word, from finding, in the church-books of Lambeth, the gatherings for Hokeday entered, with the fums collefted for the fepukhre, the pafchal, the virgin, the St. George's lights, and for the light before the rood ; but, after the Reformation, contributions for thefe and fimilar purpofes were at an end. Dr. Plot informs us, that one of the ufes of the Hoketyde money was the reparation of the churches of the feveral parifhes, which is confirmed by the laft extraft from the Lambeth accounts. The iargeft Hokeday coUedlion was in 1521, when the gathering was made in the name of the Ldy of Norfolk; and, in the following year, the parifhioners with equal fuccefs availed themfelves of the influesce of the dutchefs of Nor- * A. S. Ii p. 290. -f- See the Queen's ProgrefTes, 2 folk LAMBETH PALACE AxND LAMBETH PARISFI. 405 folk (who T conceive to be the perfon) in procuring gifts towards the fupport of tlie 'virgin ligh;. From the items it appears, that die wives were more alEduous or more fortunate in gydcring ot' Hoxce money than their hiifbands, or that they al- lotted to pijus ufcs a greater portion of the fum received. Whether her grace, and other good wyfTes, were only oral fohciiors, or, like the women of other dif- tricts, applied cords and chains to obtain the pence from reluflant travellers, there IS no memorial. ' Suppofing the abolition of the government of the Danes in England to have been the caufe of the hokeday celebrity ; iis being thus attentively noticed in this parifii will not appear the lead fiirprifnig, when it is confidcrcd, that the wcdJing-feaft which proved fatal to Hardicanute was kept at Lambeth. MANORS AND HOUSES. Domefday Book has in it three entries concerning lands in this paiifh. One no- tices what is termed the land of the church of Lanchei, or the manor of St. Mary, called Lancbet, thus incorrectly for Lamhei, which was the principal manor, and is clearly that of which the fee of Canterbury became poflefled in the primacy of Hubert, in exchange for the manor of Darenth in Kent *. Another recorded is as evidently the manor of Kennington, long vefted in the prince of Wales, and from that circumflance entitled the Prince's Liberty -f*. The (ituation of the third manor cannot be fo precifely afcertained. From its being mentioned in general, that the earl of Moreton held Lanchei of the king, at the time of the furvey J ; Dr. Ducarcl, I fufpett, contluded that this might be the chief manor ; but, as I apprehend, erroncoufly, there being fo obvious a difference be- tween the land, and that denominated the manor of the church, both with refpcJl to the quantity and appendages, and to the perfon who poffcffed each. Goda, fifter of Edward the C^onfefTor, had held the manor of the church ; but what be- longed to the carl of Moreton, the canons of Waltham had held by a grant to thcin from Edward, confirmed by Harold. * Hift. of Pal.ice, p. 3 ; nnd cf Parifli, p. 3. It is inentionefi by Mr. Alidilletoti,- in addition to Mr. Pummerreli's paper f Appendix, p. 130) thiit thtre are f'everal freehold ei^atcs in I^ndon, ftill confulered as a parcel of this manor. They 3s> The prefentmeut in the Court-Roll, to which the above paflage is a marginal note, is printed in Strype's- Life of Archbilllop Parker, p. 511 ; and fhall be here given, becauf* it will be a- means of removing an. obfcurity in the Hillory of the Parilh, p. 63, where it is mentioned that the duke of Norfolk's houfe, at the death of Mrs. Parker, devolved to private hands. The entry is as follows : " Sic inoiitlatur in Roiulis curing Archiep. " Cant. tent, apud Lambeth, April 23, 1570 -jS A-n. Eliz. 1-3; Item, we prefent " that Margaret Parker dyed % feized of a certain meffuagc, with gaitlens and in- " clofures, and other land, with the appurtenances, fituate, lying, and being, iu '* the pariih of Lamieih, in the county of Surry ; which fometimes were of the- ** worthy prince T/^i?«^.f, duke of Norfolk; after whofe dcccafe Matthew Parker " the younger, of Lambeth, aforefaid, gentleman, entered. In which poffefTions *' one Simon Harlcjhne, oi Medkfham, in the county oi Suffolk, Sic. brother and heir " of the fame Margaret, hath demifed to the faid Matthezv Parker, his heirs, &c^ ■" all his right, &c. as by the deed of releafe, fealed and delivered, bearing date **■ December 14, 1570, doth appear. And in the margin it is fet down : The cuf-' "torn of the manor of Lambeth is, that the copyhold lands (which is the bell and" " the ciofe) fliail defcend to the youngefl: fon." The cafe was,* in CDUveyances of eltates purchafed by the archbilhbp for the ufe of Mrs. Parker, they were raade to her under the names of Margaret Parker, als. Harleflone, which was he?- maiden naiife, fte rot being confidered in law as the archbiihop's wife ; nor could their children, becaufe deemed illegitimate, in- herit from her. By- the v/ords of conveyance, or in forae deed of truft, the defe£l in title fecms to have been guarded againft, fo far as related to the capital manfion, in which the duke of Norfolk had refided; the fon Matthew having, without a demur, entered into a poITeiiion of it. But, owing to fome omiffion, the copyhold lands, dated to be the bell and clofe, devolved to Simon Harleflone, the brother and heir at law of Mrs. Parker ; and it was by a deed of leafe and releafe that Matthew acquired tbe title to. them from his unele. He married Frances, daughter of Dr. Barlow, late bifhop of Chichefter, and, at the age of twenty-three years and about three months, died in December, * Regiftrum Rofftn. p. 3S'3, Concedo — totam villam cum omnibus pertincntiis fuis, de me femper^ el de fiiccefforibus meis, cogiicfcendamet tenendam, ita libtre ficut cofflitiffa Goda prliii- habuit in omnibus rebus, et ego hafteniis in meo dominico habui. •}• Err. for 1571. Mr. ParJter died Auguft 17, 1570. J In the churchwarden's receipts from Michaelmas 1569'to Michaelmas 1570, are thefe entrie? ;. .. — *' Item, for the burial of Mrs.. Margaret Parker, for the grave in the duchefs of Norfolk's, chapel, xs. for the bell iis. xiis. " Item, for the burial of Dr. Thiirlby, for the kncU, iiis. iiiid." 1574. LAM-BETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 4C9 i_574.*, leaving his wife pregnant. By his will, daicd November 1, in ihe./ajne } ear, he bequeathed his houie and land in Lambeth, lincwn by ihe^ naire of the duke of Norfolk's hoiife, aiid the Bell on theEaIlf.de, and the other Iwiife, (fore- times called the George) on the weft fide of the faid nianfioii-houfe, wiih all the appurtenances, to the ilTue male or leniale vvhertwiih his wife was fuppofcci prlvimaii by him, and to his or her heirs for ever; with, however, a referveddevife of she middle part of the capital hcufe, called the duke's houfe, to his wife for the tewn ot her lile, it flie would dwell there, pay the lord's rent, and keep the fame in re- paration. For. default of iffue, he next bequeathed the preniiffes .to Maliiiew Parker, the fon of his brother John Parker and his heirs, who foon became eniitled to the eilate, Matchew, the polUiumoiis fon of the tellator, dying at the age cf fix months, and in the cuftody and guardianfl-iip of his uiother,, as the inquiiition is entered in the roll of tJie court, held Cftober 18, 1^75 '\-. Frances, the widow, having declined living in the duke's houfe, it was inhabited by John Parker, -llie elder brother |, \'d\Gai, by- a, very anjple licence, dated the icih of March 1574, the archbifbop auihorifed to have, for the ufe of himfelf, his wife, children, domeftics, and gucils, an oratory, in ihe houfe of his refidence at Lambeth, called the duke's houle, or at Nunney Caftle in Somerfeifhire, or in any houfe which he might for a tia.e inhabit, and to make choice of a regular clergyman to be the chaplain. In this oratory, the liturgy might be read, the holy communion adminiflered, and other ceremonies performed, according to the ufage of the edablilhed church. But there was in the. licence a provifo, that Mr. Parker^ with- all his family, fhould, on two Sundays or feftivals in every year, rcfort to the- parifti-church §. In that age, when a fufpicion of being inclined to the Romilh- perfuafion expofed perfons to great inconveniences, licences of this kind were co- veted to guard agalnft the prefcntments of churchwardens as being rccuiants j and a clergyman, who officiated as a chaplain in a private houfe, not covered with fuch an indulgence, would have been fubjedt to ccclchaflical cenfures. " In bifliop Waynllcet's Regifter at Winche/ler, is a licence to John Calcot, hoft "of the Checker-inn, Lambeth, (dated 1455,) to have an oratory in his houfe, " and a chaplain for the ufe of his family and gueds, as long as it fhall continue •• decent and reputable, and well adapted for the celebration of divine fervice, " (decern, hsnejlum et divim cuUui aplim et clifpcfihtm) ." The Environs of London, p. 317. Moil probably this -indulgence was very feldom folicited by a publican iti former days;, and fruideTs would be the fearih for a precedent of fuch licence granted on an application from the nvaller of a modern hotel. * By the archbiftiop's direftion he was buried in the t!iike's chapel in Lambeth church. In the churchwardens accci;nts of this year it is entered, " Received of Mr. John Paikcr, in coiifi- deration ot'his brother Matthew Paiker's herfe-clorfi^ ?i£." „ t: Strype's Life of Parker, pp. 474, 475.-' j'- '" K rn>." X He fubfcribed his name, next .ifter that of ThcmasBIague, psrfon, ta the Churchwarden's Accounts, iettled December 8, 1577. § Strype's Life of Parker, Append, xcvi. FAUX 410 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF FAUX HALL. King John beflowed upon Fouke, als. Faulk, (Falcafius), de Brenf, a Norman by birth, the very opulene heirefs Margaret de Ripariis, or Redvers ; an union re- ported to have been to her no lefs difcontentmenr than difcouragement, he beuig a baftard of mean extra£lion, and a profligate rogue *. By this marriage, as already mentioned, he became pofleffor of the manor in Lambeth to which Faukfhall was annexed ; and Mr. Lyfons has with probability fuggefted, that it might be from him the diftrid: acquired its appellation -{~. Weight will be added to this furmife, if it be confidered, that in Annales Ecclefis Wigornienfis, his name, as alfo that of a brother, is repeatedly fpelt Faukifms ; whence it may be prefumed, that in Englilh he was vulgarly called Faukes. According to this annalift he had fa- crilegioufly pillaged the church of Worcefler, and, trufting to the great riches he had amafled in the troubles of thofe times, he, in 1224, daringly feized the caftle of Bedford, within which he detained as his prifoner Henry de Breifbrook, one of the king's juftices. After a ficge of eight months, Fauke's brother, who com- manded in the caftle, was obliged to furrender at difcretion, and he and near a hundred of his accomplices were hanged. Fawkes, with all humility, implored mercy of the king, who committed him to the cuftody of Euftace de Fauconberge, bilhop of London, till judgement fliould be paffed on him. The nobles being foon convoked at Weftmintler, Henry required them to give fentence, and in cofidera- tion of the traitor's former fervices to the king and his father, a remifGon was granted as to life and limb, and be ordered to abjure the realm. Being reduced thus low, this dillich was written of him : Perdidit in inenfe Fulco, tarn fervldus enfe, 'Omine fub f^evo, quicquid qusfivit ab cevo. This eftate, however, which belonged to Margaret de Ripariis, was not affedted by the confilcation ; fhe reprefenting to the king fue was taken by violence in a time of hoftility, and betrothed unwillingly to Faukes, and urging this as a plea why fhe ought to be divorced from him %> i" the fame reign Margaret de Ripariis held the manor of Lambeth in dower from her late hufband, Baldwin earl of De- vonlliire, but of the inheritance of Ifabel de Fortibus, countefs of Albemarle, filler and heir of .Baldwin, ftyied alfo de Infula, becaufe he was proprietor of the Ifle of Wight §. ;" *, Speed's Chronicle, -pi 5,82. iDugdale's Baronage, vol.1, p. 743. Annales Ecclef. Wigorn. A. S. I. 486. .,,:; hr,. .noP . - "^- t The Environs of London, p. 32. J A. S. 1. 486, and Diigdale as above. S Hill, of Par, p. 97. 5 ' Avelina, LAMBETH PALACE A N' D LAMBETH PAUISH. 41X Avelina, countefs of Lancafte'r, the daughter and fole heir of William de I'oni- hus, earl of Albemarle, by the laid Ifabel, was married in 1269 to Edmun J, the fecond fon of Henry the Third ; and the high honours and great cllates which flie inherited from her iather, and hsd in reverfion fro.n her mother, were judged to be a principal inducement for the king's forming the alliance for his fon. In par- ticular, he had flattered h.imfelf, that he fliould by this marriage bring back into the royal family, the earldom, property, and fovereignty, of the iile of VVigh'-.. This fcheme being fruftiatcd by the death of Aveline, without iilue, before iier mother; king Edward the Firll entered into a treaty wiih Ifabel do Redvcrs for the purchafe of it ; and (lie, for the fum of 20,000 marks received from the king, granted to hiin, by an indrument ilill extant, all her lands, with the appurtenances,, in the iile of Wight. Some years after, a doubt arofe, whether the fovereignty of the ifland !iad paffed by this grunt; and therefore, in 1293, the countefs Ifabel, for the farther conhderation of 6000 marks paid to her by the king, conveyed to him, by the fecofid deed, the whole Ifle of Wight, and the fovereignty thereof, with all appurtenances, as v/ell within as without the county of Southampton, as alfo the manor of Cbriftchurch Twynham in the fame county, with the manor of Lambeth in the county of Surry, and the ir.anor of Fawklhall within the parilh- of Lambeth. But, according to an entry in the regifter of the abbey of Ford, this deed was looked upon as fraudulent and unjudly obtained : for, as the regifler flateSj the countefs having conilantly refufed to part with her ancient inheritance on the requeftof Edward, by himfelf and others, even though importuned by ■ de Stratton, her confeflbr, who had a great afcendancy over her, de Stratton, in order to ingratiate himfelf with the king, forged the grant fubfequent to her deceafe, affixing to it her feal, which he had in his cuftody. Certain it is, that the fecond Sir Hugh Courtenay, baron of Okehamp:on, claimed all the Ifle of Wight by right of inheritance, and petitioned Edward the Second, that all the lands and tenements in that ifland, which had belonged to Ifabella, countefs of Devon, might be refliored to him. In confequence of this folicitation, the king ilTued a writ to the treafurer and chamberlain of the exchequer, direfting them to enquire by what means thofe lands came into the pofTeiTion of his father, Edward the Firfl; and, in obedience to this precept, the commiffioners certjtied to the king in parliament, in the 8th and 9th years of his reign, a charter, dated at Stockwell, near Lambeth, on Monday ncxc after the feafl of St. Martin, in the year 1293, whereby, as they fet forth, Ifabella de Fortibus, by the ftyle and title of the countefs of Devon, and lady of the Ifle cf Wight, in confiderstioQ of fix thoufand rnarks, granted to tlie king and his heirs the whole Ifle of Wight, with its appurtenances, the manor of Chriftchurch in Hampiliire, the manor of Lambeth in Surry, and the manor of Faukefluil], fituaced within the before-mentioned inanor of Lambeth ; which charter was wit- nefl'ed by Anthony biftiop of Durham, Richard de Afton, and many others. To this return ai-e annexed the depofitions of feveral perfons, who, as 'tfiey allege, were prefent, not only at the time of the execution of the inftrument, but likewHe when the countefs gave inftru(rtions for itb being prepared. Such 412 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Such is the relation of this extraordinary tranra(nion, in a paper communicated by Sir Jiifeph Aylofle to the Society of Antiquaries, and printed in the fecond vo- lume of Vetufia INionumenta ; and, as a matter of curiofuy, he added two of the depofitions, one made by Walter (de Langton) biihop of Lichfield and Coventry, the other, by brother William de Gainfoorough. The bifliqp, in his depofition, fuggefts, — That by order of the bifhop of Durham (Anthony de Bek) he met that prelate at Stokewcll, on the Monday before the feaft of St. Martin, anno 1295^ about one o'clock; and that, in purfuance of his command, he, in a pertain gar- den, wrote a certain charter, the contents of which were, that Ifabella, countefs of Albemarle, had granted to the king and his heirs, in perpetuity, the Ifle of Wight, the manor ot Chrrfichurch, and the manor of Faukeihall, with the appur- tenances, and that he delivered this charter to the bifliop of T)urham, to carry it to the cnuntefs to have it ligncd wii:h her feal. And he laid, that when the bifhop returned to the couiitefs to receive from her feifin of the premifes, he entered with the bifhop intothe apartment where the countefs was lying, about three o'clock, and that he heard her fpeak to the'bifliop. The depofition of William de Gaynflrorough was in fiibilance as follows ; That he had been confeffor to the countefs fome years before her death; and that, by her command, he attended her at the manor of Sutton, near Dartford, where the countefs, in travelling from Canterbury, began to be indifpofed, and that he was CO! ftant^y with her there, and at Stokewell, to the time of her death. That he was prelent on the before-mentioned day, Avhen the bifhop of Durham came to the countefs at Stokewell, and that he faw and heard what the bifhop talked with her^ touching a previous converfation between her and the king concerning the Ifle of Wight, and the maiiors.of Chrillchurch and Faukefliall, with the appurtenances; andthat the bifliop enquired of her, whether (he perfifted in the fame mind of fur- rendering, as fas. had before declared, the faid ifland and manors; to which fl>e af- fcnted. That, being farther alked by the bifliop, whether (lie would have a writing prepared, -flie aniwered, ihe would; and that the biihop diredled the ab:)ve-named AValter 10 w^ritc the deed, — which being done, the biOiop had it read to the countefs inthe pret'ence of the deponent, of Gilbert de KnowiU, ofGulfrid, chaplain, and, he believes, of Agnes de Mounceals, a domeftic of the countefs, and of many others of the family — that the countefs being then srflced by the bifhop, whether flie would have ii figried, Ihe confcntcd, ar.d ordered the faid Agnes to bring the feal to fign the charier. — That, ajter it wasfigned, the countefs freely and voluntarily gave it. With (he feifin of the ifland and manors, into the hands of the bifliop in the name «a ihe king, by a delivery of the bifliop's gloves, which fhe had in hu band. Tliar, about three o'clock, the bifliop having leh the countefs, flie went to refl ; and that about nine o'clock, being alkcd by the witnefs to make her will, her an- fvier was, that fl^e was io much fatigued, that talking much flie was afraid would greatly deprefs and weaken her; but about the hour of vefpers, the countefs being again defired to -inake her will, nominated in writing (per digiios fuos) her executors, arid that, lome time after, at her requefl, he, being f roperiy habited, adminiflcKd to her the cummurion ; and that, during the 'whole time above fpeci- ficd, LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 413 ficJ, file w^is of perfect and found memory, and that Ihe died beiweca midnight and the dawn of the enfuing day. From the Rolls of Parliament, (vol. I. p. 335 et fcq.) in which ilie iM'ocefs of this inquifition is printed, I will adjoin abftradts of two more depofitions. Sir Richard Aftcn (who had been a long time Iteward of the houfehold to the countefs), previoufly to his confirming in explicit terms all the circumftances of the fiirrendry averred by William de Gaynfborough, faid, that for ten years and more, before the death of the countefs, there had been conferences between the king and her about furrendering the Jfle of Wight, and the manors already no» Mr. ^36 A DDE:- DA TO THE HISTORIES OF Mr, Angell; who was at the beginning of the prefent century the owner of Crowhuifl:, told Aubrey *, th>.t the family was of Gloucefterfliire, vvlience the in- former's graiidfathec tranfplantcd his family to Crowhuift, and the teflator men- tions'VVilliam, or the fir(t Angell of NorthamptonPnire. Not having d.fcovered the name in the indexes to "the hillories of thefe counties by Atkyns and Brydges, it may be prefumed that the family had not mucii landed property in either ; but I find that John Angell, M. A. was inilalled in the 6th prebend of Glcucefter Ca- thedral, November 2,8, 157^. He was educated at Cambridge, and had in 1535 a penfion of 2I. 15s. 4d. as fellow of St. Mark's Hall. He afterwards became vicar of Wroughton in Wilts, and died in 1577. He wrote a book with this title : ' The •Agreement of the hoiy Fathers and Docfors of the Church upon the chiefeft * Articles of the Chriftian Rcdigion, confiding of feycn feclions-f .' Ihsre wa«, according to A. Wood ]:, another John Angell, who was, as he conceived, born an Gloucelferfaire, ^nd,^ there receiving a part of his juvenile education, made his firft entry into Magdalen Hall, Oxford, about 1610. He regularly took his de- grees in arts, and, going into orders, was for feveral years a letturer at Leicefter. Being, as it is related, ' a man mighty in words among the Puritannical brethren * of that place,' he muil have adopted notions in religion and politicks widely different from what were entertained by thofe of his name who were fettled at Crowhurft. The eflate at Crowhurft was purchafed by William, great great grandfather of the late John Angell-, and by matrimonial connexions the family acquired other eftates, of which the greater part devolved to the tcftator. To John AngelJ, the great grandfather, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Edolph, of Hinxhill in Kent, Thomas Edolph her brother bequeathed two manor farms at Hinxhill, in truft for the difcharge of debts and legacies, and they were foon alie- nated for that purpofe§. But William, fon and heir of the fame John Angell, in right of his wife, daughter and heirefs of Robert Goflbn, of Binfield in Berk- fliire, had a capital eftate in that parifh || ; and Juftinian Angell, the fifth fon, by marrying Elizabeth, daughter of John Scaldw-ell, of Brixton Caufeway, ob- tained the houfe and land in Stockwell **, which the late John Angell ufed to ftyle Stockwell Park. He alfo died poffeffed of the manor of Temple Ewell near Dover, with the impropriate reftory annexed, which John Angell of Tondon bought and paffed to his fon of Crowhurft ■!•-}-, and in the lad John Angell were vefted three fourth parts of the Spurn light houfe originally erefted by Juftinian Angell, of London, merchant; Leonard Thompfon, of Sheriff * Antiquities of Surrey, vol. III. p. 39. f Willis, Survey of Cathedrals, vol. I. p. 744 ; and Tanner, Biblioth. p. 57. J Athen. Oxon. vol. II. p. 192. § Philipott, Viliare Cantianum, p. 187. [I Aubrey's Surrey, vol. III. p. 40. ** Ibid. p. 42. The prefent houfe was built by John Angell, father of the late John Angell. ff Viliare Cantianum, p. 149, Hut Jon LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISIL 437 Hutton Iq the county of York, Elq. being proprietor for life Jn the other fourth pare. On a black marble graveflone in Crowhura church, to the rremory of the firfl John Argell of Crowhurft, there is an infcriptiou in the hJghelt ftrain of pane- gyric, he being termed a treafure of virtues, the greared treafure of the age, aa accomplilhed man of men, who bad a firft name evangelical, and deriving his pa- tronymic name fi-om Heaven *. The like runniug alluCoa occurs in the epiraph on WiUiam, hij fon and heir, the reader being CdUticned not to make any tarther enquiry after the deceafed, becaufe the Angell had fled to Heaven -f^. An^, in the character drawn of the puritanic lecturer at Leicefter, he is faid by one of his own perfuafion to have been a man cf evangelical underfianding and holinefs, a burning and ihining light ^. ^ In the infcription on John Angell it is fcggefted that, by his integrity, prudence, a!:d faithfalnefs, he defervedly acquired preferments in the royal houftholds of James and of Charles the firft and fecond, and that his' appointments were caterer and chief porter of Windfor Caftie; and at the concluhon of the epitaph it is de- cjared, that he bequeathed his faithfulnefs to the Carolifts, and his example to his children §. The laft; John Angell appears to have been as ftaanch a Carolift, as his ance(i:or could have defired ; for it was with him an invariable rule not to be abfent from Lambeth church on the 30th of January ; and on one of thefe days, Mr. Lea, who was the curate, having delivered a ferraon replete with political principles that coincided with his own, he the next moraing conveyed to him apre- fent ot five guineas. The teftator has in his will repeatedly exprefTed himfelf with vehemence againft the demand fixed by an acl of Parliament on the collecliens for the Spurn lights; an impofition that was occafioned by his refufal to concur in a needful plan for the fecurity of navigation upon that coaft, and from which he was to continue to receive, as the familv had received for almoft a century, a large incotne. The ftatute fo indignantly reprobated by him is 6 Geo. III. cap. 31, for taking down and removing certain light-houfes, in the preamble to which the following articles are ftated ; that great loSes at fea near the mouth of the Humber had been fuf- tained upon a broad long fand thrown up and difcovered in the fpring of the year 1676 ; that, to prevent future danger to (hips failirg in the night, it would be ad- vifable to ereft hght-houfes upon tbe Spurn Point; that Juftinian Angell of Lon- don, merchant, being proprietor of a piece of land for luch purpofe, a patent, * Ingens ille fui feculi Thefanrus, vironim vir.ilk coufummaois, evangel iciiin prsnomen no- menque de cilo vendicans, Aub,ey, III. p. 4.0. King Henry I. A. iii3, made Henry de Angeli, or of Anjou, ia the Saxon Chronicle called Henry de Peitowe, abbat of Peterborough. As he was related t© the king, aad the coon: cf Aquitain, the count had given him the abbey of St. Angeli, whence he took his name. Bridges, Hifl. of Nonhamptoalliire, 11. p. 553. + Nil amplius hie qniras de mortuoj fiquidem in ccelum evoiavit Angelus. Aubrev, III. r.4.0. X Athen. Oxen, as before. § Fideai Caroliftis, exempluanqne libcris abiegavit. Aubrey, p. 41. K k k fub- 438 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF fiibjeft to a yearly rent of five pounds, was granted by the Crown Oftober 25, 28 Charles II. empowering him to erect two lights, towards the charges of which Juf- tinian Angell, and his affigns for ever, were warranted to coiltft from every fhip or veiTel pafling by the light-houfe, and belonging or trading to the ports of New- callle or Sunderland, or any of the creeks or members thereof, one farthing the ton, according to the burden of fuch fhips or veffels ; thatj'two light-houfes being ereftcd, Mr. Angell, after two years trial, complained that the receipt of one farthing the ton would not maintain them ; the king was requefted to grant a fe- cond patent, and that by this patent, dated June 30, 30 Charles II. Mr. Angell, his heirs and affigns, were to collect from every fliip or vefiel, paffing by or croiling the light houfes, whether outward or homeward bound, and belonging or trading to any of the por;s and creeks aforefaid, or any ways northward, the additional fum of one farthing a' ton more than be ought to receive by virtue of the firft let- ters patent for all Englifli fliips or veffels, and alfo one penny per ton for all fo- reign bottoms. This grant was alfo ch-^rged with an annual rent of five pounds, and in both patents is this provilional claufe, •' that if at any titne hereafter it fhall be made appear to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceflbrs, that fuch grant was preju- dicial or inconvenient, or not of public ufe or benefit, then upon fignification or declaration being made by his Majefty, his heirs or fucceflbrs, of fuch prejudice or inconvenience, the letters patent were to be void and determine." By the ebbing and flowing of the tide fince the time of the ereftion of the light, houles, which v/ere originally placed very near the Spurn Point, part of the ground had been wafhed away, and other ground accumulated, and from this change the light-houfes being at a confiderable dillance from the Point, maflers of {hips were deceived and many veffels loft. It was therefore judged necelTary that two new light-houfes (hould be built upon a more fultable fpot, a propofal to which Mr. Thornton willingly confented if he fhould be authorized to borrow money towards defraying the expences that had been or might be incurred by the alteration. Mr. Angell however oppofed the plan, though he was carnellly prefled to adopt it by the corporation of the Triniiy-Houfes at Deptford Strond and Kingfton upon H-ull, as well as by Mr. Thorapfon, nor upon enquiry could he by any procefs in a court of law or equity be compelled to contribute his proportion of the charge. All poffible means having been thus in vain ufed to prevail upon him to agree ro the taking down of the old light-houfes and the building of new, the evil could not be remedied but by an aft of Parliament, and by the ftatute in queftion Mr. Thornton was empowered to build two new light-houfes in fuch place and manner as fliould by the Corporation of the Trinity-Houfe at Deptford be thought moft convenient, and under their infpeftion and diredtion ; and he was enabled, under certain reftridtions, to mortgage not only his own intereft in the revenues of the light-houfes, but alfo the ihree-founh parts belonging to Mr. Angell, which was however to be a redeemable intereft in him, or in the perfon or perfons entitled thereto, on their paying the whole amount of the proportional charges. To Wil- liam Conftable of Burion Conftable, efq. ovvftter of the foil upon which the new light-houfes were to be built, there was, as a fatisfadioQ and recompence for the fame. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISIL 439 fame, to be a yearly allowance of one hundred pounds clear of ail charges, aad to the payment, of this money the whole revenues accruing from the light-houfes were to be always fubjeft. The teftator in the claufe of his will, wiiich notices a pretended perpetuity, and demand of fourfcore pounds annually, and afterwards a hundred pounds conditionally, mud have alluded to this rent-charge, though from his inaccurate flatement of it he does not fecm to have read the Aft of Par- liament with attention. Difpleafed as Mr. Angel! was at the interference of P.uliatnenr, h:d he not caufe to be thankful for the fcrupulous regard fliewn by the legillature in fecuring to him and his reprefentatives a perpetuity in this i-rofitable ellate ? For, fo far as Mr. Angell was interefted in the patents, might they not have been revoked by an equitable conftrudtion of their provifional claufes ? The light-houfes in their then fituation were not of any public ufe or benefit, but the reverfe. He had pertinacioufly withflood the fcheme adopted to make them anfwer the good purpofes for which they were originally built; by his neglefl there was a confiderable detri- ment to feveral branches of the national trade, and the evil was yearly increafing. There are feveral parts of Mr. Angell's will which betray an eccentricity of mind, and it was often difcernible in his behaviour. This derangement has been in fome degree imputed, perhaps not without reafon, to his having undergone a public trial on an indiftir.ent for the murder of a boy, whom he by niiflake fuf- pefted to have ftolen one of his clogs. On the boy's being charged with the theft, he denied it, and faucily averred that the dog was his own. Angry words fol- lowed, and fome blows were (truck by Mr. Angell, but not fo violent as to en- danger the life of the boy. He was, however, in a few weeks feized with a fever that proved mortal; and, after the funeral, a report prevailing that his death was occasioned by the hurt received from Mr. Angell, the body was taken up, an in- queft made by the coroner, and a verdift given by the jury unfavourable in the extreme to Mr. Angell. In order to avoid a long confinement he retired into Wales, but furrendercd himfelf at Reading on the firfl: day of the enfuing aflizcs. The trial continued eight hours, and a verdift of guilty was returned by the jury, contrary to the opinion of the judge who prefided, he declaring himfelf to be fully fatisfied that the deceafed died a natural death. He of courfe direfled the jury to reconlider their verdift, and by the fecond verdifl the prifoner was acquitted. Mr. Angell was obferved to be much diflreffed and agitated during this tedious and alarming flate of fufpenfe ; and, as it maybe collefted from circumftances, the in- cident made a ftrong and lafling Impreffion on his mind. Two lefvants, who lived with him feveral years, do not remember the having heard him fpeak of Binfield or Berklhire ; and, as often as the management of his eftate at Binfield obliged him to go to that place, they could always perceive him to be more uneafy and ill-tempered than when he v/as at Stockwell or Ewell. Whilft compofing his will, he feenis to have defignedly avoided mentioning his eftate at Binfield ; nor is Berk- fliire one of the counties fpecified, from which might be chofen the fello\YS of his intcuded ccUege. ^ Kkka Of 440 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF Of the many peculiar and unaccountable whims which were difcernible in him a few {hall be particularized. Ft»r years he was not known to open a letter himfelf. As long as Mis. Angell lived, the letters were carried to her; and, after fhe had read them, fhe laid them upon the floor of the room where her hufband ufually far, and, after her deceafe, a female fervant was employed to open them and to place them upon the floor, and he conflantly read them upon his knees without taking them into his hand. Itie folicitor who tranfafted bufinefs for him was not allowed to enter the apartment, but received inftruf^ions at the door withovit feeing his prin- cipal. He was very abftemious in his diet, and never drank more than three glalles of wine, and on fome days not any. To ftronger liquor it is likely he had an averfion ; but on one day, and only one in the year, which was about Chriftmas, he would have a fmall glafs of fpirits, which however he only lightly taPed. He did not affociatc with any of the neighbouring gentlemen ; and it was not often that Mrs. Angel! was permitted to receive vifitants ; nor poffibly did (he wi(h to be more frequently gratified with this indulgence, becaufe, as the parlours were at a fmall diltance, it rarely happened that it was not followed by a rebuke, not couched in the foftefl; language. The complaint was, that his head was diflurbed by the noife of the ladies talking over their tea. Mrs. Angell was the eldeft daughter of Sir John Grefham of Titfey, bart. and an excellent woman. In his will he jurtly defcribes her as a Chriftian confort, confortem Chrijiianam. She died fome years before him, and her days were pro- bably {hortened by her being wedded to a man of a temper fo capricious, perverfe, and morofe. Her health and fpirits were vifibly affeded by the conteft about the Spurn light-houfes. On her deceafe he became immediately fenfible of the irre- parable lofs he had fuftained, and, after an interval of three years, vvas often known, with tears in his eyes, to bewail his being deprived of her. He was of the univerfity of Oxford, and defigned for orders; but, being on the death of William, his elder brother, heir apparent to a large eftate, the emolu- ments of a profeffion were not wanted. In his will he has fketched this trait of his own intelleftual abilities, and literary acquirements, that he was happ'y in having a genius not middling, with erudition that was laudable (eruditione laudabiii, higenio non mediocrifelix) ; and he is faid to have employed many hours in reading books of controverfial divinity and law. From fome expreffions, which he occafionally dropc, Mrs. Angell had her fears left he fhould be perverted to the Romifli reli- gion ; but it ought to be inferred, that he continued through life a member of the Church of England, becaufe he conflantly received the holy communion on the three principal feftivals in- his pari(h»church. Judging from his will and from his condudt, his notions of law and equity were very confuled. Creditors were not feldom obliged to recover juft debts by legal procefs, and one of the arrefis to which he fubmicted was on a Good Fri- day when he came out of Lambeth church. The officers followed him into his carriage, but in the way home he ordered the coachman to flop, and efccrted by the bailiffs he walked to his banker's in London, where he either difcharged the debt, or found fecurity. One LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 441 One can hardly fuppofe Mr. Angell to have been unapprifed of the laws enaded to reRrain alienations of land in mortmain ; but he could have only curforiiy read the decifive ilatute of 9 Geo. III. c. 56, not to have forefeen that his devife for founding a college of gentlemen at Stockwell would be void. It (hoiild fcem that he at times really flattered himfelf that he might live to complete his darling infli- tution ; he mentions in his v.ill the field where the buildings were to be erefted ; and it has been faid that he traced the ground-plot of fome of them, and had pro- cured {lones from a northern county for the chapel. The propenfity of Mr. Angell to litigations at law, and his difpofuion to perpe- tuate them after his deceafe, appear from the claui'es of his will that enjoin large fums of money to be referred out of his eftates, and appropriated to that ufe, viz. lool. a year to regain the eftate atCrowhurft that was by mortgage with-held from him contrary to all equity, and lool. a year to cancel and extinguilTi the demand upon the Spurn Light, in endeavouring which his fucceffors were never to defilL And he took very efFeioi/ nu ^ftrlavta; N<»o/ia>s» nnut tiliuli^n* j«iXioi5 > 9 ^oftiolE^jav atltiy ^la Tut >iXif*a1m« atroyaiui Mafi>o,-, «' Quitl & quum Noviomagum Londinio Britannia: auftraliiis efle dicit miliaribus quinquagiata novem borealius tamen per climata cftendit Rlarinus." The Geogrs'pher of Ravenna, who names no other city, twice places London both on the South tad North fides of thfe Thames. * London, p. 356. f Ibid, p, 166. | Hiftory of Kent, vol. I, p. 11. LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 449 at that early period ; how many fpacious bays there were between the mouth of the Thames and the fite of London, with inlets that would admit the flow of the tide a mile and more up the country, and confequeiitly what a furface of ground it would have covered before there were any artificial dykes. The tides in the Thames, during the times of the Romans, Saxons, and early Norman princes, are feldom noticed by our hiftorians •, but a few inftances which have occurred to me Ihall be examined. The firft is in the palTage of Dio Caflius already mentioned. A copy of the original (hall be inferted, and Dean Gale's abridgement of it in Latin, together with the tranllation from the lalt edition of Camden's Britannia, to which, from the fame book, I ihall prefix a brief earlier occurrence related by Dio. Ava-^o^^vinxyzujv S*' snsv9iv roov BpsTa^-v^v ctt/ rc-j T«juE(r«y t^stoi^ov, xm sg n rev ci}x.-xvoy :Khoi,K7\zi, xs'K-/i[j.iJ^v^oy:^ 7= uvth T^i^vxtH, xcti f«5.'wj «utov oiochoiyTUiv, a-s xai TOi (TTSupx TX Ti svTio^x TX ^x^;» axf/Swj H^OTWV, 01 'PcojMUiOt S7TaK0?.iiSrirun:-s fofci that, on the approach of Claudius, Plautius might dfcamp from Ktflon, and refign that ftation to the emperor, while he himi'c f might lie cxpcfting his conjunction with hiin even on the very edge of the Thames. Hif- tory of Ktut, p. 395. M m m the 454 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF the bridge*. This change, however, could not have been effefled wichou* the- rifque of an inundation of the lands between St. George's fields and the Bank-fide, had the feflusry been as violent as it now is ; for, as it has been jufdy obferved by Mr. Buckmafter, this traft of land is confvderably below the level of modern tides -f-. But, before I purtue my enquiry after the ftate of the tides in former days, 1 am in -^ duced to obferve, that, for fomediftance above and below the fite of the bridge,, there docs not fcem to be a fpot, from which th-e Emperor Claudius could with lefi difficulty have commenced his movem.ent againfl: the Britons than by croffing the Thames from the Bank-fide to the o;>porite (hore. The detachment fiom the troops commanded by Plautitis, which, as Dio relates, effet'^ed on bridges a pail'age higher up the river, futtained a confiderable lofs in the impervious fens and bogs, and to the Ead of the river Lea there were trafts of the like ground to a large extent that inuft have obflruCted the prcgrefs of an army. But from the river Fleet to the ex- tremity of Tower-hill there was alw.ays a natural rifing of the earth, though in a long fucceffion of years it has become more elevated, and on the Noruifliore of the Thames the marlhy ground mulf have been narrow. That the Romans had a ilacion called Londiniura on the South hde of the Thames rells upon the authorities of Ptolemy and Ravennas. When the prefent metropolis affumed the name the miff- ing books of the hiftorical works of Tacitus might afcertain ; but the difcovery of them, however greatly to be wiihed for, is little to be expefted. Fitz.Q:ephen l, who wrote his defcription of London inthe reign of HenrylL ex- plicitly notices the tide, and fays that in a courfe of time the flux and reflux of the fea had weakened and deftroyed the wall on the South iide of the city. This wall,, if any fuch there had been, mull have been interrupted by the Walbrooke ilream, and the line of the direflion of it muft have been unknown tc Fitztlephen, be- caufe there were not in his time any remains, as, by midake, Camden in Brican-^ Ilia intimated there were. In the defigned attack of Godwin upon King Edward's fleet and army in the year 1052, he failed up the Thames as far as Southwark, where he waited for the flow of the tide; and then paffing' through the bridge, at which he met with no oppofition, he ranged his (hips and gallies againft the South fide of the river §. Stow was of opinion, that when Peter Colcchurch laid the foundation of Lon- * A. D. ici6. Canutns autem interira cum tota clafTc circa rogatioaes Londoniam devehi- tur. Qiii cum veriiiflcnt in auftrali parte Taineiilis, magnain (trobeni foderunt, et naves fuas ad occidentalem plagam ponti^ traxeruiit. Simeon Dunelm. X Script. 173. Chron. Sax. 1484. W. Malmfa. 40. H.Huntingdon, ^07-8. f Hiftory of Parifli, p. 70. J Similiterque ab auflro Liindonia miirata ct tnnita fuit ; fed fluvius maximus piTcofus, Tlia- Jtieiis, maii iiiiliio, refiuoqiie, qui iliac illabitur, mcenia ilia tradu temporis abluit, labefaftavit,, deiecit. P. 3. ^ Interea cum fua clafle Goduinus com.s advefus cuifum Tanaenfis devcftus, ad Sutliweorce veiiit, et ibi tani diu expedavit, quod maris accefl'us veniret. Inde rebus omnibus difpoliiis et or- dinatis, reumate adveniente feftiiianter anchoras fuftulerunt, ac nullo in ponte cbliftentc per aiulralem fluminis crep;din;m fuifum navigaveiuat. ^im. Dunelm. 1S6. 7 4°"" LAMBETH PALACE AND L AM BETH PARI SH. 455 don-bridge, the. conrfe of the river was turned from Batterfea to Rotherhithe; a conjecture not 'afTeiited to by other hiftorians, who were however inchned to think that Canute's canal might have been iifcd on this occasion. Hawkfmoor, after noticing this opinion, adds, " Many iliilful purfons (one of them the celebrated Sir Chriftupher Wren) have thought that Hae Thames was not turned ; but that the flovvinq; of the tides was then difTerenr, and that the water did not rife fo high at the bridge ; for iht Thames might heretofore overflow the marfhes near the fca, and have a greater fpreading ; which, being now reftrained by the bank called the Ti'^ill of the Thames into narrower limits, and the water which comes from the fea into the month of the Thames during the flood not being received by the marfhes, rauft come up into the country, and fo fwell the tide higher at Lon- don than it ufualiv did *." Upon this fubject it may be farther remarked, that the narrownefs and inequality of the arches, and the largenefs and inequality of the piers, which are fo great as to make this ail ill-contrived bridge, would pofTibly have been avoided by the ingenious builders of it, had they foreleen the disadvantages and hazards that would have enfued from an increafe of the ceftuary. And fuppofmgthe opinion of Hawkf- moor to be well-founded, that the fterlings were made afterwards, and conftrufted to prevent the undermining of the piers, it may be concluded that Peter Colechurcli was not apprized of there having 6een fuch a rapidity of the water as to render this ' fecuritv needful. By Fitzllephen the royal palace at Weftminfler is reprcfented as (hewing it- felf above the river-}-; but within memory the tide has at different times con- veyed boats to the upper end of the great hall of this palace \. That fo high a •flood could never have happened previoully 10 the eretiing of it is a moft likely furmife, becaufe it was to be the room in which the king was to entertain his nobles on the great fellivals and on other important occalions. Probable, very probable is it, that the Komans might imbank fome of the land adjoining to the Thames, and that our Saxon anceflors would purfue the fame plan, though the refearchts of the indefatigable Sir William Dugdale do not afford one dircft proof of any fuch work ; the prefumption, however, is that thole grounds would be firfl inned which were neareft to the metropolis, and on the fame fide of the river. In the year 1325 (18 E.iw. II.) on an inquifirion under the King's commiflion taken in the hofpital of St. Katherine, near the Tower, for viewing of the banks, ditches, &c. lying between the hofp.ital and the town of Chadewell, and for re- pairing of the fame, the jurors prefented, that a ci.-r;ain perfon of ancient time. Lord of the manor of Stebenhethe, vvhofe r.ame they knew not, did by his induflry * A fi'o.t Hifiory of London-bridge, Sec. by Nicholas Hawkfmoo-, Efq. 4to, 1736, p. 8. t Fnfum al) occiuente palntiiim ix-gium cminef Tuper fliivium eundcm, a^diflc'.uni iiicomparabile, cum antemura.i ct.j ropnj;iia i>. Delcr:ptio Londoirs, p. 3. J The tide has bL-en known to \\U ac this bridge tv.cnty-two f.-et, much to the inconven'ence of tfie inhabitants of Wcfiaiinfte ', I'o- at fuch times their cedars are lad underwater. Lon- don, p. 90. M ram 2, recoTcr 4^6 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF recover a certain marlh hind there, containing one Ivjndred acres of marfli land, wHicIt' marlh was then damaged by the overflawing of the Thames*; and there are alfo- commiffions in the reign of Edward the Firft, but more in that of his fon andfuc- ceflbr, which were for the viewing and repairing of banks and ditches in Effex, and on the other fide of the river in Bermondfey and below it, the words in thele commiffions implying the lands having been for fome time inned. Below D;irtford, at Stone, 33 Henry III. (A. D. 12.55) on a vMluacion of the manor, which then belonged, as it ftill does, to the fee of Rochelfer, there were no more than fourteen acres of marfli land -j- appertaining to it. Bilhop Haymo- de Hethe feems to have recovered a larger quantity, it being recorded of him, that in 1333 he erefted a new wall ;{;, and there are now one hundred acres of marih land which are of the demefnes of that manor. The annals of Aiigudin's monaftery report, that, 8 Edward I. A. 1219, the abbot and the convent of Lefnes enciofed a great part of their ruar(h at Plumlted,. adjoining to Wolwich, and that within twelve years afterwar4s they inned the reft of it to their no fmall benefit §. It appears from the above-mentioned eftimatc of the lands of Stone manor, that the arable land was valued at three pence /ct acre, and the raarfh land at fix pence. The firft commifGon for Surrey which Dugdale met with In the public records was dated 23 Edward I. |1 (A. 1294); and as that notices the lands betwixt Lambe- hethe and Grenewiche, it may not be deemed a ftrained inference, that very little, if any, of the marfli land in Lambeth was then inned. But in the 9th of Edward II. there was a commiffion which (hall be more fully cited, becaufe it is omitted in the Hiftory of the Parifh, p. 70. " It empowered Richard de Bcnham and Edmund de P.iffele, to view and repair " the banks between London bridge and the manor called Fauke's-hall, as alfo a ■ " certain bank in the land of the Bifhop of Winchefler in Suthwark, which ha- •* ving been anciently made for the fafcguard thereof, was then ruinous, and broken ; " and likewife certain ditches, whereby the frei'h waters had formerly ufed to de- *' fcend into the Thames, which were then choaked up, and to diftrain all fuch ** perfons for the repair of the walls and ditches, who in refped of any lands that •' they held, or oihcrwife, were obliged thereto**." Notwithftanding Dugdale acknowledges his not having vouched any commiflion for the defence of the marfhes about Southwark, of an earlier date than very near the clofe of the 13th century, he is inclined 10 believe that this good hufbandry might be far more antient ; by which fuppofition, if he meant that the King had formerly iifued fuch commiffions of fewers for this quarter, there is room for a dif- * Dugdale on embanking, p. 6g, rnd feq. t Reg.rtrum Koft'enie, p. 63. Maneiiiim de Stone. In eodem mafierio fiint xiiii; acre piati in marifco, et eflimaverunt fingnks icras ad vid. t A. MCCCXXXIIl. Epilcopus profvftus apvid Stone ad oidinanduna novam v.allam contra Thamifin. Angi. Sacr. V. p. 572. § Lambarde, rcrambnlntion of ILent, p. 440, 'J Dugdale, p. 65. ** Ibid. p. 66. ferent LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 457 ftrent furmife. For is it not as likely that while there was a fmall quantity of land inned, and this not fabjed to inundations from the comparative feeblencfs of the tides, the ordinary rules and ufages of the fafeguard were fufficient; and that it was in conlequence of the gradnal progrefs of embanking, which occaficneda greater height of the water, and augmented its- violence, that it was found requi- fi!e to apply tor royal commillions, in order to introduce ano enforce an obfervance of the laws and cufloms of Romney inarlh, which are words that often occur in thefe precepts ? It may be juftly prefumed, that the old banks were only raifcd to wuhftand fuch • tides as had been commonly experienced; and it is obvious, that when, from the caufe repeatedly mentioned, the water was ordinarily fwelled and became more rapid, and when, owing to extraordinary contingencies, from a concurrenee of the feafon, of the (fate of the moon, and a boifterous North wind, there was an accu- mulation of the tide, dedruftive confequences would enfue. This was in faft the cafe in the reign of Edward II. when, as has been (hewn, embanking had fo much prevailed as to have contracted the channel of the river : for, it is recorded in the inquifition held in St. Katharine's hofpita], that on the eve of the circumcifion, in the 17th year of that king'-s reign, there happened a mightv flood from the tem- pefluoufnefs ofthe fea,- v^'hich went over all thebanks and ditches of Sccbenhethe" marfh *; Sir William Dngdale thus notices one of what he conceives to- be evident cir- - cumffances, that fome ot the banl;^ of the Thames are not of lefs antiquity than the time ofthe Romans in Britain : " Otherwife how could tlic antient borough^of Suthwarke have been built, the ground whereon it flands being at firfl: naturally flat and low, and within the power of the ufual tides, and as the adjoining marflies lli 11 -would be were they not defended by the like banks; though now, by reafon of the vaft buildings there, vjhich do Hand upon artificial grounds (it being in the nature of a fuburb to that great and antient city of London), there being little no- tice taken that it hath been fo raifed -j-." When Dugdale marked the luppofed inattention to the raifed earth in South- wark, he did not advert to the difcovery he had himfelf made, and which he men- tions in the nextfentcnce, of the pieces of Roman pavement found in South wark- park, at about two feet only beneath the then level of the ground, which is now but little, if asy thing, below the level of the Borough-flrcet. As to the elevation of artificialearth ; there is, however, a flriking difference between the oppohte fides of the river. In digging a fewer, in 1780, a pavement was found at twelve feet depth from the furface '^'i and after the iire of LoiKlon§ the flratum of the Ro- man * Dugdale, p. 70. t II^"'- P* 65. % Archaeologia, vo!. VIII. p. 1:6. § Leiand, Itin. vol. VI. p. 120. Sto-,ve in Survaiv, as cited by Dugdale, p. 73, i;ii;h, th:it in tilt; y(;ar MiJXCy. he oblcjvcd, th;it when the L.boiirers had broken up the pavement ag:iiii'.l Chancery-lane end, towards St. Dunflan's church, and had digged fom- feet deep, they found a;K)therpaven;cnt ot haid ftone, mere fufficient than the firll, and therefore harder m be broken, UU..C1 453 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF man Wiitling-ftreet was laid open at the depth of nineteen feet below the fiirface of the fotl'in Cheapfide, where tbe-fleepie of the church of- St. Mary le B;nv fland^. And if the pavement wrought in various -colours which Dugdale favv was.fo Jittic under ground, it is an obvious remark, that, at the time of its being laid, there was not an apprehenfion of its being- within the reach of the then known ufual tides. Such an inference feeins to be the mere probable, if, as it has been with ve.ifon fuggefted, the current of the Thames was formerly farther from the Surrey ihoce than it is at prefent *. The direftion of the ftreet called Tharnes-ftreet, and the greater diftnnce of the ftrnnd from the river, coilnceuanccs the opinion, that the con- iiderable fpace between the wharfs and thefe ilreets ir.uft have been gained in a ■length of time. Add to this, that whilft the rivers Lea and Fleet x( between which ■was the Watling flream that bad fome bridges over it) were navigable for fliips of burden, the oppofite grounds muil have been lefs aliedted by the tides. It v^as the •conftrufting of the wharfs, and raifmg of the ground on the North fide of the river, ■that fo much prejudiced the Surrey marflies, and obliged the proprietors of then ■to make the narrow vv'ail and otiicr mounds, which Mr. Penr:ant, from inadvertency, fuppofes to be V£ry antien:. At the beginning of the i6th century, Lambeth Marfh could not on account of its wetnefs have been deemed ufelefs; becaul'e Pedlar's acre, which is not far from Srangate, was let by the pnrifli, in 150^. at two Pxiilhngs and fix- pence a ycaT'Y; and in 1526 archbilhop Warham paid to the prior of Chriftchurch, Can- terbury, fix pounds, thirteen ihiliintrs, and four pence, tor one yere's ferine of cer- tain grounds lying in Lambeth marth J. CarHfle houfe, which is upon the lite of the chapel of the college founded by archbifliop Baldwin, is at the weftern extremity of the marfli, and very near Stan- gate. It is more eafy to diflinguiih, in " Londinum An'iqua," which of the few ;buildings in this quarter was intended to denote Carlifle houle, than it is in the map prefixed to " Additions to London," faid to be of the date '363 ; and on an ex- amination of the corners'of the two mapson which are delineated Lambeth marlh, palace, and church, ic will be found that there is not fuch a fimilarity between the objefls reprefenred as might be expected, confidering that the infcriptioas. with references engraved on both maps do not vary in nriore than one particular; which is, that the mention made in Venue's pl.tn of the Vv'hitehjii Banqueting-houfe of x[-\tjirjl building bci'ig of timber is omitted ill the o\.htx ]i\An. There i<, however, in another inftance, a capif.il anachronifra iii this plan. I allude to the diflricf ne.tr Southwark, where, in Vcrtue's plan, are exhibited the bull-baiting and bear-bair- ing circi ; but in the plaa publi!hed by Mr. Pennant the bull-baiting edifice is ftyled Skakefpeare's Theatre, certainly by anticipation. For, as 1563 is given for the date of the map, it muft have been fo denominated a year before the birth of that illuftrious dramatift. under v.lvch were in the made ground piles of timber, driven very thick, and almoft clofe to- gethLT, the fame being as black as cold, and many of them rotten. * London, ; . 8, 320. t Hifiory 01 rarifii, p. 37. % Ibid. Append, p. 159, EX. EAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 459 EXTE.ACT' E REGISTRO, VOCAT' HAMONIS DE IIETHE, EPISCOPI ROFFENSIS. LITEU.^ HAM' EP'I ROFFEN' *. Reverendo irr Chrifto patri, ac duo dHo WalteroDei gratia Cant, archiepo, totiiis Anglia; primati, frater liamo cjufdcm pcrmiflione Roft'eu. epus, Caluiem cum reve- rentii et obedicntia tanto patri debitis paritcr ethonore. Licet ob veftri reverentiam, pater reverende, adverfus reftorem eccl'ise de Lambeth, clericum veftrum familiarera pro fubftraflione peiifionis annuje quinqiie marcar' nobis ab eadem ccclef debits et epis Rotfcn' per recloies did' eccl's qui pro tempore fiicrunt, a tempore quo noa exrat memoria, periolut^, dirtulerimus in prasfens judicialiter experiri, conUiltius- seftimantes Iueb dcliberationis oracula jequanimiter pro tempore pra:ftolari, quam jurgiurum amfratluofa dillidia aggredi prcemaiure, quia turn ofteufis eidem reciori j;er quofdam de nollris informationibus, quas preter alia, quibus per ampiius pro jure noftro fufficcre putamus, nobis de penfione hujiis hucufque fatisfa- c-ere non curavit, quin imo recul'avit palam ei expreiie ; ne principaliter noilrns Rof- fen' ecclia?, et ex cor.l'equenti veftrcs Cant' jura, ad quorum tuiiionem adCrif^gimur depereat in hac parte, judicialc fuffragium cogimur finaliter invocarc. Cum iL;:uir in profecutione dift' juris noftri, pariter ac veflri, nedum poffefTionera noftram et Ec- clel' noftrce prredictx, fcde Roffen' plena, de quanufquaai ambigiraus, fet et vcftram, eadem kde vacante, probare intendamiis vtftram dominationem revcrendam, devo- tione qua pofTumus imploramus, quatciiu"; ad prxfatarn penfionem ultimce vacationis tempore, et per quorum inanus, n:ini(lror' veftror' percepillis. Qucp vobis ficuc reliqui didi cp'atus redditus annui debuit revcra pcrfolvi, nee non coJtera, fi qu£E funt, penes vos probationis adminicula, nobis per prjEfentium baiulum iignificare dignemini, ut in prcemiff' per omnia lufficienter initrucli, hiis, qua; nobis ct vobis in eventum utilia videbimus, uti poffumus tempore competent! fcicntes, quod pra:- dicta veftrce clementice eo fiduci alias duxinuis explicanda, (juo juris, maxinic Can- tuar' ecclTas zelatorera fervidum vos effe cognovimus, et providum in omnibus pro- teftorem. Ad hccc pater reverende, fupplicamus ut in negotiis, quse contra execu- tores prjedecefToris noftri coram cur' veRra? caularuin anditovibiis duximus intcntanda, juxta dominationis veftrs gratam Tponfionem, generofi favoris, nobis impertiri veiitis, squanimitatcm, et hac, fi placet, efficacitcr dignemini diftis auditoribus pra^ciperc, cum caufam v^thara quodammodo, ficut in cafu prieccdenti, nos liqueat agitate. In profperitate felici et votiva confervet vos aitifTima per tempoia diuturna. I) .r > Pateat univerlis per prefentes, quod nos frater Hamo permilhone divma Itodcn CPUS recepimus a m'ro Johe Colon', reaore ecclcfis dc Lamheth, Wynton d.ocel ', tri'^inta tres folidos et quatuor denar' fterlingor' in parte folutionis quinque marcarum annue penfionis nobis ab eccl'ia de Lamheth preJft' debite, v.z. pro te.mmo fcfti S. Michaelis ante datam prefentium ultime preterit'. De quibus quidcm tnginta et tribus fulidis et quatuor denarii^ nobis pro dido terminu perfolutis nos rcetoreni predictum quietum iacimus per prefentes. In cuius rei teftimuin.m l.giUum nof- irura fecinJus hiis api^oni. Dir. apud Trotteiclive, v'' idui; Odtobr.s, A. D. M.CCC.XLli. lUg. Vol. 109.3. r • • D ff ' Pateat univeri's per prefentes, quod nos frater Hamo pcrmilbone divina Kotten epus recepimus a uiagro Johanne de Clonia, rcftorc eccl'dc Lamheth, W ynton' dio- 4(52 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF cef, per manus magri Edm. de Berham clerici ac procuratoris noftii fpirltualis in hac parte, iriginta folidos flerlingorum, de peniione annua, quinque marcarum nobis ab ecclefia de Lan^heEh predift' debita, viz. de termino S. Alichaelis ante datam prefentium prox' pretevito. Ec allocamus predifto refi-ori tres folidos et quatuor denarios pro dccima difte penfionis per diftum reftorem ad feftum S. Barnabe Apof- toli ultimo pretentum pro rtobis folnra, viz. de fecundo termino fecundi anni decime triennalis dno noftro regi Anglic per prelates et clerum Cant' provinc' apud Londoa ccncefle. De quibus quidem tiiginta tribus folidis et quatuor denariis annue penfi- onis predide termino S. Mich' predifto nobis folutis, et per reftorem predidlum ut premittitur folutis, nos ipfum reftorem quietum reddimus per prefentes. Dat. apud Trottefclive xi. kelend. Januarii, A. D. M.CCC.XLVI. Reg. ut fupra, fol. 225. a. Item, in M.CCC.XLVII. Ibid. fol. 235. a. IN DYER'S REPORTS, PAGE 129, IS THE UNDERWRITTEN ENTRY OF THE PROCESS ON A WRIT BROUGHT BY ROBERT (ALDRIGE) BISHOP OF CARLISLE, AGAINST ONE SMITH, FOR A WAST, COM- MITTED ON THE PREMISES BELONGING TO THAT SEE IN LAM- BETH MARSH *. DETERiVlINO HILLARII ANNO 2 & 3 Pli. & M. Brief de waft fuit poft y Robert Evefq'deCarliel, vers un Smitli p. waft in Carliel Place in Lambeth Marlh; et le brief fuit, ad exheriditalionem ipftus epifcop't, et count q' il fuit feiiie del place in fee, injure ecclejia ct eplfcopatiis ftu prcedid ; et fill le leas al defend, et fur niel waft fait, pled et trove per le plaintiff, fuit alledge in arreft de judgm' que le brief ferroit «i exherlditationera ecclefias folonq' le regiiP in Wafi: fcr prebendarium, fert ad exheriditalionem prebende. Et fuit alledge q* le printed regiiler, mpenultimo breve dc vajlo ejl ad exheriditationcm ipfius epifcopi hatis Maria Lincoln. Et ii regifters efcript font, &c. ad ecclefia, &c. * See Addenda, p, 244. A COURSE LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 4^5 A COURSE OF CATECHISING IN THE PARISH OF LAMBETH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. Archbishop's Liberty. The children of To be catechifed on The wall from Stangate to the Palace ; Lam- kin's-yard; LondonRoad, with Red Lion- yard, Maid-lane, andNevill's-yard, to the Pound. St. Michael, Septeraber 29. Horfe Ferry, and Horfe Ferry-lane; Church way to Lambeth Fields; Lambeth Fields, and London Road, from the Pound to- wards Newington — Lambeth Butts, in the Archbiihop's Liberty. St. Luke, Oftober |3. Back-lane, on both fides, to Lambeth Butts, with Brook's-yard, King's-Head-yard, Bell-yard, and Howard's -yard. St. Simon and Jude, October 28. Fore-ftreet, on both fides, to the Dock-way, with George-yard, Harpcr's-alley, Black Boy-alley, Bear-yard, and Cocker's-alley. All Saints, November i. Prince's Liberty. The children of To be catechifed on Back-lane, on both fides, from Dock-way to Vaux Hall, with Frying-pan-alley and Nevv-ftreet. St. Paul, January 25. Fore-ftreet, on both fides, from the dockway to theentranceinto Three-AIarineis-alley, with Charing-Crofs-yard and Burrell's- alley. St. Matthias, February 24. Three-Mariners-alley, and the Fore ftreet ; thence on both fides to Vaux Hall, with Bull-yard and Sanfum-yard, Annuntiation or Lady Day, March 25. Kennington-lahe, and that part of Lambeth Butts which is in ilie. Prince's Liberty, St. Mark, April 2^. N n n 2 The 464 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF The Marsh. The children of To be catechifed on The long flreer, on both fides, to Stangate- ]ane, and the reft of the MarQi, going up from the watch-houfe to Lambeth, St. Philip and Jacob, May i. From the watch-houfe, on both fides, to Stangate-lane, and the reft of the Marfh going up from the watch-houfe to Stan- gate, St. Barnabas, June 11. Wall. The children of To be catechifed on Broad Wall and Narrow Wall, from the Old Barge-Houfe to Cuper's Bridge, St. John Baptifl, June 24. From Cuper's Bridge to the entrance into College- ftreet, with the houfes in the meadows, St. Peter, June 29. College-ftreet, and the wall thence to Stan- gate, St. James, July 25. Vaux Hall. The children of To be catechifed on Vaux Hall, South Lambeth, and Stock- well, St. Bartholomew, Auguft 24. Lambeth Dean. The children of To be catechifed at Camberwell •, Cold Harbour ; Briftow Caufeway, and the reft of Lambeth Dean. St. Matthew, September 21. Note. When any of the foregoing holydays fall on a Sunday, the children who were to have been catechifed on that holyday are to come to be catechifed on the Wednefday following at morning prayer. Mem. There is a reference to the above courfe of catechifing in the fhort rae- jnoir of Bilhop Gibfon, as reftor of Lambeth, in Addenda, p. 347. NAMES LAMBETH PALACE AND LAMBETH PARISH. 465 NAMES OF PERSONS OF RANK, WHO APPEAR BY THE CHURCH- WARDENS BOOKS OF ACCOUNTS, AND BY THE REGISTERS, TO HAVE BEEN LNHABITANTS OF LAMBETH, OR TO HAVE HAD CONNECTIONS WITH THE PARISH. Howard, duke of Norfolk. A family frequently noticed in the preceding pages. Monumental infcriptions on feveral of them who were buried in Howard's- chapel are inferted in Hiftory of the Parifb. Appendix, p. 49 and feq. The firft epitaph is in memory of Elizabeth, daughter of Edward duke of Buck- ingham, and fecond wife of Thomas duke of Norfolk, \vho was created eat^l of Surrey in the life-time of his father. According to Rapin, (Hilt, of England, vol. I. p, 487.) fhe had been parted from the duke above four years before his commit- ment to the Tower; and it is obfervable, that her brother, Henry lord Stafford, who wrote the infcription, does not in direft terms notice his conjugal virtues ; but fays in general terms. And to al thy frendes mofl fure and faff, When fortune had founded the froward blaft. The year of her death is omitted in the epitaph ; but it is entered in the regifter that (he was buried December 8, 1558 ; and it is believed that (he might be the laft of the family interred in this church. A. 1505. Lady Lyle, a benefactor; Sir William Wylloughby, a benefa£lor. A. 1515. Lord Broyke, a benefactor; Sir John Leighe, of Stockwcll, often mentioned in the Hiftory and Addenda. A. 1522. Lady Wylliaras gave, for making the pulpyt, iilid. A. 1523. Received of my lady Wylliams for the herfe for the buryal, and the months mynd of her hufband, and for wafle of torches, iiis. iiiid. A. 1552. Lady Bridgewater, contribution to the poor for a year, 6s. 8d. She was fourth daughter of Thomas duke of Norfolk, by Agnes, daughter of Sir Phi- lip Tilney. She married firft to Sir Rhefe Ap Thomas, and afterwards to Henry Daubeney earl of Bridgewater. She was buried in Lambeth church, May 11, '554- A. 1584. Lord Browghe, benefacflor. " A. 1585, December 21, paid for ** ringing when the queen came to lord Borowes, and on the morrow when flie went ** to Grenewich. Another vifit of her Majefty to him is recorded in 1596. He " diftinguilhed hlmfelf as a military man, and was niuch employed in Flanders." Environs of London, p. 313. A. 1609. Paid for covering the grave of Sir Henry Afhcley, 8d. A. i6io. Sir Thomas Parrie, a beue factor. A. 1615. ion, p. xlvi. xlvii. A. 1469. John Leigh, Efq. fhcriff of Surrey and SulTex. Ibid. p. xxxv. A. i486. John Leigh, Efq. flieriff of Surrey and Suffex. Ibid. p. xxxvi. A. 1492. Sir John Leigh, Knt. flierifFo.*^^ Surrey and SufTex. Ibid. * Mr. Alderman Allen, who was SbciifTof London in 1654, and Lord Mayor of that city in 1659., wa$ of Lambeth Parifli. PER- 468 ADDENDA TO THE HISTORIES OF, &c. PERSONS OF LAMBETH WHO HAVE BEEN HIGH SHERIFFS OF SURREY IN THIS CENTURY. A. 1706. William Hammond, Efq. Hifl. of Parifh, App. p. i^i. The fermon at the alTizes at Croyden, March 7, 1705-6, was preached by Dr. Edmund Gibfon, then reflor of Lambeth, and published at the requeft of the judges, (Lord Chief Jullice Holt, and Mr. Juftice Tracey), high ftieriff, grand jury, and other gentlemen. Text, A£ts, xxiii. v. 5. Againft Ipeaking Evil of Princes, and thofe in authority under them. Dr. Gibfon publiihed likewife, at the requeft of the high {heriff, grand jury, and other gentlemen, the fermon he preached at the fummer allizes, Sept. 5, 1706. Text, Hof. vii. v. 9. 4to. and Svo. 1706. Of the Growth and Mifchiefs of Popery. Hift. of Palace, p. 69. Both fermons republiflied in Four Sermons on feyeral Subjefts, Svo. 1729, pp. i, 33- A. 17 [5. James Plurac^ Efq. of Vaux Hall. Aubrey's Ini rod ufl. p. xliii. Dr. Gibfon, at the requeft of the high flieriff, grand jury, and other gentlemen, publifiied the fermon he preached at the affizes at Kingfton, March 10, 1714-15, 4to. 1706, text, Jeremiah vii. 4. Religion the belt Security to Church and State, republiflied in 4 fermons above-mentioned. A. 1722. Peter Theobald, Efq. Dr. Richard Ibbetfon, reflor, at the requeft of the high flieriff, and gentlemen of the grand jury, publiflied the fermon preached at the affixes at Croyden, March 15, 1721.2, 1722. Text, Romans xiii. 4. The Duty of Obedience to Governors. A. 1743. 1^^3lc Eeles, Efq. Mr. William Allen, curate of the parifti, publifhed at the requeft of the high fliei'iffthe fermon preached at the afBzes at Kingfton, March 25, 1743. Text, Exod. XX. 16. Svo. 1743. A. 1 75 1. John Smith, Efq. A. 1757. jofeph Mawbey, Efq. of Kenningtcn, now Sir Jofeph Mawbey, Bart, of Botleys, i.n the parifli of Chertfey. See General Hiftory of Eleftions for Knights of the Shire for Surrey in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LVIII, p. 975, 1052. And in vol. LXI. LXII. there is a biographical account of Thomas Cooke, the poet, communicated by the baronet. A. 1759. Daniel Ponton, Efq. A. 1774. Thomas James, Efq. f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los Angeles This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. 3 1158 01024 9604 1 ' ' 1 ;lll III D 000 001 568 5 m§ M' i'cliKK! ii!iili!l!i