YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY THE ENVIRONS. OF LONDON: BEING AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND HAMLETS, Within Twelve Miles of that Capital : INTERSPERSED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES. By the Rev. DANIEL LYSONS, A.M. F.RS. F.S.A. & L.S. RECTOR OF RODMARTON IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. VOLUME II. PART II. COUNTT OF MIDDLESEX. Hornfey— Wilfdon. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON:. PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAV1ES, STRAND. MDCCCXI. Strahan and Prefton, .Printers-Street, London; £ 421 ] HORNSEY. Situation, Boundaries, &c. THE name of this place has undergone a very material change. From the Name and thirteenth to the fixteenth century, public records call it Haringee, Haringhee, or Haringey. About Queen Elizabeth's time it was ufually called Harnfey, or as fome will have it, fays Norden, Hornfey. If any thing is to be gathered relating to its etymology, it muft be fought for in its ancient appellation. Har-inge, the meadow of hares, is not very wide of its original orthography. Hornfey lies in the hundred of Offulfton, about five miles from Holborn-bars. The parifh is bounded by Iflington, Stoke-Newington, Hackney, Tottenham, Friern-Barnet, Finchley, and Pancras. It contains about 2200 acres of land ; of which about 60 only are arable, about 120 wood, 150 wafte, and the remainder meadow and pafture. The foil is for fhe moft part clay ; about Highgate a fandy Soil. loam. The principal hamlets in this parifh are Crouch-end, Mufwell-hill, Stroud- Hamlets. green (where was formerly a feat of the Stapletons), and a confiderable part of Highgate. The manor of Hornfey has belonged, from time immemorial, to the fee of Lon don. The bifhops had formerly a refidence at this place ; but there does not occur in the epifcopal regifters any afl: dated thence later than the year 1306, in Bifhop Bal dock's time. I think it not unlikely, that Lodge Hill in Hornfey great park (long fince difparked and converted into tillage) was the fite of the ancient palace ; " it feemeth (fays Norden) by the foundation, that it was rather a caftle " than a lodge, for the hill is trenched with two deep ditches, now old and over- *' grown with bufhes ; the rubble thereof, as brick, tile, and Cornifh flate, are in " heaps yet to be feen, which ruins are of great antiquity, as may appear by the " oaks at this day ftanding, above a hundred years growth, upon the very founda- *' tion of the building. It did belong to the bifhop of London, at which place " have been dated divers evidences, fome of which remain yet in the bifhop's re- tc giftry, it is faid '." Lodge-hill is at the eaftern extremity of Lord Mansfield's wood, and about a mile to the north-weft of Highgate. The greater part of it is now covered with a copfe, but the remains ofa moat or ditch are ftill to be feen in Manor. Vol. II. ' Spec. Brit. p. 36. 3l an 422 H O R N S E Y. Cuftom of gavel-kind. Hiftorical events re lating to Hornfey- park. Manor of Brownfwood, an adjoining field. Bifhop Aylmer's houfe at Hornfey, the burning of which put him to 200 marks expence % muft have been upon another fite. A furvey, taken by order ofthe parliament in 1647, fays, that the manor of Hornfey, which before had been always kept in demefne, was leafed in 1 645 to Smith Efq., for 1 2ol.per annum, and that there were belonging to it 6$o acres of wood arid wafte 3. When the bifhops' lands were fold, the manor of Hornfey came into the hands of Sir John Wollafton4, who held it till his death in 1658, after which his widow en joyed it till the Reftoration. Lands in this manor defcend according to the cuftora of gavel-kind. Hornfey woods were leafed in 1755 to Lord Mansfield, and the fite of the great park to William Strode Efq. The prefent Earl of Mansfield is leffee of the woods, and other lands : the park is in the hands of feveral tenants. Hornfey park is known in hiftory as the place where the Duke of Gloucefter, the Earls of Warwick, Arundel, and other nobles, affembled in a hoftile manner, in the year 1386, to oppqfe King Richard, who had given great difguft by the numerous favours which he lavifhed on his two favourites, Robert Duke of Ire land and the Earl of Suffolk s. Their party was fo powerful that the King thought it expedient to abandon his minifters. In theyear 1441, Roger Bolingbroke an aftrologer, and Thomas Southwell a canon of St. Sephen's, were taken up for a confpiracy againft King Henry the Sixth ; when it was alleged that Bolingbroke endeavoured to confume the King's perfon by necromantic art, and that Thomas Southwell faid maffes in the lodge at Hornfey-park over the inftruments which were to be ufed for that purpofe 6. -This was the confpiracy in which Eleanor Duchefs of Gloucefter was concerned. When the ill- fated and fhort-lived King, Edward the Fifth was brought to London, after his father's death, the Lord Mayor of London and 500 citizens met him in Hornfey-park, and accompanied him into the city, on the 4th of May7; at the fame place King Henry the Seventh was met, on his return from a vi&ory in Scot land, and conducted into the city in like manner 8. The manor of Brownfwood in Hornfey is the corps of a prebend in St. Paul's cathedral, and has a court-leet and court-baron. By a furvey taken in 1649, it appears that this manor had been demifed to John Harrington, in the year 1 $6g, for 99 years j and that by feveral mefne aflignments it was then the property of Lady Kemp, the referved rent being 1 9I. per annum 9- It was fold, together with the manor of Friern-Barnet, to Richard Utber, for the fum of 3228I. 4s. icd.10 In 2 Strype's Life of Aylmer, p. 73. 3 Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MS. Lib. * Myfteries ofthe Good Old Caufe, p. 43. 5 Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 195. * Stow's Annals, 4to.p. 627. 7 Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 733. 8 Ibid. p. 792. 9 Parliamentary Surveys among the Records in St. Paul's Cathedral. ,0 Records at St. Paul's, 1 68 1, H 0 R N S E Y. 423" i-6"8 1 , Sir Thomas Draper, Bart, was leffee under the prebendary. John BaberEfq., her fon-in-law, who enjoyed the leafe under Dame Mary Draper's will, afligned it in 1750 to John Jennings, Gent. In 1758, Richard Saunders, Jennings's fole executor, became leffee. His only furviving fon Thomas, in 1789, fold the leafe to John Willan Efq., uncle of Mr. William Willan the prefent leffee ". It is fcarcely' neceffary to obferve, that the leafes have been renewed from time to time fince the expiration of Harrington's term, which was granted before the reftraining a£t of Queen Elizabeth. The leffee is lord of the manor, and holds a court-leet and court-baron. This manor extends over a confiderable part of the parifh at the Eaft end. The demefnes confift of about 400 acres. Among the moft eminent men who have held the prebend of Brownfwood, are Bifhop Fox, the founder of Corpus Chrifti College at Oxford, and John Barkham12. The prefent prebendary is the Rev. George Seeker, A.M., collated in 1807. The manor of Toppesfield, or Broadgates, at Crouchend, appears to have been in 1467 the property of John Guybon, to whom it had been conveyed by Thomas Bryan, Serjeant-at-law 13. I find nothing further relating to it till the year 1659, when it was alienated by John George and others (who had married the co-heirs of Richard IveEfq. of Hornfey,) to Nicholas Colquitt ; who, by his will, bearing . date 1660, devifed it to his mother Margaret Fairclough. Mrs. Fairclough in 1662 gave it to her grand-daughter Hefter Tyther, afterwards the wife of Sir Edward Graves, Bart. Sir Edward had iffue by her one daughter, Margaret ; who having married one Edward Mattifon without her parents' confent, before fhe had attained her fixteenth year, this eftate, by the ftatute of 4 & 5 Philip and Mary, became forfeited to the next heir, Anthony Tyther Efq. I4, who was fome time in poffeffion : but it reverted afterwards to Mrs. Mattifon 's ; who jointly with her hufband alienated it in theyear 1717 to Charles Eyre, citizen and haber- dafher of London; It was purchafed of his executors in 1749 by John Aref- kine Efq., who devifed it, after the death of his wife, to his nieces Elizabeth and Eleanor Bafton.; the firft of whom married Frederick Henzelman, and the other John Worgan Efq. It was alienated by thefe parties in 1 773 to Samuel Ellis Efq. ; and was purchafed of him in 1 792, by the late Thomas Smith Efq., of Gray's Inn, to whom I was indebted for the account of its defcent from the year 1659. It is now the property of his fon George Smith Efq. The manor of Farnfields or Fernefield, in Hornfey, was given by Sir William . Cavendifh to King Edward VI. in 1552, in exchange for other lands l6 ; and con- Leffees. . " The above account of the leffees from the year 168 1 was communicated for the firft edition of this work, by M. Young Efq. the Steward. 12 See p. 220. 13 Cl. 6 Edw. IV. m. 12. d. 3 I 2 Prebendaries of Brownf wood. Manor of Toppesfield,or Broad- gates. Manor of Farnfields, or Fernefield. 14 Court Rolls of the Bifhop's Manor of Hornfey, anno 1683. ,s Mrs. Mattifon died at an advanced age in the year 1749, and was buried at Hadley. 16 Record in the Augmentation-office. tinued 424 II O R N S E Y. Manor of Duckett's. Mufwell-hill chapel and manor. tinued in the crown till 1603, when King James granted it to John Earl of Mar Tf. It was valued at iol. per annum. I have not been able to procure any further account of this eftate, or to trace its fite. In the year 1388, Joan, relidt of William de Brighte, of the county of Devon, coufin and heir of John de Stanford, releafed all right in a meffuage, 300 acres of arable land, 15 of meadow, 14 of wood, and 4d. rents in Hornfey and Totten ham, to John Dover and Alice his wife ,s. This I fuppofe to be the fame eftate which Thomas Burgoyne and others, jn the year 1460, gave to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital in Smithfield ,9 ; for I find that the manor of Ducket's, or Duckett's farm, (a mifnomer perhaps for Dovet's,) lying in the parifhes of Hornfey and Totten ham, and being parcel of the poffeflions of the late monaftery of St. Bartholo mew in Smithfield, was granted to Sir Robert Cecil in the year 1547 10. The whole of this eftate is now confidered as in the parifh of Tottenham. Norden fays, that at Mufwell hill, called alfo Pinfenall-hill, there was fome time a chapel bearing the name of Our Lady of Mufwell, of whom there had been an image, whereunto was a continual refort in the way of pilgrimage. This arofe from a miraculous cure performed (according to a tradition in his time ftill current) on a king of Scots, by the waters of a fpring (called Moufewell, or Mufwell) on the fpot where, the chapel ftood ". The well ftill remains ; but is not famed, as I find, for any extraordinary virtues. The chapel, of which Norden fpeaks, was an ap pendage to the priory of Clerkenwell, having been built, probably, upon fome lands granted to that convent by Richard de Beauvois, Bifhop of London, about the year 1 1 1 2 ". Mufwell farm-hodfe, with the fite of the chapel, and all quit- rents and other apurtenances, or, as it is called in other records, the manor of Mufwell (being fituated in the parifh of St. James, Clerkenwell *'), was alienated in the year 1546, by William Cowper and his wife Cecily, to Thomas Goldynge 2\ The fame premifes were in 1577 alienated by Anne Goodwin and John Wighell to William Rowe and his heirs *s. They continued in the poffeffion of the Rowe family '6 till the latter end of the feventeenth century. Newcourt (writing in 1 700) fays, 34 Pat. 37 Hen. VIII. pt. 8. June 18. " Pat. 19 Eliz pt. 3. Dec. 20. 26 The manor of Mufwell, &c. having been then lately forfeited to the crown by the attainder of William Goodwyn of Southwyke, in the county of Surrey, was granted to Sir Patrick Murray, in theyear 1609. Pat. 7 Jac. pt. 39. April 28. It is poffible this grant might have been made in confequence of fome miftake in the return of Goodwyn's property, as Mufwell farm had for merly belonged to that family. It is certain, that it was conveyed by the Goodwyns to William Rowe " Pat 1. Jac pt. 5 Jan. 31. ,s Cl. II Ric. II. m. 10. 19 Inquifitions, 38 Henry VI. bundle A. Tower Records. K Records, Augmentation-office. 21 Spec. Brit. p. 36, 37. 32 Newcourt's Reperterium, vol. i. p. 657. aJ Thefe premifes, being infulated by Hornfey, are ftill confidered as in the parifh of Clerken well ; a circumftance which is accounted for by its former connexion with the monaftery at that place. H O R N S E Y. 4*5 fays, " Mufwell-hill farm was lately fold, as I am informed, by' Sir Thomas Roe." It came either at that time, or foon afterwards, into the family of Pulteney ; and is now, (fince the death of the late Sir William Pulteney (i 806), under the will of General Pulteney, who died in 1767,) the property ofthe Earl of Darlington. Sir John Mufters, who died in 1 690, was feifed of a houfe in Hornfey, called Tower-Place. the Tower, or Brick-Place ". This houfe having fuffered great damage by the dreadful ftorm in 1703, was pulled down by a licence from the Bifhop of London, as lord of the manor. In this parifh, about half-way between Highbury and Hornfey, there was formerly Boarded a wooden aqueduft, 178 yards in length, conftru&ed for the purpofe of pre- ferving the level ofthe New River. It was deftroyed in 1776, and a channel made on a raifed bed of clay, in the fame manner as defcribed at Bufh Hill 28. This aqueduct, which was called the Boarded River, paffed over a fmall ftream which runs to Hacknev, and forms the brook there 2". The parifh church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, appears to have been built The church; . about the year 1 500. The architecture is of that period, and the arms of Savage and Warham (two fucceeding Bifhops of London), on the tower, fix the date 3°. The church confifts of a chancel, nave, and fouth aifle ; at the weft end is a fquare embattled tower. Upon a pillar on the fouth fide are the monuments of Robert Harrington, Monuments; fifty years redtor, 16 10 (he was fon of Sir John Harrington of Exton); and Thomas Lant, B. D. fifty-pne years re£tor, who died in 1688, aged 86. On the floor are the graveftones of Lady Baffet, wife of Sir Francis Baffet, and daughter of Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bart. ob. 1682; and Dame Jane, wife of Sir John Mufters, and daughter of Sir Francis Baffet, 16 . . On the north wall of the nave is a monument, in memory of Colonel Edward James, who was fhipwrecked in the Grofvenor Eaft-Indiaman, on the Caffre coaft, in 1782, and that of Samuel Buckley, (the editor of Thuanus,) with the following infcription : " To the memory of Samuel Buckley, who having not Rowe in fee ; and that it was in the Rowe fa mily in 1 617, a few years after the grant to Murray. In 1591, there was an alienation from Rowe to Muffett. (Pat. 33 Eliz.pt. 1. Dec.2.) but this appears to have been a family con veyance. Sir William Rowe married into the Muffet family. His fon Sir Nicholas, who died in 1616, aged 48, and his grandfon Sir Nicholas, who was 1 3 years old at his father's death, are defcribed as of Mufwell Hill. (Harl. MSS. N°i5Ji.) The family of Rowe of Mufwell Hill, became excincT: in the perfon of Anthony Rowe, Efq. who was buried at Hackney, in 1704, and left fome daughters, coheirs, one of -whom mar ried an anceflor of the Marquis of Downfhire. 27 Court rolls of the Bifliop of London's manor. 28 See p. 169. 29 Gent. Mag. Nov. 1784. 3° Bifhop Savage was promoted to the fee of London in 1497, and tranflated to York in 1500. It is probable that both he and Warham were ample contributors to the building. 4 " only 42fS \ HORN SET. ' "'only difcharged all the duties of life with ability, induftry and tendernefs to " each relation, but offices likewife of ftate and truft, with prudence, fidelity, and "gratitude to his benefa&ors, concluded his days in the ftudy of letters, and the " enjoyment of honeft and honourable friendfhips, in the 68th yearof his age, 1 741 ." Monument of Againft the wall of this aifle is fixed a fmall obelifk, to the memory of " Mafter Candifh. Richard Candifh of Suffolk Efq," with the following infcription : " Candifh deriv'd from noble parentage, " Adornde with vertuous and heroicke partes, " Moft learned, bountiful, devout, and fage, " Graced with the graces, mufes, and the artes. " Deer to his prince, in Englifh court admir'd, " Beloved of great and honourable peeres, *' Of all efteem'd, embraced, and defired ; " Till death cut off his well employed yeeres. " Within this earth, his earth entombed lies, " Whofe heavenly part furmounted hath the ikies." *' Promifed and made by Margaret, Countefs of Coberland, 1601." This Richard Candifh was chofen one of the burgeffes for Denbigh, in the year 1572, in oppofition to the inclination, and even the threats of Queen Elizabeth's 4 great favourite, the Earl of Leicefter30. It feems, by his epitaph, that he was after wards in the court intereft. In the wall of the fame (fouth) aifle is a large flab, (placed upright,) on which are engraved the figures of a man, his 'two wives and fon, in the drefs of Queen Elizabeth's or King James's time. It was put up in memory of George Rey, of Highgate, Gent., the date of whofe death is obliterated in the infcription. An etching of thefe figures has been publifhed by Mr. Thomas Fifher. On the floor is a fmall brafs plate with the figure of an infant, underneath which is the fol lowing infcription : " Jfu Crifte Mary is fon — have merci on the foule of John "- Skevington 3\" Tombs in the ln the church-yard are the tombs of Richard Holland Efq. 3% 1760 ; Thomas Carnan, bookfeller in St. Paul's church-yard, 1788; and others. Re&ory, The church of Hornfey is a rectory, under the immediate jurifdittion of the " Bifhop of London, to whom the advowfon belongs. It was rated at eight marks in 1327 ", in the King's books at 22I. ; in 1659, it was faid to be worth 92I. per annum 34. There are belonging to it about 40 acres of glebe. . 3° Pennant's Wales, vol. ii. p. 47. fuccefsful oppofition to the toll at Bartholomew ,3'. The Skevingtons were an ancient family, Fair. fettled at Bromfield.in this parifh. 33 Harl. MSS. N° 60. 32 An .eminent leather-dreffer, noted for his 3+ Parliamentary Surveys. ' ' ' ,. Thomas HORNSET. 427 J Thomas Weftfield, who refigned the re&ory of Hornfey in 1637, was after- Re&ors. wards made Bifliop of Briftol. His biographer, fpeaking of his manner of ^ftc^ preaching, fays, " he made not that wearifome which fhould be welcome, never " keeping his glafs, except upon extraordinary occafions, more than a quarter " of an hour; he made not that common which fhould be precious, either by " the coarfenefs or curforinefs of his matter. He never, though almoft fifty " years a preacher, went up irito the pulpit but he trembled, and never preached " before the King but once, and then he fainted 34." A volume of his fermons is extant. He was held in fuch efteem by all parties, that on the 13th day of May 1643, the committee for fequeftering delinquents' eftates, being informed that his tenants refufed to pay him his rents as Bifhop of Briftol, it was ordered that all the profits of .his bifhopric fhould be reftored him, and that he fhould have a grant of fafe-conduct, to remove with his family to Briftol, being a man far advanced in years, and of great learning and merit 3S. His fucceffor at Hornfey, Thomas Lant, was cruelly ufed by the puritans, who turned him out of doors, with his wife and family, not allowing him time even to procure a place of retire ment 36. John Dalton was prefented to the re&ory by Sir John Wollafton., in 1654 37, and Samuel Bendy, by Dame Rebecca Wollafton, in 1659. Bendy,, foon after his admiflion, prefented a petition to the committee, fetting forth, that the rectory was only 92I. per annum, out of which he was obliged to pay 16 1. to the wife and children ofthe late incumbent38; he prayed therefore, that a like fum might be granted him out of other re&ories, which was complied with 39. Dr. Lewis Atterbury, who was collated to the redory of Hornfey in 1719, Lewis Attov had refided feveral years at Highgate, where he was elected preacher at the buT' chapel in 1695. He was brother to the celebrated Bifhop Atterbury, and him felf a man of confiderable note. Several of his fermons are in print, fome pub lifhed by himfelf, and others after his death : he was author alfo of fome theolo^ gical traces 4°. William Cole, F.A.S., the Cambridge antiquary, who died in 1782, was col- williamCole* Jated to the reftory of Hornfey in the month of November 1749, and held it about twelve months. The prefent re£lor is Charles Sheppard, M.A. who fucceeded Francis Haultain in 1780. 34 Lives of eminent Cambridge men, Harl. 38 Proceedings of the Committees, Lamb. MS. MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 7176. p. 172— 175. Lib. vol.iii. p.61. 35 Ibid. 3* Ibid, vol.iii. p. 292, 293. 36 Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, p. 295. 4° Biograph, Brit. 37 Proceedings of the Committees, Lamb. MS. Lib. vol. xxxiii, b.3.p. i8._ The 428 H 0 R N S E Y. Parifh regifter. Comparative ftate of po pulation. ¦Reginald, Earl of Kent. John Light- foot. Highgate. Name and etymology. The earlieft date of the parifh regifter is 1653. Some leaves are loft about the latter end of the feventeenth century, which prevented me from taking a regular average of baptifms and burials for the period of 1680 — 9. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. 1679 — 1688. 1696 — 1703. 1730 — *739- 1780 — 1784. 1784 — 1789. 1790 — 1794. *79S ~ *799-> •i-8 00 — 1804. 1805 — 1809. 19r 1 8/* 3°r 3§t 33r Z7r 3&~r 37t 67i 78i 74r 72r63 i 834 79t In confidering the population of this parifh, a great part of the baptifms and fome of the burials at Highgate-chapel muft be brought into the account. About 40 houfes were built in the parifh of Hornfey in the fifteen years, preceding 1793* The number of houfes at that time was 420, of which 90 were in the village of Hornfey, 264 in the hamlet of Highgate, 23 at Crouch-end, and 20 at Mufwell Hill. According to the return made to Parliament under the population aft in 1 80 1 , there were then 429 inhabited, 29 uninhabited houfes, and 2716 inhabitants in this parifh : the prefent number of houfes in the parifh is 473, of which 299 are at Highgate. In 1665, forty-three perfons, out of fifty-three interred that year, died of the plague. Reginald Grey of Ruthin, Earl of Kent, died at Hornfey March 17, 1573, and was buried in the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate 4I. John Lightfoot, the learned commentator and Hebraift, went to refide at Hornfey in the year 1628, for the purpofe of being near London, where he might have accefs to the library at Sion College 4\ One of his works is dated from his ftudy at Hornfey. The populous hamlet of Highgate is fituated in the parifhes of Hornfey and Pancras. The chapel and two-thirds of the viUage being in Hornfey, I fhall treat of it here. Highgate is faid to have taken its name from the high gate, or the gate upon the hill, a derivation which feems fufficiently fatisfa&ory, fupported as it is by Fads, the toll-gate, belonging to the Bifhop of London, having ftood from time immemorial on the fummit of the hill. Norden fays, that " the ancient road to " Barnet was through a lane on the eaft of Pancras church, whence leaving 41 Holinflied's Chron. vol.iii. p. 1865. 42 Biograph. Brit. " Highgate H 0 Tl N S E Y. 429 " Highgate Hill on the left, it paffed through Tallingdon-lane to Crouch-end, " and thence through Hornfey-park to Colney Hatch, Friern-Barnet^ and " Whetftone. This road was in the winter fo deep and miry, that it was almoft " impaffable; on which account it was agreed between the Bifliop of London " and the country, that a new way fhould be laid forth through the park, be- " ginning at" (what is now called) " Highgate Hill, and leading direftly to " Whetftone -, for which convenience all perfons, carriages, &c. paffing that ** way fhould pay a toll to the Bifhop of London, and his fucceffors ; and for " that purpofe was the gate erected on the hill43." In Norden's time the toll was farmed at 40 1., in 1794 at 150I. The Bifhop's referved rent is 16 1. 10s. The leafe of the gate-houfe and affembly-houfe, with the tolls has been purchafed by Mr. Benjamin Richards, the prefent proprietor and occupier. The gate-houfe was taken down and the road widened in 1769. I can find no record to afcertain the time when the agreement which Norden fpeaks of, took place. The old road through TaUingdon4ane, and by way of Crouch-end, &c. to Whetftone, was about twenty years ago converted, from green Janes almoft impaflable in winter, into a very good public highway. " Upon this hill ,*' fays Norden, fpeaking of Highgate, "is moft pleafant dwell- " ing, yet not fo pleafant as healthful ; for the expert inhabitants there report, '* that divers who nave -been long vifited with fickriefs, not curable by phyficke, " have in a fhort time repayred their health, by that fweete fahitarie aire. At ** this place Cornwalleys Efquire, hath a very faire houfe, from which he " may with great delight beholde the ftately ekie ef 'London, Weftminfter, " ^Greenwich, the famous river of Thamyfe, and the countrey towards the " fouth, verie farre 44."" This Cornwallis was f©n, I fuppofe, of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, a man of confiderable eminence in the reigns of King 'Edward VI. and Queen Mary: he led a retired life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and died at a ¦very advanced age in a6o44S, I have feen a letter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, -dated from Highgate, in 1587 4S. John Lord RuffeL, fon of Francis Earl of Bedford, died at Highgate m 158447. Sir Richard Baker, author of the Chronicle, refided there about the year 1 603 4?. The great Lord Chancellor Bacon died at the Earl of Arundel's houfe at High- gate, on the 19th of April 1626 49. The celebrated Dr. SacheverelL, died at his iioufe -there -on the 5th of June 1724 so. Toll-gate, Situation. Sir Thoma:s Cornwallis. Lord RufTel. Sir Richard Baker. Lord Chan cellor Bacon. Dr. Sacheve- *ell. ¦•'.Spec. Brit. 44 Ibid. 1,5 Collins's Peerage, edit. 1768, vol. vi. p. 104. 46 Harl.MSS. Brit. Muf. ^6994. p. 43. •" Burleigh Papers, vol. ii. p. 7S2. 48 Ant. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. 49 Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 439. 50Britifh Journal. Vol. IL ¦3-K During 43°. hornset: Hiftorical events.Ineffectual efcape of Arabella Stuart from Highgate.. During the commotions raifed by the Commons of Kent in i46r, Thomas Thorpe, Baron of the Exchequer, was beheaded by tbe infurgents at Highgate51. The unfortunate Arabella Stuart, whofe only crime was - marrying the man-. fhe loved, in defiance of a court to which fhe was allied, having been for fome time confined at Sir Thomas Parry's at Lambeth, was removed to Mr. Coniers's. houfe near Highgate, whence fhe made her efcape in the following manner : " Having induced her keepers into fecuritie by the fayre fhew of conformity and " willingnefs to goe on her journey towards Durham, (whither fhe was to be " conducted by S1' James Crofts,) and in tlie mean tyme difguifing her felfe, by " drawing a pair of great French fafliioned hofe over her petticotes,. putting oa " a man's doublet, a man-lyke perruque, with long locks over her hair, a blacke- " hat, blacke eloake, ruffet bootee with red tops, and a rapier by her fyde, " walked forth between three and four of the clock with Mr. Markham. After " they had gone on foot a myle and halfe to a forry inne, where Cromptoi* " attended with their horfes, flie grew very ficke and fainte, fo as the oftler " that held the ftyrrop faid, that gentleman would hardly hold out to London., " Yet, being fet on a good gelding aftry.de in an unwonted fafhion, the ftirring *' of the horfe brought blood into her face, and fo fhe rid on towards Blaekwall, " where arryving about 6, o'clock, finding there iri areadinefs two men, a gentle- " woman and a chambermaid, with one boate full of Mr. Seimour's and her *' trunks, and another boate for their perfons, they halted from, thence towards- " Woolwich. Being come fo farrej they bade the watermen row on to " Gravefend ;. there the watermen were defirous to land, but for a double " fraight were contented to. go on to Lee;, yet being almoft: tyred by the way, " they were faine to lye ftill at Tilbury, whilft the oares went a-land to- refreflie " themfelves. Then they proceeded to Lee, and by that tyme the day appeared;, " and they difcovered a fhippe at anchor a myle beyond them, which was the " French Barque that waited for them. Here the lady would have lyen at " anchor, expefting Mr. Seimour, but through the importunity. of her followers,. " they forthwith hoifted faile to. fea-wards.. In the meane while, Mr. Seimour,, " with, a perruque and beard of blacke hair, and in a tauny cloth.-fuit, walked " alone without fufpition from his lodging, out at the great wefte doore of the- " Tower, following a cart that had brought him billets. From thence he walked " along by the Tower-wharfe, by the warders of the fouth gate, and fo to the " iron gate, where Rodney was ready with oares to receive him. When they " came to Lee, and found that the French fliip was gon, the billows rifing very " high, they hired a fifherman for twenty {hillings, to fet them aboard a certain " {hip that they faw under faile. That fhip they found not to be it they looked s' Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 686. " for H O R N S E Y. 431 '•' for, fo they made forwards to the next under fail, which was a fhippe of New- " caftle. This with much ado they hyred for 40I. to carry them to Calais ; but " whether the collier did perform his bargain or no, is not as yet known. On " Tuefday in the afternoon, my Lord Treafurer being advertized, that the Lady " Arabella had made an efcape, fent forthwith to the Lieutenant of the Tower " to fet ftraight guard over Mr. Seimour ; which he, after hrs yare manner, " would throughly do, that he would : but coming to the prifoner' s lodgings, " he found, to his great amazement, that he was gonne from thence one whole " day before. Now the Kyng and the' Lords being much difturbed at this " unexpected accident, my Lord Treafurer fent orders to a pinnace that lay at " the Downes, to put prefently to fea, firft to Calais roade, and then to fcoure " up the coafte towards Dunkerke. This pinnace fpying the aforefaid French <£ Barke, which lay lingering for Mr. Seimour, made to her, which thereupon " offered to fly towards Calais, and endured thirteen fliot of the pinnace before " fhe would ftryke. In this barke is the lady taken prifoner, with her followers, ** and brought back towards the Tower, not fo forrye for her owne reftraynt, *' as fhe would be glad if Mr. Seimour might efcape, whofe welfare fhe pro- " tefteth to affect much more than her ownesV This unfortunate lady ended her days a prifoner in the Tower, on the 27th of Sept. 161 5, four years after her commitment. Mr. Seymour, her hufband, afterwards Marquis of Hertford, effected his efcape. To return to the account of Highgate. — There was formerly a chapel or her- The hermit- mitage upon the hill, ftanding, according to Norden, on the fame fpot where age* the fchool now is. One of the hermits is faid to have caufed the caufeway between Highgate and Iflington to be made of gravel taken from the hill where is now the pool S3. In the year 1386, Bifliop Braybroke committed the cuftody of his chapel at Highgate, near the park, (which chapel had been in time paft; committed to the care of other poor hermits,) to William Lichfield, a poor infirm hermit, for his fupport 54. No other prefentation to this hermitage appears in the regiftry till 1531, when Bifhop Stokefley prefented William Forte to the houfe and chapel, with the garden, and all the appurtenances, tithes, profits, &c. thereunto belonging 55. This man, it is probable, was the laft hermit. In a court-roll of the Bifhop of London's manor of Hornfey, dated j 688, The Bui- mention is made of a fmall piece of ground at Highgate, lying within certain warks- fortifications, called the Bulwarks. 55 Winwood's Memorials, vol.iii. p. 279. Let- Highgate and Rihgcrofs, and 2 ol. more if that ter from Mr. John More to Sir Ralph Winwood, fhould not be fufficient. It is probable that the dated June 8, 1611 . caufey was then made. SJ Norden.' Richard Cloudefly, by his will, 5* Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 654. dated 15 17, left 20I. to mend the road between 5S Ibid. 3 K 2 In 43'2 H O R N S E t. Grammar In the year 1562, Sir Roger Cholmeley, Knight, Chief Juftice of the Queenfs- fchool. Bench, who held, it is probable^ the fite of the hermitage- above-mentioned by a grant from the Crown, " did inftitute and ereft, at his own charges, a " publique and free grammar fehoole, and procured- the fame to be eftablifhed " and confirmed, by the letters patent of Queen Elizabeth, he endowing the " fame with yearlye maintenance56." There are two charters, one dated January 29th, the other April 6, 7 Eliz. Thefe charters give licence to Sir Roger Cholmeley tb found a grammar fehool for the education of poor boys living in Highgatey and the neighbouring parts.; and to provide a fund for the relief of certain poor perfons in the village or hamlet of Highgate. For carrying this into effecf , Sir William Hewet, and Roger Martin Efq, aldermen of the city of London, Roger Carew Efq.,. Richard. Heywood. Efq., Richard Hodges Efq. and Jafper Cholmeley Efq. were conftituted governors, and made a body- corporate,, with- licence to poffefs lands in mortmain, to ufe a common, feal, &c On a vacancy among the governors by death or- refignation, the: remaining governors were to elecl: a, new one. Sir Roger Cholmeley was to nominate the mafter during his life,, to fix his ftipend,, and to make, fuch ftatutes as he fhould think fit for the regulation of the fehool. By. the firft charter it was directed that after his death the appointment of the mafter fhould be vefted in his heirs, and on their failing to appoint within two months, the governors, with the advice and confent of the Bifhop of London, were to appoint ; his heirs and the gqyernors jointly were- empowered to make ftatutes.. All the revenues then belonging to the inftitution,. together with- all future benefactions, . were directed. to be appro,- priated. folely to the maintenance of a mafter and the relief of the poor.. By the fecond charter it is provided, that after the founder's death- the governors fhould elect, the mafter, whofe place muft be always fupplied' wkhin. a month after a vacancy, otherwife the appointment lapfes to the Bifliop of London, The governors are empowered to. make any regulations relating to. the; fehool or the mafter' s falary, provided they are not contrary to the founder's ftatutes ". The ordinances of 1571. direct, that the fchoel mafter- fhall be " a graduate of good, ," fober, and honeft converfation,. and no light perfon," and that he fhall " teach and inftruft young, children their A,.B, C, and other. Englifh books, " and to write,, and alfo the grammar as they fhall grow up thereto, and that " without taking any money or other- reward for the fame,,, other than as here- " after is expreffed ;" that is 4d..s8 at the admiflion of each childintothe fehool, and 4d.. for books. The fchoolmafter's office alfo is to read, morning and 56 Infcription affixed to the weft end of the » Pat. 7 Elfe. pt. 2. April 6. chaPe1, >8 This was, in 1 7 12, increafed to 1 2d: 4 te evening H O R N S E Y. 433 evening prayers, at the chapel, on Sundays, (except on the firft Sunday in each month, when the inhabitants are to repair to their refpective parifh churches,) morning prayers on Wednefdays and Fridays, and evening prayers on Saturdays and on the vigils of all feftivals. He muft not ferve nor take any cure elfewhere, nor muft he be abfent above ten days in the year, and that not without urgent eaufe. The mailer's falary was fixed by the faid ordinances at i-o 1. per annum, befides a houfe rent-free, and kept in repair, a garden, and orchard, two acres of land, then lately inclofed out of Highgate common, and eight loads of fuel out of Hornfey woods 6o (granted by the Bifhop of London). The mafter was bound in a penalty of 20 L to obferve the above-mentioned ordinances ; and it was further provided that if he fhould infringe them, having been thrice warned by the governors, he fhould be expelled., In 16.81, the mailer's falary was 28I. ; m 1698, 30I. ; in 1762, 100L (befides iol. as reader, left by the will of Edward Pauncefort Efq. in 1748). It has been fince raifed again, and the mafter now receives about 140 1, per annum61. By an ancient order of the governors the number of fcholars fs 60 In 17 1 2, this had been long difeontmued. 61 I was favoured by the Rev.Weldon Champ- neys, who had received it from Thomas Brom- wich Efq. the Treafurer, with the following account of the lands and monies vefted in the Governors of HighgateJchool, with their pro duce in the year 1672. Date.1562. 1580.1587. 1637. Donor's Names. The Founder, John Dudley Efq Jafper Cholmeley Efq. William Piatt Efq. Lands, Houfes, and Rent-charges. DefcriptioH. f Meffuages in the parifh of St. Martin,, Ludgate, and \ St. Michael, Crooked- lane, Lands at Highgate, - A. rent-charge on tenements 1 in Stoke-Newington. - J X Arent-charge*onthe manorT { of Renters in Hendon, - j A rent-charge on a houfe at! Kentifh-Town, - -j Value in 1762. 40 1. per annum (let at iol» 13s. 4d. perannum in ijSz-). 9.8I. 1 os: per annum. 2I. per annum. 2L 6s. 8d. per annum, iol. per -annum. Money in Funds t Isfc. 320I. 3 percent. Bank Annuities, purchafed ih 1726,, with a legacy of 360L devifed by Robert Bootle Efq. -------- 90I. Old South-Sea Annuities, purchafed with 100L bequeathed by- Sir Edward Gould, in 1739, for the preacher, - - _._.»-.- Annual amount. £ s. d. 9 12 - O 3 " o * A part of this appears to have been iri lieu of 30s; per which gift being a rent- charge on a copyhold eftate, was not annum, given by John Martyn of Highgate. Gent, iu 1574, valid... Money 434 H O R N S E Y. is limited to 40, to be chofen from Highgate, Holloway, Hornfey, Finchley, and Kentifh-town, if there fhall be fo many in thofe places ; otherwife they are to be eledted elfewhere, at the difcretion of the governors for the time being 6\ The prefent governors are Robert Mendham Efq., Benjamin Price Efq., William Belcher Efq., Abraham Langford Efq., and Charles Caufton Efq., Treafurer. There is one vacancy. Sir Roger Cholmeley's endowment produced in 1794 an income of 1 661. per annum. The governors pay the mailer's and preacher's falaries, and keep the buildings in repair, out of this endowment, aided by fome fubfequent benefactions63, and the'rent of the pews64. •Highgate The chapel adjoining to the fehool is erroneoufly faid, in an infcription, (put up ag'ainft the weft end in 1682,) to have been built by Edwin Sandys, Bifhop of London, in 1565, as a chapel of eafe for the inhabitants of Highgate. In the ordinances for the fehool, bearing date 1571, the chapel is faid to have been built by Sir Roger Cholmeley as a chapel of eafe for the inhabitants of Highgate. In the regiftry of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, is a conveyance of this chapel to Sir Roger Cholmeley, by Edmund Grindall, bifliop of London, in 1565, con- Money in Funds. &c. continued. J ' amount. £. s. d. 90I. New South-Sea Securities, purchafed with Sir Edward Gould's legacy, for the preacher, - - - - - - - - -2140 150I. South-Sea Stock, left by Mrs. Hannah Boife for the fix alms-women, - -600 150I. South-Sea Stock, left by the faid Mrs. Boife for the fame purpofe, - ' 5 5 o 1500I. 3 per cent. Bank Annuities {by a decree in Chancery, in lieu of 60I. per annum left by Edward Pauncefort Efq.), - ->.. . . - 45 00 300L, a legacy of Samuel Fofter Efq. lent on the toll of Whetftone turnpike, at 4 per cent. - - .- - - - - - -1200 100I. New South-Sea Annuities, bought 1733, - - - - -40a 60I. New South-Sea Annuities, bought in 1740, - - - -280 iodI. 3 per cent. Annuities, bought in 1744, - - - - -300 300I. Bank 4 per cent. Annuities, bought in 1747, - - - 12 o o 400I. 3 per .cent. New South-Sea Annuities, purchafed with money colle&ed for the charity girls, - - - - - - - - 1 2 o o aool. 3 per cent. Bank Annuities reduced, purchafed with money belonging to the fehool and chapel, - - - - - -900 The balance of the pew and burial money was eftimated, in 1762, at 38I. 3s. 4d. per annum, wxnmunibus annls. 62 Entry in tbe regifter ofthe chapel. for that purpofe,to be difpofedof at the difcretion 63 John Schoppens Efq. left the fum of 100I. ofthe governors. • to keep his tomb in repair ; and when not wanted "4 Communicated by Charles Caufton Efq. Treafurer, for the firft edition of this work. firmed H O R N S E Y. 435 firmed by the, Dean and Chapter 6s. The chapel, which confifts of a fmalT chancel, a nave, and a fouth aifle, has been enlarged fince its firft erection, by fundry benefactions. It was repaired in 1772, with a donation of 500 1. from Mrv Pauncefort, aided by other contributions. In the chancel is the tomb of Rebecca, wife of Edward Pauncefort Efq., and daughter of Sir Samuel Moyer, Bart. 1 71 9. At the eaft end of the fouth aifle is a monument in memory of the fame lady. On the fouth wall is the monument of wuhanT*0 William Piatt Efq. founder of fome fellowfliips in St. John's College, Cambridge, Piatt. who died in 1637. He was fon of Sir Hugh Piatt of .Kirby Caftle, Bethnall-green. The monument is furrounded with a great number of efcutcheons ; under arches are bulls of Mr. Piatt and his wife Mary, who was daughter of Sir John Hunger ford of Down-Amney in Gloucefterfhire, and afterwards married to Edward Tucker Efq. of Madingley in Wilts. On the fame wall is the monument of Dr.Lewis Atterbury ; being a fluted column of the Corinthian order ; on the pedeftal of which is the following infcription : " To the memory of Lewis Atterbury, LL.D. Lewis Atter- " formerly Reclor of Sywell in the county of Northampton, and one of the fix " preachers to Her late facred Majefty Queen Anne at St. James's and Whitehall. " He was thirty fix years preacher of this chapel, twenty four years rector of " Sheperton in the county of Middlefex, and eleven years reclor of this parifh of t{ Hornfey. He married Penelope, the daughter of John Bedingfield Efq. by " whom he had four children ; two fons who died young, Bedingfield Atterbury " M.A. who died foon after he had entered into holy orders, and Penelope, who " was married to George Sweetapple of St. Andrew, Holborn, brewer ; by "• whom fhe had one daughter, Penelope Sweetapple, now living. He died at " Bath,. Oct. -the 20th, A.I>. 1731, in the 76th year of his age, and lies buried " near this place.. Abi, fpecfator & te brevi moriturum fcito." On the north wall of the nave is the momument of Sir Edward Gould, Knt., sir Francis 1728 ; -at the eaft end, that of Sir Francis Pemberton, with the following infcrip- Pembeiton. tion : " M. S. venerabilis admodum viri D. Francifci Pemberton Eq. aurati, " fervientis ad legem, e fociis Interioris Templi, nee non fub fereniflimo principe " Carolo 2do Banci Regii, ac communis capitalis Juftieiarii f facras majeftati a " fecretioribus , confiliis ; vir plane egregius, ad reipublicje. pariter ac fuorurrr " duke decus et pr&fidium feliciter natus. Patre Radulpho in agro Hertford • li Generofo, ex antiqua Pembertonorum profapia in Com. Palat. Lancaftrise *e oriundo. Chariflimam fibi adfeivit conjugem Annam Dominas Jeremia; Which— es This deed of the Bilhop gives alfo, a garden, All the faid" premifes then valued at iol. 13s. 4d. and two acres of lands adjoining the chapel, and per ann. to be transferred within twelve months tp eight loads of wood for the ufe of the mafter.. the governors of the fchooL w cote- 4$6 Tombs in the chapel-yard. Mafter x>f the fehool, reader and preacher. Benefactionsto the chapel. Paftors at the Meeting- houfes. Dr. Towers. David Williams.J. B. Pike. AlexanderCrombie. H O R N S E Y. " cote Baronetti filiam natu maximam ex qua liberos undecim fufcepit, quorum " feptem fuperftites reliquit : e vivis placide & pie exceflit iora0 die Junii A6 Dom, " i6o7mo66 iEtatis fuse 72™°." In the adjoining cemetery are the tombs of Sir Jeremy Topp, Bart, of Bre- more, Hants, 1733 ; the Reverend Edward Yardley % Archdeacon of Cardigan, preacher at the chapel from 1731 till his death in 1769 ; and others. The mafter of Highgate fehool, who is appointed by the governors, is reader alfo at theehapel, and afternoon preacher. Mr. Carter, mafter of the fehool and reader at the chapel during the civil war, was ejedled and is faid to have been treated with great cruelty- by the Puritans 6S, Humphrey Vernon, who was put in by the committee, was allowed an augmentation of 40I. per annum in 165469. The prefent mafter and reader is Thomas Bennett, D.D. who fucceeded the Rev. William Porter in 1793. The morning preacher, who is appointed alfo by the governors, is the Reverend James Saunders, LL.D. William Piatt Efq., in 1637, gave by will iol. per annum to the minifter of Highgate chapel, and 20s. for a fermon on the immortality of the foul, to be preached upon the anniverfary of his burial ; the preacher to be appointed by St. John's College in Cambridge. John Smith Efq., by his will proved in 1665, gave 20s. per annum for a fermon. Sir John Wollafton, who died in 1658, .gave iol. per annum to the preacher at Highgate. Edward Pauncefort Efq. gave the fum of 1 ol. per annum to the reader. In Southwood lane at Highgate, was a Pre&yterian -meeting-houfe, founded in the latter part of the feventeenth century. Dr. Towers, a -late eminent diflent- ing divine and -biographer, was fome time paftor of this meeting, which he quitted in 1778, onheing appointed Preacher at Newington-*Green ; after him the Rev. David Williams, author of the Hiftory of Monmouthfhire, and fome works of a fceptical tendency, who preached there his fermons on:Religious Hypocrify, which were afterwards publifhed; John Baptift Pike, M.D., a fucceeding paftor, who had been originally in the church, and had afterwards adopted various "lingular opinions not exaclly in unifon with thofe of any religious feet, introduced there a liturgy of his own compofition ; his fucceflbr was the Rev. Alexander Crombie LL.D. author of "A Defence of Philofophical Neceffity." This meeting houfe is at prefent unoccupied. In 1778, a feparation having taken (6 "This date is erroneous,"for it appears by ibe parifh regifter that Sir Francis Pemberton was buried in 1699. -6' Author of Difcourfes on the Genealogies of Chrift, ¦&c.&c. 68 Walker lays, tbat he was turned out df the houfe with his family, whilft his wife was in la bour, and that flie was delivered in the cbapel- porch. Lift of Ejedled Clergy, p. 414. <¦> Proceedings of the Committees, Lamb. MS, Lib. vol. vii. p. 86. place H 0 R N S E Y. 437 place in the congregation, a new meeting-houfe was built and opened by Mr. Brewer of Stepney : the laft-mentioned meeting-houfe is now occupied by the Methodifts. Theearlieft date of the regifter of baptifms and burials at Highgate chapel is Regifter. 1634. Comparative ftate of popu lation. Average of Baptifms Average of Burials ^35 — 1644. — I4xV — 3A 1680 — 1689. — 33t — »nr 1730 — l739- — 33 tV — *9* 1780 — 1784. — 4«t — 16 *78s — 1789. — 35t — 16I > 1790 — 1794. — 34t — «5? ms — 1799. — 37± — 154- 1800 — 1804. — 5^ — *9£ 1805 — 1809. — 484 — '54- The children baptized here are chiefly from the parifhes of Hornfey, Pancras, apd Iflington. It appears by the entries during a few years at different periods, when the parifhes have been diftinguifhed, that thofe from Hornfey have borne a proportion of nearly four-fifths ; thofe from Iflington have been very few. The burials from Hornfey and Pancras have been in nearly an equal proportion. The number of baptifms at Highgate has always much exceeded the burials ; the fees for which are confiderably higher here than at the parifh church, exclufively ofthe dues demandable by the reftor. In 1665 there were 16 burials at Highgate. Extracts from the Regifter. " Nathanael f. Dni. Nathanielis Hobart, ex Anna, bap. 27 Sep. 1636." Sir Nathaniel was a younger fon of Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas. Sir Henry had a houfe at Highgate, which appears to have con tinued for fome time in the family. " Hon. Dna Judith Piatt, uxor Hugonis Piatt, militis fepult. Jan. 28, 1635." Relicl of Sir Hugh Piatt, author of " the Garden of Eden," " the Jewell-houfe " of Art and Nature," and other curious works. It is probable that Sir Hugh, who died in 1605, was buried here alfo, but there is no regifter extant of fo early a date. " Sir Richard Sprignell Bart, buried Jan. 19, 1658 ; Sir William Sprignell Bart. " Sep. 8, 1 69 1 ." There are other entries relating to this family. " Charles Ld De la Warre, and Ann Wild, married Sep. 15, 1642." Anne Wild was daughter of John Wild, Efq. of Droitwich, Serjeant at Law. Vol. II. 3 L " William, Sir Nathaniel Hobart, &c. Family of Piatt.— Sir Hugh Piatt, &c. Sprignell, Bart. 438 Marriage of the Earl of Warwick and Countefs- of Suffex.Family of Blount. HORNSET. « William, fonne of Heller Lady Manneringe (Mainwaring) and of Sr William " Manneringe, Kn«. baptized Sep.2i, 1645, — buried July 29' l646" Sir William Mainwaring defcended from a very ancient family in Cheflure, dif- tinguiflied himfelf by his bravery on the King's fide during the civil war. He was flain during the fiege of Chefter about a month after the birth of this fori. " Robert Earl of Warwick and Ellenor CounteflTe of Suffex, married Mar. 30, 1646. The Earl of Warwick was admiral for the long parliament. This mar riage is not mentioned by Dugdale, nor does he fpeak of any Eleanor Countefs of Suffex. " Charles, fon of Sr Henry and Hefter Lady Blunt70 of Holl'oway, was " baptized May 10, 1654." Sir Henry Blount's family were much diftinguiftied in the annals of literature ; he himfelf publifhed Travels into Turkey and other countries, a fatire called the Exchange- walk, and an Epiftle in' praife of coffee and tobacco ; he was editor alfo of Lilly's comedies. In the political world he was not unknown : he fought on the royal fide at the battle of Edghill, but quitted afterwards the King's fervice, and engaged in that of the*Commonwealth, render ing himfelf on various 'occafions very ufeful to his country. Such at leaft is the teftimony of Anthony Wood, who would not beftow undue praife on a deferter from the royal caufe. He fat on the celebrated trial of Don Pantaleon Saa, the Portuguefe ambaffador, and was one of the commiffioners for promoting trade and navigation ". Sir Henry Blount married the widow of Sir William Mainwaring, by which means he became poffeffed of the houfe at Upper-Hollo- way, where he refided feveral years. He died in 1682 ; his fon Thomas Pope, (fo called from his relation Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College in Ox ford,) was born at Upper-Holloway, Sept. 12, 1649 1%. He publifhed a critique in Latin on the moft eminent writers of all ages, a work in confiderable efteem ; various effays ; remarks on poetry ; and a volame on natural hiftory. Sir Thomas Pope Blount (created a Baronet in 1679) died in 1697. Charles, his younger brother, whofe baptifm is here recorded, was a celebrated deiftical writer ; he publifhed alfo a pamphlet in defence of Dryden, when he was only 1 9 years bf age ; an introduction to polite literature ; and a treatife on the liberty of the prefs. Mr. Blount put an end to his life in a fit of frenzy, occafioned by difappointment in not obtaining the hand of his deceafed wife's filler, who was fcrupulous as to the legality of fuch a marriage : his mifcehaneous works were publifhed after his death 73. *> Lady Blount was relifl of Sir William Mainwaring. '-. v Biog. Brit. 72 Bibg. Brit. His baptifm does not appear in the regifter. I3 Ibid: ../ ¦ . . ;i;.f, , " Sir H O R N S E Y. 439 ** Sir John Wollafton, buried in the chancel, April 29, 1658." He was alderman of London, treafurer at war, and one of the committee for the fale of church lands ". Rebecca his wife was buried June 1, 1660. " The Lady Anne Peerpoint, daughter to the honble the Marquis of Dor- " chefter, and John Ld Rofle, fonne of the right honbIe the Earle of Rutland, " were married, July 15, 1658." The Marquis of Dorchefter, a nobleman of great learning, who is remarkable for having a been a bencher of Gray's Inn, and a fellow of the College of Phyficians, had a manfion at Highgate. The marriage here recorded was diffolved by an aCt of parliament in 1 666. The divorce oc cafioned a controverfy in print between the Marquis of Dorchefter and Lord Roos 74. " Charlotte, daughter of S* John Pettis, buried May 28, 1678." Sir John Pettus, Bart, was cupbearer to Kings Charles II. , James II., and William III. He publifhed " Fodinas regales," or a Hiftory of the Chief Mines and Minerals in England, Wales, and Ireland ; " Fleta minor," or the Art of affaying Metals, and a work entitled England's Independency of the Papal Power, abridged from Sir John Davis and Sir Edward Coke. " S' Francis Pemberton, buried June 15, 1699. Dame Anne his relict, Ap' 15, " 17 31." Sir Francis Pemberton was a native of St. Alban's, and received his education at Emanuel College, Cariibridge : he was afterwards of the Inner Temple, was called to the bar, and became very eminent in his profeffion. In 1679 he was made one of the juftices of the King's Bench, chief juftice of that court in 1681, and removed to be chief juftice of the Common Pleas in 1682. Sir Henry Chauncy gives a very high character of Sir Francis Pemberton ih his An tiquities of Heitfordfhire 7S. There is an engraved portrait of him among the counfel for the feven bifhops. " Mr. John Shower of the parifh of Stoke-Newington, a diffenting minifter, " buried July 5, 1,715." Mr. Shower who was an eminent Prefbyterian divine, and brother of Sir Bartholmew Shower, the celebrated lawyer, fucceeded Mr. Doolittle in a fchoal at Iflington, and was afterwards paftor of the congrega tion in Jewin-Street. He was author of Serious Reflections on Time and Eter nity; A Life of Mr. Henry Gearing ; Funeral Difcourfes,; Sacramental Dif- courfes ; Difcourfes on a Future State ; On Tempting Chrift ^ On Earthquakes ; On Family Religion, &c. &c. Some of his publications were highly efteemed. " The Revd John Doughty, minifter of Sc James, Clerkenwell, buried July 1 , *' •1768." Author of a volume of fermons publifhed in 1764, and feveral fingle « Myfteries ofthe Good Old Caufe, p. 43." " Royal and noble Authors, vol. ii. p. 36. v P. 468, 469. 3 L a difcourfes. Sir John Wollafton. Marriage of Lord Roos and Lady Ann Pierre - pont. Marquis of Dorchefter, Family of Pettus, Bart. Sir Francis Pemberton. John-Shower. John Dough ty- 440 Sir Roger Cholmeley'sbenefactionto the poor. Sir John Wollafton's alms-houfes. Girls' fehool. Projected fcheme of an eftabliihmentcalled the Ladies' Hof- H O R N S E Y. difcourfes. He was eleCted minifter of Clerkenwell in 1746, after a conteft which produced a great deal of newfpaper fcurrility. It appears by the letters patent before mentioned, that it was Sir Roger Cholme ley's intention that the produce of his eftates fhould be appropriated in part for the maintenance of certain poor inhabitants of Highgate ; meaning, it is fuppofed, the penfioners in an ancient hofpital, or lazar-houfe, to whom by his will he bequeathed 40s. to be diftributed after his death. Richard Clowdefly, in 1517, left 6s. 8d. to the poor lazars at Highgate, to remember him in their bede-roll. In the year 1656, Sir John Wollafton founded fix alms-houfes at this place, and endowed them with a rent charge of 1 5I. per annum. Thefe houfes being de cayed, Edward Pauncefort Efq. in the year 1722, built twelve others on the fite at his own expence, and a fchool-houfe in the centre for the charity girls. By his laft will he direCted 661. per annum to be purchafed, one moiety of which he appropriated to the widows in the alms-houfes. Samuel Fofter Efq. who died in 1752, bequeathed the fum of 300I. to the governors ofthe free fehool, to be laid out at their difcretion, for increafing the penfions of the widows in the alms- houfes. John Edwards Efq. in 1769, left the fame fum for the like purpofe, and 50I. to be diftributed after his death, of which 12I. to be given to the alms- women. Thomas Bromwich Efq., who died in 1787, left the fum of iool. 4 per cent, to the alms-women : they have hitherto received 7I. per annum each, arifing1 principally from the benefactions above-mentioned. The revenues of this almf- houfe and of the fehool received a confiderable augmentation in the year 1 809, upon the death of Mr. Sebaftian Gottlob Kleinert, purfuant to the will of Mr. To bias Kleinert, who died in 1785, and bequeathed the reverfion of three houfes and fome garden-ground, now producing about 135I. per annum, to the governors of the fehool, for the purpofe of increafing, in an equal proportion, the endowment of the charity fehool and alms-houfes. Edward Pauncefort Efq. above-mentioned, allotted 20I. out of the lands purchafed, purfuant to his will, as a falary for the miftrefs of the girls' fehool ; the remainder, after paying the other annuities ap pointed by his will, is appropriated to the maintenance of the fehool, being only 5I. per annum ; yet, with the amount of an annual fubfeription, and the collections at two charity fermons, 20 children are clothed. About the year 1685, one William Blake, a woollen-draper in Maiden-Lane, Covent Garden, fet on foot a fcheme for eftablifhing an hofpital at Highgate,' for the education and maintenance of about 40 fatherlefs boys and girls " to be fupperted by the voluntary fubfeription of ladies, and to be called the Ladies' « Tn the firft page of the book quoted in elfewhere fays, they might come from any place* P.4+i.,t,8fa.d that they were all to be.natives and be either French or Englifl,. Y? ' of Hornfey, Highgate, or Hampftead ; but a note Hofpital, 1 HORNSEY. 44i Hofpital, or Charity School. The boys to be taught the. art of painting, garden- pital, orCha- ing, cafting accounts, and navigation, or put forth to fome good handicraft nty c 00 " trade, and to wear an uniform of blue lined with yellow. The girls to be taught to read, write, few, ftarch, raife pafte, and drefs, that they might be fit for any good fervice '8. The projector, according to his own account, had himfelf expended the greater part of his fortune, viz. 500C.I. upon the under taking, by purchafing Dorchefter Houfe, and other premifes. He publifhed a book (now rarely to be met with) called " Silver Drops, or Serious Things," being a kind of exhortation to the ladies to encourage the undertaking. Pre fixed to this work are feveral letters of application to individuals (whofe names do not appear) written in the name ofthe hofpital boys. As a frontifpiece to the book, there is a print of Dorchefter Houfe, and his. own manfion at Highgate; the margins of the print are full of notes, in which he complains of the want of encouragement, which threatened to defeat his plan ; and laments, that he is treated as a madman. He obferves, that If Sir Francis Pemberton, Mr. William Afhhurft ", and his own brother F. Blake, would yet comply, all might be im mediately forwarded to the great advantage ofthe town of Highgate. Dr. Combe, to whom I was indebted for the loan of this book, had in a valuable collection of topography, which he has fince difpofed of, a very fcaree print, upon a large fcale, of the Ladies' Charity School so, a large building, which feems to have been altered from Dorchefter Houfe, as reprefented in the fmaller print. A note to the great print inform'd the public, that a fubfcriber of 50I. might fend any boy or girl, French or Englifh, into the hofpital; and it was recommended as a proper charity, to fend fome of the children of the diftreffed French proteftants, which it was obferved would be advantageous in matter of language. It may be collected from paffages in the " Silver Drops," that fome boys had been received into the hofpital, and that filbfcriptions had been collected, but the undertaking foon dropped. Lady Pritchard, by her laft will, gave 50s. per annum, to be diftributed by Gift to ojd the minifter of the chapel among 10 poor old maids of Highgate, if fuch could maids* be found, otherwife to be given to widows. The cuftom of impofing a burlefque nugatory oath.?1 on all ftrangers, upon Highgate their firft vifit to Highgate, is well known : how or when it originated I have oatU. not been able to learn : a pair of horns, upon which the oath is adminiflered, is kept at every public-houfe. " Note annexed to the great print mentioned 8o Mr. Gough had one of thefe prints, which akove_ he mentions in his anecdotes of Britifh Topo- « Sir William Afliurft, who was Lord Mayor graphy, vol. i. of London in 1694, built and refided in the "' " Not to eat brown bread when you can get houfe which is now in the occupation of Sir " white, unlefs you like the other better ; not to Alan-Chambre, one of the juftices of the Com- " kifs the maid when you can kifs the miftrefs, mon Pleas. " unlefs you like the other better," &c. &c. &c. C 442 3 ISLEWORTH. Name and etymology. Situation,boundaries,extent, &c. IN the furvey of Domefday, this place is called Giftelworde, in fubfequent ancient records for fome centuries, uniformly Iftelworth ; and afterwards occafionally Iftleworth. About Queen Elizabeth's time, it was commonly in converfation, and fometimes in records, called Thiftleworth, which mifnomer Was much in ufe in the early part of the laft century, and is now not wholly difufed. In parochial and other writings, however, it has been uniformly fpelt Ifleworth for more than a century ; the pronounciation is various. Skinner's derivation of Iflington, from Gifel a hoftage, and tun a town, might more juftly, with the alteration of tun for worth a village, be applied to this place ; for it does not appear that Iflington in any ancient record is called Gifelton, or Giftel- ton, but Ifendune. As to the real faCt in either place, there is nothing recorded in hiftory to juftify the conjeCture. The moft general idea of its derivation has been fuggefted by the modern name IJle-worth, but I think that the conftant ufage of Iftelworth for fo many centuries leads one to feek for fome other etymology, though perhaps it might be difficult to find one which would be entirely fatis- faCtory. The v.illage of Ifleworth is fituated on the banks of the Thames, at the diftance of eight miles and a half from Hyde-Park-corner. It lies within the hundred, to which it gives name. The parifh is bounded on the fouth by the river Thames ; on the eaft, norths and weft, principally by Brentford, Hefton ', Twickenham, and ' The following curious paper, relating to a difpute which happened between the pariflies of Ifleworth and Hefton in going their bounds, is preferved in the Augmentation-office. It has no date, but appears to have been written not long before the Reformation ; for John Gate Efq. who is mentioned at the end, was appointed -keeper of Sion-houfe after the furrender ofthe monaftery. '¦" The Anfwer of the Parifheners of Iflylliuorth, " of Contraverftes, Debats, and Stryves, to the {c nuronge Byll of Complaynte made agaynfle them " by John Bygge, conjlable ofthe Hundreth and " Lord/hip of Iflyl 'Wilts. Cofham, glebe and parfonage, 40 m. Tylefhide manor, '30I. , Devon. Oterton, 59I. 16s. id. Clifton, 41. 5s. 7d. Yartcombe, 641. 5s. 4 Letter of the learned Mr. Correa de Serra T.A.S. in the Archsologia, vol. xiii. p. 258. 30 Fuller. 31 Pat. 2 Eliz. pt.7. May 27. 33 Duke of Northumberland's Records. 33 Harleian MSS. N° 6990. 34 Pat. 2 Jac. I. pt. 18. July 5. 35 Duke of Northumberland's Records. The Earl had a leafe of Sion-park from the crown in 1602.. See Pat. 44 Eliz. pt. 16. Jan. 15. laboured 45Q ISLEWORTH. His improve ments at Sion Repairs and alterations in 1659. Children of King Charles I. at Sion. Queen Anne at Sion. laboured as tothe payment of his fine, he offers the King Sion-houfe, with the manor of Ifleworth, as the only property which he could alienate, his other eftates being entailed. In eftimating the value of Sion, he ftates, that he had laid out 9000 1. upon the houfe and gardens ; " the houfe itfelf," fays he, " if it were to " be pulled down and fold by view of workmen, would come to 8000 1. If any " man, the beft hufband in building, fhould raife fuch another in the fame place, " 20,000 1. would not do it 3V His Majefty, it feems, did not except the offer, nor was the earl releafed till 1621 37. Notwithftanding the funis of money ex pended by him on Sion-houfe, it appears to have undergone a thorough repair, and to have been confiderably altered by his fucceffor (under the direction, as it is faid, of Inigo Jones) in 1659, which date is on all the leaden pipes. On the 27th of Auguft 1646, the Houfe of Commons agreed that the Earl of Northum berland, (Algernon,) to whofe care the King's children had been entrufted, might remove them to Sion-houfe, on account of the infection then fpreading 3S. They were removed there on the fame account the following year, and remained at Sion whilft the King was at Hampton Court 39. At this time the Earl of Nor thumberland, with a feeling that does him honour, obtained permiflion from the Parliament to indulge His Majefty with the company of his children as often as he (the Earl) thought proper ; in confequence of which permiflion, they were fome times fent for to Hampton-court, and at other times the King vifited them at Sion 4°. The Duke of York was then about fourteeen years of age, the Princefs Eliza beth twelve, and the Duke of Gloucefter feven. In the parifh books at Ifleworth, I find the two following entries in the church wardens' accounts for 1649 — 51. " Paid to the late King's fervants, .- - - 010 " Recd of the Earl of Mulgrave when he lay at Sion-houfe, 1 o o" Charles Duke of Somerfet, who had Sion-houfe in right of his wife Elizabeth, fole heir of Joceline Earl of Northumberland, lent it at Her Highnefs's defire to Queen Anne, (then Princefs of Denmark,) who refided there fome time 4'. Sion houfe is now the feat of his Grace Hugh Duke of Northumberland, great grand- fon of Charles Duke of Somerfet and Lady Elizabeth Percy. 3fi Collins's Peerage, vol. v. p. 455. edit. 1768. 3? Collins. 38 Wliitelock's Memorials, p. 225. *> Ibid. p. 262. 40 See Collins's Peerage, vol. v p. 483. edit. 1768, with references to Whitelock and Claren don. This perrmflion was granted in Oclober ; but it- appears that the King paid frequent vifits to his children at Sion in the month of Auguft. " Syon-houfe, Aug. 23. His Majefty came " hither to fee his children this morning early, " with one troop of horfe, and the.commiffioners, " and dined here." Perfect Occurrences, Aug. 20—27,1647. " Aug. 29. "TheDukeisat " Syon. The King hunted in Richmond-park, " and afterwards dined with his children at Syon." Ibid. Aug. 27 — Sept. 3. •>' Duchefs of Marlborough's Condudt, p. 62. This ISLEW'ORTHj 451 This noble manfion, which occupies a large quadrangle, was altered and fitted Defcription up at a great expence by the late Duke. The great hall paved with black and nouf°nand white marble, is 66 feet by 31, and 34 in height. It contains fome antique theimprove- ftatues, and a caft of the dying gladiator, by Valadier. Adjoining to the hall is a -^ Duke. S mofl magnificent veftibule, furnifhed with twelve columns of the Ionic order, and fixteen pilafters of verd antique, purchafed at an immenfe expence, being a greater quantity of that valuable fpecies of marble, than is now to be found perhaps in any building in Europe. The mofaic work, of which the tables in the drawing-room are compofed, was found in Titus's Baths, and purchafed for the Duke out of the Abbe Furietti's collection at Rome. The library, which extends through the eaft fide ofthe quadrangle, is 130^- feet by 14. The whole houfe is fitted up in a flyle in every refpeft fuitable to the rank and opulence of the noble owner. The elegant gateway near the high road, and the improvements of the houfe, were de- figned by Adam. The gardens, which are very beautiful, and flored with a great many curious exotics, were laid out principally by Brown. John Somerfet, Chancellor of the Exchequer to King Henry VI. founded a chapel and chapel at Brentford-end, in the parifh of Ifleworth, in honour of the nine orders Slld of A11 of holy angels. The King laid the tfirft ftone of the building, and granted the Brentford- ground on which it ftood. The preamble of the charter ftates, that no chapel end' had ever before been founded in honour of all the holy angels ; that John Somerfet had lately built fuch a chapel on a piece of ground belonging to the King, 220 feet in length, and 40 in breadth, lying in the old highway, at the weft end of a wooden bridge 4% called New-Brentford bridge 43, being bounded on the north by the highway near the new ftone bridge leading to Hounflow, and on the fouth by a parcel of land belonging to the faid John Somerfet. On a fpot contiguous to the chapel, being the founder's own land, (held under the crown,) he built a hofpital for nine poor men, who formed a gild incorporated by King Henry VI. with licence to poffefs land in mortmain, ufe a common feal, &c 4+ Hugh Denys, citizen of London, by his will bearing date 1 508, left his eftates to the prior and convent of Sheen, charged with certain payments for the purpofe of augmenting this inftitution, by the addition of feven poor men, and to found a chantry in the chapel for two priefts. The prior and convent of Sheen, by their indenture 4S, 42 In deepening the bed of the river for the " bricke on the further end of it." Vol. ii. p. r. Grand Junction Canal, .the piles of the old 44 See Pat. 25 Hen. VI. pt. 1. m. 9. and Pat. woodenbridge were found ; they appeared very 18 Edw. IV. pt. 2. m. 8. black, but quite found. 4S This indenture, being a book with indented 43 Leland, in his Itinerary, fpeaking of Brent- covers, is preferved in the Augmentation-office. ford, fays, " There is a bridge over Brent Ryveret It fs a beautiful illuminated MS. on vellum, with " of three arches, and an hofpital builded with a neat drawing of St, Bridget in the initial letter. bearing 452 Various pof- feflbrsof the fite. Sir William Noy. Lord Savage. Sir Richard Wynne, &c. ISLEWORTH. bearing date 1530, made over thefe eftates to the abbefs and convent of Sion. It appears by this deed that the priefts were obliged tb refide upon the fpot, and noC allowed to hold any other benefice ; their falary was nine marks per annum each, and fuel ; the poor men had 7^d. a week, fuel, and a gown, price 4s. The chaplains were to pray for the fouls of King Henry VIII. Hugh Denys, and John Somerfet the original founder of the chapel. King Edward VI. in the year 1547. granted the fite of All Angels chapel, with its appurtenances 4S, to Edward Duke of Somerfet 4% on whofe attainder it re verted to the crown. Queen Mary granted the faid fite (with the bedehoufes. adjoining) to the newly-reftored convent of Sion 47. Queen Elizabeth, in whom it became vefted, by the fecond diffolution of that monaftery, leafed it to Richard Burton48. In 1610, the fame premifes were granted to George and Thomas Whitmore 4% who fold them the next year to Henry Prince of Wales so. In 1638, they were granted by King Charles the Firft to Edward Ditchfield and others, truftees for the city of London SI, who in 1639 alienated them to Sir •Richard Wynne s\ From him they defcended to the Ancafter family, and were fold in the early part of the laft century to various perfons. The immediate fite of the chapel, as is fuppofed s3, and fome adjoining houfes, came to one Philip Godard, who dying in 1762 bequeathed them to his nephew Thomas Huggins, and Elizabeth his wife, for the term of their lives, afterwards to remain to the ufe ofthe charity-fchool of this parifh for ever. Elizabeth Huggins, the furvivor, died in 1794, but the bequeft being contrary to the ftatute of mortmain, it became null and void. There were no veftiges of All- Angels chapel remaining when Mofes Glover made his furvey in '1635. A manfion, ori or near the fite, was the refidence of Sir William Noy, King Charles's attorney-general, who lies buried at Brent ford. The fame houfe .had been the refidence of Thomas Vifcount Savage S4, and is called " the Sprotts," in ancient records. Sir Richard Wynne 5S refided in a houfe near the gate, which leads to Sion, now the property and refidence 4S The demefnes of the chapel of All Angels confined of about 60 acres of land at Brentford- end ; in Park-field, Ifleworth ; and in Hefton. They are particularly defcribed in the deed from Ditchfield and Highlord to -Sir Richard Wynne, whichin 1794 was in the poffeffion of the late John Robinfon Efq. then proprietor of fome lands in Hefton, parcel of thefe demefnes.. 46 Record in the Augmentation-office. 47 Pat. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. p. 3. April 18 . 4' Leafes in the Augmentation-office'. *9 Duke of Northumberland's Records. 50 From a deed which was in the poffeffion of the late John Robinfon Efq. of -Sion-hill. 51 Record in the Augmentation-office. 51 The late Mr. Robinfon's deeds. 53 The immediate fite is not certainly known, but it is fuppofed to have been where a houfe now ftands occupied by Mr. Fuller, a pawn broker. 54 From papers which belonged to the late John Robinfon Efq. of Sion-hill. " See an. account of Sir Rich. Wynne (who was buried at Wimbledon), in vol. i. p 398 of ISLEWORTH, 453 of Mrs. Gotobed, widow of John Gotobed Efq. This houfe was built in 1592, by George Walkins, who foon afterwards conveyed it to Sir Francis Darcy, for the lives of himfelf and his lady, and Lady Wynne his daughter. Glover's Survey of Ifleworth in 1653, defcribes two houfes nearly adjoining, one of which is called Sir Francis Darcy's, the other Sir Richard Wynne's. Mrs. Gotobed's houfe was for feveral years the property of the late General Warde, and fuc- ceflively m the occupation of Sir Nathaniel Duckenfield Bart., the Earl of Glaf- cow, and General Morrifon. The manor of Giftelworde (Ifleworth) was held at the time of the Conqueror's furvey by Walter de St.Waleric. It is taxed, fays that record, at 70 hides. The land is $$ carucates ; fix hides and a half are in demefne, on which are fix ploughs. Among the freemen and vilians are 28 ploughs, and eleven more might be employed. The prieft has three virgates of land, 5 1 vilians a virgate each, 24 vilians half a virgate each, 1 8 others the fame quantity, and there are fix cottars. A foreigner and a certain Englilhman have four hides of land, and they are approved knights. Under them are 1 2 vilians and bordars, and there are fix vilians who hold two hides and half a virgate under the lord. There are two mills of 10s. rent, meadow equal to 20 plough-lands ; pafture for the cattle ofthe town ; one ftream and a moiety of another, yielding 12s. 8d. ; pan nage for 500 hogs ; herbage i2d. : in the whole valued at 72I.; in King Edward's time at 80I. This manor, adds the record, was the property of Earl Algar. In the reign of Henry the Third, the manor of Ifleworjh being vefted in the crown S7, was granted to the King's brother, Richard Earl of Cornwall, and King of the Romans. In the year 1 264, Sir Hugh Spencer, with a great mul titude of the citizens of London, went to Ifleworth, where " they fpoiled the " manor place sS of the King of Romans, and deftroyed his water-mylnes, and " other commodities that he there had S9." For this outrage, when King Henry had fuppreffed the rebellion of his Barons, they were obliged to pay the fum of 1000 marks, as a reparation. After the death of Edmund Earl of Cornwall, fon of the King of Romans, this manor became veiled in King Edward I. as his next heir, and was affigned in 1301 to Margaret Countefs of Cornwall, as a part of her dower. It was fettled by King Edward III. on his Queen Philippa, and Manor of Ifleworth. Manor-placeofthe King of the Ro mans burnt by the citi zens of London. 57 Edmund Earl of Cornwall, A0 22 Edw. I. claimed aflize of bread, &c. in Ifleworth, which had been the manor of King Henry III. (Duke of Northumberland's Records. ) 58 The fite of this palace, or ancient manor houfe, is not exaftly known ; but it feems pro bable that it was a fpot of ground behind the Phoenix-yard, called in old writings the Mated Vol. II. 3 Place. Tradition affigns it another fite, more to tbe weft, fomewhere near the feat of John Franks Efq. Mr. Gough fpeaks of a Tower record, fhewn him by Mr. Holmes, which mentions Ifleworth among the palaces of King Henry IV. Anecdotes of Britifh Topography, vol. i. S9 Holinfhed's Chron. vol. ii. -p. 766. N after ,454 ISLEWORTH. after her death was annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall60. King Richard the Second gave it for life to his confort Anne 6I. King Henry the Fifth being de- firous of fettling it on his newly-founded convent of Sion, procured an aft of Parliament, by which he was enabled to feparate it from the Duchy of Cornwall, to which other manors were afligned in exchange 62. It remained in the crown after the fuppreffion of monafteries, till it was granted by King James, in 1604, to Henry Earl of Northumberland % from whom it defcended to the prefent Fee-farm Duke. King James's grant was fubjecl to a fee-farm rent of 99I. 2s. per annum, rent" which was purchafed ofthe crown by Charles Duke of Somerfet 64, and given by him to the Earl of Egremont. This rent was the property of Theodore Broad- Hundred and head Efq. lately deceafed. It muft be obferved, that the defcription of this manor in eTtenfive°" Domefday includes Hefton and Twickenham, which accounts for its large extent, 70 hides, nearly correfponding with Glover's furvey, which makes the three pa rifhes contain about 6880 acres, from which deducing 1784 acres of wafle, there will remain 5006 acres of cultivated land, not very widely differing from the 5$ carucates in the Domefday furvey. Hefton and Twickenham are mentioned in the inquifition taken after the Earl of Cornwall's death, as hamlets within the manor of Ifleworth. Hamlet here means the fame, I fuppofe, as Berewicus in ancient records, a fubordinate manor held under the lord paramount; for it is certain that both Hefton and Twickenham had parifh churches at that period. It was reported by the jurors at an inquifition taken in 1390, that the manor and hundred of Ifleworth had always been efteemed of the fame extent 6s. Edmund Earl of Cornwall granted to the Knights Templars a right of common pafture in this hundred from Cranford to Twickenham. This grant was confirmed by Edward I.66 In the year 1293, the fame Earl claimed affize of bread and beer, gallows, and freewarren in his manor of Ifleworth ; the prior, of St. Waleric claimed the affize of bread and beer, for his tenants in *° Cart. 1 Edw. III. N° 60. Dorfetfhire, the manor of Maidencot in Berks, " See Efch.' 13 Rich. II. N" 75. the manor of Magorin Wales, and a fourth part " The following manors, &c. were affigned of the manor of Sellings in Kent. The exempli- to the duchy of Cornwall in lieu of the manor of fication of the aft of parliament 9 Hen. V. and a of Ifleworth; the annual value of which they ex- particular of the manors then affigned to the ceeded by the fum of 200 1. — The manors of duchy, are in the Duchy-office Obligingly Curry-Mallet, Milton- Falconbridge, Inglef- communicated by Richard Gray Efq. combe, Midfummer- Norton with Welton, Wid- «3 I find no grant of the manor till this time ; combe, Farringdon-Gurney, Laverton, Weft- the demefne lands were granted and leafed with harptree, the manor and advowfon of Stratton the fite of the monaftery, as before-mentioned. on the Fofs, the manor and free chapel of Stoke- «4 From the information of Mr. Bell. under-Hampden, the manor with a moiety of the 6s Efch. 13 Ric. II. N° 75. advowfon of Shepton-Mallet (all in Somerfet- w Efch, 29 Edw, I. Nc 73. fliire) ; the manor and free chapel of Ryme in Ifleworth, ISLEWORTH. 45$ Ifleworth, and the mafter of the hofpital of St. Giles the fame privilege for his tenants in Ifleworth and Hefton, as belonging to his church of Ifleworth 67. Cuftom of the Dyfeyne. An ancient cuftom prevailed in this manor, that the tenants fhould pay to the lord a certain fum of money, amounting to eight marks, called the' Dyfeyne, over and above the cuftomary rents. This fum was raifed by a tax levied in an equal pro portion upon all the male inhabitants of 15 years of age and upwards68. In the parifh cheft at Twickenham is a fmall. illuminated deed of the abbefs and convent of Sion, (with their feal annexed,) bearing date 22 Henry VI., whereby they dif charge their tenants in the manor of Ifleworth, of a certain annual tribute or pay ment of 20I. In the year 1656 certain articles relating to the cufloms and pri vileges of the manor of Ifleworth were agreed on between Algernon Earl of Nor thumberland and the principal copyholders. They were printed the enfuing year in the form of a pamphlet, entitled, " Ifleworth-Sion's Peace." Lands in this manor defcend according to the Uriel cuftom of Borough-Englifh. In the year 1375, William Eyfton 6' of Ifleworth granted to the King a meffuage Manor of called Worton, and 93 acres of land thereunto belonging 70. This eftate, being E ^°?s' or called the Manor of Worton, was granted for life by King Edward III. to Alice the widow of Edmund Fauconer, and by Henry IV. to William Loveney for his life. King Henry VI. gave it to the monaftery of Sion 7I. In fome records it is called the manor of Eyftons : it is now the property of the Duke of Northumber land. At Worton is a capital manfion fome time in the occupation of the late Colonel Fullarton and now of his widow the Hon. Mrs. Fullarton. In the year 1508, HughDenys, citizen of London, bequeathed the manor of Manor of Wyke 7% which he had purchafed, of Robert Cheefeman, to the Carthufian priory y of Sheen, charged with certain payments to the chapel of All Angels, founded by John Somerfet, in the reign of King Henry VI. 73 The prior and convent of Sheen, by their indenture, bearing date 1530, conveyed it to the abbefs and con vent of Sion 74, whofe property it was at the diffolution of monafteries, when King Henry VIII. granted it to the Marquis of Exeter 7S : on his attainder it re verted to the crown, and was given by King Edward VI. to the Duke of 67 Record in poffeffion of his Grace the Duke ?2 The Wyke is mentioned as a hamlet of Ifle- of Northumberland. worth, in the inquifition taken after the Earl of 68 Cl. 9 Ric. II. m.47. Cornwall's death. 6» Anceftor of the Eyftons of Eaft Hundred in " Record in the Augmentation-office. Berkfhire. ' 74 Ibid. »° Cl. 49 Edw. III. m. 39. d. 75 Recited in the next grant. 71 See Pat. 2 Hen. VI. pt. 3. m. 21. where the grants to Alice Fauconer and Loveney are recited. 3 N 2 Somer- 456 ISLEWORTH, Somerfet 7". After the Duke's attainder it remained in the crown till i ^y, when It was granted by Queen Mary to Auguftine Thaier and Alexander Chefenall, and the heirs of the former, to be held in fealty by free foccage, difcharged of all cor- rodies, penfions, and payments whatfoever, except a rent of 15I. 10s. 8d. referved, by that grant, to the crown ". It afterwards came by purchafe, probably, to Sir Thomas Grefham, who died feifed of it in the year 1580 ,8. After his death it paffed in the fame manner as Bofton in Brentford 79, to the co-heirs of Sir Michael Stanhope : it was purchafed of them in 1638 by Sir William Wafhington 8o, who- mortgaged it in 1640 to Sir Edward Spencer and Sir Richard Wynne. It re mained in the poffeffion of Sir Richard Wynne, who had before purchafed the fite of All Angels chapel, of Edward Ditchfield and others. Sir Richard Wynne died in 1649 ; his widow in 1669. Maurice Wynne Efq., his brother, by his will, bearmg date 1670, bequeaths the manors of Wyke to his brother Henry, and to Dame Grace Wynne, relicl of Sir Owen Wynne (his brother alfo) and their heirs. Mary, daughter of Lady Wynne, was married in 1678 to Robert Lord Willoughby de Erefby, afterwards Duke ofAncafter, whofe fonPeregrine, the fucceeding Duke, fold this manor in 1724 to Jofhua Fletcher. In 1731 it came to John Jacob, and was fold by the truftees under his will, in 1775, to Peter Storer Efq., whofe daughter Martha married William Baker Efq. In 1778 it was purchafed of ' their fon Peter William Baker Efq. by John Robinfon Efq., M. P., the late proprietor, who modernifed and improved the houfe : it is now in the occupa tion of Mrs. Stevenfon : the eftate was purchafed after ^Mr. Robinfon's death by the Earl of Jerfey, who is the prefent proprietor. The ancient manor-houfe ftood it is moft probable, within a moated fite adjoining to the farm. Duke of Sion-hill, a feat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, was built by the late Marlbo- j- j Q£ jjolderneffe. The Duke, who has cultivated with much fuccefs the fcience rough's, at 1 i ' Sion-hill. of aflronomy, has a fmall obfervatory at this place, which about the year 1794, he enlarged and improved for the reception of an altitude and azimuth inftrument, conftrufted by Ramfden. Calvert Lord George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, fecretajy of ftate to King James the Firft, and Baltimore. a n0Dle author 8l, had a country-feat at Ifleworth. Lord Strafford, writing to him on the 1 2th of Oclober 1624, fays, he takes it for granted that he has quitted Ifle- The Duke of worth at that feafon of the year, and is gone to town S2. Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewfbury. Shrewfbury, a confpicuous character in the reigns of King William and Queen "6 Pat. 1 Edw. VI. pt. 6. July 16. Robinfon Efq. ; whence alfo the fubfequent de- ¦n Pat. 3 and 4 P. & M. pt. 9. June 15. fcent of the manor is taken. '8 Efch. 22 Eliz. f> Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii. Lord 79 See p 29. Baltimore was the original grantee of Maryland. 83 Title-deeds communicated by the late John 8l Strafford Letters, vol. i. p. 24. Anne, I S L E W 0 R T Hi ' 457 Anne, during his embaffy in France Sl purchafed a houfe at Ifleworth, which had formerly been the refidence of Sir Thomas Ingram, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter. The Duke was at one time Lord Chamberlain of the houfehold, Lord High Treafurer of England, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, three great offices never before united in the fame perfon. He died at Ifleworth in 171 8. His houfe there, fo finely furnifhed S4, fays Collins, he left to his*heirs85: it defcended to the prefent Earl of Shrewfbury, and was in 1794 occupied as a boys' fehool for chil dren of the Roman Catholic perfuafion : but has been fince taken down except the kitchen, which has been converted into a Roman Catholic chapel. The Earl Earl of Bath. of Bath, a diftinguifhed political charafter in the laft reign, refided at Ifleworth, in a houfe on the weft fide of the road, leading from Twickenham to London. It is called Gumley-houfe, having been built by John Gumley Efq., the Countefs of Bath's father. It was fometime the prbperty of the late Lord Lake, and now be longs to Mr. Angell. On the fame fide of the road flood Kendall-houfe, fo called Kendall- from the Duchefs of Kendall, miftrefs to King George I., who refided there, After her death, it was opened as a public breakfafting-houfe, and was frequently advertifed as fuch in the years 1750 and 1751 86, Near the fite of Kendall-houfe was a few years ago a handfome villa belonging to David Godfrey Efq., fronting the Hounflow road, built at a great expence by Mr. Lewis Chauvett. This houfe was taken down and fold piece-meal about fhe year 1795. Silver-hall, which ftood Silver-hall, on the eaft fide ofthe Twickenham road, was built by John Smith Efq., created a baronet in 1694, whofe arms were over the piers of the gate. After Sir John Smith's death, it was in the occupation of Lady Harcourt, widow ofthe chancellor, It was afterwards the property of Mrs. Oliver, (whofe maiden name was Silver,) mother of Silver Oliver Efq. This circumftance, it feems, gave the houfe its name ; had I not been informed of it, I might have afcribed it perhaps to a dif. 83 "Macky's Tour, vol. p. 85. " themfelves with fifhing, the canal being well 64 Macky in his Tour through England fays, " flocked with tench, carp, antfall forts of fifh in it was finely adorned with tapeftry. " great plenty ; nearwhichare two wildernefles, 85 Peerage, edit. 1768, vol. ii. p. 436. " with delightful rural walks ; and through the 86 The following may. ferve as a fpecimen,and " garden runs a rapid river, fhaded with a plea- will afford fome defcription of the place. " For « fant grove of trees, with various walks fo de- « certain, Kendall-houfe, Ifleworth, near Brent- « figned by nature that in the hotted day of *' ford, Middlefex, eight miles from London, will " fummer you are fcreened from the heat of the " open for breakfafting'on Monday the f 6th in- " fun. This fmall but juft account of the place " ftant. The long room for dancing is upwards " falls greatly fhort of its real beauties. Great " of 60 feet long, and wide in proportion ; all <¦' care will be taken to keep out all diforderly " the other rooms are elegantly fitted up. The " people. There is a man-cook, and a good " orcheftra on the water is allowed, by all that " larder : all things as cheap or cheaper than at " have feen it, to be in the genteeleft tafte, being " place ofthe kind." Daily Adv. Apr. 4, 1750. " built an octagon in the Corinthian order, above The public breakfafts were on Wednefdays and " fifty feet diameter, having an upper and lower Fridays. «« gallery, where gentlemen and ladies may divert ferent 458 ISLEWORT H. ferent caufe ; for on or near the fpot is defcribed in Glover's old map a houfe where refides (fays he in a note) " Mr. John Broad the famous metallift." Silver-Hall was fold piece-meal in 1801, the next year three men were killed on the fite, by the falling in of a cellar. The houfe by the waterfide, which is now the property of the Hon. Mrs. Keppel, was built by James Lacey Efq., patentee of Drury Lane Theatre ; it was fucceffively in the occupation of the Earl of Warwick, and R. B. Sheridan Efq. Near this is a villa which belonged fuccef fively to Lady Charleville, Lord Muncafter, and the Duchefs of Manchefter: it is now the property of Francis Gofling Efq. Samuel Among the eminent inhabitants of Ifleworth may be enumerated Samuel Clark, F/Willis. a biographer ofthe laft century, who died at this place in 1682 87 ; Francis Willis, Mrs, Middle- a grammarian and author of a Dictionary88, and Mrs. Middleton, frequently mentioned in the Memoirs de Grammont. The church. The church, which ftands near the waterfide, is dedicated to All Saints, and confifts of a nave, chancel, and two aifles. At the weft end is an ancient ftone tower of Gothic architecture, which is overgrown with ivy on the north, weft, and and fouth fides. The reft of the ftruclure is of brick, and was rebuilt in the years 1705 and 1706 89. Monument of On the fouth fide of the chancel is a very handfome marble monument (by Mrs. Tolfon. fjaifpenny) to tne memory of Mrs. Anne Dafh, better known by the name of Tolfon, a great benefaclrefs to the parifh. Her hiftory, as recorded in her epitaph, is very fingular. She- was daughter of George Newton Efq. of Duffield, in the county of Derby ; and having been twice married, firft to Henry Siffon, after wards to John Tolfon, was in her fecond widowhood reduced to narrow circum- ftances, and obliged to fet up a boarding-fchool, as a means of procuring a liveli hood ; but blindnefs having rendered her unfit for that employment, fhe became an objedl of charity. In the mean time Dr. Caleb Cotefworth, a phyfician, who had married a relation of Mrs. Tolfon, died, (in 1741,) having amaffed, in the courfe of his practice, 150,000!. the greater part of which, being upwards of i2o,oool. he left to his wife, who furviving him only a few hours, died inteftate, and her large fortune was divided between Mrs. Tolfon and two others, as the neareft of kin. With a due fenfe of this fignal deliverance, and unexpected -change from a ftate of want to riches and affluence, flie appropriated by a deed of I Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol.i. Sir Orlando Gee) to commence the work im- Ibid, vol. 11. mediately, adopting in part Sir Chriftopher A plan for rebuilding the church was pro- Wren's defign ; and a fubfeription was fet on cured from Sir Chriftopher Wren, about the year foot in aid of Sir Orlando Gee's donation The 1701, winch was not put in execution being new building was begun May 12, 170? and thought too expenfive. In 1705, it was deter- finifhed Feb. 8, 1706—From the information of mined (m confequence ofa legacy of 500I. from John Bell Efq. gift I S L E W O R T H. 459 gift the fum of 5000I., to be expended after her deceafe in building and endow ing an alms-houfe at Ifleworth for fix poor men and fix women. This lady died in the year 1750, aged 89, having married, fubfequently to this deed of gift, a third hufband, Mr. Jofeph Dafli, merchant. The monument was erecled purfuant to her own defire, by Gilbert Joddrell Efq., at the expence of 500I. It is orna mented with a bull in white marble of Mrs. Tolfon, and medallions of Dr. and Mrs. Cotefworth. Over Mrs. Tolfon's monument is that of Sir Orlando Gee, fteward to Algernon Various mo- and Joceline, Earls of Northumberland, and regiftrar of the court of Admiralty, numents- who died in 1705, aged 86. The monument is ornamented with an half length effigy of the deceafed in white marble. He is reprefented with a large cravat, flowing peruke, &c. On the eaft wall is the monument of George Keate Efq. 9° On flat ftones are memorials among others of Margaret, relicl of Roger Earl of Orrery, and daughter of Theophilus Earl of Suffolk, 1 689 ; John Taylour, LL.D. aged 93, 1790 ; and Thadeus O'Flaherty Efq., aged 93, 1790. On the north wall, over the gallery, is the monument of Catherine, daughter of North aifle. Sir Edward Leigh of Staffordfhire, and wife of Sir Francis Darcy, Knt., by whom fhe had three daughters ; one died in her infancy ; Anne married Sir Richard Wynne, Bart. ; Lettice, Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart. The monument is fup ported by Corinthian columns, between which are the effigies of Sir Francis Darcy and his lady. He is reprefented in armour. Lady Darcy was buried May 29, 1625; Sir Francis (who was feventh fon of Sir Arthur Darcy, and brother of Thomas Darcy, anceftorto the Earls of Holderneffe), died Nov. 29, 1641. There is no date on the monument. On the floor of this aifle is the graveftone of William Chafe Efq., " ferjeant to King Henry VIII., and of his honourable houfhold of " the hall and woodyerd," (with a brafs plate on which is a figure ofthe deceafed in armour,) 1544. In the fouth aifle, over the gallery, is the monument of Sir Theodore De- South aifle. vaux, Knt., F.R.S. phyfician to King Charles II. and Katherine the Queen Dowager, 1694; and others for the families of Mufgrave, Danvers, Bedingfield, &c. In the fouth-eaft corner is a monument (with Corinthian columns, and the effigies of the deceafed) to the memory of three children of Sir Thomas, after wards Vifcount Savage. It has no other name or date, but the arms and entries in the parifh regifter »', fufficiently point out for whom it was intended. On the floor of this aifle is the graveftone of " Margaret Dely, a fyfter profeffed yn Syon, "° See p. 467. flat ftone near this monument, to the memory 9' One of Sir Thomas Savage's children was of Mr. Hawkes the vicar, was placed there at buried in 1609 ; another in 1613 ; the date of the expence of Sir Thomas Savage. the third I could not find in the regifter. The " who 4<>o ISLEWORTH. «« who deceffed the 7 of Oftober anno 15CT1," (with a brafs plate on which is a fmall figure of the deceafed). Church-yard. In the church-yard are the tombs of Theophikis BIyke Efq., deputy fecretary at war, 1 718 j Richard BIyke Efq. 9% auditor ofthe imprefts, 1775, &c. &c. Reaory. The church of Ifleworth was appropriated at an early period to the abbey of St. Waleric in Picardy, to which monaftery it was confirmed, together with their other poffeflions, by King Henry II. M The prior of Takely, whofe houfe was a cell to that convent, prefented to the vicarage as their procurator 94. In the year 1 39 1, tlie abbot and convent of St. Waleric gave this church to William of Wickham's college at Winchefter 9S. In the year 1 544, the warden and fcholars of Winchefter conveyed the church of Ifleworth, with fome other ehurches .in Middlefex 96, to King Henry VIII. in exchange for the manor of Harmondf worth97. King Edward VI. in the firft year of his reign, granted the reftory and advowfon of Ifleworth to the Duke of Somerfet 9* ; in the fame year there was a grant of the great tithes to the dean and chapter of Windfor 59, who foon afterwards be came poffeffed bf th? advowfon ,0°. The reclory was taxed at 24 marks in LefTees. 1371 IJI ; in King Henry VIII.'s time it was valued at 35I. ,oz, in 1653, at 135I. 5s. I03 In the year 1635, Gideon Aunfliam Efq. was leffee of the reclory, then called the Warden Hold I04 ; in 1 650, Henry Mildmay Efq. The great tithes Were purchafed of the dean and chapter of Windfor, under the land-tax redemption Vicarage. acl, by the late Edmund Hill Efq. and are now veiled in his devifees. Among the records in the Augmentation-office there is an agreement between the abbefs and convent of Sion, the college at Winchefter, and the vicar of Ifleworth, relating to the tithes of the conventual demefnes. The warden and fcholars of Winchefter were to receive in lieu of their right a penfion of 20s. per annum. The vicar and his fervant were to have "free ingrefs into the hall or refeclory of the convent, where the vicar was to fit down with the upper fervants, and without let or molef- tation, to partake of their ufual fare ; his fervant to have the fame privilege with the inferior fervants or grooms ,os. The vicar was to have alfo a piece of cloth for 91 Mr. BIyke made large topographical collec tions for Herefordfhire, which were purchafed after his death by the prefent Duke of Norfolk. 93 Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 1003. 94 Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. 95 Cart. Antiq. Augmentation-office, E. 63. There is a feal of the abbot of St. Waleric ap pendant to this deed, in fine prefervation. "S6 "Hefton, Hahipton, HarmondfwofCh, and -Twickenham. " Record in the Augmentation -office. * Pat. 1 Edw. VI. pt.4. July 23. 4 a gown, 99 Record in the Augmentation-office. 100 Newcourt. The advowfon appears to have remained in the Crown for fome years after the Duke of Somerfet's attainder ; Queen Mary prefented to the vicarage in 1554. "" Harl. MSS.N°6o. 101 Chantry Roll, Augmentation-office. 103 Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. Lib. 104 Glover's Survey. 105 " Habeat vicarius, cum uno fuo puero vel " famulo, liberam ingreffionem in aulam vel do- " mum refeclionis infra predi£lum monafterium " ubi I S L E W O R T H. 461 a gown, and ah annual ftipend of 33s. 4d. as long as he fliould continue to pray for the good eftate of the convent in his maffes ; which if at any time he omitted, the ftipend for that year was to be forfeited. , By fome fubfequent agreement the diet was commuted for money ; and the fum of iol. (including the 33s. 4d.) was allotted to the vicar out of the demefne lands, which is ftill received. To this is added il. 7s. 4d., paid as a compenfation for the tithes ofa piece of ground added to the kitchen garden, which v/as not parcel of the faid demefnes. ' In the King's books it was valued at 1 81. per annum. The vicar receives 20I. per annum out ofthe great tithes. John Hall, inftituted to this vicarage in 1521, was executed at Tyburn in 1535, Vicars. for refufing to acknowledge the King's fupremacy I05. John Hal1 Nicholas Byfield, who became vicar in 1 615, was an eminent divine of the Cal- Nicholas viniftic perfuafion. He publifhed commentaries on St. Paul's epiftle to the Colof- y ie fians, and the general epiftle of St. Peter, and feveral other theological works l0?. His fon Adoniram was a man of confiderable note during the civil war, and was fecretary to the affembly of divines tcS. His fon Richard was a member alfo of that affembly, and an author109. The vicar of Ifleworth died in 1622. A print of him was publifhed by Mr. Richardfon in 1790; with an account of a ftone ofa very large fize, weighing 2>2> ounces avoirdupois weight, taken out of his bladder the day after his deceafe by Mullins the furgeon. William Grant, who was fequeftered by the Puritans "°, was re-inftated at the Reftoration. Newcourt mentions no fucceffor till 1678. Samuel Rowles fup- plied the cure during Grant's fequeftration IU. Dr. Cave, an eminent and learned Dr. Cave. " ubi ad comedendum & bibendum generofi & ing 21 Articles, invented by fome clofely, fub- " alii di&i monafterii fervientes communiter fo- fcribed unto but by fix publickly, prefented but " lent convenire ; cnm quibus generofis, fine by one openly, and now vented in print furrepti- " murmure five contradi&ione, eaquae fibi com- tioufly, (in the name of the whole parifh) by a " muniter apponuntur participabit ; & confirm- Nobody." By William Grant, Vicar of Ifle- " liter faciet puer five famulus ejufdem tunc worth, 1641. — In anfwer to one of the articles *' vicarii inter inferiores five juniores fervientes which was as follows, '< he ufeth very unbecom- " ipforum abbatiflse & conventus Anglice " ing fpeeches in his fermons, as fpeaking of " Gromes " Cart. Antiq. N. 72. « fome Popifh tenets, he faid, Marry at good Holinfhed. « lucke is, tue have thefcripture againfi them, and 107 Neale's Hiftory of the Puritans, vol. i. «« at another time of the devil's temptations, P-497* " Marry as good lucke was, God ivas Jlronger 108 See p. 246. of this volume. « than the devil-;' he fays that he had twice ufed "» See vol. i. p. 270. " the phrafe of good lucke is (though never as "• A petition of the inhabitants of Ifleworth « alleged), and that he found it as often ufed in againft William Grant their vicar, containing 21 " holy writ. Good lucke have thou with thine articles, was printed on a fingle fheet 4to. 1641. " honour, fayes the, Pfalmift j and again, it far- Mr. Grant publifhed a reply to the petition of the « tuned (writes St. John ) that there was a wed- inhabitants of Ifleworth, intitled, " The Vindi- » ding in Cana of Galilv." cation ofthe Vicar of Ifleworth, in the County of '" Proceedings of the Committees, Lamb. Middlefex, from a fcandalous Pamphlet contain- MSS. Lib. vol. vii. Vol. II. 3 O divine, 462 I S L E W 0 R T H. Richard Coleire. WiUiamDrake. Parifh Re gifter. divine, refigned the living of Iflington for this vicarage ; which he held till his death, in 171 3. He was buried at Iflington t in the account of which place fur ther mention will be made of him. Richard Coleire, vicar of Ifleworth, publifhed a fermon, occafioned by the rape and murder of Anne Briftow on Smallbury- green, in 1723. William Drake, who was inftituted to this vicarage in 1777, and died May 13, 180 1, was fon ofthe hiftorian of York, and was himfelf diflinguifhed as a fcholar, and an aiitiquary, particularly by his obfervations on the origin and derivation of the Englifh language, and other papers printed in the Archseologia. He was fucceeded at Ifleworth by the prefent vicar William Langford, D. D. There is a Quakers' meeting-houfe in this parifh, and a Methodifls* meeting ; the Roman Catholic chapel has been already mentioned. The earlieft date of the parifh regifter is 1566 : it appears to have been very ac curately kept. 1580 — 1589. 1630 — 1639. 1680 — 1689* 1730 — *739- 1780 — 1784. 1784 - 1789. 1790 — 1794. *795 — 1799. r8oo — 1804. 1805 — 1809. Average of Baptifms Average of Burials 26^ — 22^- 53A — 5*f 61* — 7H 6i| — 71™ r*3r — 1 22-|- 125r — nof 138 — *24r n6t — 108 I25r — 112^ H°t — 99r Depopula- A remarkable depopulation of this place, or rather of the manor of Ifleworth, Sorth'J Se haPPened in *e fourteenth century, which is thus recorded : There was an an- 14th century, cient cuftom in the manor that the tenants fliould pay a certain fum of money called the Difeyne, (amounting to eight marks,) to the lord, befides the cuftom- ary rents. This fum was levied, in an equal proportion, upon all males of 15 years of age and upwards. In the year 1386 the tenants prayed for relief, ftating that formerly the payment of this fum had been no great burden, the number of inhabitants being fuch that it amounted only to one penny each perfon j but that the place was then fo depopulated that it was fix times as much, which occafioned many, as foon as they became liable to pay the tax, to leave the place; by which means the burden grew ftill heavier. In confequence of this petition the payment ot the difeyne was wholly remitted for four years "\ Cl.oRic.ILm,47. The IS Uf ORTH. 463 The population of this parifh appears to have increafed in a proportion of more Comparative than five to one during the two laft centuries. It was doubled between the pulation. periods of 1580 and 1630 ; and between 1730 and 1780. Mr. Grant the vicar, in the pamphlet before-mentioned fays, that there were in 1641, 1000 communi cants in Ifleworth. In the period of 1730-9, 74 children belonging to this parifh were baptized in Hounflow chapel, which will increafe the ayerage to 69. In the period of 1780-9 above 50 were baptized there ; which will increafe the averages of 1780-4 and 1780-9 about 2 i- each. The following fatisfactory account of the ftate of population in O&ober 1 794 was procured for me by Sir Jofeph Banks : the whole number of houfes was then 712; of thefe 43 were gentlemen's houfes, 6 farm-houfes, 16 public-houfes, the remainder fhops, cottages, &c. The houfes in the village of Ifleworth were 318 in number ; in that part of Hounflow which is in this parifh, 134 ; in Worton, 4$ ; Rails-head, 53 ; Brent ford-end, 105 ; Whitton-dean, 11 ; Smallbury-green, 10; Sion-hill, 10; Wyke- green, 6 ; and Brazil-Mill lane, 20. The total number of inhabitants was 4190 : of thefe 171 were lodgers ; of the flationary inhabitants 2223 were grown per fons (982 males and 1241 females,) and 1796 children (956 males and 840 fe males). According to the returns made to parliament under the population aclin 1 80 1, there were then 733 inhabited, 35 uninhabited houfes; and 4346 inhabi tants in this parifh ; the prefent number of houfes is 774. In the year 1603 there were 75 burials, being more than double the average of Plague years. that period. In 1625, I2^ perfons were interred, of whom 38 are faid to have died ofthe plague ; in 1665, 195 perfons, of whom 149 died of the plague. Extracls from the Regifter. " Sr John Arundel, Knt. died Jan. 17, 1591, and was buried at S' Collone in Arundel, " Cornwall." This Sir John Arundel married Anne, daughter of Edward Earl Knt" of Derby "% who had a feat at Ifleworth "3. He was anceftor of the Arundels of Lanherne in Cornwall, and of Ghidioke in Dorfetfhire, one of whofe co-heirs was mother of the prefent Lord Arundel of Wardour. " Henry, fon of Sr Jialph Winwood, Knt. baptized Aug. 13, 16 14." Sir Sir Ralph Ralph was ambaffador to the States of Holland, and fecretary of ftate in the reign w,nwood* of King James I. He died in 1 6 1 7 "4, " Sr Robert Sidney and the Lady Dorothy his wife had their daughter Dorothy Birth of WaU " baptized Ocl. 5, 1617." Sir Robert Sidney, afterwards the fecond Earl of ^r'sSaeha- Leicefter of that -name,- married Dorothy, daughter of Henry Earl of Northumber- 1,2 See Collins's Peerage. 1575 ; another in 1584. The Earl of Derby's "3 A fervant of Lady Derby's was buried in pew is mentioned in 1615. "4 Biog. Bri:. 3 O 2 land. 464 Countefs of Northumber land. Three chil dren at a birth.Lord Gray of Warke. A dwarf. Sir Theodore Mayerne. Earl of War wick. Wolfely,Bart. I S L E W O ft T H. land. Their daughter Dorothy, whofe baptifm is here recorded, was the cele brated Sacharifia, rendered immortal by Waller. Fenton in his notes upon that poet fays, that he had in vain endeavoured to difcover the time or place of her birth, and that he fearched the regifters at Penfliurft for that purpofe. It appears by this entry that fhe was born at Sion-houfe, whilft her grandfather was a prifoner in the Tower. The following extract from the parifh accounts proves that flie re fided at Ifleworth in her widowhood, 1655:—" Received of the Countefs of " Sunderland, for her rate for the poor for half a year, 15s.". " Dorothy, the Lady and Countefs of Northumberland, buried Aug. 14, 1619," Sachariffa's grandmother, wife of Henry Earl of Northumberland, and daughter of Walter Devereux, Earl of Effex. The time of her death is not mentioned in the peerages. It appears by this date of her burial, that fhe did not live to fee her hufband releafed from his confinement. " Jane Carter had three children . (whereof two were ftill-born), buried « Feb. 23, 1627." " The R' Hon. the Ld Graye and the Lady Prifcilla his wife,, had their daugh- " ter Catherine baptized Ocl. 29, 1629 ; Ralph and Elizabeth, fon and daughter " of Ld Gray and Prifcilla, Ocl. 27, 1630; Talbot their fon, Feb. 14, 1632 : " (buried June 9, 1635); Edward, baptized Feb. 7, 1633." William Grey was created Lord Grey of Warke in 1624. His fon Ralph fucceeded to the title, and left an only fon, Ford (created Earl of Tankerville), in whom it became extincl. The Earldom of Tankerville was revived in the perfon of Charles Lord Offulfton, who married Lady Mary Grey his only daughter. Catherine, daughter of William Lord Grey, whofe baptifm is here recorded, married Sir Edward Mofely, Bart, and fecondly, Charles Lord North. Lord Grey of Warke had the King's licence, in 1631, to inclofe a part of the high road leading from Brentford to Twickenham, adjoining to his houfe IIS. '** John Queat, a dwarf, buried July 9, 1632." " Abiena, the daughter of Sr Theodore Mayerne, baptized May 1-, 1537." Sir Theodore Mayerne was a phyfician of great eminence in the reign of King Charles I, I fuppofe his daughter Abiena to be the fame perfon (called in the parifh regifter at Chelfea, Adriana de Miherne) who was married to the Marquis de Montpolion in 1659. Sir Theodore lived many years at Chelfea IIS. " The Ld Waurewick had his daughter Frances buried May 4, 1648." Robert Earl of Warwick was lord admiral to the Parliament. " S' Charles Wolfely, Knt. and wife, had their daughter Bridget borrt " Mar. 10, 1657." sir Charles was the fecond baronet of that name, and one i,s Pat. 7Car-I.pt. 5. July 18. 1,6 See p. 77. of I S I, E W O R T H. 465 of Cromwell's peers. He reprefented the county of Stafford in parliament in the reigns of Kings Charles I. and II. His wife was Anne, daughter of William Vifcount Say and Sele ; by whom he had fix fons and ten daughters. " Anthony, the fon of Mr. Henry Collins, baptized June 22, 1676." The Anthony celebrated c^eiftical writer. He is faid to have been born at Hefton n7, ,but as CoUm8- others of Henry Collins's children were baptized at Ifleworth about this period, and none appear in the regifter at Hefton till 1 69 1 , it is probable that he had a houfe af this place at the time of his fon Anthony's birth, and removed fome years afterwards to Hefton. -H " Sufan, the daughter of the R' Hon. Henry Ld Longueville and the Lady Yelverton " Barbara his wife, baptized Ocl. 2, 1692 ; Henry, Aug. 30, 1695." Henry Lu°er^vfe°n* Lord Grey of Ruthin, created Vifcount Longueville in 1690, was father of Talbot Yelverton, the firft Earl of Suffex of that family. Lord Longueville married Barbara, daughter of Sir John Talbot of Laycock in Wiltfhire. " The R'Hon. Henry Percy, formerly called Cavendifh, Earl of Ogle, fon and Marriages of " heir-apparent to his Grace Henry Duke of Newcaftle, was married the 27 day the Percy " of March 1679, to the R' Hon. the Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter and fole " heirefs to Joceline, late Earl of Northumberland." Lord Ogle died on the firft of November the year following, and his widow was foon afterwards married to Thomas Thynne Efq. of Longleat, who was murdered by the contrivance of his rival Count Koenigfmark, on the 12th of September 1682. On the 30th of May following, Lady Ogle married Charles Seymour the fixth Duke of Somerfet. " Sr William Windam and Lady Catherine, daughter of his Grace the Duke of " Somerfet, married July 15, 1 708." Sir William Wyndham, Bart, was father of the firft Earl of Egremont, which title was granted in 1 749 to Algernon Duke of Somerfet, with remainder to his nephew Sir Charles Wyndham and his heirs "8. " L^ Tumont and the Lady Elizabeth, daughter of his Grace the Duke of " Somerfet, married June 14, 1707." Henry Earl of Thomond in Ireland, and Vifcount Tadcafter in England, the hufband of Lady Elizabeth, died without iffue in 1 734 "9. " The R' Hon. Algernon Percy, commonly called Ld Algernon Percy,, fecond " fon of the Duke of Northumberland, of this parifh, and Ifabella Sufanna Bur- " rell, of the parifh of Beckenham, in the county of Kent, were married by fpecial " licence in Sion-houfe, June 8, 1775, by Thomas Percy, D.D. I2°" The pre fent Earl and Countefs of Beverley. Lady Beverley is filler of Lord Gwydir, deputy great chamberlain of England, and niece of the late Sir William Bur- rell, Bart. '" Biograph. Brit. '"> Colling. 1,8 Collins. '" Now Bifhop of Dromore in Ireland. " James 466 1SLEW0RTE Carteret, Bart. Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, Talbot, Earl of Shrewf bury. Finch, Earl ofAylesford. Elwes, Bart. .Nevill, Earl of Aberga venny. George Keate. " James, fon of S' Charles Carteret and the Lady Mary, his wife, baptized " June 15, 1694." Sir Charles Carteret, Bart, was gentleman of the privy chamber to Queen Anne, and it is probable was at this time in attendance upon her (as Princefs of Denmark) at Sion-houfe '". Sir Charles left no iffue at his death, when the title became extincl. He was collaterally related to George, Lord Carteret, father of John Earl of Granville. Sir George Carteret married Mary daughter of Amias de Carteret Efq. llz " Henry fon of the Rc Hon. Henry Ld Paget and Elizabeth his wife, baptized " Jan. 22, 1719." The late Earl of Uxbridge, who died in 1769, when the title became extincl, but was revived in the perfon of the prefent Earl, who inherited the barony of Paget, as maternally defcended from William, the fifth Lord Paget I23. " George, fon of George and Mary Talbot, born Dec. ir, 17 19 ; Barbara' c? Maria, Feb. 12, 1720 ; Charles, fon of the Hon. George Talbot and Mary, " bornAp. 12, 1722; Maria, Aug. 18, 1723 ; John Edward, Ocl. 13, 1724; '* James Robert, June 28, 1726 ; Lucy, Dec. 14, 1732." George Talbot, the birth of whofe children is here recorded, became afterwards (in 1743) the 14th Earl of Shrewfbury. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Vifcount Fitz- william of Ireland. George, their eldeft fon, was the late Earl of Shrewf bury. Charles was father of the prefent Earl. John Edward died unmarried in 1 75 1. James Robert was in holy orders ; and became the Catholic bifhop of Birtha, and vicar apoftolic ofthe diocefe of London. He died in 1790, and was buried at Hammerfmith 124. Barbara married James Lord Afton of Forfar; Maria married Charles Dormer Efq. ; Lucy took the veil. " Heneage Finch, fon ofthe R< Hon. Ld and Lady Guernfey, baptized July 12, " 1 75 1." The prefent Earl of Aylesford, born, probably at Sion-houfe. His mother was daughter of Charles Duke of Somerfet. " Sr William Elwes, Bart, buried Nov. 26, 1778." The title of baronet, which was conferred on Sir Gervafe Elwes in 1660, is fuppofed to be- extha by the death of this Sir William, who refided at Ifleworth upon a very flender income. " The Hon. Henry Nevill of Sc George, Hanover-fquare, and Mary Robinfon " (daughter of the late John Robinfon Efq. M.P.,) of this parifh, were married " by fpecial licence, Oct 3, 1781." Several of their children were baptized here. Mary Countefs of Abergavenny was buried, Nov. 5, 1796. ' George Keate Efq., buried July 6, 1797." This gentleman, who is- well known to the public by his interefting narrative of Captain Wilfon's voyage to the "' See p. 4 jo. '" Collins. "3 Collins. "< See p. 272. Pelew ISLEW.ORTH. 467 Pelew Iflands, and other works, was born at Ifleworth, in the year 1730 11S, and educated under Mr. Woodefon, at Kingfton-upon-Thames, was afterwards ofthe Inner Temple, and called to the bar, but never prafticed. His firft publication was An Account of the Government, Hiftory and Laws of Geneva, which came out in 1761 : in 1766 he was elefted F.R.S. and F.S.A. In 1773, he publifhed Sketches from Nature in a Journey to Margate, an imitation of Sterne ; in 1781, he publifhed in two volumes a colleaion of his Poems, moft of which had before made their appearance as feparate works. In 1787, he brought out a Poem, called the Diftreffed Poet, on the fubjea of a long and vexatious law-fuit, in which he * was engaged with his archited Mr. Adam. His laft work was the Account of the Pelew Iflands, which came put in 1788. Mr. Keate married a daughter of Sir C. G. Hudfon, Bart., by whom he left an only daughter, now the wife of John Henderfon Efq. He was buried at Ifleworth church, where againft the eaft wall of the chancel is a monument to his memory, by Nollekins, with a medallion and the following infcription, " Near this place are depofited the remains of " George Keate Efq., F. R.S. F. S.A. and one of the benchers of the honourable " fociety of the Inner Temple, born Nov. 30, 1730, deceafed June 28, 1797. " His literary compofitions both in verfe and profe, give evidence of his genius ; " while warm regret and fond remembrance are friendfhip's eager teftimonies to " the qualities of his heart. The elegant hiftorian of pure and fimple manners, " his own refembled thofe which he defcribed ; the ingenious. author of works of " fancy, gay, fentimental, tender : his imagination in its freeft fallies paid refpeft *' to thofe decorums, the fenfe of which was ever fo confpicuous in his private life. " The tribute may be vain which thus affeclion pays his memory ; and vain this " marble monument which would perpetuate his fame ; at leaft they mark the " fpot made facred by a hufband's duft, where widow'd love, when it pleafes " heaven to dry its forrows, is anxious to repofe." Jane Catherine, his relia died in 1800, aged 70. There are feveral entries in the regifter relating to the families of Savage (Earl Rivers) ; Tracey, Dutton, Harvey, and Overbury. There are no very remarkable inftances of longevity recorded in the regifter ; Inftances of Anne Dechamp, aged 92, was buried Dec. 12, 1712, John Deney, aged 96, longevity. Oft. 21, 1807 ; and Francis Stuchbury, aged 97, Feb. 4. 1808. Among the minutes of the veftry is entered a licence, (bearing date April 28, Licences to •166 1,) given by William Grant, vicar of Ifleworth, to Richard Downton Efq., eatfkfh- and Thomafin his wife, to eat flefh in Lent, " for the recovery of her health, they " being enforced by age, notorious ficknefs, and weaknefs, to abftain from fifh." Thefe licences were by no means uncommon at an earlier period. After the Re- vs " George, fon of Mr. George Keate and Rachel his wife, baptized Nov. 30, 1730." ftoration 468 ISLEWORTH. Sir Thomas Ingram's alms-houfe. Mrs Tolfon's alms-houfe. Mrs. Bell's alms-houfe. ftoration, the keeping of Lent, which had been negleded by the Puritans, who en tirely exploded the obferving of feafons, was enforced by a proclamation from the King, and an office for granting licences to eat flefh in any part of England, was fet up in St. Paul's church-yard, and advertifed in the public papers, in the year 1663. The ftrianefs of abftaining from flefh diet feems, however, to have been much relaxed at this period, if we may judge frdm a curious licence 'z6 under Archbifhop Juxon'shand and feal, dated 1663 ; by which he grants permiflion to Sir Nathaniel Powell, Bart, his fons and daughters, and fix guefts,, whom he fhall at any time invite to his table, to eat flefh in Lent, provided that they fhould eat foberly, and frugally, with due grace faid, and privately to avoid fcandal ; the faid Sir Nathaniel giving the fum of 13s. 4d. to the poor of this parifh. Sir Thomas Ingram, chancellor of the duchy of Lancafter, founded an alms« houfe at Ifleworth for 6 poor women (houfekeepers) in the year 1 664, as appears by an infcription which is placed over the door with his arms. The endowment confifts of lands in Yorkfhire, given by the founder, now let at 42I. 1 5s. 1 od. per annum; 9I. per annum intereft of money given by Lady Kinfale, in 1720; 61. per annum intereft of money given by John Derbyfhire Birkhead Efq., in 1 743 j and a rent-charge of 21I. (on lands in Ifleworth,) given by Cary Elwes Efq., in 1768 ; in the whole, 78I. 15s. iod. per annum. Mrs. Anne Tolfon's benefaaion of 5000I. for building and. endowing an alms- houfe has been mentioned before "7. Its income is 1 65I. per annum, being the intereft of motley remaining after the expences of building were paid "s. Mrs. Mary Bell, in 1738, built an alms-houfe for fix poor women, which by her laft will, bearing date 1765, and a codicil dated 1767, fhe endowed with a h oufe and ten acres of land, direaing that they fliould be fold, and that out ofthe intereft of the money arifing from the fale, one guinea each fhould be «given to the alms- women every Afh-Wednefday, and that the remainder fhould be laid by for re pairs. This bequeft became void by the flatute of mortmain, but was confirmed by Mrs. Bell's executors. The money for which the houfe and a pew in the church were fold (with a fmall accumulation) produces an intereft of 61. 6s. per annum ; the land remains unfold, and is- let at 12I. per annum. '* In the poffeffion of James Clitherow Efq. ofBofton- houfe. "> See p. 459. 128 At the conclufton of a chancery fuit infti tuted by Mrs. Tolfon's laft hufband, and deter mined in favour of the parifh, the fum of 1192I. 13s. 1 id. had accrued for intereft, which increafed the principal to 6192I. 13s. nd. ; with which the fum of 6700I. bank annuities was pur chafed. The building of the alms-houfes coft 1268I. 38. 8d. which reduced the principal to 4 543 il. 16s. 4d. ; but a fubfequent purchafe raifed it to 5500I. bank annuities -, the intereft of which is 165I. The poor perfons appointed to thefe houfes muft be parifhioners chofen by the truftees. They are provided with clothes and fuel ; and the remainder ofthe intereft is divided among them in money. Communicated by Mr. Bell ; to whom I haye been indebted for a very fatisfaftory account of the various bene factions given to this parifh. Dame ISLEWORTE 469 Dame Elizabeth Hill, in the year 1630, gave a houfe, called the Town-houfe, Charity- for a fehool, and lands at Langley, Bucks, now let at 84I. per annum, for the edu cating of " young maids or girls, not vagrants or baftards, but fatherlefs, and with- " out friends to help them" (to be taught to read, and work with the needle, and to do all houfhold work.) This feems to have been the firft foundation of the charity-fchool at Ifleworth, in which 40 boys and 30 girls are now clothed and educated. Since its firft endowment, it has had the following ample benefac tions : Lands at Orpinton in Kent, given by Mrs. Anne Oliver'29 in 1672, now let at 60I. per annum ; an annuity of 5I. 5s. given by Richard Robinfon Efq., in 1764; 580I. Old South Sea annuities, the donations of various perfons, pre- vioufly to 1 7 8 1 , viz. 1 ool. given by Dr. Cave, in 1 7 1 2 ; and 1 ool. by Sir John Chefhire, in 1719 ; 200I. by Lady Kinfale, in 1725 ; and 75I. by Mr. Appleby in 1742 ; 775^- 3 per cent, purchafed with 500I. given by Cary Elwes Efq. in 1783 ; 21I. by Mr. Matthew Dick, in 1787 ; 200I. 3 per cent, by Mrs. Martha and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Swann, who died in 1786 and 1788 ; 200I. 3 per cent. by Mr. James Parker in 1793, and the fum of 500I. by Dr. John Taylour in 1793. The fum of iol. per annum alfo is appropriated to this fehool, out ofthe eftates left by Mr. John Newman of Stoke-Newington, (by his will bearing date 1727,) for the maintainance of charity fchools in and near London, at the difcretion of his executors. Philip Goddard's intended benefaaion has been mentioned before I3°. The fehool was fettled upon its prefent eftablifhment on the ift of May 1715. Mr. William Chilcot, in 1658, left the fum of 21I. per annum, being a rent- Apprentic- charge in lands in Oxfordfhire, for the purpofe of apprenticing poor boys. lng chlldren' Sir Richard Wynne in 1649, gave by will the bede-houfes or alms-houfes'3' Other bene- at Brentford-end to this parifli. Mrs. Margaret Kemp gave fome cottages, late the fa32 Spec. Brit, p 41, Vol. II. 3 P are 470 I S L E W O R T H. are now occupied by a flax manufaaory. There was till within thefe few years a china manufaaory at Ifleworth, belonging to Meffrs. Shore and Co. There is now a fmall manufaaory of Delf-ware ; there are extenfive calico grounds, be longing to Meflrs. Gould and Edwards, and two great flour mills, one of which was deftroyed by fire about the year 1794, and has been fince rebuilt. It is a very large concern, conduaed by Meffrs. Leader, Attlee, and Co. of Wandfworth. C 471 3 ISLINGTON. F[ ancient records the name of this place is written Ifendune, Ifendon, Ifeldon, ^J3^^"^ Yfeldon, and Eyfeldon. Skinner derives From Gifel, a hoftage, and tun, a town. His etymology is not, I think, entirely fatisfaaory, as it does not appear that this was ever called Gifelton or Giftleton. Ifendune, which name occurs in the moft ancient records belonging to the church of St. Paul's, as well as in the Domefday furvey, fignifies in the Saxon language the Hill of Iron ; in favour of which etymology it may be adduced, that feveral fprings of water impregnated with that mineral have been found near the village. Iflington is fituated about a mile to the north of London, on the road to Barnet. ^f^dariM, The parifh lies within the hundred of Offulfton, and is bounded by St. James's, extent, &c. Clerkenwell ; St. Pancras, Hornfey, Stoke-Newington, Hackney, St. Leonard- Shoreditch, and St. Luke, Old Street. It is three miles one furlong in length, two miles one furlong in breadth, ten miles one-half in circumference, and con tains exclufively ofthe fites of houfes, gardens, and waftes, 2699A. or. 37P. of land ', almoft the whole of which is pafture and meadow, there are only 22 acres of arable, and about 10 acres of nurfery. ground. The foil is a gravelly loam, in fome parts mixed with clay. The land is principally occupied by cowkeepers, and milk and butter (particularly the former) have long been Cowkeepers noted as the ftaple commodities of the place *. The number of cows now kept in 1 Trom tbe information of Mr. Robert Older- " thykned with floour ; and of butter for they* fhaw, the veftry-clerk, to whom and to J. Nel- " paftiez & pyepafte not made of well curds, Ton Efq. I have been indebted for feveral parti- " nor gather'd of whey in foomer, nor mingled culars for this edition. '" in winter with fait butter watered or wafht,,) 2 The following curious extraft is taken from " did obteyn long agoo thefe worfhipful armez a fpeecb made before Queen Elizabeth at Kenil- " in cooler and foorm as yee fee; which are, a worth, in the year 1575, by a perfon who repre- " field argent as the field and ground whearin the fented "a fquier minftrel of Middlefex." It " milkwives of this woorthy tooun doo trade for Ihews that Iflington was no lefs famous for its " theyr living. On a fefs tenny three platez be- dairies than it is now 4. and it contains fome " tween three milk tankerds proper. The three fhrewd bints that the milk-dealers of that age " milk tankerds az the proper veffell whearin the -were not-unacquainted with the art of adulterating " fubftauns & matter of their trade is too and their commodities. This minftrel declared, " fro tranfported. The fefs tenny, which is " how the -worfhipful village of Iflington, well '" a cooler betokening dout & 'fufpicion, as " knooen too bee one of the moftTaunciertt and " well to their markets and fervants as to their " beft tounz in England, next to London, at thiz '" cuftomerz, that they truft not too farre, may " day, (as well at Cookez feaft in Aldergate- " bring unto them platez, that iz coyned fyl- " ftreete yeerely upon Holy-rood-day, az allfo at •" ver ; three, that iz fufficient & plentie ; for " all folemn bridealez in the citie of London all " fo that number in armory may well fignifie. " the yeer after, in well ferving them of mylk for " For creaft, upon a wad of ote-ftraw a boll of " theyr flawnez not yet pil'd nor chalked ; of " furmenty. This fkoo'chion, with beaftz very " «ream for their cudardes not frothed nor " aptly agreeing both to the armz and to the 3 P 2 " trade 472 Arreft of King Henry VI. Inclofures deftroyed by the London ers. Proteftantsburnt and otherwifeperfecuted. Browuifts apprehended ISLINGTON. in the parifh varies from about 1200 to 1500, by far the greater part of which be longs in about equal proportions to Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Laycock. Confiderable quantities of brick are made rathe fields near the extremity of the parifh adjoin ing to Hackney. In the fame neighbourhood, within this parifli, is an extenfive manufaaory of white lead belonging to Meffrs. Walker and Company. When the unfortunate King Henry VI. was brought a prifoner to London, he was met at Eyfeldon (Iflington) by the Earl of Warwick, who arrefted him there in the name of King Edward IV, and caufed his gilt fpurs to be taken from his feet \ In the year 15 14, " the citizens of London, finding themfelves grieved with the " inclofures ofthe common fields about Iflington, Hoxton, Shoreditch, and other " places near to the city, whereby they could not be fuffered tc exercife their bows, «' nor other pafiimes, in thofe fields, as aforetime they had been accuftomed, af- " fembled -themfelves one morning, and went with fpades and fliovels unto the " the fame fields, and there like diligent workmen fo beftirred themfelves, that " within a fhort fpace all the hedges about thefe. towns were caft down, and the " ditches filled. The King's counfail coming to the Grey Friars to underftand " what was meant by this, were fo anfwered by the Mayor and Counfail of the " citie, that the matter was diflimuled ; and fo when the workmen had done " their work, they came home in quiet manner, and the fields were never after " hedged3." On the 17th of September 1557, four viaims of bigotry were burnt at one fire at Iflington4. In the month of December the fame year, Cuthbert Simpfon, John Rough, and other Proteftants, were apprehended at the Saracen's head at Iflington ; Rough and Simpfon, who were paftors of the congregation, fuffered martyrdom. Simpfon had previoufly undergone cruel tortures in the Tower s. In the month of June 1558, about 40 perfons, affembled at prayer in a clofe at Iflington, were appre hended by the conftable and his afliftant ; fome made their efcape, but 22 were fent to Newgate by Sir Roger Cholmeley of Highgate ; after feveral weeks' con finement they were examined before Bifhop Bonnor, and thirteen were con demned to the flames, and fuffered, feven in Smithfield and fix at Brentford 6. In theyear 1592, about 56 Brownifts, affembled in the fame clofe, were apprehended and committed to prifon 7. trade of the bearers, glorioufly fupported be tween a gray mare (a beaft meeteft for carry ing of milk tankerds), her pannell on her bak, az alwaiz reddy for fervis at every feaft and brydale at neede, & her filly fole, fallow and flaxen mane after the fyre. In the fkro under- graven iz thear a proper word, well fquaring ; with al the reft, taken out of Salern's chapter ' of things that moft noorifh a man's body, Lac, cafeus infans ; that iz, good milke and yoong cheez. And thus mooch , and plea? you, quoth he, for the armz of our worfhipful " tooun : and thearwithall made a manerly leg, " and fo held his peas." Laneham's account of Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Kenihvorth Caftle, in the year 1575, printed, in Nichols's Queen Elizabeth's Progreffes, vol. i. (1575) P-3'— 33- 1 Holinfhed's Chronicle, vol.iii. 3 Ibid. f. 1494. 4 Fox's Martyrs, vol.iii. p. 848. 5 Ibid, vol. iii. p. 86i-86c. 6 Ibid. vol. iii. p. 871, 872. ' Neale's Hiftory ofthe Puritans, vol. i. p. 544, In ISLINGTON. 473 In the month of Oaober 1642, the committee of the militia of London gave orders that trenches and ramparts fhould be made near all the highways leading to the city, as beyond Iflington ; in the fields near Pancras church, Mile-end, &c. This work was carried on for feveral months \ In May and June 1643, it was profecuted with uncommon zeal, as appears by the following, extraas from the public papers : " May 8. The work in the fields to trench the city goes on " amain ; many thoufands of men, women, and fervants, go out daily to work ; " and this day there went out a great company of the common-council, and divers " other chief men of the city, with the greateft part of the trained bands, with " fpades, fhovels, pickaxes, &c. — May 9. This day many thoufands of citizens, " their wives, and families, went out to dig, and all the porters in about the city, «' to the number of 2000. — May 23. Five thoufand feltmakers and cappers " went to work at the trenches, near 3000 porters, with a great company of men, " women, and children. — May 24. Four or five thoufand flioemakers. — June 5. " Six thoufand taylors V In a field, called the Reed-moat Field, a fliort diftance from the workhoufe to wards the north-weft, are fome remains of trenches ; in the one corner of the field is a moated fite, forming on the outfide of the moaj a fquare of about 1 00 paces. Thefe veftiges are thought to have been a Roman camp. In the furvey of Domefday, the landed property at Iflington is thus defcribed : " The canons of Sr Paul's hold two hides in Ifendone ; the land is one carucate and " a half, on which there is only one plough, but another might be kept half em- " ployed. There are three vilians who hold a virgate of land, and there is pafture " for the cattle of the town. This eftate, the prefent and former value of which " is 40s. has been time out of mind parcel ofthe demefnes ofthe church. The faid " canons hold two other hides in Iflington. This land furnifhes employment for " two ploughs and a half, and is all in culture. There are four vilians who hold " this land under the canons, four bordars, and 13 cottars." This eftate, which was pai'cel alfo of the demefnes of the church, had been valued in King Edward's time at 40s. ; but when the furvey was taken, at 30s. only. " Gilbert holds half " a hide of Geoffrey de Mandeville. This land is half a carucate, and is cultivated " to its full extent. There is one villan and one bordar. It was valued in Kmg " Edward's time at 20s., now at 12s. It was formerly the property of Grim, a " fervant of King Edward, who could alienate it at pleafure. Derman holds half " a hide ofthe King. On this land, which is half a carucate, is one villan. This " eftate is valued at 10s. and was formerly the property of Algar, a fervant of " King Edward who had power either to fell or to devife it. " Ranulf, brother of Ilger, holds Tolentone I0 of the King for two hides. The 8 England's Memorable Occurrences, Octo ber 24 — 31, 1642. » Perfect Diurnal, " land 10 Tolentone, in the hundred of Offulfton, was certainly in Iflington. The lane now known by the name of the Devil's Lane was in ancient writings Trenches and ramparts made near Iflington in 1642 and 1643. Moated fite. Lands m Iflington as defcribed in the furvey of Domefday. Manor of Tolentone. 474 Lands be longing to St. Paul's cathedral. Prebendalmanor. Prebendaries of Iflington. Yven, or Iveney-grove field. Manor of Berners, Ber- nerfbury, or Barnefbury. ISLINGTON. " land is two carucates. One hide is in demefne, on which is one plough. The " vilians have two ploughs. There are five vilians who hold half a virgate each, " two bordars who hold nine acres, one cottar and one Have, pafture for the cattle " of the town, pannage for 60 hogs, and 5s. rents. This, manor was valued in " King Edward's time at 40s., when it was granted to Ranulf at 60s. but is worth " now only 40s. It was the property of Edwin, a fervant of King Edward, who (! had the power of alienating it at pleafure." King William the Conqueror, in or about the year 1065, reftored to the canons of St. Paul's certain eftates of which they had been unjuftly -deprived ; among thefe were nine caffats8 of land in Iflington % being, I fuppofe, the two eftates mentioned in the furvey. The only property now belonging to the church in this parifli is the prebendal manor (being -the corps of one ofthe prebends), and a fmall eftate called Yven, Iveney, or Yeveney grove field. The prebendal manor holds a court-leet and court-baron. In the year 1649 it was fold to Maurice Gethin, citizen of London, for the fum of 275I. I0 There are no demefnes be longing to it. Richard Fletcher, Bifhop of London, and Edward Stillingfleet, Bifhop of Wor cefter, were prebendaries of Iflington ". The prefent prebendary is the Rev. Robert Nares, B.D. Prebendary of Lichfield, (author of a treatife on Orthoepy, and other works,) who was kiftalled in 1798. The prefent leffee of Yven-grove field, is Mr. Robert Cannon, who pays a re- ferved rent of il. Ss. 4d. per annum, to the church of St. Paul's : it has been taken on a building leafe. I think it probable that the greater part of the eftates faid in the Domefday furvey to belong to the church of St. Paul's came into the Berners family. Ralph de Berners, who died in 1297, was feifed of the manor of Yfeldon, held under the Bifhop of London, as of his caftle of Stortford, by a certain quit-rent, and the fervice of warding the caftle 1%. This manor, called in later records Berners, or Bernerfbury in Ifeldon, continued in the fame family for feveral writings called Tallingtbn, or Tollyngton Lane ; and is fo decribed in a furvey of roads in Ifling ton made as lately as 1732. On the eaft fide of the lane is a moated fite, called in old writings Tollyngton-houfe, or the Lower Place. Seep . 47 8 . 8 Cajfata is generally defined, a cottage with a fufficient quantity of land to maintain a family ; but it is fometimes fuppofed to be fynonymous with carucata, a plough-land; and I think it probable that it bears that meaning in the prefent inftance, » Records of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, Lib. L. f. 12. '"- Parliamentary Surveys, St. Paul's Cathedral. " See Newcourt. 12 Efch. 25 Edw. I. N°39- In this record the value and extent of the[manoT are thus eftimated : A capital meffuage, with the garden, &c. valued at 18s.; 180 acres of arable land valued at 2d. an acre ; five of meadow at is. 6d. ; rents of af fize, 26s. 3d.; a pair of gilt fpurs, payable by Thomas Meufe of Eaft Smithfield, 6d.; cuftom- ary rents, 71s.; 48 hens, 4s.,; 144 days' work, due from 48 cuftomary tenants, 18s. being i^d. each day's work} the reaping of 48 acres of corn, 12s. ; the carrying of hay, 2s. ; weeding corn, 2s. ; profits of court, 6s. 8d. Edmund de Berners, 26 years of age, abroad in Gafcony, was fon and heir of Ralph. generations, ISLINGTON^. 475' generations,'3, after which it paffed to that of Bourchier, by the marriage of Sir John Bourchier with Margery, daughter and heir of Richard Lord Berners. Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners in right of his wife, died in 1475, and Mar garet Lady Berners in 1476, when this manor was inherited by their grandfon John, the laft Lord Berners, then eight years of age '4, who became chancellor of the ex chequer. He is recorded among the noble authors, having publifhed a tranflation of Froiffart's Chronicle, and fome Romances. Lord Berners died in 1532, leaving iffue one daughter, married to Edmund KnyvetEfq., who had livery of his lands. In 1548, this manor was the property of Thomas Fowler, Gent.'5, in whofe family it continued till about the middle of the feventeenth century, when it paffed to Sir Thomas Fifher, who married Sarah, the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Fowler, Bart. ; Urfula, daughter and eventually heir IS of Sir Thomas Fifher Bart., brought this manor into the Halton family, in which it continued till 1754, when it was devifed by Sir William Halton, Bart, (grandfon of Sir William Halton, who married Urfula Fifher) to William Tuffnell Jolliffe Efq. ; on whofe death in 1 797, it became the property of George Forfter Tuffnell, father of William Tuffnell Efq., who died in 1809 : it is now veiled in truftees17 under the will of the latter. The Berners family, in the reign of King Henry VI., held fome lands in Ifling ton, (being half a knight's fee), under the Bohuns Earls of Hereford IS, being no doubt the fame eftate which is mentioned in the Domefday furvey as held by Gilbert, under Geffrey de Mandeville, whofe heirs the Bohuns were. Ralph de Berners gave an eftate at Iflington, fince called the manor of Canon- Manor of bury, to the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield '9. This eftate is Canonbury. enumerated among other poffeflions of that monaftery in a confirmation-grant of King Henry III., bearing date 1 253 2°. After the diffolution of the convent it was 13 Sir John de Berners, died in 1396, feifed of mefne lands held by Lady Berners in dower are the manor of Berners in Ifeldon valued at 24I. per nearly of the fame extent as the whole manerial annum ; James, his fon and heir, being then 14 eftate defcribed in the inquifition taken after years of age. Efch. 50 Edw. III. N° 10. Ralph de Berners's death. Richard Lord Berners died, in 1412, feifed of M See Efch. 15 Edw^ IV. N" 35. The manor this manor ; a third part of which was held in was then valued at 20I. per annum. dower, in the year 1417, by Philippa his widow, 1S Chantry Roll for Middlefex, in the Aug- then married to Thomas Lewkner; the two mentation office, dated that year, in which men- other parts were in the occupation of the Bifhop tion is made of lands held under Thomas Fowler, of London (Kemp); Margaret, daughter of l6 See Kimber's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 487-. Lord Berners, feven years of age, in 1417, was I? Forthe ufe of his widow till his only fon, a his heir. Efch. 5 Hen. V. N°8. Philmpa Lady minor, fhall attain the age of 25 years. Berners died in 1 42 1. It appears by me inquifi- '8 Records in the Exchequer Lib. N° 28. tion taken after her death ( Efch. 9 Hen. V. Knights fees. N° 24.), that her daughter Margery, then 12 "9 In a record dated 1373, it is faid, that Ralph years of age, was married to John Ferriby. de Berners formerly gave Canonefbury in Ifel- (Sir John Bourchier was her fecond hufband.) don, and a meflbage called Coteler's to the prior Among the profits of the manor enumerated in and convent of St. Bartholomew. Efch. the laft mentioned record are certain rents called 47 Edw. III. N° 80, 2d Numb. Lord's Silver, amounting to 4s. ^\d, The de- *° Dugdale's Monafticon, vol.ii, p< 386- 4 granted. 476 Sir John Spencer. Canonbury-houfe. ISLINGTON. granted in 1539, to Thomas Lord Cromwell2', on whofe attainder, which hap pened the year following, it reverted to the King. It was then charged with the payment of an annuity of 20I. per annum, to Anne of Cleve 22. The bailiff's ac count, in 1 54 1, makes the total amount of the manor to be 73I. os. yid*K The value of the houfe is not fpecified, it having been referved by Sir Francis Bryan, the keeper, for His Majefty's ufe. King Edward VI., in the firft year of his reign, granted this manor to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, in exchange for other lands **. The Earl furrendered it to the Crown in 1550 2S, and had a frefh grant of it in 1552, being then Duke of Northumberland 26. Upon his attainder the next year, Canonbury reverted again to the Crown, and was granted in 1557 to Thomas Lord Wentworth 2% who in 1 570 alienated it to John Spencer 2S, afterwards Sir John Spencer, alder man of London, no lefs renowned for his aaive fervices to his fellow-citizens 29, than for his immenfe wealth, the fame of which was fo great that a pirate of Dun kirk is faid to have laid a plot for carrying him away from his houfe at Canonbury in hopes of a large ranfom. The fhallop employed for this purpofe came up, as the ftory is told to Barking-creek, whence the pirate with fix of his men came to Iflington, leaving the reft of the crew to take care of the veffel. Fortunately Sir John Spencer was not then at Canonbury, by which means the defign was fruf- trated 3°. Sir John Spencer's daughter and heir, Elizabeth, was married in 1 594 to William Lord Compton, by which match the manor of Canonbury came into the Northampton family, and is now the property of the prefent Earl. Henry le Hayward and Roger de Creton gave (in 1334) 106 acres of arable ' land, and four of meadow, in Ifeldon and Kentyfhton, valued at 21s. 6d. per annum, to the hofpital of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, to pray for the foul of John de Kentyfhton. A confiderable part of this land was held under the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew 3\ In the year 1443, the mafter and brethren of the hofpital gave an annuity of 6s. 8d. to the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew, on condition that they fhould have free ufe of an aquedua, the head of which was within the precinas of Canonbury li. Canonbury houfe, is faid to have been made ufe of as a country-refidence by the priors of St. Bartholomew. It is fuppofed to have been in part, if not wholly, rebuilt by William Bolton, who was prior from 1509 to 1532. " Bailiff's account referred to in note 23. a: Rymer's Foedera, vol. xiv. p. 713. 53 Rot. Antiq. Brit. Muf. B. 20. J* Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 7319. Mar. Edw. IV. ¦'' Record in the Augmentation-office. ^6 Ibid. 57 Pat. 3 and 4 P. & M. pt. 9. June 10. '" Pat, 12 Eliz. pt. 9. Sept. u. 39 Hiftory of Canonbury, by Mr. J. Nichols (author of various topographical and other works, — a native of Iflington), p. 13 — 19. 27, 3° Ibid, p, 21. quoted from a pamphlet intitled " The Vanity of the Lives and Paffions of Men, by D. Papillon, 1651." 3' Efch. 8 Edw. HI. N° 19. 2d Numb. 32 Pat 11 Hen. VI. pt.2. m,j. His ISLINGTON. 477 His device, a bolt and ton, is to be feen on fome parts of the park wall. Canonbury-houfe was rented of Sir John Spencer, by William Riahorne Efq., who died there in 1582"; and it was afterwards, for a few years, in the occupation of Sir Arthur Atye, public orator of the univerfity of Oxford, who Eminent in- married his widow34. It is probable that Sir John Spencer came to refide habitants. there himfelf about the year 1599, which date was fome time ago to be feen on the cielings 3S. The charter of incorporation granted to the Butchers' Com pany, bearing date 1605, was figned at Canonbury by Lord Chancellor Egerton, who was then on a vifit to Sir John Spencer 36. A daughter of Lord Compton was born there in 1605 37. From 1627 to 1635, Canonbury-houfe was rented by the Lord Keeper Coventry 38. In the Strafford papers is a letter from the Earl of Derby, dated Jan. 29, 1635, from Canbury park, where he was ftaid from St. James's by the greateft fnow he ever faw in England 39. William Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, died at Canonbury-houfe in 1685 4°. The only part ofthe old Remains of manfion which remains is a lodging-houfe at the north-weft corner of the fite, Canonbury- which has a large brick tower, 17 feet fquare, and about 60 in height. It does not feem of very great antiquity, but was built, it is probable, by fome of the owners of Canonbury fince the Reformation, for tbe fake of the extenfive pro- fpea it affords of the furrounding country. On the wall of the flair-cafe near the top, were painted in Roman charaaers fix Latin hexameters, comprifing the ab breviated names of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror to Charles the Firft 4I. The tower is let out in apartments, the names of the lodgers being on the doors as in a College ftair-cafe, or that of an inn of court. This place was the temporary refidence of feveral perfons of eminence in the literary world. Samuel Humphreys, who wrote a poem called Canons, and tranflated •" le Spec- Samuel " tacle de la Nature," and other works, died therein January 1737 **; Ephraim Humphreys. Chambers, the well-known author of the Cyclopedia in 1 740 43 ; Dr. Goldfmith cLmbers. had lodgings there, and the late J. Newbery Efq., author of feveral ufeful boOks Dr-Gold- for the amufement of children, and fome other works. j Ne'wbery. I fuppofe -the manor of Tolentone -to have been the fame which was at a later 34 Parifh regifter. _ 39 Vol. i. p. 369. 34 "Some of his children were baptized at Ifling- 4° Collins's Peerage, edit. 1756, vol. ii. p. 254. tonin 1590, 1591, and 1592. 4' See a copy of .them in Nichols's Hiftery of 3S Gent. Mag. 1743, p. 491. Canonbury. They are now much decayed. 36 Nichols's Hiftory of Canonbury, p. 29. *2 Hrftory of Canonbury, p. 32. Samuel 31 Parifh regifter. -Humphreys, a ftranger, was buried at Iflington 38 A fon of Sir Thomas Coventry was baptized January 15, 1736-7. Parifh regifter. in 1-627. He dates from Canbury in 1634. Straf- 43 Biog, Brit,. ford Letters, vol.i. P44.7 ; and Harl, MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 7.00X- Vol. II. 3 Q period 478 Tallington-lane and houfe. Manor of Highbury and Newing- ton-Bar-rowe. Highbury- place burnt by the com mons of Effex. ISLINGTON. period called the Manor of Highbury. The lands on both fides of Tallington-lane belonged to the priory. of St. John of Jerufalem ; thofe on the weft fide are now parcel of the manor called the manor of St. John of Jerufalem ; thofe on the eaft fide are in that of Highbury, on which fide is Tallington-houfe, a moated fite, called in ancient writings, " the Lower Place 44." It feems probable, that when the manfion was built on higher ground, it was called, from that circum- ftance, Highbury, and that in time the manoritfelf was known by the fame name. As a corroboration of the conjeaure, it may be obferved, that furveys made during the feventeenth century mention two woods in the manor of Highbury, and that no wood is mentioned in the furvey of Domefday, as belonging to any of the Ifling ton eftates, except the manor of Tolentone. Alice de Barowe gave the manors of Highbury and Newton to the priory of St. John of Jerufalem 4S. Previoufly to this grant, in the year 1271, being then feifed of the manor of Newton, fhe gave to the nuns of St. Mary, Clerkenwell, an annual rent of feven marks, charged upon a houfe which was held of her by the prior of St. John of Jerufalem. For this benefaaion it was covenanted, that Alice de Barowe and her heirs fliould be for ever remembered in the maffes of the convent 46. The prior of St. John of Jerufalem had a charter of freewarren in Neweton, dated 128647. On the 13th of June 138 1, in Wat Tyler's rebellion, " the commons of Effex went to the manor of Highbury, two miles north of " London, belonging to the prior of St. John of Jerufalem, which they wholly " confumed with fire48." The fite of Highbury manor-houfe, in memory of this faa, ftill goes by the name of Jack Straw's caftle. At a court held for the manor of Neweton in 1409, Idonea, the daughter of John Aleyne, furrendered to Richard Serle four acres of land in Neweton-field, upon condition that he fliould provide her with clothes and maintenance during her life 49. After the dif folution of monafteries, the manor of Highbury or Newington-Barrowe was granted to Thomas Lord Cromwell, upon whofe attainder it reverted to the Crown so. The fite of the manor and certain demefne lands, confifting of abouf 300 acres s', were leafed by Queen Elizabeth, in 1562, to Sir Thomas Wroth, for 2 1 years 52 ; and the leafe was renewed to Richard Wroth for the fame term in 1584 s3. The fame premifes were granted in 1594, for 60 years, in reverfion to 44 It is fo ftated in a furvey of the manor (now in the poffeffion of Jonathan Eade Efq.), taken by command of Prince Henry in 1611. It was then vulgarly called the Devil's Houfe ; which name it ftill retains ; and Tallington-lane has thence acquired the name of the Devil's Lane. 45 Dugdale's Monafticon, vol. ii. p. 543. * Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Nero, E. VI. f.62. 47 Can. 14 Edw. I. N°8. 48 Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 454. 49 Cotton MSS. Nero, E. VI. 50 Record in the Augmentation-office. 51 Ancient furvey ofthe manor before quoted. 52 Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. 7. July 15. 53 Pat. 27 Eliz. pt. 7. Feb. 15. The grant was made the preceding year. Sir ISLINGTON. 479 Sir John Fortefcue, one of the Queen's privy counfel 5*. * The remainder of this term was veiled in 161 1 in William Lord Compton 5S. The manor, which had been fettled on the Lady Mary s6, became veiled in the Crown again upon her acceflion. Queen Elizabeth granted a leafe of the manerial rights (amounting to 40s. per annum) to Thomas Owen ". The manor was fettled by King James I. on Henry Prince of Wales, s8 and when he died, upon his furviving brother i9 ; who, after he came to the Crown, granted it in 1629, to Sir Allen Apfley 6o. Sir Allen fold it the next year to Thomas Auften Efq. Sir John Auften, Bart., in the year 1723, alienated it to James Colebrooke Efq., from whom it defcended to Sir Ge&rge Colebrooke, Bart. Sir George's life-intereft in it was put up to fale in the year 179 1, and purchafed by Jonathan Eade Efq.' of Stoke-Newington. Sir George Colebrooke died in 1809; the manor is as yet in the poffeflion of Mr. Eade. , Lands in this manor defcend according to the ftria cuftom of gavel-kind, being Cuftom of equally divided between male heirs in the fame degree of confanguinity, and in gave " default of male heirs, among females in like manner. In the furvey taken by order of Prince Henry, in 161 1, it is fiated, that there had been a capital manfion ftanding, as it was reported, within a moat yet remain ing, but that the houfe was decayed beyond the memory of man. Sir George Siteof High- Colebrooke fold the fite of Highbury manfion or caftle to John Dawes Efq., who ^™"or" built there an elegant villa, not long ago the property and refidence of the late caftle. Alexander Aubert Efq. F.R.S. a gentleman well known for his attachment to philofophical purfuits, and particularly for the accuracy of his aftronomical obferva tions. Mr. Aubert ereaedan obfervatory near the houfe, and furnifhed it with an Mr.Aubert's excellent colleaion of inftrumenst 6I, particularly- a very fine refleaing telefcope, °bfervatory- by Short, being thelargeft ever made by that artift. It was purchafed out of the late.Topham Beauclerc's colleaion. This houfe is now the property and refidence of John Bentley Efq. The manor of Highbury, according to the furvey above mentioned, extends over nearly 1000 acres of land, of which about 460 were then in demefne. Little St. John's wood » and Highbury wood, which were parcel of the poffef- Littie St< fions of the priory of St. John of Jerufalem, and were included in the leafe to John's and Sir John Fortefcue, were not granted with the manor to Sir Allen Apfley in 1629, ^fe^ but ftill continue in. the Crown. They were fold by the parliament in 1650 to 54 Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. 11. May 29. • s8 Survey of the manor. 55 Survey of the manor. 5' Abftraft of title. 56 Abftradt. of the title communicated for the e° Ibid.- The grant was made in the name of firft edition of this work, by' John Bowles Efq, White and others. It bears date September 15, 57 Records in the Augmentation-office. — 5 Car. I. r Thomas Owen, it is probable, was Alice Wilkes's 61 Such ofthe inftruments as were fixtures ftill third hufband, one of the juftices of the Com- remains ; the others were fold after Mr. Aubert's mon Pleas. Seep. 483. death. 3 Q 2 Sir 480 ISLINGTON. Sir Henry and Anthony Mildmay. The Ship. cote; Manor of St. John of Jerufalem. Sir Henry Mildmay and Richard Clutterbuck6'. It is a fingular circumftance, that Sir Henry Mildmay was one of King Charles's judges, whilft his brother An thony was fo devoted to that unfortunate monarch, that he attended his execution as a confidential fervant, and was one of thofe who fuperintended the interment of his remains at Windfor 62. Sir Henry Mildmay poffeffed an eftate at Newington- Green in right of his wife, daughter and heir of Alderman Halliday, which is now the property of his defcendant Sir Henry Carew St. John Mildmay, Bart. His father, the late Sir Henry Paulet St. John, took the name of Mildmay in confe quence of his marriage with the heirefs of Carew Mildmay Efq. of Shawford. No traces of the woods above-mentioned remain. The land on which they grew is held under the Crown, by an unexpired leafe granted to the late John Dawes Efq., and now vefted in his fon. A houfe, called the Shipcote, and lands in Iflington, then on leafe to Henry Ledifman, at the annual rent of 51I. is. 8d., formerly parcel of the poffeflions of the priory of St. John of Jerufalem, were granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1582 to Robert Earl of Leicefter63. The prior of St. John of Jerufalem held in the reign of King Henry VI. half a knight's fee in Iflington, which had formerly belonged to William de Vere 6\ Thefe perhaps are the lands which conftitute that part of the manor of St. John of Jerufalem which lies within the parifli of Iflington, between Tallington-lane and the weftern extremity of the parifli. This manor, which is fituated within the parifhes of St. James, Clerkenwell, and Iflington, continued in the crown after the diffolution of monafteries, till the year 1625, when it was granted to Robert Dixon and William Walley 6s, by whom it feems to have been immediately conveyed to Juftinian Povey Efq., who held it feveral years. In 1 643, Chriftopher Wafe Efq., died feifed of this manor, leaving iffue two daughters; Hefter, married to Sir William Mainwaring, and afterwards to Sir Henry Blount ; and Judith, the wife of George Mafter Efq. From this period the manor has been divided into moieties, one of which came into the family of Short ; in 1793 it was the property of Col. Henry Hafard, who took the name of Short, purfuant to the will of John Short Efq., then lately deceafed : it now belongs to a younger brother who has taken the fame name, Richard Samuel Short Efq. The other moiety continued in the Mafter family till the year 1741 or 1742, when it was fold by Thomas Mafter Efq. (grand-father of the prefent Thomas Mafter Efq., of the Abbey Cirencefter,) to William Snell Efq., whofe widow is the prefent proprietor66. " Particulars of fale, Augmentation-office. " Kimber's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 215. 63 Pat. 24 Eliz. pt. 3. Aug. 9. 64 Records in the Exchequer, Lib. N° 28. Knights fees. 65 Fee-farm rolls in tlie Augmentation-office. 6 The defccnt of this manor was communicated forthe firft edition of this work by J. Waine- wright, Efq. The ISLINGTON. 481 houfes.The Crown Inn. The Queen's Head. Dr. Suther- The manor-houfe belonging to this eftate, fituated atHolloway, in this parifh, was the refidence of Sir Henry Blount66. Certain lands, late parcel of the poffeflions of Adam Winthorpe, valued at 1 a I. 1 os. per annum, were fold by the crown in Queen Mary's reign, for 20 years purchafe, to William Ormefted, Mafter in Chancery. It is. obferved, that they were fold fo cheap, becaufe the purchafer had promifed to give them to the church67. In the lower ftreet ftood the Crown-Inn, an ancient houfe (pulled down fince Ancient the firft edition of this work), which was built, it is probable, by fome opulent merchant. In the window ofa large room, on the ground floor, were the arms of England, the city of London, the Mercers' Company, and another coat.. The Queen's Head, another ancient houfe, ftill remains in the fame ftreet : it has neither date nor arms. In the large houfe occupied by Dr. Sutherland, and ufed for the reception of infane perfons, is the coat of Fowler with the arms of Ulfter, and that land, &c. of Fifher, impaling Or, a lion rampant, Gules. They are placed over oppofite doors on the landing-place ofa large ftaircafe. An old manfion belonging to the Fowler family 6S, built (as appears by the date of 1595 on a cieling) in Queen Elizabeth's time, ftill remains in Crofs-ftreet. It is now a ladies' boarding-fchool in the occupation of Mrs. Clarke. The front has been modernifed. At the ex tremity of the garden, which belonged to this manfion, is a fmall brick building looking into Canonbury fields, abfurdly called Queen Elizabeth's Lodge. It is moft probable that it was built as a fummer-houfe by Sir Thomas Fowler the younger, whofe arms are placed in the wall, with the date 1655. On the 17th of February that year, there happened a fire at Iflington, which broke out at the ftables of the great houfe then inhabited by Sir Thomas Fowler and his family, Sir Thomas Fifher's family, and others 69. The Pied Bull, near the church, is faid to have been the refidence of Sir Walter The Pied Ralegh 7°. In the window of a room, on a ground floor, are the arms of Sir u ' John Miller, Knight, of Iflington, impaling Grigg. In the kitchen are the fame arms (with the date of 1624), and another coat. 66 See an account of him and his family p. 438. " Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 608. f.6. 68 Some coats of arms (for the moft part much mutilated), which were taken out ofthe windows, ftill remain in the houfe. Among thefe are the arms of Fowler and Heron. Thomas Fowler, the firft of the family who fettled at Iflington, married the daughter of Heme, or Heron, of that place. See Harl. MSS. N° 155 v. 69 Perfect Proceedings, Feb. 22, 1655. " Oldys, in his Life of Sir Walter Ralegh in the Biographia Britannica, fays there is no proof of it ; and John Shirley of Iflington, who wrote a life alfo of that celebrated man, fays nothing of his refidence there. The author ofa life of Sir Walter Ralegh, publifhed in 1740, fays "Tis " popularly reported to have been a villa of his, *' for the prefent tenant affirms that his landlord " was poffeffed of fome old account books, by " which it appears beyond all doubt, that this " houfe and fourteen, acres of land, now let at " 71I. per annum, did belong to Sir Walter " Ralegh," p. 152, 153. 4 Samuel 482 I S L I N G TON. Eminent in habitants. The church. The old Church. Samuel Clark, a learned orientalift, and one ofthe editors ofthe Polyglot Bible, was a fchoolmafter at Iflington in 1650 7I. Mr. Peter Vowel, a fchoolmafter at this place, was executed at the Mewfgate, July 10, 1 651, for a plot againft Crom well 72. Ezekiel Tongue, author of feveral traas againft the Papifts, and fome treatifes in natural hiftory, about the year 1660, kept an academy for teaching young ladies Latin and Greek, in a large gallery of a houfe at Iflington belonging to Sir Thomas Fifher 73. Col. Okey, an officer of eminence in Cromwell's army, and one of the judges of King Charles the Firft, is faid to have been a drayman in a brewhoufe at this place 7*. John Bagford, celebrated for his typographical collec tions (now in the Britifh Mufeum), died at Iflington in 1716". The eccentric Alexander Cruden, author of the Concordance, died there in 1770 76. James Burgh, author of Political Difquifitions, and other works, refided at Iflington four years, and died there in 1775 77. Dr. Nicholas Robinfon, a celebrated phyfician, author of feveral medical works, died there the fame year. Jofeph Collyer, who tranflated the Mefliah and Noah from the German,- and publifhed fome hiftorical and geographical works, died there in 1776. Mrs. Collyer, who refided alfo at Iflington, tranflated the Death of Abel. Dr. Hufband Mefliter, an eminent phy fician, died at his houfe at Iflington, in 1785 7S ; Ifaac Ritfon, in 1789 79 ; John Palmer, an eminent diffenting divine, author of fome paraphrafes, commentaries, and controverfial traas, in 1 790 ; the Rev. George Marriott, author of various poems and fermons, in 1793 s0; and John Williams, LL.D., a prefbyterian divine, author of a Concordance of the Greek Teftament, an Inquiry concerning the Difcovery of America, and other works, in 1798 8l. The parifh-church, which, ftands in the upper ftreet, is dedicated to St. Marv. The firft ftone of the prefent ftruaure was laid by James Colebroke Efq., on the 28th of Auguft 1 75 1, and it was opened on the 26th of May 1754. It is a brick- building, with ftone coins, cornices, &c. and confifts of a nave, chancel, and two aifles. At the weft end is a ftone fpire. The expence of the building amounted to about 6800I. a great part of which was raifed by fubfcriptions 8l. The old church, which, by the prints of it in the hiftory of Canonbury, appears to have been of Gothic architeaure S3, was pulled down in 1 75 1 . It is faid to have been in 71 Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. ,: "Several occurrences of State affairs, July 6—13, 1651. '3 Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. '4 Myfteries ofthe Good Old Caufe. 75 Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer. 76 Biog. Brit. edit. nov. " Ibid. '8 Gent. Mag. " A native of Cumberland, who publifhed a tranflation of Homer's Hymn to Venus. He wrote alfo the preface to Clarke's Hiftory of the Lakes, and gave promife of confiderable eminence as a literary character. He died at the age of 29. Hiftory of Cumberland, vol. i. P-334-338- ,80 Europ. Mag. 81 Gent. Mag. 82 Mrs. Pattifon, who died in 1755, >s fa'^ to have begun the fubfeription with 1000I. See Gent. Mag. 83 The date of 1483 was found on the tower. a very ISLINGTON. 483 a very ruinous 'ftate, but the tower was fo ftrongly cemented, that the workmen were obliged to make ufe of gunpowder to feparate the maffes 8s. In the year 1787, Iflington-church underwent a thorough repair ; when it being found necef fary to make fome alterations in the vane, the parifli contraaed with one Thomas Birch, an ingenious bafket-maker, who undertook to inclofe the fpire from the Scaffolding baluftrade to the vane with a cafe of wicker-work, and form within it a ftaircafe, wicker . . work. which fhould afford a fafe and eafy paffage to the top. This he performed in a little more than two months. His agreement with his employers was for the fum of 20I. and he was permitted to receive money for fhowing his new mode of fcaffold- ing, by which, though the price of admiflion to the ftaircafe was only 6d. each perfon, he reaped confiderable profits. His exhibition was frequently advertifed in the newfpapers. A print of the church, engraved by Matthew Skinner from a drawing made by himfelf, whilft the fpire was inclofed within its wicker cafe, was publifhed in February 1788. On the eaft wall ofthe chancel are the monuments of David Woodroffe, Gent. Monuments. 1705 ; and of Dr. William Cave, with the following infcription : " Juxta heic " (ad imum pulpiti gradum,) conditur quod claudi potuit Gulielmi Cave, S.T.P. " Canonici Windforienfis, Carolo II. a facris domefticis, hujus ecclefias per 28 an- " nos vicarii : Natus eft Decern. 30. An. 1637 ; obiit Aug. 4. An. 1713. Qua-- " tuor filiis et 2 filiabus eodem circiter loco, ex auftrali latere conditis acceflit " tandem Anna (Gualt. Stonehoufe, S.T.B. filiaunica) Mater pientiflima, conjux " chariflima, quae quidem obiit Jan. 10, 1691. Quifquis es viator, homo cum " fis, offa noftra ne violes, depofiti cineres quiefcant in pace, abi mortalkatis " memor, nee te incautum rapiat fuprema dies." On the north wall of the chancel is a monument with a reprefentation in alto relievo of Chrift raifing the ruler's daughter, in memory of Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George Ward Efq., of the Ifle of Wight, who died in 1808, and others of that family. At the eaft end of the fouth aifle is the monument of Mrs. Alice Owen, a great Mrs. Alice , 1 1 -i • 1 1 r Owen, benefaarefs to the parifh, ereaed when the church was rebuilt in the place ot one then removed. Mrs. Owen was daughter of Thomas Wilkes ; fhe was thrice married, firft to Henry Robinfon Efq., by whom fhe had fix fonsand five daugh ters ; fecondly, to William Elkin, alderman of London, by whom fhe had one daughter, Urfula (the wife of Sir Roger Owen of Condover, Salop); and thirdly to Thomas Owen, one ofthe juftices of the Common Pleas. At the eaft end of the north aifle are the figures on brafs of Henry Saville and Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas Fowler Efq. The infcription and part of the figures are concealed by a pew 86. * In *5 Hiftory of Canonbury, p.53. in the notes. in the 19th year of her age, as appears by the M Margaret Saville died in childbed, in 1546, infcription which is printed in the Hiftory of ° Canon- 484 ISLINGTON. Tombs in the old church. Tombs in the In the old church' were memorials of Sir Nicholas Kempe, Knt., a member of the High Commiffion Court, who died in 1624; of feveralof the families of Fowler, Mafter, Short, Cooke, and others 8?. In the church-yard are the tombs of Richard Cloudefly88, 1517 ; Sir John chu^h-yar'cl! Mordaunt, late of Tangier, " Knight Banneret," aged 86, 1723 ; Mr. Walter Sebbon, 1786, aged 93 ; John Blackbourne89, M. A. 1741 ; Dr. Robert Poole, (" who with indefatigable induftry inftituted the fmall-pox hofpital in the year " 1746,") 1752; John Booth of Barnard's Inn, attorney at law, F.S.A. 1757; the Rev. John Lindfay9°, 1768; Thomas Gibbons Efq,9'. 1779; the Rev. Thomas Smith92, 1781 ; John Herd, Gent, of the cuftom-houfe, barbaroufly murdered by footpads, 1782 ; Mrs. Judith Scott, aged 102, 1792. In the church-yard was the tomb of Chriftopher White, " profeffor of chymif- " try to both the univerfities," 1739 ?3. A new burial ground containing nearly an acre of land, adjoining to the church-yard, was confecrated Dec. 18, 1793 : Canonbury, p. 59. The date there indeed is 1646, but that is evidently an error of the prefs; her father lived in the reign of King Henry VIII. Henry Saville I fuppofe to have been the father of Sir George Saville, the firft baronet of that name ; which Henry was high fheriff of York- fliire in 1567. His mother was a Wyatt. On the tomb in Iflington church are the arms of Saville — three owls on a bend, quartering Wyatt. Henry Saville's marriage with Margaret Fowler is not mentioned in Kimber's Baronetage. It is moft probable that he had nofurviving iffue by her. Weever mentions the tomb of an infant fon of John Saville (a miftake, I fuppofe, for Henry) and his wife Margaret, who died in 1546, the fame year with the mother. 87 The infcriptions are printed in the Hiftory of Canonbury. 88 A great benefaftor to the parifh ; at whofe expence his tomb is kept in good repair. 89 On this tomb is the following epitaph: " Hie fftum eft quod mortale fuit viri vere re- " verendi Johannis Blackbourne, M. A. ecclefiae " Anglicans prefbyteri, Pontificiorum aeque ac te- novatorum mallei, docti, clari, ftrenui, prompti ; " qui (uti verbo dicam, caetera enim quis nefcit?) " cum eo non dignus erat, ufque adeo degener, " mundus, ad beatorum fedes tranflatus eft 170 » die Novembris A.D. 1741, jEtatis fuse 58. " Cui tandem hie reftituta eft Philadelphia, obm " ejus reli&a, poftea vero conjux Ric. Hey- « borne civis Londini, quae obiit 10° die Januarii « A.D. 1750, iEtat. fuse 70." »° The following infcription is placed upon his tomb : "- Hie reftant exuviae reverendi Johannis " Lindfay Aulae Mariae apud Oxonienfes olim " alumni ; qui ecclefiae Angelicanse exinde minif- " ter (benefices ejus opulentis licet interiori " ftimulo recufatis) animo in adverfis aequo, " magnoque fincera fide, nudaque veritate, honos -" pofteris effulfit. Eruditione infuper eximius, " vitx integer propofitique tenax, fpe&ata pie- '" tate infignis, morefque praecipue ingenuus vixit. " Curfu tandem bene pera&o fortiter diuque pro " fide certando emeritQsobdormientis more, bene- " dicens, obiit Jun. 28, A. D. 1768, aetat. 82. " En virtus ! en prifca fides !" 91 On his tomb is the following epitaph : " Liveft thou, Thomas ? Yes, with God on high ! " Art thou not dead ? Yes ; and here I lye. " I, that with men on earth did live to die, " Died for to live with Chrift eternally." 92 On an upright ftone fixed agaiuft the fouth wall of the church is the following infcription : " This ftone is erefted to the memory of the " Reverend Thomas Smith, who lies buried in " the vault behind this ftone, Sunday morning " and Sunday afternoon Lefturer of St. Giles- " Cripplegate, London, fupported by the Wor- " fhipful Company of Haberdafhers ; and alfo " author of the Treatife of Refignation 9. There is a meeting-houfe of the Prefbyterians at Iflington, of which the Rev. Nathaniel Jennings is minifter. There is a Methodifts' meeting at Iflington, and another at Holloway : a chapel has been lately built by the Methodifts at Iflington, called the Union Chapel, at which the church fervice is ufed. ,M Ant. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. 103 Funeral Monuments, p. 427. 104 Kimber's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 361. In the London Regiftry. 106 Thirty maffes faid for a perfon deceafed, according to an inftitution of St. Gregory. 4 107 Chantry Roll in the Augmentation-office, temp. Edw. VI. 108 Neale's Hift. ofthe Puritans, vol. i. p. 251. 109 See the account of Hackney (p. 307. 336.) in which parifh the greater part of the chapel and the whole of the hofpital is fituated. The ISLINGTON. 48; The earlieft date of the parifh regifter is 1557. It is for the mofl part very Parifh re. fairly written and very accurately kept, except during the civil war and inter- &&er- regnum ; at which period there is an hiatus of feveral years. Averagi ; of Baptifms. Average of Burials, 1580 — 1589. — 3§f — 47A 1630 — 1639. — 5H — 73r 1680 — 1689. — 67i — 1274. 1730 — *739- — 88T^ — ^t 1780 — 1784. — »S5t — 2284. 1784 — 1789. — i6o£- — 2i9r 1790 — 1794. — 1764. — 220T *795 — 1799. — *93r — 223r 1800 — 1804. — 2I5t — 243 1805 — 1809. — 254f — 259t The population of this parifh appears to have increafed very confiderably be tween every period here noticed. The difproportion of the burials arifes princi pally from the number of nurfed children who die at Iflington, and are there in terred : many funerals alfo are brought from the metropolis. The number of houfes in 1793 was about 1200: according to the returns made to parliament under the population aa in 180 1 there were then 1665 inhabited, 80 uninha bited houfes, and 10,212 inhabitants in this parifh ; the prefent number of houfes is about 2200. Several perfons died of the plague at Iflington in 1577, 1578, and 1592. In 1593, 106 perfons fell victims to that diftemper, the whole number of burials that year being 187. In 1603 there were 322 burials ; in 1625, 213 ; in 1665, 696, of which 593 were perfons who died of the plague. Ninety-four died in one week from Auguft 29th to September 5th. In the months of Auguft and September the number of burials was above 490 II0. Extraffs from the Regifter. " William Perriam and Margery Huchyfon, married April 6, 1562." Sir William Perriam, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, had a confiderable eftate at Iflington111. " Henry, the fonne of Mr. Yelverton, was baptized July 7, 1566." This was no doubt the celebrated Sir Henry Yelverton, who is faid to have been born at Eafton-Mauduit in Northamptonfhire on the 29th of June II2. From the date of his "° Weekly bills of mortality. The parifh re gifter is defe&ive in the latter part of this year. 3R Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 366. Collins's Peerage. Comparativeftate of popu. la tion. Plague years} Sir William Perriam. Sir Henry Yelverton. baptifm, 4§8 ISLINGTON. Countefs of Worcefter. Fatal duel at Iflington, between Sir Geo. Whar ton and Sir James Stew art. baptifm, however, it feems much more likely that he was a native of Iflingtdn ; where his ather Sir Chriftopher (then Mr. Yelverton, and a ftudent at Gray's Inn) had, it is probable, country lodgings. In the early part of King James's reign, this celebrated lawyer fell under the King's difpleafure for his fpeeches and condua in parliament, as we find by a narrative1'3 drawn up by his own hand, of what paffed on his being reftored to favour in 1609 ; after which event he rofe to fome of the higher honours of his profeffion. In 1613, he was knighted, and made folicitor general, and in 161 6, attorney general : having given offence, as it is faid, to the favourite Buckingham, he was accufed in the Star- chamber of illegal proceedings in his execution of the laft mentioned office,- and by a fentence of that court deprived of his place, imprifoned in the Tower, and heavily fined. Being afterwards brought before the Lords, he made a fpeech, which was fo offenfive to the King and his -favourite, that he was fined 10,000 marks, for the refleaions which he had caft on His Majefty, and 5000 for the in- fult offered to Buckingham. By one of thofe unaccountable changes which oc cur among politicians of all ages, he became foon afterwards in great favour with the very man whofe enmity had coft him fo dear, and was, through his intereft, made one of the juftices of the Common Pleas, in which fituation he continued till his death, in the month of January, 1630. Sir Henry Yelverton was efteemed one of the firft lawyers of his time. His reports were publifhed feveral years after his death, by Serjeant Wilde. Some of his fpeeches in parliament are alfo extant "4. " The Ladye of Worcefter, late wife to the Earle of Worcefter, was buried the " 25th dale of Julye, between 1 1 and one of the clocke in the mornynge, being " Sc James's daye, in the fouth chappell near unto the Toure, 1584." Lady Worcefter was daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, ftandard-bearer to King Henry VII., and relia of Henry, the fecond Earl of Worcefter (of the Somerfet family), who died in 1549 "s. " William Wynche, the firft that was executed at Ringcroffe, was buried at " Iflington, the 9th of September 1600." " Sr George Wharton, fonne of Ld Wharton, was buried the 10th of No- " vember 1609; James Steward Efq. godfonne to King James, was buried the " 10th of November 1609." Thefe two perfons killed each other in a duel, ahd were interred, as it is faid, by the King's command, in one grave. There was publifhed at the time, " A lamentable ballad of a combate lately fought near Lon- " don, between Sf James Steward and Sr George Wharton, Knights, who were " both flain at that time." It is reprinted in the Hiftory of Canonbury. James Stewart was fon of the firft Lord Blantyre, Lord Treafurer of Scotland. The 1,3 Printed in the xvth volume of the Archseo- logja. 114 Collins's Peerage. 1,5 Ibid. challenge ISLINGTON. 489 challenge fent by Mr. George Wharton11,5, and Sir James Stewart's anfwer, tran- fcribed from a copy in the Britifh Mufeum, will be found in the note. "John Egerton, fon of Sr John Egerton, Knt. was buried Ap. 22, i6rO." Iflington feems to have been remarkably fatal to the duellifts of that day. Mr. Egerton was killed in a duel on the 20th of April. He is faid to have been put to death bafely by his antagonift, one Edward Morgan, who was himfelf " forely hurt ll6." Mr, Egerton was third fon of Sir John Egerton, Knt. whofe fon Rowland was created a Baronet by King James I., and was anceftor of Lord Grey de Wilton. " William, the fon of Sr Thomas Coventrye, beinge at that time U Keeper " of the greate feale of England, was baptized the 4th of Oaober 1627." The Lord Keeper refided for fome years at Canonbury. His fon William was knighted by King Charles II. and made a Commiflioner of the Treafury. Bifliop Burnet calls him the beft fpeaker in the Houfe of Commons. He died unmarried in 1 686. " Ann, daughter of S'. Simon and Ann Dewes, baptized May 13, 1630." Sir Symonds Dewes was an eminent antiquary, and made very large hiftorical and topographical colleaions, which are now in the College at Arms, and in the Britifh Mufeum, where is a very curious life of Sir Symonds, written by himfelf, of which fome extraas have been publifhed. His Journals of the Parliaments in the reign of Queen Elizabeth have been publifhed. JohnEgertoxt' killed in a duel. Lord Keeper Coventry. William Coventry, Sir Symondsv Dewes. 1,5 So called in the copy in the Britifh Mu feum, Harl. MSS. N°787, f. 59 "Mr. George Wharton's challenge to Sir James Stewart, before they fought : " Sir, " Your mifconftruing of my meflage gives me caufe to thinke you extreme vaineglorious ; a humo7 wCfc.y= valiant detefts. And Whereas you unjuftly faid I durft not meet you in the ye field to fight wth you, you fhall find y' you are much miftaken. For I will fight w0" you wch what weapon you fhall appoint, and meet you where you will, being contented to give you this ad vantage not valuing the y" worft can doe. " George Wharton." " Sir James Stewart's Anfwere : " Sir, " Your meflage eyther being ill delyvered, or elfe not accepted, you have fince, though ill ad vifed, retrafted, and have repented it ; for your MefTenger willed me from you, that eyther of us fhould make choyce of a friend to debate y= matter. To which I confeffe I did but lightly hearken, fince I knew fome oddes which noe breath could make even. And now you have to acknowledge rio other fpeeches then you charged me with, which is, y' I faid you durft not meet me in ye field to fight. True it is your barbarous and uncivill infolency in fuch a place and before fuch A company (for whofe refpeft I am onely forry for what I then did or faid) made me doe and faye y' vrctt I now will make good. Wherein fince you finde yourfelf behinde I am reddy to doe you all ye right you can expeft. And to y' end have I fent you yc length of my" rapyer wth I will ufe with a dagger, and foe meet you at ye farther end of Iflington (as 1 underftand nearer you then me) at 3 of y" clocke in ye after- noone ; wch things I fcorne to take as advantages. but as my due & wch I have made indifferent. And in refpeft I cannot fend any of my friendes wth out great hazard of difcovery, I have lent this my fervant herewth who is onely acquainted w"' this bufinefs. " James Stewarte." 116 Winwood's Memorials, vol. iii, p. 154. « Philipp, $§o ISLINGTON. " Philipp, the daughter of the right honorable S' Humphrey and Judith Sir Hum- « May? baptized Dec. 17, 1630." Sir Humphrey May was Mafter of the Rolls* " Ann, the daughter of Edward and Ann Mountegue, the right honorable ** the Ld Mandefield, was baptized the 17 day of February 1635 (buried " Mar. 3)." Lord Mandeville was afterwards Earl of Manchefter. William « William, fon of Benjamin Hewling, baptized Odt. 28, 1665." The un- ew ms* fortunate William Hewling, who was executed at Lyme, Sept. 1 2, 1685, for being concerned in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion. His brother Benjamin was exe cuted at Taunton a few days afterwards. The youth, beauty, and amiable qua lities of thefe mifguided men, excited a more general commiferation of their fate than that of others who fuffered, perhaps more unjuftly, under the flern rigour of the mercilefs Jefferies. William Hewling's corpfe was interred in the church yard at Lyme, whither it was attended by 200 perfons, men and women, of the firft rank in the town II?. John Play- *' John, fon of John Playford, baptized Oa, 5, 1665." Playford, the cele brated writer on mufic, lived many years at Iflington, where his. wife kept a boarding-fchool for young ladies, oppofite the ehurch "8. His fon John was a printer of mufic "'. John Shirley. « John Shurley, buried Dec. 30, 1679." John Shirley, who died at Ifling ton on the 28 th of December that year, and was buried in the church-yard, pub lifhed the Life of "Sir Walter Ralegh, and fome chirurgical tracts 12°. 2dCBartKnt' '" William Dufey, a Knight, from S' Bride's, buried Aug. 4, 1683 ; Sr Robert il Ducy, Bart. May 30, 1.703." Sir Robert Ducie fucceeded his brother William Vifcount Downe, ofthe kingdom of Ireland (who died in 1697), in the title of Baronet. His daughter Elizabeth married Edward Morton Efq. anceftor of the prefent Lord Ducie. Sf hf i?! " Sufanna Creed and her daughter Hefler, killed by a clap of thunder in their beds, buried the 10th day of Auguft 1690." drerTat'a ' " " Job> J°mua, and Robert, fons of Richard and Ann Sale, were baptized birth, « Aug. 18, 1 73 1." They were all buried the 24th. Humphreys. " Samuel Humphrys, ftranger, buried Jan. 15, 1736-7." Author of " Ca- " nons," a poem, and " Ulyffes," a comic opera. He tranflated alfo Le Speflacle de la Nature, and other works ,2t. bourne.Ia°k" " J°hn Blackbourn> buried November 19, 1741." An eminent divine and "' Noble's Memoirs of the Crorriwells, vol. ii. '*> Hawkins's Hiftory of Mufic, Vol. v. p. 107, p. 456 — 459 ; and the New Martyrology. j08. 1,8 Her fehool was advertifed-at the end of one »° Ant. Wood's Atnen. Oxon. vol. ii. of his publications in 1679. ¦¦ Hiftory of Canonbury, p. 32, 33. a bifhop ISLINGTON. 491 a bifliop among the nonjurors. He republifhed Bale's " Chronycle concerning " Syr Johan Oldecaftell," with an Appendix} and an edition of Bacon's Works, in four volumes folio "\ " Dr. Robert Poole, buried June 3, 1752." Dr. Poole publifhed Travels to Dr. Robert France, in two volumes 8vo, and a book called the Phyfical Vade Mecum. To Poole' both thefe works his portrait is prefixed. It is faid in his epitaph, that with inde fatigable induftry, in the year 1 746, he inftituted the fmall-pox hofpital. " The Rev, John Lindfay, buried July 2, 1768, aged 81." A learned non- John Lind- juring divine, and an intimate friend of Blackbourne's. He was author of " a ay" " Short Hiftory of the Regal Succeffion, with Remarks on Whiflon's Scripture " Politics;" and tranflated Mafon's Vindication ofthe Church of England, with a large Preface, containing a feries of the Englifh Bifhops fince the Reformation ; this preface is dated Iflington, 1727, Mr. Lindfay was 50 years minifter of a chapel in Alderfgate-ftreet. He was buried near the tomb of his friend in the church-yard, at the eaft end of the church 123. " John Hyacynth de Magelhaens, buried Feb. 13, 1790, aged 6y." This J. H. deMa- man had been an Auguftine monk at Lifbon; but, having renounced the Roman ge, Catholic religion 12+, came to refide in England about the year 1764. He is faid to have been lineally defcended from Ferdinando Magelhaens the 'celebrated circumnavigator, and related to the Jefuit of that name who travelled into China. J. H. de Magelhaens was a great linguift, and was verfed in chemiftry and other branches of natural philofophy. He publifhed feveral treatifes in that fcience (par- tinularly a work on mineralogy, taken principally from Cronftedt) ; an account of various philofophical inftruments ; and a narrative of the laft days of Rouffeau, to which his name is not affixed. J. H. de Magelhaens was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of feveral foreign academies. He died in lodgings at Iflington. " John Donaldfon, aged 64, buried Oa. 16, 1 801." Mr. Donaldfon, who had John Do- been fometime a miniature painter, was author of " an Effay on the Elements of na on' Beauty;" a volume of poems'25 and an anonymous pamphlet entitled " Critical " Obfervations and Remarks on the public Buildings of London '"." " William Hawes, M. D. aged 71, buried Dec. 13th, 1808." Dn Hawes, Dr. Hawes.1 who was a native of Iflington, was, in the early part of his life, an apothecary in the Strand. In the year 1773, he became known to the public by his zeal in calling their attention to. the refufcitation of perfons apparently drowned; he '" Nichols's Life of Bowyer. See his epjtaph, nonry, in the Auftrian Netherlands, till his p. 484. death . "3 His epitaph is printed in p. 484. ,2S Gent. Mag. "* I have been informed that he enjoyed a Ca- "6 Edwards's Anecdotes of Painters. advertifed 492 ISLINGTON. advertifed rewards for refcuing fuch unfortunate perfons from the water, and for twelve months difburfed them at his own expence. In t774» in conjunaion with Dr. Cogan, he was the means of eflablifhing that excellent inftitution, the Royal Humane Society, the parent of numerous eftablifhments for the fame beneficent purpofe, in various parts of the world. Dr. Hawes commenced praaice as a phyfician about the year 1780; and he foon afterwards read a courfe of lec tures on fufpended animation ; his publications were, An Account of Dr. Gold- fmifh's laft Illnefs, (1774) ; An Addrefs on premature Death and premature In terment, (1777) ; An Examination of the Rev. John Wefley's primitive Phyfic ; An Addrefs to the Legiflature on the Importance of the Humane Society, (1781) ; An Addrefs to the King and Parliament, with Obfervations on the general Bills of Mortality; and the Tranfaaions of the Royal Humane Society from 1774 to 1784^ (publifhed in 1796). Dr. Hawes was buried in the new cemetery at Iflington ; there is no ftone to mark the place of his interment, but the go vernors of the Royal Humane Society, with a laudable regard to the memory of the diftinguifhed philanthropift, to whofe exertions the public are indebted for its origin, are about to erea a monument for him in the church, with the following infcription : " To perpetuate while this frail marble fliall endure, the meritorious exertions of an individual, and to excite the emulation of others, the Governors of the Royal Humane Society have caufed this tablet to be infc'ribed with the name of William Hawes, M. D., by whofe perfonal and indefatigable labours, an in ftitution, honourable to the nation, and highly beneficial to the world at large, was founded, foftered, and matured. And long, very long may it flourifh, the ornament and pride of Britain ! This excellent, unaffuming, perfeveririg philan thropift was born at Iflington, Nov. 28126, 1736; died in Spital Square, Dec. 5, *8o8, and was buried on the 13th, near thefe walls. Go reader, and imitate thofe virtuous aaions, which the lateft pofterity will applaud and venerate, and which the recording angel has regiftered in Heaven — " Well done, good and faithful fervant, enter thou into the joy ofthe Lord." Families of There are feveral entries in the regifter of the families of the following baronets : Fowler, Fowler, Halton, Stonhoufe, and Fifher. Sir Thomas Fowler the elder, Fifher, &c. ,t . r who died m 1624, was one of the jury on Sir Walter Ralegh's trial "' : his fon, Sir Thomas, was created a Baronet in 1628 ; the title became extina at his death : his daughter Mary married Sir Thomas Fifher, Knt. who was created a Baronet in 1627. Sir Richard Fifher, the fourth Baronet, by whofe death the title is fuppofed to have become extina, was buried at Iflington, Oa. 14. 1707. Fifher 126 "Wra. fon of Thomas and Catherine Hawes, "' Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, 8vo. 1677. baptized Nov. 17, (O. S.) 1736," p. 106. Tench ISLINGTON. Tench Efq. his reprefentative, was created a Baronet in 1715. The Stonhoufe family were many years impropriators of the reaory. The Haltons, were con- neaed with the Fifhers. Sir Thomas Halton was buried Sept. 14, 1726, Sir William, Feb. 18, 1754. 493 Inftances of Longevity. " Hannah Carpenter, aged 103, buried Jan. 7, 1752; Mary Haughton, aged 102, Ap. 29, 1758; Eleanor Rock, aged 100, Ap. 21, 1760; Elizabeth Button, aged 105, Mar. 29, 1772 ; Sufanna Woodhoufe, aged ioi,May6, 1778 ; Catharine Maglew, aged 100, Dec. 2, 1787; Judith Scott, aged' 102, Jan. 27, 1792; Elizabeth Robfon, aged 103, Jan. 27, 1793." Befides thefe inftances of longevity, there occur inftances of feventeen perfons of 90 years of age, four of 91, five of 92, four of 93, four of 95, one of 96, and one of 98 years of age. Anthony Wood, in the firft edition of his Athene Oxonienfes ll8, fays, that John Bell, Bifhop of Worcefter, who was employed by King Henry VIII. in the bufinefs of his divorce, was buried in Iflington church ; but Godwin informs us, that he was buried in that of St. James, Clerkenwell. William Baxter, author of the Gloffary, &c. is faid to have been buried at Iflington I2% in 1723 ; but I did not' find his name in the regifter. ' Richard Cloudefley, by his will, bearing date 15 17, bequeathed a parcel of Cloudefjey's ground, called Stonefield, or the 14 acres 13°, then let at 7I. per annum, to the benefaftions. church of Iflington ; the profits of which were appropriated partly for an obit,' partly to the brotherhood of Jefus (founded by him), for firiging maffes, at which- obit 6s. 8d. was to be given to the poor. Thefe premifes, though appropriated ; principally to fuperftitious ufes, were not feized by the crown at the general dif- perfion of chantry-lands in the reign of King Edward VI., but ftill continue to be the property of the parifli, and now under an expired leafe produce 84I. per annum, which is difpofed of at the difcretion of the feoffees. A charity-fchool for boys and girls was eftablifhed at Iflington in 1 7 i-o ; fince which time various benefaaions have been given or bequeathed to it, which with the produce .of favings, have formed a flock of 2000I. three per cents; but its principal fupport depends uport annual fubfcriptions, and colleaions at charity fermons. The number of children is at prefent 70 (49 boys and 30. girls), who, are clothed and educated. The fchoohhoufe was repaired and enlarged in 1788.' There are'Sunday-fchools and a fehool of hiduftry, fupported by the Methodifts. Charity- fchools. 118 Vol. i. *"> Hiftory of Tottenham, p. 89, '*°, It meafures 16 A. 2 R. 17 P. according to " the furvey which hangs in. the veftry-room. Vol. II. 3S, Dame 494 ISLINGTON. Alms- houfes Dame Sarah Temple, about a century ago, left the fum of 500I. to purchafe an eftate, the profits of which fhould be appropriated to the educating and appren ticing poor children of this parifli. The prefent rent of the eftate (at North-Mims), which was purchafed purfuant to her will, is 48I. 5s. 9d. per annum with whiefi three children are maintained, clothed and educated at a fehool at Hanwell. Mr. John Davis, who died in 1793, left the fum of 2000I, 3 per cent, confol. for the.purpofe of building and endowing alms-houfes for eight poor aged women, under the direaion of his widow. Eight tenements were built and neatly fitted up in the year 1794. Mrs. Davis, fometime before her death, which happened in 1 801, endowed them with, a fum of money, out of the intereft of which the iruftees allow the penfioners iol. per annum each. Mr. Robert Carelefs, who died in 1805, left the fum of iool, to thefe alms-houfes. Workhoufe. A large and commodious workhoufe was built in the year 1777, at the expence of 3000I. upon a fpot of ground given to the parifh by Mrs, Amey Hill. ... Mrs.. Alice Owen, about the year 1610, being three years before her death, founded an alms-houfe for ten widows, and a free-fchool adjoining for 30 boys* in that part of Iflington which lies, within the parifli of St. James, Clerkenwell. She direaed, by her ftatutes, that the poor widows fhould be all chofen out of the parifh of Iflington, 24 of the boys out of Iflington, and the remainder from Clerkenwell 13I„ The endowment of thefe charities confifts of the hermitage-field at Iflington, and a fmall farm at Orfet in Effex. The mafter's falary was fixed at 20I. per annum, with the fchool-houfe to live in, the ftudy over the porch, and the garden for his recre ation. The falary has been raifed to 30I. The government both of the fehool and alms-houfes was committed to the care of the Brewers' Company, who have a difcretionary power of altering the ftatutes when time and occafion fhall require. The foundation of thefe charitable inftitutions is faid to have arifen from a pious refolution made by the founder in her youth, excited by a providential efcape ; an arrow from the bow of an archer, who was exercifing in Iflington-fields, having pierced the high crown of her hat ,3\ Mrs. Owen, by her will, left 60 gowns to poor women, 20 of whom were to be of the parifh of Iflington. She direaed that her executors fhould purchafe lands for the mafter of the free-fchool, if fhe fhould not have done it before her deceafe. There are two fets of alms-houfes AliceOwen's free fehool and alms-houfes. Cloth work ers' alms- houfes. "' The widows, by Mrs. Owen's ftatutes, were to receive 1 6s. 8d. per quarter each, a gown once in two years, and to have 61. per annum allowed between them for fuel ; they were to be above 50 years of age, and to have been inha bitants of Iflington for feven years before their eleftioh. The penfioners in Mrs. Owen's alms- houfes, now receive iol. 12s. each per annum, and a chaldron and a half of coals. The eftates will at a future period be capable of much further im provement, as they confift of fome ground-rents near the alms-houfes, on the fite of the hermf- tage-field, and the farm at Orfet, which is let on a long leafe, as yet unexpired. 132 This ftory is mentioned as a tradition in a MS. note inferted in one of the books belonging to the fehool. at ISLINGTON. 495 at Iflington belonging to the company of Clothworkers, the one for 10 men, arid the other for the fame number of women, but the parifh has no intereft in them. A confiderable part of Iflington, on the fouth fide, lies within the parifh of St. James, Clerkenwell. In this part of the town, the objeas of greateft note, are the New River-head and Sadler's Wells, both generally reputed and defcribed as fituated at Iflington. In the early part of King James's reign, Hugh Middelton, a native of Denbigh, New River. and a citizen and goldfmith of London, firft projeaed the fcheme of bringing the New River water to London, and perfuaded the city to apply for an aa of parliament for that purpofe, which was accordingly obtained in 1605, and an explanatory aa the following year 133 ; but the difficulties of the undertaking appeared fo great, that they declined to embark any further in it. On the 28 th of March 1609, Mr. Middelton, afterwards Sir Hugh, made an offer to the court of common council, that he would begin the work within two months, they transferring to him the power vefted in them by the faid two aas ; whereupon the court accepted his offer, and ordered that a letter of attorney fliould be made out from the mayor and common council (which was done the firft of April following) and that inden tures fliould be made and paffed between them and him, which was alfo done the 2 1 ft of the fame month. The progrefs of the work, it is probable, was attended with greater difficulties than he had forefeen, and his pecuniary refources failed long before it was completed. The body-corporate of the city of London ftill refufed to embark in the bufinefs, and the work was on the point of being aban doned, when King James, being applied to by Sir Hugh Middelton, engaged in it ; and on the 2d of May 1 6 1 2, covenanted to advance money for its completion, upon a moiety of the undertaking being made over to him. It now went on without interruption, and on the 29th of September 1613, the water was let irito the bafon at the place now called the New River-head at Iflington. The following account of the ceremony ufed upon that occafion was publifhed at the time, and New River- is reprinted in the Biographia Brhannica I34 : " a troop of labourers, to the Qeargmon . of " number of 60. and upwards, all in green caps alike, bearing in their hands the opening the l< fymbols of their feveral employments in fo great a bufinefs, marching with " drums before them, twice or thrice round the ceftern, orderly prefent them- «' felves before the mount ; and after their departure, thefpeech" (being 48 lines in verfe) ending thus : " Now for the fruits then, flow forth precious fpring " So long and dearly fought for, and now bring " Comfort to all that love thee, loudly fing, 133 The firft aft was entitled an aft- for bringing was followed by an aft for explaining the faid in ofa frefh ftream of running water to the north ftatute, 4 Jac. c. 12. part of the city of London, 3 Jac. c. 18. This 134 Article " Middelton" in the notes. 3 S 2 " And . New-river. 496 ISLINGTON. " And with thy chryftal murmurs ftrucke together, " Bid all thy true wellwifhers welcome hither. " At which words the floodgate opens, and the ftream is let into the ceftern, drums " and trumpets giving it triumphant welcome, and for the clofe of their honour- " able entertainment, a peal of chambers." One of the moft difficult parts of the work now remained to be accomplifhed,. which was to convey the water to the various parts of the metropolis. ' The expence attending this was very great, and it was a confiderable time before the water came into general ufe, fo that the fhares (for the undertaking was then. divided) became of fmall value ; and the annual dividends were for many years very low. The general eftablifhment of the plan, the great advantages and con veniences of which were at length univerfally acknowledged ; arid the prodigious number of new buildings, have fo improved the value ofthe concern, that the divi dends are increafed more than thirty fold. The dividend for the year 1 633, which is believed to have been the firft I3S was 1 5I. 3s. 3d; the dividend for the year 1 809 was472l. 5s. 8d. exclufively of the property tax. When the New River was firft brought to London, it was not forefeen that a deficiency of water might at fome future time, efpecially in the fummer months, be attended with great inconvenience. When this was learned from experience, the Company borrow ed from the overplus of the millflream of the river Lee, which, after a praaice of iome years, became a fubjea of litigation, finally determined by an aa of parliament about theyear 1738. It was then agreed that the New River Company, on condition of their paying a fum of money towards improving the navigation of the river Lee, and continuing to pay an annuity for the fame purpofe, fhould have a certain quantity of water from the millflream, to be meafured by a balance-engine and gage, then con- ftruaed near Hertford, and rebuilt by Mr. Mylne about the year 1770. The Company have fince bought the mill, with the unreftriaed ufe of the water. Maitland in his Hiftory of London fays, that by an exaa menfuration of the courfe of the New River taken by Henry Mill, furveyor to the Company in 1723, it appeared to be 38 miles, 3 quarters and 16 poles in length. The number of bridges upon it are about 200. Some account has been already given of the wooden aqueduas, which were conftruaed for preferving the level near High bury and at Bufhhill 136 ; a fubterraneous channel, about 200 yards in length, was made for the fame purpofe at Iflington, where it paffes under the lower ftreet from the thatched houfe to Colebrooke-row. At the New River-head is a circular bafon, now thrice its original fize, whence the water is conveyed by fluices into various large cifterns of brick work ; from thefe it paffes, in a fubdivided ftate, 135 From the information of the late Benjamin 31. 4s. 2d. and that they were for many years Way Efq. The Biographia Britannica (article under 5I. Middelton) fays that the fecond dividend was only ^ See p. 169, and p. 425. of this volume 4 by ISLINGTON. 497 by means of large wooden pipes, of fix or feven inches bore, (called mains and riders, and diftinguiflied by names appropriated to their feveral diftrias,) to all parts of the metropolis. The diftribution of the water from thefe pipes to the very numerous houfes which are fupplied by it, exhibits a very wonderful fyftem of hydraulics. The fire-engine near the New River-head,, is for the purpofe of raifing water into a large refervoir near Pentonville, which fupplies many parts of the weft end of the town, which are fo nearly on a level with the bafon at the river- head, that the water would not flow with fufficient velocity. Another refervoir has been formed in Tottenham Court road, for the purpofe of fupplying, the neigh bourhood of Marybone; it was begun in the year 1794. At the New River-head is a houfe belonging to the Company, originally built in 161 3, and repaired and newly fronted in 1782, under the direaion of Robert Mylne Efq. furveyor to the Company, who refides there. A large room in this houfe, with wainf'cot pannels, was fitted up for the meetings of the Company about the latter end of the laft century. On the cieling is a portrait of King William, and the arms of Middelton and Green. Under this room is one of the above-mentioned cifterns. The property of the New-river is divided into 72 fliares, which divifion took place foon after the commencement ofthe undertaking 137. Thirty-fix of thefe. were New River originally vefted in Sir Hugh Middelton, the firft projeaor, who, having impo- '-^P31^' verifhed himfelf and his family ,38, by an undertaking which has proved fo bene ficial to the public, as to render his name ever honoured and refpeaed, was obliged to part with his property in the undertaking, which was divided among various perfons. Thefe fliares are called the Adventurers' Shares. The moiety of the undertaking which was vefted in the crown, having been divided into the fame number of fliares, was granted by King Charles I. to Sir Hugh Middelton his heirs and affigns, on condition that they fhould for ever pay to the King's receiver-general, or into the receipt of the exchequer for His Majefty's ufe the yearly rent of 500I. ; the crown having never had any concern in the management of the undertaking, the holders of thefe fliares are ftill excluded from the direaion, which, under the charter of King James (by which the Company was incorporated, June 2i,„ 1619), is vefted in 29 holders of Adventurers' Shares, who form a board. When a vacancy happens in this number, the remaining 28 elea139. The officers belonging to the corporation are a governor, deputy- ,3' The original fhares did not as it is generally a very fatisfaftory defcent. Their fituation in fuppofed confift of .certain definite fums advanced life is fuch, that fome of the family have been for the undertaking, like modern canal fhares ; foliciting and receiving relief from the owners of but the rifque and expence, the extent of which a property which owed its exiftence to the public is not now known, were thus divided. fpirit and perfeverance of their great anceftor. ,3S The lineal defendants of Sir Hugh Middel- ,3« For the greater part of my information re- ton were fuppofed to be extinft ; but of late a lating to the New-river, I was indebted to Robert family has appeared who feem to have made out Mylne Efq. governor » 493 Halloway water-work Iflington Spa. Sadler'sWells. White-Con-duit-houfe. ISLINGTON. governor, treafurer, and clerk. Hugh Middelton was by the charter appointed the firft governor, Robert Bateman of London, lkinner, deputy governor, Rowland Backhoufe of London mercer, treafurer, to continue in thofe offices till the Tuefday next after the Feaft of all Saints, 1620. William Lewin was appointed clerk for life. The prefent governor is John Walker Efq. ; the deputy- governor Richard Benyon Efq.; the treafurer, D. Garnault Efq.; the clerk, John Row Efq. An aa of parliament has been recently paffed (1810), for fupplying the parifh of Iflington with water from works lately conftruaed at Lower Holloway. The well-known place of public amufement, called Sadler's Wells, takes its name from a fpring of mineral water, which they now call Iflington Spa, or the NewTunbridge Wells. This fpring was difcovered by one Sadler, in 1683, in the garden belonging to a houfe which he had then juft opened for the public reception as a mufic-houfe 139. A pamphlet was publifhed in 1684 MO, giving an account of this difcovery, with the virtues of the water, which is there faid to be of a ferruginous nature, and much refembling in quality and efieas the water of Tunbridge Wells ;. this is confirmed by Dr. Ruffel in his account of mineral fprings I41. Monro calls the water a light chalybeate, and fpeaks of it as one of the beft near London 14*. The author of the pamphlet above-mentioned, fays, that the well at Iflington was famed before the Reformation for its extraordinary cures, and called the Holy Well ; but that it had been flopped up many years when it was difcovered by Sadler. Sadler's mufic-houfe came after his death to one Francis Forcer, whofe fon was the firft who exhibited there the diverfions of rope-dancing and tumbling 143 ; to thefe have for many years been added mufical interludes and pantomimes, the machinery of which is in general extremely well managed. The Spa-gardens, are on the oppofite fide of the river from the Sadler's Wells theatre; they are ftill kept open, but the fite has been recently advertifed to be let on building leafes. The water of the New River having been procured to pafs through the ftage part of this Theatre, for various purpofes conneaed with their dramas, the proprietors have of late called it the Aquatic Theatre., White-Conduit-houfe, a well known place of entertainment near Iflington, takes its name from a conduit which formerly fupplied the Charter-houfe with water. • '» Hawkins's Hiftory of Mufic, vol. iv. p. 803. '•", Thefe wells have furnifhed a fubjeft for various poems and pamphlets. — " Iflington Well, a Poem, 1694;" _« Humours of New Tunbridge Wells, a Lyric Poem, 1734;" — " and Obfervations on the Mineral Water, 1751." Among Ned Ward's works is « A Walk to " Iflington, 1706." Mr. John Nichols fome years ago publifhed a poem intituled " Iflington." 141 Ruffel on Sea Water, &c. 142 Monro on Mineral Waters, vol. i p 267, 268. 143 Hawkins. —The ufual diverfions at Sadler's Wells were advertifed in Appleby's Journal, Sept. 12, 1724. L 499 ] KENSINGTON. TN the Domefday furvey this place is called Chenifitun ; in other ancient reqords, Name. ¦*¦ Kenefitune and Kenfintune. Cheneft was a proper name ; a perfori of that name held the manor of Huifli in Somerfetfhire^ in the reign of Edward the Confeffor. The village of Kenfington lies on the great weftern road, at the diftance of about Situation, a mile and a half from Hyde-park corner. The parifh, which is in the hundred *>oundaries> of Offulfton, is bounded by Chelfea, St. Margaret Weftminfter, St. George Hanover-fquare, Paddington, Wilfdon, Aaon, and Fulham. Brompton, Earl's Court, the Gravel-pits, part of Little-Chelfea, and part of Knightibridge, are in this parifh. The palace at Kenfington, and about 20 houfes on the north fide of the road, are in the parifli of St. Margaret Weftminfter. On the fouth fide, the parifh of Kenfington extends till after you pafs the Gore '. The feat of James Vere Efq. and the other principal houfes between that and Knightibridge, are in St. Margaret's, as mentioned in the account of Chelfea. In that part of Little- Flock-duft Chelfea which is in this parifh, is a mill for preparing from woollen rags a flock- mi11' dufl, which is fprinkled on paper hangings, to give them the appearance of cloth. The parifh of Kenfington contains about 1910 acres of land; about half of Land, foil, which is pafture and meadow ; about 460 acres are arable land for corn only ; &c* about 230 in market gardens; about 260 cultivated fometimes for corn and fometimes for garden crops; and ioq acres of nurfery ground. The foil at Soil. Kenfington is various ; clay, loam, and brick earth. At Brompton-park was a Nurfery very celebrated nurfery, firft eftablifhed about the latter end of the laft century S10Un<1So by George London and Henry Wife, Efquires, gardeners to King William and to Queen Anne. Bowack, who wrote an account of Kenfington in 1700, fpeaks of the flock as almoft incredible ; and fays it was affirmed, that if the plants were valued at but id. a-piece, they would amount to 40,000!. This ground belongs at prefent to Meffrs. James and Robert Gray. Curtis's botanic garden was removed from Lambeth Marfh to a fpot of ground Curtis's bo tanic garden* ¦ This place, iri a record dated 1270 (54 ftated to be a part of the ancient demefnes of the Hen. III.), is called Kyng's Gore; and is there crown. See Efch. 54 Hen. III. Nc 35. near 500 KENSINGTON. near Queen's Elm turnpike at Brompton, about the year 1789 \ It contains a very large colleaion of plants, chiefly indigenous, and a botanical library for ftudents in that fcience. The fubfeription for admiflion to the garden is one guinea per annum, with liberty to introduce a friend. A fubfeription of two guineas entitles the fubferiber to feeds, roots, &c. of a certain value ; and gives him the privilege of introducing as many of his friends as he pleafes. This garden is now in the occupation of Mr. William Salifbury, fometime partner with the late Mr. Curtis ; it will be given up after a few years, Mr. Salifbury having formed a garden of the fame nature on a larger fcale iii the parifh of Chelfea, oppofite Sloane-ftreet. Monro, in his Treatife on Mineral Waters 3, fpeaks of a fpring at Kenfington of a cathartic quality. Manors. The manor of Kenfington, which had been the property of Edward, a Thane of King Edward's, was granted by William the Conqueror to Geoffrey Bifhop of Confiance, Chief Jufticiary of England ; under whom it was holden (when the furvey of Domefday was taken) by Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, anceftor of the Earls of Oxford. The manor, fays the furvey, is taxed at 10 hides, and contains 1 o carucates ; on the demefnes are four ploughs, the vilians have five, and might employ fix. There are 12 vilians, holding each a virgate, and fix who hold three virgates jointly. The prieft has half a virgate, and there are feven flaves; meadow equal to two plough-lands ; pafture for the cattle of the town ; pannage for 200 hogs, and three acres of vineyards 4 ; valued altogether at iol. in King Edward's time at the fame. This manor was afterwards the abfolute property of the Vere family, and was held by them in capite for feveral generations, being parcel of their barony, by virtue of their office cf high cham berlain s. Aubrey de Vere, grand jufticiary of England, was created Earl of Oxford 2 The firfi catalogue from Brompton was loo acres of wood, 1 mark ; pannage, half a dated 1790, The catalogues were publifhed an- mark; a dovehoufe, 3s.; a court and vineyard, nually. 3s.; fifhpond and moat, 2s.; quit -rents, 4I. 15s. ; 3 Vol. i. p. 151. 21 virgates in villanage, at the rent of 59s. \\. ; 4 Charles King Efq. who refided foffle years fervices of the tenants, &c. 1 il. 3s. 4d. ; view of ago at Hale-houfe in this parifh, is faid to have frank-pledge, 10s. ; pleas and profits of court, 5s. been very fuccefsful in the culture of a vineyard The vilians, adds the record, may be taxed at there. the will of the abbot of Abingdon, to whom 5 Hugh de Vere, Earlof Oxford, died in 1264, the church is appropriated : the manor held by feifed of the manor of Kenfington ; the value of the Earl of Oxford, as parcel of his barony, by which is thus fet forth in the inquifition taken virtue of his office of high chamberlain •; Edward after Lis death-: — In demefne, 570 acres of de Vere, fon and heir of Hugh, 23 years of age. arable at 4d. an acre, ill. 36. 4d. ; 13 acres of Efch. 48 Hen. III. N° 17. Robert de Vere, meadow at 3s. — 39s. ; rewannium inde, 4s.; Earl of Oxford, died feifed of Kenfington in 82 acres of pafture, 20s.; a windmill, 20s.; 1296. The arable land on the demefnes was then only KENSINGTON. 501 Oxford by the Emprefs Maud, and afterwards confirmed in that title by King Henry II. Upon the attainder of John, the 12th Earl, who was beheaded in 1 46 1, for his adherence to the houfe of Lancafler, this manor was feized by the crown, and given to Richard Duke of Gloucefter 6. It came afterwards into the hands of William Marquis of Berkeley, who gave it to Sir Reginald Bray 7. John Earl of Oxford, fon of the attainted Earl, having been reftored to his honours, recovered (by purchafe probably) this ancient inheritance of his ances tors, and by his will, bearing date 1509, left it to John his nephew, the next heir to the title. After this I find nothing of it s till the year 1610, when Archi bald Earl of Argyle, Lord St. John, Sir William Cornwallis, and Thomas Darcy j joined in a conveyance ofthe manor of Earl's Court in Kenfington, to Sir Walter Manor of Cope 9, from the latter it paffed to Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, who married his E Court. daughter and co-heir. It is now the property of the Right Hon. William Lord Kenfington 10, maternally defcended from Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick and Holland. The ancient manor-houfe was at Earl's Court, near a new built farm- Site of the 1 r • 1 1 -kit tt 1 • manor-houfe. houfe occupied by Mr. Hutchms. The manor of Abbot's Kenfington confifts of two hides and a virgate " of Manor of demefne lands, granted about the year 1 1 00, by Godfrey de Vere, with the con- KenfiBJton. fent of his father Aubrey and his brother (the next heir), to the abbot and convent of Abingdon ". After the diffolution of that monaftery, it became vefted in the 253 acres: the frith or wafte, 140 acres; the Duchefs of Ireland, during the minority of wood, 80. The whole value of the manor, Richard Earl of Oxford ; who, when he came of 19I. 13s. 6^d. The ploughing of the arable land age, granted it to her for life: fhe died feifed of bythe tenants was valued at 3I. 3s.; 340 eggs in it in 141 1. Efch. 13 Hen. IV. N°43. It was Lent, at 1 id. ; 23 hens, at 23d. Efch. 24 Edw. I. then valued at 30I. per annum. Richard Earl of N° 62. Robert Earl of Oxford died feifed of Oxford died feifed of it in 141 6 ; his fon John Kenfington in 1331. There were then 360 acres being then nine years of age. of arable land in demefne ; 180 of which were 6 See Efch. 15 Edw. IV. N°28. valued at 6d. an acre, the remainder at 2d. only. 7 Dugdale's Baronage, vol.i. p. 366. There were 160 acres of wood. The total value s It is moft probable that it was fold by Ed- of the manor, 18I. 5s ud. Efch. 5 Edw. III. ward Earl of Oxford, who diffipated the greater N° 71. John Earl of Oxford died feifed of Ken- part of his noble patrimony in the reign • of Cjueen fington in 1360 } value 20I. ; Thomas his fon arid Elizabeth. heir being 24 years of age. Efch. 34 Edw. III. 9 Pat. 8 Jac. pt. 13. N° 19. N° 84. Margaret Countefs of Oxford died feifed 10 Youngeft and only-furviving fon of 'Francis of it in 136,6.. Efch. 40 Edw. III. N° 28. Edwardes Efq. who married Elizabeth, daughter Thomas Earl of Oxford died feifed of it in 1 3 7 i , of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick and Hollands then valued at 20I. 6s. 8d. Efch. 45 Edw. III. He was created an Irifh peer in 1776, by the' title N'4^. Aubrey de Vere died in 1400, feifed of of Baron Kenfington. '' . the manor of Kenfington, fubjecl; to a rent of 33I. " That is, 270 acres ; the hide being defined. paid to Philippa Duchefs of Ireland, fo whom it in the record as confiftmg of 120 acres i a virgate had been affigned in dower ; Richard, his fon was was the fourth of a hide. then 17 years of age. Efch- 1 Hen. IV. N 52. " Newcourt's, Repertorium,* vol. i. The manor was granted by the King to the Vol. II. , T crown. 5°2 KENSINGTON. Manor of Knotting- barnes. Manor "of Weft-town. crown. Queen Elizabeth leafed it in the year 1569 to Elizabeth Snow ", and ih 1592 to Henry Buttell 14. In 1596, fhe granted a reverfionary term of 2i«years to Robert Horfman 1S j and in 1599, the perpetuity to Robert Chamberlen and Humphrey' Wymes ,fi, in truft for Sir Walter Cope X7 ; the fame parties, by his direaion, foon afterwards conveyed the fee-fimple of the manor-houfe and reaory, with all its appurtenances, to Robert Horfman for the fum of 665I. 6s. 8d. " Horfman at the fame time made over his intereft in the manor to Sir Walter Cope, in whom the reverfion was vefted ; from him it defcended in the fame manner as that of Earl's Court to Lord Kenfington, who fold it about theyear 1775 to the late Lord Holland. It is now the property of his fon the prefent Lord. The manor of Knotting-bernes, Knutting-barnes, fometimes written Notting or Nutting-bames, belonged formerly to the Veres, as appears by an inquifition taken of the property of John Earl of Oxford, attainted in the reign of King Edward the Fourth. It was then valued higher than the manor of Kenfington Ig. They were both granted to the Duke of Gloucefter 2°, and upon his poffeffing the throne, became vefted again in the crown. In 1524, Robert Fenroper, alderman of London, died feifed of this manor, leaving iffue three daughters, co-heirs ; the eldeft of thefe, Ethelreda, married Henry White ", who, in the year 1543, conveyed the manor of Knotting-Barnes to the King". In 1587 it belonged to William Lord Burleigh *3, whofe fon and fucceffor, in 1 600, alienated it to Henry Anderfon 24. In the year 1605 Sir Henry Anderfon, Knt. and alderman of London, died feifed of this manor, Richard his fon and heir 19 years of age15. In 1675, & was the property of Sir Richard Anderfon a6. The prefent proprietor is William Thomas Darby Efq. who inherited it from his father the late Admiral Darby. The manor-houfe is in the occupation of William Smith Efq. Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, in the year 1284, granted lands, called the Groves, at Weft-towne in Kenfington, to Simon Downham, chaplain, and 13 Particulars of leafes, Augmentation- office, * Ibid. " Pat. 38 Eliz. pt. 13. Sept. 15. "* Pat, 41 Eliz. pt. 22. Sep. 13. 17 Abftract of papers belonging to the reftory and vicarage, from a manufcript of Mr. Seward, .(curate of Keafington, from 1674 to Ill^>) communicated by the late vicar Dr. Waller. *> Cl 42 Eliz. pt. a z. This arrangement was fettled before the Court at Nonfuch, when it was determined that Horfman fhould hold the re&ory and glebe ofthe Queen as Sir Walter Cope held Kenfington. 19 See Efch. 15 Edw. IV. N°28. The manor of Kenfington was then valued at 25 marks • that of Knotting-barnes at 25I. '" Ibid. " Cole's Efcheats, Harl. MSS, Brit. Muf N" 759. " Record in the Augmentation-office. 33 Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. 13. April 1. "? Pat. 42 Eliz. pt. 17. Sept. 22. « Cole's Efcheats, Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf, N°76b. 36 Dr. Walker's papers, as quoted before in note 17. his KEN SI NGTON. 5d3 his heirs, to be held of him and his fuccgffop by the rent of one penny 27. In the year 1481, William Effex died feifed 1 of the manor of Weft-towne, held of .Richard Duke of Gloucefter, as of his manor .of Kenfington. The inquifition taken after his death ftates, that it had been granted to William Effex and Edi tha his wife, in theyear 1454, by Richard Sturthen and William Hall28. This manor has merged either into that of Earl's Court or Abbot's Kenfington, I believe the latter; and that) its fite was to the north of the Hammerfriiith road, where are the remains of a moat. Holland-houfe, a well-known, ancient manfion in this parifh, is the manor- Holland- houfe of Abbot's Kenfington, and takes its name from Henry Rich, Earl of houfe> Holland. It was iuilt by his father-in-law, Sir Walter Cope,. in the year 1607, Date of its and affords an excellent fpecimen of the architecture of that period. The Earl of Holland greatly improved the houfe, employing the moft eminent artifts in their feveral departments. The ftone piers at the entrance of the court (over Improved by which are the arms of Rich, quartering Bouldry, and impaling Cope) were cieyne, &c.' defigned by Inigo Jones, and executed by Nicholas Stone. The internal deco rations were by Francis Cieyne. One chamber, called the Gilt-room, which ftill remains in its original ftate, exhibits a very favourable fpecimen of the artift's abilities ; the wainfcot is in compartments ornamented with crofs crofslets and fleurs de lis, -charges in the arms of Rich and Cope, whofe coats are introduced entire at the corners of the room, with a punning motto, alluding to the name of Rich, Ditior eft qui fe — . Over the chimneys are fome emblematical figures, done (as the Earl of Orford obferves in his Anecdotes af Painting) in the ftyle and not un worthy of Parmegiano 29. - ; The Earl of Holland was twice-made a prifoner iri; his own houfe, firft by King EarlofHol- Charles in 1633, upon occafion of his challenging Lord Wefton30; and afecond f^e/j^hls time, by command of the parliament, after the unfuccefsful iffue of his attempt to own houfe. reftore the King in Auguft 1648 3I. The Earl, who was a confpicuous character Anecdotes of during the whole of King Charles's reign, and frequently in employments of confi- , derable truft, appears to have been very wavering in his politics, and of an irri table difpofition. ' As early as the year 1638, we find him retired to his houfe at Kenfington in difguft, becaufe he was not made Lord Admiral 3\ At the eve of the civil war he was employed againft the Scots ; when the army was difbanded, having received fome new caufe of. offence, he retired again to Kenfington, ' ;" Cart. Ant. Brit. Muf. LVII. C. 3. 3' Perfeft Occurrences, Aug. 18, &c. 1648, ' 38 Efch. 20 Edw. IV. N°8o. ''^Strafford Letters, vol. ii. p. 1-561 Lord 19 Vol. ii. p. 128. Conway to Lord Strafford. 30 Howell's Letters, p. 234. 3 T 2 where, the Eail. S°4 KENSINGTON. Meetings of the republic ans at Hol land-houfe. General Lambert at Holland- houfe. Plays a&ed there. Addifon at Holland- houfe. where, according to Lord Clarendon, he was vifited by all the difaffe&ed mem bers of parliament, who held frequent meetings at Holland-houfe 33. Some time afterwards, when the civil war was at its height, he joined the King's party at Oxford ; but meeting with a cool reception, returned again to the parliament 34. On the 6th of Auguft 1647, " the members of parliament, who were driven " from Weftminfter by tumults, met General Fairfax at Holland-houfe, and " fubfcribed to the declaration of the army, and a farther declaration, approving " of and joining with the army in all their late proceedings, making null all adfs " paffed by the members fince the 6th of July 3S." The Earl of Holland's defer- tion of the royal caufe, is to be attributed, perhaps, to his known enmity towards Lord Strafford ; he gave, neverthelefs, the beft proof of his attachment to mo narchy, by making a bold though rafh attempt to reftore his royal mafter, when his affairs were the moft defperate. After making a valiant ftand againft an unequal force near Kingfton-upon-Thames, he was obliged to quit the field, but was foon afterwards taken prifoner, and fuffered death upon the fcaffold, by a fentence of the high court of juftice 36. His corpfe was fent to Kenfington 3', and interred in the family vault there, on the 10th of March 1649. hi tne month of July following, Lambert, then general of the army, fixed his head-quarters at Holland-houfe 3S. It was foon afterwards reftored to the Countefs of Holland. When theatres were fhut up by the Puritans, plays were afted privately at the houfes of the nobility, who made collections for the adtors. Holland- houfe is particularly mentioned, as having been ufed occafionally for this purpofe 39. The next remarkable circumftance in the hiftory of this manfion is the refi dence of Addifon, who became poffeffed of it in 1716, by his marriage with Charlotte Countefs Dowager of Warwick and Holland, It is faid that he did not add much to his happinefs by this alliance 4°. Mr. Addifon was appointed Secre tary of State in 1717, and died at Holland-houfe, June 17, 1719 4I. About the year 33 Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 295. 8vo. 34 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 324. 362. 367. 35 Perfect Diarnal, Aug. 2—9, 1647 ; and Whitlock's Memorials, p. 264. 36 Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 174 and 271. 37 Perfect Occurrences, March 9, 38 Pe'rfecl Diurnal, July 9, 1649. 39 Dodfley's Old Plays, vol. xii. p. 345. Whilft mentioning the drama as connected with Holland-hdufe, it is worthy of notice, that the tragedy of Jane Shore was a&ed there in the late Lord Holland's time, . The late Mr. Fox fup ported the chara&er of Lord Haftings ; his bro ther the General was bifhop of Ely; Lady Sarah Bunbury, Jane Shore ; and Lady Sufan O'Brien, Alicia. 40 See Johnfon's Lives of the Poets. The author of an Effay on Addifon's Life and Writ ings fays, " Holland-houfe- is a large manfion : " but it cannot contain Mr. Addifon, the Coun- " tefs of Warwick, and one gueft, Peace." 41 Biograph. Britan. Addifon had been tutor to the young Earl ; and anxioufly, but in vain, endeavoured to check the licentioufnefs of his manners. As a laft effort, he requefied him to come into his room when he lay at the point of death, hoping that the folemnity of the fcene might work upon his feelings. When his pupil came KENSINGTON. 505 year 1762, the Right Hon. Henry Fox, Secretary of State (who in 1763 was Fox Lord created Lord Holland), took a leafe of this houfe from Mr. Edwardes, Holland re- j j .... . r fl<^es t"ere> and made it his principal country-refidence. It was afterwards purchafed with the manor, and is now the property and refidence of the Right Hon. Henry Richard, Lord Holland. A gallery, which occupies the whole length of the weft wing, 1 1 1 feet), was fitted up by the firft Lord Holland, and ornamented with portraits of the Lenox, Digby, and Fox families. It has been converted by Portraits of the prefent Lord Holland into a noble library ; moft of the pictures have been dif- ^L'0^3' perfed into various apartments ; fome remain, and there are now in the library, among others, the portraits of Dryden and Addifon ; Sir C. H. Williams ; Ad miral Leftock ; Sir Robert Walpole ; the Right Hon. Thomas Winnington ; Cardinal Fleury, by Rigaud, and Van Lintz, by himfelf. Among the portraits which are now difperfed in other rooms, are King Charles II. and the Duchefs of Portfmouth; Sir Stephen Fox, by Sir Peter Lely ; Henry Lord Holland ; Ste phen Lord Holland, by Zoffanii ; the late Right Hon. C. J. Fox, when an infant ; when a boy, in a groupe with Lady Sufan Strangeways, and Lady Mary Lenox (by Sir Jof. Reynolds) ; and a fine picture of him in more advanced life, by the fame artift. There are two bufts alfo of him, by Nollekins, one of which was taken not long before his death. There are portraits alfo of General Fox (by Hopner) ; the prefent Lord Holland ; the firft Marquis of Landfdowne ; the late Marquis ; the Earl of Lauderdale; Lord King ; the Right Hon. George Canning; M. G. Lewis Efq., &c. &c. In the gilt room are feveral bufts, among which are one of thofe already mentioned, of Mr. Fox ; His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales ; William Duke of Cumberland ; Francis Duke of Bedford ; Henry the firft Lord Holland ; the prefent Lord Holland ; and Don Gafpar Melchor de Savellanos, a noble Spaniard : moft of thefe are by Nollekins. Campden-houfe, another well-known manfion in this parifh, was built in or Campden- about theyear 1612, by Sir Baptift Hickes, whofe arms (with that date) and j)Ut f- thofe of his fons-in-law, Edward Lord Noel, and Sir Charles Morifon, are in a ere&ion. large bay window in the front. Sir Baptift Hickes was created Vifcount Campden Refidence of in 1628, with remainder to his fon-in-law, Edward Lord Noel, who fucceeded the Lords him in this manfion. Baptift, the third Lord Campden, was a zealous royalift, mp ( and a great fufferer, during the civil war. Having paid the fum of 9000I. as a compofition 4% he was allowed to enjoy his eftates, and he appears to have refided chiefly at Campden-houfe during the protectorate of Cromwell. King Charles Charles II. came to receive his laft commands, he told him 43 Collins's Peerage. that he had fent for him to fee how a Chriftian could die. See Johnfon's Life of Addifon. the 5a5 KEN SI N. GT O -N. Death of Montagu EarlofLind- fey. Queen Anne at Campden- houfe. Duke of Gloucefter. Earl of Bur lington. Lord Lech mere. Eminent boarding-fchool. the Second fupped with him there, about a fortnight after his reftoration4*. In 1662, an a£t of parliament paffed for fettling Campden-houfe at Kenfington upon Baptift Vifcount Campden, and his heirs for ever 4S. Montagu Bertie, the brave and loyal Earl of Lindfey, whofe filial piety at the battle of Edghill will ever im mortalize his name, died at Campden-houfe, the feat of his fon-in-law, in the month of July 1 666 4S. In 1 691 , this houfe was hired of the Noel family by Queen Anne, then Princefs of Denmark, who refided there about five years with her fon the Duke of Gloucefter 47. At this time the adjoining houfe, now the refidence of Major General Harry Calvert43, Adjutant General, is faid to have been built for the accommodation of Her Highnefs's houfhold. A life of this Duke of Gloucefter,' who died at the age of eleven years, was publifhed in 1789, from a MS. of Jenkin Lewis, one of his attendants. The life of fo young a prince cannot be expecled to contain much more than a detail of the amufements and purfuits of his child hood. They were principally of the military caft. At a very early age he formed a regiment of boys, chiefly from Kenfington, who feem to have been upon conftant duty at Campden-houfe. In 1705, this manfion was in the occu pation of the Countefs Dowager of Burlington, and her fon the Earl 40, who- proved afterwards a very accomplhhed nobleman, and a great patron of the fine arts; Some years afterwards Campden-houfe was fold to Nicholas Lechmere, an eminent lawyer sq, who was created a peer in 172 1. He refided at this place s'. After his death it paffed by a decree of the court- of Chancery, to Edmund Lech mere Efq. Knight of the ftire for the county of Worcefter, as heir at law si. It is now the property of Stephen Pitt Efq- and in the occupation of Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Denham, having been for many years an eminent boarding-fchool for young ladies. The front was .a few years ago much altered, the parapets and other ornaments having been removed, ^and the whole covered with ftucco : the an nexed view reprefents it in itswiginal ftate. 44 Mercurius Politicus, June 14, 1660. ; «. Ibid. March 28, 1662. 46 ' Collins. « Life of the Duke of Gloucefter, p.,7. and' 80. V Immediately, before General fcalvert, this houfe was occupied for fome years by the late Duchefe of Cumberland. « Bowack's Hift. of Middlefex, p. 21. io He was attorney-general, and afterwards chancellor of the duchy of Lancafter. It was another Nicholas Lechmere who was baron of the Exchequer. " See Swift's ballad of « Duke upon Duke," occafioned by a quarrel between Lord Lechmere and Sir John Guife. '« Back in the dark, by Brompton^park, " He turned up thro' the Gore ; " So flunk to Campden-houfe fo high " All in his coach and four. " The Duke, in wrath, call'd for his fteeds, And fiercely dro-se them on : " Lord ! Lord ! how rattled ther. thy ftones, " O kingly Kenfington." Swift's Works (edit. 174a), vol. iv, p. 109 — nj. 52 Gent. Mag. June 1735. In H 0 1 ft w u0 ws KENSINGTON, 507 ' In the garden at Campden-houfe is a remarkable caper-tree, which has endured Remarkable the open air of this climate for the greater part of a century. Miller fpeaks of caPer-tree' it in the firft edition of his Dictionary. It is fheltered from the north, having a fouth-eaft afpect, and though not within the reach of any artificial heat, produces fruit every year. Hale-houfe, an ancient manfion at Brompton, commonly called Cromwell-houfe, Hale-houfe, is faid to have been the refidence of Oliver Cromwell. I have had frequent occa- Well's, at fion to remark how little credit is due in general to fuch traditions. There is certainly Brompton. no good authority for this at Brompton. Hale-houfe was, during Cromwell's time, and for many years before " and afterwards, the property of the Methwold family. William Methwold Efq. died there in 1652 S4. If there are any grounds for the tradition, it may be that Henry Cromwell occupied it before he went out to Ireland the fecond time. It is certain that he was married at Kenfington in 1653". Oliver Cromwell at this time, having had his choice of the royal houfes, refided either at Whitehall or Hampton-court ; nor have we the leaft trace, either in hiftory or in the more minute chronicles and diurnals of that period, of his refi dence at Brompton; but it is by no means improbable, that Henry Cromwell nn'ght hire a houfe there to be near his father's court. In 1 668, Hale-houfe appears to have been inhabited by the Lawrences of Shurdington in Gloucefterfhire s6 ; in in 1682, it was in the occupation of Francis Lord Howard of Effingham, whofe fon Thomas, the fixth Lord Howard of that family, was born there ". Hale- houfe was fold by the Meth wolds, in 1754, to John Fleming Efq., afterwards created a Baronet : in 17 94 it was, in right of their wives, the joint property of the Earl of Harrington and Sir Richard Worfley, Bart., whofe ^daughters and coheirs married the Earl of Harrington and Sir Richard Worfley, Bart. This houfe is now divided into two parts, one of which is rented of the Earl of Harrington by Charles Greenwood Efq. ; the other is occupied by the widow of Sir Richard Worfley, who refides there with her fecond hufband, Mr. John Lewis. On the fite of a tea-drinking place at Brompton, which was much puffed in the Florida gar. daily papers, between the years 1780 and 1790, by the name of Florida Gardens, ens" the late Duchefs of Gloucefter, having procured a leafe of the gardens, built a villa called Orford Lodge, where fhe died in 1807. This villa is now in Orford the occupation of the Right Hon. George Canning, who purchafed the Duchefs's ° se" intereft; in it of her daughter, the Princefs Sophia. " Mr, Methwold purchafed it ofthe executors 54 Defcribed of Hale-houfe in his will. of Sir William Blake, who died in 1630.— From " Parifh Regifter. a MS. which was in the poffeffion of the late >6 Ibid. Dr Waller " See Extracts from the parifh regifter. At 5^8 KEN SI N G TO tf. John Hunter.. At Earls Court was the villa of the late celebrated furgeon, John Hunter, who employed the little leifure which an uncommonly extenfive practice would permit him to enjoy, in profecuting curious and ufeful diTcoveries in natural hiftory. This was the principal fcene of his experiments, and here he had generally a valuable menagerie of foreign animals. After his death this houfe was fold to John Bayne Efq., who died in 1795: it was then purchafed by — — — — Harrifon Efq. and by him fold to the late Duke of Richmond, who refided there occafionally. It is now under his Grace's will the property of Mrs. Bennett, and in the tenure of the Earl of Albemarle. Among the eminent inhabitants of this place, not elfewhere mentioned, may be enumerated Dr. Owen, a celebrated diffenting divine, who refided here fome years before he fettled at Ealing, where he died s8 : the Earl of Craven, whofe houfe at Kenfington-gravel-pits, Queen Anne borrowed as a nurfery for the Duke of Gloucefter, before fhe hired Campden-houfe S9 ; Cornelius Wood, a celebrated military officer (characterized in the Tatler under the name of Sylvio), who died at the Gravel-pits, in 171 1 63 ; 'Dean -Swift, who had lodgings there in 171261; the pious Robert Nelfon, "author of the Fafts and Feftivals of the Church, who died at Kenfington in iyi46i ; Robert Price, an eminent lawyer, and one of the barons of the Exchequer, 1732 63 ; and Bernard Lens, the minia ture painter, who refided at Knightibridge in this parifh, and died there in 1741: He is faid to have been buried at Kenfington 64, but his name is not to be found in the regifter. " The famous fpeaking do&or at Kenfington," ridiculed by Swift in the Tatler, was James Ford, who profeffed the art of curing Hammering, and removing other impediments in the fpeech, and taught foreigners the pronunciation of the Englifh language 6s. The following eminent perfons were natives of this place; Sir Philip Per ceval, Daniel Earl of Nottingham, Charles Earl of Orrery 66, and the late Lord Camden 6r. Eminent in- bitants.Dr. Owen. Lord Craven, CorneliusWood. Dean Swift. Robert Nel fon. Baron Price. Bernard Lens. Speaking doftor. Eminentnatives. s8 Wilfon's Hiftory of Diffenting Churches, vol. i. p. 276. See alfo p 147, of this vo lume. » Life ofthe Duke, p. 6. 60 Lives of IlluftriousMen (ann. 1711,1712.), vol. ii. p. 3 19. 61 Swift's Letters, 4to, vol. i. p.ioj. Addi fon lived at Kenfington at the fame time, it being fome years before his marriage with the Countefs of Warwick. Among Swift's letters is one from Addifon, dated in 17 18, inviting him to Holland- houfe. 62 Le Neve's Mon. Anglican, vol. iv. p 294. 63 Biog. Brit. 64 Vertue' MSS. in the late Earl of Orford's collection at Strawberry- hill. 65 Notes on the Tatler, new edit. vol. v. p. 403, 404 66 Born at Little Chelfea in this parifh. See P-J23- 67 See the extracts from the Parifh Regifter. 4 Kenfington KENSINGTON. S°9 Kenfington-palace, fo called from its contiguity to this place, ftands within the Kenfington parifh of St. Margaret, Weftmjnfter. It was the feat of Sir Heneage Finch, after- P ^ j^ wards Earl of Nottingham, and Lord Chancellor of England, whofe fon, the of Notting. fecond Earl, fold it to King William very foon after his acceffion to the throne 68. wftiiam. ™S This palace was the frequent refidence of King William and his royal confort, Queen Anne, George the Firft, J and the late King. Thefe monarchs (George I. excepted, who died at Hanover) all drew their laft breath within its walls, as did George Prince of Denmark, Queen Anne's confort, in 1708. Kenfington has never been inhabited by His prefent Majefty, but of late years apartments have been fitted up in it for the refidence of fome of the branches of the royal family. The north wing is now occupied by Her Royal Highnefs the Princefs of Wales ; the fouth fide of the principal building, by the Duke of Kent, and other apartments by the Duke of Suffex. Kenfington-palace is a large irregular edifice, built at various times. The ftate State apart. apartments confift of a fuit of ten rooms, exclufively of the guard-chamber now ment8, in the occupation of the Duke of Kent. The great ftair-cafe, which was painted by Kent, exhibits a group of feveral portraits, among which are his own, thofe of Muftapha the Turk, and Ulrick, both in the fervice of King George I., and Peter the wild boy. The ceilings throughout the palace are by the fame artift. The cube room is 37. feet fquare ; the King's gallery 94 feet by 21 ; the Queen's^ 84 feet by 21. The palace contains a good collection of pictures by pi&ures. the old mafters, and many valuable and interefting portraits. Among thefe may be enumerated King Henry V. ; King Henry VI. ; King Richard III. ; King Henry VII., by Holbein; the fame monarch and his Queen; the children of King Henry VII, by Mabufe ; King Henry VIII. ; Catherine of Arragon and her dwarf; King Edward VI., by Holbein; Queen Elizabeth (faid to be in the drefs fhe wore when prifoner), by Zucchero; King James I., by Vanfomer and Vandyck ; his Queen by the former ; Prince Henry, by Mytens ; King Charles I. on horfeback, by Dobfon ; the fame monarch and his Queen, by Vandyck ; King Charles II. , by Willing ; King William and Queen Mary by Wiffing; Queen Anne, by Sir God frey Kneller ; her fon the Duke of Gloucefter, by the fame artift; Prince George of Denmark, by Dahl ; the Princefs Dowager of Wales and her children ; the late Duke of York ; Her prefent Majefty ; King James III. of Scotland and his Queen (a Princefs of Denmark) ; Mary Queen of Scots in widow's weeds, by Janet'; Holbein and his wife in water-colours, (given by Sir Robert Walpole to 49 Simon de Brienne and Mary his wife were Pat. i Gul. & Mar. pt. 6. with a falary of appointed houfekeepers and wardrobe-keepers at 300I. per annum. Kenfington, on the 12th of October i68c», by Vol. II. 3 U £ueen 5io KENSINGTON. Kenfington gardens. Parifhchurch. Queen Caroline) ; Erafmus by Holbein ; Dr. Linacre, founder of the College of Phyficians ; Sommers, King Henry VIII.'s jefter, by Holbein ; Queen Elizabeth's gigantic porter, by Zucchero ; Sir Henry Wotton in the fenate-houfe at Venice $ George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, byHonthorft; the.Duchefsof Portfmouth, by Verelft ; and the Duke of Wharton by Rofalba. Among the Harleian MSS. in the Britifh Mufeum "9is a catalogue ofthe pictures in Kenfington-palace, drawn up in 1697. There were then a few portraits, of which none now remain but thofe of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. by Holbein, and one of Henry Prince of Wales. Among thofe which have been removed were Forbenius (Erafmus's printer), by Holbein ; Robert Cheefman, with a hawk in his hand, by the fame artift ; Rubens, by himfelf; Mrs. Lemon, by Vandyck ; King Charles I. on horfe- bac-k, and his children, by the fame artift. Thefe 1 aft-mentioned pictures are now at Buckingham-houfe. Catalogues of the piclures at Kenfington have been printed, but the arrangement has fince been frequently altered. Kenfington gardens were originally only 26 acres ; Queen Anne added 30 acres, which were laid out by her gardener, Mr. Wife 7° ; but the principal addi tion was made by the late Queen, by whofe direction nearly 300 acres were taken out of Hyde Park, and laid out by Bridgman. They are now three miles and a 'half in circumference. The broad walk, which extends from the palace along the fouth fide of the gardens, is in the Spring a very fafhionable promenade, • efpe cially on Sunday mornings. Kenfington gardens have been the fubje£t of feveral poems ". The parifh-church, dedkated.to St. Mary, is fituated near the road fide. It is a brick ftrufture* confifting of a chancel, nave, 'and two aifles, feparated by wooden pillars, with Corinthian capitals. At the weft end is a low embattled tower of brick, with a wooden turret. The body of the old church was taken down, and rebuilt about the year 1 694, the tower being left ftanding. The ex- pence was defrayed partly by fubfeription. King William. gave 300L, the Princefs Anne iool., Earl Craven 50I., the Bifhop of London 5 ol., and the Earl of Warwick -40I* The whole charge was 1800I. The new building was fo ill eonftru&ed, that in the year 1 704 it was found neceffary to take the greater part of it down again, and to ftrengthen the walls, which was done at a further expence of 8ool.7il In 1772, the church underwent a complete repair, when the old tower was pulled * N°7025 18. 7. One by Tickell, publifhed in his works; 70 Mr. Wife was fucceffor as fuperintendant another publifhed in 1722; and a third in the of the Royal Gardens to Rofe, gardener to King Paftoral Calendar 1 763 Charles II. whofe pupil he had been. " Bowack's Antiquities of Middlefex, p. 16. sdown, KENSINGTON. 511 down, and the prefent erefted in its room. His Majefty gave 350I. towards the expence of this work. The, chancel- window, ornamented with figures of St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, and St. Andrew, in painted glafs, was given by Mr. Tanner Arnold, and his niece Mary Green. On the fouth fide of the altar, againft the eaft wall, is the monument of Edward Henry, Earl of Warwick and Holland, who died in 1721. His effigy, in white marble, is reprefented in a Roman habit, fitting and leaning with his right arm upon an urn. On the bafe of the monument is the following infcription : " Hoc " fubter marmore conduntur exuvias Edwardi Henrici comitis de Warwick et *•' Holland, Baronis Rich et de Kenfington, adolofcentis nobiliffimi propriis tamen " qua majorum virtutibus clarioris, inerat illi jam a pueritia in vultu ipfo, in " voce geftfique corporis virile nefcio quid et plenum dignitatis ; miram fane ^ mgenii ubertatem excoluit atque promovit optima difciplina ; omnem dodtrinam *-c liberalem ab eo perceptam illuftravit nativa quasdam et quas nobilem decerat " eloquentia. Ita natus, ita educatus, quam primum in luce proceffit dignus w extemplo vifus eft quem in amicitiam eooptarent primarii, neque erat in ami- " citia aut jucundior quifquani aut cordatior : ad aulam acceflit facriffimo Regi " Georgfo Primo a cubiculo et brevi acceptiffimus. Hoc fibi merito non ultimas " ducebat laudi principi placuiffe, non minus acri ad judicandum quam ad faven- " dum prpno. Tarn aperta illi facilifque ad maxima quscque cum pateret via, *•' cum nihil ei defuit ad fummam laudem nifi longa vita, in medio aetatis et for- " tunas curriculo gravi febre correptus, fpes audentiflimas amicorum prope jam v ratas immaturt morte fruftratus eft. Obiit die Aug. 1 6!Q Anno 1 72 1 , iEtat. 24." On a tablet connected with this monument are infcriptions to the memory of Ed ward the laft Earl of Warwick and Holland, Baron Rich Of Leighs in Effex, and Baron of Kenfington, who died Sept. 7, 1759, aged 65. Mary, his refi&, who died Nov. 7, 1769, 'aged 82 ;: and lady Charlotte, their only child, who died April 12, 1 79 1, aged 78. In the chancel, among others, is the monument of Thomas Henfhaw Efq., gentleman in ordinary of the privy chamber to King Charles II. and King James II. ; fome years Envoy Extraordinary to Chriftian V. King of Denmark, and French fecretary to King James and King William ; whd died Jan. 2, 1700, in the 82d year of his age, and that of the late Richard Warren, M.D. who died in 1797. - On the north fide ofthe nave is the monument of Lady Mary Mackenzie, daughter of Alexander Earl of Galloway, a nd wife of Lord Vifcount Fortrofe, fon of the Earl of Seaforth, 1751 ; and an elegant one of white marble, to the memory of Maria Therefa, daughter of Count Lockhart (of Lee and Carnwath), 3 TJ 2 and Monument ofthe Earl of Warwick and Holland. ThomasHenfhaw, sia KENSINGTON. Tombs men tioned by Weever. Epitaph of William Courten, and wife of Sir Charles Rofs, Bart. 1791. On the fouth fide is that of Sir Thomas Colby, Bart. 1729, commemorating alfo others of that family. In a window of the fouth aifle are the arms of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, with the order ofthe garter. Againft the weft wall is the monument of Francis Colman Efq, Britifh minifter at Florence, who died at Pifa in 1733. The fame tablet commemorates his wife Mary, daughter of John Gumley Efq. 1767 ; and Sarah, wife ofthe late George Colman Efq. (by whom the monument was erefted), 1771. On the floor, among others, is the graveftone of Charles Goodall ", M.D. 1712. In the north aifle, among others, are the monuments of Edward Bof- cawen Efq, 1685 ; his wife Jael, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin, and filter ofthe Lord Treafurer, 1730, (they had iffue, Henry Vifcount Falmouth, Anne, wife of John Evelyn Efq. and Dorothy, wife of Sir Philip Medows, Knight- marfhal) ; Mr. Colin Campbell, aged 29 (fon of the Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, by Mary Countefs Dowager of Caithnefs, daughter of Archibald Duke of Argyle), 1 708 ; and a monument for the family of Reynell of Laleham ; com memorating Sir Thomas Reynell Bart, who died in 1775; his fon Thomas, a Lieutenant in the 62d Regiment, who fell at Saratoga in 1777, and Sir Richard Reynell, a commiffioner in the falt-office, by whofe death in 1798, the title of an Irifh Baronet, given to this family in 1678, became extinft. Weever mentions, among others, the monuments of Maud de Berford (a French infcription without date) ; Philip, the fon and heir of John Meawtis, one of the fecretaries of King Henry VII. and Henry VIII. clerk of the council, and one ofthe knights of Windfor, 1510 ; and Thomas Effex, Efq. fon and heir of William Effex (Remembrancer of the Exchequer to King Edward IV. and Vice- treafurer of England), 1500. On the outfide of the chancel, againft the eaft wall, is the monument of Wil liam Courten Efq. with the following infcription : " Juxta hie fub marmoreo, " tumulo jacet Gulielmus Courten, cui Gulielmus pater, Gulielmus avus, mater " Katherina Joannis Comitis de Bridgewater filia,paternum vel ad Indospraeclarum " nomen ; qui tantis haudquaquam degener parentibus, fumma cum laude vitaa " decurrit tramitem ; gazarum per-Europam indagator fedulus quas hinc illinc fibi " partas negavit nemini fed cupientibus expofuit humaniffime, non avaras mentis, " pabulum ; fed ingenii fi quid naturae fi quid artis nobile opus id quovis pretio " fuum effe voluit ut mufis lucidum conderet facrarium ; aft mortis hsec non funt " Dr. Goodall publifhed a Hiftory of the College of Phyficians, in 4to, anno 1684. On his tomb is the following infcription, — " Hie « fitus eft Carolus Goodall, M.D. CollegiiMD. 4 " Prsefes nuperrimus, Suttonenfis hofpitii Lond- " onenfis ipfe medicus. Ob. Aug. vicefimo " tertio, 1 7 12." curae. KENSINGTON. 5*3 " curse. Hie mufarum cultor tam eximius, hie tarn infignis viator obiit, quievit *.' 7 Cal. Apr. A. D. 1702, vixit annos 62, menfes 1 1, dies 28. Pompam quam vi- " vus fugit ne mortuo fieret teftamento cavit, fed hoc qualecunque monumentum " et quam potuit immortalitatem bene merenti mserens dedit,Hans Sloane, M.D." On the fame eaft wall (on the outfide of the chancel) are the monuments of Robert Mackworth Efq. (fon of Sir Henry Mackworth, Bart.) aged 95, 1718 ; the Hon. Charlotta Amelia Tichbourne, fecond daughter of Robert Vifcount Molefworth, and wife of Captain William Tichbourne (fon of Lord Ferrard of Beaulieu in Ireland), 1 743 ; and others. In the church-yard are, among others, the tombs of Margaret Green, aged Tombs in the 93> ! 743 > Stephen Slaughter Efq. (portrait painter and fupervifor of the King's c urc "yar ' piftures), 1765 ; Anthony Walker Efq. (an eminent engraver), 1765 ; Rev. John Jortin, D. D. vicar, 1770; Robert Lyttelton Efq. of Studley in Warwickfhire,. 1782; Richard Saltonftall Efq. (an American Loyalift, who poffeffed offices of confiderable truft in the province of Maffachufets, and had a principal fhare in forming its government), 1785 ; Sir James Napier, F. R. S. and F. S. A. formerly Infpeftor General of Hofpitals in North America (ob. 1799, setatis 89,); Sa muel Pegge Efq. 1800; the Rev. Archer Thomfon " 1805; &c. &c. Godfrey de Vere, in the reign of Henry I. (with the confent of his father Re&ory. Alberic, and his other relations), being upon his death-bed, gave the church of Kenfington, with two hides of land, to the monaftery of Abingdon ; the abbot of which houfe, Fabricius, had cured him of a former ficknefs 7\ Long after this, the monks of Colne (a convent in Effex, founded by Alberic de Vere, and made a cell to Abingdon) pretended a right to the church of Kenfington, but at the inftance of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, they relinquifhed their claims in the year 1 3 1 1 ". This church was in the 1 3th century appropriated to the mo naftery of Abingdon, by the licence of Pope Alexander, but without the confent either of the Bifhop of London, or the metropolitan. In confequence of this omiffion, the abbot and convent of Abingdon agreed, that the patronage of the vicarage fliould be vefted in the Bifliop and his fucceffors, at the fame time they Endowment endowed it with a moiety of the great tithes, the whole tithe of hay, and all fmall ™e 0pf trhe tithes, referving to themfelves the manerial rights of the reftory and the demefne vicarage. lands, tithe-free, exempting alfo from tithes all mills upon their demefnes. The vicar was to fuftain all the ordinary burdens of the church, the extraordinary " Mr. Archer Thompfon, who was much dif- was buried at Kenfington under the fame grave- tinguifhed as a popular preacher, publifhed one ftone, Oft. 14, 1805. or two fingle fermons. His father, the Rev. i« Dugdale's Monaft. Anglican, vol. i. p. 437. SethThqmpfon, chaplain and preacher at Bromp- v Ibid. p. 438. ton chapel, furvived him only a few months, and charges 5*4 Proprietorsof the rec tory. Valuation of the rectory and vicarage. Vicars. Thomas Hodges.- KENSINGTON. charges to be borne between them". At the diffolution of monafteries, the ab bot's portion of tithes and the demefne lands became vefted in the crown, and were leafed by the name of the Manor and Reftory of Kenfington, in 1569, to Elizabeth Snow, and in 1592, to Henry Buttell '9. In 1599, they were granted in perpetuity to Robert Chamberlen and Humphrey Wymes, as truftees for Sir Walter Cope, who the next year alienated the moiety of the reftorial tithes to 8o Robert Horfman, by whom they were conveyed in 1618 to Robert Gynn. The latter alienated them in 1630 to Sir William Blake, who, the fame year, joining with Gynn, conveyed them to John Marfh SI- The commiffioners appointed in 1650 to inquire into the nature of ecclefiaftical benefices, reported, that Mr. Marfh let his moiety of tithes at 45I. per annum, and that he had fliown the deeds, by which they belonged to him and his heirs. They reported alfo, that the patronage of the vicarage was then vefted in the Countefs Dowager Of Holland Si. The Earl had purchafed it, perhaps, upon the fale of church- property, but his family never had an opportunity of prefenting to it, as Dr. Hodges furvived till after the Reftoration, * The moiety of reftorial tithes conti nued in the Marfh family till the death of Henry Marfh Efq., who by. his will, bearing date 1741, .bequeathed it to his.grandfon Henry Thomas Greening (after wards Sir Henry Thomas Gott, Knt.). It is now by purchafe from the latter the property of Mr, John Hall. In the year 137 1, the church at Kenfington was valued at 26 marks, an elee- mofynary portion, payable to the church of Weftminfter at five marks,, and .-the vicarage at 10 marks83. In the King's books, the latter, is rated at 1 81. 8s. 4d. In 1650, the vicarage-houfe was valued at iol. per annum; 15 acres of glebe, rented by the Countefs of Mulgrave, at 20I. 10s. and the tithes at 1351. 84 Ten acres of land in Chelfea, within the precinfts of the royal hofpitaly are in the parifh of Kenfington, and pay 40s. to the vicar in lieu of tithes. In the year 1 7.8 1 , a caufe was tried in the court of Exchequer relating to the tithes of hot-houfe fruit, which was determined in favour of the vicar. Thomas Hodges, collated to this vicarage by Bifhop Juxon in 1641, kept his preferment during the civil war and interregnum by joining from time to time with the prevailing party. He was one of the affembly of divines, and frequently preached before the Long. parliament85. Some of his fermons are in print. After the Reftoration, he was collated to the reftory of St. Peter Cornhill, and made 78 Regift London. Stpkefley, p. 1 14. a. " See p. 80 Ibid. " Title-deeds communicated by Meffrs. Hill and Meredith of Gray's Inn, for the firft edition 6f this work. ,2 Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. Lib. 63 Harl. MSS. No. 60. 84 Parliamentary Surveys. 65 Ant. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. faft. Dean KENSINGTON. 515 Dean of Hereford. He kept the living of Kenfington tail his death, and was buried in the chancel there on the 27th of Auguft 1672. His fon Nathaniel, who was a phyfician, wrote a hiftory of the plague in 1665, and obtained a great reputation by remaining in London during the whole of that caia*- mitous feafon. He publifhed alfo an apology for the profeffion of Phyfic. An thony Wood, who gives this account of him, adds, that he died very poor in Ludgate prifon, in the year 1684?4. William Wigan, who fucceeded Dr. Hodges in the Vicarage of Kenfington, William -publifhed fome fermons and religious trafts., He was born, I prefume, fays lgan' Wood, at the Harrow in Gray's Inn Lane, where his father fold ale, and grew rich 8s. Dr. John Jortin, collated to this vicarage by Bifhop Ofbaldefton, in 1 762, John Jortin. was a very eminent and learned divine. He was fon of Renatus Jortin, a French refugee, who was gentleman of the privy chamber to King William. Mr. Jortin loft his" life at fea in 1707, being caft away with Sir Claudeily Shovel, to whom he was then fecretary, as he had been before to the Earl of Orford and Sir George Rooke. Dr. Jortin received his education at the Charter-houfe, whence he went to Jefus College in Cambridge. After he was in holy orders, he refided princi pally in London, and preached at various chapels. In. 1749, he • was appointed Boyle's lefturer. He had the living of St. Dunftan in the Eaft, from Archbifhop Herring, before he was collated to this vicarage ; in 1 764, he was made Arch deacon of London. He died in the year 1770, and was buried on the 12th of Septerr ber in the church-yard, where the following fliort infcription, di'ftated by himfelf, is to be feen on his tomb : " Johannes Jortin mortalis effe defiit, anno " falutis 1770, astatis 72." Dr. Jortin's principal works are : Difcourfes on the Truth of the Chriftian-Religion ; Mifcellaneous Obfervations -on Authors, ancient and modern ; Remarks on Ecclefiaftical Hiftory ; Differtations on various Sub jefts ; a Life of Erafinus, and Remarks on his Works : among-his fmaller trafts are Lufus Poetici , Remarks on Spenfer and Milton ; Remarks on Seneca, in a work called the State of the Republic of Letters, 1734 ; and a Letter concerning the Mufic of the Ancients. An account of his life and writings, from which tliefe brief notices are taken, was drawn up by Dr. Heathcote, and prefixed* to fome pofthumous fermons, in two volumes, publifhed by his fon Rogers Jor tin Efq. There is a life of him alfo, with Remarks on his Writings, by Dr Difney, who quotes from a traft of Dr. Parr's, a very high charafter ofthe fubjeft of his memoirs, as a man of great learning and the moft amiable manners. Dr, Jortin's fucceffor, the late Dr. Waller, died. at Wajtham in Effex, Nov., 10, 1795, in confe- B* Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. Si Ibid. quence 5i6 KENSINGTON. Brompton chapel. Parifh re gifter. querice of the bruifes he had received by the fall of a ftack of chimnies, during the high wind in the night of the 6th of the fame month. He was fuc ceeded in the vicarage of Kenfington by Richard Ormerod M.A. the prefent incumbent. A private chapel was opened at Brompton in the year 1769, for the accommo dation of the inhabitants of that place. The preachers are appointed by the vicar of Kenfington, and licenfed by the bifhop. The prefent morning preacher is Richard Harrifon, M.A. fon of the late popular preacher of that name, of whom there is an engraved portrait ; the afternoon preacher is the Rev. Thomas Frog- nal Dibdin, F. A. S., author of an Introduftion to the Knowledge of rare and va luable Editions of the Claffics, &c. There is a meeting-houfe for the Independents at Kenfington, built in 1794. The parifh regifter commences in 1539 ; and appears to have been for the moft part kept with great accuracy. The entries of burials are imperfeft about the year 1630. Charles Seward, who was curate from about theyear 1670 till the beginning of the prefent century, appears to have beftowed great attention upon the regifters. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. Comparative y 1540 — 1549- ftate of popu lation. I58o — 1589. 1630 — 1639. 1680 — 1689. 1730 — *739- 1780 — 1785. 1786 — *793- 1794 — 1799. 1800 — 1804. 1805 — 1809. 64 — 7\ 8rV — MA 23W — — 5^ — 98A 86* — «3h" *59t — 20I.J. l95l — 234t 2114. — 224 iiy\ — 2584 2194 — 226| This parifh appears to have increafed in the proportion of nearly 30 to 1 during the two laft centuries. A confiderable increafe of buildings took place at Ken fington about the time that King William fixed his refidence there : the popula tion of the parifh has been confiderably increafed alfo within the laft 40 years ; but, the new buildings have been principally in and near Brompton. The number of houfes in 1 794 was about 1 240 ; of which about 1 1 50 were inhabited the remainder being for the moft part unfinifhed : according to the return made 86 The number of males and females baptized the number of burials was 1145 — males C62 m this period very nearly correfpond, being 780 of females 853. ' the former, and 782 ofthe latter. In 1787—91, to KENSINGTON. 5i7 to parliament under the population aft in 1801, there were then 1314 inhabited, 119 uninhabited houfes, and 8556 inhabitants in this parifh. The prefent number of houfes is about 1500. In the years 1547 and 1581 there appears to have been a great mortality at this place : in the former year were 20 burials, in the latter 27 ; numbers very far exceeding the average of thofe periods. In 1603 there were 32 burials ; in 1625, 80; in 1665, 62 only; 25 of the perfons interred -that year are faid to have died of the plague. Extracls from the Regifter. " John Bifhope of Glofcifter, buried the 21 of May 1598." John Bullingham, Jo!in Bul. of Magdalen College, Oxford, promoted to this fee in 158 1. He held the lingham, bifhopric of Briftol in commendam from 1581 to 1589 87. Gloucefter. " Philip, fon of Richard Percevall Efq. baptized April, 14, 1603; Alice, Richard " April 7, 1605." Richard Perceval, anceftor of the Earl of Egmont, was of Perceval- a very ancient family in Somerfetfhire. Having rendered an eminent fervice to his country by decyphering fome papers taken on board a Spanifh fhip, previoufly to the intended invafion by the famous Armada, Queen Elizabeth affigned him a penfion of 800 marks. He afterwards held fome lucrative offices in the court of wards, through the intereft of his coufin Robert Cecil, Earl of Salifbury. Philip Perceval, his fon (by his fecond wife Alice, daughter of John Sherman sir Philip Efq.), was knighted, by King Charles, and had very large grants in Ireland ; Percev^- where, on the eve of the civil war, he fortified and garrifoned his caftles in fo complete a manner, that one of them fuftained a fiege of 30 days, againft an army of 7000 foot and 500 horfe. In 1642, he was appointed by the parliament corti- miffary-general of the army. He appears neverthelefs to have afted with the royal party till 1644. In 1647, he was among the few members of parliament who made a bold but unfuccefsful ftand againft the independents, being chair man of the committees which were appointed to defend the city and parliament ; nor did he quit his poft till the army- were in complete poffeffion of the fove- reignty. Overborne, as it is faid, by the difaftrous fituation of his own and the public affairs, he died, after an illnefs of a few days, Nov. 10, 1647 .; when, notwithstanding the enmity which had fubfifted between him and the party then in power, the fum of 200I. was voted to defray his funeral expences. He was buried in the church of St. Martin in the Fields, Archbifhop Uflier preaching his funeral fermon. His fifter Alice, born at Kenfington, married Richard Fitzgerald Efq. of the county of Cork. Sir Philip's eldeft fon, John Perceval, was created a ba ronet in 1 66 1, with this remarkable privilege, that the heir apparent to the title, 87 Godwin de Prafulibus. Vol. II. 3 x whether 5i8 KENSINGTON. whether fon or grandfon, being one and twenty years of age, fhould have the rank and title of a baronet, in the lifetime of his father or grand-father ss. " Anna, the daughter of George Calvert Efq. % baptized Ap. i, 1607." Penruddock, « Sr Manhood Penruddock, Kn., flaine at Nottingwood 9° in fighte, buried the Knt. " 29 daye or January 1608. Clifford Earl " The Lord Clifford 9", fon and heir to the Erie of Cumberland, was married to 1°fn£umber" « the Lady Frances Cecil, fole daughter to the Erie of Salifbury, Lord High Trea- " furer of England, the 25th of July 1610." Hobart. " Henry, fon of Sr Henry Hubbart92, baptized Sep. 19, 16 10." Family of " Charles, fon of the Earl of Holland, buried Ap' 28, 1 645 ; Henry Rich, Earl Holland and " °f Holland, was buried March 1 o, 1 649 " ; Ifabella, Dowager Countefs of Hol- Warwick. « ]and5 Sep. 1, 1655. The Ld Robert Rich and Mrs Elizabeth Ingram, married " Ap. 8, 1 641; Henry Rich, Ld of Kenfington94, fon of the R( Honb,e Robert " Rich, Earl of Holland, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, born Aug. 20, 1642 ; " Elizabeth Countefs of Holland, buried Sep. 17, 1661 ; the Rc HonHe Robert Earl " of Warwick and Holland, April 16, 1675 ; the Right HonMe Anne95 Countefs '•' of Warwick and Holland, July 9, 1689 ; the R' Honble Edward Earl of War- " wick"9', buried Aug. 6, 1701 ; Charlotte Countefs of Warwick9', July 12, " 1 73 1 :" there are many other entries relating to the noble family of Rich. Lafcells, " Sr Thomas Laffels, Knt. ofthe age of 82, worthily graced with that degree of "honour by Queen Elizabeth, by whom, for his wifdom and integrity, he was " made juftice of the peace, high fheriff of Yorkfhire, and of Her Highnefs coun- " fell there, and being here of fliort continuance a noble houfekeeper, and fo died " a bleffed Chriftian, with full affured hope of his falvation, only by the merits of " Jefus Chrift, buried May 2, 161 9." 88 Collins's Peerage, edit. 1768, vol. vii. (ar- fays (edit/i 741 ) that Henry. Rich married Chrif- ticle Lovel and Holland), whence the above ac- tian, daughter 6f Andrew Ricard, alderman of count was collected. London ; and relict of Sir John Goyre. It ap- B» Afterwards Lord Baltimore. See p. 456. pears by the Kenfington regifter, that He'nry 5° Near Knotting or Knutting Barns in this Lord Kenfington was married on the 14th of parifh. February 1659 to Mrs. Chriftian Geare, and that »' Afterwards Henry Earl of Cumberland, he was buried on the 2jsd of AprU following. He died without iffue male in 1643, when tne His widow married to her third hufband John title became extina. Lord Berkley of Stratton. " Then attorney-general ; he appears to have »' Anne, daughter of Edward Earl of Man- frequently changed the place of his refidence. See chefter. Hackney and Highgate. 96 Only furviving fon of Robert the preceding 93 See an account of him, p. 503, 504. Earl. » This entry muft have been made feveral years * Daughter of Sir Thomas Middelton of after his birth, as it contains a Angular ana- Chirk-caftle ; and married, after the Earl of chronifm. Robert Rich was not Earl of Hoi- Warwick's death, to Jofeph Addifon Efq. land till after his father's death in 1649. Collins «« Mr Wil- Knt KENSINGTON. 519 « Mr William Murray and M" Margaret Alexander, daughter of Sr William «< Alexander98, a Scottifh Knight, married July 20, 1620; Hugh Montgo- " mery Efq., the fon of S' Hugh Montgomery, Knt., of Scotland ; and M» Jane " Alexander, the daughter of ,Sr William Alexander of Scotland, Knt. married " Aug. 3, 1620." " Henry Slingfoy Efq. the fon and heir of Sr Henry Slingfoy, Knt. and Bart. " si.r Heni7 " and M« Barbara Belafyfe, the daughter of the R< Honble Thomas Ld Falcon- ^"S^' « bridge, married July 7, 163 1." Sir Henry Slingfoy the younger fuffered death upon the fcaffold, for his attachment to the royal caufe. He left iffue by his wife Barbara, Sir Thomas, his fucceffor ; Henry ; and a daughter Barbara, married to Sir John Talbot, of Laycock in Wiltfhire ,0°. " James Butler, Ld Vifcount Thurles, buried June 29, 1632." " Mrs Elizabeth Mewtes, mother to the Lady Thorowgood, buried Aug. 19, Family of " 1641." The Meautys's, or Mewtas's, were a very ancient family at Kenfing- Mewtas- ton ,01. Sir John Thorowgood was gentleman penfioner to King Charles the Firft, Sir John and of the privy chamber to King Charles II. During the interregnum, he attached ^°J°W' himfelf, neverthelefs, to the Republicans, and was member of moft of the com mittees. He refided at Kenfington, where, as juftice of peace, he generally officiated at marriages, till the Reftoration, as appears by the parifh-regifter. " Baptift, fon of Baptift Vifcount Campden, by his wife Elizabeth, anceftor of Family of " the Earl of Gainfoorough, born in Covent-garden, baptized Nov. 2, 1658." ^^qJ^'. There are other entries relating to this noble family. den. " John and William, fons of Col. John Lambert of Calton, baptized by Lambert's " Mr Byard, Parfon of Wheldrake, at Sr William Lifter's houfe at Coldhearne, family " Sep. 27, 1647; Ann, daughter of Majr Gen1 Lambert and Frances his wife, " baptized Oft. 14, 1648, buried Sept. 29, 1649; a fervant from Ld Lam- " bert's "" houfe, was married in 1656." General Lambert was one of the moft confpicuous characters during the government of the Commonwealth, and was the firft prefident of Cromwell's council. He married Frances, daughter of Sir William Lifter, who is faid to have been a very elegant and accomplifhed woman103. Sir William died in the month of Auguft 1649, anc* was buried at Kenfington, when Lambert inherited his houfe in this parifh, called Cole- hearne '°4. After the Earl of Holland's death, General Lambert, then at the 98 The poet and dramatic writer, afterwards '" Noble does not mention him among Crom- Earl of Stirling. well's peers. *> He fucceeded Sir John Slingfby ; who was I03 Noble's Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. i. created a baronet in 1628, and died in 1630 p. 369. without iffue. '°4 Near Earl's Court, now belonging to Mr. '°° Kimber's Baronetage, edit. 1771. William Bolton Paynton, and at prefent unoc- "" See p. 5 12. cupied. 3X2 head 52o KENSINGTON, head of the army, fixed his quarters at Holland-houfe, but his refidence there was of fliort continuance. When the Proteftor Richard's power began to decline, Lambert, who had long been at variance with the Cromwell family, was much careffed by the Long parliament, and flattered himfelf with the expeftation of gra tifying his ambition, and raifing his own fortune on their ruins ; his hopes" were of fliort continuance ; for after an ineffeftual ftruggle with the rifing power of Monk, he was taken prifoner, and being tried fome time after the Reftoration was fentenced to perpetual imprifonment in the Ifle of Guernfey, where he lived 30 years, and amufed himfelf, under his misfortunes, with cultivating and painting flowers IC4. General Lambert's eldeft fon John, baptized at Kenfington, married Barbara, daughter of Thomas Lifter Efq. and had iffue, of which only one - daughter furvived, married to Sir John Middelton, Bart., anceftor of the prefent Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monk (late Middelton) Bart. " MrsMary (Lambert), " wife of the honble Charles Hatton Efq. fecond fon of the Rc Hon. Chriftopher " Ld Hatton, departed this life at Kenfington, April 24th, and was buried in the " chancel in her grandfather's Sr William Lifter's vault, on the 28[h, 1675; " Frances, daughter of Mr Daniel Perrot, and grand-daughter of Gen1 Lambert, " buried Sep. 21, 1676." Family of '•' Mr Edward Conneway and Mrs Anne Finch, married Feb. n, 1651," Ed- W^ndielfea° warc* ^ar^ °^ Conway, married Anne, daughter of Sir Heneage Finch, Recorder and Notting- of London, and Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, who, according to Collins, ham. refided at Kenfington, and died in 1631 ; but I find no traces of the family in the regifter, till this marriage of Anne Finch, which, if Collins's date be right, was 20 years after her father's death. This Countefs of Conway is faid to have written a Latin work, entitled Opufcula Philofophica I05. Heneage " Edward, fon of Sr Heneage Finch and Lady Elizabeth his wife, baptized tingham. " -^P1 2°» 1^3'" Heneage, eldeft fon ofthe Recorder of London, a very emi nent lawyer, and much celebrated for his eloquence, rofe, through the feveral gradations of his profeffion, to the high ftation of Lord Chancellor of England. He was created Earl of Nottingham in 1681, and died the next year, being buried at Ravenfton in Buckinghamfhire, where there is a magnificent monu ment to his memory 106. His charafter is finely drawn by Dryden, in his poem '°4 Noble's Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. i. man's Magazine, that Catharine, daughter of 105 See a letter in the Gentleman's Magazine Giles Hueriblock, and fecond wife of Edward for O&ober 1784, dated from Berlin. Leibnitz Earl of Conway, was miftaken by Leibnitz for is quoted as the authority; who fays the work in Ann Countefs of Conway, is erroneous. Catha- queftion was written by the Countefs of Conway, rine's hufband was only Vifcount Conway. She filler of Sir Heneage Finch. The conjecture, died in 1639. See p. 3. of this volume. ftarted in a note upon this letter in the Gentle- « See Magna Britannia, vol.i. p. 626, of KENSINGTON. 521 of Abfalom and Achitophel, under the name of Amri. Several of his fpeeches are in print tC7. Edward, his fon died at York, being prebendary of the cathedral church there, in 1738; Henry, born at Kenfington June 6, 1664, was Dean of York, and died in 1728. " The Rc Honble and truly vertuous Lady " Elizabeth, wife of the R' Hon. Heneage Ld Finch, Baron of Daventry, Ld High " Chancellor of England, departed this life, at their houfe in Queen-ftreet, " Mar. 15, and was buried Mar. 23, 1676 ; Samuel Grimftone Efq. l0S, the fon " and heir-apparent of the Hon. Sr Harbottle Grimfton, Bart., Mafter of the " Rolls, and Mrs Elizabeth Finch, eldeft daughter of Sr Heneage Finch, Knt. and " Bart., the King's folicitor-general, were married the 14 day of February 1670, " by the moft reverend father in God, Gilbert Ld Archbifliop of Canterbury." Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Samuel and Elizabeth Grimfton (the only child of this marriage), was born at her grandfather's, Jan. 19, 1671. She married William Saville, Marquis of Halifax. Daniel Finch, eldeft fon of the Lord Chancellor, fome of whofe children were Daniel Earl baptized at Kenfington, fucceeded his father in the Earldom of Nottingham in nf NottinS- 1682, and his relation John Earl of Winchelfea in that title in 1729. He was a nobleman of confiderable talents, and an eminent charafter in the political world during the reigns of King William and Queen Anne, having twice filled the department of principal fecretary of ftate. He is recorded in the catalogue of noble authors, for publifhing an anfwer to fome of Whifton's doftrines, which procured him the thanks of the Univerfity of Oxford. A pamphlet, called Ob fervations on the State of the Nation, goes alfo under his name, but is faid not to have been written by him. This Earl of Nottingham fold his houfe at Kenfing ton to King William, foon after that monarch became poffeffed of the throne. Daniel Earl of Nottingham, by his fecond wife, had, according to Collins, thirty children, including fuch as were ftill-born. Daniel, born at Kenfington, May 24, 1689, was the third Earl of Nottingham; William, born at Berk- fliire-houfe, Jan. 18, and baptized at Kenfington, Feb. 9, 1690, was Envoy to Sweden and the States General, and father to the prefent Earl of Winchelfea and Nottingham. " The Marquis of Kinech (Cugnac) and Mrs Elizabeth Miron (Mayerne), " married March 23, 1652 Ic»." "" Royal and Noble Authors. prefent Lord Grimfton is defcended from his ne- 108 Afterwards Sir Samuel Grimfton, being phew and adopted heir Sir William Luckyn, the third baronet of that family. He had only -who affumed the name of Grimfton. one daughter by this marriage ; and, dying with- ,0» See p. 63. out male iffue, the title became extinft. The " Mr Henry 522 KENSINGTON. Marriage of Henry Crom well. Strickland, Bart. Sir William Strickland. " Mr Henry Cromwell and Elizabeth Ruffell, married May 10, 1653." Eliza beth Ruffell was daughter of Sir Francis Ruffell, Bart., of Chippenham, who had a feat in Cromwell's Houfe of Peers. This marriage happened before Henry Cromwell's fecond vifit to Ireland, whither he went with the ap pointment of Lord Deputy. His mild and prudent adminiftration there has gained him due applaufe, from writers of all parties. After the Reftoration he led a retired life in Cambridgeshire, and died much refpefted in the year 1673, aged. 47. " Thomas Strickland, fon and heir-apparent of Sr William Strickland, of Boyn- " ton in Yorkfhire, Knt. and Bart., and Elizabeth Pile, fecond daughter of S< " Francis Pile, late of Compton-Beauchamp, in Berkfhire, Bart, (deceafed), mar- " ried Nov. 9, 1659." Sir William Strickland was one of Cromwell's lords. His fon Thomas fucceeded him in the title of baronet, and was anceftor of the prefent Sir George Strickland. " The honourable Sr Francis Holies of Wynterbcurn, S[ Martin, Dorfetfhire, " Knt., and Bart, the only fon furvivant and heir-apparent ofthe R'Hon. Denzel " Baron Holies, of Ifield, and M1S Anne Pile, the eldeft daughter and coheir of " Sr Francis Pile, Bart, (deceafed) and the Lady Jane his wife, were married the " 9 day of June 1670, by the R' Revd father in God, Humphrey Ld Bifhop of " London." " Sr Henry Belafyfe ,0% of Worlaby in Lincolnfhire, and Mrs Sufan Armyne, " daughter of §r William Armyne "° ofthe fame county, were married Oft. 20, " 1662. " Robert Southwell Efq. "' of Whitehall, and Mrf Elizabeth Dering, daughter " of Sr Edward Dering, Bart., ofthe county of Kent, married Jan. 26, 1665, by " the Ld Bilhop of Exeter "V " The R1 Hon. Thomas Ld Windfor "3, and Urfula Widdrington II4, married Ap1 9, 1668." " The Hon. John Cecil "5, fon and heir-apparent of the R< Hon. John Ld " Burleigh, and the Lady Anne his wife, born May 15, 1674, at Mrs Shef- " field's." ,09 K. B. fon of John Lord Belafyfe of Wor laby, fo created in 1645. "* Created a baronet in 1619. Lady Belafyfe was created Baronefs Belafyfe of Ofgodby, 26 Car. II. being then the relift of Sir Henry. She refided at Kenfington many years. "' Sir Robert Southwell of King's-Wefton in Gloucefterfhire, clerk of the Council to King Charles II. He was ambaffador to Portugal in 1 667 . His memoirs were publifhed in 1 740. 1,2 Seth Ward. 1,3 Afterwards Earl of Plymouth. 1,4 Daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Wid drington, Knt. 1,5 He was the fourth Earl of Exeter. The KENSINGTON. 523 " The HonMe Charles Boyle Efq. fecond fon of the R' Hon. Roger Ld Brog- Charles " hill, the fon and heir-apparent of the Rt Hon. Roger Earl of Orrery, and the ^^.f arl " Lady Mary his wife, was born at Dr Whitakeir's houfe, in Little-Chelfea, on " Tuefday the 28 day of July, between the hours of five and fix in the afternoon, " and was baptized on Saturday the firft day of Auguft, by the Revd Dr Clarke, " Dean of Winchefter, 1674." The accomplifhed nobleman, whofe birth and baptifm are here fo minutely recorded, diftinguifhed himfelf as an author, a fol- dier, and a politician. He tranflated Plutarch's Life of Lyfander from the Greek, and publifhed an edition of Phalaris's Epiftles, which occafioned a very remark able literary conteft I5S. He wrote a comedy alfo, called " As you find it." His attachment to the fcience of aftronomy has a lafting record in the machine which bears his name. Charles Boyle fucceeded his brother Lionel in the title of Earl of Orrery in 1703, and died in 1731. His biographer mentions the circumftance of his having been born at Little-Chelfea, but erroneoufly fuppofes the date of his birth to have been 1676. He is right in the account of his age. " Ralph IS6, fon of John Verney Efq. '", and Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph " Palmer Efq. born at Little-Chelfea, March 18, 1683 ; Sir John Verney, Bart. and MrS Elizabeth Baker, married Ap1 8, 1696. " Sr Hele Hooke, Bart, buried July 12, 171 2." There are feveral other entries relating to this family. " Elizabeth, daughter of Sr John Chardin and Lady Either his wife, born at sir John " Holland-houfe, Sep. 19, 1684." Sr John Chardin, the traveller, was a refugee Chardin. from France ; he afterwards fettled at Chifwick ,sS." " Mary, daughter of Foot Onflow Efq. by Sufanna, born and baptized, Family of " Nov. 12, 1688." Foot was fecond fon of Sir Arthur Onflow, Bart, by Mary, Onflow. daughter of Sir Thomas Foot, Bart, and one of Cromwell's Peers. Arthur, fon of Foot Onflow, born at Chelfea, Oft,. 1, 1691, was five times elefted Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, and fupported that office with great abilities and integrity ,S9. " William, fon of Sr Robert Atkyns, Knight of the Bath, and Lord Chief sir Robert " Baron of Their Majefties court of Exchequer, by Dame Anne his wife, bap- Atkyni> " tized Sep. 7, 1690." " The Rc Honble Lewis Ld Trevor, Vifcount Dungannon, of the kingdom pf Trevor Vif count Dun- ¦» The pamphlets publifhed in Boyle's name '" Aft-rwards a Baronet, and in 1703 created gannon. during this controverfy appear, by Atterbury's Vifcount Fermanagh. Letters, to have been written by tbat learned pre- "8 See p. 1 34. late "» Collins's Peerage, ""He'fuceeded his father as Lord Fermanagh, and was created EarJ Verney in 1742. . " Ireland, 5*4 KENSINGTON. Family of Medows. Sir Sidney Medows. Thomas Henfhaw. William Courten. " Ireland, who died in Spring gardens, buried Jan. 3, 1692 ; the Rl Hon. Lady " Trevor, Vifcountefs Dungannon, buried Oft. 5, 1692." " The Lady Charlotte Schomberg, daughter of Meinhard Duke of Leinfter, " buried Dec. 16, 1692; the Ld William Schomberg, fecond fon of his Grace " Meinhard Duke of Schomberg, buried Dec. 1, 1696." " Philip, fon of Philip Meadows Efq. buried March 9, 1698 ; Sidney, fon of " Sr Philip Meadows, and the Lady Dorothy his wife l6°, baptized Sep. 1, 1701." Sir Philip was fon of another Sir Philip, of whom fome account has been already given ,61. Sidney, who fucceeded his father in the office of knight-marfhal,; died on the 15th of November 1792, having completed his 91ft year. He retained, even to the laft year of his life, a wonderful fhare of ftrength and acti vity, which he difplayed m a very remarkable degree in the managing of his horfes, an art in which he had always excelled. Sir Philip Medows, his father, died at Kenfington in December 1757, aged 87, and was there buried. Sir Sid ney was buried at Andover, where he died. Leaving no iffue, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to his nephew Evelyn Medows, Efq.^ elder brother of Charles Pierrepont Efq. and Sir William Medows, K. B. There are other entries relating to the Medows family. " Thomas Henfhaw Efq., buried Jan. 6, 1700." Author of an Hiftory of making Saltpetre and Gunpowder. He was gentleman of the privy-chamber to King Gharles II., fecretary'of embaffy to Denmark in 1672, and afterwards envoy extraordinary to that court l6z. Mr. Henfhaw was married at Kenfington April 23, 1657, to Anne Darrett, widow. The ceremony was performed by Juftice Bradfhaw. " William Curteen Efq. from the gravel-pits, buried March 3 1 , 1702." Mr. Courten was grandfon of Sir William Courten, and fon of William Cour-' ten Efq. by Lady Catherine Egerton. In the courfe of his travels into various countries, and a refidence of feveral years in France, he amaffed a very large col-' leftion of antiquities and natural curiofities, and on his return fitted up a Mufeum,^ which is faid to have occupied ten rooms at the Middle Temple. This colleftion he left by his will to Sir Hans Sloane, and it may be faid to have been the firft foundation of the Britifh Mufeum. Mr. Courten wrote a paper on the effects of poifons upon animals, publifhed in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, and left in MS. fome remarks on natural curiofities in various parts of England, which are now among the Sloane MSS. a63 "° Daughter of Edward Bofcawen Efq. 161 See p. 270. 162 See p. 51 1. m Notes on the Tatler, new edit. vol. vi. " Sr Henry K E N S I N G T ON, 5*5 " Sir Henry Liddell buried Sep. 3. 1723." Father of the late Lord Ravens- worth. " Henry, fon of James Bridges Efq. and the Lady Mary his wife, baptized Brydges " Feb, 1, 1708." James Brydges, afterwards Duke of Chandos, married to chandos. his firft wife Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Lake. Henry, whofe baptifm is here recorded, was the youngeft, but only furviving fon of that marriage at his father's death, when he fucceeded to the title. He was father of the laft Duke of Chandos. " The Rc Hon. Sr James Gray, Bart, buried Jan. 19, 1773." He was envoy Family of to Naples, and one of the firft who noticed the difcoveries at Herculaneum ,2S. His fucceffor, Sir George Gray, who was an amateur in architecture and defigned Lord Spencer's houfe in the Green Park, furvived him only a few weeks, having been buried Feb. 17, 1773. There are other entries relating to this family. Sir James Gray the elder was created a baronet of Scotland in 1707 ; his widow, who was upwards"7 of 97 years of age, was buried at Kenfington in 1788. " Charles, fon of Mr John and Mrs Elizabeth Pratt, baptized Mar. 21, 17 14." Lord Cam- None of the memoirs of this great lawyer, which have been hitherto publifhed, mention the place, or with accuracy the time, of his birth. His father, a lawyer of great eminence alfo, was made a Judge of the King's Bench in the month of Oftober 17 14, and in the year 1718 was promoted to the fituation of Lord Chief Juftice of that court. Charles Pratt, his third fon, was bred up to his own pro feffion. It is faid that he had been nine years at the bar without diftinguifhing himfelf, when an accidental opportunity called forth thofe talents which raifed him to the higheft honours of his profeffion. He was made Attorney-general in 1757, Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, in 1762 ; and in 1766 Lord High Chancellor of England. In thefe high ftations he condufted himfelf with Angular abilities and integrity "8. In 1765 he was created a Peer, by the title of Baron Camden. In '1782 he was prefident of the council; in 1786 he was raifed to the rank of an Earl. Lord Camden died on the 18th of April 1794, having juft completed his 80th year. It appears that his father, Lord Chief Juftice Pratt, refided feveral years at Kenfington ; his fon George was baptized there* Nov. 21, 1716; Robert I2% Nov. 18, 1717 ; John, Oft. 26, 1718 ; Anna Maria 13°, his daughter, Nov. 2, 1719 ; and Frances, Jan. 17, 172 1. " Mr. Thomas Killegrew, buried July 21, 17 19." Gentleman of the bed- TJ},°mas chamber to King George the Second, when Prince of Wales, and author of a !S6 See Phil. Tranf. vol. xlviii. anno 1754. "' He was in the army, and died unmarried. 1=7 Annual Regifter. '3° She married Thomas Lord Dacre. m See an account of Lord Camden in the European Magazine for July 1 794. VoL. II. 3 Y comedy $2$ KENSINGTON. Colby,- Bart. Richard Vif count Moles- worth. Francis Earl ofGodol-phin. comedy called Chit' Chat, reprefented at Drury Lane a few months before his death. The newfpapers of the day fpeak of it as having been very fuccefsful, and mention that the Prince made him a prefent of ioo guineas, and that the Princefs gave him 50. " William l31, fon of the R' Hon. John Earl Fitzwilliam, and Lady Anne, " baptized Jan. 16, 1720." " The Right Hon. William Ld Byron ,3% and the Hon. Mrs. Frances Berkley* *c married Dec. 3, 1720." " Ld Strathnaver 133, buried Dec. 12, 1720." " Lady IleyJ34, buried Sep. 7, 1723." " Sr Thomas Colby, Bart, buried Oft. 15, 1729." He was created a Baronet in 1720, being defcribed of Kenfington, Several entries relating to the family at an earlier period are to' be found in the regifter. The title is extinft. " Lady Willoughby de Broke ,3S, buried Sep. 17, 1730." " Henry Lord Dunkellin ,36, fon of the R' Hon. Smith Burke I37, Earl of " Clanrickarde and the Lady Hefter his wife, baptized Feb. 9, 1743* " Richard Vifcount Molefworth, buried Oft. 16, 1758." He diftinguifhed himfelf as a gallant officer - under the Duke of .Marlborough, and had the good fortune to fave his General's life at the battle of Ramillies. He was promoted to the rank of Field-marfhal the year before his death. Lord Molefworth pub lifhed a work on the government and conduft of an army, printed by Dodfley. " The Rc Hon. Richard Naffau, Vifcount Molefworth (fon of the laft mentioned " Peer), was buried at Kenfington July 9, 1793." " Thomas Charles Bunbury Efq. I38 and Lady Sarah Lenox I3% married in " the chapel at Holland-houfe, June 2, 1762, by Philip Francis, D.D." " St Henry Slingfoy, buried June 25, 1763." " The Rl Hon. Francis Earl of Godolphin, buried Jan. 25, 1766." Son of the Lord Treafurer ; he was firft gentleman of the bed-chamber to King George I. and George II. Leaving no furviving iffue by his wife Henrietta Duchefs of Marlborough, the titles of Earl of Godolphin and Vifcount Rialton became extinft at his death, and that of Baron Godolphin on the death of Fran cis Lord Godolphin, in 1785. 131 He fucceeded his father in the title, and was father of the prefent Earl. 132 Great grandfather of the prefent Lord Byron. 133 Son of John Earl of Sutherland. He left iffue a fort (William), who fucceeded his grand father. 134 'Wife of Archibald Earl of Iflay, afterwards Duke of Argyle. "35 Widow of George Lord Willoughby de Broke. 136 The late Marquis of Clanrickard. 137 De Burgh. 138 Now Sir T. C. Bunbury, Bart. *j9 Sifter of the late Duke of Richmond. " The KENSINGTON. 527 " The R< Honble Lady Caroline Vifcountefs Fortrofe ,4°, buried Feb. 14, " 1767." " The R' Honble Camilla Countefs Dowager of Tankerville ,4t, buried Oft. " *7» V75" " The Hon. Robert Monkton ,4% General of His Majefties forces, buried " May 26, 1782." " The Rl Hon. Catherine Sarah Lady Dowager Donneraile I43, buried Aug. 3, « 1783." " Carolina Countefs Dowager of Harrington'44, buried July 6, 1784." " Rev. Martin Madan, buried May 8, 1790." Son of Martin Madan Efq. Martia of Hertingfordbury near Hertford, member of parliament for Wootton-Baffet, and a an' Groom of the bedchamber to Frederick Prince of Wales. His mother was daughter of Spencer Cowper Efq. and niece of the Lord Chancellor, an accom- plifhed lady, and author of feveral poems of confiderable merit I4S. Mr. Madan was originally bred to the law, and had been called to the bar ; he afterwards quitted that profeffion, entered into holy orders, became chaplain at the Lock hofpital, and a popular preacher. In the year 1780 he publifhed a book called Thelypthora, which from the Angularity of its doftrines, being a defence of polygamy,-was much read and talked of when it firft came out. It is fomewhat remarkable that Mrs. Manley in the Atalantis fpeaks of Lord Chancellor Cowper, as maintaining the fame tenets. Mr. Madan publifhed alfo a literal tranflation of Juvenal and Perfius ; Thoughts on executive Juftice with refpeft to the Criminal Laws, and fome fingle fermons. He died at Epfom in the 64th year of his age. 11 George Colman, aged 62, buried Aug. 24, 1794." Mr. Colman was fon George Col- of Francis Colman Efq. by his wife Mary, daughter of John Gumley Efq. of man- Ifleworth, and filler to Anna Maria Countefs of Bath. He was born at Florence not long before the death of his father, who was Britifh minifter at that place- Mr. Colman received his education at Weftminfter School, and at Chrift-church College in Oxford, where he lived upon terms of great intimacy with the moft diftinguifhed wits of that day. Colman was bred to the law, and became a bar- rifter of Lincoln's Inn ; but relinquifhed that profeffion, and gave himfelf up to ',0 Daughter of William Earl of Harrington. '4* Son of John Vifcount Galway. Fortrofe is the fecond title of the Earl of Sea- '*3- Relift of Arthur the fecond Vifcount Done- forth. Thefe titles were forfeited in 17 15 by the raille, who died in 1734. then Earl; but his grandfon Kenneth Mackenzie '« Relitt of William Earl of Harrington, who was created Earl of Seaforth, and Vifcount For- died in 1779, and daughter of Charles Duke of trofe in Ireland. The titles are now extinft. Grafton. "'" Reli£t of Charles Earl of Tankerville, who "4S Abelard to Eloifa ; the Progrefs of Poetry; - died in 1753, Verfes on the Death of Hughes, &c. &c. 3 Y 2 literary S28 KENSINGTON. Three chil dren at a birth. Richard Warren, M.D. literary purfuits. For a few years he was concerned in the management of Covent- Garden Theatre ; and was afterwards for many years, and till his death, fole pa tentee of the fummer theatre in the Haymarket. He diftinguifhed himfelf in the literary world both as a claffical fcholar and a dramatic writer. A lift of his numerous produftions for the ftage may be feen in the Biographia Dramatica : of thefe the Jealous Wife, and the Clandeftine Marriage (in which he wasaffiftedby Garrick), are perhaps the moft celebrated. The excellent afting of King, who fupported the charafter of Lord Ogleby in the latter at its firft reprefentation in 1766, long continued to engage the admiration and applaufe of the dramatic amateur. Mr. Colman was joint author of the Connoiffeur ; and publifhed a tranflation of Horace's Art of Poetry, and the comedies of Terence, befides feve ral poems and fugitive pieces, which have been collected into three volumes. Mr. Colman died at Paddington on the 14th of Auguft, and was interred at this place in a family vault. " The Hon. Patrick James Herbert Stuart, fecond fon of John Ld Vifcount Mountftuart I4S, and Elizabeth Penelope Vifcountefs Mountftuart I47, born at Brompton-park houfe, Aug, 20 ; baptized Sep. ,29, 1794," " James, Mary, and Benjamin, children of Richard and Mary Griggs, at one " birth, baptized March 2, 1794." " Major General William Roberts, aged 79, buried Oft. 10, 1796." He loft his leg at the battle of Fontenoy. ** Richard Warren, M. D. of Dover-ftreet, London, aged 65, buried June 30, " 1797." This eminent phyfician was fon of Dr. Richard Warren, archdeacon of Suffolk, and brother of the late Dr. John Warren, Bifhop of Bangor ; he was at the head of his profeffion, and having be&n for many- years in the receipt of larger annual profits than had then been known to accrue from it, left a large family in opulent circumftances. As an author, he is only known by a paper on the Bronchial Polypus, and another on the Colica Piftonum, printed in the Medi cal Tranfaftions. Dr. Warren was buried in the chancel at Kenfington, where is a tablet to his memory, with the following infcription : " Ricardo Warren, " apud Cavendifh in agro Suffolcienfi nato, Collegii Jefu Cantab, quondam focio, " Regis Georgii Tertii Medico, viro ingenio, prudentiaque acuto ; optimarum " artium difciplinis erudito ; comitatis & beneficentise laude bonis omnibus com- " mendatiffimo, qui medicinam feliciterque Londini faftitavit. Deceffit X Ka» " land. Jul. Anno Chrifti MDCCXCVII. astat. fuse LXVI. Elizabetha uxor & " liberi decern fuperftites H. M. faciendum curaverunt." " S' Richard Symons of Old-Brompton, aged 54, buried July 11, 1797." ¦t6 Lord Mountftuart unfortunately loft his '-« Daughter and fole heir of Lord Dum- Kfe by a fall from his horfe a few months before fries. the birth of his fon. " John KENSINGTON. s20 " John Afh, M.D. Brompton, aged y$, buried June 26, 1798." Dr. Afh was John for fome time an eminent phyfician at Birmingham, and phyfician to the General A(h' Ml D' Hofpital in that town : he afterwards refided in London, and was well known in the literary circles. He fpoke the Harveyan Oration in 1790, and was author ofa Treatife on the waters of Spa and Aix la Chapelle, in Germany, and of the waters and Boue near St. Amand in French Flanders. There is a whole length portrait of him by Bartolozzi after Sir Jofhua Reynolds. " The R'Hon. Lady Margaret Macdonald, aged 85, buried April 6, 1799." Mother of the late Lord Macdonald and of Sir Archibald Macdonald, the prefent Lord Chief Baron ofthe Exchequer. " Samuel Pegge, aged 6y, brought from Scotland-yard, Whitehall, buried Samuel May 30, 1 800." Mr. Pegge, fon ofthe Reverend Samuel Pegge, Reftor of Whit- Pegge' tington, Derbyfhire, the celebrated antiquary, was a barrifter at law, one of the grooms of His Majefty's privy chamber, and one of the efquires of the houf hold. He was author of '¦ Curialia, or an Hiftorical Account of fome branches " of the Royal Houfhold," in two parts, publifhed in 1782 and 1784. Mr. Pegge lies buried in the church-yard, where is a graveftone to his memory; he left one fon, Sir Chriftopher Pegge, Knt. a phyfician at Oxford. " James Elphinftone, aged 88, brought from Hammerfmith, buried Oft. 16th, james ei. 1 809." This gentleman, who was a native of Edinburgh, is well known to the public phinftone. by feveral ufeful treatifes on education, and by a tranflation of Martial. In the early part of his life he was in habits of intimacy with Carte the hiftorian, whom he accompanied in a tour through Holland and Brabant. In 1750, he publifhed at Edinburgh, with the concurrence of his friend Dr. Johnfon, a cheap edition of the Rambler of that great writer. About the year 1753, he fettled in the neigh bourhood of London, firft at Brompton, and afterwards at Kenfington, where, for many years, he kept a fehool, which he gave up in 1776 ; but continued to r&- fide there till 1778. The next year he gave a courfe of Leftures on the Englifh language at Edinburgh and Glafgow. In 1786 he publifhed his new fyftem of orthography, under the title of " Propriety afcertained in her Pifture, ** or Englifh Speech and Spelling rendered mutual Guides ;" being a bold at tempt to change the whole fyftem of etymology, or in his own words, to make ortho graphy the mirror of orthoepy. He made no converts to his fyftem, but conti nued to print all the works which he afterwards publifhed in his new mode of fpelling ; and, among others, feveral volumes of letters which paffed between him felf and fome eminent literary charafter, and which might otherwife have been very interefting, are in this difguifed ftate. It was long before he adopted this mode that he publifhed his tranflation of Martial, a poem on Education, Treatife on that fubjeft, and on Englifh Grammar, and other works. In the latter part of his life, Mr. El- 530 Families of Tfitx, Gran ville, &c. KENSINGTON. Mr. Elphinftone refided at Hammerfmith : he was buried in Kenfington church yard, at his own requeft, near the grave of Dr. Jortin, with whom during his refidence at Kenfington, he had lived in habits of intimacy. There are entries in the regifter relating to the noble families of Fox, Lord Holland ; Granville, Lord Lanfdown, Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon) ; Howard, (Earl of Effingham) ; Kerr, Marquis of Lothian ; Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, Murray, Earl of Dunmore ; Seymour (Marquis of Hertford) ; Clifton, Croft, and Mufgrave, Baronets, &c. &c. Charity-fchool. Inftances of Longevity. " Margaret Smart, aged 103, buried Nov. 12, 1786; Jane Hartwell, Bromp ton alms-houfe, aged 100, buried Sep. 18, 1804; William Griffiths, from the gravel Pits, aged 103, buried Dec. 15, 1807; John Henry Lydius Efq. ,l8, aged 96, Feb. 5, 1791, There have been buried alfo at Kenfington, fince 1756, fix perfons of 90 years of age ; fourofgi; four of 92; two of 93 ; threeof94; one of 95; one of 96; and one of 98 years of age. Some of thefe are col- lefted from a fmall book, containing a rough copy of regifters of burials from the year 1786. The ages were not fpecified for many years in the larger regifter. Several of the above-mentioned perfons were paupers buried from the workhoufe. William Addifon Efq. is faid to have died at Kenfington, Sep. 18, 1763, aged 94 ; the Rev. Mr. Nelfon, April 14, 1771, aged 92, and the Rev. Mr. Fleming, Sept. 16, 1771, aged 92 I25. Roger Pimble, Gent, in the year 1645, gave the Lion Inn (on the fite of which are now two leafehold houfes, let at 37I. 10s. per annum), for the mainte nance of a free fehool. About the fame time the parifh, with a fum of money, raifed by voluntary contribution, purchafed a houfe called the Catherine-wheel, which was converted into a fchool-houfe. In 1698, Mrs, Catherine Dickens gave 50I. to be laid out to the beft advantage for the maintenance of a fehool. With this money, and another legacy of 43I. left by Mrs. Mary Carnaby to the poor, was purchafed the Goat ale-houfe, now let at 25I. per annum, the whole of which is, by a refolution of veftry, appropriated to the fehool. The prefent fchool-houfe was erefted about the year 1707, by fubfeription, at the expence of 3 1 81. 13° Dr. Millington, in 1724, bequeathed to the fehool a third part of the rent of 24 , computed ** He is called in the obituary of the Gentle man's Magazine, Baron Du Quade ; his age is there ftrid to have been 98. He was of Dutch extrap, but a native of Albany in North America, where he pofTefled great trades of land. 125 Gent. Mag. 130 The principal fubferibers were, Lord Chief Juftice Parker, 20I. Lady Belafyfe, 30I. Sir James Gray, iol. KENSINGTON. 53* computed acres of land at Afton, now producing about 1 2I. per annum. They had the leafe alfo of another houfe let at 14I., but their intereft in it expired about the year 1797. About the time that the prefent fchool-houfe was built (viz. in 1708), Queen Anne granted an annuity of 50I. to this charity, and Prince George of Denmark one of 30I. When King George I. came to the throne, he confirmed both grants. This donation of 80I. per annum has been continued ever fince from the Crown. The fehool was augmented during the laft century, by benefaftions in money, to the amount of 3400 1. South Sea Stock13' ; befides iool. 3 percent, given by Mrs. Coulthard, and 50I. 4 per cent. Bank Annuities, by Mr. M'Intofh. The above endowments are aided by colleftions at four annual charity fermons preached at Kehfington-church and Brompton-chapel. The fum of 500I. given in 1802, by Mr. John Farmer of Ken fington, together with the further fum of 200L, being the refidue of his perfonal eftate, arifing from the fale of houfhold furniture, &c. has been chiefly expended in repairs and alterations. At the firft inftitution of the fehool, a certain number of children were clothed and taught only. In theyear 1786, it was determined that 20 boys and 10 girls fhould be boarded, clothed and educated in the houfe their numbers varying according to the ftate of the funds. For many years the charity was reftrifted to this mode; but in the year 1806, it was refolved, that the fehool fhould confift of three claffes; the largeft of which fhould contain 50 boys and 50 girls to be inftrufted only, on the fyftem recom mended by Dr, Bell ; the fecond clafs to contain 10 boys and 10 girls, to be clothed and inftrufted ; and the higheft or firft clafs, to contain 18 boys and 11 girls, to be augmented as the funds fliall increafe, to be inftrufted, clothed, and maintained in the houfe. Children of poor parifhioners, not under the age of feven, nor exceeding ten, to be admitted into the two loweft claffes, by appoint ment of the governors ; no child to be admitted into the firft clafs under nine years of age ; and the children in this clafs to be chofen from thofe of the fecond clafs, Sir Hele Hooke, iol. 1724. Mrs. Taylor, iool. Thomas Colby Efq. (father and fon), 21I. 10s. 1741, Mr. Defarote, 200I. Richard Taylor Efq. iol. 1752, Anthony Crachered Efq, 50I. Mr. Peter Lavigne, iol. I75z> Mrs- Rudge; Iool« George London Efq. iol. 1753' Thomas Rycroft Efq. iool. Henry Wife Efq. iol. '754» Mrs- Alford, iool. The parifh gave iool. 1763. Mrs. Eleanor Vernon, 50I. 131 The following is a lift of all benefaaions to 1763, Dr. Wilrox, 50I. the amount of 50I. or upwards, with their refpec- 1764, Mrs. Sherrard, iool. tive dates : 1 7 7 1 , Mr. Henry Hewitt, 50I. 1715, Mr. Robertfon, iool. 1774» Peter LeheuP Ef1; IooL 17 16, Richard Taylor Efq. iool. 1775, Mrs., Horfeley, -50I. who 532 KENSINGTON. Sunday-fchool. Benefaaions for appren ticing chil dren. who fhall have recommended themfelves particularly by their good conduft. The eftablifhment of the two higher claffes is at prefent fufpended ; but there are about 1 20 boys, and above 50 girls in the lower clafs. The boys, when they leave the fehool, are to be bound out apprentices. The girls go out to fervice, and if they continue 12 months in their place, are rewarded with a premium of 5s. fome clothes and books I32. There is a funday-fchool at Kenfington, in which are about 40 boys, and a fehool of induftry for girls, who are clothed by their own earnings. The number in this fehool is from 50 to 60. Thefe fchools are under very good regulations, and attended by the principal inhabitants of the place in rotation as vifitors. The girls when fit for fervice are recommended to places, and encouragements are held out to thofe who. behave well. If any children offer who are thought to be too young for the fchools, they are put under the care of proper perfons till they are old enough to be received 133. Lady Vifcountefs Campden, in 1644, left to this parifh the fum of 200I. to par- chafe lands, a moiety of the rent of which fhould be appropriated to apprentice a poor boy or boys. The fum of 54L per annum is now appropriated to this pur pofe, as will be more particularly ftated hereafter. Alms-houfes. William Methwold Efq. in 1652, erefted an hofpital or alms-houfe for fix poor women I34, near his manfion, called Hale-houfe, at Brompton, and endowed it with an annuity of 24I. per annum, being 4I. for each penfioner, but left no fund for repairs ; in confequence of which the penfions were reduced to 3I. The co-heirs of Sir John Fleming I3S, as proprietors of Hale-houfe, nominate three of the pen fioners, the parifh the remainder. Among the regulations, the founder direfts, that " in order that they may live friendly and lovingly together, and confequently be- " come helpful and comfortable, each to other, they fhall be prohibited to brawl or " fcold each with other upon any occafion ; for prevention whereof, if by the '"" teftimony of two or more of the faid women, it fliall be proved that any one .'* hath mifcalled another with names of reproach, or hath ufed defpiteful and " reproaching language, the woman fo offending fhall forfeit one quarter's pen- " fion for the firft, and as much for the fecond offence ; and if fhe fhall be " proved to have offended the third time, or that any one fliall in anger ftrike an- " other, or malicioufly throw any thing at them, the party fo offending fhall be " difmiffed the houfe, and another chofen in her place." 131 Some of the particulars relating to the fehool were communicated by William Blamire, Efq. then treafurer, for the firft edition of this work, the remainder for the prefent edition by Mr. Hall, the veftry clerk. 133 From the information of Stephen Aif- ley Efq., for the firft edition. ,34 Of 50 years of age, being widows or maids, and free from all known vice. ,3S See p. 507. The KENSINGTON. 533 The parifh have fome alms-houfes, containing five tenements, at the Gravel-pits, Alms-houfes. and three tenements at Kenfington Gore. An addition was made to thofe at the Gore, with the fum of 30I. received in compenfation for a rent-charge on a houfe in Weftminfter I36. Thefe alms-houfes have no endowment. Baptift Hickes, Vifcount Campden, in 1630, gave 200I. to purchafe lands for Benefaaions the poor. His widow, in 1644, gave the fame fum to be expended in like manner, tot e poor' and direfted that half of the profits fliould go to the poor, and the other half to apprentice a poor boy or boys. An anonymous benefaftor, in 1652, gave fome land at Kenfington Gravel-pits on which was formerly a malt-houfe. This is called Cromwell's gift, and a tradition has prevailed that it was given by Oliver Crom well ; but the parifli have no evidence to afcertain it. John Sams, in 1658, gave an annuity of 5I. payable out of lands in Kenfington. In the year 1777, an aft of parliament paffed, enabling the parifh of Kenfington to let fuch lands as were purchafed with the legacies of Lord and Lady Campden, and the land at the Gravel-pits, called Cromwell's gift, on building leafes; the fame aft empowered them to build a workhoufe for the poor, to take up a certain fum of money upon annuities for that purpofe, and to appropriate the rents of the aforefaid lands towards paying the intereft of the money till the annuitants fhould drop off, fetting apart a certain proportion to anfwer the purpofe of Lady Campden's fpecific bequeft for apprenticing children. In confequence of this aft, the lands at Shepherd's-bufh, purchafed with Lord Campden's benefaftions, were let at about 3 2I. per annum, with liberty to dig tiles, &c. ; the Butts"field, near Kenfington, bought with Lady Campden's money, at about 36I. per annum; and the land at the Gravel-pits, on which a brewery has been erefted,at about381. The Shepherd's-bufh eftate has been fince let on an improving leafe at 103I. per annum for 41 years commencing from 1801: the Buttsfield is now let at 39I. 17s. 6d.; the land at the Gravel-pits remains at the fame rent. The fum of 54I. per annum I37, being equal to the whole amount of the three benefaftions ac cording to the old rents, was appropriated to the purpofe of apprenticing children. His Majefty gives an annual bounty of 25I. to the poor ofthe parifh, over and above the benefaftion already mentioned to the fehool. A large refervoir, belonging to the Weft-Middlefex Water-works Company, Refervoir of was opened in November 1809, in a field near Campden-houfe: this refervoir, *he Mrlddle* which is at the great height of 133 feet above the level of the Thames, is intended works. to fupply the town of Kenfington, a confiderable part of the city of Weftminfter, and of the parifhes of Marybone, Paddington, and Pancras. ,3S Report of the Kenfington Committee, 1777. 137 This fum will not be increafed till all the an. nuitants under the local aa fliall be dropped off. Vol. II. C 534 ] KINGSBURY. Name. Situation, boundaries, extent, &c. Manors. Manor of Kingfbury. HT^HE name of this place denotes that it has been a royal refidence, perhaps of -*- fome of the Saxon monarchs. King Edward the Confeffor gave to Weft minfter Abbey a third of the fruit growing in his woods at Kyngefbyrig l. It lies in the hundred of Goare, at the diftance of about eight miles north-weft of Lon don. The parifh is bounded by Hendon, Whitchurch, Harrow, and Wilfdon : it contains, according to an aftual furvey taken by Mr. Black, 1515 acres of land, of which about 30 are woodland, about 60 arable, and the remainder under grafs. The foil is chiefly clay. It appears that there were two manors in this parifh before the Norman furvey, though one only is there mentioned ; no notice being taken of the ma nor of Kingfbury (containing two hides and a half), which was .confirmed to Weftminfter Abbey by King Edward the Confeffor's charter *. I fuppofe this ma nor to have been among the eftates alienated from that monaftery by Abbot Gervafe 3. In the year 1317, the manor of Kingfbury was the property of Bald win Poleyn, who held it under the Earl of Lancafter as lord paramount 4. This Poleyn, in 1329, alienated it to Walter de Salinge, who left three daughters co heirs 5. It is probable that one of them married Thomas Page, proprietor of this manor ; and left a fon (William) in ward to the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew, who made over his wardfhip and marriage, with the cuftody of his lands, to Richard Raven, Lord of Berkhamftead. Raven married him to his daughter Chriftian, by whom he had iffue two daughters : Elizabeth, who died unmarried ; ahd Margaret, who became the wife of William Bury. William- Page granted this manor to his daughter Margaret, on condition that flie fhould fupport him during his life, and maintain a chaplain to pray for his foul after his deceafe. Margaret Bury died without iffue before her father. After his death 1 See p. 46. * Dart's Hiftory of Weftminfter Abbey, vol. i. ' P-43- _ 3 Ibid. p. ,13. " Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, died feifed of the manors of Edgware and Kingfbury in 1 3 1 1 . Efch. 4 Edw. II. No. 51. Thomas Earl of Lan cafter married his daughter and heir, and was lord of thefe manors in 13 16. See Harl. MSS. No. 6281. Eubu'lo Leftrange, who married the Earl of Lancafter's widow, died feifed of the manor of Edgware, with the hamlet of Kingfbury, in 1335. Efch. 9 Edw. III. No. 42. 5 Title-deeds belonging to All Souls College^ whence the fubfequent account of this manor is taken : communicated by the late Hon. T. F. Wenman, LL. D. for the firft edition of this work. this KINGSBURY. 535 this manor was recovered againft William Bury by John Penne, coufin and heir of the deceafed. After various' deeds of truft and mortgage, it was purchafed in the year 1439 by Thomas Chichele and others, as truftees for All Souls College in Oxford ; to which fociety it ftill belongs. In the year 1449, William Norton and WilliamHuntley, holding the manor of Kingfbury under AllSouls College, alienated it to Sir Thomas Hafely, deputy-marfhall of England s. Agnes, widow of Sir Thomas, in the year 1451 conveyed the leafe to John Wilkins and William Huntley (in truft, it is probable) 6. Chriftian, relift of Sir Henry Waver, died feifed of it in 1480 ; Chriftian, her grand-daughter and heir, being then five years of age 7. The Chandos family have been many years leffees of this manor ; the leafe is now vefted in the Right Hon. Earl Temple in right of his Lady, who was fole heirefs, of the laft Duke. It appears by the furvey of Domefday that Albold held a manor in Chingef- berie (Kingfoury) of Ernulf de Hefding. This manor, fays the record, contains feven hides and a half. The land is feven carucates ; of which two are in demefne, and five in villanage. There are eight vilians who hold a virgate each, and three who hold half a virgate each. The prieft has a virgate ; and there are five bor- dars who have five acres each. There is a mill of 3s. rent ; meadow equal to half a ploughland ; wood for 1000 hogs, and 20s. rents. In the whole valued at 4I. ; in King Edward's time at 61. It was then the property of Wluuard the King's Thane. From the mention of a prieft in this manor, I fuppofe it to be the fame which afterwards belonged to the priory of St. John of Jerufalem, and was called, the manor and reftory of Freren, alias Kingfoury. I have not been able to Manor and find at wnat time or by whom it was given to that priory. It is not in the lift of Yrerel alias donations printed in Dugdale's Monafticon. A fmall eftate in this parifh was Kingfbury. given to the priory by Roger Boudon in the year 1359 8. After the diffolution of monafteries, King Henry granted this reftory and manor to the dean and chapter of St." Paul's 9, to whom it ftill belongs. The reftorial manor was leafed by the prior and convent of St. John of Jerufalem in 1525, to Guthlac Overton, for the term of 60 years I0. The leafe was affigned by him to Richard Bellamy ", and came afterwards to the Page family, who renewed the leafe with die dean and chapter. In 1650 it was vefted in the guardians of Richard Page's daughter ". John Prince was leffee in 1694 ,3. The leafe has been many years in the Chandos family, and is now vefted in Earl Temple, in right of his Lady, the only daughter and heirefs of the late Duke. The referved rent is 9I. 10s. 5 Cl. 27 Hen. VI. m.6. d. I0 Minifters' accounts, 32 Hen, VIII. Ibid. 6 Cl. 29 Hen. VI. m. 8 d. ,; Ibid. ' Efch. 19 Ed. IV. No. 65. ll Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. Lib. • Pat. 33 Edw. III. pt. 1. m. 28. '3 Rent-books, St. Paul's. » Record in the Augmentation-office. 3Z It 53^ KINGSBURY. Parifhchurch. Curacy. It was formerly gl. and two. fat capons14. In 1547, the reftorial manor was valued at 12I. 6s. 8d. per annum ,s ; in 1650, at 170I. lS The parifh church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a fmall ftrufture, confifting of a nave and chancel ; at the weft end is a wooden turret and a fpire. Dr. Stukeley fuppofes it to ftand within the fite of a Roman camp, which was Csefar's fecond ftation after he had paffed the Thames ". In the chancel is the graveftone of John Bui, Gent, fervant to Queen Elizabeth and King James as gentleman of the poultry (ob. 1621); and that of Thomas" Scudamore, another fervant to Queen Elizabeth and King James (for the fpace of 47 years), who died in 1626. The church here is a donative or curacy. By the terms of Overton's leafe with the prior of St. John of Jerufalem, the leffee was to find a fit chaplain for the cure of the church, and to repair the chancel l8. Since the expiration of that leafe, the patronage has been, moft probably, as it now is, in the dean and chapter of St. Paul's. Thomas Gardiner, put in by the committee of plundered miniuers, had (in 1650) two chambers allowed him, and 20I. per annum'9. In the year 1657, the committee voted an augmentation of 40I. per annum to James Prince, then curate of Kingfoury 20. The prefent curate is the Rev. William Clarke, M. A. collated in 1795, on the death of the Rev. Mofes Wight, M. A. It pays neither firft-fruits nor tenths, not being rated in the king's books 2J. The ftipend (paid by the dean and chapter's leffee) is 40I. per annum. Parifh re gifter. There ; is no parifh regifter extant of an earlier date than l733- Av erage of baptifms, Average of burials. State of po pulation. J?33 — 1742- 1780 — x7%' — 8+r 6t __ 1 9 A 1 St 1790 — 1794, — 7\ — 9^ J795 — J799- — 8 — -8r 1800 — 1809. — 64 — H The difproportion of the burials arifes from the number of non-parifhioners here interred. The number of houfes in the parifh of Kingfoury, in 1795 was 52 ; in 1 80 1 according to the return made to parliament under the population act there were only 50 ; and the prefent number is, as I am informed, the fame. '? Proceedings of the Committees, Lamb. MSS Lib. vol. xxxviii. p. 119. 15 Chantry Roll in the Augmentation-office, I Edw. VI. 16 Parliamentary Surveys. " Stukeley's account of the Brill, prefixed to his Iter Boreale, p. 2 . 18 Minifters' accounts of the priory of St. John of Jerufalem, 32 Hen. VIII. in the Augmen tation-office. 19 Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. Lib. 20 Proceedings of the Committees, vol. xxxi. p. 15. and vol xxxiv. p. 125. " Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 682. 4 C 537 1 LIMEHOUSE. IN the year 1730 an aft of parliament was paffed', by which the hamlet of The hamlet Limehoufe, and part of the hamlet of Ratcliffe, both appendages to Stepney, of Limehouk ..,„,_,_ _ ^ made 3. pcinlrio were made a diltmct parifh, now known by the name of St. Anne-Limehoufe, or St. Anne, Middlefex ; bounded by Mile-end Old-town and Poplar (both hamlets Boundaries. to Stepney), and the part of Ratcliffe which remains attached to that parifh. The boundary in Ratcliffe extends along the Butcher-row and White-horfe-ftreet. The divifion of Ratcliffe which is annexed to the new parifh has no further con- Hamlet of nexion with it than relates to the payment of church rates and dues ; it is ftill Ratcliffe' affeffed feparately to the other rates, and choofes its own officers. The parifh of St. Anne-Limehoufe lies within the hundred of Offulfton ; it Extent ofthe contains about 90 acres of land not covered by buildings : of thefe about 6 are Panfll- market-gardens ; the remainder is chiefly occupied by cowkeepers, whofe ftock of cattle amounts to about 100. The principal manufaftures in the place are Turner's fail-cloth manufafture ; Manufac- that of pot-afhes carried on by Mr. Holmes ; that of oil and colours by Birch and Co. ; and that of lead by Prefton and Sons. There are two rope-walks belonging lo Hudderd and Co., and Mitchel and Co.; and there are three private dock-yards2 in the parifh ufed principally for repairs. A navigable canal communicating with the river Lee at Bromley joins the Thames in this parifh. It was made about the year 1769, purfuant to an aft of parliament, and is called the Lime- houfe-cut. The parifh church, dedicated to St. Anne, ftands in the eaftern fuburb of the Parifh metropolis, nearly four miles diftant from Temple-bar. It was one of the 50 cnurcn< new churches built by aft of parliament ; the foundation was laid in the year 1712, and it was completed in 1724, but not confecrated till the 12th of Sep tember 1730. The building is of Portland ftone, after a defign of Hawkf- moor3, who has mixed with the Grecian a fpecies of architecture which it would be difficult to defcribe ; the turrets on the fteeple referable thofe which the fame artift has introduced in the new quadrangle at All-Souls College in Oxford. 1 3 Geo. II. ch. 17. ' Anecdotes of Painting, vol.iv. p. 43. 2 Thofe of Tebbutt and Co., Curling and Co., •and Dowfon and Co. The & LIMEHOUSE. Endowment of the rect tory. The infide is fitted up in the Grecian ftyle, and is very handfome ; the pews are of Dutch oak. There is no monumental infcription of note in the church, or in the church-yard. The fum of 3500I. 4 was granted by the aft of parliament above-mentioned, for purchafing lands of inheritance as an endowment of the reftory : with this money, Gofhalme-farm in the parifh of Eaft-Tilbury, and a farm at Orfett in Effex, were bought and fettled upon the reftor and his fucceffors ; who (by virtue of the aft) were to receive alfo 60I. per annum from the churchwardens in lieu of burial-fees, none being demandable by the reftor unlefs when the fervice is read in the church. The above endowment, with the rent of the parfonage- houfe and garden, makes the value of the reftory about 600I. s per annum, over and above furplice-fees for marriages, &c. By a provifion in the aft the reftor of the new church was obliged to pay the fum of 25I. each to the two portionifts of Stepney then being, during their refpeftive incumbencies, as a compenfation for their lofs of dues. The parifli clerk was to pay 5I. to the clerk of Stepney on the fame account. The reftory of St. Anne Limehoufe cannot be held in com mendam. The principal and fellows of Brazen-Nofe College in Oxford are patrons. The prefent reftor is the Rev. John Radcliffe, M. A. who was infti tuted in 1 801. Comparative ftate of popu lation. 1731 — 1740. 1780 — 1784. 1784 — 1789. 1790 — 1794. *795 — 1799. 1800 — 1804. 1805 — 1809. of Baptifms. Average of Burials, I44r — *95i i«3r — 2024. l56 — 161* 158 — i64t 179 / 1624. 191 — *99t 2294. — 224^ The parifh appears not to have varied much in its population fince it was fepa rated from Stepney till within the laft ten years, during which it feems to have in creafed in a confiderable degree. The number of houfes in 1794 was about 910, of which about 250 were in the hamlet of Ratcliffe ; according to the returns made to parliament under the population aft, there were then only y$$ inhabited houfes, 1 1 uninhabited, and 4678 inhabitants ; but this muft have been exclufively of the hamlet of Ratcliffe, in which there were then 941 houfes, comprifing I fuppofe * Iffuing out of the produce of a duty laid on coals, for the purpofe of building and endowing the new churches. 5 Maitland, in the year 1739, values the living at 240I. per annum, including the furplice-fees ; p. 748. both LIMEHOUSE. 539 both thofe in Limehoufe, and thofe in Stepney parifh ; the prefent number of houfes in Limehoufe, exclufively of Ratcliffe, is about 950 ; in that part of Rat cliffe which is in this parifh about 200. Extracls from the Parifh Regifter. " John, Thomas, and Eleanor, fons and daughter (at the fame birth) of Three chil- " Thomas Carnell, fifherman, and Sufanna his wife, baptized Nov. 21, iy39>" brth. They were all buried on the 7th of December. Charity- fehool. Inftances of Longevity. " William Chapman, aged 100, buried Ap. 10, 1774." There are alfo entries of 15 perfons who are defcribed as 90 years of age ; one of 92 ; three of 93 ; one of 94 ; four of 95 ; one of 96 ; one of 97 ; and one of 98 years of age. A charity-fchool for boys and girls of this parifh was inftituted in 1779. In this fehool 45 girls and 30 boys are clothed and educated, fifteen additional boys and 10 girls are educated only. It depends principally6 for its fupport, on annual fubferiptions and colleftions at charity fermons. The poor of this parifh are entitled to one tenement in Mr. John Pennell's alnls-houfes for poor women at Mile-end, two in "Fuller's for old men at the fame place, and one in Captain James Cook's ; the latter has no endowment. The penfioners in the others receive 4I. per annum each, a gown, and fuel. There was formerly a Baptifts' meeting in this parifh, which had exifted about Baptifts' 100 years, and was fhut up about the year 1770. Mr. David Rees author ofa meetinS' Treatife on Baptifm, and feveral fermons and pamphlets, was paftor of this meeting 7. 6 Benefaftions to the amount of nearly 500I. have been given to this fehool : the principal were the fum of zool. given by Captain John Lovelace in 1785, and iool. given by Emanuel Good- hart Efq. in 1809. ' From the information of Mr. Wilfon. C 54° j MARYBONE. Name and fituation. Boundaries, extent, &c. Land-tax. Manor of Tybourn,now Mary- bone. THE name of this place was anciently called Tibourn, from its fituation near a fmall bourn, or rivulet, formerly called Aye-brook, or Eye-brook, and now Tybourn-brook I. When the fite of the church , was altered to another fpot near the fame brook, it is probable that it was called, St. Mary at the bourn2, now corrupted to St. Mary le bone, or Marybone. The parifh lies in the hundred of Offulfton, and is bounded by St. Giles's and Pancras on the eaft, by Hampftead on the north, Paddington on the weft, and on the fouth by St. Anne Soho, St. James's, and St. George Hanover-fquare. It is eight miles and one fourth in circumference, and it is computed that it con tains about 2500 acres of land, of which more than one third is occupied by buildings ; the remainder, extending northward to Primrofe-hill, and weft to Kilbourn turnpike, is almoft wholly grafs land. About 35 acres are occupied by market gardeners. The foil on the fouth fide of the parifh is a fine gravel, and on the north fide clay. The land-tax in this parifh (fuch has been the improve ment of property by the increafe of buildings) is raifed by a rate of lefs than one farthing in the pound. The manor of Tybourn, containing five hides, is defcribed in Domefday-book as parcel of the ancient demefnes of the abbefs and convent of Barking, who held it under the crown. The land, fays the furvey, is three carucates. Two hides are in demefne, on which is one plough ; the vilians employ two ploughs. There are two vilians holding half a hide, one villan who holds half a virgate, two bordars who have 10 acres, and three cottars. There is pafture for the * This brook or bourn runs on the fouth fide of Hampftead, and paffes near Bellfize to Bar- rowhill-farm ; thence through Marybone-park to Marybone-lane ; it croffes Oxford-road near Strat ford-place, and Piccadilly under a bridge near Hay-hill, fuppofed by fome to take its name from this Aye-brook ; which paffing through the park near Buckingham-houfe, and through Tothill-fields, falls into the Thames at a place called King's Scholars' Pond, a little below Chelfea. 2 -An anonymous writer in the Gentleman's Magazine (1809), fays that the church of Mary- bone is called in all ancient writings Santa Maria de Offibus ; I have never feen any in which it wa fo defcribed ; in the Valor of Pope Nicholas, written in the reign of King Edward I. it is called ecclefia de Tyborne ; in records of the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edw. VI. (Pat. l7Hen. VIII. pt.l, andPat 6 Edw. VI. pt.5.) it is called Tyborne, alias Maryborne, alias Mary- hourne-, cattle MARYBONE. 54* cattle of the village, woods for 50 hogs, and 4od. arifing from the herbage. In the whole, valued at 52s.; in King Edward's time at 100s. Robert de Vere, who held this manor under the abbey of Barking, gave it in marriage with his daughter Joan, to William de Infula, Earl Warren and of Surrey2, whofe fon John dying without iffue, it defcended to Richard Earl of Arundel, fon of his lifter Alice 3. After the death of Richard the fucceeding Earl, who was be headed in 1394 4, his eftates became the joint property of his daughters and co-heirs 5. William Marquis of Berkeley, who had an intereft in this inheritance, as defcended from Joan Fitzalan, through the Mowbrays, is faid to have given the manor of Marybone to Sir Reginald Bray, prime minifter to King Henry VII. 6 ; but probably it was only his fliare in it ; for it appears that Thomas Hobfon, about the year 1503, purchafed three parts of this manor of Lord Bergavenny, the Earl of Derby, and the Earl of Surrey 7. It is moft likely that he purchafed the remaining part of Sir Reginald Bray. In the year 1 544. Thomas Hobfon, fon (it is fuppofed) of the laft- mentioned Thomas, exchanged ' this manor with the King for fome church lands s. Queen Elizabeth, in 1583, granted a leafe of the manor of Tybourn to Edward Forfet for 21 years, at the yearly rent of 16I. us. 8d. ; and in 1595, to Robert Conqueft and others (truftees it is probable), on the fame terms9. In the year 161 1, King James granted the manor, with all its appurtenances, excepting the park, for the fum of 829I. 3s. 4d. to Edward Forfet Efq. IO, in whofe family it continued feveral 2 Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 192. There verfion of this manor, which he had before given was a grant from the crown to William de Infula to the King after the death of John de Infula. in 1285, perhaps by way of confirmation. Pat. Pat. 19 Edw. III. pt. 1. m. 1. 13 Edw. I, m. 15. William de Infula and Joan 4 Richard Earl of Arundel had granted it for his wife confirmed a life intereft in this manor to life to his chamberlain, Steplien Hyndercle alias Alice de Vere, Countefs of Oxford, who died Clerk, in confideration of his good fervices ; the feifed of it in 1 3 13. The manor was then valued reverfion to ve'ft in the Earl and his lieirs. Bund, at 5I. 13s. 4d. viz. A capital mefluage, i2d.; Forisfa&. 21 Ric. II. ( In the Tower. ) j 20 acres of arable, 4d. per acre; 5 acres of 5 It appears by an inquifition taken I Edw. IV. meadow, at is.; 2 of pafture, at 4d. each ; fer- (N° 46), that the inheritance came between the vices of the tenants, ios.jd ; quit-rents from the Nevill's, Mowbrays, and Lenthalls. Edward freeholders, 48s.; rents from the copyholders, Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, died (in 1477) feifed 8s.4d. (Efch. 6Edw. II. N°39.) After this, of a third part of the manor, in right of Eliza- Ralph de Cobham was leffee under John de Infula, beth his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Earl and died feifed of the manor To held 19 Edw. IL of Worcefter. Efch, 16 Edw. IV. N° 38. {Efch. N° 93 ) 6 Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 366. 3 Inquifition taken after the death of John de ' From MSS. in the poffeffion of John Infula. The manor then contained a capital White Efq. of Devonfliire-place. meffuage; 130 acres of arable, valued at 41. 6s. 8d.; 8 Particulars for leafes in the Augmentation- 136 of pafture, 55s.; 4 of meadow, 4s.; and office. quit-rents, 58s, 2d. Efch -21 Edw. Ill, N°58. » Ibid. In the year 1345, there was a grant from the "> Pat. 9 Jac, pt. 7. N° 10. crown to Richard Earl of Arundel of the re- Vol. II. 4 A years, S4« MARYBONE. years, and then paffed into that of Auften, by the marriage of Arabella Forfet with Thomas Auften Efq."2 In the year 1710, it was purchafed of John Auften Efq., afterwards Sir John Auften, Bart, by John Holies, Duke of New- caftle 13, whofe only daughter and heir married Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. This manor is now the property of his Grace the Duke of Portland, whofe grand-father married Lady Margaret Cavendifh Harley, heirefs of the two noble families of Newcaftle and Oxford. Manor- The manor-houfe, which during the time that it was vefted in the crown, is faid to have been ufed as one of the palaces, was taken down in the year 1791.. By a drawing of Rooker's, in the poffeffion of John White Efq. of Devonfhire- place, it feems to have retained fome traces of the architecture of Queen Eliza beth's time ; but the greater part appears to have been rebuilt at a later period, per haps by the Forfets, and the fouth front was certainly added or renewed not much more than a century ago. Devonfhire Mews are built on the fite of the manor- houfe. I do not find that the Earl of Oxford ever inhabited this manfion ; but Lord Ox- his noble collection of books and MSS. were depofited in a library built for that brary " purpofe, which ftill remains in High-ftreet, being incorporated in a houfe which is now a boarding-fchool for young ladies, called Oxford Houfe. Behind this. houfe was a well-known place of entertainment, called Marybone Gardens. In Marybone- me reign of Queen Anne, there had been a noted tavern at this place, with bowling- greens, much frequented by perfons of the firft rank I4. It afterwards grew into difrepute, and is made by Gay the fcene of Macheath's debauches. About the year 1 740, Marybone-gardens were opened for public breakfafts and evening con certs. Some of the firft fingers were generally engaged there, and fireworks were frequently exhibited : Dr. Arnold at one time conducted the mufical depart ment. In 1777 or 1778, the gardens were fhut up, and the fite let to builders'5. The ground is now occupied by Beaumont-ftreet, part of Devonfhire-ftreet^ and part of Devonfhire-place. Marybone- It has been mentioned that when the manor was granted to Edward Forfet, park. King James referved Marybone-park in his own hands. It continued in the crown till the year 1646, when King Charles, by letters patent, dated at Oxford (May 6), granted it to Sir George Strode and John Wandesford, Efq. as fecurity for a debt of 231 81. us. 9d. due to them for fupplying arms and ammunition during the troubles. After the King's death, when the crown lands in general were fold, by the ufurpers, this park, without any regard to the claim of the grantees above- " Newcourt, vol. i. old map of the Duke of Portland's eftate.—: " From the information of John White Efq. " Some dukes at Marybone bowl time away," The purchafe-money was 17,500k; the rental fays Lady M. Wortley Montague in one of her then 900I. per annum. poems. '¦* Thefe bowling-greens are defcribed in an IS From the information of Mr. White. mentioned, MAR-YB O N E. 543 mentioned, was fold to John Spencer of London, Gentleman, on behalf Of Colonel Thomas Harrifon's regiment of dragoons, on whom Marybone-park was fettled for their pay. Sir John Ipfley was at this time ranger, by authority ofthe Prote&or. The purchafe-money was 13,21 5I. 6s. 8d., including 1 30I. for the deer (124m number, of feveral forts,) and 1774I. 8s. for the timber, exclufively of 2976 trees marked for the navy. On the reftoration of King Charles the Second, Sir George Strode and Mr. Wandesford were re-inftated in their poffeffion of the park, which they held till their debt was difcharged, except the great lodge and 60 acres of land, which had been granted for a term of years to Sir William Clarke, fecretary to the Lord General, the Duke of Albemarle. A compenfation was made alfo to John Carey Efq. for the lofs of the rangerfhip which he held before the ufurpa- tion. The fite of the park (for it was difparked before the Reftoration, and never afterwards flocked) was leafed in 1 668 to Henry Earl of Arlington ; in 1696 to Charles Bertie and others, in truft for the Duke of Leeds ; in 1724 to Samuel Grey Efq. Mr. Grey's intereft in the leafe was purchafed by Thomas Gibfon, John Jacob, and Robert Jacomb, Efqrs. who renewed it in 1730, 1735, and 1742. , In 1754, a leafe was granted to Lucy Jacomb, widow, and Peter Hinde Efq. In 1765, William Jacomb Efq. had a frefh leafe for an undivided fhare, being 15 parts in 24. The term of this fhare was prolonged in 1772, and again in 1780 for eight years, to commence from January 24, 1803. In the year 1789, Mr. Ja comb fold his intereft in the eftate to the Duke of Portland, in whom the faid fhare is at prefent vefted. In 1765 and 1772, Jacob Hinde Efq. had new leafes of the remaining undivided fhare, being nine parts in 24. Thefe leafes expired in 1803 and have not fince been renewed15. The Duke of Portland's leafe will expire in January next ( 1 8 1 1 ). The faid eftate, now called Marybone-park farm, contains 543 acres and 17 perches, according to an aftual furvey made in the year 1794? by order of the board of Treafury, under the direction of John Tordyce Efq., late furveyor-general of the crown lands. About two-thirds of it lie in the parifh of Marybone, the remainder in that of Pancras. It extends to the end of Harley-ftreet, Portland- place, Charlotte-ftreet, and Portland-ftreet. It is probable that a great part of this Projeaed eftate will at no very remote period be occupied by buildings. The lords of the ^T bu Treafury fome years ago, empowered the furveyor-general to offer premiums for the beft plans for ere&ing new ftreets in this diftrift, and there are fe veral hints on this fubjecl: in the fourth land-revenue Report, drawn up by Mr. Fordyce in the month of April 1 809, not long before his death. Mr. Fordyce 16 The above very fatisfa&ary account of in Scotland-yard, with the permiflion of John Marybone-park was communicated by the late Fordyce Efq., the late furveyor-general William Harrifon Efq. of the land-revenue office 4A2 feems 544 MARYBONE. feems to fuppofe that the buildings in this quarter, although fo remote from the central part of the metropolis, will eventually, though not perhaps till after a lapfe of fome years, be very numerous, and fpeaks of the building churches, eftablifhing markets, &c. &c. Mr. White, of Devonfhire-place, has fuggefted a plan to the furveyor-general of the crown-lands, by which he propofes that only the lower part of the fite of Marybone-park fliould be built on; that the building fhould terminate northward with a grand crefcent half a mile in fpan, in the centre of which, fronting the end of Harley-ftreet, fhould be erefted the new parifh church of Marybone, to, which there fliould be an approach by a ftreet continued from Harley-ftreet ; that the remainder of the ground which is ill adapted for building on, by its clayey foil and want of water, fhould be reftored to its original ftate and converted into a park (which would be three miles in circumference), with walks and drives, a plan certainly highly conducive to the ornament of that part of the metropolis and the recreation of its inhabitants. Nothing has yet been determined as to the appropriation of this eftate. Manor of The manor of Liieftone, containing five hides (now Liffon Green in the parifh now Liffon of Marybone), is mentioned in Domefday-book among the lands in Offulfton Green. hundred given in alms : . it is faid to have been in King Edward's time the property of Edward, fon of Swain, a fervant of the King, who might alienate it at pleafure ; when the furvey was taken, it belonged to Eideva. The land, fays the record, is three carucates. In demefne are four hides and a half, on which are two ploughs ; the vilians have one plough. There are four vilians, each holding half a virgate, three cottars of two acres, and one flave ; meadow equal to one plough-land ;. paf ture for the cattle of the village ; woods for ioo hogs ; and 3d. arifing from the herbage : valued in the whole at 60s. ; in King Edward's time at 40s. This manor afterwards became the property of the priory of St. John of Jerufalem ; on the fup- preffion of which it was granted, in 1548, to Thomas Heneage and Lord Wil loughby17, who conveyed it the fame year to Edward Duke of Somerfet. On his attainder it reverted to the crown, and was granted, in 1564, to Edward Downing, who conveyed it the fame year to John Milner Efq., then leffee under the crown. After the death of his defcendant John Milner Efq. in 1753, it paffed under his will to William Lloyd Efq. The manor of Liffon Green (being then the property of Capt. Lloyd of the Guards) was, fold in lots, in the year 1792. The largeft lot, containing the fite of the manor, was purchafed by John Harcourt Efq. M. P., the prefent proprietor. It would far exceed the limits of this work to enter into a defcription ofthe " The account of this manor "till it came into cated by W. Bray Efq. F. A. S. of Great R-uf- the family, of Lloyd was obligingly communi- fel-ftreet, from original deeds. fplendid MARYBONE. 545 fplendid manfions in this parifh, which, fince Marybone has been in a manner in corporated with London, have been built by the nobility and other perfons of fortune, and made their town refidence. The moft remarkable of thefe, being all detached buildings, are Manchefter-houfe ; Harcourt-houfe ; Foley-houfe ; Chandos-houfe ; the Earl of Aldborough's at the end of Stratford-place ; and the elegant manfion in Portman-fquare, lately the property and refidence of the cele-. brated Mrs. Montagu, now of her nephew and heir Matthew Montagu Efq. In the year 1400, Bifhop Bray brooke granted a licence to remove the old Removal of church of Tybourn 1S, which ftood in a lonely place near the highway (on or near cnu°cn 0f the fite of the prefent court-houfe J% at the corner of Stratford-place), fubjedt to Tybourn. the depredations of robbers, who frequently ftole the images, bells, and orna-: ments, and to build a new church of ftones or flints, near the place where a chapel had been then lately erefted, which chapel might in the meantime be ufed. The bifhop claimed the privilege of laying the firft ftone. The old church yard was to be preferved, but the parifhioners were allowed to inclofe another adjoining to the new church 20. In theyear 1741, Marybone church being in a very ruinous condition, it Marybone was found neceffary to take it down ; when the prefent ftru£ture, which is very church- fmall and ill-fuited to the population of the parifli, was erecfed on the fame fite. The infide of the old church is fhown in one of, Hogarth's plates of the Rake's Progrefs. The monuments are reprefented as they then exifted, and fome ill— fpelt verfes, pointing out the vault of the Forfet family, were accurately copied from the originals ". The infcription, denoting the church to have been br.u- tified when Thomas Sice and Thomas Horn were churchwardens, was not fabri cated for the purpofe of ridicule (though it might have ferved that purpofe, when contrafted with the ruinous appearance of the church), but proves to have been genuine 2\ The prefent church is a fmall oblong fquare, and has a gallery on the north, fouth, and weft fides. On the eaft wall among others are the monu- Monuments. ments of Sir Edmund Dowce of Boughton, cup-bearer to Anne of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria, 1644; and that of Elizabeth wife of Capt. Towryof the Royal Navy (who died in 1806) with a figure of the deceafed (in alto relievo) by Bacon. On the north wall among others are thofe of James Gibbs Efq. 23 1754; 18 Dedicated to St. John. " To wit, a valt for burial there is, , " A great quantity of bones were dug up a " Which Edward Forfet made for him and few years ago at this place. See Maitland's *-' his." Hiftory of London, p. 778. The two firft lines are preferved in one of the 20 Braybroke Regift. f. 348, a, b. galleries ; they are raifed in wood on the pannel " " Thefe pewes unfcrud and tane in fundir, of a pew. " In ftone thers graven what is undir : " Nichols's Life of Hogarth; p. 216, 217. " See p. 554. Lady 546 MARYBONE. Tombs in the church-yard. Tombs in the great ceme tery on the fouth fide of Paddington- ftreet. Lady Mary Weft daughter of the fourth Earl of Stamford, and wife of the Hon. George Weft, 1783; Lieut. General Prefcott, ofthe 7th regiment of Royal Fuzileers, 1788 ; Sir George Collier, Knt. Vice-Admiral of the Blue who died, April 6, 1795, aged 65, "the principal partv of which was devoted to the fervice of his country ;" Elizabeth daughter and heir at law of Sir William Stanley of Hooton, Bart., 1797 ; and Barbara Countefs of Scarborough, 1797. At the weft end of the church is a monument of lead, gilt, with figures in alto- relievo, to the memory of fome children of Thomas Tayler, of Popes in Hert- fordfhire, 1689, &c. On the fame wall is a monument, with a medallion of the deceafed by Banks, in memory of Mr. Jofeph Barretti 22 (put up fince the firft edition of this work); there is alfo a tablet of white marble, in memory of Stephen Storace23, well known as compofer of the mufic of feveral popular dramatic pieces. On the fouth wall, among others, is the monument of James Allen Efq., apothe^ cary to King George I. George II. and George III. who died in 1774, aged 91 j and that of Col. Granger Muir ", who died in 1786. On the floor are, among others, grave-ftones in memory of Humphrey Wanley, " library keeper" to Robert and Edward Earls of Oxford, who died July 6, 1726, aged 55 years; Lady Abigail Hay, fourth daughter of George Earl of Errol, aged 69, 1785; and John Cowper Efq., 1786. In the circuit-walk an nexed to the laft edition of Stow's Survey, mention is made of a monument in Marybone church to the memory of George Foxcroft Efq. 1691 3S. In the church-yard are, among others, fome memorials of the family of de Cref- pigny, who were refugees from France in the reign of King William ; and the tomb of James Fergufon 2S, F. R. S. 1776. In a large cemetery on the fouth fide of Paddington-ftreet (confecrated in 1733) is a large maufoleum, eredted by the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, to the memory of his wife Sufanna, who died in 1759 ; and among others the tombs of Matthew Goffett Efq. a gentleman-penfioner, " well known for his fkill in fome of the " See p. 559. 23 See p. 560. 24 Infcription — " Sacred to the memory of 1 Granger Muir Efq. Colonel in the fervice of the Eaft India Company. He went to India : in the year 1747. He was a captain, and led : the advanced guard at the battle of Plaffey. He commanded the army employed againft ; the Maratta chief Madajee Scindia ; and by : his judicious conduct negotiated a peace with : that chief in 1781, which laid the foundation : of the general peace concluded with the Ma- 1 ratta ftates in 1782. With a delicate fenfe of honour, he had all the ardour of his profeffion as a foldier. He was amiable in his manners, generous in his difpofitiun, affeftionate and fteady in his friendfliip. He returned to Eng land in 1785, and died the firft of Auguft 1786, aged 52 years." 25 The infcription was lingular : — " Anno Dom. 1691, Jan. 25. iEtat. 91. Vixit Georgius Foxcroft, Armig. Par. neg. Pru. Pi. Cofmopolita. Multa tulit fecitque. Obiit, Abiit, Reliquix hie. Eheu ! quantuli fumus. Turgidas, bullae. Prseterea nihil." 16 See his epitaph, p. 558, f( polite MARYBONE. 547 " polite arts," 1744; John Reynolds, mafter-painter of the ordnance, 1752; John Caftles (" late of the Great Grotto 27, whofe great ingenuity in fhell- " work gained him univerfal applaufe"), 1757; Archibald Bower, 176628; Sir Andrew Chadwick, Knt. 1768 ; William Guthrie Efq. 1770 29; Sir Thomas Mills, Knt. 1793 ; Capt. William Henry Brifoane of the Royal Navy30, 1796; Francis Wheatley Efq. R. A. 3i, 1801 ; Sir Charles Ventris Field, Knt., 1803; Brigadier General Ferdinand Beckwith, 1805 ; Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart., 1806 ; and Jofeph Bonomi Efq. 3% 1808. In the fmaller cemetery on the north fide of Paddington-ftreet (confecrated in Tombs in the 1772) are, among others, the tombs of Anthony Relhan, M. D. 33, 1776; Stephen thTnoTth of Riou Efq.34, 1780 ; and Charlotte, wife of William Bofcawen Efq., 1804. Another Paddington- new cemetery of large extent, near St. John's Wood, containing fix acres of ground, which was purchafed by the veftry in 1808, has not yet been confecrated. The church of Marybone (or Tybourn, as it was then called,) was appropriated in the reign of King John, by William de Sanfla Maria, bifhop of London, to the priory of St. Lawrence de Blakemore, in Effex, a competent maintenance being referved to the vicar 3S. On the fuppreffion of that priory, which took place in the year 1525, the King gave the reftory to Cardinal Wolfey, with licence to ap propriate it to the dean and canons of Chrift-church ; who, at his requeft, granted it to the mafter and fcholars of his college at Ipfwich 36. When the cardinal fell into difgrace, the King feized this redtory as part of his property 37, and it con tinued in the crown till the year 1552, when it was granted to Thomas Reve and George Cotton, in common focage 38. It came into the Forfet family, then pro prietors of the manor, before the year 1650 39, and they have fince paffed through the fame hands. The redtory ftill continues impropriated ; the benefice has been confidered as a donative from a very early period. The Duke of Portland, as reftor, nominates the curate, who is licenfed by the bifhop of London. In the 27 Frequently advertifed in the newfpapers aboutthe year 1744. "8 See his epitaph, p. 555. 29 See his epitaph, p. 556. 30 Son of Admiral Brifbane ; " he was raifed to " the rank of captain by his gallant conduct •* when firft lieutenant of His Majefty's fhip " Romney, in an action with the Sybylle, a " French fhip of war of equal force, which fhe " captured." 3' See p. 561. 32 Infcription : — D . O . M. Jofeph us Bonomi Ar chitects peritiffimus Romanus, cujus cineres hie jaeent; in Angliam venit anno MDCCLXVII, atque illic plurima artis fuse monumenta pofuit. Vir probus, pius et amicitiae cultor diligentiffimus. Academiae Regalis Londinenfis Socius ab anno MDCCLXXXIX. Vixit annos LXIX. menfes I. dies XIX. Deceffit die nono Martii anni reparat. Salut. MDCCCVIII. Mcerentes uxor filii & filias lapidem pofuerunt. 33 See p. 556. 34 See p. 558. 3S Newcourt, vol. i. p. 695 . 36 From a MS. account of the manor, &c. drawn up by Mr. Thomas, who was fteward to the Earls of Oxford. 3' Ibid. 38 Newcourt. 39 Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. Lib. year 548 MARYBONE. Thomas Swadling,curate. Intended new church. Privatechapels. Providence chapel. year 151 1 the curate's ftipend was only 13s. per annum, paid by Thomas Hobfon, then leffee under the priory of Blakemore40. In 1650, the impropriation was valued at 80I. per annum ; the curate was then paid 15I. per annum41 ; at that time the whole of his emoluments could be fcarcely double. From the prodigious increafe of buildings and population, its contingencies are now fuch as to make it a very valuable benefice. , Thomas Swadling, D. D., curate of this place during the civil war, publifhed, in 1 66 1, a volume of fermons on the Anniverfary of King Charles's death. He had the living of St. Botolph Aldgate, from which he was fequeftered< Having fuffered much both in perfon and property, before the Reftoration of King Charles II. , he was then re-inftated in his preferment, and obtained fome other benefices 4\ The prefent curate of Marybone is the Rev. Luke Heflop, B. D., archdeacort of Buckingham, he was appointed in 1809 on the death of Sir Richard Kaye, Bart. LL. D, and dean of Lincoln, who fucceeded the late bifhop of Here ford in 1788. It has recently been determined to build a fpacious church, better fuited to the population of this parifli, but the fite has not yet been fixed upon. A free chapel adjoining to the new cemetery before mentioned is alfo about to be eredted : it will contain about 700 perfons ; adjoining it are to be refidences for the clergy man, clerk, fexton, &c. &c. There are now eight proprietary chapels in this parifh belonging to the church of England ; Oxford chapel, built before 1739 43 ; Portland chapel, about 1766 ; Bentinck chapel* in 1772 ; Titchfield chapel, now called Welbeck chapel, about 1774; Portman chapel, about 1779; Quebec chapel, about 1788; Margaret- ftreet chapel, firft ufed as a place of worfhip for the church of England about 1789; and Brunfwick chapel built about 1795 44. It is propofed to build either two or four more proprietary chapels in addition to thefe here mentioned. In Little Titchfield-ftreet is a meeting houfe (called Providence chapel) be- 40 MSS. in the poffeffion of John White Efq. of Portland-place. 41 Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. Lib. Richard Bonner was then curate. The commif fioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ec clefiaftical benefices propofed t-> '.'nite the parifhes $>f Marybone and Paddington, to build a church at Liffon Green for both, and to fettle iool. per annum on the minifter. 42 Newcourt. 43 See Maitland. 44 The prefent preachers at the chapels above- 4 mentioned are — at Oxford chapel, the Rev. C. L. Edridge, M.A. ; at Portland chapel, the Rev. John Croft, M. A. ; at Bentinck chapel, the Rev. Bafil Woodd; at Titchfield, now called Welbeck chapel, the Rev. W. C. Dyer, and the Rev. Thomas White, M.A.; at Portman chapel, the Rev. James Moore, MA.; at Quebec chapel, William Bingham, D. D., Archdeacon of London, and the Rev. Henry Hutton, M A.; at Margaret-ftreet chapel, the Rev. J, D. Hazle- wood, M. A.; and at Brunfwick chapel, the Rev. Saxby Pinfold, M,A. longing MARYBONE. 549 longing to a congregation who profefs the doctrines of the late Mr. Whitfield. Their minifter was originally a coal-heaver, and for fome whimfical reafons changed his name from Hunt to Huntington. 'He is author of a great variety of trafts, which are in much efteem among his followers. Some of them are of a very lingular caft, efpecially one, called " The Bank of Faith" in which he illuftrates the doftrine of a particular providence in a very improper and mif taken way. In Blandford-ftreet is a meeting-houfe of the Baptifts, and in Wells-ftreet Meeting- one belonging to the Scotch Seceders. There is a Roman Catholic chapel in Spanifti place, and another in Little George-ftreet. In Upper Marybone-ftreet is a chapel belonging to the Greek church ; a large chapel has been recently erefted, but is not yet completed, for the Wefleyan Methodifts in Hinde-ftreet. Theearlieft date of any parifh-regifter now extant at Marybone is 1668. The entries for feveral years fubfequent to that date, are copied from a book damaged by fire, and rendered in many parts imperfeft. houfe. Parifh. re- gifters. 1680 — 1689. 1712 — 1721. 1730 — 1739- 1770 — 1774. 1775 — l779- 1780 — 1784. 1785 — 1789. 1790 — 1794. 1795 — 1799. 1800 — 1804. 1805 — 1809. Average of Baptifms. — '3i — 35A — *73i — 7984 — 10084 — 1122! — 1342! — 1 6974. — 1784* — 18022 — 19084 Average of Burials. 34T7T 89^ 3x3t 93° 1140 12634 l3l°r . 14194. 15SSr 1724J-. 1805 Comparative ftate of po pulation. In the fevere winter of 1795, there occurred a great mortality, chiefly among Mortality in the poor, and very aged perfons. The following is an exaft ftatement of the ,-„. mortality in this parifh during the months of January, February, and March, in that year. In January, there were 172 burials, February, - - - 214 March, - - - 208 594 Of this number 122 were paupers, buried at the expence of the parifh. Vol. II. 4 B The ave rage 550 MARYBONE. rage monthly number during the years 1793 and 1794 was 123 ; the average. quarterly number, 369, which the quarter above-mentioned exceeds by 225. In the months of January, February, and March, 1793, there were 447 burials j being 147 lefs than in the fame months in 1795. In January, February, and March, 1794, there were only 341 burials ; being 253 lefs than in thofe months in 1795. Progrefs of At the beginning of the laft century, Marybone was a fmall village, nearly a mile diftant from any part of the metropolis. In the year 17 15, a plan was formed for building Cavendifh-fquare, and feveral ftreets on the north fide of Tybourn road. In 17 17 or 1718, the ground was laid out, the circle in the centre inclofed, and furrounded with a parapet wall and palifadoes 45. The Duke of Chandos (then Earl of Carnarvon) took the whole north fide, intending,, it is faid, to build a very magnificent manfion, of which the houfes which now belong to Henry Hope Efq. (fometime the Princefs Amelia's), and the houfe of the late Earl of Gainfoorough, (now Col. Noel's), were to have been wings. Lord Harcourt 46 and Lord Bingley took fome ground on the eaft and weft fides, the reft was let to builders : but the failures of the South Sea year put a flop to the improvements for a time, and it was feveral years before the fquare was completed 47. As an inducement to the builders to go on, a chapel and a market were projefted for the convenience ofthe inhabitants ofthe new ftreets. Mr. Gibbs gave the defign, and they were both finifhed in 1 724, but the market was not opened till 1 732, in confequence of the oppofition of Lord Craven, who was" apprehenfive that it would affeft the profits of Carnaby market. The row of houfes on the north fide of Tybourn road was completed in 1729, and it was then called Oxford-ftreet. About the fame time moft of the ftreets leading to Cavendifh-fquare and Oxford market48 were built, and the ground was laid out for feveral others 49. Maitland, whofe work was publifhed m 1739, fays, there were then ^yy houfes in the parifh of Marybone, and 35 perfons who kept coaches. Still there remained a confiderable void between the new buildings and the village of Marybone, which confifted of pafture fields. Portman-fquare was begun about 1764, when the north fide of the fquare was 45 Inthecentreofthisinclofureisan equeftrian houfe, and was purchafed after the death of ftatue of William Duke of Cumberland. It is of Lord Bingley. lead, gilt ; and was made by Mr. Chew in the •" For this fatisfa&ory account of the progrefs year 1770, at the expence of Lieut. Gen. William of buildings at Marybone I was indebted to John, Strode. It was put up on the 4th of November White Efq. of Devonfhire-place. that year, " in gratitude for private kindnefs, and t8 Henrietta-ftreet, Vere-ftreet, Holles-ftreet, " in honour of public worth." Margaret-ftreet,Cavendifh-ftreet,Welbeck-ftreet, ?6 The ground which Lord Harcourt took was Wimpole-ftreet, Princes-ftreet, Bolfover-ftreet, on the eaft fide ofthe fquare. The manfion Caftle-ftreet, John-ftreet, Market-ftreet, &c. which belongs to the prefent Earl was Bingley- « Lower Harley-ftreet, Wigmore-ftreet, Mor- timer-ftreet, &c. built, MARYBONE. 55* bnilt, but it was nearly 20 years before the whole was finifhed. In 1770, the continuation of Harley-ftreet was begun, and Mansfield-ftreet, on ground where had been formerly a bafin of water. Soon afterwards Portland-place was built, and the ftreets adjoining. Stratford-place was built about 1774? on fome ground belonging to the city of London, called Conduit-mead, where the Lord Mayor's banquetting-houfe formerly ftood. The crefcent, now called Cumberland-place (Originally intended for a circus), was begun about the fame year. Every war had checked the progrefs of new buildings, which were carried on at its clofe with frefh vigour. From 1786, till the commencement of the laft war, they increafed very rapidly ; all the Duke of Portland's property, except one farm, was let on building leafes; the new buildings in the north-weft part of the parifh were equally numerous. Manchefter-fquare, which had been begun in 1776, by the building of Manchefter-houfe, was finifhed in 1788; fince which time the principal increafe of buildings has been on Mr. Portman's pro perty by the ereftion -of Baker-ftreet, and York place, and a great number of ftreets, &c. towards the weft between thofe and the Edgware road. A confiderable number of buildings, are now about to be erefted on fome land in this parifh belonging to Harrow fehool, adjoining the Edgware road. The intention of building upon the fite of Marybone-park has been already mentioned so. The number of houfes in the parifh of Marybone in the year 1795, was about 6200; in 1 801 according to the return then made to parliament under the popu lation aft, there were 7209 inhabited houfes, ^^ uninhabited houfes, (moftly newly built) and 63,982 inhabitants. The prefent number of houfes is about %33°- Extracts from the Regifter. HumphreyWanley. *' Humphrey Wanley, buried July 8, 1726." An eminent antiquary, who was librarian to Robert and Edward, Earls of Oxford. Several of his letters are in the Britifh Mufeum. There is a portrait of him in the Bodleian library at Oxford. " John Abbadie, D. D. buried Sep. 28, 1727." An eminent divine born in Dr.Abbadie. the canton of Berne, and educated in France. He left that kingdom on account of the perfecutions, and went to Berlin, where he refided many years as minifter of the French church. When the Prince of Orange came to England, Dr. Abbadie accompanied his patron Marfhal Schomberg, and was for fome years minifter of the French church in the Savoy. He was afterwards made dean of Killaloe. His writings are numerous : On the truth of the Chriftian religion ; s° See p. 543, 544. 4B 2 on SS2 MARYBONE. on the truth of the reformed religion ; a commentary on the Revelations ; the art of felf-knowledge ; feveral fermons ; an account of the affaffination plot ; a defence of the Revolution ; and fome panegyrical orations. They were all written in French, but moft of them have been tranflated. Dr. Abbadie was efteemed one of the moft eloquent men of his time. He is erroneoufly called John in the regifter : his name was James 5I. Figg, the " James Figg, buried December 1 1, 1734." The celebrated prize-fighter52. prize-fighter, rj-^g amphitheatres of the prize-fighters afforded in his time a favourite amufe- ing. ment, which reflefts little credit on the humanity of the age. Thefe trials of fkill were frequently attended with much hurt, and were fometimes fatal to the combatants 53. Figg, who long bore the palm of viftory from all competitors, is extolled by Captain Godfrey in his treatife of the fcience of defence, as the greateft mafter ofthe art that he had ever feen ; he calls him the Atlas ofthe fword, and fays, that he united ftrepgth, refolution, and unparalleled judgment s4. He was for many years proprietor of the boarded-houfe in Marybone-helds, near Oxford-road. Here he frequently exhibited his own fkill, and at other times made matches between the moft celebrated mafters or mifireffes of the art, for the noble fcience of defence was not confined to the male fex ; we find Mrs. Ferhaleprize- Stokes, the famous city championefs, challenging the Hibernian heroines to T^ger-bait- meet her at Mr. Figg's 5S. Sometimes bear-baiting, tiger-baiting, &c. were «JL'tcbu*",. exhibited at this amphitheatre 56. A bull-fight was once advertifed to be per formed by the grimace Spaniard, who had for fome time amufed the town by making ugly faces. A great company was drawn together by the novelty of the 51 Biograph. Brit. u Page 41. 52 A poem of Dr. Byrom's (printed in Dodf- 5S " We hear that the gentlemen of Ireland ley's colle&ion), defcribing a famous combat be- " have been long picking out an Hibernian he- tween Figg and Sutton, begins, " roine to match Mrs. Stokes, the bold and " Long liv'd the great Figg, by the prize- " famous city championefs ; there is now one ar- " fighting fwains " arrived here, who, by her make and ftature, " Sole monarch acknowledged of Marybone " feems mighty enough to eat her up ; How- " plains." " ever, Mrs. Stokes, being true Englifh blood, 53 In one of the adyertifements from Brough- " (andrememberingfomelaterefleftionsthatwere ton's amphitheatre, announcing a trial of fkill be- " caft upon her hufband by fome of that country tween two prize-fighters, it was promifed that " volkf) is refolved to fee her out vi at armis, the beauty of the fword fhould be rigoroufly dif- « This being like to prove a notable and diverting played, and that there fhould be no bandage nor " engagement, its not doubted but abundance wound dreft till the battle was over. Rowland " of gentlemen will croud to Mr. Figg's amphi- Bennet, who frequently fought at Broughton's, « theatre on Wednefday the 24th inftant, on generally made it his boaft in his challenges, that « purpofe to fee this uncommon performance." the ever-memorable gladiator Timothy Buck (ce- Mift'3 Journal, Nov. 20, 1725. lebrated in the 436th number of the Spectator) 56 Read's Journal, July 22, 1721. fell by his unfortunate hand. Daily Advertifer, July 3, j 745. promifed fights, &c. MARYBONE. 553 promifed entertainment, but it ended as the bufinefs of the bottle-conjuror did fome years afterwards ". A portrait of Figg is introduced by Hogarth, in his fecond plate of the Rake's Progrefs. There is a print of him in mezzotinto by Faber. After Figg's death, the celebrated Broughton occupied an amphitheatre Boxing. near the fame fpot, and was for many years the hero of bruifers, as Figg had been an™ slack? of the prize-fighters, till at laft he was beaten on his own ftage, by Slack, a butcher sS. The viftor was fuppofed to have gained 6ool. by the event of the battle ; the fums won and loft by the bye-ftanders were to a great amount, the houfe being crowded with amateurs, fome of whom were of very high rank. Not long afterwards a flop was put to all public exhibitions of boxing and prize fighting, by aft of parliament. They had been long found prejudicial, in a great degree, to the morals of the people, and were grown into difrepute, even among the amateurs of the art, who found that the ftage-owners impofed upon them by making up fham battles, in which the combatants had fettled the event before they mounted the ftage. From about the year 1730 to 1750, the news papers teemed with their advertifements, which generally contained the chal. lenges and anfwers of the boxers, all couched in the fame ftyle of boafting arrogance. S9 " John 57 See Read's Journal, Nov. 8, and Nov. 22, 1718. 5' The following advertifement announced this celebrated combat. — " The battle between " Mr. John Broughton and Mr. John Slack will " be decided at the Amphitheatre in Oxford-road, " to-morrow the nth inftant, exactly at " 11 o'clock. Note: by defire of feveral noble- " men and gentlemen, tickets for the matted «' galleries will be delivered out at Mr. Brough- " ton's houfe in the Haymarket. " As Mr. Broughton fome time fince took " leave of the ftage, it may not be improper " to acquaint the publick, that nothing but an " infult, which to let pafs unrefented Would " highly impeach his manhood, could ever have " provoked him again into the lifts ; but he flat- " ters himfelf it will only furnifh an opportunity " to add one more wreath to that trophy which, " during the fpace of twenty-four years, be has " been railing by an uninterrupted courfe of vic- " tories ; and henceforth hopes that he fhall meet •' with the indulgence of the old Roman cham- " pion, and be at liberty with him to fay Hie 11 'viclor exftus artemque repono." 59 The two following advertifements may ferve as fpecimens of the language of the amphitheatres. — " At Broughton's new Amphitheatre in Ox ford-road, the back of the late Mr. Figg's, on Wednefday next the 13th inftant, will be ex hibited an experimental lefture in manhood, by Hawkfley and Benjamin Bofwell, profeffors oi athletics. " My behaviour in a late combat with Mr. Small- wood, notwithstanding my inexperience at that time in the art of boxing, having given a fa vourable opinion of my prowefs, and being am bitious to give a farther demonftration of it, do now invite the celebrated Mr. Bofwell to a trial of his abilities ; and doubt not, in fpite of his jawbreaking talents, to give him fo manly a reception, as to convince the fpeftators that I need not defpair of one day arriving at a Broughtonian excellence in this fcience ; nay, perhaps, of obliging that all-conquering hero himfelf to fubmit his laurels, and refign the boafted Hie viclor in his motto, t,o " Hawksley. " 1/ fhall do my endeavour to convince my «' antagonift, that though ambition may excite " him to attempt, yet great abilities are ne- " ceffary to fecure him fuccefs in this arduous " undertaking ; and believe I fhall flop the pro- " grefs of this afpiring upftart in his imaginary 4 " race 554 MARYBONE. JohnVandre-bank. Gibbs, the architect. Archibald Bower. " John Vandrebrank, buried Dec. 30, 1739." A portrait-painter, much in fafhion in the reigns of King George I. and II. " James Gibbs Efq. buried Aug. 9, 1754." The celebrated architeft : he was born in 1683, being the fon of Peter Gibbs, a merchant in Aberdeen, at the univerfity of which place he received his education, and took the degree of M. A. The Earl of Mar was his firft patron in life, and affifted him with money to profecute his ftudies in Italy 6o. He fettled in England in 17 10, and in the courfe of a few years became the architeft moft in vogue. His principal works are the Radcliffe library, and the new quadrangle at All Souls college in Oxford ; the new building at King's college, and the Senate-houfe in Cambridge ; the Duke of Newcaftle's monument in Weftminfter-abbey, the New Church in the Strand, and St. Martin's in the Fields 6r. In 1728 he publifhed a large volume in folio of his own defigns. He gave an inftance of grateful remembrance to his patron the Earl of Mar, by leaving a confiderable legacy to his fon. All his books, prints, &c. he bequeathed to the Radcliffe library in Oxford. On his monument in Marybone church is the following infcription : " Underneath lie the remains of " James Gibbs Efq. whofe fkill in architecture appears by his printed works, as " well as the buildings direfted by him. Among other legacies and charities " he left iool. towards enlarging this church. He died Auguft the 5th, 1754, " aged 71." " Archibald Bower, buried Sep. 7, 1 y66." Bower was a native of Scot land, being born at or near Dundee, in the year 1686. He was educated at race of glory, and totally expel all thoughts of laurels, mottoes, &c. out of his head, by the ftrength of the arm of, " Gentlemen, your old combatant, Benjamik Boswell " Daily Adv. Nov. 174J. " Aut Cafar, aut nulhs. " At Broughton's Amphitheatre, this day the the nth inftant, will be a tremendous decifion of manhood, between the celebrated champions James and Smallwood. The various proofs these heroes have given of their fuperior fkill in the manual combat having juftly made them the delicite pugnacis generis, and being too am bitious to admit of rivalfhip in the lifts of fame, are determined, by death or victory, to decide ; their pretentions to the palm. As not only ; their whole fortunes but, what is much more dear to them, their whole flock of glory is at ; ftake, it is not doubted but the utmoft efforts of art and nature will be exhibited in this en counter ; and thereby the dignity of this he roic fcience be vindicated from the fcandal it has fuffered from fome late unequal conflifts, occafioned by the unmanly attempts of vain pretenders who are totally unqualified for fuch arduous undertakings. Note : As this conteft is like to be rendered horrible with blood and and bruifes, all Frenchmen are defired to come fortified with a proper quantity of hartfhorn ; and it is hoped the ladies of Hockley and St. Giles's who fhould happen to be pregnant will abfent themfelves upon this occafion, left the terror of the fpeftacle fhould unhappily occafion the lofs of fome young champion to pofterity. — Noblemen and gentlemen are de fired to fend for tickets to Mr. Broughton's, in the Haymarket, which will admit them into a part of the houfe appropriated for their better accommodation, price 5s." Daily Adv. Dec 1745. 60 Europ. Mag. anno 1789. 61 Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. the MARYBONE. 555 the college of Douay, whence he removed to Rome, and was admitted into the order of Jefus. He refided afterwards at feveral of the Italian univerfities, where he read leftures in the fciences, and at length became counfellor to the Inquifition at Macerata. In the year 1726 he quitted the territories of the Pope, flying, according to his own account, by hair-breadth efcapes from the refentment of the Inquifition. He bent his courfe to London, where, after a refidence of fome years, he publicly conformed to the church of England. Meantime he fupported himfelf by private pupils, and by writing for the bookfellers. He contributed to a work, called the Hiftoria Literaria (in the nature of a review), and when that was difcontinued in 1734, he engaged in the Univerfal Hiftory, upon which he was employed feveral years. In 1748, he publifhed the firft volume of his principal work, the Hiftory of the Popes, which was not com pleted till a fliort time before his death. After the publication of the third vo lume, the work fell into difcredit, and its author into difgrace, by the difcovery of his clandeftine correfpondence with the Jefuits, into whofe fociety he had been a fecond time admitted. A controverfy relating to thefe tranfaftions commenced in the year 1756, which ended to the difadvantage of Mr. Bower, who was con- vifted of many wilful falfehoods and mifreprefentations. This controverfy was principally carried on by the learned Dr. Douglas, afterwards, bifhop of Salifbury. Bower's defence was fpirited, but ineffeftual. The material charges alleged againft him were never fatisfaftorily anfwered, yet he continued to affert his in nocence till his death ; and his epitaph, which is as follows, fpeaks the fame language : " Here lie the remains of Archibald Bower, author of the Hiftory of the Bower's " Popes, a man exemplary for every focial virtue, juftly efteemed by all who epi p " knew him for his ftrift honefty and integrity, a faithful friend and a fincere " Chriftian. He died Sept. 3, 1766, aged 80. " Falfe witneffes rofe up againft him, and laid to his charge things that he knew " not. They confpired together, and laid their net to defiroy him guiltlefs. The u on" and diftinguifhing itfelf in no mean degree in the walks of fcience. Fergufon was born in the county of Bainff, about the year 17 10. The bent of his mind towards mechanic purfuits firft difcovered itfelf by the accidental circumftance of his fa ther's making ufe of a lever in his prefence, and applying it as a prop to his de cayed cottage, when he was only eight years of age. His own account of the manner in which he profecuted his favourite ftudies, during hours fnatched from the moft laborious employments (for he was many years a farmer's fervant), is very curious and interefting. After ftruggling with various difficulties, his merit pro cured him patrons, and he was enabled to purfue his ftudies with more advan tage. Having attained a great proficiency in natural philofophy and aftronomy, he came to London in 1 743 ; and having conftrufted an apparatus for experi ments, read leftures in thofe fciences. Before he left Scotland he had learned to draw portraits, and for a few years after he came to town, praftifed as a limner in China ink. His price, in 1746, was 9s. at home, or 10s. 6d. anywhere within the diftance of a mile 63. At the fame time he read leftures on the globe and the orrery, at his lodgings in Great Pulteney-ftreet, at a fliilling each lefture. In 1 748 , he tells us that he left off limning, which he never liked as an employ ment : it was certainly an art in which he did not excel. In his country excur sions, he occafionally exercifed it for fome years afterwards. There is a minia ture portrait of the celebrated Dr. Bradley 64 (one of his beft performances* and efteemed a very good likenefs,) done by him about the year 1752, when the doftor was on a vifit to his brother-in-law, Mr. Samuel Peach, -of Chal- ford in Gloucefterfliire, in whofe houfe Fergufon fpent fome time, ' being received with great hofpitality, and permitted to read a courfe of public lec tures there. He continued his leftures till nearly the time of his death, which happened at his houfe in Bolt-court, in the month of November 1776. -He left behind him a very amiable charafter. His principal writings were, a Differ- tation on the Harveft Moon ; a Defcription of an Orrery ; Aftronomical and Mechanical Leftures ; Tables and Trafts relating to various Arts and Sciences ;; and a Treatife on Eleftricity. His laft publication was intituled, Seleft Mecha nical Exerafes. He wrote his own life, to accompany this work, which was not publifhed till after his deceafe. Mr. Fergufon was a fellow of the Royal Society. «J Daily Advertifer,, Nov. 27, 1746. "** In the poffeffion of Samuel Lyfons Efq. Vol. II. 4 C It 558 MARYBONE. It fhould not be omitted, as reflecting honour both on the Royal donor and him felf, that His Majefty allowed him 50I. per annum, out of the privy purfe, fubjeft to no deduftions 6s. The following infcription is upon his tomb in Marybone -church-yard : " Here lies interred the body of James Fergufon, F. R. S. who, " bleffed with a fine natural genius, by unwearied application (without a mafter), " attained the fciences of aftronomy and mechanics, which he taught with fingular " fuccefs and reputation ; he was modeft, fober, humble, and religious, and his .*' works will immortalize his memory when this fmall monument is no more. He, " died 16 Nov. 1776, aged 66." Stephen « Stephen Riou, buried March 17, 1780." This gentleman, who was a cap tain of hprfe, and had ferved in Flanders in the year 1741, diftinguifhed himfelf as a man of tafte, by the publication of a fplendid work, in Imperial folio, on the Grecian orders of architefture, explained by delineations of the antiquities of Athens, made during his travels into Greece. He publifhed alfo an effay on the conftruftion of bridges c6. Allan Ram- ".Allan Ramfay Efq. . buried Aug. 18, 1784." Mr. Ramfay was principal fay" portrait-painter to His Majefty. He was one of the writers in the controverfy on Elizabeth Canning's cafe, and was author of a pamphlet called the Inveftigator, and various political trafts. His father wrote a well-known drama, called the Gentle Shepherd, and feveral poems 67. Charles « xhe Rev. Charles Wefley, buried Ap. 5, 1788." Mr. Wefley was a younger brother of the celebrated John Wefley, one of the founders of a very nume rous feft, generally known by the name of Methodifts. Their father, Samuel Wefley, was author of " the Life of Chrift," a poem ; a Commentary on the Book of Job, and other works.- Charles Wefley was born in 1708, at Epworthj he was educated at Weftminfter fehool and Chrift church,"of which college he was a ftudent. He accompanied his brother during moft of his travels, and encoun tered with him many dangers and difficulties. After his marriage, he divided his time between Briftol and London. His writings, not fo numerous as thofe of his brother, confift chiefly of hymns and facred poems. His fon Charles, before he was three years of age, exhibited uncommon mufical talents ; his younger fon Samuel, at an age not much more advanced, difcovered the fame talents and inclination for mufic, and compofed an oratorio and feveral other pieces, whilft a child. A minute account of their progrefs in the fcience, from the informa tion of their father, is given in the Hon. Daines Barrington's mifcellanies 68. They both embraced a profeffion fpr which nature had fo evidently defigned 45 See his own life. " Ibid, and Biog. Dram. ,M Gent. Mag. 68 Page 289 — 310. them. MARYBONE. them. Some years ago feleft concerts were given at their father's houfe in Chefterfield-ftreet, Marybone, at which the joint performances of the brothers, particularly their double leffons on the organ, were received with much admi ration and applaufe. Mr. Wefley was buried in the church-yard at Marybone, by his own defire, his pall being fupported by eight clergymen of the church of England "9. " Mark Anthony Jofeph Baretti, buried May 9, 1789." This well-known BarettL charafter was fon of an architeft at Turin, where he was born about the year 1716. After ftruggling with great difficulties in the early part of his life, he came to England in 1750, and fettled in London as a teacher of Italian. He gave ' a proof of his extraordinary facility in acquiring languages, by publishing in Englifh, within three months after his arrival, a defence of the Italian poetry againft Voltaire. About this period he was introduced to Dr. Johnfon, with whom he maintained an intimacy till nearly the end of his life. In 1760 he revifited his native country, and whilft refident at Venice, publifhed a periodical paper, which added much to his reputation. At his return he was engaged in a controverfy with Mr. Sharp, who had publifhed Letters from Italy, in which a very unfavourable account was given of that country and its inhabitants. Soon after his return from a vifit to Spain in 1769, he had the misfortune to kill a man in an accidental affray in the ftreets. He was tried at the Old Bailey, when after a full inveftigation of the cafe, during which the moft honourable teftimony was borne to his charafter, the jury gave a verdift of manflaughter. In 1770 he publifhed an account of his travels, which met with a very favourable reception from the public. At the firft inftitution of the Royal Academy, Baretti was made their fecretary for foreign correfpondence. About the fame time he had a penfion of 80I. per annum from the crown. He died on the 5th of May 1789, and was interred in the cemetery on the north fide of Paddington-ftreet ; Dr. Vincent, Sir William Chambers, and fome gentlemen of the academy attending his funeral. Several years afterwards (fince 1795), a monument was erefted to. his memory (with a medallion by Banks) at the weft end of Marybone-church, with the fol lowing infcription : " Near this place are depofited the remains of Signor Gju- " feppe Baretti,- a native of Piedmont in Italy, fecretary for foreign correfpon- " dence to the Royal Academy of Arts of London ; author of feveral efteemed " works in his own, and the languages of France and England." His principal works were, an Italian grammar ; a dictionary of that language, which is in very general ufe ; his travels ; a view ofthe cuftoms and manners of Italy ; a difcourfe of Shakfpeare and Voltaire, and an edition of Machiavell's works. Some of his <*> See his life by Dr. Whitehead, to which is prefixed an engraved portrait. 4 C 2 latter 559 5&? MARYBONE. Serres, the marine-painter. Sir George Collier. StephenStorage, William Cramer. latter writings were of a perfonal nature, and are replete with acrimony. . His letters, among which were feveral 70 from Dr. Johnfon, were burnt by his repre fentatives. " John Dominick Serres, buried Jan. 20, 1793." An eminent artift, who ex celled in painting fea-pieces. He was marine painter to His Majefty. " Sr George Collier, Knt. buried Ap1 16th, 1795" Sir George Collier, who was made a poft-captain in 1762, was employed chiefly on the coaft of America during the American war. In 1775 he brought out at Drury-Lane Theatre a dramatic romance, taken from the French, called " Selima and Azor." " Stephen Storace, buried Mar. ai, 1796." An eminent mufical compofer, to whom the public are indebted for the mufic of feveral well-known eomic operas, of which the Haunted Tower and Siege of Belgrade are fpoken of by profeffors as having the moft diftinguifhed merit : his laft work was the mufic of the " Doftor and Apothecary," for Drury-Lane Theatre. A tablet has been put up to his memory on the weft wall of Marybone-church, with the following in fcription, from the pen of Mr. Prince Hoare, for whofe popular dramas of " No Song no Supper," &c. he compofed the mufic : " In memory of a life devoted " to the ftudy of mufical fcience, and fhortened by unremitted application and " anxiety in the attainment of its objeft, this marble is infcribed with the name *' of Stephen Storace, whofe profeffional talents commanded public applaufe, '' whofe private virtues enfured domeftic affeftion, He died March 16, 1796, *' aged 34^ and is interred under this church. " Silent his lyre, or wak'd to heavenly ftrains, " Clofed his fliort fcene of chequer'd joy and pain ; " Belov'd and grateful as the notes he fung, <( His name ftill trembles on affeftion's tongue ; " Still in our bofoms holds its wonted part, " And ftrikes the chords which vibrate to the heart." P. H. " This marble is put up by a tender mother and an affeftionate lifter7*. " " William Cramer, buried Oft. 11th 1799." This celebrated mufician, who was a native of Manheim, refided many years in this country, where he was long at the head of his profeffion, and led the band at the Opera Houfe, and at moft of the great public concerts ; he was particularly eminent as a leader of Handel's ,0 See a life of Baretti in the European Maga zine for 1789, whence the above account is prin cipally taken, '' The celebrated finger and comic adtrefs, who retired from the ftage in 1808. mufic .MARYBONE. 561 mufic. Mr. Cramer left two fons both eminent in the fame profeffion, the elder is one of the principal leaders of the prefent day ; his brother is well known as a piano forte player, and a teacher of that inftrument. Mifs Jane Cramer, a daughter by his fecond wife, is diftinguifhed by her extraordinary talents for elocution, which fliowed themfelves at an early age. " Robert, Elizabeth, and Anne, children of Duncan and Sophia Boyd, born Three chil- « Sep. 4, baptized Sept. 28, 1800." « Thomas, Sarah, and Rachel Mary, j£JjlBta " children of Thomas and Edith Teulon, born Nov. 1, baptized Dec. 7, 1800." " Francis Wheatley Efq., R.A. buried July 2, 1801." Mr. Wheatley, an Francis artift of eminence and a Royal academician, in the former part of his life chiefly Wheatley. painted portraits in fmall whole lengths ; he refided for fome time in Ireland, where he was much patronized, and gained confiderable reputation by his pic ture of the Irifh Houfe of Commons, taken at the time of Mr. Grattan's making his motion for the repeal of Poyning's aft. Latterly, Mr. Wheatley devoted his attention to the painting of rural fcenery, and exhibited feveral piftures of that defcription, which were much admired. Mr. Wheatley, at the age of 54, fell a facrifice to the gout, with which he had been many years afflifted. There is a tombftone to his memory in the fouth cemetery. " George Stubbs Efq. buried July 1 8, 1806." This celebrated painter and George anatomift was in his 82d year, having been born at Liverpool in the year 1724. Stubbs. He was long diftinguifhed for his eminence as a painter of animals, and the exhibi tions of the incorporated fociety of artifts, and afterwards at the Royal Academy, of which he was an affociate, were many years enriched by his works ; of thefe " the " lion and horfe," " the lion and flag," and the brood mares were amongft the moft celebrated. Having devoted much labour and attention to the praftice and ftudy of comparative anatomy, in 1766 he brought out his magnificent and much- efteemed work, on the anatomy of the horfe, being the refult of obfervations made by himfelf, during a long courfe of diffefting, the drawings and engravings being all made with the utmoft accuracy by his own hand. In the Gentleman's Maga zine for Oftober 1806, being the fame in which his death was announced, was publifhed a letter (fent by a correfpondent who was not aware of that event), written feveral years before, by the celebrated Dutch profeffor Camper, who had been engaged in the fame purfuit, and had meditated a work on the fame fubjeft, written in terms of the higheft encomium, moft honourable to our coun tryman, and moft creditable to his own liberality. Mr. Stubbs, at the time of his death, had compleated both the anatomical preparations and the drawings for a work on the ftrufture of the human body compared with that of a tiger and a fowl. Of this work, which was to be comprifed in fix parts, containing thirty plates. 562 MARYBONE. Admiral Sir Richard King. AlexanderDalrymple. plates, three parts only were publifhed. Mr. Stubbs died at his houfe in So- merfet-ftreet, Portman-fquare, where he had refided many years ; he was remark able for his abftemious way of life, and a very robuft conflitution, which enabled him, even after he was fourfcore, to take an extraordinary degree of exercife for his advanced time of life, and to purfue his profeffional occupations almoft to the laft. " Admiral Sr Richard King, Bar1, buried Dec. 4th 1806." Sir Richard King, was a brave and meritorious officer, who chiefly diftinguifhed himfelf on the Eaft India ftation, where he had the rank of commodore, and was engaged in all the aftions with Monfrde Suffrein's fquadron, during the war that terminated in 1783. Having gone through all the inferior promotions, "he was made Admiral of the White in 1799. In the year 1792, he was created a baronet, in which title he was fucceeded by his eldeft and only furviving fon, now Sir Richard King, Bart. captain of the Achilles man of war, who married the only daughter of Admiral Sir John Duckworth, K. B. " Alexander Dalrymple, buried June 25th 1808." The late Alexander Dal rymple, F.R.S. F.A.S. &c. was the feventh fon of Sir James Dalrymple, Bart, of New Hailes near Edinburgh, by Lady Chriftian, daughter of the Earl of Hading- ton. In 1752, he was appointed a writer in the Eaft India Company's fervice, on the Madras eftablifhment ; and having from his earlieft years had a great thirft for geographical knowledge, he was induced to forego confiderable advantages, which he might have derived from remaining at Madras ; and in 1759 proceeded on a voyage of difcovery to the eaftward, which had been propofed by himfelf, and acceded to by the governor Sir George Pigot. In this voyage he vifited Sooloo, and concluded a treaty with the Sultan ; in 1762 he returned to Madras, and the fame year embarked on another voyage to Sooloo, in the courfe of which he vifited the ifiand of Balambangan, and obtained a grant of it for .the Eaft India Company. In 1 y6$, he returned to England. In 1 769, when the Royal fociety propofed to fend out perfons to the South Seas to obferve the tranfit of Venus, Mr. Dalrymple was fixed upon for the fuperintehdance of the voyage, and the profecution of dis coveries in that quarter ; but Lord Hawke, then at the head of the Admiralty, refufing to give the command to any but a naval officer, he declined the under taking 72. In 1775, Mr. Dalrymple was appointed one ofthe council at Madras; in 1779, hydrographer to the Eaft India Company, and in 1795, hydrographer to the Admiralty. On the 20th of May 1808, having refufed to refign the laft mentioned 72 This account of Mr. Dalrymple is taken almoft wholly from the flceteh drawn up to ac company his portrait, which is introduced among thofe of other eminent perfons publifhed by George Dance Efq. R. A. office, MARYBONE. 563 office, on the ground of fuperannuation, and to accept of a penfion, he was dif miffed from that fituation ; and it is faid, that in the opinion of his medical at tendants, his death was occafioned by vexation arifing from that event. A motion was fhortly afterwards made on this fubjeft in the Houfe of Commons, when the fecretary to the Admiralty, after bearing the moft ample teftimony to the talents and fervices of Mr. Dalrymple, fully juftified the conduft of that Board, which had adopted a neceffary meafure with much reluftance. Mr. Dalrymple was the author of numerous publications, moft of them relating to geographical fubjefts, and the affairs of the Eaft India Company ; he publifhed alfo a great number of nautical charts. His colleftion of books was very large and valuable, and partis cularly rich in works pertaining to geography and navigation, which were pur chafed by the Admiralty. His valuable colleftion of poetry he bequeathed to his heir at law, to be kept at the family feat in Scotland, as an heir-loom ; his mifcel- laneous colleftion, containing, among others, a great number of valuable foreign books, particularly in the Spanifh and Portuguefe languages, was fold by auftion, and produced a confiderable fum. Mr. Dalrymple died on the 19th of June, 1808, at his houfe in High-ftreet, Marybone, and. was buried in the fmall cemetery adjoining the church. There is no monument to his memory. " Thomas Holcroft, buried Apt Ist 1809." This well-known writer was of Thomas humble origin, having been originally, as it is faid, a flioemaker in the north. Holcroft. Poffeffing great natural endowments, and much induftry, he acquired fuch a knowledge of the modern languages as enabled him to tranflate from them with great facility. He was for fome years a performer in the provincial theatres, and foon after his coming up to London in 1778, he obtained an inferior engagement at Drury Lane-Theatre, but never diftinguifhed himfelf as an aftor; he pro duced feveral pieces for the ftage ; but none that were very fuccefsful except " the Road to Ruin," which had a great run, and ftill continues popular. Mr. Holcroft was author of " Hugh Trevor," and other novels, fome poems, and numerous tranflations from the French and German. He died at his houfe in Clipftone-ftreet, on the 23d of March, 1809, and was buried in the larger cemetery at Marybone; there is no memorial for him. " The Moft Noble William Henry Cavendifh, Duke of Portland, buried Novr 9th William " 1 809." The Duke of Portland was defcended from William Bentinck, a ccn- ve„^ DaJfee fidential fervant of King William III. when Prince of Orange, who, after that of Portland. monarch's acceffion to the throne of England, was created Earl of Portland; his fon was advanced to the Dukedom by King George I. The father of the late Duke became poffeffed of the manor, and a noble property in this parifh, as already mentioned, by his marrying with the heirefs of Edward Earl of Oxford. The late Duke, who, though not a man of brilliant talents, or confpicuous as a public 4 fpeaker, 5&4 MARYBONE. Families of rank. fpeaker, always poffeffed a very confiderable degree of political influence, and was much refpefted and efteemed for his integrity and amiable manners ; held at various times very diftinguifhed public offices, and till within a fhort time before his death was at the head of the adminiftration which was formed in 1807. He had been lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1782; firft lord of the Treafury in 1783 ; fe cretary of ftate forthe home department from 1794 to 1801; and in 1807, a fecond time firft lord of the Treafury. In 1792, he was unanimoufly elefted chancellor of the univerfity of Oxford. The Duke died on the 30th of Oftober, in the 71ft year of his age, ;after having a fecond time -undergone the operation of cutting for the ftone. The Duchefs of Portland (daughter of William Duke of Devonfhire), was buried at Marybone, June 14, 1794. Numerous entries occur in the parifh regifters of the marriages and baptifms of families of rank, who have, or who have had, their town-houfes in this parifh ; a pretty complete lift of them forthe purpofes of reference, will be found in the note n. A charity- only a marriage df that family N. B. Where the letter (m) is prefixed to a name, there is recorded. Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis. Coventry, Earl of Coventry. 'Curzon, Lord Scarfdale. Dawfon, Earlof Portarlington. (m) Dundas, Lord Melville. Erfkine, Lord Erfkine. Elphinftone, Lord Elphinftone. Fane, Earl of Weftmoreland. (m) Finch, Earl of A.ylesford. Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinfter. Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton and Lord Southampton. Fleming, Earl of Wigtown. Foley, Lord Foley. Fortefcue, Earl Fortefcue. Fox, Lord Holland. Frafer, Lord Saltoun. Gordon, Earl of Aboyne. (m) Gower, Marquis of Staf ford. (m.) Hamilton, Earl of Clan- braffil. — . — u^ — Duke of Hamilton. - — Lord Ikerine. Families of the Nobility. Achefon, Vifcount Gofport. Barry, Earl of Ban ymore. Beauclerc, Duke of St. Albans. (m) Bellafyfe, Earl of Faucan- berg. Bennet, Earl of Tankerville. Bentinck, Duke of Portland. (m) Bingham, Earl Lucan. Bouverie, Earl of Radnor. Boyle, Earl of Cork. — - '-¦¦ Earl of Glafgow. (m) Bromley, Lord Montfort. Brydges, Duke of Chandos. (m) Burgh, Earl of Glanricard-. Butler, VifcountMountgarret. Byng, Vifcount Torrington. Campbell, Earl of Breadal- albane. (m) Capel, Earl of Effex. Carlton, Lord Dorchefter. Cathcart, Lord Cathcart. («) Chetwynd, Lord Cbet- ¦wynd. Chichefter, Marquisof Donegal. Cockayne, Vifcount Cullen. Cocks, Lord Somers. Colyer, Earl of Portmofe. (ft) Conway, Marquis of Hert ford. Harley, Earl of Oxford. Hawke, Lord Hawke. Hay, Earl of Errol. Hervey, Earl of -Briftol. \m) Hill, Marquis of Down- fhire. Hobart, Earl of Buckingham- fhire. (m) Hood, Vifcount Bridport, (m) Hope, Earl of Hopetown. Howard, Earl of Carlifle. Irby, Lord Bofton. Keppel, Earl of Albemarle. ICerr, Marquis of Lothian. ¦King, Lord King. (m) Lambert Earl of Cavan. Legge, Earl of Dartmouth. Leflie, Countefs of Rothes. ^m) Lindfay, Earl of Balcarras. Luttrell, Earl of Carhampton, Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton. Macdonald, Lord Macdonald. Maffey, Lord Maffey. (m) Maynard, Vifcount May- nard. Monkton, Vifcount Galway. (m) Monfon, Lord Monfon. Montague, Duke ofManchefter. ¦ — Vifcount Montague. *Earl of Sandwich. (m) Montgomery, Earl of Eg- lingtown. (m) Murray, Duke of Athol. Vifcount Stormont and Earl of Mansfield. North, Earl of Guildford. Olmius, MARYBONE. 56$ A charity-fchool was inftituted in this parifli in the year 1750, for inftrufting, jr^'ty" clothing and putting out apprentice the children of the induftrious poor. In Olmius, Lord Waltham. Onflow, Earl Onflow. Paget, Earl of Uxbridge. Parker, Earl of Macclesfield. Peachey, Lord Selfey. Perceval, Earl of Egmont. Percy, Earl of Beverley. Phipps, Lord Mulgrave. Ponfonby, Earl of Befborough. Powis, Lord Lilford. Powlett, Earl Powlett. ¦ Earl of Wiltfhire. Proby, Earl Carysfort. Rice, Lord Dinevor, Rodney, Lord Rodney. Rous, Lord Rous. Ruffel, Duke of Bedford. St. John, Lord St. John. (m) Sandys, Lord Sandys. Semple, Lord Semple. (m) Seymour, Dukeof Somerfet. Shirley, Earl Ferrers. Somerville, Lord Somerville. (ot) Stanhope, Earl of Har rington. Earl Stanhope. (m) Stapleton, Lord Le De- fpencer, Stewart, Earl of Galloway. (m) Strangeways, Earl of II- chefter. Thynne, Marquis of Bath. Tollemache, Earl of Dyfart. Townfhend, Marquis Townf- hend, and Earl of Leicefter. Tracy, Vifcount Tracy. (m) Tufton, Earl of Thanet. Tumour, Earl of Winterton. Twifleton, Lord Say and Sele. (m) Vane, Vifcount Vane. (ot) Vaughan,Earl of Lifbourn. Waldegrave, Earl of Walde- grave. Lord Radftock. Walpole, Lord Walpole. Ward, Lord Dudley and Ward. (ot) Wenman, Vifc. Wenman. Weft, Earl of Delawar. (ot) Wynne.LordNewborough. Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke. Vol. II. Baronets' Families. Miller. -, Abdy. Milner. (m) Affleck. (m) Mordaunt. (m) Alfton. Murray. Apreece. Nefbitt. Armytage. (m) Orde. (ot) Aftley. Pefhall. (ot) Bacon. Reade. Barker. Rich. Baffet. Ridley. (ot) Bowyer, Rumbold. Boynton. (ot) Shaw. Brifcoe. (ot) St. Clair. Burrell. (ot) Skipwith. (ot) Calder. Stewart. Clavering, Sutton. Clerke. Tancred. Clifton. (ot) Taylor. Cooke. (ot) Tempeft. Copley. Temple. Cunyngham. Thorold. Dallas. Turner. Dalrymple. Twyfden. Dafhwood. Tyrrel. Davie. Wallace. Dering. Webfter. Dryden. Williams. (ot) Duff. Worfley. Erfkine. The following entries of bu (ot) Evelyn. rials of peers, peereffes, and ba Ford. ronets occur, of whofe families Goodrick. there appears to be no other re Hamond. cord in the regifter. Heathcote. Frances Countefs of Mar, May gi Henderfon. 1761. Hickman. John Earl of Caithnefs, Ap. 13, (m) Hofkyns. 1789. Ifham. Frances Lady Annaley, Au Knowles. guft 16, 17.94. Lake. Sarah Lady Ballenden, Nov. 29, Langham. I7<34- Lawley. Lady Dufferin and Claneboyej Leigh. Feb. 18, 1807. (ot) Lloyd SirC Innis, Bart. Ap. 12,1768: Lufhington. SirJ. Spring, Bart.Aug.25, 1 769; Mackworth. Lady Spring, Jan. 5, 1776. Manners. Sir George Francis Hampfon, (ot) Mannock. Dec. 28, 1774. Martin. Sir Samuel Hannay, Bart. De- Mawbey. cember23> 1790. 4D the $66 MARYBONE. the year 1754, the then Countefs Dowager of Oxford, granted the fite of the prefent fchool-houfe, in High-ftreet, for a long term, at a pepper-corn rent. The houfe was then built by fubfeription. Ten girls were at that time wholly maintained, and 30 boys and 10 girls clothed and educated. In 1793 there were 38 girls and 50 boys (educated and wholly maintained) in the fehool ; in 1795 they were increafed to 42 girls and 52 boys; the prefent number is 50 girls, and 50 boys ; the latter are about to be increafed to 56. The chil dren are employed in fuch a manner as enures them to habits of induftry, and is moft likely to be ferviceable to them in their future lives. The produce of their labours, which in 1809 was 232I. 8s. id., enables the truftees of the fehool to ex tend its utility. A brief account of the rife and progrefs of this charity has been annually printed; by the ftatement of 1809, it appears that it has a fund of ioool. in the 3 per cents, arifing from the donations of various per fons7*. Mr. William Huddle, in 1753, bequeathed a houfe in Caftle-ftreet (for an unexpired term of 69 years). Mr. Thomas Gaff, in iyy6, gave a rent- charge of 2I. 2s. during an unexpired term of forty one years ; Richard Bal- fliaw Efq., in 1784, gave a coach-houfe and offices in Brianftone Mews, and a houfe in Conway-court. The houfes and other premifes belonging to the charity are now let at 82I. 10s. per annum. The annual fubfeription in 1809 was 9761. 4s. Colleftions are occafionally made at the chapels : they amounted in 1809 to 712I. 2S. 2d. i752> *755> i759>1761, 1764,1767,1768, 1770, »773« *773> i774» i777» J78o» 74 The principal donors were: £ Mr. John Reynolds, by legacy, - 50 Mr. John Packer, - jo Mr. William Brooks, - - - - 50 Mrs. Bridget Bridgman, ... 50 Mrs. Elizabeth Goodere, - - - 180 Mr. Gardes, . - - - - - 50 William Morehead Efq. ... 100 Mrs. Sufanna Willings, ... jo Mrs. Webb, - 100 Mrs. Trimmell, by gift, on con- 1 dition of paying her el. per ( 100 annum during her life, 3 John Dupree Efq. by donation, - - 63 Mrs. Anne Mayuard; by legacy, - 50 Lady Delamere, --.... 200 John Allen Efq. - - - - - 100 Mr. William Lovejoy, mafter of T the charity-fchool, a refiduary f 1 20 legacy, J John Dupree Efq: by legacy, - - 105 Mr. Samuel Smith, co £ 50 150 5° zoo3T5 IOO 200' 50 1 78 1, Mrs. Margaret Fauquier, - - 1784. Richard Balfhaw Efq. - - - 1785, George Burnfall Efq. - - Mrs. Leonara Hale, - - - - 1788, Mrs. Margaretta Anna Adams, 1790, Mrs. Sufanha Trinquand, - - 1791, John Chriftopher Zumpe Efq. - 1792, William Shefford Efq. 1798, Mrs. Elizabeth Goddard, by legacy, 100 1799. Mrs. Martha Ladbroke, by le gacy, ---..__ 80I. 15s. 1800, Hon. Mrs, Blundell, by legacy, - r0 1802, Mrs. Mary Dover, by legacy, - - 200 1803, Dr. Bagot, Bifhop of St. Afaph, by legacy, 5Q 1804, Mr. Charles Heath, -0 1807, Thomas Ward Efq. by legacy, - 100 1 809, Admiral Nugent, by various donations, 61 Thomas Robinfon, Efq., by legacy, 200 Lady Trafford, by legacy, - - . IOo Mrs. Catharine Berks, by legacy, - 50 A fehool MARYBONE. s6y A fehool of induftry, in which are 300 children, was eftablifhed in Paradife- ftreet in theyear 1791 ; it is fupported by voluntary contributions, charity-fer. mons, and the profits of the children's earnings : the boys are employed in plat ting ftiaw; the girls both in that and needle-work. The Middlefex hofpital, inftituted in 1745, for fick and lame, and lying-in Middlefex married women, is in this parifli. When firft erefted it ftood infulatedin the opxa." •fields. The number of perfons relieved by this charity (including out-patients), from its firft inftitution to, the 31ft of December 1793, were 86,8 10; the number of married women delivered, 9,986. Through the munificence of an unknown benefactor 7S, an eftablifhment was provided in this hofpital in the year 1792 for perfons affiifted with cancer. His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales is patron, and the Duke of Northumberland prefident of the Middlefex hofpital. From the inadequacy of its funds to the increafing expences, this excel lent eftablifhment has of late been in danger of being annihilated ; the number of its patients having been for feveral years neceffarily more and more diminifhed ; the whole number of in-patients admitted during eight years, beginning with 1801, was 4519; the number for the year 1801 was 6y$, that for 1808 only 461. The eftablifhment has been relieved from its embarraffments bythe very liberal produce ofa benefit at the Opera-houfe; but the more enlarged ufefulnefs of which it is capable can be obtained only by a confiderable increafe of the an nual fubferiptions. On the north fide of Oxford-road, near Stratford-place, were fome ancient Ancient con- conduits belonging to the city of London. Near th: m ftood the Lord Mayor's ing to the"g" banqueting-houfe, whither the city-officers ufed to refort whert they went to city of Lon- view the conduits. It was pulled down in 1737, when the fprings were arched Lord May- over 76. , , or's banquet- * . ing houfe. The parifh of Marybone is governed by a feleft veftry, and is extremely Government well regulated, for which it is much indebted to the late Bifliop Harley, who of the Panih- was many years curate, and exerted all his intereft in procuring the afts of par liament, by which thefe regulations are confirmed and eftablifhed. A very fpa- cious and commodious workhoufe was built in the year 1775. Near the fame fite is a large parochial infirmary, built a few years ago. Both together are ca pable of containing 1200 perfons. The average number pf paupers in both, in 1805, was 1035; in 1809, 1165. The public place of execution for criminals convifted in the county of Middle- % Place of exe- fex was formerly in the parifh of Marybone, at the end of Park-lane, not far " This perfon gave the fum of 400I. for fitting and 4000I 3 per cent, cqnfol. as the ground work up a ward capable of containing 10 or 12 beds, of its endowment. '6>Maitland's Hiftory of London, 1739. 4 D 2 from $6$ MARYBONE. from Tybourn-turnpike ". There fuffered the infamous Catherine Hayes, fori the murder of her hufband (in this parifli), which was attended with circuraftances of uncommon atrocity. It is recorded in a well-known ballad, beginning, " In Ty- Catherine " bourn-road there liv'd a man." Catherine Hayes fuffered the utmoft feverity of her fentence, being literally burnt alive, in confequence (as it. was faid) of the indignation of the populace, who would not fuffer the executioner to ftrangle her (as was ufual) before the fire was kindled. 77 Hence the gallows was called Tybourn-tree ; and exemptions, is ftill known by the name ofa and the ticket which On the convi&ion of a cri- Tybourn ticket. minal entitles the profecutor to certain privileges [ 5^9 ] NEWINGTON-STOKE. TN ancient records, this place is called Newtone, or Neweton, that is, the new Name and ¦*¦ town. The word Stoke (from the Saxon Stoc, a wood) frequently occurs, etymo °sy' either in the name of a parifli, or, as in the prefent inftance, a difcriminating addition. I find it prefixed to this place as early as the 1 5th century \ New- court fays, that it was fometimes called Neweton Canonicorum, from its connec tion with the chapter of St. Paul's. Stoke-Newington lies in the hundred of Of- situation, fulfton, at the diftance of above three miles north of London. The parifli is boundaries, extent 6c c* bounded by Hornfey, Iflington, Hackney, and Tottenham. It contains about 550 acres 2 of land, 1 8 of which are occupied by market . gardeners ; the remainder, almoft wholly meadow and pafture. About 120 cows are kept in this parifli. The foil on the fouth fide of the parifh is gravelly, on the north, clay. The New-river takes a very circuitous courfe through this parifh. New-river. The manor of Newington was part of the ancient demefnes of St. Paul's cathe- -pne manor< dral. " In Newtone, fays the record of Domefday, the canons of St. Paul's hold two hides, being two plough-lands and a half, all in culture. There are four vilians and ^y cottars of 10 acres. This manor was valued at 40s. per annum in the Confeffor's time, and when the furvey was taken, it was, and is, fays the record, parcel of the demefnes of St Paul's." The manor of Newington has, from time immemorial, been the corps of a prebend 3 in that cathedral. It is ' Regift. Dec. & Cap. St. Paul. the late Henrietta Laura Lady Bath, a farm of 2 It appears by a terrier of lands (in the parifh- 60 acres. books) dated 1637, that there were 447 acres of 3 The following is a lift of the moft diftin- land in Newington befides woodlands, which guifhed perfons who have held this corps, with were then about 100 acres. At this time the the dates of their collation, and the higheft pre- parifh was divided between fix proprietors ; Sir ferment which they afterwards attained : — Gil- Francis Popham (leffee under the prebendary) bert Foliot, Bilhop of London, before 1139; had 236 acres befides his woodlands (near 80 Henry deWengham Bifhop of London, and fome more) ; Mr. Stephens, 74 acres ; Mr. Terry, time Lord High Chancellor, 1252 ; Ralph de 65 ; Mr. Corbett, 20 ; Captain Maffey, 36 ; the Baldock, Bifhop of London, and lord Chancellor reftor's glebe, 16. The number of landholders (about 1294) ; John de Everdon, Baron, and is now about 14. The principale ftate (exclufively afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer (about »f the demefne lands) is that which belonged to the fame time); John de Sandale, Bifhop of Win chefter S7o NEWINGTON. is probable that the prebendaries held it formerly in their own hands. The firft leffee who occurs upon record is William Patten Efq. (great nephew of the founder of Magdalen College) who renewed his leafe with Thomas Penny (then prebendary) in 15604. A few years afterwards (in 1565) Mr. Patten obtained another leafe from the fame prebendary for 99 years, to commence from 1575. This leafe he affigned in the year 1571 to John Dudley Efq. who died in 1580, leaving a widow, afterwards married to Thomas Sutton, founder of the Charter- houfe, and one daughter Anne, who, during the mother's life, were joint pro prietors of the manor 5. Anne Dudley married Sir Francis Popham, Knt. whofe fon Alexander purchafed the fee-fimple of the manor, when the church lands were fold in 16496. At the Reftoration, the church recovered its rights, Mr. Popham reverted to his former ftate of leffee, and Penny's leafe (which was granted before the reftraining aft of Queen Elizabeth) being nearly expired, ob tained a frefh leafe for three lives, renewable according to the ufual tenure of church leafes7. In 1669, Alexander, fon of Sir Francis Popham, K. B. and grandfon of Colonel Alexander Popham, above-mentioned, fold his intereft in the then exifting leafe, to Thomas Gunfton Efq., whg died the next year. His lifter Mary, who inherited this manor as refiduary legatee, married Sir Thomas Abney, fome time Lord Mayor of London. After the deceafe of Mrs. Elizabeth chefter, and Lord Chancellor (about 1314) ; Roger de Northburgh, Bilhop of Lichfield and Coventry, Lord Keeper, and Lord Treafurer (about 1316); John Langton, Bifhop of St. David's (1428); William Dudley; Bifhop of Durham (1471) ; Hugh , Lloyd, an eminent grammarian ( 1584) ; Bifhop Stillingfleet ( 1672 ); and Archbifhop Tillotfon (1689) ; the prefent prebendary is the Rev. Thomas Briggs," M.A. collated in 1802. * Cart. Ant. pen. Dec. & Cap. St. Paul, No. 1446. The term of years is not fpecified in this leafe, nor that of the former leafe which is therein mentioned. s Mr. Dudley bequeathed all his goods and chattels (among which was this manor, being a leafehold for term of years,) equally between his -wife and daughter. 6 It was purchafed for the fumof 1925I 4s. 6jd.- the yearly value being 474I. 15s. oid. over and above the referved rent, which was then 19I. Par liamentary Surveys, and Particulars of Sale, in St. Paul's Cathedral. ' This leafe, dated 1661, was for the lives of his three, fons, Sir Francis, Alexander, and George. Sir Francis dying in 1674, the life of his only fon Alexander (then a minor) was put in ; on the death of George Popham, the life of Anne, wife of the laft-mentioned Alexander, was put in : after the alienation of the manor from the Popham family, Mr. Gunfton (the old leafe being cancelled) procured a new leafe, in 1700, for the lives of himfelf, aged 32, his filler Mary, (afterwards Lady Abney) aged 24, and John Gunfton, merchant, aged 40 ; upon Mr. Gunfton's death in 1721, the life of Edward Abney Efq. aged 20, fon of Sir Thomas Abney by a former wife,) was put in ; on his death in 1716", Sarah Abney, aged 13 (daughter of Sir Thomas by Mary Gunfton) ; on John Gunfton's death about 1729, Mary Abney, younger filler of Sarah; on the death of Mary in 1732, Thomas Aftiurft, citizen of London ; on the death of Sarah (Abney) wife of Jocelyn Pic- kard Efq. in 173R, Elizabeth Abney's life was put in ; on the death of Lady Abney in 1750, Thomas Abney Efq.; on the death of Mr. Afhurft in 1765, Thomas Streatfield. When Mr. Eade purchafed the eftate, he obtained a new leafe for the lives of himfelf and his two fons. Abney, NEWINGTON. sy'i Abney, their only furviving child, who died unmarried, at the age of 78, in 1782, the .leafe of this manor was fold, purfuant to her will (in 1783), and purchafed by Jonathan Eade Efq. who is the prefent leffee, and as fuch lord of the manor. The demefne lands are 325 acres, or thereabouts, which, with the manerial pro fits, produced in 1783 an income of 826I. 4s.8 The referved rent to the prenbedary is 2 81. per annum. The lord of the manor holds a court-leet, and court-baron. The ancient manor-houfe was pulled down in 1695, an<^ tne ^te ^et upon Manor- building leafes by virtue ofa licence from the prebendary of Newington, and the houfe- dean and chapter of St. Paul's, for that purpofe v. Thomas Sutton, founder of Thomas the Charter-houfe, refided occafionally in this manfion, after he married Sutton- Mr. Dudley's widow io. I think it probable that, previoufly to her fecond mar riage, fhe let it to the Earl of Leicefter, a relation of her former hufoand. The Earl °f ^ei- arms of Dudley, with an earl's coronet, and the order of the garter, were taken fome time ago from a houfe on the fite of the manerial refidence. As an additional confirmation of the conjefture that the Earl of Leicefter refided at Newington, it may be mentioned that a fervant of his lady, the Countefs of Effex, was buried there, Oft. 24, 1582 ". Mr. Gunfton, during the fliort time he poffeffed this manor, built a new houfe at a very confiderable expence, and died juft as it was finifhed 12, which occafioned a funeral poem by Dr. Watts, Dr. Watts. publifhed in his Horse Lyricas. This eminent divine, who firft refided in this parifli as tutor to Sir John Hartopp's children, fpent the laft 30 years of his life in Lady Abney 's houfe at Newington, where he died on the 25th of November. 1748 "3. This houfe, though no part of the demefnes, has continued to be the manerial refidence. Among the eminent and remarkable inhabitants of this place, who will not Eminent in- be elfewhere noticed, may be mentioned the celebrated Daniel Defoe, who re- lj?bl*a,nti; J . Daniel De- fided here about the year 17 10 I4 ; Dr. Anderfon, the commercial writer 1S ; James foe. Burgh, author of political difquifitions and other works ; Thomas Day, author Pr' Ander- of Sandford and Merton, and other publications l6 ; and the late celebrated John Thomas Day. Howard '?. To thefe may be added, Thomas Cooke Efq., a very eccentric cha- J°fn ¦How" rafter, of whom, as his name is not fo well known, it may be neceffary to fay a Thomas few words. During his refidence at Conftantinople as a merchant, he contri- fin°^uia'r \a. rafter. 8 Hiftory of Stoke-Newington, by James ll Hiftory of Stoke-Newington, p. 25. Brown Efq. publifhed in the Bibliotheca Topo- " Ibid. p. 26. graph. Brit. No. XIV. p. 67. " Harl. MSS No. 7001. ? Ibid. p. 70. " From the information of James Brown Efq. 10 Biograph. Brit. ,6 Ibid. " Parifh regifter, " Ibid. buted st* NEWINGTON. Parifh church. John Dud ley's monu ment. buted in a very munificent manner to the relief of Charles XII. King of Sweden, then a prifoner in Turkey, arid raifed a large fum towards his liberation, by a fcheme of exporting copper from Sweden, for which he procured the King's licence18. His connection with this parifli was occafioned by his marriage with one of Sir Nathaniel Gould's daughters I5. He refided at Newington from the time of his return to England till his death, which happened on the 12th of Auguft 1752. In the month of February preceding, he fent a note of icool. to the governors of the bank, requefting that it might be diftributed among the clerks in the proportion of a guinea for every year that each perfon had been in their fervice 20. Mr. Cooke was buried, purfuant to his will, near Morden Col lege on Blackheath. His corpfe was placed upright in the ground, covered only with a winding fheet ; the coffin in which it was conveyed to the place of inter ment was left for the firft penfioner it would fit. His funeral was attended by twelve poor men, members of a club at Newington ; to each of whom he be queathed a guinea and a fuit of clothes, on condition of keeping himfelf fober. If any one tranfgreffed this condition he was to forfeit his legacy, and onbyreceive 2s. 6d. for his day's work ". The parifli church dedicated to St. Mary, confifts of a chancel, nave, and two aifles.. It was repaired, or (as Stow fays) " rather new builded," in 1562, by William Patten Efq. leffee of the manor. Over the north door is the date, with thefe words, Ab alto, Over the door of a chapel on the fame fide are Mr. Patten's, arms and initials. The church was confiderably enlarged in I7i6and 1723". In the year 1806, it underwent a thorough repair, the outfide was ftuccoed with Parker's cement, the infide decorated and newly paved, and an organ erefted, at the expence altogether of about 2500I. The eaft window is ornamented with painted > glafs, reprefenting the Virgin Mary ; the birth and preaching of St. John the Bap tift ; the Levitical purification after childbirth ; and the giving of alms ; purchafed out of a colleftion imported from the continent, by Jonathan Eade Efq., and by him prefented to the parifh in 1806. On the fouth wall of the chancel is a marble monument, fupported by pillars of the Corinthian order, to the memory of John Dudley Efq-23, who died in 1580. His effigies (in armour), and that of his wife (afterwards married to Thomas Sutton Efq. founder ofthe Gharterhoufe ",¦ are reprefented in kneeling attitudes. lB From the information of James Brown Efq. 19 Hiftory of Stoke-Newington, p. 32. 20 Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid, p. 9. 23 John Dudley was the fon of the Hon. ThomasDudley, grandfon of Edmund LordDud- ley, and great-grandfdn of Sir John Sutton, Lord Dudley, K. G. 34 An infcription placed on the monument when reftored as mentionedin the next page,denoteBthat Elizabeth, heretofore the widow of John Dud ley NEWINGTON. 57% attitudes. Underneath are fome Latin verfes, for which the writer was paid ios. as appears by the roll of Mr. Dudley's funeral expences *s. This monument has lately been repaired and reftored by a fubfeription of " feveral prelates and other " perfons educated at Charter-houfe School." On the north wall of the chancel is a very handfome monument (by Banks) to the memory of Sir John Hartopp, Bart. 26 who died in 1762 ; Sarah Lady Har topp, 1730; Jofeph Hurlock Efq., 1793, and his wife Sarah (daughter of Sir John Hartopp), 1766. This monument, which is ornamented with an elegant fe male figure, of white marble, reclining on an urn, was put up at the expence of Anne, wife of Edmund Craddock Hartopp, of Four-oaks Hall, in Warwickfhire, daughter of Jofeph and Sarah Hurlock, and fole heirefs of the (Newington branch of the) Hartopps. On the eaft wall of the north aifle is the monument of John Taverner, reftor of Newington, and profeffor of mufic in Grelham College, who died in 1638. On the north wall is a neat marble tablet to the memory of Mr. Stephen Tyers, 1790, and Anne his wife, 1792 ; " they lived $y years together in con- •* jugal felicity." On the floor of the nave is the graveftone of Dr. Samuel Wright *7, with the following infcription : " M.S. V. R. Samue.is Wright, S. T.P. qui agro Ebo- " racenfi ortus, ac difciplinis liberalibus bene inftitutus, facrum fuum munus rure Monument of the Hartopp* and Hur- locks. Various mo numents. Dr. Wright'* epitaph. ley Efq. and afterwards the wife of Thomas Sut ton Efq. was buried under that tomb the 1 6th of June A.D. 1602. *s Printed in the fecond volume of the Bibl. Topograph. Britan. from a MS. roll in the col lection of the Earl of Leicefter, (now Marquis Townfhend). The following extract affords a good fpecimen of the magnificence of a funeral feaft: £ s. J. " Three barrells bere, - - - - o 13 o " Strong bere, one barrell dim. - o 12 9 " Claret wyne, one hoggfhead, -450 " Sack, mufcadell, and malmfey, « 10 gall, -------ioo " Rennifh wyne, two gallons, -054 " Floure for pies and bread, thirty- . " two bufh. -.----3160 " For bacon, and other cates and " neceffaries, ------ 6154 " To the powlter, -----9136 " To the butcher, ----- 12 6 6 " To Mr. Haines for frefhe fifhe 250 Vol. If. 4E £1 d. o 78 8 4 8 «' To a fifherman for 4 pikes, " Spice, ---.--..4 " One brawne, ..... 1 '* One firkin of fturdgeon, - - 1 " Two boxes of waffers, - - o " Two gallons of muftarde, - - o *' Three gallons and half of creme, o " To a mafter coke, fix under- " cokes, and ten turn-broaches, .334 " To the draper for blackes, 166 e o" One hundred and five perfons were put in mourning, for which tbe quantity of cloth was 300 yards and a half. Among the leagacies left by Mr. Dudley was a cup to the Earl of Leicefter, value iool. ! 26 The title became extinft by his death : there are numerous entries in the parifh regifter relating to the Hartopp family, of which a co pious pedigree is printed in the 9th number of the Bibliothec. Topograph. Brit. ' See p. J 80. fufcepit, 574 NEWINGTON. Alderman Pickett's family tomb. Melancholy fate of Mifs Pickett. Reftory. Thomas Manton. " fufcepit, deinde Londinum profeftus, brevi temporis fpatio ita fe probavit, ut " ecclefiae Prefoyterianae paftor eligeretur, cui per annos ofto et triginta pari dir " ligentia. et felicitate prscfuit, multigense autem doftrine eas naturae dotes ha- " buit adjunftas, ut in facris adminiftrandis (quae fummo decore femper prse- " ftabat), mentes auditorum attentas reddere fibique, facile conciliare poffet ; ad " recondita etiam Sacrarum literarum fenfa eruenda eximia facultate praeditus " erat, viteeque Chriftianae virtutibus confpicuus. At defeffus tandem labore, " acerbifque doloribus quos fortiter pertulit, corpus hie fepeliri jubens, in Chrifto " placide obdormivit ; Non. April. A. D. 1 746, set. fuse 64." In the nave alfo is the graveftone of Mrs. Sophia Standerwick (grand-daughter of Daniel Defoe), who died Oft. 26, 1787, aged 62. The moft remarkable tomb in the church-yard is that of the late Al derman Pickett's family. It was erefted by the alderman in memory of his father and mother : it commemorates alfo the melancholy and untimely fate of his daughter Elizabeth, who died Dec. 11, 1781, " in confequence of her *' clothes taking fire the preceding evening." The infcription adds, " Reader, " if ever you fhould witnefs fuch an afflifting fcene, recolleft that the only ** method to extinguifh the flame is to ftifle it by an immediate covering." Al derman Pickett, who is known to the public as the projeftor and promoter of the plan for widening the ftreets to the weft of Temple-bar, was buried in the family vault at Stoke-Newington, Dec. 24th, 1796. The church of this place is a reftory in the peculiar jurifdiction of the dean and chapter of -St. Paul's and in the patronage of the prebendary of Newington30. The reftor has a glebe of 1 8 acres, being the only freehold land in the parifh 3r. The reftory .was valued at 10 marks per ann. in 1366 3% and in 1650 at 54I. 17s. 33; in the king's hooks it is rated at iol. Dr. Sidrach Simpfon, reftor of Newington, who died in 1704, gave to the ufe of his fucceffors a copyhold meffuage and about three acres of land in New ington, which in 1794 was let at 60I. per annum. His fucceffor Dr. Millington, who died in 1728, bequeathed two-thirds of the profits of certain lands in Afton (now about 24I. per annum 34) to the reftor of this parifh for the time being, as an encouragement for his reading public prayers every day in the parifh church. ¦ Thomas Manton, who was appointed to this living by the committee for plun dered minifters on the fequeftration of William Heath, was, if we may believe -30 Newcourt. 31 Hiftory of Newington. 32 Lamb. MSS. Lib. Regift. Langham. liam de Grulling was then reftor. Wil- 35 Parliamentary Surveys. 34 See p. 530,531. Wood's NEWINGTON. 575 Wood's account, a complete vicar of Bray. At firft he was a zealous Prefby terian, took the covenant, and frequently preached before the long parliament, When the independents were in power he joined their party; made a flattering fpeech to Oliver Cromwell when he took upon him the title of Proteftor ; and at hisfon's inauguration officiated as prelate of the protectorate, faidprayers, and gave him his bleffing. At the Reftoration he fo far ingratiated himfelf with King Charles II. that he made him one of his chaplains ; and is faid to have defigned him a deanery, had he complied with the aft of uniformity 3S. Dr. Manton died Oft. 18, 1677, and was buried at Newington. His works were very voluminous, confifting chiefly of fermons, and expofitions of fcripture. He refigned this reftory in 1656, when the parifhioners proceeded to the eleftion of another minifter ; but it was nearly a year before any fucceffor was fettled : at length Daniel Bull was unanimoufly chofen 3% and received his appointment from the Lord Proteftor November 25, 1657 37. 35 Ant. Wood, vol. i. 36 The whole proceedings are thus entered in the veftry-book : " Ordered, That on Whitfun Monday the pa- " rifh meete to choofe a minifter, if Mr. Hick- " man this weeke return not an anfwer, to accept " a cale from us, and then to meete next Lord's " daye." " At a veftre houlden the 2d of June 1656, att " Stoke-Newington, the inhabitants under-writ- *' ten have made an unanimous cboyce of " Mr. Thomas Froyfcll to fucceed Mr. Thomas " Manton, to officiate as minifter of this place. " Witnefs our hands, &c. &c." "Ordered, May 19, 1657, That the election " of a minifter be fufpended untill the 2d of June " 1657 next. In the mean time if Mr. Ford re- " ceave fatisfaftion that he can accept of the " cale he had from us, and come to fit downe " with us as our paftor, then to proceed noe far, " ther with any ; but if he cannot, then if f Mr. Hickman can -come we doe accept of him ; " but both within the faid time, or eMe to looke " out elfewhere as God fhall direft us." " Aug. 17, 1657. Agreed, unanimoufly, That " in cafe noe poflative acceptance of our former " cale of Mr. Froyfell come this day to the " churchwarden's hand, that then' Mr. Thomas " Willes be prefented to the Lord Prote&or as " one wee judge fitt, and defire may be admitted •' to fucceed Mr. Manton as paftor of this place ; " and unto whom, beinge fettled, and perform- " inge all paftoral offices to the likinge of the " major part of this parifh, wee promife all due " incoridgment, Witnefs, &c. — (N. B. Elefted " after prayers, Mr. Bull, beinge in competition " with him.)" " Aug. 24, 1657. At the meeting then of " moft of the perfons abovefaid with Mr. Willes, " they having promifed to take care that, for the " incoridgeraent of him to be theire paftor, his " maintenance fliall be made certaine in cafe the " augmentation fayle (one way or other), and the " parfonadge-houfe put in repayres ; hee pro- " mifes, by procuring -his fettlement, . and the " utmoft indevors for the augmentation*, to 11 come forthwith to take tlie care and charge of "' them."" Sep. 27, 1657. Att a veftry then holden,, " Mr. Daniel Bull was chofen moft unanimoufly " to fucceed Mr. Manton as. paftor; all others " before chofen having gon off, not being free, " as they tould Newington from time -to time " they were. The whole parifli figned his cale, " fick and poore, good and bad. Witnefs, &c. " &C.&C." 37 Proceedings ofthe Committee^ Lamb. MSS. Lib. vol. xxxiv. p. 2go. * This augmentation, being 40!. per annum, was afterwards granted to him by the Committees. Proceedings of the Com mittees, Lamb. MSS. Lib. vol. xxxi. p. 32 and 5/18. 4E2 It 57* Prefbyterianmeeting-houfe a Newington- green, and its paftors. Richard Bif. coe. Mr. Loveder. Hugh Wor thington. Dr. Price. Dr. Amory. Dr. Towers. Mr. Bar- fa auld. Diffenting meeting-houfe at Newington. Parifh re gifter. NEWINGTON. It appears that Heath was not reinftated before 1662 3S, when it is probable that Bull was ejefted in confequence of the aft of uniformity. The prefent reftor is George Gaflcin, D. D. who in 1797, fucceeded the late Dr. Cooke. provoft of King's College in Cambridge, and dean of Ely. The prefent lefturer is Thomas Sheppard, M. A. The prefbyterian meeting on Newington-green was firft eftablifhed foon after the reftoration; the prefent meeting-houfe was built in 1708 39. Richard Bifcoe, minifter there till the year 1727, conformed to the church of Eng land, and preached the fermons at Boyle's leftures, which he digefted after wards in a work intitled, The Hiftory of the Afts of the Apoftles. Mr. Loveder, a fubfequent minifter at Newington, left that place in 1738, and conformed to the church. He publifhed a volume of fermons in 8vo. The next minifter was Hugh Worthington, M. A. author of feveral charges and fermons. The late celebrated Dr. Price was afterwards, for feveral years, minifter at Newington- green ; whilft he refided there, he was married in Newington-church to Mary Blundell (by banns) June 16, 1757. In 1770, Dr. Thomas Amory, an eminent divine of this perfuafion, and a copious writer, came as morning preacher : he died in 1774. In 1778, the late Dr. Towers, well known to the public by his political and biographical works was affociated with Dr. Price, as morning preacher ; after Dr. Price's removal to Hackney he was appointed afternoon preacher, and retained that fituation till his death, in 1799. Mr. Barbauld, hufband of the lady of that name, who is well known by feveral publications for the ufe of young people, was feveral years one -of the paftors of this meeting ; Mrs. Barbauld ftill continues to refide at Newington-green. The prefent paftor of this meeting is the Rev. Thomas Rees. There is another meeting-houfe belonging to the Diffenters at Stoke-Newington, built about the year 1700. Martin Tomkins, minifter at this place, was difmiffed for Arianifm, about the year 1781, and publifhed his cafe. He wrote alfo on the Doxologies, a work called " Jefus Chrift the Mediator," and fome other trafts. He is fpoken of in Toulmin's preface to his new edition of Neale's Hiftory of the Puritans. John Hill, a fubfequent minifter, publifhed a volume of fermons held in much efteem among the diffenters. The prefent minifter is Mr. George Hodgkirts. The earlieft date ofthe parifh regifter is 1559. 3" Humphrey Alderfey was appointed to col- left Mr. Bull's gratuities, April 15, 1661; and for that fervice was excufed from any other parifh office that year. Another perfon was appointed to colleft, March 3 t, 1662 ; but the appointment wa3 afterwards crofted off. 39 See the account of this meeting-houfe and ita minifters in N° IX. of Bib. Top. Brit. p. 49, 50. 1580 NEWINGTON. 577 Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials 1580 — 1589. — 4A — 4\ 1620 — 1629. — 9£ — l6rV 1680 — 1689. — I2f — 26 l734 — 1743- — »4r* — 391 1780 — 1784. — 24 — 474" 1784 — 1789. — 23 — 43t 1790 — J793- — - 3St — 42t *79S — 1799. — 39t — A2\ 1800 — 1804. — 3* — 42. 1805 — 1809. — 38f" — 40 Comparativeftate of po pulation. The difproportion of the burials to the baptifms, is partly to be attributed to the number of Diffenters who live in this place, and partly to the frequent inter ment of non-parifhioners. The number of houfes in 1794 was about 200; in 1 80 1, according to the returns then made to parliament under the population aft there were 221 ; the rprefent number is about 260. That part of Newington which lies on the eaft fide of the London road is in the parifh of Hackney. In 1563, being a plague year, there were 13 burials at Newington ; the average Plague years. was then about four. In 1593, there were 34 burials, the average being nearly the fame ; in 1603, 65, the average being under 10; in 1625,52; 40 perfons buried that year died of the plague, and their names are marked in the regifter with a red crofs; the average of that period was about 10. In 1665, only 26 burials are entered, but it is clear that, the regifter for that year is inaccurate ; for it appears by the minutes of the veftry 4°, that the plague was very fatal at Newington. Perhaps many perfons were buried in the fields, and therefore not entered in the regifter. Extracts from the Regifter. " My lady of Bath, died Dec. 20, 1561." Margaret, daughter of John Don- Countefs of ington Efq. married firft to Sir Richard Long, Knt. and afterwards to John Bour chier, Earl of Bath, who died in 1560 4I. " Henry Vifcount Bulbeck, fonne to the Right Honourable Edward Vere, Earle Edward.Earl " of Oxford, was borne the 24'h of Febi 1592-3, and chriftened the 31 day of " March." Edward Earl of Oxford, a diftinguifhed wit in the court of Queen Elizabeth, refided fome years at Newington, where, as Norden fays, he Jr.d a very proper houfe. His fon Henry fucceeded to the titles, but inherited a very fmall portion of his anceftors' eftates ; his father having Squandered away the greater part of them to vex Lord Burleigh, whofe daughter he had married. <° A minute in the veftry-book, dated April 1666, ftates that the churchwarden and overfeer had been at great care and trouble, by reafon of the fad vifitation late in the parifh. •>' Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 132. The 578 NEWINGTON. Henry Earl of Oxford. Vernon, Lord of Powys. Family of Sherard. Lord'Cn-ief Juftice Pop ham. Sir Francis .'Popham. The offence, which was thus ftrangely refented, was a refufal on the Lord Trea- furer's part, to exert his intereft in favour of his fon-in-law's friend, the Duke of Norfolk 42. It is probable, that fome vifit of Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Oxford at this place,, or to the Earl of Leicefter, who feems to have refided here alfo, gave name to a walk, ftill called Queen Elizabeth's walk, and occafioned the tradition of her having had a palace at Newington, for which there is not the leaft foundation. Henry Earl of Oxford, whofe birth is here recorded, died without iffue at the fiege of Breda, in 1625 43. " Edward Broadhurft, fervant to Sr Richard Drury, receiving his death's " wound in fight at Stamford-hill, died at the Wyne-tavern, and was buried the " 26 of Feb. 1599." " Thomas Chambers, a gentleman of the Temple, was killed in fight at Stam- " ford-hill, and buried the 13th of July 1606." *' Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Sutton Efq. "4, to whom the rialtie and patronage " of this parifh 4S did belonge, was buried the 17 of June 160.2." ' u Sir William Varnam, called the Ld of Powys, died at Mrs More's, and was " buried the 27 of July 1606." Collins fays, that Thomas Vernon of Stockfey, by his wife Anne, daughter and co-heir of John Ludlow, by his wife Elizabeth .Graye, daughter and fole heir of Richard Lord of Powis, had a fon ( 'Henry ) who ftiled himfelf Lord Powis, and died without iffue in 1 606 46. " Bennet, the fonne of Mr. William Shererd, was chriftened Dec. 18, 1621. " Philip, .Nov. 17, 1623." William Sherard was knighted at Oatlands, July 3, 1622. In the year 1627, he was created Baron Sherard of Leitrim in Ireland. His fon Bennet fucceeded to that tide. Philip was anceftor to the prefent Earl of Harborough. " Edward Ld Mandeville, Baron of Kimbolton 47, and Lady Anne Rich, daughter " to the Earle of Warwick, married July 1, 1626.*' " Sr Francis Popham, Krf, buried Aug. 15, 1624." Son of Sr John Popham, Lord Chief Juftice of the Queen's Bench, who refided at Newington 48. Sir Francis fat in the laft parliament of Queen Elizabeth, and in all thofe of King James and Charles I He was a zealous oppofer of King Charles ; to whom he became fo obnoxious, that he was among thofe excepted out of the general 1,2 Royal and Noble -Authors, vol. i. p. 143. 43 Dugdale, vol. i p. 200. M Founder of the Charter-houfe. Mrs. Sutton Was widow of J. Dudley Efq. See p. 570. , 45. It feems by this entiry, made by the then in cumbent, that the advowfon was leafed with the ifnanor to William Patten, under whom Mrs. Sutton claimed. — There- are tfio registers ofthe dean and chapter of that date» either to confirm or contradift the conjecture. 46 Peerage, edit. 1768, vol. vii. p. 618. 47 After-ward's Earl of Manchester. He had five wives ; of whom Lady Anne Rich, 'daughter of Robert Earl of Warwick, was the fecond. 48 Harl. MSS, No. 1551. pardon NEWINGTON. 579 pardon offered by that Prince. Sir Francis married Anne, only daughter of John Dudey Efq. of this place. His fecond fon Alexander was a man of confiderable Col. Alexan- note during the civil war. He fat in moft of the parliaments during that period ; he was a commiflioner for martial law in 1644 j °ne of the council of ftate in. 1 649 ; a member of Cromwell's houfe of lords ; in the council of ftate again in 1659 and 1660 ; and in the former year one ofthe army committee. At the Re ftoration he not only made his peace, but was much careffed by King Charles If. who vifited him at his feat in Wiltfhire during one of his progreffes. Col. Popham died, in 1669, and was buried at Chilton-Foliot in Wilts49. Many entries relating to the Popham family occur in the parifh regifter at Newington. " Lieut. Col. Maffey was buried the 12 of September, in the year 1649.''' It Col. Maffey. is probable that this was the fame perfon who was an aftive officer for the parhV ment, and governor of Gloucefter. " Benoni, the fon of Colonel John Lilburn, his birth-day on the 7th of April in j0hn Lil- " the year of our Lord God 1654." Lilbourn's principal refidence was at Eltham, bourn. where he died in the month of Auguft 1657 5°. " Bridget Fleetwood, buried Sep. 5, 168,1." The eldeft daughter of Oliver General Cromwell. She was firft married to General Ireton, and after his death Fleetwood. to General Fleetwood, a very diftinguifhed charafter during the protectorate of his father-in-law. He was lord deputy of Ireland from 1651 to 1654,, After the death of Cromwell he became head of the Republican party in the army, and may be faid to have poffeffedj for a fliort time, the fupreme au thority. Upon the Reftoration, he was fortunate enough, through the intereft, as it is faid, of the Earl of Lichfield SI, to efcape with his fife and liberty, being permitted to .retire to his houfe at ,Stpke-Newington, where he fpent the remainder of his days in privacy among his friends52. Fleetwood, and his fon-in-law Sir John Hartopp, were heavily fined for non-conformity in the reign of James II. i3 General Fleetwood died in 1692, and was buried in Bunhill fields. His houfe at Newington was inhabited for many years by his defendants the Hartopps and Hurlocks. It is now a ladies' hparding-fchool, in rfie occupation of Mifs Jeffreys. Many other entries relating to the Fleetwood family occur in the parifh regifter, as may be feen in the copious pedigrees, printed in fhe Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. " Frances, wife of Sr Nathaniel Gould, buried Nov. 28, 171 1." Sir Nathaniel Gould, who married a daughter of Sir John Hartopp, refided at Newington, in 49 Noble's Memoirs of the Cromw.ells, vol,i. 5I Noble's Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. ii. p. 408 — 410. p. 360. 60 Biographia Britannica. ' 52 Neale's Hiftory of the Puritans, vol. '11,^.^24, '3 Noble, vol. ii, p. 361. a new 580 NEWINGTON. a new houfe which he had built adjoining the ancient manfion of the Fleetwoods and Hartopps. This houfe was for many years the refidence of Baron Perrott, and is now in the tenure of Mrs. Robley. Sir Nathaniel Gould, who was an eminent Turkey merchant, is fuppofed to have been the author ofa pamphlet en titled " An Effay oil the Public Debts of this Kingdom, 1726." Wr'iShTUel " Samuel Wrigtu-, D. D. buried April 10, 1746." Dr. Wright, fon of Mr. James Wright, a nonconformift minifter at Redford in Nottinghamfhire, was a very eminent divine among the Prefbyterians. He was many years paftor of a congregation in Blackfriers, and afterwards at the meeting-houfe in Carter-lane, which was built for him, and opened by him in 1734 54. He publifhed a great number of fingle fermons on various fubjefts, and a treatife on the New Birth, which went through fifteen editions in his life-time. Dr. Wright is faid to have written the fong, beginning " Happy hour all hours excelling." As a preacher, he was remarkable for elocution and melody of voice. He died at his houfe at Newington-green, on the 3d of April 1746. His epitaph was written by Dr. Oba- diah Hughes ". JamesBrown. « james Brown Efq. aged 79, buried Dec. 31, 1788." Mr. Brown was the laft furvivor of the merchants who eftablifhed the trade through Ruffia to Perfia in 1741. From a long refidence in Eaftern countries, he acquired great know ledge in their languages, which enabled him to compile a very copious Perfian Dictionary, accompanied with a Grammar, the manufcript of which is now in the poffeffion of his fon James Brown Efq. of St. Albans. Mr. Brown publifhed a tran flation of two Orations of Ifocrates (without his name), and may be confidered as a great benefaftor to the public, by firft ftarting the idea of a directory of tradef- men, &c. in London (about the year 1732). He was at confiderable pains in ar ranging the materials for it, which he gave to Mr. Henry Kent, a printer, who made a fortune by the publication sS. Inftances of Longevity. " Margaret Forfter, widow, of the age of 103 years, or thereabouts, was " buried the 21 of Sept. in the year 1603." In the obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine for 1 806, is mention of the death of Mrs. Sarah Woollafton in her 98th year, who had been more than forty years the Telift of Mr. Ifrael Wool* lafton, and refided at Stoke-Newington, in the houfe which had been Mr. Howard's. Charity In the year 1664, Thomas Stock Efq. gave by will the rent of a houfe at fehool. 54 Anecdotes of Dr. Wright, in the Hiftory " Ibid. of Stoke-Newington, p. 39, communicated by sS Gent. Mag. Obituary. Dr. Kippis. Newing- NEWINGTON. 581 Newington ", towards educating five poor children. A regular charity-fchool was eftablifhed before theyear 1729, when Thomas Thompfon, Gent, bequeathed to it a rent-charge of 2I. 2s. per annum, during the continuance of a leafe which expired in 1 809. George Green Efq. by his will, bearing date 1762, and proved in 1764, gave an annuity of 50s. to the fehool. Mifs Mary Hammond, by her will, bearing date 1772, and proved in 1774/ gave the fum of iool. producing now 3I. 6s. per annum. Sarah Bowles, in 1788, bequeathed an annuity of 2I. 2s. 5S Mr. John Haines, by his will, dated 1792, and proved in 1794, gave the fum of 20 guineas. Six pounds per annum are paid to this fehool by the truftees under the will of Mr. John Newman S9. With thefe endowments, aided by voluntary contributions and colleftions at charity fermons, 20 boys and 15 girls are clothed and educated. The bequefts of George Green and Mary Hammond are to be appropriated to the apprenticing poor children, if the charity-fchool fhould be difcontinued. Fourteen poor girls are clothed and educated in another fehool fupported by pinenters' fehool. Diffenters. It appears by the chantry-roll at the Augmentation-office (which contains Parifh lands. an account of all bequefts for charities, obits, &c. previoufly to the firft year of Edward VI.), that the parifli of Newington was then poffeffed of three acres of land, and one of wood. The donor's name is not men tioned60. This land was let in 1654, for feven years, at the rent of 61. per annum61 ; in 1 710, on a leafe of 99 years, at 81. The year preceding this leafe, paiatine four houfes were built upon it near the London road, for the reception of houfes. fome of the poor Palatines who fled to England, as an afylum, in the month of June 170962. Thefe houfes, with fome others adjoining, ftill go by the name " The third houfe from the fign of the Three ington there mentioned ; but, upon examining Crowns. This and two adjoining houfes be- Stocker's will, in the Bifhop of London's Re- queathed by Mr. Stock to the poor were let, in giftry. 1 f°»nd no bequeft whatfoever of lands 1778, for a term of 21 years, for 20I. per in Newington, nor any benefaftions to this annum. parifh, except of a temporary nature — as money 58 This benefaction was to be appropriated to for the altar and the rood ; and mending high- the purchafe of coals for the poor, if the fehool ways. fhould be difcontinued. 6I Parifli books. 5' Mr. John Newman of Stoke-Newington, 6l About 6000 or 7000 Palatines and other by his will dated 1727, and proved in 1730, de- Germans, for the moft part Proteftants, came vifed certain eftates in truft for the founding, fup- over to England in the month abovementioned, porting, and maintaining fuch charity-fchools, in driven from their own country by the calamities and near London, as his truftees fliould think of war. They were fupported for fome months proper to appoint. at the public expence ; and were afterwards re- 60 From the copy of John Stocker's epitaph moved to Ireland, Carolina, and New York ; in Strype's addition to Stow's Survey, it has the greater part to the latter place. Whilft they been fuppofed that thefe were the lands in New- remained here, a brief was granted for colkaing Vol. II. 4- F money 582 NEWINGTON. name of the Palatine houfes : fince the expiration of the above-mentioned leafe, they have been re-let, and now produce about 300I. per annum. The -income arifing from this eftate has been long appropriated by the parifh to the repairs of the church, as appears by an order of veftry of the year 1685. money for their fubfiftence throughout the king dom. Many ofthe families were difpofed of in the parifhes near London, where 5I. a head was allowed by government for their maintenance. In the parifh books at Newington is the following entry: " Aug. 15, 1709. Agreed, That this " parifh is willing to fettle four families of the " Palatines, to the number not exceeding 20 " perfons, at the rate of 5I. per head, provided " other parifhes do the fame. — Sep. 26. Re- " folved, That the churchwardens and Mr. " Thompfon do agree with fome perfon to build " four houfes in the parifh field. — Refolved, « That Nathaniel Gould Efq. do choofe two " families of .the Palatines to be inhabitants of " two of the faid houfes." E 583 ] NORTHALL. NORDEN calls this place Northolt, and derives it from the German holt, making it fynonymous with North wood ; but it is not fo called in any ofthe ancient records I have feen relating to this place (which are very numerous). They almoft all agree in calling it Northall ; the etymology of which is too obvious to need an explanation. In one inftance it is written Northawe \ The parifh of Northall lies in the hundred of Elthorne, at the diftance of about ten miles weft of London, a little to the north of the Uxbridge road. It is bounded by Harrow, Greenford, Riflip, Ickenham, Hayes, and Norwood. Its extent, according to an account given in to the deputy lieutenant of the county in 1 670, is 1 9 1 1 acres. About a third of the land in this parifli is arable, the re mainder meadow. The foil is a deep clay. This circumftance, added to the great fcarcity of materials for mending the roads, occafions them to be very bad in the winter, although the inhabitants are at a confiderable expence for repairs. This and the want of fpring water % have been the caufes why this parifli has been deferted by the proprietors of land, and left wholly to the cultivators. Name and etymology. Situation, extent,boundaries* &c. Soil. Scarcity of water reme died — See the note. ' Efch. 46 Edw. III. No. 10. Hawe (in the Saxon Haga) is a garden. Northall in Hertford- fhire was originally Northawe. 2 This valuable article was procured in the year 179 1 by the late vicar (Mr. Archdeacon Eaton), who caufed a well to be funk in the court adjoining to the vicarage. The workmen firft dug through a bed of folid blue clay 60 feet in depth ; under which was a ftratum of rough porous ftone about a foot thick. To this fuc ceeded a fecond ftratum of clay (differing a little from the former in colour) 29 feet in depth, then a ftratum of fine grey fand intermixed with extra neous foffils, as oyfterfhells, bivalves, &c. This ftratum continued for 23 feet ; and was fucceeded by another of clay, of a red or ferruginous co lour, lefs firm in its confiftence than that which had occurred before ; and intermixed now and then with gravel and ftones ofa confiderable fize. After digging through this ftratum for 51 feet, 4F (at the depth of 164 feet from the furface,) water was found ; which on the removal of the ftone which lay immediately over the fpring, burft up with fuch force, arid in fuch abundance, that the workmen immediately made the fignal to be drawn up. Within the firft four hours after its difcovery the water rofe to the height of 80 feet ; in the next twenty-four hours about 40 feet more : after which it continued to rife gradually for the next fortnight till it reached its prefent level, which is only four feet from the furface of the earth, the depth ofthe water being now 160 feet. Strata. Feet. 1. Clay, -..------60 2. Stone, .-------- 1 3- Clay, 29 4, Sand, ------...23 5. Clay, ... - 51 164 2 The 584 NORTHALL. Manor. The manor of Northall (called in the Domefday furvey Northala 3), was, during the reign of Edward the Confeffor, the property of Afgar, mafter of his horfe. The Conqueror gave it to Geoffrey de Mandeville, one of his followers. Joan, one of the fifters and co-heirs of Ritchard Fitzjohn (grandfon of Geoffrey Fitzpiers, Earl of Effex, defcended from the Mandevilles), who died in the year 1297, married Theobald le Boteler4. In 1316, it appears that Peter le Bo- teler was lord of the manor bf Northall s. In 1339, Stephen le Boteler alienated it to John Ruffel. and his heirs6. In 1352, Agnes, relift of John Ruffel, releafed all right in this manor to Simon Francis, mercer and citizen of London 7, who died feifed of it in 1358, leaving Thomas his fon and heir8. Alice, the widow of Thomas Francis, granted her eftate in the manor of Northall, to Robert Per- poyng and others, they paying her an annuity of 30 marks". It is probable this was to enable her hufband's reprefentatives to fell the manor. In 1374, Wil liam Riflip and others quitted claim to Sir Nicholas Brembre 10, who had in that year a charter of fee-warren ". Sir Nicholas, who had been Lord Mayor of London, and a fteady upright magiftrate, fuffered death about the year 1386, in confequence of his conneftion with the favourites whom the King was then obliged to abandon to the refentment of the difcontented nobles. Brembre's fate was much pitied 2\ Moft of his property became forfeited to the crown ; but it appears by an inquifition taken in 1389, that he had only a life intereft in this manor, a fine having been levied in 1385, declaring the right to be vefted in Thomas de Bere, after the death of Sir Nicholas Brembre and his wife Idonea13. Soon after this, the manor of Northall appears to have been the property of Sir Baldwin Bureford14. In 1396, a patent paffed, releafing to Sir Richard Wal- degrave and others all claims which the crown might have upon this manor 's. 3 It is taxed, fays that furvey, at 15 hides. Edmund Earl of Stafford in 1403 (Efch. On the eftate are ten ploughs, and two more 4 Hen. IV. No. 41.). might be employed. The prieft has half a hide ; s Harl. MSS. No. 6281. one villan has a hide ; five others have half a hide ' Cart. Ant. pen. Dec. Sc Cap. Weftmonaft. each; and eight others half a virgate each. ? Cl. 29 Edw. HI. m. 29. d. There are three cottars and fix flaves. Pafture s Efch. 32 Edw. III. No. 33. for the cattle of the village ; wood for 200 hogs. »- Cart. Ant. pen. Dec. & Cap. Weftmonaft. In the whole valued at iol. ; in King Edward's 10 Ibid. time at 12I. » Cart. 47 — 51 Edw. III. m. 9. * Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 707. The ,2 Andrews's Hiftory of England, p. 402. Bohuns, Earls .of Hereford, whofe anceftor (N°tes). Henry, married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey u Efch. 12 Ric. II. No. 172. Fitzpiers Earl of Effex, became poffeffed of the" M Richard Kidelynton and others in the year honour of Mandeville j in right of which they 1396, granted' the manor of Northall, which they had an intereft in the- manor of Northall, as fu- had by the feoffment of Sir Baldwin Bureford, perior lords of the fee. Henry de Bohun died to Sir Richard Waldegrave and others. Cart. feifed of the fee of Northall in 1372 (Efch. Ant. pen. Dec. & Cap. Weftmonaft. 46 Edw. III. No. 10.); Eleanor Duchefs of 'J Pat. 19 Rich.U. p. 2. m. 21. Gloucefter in 1400 (Efch. 1 Hen. IV. No. 50.) ; Thefe NORTHALL. 5*5 Thefe perfons, it is probable, were feoffees for Richard Lord Scrope, of Bolton ; for about the year 1398 the manor of Northall (then late the property of Lord Scrope) being vefted in the crown, was granted to the abbot and convent of Weftminfter16. John Thornton Efq. was leffee under that monaftery in 1493 ; Henry Tumor in 1502, and Richard Devenyfhe in 1514 17. After the diffolution of monafteries, the manor of Northall was fettled upon the newly created bifhopric of Weftminfter ; which being foon after abolifhed, this manor became again vefted in the crown IS, and was granted by Edward VI. in 1550 to Sir Thomas Wroth ". It continued in his family till 1616, when John Wroth Efq. alienated it to Sir John Bennet 2°. From him it paffed in 1624 to William Pennyfather 2I Efq. and from the latter to John Hulfe Efq. in 1637 22. Mr. Hulfe left one daughter, Lettice, married to John Good Efq. The manor continued in their defcendants till 1701, when it was fold by Charles Good Efq. to John Walker Efq. 23 After his death it was bought in 17 16, by the firft Duke of Chandos (then Earl of Carnarvon) for the fum of 9000 1. The Earl alienate'dit in 1722 to William Peere Williams Efq. a celebrated lawyer, and father of Sir Hutchins Williams, Bart, who, in 1756, fold it to Francis Child Efq. truftee for Mrs. Agatha Child, widow. It now belongs to the Earl of Jerfey in .right of his wife Lady Sarah Child, (daughter of the Earl of Weftmorland,) and grand-daughter of the late Robert Child Efq. of Ofterley. The manor of Donne, Downe, or Downe-barnes, confifting of 300 acres of Manor of of arable land (valued at 2d. an acre), five acres of meadow, and 20 of wood, was Downe'_ purchafed of Ralph Baffet of Drayton, by John Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who barnes. died feifed of it in 1336 24. Simon Francis died feifed of it in 1 358 2S. From this time till 1617, it paffed through the fame hands as that of Northall, except that Robert Colle was leffee of this manor under the church of Weftminfter in 1502 26. In the year 1659, the manor of Downe-Barnes was in the poffeffion of Samuel Carlton Efq. in whofe family it continued till 1717, when it was alienated to Andrew Hawes Efq. of Chatham, and John Harvey Efq. of Ickwell-Bury, in the county of Bedford 27. One moiety is now the property of John Harvey Efq. of Ickwell-Bury ; the other of Mr. William Briant and others, as reprefentatives of Mr. Hawes. A meffuage called Frere-place in Northall, and fome lands in Northall, Green- Frere-place. ford, and Harrow, defcribed as late parcel of the poffeffions of the monaftery of 16 Cart 2 1 — 23 Rich. II. No. 7. Efq. (one of the truftees under the late Mr. " Cart. Ant. pen. Dec. & Cap. Weftmonaft. Child's will) for the firft edition of this work. 18 Recordsin the Augmentation-office. J4 Efch. 10 Edw. III. No. 62. ¦9 Pat. 4 Edw. VI. pt.9. April 9. " Efch. 32 Edw. III. No. 33. It was then '" Pat. 14 Jac. pt. 37. No. 44. held under the Earl of Hereford, and valued at " Pat. 22 Jac. pt.24. No. 48. 1 00s. per annum. 22 Pat. 13 Car. pt. 45. No. 32. '6 Cart. Ant. pen. Dec. & Cap. Weftmonaft. 13 Title-deeds, communicated by Robert Dent 3? From the information of Bury Hutchin- fon Efq. fteward ofthe manor. 4 St. Thomas 586 NORTHALL. The church, Monument of Sir George Probert. Epitaph of Bifhop Lifle. St. Thomas de Aeon, were granted in the year 1 540, to Leonard Chamberlain and Richard Andrews 28. The fame premifes were alienated in 1564, by Thomas Partridge to William Gerrard 29. The parifli church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a fmall Gpthic ftrufture of flints and ftone, confifting of a nave and chancel. At the weft end is a fmall wooden tower, with a fhingled turret. On the eaft wall of the chancel is a brafs plate, in memory of Ifaiah Bures, M. A. of Baliol College, Oxford, vicar of Northall, who died in 1610, and the monument of Sir George Probert, with the following infcription : " Memorise facrum D. Georgii Probert Militis qui perantiquae fami- 'f lise de Pantglafe in agro Monumethenfi turn rerum turn virtutum prasclarus " hseres, prorumpente nupero bello civili, ante retro omnia funeftiffimo, fob " piiffimi regis Caroli Primi fignis ftrenue militabatab eoque ad equeftrem or- " dinem circa annum 1 644 evocatus eft. Demum a perduellibus per tria regna " truculentiflime graffantibus multa diraque per 1 2 annos intemerata fide infrac- " toque animo perpeffus, reduce auguftiflimo Carolo Secundo, Monmothise " Burgenfis remuneratus ; toti honoratiffimae interioris domus Parliamenti fenatui " defideratiflimus ; patriae, propinquis & univerfim fingulis (xjuibus innotuit tc quam plurimis) chariffimus ; Londini febre correptus, conftituta re familiari, " fumpto S. Synaxeos viatico & pace ecclefiae accepta, integris ad extremum " fpiritum fenfibus, piam efflavit animam Jan. 6. Anno iEtatis 6omo Salutis " \6y6-y. Ejus quod reliquum eft propter fummum amorem erga Gulielmum " Brabourn S.S. T.D. hujus loci vicarium (qui ei 40 circiter annorum continua " inviolataque amicitia mcerens et uti par eft gratus fe profitetur aftriftum) in " hie ecclefia inhumatum fupremis votis reliquit ; ubi jacet coram altare fob " lapide Gyffordiano. Mceftiffima conjux Magdalena, inclytiffimi D. Carol. Wil- " liams de caftro vocato Langybby in Com. Monmouth (a 'rebellibus in defe'e- " tione nupera demolito) eq. aur. filia, devotionis necnon gratitudinis ergo " pofuit." On the floor within the rails of the communion-table is a brafs plate to the me mory of Sufan, wife of John Gyfforde, who died in^childbed of her twelfth child, at the age of 30, 1560; and the graveftone of Samuel Lifle, Bifhop of Nor wich, with the following infcription : IC Sub hoc marmore quiefcunt reliquiae " reverendi admodum prasfulis Samuelis Lifle, S. T. P. hujus ecclefiae per viginti " annos vicarii, qui ad ampliflimos honores in academia et in ecclefia eveftus, " Collegii Wadhamenfis apud Oxonienfes cuftos, Archidiaconus Cantuarenfis, " domus inferioris convocationis prolocutor, Epifcopus primo Afaphenfis, deirt " Norvicenfis. Singula hsec dignitatis munera fumma cum fide, diligentia, gravi- " tate explevit. Obiit tertio die Oftobris 1749, ^tat. 6y." 38 Fee-farm Rolls in the Augment, office. " Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. 1. March 28. On NORTHALL. 587 On the fouth fide of the nave is the graveftone of Henry Rowdell Efq. (with a figure of the deceafed in armour on a brafs plate), 1452. The font, which ftands upon a fquare pedeftal, is oftagonal, and ornamented with quatrefoils, rofes, &c. The church of this place, with the advowfon, was given by Geoffrey de Man- Reftory and deville to the monaftery which he founded at Walden in Effex 30. Upon the ar- vlcaraSe- bitration of a controverfy between that convent and the dean and chapter of St. Paul's (in the reign of Henry III.), relating to this and other churches, it was agreed that the patronage of Northall fhould for the future be vefted in the Bifliop of London and his fucceffors, and that the vicars fhould pay 1 2 marks annually towards the repairs of St. Paul's cathedral 3I. The abbot of Walden and the prior of Hurley had fmall penfions out of this reftory, and the chapel of Plaffey re ceived a third of the great tithes belonging to the demefnes of Joan de Northall 32. The vicarage has been from time immemorial endowed with the great tithes, paying an annual acknowledgment of 4I. to the Bifhop of London, as reftor. This en dowment was confirmed by Bifliop Fitzjames in 15 18, when fome other matters relating to the payment of tenths, procurations, &c. wereadjufted33. The vicarage of Northall, with 48 acres of glebe, was valued in 1650 at 215I. per annum34. In the King's books it is rated at 15I. The vicarage houfe was rebuilt by Charles Alftone, D. D. about theyear 1692 3S. William Piers, or Pierfe, who was collated to this vicarage in 1 6 1 1 , refigned it. Vicars. in 1632, on being promoted to the Bifhopric of ¦ Peterborough. He was after- pjjrs am wards tranflated to Bath and Wells. During the civil war he was imprifoned for fome time in the Tower ; after his releafe he led a retired life upon his private, eftate. He was reftored to his bifhopric in 1660, and died at a very advanced age in 1 670 3