i9^- (AkbA' 7:ul«»5j*5H* HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOASTS, VILLAGES, and H.\3ILETS , \\lthiii Twelve Miles of tiiat Capital; iXTTHtSFKRStlJ) JHTH JI/OOJUPH/fZJL JXECnOlTS . Bv tLe Rev. DAN I El. LYS 0>» 8 , A.M, F.AS. Chaplain to the Riglit Hon. the Earl of orford . VOLU31E THE FIRST, COIXTY OF SZRREY. ^'<^^.: /."'"' L O N D O TS •• PRTN'TEU by a. STR-KILVN^. for T. C.\r>ELL IK THE STR.WD. MDC.CXCll.. TO T/je Rio'/jI IL>//ru/yilj/<' HORA C E EARL OF ORFORD, AJiOJSf WALFOLE OE IlOrdllTfKV, /// f/jc ('0//Jffy ()J, A (>/■/(> //x\ THIS WOUJC /s /'t's/jecZ/ff/h f/f.r('/'f7fr// by Ills Lordlhiji's THE ^d ITU on ADVERTISEMENT. Wl H I L S T a tafte for local hiftory fo generally prevails, it is fomewhat fingular that the coun- ties adjacent to London fhould not have had their due fhare of illuflration ; for even in thofe of which hifto- ties have been publifhed, fome very interefting parti- culars have been w^holly unnoticed. The author of the following work offers to the public what he has been able to colle6t, relating either to the ancient hiftory or prefent ftate of the feveral parifhes within twelve miles of the capital, a diftridl which furnifhes perhaps more curious and interefting matter for obfer- vation than any other of the fame extent in the king- dom. A brief defcription of the fttuation, foil, pro- duce, and manufaftures ; the defcent of the principal, particularly manerial property ; the parifh churches, and eccleftaftical hiftory; the ftate of population, and the biography conneded with each parifli ; are the principal objedls of the following work. A Through vi ADVERTISEMENT. Through the obHging permifTion of Thomas Aftle, Efq. John Caley, Efq. and John KipHng, Efq. to infpedl the Records at the Tower, the Augmentation Office, and the Rolls; through the politenefs of the prefent proprietors of the feveral manors, and the ready and liberal affiftance of the gentlemen of the law ; the author has been enabled to give the defcent of pro- perty in a manner which, though brief, he hopes will be found accurate. In the defcription of parifli churches, thofe epitaphs only are given at length, which are either lingular in themfelves, or record per- fons of eminence, and thefe have been all copied on the fpot ; from the others he has inferted the names of the perfons recorded, with the date of their deceafe, merely to denote the place of interment of the feveral families. In treating of the ecclefiaftical hiftory, an account is given of the nature of the benefice of each parifh, and, where it could be afcertained, the defcent of the advowfon. In this department, the frequent references to the MSS. in the Lambeth library will fhew how much the author has been indebted to his Grace the Archbifhop of Canterbury, for his per- miflion to confult them. The fucceffion of incum- bents on each benefice has not been given, on a pre- fumption, that a bare lift of names would be very un- interefting ADVERTISEMENT. tK interefting to the reader, and tend to fwell the volume to very little purpofe ; the author has confined him- felf therefore to the noticing fuch perfons only as have been in any refped eminent. The parochial regifters (for a ready accefs to which, as well as for other occa- fional information, he is much indebted to his bre- thren the clergy) have been found of much afTiftance in afcertaining the comparative Hate of population, and furnifhing hints for biographical matter. The ravages of the plague in many of the parifhes at va- rious periods, have been afcertained from the fame fource of information ; and fuch inftances of longevity as are there recorded, have been alfo noticed. From the churchwardens accounts, particularly at Lambeth and Kingfton, feveral curious circumftances, relating to the price of provifions, and local cufloms, have been extracted. The difficulty of corre<3:nefs in a work of this na- ture, wherein the references are neceffarily fo nume- rous, is well known. The reader, it is hoped, will excufe fuch trifling inaccuracies as may have efcaped the author's obfervation ; efpecially as he has endea- voured to correal thofe which are material, parti- cularly in the references to public records, which have A 2 been VUl ADVERTISEMENT. been again carefully collated with the originals, fince the work was printed. Of the plates fomething perhaps fhould be faid : the portraits which reprefent perfons of confi.derable emi- nence, are now for the firft time engraved; the others will, it is prefumed, be found faithful delineations of what they are intended to reprefent. [ ix ] LIST OF THE PLATES. PLATE PAGE I. Map of that part of the County of Surrey which lies within twelve miles of London — to face the Title-page. II. Title Page — Vignette View of Putney, from the Bifhop or London's lawn at Fulham. III. Dedication Plate — to follow the Title-page. IV. Tomb of WiUiam Millebourne in Barnes Church— to face 17 V. Portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew, - - - 54 VI. Beddington Church, - - - _ ^8 VII. Tomb of Nicholas Carew and his Wife in Beddington Church, - - _ _ _ il)id. VIII. Portraits on Glafs in Camberwell Church, - - 73 IX. Tomb of John Scott, Efq. and his Family in Camberwell Church, - - - - - 77 X. Dulwich CoUege, (PI. I.) - . - _ 105 XL Dulwich College, (PI. II.) - - - - 117 XII. Tomb of Nicholas Gaynesford and his Family in Carfhalton Church, - - - - - 128 XIII. Tomb of Jane Lady Lumley in Cheam Church, - 144 XIV. View of Nonfuch Palace, - - - - ^S3 XV. View of Croydon Church, - . - - - ^79 XVI. Tomb of Archbifhop Sheldon in Croydon Church, - 183 XVII. View of the Crypt under the Chapel in Lambeth Palace, 262 XVIII. Viev/ LIST OF THE PLATES. PLATE PAGB XVIII. View of Lambeth Palace from the Gateway, - - 268 XIX. View of Merton Church, - - _ _ ^46 XX. Portrait of Dr. John Dee, - - - - 385 XXI. Infide View of Bifliop Weft's Chapel in Putney Church, 409 XXII. Portrait of Chriftian Countefs of Devonlhire, - - 432 XXIII. Richmond Palace, ----- 442 XXIV. Richmond Obfervatory, - - . _ 44.6 XXV. Wimbledon Houfe, (PI. I.) - - - - 524 XXVI. Wimbledon Houfe, (PI. II.) - - - 527 XXVII. Figure on Glals in Wimbledon Churqh, - - 529 .? T It «' ] CONTENTS. PAGE Account of, addington, . « - - ^»^ Barnes, -- -- - - - li Battersea, - - - -16 Beddington, - • - - 49 ■ Bermondsey, - - - - 546 Cambeb-well, - - - - 68 - Carshalton, - — - - - 122 - Cheam, __--_. 137 . Clapham, ----- 159 Croydon, ----- lyo .Kew, ----- 202 Kingston upaw Thames, - - _ 212 Lambeth, ----- 257 Malden, - - - - - 33"^ Merton, ----- - 338 MiTCHAM, ----- 350 MORDON, — - ■ - - - 36' MORTLAKE, _ - - - 364 Newington Butts, - - - - 389 Petersham, _ _ - - 399 Putney, ----- 404 Richmond, ----- 436 rotherhithe, _ _ _ _ 470 Streatham, - - - - 478 Account xil CONTENTS. Account of Sutton, - _ _ - _ 452 Tooting, _ - _ > _ ^^•j Wandsworth, - - _ _ j02 Wimbledon, - - - ' $^9 - ji-Tffn-v'vr^j'^ "•■"*"- ■* APPENDIX. PAGE jiDDITlONS to Addxugtoh, - - - - 541 Barnes, -- w ,, _ _ iiid. Battersea, ---.__ ^44 - Beddington, - - - - 545 Camberwell, _ _ _ _ ^j^ Carshalton, - _ - _ ^62 Cheam, - - - • - - 564 Clapham, - _ _ _ iliid. - Croydon, _ _ _ _ ^65 Kew, - - - _ - ii>fd. Kingston upon Thames, - - - 566 Lambeth, _ _ _ _ ^67 Merton, ----- ii?iii. MiTCHAM, - _ _ _ £68 Mortlake, _ _ _ _ £69 Newington Butts, _ _ _ /^/^, Petersham, _ - - - ii>i(i, Richmond, - - - _ il>id. Rotherhithe, - _ - _ ^yo Wandsworth, _ - - . ii>id. Prefetit State of Population in the Parijhes treated of in this Volume, - 571 Index of Names, ____-- ^7^ General Index. ADDING- ADDINGTON. THE name of this parifh was anciently written Edintone. I Etymology, can find nothing fatisfaclory relative to its etymology ; it was probably denominated from fome one of its remote pofleflbrs. The Boundaries, parifh lies within the hundred of Wallington, and is bounded by Croydon, Saunderftead, Farleigh, and Chelfham, in Surry ; and by Weft Wickham and Beckenham in Kent. The village ' is fituated about three miles to the eaft of Croydon^ at the foot of a range of Addington hills to which it gives its name. Their extent is about five hundred acres. On the brow of the hill, towards Addington, is a clufter of tumuli, Tumuli, about 25 in number ; they are of very inconfiderable height ; one of them is nearly 40 feet in diameter ; two others are about half that fize; the remainder are very fmall. The greater part of them appears to have been opened. Salmon fays, that fome broken pieces of urns, which had been taken out of them, were, in his time, in the pofTeffion of an apothecary at Croydon. The land at Addington is, for the moft part, arable ; there is little meadow, but a pretty large proportion of wood and common. The foil is very various ; being, in fome parts of the parifh, gravel ; Soil. in fome, chalk ; and in others, a ftifF clay. ' This parifh is fituated almoft beyond the a circumflance which the author was not ac- limits propofed for this work, the church be- quainted with before lie had collefted his ma- ing nearly 13 miles from Weftminller bridge ; terials : Aubrey calls it iz miles. Vol. I. B It 2 ADDINGTON. Manors. It appears, by Doomfday Book, that there were two manors in the parifh of Addingtoa in the time of William the Conqueror ; they were not exa£lly divided, as Salmon * has aflerted, though they were each taxed as eight hides ; for the land of one manor was four carucates, ' that of the other, two and a half; the one was valued at 5I. the other at 3I. The former manor had been held by Ofward, in the time of Edward the ConfefTor, and was then the property of Albert, a clerk ; the latter having belonged to Godric, in the Confeffor's reign, was, at the time of the furvey, in the pofTeflion of Tezelin the cook ; they were both held of the king. Tezelin's manor continued in lay hands, and was held by a very fingular tenure, as will be mentioned hereafter. Godric's manor, previoufly to the reign of Edward I. appears to have been divided into two; one of which was given to the Knights Templars icln'ts"'^'''' by Walter de Morton \ and was held of the Archbifhop of Canter- Templars, bury's manor of Croydon, by an annual rent of thirty-two fhillings and one penny. The Templars were aboliflied by Pope Clement the Fifth, in the year 131 1 ; and in the 17th year of Edward II. an a£t of parliament pafled, by which their pofleflions in England, among which Addington' was included, were transferred to the Knights Manor of the of St. John of Jerufalem. The other moiety belonged, I know not by monallery of •' St. Mary what grant, to the monaftery of St. Mary Overie ; to this manor the advowfon of the church was annexed ; it was rated at ten fhillings. For twelve acres of land, which belonged to this convent in the parifh of Addington, they were obliged to keep a lamp burning every night in the church '. The manfion-houfe belonging to this manor is defcribed as having a hall of ^^^ feet in length, and 28 in * Antiquities of Surry, p. 58. ' Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Claudius, E. vi. ' A carucate is generally fuppofed to be as f. 186. and Nero, E. vi. f. 100. a-b. much land as one plough can till in a year. * Regiller of the monaftery of St. Mary ♦ Chartulary of Chrift's Church, Canter- Overie, Cotton MSS. Fauftina, A. viii. bury, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, f. 234. p. 97. ' Ibid. f. 371. breadth ; A D D I N G T O N. • ■ breadth; and two folarii, or upper rooms, the one 32 feet by 18, the other 32 feet by 11. At the diflblution of monafteries, both thefe manors came into the pofTeflion of the Leigh family ' ; who, at that time, held the third manor above mentioned. The earlieft proprietor of this manor, that I find upon record after Aguiiion's, the Conqueft, is Bartholomew Chefnet ", or Cheyney, who had two manor, daughters co-heirefTes ; one of whom married Peter '°, the grandfon of Ailwin of London, and was burled in Bermondfey abbey ; for which privilege her hufband gave the monks a rent of 15 fhillings, ifluing out of a houfe in Addington ; the other daughter married William Aguillon, who, in right of his wife, inherited the manor " ; his fon. Sir Robert Aguillon '\ had a licence to fortify and em- battle his manor houfe at Addington. A fpot of ground near the Manor houfe. church, being ftill called the Caftle Hill, ferves to afcertain the fite of this manfion, which, moft probably, continued to be the manerial refidence till the year 1400, when the manor houfe, which was pulled down about twelve years ago, (and which was fituated at the foot of the hill,) was eredted ; as appears by the following infcription '^ which was over the door : In fourteen hundred and none. Here was neither flick nor ftone. In fourteen hundred and three The goodly building which you fee. This houfe was built chiefly of flint, mixed with chalk, and very ftrongly cemented. * Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. p. 28. July 17. records in the Exchequer, the originals of 9 Madox'sHillory of the Exchequer^p. 453. which are not now to be found. '= Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Claudius, '^ Pat. 54 H. III. m. 26. a. viii. 12. Extrads from a regifter of '^ Letter from Archbifhop Herring to Dr. Bermondfey abbey. Ducarrel, in the Appendix to the Hiftory " Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 313. f 22. b. of Croydon, p. 184. Bib. Topograph. Britan. This MS. appears to be a tranfcript of fome No. 46. B 2 Sir ADDINGTON. Sir Robert Aguillon was flieriff'* of Suflex in the reign of Henry the Third ; he married Margaret '\ Countefs of the Ifle of Wight, by whom he had two daughters ; one of whom married Jourdan de Saukvil, anceftor of the Duke of Dorfet ; the other married Hugh Bardolf"", and had for her portion the manor of Addington, which continued in the Bardolf family for two or three generations. William Walcot " died feized thereof, in the reign of Richard the Second, having held it for Hfe, by a grant from William Bardolf. In the reign of Henry the Sixth it was the property of William Uvedale ", who, for a fine of forty {hillings, paid into the exchequer, obtained a licence to alienate it to John Leigh and others, and the heirs of the faid John. The defcendants of this John Legh or Leigh obtained a grant of the other manors at the fuppreflion of monafteries, and the whole became united into one ; which continued in the poffefTion of the Leigh family till the middle of the prefent century. Sir John Leigh'" died in 1737, without male iflue. After his death, there was a fuit in chancery depending for many years, relating to the right of fucceflion to the Addington eftate, which was at length determined in favour of his female heirs, one of whom married John Bennet, Efq. and the other Henry Spencer, Efq. The manor and eftate were fold by their fons, Wooley Leigh Bennet, Efq. and Wooley Leigh Spencer, Efq. (about the year 1767,) to Barlow Trecothick, Efq. alderman of Lon- don, and they are now the property of James Trecothick, Efq. his nephew ; who has a handfome modern manfion, fituated about half a mile from the church, and nearly in the centre of the park; it was begun in 1772, by the late alderman Trecothick, and finifhed after his death by the prefent proprietor. •♦ CoUins's Peerage, edit. 1756. vol. I. '^ Efch. 12 Rich. II. Harl. MSS. 708. p. 701. " Pat. Rolls, 25 Hen. VI. pt. 1. m. 24. •5 Pat. S3 H. III. m. II. "s Addington Pariih Regifter. '« CI. Rolls, 20 Edw.I. m. 3. That ADDINGTON. 5 That part of the manor of Addington, which belonged to the Singular te- nureofthe Aguillons and Bardolfs, was, and Itill is, held by a very fingular manor. fpecies of grand ferjeanty, viz. by the fervice of prefenting a cer- tain difli to the king on the day of his coronation. Of the origin of this fervice, it feems not an improbable conjecture, that the manor was an appendage to the office of the king's cook, as Richmond, then Shene, anciently was to the office of baker. It is certain that Tezelin, the cook, held it of the Conqueror ; being afterwards feparated from the office, the nature of the ferjeanty might con- tinue, though confined to the fervice of prefenting a difh to the king once in his reign. The fervice and the difh are varioufly defcribed in the different records. Bartholomew Cheney " is faid to have holden Addington by the fervice of finding a cook to drefs fuch viduals in the king's kitchen, as the Senefchall fliall order. This was, in facSt, only executing the office of cook by deputy ; and his fon-in-law, William Aguillon^', held it by the fervice of making hajlias'^^, as the record expreffes it, in the king's kitchen on the day of his coronation, or of finding a perfon who fhould make for him a certain pottage, called the Mefs of Gyron; or if feym" be added to it, it is called, Maupygernon ; the feym in another re- cord is called unguentum. Sir Robert Aguillon '* held it precifely by the fame fervice, and the difh is mentioned by the fame name (viz. le Mefs de Gyron) in the pleas of the crown; though Blount*' has quoted it thence by the name of Dilligrout, and Aubrey has copied hismiflake. Thomas Bardolf", who died feized of Addington in the reign of Edward the Third, held it by the fervice of making " Mag. Rot. 1 8 Hen. III. Surrey. they make lard. Some derive it from the Latin ^' Brit. Muf. Harl.MSS. 313. f. 22. b. wori/e'vum, fuet. ** The word hajlia does not occur in any of ^* Placit. Coron. 39 Hen. HI. m. 33. and the Gloffaries. Efch. 14 Edw. I. *' Seym or Seim, is a Saxon word, fignify- *' Blount's Jocular Tenures, p. i. .-.nd Au- ing fat; it is ftill in ufe amongftthe butchers, brey's Antiquities of Surrey, v. ii. p. 39. and is ufually fpelt feam ; it is now generally '' Efch. 5 Ed. UI. applied to the omentum of a pig, of which three 6 ADDINGTON. three mefTes of Maupygernoun at the coronation, one of which he was to prefent to the king, another to the archbifhop of Canterbury, and the third, to whom foe ver the king would. The fervice is ftill kept up, and a difh of pottage was prefented to the prefent king at his coronation, by Mr. Spencer, as lord of the manor of Addington ; but I cannot find that there exifts any ancient " receipt for the making of it. Waldingliam. In the enumeration of the manors ", which were the dower of Mar- garet the widow of Sir Robert Agulllon, Addington is mentioned, with its member of Waldingham. This place, which is mentioned as an appendage to the manor in another record ", is in Tandrige hundred, about three miles from Addington. The church. 'Yhe church of Addington is a very fmall ftrudure; it confifts of a nave, a chancel, and a fmall fouth aifle, feparated from the body of the church by plain pointed arches, and maffy ancient pillars of rude workmanfhip. The church appears to have been partly rebuilt, about the reign of Edward the Third ; the windows in the north wall being of the architefture of that period. The pillars above mentioned, are probably coeval with the origi- nal ftrudure, as is the chancel ; at the end of which, are three narrow pointed windows. The tower, which is at the weft end, is low, fquare, and embattled ; it was originally compofed of flint, but has been almoft rebuilt with brick, and is now covered with plafter. The church is of flint ; except the windows, which are of foft ftone. Aubrey, who in general has little of defcription in his work, is uncom- ** In a colleftion of ancient cookery re- pofe, that this might be the difh in queftion ; it ceipts of the fourteenth century, printed at the was c.illed a pottage, and confifled of almond end of the royal houfehold eftablllhments, pub- mylk, the brawn of capons, fugar and fpices, liihcd by the Society of Antiquaries, is a receipt chicken parboyld and chopped. See. See p. 466, to make a difh called Bardolf ; though there is no of Houfehold Eftabliihments, 410. 1 790. evidence to fupport it, it would not be an unfair *' CI. Rolls. 14 Ed. I. m. 6. The manor conjeflure, as the Bardolfs were lords of Ad- was then valued at 17I. 18s. 1 1 ' d. dington at the period above-mentioned, to fup- " Efch. 14 E. i. 2 monly ADDINGTON. . monly diffufe ia defcriblng this church ; his account of the chancel, is quaint and curious. " Here we find the indifferent fpedtacle of an " unfealed roof, and walls fufficiently wanting the beautifying art of " the painter ; heretofore enriched at certain places, with I know not " what difagreeable ornament of black, at befl a confufed medley of " daubing; appearing horrible enough, were we not diverted by the " feveral ftreamers, &c. bearing the hatchments and arms of many " of thofe honourable perfons here interred '"". " The flreamers ftill remain, but they are grown almofl as horrible as the walls were when Mr. Aubrey wrote his account ; there are likev^ife foms helmets, and other pieces of rufly armour. In the north- eafl corner of the chancel, is an altar tomb, of Purbeck Monuments. marble, on which are brafs plates with figures of a man and woman, praying, with labels iffuing from their mouths, on the one of which is " Deus mlfcreatur mihi, et benedicat nobis;'' and in the other, " "■ vultum fiiiim fupcr nos et mifereatur mih'i ;" underneath are the figures of five children ; the flab is likewife decorated with the arms '° and quarterings of the Leighs and Harveys ; and the whole is furrounded with a border of brafs, on which is the following infcrip- tion in the black letter : " Here liethe John Leigh, efquyer, and Ifabell hys wyfe, daugh- " ter of John Harvey, of Thurley in Bedfordfhyre, and fole " fyfter of Sir George Harvey, Knyght ; whych John " decefTed the 24th day of Aprill, in the yere of oure Lorde " God, Mcccccix, and the fayde Ifabell, deffeafed the 8th " daye of January, in the yere of Chryfle's Incarnacion, " MCCCCcxLiii. on whofe foules I pray God have mercy." Againfl the north wall, is a large monument, compofed partly of marble, and partly of alabafler ; eredied by Sir Oliph Leigh, Knt. to '' Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii. p. 49. Harvey bears Gules, on a bend Argent, three ^° Leigh bears Or, on a chevron Sab. three trefoils Sable, and quarters Sable, a lion ramp, lions ramp. Arg. and quarters, Az. on a chief Arg. within a bordure gobony Arg. and Sable, indented Arg. three mullets pierced. Sable ; for for Nernuit Co. Berks. Payne. the 6 ADDINGTON. the memory of his father and grandfather. In the upper part of the monument are two arches; under one of which, are kneeling figures of John Leigh, (father of Sir Oliph,") who died in 1576, and of his wife Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John Oliph, Knt. ; under the other arch, are figures in the fame pofture, of Nicholas Leigh, the grand- father, who died in 1565, and of his wife Ann, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew. Underneath is the effigies, as large as life, of Sir Oliph Leigh, who eredted the monument, and died in 161 1 ; he is reprefented completely armed, and reclining upon his elbow. The effigies of his Lady Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, of Betch- worth, Knight, leaning on her right hand, with a book in her left, is beneath, and the whole is inclofed with iron palifades. Mofl of the arms about this monument are obliterated; there only remain thofe of Leigh, Oliph ^', and Carew ". Above the altar tomb before de- fcribed, is a monument to the memory of Sarah, wife of Sir Francis Leigh, who died in 1691 ; and of her mother, Elizabeth Lovel, fifter of Henry Guy. Near the communion table, on a flab of Purbeck marble, is a brafs figure of a man in armour ; and underneath the following in- fcription in the black letter : " Of your charite pray for the foule of Thomas Hatteclyff, " efquyre, fometyme one of the fowre Maflers of the houf- " holde to our foverayne Lord Kyng Henry the 8th, and " Anne hys wyfe ; wiche Thomas departed the 30th day of " Augufl, An. MVXL." On the flab are the arms " and quartering of HatteclyfF impaling Leigh. There is likewife in the chancel an infcribed tablet, to the memory of Mary, daughter of Sir George Chudleigh, Bart, and wife of George Cole, Efq. of Addington, late of Peterfham, who died ^' Party perchevron, and per pale. Or, and 33 ^^g. three quartrefolls Argent, two and Sable between three greyhounds hesCds erafed, one, quartering Az. two bars. Or, over all, a collar'd, and counterchanged. Uon ramp. Gules, both born by HatteclifF. '* Or, three lions pafTant in pale Sable. 1652J ADDINGTON. 9 1652; a large marble urn, and an infcribed tablet to the memory of Barlow Trecothick, Efq. late alderman of London, who died in 1 775 ; and a monument of white marble againft the fouth wall, to the me- mory of his firft wife, Mrs. Grizell Trecothick. In bifhop Fox's Regifter '', at Winchefter, is the will of John Att Lee, or at Legh ; who diredts his body to be buried in Addington church, in the fepulture of his father, John at Legh. He bequeaths to the high altar for his tithes forgotten, twelve-pence; to our Lady altar, fixpence; to St. Katharine altar, fixpence; to the altar of Cofrae and Damiane ^*, fixpence; to every of his God-children within the parifti of Addington, one ewe fheep; the refidue of his effeds, he bequeaths to his coufin Nicholas at Legh. The will bears date 15 1 1. I imagine, that this John was fon of John Legh, who died in 1509; whofe tomb is at the upper end of the chancel, and that his coufm Nicholas is the perfon who obtained the grant of pofleffions in Ad- dington, from Henry the Eighth. The church of Addington is dedicated to St. Mary ; the benefice Reftory and vicarage is a Vicarage in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Ewell. The great tithes are impropriated to the lord of the manor. The re£tory formerly belonged to the monaftery of St. Mary Overie, being the gift of Bartholemew de Kaifnet ", the fame perfon, I apprehend, whofe daughter William Aguillon married. There was a chapel annexed, called the chapel of All-Saints; the patronage of which, belonged to Reginald de Edintone, the lord probably of the other manor: this chapel was likewife granted to the monaftery. There is a tradition in the village to this day, that formerly there were two churches, to which the above fadl probably gave rife; though the chapel here mentioned, was moft likely a chantry adjoin- '5 Regift. Winton. Fox, p. 3. f. 61. b. church was built in honour of them at Rome. '* Cofmas and Damianus were Arabians by Aurea Legenda Sanftorum. Leg. 138. birth ; they were coufin-germans, and fufFered 37 Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 340. martyrdom under the Emperor Diodefian. A Vol. L C ing 10 ADDINGTON. Pari(h regif- ter. Comparative State of popu- lation. Plague years. Benefaflions. ing to the church. The redory, at the diflblution of monafterles, came into the pofleffion of the Leighs, and has defcended with the manor. The church was taxed in 1291 ^\ at twelve marks. The vicar formerly had half of the fmall tithes of Aguillon's manor ^', and he had the 20th of flieaves belonging to the manor of St. Mary Overie; but he received nothing from the ancient manor of the Templars, nor from the twelve acres, for which the monaftery of St. Mary Overie kept a lamp in the church. The prefent vicar is George Edmonftone, A. M. The vicarage is in the patro- nage of James Trecothick, Efq. It is rated in the king's books, at 4I. i6s. 5 1 d. The earlieft date of the parifli regifler, is 1559. Average of births. Average of burial's. 1580*° — 1589 _ 4 — 3 1780 1789 7 4 The regifter towards the latter end of the laft century, was too imperfecft to form an average. There are now twenty-two houfes in the parifti. In 1603, there were only two burials ; in 1625, eight; in 1665, no burials are entered. The parifh of Addington receives 1 1. per annum out of the be- nefadlions of Henry Smith, Efq. Thomas Purdy, who died in 1646, and is buried in the belfry, left twenty fhillings per annum towards the repairs of the fteeple. '* This taxation was made at the time that Pope Nicholas IV. granted a tenth of all ec- clefiaftical revenues to the king, to defray the expences of the holy war. A record of this taxation is preferved in the Exchequer ; ano- ther copy is in the Bodleian Library, and is often referred to by the title of the Bodleian Valor. The valuation of ecclefiaftical revenues was the fame in moil inftances in 1406, when the clergy of the province of Canterbury 2 granted a tenth to the king. Vide Regift. Winton, at the beginning of Beaufort's Re- gifler. The valuation in the king's books was made in 1534- " Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. FaufHna, A. viii. f. 234. *° An average of ten years in each century, is given in every parilh to (how the compara- tive ftate of population. [ " ] BARNES, np H E parlfh of Barnes lies in the hundred of Brixton ; It is fituated near the Thames, at the diftance of fix miles from Hyde Park Corner; and is bounded on the north by the river; Boundaries and name. on the weft, by the parilh of Mortlake ; and on the eaft and louth, by that of Putney. In the Conqueror's Survey, it is called Berne ; (which, in the Saxon language, fignifies a barn ;) and it is faid to contain fix carucates of land. The parifh now contains about nine hundred acres, of which nearly two-thirds are arable, including garden ground. The common adjoining to the parifh of Putney, is fuppofed to contain about one hundred and fifty acres ; near the river is fome very rich meadow land ; the foil of the com- mon is gravel. The amount of the land tax for this parifh, is 317 1. 5 s. lod. which is fuppofed to be at the rate of two fhillings in the pound. The manor of Barnes, or Barn-elms, was given to the canons of St. Paul's, by king Athelftan ' ; and except the temporary aliena- tion of their property, during the government of the common- wealth, it has continued in their pofTefTion ever fince. It was valued in the time of Edward the ConfelTor, at 61. In the Conqueror's time, at 7I. In 129 1 % it was taxed at 12I. The manor was for- merly let by the dean and chapter, upon long leafes. In 1467, Sir John Saye and others' were joint lefTees; in 1480, it was in the ' Dugdale's Hillory of St. Paul's Cathe- ^ See note ^^ in the preceding page, dral, p. 5. 3 Lambeth Regifters, Bouchier, f. 98. b. C 2 tenure 12 B R N Sir Francis Walfingham. Queen Eliza- beth's vifit. tenure of Thomas Thwayte ', chancellor of the exchequer ; after which, it was held for half a century by the Wyats *. Thomas Smyth ', Efq. bought the remainder of Sir Henry Wyat's leafe ; he was in poflefTion of it in 1567, foon after which, Sir Francis Wal- fingham came to live at Barn-elms, having chofen it for a place of retirement from the fatigues of ftate; he probably purchafed Smyth's intereft in the leafe. His daughter Mary was buried at Barnes, in 1579. In 1589, Sir Francis Walfingham entertained queen Elizabeth at Barn-elms, and, as was ufual in all her majefty's vifits, her whole court. Lord Talbot, in a letter to his father, the Earl of Shrewfbury, fays, " This daye her ma'" goethe to Barn-ellmes, *' where flie is purpofed to tary all day, to-morrow being Tewfday, •' and on Wednefday, to return to Whytehall agayne. I am ap- poynted among the reft to attende her ma'"" to Barn-ellmes. I pray God my diligent attendance there, may procure me a gra- " cious aunfwere in my fuite at her return ; for whilft fhe is ther, no- *' thinge may be moved but matter of delyghte, and to content her j *' which is the only caufe of her going thither *." — May 26, 1589. Previoufly to this vifit, the queen had taken a leafe of the manor of Barn-elms, which was to commence after the expiration of Sir Henry Wyat's, in 1600. Her intereft in this leafe {he granted by letters patent ', bearing date the twenty-firft year of her reign, to Sir Francis Walfingham and his heirs. Sir Francis Walfingham died in 1590, at his houfe in Seethlng- lane ', fo poor, it is faid ', that his friends were obliged to bury him late at night, in the moft private manner; in confirmation of which (( <( ^ Lamb. Reg. Bouchier, f. 124. b. •* Wyat's term commenced I ft March, 19 Hen. VII. (1504) ; it was for 96 years. Chapter-book, St. Paul's (Shirburne, Dean). ' Lamb. Reg. Parker, fo. 384. a. * Lodge's Shrewfbury Papers, vol. ii. p. 396. The editors of the Biographia men- tion this vifit, and refer to original letters in their own poffeffion. ' Pat. 21 Eliz. p. 8. Feb. 23. * Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 760. » Camden's Annals, p. 621. 8vo. 1717. faa, BARNES. 13 fa£t, no certificate of his funeral appears to have been entered at the Heralds'-college, as was ufuaJ when any perfon of confequence was interred in a manner fuitable to his rank. Sir Francis's only furviving daughter had the fingular good for- tune of being wife to three of the moft accomplifhed men of the age, Sir Philip Sydney, the Earl of Effex, and the Earl of Clan- rickard : her fecond hufband, fo well known and fo much pitied for his misfortunes, refided frequently at Barn- elms; which, after the death of Sir Francis Walfingham, was called one of his houfes. " Some think," fays Rowland White, writing to Sir Robert Syd- ney '°, " that the Earl of Eflex fhall have the liberty of his houfes at " London and Barnelmes, and that he fliall have his friends come to " him." June 11, 1600. Lady Walfmgham " died at Barn-elms, June 19th, 1602, and was buried the next night privately, near her hufband, in St. Paul's cathedral; according to Stow's account in his Annals. In 1639, the dean and chapter leafed the manerial eftate for twenty- one years, to John Cartwright. When the church lands were ex- pofed to fale by parliament, the eftate was purchafed by Mr. Cartwright", and the manor by Richard Shute, Efq. of London; the reftoration put the dean and chapter in pofleflion of their pro- perty again, and the Cartwrights continued to be leflees till the middle of the prefent century ; when the eftate was purchafed by Richard Hoare, Efq. father of the late Sir Richard Hoare, Bart, whofe widow now holds it under the dean and chapter. The dean and chapter of St. Paul's formerly paid a fparrow-hawk yearly; or in lieu thereof, two (hillings to the archbifhop of Canterbury, as lord of the '° Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 201. only fens were blown up with gunpowder. See likewife vol. ii. p. 50. & p. 120. foon after her marriage with Sir Francis " Lady Walfmgham was Urfula daughter Walfingham. Baronetage, 17AI. vol. i. of Henry St. Barbe, of Somerfetftiire, and p. 191. widow of Sir Richard Worfley. Her two '* Archives, St. Paul's. manor >4 BARNES. manor of Wimbledon, to be exempted from ferving the office of reeve or provoft within that manor '\ Anecdote of Before Mr. Hoare purchafed the eftate, Heydegger, mafter of ey egger. ^^^ revels, was for fome time the tenant of the houfe, of whom the following ftory is told : — The late king gave him notice, that he would fup with him one evening, and that he fhould come from Richmond by water. It was Heydegger's profeffion to invent novel amufements; and he was refolved to furprife his majefty with a fpeclmen of his art. The king's attendants, who were in the fecret, contrived that he fhould not arrive at Barn-elms before night, and it was with fome difficulty, that he found his way up the avenue which led to the houfe. When he came to the door, all was dark ; and he began to be very angry, that Heydegger, to whom he had given notice of his intended vifit, fliould-be fo ill prepared for his reception. Heydegger fuffered his majefty to vent his anger, and affi^dled to make fome awkward apologies, when, in an inftant, the houfe and avenues were in a blaze of light, a great number of lamps having been fo difpofed, as to communicate with each other, and to be lit at the fame inftant. The king laughed heartily at the device, and went away much pleafed with his entertainment. The manor houfe '* is pleafantly fituated in a paddock, at a fmall diftance from the Thames. It was modernized and confiderably " Pat. Rolls, lo Hen. IV. p. i.m. 19. newfpaper, of a very early date : There are other records in the Tower, relating " Barn-elras houfe in Surry, with orchards, to the manor of Barnes, fome granting certain gardens, coach-houfes, ftable, grazing for a J rivileges and exemptions ; de providentiis re- couple of geldings or cows, fpring water giis non faciendis. Pat. 7 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 15 brought to the houfe in leaden pipes, p'.eafant & 27. & 8 Edw. II. p. 1. m. 15. Another is a walks by the Thames fide, and other accom- mandate of the king's, forbidding, that the modations, is to be let, or otherwife may bedi- manor of Barnes, given by his anceftors for vided into two convenient dwellings, with gar- the fupport and ftipend of the canons of den, orchard, and water to each of them. En- St. Paul's, (hould be converted to any other quire farther of Mr. Edward Marftiall, a ftone ufe. CI. II Edw. II. m. 14. cutter, living in Fetter-lane." Mercurius Po- '* Barn-elms houfe was thus advertifed in a liticus. May 5, 1659. enlarged BARNES. 15 enlarged by the late Sir Richard Hoare, Bart, in the year 1771. The wings were then added. In the dining parlour and drawing room are fome good pidures, particularly two large landfcapes, by Gafpar Pouflin, which are much admired. The pleafure grounds have all the advantages of retirement, without being neceflarily immured within lofty walls. They were laid out with much tafte, when the houfe was improved. Barn-elms is now the refidence of lady Hoare, relidt of the late Sir Richard. Adjoining to the manfion, is a houfe which belonged to Tonfon the bookfeller, at the time that he was Secretary to the Kit-Kat Club. Here he built a room for their Kit-KatClub. reception, and here they held their meetings. The room was ornamented with portraits of the members, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, which have been engraved in mezzotinto. I cannot quit the fubje£t of Barn-elms, without mentioning, that it was the temporary refidence of Cowley the poet. The author of Abraham his life attributes to it a character, which it does not at prefent appear to deferve, and afcribes to the unhealthinefs of the fituation, the diforder which brought him to his grave. " Out of hafte," fays he, '' to be gone out of the tumult and noife of the city, he had not prepared fo heathful a fituation as he might have done, if he had made a more leifurable choice : of this he foon began to find the inconvenience at Barn-elms, where he was affli£led with a dangerous and lingering fever '\" He afterwards removed to Chertfey, where he died. Hughes wrote a fhort poem, entitled Barn-elms, which is printed in his works ; it contains nothing defcriptive or interefting. The church of Barnes is about half a mile from the river ; it is The church. dedicated to St. Mary, and is one of the moft ancient ftrudlures in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. About the time of Richard the Firft, an hofpital was founded " within the liberties of St. Paul's "• Spratt's Life of Cowley, prefixed to his " Dugdale's Hillory of St. Paul's Cathe- Works, in folio, p. 23. dral, p. 19. cathedral, i6 BARNES. cathedral, by Henry de Northampton, one of the canons of that cathedral : to this hofpital the dean and chapter gave the church of Barnes, with the glebe and tythes. As there is no men- tion of a church in the Conqueror's Survey, it is probable that it was firft built about this time. The windows in the north wall of the chancel, are of the architedure of that period, narrow and pointed. The windows in the fouth wall, and in the nave, arc of a later date. The walls are built chiefly of ftone and flint; there is no window at the eaft end, but on the outfide are very evident marks of three narrow windows, which have been flop- ped up. The tower is fquare, with buttrefl'es; it is built of brick, and has a flair- cafe and turret at the fouth-eafl corner. The quoins are of a foft flone, much crumbled ; the windows are fquare and plain. It was ereded probably about the latter end of the fifteenth century, if not much later. The church was confider- ably enlarged on the north fide in the years 1786 and 1787. Monuments. Againfl the north wall of the chancel, is a fmall tablet, to the memory of Sir Thomas Powell, Bart, of Byrkhead, in Chefhire, who died An. 1647, ^^ the houfe of his filler Mary, widow of Richard Cartwright, of Barn- elms. Over the tablet are the arms of Powell : Sable, three rofes Argent, with the arms of Ulfter. On the fame wall is a tablet, to the memory of a former redlor of the church J the infcription is lingular: " Merentiflimo Conjugi " Conjux Moerentiflima. " To the bell of hulbands, John Squier, the late faithful and *' (oh ! that for fo fhort a time) painful rector of this parifh ; *' the only fon to that moll flrenuous propugnator of pietie *' and loyaltie (both by preaching and fulFering), John " Squier, fometime vicar of St. Leonard, Shorditch, near " London. Grace Lynch, who bare unto him one only " daughter. h\^^ ^^&M t\Dk fr'fliiff 2:uftu|fliftpa Urn a^ g ^g^ft)? Mm m foam fB QiioH fgjJiiit^jjcoroTas^a Tomb of 'VMlliani ^MiUeboxaue in Barnes Church /tM.^/.w Af.letJmtv^bnA x^tfi ^Ti'.t.tfii.Som4. BARNES. 17 " daughter, confecrates this (fuch as it is) fmall monument of " their mutual afFedion. " He was invefted with this care, An. 1660, Sept. 2. " He was divefted of all care, An. 1662, Jan. 9. Aged 42 years." Over the tablet are the arms of Squier : Sable, three fwans heads Proper. Upon a flab, near the communion table, before the chancel was ^ new floored, was a figure in brafs of William Millebourn, Efq. who died. An. 1415. He was reprefented in plated armour, with a clofe oval helmet, having a dagger on his right, and a long fword on his left fide. Aubrey defcribes a brafs plate on the north fide of the altar, with the figure of a prieft, and the word Ofanna over him, on each fide, and underneath him : — there was an infcription under it to the memory of a former rector, Nicholas Clarke, who died March 28th, 1480. Againft the north wall of the church, near lady Hoare's gallery, is a monument of white marble, for the late Sir Richard Hoare, Bart, by Hickey; above the infcribed tablet, is a female figure reclining on an urn, and fupporting a medallion of Sir Richard. At the bafe of the monument, are the arms of Hoare impaling Ackland '\ On the outfide of the church, in the fouth wall, is fixed a fmall tab- let of flone between two of the buttrefles, to the memory of Edward Rofe, citizen of London, who died in July 1653. The fpace be- tween the buttrefl'es, is inclofed with wooden pales, and fome rofe trees are planted againfl: the wall on each fide of the tablet. This Mr. Rofe's was done in purfuance of the will '* of the deceafed, who left the fadiion. '' Hoare bears Sab. an eagle difplayed Arg. a fefle Gules, with two necks within a border engrailed .Arg. '' The extraft of Mr. Rofe's will is in the and quarters .Arg. on a chevron engrailed Gules, Minute Book of the veftryof Barnes ; theori- 3 efcallops Or ; in chief, a lion partant. Vert, ginal is in the prerogative court at Canterbury, for Tuliy. Ackland bears cheeky Sab. and It was proved at Weftroinfter. Aug. 26, 1653. Vol. I. D fum i8 BARNES. fum of 2ol. to the poor of the parifli of Barnes; which fum was direded to be laid out in the purchafe of an acre of land, for the benefit of the faid poor ; but the churchwardens M'ere enjoined, out of the profits of this acre, to, keep the above-mentioned wooden pales. in conftant repair, to preferve the rofe trees; and whenever they fhould decay, to fupply their place with others. This man made an Innocent attempt at leaft to perpetuate his name, and it appears to have been an effeftual one, for his will has been punctually complied with; the pales are ftill in good repair, and the rofe trees are healthy and flourifhing, the clerk of the parifh receiving a fmall annual falary for taking care of them. It was formerly only an oc- cafional fervice, as it appears by the parifli accounts : 1688, paid for cleaning Mr. Rofe's tomb - 010 April 6, 1693, paid for nailing the rofe tree — 010 1695, paid Cutle hurtling the trees April I, 1695, paid Cutler for nailing the rofe, and 7 The acre of land having been advantageoufly exchanged, now produces 5I. per annum. Barnes alfo, In common with the other parifhes in Surry, enjoys a benefadion under the will of Mr. Henry Smith, and fome other trifling donations. In 1778, a new workhoufe was built on the common, at the extremity of the parifh, upon a large fcale, at the expence of near a thoufand pounds ; the money was raifed by annuities. The annui- tants were five in number ; they were all fixty years of age, and are ftill living. Reftory. The church of Barnes, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is one of the archbifliop of Canterbury's peculiars. The benefice was originally a vicarage; in archbifliop Courtney's time, it was en- dowed by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, with the great tithes. An. 1388; and John Lenne, or Lynne, the vicar, was inftituted to the BARNES. 19 the new redory ". The prefentation has always been in the dean and chapter, except when they leafed the advowfon with the manor, which they did to the Sayes ", to Thwayte ", the chancellor of the exchequer, and to the Wyats ". Queen Elizabeth '^ prefented to it in 1590, by lapfe. Since the expiration of Wyat's leafe, the dean and chapter have kept the prefentation in their own hands. Walter de Hertilande '^* is the firft vicar upon record ; he was prefented by the dean and chapter in May 1282. It was prefented at the inqulfition at Kingfton, June 28, 1658, before the commiflioners appointed by parliament to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that Barnes was a rectory in the gift of Richard Shute, Efq. of London; and that Mr. Robert Lenthall, who was the prefent minifter, came in by the keepers of the liberty of England, and by the authority of parliament*'. The church of Barnes was taxed in 1291 '*, at thirty-one marks and a half; it is rated in the king's books at 9I. 3s. 4d. Hezekiah Burton was prefented to the re£lory of Barnes, 0£t. Reftors of Barnes. 19th, 1680 " ; he had been chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman, the Hezekiah lord keeper, by whofe intereft he got a canonry of Norwich ; he died at Barnes in 1681, of a malignant fever, which carried off feveral of his family. After his death, archbifhop Tillotfon publifhed his fermons, in two volumes odlavo ; to which he prefixed a fhort biographical preface, wherein he laments that Mr. Burton was taken off in the prime of his life, when he was capable of doing, and likely to do a great deal of good in the world. There is a print of him by White, prefixed to his fermons. He never publifhed any thing in *' Lambeth Regifter, Morton, Eourchier ** Reg. Peckham, f. 52. b. Dean, & Courtney, f. 203. b. *' Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth Li- *'^ Reg. Bourchier, f. 98. b. brary. "' Ibid. f. 124. b. " Sec note 37. p. 10. " Ibid. f. 331. b. f. 352. a. &c. &c. *' Reg. Sancroft, f. 388. b. '-' Reg. Whitgift, pt. i. f. 489. a. * D 2 his 20 BARNES. his life-time, except a preface to Dr. Cumberland's book on the Laws of Nature. Francis Francis Hare, whofe name is well known in the learned world, of chichef- ^^s inftituted to the redory of Barnes, Sept. 3, 1717 '\ which he ^"' held ten years. He was bred at Eton, from whence he removed to King's College, Cambridge, where he was tutor to the marquis of Blandford, fon to the great duke of Marlborough ". His pupil died at college, and was buried in the chapel, and Hare wrote his epitaph. Dr. Hare became fucceffively dean of Worcefter, and bifliop of St. Afaph '" and of Chichefter ; he was engaged in con- jundlion with Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Snape, and bifliop Potter, in what was called the Bangorian Controverfy, with Hoadly, then bilhop of Bangor : befides the pamphlets publilhed in that controverfy, he was author of many learned works, which were colleded together after his death, and publiflied in four volumes, o<^avo. The moft diftinguiflied of his works are, an edition of Terence ; the book of Pfalms in Hebrew, put into the original poetical metre, with annota- tions ; and a fmall tradl, entitled, " The Difficulties and Difcourage- ments which attend the Study of the Scriptures." To this laft pub- lication his name was not prefixed ; it made a great noife at the time, and drew down the cenfures of the convocation. It was of an ironical nature, and was intended as a defence of Dr. Clarke, and Mr. Whifton. Bilhop Hare died in 1740. The prefent incumbent of Barnes is the Right Rev. Chriftopher Wilfon, bilhop of Briftol, and canon refidentiary of St. Paul's. Parifh reglf- The regifter of this parifh commences in 1538, the aera of their firft eftablifhment by Lord Cromwell. *' Lambeth Regifter, Wake, pt. I. f. 301. 2° He was promoted to the bifliopric of a. b. St. Afaph in 1727, and tranflated to Cbichef- *" Biographia Brit. Supplement, p. 101, ter in 1731. 102. 1600 ler BARNES. 21 Average of Births. Average of Barials. Comparative tr /■ ct ftateofpopu- 1600 — 1609 . 8 - - 7 lation. ^ 1680 1689 - 17 - - 23 1780 1789 - 28 - - 34 The entries during the fixteenth century were too imperfe£t to enable me to form an average. It appears by the above ftatement, that the increafe of population has not been proportionably great during the laft century, notwithftanding feveral houfes have been built on the terrace, which, being pleafantly fituated on the banks of the river, is fo much reforted to by families who want an occafional fummer retreat, that, during that feafon, it has the appearance of a public watering place. The prefent number of houfes in the parifli of Barnes is 150. The village being at that time very retired, and no thorough- fare, it probably efcaped the very fatal plague in 1 603 ; in that year Plague of there are only five entries of burials, two of which are the following : ' °^' " Mr. Egerton, the ladie Marie's gentleman ufher, buried " Aug. 6, 1603." " The ladie Marie's chambermaid, buried Sept. ig, 1603." It feems probable, by thefe entries, that the lady Mary, an infant The lady daughter of James the Firft, was fent to Barnes to be out of the way of the ficknefs ; but this does not agree with the accounts of our hiftorians, who do not bring her out of Scotland till after this period. Lady Walfingham was fent to Scotland to bring up fome of the king's children in 1603, and returned, about the beginning of July, with prince Henry and the princefs Elizabeth ". It was then cuftomary for fome of the nobility, or great people about the court, (if one may ufe the expreffion,) to farm the royal children; that " Baker's Chronicle, pt. 4. p. 123. If Sir Thomas, who died 1630. King James Stow's account of the death of Sir Francis granted a penfion of 400 1. per annum, to lady WalfiDgham's widow be accurate, I apprehend Walfingham, in the beginning of his reign, this kdy Walfingham muft have been wife of MS. of Sir Julius Casfar. Brit. Muf. 4160. .Ayfcough's 22 BARNES. is, they difcharged the expences of their board and education by contra£t. The lady Mary died at lord Knevett's, at Stanwell, in 1607; and the lady Elizabeth was educated at lord Harrington's". Whether the keeper of the regifter has miftaken the name, or •whether the annalifts have miftaken it; one of the princefles was moft probably under the care of fome of the Walfingham family at Barn-elms, in 1603. Plague of In 1625 there are entries of thirty-feven burials, a number and i'655. ' much exceeding the average of that period;' four perfons are men- tioned to have died of the plague in 1630. In 1665 ^^'^ 1666, it was not fo fatal here as at fome of the neighbouring villages ; the number of burials in the former year were twenty-feven ; during the two years, nineteen of the burials have a private mark, which I apprehend was intended to point out thofe who fell a vidim to this fatal malady, — a fmall number when compared with its ravages in the neighbouring villages. Befides the above notes extraded from the parifh regifter, I found the following entries, relating to perfons whofe hiftory is in fome degree fingular and curious : Robert Beale. « Robert Beale, counfellor of the north, and dark of the privy " council, departed out of this life, on Monday, at eight of the *' clock at night, being the 25th of May, and is buried in London, " 1601." This Beale married the fifter of Sir Francis Walfmgham's lady, by whofe intereft he found an eafy introdudion to court. He was much in the confidence of the queen, who frequently employed him in her negotiations with Mary queen of Scots, and made choice " Ayfcough'sCat. Rowland White, writing to Sir died 1630, was fon of another Sir Thomas, Robert Sidney, An. 1591, fays, " My lady firft coufin of Sir Francis. Walfingham, I mean the old lady," by '' Lodge's Shrewlbury Papers, vol. iii. which it appears, that there were two ladies of p. Z03, and 324. thatnamecontemporaries. Sidney State Papers, ^^ Camden's Annals, 8vo. 1717, p. 515. V. ii. p. 131. Sir Thomas Walfingham, who of BARNES. 23 of him, In conjundion with lord Buckhurft, to make known to her the fentence of the court. Beale was afterwards fent to Fother- ingay, with the warrant for beheading that unfortunate queen ". He read the fatal inflrument upon the fcafFold, and was a wit- nefs to its execution. He was employed on an embaffy to Zealand, with Sir William Winter, in 1576 " ; and the year before his death, was one of the commifTioners at the treaty of Bologne ^\ Several of his letters upon the bufinefs of the queen of Scots, are printed in Lodge's Shrewfbury Papers. Mr. Lodge, not aware that Beale died two years before his miftrefs, fuppofes that he was difcarded by her fuccefTor. Camden " calls him a man of a uioft impetuous and morofe difpofition. His daughter married Sir Henry Yelverton. " Aug. 23, 1672, buried Mr. Hiam." The right name of this man was Abiezer Coppe^'j he was born Abiczer at Warwick, in 161 9, and was a poft-mafter of Merton college, °^'^' Oxford. After having been by turns, Prefbyterian and Anabaptift, he became one of the wildeft enthufiafts of that fanatical age. He publifhed feveral pamphlets with ftrange titles, and as ftrange con- tents : one of them is dated London, 1648, "two or three days " before the eternal God thundered at Great St. Helens." In 1650, he was committed to Newgate for publifliing a book, called " The fiery flying RolP'." A copy of this book, which was burnt by the hangman in London, Weftminfter, and Coventry, is preferved amongft the colledlion of pamphlets in the Britifh Mufeum, and perhaps it would be in vain to look for it elfewhere ; it abounds with very extravagant flights, and fhocking blafphemies j but the author appears to have been a much better fubjed for Bedlam than New- '♦ Camden's Annals, 8vo. 1717, p. 536. " A. Wood, vol. ii. p. 500—502. " Ibid, p, 304. " Perfea Diurnal, Jan. 14, 1649. '* Vol. ii. p. 262. 273. " P. 394- " Vehementum et auftere acer- bum." gate; 24 BARNES. gate; he had the fenfe, however, after having remained in prifon more than a year, to publifh a recantation called " The Wings of the fiery flying Roll clipped ; or, Coppe's Return to the Ways of Truth :" which is to be found in the fame colle£lion. In Sept. 1650 *°, he was brought before the Houfe of Commons, but it was fome time before he procured his liberty ; when, being unwilling to expofe himfelf again to danger, and alarmed probably at the fevere punilhment of his brother enthufiaft, James Naylor, he changed *' his name to Higham, and went to refide at Barn-elms, where he pradlifed as a phyfician till his death, preaching likewife occafionally in fome of the neighbouring conventicles. " June 10, 1697, Mrs. Ann Baynard buried." Ballard *\ in his Memoirs of learned Ladies, beflows twelve pages on the chara£ter of Anne Baynard ; this character is, for the moft part, taken from her funeral fermon*' preached at Barnes, by John Prade, A.M. June 16, 1697. He tells us, that fhe was fo fond of the ftudy of divinity, that fhe learned Greek to read St. Chryfoftom in the original ; befides which, fhe had numberlefs other accomplifhments, on which, as fhe poflelTed them in com- mon with many young ladies, both of that and of the prefent age, I fhall not enlarge : there is not now the leaft trace of her monument, which was at the eaft end of the church-yard. The infcrlption is copied from Aubrey : " Here lies that happy maiden, who often faid, " That no man is happy until he is dead ; " That the bufmefs of life is but playing the fool, " Which hath no relation to faving the foul : *° Several Proceedings in Parliament, Oft. Hiftorical Diftionary, 1744. vol. iii. p. 288. 3, 1650, and Perfeft Paflages, fame date. 290. 41 A.Wood. *' Itwaspubliftiedin 4to. 1697. ** P. 349 — 361. See likewife Collier's Great « For :r the fun, i lot done, > lie in this one. J BARN *' For all the tranfadion that's under the fun, *' Is doing of nothing — if that be not " All wifdom and knowledge does li " Anne Baynard obiit " June 12. An. setat. fuse 25. Chrifti " 1697. " O mortales! quotufquifque veftrum cogitet ex hoc momento " pendet seternitas." 25 Vol. I. [ 26 ] T BAT TERSE A. H E parifh of Batterfea lies in the hundred of Brixton, and is fituated near the river Thames, about three miles from Weftminfter-Bridge. The name has undergone feveral changes. Etymology. In the Conqueror's Survey, it is called Patricefy ; and has fmce been written Battrichfey, Batterfey, and Batterfea, each variation carry- ing it ftill farther from its original fignification. Much vague con- jecture has been beftowed upon the etymology of this name, both by thofe who have feen the more ancient records, and thofe who have attempted to derive it from the more recent mode of fpelling it. Aubrey derives the name from St. Patrick '. Lambarde, who quotes Leland for his authority, (though I have not been able to find any thing on the fubjedl in his printed works,) indulges in the moft ridiculous conjedures \ Of the original fignification of the word, I think there can be little doubt. Patricefy, in the Saxon, is Peter's water, or river ; and as the fame record which calls it Patricefy, mentions that it was given to St. Peter, it might then firft afTume that appellation ; but this I own to be conjedture. Peterfham, which is written precifely the fame in Doomfday, Patriceham, belonged to St. * Vol.i. p. 135. Aubrey was mifled by fee- ing houfe of the archbifliops of York. Topo- ing it written Patricefy, inftead of Petricefy, in graphical Diftionary, p. 48. To confute fo Doomfday; but the Normans were not very abfurd an etymology, it is fcarcely neceflary to accurate fpellers. Peterfham was written in the fay, that the archbiihops of York had no pro - fame manner with an a. perty in Batterfea till the reign of Edward. IV. * Batterfey, fays he, quafi Boterfey; becaufe it was near the waterfide, and was the remov- Peter's BATTERSEA. 27 Peter's Abbey, Chertfey, and retains it's original name a little modernifed. The parifh of Batterfea is bounded on the eaft by Lambeth ; on Boundary the fouth by Camberwell, Stretham, and Clapham ; on the weft by Wandfworth ; and on the north by the river Thames. The land is pretty equally divided between arable (garden ground included) and pafture. The greater part of Wandrworth common, which extends nearly two miles in length towards Stretham, and a confiderable part of Clapham common are in the parifh of Batterfea. The northern extremity of the latter, is called Batterfea-Rife ; and is ornamented Batterfea with feveral villas, it being a fpot much admired for its pleafant fitu- ation, and fine profpe£t. Penge common, in a detached part of the parifh adjoining to Beckenham in Kent, is two miles in circum- ference. The parifh is rated to the land-tax, at thefum of 817I. los. which is fuppofed to be about is. 9 d. in the pound. Above three hundred acres of land in the parifh of Batterfea are occupied by the market gardeners, of whom there are about twenty Market gar- who rent from five or fix, to near fixty acres each. Thefe gardeners employ, in the fummer feafon, a confiderable number of labourers, though perhaps not fo many as is generally fuppofed ; on an average, I am informed, not one to an acre. The wages of the men are from ten to twelve, of the women from five to feven fhillings, by the week. Moft of the women travel on foot from Shropfhire and North-Wales in the fpring ; and, as they live at a very cheap rate % many of them return to their own country much richer than when they left it. The foil of the ground occupied by the gardeners is fandy, and requires a great deal of rain. The vegetables which they raife, are in general very fine; their cabbages and afpa- ^ 1 am credibly informed, that many of that their diet confills in a great meafure of them live upon IS. 6d. per week. To account the produce of the gardens, which they have for which, it will be neceffary to obferve, gratis. E 2 ragus, 28 B A T T E R S E A. ragus, particularly, have acquired celebrity. Fuller, who wrote in the year 1660, fpeaking of the gardens in Surrey, fays, " Garden- " ing was firft brought into England for profit, about feventy years " ago; before which we fetched moft of our cherries from Holland, " apples from France, and had hardly a mefs of rath ripe peas but " from Holland, which were dainties for ladies, they came fo far, and " coft fo dear. Since gardening hath crept out of Holland, to Sand- " wich, Kent, and thence to Surrey, where, though they have given " 61. an acre and upwards, they have made their rent, lived com- " fortably, and fet many people on work. Oh, the incredible profit " by digging of ground ! for though it be confefled, that the plough " beats the fpade out of diftance for fpeed, (almoft as much as the " prefs beats the pen,) yet what the fpade wants in the quantity of *' the ground it manureth, it recompenfeth with theplenty of the food " it yieldeth, that which is fet multiplying a hundred fold more than " that which is fown. 'Tis incredible how many poor people in London " live thereon, fo that, in fome feafons, the gardens feed more people " than the field *." I hope to have it in my power, before the con- clufion of the prefent work, to give a general view of the prefent ftate of gardening in the neighbourhood of London, and to afcertain, pretty nearly, what quantity of ground is occupied for that purpofe. The rent of land in Fuller's time, appears to have been extremely high. The gardens at Batterfea pay 7s. 6d. an acre for tithes to their vicar. Manor. The manor of Batterfea, which before the Gonqueft belonged to earl Harold, was given by the Conqueror to Weftminfter- Abbey, in exchange for Windfor. The record of Doomfday mentions fome difmemberments of the manor, by the bifhop of Baieux and earl Morton. Thefe lands probably formed the eftate which afterwards came to the Stanleys. There is a hide of land ♦ Fuller's Worthies, pt. 3. p. 77. likewife BATTERSEA. likewife mentioned, which belonged to the Abbey of Chertfey, of which a fingular circumftance is recorded ; that, on account of fome quarrel, the provoft of the village' detached it from the manor of Batterfea, and threw it into that of Chertfey. The manor was valued in the Confeflbr's time at Sol. it afterwards funk in value to 30I. and at the time of the Survey was eftimated at 75 1. In the taxa- tion of 1 29 1, the poffeffions of the Abbey of Weftminfter, in Batterfea, were rated at 15I.* Thomas Aftle, Efq. has an original deed of archbifhop Theobald, confirming a charter of king Stephen, by which he exempts the greater part of this manor from all taxes and fecular payments. Dart mentions feveral charters relating to Batterfea'; viz. William the Conqueror's original grant; a charter of privileges ; and a grant to the Abbot of Weftminfter, of liberty to hunt in his manor; a charter of confirmation by Henry the Firft ; and another of king Stephen ; befides that of privileges before-mentioned. After the diifolution of monafteries, the manor was referved in the hands of the crown ; a leafe of it was granted to Henry Roydon ", Efq. by queen Elizabeth, for twenty-one years, in the eighth year of her reign ; it was afterwards granted for the fame term to his daughter, then Joan Holcroft' ; it was afligned, amongft others, for the maintenance of prince Henry, An. 1610 '°. In the year 1627, ^^ was granted in reverfion to Oliver St. John, Vifcount Grandifon ". Lord Grandifon died in 1630, and was fucceeded in that title, and in the Batterfea eftate, by William Villiers, his great-nephew, who died of a wound received at the fiege of Briftol, An. 1644. Sir ' Prsfeftus villrc. The proved, bailiff, or printed in the colledlion of Royal Eflablifli- reeve. ments, by the Society of Antiquaries 1790, ® See note 38. p. ic. p. 315. ' Dart's Hill, of Weftminfter Abbey, vol. i. " Pat. 3 Car. i. pt. 34. May 5. The p. 21. whole of the Jefcent of the manor of Batterfea, Pat. 8 Ellz.pt. II. July 8. from this period, I owe to the information 29 ' Pat 34 Eliz. pt. 15. Sept. 4. of earl Spencer's fteward. '" Harleian MSB. Brit. Muf. 642. f. 239. John 30 BATTERSEA. John St. John, Bart, nephew of the firft lord Grandifon, inherited Batterfea ; from him it pafled in a regular defcent to Sir Walter St. John, Bart, his nephew; to Sir Walter's fon, Henry Vifcount St. John ; and to his grandfon Henry Vifcount Bolingbrooke, who, by an ad of parliament pafled before his father's death, was enabled to inherit his eftate, notwithftanding his attainder: the eftate and manor continued in the St. John family till 1763, when it was bought in truft for John Vifcount Spencer, and is now the property of the prefent earl Spencer. A pedigree of the St. John family, from the time of their firft fettling at Batterfea, explaining at one view the defcent of the manor, which has been erroneoufly ftated in the peerage '\ is hereto annexed. Cuftomof In this manor lands defcend to the youngeft fon ; but in default of the manor. fons, they do not go to the youngeft daughter, but are divided among the daughters equally. The Stanley family had a confiderable eftate here, which was alienated in the reign of Edward IV. by John Stanley, Efq. one moiety thereof became the property of Anne, duchefs of Bucking- ham '\ the king's aunt ; the other confifting of near 400 acres of land, with houfes, &c. was purchafed by Lawrence Booth '*, then bifhop of Durham, and by him annexed to the fee of York, of which he was afterwards archbifhop. He is faid to have built the Yorlc-houfe. houfe upon this eftate, near the water-fide, now called York-houfe ". It was intended as a refidence for his fucceflTors, when their affairs fhould call them to London; and fourfcore acres of lan3'were re- ferved by a fpecial claufe in their farmer's leafe to be furrendered to the archbifhop, to ufe as demefne lands at a month's notice, whenever '* CoUins's Peerage, edit. 1756. Laur. Ep. Dunelm, &c. '' Pat. II Edw. IV. pt. 2. m. 10. '^ Morris's Lives of eminent Cambridge '♦ CI. 39 Hen. VI. m. 11 dorfo. Thomas Men. Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 1776. p. 12. Dom. de Stanley, &c. ratif. ftatum and poflefs. he PED I GREE I Oliver St. John, Vifcount the firft of the family who fettle obtained a Grant of the Manoi 1630, without liTue. I Sir John St. John, Bart, became poflefled of the Batterfea eftate by a Grant from his Nephew, Wi LLi AM VifcountGRANDisoN. Ob. 1648. Anne, Daugh- ter of Sir Tho- mas Leigh- ton. Oliver St. JoHN.diedbe- fore his Father. Catharine, Daughter of Ho RATIO Lord Verb, William, kill- ed at Ciren- cefler under Prince Rupert, died without IfTue. John St. John, a Minor, inherited the Batterfea eflates ; died before he came of age, and was fucceeded by Sir Walter, his Uncle. Margaret, Widow of Sir Richard Grub ham, Knt. 2d. Wife. Eleanor, Wife of SirWiLLiAuST. John, married at Batterfea 161 1. Sir William was buried there, 1641. Edward, flain at the battle of Newbury, died without Iflue. Nici wit Anne, Wife of Sir Henry Francis Lee, Bart, and fecondly of He N R y WiLMOT,Earl of Rochefter. I Henry Vifcount St. John, in- herited the eftate at Batterfea. Ob. 1742. Mary, Daughter and Coheir of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. Angelica Magdaleine, Tj^~ ~ PiLLESARY, of the kingdor ^""'^ *' ^"°'- , ° MONDELEY, *~~ Efq. Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke, attainted An. 17 14; being enabled by Aft of Parliament, pafled in 1725, to inherit notwith (landing his attainder, fucceeded his father in the Batterfea eftate, and died without IfTue in 1753. Frances, Daugh- ter and Co-heir of Henry Wi Efq NCHCOMB, . Srft Wife. ccJ" To front Page 30. Mary Clara desChamps de Marcelly Marchionefs DE Villette, fccond Wife. RobertKnight, afterwards Earl of Cather- lougb, in Ire- land. I luried at Batter- l of the family 'ault there. PEDIGREE of St. JOHN of BATTERSEA. NitHOL AS St. John, of Lydi- ard Tregozc. Elizabeth, Daughicr of Sir Rd. Blount. J_ Oliver St. John, Vifcouni Grandison, the firft of the family who fccded at Baitcrfea, obtained a Grant of the Manor 3 Ch. T. died 1630, without IfTuc. JoAN.Daughierof Henrv Roy don, El'q. of Batterfca, and relidtof Sir William H0LCB.0FT, Knight. SirJoMN St.Johk. Kjit. of Lydiard I Tregozc. Lltcy, Daughter 1 and Heir of Sir Walter HoNCEKfORD. I I Sir John St. John, BarL became poffeffed of the Baticrfea ellate by a Grant from his Nephew, William VifcountGnANDisoN. Ob. 1648. Anne, Daugh- terofSIrTHO- 1 MAS Leigh- ton. ' Mauca RET, Widow of Sir RlCHA RD Gkub iAM, Km. 2d . Wife. John Sir Edw. Vil- LiEKs,Kni. Lucv Sit Ar , Wife of Allem LeY>Knl. Willi M VlLLIE RS, inherited th Title of Gba sotJ, aiK the Batterfea ellate from his great SON ; Uncle, Oliver Vifcount CiRAK 01- he granted the edate to his Uncle, Sir Jo«» St . John. Oh. 1644. Jake Wife of ■ Ayte, fccondly of Sir Charles Pleydell, Knt. Catha Wife RINB, of Sir Charles mompesson, Km. Oliver St. JoHN,diedbc- CaTH ARINE, Daughter of HoR ,1 T I o Lord Vere. 1 Will. A ed at cefter Prince died t lITue. M, kiU- Ciren- under Rupert, vithout EowARDiflainal the battle of Newbury, died without llFue. Nicholas, died without liTue. John, (lain in the North, died without Iffue. I A Daughter of Sir John Ay- I loHN St. John, a Minor, inherited the I Batterfea eilatcs ; died before he came of age, and was fucceeded by Sir Walter, his Uncle^ SirWALTJRST. John, Bart, fucceeded his NcphewJoHN, in the Batter- fea ellate. Ob. 1703. I Henry Vifcount St. John, in- herited the ellate at Batterfea. Ob. 1741. Mary, Daughter and Coheir of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. Angelica Magdaleine, Daughter of George Pillesary, of the kingdom of France, fecond Wife. J__\ L John, Francis, and Edward, died young. Joan, Daughter of Oliver St. John, Lord Chief Jullice. Henry St John. .atherinb. Daughter of Lord Chief JuiliceST. John. I Walter died young. Anne, Wife of Anthony Bowyer, of Camberwetl. ARBARA St. John. == Sir John Top, Bart. I I Eleanor. Wife of SirWiLLIAMST. John, married at Batterfea 161 1. Sir William was buried there, 164,. Anne, Wife of SirHENRr Francis Lee, Bart, and fccondly of Henry WiLMOT,EarI of Rocheiler. Akne St. John. h= T now Al C MOL- uo^ DEL Y, KIT Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke, attainted An. 1714; being enabled by Aft of Parliament, paffed in 1725. to inherit notwithftanding his atcaindL'r, fucceeded his father in the Batterfea cftaie, and died without Iffue in 1753. Frances, Daugh- ter and Co-heir of riENRY Wi NCHCOMB, = Efq . firlV Wife. George St. John, diedwithoutlfTue, .7.6. John Vifcount St. JoH N.dicdin Francci 1749. A Daughter of Sir Robert Fur- NESS, Bart. _L HoLLEs St. John, Equerry to ijuecn Caroline, died 1733, aged 27. RobertKn ICHT, afterwards Earl of Cathc loueh, in land. Ire- Mary Clara desChamps Dt Marcelly Marchioncfs DE Villette, fecond Wife. Frederick Vifcoun St John, fucceeded Vifcount BOLINGBROKE in that title, and in the Batterfea eftaie, which was lold by him to John Vifcount Spencer, in 1763 Lady Diana Spencer. cj" To front Page 30. Charlott« died young, buried at Batter- fea, 1762; being the lall of the family interred in ihc S r. Joh n vault there. o B A T T E R S E A. 31 he fliould be refident at Batterfea, or within fixty miles of that place. This claufe had been infringed before archbifliop Grindall's time, and his predeceflbrs had been unjuftly deprived of the lafe of the aforefaid land. Grindall had a fuccefsful fuit with the farmer, and leafed the eftate to a new tenant with the ufual agreement. The houfe was formerly an occafional refidence of the archbifliops ; but, for more than a century, it has been occupied only by tenants. Tradition, with its ufual fondnefs for appropriation, fpeaks of Wol- fey's refidence there ; and the room is yet (hown in which he enter- tained Anne Bulleyn : but befides the improbabihty that Wolfey, who, when he was archbifhop of York, lived in as great and fome- times in greater ftate than the king himfelf, and was owner of two moft magnificent palaces, fhould refide in a houfe which would not have contained half his retinue ; it is well known that thefe enter- tainments were given at York-houfe, Whitehall. To fpeak of a circumftance for which there is authority : — When Archbifliop archbifhop Holgate was committed to the Tower by queen °sate. Mary, in 1553, the officers, who were employed to apprehend him, rifled his houfe at Batterfea, and took away from thence " 300 1. of gold coin, 1600 ounces of plate, a mitre of fine gold, " with two pendants fet round about the fides and midft, with very " fine pointed diamonds, fapphires, and balifts ; and all the plain, with " other good ftones and pearls ; and the pendants in like manner, " weighing 125 ounces ; fome very valuable rings, a ferpent's tongue " fet in a ftandard of filver gilt, and graven ; the archbifhop's feal in " filver } and his fignet an antique in gold '^" Holgate was after- wards deprived of his bifhopric, to which he was never reftored ". The church of Batterfea is fituated on the banks of the Thames • '^^^ church. it is a modern ftrudure, and has neither aifles nor chancel j the com- •« Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 308. being a married man. Fuller's Worthies, '' Archbifhop Holgate was deprived for pt. 3. p. 194. 2 munion- 32 BATTERSEA. munion-table is placed within a finall recefs, at the eaft end. It was rebuilt by an adl of parliament, pafled 14 Geo. 3. and was opened on the 17th of November 1777. It is of brick, and has a tower, with a fmall conical fpire at the weft end. The eaft win- dow confifts of painted glafs, which was carefully preferved at the rebuilding of the church, and contains portraits of Henry the Seventh; his grandmother, Margaret Beauchamp; and queen Eliza- beth : they do not appear to have been coeval with the perfons they reprefent, but of a more recent date. Over the portraits, are the royal arms in the central compartment; and on each fide, the arms " and quaiterings of the St. Johns : the portraits are likewife furrounded with borders, containing the arms " of the families allied to them by marriage. The former church was built of brick, and therefore probably not very ancient. A church is mentioned in Doomfday. Befides " St. John bears Arg. on a chief Gul. two mullets Or, and quarters, i. Az. a bend Ar- gent cottifed between Ax martlets Or, for Delabere. 2. Arg. a fefTe between fix cinque- foils Gu. for Umfreville. 3. Erm. on a feffe Az. three crofles moline Or. 4. Gu. a feffe between fix martlets Or, for Beauchamp. 5. Arg. a fefle Sab. between three crefcents Gu. for Patilhall. 6. Paly of fix Arg. and Az. on a bend Gu. three eagles difplayed Or, for Grandifon. 7. Az. two bars gemelles, and in chief a lion paffant Or, for Tregoze. 8. Arg a feffe Gu. between three mullets of fix points Sab. for Ewyas. 9. Arg. a faltire engrailed Sab. on a chief of the fecond, two mullets of the firft, for Iwarby or Ewarby. 10. Or, three lions paffant, in pale Sab. for Carew. 1 1 . Az. three b.nileaxes Arg. 12. Sab. two bars Arg. in chief three plates, for Hungerford. 13. Per pale indented Gu. and Vert, over all a chev- ron Or^ 14. Arg. three to.ads Sab. for Bot- reux. 15. Paly Wavy Or and Gules. All thefe ire quartered on one (hield, with a Vifcount's coronet ; the eleven firft are quartered by St. John, Bart, on another. ■' In the border round Margaret Beau- champ's portrait, are the following arms : I. Tregoze impaling Ewyas. 2. Grandifon impaling them both, quartered. 3. Patilhall impaling the three laft, quartered. 4. St. John impaling the laft four, quartered. 5. Arg. a chevron Az. over all a lion ramp. Gu. crowned Or, impaling St. John. 6. Az. fretty Arg. impaling St. John. 7. Az. a chevron en- grailed between three owls Or, impaling St. John. 8. Arg. a crofs patonce Az. between four mullets Gu. impaling St. John. g. Az. two cinquefoils in chief, and a fleur-de-lis in bafe, Arg. impaling St. John. 10. Arg. a chief Az. over all a lion ramp. Gu. on a Canton Or, a Ihield of the fecond, charged with 3 mullets of the fourth ; impaling Arg. on three bars Sab. fix trefoils of the field 3, 2, and i. 11. Arg. a crofs patonce Az. between four mullets Gu. im- paling Barry of fix Arg. and Gu. 12. Az. fretty Arg. impaling quarterly indented Az. and BATTERSEA. 23 Befides the monuments of the St. John family, which will be noticed hereafter, there is a very fingular one to the memory of Sir Edward Wynter, who lived at York-houfe, and whofe ex- Sir Edward Wynter. ploits furpafs even the heroic achievments of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ", who, alone and in his fhirt, chafed a hoft of midnight robbers from his houfe. Sir Edward Wynter's monument is againft the fouth wall ; on the top is his buft of a large fize, with whifk- ers ; underneath the infcription, is a bafTo-relievo reprefenting him in the a£t of performing the two exploits mentioned in his epitaph ; which is as follows : « P. M. S. " Edwardi Wynter, *' Equitis, qui adhuc impuber, ex patria proficifcens in Orien- " talibus Indiis raercaturam feliciter exercuit, magnas opes " comparavit, majores conflaturus fi non fpreviflet. Ibidem " fplendide vixit et honorifice. Poft annos 42 Angliam revifit. " Uxorem duxit Emma filia Rich. Howe armig. Norfolc. « Deceffit Mar. 2\ An. xtat. 64. Dni. 1685-6. " Pofuit Marito optime de fe merito " Uxor moeftiffima." and Arg. 13. Az. a chevron engrailed Or, between two birds of the fecond, a chief cheeky between three owls proper, impaling Az. a Or, and Sab. for Pleydell, impaling St. John, chevron Erm. between three fleurs-de-lis Arg. 9. Arg. on a crofs Gu. five efcallops Or, for within a border engrailed Or. In the border Villiers, impaling St. John. 10. St. John which furrounds the portrait of queen Eliza- impaling Hungerford, quartered with per pale beth, are thefe arms. 1 . Az. three battle-axes indented Gu. and Vert, over all a chevron Or. Arg. 2. Carew impaling Az. three battle-axes 11. Arg. on a chevron engrailed Sab. three Arg. 3. Iwarby impaling the two lad, quar- bucks' heads cabolTed of the field, between tered. 4. St. John impaling the three laft, three etoiles of fix points Gu. impaling Sc. quartered. 5. St. John impaling barry nebu- John. 12. St. John impaling St. John. 13. ly Or, and Sab. for Blount. 6. St. John Barry of fix Arg. and Gu. a canton Erm. for impaling quarterly indented Or, and Gu. Apfley, impaling St. John. for Leighton. 7. Arg. a lion ramp. Sab. '' Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, p. on his (houlder a martlet Or, impaling St. 126. John. 8. .Arg. a bend Gu. gutty of the firft. Vol. I. F " Born 34 BATTERSEA. *' Born to be great in fortune as in mind, Too great to be within an ifle confin'd ; Young, helplefs, friendlefs, feas unknown he tried ; But Englifh courage all thofe wants fupplied. A pregnant wit, a painful diligence, Care to provide, and bounty to difpenfe; Join'd to a foul fuicere, plain, open, juft, Procur'd him friends, and friends procur'd him truft: Thefe were his fortune's rife, and thus began This hardy youth, rais'd to that happy man. A rare example, and unknown to the moft Where wealth is gain'd, and confcience is not loft: Nor lefs in martial honor was his name, Witnefs his adtions of immortal fame: Alone unarm'd, a tyger he opprefs'd, And crufh'd to death the monfter of a beaft. Twice twenty mounted Moors he overthrew Singly on foot, fome wounded, fome he flew, Difpers'd the reft, — what more could Sampfon do ? True to his friends, a terror to his foes. Here now in peace his honor'd bones repofe !" " Vita peregrinatio." His widow was married the year after his deceafe, to Sir James Fuller, and died in 1710. The monument was reftored after the rebuilding of the church, by his great-grandfon, Edward Hamp- fou Wynter, Efq. On a tablet at the foot of it, are memorials for Mrs. Catharine Wynter, who died 1771 ; and William Woodftock Wynter, who died 1747; and on each fide, the arms of Wynter and Howe ". " Wynter, bears Sab. a feff. Erm. & impales Arg. a chevron between 3 wolves heads erafed. Sable for Howe. At BATTERSEA. 35 At the eaft end of the church, over the north gallery, is a monu- ment to the memory of Sir John Fleet, alderman of London, who died in 171 2. Over the fouth gallery is another, to the memory of Mr. James Bull, merchant, who died in 171 3. The other mo- numents mentioned by Aubrey, were not preferved at the rebuilding of the church. The church of Batterfea is dedicated to St. Mary ; it is in the Vicarage. diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Southwark; the bene- fice is a vicarage. Laurence, Abbot of Weftminfter, firft procured the appropriation of the great tithes for that abbey about the year 1 159 ". The monks of Weftminfter were to receive out of it two marks, referving fufficient to the vicar to fupport the epifcopal burdens and himfelf. I find that the redory was held by John ", bifhop of Winchefter, in the time of Philip and Mary ; and that it was after- wards granted to Downing and Aftiton "'*, with the advowfon of the vicarage, which in a MS. of Sir John Dodderidge "', is men- tioned amongft the livings in the gift of the crown. The advow- fon was granted, with the manor, to the St. Johns ; and has con- tinued annexed to it ever fince. At the taxation, An. 1291 ", the I'edtory was rated at twenty-fix marks and an half; the vicarage at fix marks and forty pence. The vicarage is valued in the king's books, at 13 1. 15 s. 2[ d. It was pre- fented^' at the inquifition held at Kingfton June 28th, 1658, that the redory of Batterfey, impropriated to Sir Walter St. John, was worth Sol. per An.; that the vicarage was worth about 100 1. per An. ; that Penge, a member of Batterfey, was feveri miles from the parifli church, and contained twelve families; that they could not find a convenient place in the hundred, or county, to unite " Widmore's Hift. of Weftminfter Abbey, '' Brit. Muf. 3479. Ayfcough's Cat. p. 29. " See note p. 10. " Terrier of Lands in Surrey. Brit. Muf. '' Parliamentary Surveys, LambetJi Li- 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. brary. »+ Ibid. • F 2 it 36 BATTERSEA. it to; that the neareft place of public worfhip, was Beckenham in Kent, about a mile diftant : the commiflioners were vefted with powers to unite or feparate parifhes, as occafion required ; but they did nothing in this cafe. The principal profits of the vicarage, arife from the tithes of the gardens. There are two terriers *' of Batterfey in the regifter at Winchefter, faftened together, of the dates of 1619 and 1636. Vicars of Owen Ridley, who was inftituted to the vicarage of Batterfea, Batterfea. . , An. 1570, appears to have been involved m a tedious litigation with his parifhioners, and to have encountered no fmall fhare of perfecution from them. The circumftance would not have been worth recording but for two curious petitions which it produced ; the originals of which are in the pofleflion of the prefent vicar, by whom they have been obligingly communicated. One of them is from certain of the inhabitants to Dr. Swale, one of her ma- jefty's high commiflioners for caufes ecclefiaftical ; in which they ftate many grievances which they had fufFered from their vicar during the fpace of eighteen years; amongft other crimes alleged againft him, is that of converfing with a witch. The obje which has continued in the family to the prefent time, by lineal defcent, though the male branch has twice failed : in both inftances the reprefentative in the female line has taken the name and arms of Carew. Sir Nicholas Racket Carew, Bart, by his will ", dated July ift, 1762, left his eftates to his daughter for life; after her deceafe to the eldeft: fon of John Fountain, dean of York, and his ilTue male : in default of fuch, to every other of the dean's fons, in fucceflion. On the failure of iffue male, from the dean of York, the eftate was entailed upon the eldeft: fon of Richard Gee, Efq. of Orpington, in Kent, who is now the next in the remainder; the dean's only fon having died before he attained the age of twenty-five, when he was to inherit. Richard Gee, Efq. purfuant to the will of Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew, Bart, has taken the name and arms of •5 Harleian MSS. 1419. mentation office. '* Terrier of lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf- '^ i Edw. VI. No. 470;. Ayfcough's Cat. it refers to Efch. '» Pat. 2 & 3 P. & M. pt. 4. Jan. 2. 6 Edw. VI. " Prerogative Court. " Grants of lands by Edw. VI. in the Aug- 2 that PEDIGREE of CAREW of BEDDINGTON. Arms. Or, three Lions, paflant in pale, Sable. Cr To front Page $3. John dc Cab RU, fccond Son of John dcCARRU, Lord of Carru, Molesford, and Odron, and eijjhth in Dcfcent from Odo, who firft look the Name of Carrio or Carru from the CalUe of that Name, in the County of Pembroke. Margaret, Daughter of John Mohun, of Dunder. John de Carru, Portionift of the Church 1 of Bcddington, died before 1390. Nicholas dc Carru, third Son, fettled at Bcd- dingcon. Keeper of ihc Privy Seal, died 1390. Lucy, Daughter and Heir of Sir Richard Willoughbv, of Beddiogton, and Widow of Sir Thomas Huscakl, of the fame Place. Nicholas de Carru, died 143Z, aged 70. isA BELLA, a Daughter of De l a m a k , died many Years before her Hulband. Firft Wife. Me R CI A, Daughter of Stephen HtYME. fecond Wife. 1 Nicholas deCARHu died HiS. Margaret, Daughter of Sir Roger Feknis, Km. furvived her Huiband. Thomas de Carru. Nicholas de Carru. died 6 Edw. JV. 1466. Mar icARBT, Daughter of WARD LaNGFORD. James de Carru, died 3 Hen. VIL Eleonoba, one of the Daughters of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hast- ^il I NGs.and of his fecond Wife Ele A NOR, Daughtcrof Leonard Lord Welles, of which Family her liTuc were alfo Co-Heirs. I I Nicholas de CARRU.died without Ifl'ue. Sainche de Car ru. 1'his Sainche and her Sillers had a Law-Suit for the Manors of Beddington,&c. with their Uncle James, which was dctermiDcd in Favour of the Male Heir. Sir John IWARBY, OrEwARBY. Elizabeth, Wife of Walter TwYKYHO. Anne, Wife of Christopher I Tropnell. Sir Richard Carew, Knl. Banneret, Lieutenant of Calais, &c. died 1520. Magdalen, Daughter of Sir Robert OxENBRiDce, Knt, died in t;44. Sir Nicholas Carew, K. G. Mailer of iheHorfe to Henry Vlll. beheaded 1539. Elizabeth, Daughter of SitThomas Brian, Knt. and Siller and Co Heir of SirTHOs.and Sir Francis Brian. Margaret, Wife of Jo HK St. John. Eliza BETH , Wife of Sir Tho Fet- TYPL ACE, Knt. 1 Mary. Wife of Sir Wm. Pelham. Anne, Wife of Ni- cholas Leigh, of Addington. Sir Francis Carew, died without l/Tue 1607, aged 81. Anne Carew. = Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Elizabeth, Wife of Hall. Maria, Wife of Sir Arthur Darcv. , Wife of William Saun- ders, of Ewell. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, youngeft Son adopted by Sir Francis his Uncle, aiTumed the Name and Arms of Carew ; died in 1643. Mary, Daughter of Sir George More, of Lofely. Sir Francis Carew, K.i died in 1649. Susanna, Daughter of Sir Wi lli am RoMENEV, died in 1659, Edmu n d Ca rb' died in 1654. Oliph Carew, died in 1670. Mary Carew, died in 1631. Elizabet Carew, Sir Nicholas Carew. Knl. died in 1687, aged 51. Susanna, Daughter of Sir Jusi nian IsHAM, died in 1707, Rebecca Carew. Thomas Tem- ple, £fq. SUSANN Carew Elizabeth Carew, died in 1640. Philippa Carew died in 1655. Frances Carew died in 1641. Francis Carew, Efq. died in 1689, aged 26. Anne, Daughter of Wi l l 1 a m BoTELER, Efq, died in 16S9. Sir Nicholas Carew, created a Bart. 1714. died in 1727, aged 59. Elizabeth, Daughter of Nicmol Hacket, Efq. died in 1740. JusTiKi AN Cari died in 1668. RjCHA R D Carew, died in 16S9. 1 JaneCa in 16S9, Ew, died .ged 2i. Phil IP A Ca REW, born in 1666. died in 1744. Hon. John Beaumont SonofSAPCOTT Vifc' BEAUMONTfillHuiband. JoHK Fountavne, Efq. of Melton, Yorklhire. Elizabeth Carew only Daughter. Boteler Carew, born and died in 16S9. Nicholas Carew, Efq. died in 1722, aged 35. Ann, Daughter of Sir Steth en Lennard, Ban. died in 1722. Elizabeth Carew died in 1751. Richard Gee, Efq. died in 1791, aged 8;. An n, Daughter of Charles Montague, Efq. _| John Fount AY NE, Dean of York, fecond Son, new living. 1 Thomas Fouk t ayne, Efq. eldell Son, died without lltue. Elizas Heir 0/ Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew, Bart, died 1762, aged 42. |""] Katherine, Daughter of John Martin, Efq. died in 1762. T • Richard Gee, Efq. the next the Beddington Ellatc, alTumed thi Arms of Ca REW, by A€t of Parlia purfuant to the Will of Sir BEDDINGTON. 53 that family. The annexed pedigree of the Carew family, which has been fettled at Beddington for twelve generations, will explain the fucceflion more diftintlly. The manor of Bandon " belonged to the Carews, as early as they Bandon had any property in Beddington ; it took its name probably from Margery de Bandon, or fome one of that name, whofe property it was; ^i?rland is mentioned in an old rental of Reginald Forefters. The manor of Forefter, or Forefters, took its name likewife from Forefters its owner. Reginald Forefter had a licence for an oratory ^^ in his manor- houfe, in the parifh of Beddington, in 1347. The manor is fuppofed to have been of very fmall extent, and appears to have been alienated to the Carews at an early period. Frere's manor in this parifh belonged to the hofpital of St. Frere's Thomas, In Southwark, and was granted to Nicholas de Careu temp. Ric. II. in exchange for fome lands in Lambeth ". I find one record relating to a manor, which by the date ^* appears Archbilhop to be diftin(3: from any of the above-mentioned; it is a grant manor. from the archbifhop of Nazareth ^\ in the reign of Edward III. of his manor of Beddington, to John Burgeys, citizen of London, for thirteen years. The manor-houfe at Beddington is fituated near the church ; Beddington . f, manor-houfe. It IS built of brick, and occupies three fides of a fquare : the centre confifts of a large and lofty hall, with a beautiful Gothic roof of wood ; the north wing is a mere fhell, the infide having been de- ft:royed by fire, foon after the houfe was rebuilt in its prefent form, about the year 1709. The great door of the hall has a curious " It is always joined in the records with ** CI. 26 Edw. III. m. 26. dorfo. Beddington ; and was held of the king in ca- *' He was one of the bifhops in partibus pite. Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 70Z5. f. 203. infidelium. There was likewife the bifliop of " Regift. Winton, W. de Edindon. pt. 2. Joppa, the biihop of Bethlehem, and many f. 13. a. more. They are ftill continued in catholic *' Pat. 2 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 19. countries. ancient 54 BEDDINGTON. Portraits. ^ir Nicholas Carew. ancient lock, very richly wrought ; a fhield with the arms of Eng- land, moving in a groove, conceals the key-hole. In the hall is a portrait of a lady, which is falfely fhown as queen Elizabeth ; her arms are in the corner of the pidlure, viz. Arg. a fefle Sable, three mullets in chief of the fecond, which arms are born by Townley. A fmall room adjoining to the hall retains the ancient pannels with mantled carving ; over the chimney is a fmall portrait of one of the Carews, furrounded by a pedigree. Another room has feveral portraits of the Racket family; among which is a good pi£lure of bifliop Racket, faid to be done by Sir Peter Lely. In a parlour, at the north end of the hall, are fome other family portraits; the moft remarkable of which, is that of Sir Nicholas Carew, who was beheaded in the reign of Henry the Eighth, painted on board ; a good copy of it, taken fome years ago, when the ori- ginal was in a more perfect ftate than it is at prefent, is in the pofleffion of the earl of Orford, at Strawberry-hill, from which the engraving here given was taken. Sir Nicholas Carew, at an early age, was introduced to the court of Renry the Eighth, where he foon became a favourite, and was made one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber. Having been employed upon fome public bufmefs in France, he became, as many other young men have been, fo enamoured of French fafliions and amufements, that, when he returned to his own country, he was continually making invidious comparifons to the difadvantage of the Englifli court ". His majefty, who was too much of a Briton not to be difgufled at this behaviour, re- moved him from his perfon, and fentenced him to an honourable banifhment, appointing him governor of Ruyfbank, in Picardy; to which government he was forthwith commanded to repair, much againft his inclination. This little offence, however, was foon pad " Hall's Chronicle, Hen. VIII. f.68. b. over. *»««trf-f'i*'"-^A'»«st»rt?A"So»^ '•HiS^ifSf^ iS ibrdatg dtLf S^NlCJJOLAS CARKAV, K?^T ^^l,jfu1.ut^in£fKU.U^di.iAjf*.fyTCadea.^iinv\d BEDDING TON. 55 over, and we find him again employed by the king, and for feveral years'' his conftant companion, and a partaker with him in all the jufts", tournaments, mafques, and other diverfions of the fame kind, with which that reign abounded, and which are defcribed very much at large in Hall's Chronicle '' ; and as a more fubftantial mark of his favour, the king appointed him mafter of the horfe, an, office of great honour, being reckoned the third in rank about the king's houfehold ^°, and afterwards created him knight of the garter". His promotion may probably be attributed in fome meafure to the intereft of Anne Bulleyn, to whom he was related through their common anceftor, lord Hoo. His good fortune was not of long continuance ; for in the year 1539, he engaged in a confpiracy, as we are told by our hiflorians '", with the marquis of Exeter, the lord Montacute, and Sir Edward Neville ; the objedl of which was, to fet Cardinal Pole upon the throne ; the accufer was Sir Geffrey Poole, lord Montacute's brother: the trial was fummary, and the confpirators were all executed. Sir Nicholas Carew was beheaded on Tower-Hill, the 3d of March 1539 ; when he made, fays Holinflied, " a godly confeffion, both of his fault and »' Hall's Chronicle, & Pat. 11 Hen. VIII. pt. 2. May 20. ^* " Sir Henry Guyldford, and Nicholaus " Carewe, had each of them from the (landing " wardrobe, fix yards of blue cloth of gold to- " wards a bafe and a trapper, and fifteen yards " of white cloth, of filver damafk, to perform " another bafeand a trapper for the king'sjulls, " appointedto be at Greenwich, for the French •• ambafladors." Anftis'sRegiller of the Gar- ter, vol. ii. p. 241. ^9 Henry VIII. f. 77. b. 91. b. 134.3. See Hkewife, Holinfhed, Stow, and Baker, pt. 3. p. 15 &33. 3° Pat. 14 Hen. VIII. pt. 2. July iS; the falary was 40 1. per annum. 3' The following account of the robes worn by Sir Nicholas Carew, at his elec- tion, is printed in Anilis's Regiller of the Garter, vol. ii. p. 250. from the original warrant, in the office of the great wardrobe : " Pro 22 virg. velvet crimfin pro una toga " et uno capucio pretii cujuflibet virg. 17. " Pro 16 virg. taftetaalb. prolinin.cjufdem. " Pro 26 virg. vil. blod. pro un. mantel. " pret. cujuflibet 18. " Pro 1 8 virg. taffeta alb. pro linura ejufd. " Pro 18 unc. dim. feric. blod. pro laquez " knopes, button et talTels pro eifdem robis ad " 16 d. le unc. " Pro 18 unc. di. auri pro eadem caufa ad " 5 s. le unc. " Pro 6 button magn. de auro pro eildem " laqucz4s. Sum. 661. 19s. 2d. nova empta." 3^ Baker's Chron. pt. 3. p. 49. Hall's Chron. Hen.\III. f. 234. a. Holinlhed's Chron. vol. ii. f. 1572. fuper- S6 BEDDINGTON. fuperftitious faith." The old countefs of Salifbury was beheaded fome time afterwards, upon a charge of being privy to this con- fpiracy. Fuller" mentions a tradition of a quarrel which happened at bowls between the king and Sir Nicholas Carew, to which he afcribes his majefty's difpleafure, and Sir Nicholas's death. The monarch's known caprice, his hatred of the papifts, to whom Sir Nicholas was zealoufly attached, the abfurdity of the plot, and the improbability of its fuccefs, might incline us to hearken to Fuller's ftory, if Sir Nicholas alone had fuffered ; but as he had fo many partners in his punifhment, with whom it is not pretended that the king had any quarrel, it will be more fafe perhaps to rely upon the account given by our annalifts. Sir Nicholas Carew was buried in the church of St. Botolph, Alderfgate, in the fame tomb with Thomas lord Darcy, and others of his family. A fmall monument to their memory, fupported by Corinthian columns, was preferved when the church was rebuilt, and is placed againft the weft wall of the porch. The infcription merely enumerates the perfons in- terred there, amongft whom are Sir Nicholas Carew, K. G. his wife Elizabeth, his daughter Mary, and her hufband Sir Arthur Darcy. The arms and quarterings of the Darcys and Carews are almoft obliterated with white paint, which has disfigured the whole monument. Sir Francis When Sir Francis Carew became poflefTed of the inheritance of C'srcWt his anceftors, which had been forfeited by his father's attainder, he rebuilt the manfion-houfe '* in a very magnificent manner, and laid out the gardens, which he planted with choice fruit trees; in the cultivation of which he took great delight, and fpared no expence in procuring them from foreign countries. The firft orange trees feen in England, are faid to have been planted by him. Aubrey " Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2. p. 96. " Aubrey's Surrey, vol. ii.p. 160. fays BEDDINGTON. 57 fays they were brought from Italy by Sir Francis Carew ; but the editors of the Biographia ", fpeaking from a tradition preferved in the family, tell us, they were raifed by Sir Francis Carew from the feeds of the firft oranges which were imported into England by Sir Walter Ralegh, who had married his niece, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton : — the trees were planted in the open ground, and were preferved in the winter by a moveable fhed ; they flourlfhed for about a century and a half, being deftroyed by the hard frofl in 1739-40. In the garden was a pleafure-houfe, on the top of which was painted the Spanifh invafion. In the month of Auguft 1599, Queen Elizabeth paid a vifit to Sir Francis Carew Queen Eliza- at Beddington, for three days, and again in the fame month, the ^^ sviut. enfuing year^*; the queen's oak, and her favourite walk, are ftill pointed out. Sir Hugh Piatt tells an anecdote in his Garden of Eden ", relating Anecdote of to one of thefe vifits; which fhows the pains Sir Francis took in the '^' ^"^*^" management and cultivation of his fruit-trees. " Here I will conclude, fays he, with a conceit of that delicate knight " Sir Francis Carew, who, for the better accomplifhment of his royal " entertainment of our late Queen Elizabeth, of happy memory, at *' his houfe at Beddington, led her majefty to a cherry-tree, whofe " fruit he had of purpofe kept back from ripening, at the leaft, one " month after all cherries had taken their farewell of England. This " fecret he performed by {training a tent, or cover of canvas, over " the whole tree, and wetting the fame now and then with a fcoop " or horn as the heat of the weather required ; and fo by withhold- " ing the fun-beams from refledting upon the berries, they grew both " great and were very long before they had gotten their perfeft " cherry-colour: and when he was affured of her majefty's coming, ^^ Biograph. Brit. edit. 1748. article, '+ Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 118. Ralegh, in the notes. and 210. ^' P. 165. Vol. I. 1 " he 38 B E D D I N G T O N. ** he removed the tent, and a few funny days brought them to their " full maturity." The church. The church of Beddington confifts of a nave, two aifles, and a chancel ; at the weft end is a fquare tower with buttrefles, embattled. The prefent ftrudure was probably ereded in the reign of Richard the fecond, being built in the ftyle of architedure ufed at that time ; and the claufe in Nicholas de Carru's will of that date, who leaves 20I., then a very confiderable fum, towards the building of the church, ferves as an additional confirmation of this conjedure. At the weft end of the north and fouth aifles, are fome ancient wooden ftalls ; the font, which is of an early date, is large and fquare, and fupported by four pillars. The pulpit was probably given by Sir Francis Carew, being of mantled carving of the fame form with that of the old room in the manor- houfe. The pillars which leparate the nave from the aifles are plain, and of rude workmanfhip. The altar- piece, the communion-table, the rails, and the pavement of the chancel, were the benefadion of Sir John Leake '*, in the year 1710. Monuments. In the chaucel are feveral brafs figures of the Carew family on flat ftones; the infcriptions of moft of them are gone. The tomb of Nicholas Nicholas Carew and Ifabella his wife, which is quite perfed, is ftcon'd of that engraved on the oppofite page ; the figures are of the larger fize j name, ieuled ji^g ^oman's arms are two lions paflant ". This Nicholas Carew at Bedding- * 'on- was fon to the keeper of the privy feal ; he was knight of the fhire for Surrey in the feventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth years of ^* Sir John Leake was a very eminent naval cither at the country-houfe which he had long officer, he was captain of the Eagle in the had as an occaiional retreat, at Beddington ; battle of La Hogue ; he relieved Gibraltar or at a little box which he built by the water- when bcfieged, and performed other eminent fide at Greenwich. Life of Sir John Leake, fervices for his country. After the death of 8vo. 1750, p. 45;, 456. Queen Anne he was removed from all em- s' Delamar bears Gul. two lions palTant. ployment, and was obliged to retire upon a Arg. See the pedigree, penfion: the remainder of his life was fpent Richard ¥ i I --Wk^- m '.VX-^l^'-A, ^:~^ ^[^^^^ ^'"^ 'fi ''■%"'. $■• -'J, , i;^ / 0iJ #■/ I m j6. a^-^ ^ Tomb in Bedding-ton Cburch . B E D D I N G T O N. 59 Richard the fecond, and died in 1432 ''. His wife Ifabella died many- years before him ; and he afterwards married Mercia, daughter of Ste- phen Heyme " ; for this, his fecond lady, Henry Sever, D. D. by his will, 1 47 1, ordered an obit to be obferved for ever in Merton College, Oxford. On the adjoining ftone are brafs plates with figures of two of the Carew family, of a fmaller fize ; the infcriptioa has been torn off: feveral others have been either taken away entirely, or much mutilated ; and fome are concealed by the pews. At the fouth eaft corner of the church is a fmall allle, eredled either by Sir Richard Carew or his fon Sir Nicholas, for the fepulture of the Carew family : Sir Richard was the firft who was interred there (anno ic2o); and the architedure is of that period. Sir Richard Carew's J.°!"^ P^^"" ~> I ' ^ ^ Richard Ca- monument is in the fouth wall, near the door ; under a flat gothic rew. arch is an altar tomb, on the top of which are fmall brafs plates re- prefenting Sir Richard Carew and his lady ; he is in armour, with a furcoat, on which are the arms of Carew ; the infcription round the edge of the tomb is mutilated, but there is enough left to inform us that he died in 1520. His wife Malyn (or Magdalen) was daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge, whofe arms, gules, a lion rampant arg. within a border az. bezanty, and thofe of her hufband, are upon the tomb. Sir Richard Carew was made a knight banneret at Blackheath'° ; Henry the feventh appointed him lieutenant of Calais ■", in which pofl he was continued by Henry the eighth, with remainder to his fon Nicholas. He officiated as fewer at Archbifliop Warham's enthronization ■'^. In the fame aifle, in the fouth eaft corner, Is a very handfome monument, fupported by Corinthian columns of black marble, to the ^' Baronetage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 159. *' Rymer, vol. xiii. p. Zjz. zgS. &.C. ^' lb. p. 160. *- Leland's Colledlanea, vol. vi. p. i3. ♦' Anftis's Regifter of the Garter, vol. ii. p. ZjOj &c. I 2 memory 6o BEDDINGTON. Monument of memory of Sir Francis Carew ; between the columns lies his effigy in Carew. complete armour ; on a tablet are fome Latin verfes, which are by no means remarkable ; they are in the ufual ftyle of panegyric, and re- cord the royal vifits with which he was honoured ; they are printed in Aubrey. An infcription over his head mentions the circumftance of his adopting Nicholas fon of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, his brother-in-law, to bear his furname, and to inherit his eftate. Sir Francis died May 16, 161 1, aged 81 : in the lower part of the monument, under his effigies, are figures of the aforefaid Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, alias Carew and his wife kneeling, with four fons habited in long cloaks, and two daughters in ruffs and farthingales : the monument is likewife ornamented with the arms and quarterings of Carew ^\ In the fame aifle is a monument to the memory of the lady of Sir Nicholas Carew, who died in 1638. In the middle aifle are two flabs with brafs figures and infcriptions in the black letter ; one, in memory of Martha wife of Fabian Crok- horne, who died in 1576; the other, of Catherine, wife of Robert Berecroft, who died in 1507. — The arms are three bears. Againfl: the wall of the north aifle is a tablet in a wooden frame, with the following quibbling epitaph : " Mors fuper virides montes." " Tho. Greenhill, borne and bredd in the famous univerfity of " Oxon, Batchelor of Artes, and fometymes ftudent in Magdalen ♦' Thefe coats of arms form a border round impaling Gules, a dexter arm Proper, habit- the tablet which contains the infcription ; they cd with a maunch Erm. holding a fieur-de- are as follow : — i. Q2arterly Sab. & Arg. for lis Or, for Mohun. 5. Carew impahng Hoo. Hoo. impaling Or, a lion rampant, double 6. Carew impaling Arg. 3 piles wavy ilTuing queued Sable for Welles. 2. Or, 3 lions paf- out of the chief, and nearly pieeting in bafe fant Sable for Carew, impaling Gules, a lion Vert, within a border Az. bezanty for Bryan, rampant Argent within a border Az. bezanty, 7. Carew impaling Azure on a crofs Argent^ for Oxenbridge. 3. Argent, three fnakes 5 martlets Sable for More of Lofely. nowed Proper for Odron an Irilh barony, " Coll. BEDDINGTON. 6i " Coll. fteward to the noble knight Sir Nicholas Carew of Beding- " ton, who deceafed " Sept. 17 day, anno 1634." " Will. Greenhill, raafter of artes, his brother, and Mary his fifter, " ereded this : — " Under thy feete interr'd is heare, *' A native borne in Oxfordfheere ; " FIrft life and learning Oxford gave, " Surry to him his death and grave ; " He once a Hi/If was frefli and Greene^ " Now withered, is not to be feene ; " Earth in earth fhovell'd up is fliut, " A Hill into a hole is put. *' But darkfome earth, by power divine, " Bright at laft as the fonne may fhine. " W. G." In the chancel is the monument of Elizabeth wife of William Chapman, who died in 1718 ; near the altar the tombs of Thomas Pope, redor, who died in 1650, and Richard Reddal, redtor, who died in 1707. In the porch is the tomb of John Cox, redor, who died in 1669 ; and in the church-yard, that of Charles Berriman, alias Brandon, re£tor, who died in 1671. Aubrey gives the dimenfions of the church thus : the length, thirty yards ; the breadth, eleven yards and three quarters. The church of Beddington is dedicated to St. Mary ; it is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Ewell ; the benefice is a redory in the patronage of the Carew family ; it formerly be- longed to Bermondfey abbey, to which it was given in the year 1 159, by Sibella de Wateville, and Ingram de Fountenays "*. The ♦+ Dugdale's Monaft. Appropriation of the f. 72. b. anno 1307. Licence to appro- church of Beddingto:i to St. Saviour's, Ber- priate. Pat. 22 Edw. III. pt. 3. m. 10. mondfsy, Regill. Winton. Hen. Woodlock. I 3 ' redory 64 BEDDINGTON. re£lory of Beddington was taxed in 1291 at forty marks; out of which 100 {hillings was paid to the prior of Bermondfey. In 1454, there was a commiflion to inquire into the value of the re£tory *' ; in the certificate which was returned to the bifhop, was a fpecific ftate- ment of its revenues. As it appears to be a curious record, and is the only one of the kind which occurs in the regiftry at Winchefter, I fhall give it at large, with a tranflation. Certificate of the Value of the ReElory of Beddington^ I454« £,' s. d. De 6 quart, fri. per le q. 5s. (6 quarters of wheat at 5s. per quarter) - - - 1100 De 60 quart, ordei per le q. 3s. {60 quarters of barley at 3s.) - - - 900 De 20 quart, aven. per le q. 2od. (20 quarters of oats at 2od.) - - - i 13 4 De pifis et taris (of peas and tares) 068 De 30 agnellis ad 6d. {30 lambs at 6d. each) 0150 De 160 veller. lanne ad 2d. ob. (160 fleecesof wool at 27) i 13 4 De aucis et porcellis (tithe of geefe and pigs) 060 De canap. decim. (tithe of hemp) 015 De fen. decim. (tithe of hay) o i De decim. vaccarum & vitularum (tithe of cows and calves) - - -02 De decim. pomorum & nucum (tithe of apples and nuts) - - De decim. molendlni (tithe of the mill) De oblationibus (offerings) De cunlculis & columbis Nicholai Carew (tithe of the rabbits and doves of Nicholas Care w) o 13 4 o 2 6 16 8 18 Regift, Winton. Waynflete, vol. i. pt. 2. f. 33. b. 37. a. b. & 38. a. De BEDDINGTON. 6j De cunlculls Synclo (tithes of Synclo's, probably Saint- low's rabbits) De ftramine & kafF (ftraw and chaff) De terris redtor. (glebe lands) iOn the feaft of the puri- fication of the Virgin! Mary, and for the puri- 1 fying of other women, 020 14 1 00 DEDUCTIONS OR REPRISES. Pro colledl. lanae et agnell. (for colleding the wool and the lambs) _ _ _ Pro colled, et cariag. bladi (for coUeding and carry- ing the grain) _ _ _ Pro triturat. fri. premifl". (for threfhing the faid wheat) Pro trit. orde. (for threfhing the barley) Pro trit. aven. (for threfhing the oats) Pro trit. pif. et tar. (for threfhing the peas and tares) Pro pane, vino, thure & cer. (for bread, wine, frank- incenfe and wax) _ _ _ Pro funibus campan. (for bell-ropes) Pro Do. archd. (the archdeacon's fees) Pro medietat. decim. (moiety of the tithing) Pro repar. annual, (for annual repairs) Pro negoc. eccle. (for the bufinefs of the church) - Propenf. abb. Berm. (the abbot of Bermondfey'spenlion) Sum. (fum total of receipts) - - 21 Onerum (dedudlions or reprifes) - -11 De claro (clear profits) - . - g The redory is rated in the king's books, at " ^3 6 8 I 16 8 3 2 I 5 6 3 4 I 8 9 87 I 8 I 6 8 5 2 3 15 4t 15 lot After H BEDDINGTON. Free portion. Richard Benefe. Leng, bilhop of Norwich. After the attainder of Sir Nicholas Carew, the advowfon of the re£tory was for fome time in the pofle/Tion of the crown. Heni;y the eighth prefented to it in 1542 **. Sir Francis Carew *' re-pofleffed it with the reft of his anceftor's property, and it ftill remains annexed to the eftate. There was hkewife in the church of Beddlngton, a finecure bene- fice, called a free portion"', the patronage of which was annexed to Hufcarl's manor*', and went afterwards to the Carews'"; it was generally called Hufcarl's, or Carew's Portion. In 1291, it was valued at fifteen marks, out of which it paid two marks to Bermond- fey abbey. In 1473 '", there was a commiflion from the bifhop of Winchefter, to inquire into the nature and profits of this portion ; v/hich, by the certificate, appears to have arifen principally from tlie tithes of two hundred acres of land, called Hufcarl's fewde, on the north of the church ; it had Hkewife annexed to it a houfe, and twenty acres of land on the fouth fide of the church ; the clear profits were then eftimated at only forty {hillings. In the king's books, it is valued at 8 1. I2s. id. It is now in lay-hands, and belongs to the Carews. Richard Benefe, prefented by Henry the eighth in 1540, is the laft portionift on record '\ He was canon of Merton Abbey, and author of a book on Menfuration of Land, of which there was a very early edition primed in St. Thomas's hofpital. John Leng", afterwards bifhop of Norwich, was inftituted to the re£tory of Beddington, in the year 1708, which he held till his death. He was a native of Norfolk, and was of Catherine-Hall, Cambridge. In 1695, he publifhed two of the comedies of Arifto- phanes, with notes; and in 1719, preached the fermons at Boyle's *® Regill. Winton. GarJiner, f. 46. a. al. Regift. paffim. *' lb. Home, f. 117. a. '' Waynflete, pt. 2. f. 161. b. — 163. b. ♦' It is called, libera et abfque cura, Regift. '^ lb. Gardiner, f. 41. a. Winton. H. Woodloclc. f. ii7.b. " I am indebted for moft of the particulars *' lb. R. de AfTerius, f. 15. a. &Jo. deStrat- concerning bilhop Leng, to his grandfon, the ford, f. 136. a. Reverend James Pettingal. '" ]b. W. deEdyndon. pt. i. f. 92. b. et in Leflures, 1580 — 1589 - 9^ - - 7 Comparative B E D D I N G T O N. 65 Le£lures, which are printed ; a fet of his Sermons preached at Tun- bridge, and a few others upon occafional fubjedts, are alfo extant. He was made bifliop of Norwich in 1723, and died at the age of fixty-two, of the fmall-pox, which he caught at the coronation of George the Second. He lies buried in the church of St. Margaret, Weftminfter, where is a monument to his memory. Richardfon, in his Continuation of Godwin ", calls him a man of the firfl- rate genius and abilities. A miniature portrait of the bifhop, repre- fenting him as a young man in a gown and band, and with a brown flowing peruke, is in the poffeflion of his grand- daughter, Mifs Pettingal. The prefent incumbent is John Bromfield Ferrers, A. M. The regifter of this parifh begins in the year 1538. Parlfti reglf- ter. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. ilate of popu- 1680 — 1689 - 8 - - II '"ion- 1780 1789 - 22 - - 17 The increafe of population has been principally at Wallington. The number of houfes in the parifh is now about one hundred. Several entries occur in the regifter relating to the Carew family, five of whom were buried within four months, in the year 1689. Eight perfons are faid to have died of the plague in 1594; in piagne 1603, there were ten burials ; in 1625, eleven j in 1665, there are ^^^"' no entries. One inftance of longevity is recorded : Longevity. *' William Stuart, commonly called Old Scott, aged one hundred and ten years and two montiis, was buried Jan. 31, 1704-5." The hamlet of Wallington, in the parifli of Beddington, at the Walling- time of the Conqueror's Survey, gave name to the hundred ; it was afterwards called Croydon Hundred, but has of late refumed its ori- " Godwin de Prxfulibus, edit. 1743. p. 445. " vir ingenio et eruditione inter primes clarus." Vol. I. * K ginal 66. B E D D I N G T O N. ginal appellation. The hamlet is fituated on the banks of the Wandle, and is more populous than the village itfelf, containing about fixty houfes. At this place is a large manufii£lory for printing of calico, belonging to Mr. Kilbourn, which employs a confiderable number of hands. Old chapel. In a field near the road is an ancient chapel, built of flint and ftone. It has been new roofed, and is now ufed as a cart-houfe and ftable ; the ftone work of the windows is entire ; the eaft window has been flopped up, on each fide of which is a niche of rich Gothic architecture j and in the fouth-eaft corner is a third for the holy water. The prefent proprietor was about to pull down this chapel, but was oppofed in his intention by the parifliioners. From the total filence of the records, (and perhaps there are more relating to this pa- rifh in the regiftry of Winchefter than to any other in the diocefe,) I fhould prefume that it was only a private chapel. From the appear- ance of the windows, and of the niches above-mentioned, it feems to be of confiderable antiquity. Manor of The early records relating to the manor of Wallington, are very Wailington. uufatisfadlory ; the name of that place being anciently written Wale- ton, in common with Walton-upon-Thames, and Walton-on-the- Hill, in the fame county, and without any diftindion to difcriminate them, except when the hundred is mentioned. Salmon ", by not attending to this circumftance, has aflerted, that two manors are defcribed in Wallington, in Doomfday ; the hundreds are there fpe- cified, and only one manor is mentioned in Wallington, (in the hundred of that name,) which was held by the king in demefne ; the land was of eleven carucates, and was valued, in the time of the ConfefTor, at 15I. then at lol. I fliall not take notice of any fub- fequent alienations of the manor of Wallington, except fuch as I find appropriated to that hundred. Henry the Second granted a certain part thereof to Maurice de Creon ", who gave it to Guy de la Val '♦ Antiquities of Surrey, p. 45. '* Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 313. f. 20. with BEDDINGTON. e-j with his daughter: this Guy took part with the barons againft king John, who feized upon his property here, and granted it to John Fitz-Lucy, who forfeited it by remaining in Normandy : the king then gave it to Euftache de Curtenay. Katharine Lodelowe ^'^ died feized of this manor for term of life, 17 Ric. II. which fhe held by an enfeoffment made with the king's licence, by Olde Poynand. In Henry the Eighth's time, it was granted to Sir Nicholas Carew"; and after his attainder, paffed through the hands of Sir Edward Dymock '* and Sir James Harrington, the latter of whom alienated it to Sir Francis Carew"; it has fmce defcended with the other eftates of the Carews. At Woodcote, in the parifh of Beddington, which is now a fingle Woodcote. farm-houfe, have been found many remains of antiquity, which tend to prove it to have been a Roman ftation. Camden and fome other learned antiquaries contend, that it was the city of Novioma- gus, mentioned by Ptolemy ; whilft others are equally pofitive, that this city mud have been in Kent: but as the matter, after all thefe arguments, ends in conjedure, I conceive it would be but an unfatif- fadlory entertainment to the generality of my readers, were I to de- tail them. They who wifh to fee the argument treated of at length, may confult Aubrey's Surrey'", Camden, Dr. Gale's, Mr. Burton's'", and Mr. Talbot's Commentaries on Antoninus's Itinerary ", and Som- ner's Defcription of Canterbury. Salmon fays, that foundations of buildings have been difcovered, and urns, fpear-heads, and other remnants of antiquity dug up, both at Beddington and Wallington ; but I cannot find that any difcoveries of that kind have been made of late years. 5° Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 708. Col- " Pat. 37Eliz.pt. 12. Mar. i. leftion of Efcheats. "" Vol. ii. p. 151. 159. " MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 4705. Ayfcough's " P. 175, 176, 177. Cat. '' Printed at the end of the third voliune of " Pat. 36 Eliz.pt. 7. Ap. 2. Leland's Itinerary, p. i^o. K2 [ 68 ] CAMBERWELL. Name. ' | ^HE name of this parlfh, in the Conqueror's Survey, is JL written Cambrewelle j in moft of the records of a fubfe- quent date, it is called Camerwell; in Aubrey's time it had regained its former appellation, with the tranfpofition of a letter, being fpelt Camberwell; which name it ftill retains. I can find nothing fa- Etymology, tisfadory with refpedl to its etymology; the termination, indeed, feems to point out fome remarkable fpring; a part of the parilh is called Milkwell, and a mineral water was difcovered fome years ago near Dulwich. Situation and C amberwell lies in the hundred of Brixton, and is fituated about three miles from Blackfriars-bridge. The parifh is bounded by thofe of Newington- Butts, St. George-Southwark, and Rother- hithe on the eaft; by Deptford and Beckenham in Kent on the fouth ; by Croydon, and the detached part of Batterfea about Penge, on the weft ; and by Lambeth on the north. The land is divided in nearly an equal proportion between arable, pafture, and gardens ; in the latter I include about 300 acres, occupied by farmers and cowkeepers, which are generally cultivated for garden crops, to fup- ■ ply provifions for their cattle. The foil in general is fertile, and is much improved with manure ; which is procured eafily, and in great abundance from London. Camberwell alone, exclufive of Peckham, (but including, I apprehend, Dulwich, which is not mentioned in that furvey,) is faid, in Doomfday, to contain five plough lands. The whole parifli is aflefled 1 30 1 1. 2 s. 3d. to the land tax ; of which, Cam- berwell C A M B E R W E L L. 6g berwell pays 706I. 14s. 9 d. Peckham,53i 1. 8s. 6d. and Dulwich, 62 1. 19s.; the proportion at Camberwell, is 1 s. 9 d. in the pound ; which, in confequence of improvements and new buildings, is about to be lowered to is. 6d. ; at Peckham they pay 2 s. in the pound, which is alfo about to be lowered ; at Dulwich, the proportion is 4s. in the pound. The diftridl of Camberwell, formerly comprehended one manor Manors, only; which was held of the Confeflbr by Norman, and of William the Conqueror, by Haimo the fherifF; it was valued at 12I. Soon after the Conqueft it was divided, and eventually became feveral dif- tindl manors. The manor of Camberwell Buckingham's, fometimes called Cam- Camberwell berwell and Peckham, which was held of the king in capite, be- ham's, longed to Robert de Melhent ' (natural fon of king Henry I.), the firfl earl of Glocefter after the Conqueft, to whom' it was granted probably by his father. It pafTed, after his death, with the title, fuc- ceflively to his fon William; to John, fon of king Henry the Second, afterwards king of England, who married Ifabell, one of the daugh- ters and cc-heirs of William ; to Ifabell's fecond hufband, Geoffrey de Mandeville ; to Almeric de Eureux, fon of Mabel, another co-heir of Earl William; to Gilbert de Clare, fon to Amicia, an- other of the co-heirs; to his fon Richard, and to his two immediate defcendants, both Gilberts; to Hugh, lord Audley *, who married Ifabella, fifter and co-heir of the laft Gilbert. Hugh, earl of Glo- cefter, died in 1347. His daughter and heir, Margaret, married Ralph, the firft earl of Stafford, who thus became poffelTed of the manor of Camberwell, which continued in that family till the at- tainder of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, in 1521. It was then granted to John Scott \ who had been the duke's tenant. • Di:gdale's Monaft. vol.i. p. 532. without the name of the lord, are in the pof- ^ Some of the Court Rolls of Hugh lord feflion of Jofeph Windham, Efq. Audley,and others during the reign of Edw. I. ^ Pat. 13 Hen. VIII. pt. i. Feb. 25. His 70 C A M B E R W E L L. His grandfon Richard " left the manor between his five fons. Edgar alienated his fhare in the year 1586 to Edmund Bovvyer, Efq. which is now, by inheritance, the propei'ty of Jofeph Windham, Efq. F. R. and A. S. of Earfham-houfe, in Suffolk. The other feve- ralties were alienated (about feventy years fince) to the Cock family. Matthew Cock, Efq. fold the reverfion of them in the year 1756 to William Belchier, who becoming a bankrupt, they were fold by order of the Court of Chancery in the year 1776, and came into the poffeffion of the late John Halliday, Efq. M. P. for the borough of Taunton ; and are now the inheritance of his fon, a minor. A fee-farm rent iffuing out of this manor, was referved to the crown when the grant was made to John Scott ; it was affigned, among others, to queen Henrietta Maria for life ^ When the fee-farm rents were fold, in the reign of Charles II. this was bought in truft, for Peter Scott \ of whom Mr. Anthony Bowyer purchafed the fhare, which belonged to his feveralty of the manor. Manor of The manor of Milkwell, in this parifli, belonged to the brethren of the hofpital of St. Thomas, in Southwark; who, in confidera- tion of ten (hillings annual rent in that borough, granted it to the monaftery of St. Mary Overie \ Upon the fuppreffion of monaC- teries, it was granted to Sir Thomas Wyat', who was beheaded by queen Mary. It afterwards belonged to the family of Duke ° ; and was, in 1609, the property of Sir Edward Duke, Knt. '°; it then contained about four hundred acres of land, part of which was in Lambeth parifh. A few years afterwards it was alienated to Robert Campbell ". I have not been able to trace its proprietors any lower, ♦ Cole's Efcheats. Brit. Muf. Harleian ' Grants of abbey lands, Augmentation- MSS. 760. p. 396. office. ' Fee-farm Rolls. Augmentation-office. " Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. 8. April 2, and Pat. * MSS. in the pofleffion of Jofeph Wind- 41 Eliz. pt. 14. March z. ham, Efq. •° MS. Dulwich College. ' Pat. 33 Edw. I. pt. 1. m.2. " Pat. 13 Jac. I. pt. 34. Nov. 28. or Milkwell. CAMBERWELL. 71 or to find in whom the eftate is now vefted. The manor, which was held of the king in capite, docs not at prefent exift. The manor of Camberwell Frerne, or Fryern, was part of thepof- Manor of Camberwell feffions of Hahwell priory. It was acquired partly by purchafe, and Frerne. partly by grant '\ About the reign of king Stephen, Robert earl of Glocefter gave one hundred acres of wood to Robert de Rothomago, the latter gave them to the priory. The fame earl madefeveral other confiderable grants to various perfons, particularly to Thomas de Tychefey, and Reginald Pointz ; the latter took upon him the crofs, and left his eftate at Camberwell between his four nephews ; one of whom, Nicholas Pointz, gave ten acres of land to the nuns of Hali- well, and they afterwards purchal'ed of him the whole of the fhare that had been his brother Walter's. Solomon de Bafyng bequeathed them fome land, called Newelersfeld, and ten acres which had belonged to William Frango. After the diffblution of monafteries, this manor was granted to Robert Draper, page of the jewels '\ whofe daugh- ter married John Bowyer, Efq. of Shepton Beauchamp, in the county of Somerfet; and it is now, by defcent, and under the will of Edmund Bowyer, who died in 1718, the property of Jofeph Windham, Efq. abovementioned. A fourth manor was conftituted by a grant of lands in this parifh, from Robert earl of Glocefter, to Thomas de Tychefey '*. From him they defcended to Gilbert de Eton ", who married Alicia, his fifter and co-heir. In the reign of Edw. If. thefe lands were granted by Thomas de Elyngham, and Roger de Bernham, to John de Owdale '% and from him took the name of Dowdale's manor. Dowdale's, The Owdales, or Uvedales, were poflefled of this eftate for many manor. generations, William Uvedale had livery of it in the feventh year " Dugdale's Monad, vol. i. p. 532. '' CI. z8 Edw. I. m. 10. dorfo. '2 Pat. 36 Hen. Vlll. pt. 9. July 21. '« CI. 15 Edw. Il.m. 9. & CI. ^Edw. III. '* Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 532. pt. i.m. 49. of 72 CAMBERWELL. Manor of Camber well. Manor of ColdeAbbey. Manor of Deptford S trend. The church . of Queen Elizabeth ". The manor is not now known, nor can I find in whom the eftate is vefted. An inferior manor, by the name of Camberwell, held of Camber- well Buckingham's by the fervice of a pair of horfe-fhoes, was the property of the Scotts " : Francis Mufchamp died feized of it in 1632 "'j and it defcended in the fame manner as the Bretinghurft eftate, which will be defcribed under Peckham. The manor of Colde Abbey, held alfo of Camberwell Bucking- ham's, was the property of the Scotts", and feems to have defcended through the Bowyers, with their other eftates, to Jofeph Wind- ham, Efq *'. The manor of Deptford Strond, which was included in Jane Seymour's jointure, and was afterwards granted to Sir Thomas Pope by Queen Mary ^"^ , is partly in this parifh. It is now the property of Benjamin Way, Efq. The church is fituated near the road which leads to Peckham and Greenwich. It is built of flints and rough ftone, and confifts of a nave, chancel, and two aifles : at the weft; end is a fmall embattled tower, compofed of the fame materials. A church is mentioned in Doomfday. In Bifhop Edindon's Regifter at Winchefter, is a com- miftlon dated 1346, for reconciling Camberwell church which had been polluted by bloodfhed ". The prefent ftrudure, I imagine, was ereded towards the beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth. The architecture of the windows, and of the arches which feparate the nave " P. R. - Ellz. Rot. 37. Lord Treafurer's tors of this manor, will be given under Dept Remembrancer's Office. ford, ■s Cole'sEfcheats.HarleianMSS. 7S9-P-2S •» lb. Harl. MSS. 758. p. 156. " Jb. 759. p. 25. ^' By Mr. Windham's papers. " Pat. I Mar. pt. 7. May 30. m. 25. A more particular account of the proprie- *' Regift. Winton. W. de Edindon, pt. ii. f. 5. b. When a church had been polluted by any accident of this nature, it was former- ly held necefTary that it Ihould undergo a cere- mony fomething different from confecration, which was termed reconciliation. from Portraits on Glafs in Camlienvell Clmrcli. n.J^i^^,.Ar.tif.4n-mf.Ur^.'^yt (. r,i^f//../im,wf CAMBER WELL. 73 from the alfles, proves that it could not have beea built at a much earlier period ; and it is probable that the north aifle was built in 1520, having that date in the eaft window. The chancel appears to be of the fame age; it is of a fingular form, being the fedlion of an hexagon. The fouth-weft part of the church was much enlarged in the year 1786. — The new building is of brick. The eaft window of the north aifle contains feveral portraits paint- Portraits in '■ '^ the window ed on glafs. Aubrey" defcribes them as a man kneeling at a fald- of the north ftool, and his ten fons behind him ; and a woman kneeling in like manner, with her ten daughters. The window has been much muti- lated ; the heads, however, of all the men, and nine of the women, remain : fome of the principal figures are given In the annexed plate, coloured after the originals. An imperfect infcription is fufficiently entire to inform us, that they were intended toreprefent the Mufchamp family: ". . . . Statu Will"' Mufchamp et Agnetis. . . ." The deficiency may be eafily fupplied from fimilar infcriptions, which fre- quently occur on church windows : and it may be rendered, " Pray " for the good eftate of William Mufchamp, and Agnes his wife." The date, 1520, is ftill preferved. The Mufchamps came to Eng- land with William the Conqueror. — A branch of that family had been long fettled at Peckham. That William and Agnes Mufchamp were intended to be reprefented by the principal figures, is evident : but Aubrey miftakes in fuppofmg that the remaining figures are their fons and daughters. It is very certain, that they are not the children of his wife Agnes, for (he died without iflTue *' : by his other wives, for he was thrice married, he had a large family ; yet not fo large as to furnifh fubje£ls for twenty portraits. One of the men in the back ground appears as old as the principal figure : I take him to be John *♦ Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 166. *' Pedigree in the Heralds' Vifitations. Vol. I. L Scott, 74 C A M B E R W E L L. Scotr, baron of the exchequer, who was brother to Agnes Muf- champ ; and, I fuppofe, that fome of the men were intended for his fons. In the fame window, are two imperfect figures of female faints ; of one, little more than the head remains ; the other, with a fword in her hand pointing downwards, is moft probably St. Catherine, who is generally fo reprefented. This is the figure about which Stow has fo much idle conjeQure, fuppofing it to be intended for queen Elizabeth. At the top of this window are angels holding fliields with the arms of the Mufchamps, and the families allied with them"'. In the centre of the window are the arms of Sir Thomas Bond, bart.", with the date 1678. In the north window are the arms of Muf- champ quartering Welbeck, and impaling Harmonde or Harman ". This aifle was the burial place of the Mufchamps, and is ftill claimed for that purpofe by the proprietors of the Peckham eftate. Monuments. Againft the north wall is a fmall monument with the effigies of a woman kneeling ; underneath is the following infcription in capitals : " Lo ! Mufchas " ftock a fruitfull braunch did bringe, " Adornde with vertues fit for ladies brighte; " Sir Thomas Hunt on May day's pleafaunt fpring, *' Pofleft the Frowe that was his foules delight : *' Mufchamp bears barry of fix Or and betw. 6 clnquefoils Or for Povey. Gules, and quarters Arg. on a chevron. Gules '' Wm. Mufchamp's firft wife was the betw. 3 mafcles Sab. 3 martlets Or, for daughter of Henry Harman, of Cray ford in Welbeck; another fhield bears cheeky Or and Kent, who bears Arg. a chevron Sab. betw. Gules ; a third, has feveral coats, fo fmall, 3 perukes proper ; and quarters Arg. on a fefle confufed, and indiftinifl, that it is impoffible to Sab. betw. 3 pomegranates Or, a muUet defcribe them; nor do they feem to belong to Argent, the family. " Mufchamp's— Aubrey miftook it for, ^'' Bond bears Arg. on a chevron Sab. 3 Lomus' chart ftock. befants and quarters Sab. a bend engrailed 2 " His C A M B E R \V E L L. 75 " His lovely Jane had two fones by Tho Grimes, Efq. and " daughters three, " With wealth and vertues meet for their degree. " When twice feven yeares, fix monthes, ten dayes, were fpent " In wedlock bands, and loyall love's delight, " November twelfth daye, then fhe was content " This world to leave, and give to God his right : " Her fixty-three yeares full, complete and ended, " Her foule to God, to earth her corps commended. " 1604." Over the monument are the arms of Hunt, per pale Argent and Sable a faltier counterchanged ; on a canton of the fecond, a lion paflant of the firfl. In the fame aifle are infcriptions to the memory of Francis Muf- champ, who died in 1612, and his fon Thomas, who died in In the fouth wall of the chancel, which I take to have been part of Stone (lalls. the ancient ftrudure, are two ftone flails, and a niche for holy water, of elegant Gothic architecSlure : the top of them only is feen, the reft being concealed by fome of the wainfcot which was put up in 1715 at the expence of Mrs. Katherine Bowyer, widow, who likewife paved the chancel. Againft the fame wall is a monument inlaid with brafs plates, re- Skynner's prefenting the figures of a man habited in a gown, kneeling, his wife in the fame pofture, and ten children, to the memory of Richard Skynner, who, as the infcription informs us, died in 1407, and his wife Agnes, who died in 1499. The very fingular circumftance of a woman furviving her hulband ninety-two years, has created much furprife ; but if there had been no error in the dates, the wonder L 2 would 76 CAMBERWELL. would not ceafe here, for it would appear that his fons William and Michael*', who died in 1497 and 1498, furvived their father the one ninety, and the other ninety-one years ; and that John Scott, his fon- in-law, who died in 1532, furvived him 125 years: but to put the matter out of all doubt, Skynner himfelf was living in 1467, in which year he was bound in a recognizance of lool. to his taylor ^^ ; it is very evident therefore, that the engraver of the plate committed a great error ; and that Agnes Skynner's widowhood was of no uncommon duration. In the middle aifle, are flabs with figures in brafs of the above-men- tioned Michael Skynner, and of William and his wife Ifabella ; the infcription has been torn from the latter; the date is taken from Aubrey, where it is preferved. The precatory expreffions which formed the beginning and con- clufion of almoft every epitaph before the reformation, have been carefully obliterated in the infcriptions on the tombs of the Skyn- ners, and others of that age, in the church of Camberwell, either by the reformers in the reign of queen Elizabeth, or by the puritans in the laft century : had their zeal been always thus moderate, the anti- quary would have no reafon to complain of them. Queen Elizabeth checked the ill directed zeal of her reformers by a proclamation '", « Richard Skynner. Agnes. William ob. 1498. S. F. Isabella. Michael ob. 1497. S. P. Surrey Vifitation, Heralds' College. Agnes D' & Coh'. Eliz. D' & Coh', Wife of John Scott, who died " CI. 6 Edw. IV. ^' Strype's Annals of the Reformation, vol.i. p. 187. forbidding B . r-l (— ' t— ti o u O «^ o CAMBERWELL. i-j forbidding them " to demolifh or deface any monuments, whether of " ftone or metal, they being fet up for memory, and not for " fuperflition." On the north wall of the chancel is a monument to the memory of Tombs of the John Scott, Efq. baron of the exchequer, who died in 1532, with figures on brafs of himfelf, his wife, and eleven -.hildren. The arms quartered on the tomb, are Scott and Bretinghurft — they impale Skynner. The Scotts had been fettled for a confiderable time at Camberwell. | One of that family and defcription is mentioned in a record of the I reign of Edward the Fourth ". John Scott was appointed third baron of the exchequer in 1529. His eldeft fon John I find recorded in ] Holinflied ", on account of fome riots and mifdemeanors in which \ he was concerned with Lord Ogle and Lord Howard, for which they were all brought before the Star-chamber. He died in the firft year of Queen Elizabeth ", and lies buried in the fouth aifle, which be- ] came the burial-place of his family. His brother Edward, who died in 1538, is buried under a flat ftone, upon which is a brafs plate, with his figure in armour. Againft the wall are monuments to the memory of the above- mentioned John Scott the younger, and Bartholomew his fon^', whofe firft wife was Margaret, widow of Thomas Cranmer, archbifhop of Canterbury ; Sir Peter Scott, who died in 1622 ; Peter, his grandfon, canon of Windfor, who died in 1689, and his wife Margaret, grand- daughter of Dr. Donne, dean of St. Paul's. In the chancel, is a monument inlaid with plates of brafs, repre- Tombs of the fenting the figures of a man and woman kneeling at a table with ^^^^''^' their children, eight fons and three daughters; underneath, is an infcription to the memory of John Bowyer, Efq. who died in 15 70, ' ^' Cl. 14 Edw. IV. 3s Bartholomew Scott died in 1600. Cole's " Vol.ii. f. 1507. Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harleian MSS. 760. ^* Cole's Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harleian p. 396. , MSS. 756. p. 441. I and I 78 C A M B E R W E L L. and of his wife Elizabeth, who, after a fecond marriage to William Fofter, died in 1605. This Elizabeth was daughter of Robert Draper, Efq. of Camber- well. She was married to John Bowyer, Efq. then of Lincoln's Inn, A. D. 1550. Her wedding clothes are thus defcribed in a MS. common-place book belonging to her hufband, now in the pof- feffion of Jofeph Windham, Efq. to whofe politenefs I am indebted for its communication. Wedding ap- " Wcdyng apparrcU bought for my wyfFe, Elizabeth Draper, the zabethDra'- " youngcr, of Camber Well, agaynft 17 die Junii, An. Dni. 1550, P"- " with defpenfalls." " Firft, four ells of tawney taffeta, at lis. 6 d. the s. d. " ell, for the Venyce gowne - - 46 o " Item, feven yardes of filk chamlett crymfyn at 7s. 6d. " the yarde, for a kyrtle - - - 52 6 " Item, one yard and a half of tawney velvet, to gard " the Venyce gowne, at 15 s. the yard - 22 6 " Item, half a yard of crymfyn fattyn, for the fore ♦' flyves - - - 6 8 " Item, eight yards of rufletts black, at 4 s. 6d. the " yard, for a Dutche gowne " Item, half a yard of tawney fattyn " Item, a yard and a quarter of velvet black, to guard " the Dutche gowne " Item, fix yards of tawney damafke, at 11 s. the yard, " for a kirtle - - " Item, one yard and half-quarter of fkarlett for a " petycote with plites - - - 20 o The wedding ring is defcribed as " weying two angells and a ducket," and graven within with thefe words, " Deus nos junxit J. E. B. Y. R." The date of the marriage isinferted by Mr. Bowyer with IS 5 17 8 66 C A M B E R \V E L L. 7^ with great minutenefs ^°, and with due regard to the afpeds of the heavens, which at that time regulated every affair of importance. On the fouth wall of the chancel, is a monument to the memory of Matthew Draper, brother to Mrs. Bowyer. He died in 1577. There are alfo the monuments of Hefter, wife of Sir Edmund Bowyer, who died in 1 66^ ; of Anthony Bowyer, Efq. fon of Sir Edmund, who died in 1709; and of his wife Katherine, daughter of Henry St. John, of Beckenham, who died in 1717. In this church are alfo monuments, in memory of the following Various ' " tombs. perfons, which are thus fituated : One in the chancel to the memory of Anne, wife of Sir Robert Vernon, clerk of the Green Cloth, who died in 1627; one in the fouth aifle to the memory of Robert Waith, paymafter of the navy to king Charles II. who died in 1685; Elizabeth his wife, who died in 1667, and Robert his fon, who died in 1686; another on one of the pillars which feparate the nave from the north aifle, to the memory of Mrs. Joanna Vincent, who died in 1654; and her grandfon Vincent, fon of Henry lord Blayney, an infant. Aubrey has prefcrved the infcrip- tions of a few others, which are now deftroyed or obliterated ; they were in memory of the following perfons: Margaret, wife of John Dove", who died in 1582; Mary Chambers, who died in 1538; Thomas Stacy, vicar of Camberwell '', who died in 1527; Robert Maddockes, pay-mafler of the navy to king Charles II. and ' William III. ; Nehemiah Lambert, fchoolmafter, who died in 1700; 3* At the hour of eight, the Dominical let. benvell. The pedigree is traced down to John ter F ; the moon being in Leo, &c. Dove, S. T. P. the fame probably who is 5' In one of the Surrey Vifications, Isapedi- mentioned by A. Wood, as being a native of gree of the Doves of Camberwell ; by which Surrey, who took his degrees in divinity at Ox- it apears, that the ancellors of this John, for ford, and publiflied fome fermons and divers many generations, had been buried in the controverfial and religious trafts. He died in parifh church there j and that they were de- 1618. A. Wood. vol. i. p. 368, firft edition, fcended from Henry Dove, who was (lain at '" Thomas Stacy refigned the vicarage in Bofworth field, fighting under king Ric. III. 1526, and had a penfion of 12I. per an. af- He married the daughter of Thomas Brereton, fignedhimoutof.it. Regift. Winton. Fo.y> ©f Cheihiie, who was llkewife buried at Cam- p. i. f. 127. a.-.— 129. a. Jacob 8o CAMBERWELL. Church -yard. John Hen- ley's will. Parifh regif- ter. Comparative fiate of po- pulation. « Jacob Coleby, fchoolmafter, who died in 1651 ; Anthony Stanlake, who died in 1671 ; and Henry Lyntot, who died in i6oo. The n^ofl remarkable tombs in the church-yard, are thofe of Sir Thomas Gardyner, Knt. who died in 1632; Richard Parr, D. D. who died in 1691 ; Ichabod Tipping, D. D. who died in 1727; Robert Aylmer, A. M. who died in 1769; (the three laft were fuc- ceffively vicars of Camberwell ;) of Walter Cock, Efq. who died in 1712; George Roffey, Efq. who died in 1707; Mary, wife of Henry Vogull, Efq. who died in 1775 ; and Robert Nettleton, Efq. late governor of the Ruffian company, who died in 1774. John Henley, of Peckham, by his will dated 15 14", direds, that his body fliall be buried at Camberwell. He bequeaths to " the high altar there, 3 s. 4d. ; to the image of our Lady, I2d, ; " to the child that his wife is withal! in her body, 20 1.; and if it " happen that the child die before he came of lawful age to marry, " which God forbid, his father to difpofe of the money as he fliould « fee fit." Mrs. Joanna Cock, relid of Walter Cock, Efq. in the year 1717, gave to the parifh a piece of land to enlarge their church-yard on the fouth-weft fide, in confideratlon of their paying to her the annual quit-rent of a pepper-corn. The regifter of this parifh begins in the year 1558; and it appears, for the moft part, to have been kept with great accuracy. Average of baptifms. Average of burials. 1580 1589 23 26 1680— 1689 — l^i — 52 1780— 1789 — 120 143 In the laft period, Dulwich is included : very little parochial duty was performed there before the prefent century. It may be ob- '9 Reglft. Winton. Fox, pt, 3. f. 66. b. ferved, G A M B E R W E L L. 8i ferved, that the burials uniformly exceed the baptlfms In a con- fiderable proportion, which is owing to the great number of ftrangers and nurfed children interred in this parifh; this happens in fome degree in every parifh near London ; and is the reafon why a much more accurate idea of the comparative ftate of population may be obtained from the average of baptifms, than from that of burials. It appears that the increafe of population in Camberwell, within the laft two centuries, has been in a ratio of about five to one; within the laft hundred years, fomewhat more than three to one ; fo that the village has been uniformly increafmg, and at no period fo rapidly as within the laft ten years. It has the reputation of being healthy, and is a very commodious fituation for thofe perfons who, from in- clination, or for the benefit of the air, are induced to prefer a country refidence, though bufinefs calls them daily to the metropolis. In the year 1787, the inhabitants of the parifti were accurately num- bered ; they amounted then to 3762 ; the prcfent number of houfes being about feven hundred and feventy, exclufive of Dulwich col- lege and the workhoufe, they may now be eftimated at about four thoufand. The houfes in the Camberwell diftri£t alone, are three hundred and feven. In the early part of the year 1603, the regifter is defedtive ; from Plague years. the month of Auguft, to the enfuing April, there were one hundred and thirteen burials ; which number, compared with the average of that period, indicates the plague to have been very fatal. The number of burials in 1625, was one hundred and one; in 1665, one hundred and thirty-three ; of which number, thirty-three were from Dul- wich ; by which it appears, that the fatality of that year was not fo great as in 1603. In the year 1684, are recorded the names of fuch perfons as were King's evil. touched for the king's evil ; a circumftance which I have not obferved in any other regifter. " Ann, daughter of George King, touched, aged eighteen years." Vol. I. M " Barnabas 82 C A M B E R W E L L. " Barnabas Scudamor touched, aged feven years." *' John Davis touched, aged one year." After the reftoration, the multitudes of people who flocked to receive the benefits of the royal touch, were immenfe. Many of them were really difeafed ; more perhaps came out of curiofity, and not a few for the fake of the gold *° which was given to hang about the neck to complete the cure. To prevent any impofitions, there- fore, and to give his majefty, who had more patients under his hands than any phyfician in his dominions, a little refpite, fome reftridlions were made with regard to the times of healing, and the number of patients ; and all perfons who applied for cure, were required to bring a certificate from the minifter and churchwardens of their pa- rifh, that they had never been touched before, (by which it feems the difeafe was never to return,) and they were then to go to the king's chirurgeon, whofe bufinefs it was to examine whether or no they were proper objects; and if he found them fo, to give them tickets. A curious paragraph and advertifement, taken from the newfpapers of that period, will be found in the note *'. The ♦" It appears by an advertifement in the " there were any more that had not yet been Mercurius Politicus, that many came twice or " touched. After prayers were ended, the thrice for the fake of the gold. Feb. 21, 1661. " duke of Buckingham brought a towel, and Saturday being appointed by his ma- " the earl of Pembroke a bafon and ewer; 4t «« " jelly to touch fuch as were troubled with the " who, after they had made obeifance to his •• evil, a great company of poor afflifted crea- " majefty, kneeled down till his majefty had " tures were met together, many brought in " waftied." Mercurius Politicus, June 21— " chairs and flalkets, and being appointed by 28, 1660. " his majefty to repair to the banqueting houfe, " The kingdom having been for a long time " his majefty fat in a chair of ftate, where he " troubled with the evil, by reafon of his ma- " ftroked all that were brought to him, and " jefty's abfence, great numbers have lately " then put about each of their necks a white " flocked for cure. His facred majefty on " ribon, with an angel of gold on it. In this " Monday laft, touched two hundred and fifty " manner his majefty ftroked above fix hun- " in the banquetinghoufe; among whom, when " dred ; and fuch was his princely patience and " his majefty was delivering the gold, one " tendernefs to the poor afflifted creatures, " (huffled himfelf in, out of an hope of profit, " that though it took up a very long time, " which had not been ftroked, but his majefty " his majefty, who is never weary of well- " prefently difcovered him, faying, this man •' doing, was pleafed to make inquiry whether " hath not yet been touched. His majefty " hath CAMBERWELL. 83 The following fingular entries are extracted likewife from the Regifter. " May 5, 1658, Rofe, wife of William Hathaway, buried, aged Chiid-bear- *' 103, who bore a fon at the age of fixty-three." three, and Her hufband, who was about her own age, furvived her three °"S^^* ^' years, being buried Od. 3, 1661, aged 105. The fa£t here recorded is very extraordinary, and taken in all its clrcumflances unprecedented, I believe, fmce the patriarchal ages. Though I have not heard of any inftance, upon record, of childbearing at the age above-mentioned, yet there are a few which approach very near it ; and fome of the moft eminent men in the medical pro- feflion are of opinion, that it is neither irapofllble nor incredible that fuch an event fhould happen. " June 2, 1687, Robert Hern, and Elizabeth Bozwell, king and queen of the gipfies, married." *' Thomas Sweetman, killed by the fall of a chimney in the great wind, buried Jan. 24, 1689." " Mary Dickifon, aged above ninety-nine years, buried Jan. 21, inftancesof « 1702." '°"S"'^- " Elizabeth Jones, aged 125, buried Nov. 22, 1775." A few months previoufly to her death, an account of this woman appeared in the St. James's Chronicle *\ in which it was faid, that flie retained her faculties perfectly ; that (he remembered being at " hath for the future, appointed every Friday " till fix of the clock, to attend that fervice ; " for the cure ; at which time, two hundred " and if any perfons of quality fliall fend to " and no more are to be prefented to him, who " him, he will wait upon them at their lodg- " are firft to repair to Mr. Knight, the king's " ings, upon notice given to him." Parlia- " furgeon, living at the Crofs Guns in RufTel- mentary Journal, July 2 — 9, 1660. " (Ireet, Covent- Garden, over againft the In the fame paper of July 30— Aug. 6, no- " Rofe-tavern, for their tickets. That none tice was given, that no more would be touched " might lofe their labour, he thought fit to till about Michaelmas. " make it known, that he will be at his home ♦* May 1775. " every Wednefday and Thurfday, from two M 2 fervice C( (( 84 C A M B E R \V E L L. fervice when King Charles II. was crowned ; and that the nurfe who attended her in Cambervvell workhoufe, was loi years of age. Vicarage. The parifti church is dedicated to St. Giles ; it is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a vicarage, the re(5tory being a lay impropriation ; it was part of the pofleflions of Bermondfey Abbey, by the grant of William de Mel- hent, earl of Glocefter, in the year 1154*^ The advowfon of the vicarage belonged formerly to the Caltons "*. It was granted, toge- ther with the rectory, to Edmund Bowyer, Efq. by Queen Eliza- beth*', and is now the property of Jofeph Windham, Efq. In 1 29 1 the redlory was taxed at twenty-four marks** ; the vicarage at 61. 8s. yd. ; in the king's books the latter is rated at 20I. Vicars. In 1 643, Peter Dawfon, vicar of Camberwell, fhared the fate of many of his brethren of the eftabUfhed church, and was ejected by the Puritans. They fubftituted in his room Alexander Gregory*', who remained there three years ; they then put in John Maynard, " an " orthodox and godly minifter, and one of the aflembly of divines *' ;" who proved fo unacceptable to the inhabitants, that they prefented a petition againft him to the committee for dlfplacing improper minifters ; but without effed. The redtory was at the fame time fequeftered, and 50 1. per annum out of it was voted to the minifter of Ryegate". The fequeftration appears to have been afterwards taken off, and the right of prefentation reftored to Sir Edmund Bowyer; for, in 1658, it was prefented to the commiffioners ap- ^ pointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices", that the *' Dugdale's Monad, vol. i. p. 640. *' Reports of the Commiffioners for dif- *^ Terrierof Lands in Surrey, 26 Hen .VIII. placing Minifters. Bodleian Library. & 12 Eliz. Brit. Muf. 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. •" Ibid. ♦' Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 2. Jan. 12. "* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth Li- ** See note, p. 10. brary. ♦' Walker's Lift of ejefted Clergy, p. 233. redory C A M B E R \V E L L. 85 re£lory of Camberwell was impropriated to Sir Edmund Bowyer, patron of the vicarage, to which he had prefented Mr. Richard Parr, and that the profits of the vicarage were about 140I. per angum. Dr. Parr, who was inftituted in 1653 ", was chaplain to archbifhop Dr, Parr. Ufher, whofe letters he publifhed, with his life prefixed. The deanery of Armagh, and an Irifh bifhopric, were offered to him, both which he refufed. In principles, he was a Calvinift; and as a preacher, fo much admired, that, to ufe Anthony Wood's expi-ef- fion '*, " he broke two neighbouring conventicles." He publifhed feveral fermons and devotional trads, and died in the year 1691 at Camberwell, where he lies buried in the church-yard. A monu- ment was eredled to his memory ; on which, after mentioning the death of his wife, who was daughter to Sir Roger James, Knt. is in- fcribed as follows : " Here alfo lyeth her hufband, " Rich. Parr, D. D. vicar of this " place almoft thirty-eight years. " Ob. Nov. 2, 1 69 1. " He was " in preaching, conftant ; in life, exemplary ; " in piety and charity, moft eminent ; a lover *' of peace and hofpitality ; and, in fine, a true " difciple of Jefus Chrift." The prefent vicar is the Rev. Roger Bentley ; he was inftituted in 1769, and is the third in fucceflion from Richard Parr above- mentioned. In the reign of James I. a free grammar-fchool was founded Grammar- in this parifh by the vicar, Edward Wilfon ", and endowed with feven " Camberwell Parifli Regifler. " Pat. 13 Jac. I. pt. 13. Sep. 29. 5* Vol. u. p. 880. acres 86 CAMBERWELL. Other bene- faiSlions. DuLWICH. Mineral- water. acres of land. The re£tors of Lambeth, Newington-Butts, and St. Olave, Southwark; the vicar of Carfhalton, the vicar and church- wardens of Camberwell, the patron of the vicarage, (then Sir Edmund Bowyer,) with others, were appointed governors. The above perfons and their fucceflbrs were to have the nomination of the mailers, and to appoint new governors as vacancies fliould happen. The number of boys is limited to twelve. The prefent mafter is Thomas Jephfon, M. A. Mr. Henry Cornelifen founded two other charity-fchools, Bene- fadions to the amount of 580 1. have been left towards the fupport of the fchools; 500 1. of which was a legacy from Mr. Reup. Sir Edmund Bowyer bequeathed to the parifti three tenements, and five acres of land ; befides which, it enjoys annual bequefts to the amount of 61. 13 s. 4 d. (of which, 4 1, was left by Mr. Henry Smith;) and about 435 1, in money, bequeathed by various perfons. The village of Camberwell was lighted and watched by an a6t of parliament pafTed in the fixteenth year of his prefent majefty. The hamlet of Dulwich, formerly fpelt Dilwysfhe, is near two miles from Camberwell, towards the fouth-weft, bordering upon Kent. The fituation is pleafant, and very retired, no public road paffing through it except to the neighbouring hamlet of Sydenham. In the year 1739, a mineral water was difcovered here in digging a well at the Green Man, then a place of much refort for parties of pleafure from London, now a private houfe, and lately the fummer refidence of the prefent Lord Chancellor. A particular account of the difcovery was fent to the Royal Society ", by John Marty n, F. R. S. profeffor of botany at Cambridge. The ftratum of the firft twenty '♦ Philofophical Tranfaftions, vol. xli. p. 835. feet, CAMBERWELL. S7 feet, he fays, was clay mixed with vegetable fubftances ; at the depth of forty feet, the clay was intermixed with pyrites and ludus hel- montii. The well being funk to that depth without finding water, was covered up till the next fpring, when, upon being opened, they found twenty-five feet of water, of a cathartic quality, much refem- bling the water of Sydenham Wells, on the Kentifh fide of the hill. The firft mention I find of the manor of Dulwich is in the year Manor. 1 127", when it was given by Henry I. to Bermondfey Abbey. At the fuppreflion of monafteries it was granted to Thomas Calton '*, and was by Sir Francis Calton alienated to Edward Alleyn, Efq. " in the reign of James I. Of Dulwich College and its founder many accounts have been Dalwich col- publifhed ; but they are fo replete with errors, that I am happy in ^^^' having an opportunity, through the politenefs of the prefent members, (by whofe permiffion I have infpeded the MSS. in their pofleflion,) to give an account, which I flatter myfeJf will be more fatisfadtory and accurate. Edward Alleyn was the fon of Edward Alleyn of Willyn, in the Anecdotes of r T, , 58 , . 1 tl»e founder. county of Bucks ; his mother was a daughter of James Townley, Efq. of Lancafhire : he was born in 1566, in Allhallows, Lombard- ftreet ; where, in Fuller's time, was the fign of the Pie, near Devon- fhire houfe. Fuller fays, he was bred a ftage player " ; he certainly went upon the ftage at an early age ", and foon acquired great cele- brity in his profeffion. Baker *", fpeaking of him and Burbage, fays, " they were two fuch adors as no age muft ever look to fee the like." Hey wood calls him " Proteus, for fhapes; and Rofcius, for a " Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. A. 8. f. no. '» Pedigree Heralds' Coll. Extrafts from a Chartulary of Bermondfey " Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2. p. 223. Abbey. «" Biogr. Brit. 5« Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 5. Oa. 1 1. «' Chron. pt. 4. p. 120. " Pat. 4 Jac. pt. u. May 7. " tongue." 88 C A M B E R W E L L. " tongue ''\" Fuller fays, he was the Rofcius of the age, efpecially in a majeftic part. He is fpoken of alfo in terms of the higheft com- mendation as an ador, by Ben Jonfon, and others of his contem- poraries. It has been a matter of inquiry, how Alleyn fhould have made fo confiderable a fortune in a profeffion, which, at that time, was not very lucrative even to the moft eminent "^ To account for this, the editors of the Biographia fuppofe, that he inherited fome paternal eftate, and that he improved his fortune by marriage. The tradition in the college has always been, that he had three wives ; but there is no certain account of more than two. A letter found among his MSS. interfperfed with the terms of endearment in which he Dfually addrelTed his wife, and directed to E. Alleyn, might aflift in giving rile to this tradition : the letter, which is curious, will be found be- neath ^* ; it was probably intended for his filler, whofe name was Elizabeth; the date is 1593 ; at that period he had been married about a year to Joan, daughter of Agnes Woodward, widow, whofe fecond hufband was Philip Henflow, with whom Alleyn was after- ** Prolog. toCh.Marloe'sJewofMalta, 1633. " anr forry to hear; but you may thank your *^ Mr. Malone fuppofes Shakfpeare to have " two fupporters, your ftrong legs I mean, received about 200!. per annum as a£lor, pro- " that would not carry you away, but let you prietor, and author. Hillory of the Stage, " fall into the hands of fuch tarmagants ; but, p. 156. " moufe, when I come home I'll be revenged '■*■ My good fiveet hart, and loving moufe, " on them; till when, moufe,'! bidfhec fayre- " I fend thee athoufand con.w;endacions, willi- " well. 1 pray thee friid me word how thou " ing thee as well as may be ; and hoping " dofte, and doe my harty commendacions to •' thou art in good hckhe, with my father, " my father, mother, and filler, and to thy " mother, and filler. — I have no news to fend " owne felf; and fo, fweet hart, the Lord " thee, but that 1 thanlc God we are all well " blefs thee. From Chelmsford, the 2 of May, " and in helthe, which 1 pray Gcd to conti- " '593- " nue with us in the country, and with you in " Thyne ever, and no bodies elfe, by '* London. But, moufe, I little thought to " God of heaven. «' hear that which I now hear by you, for it " Edward Allevne. " is well known, they fay that you were by " Farwell, my mouiin and moufe, " my Irrd maior's officers, made to ride in " and farwell, Befs DodipoUe. " a cart, you, and all your fellows, which I « To E. Alle YN£,on the Bank-fide." wards C A M B E R W E L L. 89 wards fo much conne£ted. It has been always fuppofed that Allcyn's wife was the daughter of Henflow, and apparently with fome reafon, for fhe is not only fo termed in her funeral certificate at the Heralds' office, figned by the two fenior fellows of the college, but alfo in the pedigree, figned by himfelf, wherein his arms are impaled with Henflow. To put the matter however out of all doubt, Mr. Ma- lone, in confulting the MSS. at Dulwich for his edition of Shakef- peare, found a memorandum in the founder's own hand-writing, of his marriage with Joan Woodward, in 1592. She died in 1623, and AUeyn married a fecond wife of the name of Conftance : what her furname was, does not appear ; but there are ftrong reafons for fup- pofing that fhe was a daughter of the celebrated Dr. Donne. It is faid in the Biographia '% that the founder's arms were upon one of the organ pipes, impaled with, Azure, a wolf rampant ermine. Dn Donne bore for his arms, Az. a wolf rampant Arg. In the funeral certificate of his fon, the wolf is charged with an ermine fpot. Dr. Donne had a daughter of the name of Conftance, who, at the time of his death, which happened in 1 631, five years after that of Alleyn, appears to have been the wife of Samuel Harvey, Efq. " ; a fadl, by no means adverfe to the conjedlure, which gains additional fupport from the circumftance of one of her fitters having been fettled at Camberwell by her marriage with Thomas Gardyner, Efq. Alleyn, by his will, left to his wife Con- ftance 1600I., and jewels. Alleyn was fole proprietor of the Fortune play-houfe in White- crofs-ftreet, which he built at his own expence ; and which, no doubt, as he was a favourite adlor, was a fource of confiderable emolument. He was likewife proprietor of a bear-garden on the " Edit. 1780. p. 153, in the notes. " Funeral certificate of his father Sir Thomas Gardyner. Vol. I. ' N • Bank- go CAMBERWELL. Bank-fide '*, in partnerfhip with Mr. Philip Henflow, long before he obtained the place of mafter of the king's bears. Bear-baidng. Bear-baiting was an amufement fo much in fafhion in AUeyn's time ", that it afforded entertainment to all ranks of people ; and his garden, '* Amongft Alleyn's papers is a covenant of Peter Street's, for the building at the bear- garden, which was to be fifty-fix feet in length, and fixteen in breadth. The eftimate of the carpenter's work was 65 1. '5 The lateft record which I have feen by July 22, 1721 " gaining place, with fireworks all over him, " and bull dogs after him ; a dog to be drawn " up with fireworks after him in the middle " of the yard ; and an afs to be baited upon '■ the fame flage." Read's Weekly Journal, which this diverfion was publicly authorized, is agrant to Sir Sanders Duncombe, " of the " fole praftifing and profit of the fighting and " combating of wild and domeftic beafts with- •' in the realm of England, for the fpace of " fourteen years." Pat. 14 Car. pt. 4. oa. u. The baiting of bears and other beafts as a public exhibition for profit, has been revived more than once, during the prefent century, as appears from the following advertifements : " At the boarded-houfe in Marybone-fields, *' on Monday, the 24th of this inllant July, " will be a match fought between the wild " and favage panther, and twelve Englifti " dogs, for 300I. This match was made be- At the particular requeft of feveral per- " fons of dlftiniflion, " The celebrated white fea-bear, which has " been feen and admired by the curious in " moft parts of England, will be baited at Mr. " Broughton's amphitheatre, this day being " the 29th inftant. This creature is now fup. " pofcd to be arrived at his utmoft ftrength " and perfeflion ; and though there never yet " was any one of this kind baited in Europe, " it is not doubted, from his uncommon fize, " exceffive weight, and more than favage " fiercenefs, but he will afford extraordinary " entertainment; and behave himfelf in fuch a " manner as to fill thofe who are lovers of di- " verfion of this kind, with delight and afto- " tween an Englifh gentleman and a foreigner ; " nilhment. " the latter was praifing the boldnefs and " Any perfon who brings a dog will be ad- " fiercenefs of the panther, and faid, he " mitted gratis." Daily Advertifer, Ja- " would lay the above-named fum that he nuary 29, 1747. " would beat any twelve dogs we had in "We hear there will be a large he tyger " England. The Englifti gentleman laid the " wager with him ; the other has brought the " panther ; and notwithllanding the boldnefs •' of the creature, twelve to one being odds, " he defires fair play for his money, and but " one dog at a time. — Firft gallery, 2s. 6d. " fecond gallery, 2S. No perfons admitted on " the ftage but thofe belonging to the dogs. " The doors to be open at three o'clock, and " baited on Wednefday next at Mr. Brough- " ton's amphitheatre, in Oxford-Road, being " the firft that ever was baited in England. " He is the largeft that ever was feen here, " being eight feet in length. He is one of the •■ fierceft and fwifteft of favage beafts, and it is " thought will afford good fport. The doors " to be opened at nine, and the diverfion be- gin at eleven." Daily Advertifer, Novem- " the panther will be upon the ftage at five ber 28, 1747. " precifely. " This day will be baited at the great booth " Note — Alfo a bear to be baited, and a " in Tottenham-Court, a large Norway bear, " mad green bull to be turned loofe in the " by two large dogs at a time. None to be " admitted CAMBERWELL. gr garden, probably, yielded him as much profit as his theatre : it was not licenfed, but was fo well {locked, that when Sir John Darrington, then raafter of the bears to Queen Elizabeth, was obliged to exhibit this game to her majefty at a fliort notice '*, he applied to AUeyn and Henflow for their affiftance. The following is the copy of an advertifement from this bear-garden, preferred amongft Alleyn's papers : " Tomorrow being Thurfdaie, fhal be feen at the bear garden on " the Bank-fide, a greate match plaid by the gamefters of Eflex, " who hath challenged all comers whatfoever, to plaie 5 dogges at " the fingle beare, for 5 pounds ; and alfo to wearie a bull dead at *' the ftake ; and for their better content, fhall have pleafant fport " with the horfe and ape, and whipping of the blind bear". " Vivat Rex." After the death of Sir John Darrington, the office of " chief " matter, ruler, and overfeer of all and fingular his majefly's games, *' of bears, and bulls, and maftive dogs, and maflive bitches," was granted to Sir William Steward ; who refufing to treat with Alleyti and Henflow for the houfe and bears on the Bank-fide, they were in- duced to purchafe his office of him, for the fake of procuring a licence to bait them. "admitted under 6d. or 3d. each." lb. " Wednefday flie will have folemn dawncing." Dec. 27, 1750. May 12, 1600. Sidney Papers, vol, ii. Bear baiting and boxing foon after the lat- p. 194. ter date, received a fevere check from the "" Whipping a blinded bear, is performed magiftrates. The former, I believe, has never " by five or fix men Handing circularly with been revived. «< whips, which they e,xercife upon him with- '* One cannot have a better idea of the " out any mercy, as he cannot efcape from variety of her majefty's amufements, than " them, becaufe of his chain :— he defends from the following pafl'age in one of Rowland '' himfelf with all his force and (kill, throwing White's letters to Sir Robert Sidney : " Her " down all who come within his reach, and " majefly is very well:— this day (he appointes " are not active enough to get out of it, and " to fee a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope " tearing the whips out of their hands, and " in the Conduit-court; to-morrow, (he hath "breaking them." Hentzner's Itinerary, " commanded the beares, the bull, and the printed at Strawberry Hill, p. 42. " ape, to be baited in the Tilt-yard. Upon N 2 As 92 C A M B E R "W E L L. Office of the As the nature of this office is little known, it will, perhaps, be chief maflcr ^ , . . of the bears, amufing to my readers, to give a fhort account of it, with copies of original papers relating thereto. Whenever it was the king's plea- fure to entertain himfelf, or any of his royal vifitors, with the game of bear-baiting, it was the bufinefs of the mafter of the game to pro- vide bears and dogs, and to fuperintend the baiting : and as this cruel fport deftroyed a great number of the poor animals, he was in- vefted with the moft unlimited authority to iflue commiffions and to fend his officers into every county of England, who were empowered to feize and take away any bears, bulls, or dogs, that they thought meet for his majefty's fervice. This arbitrary proceeding was little relifhed by the fubje(3;s"; and the perfons fent to take up dogs, were frequently ill-treated and beaten, the juftices of the peace often re- fufing to grant them any redrefs. Some towns, and whole counties, to avoid thefe difputes, made a compofition with the mafter of the bears, to fend up a certain number of maftiff dogs yearly, upon condition, that the commiffion fhould never come into their neighbourhood. Among AUeyn's papers is an engagement figned by certain perfons of the town of Manchefter, wherein they promife to fend up yearly, " a mafty dogge or bytche to the bear- garden, between Mydfomer and Michaelmaffe." The mafter of "'Whoever happens to look into the re- fervice, as he himfelf informs us in his Life, at cords of this period, will have reafon to be the end of that work : very thankful that he did not live in an age " Thence for my voice, I muft (no cholfe) when his property was every moment liable " Away of force, like porting horfe, to be feized to furnifti entertainment for the " For fundry men had placards then, court. A few references to the Patent Rolls " Such childe to take." will ftiow to what extent thefe arbitrary fei- ., Commiffion to George Buck to take up as zures were carried. " A commiffion to take » ^any paynters, embroiderers, taylors, &:c. as " up well finging children, for furniOiing the .< jje Ihall thinke neceffary for the office of the " queen's chapel," Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. 6. Jan. 10. .. revels," Pat. i Jac. pt. 24. June 23. " Com- Pat. 9 Eliz. pt. 10. ap. 18. & Pat. 39 Eliz. .. miffion to Andrew Pitcairn, to take up pt. 9. July 15. dorfo. Tuffisr, who wrote .. hawks for his majefty's recreation, and* the poem, entitled " Five Hundred Points of .< pigeons and hens for the keeping of them." " good Hulbandry," was impreffed upon this Pat. 5 Car. I. p. I. Oft. 30. the CAMBER WELL. the bear-garden, in Queen Elizabeth's time, was allowed to have public baitings on Sundays in the afternoon '" ; which liberty was taken away by James L Alleyn complains much of this in a peti- tion which he prefented to the king ; in which he alfo prays for an increafe of falary. The whole petition is curious, and throws fo much light upon the nature and prevalence of this diverfion, that I fhall make no apology for inferting it at length ; and with it fhall clofe this digreflion upon bear-baiting : " To the king's moft excellent majefty, the humble petition of " Philip Henflow, and Edward Alleyn, yourmajefties fervants. " Whereas it pleafed your moft excellent majefty, after the death ** of Sir John Darrington, to grant the office of mafter of your •' game of bulls, bears, and dogs, with the fee of fixteen pence •' per diem unto Sir William Steward, Knt. ; at which time the howfe *' and beares, being your majefties petitioners; but we not licenfed " to bayte them, and Sir William Steward refufmg to take them " at our hands upon any reafonable terms, we were therefore en- " forced to buy of him the faid oflBce, paftime, and fee, at a very *' high rate; and whereas, in refpe£t of the great charge that the " keeping the faid game continually requires, and alfo the fmallnefs ** of the fee ; in the late queen's time, free liberty was permitted " without reftraint to bayt them, which now is taken away from •• us, efpecially on the Sundays in the afternoon, after divine fer- *' vice, which was the chiefeft means and benefit to the place; and " in the time of the ficknefs, we have been reftrained many times *' on the working days; thefe hindrances, in general with the lofs " of divers of the beaftes, as before the king of Denmark we loft " a goodly beare of the name of George Stone"; and at another '» Plays were performed on Sundays, in the mention is made of the notable exploits of a reign of Queen Elizabeth. Malone's Hillory bear, called " Little Befle of Bromley," who of the Stage, p. 126. fought in one day, twenty-one double and " In a letter to Alleyn, amongft his MSS. fingle courfes with the beft dogs in the country. " bayting, 93 94 CAMBER WELL. " baytlng, being before your majeftie, were killed four of our bell *' bears, which in your kingdom are not the like to be had, and " which were in value worth 30 1. ; and alfo our ordinary charges •' amount yearly to 200 1. and better; thefe lofles and charges are •* fo heavy upon your petitioners, that whereas formerly we could ** have letten it forth for lool. a year, now none will take it gratis " to bear the charges, which is your poor fervants undoing, unlefs ** your majeftie, of your gracious- clemencie, have confideracion of •* us. Thefe caufes do enforce us humbly to become fuitors unto " your majeftie, that in refped: of the premifes, and that we have, " ever fmce your gracious entrance into this kingdom, done your " majeftie fervice with all duty and obfervance; it would pleafe " your majeftie in your moft royalle bounty, now fo to relieve us, as ♦' we may be able to continue our fervice unto your majeftie as " heretofore we have done; and to that end, to grant unto us free " liberty, as hath been granted in the late queen's time; and alfo, *' in refpedl of our great and dayly charge, to add unto our faid fee, *' 2s. and 8d. being never as yet increafed fmce the firft founda- *• cion of the office. And whereas, their are divers vagrants and *' perfons of loofe and idle life, that ufually wandereth through the " country with bears and bulls without any licence, and for ought " we know ferving no man, fpoyling and killing dogs for that game, *• fo that your majeftie cannot be ferved but by great charges to ** us, fetching them very far ; which is diredlly contrary to a ftatute *' made in that behalf, for the reftraining of fuch : your majeftie " would be pleafed, in your moft gracious favour, to renew unto '* your petitioners our paftime ; and to grant us, and our deputies, *' power and authoritie to apprehend fuch vagrants, and to convene '• them before the next juftice of peace, there to be bound with " fureties to forfeit his faid bears and bulls to your majefties ufe, if " he fhall be taken to go about with any fuch game, contrary " to the laws of this your majefties realm ; and your poor fer- 2 - t« vants C A M B E R W E L L. 95 " vants will dayly praye for your majefties long and happy ** reigne." Alleyn continued to hold the ofEce of mafter of the bears till his death, or very near it, at leaft he is fo ftiled in the letters patent, for the foundation of the college. He ftill continued alfo to be pro- prietor of the Fortune play-houfe, though he had for fome years re- tired from the ftage *'. Having acquired a confiderable fortune, he determined to beftow it upon a charitable foundation. The ftory " of his forming this refolution, in confequence of a fright, appears to have been fabricated long after Alleyn's time ; as Baker, his con- temporary, who mentions the foundation of DuUvich college, and who was too fond of enlivening his hiftory with marvellous narra- tions to let fuch a tale pafs unnoticed, fays nothing of it. Lord chancellor Bacon threw fome obftacles in the founder's way; oppofed his intentions of fettling his eftates in mortmain, and was hardly prevailed on to difpenfe with the ftatutes which prohibited fuch fet- tlements. We are informed by the editors of the Biographia, that he wanted the king to confent to fettling part of Alleyn's lands on two profefTorfhips, then about to be founded in Oxford and Cam- bridge, by two of his own friends, Sir Henry Saville and Sir Edward Sandys. Having obtained at length the royal aflent, Alleyn fixed upon Dulwich as the fpot on w^hich to found his college, hav- ing purchafed an eftate there as early as 1606. Here he retired after he left the ftage ; and having formed his plan, he fuperintended the eredion of the college, lived to fee it finilhed, and fpent the re- mainder of his days at Dulwich, vifiting and being vifited by fome of the moft refpe(2;able perfons in the kingdom. He managed the affairs of the college till his death, not as mafter as hath been afferted, for he appointed his kinfmen, Thomas and IVIatthias Alleyn, *' It is not certain at what period Alleyn ty prince of Wales, left the ftage; in an inftrumeiit dated 1612, '" Aubrey gives it from tradition ; Antiqui- he ftiles himfelf fervant to the high and migh- ties of Surrey, vol. i. p. 190. to 96 CAMBERWELL. to be mafter and warden on the completion of the foundation in 1619, though they did not take upon themfelves the management of the college till after his death. It has been fald, that after his marriage with his laft wife, he repented of what he had done, and wifhed to revoke his charity ; of this there appears to be no proof, nor have I any other to offer in contradidion to it, than his will; by which he appears to be fo well fatisfied with the foundation, that he augments it with further donations; nor is there any claufe by which he excludes other benefadions, which has likewife been aflerted. AUeyn died in November 1626, and was buried in the college chapel on the twenty-feventh. Aubrey gives the following infcrip- tion, from a flat ftone over his grave: " Here lyeth the bodie of Edward Alleyn, Efq. the founder of " this church and college, who died the twenty-firft day of " November, 1626." It is probable that this infcription was obliterated, and that in fub- ftituting the following, which now appears, his age and the dates were erroneoufly inferted ; for as he was buried on the twenty- feventh, it is more likely that he died on the twenty-firfl;, than the twenty-fixth of November : " Sacred " To the memory of " Edward Alleyne, Efq. " The worthy founder of this college, " Who departed this life, Nov. 26. " A. D. 1626. jEtat. 63. *' As likewife of " Joan his dear and beloved Wife, " Who finiflied her mortal race, " June 28th, 1623." Alleyn C A M B E R W E L L. 97 Alleyn was fixty years of age at the time of his death, as appears by his diary. Over the infcription are his arms". As the founder's diary, which is extant, does not commence before Building of 1 61 7, we have no certain account wlien the building of Dulwich college was begun; the editors of the Biographia fay, that the work was in great forwardnefs in 1614; and they prefume, that 8000I. or 10,000]. were expended upon it before the commencement of the diary '\ The chapel was firtilhed in i6i6, and was dedicated on the firft of September in that year. The whole form of the dedi- cation, and the prayers ufed upon that occafion, are in archbifhop Abbot's regifter, and have been printed in Wilkins ^'. Cornelius Lyman, of Chr. Ch. Oxford, was entered fellow of the college the day before, but he was not one of the members at its final eflablifh- ment in 161 9. The deed of foundation is dated April 13, and the letters patent bear date June 21, 1619. The building being finifhed, and the members of the college appointed, the thirteenth of the September following was fixed on for the folemnity of the foundation; of which the following account is given in Alleyn's own words": " *' Sept. 13, 1619. This daye was the foundacion of the college Ceremony " finifhed ; and there were prefent, the Lord Chancellor ; the Lord of dation. °""" *' Arundell ; Lord Coronell Cecill; Sir John Rowland, high fhreeve; *^ Sir Ed. Bowyer; Sir Thomas Grymes ; Sir John Bodley; Sir " John Tunftall ; Inigo Jones, the king's furveyor; John Finch, " councellor; Richard Tayleboys ; Richard Jones; John Anthony. *' They firfl heard a fermon, and after the inftrument of creacion *• was by me read, and after an anthem, they went to dinner, which " was as followeth : *' Argent, a chevron between three cinque- ed to 2 1 1 7 1. foils, Gules. »' Regill. Lamb. Abbot, pt. i. f. 2S8. 3. — *♦ The cvpences of the college during the 290. a. Wilkins's Concilia, v.iv. p. 455 — 458. period included in the founder's diary, amount- " MS. Diary, Dulwich Coll. Vol. L O " Two 9S CAMBERWELL. Foundation dinner. " Two meffe of meat " Capons in whight broth " Boyld pigions ** Boyld venfon *' Forc't boyld meat " Could roft " Gran falade " A chine of beef, roft " Shoulder of mutton, with oyfters " Bak'd venfon " Roft neates tongues " A florlntyne *' Roft capons « Roft ducks " Roft eeles " Weftfalya bacon " Cuftards." So the other mefle. Thewholeexpence of this entertainment, amounted to 20 1. 9s. 2d. Alleyn has inferted in his diary the prices of each article ; which, omitting fome of the moft minute, I have here tranfcribed. In com- paring them with the prefent prices of provifions, the difference in fome articles will be found very ftriking, in others very trifling. " 2 courfe " Jellies " Roftgodwits " Artychoke pye " Roft partridge " Wettleche'' " Roft quayles " Codlyng tart " Houfe pigions " Amber leche " Roft rabbit *' Dry neats tongues *' Pickle oyfters " Anchovies." So the other meffe. ** A chine of beef, weighing twelve ftone " Twelve neats tongues *' Two dry neats tongues " A leg of mutton o o o o s. 18 12 4 I o o o 10 *' A difli by this name is (Hll occafionally mange, but made with a greater proportion of brought to the table; itis fomewhatlike blanc- ifinglafs. « Nine C A M B E R W E L L. 99 " Nine capons - - - •' Two godwitts - . • ** Six houfe piglons - - " Eighteen felde pigions *• Six rabbits - - - - " Half a hundred of eggs - - - ^* A pottle of great oyfters - . - «' Barbaryes and grapes - - - " Two coUeyfloreys - - - - *' Thirty lettes - - - - *' Sixteen artichokes - - *' Carrots, turneps, rofemary and bays " Nineteen oranges, and four lemons *• Sweet water - - " " Pine apple feeds *', 40Z. - - - *' Oringades, 2 lb. " Wett fuckett, half a pound - - - " Mulket dyamonds - - *' Lump fugar, gib. - " Nutmegs, 70Z. *' Synamon, 1 oz. - - - - *' Curones, 41b. . - - " GafFornes, quarter of an ounce - - - " Two rundlets of claret, containing eight gallons *' A bottle of canary, five pints - - - *' Three quarts of fherry - - *' Three quarts of whight wine " The buck, with warrant and fetching *' The cooks labor _ - - *' The feeds of the round topped fir ; they Italy, where they are called pinocchl. The are ftill a part of the defert at the tables in tree does not perfeft its feeds in England. O 2 Of I 2 8 4 4 4 6 4 2 2 3 I 6 3 4 3 4 4 I 2 8 9 3 4 I 2 9 I 9 4 2 4 16 2 6 2 3 2 I 16 100 CAMBER WELL, Eftablith- ment of the college Statutes. Mafter and warden. Of my own. " A mutton - - - - o lo o " Wheat for meal and flower, eight bulhels -200 " Thirty pound of butter - - -.0150 " Two hogfhedds of here - - -140 The college was founded for a mafter, warden, four fellows, fix poor brethren, and fix fifters, twelve fcholars, fix afliftants, and Endowment, thirty out-members. The endowment confifted of the manor of Dulwich, and lands and tenements there ; fome lands in Lambeth parifh; fome mefluages in the parifhof St. Botolph, Bifhopfgate ; and the Fortune theatre. The revenues amounted to 800I. per annum. The ftatutes dired, that the mafter and warden fhall be of the blood and furname of Alleyn ; and for want of fuch, of his furname Only: they muft be twenty-one years of age, and unmarried. It was obje£ted to Anthony Allen, a candidate for the warden's place, in 1670, that he wrote not his name Alleyn ; and he was held to be difqualified on that account; but that objedion has been frequently overruled fince. Upon the death of the mafter, the warden fucceeds ; and a new warden duly qualified, according to the ftatutes, muft be chofen by lot. The falary of the mafter is 40 1. per annum, with an allowance for diet -and two hundred faggots; the warden's falary is 30 1. with the like allowance. The firft mafter and warden, notwithftanding the claufe which forbids their fucceflbrs to marry, were both married men; their wives were allowed diet from the col- lege ; and Matthias Alleyn the warden, being a widower, was allow- ed to marry again. Some of the fucceeding mafters endeavoured to avail themfelves of this circumftance, and to procure leave from their vifitor to marry, but without fuccefs ; the will of the founder being fo clear and explicit upon this head. In Aug. 1681, their vifitor exprefsly commanded, that no woman whatfoever fhould come to eat at the common table with the fociety. The fellows are chofen C A M B E R \V E L L. loi chofen by lot ; the ftatutes dired, that the two feniors Ihall be maf- Fellows, ters of arts, and officiate as preachers; the two juniors, graduates and in holy orders, to be fchool-m after and ufher ; they muft all be unmarried ; the two feniors are allowed 12I. per annum, their diet, and one hundred and fifty faggots; the juniors, lol., their diet, and one hundred faggots. Six chanters are alfo men- Chanters, tioned, of whom the two feniors were to be organifts; the four others finging men, their falary 61. per annum. Thefe chanters are to be found no where but in the ftatutes ; none were appointed by the founder himfelf at the original eftablifhment of the college, the junior fellow, a layman, being then the organift, and the fenior the only preacher, as it has continued ever fince. The poor Poor bre- brethren and fifters muft be fixty years of age at iheir admiiTion, Mers. and unmarried: there is a claufe in the ftatutes, which excludes any perfon infecled with a noifome difeafe, or fuch as are decrepit in their limbs ; if they marry, commit fornication, or adultery, they are to be expelled. I do not find that the annals of the college record any expulfions on this account : but very foon after the foun- dation, a note occurs in the regifter, " that two of the fifters were expulied for ungodly unquietnefs." It is diredled by the ftatutes, out. that the poor brethren and fifters fhallbe chofen, as vacancies happen ^"^ in the college, from the thirty out-members, who are to be of the parifties of St.' Saviour, Southwark; St. Botolph, Biftiopfgate; and St. Giles's, Cripplegate; ten out of eachparifti; and are to be lodged in alms-houfes which he built, or ordered by his will to be ere£led for their reception. Not many years after the foundation, the eftates of the college being in arrear, and much out of condition, thefe out- members were difcontinued, and the college received the fandion of their vifitor for fo doing ; but at the vifitation in 1677*', the penfions '9 Vifitation of Dulwich Coll. Tanner's MSS, Bodleian Library. of mem- 102 CAMBER WELL. Scholars. Affiftants. Vifitor. Firft mem- bers. of the out- members were ordered to be paid. The twelve poor fcholars are to be fix or eight years of age at their admiffion, and to be educated till they are eighteen; to be taught writing, reading, grammar, mufic, and good manners; when their fchool education is completed, they are either to be apprenticed at the charge of the college to fome trade or manual occupation, according to their capa- cities, or to be preferred to the univerfity, where there are to be never more nor lefs than four. An allowance, which is not particularized, is to be made them for eight years; they are to receive 5I. to de- fray the expences of each degree, and are to fucceed to the feliow- Ihips of Dulwich without lot. Ifaac Defmevets, in 1692, was al- lowed 20 1. a year by the college whilft he was at the univerfity; but complaining that he was not able to fubfift upon it, they in- creafed his allowance to 25 1. and gave him 17I. to take his degree of M. A. The expence attending the above eftablilhments, is efti- mated in the ftatutes at 600 1. per annum; of the remaining 200 1. lool. was to be depofited in the college cheft for emergencies, and the other 100 1, was to defray the charges of law fuits, repairing roads, &c. The churchwardens of St. Saviour's, Southwark ; St. Botolph, Bifhopfgate ; and St. Giles's, Cripplegate ; were appointed afTirtants in the government of the college, and were to attend the audits; and the archbifliop of Canterbury was appointed vifitor. The afnftants right of attending the audits, was confirmed at the vi- fitation in 1635. At the final eftablifhment of the college, in 1619, Thomas Alleyn, citizen and barber furgeon of London, was appointed the firft mafter, and Matthias Alleyn, of Dulwich, Gent, warden; the fellows were Sam. Wilfon, M. A. John Harrifon, M. A. Martyn Symmonds, clerk, and Thomas Hopkins, organift. In 1638, the revenues of the college were fo much impaired by the fall of the fteeple, which happened July 6th, that it was C A M B E R W E L L. 103 was diflblved, by order of the vifitor, for the fpace of fix months; during which time, the mafter, warden, and fellows received no falary, but the poor people, and the fcholars were allowed two fhillings a week each. The college feems indeed to have been pecu- liarly unfortunate in its dilapidations : it was not long after, that the whole of the one fide, and part of the other, fell down ; and in 1703, the porch, with the treafury chamber, fliared the fame fate. During the civil wars, Dulwich college had its full {hare of the general confufion; the mafter and warden did not take an adive part, but the fellows were in arms for the king; in confequence of which, their fellowfhips were fequeftered, and a fchool-mafter and ufher only (Stephen Street, and Edmund Colley) were appointed by the ruling powers. In 1646, thefe two prefented a petition to the committee for plundered minifters '°, that they might have a double allowance for diet, as they flood in the place of the four fellows ; their petition was rejedled at firft, but was afterwards granted, as being confonant to the will of the founder. In 1647, Fairfax's army being then at Putney and Fulham, a company of foldiers, under the command of Capt. Atkinfon, was quartered in the college, for which they received the fum of 19s. and 8d. a poor reccm- pence for the deftrudtion of their organ, and other outrages which the foldiers committed. There is a tradition yet current in the col- lege, that they took up the leaden coffins in the chapel, and melted them into bullets. In 1649, the rents of the Fortune playhoufe being in arrear, the Fortuneplay- college entered upon the theatre the 21ft of November. Both houfes of parliament pafled an order, July 16, 1647 ^'» f°^ the fup- preflion of plays and play-houfes ; they continued to aft for fome '" Reports of the Committee, BodleianLibrary. ^' Perfed Occurrences, July 16—23, '647. time 104 C A M B E R W E L L. time at the Fortune, In defiance of this refolutlon'*; but upon the parliament taking more fevere meafures, and ordering the play-houfes to be made unfit for theatrical reprefentation ", they were obliged to defift. It was not furprifing therefore, that the proprietors of the theatre fhould be in arrear for rent. At the archbifhop's vifitation, in 1667, it appeared, that the college had been brought in debt confiderably by the fall of the Fortune play-houfe". Having applied feveral times to parliament without redrefs, the college prefented a petition in 1655, fetting forth their grievances; and praying that the privilege of eledling their own fellows might be reftored. Cromwell, by letters patent, dated Feb. 11, x^^^-d^ appointed Nathaniel Fiennes, one of the commiffioners of the great feal, Sir Bulftrode Whitlock, chief juftice St. John, General Lam- bert, and others, commiffioners, with full power to vifit and fettle the affairs of the college; this vifitation took place March 19, 1657-8 ; but the commiffioners appointed a new preacher and fchoolmafter themfelves, inftead of reftoring the privilege of eleftion to the col- lege. The next year, Elias Alleyn prefented a petition to Richard Cromwell, then protestor, in which he complained, that notwith- flanding the vifitation of the commiffioners in the preceding year, the abufes of the college were not reformed ; and that the mafter and warden ftill continued in their evil practices. In confequence of this petition, certain perfons were appointed to inquire into the matter, and it came to a hearing at Whitehall; when it was alleged, that the mafter and warden had alienated lands belonging to the college, to the amount of 200I. per ann. and had applied the money to their own ufe ; that they had fold divers valuable goods belonging to the college, and had aided and abetted the late king by conniving at the fellows being in arms againft the parliament: after hearing '^ lb. Aug. 6 — 13, 1647. thereto belonging, was advertifed to be let '5 Ibid. Feb. II — 18, 1647-8. for building on, in the Mercurius-Politicus, 3+ The Fortune play-houfe, with the ground Feb. 1^—21, i66i. both C A M B E R W E L L. 105 both fides a report was drawn up, and a copy ordered to be fent to each party, which was never done, and thus the matter ended. The prefent mafter is Thomas Allen; he fucceeded to that place Prefentmem- in 1775, at which time Mr. William Allen was elected warden; the prefent fellows are Thomas Jenyns Smith, M. A. Nevile Stow, M. A. John Newell Puddicombe, M. A. and Mr. Richard Dowell, organift. Dulwich College confifts of a front and two wings, which form DefcHption three fides of a quadrangle ; over the door, in the centre of the front college. building, is the following infcription upon a tablet of black marble : " Regnante Jacobo, *' Prlmo totius Britannise monarcho; " Edward Alleyn, armiger, " Theromachias Regise prxfedtus, " Theatri Fortunje didi choragus, " ^vique fui Rofcius, " Hoc collegium inftituitj " Atque ad duodecim fenes egenos, " Sex fcilicet viros et totidem foeminas " Commode fuftentandos, " Paremque puerorum numerum alendum, ♦' Et in Chrifti difciplina et bonis Uteris erudiendum, " Re fatis ampla inftruxit. " Porro, " Ne quod Deo dicaverat poftmodum fruftra fieret, " Sedulo cavit. " Diplomate namque regio munitus, juffit " Et a magiftro, cuftode, et quatuor fociis, *' Qui et confcientiae vinculis aftridli, " Et fua ipforum militate admoniti, *' Rem bene adminiftrarent, " In perpetuum regeretur. . Vol. I. P " M- io6 C A M B E R W E L L. '• Poftquam annos bene multos collegio fuo prsefulflet, " Dierum tandem et bonorum operum fatur, " Fato conceffit " VI. Cal. Dec^'V A. D. 1626. " Beatus ille qui mifertus eft pauperum, " Abi tu et fac fimiliter." The weft end of the front building contains the hall, kitchen, and offices on the ground floor; above ftairs are the apartments of the mafter and warden ; the eaft end is occupied by the chapel, a plain unornamented ftrudure ; in which is a font infcribed with a Greek anagram ". The founder of the college, his wife, and her mother, are burled in the chapel ; the infcriptions are in Aubrey ^'. A claufe in the ftatutes permits the mafter, warden, and fellows to be buried in the chapel, but excludes all others. A cemetery was confecrated at the fame time with the chapel ; it is fituated about a quarter of a mile from the college, near the road to Lon- don. The chapel is now frequented by the inhabitants of the hamlet, to whom it ferves as a chapel of eafe; the parochial duties being performed by the fenior fellow. Rfgiiler. The baptifms and burials are entered In the college regifter, which records likewife the fucceflion of the matters, wardens, fellows, and other members; fome few hiftorical notes are occafionally in- ferted, of which I have availed myfelf in the account of the college. In the firft leaf is a memorandum of the mufic books and inftru- ments left in the college at Mr. Alleyn's death ; the inftruments were •' a lute, a pandora, a cythera, and fix vyols," In the earlier part of the regifter, the burials of the members of the college only ap- pear to be recorded; a few baptifms occur, moft of them from " NiyON ANOMA MH MONAN OYIN. called Anne inftead of Agnes, and her name 3* The infcription to the memory of Mrs. written Jenflow. Aubrey's Surrey, vol. i. Henflow, is very inaccurately given; fhe is p. 158. • Norwood. C A M B E R W E L L. 107 Norwood. It was not till towards the latter end of the laft centur}', that the inhabitants of Dulwich, who are near two miles from the parifh church, enjoyed the convenience of having the parochial duties performed fo near their home. The average of births and burials at Dulwich, I have noticed in defcribing the parifh regifter of Camberwell. Four perfons are mentioned to have died of the plague at Dul- wich in if)25 ; and thirty-feven in 1665, and 1666; mofl of whom were buried at Camberwell. Anthony Bohemc, called in the regifter, " The Famous Tragedian," Anthony was interred in the burial ground here Jan. 10, 1731. He is ° ^'"^' mentioned by the theatrical biographers, as an aiftor of confiderable eminence. Macklin, who remembers him, fays his abilities were over-rated, and that he was a mannerift. Another aftor of lefs eminence, called in the regifter " John John Eggle- " Eggleton, a player," was buried February 19, 1727: ofhimfelf little is remembered ; his wife was an adlrefs of merit, and was the original Lucy in the Beggar's Opera : her portrait is introduced by Hogarth in his fcene from that play. The following fingular entry appears among the burials in 1 768, Bridget, " Old Bridget, the Queen of the Gypfies, buried Auguft 6th." This gypfles. Bridget was niece and fucceflbr of Margaret Finch, whofe hiftory is very curious ; of ■ whom, I propofe to give fome account when I come to treat of the village of Beckenham, where i>er viajejly was buried. w In the weft wing of the college which was repaired in 1667, ^^ apartments of the poor fifters occupy the ground floor ; over which is the pidture gallery, feventy-feven feet long, and fifteen feet fix inches wide ; the cieling is richly ornamented with ftucco, it is in a very ruinous ftate, and is fliortly to be taken down, and the whole of the wing to be repaired or rebuilt. P 2 The io8 C A M B E R W E L L. Pidure gal- The contetits of the pidlure gallery have been very curforily men- tioned in all the hiftories of the college. Aubrey, from whom the fucceeding writers on the fubjedt feem to have copied, fays, that there are portraits of Henry Prince of Wales, Sir Thomas Grefham, Mary Queen of Scots, and fome other worthlefs pictures : the two latter portraits are not there, and as they are not mentioned in the old catalogue, it may be prefumed they never were : of the remain- ing pidures which are treated with fo much contempt, fome have much merit, and many are valuable, as being original and unique portraits of remarkable perfons : they may be thought therefore to deferve a more particular account. The catalogue which is in the hand-writing of Mr. Cartwright, by whom they were bequeathed to the college, afcertains both their names and prices. Many which are there enumerated do not now appear ; perhaps Cartwright had difpofed of them before his death : among thefe was a portrait of *' the man who demolifhed the Earl of Eflex with a hatchet in *' Weftminfter Abbey ;" this deftrudion, of which an account is given in the notes", was not executed upon his perfon, but his effi- gies foon after his interment. The moft remarkable of the portraits which remain, are the following : Michael Michael Drayton, the poet '', in a black drefs, his own hair fhort, "yton. ^^j ^ plain band. This coft Mr. Cartwright 15 1. Sir Martin Sir Martin Frobiftier, a brave officer, and a diflinguifhed circum- navigator, who difcovered the north paffage to China. He defended 37 ti The lad night the hearfe and effigies of " is not yet difcovered ; but no doubt, it will " the late Earl of Eflex was moft (hamefuUy " be found out, and the aflors and abettors " handled, cut to pieces, defaced, and fpoyl'd, " made exemplary." Perfeft Diurnal, Nov.- " as it flood in the abbey of Weftminfter, by 23—30. 1646. " fome rude perfon or perfons (certainly fome ^' This head is now engraving for a feries " notorious cavaliers) who lurked on purpofe of original portraits, which are about to be pub- " fecrctly in the abbey all night, to do that raif- liihed by Mr. Sylvefter Harding; as are " chievous and difgraceful aft. Who they be Richard Lovelace, Perkins, &c. Breft C A M B E R W E L L. 109 Breft againft a fuperior force of Spaniards ; and was knighted for his gallant behaviour in the engagement with the Armada^'. The firft Lord Lovelace, created by Charles L, who diftinguifhed Lord Love- himfelf likewife as a naval officer, and took the King of Spain's Weft- Indian fleet *". He was of Hurley in the county of Berks. Richard Lovelace, the poet, called in the cataloeue, " Colonel Richard ° _ Lovelace. " Lovelace, in black armour." This man was a fmgular inftance of the vicifiitudes of fortune. After leaving Oxford, where the beauty of his perfon, and the variety of his accomplifhments, procured him the efteem and admiration of all, he entered into the army ; and having faithfully ferved his unfortunate mafter Charles L, he after- wards entered into the fervice of the French king, and was wounded at the (lege of Dunkirk ; he recovered from his wounds, and returned to England, where he found his beautiful miftrefs Lucy Sacheverell, who had fuppofed him dead, married to another; and being ob- noxious to the then ruling powers, he was thrown into prifon ; being afterwards releafed, he wandered about in rags and poverty; and be- ing broken down both in mind and fortune, died in obfcure lodg- ings in Gunpowder-Alley, Shoe-lane, in the year 1658, and was buried in St. Bride's church"'. There is a print of him by Faithorn. Sir William Lovelace, Serjeant Lovelace, and others of that family. The Duchefs of Suffolk, a whole length. It does not appear what Duchefs of Suffolk this is, probably Lady Willoughby, the laft wife of Charles Brandon. A portrait called " the Earl of Exeter," a head painted on board ; the title muft be a miftake ; — there was no Earl of Exeter, before 2» Fuller's Worthies, pt. 3. p. 203. *• Ant. Wood, vol. ii. p. 147. id edit, and *° Ibid, pt. I. p. no. Granger, vol. i. p. 423. 410. Thomas no CAMBER WELL. Greenhill. Richard Bur- badge. Nathaniel Field. Richard Per- kins. Thomas Cecil; it may be Henry, or Edward, Marquis of Exeter ; the former was beheaded in 1538, the latter died 1556. " Greenhill, the painter, by himfelf." This is a good pidure, and is engraved in the Anecdotes of Painting. " Althea, with her hair difhevelled," faid to be Lucy Sacheverell ; though Lovelace always called her Lucafta in his Poems. " Burbage, the adlor." Richard Burbadge was a very celebrated tragedian, and a contemporary of Shakfpeare. Camden calls him, " alter Rofcius ;" and Baker fpeaks of him in the fame terms as he does of Alleyn, pronouncing them both to be fuch adtors " as no " age muft ever look to fee the like." He is known to have repre- fented the character of Richard IH. ; and probably, performed the principal tragic parts in other of Shakfpeare's plays *\ He was a principal proprietor of the Globe and Blackfriar's theatres ; and died anno 1619 ^^ " Nathaniel Field, the ador ;" a good portrait. This cofl Mr. Cartwright lol. He is reprefented drefled in a fhirt trimmed with black lace. Field was one of the children of the Chapel Royal : he originally performed women's charaders **. " Perkins, the ador.'' Richard Perkins was one of the performers belonging to the Cockpit, Drury Lane, and is mentioned among thofe of principal note there *' : he aded in Shirley's and Heywood's plays *''. John Webfter, the author of a comedy called, The White Devil, or Vidoria Corombona, publiflied in 16 12, fays, in a note, after praifmg the other adors, " in particular, I muft remember the " well-approved induftry of my friend Mafter Perkins, and confefs. ♦* Malone's Hlflory of the Englifli Stage, ** Malone's Hiflory of the Englifli Stage, p. 186. p. 211. *^ Ibid. p. 187. The portraits of Burbadge *' Dialogue of Plays and Players, printed and Field, have been well engraved for Mr. in Dodfley's Plays, edit. 1780. vol.xii. p. 341. Harding's feries of heads and views to illuf- ** Dodfley's Plays, vol. viii. p. 303. in the trate Shakfpeare. notes. « the CAMBER WELL. iii " the worth of his adion did crown both the beginning and the ^' end *'. When the play-houfes were fhut up during the civil wars, Perkins refided in Clerkenwell, where he died ; and was buried fome years before the reftoration. He wrote a copy of verfes prefixed to Heywood's apology for a£l:ors. " Sly, the ador." William Sly was a contemporary of Shak- William Sly. fpeare, and was joined with him in the patent of 1603. He is in- troduced perfonally in Marfton'sMalecontent, 1604; and Mr. Malone conjedures, from his there ufmg an afFeded phrafe of Ofrick's in Hamlet, that he performed that part. He died before the year 1612*'. ♦* Tom Bond, the ador." Of Bond little is known, but that he Tom Bond. aded in Shakerly Marmyon's comedy of Holland's Leaguer, brought out in 1632. " Mr. Cartwright, fen. the ador." 7 Thefe pidures coft 1 c 1. The Cart- . . , f Wrights. *' Mr. Cartwright, jun. the ador." J each. The former of thefe, whofe name was William, was one of the Palfgrave's fervants in 1622 *'. The portrait, which is a very bad one, reprefents him in a laced band and cuffs. Cartwright the younger, is in a Vandyke drefs ; of him nothing certain is known : he pro- bably was fon to the former. There is a third portrait of a Cart- wright, an ador, called in the catalogue, " my own portrait ''." This is a good pidure by Greenhill : he is reprefented in a black robe and flowing peruke, with his hand on a dog's head. His name alfo was William. He was one of Killigrew's company at the original eftablifhment of Drury Lane, where he played Falftaff. This Cartwright, by his will dated September 1686, left his books and pidures, feveral articles of furniture, and 390 broad pieces of *' Dodlley's Plays, vol. vi. p. 373. ♦s' Ibid. p. 47. "'■ Malone's Hillory of the Englifh Stage, 5" Ibid. p. 265. p. 205. gold, 112 CAMBER WELL. Audit-room. Library. gold, to Dulwich College ; but his fervants defrauded the College of the greater part both of the furniture and money, of which they received only 65 1. Eefides the portraits above-mentioned, there are others of inferior value, and lefs note ; and fome other pidures, among which are an head of an old man, which has much merit, by Greenhill ; an ancient view of London, faid to be by Norden ; the head of a woman, by Burbadge the adtor, in chiaro-obfcuro ; fome copies from Baflan ; a fea view ; and many more, which, as Aubrey fays, are certainly very worthlefs. At the fouth end of the pidure gallery, is the audit-room, where is a good pidture of the founder, a full length, in a black gown " ; a fmall portrait of a lady, on board, in a drefs of fcarlet and gold, with a Latin infcription round it ; and fome other portraits of little value. Adjoining the audit-room, is a fmall library, in which are the books bequeathed to the college by Mr. Cartwright. This library formerly contained a very valuable colle£lion of old plays, which were given by the college to Mr. Garrick when he was making his theatrical colledlion, in exchange for fome more modern publications. There ftill remain fome fcarce editions of books in various departments of literature, as it may be imagined would be found amongfl: the ftock in trade of a bookfeller, who lived in the middle of the laft century. The college is likewife in poffeffion of a few curious MSS. ; among them is the Founder's Diary, to wnich I have had frequent occafion to refer, and from which I here fubjoin fome curious extra 2^ w'Cr% <->-,^ ^ -^r; ^^ » '-^ 3 *" > "^ <» ' <~< "^ ^— !-^~* i^ ' ^^^ ci :^ ;:: *"> 2 o ^' ri -=3" ^ c^ ZI Tr-« ^^•§ ^ ^ y 3- VJ ^^ ^ Cjr ^ 5^ f^ r-' '~'%C3 -3'^ .S PP 'cs 1^ ^'M ^ I ^^ ^t% ^..M V ^ cv .J^' C A R S H A L T O N. 129 " plelaunce; theyre bufines is in many fecrets, fome fitting in the " king's chaumber, fome in the hall with perfones of like fervice, " which is called knyghts fervice, taking every of them for his " lyvery, at night, a chete lofFe, one quart wyne, &c." Their fee was 77(3. a day while in waiting". Margaret Gaynesford was the daughter of Sydney, of the county of Suffex ; fhe is mentioned by Lelaud, as being prefent at the coro- nation of Henry VII. 's queen ". On the tomb, are the arms of Gaynesford and Sydney, and fome other coats "' ; from the blank fpaces in the infcription, it appears that the monument was ereded in Gaynesford's life-time. In Vincent's Vifitation of Surrey, are preferved fome infcrlptlons from brafs plates, to the memory of the following perfons, fome of which are now lofl or much mutilated : viz. Thomas Ellynbridge, gentleman porter to Cardinal Morton, who died in 1497; (the canopy on this tomb remains with part of the infcription ;) Walter Gaynef- ford, chaplain, who died in 1493 ; (this tomb remains with the figure of a prieft; and the infcription, though much worn, is legible ;) Joan wife of John Gaynesford, who died in 1474; John Perce- bridge, vicar, who died in 1474 ; and John fon of Thomas Fro- mound of Cheam, who died in 1580. Againft the fouth wall of the chancel, is the following fingular in- Tomb of fcription, to the memory of William Quelch, a former vicar of this • Qi!^ = • parifh: " M. S. *' Under the middle ftone that guards the afhes of " a certain Fryer, fomtimes vicar of this place, is •' raked up the duft of William Quelch, B. D. who " minifterd in the fame fince the reformacion. " Hislott was, through God's mercy, to burn " Royal Houfehold Ellablilhments, publifh- between three greyhounds Sable: Sydney ed by the Society of Antiquaries, 4to. 1790. bears Or, a Pheon Azure. The other coats " Leland's Coll. vol. iv. p. 233. zd ed. are Arg. three Rofes Gules. 2. Or, a crofs *' Gaynesford_ bears Arg. a chevron Gules vert. 3- Arg. a Lion rampant Gules. Vol. I. S " Incence I30 C A R S H A L T O N. " Incence here about 30 years, and ended his courfe " April the 10, An. Dom. 1654, being aged 64 years." Some Latin lines, which are fo full of errata as not to be intelligible, and a few Englifh verfes not worth inferting, follow. Within the rails of the communion table, is a graveftone to the memory of Charles Burton, Efq. who died in 1661, the laft of the Burtons of Carfhalton. Of this family was Sir Henry Burton, Knight of the Bath. They came to this parifh by the intermarriage of one of their anceftors, with Joan, daughter and heir of John Ellinbridge: Jhe died in 1523, and was buried in the north aifle, where there is an infcription on a brafs plate to her memory. On the north wall of the chancel is the monument of Dixey Longe, Efq. who died in 1664; againft the fouth wall, that of Henry Her- rlngman, and his wife Alice, who lived together fifty-eight years, and died within fix weeks of each other in the feventy-fixth year of their age, an. 1703. Pariihre- '^^^ regifter of this parifli begins in 1538 ; it Is comprifed in two gifter. books, the more ancient of which, with a very commendable zeal for its prefervation, has been handfomely bound in Ruffian leather. It appears in general to have been kept with accuracy, excepting the entire omiffion of any entries from 1644 to 1651, for which the then vicar makes the following quaint apology : " Good reader read gently : " For though thefe vacant yeares may feeme to make me guilty of " thy cenfure, neither will I fymply excufe myfelfe from all blemlfhe ; •' yet if thou do but caft thine eie upon the former pages and fee with " what care I have kept the annals of mine owne time, and certified " errors of former times, then thou wilt begin to think there is *• fome reafon why he that began to build fo well fliould not be able ** to make an ende. " The truthe is, thatbefyde the great miferles and diftradions of thofe " pretermitted years, which it may be God in his own wifdome would " not CARSHALTON. 131 " not fuffer to be kept upon record, the fpeclal grounds of that pre- " termiflion ought to be imputed to Richard Finch, the parifh clerk, *' vvhofe office it was by long prefcription to gather the ephemerie, " or dyary of the dayly paffages, and to exhibit them once a year to " be tranfcribed into this regiftrey ; and though I often called upon *' him agayne and agayne to remember his charge, and he always tould *' me that he had the accompts lying by him, yet at laft I his *' excufes, and refolved upon fufpicion of his worde, to put him to *' a full tryal. I found to my great grief that all his accompt was ** written in fand, and his words committed to the empty winde. *' God is witnefs to the truth of this apologie, and that I made it *' known at fome parifli meetings before his own face, who could not •' deny, neither do I write it to blemifhe him, but to cleere mine *' own integrity as far as I may, and to give accompt of this mif- " carryage to after ages, by fuperfcription of my own hand." " Mar. 10, 1 65 1. William Quelch, B. D. Vicar." The more modern Regifter Book, which begins in 1703, and is continued to the prefent time, appears to have been kept with great accuracy. Since the year 1708, the birth as well as the baptifm of each child is particularized. It is much to be wifhed that this plan was unlverfally adopted ; as in many cafes, efpecially where any con- fiderable time has elapfed between the birth and the baptifm of children, it may be of very material confequence to them at fome future period, to have the date of their birth fo well authenticated. Average of Births. Average of Burials. Comparative 1580 1589 ID pulation. 1680 — 1689 14 13 1780— 1780 — II Z^, By which it appears that the inhabitants have increafed within the laft century, in a proportion fomewhat of more than two to one. The prefent number of houfes is one hundred and fixty-five. S 2 la I p. CARSHALTON. Plagueyears. In the year 1625, only eight perfons died at Carfhalton; in the enfuing year there were thirty-fix burials. Mr. Quelch obferves in a note, that " it was a year of very great mortalitie, but that not one died of the plague, but a difeafe fomewhat akin to it ;" and he refers for a fimilar circumftance to the year 1543, in which I find entries of thirty-one burials. In 1665, there were fifteen burials; in 1666, twenty-three; neither of the numbers much exceeding the average of each period. In the earlier part of the Reglfter are many entries of the Gaynef- ford and Mufchamp families ; the former were the defcendants of Nicholas Gaynesford, whofetomb has been defcribed; the latter were of the family of Mufchamp of Peckham ; of whom one was baron of the exchequer, and was buried at Carfhalton, June 4, 1579. Sir Nicholas " Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, was buried Mar. 3, 1569-70." Throkmor- rp.j^jg was the Celebrated ftatefman who had an occafional refidence at Carfhalton*'. Sir Nicholas was one of the moft eminent men of his time'"* , being efleemed a good foldier, and an able politician. He had a command at MufTelborough-field, and brought the news of the vidlory, for which he was knighted. In the beginning of Queen Mary's reign he narrowly efcaped with his life, being accufed as an accomplice in Wyat's confpiracy; he owed his fafety to his own in- genious defence, and to the integrity of his jury, for which they were fined and perfecuted. Sir Nicholas was afterwards received into her majefty's favour. Queen Elizabeth beftowed on him feveral places of profit and honour; though he was once in difgrace with her, on fuf- picion of his promoting the Duke of Norfolk's intended marriage with the Queen of Scots. He was afterwards employed in feveral embaffies; *» There are two letters in the Burleigh '° The anecdotes of Sir Nicholas Throk- Papers from Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, one morton, are taken from Fuller's Worthies, dated " at my ferme oiF Carfalton, Sept. i8, pt. 3. p. 123. and the Baronetage, i-j^f, 1568, the other from Carfalton, Feb. 25, vol. ii. p. 358. 1569, vol. i, p. 472. and 577." and C A R S H A L T O N. 133 and grew fo much in favour at court, that the Earl of Leicefter looked upon him as a formidable rival ; and it was fufpeded that he hailened his death by poifon, as he died fuddenly at the earl's houfe near Temple Bar, after eating a hearty fupper. There is a life of Sir Nicholas Throkmorton inverfe, in the Harleian Colledion of MSS." which appears to have been written foon after his deceafe. Speaking of his reconciliation with the Earl of Leicefter, the writer fays, " Whofo believes a foe late reconcil'd, " Is for the mod: part fpitefully beguil'd." A fhort fpecimen of the poetry will fuffice : the following paflage intimates that the queen fent phyficians to his affiftance, but that he died before they arrived : " Was ever man fo bound to fovereign *' As I to mine, who in extremity I " Did fend both do£lors for to eafe my pain, " A comfort great to cure my confcience ; *' But phyfic came in vain when I was kill'd, *' Too late to keele when all the milk is fpill'd." The author making Sir Nicholas himfelf the fpeaker, probably oc- cafioned the report that he wrote his own life in verfe. Sir Nicholas Throkmorton married the daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, of Bed- dington, by whom he left a large family: he died as above-mentioned on the twelfth of February, and was buried on the twenty-firfl: at St. Catharine Cree church ^\ where there is a monument to his memory. The cuflom of celebrating the funeral of eminent perfons, fome time after their interment, in the church of the parifh where they had a refidence, and which continued many years after the reformation, accounts for the above entry in the Regifter. " 1576. The right honorable Lorde Thomas Howard, vifcount " of Bindon, and Miftris Mabell Burton, were married June 7." *' N" 6353 — I. '* Funeral certificate. Herald's college. Frances 134 C A R S H A L T O N. Frances Frances the celebrated Duchefs of Richmond, whofe legend is to Duchefs of _ ^ Richmond. be found at large in Wilfon's Life of James 1. was an offspring of this marriage ". Her firft hufband was Henry Prannel, the fon of a vintner, who dying foon afterwards in affluent circumftances, left her a rich widow ^*. It was not long before fhe had many fuitors ; among others Sir George Rodney and the Earl of Hertford. On her preferring the latter, Sir George, with the romantic gallantry of that age, wrote her a letter with his own blood, and immediately ran upon his fword. During the earl's life fhe was addreffed by the Duke of Richmond " as an humble fuppliant, fometimes In a blue coat with ♦' a bafket-hilted fword, making his addreffes in fuch odd difguifes "." Being once more at liberty by the death of the earl, fhe confented to marry the Duke of Richmond, and thus arrived at the fummit of her honours ; though it was faid, that fhe was ambitious of foaring yet higher ; and that furviving the duke, and finding the king a widower, fhe vowed that fhe would never marry a fubjedt, after having been the wife of fo great a prince as Richmond : but though fhe took care that her vow fhould reach the king's ears, he was determined not to take the hint. She was a woman of the mofl confummate vanity* which her fecond hufband, the Earl of Hertford, would fometimes take an opportunity of mortifying; and *' when he found her in *' thefe exaltations would fay, Frank, Frank, how long is it fince thou " waft married to Prannell ''?" There is a whole length portrait of the duchefs in the gallery at Strawberry Hill j two prints of her are extant, both of them very rare. 3' Wilfon fays, but erroneoudy, that her '♦ " It is faid, that Sir William Woodhoufe mother was daughter to the Duke of Buck- " would faine marry the rich widdow Pranell, ingham. The pedigrees, which are corrobo- " richly left indeed." Rowland White to Sir rated by Prannel's funeral certificate, corre- Robert Sidney, Jan. 16, 1599. Sidney State fpond with a note inferted in the parifh re- Papers, vol. ii. p. 160. gifter, by William Quelch a future vicar, that ^^ Wilfon, p. 258. Mabell Burton's daughter became Duchefs of ^ lb. p. 259. Richmond. The CARSHALTON. ^35 The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is in the dlocefe of Reaory. Winchefter, and in the deanery of Ewell : the benefice is now a re£lory, having been endowed with the great tithes about the begin- ing of the prefent century by Mr. Byne, who was then the lay im- propriator : William Hollin, the firft redlor, was inftituted in 1703. The redtory formerly belonged to Merton-Abbey, to which it was given by Faramufus de Bolonia, in the twelfth century". After the diflblution of monafteries, it was granted to William Goringe by Edward VI. ^'; it afterwards belonged to the Fromounds^', and came by inheritance to the Bynes, who intermarried with that family. In 1291*° the pofleffions of Merton-Abbey at Car (halton, including the re£lory, were taxed at 12I. 6s. 6d. ; the vicarage is rated in the king's books at 1 1 1. 12 s. 6d. In 1646 it was ordered that 15I. per annum, referved out of the lands belonging to the dean and chapter of Bangor, fhould be given to Mr. William Quelch as an augmentation of his vicarage at Car- fhalton, provided that he fubfcribed the engagement *'. The prefent patron of the red:ory is Henry Byne, Efq. ; the incum- bent, the Rev. William Rofe, who was inftituted in 1779. Before I clofe the account of Carfhalton, I fhould mention, that on the premifes now belonging to Theodore Broadhead, Efq. a houfe wasbuiltbyDr. RadclIfFe, the celebrated phyficlan, and noble benefadlor Dr.RadcUfFe. to the Univerfity of Oxford ; he was no lefs confplcuous for his great flcill, than for the bluntnefs of his manner, which fpared no rank, however exalted. He gave great offence by his rudenefs to King William and to the Princefs of Denmark ; the latter, when fhe came to the throne, ^' Regifter of Merton-Abbey, Cotton 'o Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Erit. MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. VII. and Muf. Leland's Coll. vol. i. p. 7. '"^ See note, p. 10. ^^ Fee-farm rolls. Augmentation Office, *' Proceedings of the Committee for plun- Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. No. dered Miniflers, Bodleian Library. 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. refufed iw. 136 C A R S H A L T O N. refufed to appoint him. her phyfician ; fuch, however, was the opinion of his {kill, that he was often called upon for his advice, efpecially during her laft illnefs. The dodtor was then refiding at Carfhalton, whence he was fummoned to attend her majefty ; being himfelf ill with the gout, he refufed to obey the fummons, which indeed was irregular, as not coming from proper authority. His refufal, however, made him fo unpopular, that after the queen's death, he received feveral threatening letters, which gave him fo much uneafinefs, that his apprehenfions of the revenge of the populace were thought to have haftened his own end. In a letter, dated from Carfhalton, Auguft 3, 1714, he mentions the receipt of thefe letters, and declares his intention of not ftirring from home. He died there the firft of November following "% His houfe at Carflialton was fold to Sir John Fellows, one of the governors of the South-Sea Company, by whom it was rebuilt j at which time, in levelling the ground to make an avenue, many human bones were found *\ The houfe was afterwards the refidence of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. Benefaaions. Mr. Henry Smith bequeathed 2I. per annum to the poor of Car- fhalton; Mr. Byneleftthem an annual fum of 7I. to be laid out in coals; Mr. Fellows gave 20 1. per annum to apprentice boys, and Mr. Mufchamp lol. to poor widows. ♦* Thcfe anecdotes of Dr. RadclifFe are *' Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii. taken from the Biographia Britannica, edit. 174. 1748. [ 137 ] H E A M. N the mod ancient record which I have feen relating to this Name. parilTi, its name is Tpelt Chieham ; it has fince been varied to Ceiham, Chayham, and Cheyham, and has now, for about two cen- turies pafl, been uniformly written Cheam. As there is no word in the Saxon language nearly fimilar to the firft fyllable of the ancient appellation, I fuppofe it to have been a proper name j Ham is well known to mean a dwelling. I fliould fufped that Aubrey never was at this village, for he de- Situation. fcribes it as " lying very low, in a bottom' ;" whereas it {lands upon the higheft ground in the neighbourhood, and commands an exten- five profpedt. The parifh lies in the hundred of Wallington, and is Boundaries, bounded by Maiden on the north ; on the fouth, by Banftead ; on the eaft, by Sutton; and on the weft, by Cudington. It contains Extent and about 1400 acres of land, of which only 120 are pafture. In Doomfday it is faid to contain fourteen plough-lands. The foil on the north fide of the parifh is a ftrong clay, and produces fine crops of wheat and beans ; on the fouth fide, towards Banfted Downs, it is chalky. This parifh pays the fum of 190I. i6s. to the land-tax, which at prefent is at the rate of two fhillings in the pound. The manor was granted by King Athelftan in the year 1018, to Manor. the monks of Canterbury \ He exempted it at the fame time from ' Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii. p. 107. * Great Cartulary of the See of Canter- bury in the Bodleian Library, p. 34. Vol. I. T , the 138 H M. Manor of Bail Cheam. Manor of Weft-Cheam. the payment of all taxes, except for the repairing of bridges and fort- refles, and defraying the expence of the king's expeditions. The grant concludes with the ufual uncharitable anathema againft anyperfonwho fhould prefume to infringe it : " Excommunicatus cum diabolo focic- " tur ;" that is, in plain Englifh, " Mayhegoto the devil." InDoomf- day, the manor of Ceihara is faid to be held by Archbifhop Lan- franc for the fupport of the monks. It afterwards appears to have been divided; one moiety being called Weft Cheyham, and held by the prior and convent of Canterbury; the other, Eaft Cheyham, with the advowfon of the church, being the property of the archbifhop. The manor was valued in the Confeflbr's time at 81. ; at the time of the Survey, at 15I. In 1291 ', the moiety belonging to the archbifliop was taxed at 10 1 ; that belonging to the convent, at 61. 13 s. 4d. The manor of Eaft Cheam continued in the pofleffion of the fee of Canterbury till the year 1540, when it was alienated by Archbifhop Cranmer to King Henry VIII. in exchange for Chiflet park in Kent*. It remained in the crown till the reign of Queen Mary, who granted it to Anthony Lord Montague ' : of him it was pur- chafed about twenty years afterwards by Henry Earl of Arundel*; from whom it pafTed to John Lord Lumley, who married his daugh- ter and coheir. Lord Lumley dying without iffue, this manor was inherited by the defcendants of his fifter Barbara, who married Humphrey Lloyd of the county of Denbigh ; and being the property of the Rev. Robert Lumley Lloyd who died in 1729, he left it by will to the late Duke of Bedford : the duke fold it to Mr. Northey, father of William Northey, Efq. of Epfom, who is the prefent proprietor. The manor of Weft Cheam continued in the hands of the crown forae time after the fuppreflion of monafteries. The reverfion of ' See note, p. 10. ' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit, Muf. ♦ Exchange and Grants of Lands by Hen. Ayfcough's Cat, No. 4705. VIII. in the Augmentation Office. * Pat. 25 Eliz. pt. 8. ap. zz. Pardon Alien. the C H E A M. 139 the fite thereof was granted by Queen Elizabeth to John Lord Lum- ley ' ; and it appears, that he purchafed the manor itfelf of Henry Beacher', 25 Eliz. It has fmce undergone the fame alienations as that of Eaft Cheam. The manor-houfe at Eaft Cheam, which is fituated about half a Eaii-Cheam mile from the village towards Sutton, is an ancient flruflure, built, as I imagine, by Thomas Fromound, who married the daughter and heir of John Yerde, leffee of the manor under Archbifhop Cranmer. In the hall window are the arms of Yerde, impaled by Ellinbridge. Fromound, whofe mother was an heirefs of that family, bears On his tomb the arms of Ellinbridge quartered with his own. The hall re- mains in its original form, the upper part being furrounded by an open wooden gallery : adjoining the hall, are the buttery and cellar with ancient doors : in the parlour is fome rich mantled carving. The chapel is converted into a billiard-room. This houfe and pre- mifes, called the Site of the Manor of Eaft Cheam, were held under the crown by the Fromounds", after the manor itfelf was granted to Lord Montague. They continued in poffeffion of it till the middle of the laft century. Bartholomew Fromound, who was fined the fum of 1240 1. by James I. as a recufant, died in 1641, and was the laft of that family fettled at Cheam. The premifes afterwards became the property of the Petres, and were fold a few years ago by Lord Petre to Philip Antrobus, Efq. the prefent proprietor. The manor-houfe of Weft-Cheam, fituated near the church, is a Weil-Cheam large brick edifice, which contains nothing particularly deferving of defcription : it appears to be in a negleded ftate, and has not for fome years been the refidence of its owners. The church is dedicated to St. Dunftan. It appears by a note on a pane of glafs taken out of the old palace at Croydon, that " the ' Pat. 2 El'z. pt. 3. Apr. 27. » Pat. i & 2 P. & M. pt. 15. Feb. 14. ' Pat. 25 Eliz. pt. 10. Apr. 25. T 2 " church manor-houle. MO C H E A M. "church of Cheme was burnt by lightning in the year 1639." The injuiy it received mull have been only partial, as the tower and fome parts of the church, which are of a prior date, ftill remain ; the form of the building, however, in confequence of this accident, and fome fubfequent alterations, has been fo changed, that no conjedture can be formed of the date of its ftrudlure. The tower, which is built of flint and ftone, is low, fquare, and em- battled. St. Mary's ^j- ^j^e fouth-eaft corner of the church, is a fmall chapel dedicated chapel. ^ _ * _ to St. Mary, which was built before the year 1449, as is evident from the will of John Yerde, who diredls his body to be buried therein. He bequeaths his eftates in Surrey, after the death of his wife, to his fecond fon John, to whom alfo he leaves 400 muttons ; 20s. to the repair of the church, and 20 s. to the high Tomb. altar '°. His tomb is ftill to be feen, with an infcription on a brafs plate much worn. There are fmall figures of himfelf and his wife Anne. Her head-drefs refembles that of Margaret Gaynef- ford at Carfhalton. Anne Yerde died in 1453. In this chapel alfo are the tombs of Thomas Fromound, who married the daughter and heir of John Yerde the younger, and died in 1542; of another of the fame family much oblite- rated; and of Bartholomew Fromound, who died in 1579. Jane, one of the daughters of the latter, married the celebrated Dr. Dee. Againft the weft wall of the fame chapel, is a monument to the memory of Lord Stourton, a Roman catholic peer, who died in 1753- At the eaft end of the chancel, from which it is feparated by a fkreen of wood, is an aifle built by John Lord Lumley, in 1592, as a burial place for his family. The roof is enriched with pen- dant ornaments. •» Regift. Lamb. Stafford, f. 188. b. Againft C H E A M. 141 Againft the north wall is the monument of Lord Lumley. On a T°,j^\°/^j large tablet fupported by Corinthian columns, and furrounded with Lumley. coats of arms of the Lumleys, and families allied to them by marriage", is the following infcription : " Deo Opt. Max. et Pofteritati Sacrum Johanni Dom. et BaronI " de Lumley, viro nobiliflimo, innocentia, integritate, conftantia, " fide, pietate, religione, comitate, rerum difficilium diuturna per- " peffione, et patientla ornaliflimo, feliciter et fande in terris " mortuo decimo die Aprilis anno Chrifti Servatoris, millefimo • •' fexcentefimo nono, setatis fux LXXVI. uxor amantiffima et " amici acerbo in officio diligentes hoc ei monumentum, non " honoris erga quo abundavit vivus et florefcet mortuus, fed *' amoris caufa quern memoria colent, ut debeat, fempiterna, devo- *' tifiime confecrarunt. " Pio quoque erga nobilifi^imam Lumleyorum gentem afFe£lu " dudi in honorem ac memoriam ejufdem, primogenitorum illlus " The ancient arms of Lumley were Gules, Willington. 8. Az. Seme de lis, a lion ram- 6 ring-doves, Arg. 3, 2, and i. Marma- pant. Or, for Holland. 9. Gules, a chevron duke Lumley, who married the daughter engrailed between 3 garbs, Arg. for Redham. and heir of Thomas Baron Thwenge, 10. Sab. a chevron, Arg. a chief indented of changed them for the arms of that family, the fecond, for Thornton. 1 1. Az. a maunch Arg. a feife Gules, between three popinjays Or,for Conyers. 12. Quarterly.— i. Ermine ; vert,beakedandleggedofthe fecond. The arms j. paly of 6 Or, and Gules ; 3 as 2 ; 4 as i ; impaled by Lumley are, i. Gules a Saltier for Knightley. 13. Gules a lion rampant. Or, Arg. for Gofpatrick Earl of Northumberland, for Fitz-alan. 14. Arg. 3 cinqOefoils, Gules 2. Sable 3 cups Argent, for Cawtrey. 3. Gules, forD'Arcy. a Saltier Arg. for Nevil. 4. Sab. a fret Arg. Over the tomb are the modern arms of for Harrington. 5. The Royal Arms quartered Lumley, quartering, I. Ancient arms of Lum- with Burgh (Or, a crofs Gules) and Mortimer ley. 2. Sab. 3 cups Arg. for Cawtrey. 3. Gules, a (Az. 3 bars Or, an inefcutcheon Arg. on a Saltiervalre. 4. Az. Semeof cinquefoils, alion chief between two cantons party per bend Or, rampant, Arg. for Morewyke. 5. .'^rg. 2 bars andaz. dexter and finifter, as many pallets); Gules, on a canton of the fecond, a lioii over all a baton finifter for Elizabeth, natural paffant, guardant Or. 6. Thornton. 7. Arg. daughter of King Edward IV. who married a chevron Gules within a border engrailed fable Sir Thomas Lumley. 6. Az. abend Or, for born alfo by Thornton. See Lumleii familiac Scroop. 7. Gules, a Saltier vaire bom by infignia.Brit.Muf.King'sMSS.XVlL A.XIV. " familias 142 ' C £L rE A M. *' familije fuccefliones feriatim hac in tabula fculpi atque defcribi cu- *' rarunt : — quorum primus Liulphus nomine nobilis geaerolufque " minifter, ex Anglofaxonura genere vir clariflimus qui late per " Angliam pofl'efTiones multas haereditario jure poflidebat cum tem- " pore Regis Gulielmi Primi Conquifitoris Anglise, Normanni " ubique fxvirent, et quia Cuthbertum Dunelmenfem antiftitem inter " Divos relatum, multum dilexerat, cum fuis ad Dunelmum fe con- " tulit, et ibidem Walchero Epifcopo adeo devenit charus et accepta- " bilis, ut abfque illius confilio nibil confulte fieri videbatur : mul- " torumdehinc odium fibi conflavit, donee a Gilberto quodam aliifque " fceleratis didti Epifcopi miniftris crudeliter tandem occideretur: *' in cujus necis vindidtam Northumbri WalcherumPrazfuleminnocen- *' tem apud Gatefhed trucidarunt. Anno 1080, Ex Aldgitha con- " juge Northumbrorum comitis Aldredi filia Liulphus filium fufcepit *' Udredum Patrem de Gulielmi de Lumley ejus nominis primi, a *' cujus loci dominio fui pofteri cognomina funt fortiti : Gulielmum, *' iftum Uiflredi filium Dunelmenfis Epifcopus Hugo eifdem frul " immunitatibus voluit, quibus cxteri fui Barones in epifcopatu " gaudeb^nt et Secundi Henrici Regis cartam inde obtinuit. Tanti *' Beneficii non immemor Gulielmus villam fijam de Di£ton in *' Alverton-fcira eidem epifcopo et fucceflbribus fuis liberaliter con- *' tulit ; a primo Gulielmo oritur fecundus, a fecundo tertius, qui ex *' filia Gualteri Daudre equitis Rogerum filium procreavit, maritum *' Sybellae cohaeredis inclyti Baronis Hugonis de Morwyco ; inde ** natus Robertas, qui ex Lucia forore et hxrede Thomse Baronis de " Thwenge Marmaducum filium genuit, paternorum armorum " defertorem primum fibi fuifque retentis materna: ftemmatis infig- " nibus. — Procreat is, ex Margaretta Holland conjuge fua, Ra- " dulphum equitem ftrenuum quem Rex Ricardus Secundus anno *' Regiminis octavo ad Baronis Regni dignitatem evexerat ; duda- " que Aleanora primi comitis Weftmarise forore, Johannem tulit, *' qui C H E A M. 143 " qui ex Felicia Uxore Thomam fufcepit cui Margaretta conjux' " filia Jacobi Harrington equitis, Georgium enixa eft maritum ** Elizabethse hxredis Rogeri Thornton armigeri, inde pater " efficitur illius ThomEe qui ex magni Regis Edwardi Quarti filia " naturali Ricardum fufceperat : is Annam ducens fororem Gulielmi " Baronis Coigners, Johannem reliquit hxredem fponfum Johannas *' filiae Henrici Le Scrope de Bolton, Baronis eximii, avum Johaa- " nis ultimi Baronis de Lumley, hoc conditorio in certam fpem *' future refurredionis repofiti : quern illi Georgius filius, ex Jana *' cohseredi Ricardi Knightley equitis, unicum reliquerit nepotem ac *' haeredem ; bino conjugio felix ultimus hie Johannes fuit, Jans *' fcilicet Arundelice comitis Henrici filix state maxima et coha^redi " necnon et Elizabethse filiae Johannis Baronis D'Arcy, fxminGe non " Iblum profapia et antiquo ftemmate nobili, fed quod magis laud- *' andum virtutibus, pudicitia, verecundise, et amore conjugali *' nobiliffim^E. — Ex illarum prima nati filii duo Carolus et Thomas^ " filiaque unica Maria baud diu fiiperftites adeo ipfa infantia moef- " tiffimis fatis fiablati." There is an engraving of this monument in Sandford's Genealo- gical Hiftory of the Kings of England. Lord Lumley was engaged by his father-in-law, the Earl of LordLum- Arundel, in the defign of promoting a marriage between Mary Queen ^^' of Scots and the Duke of Norfolk, for which he was imprifon- ed "; but efcaping without farther punifhment, fat afterwards upon the trial of that Queen ". Camden fpeaks of him as a man of the ftri£left virtue and integrity ; and fays, that he was, in his old age, a moft complete pattern of true nobility . He was high ftevvard of the Univerfity of Oxford ; and having a tafte for literature, colleded a fine library of books, in which he was aflifted by his brother-in-law, "Burleigh Papers, vol. ii. p. 26—138. Camden's Annals of Q;_ Elizabeth, p. i90.236,8vo. »' Ibid. p. 487. Humfrey 144 ^^ ^ E. A M. Humfrey Lloyd'*, a celebrated antiquary. After his lordfhip's death, which happened in 1609, they were purchafed by King James, and became the foundation of the Royal Library, which now forms a part of the colledion in the Britifh Mufeum. A portrait of Lord Lumley, inclofed in a wooden cafe. Hill remains in his chancel at Cheam ; he is reprefented in a high-crowned hat, a ruff, and a long beard ; the pidlure is almoft decayed ; but an engrav- ing of it is preferved in the laft edition of Sandford '\ Tomb of On the fouth fide of Lumley's chancel, is a ftately monument of Jane Lady ^ r x i t i i r • Lumley. marble, to the memory of Jane Lady Lumley : the upper part or it, which exhibits her own effigies in baflb-relievo, is reprefented in the annexed plate : beneath, is an altar tomb of very large dimenfions : on the front, which is divided into two compartments, are the figures of her daughter and two fons, kneeling ; and at each end are the arms and quarterings of Fitz-alan "^ and Lumle-y. The tomb is covered with a flab of black marble, eight feet five inches in length, and four feet two inches and half in breadth ; round the edge is the following infcription : " Vixi dum volui, volui dum Chrifte volebas, *' Chrifte mihi fpes eft, vita, corona, falus. " Jana Henrico Comiti Arundeliae filia et coheres, Johannis " Baronis Lumley chariflima conjux, pra;ftans pietatis ftudio, vir- " tutum officiis, et vers nobllitatis gloria, corpore, fub hoc tumulo " in adventum Domini requiefcit." Jane Lady Lumley, daughter of Henry Earl of Arundel, was a very learned woman. She tranflated the Iphigenia of Euripides, and fome of the orations of Ifocrates into Englifli ; and one of the latter ■♦ Biograph. Brit. edit. 1748,-p. 4276, Gules, for Poynz. 2. Arg. a fefl"e Gules, a 4277. in the notes. canton of the laft. for Wood'vile. 3. Sab. a 's London, 1707. fol. fret Or, for Makravers. '* Fitz-alan quarters, i. Barry of 8 Or and into Tomb of Jan f Zadv ZumUv^ C H E A M. 145 into Latin ". The MSS. are in the Britifh Mufeum ". Lady Lumley died in 1577, as appears by the parifh regifter. " Johanne Lumley, fepult. 9 Mar. 1576-7." On the north fide of the fame chancel is the monument of Lord Tombof Elizabeth Lumley's fecond wife, daughter of John Lord Darcy of Chiche ; her Lady Lum- ley, effigy lies at full length under an arch, the cieling of which is che- quered with cinquefoils and popinjays. There is a Latin infcription without dates. Over the tomb are the arms of Lumley, impaling Darcy. A neat marble tablet, with the following infcription, is affixed to Monument of r 1 Ml r , Sir Jofeph one 01 the pillars of the nave: Yates. *' Sacred to the Memory " of the Honorable " Sir Jofeph Yates, Knight, " of Peel Hall in Lancafhire, " fucceffively a Judge of the Courts *' of King's Bench and Common Pleas ; " whofe merit advanced him to the ** feat of Juftice, which he filled with the mofl " diftinguiftied abilities and invincible integrity. " He died the 7th day of June 1770, " in the 48th year of his age, " leaving the world to lament the lofs " of an honeft Man and able Judge, " firm to aflert ** and ftrenuous to fupport " the laws and conftitution " of his Country." Over the infcription are the arms of Yates, Arg. three Gates Sable. ■' Ballard's Memoirs of Learned Ladies, p. 121. '» King's MSS. XV. A. L IL and IX. Vol. L U Sir 14^ C H E A M. Sir Jofeph Yates was admitted of the Inner Temple in the year 1738 ; he pradifed fpecial pleading for feme time below the bar, to •which he was called in 1753. In 1764, he was appointed one of the Juftices of the Court of King's Bench, from whence he removed to the Common Pleas in 1 770, the year in which he died. His contemporaries agree in giving full teftimony to the truth of the encomiums beftowed on him in his epitaph. Sir Jofeph Yates made Cheara his occafional refidence for a few years preceding his death. Befides the tombs already mentioned, Aubrey defcribes thofe of the following perfons : Michael Denys, who died in 1418; John Compton, who died in 1450 ; William Woodward, who died in 1459 ; Sir John Virley, parfon of Cheam, who died in 1557; Thomas Ufborn, re£l:or, who died in 1686 ; George Aldrich, who kept a private fchool at Cheam during the rebellion, and died in 1685; James Bovey Efquire, who died in 1695; Edmund Barret, ferjeant of the wine-cellar to King Charles, who died in 1631 ; and his fon Thomas, clerk of the wardrobe, who died in 1652: of thefe, the tombs of Mr. Bovey and the Barrets only now remain. On a tomb of black marble in the church-yard, near the fouth door, is ah infcription to the memory of Henry Neale, and his wife, who died 1664; and their daughter Eliza Button " who was mur- " thured the 13th of July 1687, by her neighbour, endeavouring " to make peace between him and his wife.** Reftory, The benefice of Cheam, is a redory in the peculiar jurifdidion of the archbifhop of Canterbury. The patronage was annexed to the manor of Eaft Cheam, till it was alienated to St. John's college in Oxford, towards the latter end of the laft century. Reftors. It is fomewhat fmgular, that of fix fucceffive xedors of Cheam, five fliould become biftiops, as will appear by the following Kft: Anthony C H E A M. 147 Anthony Watfon, inftituted to this re£tory In 158 1 ", was pro- :^"*°"y moted to the fee of Chichefter in i cq6, and held Cheam in com- bifhop of . , , . r 1 • L • 1. Chichefter. mendam" till his death, which happened in 1605 ; at which time he was almoner to King James. He was buried at Cheam September 19*', and his funeral was honorably folemnized there on the third of October following". Lancelot Andrews, then bifhop of Chichefter, was inftituted In 1609 Lancelot Andrews, to the reflory of Cheam^\ which he refigned within a few months biihopof upon his promotion to the fee of Ely: he was afterwards tranflated to Winchefter. Bilhop Andrews was a very celebrated preacher, to which circumftance, and his eminent abilities as a writer, he prin- cipally owed his preferment. It was faid of him by Fuller '*, that they who ftole his fermons could not Real his manner ; which was inimitable. Queen Elizabeth admired him *\ and by giving him the deanery of Weftminfter, laid the foundation of the promotion to which he arrived, under the patronage of her fucceffbr James. The bifhop had a confiderable fhare in the tranflation of the Bible ", and left behind him, in print, a very large colledion of fermons, and fome ieftures on the Old Teftament. He died in 1626, and lies buried in St. Saviour's church, in Southwark. George Mountain, inftituted to this rectory on bifhop Andrews's George tranflation to Ely in 1609'", was promoted to the fee of Lichfield archbiihop and Coventry, in 161 1. He refigned Cheam, upon his tranflation ° to Lincoln, in 161 7. He afterwards became fucceflTively blfliop of London and Durham, and archbifhop of York; and dying in 1628, at the age of fifty-nine, was buried in the church of Cawood, where there is an infcription to his memory, written by Hugh Holland ". '' Reg. Lamb. GrinJal, f. 555. a. *' England's Worthies, p. 369. " Pat. 38 Eliz. pt. 13. Oa. 14. ^« Biograph. Brit. edit. 1789. *' Parilli Regifter. '' Reg. Lamb. Bancroft, f. 292. a. " Funeral Certificate, Herald's college. "' Morris's Lives of eminent Cambridge " Reg. Lamb. Bancroft, f. 292.3. Men. Harl. MSS. Bridfli Mufeum, 7176, *+ Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2. p. 206. p. 149. U 2 Richard 148 C H E A M. ^"^r^'^^l^"* Richard Senhoufe was inftltuted to the tedlory in 161 7", on the houfe, bilhop •' ' ' cfCarlifle. promotion of bifliop Mountain. He refigned it on being made bifhop of Carlifle in 1624. Senhoufe preached at the coronation pf King Charles'' ; and died in 1628. He left behind him a few fer- mons in print, and lectures on fome of the Pfalms in MS, '°. JohnHacket, Upon bifhop Senhoufe's promotion, John Hacket obtained the bifhop of . , • Lichfield and living of Cheam " through the intereft of the Lord Keeper Wil- liams ^\ One of Hacket's earlieft patrons was his predeceflbr at Cheam, Bifhop Andrews, then dean of Weftminfter, who noticed him when at fchool as a promifmg lad, and gave him money to buy books ". Whilft he was at the Univerfity, he wrote a Latin comedy called Loiola, a£ted before King James in 1 6 1 6 ^* ; it was afterwards publifhed. At the breaking out of the civil wars, Hacket was chofen by the clergy to be their advocate againfl the bill for taking away the church government, upon which occafion he pleaded fo well, that it was then thrown out by a confiderable majority ". Being afterwards accufed before the committee for plundered minifters, he made no defence, but retired to Cheam, by the advice of his friend Selden, who promifed to ufe his endeavours to prevent his being molefted '*. He remained there unnoticed, till the Earl of Effex with his army pafled that way, when he was taken prifoner ". Great offers were made him at this time, if he would change his principles, but with- out fuccefs. Being difmiffed from his confinement, he haftened again to his retirement at Cheam, where he continued to read the common prayer, until he was enjoined to forbear by the Surrey Committee, when he found himfelf under the neceflity of omitting fuch parts as were moft ofFenfive to the government". In 1 66 1, he '^ Reg. Lamb. Abbot, pt. i. ^4 a. Wood, vol. i. Fafti. '9 Fuller's Worthies, pt. i. p. 219. " Biograph. Brit. 3° Morris's Lives, p. 14;. ^* Ibid. 3' Reg. Lamb. Abbot, pt. 2. f. 338. a. " Ibid. »» Biograph. Brit. '' Ibid. " Morris's Lives, p. 194. was C H E A M. 14(^ was promoted to the See of Litchfield and Coventry ; and in the following year he refigned the living of Cheam, after having held it near forty years. He died in 1670, aged 78". There is a print of him by Faithorne. Thomas Playfere, Margaret profeflbr of divinity at Cambridge, was Thomas the intermediate redlor between the above-mentioned bifhops, being inftituted after the death of Watfon in 1605*°. Fuller fays, his fluency in the Latin tongue feemed a wonder, till Collins fo far ex- ceeded him *'. Playfere died in 1609, and lies buried in St. Bo- tolph's church, Cambridge; where there is an infcription to his me- mory, full of the moft extravagant praifes *'^. Fie publlfhed a few religious trads. John Doughty, inftituted to this redory in 1662 *\ publifhed fome johnDough- fermons and political trads **: he died Dec. 25th, 1672. '^* Edward Bernard, the firft redor prefented by St. John's college, Edward Ber- fucceeded Doughty *', and was a moft: learned aftronomer, linguift, "^"^ ' critic, and chronologift. Fie refigned his living of Cheam in 1673 ; and was the fame year appointed Savilian profeflbr of aftronomy at Oxford. Fie died in 1697, and lies buried in the chapel of St. John's college. Many of his works in various departments of literature are in print, and he left behind him feveral MSS. which were purchafed of his widow for the fum of 200I. by the curators of the Bodleian Library "% The prefent redor of Cheam is the Rev. Fienry Peach, who was inftituted in 1780. The parifti regifter commences in 1538. P?^'*^ "■«- " Morris's Lives of Cambridge Men, ♦^ Reg. Lamb. Juxon, f. 138.3. p. 205. ♦♦ A. Wood, vol. ii. *° Reg. Lamb. Bancroft, f. 270. a. *' Reg. Lamb. Sheldon, f. 354. a. ♦' Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2.p. 84. *'> Biograph. Brit. edit. 1780. ♦* Morris's Lives, p. 212. Average »50 H E M. Comparative ftate of po- pulation. Average of Baptifms. 1580—1589 6 1680 — 1689 "~^ — ^° 1780 — 1789 12 Average of Buriali. — IT — 14 Plague years. Longevity. The regifter of burials being defedive towards the latter end of the fixteenth century, no average could be taken. The increafe of po- pulation appears to have been lefs during the lad hundred years, than in the fame period preceding. The number of houfes is now fixty- one. In the year 1603, nine perfons died of the plague; the whole number of burials in that year was thirteen. Four perfons died of the fame diftemper in 1645, among whom were the curate and his wife. In 1665, there are entries of nine burials only; a number not exceeding the average of that period. The following inftance of longevity occurs in the regifter : " Johannes Lyftney, fenex, (viz. 100,) fepult. Jan. 18, 17 13-4." Benefaaions. Henry Smith Efquire, bequeathed 4 1. per annum to this parifh ; and Anne, reli£l of Samuel Pierfon Efquire, left a meffuage, barn, and 4^ acres of land for the benefit of fuch poor perfons as fhall fre- quent the church, and receive no alms. Adjoining the parifh of Cheam, is the fite of the village of Co- " '^he tombs of Marmaduke Wyvell, Efq. of Conftable Burton, in the county of York, who died in 1623 ; and of another Marmaduke, who died in 1678; Elizabeth, daughter of Herbert Price, Efq. and daughter of Thomas Morton, of Whitehorfe, who died in 1702 ; Elizabeth, wife of Francis Butler, Efq. who died in 1626; and Francis her hufband, who died in 1 648 ; William Boddington, Efq. who died in 1 703 ; Ralph Smith, Efq. who died in 1639; Benjamin Bowles, Efq. who died in 1 766 ; Mrs. Anne Callant, who died in 1 735 ; and Mrs. Elizabeth Apthorp, who died in 1782. In the nave of the church, is the tomb of Peter Harrifon, Efq. who died in 1785. In the north aifle, are thofe of John Parker, Efq. of London, who died in 1710, aged 52 ; and his wife Bathfheba, who died in 1763, aged 84; the Rev. James Gardner, redtor of Slingfby, in the county of York, who died in 1772 ; Roger Drake, Efq. who died in 1762 ; and others of the fame family. In the fouth aifle, thofe of Mary, wife of John Smith, re£tor ofWeybridge, who died in 1787; John Vade, vicar of Croydon, who died in 1765 ; James Wilkins, Capt. of Dragoons, who died in 1769; James Douglafs, Efq. Major General, who died in 1743; William Welbancke, Efq. who died in 1791; and Richard Peers, Efq. alderman of London,who died in 1765. Againft the fouth wall, is a tablet to the memory of Francis Tirrel, who was a benefactor to the town, and died in 1600. B b 2 The vicarage. i88 CROYDON. The Infcrlptions from the tombs of the following perfons, which are now deftroyed, are prefcrved in Aubrey : William Heron, Efq. who died in 1562 ; Captain George Protheroe, who died in 1 745 ; Thomas Walfh, of Croydon, who died in 1600; Elizabeth, wife of Wymond Bradbury, Efq. and daughter of archbifhop Whitgift, who died in 161 2. In the church-yard, are the tombs of Henry Hoare, Phyfician, who died in 1709; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Hunton, Efq. of Chelfea, who died in 1779; " Honefl Thomas How," who died in 1727, &c. &c. Reftoryand The church of Croydon is in the peculiar jurifdiition of the archbifhop of Canterbury. It was formerly both a redory and a vicarage ; among the early redtors, was William de Wyttlefey '°, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury : the vicarage was then in the patronage of the redor. In 1390, archbifhop Courtney gave the advowfon of the church to the monks of Bermondfey, in exchange for the manor of Waddon. Since the fupprellion of monafleries the great tithes have been in lay hands. They were held by Thomas Walfmgham, and Robert Moyfe, in the reign of Edward VI. ", by John Lord St. John, of Bletfoe, 32 Eliz. ", and are now the pro- perty of the Right Honourable Anthony Vifcount Montague. In 1291 *' the redtory was rated at 60 marks, the vicarage at 15 marks. '° Regift. Lamb. Courtney, f. 176. b. papers are all printed in the Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon, p. 17^ Hiftory of Croydon, p. 7, Sec. A licence was *' Licence from the crown for the ex- obtained from the Crown in archbilhop Rey- change, Pat. 14 Ric. IL p. 2. m. 39. A nolds's time, to exchange the church of Croy- copy of this licence, the pope's bull, and other don, with the fame convent, for feme property papers relating to the exchange, are inarch- in Southwark. See Pat. 12 Edw. II. p. 2. bifhop Courtney's Regifter, f. 175. a. — 182. m. 17. but this exchange does not appear to b. In the lail folio, is an indenture, by which have taken effed. the archbilhop referves to himfelfand his fuc- ** Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. ceflbrs the right of nominating two perfons, 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. 00 any vacancy of the vicarage, of whom the *' See note, p. 10, prior and convent were to choofe one. Thefe In CROYDON. 189 In 1534, the latter was valued at2il. i 8 s. iitd.**; In the king's books it is reckoned amongft the difcharged livings, and is faid to be 45 1. clear yearly value. A houfe was appropriated to the vicar, in the reign of Edward III. "'; the vicarage-houfe was re-built at the expence of archbifhop Wake, in the year 1730". An endowment of the vicarage of Croydon, as fettled by arch- bifliop Stratford, is recited among the papers relating to the above exchange; a tranflation of it may be found in the Hiftory of Croy- don, and a copy of the original in the Appendix ". Rowland Phillips, collated to this vicarage in 1497", was canon of Rowland St. Paul's, and warden of Merton college Oxford ; "hewas efteemed" fays Holinflied, " a notable preacher.'* Soon after the introdudion of printing, he is faid to have foretold, in a fermon preached at St Paul's, that it would be the bane of the Roman catholic religion — " We muft " root out printing, (fays he,) or printing will root us*'." He took an a£live part in the convocation in 1532, againft granting a fubfidy to the king '''. Having refigned the vicarage of Croydon in 1538, he was allowed a penfion of 1 2 I. per annum for his life ". Samuel Bernard, collated to the vicarage in 1624, was difplaced by Vicarsdurlng , . the Civil the committee for plundered minifters in 1643 '\ ^ imagine hewas Wars, fucceeded by Samuel Otes, who lies buried in the north chancel, as it appears he came to Croydon that year and died in 1645. In the year 1646, it was ordered by the committee, that 50 1. per annum, Ihould be paid to Francis Peck, out of the impropriated redory of Eaft Meon, in Hampfhire, as an augmentation of the vicarage of Croydon. This money having never been received, the fame fum •♦ Regift. Winton. Fox, pt. 5. «» Fox's Martyrs, vol. i. p. 804. •' Pat. 5 Edw. III. pt. I. m. 28. ^o a. Wood's .-^.then. Oxen. vol. i. F.ilH. *' Preface to Mills's Effay on Generofity. 7> Regift. Lamb. Cranmer, f. 364. a. *' P. 12. of the Hiftory, and p. 10. of the '> Walker's Lift of the ejefted Clergy, Appendix. p. 210. " Regift. Lamb. Morton, f. 163. a. was 190 CROYDON. was voted to his fucceflbr Mr. Corbett, out of the fequeftered re£tory of Camberwell ". This fequeftration having been taken off, it was ordered, that a like fum fhould be paid out of the great tithes of fome other parifhes, to Sir William Brereton, for the ufe of fuch minifter as fhould be by him appointed to ferve the cure of Croydon '*. •William William Clewer, prefented to this vicarage by Charles II. on his Clevver. reftoration ", deferves only to be recorded as a difgrace to his pro- feffion. Having perfecuted the royalifts during the commonwealth, and having himfelf enjoyed one of the fequeftered livings, upon the firft news of the reftoration, he repaired immediately to London, and had the art to get himfelf recommended to the Earl of Clarendon, as a zealous fon of the church, and a perfon deferving of preferment. In confequence of this recommendation he got the living of Croydon. When fettled there, he foon became the fcourge of the inhabitants, and pra£lifed every fpecies of extortion and injuftice. His parifhioners laid their complaints before the king in council, in the year 1672 ; but though their caufe was frequently heard, and fome fteps taken to- wards their relief, yet Clewer contrived to delay the final determina- tion of the bufinefs fo long, that he kept his living till 1684; in which year he was deprived. It was probably after his deprivation, that he was tried at the Old Bailey, and burnt in the hand, for fteal- ing a filver cup. In Smith's Lives of Highwaymen, where this fa£t is mentioned '", a ftory is told of his being attacked by O'Bryan, a famous robber ; who finding that he had no money, would have taken his gown: Clewer, however, pulling a pack of cards out of his pocket, propofed that they fhould play a game at all-fours for it. The highwayman accepted hispropofal, and won the gown. Dr. Clewer died in 1702". The papers relating to his difpute vi-ith the inha- '3 Proceedings of the Committee ; Bod- ^' Croydon Pari(h Regiller. leian Library. ^* Vol. ii. p. 50. '♦ Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon, " Bibl. Topograph. Brit, N° 46. p. 178. p. 48—50. bitants CROYDON. 191 bitants of Croydon, are printed at large in the additions to the hiftory of that place ". The prefent vicar is the Reverend Eaft Apthorp, D. D. Author of Letters on the Prevalence of Chriftianity. A chantry, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded in the Chantries, church of Croydon, about the year 1400", by Reginald de Cob- ham, Lord of Sterbergh, who vefted the patronage thereof in twelve of the principal inhabitants of the town of Croydon. The income of this chantry was valued at 14 1. 8s. ifd. in 1534*°. Its revenues appear, by the Survey in the Augmentation Office, to have amounted to 16 1. is. 2d. in the third year of Edward VL Another chantry, dedicated to St. Nicholas, was founded by John Stafford, bifhop of Bath and Wells, and William Oliver, vicar of Croydon, in the reign of Henry VL " : it was endowed with fixteen acres of land, and feveral meffuages in the town ; the patron- age was vefted in the Weldon family. At the time of the foundation of this chantry, its revenues were valued at 10 marks; in 1534", it was eftimated at 81. 10 s. jd. The parifh regifter commences in the year 1538: the latter part Parilhre- of it has been kept with great neatnefs and accuracy, particularly ^' "' during the incumbency of the prefent vicar. Average of Bapdfms. Average of Burials. Comparative ^580-1589 67 -^ - 43 «-°/„P- 1780— 1789 1507 — 130 I found the regifter fo defedive during the laft century, that it was impoftible to obtain an average of ten years together. By taking a number of detached years, it appeared to be nearly as large as it is "* lb. p. 159 — 178. 8" Pat. 18 Hen. VI. p. 3. tn. 20. and 79 Clement Ecclefton was prefented to this Regift. Lamb. Chichele, p. i. f. 233. b. ap- cliantry, then faid to be lately founded, in the pointment of Henry Foxwyft, the firft chap- year 14.02. Regift. Lamb. Arundel, p. I . f. lain, by the founders. 284. a. 8^ Reg. Winton. Fo.\, pt. 5. " Regift. Winton. Fo.x, pt. 5. at 192 CROYDON. ,: at prefent. The following averages are given in the Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon : Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. 1730— 1750 ii6| — — i37t 1760 — 1780 127 — — 129 It is faid, in the fame place, that the upper part of the town was formerly a common field, and had only a bridle way through it. The principal increafe of population muft have been above a hundred years ago. There are now about 800 houfes in this parifh. Plague Tjjg number of perfons who fell vidims to the plaeue in the years. ^ r o laft century, is thus fpecified in the regifter : From July 20, 1603, to April 16, 1604 - - «- ij8 In the year 1625 - - _ _ - 76 1626 - - - - 24 1631 - - - - 74 From July 27, i66j, to March 22, 1666 - 141 It is recorded in a note, that " from the nth to the 18th of Auguft " 1603, 3054 perfons died of the plague in London, and the liber- *' ties thereof, and that many died in the highways neare about the " citie ;" and that, " from the 25th of Auguft to the firft of Septem- " ber, 3385 perfons died." inftancesof ^he followinp; inftances of longevity are recorded in the re- longevity. ° w> j gifter: " Alice Miles, looannos nata, was buried Mar. 6, 1633-4." " Margaret Ford, aged 105 years, was buried Feb. 2, 1714-5." " John Baydon, aged 101 years, buried Dec. 12, 1717." " Margaret Burnett, aged 99 years, was buried Dec. 26, 1718." " Elizabeth Giles, widow, aged 100, was buried Aug. 17, 1729." " Elizabeth Wilfon, from the Black Horfe, aged loi, was buried " Mar. 17, 1771-" Divers CROYDON. 193 Divers other entries, either curious in themfelves, or relating to remarkable perfons, are here copied, without regard to any other than a chronological arrangement : " June 10, 1552. Alexander Barkley fepult." Alexander Barkley, or Barklay, who appears to have been by Alexander birth a Scot ", ftudled at Oriel College Oxford, and was afterwards fuccelTively a Benediftine monk at Ely, and a Francilean at Canter- bury ^*. He is beft known by his celebrated Poem called The Ship of Fools, taken from a work of the fame name, written in German by Sebaftian Brandt. It is a fatire upon the follies of the age. The firft edition was printed by Pynfon, In 1509. Warton, In his Hiftory of Englifh Poetry, fays, that the ftanzas are verbofe and profalc, but that It is a work deferving of attention, as it exhibits, like other fatlres, a picture of familiar manners, and popular cuftoms. He adds, that the author's language is more cultivated than that of many of his contemporaries, and that he contributed his fhare to the improvement of the Engllfli phrafeology '\ Barkley frequently mentions Croydon in his eclogues. Warton has quoted two of the pafTages, by one of which It appears, that this place was his re- fidence in the early part of his life — " While I in youth In Croldon town did dwell." Befides his Ship of Fools and his Eclogues, he publifhed alfo a treatlfe againflSkelton, the poet laureat ; the Lives of fome of the Saints, and feveral tranflations '". To one of thefe ^' Is prefixed a wooden print of the author prefenting his book to his patron Sir Giles Alyngton. *' Edmund Grindall, lord archbufhop of Canterburle, deceafed Archbifliop . ' Grindall. *' the oth day of Julye, and was buried the fyrfl day of Augufte, " Anno Dni. 1583, anno regni Ellzabethse, 25." ^' Biograph. Brit. vol. iii. p. 8. in the notes, '^ lb. p. 247. edit. 1784. ^^ Biograph. Brit, article Barclay. "* Warton's Hiftory of Engli(h Poetry, '? " The Mirrour of Good Manners," a vol. ii. p. 242. fmall folio, printed by Pynfon. Vol. I. Co Archbifhop 194 CROYDON. Elizabeth Fynch. Licence to eat flefh in Lent. Archbifhop Whitgift. «< (( Archblfhop Grindall died at Croydon". A fhort time before his death, being rendered unable, by his blindnefs and infirmities, toper- form the duties of his high ftation, he was urged to refign the arch- bifhopric, which he confented to do, requefting only that he might referve to hirafelf the houfe and park at Croydon, to which place he retired. No fucceflbr however having been appointed till after his death, it is fuppofed that his refignation never actually took place ". " Elizabeth, daughter of John Kynge, and Clemence, (wyfe of " Samuel Fynch, vicar, by the fpace of feven years,) mother of five children at feveral byrths, of the age of 21 years ; deceafed the 17th day of Nov. and was buried the 18th, A. D. 1589." " Mem. That whereas Samuel Fynche, vicar of Croydon, lycenfed Clemence Kinge, the wife of John Kinge, brewer, to eate flefhe *' in the time of Lente, by reafon of her ficknefie, which lycenfe " beareth date the 29th of Feb. and further, that fhe the faide Cle- " mence, doth as yet continue ficke, and hath not recovered her " health ; know ye therefore, that the faid lycenfe continueth flill in " force, and for the more efficacie thereof, ys here regiftered ac- " cording to the ftatute, in the prefence Th. Mofar, church- " warden of the faid parifh of Croydon, the 7th of March, in the " 38th year of the Queen's maj's mod gracious reign, and for the *' regiftering thereof, there is paid unto the curate 4d." *' John Whitgift, archbifhop of Canterburie, deceafde at Lambith on " Wednefday at 8 of the clocke in the evening, being the laft day of " Feb. and was brought the day foUowinge in the evening to Croy- " don, and was buried the morning followinge by 2 of the clocke, " in the chappell where his pore people doe ufiially fitte ; his fu- " nerall was kept at Croydon, the 27th day of Marche followinge. Biograph. Brit. »» Ibid. " Anno CROYDON. 195 " Anno Dni. 1604, annoque regnl dni. noftri Regis Jacobi fe- ci cundo. Archbifhop Whitgift's funeral was folemnlzed in a manner fuitable to the fplendour in which he had lived ; Babington, biihop of Wor- cefter, preached the fermon ; the Earl of Worcefter and Lord Zouch carried the banners of ftate '°. It is faid, that the archbifhop on his firft journey into Kent, was attended by a hundred fervants, forty of whom wore chains of gold''. This fplendour was thought to be ferviceable at that time to the interefts of the church, by recon- ciling the papifts to the reformation '\ It excited, however, the indig- nation of the puritans, and expofed the archbifhop to the cenfures of Prynne, who handles him very feverely on that account. " Dec'. 1607, the greateft froft began the 9th day of this month, Great froft. " it ended on Candlemas-eve." " Francis Tyrrell, cytizen and marchant of London, was burled Francis Tyrrell. " the ift of Sept. 1609, and his funerall kept at London, the 13th " of the fame month. He gave 200 1. to the parifhioners of Croy- " don, to build a new market-houfe, and 40 1. to repair our church, " and 40 s. a year to our poore of Croydon, for 18 years, with manie other good and great legacies to the citie of London." *' Charles Howard, fonne unto the Righte Honourable Charles Charles Earl - . ofNotting- Earle of Nottingham, born the 25th daye of December, Anno Dni. ham. " 161 6, was chriftened the 23d daye of January followinge." This was a younger fon of the Lord Admiral, by his fecond wife Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, Earl of Murray ; he afterwards became the third Earl of Nottingham, of the Howard family. During the civil wars, he attached himfelf to the parliament ; ob-» tained fome of the fequeflered lands "% and was, as before mentioned, a tenant of Croydon palace. Dugdale '*, whofe accuracy in general 9° Biograph. Brit. « Perfeft Diurnal, May 1644, '■ Ibid. «+ Baronage, vol. ii. 9* Ibid. C c 2 may « C( 196 Great fnow. Archbifhop Abbot. Archbifhop Sheldon. Mondrous birth. Archbifhop Wake, CROYDON. may be relied on, has been led into an error with regard to this Earl of Nottingham, whom he reprefents as grandfon of the Lord Admiral, and fon of the fecond earl. His father, who died in 1624, aged 87, being 73 years of age at the time of his birth ; and his half-brother, whom he fucceeded in 1641, being alfo named Charles, moft probably occafioned this miftake. " Feb. 12, 1614-5. This was the day of the terrible fnow, and " the Sonday following a greater." " George Abbot, lord archbifliop of Canterbury, deceafed at " Croydon, upon the fourth day of Aug. 1633. His funeral was " with great folemnity kept in the church here, upon the third day " of September following, and the next day his corpfe was conveyed " to Guildford, and there buried according to his will." " Gelbert Sheldon, laite archbufhop of Canterbury, buryed Nov. " 16, 1677." Archbifhop Sheldon, after he had retired from public bufinefs, lived for the moft part at Croydon " ; he was buried in a very private manner, according to his own fpecial diredtions '*. " A defcriptlon of a monftrous birth, born of the body of Rofe *' Eaftman, wife of John Eaftman, being a child with two heads, four arms, four legs, one body, one navel, and diftindion of two male children, and was born the 27th of January 172 1-2." " Dr. William Wake, archbifhop of Canterbury, died at his palace at Lambeth, Jan. 24, 1736, and was brought to Croydon, *' and buried Feb. 9 ; and his lady, which was buried at Lambeth, the ... of April 1731, was taken up and brought to Croydon " the next day, and put in the vault with him." Archbifhop Wake was author of many controverfial and theolo- gical works, of which no one perhaps is better known than his Expofitiou of the Church Catechifm. (( and eftabliflied under his public feal '°\ The alms-houfe was re- built fome years ago ; the revenues are now about 40 1. per annum. Whitgift's Archbifhop Whitgift, in the year 1596, began the foundation of hoipital. ^Yie hofpital at Croydon, which goes by his name. It was finifhed the 29th of Sept. 1599'°', and endowed with lands for the main- tenance of a warden, fchoolmafter, and twenty-eight poor brethren and fifters, or a greater number, not to exceed forty, if the revenues fhould admit of it. The fchoolmafter, who is likewife chaplain, is allowed by the ftatutes 20I. per annum; the warden 1 1 1.; and the other members 5 1, each. The nomination of the brethren and fifters was vefted by the the founder in his fuccelTors in the fee of Canterbury, whom he appointed '°* Hiftory of Croydon, p. 80. "" Ibid. p. 7. alfo CROYDON. 199 alfo to be vifitors. Whenever that fee fhall happen to be vacant, the re£lor of Lambeth, and the vicar of Croydon, are to fill up the places. The perfons to be admitted, muft be fixty years of age at leaft; in- habitants of Croydon and Lambeth are to be preferred. Among the crimes to be punifhed vrith expulfion, are " obftinate herefye, for- *' cerye, any kind of charmmynge, or witchcrafte." In the treafury of the hofpital, are the letters patent for building the hofpital, em- bellished with a drawing of Queen Elizabeth, on vellum ; and the archbiflaop's deed of foundation, with a drawing of himfelf highly finifhed. Thefe drawings are engraved for the Hiftory of Croydon, where copies of the inftrumentsthemfelves, of the ftatutes of the hof- pital, and other papers relating thereto, are printed in the Appendix. The building of the hofpital coft the archbifhop above 2700!.'°*. The lands with which it was endowed, were of the annual value of 185 1. 4 s. The eftates have been much improved, and the revenues of the hofpital farther increafed, by various benefadlions, to the amount of about 40 1. per annum. The chapel, which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity on the loth of July 1599'°', (by the biftiops of London and Chichefter,) is fmall, but fufficiently commodious. At the weft end, is a portrait of the founder, painted on board, with the following infcription : " Feci quod potui ; potui quod, Chrifte dedifti ; " Improba fac melius, fi potes, invidia. " Has triadi fandtx primi qui ftruxerat sedes, " Illius en veram PrGefulis efEgiem." In the chapel, there is a portrait alfo of a lady with a ruff, dated 1 61 6, Stat. 38, probably one of the archbifhop's daughters. In the hall, is a copy of The Dance of Death, with coloured draw- ings, much damaged. There are alfo three antique wooden goblets; one "♦ Hiftory of Croydon, p. 7. '" Regift. Lamb. Whitgift, p. 3. f. 106. a. b. of 200 CROYDON. William Crowe. OMham the poet. Henry Mills of them, which holds about three pints, is infcribed with the follow- ing legend : " What, furah ! holde thy peafe ; thirfte fatisfied, ceafc." Adjoining the hofpital, are the fchool and the mafter's houfe. William Crowe, who was appointed fchoolmafter here in 1668, publlflied a catalogue of the Englifli writers on the Old and New Teftament, which has been frequently printed '". Oldham the poet was for three years an ufher under John Shep- herd, who was appointed fchoolmafter in 1675. Here he wrote his fatires upon the Jefuits, and here he was honoured with a vifit from the Earls of Rochefter and Dorfet, Sir Charles Sedley, and other perfons of dlftin£lion, who had feen fome of his works in MS. and wifhed for a perfonal acquaintance with him. By a very natural miftake, they were introduced to Shepherd the mafter, who would willingly have taken the honour of the vilit to himfelf, but was foon convinced, to his mortification, that he had neither wit nor learning enough to make a party in fuch company '"'. Henry Mills, who was appointed fchoolmafter in 171 1, diftinguiih- ed himfelf as an opponent to biftiop Hoadley, in the moft perfonal and illiberal part of the celebrated Bangorian controverfy '°\ The pamphlet which he publifhed on the fubjedl, related to the bifhop's receiving into his family as tutor to his children, one Francis de la Pillioniere, a converted Jefuit, who had been ufher under him at Croydon. Mills publifhed alfo " an Eflay on Generofity;" a pa- negyric on public charities. The prefent chaplain and fchoolmafter is the Rev. James Hodg- fon, who was appointed in 1783. There is alfo an alms-houfe at Croydon, called the Little Alms- houfe, where the parifh poor are ufually placed, towards the rebuild.- - "=* Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 344. "^ Biograph. Brit, and Oldham's Life pre- p. 155. fixed to his works. Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon, ing CROYDON. 20I Ing of which Arnold Goldwell gave 40 1. and to which bene- fadtions have been left to the amount of 81. per annum; 50 1. was given by archbifhop Grindall. In the years 1775 and 1776, fome new buildings, for the reception of twelve poor inhabi.tants, were added to thefe alms-houfe?, with a fum of money given by the late Earl of Briftol, and a voluntary fubfcription of the principal inha- bitants. Archbifhop Laud gave lol. ids. per annum, to apprentice poor Benefaaions. boys. Archbifhop Tenifon gave a fchool-houfe, and two farms, the revenues of which amount to 531. per annum, for educating ten boys, and ten girls. Mr. Henry Smith left certain lands and houfes to this parifh, which produce 108 1. per annum. Other benefadions have been given by divers perfons, amounting in tlie whole to about 36 1. per annum. In the town of Croydon are meeting-houfes for the Quakers and Anabaptifts, and one for the Prefbyterians, which has been for fome years unfrequented. Vol. I. D d [ 202 ] K E W. Name. Boundaries aad fituation. Ancient pro- prietors of lands and houfes. TH E mod ancient record In which I have feen this place men- tioned, is a court roll of the manor of Richmond, in the reign of Henry VII. It is there written Kayhough ; in fubfequent records its name Is varied to Kayhowe, Kayhoo, Keyhowe, Keye, Kayo, and Kewe. Its fituation, near the water-fide, might induce one to feck for its etymology from the word key, or quay. Kew, which was heretofore a hamlet to Kingfton, and which is ftUl included within the manor of Richmond, firft became a parifh by an a£l of parliament paffed in 1769. It is of very fmall extent, and is bounded by the river Thames on the north ; by the parifli of Mortlake on the eafl: ; and by Richmond on the fouth and weft. It lies in the hundred of Kingfton, about fix miles from Hyde-park- corner. The foil is fandy, and the fmall quantity of land, that is not included in the royal gardens ', is for the moft part arable. The parifli is charged 126I. 13s. to the land-tax, which in the year 1791, was at the rate of 9d. in the pound. Amongft the early proprietors of lands and houfes here, I find Charles Somerfet, the firft Earl of Worcefter of that family\ Sir Henry Gate', temp. Edw. VI. held a capital manfion, called *' The Dairie-houfe," which afterwards became the property of Ro- bert Dudley, the famous Earl of Leicefter*. ' A confiderable part of Richmond gardens is in this parilh, as well as thofe of Kew. * Court Rolls of the manor of Richmond, temp. Hen. VII. ' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. ♦ Pat. I Eliz. pt. 4. May 29. Edward K E W. 203 Edward Earl of Devon had a capital meflliage here in the reign of Queen Mary *. In a court-roll, 6 EHz. mention is made of a capital manfion- houfe, called Suffolk Place, then pulled down and deftroyed. Sir John Puckering, lord keeper of the great feal, was an inha- sir John bltant of this place. In the Harleian Colledtion of MSS. in the ^"=''^""S' Britifh Mufeum ', is the following paper, which appears to have been written by his fteward : " Remembrances for furnyture at Kew, and for her majeflie's en- *' tertainment, 14 Aug. 1594. " A memorial of things to be confidered of, if her majeftie fhould *' come to my lord's houfe. " I. The maner of receyvynge bothe without the houfe and within, *' as well by my lord as my ladye. " 2. What prefent fhall be given by my lord, when and by whome *' it fhall be prefented, and whether any more than one. " 3. The like for my ladye. " 4. What prefents my lord Ihall beftowe of the ladyes of the " privye chamber or bedchamber, the groomes of the privye cham- " ber, and gentlemen ufhers and other officers, clerks of the kitchen ** orotherwife. " 5. What rewards fhall be given to the footemen, gardes, and " other officers. " 6. The purveyed diet for the queen, wherein are to be ufed *' her own cooks, and other officers for that purpofe. " 7. The diet for the lords and ladies, and forae fit place for that " purpofe fpecially appoynted. " 8. The allowance for diet for the footemen and gardes. " 9. The appoyntment of my lords officers, to attend on their " feveral offices, with fufficient affiftants unto them for that time. ♦ Terrier of Lands in Surrey. ' N° 6850. f. 90. Dd2 " 10. The 204 K E W. " lo. The orderlnge of all my lords fervants for their waiting, " both gentlemen and yeomen, and how they fhall be forted to their " feveral offices and places. " II. The proporcyon of the diett fitted to eche place of fervice ; " plate, linen, and filver veflels. . " 1 2. To furnifh how there will be uppon a foddeyne provifion of '' all things for that diett made and of the beft kinds, and what " feveral perfons fhall undertake it. " 13. As it muft be for metes, fo in like forte for bredd, ale, and ** wynes of all fortes. " 14. The lyke for bankettynge ftuffe. " 15. The fwetynynge of the howfe in all places by any means. " 16. Gretecare to be had, and conference with the gentlemen *' ufliers, how her majeftie would be lodged for her beft eafe and ** likinge, far from heate or noyfe of any office near her lodg- *' yng, and how her bedchamber maye be kept free from anye *' noyfe near it. " 1 7. My lords attendance at her departure from his howfe and " his companye. " Ladies diet for bedchamber. *' Ladies fome lodged befydes ordinarle. " Lord chamberlayne, in the howfe. *' Lord of Eflex nere, and all his plate from me, and dyett for *' his fervants at his lodgyngs." If this vifit took place, her majefty was probably well pleafed with her entertainment ; for it appears by the following paflage in a letter from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sydney *, that fhe honoured him with one in the enfuingyear: — '* On Thurfday her majeftie ** dined at Kew, my lord keaper's howfe, (who lately obtained of • Dec. 13, 1595. Sydney State Papers, vol. i. p. 376. " her K E W. 20j *' her majeflie his fute for lool. a yeare land, in fee-farm). Her '* intertainment for that meale was great and exceeding coftly ; at " her firft lighting, (he had a fine fanne, with a handle garniflit " with diamonds. When fhe was in the middle way, between the '• garden-gate and the howfe, there came running towards her, one *' with a nofegay in his hand, delivered yt unto her with a fhort •' well pened fpeach ; it had in yt a very rich Jewell, with many *' pendants of unfirld diamonds, valewed at 400 1. at leaft ; after " dinner, in her privy chamber, he gave her a faire paire of virginals. " In her bed-chamber he prefented her with a fine gown and juppin, ** which things were pleafing to her highnes ; and to grace his " lordlhip the more, fhe, of herfelf, tooke from him a fait, a fpoone, " and a forke of faire agate." Sir Peter Lely, the celebrated painter, purchafed a houfe at Kew, Sir Peter to which, during the latter part of his life, he frequently retired': after his death, it efcheated to the crown, but through the good offices of Lord Keeper North, was reftored to his family ', fome of whom were remaining there about fifty years ago. The houfe, which is now pulled down, flood upon the fite of Mrs. Theobalds's beau- tiful gardens, on the north fide of the green. Stephen Duck, whofe native genius broke through the obftacles of Stephen his humble origin, and recommended him to royal patronage, was fettled in a houfe at Kew, by Queen Caroline. It is well known that he afterwards entered into holy orders. The curiofity of the public had been fo much excited by his flory, that, for fome time whenever he preached, prodigious crowds flocked to hear him ; and the newfpapers of the day abound with accounts of the petty difaflers which happened on thefe occafions. ' Biographia Britannica. ' North's Life of the Lord Keeper, p. 312. In 206 K W. Samuel Mo- lineux. Kew-houfe. jii defcribing the prefent ftate of this place, the firfl obje£l that demands attention is Kew-houfe, the occafional refidence of his prefent majefty. About the middle of the laft century, this houfe belonged to Richard Bennet, Efquire ", whofe daughter and heir married Sir Henry afterwards Lord Capel, of Tewkefbury, who died Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1696. His widow refided for many- years at Kew, and dying in the year 1721, was buried in the chapel there. The houfe was afterwards the property and refidence of Samuel Molineux, Efquire, who married her daughter. Mr. Molineux was Secretary to George IL when Prince of Wales, and is well known as a man of literature, and an ingenious aftronomer. Dr. Bradley's difcoveries, relating to the parallax of the fixed ftars, are faid to have been made with an inftrument of his contrivance '°. The late Prince of Wales admiring the fituation, took a long leafe of Kew- houfe, from the Capel family ; and it is now held by his prefent majefty on the fame tenure. The houfe, which is fmall, and calcu- lated merely for an occafional retirement, was improved and orna- mented by Kent, for the Princefs Dowager. It contains fome good pidlures, amongft which are a portrait of the LordTreafurer Burleigh, and the celebrated pidlure of the Florence gallery by Zoffanii. In the long room above ftairs, is a fet of Canaletti's works, conlifting of views in Venice, and two general views of London, the one from the Temple, the other from Somerfet-gardens. Kewgardens. The pleafure grounds, which contain about 120 acres, were begun by the late Prince of Wales, and finiflied by the Princefs Dowager, who took great delight in fuperintending the improvements. Lord Melcombe, in his Diary, mentions working in the walk at Kew ". Notwithftanding the difadvantages of a flat furface, the grounds are » Court Rolls of the Manor of Richmond. Biographia Britannlca. P. 66. laid K E W. 207 laid out with much tafte, and exhibit a confiderable variety of fcenery. They are ornamented with divers pidturefque objedls and temples, defigned by Sir William Chambers, among which is one called the Pagoda, in imitation of a Chinefe building. It is forty-nine feet in diameter at the bafe, and 163 feet in height '\ which renders it a very confpicuous obje£t in the neighbourhood. The green-houfe is of very large dimenfions, being 142 feet long, 25 feet high, and 30 feet broad. The exotic garden was eftablifhed in the year 1760, by the Exotic gar- den. Princefs Dowager. The prefent royal family being much attached to the ftudy of botany, his majefty has beflowed great attention ^ upon this garden, which now exhibits the fineft colledlion of plants perhaps in Europe, which is daily increafing by the communications of the Prefident of the Royal Society, and fuch other zealous promo- ters of the fcience, as have frequent opportunities of procuring new feeds and plants from diftant parts of the world. As a proof of the rapid increafe of this collecStion, it was found neceffary, about two years ago, to build a new houfe, 1 10 feet in length, for the recep- tion of African plants only. A catalogue of the plants in the exotic garden at Kew was pub- lifhed in 1768, by Dr. Hill, under the name of Hortus Kewenfis; a much larger and more fcientific work, under the fame title, was publifhed by the prefent ingenious gardener, Mr. William Aiton, in the year 1789, in three volumes 8vo. Sir William Chambers in the year 1763, publifhed a defcription of the houfe and gardens at Kew, in folio, with upwards of forty plates, engraved by Rooker, from drawings of Kirby, Marlow, Sandby, &c. Kew gardens have been the fubjedalfo of two poems, one by George Ritfo in 1 763, and the other by Henry Jones, author of the tragedy of the Earl of Effex, in 1767 ". " Sir William Chambers's Defcription of " See Cough's Topography, vol. ii. Kew Gardens. p. 273. The 2o8 K E W. The old houfe, oppofite to the palace, was formerly the property of Sir Hugh Portman, who is mentioned in a letter of Rowland White, as the rich gentleman that was knighted by her majefty at Kew '*. Sir John Portman fold it in 1636 to Samuel Fortrey, Efquire; it was alienated by William Fortrey in 1697 to Sir Richard Levett, of whofe defcendants it was bought in truft for her majefty, in the year 1781: the late queen took a long leafe of it, which was not then expired. During this leafe, it was inhabited by different branches of the royal family. The Prince of Wales was educated there,' under the fuperintendance of Dr. Markham, now archbifliop of York. The houfe appears to have been built about the reign of James, or Charles I. Kew chapel. Kew chapel was built in the year 1714: it is fituated towards the eaft end of the green, and is a fmall brick ftrudlure, confifting of a nave and a north aille ; the fouth fide being appropriated for a fchool-room : at the weft end is a turret. Monumentof Againft the fouth wall is a tablet to the memory of Jeremiah Jeremiah .... Meyer. Meyer, R. A. late painter in miniature and enamel to his majefty, with the following verfes by Mr. Hayley : *' Meyer ! in thy works the world will ever fee " How great the lofs of art in lofing thee ; *' But love and forrow, find their words too weak *' Nature's keen fufFerings on thy death to fpeak: *' Through all her duties, what a heart was thine ! *' In this cold duft, what fpirit ufed to fhine ! " Fancy, and truth, and gaiety, and zeal, " What moft we love in life, and lofing feel. " Age after age may not one artift yield , . " Equal to thee in painting's nicer field. *' And ne'er fhall forrowing earth to Heaven commend *' A fonder parent, or a truer friend." «♦ Letter to Sir Robert Sydney, Dec. 22, 1595. Sydney State Papers, vol. i. p. 384. Over K E W. 209 Over the tablet IS his bud In white marble. Mr. Meyer was born at Tubingen, in the dutchy of Wurtemburgh. He came over to England, at fourteen years of age, and ftudied under Zincke ". His own merit, and the royal patronage, contri- buted to raife him to the head of his profeffion, as a painter in miniature. On the north wall of the church, are the monuments of Brigadier William Douglas, who died in 1747, in South Beveland (in Holland) ; and Mary, widow of Colonel RulTel, who died in 1764. Againftthe eaft wall, is the monument of Dorothy Lady Capel, widow of Henry Lord Capel of Tewkefbury, who died in 1721. Againft the fouth wall, is the monument of Elizabeth Countefs of Derby, who died in 171 7; and lies buried in Weftminfter Abbey. In the church-yard near the fchool-houfe door, is the tomb of Tomb of Thomas Gainfborough, Eiquire, the celebrated artift, who died rough, the Augufl: 2, 1788, aged 61. He has no other monument than a grave- P^'" ^''* ftone, which only mentions the date of his death. His memory will live however in his works, and in the deferved and liberal enco- miums bellowed on him in the lectures of the late worthy and much lamented Prefident of the Royal Academy. Mr. Gainfborough never refided at Kew, except on occafional vifits to his filler. Near the fame fpot is the grave of Mr. Meyer, whofe monument Tomb of has been juft defcribed ; and that of Mr. Jofhua Kirby, clerk of "* ' ^' the board of works, an ingenious archited:, who publifhed a well known book on perfpedlive. He died June 20, 1774. In the church-yard, are the tombs alfo of Sir Charles Eyre, Knight, Other tombs. Governor of Fort William, in Bengal, who died in 1729; Thomas Gardiner, Efquire, who died in 173S; Col. Armand de la Ballide, who died in 1744; Thomas Howlet, Efquire, who died in 1759; '5 From the uiformation of Mrs. Meyer, his widow. Vol. I. E e and 2IO K E W. and others of his family ; Peter Forbes, Efquire, who died in 1762 ; Thomas Robinfon, Efquire, page to three Princes of Wales, who died in 1775; Edward Thomas, Efquire, who died in 1777; Frances, wife of John Larpent, Efquire, who died in 1777 > Jane, wife of Captain Lawfon of the Artillery, who died in 1780J Elizabeth, widow of Edward Bearcroft, Efquire, who died in 1 780 J John Haverfield, Efquire, well known for his tafte and fkill as an ornamental gardener, who died in 1781 ; Philip Delafield, Efquire, who died in 1787; and the Rev. Daniel Bellamy, late minifter of Kew, who died in 1788. He was author of fome Ethic Poems, and a Paraphrafe on the Book of Job. The church " of Kew is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and the deanery of Ewell. In the year 1 769 it was feparated by a£l of par- liament from Kingfton, to which it had been a chapel of eafe, and being united to Peterfham, another chapel belonging to the fame church, they were both made one vicarage. In the king's books, St. Anne's chapel on Kew Green is faid to be 5I. per annum cer- tified value. The prefent vicar is the Reverend William Fofter, who fucceeded Mr. Bellamy. Pariihre- The pari fh regifter is of the fame date as the chapel, which was *' ^^' confecrated the 12th of May 1714. Average of Baptifras. Average of Burials. Comparative 1714. — 1724. 7 ■ Q ftate of po- / T / T / y pulation. I780 — 1789 10 — — I4 The prefent number of houfes is about eighty. Benefaftjons, Lady Capel left a benefadion of ii 1. per annum to this parifh, for the purpofe of eftablifhing a charity-fchool. •° It is ftill ufually called Kew Chapel, notwithftanding it has been feparated from the mother church. Elizabeth K E W. 211 Elizabeth Countefs of Derby left loool. to the poor of Brentford arid Kew, the moiety belonging to this parifh produces 24 1, per annum. An a6l of parliament was obtained 30 Geo. 11. for building a wood- Kew-bridge. en bridge acrofs the Thames at Kewj it was finifhed in the year 1759. '^^^ prefent bridge, which is of freeftone, was opened ia Sept. 1789. It is the private property of Robert Tunftal, Efqulre ; being built at his expence, as the former was at the expence of his father. E e 2 [ 212 3 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Name. Situation. Boundaries. Soil. Kingfton for- merly a bo- rough. THIS place isfo called to diftinguifh it from Kingfton in York- fhire, and other parifhes of the fame name. Its etymology is too well known to need much comment. Lambarde fays, that it has a claim to the title of regia villa, (i. e. the royal or king's town,) " bothe for that it had been fome houfe for the princes, and " alfo bycaufe dyvers kingcs had been anoynted theare '." Some writers * affert, that its ancient name was Moreford. Kingfton is a market and corporation town ; it is about eleven miles from Weftminfter-bridge, and gives name to the hundred in which it lies. The parifh is of large extent, and is bounded by Peterfliam, Rich- mond, Putney, Mortlake, Wimbledon, Merton, Maiden, Chefington, and Long Ditton. The foil is various, confifting of clay, fand, and gravel, but no chalk ; the land is for the moft part arable. The parifh, exclufive of Ham and Hook, which are rated feparately, is aflefTcd the fum of 1449I. 13s. 8d. to the land-tax, which in the year 1791, was at the rate of 2s. yd. in the pound. This town fent members to parliament in the fourth, fifth, and fixth years of Edw. II. and the forty-feventh of Edvv. III. It ceafed to be a borough, in confequence of a petition from the corpo- ration (recorded in the town-clerk's office) ; the prayer of which was, that they might be relieved from the burden, of fending mem- bers to parliament \ ' Topographical Diftionary, p. 164, vol. i. p. 18. Camden's Britannia. * -■\ubrey in hii Antiquities of Surrey, ' Willis's Noiitia Pailiameiu, vol. iii. p. 90. Kingfton KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 213 « Klngfton gave the title of baron to Ramfay earl of Holdernefs, in the reign of James I. The town enjoys many valuable privileges and immunities, by charters, royal charter*. King John granted the men of Kingfton, the manor of the town in fee-farm, paying to the crown the annual rent of 50I '. He likewife granted them an exemption from the fherlffs or bailiffs jurifdicftion. This charter was confirmed by Henry III., who granted them a return of writs; power to choofe a coroner ; an annual fair for eight days, to begin on the morrow of All Souls; and many valuable privileges; particularly, that the freemen and their heirs (hould be a mercatorial gild ; that their goods and perfons fhould not be molefted, and they fhould not be obliged to plead out of the town. I find no charters of Edward I. or Edward II.; the latter indeed, upon being furniflied with four armed men by the town of Kingfton, pledged himfelf by a covenant, that it fhould not be conftrued into a precedent to their difadvan- tage '. Edward III. confirmed the charter of king Henry. Richard II. gave them a fhop and eight acres of land, towards paying their fee- farm-rent ' ; and confirmed the charters of his predecefTors. Henry IV. and Henry V. did the fame ; the latter remitted a confiderable part of the fee-farm rent. Henry VI. confirmed their privileges, and granted that the freemen fhould be clerks of the market. Edward IV. gave them a charter of incorpo- ration, by the name of the bailiffs and freemen of Kingfton ; and confirmed the right of holding a weekly court on Saturdays, which their anceftors had exercifed. Henry VII., Henry VIII., and Ed- ward VI. confirmed all the former charters. Queen Mary granted them a fair on St. Maiy Magdalen's, and the enfuing day; and a fifh wear, in confideration of the charges they had been at in re- ♦ The fo'.lowing recita! of the principal and n. 25. nicft important grants, is taken chiefly from » Pat. 16 Edw. II.pt. i. m. 34. a cartulary in the town-clerk's office. 7 p^t. 4 Riv:. II. pt. 3. m. 15. ! Cart. I Joh. pt. 2.m. 7.r..90, & 10 Joh. pairing 214 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. pairing the bridge. Queen Elizabeth, after confirming all the char- ters of her predeceflbrs, granted the freemen an exemption from paying toll, and being fummoned on juries. She alfo founded a grammar fchool, as will be mentioned hereafter. James I. granted a weekly market upon Saturdays, with a toll; and empowered the bailiffs and corporation to make bye-laws, and to keep a common gaol. Charles I. granted them a jurifdidlion of adlions and pleas, within the town and liberty of Kingfton, and the hundreds of Elm- bridge, Cropthorn, and Effingham ; empowered them to hold a court of record and a feffion, and to ere£t a prifon within the liber- ties. He granted alfo, that no market fhould be held within feven miles of the town \ and in confideration of their refigning their right of holding a court leet, and view of franck-pledge within the hamlets of Richmond, Kew, Peterfham, and Ham ; he granted a leet in the reft of the hundred, and a return of writs in the hundreds of Cropthorn and Effingham. Charles II. granted them a weekly Corporation, market on Wednefdays. James II. gave them a new charter of in- corporation, by the name of the mayor, aldermen, and burgeffes of Kingfton ; with power to hold a court of record, and a court leet. They adted under this charter during his reign only, having ever fmce been guided by their ancient charters, which were confirmed by Charles II. The corporation confifts of about fifty members. The prefent high fteward is the Right Honourable Lord Onflow j the bailiffs, Mr. Jofeph Bradfhaw and Mr. Richard Weftrop ; the recorder, Thomas Evance, Efquirej and the town-clerk, Mr. Charles JemmetC Market and "^^^ market at this place is held on Saturdays only ; that on Wed- nefdays, which was procured at a confiderable expence ', has de- fairs ^ This grant was obtained in confequence reign, which the town of Kingfton had been of a weekly market having been granted at at very confiderable expence to fupprefs. Hounflow, upon Saturdays, in the preceding ° Chamberlain's Accounts. clined. KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 215 dined. There are three annual fairs which are held on Thurfday, Friday, and Saturday in Whitfun-week ; the fecond, third, and fourth of Auguft ; and the thirteenth of November. That this town was a celebrated place in the early periods of our Council at hiftory, is evident from the record ' of a council held there in the a" 838. year 838, at which Egbert, the firft king of all England, his fon Athelwolf, and all the bifhops and nobles of the land, were prefent. Ceolnothus, archbifhop of Canterbury, prefided. This record, in which the town is called " Kyningeftun, famofa ilia locus," de- ftroys the fuppofition that it did not receive that appellation till the reign of king Athelftan; and proves, that it was a royal refidence, or at leaft a royal demefne, as early as the union of the Saxon hep- tarchy. Kingfton was made choice of as the place of their coronation, by Saxon kings fome of the fucceeding monarchs. *' The tounifch men," fays Le- Kingiion. land, " have certen knowledge of a few kinges crounid there afore " the conquefte'.'' The following lift of them is given on the au- thority of our ancient hiftorians : — Edward the elder, crowned A. D, 900'°; his fon Athelftan, in the year 925"; Edmund, in 940'*; Eldred or Edred, (who is faid to have afTumed the title of King of Great Britain,) in 946 " ; Edwy, or Edwin, in 955 '* ; Edward the Martyr, in 975"; and Ethelred, in 978'*; Edgar who fucceeded to the throne in 959, is faid to have been crowned either at Kingfton or at Bath ". Edward the elder, Edmund and Edgar, are ' Brit. Muf. Cotton MSS. Claudius, D. II. p. 423 ; Holinftied, vol.i. f. 229. a. f. 33. and Auguftus, IT. N° 17. & 34. '♦ Diceto ut fupra, col. 455; Holinflied, 9 Leland's Itin. vol. vi, p. 18. vol. i. f. 230. b. '° Diceto inter decern fcript. col. 451; " Diceto ut fupra, col. 458; Holinflied, Bromton Chron. Ibid. col. 831. vol. i. fol. 23;. a. " Diceto and Bromton, ut fupra, col. 452. " Bromton Chion. ut fupra, col. 878; H. 838; W. Malmtbury, inter fcriptores poll Huntingdon, ut fupra, p. 357 ; R. Hoveden, ut Bedam,p.48; H. Huntingdon, Ibid. p. 354; fupra, p. 427; Holinflied, vol. i. f. 237. b. R. Hoveden, ibid. p. 422; Chron. Sax. p. Ethelred was crowned, according to Hoveden, ill. by Dunftan archbifliop of Canterbury, Of- Diceto ut fupra, col. 452. vvald archbifliop of York, and ten biOiops. " Ibid. c. 455; R. Hoveden, ut fupra, " Holinflied, vol.i. f. 231. a. not 2l6 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Kingfton cillle taken by Henry III. The Badard Falconbridge with his army at Kingllon. Sir Thomas Wyat at I^ingllon. A remark- ably high flood. not mentioned by Aubrey, amongft the figures of the Saxon kings, which formerly exifted in St. Mary's chapel. In the infcriptions over thefe figures, fome of the kings were faid to have been crowned in the market place, and others in the chapel ; but I find no men- tion of the particular fpot in any of the old chronicles above quoted. In the year 1 264, Henry III. then at war with his barons, marched' out of London, and took the caftle of Kenington, or Kingfton, be- longing to Gilbert Clare earl of Gloucefter '^ ; the caflle was proba- bly then demolifhed ; its memory, except in this record, is not pre- ferved even by tradition. In the year 1472, the Baftard Falconbridge, with an army of 17,000 men, went to Kingfl:on in purfuit of Edw. IV., but finding the bridge there broken down, he retired with his army into St. George's Fields ''. Catherine of Arragon, on her journey to England, lodged at King- fton the night before fhe arrived at Kennington palace ^^ Sir Thomas Wyat, well known for his unfuccefsful rebellion againft Queen Mary, after the death of Lady Jane Gray, having in vain attempted a paflage over London-bridge, came to Kingfton, where he found the wooden bridge broken down by order of the council, and the oppofite bank of the river defended by 200 men, who upon fight of two pieces of ordnance planted againft them, quitted their ftation, and gave Sir Thomas Wyat and his men an opportunity of repairing the bridge in fuch a manner with planks and ladders, that his whole army pafl~ed fafely over ". I imagine that it was in con- fequence of the damage done to the bridge at this time, that the wear was granted to the town by Queen Mary. The following hiftorical note occurs in the parifh regifter. *' Od. 9. 1570. — Sunday at nyght, arofe a great winde and rayne, " that the Temps rofe fo hye that they myght row botts owte of the " Stow's Annals. " HoHnlhed's Chron, vol. ii. f. 1730, and '» Ibid, and Baker's Chron. pt. z. p. 1 06. Bifhopof Hereford'^ Annals of England, p. *" Lsland's Colleftan. vol. v. p. 335. 294. " Temps, KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 217 " Temps, a great waye into the markette place, and upon a fo- *' dayne." A fimilar clrcumftance happened about eighteen years ago. Kingfton became once more a celebrated place, durine the civil ^^"'*"*' *' . Kingfton. wars of the laft century. The lirft armed force we hear of, was faid during the to have been here aflembled. It was reported to the Houfe of Com- mons, in the month of January 1642, that Col. Lunsford was at Kingfton upon Thames, where the magazine of that part of the country lay, with a troop of 400 or 500 horfe ". In confequence of this intelligence. Col. Lunsford was proclaimed a traitor, as having levied war againft the parliament, and was apprehended. A reward was offered likewife for apprehending Lord Digby, under a pretence that he had joined Col. Lunsford's party at Kingfton ; but Lord Clarendon obferves, that it was well known that Lord Digby had left the kingdom before the proclamation was iffued ". After all, fuch are the contradidlory accounts of party hiftorians*', that it is difficult to determine whether there was any army or not ; and if there was, whether Lord Digby joined them, or came to Kingfton accidentally with only his ufual retinue. During the turbulent fcenes which enfued, the men of Kingfton appear to have ftiown due gratitude to their royal mafter, from whom they had experienced fuch great favours. Their town, however, was frequently vifited by the armies of both the contending parties. In the month of Odlober 1642, the Earl of Effex was at Kingfton, with an army of 3000 men ". " In the beginning of November, Sir «' Richard Onflow, one of the knights of the ftiire, went with the train- " ed bands of Southwark to defend that town ; but the inhabitants " thereof fliowing themfelves extremely malignant againft them, " would afford them no entertainment, calling them round-heads, ** Diurnal Occurrences, Jan. lo - 17, 1642. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 579. Whit- " Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol.i. p. 301. lock's Memori.ils, p. 54. **NaIfQn's Colleaions, vol. ii. p. 846. ^^ Whitlock, p. 65, Vol. 1, Ff ' "and 2i8 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. " and Tvl{hed rather that the cavaliers would come among them, " whereupon they left them to their malignant humours"." A few days after, twenty troops of horfe were fent to Kingfton to fecure it till the Earl of Warwick fhoukl come with the reft of the army *^ On the 13th of November, the day of the battle of Brentford, the king marched with his army to Kingfton, where he was received with great joy; he ftaid there till the 18th *'. It appears by the following extracts from the parifh reglfter, and from the chamberlains' accounts, that both the king's troops, and thofe of the parliament, were frequently quartered at Kingfton; and that his majefty was often there in perfon : " Nov. 27, 1642, two foldiers hanged in the market-place, were *' buried." In June 1643, thirteen foldiers were buried; eight in one day from the Bowling-green. " Robert Cox, one of the gentlemen of the great ordnance to the " Earlof Eflex, buried Aug. 15, 1643. " 1643. Dilburfed to officers of the king's army, and officers of the lord general's, 13 1. " 1 645. To Capt. Rofmgham's foldiers to rid them out of the " town, 40 s. " 1646. To the king's trumpeters and footmen, 50 s. " 1647. To Mr. George Suckling, for his charges in going to the " general at Windfor, about eafmg the quartering of the foldiers, 1 2 s. " 1648. To the ringers at feveral paffiiges of the king through " the town, 2 s. "' " On the lothof Auguft 1647, Fairfax removed his head-quarters from Croydon to Kingfton, where he held a council of war the next ** England's Memorable Accidents, Oft. »» In the year 1638, a zealous puritan being jl — Nov. 7, 1642. churchwarden, gave the ringers 6s. 8d. for '' Ibid. Nov. 7 — 14. no/ ringing when the king went through the *' Ibid. Nov. 14—21; and Perfeft Dlur- town. nal, Nov. ij — 22. 2 day, KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 219 day, at which it was refolved, " that all protedions of exemption " from quartering fhould be withdrawn, and that all fhould bear their " fquares in quartering ; but that they fhould not be obliged to en- *' tertain private foldiers, but might provide them quarters elfe- " where ^°." On the 27th of the fame month, the general with his troops removed to Putney ^'. A grand rendezvous of the army was held upon Ham Common, on the 1 8th of November following". The laft ftruggle in behalf of the royal caufe, was made at King- J^^ ^^^} °^ flon. The Earl of Holland, who had been of all parties, at a time "«! enter- prize. when the king's affairs were in the mofl defperate fituation, and himfelf a prifoner in the IHe of Wight, formed an ill-concerted plan for refcuing him, and perfuaded the Duke of Buckingham, and his brother Lord Francis Villiers, to join him in the attempt. They affembled at Kingfton, with a body of about 600 horfe"; their avowed obje£l being to releafe the king, and bring him to parlia- ment ; to fettle peace in the kingdom, and to preferve the laws. A declaration to this effe(3: was fent to the citizens of London, who were invited to join them '*• The parliament immediately fent fome troops of horfe from Windfor, under the command of Col. Pritty, who found the royalifts but ill-prepared for defence ". A fkirmifh took place near Surbiton Common, in which the Earl of Holland and his party were foon defeated. The Earl himfelf fled to Harrow, but was foon afterwards taken prifoner. The Duke of Buckingham efcaped ; but his brother, the beautiful Lord Francis Villiers, was flain in the fkirmifli. He be- Death of haved with fignal courage, and after his horfe had been killed under villiers^ him, flood with his back againft a tree, defending himfelf againft feveral alTailants, till at length he funk under his wounds ^". The '" Perfeft Occurrences, Aug. 6 — 13, 1647. 34 jbid. 5' Ibid. Aug. 20 — 27. ^' Ibid. ^^ Ibid. Nov. 1647. ^* Biograph. Brit, and Aubrey's Antiquities 3' Ibid. June 30— July 6, 1648. of Surrey, vol. i. p. 47, F f 2 next 220 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. next day, the lords who had heard the report of the fkirmifli, and that Lord Francis Villiers was dangeroufly wounded, made an order, that chirurgeons might be permitted to go to Kingfton, and take care of him, if he were yet alive; but as one of thejournalifts of that time cbferves, " it was too late, for he was dead, and ftripped, and good " pillage found in his pocket"." His body was conveyed to York- houfe, in the Strand, by water, and was buried in Henry VII.'s chapel in Weftminfter Abbey. The following infcription was put upon his coffin *": " Depofitum illuftrlflimi Domini, Francifci Villiers, Ingentis fpeciei " juvenis, filii pofthumi Georgii Duels Buckinghamii; qui, vicefimo " setatis anno, pro Rege Carolo, et patria fortiter pugnando novem *' honeftis vulneribus acceptis obiit 7° die Julii, Anno Domini 1648." The initials of his name were infcribed on the tree under which he was flain, and remained till it was cut down, as Aubrey fays*', in the year 1680. Some elegies were written upon his death, which are extant. After the death of Charles I. the enfigns of royalty were deftroyed at Kingfton, as well as at moft other places. *' 1650. Paid for taking down the king's arms in the Hall, " IS. id/* *' 1 65 1. Paid for blotting out the king's arms in the church, « ys.*^" i.eTand's de- Lcland, defcribing this place, fays, " The olde monuments of the the^own.° *' toune of Kingefton, be founde yn the declyving doune from " Come Parke towarde the Galoys; and there yn ploughyng and " diggid, have very often beene founde fundation of wauUes of " houfes, and diverfe coynes of braffe, fylver, and gold, with Ro- *' maine infcriptions, and painted yerthen pottes ; and yn one yn '» Perfeft Occurrences, July, 7 — 14, 1648. ♦^ Chamberlains' accounts. ♦° Biograph. Brit. ♦' Churchwardens' accounts. ••' Antitjuities of Surrey, vol. J. p. 47. " the KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 221 " the Cardinal Wolfey's tyme was found much Romayne mony of " lylver and plates of fylver to coyne and maflTes to bete into plates " to coyne, and chaynes of fylver. And yn the old tyme the commune " faying ys that the bridge where the commun pafTage was over the " Tamife was lower on the ryver then it is now. And when men " began the new town in the Saxons tymes they toke from the very " olive of Comeparke fide to build on the Tamife fide ; and fette " a new bridge hard by the fame. In the new towne by the Tamife " fide there is a houfe yet caulled the Bifshop's Haulle. But now it " is turnid into a commun dwelling houfe of a tounifch man. It " was fumtyme the bifshop of Winchefter's houfe, and as far as I can " conje£l fum bifshop wery of it did negledl this houfe and becam *' to build at Afsher nere the Tamife fide 2 or 3 miles above " Kingefton "*." This houfe has been long fince pulled down; the fite of it is ftill called Biftiop's Hall. As the bifhops of Winchefter, before Waynfleet's time, held frequent ordinations in the parifh church at Kingftoa *', it is not improbable that they might have a temporary refidence here, to which they could refort upon fuch occafions inftead of an inn. The Town Hall, which ftands in the market place, was built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as appears by her arms againft the Eaft wall, round which is the following infcription : " Vivat Regina Elizabetha, in qua fides, prudentia, fortitudo, *' temperantia et juftitia elucent. Anno R. Elizabethse " Some of the mantled carving of that age remains in the wainfcot, ornamented with the arms of the town (Az. 3 falmons Argent), and a device of the letter K, and a ton. The South end of the Hall appears to have been rebuilt in the reign of James I. mod pro- bably about the year 161 8, when the painted glafs was put up in ♦♦ Leiand's Itinerary, vol. vi. p. i8. ♦5 Regift. Winton. Woodlock ; Stratford; Edindonj and Beaufort. the 222 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. the windows *°. In the Hall is a portrait of Queen Anne, whofe ftatue alfo is fixed on the outfide, with an infcription under it, and the date of 1706. The South windows are ornamented with painted glafs, confifting chiefly of coats of arms. In one of thefe windows are the arms of James I. furrounded with fmall fliields, containing the armorial enfigns of " the Romans, the Heathen and " Chriftian Britons, the Kentilh Saxons, the Heathen and Chriftian " Weft-Saxons, the Eaft-Saxons, the Latin-Saxon Monarchs, the " Norman Kings, the Andegavian Kings, the Kings of France, the *' Kings of Scotland, the South-Saxons, the Eaft-Angles, the Mer- " cian Kings, the Kings of Northumberland, the Danifti Kings, the " Cornifh Kings, the early Kings of Wales, the latter Kings of " Wales, the Welfh Princes, and the Kings of Ireland." In the fame window are the arms and quarterings of Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham, who was high fteward of the town ; and two other coats *'. In the other window are the arms of Mr. Hatton, the recorder ; and the arms of Denmark. The Lent aflizes for the county of Surrey are held in this Hall. Adjoining the Hall is a room where the corporation hold their courts of affembly. In the windows are fome coats of arms on painted glafs*'. Over it is a fmall room, in which the records of the town are carefully preferved. Here are depofited the church- wardens' accounts of as early a date as the reign of Henry VII. ♦* Chamberlains' accounts. It appears that Chamberlains' accounts in the reign of King the painted glafs coft 14I. los. In 1663, James. The other coat Arg. 3 lions ramp, the windows were repaired, and three new Gules, a chief of the fecond is born by Yel- pieces added, at the expence of 1 1. 18 s. verton. ♦7 One of thefe is Arg. a lion paflant be- *' The arms of the butchers' company, tween two cottifes. Gules; on a chief, Az. which formerly were incorporated in this town, 2 etoils Or. Thefe arms being born by are in the Eall window. In the Weft window Coolc of London, are probably thofe of Sir are the arms and quartering of Hallings, with Robert Coo.k, whofe name occurs in the the order of the garter. and KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 223 and the chamberlains' books, which commence in that of Edward VI. To the members of the corporation I am much indebted for the readinefs with which they permitted me to infpedt thefe books, which have furnifhed much curious and interefting matter. Such extra(fls as are not made ufe of elfewhere, are here fubjoined, and arranged under different heads. H'lflorical, " 30 Hen. 8. Rec'*. for fetting of the torches gyven at " the Quynes *' buriall from Hampton courte by " water _ _ _ _ *' 1553. Rec"*. of the Spanyards '° for the hire of the " town-hall _ _ _ _ " "^SSS' ReC. of the Spanyards for the counte hall " 1570. Paid to the ryngers at the command of the " mafter baylifs when word was brought that the " Earl of Northumberland was taken " *' 1571. Paid to the ringers at the Queen's going to " Horfle - - . . " when her bott came by - *' 158 1, when the Queens Ma'" came from Hampton " courte to courfe _ - _ ** 1585. for ringing when the traitors were " taken'' _ _ - _ ^. s. d. o 10 10 O 27 2 O 20 O o 012 o 6 o 8 o 9 Extrafts from the Chamber- lains' and Church- wardens' ac- counts. *' Jane Seymour, who died at Hampton Court, and was buried at Windier. 5° Probably the attendants of Philip King of Spain. " Thomas Percy Earl of Northumberland rebelled againft Queen Elizabeth, in concert with the Earl of Wellmorland ; finding that their defigns were not likely to fucceed, they fled into Scotland. The Earl of Northum- berland was taken and executed. '* William Parrie, a papilt, was executed for high treafon, March 2, 1584.-5, of whofe plots fee a long account in Holinlhed's Chron. vol. iii. f. 1382 — 1396. « is-88. 224 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. £,' s. d. " 1588. when Don Pedro " came thro the town 026 *' 1592. when her Majefty was abroad in the " wycke - - - - 008 " 1594. For 5 torches when the Queen came thro the " town - - - - 050 *' To the footmen and coachmen wherl the Queen came " thro the town - - - - 0189 *' 1597. To the ringers when the Qiieen dined in the " town - - - - 050 " 1599. Paid by Mr. BaylifF Yates towards the " Queen's officers' fees - - - 6 lo o " 1600. Paid to ringers when the Queen was at the lodge 050 " 1 60 1. To Thomas Hawarde for to pay for the " Queen's gloves - - - o 40 o " To Mr. Cockes for the gift to the Queen 460 " ■ Paid unto the Queen's officers their ordinarie *' fees at the time of her Majefties coming through " the town in her ftate, ■ The ferjeants at armes for their fees - o 20 o — — Unto the trumpeters - - - o 20 o Yeomen ufliers - - -068 " Gentlemen ufhers - - _ _ _ _ ♦' Footmen - - - - o 20 o " • The porters - - - - 0100 " — — Lytermen - - - - o 6 8 « Yeomen of the hotels - -068 " Sum 4I. 10 s. " Don Pedro was a Spani(h Commander, Roebuck. Scow's Annals, edit, 1631, fol. taken by Sir Francis Drake on board the p. 748. Armada. He was lent to England in the " 1603. (( KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 225 1603. To a trumpeter for founding a proclamation 050 For fettiiig up a booth in the town and for " muftering before the coronation - - 026 For a fcarffe and for a box for the late Queen (( " Elizabeth, returned againe to the feller - 059 *' 1 610. To the ringers for ringing on the day of the *' King's prefervation from the Gowries confpi- " racy " - - - -024 " 1624. To the ringers for joy of the Prince's return " out of Spayne - - -034 *' 1665. To the ringers when Prince Rupert lay In the " town - - - -060 " "When the King came back from Portfmouth." - 038 Local Ciijloms. The Kyngham. Be yt in mynd that y' 19 yere of Kyng Harry y* 7, " at the geveng out of the Kynggam by Harry *' Bower and Harry Nycol cherche wardens amount- " ed clerely to 4 1. 2 s. 6 d. of that fame game. Mem. That the 27 day of Joun a". 21 Kyng H. 7. " that we Adam Bakhous and Harry Nycol hath " made account for the Kenggam that fame tym " donWylm Kempe, Kenge, and Joan Whytebrede " quen, and all cofls deduded - - - 450 " 23 Hen. 7. Paid for whet and malt and vele and " motton and pygges and ger and coks for the *' Kyngam - - - - o 33 o " Earl Gowrie and his brother attempted to affaffinate King James in the year 1600, at a caftle of which the latter was governor. Vol. I. ' G g "To (( 226 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. £' J. d. ** To the taberare - - -068 *' To the leutare - - - -020 *' I Hen. 8. Paid out of the churche box at Walton " Kyngham - - - -036 *♦ I Paid to Robert Neyle for goyng to Wyndefore *' for maifter doctors horfe ageynes the Kyngham " day - - - - -040 " . For baking the Kyngham brede - - 006 ** — - To a laborer for bering home of the geere after " the Kyngham was don - - -010 The Kyngham appears to have been an annual game, or fport, con- ducted by the parifh officers, who paid the expences attending it, and accounted for the receipts. The clear profits, 15 Hen. VIII. (the lafl time I find it mentioned), amounted to 9 1. los. 6 d. a very confiderable fum. It feems to have been a diflinft thing from the May-game, and to have been held later in the fummer. Holin- flied '* fays, that the young folks in country towns, in the reign of Edward II. ufed to choofe a fummer king and queen to dance about May-poles. The contributions to the celebration of the fame game in the neighbouring parifhes fhow, that the Kyngham was not confined to Kingflon. Robin-hood and May-Game. ** 23 Hen. 7. To the menftorell upon May-day 004 " For paynting of the mores garments and for " fatten gret leveres " - - 024 " 23 Hen. '* Chron. anno 1306. berlandHoufehold Book, p.6o. If it ever bore " The word livery was formerly nfed to fuch an acceptation at that time, one might fjgnify any thing delivered ; fee the Northum- be induced to fuppofe, from the following entries. iC It feems to have been much in ufe formerly, has long fince been laid afide. as there are frequent entries of money paid Vol. I. Hh « 1574. J34 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. " 1574. Paid Mr. Nower for his row-barge to carry " Mr. Recorder up and down - - 0120 ** 1576. . To Mr. Wever for difcharging the town of y, " eating of flefh - - -020 "1594. Delivered to Th. Howard to give to the *' players by Mr. Bailiff's commandment - o lo o ** ^597' ^^^ bringing the town pot from Mr. Evelyn's " and fcouring the fame - - -006 *' 1598. To them that wore the town armour two days " at 8 d. a daye '* - - -070 " — — To the foldiers towards their wages more than " we gathered - - - - o o 20 *' 1 60 1. To Henge's man for bringing a letter that " the armour ihould not go to Ryegate - 026 " 1603. To James AUifon and four other for carrying " the armour at the coronation - - 0134 " For armour - - - -400 *' 1609. For a coat for the whipper and making 030 " 162 1. Paid by Mr. Bailiff to a company of players " becaufe they fhould not play in the town hall 010 o *• 1623. To the Prince's players by Mr. Bailiff's ap- " polntment - - - o 10 o *' 1625. To the King's players becaufe they fhould not " play in the town hall nor in the towne for the *' fpace of five yeares - - - 0100 '* It appears that every parilh was obliged wardens' accounts at Lambeth : to keep a certain proportion of armour ac- 1568. For (kouring the church harnefs and cording to its fize, which was exhibited once carriage to and fro, and a man to wear a year before the juftices. In villages the it before thejullices, 3 s. 8d. armour was kept in the church, and was The armour in this county was fliown fome- called the church armour or harnefs, as in the times at Kingfton, fometimes at Mitcham, following, and other entries in the church- Newington, Ryegate, and other places. " 162C. KINGSTON UPON THAMES. £. s. d. ** 1626. To the King's players to forbeare to play in " the towne - - - -0100 " 1634. A vizard and cap for the whipper - 0018 " 1670. Old Chitty the whipper, a quarter's wages 034 ns The manor of Kingfton was a royal demefne, both in the reign Manor, of the Confeflbr and William the Conqueror. It was of very large extent, and was valued, at both periods, at 30 1. per annum. King John granted it to the freemen of Kingfton, in confideration of their paying an annual rent of 50 1. to the crown ". Richard II. gave them lands towards paying this rent ; Henry V. lowered it to 26 1. per annum ; and queen Mary remitted a farther fum '*. The manor ftill belongs to the corporation ; the baylifFs, who hold a court baron and court leet, being confidered as the lords. The fee- farm rent is now about 8 1. per annum. It appears that there were two manors in Combe at the time of the Manor of Conqueror's Survey, one of which had been the property of Cole or °™ Cola, and was then held of the King by Anfgot, his interpreter ; the other had been held of the Confeflbr by Alured, who, as the record exprefles it, was at liberty to go where he would. In the Con- queror's reign, a woman, whofe name is not mentioned, threw herfelf under the Queen's protection, and furrendered to her the manor of Combe, which fhe granted to Humphrey the chamber- lain. This manor is faid, in the Survey, to have been valued, at different periods, at 4I., at 20 s., and at 5I. The other was valued at 60s. '3 Cart. 1 Joh. pt. 2. ni. 7. n. 90. & Cart. 50 1. per annum. 10 Joh. N° 25. The hrft charter iHpulates, " P. R. 2 & 3 P. & M. Rot. 59. Lord that they fhall pay 12 1. per annum more than Treafurer's Remembrancer's- office, the ufual rent — the other fixes the rent at H h 2 Divers wool. 236 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Divers conje£lures have been formed about a paflage in the record of Doomfday, relating to the manor of Kingfton ; which ftates, that Humphrey, the chamberlain, had one of the villains belonging to that manor in his cuftody, " caufa coadunandi lanam reginas ;" and that he paid 20s. for his relief when his father died. Salmon fays, that the word coadimare fignifies '' to weave ;" and he fup- pofes that this man carried on a woollen manufadure, by which he was enabled to pay a relief of 20 s. on his father's death. A MS. f i" ^^ Harleian colledion '* explains this matter very fully : — We are lands in there informed, that Ralph Poftel held one hide of land in Combe, the fervice of by fcrjcantry, viz. by the fervice of colleding (colligendi) the Queen's C^een's wool J and that the faid hide was given to his anceftors, with this fervice annexed, by Henry I. In a fubfequent record it is faid, that Ralph Poftel's land, which was worth 20 s. per annum, was efcheated to the crown ; and that it had been held by the fervice of colle(5ting the Queen's wool, and that if he did not colleft it, he was to forfeit 20 s. to the crown. By the fame MS. it appears, that the above ferjeantry was afterwards granted to Peter Rabwin. Robert Belet, in the reign of Richard I. paid 80 1. to be reftored to the manor of Combe, which was his inheritance ". In the reign of King John, the greater part of the Combe eftate appears to have belonged to William de Watteville ". Hugh de Combes had half a knight's fee there ". In the fucceeding reign, Maurice de Credon, ftyling himfelf a Knight of Anjou, granted his hereditary right in the lordfhip of Combe, to Sir Robert Burnell and his heirs ". Richard Lowayte appears to have been in pofleflion of it in the reign of Edward II. " It afterwards belonged to William Neville, ">* N" 313, called a tranfcript of knights' He refers to Rot. Pip. 2 Ric. I. Surrey, fees, and other tenures of lands, and alfo of '" Harleian MSS. N" 313. efcheats and wards belonging to the crown, in " Ibid, the reign of Henry III. and King John. The '* Cart. 56 Hen. III. m. 4. originals are not now to be found. '» Harleian MSS. 6281. " Pugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 614. — from KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 237 from whom it derived the appellation of Combe Neville ; which it ftill retains. After his death, his property being divided between three daughters, Combe fell to the fhare of Nichola, who mar- ried John Hadrefham ". William Hadrefham died feifed of it, 36 Edward III. " It was then held of the manor of Shene, by an annual rent of 20 s. In the reign of Henry VI. a licence was obtained by William Cheyney, John Gaynesford, and others, to give the manor of Combe, which had been John Hadrefham's, to Merton Abbey **. After the fuppreffion of monafteries, it was annexed to the honour of Hampton Court, and was granted by Edward VI. to the Duke of Somerfet "\ It reverted to the crown after the Duke's attainder, and was granted by Queen Elizabeth, firll to Sir William Cecil '*, and afterwards, by Lord Burleigh's petition, as it is ex- prefled, to Sir Thomas Vincent ^', who is fald to have built the old manor-houfe, which was pulled down about forty years ago. In 1602, I find that he was honoured with a vifit from Queen Eli- zabeth '". This manor came into the hands of the crown again foon afterwards, and was granted by James I. to Sir William Cockayne"'. It afterwards belonged to Sir Daniel Harvey, and, in Aubrey's time, was held by his heirs ". It is now the property of the right honour- able George John Earl Spencer. Near the manor-houfe at Combe are fprings, from which the water is conveyed in pipes to Hampton Court. The manor of Ham is not mentioned in the Conqueror's Survey. Manor of King Athelftan granted lands there to his minifter Wulfgar ". "^"' '" Cl. i4Edw. II. ID. 26. dorfo. ss Fee-farm roll. Augmentation-office, 21 »' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 708. Eliz. CoUeftion of Efcheats. "* " Laid out when the queen removed '* Pat. 2 Hen. VI. pt. 3. m. 24. & Cl. " from Sir Thomas Vincent's - 03 4." 2 Hen. VI. m. I & 5. Churchwardens' accounts, Kingfton. '' Grants of lands by Edw. VI. Aug- ^^ Pat. 6 Jac. pt. 17. Dec. 11. mentation-office. " Aubrey's Surrey, vol. i. p. 47. '♦ Pat. 13 Eliz. pt. 7. July 18. " Anno 931. Cotton. Cart. Antiq.Brit.Muf. Henry 238 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Henry II. made a grant of the manor, which reverted to the crown in the reign of King John, who granted it to Roger de Moubray*'. It efcheated to the crown, and was given to Godfrey de Lucy, Bifhop of Winchefler J it was then valued at 61. per annum '\ Ifabella de Croun had a charter of free warren there, in the reign of Henry III. '^ Maurice de Credon, knight of Anjou, granted the manor to Sir Robert Burnell and his heirs"*. Philip, nephew of Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, had livery thereof, 21 Edward I. "^ After this period there is a deficiency of records that can be appropriated to this manor. It had been held by the crown a confiderable time, when it was leafed by James I. to George Cole, Efq. of Peterfliam '' ; a reverfionary leafe was granted to William Murray, Efq. groom of the bedchamber, afterwards Earl of Dyfart. At the time of the furvey taken by order of the parliament in 1650, the right of thefe leafes was vefted in Sir Lionel Tollemache, Knt. who married Catherine, one of the daughters and coheirs of the above Wil- liam Murray ''. Charles II. in the year 1672, granted it in fee to the Duke and Duchefs of Lauderdale, and to her heirs by her firft hufband. It has continued in the family ever fmce, and is now the property of the right honourable Lionel Earl of Dyfart. At the time of the furvey above mentioned, the manor was valued at 8 1. per annum. The harnlet of Ham contains about ninety houfes, and is aflelTed to the land-tax the fum of 173 1. i8s. 8 d. which is now at the rate of i s. 6 d. in the pound. Hara-houfe. The manor-houfe at Ham, which is fituated near the Thames, was built in the year 1610, and was intended, as it is faid, for the refidence of Henry Prince of Wales. It underwent confiderable 9' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N" 313. " Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 61. »* Ibid. *' Parliamentary Surveys, Augmentation- s'' Pat. V.ifcon, 37 & 38 Hen. III. pt. 2. office. »+ Cart. 56 Hen. III. m. 4. *' Ibid. alterations KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 239 alterations In the reign of Charles II. when it was completely fur- nifhed by the Duke and Duchefs of Lauderdale, and it now remains a very curious fpecimen of a manfion of that age. The cielings arc painted by Verrio, and the rooms are ornamented with that mafly magnificence of decoration then in fafhion. The furniture is very rich ; even the bellows and brufhes, in fome of the apartments, arc of folid filver, or of filver fillagree. In the centre of the houfe is a large hall, furrounded with an open gallery. The baluftrades ot the grand ftaircafe, which is remarkably fpaclous and fubftantial, are of walnut-tree, and ornamented with military trophies. In the North drawing room is a very large and beautiful cabinet of ivory, lined with cedar. On the Weft fide of the houfe is a gallery ninety-two feet in length, hung with portraits. In the clofet adjoining the bed- chamber, which was the Duchefs of Lauderdale's, ftlU remains the great chair in which fhe ufed to fit and read ; it has a fmall defk fixed to it, and her cane hangs by the fide. The furniture of the whole room is fuch, that one might almoft fancy her Grace to be ftill an inhabitant of the houfe. Ham-houfe contains fome very fine pidures by the old mafters, Plflures. amongft which the works of Vanderveldt and Woovermans are moft confpicuous. There are alfo many very good portraits j the follow-r ing are principally to be noticed : the Duke of Lauderdale and the Earl of Hamilton in one piece, by Cornelius Janfen ; the Duke and Duchefs, by Sir Peter Lely ; the Duke in his garter robes, by the fame artift ; Charles II. who ufed to vifit this place, and fat for his pidlure for the Duke of Lauderdale ; Sir John Maitland, Chan- cellor of Scotland ; Sir Henry Vane ; William Murray the firft Earl of Dyfart ; Catherine his wife, a beautiful pidture, in water- colours, by Hoflcins ; Sir Lionel Tollemache, firft huftjand to the Duchefs of Lauderdale j General Tollemache, who was killed at Breft ; 240 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. John Duke of Argyle. Hook. Manor of Bcrwell, or Barwell- court. Breft ; the Earl of Lauderdale ; James Stuart Duke of Richmond, a very fine pidture, by Vandyke ; and the late Countefs of Dyfart, by Sir Jofhua Reynolds. Many others might be mentioned, which, as well as the above, are well deferving of a more particular de- fcription, did the limits of this work allow it. Ham-houfe was the birth-place of that great ftatefman and general John Duke of Argyle, who was grandfon to the Duchefs of Lau- derdale. His brother Archibald, who fucceeded him in that title, and was Lord Keeper of Scotland, was likewife born here. James IT. was ordered to retire to this houfe, on the arrival of the Prince of Orange in London ". But thinking himfelf unfafe fo near the metropolis of the kingdom he had abdicated, he fled preci- pitately to France. The hamlet of Hook contains about twenty houfes; itpays44l. 8s. 8d. to the land-tax ; which is at the rate of 2 s. yd. in the pound. Within this precin£t is the manor of Berwell or Barwell-court, which belonged to the prior and convent of Merton, who had a charter of free warren there, in the reign of Henry III. '^ In Cardinal Beaufort's time it was valued at 8 s. ""' After the diffblution of monafteries this manor was kept for fome time in the hands of the crown. Queen Elizabeth gave it to Thomas Vincent, Efq. in exchange for lands in Northamptonfliire '°\ In 1595, he alienated it to Edward Carlton, Efq. from whom it defcended to his coufin Dudley Vifcount Dorchefter, the celebrated ftatefman, and to his Lordlhip's nephew, Sir Dudley Carlton, Bart, who, in 1636, ob- tained from the corporation of Kingfton a right of pafture for himfelf, and the tenants of this eftate, on the commons of Surbiton »' Hume's Hill, of Eng. vol. viii. p. 295. •oo Cart. 36 Hen. III. m. II. *°' Regift. Winton. Beaufort, f. 11. b. "^* I was favoured with the fubfequent de- fcent of this manor, by Marcus Dixon, Efq, the prefent proprietor. and KINGSTON UPON THAMES.' 241 and Claygate, belonging to that town. Sir Dudley was in pofleflion of this manor at the time of the civil wars ; foon afterwards it appears to have been the property of James Davidfon, Efq. who, in 1695, devifed it to his fon-in-law, Edes, Efq. The latter alienated it in 1698 to William LethieuUier, from whom it defcended to William Tafh, Efq. who married his daughter. In 1771, it was purchafed by William Terry, who fold it again in 1774 to Jofeph Sales, Efq. It was alienated by him, in 1788, to John Richardfon, Efq. and by the latter, in the enfuing year, to Marcus Dixon, Efq. the prefent proprietor. The manor of Canonbury, or Canbury, belonged to Merton Manor of Abbey '°\ The poffeffions of that monaftery in Kingfton and o/canbury. Hache, exclufive of Berwell, were valued, in Cardinal Beaufort's time, at 52 s. '°* It was in the hands of the crown during the reign of King James""; in 1635 it became the property of William Murray, Efq. afterwards Earl of Dyfart. In 1652 it appears to have be- longed to Arabella Countefs of Kent, and others. In 1664, it was the property of John Ramfey, Efq. who alienated it to Nicholas Hardinge, Efq. in 167 1. It has continued in the Hardlnge family ever fmce, being now the property of George Hardinge, Efq. M. P. This manor includes part of the town of Kingfton. The manor-houfe, which is clofe to the town, was fold by Mr. Hardinge, a few years ago, to John Eddington, Efq. There is a fmgle record of a manor, called Harlington, in the Manor of parifti of Kingfton upon Thames, of which George Cole, Efq. of '^"^^ Peterfham, died feifed, in the year 1624'°'. It was held of the king, in capite, by the fortieth part of a knight's fee. Harlington "" Pat. II Eliz. pt. 2. July 6. Grant of following alienations were obtained, a leafe to Robert Wilkinfon. "-» Cole's Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harl. MSS. '"* Regift. Winton. Beaufort, f. ii. b. 758. "" Court-rolls of the manor ; whence the Vol. I. I i being 342 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Manor of Norbiton- hall. Richard Ta- verner. being Inclofed in the New Park, foon after the date of this record, the manor, moft probably, came to the crown, and merged in that of Richmond. The proof of fuch a place having exifted, had confi- derable weight in determining the right of a public foot-path through the park. Norbiton is enumerated amongft the lordfhips granted by Maurice de Credon to Sir Robert Burnell as abovementioned '°'. Norbiton-hall, in the reign of Edward VI. was the property of Richard Taverner, Efq. '"' a celebrated man, who being a zealous proteftant, obtained a licence to preach in any place within the King's dominions, and adlually did preach before the univerfity of Oxford when he was high-fheriff for the county, with a fword by his fide, and a gold chain about his neck '°^ He retired to his feat at Norbiton, during the reign of Queen Mary, where he was fufFered to remain unmolefted "", Norbiton-hall afterwards came into the pofleflion of the Evelyns, and was defcribed as a manor held of the bailiffs of Kingfton "°. The Evejyns came from Harrow on the Hill, and fettled in the parifh of Kingfton, in the reign of Henry VIII. Some vifits of Queen Elizabeth to Mr. Evelyn are recorded in the churchwardens' accounts. The manor of Norbiton does not now exift. An ancient houfe there, lately the property of Sir John Phillips '", now belongs to John Sherer, Efq. but the place at pre- fent called Norbiton-hall is a modern-built houfe, the property of Mr. William Farren of Covent-garden theatre. ■ "« Cart. 56 Hen. III. m. 4. '«' Cole's Efcheats, Harlcian MSS. N''399. •»» Fuller's Church Hiftory, pt. 2. p. 63- Fuller quotes from a pamphlet of Sir John Cheek's, one of his fermons, preached before the univerfity, the ftyle and words of which feem to have been imitated by modern enthu- fiafts. It began thus : — " Arriving at the " mount of St. Maries, in the ftony ftage " where I now (land, I have brought you " fome fine biflcets, baked in the oven of cha- " rity, carefully conferved for the chicken of " the church, the fparrows of the fpirit, and " the fweet fwallows of falvation." *°» Fuller, as above. "0 Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. 760. "• Baroneuge, I74l» vol. iv. p. 14.3. The KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 243 The church '" of Kingfton, which is dedicated to All Saints, con- The church, fifts of a nave, two aifles, and three chancels. On the fouth fide flood the chapel of St. Mary, in which It Is Chapel of „ . St. Mary. faid, that fome of the Saxon monarchs were crowned "\ There is an engraving of it by Vertue. It fell down In the year 1730, and the fexton, his daughter, and another perfon, were buried under the ruins "*. The daughter, Hefter Hammerton, was dug out alive, and fucceeded to her father's office. There is' an engraving of her In mezzotlnto, with a mattock acrofs her fhoulder, and her hand on a fcull. No part of the prefent ftrudlure appears to be older than the reign of Richard II. ; the fouth chancel feems to be about that age"^; it is feparated from the middle chancel by pointed Gothic arches, and light cluttered columns. Both thefe chancels are furrounded by wooden flails. In the parlfh accounts, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, mention Is made of St. James's-chancel, St. Catherine's- chancel. Trinity-chancel, and the High-chancel. The north, now called the Belfrey-chancel, is fmall ; the windows are large, with fl^r arches, of the kind which came Into ufe in the reign of Henry VII. In the fouth chancel Is a pifcina, with a rich Gothic canopy. The nave is feparated from the aifles by Gothic pointed arches, fup- ported by low odangular columns. The aifles were rebuilt with brick, and the Infide of the church completely repaired and new cieled in the year 1721. A portico, faced with flone, was added on the fouth fide about thirty years ago. "^ In the regillry at Winchefter, is a •'+ Abrara Hammerton, and Richard Mills, commiffion dated 1344, for reconciling the killed by the fall of the church, buried Mar. 5. church of Kingfton upon Thames, then po- 1730-1. Hefter Hammerton, buried Feb. 28, luted with blood. Regift. W. de Edyndon, 1745-6. Parilh Regifter. pt. I. fol. 10. b. "s There is a citation to the inhabitants of "' On the walls of this chapel were pic- Kingfton, to repair their chancel, which was tures of the Saxon monarchs, who were very ruinous, dated 1367. Reg. Wint. W. crowned here, and of King John. Aubrey's de Wykham, pt. 3. f. 8. b. Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 20, * 1 1 2 The 244 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. The tower, which is fquare and low, is fituated between the nave and the chancel. Stow, in his Annals, fays, that the fteeple of King- fton church in Surrey, was deftroyed by lightning in the year 1445', on Candlemas-day. It underwent confiderable repairs in the year 1505 "*; probably Robert Somerfby the vicar, who died three years before, left a fum of money towards this work, as his name appears on the tower '". Aubrey mentions a leaded fteeple "°; this probably was taken down in the year 1 708, when the upper part of the tower was rebuilt with brick, as appears from an infcription on the outfide. Skern'stomb. Near the communion table is a flat ftone inlaid with brafs plates, reprefenting a man and woman in drefTes very nearly refembling thofe of Nicholas and Ifabella Carew at Beddington. Underneath is the following infcription in the black letter : " Robert! cifta Skerni corpus tenet ifta, " Marmorie petre, conjugis atque fuse, *' Qui validus, fidus, difertus, lege peritus j " Nobilis, ingenuus, perfidiam renuit : " Conftans fermone, vita, fenfu, ratione, " Communiter cuique juftitiam voluit. *' Regalis juris unices promovit honores; *' Fallere vel falli, res odiofa fibi. *' Gaudeat in cells, qui vixit in orbe Hdelis ; *' Nonas Aprilis pridie qui morltur, " Mille quadrlngentis Dni trigintaque feptem " Aiinis ipfius Rex miferere Jefu." Robert Skern lived at Downe-Hall "°, in this parifh ; his wife was daughter of the celebrated Alice Ferrers, by fome hiftorians fuppofed to have been Edward III.'s miftrefs '". Againft ■•* Churchwardens' accounts, Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 43. "^ The infcription ftill remains, though '" Ibid. p. 44. worn almoft illegible. It was, " Pray for the '" CI. 15 Hen. VI. " foul of Mafter Robert Somerlhy, fometime "° Barnes has a curious account of this " vicar of Kyngfton. Anno Domini 1505-" lady, in his reign of Edward III. He con- tends KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 245 Againft the wall of the fouth chancel is the monument of Sir An- Sir Anthony thony Benn, recorder of London, who had been recorder of this bo- rough ; he died in 161 8. Near the fame place is the monument of Col. Anthony Fane, who married his daughter. Anthony Fane was Col. Anthony fon of Francis Earl of Weftmorland. He received a fhot in his left cheek, at the fiege of Farnham, of which wound he died, Dec. 9, 1642, at his houfe at Kingfton '". Below Col. Fane's monument is an ancient altar tomb, without any Various mo. infcriptlon or arms, under a Gothic canopy. On the fame wall is the monument of Richard Lant, Efq. who died in 1682; and in the fouth-weft corner, that of William Rimes, LL. D. who died in 1 71 8. Elizabeth the wife of the latter, as it appears by the infcrip- tion, left a candleftick to the church, as a memorial of her earneft requeft, that her afhes fhould not be difturbed. On the floor of this chancel are the tombs of John Milner, Efq. conful-general of Portugal, who died in 171 2; Thomas Warren, fon of Captain Thomas Warren, commander of the fquadron which con- veyed Sir William Norris, ambafiador to the Great Mogul j he died in 1700; William Cleave, Efq. alderman of London, who founded the alms-houfes, and died in 1 667 ; and Captain Price of the Ceres Eaft Indiaman, who died in 1789. On the north wall of the Middle- chancel are the monuments of Capt. Francis Wilkinfon, who died in 168 1 ; (he beautified the whole body of the church at his own charge ;) of Richard Clutton, Efq. of Chefhire, who died in 1635; and Mark Snelling, Efq. a great benefadlor to the town, who died in 1633. Over the communion table, is the monument of John Heuton, ferjeant of the larder to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1584. Within the rails, are the tombs of Samuel Robinfon, tends, that flie was not the king's miftrefs, after the king's death. though he owns her influence over him ; his "' England's Memorable Accidents, Dec. principal argument is, her marrying fo well 5 — '*' '0+2. fecretary 7^ KINGSTON UPON THAMES. fecretary to the company of merchant adventurers, who died in 1625; Mrs. Alice Bland, who died in 1774, aged 90; and Mrs, Green, wife of James Green, Efquire, of Canbury-houfe, who died in 1778. On the floor of the Middle-chancel are the tombs of Mrs. Morton, widow of John Morton, Efq. of Eaft Ware, in Kent ; daughter of the celebrated Mrs. Honeywood, who lived to fee fo numerous a pofterity, and mother of Sir Thomas, Sir Robert, and Sir Albert Morton, the latter of whom was principal fecretary of ftate to Charles I. Mrs. Morton died in 1634; (the infcription is nearly obliterated;) Mrs. Anne Snelling, who died in 1725 ; and Robert Cooper, Efq. who died in 1760. ^ , This chancel belongs to the impropriator of the great tithes. In the Belfrey-chancel is a monument to the memory of Dodor George Bate, who died in 1668; and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1667 of a confumption, which was haflened by the fire of London. Dr. George Dr. Bate was one of the earllefl: members of the Royal Society, and very eminent in his profeffion '". He was principal phyfician to Charles I. to Oliver Cromwell, his fon Richard, and to Charles II.; having the art of ingratiating himfelf with all parties. Cromwell held him in high efteem, though he had written in defence of King Charles ; and he fent for him into Scotland, when he lay ill there in 1651 '*'. He is faid to have recommended himfelf to the royal party after the reftoration, by a report induftrioufly fpread, that he had given Cromwell a dofe which haftened his death ; but this ftory appears to be built on a flender foundation "*. Dr. Bate was an author ; his principal work was an account of the commotions in England ; a fecond part of which was publiflied in 1661. In this he is faid to have been affifted by Lord Chancellor Clarendon "'. *" Biograph. Brit. "♦ It is only mentioned by Wood, Athen. •*' Whitlock's Memorial, p. 494. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 424. •*» .Ibid. In Bate KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 247 In the fame chancel is the monument of Mary Lady Wyndham, wife, firft of Sir Roger Newdigate, and afterwards of Sir Francis Wyndham, Bart. She died in 1733. On the floor is the tomb of James Haward, Enfign, who died in Sir Walter Ralegh's Voyage ; Thomas Haward of the Middle Temple ; and Thomas Haward, Efq. five times magiftrate of this tow^n. In the north and eafl walls are the remains of two Gothic monu- ments, with flat arches. In the vicar's burial place, a fmall building adjoining the fouth chancel, are the tombs of Mr. Richard Mayo, who died in 1695; Thomas Willis, S. T. P. who died in 1692; and William Comer, M. A. who died in 1766. On the ground is a brafs plate, in memory of the ten children of Edmund Staunton, vicar of King- fton in the laft century. In the north aifle of the church are the tombs of John Agar, Efq. commiflioner of the navy, who died in 1697; °^ Thomas Agar, once mayor, and twelve times bailiflf of the town, who died in 1703, at the age of ninety-four j Henry Jenkins, Efq. who died in 1760. Near the north door of the church Is a fmall brafs plate fixed In the wall, to the memory of John Hertcombe, who died in 1488 j and his wife Catherine, who died in 1477 ; over it, are their eflBgies in the fame materials. He is reprefented as a merchant ; her head- drefs fomewhat refembles that of Margaret Gaynesford at Carflial- ton. Aubrey mentions a houfe in his time, called Hircombe's Place. In the nave is a tomb-ftone with an infcription to the memory of Thomas Cranmer, M. D. who died in 1 748 ; John Cranmer, Efq. who died in 1773 ; and others of that family. Over one of the arches in the nave, hangs the achievement of the ^^P'- fj"?* ' ° of the Half- unfortunate Captain Pierce, who was loft in the Halfwell Eaft In- weiiEaftin- diaman. diaman. 248 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. tliaman. He had a refidence in this town, and his family have a vault in the church. His funeral fermon was preached here, but his body was never found. Aubrey has preferved an infcription, which was formerly in the chancel, to the memory of William Becket, a vicar of Kingfton, who was confefTor of the houfehold to King James and Charles I. and the epitaphs of the following perfons, which were deftroyed in the ruins of St. Mary's chapel : John Shawys, who died in 16543 Catherine Johnfon ; John Stint, Efq. who died in 1O81; and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1698; Charles Salter, who died in 1610; Francis Wrote, of Suffolk, who died in 1638; and Anne Hallet, who died in 1702. • Church- In the church-yard are the tombs of William CayolljEfq. Captain in the Horfe-guards, who died in 1742 ; Henry Pratt, Efq. who died in 1753; Philip Meadows, Efq. who died in 1781 ; Thomas Bur- fton, Efq. who died in 1785 ; and Rebecca, wife of Jofeph Bradney, Efq. of Ham, who died in 1790. By a mandate of the bifhop in the regiftry at Winchefter, which forbids ballad-finging, the exhibiting of fhows, and other profana- tions in the church-yard, on pain of excommunication, it feems pro- bable, that the fairs had been held there "*. Redory. The church of Kingfton is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Ewell. Henry II. appropriated it with the chapels of Shene, (now Richmond,) Peterftiam, Moulfey, and Thames Ditton, annexed, to Merton Abbey '". After the fuppreffion of that mo- naftery, the redlory appears to have been granted to Sir Nicholas Carew "', and afterwards to have been in the pofleflion of John White, Bifhop of Winchefter "'. It was leafed by Queen Elizabeth, llA Regift. W.deWykham, pt. 3. f. z6o.a. "' Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 135. ■ The inhabitants are forbidden, "ad pilas '" Regift. Winton. Fox, pt. i. f. 31. a. " ludere, coreas diflblutas facere, canere canti- '" Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. " lenas, ludibriorum fpedlacula facere, & alios 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. •' ludos celebrare." to KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 249 to Edward Lord Clinton "°. King James, in the eighth year of his reign, granted it to Francis Morris and John Philips '^', and afterwards to John Earl of Holdernefs, and his heirs '^\ After the Earl's death it efcheated to the crown, and was granted to William Murray, Efq. '" In 1658, it was prefented at the inquifition held at Kingfton, by commiffioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical be- nefices, that the re£tory there belonged to Sir Lionel Tollemache, and that the great tithes were worth 500I. per annum "*. It afterwards came into the pofleffion of the Hardlnge family ; the widow of the late Nicholas Hardinge, Efq. being the prefent proprietor. In Cardi- nal Beaufort's time, the redlory was valued at 120 marks '". The vicarage, the endowments of which are recorded in the re- Vicarage, gifter of Merton Abbey "*, and in the regiftry at Winchefter'", was valued at the fame time at eight marks '^'. In the King's books, it is fet down among the difcharged livings, and faid to be of the annual value of 34 1. 17 s. o d. The crown pays 12 1. per annum to the vicar, for the agiftment of tithe for Richmond Park "". In the year 1 769, an a£t of parliament was obtained for feparating the parifh church of Kingfton, and its dependant chapels of Rich- mond, Moulfey, Thames Ditton, Peterfham, and Kew ; and forming the whole parifh into two vicarages, and two perpetual curacies. John Lovekyn gave a melTuage in Kingfton to Nicholas de Ry- thynburgh and his fucceflbrs, in the reign of Edward III. '*" The advowfon of the vicarage was alienated a few years ago by Vicars. George Hardinge, Efq. to King's College, Cambridge. "° Leafes by Queen Elizabeth, Augmen- "' Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, tation-ofEce. C. VII. f. 121. b. 177. 206. "' Pat. 8 Jac. pt. 31. May 19. '" Regill. Winton. J. de Stratford, f. 7.b. '" Pat. 20 Jac. pt. II. April 11. W. de Wykham, pt. 3.f, 8.b. 137. a. b. 163. '" Fee-farm Rolls, Augmentation-office. a. — 165.3. '■" Ibid. Beaufort, f. 6. b. "* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth iVIS. ■!» Duc.irel's Lift of Endowments, Lam- Library. beth iVIS. Library. •" Regift. Winton. Beaufort, f. 6. b. '*° Pat. 30 Edw. III. pt. i. m. 22. Vol. I. K k Nicholas 250 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Nicholas Weft. Edmund Staunton. Richard Mayo. Thomas Twittie. Thomas Willis. Skern's chan- try. Bardefey's guild. Nicholas Weft, an eminent ftatefman, and Bifliop of Ely, in the reign of Henry VIII. was inftituted to the vicarage of Kingfton, • 141 m 1502 Edmund Staunton, inftituted to this vicarage in 1632'*^ became one of the aflembly of divines; and being a zealous writer in behalf of the Puritans, was made prefident of Corpus Chrifti college, Oxford. Up- on this preferment he quitted Kingfton, and was fucceeded by his curate, Richard Mayo, who publifhed his life, and was ejefted for non-conformity in 1662 '*\ His fucceflbr Thomas Twittie is mentioned by A. Wood, as the author of a few fermons '*\ Thomas Willis, who was inftituted to this vicarage in 1667, had aded with the Prefbyterians, and was one of the commiflioners for ejedting fcandalous and infufficient minifters, but changed his party at the reftoration. He publifhed feveral fermons, and fome religious trafts '*'. The prefent vicar of Kingfton is the Reverend George Savage, M. A. who was inftituted in the year 1788. He fucceeded William Coxe, M. A. the well-known author of Travels into Ruflia, Switzer- land, and other parts of Europe. A chantry in honour of the BlefTed Virgin and the Body of Chrift was founded at Kingfton, before the altar of St. James, in the reign of Henry VI. by William Skern ; who endowed it with a houfe for the chaplain, and 10 marks annual rent ""*. Robert Bardefey, in the reign of Edward IV., founded a frater- nity or guild in the church of Kingfton, in honour of the Holy Trinity. It confifted of two wardens or guardians, and a cer- •♦• Reg. Wlnt. Fox, pt. i.f. 4.b. A more particular account of Bifhop Weft will be given under Putney, where he was born. '♦» Reg. Wint. Curie, f. 2. a. •" Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol.ii. col. 484. •♦* Ibid. vol. i. fafti. •♦' Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol.ii. col. 1082. •♦* Pat. 37 ^en. VI. pt. 2. m. 19. tain KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 251 tain number of brethren and fillers '". I found no prefentatlons, or other records, relating to this chantry and guild, in the regiftry at Winchefter. The parifh reglfter commences in the year 1542. From that time Pacini re. to the prefent, there is no chafm of a whole year, though I found the earlier part of it too imperfedl to enable me to form a fatisfadtory average in the i6th century. Average of Baptifms. Average of BuriaJ?. 1680 — 1689 ■ 96 — — 98 Comparative (late of popu- 1770 — 1779 130 — — 115 lation. 1780 — 1789 113 — — 113 1790 139 — — 95 1791 147 — 129 The prefent number of houfes in the parifh of Kingfton is about 750- A few perfons died of the plague in 1545 and in 1550, Plague years. In 1577 34 From September i, to December 31, 1603 ■ 54 In 1625 ■ — 56 The entries of the year 1 66^ are very imperfect. From Sept. 9, to Oft. 1, thirty-four perfons died of the plague; which proves, that it was more fatal than at either of the foregoing periods. In moft places, I have obferved the fatality to have been greater in the year 1603. In the year 1571 are frequent entries of perfons who came to the ^^f^^!"f church to gather money, and an account of what was colleded for them : " Sunday was here two women, mother and daughter, owte of " Ireland, to gather upon the dethe of her hufband, who was flayne " by the Wild Iryflie, he being captain of the gally-glafles '**." •♦' Pat. 17 Edw. IV. pt. 1. m. 6. " A puiflant and mighty power '♦' Gallow-glafles — Soldiers among the " Of gallow-glafles and ftout kernes." Wild Irifti, whoferveonhorfe-back. — Johnfon. Shakf. K k 2 Others 2S2 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Others came in confequence of various diftrefles, by licence of the Earl of Bedford, the Bifhop of Winchefter, the Lord Admiral, the Lord Scrope of Bolton, &c. &c. Thefe begging licences were then very frequent, and the privilege of granting them appears to have been confiderably extenfive ; but they were generally confined to certain diftridts. In Archbifhop Grindall's regiflers, are feveral granted by his commlffary Dodlor Aubrey, fome of which are limited to the peculiars of the Dean of the Arches. Among thele, is one to Margaret Crayle, the widow of a preacher '■*'; and another to William Blackwell, who had a large family of children, one of whom was a ftudent at the univer- fity of Cambridge "°. There was formerly an office for granting protections to poor peo- . pie, who fhould go about and coUedt alms, which in 1592 was held by Matthew Stuart '^'. Thefe licences ftill exift, and are generally called briefs; but they have undergone fome regulations, being never granted but by the crown, and for lodes of a confiderable amount ; the money is not colle£ted by the fufferers in perfon, but by the officers of each refpedlive parifh. The following licence to eat flefh, occurs in the year 159 1, March 1 8 : Licence to "Mem. That the day and year aforefaid, I Thomas Lamyng, eatflefti. u dgrke^ ^[^ gyve licence to eate flefh, to Frances Cox, wife unto " John Cox of Kyngfton, Gent, being weak and fickly, in the time " of Lent, and upon other days prohibited ; fuch flefh as might be " convenient for the helthe of her body, and to the befl liking of " her flomach, in as large and ample manner, and for fo long time " as Thomas Lamyng may, or can grant, by force and virtue of hir " majefties lawes and fliatutes, before William Yonge, one of the " churchwardens, and Thomas Hav/ard," &c. '*» Regift. Lamb. Grindall, f. 239. b. ''' Burleigh Papers, vol. ii. p. 798. "" Ibid. f. 209. b. " Man KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 253 " Mar. 10, 1673-4. Buried three male children and one female " unbaptifed, of George Dennifes." The birth of thefe children gave occafion to the publication of a pamphlet, entitled, " The Fruitful Wonder, or a ftrange relation *' from Kingfton, of a woman who was delivered of four children " at a birth, three fons and one daughter, all born alive, lufty children* " and perfect in every part ; lived twenty-four hours, and then dyed *' all much about the fame time, by J. P. Student in Phyfic ;" who is fuppofed to have been the celebrated John Partridge "*. Two inftances of longevity occur : " Frances Phillips, widow, no years ould, buried Feb. 26, Jn fiances of *• ' ' longtvity. " ib77-8. " Winifred Woodfall, Gent, widow, aged 108 years, buried 0£t. « 24, 1690." "April 13, 1758, Nicholas Hardinge, Efq. impropriator, buried." ^^rdin^ Mr, Hardinge was clerk of the parliament, and recorder of this "^^1- town. He was a good fcholar, and an intelligent antiquary. It was by his encouragement and advice, that Stuart undertook his journey to Athens, with the view of illuftrating the antiquities of that celebrated city. Mr. Hardinge wrote Latin verfes with extra- ordinary facility : a colledion of them was printed after his death, by his fon George Hardinge, Efq. " June ig, 1776, Dr. William Battle buried." Dr. Battle was a native of Devonfhire, and was born in the year ^'- William 1704. He was educated at Kings college, Cambridge. After he left the univerfity, he fettled as a phyfician at Uxbridge, but foon returned to London, where he became eminent in his profeflion, and met with confiderable fuccefs. In 1749 he took an adive part in the difputes with Dr. Schomberg, in confequence of which he was feverely handled in a poem entitled, The Battiad. Dr. Battle dif- ''* Cough's Topography, vol. ii. tingulfhed 254 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. St. Mary Magdilen'i chapel. Foundation of the free grammar fchool. ilngulflied himfelf as a fcholar, by his publication of an edition of Ifo- crates ; he publifhed likewife fome medical tracts, one of which, a Treatife on Infanity, engaged him in a controverfy with Dr. Munro. Dr. Battle died of a paralytic ftroke at the age of feventy- two, and was by his own diredion buried at Kingfton near his wife, without any monument or infcription. Edward Lovekyn, in the year 1309, built a hofpital in Norbiton, adjoining to Kingfton ; with a chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magda- len, and endowed it with ten acres of land, one acre of meadow, and five marks annual rent '". His fon John, who was four times lord mayor of London "*, and who is erroneoufly called the founder and builder of this hofpital by Leland and fome later authors '", aug- mented it with confiderable endowments "*. In i J34, it was valued at 34I. 19s. yd. "^' At the fuppreflion of monafteries, this was confidered as a religious houfe, and was feifed by the crown. Queen Elizabeth founded a free grammar-fchool upon the fite, and endowed it, with the premifes, confifting of St. Mary Magdalen's chapel, and two fmall chapels adjoining, called St. Anne's and St. Loye's; and fome houfes and lands which had been leafed by the crown to Richard Taverner. The bailiffs of the town were con- ftituted governors, with power to purchafe lands to the amount of 30I. per annum'". The chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, which, by the ftyle of architedlure, appears to have been built in the fourteenth century, is now the fchool-room. '53 Regift. Winton. H. Woodlock. f. 112. b. Reg. Lamb. Reynolds, f. 55. b. Pat. 9 Edw. II. pt. I. m. 5. ''+ Stow's Survey of London. •55 Newcourt, Stow, and Tanner. The references above given prove, that the chapel and hofpital were built in the reign of Edw. IF. by Edward "Lovekyn; and there are feveral prefentations of chaplains in the regifters at Winchefler, before the fuppofed date of the foundation. Regift. H. Woodlock, f. i24.b. Reg. Stratford, loo. a. and 124. a. Reg. Ad. de Orleton, f. 51. a. 60. a. '5« Pat. 26 Edw. III. pt. 3. m. 13. Li- cence to John Lovekyn to appropriate twelve librates of land to the chapel founded and built by his father. Stow fays, the endow- ment confifted of 9 tenements, 10 ihops, one mill, 125 acres of land, 10 of meadow, 120 of pafture, &c. Survey of London, vol. i. p. 261. '" Regift. Wint. Fox. pt. 5. '5* Cartulary, Town-clerk's office. William KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 255- William Burton, a learned antiquary, who wrote a commentary on William Bar- Antoninus's Itinerary, a hiftory of the ancient Perfic language, and other works, was mafter of this fchool in the laft century. He died in 1657 '"* The prefent mafter is the Rev. Hugh Lawrence. William Cleave, Efq. alderman of London, who died in 1667, Alms-houfe. founded an alms-houfe in this town, for the building of which he left 500 1. and endowed it with lands for the fupport of twelve poor perfons. The prefent income is about iiol. per annum. Edward Belitha, Efq. left 400 1. and John Thomas TyfFyn, 150I. Benefaaions. to educate poor children of this parifh. William Nichols gave 200 1. to be diftributed in coals, and Edward Buckland gave the profits of a wharf, which now amount to 30 1. per annum, for the fame purpofe. King Charles I. gave 100 1. to the poor; and Henry Smith, Efq., about two years before he died, gave loool. upon condition of re- ceiving lol. per cent, intereft during his life '". The Prefbyterians, Anabaptifts, and Quakers, have meeting-houfes in this town. Kingfton bridge is undoubtedly the moft ancient on the river The bridge. Thames, except that of London. It is mentioned in a record of the eighth year of Henry III. "' This bridge being almoft the only paflage over the Thames, was frequently liable to be deftroyed, during the time of any inteftine commotions, to cut off the commu- nication between Surrey and Middlefex. This is known to have happened in the wars between the houfes of York and Lancafter, and in Wyatt's rebellion, when it was broken down by order of the privy council, to prevent his paffing into Middlefex. Several re- cords '" are extant of a toll being granted for a certain number of "'» Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 215, bridge and a houfe to Matthew de Kyngfton. ai6. ""■ Pat. 5oEdw. III. pt. i. ra. 26. Pat. "° Chamberlains' accounts. 1 Hen. IV. pt. 5. m. 25. Pat. 27 Hen. VI. "» Pat. 8 Hen. III. m. 28. Grant of the pt. 1. m. 7. &c. &c. years, 2s6 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. years, in confequence of the repairs of the bridge. In the year 1567, Robert Hainond made it a free bridge for ever, and increafed its endowments with lands to the amount of 40 1, per annum '"'. The year before this endowment, the revenues of the bridge, in- cluding the toll, were about 25 1. In 1574, they were 53 1. ids. od. ; in 1605, 61I. 2 s. 6d. They are now about 1301.'°* In 1607, the bridge was broken down by the froft, which was fo fevere, that the Thames was paflable by perfons on foot '"'. The length of the bridge is faid by Aubrey to be 168 yards. The Middlefex fide was confiderably widened laft year: the management of there- venues is in the hands of two bridge- wardens, who are elefted to that office annually. A fmall ftream, called Hog's Mill River, over which there is a bridge of three arches, runs through the fouthern part of the town, and falls into the Thames. Kingfton was lighted and watched by a£l of parliament In the 13th year of his prefent majefty. »«' The bridge had been endowed with '*' Letter of Rowland White, to the Earl lands before, but not fufRcicnt to keep it in re- of Shrewfbury. Lodge's Shrewlbury Papers, pair without a toll. vol. iii. p. 344. '*+ Bridge-wardens' accounts. '^Sl 1 LAMBETH. ' g ^ H E name of this place has been varloufly wrhten, in public Name. -O. records, and by the ancient hiftorians. In the earheft record extant, it is called Lambehith ; in Doomfday Book, probably by a miftake, Lanchei ; in the ancient hiftorians, it is fpelt Lamhee, Lamheth, Lambyth, Lamedh, and with many other variations, feme of which were probably occafioned by the errors of tran- fcribers. Moft etymologifts derive the name from lam^ dirt ; and Etymology. hyd or hythc, a haven : but Dr. Ducarel will not allow the ety- mology, as the letter b appears in the earlleft record ; he derives it therefore from lamb^ a lamb ; and hyd. The gveatefl: objedion to this derivation is, that it feems to have no meaning. Lambeth Is fituated near the river Thames, oppofite to Weftminfter ; situation and It lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is bounded by the pariflies of St. George, Southwark ; Newington Butts j Cam- berwell ; Stretham ; Clapham ; and Croydon. The parifh is about fixteen miles in circumference. In Doomfday Extent, Book, it is faid to contain twenty plough-lands and an half. By a land-fcot, levied about the beginning of the laft century', it appears to have contained 1261 acres of arable land, 1026 of pafture, 125 of Nature of meadow, 13 of ozier, 37 of garden ground, and 150 of wood, mak- ^" " Ing in the whole 2612 acres ; the commons and wafle land, fuppofed to be about 330 acres, not: being charged, will increafe it to 2942 acres. At prefent, the arable is fuppofed to exceed the grafs land, in a proportion of fix to four ; and the meadcv/s are fuppofed to be ' CIvjrciiwarJens' books of accounts,. Vol. I. LI abcuc 258 LAMBETH. Soil. Land-tax. Market and fair. Hiflorical fafts. Death of Hardicanute. about a fourth part of the latter. About 250 acres are now occupied by the market gardeners. Mr. Malcolm's nurfery grounds occupy nearly 40 acres. The foil is various, but confifts chiefly of gravel and fand ; there is no chalk. At the extremity of the parifh, to- wards Croydon, a well was lately funk to the depth of near 300 feet, through an unvaried ftratum of argillaceous earth. The whole parilh, which is feparated into fix divinons, pays the fum of 2963 1. 13 s. to the land-tax, which is afleflTed in the follow- ing proportions : The Bifhop's liberty, The Prince's liberty, Vauxhall, Marfh and Wall liberty, Lambeth Dean, Stockwell, >^< £- J-. d. 5S0 2 4 481 4 2 309 I 6 929 9 6 475 6 188 12 6 >z< ' -1:5 ' j1 L s. 1 I 2 I 2 I d. 4 I 2 6 o 6 -a c a o r u Archbifliop Hubert Walter obtained a grant * of a weekly market at Lambeth from King John, and a fair for fifteen days, upon con- dition that it fhould not be detrimental to the interefts of the city of London. In the Archbifliop's MS. Library is a charter from the city, fignifying their confent, flipulating only, that the fair fhould begin on the morrow after the anniverfary of St. Peter ad vincula '. The market and fair are both now difcontinued. The earliefl hiflorical fad on record relating to Lambeth, is the death of Hardicanute, which happened there in the year 1041*, whilft he was celebrating the marriage-feaft of a noble Dane. He died fuddenly during the entertainment, fome fay of poifon, others of intemperance. ' Cart. I John, pt. i. ni.4. No. 23. * Sax. Chron. &c. Hoveden dates it in 1042. » Cart. Mifcell. vol. xi. No. 15. Harold, 2i9 LAMBETH. Harold, fon of Earl Godwin, who ufurped the crown after the death of Edward the ConfefTor, is faid to have placed it on his head with his own hands at Lambeth '. Henry III. held a folemn Chriftmas here in the year 1231, under the fuperintendence of Hubert de Burgh, Tiis chief juftice *. The next year a parliament was held at Lambeth, on the 14th of September ; wherein the fortieth part of all moveables was voted to the king, for the payment of a debt which he owed to the Duke of Bretagne ^ It is moft probable, that both thefe events may be ap- propriated to the palace at Kennington. A moft violent outrage was committed in the'church at Lambeth, Outrage at on Sunday the 19th of February 1642-3. The ftory is varioufly church in told by the journalifts of the different parties. On the one hand it is afferted, that the tumult began in confequence of fome of the parifli officers rebuking a foldier, who fat with his hat on during divine fervice ; that the foldiers were affaulted by the watermen, and driven out of the church, whence they were obliged to retire to their court of guard, where the watermen continued to affault them by throw- ing of ftones ; that they were under the neceffity of firing in their own defence, and that one perfon was killed, and another wounded'. This information was given to the Houfe of Commons. On the other fide it is faid, that the foldiers who had the guard of Lambeth Houfe (then a prifon'), at the inftigation of Dr. Lelghton, broke into the church with mufkets and other weapons ; that they tore the Common Prayer Book to pieces, pulled the furplice off the mi- nifter's back, and committed other outrages to the great terror of the people, till the watermen came to their refcue. This account, which * Lambarde's Topograph. Didlion. Chron. * During the tumult, fome of the prifoners Bath. confined in Lambeth Houfe made their efcape, * Matthew Paris, p. 367. and fled to the Lord Mayor for protedlion. ' Ibid. p. 377. Perfeft Diurnal, by Cooke and Wood, Feb.20 ' Certain Special Paflages, Feb. 16 — 23, — 27, 1642-3. 1642-3. Perfeft Diurnal, Feb, 23, &c. L 1 2 was 1643. 2bo L A M B E T H. Thomas Euftiell. Earthquake at Lambeth. Manors. was printed In the Mercurius Aulicus, tlie court paper, publlfhed at Oxford, is probably exaggerated. It feems pretty clear, however, that the foldiers were in fault, as the Houfe of Commons, upon the petition of Dodtor Fcatley, and other inhabitants of Lambeth, ordered that they fhould be removed, and another company placed in their room. At all events, it ftands on record as an inftance of the fatal effects of civil difcord, from the outrages of which no place, how- ever facred, is exempt. About the time that Cromwell was made Protestor, Mr. Bufhelf, a man well known for the philofophical purfuits, in which he was employed by Lord Chancellor Bacon, concealed himfelf in a houfe in Lambeth Marih, during which time he conftantly lay in a long garret, hung with black baize ; at one end was painted a fkeleton, extended on a mattrefs ; at the other, was a fmall pallet bed ; the walls were covered with various emblems of mortality. Here he continued above a year, till his friends had made his peace with the Protestor '°. In the Philofophical Tranfa> When Lambeth-houfe was purchafed by Scott and Hardy, In the laft century, the former having pofleffion of this part of the palace, removed the Archbifhop's tomb, and turned the chapel into a dancing-room ". The leaden coffin was fold to a plumber, and the Archbifhop's corpfe was thrown into a hole in one of the outhoufes. After the Reftoration it was difcovered, and re-interred in the chapel ". The fpot is marked by a marble flab, thus infcribed : " Corpus " Hiftory andTroublesof Archbiftiop Laud, p. 499. p.3'7- " Biograph. Brit, article Parker, in the " Strype's Life of Archbiftiop Parker, notes. " Matthaei 77/r rn'/}/.i///f/ir ///r C/m/x'/ /'// f.(/////>ff// /f//-- Richard ' '^-'' Conn. Dr. Cofin is fpoken of as a very learned man and a general fcholar. He never publiflied any thing except a Defence of the High Com- miffion Court. There is a life of him by Bifhop Barlow, who had been his pupil, and who was educated at his expence '*'. " Nov. 3, 1 610, the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Archblfhop " Bancroft Archbifhop of Canterbury, buried," Archbifhop Bancroft died at Lambeth on the 2d of November. By his will he ordered his body to be buried in the chancel of the church there, within fifty hours after his deceafe ; and that Abbot, Bifhop of London, Harfnet, Bifhop of Chichefter, or one of his chaplains, fhould be defired to preach his funeral fermon in Lambeth church within a month, and make fuch mention of him as might tend to God's glory '**. " Sept. 12, 161 1, Simon Forman, Gent, buried." This was Dr. Simon Forman the celebrated aftrologer ; he was of a very refpedable fa- mily, being the grandfon of Sir Thomas Forman of Leeds, Knt. and great-grandfon of another Sir Thomas Forman. He was born at Quidham in Wiltfhire in 1552, and was apprenticed to a druggift in Salifbury. He afterwards fet up a fchool there, and having acquired the fum of forty fhillings, fet off to Oxford, where he became a poor fcholar at Magdalen College, and continued there two years. He then applied himlelf to the fludy of phyfic and aftrology ; and after having travelled to Holland for that purpofe, fettled in Philpot Lane, where his pradtice was oppofed by the phyficians, and he was four times fined and imprifoned. To obviate thefe difficulties he went to ftudy at Cambridge, where he took a do£tor's degree, and got a licence to pradice ; being thus fortified againft all future attacks, he fettled at Lambeth, where he openly profelTed the joint oc- cupation of a phyfician and aftrologer. " Here he lived," fays Lilly '*\ " with good refpeft of the neighbourhood, being very '•*• Fuller's Worthies, pt. i. p. 296. '■•'Lilly's Hiftory of his Life and Times,. *** iJiographia Britannica.. p. 1.7. " charitable 302 LAMBETH. " charitable to the poor, and was very judicious and fortunate in " horary queftions and ficknefles." He was much reforted to by all ranks of people ; among others, the famous Countefs of Eflex ap- plied to him for his afliftance in her wicked defigns, and wrote many letters to him, in which (he calls him " dear father," and fubfcribes herfelf " your affe£tionate daughter, Frances Eflex'**." Lilly fays, that Forman would frequently lock himfelf up in his ftudy to avoid her; but the contrary appeared upon the trials of the Countefs of Efl"ex and Mrs. Anne Turner, for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Upon the Countefs's trial, a book of Dr. Forman's was produced, in which he made all his vifitors write their names with their own hands before he would proceed to exercife his art. It is faid that the recital of the names produced much mirth in the court, pro- ducing many unexpedled difcoveries, and that the Chief Juftice Coke found his own lady's name upon the firft leaf "'^ A ftrange ftory of Dr. Forman's death is thus told by Lilly: — "The Sunday night *' before he died, his wife and he being at fupper in their garden- " houfe, flie being pleafant, told him that fhe had been informed he " could refolve whether man or wife fhould die firft. Whether " (hall I (quoth fhe) bury you or no ? Oh, Trunco, (for fo he called *' her,) thou wilt bury me, but thou wilt fore repent it. Yea, but " how long firft ? I fhall die, faid he, ere Thurfday night. Monday " came ; all was well. Tuefday came ; he was not fick. Wednef- " day came, and ftill he was well ; with which his impertinent wife " did twit him in the teeth. Thurfday came, and dinner was ended, " he very well ; he went down to the water-fide and took a pair of " oars to go to fome buildings he was in hand with in Puddle Dock. " Being in the middle of the Thames, he prefently fell down, " only faying, an impoft, an impoft, and fo died ; a moft fad ftorm ■*♦ Coke's Deteftion, p. 63. »+s Weldon's Charafter of the Court of James I. p. 101 — 103. of LAMBETH. 303. " of wind immediately enfued '*'." He died worth one thoufand two hundred pounds, and left one fon named Clement. Dr. Forman publiftied feveral books, on the philofopher's ftone, magic, aftro- logy, natural hiftory, and natural philofophy ; two treatifes on the plague, and fome religious trails '*'. Some of his MSS. on aftro- logy are in the Britifli Mufeum "*'. The ftudy of that fcience, which is now confined to a few illiterate impoftors, was then profefTed and countenanced by perfons of the greateft learning and refpedability. Dr. Forman's pupil and fucceflbr was Dr. Napier, re£lor of Lind- Dr. Napier. ford in Buckinghamfhire, and fon of Sir Robert Napier of Luton Hoo. He is faid to have furpafled his mafter in phyfic and holinefs, to have converfed with the angel Raphael, and to have cured difeafes by conftellated rings '*'. We have had empirics and enthufiafts of late who have profefled to cure difeafes by means as extraordinary, and who have had their pretended conferences with angels ; nor have there been wanting thofe who have been credulous enough to liften to them. Dr. Napier's papers came into the hands of Mr. Afhmole, and are now in the Mufeum at Oxford. Lilly fays, he was prefent when Dr. Napier invocated feveral angels ; but he does not tell us that they obeyed his call ; he fays alfo, that he inftruded feveral minifters in aftrology, whom he protedled by his intereft with the Earl of Bolingbroke "°. Lambeth feems to have been famous for the refidence of aftrolo- gers. Contemporary with Dr. Forman was a Captain Bubb, who Captain lived in the Marfli ; not having been fo fuccelsful in his praftice as his neighbours, he got into the pillory, and ended his days in dif- grace "". Francis Moore, the original author of the almanac which Francis ^ ^ Moore, ftill goes by his name, refided at Lambeth alfo, where he pradifed as an aftrologer "*. •♦« Lilly's Life, p. 22, 23. •« Lilly's Life, p. 78. '*' Morris's Lives of Eminent Cambridge- "" Ibid. p. 79. men, Harleian MSS. Britilh Muf. N° 7177. 's' Ibid. p. 36, 37. '♦' N" 3822, Ayfcough's Cat. "» Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 64. " Jan. 304 LAMBETH. sir Noel Caron. Mllo Smith. Thomas Blood. Bernard Granville. " Jan. 29, 1617-8, Hoc tempore obiit Sir William Fofter, Knt. " whofe bowels were buried here." Sir William Fofter was buried at Wandfworth. " Jan. 25, 1624-5, Sir Noel Caron, embaflador from the United " Provinces, buried." Sir Noel Caron's funeral certificate expreffes, that he was leger ambaflador from the States of the Netherlands to the Englifli court, for the fpace of ^^ or 34 years, in which time he performed that place with much honour and good to his own coun- try and ftate here. He died at his houfe at Lambeth, Dec. i, 1624, and was buried with due folemnity in the chancel of the church there. Archbilhop Abbot preached his funeral fermon. " Feb. 22, 1 67 1, Milo Smith, Efq. Secretary to the Lord Arch- " bifhop of Canterbury, buried." He was fecretary to Archbifhop Sheldon, and wrote a practical paraphrafe on the Pfalms "\ •* Jan. 16, 1673, Eliz. daughter of Thomas Blood, buried." I imagine this to be the famous Col. Thomas Blood, fo well known for his daring attempt on the regalia in the Tower, and his attack on the Duke of Ormond. He was pardoned, fet at liberty, and, ftrange to tell ! had a penfion allowed him about the year 1671'". " Jan. 22, 1701, Bernard Granville, Efq. buried." He was father of the celebrated Lord Lanfdowne, and fon of Sir Beville Granville, who was flain near Bath in the civil wars. He was the perfon entrufted with the laft difpatches from General Monk to Charles II. which contained the invitation to return and take poflef- fion of his kingdom "*. In 1709 arefeveral entries of the burial of Palatine children and women, and again in 1749'". "' A. Wood's Athen.Oxon. vol. ii. p. 496. tines came into England this year, as an afy- •55 Biograph. Britannica. lum. Salmon's Chronology. A great num- "♦ Biograph. Britannica, p. 2342, in the ber of them were lodged in the long barn notes, edit. 1750. at Kennington. Hillory of Lambeth, p. 93. '»' Six or feven thoufand dillrefled Pala- te Dec. LAMBETH. 305 " Dec. 16, 1715, Thomas Tenifon, Lord Bifliop, buried." Arch- Archbifhop Tenifon. bifhop Tenifon publifhed a pamphlet againfl Hobbes, and a treatife on the DiiFerence between Idolatry and Superftition. At eighty years of age he put the crown upon the head of George I. '" By his will hedireded his body to be buried in a private manner in the chancel of Lambeth church, and requefted that no other infcription than what now appears fhould be put upon his tomb. " Jan. I, 1757, Thomas Cooke, Gent. South Lambeth, buried." Thomas Thomas Cooke was the fon of an innkeeper in Eflex. He became an author at an early period of life. A tranflation of Hefiod, from which he obtained the name of Hefiod Cooke, has been reckoned his befl: work. He attacked Pope in a poem entitled, The Battle of the Poets, which procured him a niche in the Dunciad. His dramatic produftions, fome of which were aded at Drury Lane, were by no means fuccefsful. His other works confifted of various odes, a vo- lume of poems, the life of Andrew Marvel, tranflations of Terence and Cicero, an edition of Virgil, and fome treatifes on religious fubjeds, written in the unitarian principles. He undertook a tranf- lation of Plautus, which was never completed, and was for fome years author of the Craftfman. Cooke came to live at South Lambeth in 1 740, where he remained till his death. He died in great poverty, and was interred in the burial ground in High-ftreet, by a fub- fcription, fet on foot by Sir Jofeph Mawbey ; the remainder of which was given to his wife and daughter. Mrs. Cooke furvived him only a few months, and his daughter, whofe imprudence had driven her into Lambeth workhoufe, died there the enfuing year. Sir Jofeph Mawbey has three volumes of Cooke's MSS. in folio, and a tragedy called Germanicus. " Mar. 5, 1757, Edward Moore, Gent. South Lambeth, buried." Edward Mr. Moore was the fon of a diflenting minifter at Abingdon. He is well known by his dramatic performances of the Foundling and the •" Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men, Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 7177. Vol. L R r Gamefter; 3o6 LAMBETH. Archbiihop Hutton. Archbiihop Seeker. Archbifhop Cornwallis. Countefi de la Motte. Inftances of longevity. Gamefter; by his Female Fables, and other poems, particularly " the " Trial of Selim the Perfian." He was author alfo of a periodical publication called the World, in which he was affifted by fome emi- nent literary characters, who are yet living. Whilft he was engaged in this publication, he refided at South Lambeth in a houfe now occupied by Mr. Graham. He died there a few days after the laft number came out, and was buried in the burial ground in High-ftreet. " May 27, 1758, the moft Reverend Father in God, Matthew " Hutton, Archbifhop of Canterbury, buried." " Aug. 9, 1768, the moft Rev. Father in God, Thomas Seeker, " Lord Archbiihop of Canterbury, buried." Archbifhop Seeker was buried, at his own requeft, in the paflage which leads from the church to the palace ; and he ftridtly forbad any monument or infcription being placed over his grave. An excellent Life of the Archbifhop, written by Dr. Porteus the prefent Bifhop of London, is prefixed to his fermons. Archbifhop Seeker is well known to all the friends of Chriftlanity by his admirable le£lures on the church catechifm. " Mar. 27, 1783, Frederic Cornwallis, Archbifhop of Canter- " bury, buried." " Aug. 26, 1791, Jean St. Rymer de Valois, Countefs de la, " Motte, buried." This unfortunate lady, who is well known for the fhare fhe had in fome myfterious tranfadions which took place a few years ago in the court of France, ended her days in great mifery and diflrefs in this parifh. A few weeks before her death, in order to avoid the bailiffs, flie jumped from a two-pair of ftairs window, by which rafh adt fhe broke her thigh, and was otherwife terribly maimed. A Life of the Countefs, faid to be written by herfelf, has lately been publifhed in two volumes. The following inftances of longevity occur in the parifh regifter. " Nov. 4, 1704, buried Joana Keys, widow; 104 at her death." " Jan. 8, 1738-9, Elizabeth Bateraan, aged 102, from Kenning- " ton Lane, buried." " Jan. LAMBETH. 307 <( " as you would think all the ladies were fo " many Atalantas contending with their woers, " but as full as they run, they flay fo long as " if they wanted time to finifh the race ; " for it is ufual to find fome of the young- " company here till midnight." Character of England, as it was lately prefented to a No- bleman of France, London, 1659, 12°". Thislittle trait of the fafhion of the times will ferve to account for the many fcenes in fome of our old comedies which flill maintain their ground upon the ftage, to the probability of whofe incidents a modern audience cannot eafily be reconciled. "' N° 383. mer LAMBETH. 325 mer feafon for the reception of company, being illuminated with a great number of lamps. The entertainment confifts of a concert of mufic, which, in fine weather, is performed in the open air. The price of ad- miffion till the prefent feafon was one fliiliing ; all refrefhments being then paid for feparately. It is now two (hillings, including tea and coffee. When the city and fuburbs of London were fortified by order of f"" at Vauxhall. parliament, during the civil wars, a fort was eredled near Vauxhall- turnpike. It is defcribed in a plan of London made at that time, and engraved in Maitland's Hiftory, where it is called a Quadrant- fort, with four half bulwarks. On the road to Wandfworth, not far from the turnpike, is a Vauxhall ' ^ ' Well. fpring of very clear water, called Vauxhall Well, which is faid never to freeze. The manor of Kennington, then fpelt Chenintune, was held of Kenning- Edward the Confeflbr by Theodoric, a goldfmith, who was fuffered The manor. to continue in poffeflion thereof at the GDnqueft. There is no record to fhow when it came into the hands of the crown. John Plantagenet, Earl of Warren and Surrey, had a grant of this manor in the ninth year of Edward II."', and in the fame year re-granted it to the king "'. His father, John Earl of Surrey, a ce- lebrated warrior, died there in 1304"°. Probably he held the manor for life, or he might have been keeper of the palace for the crown. Edward II. granted it afterwards to Anthony PefTaigne de Janua, and his heirs, in exchange for certain premifes in London "'. It foon reverted to the crown, either by exchange, forfeiture, or ef- cheat ; for two years afterwards the king granted it to Roger Da- morie "^ Having undergone the fame alienations as the manor of "' Pat. 9 Edw. II. pt. 2. m. 7. »3i jj is a fingular circumftance that a fa- "9 CI. 9 Edw. II. m. 24. dorfo. mily of the name of Damory exifted at Lam- *'" Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. beth in a ftate of poverty till the middle of the P- 80. prefent century. Parilh Regifter. »5' Pat. II Edw. 11. pt. I. m. 19. Vauxhall, 326 LAMBETH. Vauxhall, it was vefted in the crown 1 1 Edw. III. and was after- wards made part of the duchy of Cornwall '", to which it ftill con- tinues annexed. Extent and The manor is faid in Doomfday-book to contain two plough- lands and an half: it now contains about 300 acres. At the time of the Conqueft it was valued at 3 1. per annum. In the Survey of 1649, at ml. 6 s. 2^d."* Lands in this manor defcend to the youngeft fon ; and in default of fons, are divided equally amongft the daughters. The manor was fold in 1650 as crown property, and was purchafed by William Scott of Little Marlow "". Refidence of Various coniedures have been entertained concerning the refi- the Kings at •' ^ . . r n ■ Kennington. dence of our kings at the palace of Kennington. The following hiflorical fadls, coUeded from good authorities, will fhow that it was occafionally inhabited by them as late as the reign of Henry VII. The parliament held by Henry III. at Lambeth is fuppofed by fome writers to have affembled at this palace ; and it is flill more probable that he kept his Chriftmas there in 1 231. Edward III. kept his Chriftmas there in 1342*'*. When Lord Percy, in the fame reign, was in danger from the mob as a favourer of Wickliff, he fled to Kennington, where the Princefs of Wales with the young prince were then refiding*". When Richard II. returned from France with his young queen Ifabella, they lodged for a night at the palace of Kennington, before they went to Weftminfter"'. There is a grant of Henry VI. dated from his manor of Kennington, A° 1440 *". Henry VII. previous to his coronation, came from Kennington to Lambeth, where he dined with Archbifhop Bourchier '^° ; and Leland fays, that Catherine of Arragon was there for a few days**'. "' Cart. 1 1 Edw. III. m. 14. »38 Holinflied's Chron. A" 1396. *" Augmentation-office. »J9 Pat. 18 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. zo. »3s Particulars of Sale, ibid. *♦" Stow's Annals. *'* Sto\y's Annals. »4« Colleaan. vol. v. p. 355- "" CoUins's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 64. Henry LAMBETH. 327 Henry VIII. farmed out the manor. Camden fays, that in his time there were no traces of the palace at Kennington **\ It was probably pulled down after it ceafed to be ufed as an occafional refi- dence by the kings ; and the manor houfe, defcribed in the Survey of 1 649, built on the fite. It is there called a capital meffuage, but appears by the defcription to have been fmall. It was leafed by Charles I. when Prince of Wales, to Sir Francis afterwards Lord Cottington, and was fold by order of parliament in 1 649 ; Richard Graves, Efq. of Lincoln's-inn being the purchafer**^ In Charles II.'s reign it was leafed to Henry Lord Moore ***. The prefent leflee is Robert Clayton, Efq. Kennington Common is the ufual place of execution for criminals tried in this part of the county. The rebels who were condemned at St. Margaret's Hill in 1 746 fuffered here. On this common is a bridge called Merton Bridge, which formerly was repaired by the canons of Merton Abbey, who had lands for that purpofe. Kennington gave the tide of Earl to the Duke of Cumberland, fon to George the Second. The manor of Stockwell was anciently called the Manor of South Stock- W E L L ■ Lameth, and comprehended, I prefume, Vauxhall, South Lambeth, The manor. and Stockwell. Baldwin de Infula died feized of that manor in the reign of Henry III. **' It was then valued at 19I. 16 s. 44rd. Margaret de Ripariis, Countefs of the Ifle of Wight, died at her houfe at Stockwell feized of the manor of South Lameth 20 Edw. I. '^* It afterwards came to Thomas Romayne*"', after the death of whofe widow, Juliana, her eftates were divided among her daughters, and Stockwell fell to the fhare of Roefye de Boreford ^'\ Sir James de *♦* Vol. i. p. 170. Cough's edition. *♦* Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 66. *+' Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-of- *♦' Thomas Roraayne had a charter of free fice. warren at Stockwell, 3 Edw. III. Cart. m. lo. »♦♦ Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 26. Jan. 26. *♦» CI. 19 Edw. II. m. 1. dorfo. In this *♦» Efch. 29 Hen. III. N° 47. South record it is defcribed as a capital meffuage. Stretham and Weft Mitcham are mentioned with 287 acres of land, &c. &c. as appendages. Boreford 328 L A M B E T" H. Boreford had a licence for an oratory in his manor-houfe at Stock- well in 135 1 '■", and ten years afterwards a grant of free warren there *'°. The manor afterwards belonged to John Harold, burgefs of Calais, who conveyed it to John Dovet and Sir Thomas Swinford, by whom it was fettled on his wife Catherine *", afterwards the third wife of John of Gaunt. It afterwards pafled to the families of Wyn- ter ''\ Molineux *", and Leigh ^'*. Sir John Leigh died at his manor of Stockwell, 15 Hen. VIII. *" Twenty years afterwards his fon conveyed it to the king^'*. It was granted by Queen Mary to Anthony Brown Vifcount Montague *", who died feized thereof 34 Eliz. ^** It does not appear how it reverted to the crown, but it is enumerated among the king's manor-houfes, in a houfehold book of the firft year of James I, *"* Two years afterwards it belonged to Sir George Chute "°, and was fold by the executors of one of his de- fcendants to Sir John Thornycroft about the latter end of the laft century, fmce which time it has continued in the fame family, being now the property of Henry Thornycroft, Efq. Manor- A part of the manor-houfe is ftill (landing, and the ancient moat , ' exifts, but without water. The tradition of its having been the pro- perty of Thomas Lord Cromwell is without foundation ; as in his time it belonged to Sir John Leigh the younger. Several of the ads of John de Stratford, Bifhop of Winchefter and Lord Chan- cellor, are dated from Stockwell "'. The fite of the manor-houfe is now the property of Mr. Barret, for the remainder of a thoufand years leafe. »« Regift. Wint. W. de Edyndon, pt. 2. *'* Grants, Augmentation-office, f- 25- a. »" Fee Farm Rolls, ibid. »"> Cart. 35 Edw.III. N" 12. >58 Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Brit. *" Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. 49. F. 27. Muf. N» 758. *s* CI. 27 Hen. VI. m. 9. -"SB !„ the Afhmolean Mufeum, Oxford. '" Pat. 31 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. 31. »«<» Pat. 3 Jac. I. pt. 25. Dec' 2. »5+ CI. II Edw. IV. m. 21. dorfo. »«« Regift. Wint. J» de Stratford, paiEm. ^» Fun. Certif. Herald's Coll. The LAMBETH. 329 The hamlet of Stockwell contains about 100 houfes, exclufive of thofe about Brixton Caufeway, which are not confidered as a part of it. A chapel of eafe was built here in 1 767, towards which Arch- bifhop Seeker gave 500 1. About twenty years ago a fingular impofition was pracStifed at the Stockwell houfe of a Mrs. Gelding at this place, which was reported to be ° " haunted. Great numbers of people of all ranks went to fee the feats of this imaginary ghoft, who caufed the furniture to dance about the rooms in a very furprifing manner. A pamphlet was publifhed on the fubjea, called " The Stockwell Ghoft ;" but the impofture was never completely detected : there were various con- jedlures refpe£ling the author, fome fufpeiling Mrs. Golding's daugh- ter, others a maid fervant. Mrs. Golding and her daughter being both dead, there was an audlion at the houfe a few months ago, when the dancing furniture fold at very extravagant prices. The manor of Levehurft is joined with Stockwell in moft of the Manor of records. I find one, however, in which it is mentioned as being held feparately by Robert Forth, LL.D. who died feized thereof 37 Eliz. his fon Thomas being his heir. It was then valued at 5 1. per annum, and is defcribed as being in Lambeth Dean. The manor is not now known. The manor of Lambeth Wick belongs to the Archbifhop of Manor of Canterbury, having been included in the exchange with the church wick. of Rochefter. In the taxation of 1291 it is called the Grange, or farm of Le Wyke. It is now on leafe to Lord Holland. Within this manor is a manfion called Loughborough-houfe. It Loughbo- was advertifed by that name in 1682, and probably was, at a for- "^""^ mer period, either the property or refidence of Henry Lord Haftings of Loughborough. It is now an academy, in the occupation of Dr. Roberts. Vol. I. U u South / 330 L A M B E T H. South South Lambeth lies between Stockwell and Vauxhall. Here was Lambeth. the capital manfion of Sir Noel Caron, ambaflador from the States General. A fmall part of it, which ftill remains, is called Caron Houfe, and is now an academy. Phyficgar- Ncat the fame fpot was the phyfic-earden of the Tradefcants, den of the r n r\ • • ' • Tradefcants. which was one of the firft elcablifhed in this kingdom. The elder Tradefcant had been gardener to the Duke of Buckingham, and other noblemen ; and was afterwards promoted to the fervice of Charles the Firft. He travelled over a great part of Europe and Africa in fearch of new plants ; many of thofe introduced by him were long called by his name. Sir William Watfon, and other members of the Royal Society, vifited the fite of Tradefcant's garden in 1749, but found very few trees remaining, which appeared to have been planted by him "% There are now no traces of it. A catalogue of the plants cultivated by Tradefcant at South Lambeth, with an ac- count of the rarities and natural curiofities which he had coUeded, was publifhed in 12"' in the year 1656 by his fon, under the name of Mufeum Tradefcantianum ; to which are prefixed portraits both of the father and fon, by Hollar. The Tradefcants were ufually called Tradefkin by their contemporaries ; the name is uniformly fo fpelt in the parifti regifter, and by Flatman the painter, who in a poem mentions Tradefcant's Collection ; ** Thus John Tradelkin ftarves our wondering eyes *' By boxing up his new-found rarities "\" Elias A(h- John Tradefcant the younger gave his whole colledion to the learned Elias Afhmole, who fucceeded him alfo in his houfe at South Lambeth, and came to refide there in 1674"*. He found fome difficulty in getting polfeffion of his friend's noble prefent, and was obliged to prefer a bill in chancery againft his widow "'. Afh- *«* Philof. Tranfaft. Vol. XL VI. p. 1 60, '''♦ Afhmole's Diary, annexed to Lilly's 161. Life. "" Flatman's Poems, p. 147. *«' Ibid. mole LAMBETH. 331 mole was much refpeded by his contemporaries, and was frequent- ly vifited at South Lambeth by perfons of very exalted rank, par- ticularly by the embaffadors of foreign princes, to whom he had prefented his book on the Order of the Garter ^**. It is well known that Tradefcant's Colle£lion was given by Afhmole to the Univer- fity of Oxford, where it forms the principal part of the Mufeum which goes by his name, and which was firfl built for its reception. Dr. Ducarel, author of the Hiftory of Lambeth Palace, and of Dr. Ducarel, Croydon, and other topographical and antiquarian works, refided at South Lambeth, and died at his houfe there in the year 1785 "'. "° Aflimole's Diary, annexed to Lilly's Life. **' Appendix to the Hi fl. of Lambeth, p. ijo. Vn 1 [ 332 ] M A L D E N. Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Manor. Merton Col- lege. TH E name of this place was written Mseldune by the Saxons, being compounded of two words mal, a crofs, and dune^ a hill. In the Conqueror's Survey it is fpelt Meldone ; in fubfe- quent records it is written Meaudon, Maldon, and Maiden. Maiden lies in the hundred of Kingfton, in a very retired fitua- tion between that town and Cheam. It is nearly 12 miles from Hyde-park-corner. The parifh is bounded by thofe of Cheam, Cudington, Mordon, Wimbledon, Kingfton, Epfom, and Long- Ditton. The land is principally arable, and the foil a ftifF clay. The parifh is affefTed the fum of 167I. 18 s. od. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of 3 s. lod. in the pound. The manor, in the Confeflbr's time, belonged to Erding ; at the Conqueft was held by the Watevilles, of Richard de Tonbridge ; one ploughland was held by William Wateville of the abbey of Chertfey. In the 13th century it belonged to Walter de Merton ', Lord Chancellor of England, who fettled it upon the college which he founded at Oxford *. It appears to be a miftaken Idea that Merton College was firfl: eftablifhed at Maiden, (as a feminary of education at leaft,) and af- terwards removed; the error feems to have arifen from a mifcon- ception of the words " domus fcholarium apud Meaudon," in the founder's charter. By attentively confidering the preamble of the charter, and a deed recorded in the regifter of Merton Abbey ', it • Walter de Merton had a grant of free- Oxon. Cart. 48 Hen. III. m. 2. warren in Mauden, 33 Hen. III. Cart. m. 2. ' Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. vii. * Mauden M. Dom. Scholar, de Merton. fol. 182. b. will M A L D E N. 333 will be evident that It never was Intended for the refidence of the fcholars. The founder fays, " I give my manors of Meaudon and " Farleigh to the houfe of the fcholars which I have eftablifhed in " my faid manor of Meaudon ; namely, for the fupport of twenty *' fcholars refiding In the fchools at Oxford or elfewhere *." In the deed abovementioned, figned by Gilbert, Prior of Merton, the con- vent quits claim to the houfe at Maiden, and grants the advowfon of the church for the perpetual fupport of fcholars in fchoUs de- . gentium ; and of a warden and priefts /// ipfo domo coimnorantibus. It appears therefore, that the original intention of the founder was, to eftablifh a religious houfe at Maiden, confifting of a warden and priefts, who were to manage the revenues of certain eftates which he gave for that purpofe, and apply them to the maintenance and education of twenty fcholars at either of the univerfities. Af- terwards, upon the eftablifhment of Merton College, the warden and priefts were removed to Oxford. In the year 1578 the members of the college were Induced to alienate this manor to Qiieen Elizabeth, upon a leafe of 5,000 years^ Her majefty wanted it for the Earl of Arundel, of whom fhe wifhed to purchafe Nonfuch-houfe and park ; and flie Immedi- ately ceded to him her eftate in it. Upon Lord Arundel's death, which happened foon afterwards, it pafled to Lord Lumley, who married his daughter. About the year 1583 it was alienated to the family of Goode. In the year 1621, the members of the col- lege, taking into confideration the illegal adl which had been done by their predeceflbrs In alienating this eftate, came to a refolution to difpute the validity of the leafe as contrary to the reftraining ad of Queen Elizabeth. The caufe was fome years in Chancery, and at laft the parties came to the following compromife ; that the ♦ Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. 53 H. 12. the Rev. Mr. Kilnerof Cirencefter, from notes ' Moll of the particulars relating to this taken from the Regifters of Merton College, tranfa^ion were obligingly communicated by advowfon 334 M A L D E N. Worcefter- park. Singular pu- nifhment of fome foldiers. Tal.vorth manor. advowfon of the church fhould be immediately ceded to the col- lege, but that the prefent pofleflbrs and their heirs fhould enjoy the benefits of the leafe of the manor for fourfcore years from that time. Under this agreement the family of Goode continued to hold the manor till the year 1 707, when the leafe expired ; and the eftate was furrendered to the College by Dame Penelope, widow of Sir Thomas Morley, and heir of ■ Goode, Efq. The college then leafed it to Richard Willis, afterwards Bifhop of Winchefter ; and it is ftill held by his defcendants. The whole of the manor is valued in the Conqueror's Survey at 7 1. 1 2 s. o d. In 1 29 1 the Prior of Merton had an eftate in Maiden which was taxed at 12s.' A part of Worcefter Park, which was formerly called Nonfuch Great-park, is in the parifh of Maiden. In 1650 a furvey of it was taken by order of parliament, when the park, with a meffuage called Worcefter-houfe, was valued at 550 1. per annum, and was bought by Col. Pride at fix years purchafe ^ It was granted by Charles II. to Sir Robert Long, upon a leafe of 99 years ', but was afterwards included in the grant to the Duchefs of Cleveland, and was alienated by the late Duke of Grafton to Sir George Walter ', A confiderable part of it is now the property of William Taylor, Efq. who has a franchife of free warren in the park. In 1649 fixteen foldiers, being tried for ftealing deer in Worcefter- park, were fentenced to the fingular punilhment of riding the wooden horfe for an hour in Palace-yard, Weftminfter, with mulkets tied to their heels ; wearing the Ikin of a deer on their backsj and the following infcriptions on their breafts : — " For ftealing and endea- " vouring by force to fteal deer '°." About a mile from Maiden is a hamlet called Talworth, in the parlfti of Long Ditton. The manor, which is defcribed in all the " See note, p. lo. » From the information of the Reverend J. ' Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office. Whateley, proprietor of Nonfuch-park. Pat. ij Ch. II. pt. 5- N»7. i'erfeft Occurrences, Sept. 7, 1649. ancient M A L D E N. 335 ancient records as being in this parlfli, was granted by Edward II. to Edmund ofWoodftockj by Edward III. to Edmund Earl of Kent ; and from him defcended to Henry Earl of Weftmorland ", who alienated it in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, It is now the property of the Polhills. The church, which is dedicated to St. John, confifts of a nave The church, and chancel, which are feparated by a wooden fcreen. At the weft end is a fquare tower ; the north fide of the church is entirely over- grown with ivy. In the eaft window are the arms of Ravis, Bifhop of London ", who was born at Maiden ", and contributed to the rebuilding of the church. In the fame window are the arms of Walter de Merton, Bifhop of Rochefter '*. Two other coats are in the fouth window of the chancel, and a north window of the nave ". The grant of a brief for colleding money to rebuild Maiden church bears date 1585 '"; but it does not appear that the work was un- dertaken before the year 1610". The nave and the tower were then entirely rebuilt with brick ; the chancel was only repaired, and ftill retains its old walls of flint and ftone. In the church are the tombs of John Goode, Efq. who died in Tombs In the 1627; Sir Thomas Morley, who died in 1692; Jane, wife of church-yard. Sebaftian Brufkett, Efq. who died in 1613; Mr. John Hamnet, who died in 1643 > Charles Mofeley, the late vicar, who died in 1760 ; and Mr. Francis Bowry, who died in 1772. In the church- yard are the tombs of Catherine Lady Walter, wife of Sir George Walter, of Worcefter-park, Barf, and daughter of Sir William Boughton, Bart, of Lawford in the county of Warwick, who died •■ Pat. I Eliz. pt. 9. June 14. born by Merton College. " Arg. a chevron Gules between 3 ravens •$ Az. an eagledifplayeJ Or, a chief Arg. heads erafed Sable, impaled with the arms of the arms of George Mynors, Efq. a contri- the fee of London. butor to the church ; and Az. femee of crofi " Fuller's Worthies, Surrey. crodets Argent, a lion rampant of thefecond. '♦ Or, three chevrons per pale, the firft »« Reg. Lam. Whitgift, pt.i. fol. lio. b. Azure and Gules, thefecond Gules and Azure, •? Aubrey's Surrey. the third as the firft. The fame arms are 173.^; 336 M A L D E N. Vicarage. Edward Hin- ton. Henry Ste- phens. Parifh regif- ter. . Comparative ftate of popu- lation. 1733; and Thomas Whately, Efq. of Nonfuch-park, who died in The church of Maiden is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Evvell. The benefice is a vicarage. The advowfon was granted to Merton Abbey at an early period by Eudonius de Mel- don"; and was by that convent given to Merton College ''. The vicarage was amply endowed in the year 1279". Since the college has been re-poflefled of the advowfon as mentioned above, an ad- vantageous leafe of fuch tithes as are not included in that endow- ment has conftantly been granted to the incumbent. The church of Maiden was taxed in 1291 at 12 marks*'. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at 81. os. 5 d. per annum. The neighbour- ing chapel of Chefington is annexed to it. In 1650, the commif- fioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices made it a dlftindt parifti ", in which ftate it continued till the re- ftoration. Edward Hinton,"'inftltuted to the vicarage in 1639", ^^ mentioned by Wood as the author of a fermon preached at the funeral of Mr. John Hamnet '*. Henry Stephens, inftituted in 1714, publifhed a few fingle fer- mons, and wrote a poem on the air pump, which is printed in the Mufse Anglicana3. The prefent vicar is the Rev. Robert Bean. The parifh regifter commences in 1678. Average of Baptifms. 1680 1689 2 1780—1789 II Average of Burials. - 2 " Cotton MSS. Brit. IVIuf. Cleopatra, cepting thofe of the demefne lands, and all the C vii. fol. 84, 8;. tithes of Chefington. " Ibid, f. 182. b. " See note, p. lo. '° Regift. Wint. Ad. de Orleton, pt. i. ** Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. f. 110. b. The endowment confided of i6 Lib. acres of arable land, the reftory-houfe and ap- '' Reg. Wint. Curie, f. 62. a. purtenances, the great and fmall tithes, ex- '* Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. Fafti. By M A L D E N. 337 By the anfwer of Mr. Stephens, the vicar, to fome queries of the Bifhop of Winchefter in 1725, (which is inferted in the Regif- ter,) it appears that the average of births was then 6, that of bu- rials 4; and the number of inhabitants no. The prefent number of houfes is 22. Mr. Henry Smith left an annual benefadlion of i 1. 10 s. od. to Benefaftjon. be divided amongft poor houfekeepers of this place. lidjoa bnrt i ,f!"3(oin Vol. I. X X [ 338 ] M E R T O N. Name. Situation. Boundaries. Murder of Kenulph, king of the Weft Saxons, and battle between the Saxons and the Danes. TH E name of this place, which has been written Meretone and Meretune, muft be derived from Mere, which fignifies either a lake or a boundary. There is fome marfhy ground near the river Wandle, which was formerly perhaps more extenfive. The village is about nine miles from London, upon the Epfom road. The parifh is bounded by Mitcham on the eaft ; Mordon on the fouth ; Kingfton on the weft; and Wimbledon on the north. The foil in the eaftern part of the parifh is light and fandy, towards the weft a ftifFclay. The land is moftly arable. The parifh is af- fefTed the fum of 288 1. 15 s. 6d. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of 2 s. 5 d. in the pound. Two early hiftorical fadls have been appropriated to this place, viz. The murder of Kenulph, king of the Weft Saxons, which hap- pened A. D. 784 ; and a battle between the Danes and the Saxons A. D. 871 ; but Lambarde ' doubts whether either of thefe events took place at Merton in Surrey. Upon looking into the old Chro- nicles, I find nothing to fix them to this place. In the war be- tween the Danes and Saxons in 871, a battle is faid to have hap- pened at Merton, in which the latter were difcomfited *. The laft battle had been at Bafing in Hampfliire. The ancient hiftorians all agree that Kenulph was murdered at Merton, but none of them mention the county. That monarch was interred at Winchefter ; Kineard the murderer, who was (lain foon afterwards, was buried at Axminfter \ ' Topographical Diftionary, ' Huntingdon inter Scriptores poft Bedam, p. 349. Hoveden inter Scrip, poft Bed. p.417. ^ EtheUverd inter Scrip, poft Bed. p. 840, 841. Huntingdon ut fupra, p. 343. Hove- den ut fupra, p. 409. The M E R T O N. 339 The manor of Merton, before the Conqueft, was the property of Manor. Earl Harold, and was afterwards held by the king in demefne. It contained 21 ploughlands, and was valued in the ConfefTor's time at 25 1. ; afterwards at 15 1. ; and at the time of the Conqueft, at 35 1. Henry I. gave it to Gilbert Norman, fheriff" of Surrey, Foundationof 1-1 r J 1.- 1 Merton Ab- who in the year 11 15 built a convent or wood at this place, bey. Having fo done, he requefted and obtained the king's patronage for accomplilhing the work. He then applied to the prior of fome re- gular canons, who had long flourifhed in St. Maiy's church at Hun- tingdon, and promifing to become a benefactor to that fraternity, befought his affiftance, and defired that he would fuffer Robert Bayle his fub-prior to fuperintend the new eftablifhment. This requeft being granted, he conduced Bayle to Merton, and delivered up to him the newly-eredted convent, of which he was conftituted prior, giving him at the fame time two ploughlands, a mill of 60 fhillings rent, and fome villeins ; promifing, if he could obtain the king's licence, to fettle the whole of the manor upon the convent. It was not long before perfons from various parts of England, not only be- ftowed their goods upon the new monaftery, but alfo took upon them the religious habit there. The founder brought the prelates and nobles of the land to fee the place, and recommended the inftitution to their patronage. Among others. Queen Matilda came to fee the convent, and was pleafed to exprefs a great intereft in its welfare. The prior after having refided there near two years, began to be diflatlsfied with the fituation*, thinking the prefent fite of the monaftery better adapted for religious retirement ; but he had fome fcruples about making his opinion known, as the founder had already been at fo great an expence. The fheriff, how- ever, foon heard of the prior's inclinations, which he imme- diately refolved to gratify; and began to remove the convent with ♦ It IS probable that the original fituation was near the church. X X 2 all 340 M E R T O N. all poflible expedition. A wooden chapel was foon built, and con- fecrated by William GifFard, Biftiop of Winchefter, who was enter- Removal of tained with great coft at the founder's houfe. Some of the cells the convent. ^ , .n » r • rr^i and a part of the cloifter were at the lame time removed. The prior, who had now refided at Merton two years and five months, went in proceflion with fifteen brethren to the new convent, finging " Salve dies," the founder himfclf being prefent at the folemnity, accompanied with an immenfe crowd. Gilbert, as before, brought the nobles of the land to fee the new building, and prefents foon flowed in apace. Some brought clothes, others wheat, cheefe, wine, &c. Queen Matilda came again to vifit the prior in his new habitation, and brought with her the prince her fon, that fhe might intereft him for the welfare of the monaftery if he fhould ever become king. The death of Matilda, which happened the fame year, and the unfortunate cataftrophe of Prince William which fol- lowed foon after, aded as a fevere blow to the convent, and threatened effedlually to impede its rifing glory, efpecially as the king, who was averfe to the fettlement of lands upon religious houfes, refufed to confent to the founder's giving them the manor. About this time an expedition to the Holy Land was in agitation, and a meeting of the nobles and prelates was to be held at Win- chefter. It was the founder's propofal therefore, that a fum of money fhould be raifed by the convent amounting to loo pounds of filver and fix marks of gold, and prefented to the king at this feafonable jundlure, with a view of procuring his confent. The greater part of this fum the founder contributed hlmfelf, and accom- panied the prior to Winchefter; their journey was fuccefsful, and they returned with the king's charter of confirmation'. This was in the year ii2i. On their return, the founder aflembled all the men of the village into the convent, and furrendered the ma- * This charter is to be found among the Tower Records; Cart. Antiq. U. 5. nor, M E R T O N. 341 nor, with all the villeins thereunto belonging, to the prior and con- vent, which then confifled of 23 brethren. In the year 1130 Merton Abbey was firfl: built with ftone, the founder himfelf laid Merton Ab- the nrft Itone, with great lolemnity. The prior laid down the ^ith ftone. fecond, and the brethren, ;^6 in number, each one. The founder died the fame year on the calends of Auguft, and was buried within the walls of the convent, where there was' a monument to his me- mory. The MS.* from which the foregoing account is taken, informs us, that he was born in Normandy, and bred a foldier. The fplendor and magnificence in which he lived is highly fpoken of; and his hofpitality is faid to have been fo great, that his doors were conftantly kept open, that every one who wifhed might find ready accefs, and be entertained according to his rank. The canons entered the new convent in 11 36, being indudled by the Bifhops of St. Afaph and Rochefter, who were deputed for that purpofe by Archbifhop Corboyle^ The benefa(Slions to Merton Abbey were numerous and am- ple. A regifler of their grants and leafes is to be found In the Britifh Mufeum ; a chronicle of the Abbey is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. In the former is a fucceffion of the priors from the foundation to the year 1306. In the latter they are continued to the year 1439. The lift may be completed from the Winchefter regifters. Moft of them are printed in Willis's Hiftory of Mitred Abbies °. Michael Kympton, who was eledled in 1402, appears to have been profefibr of divinity in Oxford, to which profeflbrfhip he was appointed in 1397 '. At the time of the valor in 1534 John Ramfay was the prior •° ; but in Willis, John Bowie is mentioned « MSS. Herald's College, N»xxviii. An ' Decern. Scrip. Col. 1664. ancient unpubliiV.ed Narrative of the Founda- ' Vol. ii. p. 231,232. tion of Merton Abbey, which appears to have ' Chronicle of Merton Abbey, in the Bod- been written by a contemporary ; as the wri- leian Library, ter mentions fome fads as received from the '° Rcgift. Wiaton. Fox, pt. 5. mouth of the founder. as 342 M E R T O N. as the laft prior, who at the diflblution of the monaftery had a pen- fion of 133I. 6 s. 8 d. per annum, and was afterwards made Canon ofWindfor". He furrendered up the monaftery:, with 14 monks, April 16, 1538. The revenues were then valued at 957I. 19s. ^{d, per annum ". The Prior of Merton had a feat in parliament as a mitred abbot. Seal of Mer- j^ the Afpilogia of John Anftis, Efq. Garter King at Arms, a MS. in the library of Thomas Aftle, Efq. is a drawing of the feal of Merton Priory. On the obverfe is a reprefentation of the Virgin Mary with the infant Jefus on the left knee ; fhe is crowned as the Regina Coeli. The feal has two legends — " Sigillum ecclefise •' SandtcC Marise de Meritona," and " Auguftine pater quos inftruis in Meritona, " His Chrifti Mater tutrix eft atque patrona." On the reverfe of the feal is the figure of St. Auguftine : his right hand is in the attitude of benedi<3:ion, and in his left he holds a paftoral ftaff, on which is infcribed the following legend : " Mundi " lucerna, nos, Auguftine guberna." A feal of Merton Abbey is engraved in Madox's Ancient Charters. In the Chronicles of this Abbey at the Bodleian Library, are the ordinations of William of Wickham, Bifhop ofWinchefter, for the Statutes of government of the convent. By one of the ftatutes the monks are prohibited from hunting, or keeping dogs for that purpofe within the walls of the Abbey, under the penalty of being obliged to live upon bread and ale for fix holidays. Moft of the punifhments af- fedt the diet of the offenders. The moft fevere is, that of being doomed to live upon bread and water ; the flighteft, being confined to bread, ale, and pulfe. In a vifitation of Merton Abbey, by Henry Wood- lock Biftiop of Winchefter ", the canons are reprehended for not at- " Vol. ii. p. 232. " Rcgill. Wint. Fox. pt. 5. " Regia. Winton. Hen. de Woodlock. tending the convent. M E R T O N. 343 tending mafs, and for going about with bows and arrows; and they are threatened to be punifhed, by abridging their allowance. Re- ferences to feveral records relating to Merton Abbey will be found in the notes '*. In .the year 1236, a parliament was held in Merton Abbey", parliament at wherein were enadted the ftatutes which take their name from that ^"'"'i- place. In this houfe alfo was concluded the peace between Henry III. Peace be- and the Dauphin of France, through the mediation of Gualo the in"and the^ Pope's Legate". Here Hubert de Burgh, Chief Juftice of England, ^^"P^^'"- fled for fanduary when firft apprifed of the king's difpleafure. The Burgh. King hearing where he was, ordered him to come before the court, and abide the ifliie of the law ; but he refufed to quit his afylum. The King being much incenfed at his difobedience, fent to the Lord Mayor of London, and Ordered him to fummon all the citizens that could bear arms, and proceed to Merton to take Burgh dead or alive. The citizens, with whom he was very unpopular, haftened towards Merton, in number about 20,000, and the Chief Juftice, flying to the high altar, waited the event. In the mean time the King, through the interceflions of the Earl of Chefter and the Bifhop of Chichefter, was induced to alter his purpofe, and the citizens were recalled by royal mandate, before they could accomplifli their re- venge '\ '♦ Henry II. 's Confirmation of Lands and ter of free warren in Merton, Mitcham, &e. Privileges, Cart. Antiq. C. C. ii. Grant Cart. Rot. 36 Hen. III. m. ii. Granitoim- of Lands in Hants, by H"P. II. Ibid, park 40 acres of land, Pat. 20 Edw. I. m. 5,' R. 7. ar.d T. 38. Grant of Ewell, Ibid. U. 6. Exemplification of Grants and Privileges, Par. Richard I.'s Confirmation of Grants, Ibid. 13 Hen, IV. pt. 2. m. 25. Pac. 3 Hen. VI. C 26. Charter of Privileges by Rich- pt. 2. m. 10. Confirmation of Rights and ard I. Ibid. L. L. 3 Grant of a Wood at PolTeflion;, by Richard Toclivins, Bifhop of Merton by King John. Ibid. 0^0^50. Grant Winchefter. Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleo- that the canons (hould not be imple.ided except patm, C. 7. f. 84. b. 85. a. before the king. Cart. 7. John. m. 11. Ample '^ Mat. Paris, p. 356. exemplification and confirmation of Grants '" Lambarde's Topographical Diftionary, and Privile^"s by Hen. III. Cart. Antiq. from Flores Hiit. L. L. 4. Si Cart. 36 Hen. III. 17. Char- " Mat. Paris, p. 31S. * X X 4 John 344 Site of the priory. M E R T O N. John de Sandal, Bifhop of Winchefter, held an ordination in Merton Abbey, anno 1316. In a grant of certain privileges to John Haunfard and his wife Gundred, in the regifter of Merton Abbey '\ it appears that they were to be buried there. James de Lacy, by his will, dated 1387,- direded his body to be buried in Merton Abbey ". The fite of the abbey was granted by Queen Mary to the priory at Shene ". After the diffolution of that monaftery, it was kept for fome time in the hands of the crown, and was leafed by Queen Elizabeth to Gregory Lover". It was afterwards granted to Nicholas Zouch, and appears to have paffed through the hands of various perfons " before the middle of the laft century, at which time it was the property of Rowland Wilfon. "' Cotton. MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. 7. f. 137. b. " In nomine Trinitatis, &c. " Eullachius Prior de Merton & ejufdem loci " conventus : ex afFeftu intimo Dominum Jo- " hannem Haunfard & Dnam Gundredam " uxorem ejus recipimus participes omnium " bonorum qua; in ecclefia nollra operari dig- " nabitur dementia Salvatoris : conceflimus " etiam eifdem quod in ecclefia noftra fibi eli- " gant fepulturam ut coram altari aliquo ubi " eorum corpora debeant fepeliri affignabun- " tur duo canonici fucceflivc qui ibidem ce- " lebrantes pro eis memoriam facient fpe- " cialem. Audita antem eorum vel alterius " eorum morte corpus fufcipiemus cum ho- " nore & clafficum faciemus pulfari & exe- " quias fieri ficut pro Priore fieri confuevit. " Nomen vero eorum faciemus inter defundlos " noftros in martilogio numerari, et per brevi- " gerulum noftrum per Angliam deportari ut " ejus anima in unoquoque collegio abfolva- " tur. Die vero anniverfario ejus pro eo ut " pro canonico profefTo fiet fervicium folem- " niter in conventu et habebimus die illo pi- " tanciam fpecialem qus valeat unam marc. " et fimiliter in anniverfario Domini Gun- " drede pitanciam unius marc, valoris debet " fieri in conventu. Hxc etiam omnia pre- " difta concedimus alteri eorum pofterius " decedenti. In cujus rei teftimonium hoc " fcriptum figUlo capituli noftri fecimus com- " muniri. Unde teftis eft Dominus Jefus " Chriftus." Euftachius was eledled Prior in 1249, and died in 1262. '» Regift. Winton. W. de Ulckham. *" Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. N''4705, Ayfcough's Cat. *' Leafes by Queen Elizabeth. Augmen- tation-office. " Scit. priorat. Merton. alien, per Nich. Zouch Sc al. Car°. Com. Nottingham & al. 43 Eliz. Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. N°4705, Ayfcough's Cat. Scit. pri- orat. Merton. alien, per Car. com. Notting- ham. Jo. Spilman. 2 Jac. Ibid. Scit. priorat, Merton. alien, per Jo. Spilman, Thoma: Corn- wall, milit. Pat. 4 Jac. I. pt. 16. -Apr. i. Scit. priorat. Merton. per Th. Cornwallis. alien. Th. Merbury. Pat. 11 Jac. pt. 36. May I. Scit. Priorat. Mertcn. alien. Th. Merbury, Edw. Bellingham, milit. Pat. 10 Jac. pt. 30. Mar. I. Scit. priorat. Merton. alien, per Fr. Clerke, milit. Rowland. Wilfon. Pat. 20 Jac. pt. 20. June i. During M E R T O N. 345 During the civil wars, it appears to have been ufed as a garrifon. Merton Ab- In July 1648, the Derby-houfe committee were ordered by the Par- a garrifon.^ liament to make Farnham Caftle indefenfible, and to fecure Merton Abbey, and other places of ftrength, in the fame county ^\ In the year 1680 Merton Abbey was advertifed to be let, and was defcribed as containing feveral large rooms, and a very fine chapel ^*. Vertue, who vifited this place about fixty years ago, mentions the chapel as being then entire, and fays, that it refembled the Saxon buildings''. At prefent there is no other veftige of the abbey than the eaft window of a chapel, of crumbling ftone, which feems, from the ftyle of its archite£ture, to have been built in the fifteenth century. The walls which furround the premifes, in- cluding a fpace of about fixty acres, are nearly entire, being built of flints. The fite of the abbey, after pafling through various hands, became the property of Sir William Phippard, Knt. in 171 1. It is now divided into feveralties, two-thirds of which belong to Richard Fezard Mansfield, Efq. who married one of Sir William's grand-daughters. In the year 1724, a manufa£tory for printing calicoes was Manufaao- eftablifhed upon the fite of Merton Abbey, which ftill exifts upon of Menon Ahbcv the fame fpot, being at prefent in the occupation of Meflrs. Newton, Hodgfon, and Leach, who carry on a very extenfive trade, and have brought the art to a great degree of perfe£lion. Another ma- nufadlory of the fame nature was eftablifhed within the walls of the abbey in the year 1752, which is now carried on by Mr. Half hide, and at the north-eaft corner of the premifes is a copper-mill, in the occupation of Mr. Thoytts, which has been long eftablifhed there. Upon a moderate computation, there are a thoufand perfons now employed within the walls in the different manufactories ; a pleafing -3 Perfeft Diurnal, July 3—10, 1648. *' Vertue's MSS. in the Earl of Orford's ^* Domeftic Intelligencer, Mar. 5, 1680. colleftion at Strawberry Hill. Vol. I. Y Y contraft 346 M E R T O N. contraft to the monaftic indolence which reigned there in former times. The manor. The manor of Merton, after the fuppreflion of the abbey, was referved fome time in the hands of the crown ; and was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Zouch and Ware ". It appears by fome means to have twice reverted to the crown; having been granted, 7 Jac. to Richard Bancroft and others ^\ and 14 Jac. to Thomas Ford and others ^\ It has belonged to the Darell family for fome generations, and is now the property of John Chambers Darell, a minor. In 1291 it was valued at 12I. 6s. 6d. per annum. The church. The parifh church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is built of flints, and confifts of a nave and chancel. The breadth is very difproportionate to the length. In the chancel walls are large pointed arches, in the centre of which are narrow windows with fharp points. On the north fide is a door with a femicircular arch, round which are zig-zag mouldings ; at the weft end is a low fpire. Merton church was built early in the twelfth century by Gilbert Norman, the founder of the abbey, as appears by the MS. in the Herald's College above quoted ; where it is faid, that after the king granted him the manor, he built a church there, at his own expence, and adorned it with pidures and images "', before which time the inhabitants were obliged to carry their dead to the adjacent villages. From the ftyle of architecture of the prefent church, there is little doubt of its being the original ftrudiure, and that it has undergone little alteration. In the chancel window are fome remains of painted glafs, amongft which are to be feen the arms of England, and thofe of the priory of Merton '°. '* Fee Farm Roll, Augmentation-office. exigebat." *' Pat. 7 Jac. pt. 47. Mar. 13. ^o ^^j,. fretty Or, on each of the joints an '^ Pat. 14Jac.pt. 16. Jan. 10. eagledifplayedof the field. Thefe were proba- '3 " Piduris et aliis fpeciebus prout res blythearmsof Gilbert Norman the founder. Againft W~^m^^^^^^^~^^ o n pi i-i a" M E R T O N. 347 Againft the north wall of the church hangs a large pidure of Chrift bearing the crofs ; it is much damaged, but appears to have been a good painting, and was either the work of Luca Jordano, or a copy from him. It is not known when or by whom it was given to the church. Againft the fouth wall of the chancel is a monument, to the me- Monuments, mory of Gregory Lovell, Efq. of Merton Abbey, cofferer of the houfehold to Queen Elizabeth^', who died in 1597. ^^ married Dorothy, daughter of Michael Green, yeoman of the ftirrup. On the north wall is the monument of Henry Meriton, Efq. gentleman of the privy chamber to George II. who died in 1757. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs of Sir Henry Sta- pylton, Knt. and Bart, who died in 1679, and Grace, wife of Thomas Robinfon of Rokefby, and daughter of Sir Henry Sta- pylton, who died in 1676. In the fouth-eaft corner of the chancel is the monument of Sir Thomas Robinfon, Knt. and Bart. F. R. S. Sir Thomas who died in 1777. He was buried at Merton, where many of his anceftors had been interred, purfuant to the diredions of his will. In the chancel is alfo the tomb of Elizabeth, wife of John Garth, Efq. who died in 1640. Againft the north wall of the nave are the monuments of Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Robinfon, Efq. who died in 1738 ; William Baynes, land furveyor of the cuftoms, who died in 171 7; Walter Baynes, who died in 1727, and others of that family; and Judith, reli£t of Edward Wilfon, Efq. who died in 1745. In the nave are alfo the tombs of Dame Anne, relidl of Sir Thomas Noel, Bart, and daughter of Sir William Witlock, who died in 1737; and Chriftopher, fon of Sir Henry Stapylton, who died in 1743. '' Queen Elizabeth's vifit to Merton in probably to Gregory Lovell, to whom (he had 1571 (fee pariih accounts atKingfton) was granted a leafe of the abbey three years before. Yy 2 In 348 M E R T O N. Church- yard. Reftory. Parifti le- gifter. Comparative flate of popu- lauon. In the church-yard are the tombs of Mr. William Rutlifh, embroiderer to Charles II. who died in 1687 ; John Payne, Efq. who died in 1778 ; John Tyton, Efq. who died in 1790; and Mr. Francis Nixon, of Merton Abbey, who died in 1768. He is faid, in his epitaph, to have been the firft who perfeded copper- plate calico-printing. The expreffion, however, appears to be too ftrong, as many improvements in that art have been made fmce his death. The re£tory of Merton belonged to the abbey. In 1 291 it was taxed at 10 marks". Edward VI. granted it to Thomas Lock and his heirs". In 1658 it was prefented to the commiffioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that the reftory of Merton, worth about 50 1. per annum, was im- propriated to Mr. Robert Wilfon, who had placed Mr. Edward Raynsford there as curate, allowing him 20 1. per annum, and his diet'*. Henry Meriton, Efq. who died in 1757, was poflefTed of the redlory, which afterwards came, by purchafe, to Sir Thomas Chitty, alderman of London, and is now the property of his daughter Eleanor, widow of Charles Bond, Efq." The impropriator allows the curate 14 1. per annum. The prefent curate is the Reverend Charles Frederick Bond. The parifh regifter commences in the year 1559; during the laft century it was not kept with fufficient accuracy to form a fatis- fa£tory average of births and burials. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. I580-— 1589 4 — — 4 1766 — 1775 18 — II 1784 — 1789 ■ 24 — ~- 20 '* See note, p. lo. '' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. N° 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. ^* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth Library. ^* From the information of the Reverend C. F. Bond. The M E R T O N. 349 The prefent number of houfes is 1 1 6. In 1603 there are entries of only four burials. " Lady Mary Villars, daughter of the Right Hon. the Earl of " Buckingham and Lord Vifcount Purbeck, of this parifh, buried « May 18th, 1703." Mr. William Rutlifh left 400 1. to this parifh to put out poor Benefaaions. children apprentices. An acre of land was bequeathed by an un- known benefactor. Rowland Wilfon, Efq. of Merton Abbey, in the year 1656, founded an alms-houfe for fix poor women, and endowed it with lands. The alms-houfe remains by the fide of the road to Kingfton, with Mr. Wilfon's arms over the door ; but the endowment has been loft fome years, and the parifh have in vain endeavoured to recover it. The fame Rowland Wilfon left fome money to be diftributed in bread. [ 350 ] M I T C H A M. Name. Situation. Boundaries, &c. Phyfic gar- deners. Manors. THIS place in Doomfday Book Is called MIchelham, that is, the great dwelling. In all the early records, and in many of a more recent date, it is written Miccham or Micham ; the prefent mode of fpelling, which is more remote from its etymology, was not univerfally adopted before this century. Mitcham lies in the hundred of Croydon, about 9 miles from Weftminfter Bridge. The parifh is bounded by Streatham on the eaft ; by Beddington, Carflialton, and Croydon on the fouth ; Mor- don on the weft ; and Merton on the north. The arable land ex- ceeds the pafture in a confiderable proportion. The greateft part of the extenfive common between this place and Beddington is in Mit- cham parifti. The foil confifts principally of a rich black mould. About 250 acres are occupied by the phyfic gardeners, who cultivate lavender, wormwood, camomile, anifeed, rhubarb, liquorice, and many other medicinal plants, in great abundance ; but principally peppermint, of which there are above 100 acres. The demand for this herb is not confined to the apothecaries fhops, it being much ufed in making a cordial well-known to the dram-drinkers. Forty years fince, a few acres only were employed in the cultivation of me- dicinal herbs in this parifla. Perhaps there is no place where it is now fo extenfive. Mitcham is affeffed the fum of 635 I. 13 s. od. to the land-tax, which in the year 1791 was at the rate of is. 6d. in the pound. It appears that, at the time of the Conqueror's Survey, there were two manors in Mitcham, each of which was of the value of 40 s. One had been held by Brictric of the Confeffor, and was then held of M I T C H A M. of the Bifhop of Baieux, by the canons of that convent. The other had been held by Lemarus of King Edward ; and was then the pro- perty of "William the fon of Anfculf. There were likewife two other manors at Witford ' in this parifh, held by the fame perfons j the one of 50 s. the other of 40 s. value. The fmaller was the pro- perty of the canons of Baieux. I have not been able, through the deficiency of records, to trace the defcent of thefe manors fatisfac- torily. Probably fome, if not all of them, reverted foon after the Conqueft to the crown. I find feveral grants by Henry I. of lands at Mitcham to be held in capite^ viz. two hides to Robert the fon of Wolfward, and Walter le Poure * ; one hide to Robert and Matthew de Micham % &c. &c. Alexander de Witford, about the fame time, held a knight's fee in Mitcham of the barony of Roger de Sumery, and of the honour of Dudley*. John de Aperdele is faid to have held the manor of Mitcham in 1367'. William Mareis had very confiderable property there in the reign of Edward III. " In a record 4 Richard II. ' the manor is faid to have been divided between the King, the Earl of Glocefler, and the Prior of Merton. The Prior of Southwark is omitted, though that monaflery had a manor there at a much earlier period. The Earl of Glocefter's lands there were annexed to his manor of Camberwell \ Thomas Plomer, Efq. who died 15 Car. I. was feized of lands in Mitcham held of that manor'. The Prior of Merton held lands there about the year 1 250 of Wil- liam Mauduit, afterwards Earl of Warwick, by the fervice of ren- dering a pair of gilt fpurs '°. William Figge ", who died 24 Edw. III. " There is no fuch hamlet now in the parifh, ' Court Rolls of the manor of Camberwell but a lane between Upper and Lower Mitcham Buckingham's, ftill retains the name. * Cole's Efcheats, N'' 410. Harleian MSS. ^ Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N"'3i3. f. 20. Brit. Muf. 2 Ibid. f. 22. b. '° Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, ♦ Ibid. f. 15. C. vii. f. n6. ' Harleian MSS. N''628i. " A fmall common in this parifh went by * CI. 35 Edw. III. m. 3. the name of Figg's-marfh, now ufually called ' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N" 6281. Pig's-marfh, was 351 35^ M I T C H A M. Manor of Mitcham or Canon. Manor of Digging and Tam worth. was felzed of a houfe and lands at Mitcham, which he held by the fervice of receiving the King's diftraints for the hundred of Wal- lington ". Agnes, wife of GeofFry Prior, who died 7 Henry IV. held a houfe and lands by the fame fervice ". In the year 1240 an affize of common of pafture was taken, in which the priors of Mer- ton and Southwark and other freeholders of the parifli of Mitcham were plaintiffs, and William Hufcarl, Agnes Hufcarl, and others, of Beddington and Wallington, defendants ; in which the plaintiffs gained their caufe and recovered 40 s. damages '\ There are now three diflin Communicated by the fieward of the manor. Ibid. Ibid. George M O R T L A K E. ^^^ George I. as a place of refrefhment after the fatigues of the chace. It was left in an unfiniflied ftate at his death, and remained fo till the Princefs Amelia became ranger of the park. The difproportionate account of the extent of Mortlake parilh in the furvey of 1612, probably arofe from allowing too great a fhare of the commons, which before the making of Richmond-park were very extenfive, and perhaps had never been meafured. At prefent the uninclofed wafte ground does not exceed 100 acres; the remain- der of the land is principally arable, including fomewhat more than 250 acres of garden-ground. Great quantities of afparagus are Afparagus. raifed here, there being not fewer than 60 acres planted with that vegetable. At the extremity of the parifli towards Richmond, his Majefty has a farm of about 80 acres in his own occupation, which Royalfarm. is in excellent cultivation. The barns and granaries were built, and the farm-yard made with all fuitable conveniences, about five years fmce. The foil at Mortlake confifts for the moft part of fand and Soil. gravel ; in the meadows near the water-fide there is fome deep clay. The parifh is aflefled the fum of 565 1. 10 s. to the land- Land-tax. tax, which is at the rate of 2 s. 6d. in the pound. The manor being now included in that of Wimbledon, will be Manor. defcribed more particularly in the account of that parifh. In the Conqueror's Survey, and for fome centuries after, it was called the Manor of Mortlake, the manerial refidence being at that place. Wimbledon is not mentioned in Doomfday Book ; in fubfequent records it is defcribed as a grange or farm belonging to Mortlake *. It will hereafter be fhewn that as a parifh it was the more ancient of the two. During the whole time that this manor belonged to the fee of Archbilhops Canterbury, the manor-houfe was at Mortlake, being occafionally the ry who have refidence of the archbifhops, moft of whom have dated fome of their ""^ ' ^ ^ public ads from that place. Archbifhop Anfelm celebrated the feaft ♦ Regift. Lamb. Reynolds, f. 79. b. of their manor- houl'e. 366 M O R T L A K E. of Whltfuntide there in the year 1099'. Archbifhop Corboyle was confined to his houfe at Mortlake by ficknefs A. D. 11 36'. Arch- bifliop Peckham died there A. D. 1292 ' ; and Archbifhop Reynolds in 1327'. Archbifhop Mepham having fallen under the difpleafure of the Pope was excommunicated by him, and retiring to Mort- lake fpent many days there in folitude °. Nicholas Bubwith was confecrated in the chapel of the manor-houfe at Mortlake by Arch- bifhop Arundel and the Bifhops of Winchefter and Worcefler, A. D. 1406 '°. Archbifhop Warham appears to have been the laft prelate who refided there ". His fuccefTor Archbifhop Cranmer alien- ated the manor of Mortlake to Henry VIII. in exchange for other lands. The houfe was probably pulled down foon afterwards, and the manerial refidence removed to Wimbledon. The fite of Mortlake-houfe was alienated by Sir Thomas Cecil to Robert Walter ;^6 Eliz. "^ Not a trace of it now remains except the found- ation of a wall, which forms the boundary (towards the river) of a garden in the occupation of Mrs. Penley. In Holinfhed's Chronicle there is an account of a monftrous fifh which came up the Thames and was taken oppofite the king's ma- nor-houfe at Mortlake A. D. 1240. The temporalties of the fee of Canterbury were then in the king's hands, who kept it vacant three years after the death of St. Edmund '\ Leland, who wrote in the reign of Henry VIII. fpeaking of Mortlake-houfe in his Cygnea Cantio '*, fays, " Dehinc et mortuus eft lacus, fuperba *' Villai effigies, domufque nota." 5 Eadmer, p- 33. dated from Mortlake; Regift. Lamb. War- ' Decern fcriptores, col. 1664. ham, f. 334. a. ^ Godwin de Prsfulibus. " Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. iv. June 6. ' Anglia Sacra, vol. i. p. 1 17 & 368. "' Holinlhed's Chronicle. ' Ibid. p. 370. '♦ Printed in the 9th vol. of his Itinerary, Regill. Lamb. Arundel, pt.i. f. 33. b. publilhed by Hearne. One aft only of Archbifhop Warham's is In M O R T L A K E. 367 In the commentary upon this paflage, it is called " Villa eximie *' fplendida." The manor of Eaft-fheen and Weft-hall was enfranchifed in the reign Manor of of Henry VII.'^ at which time it was the property of the Welbecks ; and Wefi- it had been previoufly the eftate of the Dyneleys'*. In 1577 the ^ " manor was alienated to William Bracebridge; in 1596, to Thomas Whitfield", and in 161 8 to John Juxon, from whom it defcended through the Kay family to Edward Taylor, Efq. whofe widow Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor and her daughters are now joint proprietors. Mortlake church was firft built about the year 1348, as appears Thechurch. from a record in the Tower, being a licence to the Archbifhop of Canterbury to give a piece of ground in Berecroft nine perches fquare to Adomar, parfon of Wimbledon, and his fucceffbrs, to find a chaplain who ihould perform divine fervice in a chapel about to be eredted on that fpot for the eafe of the bodies and the health of the fouls of the inhabitants of Mortlake and Eaft-fheen, who were far diftant from the parifh church of Wimbledon '^ I have been thus explicit in ftating the fubftance of the record, to prove that the church at Mortlake mentioned in Doomfday Book muft have been-, that of Wimbledon, then within the manor of Mortlake. The only part now remaining which feems to be of the original ftrudture is the outward door of the belfry. A ftone with the following in- fcription, " Johes Joce cujus aie prcietur de," is fixed in the wall at the weft end, and probably belonged to the old church, to the building of which "John Joce might have been a contributor. In 1543 the church was rebuilt; the date is upon the tower, and the eaft wall of the chancel; over it is " Vivat R. H. 8." The walls are built of flint and ftone checkered. A few of the windows with the '' Court Rolls of the manor of Wimbledon, manor were obligingly communicated by Mr-. " CI. 19R. tl. m. 11. &C1. 21 Hen. VI. Taylor, m. 19. 21. & 23. " Pat. 22 Edw, III. pt. 2, m. 42. " The fallowing particulars relating to this flat 368 M O R T L A K E. flat arches which were in ufe in the reign of Henry VIII. are ftlll remaining. The tower, which is at the weft end, is fquare and embattled. In 1725 the fouth aifle was rebuilt, confiderably en- larged, and a gallery erected by the voluntary fubfcription of the inhabitants. The font, which is ornamented with rich Gothic tra- cery, was given by Archbifliop Bourchier, (temp. Hen. VI.) as ap- pears by his arms '' upon it. On the north fide of the church is a brick building of two ftories, the lower room of which is now ufed as a veftry. On the north wall of this room is a tablet to the memory of Elizabeth wife of John Upton, Efq. who died in 1771. Near the door is the tomb of the Reverend "William Arnold, who died in 1736. Tombs in In the chancel are the monuments of Nicholas Godfchall, Efq. who the church. died in 1750; William Hawkins, Efq. who died in 1677; Jona- than Clark, Gent, who died in 1670; the Reverend Richard Bi- field, who died in 1664; and the honourable Francis Coventry, fon of Thomas Lord Coventry, who died in 1699. On flat ftones are infcriptions to the memory of Nathaniel fon of the Reverend Daniel Bull, vicar of Stoke Newington, who died in 1741 ; Elizabeth Starkie, fpinfter, who died in 1780; Lady Barclay, who died in 1791 ; and Frances Maria Coderc, wife of William Browne, Efq. of Eaft-fheen, who died in the fame yean In the north aifle is the monument of Harry Spencer, Efq. who died in 1 769 ; and on the floor a brafs plate to the memory of Henry Myles, fervant to Prince Henry and Prince Charles, who died in i6i8. Over the weft gallery is the monument of Robert Devenifh, Efq. Norroy King at Arms, who died in 1 704. Under the fame gallery are the tombs of William Simonds, Gent, who died in 1623 ; Hen- ry Willis, Gent, of the Middle Temple, who died in 1712; and Arthur Mayor, Efq. who died in 1783. '» A crofs engrailed between four water-bougets. Aubrey M O R T L A K E. 369 Aubrey mentions the tombs of Anthony Holt, Efq. clerk comptrol- ler to Queen Elizabeth, and of John Jones, M. D. who died in 1692. They are now either deflroyed or covered with pews. The former had a brafs plate with the figure of a man habited in a gown. In 1383 Archbifliop Courtney gave the inhabitants of Mortlake a Church-yard. piece of ground adjoining to the chapel there for the burial of the dead ". The church-yard was enlarged in the year 1 725, towards which Alderman Barber contributed 50 1. In the church-yard are the tombs of the celebrated John Partridge Tombs. and Alderman Barber, with infcriptions, which will be given here- after ; an obelifk to the memory of Edward Athawes *', an emi- nent merchant, who died in 1767, and the tombs of the fol- lowing perfons : — Maria Catherina, relidt of William Marquis of Blandford, and of Sir William Wyndham, Bart, who died in 1779 ; Robert, fon of Sir Thomas Liddel, Bart, who died in 171 8; Ann daughter of Ifaac Lyte, Efq. who died in 1719; Henry Crofts, chaplain to Henry Vifcount Palmerfton, who died in 1 72 1 ; Richard Caftleman, Efq. who died in 1746; Robert JefFes, Efq. who died in 1752; Aaron Lambe, Efq. who died in 1777; Jofeph Symonds, Efq. who died in 1779; Elizabeth, wife of John Davies, furgeon, who died in 1781 ; Richard Garbrand, Efq. (no date) ; Eleanora Hay, fpinfter, who died in 1783; Mr. William Sanders, who died in 1784; Zachary Taylor, Efq. who died in 1786; Edward Tay- lor, Efq. who died in 1787, and Edward Taylor, junior, who died in 1788 ; Mary, third wife of Richard Myddleton, Efq. of Chirk- caftle, who died in 1788 ; and Mary, daughter of John Ewer, Efq. who died in 1790. The church of Mortlake Is in the peculiar jurlfdi£tion of the Arch- Curacy, bifhop of Canterbury. The benefice is a perpetual curacy with a *» Regift. Lamb. Courtney, f. 51. b. *' There is a mezzotinto engraving of Mr. Athawes by Smith, from a painting by Pint. Vol. I. 3 B referved 37© M O R T L A K E. referved falary of 40 1. per annum, paid out of the great tithes by the leflee under the Dean and Chapter of Worcefter. The nomina- tion of the curate is vefted in the Dean and Chapter. The com- miffioners who were appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefia- ftical benefices in 1658, endowed the curacy with the great tithes and made it a redory " : this arrangement ceafed at the Reftoration. Mr. Parkes, curate of Mortlake, was one of the minifters ap- pointed by Cromwell to aflift the committee for difplacing ignorant and infufficient minifters and fchoolmafters ^'. The prefent curate is the Reverend Thomas Cornthwaite. Parilhreglf- fhe parifli regifter begins in the year 1599. About the latter end of the laft century the baptifms of Diflenters children are en- tered upon a feparate leaf, purfuant to an adl of parliament which pafled in 1695. Average of Births. Average of Burials. Comparative 1680— l68g — 3 1 40 ftate of popu- ^ ^ lation. 1730 — 1739 — 40 58 1780— 1789 ~ 45 52 1780—1784 — 37 52 1784—1789 — 51 51 1750— — 47 56 1791— — 45 58 The early part of the regifter is too imperfed to form a fatisfac- tory average. The population during the laft century is evidently in- creafing, though not fo rapidly as in fome other parilhes. The prefent number of houfes is 301 '*, of which 25 are lately built, or now build- ing. The inhabitants being accurately numbered in the prefent month (June 1792) by the refident minifter, the Rev. Samuel Peach, were found to amount to 1766, of whom 339 were lodgers. ** Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. Interregnum. Library. »+ Including the alms-houfes and the work- *' Scobell's A£ls of Parliament during the houfe. In MORTLAKE. 2,1^ In 1603 and 1625 the plague does not appear to have been Plague years, fatal ; but in 1 6G^ its ravages were very great. In that year there are entries of 197 burials, vphich are about 170 more than the ave- rage of that period. In the months of September and Odlober only there were 122 burials, fometimes feven in one day. The following extracts from the regifter relate to remarkable Extraas from the re- perfons : girter. " Everard Digby, fon of Sir Kilham Digby, Knt. was buried sir Kenelm Digby. " Jan, 16, 1629." The circumftance of an infant fon of the cele- brated Sir Kenelm Digby being buried at Mortlake might lead to a prefumption that Sir Kenelm was then a refident at that place, but of this I have no other proof. " Richard Bifield, minifter, was buried the 30th of Dec' 1664." Richard Ei- He was redtor of Long-Ditton, had been one of the aflembly of divines, and publifhed feveral fermons and religious tra£ts '^ " Sir John Temple, Knight, was buried March 16, 1704." He Sir John was fon of Sir John Temple, who wrote the Hiftory of the Wars in Ireland, and was mafter of the rolls in that kingdom, which office he himfelf held, having been fucceffively folicitor and attorney-ge- neral, and being efteemed one of the befl lawyers in Ireland". He purchafed a houfe at Eaft-Sheen of Sir James Ruflaout Cullen, which is now the property of his great grandfon, Henry Vifcount Palmer- flon. This houfe was built in the year 161 1 ; the garden-front was added by the late Lord Palmerflon. The rooms are fpacious and lofty. The drawing-room is hung with tapeftry reprefenting the four feafons. In the dining parlour are the portraits of Sir John Temple the younger ; his brother, Sir William Temple, the cele- brated ftatefman ; and others of the family. " John Partridge was buried June 30, 1715." This was the fa- johnPar- mous aftrologer fo frequently mentioned in the Tatler ""'. He was a "^'^^^ " A.Wood's Athen. Oxen. vol. ii. col. 340. »? >jo i, r, ^i^c. ** Collins's Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. 578. 3 R 2 native je. 372 M O R T L A K E. native of Eafl-Sheen. I find a John Partridge, who probably was his father, joined with Major Thomas Juxon ascolledor of theafTeflments in 1653*'. Young Partridge is faid to have been bound apprentice to a ihoemaker after having been a fhort time at fchool, where he only learned to read and write ^°. Being fond of books, notwith- ftanding the difadvantage of his fituation, he taught himfelf Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He next applied to the ftudy of phyfic, but carried on the trade of flioemaking at the fame time in Covent- gar- den^'. He procured the degree of doflor of phyfic at Leyden, and was appointed fworn phyfician to Charles 11.^^ It appears by his epi- taph that he alfo held this office under King William and Queen Mary. He publifhed an almanac which went by his name, and va- rious aftrological treatifes ; and dying June 24, 17 15, was buried in the church-yard at Mortlake ; where is the following infcription to his memory on a flat flone : " Johannes Partridge aftrologus et medicinse doclor, natus eft " apud Eaft-Sheen in comitatu Surrey 8" die Januarii anno 1644, " et mortuus eft Londini 24° die Junii anno 1715. Medicinam " fecit duobus Regibus unique Reginx ; Carolo fcilicet Secundo, " Willielmo Tertio, Reginajque Marias. Creatus medicinse doctor " Lugduni Batavorum." John Barber. « John Barber, Efq. Alderman of London, was buried Jan. 9, " 1 741." The alderman, who was fon of a barber in the city of London ", was bred a printer, in which bufinefs, by a fuccefsful train of circumftances which brought him acquainted with Lord Boling- broke. Swift, Pope, and others of the moft eminent writers of the age, he acquired confiderable opulence ^*. A remarkable ftory is told of his dexterity in his profeffion: — Being threatened with a pro- fecution by the Houfe of Lords for an offenfive paragraph in a pam- ^' Parith Accounts. ^* Granger's Biographical Hiflory of Eng- "* Granger's Biographical Hiftory of Eng- land, vol. ii. p. 380. quarto, land, vol. ii, p. 380. 410. ^' Life of Alderman Barber, 8vo. 1741. " Ibid. Appendix. ^* Ibid. p. 2, 3. phlet M O R T L A K E. 373 phlet which he had printed, and being warned of his danger by Lord Bolingbroke a few hours before the ftate meflengers came to feize the books, he called in all the copies from the publifhers, cancel- led the leaf which contained the obnoxious paflage throughout the whole impreflion with wonderful expedition, and returned them to the bookfeller with a new paragraph fupplied by Lord Bolingbroke, fo that when the pamphlet was produced before the Houfe, and the paflage referred to, it was found perfedlly unexceptionable ". Mr. Barber acquired great wealth by the South-Sea fcheme, which he had prudence enough to fecure in time, and purchafed an eftate at Eafl- Sheen with a part of his gain '\ In principles he was a Jacobite, and on his travels in Italy, whither he went for the recovery of his health, was introduced to the Pretender, which expofed himtofome danger on his return to England ; for immediately on his arrival he was taken into cufl:ody by a king's meflenger, but was releafed without punifh- ment ", After his fuccefs in the South-Sea adventure he was chofen Alderman of Caftle Baynard ward, and in the year 1733 was Lord Mayor of London. During his mayoralty it happened that the fcheme of a general excife was brought forward, by his a£tive oppo- fition to which he acquired for a time a confiderable degree of po- pularity, though he is accufed of procuring clandeftinely from Mr. Bofworth the city chamberlain, the documents which enabled him to make fo confpicuous a figure upon that occafion ^^ Among the alderman's public adtions it fhould be mentioned, that he put up a monument to Butler in Weftminfter-abbey, upon which occafion Pope is faid to have written the following fevere lines, which he pro- pofed fhould be placed on the vacant fcroll under Shakefpear's buft " : " Thus Britain loved me, and preferved my fame " Pure from a Barber's or a Benfon's name." " Life of Alderman Barber, p. 6. ^' Life of Alderman Barber, p. 25. ^^ Now the property of Philip Francis, Efq. ^' Ibid. p. 30—35. M. P. . w Ibid. p. 48. Alderman 374 MORTLAKE. Sir John Barnard. Alderman Barber by his will, dated Dec. 28, 1740, defired that his body might be buried at Mortlake, as near as poflible to the ground which he had given to enlarge the church-yard ; he be- queathed 300 1. to Lord Bolingbroke, 200 1. to Dr. Swift, and lool. to Mr. Pope. He died a few days afterwards, and was buried put'- fuant to his requeft *'. On his tomb is the following infcription : " Under this ftone are laid the remains of John Barber, Efq. Alderman of London, a conflant benefactor to the poor, true to his principles in church and ftate. He preferved his integrity and difcharged the duty of an upright magiftrate in the moft cor- rupt times. Zealous for the rights of his fellow-citizens, he op- pofed all attempts againft them ; and being Lord IN^layor in the year 1733, was greatly inftrumental in defeating a fcheme of a general excife, which (had it fucceeded) would have put an end to the liberties of his country. He departed this life January 2, 1740-41 ; aged 6s" " Sir John Barnard, Knt. buried Sept. 4th, 1764." This wor- thy man, who is mentioned by Pope in the fame line with the Man of Rofs *', was born at Reading, bred a Quaker, and educated at a fchool for children of that perfuafion in Wandfworth *". At 19 years of age he was baptized by Bifhop Compton at Fulham. He firfl dif- tinguifhed himfelf as an adlive citizen by his endeavours to procure redrefs againft a bill which afFe£ted the wine trade. His fuccefs upon this occafion induced the city of London to eledl him one of its reprefentatives in parliament, in which fituation he continued till his death. How well he condudled himfelf in that charadler, and how faithfully he promoted the intereft of his fellow- citizens, will be remembered as long as his ftatue fhall adorn the Royal-Exchange. ♦° Introduftion to Barber's Life, p. 3 1 . ♦" Epilogue to the Satires. ♦^ Biograph. Brit. edit. 1789. The M O R T L A K E. 375 The worthy alderman experienced neverthelefs in his life-time the uncertainty of popular applaufe ; there was a time when he was in- fulted and reviled whenever he appeared in public ; but he lived to fee the tide of popularity turn again in his favour *'. Sir John Bar- nard was at the head of the merchants who flood forwards for the fupport of public credit in 1745. It is mentioned as an inftance of his modefty that he could never be induced to enter the Royal Ex- change after his ftatue was placed there **. He died at Clapham in 1764, and was buried in the chancel of Mortlake church. Sir John Barnard publifhed a pamphlet on the propofal for reducing the in- tereft on the national debt. The two following inftances of longevity occur in the regifter : infiancescf , . . longevity. " Margaret Bourne widow, bemg as it was thought above one " hundred years old at her death, vv'as buried April 21, 1673." " William Bakerage, aged 103, buried Odl. 20, 1741." The parifh accounts, which are kept in the room over the veftry, Extrafts begin in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The following entries in j-ifh accounts. the year 1 646 are very charadleriftic of the times : £. s. d. " Paid for a covenant, and a frame to fet it in - 030 *' Paid two men for taking down the faunt - o 14 o *' Layd out when they carryed the common prayer " books to Margaret's-hill in Southwark, and " then to Klngfton - - o 14 o " Paid to a poor man that had been plundered - 004 " to a poor minifter - - -010 *' Paid for blotting out the cherubims in the church 026 " for a frame, and a whip that hangs in the " church for drunkards - - - - 010 By the affeffments made during the protedorate it appears that Lord Pack, Lord Pack, Lord Tichbourn, and Sir John Ireton, fome of Crom- bourn,andSir Johnlreton, *' Biograph. Brit. edit. 1789. ''•* Ibid. weirs 37^ Tradition of Cromwell at Mortlake. Edward Col- fton. Dr. Dee. MORTLAKE. well's city friends, had houfes at that time at Mortlake. Pack, who was commiffioner of the cuftoms and treafurer at war, brought in the bill to petition Cromwell to be king, and was by him promoted to the other houfe as it was called *'. Tichbourn, who refided fome years before at Mitcham, was alfo commiffioner of the cuftoms, and an alderman of London. He was one of King Charles's judges, and was made a peer by Cromwell "*. Sir John Ireton was an alder- man of London. In the afleffinent of 1660 the two latter are ftyled Alderman Tichbourn and Alderman Ireton. The former was tried among the regicides and convided. An ancient houfe at Mortlake, now on leafe to the Mifs Aynf- combs, is faid to have been the refidence of Cromwell. It is not very likely that he was an inhabitant there, but highly probable that he might have been a vifitor, as fo many of his friends lived in the neighbourhood, one of whom perhaps occupied this houfe. It may be obferved here, that there is fcarce a village near London in which there is not one houfe at leaft appropriated by tradition to Crom- well, though there is no perfon to whom they might be appropriated v/ith lefs probability. During the whole of the civil wars Cromwell was with the army ; when he was protedor, he divided his time between Whitehall and Hampton-Court. Mifs Aynfcomb's houfe was, during the prefent century, the refidence of a more amiable though a lefs celebrated man, the benevolent Edward Colflon, the great benefador to the city of Briftol and various other places, who in his life-time expended more than 70,000!. upon charitable inftitutions. He died there A. D. 1721 ". Among eminent perfons who have refided at Mortlake, the ce- lebrated Dr. Dee muft by no means be forgotten. His charader has been fo varioufly reprefented, and his hiftory is not only fo ex- tremely curious but fo much conneded with this place, that I truft ♦5 Myfteries of the good old Caufe, p. 44. '^^ Biographia Britannica. ♦^ Ibid. Ifhali M O R T L A K E. 377 I £hall be excufed if I enter more into its detail than is confiftent with the general plan of this v/ork. Dr. Dee was the fon of Rowland Dee, Gentleman Sewer to Hen- ry VIII. and grandfon of Bedo Dee, Standard-Bearer to Lord de Fer- rars at the battle of Tournay; if any credit is to be given to his pedigree in the Britifh Mufeum "^ drawn up by himfelf, he was de- fcended in a diredl line from Tudor the Great. His father was im- prifoned in the Tower in the year 1553. His mother Johanna Dee, lived at Mortlake as early as the year 1568. The greater part of the following account, except where other authorities are quoted, is taken from the MS. narrative of his life ", which he read to the com- miffioners at his houfe at Mortlake. John Dee was born in London A. D. 1527. At the age of 15 he went to the univerfity of Cambridge, where he applied himfelf to his ftudies with fuch diligence that he allowed only four hours for fleep and two for his meals and recreation. In 1547 he went abroad to converfe with learned men, particularly mathematicians ; and on his return the enfuing year was elected fellow of Trinity College, and made under-reader of the Greek language. He went to the Continent again foon afterwards ; and being then only 23 years of age, read public ledlures at Paris upon the Elements of Euclid to crowded audiences, and was vifited by perfons of the highefl: rank, who were anxious to become his pupils. In 1553 Edward VI. took him under his patronage, allowed him a penfion, and gave him the redlories of Upton-upon-Severn in Worcefterfhire, and Long Lednam in Lincolnfhire. About this time he was offered a handfome falary for reading ledures upon natural philofophy at Ox- ford. In Queen Mary's reign he was out of favour ; and being fuf- *^ Cotton Cart. Antiq. xiv. i. In this drawing of him in a far gown, pedigree he calls himfelf Johannes Dee, Philo- *' One copy of this narrative is among Dr. fophus, and maices himfelf coufin to the Dee's MSS. in the Britilh Mufeum, and ano- Queen ; at the botto.m is a fmall whole length ther in the Aihmolean Mufeum at Oxford. Vol. I. 3 C peded 378 M O R T L A K E. pedled of treafonable defigns, was committed to the cuftody of Bl- fhop Bonner, but efcaped better than his fellow-prifoner Green, who fuffered at the ftake. Queen Elizabeth, upon her accefllon to the throne, immediately took Dee under her patronage, and among other marks of her favour appointed him, though a layman, to the deanery of Gloucefter ; of which however he never got poffeflion. In 1575 the Queen, with feveral of the nobility, came to his houfe at Mortlake, with an intention of feeing his library, but hearing that his wife was lately dead, they did not enter the houfe. Dee at- tended her Majefty at the door, and explained to her the properties of a glafs which had occafioned much converfation, and given rife to a report that he was a magician. In 1578 he married Jane, daughter of Bartholomew Fromound, Efq. of Eaft-Cheam. In 158 1 he firft began his incantations in concert with one Edward Kelly. Al- bert Lafki, a Polifh nobleman of high rank, (and I have no doubt of large fortune, or he would not have anfwered their purpofe,) was ad- mitted into a kind of partnerfhip with them. They pretended to carry on their converfations with fpirits by means of a fhow-ftone, which Dee aflRrmed was given him by an angel. Kelly was the feer, who, when they had finiflied their invocations, was to report what fpirits he faw and what they faid ; whilft Dee, who fat at a table, noted all in a book. A folio volume of thefe notes was pub- lifhed by Cafaubon, and many more remain in MS. in the Britifh Mufeum. They contain the moft unintelligible jargon. The con- fecrated cakes of wax ufed in thefe ceremonies, marked with hiero- glyphics and mathematical figures, are alfo in the Mufeum. The Ihow-flone, which is a round piece of volcanic glafs finely polifhed, is in the Earl of Orford's colledlion at Strawberry-Hill. This farce was carried on for fome time, till at length the whole party having envolved themfelves in debt, they were obliged fuddenly to quit England. They left Mortlake Sept. 2 1 , 1583; the mob, who had always MORTLAKE. always been prejudiced againft him as a magician, immediately upon his departure broke into his houfe, and deftroyed a great part of his furniture and books. Meanwhile Dee and his friends haftened to Poland, where they flattered themfelves that they fhould meet with great encouragement through the intereft of Laiki ; but were griev- oufly difappointed in their expeftations, and reduced to great diftrefs. They then bent their courfe to Germany, but the Emperor baniflied them his dominions. At length in the year 1589 the Queen ordered him to return, being then in Bohemia '°. On his arrival in Eng- land he waited upon her Majefty at Richmond, and was very graci- oufly received. She afTured him that he might rely upon her pro- tedtion in the profecution of his ftudies. Having been in England three years without reaping any advantage from the promife which had been made him, he was induced to prefent a petition to the Queen, praying that flie would appoint commiflioners to inquire into the lofl"es and injuries which he had fuftained, the fervices he had done her Majefty, and the various difappointments which he had encountered. In confequence of this application Sir Thomas Gorge, Knt. and Mr. Secretary Wolley were adually appointed commifli- oners to hear his grievances, and fat as fuch at his houfe at Mort- lake, Nov. 22, 1592, to whom, fitting in his library, he related his cafe at large. In the meantime two tables were placed near him ; '° The following prayer (taken from Dee's " linked and vowed unto his hevenly Majefty MSS. in theBriti(h;Mufeum), which is in itfelf " (by the myniftry and comfort of his holy a curiofity, will give feme idea of the diftrefs " aungels) to lay fuch thinges as are the or- to which they were reduced whilft in Bohemia. " nament of our howfe and the coveringe of It is dated at Prague 1585 : " our bodies in pawne, either unto fuch as are " We defire, God, of his greate and infi- " rebels agaynft his Divine Majefty, the Jewes, " nite mercies, to grant us the helpeof his he- " or the people of this cytteye, which are " venly mynifters, that we may by them be " malicious and full of wicked flaunder.— " diredled how or by whom to be ayded and " 1 Jane Dee, humbly requeft this thing of " releafed in this neceflitie for meat and drinke " God, acknowledging myfelfe his fervant " for us and for our family, wherewith we " and hand-mayden, to whom I commit my " ftand at this inftant much opprefted ; and " body and fowle. Edward Kelly wrote this " the rather becaufc it might be hurtful to us, •' for jane Dee." N° 5007 Ayfcough's Cat. «' and the credit of the aftions wherein we are 3 C 2 on 379 380 M O R T L A K E. on one of them were the proper vouchers for the fads he aflerted, to which he conftantly referred ; on the other, all the printed books and MSS. which he had written. Among the fervices which he had rendered to the Queen he reckons fome confultations with her Majefty's phyficians at home, and a journey of 1,500 miles, which he undertook in the winter feafon, to hold a conference with the moft learned philofophers on the Continent upon the means of reftoring and preferving her health. In enumerating his lofTes he eftimates the damage fuftained in his library " at 390 1. His whole colledlion, which confifted of 4000 books, of which a great part were MSS. he valued at 2000 1. Among the latter he mentions a large col- ledtion of deeds and charters relating principally to eftates in Ireland v.'hich he got out of a ruined church. He fays, they had been ex- amined by heralds, clerks of the office of records in the Tower, and other antiquaries, who had fpent whole days at his houfe in looking them over ; and had taken away to their liking. His chemical ap- paratus, which coft him 200 1. was entirely deftroyed by the mob, when he left Mortlake in 1583 ; at the fame time they beat in pieces a fine quadrant of Chancellor's which coft him 20 1. and took away a magnet for which he gave ^^ ^- Among the many pro- mifes of preferment which had been made him to fo little effed, he particularly fpecifies Dr. Aubrey's benefices in the diocefe of St. David's, and the mafterfhip of St. Crofs. He concludes with defir- ing fpeedy relief, and gives his reafons for preferring the mafterfhip of St. Crofs to any other appointment, it being a retired fituation well adapted for his ftudies, with a good houfe annexed ; whereas his prefent fituation at Mortlake was too public, and his houfe too fmall to entertain the foreign literati who reforted to him. Upon the report of the commiffioners, " the Queen willed the Lady How- s' A catalogue of Dr. Dee's library, under Catalogue. There is another copy in the Bod- the name of Bibliotheca Mortlakienfis, is to be leian Library, found in the Britilh Mufeum, in the Harleian " ard M O R T L A K E. j8i *' ard to write fome words of comfort to his wife, and fend fome " friendly tokens befides;" fhe commanded Sir Thomas Gorge to take him loo marks, and faid, " that St. Crofs he fhould " have," and that the incumbent Dr. Bennet might be removed to fome bifhopric; and affigned him a penfion of 200 1. per annum out of the bifhopric of Oxford till it fhould become vacant. All thefe promifes, like the former, came to nothing ; the mafterfhip of St. Crofs he never got. The next year indeed he was prefented to the chancellorfhip of St. Paul's, but this was by no means adequate to his expedations ; and he continued to memorialife her majefly till at length he procured the wardenfliip of Manchefter in 1595''. Here he continued feven years, leading a very unquiet life, and continually engaged in difputes with the fellows. He returned to - Mortlake in 1604. King James at firfl patronized, but was af- terwards prejudiced againfl him and his ftudies; upon which Dee prefented a petition to his Majefly, and another in verfe to the Houfe of Commons, praying that he might be brought to trial, having been accufed of calling up evil fpirits ". Dr. Dee died at Mortlake in the year 1608, having been fo poor in the latter part of his life as to be obliged to fell his library piece-meal for fubfiflence ^*. He was buried in the chancel of Mortlake church, where Aubrey fays, an old marble ftone was fhown as belonging to his tomb ". The houfe where Dr. Dee lived is now the property of Richard Dee's hoafe. Godman Temple, Efq. as appears by a furvey of Mortlake '*, taken A. D. 1 61 7, where it is called an ancient houfe. It was mofl: pro- bably built in the reign of Henry VII. An old room ornamented with red and white rofes exifted a few years ago. '* Biographia Britannica. '" In this furvey Mr. Temple's houfe is '^ Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men, Har- defcribed as belonging to the heirs of Bartho- leianMSS. Brit. Muf. 7177. lomew Brickwood ; in the parifh accounts '* Lilly's Hiftory of his Life and Times, about the fame date, the houfe, which is aflefTed p. 148. as Bartholomew Brickwood's, is faid lately to " Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 82. have belonged to Mr. Dee. It 382 M O R T L A K E. It Is the opinion of fome writers, that Dee was employed by Queen Elizabeth as a Spy ", and fome have gone fo far as to fup- pofe that all the notes of his pretended converfations with fpirits were, in fa£l, political intelligence, couched in cyphers. As they contained a kind of jargon meaning nothing in itfelf, they might undoubtedly be ufed occafionally for fuch purpofes. Dee himfelf avers in his narrative, that he was taken into the Queen's fervice on her acceffion to the throne, when fhe promifed, that where her bro- ther had given him a crown, fhe would give him a noble. The inftances of her Majefty's attention to him were ftriking and nu- merous, and certainly prove either that fhe was indebted to him for real, or that he duped her by magnifying the importance of imaginary fervices. When he was fick, the Queen ordered her own phyficians to attend him, " fent him divers rarities to eat, and the honourable " Lady Sidney to attend on him, and comfort him with divers Queen Eliza- cc fpeechcs from her Majefty pithy and gracious''!" The Queen to Dr. Dee. frequently vifited him at his houfe at Mortlake ; one day flie came on horfeback, and " exhorted him to take his mother's death " patiently." Another time, as he defcribes it himfelf, " fhe came " from Richmond in her coach, the higher way of Mortlake field, " and when fhe came right againft the church, fhe turned down " (fays ho) towards my houfe, and when fhe was againft ray gar- " den in the field, her Majefly ftaid there a good while, and then " came into the field at the great gate of the field, where her Ma- *' jefty efpied mc at my door making reverent and dutiful obey- " fances to her ; and with her hand her Majefliy beckoned me to " come unto her, and I came to her coach-fide ; her Majefly then " very fpeedily pulled off her glove, and gave me her hand to kifs ; " and to be fhort, her Majefty willed me to refort oftener to her " Lilly, who lived foon after Dee, avers p. 146. pofitively that he was Qiieen Elizabeth's In- " Narrative of his Life, as above, Brit, telligencer. Hillory of his Life and Times, Muf. " court, M O R T L A K E. 383 " court, and by fome of her privy chamber, to give her to weete " when I am there "." Dee was undoubtedly a man of very great refearch and fmgular Charafter of Dee. learning, as is evident by his various writings both printed and MSS. in almoft every fcience. He wrote upon the reformation of the Gregorian calendar ; on the mode of propagating the Gofpel on the other fide of the Atlantic ; on geography ; natural philofophy, particularly optics ; mathematics ; metaphyfics ; aftronomy ; aftro- logy ; and the occult fciences. He wrote an account alfo of his voyage to St. Helena, and a treatife on the Queen's right to cer- tain foreign countries ; and proje£ted a fcheme for the prefervation of ancient MSS. by eftablifhing a general repofitory, a plan which is in a great meafure realifed by that noble national colledlon at the Britifli Mufeum. Whether with all his learning he was himfelf the dupe of an enthufiaftic imagination, or whether he availed himfelf of his knowledge to dupe others in an age when all ranks were given to credulity, may perhaps admit of a queftion. I own I am rather inclined to the latter opinion. As a proof of the fu- perftition and credulity of the age, it will not be amifs to mention that Dee was employed to determine according to the opinion of the ancient aftrologers, what day would be moft fortunate for Queen Elizabeth's coronation '°. Some time afterwards he was fent for by the lords of the council to counteraft the ill effeds which it was ap- prehended would befall the Queen from a waxen image of her Majefty ftuck full of pins, which was picked up in Lincoln's-inn-fields''. This we are told he performed " in a godly and artificial manner," in the prefence of the Earl of Leicefter, and Mr. Secretary Wilfon. Dr. Dee was much connected with the Earl, and has been accufed of being an inftrument in his nefarious defigns'\ He was much " MS. of Dr. Dee's in the Bodleian Li- »• Ibid, brary, among Smith's MSS. ' " England's Worthies, p. 229. *' MS. Narrative of his Life. patronized 384 M O R T L A K E. patronized and encouraged by Henry Earl of Northumberland", the Earl of Oxford, Sir Chrlflopher Hatton, Sir Henry Sidney, and other great men belonging to the court. So great was his reputation abroad, that he was offered great falaries by various foreign princes if he would fettle in their courts. The Emperor of Ruffia in par- ticular fent him a rich prefent, with an offer of conveying him and all his family to Peterfburgh, and promifmg to fettle an annu- ity of 2000 1. per annum upon him, and to grant him the rank of a privy counfellor. Thefe offers, it muft be obferved, were made be- fore his laft unfuccefsful journey to the Continent. Notwithftanding the Queen's patronage, and the various and rich prefents which he was conflantly in the habit of receiving, his un- bounded extravagance kept him always poor. His journey from Bohemia in 1589, which coft him '^ near 800I., will afford fome idea of his oflentation. He was attended by a guard of horfe, and travelled with three coaches befides baggage-waggons. The coaches, with harnefs for 12 horfes, he bought new upon the occafion. "When he arrived in England, he appears not to have been worth a penny, and to have fubfifted for the next three years upon the pre- carious bounty of his friends. During this period he received 500 1. in money, befides veffels of wine, whole fheep, pigs, wheat, fugar, and other commodities; he fold his wife's jewels, his own rarities, and whatever could be fpared out of his houfe ; at the end of the three years he was 2,33 h iti debt. With thefe expenditures, which according to the prefent value of money we muft eflimate at more than 1000 1. per annum, he tells us, that " with great parfimony " ufed, he preferved himfelf and his family from hunger, ftarving, *' and nakednefs ^^" Dr. Dee carried on his converfatlon with fpirits till the year before his death, at which time he feems to have ap- plied his pretended art to the difcovery of hidden treafure and flolen '^ Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. col. 492. '+ MS. Narrative of his Life, as above, iftedit. «5 ibid. goods. ILi^di/u) del. D^ J O II N 1) i: E ^hluh^J tu if\t .Ut datetJ JupiL/t ifi-at.fy' T.iaJeQ.SiMnd. M O R T L A K E. 385 goods", probably of procuring fome prefent fubfiftence from thofe who were filly enough to employ him. A portrait of Dr. Dee, taken at the age of 67, as appears by an infcription upon the canvas, is in the Afhmolean Mufeum at Oxford, where many of his MSS. are depofited. The annexed plate is copied from the picture juft men- tioned. Dr. Dee bore for his arms. Gules, a lion rampant Or, within a border indented of the fecond. The following creft was granted him in 1576. A lion feiant gardant, Or, holding in his dexter gamb a crofs formee fitchee Azure ; on the crofs, a label with this motto, *' Hie labor ;" and his fmifter gamb on a pyramid Argent, on it a la- bel with this motto, " Hoc opus." Francis Dee, Bifliop of Peter- borough, was coufin of Dr. Dee, being defcended from his grand- father Bedo, called in the Vifitation of the County of Salop, the great Bedo Dee. Arthur Dee was born at Mortlake in 1579, on the fame day that Arthur Dee. his grand-father Bartholomew Fromound died, which his father con- fidered as an ill omen. Anthony Wood, with his ufual credulity, fays, that when a child he frequently played at quoits with gold plates which his father made at Prague by tranfmutation. At eight years of age he was employed by his father as his Jkrycr. He was educated at the univerfity of Oxford, and being bred up to phyfic, pra£tifed in London ; where he was profecuted by the College of Phyficians for putting a board over his door with a lift of medicines. King James recommended him to the Emperor of Ruflia, who made him his phyfician. He refided in that country fourteen years ; and on his return was appointed phyfician to Charles I. Dr. Arthur Dee publiflicd a treatife on the hermetical i'cience, and left behind him fome MSS. He died at Norwich in 1651 ^\ ** Dee's Converfations with Spirits, pub- *' Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 140 — liihed by Cafaubon. The lall conference is 142. dated Mortlake, 1607. Vol. I. 3 D, Anfti?, 386 M O R T L A K E. Anftls. Tapeftryma- nufaftory. Gibfon the painter. Anftis, the Garter King at Arms, author of the Regifter of the Garter, and fome pamphlets on the Office of Earl Mar- fhal, refidetl at Mortlake, and died at his houfe there March 4, 1744". A manufactory of fine tapeftry (being its firft introdudion into England) was eftabliflied here in the year 161 9 by Sir Francis Crane, who bought fome premifes of Mr. Juxon for that purpofe"'. The King patronized the undertaking, and gave 2,000 1. towards it as an encouragement '°. Francis Cleyne, an ingenious artift, coming to England foon afterwards under the patronage of Sir Robert An- ftruther, was employed as a defigner, and raifed the credit of the ma- nufactures to a very high degree". The King granted him a pen- fion of 100 1. per annum", and made him a free denizen". In the firft year of King Charles, Sir Francis Crane, to whom his Majefty owed 6000 1. procured a penfion of i,oool. per annum'*. After his death, his brother Sir -Richard fold the premifes to the King. During the civil war they were feized as the property of the crown. In the Survey" taken by order of parliament the Tapeftry- houfe is defcribed as containing one room 82 feet in length, and 20 in breadth, with 12 looms ; another about half as long with 6 looms ; and a great room called the limning-room. This manufactory oc- cupied the fite of Queen's-head Court. The old houfe, on the oppofite fide of the road, was built by Charles I. for the refi- dence of Francis Cleyne'*. Gibfon, the dwarf, who had been page to a lady at Mortlake, was a fcholar of Cleyne". During the pro- tectorate the Tapeftry-houfe remained in the occupation of John " Venue's MSS. at the Earl of Orford's, Strawberry Hill. *» Parliamentary Survey, Augmentation- ofEce. '" Fuller's Worthies. "*' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 127, 128. ''* Rymer's Foedera, vol. xviii. p. 112. " Ibid. p. 96. '♦ Lloyd's Worthies. " Augmentation-office. '* Survey as above. ^' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p. 64.— There are prints both of Gibfon and Cleyne in the Anecdotes. Holliburie, MORTLAKE, 387 Holllburle, who In the Survey is mentioned as the mafler workman. After the Reftoration, Charles II. intended to revive the manufa£ture, and fent to Verrio to fketch the defigns, but his intention was never carried into execution ". In the Survey above-mentioned the Tapeftry-houfe is valued at 50 I. per annum ; the painter's houfe at 9I. About fifty years ago a manufadtory of delf and earthen-ware Manufaaory was eftablifhed here by Mr. William Sanders, which is ftill carried on by his fon. In the year 1628 John Juxon, Efq. founded four alms-houfes for Juxon'salms- poor widows. They were endowed by himfelf, his fon, and grand- fon, with 1 7 1. 2 s. per annum ; and were further augmented by Mrs. Elizabeth Heneage, in 1775, with an annuity of 13I. The widows now receive 2 s. 6 d. per week, befides clothes at ftated times. Henry Smith, Efq. gave 3 1. per annum to the poor. Thomas Various be- Scales in 1640 gave 5 1. los. per annum to be diftributed in bread j a certain portion every Sunday, Mrs. Ann Clark gave the intereft of 100 1. to be diftributed among the poor on St. Stephen's day. Lady Thorold, the intereft of 260 1. to be divided between fix poor men on the firft of November, on condition that Mr. Coventry's vault fhould not be removed ; otherwife the benefadion to go to the parirti of Barnes. Mrs. Ann Smyth, in 1733, gave the intereft of 100 1. to four of the pooreft houfekeepers on Chriftmas-day. The fum of 260 1. has been left by various perfons for the pui"pofe of buying coals for the poor, and 320 1. to apprentice children and pay widows' rents. Louifa Durour left 50 1. to the poor; and Nicho- las Langley, Efq. in 1783, the fame fum. The parifli fund at prefent amounts to 1,1301. South-Sea ftock, which is vefted in truftees. '" Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p- 35- 3 D 2 * Lady 388 M O R T L A K E. Charity- Lady Capel, by her will dated 171 9, left ill. per annum to fchool. eftablifti a charity-fchool here, which being augmented by the col- ledions at an annual fermon, the parifh are enabled to clothe and educate twenty children. Thomas Whitfield, Efq. lord of the manor of Eaft-Sheen and Weft-hall, gave the premifes of the Star and Garter towards the re- pairs of the church. East- Eaft-Sheen is a pleafant hamlet in this parifh, fituated on a rifing ground confiderably above the level of the river. It contains about ninety houfes. Here are feveral handfome villas ; the vicinity to Richmond-park, and the beauty of the furrounding country, mak- ing it a defirable fituation. [ 389 ] . NEWINGTON BUTTS. THIS place is not mentioned in the Conqueror's Survey, but a church at Walworth is there noticed ; whence it feems probable, that at the re-building of that church upon a new fite it was furrounded with houfes, which obtained the appellation of Neweton, as it is called in all the moft ancient records. It was afterwards fpelt Newenton, and Newington. There is little doubt but that it received its additional name from the butts placed there for archers to fhoot at. The firft record, in which it is written Newington Butts, is dated 1558'. In Henry VIII.'s time butts were fet up in the fields near London by authority. There are two patents printed at large in Wood's Bowman's Glory; the one of James I. and the other of Charles I. by which thofe monarchs ordained that the butts, which had been deftroyed in confequence of the inclofures, fhould be reftored as they were in the reign of Henry VIII. ^ New- • Regill, Lamb. Pole, fol. 77. b. " Aflbciatestheworlhipful Citizens of London * Among other privileges granted to the " on Tuefday Sept. 17, 1583 ; fet forth ac- archers by thefe patents, it was ordained, that " cording to the Truth thereof, to the ever- if any one was killed by an arrow near the " lafting Honour of the Game of Shooting in public butts, the perfon who (hot the arrow " the Long-bow." (London 1682.) Henry fhould not be liable to punifhment. It may be VIII. made feveral matches for archers at thought, perhaps, by the lovers of archery, not Windfor, at one of which he named one Barlo uninterefting to mention, that the pradlice of their duke, who living at Shoreditch, thence that art as a recreation has never been laid afide obtained the title of Duke of Shoreditch. for any length of time fmce the long-bow was This fliam title being kept up, one of his fuc- ufsd in the field of battle. The following par- cefTors, attended by feveral other mock nobles, ticulars relating to its revival at various times, fuch as the Earl of Pancras, the Marquifles of are taken from a fcarce pamphlet, entituled Iflington, Clerkenwell, Hoxton, &c. prefided " A Remembrance of the worthy Show and at the grand difplay, which is the chief fub- " Shooting by the Duke of Shoreditch and his jeft of the pamphlet ; and which took place in Hoxtoa 39<^ NEWINGTON BUTTS. Situation> boundaries, extent, &c. Manor of Walworth. Newington Butts lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, at the diftance of about a mile from London Bridge. It is bounded by the parifh of Lambeth on the weft ; by that of St. George, Southwarkj on the eaft and north ; and by Camberwell on the fouth. The parifh is of very fmall extent. The land, which is not covered with houfes, confifts of little more than three hundred acres, about a third part of which is occupied by market gardeners. The remainder is for the moft part pafture ; the foil, fand and gra- vel. The parifh is afleffed 907 1. is. 8 d. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of i s. 2 d. in the pound. The only manor in this parifh is that of Walworth, now a ham- let to Newington, and the birth-place probably q£ the celebrated citizen who bore its name. King Edmund gave this manor to his jefter Nithardus, who in the reign of St. Edward, being about to make a pilgrimage to Rome, obtained a licence from that monarch to give it to the church of Canterbury \ This manor in Doomfday Book, called Waleorde, is faid to have been held in the time of William the Conqueror by Bainardus of the Archbifhop of Canter- bury, and to have been appropriated to the fupport of the monks. at the felting up of her Majefty's Staie. Charles I. granted a licence to Benjamin Aw- ften, to fet up butts for archers to (hoot at, and to take a penny for eight (hots of every archer that was willing to pay for the fame, for the fpace of fourteen years. (Pat. ii Car. I. pt. II. July 11.) In 1 66 1 there was " a " glorious Ihow," as it is called in the pam- phlet abovementioned, by 400 archers in Hyde Park, before his Majefty ; another in Moor- fields in 1676, and at Hampton-court in 1681 ; when the archers (hot at the diftance of eight fcore yards, for a prize of plate valued at 30I. The more modern hiftory of archery is well known. ' Cartulary of the fee of Canterbury in the Bodleian Library, p. 36, 37. King Ethelred's Confir.-nation of the Grant, A" 1006, p. 32. Hoxton (ields. The number of archers who fliot was 3,000, the whole proceflion con- firted of 4,100 perfons befides 300 pages and henchmen, who all marched through the city with various pageants and devices. The drefs of the archers is defcribed as being very fplendid : fome wore black vel- vet jerkins with fatin doublets ; but moft of them were dre(red in fatin and ta{Feta, with talFeta hats ; 94Z were ornamented with chains of gold, the reft had large green fcarves, or ribbons of various colours, but for the moft part green. They (hot at the diftance of feven fcore and eight yards, and afterwards partook of a grand entertainment at the Biihop of London's houfe, which he lent them for that purpofe. About the fame time there was a grand difplay of archery in St. Martin's-fields, It N E W I N G T O N BUTTS. 391 It had been valued at 30 s. and at 20 s. but was then worth 3 1. and in 1291 was taxed at 10 1. It now belongs to the dean and chapter of Canterbury. In the reign of Henry III. the Queen's goldfmith held an acre of land in Newington by the fervice of rendering a gallon of honey to the King *. It feems probable, as was before obferved, that the church be- The church, longing to this pari{h has been removed from Walworth to its pre- fent fite fmce the Conqueft. Newington church appears to have been originally a very fmall ftrudure ; Sir Hugh Brawne added a north aifle about the year 1600. In the year 1704, feveral hundred pounds were expended in repairing and ornamenting the church, unfortunately to very little purpofe, for in the month of July 1720, the congregation having been very much alarmed by a fudden crack in the wall during the time of divine fervice, it was found neceffary upon a furvey, that the whole building, except the tower, fhould be taken down. The dimenfions of the old church being only 43 feet from eaft to weft, and 54 from north and fouth, it was determined to increafe the new ftrudure to 62 and 58. The tower, a low Iquare building of flint and ftone, was left ftanding. The ex- pences of the re-building were eftimated at 926 1. for which fum a brief was obtained. The new church was opened on the 26th of March 1721. Being found inadequate to the increafed number of inhabitants, an a£t of parliament was obtained during the laft feC- fion for rebuilding it upon a larger fcale. The workmen began to take down the old tower on the 19th of June, and the architedt is under a contrad to complete the new church by Midfummer 1793. The eftimate of the expence amounts to 2,500!. The length of the intended ftrudure is to be 87 feet, the breadth 58 as before. It is to be built of brick, in the modern ftyle, without ♦ N-sis, HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. f. 20. detached 392 NEWINGTON BUTTS. detached aifles, and to have fpacious galleries for the accommoda- tion of a numerous congregation. At the weft end is to be a turret and cupola. Tombs and Having examined the church a few days before the workmen began to take it down, I fhall fpeak of the tombs and monuments as they were then fituated. In the chancel were the monuments of James Reading, Efq. who died in 1694, and of Mr. Richard Day, who died in 1784; and flat ftones to the memory of William Tafwell, who died in 173 1, and Nathaniel Hough, D. D. who died in 1737, both re£lors of this parifh ; of James Tafwell, who died in 1710; James Tracy, Efq. Adam Hayes, who died in 1 773 J and Adam Hayes, Efq. one of Lord Anfon's companions in his voyage round the world, who died in 1785. In the north aifle was the monument of Sir Hugh Brawne, Knt. who died in 1614, and the tomb of Mrs. Sarah Crawford, who died in 1766, and Mrs. Martha Crawford, who died in 1786. Againft the pillars of the nave were the monuments of Thomas Inwen, Efq. who died in 1743, and Mr. Richard Boulton, who died in 1750. On the floor, flat ftones to the memory of Marga- George ret wife of William Allen, Efq. of Antigua ; and Mr. George Powell, who died in 1 704. The Editor of Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey fays, that the latter was called King of the Gipfies, and that he died in very flouriftiing circumftances. Capt. Wag- In the fouth aifle was a tablet to the memory of Capt. Waghorn, a naval ofiicer, who efcaped from the Royal George at the time of the fatal cataftrophe which happened to that fhip. He died in 1787. Serjeant At the weft end was the tomb of William Davy, Efq. ferjeant at law, whofe profefllonal abilities are well remembered ; he died in 1786. Under the belfry was the tomb of Mr. WiUiam Dale, fur- gcon, who died in 17 18. The N E W I N G T O N BUTTS. 393 The church-yard was enlarged by aO: of parliament 29 Geo. II. Church- yard. The moft confpicuous monument there is that of William Allen, who Monument was killed by the foldiers in St. George's Fields in the year 1768. Allen. The infcription aflerts that he was " inhumanly murdered on the loth of May by Scottifh detachments from the army." There are alfo fome verfes and texts of fcripture, which feem to be applied with a very unjuftifiable fpirit of rancour, as an excufe for which it muft be admitted that the monument was erected during the height of party rage, and in the firft tranfports of refentment by pa- rents who had loft an only fon. The account of the riots which took place in St. George's Fields in 1768, and the circumftances of this tranfadlion are detailed in many of the publications of that time. It appears that Allen was illegally killed, whether he was concern- ed in the riots or not, as he was fhot apart from the mob at a time when he might, if neceffary, have been apprehended and brought to juftice. The acquittal of the foldier who was tried for his murder, made a great clamour at the time, though it appears that the weight of evidence preponderated much in his favour, and proved to the fatisfadlion of the jury that he was not the perfon who fired the gun. The church- yard contains alfo, among others, the tombs of the Various tombs. following perfons: — Mrs. Emblem Richardfon, governefs of a board- ing-fchool, who died in 1743; William White, Gent, of the Inner Temple, who died in 1769 ; Capt. John Diddear, who died in 1773 ; Benjamin, fon of Timothy Bennet, M. D. who died in 1773 ; Bar- nabas Mayor, fellow and one of the directors of the fociety of artifts of Great Britain, who died in 1774; James Abernithy, Efq. who died in 1781 ; the Reverend James Haflel, redlor of North Rung- ton, Norfolk, who died in 1781 ; Leverfidge Brandon, who died in 1785 ; Mary, relidl of Captain Peter Guerin, who died Vol. I. 3 E in 394 NEWINGTON BUTTS. in 1785; Sibella, wife of Benjamin Batley, Efq. who died in 1787; Elizabeth, wife of Captain Magnus Henderfon, who died in 1790; Clariffa, wife of Captain Robert Rayne, in the mi- litary fervice of the Eaft-India Company, who died in 1791 ; and John Robfon, Efq. who died the fame year. Reaory. The church of Newington Butts, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is in the peculiar jurifdidtion of the Archbifhop of Canterbury. The advowfon of. the reftory belonged to that fee till the time of Archbifhop Cranmer, who gave it to Henry VIII. * It was granted by him ', and confirmed by Edward VI. * to Nicholas, Bifhop of Worcefler and his fucceflbrs, to whom it ftill belongs. In King John's reign the redtory was valued at eight marks' ; in 1 29 1 at twenty-two marks \ It was prefented to the commiffion- ers appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that the redory of Newington Butts was worth about ml. per annum, and that Mr. Thomas Wadfworth the redtor, who officiated there and received the profits, was placed there by the Lord Pro- tedtor'. In the King's books the redory is valued at 16I. per annum. The parfonage-houfe, which is built of wood, appears to be very ancient ; it is furrounded by a moat, which has four bridges. Rediors. Tobias Crifpe, prefented by the leflees under the Bifhop of Crifpc. Worcefler in 1627, enjoyed this living only a few months ; being removed on account of a fimoniacal contra£t'°. He was author of fome volumes of fermons, to one of which his portrait is pre- fixed. ♦ Regift. Lamb. Sancroft, f. 391. b. 392.3. ' See note, p. 10. ' Grants by Henry VIII. Augmentation- ' Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS. office. Library. « Grants by Edw. VI. Ibid. " Reg. Abbot, pt. z. f. 358. b. & pt. 3. ' HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. N'sijjf.zo. f. 183. Thomas NEWINGTON BUTTS. 395 Thomas Wadfworth above-mentioned wrote feveral tradts, which Thomas were colledted after his death, and publifhed with his portrait, un- der the title of Wadfworth's Remains. Nicholas Lloyd, inftituted in 167%". was author of a hiftorical. Nicholas . . . . . Lloyd. geographical, and poetical didlionary. He died in 1680, leaving behind him feveral unpublifhed MSS. confifting principally of commentaries and tranflations '% Edward Stillingfleet, prefented to this redtory by his father the Edward Stil- . . lingfleet. Bifliop of Worcefter in 1698, kept it only a few months, having made an exchange with Dr. Tafwell for fome preferment in Nor- folk. Mr. Stillingfleet was bred to the (ludy of phyfic, and was profeflbr of that fcience in Grefiiam College "^ William Tafwell, who fucceeded Mr. Stillingfleet, has inferted in vviiiiam Taf- well. the parifh regifter much ufeful information concerning the glebe land, tithes, and other emoluments of the church, and fome notes relating to his predecefTors and the ftate of the parifh. He is fuppofed to have been the author of an anonymous pamphlet, written to contradidl the exaggerated account of a cure performed at Newington, by Roger Grant, an oculift, on a boy born blind. In Grant's narrative Dr. Tafwell is falfely faid to have been pre- fent at the operation, and his name was without his authority or knowledge fubjoiaed to a certificate of the cafe. The prefent redor of Newington is the Right Reverend Sa- muel Horfley, Bifliop of St. David's, well known for his many learned writings in defence of the dodrines of the Church of England. " Reg. Sheldon, f. 315. a. " Ward's Lives of the Profeflbrs of Gref- " Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v. ham College, vol. ii. p. 282. p. 139-142. 3 E 2 The 39(> N E W I N G T O N BUTTS. Parirti re- giller. Comparative Hate of popu- lation. Plague. Licence to eat flefli. Inftances of longevity. Average of Burials. 221 The parifh regifter begins in 156 1, but is very imperfe£l till about the year 1670, from which time it appears to have been ac- curately kept. Average of Baptifms. 1680— 1689 158 1780— 1789 — 204 . 332 The increafe of population does not appear fo great, by the above comparative average, as it has really been ; a circumftance which is to be attributed to the number of dilTenters in this parifh. Do£lor Tafvvell calculated the houfes at only 660 in the beginning of the century ; they are now about 1 800 in number. The prefbyterian diffenters have a meeting-houfe here, but no burial ground. In 1625, four hundred and five perfons died of the plague here in the months of July and Auguft. At the beginning of one of the regifter books is the following licence to eat flefh, which is of a more limited nature than any which I have obferved elfewhere : " I James Fludd, Dodlor in Divinity, and Parfon of the church " of St. Marie Newington in Surrey, do give licenfe unto Mrs. " Ann Jones of Newington, the wyfe of Evan Jones, Gentleman, " being notorioufly ficke, to eate flefh this time of Lent, during the " time of ficknefs onlye, according to lawe in that cafe provided ; " videlicet, in the 5th of Eliz. chap. 5. and i Jacob, chap. 29. pro- " vided alwaies that duringe the time of her ficknefle fhe eate no " beife, veale, porke, mutton, or bacon. In witnefs whereof we " have hereunto fet our hands and feal. Dated the 8th of March " 1619." The following inftances of longevity occur in the parifh regifter. " Edward Allen, aged 107 years and upwards, buried Jan. 20, " 1685. « Sarah N E \V I N G T O N BUTTS. 397 " Sarah Wood, aged ^oi, j ^^^^^^^ ^ il ^^^ " Mary Ralf, aged 100, ] " ^ J ' / " Chriftopher Coward, aged 102, buried Dec. 16, 1703. " Widow Jeweller, aged 106, buried Aug. 30, 1706." Mr. Simmons, ia the year x6ii, left to the poor of this parifh, Benefaaions. a farm at Weft Tilbury, which now produces 18I. i6s. 8d. per annum. Mr. Humphrey Williams gave fome houfes in Kent-ftreet, for the maintenance of four poor widows ; they now produce 22 1. ids. per annum. Mr. Henry Smith gave lol. per annum to the poor; the eftate out of which this benefadion is paid, having been late- ly advantageoufly exchanged with the Duke of Dorfet, it is expected to be confiderably augmented. Mr. Robert Hidfon, in 1675, left i 1. per annum to two blind widows. Mrs. Atkinfon left the intereft of 1,600 1. South-Sea ftock, which amounts to 48 1. 3 s. 6 d. to be di- vided between fix old maids. Four pounds per annum have been left to the poor by Mr. Marfhal, Mr. Canon, and Mr. Mafon. A few other legacies have been bequeathed by various perfons, par- ticularly 40 1. by John Hacket, with this fingular condition, that his bones fhould not be removed till the day of judgment ; and 50 1. by Thomas Barge, to clothe and educate children. Befides thefe benefaftions, the parifh is alfo poflefled of fome eftates Pariih eftates. of confiderable value, particularly Walworth common, which was in- clofed by adl of parliament, and is worth about 300 1. per annum ; and the Elephant and Caftle, and King and Queen inns, both of which were purchafed by the parifh, and produce iiol. per annum. The Drapers' alms-houfes, founded by Mr. John Walter in 1651 Drapers' r- ,,,. .^ 1-11 1 • •^ r ••' Alms-houfes. are ntuated m this parifh, which has the privilege or appointing fix of its own parifhioners. They receive five fhillings each monthly, and half a chaldron of coals, to which the parifh officers add a weekly penfion, as they fee fit. The remainder are appointed by the Drapers' company. The ftatutes of thefe alms-houfes are printed at large in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey ". •5 Vol. V. p. 142 — 154. A part 398 NEWINGTON BUTTS. Fidimongers' alms-houfes. Hofpital of St. Cathe. rine. Great flood. Theatre. A part of the Fiflimongers' alms-houfes is alfo in this parlfh ; but they have no other connexion with it. There was formerly an hofpital of our Lady and St. Catherine, at Newington, which continued till Febuary 1 551, when their prodtor, "William Cleybrooke, had a licence to beg '°. In the year 1755, on the 30th of September, there was fo great a flood at Newington, that the people could not pafs from the church on foot, but were obliged to be conveyed in boats " to the pin- •' folds near St. George's in Southwark "." In the beginning of the laft century there was a theatre in this parifli, at which the Lord Admiral's and the Lord Chamberlain's fervants performed ". "> Tanner's Notltia Monaft. p. 516, " Stow's Chron. " Malone's Hiftory of the Stage, prefixed to his edition of Shakfpeare, p. 294. [ 399 ] PETERSHAM. THIS parifla lies in the hundred of Kingfton, at the dlflance Situation, of about nine miles from Hyde-park-corner. It is bounded Boundaries, by the river Thames, and by the parifhes of Kingfton and Rich- mond. It includes a part of Richmond-park. The land is prin- cipally pafture and meadow ; and the foil for the moft part fand. The parifh is aflefled the fum of 126 1. i6s. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of 4 s. in the pound. The village lies low, but the furrounding fcenery is extremely beautiful. The manor at the time of the Conqueft belonged to the Abbey The manor. of St. Peter at Chertfey, from which circumftance, no doubt, the place derived its name \ The Abbot of Chertfey having given it to Henry V.' it continued for a confiderable time in the hands of the crown. It was fettled among other lands upon Ann of Cleve, who furrendered it to Edward VI.'' James I. leafed it to George Cole, Efq. ^ and it has fmce undergone the fame alienations as the manor of Ham, being now the property of Lionel Earl of Dyfart. James II. granted a leafe of a manfion here to Vifcount Corn- Peteriham bury *. This houfe, being then the property of the Earl of Rochef- ° ^^' ter, was burnt down by accident on the firft of Odlober 1721. William the firft Earl of Harrington re-built it, after a defign of the Earl of Burlington. On the death of the late Earl, it was fold • Cl. 3Hen. V. ni. n. mentation-ofHce. * Records in the Augmentation-office. * Pat. 2 Jac. II. pt. 7. N° i6. ' 6 Jac. I. Parliamentary Survey, Aug- to 400 PETERSHAM. to Lord Camelford, who in the year 1784 purchafed the fee-fimple of the crown, an hOl of parliament being procured for that purpofe. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Clarence bought it of Lord Camel- ford in the year 1790, and refides there during the fummer feafon. The pleafure-grounds are fpacious and beautiful, extending to Rich- mond Park, a fmall part of which has lately been added to them, by a grant from his Majefty, including the Mount; where, as tradition fays, Henry the Vlllth flood to fee the fignal for Ann BuUen's execution. Sudbrook. Sudbrook, an ancient hamlet' in this parifh, is now a fingle houfe, the property and refidence of Lady Greenwich, as it was of her father John Duke of Argyle, the celebrated ftatefman. The church. There was a church at Peterfham at the time of the Conqueft. The prefent ftrudture was ereded in the year 1505, as appears by a note in the parifh regifter, which adds, I prefume, on the autho- rity of tradition only, that it was built on the fouth-fide of the abbey. I have met with no account or record of a religious houfe at Peterfham. The church belonged to Merton Abbey, as the manor did to that of Chertfey. The prefent church is a brick build- ing in the form of a crofs ; it confifts of a nave, chancel, and two tranfepts ; on the weft-fide is a low tower. In the chancel is the monument of George Cole, Efq. who died in 1624. Under an arch lies his eflBgy habited in a black robe and a ruff. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs of his fon and grandfon. On the north wall is a tablet to the me- mory of Thomas Gilbert, Efq. who died in 1766. In the nave is the tomb of Robert Scott, Efq. of Horfley-Hill, Colonel of the 6th regiment of foot, who died in 1770. In the fouth tranfept is the monument of Sir Thomas Jenner, Knt. fucceffively Baron of Tombs. ' It is mentioned in a record of 1266, Cotton MSS. Brit.Muf. Cleopatra, C. vii. the PETERSHAM. 401 the Exchequer and Juftice of the Court of Common Pleas, who died in 1707, and the tomb of Henry Green, who died in 1654, In the north tranfept is a monument to the memory of Jane, daughter of James Long, Efq. of Draycott, who died in 1651, and the tombs of Colonel William Duckett, who died in 1749; Nathaniel Scott, Efq. who died in 1770, and Mary, wife of Sir James Cockburn, Bart, who died in 1766. In the church-yard are the tombs of the followine: perfons: — Various ^ ° '^ tombs in the Samuel Bugby, merchant, who died in 1710, and Bartholomew church- Hammond, Efq. who died in 1777; Peter, fon of Claudius Fon- nereau, LL.D. who died in 1759; John Marke, Efq. who died in 1763 ; John Gray, Efq. who died in 1769; Nicholas Sprimont, Efq. who died in 1771 ; Elizabeth, wife of Richard Hay, Efq. who died In 1774; Rebecca, wife of John Briftow, Efq. who died in 1775; John Crockatt, Efq. who died in 1777; the Re- verend George Tilfon, M. A. who died in 177S ; and Anna Maria, wife of John Bulley, Efq. who died in 1790. The church of Peterfham is dedicated to St. Peter, and is in Vicarage, the diocefe of Winchefter and the deanery of Ewell. It was a chapel of eafe to Kingfton upon Thames till the year 1769, when by a£l of parliament it was feparated from the mother-church ; and being confolidated with Kew they were made one vicarage, as mentioned in the account of that parifh. In the year 1266 divine fervice having been difcontinued in the chapel of Peterfham, an agreement was made between the Prior of Merton and the inhabitants of this parifli, that a chaplain fhould officiate there every Sunday, Wednefday, and Friday, on the following terms: — That the Prior and Convent fliould allow him a certain por- tion of grain annually out of the tithes ; and that the parifhioners, on their part, fhould give him a bufhel of rye for every virgate, or Vol-. I. 3 JF tea 402 PETERSHAM. ten acres of land*. In the year 1658 it was prefented to the commiflioners appointed by Cromwell to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that Peterfham was a fmall chapel de- pendant on Kingfton ; that the tithes were worth about 5 1. per annum ; and that it was without a fettled curate. It was deter- mined therefore, that Peterfham fliould be made a feparate and diftindl parifh ; that the hamlets of Ham and Hacche fliould be annexed to it ; and that all the tithes Ihould be appropriated to the maintenance of the minifter ^ The prefent incumbent is the Reverend William Fofter. Pariihregif- The parifh regifter begins in 1570; but the early part is very impertea. Average of Bapdfms. Average of Burials. Comparative 1 682 — 169I ■ 3 — — 8 (lateofpopu- lation. 1780 — 1789 9 20 The increafe of population may be afcertained in fome meafure by the average of baptifms ; that of burials is a very uncertain criterion, as in fome years more than two-thirds of the latter are brought from neighbouring parifhes. The prefent number of houfes is 53. The following entry of the marriage of the Duke and Duchefs of Lauderdale feems worth recording : Marriacre of " The ryght honorable John Earl of Lauderdale ' was married to Duchefrof" " '^^ ^yg^''^ honorable Elizabeth CountefTe of Defert, by the Re- " verend Father in God (Walter) Lord Bifhop of Worcefter, in the " church of Peterfham, on the 17th day of Februarie 1 671-2, " publiquely in the time of reading the common-prayer; and, gave " the carpet, pulpit-cloth, and cufhion." * Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C.vii. ^Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. b. 147. In this record 225 acres are charged. Library, paying 22 bulhels and an half. ° Created a duke in 1672. The Lauderdale. PETERSHAM. 403 The Ductiefs of Lauderdale was buried in the church of Peter- fham June 16, 1696. There is no monument to her memory. The following inftance of longevity occurs in the regifter : Inrtance of Mr. Hugh Sims, aged 100, was buried Dec. 10, 1789. s^"/- Mr. Henry Smith left the fum of 4I. per annum to the poor Benefaaion. of this parifh. 3 F2 r 404 ] U T N E Y. Name. f d ^HE name of this place Is of very uncertain etymology. In -*■ Doomfday book it is called Putelei ; in all fubfequent records, till the 1 6th century, it is fpelt Puttenheth, or Pottenheth ; fmce which period it has obtained the name of Putney. Stebenheth has in the fame manner been contracted to Stepney. Leland, fpeaking of this village in his Cygnea Cantio ', diftin- guifhes it with the appellation of " Puttenega amasnum." Sitaation, Putney lies in the weftern diN-ifion of Brixton hundred, and is and extent.' fituated on the banks of the Thames, at the diftance of four miles from Hyde-park- corner. It is bounded on the north by the river; on the weft by the pariflies of Barnes and Mortlake ; on the fouth by that of Kingfton ; and on the eaft by thofe of Wimbledon and AVandfworth. In a very ancient terrier, this parifli is faid to con- tain 94 yard-lands, or 1,410 acres''; a furvey taken 13 Hen. VII. defcribes it as confifting of 1,239^ acres; another of a later date (1612 *) increafes the number of acres to 1,630. The wafte land is very extenfive, confifting of a fmall common adjoining to that of Barnes, the whole of Putney heath, and the greater part of Wim- bledon common, in which the pariihes are marked out by pofts placed from north to fouth. The cultivated land is principally ara- ble, including about 120 acres, occupied by the market gardeners, and thirty employed as nurfery grounds by Mr. Howey. Two ' Prefixed to the 9th vol. of his Itinerary. ' Records of the manor of Wimbledon. * Records of the manor of Wimbledon. * Ibid. hundred PUTNEY. 405 hundred and thirty acres of Richmond-park are in this parifh, two hundred of which are cultivated. The foil of this place con- fifts chiefly of fand and gravel ; there is fome clay. The parifli of Putney, esxlufive of the hamlet of Roehampton, is afTeffed at the fum of 549 1. 12 8. yd. to the land tax, which this year, (1792,) is at the rate of i s. 3 d. in the pound. Putney has had the honour of producing two eminent ftatefmen, Nicholas Weft, Bifliop of Ely, and Thomas Cromwell, Earl of EfTex, both of whom, born of humble parentage, rofe, by their own merit and abilities, to the higheft ftations in church and ftate. Weft was the fon of a baker. In 1477 he was chofen fcholar of Nicholas ^' ' Weft, Bifliop King's College, Cambridge, where his condudl was fuch as gave of Ely, little hopes of his future eminence, and juftified Fuller's expreflion, who calls him " a Rakehell in grain '." Among others of his vi- cious pranks, he fet fire to the Provoft's lodgings, for which he was expelled the univerfity. But in him, fays Fuller, was verified the old proverb, naughty boys make good men : he feafonably re- trenched his wildnefs, turned hard ftudent, was again admitted at the univerfity, and became an eminent fcholar and a moft able ftatefman. Flis firft preferment was the vicarage of Kingfton-upon- Thames. He afterwards became a favourite of Henry VIII. who, after beftowing upon him other preferments, made him Biftiop of Ely, and employed him in various embaflies. Queen Catherine chofe him as one of her advocates, in conjunction with Bifhop Fifher. His ftyle of living was fo magnificent, that he is faid to have kept in his houfe a hundred fervants, to fifty of whom he gave four marks wages, to the others forty ftiillings, allowing every one of them four yards of cloth for his winter livery, and three yards and a half for his fummer livery '. Biflaop Weft died April 6, 1533, and lies buried in Ely cathedral. 5 Fuller's Worthies, Surrey. * Godwin de prsfulibus. Cromwell, 4o6 PUTNEY. Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Eflex, was the fon of a blackfmith. The Eari'of Eifex. p'^cc of his birth is yet pointed out by a tradition, which is, in fome meafure, confirmed by the furvey of Wimbledon manor taken in 1617 ; for it defcribes upon that fpot " an ancient cottage, called the " fmith's fhop, lying weft of the highway leading from Putney to ** the Upper-gate, and on the fouth fide of the highway from Rich- *' mond to Wandfworrh, being the fign of the anchor." It is worthy of remark, that among the numerous pofleffions which this eminent ftatefinan acquired during his profperity, may be reckoned the manor of the place where he was born ''. The ftriking features of his hiftory, his introdudlion at court by Wolfey, his fudden rife, the adive part which he took in the Reformation, and his fub- fequent difgrace and fall, are well known. His mafter Wolfey, to whofe power he fucceeded, was going up Putney-hill on his road to Eflier, when he was overtaken by Norris, who there prefented him with a ring, as a token of the continuance of his Majefty's fa- vour *. Vifits of I find that Queen Elizabeth vifited this place in the years 1584' b^h!" "*' ^^^ ^599 '°» ^^^ '^o mention is made of the perfons who were thus honoured. Tranfaaions Putney became the fcene of fome very interefting tranfa£lions at Putney du- ring the civil during the civil war in the laft century. When the royal army marched to Kingfton, after the battle of Brentford, the Earl of Eflex having determined to follow him into Surrey, a bridge of boats was conftruded for that purpofe between Fulham and Putney, and forts were ordered to be ereded on each fide the river ". ' The Earl of Eflex had a grant of the Queen Elizabeth's arms, with the date of manor of Wimbledon, in which Putney is j^^g^ are on the cieling of an ancient houfe included. at Putney, now the refidence of Peter Stapel, • Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 546. Efq. ' PariQi accounts at Lambeth. " Perfeft Diurnal, Nov. 15, 1642, and " Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. 149. Letter England's Memorable Accidents, the fame from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sidney, date. In PUTNEY. 407 In the year 1647, when the kingdom was divided Into The army quartered three parties equally jealous of each other, Cromwell refolving there. to watch the meafures of the parliament, and at the fame time to keep an eye oyer the King, who was then at Hampton Court, fixed the head quarters of the army at Putney ", to which place they removed from Kingflon on the 27th of Auguft '\ The quar- ters of the general officers are thus fet down in a newfpaper of that time, printed by authority of parliament '* : " The General (Fairfax) at Mr. Wimondfold's, the high fheriff". " The Lieutenant General (Cromwell) at Mr. Bonhunt's '°. " The Commiflary General (Ireton) at Mr. Campion's ". " The Lieutenant General of the Ordnance and the Treafurer, at « Mr. Curley's. " Colonel Fleetwood, at Mr. Martin's. " Colonel Rich, at Mr. Porter's. " The Scoutmafter General, at Mr. Hubbard's. " The Quartermafter General and Commiffary General of Mufters, " at Major Cumberlin's. " The Quartermafter General of Horfe, at Mr. Allifon's. " Lieutenant Colonel Cowell, at Mr. Duck's. " Adjutant General of Horfe, at Mr. Cox's in the Park. " Clarendon's Hiftory, vol. iii. p. 67. ?vo. with the clothworkers' arms. A furvey of " Perfeft Occurrences, Aug. 20 — 27. Putney, taken in the year 1 61 7, defcribes '* Ibid. Aug. 27 — Sept. 3. this houfe as " a fair edifice in which his •5 Mr. Wymondfold's houfe now belongs " Majefty has been." James I. was of the to Mrs. D'Aranda, as appears from her title clothworkers' company, a circumftance, pro- deeds. It was purchafed by Paul D'Aranda, bably, which occafioned the vifit there re- Efq. of the trullees of Sir Theodore Janfcn, corded. Bart, previoufly to which it had been the pro- '* Not finding Mr. Bonhunt's name in any perty of the Wymondfolds. On the fame of the records relating to Putney, I know not fite was anciently a manfion belonging to the to which houfe Cromwell's refidence may be Welbecks, feveral of which family lie buried appropriated. in the chancel at Putney. The prefent houfe '' This houfe is now a fchool, in the occu- was buUt in the year 1596, by John Lacy, pation of the Rev. Mr. Adams; it was built, citizen and cloth worker, as appears from fome (as appears from a date in one of the rooms) records of the manor of Wimbledon. The in the year 1533. deling of the drawing-room is ornamented " Judge 4o8 U N Councils held in the church. " Judge Advocate, at Mr. George Smith's. " Com miffary General of Vidu.ils, at Mr. White's". " Chyrurgeons and Marfliall General, at Mr. Pollexfen's." During the refidence of the general officers at Putney, they held their councils in the church, and fat round the communion table '*. Before they proceeded to debate, they ufually heard a fermon from Hugh Peters ", or fome favourite preacher. The newfpapers of that day are full of letters from Putney, giving an account of the proceedings of the army there. Several councils were held about the arrears of the army, and fome threatening declarations fent to the parliament upon that fubjedl ". On the 8th of Odober they gave an audience in the church to one Gifthiel, a High-German pro- phet ". After various debates, on the firft of November, they at length completed their propofitions for the future government of the kingdom, which were fent to the King at Hampton Court *\ Oa the 13th, two days after the King had made his efcape to the '5 This houfe now belongs to Mrs. Douglas Pettiward, widow of the late Roger Pettiward, D.D. The Pettiwards came to Putney by the intermarriage of John Pettiward, Efq. with Sarah, daughter and heir of Mr. White here mentioned. Among the viciflitudes which ufually befall a parifii fo near the metropolis, they are the only family who were fettled here in the lad century. Henry White was ap- pointed high IherifT of the county, by the parliament, in 1653. The Pettiwards appear to have taken the oppofite fide. Roger Petti- ward, Efq. of Putney, was returned as one of the perfons qualified to be elecled Knights of the Royal Oak, when it was in contemplation to create fuch an order after the Reftoration. The Knights were to wear 3 medallion with the device of the King concealed in the oak ; but It was thought advifeable to drop the defign : (Baronetage, 1741, vol. iv. p. 363.) Mrs. Pettiward is in pofTelTion of a portrait of Henry White, Efq. who is reprefented in his high fherilF's drefs, and two excellent piflures of the celebrated Lord Falkland, by Cornelius Janfen ; and Sir Abraham Dawes, by the fame mafter. Sir Abraham was one of the farmers of the cuftoms, an eminent loyalill, and one of the richeil commoners of his time. In the fplendor and magnificence of his houfekeep- ing, he vied with the firft of the nobility. (Biograph, Brit, article Crifpe, in the notes.) He lived at Putney in a houfe which he had built on fome land which he purchafed of Mr. Roger Gwyn. This houfe was pulled down about four years ago. '9 Perfeft Occurrences, OCi. 8, 1647, &c- &c. " Whitlock's Memorials, p. 270. *' Ibid. p. 270. 277. perfeft Diurnal, Sept. 27. Perfeft Occurrences, Oft. 1. " Ibid. Mercurius Melancholicus, Oft. 16, and Whitlock's Memorials, p. 282. *' Perfeft Occurrences, Oft. 29— Nov. 4. Ifle U T N E Y. 409 Ifle of Wight, the army left Putney *'. During their refidence there, a pamphlet was publifhed called, " Putney Projeds," in which Cromwell and Ireton are accufed of endeavouring to introduce the old flavery in a new form. The whole of this parifh is included in the manor of Wimbledon. Manor. The church was firft built as a chapel of eafe to Wimbledon fome The church, time after the Conqueft, though I have found no record to decide the date ; it is older however than that of Mortlake, for Archbifliop Winchelfey held a public ordination in it in the year 1302. It would be difficult to afcertain the age of the prefent ftrudture, which exhibits the architedure of very different periods. It appears to have been in a great meafure rebuilt in the reign of Henry VII. j the arches and cluftered columns which feparate the nave from the aifles are undoubtedly of that age. The north and fouth walls are of much greater antiquity, and by the fhape of fome of the windows, might be thought coeval with the original ftrudlure. At the wefl end is a handfome flone tower, which bears no certain criterion of its age. It is undoubtedly, however, of later date than the firfl building of the church, and there is good reafon for fuppofmg that it was eredted before the middle of the 15th century. Over the belfry door is an ancient coat of arms % which I find appropriated to no other family than that of Chamberlayne, a name which does not occur among the inhabitants of this place fmce the period abovementioned ^\ Except the building of a veftry, the church has undergone no material alterations fmce the beginning of the lafl century, at which time the large windows, which give light to the galleries, were added. It is fmall, irregularly pewed, and by no means calculated for the inha- bitants of fo populous a parifh. Its chief ornament is a little cha- Bl(hop Weft's pel, at the eafl end of the fouth aifle, built by Bifhop Wefl, '^^P^^' *' Perfeft Occurrences, Nov. 11 — 18. *' I know of no earlier records which af- ** Two crofs keys qaartering 3 dolphins ceruin the names of the inhabitants, naiant in pale, born by Dolphinly. Vol. I. 3 G the 4IO PUTNEY. ■ the roof of which is adorned with rich Gothic tracery *', inter- i fperfed with the Biftiop's arms*", and the initials of his name. At the eaft end is a fmall tablet, put up by the late Dr. Pettiward, with a fhort infcription, which mentions the founder of the chapel, \ and the circumftance of his being born at Putney. ' Putney church fuffered confiderable damage by the dreadful ftorm ' which happened on the 26th and 27th of November 1703. It was i repaired at the expence of 1 06 1. *' i Singular in- Under the north window of the chancel is this fmgular infcription ; 1 "'P"°'^' « Verba Maris moriturae. , " See me buried by my former hufband, and remember the poor.'* ] It is explained by the following lines on a flat marble flab in the Tomb of chancel, being the tomb of Mary, daughter of George Scott, Efq. Knyvett. and wife, firft, of Richard Lufher, and afterwards of Thomas Knyvett, Efq. " That you have layd my body here, I " By that firft fide I lov'd fo dear ; \ " I thank you, hufband ; that the poore " Are ftill your care I thank you more. " Thefe laft I charg'd you with alive, " Being dead, I reft while you furvive. " But yet, I have another boone, " When fate (hall come, as come full foone " It will — and will not be deny'd, " That you would clofe my other fide. " Y'ave thought it worthy to be read, ; " You once were fecond to my bed. 1 I *' The chapel is thus defcribed by Godwin: *° The arras of the fee of Ely, impaling j " In ecclefia Putneienfi, ubi natus eft, ex la- Arg. a chevron Sable, between 3 rofes Gules, J " pidibus politis capellam extruxit laqueare flipped Vert. " contextara exquifui operis." " Parilh accounts. " Why I P U T N E Y. 411 " Why may you not like title have " To this my fecond bed, the grave. *' This ftone will cover us all three, " And under it we fhall be free " From love or hate, or leaft diftruft; " Of jealoufy, to vex our duft ; " For here our bodies do but wait " For fummons to their glorious ftate." Mary Knyvett died in 1623. On the north wall of the chancel there is a monument of black marble to her memory, with an ele- gant Latin infcription of confiderable length. The following paf- fage contains the fame thought as an epitaph of Pope's "'. — Vale, " vale, Maria, nuUam de te dolorem nifi ex acerbifhma tua morte " accepi." On the fame fide of the chancel is the monument of Richard Lu- Various mo- fher, her firft hufband, who died in 1615, and that of Andrew """" Welch, merchant, who died in 1704. On the fouth fide is a handfome monument fupported by Corin- thian columns of black marble, to the memory of Katherine, wife of Sir Anthony Palmer, K. B. (and daughter of W"" Kingfmill, Efq.) who died in 161 3. On the fame wall are the monuments of Mar- garet, fecond wife of Sir Anthony Palmer, (daughter of Thomas Digges, Efq.) who died in 161 9; Maria Gary, with her portrait in baffo-relievo on a medallion (no date) ; Robert Gale, chaplain to Chriftian Countefs of Devonfliire, who died in 1659; ^^^ Tho- mas Payne, Efq. ferjeant at arms, who died in 1698. Near the rails of the communion table is the tomb of John Welbeck, who died in 1477, and his wife Agnes, who died in 1478 ; with an infcription on brafs in the black letter, and engraved figures of a man in armour, and a woman habited in a long robe. " " Nor gave his father grief but when he died." Epitaph on Simon Harcourt, fon of the Lord Chancellor. 3 G 2 In 412 PUTNEY. In the chancel are alfo the tombs of Sir William Becher, Knt. Privy Counfellor to King James and King Charles, who died in 1651 ; William Lake, Efq. (no date) ; Edward Buckley, Efq. who died in 1683 ; and John Glanville, Efq. of Broad Hinton, Wilts, who died in 1715. In the gallery over the veftry are the monuments of James Mar- tyn, Efq. who died in 1651 ; Sir Thomas Dawes, Knt. who died in 1655 ; and Sir Robert Wymondefold, who died in 1687. In Bifhop Weft's chapel is the monument of Daniel, fon of Sir Robert Belt, of Boflall in Yorkfliire, who died in 1697;' °^ '^^ pillars which feparate that chapel from the nave of the church, are thofe of Edward Martyn, who died in 1655 ; and Leicefter Burdet, merchant, who died in 1691. Againft the weft wall of the church, near the chrlftening pew, is a tablet to the memory of George Tilden, Efq., Michael Tur- ner, Efq. who died in 1786, and others of that family. In the nave are the tombs of Sir Gerard Dutton Fleetwood, Knt. one of the band of gentlemen penfioners, (and fon of Col. Dutton Fleetwood,) who died in 1699; and of Brackley Kennet, Efq. Al- derman of London, who died in 1782. In the veftry are the tombs of Godfrey Woodward, Gent, who died in 1701 ; and Abraham Hubbert, Efq. who died in 1679. Aubrey mentions a brafs plate to the memory of John Williams, fworn Yeoman Porter to the Lord Treafurer Denham, who died in 155 1"; In Vincent's Vlfitation of Surrey, the tombs of the following perfons in Putney church are defcribed from notes taken in 1609, by Cooke, Lancafter Herald. William Whorwood, Attorney- General to Henry VIII. who died in 1545'°; Ann, widow of Sir '' Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. i2g. chevron fable between 3 flags heads caboflied, ^° The arms upon this tomb ftill remain Gules, for Whorwood, impaling barry of 6 near the communion table, being Argent, a Arg. & Az. in chief, 3 torteauxes for Grey ; and PUTNEY. 413 Sir Richard Brooke, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who died in 1547"; Jane, wife of Thomas Roberts, one of the Au- ditors of the Exchequer to Henry VII. Thomas Heton, mercer, of London, who died in 1598, aged 84; and his wife Jane, who died a few days before him, at the age of 92, having lived together fifty-feven years; Johanna Tregoz, who died in 1465 ; John Uft- wayte, clerk of the kitchen to Cardinal Morton ; Richard Welbeck, of the Middle Temple, who died in 1488 ; John, his fon and heir, fervant to Cardinal Morton, who died in 1494; and others of the Welbeck family ; and Eleanor, wife of Thomas Agar, Gent, who died in 1483. The infcriptions, which were on brafs plates and in the black letter, are all printed in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey ^\ In the church-yard are the tombs of the following perfons : — Tombs In tlis William Wymondefold, Efq. who died in 1664; John Cary, mer- yard! chant of London, who died in 1701 ; Nathaniel Lodington, Efq. who died in 1707; Robert Stone, of Lyon's-inn, Gent, who died in 1 71 2; Charles Stone, ferjeant at arms attending the great feal, who died in 1715 ; Edward Darell, Efq. of the county of Lin- coln, who died in 171 9; Ann, wife of Revel Taylor, and daugh- ter of the Reverend Adam Blandy, Reftor of Whitfield, Oxford ; and others of the Blandy family ; and Mrs. Sarah Peck, who died in 1787. , In the year 1763 the Reverend Roger Pettiwand, D.D. gave Newburial- the parifli a piece of ground, adjoining the road from Wandfvvorth to Richmond, for the purpofe of a cemetery. It was confecrated on the 2d of November. The mod confpicuous monument here is and Or, a crofs engrailed, per pale Gules and ter of Sir Richard Brooke, who married Ann Sable, for Brooke. William Whorw6od mar- Leeds. ried Caflandra, daughter of Edward Grey, " She was mother of 20 children, lofons Efq. and Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard and 10 daughters, her maiden name was Brooke, Knt. The arms of Whorwood im- Leeds. In the nave there is ftill remaining paling Leeds, (Arg. a fefle between 3 eagles the figure of a lady engraved on a brafs plate, difplayed Sable,) occur feveral times in the which probably was intended for dame Anne windows of an ancient houfe near the waterfide, Brooke, the infcription is gone, fome years fince ufed as an aflembly-room. 3» Vol. v. p. 335, &c. William Whorwood's laft wife was the daggh- that ground. 414 PUTNEY. that of Robert Wood, Efq. who died in 1771. It is ornamented with a farcophagus of white marble. The infcription will be given hereafter. There is alfo a handfome marble monument to the me- mory of Stratford Canning, merchant, who died in 1787, with a medallion of him, and his coat of arms ; and that of Harrietj wife of Andrew Thompfon, Efq. of Roehampton, compofed of Coade's artificial ftone. She died in 1787. There are alfo the tombs of the following perfons: — William Taylor, Efq. who died in 1764; Foot Gregg, Efq. who died the fame year, and others of his family; William Kentifh, Efq. who died in 1766; John Boif- fier, Efq. who died in 1770; the Reverend John Fludger, feveral years afliftant minifter at this place, who died in 1 773 ; John Alex- ander, Efq. who died in 1776 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert, who died in 1783 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Morgue, who died in 1786, and Mr. John Chalmers, fifty years matter of the charity-fchool, who died in 1791. The church of Putney, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is in the peculiar jurifdiiftion of the Archbifhop of Canterbury. The benefice is a curacy with a referved falary of 40 1. per annum, paid out of the great tithes by the lefTee of the re£tory, under the dean and chapter of Worcefter ". At a committee for the fequeftration of Pa- '* It appears by the following letter from " tie from your leflee, and live upon the hu- Archbifliop Laud to Dr. Potter, Provoft of " mour of the people. Upon this I have two Queen's College, Oxford, written in the year " requefts to make to you : The one, that you 1637, that the annual ftipend was not then " would take means to increafe the ftipend of fettled, but depended upon the will of the Dean " the curate there and at Putney alfo, and to and chapter's leffee, by whom the curate was " make it certayne. The other, that you nominated. " would (as it well befeems you) take the no- " Sir, 1 am about to draw up my order for " mination of the curates in both places to *' Worcefter, and to fettle peace between the " yourfelves, and not leave it to your tenant " Bilhop, the City, and the Chapter, if I can. " my Lord Wimbledon, or any other. And " In the mean time, I am informed that there " I (hall expeft to receive fatisfadlion from you ■" is fome flaw found in theleafe of the reftory " in both thefe particulars, having acquainted *' of Wimbledon, and that my Lord is about " his Majefty with them already, and he ap- " to renew it again of the church of Worcef. " proves them. Thus, not doubting of your " ter. To this reftory. Putney and Mort- «« care herein, and ready performance, I leave *' lake, are chapels of eafe ; and Mortlake " you to the grace of God, and reft " hath been for divers years, and is at prefent, " Your loving friend, " a place of great inconformity, and where Lambeth, " W. Cant." ♦' ufually fuch men are placed as will take lit- May iz, 1637. pifts PUTNEY. 415 piftsand delinquents, held May 28, 1644, it was determined, " that Proceedings relating to the " whereas the committee did formerly fequefter the profits of the curates of " vicarage of Putney for the ufe and benefit of fome godly and ring ^the civil *' painful minifter ; it is now thereupon ordered by this committee ^'"" " that Mr. Hudfon, minifter, fliall officiate the fald cure of Putney " In the place of Mr. Avery, a delinquent ; and fhall receive the *' profits and tithes, and all other fees any wayes due or belonging " to the fald vicarge, and all arrears that are behind due unto the *' laft incumbent ; and fhall likewife receive all the rents referved " upon the leafe of the tithes due unto the dean and chapter of " Worcefter : and whofoever hath or fhall dlfcover the fame, fhall *' have for his reward according to the ordinance of parliament for " fequeftrations ; and Mr. Goodwyn is to take care thereof: and " it is further ordered, that the parifhloners of Putney are hereby " required to give obedience and affiftance thereto, as they will an- " fwer the contrary at their peril "." On the third of December, 1645, it was ordered, that the annual fum of 49I. 13 s. id. be paid out of the eftate of the dean and chapter of Worcefter to the mini- fter of Putney ^*. Mr. Hudfon, who was put in by the committee remained but a fhort time, for it appears that his fuccefTor Mr. Ri- chard Levet relinquifhed the cure before 00:. 9, 1646, at which time it was refolved, that it fhould ftand fequeftered to Edward Haughton, minifter of the word ; and It was ordered, " that he *' fhould preach diligently, and have for his pains all ftipends and " rents, duties, avails, and profits ; — all houfes and glebe lands, till " farther orders were taken in the premifes^'." Haughton having relinquifhed the curacy before March 13, i'648, the fame mainte- nance was then voted to Jofhua Kirby ^°. The commlffioners ap- " Recorded in a book of minutes in the pa- dered minifters in the Bodleian Library, rilhcheft. " Ibid. ^* Proceedings of the committee of plun- ^° Ibid. pointed 4i6 PUTNEY. pointed by Cromwell to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical bene- fices in 1658 made Putney a recSlory, endowing it with all the great tithes which had belonged to the church of Worcefter ". This eftablifhment ceafed of courfe at the Reftoration. Curates. William Leo, who appears by a fignature in the parifli regifter to have been preacher at Putney in 1624, was Prebendary of Glo- cefter, and author of feveral fermons, among which is one preached at the funeral of Dr. Featley ". Edward Edward Sclater, whofe firft fignature occurs in 1663, was many years curate of Putney, where he kept a fchool. In 1686, being then a declared Catholic, James II. granted him a difpenfation to continue his fchool and to hold his curacy, notwithftanding he no longer conformed to the liturgy of the Church of England. The curacy was then valued at 160I. per annum, arifing principally from fubfcriptions, out of which he was required to allow a compe- tent falary to a fubftitute. The difpenfation is printed at length in Gutch's Colledtanea Curiofa. Soon after he procured this difpenfation he publifhed a pamphlet entitled, " The Reafons of Edv/ard Scla- *' ter, Minifter of Putney, for his Converfion to the Catholic Faith ;" which was twice anfwered, to his own convi£lion It is to be pre- fumed ; for in the year 1689 he read his public recantation, and was again received into the church. After this he quitted the fchool and lived privately near Exeter Change. Sclater was author of a grammar, and fome other fchool-books ". The prefent curate of Putney Is the Rev. Thomas Hughes, M. A. Prebendary of Worcefter, and preacher at the Rolls chapel. Pariftiregif- The parlfli regifter begins In the year 1620. It has been neatly kept, and appears to be very accurate, except a chafm In the entries of burials from the year 1686 to 1700. " Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. ^* Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 87, 88. Library. " Ibid. vol. ii. col. 1083. 1620 ter PUTNEY. 417 Average of Baptifms. Average of Durials. Comparative r t: c ftateofpopu- 1620—1629 — 23 26 lation/^ 1680 — 1689 — 50 1677 — 1686 — ■ 67 1730— 1739 — 56 — — ^s 1780 — 1789 — $^ 69 1790 78 ' 48 1791 72 — — 69 From the above table it appears that the increafe of population du- ring the laft century has been very fmall, though it increafed in a proportion of fomewhat more than two to one during the 60 years which preceded. The number of baptifms in the two laft years is very difproportionate to the average. I cannot give any reafon why the burials fhould in general exceed the baptifms, as the place is efteemed healthy, and very few funerals are brought from other pa- riflies. There are now 440 houfes in Putney, including the alms- houfes and the workhoufe. The inhabitants being accurately num- bered in February laft, were found to amount to 2294, of whom 274 were lodgers. In the year 1625 twenty-five perfons died of the plague here; Plague years, in 1665 feventy-four ; and in the enfuing year ten perfons only. It may be obferved, that its ravages were much lefs fatal here than at Mortlake, though the parifti is more populous, and the communi- cation with London muft have been more frequent, Putney being a confiderable thoroughfare. The following entries relating to the plague occur in the parifli Entries in the parifh ac- acCOUntS : counts relat- " 1625. Paid the carpenters for a barrow, to pag"^' " carry the people that died of the ficknefle to " church to bury them - - 050 " Paid for pitch, rofin, and frankincenfe - 010 " Paid for a warrant from my Lo, General, for the Vol. I. ~ 3 H " women ' A 418 u N Y. J-. I o o o 6 6 Colleftions for the fick. Papers con- cerning the " women of the towne to be brought before him, jT. " to be fworne firchers - - - o " Paid to Commynge, for his charges going to " London to get two women to come up to keep " the ficke, the people being all ficke - o " Paid to Fifher for warding the two houfes fhut " up the firft weeke - _ _ o " 1665. Paid to James Emberton, when he Ihut " up Robert Combe's _ _ _ •' To the warders, for helping to bury the dead CoUedions for the relief of the fick were made every Sunday at the church door. The firft week the colledion amounted to 5 1. afterwards to about 3 1. each week. It appears, by fome papers in MS^^Library ^^^ MS. Library at Lambeth, that the Privy Council ordered col- at Lambeth, legions to be made monthly on the days of public humiliation, at all the churches throughout the kingdom ; the money which was not diftributed in the county where it was colle£ted, was to be tranfmitted to the Bifhop of London, for the relief of the fick in London and Weftminfter*". Regular accounts were fent to the Archbifhop of Canterbury of the collections made in the parifhes within his peculiar jurifdidion, and the money was tranfmitted to his fecretary; but it appears that Newington Butts, Mortlake, Croydon, Barnes, and Putney, took the liberty of diftributing their colledlions among their own poor, without waiting for further in- ftrudions*'. Among the fame papers is an order of council, contain- ing the following regulations: — That the houfes of fuch perfons as could not conveniently be fent to the peft-houfes, fhould be fhut up and guarded by a warden, a red crofs being affixed to the door ; that if any perfon who was required to keep within an infedted houfe fhould go abroad, he fhould be immediately apprehended and fent to the peft-houfe, not being fuffered to return to his own dwel- ling ; that when a vifited houfe was opened, a white crofs fhould be ♦° Cart. Mifcellan. vol. vi. N" ii. *■ Ibid. N" 27. affixed PUTNEY. 419 affixed to the door, with a bill in writing, fignifying how long it was fince the laft perfon died there ; which writing fhould remain forty days, during which time the goods and rooms fhould be aired and fumed with brimftone, and other wholefome fumes ; that the churchwardens of each parifh fhould take care to cover their church- yards with unflaked lime twelve inches thick, and the like quan- tity of gravel, to prevent noxious vapours from exhaling ; and that the wardens attending vifited houfes fhould warn paflengers not to approach too near *\ KxtraEls from the Regijler. « Jerome, fon to the R' Hon"'' Richard Lord Wefton, High Marriage of J ^ •-' Jerome fon of " Treafurer of England, and the Lady Frances Steward, were mar- LordWefton, afterwards " ried June 1632." Lady Frances was daughter of the Duke of Earl of Port- Lenox ; they were married in Lord Wefton's chapel at Roehamp- ton by Archbifhop Laud *'. Some of their children were baptized in the fame chapel, and are entered in the regifter. *' Elizabeth, Elinor, and Ann, daughters of John Clinch, by Ann inftances of fecundity. " his wife, baptized Mar. 10, 1651." The mother and two of the children died foon afterwards. " Mary, Sarah, and Ann, the three daughters of William Brown " and Elizabeth his wife, baptized July 13, 1735." Two of the children died a few days after their birth. " Mr. John Toland, from Edward Hinton's, buried March 13, JohnToIand. " 1722." This was the celebrated deiflical writer. He took lodg- ings at a carpenter's in Putney in the year 171 8, where he fpent the greater part of his time and wrote mofl of his later works, particularly his Pantheifticon "*. In the Biographia Britannica is a letter which Lord Molefworth wrote to him at Putney about two months before he died, wherein he defires him not to indulge me- lancholy ; for that though his circumftances were narrow, he fhould never want necelTaries whilfl: he lived. Toland died on the iith ♦* Cart. Mifcellan. vol. vi. N°io. *' Archbifhop Laud's Diary, p. 47. ** Biograph. Brit. 3 H 2 of 420 U T N E of March 1722, and was decently interred in the church-yard *\ A few days before his death he wrote the following epitaph for himfelf, fully defcriptive of the fingularity of his opinions : it was never infcribed on his tomb : " H. S. E. Johannes Tolandus, qui in Hibernia prope Deriam " natus, in Scotia et Hibernia ftuduit, quod Oxonii quoque fecit " adolefcens ; atque Germania plus femel petita, virilem circa Lon- " dinumt ranfegit setatem: omnium literarum excultor, ac linguarum " plus decern fciens : veritatis propugnator, libertatis aflertor; nul- " lius autem fedlator aut cliens. Nee minis nee malis eft inflexus, " quin quam elegit viam perageret ; utili honeftum anteferens. " Spiritus cum sethereo patre a quo prodiit olim, conjungitur ; cor- " pus item naturae cedens in materno gremio reponitur. Ipfe vero " aeternum eft refurredlurus, at idem futurus Tolandus nunquam. " Natus Nov. 30. Csetera ex fcriptis pete." Robert " Robert Wood, Efq. late member of parliament, buried in a new " vault in the New Burial Ground, Sept. 15, 1771." Mr. Wood is well known to the public as a fcientific traveller and a claffical writer. In the year 1751 he made the tour of Greece, Egypt, and Paleftine, in company with Mr. Dawkins ; and at his return pub- lifhed a fplendid work in folio, entitled " The Ruins of Palmyra, " otherwife Tedmor in the Defert," being an account of the ancient and modern ftate of that place ; with a great number of elegant en- gravings of its ruins by Fourdrinier, from drawings made on the fpot. This was followed by a fimilar work refpedling Balbec. Mr. Wood was meditating future publications relating to other parts of his tour, efpecially Greece, when he was called upon to ferve his country in a more important ftation, being appointed under fecre- tary of ftate by the late Earl of Chatham ; during the whole of whofe profperous adminiftration, as well as in thofe of his two im- mediate fucceflbrs, he continued in that fituation. Mr. Wood was author alfo of an EfTay on the Genius of Homer, and left behind ♦♦ Life of Toland, p. 70, him PUTNEY. 421 him feveral MSS. relating to his travels, but not fufficlently arranged to afford any hopes of their being given to the public. The houfe in which he lived in Putney is fituated between the roads which lead to Wandfworth and Wimbledon, and is now the refidence of his widovir. Mr. Wood purchafed it of the executors of Edward Gib- bon, Efq. whofe fon, the celebrated hiftorian, was born there. The farm and pleafure grounds which adjoin the houfe are very fpa- cious, containing near fourfcore acres, and furrounded by a gravel walk, which commands a beautiful profpedt of London and the ad- jacent country. Mr. Wood was buried in the cemetery near the upper road to Richmond. On his monument is the following in- fcription, drawn up by the Hon. Horace Walpole (now Earl of Orford) at the requeft of his widow : " To the beloved memory of Robert Wood, a man of fupremc " benevolence, who was born at the caftle of Riverftown near " Trim, in the county of Meath, and died Sept. 9th, 1771, in the " fifty-fifth year of his age ; and of Thomas Wood his fon, who " died Aug. 25th, 1772, in his ninth year; Ann, their once happy " wife and mother, now dedicates this melancholy and inadequate " memorial of her affedion and grief. The beautiful editions of " Balbec and Palmyra, illuftrated by the claflic pen of Robert Wood, " fupply a nobler and more lafting monument, and will furvive " thofe auguft remains." " William Boram, aged ^6 years, three feet high, buried June 1 1, wiiikm Bo- " 1780." He was by trade a balket-maker, of weak intelledls, and much given to drink. His voice was harfli, his head difpropor- tionately large, and his whole perfon rather thick. He moved about with difficulty, and did not enjoy a good ftate of health. The following inftances of longevity occur in the regifter : inftances of *' Elizabeth Fidier, aged a hundredth years, buried June 1 6, 1 662." ""S^'"^ " Mr. John James Dartiquenave, from James Dudley's, aged " 99 years and upwards, buried Sep. 25, 1709. •' Catherine Farmer, aged loi, buried Nov. 8, 1747." " Sarah 422 P U T N E Y. " Sarah Watts, from the workhoufe, burled, fald to be 104, «' Jan. 18, 1766." " Ann Williams, from the workhoufe, aged 109, buried May 7, " 1772- *•■ Mary Ceafley, aged 100, buried Nov. 18, 1787." Charity- Mr. Thomas Martyn by his will dated Od:. 22, 36 Car. II. be- watermens' queathed all his landed eftates, in cafe his niece Lucy Cook died b°y"Mr? Mar- unmarried or without iflue, for the purpofe of building and endow- '^"' ing a fchool for the education and maintenance of 20 watermen's fons. He diredled that the houfe fhould be built upon a piece of ground belonging to himfelf, in the parifh of Putney, if the lord of the manor would enfranchife it at a reafonable rate ; otherwife the fchool, with all the benefits of the endowment, was to be tranf- ferred to Wandfworth. A falary of 80 1. per annum was to be allowed to the mafter ; diet, lodging, and a fuit of clothes once a year (viz. on St. Martin's day) to the fcholars ; befides wages and maintenance to fuch fervants as fhould be neceffary. It was direded by his will, that the mafter fhould be unmarried, and fkilled in the ma- thematics. The refidue of the profits of his eftates he bequeathed to be divided on St. Martin's day in portions of eight pounds between maimed watermen of Putney, Fulham, and Wandfworth, who have loft their limbs in the fervice of their country either by fea or land. If there fhould be a furplus, the watermen of other parifhes were to be reheved in like manner. The benefits of the fchool are limited to Putney only, if there fhould be boys fufKcient to fill up the num- ber ; otherwife they are to be taken from the neighbouring parifhes. The eftates bequeathed under this will confifted of the manor of Buck-fteep in Suffex, and lands there, valued, at the time of the teftator's death, at 127I. per annum; lands and tenements at Staplehurft in Kent, valued at 128 1. per annum ; and lands and houfes in Putney, valued at 100 1. per annum. Mr. Martyn died PUTNEY. 423 died Nov. 18, 1684. The year after his death his niece married Sir Samuel Gerrard, and died without iffue in January 1686. A fuit was inftituted fome time afterwards in the Court of Chancery relating to this charity, which was depending many years. It ap- pears by the proceedings (a copy of which is depofited in the parifli cheft) that Lady Gerrard and her hufband fuffered a recovery of the eftates in Kent and Suflex, and declared the ufes thereof to be to them and their heirs ; this recovery being confirmed by the Court of Exchequer, the truftees were obliged to convey the eftates to Sir Samuel Gerrard. At the conclufion of the fuit, there was a fum of money in hand belonging to the charity amounting to 600 1. and upwards, which had accrued from the rents of the premifes at Put- ney, after dedudling the proportion of the annuities charged on them and other expences. By an order of the Court of Chancery one of the houfes near the water-fide, called Copt-Hall, was let upon a building leafe to Robert Eyre, Efq. who erected upon its fite a large houfe now the property of Hudfon, a minor, and in the occupation of the Countefs Dowager of Lincoln ; the other houfe, now belonging to Simeon Warner, Efq. was let upon a repairing leafe to Peter Renew, merchant. By the final decree of the court in 1715, it was directed that the eftate belonging to the charity fliould be vefted in eleven truftees, who fhould be chofen from time to time out of the veftry whenever there were three vacancies ; the fum of money above-mentioned was ordered to be expended in building a fchool- houfe, and certain regulations made, correfpond- ing with the diminiftied income of the charity, which was then only 70 1, per annum. About twenty- five or thirty years ago, the premifes at Putney were advantageoufly exchanged with Gerrard Vanneck, Efq. for an eftate called Brockholds, in Hertford (hi re, then valued at 130I. per annum, and which now produces that fum clear of taxes. The prefent mafter, Mr. Mackenzie, receives the full falary of 80 1. per annum, as direded by the founder's will. Sir 424 U N E Y. Alms-houfe. Sir Abraham Dawes having ereded in his life-time an alms- houfe in this place For 12 poor perfons, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, by his will dated 1639, endowed it with a rent-charge of 40 1. per annum, ifluing out of his eftates. This fum his fon Sir Thomas Dawes, by an indenture bearing date Jan. 20, 1648, charged upon his eftate at Roehampton, out of which it is ftill paid. Mrs. Elizabeth D'Aranda, in the year 1780, left the intereft of 100 1. 4 per cent, annuities, to the poor of this houfe. Michael Turner, Efq. left them the intereft of 400 1. New South-Sea annuities, after the death of his fervant Sufannah Hill. Mr. Henry Stead, in 1785, bequeathed lool. in the 3 per cents, after the death of his widow; and Mrs. Mary Girardot, in 1791, the intereft of 500 1. in the 4 per cents. ; to the fame purpofe. The Earl of Portland, in the year 1635, charged his eftate in Roe- hampton with the payment of 61. per annum in lieu of fundry fmall parcels of land belonging to the parifh of Putney. Alexander White, in i6o8, left los. per annum to buy bread for the poor on St. Thomas's Day. Mr. Henry Smith bequeathed 6 1. per annum to the poor. William Wymondfold, Efq. left 12 1. los. per annum to be diftributed in gowns and money between ten poor people of this place. Mrs. Elizabeth Offley, in 1667, left the fum of 50 (hillings to be diftributed annually to the poor on St. Andrew's day, which is paid out of certain premifes in Holborn. Thomas Kennett, Efq. gave los. per annum to the poor, and Mr. Powell the fame fum. Seven {hillings and four-pence is paid anually out of the Rookery-clofe at P^oehampton, being the legacy of an un- known benefador. The ferry. The ferry at Putney is mentioned in Doomfday Book as yield- ing a toll of 20 s. per annum to the lord of the manor. Putney appears to have been at all times a confiderable thoroughfare : it was ufual formerly for perfons travelling from London to many parts of Parifh lands. Various be- nefaflions. PUTNEY. of the Weft of England, to proceed as far as this place by water *\ In the houfehold expences of Edward I. are fome entries of money paid to the ferryman here for conveying the king and royal family to Fulham and to VVeftminfter "*. At a court held for the manor of Wimbledon (42 Eliz.) it was ordered, that if any waterman fhould omit to pay a halfpenny for every ftranger, and a farthing for every inhabitant of Putney to the owner of the ferry, he fhould forfeit to the lord 2 s. 6d/' In 1629 the lord of the manor received 15 s. per annum for the ferry. In the year 1656, Gen. Lambert, then lord of the manor, granted a fmall piece of ground near the water- fide to the Company of Free Watermen of Putney for the purpofe of eretSing a (hed *'. An a(St of parliament was procured 12 Geo. I. for building a Pumey- . bridge. bridge of wood acrofs the Thames from Putney to Fulham, which was begun and finifhed in the year 1729, at the expence of 23,975 '• This work was undertaken by 30 fubfcribers, who advanced the fum of 740 1. each. The proprietors purchafed the ferry, which on an average produced the owners 400 1. per annum, for the fum of 8,000 1. The Duchefs of Marlborough received 364 1. los. for her intereft in the ferry, as Lady of the Manor of Wimbledon ; and the Bifhop of London 23 1. for the fame intereft in the Fulham fide; befides which he referved to himfelf and his houfehold, and to his fucceflbrs, the right of pafling the bridge toll-free. The fum of 62 1. was direded by the adt to be divided annually between the widows ♦' Apr. 25, 1681. Their Majefties went to " Weftm. 15 die Feb. — 3 s. 6d." Putney by water, where they took coach. " Roberto Paflatori de Puttenheth pafTanti Loyal Proteftant. Various inftances of this " ufque Fulham familiam & ofEcia hofpicii kind occur in the annalifts and more minute " regis cum 2 bargiis ultra Tamif. per hiflorians. " 2 dies, menfis Marcii principio 4 s. apud ** " Roberto le Paflagier dc Puttenhethe " Weftm." Houfehold Eftabliftiment of Ed. I. " proftipendiofuoetaliorum nautarum pafTan- publilhed by the Antiquarian Society, p. 51 — ♦' tium magn. partem familia: reg. ultra Tha- 54. " mifiam ibidem & ducend. eundem regem *' Records of the Manor. " & magnam partem familia: fuae ufq. Weftm. ♦' Ibid. '* per aquam ; per manus difti Roberti, apud Vol. I. -J I and 425 426 PUTNEY.' and children of poor watermen of Putney and Fulham, as a recom- pence to their fraternity, who, upon the building of the bridge, were reftrained from plying on Sundays. This money is raifed by an additional toll of one halfpenny upon foot paflengers on Sundays. The income of the bridge two years after it was built was eftimated at 1,5001. per annum ; it is now fuppofed to be nearly double that fum, and is conftantly increafing. The greateft receipt ever known in one day was 63 1. los. yd. being the 25th of May, 1767 when his Majefty reviewed the guards upon Wimbledon Common. The laft fhare which was put up to fale was purchafed for 1,300 guineas. The bridge has lately been put in excellent repair, under the management of the prefent furveyor, Mr. James. In the laft fourteen years near 1 0,000 1. have been expended on it. The length from gate to gate is 805 feet 6 inches. The filhery. yj^g Jqi-J of the manor enjoyed a flfhery here at the time of the Conqueft ; before which time it had been eftabliflied at Mortlake by Earl Harold. At a court held 13 Hen. VI. the lord was found to be feized of all fifh within the manor*". In 1663 the fifhery was let for an annual rent of the three bed falmons that fhould be caught in the months of March, April, and May '°. This rent appears to have been changed afterwards to money. When Sir Theo- dore Janffen's eftates were fold, the fifhery was let for 6 1. per an- num ; the rent was afterwards increafed to 8 1. A leafe upon thofe terms expired in the year 1780. Smelts are caught here in great abundance in the months of March and April, and are efteemed very fine. The falxnon fifhery is not very produdive, but the fifh are of a very good quality, and fell for a confiderable price. Small flounders, fhad, roach, dace, barbel, eels, and gudgeons, may be rec- koned alfo among the produce of the fifheries here. One or two fturgeons are generally taken in the courfe of a year ; and fome- *' Records of the manor. '"* Ibid. times. PUTNEY. 427 times, though rarely, a porpus. Thefe are claimed by the Lord Mayor, and the fifliermen are obliged to deliver them as foon as taken, to the water-bailiff. For a porpus they receive as a reward 13 s. for fturgeons a guinea each. The fifliery from Mortlake to Brentford was granted to Merton Abbey by Hen.JII." Putney gave the title of baron to Edward Cecil Vifcount Wim- bledon. In the year 1776 a houfe was built by David Hartley, Efq. upon David Han- lev s cxDcri* Putney Heath, for the purpofe of proving the efficacy of his inven- mentsforfe- tion of plates to preferve houfes from fire. The experiments were froai^re!" " fuccefsful, and repeated feveral times before their Majeflies, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, and feveral members of both houfes of parliament ; many of the fpedators remained with perfect confidence and fecurity in the room over that in which the fire was burning with great rapidity. The houfe where the experiments were tried is flill flanding, and near it an obelifk built by the city of London, the infcriptions upon which record, that the Rt. Hon. John Sawbridge, Efq. Lord Mayor of London, laid the firfl Hone on the anniverfary of the fire of London, in memory of an invention to fecure buildings from fire ; that the Committee of City Lands were empowered to complete the building by an order of Common Council dated Nov. 22, 1776; that David Hartley was admitted on the fame day into the freedom of the city in the company of Gold- fmiths; and that a fum of 2,5001. was voted to him by the Houfe of Commons on the 14th of May 1774, for the purpofe of carrying on his experiments. Not far from the fire-houfe was formerly a fafhionable place of Putney Bowl- entertainment for public breakfafls and evening affemblies ; the fite of which flill retains the name of Putney Bowling-green, being the '' Tanner's Notitia Monallica, p. 538. 3 I 2 property 4^8 U N Villas on Putney- heath. property of Mr. Gawler, and now in the occupation of John An- thony Rucker, Efq. Duel between A fatal duel was fought upon Putney-heath in the year 1652, ton and Lord between Lord Chandois and Mr. Compton, in which the latter was killed. Lord Chandois, and his fecond Lord Arundel, after fuffer- ing a long imprifonment, were brought to trial, and both found guilty of manflaughter '\ In 1684 was publlfhed a Pindaric ode on his Majefty's reviewing his forces upon Putney-heath. The brow of the Heath, which commands a moft beautiful profpedt over the river Thames and county of Middlefex, from Harrow-on- the-hill to Hampftead and Highgate, is occupied by feveral handfome villas. The houfe which is now the property and refidence of Lady Grantham, was built by Sir Jacob Downing, who left a fum of money for founding a new college at Cambridge. After his death it was the refidence of Archbilhop Cornwallis, and was afterwards for fome time in the occupation of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, Chancel- lor of the Exchequer. The hamlet of Roehampton is very pleafantly fituated at the weftern extremity of Putney-heath. In the reign of Henry VII. it contained only fourteen houfes " ; the prefent number is forty- four. Putney-park. Near this place was the fite of Putney-park, called in fome of the old records Mortlake-park. Its extent was 300 acres, and it was bounded towards Putney by the lane which is ftill called Putney- park-lane. This park was referved by the Crown when a grant was made of the manor of Wimbledon. In the firft year of Queen Mary, Sir Robert Tyrwhit was keeper thereof, and mafler of the game '*. Sir Charles Howard had a grant of that office for life, Roehamp- ton. " Perfeft Diurnal, May lo — 17, 1652, " Ancient Survey of Wimbledon Manor, and Collini's Peerage, edit. 1756. vol. i. ^* MS. account of Queen Mary's houfe- p. 688. hold, Dulwich College. 13 Jac. PUTNEY. 429 13 Jac. I." and a few years after a further grant of 15 1. per annum to buy hay for the deer '\ Charles I. in the fecond year of his reign, granted the fee-fimple of the park to Sir Richard Wefton and his heirs ", and by a fubfequent patent difcharged Sir Charles How- - ard and Lord Wimbledon of the cuftody thereof". In 1635 Rich- ard Wefton, then Earl of Portland, had a licence for inclofing 450 acres, and adding them to his park " ; but as he died the fame year, and his fon foon afterwards began to alienate the eftate, it probably was never done. The Earl of Portland, from the time of his obtaining a grant of RkhardWef- ton Earl of the park, made Roehampton his fummer refidence. He was a great Portland, favourite with the King, who in 1628 appointed him Lord High Treafurer. He held that office till his death, when by the King's command the whole Court wore mourning for him one day '°. Lord Clarendon fays, that he was a man of an imperious difpofition, heedlefs whom he offended, yet when he knew that the party ag- grieved felt the injury, a very coward in dreading their refentment " : his Lordftiip tells a ludicrous ftory of him, the fubftance of which is as follows : — The Earl of Tullibardin having interefted himfelf in be- half of a fon of Sir Julius Csefar, who wanted to procure one of the fix clerks' places, obtained a promife from the Earl of Portland to appoint him on the next vacancy; and left he fhould forget it, gave him a flip of paper, on which he had written, " Remember Casfar." This the Lord Treafurer put into his pocket without looking at it. Some time after, as he was fearching his pockets for other papers, he found this memorandum, and not knowing whence it came, con- cluded that it was a friendly hint of fome confpiracy againft his life. Imprefled with this idea, he called his friends together, and " Pat. 13 Jac. I. pt. 20. June 8. " Pat. lo Car. I. pt. 8. May 5. 5* Pat. 18 Jac. I. pt. 6. Nov. 20. «=" Stafford Letters, vol. i. p. 389. " Pat. 2 Car. I. pt. i. Mar. 24. *' Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 47 — »» Ibid. pt. 3. Oft. 18. 54. 8vo. by 430 PUTNEY. by their advice, kept within doors for fome days under pretence of indifpofition, his gates being ftridtly guarded day and night. At length the Earl of Tullibardin calling upon him accidentally, aflced him if he had remembered Cafar ? and by that feafonable queftion unravelled the myftery, and relieved him from his groundlefs terrors. Chapclinthe On the 26th of May 1632, a chapel was confecrated in the land's houfe houfe of the Earl of Portland, then Lord Wefton of Neyland, by ion. °^ ^^^' Laud, Bifliop of London. Lord Wimbledon met the Bifhop and Lord Wefton at the door, and gave his confent as impropriator of the great tithes. Chriftopher Fox curate of Wimbledon and Rich- ard Avery curate of Putney were prefent alfo and gave their confent. It was then dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and alligned to be a chapel for ever'' for the inhabitants prefent and future of that houfe. This chapel, which was ornamented with a painting, fuppofed to be the work of Zucchero'*^ was pulled down in the year 1 777 by Tho- New chapel j^^g porker, Efq. who at the fame time built a new chapel about a built there in ' -i '^ ^in- hundred yards from the houfe, which is now for a term of years the private property of the Reverend Colfton Carr, who ofEclates there on Sundays. After the death of Richard Earl of Portland, his fon Jerome, who fucceeded him in his title, foon began to alienate his inheritance at Roehampton. He fold the houfe** and park in the year 1640 for the fum of 11,3001.'" to Sir Thomas Dawes, by whom they were fnft let *° and afterwards fold to Chriftian Countefs of Devonfhire ". Chriftian The Countefs was a woman of confiderable celebrity, and of a Countefs of _ r • Devonlhiie. very ungular charader. She is much extolled for her devotion, " Regift. Lambeth. Abbot, fol. 126. b. was plundered in the civil war. Baronetage, 127. b. J74i> vol. iii. p. 405. '^ Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 142. *' SirThomas Dawes's indenture concerning This pifture, the fubjeft of which is the Laft the alms-houfes at Putney, preferved in the pa- Supper, was preferved and hangs over the rifh cheft. altar of the prefent chapel. '* Ibid. '■* This houfe, the furniture of which is faid *' Life of the Countefs, p. 70. to have been valued at feveial thoufand pounds, yet PUTNEY.. 431 yet fhe retained Hobbes the free-thinker in her houfe as tutor to her fon. She kept up the dignity of her rank, and her houfe was cele- brated for its hofpitality ; yet fo judicious was her oeconomy, that having a jointure of 5000 1. per annum, fhe nearly doubled it, and having procured the wardfhip of her fon, fhe managed his affairs fo fkilfully as to extricate his eftates from a vaft debt and thirty law-fuits ; having ingratiated herfelf fo far with the fages of the law, that King Charles jeftingly faid to her " Madam, you have all my *' judges at your difpofal ''^" She feems indeed to have imbibed a due portion of the profitable wifdom of her Lord's grandmother the famous Countefs of Shrewfbury, who laid fuch ample found- ations of wealth for her family. The Countefs of Devonfhire was daughter of Edward Lord Bruce, a relation and chief favourite of James I. by whofe recommendation fhe was married into the no- ble family of Cavendifh. The King was prefent at the ceremony, and gave her a fortune of 10,000 1.*' The Countefs was diftin- guifhed as the patronefs of the wits of that age, who frequently affembled at her houfe. Waller frequently read his verfes there ^"^ and William Earl of Pembroke wrote a volume of poems in her praife, publifhed afterwards and dedicated to her by Donne. Other contemporary wits exercifed their talents in celebrating the virtues and accomplifhments of herfelf and her beautiful daughter Lady Rich ". Having met with fevere domeftic loffes by the death of this daughter, and her fecond fon the brave Charles Cavendifh '', her thoughts became more devoted to national affairs, and fhe then began to take an adive part in the interefting politics of thofe times. •^ Kennet's Memoirs of the Cavendilhes, ^' Life of the Countefs, p. 57. p. 78. '* Kennet's Memoirs, p. ICO. Wallerwrote '» Ibid. p. 73. an Elegy upon the death of Lady Rich, and an '° Sir William Temple's Works, voL ii. Epitaph upon Colonel Charles Cavendifh; p. 135. which are to be found in his poems. Being 432 PUTNEY. Being in principles a zealous Royalift, Ihe carried on a correfpon- dence with feme of the leading men of that party, and is faid to have been inftrumental in urging the Earl of Holland to that rafh en- terprize which terminated fo unfuccefsfully and fo fatally to him- felf". When fettled at Roehampton, {he entertained many of the King's friends at her houfe, and concerted meafures with them for the Reftoration, correfponding at the fame time with fome of the principal Royalifts on the Continent. Her letters were written in cypher, in which fhe was aflifted by her nephew Lord Bruce, and Mr. Gale her chaplain'*. She became at length a fufpedted perfon, and was in danger of being fent to the Tower ; a feafonable bribe to the council of ftate proved her protedion". She afterwards en- tered into a correfpondence with General Monk, who, at a time that his conduft was moft myfterious, is faid to have made known to her, by a private fignal, his intentions of reftoring the King '*. When Charles II. returned to England, he fhowed the fenfe he entertained of her zeal for his fervice by frequently vifiting her at Roehamp- ton, in company with the queen-mother and the royal family, with whom fhe enjoyed an unufual intimacy till her death, which hap- pened Jan. 1 6, 1674-5 ". A Life of the Countefs was publifhed in v 1685, by Thomas Pomfret. There is an original portrait of her in the Duke of Bedford's collection at Wooburn, by Theodore Ruflel, (a fcholar of Vandyke,) from which the annexed plate was copied by his Grace's permiffion. wiiHam Earl Roehampton-houfe defcended after the Countefs's death to her (hire. fon William, the third Earl of Devonfhire, who died there in 1684 "• He was father to the firft Duke, and had been a great fufFerer in Hobbe? ^^^ '-'^^^ ^^^' Hobbes, who had been his tutor, he entertained in " CoUins's Peerage. '" Kennet's Memoirs of tke Cavendifli Fa- ''* Ibid. mily, p. 103. " Life of the Countefs, p. 79. " Ibid. p. 105. '• Ibid. his CIIRI S TL:\IN , CO VNTE S S OF DE Y ON Sill Rl<: , HMuh^ ^ the .la ^teu.Junt n^-}jt\.tj T Cadntl.Sa^nd U T N E Y. 43.1 his houfe as long as he lived, though he is faid to have detefted his political and religious opinions ". Hobbes refided with the fa- mily wherever they were, and refufed to be left behind even in his laft illnefs, though they were obliged to convey him in a litter. He died in 1679. Sir Stephen Fox was brought up in the Earl of Devonfhire's fa- sir Stephen Pox. mily, where he continued till he became qualified for an appoint- ment at Court *°. After the death of the laft Countefs of Devonfhire, which hap- AHenatiom pened in 1689, the houfe at Roehampton appears to have been alien- ton-houfe. ated to Sir Jeffery JefFerys, alderman of London, who died there in 1707''. It was afterwards the property of Jofeph Bagnall, Efq. and was fold by a£t of parliament 17 Geo. II. A few years fmce it be- longed to Fordyce the banker ; by him it was alienated to Thomas Parker, Efq. and is now the property of Sir Jofliua Vanneck, Bart. The beauties of the furrounding fcenery and the contiguity to villas at Roe- . Hampton. Richmond-park have induced many perfons to build villas at Roe- hampton. Among thofe of principal note may be mentioned Lord Dover's, Sir John Dick's, built after the Italian ftyle by the late George Clive, Efq. and the Earl of Befborough's ; Sir William Chambers was the architedt of the latter. In this houfe are fome va- Pi-^ures at the Earl of luable antiques ; the moft remarkable of them is the celebrated torfo Beibo- cf a Venus from the colleftion of Baron Stofch ; there are fome good pidlures alfo by Italian and Flemifh mafters, among which is a curious one of the interment of a cardinal by John ab Eyck, the firft painter in oil colours ; and feveral interefting portraits, confifting principally of eminent literary characters and artifts. In the eating-room is a fine portrait of Sir Theodore Mayerne, by Rubens, from Dr. Meade's colledion. In a bed-chamber on the attic ftory, one of Qiieen Mary ; in the breakfaft room are feveral in crayons of Englifh geii- " Rennet's Memoirs of the Cavendilh Family, p. 106. "' Ibid. p. 105. ^' Funeral Certificate, Herald's College. Vol. I. 3 K tlemen, 434 PUTNEY. tlemen, principally in Turkifli drefles, by Liotard ; and in the li- brary, where is the principal colledtion of portraits, fhould be noticed a very fingular one of Bifliop Gardiner in a ftriped drefs, by Hol- bein; over the chimney-piece is a buft of Demofthenes by Ben- venuto Cellini. A view of Lord Befborough's houfe is engraved ia the laft edition of the Vitruvius Britannicus ". In the fame work " are two plates of Roehampton-houfe, the feat of Thomas Gary, Efq. built from a defign of Mr. Archer about the year 1710. This houfe was afterwards the refidence of William Ann, Earl of Albermarle, and is now the property of William Drake, Efq. M. P. The faloon was painted by Sir James Thorn- hill, and is ftill in excellent prefervation. The cieling reprefents the feafts of the gods. Dreadful On the 15th of Odtober 1780 there happened a mod violent hurricane in , i rr r ^ • ••nri' 1780. hurricane, the effeds of which were principally felt in and near Roehampton, where its devaftations were numerous and attended with very uncommon circumftances. The premifes of Lewis Brown, a gardener, lying near the lane which leads from that place to Barnes Common, fuffered the moft material injury. The upper part of a gable end of the dwelling-houfe was forced out, and formed a con- fiderable chafm in the room where his daughter, who had been brought to bed but a few hours before, then lay. The chimney was alfo thrown down, but the bricks providentially falling on the outfide, the woman efcaped without any injury, and is ftill living. The barn and other out-buildings were levelled with the ground, the materials difperfed, and fome of them carried to a very great diftance. The body of a large empty cart which flood in the yard was torn from the wheels, and removed to the diftance of 90 paces. Of feven perfons who took flielter in the barn one only was killed upon the fpot, another died in confequence of the bruifes which he received. A walnut-tree, 12 feet in circumference, which grew *■ Vol.iv, p. II — 13. «» Vol. i. p. 80, 81. upon PUTNEY. 435 upon Lady Eggleton's premifes, was torn up by the roots, and car- ried to the diftance of 22 feet. In Roehampton-Iane and the ad- joining fields, above 130 large trees from 18 inches to four feet dia- meter were torn down within the fpace of three quarters of a mile. The greater part of them grew in hedge-rows, and formed an avenue in the lane, which was completely deftroyed. The trees fell acrofs the lane towards the north and north-weft, fo that the road was rendered totally impaflable for fome weeks. A few of the trees were removed to a confiderable diftance ; one in particular, being about 40 feet in length, is faid to have been carried by the wind to the north-fide of the road upon Barnes Common, above 130 yards from the fpot where it grew. The earth in many of the adjoining fields was torn up in fuch a manner that it had the ap- pearance of having been lately ploughed. The workhoufe upon Barnes Common received fome injury, and the windmill was over- turned and beat in pieces. The progrefs of this hurricane is fuppofed to be about three miles in length, beginning at Lord Befborough's at Roehampton, and ending at Hammerfmith, where the church received confiderable damage ; the greateft breadth was only 200 yards. Vaft crouds of people came for feveral days to fee the devaftations which it had occafioned". The hamlet of Roehampton is aflefled the fum of 169I. 19s. Sd. Land-tax. to- the land-tax, which in the year 1791 was at the rate of 2s. 3d. in the pound. °' The greater part of this account of the who were themfelves eye-witnefles to the de- hurricane is taken from a fliort pamphlet on vaftations which it occafioned. Mr. Edwards's the fubjeft, publifhed by E. Edwards in the account was illuftrated by four etched outlines, year 1781, the particulars of which are con- walhed and teinted. firmed by the recolleflion of feveral perfons 3 K 2 [ 436 ] RICHMOND. Name. Situation and boundaries. Soil. Land-tax. Manor. I T is well known that this place received its prefent name by royal command in the reign of Henry VII. who was Earl of Richmond in Yorklhire. In Doomfday Book it is not mentioned ; a record of nearly the fame antiquity calls it Syenes ' ; the name was afterwards fpelt Schenes *, Schene ', and Sheen. Some writers, founding their conjectures upon the latter word, which fignifies bright or fplendid, have fuppofed it to be expreffive of the magni- ficence of the ancient palace *. The village of Richmond is diftinguilhed for its beautiful fituation upon the banks of the Thames. It lies in the hundred of King- flon, at the diftance of about eight miles from Hyde- park-corner. The parilh is bounded by Mortlake, Kew, and Peterfham. The land which is not inclofed either in the park or the royal gardens is principally arable ; the predominant foil is fand, but in fome parts of the parifh there is clay and gravel. Richmond is aUefled the fum of 939 1. 2 s. 2 d. to the tand-tax, which is at the rate of one fhilling in the pound. It feems probable that the manor of Sheen was included at the time of the Conqueft in that of Kingfton, which then belonged to the Crown, and was held in demefne. The firft mention I find of it is in the reign of King John, when it was the property of Mi- chael Belet, who held it by the fervice of being the King's butler, having been granted to his anceftors with that office annexed by • N" 313. HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. * Cotton MSS. Cleopatra, A. 7. 3 Ibid. ♦ Leland, Aubrey, Camden, &c. Henry I. RICHMOND. 437 Henry I. ' John, fon of Michael Belet, left two daughters, between whom the manor was divided ; one of them married Oliver, and the other John Valletort '. Emma Oliver's fhare was alienated afterwards to Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucefter '. In the early part of the reign of Edward I. the manor of Sheen belonged to Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, who granted it to Otto Grandifon and his heirs, with remainder to himfelf and his heirs '. Philip Burnell, the Bifhop's nephew, had livery of it 21 Edw. I. ' Soon afterwards it appears to have reverted to the Crown, either by exchange or forfeiture. Edward I. was in pofTeffion of it towards the latter end of his reign '", fince which time it has generally been in the hands of the Crown, or fettled upon fome of the branches of the royal family". It was granted for life to Elizabeth Queen of Edw. IV. " ; to Anne of Cleve, who furrendered it to Edw. VI. " ; to Henry Prince of "Wales, fon of James I. and to Queen Henrietta Maria '* . It is now held by her prefent Majefty, whofe leafe bears date Odober 1770. Lands in this manor are held by the rod, or copy of court-roll. Tenure of land. and defcend to the youngeft fon; or in default of fons, to the youngeft daughter. The fame cuftoms prevail in the manors of Peterfham and Ham "'. » N" 313. HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. f. 21. Sheen, 28 Edw. I. in the houfehold eftablifh- See note, p. 236. There is a charter in the mentofthat king, publiihed by the Society Tower, which confirms the office of Butler to of Antiquaries, p. 87. Michael Belet, with the lands which his ancef- " Henry VIII. granted it for a term of tors enjoyed. This office was efteemed of a 30 years to M. Villiard and Th. Brampton, very honourabk nature, and the Belets ap- Pat. 14 Hen. VIII. pt. I. Nov. 2. SirTho- pear to have had a feat in parliament. See mas Gorge had a grant of the manor for a Dugdale's Baronage. term of years, Pat. 5 Jac. pt. 26. Ap. to. « N" 313. Harleian MSS. " Pat. 6 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 4. ' Cart. 48 Hen. III. m. 2. " Record in the Augmentation-office. ^ Pat. 8 Edw. I. m. 26. Grant of free '* Royal houfehold eftablifhments, publiihed warren. Cart. 8 Edw. I. m. 72. by the Society of Antiquaries 1719, p. 316. ' Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 61. '' Culloms of the manors of Sheen, &c. '" Accounts of money paid at the court at publiihed in the Colkdanea Juridica, vol. ii. Richard 438 RICHMOND. Hiftoryofthe palace. Henry I. Edward I. Edward II. and Edward III. Death of Anne, Queen of Rich. II. and decay of the palace. Henry V. reftores it. Sir James Parker flain in a tourna- ment. The palace burnt. Richard II. granted as a privilege to his tenants within this manor that his officers fhould make no demands upon them for corn or other provifion ". It is not certain when the manor-houfe at Sheen firft became a royal palace. A MS. record in the Britifh Mufeum mentions it as having been the houfe of Henry I. who granted it, with the manor, to the Belets ". From that time till towards the clofe of the reign of Edward I. it was the property of fubjedls. Edward I. and II. are known to have refided there ". Edward III. clofed a long and victorious reign at his palace at Sheen, June 21, 1377". Queen Anne, his fucceflbr's confort, died there in the year 1394. The King was fo much affedlred at her death that he abandoned the palace, and fufFered it to fall to ruin ", or as others aflert, pulled it down. Holinfhed faiys, that " he caufed it to be throwen down and defaced. " Whereas the former kings of this land, being weary of the citie, *' ufed cuftomarily thither to reforte, as to a place of pleafure, and " ferving highly to their recreation ""." Henry V. reftored the pa- lace to its former magnificence ". Henry VII. held a grand tourna- ment at his manor at Richmond in 1492, when Sir James Parker, in a controverfy with Hugh Vaughan for right of coat armour, was killed at the firft courfe. In the year 1499 ^\ the King being then at his palace, it was fet on fire by accident ; moft of the old buildings were confumed. His Majefty immediately caufed it to be rebuilt, and gave it the name of Richmond. The pidture of Henry V. and his " " Aliquod bladum aut vidluale." Regift. Lamb. Courteneye, fol. 62. b. " N° 313. Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. " Edward I. treated with the Scottifli no- bility at Sheen, after the death of William Wallace. Lambard's Topographical Difti- onary. See likewife an account of money paid at Sheen, in the houfehold eflablithment of that monarch, publilhcd by the Society of Anti- quaries. Edward II. dates a grant of the barony of Alnwick to the Percys from Sheen, anno 13 10. Collins's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 36. '' Sandford's Genealogical Hiftory of the Kings of England, p. 194.. Gough's Camden, vol. i. p. 169. 177. " Ibid. *' Chron. anno 1394. " Sandford's Genealogical Hiftory of the Kings of England, p. 283. *' Stow makes it 1498. family, RICHMOND. 439 family, the marriage of Henry VI. and that of Henry VII. in the Earl of Orford's coUedion, at Strawberry-hill, are fuppofed to have been painted for this monarch, and intended for his palace here. It had been finifhed but a fhort time, when a fecond fire broke out. Second fire. which did confiderable damage '\ The fame year a new gallery fell Fall of the down, in which the King, and the Prince his fon, had been walking "^' only a few minutes before'*. Philip I., King of Spain, having been Philip I. driven upon the coaft of England by a ftorm, was entertained in Spain. this palace, with great magnificence, in the year 1506''. Henry ^enr' VII VII. died there April 21, 1509". His fucceffor kept his Chrift- Henry vill. mas at Richmond the year after he came to the throne*'. A tour- Chriftmas at nament was held there oh the 12th of January, when the King, for the firft time, took a part in thofe exercifes ". Charles V. Emperor Charles v. Emperor of of Germany, was lodged at Richmond anno 1523*'. When Car- Germany ^ lodged there. dinal Wolfey gave the leafe of Hampton Court to the King, his Ma- Cardinal jefty permitted him to refide in Richmond palace, a privilege of which he frequently availed himfelf. Hall fays, that " when the " common people, and efpecially fuch as had been fervants to " Henry VII., faw the Cardinal keep houfe in the manor royal of " Richmond, which that monarch fo highly efteemed, it was a - " marvel to hear how they grudged, faying. So, a butcher's dogge *' doth lie in the manor of Richmond '°." They were ftill more dif- gufted at the Cardinal's keeping his Chriftmas there, openly, with great ftate, when the King himfelf obferved that feaft with the utmoft privacy at Eltham, on account of the plague". Queen Elizabeth S^trafri"" was a prifoner at Richmond for a fhort time, during the reign of ^°°^'' '''"*• *' The palace was nearly rebuilt in 1501, at " Sandford's Genealogical Hiftory of the which time Hen. VII. commanded it to be called Kings of England, p. 442. Richmond. The fecond fire happened in 1506. '' Holinlhed's Chron. *' Ibid. Stow's Annals. *» Hall's Chrcn. »♦ Ibid. 3° Ibid. Henry VIII. fol. 144. « HoUnfhed's Chron. " Ibid. fol. 146. her 440 RICHMOND. her fifter Mary '*. After fhe afcended the throne, this palace be- afteward" Came One of her favourite places of refidence ". In her reign, Eric IV. refidence""'' King of Sweden, was lodged there. Queen Elizabeth ended her Ericiy. jj 3f Richmond palace on the 24th of March 160-1. In the king of owe- j r ^ ^ den. autumn of that year, the court of Exchequer, the court of Chancery, Death of i -n • i i Queen Eliza- and Other public courts, were removed to Richmond, on account of Henry Prince the plague ". The fame precaution was taken in 1625''. Henry ChSi'. P^'i"'^^ °^ ^^^'^s refided there in 1605 '\ It is probable that Charles I. was frequently at this palace, where he formed a large colledlion of pidures. In the year 16^6^ a mafque was per- formed before the King and Queen at Richmond, by Lord Buck- hurft and Edward Sackville. When the King was in Scotland, in 1641, the Parliament ordered that the young Prince fhould be fent to Richmond with his governor ", probably Bifhop Duppa, who is faid to have educated Charles II. at this place ". In the month of June 1647, Richmond palace was prepared, by order of parlia- ment, for the King's reception ", but he refufed to go thither. A newfpaper of the 29th of Auguft in that year mentions, that the Prince Eledor was then at Richmond, and that the King, with '* It was after (he was delivered out of the " mornynge, beiides mufycke & fyngynge. Tower, and before fhe was fent to Wood- " was her ordinary exercyfe." Lodge's ftock. Lodge's Shrewfbury Papers, vol. i. p. 1. Shrewlbury Papers, vol. ii. p. 411. ^^ It was at Eichmond, that Anthony Rudd, '+ Baker's Chron. Bilhop of St. David's, incurred her difplea- '' Rymer's Foedera, vol. xviii. p. 168. 185. fure, by preaching before the Court on the ^° See a letter of that date to King James, infirmities of old age, applying them, at the Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 6986.— 41. By fame time, perfonally, to her Majelly, and a MS. note of Mr. Gray's, in a copy of cbferving, how it had " furrowed her face, " London and its Environs," belonging to " and befprinkled her hair with its meal." theRight Hon. Earl Harcourt, it appears that Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men, Harleian he kept houfe there in 161 z. MSS. 7176. p. 122. No doubt fuch plain " Nalfon's CoUeftions, vol. ii. p. 596, language muft have been highly ofFenfive to 597. her majefty, who even at that advanced age, for ^' Biograph. Brit. it was in the year 1596, did not diflike to be " .t Richmond is preparing for the King, complimented on her perfonal charms, and " and a new rich coach was this day (June 22) was fo fond of youthful amufements, that a " fent from London for his Majefty." Per- few years before, we are told, that being then fed Diurnal, June 1647. See alfo Whltlock's at Richmond, " fix or feven gallyards of a Memorials, p. 255. the RICHMOND. 441 the Duke of York, and the Lords, hunted in the New Park, and killed a ftag and a buck — " his majefty was very chearful, and " afterwards dined with his children at Syon ■*'." The furvey taken by order of parliament in the year 1649 *'» gives a very minute defcription of the palace as it then exifted. The Defaiption great hall was ico feet in length, and 40 in breadth ; it is defcribed •*„ ,545, ^" as having a fcreen at the lower end, over which, fays the Survey, is " a fayr foot pace ia the higher end thereof; the pavement is " Iquare tile, and it is very well lighted and feeled ; at the north " end is a turret, or clock cafe, covered with lead, which is a fpecial *' ornament to that building." The privy-lodgings are defcribed as a free-ftone building, three ftories high, with fourteen turrets covered with lead, " a very graceful ornament to the whole houfe, " and perfpicuous to the country round about." A round building is mentioned, called the " canted tower," with a ftair-cafe of 1 24 fteps. The chapel was 96 feet long, and 40 broad, " with ca- " thedral feats and pews." Adjoining the privy garden was an open gallery, 200 feet long, over which was a clofe gallery of the fame length**. No mention is made ofa library ; yet we are told by Library. a French author, that a Royal Library was eftabllfhed at Richmond, by Henry VII. ^\ and the librarian is reckoned amongft the officers of this palace in the houfehold eftablifhments of Queen Mary ** and *' Perfc£l Occurrences, Aug. 27, &c. 1647, the lane leading to the Duke of Queen/berry's. ♦' The original is in the Augmentation-office; *' " Traifte des plus belles Bibliotheques, it is printed in the " Monumenta Vetufta," " &c. par Louis Jacob Chalonnois," 1644. publilhed by the fociety of Antiquaries. 8vo. quoted in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, ♦* Thefe galleries flood on the right fide of vol. v. p. 348. £. s. d. ♦■'■ " Keeper of the library at Richmond, William Tillcfley, fee - 10 o o of the wardrobe — William Griffith - 926 ^— of the orchard — John Lovell - - 6 i 8 of the houfe — Sir Henry Sidney ■.;- - 926 of the garden — the fame Sir Hen. Sidney - 4 11 3 of the parke — the fame Sir Hen. Sidney - 3 10 10" Houftiold Eftabliihment of Queen Mary, a MS. in the library at Dulvvich college. Vol. L 3 L Queen 442 RICHMOND. Queen Elizabeth. His fee was lol. per annum. The Survey- mentions three pipes which fupplied the palace with water, one from the white conduit in the New-park, another from the red conduit ia the town fields, and the third from a conduit near the almshoufes in Richmond, clofe to the river. The materials of the palace were valued at 10,7821. 19s. 2d. It was purchafed April 12, 1650, by Thomas Rookefby, William Goodrick, and Adam Baynes, on behalf of themfelves and other creditors **. It was afterwards pur- chafed by Sir Gregory Norton, who had been one of the King's judges *'. Views of All the views of Richmond palace, which are extant, wer6 palace. taken before the middle of the laft century, while it remained entire. Vandergutch's view, which was engraved for Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, probably from a drawing of Hollar's, feems to give a very good reprefentation of the front towards the water. Hav- ing been favoured with the ufe of this plate, which is depofited in the Bodleian Library, it is here annexed. A view of the fame front is engraved in the Monumenta Vetufta (publifhed by the Society of Antiquaries) from a pidture belonging to the Earl of Cardigan, Lord Vifcount Fitzwilliam has an ancient painting of Richmond palace, by Vinkeboom, taken from the meadow on the other fide of the water **. Another pi(fture, in the poffeifion of the fame nobleman, faid to be the work of one of Rubens's fcholars, has been called The Front of R^ichmond Palace towards the Green j but there are many reafons for fuppofing it not to be a reprefentation of that houfe; for it not only feems very improbable, that the numerous and lofty turrets which were fo " perfpicuous to the country round about," fhould not be feen ; but the front itfelf is totally unlike that of the old palace towards the green, as defcribed in the Survey, and as in fome meafure it ftill exifts. In this view there is no range of buildings contiguous to the gateway, nor does the fore ground in the *■• Particulars offale, Augmeniation-ofEce. ♦* This has been engraved by R. B. God- *' Myfteries of the Good Old Caufe, p. 26. frey. leafl o RICHMOND. 443 lead refemble the green*', which In the Survey is defcrlbed as " a " piece of level turf of 20 acres (only) planted with 113 elms, forty- " eight of which ftand on the weft, fide, and form a handfome " walk." It is much more probable that the painting at Lord Fitzwilliam's was intended to reprefent the lodge in the Old-park, with the defcription of which it fufficiently correfponds, and which particularly mentions " a fair gate, of good ornament to the houfe, " ftanding towards the park." Soon after the return of Charles II., feveral boats, " laden with Removal of " rich and curious effigies, formerly belonging to Charles I. but Whitehall, " fmce alienated," are faid to have been brought from Richmond to Whitehall *\ About the fame time, the manor and palace, which Manor and had been fettled on the Queen-mother, before the civil war, were al^edto' reftored to her *' . It is mofl: probable that the palace was at this QBeen Hen- '■ ^ rietta Maria. time in a very difmantled ftate. Fuller, who wrote foon after the Reftoration, fpeaks of it as pulled down '°. It feems, however, to have been inhabited after his time ; feveral parts of it have been taken down within the prefent century, and fome of the offices ftill exifl:. Chrifl:opher Villlers was made keeper of the manor- houfe at Richmond in 1660 ". In the reign of James II. it appears to have been in the hands of the crown, and it is faid that the Pretender was nurfed there ". The fite of the palace is now occupied Pretender by feveral houfes, which are held, on leafe, under the Crown. Richmond. The Duke of Queenfberry's was built by George, the third Earl Duke of Cholmondeley, who obtained a leafe of part of the old palace in the berry's. *'' In the pidlure, a thick grove of trees Regis, Pat. 2 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 15. Ro- ftands where the town ftiould be, if tliis was a bert Skeme, Pat. i Hen. VII. pt. i.Dec. 23. s view of the palace. M. Villiard, & Th. Brampton, Pat. 14 Hen. ■" Exadl Accompt, June 8 — 15, 1660. VIII. pt. i. Nov. 2. James Duke of Lenox, •*' ParliamentaryIntelligencer,June i8 — 25. Pat. 14 Car. I. pt. 43. May 2. '" Worthies, pt. 3. p. 78. s* BilhopBurnet's Hirtory ofhis own Times, '' Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 32. July 4. The fol- vol. i. p. 753. Some parts of the palace ap- lowing lift of keepers of the manor-houfe of pear to have been repaired by James II. His Richmond has occurred in fearching the offices initials and the date 16S8, are ftill on the of record: William Norburgh, Pat. 1 Edw. IV. leaden pipes, pt. 2. m. I. Edmund Glafe, Clericus Averie 3 L 2 year 444 R I C H M O N D. year 1 708 ; the noble gallery in this houfe was ornamented by his fine colledion of pidures. Lord Cholmondeley fold the houfe afterwards to the Earl of Brooke and Warwick ; from him it paffed to Sir Richard Littleton, and from the latter to John Earl Spencer, who purchafed it for his mother Countefs Cowper. The Duke of Queenfberry bought it after her death, and transferred hither the pictures and furniture from Amefbury. The tapeftry which hung behind the Earl of Cla- rendon, in the court of Chancery, now decorates the hall of this houfe. A leafe of another part of the palace was granted by Queen Anne to Richard Hill, Efq. who built upon the fite a large houfe now the pro- Mrs. Way's, perty of Mrs. Sarah Way, widow of Lewis Way, Efq. and the refi- dence of herfelf and her fifter, the Countefs Dowager of Northampton, who has fome good pidlures there, particularly a fine portrait of Sir Thomas Grefliam, which has lately been engraved by R. Thew. In the front of this houfe is an ancient porch with figures of two boys in fervitors dreffes, blowing trumpets : in the leafe it is called the Trumpeting-houfe. Other houfes The houfes now on leafe to William Robertfon, Efq. and Matthew the palace." Skinner, Efq. as well as that in the occupation of Mr. Dundas, which adjoins the gateway, are a part of the old palace, and are de- fcribed in the Survey above-mentioned, as *' the wardrobe build- " ings, and other offices, confifting of three fayr ranges of buildings " lying round a fayr and fpacious court, embattled and guttured, " of two ftories high, with garrets, and a fayr pair of ftrong gates, " arched and battled with ftone over head, leading into the faid *' court from the green lying before Richmond houfe." In Mr. Skin- * ner's garden there ftill exifts the old yew-tree which is mentioned in the Survey, and there valued at lol. The circumference of its trunk is 10 feet 3 inches. The elegant villa " which belonged lately to Sir Charles Afgill, Bart, and which is now the property of Whitfhed Keene, Efq. is defcribed " Built after a defign of Sir Robert Taylor. in RICHMOND. 445 in the leafe, as being on the fite of the palace. There is a print of it in the Vitruvius Britannicus '*. Edward II. founded a convent of Carmelite friars near his manor Convent of r rii 1 1 1 • • • Carmelites of Sheen, and endowed it with i2o marks per annum out of his founded by Exchequer ". They had been fettled in this convent only two years when the King caufed them to be removed to Oxford, where they were placed without the North-gate '". Henry VII. is faid to have founded a convent of obfervant friars Convent 111, ?7Ti 1 >i-, ofobfervant near the palace about the year 1499 . I have not been able to hnd friars, any record of the foundation. Holinfhed mentions its fuppreffion Henry vii. in the year 1534. In the Survey of Richmond above-mentioned, a building is defcribed as adjoining to the palace, called " the Friars, " containing three rooms below ftayrs, and four handfome rooms " above ftayrs ;" it was then ufed as a chandler's-fhop. The lane which leads from the Green to the Duke of Queenfberry's is ftill called in the leafes Friars'-lane ; the houfe, which is now in the occupation of Jofeph May, Efq. and that which was lately on leafe to John and Henry Andrews, are defcribed as being part of the fite of the friars. In the reicrn of Henry VIII. there were two parks at Richmond, Riclimond t^ J ^ Old-park. diftinguiflied by the name of the Great and the Little-park. It is probable that they were afterwards laid together, one only being mentioned in the Survey of 1649, which adjoined the Green, and contained 349 acres. It was then called the Little-park, to diftin- guifh it from the New-park lately inclofed by Charles I. The Lodge in the Old-park was for fome time the refidence of Cardinal Wolfey H?'','i'"^^ ^ ' Wolfey, at in his difgrace. " The Cardinal (fays Stow) having licence to re- the Lodge. *' pair unto Richmond, was there lodged within the lodge of the " Great-park, which was a very prettie houfe ; there my Lord lay " untill Lent, with a prettie number of fervants '\" He afterwards removed to the priory. 5+ Vol. iv. p. 74. quotes Colleft. Anglo minorit. p. id. 211. " Pat. 9 Edw. 11. pt. 1. tn. 15. pt. 2d. p. 39. from St. Clara. '* Pat. II Edw. II.pt. 2. 01.37. " Stow's Annals. " Tanner's Notitia Monaft. p. 545. He The 446 RICHMOND, The park at Richmond was leafed by Queen Elizabeth to Edward Bacon ". When the Crown lands were fold in the laft century, the park which adjoined the Green, then called Richmond Little-park, was valued at 220 1. 5 s. per annum, and was bought by William Brome of London, Gent, at 32 years purchafe*". The Lodge, which is defcrjbed as being a very pleafant feat and habitation for a private gentleman, appears to have been afterwards in the pofleffion of Sir Thomas Jarvis or Jervoyfe, and the park in that of Sir John Trevor". A leafe of the lodge was granted by K. William in 1694 to John Latton, Efq. Queen Anne in the year 1707 granted it for 99 years, Duke of Or- or three lives, to James, Duke of Ormond", who rebuilt the houfe, and refided there till his impeachment in the year 1715; when, on the 27th of July, " he privately withdrew from his houfe at Richmond *' and went to Paris °'." Soon after this, George IL then Prince of Wales, purchafed the remainder of the leafe, which after the Duke's impeachment was vefted In the Earl of Arran, and made the lodge his refidence. After he came to the throne it was one of his favourite retirements. His prefent Majefty fometimes refided there in the early part of his reign. The lodge was pulled down about twenty years ago, at which time there was an intention of building a new palace upon the fite ; the foundations were laid and arches built for that purpofe. The obferva- Not far from the fite of the lodge, ftands the obfervatory, built by °'^^' his prefent Majefty in the years 1768 and 1769. Sir William Cham- bers was the architeft, and the late Dr. Stephen Demainbray fuper- intended the aftronomical department. Amongft a very fine fet of inftruments are particularly to be noticed a mural arch of 140 degrees, and eight feet radius; a zenith fedor of 12 feet; a " Leafes by Queen Elizabeth, Augmen- & 32. tation-office. ** Records in the office of the Auditor of '■^ Particulars of fale, ibid. his Majefty's Land Revenues. •' Myfteriesofthe Good Old Caufe, p. 16 *' CoUins's Peerage, vol. v. p. 240. tranfit 1 *« iJm^ ^. K^~ M ^^^M Wm. li^r- W , |.a^ ; ill*,> vmf- uf^\ iUi^f .A-s^ rr^ v^^^^^) RICHMOND. 447 tranfit Inflrument of eight feet j and a ten-feet refledor by Her- fchel. On the top of the building is a moveable dome which contains an equatorial inftrument. The obfervatory contains alfo a colledtion of fubje£ts in natural hiflory, well preferred, an excellent apparatus for philofophical experiments, fome models, and a colledion of ores from his Majefty's mines in the forefl of Hartz in Germany. The prefent aftronomer is the Reverend Stephen De- mainbray, M. A. A part of the Old-park is now a dairy and grazing farm in his Richmond I Majefty's own hands ; the remainder conftitutes the royal gardens, ' i which were firft laid out by Bridgman in avenues, and afterwards improved and altered to their prefent form by Brown. They have ' 1 the advantage of being fituated on the banks of the Thames, are laid out with great tafte, and exhibit fome very beautiful fcenery. Queen Caroline, who was very partial to this fpot, had here a dairy and menagerie. Several ornamental and grotefque buildings were dif- perfed about the gardens ; one of which, called Merlin's Cave, con- tained feveral figures in wax ; another, called the Hermitage, was adorned with bufts of Sir Ifaac Newton, Locke, and other literary characters**. About a quarter of a mile to the north- weft of the old palace West flood the hamlet of Weft Sheen. Here Henry V. in the year 1414, founded a convent of Carthufians, which he called the Houfe of Convent of ' Jefus of Bethleem at Sheen ''\ The premifes on which the convent was built, are faid to have been 3,000 feet in length, and 1,305 in breadth ". In a MS. of Florentius Wigornenfis, printed in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey % the dimenfions of the hall are faid to have I been 44 paces in length, and 24 in breadth j the great quadrangle \ i ** A book was puhliflied in 1735. entitled, are in print. See a lift of them in Gough's 1 " A Defcription of the Rarities of Richmond Britifh Topography, vol. ii. p. 271, 272. j " Gardens, Merlin's Cave, the Hermitage, *» Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 973—977- "1 " &c." Several poems upon thefe gardens '* Ibid. *' Vol. v. p. 340. ^ * 3 L 4 waa i 448 RICHMOND. was 120 paces long, and loo broad; the cloifters appear to have been 200 paces fquare, and nine feet in height. Henry V. endowed his new monaftery with the priories of Lewifham, Greenwich, Ware, and feveral other ahen priories, with all their lands and revenues. By his charter he gave them alfo the lifheries at Sheen ; Peterfham- wear ; and four pipes of red wine of Vafcony every year, granting them at the fame time many valuable privileges and exemptions, and Hermitage, licence to make a conduit from a place called Hillfden-well ". John Wydrington was conftituted the firft prior. A hermitage was found- ed within this monaftery for a reclufe in the year 141 6, and endowed with 20 marks annual rent ifluing out of the manors of Lewifham and Greenwich". In the Survey taken in 1649, ^^'^^ '^^ called the Anchorite's Cell. John Kingflowe was the firft chaplain or hermit*'. In the regiftry at Winchefter is a commiflion to the Bifliop of St. David's to confecrate a chapel and three altars in the monaftery at Sheen '°. PerkinWar- Within thefe walls Perkin Warbeck fought an afylum, and in- treated the prior to beg his life of the king. He was executed after- wards, for endeavouring to efcape out of the Tower ". DeanCcJct. The learned Dean Colet, founder of St. Paul's fchool, built a houfe within the precinds of the monaftery at Sheen, intending it as a place of retirement in the latter part of his life. He died there in the year 1519, according to Wood'*, who fays, that his body was *' This conduit not fucceeding, the con- pipes of wine annually in the port of London, vent afterwards obtained a grant to make an- Pat. Z2 Henry VII. pt. z. Feb. lo. Grant other from a place called Welway, or Pik- to the convent to have a coroner in the houfe, welles-well. Pat. 6 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. i6. Pat. 6 Henry VIII. pt. 2. Apr. 20. Various grants relating to this convent may be *" Pat. 5 Henry V. m. 22. found according to the following references: " Regiit.Winton. Waynflete, pt. 2. f. 37. Henry V.'s Charters, Cart. 2 Henry V. pt. i. b. fecond numbering ; commiflion to inftitute m. 3. Car:. 3 & 4 Henry V. m. 8. & 14. Robert Lynton, pt. 3. f. 52. a. Confirmation of grants, Pat. 1 Edw. IV. '" Regift. Fox, pt. 3. f. 52. a. pt. 6. m. 18, Grant of 48 acres of land, " Holinfhed's Chron. A° 1499. Pat. 19 Edward IV. m. 25. Grant of three " Athen, Oxon. vol. i. col. 13. removed RICHMOND. 449 removed thence to London, prevloufly to its interment in St. Paul's cathedral. Cardinal Pole in the early part of his life obtained a Cardinal grant of his lodgings at Sheen, and fpent two years there in ftudious retirement ". When the Earl of Surrey returned with the body of the Scottifh Body of the ^ •' King of •King, after the battle of Flodden-field, he is faid to have conveyed Scots. it to the monaftery at Sheen ; where it lay for a confidcrable time unburied. Stow fays, that about the year 1552 he faw a body wrapped in lead which was thrown into a lumber-room, and that he was told it was the Scottifh King '*. When the priory of Sheen was fupprefled Its revenues Suppreffion of the priory. were elhmated at 777 1. 12 s. id. per annum '. Henry Man, the laft prior, became afterwards Dean of Chefter and Bifhop of Man. Henry VIII. granted the priory to his favourite Ed- Grants of the fltC. ward Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerfet '\ In the Duke of So- year 1550 two fplendid nuptial ceremonies were celebrated there Nuptials of in the King's prefence ; Lord Lifle being married to a daugh- ^n°j[ j,^ Earl ter of the Duke of Somerfet ", and Sir Robert Dudley, afterwards of Leicefter. Earl of Leicefter, to Amy, daughter of Sir John Robfart ". The Earl's fon, Robert Dudley, whom he had by Lady Douglas Shef- Sir Robert field, was born at Sheen in 1573 '% and concealed there with great fecrecy, to prevent the Countefs of Eflex, to whom Leicefter was then a fuitor, from knowing of his birth. It is generally fuppofed that the Earl was married to Lady Douglas, though her fon in vain endeavoured to eftablifh his legitimacy before the ftar-chamber ; it was neverthelefs afterwards avowed in the patent, by which his widow " Biograph. Brit. Cotton MSS. Julius C. II. i5. '+ Stow's Annals, 410. p. 829. See alfo '* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, in the Britilh Lambe's Flodden-field, p. 152. Mufeum, N" 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. " Valor of 1534, Regift. Winton. Fox, " Stow's Annals, pt. 5. There is a rental of the priory of " Biograph. Brit. Sheen 24 Hen. VIII. in the Britifh Mufeum, " Ibid. Vol. L ^ M . Alice 450 RICHMOND. Henry Duke ofSufFolk. Revival and fecond fup- preflion of the convent. Perclval Gunfton. Sir Thomas Gorge. James Duke of Lenox. Parliamenta- ry Survey. Alice was created a Duchefs in the reign of Charles I. "' Sir Robert Dudley, difappointed in the hope of proving his legitimacy, went to the Continent, where he was patronized by the houfe of Medici, who were amply rewarded by his projecting the free-port of Leg- horn. He refided many years in their Court and in that of the Em- peror, who having created him a Duke, he aflumed the title of Duke of Northumberland ". This remarkable perfon died in the neigh- bourhood of Florence, and lies buried at Boldrone °\ Anthony Wood (after enumerating his manifold accomplifhments) fays, that he was the firft who taught a dog to fit in order to catch par-? tridges'\ The Duke of Somerfet having been attainted in 1551, the fite of the priory appears to have been given to Henry Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey, who refided there °*. Queen Mary re- flored the convent ^\ which was dilfolved again at her death, having continued little more than twelve months. In the year 1572 the fite of the priory appears to have been in the pofTeflion of Percival Gunfton, Gent."' Queen Elizabeth, in the 26th year of her reign, granted it for life to Sir Thomas Gorge and his wife Helen Marchionefs of Northampton "'. Charles I. granted it upon the fame tenure to James Duke of Lenox'\ In 1650 it was fold as crown land, and purchafed by Alexander Eafton, being valued at 92 1, per annum °'. The furvey taken by order of parliament, defcribes very minutely the buildings belong- ing to the priory as they then exifted. The old church is faid to be ftanding, but very ruinous and fit to be demolifhed ; the fur- vey defcribes a ftruCture of brick called the Prior's Lodgings ; the *s Pat. 3 & 4 P. & M. pt. 5. Jan. 26. „ - J -- ._ '* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. IVIuf. ** Ibid. See an account of the Duke of N''4705. Ayfcough's Cat. Northumberland in the Royal and Noble Au- *' Pat. 26 Eliz. pt. 3. June 23. '° Biograph. Brit. '' Dugdale's Hillory of VVarwickfhire. ihors. " Vol. ii. col. 126. '* Stow's Annals, p. 829. 410. "' Pat. 14 Car. pt. 43. May 2. '9 Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office. Monk's- RICHMOND. 451 Monk's-hall, a ftone building ; the Lady of St. John's lodgings ; the Anchorite's cell ; and a parcel of buildings called the gallery"'. Charles II. foon after his Reftoration, granted a leafe of the priory for 60 years to Philip Vifcount Lifle", who about the fame time Philip Vif- , . count Ljfte. obtained from his Majefty a general pardon. Lord Lifle had been always hoftile to the royal caufe, but was an advocate for moderate meafures, and refufed to acSt as one of the King's judges". He was a great patron of literary men, and is faid to have fet apart one day in every week for their reception "^ The year after he obtained the leafe he affigned it to John Lord Bellafys, who In the year 1662 furrendered It to the crown, and obtained a new grant for 60 years. Lord Lille, however, appears by his correfpondence with Sir William Temple, to have refided at Sheen feveral years. In the year 1675 a leafe of the priory was granted to Robert Ra- worth and Martin Folkes, in truft for Henry Brounker, Efq. after- wards Vifcount Brounker, and Sir William Temple. It appears by Lord Broun- the records in his Majefty's Land-Revenue Office, that Lord Broun- wiiHam ker inhabited the manfion-houfe late Lord Lifle's, which was after- Temple. wards affigned to the Buckworth family. The premifes on leafe to Sir William Temple, were alienated to John Jeffreys, Elq. who had a new leafe in 1750. Sir William Temple appears to have been an under tenant of thefe premifes before he obtained the leafe from the crown. In the year 1666 his lady appears to have been refident at Sheen, during his ab- fence at Bruffels '*. Writing from that place the fame year, he fays, that perhaps he may end his life in a corner at Sheen, but he knows his Lordfhlp will leave it for fome of the great houfes that await him ''. Many of his letters exprefs in the moft lively terms the pleafure which he took in this favourite retirement j " my s" Survey in the Augmentaiion-office. »♦ Sir William Temple's Works, vol. ii. «" Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 31. Aug. 8. p. 17. '* Collins's Memoirs of the Sidneys, p. 149. "' Ibid. p. 25. s" Ibid. 3 M 2 <« heart, 452 RICHMOND. " heart, (fays he, writing to Lord Lifle, Aug. 1667.) is fo fet upon " my little corner at Sheen, that while I keep that, no other difap- " pointment will be very fenfible to me ; and becaufe my wife tells " me fhe is fo bold as to enter into talk of enlarging our domi- " nions there, I am contriving this fummer how a fucceflion of " cherries may be compafled from May till Michaelmas, and how *' the riches of Sheen vines may be improved by half a dozen forts " which are not known there, and which I think much beyond " any that are*'." In a letter to his father (Nov. 22, 1670) he thanks him for a prefent of 500 1. towards his intended improve- ments at Sheen ; and tells him, that as he had before refolved to lay out 1,000 1. his prefent will enable him to extend his improvements to ornament as well as convenience *'. In the Ihort intervals between his foreign negotiations, this was his conftant retreat. " I fpend " all the time I poflibly can at Sheen, (fays he in one of his letters,) " and never faw any thing pleafanter than my garden '°°." Here, in 1672, he wrote his Obfervations upon the Netherlands'". In the year 1680 he began to refide wholly at Sheen, having retired from public bufmefs '". After a few years he gave up this houfe to his fon, and went himfelf to Moor Park in Surrey. Upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in England, that place being thought unfafe as lying between the two armies. Sir William returned to Sheen "". It was about this time that Swift was taken into his family as an amanuenfis '"*. King William, who had known Sir William Temple on the Continent, and had a great efteem for his talents and cha- rader, frequently vifited him at this place, and prefTed him to be- come his fecretary of ftate. When his patron was lame with the Dean Swift, gout, Swift ufually attended his Majefty in his walks round the '' Sir William Temple's Works, vol. ii. "" Biograph. Brit. p. 3918, notes, p. 41. '°» Ibid. " Biograph. Brit. p. 3917, notes. '°' Ibid. •°° Sir William Temple's Works, vol. ii, 'o* Ibid. Article Swift, p. 458. gardens. RICHMOND. 453 gardens. The King is faid upon one of thefe occafions to have offered to make him a captain of horl'e, and to have taught him to cut afparagus in the Dutch manner '°'. Here Swift became acquainted with the beautiful and accomplifhed Stella, who was born Stella. at this place, and whofe father was Sir William Temple's fteward. She is faid, by moft writers, to have been in her fixteenth year, when fhe firft went to Ireland in 1699; but Deane Swift, the biographer of his relation, fays, fhe was eighteen. As her name is not to be found in the parifli regifter which begins in 1682 '", he probably is right. Sir William Temple left Sheen finally in 1689, and returned to Moor Park. An ancient gateway, the laft remain of the priory, was taken Lad remain ° ^ * ofthepnory down about twenty-three years ago ; the whole hamlet of Weft pulled down. Sheen, confifting of eighteen houfes, one of which was a calico ma- hamlet of nufadlory, was at the fame time totally annihilated, and the fite, deftroyed!" which was made into a lawn, added to the King's inclofures. The houfe upon Richmond Green, which belongs now to Lord ^°[^^"^' Vlfcount Fitzwilliam, was formerly the feat of Sir Charles Hedges, ^°^^^- Secretary of State to Queen Anne, and afterwards the property of the prefent owner's maternal grandfather, Sir Matthew Decker, Bart. ^ecS?''"'' an eminent Dutch merchant, who built a room there for the recep- tion of George I. In this houfe arc the paintings of Richmond above-mentioned, fome good pidures of the Flemifh fchool, and a Flemifhpic- painting of a pine-apple, which, by the infcription '°' that is under it, The pine- feems to have been gathered for the royal entertainment. It has been erroneoufly faid that it was the firft fruit of that kind raifed in England '°\ In the Earl of Orford's coUedlion at Strawberry- "" Deane Smft's Life of S-.vift, p. io8. " ronetti & Theodori Netfcher Armigeri. •** In 1683 is an entry of Ann the daughter " Strobilus hie regio convivio dignatus iftius of Edward Tohnfon baptifed ; but it appears ■' expenCsRichmondiaecrevit: hujus arte eti- that Mrs J ohnfon's name was Either. " amnum crefcere videtur, 1720." 'Of <( Perenni Memorias Mat. Decker Ba- '°^ Baronetage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 185. hill, 454 RICHMOND. Heydegger. Richmond- hill. Sir Jofhua Reynolds. Dukeof Buc- deugh's. Richmond- park made by Charles I. hill, there Is a portrait of Charles II. receiving a pine-apple from the hands of Rofe his gardener. Heydegger, mailer of the revels, had a houfe upon Richmond- green. The beauties of Richmond-hill, with its varied and extenfive prof- pe6t, have been fo often celebrated both in verfe and profe '°", that it would be needlefs to dwell on them here. There is a view from the Hill by Old Tillemans, in the colledion of Richard Owen Cam- bridge, Efq. at Twickenham, which gives a very accurate reprefen- tation of the adjacent country. The late Sir Jofhua Reynolds, Prefident of the Royal Academy, had a houfe upon Richmond-hill. At the foot of the Hill the Duke of Buccleugh has a villa, which he inherited from the late Duke of Montagu. It is fituated on the banks of the Thames. From the lawn there is a fubterraneous communication with the gardens and fhrubberies on the oppofite fide of the road, which extend almoft to the fummit of the hill. They are laid out with tafte, and have local advantages fuperior to moft places of the kind in the kingdom. Richmond-park, formerly called the Great or the New-park, to diftinguifh it from that near the Green, was made by Charles I. who was extremely partial to the fports of the chace, and was very defirous of having a large park well flocked with red and fallow deer in the neighbourhood of his two palaces, Richmond and Hampton Court. Within the fpace which was marked out for that purpofe, the King had large wafles and woods of his own ; but as fome parifhes had commons, and many private perfons had houfes and lands intermixed, he found it a work of fome dif- ficulty ; for though he offered more than the value of the feveral "' Thomfon's Compliment to Richmond Hill is well known. See a lift of Poems oa Richmond and its Hill in Gough's Britilh Topography, vol. ii. p. 272. eftates, RICHMOND. 455 eftates, and many of the owners confented to part with their lands to obHge his Majefty, yet others could not be prevailed onto alienate their property upon any terms. The King being very urgent it made a great clamour, and the outcry was, that he was about to take away his fubjedls' eftates at his own pleafure. Under thefe circum- ftances Bifhop Laud and Lord Cottington advifed his Majefty to defift from a meafure which threatened to be both fo unpopular and fo expenfive, as it was intended to furround the park with a brick wall. The King however was not to be difluaded, having already ordered the bricks to be burnt, and having begun the wall upon his own eftate. This is Lord Clarendon's account "°. It is to be prefumed that the owners of the lands at laft complied, for the park appears to have been completed, and Jerome Earl of Portland made the firft Firft ranger. ranger in the year 1638 '". On the 30th of June 1649, the Houfe of Commons voted that The park the New-park at Richmond fhould be given to the City of London city of Lon- and to their fucceflbrs for ever, and the Attorney-General was ordered to make out a grant to that effedl to pafs the great feal "\ An a£t of parliament for confirming it to the City pafled on the 17th of July"\ On the i8th of June 1659 '^^ ^"^^^ referred to a committee to treat with the City about the exchange of Greenwich for the New-park "■*. At the Reftoration the park reverted to the crown, and Sir Daniel Sir Daniel Harvey, ran- Harvey was appointed ranger "^ Queen Anne granted the rangerfhip ger. to the Earl of Rochefter for three lives. After his death his fuccef- Rodiefter, for, who upon the extindlion of the elder branch of the Hydes became ^'^' Earl of Clarendon, joined with his fon Lord Cornbury, and fold the grant and remainder for the fum of 5,000 1. to George L who granted it "" Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. loo, "' Whitlock's Memorials, p. 411. Mo- ld. 8vo. derate Meflenger, July 16— 23. "' Pat. 13 Car. pt. 46. June 15. "♦ Public Intelligencer, June 13 — 2;, "* Perfect Summary, June 25, 1649. Im- 1659. partial Intelligencer, June 27. "' Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 23. Aug. 17. to 456 R I C H M O N D. Robert Lord to Robert, the fecond Earl of Orford, then Lord Walpole. His father Sir Robert Sir Robert Walpole fpent much of his leifure time in the park, where improve-^ he indulged himfelf with his favourite exercife of hunting, and paid ments. nobly for his amufement by building the Great-lodge, and making other improvements in the park at the expence of 14,000!. The Stone-lodge upon the hill was built (as mentioned before) by George I. The defign was the Earl of Pembroke's '". After the Earl of Or- Imelfa"""^^ ford's death, the Princefs Amelia was appointed ranger. Whilft it was in her hands a law-fuit was commenced relating to the right of Right of ^ foot-way through the Park, which was tried at the Aflizes at foot-way JO > through the Kingfton April 3, 1758, when the right was eftablifhed ; in con- fequence of which decifion ladder-gates were put up at fome of the entrances. The Princefs Amelia having furrendered her intereft in John Earl the rangerfhip, it was granted by his prefent Majefty to John Earl of of Bate. j3^^g^ j^jgjy deceafed. Extent of the Richmond-park is eight miles in circumference, and contains 2,253 ^^^ ' acres, of which fcarcely one hundred are in this parifh ; there are 650 acres in Mortlake, 265 in Peterfham, 230 in Putney, and the remainder in Kingfton. Projeaedim- Nature has difpofed the ground of this Park to great advantage, and has diverfified it with a pleafmg variety of hill and vale ; it is or- namented alfo with a great number of very fine oaks and other plantations. It has however fome defedls and deformities, which are now about to be removed, as fome improvements are projefSed which promife to make it one of the moft beautiful parks in the kingdom. It is faid that his Majefty, who fmce the death of the Earl of Bute has taken it into his own hands, has it in contemplation to caufe all the fwampy parts to be effedlually drained, the rough banks to be levelled, and the roads turned where beauty and advan- •" There is a print of this Lodge in the Vitruvius Britamiicus, vol. iv^ p. i — 4. tagc provements. RICHMOND. 457 tage may be gained by fo doing. The open parts, efpeclally the large tradl of ground towards Eaft Sheen, are to be ornamented with plan- tations properly adapted to the elevation of the furface ; and the vallies opened fo as to carry the appearance of greater extent, and to give additional grandeur to the old plantations. Within the walls of the park is an eligible and compact farm of The farm. 225 acres. To this, it is faid, that his Majefty, who has fhown a very laudable zeal for the encouragement and improvement of agri- culture, will pay particular attention, by the application of the foil to the purpofes moft appofite to its nature, and in particular by intro- ducing the Flemifli fyflem of hufbandry "*. The church of Richmond is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, and The church, confifts of a nave, two aifles, and a chancel. At the weft end is a low embattled tower built of ftone and flints, the other parts are of brick. It was repaired and enlarged in the year 1750. The chapel of " Schene" is mentioned in a record of the year 1339 ; it exifted pro- bably at a much earlier period. On the eaft wall of the chancel Is the monument of Henry Lord Monuments in the chan- Vifcount Brounker, of the kingdom of Ireland, who died in 16S8. eel. He was cofferer to King Charles II. and the laft of his title. On the north wall are the monuments of Robert Cotton, officer of the removing wardrobe of beds to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ; Dorothy wife of Sir George Wright, Knt. who died in 1631 ; John DIngley, who died in 1671 ; Lady Sophia, daughter of Robert Earl of Lindfey, and relidt of Sir Richard Chaworth, Knt. who died "* In this fyllem two horfes on-ly are ufed proportionate price of labour and provifions in in ploughing, and the lands are cultivated for his Chronicon Pretiofum. Its beneficial con- alternate crops for man and beaft, on a plan fequences, both to the labourer and a!fo to which is fuppofed to be produdlive of recipro- landlord, by its tendency to diminifti the poor cal advantage to both. It is faid, that the rates, are fully pointed out in an ingenious labourers upon this farm are to be paid half little treatife upon the fubjed, written in the their wages in wheat, according to the ftandard year 1777 by Mr. Kent, who it is prefumed price of that commodity ; the hint of which is will be employed to fuperintend thefe improve- taken from Bifhop Fleetwood's fcale of the ments under his Majefty's own direftion. VoL.L 3 N in 458 RICHMOND. in 1689; George Wakefield, M. A. vicar of Klngfton, and minlfter of Richmond, who died in 1776; Elizabeth wife of George Wol- lafton, D. D. who died in 1784; and George Rofs, Efq. who died in 1786. On the fouth wall are the monuments of Margaret, daughter of Sir William Courtney, and wife firft of Sir Warwick Hele, and fecondly of Sir John Chudleigh, who died in 1628; Walter Hickman, of Kew, who died in 1617 ; Mary wife of Thomas Jay, Efq. CommifTary to Charles I. who died in 1646; William Rowan, Efq. who died in 1767 ; and William Afton, Efq. who died in 1769. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs of the Right Hon. Lady Howard, reli£t of William Lord Howard, of Efcrick, who died in 1716, and her fon Charles the laft Lord Howard, who died in 1 715 ; and that of Mrs Catherine Macartney, who died in Mrs. Yates, 17S8. Near the rails is the tomb of Mary Ann Yates, the celebrated theaftrefs. tragic adrefs, who died in 1787; and in the lower part of the chancel thofe of Miles Halfey, Efq. who died in 1771 ; Delacourt Walfh, Efq. Captain the 38th Regiment of Foot, who died in 1 784; the Honourable General John Fitzwilliam, who died in 1789; and Mary, relid of Nathaniel Gundry, Efq. who died in 1791. Aubrey mentions alfo thofe of Matthias Pringham, Efq. who died in 1620 J and Henry Lygon, Efq. who died in 1661, which are now either obliterated or covered with pews "\ Nave. In the nave are the tombs of Jane, wife of Sir Andrew Forrefter, Knt. who died in 1685 ; Catherine, daughter of Sir John Dormer, Bart, who died in 1673 ; Gilbert Wigmore, Efq. of Little Shelford in Cambridgefhire, who died in 171 3; and Samuel Pechell, Efq. who died in 1 783. Aubrey mentions the tomb of Sir Richard Cha- worth, Vicar-general to Archbifhop Sheldon, who died in 1672, as being at the weft end of the nave '". South aille. On the caft wall of the fouth aifle is a monument for feveral perfons of the families of Bardolph, Mawhood, and Stobart. Henry Stobart •" Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 63. 67. •" Ibid. vol. i. p-yo. died RICHMOND. 459 died In 1702. Under the fouth gallery are the monuments of Mary wife of Hugh Wood, Efq. and afterwards of Sir Edward Wingfield, Knt. who died in 1677; and Richard Brawne, Efq. who died in 1682. Over the fame gallery is that of Robert Lewes, Efq. a Cambro-Briton and a barrifter at law, who died in 1649 > ^° great a lover of peace, fays his epitaph, that when a contention began to Whimficai arife between life and death, he immediately yielded up the ghoft Robert to end the difpute. On the weft wall is the monument of Ran- ^"'"' dolph Greenaway, Efq. who died in 1 754. Under the fouth gal- lery are the tombs of Guife Hall, Efq. and Mary daughter of Sir Thomas Grantham, who died in 1682. At the weft end that of Richard Curfon, Efq. who died in 1784. On the eaft wall of the north aifle is the monument of Francis North aifle. Holbourn, Efq. Admiral of the White, and Rear-admiral of Great- Admiral Hoi- Britain, who died in 1771 ; and that of his wife Frances, who died in 1763. On the north wall are thofe of Marc Antolne Bonoit, Efq. a native of France, tutor to Henry Duke of Newcaftle, who died in 16S7; Lieut. Col. Floyer, who died in 1731 ; Charles Floyer, Efq. who died in 1766; and Jofeph Bentley, Efq. who died in 1660. The laft-mentioned monument commemorates alfo Eleanor, daughter of Jofeph Bentley, and wife of Richard Graves, Efq. of Llncoln's-inn, who died in 1656, and lies burled at Richmond with four of her children. This monument, which is adorned with feveral bufts, has been engraved by Vertue. It is now concealed by the gallery. In the north aifle are alfo the tombs of Edward Lafcelles, Efq. who died in 1755, and others of that family; and of Thomas Eeles, apothecary, who died at the age of 90. The monument of Sir Matthew Decker, Bart, who died in 1749, is affixed to the north wall of the church on the outfide. On the fouth wall is the monument of Whichcott Turner, Efq. who died in 1780; and of William Turner, Efq. who died in 1790. 3 N 2 In 46o RICHMOND. Tombs inthe In the church-yard are the tombs of the following perfons: — the c "" '^ '' ■ dates of their death are annexed. Clement Kynnerfley, yeoman of the wardrobe of beds to Charles I. and Charles II. (1662) ; Ka- therine, third daughter of Roger Earl of Orrery, and wife of Richard Brett, Efq. (1681) ; Edward Bertie, eighth fon of Robert Earl of Lindfey, (1686); Mary wife of Robert White, Efq. firft page of the bed-chamber to William III. (1686); Jane, relid of Sir Ed- ward Ormfby, Knt. of the county of Rofcommon, (1695); Mar- tha, daughter of Robert Wilfon, Efq. and wife of Sir Edward Crop- ley, Bart. (1697) ; Frances, daughter of Sir Richard Levet, Knt. and wife of Thomas Lewis, Efq. of St. Pierre, in the county of Mon- mouth, (1707); Ann, reli£t of Charles Ingram, Efq. (1720); Tempeft Slingar, of Lincoln's-inn, Gent. (1728); William Coles, M. D. of Harwich, (1745); George Smith, Efq. (1745); Sarah Wall, a defcendant of Archbifhop Boulter, (1751); George Philip Goldman, Efq. (1753) ; Elizabeth, daughter of John Halliday, Efq. (1763) ; William Smith, apothecary, (1772) ; William Rifby Whit- horn, Efq. of Jamaica, (1773); Monica, wife of Capt. Daniel Francis Haughton, of the 69th regiment, (1780); Elizabeth, wife t of Capt. Lewis, (178 i); Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Paxton, Efq. (1783); Henry Stebbing, D. D. (1787); the Reverend James Col- linfon, M. A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, (1788); Mr. Jofeph Dubois, (1789) ; Ann, wife of Alexander Caffy, mer- chant, (1789); William Johnfon, Efq. {1789); Mr. James Fea- ron, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, (1789); the Reverend Corfield Clare, A. B. Redor of Alvechurch and Madresfield in the county of Worcefter, (1790); and Henry Reddal, Efq. (1791). Aubrey mentions alfo the tombs of John Spiller, agent for the Eaft- India Company in Buflbrah, Surat, &c. who died in 1677 5 Chrifto- pher Peachman, Gent, who died in 1668 ; and William Hall, who died in 1700 ; he was gentleman of the King's private band of mu- fic, and is called, " a fuperior violin "°." "' Antiquities of Surrey, vol, i. p. 8i. A new RICHMOND. 461 A new cemetery, at a fmall diftance from the church-yard, was New ceme- . . tery. confecrated in the year 1791. The only tomb yet eredted there is that of John Doveton, Efq. who died in 1792. At the eafl end of the ground a handfome room has been built for the meetings of Vellry-office. the feledl veftry, by which, according to an ad of parliament obtained for that purpofe, this parifh is governed. The church of Richmond is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and In Curacy. the deanery of Ewell. It was a chapel dependant upon Kingfton, and the curacy was in the gift of the vicar of that place ; till by an a£t of parliament pafled in 1769, it was made a perpetual curacy, and the patronage veiled, after the death of the then vicar of Kingfton, in the Hardinge family, who were proprietors of the great tithes. The reverfionary patronage has fince been alienated to St. John's College, Cambridge. The great tithes have undergone the fame alienations as thofe of Kingfton. It v^as prefented to the commiffioners ap- pointed in 1658 to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that Richmond was a chapel dependant on Kingfton ; that the in- come was formerly about 40 1. per annum ; and that it was without a fettled minifter. The commiffioners divided Richmond from the mother church, and uniting it to the hamlets of Kew and Weft Sheen, ordered, that it fhould be called by the name of the Parifh and Parifh Church of Richmond '". Nicholas Brady, the tranflator of the Pfalms, whllft he was en- Nicholas , c • • Brady. gaged in that work refided at Richmond, where he fo far ingratiated himfelf with the inhabitants that they requefted him to become their curate'^'. His fignature occurs in the regifter in 1696. He was alfo re£tor of Clapham. The prefent incumbent is the Reverend Thomas Wakefield. The parifh regifter begins in the year 1682, and has been very Pariih regif- ter. ■well kept. '" Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. Library. "' Biograph. Brit. 1682 462 RICHMOND. Comparative ftate of po- pulation. Sir Charles Lyttelton. 1682 — 169I 1780 — 1789 1790— I79I — Average of Baptifms. 62 128 129 Average of BuriaU. — 65 — 117 — "5 — 1 10 Edward Gib- fon. The parifh appears to have increafed in the proportion of 2 to I within the laft hundred years. The prefent number of houfes, ex- clufive of the workhoufe and the alms-houfes, is 8 15. The average number of perfons in the workhoufe is about 90. " Charles, fon of Sir Charles Lyttelton and dame Ann his wife, « baptized Sept. 7, 1684." " Thomas, fon of Sir Charles Lyttelton and dame Ann his " wife, baptized Dec. 20, 1685." Sir Charles Lyttelton was in his youth engaged in the fervice of Charles IL in the civil war, and was at the fiege of Colchefter. Soon after the furrender of that town he went into France, where he ftaid till about the time of Sir George Booth's attempt to reftore the King, in which he had a confiderable fhare. Upon the failure of that defign he was taken prifoner, but foon obtained his liberty and returned to the King, who entrufted him with many fecret'and important meffages to his friends in England. He was knighted by Charles II. and dif- tinguifhed himfelf as a military man during his reign and that of his fucceflbr. At the Revolution he refigned his ftation in the army, on account of the oaths, and retired to Weft Sheen, where he re- fided till the death of his brother Sir Henry, to whofe title as well as the Hagley eftate he then fucceeded'". Sir Charles's wife was the celebrated Mrs. Temple, mentioned in the Memoirs de Gram- mont. Of his two fons, whofe births are here recorded, Charles died young ; Thomas fucceeded to the title, and was one of the CommifFioners of the Admiralty '". " Edward Gibfon, painter, living in the Savoy le Strand, in Ca- " therine Street, buried Jan. 27, 1701." He painted principally in »" Baronetage, 1741. vol.i. p. 324—326. "' Ibid. crayons, RICHMOND. 463 crayons, and is fuppofed to have been fon of the dwarf. He died at the age of 33 "*. " William Gibfon, Gent, of the parifh of St. Giles in the Fields, wiuiam Gib- " buried Dec. ii, 1703." This was a nephew of the dwarf: he copied Lely, who was his matter, happily ; but chiefly pradifed miniature painting '*'. " Tohn Lord Haverfham buried in the chancel at the north fide, Jo^'" Lord •" Haverfliam. *' Nov. 13, 1710." Sir John Thompfon was created Lord Haver- fham in 1696. He took a very adive part in politics, oppofed all meafures'in favour of popery or arbitrary power during the reigns of Charles IL and James II. and joined the Prince of Orange on his arrival in this kingdom. In the latter part of his life he forfook his party and went over to the tories. Several of his fpeeches are extant, and a fliort pamphlet in defence of his change of principles "*. " The Honourable Thomas Howard, Lord Charles Howard, and Howards, of ' Efcnck, " Mrs. Mary Howard, buried in the middle of the chancel May 3, " 1 715." They were children of William Lord Howard of Efcrick. Charles was the laft of that title. " James Thomfon, Efq. buried Aug. 29, 1748." The hiftory and JamesThom- writings of this favourite poet are too well known to need any men- tion here. The houfe in which he refided at Richmond was pur- chafed after his death by George Rofs, Efq. who, out of veneration to his memory, forebore to pull it down, but enlarged and improved it at the expence of 9,000 1. It is now the property of the Honour- able Mrs. Bofcawen, who has repaired the poet's favourite feat in the •*♦ Anecdotes of Painring, vol. ili. p. 65. all of whom refided and died at Richmond. "' Ibid. Mention is made in the Anec- Byers was buried in the church of St. Clement dotes of Painting of Gerard Edema, a land- Danes. The names of the two others donor fcape painter of fome eminence, who delighted occur in the regifter at Richmond. See the in rocky views, and fubjefls of horror ; Nicho- Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p. 46. 48, 49. las Byer, a painter of portraits and hiftory, em- and vol. iv. p. 1 1 . ployed in Sir William Temple's family ; and '** Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii. Peter Cafteels, a painter of birds and flowers, p. 98— 102. garden, 464 RICHMOND. garden, and placed In it the table on which he wrote his verfes. Over the entrance is infcribed — " Here Thomfon fung the Seafons " and their Change." The infide is adorned with fuitable quota- tions from authors who have paid due compliments to his talents ; and in the centre appears the following infcription : " Within this " pleafing retirement, allured by the mufic of the nightingale, which " warbled in foft unifon to the melody of his foul, in unaffedled " chearfulnefs and genial though fimple elegance, lived James " Thomfon. Senfibly alive to all the beauties of Nature, he painted " their images as they rofe in review, and poured the whole pro- *' fufion of them into his inimitable Seafons. Warmed with intenfe " devotion to the Sovereign of the univerfe, its flame glowed " through all his compofitions ; animated with unbounded bene- *' volence, with the tendereft fecial fenfibility, he never gave one " moment's pain to any of his fellow-creatures, fave only by his " death, which happened at this place on the 27th day of Auguft " 1748." Mr. Thomfon was buried at the weft end of the north aifle of Richmond church. There was nothing to point out the fpot of his interment till a brafs tablet with the following infcription was lately put up by the Earl of Buchan : — " In the earth below " this tablet are the remains of James Thomfon, author of the beau- *' tiful poems entitled. The Seafons, The Caftle of Indolence, &c. " who died at Richmond on the 27th of Auguft, and was buried " there on the 29th O. S. 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling " that fo good a man and fweet a poet fhould be without a me- " morial, has denoted the place of his interment for the fatisfadtion " of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792." Underneath is a quotation from his Seafons : " Father of light," &c. Mrs. Yates. " Mary Ann Yates, buried May 14, 1787." Mrs. Yates' maiden name was Graham. She firft appeared upon the boards of Drury- Lane, Feb. 25, 1754, in the character of Icilia in the tragedy of Virginia. RICHMOND. 465 Virginia. Her performance gave little promife of that eminence to which fhe afterwards arrived. An accidental circumftance which afforded her an opportunity of adling Mandane in the new tragedy of the Orphan of China firft eftablifhed her reputation in the year 1759 '". She continued for many years to perform the principal characters in tragedy with great applaufe. Her laft appearance upon the ftage was for the benefit of Mrs. Bellamy in the year 1785, when fhe a£led the part of the Duchefs of Braganza. She was mar- ried about the year 1755, to Mr. Richard Yates the celebrated come- dian, who is ftill living. " Henry Stebbing, D. D. aged 70, buried Nov. 20, 1787." He Dr. Steb- bing. was fon of Dr. Stebbing the well-known polemical writer, and was himfelf a man of confiderable talents and very amiable manners. He publifhed a few occafional fermons, and had prepared for the prefs two volumes of difcourfes delivered at Gray's-inn, to which Society he was many years preacher. Thefe were publiflied after his death by his fon Henry Stebbing, Efq. barrifter at law, who has prefixed to them a fhort and elegant biographical preface. A third volume has fince been added. " James Fearon buried 0£t. 6, 1789." Mr. Fearon had confi- J^""" ^«*- derable merit as an a£tor, and performed fome charadlers with great truth and nature, particularly Capt. Driver in Oroonoko, and the prifoner in Mrs. Inchbald's comedy of " Such Things Are." He refided conftantly at Richmond, from which place he attended the duties of the Theatre, and frequently walked home after the play was over. He was buried in the church-yard, where is the follow- ing infcription to his memory : — " This memorial is infcribed to " Mr. James Fearon, of the Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, who " paid the debt of nature, Sept. 30th 1 789, aged 43. In dramatic " life he held the mirror up to Nature. In private life he fulfilled "'' European Magazine, vol. ii. p. 313, &C. Vol. I. * 3 O « the ron. 466 RICHMOND. " the duties relative and fecial, and as he lived refpeded he died " lamented." jofeph Tay- Jofeph Taylor, an eminent ador who died in 1653, is faid to '°''" have been buried at Richmond "'; but there is no memorial of him to be found in the church or church-yard, and the regifter is not fo ancient. He was yeoman of the revels to Charles I., and is faid to have been taught by Shakefpear to a£l Hamlet '^'. Hon. Rich- The Hon. and Reverend Richard Hill, LL. D. who died at Rich- aid Hill. . , . mond in the year 1727, was, in the earlier part of his life, a ftatefman of confiderable eminence. He was employed in various embaflies to the courts of Italy by William III. and Queen Anne, and had the merit of bringing the Duke of Savoy into the grand alliance. Hav- ing been both a commiflioner of the admiralty and the treafury, and a pay-mafter of the army, he retired from civil employment in the reign of George I. and entered into holy orders '^°. Biihop Dup- The pious Bifhop Duppa lived in a very retired manner at Rich- P^' mond during the civil war, and the fubfequent exile of his pupil Charles II. whom he had educated at this place '^'. After he was made Bifliop of Winchefter he ftill refided occafionally at Richmond, and died there in 1662. The King vifited him on his death-bed, and begged his blefTmg '". Alms houfe The year before he died the Bifhop founded an alms-houfe at founded by ^|^-g pj^^^g fQj. jq pQQj women, in confequence of a vow which he had made during the King's exile. He endowed it with a farm at Shep- perton, for which he gave 1,5401.'" This now produces 115I. per annum. A few other benefactions have augmented the annual in- come to 129I. 7s. The alms-houfe ftands upon the Hill J over the door is an infcription, with a Ihort account of its foundation. "' Malone's Hiftory of the Stage, prefixed '^' Biograph. Brit, to his edition of Shakefpear, p, 215 — 217. "'Ibid. "0 Jbid. '3^ Ibid. '^° Baronetage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 215. Another RICHMOND. 467 Another alms-houfe was founded in the year 1606 by Sir George Sir George Wright for eight poor women. Its revenues having been aug- alms-houfe. mented by the benefadlions of Whichcott Turner, Efq. (300 1.); Charles Selwyn, Efq. (150 1.) ; and Sarah Gaudry Debatt (150 1.) ; now amount to 73 1. i s. per annum. This is ufually called Queen Elizabeth's alms-houfe : it flood on the lower road under the hill till the year 1767, when it was re-built by fubfcription in the vine- yard, on a piece of ground given by William Turner, Efq. A third alms-houfe was founded between the years 160; and Michel's 1 Vi r 1697 by Humphry Michel, ^"^ his nephew John Michel, Efq. for ten old men. It ftands on the declivity of the hill : its income is now 189I. OS. 4d. per annum, a confiderable part of which arifes from fundry meffuages bequeathed by William Smith, Efq. A fourth alms-houfe was founded by Rebecca Houblon for nine Houbion's •' alms-houle. poor women in the years 1757 and 1758. Its endowment confifts of fundry lands, and a capital of 1,050!. in the old South-Sea annu- ities; producing in the whole 150 1. per annum. A charity-fchool was eftabliflied in this parifh in the year 1713, Charity- ^ i / / ^ fchool. with the legacies and benefadtions of various perfons ; — Dorothy Lady Capel left 1 1 1. per annum, to this amongft other parifhes for the education of children. The capital belonging to the fchool now amounts to 3,000 1. in the 3 per cents, with the intereft of which, aided by an annual fubfcription and the coUedions at a charity fer- mon, 34 boys and the fame number of girls are clothed and edu- cated. His prefent Majefty contributes 30 1. per annum to this fchool, and the Queen 12I. 12 s. Mr. Henry Smith's benefaction to this parifli, originally 40I. per Various be- . nefaftions. annum, now produces 62 1. 5 s. d. Richard Tomlins, m the year 1649, '^^'^ 5<^^* ^° ^^^y l^'^^s to put out children apprentices. Wil- liam Hlckey, in 1727, left an eftate to this parifh which produces 202 1. 17 s. per annum. Out of this income fix poor men and ten -^ O 2 women 468 RICHMOND. women are to receive annual penfions of 61. each. The remainder is appropriated partly to buy coals and clothes for the poor, and partly to augment the allowance of the women in Bifhop Duppa's alms-houfe. The fum of 7 1. i6s. has been left by various bene- nefadlors to buy bread for the poor. Mrs. Mary New, in 1785, left the reverfion of 1,000 1. in the 3 per cent, reduced Bank An- nuities to be divided among live poor widows. The tra£l of ground called " The Peft-houfe Common," is now the fole property of the parifh. His Majefty furrendered his right therein about five years ago, and at the fame time built at his own expence a large workhoufe for the poor, as a compenfation for fliutting up the road between Richmond and Kew Gardens. The church-lands belonging to Richmond produce 62 1. los. per annum, and are veiled in truftees. The ferry. 'pj^g ferry at this place belonged to the crown, being an appendage to the manor : it was ufually granted for life to fome perfons about the court, the crown receiving 13s. 4d. per annum'". When the bridge was built an a£t of parliament pafled to enable the crown to grant the fee-fimple to the commiflioners. The bridge. The firft ftone of Richmond-bridge was laid Aug. 23, 1774; and it was finifhed in December 1777. MefTrs. Paine and Coufe were the architeds. The river at this place is nearly 300 feet wide. The length of the bridge is about 300 feet exclufive of the caufe- way at each end ; it confifls of five ftone arches. The central arch Is 25 feet high and 60 wide. The expence of this ftrudlure amounted to about 26,000 1. of which fum 25,000 1. was raifed upon tontine in fhares of 100 1. each. The revenues are about 1,3001. per annum. The view from Richmond-bridge on either fide, but particularly towards the hill, is fingularly beautiful. "♦ Pat. 19Edw.IV. m. 12. Pat. 20 Hen. VI. pt. i. m. 13, &c. &c. In RICHMOND. 469 In the early part of the prefent century there was a place of en- Richmond- tertainment much frequented, called Richmond-wells'"; affemblies were advertifed there as lately as the year 1 755, but the place was then much on the decline. Penkethman, of facetious memory, opened a new theatre at Rich- Penketh- ^ '■ man's thca- mond on the 6th of June 1719, and fpoke a humorous prologue tre. on the occafion, alluding to the place having been formerly a hovel for affes "^ This theatre was the fame probably that flood on the declivity of the hill, and was opened in the year 1756 by Theo- Gibber's ce- philus Gibber, who, to avoid the penalties of the a£l of parliament againft unlicenfed comedians, advertifed it as " a cephalic fnuff ware- *' houfe '"." A theatre was ereded a few years afterwards at the Theatre-roy- al, north-weft corner of the green, which has the fandlion of royal au- thority. It is opened, during the fummer feafon, three, and fometimes four nights in the week, and is generally fupplied with performers from the theatres in London. Richmond was paved, watched, and lighted -by a6t of parliament 25 Geo. III. "' The following advertifement is copied " moderate quantities (in an evening particu- from a news-paper of the year 1730 : " This " larly) will not fail to raife the fpirits, clear " is to give notice to all gentlemen and ladies, " the brain, throw off ill humours, diffipate " that Richmond-wells are now opened, and " the fpleen, enliven the imagination, exhila- " continue fo daily, where attendance is given " rate the mind, give joy to the heart, and " for gentlemen and ladies that have a mind " greatly invigorate and improve the under- " either to raffle for gold chains, equipages, " Handing. Mr. Gibber has alfo opened at " or any other curious toys and fine old china, " the aforefaid warehoufe (late called the the. " and likewife play at quadrille, ombre, wifk, " atre) on the hill, an hiftrionic academy for " Sec. And on Saturdays and Mondays, du- " the inftruftion of young perfons of genius, " ring the fummer feafon, there will be danc- " in the art of afting; and purpofes, for the " ing as ufual." Craftfman, June 1 1. " better improvement of fuch pupils, &c. fre- "" Read's Weekly Journal, June 23. " quently with his affiftants, to give public re- '" " Gibber and C°, fnufF-merchants, fell " hear^As ti:itiou( hire, gain, or re-warti," Sec. " at their warehoufe on Richmond-hill a mod General Advertifer, July 8, 1756. " excellent cephalic fnuff, which taken in [ 47° ] ROTHERHITHE. Etymology, Boundaries, extent, &c. Dock-yards. Canute's trench. THIS place, which Is fituated on the banks of the Thames, about a mile and a half below London-bridge, derives its name from the Saxon words r other ^ a failor, and hyth^ a haven or wharf. It is ufually called RedrifF, and this pronunciation appears to have prevailed as early as the 13th century". The parifh lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is bounded by Bermondfey and Deptford. The land which is not oc- cupied by houfes is principally pafture, of which there is about 470 acres. The market gardeners employ about 40. The greater part of this parifh was formerly a marfli. Rotherhithe pays 1,9181. 5 s. to the land-tax, which, on an average, is about 2s. 6d, in the pound. This year it was 3 s. There are eleven dock-yards in this parifh, at fome of w'hich a confiderable number of fhips are built for the Eafl-India fervice j the others are employed for building vefTels of a fmaller fize. The whole extent of the fhore is inhabited by various artificers and tradefmen who make and furnifh rigging and provifions for the navy. The trench, faid to be cut by Canute, to befiege the city of London by water, began in this parifh *. The channel through which the river was turned in the year 1 173, for the purpofe of rebuilding London-bridge, is faid to have had the fame courfe \ • Cl. 8 Edw. I. ni.5. dorfo. * Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 66—70, ' Stow's Annals, p. 225, 4to edit, 1605. The ROTHERHITHE. The manor of Rotherhlthe belonged to the Abbot of Graces, who, Manor. •with the King's permifTion, granted it in the reign of Richard II. to the priory of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondfey *. It was then valued at 20 1. per annum. After the fuppreflion of monafleries it was kept in the hands of the crown till the reign of Charles I. when it w^as granted at the requeft of Sir Allen Apfley, and probably in truft for him, to William White and others'. In the year 1672 it was in the poffeffion of James Cecil * Earl of Salilbury ; about the year 1692 it appears to have been alienated to John Bennet, Efq. ; in 1 7 1 5 to John JoUey and Benjamin Morret ; and about 1732 to Thomas Scawen, Efq. It was afterwards the property of Francis Gafliry, Efq. whofe widow bequeathed it to the prefent proprietor Philip Goldfworthy, Efq. one of his Majefty's Equerries, and Colonel of the firfl regiment of dragoons. This manor has a court-leet and court-baron. It appears that there was formerly another manor in Rotherhithe diftin6: from that of the priory, and that Sir William Lovell was feized thereof in the reign of Henry VI.' Robert Burnell, Bifliop of Bath and Wells, had confiderable property in this parifh in the reign of Edward I. ° Sir Hugh Burnell, who died in the eighth year of Henry V. held the manor of Rotherhithe for term of life of the Abbot of Bermondfey '. In the reign of Henry VIII. Matthew Dale held a mefluage in this parifh called the " Moted-place," which was formerly the property of Robert Fitz waiter. Baron of Egremond, in the reign of Ed- ward III. '° As Rotherhithe is not mentioned in Doomfday Book, it is pro- bable that it was formerly only a hamlet to Bermondfey. The pre- fent church was built in the years 1714 and 1715. In the cafe of * Pat. 21 Ric. II. pt. 3. m. 25. ' CI. 8 Edw. I. m. 5. dorfo, and 14 Ed. I. * Fee-farm rolls. Augmentation-office. m. 2. dorfo. ' Court-rolls of the manor, from whence ' Exch. 8 Hen. V. N°ii6. the other alienations were obtained. '° Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. ^ Exch. 33Henry VI. N^zS. N'4705. Ayfcough's Cat. the 471 472 R O T H E R H I T H E. the parifhioners which was laid before parliament about that time, it was faid that the church of Rotherhithe was firft built 400 years before". It was reprefented at the fame time, that it was then in danger of falling, that the expence of rebuilding it upon a fcale proportionate to the increafe of the parifh would be at leafl: 4,000!. that the poor rates, which 30 years before were only 80 1. per annum, then amounted to more than 700 1. and that the parifhloners were chiefly feamen who ventured their lives in fetching thofe coals from Newcaftle which paid for the rebuilding the churches in London. They prayed therefore that the duty on coals might be continued, to enable them to rebuild their church. The petition appears to have been unfuccefsful. By a brief, however, they colleded 920 1. and by voluntary fubfcriptions of the inhabitants and others about 1,800 1. more. The Bilhop of Winchefter gave 230 1. and Sir John Lake 100 1." The new church was opened July 3, 1715. It is built of bricks, with flone quoins, and confifts of a nave, chancel, and two aifles, fupported with pillars of the Ionic order. At the weft end is a fquare tower, upon which is a ftone fpire fupported by Co- rinthian columns. Monuments, In the chancel are the monuments of Mr. Jofeph Wade, King's carver in his Majefty's yards at Deptford and Woolwich, who died in 1743; Mr. Alexander Roberts, who died in 1758; and Cap- tain Thomas Barrow, who died in 1781. In the nave is the tomb of Peter Hills, mariner, and one of the elder brethren of theTrinity-houfe, who died in 1614. On a fquare brafs plate are engraved the figures of himfelf and his two wives. There are the tombs alfo of George Paftfield, Efq. who died in 1660, and others of his family ; and of Mary Tiddiman, who died in 1666. " Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v. decayed, their place was fupplied with timber p. 7, 8. It appears that in the beginning of columns. Gataker's Anfwer to Lilly, p. 47. the laft century the main fabric of the church •* The names of the fubfcribers are printed was fupported by chalky pillars of very large at large in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, proportions, which being at that time much vol. v. p. 16—28. In &c R O T H E R H I T H E. 473 la the north aifle is a tablet to the memory of Roger Tweedy, Efq. who died in 1655. In Aubrey's Antiquities are mentioned alfo an achievement to the memory of Matthew Hungerford, Efq. of the county of Wilts, who died in 1677; ^^^ ^^^ tomb of Elizabeth, wife of Capt. William Evans, who died in 1703. In the veftry is a portrait of King Charles I. in his robes, kneel- ing at a table, and holding a crown of thorns. This formerly hung in the fouth aifle '\ On the outfide of the church are tablets in me- mory of Capt. Anthony Wood, who died in 1625, and Capt. Tho- mas Stone, who died in 1666. The only remarkable monument in the church-yard is that of the Tombs in the Pelew prince, Lee Boo, the infcription upon which is given in p. 476. There are the tombs alfo of Ann, widow of Capt. John Blake, who died in 1681 ; Nicholas Leach, Efq. who died in 1776, and others of his family ; Thomas Halcot, Efq. of the county of Norfolk, who died in 1780; and the following perfons, moft of whom were cap- tains of merchants fhips ; John Steele, who died in 1710; Samuel Biggs, (1726) ; George Wane, (1748) ; Anthony Nicholfon, (1750) ; Richard Weales, (1752) ; WilUam Scarth, (1762) ; John Mackmath, (1762); Henry Sax, (1766); John Petyt, (1773) ; William God- frey Turner, (1789); John Lafley, (1791). In the year 1790 a handfome monument was ereded for Mr. John RulTel, who is yet living. The church of Rotherhithe, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is Reftor}'. in the diocefe of Winchefter and the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a rectory. The advowfon belonged to the priory of Bermondfey ; fince the fuppreffion of which monaftery it has pafl!ed through various hands, and now belongs to Clare Hall, Cambridge. There is a record in the Tower of fundry grants to the redor of Rotherhithe ". It was prefented to the commiffioners appointed to " Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v. p. 9. '3 Pat. 33 Edw. III. pt.z. m. i. Vol. L 3 P inquire 474 R O T H E R H I T H E. inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftlcal benefices in 1658, that the reftory of " Redereth" was worth about 92 1. per annum, and that the impropriation was vefted in Captain Hurlefton and Captain Jo- feph Dobbins, the purchafers. By fome legal controverfy the prefentation lapfed to the Lord Protestor, who intended to place there Mr. Conyers Rutter ; but Capt. Dobbins taking advantage of his abfence, placed there Mr. John Baker, who then officiated there. The redory is valued in the King's books at 1 8 1. Thomas Gat- Thomas Gataker, who was inftituted to this reftory about the year 161 2, was a man of confiderable note in his time. He was in principles a Calvinift, and rendered himfelf fo obnoxious to the go- vernment, that he was confined for fome time in the Fleet before the breaking out of the civil war. When his party came into power he was appointed one of the aflembly of divines, where he fometimes officiated as chairman '*. Several of his works are extant, confifting of Sermons ; a Treatlfe on the Purity of the Language of the Greek Teftament ; Annotations on a PafTage in Jeremiah ; and feveral other trads. Anthony Wood, who bore no good- will to his party, calls him " the learned Prefbyterian "." A few months before he died he engaged in a controverfy with Lilly the aftrologer, who had at- tacked him by name in one of his almanacs. In his anfwer to Lilly he recites at large the circumftances which attended his removal from Lincoln's-inn, where he was preacher, to Rotherhithe ", and enters into a detail of the profits of his redory, which had been much ex- aggerated by his antagonift. It appears, by his account, that he re- ceived only 75 1. IDS. per annum for his tithes and glebe land ". He had formerly received 40 1. per annum, which was decreed him '♦ Difcourfe apologetical in anfwer to Lilly, "" Apologetical Difcourfe, p. 44—46. p. 57. It appears that the members of this " Ibid. p. 60. In the fifth vol. of Aubrey's aflembly were allowed 4s. a day for their at- Antiquitiesof Surrey (1719), theprofits of this tendance. reilory are valued at 400 1. per annum. ^^ Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 66g. by R O T H E R H I T H E. 47^ by the Court of Exchequer In lieu of an ancient tithe on houfes " ; but this the inhabitants for fome years had refufed to pay, Mr. Ga- taker died July 27, 1654", and was buried at Rotherhithe ; having been redtor there 42 years. His fon Charles, who was born in this parlfh, was chaplain to Lucius Lord Faulkland, and author of fome theological treatifes ". The prefent redtor Is the Reverend Robert Myddelton. The parlfli regifter begins in 1674, and appears to have been Parifhregif- regularly kept. Average of Baptifms.' Average of Burials. 1680—1689 — I CI 1 60 Comparative ■^ -^ ftateofpopu- 1780 — 1789 341 - 266 lation. 1790 376 284 1791 388 265 This parifli appears to have increafed in a proportion of more than two to one during the laft century ; and It ftill continues to increafe in a very rapid degree. An a£t of parliament has been lately ob- tained for granting building leafes upon Colonel Goldfworthy's eftate% The difproportion of the burials to the births feems to denote a healthy fpot, and Indeed Rotherhithe has been remarked for the fa- lubrlty of Its air, and the infrequency of Infedious diforders there j a circumftance which has been accounted for from the flux and re- flux of the tides pafllng through the common fewers. The prefent number of houfes Is calculated at about 1600. There are ufually about 190 poor in the workhoufe. The following Is the only entry in the reglflier which appears de- fervlng of notice: — "Prince Lee Boo buried, from Capt. Wilfon's, PHnce Lee " Paradife-row, Dec. 29, 1784, aged 20." The hiftory of this amiable young man, who fell a facrifice to the fmall-pox, may be '^ Apologetical Difcourfe, p. 49, 50. P'570- '» Anthony Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. " Ibid, vol.ii. p. 669, 670. 3 P 2 feen 476 R O T H E R H I T H E. feen at large In Mr. Keate's Interefting narrative of Capt. Wilfon's adventures at the Pelew Iflands^'. Lee Boo was buried in the church-yard at Rotherhithe, where, upon his tomb, is the following infcription : — " To the memory of Prince Lee Boo, a native of the Pelew " or Palas iflands, and fon to Abba Thulle, Rupack or King of *' the ifland Goo-roo-raa, who departed this life on the 27th of De- *' cember 1 784, aged 20 years, this ftone is infcribed by the Ho- " nourable Eaft-India Company, as a teftimony of the humane and *' kind treatment afforded by his father to the crew of their ihip " the Antelope, Capt. Wilfon, which was wrecked off that ifland " in the night of the 9th of Auguft 1783. " Stop reader, ftop, let Nature claim a tear, " A Prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here.'* Free-fchool. A free-fchool was founded in this parifh about the beginning of the laft century by Peter Hills and Robert Bell, and endowed with a fmall annual Income for the education of eight fons of feamen, with a falary of 3 1. per annum for the mafter. The fchool- houfe, which Is fituated near the church, was rebuilt by fubfcrip- tlon in 1745. The endowment has been confiderably augmented by various donations. In 1712, 220 1. was fubfcribed to purchafe a ground-rent. Since this time benefadions to the amount of near 900 1. have been given", and the fund is now fuch as to enable the parifti to clothe and educate thirty-three boys and twenty-two girls. The founders of the charity-fchool left alfo fix pounds per an- num to be diftributed in bread to the poor. Ambrofe Bennet, Efq. *' In this book there is a print of Lee George Cornwall, Efq. who gave lool. ; B, Boo, from a drawing made by Mr. Keate's Wood, Efq. lOol.; Mrs. Elizabeth L'Ans, accomplilhed daughter. I ool. ; Henry Mills, Efq. lOoI.; John Gray, '* Some of the principal benefaftors were, Efq. 105 1. ; and James Taylor, Efq. 200 1. left R O T H E R H I T H E. 477 left 9I. per annum for the fame purpofe. Captain Tweedy, 5I. 4 s. per annum, and Captain William Steevens and the Re- verend Thomas Gataker, jointly, the fame fum. "With the two lafl benefactions lands have been purchafed which produce 15 1. 10 s. per annum. Mr. Henry Smith left 10 1, per annum, to buy clothes and provifions for the poor. [ 478 ] STREATHAM. Situation, boundaries^ foil, &c. Etymology. *• | "> HIS place derives Its name from having been fituated near JL the great Roman road from Arundel to London ; Jlrete fig- nifying in the Saxon language a highway, and havi a dwelling. The Normans, with little attention to its derivation, call this village in Doomfday-book Eftraham : in all records of a fubfequent date it is written Stretham. In compliance with the univerfal cuftom which has prevailed perhaps for the laft fifty years, I have fpelt it Streatham, though the a feems an unnecefTary and improper In- terpolation '. Streatham lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is fituated on the road from London to Croydon, at the diftance of fomewhat more than five miles from Weftminfter-bridge. The pa- rifh is bounded by thofe of Croydon, Mitcham, Wandfworth, Bat- terfea, Clapham, Lambeth, and Camberwell. The greater part of the land is arable, the foil various, but clay is predominant. There are about 380 acres of common. Streatham is afleffed the fum of 586 L 13 s. 9d. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of 2 8. 3d. in the pound. Manors. In Doomfday-book feveral manors or eftates are recorded as ly- ing within the parifh of Streatham ; they were held In the Con- feflbr's time by Ulward, Edwin, Harold, the canons of Wal- tham, Erding, and Eftarcher. Ulward's manor was of one caru- cate, valued at 20 s. j and was held at the time of the furvey by ' See Mr. Bray's paper in the Archaeologia, vol. ix. p. 1 04. Haimo S T R E A T K A M. 479 Halmo the flierifF. Edwin's manor, which was of the fame extent, but vakied at 25 s. was given by the Conqueror to the Bifhop of Baicux, and was held under him by Anfgot. Earl Morton became proprietor of the land which had been divided between Earl Ha- rold and the canons of Waltham. It contained two carucates, and at three feveral periods had been valued at 30s. 15s. and 43s. Richard de Tonebridge obtained of the Conqueror the two other ma- nors ; one of which, being valued at iocs, he gave to the monaftery of Bee ; the other, valued in the Confeflbr's time at 50s. and at the time of the furvey at 60s. was held of him by the fame consent. The former of thefe included the hamlet of Tooting, which, as well as the manor, was called afterwards Tooting Bee. The lands here are fometimes defcribed as the property of the abbey of Bee, and fome- times of the priory of Okebourn, which was the principal cell to that monaftery in England ^. Tanner fpeaks of a priory of Black Priory at Monks fettled at Tooting ; in fupport of which authority, a record °°""S* of the reign of Edward IV. mentions the manor or priory of Toot- ing '. After the fuppreffion of alien priories, the manor of Tooting Manor of Bee was granted to John Duke of Bedford, conftable of France*; footing Bee. and was afterwards leafed by the crown to John Arderne, Efq. for a rent of igl. per annum, which formed part of the endowment of Eton college '. The manor was granted by Edward IV. to Law- rence Booth, Bifhop of Durham, for life * ; and was afterwards, by the fame king, fettled upon John Tiptoft Earl of Worcefter, mafler and Sir John Scott and others, wardens, of St. Mary's Guild, in the * Rymer, vol. xi. p. 488. In a regifter Uveen the Abbot and John ^Vhitema^l, in of Merton Abbey, in the Bodleian Library, which the former was again fuccefsful. The is an account of a trial at law between the Prior of Okebourn's property in Strcatham was Abbot of Bee, and William Rcdor of Streat- valued at 68s. Sid. in 1291. See note, p. lo. ham, A° 1340, in which the former reco- ^ Rymer's FceJera, vol. xi. p. 488. vered a houle and 60 acres of land, of which ♦ Elch. 14 Hen. VI. he had been diffeized. Another trial relating ' Hillory of Alien Priories, vol. ii. p. 15;. to the fame premifes happened in 1368, be- * Rymer, vol. xi. p. 488. 3 P 4 church 48o STREATHAM. Manor- houfe. Tradition of Queen Elizabeth. church of Allhallows-Barking'. Upon the fuppreffion of the guild, John Dudley Earl of Warwick bought the manor of Tooting Bee of the crown, at 22 years purchafe'. It afterwards became the pro- perty of the Pakenhams, and was aliened in the year 1600, by Henry Pakenham to Sir Giles Howland'. By the intermarriage of Wriothefley Duke of Bedford, with Elizabeth, daughter and fole heir of John Rowland, Efq. it came into the Bedford family, and is now the property of the prefent Duke, who bears the title of Baron Howland of Streatham. The manor-houfe, which is fituated at the corner of Streatham- common, on the road to Croydon, is large, but contains nothing re- markable. It was probably rebuilt by Sir Giles Howland, whofe arms and thofe of his wife '° are upon two brick turrets, which ap- pear to have formed the grand entrance to the houfe. Queen Elizabeth's arms, which were formerly in the hall, ferve alfo to af- certain the date, and no doubt gave rife to a tradition, that it was one of her palaces; a tradition fo prevalent in Salmon's time ", that they fhowed the Earl of Effex's apartments, and fupported it by other circumflantial proofs, yet fo deftitute of foundation, either from hif- tory or record, as to make one very cautious of trufting the village tale upon fuch occafions. The houfe appears to have undergone a total change in its external form about the beginning of this cen- tury. It does not appear what became of the other manors mentioned in Doomfday. King John granted a confiderable eftate at Streatham, which had been the property of Peter Feald, to William de Rivers ' Pat. 5 Edw. IV. pt. I. m. 19. Az. on a fefle Gules, engrailed Arg. between * Certificate of the fale of chantry lands, in 3 fvvans proper, three rofes of the third. Sir the .'\ugnientation-office. Giles Howland married Elizabeth, daughter of * Pat. 42 Eliz. pt. 10. Dec. I. Sir John Rivers. Sir Giles's brother Richard '" Howland bears Argent, two bars Sable, was Bifhop of Peterborough. in chief, 3 lions rampant, Gules ; Rivers bears " Antiquities of Surrey, 8vo. 1736. p. 39. Earl S T R E A T H A M. . 481 Earl of Devonfhire. This probably was afterwards given to the monaftery of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondfey. The dean and chapter of Canterbury have flill a manor here, Manorofthe which, though not mentioned in Doomfday-book, is faid to have been chapter of given to the monks of that cathedral by King " Egelred," in the year 959 • The manor of Leigham's or Legham's Court belonged to Ber- Manor of ° ° '^ Leigham's mondfey Abbey, and was granted, after the fuppreffion of that mo- Court, naftery, to Henry Dowfe '\ Clerk ; William Dowfe appears to have* alienated it about the year 1564 to John Southcott. Efq. afterwards one of the Juftices of the Common Pleas '*. About the year 1610, it came into the pofleflion of Sir Matthew Carew, Knt. and LL. D. who two years afterwards appears to have alienated it to John Howland, Efq. from whom it defcended to Walter Howland, alias Roberts, fon of Thomas Roberts, Efq. and grandfon of Sir Matthew Howland. George Duke of St. Albans married Jane fole heir of Sir Walter Roberts, whereby he became polTefled of this manor, which was purchafed of the late Duke's truftees by the Right Hon. Edward Lord Thurlow, who is the prefent proprietor. The lord of this manor hasacourt-leet, and viewof franc-plege: the lands therein defcend to the youngeft fon. The tenants are fubjed to the payment of pannage, or i d. to the lord for every fwine, and to another cuftomary payment called rump-pence, being one penny to be paid by every perfon who has cattle to the value of 30 s. The manor of Balgham, or, as it is now called, Balham, though Manor of now in Streatham parifh, feems to be mentioned in Doomfday- book as an appendage to Clapham. It had been held of Earl Ha- rold by Anfchil. At the time of the furvey it was in the poiTeflion " Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 21. There " Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 10. 0&.. 15. mud be an error refpefting the date : Eldred '■* Court-rolls of the manor, whence the began to reign in 946, and died in 955. fubfequent alienations are taken. Ethelred began his reign in 579. Vol. r. 3 CL of 4^2 S T R E A T H A M. Seat of Ga- briel Piozzi, Efq. Portraits in the library. Dr. John- fon's refi- dence here. of Godfrey Orlatele, who Is there reported not to have had law- ful feizure thereof. At three feveral periods it had been valued at 61. 20 8. and 40s. Sibyl de Tingria confirmed to the monks of Bee a hide of land in Balgham belonging to the manor of Clap- ham, which had been given them by her anceftors '^ Nigel de Mandeville, in the year 1103, gave two hides of land in Balgham to Bermondfey Abbey ". The farm of Balams in Streatham con- tinued in the crown fome time after the diflblution of monafteries, and was leafed by Queen Elizabeth to Edward Williams ". William Smith, Gent, who died 16 Car. I. was feized of a mefluage called Balams in Streatham, which he had lately purchafed of Nathaniel Boftock ". The manor has belonged to the family of Du Cane fmce the year 1701, and is now the property of Peter Du Cane, jun. Efq. Edward VI. granted lands at Streatham to Thomas LordDarcy ", which afterwards came to the Carews ". On the fide of the fmall common between Streatham and Tooting, is a villa which belonged to the late Henry Thrale, Efq. and is now the refidence of Gabriel Piozzi, Efq. who married his widow. The houfe, which is pleafant and commodious, has been much improved by Mr. Piozzi. In the library is a very valuable fet of portraits, painted by Sir Jofhua Reynolds for Mr. Thrale. Befides the mafter and mif- trefs of the houfe, they confift, of Lord Sandys, Lord Weftcote, Sir Jofhua Reynolds, Dr. Johnfon, Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Arthur Murphy, Oliver Goldfmith, Dr. Burney, Sir Robert Chambers, and Baretti, who fpent many focial hours in the room where their por- traits now hang. It Is well known to thofe who have read any of the various writers of Johnfon's life, that he fpent much of his time beneath this hofpitable roof. The little events which happened, and the " Hiftory of Alien Priories, vol. i. p. 164 — 167. '* Dugdak-'s Monaft. vol. i. p. 640. " Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. 3. Apr. 2. »* Cole's Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harl. MSS. N'' 411. p. 188. '* Grants by Edw. VI. Augmentation-of- fice. *° Terrier of Lands in Surrey, N° 4705. Ayfcough's Cat. MSS. Brit. Muf. pecu- S T R E A T H A M. 483 peculiarities which diftinguiflied this eminent and worthy charadter during his refidence here, are admirably pourtrayed by Mrs. Piozzi in her anecdotes of the lafl 20 years of his life. The kitchen- gardens belonging to this villa ar<: remarkably fpacious, and fur- rounded by brick-walls fourteen feet in height, built for the recep- tion of forcing-frames, and producing a great abundance of fine fruit. Adjoining the houfe is an inclofure of about 100 acres, furrounded with a flirubbery and gravel walk of nearly two miles in circumference. The church, which ftands in the centre of the village, is dedicated Thechurch, to St. Leonard, and confifts of a nave and chancel. The north-fide is built of flints, and retains fome traces of the architedure of the fourteenth century. The fouth-wall was rebuilt with brick, and a gallery added on that fide about 16 years ago. At the weft-end is a fquare tower fupporting a taper fpire, which, though of no great height, yet, being fituated upon a high fpot of ground, forms a con- fpicuous objedt for feveral miles. Upon an altar-tomb in the north-wall, under a rich Gothic ca- Ancient Go- nopy, lies the mutilated figure of an armed knight, having a pointed helmet, mail gorget, and plated cuirafl'es. The canopy is orna- mented with quatrefoils, but the pinnacles and fome of the other parts are imperfe£t. It feems probable, from the fituation, that it is the founder's tomb, and its form afcertains it to be of the 14th cen- tury ". It has been abfurdly called the tomb of John of Gaunt ", who it is well known was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. In the fame wall, higher in the chancel, is another Gothic canopy with a flat ardi : beneath this is a marble flab fixed Tideways in the wall, which has evidently been difplaced. The infcription, which " It very nearly refembles the tomb of Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. Haimo de Hethe, Bifhop of Rochefter, who '^'' See Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. died in 1352; and that of Sir William de la p. 201 ; and Salmon, p. 40. Pole, at Hull, who died 1367. See Gough's 3 0^2 is 484 S T R E A T H A M. is nearly covered with wainfcot, records the death of Margaret wife of Henry Cantlowe, and daughter of Nicholas Aylwin, who died iu i486. It is printed in Aubrey, who fays, that it was taken from the ground. In the pew belonging to the Thrale family are the following infcriptions, upon tablets of white marble, to the memory of Mr. Thrale, and Mrs. Salufbury, mother to Mrs. Piozzi. They were both written by Dr. Jobnfon. Epitaphs of *' Hie conditur quod reliquum eft Henrici Thrale, qui res feu Mr. Thrale . ., ^ , ^. . . , .,,. , . , . and Mrs. Sa- " civiles, five domeuicas, ita egit, ut vitam ilh longiorem multi op- ten byVr."'" " tarent : ita facras, ut quam brevem effet habiturus prcefcire vide- jc*nfon. ti retur. Simplex, apertus, fibique femper fimilis, nihil oftentavit " aut arte fidum aut cura elaboratum. In Senatu, Regi, patriseque " fideliter ftuduit, vulgi obftrepentis contemptor animofus; domi " inter mille mercaturae negotia, literarum elegantias minime neglexit. " Amicis quocunque modo laborantibus, confiliis, audtoritate, mu- " neribus adfuit. Inter familiares, comites, convivas, hofpites, tam " facili fuit morum fuavitate ut omnium animos ad fe alliceret, " tam felici fermonis libertate, ut nuUi adulatus, omnibus placeret. " Natus 1728, obiit 1781. Confortes tumuli habet Radulphum pa- ** trem, ftrenuum prudentemque virum et Henricum filium unicum, " quern fpei parentium mors inopina decennem praeripuit. Ita do- " mus felix et opulenta, quam erexitavus, auxitque pater, cum nepote " decidit. Abi Ledlor ! et vicibus rerum humanarum perfpedtis, " a^ternltatem cogita !" " Juxta fepulta eft Heftera Maria, Thomas Cotton de Comber- " mere Baronetti Ceftrienfis filia, Johannis Salufbury, Armigeri Flin- *' tienfis, uxor; forma, felix, felix ingenio, omnibus jucunda, fuorum " amantiflima. Unguis artibufque ita exculta ut loquenti numquam " deeflent fermonis nitor ; fententiarum flofculi, fapientiaz gravitas, " leporum gratia : modum fervandi adeo perita ut domeftica inter " negotia Uteris obledaretur ; literarum inter dellcias rem familia- " rem fedulo curaret. Multis ilU multos annos precantibus, diro Car- S T R E A T H A M. 485 " Carcinomatis veneno contabuit, nexlbufque vitx paulatim refolutis, " e terris, meliora fperans, emigravit. Nata 1707, nupta 1739, *' obiit 1773. In the chancel are alfo the monuments of Thomas Hobbes, Efq. Various mo- . numents. (no date) ; his wife Sufanna, who died in 1623, and his fecond wife Margaret Lady Ghiborne, daughter of Sir George Younge, of York, who died in 1628 ; John Maffingberd, who died in 1653; Sir Matr thew Howland, Knt. gentleman penfioner to King James and King Charles, who died in 1 648 ; (this tablet is mutilated, but the infcription is preferred in Aubrey;) Edmund Tilney, Efq. of Letherhead, mafter of the revels to Queen Elizabeth and King James (no date, the infcrip- tion records his alliances with the family of Howard, Duke of Norfolk) ; Cecilia, wife of Robert Goodwin, Efq. of the county of Suflex, who died in 1664; Walter Howland, alias Roberts, Efq. ofBrixton- caufey, who died in 1692; and Rebecca, wife of William Lynne, who died in 1653. Her epitaph was written by her hufband, who, after dwelling upon her feveral virtues, exclaims in the concluding Good wives. lines : " Should I ten thoufand years enjoy my life, *' I cou'd not praife enough fo good a wife." On the fouth wall is a monument to a woman of equal excel- lence — Elizabeth, wife of Major General Hamilton, " who was " married near 47 years, and never did one thing to difpleafe her " hufband." She died in 1746. On the chancel floor are the tombs of Sir Giles Howland, who died in 1609 j and Sufanna, relid of John Evelyn, Efq. who died in 1680. On the north-wall are the monuments of Robert Livefay *', Efq. who died in 1608; John Howland, Efq. who died in 1686; and *' At the foot of this monument is the following quibbling couplet:— " Livefaye the name, God here them gave, *' And now Lives— aye, indeed they have." Major 486 S T R E A T H A M. Major Henniker, Efq. who died in 1789. On the fouth-wall tliat of Prifcilla Lavayfiere, a native of France, who left that kingdom during the perfecutions of Lewis XIV. She died in 1 748. In the middle of the church are the tombs of Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John Fry, of the county of Devon, who died in 1770; and EliasDurn- ford, Efq. who died in 1774. Under the gallery are thofe of the Honourable John Piers, one of his Majefty's Council in Barbadoes, who died in 1688, and his grandfon John Piers, Efq. who died in 1761 ; William Hambly, Efq. of the county of Cornwall, who died in 1 71 8, and Peter Hambly, Efq. who died in 1723. Towards the weft-end are thofe of the Reverend Philip Morgan, re£lor of Wafing in Berkfliire, who died in 1774; and Amelia, wife of James Strachan, Efq. who died in 1788. Tombs de- Aubrey has preferved the epitaphs of the following perfons, which Aubrey. are either deftroyed or covered with pews. John Eflifield, redlor of Streatham, (no date)'*; William Mowfarth*', redor of this church and Mickleham, w^ho died in 1513; Roger Norton, fub-dean of the King's chapel, and redlor of Streatham, who died in 1527; Michael Rabet, redtor, who died in 1630; Thomas Holt, redor, who died in 1710; Anne, wife of Gabriel Livefey, Efq. who died in 1518 ; Cecilia, wife of George Lee, Efq. of Lincoln's-inn, who died in 1664; ^^^ Elizabeth, wife of Mark Wifeman, Gent, who died in 1643. In the chancel window, which is faid in Roger Norton's epitaph to have been put up at his expence, are ftill fome remains of painted glafs. Tombs In the In the church-yard are the tombs of Godfrey Lee, prodtor in Do<^ors Commons, who died in 1720; Edward Theobald Gent, who (lied in 1738; William Jones, Efq. of Tooting Bee, who died in ** John Elfefield, as he is called in the Bi- a. 2d numbering, (hop's regifter, was inftituted in 1390. Reg. *' He is called Mountforth, in the Win- Winton. William de Wykham, pt. i. f. 208. chefter Regifter, Fox, pt. 3. f. 446. 1753; S T R E A T H A M. 487 1753; John Jones, Efq. who died in 1762; the Reverend James Jackfon, M. A. mafter of an academy, who died in 1766 ; WilHam Hardy, Efq. who died in 1779 ; Ann, relidl of the Reverend Pier- fon Lloyd, LL.D. who died in 1787 ; Mary, wife of Henry Bodi- coate, merchant, who died in 1789 ; and Elizabeth, wife of John Painter, Efq. who died in 1791. Aubrey mentions alfo that of John Baker of Gray's-Inn, Gent, who died in 1703. The church of Streatham Hes in the diocefe of Winchefler, and in the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a redory, the patron- age of which has been always attached to the manor of Tooting Bee, and is now veiled in his Grace the Duke of Bedford. In 1291 it was taxed at fix marks and 40 d. The Prior of Okebourn received a penfion of 20 s. from it ; the Prior of Bee 4!. ; and the Prior of Garfteyne 4s. The rectory is valued in the King's books at 18I. 13 s. pd. per annum. The celebrated Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Bifhop of Bangor, fo well BKhopHoad- known for the controverfy which from him took the name of Ban- ^' gorian, was inftituted to this re£lory in the year 1710 on the prefentation of Mrs. Howland ; who gave it him without any previous acquaintance, becaufe fhe admired his political principles ". Dr. Hoadly dedicated a volume of Sermons to his patronefs. He left Streatham, which was his moft beloved retirement, upon his pro- motion to the fee of Salifbury in 1723 ". The prefent incumbent is the Reverend Richard Bullock, D.D. The parifh regifter begins in the year 1538, and, except during a Parifli rcgif- part of the laft century, appears to have been very accurately kept : Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. 1580—1589 — II 8 Comparative 1680—1680 20 2C ftateofpopu- -^ -^ lation. 1780 — 1789 — 42 63 " Biograph. Brit. '' Ibid. 5 0.4 , The 488 STREATHAM. Plague years. The population of this place appears to have increafed in a proportion of two to one, during each century. The burials confiderably exceed the baptifms, efpecially during the laft ten years, a circumllance which is to be accounted for from the great number of ftrangers who are interred here. The prefent number of houfes is 265. In the year 1545 there was a very great mortality at this place, the number of burials being 5 1 ; which exceeded the average of that period in a much greater proportion than in either of the great plague years in the laft century. In 1603 there were 36 burials; in 1625, 34; in 1645, 40. Richard Adams, the hermit. Marriage of Wriothefley, Duke of Bed- ford. John Duke ef Bedford. i< Extra&s from the Regijler. *' April 19, 1545, Richard Adams the hermit was buried." There is ftill a place in the parifh called the " Hermitage-Bridge." " Mr. Edmund Tilney, Efq. and mafter of the King's revels, " buried Oa. 6, 1610." " Wriothefley Marquis of Taviftock, was married to Madam " Elizabeth Rowland, jun', of this parifti, in the chapel at Streatham- " houfe, in the prefence of the grandfathers and grandmothers, and " other nobility, by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bifhop of Sarum, May 23, 1695." " John, fon of Wriothefley and Elizabeth, Duke and Duchefs of " Bedford, baptifed 0£t. 20, and born Sept. 30, 1710." This John fucceeded his elder brother Wriothefley as Duke of Bedford in the year 1 732, and became a charader of confiderable eminence in the political world. In 1 744 he was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and in 1748 fucceeded the Earl of Chefterfield as one of his Majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate. He was fent as ambaflador plenipoten- tiary to the court of France In 1762, where he negotiated the peace which was finally ratified in the enfuing year. The Duke died Jan. 14th, 1 771, and was buried at Cheneys in Buckinghamfhire. His S T R E A T H A M. 489 His mother Elizabeth, Duchefs of Bedford, died of the fmall-pox In the month of June 1 724. " RufTel, buried April 14, 1772. N. B. This perfon was Extraordina- " always known under the guife or habit of a woman, and anfwered Elizabeth " to the name of Elizabeth, as regiftered in this parifh Nov. 21, ^"'Teii. " 1669, but at death proved to be a man." In fpeaking of this extraordinary perfon, whofe hiftory I have taken fome pains to inquire into, It will be neceflary, in order to avoid confufion among the re- lative pronouns, to make conftant ufe of the mafculine gender, how- ever oddly it may be fometimes combined. The various adventures of his life, had they been colledted by a contemporary, would have formed a volume as entertaining as thofe of the celebrated Bampfylde Moore Carew, whom he accompanied in many of his rambles, and from whom probably he firft took the hint of difguifmg his fex to anfwer fome temporary purpofe. Upon examining the parifh regifter, I find that John Ruflel had three daughters, and two fons ; William, born in 1668, and Thomas, in 1672; there is little doubt therefore that the perfon here recorded was one of the two ; and that when he af- fumed the female drefs, he affumed alfo the name of his fifter Eliza- beth, who probably either died in her infancy, or fettled In fome remote part of the country; under this name, in the year 1770 he applied for a certificate of his baptifm. He attached himfelf at an early period of life to the gypfies, and being of a rambling difpofition vifited moft parts of the continent as a ftroller or vagabond. When advanced in years he fettled at Chipfted In Kent, where he kept a large fhop. Sometimes he travelled the country with goods. In the chara£ter of a married woman, having changed his maiden name for that of his hufband who carried the pack, and to his death was his reputed widow, being known by the familiar appellation of Bet Page* In the courfe of his travels he attached himfelf much to itinerant phyficians, learned their noftrums, and pradlfed their art. His long experience gained him the charader of a moft infallible do£lrefsy to Vol. I. 3 R which 49© STREATIIA M.< which profeflion he added that of an aftrologer, and pratStifed both •with great profit ; yet fuch was his extravagance, that he died worth fix fhillings only. It was a common cuftom with him to fpend whatever he had in his pocket at an alehoufe, where he ufually treated his companions. About twelve months before his death he came to refide at his native place. His extraordinary age procured him the notice of many of the moft refpedlable families in the neigh- bourhood, particularly that of Mr. Thrale, in whofe kitchen he was frequently entertained. Dr. Johnfon, who found htm a fhrewd fen- fible perfon, with a good memory, was very fond of converfing with him. His faculties indeed were fo little impaired by age, that a few days before he died, he had planned another ramble, in which his landlord's fon was to have accompanied him. His death was very fudden : the furprife of the neighbours may be well imagined, upon finding that the perfon, who, as long as the memory of any one then living could reach, had been always efteemed and reputed to be a woman, was difcovered to be a man ; and the wonder was the greater as he had lived much among women, and had frequently been his landlady's bed-fellow when an unexpeQed lodger came to the houfe. Among other precautions, to prevent the difcovery of his fex, he conftantly wore a cloth tied under his chin ; and his neigh- bours not having the penetration of Sir Hugh Evans, who fpied Falftaff's beard through his muffler, the motive was unfufpeded. After his death a large pair of nippers was found in his pocket, with which, it is fuppofed, he endeavoured to remove by degrees all tokens of manhood from his face. It may be obferved, that fuppofing him to be the younger fon of John Ruflell, he would have been loo years of age ; if we fuppofe him to have been the elder, his age would have been 104. He himfelf ufed to aver that he was 108. He had a mixture of the habits and employments of both fexes ; for though he would drink hard with men, whofe company indeed he chiefly afFefted, yet he was an txctWtnxfempJlrefsy and celebrated for mak- ing S T R E A T H A M. 491 ing a good fhlrt. There was a wildnefs and eccentricity in his general condudt which frequently bordered on infanity; and, at leaft, we may fairly conclude, to ufe a favourite expreflion of Anthony Wood the Oxford biographer, that he had " a rambling head and *' a crazy pate." A fchool was founded in this parifh about the beginning of the Mrs.How- prefent century by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland, mother of the Duchefs of Bedford, who gave 20 1. per annum for clothing and educating ten children. John Croft, in the year 1584, left 20s. per annum to the poor; Various be- Mrs. Anne Livefaye, in 1618, 3I. ; Mr. Gabriel Livefaye, in 1620, the rent of a houfe which is now let for 8 1. to be diftributed among the poor at Chriftmas and Eafter ; Sir Giles and Sir John How- land left lol. per annum, which after deducing 1 1. 6 s. 8 d. for a fermon, was to be diftributed in bread, a certain portion every Sunday; Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland 3 1. 15s. to be diftributed an- nually to poor widows on St. Thomas's day ; and the Reverend Thomas Holt, a former redtor, the fum of 20 1. to remain in the overfeers' hands, for ready money for the prefent fupply of the poor till the taxes were gathered. This parifli receives alfo about 9I. per annum out of Mr. Smith's charity; and 15 1. 4s. being a benefadtion of Mrs. Dorothy Appleby, in the year 1681 ; of which, five pounds were appropriated to put out a child apprentice. A large and commodious workhoufe was built on Tooting-common Workhoufe. in the year 1790. A mineral water of a cathartic quality was difcovered in this parifti Mineral wa- tcr in the year 1660, which is ftill held in confiderable efteem. There are no accommodations for perfons who come to drink it on the fpot, yet the well is much reforted to by thofe who cannot afford a more expenfive journey ; and the water is fent in confiderable quantities to fome of the hofpitals in London. 3 R 2 [ 492 ] u O N. Name, fituatiop, and boundaries. The Downs. Chalk-pit. Soil. Land'tax. Manor. nr^ H E name of Sutton, /. e. South-town, is common to many -*- places in all parts of England. This village is fituated upon the road to Reigate, about eleven miles from Weftminfter-bridge. The parifh lies in the hundred of Wallington, and is bounded by Carfhalton towards the eaft ; Mordon towards the north ; towards the weft, by Cheam ; and to the fouth, by Banftead. The cultivated land is principally arable ; the proportion of meadow being very fmall ; the downs and commons are extenfive. The downs adjoin thofe of Banftead, and are grazed by fheep. The mutton is noted for its fmall fize and fine flavour. The inhabitants have a right of turning out their cattle upon Sutton and Bonhill commons in this parifh, du- ring a certain part of the year. Near the turnpike-gate, on the road to Carftialton, is a very large chalk-pit, which produces a variety of extraneous foflils. A rock of chalk extends through the greater part of the parifti, being covered with a fine mould, in fome places fix feet deep. The foil to the north of the village is a ftrong clay, between which and the chalky lands there runs a narrow vein of fand. Sutton is aflefled 179 1. 14 s. to the land-tax, which this year (1792) is at the rate of 2s. in the pound. The manor belonged formerly to St. Peter's Abbey at Chertfey. In Doomfday-book it is faid to contain 15 ploughlands, and to have been valued in the reign of Edward the Confeflbr at 20 1. and at the time of the furvey at 15 1. After the fuppreffion of monaf- teries it was granted to Sir Nicholas Carew '. Having been forfeited Pat. 29 Henry VIII. pt. 2. June 26. by SUTTON. 493 by his attainder It reverted to the crown, but was reftored to his fon by Queen Mary \ It afterwards came Into the Darcy family, hav- ing been bequeathed probably by Sir Francis Carew to the iflue of his brother-in-law Sir Arthur Darcy. From the Darcys it pafTed to Sir Richard Mafon, whofe daughter and co-heir, Dorothy, brought it to her hufband Sir William Brownlow, who died in 1700. It was purchafed in the year 1720 by the ClifFe family \ Henry ClifFe, Efq. died in 1761, leaving one daughter, on whom the manor and eftate were entailed, and who, in the year 1785, married Thomas Hatch, Efq. of New Windfor, now lord of the manor in right of his wife. It appears that there was formerly a manor in this parlfli * diftin6t from that of the Abbot of Chertfey, valued in the reign of King John at eight marks, and then held by Gilbert BalTet '. The manor, which was granted in the reign of Edward III. by Sir Simon d-e Codyngton to Richard Cok and William Hardegrey *, and by them aliened to Sir Simon St. Michael, with remainder to Ralph Codyng- ton ', was held under Chertfey Abbey. The record of Doomfday fpeaks of two churches In this parlfh : The church, there is now one only, which Is a fmall ftru(flure dedicated to St. Nicholas, confifting of a nave and chancel. At the weft-end was a wooden tower, which has been lately taken down and re- built of brick. On the outfide of a north window of the nave Is the fol- lowing mutilated infcriptlon cut In ftone : + P R I . P U R WILL. EM FOUL.. ALICIE MAT:ILLI.S. Ancient k- It appears to be a mixture of French and Latin, and may be ren- dered *' Pray for William Foul and Alice his mother." They ' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. defcribed as within the hundred of Walling- N°4705, Ayfcough's Cat. ton. ,' From the bformation of the Rev. Giles ' Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. N°3I3. f. 22. b. Hatch. * CI. 47 Edw. III. m. 8. ♦ It is appropriated to this parilh by being ' Efch. 18 Ric. II. N° 45. probably fcription. 494 U O N. Monuments. Lady Brown- low. William, Earl Talbot. Ifaac Little- bury. probably were confiderable benefa£lors towards the Te-buildlng of the church. Some of the letters of this infcription are in the Saxon charader ; it has been printed very erroneoufly by Aubrey '. On the north wall of the chancel is a handfome monument to the memory of Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Mafon and wife of Sir William Brownlow, who died in 1700; and on the fouth wail that of Sarah wife of Jofeph Glover, reftor of this pariflh, who died in 1629. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs of Henry Wyche and George Roberts, both redtors of this place. The former died in 1678, the latter in 1686. On the fouth wall of the church is a handfome monument of white marble to the memory of William Earl Talbot, fon of the lord chancellor, and high fteward of his Majefty's houfehold, who died in 1782, and was interred at this place in the fame vault with his mother. On the north wall is a tablet with the following infcription : " In memory of Ifaac Littlebury, whofe liberal education, travels " abroad, fkill in divers languages, knowledge of hiftory and con- *' verfation with eminent men, rendered him a lover of public liberty " and good order, which he endeavoured to promote by publifh- " ing feveral eminent books. He was, through the courfe of his " life, juft, open, modeft, generous, mild, beneficent, frugal. He " died the 30th of April 1710, in his 53d year." Ifaac Littlebury is faid to have been the fon of " Mr. Thomas *• Littlebury, the famous bookfeller in Little Britain, eminent for his " fkill in languages '." He is heft known as the tranflator of Hero- dotus ; what his other publications were I have not been able to learn, nor any thing further of his hiftory. In the nave are the tombs of Jane, relid of John Harris, redlor of Meftham and prebendary of Hereford, who died in 1703; and of Robert Holmes, Efq. who died in 1782. • Antiquities of Surrey, vol.i. p. 128. 9 Magna Britannia, Surrey. In U T T O N. 49: In the church-yard is a farcophagus of white marble (almofl over- Church-yard. grown with ivy) to the memory of Cecil, daughter and heir of Charles Matthews, Efq. of Caftle Menyche in the county of Gla- morgan, wife of Charles Talbot, Efq. barrifter at law, (afterwards T"'^^^^, ° ' » ^ > V Mrs. Talbot, lord high chancellor of England,) and mother of William Earl wife of the Talbot. She died at this place in the 28th year of her age, in the ceiior. year 1720. At the fouth-eafl: corner of the church-yard is a large maufoleum, Maufoieum built in the year 1777 by James Gibfon, Efq. of London, for the fons.^ interment of his family. There are alfo the tombs of Tames Ram- ,, . ■' J Various fay, redor, who died in 1745; Lewis Cholmley, Efq. who died in tombs. 1753, and others of his family ; James Sanxay, the late re£tor, who died in 1766; and Edmund Wilcox, Efq. who died in 1767. Sutton is a redory in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery Reflory. of Ewell. The advowfon, which has been generally annexed to the manor, is now vefted in the Reverend Giles Hatch, the prefent in- cumbent. In 1291 it was taxed at 20 marks; in the King's books it is valued at 16I. i8s. 4d. per annum. William Stephens, who was inftituted to this re£lory in 1686, dif- wiiHam tinguifhed himfelf as a political writer in oppofition to the court. He preached before the Lord Mayor on the 30th of January 1694, and before the Houfe of Commons upon the fame occafion in 1700. Both thefe fermons are in print '°. In preaching before the Houfe of Commons he omitted the prayer for the King and Royal Family", and took the liberty of fuggefling the impropriety of continuing the obfervance of the day, which was confidered as fuch an infult to the Houfe, that a vote of cenfure was pafled upon him. An anonymous writer publifhed fome very fevere ftiiitures both upon the preacher " Mr. Stephens publifhed alfo " A Sermon " the barbarous Maflacre committed by the " without Doors, to the Proteftants of Ireland " Irifh PapiUs in the year 1641. London, " now refiding in London; preached at their " 1713. 410." " Anniverfary Meeting, Oft. 23, 171Z; in " Reflexions upon Mr. Stephens's Sermon, " commemoration of their Deliverance from 4to. 1700. and 49(5 U O N. Parifli reg'tf- ter. Comparative ftate of po- pulation. Benefadions. and his fermon, which Stephens is faid to have fold to a bookfeller for 25 1. '* In the year 1707 he publifhed a pamphlet, called " A •' Letter to the Author of the Memorial of the Church of England," containing many fevere refledions upon Secretary Harley and the Duke of Marlborough. He was indided in the Court of Queen's Bench for writing this pamphlet, and was fentenced to pay a fine of 100 marks, to ftand twice in the pillory, once at Charing-crofs, and once at the Royal Exchange, and to find fureties for his good beha- viour for twelve months. The ignominious part of his fentence was at length remitted, but not till he had been taken to a public-houfe at Charing-crofs, whence he faw the pillory ereded, and the multi- tudes of people who were affembled to be witneffes of his dif- grace". The parifli reglfter begins in 1636. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. 1680 — 1689 10 ■ ■ 10 1780 — 1789 ■ 16 • ■ ■ ' 12 The prefent number ofhoufes is about 100. There were no entries of burials in the year 1665'. This parifli receives 2 1. per annum out of Mr. Smith's charity. Robert Holmes, Efq. gave 200I. for poor widows and houfekeepers. Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens gave 200 h for the fame purpofe, and 200 1. towards beautifying the church and keeping the footpaths in repair. Mrs. E. Gibfon gave 500I. to purchafe flioes and ftocklngs for the poor; and Mr. Williams, 200 1. in the year 179 1 for educating children. The parifli receives lol. every third year for repairing the highways, being the benefadion of Mr. Wilford. " Refleftions upon Mr. Stephens's Sermon, " Tindal's Continuation of Rapin, vol. xvi. 4to, 1700. p. 384. 8vo. in the notes. C 497 ] TOOTING. IN all records the name of this place is written with the addition Name. of Graveney, which fhould more properly be Gravenel, being the name of a family who had confiderable property here in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. I find no fatisfadlory derivation of the word Tooting ', or, as it is written in Doomfday-book, Totinge. Ing is a frequent termination, and fignifies a meadow. Tooting Graveney lies in the weftern divifion of Brixton hundred. Situation, o J ' boundanes, and is fituated on the road to Epfom about fix miles from Weftmin- de- fter-bridge. The parifh is bounded by that of Streatham on the eaft J Mitcham on the fouth and weft ; and Wandf\vorth on the north. The land is principally arable, and the foil, chiefly gravel intermixed with clay. Tooting is afTefled the fum of 163 1. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of i s. in the pound. It appears that there were two manors in this parifh at the time Manors. of the Conqueft, exclufive of that of Tooting Bee, which belonged to Streatham. One of them had been held of King Edward by Swain. After Edward's death it was given by Swain to Earl Wal- lef, who fold it to Alnod a Londoner. Alnod gave it to the church of Weftminfter, under which it was held at the time of the furvey by Ofbert, who paid no taxes. This manor, which contained only one ploughland and a half, valued at 40 s. was probably joined afterwards either to that of Tooting Bee or Tooting Graveney. * Salmon's derivation of Tooting from theou, a Have, and ing, a meadow, does not feem to approach near enough to the word. Vol. I. 3 S The 498 TOOTING. Manor of The Other manor contained three ploughlands, and was held at Graveney, the time of the furvey by Haimo the Sheriff, under the Abbot of Chertfey. It was valued at three feveral periods at 40 s. 20 s. and 70s. This manor appears to have been held in King John's reign under the fame abbey by Richard Gravenel \ and at fubfequent periods by the families of Lodelowe and Dymock \ After the fuppreffion of monafteries it feems to have been kept for fome time in the hands of the crown, and to have been granted by Queen Elizabeth to James Harrington *, who foon aliened it to Sir Henry Maynard ' ; from the Maynards it paffed to Sir James Bateman, alderman of London, and after his death fucceflively to Abraham Atkins, Efq. * of Clapham, and Pcrcival Lewis, Efq. of Putney. It was purchafed of the latter about twenty years ago by Morgaa Rice, Efq. the prefent proprietor. Bartholomew de Caftello had a grant of free warren in Tooting la the reign of Edward I. ' The church. The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a fmall Aruc- ture, and confifts of a nave, chancel, and fouth aifle. On the north fide is a low circular tower, with a fmall fpire. Monuments. In the chancel is the monument of Efther, wife of Sir James Bateman, Knt. Lord Mayor of London, who died in 1709 ; and the tombs of Ifaac Brand, Efq. who died in 171 2 ; his fon, who was killed by a fall from his horfe, in 1701; and William, fon of Timothy Turner, redor of this parifh, who died in 1714. Sir John On the north wall of the church was the monument of Sir John Hepdon. Hepdon, Knt. who died in 1670. He was twice Envoy to the Em- peror of Ruflia, and employed in various foreign negotiations during the reign of Charles I. and Charles II. This monument has been re- * Harleian MSS. Brlt.Muf. N0313. f. 15. N" 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. 3 Efch. 7 Edw. II. N" 37. Efch. 15 * Pat. 38Eliz. pt. 3. Julyi. Edw. III. N"22. Efch. 17Ric.II. N° 39. * Thefe alienations were obligingly com- Efch. 4 Hen. V. N" 14. municated by the prefent proprietor. * Terrier of Lands ia Surrey, Brit. Muf. ' Cart. 13 Edw. i. N° 40. moved TOOTING. 499 3J moA'ed into the belfry. In the nave are the tombs of Samuel Pafh- ler, Gent, who died in 1759; and Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings, who died in 1779. Aubrey' mentions alfo that of Deputy Jofeph Scri- ven, who died in 1704. On the eafl wall of the fouth aifle is a brafs plate to the memory of William Fitzwilliam, Efq. who died in 1597. On the fouth wall is the monument of Frances, wife of John Rice, who died in 1790; and on a pillar of the nave that of Ralph Plumbe, Efq. who died in 1776, and Samuel Plumbe, Efq. who died in 1784. In the church-yard are the tombs of Sir John Maynard, K. B. ^^''rd?^* who died in 1658, and his fon, Sir John Maynard, Knt. who died ^ in 1664; Sarah, wife of John Crichton, M. D. (no date); Robert Papworth, of London, Gent, who died in 1 755 ; the Reverend '"'^ Thomas Barron, curate of this parifh, who died in 1 766 ; Peter Hamond, Efq. who died in 1769; John Greenway, Efq. of the Middle Temple, who died in 1781; and Page Keble, Efq. who died at Port I'Orient, in his return from Bengal, in 1786. The church of Tooting is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and Reaory. deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a redtory, the advowfon of which was formerly given to the monaflery of St. Mary Overie by Hamon de Gravenel '. After the fuppreffion of that convent it was granted by Edward VI. to Edward Lord Clinton and Say '", by whom it feems to have been very foon aliened to Sir Richard Sackville ". It continued in the Sackville family till the middle of the laft century '\ George Earl of Berkeley appears to have been the pro- prietor in 1683 '^ It afterwards came into the pofTeffion of Sirjames Bateman '*, and continued to be annexed to the manor till Mr. Lewis fold it to the Reverend Nicholas Brady, whofe daughter married the * Antiquities of Surrey, vol.1, p. 2I9. '* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. 5 Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 940. Library. '" sEdsv. VI. Grants in the Augmentation- '^ Regift. Winton. Morley, p. 102. ofHce. '■* Brown Willis's Papers, Bodleian Library. " Regill.V/inton. Gardiner reftored, f. 8. a. 3 S 2 Reverend 500 TOOTING. Reverend Henry Allen, who thus became poflefled of the patronage of the living of which he is the prefent incumbent. The re£tory was taxed at 40 s. in 1291''; it is rated in the King's books at 81. 8 s. dfd. and was valued at 52 1. per annum in the year 1658 '*. The prior of St. Mary Overie formerly received a penfion of 4 1. per annum out of this redtory ". There is a terrier of the glebe in the regiftry at Winchefter. Samuel Lifle Samuel Lifle, who was inftituted to this redtory in the year 1720, Norwich. was promoted to the bifhopric of St. Afaph in 1743, and tranflated to Norwich in 1748. He died the enfuing year. Parlfhregif- The earlieft date of the parifli regifter is IJJJ. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials, Comparative j rgo — I c8q 6 — 'J ftateofpopu- u u :/ ^ lation. 1680 — 1689 ■ 5 — — 6 1780 1789 — — 31 24 The population of this village appears to have increafed during the laft century in a greater proportion than that of any other place which has been defcribed. The prefent number of houfes is about 150. There are no entries of burials in the years 1603 and 1665. Extra£ls from the Regifter* Sir John " Sir John Maynard died the 29th of July, and was buried the ^y"*^ • t( 2ift of that month, 1658." He was brother of the firft Lord Maynard, and was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. He had a feat in the Houfe of Commons in the year 1640, where having given offence to the prevailing party, he was impeached of high treafon and committed to the Tower. Some little tradts afcribed to him are extant ". '' See note, p. 10. f. 256. '* Parliamentary Surveys, •• Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 856. •» Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Fauflina, A. 8. « Phoebe, TOOTING. 501 " Phoebe, the daughter of Jofhua Gearing, Gent, was baptlfed " in the parifh church of St. Auftin, London, but the place being " burnt by the raging fire, it was defired by the parents that fhe " fhould be regiftered in this book — 1666." This parifli receives 2 1. per annum out of Mr. Henry Smith's be- Benefaaions. nefa£lions. John Maynard, Efq. in 1659 g^^e 20$. per annum to the poor". Ifaac Brand, Efq. in 1712 gave an annuity of 3I. to be divided between twelve poor perfons on Eafter Sunday. Sir James Bateman, in 1718, gave the intereft of 100 I. for apprentic- ing children. Thomas Man, in 1721, gave a fum of money out of the rent of fome tenements in Kingfton, to purchafe annually fix chaldrons of coals, to be divided between twelve poor perfons. John Rogers, Efq. in 1778, gave 200 1. to which his widow added 13 1. 6 s. 8 d. to be laid out in Government fecurities, and the in- tereft (which amounts to lol.) to be divided among poor houfe- keepers not receiving alms ; and Mrs. Martha Chivers gave the fum of 200 1. to the fame purpofe. The alms-houfes founded by Sir James Bateman's mother in 1 709 Bateman's for fix poor women, have been pulled down, and the benefadion is loft to the parifh. A charity-fchool is now building by public fubfcription. Charity- A new meeting-houfe is building for the prefbyterian diflenters. Diflemers Queen Elizabeth vifited Tooting in the year 1 600 " ; it is proba- Se"^' ble that fhe was the gueft of Sir Henry Maynard, who was then lord ^^^J" ^"^** of the manor. The Lords North and Grey had a feat in this parifh for many Lords North a, . and Grey. years . •9 A copy of the deed is in the parifh regif- " The Queen removed on Tuefday to Toot* ter. " ing." *" Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. 210. Letter *' Britifh Compendium. from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sidney, .O V [ 502 ] WANDSWORTH. Name. Situation, boundaries, foil, &c. Manufac- tures. THIS place is fo called from Its fituation upon the banks of the fmall river Wanclle, which falls into the Thames in this parifh. Worth, in the Saxon language, fignifies either a village, or a fhore. In Doomfday-book, the name of this place is fpelt Wandeforde, and Wendleforde j in other ancient records, Wan- dlefworth, and Wendlefworth. The village is fituated on the road to Kingfton, about five miles and a half from Weftminfter-bridge, and lies in the weftern divifioa of Brixton hundred. The parifli is bounded by thofe of Batterfea, Streatham, Merton, Mitcham, Tooting, Wimbledon, and Putney. The land is divided in nearly an equal proportion between arable and paflure. Two hundred and eighteen acres are oc- cupied by the market gardeners. The foil is chiefly a fandy loam upon a bed of gravel. About one half of the common, which takes its name from Wandfworth, is in this parifh : it contains about 400 acres, and extends nearly two miles in length towards Streatham. A part of Putney-heath is alfo in this parifli. Wandfworth is affeffed the fum of 1042 1. 9 s. to the land tax, which, in the year 1 79 1, was at the rate of 2 s. in the pound. Aubrey mentions ' a manufacture of brafs plates for frying pans, kettles, and other culinary veflels, which was eftabliflied here by Dutchmen, who kept it as a myftery. The houfes where this ma- ■ Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 14. nufadure WANDSWORTH. 503 nufa(Sture was carried on, bore the name of the frying-pan houfes. Towards the clofe of the laft century, when great numbers of fren'^'^ re- •* _ fugees. French proteftants fled from the perfecution which prevailed in the reign of Lewis XIV. many of them fettled at Wandf- worth, where they eftablifhed a French church *. Among thefe refugees was a confiderable number of hatters, who introduced their manufadure at this place, and carried it on with srreat Manufafture *^ ° of hats efta- fuccefs. Though much diminiflied in its extent, the manufacture ftill Wifhed by exifts ; Mr. Chatting, a grandfon of one of the refugees, being now a hatter in Wandfworth. Moft of their defcendants, who either remain here, or are difperfed into the neighbouring villages, have fo Anglicifed their names, that the memory of their extradion is almoft loft. The art of dying cloth has been pradifed at this Dyers, place for more than a century. There are now two dyers here, Mr. Barchard and Mr. Williamfon ; the former carries on the branch of fcarlet dying to a very confiderable extent. There is alfo a ma- nufadory here for bolting cloth ; Mr. Henckell's iron mills ; Mr. Gardiner's calico-printing manufadory, which is of confiderable extent, and employs about 250 hands ; another of the fame kind, lately eftablifhed by MefTrs. Lawrence and Harris; Mr. Rigby's manufadory for printing kerfeymeres ; Mr. Dibble's manu- fadory for whitening and prefling fluffs ; Mr. Were's linfeed oil and white lead mills ; Mr. Shepley's oil mills ; Meffrs. Gattey's vinegar works, and Meffrs. Bufh and Co.'s diftilleries. Thefe fe-? yeral manufadures, exclufive of Mr. Gardiner's, employ about 250 hands. The citizens of London, who had been deprived of their privi- The citizens leges by Richard II. fent a deputation of 400 members of their meet Richard corporation, with the Recorder, to meet the King at Wandfworth, ^f-^'^^ndi- in his road from Sheen, and implore his pardon, which he gracioufly * The building is now ufed as a meeting-houfe by the people called Methodifts. granted ; 5^4 WANDSWORTH. Manor. Manor of Wandfworth. Manor of Dunsford. granted ; and upon their earned intreaty, rode through the city on his return to Weftminfter, being received with great magnifi- cence '. It appears by the Conqueror's furvey, that the manor of Wandf- worth, which contained four ploughlands, had been held of Edward the Confeflbr, by fix freemen, who might go where they would ; that,Anfculf took pofleffion of it when he obtained the fheriffalty, but the men of the hundred reported, that they never faw the King's feal, or the livery. His fon William, however, inherited it, and was in poffeflion when the furvey was taken. In confequence of this reprefentation, the king probably feized it into his own hands, for it is known that he gave it to the church of Weftminfter *. In 1 29 1, the Abbot of Weftminfter's eftates at Wandfworth were valued at 17I. ' The manor which bears the name of the village was conneded with that of Batterfea, and has undergone the fame alienations*, being now the property of the right honourable George John Earl Spencer. The manor of Dunsford belonged to Merton-abbey. It was granted, after the fuppreffion of that monaftery, to Charles Bran- don Duke of Suffolk ', and was by him fold for the fum of 403 1. 6 s. 8 d. to Thomas Lord Cromwell '. It was granted in the year 1564 to Robert Lord Dudley, afterwards Earl of Lei- cefter", and was aliened by him to Sir William Cecil, (after- wards Lord Burleigh"). Within a few years it was again aliened ' Stow's Annals, p. 493. 410. ' Grants by Henry VIII. Augmentation- ♦ Dart's Hift. of Weftminfter-abbey, vol.i. office. p. 2 1 . ' Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. 47. A. 50. & Pat. • See note, p. 10. 30 Hen. Vllf. pt. 8. Jan. 15. * It was fettled, with that of Batterfea, » Terrier of [lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. upon Henry Prince of Wales : Royal Houfe- N" 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. hold Eftablilhments, publiftied by the Society '" Ibid, of Antiquaries, 1790, p. 315. to WANDSWORTH. 505 to John Sw'ifr, Efq. '\ and by the latter to Thomas Smith, Efq. '*, who died feized thereof in 1575 ". It was aliened in the year 1664 to the Brodrick family ", in whofe poflefFion it has continued for feveral generations, being now the property of George Brodrick Vifcount Midleton, of the kingdom of Ireland, who has a feat at Pepperharrow in this county. The manor cf Downe, or Downe-buys, parcel of the pofleflions Manor of of the monaftery of Weftminfter, and fituated, partly in this parifli, Downe-buys. and partly in that of Batterfea, appears to have been kept in the hands of the crown till the thirty-third year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, w^hen the fee-fimplc was purchafed by William Cammock, Efq. " for the fum of 191 1. It was aliened the next year to Sir William Cecil '\ and fold by the heirs of his grandfon, Edward Vifcount Wimbledon, to Thomas Hewett ", Efq. of whom it was purchafed in 1698, by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland. It has fmce defcended with the manor of Streatham, to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who has lately aliened it to the right honourable George John Earl Spencer. The manor of Allfarthing was alfo parcel of the pofTeffions of the Manor of monaftery of Weftminfter, and was afterward annexed to the honour ^"^ '"^' of Hampton-court". It was granted by Henry VIII. to Thomas Lord Cromwell", and in 1598 was the property of John Bowyer, Efq. " It was among the lands fettled upon Charles I. when Prince of Wales, and in the year 1625 was demifed, for 99 years, to Sir Henry Hobart and others ""^ under whom Endymion Porter, " Pat. 7 Eliz. pt. 1. Mar. lo. Duke of Bedford, whence the other aliena- '♦ Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. 3. Jan. 17. tions of the manor are obtained, through the " Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Brit, favour of Mr. Beaumont. Muf. N" 760. p. 398. '° Fee-farm Rolls in the Augmentation- " Court-rolls of the manor. office. " Pat. 33 Eliz. pt. 12. Nov. 12. " Ibid. " CI. 34 Eliz. pt. 23. " Churchwardens' accounts atWandfworth. •9 Records in the office of his Grace the « Fee-farm Roll. Vol. I. 3 T gentleman jo6 WANDSWORTH. Various ellates at gentleman of the bedchamber, and one of the favourite attendants of King Charles, took a leafe of thirty-one years, to commence in 1646''. He afterwards procured the remainder of this term'*, and in the year 1628, the fee-fimple was granted in reverfion to Thomas Porter, Efq. whofe defcendant, Pierce Patrick Walfh Porter, Efq. *' is the prefent proprietor. The manor houfe has been many years a fchool ". In the Conqueror's furvey, mention is made of an eftate in Waniworth. this parifh, which belonged to the Abbot of Wandregifili, who held it for Ingulphus the monk. It was valued at 20 s. and had been held of King Edward by Swein. It is probable that it was afterwards feized by the crown as the property of an alien priory ; and may have been the fame eftate which, in the reign of Ed- ward III., belonged to John Lord Molins, and for which he had a charter of free warren ^'. Richard Rook, in the reign of Edward III. granted 200 acres of land in Wandfworth, to Weftminfter-abbey". Edward IV. granted certain mefluages in this parifli to his aunt, Ann Duchefs of Buckingham, late wife of Walter Blount Lord Mountjoy '*. A part of the eftate which was annexed to the fee of York, by the Archbifhop Lawrence Booth, is in this parifh. In Strype's Annals of the Reformation '°, mention is made of an annuity of 13I. 6 s. 8 d. paid out of certain lands at Wandfworth, belonging to the Archbifhop of York, towards the endowment of a fchool at Guildford. The church, which ftands nearly in the centre of the village, is dedicated to All Saints. It is a brick ftrudture, and confifts of a The church. « Fee-farm Roll. " Pat. 2 Car. pt. 12. Apr. 20. *5 Pat. 4 Car. pt. 18. July 2. " Mill's Journal, Aug. 15, 1724. " Cart. 8 Edw. III. m. 33. *" Efch. 40 Ediv. III. N" 20. 2d numbering. *9 Pat. II Edw. JV. pt. 2. m. 10. '" Vol. i. p. 309. nave, WANDSWORTH. 507 nave, chancel ", and two aifles. At the weft end is a fquare tower, which was built in the year 1630, before which time there was a leaded fteeple ^\ The greater part of the church was rebuilt in the year 1780, at the expence of about3jool. The infide has been lately painted and ornamented. Near the pulpit is the tomb of an officer of Henry the Fifth's Tomb of an 111"! 1 r t t t r A • officer of army, a Iharer, probably, in the glory of the battle or Agincourt. Henry V. He died in 1420. The part of the infcription which contained his name has been torn off, and his figure, which was engraved on brafs, much mutilated. In the chancel are the monuments of Henry Smith, Efq. who Various died in 1627-8 ", and Sufanna Powell, widow of John Powell, fervant to Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1630. Near the com- munion table is the tomb of Robert Knarefborough, patron of the vicarage, who died in 161 1. At the eaft end of the north aifle is the monument of Sir Thomas Broderick, who died in 1 641, and his wife Katherine, who died in 1678. It is adorned with bufts, well executed, in white marble. On the fame wall, over the gallery, is the monument of John Powell, Efq. who died in 161 1. At the weft end of the fame aifle, are the mo- numents of Thomas Morley, reader of this parifh, who died in 1681 ; Samuel Palmer, Efq. F. R. S. Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Samuel hofpital, who died in 1738 ; Edward Barker, Efq. Baron of the Ex- gj^^^^j chequer, who was born at Wandfworth in 1678, and died in 1759; Barker. Ba- ron of the and Robert Buck, Gent, of London, who died in 1769. In the Exchequer. nave is the tomb of Mr. Martin Newport, merchant, who died in 1734 ; at the weft end of the church is a tablet to the memory of '* At the rebuilding of the church, the feparate interefts of pews, and burial fees, chancel was fo far incorporated with the nave, ^^ Parifh accounts. that it appears to be a part of it. The limits " Mr, Smith's epitaph is given in p. 514. of each, however, are defined to adjuft the J T 2 Jofeph 5o8 WANDSWORTH. Church, yard. Cemetery. Various tombs. Jofeph Wight, Efq. who died in 1770; and near the veftry-door, one to the memory of Mr. Somerfet Draper, who died in 1756. Aubrey mentions alfo the tomb of Edmund Snow, Efq. who de- ceafed at the manor of AUfarthing in 1587^*, and Strype, in his Continuation of Stow's Survey ", takes notice of thofe of Eliz. Gale, widow, who died in 1545 ; Richard Breame, Gent, of the county of Suffolk, who died in 1610; and Thomas Tayer, Efq. of Rants, in the county of Northampton, who died in 1653, ^^^^ loi- In this church-yard are the tombs of Peter Sainthill, Efq. who died in 1775, and others of his family; and of Mary relict of Joachim Gerhard Baas, Efq. who died in 1789. At the diftance of about half a mile from the church, where the roads branch off to Clapham and Vauxhall, is a cemetery, which was walled in and confecrated towards the latter end of the lafl century. It contains, among others, the tombs of Francis Hunt, citizen of London, who died in 1687; Peter Paggen, Efq. (1720); Nicholas Garrett, Efq. (1726); Dame Ifabeau Bories de Montauban en Guyenne, epoufe de Jean de Comarque, Ecuyer (1731); James Baudouin, Efq. born at Nifmes in France, " who f]ed from ty- *' ranny and perfecution in 1685," and died in 1739, aged 91 ; Mr. Melandthon Strong (1750), and others of his family; Samuel John, Efq. (1759) ; Mr. David Afterley (1761), and others of his family; William Vile, Gent. (1767); James Poumies, Efq. (1769); John Higginfon, Efq. (1770); Malachi Hawtayne, Efq. (1772); the Reverend Evan Evans (1772); George Ward, Efq. of the county of York (1777); Matthew Green, Efq. (1785); Samuel Goodman, Efq. (1787) ; and Jane Betfy, daughter of Gapt. James Williamfon, who died in 179 1. Aubrey mentions alfo the tomb of Elizabeth, wife of John Fofter, who died in 1688 ; and " Thomas de Demfrene, Efquier, Sieur " de Garende," who died in 1709^*. '♦ Vol. i. p. 132. '' Vol. ii. p. 738, 739. '° Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 134, 135. The WANDSWORTH. 509 The church of Wandfworth is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a vicarage. The re£tory was appropriated to Weftminfter-abbey by Richard Toclivius Bifliop of Winchefter " ; and it was ordained by his fucceflbr, Godfrey de Lucy, that the monks fhould receive an annual penfion of fix marks out of the revenues of this church, leaving the vicar enough to fupport himfelf, and to pay the epifcopal burdens ^', After the fuppreflion of monafteries, this reftory was granted to John Whyte Bifhop of Winchefter ^'. It was afterwards annexed to the honour of Hampton-court *°. Queen Elizabeth granted it, with the advowfon, to Edward Downing and Peter Afliton *'. The advowfon appears afterwards to have been the property of Robert Knarefborough *% and the redory that of Mrs. Sufanna Powell, wi- dow *\ The patronage of the vicarage was vefted in the crown about the year 1630 **. In the year 1658, both the redtory and advowfon belonged to Mr. Thomas Andrews *' ; fome time afterwards they came to the Acworths, who were for many years proprietors of both. They alienated the former fome time ago to the truftees of Mr. Marfhall's charitable donations. The reprefentatives of the late Gabriel Ac worth, Efq. are ftill patrons of the vicarage. William de Raleigh Bifliop of Winchefter, about the year 1 249, vicarage, endowed the vicarage with the great tithes of Heyford and Dunsford, and all the lands of William Fawkner and William Fitzharvey *\ The redtory was taxed at thirty marks in the year 1291 ; the vicarage at ten marks. In 1646, the fum of 50 1. per annum, out of the manors of Walworth and Lambeth, was voted for the augmentation of the 3' Ducarel's Lift of Endowments and Ap- ** See his epitaph, propriations in the MS. Library at Lambeth. *' She charged it with the payment of an He quotes the regifter of the Abbot and Con- annuity : fee the account of benefaftions. vent of Weftminfter. ♦+ MS. of Sir J. Doddridge, Brit. Muf. 38 Ibid. N° 3479, Ayfcough's Cat. '» Terrier of lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. *' Parliament. Surveys. Lambeth MS. Lib. N° 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. ♦* The endowment is recited in W. de *° Fee-farm Rolls, Augmentation-office. Edyndon's Regifter at Winchefter, pt. i. f. ♦• Xbid. 9-. b. vicarage 5IO WANDSWORTH. Vicars. Griffith Gierke. John Field. Nathan Ref- bury. Parifli regif- ter. Comparative (late of popu- lation. vicarage of Wandfworth. In 1650 the redlory was faid to be 50 1. 10 s. 8 d. clear yearly value ; the vicarage 40 1. la the King's books the latter is valued at 15I. 5 s. jd. In the year 1540 Griffith Gierke, vicar of Wandfworth, with his chaplain, fervant, and Friar Waire, were all hanged and quartered at St. Thomas Watering, mod probably for denying the King's fu- premacy ; though Stow, who mentions the fadt "*', profefles himfelf ignorant of the caufe of their execution. Anthony Wood makes mention *' of John Field, a famous preacher and minifter of Wandfworth, who died in 1586. Fie publifhed fe- veral fermons and religious tra r i berofhoufes number of houfes, exclufive of the workhoufe of this parifh, and andinhabU that of St. Mary le Strand, is 689. Of thefe 26 are empty, 1 1 of them being newly built. The inhabitants having been accurately num- bered by Mr. Spencer, mafter of the charity-fchool, in the month of July 1792, were found to amount to 4,554. In this number are included 367 children at the various boarding-fchools, and 46 poor belonging to the parifh of St. Mary le Strand, and lodged in their workhoufe. In that of Wandfworth are at prefent 91 poor. Mr. Spencer has remarked, in his lift of the inhabitants, that the number of lodgers amounted to 843 ; that of fervants to 460. There are about 20 families of the people called Quakers in this Qijakers* ^^ meeting- place, and two fchools for children of that perfuafion. They have houfe. a meeting-houfe here alio attended by a numerous congregation ; adjoining which is a fmall burial-ground, given by Joan Stringer in the year 1697. Very few perfons are buried there annually, perhaps not more than five on an average. The meeting-houfe was rebuilt in the year 1787. The plague appears to have been particularly fatal at Wandfworth ; Plague the number of perfons who died of that diftemper at various pe- riods is thus fpecified in the regifter : In 1603 — 100 In 1665 — 245 1604 — 25 1666 — 99 1625 — 52 Mention is made of a few perfons who died of the plague in the years 1636, 1641, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1647, and 1648. Itfeems, by the following entries in the churchwardens' accounts, that this diftemper was very fatal in the year 1 643 : jT. s. d. *' For burying divers perfons who died of the plague o 14 4 " For ftrong waters for the fick at feveral times 051 " For figning the afTeffment for the vifited poor." Among 512 W A N D S W O R T H. Among the perfons who died of the plague in 1 66^ are " the " Ladie Henderfon, buried Aug. 19," and " Mr. Richard Bowden, " (Dr. of phyfick) buried Odl. 10." Several of thofe who fell vic- tims to this fatal malady in 1665 and 1666 were buried at the peft-houfe and in the fields adjoining. Extra&s from the regtjler. " Alice Palladaye, widow, aged 114 years, buried Mar. 25, 1622." Inftances of i i • i tn r i'> longevity. " Mr. Thomas Tayer, aged loi, buried Dec. 30, 1053. " Mary Crofs, widow, aged 102 years, buried Aug. 5, 1760." " Henry Smith, Efq. was buried the 14th day of Feb. 1627-8." Mr. Smith, whofe name is well known on account of his various Henry ' Smith's cha- benefadions to the poor, died at his houfe in Silver-ftreet on the 30th of January, and his funeral " was worfhipfuUy folemnlzed at *' Wandfworth, it being his defire to be there buried, becaufe it *' was the place of his nativity '°." He was once married, but his wife dying many years before him without iflue ", he made over his eftate real and perfonal, in the year 1620, to truftees for charitable pur- pofes, referving out of the profits thereof 500 1. per annum for his own maintenance. By his laft will, bearing date Apr. 24, 1627, he bequeathed legacies to various perfons to the amount of nearly 1,000 1. among which was 200 1. to the Countefs of Dorfet, and lool. to Lady Delaware ; i,oool. to his nephew, Henry Jackfon ; 1,000 1. to his poor relations; 1 0,000 1. to buy impropriations for godly preachers; 150 1. to found a fellowfhip in Cambridge; for his own kindred ; 1,000 1. to redeem poor captives taken by Turkifh pirates ; 500I. to the parifli of Wandfworth; i,oool. to Richmond ; and i,oool, to Reigate to buy lands of inheritance for the ufe of the poor; the refidue of his eftates real and perfonal he bequeathed to his executors to be allotted to the poor of various parifhes according to their dif- cretion. In this diftribution the county of Surrey has been princi- pally regarded. It may be obferved, that whenever it has been aflerted '° Funeral certificate, Heralds* College. " Ibid. that WANDSWORTH. 513 that Mr. Smith left a fum of money to any of the parifhes here men- tioned, (though they have recorded it as a fpecific bequeft in their re- fpe£live tables of benefactions,) it is erroneous, and would have been more accurately ftated if it had been faid that they received it as an allot- ment out of Mr. Smith's charity. It may be colledled from his will and declaration of ufes, that his objedt was to fet fuch poor people to work as were able; to relieve the impotent with clothes and provifions; to educate children, and to bind them apprentices. A fcheduleoftheprefent amount of the allotment to each parifli mentioned in this volume, as paid in the year 1791, (obligingly communicated by William Bray, £fq. of Great Ruflel-ftreet, the treafurer,) is given in the note '°, with the names Bexhill, Suflex. Kemfing, Kent; Reigate, Surrey, &c. Ibid. Bexhill. Kemfing, &c. Bexhill. Worth, Suffex. Bexhill. Kemfing. Warbleton, Suffex. Bexhill. Ibid. Ibid. Kemfing, &c. Ibid. Iwood, Suffex. Kemfing, &c. Kemfing, &c. and Tellefcomb, Suffex. Kemfing, &c. Ibid. Bexhill. Ibid. Stoughton, Leicefterftiire. Kemfing, &c. The allotments to Richmond and Wandfworth are exclufive of the fums left to thofe places by Mr. Smith's will. The eftate at Bexhill being a fee-farm rent, is not improveable; a part of the Kent eftate having been advantageoufly exchanged with the Duke of Dorfet for lands at Reigate, the allotments paid out of it are much augmented, and are capable of further improvement. The parifties of Kingjlon and Croydon have their eftates in their own hands, and receive therefore nothing from the truftees. The parilh of Streatham, in addition to the fum above-mentioned, receives about 4I. per annum, out of an eftate at Longney in Gioucefter- Ihire, which, from eventual circumftances, produced nothing in the year 1 791. L- s. d. 5° Addimgton I Barnes - - . s •3 Batterfea 7 10 Beddington z Camberwell 7 10 Carfhalton z Cheam 4 12 Clapham z Lambeth i3 16 Maiden I 10 Merton I Mitcham 4 Morden I Mortlake 5 13 Newington Butts 18 16 Peterlham 5 '4 Putney t II 6 Richmond 97 Rotherhithe 18 16 Streatham 5 '3 Sutton z Tooting z Wandfworth 27 Wimbledon 5 '3 Vol. I. U of 514 WANDSWORTH. of the eftates out of which they iflue. The ftory of Smith's having been a beggar refts upon a very vague tradition : its fallacy, as far as relates to his excluding Mitcham from the benefits of his charity becaufe he was whipped out of that parifh, may be deduced from the foregoing account. It appears, neverthelefs, that he was a per- fon of very humble extraftion, from his leaving money to his poor kindred, viz. fuch as were aged, impotent, and unable to help themfelves. Upon being alked, which of his poor kindred he meant ? he faid, the pooreft of his fifters' children, and their children fuc- ceflively ". Mr. Smith was buried in the chancel ; on his tomb is the following infcription : " Depofitum Henr. Smith, Senatoris Londinenfis. " Mole fub hac quaeris quis conditur, optime ledlor, *' Cujus et qualis, quantus in orbe fuit. *' A dextris muri, ftatuam tu cernere poflis " Oranti fimilem, marmore de Pario ; " Subter quam ftatuam cernatur tabula fculpta " Auratis verbis quae tibi cundla notant," On the eaft wall a monument has been ere£ted to his memory, with his effigies kneeling at a defk in the attitude of devotion j underneath is a tablet Infcribed as follows : " Here lyeth the body of Henry Smith, Efq. fometime citizen *' and alderman of London, who departed this life the 30th day of " January A° Dom. 1627, being then neere the age of 79 yeares, ** whome while he lived gave unto thefe feveral townes in Surrey " following : — One thoufand pounds apeece to buy lands for per- " petulty for the reliefe and fetting poore people on worke in the *' faid townes, viz. to the towne of Croydon, one thoufand pounds ; " to the towne of Kingfton, one thoufand pounds ; to the towne " of Guildford, one thoufand pounds ; to the towne of Darking, " See the codicil to his will. " one WANDSWORTH. 515 " one thoufand pounds; to the towne of Farnham, one thoufand " pounds ; and by his laft will and teftament did farther give and " devife, to buy lands for perpetuity and fetting the poore a-worke, " unto the towne of Reigate, one thoufand pounds ; to the towne " of Richmond, one efpecialtye or debt of a thoufand pounds ; and " unto this towne of Wandfworth, wherein he was borne, the " fum of five hundred pounds, for the fame ufe as before; and *' did further will and bequeath one thoufand pounds to buy lands " for perpetuity, to redeem poore captives and prilbners from the *' Turkifli tyranny ; and not here Hinting his charity and bounty, " did alfo give and bequeath the moft part of his eftate, being to a " great value, for the purchafing lands of inheritance for ever for *' the relief of the poor and fetting them a-vvorke : a patterne worthy " the imitation of thofe whom God has bleffed with the abundance " of the goods of this life to follow him therein." " Sarah, daughter of Praife Barbone, was buried Ap. 13, 1635." Pralfe Bar- It is probable that this was the celebrated Puritan, commonly called *' Praife God Barbone," a diftinguiflied member of the parliament which took its name from him. He was a leather-feller in Fleet- ftreet'\ " Sir Thomas Brodrick, Knt. buried Feb. 4, 164 1-2.'* " Allan Brodrick Lord Vifcount Midleton, buried June 13th, " '747'" " George Brodrick Vifcount Midleton, aged ^St buried Aug. " 28, 1765." Several others, of the Brodrick family have been interred at Wandfworth : — Sir Allan Brodrick, Knt. who died Nov. 25, and Sir Allan was buried here Dec. 3, 1680, was furveyor-general of the king- dom of Ireland. Anthony Wood fays, that he was endowed with a poetical wit, of which feveral fpecimens were extant ". His burial is not entered in the regifter. '* Clarendon'sHiftory of the Rebellion, vol.iii. p. 482. 8vo. " Atl»en. Oxon. vol. ii. fafti. 3 U 2 « Dr. 5i6 ' W A N D S W O R t H. Tobias Whit- " Dr. Tobias Whlttaker primarle phyfician to his Maj' houfhold, " buried May 19, 1666." He wrote upon the fmall-pox, and was author alfo of " A Difcourfe of Waters ;" and a treatife on " the " poflibility of maintaining human life (without ficknefs) from in- " fancy to extreme old age, by the ufe of wine." " Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, fons of John Rowton, were bap- *' tifed Jan. 25, 1693-4." "David Montolieu, Baron de St. Hyppoiite, aged 93, buried « June 16, 1761." " The honourable Alice Scot, relid of Francis, late Duke of Buc- " cleugh, aged 6t„ buried Dec. 13, 1765." Churchwar- The churchwardcns accounts in this parifh begin in the year dens' ac- , • i ,- i i i i i • i counts. 1 590* It appears by a mmute m thefe books, that the bridge over the Wandle was built at the expence of Queen Elizabeth, between the 1 8th and 25th of July 1602 '*. 1607, Paid the ringers for ringing that day our King, ^T. s, d. " with the King of Denmark, came through the " towne — — — — 0012 1619. When the Queen's Ma''' dined in " the towne — — 040 1630. Given by confent to a poor minifter who " preached in our church — — — 026 In the year 1638 the inhabitants were afleffed 3s. for the King's hounds. During the civil war are entries of various fums of money paid for complying with the ordinances of thofe times. Charity- William Wickes, by his will bearing date 17 10, bequeathed 200 I. towards ralfmg a fum of money for purchafing lands of inheritance of 25 1. yearly value to clothe and educate 25 boys. Various perfons having contributed towards the accomplifhment of this objed, an eftate was purchafed at Afhurft in Kent, which was vefted in truftees, '♦ It was widened, and in a great meafure rebuilt, in 1757. and (( c< C( WANDSWORTH. 517 and the fchool eftablirtied in the year 1720. Other benefadions having fince accrued, there is now 300 1. in the flocks belonging to this charity, with the intereft of which, joined to the colledllon at an annual ferraon, the truftees are enabled to increafe the number of children to ^S' The fchool-houfe, in which the mafter lives rent- free, was leafed to the truftees of the charity by Lord Midleton, upon their paying an annual acknowledgment of five {hillings. Mr. Henry Smith left the fum of 500 1. to purchafe lands of in- Benefadions. heritance for the relief of the poor of this place. Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell, having left 100 1. for the fame purpofe, the parifh, with thefe two fums, and 60I. more added by themfelves, bought an eftate at Carfhalton which formerly let for 40 1. per annum, but now pro- duces 86 1. The parifh receives an allotment alfo from the truftees of Mr. Smith's charities, which is paid out of an eftate at Stoughton in Leicefterfhire ; this was formerly 16I. per annum, now about 28 1. Mrs. Elizabeth Tyroe, in 1625, left a houfe at Wandfworth to the poor, which in 1705 let at 61. 4s. per annum. Mrs. Sufanna Powell left an annuity of 20 1. i6s. ifliiing out of the profits of the redtory to be diftributed thus: — Four-pence in bread, and four-pence in money, to 24 poor widows, 1 2 on each Sunday alternately. The fame perfon bequeathed 40 s. per annum ifTuing out of the fame recStory to bind a poor child apprentice. Sir Allan Brodrick, about the year 1680, gave to this parifh the intereft of 360 1. ; 5 1. of which he di- rected to be paid to the mlnifter for reading prayers ; 20 s. to the fexton, and fix fhillings a week to be divided among fuch of the poor as attended daily prayers. An eftate at Wjllfden which was pur- chafed with this money now produces 39 1. 13 s. 4d. per annum. Mr. Nicholas Tonnet, in 1680, gave the fum of 200 1. to the poor of Wandfworth. Mr. W. Ford, in 1681, the fum of lool. to be laid out in lands for the poor. Some of thefe legacies have been confiderably improved. Mr. 5^8 WANDSWORTH. Mr. Milling- ton's bene- faflion. Garrett. Garrett eledion. Wandfworth kills. "Mr. Rucker. Mr. Francis Millington left the profits of an eftate to purchafe a coat annually, and to diftribute portions of 4 1. each to feamen and watermen of this parifti of the age of 50 years and upwards. This benefadtion was at firft diftributed among four perfons only, but the revenues of the eftate being improved, its benefits are now extended to ten. The parifli have fome other eftates not appropriated to any par- ticular purpofe, and they receive 50 1. per annum from the Right Honourable Earl Spencer, for land belonging to the parifh, which he has inclofed in his park. The hamlet of Garrett appears to have been about two centuries ago a fingle houfe called " the Garvett "." It now contains about fifty houfes, and is well known as the fcene of a mock election which took place there for many years upon the meeting of every new parliament ; when feveral well-known charadters in low-life ap- peared as candidates, being furnifhed with fine clothes and gay equipages for the occafion by the publicans, who made a good harveft: of the day's frolic. This piece of burlefque had been fome time in the decline, it was wholly dropped at the laft general eledion, and a ftiort time hence perhaps its memory will be preferved only in Foote's diverting comedy of the Mayor of Garrett. Upon the hills on each fide of Wandfworth are feveral good houfes, which command a fine profpedt over the river Thames, the metropolis, and a great part of the county of Middlefex. A very handfome villa has been lately built by Mr. Gibfon of Hackney, for John Anthony Rucker, Efq. It ftands near Lord Spencer's park, on the fite of a houfe which was built for the prefent Lady Rivers, and lately occupied by Lord Stormont. Its elevated fituation renders it a confpicuous objedl in the neighbourhood, and gives it the advantage of a beautiful profpedt. " Records of the manor of Dunsford. [ 519 ] WIMBLEDON. IT Is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently Name, written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its early proprietors. I have feen ancient records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language fignifies a hill. Wimbledon lies in the weftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and Situation, is fituated about feven miles from Hyde-park-corner, being three and extent! miles fouth of Putney. The parifh is bounded by thofe of Merton, Wandfworth, Putney, and Kingfton. In a furvey of the manor, dated 1612, this parifli is faid to contain 1648 acres of cultivated land; its whole extent is now calculated at about 2,800 acres, of which about 800 are arable; 1,000 pafture ; 100 meadow; 400 com- mon ; and 500 wood. It may be obferved, that this calculation in- cludes 800 acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which 600 are pafture and 200 arable. Two hundred acres of the wood are inclofed and regularly cut, the remaining 300 acres conftitute part of Wimble- don Common. The foil of this parifh is very various, confifting of gravel ; clay ; Soil. black fand upon a ftratum of gravel ; black mould upon gravel and clay ; fandy loam upon a clay bottom ; and ftrong loam upon the fame ; the meadows are black moor earth. In feveral parts of the parifh the fprings are very near the furface, and the ground fwampy '. Wim- ' For this accurate account of the proportion man, who is a very fcientific farmer, has and quality of the land, and the nature of the introduced upon his premifes one of the newly- foil, I am indebted to Mr. Paterfon, who rents invented mills for threfhing corn. Thefe mills a very large farm in the parifli. This gentle- are worked by two and fometimes three horfes. 520 WIMBLEDON. Wimbledon is charged the fum of 471 1. 8 s. to the land-tax, which, in the year 1791, was at jhe rate of 4s. in the pound. Circular At the fouth-weft angle of Wimbledon-common is a circular ^^'^^' encampment with a fingle ditch ; it includes a furface of about feven acres ; the trench is deep and remains very perfect. Camden, who fays that this camp was called in his time Benfbury, is of opi- nion * that this was the fite of a battle between Ceaulin King of the - Weft Saxons, and Ethelbert King of Kent, in which the latter was defeated ; and which is faid to have been fought in the year 568, at a place called Wibandune \ In this engagement two of Ethelbert's generals, Oflac and Cnebba, were flain. On the fame common, near the village, is a well, the water of which is never known to freeze in the moft fevere winter. Horfe-races. In the early part of the prefent century there were annual races upon this common, which had then a King's plate *. The manor. It has been before obferved, that In all the very ancient records Wimbledon is defcribed as a grange or farm within the manor of Mortlake, which accounts for its being omitted in the Conqueror's furvey. Archbiftiop Cranmer, whofe predecefTors had been poffefled of this manor from the time of the Conqueft \ exchanged it for other lands with Henry VIIL, who foon afterwards granted it to Thomas Cromwell Earl of Eflex*. After his attainder it was fettled upon Queen Catherine Parr for her life'. Queen Mary granted it to horfes, and they require the attendance of ' Sax. Chron. p. 21, 22. Scriptores poll three men. They are found to feparate the Bedam, p. 834. corn more effeftually from the ftraw than it can * Read's Weekly Journal, Aug. 30, Sep. 6, be done by common threfhing ; and their ad- 17 1 8. vantage in point of expedition and the faving ^ Archbilhop Iflippe leafed all his demefne of manual labour is fuch, that it is calcu- lands to the Prior and Convent of Merton for lated that one of them will threlh 10 quarters 30 years. Pat. 38Edw.III. pt. I. m. 34. of wheat, or 20 quarters of oats, beans, or * Court-rolls of the manor. peas in a day. Mr. Paterfon's mill was con- ^ P- R- 3^ Hen. VIII. Rot. 44. Lord ftruded by Mr. Ruftick of Morpeth. Treafurer's Remembrancer's-ofEce. * Vol. i. p. 170. Cough's edition. Cardinal \V I M B L E D O N. 521 Cardinal Pole '. Her fucceflbr Elizabeth firft gave it to Sir Chrlf- topher Hatton '° ; and again, in the 32d year of her reign, to Sir Thomas Cecil, afterwards Earl of Exeter, in exchange for an eftate in Lincolnfhire ". His father. Lord Burleigh, had a grant of lands at LprdBur- leigh. Wimbledon in the reign of Edward VI. '' ; and it appears from the date of feme of his letters, that he refided there when he was Sir William Cecil and fecretary of ftate '\ It is probable, notwithftanding the grant was made in his fon's name, that he lived occafionally at the manor houfe. In the year 1599 he entertained Queen Elizabeth at Vifit of his houfe at Wimbledon for three days'*. The Earl of Exeter left beth. this eftate to his third fon Sir Edward Cecil, who was created a peer sir Edward ■with the title of Vifcount Wimbledon, and Baron Putney. Imme- diately after his deceafe, which happened in 1638, the manor was fold by his heirs to Henry Earl of Holland, and others, truftees for Queen Henrietta Maria ". The manfion at Wimbledon is mentioned Qij^en Hen- ^ rietta Mana. among the houfes belonging to the crown in the inventory of Charles the Firft's jewels and pictures '*. It is worthy of remark, that this unfortunate monarch was fo little aware of the fate preparing for him by his enemies, that a few days before he was brought to trial, he ordered the feeds of fome Spanifh melons to be planted in his garden at Wimbledon '\ When the crown lands were put up to fale, this manor, valued at 386I. 19s. 8 d. per annum, was bought by Adam Baynes, Efq. of Knowftrop in the county of York, at 1 8 years purchafe '^ It is probable that it was fold by him to General ' Orig. 3 & 4 P. & M. pt. 2. Rot. 31. is the following entry, 1599: — " Paid for Ibid. " mending the wayes, when the Queen went '° Recital of the grant (18 Eliz.) among " from Wimbledon to Nonfuch, zod." records of the manor. '' This and the fubfequent alienations were " Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 17. Mar. 6. obligingly communicated by the ftevvard of the •* Mentioned among the records of the manor. manor. " Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 66. " Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 6990, '" Collins 's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 181. E.x- '♦ Queen Elizabeth's Progrefles, vol. ii. — traft of a letter from Sir John Temple. In the churchwardens' accounts, at King Hon, '^ Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office. Vol. I. 3 X Lambert, 522 W I M B L E D O N. General Lambert, who was lord of the manor in the year i6c6". " Lam- Lambert. ^ J J . " bert," fays Coke, author of a book called the Detedion, *' after he *' had been difcarded by Cromwell, betook himfelf to Wimbledon- *' houfe, where he turned florift, and had the fineft tulips and giU *' liflowers that could be got for love or money ; yet in thefe out- *' ward pleafures he nourifhed the ambition which he entertained *' before he was cafhiered by Cromwell "." General Lambert was not only a cultivator of flowers, but excelled in painting them ; fome fpecimens of his (kill in that art remained for many years at Wim^ bledon ". After the return of Charles II. this manor was reftored to the Queen, of whom it was purchafed in the year 1661 by the Earl of Bedford, and others, as truftees for George Digby Earl of Briftol, and his heirs ". His Lordfhip's widow fold it to Thomas Earl of Danby, the lord treafurer, who was afterwards created Duke of Leeds. The Duke, by his will, bearing date Jan. 21, 1 711, left this eftate in truft to Montagu Earl of Abingdon and others ; they, by virtue of a decree in Chancery, fold it in the year 1717 to Sir Theodore Janflen, Bart, who becoming deeply involved in the unfortunate South-Sea adventure, it was again put up to fale, and purchafed by Sarah Duchefs of Marlborough for 15,000!.*' Her Grace gave it to her grandfon John Spencer, Efq. grandfather of the Right Honorable George John Earl Spencer, the prefent pro- prietor. This manor was valued in Edward the ConfefTor's time at 32 1. per annum ^* ; when the furvey of Doomfday was taken, at 38 1. ; and be- tween thofe periods, at only 10 1. ; in 1291, at 20I. *'; in Archbifhop Bourchier's time, at 47 1. 17 s. 8d. "; when the grant was made to " Court-rolls of the manor. South-Sea diredors. " P. 406. '♦ Record of Doomfday. *' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 155. *' See note, p. 10. " Records of the manor. " Cart. Mifcellan. Lamb. MS. Library, " Particulars of fale of the eftates of the vol. xiii. N» 14. Sir WIMBLEDON. 523 Sir Chrlftopher Hatton, at 98 1. 3 s. 44 ^' "> ^^^ when the crown- lands were fold, in 1650, at 386I. 19s. 8d. " The following cuftoms formerly prevailed in this manor, fome Cuftomsof rr • r n • c ^^^ manor. of which have now neceflarily ceafed : — On the nrlt coming of every new archbifliop, each cuftomary tenant was obliged to prefent him with " a gyfte called faddle fylver, accuftomed to be five marks ;" every perfon who held two yard-lands, or 30 acres, was liable to ferve the office of beadle; and thofe who held three yard-lands, the office of reeve or provoft. Upon the death of every freeholder the lord was entitled to " his beft horfe, faddyl, brydell, fpere, fvvorde, *' boots, fpores and armure, if he any fhould have*'." Lands in this manor defcend to the youngeft fon. The manor-houfe, which was purchafed of Sir Chriftopher Hat- Manor. ton by Sir Thomas Cecil, fome years before he obtained a grant of the manerial eftate '", was rebuilt by him in the year 1588". It ""ebuiitb 1588 ; received confiderable damage by the accidental blowing up of fome gunpowder in the year 1628'*. It was upon its being repaired injured by an after this accident, perhaps, that the outfide was painted in frefco gunpowder. by Francis Cleyne ". Fuller calls Wimbledon-houfe " a daring ftriic- " ture ;" and fays, that by fome it has been thought to equal Non- fuch, if not to exceed it ^*. A very accurate and minute furvey of Surveyofthe the houfe and premifes was taken by order of parliament in the year in 16+9. 1649, ^^^ original of which is depofited in the Augmentation-office. It was read at the Society of Antiquaries in the month of November *' Recital of the grant among the records of " ble year in ivhich the Spaniards attempted the manor. '• but in vain to invade England." See Au- " Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office, brey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 15. '» Paper among fome records of the manor, 3=- Continuation of Stow's Annals. It is re- copied from the Black Book in the ArchbiiTiop markable that Wimbledon-houfe. in London, of Canterbury's Office of Record. was burnt the fame year. " Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf 3' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 128. N" 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. Aubrey alfo mentions its being adorned with ^' There was an infcription in Latin over frefco of two colours, yellow and burnt-okcr. the door to the following purport: — " That 3* Worthies, pt. 3. p. 78. " the houfe was built in 1588, that memora- 3X2 laft, 524 WIMBLEDON. laft, and is now printed in the tenth volume of the Archseologla. The following account of the fingular afcent to the north front will be found to correfpond with the annexed plate, which is copied from an extremely rare if not an unique print in the pofleflion of Richard Bull, Efq. to whofe liberality I am indebted for the ufe of it ". The furvey, after mentioning two courts, one lying higher than the other by an afcent of twenty-fix fteps, continues thus : — Defcription " The fcite of this manor-houfe being placed on the fide flipp of " a rifing ground, renders it to ftand of that height that, be- " twixt the bafis of the brick- wall of the fayd lower court, and the " hall door of the fayd manor-houfe, there are five feverall aflents, *' confifting of three-fcore and ten ftepps, which are diftinguifhed ia *' a very graceful manner; to witt, from the parke to a payre of " rayled gates, fet betwixt two large pillers of brick j in the mid- " die of the wall ftanding on the north fide of the fayd lower " court is the firft affent, confifting of eight ftepps, of good free- *' ftone, layed in a long fquare, within which gates, levell with the " higheft of thofe eight ftepps, is a pavement of freeftone, leading »* ro a payr of iron gates rayled on each fide thereof with turned " ballafters of freeftone, within which is a little paved court leading " to an arched vault neatly pillowred with brick, conteyning on each " fide of the pillers a little roome well arched, ferving for celleridge *' of botteled wines ; on each fide of this vault are a payre of " ftaires of ftone ftepps, twentie-three ftepps in aflTent, eight foote *' nine inches broad ; meeting an even landing-place in the height " thereof, leading from the forefayd gates unto the lower court, and " make the fecond aflent ; from the height of this aftent a pave- " ment of Flanders brickes thirteene foot fix inches broad, leading " The infcription under this print is as fol- " Garter, 1678; to whofe Lordfhip this plate lows :—" Wimbledon, in Surrey, fix miles dif- " is dedicated by his Honor's moft humble " tant from London, the manfion-boufe be- " fervant, Henry Winftanly, at Littlebury in " longing to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Earle of " Effex, fecit." Size of the plate 145 inches Danby, Lord High Treafurer of England, by 1 1 {'. *' and Knight of the moft honorable order of the ti to WIMBLEDON. 525 " to the third aflent, which ftands on the fouth fide of the lower *• courte, confifting of a round modell, in the middle whereof is a " payre of iron gates rayled as aforefayd, within which is a foun- ** tayne fitted with a leaden ceflerne fed with a pipe of lead ; this •' round conteynes a payre of ftone ftayres of 26 ftepps in *' affent, ordered and adorned as the fecond affent is, and leades into *' the fayd higher courte, and foe makes the third affent ; from the *' height whereof a pavement of fquare ftone nine foote broad and *' eightie-feaven foote long leades up to the fowerth aflent, which " confifts of eleven ftepps of freeftone very well wrought and or- " dered, leading into a gallery paved with fquare ftone, fixtie-two " foote long and eight foote broad ; adjoyning to the body of the *' fayd manor-houfe towards the fouth, and rayled with turned " ballafters of ftone towards the north ; in the middle of this " gallery, the hall-doore of the fayd manor-houfe, the fabrick *' whereof is of columns of freeftone very well wrought, doth ftand, *' into which hall from the faid gallery is an afl'ent of two ftepps. " From the forementioned firft aflTent there is a way cut forth of the " parke, planted on each fide thereof with elmes and other trees, in " a very decent order, extending itfelf in a direct line two hundred *' thirty-one perches from thence quite through the parke north- " ward unto Putney-common, being a very fpecial ornament to *' the whole houfe." The Survey defcribes on the ground-floor, " a roome called the <( Stone Gallery, 108 foote long, feeled over head, pillored and arched Stone gal- lery, with gray marble, waynfcotted round with oake waynfcott var- " nifhed with greene and fpotted with ftarrs of gould, and benched *' all along the fides and angles thereof;" in the middle was " a grottoe wrought in the arch and fides thereof with fundry " forts of fhells of great luftre and ornament, formed into the " ftiapes of men, lyons, ferpents, antick formes, and other rare de- " vices;" 526 WIMBLEDON. Chapel. Lower par- lour. Balcony- room. Stone gal- lery. Stair cafes. ** vices ;*' alfo " fortie fights of feeing- glafs fett together in one " frame, much adorning and fetting forth the fplendour of the " roome." In the hall was " a table of one intire peece of wood, "21 foote long and 6 inches thick." The cicling was " of fret or *' parge work, in the very middle whereof was fixed one well- " wrought landfkip, and round the fame in convenient diftances " feven other pidlures in frames, as ornaments to the whole roome ; *' the floor was of black and white marble." In this room was alfo " a fayre and riche payre of organs." The chapel is defcribed as paved with black and white marble, the roof was " a quadrate arch" painted with landfcapes, as were alfo the fide-walls above the wainfcot. The lower parlour was " waynfcotted with oake adorned " with ftarres and crofs patees of gould, the ceding thereof a qua- " drat arch, in the middle of which (hung) one pinnacle perpendicu- *' lar, garnifhed in every angle with coates of armes well-wrought " and richly guilt." Near this was the balcony-room, the cieling of which alfo was " a quadrat arch, garnifhed and adorned in the " angles with variety of feveral kinds of curious works." On the fame, that is, the firft floor, were the King's chamber, the Queen's chamber, and feveral other rooms, in one of which was " a lytle " wyndow to looke into the greate kitchen." On this floor was alfo a ftone gallery 62 feet long, on the walls of which were many " compendious fentences." At the eafl: and wefl end of the houfe were two ftaircafes 20 feet fquare, " topped with turrets of a great " height, covered with blue flate ; in the middle pinnacles whereof " (ftood) two faier gilded wether-cocks, perfpicuous to the countrie " round about." The weft fi:aircafe contained 82 fteps, the eaft ftairs, ;^;^. " Thefe ftaires," fays the Survey, " are adorned with one " large picture of Henry the Fourth of France in armes on horfeback, " fet in a large frame ; placed at the head thereof, and with land- *' fkipps of battayles, anticks, heaven and hell, and other curious *' works J under the ftaires is a little compleate room called the « Den 17^ .'*^*^??^ ~^^N r in the fecond year of her reign. *' Ibid. 4 A 2 References 548 BERMONDSEY. Death of Catherine, Queen of Henry V. Perfons of note buried in the abbey. Remains of the abbey. King John's Palace. References to various fubfequent grants will be found in the note'*. This convent was originally a cell to that of La Charite in France, and was feized by Edward III. among other alien priories in 1371. It was reftored to its privileges within a few years, and continued to fiourifli till the year 1538, when it was furrendered to the crown, the annual revenues being then valued at 474I. 14s. 4yd. Robert de Wharton, the laft Prior, who was afterwards fucceffively Bifhop of St. Afaph and Hereford, obtained a penfion of 533I. 6s. 8d. per annum. A lift of benefadors to this convent may be found in Dug- dale's Monafticon ''', and a lift of its priors in Browne Willis's Hiftory of Mitred Abbies^*. Catherine the Queen of Henry V. died in this abbey, Jan. 5, Among perfons of note interred there, may be reckoned William de Morton Earl of Cornwall " ; Loufstane, Provoft of Lon- don, An° 1 1 15; Margaret de la Pole, (1473); and Dame Aime Audley, relidt of John Loi;d Audley, (1497) *'. Near the church-yard at Bermondfey is an ancient gateway, and towards the eaft fome old buildings called King John's Palace. Thefe buildings, which confift partly of brick, and partly of timber^ intermixed with lath and plafter, carry the appearance of having been a part of the convent or its appurtenances. The traditional appro- priation of very ancient houfes to King John is not infrequent. The tradition in this inftance is entirely unfupported either by hiftory or record. The manor-houfe, or palace of Bermondfey, was given to «* The charters of Will. II. and Hen. II. are printed in Dugdale. Various grants, Pat. 56 Hen. III. m. 15. CI. 18 Edw. I. m. 17. Pat. 8 Edw. II. pt. z.m. 19. Pat. 15 Edw. III. pt. z. m. 29. Pat. 22 Edw. III. pt. 3. m. 10, II. Pat. 24 Edw. III. pt. i.m. 8. Pat. 14 Ric. II. pt. 2. m. 39. Pat. 23 Hen. VI. pt. I. m. I. Appropriation of Chelfham church, CI. 8 Edw. II. m. 19. Grant of return of writs in Brixton and Wal- lington hundreds, Pat. 20 Ric. II. pt. 2.111.4. Pat. 21 Ric. II. de M. de Rotherhithe. Appropriation of Kemfing church, Pat. 21 Ric. II. pt. 2. m. 8. Confirmation of grants and privileges. Cart. 4 Edw. III. No. 57. Pat. 2 Ric. II. pt. I. in. 43. Pat. i Hen. IV. pt. 7. m. 15. Pat. 23 Hen. VI. pt. I. m. 2. *5 Vol. i. p. 639—642. " Vol. ii. p. 229, 230. *' Chronicle of Merton Abbey, in the Bod- leian Library. '" Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 25. ** Stow's Survey of London, edit. Strype. the B E R M O N D S E Y. 549 the monks by William Rufus. The quotation inferted in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey '", as the only conjectural proof that the kings of England had a refidence at this place after the grant above-men- tioned, has been totally mifunderftood, and proves nothing. It is faid in Aubrey's work, that Sir Thomas Pope built a houfe on the fite of the priory which afterwards came to the Earls of Suflex. Some traces of the refidence of the Earls of Suflex at Bermondfey are to be found in the parifh regifl;er about the year 1595 ; but I have not met with the name in any title deeds or other records relating to the fite of the convent. A confiderable part thereof was fold by Sir Thomas Pope to Robert Bifliop of St. Afaph, the lafl: Prior, and having pafl'ed through various hands, is now the property of William Richardfon, Efq. in whofe garden is an ancient wall with crofl'es, and various emblematical devices worked with glazed bricks. The remainder of the fite is for the moft part if not entirely the property of William Smith, Efq. of Chifwick. The manor of Bermondfey before the Conquefl; was the property Manor. of Harold, and as fuch was feized by the Conqueror. William Rufus gave it to the monaftery founded at that place. After the fuppreflion of the convent, Henry VIII. granted the fite, with other lands at Bermondfey, together with a court leet, view of frank pledge, and right of free warren, to Sir Robert Southwell, Maflier of the Rolls " ; who the fame year fold the whole of the premifes to Sir Thomas Pope ". Soon after this. Sir Thomas procured from the crown a grant of the rents of afllze "; and in the year 1556, aliened the manor to Robert Trapps, Efq. '* in whofe family it continued till the year 1717, when it was fold to Peter Hambly, Efq. grandfather of the reverend Thomas Hambly, the prefent proprietor. At the time of the Conquefl the manor was valued at 15I. per annum. At that time Earl Morton held lands of the king at Ber- mondfey, which was his refidence ". 3" Vol. V. p. 37, 38. " Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 23. May 4. " Pat. 33 H. VIII. pt. 2. July 8. " AbllraftofMr. Hambly's Title Deeds. " Abftradt of Mr. Hambly's Title Deeds. " Record of Doomfday. Edward S50 B E R M O N D S E Y. Edward VI. granted certain premlfes in this parlfh, which had been part of the pofleflions of our Lady of Rouncival, to Edward Lord Clinton and Saye ". The church. The Survey of Doomfday, which was made in 1083, mentions a fair and new church at this place. This, no doubt, was the conven- tual church then newly built. It was long afterwards that the monks of Bermondfey founded a parochial church there, and dedicated it to St. Mary Magdalen. The prefent ftrufture was erected in 1680. It is of brick, and confifts of a chancel, nave, two allies, and a tranfept; at the weft end is a low fquare tower with a turret. Tombs in the On the north wall of the chancel is the monument of Nathaniel church. . 1 r" RofFey, Efq. who died in 1733; and within the rails the tomb of Jeremiah Whitaker, redor of the parifh, who died in 1654. On the north pillar of the nave is the monument of Sir William Steavens, Knt. who died in 17 12. At the eaft end of the fouth aifle, thofe of William Caftle, Efq. who died in 1681 ; and Elizabeth wife of Bafil Wood, who died in 1 730. In the fame aifle are the monuments of Mr. John RufTell, who died in 1770 ^*; William Mafon, Efq. who died in 1791 ; and near the fouth door that of William Browning, Efq. who died in 1758; and William Browning, redor, who died in 1 740. Againft the fouth wall, on the outfide, is a tablet to the me- mory of Sir Thomas Steavens, Knt. who died in 1738 ; and others of that family. Tombs in the In the church-yard are the tombs of the following perfons : Capt. Charles Smith, who died in 1726J Mr. John Burgoyne, 1728; and '* Grants by Edw. VI. in the Augmenta- Jofeph Mawbey, who was one of his executors, tion Office. , Mr. Ruffell bequeathed the greater part of his '* This John Ruflell was father to Richard property to the Magdalen, Small-pox, and Ruffell, Efq. who died in 1784, and was Lying-in-hofpitals, and the Afylum. He left buried in St. John's church, Southwark, with a hundred pounds to the charity fchool at Ber- great pomp, his pall being born by fix young mondfey. Mr. Ruffell, though by no means women, fpinfters, and the corpfe preceded by a fcholar, was an author, having publiftied a four others ftrewing flowers, as direfted by his pamphlet, entitled, " War with the Senfes; or very fingular will; which is printed, with a " Free Thoughts on Snuff taking; by a friend Ihort account of his life and charafter, by Sir " to Female Beauty." Humphrey B E R M O N D S E Y. 551 Humphrey Burgoyne, Efq. (1735); William Wilkin, Gent, of the Great Lodge near Tunbridge, (1735); Mary, relid of Captain William Studholm, (1738) ; Captain Charles Chamberlain, (1740) ; Captain Robert Nowne, (1741) ; Captain John Blackabee, (1750) ; Captain James Thompfon, (1753); Sir William Richardfon, Knt. (1769); John Brett, Surgeon, (1769) ; Capt. John Lindfey, (1774); John Bickham, Gent, of Co. Somerfet, (1774); Captain William Sparks, (1782) ; Elizabeth, wife of Capt. William Compton, (1782) ; Jofeph Phillipfon, General Accomptant of theExcife, (1782) ; Capt. Samuel Haycraft, (1785); Samuel Bowerman, Efq. (1787); Capt. Enoch Stickney, (1788); Thomas Lechmere, fon of Richard Lech- mere, Efq. of Newborn Hall, Suffolk, (1788) ; Mr. Richard Phillips, (1789"); and Capt. George Butler, of Rotherhithe, and feveral of his children (no date). The church-yard was enlarged in 1783. The church of Bermondfey is in the diocefe of WInchefter, and Reaoryand in the deanery of Southwark. The advowfon of the redlory belonged to the monaftery, and has undergone the fame alienations as the manor, being now the property of the Reverend Thomas Hambly, who is both patron and incumbent. Edward Elton, and Jeremiah Whitaker, two eminent puritan Reftors. divines in the laft century, were redtors of this parifh; the former and Jeremiah died in 1624, the latter in 1654. Elton publifhed a volume of fer- mons in folio, an Expofition of the 9th chapter of St. Paul's Epiftle to the Romans ; an Expofition of the Epiftle to the Coloflians, and, it is probable, other works. Whitaker was a member of the affembly of divines, and faid to have been remarkable for his fkill in the oriental languages. There is extant a fermon preached at his funeral, with an account of his life, (which contains nothing remarkable,) by Simeon Aflie. Several elegies on his death, and panegyrical poems, are an- nexed. He was fucceeded at Bermondfey by his fon William, who was 552 BERMONDSEY. Richard Parr. Pari(h re- gifter kept with great accuracy. was author of a few fingle fermons, and was ejected at the reftora- tion '*. Elton and the elder Whitaker lie buried in the fame grave in the chancel, where is the following infcriptlon : " Where once the famous Elton did entruft " The prefervation of his facred duft, " Lies pious Whitaker, both juftly twin'd, *' Both dead, one grave ; both living, had one mind : " And by their difToIution, have fupply'd " The hungry grave, and fame and heaven befide. *' This ftone protects their bones, while fame enrolls *' Their deathlefs names, and heaven embrace their fouls." " The faid Whitaker departed June i, 1654, Eetatis fu^e ^^." Dr. Richard Parr, of whom fome account is given in the parifh of Camberwell, (p. 85.) of which he was vicar, was alfo redtor of Ber- mondfey. His fignature occurs in the regifter in 1676. He died in 1 69 1. The earlieft date of the parifh regifter is 1548. The manner in which it has been kept for the laft fixteen years by the Reverend Henry Cox Mafon, the prefent curate, deferves particular mention, and much commendation. Mr. Mafon has adopted a plan nearly fimilar to that recommended by the prefent Bifhop of Durham, who has fome excellent obfervations on the importance of regularity and precifion in the keeping of parochial regifters, in his letter to the clergy of the diocefe of Sarum. Notwithftanding the extreme populoufnefs of the parifli of Bermondfey, Mr, Mafon has inferted with great accuracy, the date of the birth of each child, as well as of its baptifm, the pro- feffion of its parents, and their place of abode. In the regifter of the burials, the age of the parties is inferted. Without fuch a plan, the parochial regifter, efpecially in a very populous parifh, ceafes to be of '* Nonconformift's Memorial, vol. i. p. 127. ufe B E R M O N D S E Y. S53 ufe either In afcertalning with precifion the identity or age of a perfon, or the defcent of a family. Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. Comparative r, ftateofpo, 1549— 1558 — 32 ' 57 pulsion- 1580— 1589 — 74 85 1680 — 1689 — 334 — 481 1780— 1789 — 418 498 1780 — 1784 — 399 488 1784— 1789 — 436 509 1790 450 417 ijgi 474 511 The principal increafe of population in this parifli happened be- tween the year 1665 and the year 1680, within which period it was wonderfully rapid ; the proportional increafe during the laft hundred years having been very fmall. The average of baptifms is only one fourth more within the laft ten years, than it was during 1680 — 1689. In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid, that there were then 2 1 1 1 houfes in Bermondfey; there are now about 3100, and new buildings are increafing very faft. The burials have uniformly exceeded the baptifms in a confiderable proportion, which may be accounted for from the great number of diflenters and catholics in the parifli, many of whom are interred here. There are two congregations of Independents at this place ; one chapel for perfons in Mr. Wefley's connexion ; a Roman Catholic chapel ; a meeting for the Anabaptifts ; and another for the Antinomians. The Quakers have a burial ground, but no meeting. The ravages of the plague appear to have been much greater pkgue years, at Bermondfey than at Lambeth, although the latter parifli was the more populous. The following table will give fome idea of its devaftations. Vol. L 4 B In 554 B E R M O N D S E Y. Singular ce- remony of the re-union of a man and his wife, after a long ab- fence, during which the woman had married an- other huf- band. 1603. B U R I A L S . 1625. B ITRIALS. 1665. B ORIALS. In April, - 8 Previoufly to June, - 6+ Previoufly to July, - 38 May, - 9 In June, - - 32 In July. - 108 lunc. - 21 July. - - 252 Auguft, - 121 July. - - 141 Auguil, - - 539 September, - - 263 Auguft, - * -•278 September, - - 152 Oiftober, - 278 September, - - 140 Oaober, • - 43 November, - - lU Oftober, - - 42 November, December, - - 20 November, - >s December, - 1 1 It may be obferved, that the average number of burials, at the lateft of thefe periods, was little more than 100. In the year 1625, when the plague appears to have been moft fatal, the total number of bu- rials was 1 1 1 7, being at leaft 1000 more than the average of that pe- riod ; 20 perfons were frequently buried in one night. It is ob- ferved in, the regifter, that of the 263 perfons who died in the month of September 1665, 185 were males. Two hundred and three per- fons died of the plague in 1636. The following very fmgular entry occurs in the year 1604 : " The forme of a folemne vowe made betwixt a man and his " wife, havinge bene longe abfent, through which occafion the wo- " man beinge maried to another man, tooke her again as fol- " loweth : " The man's fpeach: " Elizabeth, my beloved wife, I am right forie that I have fo " longe abfented myfealfe from thee, whereby thou fhouldeft be " occafioned to take another man to be thy hufband. Therefore I do now vowe and promife, in the fighte of God and this com- panle, to take thee againe as mine owne ; and will not onlie for- give thee, but alfo dwell with thee, and do all other duties unto thee, as I promifed at our marriage. " The woman's fpeach: *' Raphe, my beloved hufband, I am right forie that I have in thy abfence taken another man to be my hufband ; but here, before " God » Efch. 9 Edw. III. No. 3. declare Efch. 8 Edw. II. N0.6S. Hugh de « Efch. 43 Edw. III. pt. i. No. 28. Audley, Com. Glouceft. Efch. 21 Edw. III. Efch. 47 Edw. III. No. 12. Efch.6Ric.H. No. 59. Radulph. Com. Staff. Efch. 46 No. 30. Efch. 21 Ric. II. No. 55. Efch. Edw. III. No. 62. Hugo Com. Staff. Efch. 8 Hen. IV. No. 8. loRic. II. No. 28. Th. Com. Staff. Efch. "Efch. 18 Ric. II. No. 48. Efch. 21 16 Ric. II. No. 27. Will. Fr. & Her. Th. Ric. II. No. 55. Com. Staff. Efch. 22 Ric. II. No. 46. Edm. +5 Efch. 5 Hen. V. No. 26. Com. Staff. Efch. 4 Hen. IV. No. 41. as 560 CAMBER WELL. Peckham and Bafyng. Hatcham. Tombs. as his family continued to be in pofleflion thereof till the time of Queen Elizabeth, William Credy, who is mentioned as its owner 3 Hen. VI. *', muft have pofTefled it by fome temporary grant. Thomas Dolcely had the manor of Peckham alfo, which was held under the manor of Camberwell " ; and that of Bafyng *', which was held of the fame manor, by a rent of 5 s. lod. The latter feems to have been annexed to Bretinghurft *'. It appears, that there were two manors in Hatcham In the reign of Edw. I. ; for Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, is faid to have held the manor of Hatcham, which rendered fuit of court at the manor of Hatcham Bavent ^°. Henry Vaughan held a manor in Hatcham 43 Edw. III." John Abell had a charter of free warren in Hatcham and Camber- well 24 Edw. I. '^ In the account of Camberwell church (p. 75.) for *' a niche for " holy water," read " a pifcina." The conjeQure relating to the window at Camberwell (fee p. 74.) muft be attributed to Strype, as that parifh is not mentioned in the early editions of Stow's Survey. The brafs plate to the memory of Margaret Dove remains at the ■weft end of the nave. To the tombs in the churchyard (p. 80.) may be added thofe of Thomas Fox, merchant, who died in 1672 ; Henry Balowe, Gent. 1715 ; William Bourne, 1724; Robert Ford, Efq. 1727; Mr. Thomas Browne, 1732; Peter Cock, Efq. 1737, and others of his family ; John Amy, Efq. 1 745 ; John Brittnor, Efq. 1752 ; William Jephfon, A.M. mafter of the grammar-fchool at this place, and vicar of Great Hormead, Herts, 1761 ; Capt. Wil- liam Clarke, 1762; Samuel Brown Tufnell, Efq. of Norwood ♦= Efch. 3 Hen. VI. No. 32. ■»' Efch. 43 Edw. III. pt. I. No. 28. ♦• Efch. 47 Edw. III. No. 12. •» Efch. 9 Hen. IV. No. 34. '" Efch. 21 Edw. I. No. 50. '■ Efch. 43 Edw. III. pt. I. No. 28. '* Cart. 24 Edw. I. m. 21. Green, C A M B E R W E L L. 561 Green, 1763; Capt. John Peters, 1765 ; Gilbert AUix, Efq. 1767; George Edward Pakenham, Efq. 1768; Mr. Michael Mandeville, 1769; Henrietta, wife of Richard Henfhaw, Efq. 1771 ; John Taylor, Merchant, 1780 ; David Thompfon, M. D. of the Ifland of Jamaica, 1785 ; Mary, relidt of Browne Claxton, Efq. and mother of John Claxton, Efq. F. A. S. 1786; Edward Marfhall, Attorney, 1788 ; Ann, wife of John James, Efq. of Moor Court, in the county of Hereford, 1789 ; Capt. Jonathan Dring, 1791 ; Catherine, wife of Thomas Dale, M.D. 1791 ; and William James Gambier, Efq. 1791. In the burial-2;round at Dulwich are the tombs of Thomas Tell, Tombs at ^ ,. , r f. Dulwich. Efq. who died in 1 779 ; John, fon of Peter Thompfon, Efq. of Poole in Dorfetihire, who died in 1788 ; and Winde William Van- derefch, who died in 1789, In Stow's Annals ", there is an account of the baiting of a lion in Lion baiting. the Tower, under the diredion of Edward Alleyn, the founder of Dulwich College. James Allen, Efq. formerly Mafter of that College, by his inden- 9^"',^^ ture, bearing date Auguft 31ft, 1741, gave a piece of ground at Ken- ed at Dulwich fmgton Gravel-pits, with fix tenements newly erected thereon, to Allen. the mafter, wardens, fellows, &c. of Dulwich College, and their fucceflbrs, in truft, for the purpofe of eftablifhing a charity-fchool, for the education of poor children living at Dulwich, or within one mile thereof; the boys to be taught to read, the girls to read and few. The mafter for the time being to have the fole management of the fchool, to appoint the fchool-miftrefs or miftrefles, to make leafes of the premifes, and to receive the rents; for which trouble he is allowed to deduft out of the profits 5I. per annum, and the addi- tional fum of 1 1. 6 s. to treat the tenants with a dinner. It is ex- prefsly faid in the indenture, That whereas Archbifhop Wake did by '5 p. 1427, 1428. quarto edit. Vol. I. 4 C his 562 CAMBER WELL. BenefaAion of Sarah Vifcountefs Falkland. his Injundion, Dec. 9th, 1724, ordain, that fuch twelve poor boys as could read in the New Teftament, fhould be perfected in reading, and taught writing and arithmetic, by the fchool-mafter, and uftier, at the college ; the mafter fhould recommend the boys out of his fchool, as foon as they could read in the New Teftament, to be edu- cated according to the faid injundlion, and that he fhould give at the admiffion of each the fum of ten fhillings. The premifes now produce to the charity 21I. 6$. od. per annum only, but are capa- ble of very great improvement at the expiration of the prefent leafe. The houfes, one of which is in the tenure of Sir Gervas Clifton, Bart, are good and eligibly fituated, and are let on an average at about 25 1. per annum. There are now about fifteen children in the fchool, for each of whom the mafter pays three-pence per week to the fchool-miftrefs. Sarah Countefs of Suffolk, afterwards the wife of Lucius Charles, the late Lord Vifcount Falkland, by her will bearing date May 6th, 1776, bequeathed the fum of 300 1. to the mafter and warden of Dulwich College in truft, that the intereft of the fame fhould be dif- tributed annually on Chriftmas-day, in equal portions between the poor brethren and fifters. Market and fair. Manor. CARSHALTON. Henry IIL granted to this parifh a weekly market on Tuefday, and an annual fair for three days, on St. Mary's Day, the vigil, and the day following ". When this grant was made, Gilbert fon of William de Colville was lord of the manor. William de Fiennes granted it to Queen Eleanor for a term of years ". Nicholas Carew died feized thereof, 36 Hen. VI. '*j and his fon Nicholas, 6 Edw. IV. " »♦ Cart. 43 Hen. III. m. 4. " Cart. 4 Edw. I. m. 9. s« Efch. N° 22. " Efch. N" 40. The C A R S H A L T O N. 563 The Lady Margaret Burwafli, or Burgherfte, held the manor of Stone Court. Stone-Court, in Carlhalton, 46 Edw. III. " The fite of this manor has been lately fold to Palmer, Efq. Mr. Broadhead's houfe (fee p. 135.) was fold alfo a fhort time ago to J. H. Durand, Efq, To the tombs in Carfhalton church, (fee p. 127 — 129.) may be Tombs, added the following : In the chancel on the fouth wall, the monu- ments of Elizabeth, wife of Henry Byne, Efq. who died in 1687, and James Brace, Efq. who died in 1 749 ; on the north wall that of John Braddyl, Efq. who died in 1753; and on the floor, the tomb of Chriftopher Mufchamp, Efq. who died in 1660 ; at the eaft end of the nave, the monument of Dorothy, wife of George Burrifh, who died in 1685 ; on one of the pillars that of Thomas Potts, Efq. who died in 1788 ; on the floor, the tomb of Martha, wife of Thomas Otgher, Gent, and daughter of Thomas Carleton, Efq. who died in 1706; and in the north aifle, the monument of Edward Fellows, Efq. who died in 1730. In the church-yard are the tombs of Edward Whitaker, Admiral of the White, who died in 1735; Thomas Bradley, Efq. who died in 1 739 ; and feveral others of that family ; Rachel Grymes, who died in 1740; Paul Peter Savignac, who died in 1756, and others of his family; and that of one Humphreys, a corpulent barber, who was a famous dancer, with the following whimfical infcription : *' Tom Humphreys lies here, by death beguil'd,' Whimfical ** "Who never did harm to man, woman, or child ; epitaph. " And fmce without foe no man e'er was known, *' Poor Tom was nobody's foe but his own ; *' Lay light on him earth, for none would than he *' (Though heavy his bulk) trip it lighter on thee. " Died Sept, 4, 1 742, aged 44 years." '• Efch. N° 56. zd numbering. 4 C 2 The 504 C H E A M. The MS. mentioned p. 133. is annexed to Peck's Life of Milton. The line " A comfort great, &c." is there printed, " To comfort and to cure my corofie." H E A M. Tombs in the To the tombs in the church of this parifli, (mentioned p. 140 — 146.) may be added thofe of Francis Rogers, who died in 1688; Mrs. Jane Pattinfon, who died in 1 755 ; Thomas Kemp, D. D. redor of the parifh, who died in 1 769 ; Jofeph Butler, Efq. of York, who died in 1785 ; Edmund Sanxay, Efq., Edmund Antrobus, Efq., and Leonard Hammond, Efq. who all died in 1787; and John Kempfon, who died in 1 788. Church- In the church-yard are the tombs of fome children of John Dor- ^^'^^' mer, Efq. of Lee Grange, in the county of Bucks ; the Reverend Daniel Sanxay, who died in 1 739 ; Catherine, relid of Michael Crake, Efq. (1740); Jofeph Thompfon, Efq. of Nonfuch, (1743); and James King, S. T. P. late redlor of the parifh, who died in 1780. C L A P H A M. Manor. RicHARD Gower was lord of the manor in the reign of Edw. IV. and fold it to Sir George Ireland, Alderman of London ". The Rev. Sir James Stonehoufe, Bart. LL. D. and redlor of Clap- ham, died in the month of April laft, and was fucceeded by the Reverend John Venn. "Efch.ii Edw. IV. N"4i. & 13Edw.IV. Juliana Romeyne, 19 Edw. II. Efch. N° 85. N" 36. William de Fiennes died feized of the Agnes Ux. Joh. Founteynes, prius nupt. W" manor of Clapham, 30 Edw. I. Efch. N°33. Wefton, 13 Edw. VI. Efch. N° 13. CROYDON. [ ses ] CROYDON. The manor of Benchefham was held under the Archbifhop of Manor of u^ . Benchefham, Canterbury . Edward Brudenell had a grant of free warren therein, 19 Hen. VI. *' The Morton family were in pofleffion of this ma- nor as early as the reign of Henry VIII. Sir Robert Morton died feized of it 6 Hen. VIII. ; and his fon, William, 14 Hen. VIII. " King Edw. III. in the 46th year of his reign, feized the manor of p ^"°^°^ Crowham, among other lands, then the property of Walter Chiriton, for a debt of 3000 1. due to the crown, and granted it to John de Wefenhara. Richard 11. reftored it to William Chiriton, fon of the former. Nicholas Carew died feized "of the manor of Norbury, ;^2 Hen. Norbury. VI. '% and his fon Nicholas, 6 Edw. IV. "' At Addifcombe in this parifh, is a feat of the Right Honourable Lord Hawkfbury. K E W. It is probable that the capital manfion-houfe, called Suffolk CharlesBran- don, Duke of Place, (fee p. 203.) belonged to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, Suffolk, and Mary the and Mary the French Queen, who are known to have refided at French Kew. Leland fays, " Chevam hofpitio pias Mariae " Gallorum Dominx celebriorem "." «" Efch. 12 Edw. III. N" 34. kian Library. «' Pat. 19 Hen. VI pt. 2. m. 6. '* Efch. N" 22. ** Cole's Efcheats HarleianMSS. N' 756. «' Efch. N" 40. •' Chronicle of Merton Abbey, in the Bod- '* Leland's Idnerary, vol. L'c. p. 12. Kew j66 K W. Lord Har- rington of E.vton. Kew was the refidence alfo of the elder and younger Lord Har- rington of Exton ; the latter of whom, who is defcribed as a moft' amiable and accomplifhed young nobleman, died therein 1614*'. - The improvements made at Kew-houfe by Kent, (fee p.206.) muft have taken place before the death of the Prince of Wales, &$ Kent himfelf died in 1748. • Mr. Bellamy (fee p. 210.) publifhed alfo fome dramatic pieces. Kew-bridge. Paine was the archited: of Kew Bridge. It is 400 feet in length, exclufive of the abutments, and confifts of feven arches, the central one of which is 66 feet wide and 22 high. The annual revenues of this bridge are about 2,500!. per annum. Manor of Combe. Manor of Ham. Duchefs of KINGSTON UPON THAMES. John Hadrefham, or, as he is called in the record here quoted, Hatherfam, granted the manor of Combe to John Gaynesford and others, jHen. V. " This manor was aliened in the year 1651, by Charles Cockayne, Lord Vifcount Cullen, of the kingdom of Ire- land, (and fon of Sir William Cockayne, Knt.) to Eliab Harvey, Efq. '* It was purchafed of the Harveys about the year 1753, in truft, for the late Lord Spencer, then a minor. John Handelow and his wife Matilda granted the manor of Ham, near Kingfton, (4 Edw. III.) to Euftachius de Eton, and Geoffrey de Shardeburgh, and the heirs of the former '". Sir Nicholas Burnell held 100 acres of land in Ham of the bailiffs of Kingfton, 6 Ric. II. " The celebrated Duchefs of Queenfberry refided at Ham, in the Queeniberry, houfc which is novv the refidcncc of Lady Douglas. •' Heroologia Britannica, p. 135. fteward. •» Efch. s Hen. V. N° 45. '" Efch. 4 Edw. HI. N<» j6. & 45. •» From the information of Lord Spencer's ^' Efch. 6 Ric. IL N" zo. Roger KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 567 Roger Wood died feized of the manor of Norbiton-hall, Norbiton. 10 Car. I. LAMBETH. There Is a record in the Tower " which exprefsly fays, that the Manor of manor of Faukes-hall, which had been granted to Richard Gerefeye for Hfe, and which was afterwards granted to Roger Damorie, was confirmed to Thomas Bardolf, heir of the faid Roger, and his heirs for ever, by Hen. IV. This appears to be inconfiftent with the account of the manor given, p. 321. from equal authority, unlefs we fup- pofe that there were two manors at Faukes-hall, both of which be- longed to Roger Damorie. Mention is made in a record, 27 Edw. I. of a bridge made at the Abbot of Weftminfter's expence, between Vauxhall and Wandf- worth '*. Sir Richard Sackvllle died feized of the manor of Levehurft, Levehurfi. 9 Eliz. " Nicholas Molineux had a grant {^6 Hen. VI.) of the manors of Knolls. Stockwell, Lambeth, and Knolls, which feem to have been in this parifh. In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid, that there were then 1625 houfes at Lambeth. Maitland mentions two Spring-gardens at Vauxhall. A chapel of eafe is now building at South Lambeth, by the fub« fcriptions of the inhabitants of that place. M E R T ON. In the Auc-mentation-office is the deed of furrender of the Priory Surrender of ... r Merton of Merton. The feal of the convent, which is in very good preferva- Priory. »» Cole's Efcheats, N" 757. HarleianMSS. '+ Efch. 27 Edw. I. N'liS. " Pat. I Hen. IV. pt. 7. m. 22. " Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. N" 757. tion, 568 M E R T O N. tion, is thereto annexed ; it reprefents the Virgin Mary fitting under a gothic canopy, with the infant Jefus on her knee. The legend is SiGiLL. ECCLESiE SAn. Marie de Meritona. The deed of fur- render is dated April 26, 29 Hen. VIII. and is figned by Sir John Ramfay, the laft prior, Jofeph Debnam, fub-prior, Thomas God- mechefter, facrift, John Codynton, Richard Wyndefle, precen- tor, George Albyn, fuccentor, John Hayward, Richard Benefe, Thomas Mychell, Edmund Dowman, Thomas Paynell, John Salyng, John Martyn, Robert Knyght, John Page, fcholar of Oxford. Manor of Ravenfbury. Ancient houfe. M I T C H A M. Sir John Burgherfhe died 15 Ric. II. feized of the manor of Ra- venfbury ", which defcended to John Arundell, who married Mar- garet his daughter and heir ''. It was held under Baldwin Frevylle, as of his manor of Afhted ". There is an ancient houfe at Mitcham, the property of Mrs. Sarah Chandler, widow of George Chandler, Efq. in which are the remains of a chapel. The proprietors of this houfe, which is held under the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, claim a right to the north aifle of the church, in fupport of which it appears that the family of Illyng worth, who were buried in that aifle in the fixteenth century, held a houfe and lands under the church of Canterbury, temp. Edw. IV. " It is probable that it was at an earlier period the pro- perty of Henry Strete, who had a licence for an oratory in his houfe at Mitcham, in the year 1 348 ". " Efch. ij Ric. II. N" 8. '" Efch. 2 Hen. VI. N° 39. " Now in the tenure of Mr, Worsfold. '» Efch. 16 Edw. IV. N-^ 38. '» Regift. Winton. W. de Edindon, pt. 2. f. 20. b. MORTLAKE. t 569 J MORTLAKE, Isaac Reed, Efq. is in pofleffion of a very fcarce book written byDodor Dee, of which, only one hundred copies were printed. It is entitled " General and rare Memorials, pertayning to the perfed *' Art of Navigation ; annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas in Playne, " now firft publifhed 24 yeres after the firft invention thereof." Fol. 1577. NEWINGTON BUTTS. In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid thai there were then 75 1 houfes in that parifh, and only one perfon who kept a coach. PETERSHAM. In the year 1777, Mr. Bellamy, the late minifter of Peterfham, publifhed a memorial, addrefled to the Bifhop of Winchefter, on the expediency of enlarging that church, and fettling and afcertaining the rights of the future vicars, under the ad of parliament paffed in 1769. RICHMOND. Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, purchafed the Manor of manor of Sheen (now Richmond) of Hugh de Wyndlefor, temp. Edw. I. '" It was then valued at lol. 2 s. 4d. " Efch. 21 Ed. I. N'so. Vol. I. 4 D Queen 57^ RICHMOND. Queen Caroline made Stephen Duck Keeper of the Hermitage hi Richmond Gardens, before he went into orders. Alhiding to this appointment, Mr. Pope, in his imitation of Horace, Epiftle 2. Book 2. fays, *' Lord ! how we ftrut thro' Merlin's Cave, to fee *' No poets there, but Stephen, you, and me." There was a theatre at Richmond before Penkethman opened bis. " Injured Virtue, or the Virgin Martyr," by B. Griffin, was a£ted there by the Duke of Southampton and Cleveland's fervants, in ROTHERHITHE. Reflory. Ralph Bofleville held the recStory and advowfon, 2 Eliz. '* In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid that there were then 1320 houfes in this parilh, and only one perfon who kept a coach. Lambarde fays, that Henry the Fourth refided at Rotherhithe, whilft he was cured of his leprofy ". WANDSWORTH. Edward Barker (fee p, 507.) though ftiled in his epitaph, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, appeal's to have held the office of Curfitor Baron only. " Dodfley's Old Plays, preface, p. 52. *' Topographical Diftionary, p. 306. '* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, N°4705. Ayfcougl^'s Cat. Brit. Muf. [ Sl^ J PRESENT STATE of POPULATION in the PARISHES treated of in this Volume, ^O afcertain as nearly as pofTible the prefent Hate of population in the feveral pariflies near London, an accurate account of the number of houfes and inhabitants has been procured in three pretty large villages ; viz. Mortlake, Putney, and Wandfworth j the num- bers are as follows : Number of Houfes. Number of Inhabitants Mortlake, - 301 - 1766 Putney, - 440 « m 2294 Wandfworth, - 690 - - - 4554' Total number, 1431 - - 8614 Upon making the calculation, the average number of inhabitants to a houfe in thefe three parifhes jointly, will be found to be 6t44x> that is, about 6 -5-V- The average of 6 to a houfe, therefore, will perhaps give a pretty fair view of the prefent ftate of population near Lon- don. Clapham, perhaps, is almoft a fmgle inftance where the average is nearly 7. In moft parifhes, the houfes have been adually num- bered, and in all they have been calculated as nearly as polTible. The following table gives the number of houfes and inhabitants upon the foregoing calculation : 4D 2 [ 572 ] Addlngton ■■ Barnes — Batterfea — Beddington Bermondfey ■ Camberwell Carfhalton ■ Cheam — Croydon Kew Kingfton upon Thames Lambeth Maiden Merton Mitcham • Morden ■ Newington Butts Peterfliam Richmond Rotherhithe — — Streatham — — Sutton Tooting — — Wimbledon • Number of Houfes. - 22 150 360 100 3,100 772 165 61 800 80 4.130 22 116 1,800 53 815 1,600 265 100 150 230 16,246 Number of Inhabitants. 132 ■ 900 — — 2160 — — 600 — • 18,600 4.632 990 366 ■ 4,800 480 4.500 24,780 ■ 132 696 3,240 390 10,800 318 4,890 ——- 9,600 1,590 ■ 600 ■ 900 1,380 97,476 If to the number of houfes, 1,431 be added for Mortlake, Putney, and Wandfworth, and 384 for Clapham, it will make in the whole 18,061 houfes: adding 8,614 inhabitants for the three former pariihes, and 2,700 for Clapham, the total number will be 108,790. C 573 ] INDEX OF NAMES. A BB A-ThuUe, Page 476. ■^*- Abbington, 174. Abbot, George, Archbiftiop of Can- terbury, 175. 196. 264, 265, 266. 274. 294. 304. ■ Biihop of London, 301. ■ William, 544. Abbots, William, 47. Abell, John, 560. Abernithy, James, 393. Abington, Montagu Earl of, 522. Abrahall, John, 322. Ackland, 17. Acworth, Gabriel, 509. Adam, John, 559. Adams, 293. 407. n. Richard, 488. Adhelm, Bifhop ofShirebourn,267. Adomar, 367. Agar, Eleanor, 413. ■John, 247. Thomas, 247. 413. Aguillon, Margaret, 6. 541. note. — — Sir Robert, 3, 4, 5. 541. n. ■ William, 3. 5.9. Ailwin, 3. Alton, William, 207. Albemarle, Wm. Ann Earl of, 434. Albert, 2. Albyn, George, 567. Aldrich, George, 146. Aldridge, Bifhop of CarliTle, 276. Alexander, John, 414. Alfred, 118. AUcraft, Henry, 357. Allen, Anthony, 100. —— Edward, 396. Henry, 500. ■ James, 561. —^Margaret, 392. ^— Thomas, T05. Allen, William, 105. 392. 393. Alleftry, 273. Alleyn, 113, 114, 115, 116. ■ Conftance, 89. — Edward, 87 — 93. 95 — 98. 105, 106. no. 561. ' Elias, 104. — — — Joan, 96. Matthias, 95. 100. 102. ' Thomas, 95. 102. Allifon, 407. James, 234. Allix, Gilbert, 561. Alnod, 497. Alfop, John, 284. Alured, 235. Alyngton, Sir Giles, 193. Ambefus, Sir William, 123. Amelia, Princefs, 365. 456. Amy, John, t,6^. Amyand, Sir George, 127. Andrews, Henry, 445. ■ John, iiiif. ■ Lancelot, Bifliop of Win- chefter, 147, 148. ■■ Thomas, 509. William, 125. Anne of Cleve, 399. 437. of Denmark, 157. 537. — Queen, 222. — — Queen of Richard II. 438. Anfchil, 481. Anfculf, 351. 504. Anfell, 123. Anfelm, Axchbilhop of Canterbury, 268. n. 269. 365. Anfgot, 235. 479. Anfon, Lord, 392. Anftis, 386. ■ John, 342. Anftruther, Sir Robert, 386. Anthony, John, 97. Antrobus, Edmund, 564. Antrobus, Philip, 139. Aperdele, John de, 351. Apparry, 174. Appleby, Dorothy, 491. Aprece, Robert, 353. Apfey, David, 557. Apfley, 33. — — Sir Allen, 471. . Lucy, St.JohnPedigree,30. Apthorp, Eaft, 191. ■ Elizabeth, 187. Archadyne, 557. Archer, 434. ■■ John, 27 1 . «. Arderne, John, 479. Argyle, Archibald Duke of, 240. •■ John Duke of, 240. 400. Armftrong, Sir Thomas, 273. Arnold, William, 368. Arran, Earl of, 446. Arthor, John, 167. Arundel, Anne Countefs of, 124, ■ Archbilhop of Canterbury, 173. 176. 264. 366. Arundel, Earl of, 97. 117. 333. Henry Earl of, 124. 138. 143, 144. 151. 154— Js6. ■ Lord, 428. ' Thomas Earl of, 3 1 9, 320. Arundell, Henry, 167. John, 288. 568. Afgar, 160. Afgill, Sir Charles, 444. Afhe, Simeon, 551. Alhton, 35. Peter, 509. Afhmole, Elias, 287. 303. Afterley, David, 508. Aftle, Thomas, 29. 342. Aftley, Philip, 320. Allon, William, 458. Athawes, Edward, 369. Athenian, 11. 137. 330. Atkins* 574 INDEX OF Nx^MES. Atkins, Abraham, 498. Annabella, 164. Henry, 161. 164. ■ Rebecca, 164. . Sir Richard, 161. 163.166. Atkinfon, 103. 397. Atkyns, Sir Robert, 164. n. Att Lee, or At Legh, Jolin, 9. Nicholas, ibid. Aubrey, 252. Audley, Aime, 548. . Hugh Lord, 69. • John Lord, 548. Auften, 113. Aurtin, Frances, 358. Avery, 41;. ■ Richard, 430. Awften, Benjamin, 390. note. Ayliffe, Anne, St. John Pedigree, «i Sir George, ibid, • Sir John, ii>id. Aylraer, Robert, 80. Aylwin, Nicholas, 4S4. Aynfcomb, 376. Ayte, Jane, St. John Pedigree, 30. Azor, 49. B. Baas, Joachim Gerhard, 508. Mary, Hid. BabingtonBilhopofWorcefter, 195. Backhous, or Bakhous, 225. 229. Bacon, Edward, 446. Jofiah, 556, 557. — — Lord Chancellor, 95. 97. 260. • Thomas, 556. •^— William, 290. Bagnall, Jofeph, 433. Baieux, Bilhop of, 28. Bainardus, 390. Baife, Margaret, 307. Baker, Frances, 289. — — Henry, 1 19. John, 474.487. ■ Thomas, 289. ■ William, 542. Bakerage, William, 375. Baldwin, Archbilhop of Canterbury, 261. n. 268. «. 274, 279. — — Bifhop of Worceiler, 268. n. Chriftopher, 159. Ball, 233. Balowe, Henry, 560. Bancroft, Archbifhop of Canterbury, 265, 266. 269. 282. 301. 307. —— Richard, 346. Bandon, Margery de, 53. Bankes, Sir Henry, 534. 539. Banks, Sir Jacob, 539. Banyard, Robert, 557. Barber, John, 369. 372—374. Barbone, Praife, 515. . Sarah, iiid. Barchard, 503. Barclay, Lady, 368. Bardefey, Robert, 250. Bardolf, Agnes, 541. note. • Hugh, 4. 541. note. ■ John, 541. note. Thomas, 5. 541. note. 566. ' William, 4. ^t^x.noie. Bardolph, 458. Baretti, 4S2. Barge, Thomas, 397. Barker, Edward, 507. 570. Barkley, Alcxancter, 193. Barlow, Bifuop of Lincoln, 323. Barnard, Sir John, 169. 374, 375. Margaret, 559. Barneby, Edward de, 1 1 8. Barrat, 115. Barret, 328. ■ - Edmund, 146. Barrett, John, 177. Barron, Thomas, 499. Barrow, Thomas, 472. Barfton, Elizabeth, 284. Baflet, Gilbert, 493. Baftide, Armand de la, 209. Bafyng, Solomon de, 71. 119. Bate, George, 246. Bateman, Elizabeth, 306. Efther, 498. Sir James, 498, 499. 501. Dowager Lady, 538. Bath, Earl of, 283. Marquis of, 539. Batley, Benjamin, 394. ■ Sibella, ibid. Battely, Catherine, 284. John, ibid. Eattie, William, 253, 254. Baudouin, James, 508. Bavent, Adam de, 120. Sir Roger, ibid. Baydon, John, 192. Bayle, Robert, 339. Baylis, Henry, 290. Baynard, Anne, 24. 544. Baynes, Adaixi, 442. 521. Walter, 347. William, ibid. Beacher, Henry, 1 39. Beake, William, 166, Beale, 115. Robert, 22, 23. Bean, Robert, 336. Bearcroft, Edward, 210. • Elizabeth, ibid. Beardmore, Arthur, 546. Beauchamp, 41. ■ Margaret, 32. Beaufort, Henry Duke of, 537. Beaufoy, 318, 319. Becher, Sir William, 412. Becket, William, 248. Beckwell, 559. Bedford, Duchefs of, 491. Duke of, 138. 432. 487. 505. Bedford, Earl of, 252. 522. Elizabeth Duchefs of, 488, 489. ■ John Duke of, 479. 488. Wriothefley Duke of, 480. 488. Beefton, William, 284. Belchier, William, 70. Belet, 438. John, 437. • Michael, 436, 437. - Robert, 236. Belitha, Edward, 255. Bell, 539. —— Robert, 476. Bellamy, Daniel, 210. 569. Mrs. 465. Bellafys, John Lord, 451. Bellingham, Sir Edward, 344. w/r. Belt, Daniel, 412. Sir Robert, ibid. Benefe, Richard, 64. 568. Benoit, Marc Antoine, 459. Benn, Sir Anthony, 233. 245. Bennet, 381. Ambrofe, 476. ■ Benjamin, 393. John, 4. 471. •Richard, 206. Timothy, 393. ■■ Wooley Leigh, 4. Benfon, 373. 540. Sir William, 539. William, ibid. Bentley, Jofeph, 459. Roger, 85. Berecroft, Catherine, 60. Robert; ibid. Berkeley, Bifhop of Cloyne, 264. ■ George Earl of, 499. Bernard, Edward, 149. Margaret, 1 1 8. Samuel, 189. Bernham, Roger de, 71. Berriman, aliasBrandon, Charles,6 1 . Bertie, Edward, 460. Belborough, Earl of, 433 — 435. Beft, Aaron, 544. Betenfon, Richard, 533. • Sir Richard, ibid. Betefworth, Peter, 284. Betterton, Robin, 546. Betts, 316. Bewicke, Calverley, 166. BIckham, INDEX OF NAMES. 575 Bickham, John, 551. ^ Bifield, Richard, 368. 37I. Biggs, Samuel, 473. Bindon, Thomas Vifcount, 133. Bingham, John, 307. Blackabee, John, 551. Blackwall, Anthony, 168. Blackvvell, Elizabeth, 517. William, 252. Blague, Thomas. 291, 292. Blake, Anne, 473. John, ibid. Bland, Alice, 246. Blandford, Maria Catherina Mar- chionefs of, 369. ■ Marquis of, 20. ———William Marquis of, 369. Blandy, Adam, 413. Blayney, Henry Lord, 79. ' Vincent, ibid. Bleefe, 184. Bligh, John, 358. Blood, Elizabeth, 304. Thomas, ibid. Blount, 33. ■ Elizabeth, St. John Pedi- gree, 30. Sir Richard, ibid. Boddington, William, 187. Bodicoate, Henry, 487. Mary, ibid. Bodley, Sir John, 97. Boillier, John, 414. Boherae, Anthony, 107. Bohun, 176. note. Bolingbroke, Earl of, 303. Henry ,Vifcount, 30.44,4;. Lord, 39. 42.46. 372. 373. Bolonia, Faramus, or Faramufus de, 123. 1 35. 160. 166. Bond, Charles, 348. —— Charles Frederick, ibid. ^— Eleanor, ibid. Sir Henry, 119. Sir Thomas, 74. 1 19. Tom, III. Bonhunt, 407. Boniface, Archbilhop of Canter- bury, 261. Bonne, 183. Booth, Edward, 362. Sir George, 462. » Lawrence, Bilhop of Dur- ham, and Archbilhopof York, 30. 479. 506. William, 362, 363. Bodock, Nathaniel, 482. Bottreux, 32. Boughton, Sir William, 335. Boulter, Archbifhop, 460. Boulton, 318. Richard, 392. Bourchier, Archbi(hop, 269. 326. 368. John, 54.6. Bourdieu, James, 186. Pnilippa, ibid. Bourne, Margaret, 375. William, 560. Bovey, John, 146. Bowden, Richard, 512. Bower, Harry, 225. Bowerman, Samuel, 551. Bowie, John, 341. Bowles, Benjamin, 1 87. ' Elizabeth, 546. ■ ' John, ibid. Bowry, Francis, 335. Bowyer, 72. 173. - Anthony, 70. 79. ■ Sir Edmund, 79. 84 — 86. 97- Edmund, 70, 71. 84. — Hefter, 79. — John, 71. 77,78. 505. — Katherinc, 75. 78. — S., 175. Samuel, 542. Boram, William, 421. Boreford, Sir Jamts de, 328. Rofye de, 327. Borowe, Lord, 313. Bofcawen, Hon. Mrs. 463. BoiTeville, Ralph, 569. Bozwell, Elizabeth, 83. Brace, James, 563. Bracebridge, William, 367., Bradbury, Elizabeth, i88. Wymond, ibid. Braddyl, John, 563. Bradford, Bifhop, 295. Bradley, Dodlor, 206. — Thomas, 127. 563. Bradney, Jofeph, 2.18. Rebecca, ibid. Bradfhaw, Jofeph, 214. Bradwardin, Archbifhop, 276. Brady, Nicholas, 166, 167. 461. 499. Brambel, 113. Brampton, Thomas, 443. note. Brand, Ifaac, 498. 501. Brandon, Leverfidge, 393. Brandt, Sebaftian, 193. Braly, John, 310. note. Braun, Sebaftian, 153. Brawne, Sir Hugh, 591, 392. ■ Richard, 459. Bray, Michael, 539. VVilliam, 513. Brayton, 50. Breame, Richard, 508. Brehold, George, 534. Brent, Foukes de, 321. Brereton, Theophilus, 356. ■ Thomas, 79. note. • Sir William, 172. 175. 190. Bretagne, Duke of, 239. Bretinghurft, 77. 11 3. Richard de, 559. Brett, Lady Katherine, 460. John, 551. Richard 460. Breufe, William de, 162. Brian, Elizabeth, Carew Pedigree, • 53- Brian, Sir Francis, ibid. Sir Thomas, ibid. Brickwood, Bartholomew, 381. ncfe. Bridric, 350. Bridges, Francis, 166. Bridgman, Sir Orlando, 19. Bridgewater, Catherine Countefs of, 297. Henry Daubeny, Earl of, ii, Brigftock, Thomas, 187. Briftol, Earl of, 201. George Digby, Earl of, 522. Briftow, John, 401 . — — — Rebecca, ibid, Brittnor, John, 560, Brixi, 120. Broadhead, Theodore, 13;, 563. Brodrick, Sir Allan, 515. 517. ■ Katherine, 507. Sir Thomas, 507.515. Brome, William, 446. Bromfelde, Sir Lawrence, 166. Brooke, 121. Anne, 412. — — Earl of, 444. — — Sir Richard, 413, William, 166. Brooks, Elizabeth, 546. Broughton, 90. >:cte. 530. note. John, 279. William, 2S8. Brounker, Henrv Vifcount, 451. T, 457- Brown, Ann, 419. —— Captain, 272. — — Elizabeth, 419. — — Lewis, 434. Lyde, 540. Mary, 419. Sarah, ibid. VVilliam, ibid. Browne, Frances Maria Coderc, 368. -^^— Sir Thomas, 8. ■ Thomas, 560. William, 368. Browning, William, 550. Brownlow, Sir William, 493,494. Bruce, Edward, Lord, 431, 432. Brudcncll, 57<5 INDEX OF NAMES. Brudenell, 177. Edward, 565. Brufkett, Jane, 335. . Sebaftian, ibid. Bryan, 60. n^te. Bryene, Guy de, 123. Bubb, Captain. 303. Bubwith, Nicholas, Bilhop of Lon- don, 366. Buccleugh, Alice Duchefs of, 516. Duke of, 454. Bucer, 274. Buchan, Earl of, 464. Buck, George, 92. note. -^— ^ Robert, 507. Buckett, 113. Buckhurll, Lord, 23. 440. Buckingham, Anne Duchefs of, 30. 506. Duke of, 134. note. 219, 220. 317. 330. ■ Earl of, 349. Edward Stafford, Duke of. 69. 297. Buckland, Edward, 255. Buckley, Edward, 41 z. Buckworth, 45 1 . Buffington, Daniel, 289. Bugby, Samuel, 401. Bull, Daniel, 368. James, 35. — ^ Nathaniel, 368. Richard, 524. 527. Bulley, Anna Maria, 401; ■ John, iiid. BuUeyn, Anne, 31. 55. 400. Bullock, Richard, 487. Bunkley, 164. note. . Sir George, 273. Burbadge, Richard, 87. 1 10. Burdet, Leicefter, 412. Burgeys, John, 53. Burgh, 141. note. Hubert de, 259. 343. Burgherfhe, Sir John, 568. . Margaret, ibid. Burgherft, Bartholomew, 126. Burgherfte or Burwalh, Margaret, 563- ^ Burgoyne, Humphrey, 551. John, 550. Burke, Edmund, 482. Burleigh, Anthony, 281. ■ Lord, 36. 206, 504. 521. Burley, John, 127. . Richard, ibid. — Simon, ibid. Burlington, Earl of, 320. Burnell, Sir Hugh, 471. ■ Sir Nicholas, 566. Burnell, Philip, 238. 437. Robert, Bilhop of Bath and Wells, 238. 437. 471. 560. 569. Sir Robert, 236. 238. 242. Burnet, Bifhop of Sarum, 264. Burnett, Margaret, 192. Burney, Dodlor, 482. Burrell, Sir Peter, 179. William, 362. Burrilh, Dorothy, 563. George, ibid. Burrton, Thomas, 248. Burton, Barnard, 186. ■ Charles, 130. ■ Sir Henry, 124, 130. 133. 352- Hezekiah, 19. 543. Mabell, 133, 134. note. Martha, 186. ■ Nicholas, 352. William, 25;. Bufcarlett, Peter, 289. Eulii, 503. Bufhell, Thomas, 260. Bufhman, John Bapiift, 544. Butcher, John, 286. Robert Holt, 510. Bute, John Earl of, 456. Butler, Elizabeth, 187. . Francis, ibid, — — George, 55 •• ■ Jofeph, 564. Byde, Sir Thomas, 164. note, Byfield, Edward, 542. Byne, 135, 136. I Elizabeth, 563. Henry, 135. 563. Cadenet, Marquis de, 117. Cxfar, Sir Julius, 354. 429. Cahuag, Bertrand, 546. Calcot, 310. . James, 309. 311. John, 317. Gallant, Anne, 187. Calonne, M. de, 539. Cakhoff, Jafper, 322. Calton, 84. ■ Francis, 87. Thomas, ibid. Cambridge, Richard Owen, 454. Camden, John, 544. Camelford, Lord, 400. Cammock, William, 505, Campbell, Robert, 70. Campden, Vifcount, 532. Campion, 407. Canaletti, zo6. Canby, Henry, 534. Canning, Stratford, 414. Canon, 397. Cantlowe, Henry, 484. - Margaret, ibid. Canute, King, 315, 470. Capel, Dorothy Lady, 209, 210, 388. 467. — — Henry Lord, 206. 209. Carew, or de Carru, 32, 33. 41. ,78. ■ Sir Francis, 52. 56 — 58. 60. 64.67.352,353.493. Ifabella, 58. 244. Lord, 283. • Sir Matthew, 481. ■ Sir Nicholas, 8. 52. 54— 56. 59—61.64,65. 67. 133. 248. 352, 353.492. - " Nicholas, 50,51. 53. 58. 62. 123, 124. note. 244. 545, 546. 562. 565. Sir Nicholas Hacket, 52. 65- Sir Richard, 59. 124. William, 545. Carew, alias Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, 60. 353. Carleon, 530. note. Carleton, Thomas, 563. Carlton, Sir Dudley, 240. ■ Edward, ibid. — — Sir John, 362. Carmarthen, Elizabeth Marchio- nefs of, 537. note. ■ Peregrine Marquis of, 537- Caroline, Queen, 205.447. Caron, Ifabella de, 361. Sir Noel, 304. 307. 330. Carr, Colfton, 430. Carrill, Sir John, 353. Cartwright, 108.111,112. ■ John, 13. — Richard, 16. William, ill, Cary, John, 413. ■ Maria, 411. — — Thomas, 434. Carye, Sir George, 3 1 3.' Cafe, William, 558. Cafly, Alexander, 460. —^ Ann, ibid. Caftello, Bartholomew de, 498. Caftle, William, 550. Caftleman, Richard, 369. Cater, 125, 126, Catelby, 323. note. Catherine of Arragon, 2i6. 270. 326. Catherine* INDEX OF NAMES. 577 Catherine, Queen of Hen. V. 548. Catherlough, Earl of, St. John Pe- digree, 30. Cator, John, 1 77. Cavendilh, Charles, 431. Cawtrey, 141. note. Cayoll, William, 248. Ceafley, Mary, 422. Ceaulin, 520. Cecil, 97.530. 532. 535.539. Albima, 533. 537. Dorothy, 531. 533. 538. — — Sir Edttard, 521. 531. 537. - Elizabeth, 533. — — Frances, 532. ■ ' Georgiana, 537. — — Sir Thomas, 366. 521. 523. Sir William, 237. 504, 505. Ceolnothus, Archbifhop of Can- terbury, 215. Chaceport, Peter, 177. Chalmers, John, 414. Chamberlain, Charles, 551. Chamberlayne, 409. Chambers, Mary, 79. • Sir Robert, 482. • Sir William, 207. 440. Chandler, George, 568. Sarah, ibid. Chapman, 542. ■ Elizabeth, 61. — — — William, ibid. Charier, Benjamin, 181. Charles I. 281. 440. 443. 454. 473.521.530. Charles II. 246. 432. 440. 443. 454. 466. Chatting, 503. Chaworth, Sir Richard, 457, 458. ' Lady Sophia, 4.57. Cheere, Sir Henry, 166. Chellham, William, 161. Cheney, Chefnet, or Cheyney, Bartholomew, 3. 5. Cherbury, 177. Cheflam, 267. Chefter, Earl of, 343. Chellerfield, Earl of, 273, 488. Cheyney, William, 237. Chibbald, 557. Cliiborne, Margaret Lady, 485. Chichele, Archbifliop, 173. 264. 266, 167. Child, Aylwin, 547. Chilwell, Jonathan, 284. • — ; William, 289. Chiriton, 177. ■ Waiter, 565. -^— — William, ibid. Chifbeche, Richard, 123. Vol. I. Chitty, 235. Chitty, Sir Thomas, 348. Chivers, Martha, 501. Choilet, Samuel, 178. Cholmley, Lewis, 495. Cholmondeley, George Earl, 443, 444 • — Thomas, St. John Pedi- gree, 30. Chudleigb, Sir George, 8. • Sir John, 458. Mary, 8. Church, Thomas, 39. Chute, George, 328. Cibber, 48. TheopKlus, 469. Clanrickard, Earl of, 13. Clappa, Ofgod, 159. Clarak, Arnuiph de, 545. Clare, Corfield, 460. Clarence, Duke of, 400. Clarendon, Earl of, 246. 444. 455- Clark, Ann, 387. Jonathan, 368. Clarke, Doftor, 20. Lady, 113, 114. Nicholas, 17. William, 560. Claxton, Browne, 561. ■ John, I53.n«/ir. 165. • Mary, 561. Claye, Robert, 38. Clayton, Robert, 327. Cleave, William, 245. 255. Clement the Fifth, 2. Clere, Thomas, 278. Clerk, John, 168. Gierke, Bartholomew, 161. 164. 313. note. —— Eleanor, 167. note. • Griffith, 510. Cleveland, Duchefs of, 158. 334. Clevver, William, 190. Cleybrooke, William, 398. Cleyne, Francis, 386. 523. Cliffe, Henry, 493. Clifton, St. Gervafe, 562. Clinch, Ann, 419. — — Elinor, ibid. •^^ Elizabeth, ibid. — — John, ibtd. Clinton, Edward Lord, 249. 499. Clive, George, 433. Clutton, Richard, 245. Cnebba, 520. Coade, 318. 544. • Cobb, William, 307. Cobham, Anne Broke Lady, J20. Reginald dc, 191. Cock, Joanna, 80. Matthew, 70. 4E Cock, Peter, 560. Walter, 80. Cockayne, Sir Thomas, 161. ' Sir William, 237. Cockburn, Sir James, 401. Mary, ibid. Cockes, 224. Codinton, Richard, 151. Codynton, John, 568. ■ Ralph, 493. ■ Sir Simon de, ibid. Cok, Richard, ibid. Coke, Lord Chief JulUce, 30*. Coker, Edward, 555. Cole, 124. 235. George, 8. 238. 241. 399, 4.00. Coleby, Jacob, 80. Coleman, 539. Coles, William, 460. Colet, Dean, 448. CoUey, Edmund, 103. Collinfon, James, 460. Colfton, Edward, 376. Colville, Gilbert de, 562. ■ William de, ibid. Comarque, Jean de, 508. Combaulde, Peter, 542. Combe, Robert, 418. Combes, Hugh de, 236. Comer, William, 247. Compton, 428. Bilhop, 374. ■ Elizabeth, 551. ' John, 146. William, 551. Connor, Ann, 289. Thomas, ibid. Conway, Sophia, 363. ——— Thomas, ibid. Conyers, 141. note. William Lord, 1 43. Cook, Lucy, 422. — — Sir Robert, 22Z. note, Cooke, Robert, 37. ■ Thomas, 305. Cookfey, John, 534. Cookfon, 123. Cooper, Robert, 246. Copley, Sir Thomas, 126. Coppe, Abiezer, 23. Corbett, 190. Thomas, 50. 545. Corboyle, Archbilhop, 268. note. 341. 366. Cjrnbury, V'ifcount, 399. 455. Come, Sir George, 297. Cornelifen, Henry, 86. Cornthwaite, Thomas, 370. Cornwall, George, 476. note. William de Morton, Earl of, 548. Cornwallis, !r78 INDEX OF NAMES. Cornwallis, Archbifliop, 265, 266. 269. 273. 281, 2S2. 299. 306. 428. Cofin, Richard, 301. 316. Cottington, Lord, 327. 455. Cotton, Sir John, 537. Robert, 457. Thomas, 484. Courtney, Archbilhop, 18. 173. Margaret, 458. Sir William, ibid. Coufe, 468. Coventry, Franci?, 368. Thomas Lord, ibid. Coward, Chrillopher, 397. Coivchman, Edward, 169, Cowell, 407. Cowley, Abraham, 15. Cowper, Earl, 538. Cox, 407. - Frances, 252. ^^— John, 61. z<;2. Robert, 218. Coxe, William, 250. Crake, Catherine, ^64. Michael, ibid. Crane, Sir Francis, 386. ■ Sir Richard, ibid. Cranmer, 359. Archblfhop, 77. 138. 172. 264. 267. 299. 352, 366. 394. 520. 535 . James, 352. 358. John, 247. Jofeph, 356. - Margaret, 77. . Mary, 356. Robert, 352. 356. 358. ■ Thomas, 247. Crawford, Martha, 392. Sarah, ibid. Crayle, Margaret, 252. Credon or Creon, Maurice de, 66. 236. 238. 242. Credy, William, 560. Creke, Sir John, 529. Crefpin, Milo, 50. Crichton, John, 499. Sarah, ibid. Crifpe, Tobias, 394. Crockatt, John, 401. Croft, John, 491. Crofts, Henry, 369. Crokhorne, Fabian, 60. • Martha, ibid. Crompton, 158. Richard, 161. Cromwell, John, 310. »o/^. Oliver, 246. 376. 407. 409. 522. Cromwell, Richard, 246. Thomas Lord, 20. 328. 504, 505. Cropley, Sir Edward, 460. Crofs, Mary, 512. Croun, Ifabella de, 238. Crowe, William, 200. Crowley, Sir Ambrofe, 356. Cullen, Charles Cockayne Vif- count, 566. ■ ■ Sir James Rulhout, 371. Cumberland, Duke of, 327. Cumberlin, Major, 407. Cuper, 319. Curley, 407. Curfon, Richard, 459. Curtenay, Eullache de, 67. Curtis, 123. Cutler, 18. D. Dale, Catherine, 561. Matthew, 471. ■ Thomas, 561. William, 392. Damorie, Roger, 321. 325. 567. Danby, Thomas Earl of, 524. 537. Dandy, Andrew, 556. Danet, Sir John, 178. Danvers, 530. note. Daranda, Elizabeth, 424. Paul, 407. note. Darcy, 141. note. ■- Sir Arthur, 56. 492. John Lord, 143. 145. ■ Thomas Lord, 52. 56. 482, Darell, Edward, 413. ■ John Chambers, 346. Darrington, Sir John, 91. 93. Dartiqucnave, John James, 421. Daudre, Walter, 142. Davidfon, James, 241. Davies, Elizabeth, John, ibid. Davis, John, 82. Davy, Elias, 186. 197. William, 392. Dawe, 1 18. Dawes, Sir Abraham, 408. note. 424. ■ Sir Thomas, 412. 424. Dawkins, 420. Dawfon, Peter, 84. Day, Jofeph, 555. Richard, 392. Thomas, 166. Dean, Archbilhop, 269. 279. Debatt, Sarah Gaudry, 467. Debnam, Jofeph, 568. Decker, Sir Matthew, 453. 459. Dee, Arthur, 385. Bedo, 377. 383. — — Francis, Bilhop of Peterbo- rough, 385. — — Johanna, ^77. John, 376—379. 381—385. Rowland, 377. Deering, Edward, 292. DefFell, Caroline, 542. John, ibid. Dclabere, 32. note. Delafield, Philip, 210. De la Mar, or De Mara, John, 333. — Petronilla, ibid. William, ibid- De la Motte, Jeanne St. Rymer Valois Countefs, 306. De la Pole, William, 483, note, De la Val, Guy, 66. Delaware, Lady, 512. Demainbray, Stephen, 446,447. Dcmfrene, Thomas de, 508. Dempfter, 354. Denbigh, Countefs of, 527. Denmark, King of, 93. 516. Princefs of, 135. Denne, John, 294, 295. ■ Samuel, 268. note. Dermis, George, 253. Denys, Michael, 146. Derby, Earl of, 273. Elizabeth, Countefs of, 209. 211. Defaguliers, Doiftor, 319. Defmevets, Ifaac, 102. Defpencer, Hugh le, 321. Devenifh, Robert, 368. Devonlhire, Chriftian Countefs of, 410. 430—432. Countels of, 433. ■ Edward Earl of, 203. William de Rivers, Earl of, 481. ■ William Earl of, 432. , 433- Dibble, 503. Dick, Sir John, 433. Dickifon, Mary, 83. Diddear, John, 393. Digby, Everard, 371. ■ Sir Kenelm, ibid. ■ Lord, 217. 324. nott. —— Simon, 353. Digges, Thomas, 41 1. Dingley, John, 457. Dixie, Rebecca, 166. Dixon, Marcus, 24!. Dobbins, Jofeph, ^74. Dobfon, 540. Dockley. INDEX OF NAMES. 579 Dockley, Edward, 556. Dodderidge, Sir John, 35. Doddington, George, 324.. Dolfalv, Thomas, 118. Dol(ely,Dolfaly,DolceIy,Doul(hill, or DolfhLl!, Thomas, 559, 560. Dolfhill, Edward, 118. Polphinly, 409. note. Donne, John, 77. 89. 354, 355. Dorchefter, Dudley Carlton Vif- count, 240. Dormer, Catherine, 458. ■ Sir ]o\m,ibid. • John, 564. Dorfet, Duke of, 397. 513. note. Earl of, 200. Doughty, John, 149. Douglas, William, 209. Douglafs, James, 187. ~ Lady, 566. • - Sir William, 173, Dove, Henry, 79. note. John, 79. Margaret, ihid. 560. Dover, Lord, 433. Dovet, John, 328. Doveton, John, 461. Dowell, Richard, 105. Dowman, Edmund, 568. Downbg, 35. —^— Edward, 509. Sir Jacob, 428. Dowfe, Henry, 48 1 . ■ William, ibid. Drake, Sir Francis, zz\.note, Roger, 187. ■ William, 434. Draper, Elizabeth, 7S. - Matthew, 79. Robert, 71. 78. ■ Somerfet, 508. Drayman, Thomas, 307. Drayton, Michael, io8. Drewe, Robert, 125. ■ Thomas, 281. Drewry, 174. Dring, Jonathan, 561. Drogheda, Henry Moore, Earl of, 322. Drury, Diana, 532. ■ Sir Robert, 355. Dubois, Charles, 358. ■ Ebenezer, ihid. Jofeph, 460. Waldo, 358. . Dubordieu, Ann, 542. Du-Cane, Peter, 482. Ducarel, Doftor, 331. Duche, Jacob, 289. Duck, 407. Henry, 125. — — Robert, ibid. Duck, Stephen, 205. 570. Ducket, Lionel, 361. Duckett, William, 401. Dudley, James, 421. Sir Robert, 449, 450. Dugdale, Elizabeth, 288. Sir William, 264. mU, 288. Duke, Sir Edward, 70. Du Moulin, Peter, 266. Duncombe, Sir Sanders, 90. note, Dundas, Henry, 540. Dupin, 263. Duppa, Biihop, 440. 466. Durand, J. H. 563. Durant, 360. Durham, Biihop of, 552. Durnford, Elias, 486. Durour, Loiiifa, 387. Dutton, Eliza, 146. Dymock, 498. Sir Edward, 67. Dyneley, 367. Dynham, George, 284. Dyfart, Catherine Countefs of, 239. ■ Countefs of, 240. 402. - Earl of, 238. ■ Lionel, Earl of, ihid. 399. ^— — William Murray, Earl of, 238, 239. 241. Dyfter, John, 316. E. Eaftman, John, 196. Rofe, ibid. Eafton, Alexander, 450. Ecclefton, Clement, 191. ?iote. Eckington, 530. note. Eddington, John, 241. Edema, Gerard, 463. mte. Edes, 241. Edgar, 215. Edintone, Reginald de, 9. Edmonftone, George, 10. Edmund, 215. 390. of Woodilock, 335. St., Archbilhop of Canter- bury, 366. Edward I. 43:', 438. IL 438. 445. III. 244. 321. 43S. IV. 266. - ■ the Black Prince, 321. ■ the Confeflbr, 120. - the Elder, 215. ■ the Martyr, tbtd. Edwin, 215. 478, 479. Edwy, 215. Eeles, Thomas, 459. 4 E 2 Egbert, 215. Egerton, 21. Eggleton, John, 107. Lady, 43;. Eggeblanche, or Equeblank, Peter de, Bifliop of Hereford, 529. Eires, Richard, 555. Eldred, or Edred, 215. \%i.note. John, 356. Eleanor, Queen of Edward I, 562. Elizabeth, Lady, 22. ■ Princefs, 2 \ . ' Queen, 12.32. 57. 76. 132. 156.173.225. 242.270.333. 347. note. 3S4-378-382. 383. 406. 439,440. 501. 521. Queen of Edward IV. 437. Ellefmere, Lord Chancellor, 354 Ellinbridge, 139. ■ Joan, 130. ' John, ihid. Ellis, Andrew, 533. ■ Frances, ibid. Ellynbridge, Thomas, 129. Eltefle, Thomas, 291. Elton, Edward, 551, 552. Elynbridge, Thomas, 178. Elyngham, Thomas de, 71. Emberton, James, 418. Erding, 332. 478. Eric IV. King of Sweden, 440. Es, or de Eys, 50. Eflifield, John, 486. Effex, Countefs of, 449. Frances, Countels of, 302. Robert Devereux, Earl of, 13. 157. 204. 267. 480. ■ Robert Devereux, the younger. Earl of, \o%.note. 148. 217< 218. 406. ■ Thomas Cromwell, Earl of, 405, 406. 520. Eftarcher, 478. Eftoteville, Robert de, 282. Ethelbert, 520. Ethelred, 215. 48 1. note. Eton, Euftachius de, 566. — ^ Gilbert de, 71. Evance, Thomas, 214. Evans, 320. • Biihop of Bangor, 263. Elizabeth, 473. — — Evan, 508. William, 473. Evanfon, John, 357. Evelyn, 234. 242. — — John, 485. Sufanna, ihid. Eversfield, Edward, 118. Ewarby, 32. note. 41. note. Ewer, John, 369. Mary, ibid. Ewy^s, j8o INDEX OF NAMES. Ewyas, 32. note. 41. note. Exeter, Duchefs of, 113. - Earl of, 109. Frances, Countefs of, 537. . . ■■ Marquis of, 55. no. Thomas Cecil, Earl of, 521. 53^. 53'- 537- Eyre, Sir Charles. 209. Robert, 423. Faden, William, 2S9. Fairfax, General, 103. 218. 407. Falconbridge, 216. Falkland, Lord, 408. 7iote. . Lucius Vifcount, 475. Lucius Charles, Vifcount, 562. Sarah, Vifcountefs, ihid. Fitzwalter, Robert, 47 1 . Fitzwilliam, John, 458. — Vifcount, 442, 443. 453- William, 499. Fane, Anthony, 245. Farmer, Catherine, 421. Farren, William, 242. Fauconer, John, 118. Faukes, Guy, 323. Fawcon, 232. Fawkner, William, 5C9. Feald, Peter, 480. Fearon, James, 460. 465. Featley, Daniel, 260. 292—294. 323. note. 416. Fellows, Edward, 563. Sir John, 126, 127. 136. Fenning, 360. Fennis, Margaret, Carew Pedigree, 53- Sir Roger, ibid. Ferrers, lohn Bromfield, 65. Fettyplace, Elizabeth, Carew Pe- digree, 53. .^— Sir Thomas, ibid. Field, John, 510. • Nathaniel, no. Fielding, Henry, 544. Fienes, or Fiennes, James, 532. 562. Ingram de, 123. 160. Nathaniel, 104. —— Sibella, 123. . William de, 123. 160. note, Figge, William, 351. Filby, 123. Finch, John, 97. Margaret, 107. Filher, 360. 418. — ^ Bifliop, 405. — — Elizabeth, 421.' Fitzaliin, 141. note. 144. Fitzharvey, William, 509. Fitzlucy, John, 67. Fitzwalter, Elizabeih, Lady, 2B5. ■ ■ Henry Lord, ibid. Flatman, 330. Fleet, Sir John, 35. Fieet.vood, Colonel, 407. -Dutton, 412. ■ SirGerrard Duttoajrf^. Fletcher, Bithop of Ely, 264^^ Floyer, Charles, 459. ^' Fludd, John, 396. Folkes, Martin, 45 1. Fonnerau, Claudius, 401. . — Peter, ibid. Forbes, Peter, 210. Ford,. Margaret, 192. . Robert, 560. . Thomas, 346. — — William, 517. Fordyce, 433. Forefter, or Forrefter, Reginald le, 53- 5j4S- Forman, Clement, 303. ■ Simon, 301 — 303. Sir Thomas, 301. Forrefter, Sir Andrew, 458. Jane, ibid. Forth, Richard, 179. - Robert, 329. — — Thomas, ibid. Fortrey, Samuel, 208. William, ibid. Fofter, Elizabeth, 508. • John, ibid. - Sir William, 304. William, 78. 210. 401. Foul, Alicia, 493. — — William, ibid. Fountain, John, 52. Fountaiue, John, Carew Pedigree, Thomas, ibid. Founteynes, Agnes, 564. note. • John, ibid. Fowler, Sir Edward, 117. Fox, Bifhop of Winchefter, 266. Charles James, 540. Chriftopher, 430. Sir Stephen, 433. — — Thomas, 560, Francis, Philip, 373. note. Frango, William, 71. Freeman, 320. Frevylle, Baldwin, 568. Frobilher, Sir Martin, 108. Froment, 276. Fromound, 13;. — Bartholomew, 139, 140. 378.383- ■ John, 129. Fromound, Thomas, 129.139, 140. Fry, Elizabeth, 486. John, ibid. Full, 557. Fuller, Sir James, 34. Furnefs, St. Robert, St. John Pe- digree, 30. Fynch, Elizabeth, 186, 194. Samuel, ibid, Fygge, 2z8, Gabriel, Sylvefter, 18;. Gaceline, Ifabella, 545. Richard, ibid. Gage, Sir John, 178. ]o\\n,ibid. Gainfborough, Thomas, 209. Gaire, Richard, 534. Gale, 432. Elizabeth, 508. Robert, 41 1. Gambler, William James, 561. Garbrand, Richard, 369. Gardiner, 232. 503. Bifhop, 434. Bilhop of Lincoln, 263. ' Chriftopher, 178. ■ Elizabeth, 363. - Thomas, 209. — — — William, 362. Gardner, James, 187. Gardnor, John, 39. Gardyner, Sir Thomas, 80. 89. note, • Thomas, 89. Garland, Dorothy, 546. James, ibid. Garratt, 114. Garreit, Nicholas, 508. Garrick, David, 112.482. Garth, Anne, 362. — — Elizabeth, 347, 363. —— George, 362. John, 347. Richard, 316. 361 — 363. Robert, 362. Gafcoigne, John Cloberry, 357. Galhry, Francis, 471. Gataker, Charles, 475. Thomas, 474, 475. 477. Gate, Sir Henry, 202. Gatelier, 50. Gattcy, 503. Gauden, Bifhop, 162. Sir Dennis, ibid. Gaunt, John of, 328. 483. Gavell, Robert, 155. Gawler, 428. Gaynesford, 237. Gaynesfoi dj INDEX OF NAMES. 581 Gaynesford, Joan, 129. . John, ibid. 237. Margaret, 129. 140. 247. Nicholas, 128. 132. ■ Walter, 129. Gearing, Jothua, 501. Phcebe, ibid. Gee, Richard, 52. GeoiFry,Bi(hop of St. Afaph,268.». George, I. 365.453.456. ir.446. III. 365. 456. 467. Gerefeye, Richard, 567. Gerrard, Lady, 423. Sir Samuel, ibid. Gibbon, Edward, 421. Gibbs, 115. Gibkin, 1 16. Cibfon, E. 496. Edmund, Bilhop of Lon- don, 294. - Edward, 462, ~ James, 495. The Dwarf, 386. William, 463. Giffard, William, Bifliop of Win- chefter, 340. Gifthiel, 408. Gilbert, Bifhop of St. Afaph, 268. >iote. ■ Elizabeth, 414. ' Thomas, 400. Giles, Elizabeth, 192. Girardot, Mary, 424. Glanvill, William, 165. Glanville, Gilbert de, Bilhop of Rochefter, 276. 290, 291. I John, 412. Glafe, Edmund, 443. note. Glocefter, Earl of, 351. 559- note. Almeric, de Eureux, Earl of, 69. ■ Gilbert Clare, Earl of, 69. 216.437. ■ Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of, 69. . Hugh Audley, Earl of, ib. - Johanna, Countefs of, - John Sanfterre, Earl of, 69. ■ Richard Clare, Earl of, ib. Robert, de Melhent, Earl of, 69. 71. William de Melhent, Earl of, 69. 84. Glover, 186. Bridget, 356. • Gabriel, ibid. Jofeph, 494. Godric, 2. Godfchall, Nicholas, 368. Godwin, Earl, 259. Gofton, John, 288. Gelding, 329. Goldman, George Philip, 460. Goldfmith, Oliver, 482. Goldfvvorthy, Philip, 471. 475. Goldwell, Arnold, 201. GooA'^ Bilhop of Ely, 264. Goofftaild, Elizabeth, 555. — :Jti' — Ralph, ibid. Goode, 333, 334. John, 335. Goodman, Samuel, 508. Goodrick, William, 442. Goodwin, 319. — — — Cecilia, 485. John, 166. Robert, 485. Goodwyn, 415. Goringe, William, 135. Gorges, Sir Thomas, 379. 381. 450. ■ Walter, 52. Gould, Honoria, 166. John, ibid. Gower, Countefs Dowager, 307. Earl. 539. - Richard, 564. Gowrie, Earl, 225. Grafton, Duke of, 158. 334. Graham, 306. Grandifon, 32. note. ■ Joan Lady, 40. Oliver, St. John, Vif- count, 29. 40, 41. Otto, 437. -' Sara]], ibid. Goda, Countefs, 261. Godmecheller, Thomas, 568. Grant, Roger, 395. Grantham, Lady, 428. Mary, 459. Sir Thomas, ibid. Granville, Anne, 286, 287. Bernard, 286, 287.304. « Sir Beville, 287. 304. ' Earl of, 538. ■ Elizabeth, 287. George, ibid. Gravenel, Hamon de, 499. Richard, 498. Graves, Richard, 327. 4<;9. Gravefend, Richard, Bifliop of London, 177. Stephen, Bifliop of Lon- don, ibid. Gray, John, 401. 476. note, Greame, Thomas, 166. Green, Dorothy, 347. Henry, 401. Green, James, 246. — — . Matthew, 508. Green, Michael, 347. Thomas, 289. Greenaway, Randolph, 459. Greene, Kabel, 126. Greenhill, no. • Thomas, 60. — ^-^ William, 6 1 . Greenway, John, 499. Greenwell, Robert, 362. Greenwich, Lady, 400. Gregg, Foot, 414. Gregory, Alexander, 84. John, 167. Grenville, Lord, 539. Grefliam, Elizabeth, 186, Sir Thomas, 444- Sir William, 186. Grey, Edward, 413. note. Lady Jane, 216. 450. Griffin, 48. Griffith, William, 441. note. Grimes, Thomas, 75. Grindall, Archbilhop, 31. 180, 193, 194. 201. 264. 271. 307- Grubham, Margaret, St. Joha Pedigree, 30. ■ Sir Richard, ibid. Gruton, Thomas, 126. Grymes, Rachel, 563. — Sir Thomas, 97. Gualo, 343. Guerin, Mary, 393. Peter, ibid. Gulfon, 1 14. Gundomar, 1 17. Gundry, Mary, 458. ■ Nathaniel, ibid. Gunllon, Perclval, 450. Gurgany, John, 167. Gurney, Sir Richard, 197. Guy, Henry, 8. Guyldford, Sir Henry, 55. note. Gwyn, Roger, 408. note. H. Hacket, 54. Bifliop of Litchfield and Coventry, 54. 148. ' John, 397. ■ Nicholas, Carew Pedigree, 53- Haddon, 262. 298. Hadrelham, John, 237. ■ Nichola, ibid. William, ibid. • orHatherfam, John,566. Haimo, 69. 479. 498. Hake, 582 INDEX OF NAMES. Hake, Engelbert, 166. Halcot, Thomas, 473. Halfhide, 345. Hall, Carew Pedigree, 53. Guife, 459. ■ William, 460. Hallam, Anne, 357, 3^8. ■ William, 357. Hallet, Anne, 248. Halliday, Elizabeth, 460. ■ John, 70. 460. Halfey, Miles, 458. Hambly, Peter, 486. 549. • Thomas, 549. 551, . William, 486. Hamilton, Earl of, 239. • Elizabeth, 48;. Hammerton, Abram, 243. note. ——^— Heller, 243. Hammond, Bartholomew, 401. » Leonard, 564. ■ Thomas, 31; 2. William, 288. Hamnet, John, 335,336. Hamond, John, 311. ' Peter, 499. ■ ■ Robert, 256. — William, Parker, 178. Hampden, 1 13. Hancock, Hugh, 289. - John, i&iii. Handelovv, John, 566. Matilda, iiij. Harbottle, Chrillopher, 352. Harcourt, Earl, 440. note. • Simon, 411. m/e. Hardegrey, William, 493. Hardicanute, 2^0. note. 258. Harding, Rebecca, 47. ' Richard, ititi, Hardinge, 461. . George, 241. 249. 253. ■ Nicholas, iiiii. Hardwicke, Earl of, 136. 538. Hardy, 262. ■ Mathew, 273. 276. William, 487. Hare, Francis, Biftiop of Chichef- ter, 20. Harley, 496. Harman, Henry, 74. note. Harmonde, or Harman, 74. Harold, 118. 259.426. 478,479. . John, 328. Harrington, 141. »o^-. . Sir James, 67. 143. . James, 498. John, Lord of Exton, Harris, John, 494. Harrifon, John, 102. Peter, 187. Harrovvman, Rebecca, 555. Harfnet, Bifhopof Chicheltcr, 301. Hartley, David, 427. Harvey, Daniel, 237. 356. 455. Eliab, 566. • Sir George, 7. Hafelrigge, 164. Henry V. 438. 447. VL 326. 439. VIL 269. 326. 438, 439. 445- 5 66. Harris, Jane, 494. Lord, 22. 532. William Earl of, 399. Eleanor, iiiJ. note. Haflel, James, 393. Halliiigs, 222. note. — ' ■ Henry, Lord, 329. Hatch, Giles, 495. Thomas, 493. Hatcher, Nicholas, 186. Hathaway, Rofe, 83. . William, ibid. Hatteclyfl", Thomas, 8. Hatton, 174. 222. Sir Chrirtopher, 175. 384. 521.523. Haughton, Daniel Francis, 460. ■ Edward, 415- ■ Monica, 460. Haunfard, Gundred, 344. . John, ibiJ. Haverfield, John, 210. Haverfham, John Lord, 463. Haward, James, 247. ■ Thomas, 224. 247. 252. Hawkins, William, 368. Hawkfbury, Lord, 565. Hawtayne, Malachi, 508. Hay, Eleanora, 369. — Elizabeth, 401. Richard, ibid. Hayes, Adam, 392. Haycraft, Samuel, 551 Hayley, 208. Hay ward, John, 56S. Hazleton, 47. Hearne, Thomas, 531. Heath, Bifhop of Rochefter, 276. note. Nicholas, Bifhop ofWorcefter, 394- 535- , Hedges, Sir Charles, 453. Hele, Sir Warwick, 458. Henckell, 503. 539. Henderfon, Elizabeth, 394. — Lady, 512. Magnus, 394. Heneage, 174. . ~ Elizabeth, 387. Henley, John, 80. Henniker, Major, 486. Henrietta Maria, Queen, 70. 158. 437. 521. 531. Henry L 87. 177. 438. ' ■ - in. 216. 259. 326. 343. vin. 138. 151. 154. 400. 405.439. 520. ■ Prince of Wales, 21. 29. 440. Henfhaw, Henrietta, 561. ■ Richard, ibid, Henflow, 89. 106. note. Philip, 88. 90, 91. Hentzner, 152. Hepdon, Sir John, 498. Herbert, Elizabeth, 537. ^— — Lord of Cherbury, 33.532. Hern, Robert, 83. Heron, Nicholas, 186. William, 188. Herring, Archbifliop, 176. 184, 185. 197. Herringman, Alice, 130. Henry, ibid. Herriott, James, 555. Hertcombe, Catherine, 247. ' John, ibid. Hertford, Earl of, 134. Hertilande, Walter de, 19. Hethe, Haimo de, Bifhop of Ro- chefter, 4S3. note. Heton, Jane, 413. Thomas, ibid. Heuton, John, 245. Hewer, 162, 163. - Samuel Edgley, 162. — — William, 165. Hewett, Thomas, 505. Hewit, 530. note. Heydegger, 14. 454. Heyme, Mercia, 59. Stephen, ibid. Hiam, 23. Hickey, William, 467. Hickman, Walter, 45S. Hicks, Thomas, 362. Hide, Bernard, 557. Hidfon, Robert, 397. Higginfon, John, 508. Higham, 24. Highlord, Zachary, 363. Hill, 1 19. 207. Bemilh, 542. Richard, 444. 466. Hills, Peter, 472. 476. Hillfborcugh, Earl of, 274. Hillyard, Thomas, 538. Hilfey, Bifhop of Rochefter, 276. ». Hilton, lidward, 336. 419. Hoadlv, Bifhop, 20. 200. 264, 487. Hoare, 14. Henry, 188. 360. Hoare, INDEX OF NAMES. 583 Hoare, Lady, 15. 17. — — Sir Richard, 13. i;. 17. Hobart, Sir Henry, 505. Hobbes, Sufanna, 485. Thomas, 431 — 433. 485. Hodgfon,47.345. I ■ James, 200. Hoefnagle, 153. Holbourn, Frances, 459. • Francis, ibtd. Holcroft, Joan, 29. Sir William, 40. Holdernefs, Earl of, 213. 233. 249. Holgate, Archbilhop, 31.- Holker, 177. Holland, 141, note. 545.' ■ Earl of, 219. 432. 521. Hugh, 147. ■ Lord, 329. ■ Margaret, 142. Holliburie, John, 387. Hollin, William, 135. Holmes, Robert, 494. 496. Holt, Anthony, 369. • Elizabeth, Carew Pedigree, 53- — — John, 126. ^-^ Thomas, 486. 491. Honeywood, 246. Hoo, 60. note. Lord, 5j. Hcokes, Nathaniel, 288. Hooper, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, 284. 294. Hopkins, Alicia, 533. ■ Benjamin, ibid, • Benjamin Bond, 533. 539- Eliza, 533. ' Elizabeth, ibid. John, 534. Thomas, 102. Horn, 307. Horfley, JoTin, 395. ■ ' Samuel, Bithop of St. Da- vid's, 395. Holkins, Sir Edmund, 124. 127. Houblon, Rebecca, 467. Hough, Biihop of Worcefter, 264. How, Thomas, i83. Howard, Agnes, 279. ■ Catherine, ibid. Sir Charle-, 428, 429. ■ Charles, 285. ■ Charles Lord,of Efcric, 458. 463. ■ Earl of, 283. ■ Sir George, 1 74. ■ Henry, 268. 285. John, 285. Howard, Lady, 174. 381. Lady, of Efcric, 458. Lord, 77. ■■ Lord, VVilliam, 279. Mary, 463. Richard, 2S5 - Thomas, 234. 285. 463. - W. 233. - William, 278. William Lord, of Efcric, 458. 463. Howe, 34. 564. Richard, 33. Howey, 404. Howland, 487. Elizabeth, 480. 488. 491. 5^ Sir Giles, 480. 48;. 491. ■ Sir John, 97. 491. John, 480, 481. 485. Sir Matthew, 481. 485. Richard, Bifhop of Peter- borough, 480. note. Howland, alias Roberts, Walter, 481. 485. Howlet, Thomas, 209. Hubbard, 407. Hubbert, Abraham, 412. Hudfon, 415. 423. 533. Jofeph, 533. Hughes, Thomas, 416. Hume, Biihop of Salifbury, 543. Humphreys, Tom, 563. Hungerford, 7,2. koh. Lucy, St. John Pedi- gree, 30. — — Matthew, 473. Sir Walter, St. Pedigree, 30. John Hunfdon, John Lord, 353. Lord, 174. Hunt, Francis, 508. Sir Thomas, 74. Hunte, Thomas, 546. Huntingdon, Rjbert Earl of, 227. «. Huntley, John, 546. Mzry, ib.-d. Hunton, Elizabeth, 188. Samuel, ibid. Hjrlefton, 474. Hufcari, 64. Agr.es, 352. Beatrice, 50. Joan, 51. ' Richard, ibid. note. Sir Thomas, 50, 51. ■ William, 5 1 . note. 352. Hufe, William, 546. Hutchins, William, 542. Hutton, Archbilhop, 281. 306, I. Illyngworth, Ralph, ^57, Richard, ibid. Ingram, Ann, 460. Charles, ibid. Ingulphus, 506. Infula, Baldwin de, 327. Inwen, Thomas, 392. Ireland, Sir George, 564. Ireton, 407. 409. Sir John, 375, 376. Ifabella, Queen of Richard II. 326. Iflippe, Archbilhop, 520. note. Ivatt, Martha, 534. Murthwayte, ibid. Iwarby, 32. note, n.note. • Sir John, Carew Pedigree, 53- J. Jackfon, Elizabeth, 250. ' Henry, 512. James, 487. Jacobfon, Peter, 322. James, 426. James I. 21. 14S. 222. 355. 381; 385. 407. note. II. 240. 443. Ann, 561 . — ^ John, ibid. Sir Roger, 85. Jane, Dodor, 38. Janfen, Cornelius, 239. Janflen, Sir Theodore, 4C7. note, 426. 522. 534. Janua, Anthony PefTaigne de, 325. Jarvis, or Jervoyfe, Thomas, 446. Jay, Mary, 458. Thomas, tbid. Jefferys, Sir JefFery, 433. Jeffes, Robert, 369. Jeffreys, John, 45 1 . 544. Jemmett, Charles, 214. Jenkins, Henry, 247. Jenner, Sir Thomas, 400. Jennings, Elizabeth, 499. 546. Jephfon, Thomas, 86. William, 560. Jewell', Biihop, 294. Jeweller, 397. Joce, John, 367. John, King, 54S. ■ Samuel, 508. Johnfon, Anne, 453. note. • Catherine, 248. ■ DoiSor, 482. 484. 490. Johnfooj 584 INDEX OF NAMES. Johnfon, Edward, 453. note, Efther, ibid. — William, 460. Johnllon, Arthur, 540. Jolley, John, 471. Jones, 320. Ann, 396. 1, Elizabeth, 83. Evan, 396. - Henry, 207. Inigo, 97. John, 369, 487. — — Richard, 97. William, 121.486. Joppa, Henry Bifhop of, 291. Jordano, Luca, 347. Jofey, Elizabeth, 555. Jouganham, 267. Juxon, Archbiihop, 175, 176. 263. 265. 269. 307. • John, 367. 387. — — Thomas, 372. K, Kaifnet, or Cheyney, Bartholo- mew, 9. Keate, 476. Keble, Page, 499. Keene, Whitlhed, 444. Kelly, Edward, 378. Kemp, Archbiihop, 269. Keturah, 290. — — Primate, ibid. — — Thomas, 564. Kempe, William, 22;. Kempfon, John, 564. Kendall, Thomas, 5 56. Kennet, Bracklcy, 412. Kennett, Thomas, 424. Kent, 323, 457. — — Arabella Countefs of, 241. —— Edmund Earl of, 335. Kentifh, William, 414. Kenulph, 338. Ker, David, 534. Keys, Joanna, 306. Keyfe, Thomas, 558. Kilbourn, 66. Kilwardby, ArchbiQjop, 171. Kineard, 338. King, Erafmus, 319. — George, 81. James, 564. Kingflowe, John, 448- Kingfmill, William, 41 1. Kirby, Joftiua, 209. 415. Knarelborough, Robert, 507. 509, Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 15. Knevett, Lord, 22. Knight, Robert, St. John Pedigree, 30- Knighlley, 141. note. Sir Richard, 143. Knyght, Robert, 568. Knyvett, Mary, 410, 411. — — — Thomas, 410. Kymberle, Richard, 125. Kympton, Michael, 341. Kynardefley, Bartholomew, 125. "Kynge, Clemcnce, 194. John, ibid. Kynnerfley, Clement, 460. Kyngllon, Matthew de, 255. note. Kynwardefle, John, 151. L. Lacy, James de, 344. John, 407. note. Laik, 50. Lake, William, 412. Lambe, Aaron, 369. Lambert, General, 104. 425. 522. . Nehemiah, 79. Lamyng, Thomas, 252. Lancafter, 539. Lance, James, 169. Lanfranc, Archbiihop, 138. 172. Langford, Edward, Carew Pedi- gree, 53- ■ Margaret, ibid. Langham, George, 166. Langley, Nicholas, 387. Langlye, W. 233. Langton, Stephen, Archbi(hop,268. Langworthy, 555. L'ans, Elizabeth, 476. note. Lant, Richard, 245. Larpent, Frances, 210. John, ibid. Lafcelles, Edward, 459. Lalki, Albert, 37S, 379. Lafley, John, 473. Latham, 183. Latton, John, 446. Laud, Archbifliop, 176. 201. 262. 264. 266. 271.307. 414. note. 430.455. Lauderdale, Duchefs of, 238 — 240. 402, 403. . Duke of, 238, 239. 402, 403- Earl of, 240. 402. Lavayfiere, Prifcilla, 486. Lawrence, 183. 503. Hugh, 255. Richard, 288. 308. Lawfon, Jane, 210. Lawfon, John, 534. Lay ton, 272. Leach, 345. Nicholas, 473. Leake, Sir John, 58. 472. Lechraere, Richard, 551. Thomas, ibid. Lee, 31 1. - Cecilia, 486. Frances, 542. — — Godfrey, 486. ■ Sir Henry Francis, St. John Pedigree, 30. Jofeph, 542. Lee-Boo, 473. 475, 476. Leeds, Bridget, Duchcfsof, 537. n. — — Duke of, 522. 537. Thomas Olborn, Duke of, 522. 530. Legh, Sir John, 295. - John, 9. Ralph, 295. Leheup, Peter, 362. Leicefter, Earl of, 133. 173. 383. • Robert Dudley, Earl of, 202. 449. 504. Leigh, 3. Anne, Carew Pedigree, 53. —— Sir Francis, 8. . Sir John, 4. 328. John, 4. 7, 8. —— Nicholas, 8. 541, Sir Oliph, 7, 8. 178. Sarah, 8. Leighton, 33. note, 259. 272. . Anke, St. John Pedi- gree, 30. ■ Sir Thomas, ibid. Leland, 316. Leiy, Sir Peter, 205. 239. Lemarus, 351. Leng, Bifhop of Norwich, 64. Lennard, Ann, Carew Pedigree, 53' ■ Sir Stephen, Hid. Lenne, or Lynne, John, 18. Lenox, James Duke of, 443. note, 450. Lenthall, Robert, 19. Leo, Doftor, 293. William, 416. Leoni, James, 125. Lependen, John, 151. Lethieullier, William, 166. 241. Levet, Frances, 460. ■ Sir Richard, ibid. Richard, 415. Levett, Sir Richard, 208. Lewen, Earl, 151. Lewes, Robert, 459. Lewellon, INDEX OF NAME.S. 5^5 Leweflon, Philip, 530. Lewis, Elizabeth, 460. Percival, 498, 499. — Thomas, 460. Liddel, Sir Thomas, 369. Lilbourne, John, 271. Lilly, 474. Lir.coln, Countefs Dowager of, 423- . John de la Pole, Earl of, 353- Lindfey, Earl of, 283. 457. 460. Lide, Lord, 449. 452. Philip Viicount, 451. - Samuel, Bilhop of Norwich, 500. Lifter, Dodlor, 114. 165. 169. Hannah, 165. Martin, 164. Litdebury, Ifaac, 494. ■ Thomas, iiii/. Littleton, Sir Richard, 444. Livefayc, Ann, 491. ■ Gabriel, iiid. Robert, 485. Livefey, Ann, 4S6. Gabriel, il/ii:/. Lloyd, Anne, 487. Barbara, 138. i Hlfhop of Worcefler, 264. . Humphrey, 138. 144. Nicholas, 395. . Pierfon, 487. . Robert Lumley, 138. Lock, Thomas, 3 48. Locke, 447. Lockwood, Richard, 556. Lodelovve, 498. ■ Catherine, 67. Lodington, Nathaniel, 413. Long, Dixie, 124. 130. James, 401. Jane, liid. Sir Robert, 334. Longchamp, William, Bifhop of Ely, 268. note. Loraine, Duke of, 1 17. Lort, Michael, 274. 281. Loufstane, 548. Loughborough, Lord, 360. Lourbier, John Lewis, 166. Lovejoy, 555. Lovekyn, Edward, 254. John, 249. 254. Lovel, Elizabeth, 8- Lovelace, Lord, 109. ■ Richard, 109, 273. I : Serjeant, 109. ■■ Sir William, iiiif. Lovell, Gregory, 344. 347. ■ John, 441. note. VoL.L LovclI, Sir William, 471. Lowayte, Richard, 236. Lowth, William, 38. Lucy, Godfrey de, Bi(hop of Win- cheftcr, 238. 509. Luines, Duke of, 117. Luke, Alice, 545. . Raimund de, iitJ. Lumley, Elizabeth Lady, 145. . George, 143. Jane Lady, 144, 145. — — — John, 142, 143. John Lord, 138, 139. 141. Lord, 144. 156, 157.333. Marmaduke, S41. note. 14a. Ralph, 142. Robert, 142. Roger, iiid. ■ Sir Thomas, 141 Thomas, 143. William, 142. Lunsford, Colonel, 217. Lufher, Richard, 410, 411. Luther, Martin, 264. Lyddall, Fenwick, 289. Lygon, Henry, 458. Lyman, Cornelius, 97. Lynch, Grace, 16. Lyne, 264. note. Lynne, Rebecca, 485. -William, iii^. Lynton, John, 529. Robert, 448. note. Lyntot, Henry, 80. Lyfle, Lady, 309. Lyftney, John, 150. Lyte, Anne, 369. Ifaac, tiiJ. Lyttel, Robert, 559. Lyttelton, Ann, 462. i Sir Charles, iiii/. ■ Charles, iiiii. • Sir Henry, iiiti. • Thomas, ii>iJ. M. Macartney, Catherine, 458. Machcll, Willis, 287. Mackenzie, 423. Mackmath, John, 473. Macpheadris, Richard, 534. Maddockes, Robert, 79. Maddo.Y, Charles, 546. Mair, Alexander, 289. Maitland, Sir John, 239. Malcolm, 258. Maltravers, 144. note. Man, Henry, 449. 4 I- Man, Thomas, 501. Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 160. .. Michael, 561. Nigel de, 482. Manneville, Godfrey de, 123. Mannynge, John, 288. Mansfield, Robert Fezard, 345. Manftiip, John, 353. Mareis, William, 351. Marke, John, 401. Markham, Archbifhop, 208. Marlborough, Duchefs of, 425. 522. 528. 538. Duke of, 20. 496. Marquet, Peter, 542. Marlh, Robert, 286. Marfhal, 397. Marlhali, 509. ■ Edward, 14. note. 561. Thomas, 288. Martin, 407. ■ Anne, Carcw Pedigree, S3 Edward, 557. Martyn, Edward, 412. - James, /W. . John, 86. 56S. ' Thomas, 422. Martyr, Peter, 274. Mary, Lady, 2i. 542. Queen, 72. 132. 151. 216. 27°- 433- 45 - -^— Queen of France, 565. Queen of Scots, 22. 143. Mafon, 397. Dorothy, 493, 494. ■ Henry Cox, 552. John, 284. — — Sir Richard, 493, 494. William, 550. MafHngberd, John, 485. Matilda, Queen, 339, 340. Matthews, Cecil, 495. Charles, Hi J. Maud, 269. Mauvillain, Peter, 363. Stephen, iiiJ. Mawbey, Sir Jofeph, 305. 550. note. Mawhood, 458. Mawfon, Bilhop of Ely, 264. Maxwell, Francis Kelly, 290. - Sarah, itid. May, Jofeph, 445. Maycrne, Sir Theodore, 433. Maynard, Sir Henry, 498. 501. ■ Sir John, 499, 500. John, 84. 501. Lord, 500. Mayo, Richard, 247. 250. Mayor, Arthur, 36S. Mead, 586 INDEX OF NAMES. Mead, Doftor, 433. Meadows, Philip, 248. Mcldon, Eudonius de, 336. Mendez, Mofes, 356. . Mepham, Archbifliop, 366. Meriton, Henry, 347, 348. Merton, Walter de, 33Z. 335. Meyer, Jeremiah, 208, 209. Meyrick, Clara, 361. . Owen Putland, ibid. Micham, Matthew de, 351. Robert de, ibid. Michel, Humphrey, 467. ——— John, ibid. Middleton, 39. 296. Midleton, Allan Vifcount, 515. . George Vifcount, 505. S^S- Lord, 517. Morewyke, 141. noit. Hugh de, 142. Morgan, 318. Philip, 486. Morgue, Elizabeth, 414. Morland, Sir Samuel, 322. Morley, 50. 545. Anne, 287. . Cutbert, 286, 287. George, 533. Penelope, 334. — Sir Thomas, ibid. 335. Thomas, 507. Miles, Alice, 192. Mill, Elizabeth, 1 86. — — Henry, ibid. Millebourn, William, 17. Miller, 161. Millington, Francis, 518. Mills, 48. Henry, 200. 476. note. — — Richard, 243. mte. Milner, John, 245. Milton, 540. William, 290. Mifplee, David, 542. Mitford, Michael, 166. Mockyng, Nicholas de, 5 1 . Mohun, 60. note. Molineux, Samuel, 206. Molins, John Lord, 506. Mompeflbn, Catherine, St. John Pedigree, 30. » Sir Charles, ibid, . John, 280, 281. Monjoy, Lord, 283. Monk, General, 304. 358. 432.' Montacute, Lord, 55. Montague, Anthony Lord, 138, 139. 1S8. 313.328. .. Duke of, 454. Montauban, Ifabeau Bories de, 508. Montolieu, David, Baron of St. Hyppolite, 516. Moore, Bilhop of Ely, 264. . Edward, 288. 305. ■ i ' Francis, 303. Henry Lord, 327. Mordaunt, John Lord, 353. More, 60. note. - Sir Antonio, 46. Sir George, 354,355- Margaret, Carew Pedigree, S3- Morret, Benjamin, 471. Morris, Francis, 249. John, 288. Mortimer, 141. note. Morton, Sir Albert, 246, _ Earl, 28. 260. 479. 549. John, 246. . John, Archbifliop and Car- dinal, 262. 268. 279. ■ Sir Robert, 246. 565. ■ Sir Thomas, ibid. ■ Thomas, 187. - Walter de, 2. ■ William, 177. William, Bifliop of Meath, 1 64. note. Mofar, Thomas, 194. Mofeley, Charles, 335. Moubray, Roger de, 238. Mountain, George, Archbifliop of York, 147. Mountjoy, Walter Blount, Lord, 506. Mowfarth, William, 4S6. Moyfe, Robert, 188. Munro, Doftor, 254. Murgatroid, Michael, 187. Murray, James Stewart Earl of, 1 95. William, 238. 249. Murphy, Arthur, 482. Mufchamp, 132, 136. Agnes, 73, 74. . Chrirtopher, 563. 1 Francis, 72. 75. 1 18. Mary, 119. . Thomas, 75. William, 73, 74. Mychell, 1 homas, 568. Myddelton, Mary, 369. . Richard, ibid. • Robert, 475. Myers, Elizabeth, 356. ■ Streynftiam Derbyfliire, 3S9- ■ William, 356. Myles, Henry, 368. Myllyng, Thomas, 531. Mynors, George, 335. nets. N. Napier, Doftor, 303. Sir Robert, ibid. Naylor, James, 24. Nazareth, Archbilhop of, 53. Neale, Henry, 146. Neild, Elizabeth, 544. ■ James, ibid. Nernuit, 7. note. Netfcher, Theodore, 453. note. Nettleton, Robert, 80. Nevil, 141. note. 530. note. Neville, Dorothy, 531. Sir Edward, 55. ■ Lord Latimer, 531. ■ William, 236. New, Mary, 468. Newbury, Elizabeth, 284. Newcaftle, Henry Duke of, 459. Newport, Martin, 507. Newton, 345. . Sir Ifaac, 447. Neyle, Robert, 226. NichoUs, William, 255. Nicholfon, Anthony, 473. Nigel, Richard, Bifliop of London, 268. note. Nigellus, Bifliop of Ely, ibid. Nightingale, Charles, 542. Nithardus, 390. Nixon, Francis, 348. Noel, Anne, 347. Sir Thomas, ibid. Norburgh, William, 443. note. Norfolk, Agnes, Duchefs of, 286. 297. Anne, Duchefs of, 286. ■ Duke of, 132. 143. Elizabeth,Duchefsof, 284, 285. 297. - Thomas, Duke of, 279. 285, 286. 297. 316. Norman, Gilbert, 339, 340. 346. Norris, 406. . Sir William, 245. North and Grey, Lord, 501. . Lord Keeper, 205. Northampton, Countefs Dowager of, 444. .—— Earl of, 286. Helen, Marchionefs of, 450. .^—^— Henry de, 16. i William Parr, Marquis of, 316. Northey. William, 138. 151. Northumberland, Gofpatrick Earl of, 141. note. North- INDEX OF NAMES. 587 Northumberland, Heiii-y Earl of, 384. Thomas Earl of, 223. Norton, Sir Gregory, 442. Roger, 486. Nottingham, Charles Earl of, 178. 195. 222. ■ ■ Earl of, 175. 222. 313. note. Nowell, Theodofia, 531. Nower, 234. Nowne, Roijert, 551. Nycol, Harry, 225. 229. O'Bryan, 190. Odo, Bifhop of Baieux, 118. 120. 261. Odron, 60. note. Offley, Elizabeth, 424. Ogle, Lord, 77. Okeover, Philip, 161. Oldham, 200. Oliph, Sir John, 8. Oliver, Emma, 437. William, 178. 191. Onflow, Denzil, 357. ■ Lord, 214. — — ^ Sir Richard, 217. Orange, Prince of, 240. Orford, Horace Earl of, 54. 113. 152. 378.421. 439- 453- ■ Robert Earl of, 456. Orlatele, Godfrey, 482. Ormfby, Sir Edward, 460. . Jane, ibid. Ormond, Duke of, 274. 304. 446. Orrery, Roger Earl of, 460. Olbaldefton, Simon, 324. note. Ofbert, 497. Olbome, Lady Bridget, 537. Oflac, 520. Ofward, 2. Otes, Samuel, 187. 189, Otgher, Martha, 563. ■ Thomas, ibid. Overbury, Sir Thomas, 302. Owdale, John de, 71. Owen, 555. Oxenbridge, 60. note. ■ ■ Sir Robert, 59. Malyn, ibid. Oxford, Ann Countefs of, 297. • Countefs of, 1 74. • Earl of, 384. ■ John Vere Earl of, 297. O.xtoby, Rofamond, 360. P. Pack, Lord, 37;, 376. Packington, John, 186. Page, Bet, 489. John, 568. Paggen, Peter, 508. Paine, 468. 566. Painter, Elizabeth, 487. John, ibid. Pakenham, George Edward, 561. Henry, 480. Palladaye, Alice, 512. Palmer, 231. 563. ■ Sir Anthony, 411. ■ Katherine, ibid. Mary, ibid. i Samuel, 507. Palmerfton, Henry Vifcount, 371 . Papworth, Robert, 499. Parker, Archbifliop, 173. 262. i.6\. 266. 269, 270. 291, 292. 297 — 299. 307. . Bathiheba, 187. Sir James, 438. ' John, 187. ■ Margaret, 286. 298. Matthew, 286. 316. Parkes, 370. Parr, Catherine, 264.520. Richard, 80. 85. 552. Parrie, William, 223 . note. Parry, Sir Thomas, 321, 322. Partington, 544. John, 542. Partridge, John, 253. 369. 371, 372- Palhler, Samuel, 499. Paftfield, George, 472. Patch, 123. Paterfon, 519. note. John, 534. Patilball, 32. note. Patrick, Bifhop of Ely, 38. 264. Pattinfon, Jane, 564. Paxton, Elizabeth, 460. Nicholas, ibid. Payne, 7. note. — — Sir Ambrofe, 284. ■ John, 348. ■^— — Thomas, 411. Paynell, Thomas, 568. Peach, Henry, 149. ' Samuel, 370. Peachman, Chrillopher, 460. Pearce, Bifhop of Bangor, 264. . Doftor, 270. ■ Peche, Anne, 178. Pechell, Samuel, 458. 4F 2 Peck, Francis, 189. , — — Sarah, 413. Peckham, Archbifhop, 366,529. Pedro, Don, 224. note.' Peers, Richard, 187. Pembroke, Henry Earl of, 364. • — William Earl of, 431. Penkethman, 469. 570. Penley, 366. Pennant, 318. Penny man, Dorothy, 186. ■ Sir James, ibid. Percebridge, John, 129. Percy, Lord, 326. Perkins, Richard, no. III. Peme, Andrew, 284. 300. Perrers, Alice, 244. Peters, Hugh, 265. 408. John, 561. Petre, Lord, 139. Pettingal, James, 64. note. Pettiward, Douglas, 408. note. ^—^^ John, ibid. Roger, 408. note. 413. Petyt, John, 473, Peyntwin, Hugh, 279. Philip. I. King of Spain, 439. — — - IL 266. Philips, John, 249. Phillips, Frances, 253. Henry, 555, ■ Richard, 551. • Rowland, 189. Phillipfon, Jofeph, 551, Phippard, Sir William, 34;. Pierce, Captain, 247. Piers, John, 486. —^ Thomas, 363. Pierfon, Samuel, 150. Pillefary, Angelica Magdaleine, St. John Pedigree, 30. ■ George, ibid. Pillioniere, Francis de la, 200. Piozzi, Gabriel, 482. Mrs. 483, 484. Pitcairn, Andrew, 92. note. Pitches, Sir Abraham, 176. Pitt, Thomas, 534. William, 428. Play fere, Thomas, 149. Pleydell, 33. note. Sir Charles, St. John Pc» digree, 30. Plomer, Thomas, 351. Plumbe, Ralph, 499. Samuel, ibid. Plummer, Thomas, 360. Plymouth, Charles Earl of, 537. Pointz, Nicholas, 71. ■ Reginald, ibid. Pole. 583 INDEX OF NAMES. Pole, Cardinal, 55. 264.. 26S — 770. 449. 521. Margaret tic la, 548. Polhill, 335. Pollexfen, 40S. Pomfret, Thomas, 432. Poole, St. Geffrey, 55. Thomas, 284. Pope, 374. — — Sir Thomas, 72. 549. Thomas, 61. Porter, Endymion, 505. - Katherine, 166. Mofes, ibid. Pierce Patrick Wallh, 506. Thomas, ibid. Porteus, Beilby, Bifhop of London, 295. 306. Portland, Karl of, 424. Jerome Earl of, 430. 455- Richard Earl of, 429, T, ^^°- . Portman, Sir Hugh, 208. Sir John, ibid. Pory, Robert, 294. Porye, John, 291. Poftel, Ralph, 236. Potter, Archbiihop, 184, 185. 197. 269. Potts, Thomas, 563. Poumies, Jamef, 508. Poure, Walter le, 351. Pouffin, Gafpar, 15. Powell, 424. . George, 392. Jjhn, 507. Sufanna, 507. 509. 517. Sir Thomas, 16. Poynand, 67. Poyntz, Stephen, 538. Poynz, 144. 7zote. Prade, John, 24. Prannel, Henry, 134. Pratt, Henry, 248. Jofeph, 288. Ralph, 558. Prefton, Clement, 290. Mary, ibid. Price, Captain, 245. ■ Herbert, 187. Pride, Colonel, 334. Pringham, Matthias, 458. Prior, Agnes, 352. Geoffrey, ibid. Pritchard, John, 290. Pritty, Colonel, 219. Protheroe, George, 188. Prynne, 195. Puckering, Sir John, 203. Puddicombe, John Newell, loj. Purbeck, Vifcount, 3(9. Purdy, Thomas, ic. Pynncr, Thomas, 356. Pynfcnt, John, 186. Quelch, William, 129. 131, 132. '35- Queenfberry, Ducliefs of, 566. Duke of, 443—445. R. Rabet, Michael, 486. Rabivin, Peter, 2j6. Radcliffe, Dodior, 135,136. Raleigh, George, 286. Judith, ibid. Sir Walter, 57. 247. 286. 354- William dc, Bilhop of Winchefter, 509. Ralf, Mary, 397. Ramfay, John, 341. 495. 568. Ramfey, John, 241. Randolph, Diann, 534. Herbert, 534. 536. Ranfum, John, 289. Ravis, Bifhop of London, 335. Rawlinfon, John, 290. Raworth, Robert, 451. Rayne, Clariffa, 394. Robert, ibid. Raynsford, Edward, 348. Reading, James, 392. Reddal, Henry, 460. Richard, 61. Redham, 141. note. Reed, Ifaac, 569. Renew, Peter, 423. Refbury, Nathan, 510. Reup, 86. Reynell, Efther, 284. Reynolds, 123. Archbilhop, 536. — Sir Jolhua, 240. 454. 482. Rice, Frances, 499. John, ibid. Morgan, 498. Rich, 45, note. Colonel, 407. Lady, 431. Sir Peter, 288. Richard IL 326. - Archbilhop, 268. note. Richards, John, i66. Richardfon, Emblem, 393. • John, 241. I Sir William, 551. • William, 549. Richmond, Duke of, 134. • Frances Duchcfs of, 134. . James iJukeof, 240. Ridley, Owen, 36. Kigby, 503. Baron, 172. Riley, William, 42. Rimes, Elizabeth, 245. William, ,bid. Ripariis, Margaret de, 321. 327. Ritfo, George, 207. Rivers, Sir John, 480. note. Lady, 161. 167.518. Woodvil, Earl, 206. Roberts. Alexander, 472. Doflor, 329. George, 494. Jane, 413. John, 544. Thomas, 413. 481. ■ aliasHowland,Wa!ter,48i. 485. Robertfon, William, 444. Robinfon, Elizabeth, 347. ■ Grace, ibid. John, 357. Samuel, 245. Sir Thomas, 347. • Thomas, 210 347. Robfart, Sir John, 449. Robfon, John, 394. —— Thomai, 363. Roche, John, 357. Rochefter, Earl of, 200. 399. 455. Henry, Earl of, St. John Pedigree, 30. Rockingham, Marquis of, 540.542, Rodney, Sir George, 134. Roffey, George, 80. Nathaniel, 550. Rogers, 30. Francis, 564. John, 501. Roland, John, 363. Romayne, Juliana, 160. 295. 327. Thomas, 160. 168. 295. 327. Romeney, Sufanna, Carew Pedi- gree, 53. Sir William, ibid. Romeyne, Juliana, 564. note. Rook, Richard, 506. Rookefby, Thomas, 442. Rofe, 454. — ^ Edward, 17. William, 135. Rofingham, Capt. 218. Rofs, George, 458. 463. Rofletti, 317. Rofyer, John, 230. Rothomago, Robert de, 71. Rowan, INDEX OF NAMES. 589 Rowan, William, 458. Rowton, Abraham, 516. Jacob, ibid. Ifaac, ibid. John, ibid. Roydon, Captain 272. ■ Henry, 29. 40. Rucker, 360. John Anthony, 428. 518. Rudd, Anthony, Bifliop of St Da- vid's, 440. note. Rundle, Bifhop of Derry, 264. Rupert, Prince, 225. 294. Rufh, 540. Samuel, 166. Ruffel, Elizabeth, 489. John, 473. 489, 490. 550. ■ Mary, 209. - Richard, 550. William, 489. Rullick, 520. note. Rutlifli, William, 348, 349. Rutter, Conyers, 474. Rythynburgh, Nicholas de, 249. Sacheverel, Lucy, 109, no. Sackville, Edward, 440. Sir Richard, 499. 567. Sadler, Anthony, 358. Saint Alban's, George, Duke of, 4S1. Saint Barbe, Heniy, i^.note. Urfula, ibid. Sainthill, Peter, 508. Saint John, 32. 124. " Henry, 42, 43. 79. Sirjohn,30. 41,42. 124. . John Lord, 188. Oliver, 312. Sir Walter, 30. 35. 38. 42. 48. Saintlow, 63. Saint Michael, Sir Simon, 493. Sales, Jofcph, 241 . Salilbury, Countefs of, 56. James, Earl of, 471. Salter, Charles, 248. George, I 20. Salufbury, Hefter Maria, 484. ■ John, ibid. Salyng, John. 568. Sancroft, Archbilhop, 263. Sandal, John de, Bifhop of Win- cherter, 344. Sanders, William, 369. 387. Sandys, Sir Edward, 95. —^-^ Lord, 482. Sanxay, Daniel, 564. ■ Edmund, ibid. James, 495. Sarnesfield, Nicholas, 127. Saukvil, Jordan de, 4. Saunders, William, Carew Pedi- gree, 53. Savage, Darcy, 542. Diana, jbid. — — — George, 250. Mary, 534. Richard, ibid. Savignac, 123. Paul Peter, 563. Saville, Sir Henry, 95. Sawbridge, John, 427. Sax, Henry, 473. Say and Sele, James Fiennes, Vifcount, 533. nofe, — — ^ Vifcount, 532. Saye, 19. ■ Sir John, 1 1. Scaled, Thomas, 387. Scarfdale, Francis Earl of, 287. Scarth, William, 473. Scawen, James, 124, 125. Thomas, 124, 125.471. Sir William, 124. 126, 127. Schomberg, Doftor, 253. Schreiber, Peter, 284. Sclater, Edward, 416. Scot, Thomas, 273. Scott, 72. 262 Anne, 280. — — Bartholomew, 77. Edward, ibid. - George, 410, ■ Sir John, 479. John, 69, 70.76,77. 118. 125. . Mary, 410. Nathaniel, 401. Sir Peter, 77. ■ Peter, 70. 77. Robert, 279, 280. 400. William, 326. 560. Scrag, John, 557. Scriven, Jofeph, 499. Scrope of Bolton, Henry Lord, 143. Lord, 252. Shall'.t, Jofcph, 166. Shard, William, 119. Shardeburgh, Godfrey de, 566. Si. aw, I'ttcr, 533. Shawys, John, 248. Sheffield, Lady Douglas, 449, Slieldon, Archbifliop, 183. 196. 264 — 266. z6y. 202. 304. 3^7- . ■ Daniel, 186. Sir Jofeph, ibid, • Judith, ibtd. Roger, ibid. Shepherd, John, 200. Sherer, John, 2 ^2. Sherlock, Doftor, 20. Shipley, 123. Short, 124. Shiewfbury, Countefs of, 431. Earl of, 12. Shute, Richard, 13. 19. Sidney, Sir Henry, 384. 441. //c/f. Lady, 382. SiiTred, Bilhop of Winchefter, 268. note, Simmons, 397. Simonds, William, 368. Simpfon, John, 534. Sims, Hugh, 403. Skelton, 174. Skern, Robert, 244. 443. non. ■ William, 250. Skidmore, 557. Skinner, Matthew, 444. Skipwith, Henry, 282, 283. Patricius de, 283. . Sir Richard, ibid, Skynner, Agnes, 75, 76. ■ Elizabeth, 76. . ]fabella, ibid. . Lydia Henning, 546. Michael, 76. Richard, 75, 76. ^— — — William, ibid. William Augulluy, 546. Slingar, Tempeft, 460. Sly, William, ill. Smith, 48. Scudamor, Barnibas, 82. Srudamnre Riitti i S6 ^ Charles, 550. Seares, George, 271. note. Seeker, Archbifhop of Canterbury, 266. 269. 288. 306. 329. Sedley, Sir Charles, 200. Selden, 265. Seltrum, William, 271. >iot(. Selwyn, Charles, 467. Senhoufe, Richard, Biftiop of Car- lide, 148. Sever, Henry, 59. Seymour, Giles, 185. •^— ^— Jime, 223. iiott. George, 356. 408. 460. 150. 169. «oi. 255. 308. 337. 360. 363. 387. 397- 403. 424. 467. 477. 491. 496. 501. 507. 512—514. 517.538.558. John, 187. ■ Milo, 282. 304. Nathaniel, 556. Ralph, 187. Smith, 59° INDEX OF NAMES. Smith, Thomas, 505. ■ Thomas Jenyns, 105. William, 460. 467. 482. 549. Smyth, 310. Ann, 387. • Gilbert, 534. Thomas, iz. Smythfon, George, 158. Snaith, 323. Snape, Doftor, 20. Snelling, Anne, 246. . Mark, 245. Snow, Edmund, 508. Snowe, Ralph, 283. 308. Srtlars, Cecilia, I2j. Somerfby, Robert, 244. Somerfet, Duke of, 237. 450. Somerfet, Edward Duke of, 449. John Earl of, 127. Southampton, Earl of, 268. Southcott, John, 481. Southoufe, Mary, 534. ■ William, ibid. Southwell, Sir Robert, 549. Spackman, Nicholas, 352. Spalato, Archbifhop of, 274. Sparks, William ,551. Spencer, 6. 511. . Earl, 444. 518. 566. . . George John, Earl, 30, 237- 504. S°5- 522. 538- ■ Georgiana, 538. — — — Harry, 368. I Henry, 4. ■ John, 522. 538. Lady Diana, St. John Pedigree, 30. Wooley Leigh, 4. Spiller, John, 460. Sprimont, Nicholas, 401. Spryngwell, 310. Squier, John, 16. Stacy, Thomas, 79. Stafford, Archbilhop, 173. 176. Edmund Earl of, 559. Henry Lord, 284, 285. ■ Hugh Earl of, 559. note. • Humphrey Earl of, 176. note. John, Biftiop of Bath and Wells, 191. Ralph Earl of, 69. 559. Thomas Earl of, 559. note. William Earl of, ibid. Sianhope, Sir Michael, 52 Stanlake, Anthony, 80 Stanley, 28. » John, 30. Stapel, Peter, 406. note. Stapylton, Chriftopher, 347, — Sir Henry, ibid. Starkie, Elizabeth, 368. Staunton, Edmund, 247. 250. Stead, Henry, 424. Steavens, Sir Thomas, 550. — ■ Sir William, ibid. Stebbing, Henry, 460. 465. Steele, John, 473. Steevens, William, 477. Stephens, Elizabeth, 496. Henry, 336, 337, ' William, 495, 496. Stere, William, 555. Stevens, 557. Steward, Lady Frances, 419. Sir William, 91. 93. Scickney, Enoch, 551. StillingHeet, Edward, 395. Stint, Elizabeth, 248. John, ibid. Stobart, Henry, 458. Stone, Charles, 413. — — Robert, ibid. — — Thomas, 473. Stonehoufe, Sir James, 564. Stonor, Sir John, 1 18. Storer, Anthony, 264. note. Stormont, Lord, 518. Stofch, Baron, 433. Stourton, Lord, 140. 26S. Stow, Nevile, 105. Stowe, Simon, 545. Strachan, Amelia, 486. — James, ibid. Stratford, Johnde, Birtiop of Win- chefter, 32S. Street, Peter, 90. note. Stephen, 103. Strete, Henry, 568. Stringer, Edward, 178. ■ Joan, 511. Strong, Melandlhon, 508. Stuart, Z53. Arabella, 321. Matthew, 252. William, 65. Studholm, Mary, 551. — — ^ William, ibid. Style, George, 363. Suckling, George, 218. Sudbury, Archbifhop, 269. Suffolk, Charles Brandon Duke of, 35V 405- 504- 565- — — — Duchefs of, 109. — — Earl of, 113. — Sarah Countefs of, 562. Sumery, Roger de, 351. Surrey, Earl of, 449. Henry Howard Earl of> 278. Surrey, John Plantagenet Earl of 325- — — Thomas Howard Earl of, 285. 297. 316. Suffex, Earl of, 312. — — Ratcliff, Earl of, 549. Suthes, William, 283. Swabey, Samuel, 289. Swain, 497. Swale, Doftor, 36. Sweetman, Thomas, 83. Swein, 506. Swift, Dean, 374. 452, 453. John, 505. Swinford, Catherine, 328. ' Sir Thomas, ibid. Sydenham, Sir Philip, 542. Sydney, 129. Algernon, 158. ■ — Sir Philip, 13. Symmonds, Martyn, 102. Symonds, Jofeph, 369. Syndlefham, John de, 50. Tablar, William, 165. Talbot, Cecil, 495. I Charles, Lord Chancellor, ibid. ■ Lord, 12. i William Earl, 494. Tafh, William, 241. Tafwell, James, 392. William, 392. 395, 396. Tate, Benjamin, 357. William, 358. Taverner, Richard, 242. 254. Tayer, Thomas, 508. 512. Tayleboys, Richard, 97. Taylor, Ann, 413. ■ Edward, 367. 369. I Elizabeth, 367. ■ George, 124. ■ James, 476. note. • John, 561. ■ Jofeph, 357. 466. »' Revel, 413. ■■ William, 334. 414. ^ Zachary, 369. Temple, 462. — — — Sir John, 38. 371. Rebecca, 352. — — — Richard Godman, 381. ■ Thomas, 38. 352. Sir William, 371. 451 — 453- Tenifon, Archbifhop, 201. 366. 269. 282. 290. 305. 307, 308. Terrey, INDEX OF NAMES. 591 Terrey, Sarah, 55;. Terry, William, 24.I. Tell, Thomas, 561. Tezelin, 2. 5. Theobald, 205. 320. . Archbifhop, 29. 268. «. Edward, 486. — Thomas, 288. Theodoric, 325. Thirlby, Thomas, Bilhop of Ely, 267. 284. 298, 299. Thomas, Biihop of Winchefter, 264. Edward, 210. Thompfon, Andrew, 414. David, 561. — Harriet, 414. — James, 551. — Jolin, 166. 463. 561. — Jofeph, 158. 564. — Peter, 561. Robert, 284. Thomfon, James, 463, 464. Thornton, 141. note. — John, 166, 167. — — Lucy, 166. Roger, 143. Thornycroft, Henry, 328. — — Sir John, ibid. I Richmond, 289. Thorold, Lady, 387. Thoytts, 345. Thrale, 490. — Henry, 482. 484. — — Ralph, 484. Throckmorton, Throgmorton, or Throkmorton, Anne, Carew Pedigree, 53. ■ Sir Nicholas, 57. 60. 13*' '33- 354- alias Carew, Nicholas, 60. 353. Thurland, Sir Edward, Carew Pe- digree. 53. . Edward, 353. Thurloe, John, 265. Thurlow, Edward Lord, 481. Thwayte, 19. Thomas, iz. Thwenge, Thomas Lord, note. Tichbourn, Lord, 375, 376. Tiddiman, Mary, 472. Tilden, George, 412. Tilledey, William, i^i^x.mte. Tillotfon, Archbifhop, 19. 269. 307. Tilney, Edmund, 485. 488. — — — Hugh, 297. — — — Sir Philip, ibid, Tilfon, George, 401. 141. 264. Tingria, Sibella, or Sibyl de, 160. 482. Tipper. 118. Tipping, Ichabod, 80. Tirrel, Francis, 187. Toclivius, Richard, Bifliop of Win- chefter, 509. Toland, John, 419, 420. ToUemache, General, 239. Sir Lionel, 238, 239. Toilet, 229. note. Tolfon, Thomas, 288. Tomkyns, Thomas, 294. Tomlins, Richard, 467. Tompkins, John, ^34. Tonbridge, or Tbnebridge, Richard de, 49. 332. 479. Tonnet, Nicholas, 517. Tonfon, 15. Tooke, Edmund, 166. ■ Thomas, 164. note. Top, Sir John, St. John Pedigree, 30- Totnefs, Earl of, 283. ■ George Carew, Earl of, 266. Townley, 54. ■ James, 87. Tracy, James, 392. Tradefcant, Efther, 307. ■ John, 289. 330. Trapps, 556. Robert, 549. Trecothick, Barlow, 4. 5. ■ Grizell, 9. ^^— — — James, 4. 10. Tregoz, Joanna, 413. Trego ze, 32. note. Trenchard, John, 322. Trevor, Biihop of Durham, 267. . Elizabeth, Lady, 119. ■ Francis, 538. • Sir John, 446. Tropnell, Ann, Carew Pedigree, S3- . ■ Chriftopher, ibid. Trymmer, James, 534. Tudor, 377. Tufnell, Samuel Brown, 560. Tullibardin, Earl of, 429, 430, Tully, 17. Tunltall, Cuthbert, Biihop of Dur- ham, 267. 284. 297 — 299. ■ Sir John, 97. — — — Robert. 211. Turberville, Bryan, 308. Turbevyle, Margaret, 51. Turburnus, 160. Turner, Anne, 302. ■ Sir Jeremy, 116. ■ Michael, 412. 434. Turner, Whichcott, 459. 467. William, 467. 498. William Godfrey, 473, TufTer, 92. note. Tweedy, Roger, 473. 477. Twittie, Thomas, 250. Twyne, John, 358. Twynyho, Elizabeth, Carew Pedi- gree, 53. ■ Walter, ibid. Tychefey, Thomas de, 71. Tydnam, Anne, 288. Tycrs, Jonathan, 324. TyfFyn, John Thomas, 255. Tyler, Wat, 269. Tyroe, Elizabeth, 517. Tyrrell, Francis, 195. 557. Tyrwhit, Sir Robert, 428. 535. Tyton, John, 348. U. Ulf, 49. UKvard, 478. UmfreviHe, 32. note. Upton, Elizabeth, 368. John, ibid. Urtwayte, John, 413. Ufborn, Thomas, 146. Ufher, Archbiihop, 293. Uttinge, William, 284. Uvedale, William, 4. 71. Vade, John, 187. Valletort, John, 437. Vanderefch, Windc William, 561. Vanderveldt, 239. Vane, Sir Henry, ibid. Vanlore, Peter, 121. 542. Vanneck, Gcrrard, 42^. ' Sir Jofhua, 433. Vaughan, Henry, 560. Hugh, 43S. - " Thomas, 169. Vaux, Jane, 323. Venn, John, 564. Vere, Horatio Lord, St. John Pe- digree, 30. Verney, 128. Vernon, Ann, 79. ■ Sir Robert, ibid. Verrio, 239. Vile, William, 508. Villctic, Marchionefs of, 46.' Villiard, M. 443. note. Villicrs, Chrillopher, 443. Villiers, ^92 INDEX OF NAMES. VUUers, Sir Edward, St. John Pe. digree, 30. . Lord Francis, 219, 220. L^dy Mary, 349. William, 29. Vincent, Joanna, 79. Sir Thomas, 237. Thomas, 140. Virley, Sir John, 146. Vogull, Henry, 80. Mary, ibid. Vyfe, William, 274. 295. W. Wade, Jofeph, 472. Wadfworth, Thomas, 394, 395. Waghorn, Captain 392. Wairc, Friar, 510. Waith, Elizabeth, 79. Robert, ibiii. Wake, Archbifhop, 120. 176. 184. 187. 189. 196. 269. 56;. Wakefield, George, 458. . Thomas, 461. Walcot, Edmund, 308. -. William, 4. 541. twte. Walcote, 530. tiote Waldo, Peter, 358. Wales, Charles Prince of, 505. . . Frederic Prince of, 206. _ George Prince of, 208. .. Henry Prince of, 108. 440. 306, 238. 263. 368. 437. C04. note. ■ Princefs Dowager, 207. Walker, Thomas, 534. Wall, 539. Sarah, 460. Wallef, Earl, 497. Waller, 320. 431. Walmiley, 530. note. Walpole, Sir Robert, 456. Wallh. Delacourt, 458. Thomas, 188. Walfingham, 174. 542. . — Sir Francis, 12, 13. 21, 22. note. 313. note. - Lady, 13. 21. , ■ — ^ Sir Thomas, 21. «. 22. ». • Thomas, 188. Walter, Catherine, 335. 530. . Sir George, 334, 335. . Hubert, Archbifljop of Canterbury, 258. 261. 268. 275, 276. . John, 397. — Robert, 366. William, 5 30. Wane, George, 473. Warbeck, Perkin, 448. Ward, George, 508. Jofeph, 546. Ware, 346. Warham, 184. ' " ' Archbifhop, 59. 279. 281. 366. Hugh, 178. »77- Warner, Ferdinando, 543. Simeon, 423. Warren, Earl, 325. ■■ Lawrence, 352. Thomas, 245. Warwick, Countefs of, 173. Earl of, 218. 313.444. John Dudley, Earl of, 480. . Robert Rich, Earl of, St. John Pedigree, 30. William Mauduit, Earl of, 351 V/alhford, Anne, 359. George, ibij. Wateville, or Watteville, 49. 332. . ■ Sibellade, 61. — William de, 236. 332. Watfon, Anthony, Bifhop of Chi- chefter, 147. 149. Watts, 318. Sarah, 422. Way, Benjamin, 72. — — Lewis, 444. Sarah, ibid. Wealcs, Richard, 473. Webfter, Ridley Manning, 544. Welbancke, William, 187. Welbcck, 74. note. 367. 407. note. • Agnes, 411. John, ibid. • • Richard, 413. Welch, Andrew, 411. Weldon, 191. Welles, 60. note. Eleanor, Carew Pedigree, 53 Leonard Lord, ibid. Walton, Bourchier, 546. Walworth, Sir William, 172. Were, 503. Wefenham, John de, 565. Weft, Nicholas, Biihop of Ely, 250. 405. 409. Weftcote, Lord, 482. Weftley, 39. 553. Weftmorland, Earl of, 223. note. 245- 335- Wefton, Jerome, 419. ■ Margaret, 160. Richard, Lord, 419. William de, 160. Weftrop, Richard, 214. Wever, 234. Wharry, Walter, 555. Wharton, Henry, 266. Robert de, Biihop of St. Afaph, 549. Whateley, Kemble, 534. Whately, Jofeph, 158- . Thomas, 336. Whichcote, Doflor, 263. Whifton, 20. Whitaker, Edward, 563. • Jeremiah, 550 — 552. Tobias, 5 16. William, 551. Whitchurch, Edward, 361. White, Alexander, 424. ■ Henry, 408. note. ——^— John, 294. John, Biihop of Winchefter, 248. ' Mary, 460. Robert, ibid. - Rowland, 13. ■ Sarah, 408. note. William, 393. 471. Whitehead, Jarvis, 555 Whiteman, John, 479. note. Whitfield, 39. Thomas, 367. 388 Whitgift, Archbifhop, 175. 188. 194, 195. 198. 269. 271. 300. 307. 316, 181. 264. Whithorn, William Rifby, 460. Whithorfe, Walter, 177. Whitlock, Sir Bulftrode, 104. Whitney, Henry, 353. Whorwood, William, 412, 413. note. Whyte, John, Bifhop of Winchef- ter, 509. Whytebrede, Joan, 225. Wickes, William, 516. Wickham, William of, Bifhop of Winchefter, 342. WickliiF, 326. Wight, Countefs of the Ide of, 4. Jofeph, 508. Wigmore, Gilbert, 458- Wllberforce, William, 534. Wilcox, Edmund, 495. Wilford, 496. -— RoberS 353. Wilkin, William, 551. V/ilkias, Doiflor, 266. Jsmes, 187. Wilkinfon, Francis, 245 . Wilks, 48. William IIL, 135. 452. Son of Henry L, 340. Williams, 496. ■ Anne, 422. ■ Bifhopot Chicheftcr, 263. Charles, 47. Edward, 482. Williams, INDEX OF NAMES. 593 Williams, Humphrey, 397. John, 120. 412. Williamfon, 503. . James, 508. — ^^^ Jane Bc-tfy, ibid, Willington, 141. note, Willis, Henry, 36S. Richard, 334. ■ Thomas, 247. 23c. Willoughby, Lord, 283. — — — — of Parham, Lord, 527. 533- Richard, 50. 545. Wills, 307. Wilfon, 383. Captain, 289. 475, 476. — • Chriflopher, Bilhop of Brif- tol, 20. 543. ■ Edward, 85. 347. I Elizabeth, 192. . Judith, 347. ^-^— Martha, 460. ■ Robert, 34I!. 460. . Rowland, 344. 349. Samuel, 102. WJkfnire, Elizabeth Countefs of, 284. Wimbledon, Vifcount, 414. "ote. 427.429,430. 505. 521.531 —533- 538- Winchcomb, Frances, St. John Pedigree, 30. • Henry, ibid. Winchelfey, Archbifhop, 409. Wincocke, Doctor, 265. Windham, Jofeph, 70 — 72, 78. 84. Wingfield, Sir Edward, 459. Winllanley, Henry, 524. nole. 527. Winfton, 530. nou. Winter, Sir William, 23. Wifeman, Elizabeth, 486. Mark, ibid. Witford, Alexander de, 351. Witlock, Sir William, 347. Wittlefey, Archbilhop, 269. Wolfward, 351. Wollafton, Elizabeth, 458. — George, ibid. Wolley, 379. WoUey, Sir Francis, 354. Wolfely, 559. Thomas, 118. Wolfey, Cardinal, 31. 406.439. 445- Wood, Anne, 421. Anthony, 473. — — B. 476. note. Bafil, 550. ^— Elizabeth, ibid. — — Francis, 289. Hugh, 459. ■ Mary, ibid. Robert, 414. 420, 421. Roger, 567. ' Sarah, 397. — — Thomas, 42 1 . Walton, 546. Woodefon, Richard, 544. W'oodfall, Winifred, 253. Woodhoufe, Sir William, 134. note. Woodlock, Henry, Bilhop of V\'in- chefter, 342. Wood vile, 144. note. Woodward, Agnes, 88. Godfrey, 412. ' Joan, 88, 89. William, 146. Woovermans, 239. Worcel1:er, Charles Somerfet, Earl of, 20Z. — ^— ^ Earl of, 195. 537. John Tiptoft, Earl of, 479- Wormall, Chriflopher, z86. Worfley, Sir Richard, 13. note. Worlled, Simon, 560. Worth, John, 267. Wray, Sir Chriftopher, 533. Chriftopher, 537. Wren, Sir Chriftopher, 540, Wright, 164. note. Dorothy, 457. ■ Sir Edmund, 164. note. Sir George, 457. 467. : John, 557. Wrighte, George, 542. Wrote, Francis, 248. Wulfgar, 237. Wyat, 19. 132. ■ Sir Henry, iz. ■ Sir Thomas, 70. 216. Wyatt, 255. Wyche, Henry, 494. Wydrington, John, 448. Wymondefold, or Wymondfold, 407. Sir Robert, 412. - William, 413. 424. Wyndeffe, Richard, 568. Wyndham, Sir Francis, 247. — — ^— Mary, ibid. Sir William, 369. V/yndlefor, Hugh de, 569. Wynkefley, Jane, 286. Wynne, Sir Richard, 530. Wynter, Catherine, 34. . Sir Edward, 33. ■ Edward Hampion, 34. John, 29;. William Woodftock, 34. Wyttlefey, William de, 188. Wyvell, Marmaduke, 187. Yates, 224. Baron, 172. Mary Ann, 458. 464. Sir Jofeph, 145, 146. Richard, 465. Yelverton, Sir Henry, 23. Yerde, Anne, 140. John, 139, 140. Yonge, William, 252. York, James Duke of, 441. Richard Duke of, 176. note. Younge, Sir George, 485. Zincke, 209. ZofFanii, 206, Zouch, 346. .. Lord, 195. Nicholas, 344. Vol. I. 4G GENERAL INDEX. ABBOT, Archbifliop, account of his funeral, -^ 196. Addington, account of the parifh of, i. Name, boundaries, and foil, ibid. The manors, 2, 3. Singular tenure, 5. The church, 6. The rec- tory and vicarage, 9. Siate of population, 10. Benefaflions, ihid. uHleynyEdiuard, anecdotesof, 87 — 96. Hisepitaph, 96. Extracts from his diary, 113 — 117. Allen, William, account of his death and tomb, 393. Allfarthing, manor of, 505. Andrevjs, Launcelot, Biihop of Chichefler, Reftor of Cheam, 147. Archers, privileges granted to them by Henry VIII. 389. note. Arms of the family of Ackland defcribed, 17. Al- ]eyn, 97. Apfley, 33. Atkins, 164. Beau- champ, 32. Blount, 33. Bohun, 176. Bond, 74. Bottreux, 32. Bourchier, 368. Broogh- ton, 530. Bryan, 60. Bunclcley, 164. Burgh, 141. Borley, 127. Byde, 164. Carew, 8. Carleon, 530. Cawtrey, 141. Cecil, 530. Chichele, 179. Gierke, 164. Conyers, 141. Cooke, 222. Danvers, 530. D'Arcy, 141. DoftorDee, 385. Delabere, 32. Delamar, 58. Drury, 532. Eckington, 480. Ewyas, 32. Fitzalan, 141. Gaynesford, 129. Gofpatrick, Earl of Northumberland, 141. Grandifon, 32. Grey, 412. Harman, 74. Harrington, 141. Har- vey, 7. Hafelrigge, 164. HatteclyfF, 8. Hewer, 165. Hewit, 480, Hoare, 17. Holland, 141. Hoo, 60. Howe, 34. Howland,48o. Hunger- ford, 32. Iwarby, 32. Knightley, 141, Leigh, 7. Leighton, 33. Lifter, i6j. Lumley, 141. Maltravers, 144. Merton, 33^. Mohun, Oo. More, 60. Morewyke, 141. iVIortimer, 141. Morton 16^. Mufchamp, 74. Mynors, 335. Nevil, J41. Noel, 532. Odron, 60. Olipb, 8. Ofborne, 530. Oxenbridge, 60. Patiniall, 32, Pleydell,33. l'ovey,74. Poynz, 144. Ravis, 335. Redham, 141. Rich, 45. Rivers, 412. Sarnef- field, 127. Scroop, 141. St. John, 32. Earl of Somerfet, 127. Stafford, 176. Sydney, 129. Thornton, 141. Tooke, 164. Tregoz, 32. Tully, 17. Villiers, 33. Umfreville, 32. Walcote, 530. Walmfley, /^/V. Warham, 184. Welbeck, 74. Welles, 60. Whorwood, 412.- Willington, 141. Lord Willoughby of Parham, 532. Winfton, 530. Woodvile, 144. Wright, 164. Wynter, 34. Arthor, John, Redor of Clapham, 167. AJhmok,Elias, account of, 330. His epitaph, 287. A/paragus, cultivation of, at Mortlake, 365. AJirologers refident at Lambeth, 302, 303. Atkins, Henry, phyfician to James I. 161. Atkins, Sir Richard, account of his tomb and family, 163. 6. Balham, manor of, 481, Bancroft, Archbifhop, his epitaph, 282. Baudon, manor of, 53. Barber, John, anecdotes of, 372. Barklay, Alexander, account of, 193. Barnard, ^\x John, account of, 374. His rcfidcnce at Clapham, 167. Barnelms, manor-houfe, 14, Barnes, account of the parifh of, 11. Boundaries, extent, &c. ihid. Manor, ibid. Records relat- ing thereto, 14. note. The church. 15. Mo- numents, 16.542. The redory, 18. Reftors, 19. 543. State of population, 21, Bafynges, manor of, 119. Bate, Doiflor George, account of, 246. Battersea, account of the parilh of, 26. Ety- mology, 26. Boundaries, &c. 27. Market 4G gardeners. GENERAL INDEX. gardeners, 27. Defccnt of the manor, 28. Cuftom of the manor, 30. The church, 31. Vicarage and reflory, 35. The vicars, 36. The parifh regifter, 39. State of population, ihid. The St. John family fettled there, 40. Remarkable entries from the regifter, 47. Be- nefaflions, 48. Tombs in Batterfea church, 544- Baller/ea Rife, 27. Sattie,T>oQ.oT William, account of, 253. Baynard, Ann, hercharafter and epitaph, 24. Beak. 'Robert, anecdotes of, 22, 23. Bear- baiting, a falhionabie amufement in Queen Elizabeth's time, 90. How late the praftice of it continued, ibid. note. Bear garden, on the Bank-fide, 50. Advertifements from it, 91 . Bears &c. chief mailer of, Account of his of- fice, 92. Bears, and dogs, feized for her Majeftj's fervice, ih. Beddincton, account of the pariih of, 49. Ety- mology, fituation, boundaries, and extent, ib. Manors,;'^. & 545. Manor-houfe, 53. Portraits there, 54. The church, 58. Monutnents, /'^r'a'. End 546. The redory, 61. The free portion, 64. The parifh regitler, 65. State of popu- lation, ib. Bedford, 'John Duke of, born at Streatliam, 488. Benchepam, manor of, 177. & 565. Benefe, Richard, portionift at Beddington, 64. Benjon, Auditor, anecdotes of, 539. Bermondsey, account of the parifh of, 546. Etymo- logy, fituation, &c. 547. Trades and manufac- tures, ibid. The abbey, ibid. The manor, 549, The church, 550. Tombs, ibid. The reftory and rectors, 551. The parifh regifter, 552. State cf population, 553. Ravages of the plague, ;i. The ffee-TrhooI, and charity-fchool, 556. Bene- fadions, ji^/V. The Spa, 558. Bernard, Edivard, reftor of Cheatn, 149. Berru;ell, cr Barwell Court, manor of, 240. r,:Jlorough, Earl of, account of his houfe at Roehamp- ton, 433. Blackivall, Anthony, reflor of Clapham, 168. Blague. Thomas, redlor of Lambeth, account of, 291. Bigging, and Tamworth, manor of, 352. Bcheme, Anthony, the tragsdian, 107. Bolingbroke, Lord, account of, 44. Bolingbroie-hoa(e, account of, 46. Bond, Sir Thomas, 119. Boiuyer, tombs of the family of, at Camberwell, 77. Brady, Nicholas, reflor of Clapham, account of, 167. curate of Richmond, 461. Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, his houfe at Kew, 565. .5«r«o«t, Sir William, at Croydon, 175. Bridget, Queen of the Gypfies, 107. Buckinghams Camberwell, defcent of the manor of, 69. Burbage, Richard, the aflor, 1 10. Burgh, Hubert de, takes faniluary at Mer>ton Abbey, 343- Burleigh, Anthony, his epitaph at Lambeth, 281. ■ Lord, his refidence at Wimbledon, 521, Burton, Hezekiah, reflor of Barnes, ig. Of his death, 543. Biijhel, Thomas, his refidence at Lambeth, 260, Ca/ar, Sir Julius, his refidence at Mitcham, 354. Camberwell, account of the parifh of, 68. The name, boundaries. See. 68. The feveral manors there, 69 — 72.559. The church, 72. Monu- ments there, 74. State of population, 80. The plague there, 81. The vicarage, 84. V\czr%yibid, The Grammar-fchool, 85. Benefaftions, £6, Camp, circular, at Wimbledon, 520. Caa«B^«ry, or Canbury, manor of, 241. Canterbury, Archbifhops of, who have refided at their palace at Lambeth, 268. At Mortlake, 365. Canute's trench at Lambeth, 315. Carf