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 PUBLISHED BY THE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEK SOCIETY. 
 
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 T. STEVENSON. 
 
 LONDON: J. G. F. AND J. Ill V I N G T O N. 
 
 OXFORD: J. H. PARKER. 
 
 JIDCCCXLV.
 
 LIST OF PLATES. 
 
 St. Andeew, Cheruy-Hinton. 
 
 Ground Plan. 
 
 Interior from the North Aisle. 
 
 Interior of Church. 
 
 Mouldings. 
 
 Capitals, Bases, &c. 
 
 Sedilia and Piscina. 
 
 Interior, the South-west. 
 
 Part of the Chancel and South Aisle. 
 
 Exterior View. 
 
 Trumpington Church. 
 
 Groimd Plan. 
 
 View from the South Chapel. 
 
 Exterior View. 
 
 Mouldings. 
 
 Details. 
 
 Capitals, Bases, &c. 
 
 View from the North Chapel. 
 
 HiSTON Church. 
 
 View from the South Transept, looking West. 
 
 Exterior View. 
 
 Mouldings, &c. 
 
 Capitals, Bases, &c. 
 
 Ground Plan. 
 
 Interior of South Transept. 
 
 Interior of North Transept. 
 
 Harlton Church. 
 
 Ground Plan. 
 Mouldings. 
 Exterior View. 
 Interior from the West. 
 
 Haslingfield Church. 
 
 Interior View. 
 Exterior View. 
 
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 CAMBEIDGESIIIRE. 
 
 ^* ^ntrreb), efterrBsfi^inttm* 
 
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 68 by 24 
 
 Tower 
 
 N. Aisle 
 S. Aisle 
 22 by 20 
 
 I 68 by 
 
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 HE village of Cherry-Hinton is situated 
 about three miles to the S. E. of Cam- 
 bridge, at the foot of the Gog-Magog 
 Hills, in the Deanery of Cambridge and 
 Hundred of Fleam Dyke, and derives 
 its distinctive appellation from the number of 
 cherry trees Avhich formerly grew in the parish. 
 We learn from Buttes Diets Dry Dinner', Lond. 
 1599, that it was commonly known by this name in the six- 
 teenth century, though in documents of early date it is usually 
 called ' Hinton' or ' Ilynton' only, without any addition. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to S. Andrew, and 
 is a Vicarage in the gift of S. Peter's College. 
 In the Taxation of Walter Suthfield, Bishop of Norwich, in 
 
 ' "Cherries," says he, "take their name from Cerisiinle, a town of Pontus, whence 
 LucuUus brought them after having conquered Mithridate ;" and adds, " Cantabrigian 
 /Ichadcmichs may very filly interpret Ccrisuul'i', Cherry-IIinto, their neighbour Cherry Towne: 
 where many Alheni(m^i\a\tes, are so overcome by Cherryes. . ..that they are constrained to 
 implore the aydc of Milliridate, and his cosin Triacle, in regaining to them the Castle of 
 Health." 
 
 B 
 
 church.
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 1255, or the Vetus Valor, we find " Hinton xxx marc: vices 
 XX sol: Yicaria de Hinton xl sol: vices ij sol:" In the 
 ^"erus Valor or Taxation of 1290, the entry is " Ecclia de 
 Hvntou. Taxatur ad — marcas: decimatur xl sol: Vicarius 
 
 •' XXX 
 
 ejusdera taxatur — "f''', decimatur iv sol:" In 1451, the 
 Vicar's stipend was fixed at 26s. 8d. (being half a mark, 
 four times a year), according to an agreement between Peter- 
 House and Robert Scheppard, the Vicar. Besides Avhich the 
 College ' ex mero motu suo' do grant him 65. 8d. a year for 
 a Livery (pro Liberata).— T'ef. Herj. Coll. S. Pet. p. 88. In 
 the King's Books, or Taxation of Henry VIII., the Vicarage 
 stands at £9 14:5. 6^/.; but being sworn of the yearly value 
 of £21 13*. 8M., it is thscharged of first-fruits and tenths, 
 and is capable of augmentation.' Fleetwood says of it, " Valet 
 in Reg. Lib. £21 135. Sid. Solvit Xmas £0 195. 5k/. Pro- 
 curat. £0 75. 6d." The same sum we find was paid for Pro- 
 curations in 1533,^ as is still the case; while in 1516 we 
 have the entry* 
 
 Synod. den'ii Petri. Procurat.s 
 
 xiiijfi. vs. xviijcZ. 
 
 In which same year we find from the " Rotulus quadrantin' 
 de EUe et denariorum Sti Petri'"' in the same MS., that 15i</. 
 was paid for Eli/ Farthings,' Mr. Bacchus being the collector. 
 
 Blomf. Collect, p. 1. = MSB. Caius Coll. 170, p. 11. ■• lb. p. 15. 
 
 s "Procurations be dewe for visitation. TIi' archdeacon is bownde yerely to visite all 
 his archdeaconry throweoute ; then to enquire of all crimes and misgovernance of the people, 
 as well the clergie as the laitee, by churchwardens and others .... for this visitation he hath 
 procurations. 
 
 " Si/nodals be dewe for the scne (synod) kept at Ester by th' archdeacon or his officers, 
 calling together the parsons, vicars, ami parish priests, diligently enquiring, if everie of the 
 same doe & have done their devvties according to the lawes of God, lawes of the prince 
 established, & ordinance of the church accustomed." — MS. Cotton Cleopat. F. 1. 4. 
 
 " MSS. Caius Coll. CLXX. p, 80. 
 
 ' " At this daie," says Baker, " the Bp. of Elie hath out of everie parish in Cambridgeshire, 
 a certeine Tribute called Elie Farthings, or smoiie-fartfiings, which the churchwardens doe 
 levie, according to the number of houses, or else of chimneys that be in aparishe." — MSS. xxix. 
 326. " By the records of the church of Elie it appears that in the year 1151 every person 
 who kept a fire in the several parishes within that diocese was obliged to pay one farthing 
 yearly to the Altar of S. Peter in the same Cathedral."— ^55. Bowtell, vi. 2197.
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERRY-HINTON. 
 
 In Doomsday Book no mention is made of 
 
 Manor. 
 
 any church at Hinton : Alan, Earl of" Brittany 
 and Richmond, son-in-law to A\'illiani tho Conqueror, was 
 then Lord of the INIanor, which had previously b(4ong(Yl to 
 Editha, wife of Edward the Confessor; it was held, temp. 
 Hen. III., as parcel of the Earldom of Richmond, by Peter 
 de Savoy, and his successor in that honour, .John, Duke of 
 Brittany ;' as we find, in the Rot. Hundred, temp. Ed. I. 
 p. 53, " Dnt qd Petrus de Sabaudia tenuit man'ium de 
 Hinton dono H. Reg' pris dni R. nuc quod est de honore 
 Richem'. Dnt qd holes de Hinton solvcrut Saero de FrivilF 
 duas marc', q no ve'nnt ad inquisicoem unde nuc sut districti 
 p p'dcis denar'." The Parish Church, however, must have 
 been built before the middle of the thirteenth century, as 
 Ave then find the Manor of Hinton Nether Hall, with the 
 Advowson of the Church, held of the Honour of Richmond by 
 the Hintons, from whom the Manor passed to the Moubrays.' 
 By the Hintons the Advo>\son was sold for six score marks 
 to Hugh de Balsham, who was Bishop of Ely from 12o7 to 
 1286. The original deed of sale is among the archives of 
 Ely, and is copied by Cole', and runs thus — " Jolies Filius 
 Johis de Hyntou dat & confirmat llugoni Elyensi Ejjo & 
 successoribus suis una acra Terrae suae cu' ptii'^ in Hynton, una 
 cu advocacoe Ecclie de Hynton .... Habenda et Tenend. dcas 
 Acra & Advocacoem bene libere Sec. reddendo inde annuatim 
 pro oi (omni) servicio &c. unum Clavum Cariofolii.'"' It 
 would also appear that for some years previous to the sale 
 of the Advowson, Bishop Balsham held it of its possessors 
 ' in Eleemosynam ;' we find mention made of this fact, in a 
 Survey of the Honour of Richmond, made in the tenth year of 
 Edward I., before Thos. de Norman ville and Joli. de Crokeslee, 
 and copied by Cole, ix. 234: where under ' Hinton' we read. 
 
 * Lysons 211. Dugd. Baron, i. oO. 
 
 " Le Sicur de Frevillc, of Little Sliellovd. ' Uot. Esch. (i. l!ic. ii. 
 
 ' MSS. IX. 11-2. ' i-uin pcrtintnliis. ' Cloves.
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 " Item diciint quod Johannes filius Johannis tenet in eadem 
 \-illa dimid. feodi INIilitis, cum Advocatione Ecclesise, et valet 
 xx'. per annum. Et Hugo Eliens. Episcopus habet Advo- 
 cationem Ecclesiae cum una acra terrse in Elemos. a tempore 
 octo annorum. 
 
 Of the Huiton family we find the following slight notice 
 in the Life of Bishop Lisle, printed in the first Vol. of Leland's 
 CoUectanea, pt. ii. p. 607. ' Hugo de Hinton nobilis armiger 
 filius Joannis de Hinton, pugnavit tempore Ed. III. una cum 
 patre Gul. de Hinton, mUite, in transmarinis partibus. Et 
 in regno Hispaniae contra inimicos crucis Christi. Qua in 
 pugna Gul. de Hinton mUes occisus est, et Hugo in lumbis, 
 psene ad mortem, vulneratus; sed ex vulnere postea conva- 
 luit.' They appear before the end of the reign of Edward III. 
 to have removed to the parish of Stretham, as in Bishop 
 Montacute's Registers we find several licenses from time to 
 time, granted to ' Ralph de Hynton ' to hear Mass in his Chapel 
 at Thetford, in that parish. 
 
 In the year 1335, John Hotham, Bishop of 
 Ely, finding upon inquiry that the revenues of S. 
 Peter's College were not suiRcient for the proper maintenance 
 of the Scholars, but that they would be obliged by reason of 
 their poverty to separate before the close of the academical 
 year, was induced to appropriate the Rectory of Cherry-Hinton 
 to that College; which appropriation was in the same year 
 confirmed by John Crauden, the Prior, and the Convent of 
 Ely. The deed of confirmation is an interesting one, we there- 
 fore subjoin it entire. 
 
 Conjirmatio Eccliw de Hintmi, Scholaribiis Domus Sti Petri Cantebr. 
 
 Universis &c. Fratcr Johannes de Crauden, Prior Ecelice Catli. Ely en. et 
 ejusdem loci Conventus Sal. in Dno. Noveritis nos Literas Venerab. Patris 
 nostri Dni. Johannis de Hotham, Dei gra. Episcopi Elyensis, inspexisse et 
 legisse, sub eo, qui sequitur, tenore. Johannes permiss. Divina Epfis Elyensis, 
 DUectis in X'° filiis Magi-o. et Scholaribus Domus nostrse S. Petri Cantebrigg. 
 nostra Dioceseos, Sal, gratiam, et Benedietionem. Inter csetera quie cselestis
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERRY-HINTON. 
 
 Agricolre siimm.a Benigiiitas plantavit in Horto Militantis Ecclcsia;, ilia deect 
 Collegia dignis Honoribus aceolero, ot favoribus [ii'oslh|vu gratiosis, in (|uibus 
 Divinis Obsoquiis t'rLH[uenter iusistitur, et ad Ilonoreui Doi et Saerosanctaj 
 Ecclia;, et orthodoxy Fidei iucrcmentuni, fnictuosa scientia gerniinatur. 
 Aiidivimus siquidom, ox fide dignoi'um Relatu, et id sa-pius de facto manifoste 
 eomprobatur, ((uod Taeidtates, per rccolend;u Memoria' ]3nni llugoneni de 
 Balsliani, (|uondam Epiim Elyeus. Pra;decessorem nostrum, ilicta; Donnis fun- 
 datorem, eidem Douiui assignata; et concessa;, vobis pro sustentatione vcstra 
 per anmnu integrum eompetenti, alia ouera eidem Domui incumbentia debite 
 supportando, modernis temporibus non suffieiunt, quia Collegium vcstrum ante 
 anni fiuem disgregari ob sustentationis defectum doleutcr oportebit. llinc 
 est quod nos paupertatem vestram Paterno et gementi respicicntes afteetu, 
 attendentes etiam, quod quanto Domus pra^dicta opulontioribus facultatibus 
 ditata fuerit, et augmontata, tanto vos, et \obis inibi successuri, Deo devotLs 
 famulari, laudabiliter proficere poteritis in Scientia literarum ; Egestatem vestram 
 et inopiam, Spiritus Sancti, ut siieramus, gratia inspirati, duxiiiius relevandam. 
 Peusantes utiq' jiium esse nodum ]3omos sou Collegia hujusmotli constltuere 
 et fundare, quin potius construeta et fundata ad Dei Ilonorem, et Fundantium 
 animarum Salutcm, jiia Clementia confn'erc et caritati\'is sufFragiis ampliare; 
 Ecclesiam igitur de llintoii, JDioc ct Patronatus uostri, vobis et Collegio 
 vestro, ac Domui vestrse prredictse, pro vestriB ac successorum vestrorum Sco- 
 larium in eadem residentium, et Scientiis Theologia; et PhUosophia; insistentium, 
 ae Ministrorum vestrorum, et suorum sustentationis pra'sidio, eajtcrorumquo 
 omnium dicta; Domus Supjjortatione, immo pro Sustentatione duorum Presby- 
 terorum, nostrorum et Successorum nostrorum Episeoporura Elyensium, (quam 
 citius dictam Eccliam in manum vestram devenu'e, ot pacifice existere contigerit,) 
 Divina in Ecclia B. Petri Cant, dicta; nostra Dioc. perpetuo celebraturorum, 
 Intuitu caritatis appropriamus, annectimus et quantum in nobis est, dannis, 
 concedimus, applicamus, et assignamus vobis et Scolaribus in dicta Domo 
 \obis succedentibus, post primam Vacationem ejusdem perpetuo possidendam, 
 Juribus Episcopalibus et Aieliidiacoualibus et Eccli;e nostra; Elycusis dignitate 
 in omnibus semper sahds. Reservata nobis et Successoribus nostris coUatione 
 ad Vicarium Ecclia; ejusdem, sal\is quoque Vicariis ejusdem Yicaria; Portioiiibus 
 et Proventibus, ad candem vicariam pertinentibus ot assiguatis. In cujus Kei 
 testimonium Sigill. nostrum pra;sontibus duximus apponondum. Dat. apud 
 Mauerium nostrum de Hatfeld Episeopi 8" Cal. Sept. a.d. 1335 et consccra- 
 tiouis nostra; 19'. — MSS. Baker, xxiviii. 147. 
 
 Bishop Ilotham died in 1337, probably before the Rectory 
 had become vacant, so that he was unable to carry into effect 
 his design : at any rate, whatever tlie reason might be, certain 
 it is the College did not obtain possession of the Rectory, 
 either on this first, or on the second appropriation, which
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 was made by Simon de Langham," Bishop of Ely from 1362 
 to 1366: though we find from Abp. Parker's Cambridge' 
 that Simon Montacute, Bishop of Ely from 1337 to 1345, 
 gave them the Advowson, and in the Petition of the College 
 to Bishop Langham for the Appropriation, the Church is said 
 to be ' of their Patronage.' We find from the Certificatorium 
 factum Thes. et Baron, de Scaccio, Feb. 1, 1449, that " Simon 
 de Langham Dnus Dnus olim Epus Eliens. mediante licentia 
 Edw. D. G. olim Regis Anglise, dedit, et annexavit, appro- 
 priavit, et incorporavit in perpetuum Eccliam de Hinton, 
 Mro et Scholaribus Coll. S. Petri. Ipsi tamen M'i et Scho- 
 lares vigore appropriationis, &c. prsedictfe possessionem non 
 fuerunt adepti.'" The failure of this plan was caused by the 
 translation of Langham to Canterbury before the vacancy of 
 the Rectory, which was " given by his successor, John Barnet, 
 to another, so that the union took not effect."^ Barnet, how- 
 ever, does not appear to ha^'e gained anything by thus setting 
 aside his predecessor's acts ; for we learn from the Ely Books, 
 that Rob. de Braybroke, by ^drtue of the Pope's proviso, 
 ejected Stephen Randolf, Barnet's nominee, and extorted the 
 Rectory from the Fellows of Peter-House,° who however ob- 
 tained it permanently from Bishop Fordham, March 20, 1395.' 
 The deed of appropriation is curious, and may be found in 
 Baker's MSS. xxxi. 232, Cole, xxiv. 254.' The College, as 
 before, plead extreme and ' notorious' poverty, and set forth 
 that ' Bishop Balsham's Foundation had not as yet been properly 
 
 ' Bak. xxxi. 232. Cole, xxiv. 254. Vet. Reg. Coll. S. Pet. p. C7. Bentham's Ely, 159. 
 
 ' History of Cambridge, p. 9, Beutham's Ely, p. 159. 
 
 ' Bak. xxviii. 5G. 
 
 ' Godwin de Pr^sul. Anglican. 265. Cole, xxiv. 251. 
 
 » MSS. Bowtell, Paroch. Antiq. p. 32. 
 
 ' Vet. Reg. Coll. S. Pet. pp. 67—77. 
 
 ' Godwin de Preesul. Anglican, p. 265; " Simon de Langham Rectoriam de Hinton appro- 
 priavit Coll. S. Pet. cassavit Joannes Barnet, redintegravit vevo Joannes Fordliam." The 
 deed is dated from the Bishop's IManor of Soraersham, in Lincoln Diocese, so that Langham 
 was obliged to obtain a license from that Bishop to appropriate the church. — Vel. Reg. Coll. 
 S. Pet. p. 70. The confirmation of the appropriation by Archbishop Arundel and Pope Gre- 
 gory n. are to be found in the same volume, pp. 73, 71.
 
 S. ANDREW, ClIEHHY-IIINTON. 
 
 endowed, nor furnished with tlu^ offices and buildings neces- 
 sary for it ; neither were the revenues sufficient for the support 
 of a Master and fourteen Schohirs.' "Wherefore they had jnayed 
 the Bishop to appropriate the church of ' Hynton, ' of tlieir 
 patronage, to them, whose rents, the Vicar's portion, and 
 other burdens deducted, did not exceed the annual profit of 
 £30. sterling, according to the taxation of tithes. Where- 
 upon the Bishop, considering that it had been the design of 
 Bishop Simon Langham, in his time, to unite it to them, and 
 did so, yet the College had not got possession (it being then 
 in the patronage of the See of Ely), because his immediate 
 successor, John Barnet, on the death of the Eector, gave it 
 to another, by which means the miion took not effect. Also 
 considering that few Avorks of piety could be more pleasing 
 to God than contributing to the support of poor scholars, 
 giving themsehes to the study of liberal arts, who might 
 hereafter be able to stand forth manfully, as a firm bidwark 
 in defence of the orthodox faith, then attacked by cUverse 
 perverse and sacrilegious doctrines, (probably in allusion to 
 the tenets of the Lollards and of Wickliffe, which were now 
 beginning to make their way in England,) the Bishop 
 mth consent of the Chapter of Ely, and after an exact ex- 
 amination by faithful persons, finding the allegations of the 
 College to be true, and that it was necessary learned men 
 should be planted in the Church, he pronounces with the 
 license of King Richard II. and the consent of the Prior and 
 Chiu-ch of Ely, the Church of Hynton appropriate to the 
 College of S. Peter ... on the decease or demission of the 
 present Rector thereof: with a competent portion to the 
 Vicar excepted, the College being to pay as an indemni- 
 fication to the Bishops of Ely an annual pension of 6s. 8d. 
 on S. Michael's day, in the Palace of Ely. Given at Somer- 
 sham, 20 Mar. 1395. 
 
 After this the College entered upon undisturbed possession 
 of the Rectory, and in 1403, we find ' a certificatory from
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 the Masters and Scholars of S. Peter's, that they had only one 
 benefice with cure of souls, viz. the Vicarage of Hynton, 
 at the value of 10 pounds.'^ 
 „, , „ . . About this time the following document ap- 
 
 Status Kectoriae. ~ i 
 
 pears to have been drawn up, which we find in 
 the Vet. Reg. of Peter-House,* p. 88, giving us an interesting 
 statistical account of the Rectory in very early times : 
 
 " MS qd Rector de Hynton debet habere Taurum et Verrem et oves 
 
 sine numero. 
 Itm in redditibs Teueelum annuatim. xiiij*. ij(7. 
 
 Itm habet Sectam ad Curiam Tcneclum suoru diiobus Terapibus an Lete. 
 It Gleba Ecclle ij acr. 
 It Gleba Rectorie ex acr. 
 It Molendinu aquaticum jam dcstructum. 
 It in prato. ij acr. 
 
 It potest habere Querruria^ et \ia,' sine Pr»judicio aHcujus. 
 It xij Capon, et iv Gallin. a Tenentibs. 
 It Tenent falcabunt Pratu Rectoris et per certos dies mundabunt Bladum,* 
 
 et in autupno metent sen secabunt. 
 
 Onera dicte Rectorie. 
 Imp'mis in ij lampad in Clioro ijs. per annu. 
 
 Ttm Stramen de Frumonto ij Vicibus, sc. in Natali et in Pascha. 
 Itm in Procuracoibus Arcliidiaconi. xijcZ. 
 Sinodalia solvit Vicarius non Rector ibid'. 
 M** eciam q' qu Arcliidiaconus et ejus Official, visitat apud Hynton solet 
 
 ibi pndere* suptibus Vicarii ct non CoUegii. 
 De Decimis terrar' ptinentibs dew Ecclio3 de Hynton, et existent' in 
 
 Parocliia de Tcversham pt eccia' in dcis Rcntalibus." 
 
 . , , The following inventory of Church furniture 
 
 Archdeacon s '^ •' 
 
 ^°°^- is taken from a MS. volume in the Library of 
 
 ' Cole, ix. 200. ' See aUo Cole, .\ii. 153. 
 
 ' A quarry, and a road to it. ° Wheat, le bled. 
 
 ' Straw, and more frequently rushes, were used to strew on the pavement of the church, 
 particularly at the great Festivals, or other solemn occasions : in the accounts of S. Margaret's, 
 Westminster, we find 1544?, Paid for rushes against the Dedicacion day 0, 1, 5. Mats, however, 
 were in use at the same time ; for instance, ib. 153S, Item, paid for matts for the parishioners to 
 kneel upon ivheJt they reverenced their Maker — price ..0,4, 4. 
 
 ' Prandere. At the Visitations of the Bishop, or Archdeacon, a dinner was always 
 expected from the Incumbent, or the parish. — Walberswick Accounts. " J4S0, llic Suffragan 
 his dinner cost 0, 1, d. 1483, his dinner 0, 8, 6. 1488, tlw Archdeacon's dinner and wine, 
 0, 3, 4."
 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY-IIINTON. 
 
 Caius College,' comprising various particulars, compiled 
 for the use of the Archdeacon of Ely : at its commence- 
 ment is written, " Iste Liber pertinet ad xVrchidiaconum 
 Elienscm, cum magno gaudio, ct honore," The document in 
 question is considered by Blomfield' to be of tlie date 1276, 
 during Bishop Balsham's Episcopate : the additions in another 
 hand, are not later than 1349: it is by no means easy to 
 decipher, and indeed in several places is quite illegible. 
 
 Ecclia de Hinton. No app'ata. est ibi Viear' et Rector, et taxatur ad 
 XXX marc', et solvit p" synod, ijs. iiijrZ. p. den. beati Petri \s., p. jirocur' 
 xviiij. et st eius ornaran'ta Iirec. Duo missal, bona, i legend, i duolnis voluibus 
 iij antipli' cu psalt'ris, et aliiid antiph' votus, iij gradal' cum trop'iis,' et 
 ij t'p'ia per so, i manual', i martilog' et i ordinall', vj p'ia* vcstimontoi'um 
 no\a, cu ptineneiis, ij ferialia vestimenta, tros cappe cliori et ij pallo.'' i ft'oiital', 
 tunica et dalmatiea, iij cruces enee, vj pliiole, et ij phiole vitree, ij Turibula 
 cum Lanterna, et patella ad ignem. iiij calicos, pix enea, viij vexilla, fons 
 cum s'ur', velum templi. c'smator' [bonum cu s'ur'] (there is a line throur/h 
 these last words, and added in a later hand, " debile, doficiunt candelabra") 
 una Casida," tunica dahnatica. iij. tuale' unum cum pne' ex done Magri Johls 
 Yaleby, amielie et p'a amio', et duo suppell, unum pannu de auro ex dono 
 eiusdem." 
 
 , , , The followino- is the most accurate list of the 
 
 IncumbeDts. ~ 
 
 Rectors and Vicars that we have been able to 
 compile. "\^"e are principally indebted for it to the investi- 
 gations of Cole ; though we have, in several instances, corrected 
 his list, by reference to the Registers of the Bishop of Ely, 
 as well as those of S. Peter's College. 
 
 » MSS. Caius, 204, p. 62 ; copied also Baker, iii. .513. 
 
 ' Libsr Transcriptorum EHens. Vol. I. MSS. Goiigli. Bibl. Bodleian. ' pro. 
 
 ^ troperiis, " Troperium, i.q. troponarius, Liber continens t/oottoi/s, id est cantus qui 
 cum introitu Missae dicuntur, praesertim a Monacbis." — Ducange. Lyndewood calls it tiher 
 sequenliarum, sequentia and tropus being apparently synonymous. * paria. 
 
 * " Palla; vestis qua altare cooperitur, videlicet Uncus pani]us consccratus qui super 
 altare ponitur, super queni extenditur corporale." — Duca»ge. 
 
 * A chasuble. ■ A towel or napkin.
 
 10 CHUKCHES IN CAMBRIDGESHIKE. 
 
 Ulettore antr Fftars. 
 
 Wil. Ffool, Viear ^275 
 
 Joh. Malebiaimche, Reet. . . , 1296 
 
 ^Ric. de Novo Castro .... 1315 
 
 Joh. de Besford 1328 
 
 Will, de Lymburgli .... 1341 
 E. OUjngton? ..... 
 
 Will. Ffi-auneeys 1342 
 
 Stephen Baret 1346 
 
 Thos. Loring, Rect. .... 1346 
 
 Rob. de Grimestone, or Gornestone, Reet. res. 1351 
 
 Joh. atte Church de Teversham . . 1352 
 
 'Stephen Randolph, Rect. . . . 1376 
 
 -Rob. Braybroke, Rect. . . . 1376 
 
 Joh. Cokkowe, Vie. .... 1377 
 
 Joh. Taddelowe, Vic 1378 
 
 'Reginald Braybroke, Reet. . . . 137t> 
 
 Fitnvs. 
 
 Will. Fraunceys de Eynesbury . . 1382 
 
 Joh. Deraelove ..... 1401 
 
 ^Thos. Gerard 
 
 Will. Baker 142C 
 
 ^Joh. Holbrook 1436 
 
 Robert Scheppard ..... 1451 
 
 Thos. Sheryve, ob. .... 1461 
 
 Joh. Fynn 1464 
 
 William Skelton, res. .... 1518 
 
 ^Thomas Pernabie 1533 
 
 ' About this time we find tliere was a Chapel at Hinton dedicated to All Saints of which 
 Walter de Hinton was Chaplain, and to it belonged 6 acres of laud. — Rot. Hundred, 8". Ed. I. 
 
 '■> Collated by the Bishop of Ely. Baker, xxviii. 202. 
 
 ^ He was presented to the Rectory by Bp. Barnet, (who thus, as before noticed, frustrated 
 its appropriation to Peter-House, made by his predecessor,) but was excluded by Rob. Bray- 
 brook, who had a Provision from the Pope Cole, ix. 141. 
 
 ' He was probably presented before this time: in this year we find, from the Bishop's 
 Registers, that he was excommunicated and sequestered for non-appearance before the Pope's 
 Nuncio, and the non-payment of his dues. 
 
 ' He was Rector of Girton; which living he exchanged with his brother Robert for Cherry- 
 Hinton : he was the last Rector, and held the living after the appropriation to Peter- House 
 until 1401. 
 
 * He exchanged this living with W. Baker, 1426, for a stall in the collegiate church of 
 Irtlingburgb, Northamptonshire. — Vet. Reg. p. 78. 
 
 ' See Blomf. Collect, p. 217. 
 
 ' In the Vet. Reg. of Peter-House, p. 144, is a copy of his institution, wherein he is 
 expressly charged not to favour Lutheran, or other heresies, *' per ecclesiam dampnatas." 
 About this time 13s. id. is paid as fee to the Scribe on institution. MSS. Caius 170, p. 53.
 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY-IIINTON. 
 
 11 
 
 >7ttar8 — Continued. 
 
 Reginald 'Wliitfield .... 
 
 1573 
 
 Rifhard Poarne .... 
 
 1573 
 
 Richard Romuiiugtoii .... 
 
 1.577 
 
 James Scrubie .... 
 
 1580 
 
 James Strawley ..... 
 
 
 ''Thos. Moignc, res. . . . . 1 
 
 joforo 1595 
 
 ^Roger Dereham .... 
 
 1604 
 
 Thomas Love .... 
 
 1617 
 
 George Bankes, res. .... 
 
 1629 
 
 Will. Norwich, res. .... 
 
 1638 
 
 ^Isaac Barrow, res. .... 
 
 1641 
 
 Bernard Skelton, res. 
 
 1660 
 
 'John Spurling ..... 
 
 1663 
 
 Richard Cooke, or Cookead 
 
 1666 
 
 Samuel Holcombe .... 
 
 1690 
 
 Christopher Wardall 
 
 1691 
 
 Godfrey Washington .... 
 
 1699 
 
 Dan. Walter Dupaisy 
 
 1705 
 
 Christopher Wardcll . . . 
 
 1712 
 
 Christopher Clai-kson 
 
 1730 
 
 Andrew Perne ..... 
 
 1734 
 
 Peter Nourso ..... 
 
 1739 
 
 Edward Osborne .... 
 
 1749 
 
 William OkUiam .... 
 
 1754 
 
 W. Serocold ..... 
 
 1758 
 
 George Borlase .... 
 
 1789 
 
 Theophilus Brown .... 
 
 1793 
 
 John Holme .... 
 
 1808 
 
 Bewick Bridge ..... 
 
 1816 
 
 G. B. Paley 
 
 1833 
 
 W. Potter 
 
 1835 
 
 W. Hodgson .... 
 
 1836 
 
 ^W. Nind 
 
 1838 
 
 ' Mr Moigne became Bisliop of Kilmore in 1612. 
 
 » In the Vet. Reg. of Peter-House, p. 449, we find a letter from Bishop Martin Hetor, 
 this year, signifying that the Vicarage was vacant. 
 
 Ejected 4. Jan. 13, 1643-4. 
 
 ' Hart MSS. 4115, p. 12. A fine, " Resignacois schedula Ecclie de Hynton a Jnhannc 
 Spurling, a.d. 1666, coram notario publico." 
 
 ' We cannot here omit to mention the great courtesy, with which the members of our 
 Society have uniformly been treated by the present Incumbent, when visiting his church j and 
 we must ourselves beg to thank him, as well as the Rev. H. W. Cookson, of Peter- House, for 
 their kindness in permitting us to examine the records in their possession, for the present 
 publication.
 
 ]2 
 
 CHURCHES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 In the foregoing list we must mention, as more especially 
 deserving notice, Eobert Braybrooke, who, as Godwin tells 
 us,' Sept. 9, 1381, was promoted to the See of London by 
 virtue of the Bull of Pope Urban IX.; he was consecrated 
 Jan. 5, and "made Lord Chancellor in 1382, but held not 
 that office past halfe a yeere. The yeere 1387 it seemeth there 
 fell some disagreement betweene him and lo. of Gaunt. For 
 Th. of Walsingham and other report, that the Londoners were 
 so greatly exasperated against him for some foule worde given 
 to their Bishoppe, as they sought with great tumult to kill 
 him, and had burned his house at the Savoy if the Bishoppe 
 himselfe had not appeased their fury." He died in 1409, and 
 was buried in the middle of the Ladye Chapel at S. Paul's, 
 whei'e a magnificent Brass was laid down to his memory, 
 representing him clothed in his pontificals, with his pastoral 
 stafi" in his hand, under a rich triple canopy. An engraving 
 of this Brass, by Hollar, is in Dugdale's S. Paul's, as well as 
 the following legend : 
 
 ®rate pro afa HI. be aSiaabrofee ftuonUam Spistopi btt'us lEcdcst'c, 
 tujus corpus W tumulaUir, qui obi't't bt'ccsimo stpifmo tiie illcnsis 
 ^ugwstt anno grait'c millcsiiuo ctuntirtngcnttsimo quarto tujus ate et 
 omnium fiUclium tiefunctorum ppit'etur i^tus. Emtn. SUmen. 
 
 In 1554, while Mr. Pernabie was Vicar, we find from Fox,* 
 that " on the 28th day of November the Archdeacon's official 
 visited in Hynton, where he gave in charge to present all such 
 as did disturb the Queen's proceedings, in letting the Latine 
 service, the setting up of their altars, and saying of masse, or 
 any part thereof: whereby it was easie to see how these good 
 fellowes meant to proceed, having the law once on their side, 
 that thus readily against a manifest law, would attempt the 
 punishment of any man." 
 
 In 1595,' Mr. Moigne, the Vicar, was rated " to find (jointly 
 
 ' Godwin's Succession of English Bishops, i. 199. 
 * Acts and Monuments, iii. 98. 
 
 ' Cole, ix.
 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY-HINTON. 13 
 
 with the Curate of Great S. Mary's) one pike furnished." And 
 again, in 1609, Mr. Dereham is rated "for his vicarage, to find 
 (jointly \\ith the Vicar of Impington and Caldecote) a pair of 
 Curols, with a pike furnished." 
 
 In 1(544:, the Earl of Manchester, (who, it is not uninstruc- 
 tive to learn, was liimself, in 1651, ejected from the Chan- 
 cellorship of the University for not sigiaing the Engagement,") 
 amongst many others, ejected Isaac Barrow, Fellow of Peter- 
 House, and Vicar of Hinton, and uncle to the more celebrated 
 ]\Iaster of Trinity : " upon which," says AValker,' " he retired 
 to Oxford, and was made Chaplain to New College ; but on 
 the surrender of the garrison he ^vas forced to shift from place 
 to place, and suffered with the rest of the Orthodox Clergy, 
 till the most blessed Restoration of King Charles II." Innne- 
 diately after this he was restored to his Fellowship, and also 
 elected Fellow of Eton, and was, in 1660, jiresented by Bishop 
 ^^'ren, to the Rectory of Downham, in the Isle of Ely. 
 In 166"2 he resigned his Fellowship,** and July the 5th, 1663, 
 was consecrated Bishop of ]\Ian in Henry the Seventh's Chapel 
 at Westminster, (when his nephew. Dr. Isaac Barrow, preached 
 the consecration sermon,) holding his Fellowship of Eton 
 in commendam with that Bishoprick. In 1661 he was made 
 Governor of the Island, by the Earl of Derby, "Avhich office 
 he exercised piously and prudently." " He was a great bene- 
 factor, especially to the Clergy of INIan, and did collect," says 
 Wood, " by his great care and pains, £1081 8s. M., with 
 which he bought all the Impropriations from the Earl of 
 Derby, and settled them on the Clergy, as every one had 
 need." He also, besides many other good works, established 
 schools in the parishes throughout the Island, and fomidcd 
 scholarships at Trinity College, Dublin, " that in time there 
 might be a more learned Clergy.'" In 1669, March 21st, 
 
 '■ Baker, xxv. 19.5. 
 
 ' Walker's Sufleiings, p. 152. Wood's Athcn. Oxon. ii. I Ml). 
 
 ' Carter's Hist, of Univ. of Cambridge, p. 47. 
 
 " Iji"grin>li. Britaii. \^"uocl's Atiieii. Oxoii. v. ii. p IM. '* I'o whose industry," says
 
 U CHURCHES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 he was translated to S. Asaph,' to which diocese he was no 
 inconsiderable benefactor ; repairing and releading the Cathedral 
 church, for the maintenance of the fabrick and Choir, of which 
 he appropriated several rectories. He also laid out a con- 
 siderable sum on the Episcopal Palace, and in 1678 built an 
 Alms-house for eight poor widows, and endowed it with £12 
 a year for ever. His design for erecting a Free School, 
 thougli interrupted by his death, was carried out by his suc- 
 cessor. Bishop Lloyd, who, in 1687, obtained from Barrow's 
 executors £200 for this purpose. " This most worthy Prelate," 
 says Wood, " died at Shrewsbury, about noon, on Midsummer- 
 day 1680, and on the 1st of July his Corps was decently 
 inter'd by Dr. Nich. Stratford, Dean of S. Asaph, on the South 
 side of the West Door of the Cathedral. Over his Grave was 
 laid a large flag-stone, and another over that supported on 
 Pedestals. On the lower Stone is the following Inscription, 
 engraven on a Brass Plate, which was composed by the Bishop 
 himself. 
 
 Exuvife Isaaei Asaphensis Episcopi, iu maimui Douiini depositje, in spem 
 loeta; resurrectionis, per sola Christi merita. O vos transeuntes in Domum 
 Domiui, Domum Orationis, orate pro Conserve vestro, ut inveniat Miseri- 
 cordiam in die Domini. 
 
 " As soon as this epitaph was put up," continues Wood, 
 " the contents thereof flew about the nation by the endeavours 
 of the godly faction, (then plump'd up with hopes to carry 
 on their diaboUcal designs, upon account of the Popish Plot, 
 then in examination and prosecution,) to make the world believe 
 that the said Bishop died a Papist, and that the rest of the 
 Bishops were Papists also, or at least Popishly affected; and 
 especially for this reason, that they adhered to his Majesty, 
 and took part with him at that time against the said Faction, 
 who endeavoured to bring the nation into confusion by their 
 
 Sacheverell, History of Man, p. 118, " is owing all that little Learning amongst us ; and to 
 whose Prudence and Charity the poor Clergy owe the Bread they eat." 
 
 ' Godwin de Pra-sulibus, p. C44. Regist. Sheld. f. 54'. Wood's Allienae, v. ii. p. 1151.
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERllY-HINTON. lo 
 
 usual trade of lying- and slandering, Avliich they ha^'c always 
 hitherto done to carry on their ends ; such is the religion of 
 tlie Saints. But so it is: let them say what they wdll, that 
 the said Bishop -n-as a virtuous, generous, and godly man, and 
 a true sou of the Church of Eii(jJ(in(l."- 
 
 In 1676, the following entry occurs,' " The Inhabitants 40. 
 No Recusants. 1 Dissenter:" and in 1685 there were "about 
 250 Communicants." Dissent does not appear to have thriven 
 at Hinton, for on Bishop Greene's Visitation in 1728, we find 
 this entry, " Cherry-Hinton £22. Peter-House Patron. Mr. 
 Geo. Birkett Curate, not resident. Families 71. Souls 290. 
 Five Dissenters." The population at the census of 1831 was 
 574 souls, the parish containing about 2043 acres. 
 
 The Parish Register dates back as far as 1538, 
 
 Registers. . , • i /-. 
 
 the year m which Cromwell, then "^^icar-general, 
 issued his injunction with regard to them : it is not however to 
 be inferred that the existing volume is of that date ; for in the 
 last of the Constitutions of the Synod of the Province of Can- 
 terbury, held in 1597,' it Avas ordained that the parish books, 
 most of which had before that time been kept on paper, 
 " libris chartaceis" should be transcribed on parchment, and 
 so kept for the future ; each page of the transcript being 
 signed by the Minister and Churchwardens, '^ gardiani" of tlic 
 chuixh.' And so it is in the present case, every page up to 
 the year 1604 being signed by Mr. Moigne, Vicar, and his 
 Churchwardens ; which fact has so far decei^^d some wise man 
 of the parish, as to induce him, in 1720, to make an entry 
 in the book to the effect, that by calculation he had disco\ered 
 that Mr. Moigne had been sixty-six years Minister of the parish, 
 and had had the same Churchwardens for fifty-nine years; 
 
 ' Ibid. Biograpli. Britan. ' Cole, vol. ix. p. 7. 
 
 * Cardwell's Synodalia, i. IfiO. 
 
 ' Anotlier instance of tliis may be found at Bisliopsbourno churcli, Kent, the scene of the 
 ministrations of Richaud Uooker, where his signature first occurs to tlie register of 1566, 
 though he was not presented till 1595; a circumstance which has caused some perplexity to 
 those who have examined the books with reference to Hooker's history.
 
 16 CHURCHES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 whereas, unfortunately, the Vicar in question was not so many 
 years old at the time of his death. Transcripts of the entries, 
 which possess no particular interest," may be found in Cole, 
 vol. xliv. 
 
 The volume bears as its motto. 
 
 Hie puer setatem, hie Vir spousalia noseat 
 Hie decessorum funera quisque sciat. 
 
 The Parish Accounts do not extend beyond the middle 
 of the 18th century: some of the items are amusing: 
 
 1766-7. Covering Pulpit-Cushion 0, 19, 0. 1783. Making up a new 
 Cusliion for Pulpet, Mr. Scroeokl found velvet, 1, 2, 0. 1776. To Thomas 
 Crick for pretending to correct the Sundial, 0, 1, 0. 
 
 The following Terrier of Church property in 
 
 Terrier. • i • 
 
 Hmton parisli is preserved among the documents 
 relating to the Diocese of Ely, in S. Mary's Church. It is 
 dated May 16, 1663. 
 
 A Terry of loliat belongs to the Vicarage. 
 
 A liouse or tenement with three roodes of ground, being an orchard, abutting 
 west on tlie eomon streete and cast on the ground of the parsonage. 
 
 One litell close eontainyng 3 roodes of ground lying east of the coraon 
 streete, abutting north on the way leading to Fulborne. 
 
 One piece -of ground inclosed coutainyng halfe an akre lying south in the 
 parsonage ground, abutting against the place called MUe End. 
 
 ° Among the baptisms we find — 
 
 Nov. l.'i, 170.3. Sarali Langran, a Quaker. 
 
 June 12, 1737. Mary Heard, a converted Jew. 
 We also find a list of confirmations by Bishop Wren, at S. Vigor's, Fulbourne, Sept. 17, 16.19, 
 the candidate.s for that rite being presented by their sponsors. 
 
 '©®g&|«^j^f'l@@®©?^& 

 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY IIINTON. 17 
 
 We have already seen that there is no mention of any 
 church at Hinton at the time of the Conciuest ; the earliest 
 notice of it being about the middle of the Kith century, when 
 the Advowson was purchased by Bishop Hugh de Balsham. 
 The general character of the existing edifice is Early-English, 
 of remarkably pure character and well executed detail : it 
 consists of a Chancel and Nave of the above period, Avith north 
 and south Aisles, a low square Tower at the west end, a 
 Sacristy on the north, and a Porch on the south side, all 
 of late Perpendicular work. 
 
 We are fortunate enough to possess two detailed archi- 
 tectural descriptions of this Church, drawn up before the end 
 of the last century ; one by Blomefield, in the Gough Collection 
 in the Bodleian Library, the other by Cole, MSS. ix. p. 140. 
 The latter is not quite so minute as Cole's accounts generally 
 are, for which he apologizes in the following feeling manner. 
 " Sep. 3, 1773. Dining at Mr. Serocold's, I walked into the 
 Church, but had no time then to take the few Inscriptions 
 in it, as his family was with us, or part of it, and that not 
 being convenient for such purposes." Again, on Rogation 
 Sunday, May 8, 1774, he tells us that he officiated at Hinton, 
 and tried to take some notes, but was annoyed by " Mr. 
 Serocold's four daughters, wlio surrounded him, and narrowly 
 watched his every motion." Yet, notwithstanding all these 
 interruptions, his account enters into sufficient detail to shew 
 us how much this Church, in common with most of our 
 ecclesiastical buildings, has sufiercd during the last seventy 
 years. The loss of a Clerestory, two Parcloses, an entire set 
 of oaken seats with poppy-heads, besides brasses, painted glass, 
 and other subsidiary features, is indeed a considerable one, 
 and, in the present day, all l)ut irreparable; and of all these 
 since 1774 has this Church been deprived; would that we 
 could say this was a solitaiy case.
 
 18 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 The most interesting part of the present struc- 
 ture is the Chancel, which (with the exception 
 of its low Debased roof, and a poor Tudor East window of 
 five lights,) retains, in the main, its original features. The 
 arrangement and design of this portion of the Church are 
 singularly chaste and beautiful, and are generally considered 
 to be unsurpassed by any building of the same style in the 
 County. It consists of four bays, divided by bold and beau- 
 tiful buttresses, each containing two lancets, above and below 
 which a string is carried along on either wall; which on 
 the south side is brought over a door-way, richly moulded both 
 ■within and without, and having on the outside a smgle shaft 
 in either jamb. This is the Priest's door, of which a partial 
 \iew is obtained in the engraving. Above it the couplet 
 lancets are shorter, being, as it Avere, encroached upon by the 
 necessities of construction. On the north side the masonry 
 is much mutilated and disarranged ; tlie buttresses of the Nave 
 as well as of the Chancel are patched vriih brick; and altogether 
 this side is in a very dilapidated condition. The Sacristy is a 
 poor and late Tudor structure, at the north-eastern part of the 
 Chancel, measuring internally twelve feet by ten. An ugly 
 brick chimney is carried up on the outside against one of the 
 buttresses. The interior door-way is four-centered, with meagre 
 discontinuous moiddings. Some ingenuity, however, has been 
 displayed by the architect of it, in rearranging above it the 
 string and shortened shafts of the arcade. Below the step 
 is a plain and very ancient stone cofRn laid down in the 
 pavement. 
 
 The Nave, as we stated, possesses north and 
 
 Nave. 
 
 south Aisles, each of which has six Perpendicular 
 windows of three lights; those in the S. Aisle having flatter 
 arches, and slightly diff"erent tracery from those on the opposite 
 side. The buttresses are massive, and of considerable pro-
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERllY-lIINTON. 
 
 19 
 
 jection : they appear to be in part reconstructed from others 
 of earlier date, as some of the strings and weatherings cor- 
 respond closely with those in tlic Chancel. From a rude 
 sketch' of Cole's we learn that tlie Clerestory contained plain 
 Tudor windows of three lights, probably of the same date 
 with the east and west windows. In his time also the roof 
 was leaded ; it is now covered with tiles, which were substi- 
 tuted for the original covering in 1798, the lead being sold 
 to defray, in part, the expense of the repairs. 
 
 There is a south Porch of Tudor character, 
 very poor in design and much patched with brick. 
 The interior door-^v■ay is finely moulded, and once had jamb- 
 shafts, of which the capitals alone remain. There is also a good 
 north door-way with bold continuous roll-and-fiUet moiddings. 
 
 Porcli. 
 
 ::j^$^ 
 ^^^ 
 
 N^"" 
 
 3^ 
 
 lF,.,l 
 
 This is of the oiigmal Early-English work, the walls of both 
 the Aisles below the windows having apparently never been 
 
 ' There is also a poor engraving of the Church in its present stale in the Gentleman's 
 Magazine, Ixx. p. ''>2I.
 
 20 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 Tower. 
 
 disturbed. This is proved by an Early-English string, which 
 is carried underneath the windows internally, and rises in an 
 elegant stilted hood above the door-ways both on the nortli 
 and south sides. The edge of the arch on the inside of the 
 north door-way is chamfered as far as the impost with great 
 nicety and characteristick effect. 
 
 The Tower, which stands at the west end of 
 the Nave, is a very poor and plain composition of 
 late date, and quite devoid of ornament. It is embattled, has 
 diagonal buttresses at the west end, and is divided by string- 
 courses into three stages ; the uppermost of which has square- 
 headed wndows, of two lights, on each face. The west window 
 is Tudor, of three lights. At the south-western corner is a 
 newel-staircase, which encroaches on that side so as to thrust 
 this window somewhat northward in respect of the belfry-arch. 
 
 chancel. 
 
 The internal decorations of the Chancel espe- 
 cially deserve our admiration : a rich and lofty 
 arcade of thirteen arches, supported, as Cole says, " Cathedral 
 fashion on fair small pillars, very long and slender," extends 
 along the north and south walls. The shafts are banded at 
 about mid-height, and the arches themselves are cinquefoiled 
 and deeply moulded. These arcades are pierced in a series of 
 couplet lancets, one arch between each couplet being left 
 blank ; but on the north side all the lights have of late years 
 been blocked. 
 
 The Piscina and Sedilia are remarkably elegant, 
 Piscina and ^^^|. ^ particular description is not needed, as the 
 
 Sedilia. '■ . „ , . 
 
 elevation view conveys an accurate idea of their 
 design and details. They are in a mutilated and neglected 
 condition, the green damp and masses of whitewash having 
 permanently injured their original beauty: indeed Cole's re- 
 mark " that the whole Chancel is squalid and dirty," might
 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY-IIINTON. 21 
 
 no long time since have been with too great justice appUcd 
 to its condition, at least if its ancient state be admitted as 
 the standard of cleanliness, order, and perfect repair; though 
 some improvement has lately taken place, chiefly in conse- 
 quence of a drain having been carried round the outside 
 of the walls. The arrangements of the Altar are wretchedly 
 meagre and paltry, with a tasteless Reredos in the revived 
 Pagan style, erected by W. Watson, brother to the Bishop 
 of S. David's, as the follo-odng Epitaph on a slab in front 
 of the rails testifies; 
 
 HERE LYETII THE BODY OF 
 
 MR. WILLIAM WATSON, BORN 
 
 AT HULL IN THE COUNTY OF 
 
 YORK. IN TESTIMONY OF HIS 
 
 LOVE TO RELIGION AND THE 
 
 DECENCY OF GOD's WORSHIP 
 
 HE BEAUTIFIED THIS CHiVNCEL 
 
 AND ERECTED THIS ALTAR: AND 
 
 m GRATITUDE TO THE PLACE OF 
 
 HIS NATI^aTY, ENDOWED 
 
 THE HOSPITAL THERE BUILT BY 
 
 HIS BROTHER THOiLVS LORD 
 
 BISHOP OF SAINT DAVID's. 
 
 HE DIED DEC. 2. A.D. 1721, 
 
 AGED 84. 
 
 On the same slab are engraved his arms — on a chevron 
 between 3 martlets, 3 crescents, for Watson. 
 
 The ancient stalls, Cole tells us, had, even in his time, 
 gone to decay from damp and neglect. There are scarcely 
 any vestiges of them at present; their place being supplied 
 by some deal forms for school-chikken. 
 
 The Chancel is divided from tlie Nave by a 
 
 Chancel Arch. 
 
 lofty arch, of three channeled or fluted orders, 
 springing from clustered piers. The croAvn of the arch has 
 been much injured by an ugly square mndow, opened just 
 above it, for what possible reason it is very difficult to con- 
 ceive. Whatever may have been its use when first made, 
 its present mischievous effects are very apparent; for the
 
 22 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBEIDGESHIRE. 
 
 arch ha\dng been thereby weakened, and a settlement of the 
 foundations of the southern pier taken place, this part of the 
 Church has been placed in no small peril, as is evident from 
 a considerable thrust outward of the east wall of the south Aisle. 
 The plan of the piers is complex, consistmg of five beaded 
 shafts, between each of which a smaller nook-shaft ascends, 
 as in the Nave piers, and passing through the astragal, dies 
 into the capital. Thus on each side three shafts are pre- 
 sented to view, both from the Chancel and the Nave; and 
 from the latter, where they group continuously with the 
 similar members of the northern and southern responds, a 
 cluster of considerable depth and beauty is produced. 
 
 The Pulpit, which, together with the Reading- 
 Puipit and ^^^g -g ^£ j^^g Jacobean work, was in 1829' re- 
 
 Reading-pue. '- 
 
 moved from its former position against the second 
 pier of the north side, to the north-west corner of the Chancel- 
 arch — probably its original, certainly its most appropriate, place. 
 The Rood-screen is of late Perpendicular cha- 
 
 Rood-screen. it-, • ■ r ■ • 
 
 racter, and nttle merit; a portion ot it is repre- 
 sented in the engraving. 
 
 ' Parish Accounts, July 1S29. " Agreed that the Pulpit and Desk should be removed, 
 and two Pews erected in tlieir place."
 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY-IIINTON. 
 
 23 
 
 Nave. 
 
 Tho lower panels, as late as 1774/ were curiously painted 
 witli Our Lady of Pity, S. Mary Magdalene, and other Saints, 
 " though chiefly decaying" : they are now quite obliterated, 
 as the -whole screen has been painted oak colour. Bloinefiold' 
 also mentions the legends — ^Joljnnncs ticclus, Uirgo illrtttc 
 picinti's tt — iiilan'a ^alomcr, jWan'n illagtjalcue, as existing when 
 he wrote. 
 
 The Nave is separated from the Aisles by 
 rows of five deeply moulded Early-English arches, 
 " very costly finished," says Cole, " but not in so high a taste as 
 the Chancel-arches." The four piers, and two responds, consist 
 of half shafts, having elaborate stilted bases on square plinths : 
 the plan and mouldings of all these are given in the wood- 
 cuts. The form of the arches is what 
 is technically called drop, or something- 
 flatter than equilateral : the mouldings of the 
 labels, architraves, and bases, are of rich de- 
 tail and delicate execution. The last, as might 
 be expected, are much mutilated, not only 
 from damp and its usual concomitant, the 
 cankering green mould, but from the soft- 
 ness of the material (clunch), and the havock 
 made on them by encroaching pues or the 
 careless occupants of contiguous seats. It is 
 not very often that we find in a country church 
 Nave piers and arches of pure Early-English 
 work, at least of the more finished descrip- 
 tion ; for where they do occur of this date 
 they are almost invariably ]ilain, the piers 
 single round or octagonal columns, and the 
 arches having simply chamfered edges. The 
 Nave being, for the most part, unencum- 
 bered with pues, allows these fine piers to 
 be seen in their full proportions, and the 
 
 ' Cole, vol. ix.i Blomef. Collect, p. 2. 
 
 * MSS. Collectanea, p. 341, Gough Coll.
 
 24 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 effect is particularly good. The roof, which was erected on 
 the fall of the Clerestory about 1792, is an unsightly structure, 
 with the compartments between the tie-beams cieled at the 
 collar and sides. 
 
 The Aisle wmdows are of late Perpendicular 
 character, but, as we have said, stand in all pro- 
 bability upon the basement part of the walls of the original 
 structure. The roof of the north Aisle is good, of plain 
 slanting timbers, resting on embattled corbels, which are 
 supported by angels bearing shields, emblazoned with the 
 following charges: — i. The Cross of S. George, ii. Three 
 Crowns, for the Bishoprick of Ely. iii. A Fess between two 
 Chevrons; probably for Sir John Lisle, of Wilbraham, K.G. 
 and High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 1353. iv. A Fess 
 between six Annulets; probably for William Avenell, who 
 sat in the Parliament of Edward III. in 1328, or John 
 Avenell, of Gamlingay, High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire 
 1377. V. Three Escallops within a bordiu-e engrailed, vi. 
 Three Pallets. The third of these shields occurs also on 
 the E-ood-screen at Barton Church, and on the south door 
 at Little Wilbraham. The sixth coat is probably that of 
 S. Peter's College, and is an interesting testimony to the 
 antiquity of three instead of four pallets in that shield, the 
 bearings of which have lately been contested. The roof of 
 the south Aisle is of somewhat plainer character. It is 
 much to be regretted that the west end of the north Aisle 
 is blocked off, and irreverently used as a dust-hole and rubbish 
 depositary — an idle and unseemly custom, very common in the 
 churches in the neighbovu'hood of Cambridge. The Avestern 
 part of the Nave also, in front of the Belfry-arch, is encumbered 
 by a pile of deal boxes for the use of the singers, the entire 
 removal of which, so destructive of the symmetry and effect 
 of this noble Nave, is greatly to be desired. Vy'^e must not 
 forget to mention that the Aisles have, externally, some poor 
 and coarse lion-head gurgoyles, and the mndow labels are all
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERRY-IIINTON. 25 
 
 terminated by heads, of shallow and wretched execution, but 
 very singular in costume: tlie hair is long and flowing, and 
 over the brow is a jewelled circlet. The style resembles 
 tliat of Charles I. or II. more than any other that we are 
 acquainted with; and as every one of the Perpendicular 
 ■windows has the same, (that in the Tower alone excepted, 
 which presents most melancholy contorted visages), precisely 
 similar in form and feature, we should conclude that all the 
 tweuty-four heads had been run in plaister from the same 
 mould, had we not serious doubts about the permanency of 
 that material for so long a period. But to return to the 
 interior, (out of which we have for a moment stepped to 
 view the Aisle -windows from without,) the Belfry- 
 
 Belfry-arcli. . ■, f ■ ^ • • -j. 
 
 arch IS worthy oi particular attention, since it 
 indisputably proves the existence of a church on this spot 
 before the erection of the present structure. The jambs are 
 clearly of semi-Norman character, though the arch itself is 
 four- centered, of the date of the Tower. The jambs are 
 square and massive, having shallow abaci at the impost, 
 chamfered on the under edge, with a nook-shaft on either 
 side of the eastern face. 
 
 The Font, the basin of which is probably coeval 
 
 with the earliest part of the Church, stands to the 
 west of the fiftli" pier of the Nave, close to the south door : it is 
 circular and perfectly devoid of ornament, and is now supported 
 on a single cyhndrical shaft, which in 1811' was substituted for 
 the Jive on which, in Cole's time, it stood ; on the west side is 
 a rude and much mutilated kneeling-stonc. 
 
 The Manorial Chapels at the eastern extremities 
 
 Chantries. ■ /- i .ii rr 
 
 of the Aisles were, m Cole's day, still screened off 
 by their Parcloses ; the lower panels of which were paintctl 
 
 * We may remark once for all, tliat in our descriplions we always reckon from the east. 
 
 ' In the Parish Books we find — "Aug. 13, 1811. Item, a Stone Bcdestal (sic) to support 
 the Font at the Church, 3, 4, 6, making a hole through do. for pipe 0, 5, (i. bringing it in 
 a cart, 0, 18, 3." 
 
 E
 
 26 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 with Saints and other figures : on that to the south were 
 portraitures of a Man and Woman in prayer, in the habit of 
 the time of Henry VI., with an inscription running partly 
 round the Chapel — - 
 Orate pro animab 3)o!)ts ^fjrjplntof (or ^[jcnplcto) rt iWargarctc fflliorig t\w. 
 
 Cole also describes a Piscina as ex- 
 isting here ; tliis is now plaistered up : 
 the Parcloses have likewise been broken 
 down, and huge square baized pews 
 erected on the site of the Chapels. 
 
 There are also several 
 
 Seats. 
 
 other large square pews 
 immediately about the pulpit and the 
 Chancel-arch ; but the greater part of 
 the Church is fitted with plain deal 
 benches, by which the " complete oaken 
 seats," mentioned by Cole, have been 
 almost entirely supplanted. A few 
 oaken benches, however, with singular 
 
 mw'^wm
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERRY-IIINTON. 27 
 
 but rudely worked poppy-heads, still remain in tli(> north 
 Aisle, on one of which we can read a fragment of an in- 
 scription, 
 
 — ca i trro. 
 
 Blomefield gives us the following devices and inscriptions 
 as existing, in his day, on the heads of the seats :" — 
 
 On the North side : 
 
 1. Slbt iWarin (Tuacin plena. 
 
 6. Givacc folluntl) Gobcrnaunrr. 
 
 8. A Sow-golder blowing liis Horn. CDr ijou 6c loo in 2£lrlll)c 6c luar. 
 
 9. A Fool in a hood with a Pipe and Ball, ilitjit mg ^Pypc E lucl plag, 
 
 anl) tojit mu 33al jf I man. 
 10. A Harpy. iMancrjiS mabjitlj i*lan. 
 
 On the South side: 
 
 3. A Man playing on a Reboek. ?i?crtc 6c (cciuc, I)cvtc 6c tvcfoc. 
 
 7. A Man bidding his Beads. Ituj)! gctj)n (Soot), gcujit nt ngcnn. 
 
 10. A Pelican in her Piety. Sit ct ©fjristus Dilcxit. 
 
 11. CFccc SlnttHa Somfnt fiat rntcfii sccunOum bcihum tutim. 
 
 On the Seats of the South side : 
 
 1. 33clcftabi in 3omino. 
 
 2. A Man only. IZTimor iWorttS conturtat mc. 
 
 3. (Slovia in ctcclsis I3eo. 
 
 Of all these not one is to be found at the present day. 
 
 In the centre of the Nave lies the ancient 
 
 Altarslonc. iii i-i-r-z-i i-i 
 
 Altar-slab, charged with its live Crosses, which are 
 still visible, though nearly effaced by the constant tread of feet. 
 Its dimensions are 6 ft. 3 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. It is greatly to be 
 desired that this consecrated stone might at least be rescued 
 from the profanation to which it is now necessarily subjected, 
 from its exposed and unprotected situation. For we should 
 consider that this very slab, on Avliich we so lightly and care- 
 lessly tread, has been by a most solemn ser\ice dedicated to 
 God ; indeed few relicks of antiquity possess deeper claims to 
 
 " Colleclan. Caiilab. p. 2. Liber Traiiscrii)(oiimi I'.lieus. pp. 311, SIS.
 
 28 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 veneration than the displaced Altar-tables of the mediseval 
 
 Church. The existence of these, though generally unsuspected, 
 
 is probably by no means uncommon, especially in the more 
 
 retired village churches. We believe that until some examples 
 
 were discovered by the researches of the Cambridge Camden 
 
 Society, none were certainly known to have escaped the frenzy 
 
 of Puritanick profaneness. A list of not fewer than thirty entire 
 
 and midoubted specimens is given in the fourth edition of the 
 
 " Plints on Ecclesiastical Antiquities," and more are being almost 
 
 daily discovered. Particular search, however, and a knowledge 
 
 of the places where they are most hkely to be found, namely, as 
 
 in the present instance, either m the middle of the Nave, or by 
 
 a door-way, where all would be compelled to tread upon them, 
 
 are necessary. Frequently the Crosses are so nearly effaced, 
 
 that only one, or even a part of one, exists. At the east end 
 
 of the north Aisle of Coton church is an Altar-slab with only 
 
 the central Cross remaining ; in the Nave of Impington slight 
 
 traces of one exist on a large oblong stone in the Nave: at 
 
 Little Horkesley, Essex, there are two, one of which has been 
 
 converted into a slab for a Brass : at Lydd, Kent, a very perfect 
 
 one is laid down in the Nave : at Jorvaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, 
 
 the Altar remains entire, ha\ing never been taken down : and 
 
 it is probable that hundreds might yet be found with the crossed 
 
 face reversed, but still unbroken, in the pavement of chxu'ches. 
 
 The Crosses, it is almost needless to add, are symbolical of the 
 
 Five Wounds. It was customary at the consecration to set on 
 
 fire small parcels of incense laid upon each of them, and it is 
 
 probable that they Avere also touched by the Bishop with holy 
 
 chrism. 
 
 The Communion Plate is entirely modern, with 
 Communion ^.j^g exception of a silver chaUce of the date 1569, 
 
 Plate. '■ 
 
 ornamented with bands of arabesque foUage worked 
 in gold: it bears the inscription " For the Towne of Hyntoun 
 IN Cambrygsher."
 
 Monuments. 
 
 S. ANDREW, CHERRY-HINTON. 29 
 
 There arc at present no brasses nor ancient 
 monuments in the church ; in Cole's day there was 
 by the Priest's door a brass of a Priest in his Eucharistick 
 vestments, of which he gives a rude sketch. In the Cliuncel lies 
 a skib 9 ft. in length by 3 ft. 9 in. in breadth, with the matrix of 
 a tlowered Cross of Decorated date, between a crescent and a 
 star, supported on a lion : there is another smaller slab in the 
 Nave, Avith two or three mutilated Lombardick letters of the 
 legend stUl to be traced : this latter is probably coeval with the 
 church. Against the north wall of the Aisle are two tablets of 
 the sixteenth century, possessing but little merit. They are 
 now fast rotting away, and the inscriptions are well-nigli 
 obliterated ; we are induced to give these epitaphs, copied from 
 Cole, not as approving of their frigid tone, but merely with 
 the view of perpetuating them : — 
 
 FRANCISCUS WISUS NUPTIS MIHI CROMWELL ET BUTTON 
 
 SEPTEJJAQTJE OLIM PROLE BE.VTUS ERAM 
 ADDICTUS LEGUM STDDUS VIT^EQUE PROBAT.E 
 
 POST ANNOS MORIOR SEPTUAGINTA SENEX. 
 
 Obit 5 Junii, 1589. 
 
 Above is the following shield : 
 
 Party per Pale, G-ides and Sable, 3 Chevronels Ermine, for Wise ; impaling 
 Sable, on 3 Hurts as many Choughs Or, within a Bordure engrailed Gules, on 
 a Chief Vert an Eagle displayed Argent, for ITnttoii. Crest, a Ram's Head 
 Sable, issuing from a Ducal Coronet Or. 
 
 On the other monument we read — 
 
 HIC JACET AXNA SUO CrOMWELL \aCINA MARITO 
 
 NUNC CONSORS TUMULI QUvE FUIT ANTE TORI. 
 
 CONJUGIUM D0PLICI DITABAT PIGNORE WISI 
 CONCEDENS FATIS MATER IIONESTA SUIS. 
 1.55G. 
 
 The north wall of the Chancel is disfigured with several 
 unsightly but costly tablets of black and white marble, to tlie 
 Serocold family ; and there are a few inscribed slabs in different 
 parts of the Church, but possessing no interest.
 
 30 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 Bells. 
 
 The Tower contains five Bells, of which two 
 have been recast, and bear only the names of the 
 Vicar and Churchwardens for the time being; but two 
 preserve their ancient and pious legends, 
 
 3. ©mnis populus tcrtf plauliite Sornino. 
 
 4. ©urn J^ssnlmts bemtc nt) 33ominum. 
 
 Cole mentions also " a small Saints' " (or Satice) " Bell — 
 hanging near the Pulpit," on the top of the Parclose separating 
 the north chapel from the Aisle. This too has perished. 
 
 There is not, at the present time, a single 
 
 Stained Glass. c • i i • • • n i i 
 
 n-agment oi stained glass remaining m the church. 
 Blomefield and Cole give us a list of the coats formerly existing 
 in the Clerestory, among which the Royal Arms of England, 
 and those of the See of Ely, were of most frequent occurrence : 
 they also preserve the foUowmg inscriptions in memory of the 
 Benefactors, by whom the windows had been glazed: 
 
 In the first Window on the North side — 
 
 ©vatc pro aia6us l\ob. ©nnnctocKc ct benefactor suov. 
 
 In the fourth AVindow on the same side — 
 
 Orate pro aiabus 3)of)annis ££trji{)t et liob. ^urSere. 
 
 Besides which, Blomefield mentions a Avindow containing por- 
 traitures of the Apostles, with scrolls issumg from their mouths 
 containing passages fi-om the Creed. 
 
 There was also in Blomefield's time a painting of S. Chris- 
 topher over the north door, the usual position of this Saint. 
 
 The material of which this, in common with most of the 
 Cambridgeshire churches, is composed, is clunch internally, 
 and Barnack and Ketton ashlar on the outside. The former 
 material, if kept fr-om the effects of damp and weather, is very 
 durable, and retains for many centuries its original sharpness 
 without the least deterioration ; in the present instance it 
 has suffered from damp.
 
 S. ANDREW, CIIERRY-IIINTON. 
 
 31 
 
 „, , .. . Tn the chiu'ch-yard, near the south Porcli, is 
 
 Cluircli- 1 ai\l •' ' ' 
 
 Cross. the mutilated stem of a stone Cross, possessing 
 no particuh\r architectural features, but apparently of early 
 date. 
 
 The following ISIeasurements of the principal parts of 
 the Church will be found, it is hoped, to gi^'e additional 
 •\alue to the foregoing description and accompan}ing illus- 
 trations ; 
 
 Cfjnnccl. 
 
 Total length internally .... 
 
 Ditto width ...... 
 
 Height of Priest's door internally, from ground to toji 
 of label ..... 
 
 Width of ditto . . . . . 
 
 Height of ditto in the clear externally 
 
 Width of ditto . . . . . 
 
 Leng-th of Piscina and SecUlia from east to west 
 Height from ground to string under lancets internally 
 Projection of buttresses (below set-oft') 
 Breadth of ditto ..... 
 
 Depth of weathering .... 
 
 Projection above weathering . . . . 
 
 Width of lancets in the clear 
 
 Height of ditto ..... 
 
 feet 
 
 42 
 
 inches 
 
 G 
 
 21 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 G 
 
 G 
 
 2 
 
 !> 
 
 l-t 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 1 
 
 C 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 iiabr. 
 
 Total length internallj' 
 
 Ditto width, between plinths of piers 
 
 Width of aisles, between walls and plinths 
 
 Height of piers from ground to top of capitals 
 
 Diameter of ilitto 
 
 Plinth, square .... 
 
 Height of ditto .... 
 
 07 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 G 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 8
 
 10 
 5 
 
 32 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHHIE. 
 
 feet inches 
 
 Height of base above plinth . . . .12 
 
 Depth of capital ..... 10 
 
 Projection of ditto . . . . .06 
 
 Width of arch mould from label (inclusive) to soffit 1 7 
 
 Span of arches, between plinths . . .9 
 
 Span of belfry-arch . . . . 10 
 
 Heiglit of piers of ditto, fi'om ground to top of impost 15 9 
 
 Thickness of wall across the jambs . . 3 9 
 
 Total height of north doorway, inside . . 10 7 
 
 Ditto width ..... 58 
 
 Total height of south doorway, inside . .12 
 
 Ditto width ..... 74 
 
 ^ctotr. 
 
 Length internally from east to west . . . 15 4 
 
 Ditto width, from north to south . . 11 5 
 
 forct). 
 
 Length internally from north to soutli . .13 
 
 Ditto width, from east to west . . . 11 2
 
 w 
 
 n-A 
 
 i 
 
 ,^ 
 
 ,^> 
 
 !:M!l
 
 D'>7lt|L>^Ijil>"t«itc9ue«i 
 
 JftfeTior of (SljBarr! .
 
 i
 
 Priest's Door (intenurj, 
 
 Art-li MouM, ^f,lil 
 
 Door, N'orlli At&Ie.
 
 ' l' 
 
 "^ ' - 
 
 Base of Nave Piers. 
 
 BasG of Sliafts, Chancel Arcade. 
 
 Capital of Nave Piers. 
 
 ^:) 
 
 v 
 
 Capital, Chancel Door. 
 
 t 
 
 Capital of Shaft, Piscina. 
 
 Base of Shaft, Sedilia. 
 
 Base of Shaft, Piscina. 
 
 r" 
 
 % 
 
 .y' 
 
 Band of Shafts, Chancel Arcade.
 
 ,y 
 
 ..i! -'4
 
 ...^m*jMl^ 
 
 ■-■i.wtdus litU 
 
 C M IE lRm"r SL I H T © ^? , 
 
 ''^i^
 
 Zvntn^inatott eijurcf). 
 
 ft. ft 
 
 Chancel . 39 by Hi 
 
 Nave . 57 b'v 20 
 
 Tower . l;i by 12J 
 
 ft. ft. 
 
 N. Aisle ) „ , „ 
 
 Cbapcls . 2« by 1:! 
 
 At Trompynton, not far fro' Caiiibrigge, 
 There goth a broke, and over that a brigge, 
 Upon tlic wliyche broke ther stant a nicll; 
 And tliis is very soth as I you tell. 
 
 The Hive's Tale. 
 
 5oj/EAV of our Cambridgeshire Villages arc 
 more known to fame tlian that, the 
 ^ Ecclesiastical antiquities of Avhich it is 
 
 o/;^^--— ~^^So/ the object of the subsequent pages to 
 in-\-estigate ; few names strike more fa- 
 miliarly on the ear. This notoriety the village 
 of Trumpington in some degree owes, of coiu'sc, 
 to its position, whence its privilege of giving 
 name to the principal street in our University 
 town. But perhaps what degree of celebrity 
 it has attained to is in some measure due 
 to its having been enshrined by Chaucer in his 
 "pure well of Engli.sh undcfilcd," the scene of 
 his witty but not very decorous tale abo^c quoted being 
 entirely laid in this lierc-tofore unrenowned \illage. Of tlie 
 mill where the plot of tlie tale is ])layed out, Carter states, 
 in his History of Cambn'ch/cs/iiir, (p. 289, Loud. 1819,) that 
 only the ruins remained ; and now these have disappeared, 
 and e\'en its site is by no means certainly known.
 
 34 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHHJE. 
 
 Trumpington for as it is, as usual with 
 
 Village. . '^ 
 
 names, variously spelt in records of different dates, 
 Trtjmpitone, Trompeton, or Trumfyton,) lies about two miles 
 south of Cambridge on the London road, in the Hundred 
 of Triplow, Archdeaconry of Ely, and JJeanery of Barton. 
 The old form of writing the name agrees with the bearings 
 of the ancient family,' which indicate the origin of the name. 
 It is described by Cole^ as 
 
 " One of the most pleasant Villages in the Kingdom ; being on a good 
 Soil, a jilcnsant Ri\er running liy it, fine Meadows about it, and surrounded 
 
 with deliglitfiil Groves, and on a fine Turnpike Road. There are two 
 
 Verses" continues he, " in every body's Mouth, on seeing the Tower of the 
 Chureh, tojiping the lofty Trees which surroinid it on every side, said to 
 be Chaucer's also, 
 
 " TriHiipingtnn, Trompington, God be tliee with, 
 Tliy Steeple looks liUe a Knife in a Sheath." 
 
 The pertinency of the comparison we must confess to 
 being quite unable to perceive ; there is not, to our eyes, the 
 slightest resemblance in the tower of the church to the above- 
 mentioned object. We can only presume, in justice to the 
 poet, that the character of the steeple has been altered since 
 the writing of this distich. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin and 
 S. Michael, or to S. Nicholas,' and is a Vicarage in the 
 gift of Trinity College. In the Vetus Valor, or Taxation of 
 1255, Trumpington Rectory is taxed at 20 marcs, and the 
 Vicarage at 10 marcs' j. in 1291, the time of Pope Nicholas' 
 Taxation, the value of the Vicarage had decreased, the entry 
 here being, " Ecclia de Trumpiton xx m. Vicaria ejusdem 
 V lib." About 1306, we again find from the Archdeacon's 
 
 ' Of this see Monumental Brasses, published by the Cambridge Camden Society, p. 05. 
 
 ^ MSS. vol. viii. p. 51. 
 
 ^ B!omefie]d"seems to consider that the Church was more probably dedicated to S. Nicholas; 
 but the lust Valor makes it dedicated to S. Mary and S. Michael. It may have changed its 
 dedication between the two dates, as was the case with the church of S. Peter, now of S. Mary 
 the Less, in this town, 
 
 ' Baker, ix. 66.
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 35 
 
 book that, the Vicarage was valued at 100 shillings; and in 
 the Taxation of Henry VIII., ov tlie King's Books, it stands 
 at 10(5 sliillings and 8 pence.' It pays first-lVuits, and lO.v. 8c/. 
 yearly tenths, and is iucai)able of angnientation.' By will, 
 bearing date 1672, Herbert Thorxdike, the cver-meniorablc 
 author of ' The Priniiti\ c- Government of Churches' and 
 ' A Discourse of Religious Assemblies,' who was also Fellow 
 of Tiinity College, and died a Prebendary of Westminster, gave 
 the lease of the Tithes, worth about £140 per anninn, to the 
 Vicarage, upon the condition that the ^^icar should always 
 be resident on his cure." In 1728' the Vicarage stood at 
 near £200 per annum, and is now rated in the Liher Ecde- 
 siasticus at £241." About 1806 it paid H*-. \(J. for Synodals, 
 18rf. for Procurations, and 4.s\ for Peter's Pence." Fleetwood' 
 says, " Ecc Trumpinton solvit P'curat 0, 5, 0, Vicaria ejusdem 
 0, 1, 3"; and in 1516 we have the entry hi the Archdeacon's 
 book," 
 
 Syaod. drii. boat. Pet. Procunit. 
 
 xiiijc?. iij*. xviijrf. 
 
 the same year also 13^/. was paid for Ely Farthings^ 
 
 The Abbey of S. Alban, as well as several 
 *Pr"o'^"-t"''' other religious houses, held property to some con- 
 siderable extent in the parislt of Trumpington. 
 Selden, in his History of Tithes (p. 329. Ed. of 1618), quoting 
 from INlattliew Paris's Lives of the Abbots of S. Alban's, 
 tells us, that the Tithes of this parish wcn-e given to that 
 
 < Val. Eccl. p. 500. ■'' Blomcf. Collect. |>. 235. 
 
 ^ Bishop Greene's Visitation, 1728. 
 
 ' About 1720 the Tillies were valued at .£S0; and thenceforward the Vicars resident p;iiil 
 £12 annual rent, in lieu of fine at the renewal of tlic lease every seven years. But in 1794 
 the lease was sold, and the interest of the sale-money is paid to the \'icar in half-yearly pay- 
 ments of jglo. 
 
 ' The Vicarage land in ail contains SO.v. 3r. 9i'., the church-yard being 2r. 20p., the house 
 and grounds occupying 2a. 2ii. 12r. The house, which stood on the Rectory, was secured to 
 the Vicar by the Enclosure Act about 1802. 
 
 ' Archdeacon's Book. ' Cole, N.xii. 2(). 
 
 » MSS. Cains, 170, p. 1!). » Ibid.
 
 .36 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 Abbey in the time of Henry I.; and in the Placita de Banco, 
 in the time of Edward III., we find that the Abbot of S. Alban's 
 impleads Henry de Swet, parson of Trumpington, that lie 
 would pay him £20, which are yet owing him of the annual 
 income of £b : and the cause of the debt is, that the aforesaid 
 Abbot and Convent have granted the said Eector, and his 
 successors for ever, to farm all the Tithes which they have 
 been wont to pay in Trumpington, with a certain yard and 
 barn. And the Abbot produces a deed of the Bishop of Ely, 
 bearing witness to the truth of his statement. The Abbot, 
 therefore, recovers the said annual income and the said arrears. 
 The Abbot's portion, in 1291, was taxed at Sli. 6s. 8d. 
 
 The Prior of Lewes also had a share of the 
 Tithes of this parish, arising from a demesne 
 originally belonging to William de Cay ley, wliich he must have 
 acquired before the year 1225 ; for in the Hegistnim de Lewes, 
 fol. 24:5, w'e find that in this year there was a dispute between 
 him and P. de Rivatt, the Rector of Trumpington, concerning 
 the Tithes of this demesne, and that 11. Dean of Wilbraham, 
 Mag. T. de Tenda, and Mag. S. de Norhampton, were dele- 
 gated by Pope Plonorius HI. to examine into the matter, who 
 gave it in favour of the Prior.' In 1291 his portion was rated 
 at £3 ; but in the return sent by Bishop Montacute to the 
 brief of enquiry, as to the property held by the alien 
 Priories in his Diocese, Nov. 18, 1339, he states, that 
 though the Prior's portion had been formerly taxed at 60*., 
 yet even then he had only been able to raise two pounds, 
 and that now and for the last twenty-five years past he had 
 been able to get nothing, inasmuch as the Church Avas 
 declared to be released from that portion, and a prohibition 
 had been placed upon its collection in this place.* At the 
 Dissolution this was granted to Thomas, Lord Cromwell." 
 
 •' Ciile, viii. ' Cole, xxiii. .30, 
 
 ' Origin. 29 Hen. VIU.
 
 TRUMPINGTON. .^7 
 
 M 
 
 Camden states in his Biit;iniii;i. (n. 110. I^d. 
 
 Ely. 
 
 of 1695,) that Brithnoth, Earl of the East Angles, 
 gave a INIanor in this parish to the Ahbot and ConAcnt of Ely, 
 in the time of King Ethelrcd the .Second, a. u. L)9'J ; and be- 
 I tween the years 1045 and lOGG, among the other possessions 
 confirmed to them by King Edward the Confessor, the name 
 of ' Trumpitone in comitatu Grantecestre ot extra Insulani 
 Elyensem' occurs.' It does not appear when this Manor was 
 alienated from the ]Monastery, but it is not mentioned in records 
 of later date. 
 
 The Prior of Barnwell held property in tlie 
 Bislemede pai'ish to the amouut of thii-tecn shillings per ann.; 
 
 besides which he claimed £1 6s. Sd. as his annual 
 portion of the Tithes. Two parts of his tithes were given to 
 the Abbey by Picot^ The Prior of Bissemede, in Bedfordshire, 
 also had land rated at £2 2s. 2(1. annually.'' 
 
 We may now, in this place, refer to the Li- 
 
 Nonae Rolls. -^ ,. 
 
 quisttiones No?iarum of the time of Edward III., 
 in A\hich mention is made of the ' portions' above cited, as a 
 reason for the Ninth not reaching its true value. The entry is, 
 
 Tni'pitoiie 
 Taxatur xxxijK. xiij.?. iiijj. 
 
 Id' r' do sij''. xv''. de fxlia nona garb' veil' & agii' Joli'i lo \A'al.ssh, .luli'i 
 de Comberton, Juh'i Bygot, WiUo atto Grave, & aliis liuibiis ejusdem poeh' 
 comiss' cujus ecelia cu vicaria ejusdem cu poreoibus Abbatis de sto ^Vlbauo, 
 prior' de Bernewell & prior' do Lewes tax' ad xxxij''. xiy. uiyL ct sic eadem 
 uona noil attingit ad taxa p xx''. xj*. viij'A nee attingero potest causis siip- 
 dcls consUbz sic compt' est p Sacramoiituiii Willi atto Grave, &e. coram pra'fatis 
 assossoribus juris. 
 
 The prmcipal Manors in Trumiiinston Mere 
 
 Manors. ^ ^ '^ ^ -^ => 
 
 Cayley's, Arnold's, Beaufoe's or Crochcman's, and 
 Tincote's, besides several of less importance. It is not tlie 
 design of this work to enter at all into tlie Manorial history 
 
 ' Colo, xxii. Hist. Aug. Scrip, vol. iii. |i. 493. lioiuliain's lily, p. S I-. Append, ii. 
 ' Diigilalo M<iiiasl. ii. 'ii. » Pope Nicli. Ta.x. p. 2li8.
 
 38 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 of tlie parish, except so far as it connects itself with the 
 Ecclesiastical history; we leave this valuable but intricate 
 department to the County historian. 
 
 The chief Manor in the place was anciently 
 
 AdvOWSOll. /•/-,! rii 
 
 esteemed to be that oi Layley, or irumpmgton 
 de la Pole, to which the Advowson of the church belonged', 
 and which was held under the Earls of Winchester, as early 
 as 1237, by the family of Cayley. In the Hundred Rolls, 
 in the 8th year of Edward I., 1279-80, we find that 
 
 " Simon do CayJi holds in the Town of Trumpiton, one messuage with a 
 garden comaiDiug four acres, &c. and holds the Advowson of the Church. 
 But as to the Advowson we know not whether he hath any Warrant or no." 
 
 The doubts concerning the possession of the Advowson 
 would appear to have been settled satisfactorily; for in the 
 Inqiiisitiones, in the time of Edward II., we find that Johes 
 de Kaily tenet unum feodum in Trumpitone, et valet per an. 
 10', cum Homag', et Advoc' Ecclie.- In this family the Ad- 
 vowson remained till about the year 13-43, when the Nuns 
 of the Priory of Haliwell, near Shoreditch, in London, pur- 
 chased it of the heirs of John de Cayley.' 
 
 Having obtained the Advowson, they appear 
 
 Appropriation. ^ . 
 
 to have been extremely anxious to become pos- 
 sessed of the Rectory also, and would seem, from certain 
 expressions in the deed of appropriation, to have besieged the 
 Bishop of Ely with continual petitions to that effect : to these 
 he at last gave ear; and on the 18th of January, 1313, Bishop 
 Simon de Montacute issued letters from his manor of ])o^vn- 
 ham, appropriating the Church of Trumpington to the Sisters 
 of Haliwell. The deed opens in the following manner :' 
 
 " Simon &c. See Religiouis Mulieribus Priorisse et Conventui de Haliwell, 
 juxta London', ordinis sci Augustini, Salutcm &c. Sane vestra fi-equens & 
 assidiia nobis Pcticio continebat, quod cum tanta sitis, absque culpa vestra, 
 paupcrtate depresse notoria, & Ere alieno gravate, vestrique Prioratus posses- 
 
 ' Lysims, p. 269. ' Baker, xxviii. p. "241. 
 
 ' Ougd, Mon. Angl. iv. 391. 
 
 ' Cule, xxiii. 2j. Baker, xi. lit. Extr. from tlut liisliop's Register.
 
 TIUTMPINGTON. 3fl 
 
 sionos adco sint temios ct exilus, quod nisi aliunde vestre subvoniatui- Iiicilic, 
 non sufficiunt jii-o vestra sustontacoo consrua &c. Eecllani do Truiiipotim pi'i- 
 St! euratam, vostri Patronatiis, ciijus Rodditus & Pi'ovontus annui in xx I-ibris 
 sterlingor', prout anipliiis ad dcciniani solvit' pro eadem, taxant', nos ox 
 caiisis predictis nobis exliiUitis vobis v(-nir<> in nsus vestros pi'oprios ronctHlore 
 niisericorditcr cm-aronius." 
 
 And he goes on to the following effect, 
 
 " That Iiavina: made lurthcr on((uirinsf, and fin<liii2; all trur that lia<l bocn 
 allodged, with the consent of the King, of John do (_)llbrd, Archdeacon of Ely, 
 and the Chapter of Ely, by Ills Pontifical authority he aitpropriates it to their 
 use ; reserving the power to himself and his successors of increasing the \"icar's 
 portion, and of building him a house at tlic expense of the Priory, especially since 
 'he who serves at the Altar should live by the Altar'. Which Vicar on any 
 vacancy he orders them to present to the Bishop of Ely for Institution; and 
 states, that on the next vacancy of the Rectory they may enter on |)ossession 
 without any further trouble. lie moreover orders the Priory to pay an annual 
 Pension of Gs. Sd. sterling to the Archdeacon of Ely, arising from the fruits 
 and profits of the Church of Trum])eton : and after they are in quiet possession 
 of the Church, that they find a fit and proper Priest (cajjablo however of being 
 removed at the ])leasure of the Prioress) to celebrate Mass, at the Altar of 
 S. Ethelrcda, within their Priory, for the soul of himself, both during his life 
 and after his death, and for the soul of King Edwanl (the Third), and for the 
 souls of his (the Bishop's) Father and Mother, and for the soul of William de 
 Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, his brother, and of tht; Bishops of Ely, and all 
 the departed faithftd. lie then ]iroceods to order them to celebrate his 01)it in 
 theii' Convent every year, and annually to give to the Poor two (Quarters of 
 Wheat in Bread of the same kind as they eat in the Convent." 
 
 And concludes with a direction, 
 
 " That inasmuch as heretofore the Prioress and the Convent have received 
 nothing for their Clothing, 'nisi ut prajtermittantur Caritativa obsidia mendicata,' 
 the Prioress should receive 20.?, the Subprioress \0s, and every Nun C*. 8(7. 
 from the Revenues of the Church of Trumjiington, to be employed in purchasing 
 them the garments of their order." 
 
 The Convent of Hali^\'ell appears to have remained in 
 
 undisturbed possession of the Rectory until the Dissolution, 
 
 when it was granted by Henry VIII. to the Master and 
 
 Fello\\s of Trinity College, in the University of Cambridge, 
 
 to Avhom it still belongs, and who arc also Patrons of the 
 
 Vicarage. A book of Valuations, nearly coeval with the 
 
 foundation of the college, sets the llcctory at the annual 
 
 rental of £23 5s. in 1538.
 
 40 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHHiE. 
 
 In the Archdeacon of Ely's Book, preserved 
 ArciHieacon's ^mons- the MSS/ of Caius College, is the following 
 
 Bonk. '^ " - 
 
 account of the ornaments of this Church, drawn 
 up about the year 1306, and corrected before 1349. 
 
 " Trmpiton. non app'ata, ibi Rector et Vicar,' [in a later hand the words 
 non, il)i Rector et, erased and Priorisse de Haliwell inserted] taxatur ad C.s. 
 soliiit p sinod. ij*. iiij'^. pcur' xviij'^. den. Sci Petri iij'. ornamta sunt hec. 
 Missalc. ij Antiph 'bona, et aliud uet' legenda. ij Tp.ia'^. 1 Manuale. MartUog. 
 iij salt'ia.' p'cessionar' sup gradali. iiij paria vestimentorum integra cu 
 p'tinenciis, calices, et dalmatica. una Tunielia. ij cappe chori. iiij suppellicia. 
 
 ij. Rochete. volu bonu. pLxis fons sub s'ura.^ crismatoriu. ij cruces. iij phiole. 
 
 j ifrontale. Statuta sinod. [all that follows in a late hand] Capa chori de dono 
 Nichi quoda Rector' d'ce Ecclie. j Casula de dono dni Rog. de Trompeton. 
 j vestim integrum dono dni Nichi quodam Rector' ad Altare beate Marie. 
 It'm unu Missale novum de dono dni Nichi quodam Rectoris dee Ecclie de 
 tmpetone." 
 
 In the eighth year of King Edward I., John 
 Bernard held one acre of land, for the finding of a 
 lamp to burn in the church; andGcoff"ery, the Clerk, held seven 
 acres of land for three lamps, in pure and perpetual alms." One 
 Robert Gardener, in his will dated June 21, 1500, left his 
 body to be buried in the church-yard of Trumpington, and 
 five marks to buy lands for the repair of the Church.' And 
 in 1503, J. White bequeathed to the Church of Trumpington 
 forty shillings for the purchase of a Missal, and also all his 
 lands after the death of Alice, his wife, for an Obit, as well as 
 for the ornaments and repairs of the Church. In this same 
 year also, Robert Barchur, Vicar of Grantchester, died, and left 
 his " Liber de virtutibus et vitiis" for the use of this Church'. 
 There are also later benefactions recorded on tablets in the 
 Church; one of " Thomas Allen, gent., related to Mris. Baron, 
 who gave to ye towne of Trumpington nine acres of land 
 at ye yearly rent of three pounds, for ye putting of poor boys 
 
 = MSS. cciv. " Troperia. ' Psalteria. 
 
 « Sub scrriira. Under lock and key. ° Rot. Hund. 8 Eihv. I. 
 
 ' Blomcfield's MSS. Colliis. Gough Colin. No. 349. ' Baker, xvi. 15!).
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 41 
 
 out apprentices. Jan. 2'2n(l, 1681." And another'' of " jMr. 
 AMlliam ^Vustin, tailor, of Triunpington, who, by will dated 
 l(i79, gave fourteene acres of arable land, in Bottishani, pur- 
 chased on one Chippy of y" said towne, to put out foiu- of 
 y' poorest children to scoole, born in y" towne of Trunipington ; 
 until they can read a chapter in y^ Holy Bible perfectly, and 
 then a Bible given them, & they dismist, & others of y" said 
 towne to proceed as aforesaid." He also left 20.s\ a year for 
 coals for the poor, and 205. a year " to repair y" footway lead- 
 ing from y"^ house of John Pecke Baker, where his motlier 
 lately dwelt, to y"" Church of y' said Trunipington." The 
 school estate now amounts to 21a. 2r. 16p., situate in Botti- 
 shani, as settled by Enclosure Award. Mr. Thomas Allen, 
 of Stanning, in Sussex, but latterly resident in Trunipington, 
 added to the ring of bells a treble, and bought Emmanuel 
 College pul[)it, and put it in this Church ; he also left £3 
 a year for putting out poor children to apprenticeship. These 
 benefactions are jiroperly commemorated at the register of his 
 burial, Sept. 6, 1092. — Stephen Perse, M.D. Fellow^ of Gon- 
 ville and Cains College, left to this place, as connected \\ ith 
 Cambridge, the privilege of admission of boys to his Free 
 Grammar School in Cambridge. 
 
 The follo\ving is the most complete catalogue of the Rectors 
 and Vicars' of this Church that we have been able to collect. 
 
 Ucctors. 
 
 'Peter de Rivatt . . . before 1225 
 
 ■^Nicholas . . . before 1293 
 
 'Henry de Swet . . . before 1.337 
 
 Richnril Berdo de Ledbury, .sen. . . . l.'l'^T 
 
 ' Cambridgeshire Cli.-iritics, p. 184. 
 
 * A Vicar of Trumpington unliajjpily stand.s the representative of an ignorant clergyman 
 in an anecdote of the fourteenth century, when tlie ignorance of the clergy was notorious. — 
 Strype's Aylmer, p. 190, ed. of 1821. 
 
 ' In this year there is a dispute between him and tlie Prior of Lewes, concerning Tithes. — 
 Cole, xlv. 191-5. " Balicr, x.wiii. 211. 
 
 ' His name occurs in the Placila ilc Banco, temp. Ed. III. 
 
 G
 
 42 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 ^Richard Berde de Ledbury, juu. 
 'John de Herle 
 
 'Nicholas de Drayton 
 
 Thomas de Ledbury 
 
 William de Dykelesburgh, resigned 
 
 Simon Brond 
 
 Henry Valentine, died 
 
 ^John Punche 
 
 WiUiam Stepy de Holtoft, res. 
 
 ^John Bardy, res. 
 
 WUIiam Forster, res. 
 
 John Bradley, died 
 
 John Karlill . 
 
 ■■John Stoghton 
 
 ^John Glandefeld 
 
 Reginald West 
 
 John Barber, died 
 
 Edw. Brough 
 
 Richard W ilkin son 
 
 WiOiam Palmer 
 
 WUIiam Pollard 
 
 John Holte or HaUe 
 
 Jeremy Radcliffe 
 
 Samuel Heron, B.D. res. 
 
 WiUiam Barker, B.D. res. 
 
 GUes Askam or Ascham, M.A. res. 
 
 John Overall, B.D. res. 
 
 1343 
 1343 
 
 1339 
 . 1343 
 
 1345 
 . 1346 
 
 . 1375 
 
 . 1389 
 1392 
 
 . 1393 
 1.395 
 
 . 1445 
 before 1527 
 
 . 1538 
 
 . 1553 
 1556 
 
 . 1564 
 1567 
 
 . 1573 
 1580 
 
 . 1589 
 
 1589-90 
 
 1590-1 
 
 . 1591-2 
 
 ' He was appointed on tbe resignation of liis father, tile former Rector; but the same year 
 exchanged it with John de Herle for Doddington. 
 
 " He was the last Rector, the Church being this year appropriated to the Nunnery of 
 Haliwell. ' He was Vicar in IStl. Cole, xxiii. 32. 
 
 ■ He is mentioned as Vicar in 1377, Reg. Consist. Eliens Cole, xli. 57. 
 
 " He was Rector of the Mediety of Teversham, which he exchanged with Holtoft for 
 Trumpington, and again exchanged that for the Rectory of Quendon with W. Forster. 
 
 * It has been asserted that Skelton, the poet, was Curate of this parish about this time : 
 the only authority for which is to be found in p. 272 of his Works, ed. of 173C, where at the 
 end of a few lines of doggrel Latin we find, " Apud Trunipinton scriptor (sic) per Curatum 
 ejusdem quinto die Januarii, a.d. secundum computationem Ailglicanam m.d.vii." The 
 Author of the forthcoming Life of the Poet (Rev. A. Dyce) has favoured us with this opinion 
 in explanation : " That the Curate of Trumpington had written out the verses composed by the 
 Rector of Diss ; and that the former had borrowed them from the latter for the purpose of 
 transcription, is rendered probable by two lines which occur soon after, 
 
 * Hanc volo transcribas, iranscriptam moxqtte remittas 
 PageUam, quia sunt qui mea carmina norunt.^" 
 
 ' Bak. xvi. 171.
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 
 
 43 
 
 Thomas Bolton, M.A. res. 
 
 <'Fr;mc-is Sa\age, B.D. and Fellow, res, 
 
 Thomas Proude, B.D. and Fellow 
 
 J. Palmer, B.D. 
 
 Zachary Pasfield, res. 
 
 ''Samuel Hill, B.D. . 
 
 William Barton, M.A. res. 
 
 William Daldns, B.D. res. 
 
 George Ducket, M.A. 
 
 Thos. Kitchen, B.D. 
 
 William Sterne 
 
 Walter \\niitgroave, B.D. 
 
 'George Stanhope, B.D. 
 
 Anthony Topham, B.D. 
 
 ^Theodore Crossland 
 
 Thomas Ashton, res. 
 
 Francis Halfhead 
 
 'Nathaniel Willis, B.D. . 
 
 William Herbert, M.A. 
 
 Thomas Copinger, died 
 
 Benjamin Southwood, M.A. 
 
 William Bayley, B.D. and Fellow, tlietl 
 
 William Linnett, res. 
 
 "^George Modd, M.A. and Fellow, res. 
 
 Edward Bathurst, M.A. and Fellow, died 
 
 ^John Hacket, D.D. and Fellow, res. 
 
 ^John Barnwell, D.D. and Fellow 
 
 William Morgan, D.D. and Fellow, res. . 
 
 Henry Davis, B.D. and Fellow, res. 
 
 *Jolm Powell, B.D. and FeUow . 
 
 Samuel Peck, M.A. and FeUow, res. 
 
 ^Thomas Heckford, B.A. and Scholar, died 
 
 ^JOHN HiULSTONE, M.A. 
 
 1592-3 
 
 159-1 
 
 . 1595 
 
 1596 
 
 1599-1600 
 
 1602 
 
 1603-4 
 
 1605-6 
 
 . 1611-12 
 
 before 1622 
 
 1610-17 
 
 1610-17 
 
 1636 
 
 1638 
 
 . 1642 
 
 1641-2 
 
 1643-4 
 
 1654 
 . 1674 
 
 1679 
 . 1693 
 
 1695 
 . 1719 
 
 1732 
 . 1746 
 
 1747 
 . 1703 
 
 1705 
 . 1779 
 
 1817 
 
 ' The date of liis presentation is Oct. 13, 37 Elis.; that of T. Proude, Nov. 20, 37 Elis. 
 
 ' Presented by tlie Bisho}), by lapse. — 7?c£-. Ileton. 12. 
 
 ' G. Stanhope was presented to Flintham, and did not come to Trumpington. 
 
 ' Cole, viii. 9. ' Reg. Wren. p. 34, " resignat V'icariam in manus Dni.' p. 38. 
 
 ' These persons were more or less conspicuous in the disputes of Dr. Bentlcy. See his Life, 
 by Bishop Monk. Of Mr. Modd it is related, that like his predecessor. Dr. Lynnet, he continued 
 until past fourscore years old, to attend morning prayer daily in the chape], at six o'clock. 
 
 ' He built the chief part of the present manse, then upon the Rectory. Cole, viii. 52. 
 A portrait of him is still existing in the Vicarage. 
 
 ^ He was promoted to Camps in 1765. 
 
 ' Mr. Heckford was only a Bachelor Scholar of Trinity at the time of his presentation. 
 
 ' In 1788 elected Woodwardian I'rofessor; he retained the otlice until he accepted this 
 Benefice.
 
 44 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 The names and dates in this list subsequent to 1589, 
 are taken from the series of lease books of Trinity College. 
 The first of these does not contain any presentations. 
 
 In the preceding catalogue there are some names which 
 call upon us for some particular notice. Among these is 
 that of Peter de Rivatt, connected as he probably may be 
 with the following sad picture of the corrupt administration 
 of justice, given us by Matthew Paris, in his Ilistoria Major^ 
 as he was, it would appear, Eector of Trumpington at the 
 date of this event. 
 
 " A.D. 1259. Contigit quod juvenis quidam transitum faceret per quendam 
 viculum iu Trumpinton; & cum oblatraret euni canis, ut eum coinposceret 
 lapidem incaute jactavit, qui lapis ex obliquo resiliens, unam contrivit casu 
 gallinam cujusdam muliercula?. Quod ipsa exiens vidit et, clamore querulo 
 elevato, multos Adcinorum congregavit. Juvenis autem hoc casu contigisse 
 humiliter cum juramento oLtestans, pro gallina ejus valorem, et in duplo 
 amplius pro ofteusa, ratiouabiliter offerebat : mulier autem improba liKC omnia 
 recusaus ultioni iiicubuit uberiori. Quidam autem serviens WilUelmi de Valentia,^ 
 procax, et ex tanto domino eornua sumens, insontem arripuit juvenem, et 
 arctissimis vinculi-s inearceravit constrictum, ubi infi'a paucos dies arctatus 
 supra modum expiraxdt. Sacerdos autem advocatis ^■icinis, cum de innocentia 
 ipsius juvenis certiflearetur, ipsum corpusculum super sterquilinium projectum 
 per biduum et fcetidum, in camiiterio factis utcumque exequiis, tumulavit. 
 Contigit autem ut post triduum illuc transiret WiUielmus de Bussey. Audiens 
 vero qu<e facta fuerunt, jussit extrahi corpus a tumulo foetens quatriduanum 
 & suspend! patibulo. Hajc vero omnia & his similia facta sunt sine judicio, 
 sed non sine vdtione a Domino. Uxor autem mortui super ha;c conquesta 
 prosequitur mortuum, & Judex justissimus nequissimo nunc Judiei facta rependit 
 iu interitum." 
 
 In 1280, we find from the HuncU'ed Rolls, that the Rector, 
 probably Nicholas, held fifty acres of land, and a messuage 
 containing one rood, in pure and perpetual alms.' 
 
 On the 6th of February, 1341, we learn that Nicholas 
 Drayton had leave granted him to hear the confessions of his 
 parishioners.' 
 
 ' Page 985 of the last edition, by W. Watts, s.t.d. 1640. 
 
 ' William de Valentia was the uterine brother of Henry III., and W. de Bussey, his 
 seneschal and principal counsellor, " cujus sceiera si plene describerentur, speciales exigerent 
 tractatus."— Mat. Par. p. 984. ' Hot. Hund. 8 Edw. I. ' Cole, .\xiii. 46.
 
 TUUMPINGTON. 45 
 
 On the 9tli of the kalends of June, 1346, the church-yaid, 
 ■which is stated to have been " sanguinis effusione poUutum," 
 was reconciled by Bishop dc Insula ; who, as an act of special 
 favour, received only fixe maixs for so doing, though he might 
 have demanded one hundred shillings for this service.' 
 
 John Punche, Vicar, was in 1377 summoned before the 
 Consistory Court of Ely, and suspended, for not taking care 
 to administer the Sacraments to his parishioners in due form, 
 and for contemptuously refusing to carry out the order of the 
 Court. After\\ards however he submitted, and was restored.' 
 
 There is another entry to somewhat the same effect, in the 
 
 Registrwm Consist. Ellens, fo. 162. a. which states that 
 
 "Johannes Viearius Ecclie de Triuupinton, al excommuiiieafus et denuu- 
 ciatus it'rateque citatus ad respondend, quare non dcbeat inhiberi Coioe 
 fidelium, non comparuit : idco reputamus ipsum contumacem et inhibemus 
 sibi Communionem."* 
 
 In the Register of Bishop Thomas de Arundel, under the 
 year 1380, we find from the following entry that leave was 
 granted to the Convent to lease out the Church of Trumpington 
 to Barnwell Abbey for five years. 
 
 " 1380, 30 Mai. Conces. lie. Prior'e et Monialibus de Halywell, Eceliam 
 de Ti'umpynton dimitteudi ad finnani Priori et Convontui do Bernewell p 
 quinquennium.'" 
 
 In 1595, Mr. Provide was rated for his Vicarage of Trum- 
 pington to find jointly with the Vicar of Grantchester one 
 Pike furnished. And in 1G09, Mr. Kitchen was rated, with 
 the Vicars of Grantchester and Haselingfield, to find one pair 
 of Curols, with a Pike furnished. 
 
 March 5, 1643, the fanatic Dowsing paid his sacrilegious 
 visit to this Church ; upon which there occurs the following 
 entry in his journal ; '■ W(> break down 3 superstitious pictures, 
 and ordered Mr. Thompson to level the steps, but he refused." 
 M'hcther any attempt was made to enforce this order we know 
 
 ' Reg. de Insula. " Cole, xli. 61. Ucg. Consist, fo. HO, 3. 
 
 * Cole, xli. ion. » Reg. Arundel.
 
 46 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 not ; at any rate the steps, if then destroyed, were subsequently 
 restored, and exist at the present day; the superstitious pic- 
 tures, that is most probably the painted windows of the Chancel, 
 bear sadly evident marks of Puritanic violence. 
 
 In 1676, we learn that the inhabitants were 135, no re- 
 cusants, and 4 Dissenters. At the Visitation in 1728, the 
 entry was, 
 
 " Vicarage near £200 per an. Trinity College, Patron : Dr. Hackett, 
 'X'^icar ; Herb. Thornclike gave the lease of the Tithes, with a particular dii'ec- 
 tlon upon the Vicar always to reside; Families, 62; Souls, 372; 9 Independents: 
 a new House ; a charity School, £6 per an.; Alms House for .3 women ; 20.?. to 
 repair the Footway to the Church. £3 for cloathing 8 Boys." 
 
 Of Dr. Hackett above-mentioned Cole has the following 
 note," which is a good specimen of the petty tittle-tattle of 
 which this great scandal-monger was so fond. 
 
 " Dr. Hacket quitted tliis Place on a Quarrel with liim & Mr. Porter 
 Thompson, whom he got Dr. Bentley to expel from Trinity College, where 
 he was FeUow-Comoner, upon an idle frivolous affair : & Mr. Thompson in 
 return insisted upon his Residence here, w'^'' not suiting with Dr. Hacket, 
 ye concerns of a Parish being ye last in his Thoughts, he resign'd it." 
 
 Dr. Hacket died in 1745, Rector of Pakenham; he was 
 grandson to Bishop Hacket, of Lichfield. 
 
 The population at the census of 1841 was 750 ; the number 
 of acres in the parish about 2200. 
 
 The oldest Parish Register commences with the year 1671. 
 It contains little of interest: a Hst of successive Vicars ii'om 
 1638 ; a list of collections made in the church on sundry briefs, 
 oftenest for losses by fire ; and a few special cases of damage, 
 as "for loss by an earthquake at Kettlewell, in Yorkshire, 
 0. 04. 41. Aug. 5, 1688;" "from filing and pillaging by French 
 Privateers, at Druridge, Northumberland, Sept. 25, 1692;" and 
 for relief of captives at Algiers. 
 
 There was a Chapel, dedicated to S. Anne, in 
 
 chapel. 
 
 the street of Trumpington, which in 1399 had a 
 serving Chaplain, and a Hermit, who in 1280 held seven acres 
 
 » Cole, viii. 53.
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 47 
 
 of land in Madingley, at 9d. a year.' The Chapel and the 
 Common Road between Cambridij^e and Trumpinj^ton were 
 repaired by Indulgencies granted by the Bishop of Ely." 
 
 Is a uniform and beautiful specimen of rather early Decorated 
 architecture, erected probably in the latter part of the reign 
 of Edward II." It is spoken of by Mr. Rickman in high terms 
 of admiration, and is deservedly considered to be equal, if not 
 superior, to any of coeval date in the County. The original 
 plan, consisting of a Chancel, Nave, two Aisles, with North 
 and South Chapels respectively, and western Tower, remains 
 uninjured by any subsequent adcUtions, repaii-s, or even muti- 
 lations of importance, if we except the demolition of a Chantry 
 or Sacristy on the north side of the Chancel, and the de- 
 struction of the noble high-pitched roof of the Nave, which 
 is she^vn by the weather-mould on the Tower to have formerly 
 been of most imposing proportions. It is probable also that 
 the Tower origmally had a wooden spire covered with lead ; 
 for though no vestiges of it can now be traced, it may safely 
 be asserted as a general ride, that aU Towers, previously to 
 the decline of architectiu'e in the fifteenth century, were 
 furnished with a termination which must be regarded as 
 essential to the fuU development of the principles of the 
 pointed style.' 
 
 ' Rot. Hund. 8 Edw. I. " lilomcfield's Collect, p. 235. 
 
 ° As mention is made of a church before this time, there can be no doubt that the present 
 structure superseded one of earlier date. The only remains, however, that we can discover of 
 this previous building, consist of the base of the S.W. nave-pier, which is evidently Karly- 
 English, and never belonged to the column it now supports. 
 
 ' We are aware that on this subject dillerence of opinion exists; but we entirely agree with 
 Mr. Pugin, that Towers of the Early- English and Decorated styles were always intended at 
 least to have spires. The absence of them now proves nothing, because they were in many 
 cases, even in Cathedrals, of wood, covered with lead or shingles. The decay of the material, 
 and the cupidity of church destroyers, sufficiently accounts for so few of the original spires
 
 48 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 The Chancel is a very finely-proportioned struc- 
 ture, 39 feet long by 16 wide. The east window 
 consists of five trefoliated lights, and has elaborate and rather 
 curious geometric tracery, composed of quatrefoils at the top, 
 a series of trefoils next below, and one of cinquefoiled triangles 
 immediately above the heads of the lights. The inside is 
 furnished with jamb-shafts, and above, externally, is a gable 
 light, consisting of a quatrefoiled circle. Of the gable-cross 
 the saddle-stone alone remains. The roof is high-jiitched, 
 but modern, internally at least, where it is neatly groined 
 with wooden ribs, and cieled in the interstices. The piscina 
 is double, and very beautiful in its details: the plan will 
 best be understood by the accompanying engraving. The 
 cill of the south-eastern Avindow, which is of three plain inter- 
 secting lights, is carried down nearly to the ground, and if 
 in its original condition, which is very doubtful, probably 
 served the purpose of Sedilia. The next window on the 
 south side contains the whole of its ancient stained glass, 
 a very valuable and beautiful specimen of Decorated design. 
 The ground is a mosaic pattern, with a blue border orna- 
 mented with oak leaves ; in the centre, under rich canopies, 
 are figures of SS. Peter and Paul; and in the large trefoil 
 which forms the head of the window are three leopards con- 
 joined. Underneath this window is seen externally a low 
 mutilated recess, probably the Founder's tomb ; and it is not 
 impossible that the composition of the window has some 
 reference thereto, although it is evident, from considerable 
 fragments yet preserved in the east window, that more stained 
 glass of similar details originally adorned the Church. In 
 the western bay, to the south, is a very small priest's door, 
 
 remaining at the present day. The subject is one of great importance in reference to modern 
 designs, for which reason we take tlie present opportunity of recording our deliberate opinion, 
 that an early Tower without a spire is a solecism. [The above was written before the verses 
 quoted in p. 31 came to our notice. These seem to place the truth of our conjecture beyond 
 a doubt, since the resemblance of a spire to the sheath of a knife is at once intelligible.]
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 
 
 49 
 
 measuring only 2 feet wide by 5i liiyh ; and immediately 
 over it is a third window, of the same design as the last. 
 To the west of it, internally, is a recess, apparently con- 
 nected with that unexplained arrangement called by the 
 Cambridge Camden Society the Lychnoscope.' The north 
 wall contams a blocked doorway into the Sacristy, and t^\■o 
 windows corresponding to those on the south. Of the Hood- 
 screen the lower panels alone remain, forming the side of 
 a pue. The Chanccl-arch springs out of the wall on each 
 side, but is too plain to need a more particular description, 
 especially as it is shewn in the engraving of the Interior. 
 
 Chancel Piscina. 
 
 ' See some interesting and curious remarks on this arrangement in a note in p. 04 of 
 tlie " Introductory Essay" prefixed to the recent Translation of the First Book of Durandus. 
 (Green, Leeds.) 
 
 H
 
 50 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 Nave. 
 
 Nothing can be finer of its kind than a view 
 from either of the Chapels, looking towards the 
 west, of this noble building. The slender but lofty complex 
 piers, the graceful equilateral arches, with capitals and archi- 
 volts exquisitely moulded, the dimly-lighted clerestory^ of 
 quatrefoiled circles on the north and trefoiled lancets on the 
 south side, the grouping of the piers, and the windows in 
 the distance beyond, of the opposite Chapel in one direction, 
 and the lofty and deeply-moulded Belfry-arch in the other, 
 combine to produce a variety and harmony of effect such as 
 is seldom found in ancient churches of this size. The strik- 
 ingly fine proportions and delicate execution and detail of 
 the piers and arches are indeed sufficient to excite the 
 admiration of every beholder ; and were the eye not arrested, 
 as it unhappily is, by the almost flat termination of a modern 
 roof, instead of losing itself in the lofty and sombre space 
 between the open rafters, of which we may assume that the 
 original one was composed, the effect would be imposing in 
 the extreme. The length of the Nave is 57 feet by 20 wide, 
 affording a space of about 9 feet for the span of the arches, 
 of which there are five on each side. 
 
 The Aisles are each pierced with three beautiful 
 
 windows of three lights, all of them original, and 
 
 but little injured by time or violence. The tracery is good, 
 
 though rather heavily wrought: those at the east end have 
 
 disengaged cinquefoiled lights, while those in the side walls 
 
 ' It may be remarked, that clerestories are of very uncommon occurrence in parochial 
 churches of the fourteenth century, and in the Early-English style were almost unknown. 
 Bourn church, however, atTords an example of the latter, and Elsworth and Bottisham, all in 
 Cambridgeshire, of the former. The first two are low, and lighted by foliated circles. A 
 Norman clerestory occurs atSteyning, Sussex, Goring, Oxfordshire, and S.WooUos, Monmouth- 
 shire. It was very common in the fifteenth century to remove the original high-pitched roof 
 and surmount a superadded clerestory with a low one, preserving the same ridge-line as before. 
 This, for example, has been done at Chesterton and Fen-Ditton, where the old weather-mould 
 may still be seen. The lancet-lighled clerestories in modern Early-English designs can scarcely 
 be defended by ancient practice. There are instances, however, at Bosbury, Herefordshire, 
 Salehurst, Sussex, and S. James, Deeping, Lincolnshire. We must not omit to quote the 
 remark of Mr. Rickman, that the clerestory lights in Trumpington church are over the piers, 
 and not, as usual, over the arches.
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 51 
 
 and those in the Chapels alternately consist of intersecting 
 foliated lines continued from the mullions, and of tliat form 
 which may be conveniently designated as /icf-trarcri/, i. e. a 
 series of foliated loops, not inilike the extended mcslies of 
 a net. The proportions are about 7 feet Avide by 14 liigli. 
 They are all furnished internally with jamb-shafts, having 
 elaborate capitals and bases. Tlie window arches are nearly 
 equilateral. 
 
 The Chapels are coeval with the rest of the 
 
 Chapels. 
 
 Church. Their arrangement will readily be under- 
 stood by a reference to the ground-plan. They ojien into 
 the Aisles by two arches, which spring from piers different 
 in design from those in the Nave, and the eastern of which 
 in the north Chapel is filled with a beautiful Decorated ogee 
 arch, with double-feathered ciuquefoiled cusping, forming a 
 cano^jy to a liigh tomb, on which, infixed in a slab of 
 Purbeck marble, Ues a full-sized mailed effigy in brass, (well 
 known to Ecclesiologists as being at once one of the oldest 
 as well as of the finest and most perfect in the kingdom,) 
 of Sir Roger de Trumpington, who died in 1280.^ For an 
 account and engraving of it we must refer to the Bfotnnnenfal 
 Brasses of the Cambridge Camden Society, Part ii. p. 65, 
 where a vignette of the tomb is also given. A correct idea 
 of it may be formed from the side view obtained in our 
 engraAuig. Round both the Chapels and the Aisles a triply- 
 moulded string is carried underneath the windows, and 
 brought with fantastick inequality over a doorway opening 
 into the north porch in the western wall of the former. A 
 corresponding square-edged string, or rather weathering, is 
 carried round the outside so as to embrace the buttresses, 
 which are aU of bold but simple design, consisting of two 
 stages, Avith plain sloping heads and set-offs. 
 
 ' It may be questioned whether this Brass was not originally laid down in ihe earlier 
 Church, since the slyle of the canopy .ind tomh is mncli later than that of ihe armour.
 
 52 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 The south Chapel is used as a school-room, and is some- 
 what mutilated and disfigured from this and other causes. 
 There is an elegant little Piscina in the south wall, and 
 
 chantry Piscina. 
 
 Font. 
 
 part of the eastern pier has been cut away, perhaps for a 
 screen or other appurtenance to the Chantry Altar. In the 
 south Aisle there were tUl lately several coped coffin lids 
 with floriated crosses, but these, one only excepted, have now 
 disappeared. 
 
 The Font is of good Perpendicular character, 
 octagonal, having sunken panels -with, roses and 
 shields.^ It stands imder a western gallery, Avhich partially 
 hides both it and the noble Belfry-arch, with its curious 
 stilted bases. With this solitary exception, the interior ar- 
 rangements of the Church are creditable, the greater part of 
 the Nave being fitted with open seats, and only a few of 
 the pues bemg of undue or offiensive prominence. 
 
 * A particular description is deemed unnecessary, as an excellent model of it may be 
 obtained in Cambridge, and it has before been engraved.
 
 TRUMPINGTON. 
 
 53 
 
 There are two Porches, in the usual position 
 north and south, and immediately opposite to each 
 other. The southern one has, however, been nearly destroyed. 
 The mouldings of the inner doorways are continuous, and finely 
 worked, but being of cluncli arc a good deal decayed. Of 
 this material much of the internal masonry is composed, and 
 it has retained throughout, unimpaired by time, the finest 
 touches of the chisel. 
 
 The Tower is a good though not highly enriched 
 composition. Internally it is built of finely squared 
 and jointed clunch', and externally, in part at least, of Barnack 
 stone ; though the whole of the exterior of the Chiuxh is so 
 covered with cement, that the stone-work can only here and 
 there be seen. The western doorway is singularly fine, having 
 
 Tower. 
 
 West Door, intcrnallj'. 
 
 ■' No one can have failed to observe how sehlom the ancient Gothick architects used cither 
 large stones or fine joints in their masonry. To find this peculiarity at a time when no cost 
 was spared, and when the extreme delicacy of workmanship in minor details was unsuq)as5ed
 
 5i 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIKE. 
 
 very deep and bold continuous mouldings. Inside, the pointed 
 arch is surmounted by a segmental hood, supported on slender 
 shafts. Above is a fine window of three Hghts, lately restored 
 it) cement, and having both the side lights disfigured by a 
 modern transom. The various stages of the Tower are or- 
 namented with single lancet -windows, with variously foliated 
 heads. The Belfry-windows are plain, of two lights, and the 
 parapet is surmounted by a battlement." We must not omit 
 to mention a very singular recess in the lower part of the 
 northern wall of the Tower. It is a small niche, formed in 
 
 
 Sance-Bell Recess. 
 
 by that of any otber age, is to convince us that it was not destitute of a sound practical reason. 
 Modern builders boast of their superior skill and greater neatness of workmanship in these two 
 respects. Compare for example the new buildings of King's, S. John's, and Downing Colleges, 
 with any ancient building, collegiate or ecclesiastical, and we shall see the most striking diffe- 
 rence in the respective styles of masonry. The modern buildings are constructed of very large 
 squared stones, with joints of almost imperceptible fineness ; the ancient, of hammer- dressed
 
 THUMPING TON. 55 
 
 the thickness of the wall, ami tmnini>' westward with an arched 
 head. It is entered by a narrow doorway about 6 feet high, 
 and is only large enough to contain one person within it. 
 This recess is popidarly and traditionally called the CDiifessioiutl; 
 and a narrow slit, now blocked with bricks, but formerly open- 
 ing into the Tower, is thought to have been intended for oral 
 commimication between the penitent and the priest within. 
 
 aslilar with mortar a quarter of an incli thick between every joint. Downing College has now 
 scarcely five square yards of masonry entire ; everywlicre tlic liuge stones are rent and 
 disjointed by the settlement of the foundations. In the new buildings of S. .lolin's by far the 
 greater part of the monolith window-sills are split into two, and in several places the stones 
 have started or been shattered from the same cause. The ancient masonry seems to have been 
 designed to take into account those trifling settlements which are almost unavoidable, and 
 which for the most part take place shortly after the erection of a building, often before the 
 mortar has become bard. It is remarkable that the Tower of Trumpington has sufTered much 
 internally by the disruption of the j?ne-_;o/Hie<i stones from settlements. The attention of architects 
 should be directed to this subject; because, if we mistake not, the ancient bad three important 
 advantages over the modern masonry, viz. (I) a much better appearance ; (2) greater cohe- 
 siveness ; (3) it cost one-third less. We are aware that some late Gothick buildings, as King's 
 College chapel, violated (and with impunity) the more ancient princijde ; and on the other 
 hand, that many edifices built on the old system have suffered from settlements. We speak, of 
 course, only of general practice. 
 
 " There can be no doubt that these arc later in date than the Tower. In the fifteenth, and 
 especially at the beginning of the sixteenth century, a vast number of ancient churches were 
 spoilt by the addition of this singularly inappropriate, because strictly speaking castellated and 
 defensive, termination. When the old wooden spires were pulled down, and the high roofs 
 removed for flat clerestories, the old parapets and blocking-courses were generally sacrificed for 
 the favourite ornament of the Debased period, battlements. The bad efTect of every parapet in 
 a church being thus finished, is well exemplified by the church at Great Shelford. When a 
 church is as completely covered with them as this, it may generally be referred to the Tudor 
 period. A question of much interest and difficulty arises as to the period at which battlements 
 were first used in ecclesiastical buildings. We should only be recording the confident opinion 
 of one of the first authorities of the day, were we to deny their introduction in the parapets of 
 churches till the fifteenth century. Some few examples however have come to our knowledge 
 of miquestioimbhj Decorated date. We may mention the Porch at Over, Cambridgeshire, the 
 rich and beautiful Chapel at Northborough, Northamptonshire, and the Tower of Oakingtoa 
 church, near Cambridge. There are examples, supposed to he very early, at the east end of 
 Salisbury cathedral. Those at Oakington appear, from the closest examination, to be coeval 
 with the Tower, which is very Early Decorated. They are extremely simple, and have no 
 mouldings down the sides of the embrasures, as is usually the case in the earliest examples. 
 From the evidence of early manuscripts and illuminations, we should infer the ordinary use of 
 battlements in churches even of the Early English period. If however we consider the great 
 inaccuracy of detail and composition which invariably characterises these drawings, and the 
 f^ct that everywhere men are represented in armour^ we shall be justified in concluding that 
 battlements are either meant for a fanciful and ornamental termination, or that they were 
 transferred from castellated to church architecture from the military features which these 
 paintings usually exhibit. The UcctUia crcncUandi granted to churches in King Stephen's 
 time probably only refers generally to certain defensive arrangements.
 
 56 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 It is certain, however, that this recess, which is coeval with 
 the structure of the Tower, was designed for the reception 
 of the person employed to ring the Sance-bell; as a small 
 circular hole is still visible in the roof of it, and the side of 
 the slit within the Tower is deeply cut and chafed as by a 
 rope having been reeved through it. 
 
 The BeUs bear the following legends : — 
 
 i. <au( rcgnat et unus i3cus lict munus. 
 
 ii. ®ano busta mort cum pulptta bibcrc ticgi. Omnia fiant aD glorfam iSci. 
 
 T. Eayre, 1749. John Hailes, Thomas Spencer, Churchwardens. 
 
 iii. 1723. 
 iv. "John Barbell made me 1677. Thomas Allen gave me a treebell 
 
 for to be." 
 V. « MC."

 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 5 
 
 ■f 
 
 
 
 
 J 
 
 *y 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 •^ 
 
 :.- -:• 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 ■7, 
 
 
 3 
 
 :i# 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^. 
 
 " -r' \ '-' - 
 
 'f 
 
 
 
 T^'^-'^
 
 Belfry Arch. 
 
 Nave Arches. 
 
 Label, AVest Punr. 
 
 Plan ol' Piers ol' Chapels. 
 
 r!.i.i[i!!'IJl 
 
 Arch Mouldings of Inner Donrways 
 nf Porfh.-s. 
 
 T-Vest Doorway. 
 
 Base of S.-W. Pier. 
 (3 inch to I foot.)
 
 . ■■t>v\\.^-i/ 
 
 Plan of East Window, Trumpington. 
 
 
 Plan of Satice-'bell Tecess 
 
 Scale i fn^K to 1 foot. 
 
 CiU, with Mulhon ajid Jamb-sliaft. 
 
 FA. P. 
 
 Jtrttta2A4 Paimsr,J.\Chc Ct^wn^rulff .
 
 • Plan of Nave Piers. 
 
 Capitals of Window Shafts. 
 
 ' -iiaiii" 
 
 Jamb Sliafls, E, Window. 
 
 String, Internal. 
 
 |k, 
 
 /. 
 
 Label, Sance-Bell 
 Recess. 
 
 Pier, South Chapel. 
 
 Base of Pier. Uelfrv Arch. 
 
 IF 
 
 ^ifi!ifl'?>, 
 
 Base of Window Shafts- 
 
 F. A. P. 
 
 Capital of Nave Pier. 
 
 Base of Nave Pier.
 
 ■ %i-gn r'"-'^ 
 
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 -iT'T TtomiS Stevsn?oii,Ca(rabri3fi[e
 
 fj^f^ton efttttcft* 
 
 ISTON is a rather large village, situated 
 in the Hundred and Deanery of Ches- 
 terton, and Archdeaconry of Ely, about 
 three miles due north of Cambridge. It 
 formerly comprised two distinct Parishes 
 
 and Manors, Avhich have long since been united. 
 
 Of these Parishes we shall treat separately; and 
 
 first of that which appears always to have held 
 
 the principal rank. 
 
 The Cliurch. 
 
 This is a Vicarage, in the 
 patronage of the heirs of 
 T. P. Michell, Esq.; and was lately re- 
 turned to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 
 jointly with the Vicarage of S. Ethelreda, as of the yearly 
 value of £400. 
 
 In Pope Innocent's Taxation, a.d. 1255, this 
 Church is rated at 16 marks, and the twentieths 
 at 105. 8d. The Priors of Halle and BarnweU at that time 
 had portions amounting to 2 marks each. In the Taxation 
 of Pope Nicholas, a.d. 1290, its value is set down as 
 
 I 
 
 Value.
 
 58 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 £17. 6s. Sd.; but in the Archdeacon's Book, which is probably 
 to be referred to about the year 1306, it stands at 15 marks. 
 At that time it payed 2s. 4cL for synodals, 12d. for procura- 
 tions, and 2s. for Peter's Pence. In 1516, the same sum 
 was paid for Peter's Pence, and 9|</. for Ely Farthings. In 
 the King's Books the entry is, 
 
 ' Histon Andree vicar' ^al ... vj vij iiijd 
 
 Xma xij viiij ob. q. 
 
 Cantaria ib'm valet xxvj* viij'' 
 
 Xma ij* viij'''' 
 
 Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely from 1714 to 1723, says, that 
 in his time it paid 5s. for procurations'; at present Is. Id. 
 is paid by the Vicar, and 55. by the Impropriator.' It brought 
 also a 'Pensio' to the Archdeacon, 2s.* In 1571, the Vicar 
 paid tythe to the Crown, xiis. viii^/. ii. quad." 
 
 Manors aii'i Colc" tclls US, that " the viUagcs in elder tymes 
 
 Advowsoii. were wholly of the Fee of the Bishop of Lincolne, 
 and had only two Manors. Henry de Cohalle held two Knights' 
 Fees of the said Bishop in 1238'; and the Abbot of Eynesham 
 oweth Suite and Sheriff's Aid; and there belongeth to the 
 Fee of the said Abbot 15 acres gildable, and held in Soccage 
 of the said Bishop, and oweth Pontage." It appears fi'om 
 the Inquisitiones temp. Edtv. I., that John de Colevyle then 
 held eleven hides of meadow land and pasture there, with 
 the Advowson of the Church of S. Andrew, of the Fee of 
 the Bisliop of Ely, with a view of Frankpledge." In 1344, 
 Sir Henry Colville presented'; and in 1390, Thomas Haxey 
 was presented by Sir William de Thorpe, " qui fuit attornatus 
 dnor Will. Thornyng, Johis de Bretton, et alior ffeofator in 
 oibus terris et Tenement ' suis."' "He," says Blomefield, "was 
 really Patron, though he could not present without a letter 
 
 ' Valor Eccles. v. iii. ' Cole viii. 47. ' MS. 170, Cai. Coll. p. 25. 
 
 ' See MS. 170, p. 153, Cai. Coll. This was the sum due, 1533. lb. p. 1. 
 
 = MS. 170, Cai. Coll. p. \i: ' Cole xlviii. 168. 
 
 ' Lib. Feod. Mil. » Cole viii. 47. Baker xxviii. 204'. 
 
 » Mason, MSS. Gough, No. 65. ' Blomefield's MSS. Cough Collect. No. 349.
 
 S. ANDREW, IIISTON. 59 
 
 of attorney from his Feoffees, who in the hvw had tlie right 
 repositecl in them." Tlie Advowson would appear to liave 
 rcmain("d in the same liands till 18i)'2; in which year license 
 was granted to Thomas Tylncy and otliers, to grant it to the 
 Abbess and Convent of Denney, which had been founded about 
 fifty years previously by INIary de S. Paul, widow of Aymer 
 de ^'alence. Earl of Pembroke, foundress of Pembroke Col- 
 lege in Cambridge. In the Inquisitiones facte A°. 15 liic. II., 
 we liave the entry, " Juratores dicunt quod non est ad damp- 
 num Regis .... si Rex concedat Tho. Tylney et aliis quod 
 ipsi Maneriu de Histon cum Advoc' Ecclie ejusdem .... dare 
 possint Abbatisse et Conventui de Denney, et quod man' et 
 advoc' predicta tenentur de Epo Lincoln' per servic' & ij food' 
 militum."' The Nuns however do not appear to have come 
 into possession of the Rectory before 1418, when we learn 
 from the Register of Bishop Fordham^ that tlie Nuns and 
 their Abbess, Margery, appearing at the Bishop's Manor of 
 Downham by their Proctor, Thomas Lavenham, and the Vicar 
 appearing in person, the Rectory was granted them with all 
 its privileges, and a most minute arrangement entered into 
 between themselves and the Vicar, some of the details of 
 which are very curious, and well deserving of examination. 
 With them the Advow^son remained until the Dissolution, 
 when it was conveyed by the Crovvu to Sir "N^'illiam Bowyer, 
 Knight, Alderman of London. Li 1561, Mr. John Bowyer was 
 the patron*; and in 1599, ' William Bowyer, son of Francis 
 Bowyer, held the Rectorie of Histon- A.ndrew, alias Denney, 
 in Histon." In lfi62, Thomas Coke presented to both the 
 Histons"; and in 1695, Sir Thomas Willis', of Fen Ditton; 
 in 1775, Robert Michell, his grandson, was the patron\- and 
 the patronage still is in this family. 
 
 ' Baker, xxviii. 201. Cole, viii.47i xlviii. 170. ' Baker, xxviii. 36. 
 
 ' Bp. Cox's Visit. An. ' Cole, xlviii. 17(1. 
 
 ' Reg. Wren. 17S. ' Keg. Patrick, 2S7. " Cole, viii.
 
 60 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 In the book of the Archdeacon of Ely, referred to above, 
 is the following catalogue of Church ornaments ; the words 
 in brackets are in a later hand than the rest : 
 
 Ecclia Sci Andree de Histon non ap'p'ata. lit' Rectore. taxatr ad xv marc, 
 soluit p synod, ij^. iiiyl. procur. xijrf. Den. Sa Pet' ij.s. ornamta sunt h. iij. 
 Missalia bona, duo T'pia'. iiij. G'dalia^. j Manuale. j Legenda. j Antiph'. iij 
 psalt'ia. ordiiuilo bonu. niartilog. ij pia vestimtoi-. cu ptn [et alia duo] duo 
 frontal, calix bonus, pix' eburn. et sub s'rura. iiij"' phiole. Vexilla. crux enea. 
 (et alia lignea) item j bonu portiphoriti de done Magri Radl de Croperia 
 quondam Rectoris Ecce eiusde. J. calix ex collatione eiusdem et ita sunt due 
 ealices iiij suppellicia et duo Ilocbete. Collectar'. unu psalt'riu cu scorum 
 Tunica et dahuatica. due cape chori. j t'iblu.' 
 
 The following list of Eectors and Vicars is 
 taken principally from Mason and Cole, though 
 the former is not a guide who can always be depended upon ; 
 especially as he seldom or ever gives any authorities. 
 
 Incumbents. 
 
 Slntors. 
 
 Ralph de Croperia 
 
 Brice 
 
 Giles de Barrington' 
 J. Noketh 
 Nicholas West 
 John Calstyn 
 
 Roger 
 
 Robert de Eltislee 
 William de Selby 
 Nicholas Hethe, ob. 
 Thomas Haxey 
 John Pechell, ob. 
 John Lylye 
 
 temp. 
 
 Ric. I.' 
 
 
 13446 
 
 
 1352S 
 
 . 
 
 1363* 
 
 before 1377'' 
 
 before 
 
 1384^ 
 
 
 1388? 6 
 
 before 
 
 13893 
 
 
 1390' 
 
 , 
 
 1390' 
 
 
 1399" 
 
 ^ Habet. ' Tioperia. ^ Gradalia. ^ Tliuribulum. * Cole, viii, 
 
 * " Egidius de Barrington, Rector Ecclie Sci And. de Histon, dat Priori et Conventui 
 Eliensi quosdani redditus in Lakenliytli." Cole, viii. 43. 
 
 " Mason, Gough Collect. No. 52. 
 
 ' Reg. Consist. Eliens. fol. SS, b. Cole, xli.; he appears as Rector in 13S1. 
 
 » Reg. Consist, fol. 17. 
 
 ' On the 1st Oct. 13S9, license of non-residence for three years was granted to Nicholas 
 Hethe: he died in 1390. Blomefield, MSS. Gough, 349. 
 
 ' He exchanged with Pechell for Lyndford, Lincolnshire Dioc. Ibid. 
 
 ' Ibid.
 
 S. ANDREW, HISTON. 61 
 
 VitBK'. 
 
 William Baker 
 
 
 . 
 
 1418^ 
 
 John Mason 
 
 
 before 
 
 1447= 
 
 John CokotielJ, ros. 
 
 
 
 14.59 
 
 John Garthwayt 
 
 
 
 14G4 
 
 Riclianl Mausoi', ros. 
 
 
 
 
 John Kadclillo 
 
 
 
 1477 
 
 Thomas Pellys, res.^ 
 
 
 
 
 Jolni P(irye, res. 
 
 
 , 
 
 1522 
 
 Robert Chekering 
 
 
 , 
 
 1535" 
 
 John Elwood 
 
 , 
 
 before 
 
 locr 
 
 — Jackson . 
 
 
 before 
 
 1595 
 
 John Slegg 
 
 
 before 
 
 1G38' 
 
 J. Ashley signs the Reg 
 
 ister 
 
 
 1G53 
 
 John Ashlev 
 
 , 
 
 died 
 
 1G945 
 
 Thomas Scaife 
 
 , 
 
 
 1695 
 
 Thomas Scaife 
 
 
 buried in 
 
 1723 
 
 John Scail'e signs the Register 
 
 
 1735 
 
 Edmund Smith 
 
 
 , 
 
 1775 
 
 Jk. Sproiile 
 
 
 
 1785 
 
 T. Edwards, D. D. cxchangeil with 
 
 tlie former 
 
 1789 
 
 Thojias Penrdddocke 
 
 MiCHELL 
 
 . 
 
 1823 
 
 The earliest date of the existing Parish Regis- 
 
 Parish Register. ■ /% -r 
 
 ter IS 1653. It seems to have been ill kept: the 
 Vicar's signature rarely appears. Various names, two or three 
 of note, are recorded in the ministrations in this Cliurch. 
 
 Among the foregoing names, there is none that demands 
 any particular mention, with the exception of John Slegg, of 
 whom we find the following remarkable presentment made 
 at Archbishop Laud's Visitation, held in S. Michael's Church, 
 in Cambridge, in 1638 : 
 
 "Mr. Jo. Sk'gg holdoth two Vicarages upon a jirotended union (one of 
 y^ Churches being demolished in Q. Elizabeth's time), but Mr. Slegg never 
 served the cure himself since he killed the man at Chesterton; neither hath 
 he procured any settled Curate, but takes all the profitts, and getts young 
 
 ' The term ' Cantarista' is used in place of Vicar in tlie account of tlie Visitation, 1539. 
 MS. Ixx. Cai. Coll. . Baker, xxviii. 31). 
 
 ' Commissary-General to the Bishop of Ely ; he resigned on being presented to Heachain, 
 in Norfolk. • Presented by the King. — Parkins' MSS. 
 
 ' Bp. Cox's Visitation Articles. ' Ryraer, xviii. S"9. 
 
 ' Parish Register, whence the remainder are taken ; Carter's Hist. Camb., p. 223. Cole, viii.
 
 62 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHHIE. 
 
 scholars to read prayers' and preach, sometimes one and sometimes another ; 
 but wlic'ther Laymen or no will not be known, because the Ch. Wardens dare 
 not displease Mr. Slegg, and not long since a mans wife there lay dead 
 2 or 3 days, and no one could be gotten to bury her."^ 
 
 Philip de Colvilc, son of Henry de Colvile, 
 founded a Chantry in the Church of S. Andrew 
 about the year 1280/ in honour of S. Mary the Virgin and 
 All Saints, Avhich stands rated in the King's Books at 26s. 8d., 
 paying 2s. 9d. for tenths ; assigning to the Chaplain in pure 
 and perpetual alms a certain messuage in the village of Histon. 
 The Deed of Foundation, which is to be found in the Arch- 
 deacon's Book in Caius College Library,' is rather a tedious 
 document. The following passages which we have selected 
 from it, are the most important and interesting : 
 
 Noverint universi xpi fideles presentes has inspecturi vel audituri quod hec 
 est eonvencio facta inter dnu philippum de eoleuil filiu henrici de coleuile 
 ex una parte et dnu petru de gretton capellanum ex altera parte, vz quod 
 predictus phihppus pro salute anime sue et pro aiabus omnium fidelium 
 defunctorum dedit et concessit deo et beate marie et omnibus seis, et pre- 
 dicto petro et successoribus suis in pura et perpetua elemosina totura illud 
 
 messuagium quod wiUus de la march quondam tenuit in villa de histon ad 
 
 divina in ecclesia sancti andree de histon ad altare beate marie ejusdem ecclesie 
 per se vel per ydoneam personam secundum formam subscriptam in perpetuum 
 
 celebranda viz. quod predictus petrus et successores sui qualibet tlie dicat 
 
 servicium de defiinctis sc. placebo et dirige, et cantabunt vel cantare facient in 
 ipsa ecclesia pro aiabus predictis et pro dicto petro quaUbet die dominica, die 
 lune, die martis, et die mercurii requiem, die jovis de sco spiiitu, die veneris de 
 sea cruce, die sabbati de gloriosa vii-giue maria, et si aUquod festum intervenit 
 
 fiat servicium de festo pro aiabus predictis, et pro predicto petro a habenda et 
 
 teuenda reddendo inde annuatim duo archidiacono eliensi qui pro tempore 
 
 fuerit, ad propriam siuodum post festum sci michaeUs celebratam, sex denarios 
 pro omnibus que aliquo modo de predicto messuagio exigi possint, salvo pre- 
 dicto servicio et predieta cantaria. Predictus vero philippus et heredes sui war- 
 
 rantizabunt defendent et acquietabunt omnia predieta contra omnes hommes, 
 
 tam christiauos quam jud£eos,et dotes de omnibus secularibus demandis predictum 
 
 ^ The custom of Clergymen going from Cambridge to perform the Sunday Services in the 
 churches around was long but too common. See Archbishop Laud's Troubles, p. 5(j2. In this 
 point there has been a great change for the better. 
 
 ' Baker, vi. 323. * Mason, 
 
 > MSS. Caius, cciv. 209 — 15, anil in clxx. p. 182. The MS. is very much abbreviated.
 
 S. ANDREW, IIISTON. 
 
 (1.'5 
 
 servieium Et ad hec omnia et singula in forma predicta facienda sub- 
 
 jiciunt so tam [H'edictiis pliilippus (luam predietus pctrus potostati 
 
 archidiaeoni eliousis (plod possit eos oxconnuunicare do tlio in diom 
 
 sine aliqua cause eognitiono V'ult otiani si predietus potrus 
 
 deccsserit, sou in roligionom ingressus fuerit, sou alitjuo niodo protlietani 
 
 colebrationem amiserit, quod idem philippus possit presontare dno arelii- 
 
 diacono infra xl dies prosimos scquentes ydoneam personam etsl non 
 
 pcrlieeat oidom ai-cliidiacono statim i)ost illos, &e. 
 
 AVilliam \'alc, A'icar of S. Ethelreda, left by 
 
 liis will, dated 1491, 6s. 8d. to the Church of 
 
 Andrew: and again we find that, Nov. 0, 1496, a ccr- 
 
 Benefaclioiis. 
 
 tain Henry Money gave one acre of arable land, for ever, 
 to the fabrick of the Church ; besides another acre left to 
 Impington. for the celebration of a perpetual Obit. 
 
 John Knight, Rector of Croxton in 1503, left money to 
 provide the light of ' our Lady' to burn for ever before the 
 Rood in this Church. ° 
 
 Mrs. Sindrey left £26 to be given to the poor, according 
 to the discretion of the INIinister and Churchwardens. 
 
 Samuel Pont gave three roods of land to buy turf for the 
 poor. 
 
 At this place is one of the five Schools, founded by Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Marsh', of Fulbourn, (who died in 1722,} to educate 
 freely the poor. She endowed her foundation Avith lands 
 which now produce £100 a-year: the land is in Oakington 
 parish. The Minister, Churchwardens, and Overseers are the 
 electors and governors : but the appointment of the master 
 is in the hands of trustees. The school was long held in 
 the Chiuxh; but a neat building has lately been erected for 
 the purpose. The income is now about £18, but will be 
 considerably increased when the debt for enclosure is cleared. 
 
 The Church Lands amounted to 11a. 1r. 22p. in lliston 
 parish, and 17a. 2r. 19r. in Cliesterton, before the enclosure; 
 the proceeds will soon be about £40 a-year. 
 
 ' Blomefield's Lib. Transcrip., i. 9. 
 
 ' See the inscription on her monument. Blumefield Collect, p. 42.
 
 64 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 This Churcli, which stood about a furlong to the west of 
 S. Andrew's, is likewise a Vicarage. In the presentment of 
 Archbishop Laud, quoted above, the union of the two 
 churches is styled a pretended one ; but Baker tells us that 
 "the two Churches of Histon were united Jan. 28, 1588,*" 
 and quotes ^\liitgift's Register in proof of his assertion. 
 However, the union appears not to have taken eifect imme- 
 diately, as, in 1595, we find that Mr. Jackson was the incum- 
 bent of S. Andrew's, and Mr. Harrison of S. Ethelreda's' ; but 
 fom-teen years afterwards, Mr. Jackson appears as Vicar of 
 both the Churches'; since wliich time they seem to have 
 been always united. The Church was sacrilegiously demo- 
 lished about the year 1600 by Sir Francis Hinde, (who was 
 then possessed of the Manor, Rectory, and Advowson of the 
 Vicarage of this Parish,) and the materials used to erect his 
 mansion at Madingley. Of that shameless act Ave find this 
 notice in Archbishop Laud's " Annual Account of his Province 
 to the King" for the year 1639,' with his Majesty's remark 
 
 upon it : 
 
 " It was likewise presented to the Bishop, that about forty years ago, one 
 Sir Francis Hinde did pull down the Church of S. Ethelred, in Histon, to which 
 then appertained a Vicarage presentative, and forc'd the Parishioners to thrust 
 themselves upon another small Church in tlie said town, to the great wTong of 
 the Parisliioners thereof. And that the lead, timber, stones, beUs, and all other 
 materials, were sold away by hmi, or employed to the building of his house at 
 Madingley. And that, now it is called in question, the people (not being able of 
 themselves to re-edifle the Church) can get no redress against the descendant 
 from the said Sir Francis, because the heii- was a chUd, and in wardsliip to 
 your Majesty." 
 
 ' Baker, vol. xxviii. p. 204. 
 
 ' 1595. " Mr. Jackson, rated for his Vicarage of Histon Andrew's, to find one pike 
 furnished." " Mr. Harrison, rated for his Vicarage of Histon S. Etlielreda, (jointly with the 
 Vicar of Iinpington), to find one pike furnished." Cole, viii. 47. 
 
 ' 1609. " Mr. Jackson, rated for his Vicarage of Histon Andrew's, and Histon Ethelred, 
 (jointly with the Vicar of Orwell,) to find a pair of curols with a pike furnished." Cole, 
 viii. 47. * Archbishop Laud's Troubles, fol. p. 562.
 
 We can have little doubt what tlie result of tlic zealous 
 interference of the King and tht; Archbislu)]i in tliis matter 
 would have been, had not the danger which then threatened 
 the very existence both of Church and State made it luues- 
 sary to overlook matters of comparatively minor consideration. 
 In the Taxation of 1255, the Church of S. 
 Ethelreda (or Histon Abbats, as it was also termed) 
 stands rated at 20 marks, and in the Vents Valor of 1291, the 
 entry is " Ecclia de Hyston Abbis 20" 0, Vic. 4" 6 8." In 
 the Archdeacon's Book (about 1306) it is taxed at 24 marks, 
 which is altered by a later hand into 20.^ In the King's Books 
 it stands at £1 16s. 2d., and in 1728 was of the value of £20.' 
 
 In 1306, 2.9. 4(1. was paid for synodals, ISd. for procurations, 
 and for Peter's Pence 2*. In 1516 the same sum was paid for 
 Peter's Pence and procurations, 14^7. for synodals, 18(1. for Ely 
 Farthings, and a ' pensio' to the Archdeacon of Ely, 64.'' In 
 1571, the Vicar paid tithe to the Crown, xv.v. vii(/. ii. (/i(ad. 
 In Fleetwood's time the procuration stood at 2s. 8d., the Vicar 
 paying I.*. Id.'' 
 
 This Church was very early appropriated to 
 the Abbey of Eynsham, in Oxfordshire : the exact 
 date we have not been able to discover ; but we find from the 
 Inquisitiones temp. JEdic. I., that they then held the Church of 
 S. Ethelreda "in proprios usus," together with 15 hides of 
 land,' an annual payment being reserved to the Bishop of Ely 
 of 35. id. at INIichaelmas. In 1453, the Bishoji, finding on 
 examination that the stipend was not sufficient to support the 
 Vicar, ' et pro Hospitalitate juxta juris exigentiam ibin tenend.,' 
 ordered the Abbey of Eynsham to augment it witliin tliirty 
 days ; or within ten days of that time to appear at S. Clement's 
 Church, in Cambridge, before the Archdeacon and his official, 
 to shew cause for their neglecting to do so." Eynsham Abbey 
 
 ' MSS Cai. Coll. cciv. ' MSS. Oousli, 21. * MSS. Caius, clxx., p. 20, ir,. 
 
 ' Cole, viii. 47. ' B.iker, xxviii. 201.. " Baker, xxviii. 32S.
 
 GG CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 was surrendered to Henry VIII., Dec. 4th, 1539, the last 
 Abbat, Anthony Dunstan, being made Bishop of LlandafF. The 
 Manor and Advowson of the church were then granted by 
 Henry VIII. to Thomas Elliot and Margaret his wife, and 
 their heirs'; the King himself having meanwhile presented 
 ' donee de dicta summa plenarie fuerit satisfactum Vicario 
 per conventum una cum Arreragiis, Dampnis, et Expensis.'\ 
 Sir Thomas Elliot died in 1546, and left it to his cousin, 
 Richard Puttington, 'with the appropriation of the Rectory, 
 Advowson, Donation, &c. of the Vicarage.'^ In 1569, Sir 
 James Dyer presented in right of his wife ; and the following 
 year it came into the family of the Hindes, of Madingley,' 
 in which it remained some years. It afterwards came into the 
 possession of Sir Thomas Willis, who was also patron of 
 S. Andrew's ; since which time one person has presented to 
 both Vicarages. 
 
 The following is the entry in the Archdeacon's Book for 
 S. Ethelreda's Church (p. 83): 
 
 Eeca See Etlield' dc Hyston. app'ata Abbati de Eynesham. taxatur ad 
 xxiiij marc', soluit pro Synodal' ij«. iiij<i., Procur' xviijc/., Den. bi Pet', ij*., 
 Ornamta sunt h iij Missal, [unu in duobus voluibus, erased^ unum gradale 
 bonii alia ij debilia. ij t'pia. processional [et niartilog in uno vol'me]. ordinale 
 bonu ij legende. ij Antiph'. ij Psalt'ia. T'ribulu bonu luc'na* bona, t'a p'ia 
 vestimentor' (vii.) cu ptin. calix bonus. (It un calix de novo fts) iij suppeUic'. 
 J. Rochet' crisraator' bofi. Unu portifor' de dono dni Pet' \dcarii. velum, ij 
 cruces luc'na t'rbulu vexilla, iij. fiole. iij paria vestimentor'. 
 
 Fitaw. 
 
 John Syger .... 1349' 
 
 John Lolworth . . . before 1355' 
 
 Henry Syger .... 1355« 
 
 ' Rot. Pat. 31 Hen. VIII. ' MSS. Wren, 247, 22. » Cole, xlviii. 168. 
 
 ' MSS, Wren, Cole, viii. MSS. Gough, 50, 31. ' Lucerna. 
 
 = Mason, MSS. Gougli, 65. 
 
 ^ Cole, xli. 51. Reg. Consist. Ellens., fo. 59, a, b. He was Dean of Chesterton.
 
 S. ETIIELREDA, IIISTON. 
 
 Thomas Kyng do Ilarowell 
 
 Thomas Barton 
 
 William Attchill do Marsliain 
 
 Jolm Willaiii 
 
 Thomas Mowton 
 
 Jolm Bolinijate 
 
 William \'alo 
 
 John IIo])kyn 
 
 Christopher NNHialloy 
 
 John Ehvode 
 
 Robert Leako 
 
 — Harrison 
 
 John Jackson 
 
 . 1393« 
 1397 
 
 . 1403^ 
 1403 
 1406» 
 1447' 
 
 . 1459 
 1491 
 
 . 1539' 
 1561 
 deprived in 1577 
 before 1595« 
 1007^ 
 
 Of these Vicars, we find in the Consistoiy Register of Ely, 
 a citation served upon Henry Syger, for contempt and dis- 
 obedience, inasmuch as he had refused to carry out a decree 
 of Thomas dc Gloucester, commissary of the diocese, pro- 
 nouncing excommunication on all those who had falsely and 
 maliciously slandered the fair fame of Agnes, daughter of 
 Robert Reynolds, of Histon, and John, son of John Alwyne, 
 of the same parish. Whereupon we are told that he appeared 
 in S. Michael's church, in Cambridge, and upon his humbly 
 confessing his fault, and promising obedience to all canonical 
 injunctions in future, he was fined forty shillings in alms to 
 the Bishop, and exempted from further proceedings against 
 him.* 
 
 William Vale, who died in 1491, left, in addition to a 
 legacy to S. Andrew's, after the payment of all bequests, 
 
 '^ He was a Chaplain in the Diocese of Salisbmy, and afterwards exchanged this living for 
 that of Lyndstede, in Canterbury IJiocese, with Thomas Barton. MSS. (inugh, 349. 
 
 ' He was Rector of Bradeley, in Norwich Diocese, which he exchanged with Thomas 
 Barton: and in the same year exchanged this living for that of Foxley, with John Willam. 
 MSS. Gough, 349. 
 
 •* He was Rector of Taterford, and exchanged it for Histon with Jolm Willam. Ibid. 
 
 » Mason, MSS. Gough, 6.5. 
 
 ' Presented by the King, who, as we have stated above, cLaiined tlie patronage for this turn, 
 
 ' Cole, viii. 
 
 ' He was the first Vicar of the united parishes. 
 
 ' Cole, xli. .51. Reg. Cons. Eliens. fn. .50, a, b.
 
 68 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 the residue of his lands and estates to the Church of 
 S. Etheh-eda, (in the Chancel of Avhich he was buried 
 before the high altar.) on condition that the Church-war- 
 dens should take care that a Mass, with an Obit, should 
 be kept in the church every year for the benefit of his 
 soul ; and that fourpence should be paid to the Priest then 
 celebrating Mass.' 
 
 In 1501, John HopkjTie was buried in the chancel, and 
 founded an Obit to his memory in the church; and left a 
 certain sum towards the reparation of the Chapel of S. John 
 in Parson Drove.' 
 
 Robert Leake was in 1577 deprived by Dr. Ithell, Vicar- 
 General of the Bishop of Ely, for non-residence. 
 
 The present value of the union of Vicarages 
 
 Value. „ 
 
 is £400. 
 
 In 1811, the number of souls was 53-1; at 
 
 Population. • n ^ i i r* r r\ 
 
 the last census, m 1841, the amount was 85 i). 
 The inhabitants are chieflv engaged in agriculture. 
 
 The road from Cambridge to Histon is wearisome and dull ; 
 let us then pause awhile ere we enter the sacred precinct, and 
 enjoy the refreshment which a contemplation of the scene 
 affords. Before us, in the silent majesty, the calm massive 
 grandeur of a House of God, lies the church of S. Andrew.' 
 
 ■^ Blomefield, Lib. Transcrip., i. 9. inter MSS. Gongli. = Baker, xxviii. 323. 
 
 ' The Church which was sacrilegiously destroyed c. 1600, was, as has been already stated, 
 dedicated in honour of S. Ethelreda, Virgin and Abbess ; that which now stands is under the 
 invocation of S. Andrew, Apostle. It is scarcely necessary to observe, that S. Ethelreda is the 
 Patron Saint of the Isle of Ely. S. Andrew appears likewise to have received peculiar vene- 
 ration in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, since of the twenty-two churches within five miles 
 of this town, eight are consecrated to God in his honour, namely, Barnwell, Cherry-Hinton, 
 Chesterton, Grantchester (SS. Mary and Andrew), Histon, Impington, Oakington, and Staple- 
 ford; and we may add, that the Chancel of S. Sepulchre's is said to be dedicated to S. Andrew. 
 At Histon the two Saints met.
 
 S. ANDREW, IIISTON. 69 
 
 It is evening: let us choose a north-westerly resting- place, 
 that we may not prematurely lose the setting sun, but catch, 
 before they fade in tli(> coming gloom, tlie varied effects and 
 enchanting contrast of golden-tinted light and darkest shade 
 M liich the glowing beams, intercepted by thick foliage on the 
 surrounding trees, cast upon the hallowed pile. 
 
 "What glorious works did the faith of our forefathers pro- 
 duce! How did they delight to build palaces, not unfit, as 
 far as the utmost endeavours of man's gratitude could fit them, 
 for the presence of the Lord God ! How incessantly did they 
 labour ! They were never satisfied ; they had ne\er done 
 enough. And this tribute of praise is due equally to all the 
 styles into which ecclesiology has divided church-architecture. 
 No sooner had the Norman obtained possession of the kingdom, 
 than his greater skill and more abundant resources were em- 
 ployed in rebuilding, in a style of increased magnificence, the 
 small and (often perhaps) wooden edifices in which the Saxon 
 had worshipped. Even the flood of civil war was insuflficient 
 to quench this holy zeal, which burnt most brightly under King 
 Stephen, " cum miles egregius, tum mente piissimns." " The 
 pointed arch, however discovered, now manifested its wonderful 
 capabilities and at once filled the land \\ith churches in a 
 developed Christian style. So conscious were churchmen in 
 that age of the superiority which this discovery had enabled 
 them to attain, that they appear to have rebuilt many of Avhat 
 must have been among the greatest works of their predecessors, 
 in order to obtain more entire freedom from those traces of 
 paganism which cling to Romanesque architecture ; so at least 
 Ave may conjecture from tlie fact, that so many of our Ca- 
 thedrals have Norman Naves and Early-English Choirs. The 
 Decorated now succeeded, and for a time carried on the work, 
 {e.g. in the Choir of Tewkesbury and Nave of Worcester,) 
 but soon felt the blighting effects of the mortmain law. Never- 
 
 " Wcevcr, Fun. Mon. 278.
 
 theless this style, for the short period during which it 
 flourished, produced buildings which in number and beauty 
 yield the palm to none. Would that the principles and taste 
 of Perpendicular architects had equalled their zeal and per- 
 severance! How few churches are there in England which 
 do not bear testimony at once to their excellence in the one, 
 and to their deficiency in the other. They did much ; alas, 
 that flagrant errors should so often force the confession — they 
 did too much. Let us however judge leniently, remembering 
 how little right we, of all ages, have to see the faults of others. 
 
 S. Andrew's, Histon, is suggestive of such a train of 
 thought. The buttresses and basement of Chancel and 
 Transepts prove the original structure to have been Early- 
 English ; the Tower shows that a part was rebuilt in the 
 fourteenth century ; the roofs, clerestory, and windows demon- 
 strate that the Perpendicular era cannot be charged with 
 neglect, to whatever degree the additions and substitutions 
 then made may be thought erroneous in principle and inju- 
 rious to the effect of the whole ; and the air of dank, neglected 
 decay which pervades the entire place, betrays the spirit of 
 the present day. 
 
 Let us now enter the sacred edifice and fill our Church- 
 Scheme. 
 
 The ichnography of the Church is illustrated 
 
 Ground Plan. ■ . -n i fy> • i r 
 
 by an engraving : it will be sufficient thereiore 
 here to set down, that the building consists of Chancel, Tower, 
 north and south Transepts, Nave with Aisles, and south 
 Porch, and to add the dimensions of each of these parts. 
 
 ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. 
 
 Length 1 f ^, , (24 0\ rr /19 0\ „ , (24 0\ 
 
 Breadth} ''^ ^^''''"'^ \l8 6/ T"^^'" \l5 6/ Transepts j^g q) 
 
 Nave I22 9} Aisles | 9 g| 
 
 The Chancel, to all appearance, has suffered 
 
 Chancel. . ,.11 i i- 
 
 a curtailment m length, wliich has destroyed its
 
 S. ANDREW, IIISTON. 71 
 
 proportions and materially damaged the effect of the Church, 
 considered as a aaIioIc. "\Miat, indeed, is there — to drop for a 
 time all considerations of ecclesiastical propriety and ruhrical 
 obedience, and to Aiew the matter as a simple^ ([uestion of taste 
 — what is there that the resources of tlu^ most ingenious 
 architect can devise, which will compensate in either internal 
 or external appearance for deficiency of length in a Chancel 1 
 We are bold to answer unhesitatingly, there is nothing : a 
 stunted Chancel must ruin a Church. And certainly the 
 Chancel of Histon is now out of proportion, being too broad 
 for its length ; which circumstance, together with the position 
 of the windows and buttresses, convinces us that the East 
 wall, which has been rebuilt, now stands considerably to the 
 west of the original East end. This modern East wall is of 
 brick, pierced for a broad window, which is divided into four 
 lights by wooden muUions and tracery. 
 
 The Holy Table is of oak, of fair Jacobean character, 
 supported in front by two connected legs, and fastened at 
 the back by iron-work to the Reredos. The Reredos is com- 
 posed of good oak tabernacle-work, surmounted by a crest 
 of Tudor flower, which, as is usual in wooden crests whether 
 battlemented or flowered, is sunk in a cavetto moulding, so 
 that the upper edge of the whole presents an unbroken ho- 
 rizontal line. There can be little doubt that this Avork once 
 formed part of a Rood-screen." At a distance of eight feet 
 from the East wall the Altar is defended by poor oak-coloured 
 rails, and is raised upon two brick steps immediately to the 
 west of the rail. On each side, in the north and south walls, 
 is a window, which on the exterior presents the appearance 
 of a plain couplet ; but in the interior the lancets are joined 
 under one drop-arch, deeply splayed, of which the edge is 
 enriched by a roll-and-fillet moulding, springing from nook 
 
 " There is a tradition that it was brought frum All Saints', Landliuach, where there is more 
 of precisely similar character.
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 shafts Avitli rich and elegant capitals. A label 
 crowns the whole, and springs, like the arch- 
 mould, from the chapters of the bowtels. The 
 terminations of the labels are much mutilated, 
 but on the south side a knot of chaste design 
 remains in tolerable preservation. The C'hancel- 
 arch forms the western face of the Tower-piers, 
 which on the East are left plain and square. 
 It is of the simplest kind, consisting of two 
 chamfered orders, of which one dies into the 
 wall and the other is carried on either side 
 continuously to the base mouldings. The sin- 
 gular bases are concealed or destroyed by pues. The Chancel 
 is elevated four inches above the Nave by a step placed at 
 the East end of the Tower piers. 
 
 Let us hope that the time is not far distant when the 
 Chancel shall be prolonged by full three yards; when the 
 East wall shall be again rebuilt of stone, and pierced by 
 an unequal triplet with bold interior jamb-shafts and rich 
 arch-mouldings ; when the Piscina and Sedilia shall be re- 
 stored, and a single lancet inserted in the south wall above 
 them; when the flooring shall be repaved, and not with 
 common bricks ; when the roof, again open to the ridge, shall 
 resume its soaring height ; when the Reredos shall give back 
 its carved work to the Eood-screen ; when green damp and 
 white-wash shall yield place to bright colouring, and the whole, 
 more decently arranged, become again Avhat it should be now, 
 and what it was in the thirteenth century. 
 
 North Transept. 
 
 The north Transept is used as a vestry, and 
 until lately served the still baser purposes of a 
 school. No further history will be required of the wretched 
 stove and brick chimney which deform the western side. An
 
 S. ANDREW, HISTON. 73 
 
 elegant Early-English' arcade runs round the northern and 
 western sides. The arches are equilateral, exquisitely moulded, 
 and spring from detached shafts with bold capitals and bases. 
 Between the arches the spandril spaces are ornamented with 
 sunken trefoils and quatrcfoils, having rounded cusps. A 
 horizontal string surmounts the whole at a height of about 
 seven feet from the floor. In the north wall to the East of 
 the arcade is an arch of the same character as the arcade, 
 but broader, which was perhaps originally a Sedile. It is 
 now converted into a doorway. Here the label, which runs 
 continuously over the arches of the arcade, terminates in a 
 notch-head or mask, and the shaft sustaining the mouldings 
 to the East is stilted on a mass of masonry eighteen inches 
 in height. Eastward again of this is a double Piscina^ inserted 
 in a square compartment, which has intersecting arch mould- 
 ings springing from three sets of double shafts of Purbeck 
 marble, and two octagonal projecting orifices. In the East 
 wall are two Perpendicular windows of three cinquefoiled 
 lights, with mullions continued vertically through the head 
 of the window and a battlemented transom across the middle 
 light. These windows are inserted in Early-English arches, 
 having elaborate mouldings supported on clustered and banded 
 shafts, and the spandril spaces between them pierced with 
 trefoils and quatrcfoils of the same character with those in 
 the arcade below, but of greater size. On the north, under 
 a Tudor arch with poor label and head-terminations, is a 
 broad Perpendicular Avindow of five cinquefoiled lights. 
 On the west is a window of the same description as those 
 in the East wall, but blocked. This window retains its 
 mullions and tracery, and may well be opened when the 
 
 ' The principal dimensions of the arcade are as follows: — height of shafts, 3 ft. 10 in.; of 
 arch, 2 ft. S in.j width, the same; depth of mouldings, 9 inches. 
 
 ' Dimensions: square compartment, 4 ft. 6 in.; height of shaft, 2 ft.; depth of moulding, 
 I ft. 2 in. An excellent view of it is given in our Engraving of the North Transept. 
 
 L
 
 74 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 stove and chimney are removed. The Transept arch consists 
 of two chamfered orders, of which the outer dies into the - 
 wall and the inner is supported on semi-octagonal responds 
 with stinted Decorated capitals. The roof is of wood, un- 
 concealed but flat, and is sustained by two cross rafters 
 thrown from Avall to wall. Against the south end of the 
 East wall is a large Perpendicular niche, measuring six feet 
 by two-and-a-half feet, under a low septfoiled arch, which 
 carries a pierced parapet. The niche is unoccupied. We 
 forbear to comment upon the condition of this Transept, 
 which is shut off from the body of the Church by a deal 
 partition six feet high, and by the clumsy staircase by wliich 
 the belfry is reached. It would appear that the present 
 inhabitants of Histon have degenerated from the virtue of 
 their ancestors. Their fathers required two churches : they 
 find one church of reduced extent to be unnecessarily large 
 by at least one-third. 
 
 South Transept. 
 
 It is needless to enter upon a detailed de- 
 scription of the south Transept, which in its more 
 
 lil"i|!M [ilSL jlUii i ;|I!!W!| |.II:,. I 
 
 ■JtLm 
 
 Arcade, South Transept.
 
 S. ANDREW, HISTON. 75 
 
 important features resembles the uortli Transept, but is open 
 to the Church and partially occupied by pues. It is likewise 
 in a less disgraceful state of repair, and on the East side 
 retains two original triplets, separated by a rich niche of Deco- 
 rated date. The illustration gives an idea of the general 
 effect of this Transept. 
 
 The Nave is entered from the Tower by an 
 
 Nave. 
 
 arch resembling the Transept arches. It is sepa- 
 rated from the Aisles on either side by two wide drop-arches 
 supported by a pier and two responds. The piers are of 
 Decorated character, octagonal, with meagre bases and capitals. 
 Above the Aisle arches, the north and south walls are pierced 
 for a clerestory with three irregularly placed Perpendicular 
 mndows of two trefoiled lights, under Tudor-arched heads. 
 In the Nave nine of the ancient pues^ still remain, with 
 foliaged poppy-heads at each end, and representations of 
 animals, as lions, stags, &c., on the shovdders. These have 
 a brick flooring. There is a fair open roof to the Nave, which 
 has flowered spandrHs and arched springers supported by 
 sculptured stone brackets, placed on a level with the bottom 
 of the clerestory -windows. Upon these a monkey and dog, 
 and a bat with expanded wings, are discernible. There is 
 nothing remarkable to be seen among the modern pues save 
 an apsidal box standing detached in the Chancel. 
 
 The north and south Aisles are Perpendicular 
 
 Aisles. 
 
 erections of precisely similar appearance. Each 
 contains, on the side, two Perpendicular windows of three 
 lights, with double featherings ; and in the west end, one 
 window of the same design. It may not be out of place to 
 
 3 We subjoin the diniensious of tliese open seats: distance apart, 2 ft. 10 in.; lieight of 
 back, 2 ft. 6 in.; height of seat, 1ft. 5 in.; height of poppy, 3 ft. 2 in.; height of shoulder, 2 ft.; 
 breadth of poppy below shoulder, I ft. 3 in.; breadth above shoulder, 9 in.
 
 76 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 observe here, that the heads of all the Aisle windows, as 
 well as of those in the Clerestory and of the west window, 
 are blocked with mortar; which, as the tracery remains in 
 most cases entire, must be attributed to a desire to exclude 
 light or to save glass. 
 
 Font. 
 
 The Font stands to the west of the pier of 
 the south Aisle. It has an octagonal bason, with 
 sunken quatrefoils of two designs interchanged upon the sides 
 
 ta^^*^^ 
 
 and an octagonal stem and base. The cover is a low pyramid in 
 form, and is furnished with a counterbalance fixed to the pier. 
 On the west side, adjoining the base, is a low kneeling-stone, 
 which has been rendered useless by the raising of the pave- 
 ment. This Font affords a simple specimen of Perpendicular 
 work. It is injured by stone-coloured paint.
 
 S. ANDREW, IIISTON. 77 
 
 The Tower is sciuurc, of two stages, with phiin 
 parapet, and contains in each face a two-light 
 window. The buttresses are narrow, set diagonally. The 
 bells are five in number, of wliich one is ancient and bears 
 the legend — CTnntabo InutiES ^uas per ntrtn. On the top of 
 the Tower, exteriorly, is hung the clock-boll. 
 
 The west window is Perpendicular, of three 
 lights, trcfoiled w^th double feathermgs, under a 
 Tudor arch. There is a west door, which is explained by the 
 connection of this Cliurch with the Religious House at Denny. 
 The arch of the doorway is four-centred, with continuous 
 cavetto and ogee mouldings. 
 
 The south Porch is an erection apparently of the fourteenth 
 century; but its character was originally so plain, and its 
 features are now so entirely concealed by plaister, that it is 
 impossible to speak with certainty upon this point. The outer 
 doorway has a plain drop-arch of two chamfered orders. 
 Round the inner doorway, which is Decorated, runs a deep 
 hollow between two shallow ogee mouldings. In the 
 north-east corner of this Porch is a mass of masonry, which 
 no doubt sustained the Benatura. Of this no traces now 
 remain. 
 
 In the north wall of the north Aisle, closely adjoining 
 the north Transept, is a tall ill-proportioned doorway with 
 poorly moulded head. It is worth while to caU attention 
 to the fact, that the Chancel of this Chiu-ch contains no 
 Priest's door. Might we not perhaps assign the absence of 
 the usual Priest's door, and the presence of the unusual west 
 door, to the same cause] The buttresses are of finely-dressed 
 ashlar, and display that carefidness in masonry and nicety 
 in finish which are commonly found in buttresses built of
 
 78 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 harder and more durable stone than the 
 body of the Church which they supjjort. 
 Those against the Aisles are Perpendicular, 
 of three stages, and inferior in execution 
 to the Early-English work of the two- 
 staged buttresses against the Chancel and 
 Transepts. Under the great Transept win- 
 dows is a small buttress of one stage, with 
 bold weathering, which produces a pleasing 
 effect. The Chancel has eaves without pa- 
 rapet. The parapet to the Nave is plain; 
 that over the Aisles is irregularly embattled. 
 Over the gable of the south Porch the 
 saddle-stone remains, and one arm of a 
 Cross, which has been pointed so as to form a needle. 
 Above the south Transept is a representation of our Blessed 
 Lord upon the Cross*, between the figures of S. Mary on 
 the right and S. John upon His left hand. The Church 
 is built of the clunch of the neighbourhood, with but- 
 tresses of Barnack stone. In the interior, the shafts of 
 the arcades and windows are of a peculiar red oolite (pro- 
 
 Buttress to Cbaocel. 
 
 ' Such aids to ancient devotion are frequently found in churclies at the present day. The 
 positions in which they occur most commonly are : over gables, as in the present instance and 
 S. Mary's, Stogiimber; S. Mary's, Batcombe, Somersetshire; S. Mary's, Tliaxted, Essex; and 
 S. Helen's, Lever ton, Lincolnshire; built into exterior walls, as at S. Laurence, Evesham; S. Ives, 
 Cornwall; S. John Evangelist, Glastonbury; S. Mary's Abbey, Rorasey; S. Andrew's, Minting, 
 Lincolnshire; S.Mary's, Sherborne, Dorset; and S. Mary's, Marston Magna, Somersetshire: 
 on Fonts, as in Holy Trinity, Lenton, Notts ; SS. Peter and Paul, Coleshill, Warwickshire; 
 S.Bartholomew's, Lostwithiel, Cornwall ; S.Peter's, Bennington, Lincolnshire; S. Bartho- 
 lomew's, Orford, Suffolk; S. Nicolas, East Dereham; and S.Mary's, Little Walsingham, 
 Norfolk: and on Churchyard or other Crosses, as at S. Margaret's, Spaxton, Somersetshire; 
 S. Mary's, Myton, Yorkshire; S. Margaret's, Somersby, Lincolnshire; S. Andrew's, Heading- 
 ton, Oxford ; and at Stalbridge, Dorset, and Shepton Mallet. There are also other positions 
 in which representations of the Crucifixion are found, but not so commonly: on bosses, as in 
 Great S. Mary's, Cambridge, (from which the figure of our Lady has been cut away) : on mo- 
 numents, as in S. Giles', Bredon, Worcestershire: on window-rauUions, as in S. John Baptist's, 
 Wellington, Somersetshire: and over gateways, as in Cleeve Abbey, in the same county. This 
 last example is the most beautiful of all those which we have examined. Some authors have 
 asserted that Roods were never placed over closed doors : but this assertion is disproved by 
 instances remaining at S. Mary's, Rougham, Norfolk ; S. John's, Rarford, Oxfordshire ;
 
 S. ANDREW, HISTON. 79 
 
 bably Ketton), which \\c do not often find in ( 'ambridgeslurc. 
 The Roof has suffered much in jjitch, and the appearance of 
 the Church is [)roportionably damaged. It appears from the 
 weather-mould, that the roofs of the Transepts were ori- 
 ginally higher than the roof of the Nave. 
 
 The Commandments are painted on the Avest wall on either 
 side of the west Avindow, and the Creed and Lord's Prayer 
 above the Aisle piers. The Royal Arms surmount the Nave 
 ai"ch. In the north Transept is preserved the old Church 
 chest of oak, upon Avheels. The Church Avould appear to 
 have been once adorned throughout with religious paintings, 
 traces of Avhich may still be seen upon the west Avail and 
 the piers of the ToAver. For the uncovermg of these frescoes 
 the removal of the ' singing-gallery' Avill be necessary. The 
 almost unused Transepts will afford ample accommodation for 
 the worshippers thus displaced ; and it scarcely need be added, 
 that the Church in every respect Avill gain by the change. 
 Of stained glass there are a fcAV ancient fragments and some 
 neAv floAvered quarries. 
 
 There are noAv no monuments in the Church Avhich deserve 
 notice. But it appears from Mr. Boissier's ' Notes on the 
 Cambridgeshire Churches, 1827,' that there Avas then a flat 
 monument in the Nave, Avith brasses entire of a Knight 
 and his Lady, Avith seven sons and tAvo daughters, f^i'c jncent 
 3Joi)'Tincs 3j3urgoun, ^rmyger, et ,|tlargatita uxor t\\is, qui (juibcm 
 3Jo{jnnnts obiit — iiie uunsi's ©ctobtis, glnno Bomint itlilUsimo 
 
 S. Patrick's, Palrington, A'orkshire ; and by two wliicli existed over the soiilli and west doors 
 of S. Mary's, Wareham, Dorsetshire, until the rebuilding of the Nave of that Church a few 
 years back. Crucifixes have sometimes been found buried in churchyards, as at All Saints, 
 Bolton Percy, Yorkshire. In stained glass of all dates they are commonly met with, and, 
 were the white-wash removed from the walls which it disfigures, many would be found in 
 fresco, as in the churches of S. Alban's Abbey; and S. Mary's Abbey, Tewkesbury. It is to 
 be regretted that collections of the curious occasionally contain sculptures of this kind, pre- 
 served simply as fragments of antiquity.
 
 80 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 quingcntcssimo quinto et bfgintn. This has altogether disappeared 
 within the last seventeen years. How long shall church- 
 robbery and tomb-violation pass unreproved and unpunished 1 
 
 As attention has lately been directed to the subject of 
 Orientation, it may be proper to state, that the Chancel, 
 which inclines somewhat to the south from the direction of 
 the Nave, points twelve degrees south of due East. This 
 deviation, although not sufficient to reach the precise point 
 where the sun rises on the Feast of S. Andi-ew, is worthy 
 of remark. 
 
 Thus is our Church Scheme filled, and the courteous 
 reader put in possession of a Camdenick account of S. Andrew's, 
 Histon.
 
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 West Doorway. 
 
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 String, Chancel. 
 
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 Arch S. Transept. 
 
 Aisle Windows.
 
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 Capital arul V,a<e. 
 Nave Piers. 
 
 liasc. l-K. Arcndc. 
 
 Capital of Piscina, 
 S. Transept. 
 
 Oftpital. EE. Arcade. 
 
 Base of Pier. South Transept. 
 
 Rase of Nave Arcli. 
 
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 1 it!^ 
 
 fe, 
 
 Capital, 
 
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 Capital, Piscina 
 
 
 
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 fubbsW iyTlroinas Stevjison ,Ciimhiij;^<
 
 fl^arlton eftitrcft. 
 
 /'ERLETONE, or HarJeton, commonly 
 called Harlton, is a small agricultural 
 village, 6 miles almost S.-W. of Cam- 
 s\ bridge, " at the foot of a steep hill, 
 not unfi-uitful or unhealthfuUy situated, 
 having the benefit of diverse wholesome springs", 
 says one of the would-be Historians of the 
 County, John Layer,' about 1639. This de- 
 scription, in its particular points, applies to 
 several villages in the level of Cambridge ; with 
 several others also in this part it is noted for 
 its orchards. Layer continues — "con- 
 sisting of 20 families: by Domesday- 
 Book accounted at Jire hides gcldable ; 
 and was of old the inheritance of the 
 Huntingfeilds." From his account we 
 may trace the following descent of the Capital Manor; and 
 there were other petty ones. 
 
 Eoger de Huntingfeild held a Kut. fee here of the Honor of Gloucester, 
 and is said to have a Lete here temp. Hen. I. Roger de Himtiugt'eild was 
 sole Lord, 9 Edw. H., holding the Advowson. His son sold both Manor and 
 Advowson. This Manor came to Ric. Kclsill, 5 Ric. H.; then to Ralph Bate- 
 man.^ Alex. Child held one Knt.'s fee with Ric. Kelsill. Rob. Hutton, younger 
 brother of — Hutton, of Drayton, by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas 
 Child, had two Manors here, ' Huntingfeild' and ' The Ladycs,' and the 
 Advowson; he was Lord till 10 Hen. VH. The Huttons were Lords in 
 
 Harl. MSS. 6768. 
 
 " Dugdale, Hist, of Embanking, p. •352. 
 
 M
 
 82 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 6 Edvv. VI. la 4 Eliz., William Barnes, and after him Robert Barnes, his 
 son, held this Manor with the Advowsou : the latter was a Popish recusant, 
 and did sell the Manor to Thos. Fryer, D.M., who gave it to Henry, his 
 younger son ; but he dying without issue, granted a rent-charge of £100 
 a year out of this Manor to charitable uses ; whereof this village hath £35 
 per ann.: but the inheritance feU to Dr. Fryer, liis elder brother. 
 
 Besides the Lords of the chief Manor ah-eady mentioned, 
 
 the following names of ancient proprietors are to be found 
 
 on record.^ 
 
 John do Folkesworth, Kt., held by the courtesy of England xii'"= acres, 
 and paid scutage. 
 
 Ric. de Hokton. 5 Ed. II. 
 
 Thomas Ashewell. 12 Ed. III. 
 
 Jeffry Cobb, a great owner, temp. Ric. II. 
 
 Radulph, E. of Stafford, held a fee, 46 Ed. HI. 
 
 Edmund do Mortuo Mari, E. of March. 5 Ric. II. 
 
 Hugo, E. Stafford, held a fee, 10 Ric. II. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to ' the Assumption 
 
 Dedication. . ,. i i r i t>i 
 
 01 the Virgm, or to ' the honour ot the Blessed 
 
 Virgin Mary.'^ It is in the Deanery of Barton, in the Arch- 
 deaconry of Cambridge, and in the Hundred of Wetherley. 
 Cole gives a full account of the Church in pp. 118-123 of 
 his 2nd Volume. 
 
 The Advowson belonged to the HuntingfeUd 
 Manor ; and went with it till Walter Gifard, second 
 Earl of Buckingham, gave the Advowson to the Alien Priory 
 of Newton Longue-ville," Bucks : this Alien Priory retained it 
 till its dissolution' in 1414-5, 2Hen. V. Subsequently it went 
 with the Manor, until Dr. Fryer inherited: and then it was 
 sold to John Duport," D.D., Master of Jesus College, (about 
 1600); who gave it to the College in reversion after the next 
 presentation. It is now in the patronage of that CoUege. 
 
 ' Hal. MSS. 6772. Cole, MSS. vol. xxii. 85-6. Maso7i, MSS. Gough Coll. 18. 
 Doomsday Book, i. p. 196. 
 
 < Allen. ° Cole. 
 
 ° Among the Placita, Ric. I., a. 6to. Rot. 9, is this: ' Assisa inter Rogerum de Hunting- 
 field et Priorem de Longa Villa de advocatione Ecclesie de Herleton est in respectu, Src. 
 
 ' Dugdale, Monast. i. 1036. Willis, Hist, of Abbies, ii. 32. 
 
 ' Of him, see Shermanni Hisloria Coll. Jesti, p. 32.
 
 S. MARY, IIARLTON. 83 
 
 In Pope Nicholas' Valor of 1291, it is taxed 
 
 at \'\. lib. xiiis. ivd., and the portio of the Priory 
 
 of Longuc-villc at ii. lib. In the King's Books, the value is 
 
 stated at xiv/. ixs. ynd.; it is added, " solvit Xraas xxviiis." 
 
 The net value returned" in 1835 is £313. 
 
 An excellent Rcctory-liouse, in a well-chosen position for 
 convenience and aspect, has been erected by the present 
 Incumbent. 
 
 In 1533, (p. 9.)' when the See was vacant, there 
 was due for Procurations to the Bishop : 
 De Ecclesia de Hardoleston', xxcZ. 
 
 In 1516, (p. 15./ 
 
 Synod, xuiyl. Don. S. Pet. xiic?. 
 
 Synod. xiiij<^. Procur. xiid. 
 
 Elye Farthings, ix<7. 
 
 Annualis Dochua Epis. Eliens. dobita, xxviij.?. xit/. 
 
 The present payment to the Bishop, made at Michaelmas, 
 
 is £1 Os. M. 
 
 The following list of Church Furniture is from 
 
 the Archdeacon's Book,'^ omitting abbre\dation. 
 
 Ecclesia de Harlcton non appropriata . est ibi Rector . taxatur ad ix marcas . 
 solvit pro sinodalibus ijs. iiijf/...procurationibus xiij. Denariis Sancti Petri 
 xiic?. Ornamenta sunt hec. Missalo bonum (i. aliud Missale).^ i. Troporium . 
 aliud cum gradali et tercium cum alio gradali. Martilogium (et psalterium 
 de dono rectoris).^ Orilinale . Manuale . Portiforium bonum . ij. salteria . tercium 
 portiforium (ij. antiplwnaria) iij. paria vestimontorum. iij. tegmina* cum per- 
 tinenciis (corporalia de dono Radulphi Lovol et cappa chori) . xv suporpollicia 
 [ij. Rocheta.] (iij.) caliees suf. vj. phiolc . Turribulum bonum. Crismatorium 
 suf. ij. Cruces. Velum bonum. iiij. \exilla. iij. frontalia . pixis sufficiens. 
 lucerna. vi. tuaUa.'' iij. paria eorporalium. ij. Antijilionaria bona . duo legeudc 
 "{Item. i. bonum vestimentum et i. calix bonus do dono Willi. Bateman}. 
 
 In the margin is added this list — 
 
 ij. legendo in ij. voluminibus. ij. gradalia...i. vestimentum itcmq. de done 
 Ric. Kellislull et alba et anuca et stola ct maniplum do dono dni honrici Dalgy : 
 "do dono ' ibidem ij. cape chori. 
 
 " Lib. Ecclesiasticus. ' An error for Harleton. ' Coll. Caii. HISS. cixx. 
 
 ' Inserted above. ' F>ased. ^ Tiiella et toalli.n. — Ducange. 
 
 " Added in a later hand. ' .\ word illegible. 
 
 Furniture.
 
 84 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIKE. 
 
 The followiug list of Rectors is taken from Dr. Mason's 
 (MSS. 24.) book of Incumbents for Ely Diocese, and Cole's 
 MSS. and the College and Parish Registers. This is one of 
 the many cases where we feel the want, so often lamented, 
 of an AthensB Cantabrigienses. Such a store of biography 
 would supply all the personal liistory which we here require. 
 
 Illedors 
 
 
 
 John de Lacv 
 
 1330. 
 
 
 Henry de Scalariis" or Escalariis or Deschallars 
 
 1338. 
 
 
 John de Hyngestone.^ 
 
 1346. 
 
 
 John de Bottesly.' 
 
 1347. 
 
 June 26. 
 
 John de Bj-field." 
 
 1349. 
 
 June 26. 
 
 Roger de Tuffield. 
 
 William de Potton,^ (died here). 
 
 1388. 
 
 AprU 27. 
 
 Robert de Comberton.'' 
 
 1391. 
 
 Mar. 18. 
 
 Thomas de Spaldyng.* 
 
 1392. 
 
 Mar. 27. 
 
 Thomas de Rybred, (d.) 
 
 1393. 
 
 Sept. 13. 
 
 Joh. Atte Hoo.= 
 
 1460. 
 
 July 28. 
 
 Joh. Abbot,« (d). 
 Bernard.'' 
 
 * An agreement between him and the Prior of Barnwell, dated 4 Cal. Aug. 1337, is given 
 in Cole, MSS. xviii. 130, wherein the names of several land-owners are enumerated. The 
 Rector covenants to give the Prior and Convent 30s. annually for their tithes on certain lands 
 also described. The deed, says Cole, was so long as to occupy five or six folio pages; so he 
 ' excerps' only so much as contains the names of persons and conditions. The Rector 
 affixes his seal and, " quia sigillum meum pturibus incognitum est," also the official seal of 
 the Archdeacon of Ely. 
 
 ' See List of Incumbents of Bokesworth. ' Licent. Stud. 1339, ii. Cal. Sept. 
 
 '' Per Regem, ratione Temporalium Prioratus. Baker takes this from Dr. Worlhington's 
 Church Notes for Cambridgeshire, vol. xxviii. *Ad Rectoriam Radulphus Bateman nominal, 
 Prioratus (de Longa Villa) praesentat. 
 
 ^ Dom. Manerii de Harleton nominabat Clericum Priori de Longa Villa Gifiardi. lUe 
 prsesentabat Episcopo pro Institutione. 
 
 * He exchanged with R. de Comberton. Rector de Farnham, Londini Dioces. dictus 
 Thomas institutus Rect. de Harleton ad Praesent. Dni. Reg. Ric. IL ratione Temporalium 
 Prioratus de Longa Villa alienigeri in manu sua occasione guerre inter ipsum et adversaries 
 suos Francie inde existencium: p noiacoue Radi. Bateman spectantem. — Regist. Fordham, 
 Gough Collect, ii. 329. 
 
 ' By the presentation of the King, Ric. II. as Thos. de Spaldyng. In the same Register 
 we find this entry — " Licenc. de non-resid. pro Joh. Hoo, Rect. de Harleton, proviso infra 
 tempus a jure limitatum sit in subdiaconum ordinatus;" and he was so ordained June 3, 1391. 
 
 " Ad Rectoriam (Dominant) FeoJTati in Manerio. 
 
 ' Per Laur. Chcyne hac vice.
 
 S, MARY, IIARLTON. 85 
 
 1465. May i;0. Rad. Shawe.^ 
 
 1492. William Spalding.s 
 
 1518. Dr. Lu])ton. 
 
 1539. Aug. 14. Christ. Willy, or Wyllys,'* (d). 
 
 155G. Jac. Hall, (fl). 
 
 1557. Nov. 14. Joh. Tylney.' 
 
 1561. Ecclia diu vacavit ct vacat in prajsenti. Postca Thos. 
 
 \\nutclicad, Root. — B. of Acts of Bp. Cox in his 
 
 Visitation. 
 1567. Tho. ^^^litehead. 
 
 1579. Dec. 18. Arthur Hughes, (d). 
 
 1580. Nov. 16. Joh. Duport.- 
 1584. William Peutlow.' 
 
 1628. Marmaduke Thompson.^ (d.) 
 
 1642. July 13. Richard Sterne,^ B.D. 
 
 1643. John AUcnS' 
 
 1661. May 8. Stephen llall,^ B.D. Presented by Jesus College, as 
 
 also the rest. 
 
 ' Per Kegem. 
 
 ' A cause in the Court of Arches was determiiied against VV. Spalding, R., who was ordered 
 to pay costs and arrears (5 years), at 20s. each, to the Prior and Convent of Barnwell, to whom 
 Pagan Peverel gave §■ Tythes of all Demesne lands of the Knights' fees belonging to the 
 Barony of Brune (Bourne): and the Bp. ordains 20s. for ever to be paid, in 2 j>aynieuts each 
 
 I 
 
 I year, in satisfaction for j such Tythes. — Reg. Alcock, 191. f. 
 
 1 
 
 > Cole, Vol. Ix. p. 84. 
 
 ' Leicestriensis; Socius, 1574: A.M.: procurator Academite 1580, October 10, 1581; non 
 deposuit fasces nisi post creationera Tho. Burton, LL.Dris. in Custos Eliz. 22. Vide Tabulam 
 Custodum, in Shcrmanni Hist, Coll. Jesii, p. 38. 
 
 ' Rated in 1595, 3 Nov. and 2 Mar., for his Parsonage, to find one musket, furnished. 
 In 1609, Apr. 4, to find a pair of enrols, with a pike furnished. The first page of the Register 
 of Baptisms, beginning 1584 and going down to 1587, is signed by him. 
 
 * Compounded for first-fruits, July 31, l(i2S, in the sum lOli.Os.'A^d. Eboracensis: Socius, 
 1619: A.M.: post gradura susceptum in CoUcgio Coramensalis ali(iuandiu vi.sit; prcsentatus 
 ad Vicariam de Comberton, 1618, lite turn pendente inter Epum Eliensem ct Collegium 
 circa vicariam dictam : admissus anno sequente in locum vacantcm per resignationcm Mri 
 Watts : Procurator Deputatus M" Boswell : STB, 1626 : Rector de Harleton et Wimple in 
 Com. Cantab. 
 
 * He resigned Nov. 20, 1660, and on Nov. 21 resigned the Mastership of Jesus College 
 for the Bishoprick of Carlisle; afterwards he beca:iic Archbishop of York. Walker (Suf- 
 ferings of the Clergy, pt. ii. p. 145,) gives a memoir of him, mentioning that he, with one or 
 
 two more, distinguished himself by his zeal for Charles I., in sending to him the College 
 plate. An interesting memorial of him is written by Sherman in his Historia Collcgii Jesu, 
 p. 39. He is one of the asserted Authors of " The mole, Duty of Man." See Preface to 
 Pickering's edition, 1842. 
 
 ° John Allen is not recognised as a Rector by the History of Jesus College, as having 
 supplanted the rightful Incumbent in the Rebellion. 
 
 ' Appointed but never inducted. He was a Canon of Ely. Of him there is a pleasing 
 notice in Sherman's History of Jesns College, p. 41. A monument to him is erected in the 
 Ante-Chapel of Jesus College; the inscription on which is printed in Blomefield's Collect.
 
 86 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 1661. July 3. Charles Bussey/ B.D. (d.) 
 16G2. May 24. John Sherman.^ M.A. 
 1071. William Cooke,' D.C.L. 
 
 Cantab., p. HI. He was elected from Pembroke Hall to a Fellowship in Jesus College, by 
 Bishop Andrewes ; became Vicar of Guilden Morden in 1627; of All Saints in 1629; President 
 of the College in 1639. He was also Prebendary of the first stall at Ely. He was the first 
 Fellow sequestered by the Duke of Monmouth for refusing the Covenant. He was restored in 
 1660, and became Vicar of Fordham. He was also Lecturer of S. Paul's. He was presented 
 to Harleton in 1661, and enjoyed it but a very little while, dying in 1661. This is Walker's 
 account of him, ' Sufferings of the Clergy,' Pt. ii. 22. Tlie MS. History of Jesus College, after 
 naming the place of his birth. All- Hallows, Barking, in Loudon, in stating that he was Canon of 
 Ely, adds — Primus quod sciam qui ista dignitate cum sodalitio claruit. A Collegio temporum 
 injuri;i amotus 1644', post 17 annorum ostratismum restitutus 1660, presentatus ad Rectoriam 
 de Harleton vacantem per resignalionem Custodis D^^ia Sterne, in Collegio moriens, 1661, 
 legavit vErario et Bibliothece 80 lihras ab executore suo Dri Pearson custode propediem 
 numeratas, qui et Stephani reliquias in Collegii Sacello urna marmorea claudi jussit. 
 
 ' Nottingharaiensis: Socius, 1626: AuI;e Pembroch. alumnus; STB: vicarius omnium Sanc- 
 torum, 1629: amotus, 1644: restitutus, 1660: presentatus ad Rectoriam de Harleton, 1661 : 
 et eodem anno praesidens: sequent! in Collegio obiit, in parte australi sacelli sepultus. — 
 MS. Hist. Call. Jesu. 
 
 ' He wrote the Historia Collegii Jesu, Cantab., first printed in part, 1840, ed. J. O. Halli- 
 
 well. A tablet is placed to his memory in the Ante-Chapel, Jesus College. Blomefield, Collect. 
 
 Cant., p. 141. " Job. Sherman natus apud Dedham in Com. Essex, Coll. Regin. alumnus, 
 
 fit Coll. Jesu Cantab. Socius, 1660. Prselector Logicus, 1656; Acad. Procur. 1660. Electus 
 
 et praesentatus ab Acad., 166 1, ad Rect. de Winslow in agro Cestriensi verum cum virtute Actus 
 
 Indemnitatis (restaurato Car. 2'io) omnes Convictiones Recusantium cassatae essent, Institutione 
 
 caruit. Praesentatus aColl. ad Rect. de Harleton, 1662; eodem anno Praesidens; unuse Syndicis 
 
 ab Acad, nominatis, 1663, ad restituendam Bibliothecam Lambethanam, et ad digerendam 
 
 Bibliothecam Holdsworthianam ; unus e 12 concionatoribus ab Academia eraissis, 1664; S.T.P., 
 
 1665; Canon, et Archidiaconus Sarisburiensis, 1670. Mortuus est Londini Mattii21, 1671. 
 
 Collegio legavit lOOH. 
 
 Qui Socios omnes, Custodes, atq. Patronos, 
 
 Digerit egregios Ordine in Historia ; 
 
 Inter et hie Socios numeretur dignus : et ultra 
 
 Shermannus meruit, queis Polyhistor erat." 
 
 MS. Hist. Coll. Jesu. 
 
 It has been said that he was ejected from a Fellowship in Trinity College ; this, however, 
 Walker questions. — See his Sufferings of the Clergy, Pt. II. p. 160. 
 
 ' A monument to him stands in the Ante-Chapel of his College: the epitaph inscribed 
 upon it, speaking of him in the highest praise, is printed in Blomefield, Collect. Cantab., p. 142. — 
 Eboracensis: natus apud Campshall: A.M.: praevaricator, 1656: praelector Rhetoricus, 1659 = 
 Socius, 1660: Taxator, 1661: Scrutator, 1662: Vicarius de Barton, 1665: Presidens, procu- 
 rator, et Rector de Harleton, 1671-2: LL.D, 1673: paucis post annis Diocesios Eliensis 
 Cancellarius, denatus anno aetatis suae 74to, admissionis vero in Collegium 59no. Vir sane 
 egregius, qui cum multiplici cruditione pietatem morumq. probitateni, cum gravitate humani- 
 tatem comitateraq : quam felicissime conjunxit. Literarum humaniorum incertum an sacrarum 
 callentior fuerit; in utriusque versatissimus. Legum non solum quas est professus sed et 
 municipalium peritissimus, nee juris magis consultus quam justitiae fuit, quam coluit unice, et 
 qua Cancellarius, qua Irenarcha annos supra 30 accuratissime exercuit. Long£evus cum esset, 
 annos tamen meritis superavit, omnesq : omnium virtutum numeros cum laude explevit. 
 Collegio, vivens moriensq: Benefactor extitit munificentissimus. Anno 1704 Librarum 5Q 
 Symbolam dedit in ornatum aula? Communis ; anno autem 1706, ejusdem valoris Polubrum
 
 S. MARY, IIARLTON. 87 
 
 1707. 
 
 
 
 Charles Ashton," D.D. 
 
 1707. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 11. 
 
 Joliu Ba,-iiall,= M.A. 
 
 1712. 
 
 Sejit 
 
 18. 
 
 Gilbert llooke/ B.D. 
 
 1715. 
 
 Auff. 
 
 8. 
 
 John Brooke, B.D. 
 
 1723. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 28. 
 
 John Lueas,^ M.A. 
 
 1727. 
 
 
 
 Lees Waril,'^ M.A. 
 
 5. 
 
 
 
 (Jesus Coll. Reg'.) 
 
 17.5G. 
 
 
 
 Rieliard Oakley.' 
 
 1781. 
 
 
 
 Jonathan Chapman, (d.) 
 
 1806. 
 
 
 
 Edward Daniel Clarke,« D.C.L. 
 
 1822. 
 
 
 
 George Palmer.' 
 
 18.30. 
 
 
 
 Charles Maearthv. 
 
 1839. 
 
 
 
 James Fendall. 
 
 In 16T6, the return made was — Inhabitants, 7 1 ; 
 
 Population. ,-, ■!->,• Tiom i 
 
 no recusants; S Dissenters, in lool, the census 
 gave 223 as the number of inhabitants ; 1100 acres the extent 
 of the parish. In 1841, the number was 269. 
 
 The Parish Rea;ister beoins ' Ano Dni 1584, 
 
 Register. ° 
 
 and regni Henry Eight, 26' — so it is headed, and 
 bears this imprecatory motto, ' Jesu sis mihi Jesus.' 
 
 et Aqualem in sociorum usum donavit. Supremis Testamenti Tabulis 600 librarum munere 
 custos nimis CoUegii Reditus adauxit, Librosq: sues omnes juridicos pretii haud exigui 
 Bibliothecae legavit. 
 
 Optimus, atque 
 
 Interpres Legum sanctissimus, MS. Hist. Coll. Jesu. 
 
 ' Afterwards Master of the College. — Monk's Life of Bentley, p. 347. He was amongst 
 the most learned men of his time ; and on account of his eminent qualifications was generally 
 looked to as a candidate for the Divinity (Regius) Professorship, when Bentley contrived his 
 own election. 
 
 ' Socius, 16S7. Academiae Procurator Sen., 1712; quo munere nondum perfunctus ex 
 vita excessit. 
 
 ' Eboracensis. Socius, 1690: Vicarius de Comberton ; postea Rector de Harlton. Morbo 
 diuturno consumptus e vivis excessit. — MS. Hist. Colt. Jesu. 
 
 ' Derbiensis. Socius, I70S: 1709, A.M.: ad Vicariam de Whittlesford, 1710: — ad vicariam 
 omnium Sanctorum, 1717: ad Vicariam de Suasey, 1720: ad Rectoriam de Graveley, 1721: 
 electus Procurator Academiae, 1723; praesentatus ad Rectoriam do Harlton, 1723. — MS. 
 Hist. Coll. Jesu. 
 
 " Buried in the Chancel, Nov. 2, 1755. He was drowned in a well close to the church-yard. 
 Nottinghamiensis: Socius, 171G: in Artibus Inceptor: pra?sentatus ad Vicariam dc Swasey, 
 1721: Guilden Morden, 1726: ad Rectoriam de Harlton, 1727: Procurator Academi.T, 1731. 
 —MS. Hist. Coll. Jesu. 
 
 ' A.B. Oxoniensis (in sodalitium CoUegii .lesu electus, 1733) : 1735, A.M. pr.Tscntatus ad 
 Vicariam de Gilden Morden, 1742. — MS. Hislor. Coll. Jes. 
 
 ' Professor of Mineralogy, and the well-known traveller. His Life, by Otter, was pub- 
 lished in 1825. " Exchanged with Macarthy.
 
 88 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 In the entries from 1689 to 1723, the names of the 
 sjionsors are inserted for each case of baptism. 
 
 The register of bui'ials begins with the year 1567. 
 
 One other circumstance may be noted — that in the first half 
 of the eighteenth century, marriages from this parish were 
 frequently celebrated in the Chapel of Jesus College ; perhaps 
 this was one of the effects of non-residence of the Rectors. 
 However, this was stopped by the Act of 26 Geo. II., in 1755. 
 Memorials " ^^ ^^^ Chauccl a school is held," says Cole, 
 
 and Monuments, -wnting about 1740; this is the case now on Sundays 
 only ; in the week in a school-room built by Dr. E. Clarke : and 
 he adds these notices : — 
 
 " Only a small silver cup and paten, with ' Harlton' 
 written round it." 
 
 " By the screen hangs in a fi-ame, an old ordinance of 
 Abp. Parker's, concerning matrimony, which has weathered 
 many generations. At the bottom of it is this — 
 
 Set forth by the most Reverend Father in God, Matthew, Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, Primate of England, and Metrojjolitane." 
 
 " In the Church, particularly in the middle aisle, several 
 small bricks, bearing these arms — On a chevron 3 Mullets 
 pierced., and a Crescent in the dexter Chief." 
 
 Cole^ enumerates the following monuments : 
 
 " In the middle of the Chancel, a large black marble slab, 
 bearing these words — 
 
 William Pentloe, 
 tliirty, 
 March 16, — , 
 this only could be made out — probably to a Rector." 
 
 He gives a drawing of the " most beautiful and magni- 
 ficent monument of white alabaster, gilt and painted, and 
 curiously wrought, raised fi-om the ground quite to the ceiling. 
 At the top are these arms — p Pale 1st S. on a Chevron inf 
 3 Dolphins naiant emboived ^ . . 3 Toivers of the Field, and a 
 Crescent for difference, for Fryer, impaling A a Chein-on inter 
 
 ' Cole, MSS. vol. ii.
 
 S. MARY, II\1!I,T0N. 89 
 
 3 Lozenges Ermine and a Chief Gules. Above these is a 
 figure of Charity, which tcniiinutes the monument. Above 
 tlic figure of a man and Avoman, wliirh arc instead of pillars 
 to support the arch, are two neat figures representing Religion; 
 and under the arch three figiuTs kneeling — one of an old 
 man in a Doctor of Physick's habit, and of a young man in 
 armour in the middle: behind him an old woman in the dress 
 of her times, with a gold chain about her neck." 
 
 On another tablet below^ these, lies a younger woman 
 (tradition says it is intended for the wife of the son) in black, 
 also with her head reclined on the left arm, and a book 
 under her head: at her feet, under the figure of the man, 
 which supports the arch, these arms — p Pale \st Fryer, im- 
 paling p Fess, embattled O. and G. 3 Gates countercharged, and 
 a crescent for difference. At her head, under the opposite 
 figure, is the impaled coat. Just under the arch, the Fryer's 
 coat supported by 2 Angels and crest — a Serpent A. in'ii(fing 
 round a Tower S., on which stands a Cock O. 
 
 Henry Fryer, Esq.' in 1632, left all his estate 
 (£500 or £600 per annum) to general charitable 
 uses. It was almost all conferred on Christ's Hospital, in 
 London, who are now Lords of the Manor. This estate was 
 charged with an annuity of £35 to the poor. This has been 
 divided between two objects, school and supply of coals. The 
 Commissioners for investigating Charities in 1839, reported that 
 £17 IO5. had been given to a schoolmaster; and for this sum 
 he was required to instruct, gratis, all the children of the 
 parish ; no very high remuneration. The report shows how 
 this was one of the many examples of inactivity and remiss- 
 ness chargeable on the last generation. 
 
 The Church of S. Mary, in the parish of Harlton, is inter- 
 esting rather for its style, which is very early Perpendicular, 
 
 ' Second son of Dr. Thomas Fryer: see p. 82. 
 
 N
 
 90 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 and uniformity of structure, than from its great size, rich- 
 ness, or elaborate ornament. It is, in fact, an ordinary 
 country Church, beautifully situated in a very quiet and 
 retired village, whose verdant trees and peaceful character 
 of rural repose are pleasingly presented to the traveller 
 who has been passing between the bleak chalk hills to the 
 left, and the bare uninteresting tract of country which 
 stretches far away to the right, in his progress from Cam- 
 bridge through the village of Barton. From the high 
 road, indeed, which passes about half-a-mile from Harlton, 
 the Church is scarcely visible ; nor would it be perceived 
 by one whose eye is not readily arrested by the ever- 
 welcome prospect of a grey tower peering through the sur- 
 rounding trees, or who is not quick to mark the one object 
 which sanctifies while it most adonrs every rural scene. 
 Externally viewed, and divested of the associations of a 
 picturesque position, there is little in the present building 
 which is calculated to excite more than usual interest. A 
 Chancel, a Nave and Aisles, and a plain square western 
 Tower without a spire, form the plan : there are two Porches, 
 to the north and south; and a Rood turret, rising above 
 the rooY in the north-east angle of the Nave, gives variety 
 and irregularity to the structure. On entering the Church, 
 however, it is at once perceived that it possesses considerable 
 arcliitectural merit, both in respect of proportion and detail. 
 The Chancel is of ample size and beautiful eflPect. The East 
 window, of five cinqfoiled lights, bears evident marks in 
 the upper members of its elegant tracery, of the struggle 
 between the graceful flow of Decorated lines and the rigid 
 vertical principle of the Perpendicular, wliich had not yet 
 terminated in favour of the latter. The arch is highly 
 pointed, and the jambs low; so that the tracery occupies, 
 as was frequently the case in Decorated, but more rarely in 
 Perpendicular windows, about half the entu-e height. The
 
 S. MARY, IIARLTON. 
 
 91 
 
 date appears to be about a.d. 1890. On each side of this 
 window, internally, two very rich and elaborate niches still 
 remain nearly perfect ; and below it is a remarkable Keredos 
 of stone, still entire, and perliaps tlie only instance of the 
 kind in thc^ county. It contains in the upper part thirteen 
 small compartments, cinqfoilcd, and with crockcted canopies. 
 Tliese doubtless formerly held statues. The central compart- 
 ment forms a deep recess in tlie wall, and was designed 
 for the reception of holy relicks, which appear to luuc 
 been sometimes kept in a recess immediately above the altar, 
 as in the present instance, or at All Saints, Tinwell, in Rut- 
 landshire, where a square sculptured reliquary is seen ex- 
 ternally below the East window, built into the masonry of the 
 wall, and evidently inserted for this purpose. The Piscina is 
 large and handsome, and is 
 surmounted by a square hood 
 with foliated spancUils, and 
 terminated by weU- carved 
 heads. The Sedilia appear 
 in the south-east window-cill. 
 In the north wall, opposite 
 the Sedilia, are several muti- 
 lated brackets, or fragments 
 of statues. This wall is pierced 
 by a single window of two 
 lights, ha\'ing good tracery 
 and an equilateral arch. The 
 ordinary monogram of the 
 Holy Trinity in ruby glass, 
 with black letter scripture, 
 coeval with the fabrick, re- 
 
 f:v}\ 
 
 PisL-iua. 
 
 mains perfect in tlris window, and is almost the only fragment 
 of stained glass now to be found, though previous to the 
 repairs of the Church, (of which we shall lia\e more to
 
 Q2 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 say hereafter,) about a year ago, a considerable number of 
 ancient pieces existed, among which were many initial letters, 
 curiously painted in black and yellow, on a white ground. 
 The south wall of the Chancel contains two windows of similar 
 character and date; that over the Sedilia of three lights, that 
 to the west the same as the opposite window on the north 
 side. Between them is a good Priest's door. The roof is 
 nearly flat, of open timber, and appears to be partly modern, 
 partly composed of the ancient beams. The Chancel-arch is 
 very fine, and has much of Decorated character in its mould- 
 ings. The label is terminated by very grotesque and curiously 
 carved figures, of which there are also some remarkable ex- 
 amples in the dripstones of the windows. The ancient Chancel 
 stalls remain on both sides of the Chancel arch, and have 
 good carved panels and plain poppy-heads. The Rood-screen 
 is of stone, very plain, but good in design. 
 
 Our readers must understand that our view 
 
 Nave. 
 
 of the interior of the Nave was taken before the 
 late repair of this Church. They Avill now look in vain 
 for the rich old oaken seats, with their panelled and but- 
 tressed sides; they have all been removed (being much de- 
 cayed) and replaced by deal seats, which however possess 
 the rare merit of being left open as before, and are of 
 tolerable design. The piers and arches are of lofty and 
 beautiful proportions; the latter are nearly equilateral. The 
 piers are in their plan (which is given in our engraving) 
 intermediate between the usual Decorated and the Perpendi- 
 cular arrangement, though the mouldmgs incline rather to 
 the latter style. The caps are of unusually meagre and 
 shalloAv developement. There is no Clerestory to the Nave, 
 and a low-pitched king-post roof, probably of the seventeenth 
 century, with wall-pieces springing from large and well-cut 
 corbel-heads, somewhat abruptly terminates the finely ascend- 
 ing lines of the ancient masonry.
 
 S. MAUY, HARI.TON. 
 
 93 
 
 Belfry Arch. 
 
 There is a noble arcli, now unhappily blocked, 
 which communicates between the Nave and tlie 
 Tower. The mouldings are continuous, extremely deep and 
 bold, and chiefly of Decorated detail. The Font is an absurd 
 pagan vase, placed upon a stone pedestal. The pulpit is a 
 rich Jacobean specimen in good preservation. 
 
 The north Aisle is entered by a fine Porch, 
 which was formerly groined, but the lower parts of 
 the cross springers now alone remain to bear record of the fact. 
 The inner doorway has rich continuous mouldings, and attached 
 to the western jamb, in the angle, is a mutilated Benatura, 
 
 Aisles. 
 
 with a foliated basin, which is not of common occurrence. 
 The outer doorway has jamb-shafts, and good mouldings of 
 pure Decorated character. The East wall is pierced with a 
 fine large two-light window, of partially Decorated tracery, 
 and a transom. The north wall contains three similar windows, 
 of three lights, all with transoms, and cinqfoilcd heads below 
 them, excepting the north-eastern window, in which the transom 
 is plain. The entrance to the Rood turret is in this part
 
 94 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 of the church, throvigh a good ancient 
 door with floriated hinges. It is as- 
 cended by a newel staircase of stone, 
 lighted by narrow trefoiled lancets, of 
 most beautiful design ; and a spiral 
 bead is sunk in the wall to assist in 
 the ascent. At the top is a small 
 door opening upon the roof of the 
 Nave, which is covered with lead. Of 
 the south Aisle nothing remains to be 4^ 
 said, since its character is the same as 
 
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 that just described, with the exception 
 
 of the East window, which has three lights 
 
 Rood Door. Scale, 1-4 in. to a foot. 
 
 The Porch how- 
 
 E. Window, S. Aisle
 
 S. MARY, IIARLTON. 
 
 95 
 
 ever is different, and of vovy ffood design. The interior 
 
 T.sni==^'-~ 
 
 Inner Doorway, South Porcli, 
 
 doorway is large, and has rich continuous mouldings with 
 square hood and quatrcfoilcd circles in the spandrils. The 
 outer doorway is also good, and has a bold label terminated 
 by heads, and fine mouldings of Decorated contour. 
 
 The To^^■cr is a very plain structure, and con- 
 tains nothing remarkable. It is embattled, of 
 two stages, and supported by angular buttresses of three 
 stages. The belfry windows appear to have formerly been of 
 two lights ; the muUion is now removed. The bells are in 
 a most neglected state. One is broken ; two bear the dates 
 1622 and 1636 respectively. In the lower stage, on the 
 southern side, is a singular recess in the wall, which may 
 have been connected with the sance-bell ; but it does not, like 
 that at Trumpington, reach to the ground. 
 
 There are no monuments of any interest re- 
 Monuments. . . . . n n • ^ 
 mainmg m the church. The vestiges of a flonated 
 
 sepulchral stone cross may be traced on a slab witliin the 
 
 Altar rails ; and in the south Aisle a cumbrous and unsightly 
 
 structure of 1631, a more lengthened descrii^tion of which is 
 
 inserted in p. 88.
 
 90 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 General condition The fabrick, before its late repairs, was in 
 and appearance. ^ ^ery dilapidated and most neglected condition. 
 Being built almost entirely of cluncli (the principal quarries of 
 which are in the immediate neighbourhood) the outer walls 
 were decayed and ragged, and could only have been properly 
 restored by being faced and pointed anew, at a A'ery considerable 
 cost. The church however has now been made weather-proof 
 and neat and clean ; and perhaps this is all the praise that 
 can be bestowed upon it. The whole of the exterior has been 
 plaistered with that worthless and detestable material, Roman 
 cement, duly jointed and coloured to look like stone. Some 
 of the strings and movddings, especially at the basement, appear 
 to have had their full share of this disastrous composition, so 
 that their original contour cannot everywhere be ascertained 
 by a casual observer. A modern vestry has been erected at 
 the north-east end of the Chancel, likewise covered with 
 cement, which, after the lapse of scarcely a year, is crumbling 
 to pieces and honestly displaying the red brick which it dis- 
 dains to hide. 
 
 We do not, in these remarks, wish to throw blame where 
 none is justly due. Probably the architect had no other course 
 to pursue, and the parish no more money to expend upon the 
 restoration. But an important lesson may be learnt fi-om such 
 cases : that wherever a parish has, from long apathy and neglect, 
 suffered a noble ancient church to fall into all but complete 
 decay; when means are at length taken for repairing it, the 
 w^ork must either be so badly and cheaply done as to entail 
 a mutilated and poorly-patched church upon posterity, or (which 
 however is by far the better alternative) the parishioners must 
 half ruin themselves for a time, to restore it to its original 
 strength and beauty.
 
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 jRood Turret 
 
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 Exterior Doorwau . South Porch 
 
 Cha.ncel Arch, 
 
 Interior J)oorwuj^ NorCh Porch 
 
 JLxterutr Zfoortva^ 2i'oTth Porcft 
 
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 7 ASELINGFIELD— according to ancient 
 orthography IIesli/H()feJ(l and HasseUing- 
 Jield, now currently written Haslingfield ; 
 in the Deanery of Barton, in the 
 Archdeaconry of Ely, in the Hundred 
 of Wetherley, of old Wederlai — lies 5 miles 
 almost south of Cambridge. It is seated on 
 the north side of a hill. The sqil is not un- 
 fruitful, and bettered by the neighbourhood of 
 the river Rhee, or Rhea, which runs by the 
 town to Cambridge.' It was once so honoured 
 as to give name to the Deanery." 
 
 The Church is dedicated 
 * to All Saints. 
 
 1352 Dio Jovis, in Festo Sci Maclielli, Eoclcsia 
 de Haselyngt'elcl in lionorom oainium Scoru di'dicata 
 per Thoiiiam Epuiu, inter Festa Sci Micliis et Sci 
 Androc— il/S. Wren. 127. 
 
 It is a Vicarage. The Advowson belonged 
 
 Advowson. ..,, r< ini- i^ ii- 
 
 originally to Somery s Manor ; but was lost in 
 a suit between Stephen Somery and the Abbot of York, in 
 tlie reign of King John.'' 
 
 Layer, Cole's MSS., v. xxii. 
 Monasl. Anglic. 388, 104. 
 
 « See MSS. 189, p. 10. Cains Coll.
 
 Value. 
 
 98 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 In another place/ Diigdale says the Church was given 
 by Stephen, Duke of Brittany, to the Priory of Eomburgh, 
 Suffolk, A. D. 1284; which was a cell to the Abbey at York, 
 one of the small monasteries suppressed in 1528, and granted 
 to Cardinal AVolsey for his College at Ij)swich. 
 
 A.fter the dissolution of monasteries, Sir T. Wendy, having 
 purchased the Abbey estate here, became possessed of the Ad- 
 vowson. From the Wendy family it passed to Sir Eoger 
 Burgoine, about 1710. In 1753, Mrs. L'Isle was patron. 
 It now belongs to Charles Michell, Esq., of Forcett Hall, near 
 Darlington. 
 
 In 1290, the Church (i.e. the Rectory) was 
 valued at 38/. 13*. 42d.; the Vicarage at 4?. 6s. 8d. 
 In the Taxation of 1291, we find this statement — 
 
 Ecclesia de Haselinefield taxatur ad t- marc. 
 
 IX 
 
 . docimatur 4L 
 In Bp. Gray's Register, Ecclesie Valor was put down 55 marc; 
 Vicaria, 6 J marc. In the Kind's Books the statement is — 
 
 Valet Vicaria . . . 81. 10s. 7^d. 
 
 Solvit decimas . . . 17*. 9|c?. 
 
 In 1754, the value was £300.' In the Liber Ecclesiasticus 
 
 the sum given is £550. 
 
 It will, perhaps, be considered worth while to give the 
 
 conclusion of the process" respecting the Tithes, which was 
 
 had between the Vicar and Patron Abbey, in 1484; as 
 
 shewing the nature of the provision made for incumbents 
 
 in that day, and wherein their burdens consisted. It furnishes 
 
 to patrons of benefices at this day solid reasons for a good 
 
 example of liberality. 
 
 " Constat — Portionem vicarii perpetui — solum et in solidum fiiisse et esse 
 in Altoragio dicte ecclesie, cum lino et Canape ac tribus Marcatis Deciraarum 
 Bladi nomine ad sustentationem Vicarii porpctui pro tempore, Curam aiii- 
 
 * Monast. Anglic. 111. 610. ' MS. note, Ecion's Thesaurus, p. 93, University Library. 
 
 ' Cole MSS. xxi. 271—2.
 
 ALL SAINTS, HASLINGFIELD. 99 
 
 marum de et in cadom ecclesia gerentis ad omnia ad singula oncra ecdesio 
 predicto incumbentia supportanda. Que quidcni iiortio adeo tenuis fuit toni- 
 poribus retroaetis, ct jam esse dinoscitur, quod ^'it•al•ius jjredicte Ecclesie ex 
 eadom llospitalitatem servarc, et alia onera eidem incumbentia supportare 
 noquaqnam potuissot, aut potest in present!. Sciatis igitur, quod nos Iniio 
 morbo congruam adliibcre medolam volcntes portionem predietam ex uuanimi 
 consensu et assensu totius Capituli nostri augmontando, pietate moti, auximus 
 et pro porpctuo auguientando melioranius in liunc uioduni. In ])i'imis viz 
 volumus, ct pro prcscnti pro nobis et successoribus nostris danuis et con- 
 cedimus, quod dictus magister Robortus Adam, modernus diete Ecclesie 
 Viearius, ac onincs et singuli succossorcs sui dicte Ecclesie Vicarii pro tempore 
 existentes, qui Pondus diei et Estus suis Temporibus successi\is habct ct 
 continue habebunt, ultra portionem suam predietam liabeant pro pcrpctuo 
 mansum pro \'^icario ejusdcm Ecclesie ab antiquo ordinatum suis jiropriis 
 sumptibus et exponsis repaianduni et manutenendum cum suis pertineutiljus : 
 quodque habeant et percipient dictus Mag"' Rob. Adam, Viearius, ct singuli 
 successores sui Vicarii ejusdem Ecclesie cum ouere reparationis Caneolli tlicte 
 Ecclesie parocliialis ad quam virtute Ordinationis ejusdem tcnontur : necnon 
 cum onere Solutionis annul Census sivo annuo Pensionis vel Prajstationis 
 viginti solidorum celle uostre de Romeburgh ab antiquo de, et in oadem 
 Ecclesia debite et solvi consuete, omnimodas decimas Feni et aliarum rerum deci- 
 mabilium quarumcunquc do, et in omnibus et singulis Tcrris et Locis infra 
 Finos Limites Bundas et Loca Decimationis dicte Ecclesie parocliialis, quo a 
 Tempore cujus Initii sive Contrarii Ilominum memoria nou existit, fueiunt 
 et nunc sunt extra agriculturam rodacta : et omnimodas Decimas Lane, Agnel- 
 lorum, Vitulorum, Ortorum, Aucarum' ac alias Decimas minutas et perst)lutiones 
 quascunque. Necnon Oblationes Mortuaria et alias quascunqiie Obventiones 
 Ecclesiasticas de et in dicta parocliiali Ecclesia, vel Capella ab eadem de])endenti, 
 
 pro tempore perveniondo salvis nobis et successoribus nostris nomine 
 
 monasterii nostri predicti, manso Rectorie dicte Ecclesie, cum omnibus ct 
 singulis Gardinis, Terris, Tenementis, Clausuris, Pascuis, et Pasturis, Terris, 
 Tenementis, Silvis, et Redditibus, quibus dicta parocliialis Ecclesia, extra 
 Mansum pro Vicario predicto, cum Tcrris, et locis eidem pertinentibus, 
 dotata existit cum suis pertinentiis ac Decimis Bladi, de et in omnibus et 
 ommimodis Terris vocatis Monesland, ac omnibus aliis Terris et locis infra 
 Fines, Limites, Bundas' et Loca Decimationis profato parodi. Eeclie de Iles- 
 lynfeld pro temp. quomodolitiT portinentia, una cum Decimis Silve cedue ubiq. 
 infra Fines dicte Eeclie Crocique" ct Feui ac Bladi et Rerum Dccimalium 
 quarumcunq., de et in Terris et Locis quibuscunq. infra Fines, Limites Bundas 
 ct Loca predicta ubi(pie extra Agriculturam iu presenti existentia, qui saltern 
 infra tompus mcmorie Hominum ad Bladum culti fuerunt. Necnon de et in 
 
 ' Sc. Ansenim. Vid. Diicange .1 1 >0'. 
 
 ' It appears from old documents that saffron was grown about Cambridge, no less than 
 in the adjoining county about Satfion Waldcn.
 
 100 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 omnibus Ten-is et Locis nunc existentibus in siniili cultura etiam si in 
 futurum extra Agriculturain, si qui tales fuerint, aliquo Tempore enmt. Et 
 quod insui>er volumus et per presentes ex unanimi Consensu et Assensu nostris 
 concedinuis, quod dictus Vicarius et singuli successores sui pro perpetuo sint 
 liberi, exonerati et quieti ab omni onere Solutionis Deeiniarum quarumcunq. 
 Dno nostro Regi, et Subsidii cujuscunq. Dno nostro Pape, seu E]iiscopo Elicnsi 
 pro tempore debendi seu solvendi : necnon Reparationis, Manutentiouis, et 
 Refectionis Mansi Rectorie Ecelesie predicte ; quorum omnium et singulorum 
 onus in nos et successores nostros et prefatum Monasterium nostrum predictum 
 inde oneramus; et ad perpotuam Solutionem eorundem, et singulorum ipsorum, 
 cum casus emerserit, nos et successores nostri predicti ex nunc prout ex tunc, 
 et ex tunc prout ex nunc, harum serie obligamus, dictum Mag. Robertum, 
 Vicarium modernum, et ejus successores quoscunque inde pro perpetuo exone- 
 rantes. Et ulterius nos predictus Thomas (sc. Botbe) Abbas et Conventus 
 volumus, et per Presentes concedimus, quod dictus Mag''. Rob. Vicarius et 
 
 singuli successores sui babeant et percipient de nobis et successoribus 
 
 nostris aunuatim in Festis S. Martini in llyeme, et Pentecostes, equis Por- 
 tionibus, tredecim Solidos et quatuor Denarios in ampliorem Augmentationem 
 dicte Portionis, ultra tres Marcatas in Ordinatione predicta contentas quarum 
 annuam Portionem nos et successores nostros subire debere cognoscimus ac 
 subire volumus et concedimus, et ad id nos et successores nostros obligamus 
 per Presentes." 
 
 And then proviso is added, that the grant be of no effect 
 to those who disturb the Convent in any of the above specified 
 rights of its own ; and the date concludes the document. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wendy, the patron after the Abbey of York, 
 showed a worthy example of patron-like liberality, for which 
 he is justly commemorated by Bishop Kennet,' the historian 
 of Impropriations, as an eminent instance of affection to the 
 Church in preceding reigns. 
 
 Another document we cannot forbear quoting here, as 
 
 illustrative of the customs of ecclesiastical property in ancient 
 
 times. It is from Baker's MSS. xxxii. p. 185. The article 
 
 is an extract from " Particulars of the Lands, &c. granted to 
 
 Thomas Wendy, D.M., 38 Hen. VIII. 1546." It begins with 
 
 an indenture, made 1520, (12 Hen. VIII.) witnessing that 
 
 The Reverende Father in Gode Edmunde Abbotte of the Monasterye of 
 our Blesside (Lady) of Yorke and the Convente — have devisyde graunted 
 
 ^ Cane of Iniprt/pyialloiis, p. -131.
 
 ALL SAINTS, IIASLINGFIELD. 101 
 
 ami letton to farnic to John Crako of Heslynfelde yoman the personage of 
 
 the Cluirfh — with all iloniayncs modowes mores coniiiions ami pastures 
 
 with all coiumodities and advantages dewo to the sayd Monasteryo unto 
 
 thende and tcrme of lx yeres — foloyngo ; yeldynge therforc yerly to the 
 sayd Brodenio of the s'' Mouasterye, Students in Cambridge or their deimtes, 
 at the Feast of the Purificacyon of our Ladye and Soynt Peter ad Vincta, 
 or within xx dayes nexte after ether of the s'' Peastes, by even porcyons 
 XX ''*■ of lawful money of Englande besides these somes ensuynge : that is 
 to saye the s<i John shall paye to the Vicare — yerly for his Pencyon liii'. 4''. 
 at y*' ternies aceustomede, to the Pryor of BerncwcU xx" : to the Stewarde 
 for his fee xx' : to the Kjnigc pro Vis. Franc, pleg. xii'' : to the Bishoppe 
 for visytacyons 4* 5'' ob. or whatsoever it be more or less : and to the same 
 for syuage and prociu'ac. .3' 10'', and for Strawe to the Parish Cliurche 
 there in wynter season 4'. Furderniore — shall at his proper costs and cliarges 
 discharge the s* Abbotte — agenste y= s"" Bishoppe as well of y« sequestracyou 
 made of late in y'= sayd personage, as herafter to be made ether for decaye 
 of y'^ Maneyon there (or) defawte of paymente of anye of the s"* somes 
 dewring ye yeres aforesayde. 
 
 He was to pay £40 for the rebuilding of the mansion 
 lately destroyed by fire. He was to uphold and sustain all 
 the barns, make defence along the springs against cattle : 
 and he was to this licensed to take timber, provided he did 
 not fell by the roots any wood of ' warrnate' (walnut) ; and 
 to take stone from the quarrell. Taxes and ' dismes' (tenths) 
 were to be paid by the Convent, aU other dues by the lessee. 
 It was further provided, that — 
 
 If it shall fortune the seide students to be compulsede eyther by reason 
 of death' m the Univcrsite or other cause to come to the s'' jjei'sonage, as 
 they have been in times paste, that then tlie s"^ J. Crake and his assign 
 shall provide for them in the s'' personage one onoste Chamber to be occupiede 
 by them, — payenge for y'' meate and di'ynke and other tiiynges ncccssarye. 
 And the s"* Students shall have libertey in fyshyng there in y"^ Kyvcre for 
 their Recroacyon. 
 
 ' There is an example of the like offer of refuge in the account of the doing of W. Renndl, 
 aFellowof King's college, rector of Tichwell in Norfolk, 1381 ; who built several rooms in the 
 farms belonging to the then Gonville Hall, whereunto the Scholars might resort when the plague 
 should appear in Cambridge. A history of pastis in Cambridge would be not a very narrow 
 field of narrative. The knowledge and energy of later limes has done very much to remove 
 the natural causes of epidemics in this locality, where they prevailed to such an e.\tcnt as to 
 lose their proper appellations, if they ever gained them, in the common name of pcslis, or 
 plague. Yet energy lias even now not eifected all that knowledge suggests, or all that reason 
 might lead to expect.
 
 102 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 After the citation of this indenture it is added, that the 
 property was a Lordship of itself, and that the Advowson 
 was, as parcel of it, in the King's gift. 
 
 All this valued at xxii lib. 3s. 4f?., exclusive of Ais. M. 
 for tenth, was granted to Dr. Wendy in consideration of his 
 surrendering to the King an annuity of £4:0 out of the 
 Manor of Poynings, granted to him by the Earl of Northum- 
 berland. 
 
 The other ecclesiastical payments with which, in old times, 
 the parish was charged, are as follow :° 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Ecclesia solvit proour. Episcopo ... ... 9 9) 
 
 Vicaria ejusdem ... ... ... 12) 
 
 Porcio Prioris de Bern well in eadem ... 1 4 
 
 Bona Prioris de Anglcsoye taxantur ad ... 2 17 6 
 
 Bernwell 4 
 
 Abbatis Eboracensis ... 5 16 
 In 1533, there was due at the Bishop's Visitation' — 
 Synod. Den. Pet. Synod. Procur. 
 
 xiiij'*. iiij'. xiiij''. xviij''. 
 
 and Ely Farthings, xxij"*. 
 
 Manors. The followiug Mauors are enumerated : 
 
 1. 
 
 Manor of Scales. 
 
 2. 
 
 " Meuchins or Mincins, corrupted from Mount Hensies or de 
 
 
 Monte-Caniso. 
 
 3. 
 
 " Melford (or Roger of Melford's). 
 
 4. 
 
 " Sterne. 
 
 1. This, with other lands, was given by Edward I. to Sir 
 Robert de Scales, in regard of his valorous service in the 
 Scottish wars. In this family it continued until the time of 
 Edw. IV., when it went to the Earl of Oxford and W. Tindall, 
 cousins of the last heiress.* The latter family held it until 
 it was purchased by Dr. Wendy. He had all the Manors 
 except Sterne's in Mary's reign. 
 
 This Dr. Wendy was one of the principal grantees of 
 monastic property in this country. A list of the different 
 
 • Regist. Fleetwood, Ta.ratio, A.D. 121l() — 1. 
 
 • Caius Coll. .\JSS. 170. p. 19. < Camd. Brit. f. 413.
 
 ALL SAINTS, HASLINGFIELD. 10.3 
 
 grants made to him by Edw. VI., is in Lysons' MSS., 944, 
 p. 421. 
 
 The Earl of Delawarr now owns the property by inherit- 
 ance from INIr. Lyell, his lordship's maternal grandfather, who 
 purchased it from Sir Roger Burgoine ; he from the Wendy 
 family. 
 
 2. This was Stephen Somcry's possession; and came to 
 John de Monte-Caniso, Peter Pigott, Roger or Robert do 
 Bachworth. It came afterwards to the Cro^^•n ; by whom it 
 was granted to the Nuns of Stratford.'^ At the Dissolution 
 it was granted to Sir Ralph Sadler; from him it came into 
 Dr. "Wendy's hands. 
 
 In Cole, vol. xxii., an account of these Manors is given 
 at some length. 
 
 The Convent, by their attorney, answered tlie King's 
 (Edw. I.) placitum quo warranto before the Justices on circuit, 
 that they held " sok ct sak, tol et theam, visum franci plegii, 
 catalla felonum ct fugitivorum, et amerciamenta hominum 
 suorum," by the gift of King Henry III., in Haselingfield." 
 
 Conventual The Abbey at York had ix (90) acres in almes. 
 
 Property. _ . xx 
 
 The Priory of Anglesey, a hide of land, or -si 
 acres. The Priory of Clerkenwell, a hide of land, by free gift 
 from Will, de Sancto Gcorgio, made with the knowledge of 
 the Lord Rob. Beche, who was ' capud feodi,' in 1194.' The 
 Nunnery of Stratford had a gift of land from Christiana Sumeri 
 and her son ; confirmed by King Stephen.' 
 
 A Chantry was founded here by Sir Robert de Scales, 
 in the reign of Edw. I. The license of founding is given 
 in Cole, vol. xxi. 183, from Bishop Goodrich's Register; it 
 runs thus ; 
 
 '' This was a Benedictine Nunnery, also called S. Leonard's, Bromley, being in Bromley 
 parish, but near Stratford. 
 
 " Dugdale (Bandinel), iv. 122. In the Index it is wrongly put Ilasclingfield, Kent. 
 ■ Monast. Anglic. 1. pt. IV. p. 291). ' Ibid. p. 443.
 
 104 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 Quod ipse dare possit et assiguare uiium messuagium et 50 acras Torre 
 cum pertinentiis in Haslynfeld que de nobis tenentur in Capite Aldermanno 
 et fratribus de Fraternitate Gilde Assumptionis beate Marie de Haslyngfeld, 
 habcuda sibi et successoribus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicia 
 inde debita et ad inveniendum quondam Capollamim (qui celebret) Divina 
 singulis diebus in quadam CapeUa beate Marie in dicta Villa de novo fundata 
 pro Animabus Progenitorum nostrorum, &c. 
 
 This document is dated ' 26 Mart, anno regni Anglie decimo 
 octavo, regni vero nostre Francie quinto.' 
 
 This Robert de Scales had been licensed by Bishop Thomas 
 de Insula (1351) to have Divine service in the oratory or 
 chapel of his Manor-house. 
 
 Another Chantry was of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. 
 The estate was granted to Dr. Wendy. 
 
 Cole' gives us this tradition ; 
 
 " There is a place near called the Lady of White Hill, where was a Chapel, 
 and the Lady Mary's Picture in it in memory of man, where there was a 
 Pilgrunage, and many foolish devotions performed." 
 
 He adds — 
 
 " The place is called Wliite Hill or Chapel Hill ; but there are no remains 
 of the Chapel." 
 
 The place is now known by the name of Chapel Bush. 
 
 Church The Archdeacon of Ely's Book' gives this list 
 
 Furniture, ^f Church Fumiture : 
 
 Haslingfend appriata Abbati Ebor. Est ibi Vicarius . Ix marc . taxaco . 
 solvit pro Sinod. ij*. iiijcZ. procur. x^•iijrf. Den. Sti. Pet. iiij«. Ornamenta sunt 
 hec. i. Missal, ij. Antiph. ij. gradal. ij. troperia. iij. psalteria. ij. ordinal. 
 Turribul. Tunica Dalmatica . crux deaurata . Lanterna . Legend, in duobus 
 voluibus . (ij. cum psalter.) manual. Crismator. iiij. phiole . v. paria vestiment. 
 cum pertinonciis . ij. Rochete . vi. superpellicia . iiij. Calicos. Cappe Chori de 
 dono Abbatis . i. do dono Vicar, unu Ordinal, cum Martilog. duo paria Can- 
 delabr. v. paria Corporalium . iij. Frontal, pixis . xi. vexilla. i. Portifor. in loco 
 Missal, uuum Missale bonum de dono dni Johis de Wokoton \'icar. Una cappa 
 chori de serico glauco cum amicta . tres albe cum amictis et stolis et maniplis 
 
 et duo zone, unum corporale. duo tuall. cum uno man unum antiph. cum 
 
 legenda eiusd. voluminis . unum portiforium qd. fuit dni Radi Cap' de dono. 
 eiusd. dni Jolus vicar, idem vicar, dedit altari bte Marie unum " 
 
 » MSS. xxii. 91, extr from Rand's MSS. 1773. ' Caius Coll. MSS. cciv. p. 94. 
 
 '' The page has been cat too much.
 
 ALL SAINTS, IIASLINGFIELD. 105 
 
 ^Itera bonum vestiraentum intogruiu cum toto apparatu do vulvcto blodio do 
 dono Johaii. Relict. Walter! Neve. 
 
 Cole' gives a description of tlic fabrick as it 
 
 Monuments. '. . i i • i 
 
 appeared in 1(43. Ihis would suit the present 
 state AvcU enough. He notes its advantage over other 
 churches in being free from high pews, and sup[)urts his 
 just criticism upon that humour by quoting old Wecver's" 
 sentiment thereupon. He follows up this notice with a full 
 account of the monuments which it contains : and since they 
 are of some historical interest, and have not come in among 
 Francis Blomefield's Collectanea, we shall not hesitate to 
 present them here. 
 
 The oldest monuiueut is that ou the north side of the Altar. It is an 
 Altar-tomb and painted, standing on throe steps. Round the top is the in- 
 scription (now not legible) — ■" Here lieth Thomas Wcudye,'' Doctor in Phesike, 
 and was buried the xii daye of Mayo, 15C0." At the head those arms" for 
 Wendye — a Chevron inter 3 lions heads erased, B within a bordure 
 engrailed B. The' two first .and fourth are the same ; but the thu-d is per 
 pale Wendtj impaling S. a Bend 0. At the feet Wendy imjialing something 
 which is decayed. 
 
 Against the south wall in the f'hnncel, also witliin rails, is a mural moiui- 
 ment of marble and alabaster, with two men and two women kneeling before 
 desks, in two separate divisions, one under the other. At the top the arms 
 of Wendy, with the crest — a lion's head erased As. collar indented 0. Over 
 the uppermost woman's head — A. a + voided inter 4 mullets pierced S., (or Atkins. 
 Between the two figures, which are on a degree (step) beneath, are these arms 
 
 ' The remainder is in the maryin in a still later hand. • MSS. II. 
 
 * Monuments, p. 701. 
 
 " This Dr. Wendy, whose name is so largely blended with the account of this parish, is 
 annually commemorated in the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College, in tlie list of their 
 primary Benefactors. He was one of their numerous physicians of note and figure that 
 flourished about the time of their eminent and learned founder; for he was Physician 
 to King Henry VIII., Edward VI., Pliilip and Mary, and Queen Eliz.abelli. He was 
 Fellow and President of the College, and founded one of the Junior Fellowships. Vide 
 Slrtjpe, Life of Cranmer, p. 203. He is mentioned as among the Queen's Commissioners 
 of Visitation to the University in IStO. He was a subscribing witness to King Henry VIII. 's 
 will. (See Bedford's Hereditary Right.) 
 
 ' On a deed of conveyance of a piece of ground called Pascal Yard, now Pembroke Hall 
 stables, to Bene't College, is Dr. Wendy's seal ; his crest in a shield, with a Lion's head 
 erased, without the Fesse indented as now. Cole^ ii. 59. 
 
 * 2nd. Wendy impaled with Butler, B. a Bend inter 6 covered cups O. 3rd. Wendy agaiti . 
 4tli. Wendy and Hartwell, paled A. on a bend S. 3 Ilartu's heads caboshed O. Cole, xviii. 23. 
 
 P
 
 106 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHTRE. 
 
 — Wcivhj impaling, G. 3 Conies for Coniesby.' On tlie ridge below them were 
 formerly 9 shields ; 3 of them (then, 4 now) lost. The first should be, Wendi; 
 hnpcAing, S. a Chevron int. 3 Leopard's Faces 0., for Wentworth. Second, 
 Wendi/ impaling, blank. Third, ditto. Fourth, 0. a Chevron int. 2 Lions passant 
 in chief, and an Amulet in base S., for Taylor, impaling Wendy. Fifth, lost, 
 but should be Burgoyne^ impaling Wendy. Sixth, lost, but should bo Savill 
 impaling Wendy. Seventh, Blcn a Fess wavy inf. 3 demy Lions ramp. 0. for 
 Symonds,^ impaling Wendy. Eighth, aS'. a Chevron int. 3 Leopards faces 0. for 
 Wentworth, impaling Wendy. Ninth, G. a Chevron Erm. int. 3 Trefoils 
 slip'd, A., for Meade (of Essex), impaling Wendy. (Under these a long inscrip- 
 tion, badly executed as to the spelling, describmg Dr. Wendy's family, and the 
 disposal of them. He died in 1612, and this monument was erected in 1619 
 by his sou. Sir William Wendy.) 
 
 Within the Altar-rails is a monument to Thomas, third son of Dr. Wendy, 
 buried here in 1633. 
 
 Against the south wall, just below the rails, a mural monument.^ Under 
 an arch a statue of white marble, in the robes of the Bath and the red 
 Riband, painted : below, a black marble slab, bearing this inscription — 
 
 Thomffi Wendy' Equiti Honoratiss : Ordinis 
 de Balueo, Deo, Regi, Legi, Patria>, Eccle- 
 sise, Viro summo Fiho Francisci Wendy 
 Marito Lretitire Filia; Natu maximas Fran- 
 -cisci Willoughby de Middleton in Com. War- 
 -wicensi, Equitis, Patri ex ea duorum Libero- 
 -rum, quorum alter simul ortus et mortuus 
 est, alter sacro Baptismate Deo dicatus obi- 
 -it. Monumentiuu hoc fidissima et mccstis- 
 -sima Conjux i^oni curavit addiq : 
 
 Quo Luctu? qua laude, tuum quo Marmoro, nomen 
 
 Perpetuum, nisi stem Marmor et ipse tibi ? 
 Ars, Amor, lugenium, sumptus te reddere \'nltu 
 
 Certant, te possit reddere mente niliil. 
 
 Over the arch arc these arms : Wendy impaling 0. on 2 Bars G. 3 Water- 
 boughts A. for Willoughby: over them the Crest (Collar argent). On each 
 
 ' Sir Ralph Coningsby, of North Mimms, Hertfordshire. Cole, xviii. 23, 
 
 ' Of Sutton, Bedfordshire. Thus blazoned.— G. a Chevron 0. int. 3 Talbois pass. A. 
 on a chief ji. 3 Martlets B. They bear the chief crenelle. See Cole, vol. xxii. 155. 
 
 ' Bob. Symonds, of Whittlesford, in Cambridgeshire, xiii. 23. 
 
 ' The monument and the shield are drawn in Cole's volume, but roughly. 
 
 ' Sir Thos. Wendy, Knight of the Bath, was Gentleman Commoner of Balliol College, and 
 left to his College a choice collection of Books. — Wood, Ath. Ox. i. 134. To his lady, 
 Lettice Wendy, Ray dedicated his " Wisdom of God in the Works of the Creation." A 
 Prayer on the Death of this Sir Thomas Wendy, by Ray, is in Geo. Scott's Derham's Select 
 Remains of Ray, p. 86. 8vo. Lond. 1760. He died 1673.
 
 siile liang the Gauntlets and S])urs (and Sword) ; and above hang tlie 
 Surcoat (and ] Tolmet), wth the Wendy arms on them : on a Pennon, Wendy 
 impalinrf WiJJouf/hhi/ ; and on anotlior WenJi/ alone. On a tlnrd, A. a Cross G. 
 Ou the left t)f the last-nieutionod slab lies another of the same sort, just below 
 the steps of the altar : at the top these arms in a Lozenge — 2 Cars, in chief 
 3 + patee, for Winstanley, impaling Willoughhi/ : under them this inscription — 
 
 M. S. 
 
 Cathcrina FUia Francisci Wllloughby 
 
 dc Middleton in Agro Warwicensi 
 
 Ei|uitis Aurati et Dn;e Cassandraj 
 
 Fili;c praniobilis Dili Thom;e 
 
 Comitis de Londonderry, Uxor 
 
 dementis et Mater Jacobi 
 
 Winstanley de Braunston in 
 
 Agro Leicestrensi Arm. obiit 
 
 Vidua 14° die Aprilis 
 
 Anno \ D- 1694, 
 (.Etat. G4. 
 
 On the north wall, just below the steps, is a handsome mural monument 
 of white marble, having the tigure of a lady at her devotions. At the top 
 these arms in a Lozenge : Woulj/ impalimj S. a Chevron inter 3 Leopard's 
 faces 0. for Wentteorth. This monument is to Eliz. Wendy, eldest daughter 
 of Nicolas Woutwortli of Lillingston Level, Oxon, and wife of Franc. Wendy, 
 Esq. She died A.D. 1G58. 
 
 There arc also slab-monuments to Fran. Wendy (x. D.) and Thomas Stewart, 
 heu--at-law to Sh' T. Wendy, who died in 1688. 
 
 Below the last-mentioned mural moiiumout, another, closing up the window, 
 to Fran. Wendy, second son of Francis Wendy, of llaselingfield, who died 
 in 1646. 
 
 Below this is a small mural monument, of white marble, with mathematical 
 instrmuents all about it, with the two globes at the top and bottom, and 
 this inscription : 
 
 " Simon Ertmanus natus ITelsnori Oppidi in insula Selandiaj ad Sund in 
 Regno Dania; siti, Patre Dano, Bolga Matre, prognatus. Vir tarn Artium 
 quam Linguarum jioritia excultissimus, morumq. Probitate admodum eximius ; 
 quas singulares Animi dotes summa erga Pauperes luijus Viei dc Haselingtic'ld 
 Charitate eohonestavit, quibus sublevandis, ipsorumq. Pueris instruendis, aliisq. 
 piis operibus promovendis, CCCC Librarura usuin-fruetum quotannis iiii])en- 
 deudum in perpctuuui legavit. /Etatis suai 57™°, Salutisq. recuperat;e itDCLViii^", 
 24™° Julii die, denatus est; et hie juxta positus cxpectat Resurrcctionem 
 felicem." 
 
 The sum named in the inscription was by Sir T. Wendy 
 exchanged for a part of his estate in the parish.
 
 In tlie lowest window of the Chancel, and by this men', are 2 coats, 
 (1) G. 6 escallops 3, 2, 1, A. for Scales.^ (2) A. a lAon ramp. S. crowned 0. 
 The roof of the Chancel is handsomely wainscotted and painted. Over the 
 Screen is a frame, bearing on the E. face this de\ieo — I. II. S. in a Glory, 
 with the words 'Ego sum Lux Mundi' — diftusing itself over a Terrestrial 
 globe, whereon is written, ' Ambulate dum lucem habetis.' On the W. face 
 are the Royal Arms. 
 
 Between the 1st and 2nd pillar of the Nave on the S. side, is a very 
 ancient altar-monument, perhaps of the builder of the church. 
 
 There are also several slab-monuments to the Serjeant family, of the 
 ISth century. 
 
 There are also mural monuments to Anne Ensor, wife of Christ. Ensor, of 
 AVliately in Warwickshire, who died in 1654. A brass plate in a wood frame 
 is this. And to Anne Buckberry, widow of the Minister of Drayton Basset 
 in Staffordshire. 
 
 There is an altar-monument of free-stone at the Chancel door, but very 
 much defoced, and illegible. 
 
 In the borders of the Chancel Windows are the Fleurs of France and 
 the Lions of England and the Escallop Shells, and on a Sable Field a covered 
 Cup O. In the wood-work of the Roof of the aisle are the Arms of lugle- 
 thorpe, a + enp:; and those of Lisle, a Fess inter 2 Chevrons. In the borders 
 of the Windows of the S. Aisle are the Escallop Shells and a Buckle. 
 
 John de Grymston. 
 1369. Will. Brj'nkill— by exchange. 
 
 1385. Will Rudham,'' resigned for Netlested, in Rochester diocese. 
 1406. Will. Person, Dec. 5. Presented by the Abbot and Convent of 
 S. Mary, York. 
 
 Thos. My. Resigned. 
 1445. Wil. Sutton,* May 15. Resigned. By the same. 
 1448. Wil. Laverock, Aug. 1. Died. 
 1473. Rob. Adam,-' M.A. Oct. 17. By the same. 
 1518. Ric. Arrington. Died. 
 1521. Joh. Coverdale, Dec. 17. By the same. 
 1544. Gi'iftin Richard, LL.B. Aug. 11. 
 
 ^ See MoranVs History of Essex, p. 145. 
 
 ° Cole gives a list of Vicars from 14-06 — 1617, in Vol. II. p. 62, xxii. 90, taken from 
 Dr. Mason's Book of Incumbents for Ely Diocese, which was made from tlie l!iil)op's 
 Registers and Visitation Books, and J. Richardson's list which is very imperfect. 
 
 ' 10 Kal. Jan. 13S5, fit Accolitus; Subdiaconus, eodem die : 1386, 7 .^p. Diaconus : 21 Ap. 
 Presbyter. — Sp. Arundel. Regr. 
 
 ' Fellow of King's Hall. He held also Whittlesford Brigge, 2 Hen. VI. 
 
 " In 1484, the Tithes were settled between him and the Abbey. The process is given at 
 length in Cole, vol. xxi. 267 — 273, from the Register of Wills of Ely Diocese.
 
 ALL SAINTS, IIASLING FIELD. ]09 
 
 1551. GaltVid (or Griffin) Treygherno.' 
 1503. Mic. Calvart,- Feb. 25. Resigned. 
 1574. Rie. Bacon, Ap. 13. 
 1583. Clirist. Jaokson. 
 
 1595. Moody 3 (in 1595). 
 
 John Smith. 
 1599. .1. Smith. Rosigned. 
 
 Franl<lin.' 
 
 1017. James Greenwood, ISIarch 17. Resigned. 
 
 1639. Griffith Ilatloy, A.M. Nov. 27. Presented by Tlios. Wendy. 
 
 16G2. Henry Cliambcrlay no, '^ A.M. Jid. 2.3, d. Pres. by Sir Thos. Wendy. 
 
 16GG. Matthew Scrivener, A.M. Feb. 4, d. 
 
 1G88. Isaac Baeldiouse,^ A.M. Ap. 10, d. By Sam. Sutton, patron, pro liac 
 
 vice. 
 1714. John lloyliu,'' or Ileylyn, A.R. Ap. 10, resig. Pres. by Kemp 
 
 Ilarward, M.D. of S. Margaret's, Westminster, and West Stoke, 
 
 Oxfordsliire. 
 
 ' Tiigarne or Triguraii — held also Cottenliam: was Fellow of King's Hall. 
 
 'Mag'^ Galfridus Trygarne, Vicar, ibm, est Sacerilos ac reside! ibm: est Legum Doctor, non 
 tamen ad praedicand. habilis . legit Homilias Autlioritate Regia publico ac Ilospitium alit 
 ibm.' This is from Bp. Cox's Certificatorium to Abp. Parker ; or Index status totius Clcri et 
 Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum quorumcunque infra Uiocesin Ellens. — Cole, xii. 9. The 
 original is in the Corpus Christi College MSS. c.\xii. 
 
 * He was one of those that subscribed to the Liturgie, \o7l, at the Visitation at Eisworth, 
 being then also Vicar of Barrington ; together with Thomas Page, Rector of Harlton; 
 Richard Traue, Rector of Histon S. Andrew; and Thomas Farnby, Rector of Hinton. Sec 
 the list, MS. 13, Cough Coll. p. 1. He was Fellow of King's Hall. 
 
 ' In i.395, rated for his Vicarage with the Vicar of Comberton, to find one Pike furnished. 
 
 ' In 1609, rated with the V. of Grantchester and Truinpingtou to raise a (lair of Curols, 
 with a Pike furnished. 
 
 ' One of the Association of Parish Ministers in Cambridgeshire. In MS. 937, in the 
 Lambeth Library, is an article (22) in the hand-writing of Abp. Tenison, entituled "The 
 Transactions of the Association of Parish Ministers in Cambridgeshire," 1656-58. There are 
 the lists of those Ministers who attended the meetings, the names of the Moderators, the rules 
 of conducting the meetings, and the subjects of discussion. Some of these rules, made at a 
 meeting at Cambridge, Jan. 20, 1656, are the following: — 'To meet monthly (the general 
 meetings afterwards were made quarterly, on account of small attendance); to begin and end 
 with prayer; to be all present, unless reasonable account can be given; to keep ourselves close 
 to our business, not meddling with civill atfairs of the Commonwealth.' Amongst the Ministers 
 that attended are the names — Mr. Allen, Hector of Harleton; he was moderator at a meeting 
 at Stretham, 1658, when the subject of Ordination was debated : Mr. Ashley, Vicar of Histon; 
 Mr. Church, Vicar of Hinton; and Mr. Crosland, Vicar of Trumpingtou. And a Registrar 
 was appointed to act at the meetings. 
 
 ' This is found sometimes written, as pronounced, Bacchus. 
 
 ' Author of Theological Lectures (to the King's Scholars) at Westminster Abbey, with an 
 Interpretation of the Four Gospels; to which are added, some select Discourses upon the 
 principal points of Revealed Religion, 4to. Loud. l/l-O. He became D.D. in 1728; was 
 Prebendary of Westminster, and Rector of S. Mary-le-Strand.
 
 110 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 1719. John Barn'Prell,^ A.M. afterwards D.D. 
 
 1746. Timothy Perkins. Died. 
 
 1788. Marmaduke Johnson. 
 
 1800. Stephen Allen. 
 
 Parish Tlic eaiiicst begins a. d. 1709. It shews 
 
 Register, nothing remarkable, but examples of marriage 
 by banns being celebrated in the College Chapel of the In- 
 cumbent, about 1741. It is not perhaps common to find, 
 as here, the words ' Rejoice' and ' Maiden' used for Christian 
 names. 
 
 The will of William Skelman is given by 
 Baker," whereby he devises eleven acres of land for 
 augmenting the salary of the Chantry Priest : he gives, besides, 
 a common bequest to sundry objects, as the sepulchre lights, 
 the high altar, the bells, " item to every order of Fryars in 
 Cambridge, and the same to all his sons;" to the reparation 
 of Barton Bridge, Stulze's Way, each 10s.; and 40 loads of 
 sand and gravel " to amende the noysome streets of Hasel- 
 ingfield." The will occupies six j)ages, and is dated 1494. 
 
 Tliis obscure will, Mr. AUen writing to Lysons, says, 
 occasioned litigation, but was adjusted by paying £6 in 
 addition to the salary of the Schoolmaster, and dividing the 
 residue among the poor on some day in January, in pro- 
 portion to their age, families, or accidental distress. 
 
 Simon Ertman gave £400 for endowing a school. Sir 
 T. Wendy, to whose trust the legacy was given, charged a 
 part of his estate mth a yearly payment of £20 ; and added 
 £10 a year, to be given as the Lord of the IManor of Scales 
 and the Vicar shall direct ; or half to the repair of the church, 
 the rest to the poor. His will is given in Baker's MSS. 
 xxix. 127. 
 
 ' Also Vicar of Trumpington. In 1722, lie had licence of non-residence, propter 
 exiguam Vicarite suae ab Academia distantiam, durante Epi bene placito. 
 " MSS. XXX. 301.
 
 ALL SAINTS, HASLING FIELD. Ill 
 
 In 14 — , ' Joh. Stcrkyn gave two wax candles to burn about 
 his coffin on burial ; 3.s-. 4(/. to the light of the II. Sepulchre ; 
 3^. 8d. to the repair of the Chapel of S. Marj- in Cimiterio ; 
 2s. to the light of the Gild of II. Trmity; 2s. to the light 
 of the Gild of Nativ. of B. Mary; 20^. to the repair of the 
 Stoles; and 65. 8r/. to the repair of the Stebell.' 
 
 The annals of the parish do not, as far as our researches 
 have gone, shew any illustrious names; if we may except 
 Stephen de Hasclyngefelde, mentioned in the ]\Iass for tlie 
 Benefactors of the University. He was Chancellor, a.d. 1300-G 
 
 and 1307-15. 
 
 In 1()7G : Inhabitants, 120. No Recusants, 
 opua . ^ Dissenters. In 1831, the inhabitants were 559; 
 
 in 1841, 689. 
 
 The INIanor-house was built by T. Wendy, 
 
 Manor-house. ... -rj n • 
 
 D.jNI. on acqiurmg the property, it Avas a tan- 
 example of brick building, surrounded by a moat. But it 
 is now degraded to the condition of a farm-house, having 
 been dismantled at the time of repairing Bourn Hall, by 
 the present lord of that mansion. Lord Delawarr. The stair- 
 case, of oak, a massive piece of adorned construction, painted 
 to look like marble, A^as then removed to the latter place, 
 together with a ratlier singular mantle-piece in like style, 
 and bearmg the date 1555. 
 
 In 1564, Queen EUzabeth, on her way to visit the Uni- 
 versity (of Cambridge), "lay, Aug. 4, at the house of Mr. 
 Worthington, at Ilaslingficld," on Friday; whence she de- 
 parted next morning, and passed through Grantchester to 
 Cambridge.' 
 
 ' Peck. Desid. Cur. ii. 31. — In a collection of Drawings of the Churches and objects of 
 Antiquarian interest in the County, made by the late II. Rellian, now in the Library of the 
 Cambridge Antiquarian Society, are several memorials of this Reginal visit: — ' the interior 
 of Queen Elizabeth's Room in Haslingfield Hall'; 'the Staircase'; 'the Canopy of Cloth 
 of Gold, with the Royal Arms,' &c. which was carried over the Queen when she came to 
 Cambridge from this visit to Haslinj;field, Aug. 4, 1501: which piece of state furniture, 
 in 1820, was safe in the Registrary's Office. There are besides in the collection, several views 
 of the House, both interior and exterior, and of the Church — of the monuments and arms 
 emblazoned.
 
 112 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 The Church of All Saints, situated in -the centre of the 
 village of Haslingfielcl, and about five miles to the south- 
 west of Cambridge, is as instructive and interesting in its 
 character as any which it has been our task to describe. 
 The mixture of Early-English and Decorated details Avhich 
 the student in ecclesiastical architecture will here find, shews 
 it to have been erected early in the fourteenth century, in 
 place of an older building of Norman date, of which the 
 only fragment now existing is part of a string-course, with 
 the hatched or indented moulding in the south wall of the 
 Chancel. The present Church appears to have been built 
 upon the demolition of this ancient fabric, the ancient Tower 
 being probably retained till the fifteenth century, when decay 
 rendered its removal necessary, and the present beautiful 
 Perpendicular structure Avas erected in its place. The plan is 
 very regular; consisting of a Chancel, 37 ft. Sin. by 16 ft. 6 in., 
 a Nave, 76 ft. by 25 ft. 9 in., witli north and south Aisles, 
 having porches in the centre of each, and a Tower at the 
 west end. This appears to have been its original sliape, 
 there being no traces of a sacristy or chapel attached to the 
 chancel or any other part of the Cliurch. We will now 
 proceed to describe the building in regular order. 
 
 The East window is unfortunately a Debased 
 
 Chancel. . . .. ti ■ ^ i- 
 
 insertion; it is oi five lights, with plain tracery, 
 but no cusping. The south side originally contained three 
 wmdows, but the easternmost of them is now blocked up; 
 it appears, by the outside Avail, to have been similar to the 
 last on the same side ; the second is a trefoiled lancet, under 
 which is a plain low priest's door ; and the third, the original 
 Decorated one. of two trefoiled ogee lights, with a quatrefoil 
 in the head. Of those on the north side two are blocked 
 up; one of wliich, a similar lancet to that on the opposite
 
 ALL SAINTS, HASLINGFIELD. ll.l 
 
 side, has a wooden shutter fixed to its external jamb ; tlic 
 thu'd is Early Decorated, and of two trefoiled lancet lights, 
 with a quatrefoil in tlie sjjandril. The sedilia and piscina 
 arc probably concealed by the large mural monument on the 
 south side ; a further account of which, and of the other 
 similar erections, which unhappily disfigure this once beau- 
 tiful Chancel, will be given hereafter. The chancel-arch is 
 fine and lofty, and presents a curious and interesting com- 
 bination of Early-English and Decorated mouldings : the arch 
 itself has the deep hollows, and the tooth-moulding under 
 the dripstone, which characterize the former style ; while 
 the capitals of the semi-piers, which support it, have the 
 scroll-mouldings and other members peculiar to the latter; 
 their bases are so mutilated and enclosed with pues, that 
 their mouldings could not be taken ; but enough remains to 
 show that their character is more Decorated than Early- 
 English. Below this arch are the remains of a once elegant 
 roodscreen, of the same date as the church, and formerly 
 composed of four ogee trefoiled compartments on each side of 
 the doorway, separated by slender shafts with good capitals 
 and bases, and with tracery of quatrefoiled circles above 
 them. The roof is coved, and apparently of modern date. 
 
 The Nave is spacious and lofty, and is sepa- 
 rated fi-om the aisles by five well-proportioned 
 arches on each side, with good plain Decorated mouldings, 
 and dripstones terminated by well-carved corbel heads : the 
 piers which support them are clustered, and have fine capitals, 
 but difi"erent in their details from those of the responds, which, 
 both at the east and west ends, are of Early-English character. 
 This remarkable distinction is not unfrequent in churches of 
 the same date; but no satisfactory reason for it has ever 
 been assigned. By referring to the plate of moiddings, our 
 readers will easily distinguish the contrast between the Decorated 
 scroll-mouldings of the one, and the undercut abacus and
 
 lU 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 plain astragal of the other. There are four clerestory windows 
 of late Perpendicular date on each side ; those on the north 
 being of two trefoiled ogee lights under a, square head ; and 
 those on the south also square, but without any tracery. 
 The roof is flat, and of Jacobean date — but a very good 
 specimen of the style : the bosses are very curious, and appear 
 to be either ancient ones, preserved from a former roof of 
 the same date as the church, or imitations of those now 
 remaining in the aisles. The area of the Nave is filled with 
 its ancient open seats of carved oak, with buttresses at the 
 sides; for the encroachment of modern pues has here been 
 confined to the chancel and aisles, leaving the nave as a 
 silent, though perhaps unheeded witness, to the superiority 
 
 of taste and higher sense of propriety which our 
 
 ancestors possessed. The pulpit, which retains its 
 
 original position at the north-east angle of the 
 
 nave, is a very good specimen of 
 
 late Perpendicular wood-work : 
 
 each side is panelled with plain 
 
 tracery of two compartments; 
 
 the angles have buttresses, and 
 
 the whole is supported on a 
 
 slender shaft. A beautiful and 
 
 perfect wheel-cross, of Decorated 
 
 date, remains at the eastern 
 
 gable of the nave: the reader 
 
 will understand the design from the accompanjing 
 wood-cut. 
 
 In his visits to the ancient churches of this 
 
 County, the Ecclesiologist will not fail to have 
 observed, that in many cases, while the piers and internal 
 details are Early-English or Decorated, the Aisles have been 
 rebuilt in the fifteenth century, in the style prevailing at 
 the time ; by which means we have lost many fine specimens 
 
 Aisles.
 
 ALL SAINTS, HASLINGFIELD. 
 
 115 
 
 of the g-cnius as well as the 
 wovkmansliij) of those centu- 
 ries, which might have been 
 of the greatest use in deter- 
 mining disputed points, and in 
 guiding modern architects in 
 their restorations and designs. 
 Haslingfield church, however, 
 has been fortunate enough to 
 preserve its original aisles, with 
 their Avindows and roofs, which 
 so greatly contribute to the 
 beauty of the building. The 
 south aisle has four A\indows 
 on the south side, and one at 
 the east and west ends, all of 
 the same design : they are of 
 three lights, cinquefoiled, with 
 tracery of slightly Flamboyant 
 character: those in the north 
 aisle are equal in size and 
 number to these, but different 
 -in design ; they are of three 
 trefoiled lights, with net tra- 
 cery, and retain considerable 
 remains of their stained glass, 
 which will be more particularly 
 noticed in another place. The 
 roofs to both of them are the 
 original Decorated ones, and 
 extremely fine ; the rafters are 
 supported by richly-moulded 
 braces, with pierced flowing 
 tracery in the spandrils, and
 
 116 
 
 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 united at the crown of the arches by exquisite floriated bosses. 
 
 Porches. 
 
 Corbel-heads of stone, rising out of the drijistones of the 
 Avindows, which are horizontally continued round the aisles, 
 sustain the braces and wall-plates. Aisle-roofs of this de- 
 scription are not by any means common : another instance 
 of them occurs at S. Cuthbert's, Thetford, Norfolk, which is 
 similar in construction, but not so rich in detail. The but- 
 tresses are elegant, and have triangular heads. 
 
 Both the Porches are coeval with the rest of 
 
 the church; the northern is considerably the 
 largest ; the mouldings of the internal doorway are good 
 Decorated, and continuous; those of the external doorway 
 are discontinuous; the south has plain Decorated doorways, 
 and a coved roof, leaded externally. Neither of them are 
 remarkable for elaborate ornament, and have not even the 
 niches so often to be found in this position; but they are 
 good plain examples of the style to Avhich they belong. 
 
 The Tower is the finest of its date in the 
 
 neighbourhood of Cambridge; its proportions are 
 rather low, but it appears from the internal walls that it 
 Avas originally intended to be raised one stage higher. The 
 belfry-arch has very fine mouldings, though of late character, 
 which are partly continuous ; the semi-piers have good capitals 
 
 Tower.
 
 ALL SAINTS, IIASLINGFIELD. li: 
 
 and bases. The west doorway is large and handsome, and 
 
 of considerable pretension in its details : it consists of a fonr- 
 
 centred arch, under a square dripstone supported by shafts, 
 
 with tracery in the spandrils. In the second stage, on tlic 
 
 west side, is a large window under a square hood, of three 
 
 lights, with tracery of Debased character; and in the third 
 
 stage is a circular window, also under a square hood, of 
 
 tlirce narrow lights: this is repeated in the nortli and south 
 
 sides of the Tower. The belfry windows are double, and 
 
 of considerable merit: on the battlements are four octagonal 
 
 pinnacles ; a small wooden spire, with leaden plates, surmounts 
 
 the upper stage, which contains five bells. The basement 
 
 is ornamented by a row of quatrefoils, which add greatly 
 
 to the beauty of the structure. 
 
 The Font is placed against the west face of 
 Font. . ,. 1 . 
 
 the fourth pier from the east on the south side ; 
 
 it has a plain octagonal bowl and stem, and a kneeling- 
 
 stone to the west: it is probably coeval with the Nave. 
 
 The cover is a small lo\v spire, of very late erection. 
 
 Perhaps few churches are so entirely destitute 
 
 Monuments. „ . i i i ■ ^ 
 
 of ancient sepiuchral memorials as the present. 
 There is no trace of the existence of any monument prior 
 to the sixteenth century, nor even the matrix of a plundered 
 brass, Avhich so fi'equently occurs in the churches of this 
 district. Of the large tombs with which the Chancel is ob- 
 structed and disfigured, that at the east end of the south 
 wall is to the memory of Thomas Wendy, Esq., and contains 
 four figures kneeling at faldstools, under a Roman arch : 
 this was erected in 1619. The other on the same side is a 
 niche, containing a white marble figure of Sir Thomas Wendy, 
 of very good execution considering its style and character: 
 above it are still hanging his helmet, sword, gauntlets, and 
 pennon. On the north side is a large high-tomb, with defaced 
 inscription and shields ; a mural monument, with a fiijure
 
 118 CHURCHES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 kneeling at a faldstool, to Elizabeth Wendy, of the date of 
 1658; and two tablets, erected in 1647 and 1658. These 
 arc all the memorials, either ancient or modern, which the 
 church possesses. 
 
 The remains of ancient stained glass, though 
 
 Stained Glass. . _ 
 
 not in themselves extensive, are here more nu- 
 merous and beautiful than are usually to be met with in 
 village churches. The earliest remains in this church are 
 in the north window of the (Jhancel, which is partly filled 
 up with the creeping foliage peculiar to the style, with 
 small figures of saints, and shields at intervals, surrounded 
 by a rich border: the date of this glass is about 1300. 
 In the tracery of the east window of the north aisle are 
 some very fine fragments of rather later date, composed 
 of foliage, beautifully disposed, with a lion's head in the 
 centre, and a border round the sides ; several of the other 
 windows have pieces of similar character ; and a few quarries 
 of a much later style remain in the clerestory windows on 
 the north side. These scattered remains, which many of our 
 more obscure country churches retain, are of the greatest 
 value and importance at the present time : if glass-painters 
 would but make it their practice to seek them out, and 
 carefully examine their beauties and peculiarities, we should 
 have less cause to complain of the glaring faults with which 
 many modern specimens abound : ignorance has been the 
 cause of nearly all that is bad in their works; and they 
 may rest assured, that the diligent study of ancient models 
 is the only way by which they can hope to raise their glorious 
 art to that state of perfection in which it existed four hundred 
 years ago. 
 
 „ , The church has suffered considerably from 
 
 General .' 
 
 Condition. (Jamp and neglect; the state of the floor at the 
 west end of the north aisle is such as would certainly not 
 be permitted in any gentleman's stable, nor, voluntarily, in
 
 ALL SAINTS, HASLINGriF.TD 119 
 
 the meanest cottage. Some of the iiitcnial masonry, (which 
 is of chmch, and therefore easily mutihited,) particularly the 
 bases of the piers and responds, lias been cut away in a 
 manner which sufficiently shews tht; amount of care and 
 respect of which the chiu-ch has been deemed worthy by 
 its modern guardians.
 
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