'^'Mi ^. m^ ■pp m ^^T^' ^^ ■•i^ tSI ^ J. f---r •-^ v GIFT OF SEELEY W. HUDD and GEORGE I. COCHRAN MEYER ELSASSER DR.JOHNR. HAYNES WILLIAM L. HONNOLD JAMES R. MARTIN MRS. JOSEPH F. SARTORI to llu UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN BRANCH i 1 his BOOK IS L>UC. uii i.i MAR 2 8 1945 MAY 2 - RBW JUN 1 5 1951 1 Form L-9-15m-8,'26 An h: 677 J^S9 L^sons - fci^ county of "Middlesex, Which are Lond ivir^i on. Ail Southern Branch of the University of California Lo» Angeles Form L \ * * ' • » • V » \» ». J > > ) • t I > AN () F llHKSl'; IWRISNI'JS I N T I I 1 ', ' V.OV>\'r'\ o V M ! 1) ]) I , V. S F, X , Mill (11 mi: SOT i)i:s(iiin/:i> I N T 1 1 i; EN VI R ON.S' OF h(K\l) ('l\. Bv tlie Rev. DAN 1 E J- I> V S ON S , M. A. 1 . R.vS Sc 1 . S .A . "'"/^^'v, -,;„,,,/,,/„,, /iv"' L <> N DON : I'KIN'lKl) KOK '1 , f.M)F,I,l,..H'N. AM) W.n.WIKS.IN llir. STll-VNn, MDC (• r. f ^.J: .-\ TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. K.B. « PRESIDENT. OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, &c. AS A SMALL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE FRIENDLY ZEAL WITH WHICH HE HAS PROMOTED UPON VARIOUS OCCASIONS THE OBJECTS OF THE AUTHOR'S INQUIRIES, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. Printed by A. Stralian, Printers Street, London.' OQ T ADVERTISEMENT, HE diftri£t treated of by the Author in his former Work, hav- ing comprifed fo large a portion of the County of Middlefex, he has been induced, at the fuggeftion of fome of his friends, to offer to the public a fimilar account of thofe pariflies which he has not already defcribed ; and he prefumes that another volume on the Topography of Middlefex will not be unacceptable, as there is no Hiftory of that County extant, nor is there any but a very imper- fect account of the Antiquities of the Honour and Palace of Hamp- ton Court, which form one of the moft prominent features of the prefent volume. Although many general views of the palace have CO been engraved, yet the various beautiful fpecimens of gothic archi- H tedlure which there occur, have never been delineated for publica- tion with tolerable accuracy : of the great hall there is an engraving in fome efteem (now become fcarce), by Vardy, but the form of the arches is fo inaccurate as to deftroy in a great degree its refemblance to the original. The author has experienced the fame liberality as on former oc- cafions, from the keepers of the public Records, and (excepting in a very few inftances) from gentlemen of landed property, among A 2 whom iv ADVERTISEMENT. whom he cannot help diftinguifhing Sir Roger Newdigate, (to whom lie is indebted for the plate of Lady Newdigate's monument in Harefield church,} as having favoured him, although a ftranger, with the ufe of very valuable documents in a manner more than ufually polite and liberal. For accefs to parochial regifters, and for various local information, he has again been indebted to his brethren the clergy. As his acknowledgments to them upon former occafions have been fo far mifconftrued by an anonymous writer, who profefles to give genuine memoirs of living authors, as to induce him to aflert, that the accounts of the feveral pariflies in the Hiftory of the Environs of London were written by the re- fpedlive clergy, and merely tacked together by the avowed author ; he thinks it neceffary to explain, that their communications have confifted of anfwers to queries put by him relating to the boundaries of parifhes, the number of houfes, public charities, and other particulars which their local fituation has enabled them to give or procure from intelligent neighbours converfant in each fubjed ; an employment which they have undertaken with much readinefs, and furnilhed with refped to moft of the pariflies fuch fatisfadory in- formation as none but a refident inhabitant could have fupplied. It is with great reludance that the Author fpeaks fo much of him- felf; but he cannot help faying when thus unjuftly accufed of afluming the credit of other men's writings, that as far as a topo- graphical work can have a claim to originality, by being compiled from original documents, he can aflert that claim, and that no part ADVERTISEMENT. v part of the Hiftory of the Environs of London, or of the pre- fent volume, has been written by any other than himfelf. The fame plan has been adopted by the Author in this volume as in his former work, nor has he been induced to alter it by any arguments which he has feen among the Strictures which it has occafioned. He is aware that a narrative more amufing might have been produced by excluding much of what is contained in the prefent and in his former volumes ; but he had another object in view than merely to furnifh an entertaining narrative, and in- tended that his work fhould anfwer the fame ends of ufeful reference as County Hiftories, for which it is hoped it will not be found wholly incompetent. For the purpofe of tracing defcents and making genealogies, which it is well known have frequently a more important ufe than the mere gratification of family pride, the dates of births, marriages, and deaths in the vicinity of London, (where fo many of the nobility and gentry have had a temporary refi- fidence, remote from their family feats,) will be found particularly ferviceable for fupplying chafms in pedigrees, which frequently occafion much fruitlefs labour and refearch. ERRATA. Page ^. line 10. for 220 read 210 12. — 16 ; p. 31. n. p. 28. line penult, and p. 48. line 10, for 1547 read 1548 40. — 17. ybr 650 rea(/ 550 46. — ult. /or Philips «a(/Phelips 59. — 10. /or thing r^(i(/ things 12. for chambers read chamber ■7J. — 8. after harewarren r^aJ upon condition of repairing, or rebuilding the lodge rrg. — 23. /)r Uteris rM(/litterIs 85. — 24. /or 1950 r^fli^ 1930 87. note 91. for Annal. glican. read Anglican. 89. line 4. for Hefter read Efther 108. note 13. line 4. for Edward r^rai^ Edmund 110. line 23; and p. 118. line 12, /or George rwi Gregory 118. — 1 6, 1 7, and in the margin, for Prichett read Pritchett 128. — 23. before editor infert Ths 153. — 1 1 . /or Swakeleys rf(2(/ Swakeley 173. — ult. dele the reference 84 237. — I ^. for g'^ read 126^ 263. — 17. for 677 read 940 CONTENTS. Page Account of Afhford - - - i Bedfont _ - _ 6 Cowley - - - *3 Cranford - - - 19 Drayton _ _ - 32 Feltham _ _ _ 45 Hampton - - - 5' Hanworth _ - - 92 Harefield - - - 103 Harlington - - - 125 Harmondfworth - - - 13^ Hillingdon - - - H^ Ickenham - - - 189 Laleham . - - 196 Littleton _ - - 202 Rifelip - - - 207 Sheperton - - - 218 South Mims _ , , - 226 Staines _ - - 239 Stanwell - - - 249 Sunbury - - - 268 Uxbridge - - - ^75 viii CONTENTS. APPENDIX. Page Addition to Cranford - - - 287 Harefield - - -288 Harmondfworth - - - ibid, Hillingdon _ _ - ibid, Rifelip _ _ _ ibid. Staines _ _ - ibid. Preient State of Population in the parifties treated of in this volume - - - 289 LIST A S H F O R D. THE name of this place is written Exeforde in the furvey of Name. Domefday ; in records of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Echeleford and Echelesford, being fo called from the ford over the little river Exe or Echel. A{hford, as far as relates to its civil jurifdidion, is a feparate Situation parifh, lying within the hundred of Spelthorne, and bounded by j^^^^ ounda- Bedfont, Feltham, Sunbury, Littleton, Laleham, Staines, and Stan- well. The village is fituated about a mile to the fouth of the great weftern road, and about 14 miles diftant from London. The parifh of Afhford contains about 1370 acres of land; of Quantity of which about 720 are arable, about no meadow and pafture, and about 540 common'. The regiments of cavalry are frequently reviewed by his Majefty Afhford upon Afhford Common. Common. The foil in this parifh is for the moll part gravelly, and abounds Soil, with fine water. The parifh of Afhford is affefTed the fum of 94I. 19s. 2d. to the Land-tax. land-tax, which is at the rate of about 2S. 3d. in the pound. The manor appears from a very early period, till after the dilTolu- Manor. tion of religious houfes, to have been an appendage to Staines. Dart fays, that King Edgar gave the manor of Staines, with land at ' From the information of James Buck, Efq. fteward of the manor. B Ecclesfordy A S H F O R D. Ecclesford^ to the abbot and convent of Weflminfter*. Upon the furrender of that monaftery, this manor (together with Staines) came into the hands of the Crown, and was annexed to the honor of Hampton Court. In 1601, Queen Ehzabeth granted the manor of Afhford to Guy Godolphin and John Smythe^ Godolphin in 1603 releafed his right to Smythe, who immediately fold the manor to Uria Babington, Efq. In 1630, William Babington, fon of Uria, aliened it to Henry Field, citizen of London. Mr. Field's widow enjoyed the manor after his death ; and having married, to her fecond hufband, Edward Forfet, Efq. died his widow in 1689, when, purfuant to a deed executed in her firft widowhood, it went to her brother Abraham Nelfon, and was enjoyed after his death by his relidt Sufanna, daughter of Sir Brocket Spencer. Mrs. Nelfon died in 1 712, when, purfuant to the deed abovementioned, this manor de- fcended to Richard, grandfon of Abraham Nelfon, who dying intef- ftate, it was inherited by his fifters and coheirs Frances and Mary, who both died unmarried and inteftate. On the death of the furvivor, which happened in 1741, this eftate went to the heir at law. Sir John Auften, Bart, (eldeft fon of Thomas Auften, Efq. by Arabella, only child of Edward Forfet, Efq. by Mrs. Field abovementioned). Sir John Auften immediately fold the reverfion, after his own death and that of Mrs. Mary Wright, to Peter Storer, Efq. Sir John died in 1742, and Mrs. Wright in 1753, when Peter Storer, Efq. fon of the purchafer, came into poffeffion ; and dying in 1760, devifed this manor to his fifter Martha, wife of William Baker, Efq. Their fon Peter William Baker, Efq. is the prefent proprietor. The manor of Afhford has a court-leet and court-baron. The Cuaoms of lord's demefne confifts of 235 acres. By the cuftom of the manor, the fine on death or alienation is one year's quit-rent only. The * Antiquities of Weftminfter, p. 7, 8. remainder of the defcent of this manor I ' Pat. 44.E]iz. pt 22. Dec. 18. For the amindebtedtoJamesBuck, Efq. theftevvard. mefluages the manor. ASHFORD. 3 mefluages are all fubje£l to a heriot: the tenant's befl: beaft on death, and the fecond beft on alienation ; but they are generally compounded. "Widows are entitled to dower of the copyholds. The tenants are reftrifted to keep no more than three fheep to an acre ; and they pay four pence a day in lieu of each harveft day's work annexed to their eftates. When the furvey of Domefday was taken, Robert, Earl of Mor- tain in Normandy and of Cornwall in England, held an eftate in Afhford, confifting of one hide of land. This eftate, in the reign of Edward the Confeflbr, was the property of Aluric, a fervant of the Abbot of Chertfey, and was then within the jurifdidion of the manor of Staines ; but the Earl of Cornwall made it an appendage to his own manor of Kennington. It was valued at 20s. in the reign of King Edward, and at 14s. only in the reign of William the Conqueror. The late chapel at Afhford, dedicated to St. Michael, was an an- The chapel. cient ftru£^ure of brick and ftone. .The fouth door was of Saxon architecture, with zigzag mouldings. This chapel was taken down, in order to be rebuilt, in the month of June 1796. The new building, a plain brick edifice with a fteeple and a fmall fpire, was completed before the end of the year. The expence was defrayed by the voluntary contributions of the principal inhabitants ; the chancel was rebuilt by the lord of the manor. The following notes were taken a few days before the old chapel was pulled down. On the north wall of the chancel was the monument of William Monuments. Baker, Efq.* lord of the manor, who died in 1774. On the fouth wall was the monument of Peter Storer, Efq. lord of the manor, who died in 1759. On the floor were the tombs of Edward Woode ♦ Arms — Arg, a tower between three icnce, per feffe Sab. & Arg. a pale counter- keys ereift azure, on an efcutcheon of pre- changed, three cranes of the firft — Storer. B 2 of 4 ASHFORD. of Afliford, (with figures in brafs of himfclf and his wife Agnes,) 1525; and of Peter Storer, Efq. of the Inner Temple, who died in 1750. He married Anne, only daughter of Chrlftopher Anftey, Efq. In the nave were the tombs of Mr. John Batkin 1675, and Mr. George Chapman 1735. Moft of thefe memorials are preferved in the new chapel. In the chapel-yard are the tombs of Captain William Munden, 1727 ; Sarah his wife, 1719 ; William Odell, 1728; EUzabeth his wife, (daughter of Captain Munden,) 1733; Mrs. Frances James, 1771; Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, 1787; Edmund Webb, Efq. 1793; Rev. John Jebb, D. D.' Dean of Cafhell, aged 82, 1787; and Anne his relid", aged 80, 1795. Chapelry. The chapel of Afhford is an appendage to the vicarage of Staines, and is ferved by a curate appointed by the vicar. Newcourt fays, that this chapel is endowed with a houfe, 28 acres and a half, and two yards of glebe '. The return of the jurors to the parliamentary inquiry into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices in 1650, values the parfonage or great tithes of Afhford, then in the tenure of Mrs. Fielder, at 60 1. per annum. The benefice in this return is called a vicarage, faid to be worth, with the glebe and fmall tithes, 24I. per annum, Mr. George Bonyeman being then vicar^ The great tithes of Afhford appear to have defccnded with the manor, and are now the property of Peter William Baker, Efq. Reuifter of The regifter of baptifms and burials at this place is very imperfedt. baptifms and jj^^j, of baptifms includes only the periods from 1696 to 1710, and from 1760 to the prefent time ; that of burials from 1699 ^o ^7°7> and from 1760 to the prefent time. 5 Father of the celebrated Dr. John Jebb. ' Repertorium, vol.i. p. 735. 6 Daughter of David Ganfell, Efq. of ^ Parliamentary furveys in the Arch- Low Layton. bifhop's library at Lambeth. 1700-9 ASHFORD. 5 Average of baptifms. Average of burials. 1700-9 4 imperfect. Comparative 1 770-9 4I 4.1 ftateofpo- 1780-9 _ ji. — 2-|. 1790-4 — 74 _ 3^ 1795-9 — 9t — 5t In the year 1548 there were in this parifh 77 houjlyng^ people. The prefent number of houfes is 38, exclufive of the poor-houfe, divided into four tenements, and ufually occupied by as many famiHes. The number of inhabitants is about 220. Mrs. Mary Reeve in 1679 gave a rent-charge of i\. 12s. ifluing out of 7 acres of freehold land in the parifhes of Laleham and Fel- tham, to be diftributed in bread among the poor of this parifh. Gerard Tomlyn in 1725 gave the fum of il. 3s. per annum to be thus appropriated; los. 6d. for a fermon on the anniverfary of his Benefaaions death, 2s. 6d. to the clerk, and los. to be diftributed in bread to '« the poor, the poor. * Hoivfd or hou/el is the Eucharifl; — to municants, or perfons qualified by age to houfel is to receive the Euchariil — houjlyng communicate : I am inclined to think the people therefore may be either aftual com- latter. B E D F O N T. Name. T^ ^ ^ name of this place in ancient records is written Bedefunde A and Bedefunt. It is called Eaft Bedfont to diftinguilh it from Weft Bedfont, a hamlet of Stanwell. By a ftrange corruption, which is become extremely prevalent, this village is generally known Situation. by the name of Belfound : it lies within the hundred of Spelthorne, being fituated on the great weftern road, at the diftance of a little more than thirteen miles from London. Boundaries. The parifh of Bedfont is bounded by Feltham and Ifleworth on the eaft ; by Cranford and Hefton on the north-eaft ; by Harlington on the north ; by Harmondfworth on the north-weft ; Stanwell on Quantity of the weft; and Aftiford on the fouth. It contains about 1200 acres land. ^£. j^^ j^ ^^ which about 740 are arable, about 1 1 o pafture and mea- dow, and about 350 (being a part of Hounflow Heath) common. Soil. The foil is for the moft part a light gravel mixed with loam. Land-tax. The parifh of Bedfont is aflefled the fum of 148 1. 6s. 8d. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about 2S. 2d. in the pound. Manor of In the reign of Edward the Confeflbr the manor of Eaft Bedfont Eaa Bed- ^^g j.j^g property of Azor. When the furvey of Domefday was taken, Richard held it under Walter Fitzother. It was then taxed at 10 hides. " The land," fays the furvey " is five carucates, of " which one is in demefne and four are held by the freeholders and " villans. There are four villans who hold a hide jointly ; four " others who have each half a virgate ; and three borders, who hold " thirteen acres. A certain knight has two hides. There is meadow " equal to two oxgangs, and pafture for the cattle of the manor. " In the whole, valued at 4I. ; when it was taken pofleflion of by " the B E D F O N T. " the prefent owner 20s. j in King Edward (the Confeflbr's) time " it was valued at 61. Azor held eight hides and a half of this " manor, as within the jurifdidlion of Stanwell ; the remaining hide " and a half was divided between three focmen, one of whom was " a fervant of the king ; another of Lewin and the third of Azor. " This laft held a hide to his own Ihare, and might difpofe of it as " he pleafed. In the reign of King Edward the ConfefTor it did " not belong to the manor." In the early part of the fourteenth century this manor was given by John de Neville to the priory of Hounflow ', after the diflblution of which it continued in the crown till the year 1599, when it was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Michael Stanhope, being then in the tenure of Robert Downes ', Efq. By the intermarriage of George Lord Berkeley with Elizabeth, daughter and one of the coheirs of Sir Michael Stanhope, it pafled to the Berkeley family. In 1656 it was fold by George Berkeley, Efq. (fon and heir to George Lord Berkeley,) to Algernon, Earl of Northumberland', from whom it has defcended to Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, the prefent proprietor. Another manor in Bedfont is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domefday. " Robert, Earl of Mortain * holds two hides in " Bedefunt. The land is one carucate, half of which only is " in culture. A villan holds eight acres in this manor, and " a certain knight half a hide. There is meadow equal to one " oxgang, and pafture for the cattle of the manor. This eftate " is valued at 5 s. per ann. ; in the reign of the ConfefTor at " 20s. It was then held by Gouti, a domeftic fervant of Earl " Harold, who could difpofe of it at pleafure. It lies within " the manor of Feltham." It is probable that this was the fame eftate which William de Odiham gave to the priory of Hounflow • See Pat. 8 Edvv. II. pt. i. ra. 7. ^ ci. R. i6j6, pt. 24, No. 8. * Pat. 41 Eliz. pt. 17. Sept. 13. + InNormandy— he was alfo Earl of Cornwall. in B E D F O N T. Manor of Pates or Paites. Manor of Hatton. in 1338'. I fuppofe this to have been the manor of Pates or Paites, which appears to have been formerly parcel of the pofleffions of the priory of Hounflow^ In or about 1498 it was the property of John Naylor and Cleraence his wife (who, it is probable, held it under the priory by a quit- rent). The only daughter and heir of John Naylor married Thomas Weft, whofe only fon Edmund left two daughters, co-heirs ; Elizabeth married to John Bokenham ; and Margaret, by whom a joint fale was made of the manor of Pates, to Rowland Page in 1549. Thomas Page in 1589 fold two parts of this manor to John Draper, whofe widow and executrix, afterwards the wife of Edmund Pigeon, aliened them for 530I. in 1 6 14 to Edward Hewlet, Efq. The remaining third part was fold in 1593 by Thomas Page for 260I. to Philip Gerrard, who the next year fold it again for 320I. to Henry Bell. In 162 1 it was purchafed of Henry Bell, William Bell, and Anne his wife by the abovementioned Edward Hewlet, who in 1623 gave the whole to Chrift's Hofpital. The manor of Hatton in this parifti belonged to the priory of Hounflow before the year 1376', and has everfmce that period been annexed to the manor of Eaft Bedfont ; being now the property of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. The landed property in Hatton is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domefday. " Roger, Earl of Arundel, holds a hide and a half in " Hatone in the hundred of Spelthorne. The land is one carucate. " There are two villans. The meadow is equal to one carucate. " This eftate is valued at 15 s. ; in the reign of King Edward (the Confeflbr) it was valued at 20s. Two focmen then held it; they cc ' Confining of about loo acres of land, the whole account of this manor is taken, with certain quit-rents, &c. See Efch. ' In that year a licence was granted for 12 Edw. III. No. 38. a chantry in the chapel of the manor-houfe '' Records at Chrift's Hofpital, obligingly of Hatton Grange, belonging to the priory of communicatedbyRichardCorp, Efq. whence Hounflow. SeePat. 5oEdw.III. pt.2. m.4. were B E D F O N T. *' were fervants of Albert de Lotharia, and could difpofe of it as *' they pleafed. This eftate is now an appendage to the manor of " Colham, which it was not in the reign of King Edward." " Walter de Mucedont holds a hide, three virgates, and the " third part of a virgate in Hatone, of Walter Fitzother. The land " is one carucate, half of which only is in culture. There is one " villan who holds a virgate, two others who hold a virgate jointly, " and one bordar who holds five acres. The meadow-land is equal " to one carucate. There is pafture for the cattle of the manor. *' This eftate is valued at 20 s. ; in the reign of King Edward (the " Confeflbr), at 30s. Two focmen, fervants of Azor, then held it, " but could not alienate without his licence." The pariih-church (dedicated to the Virgin Mary) is a fmall Parifli ancient ftrudure, confifting of a chancel and nave, between which ^^"'"'^^' is an arch of Saxon architedure with zigzag mouldings. The fouth door is of a fimilar architedlure : on the north fide of the nave and chancel are very fmall lancet windows ; at the weft end is a tower with a low fpire. On the eaft wall of the chancel is a brafs tablet in memory of the Monuments Rev. John Goodwin, who died in 1752, and Matthew Goodwin, Gent. 1753 (put up by Margaret, daughter of John Goodwin, and wife of Francis Sherborn). On the north wall is the following coat of arms — Az. a fefle wavy, between three lions paflant. Or ; and memorials for Mr. Richard Lee 1759, and Mr. John Lee 1764. On the fouth wall is an infcribed achievement in memory of Thomas Weldifti \ Gent, who married Prifcilla, daughter of Richard Gor- ham, and died in 1640. On the floor are the tombs of Mrs. Ifabel Page, 1629, Matthew Page, Gent. 1631, and Francis Page, 1678. On the north wall of the nave is a neat marble monument in memory * Arms — V. three hounds current A. on a chief O. a fo>. current G. C of lO B E D F O N T. Tombs in the church- yard. Reflory. LelTees. of Mary, the wife of Henry Whitfield, D.D. ' (the prefent vicar), who died in 1795. In the churchyard are two yews cut in topiary work, among which are figures exhibiting the date of 1704. The tops of the trees are formed into the fhape of peacocks. The principal tombs are thofe of Mary, reli£t of James Whaley, Gent, (grand-daughter of Francis Page,) 1 742 ; John Fyler, merchant, 1756; Mrs. M. C. H. Bifhop, (daughter of the Rev. John Goodwin,) 1777; and William Rowles, Efq. 1789. The reftory of Bedfont was given by John de Neville, with the manor, to the priory of Hounflow, to which it was appropriated, with the King's licence, in 1316 '°. It was then valued at 10 marks per annum. When the priory was diflblved it was on leafe to Fer- cival Broadbelt. In 1590 Queen Elizabeth gave the redory of Eaft Bedfont, with the advowfon of the vicarage, to the Bilhop of London, and his fuc- ceflbrs in that fee ". Bifhop Abbot, in 1626, demifed it to Margaret Scott of Camber- well, widow. In 1682 it was demifed to John Clarke of Ewelme, in the county of Oxford, for three lives. Similar leafes were granted in 1705 to Mary Watton ; in 1720 to Henry Watton ; in 1730 to the Rev. John Goodwin, (who was then vicar) ; in 1746 to Matthew Goodwin, his fon ; in 1754 to John Lee ; and in 1764 to Francis Sherborn (fon-in-law of John Goodwin). The prefent leiTee is Mr. William Sherborn. In the old valors the reftory of Bedfont was rated at 8 marks '\ " A. a bend between two cottifes engraild S. — on an efcutcheon of pretence ; A. on a chevron G. between 3 gi-ey hounds' heads erafed S. as many befants — Church. — Mrs. Whitfield was daughter of Dr. Church, the celebrated theological writer. '° Inq. ad q. d. 8 Edw. II. No. 122. " The account of the redory from this period is taken from papers obligingly com- municated by Dr. Whitfield " See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. Co. The B E D F O N T. II The return to the parUamentary inquiry into the value of eccle- fiaftical benefices in 1650, ftates the parfonage (which was then on leafe to Mrs. Scott, at the referved rent of 81. 13s. 4d.) to be worth Sol. per annum, and mentions another parfonage worth 30 1. per annum, the property of Francis Page, and held by him in free focage under the manor of Eaft Greenwich, by fealty only '\ I cannot learn who is the prefent owner of this portion of tithes, or indeed that tithes are claimed by any one except the Bifhop's lefTee. Newcourt Hiys that a vicarage was ordained and endowed here in The Vica- 1316, when the re£tory was appropriated to the priory of Houn- '^^^' flow; he adds, that 25 acres of glebe belong to the vicarage, as ap- pears by a terrier bearing date 1610'*; the return of the jurors in 1650, ftates the vicarage glebe to be thirteen acres " : at prefent the vicar enjoys only twelve acres, which are arable. In the King's books the vicarage of Bedfont is valued at 61. 13 s. 4d. ; the jurors in 1650 valued it at about 29 1. per annum : the incumbent was then Mr. Robert Bincks, who is called in the return a conftant preaching minifter. The patronage of this vicarage, which Is in the diocefe of London, Advowfon. and In the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, was vefted in the prior and convent of Hounflow till the difTolutlon of that houfe. It was given with the redory, in 1590, to the Blfhop of London, and his fuc- ceflbrs. The prefent vicar is Henry Whitfield, D.D. collated in 1778, on the death of the Rev. Mr. Gibfon. There Is no reglfter of baptlfms or marriages of an earlier date than parifh 1695; that of burials commences in 1678. regiRer. " Parliamentary furveys in the Arch- '♦ Repertorium, vol. i. p. 575. bifliop's library at Lambeth. '^ Parliamentary furveys. C 2 1680-9 Average of baptifms. Average of 1 wanting 104. 6i 7t 14^ 10 144 "^ 20|. 12^ 12 B E D F O N T. Comparative 1680-Q ftate of po- pulation. 1730-9 1780-9 1790-4 1795-9 In the year 1548 there were 80 hoiijlyng people '* in this parifh, as appears by the chantry-roll of that date ". The prefent number of houfes is about 60, of which 26 are in the hamlet of Hatton. The inhabitants are about 330. No entry of note occurs in the regifter, excepting the following inftances of longevity : Inftances of " Elizabeth Godfrey, aged 100 years, buried Apl. 21, 1769 j" longevity. ^^ Henry Griffin, aged 90, buried Jan. 16, 1783;" " Mary Sim- " monds, aged 95, buried June 5, 1785." Denefaaions. The chantry-roU made in the year 1547, mentions an acre of arable land belonging to this parifh ; it was not known by whom it was given, nor for what intent. There is a parifli flock of 83I. 6s. 8d. Eaft India annuities, the in- tereft of which (being 2I. 9s. lod.) is given to the poor at the dif- cretion of the vicar and churchwardens '°. The fum of 20I. (a part, it is probable, of this ftock) was given to the parifh in 1 63 1 by Matthew Page. •* See note 9. p. 5. '' From the information of Dr. Whitfield. '7 In the Augmentation Office. [ 13 ] COWLEY. IT IS not improbable that this place derives its name from the Nanu, Saxon words Col leah or Col leag, fignifying the Cold Field. The name occurs in many parts of the kingdom. Cowley lies in the hundred of Elthorne, a mile and a half fouth- Situation. eaft of Uxbridge, and about fourteen miles and a half diftant from London. The parifli, which is entirely furrounded by that of Hil- Boundary. linffdon, contains about loo acres of land, of which about two- QH^'^'^'^y of o ' Y _ ' land. thirds are arable. The foil is for the moft part a fine deep loam, of Soii. fo rich a nature as to need little manure. The parifh of Cowley is affefled about 60 1. to the land-tax, which Land-tax. is at the rate of about is. 6d. in the pound. The manor of Cowley, fmce called Cowley Pecche, or, as it is now Manor of fpelt, Peachey, was parcel of the ancient pofTeffions of Weftminfter p°aew. Abbey. " The Abbot of St. Peter, fays the furvey of Domefday, " holds the manor of Couelie taxed at two hides. The land is one " carucate ; a hide and a half belongs to the demefne, on which there " is one plough. Two villans hold half a hide ; and there is one " cottar. The meadow-land is equal to half a carucate. There is " pafture for the cattle of the manor ; pannage for 40 hogs, and a " mill of 5s. rent. The manor is valued now at 30s, ; in the reign " of King Edward (the ConfefTor) it was valued at 40 s. It was, and " now is, parcel of the poflefTions of Weftminfter Abbey." Baithc- lomew Pecche had a grant of free warren in Cowley as early as the year 1253'. Hubert Pecche died in 1272, feized of a carucate of land in Cowley, valued at iocs, per annum, held under the abbot ' Cart. 37 Hen. III. ni. 7.. and 14 COWLEY. and convent of Weftminfter, by the rent of 30s. leaving a fon and heir, Bartholomew, feventeen years of age \ In the year 1361, Stephen, fon of John Pecche, granted this eftate, which had then ac- quired the name of Cowley Pecche, to John Newman and others, to be held during the life of Mary, relict of Sir John Pecche \ Newman immediately conveyed the manor to Hugh Seagrave, who, by a deed of the fame date, granted a yearly rent of 24 marks iflliing out of the manor to the faid Mary Pecche *. Hugh Seagrave con- tinued in pofTeffion in 1379, when he enfeoffed John Newman and others in this manor \ It foon afterwards became the property of the Charlton family. Sir Thomas Charlton, in 1431, conveyed it to Thomas Warner and others ". Robert Warner, Efq. died feifed of it, in 1 44 1 '. His daughter and heir, Elizabeth, married Walter Grene \ whofe fon Sir Robert left an only daughter and heir, Cecilia, married to William Burbage, Efq. whofe grandfon, Robert Burbage, prefented to the redory of Cowley, in 1562. Anne, daughter and heir of Robert Burbage, married William Goring, Efq. and it is probable that they fold this manor to Gregory Lord Dacre, who prefented to the redlory, as lord of the manor, in 1587'. In 1629 this manor was the property of John Franklyn'°. About the latter end of the century it came into the Weeden family. Catharine, daughter of John Weeden, Efq. married Henry Sumner Sedley, Efq. who died in 1755. Edward Hilliard, Efq. who is the prefent " Efch. 57 Hen. III. No. 4. Edward, ten years of age. Robert, the huf- ^ See CI. 35 Edw. III. m. 23. d. band of Cecilia, is the fame, it is probable, as + Ibid. Sir Robert in the pedigree, the fon of Wal- s CI. 2 Rich. II. m. 34. d. ter. Cecilia might become the heir of Sir <* CI. Q Hen. VI. m. 6. d. Robert, by the death of Edward without ' Efch. igHen. VI. No. 2. i'^ue. Walter Grene lies buried in the fouth « The defcent here given is taken from ape- ^'"= °^ ^^V^' ^'^"'■=''' ""^"^ ^^''^ '= ^ ">°- digree in No. 1551. Had. MSS. in the Bri- ^""^^^^ 'o his memory, but part of the date tifliMufeum. By EfcS. 20 Edw. IV. No. '' '°'^- 57. it appears that Cecilia, the relifl o^ Robert " Newcourt's repertonum, vol. i. p. J94. Grene, died feifed of the manor of Cowley "^ Ibid. Pecche in 1481, leaving a fon and heir, proprietor COWLEY. 15 proprietor of this manor, purchafed one moiety of it in 1786, of Mary Sedley, widow, and her fon John Sumner Sedley. In 1789 he purchafed the other moiety of John William Ridge, Efq. fon of John Ridge, Efq. who married Catherine Sumner Sedley, one of the grand-daughters and devifees of Anne, relidt of John Weeden ". The rent formerly paid out of this manor to the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter, became veiled in the Crown on the diffolution of religious houfes. It was granted by Henry VIII. to the Dean and Chapter, but was furrendered by them to the King again in 1 547. The parifh-church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a fmall ancient PAriih ftrudture, confiding of a nave and chancel. At the weft-end is a '^'^""^'• wooden turret, with a fmall Ipire, built in 1780 at the expence of Mr. Thomas Dagnall. In the chancel are the tombs of Walter Pope, yeoman, (a brafs- Tombs, plate, with a figure of the deceafed,) 1502 ; Jonathan, fon of Gil- bert Keate, citizen and grocer, 1625; Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- liam Day, clerk, 1645; Daniel Collins, D. D. Vice-Provoft of Eaton College, and reftor of Cowley, 1648 ; Samuel Collins, M.D." (his fon), 1685; Mary, relidl of Edward Bringhurft, Gent. 1694; Edward, her fon, 17 19; and the Rev. Benjamin Derby, fifty-two years reftor, 1 77 1 . In the nave are the tombs of John Booth, 1 70 1 ; Jofeph Booth, 171 6; Mr. George Harris, 1706; and Mr. William Stevens, 1765. Againft the eaft-end of the chancel, on the outfide, is a tablet, without date, in memory of Charles Jacques, M.A. minifter of Uxbridge. In the church-yard are the tombs of Thomas Crutchley, 1656 ; Tombs inthe Edward Hampton, aged 106 years, 1738 ; Edward Hampton, Gent. '^^""■^■^^' 1762 ; his two grandfons, Thomas Quait, and John Hampton ; " See the purchafe-deetis in the rcgifter '^ Author of the prefent State of Ruffia, office for Middlefex. Svo. 1671. He refided nine years at the " Records in the Augmentation Office. Great Czar's Court. Samuel i6 COWLEY. IJghifoot the botanift. Re(ftory. Parifli rc- glfter. Compara- tive (late of population. Samuel Jacques, furgeon, 1771; William Crofier, Efq. 1772; two of the children of Edward Hilliard, Efq. (by Elizabeth Staftord, only furviving child of William Crofier); Mr. Thomas Dagnall, 1773, and others of the family ; Sarah, relidt of Luke Pope, 1777; Mr. Caleb Atkinfon, 1777 ; the Rev. John Lightfoot'", redor of Gotham in Nottinghamfhire, and morning ledurer at Uxbridge, set. 521 1788 ; and Hefter, reli£l of Stephen Lightfoot of Newent, in Glou- cefterfhire, 1792. The reftory of Cowley, which is in the diocefe of London, and in the archdeaconry of Middlefex, was rated in the old valors at 8 marks" per annum ; in the King's books it is rated at ill. In 1650 it was valued at about 70I. per annum, the glebe being 20 acres. Mr. William Beare was then redior '*. The patronage has for feveral centuries been annexed to the manor of Cowley Peachey : about the year 1330, it is faid to have been vefted in the heirs of Nicholas de St. German". The prefent re£tor is the Rev. Richard Dodd, M. A. inftituted in 1771, on the death of Mr. Derby. The regifter of baptifms and burials in this parifli commences in 1562 ; that of marriages in 1563. Average of baptifms. Average of burials. 1580-9 — 3.rV — 1630-9 — 4tV — 1730-9 — 47 — 1780-9 — 41 — ' 1790-4 — 4t — 1795-9 — z\ — In 1548 there were 't^G hoiijlyng people " in this parifli, as appears by the return in the chantry- roll of that date. In 1719 there were 2A 3rV 74 7t 74 '* A very ingenious naturalift and author of the Flora Scotica. •5 See Harl.MSS. Brit.Muf. No. 60. '* Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- bifhop's library at Lambeth. •7 Stat. Major. Eccles. de St. Paul. '^ See note 9. p. 5 109 COWLEY. 17 109 inhabitants ; in 1724, 118; in 1773, 139. The prefent num- ber of houfes is 32, of inhabitants about 180. In 1603 there were only two burials, in 1625 four ; yet the Plague plague was very fatal at Uxbridgc both thofe years. In 1665 there ''^'^"' are no entries, the regifter being imperfedl. " May 17, 1733, — then Barton Booth, of St. Paul's, Covent Barton Garden, buried." This eminent tragedian was the fon of John Booth, Efq. faid to have been defcended from an elder branch of the Delamere family. He received his education under Dr. Bufby at Weftminfter fchool, having been intended for the pulpit ; but his inclinations being bent towards the ftage, he left his fchool clandef- tinely at the age of feventeen, and going over to Ireland in 1698, made his appearance on the Dublin theatre in the characfter of Oroonoko. Having acquired confiderable credit in his profeffion, he became reconciled to his friends, and returned to England in 1 70 1, when he was engaged at the London theatre under Betterton. Here he continued to increafe in reputation till 1712, when his fuc- cefsful performance of the part of Cato in Addifon's tragedy, then firfl aded, fixed at once his fame and fortune, and eftablifhed him as the Rofcius of his time. He was now, through Lord Boling- broke's intereft, appointed joint manager of the theatre ; a fituation which he held till his death. Continued illnefs prevented him from appearing on the ftage after the fpring of 1729, Mr. Booth was buried at Cowley, purfuant to directions in his will. Why he chofe this place does not appear, unlefs wc fuppolc Mr. John Booth, who was buried at Cowley in 170 1, to have been his father. " Jan. 21, 1773, was buried Mrs. Booth, of Great Ruflell Street, ^frs. Booth. " in London." This was Mr. Booth's fecond wife,Mirs Heller Sante- low; in her youth, a celebrated adrefs and dancer. Lord Hervey indeed, in a letter to Gibber, fpeaks of her as deferving of applaufe in the latter capacity only ; but Gibber himfelf, in his Apology, afcribcs to D ^ her i8 COWLEY. her more merit as an adrefs, particularly in the part of the Fair Quaker of Deal. Her favour with the public was fuch as to have enabled her to accumulate a confiderable fortune previoufly to her marriage with Mr. Booth j and her falary, whilfl: his wife, contri- buted in no fmall degree towards their joint income, as appears by a pafTage in his will. After the death of her hufband fhe retired from the ftage. A very fhort time before fhe died fhe ereded a mo- nument to the memory of Mr. Booth in Weftminfler Abbey, with the following infcription : " In memory of Barton Booth, Efq. defcended from the ancient " family of that name, in the county of Lancafter. In his early •' youth he was admitted into the collegiate fchool of Weflminfler, " under the celebrated Dr. Bufby, where he foon difcovered and " improved a genius (which favoured by the mufe he loved) fo hap- " pily combined the exprefTive powers of adion with a peculiar " grace of elocution, as not only procured him the royal patronage, " but the grateful applaufe of a judicious public. He died in 1733, " in the 54th year of his age, very juftly regretted by all who knew " how to eftimate abilities in an a£tor, politenefs in a gentleman, or " fidelity in a friend. — This monument is eredted A. D. 1772, by " his yet furviving widow, Hester Booth." — The monument is ornamented with a medallion of the deceafed. Intlanceof *' Sarah Dagnall, aged gs^ buried Od. 9, 1795." ongevit}. ^^^ Barnard Dagnall in 1761, gave to the parifh-clerk four acres Benefaflion ° j- • n • i to the parifli- of land, now worth about lol. per annum, on condition ot his keep- ing the church clean from dull, and the church-yard clear of weeds and all annoyances. [ 19 ] CRANFORD. THE name of this place is obv'ioufly derived from the ford over Etymology, the fmall river Crane, where Cranford bridge now is. Cranford lies in the hundred of Elthorne : the church is fituated Situation, about a mile north of the Bath road, and about thirteen miles from London. The parifh is bounded by Hayes and Norwood on the Boundaries, north ; by Hefton on the eaft ; on the weft by Harlington ; and on the fouth by Bedfont. It contains about 500 acres of land, of Quantity of which about two-thirds are arable. There are about 80 acres of com- ' mon, being a part of Hounflow-heath. The foil is for the moft Soil. part a ftrong loam, intermixed in fome places with gravel. The parifh of Cranford is affefled the fum of 106I. lis. ofd. to Land-tai. the land-tax, which is at the rate of about 2s. 2d. in the pound. When the furvey of Domefday was taken, there appears to have Manors. been only one manor in Cranford, which is thus defcribed : " Wil- *' liam, fon of Anfculf, holds the manor of Cranford of the King, ** and it is held under him by Hugh. It is taxed at 5 hides. There *' are three carucates of arable land, one of which is in demefne, and " the villans occupy the others. The prieft has one virgate ; eight *' villans hold a virgate each. Two cottars have two acres j and " there are three flaves. There is wood fufficient for hedging. The ** total value of the manor is 60s. per annum. When it came into *' the prefent owner's pofleflion it was only 40 s. ; but in the reign of " King Edward (the Confeflbr), loos. Turftan, the King's Thane, ** then held it, and could fell it to whom he pleafed." The manor of Cranford was afterwards divided into two, diftinguiflied by the names of Cranford St. John, and Cranford-le-Mote. D 2 .The 20 CRANFORD. Manor of Cr.mford St. John. Manor of Cranford le Mote. The manor of Cranford St. John was given by John de Cranford to the Knights Templars \ Upon the abolition of that order it became vefted in the Crown, and fo continued in i3io\ In 13 16 Ralph de Monthermer was lord of this manor ' ;. in 132 8^, Robert de Swal- clyve*. In 1333, Roger, thenBilliop of Litchfield, prefented to the redory of Cranford, byreafon of the manor being then in his poflef- flon^ Before the year 1363 this manor became vefted in the Knights Holpitallersof St. John of Jerufalem *.. The manor of Cranford le Mote was, before the year 1365, the property of the abbot and convent of Thame, who had a charter of free-warren in their lands at Cranford bearing that date ^ Both thefe manors became vefted in the Crown by the diflblution of religious houfes, and were granted by King Henry VIII. in 1543, to Henry Lord Windfor \ They continued in the Windfor family till 1594, when Henry, then Lord Windfor, obtained the Queen's licence to alien thefe manors with the advowfon of the church ; 12 meflliages, 200 acres of arable land, 100 of meadow, 150 of pafture, 50 of wood, 100 of moor, and 200 of heath, in the parifhes of Cranford, Hefton, Harlington, and Eaft Bedfont, to Thomas Crompton, Efq. Mary his wife, and their heirs '. Before 1603, the manors of Cranford St. John, and Cranford le Mote, be- came vefted in the Crown, and were granted in that year by Queen Elizabeth to Gideon Amondlftiam or Awnfham, and George Needier, who appear to have been truftees for Robert Knight. The clear yearly value of Cranford St. John was 17I. per annum; Cranford leMote, lol. i8s. '°. In 1604, Sir William Fleetwood joining with Jane his wife, Sir Gideon AwnOiam, and others, conveyed the ' Dugdale's Monaftlcon, vol. ii. p. 543. * Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 594. 3 Nomina Villarum, Harl. MSS. No. 6281. ♦ Newcourt, p, 595. s Ibid. ' Newcourt. 7 Cart. 30 and 40 Edw. III. m. 20. * Fee farm rolls in the Augmentation OfRce. 9 Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. 8. Apl. 2. '" Pat. 45 Eliz. pt. I. Dec. 17. manor CRANFORD. 21 manor of Cranford, the advowfon of the church, &c. to Sir Roger Afton ", who furrendered to the Khig, and had a new grant, bear- ing date the fame year, to himfelf, his wife, and their heirs or afligns, of the manor of Cranford St. John, with the advowfon of the church, formerly parcel of the poflefhons of the Knights of St. John of Jerufalem, to be held under the Crown at the fee-farm rent of il. 14s.; and the manor of Cranford le Mote, heretofore parcel of the pofTeffions of the Abbot and Convent of Thame, to be held by the rent of 20s. ". In 161 8, Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley, (relidt of Sir Thomas Berkeley, K. B. who died in the lifetime of Henry Lord Berkeley, his father,) purchafed thefe manors for the fum of 7000I. of the co-heirs of Sir Roger Afton " ; and, in 1620, procured a confirmation of them from the Crown '*. They have continued ever fmce in the Berkeley family, being now the property of Frederick Auguftus Earl of Berkeley. A right of common pafture within the hundred of Ifleworth, ^'g^i of namely, from Cranford to Twickenham In length, and from Babbe- padure. worth pond (now Baberfbridge) to Hounflow in breadth, was granted to the Knights Templars, and their tenants in Cranford, by Edmund Earl of Cornwall, in 1300, and confirmed by King Edward I. '\ A copy of the Earl of Cornwall's charter is inferted in the parifh- regifter. The manor-houfe of Cranford St. John, fituated near the church, Manor- is the occafional refidence of the Earl of Berkeley. Confiderable ^X°^\°^, o additions were made to the old manfion by James, Earl of Jo^'i- Berkeley, Vice-Admiral of Great Britain. It was the favourite re- treat of that diftinguifhed and gallant officer '". The prefent houfe confifts only of the buildings which were added by the Vlce- '" Pat. 2 Jac. pt. 2. Sept. i. '♦ Pat. 16 Jac. pt. 6. Dec 3. No. 12. »* Pat. 2 Jac. pt. 19. Dec. 24. u See Pat. 29 Ed. I. m. 6. The Earl's *^ MS. Hiftory of the Berkeley Family in charter bears date 28 Edw. I. the poffeffion of the prefent Earl. See alfo «6 MS. Hifto. y of the Berkeley family. Pat. 14 Jac. pt. 40. Mar. 1. Admiral, 22 CRANFORD. Portraits. Manor- houfe of Cranford le Mote. Parlfh- church. Monuments. Sir Roger Afton. Admiral, the remains of the old manfionhaving been fincepulled down. Among the portraits at Cranford-houfe are : — James, Earl of Berkeley (the Vice-Admiral); Charles Earl of Berkeley ; Sir Maurice Berkeley ; John, the firft Lord Berkeley of Stratton, (with his wife and one of his fons); Lord Fitzharding ; Jo.celyn, Earl of Northumberland; Henry, Lord Hunfdon, xt. 66, 1591 ; Dr. Harvey; Dean Swift; Sir Wil- liam Temple ; his father, Sir John Temple, &c. &c. The manor-houfe of Cranford le Mote, which ftood within a moted fite, about a quarter of a mile to the north-eaft of the church, was pulled down in the year 1780. This houfe was, in 1603, the refi- dence of Sir William Fleetwood, receiver of the Court of Wards, as appears by the parilh-regifter. Mr. Noble feems to have been mif- taken in placing him at Cranford in Northamptonfhire ". The parifh-church, dedicated to St. Dunftan, is a fmall building, confifting of a nave and chancel. At the weft-end is a plain fquare tower of flint and ftone, the upper part of which has been rebuilt with brick. The nave, which is of brick, was rebuilt in 1716, prin- cipally at the expence of Elizabeth, Countefs Dowager of Berkeley". On the north wall of the chancel is the monument of Sir Roger Afton, reprefented in the annexed plate. Sir Roger Afton was gentleman of the bedchamber to James I. the letters patent for which office were inclofed in his tomb, purfuant to his own direc- tions, as appears by his epitaph. He was mafter of the great wardrobe. His firft wife was Mary Stuart, daughter of Lord Ochil- tree, (an antient Scottifti Baron, related to the King,) by whom he had four daughters ; Margaret, married to Sir Gilbert, fon and heir of Sir Richard Houghton of Lancaftiire ; Mary, married to Sir Samuel Peyton, Bart.; Elizabeth, married to Sir Richard Wingfield, Knt. ; and Anne, who was unmarried at her father's deceafe. Mary, Lady Afton, died in 1606. Sir Roger's fecond wife was Cordelia, " Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. ii. P- 35 «• !' Parifh regifter. daughter WlOiVlTMKNI' OF 3f KrjC.I.'.H A.STON, CRANFORD. 23 daughter of Sir John Stanhope, by whom he had a fon, who died in his infancy. Sir Roger Afton died in 161 2. The monument exhibits the arms of Afton with feveral impalements ". On the fame wall is the monument of Dr. Fuller, the hiftorian, r)r. Fuller, with the following Infcriptlon : — " Hie jacet Thomas Fuller, e colleglo and divine. " Sydneiano in academia Cantabrigienfe, S.S.T.D. hujus ecclefis *' redor; ingenii acumine, memoriae felicitate, morum probitate, *' omnigena dodrlna, (hifloria prjefertim,) uti varia ejus fumma " sequanimitate compofita teftantur, celeberrimus. Qui dum viros *' Anglix illuftres opere pofthumo immortalitati confecrare meditatus " eft, ipfe Immortalitatem eft confecutus, Aug. 15, 1661." — This learned Avine and hiftorian was fon of the Rev. Thomas Fuller of Aldwincle, in Northamptonfhire, at which place he was born in 1608. At twelve years of age he was fent to Queen's college, Cam- bridge, where he took his degree of M. A. in 1628. In 163 1, be- ing then of Sidney college, he publifhed his firft work, a poem on David's heinous crime and hearty repentance. Upon his entrance into holy orders he became a very popular preacher. Flis firft pre- ferment was a prebend of Salifbury, to which he was appointed in 1 63 1. About 1634 he was prefented to the redory of Broad Win- for, in Dorfetftiire. In 1 640 he was lecturer at the Savoy. Having diftinguiftied himfelf in the early part of the civil war, by the loyalty of his difcourfes, he found it expedient to quit London in 1642, and feek an afylum at Oxford, where the King then was. Soon after this he became chaplain to Lord Hopton, and was in Bafmghoufe »9 I. Per chevron S. & A. in chief two cref- III. A. three bars S. a label of three cents O. on a canton of the third, a rofe and points G. — Houghton — impaling Afton. thiftle conjoined, proper.— Afton — impaling IV. S. a crofs engrailed O. in the firft the arms of Scotland, within a border com- qua'"ter a muUet A. — Peyton— impaling pony O. & Az.— Stuart. '^^''"• TT Aft„ • ,. , T. ^- ■^- '^" ^ ^'■"'^ G. cottifed S. three II. Afton, .mpahng, quarterly Erm. & p,;,, ^f ,,;„g,^ conjoined, of the field— G— Stanhope. Wingfield-impaling Afton. during 24 CRANFORD. during Its firft fiege by Sir William "Waller. In 1647, the redory of Waltham Abbey was given him by the Earl of Carlifle ; and in 1658 that of Cranford, by Lord Berkeley, through whofe intereft it is fuppofed, that had he lived longer he would have obtained much higher preferment. His funeral was conducted under the diredlion, and at the expence, of his noble patron, being attended by at leaft 200 of the clergy". Dr. Fuller's principal works are : — The Worthies of Eng- land ; his Church Hiftory ; Hiftory of the Holy War ; Pifgah Sight of Paleftine; Abel Redivivus, (or Hiftory of Reformers, Bifhops, Martyrs, &c.) ; a Hiftory of the Univerfity of Cambridge ; and a Hiftory of Waltham Abbey. His printed fermons are nume- rous ; and he publiflied feverai ecclefiaftical, and fome controverfial trads. Sir Charles On the north wall alfo is the monument of Sir Charles Scarburgh, the^pWif ' with the following infcription : — " Hie jacet Carolus Scarburgh " eques auratus, Medicine Dodlor fereniffimo Regi Carolo, necnon " Jacobo fecundo, ac etiam Reginse Marise, Danix Principibufque " Archiatros. Anglorum inter medicos, Hippocrates ; inter mathe- " maticos, Euclides ; fuaviflimis moribus indutus, omnibus afFabilis, " cundis vitse officiis squabilis, civis, maritus, pater, amicus opti- " mus. — To whofe pious memory this marble monument is fet up " by Lady Scarburgh, relid: to Sir Charles Scarburgh, who, by no " violent diftemper, but by a gentle and eafy decay, departed this " life in the jgih year of his age, Feb. 26, 1693." Sir Charles Scarburgh was Fellow of Caius college in Cambridge, where, in conjundtion with Seth Ward, he read ledures in the ma- thematics. He afterwards took the degree of M. D. and fettled in London, where he read ledures in Anatomy many years at Sur- geons-hall. He was knighted in 1669; and, at the fame time, ap- *° Biograph. Brit, (from a life of Dr. Fuller). pointed cian CRAWFORD. ap- pointed phyfician to the King, Sir Charles Scarburgh's works publifhed in his lifetime were, A Treatife on Trigonometry ; a compendium of Lily's Grammar ; and an Elegy on Abraham Cow- ley. In 1 705, his fon publifhed his tranflation of Euclid in folio. On the fouth wall of the chancel are monuments of the Berkeley Monuments family. — i. Elizabeth, relidt of Sir Thomas Berkeley, K. B. (fon ley family. of Henry, the eleventh Lord Berkeley) ; fhe was daughter and heir of George Lord Hunfdon, and grand-daughter of William Carey, who married one of the coheirs of Thomas Bullen, Earl of Wilt- fhire. The effigies of the deceafed, in a fhroud, well executed in alto relievo of white marble, is placed over the tomb upon a black flab". Lady Berkeley died in 1635. — 2. George Lord Berkeley, her fon, — " Here lyeth the body of George, Baron of Berkeley, Mow- " bray, Seagrave, and Bruce, K. B. who departed this life the loth " day of Auguft, A. D. 1658. He married Elizabeth, fecond " daughter and coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury, in the " county of Suffolk, Knt. by whom he had iffue, Charles, Eliza- " beth, and George. Charles, drowned in his paflage to France, *' January 27, 1641 ; Elizabeth, married to Edward Coke, " Efq. grand-child and heir of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. fometime " Lord Chief Juftice of both benches ; flie died, Nov. 9, A. D. " 1661, and lieth buried at Heigham in Norfolk; and George " Lord Berkeley, now living. This deceafed Lord, befides the " nobility of his birth, and the experience he acquired by foreign " travels, was very eminent for the great candour and ingenuity of " his difpofition, his fingular bounty and affability to his inferiors, *' The aims on this monument are, II. Quarterly — i. A. on a bend S. three I. Quarterly — i. G. a chevron between 10 rofes of the field — Carey. 2. Quarter- crofles patce (fix above and four below) ly France and England within a border Arg. — Berkeley. — 2. G. three lions paQ". compony Ar. & Az.— Somerfet. 3. G. a O. — Mowbray. — 3. Cheeky O. &. Az. — feffe between 6 crofs crofslets O. — Beau- Warren— 4. G. a lion ramp. Arg.— Fitz. champ. 4. Ar. a chevron G. between three alan. bulls' heads erafed S.— Bullen. E " and 26 CRANFORD. " and his readinefs (had it been in his power) to have obliged all " mankind"." — 3. George, the firft Earl of Berkeley — " Here " lyeth the body of George Earl of Berkeley, Vifcount Durfley, " Baron of Berkeley, Mowbray, Seagrave, and Bruce, who had " the honour to be a Privy-Counfellor to King Charles II. and " to King James ; eminent for his affability, charity, and generofity. " He married Elizabeth, one of the coheireffes of John Mafling- " beard, Efq. of the family of the Maffingbeards in Lincolnihire* " He departed this life the 14th of Odober 1698, cetat. 71, in hopes " of a bleffed refurredion; for the merciful fhall obtain mercy "." — This Earl of Berkeley made a prefent of Sir Robert Coke's valuable library to Sion college. On the chancel floor are the tombs of Nicholas, fon of Thomas Bownell, and brother of Mardocheus Bownell, redor of Cranford, 158 1 (there is a figure in brafs of the deceafed) ; Thomas, fon of Richard Fownes, Efq. of Stepleton, in Dorfetfhire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel Armftrong, Efq. of Remflon, in Nottingham- Ihire, 1673; the Rev. Henry Head, M. A. redor of Cranford, 1750; and Mr. William Webley, 1779. On the north wall of the nave is a monument, ornamented with a medallion of the deceafed in white marble, to the memory of William Smythe, Efq. who married Elizabeth, daughter of George Earl of Berkeley, and died in 1720 **. There are memorials for Mr. William Hird, 1760 ; Mr. John Gregory ^% I793> and others of his family. ^* On this monument are the arms of tvveen 6 crofTes patee fitchee O. three fl. de Berkeley only. lis az. each charged with a plate, impaling *' Arms. — Berkeley impaling Az. three Berkeley, cinquefoils O. in chief a boar of the fecond " Arms — O. two bars az. in chief a lion charged with a crofs formes G. — Mailing- paflant of the laft, impaling, A. on a bend beard — the fame coat is repeated on an efcut- G. between three pellets, as many fwans, cheon of pretence. proper— born by Clarke. ** Arms— S. on a chevron engrailed be- On CRANFORD. 27 On the fouth wall is a monument in memory of Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Sir Thomas Field, Knt. and wife of Pelfant Reeves, Efq. (Ibu of Arthur Reeves by Anne, daughter of Sir Eufebius Pelfant of Cade- by, in Leicefterfhire,) 1727; and Elizabeth, fecond wife of Pelfant Reeves, (daughter of Robert Oglethorpe, by Mary, niece and heir of Thomas Biggs,) 1729". On the floor are the tombs of Pelfant, fon of the Rev. Wingfield Bufwell of Cadeby, 1727; and Alice, wife of George Hubbert, 1752. The redlory of Cranford, which is in the diocefe of London, and The reaory. in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, is rated in the old valors at 8 marks per annum", in the King's books at i61. In the return of the jurors to the parliamentary inquiry in 1650, it is valued at Sol. per annum, the glebe being defcribed as 15 acres. Mr. Afliford was then redor ''. The patronage has always been vefted in the lord of the manor of Cranford St. Jolin. Dr. Fuller, of whom mention has already been made, was pre- Reftors. fented to this reilory by George Lord Berkeley, March 3, 1657-8^'. Dr. Fuller. He died in 1661, and was fucceeded by the celebrated mathemati- BifliopWil- cian and philofopher, John Wilkins, afterwards Bifhop of Chefter. ''''"^* It was the fmgular good fortune of this prelate, that his talents at- tracted the notice, and fecured the patronage of perfons of the moft oppofite principles. He had married Cromwell's fifter, and had been preferred during his ufurpation to the wardenfhip ofWadham college, vacant by the ejedion of a loyalift ; yet immediately after ihe reftoration he was prefented to this redory by Lord Berkeley, ** Arms — I. G. achevronvaire O. & Az. thorpe.— The fame coat is repeated on an between three rofes A. — Reeves, impaling, eicntcheon of pretence. S. a chevron engrailed between three garbs *' See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 60. A.— Field. " Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- np„„ ■ ,. A L 1 bifhop's library at Lambeth. . Keeves, impalmg, A. a chevron be- ^^ ^ . , ^ who ,1. i_ . 1 , , o ^ , Committees books at Lambeth, vol tween three boars' heads couped S.—Oele- • A^a.iu.Li, ' o SXXIV. p. 203. 28 CRANFORD. who had been ftrongly attached to the King's party. In 1662 he vacated Cranford, being prcfented to the vicarage of St. Lawrence Jew^ry by the Crown; and, in 1668, he was promoted to the Bifliopric of Chefter. Dr. Wilkins was one of the firft council of the Royal Society. His principal works were, Difcourfes concern- ing the World in the Moon, and a new Planet ; " Mercury, or the « Secret Meflenger;" " Mathematical Magic;" " An Eflay to- " wards a real character and a philofophical language ;" and Dif- courfes on the Gift of Preaching, on the Beauty of Providence, on the Gift of Prayer ; and the Principles and Duties of Natural Reli- gion. Bifhop Wilkins died in 1672 ^°. The prefent redtor of Cranford is the Rev. John Hofkins, infti- tuted in 1772, on the refignation of the Rev* Auguflus Thomas Hupfman. Panfh '^^^ earlieft date of the regifter of baptlfms and marriages in this regifter. parifti is 1 5 64, that of burials 1572. Comparative ftate of po- pulation. Averaj \t of baptifms. Average of burials. 1580-9 — 3A — imperfed. 1630-9 34 — 2/0 1680-9 — 4 — 4^ 1730-9 — 5A — 7.V 1780-9 — 6.V — 7t 1790-4 — 6| — 7-1- 1795-9 — 6 ^— 5 In 1547 the number of houjlyj ig people " -I ivas 60 '*. The prefent number of houfes is 2^, of inhabitants about 180. 30 Anth. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. ^^ Chantry roll in the Augmentation col. 505, 506. Office. »' See note 9, p, 5. ExtraEls CRANFORD. 29 j> Ext ra&s from the Reg'ijler. " Jane, daughter of Sir Oliver Lambert, baptized, Jan. " 1598-9-" *' Mary Stewart, the daughter of Andrew Stewart, Baron of " Ockeltree, in Scotland, and wife to Sir Roger Afton, lord of the " manor of Cranford, was buried the 22d of March 1603-4. Sir " Roger Afton, buried May 28, 161 2." " Mr. Thomas Fleetwood (fon of Sir William Fleetwood) and " Ann Gibbs, married Ap. 2, 1604." " Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley, buried Apl. 25, 1635 j the Right Notes relat- « Hon. the Lord George Berkeley, Aug. 6, 1658.— Charles, fon Berkeley* « of Sir Charles Berkeley, K. B. born June 17, 1 679." — Sir ^^™''i'- Charles fucceeded to the Earldom in 1698, when Charles, his eldeft fon, became Vifcount Durfley. Lord Durfley died under age of the fmall-pox, and was buried at Cranford, June i, 1699. — " Lady *' Elizabeth Smythe, buried Apl. 4, 1681," daughter of George, the firft Earl of Berkeley, and wife of William Smythe, Efq. of the Temple. — " The Hon. George Berkeley, buried 0£t. 18, 1694." — Prebendary of Weftminfter, and fecond fon of George Earl of Berkeley. — " The Right Hon. George Earl of Berkeley, buried " Oa. 1698." — The thirteenth Lord Berkeley, and the firft Earl, having been raifed to that dignity in 1679. — " Elizabeth, daughter " of William Pulteney, Efq. and the Lady Arabella, his wife, " (daughter of George Earl of Berkeley,) baptized July 26, 1701." — " The Lady Theophila Nelfon," (daughter of George Earl of Berke- ley, and wife of the pious Robert Nelfon, Efq. author of ' the Feafts and Fafts of the Church of England,') " buried Jan. 31, " 1706-7."—" The Right Hon. Elizabeth Countefs of Berkeley, " buried Dec. 10, 1708," — daughter of John Maflingbeard, and relia 3° CRANFORD. relltLl of George Earl of Berkeley. — " The Hon. Louifa Carolina *' Berkeley, daughter of the Right Hon. the Earl of Berkeley, " buried March 6, 1720-1," — daughter of James Earl of Berkeley, by Lady Louifa, daughter of Charles Duke of Richmond. " The " Lady Theophila Ingoldfby, buried Aug. 4, 1721," wife of Sir William Ingoldfby, Bart, and daughter of Lady Theophila Berkeley, by her firft hulTjand, Sir Kingfmill Lucy, Bart. — " The Hon. " George Berkeley, (youngeftfon of Charles, fecond Earl of Berke- " ley,) and the Right Hon. Henrietta, Countefs Dowager of " Suffolk, (relid of Charles, the ninth Earl, and daughter of Sir " Henry Hobart,) married June 26, 1735." — The Right Hon. " Arethufa, Lady Clifford, daughter of George Earl of Berkeley, " buried Feb. 17, 1742-3." — She married Charles Boyle, Lord Clifford of Lanefborough, fon of Richard Earl of Burlington. — " The " Rio-ht Hon. Auguftus Earl of Berkeley, and the Hon. Elizabeth " Drax, married May 7, 1744. — James, fon of the Right Hon. " Auguftus Earl of Berkeley, and Elizabeth, baptized. July 26, " 1747; buried June 21, 1748; Georgiana Augufta, daughter of " the Right Hon. Auguftus Earl of Berkeley, and Elizabeth, bap- " tized Od. 14, 1749-" — His prefent Majefty, and the Princefs Augufta, in perfon, and the Countefs of Middlefex, were fponfors. Lady Georgiana Berkeley is now Countefs Dowager of Granard. " The Lady Covell was buried the 8th day of November, « 1660." Three chil- «' Finch, wife of Finch, being delivered of three birth. *' children, two of them were baptized ; one called Faith, and the " other Hope ; and the third was intended to be called Charity, but " died unbaptized. The two were baptized the 2 2d day of Feb. " 1666, but they died, and were all buried together the next day, " being the 23d day of February, i666-y.'* The CRANFORD. 31 The chantry-roll " mentions three acres of arable land given for Benefac the repairs of the church. "°°^' A houfe, containing four rooms and four bed-places, was built at the expence of the parifh for the reception of paupers in 1776. Lord Berkeley gave half an acre of ground for the fite. Mr. John Dowfet, in 1722, gave a rent-charge of 20 s. per annum, to be diftributed in bread among the poor of this parifh. An acre and a half of land, which is let at 1 1, 5 s. per annum, was given to the poor by fome benefador, now unknown. ^' In the Augmentation Office, bearing date 1547. [ 32 1 DRAYTON. Situation. THIS parlfh, which is fometimes diftinguifhed by the name of Weft-Drayton, lies in the hundred of Elthorne, about two miles north of the Bath road, and fixteen miles from London. It is Boundaries, bounded by Hillingdon on the auith ; by Harlington on the eaft ; by Harmondfworth on the fouth ; and on the weft by the river Coin, which feparates it from Iver, in Buckingham (hire. I have not been able to afcertain the quantity of land in this parifh. About three parts out of four are arable. The foil is for the moft part a ftrong red loam. The Grand Jundion canal paffes through a part of this parifh. The parifh of Drayton is afTefled thefum of 223I. los. gd. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of nearly three fhillings in the pound. The manor of Drayton, or Weft-Drayton, was given, or confirmed, to the church of St. Paul's, by King Athelftan in 989. In his char- ter this eftate is called ten manfes at Dmgtitn '. It is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domefday : — " The Canons of St. Paul hold the " manor of Draitone, which was always taxed at i o hides. The " arable land is 6 carucates. Five hides belong to the demefne, on " which there is only one plough. The villans have 5 ploughs. " There are 8 villans who hold two hides ; 6 bordars who have " 10 acres ; two cottars who have 4 acres, and one bordar who has " c acres : there is a fmall mill ' rented at 13 s. 5 d. The meadow "^ "is • Lib. L. in the Chapter-houfe at St. and a malt-mill under one roof. Drayton Paul's fol. x. mills continued to be parcel of the demefne » It appears by an inquifition taken in of the manor till 1772, when they were 1587, that there were then two corn-mills fold by the prefent Earl of Uxbridge, (to- gether Soil. Land-tax. Manor of Weft Dray- ton. DRAYTON. " Is equal to one carucate. There is pafture for the cattle of the " manor — a pool rented at 32 d. — The whole value is 61. per " annum. In King Edward (the Confeffor's) time it was 8 1. This " manor was and is part of the demefnes of the church of St. " Paul's." A fubfequent furvey, bearing date 1181, fays, " The " manor of Drayton was taxed in the time of Henry I, and Wil- " liam the Dean, at ten hides, as it ftill is. It paid then 5 s. to the " fherifF; but fmce the war, los. which is paid by Theodore, the " leflee ; befides which, it pays lis. for the right of frank-pledge. *' It now pays two full rents to the canons with lent filver. Of the " ten hides above mentioned, two were in demefne, one appropriated " for the purchafe of veftments for the church \ and fcven in affize. " The one appropriated for the purchafe of veftments was always " taxed with the other nine, and ftill is *." Another furvey taken early in the enfuing century, calls the manor of Drayton 9 hides, and defines the virgate as containing, according to the cuftom of this manor, 1 6 acres. The manor of Drayton is faid to have been exempt from all fuit of hundred or county, and all payments to the King or his officers. The mill on the Colne is faid to be worth 40 s. per annum '. In 13 14 there was an immunity granted to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul, that no purveyor of the King fhould take corn within certain of their manors, of which Drayton was one *. This manor continued in the pofiefllon of the Dean and Chapter till the year 1547, when King Henry VIII. having ob- tained it in exchange for other lands, granted it to Sir William Paget, (afterwards created Lord Paget of Beaudefert,) and Anne his wife'. On the attainder of Thomas Lord Paget, in 1587, it be- gether with four freehold cottages,) to Mrs. veilibus emendis aflignati funt,— Glofs. me- Ehxabeth Mills, paper- maker, of whofe fon dix Latinitatis. and devifee, Mr. Allen Mills, they were 4 Regift. Decani &: Cap. lib. B. fol. 27. purchafed by the prefent proprietor, Mr. ' Book of Inquifitions of Manors in the Nicholas Mercer, mealman. (From the in- Chapter Houfe. formation of Fyfti De Burgh, Efq.) * Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 597. ' Terra in fetlaiida — Terra cujus proventus "> Pat, 37 Hen. VIII, pt. 13. Apl. 15. F came 33 34 DRAYTON. came forfeited to the Crown, and was granted the fame year to Sir Chriftopher Hatton for life ". Having reverted to the Crown, the Queen, in 1592, demifed it, for 21 years, to George Carey ', after- wards Lord Hunfdon ; and in 1597 (Thomas Lord Paget being then dead) fhe granted the reverfion to his fon William "", who afterwards recovered, by adl of parliament, the remainder of his father's eftates, and the title. From him this manor defcended to Henry the late Earl of Uxbridge, who died without iflue and in- teftate, in 1769, when it devolved, together with the barony of Paget, to Henry Bailey, Efq. his coufm and heir at law, who aflumed the name of Paget; and in 1784 was created Earl of Uxbridge. In 1786 he fold this manor to Fyrti De Burgh, Efq. ", lately deceafed, whofe widow, Mrs. Eafter De Burgh, is the prefent proprietor. The right of free-warren in this manor, which was granted to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's in 1316 '% was confirmed to Sir William Paget in 1549 ". Cuftoms of The fines within this manor are certain j being two years lord's rent for the admittance of copyholders on defcent, and four years rent on furrender, as fettled by an indenture enrolled in Chancery, bearing date 1651. By an inquifition, bearing date 1587, it appears that there were then only two freeholders, and 54 copyholders. The quit-rents amounted to 9I. i6s. 7d. including 9s. 4d. (being 2d. from each tenant) paid to the lord for the liberty of fifliing three days in the week ; namely, Wednefday, Friday, and Saturday. The copyholders have a piece of land containing 38 acres, called Towney Mead, ap- propriated according to their refpeftive rights, and a piece of Lam- mas land, containing about three acres and a half. « Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. 3. July 3. to whom I was indebted for feveral other 9 Pat. 35 Eliz. pt. 9. Nov. 20. particulars relating to this manor and pa- '° Fee-farm rolls in the Augmentation rifh. Office. " Cart. 9 Edw. II. m. 31. " From the information of Mr, De Burgh, " Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p.597. The the manor. DRAYTON. 3j The rental of the manor of Dray ton in 1713, was 40 il. 13 s. 6d. ; the quit-rents were then lol. 15 s. 6d. '*. The old manfion belonging to the Paget flimily, being the fite of the manor, adjoined the church-yard. It was built, as is fuppofed, by Sir William Paget, and was pulled down by the late Earl of Uxbridge, about the year 1750. The prefent Earl, in 1773, fold the fite of the manfion and gardens, the lofty walls of which are yet remaining, to Mr. Timothy Marfliall, who is the prefent pro- prietor. The prefent manor-houfe, being the refidence of Mrs. De Burgh, was fome time fmce the property of Lord Bofton, and lately of Wil- liam Cholwich, Efq. Within this parifli is a fmall manor belonging to the Bifhop of Bifliop of London, which by the name of " the manor of Drayton, with lands manorr '' *' and hereditaments in Drayton and Colham," then lately the pro- perty of William Waynesford, fervant of Margaret Queen of Eng- land, attainted, was granted in 1462 to Thomas Burgh ", (efquire of the body to Edward IV.) to be held by fealty. In 1476 Sir Thomas Burgh conveyed this manor to Thomas, Bilhop ofLincolni and Lord Chancellor ; Edward, Bifliop of Carlifle, and others '"• This manor was given by Edward VI. to the Bifhop of Weflminfter, who furrendered it again into the hands of that monarch in 1550 "• The King granted it the fame year to the Bifhop of London and '* Papers in the poflellion of Lord Bofton. reverfion after their de:ith, and that of Joan '' Pat. 2 Edw. IV. pt. I. m. 4. their daughter and heir, (who appears to '^Pat. 15 Edw. IV. pt. i.m. i. — Between have itiarried into the Boieler family,) John this period and that of Edward VI.'s grant, lier fon, and William brother of John, to I find an eftate called the manor of Drayton, Ralph Boteler fon of the faid William.— with lands in Drayton, Colham, Hilling- If this be the fame manor mentioned above, don, and Uxbridge, to have been {Jrmo it became vefted in the Crown before 1550. 1492) the property of Ralph Boteler. — '' Records in the Augmentation Office. — The recital of a deed of that date (among The deed defcribes it as a manor, or capital the records belonging to the Dean and Chap- meffiiage, in Drayton, with all the lands to ter of Weftminfter) ftates, that John Atte the faid manor or meifuagc belonging, lying Brok, and John Atte Mulle, had p;ranted it in Drayton, Stanwell, Colham, and Ivcr. to Ralph Atte MerkeandAgncs his wife, with F 2 his ;^6 DRAYTON. his fuccefl'ors '", In whom it is ftill vefted. This manor is now united with that of Colham-Garden in Hillingdon. — Courts are held occafionally ; but its jurifdidion is very limited. It pays a quit-rent of 20 s. 3 d. per annum to the manor of Drayton. The demefne lands are held under the Bifhop on lives. About the latter end of the laft century the leafe was vefted in Aaron Kinton, Efq. whofe only child Catherine married James Eckerfall, Efq. On the death of Mr. Eckerfall in 1753 (his wife having died without iflue in 1712) the leafe of this eftate devolved to John Orme of Long Acre, coach-maker, nephew and heir at law of Aaron Kinton. After the death of Mr. Orme his family fold the leafe to Robert Chitter, Gent, who difpofed of the eftate in lots, by audtion, in 1785. The late Earl Ferrers purchafed the manfion, (fometimes called Boroughs, or Burroughs, from its ancient owner Sir Thomas Burgh, but in the particulars of fale defcribed as the manor- houfe of Drayton,) with about 8 acres adjoining, for the fum of 503 1. The remainder (with the lands belonging to the manor of Colham- Garden in Hillingdon, being in the whole 127 acres) was purchafed by the late William Gill, Efq. Alderman of London, whofe widow is the prefent leflee. Burroughs is now the refidence of Lieu- tenant-General Arabin, who has lately purchafed it of the Ferrers family. Rovvtheys. There was formerly a capital manfion in this parifh, with a confiderable eftate annexed, called Rowtheys, ftated in an in- quifition of the manor (taken in 1587) to have been formerly the property of John Burnell, Efq. and then of Roger Daye, Efq. The latter fold it to Richard Perkins, Gent, in whofe family it con- tinued till 1762, when Mr. James Perkins fold the manfion, with fome adjoining lands, to Brabazon Ellis, Efq. and the remainder of the eftate (98 acres) to Mr. William Ball, uncle of the prefent •" Pat. 4Edw. VI. pt. 4. Apl. 12. proprietor. Fonf in ])r(n/f(>/i Cliu/ci). FUtijAid^tri,i'i,\-"-\ 1 '-.I^KhH WPatwj 37 DRAYTON. proprietor. Mr. Ellis fold the houfe in 1774 to John Dawfon, Efq. In 1778 it was burnt down. The fite was purchafed by Mr. Johnfon, who has lately built a fmall houfe upon the premifes. The parifh-church, dedicated to St. Martin, is a gothic ftrudlure, Pariili confifting of a chancel, nave, and two aifles. At the weft end is an em- battled tower of flint and ftone. The font is reprefented in the an- nexed plate. On the fide there fhown are reprefented the crucifixion; our Lady of pity, and afculptor at work on fome foliage. The com- partments on the other fide exhibit angels holding plain fhields. In the eaft window of the chancel are the following coats of arms : — Arg. two bars G. on a canton of the fecond a cinquefoil O. — and S, on a crofs engrailed A. 5 lions pafl!ant of the field. — Paget. On the north wall of the chancel is a tablet recording a benefaction of Sir George Carey, Lord Hunfdon, who was leflee of the manor, and occafionally refided at Drayton. He died in 1603. On the fouth Monument wall is an elegant monument of white marble, by Bacon, in memory Burgh- of Fyfh De Burgh, Efq. ", Lieutenant in the Guards, (only fon of the late Fyfli De Burgh, Efq. lord of the manor,) who died of a fever, brought on in confequence of his exertions whilft affifting with his men to put the Tower of London into a ftate of defence in the month of January 1793. On the fame wall is the monument of Rupert Billingfley, Efq.", Various mo- Captain of the Royal George, who died in 1720; and his wife, Mary, daughter of Richard Dalton, who died in 1727. On the floor is the tomb (with a figure in brafs of the deceafed) of John •' Arms — Az. three fl.-de-lis Erm. — The her hufband, James Godfrey Lill, Efq. late Mr. De Burgh, whofe name was Cop- and their ilTue, are required by her father's pinger, had leave, under the King's fign will to take the name and ufe the arms of manual, to aflume the name and arms of De Burgh only. De Burgh, in confequence of his defcent ^° Arms — A. a crofs S. voided of the from that family, by the intermarriage of field, 5 etoiles in crofs between four lions his ancellor Francis Coppinger, Efq. with rampant of the fecond, impaling, A. three Frances, daughter of the laft Lord Burgh, lozenges G. each charged with a faltier of Mr. De Burgh's only daughter, Catherine, the field.— Dalton. Goode, 9 02H^ numents. 38 DRAYTON. Goode, fome time Fellow of Magdalen college in Oxford, an eminent phyfician, who died in 158 1. He married Joan, daughter of Edward Clinton, Alderman of Oxford. In the nave, are the tombs of Richard Roos, mercer and citizen of London, 1406; Robert Machel, Gent, fervant to Lord Paget, (with a figure in brafs of the deceafed,) 1557; and Mr. George Cowdry, 1775. On the eaft wall of the fouth aifle is the monument of Jane, daughter of Richard Dalton, and fecond wife of James Eckerfall, Efq.", 1729. On the fouth wall is a brafs tablet in memory of John Burnell, Gent, officer of the cellar — (the remainder ofthein- fcription is concealed by a pew). On the fame wall is a monument in memory of James Eckerfall, Efq.'\ clerk of the kitchen to Queen Anne and George I. 1753 ; and Catherine, his firft wife, daughter of Aaron Kinton, Efq. (setat. 19), 171 2. On the floor are the tombs of Mrs. Clarges Spriggins, 1784; Catherine, wife of Mr. Edward Robarts, 1791, and Chrlftian Zincke, Efq. 1795. The old In the year 1550 Sir William Paget procured an adt of parlia- exchanged mcnt for exchanging the church-yard of this parlfh, containing for a new three roods of land, for a piece of ground containing one acre, at the groundbyaa town's end ; which, by the faid adt, was appropriated as a cemetery ment. for ever for the ufe of this parifli ". The church-yard was in con- fequence of this a£t inclofed within Sir William Paget's garden-wall, free ingrefs and egrefs to and from the parifh-church being referved to the vicar and inhabitants. Tombs in In the faid cemetery, which lies about a furlong to the eaft of ground. the church, are the tombs of Mary Courthope, 1729; Thomas Skipp, citizen of London, 1754; Mrs. Phillis Eaft, 1770; William Woods, Gent. 1776; Mr. John Hubbard, 1788; and Frances, " Arms — -A. a bend between 6 martlets mount, a caftle G. on a chief az. a fun hi G. impaling Dalcon. fplendor between 2 etoiles O. a bafe harry " Arms — Eckerfall impaling quarterly wavy of fix Az. & Arg. I & 4. — O. two bars G. in chief two mullets ""^ From papers in the pofleffion of the late cf the laft.— Kinton— 2 & 3. — A. on a Mr. De Burgh. wife DRAYTON. 39 wife of JefFreyfon Holland, attorney, 1790. There is a vault alfo made in 1749, by John Jacob of Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, for the burial-place of himfelf and Elizabeth his wife, " and for them " two only.'' The impropriate re£lory of Drayton has always been held with the Reflory and _ vicarage. manor. In a furvey, made about the year 1245, the church or Drayton is faid to have had 22 acres of arable land and one of meadow, and to have been entitled to a third of the tithes of the demefnes. The church paid a mark per annum to the church of St. Paul. In the old valors it is rated at 6 marks'*: in 1587 it was valued at 20 1. per annum. The vicarage is rated in the King's books at 13I. 6 s. 8 d. When the manor and rectory were demifed to Sir Chriftopher Hatton, in 1587, he was to pay' 40s. per annum to the vicar for the fmall tithes of the demefnes, and 40 s. more for his belter maintenance. An inquifition of the fame date ftates the glebe belonging to the vicar to be eighteen acres, for which he paid a quit- rent of 40s. to the lord of the manor. In 1650 this vicarage was valued at 30 1. per annum *'. In 1 755 it was confolidated with Harmondfworth. Till that period the advowfon had been annexed The advow- to the manor. Henry, the late Earl of Uxbridge, fold the advow- fon of the confolidated vicarages in the year laft mentioned to the Rev. George Booth, who, in 1756, aliened to Thomas Ives. From him, in 1760, it pafTed to George Harveft, and from Mr. Harveft, in 1776, to Culling Smith, Efq. In 1785 it was purchafed of Mr. Smith by Mr. Bull; who, in 1786, fold it to Mr. John Hubbard. It was lately the property '' of his fon, the Rev. John Hubbard, and is now vefted in the Rev. Dawfon Warren. Before the confolidation of the two vicarages Drayton was in the peculiar jurifdiaion of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul, and Har- ** See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 60. »« For the defcent of the advowfon to this *5 Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- period I am indebted to William Bray, bifliop's library at Lambeth. Efq. F. S. A. mondfworth 40 DRAYTON. Parifli regifter. Compara- tive ftate of population. mondfworth within the diocefe of London. The vicarages being conlolidated, the jurifdiftion is now alternately in the Bifhop and in the Dean and Chapter. The prefent vicar is the Rev. John Theo- dofms Langhorne, LL.B. inftituted in 1796, on the refignation of Mr. Hubbard. The earlieft regifter of baptifms in this parifh is 1568 ; that of marriages and burials 1570. 1585-9 16 T,o-g 1680-9 1730-9 1780-9 1790-4 1795-9 Average o£ bapt ifms. 9^ 94 9tV 12-rV lit lOl 10 ■ Average of burials. 94- IOtV 12 12* 84 In 1548 the number of houjiyng people" was 130. The prefent number of houfes is about 100; of inhabitants, about 650. The number of burials in 1603 was 10; in 1625, fix j and in 1665, only three. Exlra&s from the Regj/ler. " The Lady Allin, buried Jan. 8, 1586-7." Notes relat- « The Lady Anne Paget, burled Jan. 19, 1586-7."— Anne, re- Pagetfamily lid of William the firft Lord Paget, daughter and fole heir of Tiances!"^ "^ ' Henry Prefton, Efq. of Prefton In Yorkaiire. Her hufband, who William was the founder of his family, and a ftatefman of great eminence, the'secre^- ' '^^^ burled at Drayton In 1563 (before the commencement of any tary. regifter now extant). This nobleman owed his advancement to Biihop Gardiner, in whofe family he was brought up. After hav- " See note 9, p. 5. ing DRAYTON. 41 ing been employed In various negociations abroad, he was made Secretary of State, which office he enjoyed during a great part of the reign of Henry VIII. to whofe will he was executor, and the beginning of that of Edward VI. In 155 1, he experienced a great reverfe of fortune through the intrigues of the Duke of Northumbei- land, by whofe influence he was imprifoned, diverted of the order of the Garter, and heavily fined. He was reftored to all his honors by Queen Mary, and made Lord Privy Seal. Upon Queen Eliza- beth's acceffion, he retired from the public fervice ""'. His fon Henry, the fecond Lord Paget, who was buried at Drayton in 1569, directed by his will, that a convenient tomb fliould be ereded over the grave of his father and mother, and over his own grave in this church ; but it does not appear that his will in this refpecfl was ever fulfilled. He bequeathed the furniture at Drayton as an heir-loom with the houfe ; and, by a codicil, bearing date 1568, gave all his right and term in certain woods, called Great-hedge, in the pari{h of Ickenham, and the parfonage of Harmondfworth, (after the de- ceafe of his mother,) to fuch as at the time of her deceafe fhould in- herit the manor of Weft Drayton, for the better maintenance of hof- pitality in the manfion there "". " Thomas, fon of the Right Hon. William Lord Paget, baptized " Jan. 12, 1 6 14-5." — He died unmarried, and was buried at Dray- ton, Jan. 4, 1649-50, being then Col. Paget.— Dorothy, daugh- ter of Lord Paget, buried Sept. 27, 1626; the Right Hon. Wil- liam Lord Paget, Aug. 30, 1628; Margaret, daughter of Wil- liam Lord Paget, was married at Drayton to Sir William Hicks, Bart. Sept. 8, 1625. Michael, a fon of this marriage, was baptized at Drayton, Sept. 4, 1634, and buried the next day. Katherine, third '* Collins's Peer.-ige, edit. Ij68, vol. ir. *» Ibid. p. 326. p. 315-324- G daughter 42 DRAYTON. daughter of the faidLord Paget, was married at Drayton, Aug. 19, 1 64 1, to Sir Anthony Irby. Henry, a fon of this marriage, was baptized at Drayton, May 14, 1642, and buried Od. 1643. Philip, fon of Sir Simon Harcourt, by Anne daughter of William Lord Paget, was baptized at Drayton, Dec. 15, 1638; Mary, Mar. 21, 1639-40: fhe was buried the fame day. Walter, fon of Sir Wil- liam Waller, (the celebrated parliamentary General,) by Anne, re- lid of Sir Simon Harcourt, was buried at Drayton, Dec. 3, 1654. " Henry, fon of William Lord Paget, buried Sept. 15, 1635. — " Letitia, his daughter, baptized Sept. 21, 1636." — She married Richard Hampden, Efq. of Hampden. " EfTex, daughter of Lord " Paget, buried Od. 18, 1639; Lady Frances, wife of William " Lord Paget, buried Nov. 12, 1672." — She was eldeft daughter of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland.— " Mrs. Anne, daughter of Wil- " liam Lord Paget, buried Mar. 7, 1673-4; the Right Hon. Wil- " liam Lord Paget, buried Nov. 7, 1678;" William, fon of Henry (afterwards Sir Henry) Afhurft, by Diana, daughter of the faid Lord Paget, was baptized at Drayton, Aug. 16, 1673. — " Frances, " daughter of William Paget, Efq. (afterwards Lord Paget), buried " June 3, 1665; Lady Frances, wife of the Right Hon. Wil- *' liam Lord Paget, buried Nov. 7, 1681 ;" daughter of the Hon. Francis Pierrepont, a younger fon of the Earl of Kingfton. — " Wil- " liam, fon of William Lord Paget, buried Aug. 9, 1684: the " Right Hon. Lady Ifabella Paget, wife of William Lord Paget, and " daughter of Sir Anthony Irby, buried Dec. 18, 1685; William, ♦' fon of the Right Hon. William Lord Paget, by Ifabella, daughter " of Sir Anthony Irby, buried May 17, 1687; ^^^- Elizabeth, " daughter of William Lord Paget, buried May 10, 1694." — Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir Anthony Irby, was buried at Drayton, Feb. 25, 1683-4 ; " Dame Dorothy Irby, widow, buried Od. 28, 1734." " Henry, DRAYTON. 43 *' Henry, fon of the Hon. Henry Paget, Efq." (afterwards Earl of Uxbridge), " buried Nov. 14, 1689; ^^^ Right Hon. Mary, " Countefs of Uxbridge, buried Nov. 9, 1734;" — fhe v^ras daugh- ter and coheir of Thomas Catefby, Efq. and firft wife of Henry Earl of Uxbridge. " Jane, daughter of the Right Hon. Thomas Catefby, Lord " Paget, (fon and heir of the firft Earl of Uxbridge,) buried Feb. " 22, 1718-9; the Hon. George Paget, his fecond fon, April 20, " 1737* the Lady Paget, daughter of Thomas Catefby, Lord Paget, " buried Feb. 26, 1735-6." " TheRightHon. Henry Earl of Uxbridge, buried Nov. 24, 1769." *' Alice, daughter of Grey Lord Chandos, buried Jan. 31, « 1606-7." " Dec. 19, 1629, the wife of Thomas Tothacre was delivered Inftances of " of three male children, of which one being ftill born, was buried dre" at^a* " Dec. 20, the other two having been baptized by the names of '^'"^^" " William and Edward, were both buried Dec. 21." " Frances, Elizabeth, and Agnes, daughters of William Newing- " ton, were baptized Jan. 16, 1 630-1." Elizabeth and Agnes were buried on the 26th, and Frances on the 27th of the fame month. « William, fon of Lord Clifford, buried Sept. 28, 1673." Injlances of Longevity. " Elizabeth Smith, widow, aged 102 years, buried Feb. 26, " 1697-8 ; Margaret Eloy, widow, aged loi, buried March 3, " 1748-9 ; Thomas Baldwin, aged 96, buried March 17, 1762." Sir George Carey, Lord Hunfdon, bequeathed 100 marks of ^"-'"cf^*^- . . . . tions. gold to the poor of this parifh as a ftock, it being one of the four parifhes in which he was ufed to refide. In 1725 the parifli-ftock was laid out in South Sea annuities, being then 220 1. G 2 Mr. 44 DRAYTON. Mr. John Anthill gave 20 s. per annum to the poor of this parilh, charged on an eftate called Palmers. In 1743 the Earl of Uxbridge gave, by will, lool. to the poor, to be diftributed immediately after his death. George Cowdrey in 1745, gave an annuity of 20 s. charged on Mill Clofe, in this parifh, to be laid out in bread for the poor. Elizabeth Countefs of Uxbridge, anno 1747, gave the intereft of I col. Old South Sea annuities, to be divided among ten poor families annually on New Year's-day. [ 45 ] F E L T H A M. IT feems probable that the name of this place was originally ^.t • Feldham; that is, the Field Village, or Village in a Field. Feltham lies in the hundred of Spelthorne, about two miles fouth situation, of the road to Staines, and about thirteen miles from London. The parifh is bounded by Bedfont, Ifleworth, Hanworth, Sunbury, and Boundaries. Afhford. It contains about 1060 acres of cultivated land, of which Quantity of about 900 acres are arable, the remainder pafture. The foil is in ^" ' general gravel ; in fome parts of the parifli loam. The parifh of Feltham is affeffed the fum of 1 18I. 19s. 9d. to the Land-tax. land-tax, which is at the rate of about 2 s. in the pound on land, and IS. 8d. on houfes. *' Earl Morton," (that is, Robert Earl of Mortain in Normandy, The manor. and of Cornwall in England,) fays the furvey of Domefday, " holds " the manor of Feltham taxed at 12 hides. The arable land is 10 " carucates. There are 6 hides in demefne, on which is one " plough ; three more might be employed. The villans have 8 " ploughs. There are 14 villans, who hold a virgate each ; 5 " others who have half a virgate each, and two flaves. There is *' meadow-land equal to 10 carucates, and pafture for the cattle of " the manor. The total value is 61. per annum; when it came into " the Earl's pofleffion it was only 4I. but in the reign of King *' Edward (the Confeflbr) it was 8 1. Two thanes were then feifed of " this manor ; one of them, a fervant of the King, held 5 hides as " a feparate manor; the other, a fervant of Earl Harold, had 7 " hides as a feparate manor alfo, and could alien to whom he " pleafed." The manor of Feltham, for we find that both were united 46 F E L T H A M. united under the Earl of Cornwall, became afterwards the property of Hawife, Countefs of Rumaze, by whom it was given to the hofpital of St. Giles without the bars '. In the year 1537, the warden and brethren of that hofpital furrendered it to King Henry VIII. * Lands, parcel of this manor, were demifed to Nicafius Yetfwert in 1564 and 1584; and other lands, part alfo of the manor, to John Brown in 1564 and 1577 '. In 163 1 the manor itfelf was granted in fee (fub- je£l to a rent of 61. os. 9d.) to Sir Henry Brown and John CllfFe*; who, in 1639, conveyed it to Lord Cottington'. In the year 1670 Charles Cottingon, Efq. fon and heir of Sir Francis Cottington of FonthlU GifFord, (which Sir Francis was fon of Maurice Cottington, Efq. the elder brother of Lord Cottington,) fold the manor and ad- vowfon of Feltham to Sir Thomas Chamber *. Lord Vere Beauclerk having married the co-heir of his fon Thomas Chamber, Efq. on a partition of property, became pofleired of this eftate, which was in- herited by his fon, Aubrey Lord Vere, now Duke of St. Albans. It muft be obferved, that the manor of Feltham, which has defcended by this title, appears to be only nominal, fince it exercifes no ma- nerial rights, the neighbouring manor of Kennington extending its jurifdidion over the whole of this parifh. In 1674 Charles Cottington abovementioned fold an} eftate called Feltham Farm, heretofore called Haubergers, or Lucyes, (which Lord Cottington had purchafed of Nicholas Townley, Efq.) to Francis Philips \ Efq. then lord of the manor of Kennington. This • Diigdale's Monafticon, vol. ii. p. 381. Garrard to Lord Strafford (Strafford Pa- * Records in the Augmentation Office. pers, vol. i. p. 227.), that a dreadful fire 3 Ibid. broke out at Feltham in the month of March ♦ Fee-farm rolls. — Ibid. i634) which deftroyed the manor- houfe be- ' Recital in the deed of 22 Car. II. re- longing to Lord Cottington, 13 dwelling- ferred to in the next note. — It is probable houfes, and 16 barns, being almoft the whole that Sir Henry Brown and Cliffe were only village. The lofs was computed at nearly nominal grantees, as truftees for Lord Cot- joool. tington, who appears to have been the real * CI. 22 Car. II. pt. 2. No. I. proprietor before the conveyance mentioned ^ CI. 26 Car. IL pt. 9. No. 9. above : for we are told in a letter from Mr. farm F E L T H A M. 47 farm it Is fuppofed Is now part of Mr. Hill's property, purchafed of Sir J. C. Mufgrave, Bart. The parifli-church, dedicated to St. Dunftan, is a fmall ftru£lure, PAiifii- confifting of a chancel, nave, and a north aifle. It is built of flint *^ ^'^'^ and ftone, chiefly the lapis compojitiis, commonly called the plumb- pudding ftone. At the weft end is a wooden tower and fpire, almoft covered with ivy ifliiing from a fmgle ftem, eighteen inches in girth. On the north wall of the chancel, under an obtufe gothic arch, is Various mo- an altar tomb to the memory of Stephen Frefshney, vicar, who died Sept. 4, 1496. On the fame wall is the monument of Francis 'Wilkinfon, Efq. (fon of Chriftopher Wilkinfon, Efq. ', of Barmby in Yorkfhire,) who died in 1728. On the fouth wall are the monu- ments of Nathaniel Crewe, Efq.' (fon of Sir Thomas Crewe of Steane, in Northamptonfhire), aged 81, 1688, and Eluzay, wife of the Rev. John Hewit, vicar, 1785. On the floor are the tombs of Sufanna, wife of Charles Rofe, vicar, 17 13, and the Rev. "Walter Griffiths, re£tor of St. John's in the ifland of Barbadoes, and vicar ofFeltham, 1756. In the nave is a tablet in mem.ory of Mrs. Mary Cummings, 1766; Mrs. Ann Burgoyne, 1766; William Bamford, Efq. 1780; Sarah his wife, 1786; John Burgoyne, Efq. 1787; and Thomas Burgoyne, Efq. 1791. In the north aifle (formed by the projedion of the roof on that fide) Is a monument in memory of Nicholas Webb, Efq. 1791 ; Mary his wife, 1781 ; and Anna Maria his daughter, the wife of Charles Le Bas, 1785. In the church-yard are the tombs of the Rev. James Hunter, Tombs In vicar, 1 731; Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Daniel Blake, 1769; Mrs. yard?'"'''" Ifabella Barkley, fpinfter, 1779; John Burgoyne, Efq. 1787; Jane, ' Arms.— Az. a fefle Erminois, between ' Arms. — Az. a lion rampant A. three unicorns A. horned and crined 0. wife 48 F E L T H A M. wife of Mr. John Bell, 1789; and John Evans, Efq. Admiral of the Blue, aged 76, 1794. The reaory. The redory of Feltham was granted with the manor to the hof- pltal of St. Giles (which was a cell to that of Burton St. Lazar, in Leicefterfhire). In 1545, King Henry VIII. being in pofleflion of both, by the furrender of the warden and brethren of the faid hof- pital, granted the redlory (with the advowfon of the vicarage) to John Dudley Vifcount Lifle'"; who, in 1546, conveyed it to John Welbeck and his heirs ". The fame year it appears, that Andrew Bury prefented to the vicarage, as psLtron plem Jure". In 1547 ^'^^ Thomas Cotton was feifed of the redory ". Edward Bufh and Thomafine his wife, prefented to the vicarage, in 1554 and 1555 ; Thomas Hart, leffee of the redory, in 157b' and 1584 ; the execu- tors of Hart, (Walter Gibbs and Elizabeth his wife,) in 1593 ; Walter Gibbs in 1597 and 1599 ; Elizabeth, his relid, in 1616 '*. The redory and advowfon became afterwards the property of Lord Cottington, and fmce his time have paffed through the fame hands as the manor, being now vefted in his Grace the Duke of St. Alban's. The redory was rated in the old valors at 8 1. 135. 4d. per annum, but was exempted from taxation '^ In 1547 ^^ was valued at ill. per annum; in 1650 at 100 1. Vicarage. The vicarage, which is in the diocefe of London, and in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, is rated in the King's books at 8 1. In 1650 it was valued at 13I. 6 s. 8d. Job Iggleton, then vicar, was prefented by Prefident Bradlhaw '*, who was in poffeflion of Lord Cottington's confifcated eftates. '" Records in the Augmentation Office. "* Newcourt, vol. i. p. 603. »' Pat. 37 Hen. VIII. pt. 8. May 10. '>' See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 60. •* Newcourt's repertorium, vol. i. p. 602. ''' Parliamentary furveys in the Arch- •5 Chantry roll in the Augmentation bifliop's library at Lambeth. Office. The F E L T H A M. The prefent vicar Is Alexander Kilgour, D. D. inftltuted in 1798, on the death of John Hewit, M. A. There is no regifter now extant in this parlfh of an older date Parifh than 1635 ; the former regifters having been confumed in the fire ^' "' which happened in 1 634, A few dates of births and burials before that period are fupplied from recolledlion. 49 re- Average of baptifins. Average of burials, 1680-9 — 7t — imperfed 1730-9 — 8 — 7t 1780-9 — "A Ur. 1790-4 - i6| — 14^ 1795-9 - 13^ — 9f Comparative ftate of po- pulation. In 1548 there were in this parifti 85 houjlyng people ". The prefent number of houfes is about 80 ; of inhabitants about 440. ExtraBs from the Reg'i/fer. " Sept. 3, buried William Wynne Ryland, an engraver, who William " was executed at Tyburn for a forgery on the Eaft India Com- Ry^l^d. ** pany, on Friday, Aug. 29, 1783." — This ingenious artift was fon of a copper-plate printer in the Old Bailey. — He was apprentice to Ravenet, and after the expiration of his apprentice- fhip went abroad for improvement in his art, under the aufpices of his godfather. Sir Watkin Williams Wynne. During his refidence at Paris, he gave fuch proofs of the fuperiority of his talents, that he obtained a premium from the Society of Arts and Sciences in London. On his return to England, he was appointed engraver to his Majefty, with a falary of 200 1. per annum, and executed with great ability prints of the King, the Queen, and Loi'd Bute, from *' See note 9, p. 5. H Ramfay's F E L T H A M. Ramfay's paintings. He afterwards embarked in a concern which proved unfortunate, and involved him in difficulties which led to the commiffion of the forgery for which he fufFered. " Ifabella Georgina, daughter of the Right Hon. Lord John " Townfhend, and Georgina Anne his wife, baptized May 5, " 1 79 1." There are no charities belonging to this parifti, nor any en- dowed fchool. [ 51 ] HAMPTON. HAMPTON lies ia the hundred of Spelthorne, being very situation. pleafantly fituated on the banks of the Thames, about 13 miles from London. The parifli is bounded by Tedding- Boundaries. ton, Twickenham, Hanworth, Sunbury, and by the river Thames, which feparates it from Kingfton, Thames Ditton, and Moulfey in Surrey. The quantity of land, exclufive of the parks, I was not able to afcertain. It is chiefly arable, and the foil a light loam in- Soil. termixed with gravel. There is a large common, computed at about 1000 acres, adjoining to Hounflow-heath, of which indeed it appears to form a part. The land-tax in this parifh is collected in three diftrids. That Land-tax. of Hampton town is aflefled the fum of 197 1. 8 s. 2d. which is at the rate of about is. 6d. in the pound for land, and a (hilling for houfes. Hampton Court is aflefled the fum of 2 18I. los. o 4 d. being at the rate of about 2s. in the pound. Hampton-wick is aflefled the fum of loil. IS. yd. which is at the rate of about is. 3d. in the pound. In the year 1180 there was a preceptory at Hampton, in which Preceptory refided a fiftier of the order of St. John. She was removed with of St. John. other fifters of the fame order from preceptories in various places, and they were all fettled in a convent at Buckland in Somer- fetihire '. ' SeeDugdale'sMonafticon, vol. ii. p. 3:45. villages, that Buckland in Somerfetfliire is The county is not mentioned; but it isevi- meant, dent, from the mention of neighbouring H 2 The 52 HAMPTON. The manor. The manor of Hampton is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domef- day : — " Walter Fitzother holds the manor of Hamntone, in the " hundred of Spelthorne, which is taxed at ^5 hides. The arable " land is 25 carucates. There are 18 hides in demefne, on which " are three ploughs. The villans have 17 ploughs, and 5 more " might be employed. There are 30 villans who hold each a vir- " gate ; 1 1 villans who have two hides and a half jointly ; and 4 " bordars who have half a virgate each. The meadow is equal to " three carucates. There is paflure for the cattle of the manor, " and three fhillings arifing from the fifheries in the river Thames. " In the whole, it is valued at 39 1. per annum, when it came into " the pofleflion of the prefent owner at 20I., in King Edward (the " ConfelTor's) reign at 40 1. It was then the property of Earl " Algar." About the beginning of the thirteenth century, this manor was veiled in Joan, relidt of Sir Robert Gray, who gave it to the Knights Hofpitallers of St. John of Jerufalem. Lady Gray died in 1211*. Cardinal Wolfey, who in the early part of King Henry VIII. 's reign, became leflee under the prior of that convent^ furrendered the leafe to the King in 1526 ^ When the order of Knights Hofpitallers was fupprefled, the fee of this manor became vefted in the Crown, to which it has ever fmce continued annexed, except during Cromwell's ufurpation, when it was fold, (July 23, 1 65 1 ,) to John Phelps and others, creditors of the State. The ma- nerial rights were then valued at 21I. 7 s. gd. per annum. The total annual value of the manor and demefne lands was eftimated at 1204I. OS. 4d. ; the purchafe-money was 10,7651. 19s. 9d. * John Phelps is defcribed in the court-rolls as lord of the manor in 1654, Oliver Cromwell in 1657. - Dugdale's Monafticon, vol. H. p. 543. * Particulars of fale. Augmentation Office. » Stow's Annals. Fol. edit. p. 525. la HAMPTON. S3 In the year 1538 an a£l of parliament was pafled for making a Hampton Royal chafe, called Hampton Court chafe, extending over the parifh of Hampton, and feveral pariflies on the Surrey fide of the Thames, all which were inclofed within a wooden paling, and flocked with deer. This was done for the convenience of King Henry VIII. then grown old and corpulent, that he might enjoy his favourite amufement of hunting without the fatigue of going far from home. The inhabitants of the villages within the chafe having been much incommoded and aggrieved by its inclofure, after the King's death petitioned the Lord Protestor and Council for relief, in confequence of which, the following order of Council ' was made : " FoRSOMiCHE as divers complaints and exclamacons have bene " brought a late unto the Lord Protecto^ and others of the Kinges " mat^fs moil honourabill Counsaile, befides divers supplications ex- " hibited unto the Kings most Excellent Ma^.e of many pore men of " the parishes of Walton, Waybridge, Est Molsey, West Molsey, •' Cobeham, Efsher, Byflete, Temsditton, Wisely, Chersham and " Sheperton in the name of theHoll parishes before rehersed, That by e " reason of y making of the late chase of Hampton Court, Forso- *' much as their Comons medows and Pastures be taken in and that " all the same parishes are over laide with the Deere now encreasing *' daly upon them, very many Households of the fame parishes be " lett fall down, y families decayed and the Kings Liege people " miche diminished, the Cuntre thereabout in manner made desolate, " over and besides that, that the King's Ma^.e loseth yearly, " diminished of his yearly Revenues and Rents to a great Summe. " Whereupon the Lord Protedo^ with the rest of his Mat" Counsaile " tendering as well the lamentable complaint of his Mat« subjeds " as the yerely lofse and diminifhing of his Ma*^.^' Rents, have " caused furste a true and diligent survey of the s'j Chase to be ' From an original council book of Edward VI. in the poffeffion of George Chalmers, Efq, " made 54 HAMPTON. " made aswell by William Godewin and John Carleton Esq" to " whom Comifsion was given to examine xxiiij of the moft sub- " stantiali and discrete men who could best make declaracon of the " same according to xvij Articles concerning the said enquiry, e " which were devysed by the Chauncellor and y reft of the Kings u Ma^^^Counsaile of Th'augmentacons to be answered unto of the " faid xxiiij upon their Oathes : As also by an oder and furder En- " quiry made otherwise by view and also Interrogatories ministred " unto them by S"; Anthony Brown kn^ Ma^ of T'horse and chief *' keper of the said Chase who had furder and especiall charge for " the conservacon of the said Chase to knowe & acertain what shuld " be thought in their complaints or supplications not trewe or what " might be espied or knowen wherefore it fhould be convenient why " the same shuld be maynteyned and kept. Upon the full and de- " terminate answer of the which Comlfsions and Interrogatories It " was found That over and besides the hurt and damage the Kings " Ma'^p Subjects, the destruction and lofse of the said parishes and " diminishing of the Kings Ma^fs people, The Kings Ma'.e loseth in XX i d " rents decayed thereby to the yerely value of iiij — iiij — xiiij ob. « And over that is charged with Fees and Annuities and cofts for " Haye and other things to the value of iiij — ^jx- xj • ilj ob. Be- " sides the lofse of the woods and copps which being ones felled " cannot be but with more coft then in manner the fame " is worth — The which things upon mature deliberacon wayed and *' confidered, and That the said Chase was but newly and very lately " erected in the latter dayes of the late King of famous memory when *' his Highnes waxed heavy with sickenes age and corpulency of " body and might not travayle so readily abroad but was conftrained *' to seke to have his Game and Pleasure ready and at hand. — The " which his loving subjects were content for the cumfort and ease *' of his Mat.e to fufFer, trusting of a fufBcient amends or relief to be " had HAMPTON. " had after : And that the Kings Ma'5 that now ys, whom God '* long preserve is not like to take great pleasure in fo " a thing w^h indede is but one Course as it ys now, and fo nere to *' the Forest of Windesore where a great pleasure and a mooste fayre " Chase ys and of long time hath been, fpecially with so myche lofse " and hinderance of his pore subjects, charge of money out of his " Coffres, decay of his Revenue, and chiefly that indede within x " or xij yeres the very pale itfelf besydes reparacon in y mean while " will fo decaye, that y making of the fame a new fhall be import- " able coft and as it is thought in manner not poffible to recover so " much tymbre as may make y pale againe in thefe partes of the " Realme besides other causes moving thereunto. — The Lord Pro- " tedlo': and reft of the Kings Ma^f ^ Counfaile the v^'^ of May in the " ij yere of the Reigne of Our Soveraigne Lord King Edward the vj ♦' etc', in the Counsaile Chambre at Westmynstre, have thought more " for the pleasure of God, the King's honou^ and the preservacon of his " people, & miche more for his Ma'fs proffit to have the same de- " chased with this Proviso That if it fhall please his Ma^e to ufe the " same as a Chase againe, this Order [not] to be had taken or reputed " any prejudice to his Ma^f and fo with one Afsent and consent have " condifcended and agreed and taken that Order That this Summer " so much of the Deere within the said Chase fhall be fpent or put " into the Forest of Windesore or other the Kings Ma^^s Parks as " (hall be moste for his Highnefs profit. And that the Inhabitants " within the said Chase shall kepe the pale from spoyling untill " michaelmas next folowing. The which thing they are content to " take upon them, and have promised to doo upon their cost and " peryl. And that at michaelmas next the s"? Pale fhall be taken " away and transported to the help of other the Kings Ma^f* Parks " and Chaces, and the land therein enclosed and enparked reftored " to the Old Tenants they to pay again their former Rents " which 55 56 HAMPTON. Honour of Hampton Court. " which they paid to the Kings Ma^^.e before th'enclosing of the faid « Chase." In purfuance of this order the deer were removed, and the paling taken down ; but the diftridl which had been inclofed has neverthe- lefs ever fince been confidered as a Royal chafe, and the paramount authority over all game ^ within its limits has been referved by the Crown, being vefted in an officer who is filled Lieutenant and Keeper of his Majefly's Chafe of Hampton Court. In the year 1540 an aft of parliament paffed for creating the manor of Hampton Court, an Honour. Madox in his Baronia Anglica obferves, that it was an Honour of a new fpecies, fmce it had always been the diftinguifhing and effential property of an Honour, that it was an efcheated Barony ; and he adds, that Hamp- ton Court, Ampthill, and Grafton, were the only Honours which had ever been thus created. An Honour, as Madox obferves, is compofed of feveral manors, one of which is the capital feat'. A claufe in the a£t for creating this Honour enadls, that " the " manor of Hampton Court fhall henceforth be the chief and capital " place and part of the faid Honour." The Honour of Hampton Court comprehends within its jurifdidtion the manors of Walton upon Thames,WaltonLegh,Byflete,Weybridge,Weft Moulfey, Eaft Moul- fey,Sandon,Wefton,Imworth,andEfher,Oatlandshoufeanddemefnes, (all in the county of Surrey,) together with all other manors, lands, and tenements, which are within the limits of Hampton Court chafe ; alfo the manors of Hampton, Hanworth, Kennington, * The tenor of the patent which appoints the Lieutenant and keeper of the chafe, grants him alfo the office and keeping of the game of hare, partridge, pheafant, and heron, and all other wild fowl of the river, as well as within his Majefty's own grounds and woods, as in other men's grounds and woods, whatfoever they be, in and about the Honour of Hampton Court and Hounflow- heath, within the county of Middlefex, (that is 10 fay,) from Staines Bridge to Brentford Bridge, with the fee of two fhillings by the day, and alfo twenty-fix fhillings and eight- pence for a livery yearly. ' Madox's Baron. Ang. p. 9, 10. Feltham, HAMPTON. Feltham, and Teddlngton, in the county of Middlcfcx, together with feveral lands and tenements in the faid parifhes \ The office of Chief Steward of the Honour and manor of Hampton Court, and Feodary of the Honour, has been always held with that of Lieutenant and Keeper of the chafe, and they have always been granted to fome of the firft nobility, or chief favourites of the Court. Sir Anthony Browne, Sir Michael Stanhope, William Marquis of Northampton, Charles Earl of Nottingham, and George Duke of Buckingham', held thefe offices in fucceffion previoufly to 1628, when Chriftopher Villiers, Earl of Anglefey, was appointed ". On his death, in 1630, a grant was made to James, Marquis (afterwards Duke) of Hamilton ". Thomas Smithefby Keeper of the Privy Seal to Cromwell, and Nathaniel Waterhoufe, Efq. appear to have held thefe offices under his Proteftorate '\ General Monk was ap- pointed in March 1660, and afterwards (when Duke of Albemarle) confirmed by Charles II. '^ After his death they were beftowed upon the Duchefs of Cleveland, who held them in the name of her truftee, William Young, Efq. '* The Duchefs dying in 1709, they were granted to Charles Earl of Halifax ", and under renewed grants '*, were held by George Earl of Halifax, his nephew, who died in 1739, and his fon George, the laft Earl of Halifax, who died in 1771. They were then granted for life to Anne, Lady North, afterwards Countefs of Guildford ; upon whofe death, in Jan. ' The fee of the office of Lieutenant and '" Pat. 4 Car. pt. i. No. 3. Keeper of the chafe is lol. per annum— the " Pat. 6 Car. pt. 13. July z. fee of Chief Steward of the Honour 61. 13 s. '^ Waterhoufe is mentioned as Chief 4d. the fee of Feodary of the Honour 3 1. Steward in the Court Rolls, and Smithefty 6 s. 8 d. is known to have been principal houfckeeper 9 All mentioned in the recital of the grant ^'t Hampton Court, an office always held to the Earl of Anglefey. William Browne, with the ftewardlhip of the Honour, fccond fon of Sir Anthony, appears to have " Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 23. No. t. been joined with his father in thefe offices, '■' Pat. 29 Car. II. pt. 3. No. 7. as was Sir Edward Howard with the Earl of '' Pat. 8 Anne, pt. l. No. ?. Nottingham. >«■ Pat. 2 Geo. I. and Pat 3 Geo. 11. I 1797. 57 58 HAMPTON. Hampton Court Palace. 1797, they were given to his Royal Highnefs "William Duke of Clarence. After Cardinal Wolfey became poflefled of the leafe of the manor of Hampton, " he beftowed (fays Stow) great coft of building upon " it, converting the manfion-houfe into fo- flately a palace, that it is " faid to have excited much envy ; to avoid which, in the year " 1526, he gave it to the King, who, in recompence thereof, " licenced him to lie in his manor of Richmond at his pleafure ; and " fo he lay there at certain times "." It appears that Cardinal Wolfey after this occafionally inhabited Hampton Court (as keeper perhaps of the King's palace) ; for in 1527, when fome French Am- bafladors were in England, the King willing that they fhould be treated with the greateft refpe^O:, fent them to be entertained by Cardinal Wolfey at Hampton Court. The following account" of the entertainment will give the reader an idea of the magnificence of A^bff^d"'^'^ that prelate's eftablifhment : " Then was there made great prepara- there. « tion of all things for this great aflembly at Hampton Court j the " Cardinall called before him his principal officers, as fleward, trea- furer, controller, and clerk of his kitchen, to whom he declared his mind touching the entertainment of the Frenchmen at Hamp- ton Court, commanding them neither to fpare for any coft, ex- pence, or travayle, to make fuch a triumphant banquet as they might not only wonder at it here, but alfo make a glorious report of it in their country, to the great honour of the King and. " his realm ; to accomplifh his commandment they fent out caters, ** purveiors, and divers other perfons, my Lord's friends, to make *' preparation ; alfo they fent for all the expert cookes and connyng *' perfons in the art of cookerie which were within London or Cardinal VVolfey's en- tertainment of the French «( «( i( " Stow's Annals. Fol. p. 525. MSS. No. 42S.], much of which Is omitted '" Taken from a MS. copy of Cavendifh's In the printed copies. life of Wolfey in the Britifh Mufeum [Harl- ** elfewhere. HAMPTON. 59- elfewhere, that might be gotten to beautify this noble feaft ; the purveiors provided, and my Lord's friends fent in fuch provifion as one would wonder to have feen. The cookes wrought both day and night with futtleties and many crafty devices, where lacked neither gold, filver, nor other coftly thing meet for their purpofe: the yeomen and groomes of the wardrote were bufied in hanging of the chambers, and furnifhing the fame witU beds of filk and other furniture in every degree : then my Lord Cardinall fent me (Mr. Cavendifh) being his gentleman ufher, with two other of my fellows thither, to forefee all thing touching our rooms'to be nobly garnyfhed : accordingly our pains were not fmall nor light, but daily travelling up and down from chamber to cham- bers — then wrought the carpenters, joiners, mafons, and all other artificers neceflary to be had to glorify this noble feaft. There was carriage and recarriage of plate, fluff, and other rich imple- ments, fo that there xvas nothing lacking that could be imagined or devifed for the purpofe. There was alfo provided two hun- dred and eighty beds furniflied with all manner of furniture to them belonging, too long particularly to be rehearfed, but all wife men do fufficiently know v\?hat belongeth to the furniture thereof, and that is fufficient at this time to be faid." *' The day was come to the Frenchmen afllgned, and they ready affembled before the hour of their appointment, wherefore the of- ficers caufed them to ride to Hanworth, a place and parke of the Kinges, within three miles, there to hunt and fpend the day untill night, at which time they returned againe to Hampton Court, and every of them was conveyed to their feverall cham- bers, having in them great fires, and wine to their comfort and relief, remaining there untill their fupper was ready. The cham- bers where they fupped and banquetted were ordered in this fort : firft the great wayting chamber was hanged with rich arras, as all other were, and furniftied with tall yeomen to ferve. There were I 2 « fee 6o HAMPTON. ** fet tables round about the chamber, banquetwlfe covered ; a cup- *' boord was there garnifhed with white plate, having alfo in the " fame chamber to give the more light, four great plates of filver " fet with great lights, and a great fire of wood and coales. The " next chamber, being the chan>ber of prefence, was hanged with " very rich arras, and » fumptuous cloth of eftate furnifhed with " many goodly gentlemen to ferve the tables, ordered in manner as *' the other chamber was, faving that the high table was removed ** beneath the cloth of eftate toward the middeft of the chamber " covered. Then there was a cupboord, being as long as the cham- *' ber was in breadth, with fix defkes of height, garnyflied with guilt " plate, and the nethermoft defk was garnyjlied all with gold plate, " having with lights one paire of candleftickes of filver and guilt, " being curioufly wrought, which coft three hundred markes, and " ftanding upon the fame, two lights of waxe burning as bigge as *' torches to fet it forth. This cupboord was barred round about, *' that no man could come nigh it, for there was none of all this " plate touched in this banquet, for there was fufficient befides. " The plates that did hang on the walls to give light were of filver " and guilt, having in them great pearchers of waxe burning, a " great fire burning in the chimney, and all other things necefl'ary " for the furniture of fo noble a feaft. Now was all things in a *' readinefs, and fupper tyme at hand, the principal officers caufed " the trumpetters to blow to warne to fupper : the officers difcreet- *' ly went and conduced thefe noblemen from their chambers into " the chambers where they fliould fuppe, and caufed them there to *' fit downe, and that done their fervice came up in fuch abundance " both coftly and full of futtleties, and with fuch a pleafant noyfe of " inftruments of muficke, that the Frenchmen (as it feemed) were " rapt into a heavenly paradife. You muft underftand that my " Lord Cardinal! was not yet comen thither, but they were merry " and pleafant with their fare and devifed futtleties. Before the " fecond HAMPTON. Ci " fecond courfe my Lord came in, booted and fpurred, all fodainely " amongft them, and bade them preface " ; at whofe coming there " was great joy, with rifmg every man from his place, whom my *' Lord caufed to fit ftill and keep their roomes, and being in his ap- " parell as he rode, called for a chayre and fat down in the middcft *' of the high paradife, laughing and being as merry as ever I faw *' hym in all my lyff. Anone came up the fecond courfe, with " fo many difhes, futtleties and devifes, above a hundred in num- *' ber, which were of fo goodly proportion and fo coflly, that I " thinke the Frenchmen never faw the like, the wonder was no lefs " than it was worthy indeed. There were caftles with images, in " the fame Paul's church, for the quantity as well counterfeited as " the painter fhould have painted it on a cloth or wall. There were *' hearts, birds, foules, and perfonages, moft lykely made and " counterfeited, fome fighting with fwords, fome with guns and " crofs-bows, fome vaughting and leaping, fome dauncing with *' ladies, fome on horfes in complete harneffe, jufting with long *' and fharpe fpeares, with many more devifes. Among all, one " I noted was a chefle-boord, made of fpiced plate, with men " there of the fame, and for the good proportion, and becaufe " the Frenchmen be very cunning and expert in that play, my " Lord Cardinall gave the fame to a gentleman of France, com- *' manding there fhould be made a goodly cafe for the prefervation " thereof in all haft, that he might convey the fame fafe into his ** countrey. Then tooke my Lord a bole of golde filled with Ipo- " craffe, and putting off his cap, faid, I drinke to the King, my *' Soveraigne Lord, and next unto the King your mafter, and there- " with did dryncke a good draught ; and when he had done, he " defired the ground maij}re to pledge him, cup and all, the which *' was well worth 500 markes, and fo caufed all the boords to pledge *9 An obfolete French term of falutation, the word Prou. The Italians had Profaccia abridged from Bon prou vous face, i. e. much from Buon pro vifaccia, good may it do you. See Cotgrave under thefe 62 HAMPTON. " thefe two Royal Princes : then went the cups fo merrily about, " that many of the Frenchmen were faine to be led to their beds, " Then rofe up my Lord, and went into his privy chamber to pull " off his bootes, and to fhift him, and then went he to fupper, and " making a very fhort fupper, or rather a repaft, returned into the " chamber of prefence to the Frenchmen, ufmg them fo lovingly " and familiarly, that they could not commend him too much ; and " whileft they were in communication, and other paftimes, all their " liveries were ferved to their chambers ; every chamber had " a bafon and an ewer of filver, a great liverey pot of filver, and *' fome guilt ; yea, and fome chambers had two liverey pots, with " wine and beere, a boule, a goblet, and a pot of fylver to drink *'• in, both for their wine and beere ; a filver candlefticke both white " and plaine, having in it two fizes, and a ftaffe torche of waxe, a " fine manchet, and a cheat loaf. Thus was every chamber fur- " niftied through the houfe ; and yet the cupboords in the two ban- " queting chambers were not touched. Thus when it was more " than time convenient, they were conveyed to their lodgings, where *' they refted that night. In the morning, after they had heard *' mafs, they dined with the Cardinall, and fo departed to Windfor." Principal Henry the Eighth added confiderably to Cardinal Wolfey's build- events con- , r ' t iiedted with ings, as appears by the preamble to the a£t for creatmg the Honour Comp^alace. of Hampton Court, which ftates, that " it had pleafed the King of " late to erei^:, build, and make a goodly, fumptuous, beautiful, *' and princely manour, decent and convenient for a King, and to " ornate the fame with parks, gardens, and orchards, and other *' things of great commoditie and pleafure thereto adjoyning, meet " and pertinent to his Royal Majefty." In the latter part of his reign it became one of his principal refidences. S'^'^ °f,.r Edward VI. was born at Hampton Court, on the I2th of Odober Edwai-d VI. '■ Death of I537» ^^'1 l"s mother Queen Jane Seymour died there on the 14th Jane Sey- of incur. HAMPTON. 6j of the fame month ". Her corpfe was conveyed to Windfor by- water, where fhe was buried the 12th of November. On the 8th of Auguft 1540, Catherhie Howard was openly fliewed as Queen at Hampton Court ". Catherine Parr was married to tlie Marii:!ge of King at this palace, and proclaimed Queen on the 1 2th of July p^rr, &c. ''543"' ^^^ brother, WiUiam Lord Parr, was created Earl of Effex, and her uncle, Sir William Parr, Lord Parr, at Hampton Court on the 24th of December following ^^ : the King was then about to keep his Chriftmas at this palace ; where, during the holi- days, he received Francis Gonzaga, the Viceroy of Sicily**. Edward the Sixth being at Hampton Court in 1551, created the Marquis of Dorfet, Duke of Suffolk, and the Earl of Warwick, Duke of Northumberland ". PhiHp and Mary kept their Chriftmas at Hampton Court with great folemnity in 1558. " The great hall " of the palace was illuminated with 1000 lamps curioufly difpofed; " the Princefs Elizabeth fupped at the fame table with the King and *' Queen, next the cloth of ftate, and after fupper was ferved with " a perfumed napkin and plate of confedls by the Lord Paget ; but " fhe retired to her ladies before the revels, mafkings and difeuifino-s *' began. On St. Stephen's day fhe heard matins in the Queen's " clofet, when fhe was attired in a robe of white fatin, ftrung all " over with large pearls. On the 29th of December, fhe fat with " their Majefties and the nobility at a grand fpedlaclc of juftino-, " when 200 fpears were broken. Half of the combatants were ac- " coutred in the Almaine, and half in the Spanifh fafhion ". Queen Elizabeth after fhe came to the throne frequently refided at Hampton Court. She kept her Chriftmas there in 1572 ", and again in 1593 ". ^o Stow's Annals, folio, p. 575. '' Stow's Annals, quarto, p. 1022-.' " Ibid. p. 581. »6 Queen Elizabeth's ProgrefTes, anno. »* Ibid. 584. 1 ,154, p. 21, 22. " ^^'^- 5«6- »7 Ibid. an. 1572. p. 30. " Hollinfhed's Chronicle, vol, ili.p. 961. ^ Ibid. an. 1593, p. i. On 64 HAMPTON. Hampton Qn the 14th of January 1603-4, began the celebrated conference be- fereuce. tween the Pi-efbyterians and the members of the eftablifhed Church, held before King James as moderator, in a withdrawing-room within the privy chamber at Hampton Court, on the fubje£t of conformity. The Divines who appeared on the part of the prefbyterians, were Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Sparks ; Mr. Knewftubs and Mr. Chaderton : on the part of the eftablifhed Church, Archbifhop Whitgift, Bifhops Bancroft, Matthew, Bilfon, Babington, Rudd, Watfon, Robinfon, and Dove ; Drs. Andrews, Overall, Barlow, Bridges, Field, King, &c. All the Lords of the Council were prefent, and fpoke occa- fionally on the fubjedl of the conference, which lafted three days. In confequence of this conference a new tranflation of the Bible was ordered, and fome alterations made in the Liturgy '". King Charles L retired to Hampton Court on account of the plague in 1625, when a proclamation was publiflied prohibiting all communication between London, Southwark or Lambeth, and this place ^°. On the nth of July that year, Paul Rozencrantz, Am- baflador from Denmark, had his audience at Hampton Court ". The Marquis of Bleinville, Ambaflador from France, about the fame time, being very defirous of refiding during his attendance on the Court in this palace, his petition, fupported by the earneft requeft of the Queen, was at length, with much reluctance, granted ; for it was contrary to ufage for an Ambaflador to be lodged in any of the Royal Palaces. The lodgings afligned him " were all thofe *' next the river, in the garden, which were fometimes the Lady *' Elizabeth's"." On the 21ft of September, an Ambaflador from Denmark had his audience in the prefence at Hampton Court, although the chapel had been originally afl!igned for it ". About the fame time, an Ambaflador from Bethlem Gabor, Prince of Tran- *' Fuller's Church Hiftory, B. x. p. 21. '' Sir John Finet's Philoxenes, p. i6b'. '" Rymer's F^edera, vol. xviii. p. 198. " Ibid. p. 185. ^' Sir John Finet's Plulo.xenes, p. 181. filvania, HAMPTON. 65 filvania, had his audience. " He was received by Lord Comptou " at the fecond gate, and there turning up the great flairs through " the great hall and guard-chamber, the King was already under the " the State in the Privy Chamber expeding him ^\" On the i ith of Odober the fame year, Monf. de Baflampierre, Amballador from France, was carried through the great hall to his audience in the prefence chamber, where the King and Queen ftood under the State to receive him ". Charles I. was brought by the army to Hampton r '-'J J r Imprifnn- Court, on the 24th of Auguft 1 647. Here he refided in a ftate of ment and fplendid imprifonment, being allowed to keep up the ftate and re- CharL i. tinue of a Court, till the ilth of November, when he made his efcape, accompanied by Sir John Berkeley, Mr. Afhburhham, and Mr. Lcgge '\ It has already been mentioned, that the Honour and Palace of Hampton Court were fold in 1651 to John Phelps and others, cre- ditors of the ftate; but previoufly to 1657, '"^^ came into the poflef- fion of Cromwell, who made the palace one of his principal rcfi- Reildence of dences. On the i8th of November in that year, his daughter Eliza- ^''"°'""'«''' beth's marriage with Thomas Lord Falconberg was publicly folem- nized there ". His favourite child, Mrs. Claypoole, died there on the 6th of Auguft in the following year, and was conveyed with great funeral pomp to Weftminfter Abbey ". This palace was occafionally inhabited by Charles IL and James Refidcnce of IL : King William, who was very partial to the fituation, and re- w'il'jiLimlll fided much at Hampton Court, pulled down a great part of the old ^'^• palace, which then confifted of five quadrangles ", and employed Sir Chriftopher Wren to build on its fite the Fountain Court, which '* Sir John Finet's Philoxenes, p. 187. '' Noiden, fpeaking of the old palace, '* Ihid. fays, " It is admirable to confider the « Clarendon's Hift. of the Rebellion. Fol. " mighty and huge buildings, and the miilti- vol. iii. p. 59. a ^yjgj „f fjj.;^,. jj^gj.g diipofed."— Nordeii's ^7 Noble's Memoirs of the Cromwells, ^SS. in the Britilh Mufeum. vol. I. p. 1.13. ^^ Ibid. vol. i. p. [ 5fj. K contains 66 'HAMPTON. contains the ftate apartments. Queen Anne (being the Princefs of Denmark) was brought to bed of the Duke of Gloucefter at Hamp- ton Court, July 24, 1689. She refided there occafionally after her acceffion to the Throne, as did her two fucceflbrs George I. and George II. but the palace has never been inhabited by his prefent Majefty. His Serene Highnefs the Prince of Orange having quitted his own dominions, in the month of January 1795, in confequence of the revolution which then took place in Holland, found an afylum in this palace, where he ftill refides with his family. Defcription Hampton Court Palace, in its prefent ftate, confifts of three prin- ottbc Palace. , ^ ' *^ . , _ ^ cipal quadrangles. The annexed ground-plan wall give fome idea of its extent, in which, as well as in magnificence, it exceeds any of the Royal Palaces. The weftern quadrangle, or entrance court, is 167 feet 2 inches from north to fouth, and 141 feet 7 inches from eaft to weft. It is divided into feveral fuites of apartments, which are occupied by private families, having grants for life from the Crown. The middle quadrangle meafures 133 feet 6 inches from north to fouth, and 91 feet 10 inches from eaft to weft : it is called the Clock Court, from a curious aftronomical clock which is placed ever the gkteway on the eaft fide. On the fouth fide is a colonnade fup- ported by pillars of the Ionic order, defigned by Sir Chriftopher Wren. This, and the weft fide of the quadrangle, are occupied by private families ; the eaft fide by the Prince of Orange and his fuite. The Hall. On the north fide is the great hall. As this room does not appear to be defcribed in Cavendilh's account of Cardinal Wolfey's reception of the French Ambafiadors, it is moft probable that it was part of King Henry's building. It certainly was not finifhed till 1536 or 1537, as appears from the initials of the King and Jane Seymour, joined by a truelover's knot, amongft the decorations. This room is 106 feet in length, and 40 in breadth. The rich gothic roof, which is feen in the annexed plate, is ornamented with the arms and cog- nizances of Henry the Eighth. This T/jr f/(f// (>/' //<(////j/r// ('('///■/ JVi/ffcc . J)iNuhr,1J,mf:.'i!i^'. hvTuuirUJm'X. HUknvv. Ih/z/'/r/'/' /// l/.ic ILi/i I'/' IL(////>i(t.-2 & 3 G. a chief in- tween three pellets -on a chief G. a lion ^'="^«'^ O. — Grovall — impahng, A. two paffant O. This monument was put up t)ars G. on a bend O. a torteaux between by Sackville Mafon, .who married Alice, two leopards' faces Az. daughter of Nicholas Pigeon, Efq. relid HAMPTON. 79 relld of WlHiam Houblon, Efq. 1741 ; Theophilus Dillingham, M. A. (fon of Theophilus Dillingham, Efq.) 1743; Thomas Ripley, Efq. Controller of the Board of Works, 1758 ; and Thomas Salter of Hampton Court, 1761. On the fouth pillar of the nave are the monuments of Richard Pluckinton, 1712 ; and Mrs. Ann Cole, 1765. On the weft wall, that of Henry Cooper, Gent, clerk of the works at Hampton Court, 1687. On the floor, are the tombs of James Darell, Efq. chief clerk of the Spicery, (third fon of John Darell of Caile Hill, Kent), 1638; he married Catherine, daughter of Robert Waide, Gent, j Thomas Smithefby, Efq. of the Inner Temple, Fellow of All Souls' College, in Oxford, and Privy Seal to the Protector, 1655; ^^^ Rev. Robert Jones, redlor of Catcot, in the parifh of Morlich, So- merfetfhire, 1709; Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Colonel Edward Montagu, by Arabella, daughter of John Morley Trevor, Efq. 1726; and the Rev. Daniel Chandler, ledurer, 1791. On the eaft wall of the north aifle is the monument of George Epitaph of Tilfon, Efq. with the following infcription : — " Hand procul ab ^1°''^^ '^''' " hoc marmore juxta chariflimse conjugis reliquias, fuas jacere voluit " Georgius Tilfon, Arm. vir fummx eruditionis, fummx morum " integritatis, et (quod feculo hoc infideli taceri non debet) vere " Chriftianus. Erat ille Uteris Hebraicis, Grsecis, et Latinis, penitus " imbutus. In Italica interim, Gallica et Germanica Unguis idem " verfatifllmus. Hifce adjumentis inftrudtus, altero e fummis regni " fecretariis a fecretis fubftitutus eft, quod munus cum laude fimul " ac dignitate per 31 continues adminiitravit annos. Indefeffhs erat " induftrlx, et provinciam quam nadlus eft ornavit habili negotiis " expendendis ingenio, nee minus apud fuos erat amabilis quam " reipublicsE utilis : erga liberos et maxima prudentia et fumma fe " geffit lenltate, quos femper fibl obfequentes habult non metu fed " paterno amore. Quam miferlcors in egenos effet, largis muneri- " bus, dum viveret, teftatus eft, multorum etiam neceflltatlbus Ita " fubvenit So HAMPTON. " fubvenit ut paupertati fimul et pudori confulerat, et dum plurlmis " benefaceret ei cura erat ut Deo magis quam hominlbus placeret. " Ob. 17 Nov. anno falutis 1738, act. 66." — On the fame wall are the monuments of Richard Tickell, Efq. *°, 1793> and Richard Cumberland, Efq. *' (fon of the celebrated dramatic writer), who married Albinia, daughter of George Earl of Buckinghamfhire, 1794. On the north wall is the monument of Anne, wife of George Tilfon, Efq. ^% 1730 ; and a tablet in memory of John Beard, the celebrated vocal performer, with the following infcription : Epitaph of *' How vain the monumental praife, John Beard. « Our partial friends devife ! " While trophies o'er our duft they raife, " Poetic fiflions rife. " Say what avails, if good or bad " I now am reprefented, " If happily the faults I had " Sincerely were repented. " A friend or wife, or both in one, " By love, by time endear'd, « Shall banifh falfehood from the ftone " That covers her John Beard." « He died the 4th of February 1791, aged 74 years." Underneath is the mufic of " When thou tookeft upon thee," from the « TeDeum." '* Arms— Quarterly, I & 4.— A Maunch ''' Arms— A chevron S. in chief three 2 & 3. — Erm.cn a chevron between three wolves' heads erafed, impaling Hobart. cfcallops — as many efcallops — on an efcut- :o Arms — O. on a bend cottifed between cheon of pretence, a chevron between three two garbs Az. a mitre of the field, impaling horfes' heads couped and bridled. O. a griffin fegreant S. within a border G. On HAMPTON. 8i On the fame wall is the monument of Cyrus Maigre, Efq. 1792, and that of David Garrick, Efq/' (nephew of the incomparable a£tor of that name), with the following infcription from the pen of Mrs. Hannah More : — " Near this place are depofited the remains of Epitaph of . * * David Gar- *' David Garrick, Efq. who died Oil. i, 1795, aged 41 years, rick.jun. " In all the endearing charadlers of domeftic life, friend, relation, *' and hufband, he was moft amiable ; pleafmg in his manners, and " faithful in his attachments : he was no lefs loved during his life, " than regretted at his death. In a long and painful illnefs his *' patience did not forfake him ; and as he fuftered, fo he died, in " humble refignation to the will of God." On the eaft wall of the fouth aifle are the monuments of James Marriott, Efq. ", wardrobe-keeper, who married Anne, daughter and co-heir of Henry Haughton, of Kent, 171 1 ; Richard Marriott, Efq. his fon and fuccelTor, 1721 ; Mrs. Catherine Proger (daughter and heir of the Hon. Edward Proger ", page of honour to Charles I.), 1 7 13; and one by Sir Henry Cheere, to the memory of Mrs. Sufanna Thomas '*, only daughter and heir of Sir Dalby Thomas» Knt. Governor of the African Company's fettlements, by Dorothy, daughter of John Chettle of Blandford, 1731. On the fouth wall are the monuments of Sarah, wife of John "Witt, 17 19; Edward Ball, 1702 ; Mrs. Frances Ball" (daughter of Edward Watts of Hertfordfhire), 1704 ; and Sir Robert Carr, Bart. '°, 1791. Sir Robert married to his iirft wife Grace, daughter '' Arms — Per pale O. & Az. on the dex. ^+ Arms — Quarterly, i & 4. Three chev- ter fide a tower G. on the finiller a fea- rons — 2 & 3. — Barry wavy of fix, impaling horfe of the fecond : on a chief of the firfl O. three fpiders Az. — Chettle. two mullets of the fecond, impaling — Per " Arms — A. lion rampant S. on an efcut- chevron G. & Az. three harts tripping Ar. cheon of pretence, A. two bars Az. in chief two and one.— Hart.— Mrs. Garrick was three pellets.— Watts. daughter of Percival Hart, Efq. '* Arms— G. on a chevron A. three mul- ,, « Ti c r m t o • 1- lets of the field — impaling — i. Erm. on a 7* Arms— Barry of fix, O. & S. impaling ^ ,,. -, , , , ,0 „,,,.., i o j(_,j|g engrailed between three martlets t>. as b. three bars A. — Haughton. , ^ r.i c 11 t>- ° _ many annulets or the held. — Bigge. 7' So fpelt on the tomb; in the grant _ n -n j n 1 r» 1 > ' ' ^ 2. S. a pillar ducally crowned O. between p. 74. in the parifh regifter, and in his own t^.^ ^j^gj expanded and joined to the bafe, papers, it is Progers. — Arms — Per pale Az. of the laft. —Little. Sc Gul. three lions rampant A. M of 82 HAMPTON. of Thomas Bigge, by whom he had one daughter, married to Sir Richard Glyn, Bart. Alderman of London and M. P. His fecond wife was Mary Little, by whom he had one daughter, Mary, married to William Parker Hamond, Efq. On the north pillar of this aifle is the monument of Sarah, wife of John Cooper, 1702 ; on the floor are the tombs of Matthew Bankes, Efquire of the body, 1706; Henry Wife, Efq. 1778; and Jolhua Glover, Efq. 1783. Againft the eaft wall of a fchool-room, which is attached to the north fide of the chancel, are (on the outfide) the monuments of Mrs. Mary Staunton, 1732; Mrs. Frances Witherley, 1732; and Mrs. Rebecca Love, aged 92, 1741. Againft the fouth wall of the church, on the outfide, is a memorial for Huntington Shaw of Nottingham, who is called " an artift in " his own way." He died in 17 10, aged 51. Tombs in In the church-yard are the tombs of Richard Cafwell, Efq. 1646 ; yard. ^'^'^ ' Mary, his reli£l, daughter of Richard Slaney, 1664; William Mar- riott, apothecary, 1721; Sufanna, relidl of Richard Webfter, Efq. 1726; Rowland Davies, apothecary, 1739 ; Elizabeth, wife of George Lowe, 1744; Catherine, wife of Sir John Delange, Knt. 1750 ; John Turner, Efq. ftanding wardrobe-keeper of the privy lodgings, 1753; Caroline, wife of Thomas Ryder, Gent. 1754; Mr. George Palmer, 1758 ; Mary, wife of Capt. Francis Gildart, 1768; James Compton, Efq. (fourth fon of General Compton), thirty years a captain and Commiffioner of the Navy, 1 775 ; Stephen Wright, Efq. 1780 ; Mrs. Hannah Brown, (mother of Mrs. Wright,) aged 103 years, 1785 ; Anne, daughter of Captain Henry Walfh, 1781 ; Thomas Rofoman, Efq. (many years proprietor of Sadler's Wells), 1782 ; John Seeker, Efq. 1785 ; Richard DIckfon Lillington, LL.D. reader and preacher at the Royal Chapel, prebendary of Sarum, and vicar of Leigh, in Kent, 17S6; Mary, daughter of Thomas Bailey, Efq. of Derbyfhite, and wife of Richard Bowater, Efq. of War- wickftiire. HAMPTON. 83 wickfliire, 1 790 ; John Raincock, Efq. 1 790 ; Alexander Stiell, Efq. 1792; Clark Winchefter, Efq. aged 92, 1793; Mary, relidl of William Banks, Efq. of Badminton, in Gloucefterfhire, 1 794 ; Mr. Charles Banks, her fon, 1 795 ; John Greg, Efq. 1 795 ; and the Right Hon. Mary Countefs of Catherlough, 1795. The church of Hampton was appropriated to the Abbey of St. The reflory. Waleric, in Picardy, the Abbot of which houfe, about the latter end of the fourteenth century, obtained the King's licence to alien it to the warden and fcholars of Winchefter college ". In the year 1544, King Henry VIII. procured this redory, with the advowfon of the vicarage, by an exchange ". In 1546 the redtory was leafed to Richard Bennet; and in 1562 to Edmund Pigeon, and Joan his wife, at the rent of 5I. per annum". King James in 1607 granted it in fee (with the advowfon of the vicarage) to Michael Cole and John Rowden'", by whom it was conveyed to Edmund Pigeon, the lelTee (grandfon of Edmund above-mentioned). Elizabeth and Frances, lifters and co-heirs of Edmund Pigeon the younger, having married Nightingale Kyme, Efq. and Samuel Dorman merchant, held this redtory in moieties. The whole became eventually vefted in the Dormans, and was again divided between the two co-heirs of Samuel and Frances Dorman, one of whom, Frances the wife of Francis Clarke, fold her moiety in 1675 to John Jones, Efq. who in 1684 purchafed the other moiety of Mrs. Mary Dorman, fpinfter. Mr. Jones, by his will, bearing date 1692, bequeathed the glebe and rectorial tithes to charitable ufes for the benefit of this parifli ", as will be more particularly ftated in the account of bene- fadtions. The advowfon of the vicarage which was referved, came 7' See the King's licence, Cart. Ant. '' Leafes, ibid. Augmentation Office. — E. 64. — Deed of "" Pat. 5 Jac. I. pt. 26. Apl. 4. alienation, E. 63. «. Title deeds in the parilh cheft. '^ Records in the Augmentation Office. M 2 into 84 HAMPTON. Vicarage. Samuel Croxall vicar. into the hands of the Crown, by purchafe as it is fuppofed, between the years 1700 and I7i4'\ In the ancient taxations this redory was rated at 20 marks ". In 1650 it was valued at 45 1. per annum. It is now about 150 1. The vicarage, which is in the diocefe of London, and in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, in the King's books is rated at lol. In 1650 it was valued at 65 1. per annum, including the penfions then payable, and 18 acres of glebe °*. There was anciently a ftipend of 36 1. is. 8 d. arifing from cer- tain rent-charges on houfes in London, payable to the vicar of Hampton "'. King Henry VIII. granted a penfion of 2I. 15 s. to the vicar, in lieu of certain tithes due from the manor of Hampton Court '*. King James in 1620 granted to William Maynfton, vicar of Hampton, and his fucceflbrs, a penfion of 26I. 13 s. 4d. (40 marks), in lieu of the tithes of fome lands then inclofed in the park, and for 14 acres and one rood of glebe-land, with fome cottages then alfo inclofed ^\ Newcourt mentions another a penfion of lol. per annum due to the vicar out of Kennington (now Kempton park), for the tithes of inclofed lands, but the vicar receives now only 2I. 2s. per annum. The prefent vicarage-houfe was built at the expence of Mrs. Sufanna Thomas, who died in 1731 '\ Samuel Croxall inftituted to this vicarage in 17 14, became after- wards Chancellor and canon refidentiary of Hereford, and Arch- deacon of Salop. He diftinguifhed himfelf during the reign of Queen Anne as a writer in the Whig intereft ; he was author alfo of a well known edition of iEfop's Fables, and a dramatic piece called the Fair Circaflian ". '^ It was in private patronage in 1700, when Newcourt publiflied his Repertorium ; in 1 7 14 the Crown prefented/«o Jur^. " See Harl. MSS. Brit. IMuf. No. 60. ** Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- bifhop's library at Lambeth. ^i Cart. Antiq. in the Augmentation Office, B. b. 53. ** Newcourt's Repertorium, vol, ''7 Pat. 18 Jac pt. 5. Sept. 26. "* Parifh regifter. ^' Biograph. Dramat. i. p. 622. No. 14. The HAMPTON. 8s The prefent vicar is the Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellefley, in- ftituted in 179S, on the death of Abraham Blackborne, who died in the month of December preceding, having been vicar thirty-four years. Divine fervice is regularly performed in the chapel at Hampton chapd in Court Palace. The ancient ftipend of the chaplain is 61. Ms. 4.d. ^^'''^ijr," The prefent chaplain is the Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellefley, vicar of Hampton. The earlieft date of the regifter of baptifms, marriages, and burials Parifh in this parifh is 1554. "^^s"^^'- Comparative ftate of po- pulation. Average of baptifms. Average of burials 1580-9 — lol lot 1630-9 — 22 A 18 1680-9 — 27^ — imperfect 1730.9 — 32A — 487 1780-4 43t — 567 1784-9 — 36i — 49 1790-4 — 42 — 521 1795-9 — 49 — S3t In 1548 there were 230 hotijlyng people in this parifh '% the prefent number of houfes is about 350, of which about 190 are in Hampton town, about 120 at the Wick, and about 40, excluilve of the palace, at Hampton Court. The number of inhabitants may be calculated at about 1950, exclufive of thofe who are refi dent in the palace. In 1603 there were 121 perfons buried in this parifh, 99 of Plague whom are faid to have died of the plague. In 1625 the parifh was ^^'^^^' fo free from this fatal diflemper, that the King removed hither as to a place of fecurity, and a proclamation was iffued to prevent any intercourfe between London and Hampton Court. It appears never- *" Chantry roll in the Augmentation Office. — See note 9, p. 5. thelefs 86 HAMPTON. thelefs by the regifter, that the parifli did not entirely efcape the infedion, fmce it records the burials of five perfons who died of the plague. In 1665 only 18 burials are entered during the whole year. Extra&s from the Regi/ler. " Joannes facerdos Spanicus, fepult. May 6, 1555." " Sir John Townefend, Knight of the Shyre, buried Auguft 4, " 1603." " Grace, daughter of Sir John Farewell, Knt. and Elizabeth, " baptized Od. 29, 1625 ; Anne, buried Aug. 17, 1630." " Charles, fon ot Sir Robert and Lady Barbara Killigrew, baptized " July 10, 1662." " The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Dakers Earl of Sefex (i. e. Suflex), " and the Lady Anne Marito, married Auguft 11, 1671." The Lady whofe name is thus ftrangely fpelt, was Anne Fitzroy, natural daughter of Charles IL by the Duchefs of Cleveland, who, it is pro- bable, was then refident at Bufhy Park, of which fhe was ranger. „. , . , " William Duke of Gloucefter, fon of Prince George and Princefs Birth of the ° Duke of « Anne of Denmark, was born at Hampton Court July 24, at four " o'clock in the morning, and baptized July 27, 1689." This young Prince died when he had juft completed his eleventh year. By the teftimony of Bifhop Burnet, his preceptor, he had given at that early age a promife of more than ordinary abilities. Memoirs of his early years (from his birth to 1697) were publifhed in 1789 by Dr. Hayes, the late Profeffor of Mufic in the Univerfity of Oxford, from a MS. of Jenkin Lewis, one of his Highnefs's attendants. It is little more than a detail of the amufements and purfuits of his childhood, which were principally of the mili- tary caft. « Sir HAMPTON. 87 " Sir Algernon May, Knt. buried July 28, 1704." " Auguftus, fon of the Right Hon. Charles and Dorothy Vifcount " and Vifcountefs Townfliend, baptized Od. 24, 1 7 1 6." He became a captain in the fervice of the Eaft India Company, and died in 1746. " Edward Progers, Efq. buried January 4, 17 14." Mr. Progers Edv^ard had been page of Honour to Charles I. and was very adlive Progers. in the fervice of that monarch, and of the Prince, his fon, during the civil war. It was intended to have rewarded him by creating him one of the Knights of the Royal Oak, if that inftitution had taken place. In 1667 he was made ranger of the middle park and the hare warren; and in 1669 one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber. Le Neve fays, that he died " at the age of 96 of *' the anguifh of cutting teeth, he having cut four new teeth, and " had feveral ready to cut, which fo inflamed his gums that he " died "." The following epitaph was intended for his tomb '^; but I could not find it at Hampton : — " Here lyes in hopes of a happy *' refurredlion the body of Edward Progers, Efq. defcended from " the Progers of Gwernvale in Monmouthfhire. He was page of " Honour to King Charles the Firft ; and though very young when " the civil wars broke out, behaved himfelf with fo much courage, " and acquitted himfelf of many fecret and important employments " with fo much judgment and fidelity, that that Prince, during his " imprifonment at Hampton Court, found means to fend an order •' to have him fworn one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to his ** fon, afterwards King Charles II. in which poft he continued dur- " ing the life of that Prince, having ferved his country feventeen " years as a member of the Houfe of Commons for the county of " Brecon. Upon the death of KingCharlesII. he retired from all public " bufinefs, fpending the remainder of his days in zealous prayer for " the good and profperity of his church and country. He was fincere *' Monument. Annal. glican. ^^ European Mag. May 179S. « to 88 HAMPTON. Family of Morth Earl otGuildt'ord. Family of Frederick. Thomas Ripley. " to his friends, afFedionately kind to his children, affable and " courteous to his fervants and inferiors, and good to all people. " He was born June i6, 1621; and died Dec. 31, 1713-" Mr. Progers's daughter Philippa married Dr. Croxall vicar of Hampton. " Dame Dorothy Thomas, buried April 10, 1722." " The Hon. Francis North, Efq. fon of the Lord Guildford and the " RightHon.theLady Lucy Montagu, daughter of the Earl of Halifax, « married June 1 7, 1728." The Hon. Dudley North, burled June 24, " 1779; Francis, fon of the Hon. Auguftus Frederic and Maria *' North, born July 10, 1786, buried July 17; Frederic, fon of " George Auguftus, Lord North (now Earl of Guildford), born " Aug. 20, buried Sept. 22, 1790." " The Lady Downing, buried Auguft 2, 1734." " Sir John Frederick, buriedOa. 11,1755. — Sir Thomas Frederick^ " and Elizabeth Bathurft, married at the houfe of Lady Selina " Bathurft, Auguft 2, 1757. — Sir Thomas Frederick, Bart, buried *' Dec. 20, 1770; Mrs. Mary Frederick, Sept. 3, 1771. Mifs Mar- " garet Bathurft, Aug. 25, 1777; Lady Selina Bathurft died Dec. " 14, 1777) and was carried to Clarendon Park." " Thomas Ripley buried Feb. 17, 1758." — Mr. Ripley was an architect of confiderable note in the reigns of George I. and George U. Among his principal works are the Admiralty, and Lord Wal- pole's feat at Woolterton, in Norfolk. He improved Houghton alfo, of which Campbell had given the defign. Ripley has twice fallen under the lafti of Pope; but LordOrford, in his Anecdotes of Paint- ing, attributes the poet's farcafms in a great meafure to politics and partiality '\ " Louifa Mary, daughter of John and Caroline Dawfon, Lord «' and Lady Carlow, baptized Odl. 6, 1783." About this time the baptifms of feveral of Sir John Morftiead's children occur. *' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. p. 106. " John HAMPTON. 89 " John Beard, Efq. buried in the vault Feb. 12, 1791." This John Beard, celebrated ador was bred up at the King's chapel, and was after- wards one of the fingers at the Duke of Chandos's chapel at Canons, where he took a part in Handel's Oratorio of Hefter. His firft ap- pearance on the ftage was Aug. 30, 1737, in the characSter of Sir John Loverule, at Drury Lane. In 1739 he married Lady Hen- rietta Herbert, daughter of James Earl of Waldegrave, and widow of Lord Edward Herbert. Upon this event he quitted the ftage. After a few years he returned to it again, and continued to be a great favourite with the public both as an aftor and a vocal per- former till 1768, when he finally retired from the theatre. Lady Henrietta Beard died in 1753 ; and in 1759 Mr. Beard married a daughter of John Rich, Efq. the patentee of Covent Garden. On this occafion he removed a fecond time to that theatre, where he had aft ed from 1744 to 1748; and on the death of his father-in-law in 1 76 1, was appointed manager. Mr. Beard, who was as much efteemed in private life as he was admired on the ftage, was for many years an inhabitant of Hampton '*. " Lady Margaret Schaub, buried Aug. 30, 1793."— Relid of Sir Luke Schaub, who died in 1758. " Richard Tickell, Efq. buried Nov, 11, 1793." This gentleman, Richard who was grandfon to Tickell the poet, was at the time of his death '^'*^'^^"* one of the CommiflJioners of the Stamp Office. He diftinguifhed himfelf by publifhing a political pamphlet called " Anticipation," in which the debate on the King's Speech at opening the parlia- ment was fo fuccefsfully anticipated, that fome of the members who had not feen the pamphlet are faid to have made ufe of almoft the very words there put into their mouths. Mr. Tickell was '♦ Moll of the above particulars are taken which appeared in the European Magazine from an accurate account of Mr. Beard, at the time of his death. N author School. 90 HAMPTON. author alfo of two other pamphlets, called " the Englifh Green Box," and " Common-place Arguments ;" fome poems, and a comic opera called the Carnival of Venice. His firft wife was Mifs Linley, fifter of the late celebrated Mrs. Sheridan. Robert Hamond, who died in 1557, g^^e an acre of land and fome houfes (now the fite of the Bell Inn) for the fupport of a free-fchool. This bequeft proving very inadequate to the intended purpofe, Mr. John Jones, by a codicil to his will, bearing date 1692, gave the reverfion of the parfonage, and all his lands in Hampton, excepting a certain meadow, to truftees, diredling that the produce (after deducting 36 1. to be paid to fix poor men) fhould be given to an honeft and able fchoolmafter for teaching poor children of the parifh to read and write, and inflruding them in the church catechifm. The property thus bequeathed was furren- dered to the truftees by Mr. Jones's executors in 1696. The next year his executors very liberally conveyed to the truftees a fourth part of Nando's coffee-houfe, in Fleet-Street, for the main- tenance of an able fchool-mafter to teach the Latin tongue ; and, by their deed of that date, they diredl that he {hall be " refident " and living in a convenient fchool, or houfe in the town of Hamp- " ton ; that he fhall freely, without any other reward, perfonally, and *' not by deputy or fubftitute, or other in his ftead or place, (unlefs " in cafe of ficknefs, or other unavoidable difability or neceffity,) *' teach and inftrudt all poor children living in Hampton, Latin, " Englifh, and their catechifm ; and that if he fhall neglect fo to " do, he fhall be fufpended from the profits of the faid endow- " ment." The revenues of this fchool are valued at more than 150 1. per annum. The prefent fchool-mafter is the Rev. Richard Kilfha, appointed in 1791, on the death of the Rev. Daniel Chandler. John HAMPTON. 91 John Jones, Efq. above mentioned, charged the redtory of Hamp- Various be- ton with the payment of ^6 1. per annum, to be divided between ^^ '■^^^°'^^- fix poor men chofen by the minifter and churchwardens. John Turner, Efq. who died in 1753, gave, by will, the intereft of 500 1. to poor houfekeepers of this parifh. Mary, relidt of Mr. Robert Gavell, gave the intereft of 120I. to be diftributed in bread among the poor of Hampton ^excluding the diftridt of Hampton-wick). In 1547 there was a church-houfe belonging to this parifh, and two acres and a half of land for the benefit of church and poor ". 9' Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office. N 2 ' [ 9^ ] HANWORTH. Etymolngy. TTANWORTH, or as it is called in the furvey of Domefday, A A Hanworde, is derived from the Saxon words haen and worthy fignifying a fmall village. Situation. Hanworth lies in the hundred of Spelthorne, about three miles from Hounflow, on the borders of the heath, and nearly thirteen Boundaries, from London. The parifh is bounded by Hampton and Sun- bury on the fouth ; by Teddington and Ifleworth on the eaft and fouth-eaft ; and by Feltham on the north and weft. I have not been able to afcertain the quantity of land which it contains. The foil is for the moft part a light loam intermixed with gravel. This parifh pays the fum of 122I. los. iid. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about 2 s. in the pound. The manor of Hanworth is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domef- day : " Robert holds the manor, which is taxed at five hides under Earl " Roger (Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel). The land is three " carucates. Four ploughs are kept in employ on the demefnes, and " the villans' lands. One villan holds a hide, five others have each " a virgate, and there are two cottars. The meadow-land is equal " to one carucate, and there is pafture for the cattle of the manor. " The total annual value is 40 s. ; in the reign of King Edward the " Confeffor, it was 60s. It was then the property of Ulf, a " domeftic fervant of the King." In the year 1 294 this manor was granted by Chriftina, daughter of Alexander de Hamden, to Henry Dayrell and Alice his wife ; which Henry died feifed of it in Soil Land-tax. The manor. 93 HANWORTH. in 1304. The total value was then 72 s. 4 d. : the manor-houfe was valued at 4s. ; 80 acres of arable belonging to the demefne at 4d. an acre ; 10 acres of meadow at i s. : there were fix freeholders, who paid quit-rents, amounting to 16 s., and 8 villans, whofe rents amounted to 24s. ; there was a water-mill valued at 10 s. Two- thirds of the manor were then held under the honour of Wallins:- ford, the remaining third under the Abbot and Convent of Weftmin- fter, by a rent of 30 s". It appears by the charter of Edward the Confeffor, that four hides in Hanworth were confirmed to Weft- minfter Abbey by that monarch ', but no mention is made of their property in this parifli in the furvey of Domefday. The manor of Hanworth continued in the Dayrell family till the year 1377, when Robert Dayrell conveyed it to Alan Ayette and John Chamber- leyne^ Ayette conveyed to Chamberleyne in 1378*, and Cham- berleyne the fame year to Thomas Godlak ', under whom Sir Nicholas Brembre was tenant at will. Godlak continued in poflef- fion in 1389*. After this no certain information is to be obtained refpedling this manor for nearly a century ; but as Thomas Roth- well prefented to the church in 145 1 and 1461 ; Sir John Crofby in 1471, and John Crofby, Gent, in 1498, as of their own right ' ; it is to be prefumed (the manor and advowfon having always, as far as we know by record, paffed through the fame hands) that the families of Rothwell and Crofby were proprietors of both during a confider- able part of the fifteenth century. How, or at what time the manor of Hanworth came to the Crown does not appear, but it is certain that KiTlg Henry VIII. prefented to the redlory as early as 1519'. Camden calls Hanworth a fmall Royal feat, which Henry VIII. Hanworth becomes a Royal » Efch. 3iEdw. I. No. 26. « Efch. 12 Ric. II. No. 78 Inquifition Palace. * Dugdale'sMonafticon, vol. i. p. 61. taken after the death of Sir Nicholas ' CI. 51 Edw. III. m. 5. d. Brembre. ♦ CI. I Ric. II. m. 24. d. ' Newcourt's Repertorium, vol.). p. 629. 5 Recital in Efch. 12 Ric. II. * Ibid. took 94 H A N W O R T H. took great delight in, and made the fcene of his pleafures *. Towards Queen Ka- the end of his reign it was fettled in dower upon Queen Katherine Parr, therine Parr . ^~ and the Lord who frequently refided there after the King s death with her fecond Hanworth hufband, Sir Thomas Seymour, (the Lord Admiral,) and the Prin- cefs Elizabeth, whofe education was entrufled to her care. The Princefs was then in her fifteenth year ; and it was faid by the Lord Admiral's enemies, and was made one of the articles of accufation againft him in his impeachment, that he endeavoured, during their refidence at Hanworth and Chelfea, to gain the Princefs's affedlions, intending, if he could get the Queen Dowager out of the way, to marry her, and feat himfelf upon the Throne. The examinations of Katherine Afhlye and others, relating to thefe tranfadions, are printed in the Burleigh papers. It appears by Mrs. Afhlye's tefti- mony, that whatever were the Lord Admiral's intentions the Queen Dowager was entirely free from any fufpicion of the kind ; for her Majefty appears to have been a principal party in the familiarities which fhe defcribes. " At Hanworth," fays fhe, " he would likewife The Lord Admiral's fa- t' come in the morning unto her grace; but as fhe remembereth at all wkhthePrin- " tymes fhe was up before, favyng two mornyngs, the which two cefsEUza- ^^ ^Qmyngs the Quene came with hym, and this examinate lay " with her Grace, and ther thei tytled my Lady Elizabeth in the " bed, the Quene and my Lord Admyrall." Again, " another " tyme at Hanworth in the garden, he wrated with her, and cut " her gown in an hundred pieces, beyng black cloth ; and when fhe " came up, this examinate chid with hir, and hir Grace anfwered *' fhe could not do withall, for the Quene held her while tffc Lord " Admyrall cut it '°." William Earl of Pembroke was Keeper of the Wardrobe, and of the park at Hanworth, in the firft year of Queen Mary". In 1558 the manor of Hanworth was granted for 9 Cough's edition of the Britannia, vol.ii. '° Heyne's Burleigh Papers, p. 09. p. 2. " MS. Lift of Offices at Dulwich College life H A N W O R T H. g^ life to Anne Duchefs of Somerfet ". In 1594 it was leafed to Wil- liam Killigrew for 80 years". In the month of September 1600 Queen Elizabeth paid a vifit to the fcene of her juvenile paftimes. She dined at Hanworth, and partook of the amufemcnt of hunting in the park '*. James Vifcount Doncafter, afterwards Earl of Carlifle, refided at Hanworth from 1620" till 1625'*; but whether as tenant or pro- prietor does not appear. In 1627 the manor of Hanworth was granted in fee to Sir Roger Palmer and Alexander Stafford". It is probable that they were truftees for Sir Francis Cottington, whofe property it became about that time. In 1628 he was created Lord Cottington of Hanworth. In a letter to Lord Strafford in 1629 he fpeaks thus of his improve- ments : " There begins to grow a brick wall about all the gardens Lord Cot- tingtoii'slm- " at Hanworth, which, though it be a large extent, yet will it be provements " too little for the multitude of pheafants, partridges, and wild-fowl torth."' " that are to be bred in it. There is a certain large room made " under the new building with a fountain in it, and other rare de- " vices, and the open gallery is all painted by the hand of a fecond " Titian. Dainty walks are made abroad, infomuch that the old *' porter with the long beard is like to have a good revenue by ad- " mitting ftrangers that will come to fee thefe rarities. It will be *' good entertainment to fee the amazement of the barbarous northern *' folk, who have fcarce arrived to fee a well cut hedge, when the *' fame of thefe rarities fliall draw them thither : certainly they will ♦' wholly negledt the fight of Hocus's dog, and Hocus himfelf will *' confefs that calves with five legs, and the puppets themfelves, will " be nothing in comparifon of this fight. My wife is the principal " Pat. 4 & 5 P. & M. pt. 13. Mar. 19. 's Sidney Remains, p. 122. '^ Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. 19. Oa. 17. •* Parifli regifter. '+ Queen Elizabeth's Progrefles, anno '? Pat. 3 Car. pt. 3. Dec. 11. No. i. 1600, p. 4. " contriver 96 HANWORTH. " contriver of all this machine, who, with her clothes tucked up, and " a ftaft' in her hand, marches from place to place like an " Amazon commanding an army '\" In the month of Auguft 1635 Lord Cottington entertained the Queen and her whole Court at Hanworth ''. In 1637 he had a grant of free warren and licence to inclofe 100 acres within his park". When this nobleman became involved in his mafter's fufferings, the parliament confifcated his eftates, and Hanworth was given to Prefident Brad- fliaw^'. Lord Cottington died before the reftoration without iffue ; foon after which event his coufm and heir-at-law recovered his eftates ; and in the year 1670 fold the manor of Hanworth to Sir Thomas Cham- ber". Lord Vere Beauclerk (third fon of Charles, the firft Duke of St. Albans,) having married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Chamber, Efq. (fon of Sir Thomas above mentioned,) this manor, upon partition of Mr. Chamber's property, fell to the fhare of Lord Vere, who, in 1750, was created Baron Vere of Hanworth. His Grace Aubrey Duke of St. Albans, who fucceeded his father as Lord Vere, in 178 1, and inherited the Dukedom of St. Albans, on the death of his coufm, the late Duke, in 1786, is the prefent proprietor of this manor. Hanworth houfe was burnt down, by accident, on the 26th of Hanworth houfe burnt March 1 797- It retained little of its ancient form, having under- »797' gone feveral repairs and alterations. In one of the dreffing-rooms was a ceiling painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, which was deftroyed by the flames ; fortunately no other work of art of any value was loft, there having been no pictures (except a few portraits, which were copies) in the houfe at the time of the fire. " Strafford Papers, vol. i. p. 51. 1660, p. 3. '9 Ibid. i.p. 463. " From the information of TownJey " Pat. 13 Car. I. pt. 24. Feb. 13. No. 2. Ward, Efq. by permifllon of his Grace the *' Myfteries of the Good Old Caufe 12°. Duke of St. Albans. The H A N W O R T H. 97 The parlfli church dedicated to St. George is a fmall Gothic Parini ftrudure of flint and ftone, confifting of a chancel and nave. At the ""^^" weft end is a low wooden turret. In the eaft window of the chancel are the royal arms, with the initials I. R. On the fouth wall of the chancel is the monument of Sir Thomas Monuments. Chamber ", Knight, who died in 1 692. On the north wall is a tablet in memory of" two coufms of the fame name (Elizabeth Ifaak) who " ferved two ladies of the fame name (Mary Chamber, mother and " daughter) from their ladies' childhood to their own death." Elizabeth Ifaak the younger died in 1731. The tablet was put up by Mary Chamber the daughter (afterwards Lady Vere Beauclerk). On the floor is the tomb of the Rev. William Hunter, redor, 1778. In the fouth window of the nave is the following coat of arms: — G. a chevron between three owls, Argent, impaling ... a chevron between three efcallops O. on a chief ... a lion pafTant guardant . . . In a window on the north fide, near the pulpit, are the arms and quarterlngs of Killegrew **, with the date, 1606. The redtory of Hanworth, which is in the diocefe of London, Re^ory and and in the archdeaconry of Middlefex, is rated in the ancient valors A-dvowfon. at 8 marks^'; in the king's books at 1 1 1. 13 s. 4d. In 1650 it was valued at 60 1. per annum. The furvey of that date defcribes 30 acres of glebe belonging to the redory'*. Newcourt from a terrier of 1 610 ftates the glebe to be 33 acres ''. The advowfon has always been annexed to the manor. *^ Arms— a chevron between three tre- from them of the field.— Barrell — 6. A. a foils. lion rampant G.— Petit. 7. G. a bend be- *♦ 1. A. an eagle difplayed with two necks tween fix lozenges O.— Fitz-Ives. — !>. Az. a S. within a border of the fecond bezanty — bend O. a label of three points G. — Carmi- Killegrew. — 2. S. a chevron between three now. eagles difplayed O.— Kentebury. 3. A. ^s See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 60. three mafcles G. — Arnewick. 4. A. on a ^'' Parliamentary furveys in the Arch- chevron S. between three torteauxes as bifliop's Library at Lambeth, many bezants— Boleigh. 5. Az. on abend ■' Repertorium, vol. i. p. 62S. O. three fufils with the threads hanging O Adam 98 Redors. Pariih Re- gifter- Compara- tive ftate of population. Plague years. H A N \V O R T H. Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel College in Oxford, was redor of this church in 1315. In 1326 he was one of the King's juftices itinerant''. The prefent re£tor is Robert Burd Gabriel, D. D. inflituted in 1778, on the death of Mr. Hunter. The regifter of baptifms and marriages in this parifh commences in 1582, that of burials in 1583. 1630-9 1680-9 1730-9 1780-9 1790-4 1795-9 Average of baptifms, 5f 6A 7A H-rV 124 i5t Average of burials. imperfed. 8A I2i- 8^ In 1548 there were 50 houjlyng people in this parifh*'. In 1790 there were 53 houfes in the parifh, the prefent number is ^^\ the number of inhabitants about 300. In 1603 there were three burials at Hanworth — in 1625, nine- teen : two fervants of the Earl of Carlille's were buried that year. The regifter is imperfed in 1665. Family of Germaine. Extracts from the Regifier. " Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Knightly, buried Feb. 24, " 1583-4; another Anne baptized Auguft 2, 1584." " Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Worfhipful Sir Thomas Ger- " maine, Knight, baptized Nov. 3, 1600 ; Charles baptized March 30, " 1603; buried April 18; Thomas baptized March 25, 1603-4; *' Elizabeth buried Feb. 26, 1604-5." *' Repertorium, vol. i. p. 628. *» Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office. See note g. p. 5. " William, H A N W O R T H. 99 " William, fon of Sir Robert Killegrew, baptized May 28, 1606." Fimiiy of Killeprew. Sir William, the eldeft fon of Sir Robert Killegrew, was educated at Su- wiiiian St. John's College in Oxford. He became afterwards an attendant l'>-'"<^S'e^^- on king Charles I. as gentleman uflier of the privy chamber, was knighted, and during the whole of the civil war, had the com- mand of the troops which guarded the king's perfon. After the reftoration he became vice chamberlain to queen Catherine, which office he held for the fpace of two-and-twenty years. He afterwards retired from court, and died at an advanced age in the year 1693. Sir William Killegrew was author of fome dramatic pieces, well fpoken of by his contemporaries, and a colledlion of detached thoughts on the inftability of human happinefs, written not long before his death '°. " Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Killegrew, baptized Sept. 7, *' 1607; Charles his fon, April 24, 1609; Robert Feb. 14, " 1610-1." Thomas, fon of Sir Robert Killegrew, is faid to have been born Thomas at Hanworth in 161 1, but his baptifm does not occur in the regif- ' ''^'^^ ter. This Thomas Killegrew was page to Charles I. and an at- tendant upon Charles II. during his exile. Being endowed with a brilliant wit, and a great portion of focial and convivial talents, he foon became a favourite with the young monarch, and continued after the reftoration to enjoy fo great a fhare of his confidence that he was frequently permitted to have accefs to him when he was denied to the firft peers of the realm, and he could venture without offence to fpeak in his jefting way bold truths to his majefty, on his negledt of ftate affairs, which no other of his courtiers would dare to hint at. In 1651, when Charles II. was at Paris, Killegrew was fent to Venice as the king's refident at that ftate ; but as Claren- don informs us, having ftaid there fome time neither to his own honour or his mafter's advantage, he was compelled to leave the '" Biographia Dramatica. O 2 republic too H A N \V O R T H. republic on account of the profligacy of his charadler. Whilft at Venice he wrote feveral plays, to which Sir John Denham alludes in the following lines : " Our refident Tom " From Venice is come " And has left all the Statefman behind him, " Talks at the fame pitch " Is as wife, is as rich, " And juft where you left him you find him, " But who fays he's not " A man of much plot, " May repent of his falfe accufation " Having plotted and penn'd *' Six plays to attend " On the farce of his Negotiation." Killegrew's plays, eleven in number, were printed in one volume in folio in 1664. He died at Whitehall on the 19th of March 1684. Dr. Henry " Henry, fon of Sir Robert Killegrew, baptized Feb. 16, KiUegrew.. „ 1612-3." Henry, the fifth fon of Sir Robert Killegrew, was of Chrift Church College in Oxford : he entered into holy orders, proceeded to the degree of D. D. and became prebendary of Weft- minfter. Br. Killegrew, in common with others who had attached themfelves to the royal party, fuffered many hardfhips during the interregnum. Upon the reftoration he recovered his flail, was made almoner to the Duke of York, redor of Wheathamfted, and mafter of the Savoy. Dr. Killegrew died in 1693. When 17 years of age he wrote a play which was publiftied in 1638, under the title of the Confpiracy, and republiftied in 1653 with the altered title of Pallantus and Eudora". In 1685 he publilhed a volume of '• Biographia Dramatica. Sermons H A N wo R T H. joi Sermons in quarto, and two fingle dilcourfes in 1666 and 1689. Dr. Killegrew was father of Mrs. Anne Killegrew the poetefs. " Edward, fonofSir Robert Killegrew, baptized July 27, 1614." " Henry, fon of Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knight, baptized Dec. 8, Famiiv of " 1600; Maurice, April 24, 1603 ; John, Feb. i, 1606-7; William, " July 16, 1608." Sir Maurice Berkeley married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Sir William, and fifter of Sir Robert Killegrew of Hanworth, by whom he had five fons all knighted, four of whom appear to have been natives of this parifh. Sir John was a celebrated officer John Lord on the King's fide during the civil war, and diftinguiflied himfelf Stratto7, ° by fome important viftoiies in the weft of England, particularly at j^"'* ^r"^ ^ ''* Stratton in Cornwall, in memory of which the King, in 1658, ley natives of being than at Bruflels, created him Lord Berkeley of Stratton. Sir William, who became governor of Virginia, and publiihed a hiftory of that province, was buried at Twickenham in 1677, as was Lord Berkeley In 1678. " Sir Peter WIche Knight, and Mrs. Jane Meridith a virgin, and " daughter of Sir William Meridith, married April 16, 1627, " Charles fon of Sir Francis Cottlngton, Knight and Baronet, and Family of " of the Lady Anne, baptized July 2 1, 1628 ; the witnefles being our ^°"'"H^°"* " Sovereign Lord the King, the High and Mighty Prince Georo-e ** Duke of Buckingham, and the Lady Marchionefs Hamilton." — " Charles, fon of Lord Cottlngton, buried July 27, 1636." — " Frances buried March 7, 1629-30 j Anne baptized July 4, 1632, " buried Nov. 25." ** Sir Charles Wollley Bart, and Mrs. Anne Fiennes, daughter " of the Right Honourable William Lord Say and Sele, married ♦♦ May 12, 1648." " Lady Mary Chamber and her daughter buried in one coffin Family of *♦ Jan. 12, 1713-4; Thomas Chamber Efq. Jan. 19, 17:^3-^ i Chamber. *' Dame Anna, wife of Sir Thomas Chamber, Feb. 8, 1725-6." The I02 H A N \V O R T H. Family of Beauclerk. J>» Benefac- tions. (C *' The Honourable Sackville Beauclerk, infant, buried April 2 1739 ; Honourable Vere Beauclerk, aged 2 years, Dec. 28, 1739; Honourable Elizabeth Beauclerk, aged 4 years, April 26, 1 7/) 6; — — Her Grace Catherine Duchefs of St. Albans, who died Sept. " 4, buried Sept. 14, 1789. — The Right Honourable Lady Geor- " giana Beauclerk, youngeft daughter of the Duke of St. Albans, " aged I If, buried 0£t. 27, 1790." Thomas Combe, gentleman, in 1732 gave the fum of 10 1. to the poor. This having been fufFered to accumulate till it was increafed to 25 1. produces now I 1. per annum. Lord Vere Beauclerk in 1745 gave a rentcharge of 61. per annum to the poor, in lieu of fome inclofed wafte. Some fmall pieces of land given to the poor by perfons now unknown produce 1 8 s. per annum. The Chantry Roll for Middle- fex, (in the Augmentation OfEce,) which bears date 1547, mentions a church-houfe belonging to the parifh, " ufed for the aifembling of " perfons to dryncke and thereat to gether money for the reparacion " of the church." [ I03 ] HAREFIELD. IN the furvey of Domefday the name of this parifh is written Etymology. Herefelle; in other ancient records Herfeld, Herefelde, and Herfield. Harefeld in the Saxon is literally the hare field. The parifh of Harefield lies in the hundred of Elthorne, and forms Situation. the north-weft angle of the county of Middlefex, being bounded on Boundaries. the north by Rickmanfvvorth in Hertfordfhire ; on the weft by the river Colne, which feparates it from Denham in Buckinghamfhire ; on the fouth by Hillingdon, and on the eaft by Ickenham and Riflip. The village is pleafantly fituated on rifing ground, three miles from Uxbridge, and eighteen from London. The pariih of Harefield contains about 4700 acres of land, of which about 2000 are arable, about 2000 meadow and pafture, about 200 wood, and above 500 common and wafte ', By a furvey taken in 1592 Harefield moor and Cowmoor were found to contain ^^^ Harefield acres, a part of which having been allotted by agreement to Sir Cowmoor. Edmund Anderfon, then lord of the manor, was inclofed. The Grand Junftion Canal pafles through thefc moors from north to fouth. The foil towards the fouth and eaft parts of this parifh is a ftrong Soil. clay, peculiarly favourable to the growth of elm j towards the north A, R. p. ' Harefield Heath - joo o o Hunger's Hill Harefield Moor - 263 2 !> Other wafte Cowmoor - - 91 2 38 A. R. P. 30 33 S18 I 6 it 104 H A R E F I E L D. it is dry and ftony, with veins of chalk. The parlfh abounds with fine fprings, particularly one called Gulch well, ifluing from a vein of chalk. It is faid that feveral attempts were formerly made to bring tbis water to London and Weftminfter \ In the year 1737 Mr. Blackftone publifhed an account of in- digenous plants growing in and near this parifli, under the Scarce title of Fafciculus plantarum circa Harefield nafcefttimn. Among P ail s. ^^^ more ' rare are Dentaria bidbifera^ which is ftill found in abundance, where Mr. Blackftone defcribes it in Old-park wood j Lathraa fquamaria^ Aquileg'ia vulgaris^ Cardam'me amara^ Lathyrus Nijfoliay Sambucus ebuliis^ hmla helenium^ Bupleurum rotttndifolium^ Fritillaria mclcagris^ Orchis militarise Ophrys mufciferUy Ophrys api- feray Saxifragagrariulata^ Parnaffia palii/lris^ Mentha pidegimti, Dro- fera rotundifolia^ Acorus Calamus ^ Campanula hybrida and Utricularia Foffils Mitior. Extraneous foflils are found in a chalk pit near the mills. Copper Thefe mills % which are fituated to the north-weft of Mr. Cooke's "^''^^" park, were purchafed of Sir Roger Newdlgate, by the late George Cooke, Efq. and are now the property of his fon ; they were for- merly ufcd for the manufadure of paper, but are at prefent occu- pied as copper-mills by the incorporated company of the mines royal. T . This parifli is afl"efred the fumof 478I. 153. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about 3 s. in the pound. Manor. The manor of Harefield is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domef- day : — " Richard, fon of Gilbert the Earl (of Bi-iou), holds Here- " felle, which is taxed at five hides. The land is five carucates, " Two hides are in demefne, on which there are two ploughs. The " villans have three ploughs. The prieft has one virgate ; there are » BlacVftone's Fafcicahs Plantarum circi tion of a fulling-mill belonging to Sir Simon Harefield nafcenfium. deSwanland. Another deed of 151 8 fpeaks ' Two mills are mentioned in the furvey of Crips's fulling-mill. (Regifter of Deeds of Domefday : it is probable they were on in the pofreflion of Sir Roger Newdigate, the fame fite. A deed of 1370 makes men- Bart.) " five H A R E F I E L D. 105 " five villans, who hold a virgate each ; feven bordars, who have five *' acres each, and one bordar, who has three acres : there are three " cottars, and three flaves, two mills yielding 15 s. rent, four *' fifheries yielding 1000 eels, meadow equal to one carucate, paflure *' for the cattle of the manor, and pannage for 1200 hogs. The " total annual value is 12I. ; it was only 81. when entered upon by " the prefent owner ; in King Edward (the Confeffor's) time, (be- " ing tlien theproperty of the Countefs Goda,) it was 14]." — Richard, fon of Gilbert Earl of Briou, was fometimes called Richard Fitz-Gil- bert, fometimes Richard de Tonbridge, and fometimes Richard de Clare ; from him it feems to have defcended to Alice, daughter of Geoffrey, and grand-daughter of Baldwin de Clare *. By a quo warrarito, bearing date 1284, it appears, that Roger de Bacheworth was then lord of the manor of Harefield, and that he and his anceftors, had enjoyed it, with all its rights and privileges, from time immemorial, paying a fmall quit-rent to the Ho- nour of Clare'. Sir Richard de Bacheworth in the year 13 15, * From a cartulary, or ancient regifter of mother, (who was heir of William De Burgh, evidences, relating to the eftates of the New- fon and heir of John De Burgh, by one of digate family, compiled by John Newdlgate, the co-heirs of Gilbert De Clare, lafl Earl Efq. Serjeant at Law in the reign of Henry of Gloucefter,) in a deed (Sir Roger Newdi- VIII. and now in the pofleffion of Sir Roger gate's Cartulary, f. 21.) by which he ob- Newdigate, Bart, to whom I have been in- tained exemption from toll, pontage, &c. debted for the moll liberal communication all over the kingdom for the tenants of the of many particulars relating to this parifli. manor of Harefield, ftiles himfcif lord of The deeds of Alice de Clare are of uncer- the manor; but the full pollcflion of the tain date, but they appear as ancient manor, with all its right and privileges, as the 1 2th century; and we muft fuppofe was then vefted in the Swanlands, they pay- them to have been executed not later than ]„„ to him as lord paramount, by reafon of the middle of that century, to render -Alice ],i5 poffefllng the Honour of Clare, a quit- de Clare's poifeffion of the manor of Hare- j-g^t of i8s. 8d. and an additional payment field confiRent with the long polfeffion of the ^f ^^^ ^j_ f^^ ^.^j^g releafed from fait at the Bacheworths and their anceftors, as ftated in ^(,^^1 of the Honour. This quit-rent was the quo 'warranto mentioned in the text. Alice p^jj jq the Crown (in which the Honour of de Clare, as appears by the deeds above Clare, as parcel of the Duchy of Lancafter, mentioned, was twice married. Her firft jj^j been long vefted,) till 1790, when, by huftjand was Hugh de Claghull, herfecond, virtue of an aft of parliament paffed in the Remfridus : it does not appear that (lie had 26lh of his prefent Majcfty, Sir Roger any ilfue. Ncwdigate obtained a releafe and disfran- s Roger Mortimer Earl of March, who chifement under the great feal of the duchy. inherited the Honour of Clare by his grand- P granted io6 H A R E F I E L D. granted this manor to Simon de Swanland ', wlio married the elder daughter and co-heir of his brother Roger. This Sir Richard afterwards took upon him the habit of the Knights Hofpitallers, and his wife Margaret, who had dower affigned her in Harefield, took the veil '. William, fon of Sir Simon de Swanland, had three fons, two of whom died in their infancy, and the third left no ifliie. Joanna, the only daughter, married John Newdegate ', who was afterwards knighted, and ferved in the wars in France under Edward III. In the year 1585 John Newdegate, Efq. the eighth in lineal defcent from Sir John, who married Joanna SAvanland '", exchanged the manor of Harefield with Sir Edmund Anderfon, Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, for the manor of Arbury in Warwick- fhire ", which has ever fince been the principal feat of the family. Sir Edmund Anderfon in 1601, fold Harefield to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal ; his wife, Alice Countefs Dowager of Derby, and Lady Anne, Lady Frances, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, her daughters.. The Lord Keeper died in 161 7, being then Vifcount Brackley; the Countefs of Derby, in 1637. Lady Anne Stanley, the eldeft daughter, married Grey Lord Chandos ; and after his death, Mervin Earl of Caftlehaven. She furvived her mother only ten years ; and, on her death, George Lord Chandos (her eldeft fon by her firft hufband) inherited the manor of Hare^ 1 Sir Roger Newdigate's Cartulary, p. i. Richard and this mode has been ever fince — In 1317 Sir Simon de Swanland had a ufed by the family. charter of free-warren, Cart. lo Edw. II. '° William Swanland, the elder, died in No. 36. Confirmations of free-warren in 1395. Dionyfia, relift of William Swan- this manor were granted by Cart, i Edw. land, the younger, (whofefifter Joanna was III. No. 74. and Pat. 17 Ric. II. pt. 2. married to Sir John Newdegate,) was living m. 42. and in poffeflion of the manor of Harefield * Sir Roger Newdigate's Cartulary, p. 4. A°. 23 Hen. VI (Extraas from the Records 9 The old way of fpelling the name is of the Honour of Clare.) After her death it Newdegate. It is fo fpelt in moft records, devolved to the Newdegate family, as well as on all the more ancient tombs " The alienations of the manor from this of the family at Harefield. John, the eldeft period are taken from an abllradt: of the title, fon of Sir John Newdegate, firft wrote New- obligingly communicated by Sir Roger Ney- degate; he was followed by his nephew Sir dioate. field, HAREFIELD. 107 field, purfuant to the deed of 1601. Lord Chandos died in February 16^ S^ having bequeathed it by will to his wife Jane. In the month of Odober following, Lady Chandos married Sir William Sedley, Bart. Sir William died in 16565 and in 1657 his widow took a third hulband, George Pitt, Efq. of Stratfieldfay in the county of Southampton. Having verted all her eftates, by a deed bearing date 1673, in Mr. Pitt and his heirs, he, in conjundtion with his truflees, in the month of February 1675, (his Lady being ftill liv- ing,) conveyed by bargain and fale the manors of Harefield and Morehall to Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart. Serjeant at Law, younger fon of Sir John Newdegate, and grandfon of John Newdegate, Efq. who had exchanged them with Sir Edmund Anderfon. Having been thus reftored to the Newdigate family, they have continued in it ever fmce, and are now the property of Sir Roger Newdigate, Bart, who is the thirteenth in dcfcent from Sir John Newdegate firft mentioned. It is remarkable that this manor (with the exception of a tem- porary alienation,) has defcended by intermarriages, and a regular fuccefTion, (in the families of Bacheworth, Swanland, and Newde- gate,) from the year 1284, when, by the verdid of a jury", it appeared that Roger de Bacheworth and his anceftors had then held it from time immemorial. It is the only inftance in which I have traced fuch remote pofleflion in the county of Middlefex. Harefield place, fituated near the church, was the ancient man- fion-houfe of the lords of the manor, and for many years a feat of the Newdegate family. After the alienation before mentioned, it became the fuccefhve refidence of Lord Chief Juftice Anderfon, and the Lord Keeper Egerton. The Countefs Dowager of Derby, wife of the Lord Keeper, (and with him joint purchafer of the manor,) '* The words of the verdicft are : " Jurat! ** ad hoc eleSi dicunt fuper facramentum " fuum quod predifl. Rogerus & omnes *' anteceflores fui hahuer. predicfl. libertates ** in manerio de Herfeld redden, per an. pro Haref5dd. phice, and its eminent inhabitants. eifdem libertatibus dimidiam marcat. vice ' comiti et eifdem libertatibus plenc ufi ' funt, a tempore cujus non extat memoria fine interpof." &c. Anno 12 E. filii Regis Henrici. P 2 continued io8 HAREFIELD. continued to refide here during her fecond widowhood. Here flie was honoured with a vifit from Queen Elizabeth", whom fhe re- ceived with all the pomp and pageantry of thofe days. Sir Roger Newdigate was once poffefled of an account in MS. of this vifit, with a colledion of the complimentary fpeeches with which, as was cuftomary upon thofe occafions, fhe was addreffed. The MS. is unfortunately loft ; but Sir Roger Newdigate recolleds, that Ihe was firft welcomed at a farm-houfe, now called Dew's farm, by feveral allegorical perfons, who attended her to a long avenue of elms leading to the houfe, which obtained from this circumftance the name of the Queen's walk. Four trees of this avenue ftill remain, and the greater part were ftanding not many years ago. It was at Harefield-place alfo that Milton's Arcades was performed by the Countefs of Derby's grandchildren "*. That great poet, during the time that he lived at Horton with his father, (viz. from 1632 to 1637,) was, it is pro- bable, a frequent vifitor at Harefield. After the death of the Countefs of Derby, Harefield-place was inhabited by George Lord Chandos, her grandfon. This Nobleman during the civil war at- tached himfelf to the Royal caufe, and behaved with great gallantry at the battle of Newbury, having three horfes fhot under him. When the Republican party had eftablilhed themfelves in power, he was obliged to pay a heavy compofition for his eftates. He then re- tired to Harefield, where he fpent the remainder of his days in great privacy. Dr. John Conant, a celebrated preacher and divine, re- fided with him as his domeftic chaplain ; and during his refidence there, preached a voluntary ledure on a week-day to a numerous congregation at Uxbridge ". Harefield-place was burnt down about the year 1 660. Tradition fays, that the fire was occafioned by the " An intemkd vifit of her M-ijefty's is Cooke's,) which was at that time only a mentioned in Queen Elizabeth's Progrefles, farm-houfe. (From the information of Sir but the Editor of that work has fallen into Roger Newdigate.) a miftake, in fuppofing ' that Sir Edward '* Warton's Milton, 96. Anderfon lived at Belliamond's, (now Col. " Biograph. Brit, new edit. vol. iv. carelefnefs HAREFIELD. 109 carelefnefs of the witty Sir Charles Sedley, who was amufing him- felf by reading in bed. — It is probable that he was on a vifit to his fifter-in-law Lady Chandos. The foundations of the old manfion may be traced at a little diftance above the fite of the prefent houfe, which was formed by uniting the two lodges with an intermediate building. This was done by Sir Richard Newdigate, the fecond Baronet, whofe widow refided in it feveral years, it being her jointure- houfe. It was for fome years alfo the refidence of Sir Roger Newdi- gate, the prefent Baronet, who in 1743 was unanimoufly chofen Knight of the Shire for Middlefex. In 1 760, having fixed his refi- dence in Warwickfliire, he fold Harefield-place (retaining the manor and his other eftates in this parifh) to John Truefdale, Efq. In 1780 it was purchafed of Mr. Truefdale's executors by the late William Baynes, Efq. " whofe fon, Chriftopher Baynes, Efq. is the prefent proprietor and occupier. Evelyn,inhisSylva,mentionsafilverfir,which, having been planted at Harefield-place in 1603, (at two years' growth,) had, in 1679, at- tained the height of eighty-one feet, and meafured thirteen feet girth. The manor of Moor Hall, or More Hall, was given by a deed Manor of without date to the Priory of Knights Hofpitallers at Harefield, by '^°^"'-'^^»''- Alice, daughter of Baldwin de Clare ". We have no evidence by whom or at what time " this Priory was founded : it was no doubt a cell to the Priory of St. John Clerkenwell ". — Its fite is now a farm •6 From the information of Mr. Baynes. which I quote, are fmd to form the manor '' Seep. 105. Thewords of thedeed, which of Moor-hull, is in Sir Roger Newdigate's Cartulary, leave 'S ^j^^ ^^^^^^ ^j- ^j^^ advowfon of the BO doubt of the exiftencc of this Priory, not- Church of Harefield by Beatrix de Bol- ■withftanding it is not mentioned by Dugdale lers, to the brethren of the order of St. or any other author. " Confirmavi Deo, John of Jerufalem does not mention the " Beatae Maris, & Sanftojohanni Baptiftx, houfe at Harefield. It is probable, there- " ScfanaseDomuiHofpitali Jerufalem, etfra- fore, that the foundation took place after " tribus ejufdem faniSx domus in territorio this grant. " de Herefeld," &c. — The name of Moor- '* This is the more evident from the hall does not occur in the deed which gives proceedings in a law-fuit (recorded in Sir certain lands defcribed in the boundaries, Roger Newdigate's Cartulary) relating to and diefe lands in the Cartulary from this manor, in the 4th year of Edward the HI. no HAREFIELD. farm houfe. The chapel, which ftill remains, is of ftone and flint, and exhibits that kind of architedure which was in ufe in the I2th century. The order of Knights Hofpitallers having been abolifhed, this manor was granted by Henry VIII. in the 34th year of his reign, to Robert Tyrwhit, Efq. " who the fame Year conveyed it to John Newdegate, Efq. and John his fon ". It has fmce paffed with the manor of Harefield. Samfords. In the year 1349 Sir Thomas de Samford, or as he is called in burgjor fome deeds, Saunford, held a melTuage and lands in Harefield Braken- under the Swanlands. This eftate became foon afterwards the pro- buryes. ' perty of the Swanlands, by the intermarriage of Sir Simon de Swan- land with Joan, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas de Samford. In 1356 William de Swanland granted a leafe of this eftate to Thomas de Brakenburgh, from whofe occupancy of it, it acquired the name of Brakynburgh or Brakenburyes, and in fome records is called erro- neoufly the inanor of Brakynburgh. It paffed with the manor of Harefield from the Swanlands to the family of Newdegate, and has ever fmce been in their uninterrupted poffeffion, not having been included in the deed of exchange between Sir Edmund Anderfon and John Newdegate. It is now a farm houfe. The fouth aifle of Harefield church, which is the ancient burial place of the Newdegate family, is called the Brakenburye Chapel. A MS. account of the monuments in Harefield church **, taken by George King, Lancafter Herald, mentions the arms of Brakenburgh (three chevrons in- terlaced) as being at the weft end of this chapel near the roof. — If they are now to be feen, they efcaped my obfervation*'. III. in which the parties are Sir Simon de '* Pat. 34 Hen. VIII. pt. 6 Auguft ib'. Swanland, Lord of Harefield, and the Prior ^' From the information of Sir Roger of St. John of Jerufilem in England. There Newdigate. is alfo in the fame Cartulary a deed of Sir '* In the poiTeffion of Sir Roger Newdi- Roger Bacheworth, which gives ten acres of gate Bart. Harefield Moor to the brethren of St. John '^ The whole of the account of this eftate of Jerufalem at the 'inftance of Nicholas is taken from deeds in Sir Roger Newdi- Daccombe, who is called Preceptor domus gate's Cartulary. Hofpitalis de Herfeld. Breakfpears, ■:% i< -p|g^ P- Tbw w > Mouu. ^ ^ iir of .Mi.-r ( ountrls .-^ . .MltlinvinvCm irv ofNiirdviniiJhm -; Rijiht Hunorablt '-: PVrd.na.iao. Earl.- »f Di-rl^-.bv ulioiuf Slie had H'snif 5 Ddu^htprs Mjirii^lto tlrav.LorS, (.'liandos.&ituiui-^ y HprwidtoInbaEni'lif (^Brid)Jc«nitiT, ClizaLtrtli _>" 5 lu Heiirv £ai'l« of Hiiotiugdon.diia Ctmntvrst'.Dird _^■ If. ..f Ja^itiaCftHer Aforesaiil Honoi-.-d.l.' Lnnljt Hus\Nma.Wlit.]>iM 1..-fcr.r h^v. Urfh 1 viriMiu T P«rUhe f "11111^-11- 1 Ormrik -rk \*itl bis ■\i < ■>ii tc ^,ulir, r rlL-t lit. I /■ 4^ K. II -. n: 4" iii m I s»*SFfeSSI^S*5isa »«iia^'=!S^?Sara MJSNUMENT OF AlAVM COL'NTESS OF IIJEKBY. HAREFIELD. in Breakfpears, an ancient manfion in this parifh, is faid by Camden Breakfpears, to have taken its name from a family from whom Pope Adrian was defcended "'. I find that in the year 137 1 William Swanland granted a leafe of 60 years to William Brekfpere, of a houfe and lands in Harefield, which had been held by John Grove in bondagio. Before the end of the following century it appears to have been into the pofleffion of the family of Afliby, who were fettled at Harefield as early as the year 1474. It is now the property and refidence of Mrs. Partridge, relidt of John Partridge, Efq. daughter and fole heir of Robert Afhby, Efq. whofe family is now become extindt in the male line. The names of Hamond and Hacket occur in many ancient Belhamonds deeds, as holding fmall eftates under the manor of Harefield. The 'y^x-I. prefent houfe, called Belhamonds, or Belhacketts, was either built or enlarged by Sir George Cooke, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, the firft of the name who fettled at Harefield, and fome time Knight of the Shire for Middlefex. It is now the pro- perty of his grandfon, George Cooke, Efq. Captain in the firft Regiment of Foot-guards, and in the occupation of the Lady Finch's, fifters of the Earl of Winchelfea. Harefield Lodge in this parifh, about a mile from Uxbridge, was Harefield built by Sir Roger Newdigate in 1786. — It commands a beautiful ° S«- and extenfive profpecSt, of which Windfor Caftle and Foreft are prominent features. — It is in the occupation of Mrs. Parker, relid: of Charles Parker, Efq, The parifh church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a gothic Paiifli- ftrudure of flint and ftone, confifting of a chancel, nave, and two <^li"'"<=''- aifles ; at the weft end is a low fquare tower embattled. At the fouth-eaft corner of the chancel is a very handfome monu- Monument ment, (reprefented in the annexed engraving,) to the memory of ^ y, '"^ r c Alice, Countefs Dowager of Derby, who died in 1637. The mo- l^*''^)- " Some traces of a family of this name Breakfpear was married at Harefield.— urc to be found fo lute as i59J> when Anne Panjh Regijler. nument. 112 HAREFIELD. Monuments of the New- degate fa- mily. nument exhibits the arms of Stanley, with its quarterings ", im- paling the arms and quarterings of Spencer of Althorpe ". There are the arms alfo of the Countefs's three daughters, with impalements, as defcribed below ''. An infcription not feen in the engraving ftates, that Sir Thomas Egerton (who was the Countefs of Derby's fecond hufband) had by his firft wife an only daughter, who was mother of Julian, Lady Newdegate. On the fouth wall is an altar tomb (placed under an obtufe groined arch) to the memory of John Newdegate, Efq. who died in 1545, and his wife Anne. Beneath the arch (fixed upright in the wall) are figures in brafs of the deceafed, with their eight fons and five daughters. On the fame wall are the monuments of John Newdigate, Efq. (fifth fon of Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart.) 1705; Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roger Twifden, Bart, and reli£t of Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart. 1765; Sophia, daughter of Edward Con- yers, Efq. (by the Hon. Matilda Fermor, daughter of William Lord Lempfter,) and wife of Sir Roger Newdigate, Bart. 1774. *' Quarterly of twelve, i & 1 2 —A. on a bend Az. three (lags heads cabodied, O.— Stanley. 2. O. on a chief indented Az. three bezants. — Lathom. 2. G. three men's legs proper, conjoined in feffe at the upper part of the thigh, flexed in triangle, garniflied and fpurred, O. — Ifleof Man.. 4. Cheeky O. & A z.— Warren. 5. G two lions paff. Arg. — Strraige of Knockin. 6. A. a feffe and canton G. — Widville, 7. O. a crofs en- o-railed S — Moyne. 8. Az. a lion rampant A. — Monhault. 9. Barry of 10 A. & G. a lion ramp. O. ducally crowned of the fecond. — Brandon. 10. Az. a crofs flory O. — Bruyn. 11. Lozengy G. & Erm. — Roke- ley. -*^ Quarterly of eight— I & 8. — Quarter- ly A. & G. in the fecond and third quarter a fret O. over all a bend S. charged with three efcallop lliells of the. firft. — Spencer of .W- r.horpe. 2, Az. a feffe erminois between fix eagles' heads erafed A. — Spencer. 3. G. three ftirrups in pale O. — Deverell. 4. O. on a crofs G. 5 etoiles, A. — Lincoln. 5. O. a chevron between 3 cinqiiefoiis pierced G. — Warded. 6. Erm. on a chevron G. 5 bezants. — Graunt. 7. O. on a bend be- tween two lions ramp. S. a wivern with the wings overt, of the firft. — Rudinge. — Lady Derby was daughter of Sir John Spencer of Athorpe. ^9 I. A. a maunch S.— Haftings, impal- ing Stanley. IL A. a lion ramp. G. be- tween three pheons S. a border engrailed of the laft. — Egerton, impaling Stanley. III. A. on a crofs S. a leopard's face O. — Brydges. — Lady Anne Stanley married Grey Lord Chandos (and afterwards the Eai-1 of Caftlehaven); Lady Frances, mar- ried John Earl of Bridgwater; and Lady Elizabeth, Henry Earl of Huntingdon. On T.> ll.,- M.-..i..rv ..1 il... Kiir :....) Virli.0.15 L.iJ^- M.„^- I.:..K- .V.^.-.h-M.l.- W'ifi- .rf »S~'' Kit- hiTi^ N.-»r.)i^\ih. ofArluio- tn (Vm.U'aov; B.V anJ l>«iij^(»-r .^ N" i-Whv^ Ba^A^ .i'HHr))t:iM 111 ^',mt.Sn»ir liar' A L=tir who U*ii)i..s oT BiK-)ci'n^.ini wt^s moft Eniiiit-nt h'.r tWKn-<>]Unit KrMiwnni-iil.< ^ ifin.) /all cNMijujfjUVirhh- J1k> wa.* tKeMoil»Tv (Tnl.ln'n w4i<'rrof .'^'"^^ MOKHT^^fJBNl' Oy MART J.AIDY NEWDK-iATE. HAREFIELD. 113 On the eaft wall is a very handfome monument, (reprefented in the annexed plate,) defigned and executed by Gibbons, the cele- brated carver, in memory of Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart.'' (eldeft fon of Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart. Serjeant at Law), who died in 17 10; and Mary, his wife, daughter of Sir Edward Bagot, who died in 1692. On the north wall are the monuments of Sarah, wife of Richard Newdigate, Efq. (eldeft fon of Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart.) and daughter of Sir Cecil Bifhop, Bart. 1695; Sir Richard Newdigate her hufband ^', (who had fucceeded to the title of Baronet, and had married to his fecond wife, Elizabeth Twifden,) 1727; Sir Edward Newdigate, Bart, aged 18, 1734; Richard and Charles, his bro- thers, and Jane his fifter, who all died young. The monument of Sir Richard is ornamented with a buft ; and that of Sir Edward with a medallion of the deceafed, in white marble. In the fouth-weft corner of the fouth aifle, or Brakenbury chapel, Brakenbury is an ancient table tomb, which has neither infcription nor arms. "^ "^^^ ' In the north-eaft corner is a table tomb, with figures in brafs, to the memory of John Newdegate, Efq. Serjeant at Law, who died in 1528, and Amphilicia his wife, daughter of John Nevill, Efq. who died in 1544; they had ten fons and four daughters. Againft the fouth wall is a tablet, with figures in brafs, to the memory of Edetha, relidt of William Newdegate, who died in 1444. On the fame wall are the monuments of Sir John Newdegate ^\ Knt. (who married '" Arms — G. three lions jambs erafed A. gate. z. Az. three fmifler hands couped impaling Erm. two chevrons Az. — Bagot. two and one, A.— Malmaynes. 3. G. three 3' Arms— Newdigate, impaling, 1 Quar- Avans, A.— Swanland. 4. A. a chevron G. terly, I & 4. A. on a bend cottifed G. three a border engrailed Az.— Bachefworth. 5. bezants.— Bilhop. z&j. O. on a chief in- -^z- a fret A.— Eckingham. 6. G. on a dented S . three annulets A.— Hereford. II. chevron A. three rofes of the field.— Knolles. Gyronny of four A & G. a Hiltier and four 7- G. a Hiltier Erm. — Nevil. 8. A. a lion crofs crofslels all counterchanged, with a ramp. G. crowned O. — Hilton, g. Az. crefcent for difference. — Twifden of Brad- fretty A. — Cave — impaling, qiiarterlyofthir- bourne. teen.- i. A. a canton G. over all a bend "■ Arms — Quarterly of nine — i. Newdi- Az. charged witli three garbs O. — Fitton of Q_ Chelhire. 114 HAREFIELD. married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Fitton,) i6io; and John Newdegate, Efq. his fon and heir ", (who married Sufan, daughter of Arnold Luis,) 1642. On the eaft wall is a monument, with the Epitaph of following infcription : — " M. S. Ricardi Newdegate, fervientis ad Sir Richard . . . ■, • xt Newdegate. " legem et Baronetti, hlu natu mmimi Joannis Newdegate m agro " Warwicenfi militis. Natus eft lyaxo die Septembris, A. D. 1602, " et poft tyrocinium in Academia Oxonienfi feliciter inchoatum juris " municipalis ftudio in Graiorum hofpitio reliquum temporis im- " pendit: vitam degit animi fortitudine et mira asquitate fpeda- " bilem : fummo candore et morum fuavitate ornatus erat, nee " mlnore probitate et prudentia. Deplorandis illis inter Carolum " primumRegem&ordinesRegnicontroverfiisnon omninoadmifcuit, *' nee adduci potuit ut praediorum Regis vel illorum qui ob ejus parte " fteterunt emptione rem fuam contaminaret ; fed nobiliore quam- " vis minus expedite ad divitias contendebat itinere ; indefeflb " nempe ftudio et labore, fummaque in arduis fori negotiis peritia " et fide ; quibus ita claruit, ut reempto hujus loci manerio, antiquae " fuse familise pene coUapfcC, atque ex veteri Newdegatorum in Surria Chefliire.— 2. A. two chevrons and a canton bars wavy Az.— Samford. 7. O. a crofs G.— Orreby. 3. Barry of fix Az. & A. G. in the dexter canton a martlet S. — (it fhoiild be Az two bars A.) on a bend Rokefley. 8. KnoUes. 9. Nevil. 10. Fretty, G. three buckles O. — Legh of Birchin. 4- O. & G. on a canton Erm. a fliip S. — anci- O. three lozenges Az. — Baguley. 5. Az. ent coat of Nevil. 11. G. a lion ramp. O. three fhovels O.—Bichton. 6. Arg. achev- billetty S. — Bulmer. 12. Bendy of 8 G. & ron S. between two crofs crofslets fitchee in O. a chevron Erm. — Inglebert. 13. Hilton, chief, and three in bafe, S. — Sydington. 7. 14. Arg. three palmers' ftaves in pale G. — Az. three icicles in bend O. — Harbottle. 8. Burden, i^. O. three lions ramp. G. — A. three flcih-pots G- — Montbocher. 9. A. Crefacre. 16. A. three boars' heads, two three efcallop ihells G. — Clevedon or Char- and one, couped, S. — Cradock. 17. Cave, ron. 10. S. three waterbougets, A. — Ilder- ,8. S. on a bend flory counterflory O. three ton. II. A. a crofs S. a border engrailed efcallop fliells G. — Bromflete. 19. Erm. on of the fecond. — Holcroft. 12. A. an eagle a bend Az. three Congers' heads A. — Ge- difplayed S. felfing a child G. fwaddled O. nell. 20. A. a chevron between three po- the face proper. — Culcheth. 13. A. a fquir- pinjays Vert.— ClifFe. — There is the coat of rel fejant G. Newdigate alfo, without quarterings, impal- '' Arms— Quarterly of twenty.— I. New- ing. Per feffe S. & O. a lion ramp, coun- digate. 2. Malmaynes. 3. Eckingham. terchanged.— Luis — and Newdigate impal- 4. Swanland. 5. Bachefworth. 6. O, three ing Leigh. " profapia HAREFIELD. iij " profapia oriundac, fedi plurima adjeclt latifundia, quas nullx vi- " duarum lachrymae nee diri orphanorum gemitus infaufto omine " polluerunt. Uxorem duxit le£liffimam foeminam Julianam Fran- " cifci Leigh de Newnham Regis in agro Warwicenfi militis Balnei " filiam, eandemque illuftriffimi Comitis Ciceftrenfis fororem, ex " qua fobolem fufcepit amplam, fex filios, et filias quinque ; quo- " rum Ricardus, Robertus, Thomas, Anna, et Maria, jam fuper- " funt. Tandem re familiari optime difpofita, liberifque omnibus " ampliffime dotatis, nepotes fuos ufque ad quartam generationem " complexus, line ullis delirantis animi paroxyfmis, omni folicitu- " dine et fordida cura immunis, coelum tantum et Deum fpirans, " annis plenus, bonifque operibus coopertus obiit 14° Od. A. D. ** 1678^*." Juliana, relid of Sir Richard Newdegate, died in 1685. Sir Richard, the fubje£t of this Epitaph, was fecond fon of Sir John Newdegate, and was in great pra<3;ice as a Serjeant at Law at the beginning of the rebellion, when his elder brother died, and he became heir to his eftates at Arbury and Harefield, then much en- cumbered. When Cromwell having borne down all opporition,and difmifled his parliament, was declared Protedtor, he determined, with confummate policy, to govern by the laws of the land ; and for this purpofe fummoned fome of the lawyers who were then moft eminent at the bar: among others, the great Sir Matthew Hale, and Serjeant Newdegate, who had the honour of living in the habits of friendfhip with him. They attended; and he told them his intention to make them Judges ; but they all declined, declaring they could not a£t under his commiflion. He turned from them in wrath, faying, if you of the red robe will not execute the law, my red coats fhall : upon which they all cried out, " Make us judges, we will be judges." On the 25th of »* Arms— Newdigate, impaling, G. a crofs engrailed, and in the dexter canton a lozenge A. — Leigh. 0^2 January ii6 HAREFIELD. January 1653-4, Matthew Hale was, by writ, made a Serjeant, and one of the Juftices of the Common Bench. On the 2d of June 1654, three new Judges were made, Serjeant Pepys, Serjeant New- degate, and Serjeant Windham ". Upon the queftion of the fale of crown lands, the new Judge, Newdegate, declared no title could be made to them ; and being fent the northern circuit, when many Cavaliers who had been taken in arms in Scotland were indided at York for high treafon, he declared from the Bench that he knew no law which made it high treafon to levy war againft a Lord Prote£lor. This drew upon him the indignation of Cromwell ; and, in May 1655, he and Baron Thorpe were put out of their places for not obferving the Protedtor's pleafure in all his commands ^^ Being thus honourably difplaced, he returned to the bar. On the 1 7th of January 1659-60, he was made Chief Juftice of the Upper Bench, and continued till the reftoration, when his health being much im- paired, he retired from public life, defervedly honoured and refpeded by all who knew him. Some years after the reftoration, at the in- ftance of Lord Grandifon, the Duke of Ormond, and of Col. Halfey, whofe life he had faved at York, he had an audience of the King, who received him very gracioufly, and thanked him for his kindnefs to his friends in the worft of times. At the fame time a warrant was iffued for a patent of Baronetage; "which dignity, fays the patent, we " confer upon him in <:onfideration of feveral good fervices performed " to us, and our faithful fubjeds, in the late ufurpation." The ufual fees were on this occafion remitted. On the weft wall of the Brakenbury chapel are the monuments of Robert Newdigate, Efq. 1695. He married, i. Frances, daughter of Thomas Harrifon, Efq. 2. Juliana, daughter of Robert Beale, Efq. who furvivedhim, and died in 1732. — Robert Newdigate, Efq. (fon of Robert and Juliana), 1723 ; and Diana, daughter of Bene- 'J Whitlock's Memorials. ^^ Ibid. di Pat. 41 Eliz. pt. 17. Sept. 13. Had. MSS. No. 757. " might houfe. 128 H A R L I N G T O N. " might difpofe of it at pleafure." In 13 16 this manor was the property of Gilbert de Barentone ". It afterwards came into the pofleflion of the Lovells, and was by them conveyed to Robert Awbrey, Efq. in 1450 '^ The Awbreys continued at Dawley in 1560". Sir Ambroie Coppinger died feifed of this manor in 1605, from which time the manors of Dawley and Harlington, alias Lovells, pafTed through the fame hands till 1772, when Dawley was fold by the Earl of Uxbridge to Peter De Salis, Efq. who is the prefent proprietor. Dauley- Dawlcy-houfe having been long a feat of the Bennet family, was purchafed of Charles Earl of Tankerville by the celebrated Lord Bolingbroke, who, during his feclufion from public affairs, amufed himfelf here with rural employments, and the fociety of his literary friend-s. Pope, writing to Swift from Dawley, (June 28, 1728,) fays, " I now hold my pen for Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your *' letter between two haycocks, but his attention is fomewhat " diverted by calling his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what . *' you fay, but for fear of a fhower. Now his Lordihip is run after " his cart, I have a moment left to myfelf to tell you, that I over- " heard him yefterday agree with a painter for 200 1. to paint his " country hall with trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other " ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm '■*." editor of the Blographia Brltannica obferves, from his own know- ledge, that it was fo painted in black crayons, and that over the door was this infcription : " Satis beatus ruris honoribus." The fite of Dawley-houfe was purchafed in 1772 of the Earl of Uxbridge, by Thomas Flight, Efq. who fold it to Mr. •■ Nomma Villarum, Harl. MSS, Brit. 37 Hen. VI. m. 38. d. Muf. No. 6281. ■' Parifh regifter at Ickenham. •* See CI. 28 Hen. VI. in. 14. d. and CI. '♦ Pope's works.Svo. 1751, voi.ix.p. 82,83. John H A R L I N G T O N. 129 John Thiftlewood. Mr. De Sails purchafed It of the latter in 1797. The parifh church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is an an- Parifli cient ftrufture, confiding of a chancel and nave. At the weft end is a fquare embattled tower of flint and ftone. The fouth door has an arch of Saxon archite£lure, with zig-zag mouldings, and a mould- ing compofed of cats' heads with long tongues, curled at the end. The font, which ftands on a circular pedeftal, furrounded by four fmall pillars, is fquare. The fides are ornamented with rows of circular arches. On the north wall of the chancel is a gothic monument, with an obtufe arch, ornamented with quatrefoils and foliage, (under which is the effigies of the deceafed on a brafs plate,) to the memory of Gregory Lovell, Efq. " lord of the manor, and patron of the church, who died in 1545. He married Anne, daughter of David Bellingham, Efq. On the fame wall is a tablet in memory of Robert Cooper, redor, 1732-3 ; and the monument of Dr. Trapp '*, with the following infcription : — " Near this place are depofited the re- Monument " mains of Jofeph Trapp, D.D. late redor of this parifh, who ^y^p. " departed this life Nov. 22, A. D. 1747, cet. fuse 67. " Death, judgment, heaven, and hell, think, Chriftian, think, *' You ftand on vaft eternity's dread brink; *' Faith and repentance, piety and prayer, " Defpife this world, the next be all your care. . " Thus while my tomb the folemn filence breaks, " And to the eye this cold dumb marble fpeaks, '' Arms — Quarterly, i & 4. — Barry ne- — Bellingham. — 2 & 3. A. three bends G. buly of fix O. & G. a canton Erm. — Lovell on a canton of the fecond a lion ramp, of 2 & 3. A. a lion ramp. G. crowned O. the firft. — Burnefliide. over all abends, bezanty— impaling. Quar- '^ Arms — A, three caltraps S. terly, 1 & 4. A. a buglehorn S. Aringed O. « Tho' I30 HARLINGTON. Monument of Lord Offulfton. Remarkable yew tree. *' Tho' dead I preach ; if e'er with ill fuccefs " Living I ftrove th' important truth to prefs, " Your precious, your immortal fouls to fave ; " Hear me, at leaft, oh! hear me from my grave." On the fouth wall is a tablet commemorating a benefadion of Laetitia, Lady Poyntz, by birth a Coppinger ; and on the fame wall is the monument of Sir John Bennet, K. B. Lord Oflulfton ". This monument is ornamented with bufls, in white marble, of Lord Oflulfton ; his firft wife, Elizabeth Countefs of Mulgrave (daughter of Lionel Cranfield Earl of Middlefex) ; and of his fecond wife Bridget, daughter of John Howe, Efq. of Langor, in Nottingham- fliire. On the floor is a brafs plate (with an effigies of the deceafed), in memory of John Monemuthe, redtor, (no date); and the tomb of Charles Earl of Tankerville, who died in 1767. On the fouth wall of the nave is an ancient bracket for a lamp, and near it the monument of John Williams, M. A. (forty-one years reftor,) who died in 1788". On the floor is the tomb of Mrs. Eleanor Higgins, 1776. In the church-yard is a yew-tree, cut in topiary work, the girth of which is 15 feet 7 inches, at about fix feet from the ground, at which height it branches out into two trunks of nearly an equal fize. A print of this yew-tree was publifhed in 1729, accompanied with fome verfes by John Saxy, then parifh clerk. In the church-yard are the tombs of R. Prockter, citizen and grocer of London, 1729; Mr. John Perridge, furgeon, 1789, &c. " Arms — G. a bezant between three de- proved Feb- 18, 169J.-5, and it appears by mi-lions ramp. A. — By the epitaph it ap- the parifh regifter, that he was buried Feb. pears as if Lord Oflulfton died in 1686, 15, 1694-5. aged 70. Collins dates his death in 1685, is The date of 1789 on the monument is Edmondfon in 1689. The fafl; is, that his erroneous. ' ■will bears date Nov. 28, 1694, and was The H A R L I N G T O N. 131 The reftory of Harlington, which is in the diocefe of London, Reaory. and in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, is taxed in the ancient valors at nine marks per annum '" ; in the King's books it is rated at 24 1. The inquifition taken by order of parliament, in 1650", ftates the parfonage of Harlington to be worth 140I. per annum, exclufive of the glebe, {36 acres,) valued at 28 I. It was then in the hands of Sir John Bennet, under a leafe granted (before the re- ftraining a£l,) by John Allen, who was inftituted to the redtory in 1570. Sir John Bennet, as leflee, allowed the minifter 42 1. per annum, befides the fmall tithes and his dwelling, which made his benefice 52 1. per annum. The advowfon of the redtory defcended with the Advowfon. manor of Harlington alias Lovells, till 1748, when Edward Stephenfon, Efq. fold it to Richard Edwards, Efq. who conveyed it in 1749 to the Rev. John Williams. Mr. "Williams in 1761 fold it to Mifs Millicent Neate ; who, in 1763, devifed it to her nephew, Charles Neate, Gent. Mr. Neate, in 1772, aliened it to the Rev. Dr. Trinder; by him it was conveyed to the Rev. Dr. Gabriel, and by Dr. Gabriel, in 1797, to William Chivers, Efq. John de Teukfbury, who was prefented to this redlory in 1363, Reflors. is fuppofed to have been the learned philofophical writer of that Teukfbury. name, of whom Pitts gives an account in his Treatife of Illuftrious Men". John Kyte, who refigned the redory of Harlington in 15 10 **, it is John Kyte. probable was the fame perfon who was made Bifhop of Carlifle, in 1520 : he died in 1537, and lies buried at Stepney. Jofeph Trapp, who fucceeded Robert Cooper in this re£lory in jofeph 1733, was born at Cherrington, in Gloucefterftiire, in 1679. He "^*'' received his education at Wadham college, where he took the degree ofM.A. in 1702. In 1704 he publifhed a tragedy called " Abra '* See Harl. MSS. Brit.Muf. No. 60. " Newcourt'sRcpertorium, vol. i. p. 631. " In the Archbiftiop's Library at Lam- ** Ibid. beth. S 2 " Mule; 13- H ARLINGTON. Parifli regifter. " Mule; or, Love and Empire." In 1707 he was eleded Profeflbr of Poetry in the Univerfity of Oxford, being the firft chofen on Dr. Birkhead's foundation. His Ledtures, which were publifhed under the title of PreleEliones Poetica^ gained him the character of an ele- gant fcholar, and a good critic ; his tranflations of Virgil and Milton were fatal to his reputation as a poet. Mr. Trapp was created D. D. by diploma in 1727. He was efteemed a pathetic and inftruc- tive preacher. His fermons, which are in print, confifl: of a volume preached at Lady Moyer's Ledures in 1729, 1730, and 1731 ; three Difcourfes, in oftavo, explaining certain illuftrious prophecies ; two volumes of Mifcellaneous Sermons, on moral and practical fubjedls, publifhed fome years after his death, and feveral fmgle difcourfes. The prefent redor is Robert Burd Gabriel, D.D. who was in- ftituted in January 1789, on the death of John Williams, Dr. Trapp's immediate fucceflbr. There is a fmall meeting-houfe in this parifh belonging to the Methodifts. The regifter of baptifms, burials, and marriages in this parifh commences in 1540. Compara- tive ftate of population. 1580-9 1630-9 1680-9 1730-9 1780-9 1790-4 1795-9 Average of baptifm! 3* Average of burials. 87 5A 74 7A 6| 8A 91- 94 II I2tV 13 "4 HI 91 In H A R L I N G T O N. 133 In 1548 the number of boujlyng people in this parifli was 91 ". The prefent number of houfes is 82 ; of inhabitants, about 450. The number of burials in 1603 was nine ; in 1625 ten ; and in 1665 one only is regiftered. ExtraEls from the Reglfter, *' Sir John Maurice, married to Lady Coppinger," (relid of Sir Ambrofe,) " Feb. 27, 1605-6." " Charles, fon to my Lord Shandois, baptized May 19, 1608, " and buried the fame day.'*^ " My Lady Bennet, buried May 14, 1614." — Elizabeth daugh- Family of ter of Sir Thomas Lowe, Knt. Alderman of London, fecond wife o/Tanker-'^ of Sir John Bennet, Judge of the Prerogative Court. Neither this ^'"^' Lady nor Sir John's third wife, is mentioned by Collins, — " Mr. Gre- " gorie and Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet, married March 7, 1 615-6." — " Anne, daughter of Sir John Bennet, the younger, Knt. buried " Aug. 28, 1623 ; Arthur, his fon, baptized Jan. 13, 1629-30, " buried April 5, 1631 ; Anne, baptized March 7, 1630-1 ; Edward, " baptized June 30, 1631; buried Nov. 14, 1668; Elizabeth, " baptized 0£l. 12, 1633;" (ihe married Sir Robert Carr, Bart, of Sleaford, in Lincolnfhire ;) " Richard, baptized May 15, 1637; " buried June 26, 1643 ; Sir John Bennet, buried Nov. 16, " 1 658 ; Dorothy his wife," (daughter of Sir John Croftes of Saxham, in Suffolk,) "Nov. 2, 1659." " Mary, daughter of Thomas Bennet, LL.D." (afterwards Sir Thomas,) " baptized Aug. 26, 16^6.'^ " Mrs. Charlotte, wife of " Dr. Bennet, buried Oft. 4, 1636. — Mrs. Charlotte Bennet," (pro- bably her daughter,) " April 2, 1639; Henry Bennet, Gent. May « 4, 1686." " Mrs. Dorothy, daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Oflulftonj buried March 7, 1693-4; the Right Hon. John Lord OfTuI- *• Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office. See note 9. p. 5. " fton. i( 134 H A R L I N G T O N. " fton, Feb. 15, 1694-5; the Right Hon. Bridget Lady Dowager " OfTulfton, July 21, 1703." " The Hon. John Lord Burleigh, and the Hon. Arabella Bennet, " married at her brother Lord Offulfton's, Feb. 9, 1696-7." " Bridget, daughter of the Right Hon. Charles Lord OfTulfton, " and Mary, baptized Sept. 3, 1696;" (fhe married the firft Earl of Portfmouth ;) " Charles, baptized Dec. 21, 1697;" (he fuc- ceeded to the Earldom of Tankerville, to which his father was advanced in 1714;) " Annabella, baptized Dec. 6, 1698"; ({he married William Paulet, Efq. fon of Lord William Paulet ;) " Mary, baptized Auguft 2, 1701 ;" (fhe married William Wilmer;) " Henry, baptized Auguft 31, 1702 ; Grey, May 18, 1704 " (buried Nov. 21, 1724); John Bennet, fecond fon of Lord " OfTulfton, buried June 7, 1 703 ; Mary, Lady OfTulfton, June 3, " 17 10; the Right Hon. Charles Earl of Tankerville, May 26, " 1722; the Right Hon. Charles Bennet Earl of Tankerville, *' March 30, 1753 ; the Right Hon. Charles Bennet Earl of Tan- " kerville, Nov. 6, 1767 ; Alicia, Countefs Dowager of Tankerville," (daughter of Sir John Aftley, Bart.) " March 7, 1791." " Sir William Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, in the county *' of Somerfet ; and the Right Hon. Maria Catherine, Marchionefs " ofBlandford, married June i, 1734." *' The Hon. Mary Fane, daughter of the firft Vifcount Fane, and " wife of Jerome De Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, " buried April 7, 1785 ; Jerome De Salis, S. 1. R. C. buried Auguft *' 18, 1794." singular fu- " William Woodefon, Gent, burled Od. 16, 1786." The fu- Ham \Voode"- n^^al of this gentleman was conduced according to the following fmgular diredions in his will: — " Item, I commit my body to the earth, to be buried in a plain cofHn, to be drawn, if not incon- *' venient, on my own one-horfe chair to the church, and then to *' be carried on -the fhoulders of fix poor men, without any pall or " any Ion. {( H A R L I N G T O N. 135 " any manner of funeral pomp whatfoever ; and I order that the " faid poor men be paid two {hillings and fix pence each for their *' trouble." " Item, I order my corpfe to be drefled in my laft new fhirt and " muflin neckcloth, and nightcap, and my plain nightgown, and " my old rufty fword, which always lay by my bedfide in my right " hand, and my Latin Teftament in my left hand, and my little " pillow in the pillow-cafe under my head." The will bears date 1781. Laetitia, Lady Poyntz, about the year 16 10, gave the intereft of Benefac- 100 1, to be diftributed among poor widows or widowers. Lord OiTulfton in 1691, gave the intereft of 200 1. to apprentice poor children, or for other charity. Thefe benefadlions are now confoli- dated. Eighty pounds of Lady Poyntz's money was laid out (in 1693) in the purchafe of fix acres of land, and i2ol. of Lord OfTulfton's, purchafed the fame quantity in 1727. This land in 1795 was let at 12I. per annum. One acre two roods and nine perches was then fold to the Grand Junction Canal Company, for the fum of 84I. i8s. producing an intereft of 4I. los. per annum, the remainder of the land now lets for n 1. 2s. per annum. The money remaining in ftock produces an intereft of 5I. per annum, being in the whole 21I. 12 s. To this is added 4I. per annum re- ceived by the parifh for the rent of an orchard adjoining the poor- houfe, which makes it 25 1. 12 s. Five pounds of this income are diftributed between widows and widowers, purfuant to Lady Poyntz's intentions ; the remainder is chiefly appropriated to the fupport of a boys' and girls' fchool, and fome cafual relief is given to the poor. Robert Cooper, redor of this parifh, who died in 1733, gave an acre of freehold land to the parilh-clerk to take care of his tomb, keep it clean, and paint the rails when wanted. There is an acre of church-land belonging to this parifh, given by a benefadlor now unknown, before the reformation. [ 136 ] HARMONDSWORTH. Name. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. .Scarce plants on Houn- flow-heath. THE name of this place in the furvey of Domefday, and other ancient records, is written Hermodefworth. Worth in the Saxon, is a manor or farm, and fometimes a village. — Hermodcy it is probable, was a proper name. Harmondfworth lies in the hundred of Elthorne, about half a mile from the Bath road, and about fifteen miles and a half from London. The parifh is bounded by Drayton, Harlington, Stan- well, and by the weftern ftream of the Colne, which feparates it from Iver, in Buckinghamfhire. By a furvey made in 1770, it appears, that the parifh of Harmondf- worth contains (exclufive of gardens and fites of buildings) 2875 acres of land, of which 1404 were then arable, 295 meadow and pafture, and 1176 (being part of Hounflow-heath, and a greater proportion than belongs to any other parifh,) common '. This heath furnifhes the botanifl with feveral fcarce plants, which, though not all the growth of this parifh, may be here enumerated : — Centunculus minimus \ Ltttorella lacujlris ; Scirpus fetaceus ; fcirpus pau- ciflorusy fcirpus acicularis (in this parifh, near the Bath road) ; Pillu- laria globifera; Conferva reticularis ; Acorus Calamus (near Baber- bridge) ; Iberis nudicaulis ; among the camp-holes in the parifh of Ifleworth ; Drofera Anglica^ not far from the former ; Carduus pra- • From the information of Mr. Eaft of Heathrow. V tetfis H A R M O N D S W O R T H. 137 tetijis; ^wALycopodlum /««W^/«»/, nearHanworth-bridge; AUJina dama- fotiium; Limofclla aquatic a; Utr'icnJaria major; Vtr'icularia minor; Ly- thru7n hyjfopi folia; GefitiafM Fneumonantbe, towards H.a.mY>t.0T], not far from the wall of Bufliy Park*. The following, though lefs rare, are not of very general growth ; Drofera rotiaidifolia; Atiagallis te7iella\ Hyperi- cum elodes ; Spergida nodofa; Sagina creSla; 2sv<\ Mentha pidegium. The Cicuta virofa, a fcarce plant, faid to have been the fpecies of hem- lock with which Socrates was poifoned, grows in the parifli of Harmondfworth, not far from Longford, by the fide of the river. The Myofurus minimus is found in abundance in the fields between Sipfon and Harlington, The general nature of the foil in this parifh is a rich loam ; to- wards Heath-row it is rather gravelly. The weftern branch of the river Colne feparates the pariflies of Harmondfworth and Iver ; Cardinal Wolfey's river, the old river or powder-mill river, and another branch of the Colne, run through this parifh between Longford and Colnbrook. A little to the eaft of Heath-row, on Hounflow-heath, within this Ancient. parifh, are very perfedl remains of an ancient camp, fingle trenched, '^'""P* about 300 feet fquare. There is a plate of this camp in the Itinera- rium Curiofum of Dr. Stukeley, who afferts, but without any other authority than con.ie£lure to fupport the affertion, that it was one of Csefar's ftations after he pafTed the Thames on his route to attack Cafhelvan at Watford '. Not far from this camp is one of the ends of the bafe, (marked General out by an inverted cannon fixed in the ground,) which was mea- '"'• * "* '^^ fured by the late General Roy in his trigonometrical operations for the purpofe of afcertaining the diftance between the meridians of the Royal obfervatories of Greenwich and Paris. This parifh pays the fum of 3971. to the land-tax, which is at Land-tax. the rate of about 2 s. 6d. in the pound. * I believe it is in the parifh of Hampton, Hampton common, oa what is perhaps more properly called ' Itinerar. Curiof. Cent. if. p. 2. T Bifhop 1-8 H A R M O N D S W O R T H. J Priory. Bifhop Tanner mentions a priory at Harmondfworth of the Bene- didline order, which was a cell to the Abbey of the Holy Trinity at Rouen. That Abbey poffefled the manor ; but I have not found any traces of a priory here in ancient records, nor does the Bifhop give references to any in which the mention of it occurs. Manors. The manor of Harmondfworth is thus defcribed in the re- cord of Domefday : — " The Abbot of the Holy Trinity at " Rouen, holds Hermodefworthe of the King for 30 hides ; the " land is 20 carucates. Eight hides belong to the demefne, on " which are three ploughs. The freeholders and villans have be- *' tween them ten ploughs, and feven more might be employed. " A certain knight has two hides, and two villans have each a hide ; " 14 villans have a virgate each ; fix villans half a virgate each ; fix " bordars five acres each ; there are feven cottars, and fix flaves. " There are three mills, which produce 60 s. rent, and 500 eels. " The fifheries produce 1000 eels. The meadow-land is equal to " 20 carucates; there is pafture for the cattle of the manor, pannage " for 500 hogs, and one acre of vineyard. The whole value is " 20 1. per annum ; vrhen the Abbot firft came in pofTeflion 12 1. " In the time of King Edward (the ConfelTor) 25 1. Earl Harold " was then proprietor of this manor, within which a certain focman " held two hides, (parcel of the faid thirty,) but could not fell it " out of Hermodefworth." In the year 1 340 KIngEd ward the Third, being then at war with Philip de Valois, feized this manor into his own hands. It was valued at 26 1. 13 s. 2d. per annum, the quit-rents amounting to 3 1, 5 s. yd.; the rents of affize to 1 61. 1 7 s. 9 d. ; the arable land belonging to the demefne was valued at 4 d. an acre, the meadow at 8d. the pafture at 2d. There were two water- mills, one for corn, let at i8s. per annum; the other for malt, let at 8 s. * In 1 39 1 the manor being ftill in the hands of the Crown, ♦ Efch. 14 Edw. III. No. 63. the HARMONDSWORTH. »39 the Abbot and Convent procured the King's licence to convey it to William de Wickham, Bifhop of Winchefter ', who fettled it upon his newly founded college. In 1544 the warden and fcholars of Winchefter college furrendered this manor to King Henry VIII. in exchange for other poireffions ^ The fame year the King granted a leafe of it to Edmund Harman for the term of forty years, to com- mence after the expiration of a term of ten years, granted in 1541 by the warden and fcholars of Winchefter college, to William Noke and Joan his wife'. King Edward VI. in 1547, granted this manor, in fee, to Sir William Paget, Secretary of State ^ from whom it defcended to the Right Hon. Henry Earl of Uxbridge ', whofe property it now is. The fines within this manor are at the will of the lord, and pro- Cudoms of duce about 100 1. per annum ; the tenants have a right of fifhery in all the rivers and common waters within the manor on Wednefdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The rental of the manor of Harmondfworth in 17 13 was 63 1. 18 s. id. The quit-rents were then 22 1. 18 s. id. "" The fite of the manor being a farm-houfe, with fome lands be- longing to it, were fold by Lord Uxbridge in 1774 to John Powell, Efq. and are now the property of Arthur Annefley Powell, Efq. In the farm-yard is a barn remarkable for its large dimenfions, being Large barn. 191 feet in length, and 38 feet in breadth. A fnialler manor in Harmondfworth is thus defcribed in the re- cord of Domefday : — " Roger, the Earl (of Arundel) holds a manor *' in Hermodefworth, containing one hide. The land is one caru- " cate, which is but half cultivated. It is in the tenure of two " villans, and its value has been always los. per annum. In the " reign of King Edward (the Confeflbr,) it was the property of ' Pat. 14 Rich. II. pt. 2. m. 32. * Pat. 1 Edw. VI. pt. 2. * Record in the Augincntatio;i Office. ' See p. 33, 34. ' Ibid. '° Papers in the poffeflion of Lord Bofton. T 2 " Alwin, 140 H A R M O N D S W O R T H. *' Alwln, a fervant of Wigot, who could difpofe of it at pleafure. *' It is now within the manor of Colham, which it was not in the " reign of King Edward." What became of this eftate afterwards, or by what name it is now diftinguifhed, it is fcarcely poffible to afcertain. Manor of In the year 1363 John de Padbury granted the manor of South- cote, near Colnbrook, to Odo Purchafe, together with all the lands in Sibbcfton, (Sipfon,) and Langeforth, (Longford,) In the parifli of Harmondfworth, which he inherited from Thomas de Collee, or which he and the laid Thomas held jointly by enfeoffment from Edward Blakewaye and Ilabel his wife, who was widow of William Pycott, or of Dionifia, reli£l of John Durant ". I find no farther mention of this manor by the name of Southcote ; but it appears that in the year 1402, Thomas Aunger releafed to John Hore, otherwife Okebourne, and his heirs, certain lands in Hermodefworth^ Manor-farm Called PaSury hnds '\ The manor of Padbury is afterwards fpoken of Padbury. ^^f ^g parcel of the demefnes of the manor of Harmondfworth, and as fuch was conveyed to the Crown in 1541 '\ In 1587 it was de- mifed to Sir Chriftopher Hatton, at the rent of 5I. per annum, for twenty-one years'*; and in 1592, to John Moyle for forty years, to commence from 1608 ". The fee of this manor-farm was granted to Thomas Lord Paget, in 1603'*. In 1772 it was purchafed of his defcendant, (the prefent Earl of Uxbridge,) by Sir Thomas Heath- cote, Bart." and in 1789, fold to the late George Byng, Efq. whofe fon is the prefent proprietor. In the year 1430 Rofe, wife of Robert Tentirden, releafed to Sir John Inn, his right in certain lands in Harmondfworth and Stan- well, formerly the propeity of Godfrey Atte Pirye, or of Mirabel, " CI. 37 Edw. III. m. 2. d. '^ Fee-farm rolls, Ibid. "• CI. 3 Hen. IV. pt. 2. m. 17. '? Records in tlie Regifter Office for " See note 8, p. 139. Middlefex. '♦ Leafes in the Augmentation Office. " Ibid. the H A R M O N D S W O R T H. 141 the wife of Richard Edward, relidl of the faid Godfrey '*. Tlie manor of Perry Place, (now called Perry Oaks,) defcribed as par- Manor- fnrm eel of the demefnes of the manor of Harmondfworth, was demifed piaceror in 1587 to Sir Chrlftopher Hatton for twenty-one years, at the rent ^"'^^' ^^^^' of 81. per annum '°; and in 1592 to Joan, wife of Richard Tottill, and her fons William and John, for their refpedtive lives in rever- fion ". This eftate was granted to Thomas Lord Paget in 1603 ", and is now the property of Thomas Wood, Efq. of Littleton. In the year 1402 Thomas Aunger releafed to John More, formerly called Okebourne, all right in certain lands, late Peter Luddington's, which after the death of Matilda, mother of the faid Peter, would revert to him ". The manor of Luddington being defcribed as Manor-farm parcel of the demefnes of the manor of Harmondfworth, was demifed °^J-"'^'^'"K- in 1572 (at the re^^affof 2I. 13s. 4d.) to Anne Lady Paget, and Thomas Lord Paget, for twenty-one years, to commence from 1582, if the faid Lady Paget and Lord Paget fhould live fo long''^ In 1 59 1 it was demifed to Elizabeth Hayes, widow, and Henry Yowle, her fon, for twenty-one years ^\ The fee of this manor- farm was included in the grant to Thomas Lord Paget ^\ and de- fcended from him to the prefent Earl of Uxbridge, whofe property it was in 1771 ; but whether it has fmce been fold, I have not been able to afcertain. There was included alfo in the grant to Thomas Lord Paget, a Munor-f.irm manor-farm called Barnard's, which I have not feen mentioned in ''^^^™'^""'*'^- any record of a more ancient date. This farm was in Lord Uxbridge's pofieflion in 1771, but I have not been able to afcertain " Cl. 8 Hen. IV. m. 17. fice,) K. 20. "> Leafes in the Augmentation Office. '" Leafes in the Augmentation Oflicc. "'Ibid. ^* Ibid. " See note 16. *s See note 16, " Cart. Antiq. (in the Augmentation Of- whether 142 HAR MONDS WORTH. whether it has fi nee been fold, or whether it ftill continues to be his property. Parifli- The parifh-church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is an ancient church. gothic flrudlure, built chiefly of flint. At the wefl: end Is a fquare brick tower, with turrets at the corners. The fouth door, which is of Saxon architedure, has a circular arch ornamented with eagles' bills. The chancel has a north aifle ; the nave has a north and a fouth aifle, from which it is feparated by circular pillars and pointed arches. The font, which is odlagonal, {lands on a circular pedefl:al, furrounded by fmall pillars. Monuments. On the eafl: wall of the chancel is a monument in memory of Thomas Willing, Efq. 1773, and Sir Walter Stirling of Fafkine, in Scotland, 1786. In the fouth wall are three flone flails, and a pifclna of gothic architetSure ; in the fame wall are the monuments of Mr. Richard Bankes *^ I75°> Anna, his wife, daughter of John Middleton, Efq. of Durham, 1735; the Rev. John Bufh ". vicar, 1713; John Buili, Gent. 1726; Charles Bufli, Efq. Secretary to the Oi'dnance, 1756 (fons of the Rev. John Bufh) ; and Dorothy Pottle, his daughter, 1740. On the floor are the tombs of Agnes Urmeftone, 1614; Leonard Davies, Subdean of Hereford, 1623; Roger Barnes, 1633; Frances Nafh, his fifl:er, 1637; Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Bankys, 1639; Daniel Bankys, aged 90, 1665, (by two wives he had nine fons and ten daughters) ; Jane, daughter of Daniel Bankys, and widow of Matthew Crutchfield, 1683 5 Ann, wife of Jofeph Stent, 1686; Anne, relldl of Daniel Gillingworth, 1687; John Tombes, Gent. 1688; Daniel Tombes, citizen and painter-flialner, 1708; Matthew " Arms — S. on a crofs 0. between 4 fl.- *' Arms — Az. a wolf falient, chained, de-lis A, a torteaux, impaling, Quarterly O. between two crofles patee fitchee A. on G. & O. in the firft a crofs flory A. — Mid- a chief of the fecond a boar's head couped dletoii. of the field. Tombes, H A R M O N D S W O R T H. ,43 Tombes, citizen and merchant-taylor, 1709 ; and John Snowden, Gent. 1776. In the north alfle of the chancel is a monument (without dates) In memory of the Rev. John Lidgould, thirty-three years vicar ; Honoria, his v?ife ; and Thomas Sedgwick, Efq. his fon-in-law. Mr. Lidgould died in 1760. The monument was put up in 1787. On the floor are the tombs of Thomas, fon of Richard Jordan, by Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Bankes, 1 694, and Frances, wife of Mr. John Woolfey, 171 2. In the nave are the tombs of Mr. Thomas Weekly, 1762, and his fon, of the fame name, 1783 ; in the fouth aifle, that of Richard Combes, Gent. 1672 ; and his father, grandfather, and great grand- father, all of the fame name (no dates). The redlory of Harmondfworth was appropriated to the Abbot Reftoiy. and Convent of the Holy Trinity at Rouen, and pafTed with the manor till 1544, when King Henry VIII. demifed it to Edmund Harman for forty years, commencing at the expiration of a term of ten years, granted to William Noke, Efq. and Joan, his wife, in 1541 ^'. In 1592 it was demifed by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas and William Duck, for twenty years, at the yearly rent of 40I.'' In 1603 it was granted in fee to Thomas Lord Paget ^°. The prefent Earl ofUxbridge, in 1772, fold it to Sir Thomas Heathcote, Bart.^' In 1789 it was purchafed by the late George Byng, Efq. Knight of the Shire for Middlefex, and is now the property of his fon. In 1340 the redlory of Harmondfworth was valued at 13 1. 6 s. 8d. per annum ^*; in feme of the ancient va/ors at 30 marks ^^; in 1650 at 220 1.'* " Leafcs in the Augmentation Office. '* Efch. 14 Edw. III. »o Ibid. " See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 6c. 3" Fee-farm rolls. — Ibid. ^* Parliamentary furveys in the Arth- '■ Deeds in the Regifter Office for Mid- billiop's Library at Lambeth, dlefex. The 144 HARMONDSWORTH. Vicarage. Advowfon. The vicarage is rated in the King's books at 12I.; in 165011 was valued at 40 1. including twenty acres of glebe ^\ The advowfon was annexed to the redory till 1755, when this vicarage was confolidated with Drayton, and the advowfon of both fold by the late Lord Uxbridgc to the Rev. George Booth. It is '* now the property of the Rev. Dawfon Warren, M. A. Juiifdiaion. Harmondfworth being fuuated in the diocefe of London, andDray- tonwithinthe peculiar jurifdi(£lion of theDean andChapter of St. Paul's, thejurifdidlionofthe vicarage has fince its confolidation been alternate. The prefent vicar is the Rev. John Theodofms Langhorne, LL.B. inftituted in 1796, on the refignation of John Hubbard. The earlieft date of the rcgifter of baptifms, burials, and marriages in this parifh, is 1670. Parifli Re giller. Compara- tive ftate of populdtion. ;e of baptifms. Average of burials. i6i 20* I9r i6| 2IxV 18.V 244- 20|. 20| 20 1680-9 — 1730-9 — 1780-9 — 1790-4 _ 1795-9 — In year 1548 there were 245 hoiijlyng people in this parifh ". The prefent number of houfes is about no; of inhabitants about 610. The principal hamlets in this parifh are Sipfon, (anciently SIbbefton) and Longford, or a rather part of Longford, for the houfes on the fouth fide of the road are in the parifh of Stanwell. " Parfiamentary Surveys in the Arch- this advowfon, p. 39. b.ftop's hbrary at Lambeth. 37 chantry roll in the Augmentation ^ See a farther account of the defcent of Office.— See note 9, p. 5. ExtraBs HARMONDSWORTH. 145 ExtraRs from the Regijier. " Howe HIckes, Efq. of Widcombe in the county of Gloucefter, " and Mary Ernes, widow, of theparifh of A£ton, Middlefex, mar- " ried April 30, 171 7." " Sir Walter Stirling of Fafkine, in Scotland, buried Dec. 2, 1786, " from St. George the Martyr, London." There are fix acres of land now let at 8 1. 8 s. per annum, which Benefac- were purchafed in 1677 for the fum ofQol. and then conveyed to truftees for the ufe of the poor. As the name of the benefadlor is not known, it is probable that this fumofgol. was a parifh flock, the gift of various perfons. Mr. W. Oliver gave los. per annum for poor widows. Mr. John Dowfet, in 1722, gave, by will, a rent-charge of 20 s, per annum, (iffuing out of lands in Cranford,) to be diftri- buted in bread among the poor of this parifh. The Countefs Dowa- ger of Uxbridge in 1747, gave the intereft of lool. 3 per cent, to be applied to the relief of poor families, in fums of five (hillings each. Mr. John Tillier, in 1771, gave 20s. per annum, to be diftributed among the poor in bread. U [ h6 ] HILLINGDON. Etymology. T N the furvey of Domefday, and other ancient records, this place JL is called Hillendone, meaning, it is probable, the hilly or high down. The extenfive profped from Hillingdon-heath towards the fouthern part of Middlefex, and the Surrey hills, fufficiently indicates the elevation of the ground. Situation. Hillingdon lies in the hundred of Elthorne, on the Oxford road, at the diftance of fourteen miles from London. It includes the Boundaries, hamlet of Uxbridge, and is bounded on the north by Harefield and Ickenham ; on the weft by the river Colne, which feparates it from Denham and Iver in Buckinghamfhire ; on the fouth by Drayton ; on the fouth-eaft by Harlington ; and on the eaft by Hayes. The parifh of Cowley lies infulated within that of Hillingdon. The parifh of Hillingdon contains about 3600 acres. About one third of the cultivated land is arable. In a furvey of the manor, bearing date 1636, the commons arefaid to contain about 350 acres, namely, Northolt common, 150; Hillingdon-heath, and Gould's- green, about 100; Peel's-heath, and Colham-green, about 30 ; Col- ham- moor, about 20 ; Cowley-moor, and Hogs'-moor, about 60 acres. The extent of the commons in this furvey appears to have been much under-rated, fince they are now calculated to contain about 600 acres ; namely, Hillingdon-heath, about 200 ; Peel's- heath, or Colham-green, 15; Wewfley-moor, about 60; Gould's- green, 20; Uxbtidge, or Hogs'-moor, about 100; and Northolt, or Quantity of land. Commons. H I L L I N G D O N. 147 or Uxbridge common, about 200 acres. The rabbit warren on Warren. the laft mentioned common was an ancient appurtenance to the manor of Colham ; but upon the fale of that manor by Thomas Vyner", a leafe of the warren was granted to the faid Vyner, his heirs and afligns, for a thoufand years, paying the yearly fum of 2s. to the lord of the manor of Colham' % • This leafe was vefted in the late Benjamin Lethieullier, Efq. The foil in the fouthern parts of this parifh is a ftrong loam, to- Soil, wards the north a ftiff clay, and between the two, there is a vein of gravel. The parifh of Hillingdon (exclufive of the hamlet of Uxbridge,) Land-tax pays the fum of 773 1. 17s. iid. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of 2S. in the pound on land, and i s. 6d. on houfes. The landed property of this parifh is thus defcribed in the record Manors. ofDomefday: — " The manor of Hillendone is taxed at 4 hides, " held by Roger, the Earl (of Arundel). The land is two carucates. *' There are two hides in demefne, on which one plough might be " employed. The villans have one plough. There are two villans " who hold half a hide; two bordars who have ten acres, and one *' cottar. Two freemen hold a hide and a half, and have three " tenants under them. There is meadow equal to four oxgangs ; *' pannage for 1000 hogs, and 5 s. rent from a wear. The total " value is 3I.; in the reign of King Edward (the ConfefTor), at 4I. " Ulf, a Thane of the King's, was then proprietor of this manor, " and could difpofe of it at pleafure. " The manor ofColeham is taxed ateighthides,and is held by Roger, " the Earl (of Arundel). Theland isfevencarucates. There are fix hides " in demefne, on which are three ploughs ; and the villans have three " ploughs. There are fix villans who hold a virgate each, and four * See p. 150. De Burgh Efq. lord of the manor of * From the information of the late Fyfli Colham. U 2 " others 148 H I L L I N G D O N. " others who hold two virgates jointly. Theprieft has one hide. There *' are ten bordars, each of whom has five acres ; there are four " cottars, and eight flaves. There are two mills of 41 s. rent ; the " moiety of a third mill, which produces 5 s ; meadow equal to " three carucates ; pafture for the cattle of the manor, pannage for " 400 hogs, and one acre of vineyard. The whole value is 81. per " annum. When it came into the Earl's poifeffion it was 61. ; in " the reign of King Edward (the Confeflbr) lol. It was then held " of the King at that rent by Wigot." It appears by this furvey, that in the time of William the Conqueror the whole of the pro- perty of this parifh was vefted in Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, or at leaft held under him, he being poffefTed of two diftindt manors, called Hillingdon and Colham. The latter was then of the greater extent, and that of Hillingdon feems at length to have merged into it ; its name as a manor being now unknown, though it may be traced in records for fome centuries as will be here- after feen. Manor of The manor of Colham, which, in the reign of Edward the Con- Colham. fgflor had been the property of Wigot de Wallingford, appears to have defcended to Milo Grifpin, who married Maud, daughter and heir of Robert Doiley, by the daughter and heir of the faid Wigot. This Milo gave lands parcel of the demefnes of the manor of Col- ham, to the Abbot of Evefham '. It is probable that under fome pretext William the Conqueror took away this manor, and gave it to his kinfman Roger de Montgomery Earl of Arundel, who was in pofleflion when the furvey of Domefday was taken. On the rebellion of his fon Robert de Belefme, Earl of Arundel, Henry the Firft feized all his lands in 1102. It is probable that this manor was reftored to Milo Crifpin, who died in 1 106 ; it is certain at leaft, that it was the property of Brien Fitzcount, who married his widow *. Upon ^ Newcourt's Repertojrium, vol. i. p. 647. * Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 30. the HILLINGDON. the event of BrlenFitzcount's betaking himfelf to a religious life, the King feizedupon theHonour of Wallingford,of which this manor was part. When the manor of Colham was granted away again by the Crown does not appear, but in 1246 it was the property of William de LngefpieEarl of Salifbury '. Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln, having married Margaret Countefs of Salifbury, eldeft daughter and co-heir of William Langefpee, the laft Earl of that name, became poffeffed of this manor *. Alice, his only daughter and heir, married Thomas Earl of Lancafter, (who was beheaded in 1322,) and after his death Eubulo L'Eftrange. The laft marriage having taken place without the King's confent, all the lands which fhe held in capite became for- feited to the Crown. She furrendered this manor to the King in 1324, but foon afterwards procured a new grant of it^ ; and in 1331, it was confirmed by Edward the Third to herfelf and her hufband, Eubulo Le Strange, and their heirs \ Eubulo dying in 1335', Sir Roger Le Strange, his nephew and heir, granted the reverfion of this manor, after the death of the Countefs of Lancafter, to Sir Nicholas de Cantilupe, with remainder to himfelf and his heirs. The Coun- tefs died in 1349 '°, and Sir Nicholas in 1356 ", when this manor reverted to Roger Le Strange, (fon of the above-mentioned Sir Roger) ; from him it defcended '* to John Lord Strange of Knockin, whofe only daughter and heir Jane, married George Lord Stanley, eldeft furviving fon of Thomas Earl of Derby. Lord Stanley died in his father's lifetime, having from the time of his marriage been fummoned to Parliament as Lord Strange. His eldeft fon Thomas, 5 CI. 30 Hen. III. m. lo. manor in 13S3 (Efch. 6 Rich. 11. No. 64. * He died feifed of it in 1311. See Efch. and Efch. 9 Rich. II. No. 47); John Le 4Edw. II. No. 51. Strange,ini398,(Efch.2iRich. II.N0.52.); ^ See CI. 16 Edw. II. m. 34. d. and CI. Matilda, his widow, in 1404 (Efch. 5 Hen. 17 Edw. II. m. 9. IV. No. 27.) ; Sir Richard Le Strange in * Cart. 5 Edw. III. No. S3, and Cart. 1449 (Efch. 27 Hen. VI. No. 29.) ; Eli- 10 Edw. III. No. 9. zabeth, his widow, afterwards the wife of ' Efch. 9 Edw. III. No. 42. Richard Kynadon, in 1454, Efch. 32 Hen. *" Efch. 22 Edw. III. No. 34. VI. No. 18. — John Lord Strange, died in " Efch. 29 Edw. III. No. 6. 1478 (Weever's Funeral Monuments). '* Roger Le Strange died feifed of this who '49 15° H I L L I N G D O N. who lucceeded his grandfather as Earl of Derby, died at the manor- houfe of Colham in 152 1 ", This manor continued in the Derby family '* till the death of Alice Countefs Dowager of Derby, in 1637, when it pafi'ed by her bequeft to George Lord Chandos, her grandfon (being the fon of Grey Lord Chandos, by her eldeft daughter and co-heir Lady Anne Stanley). Lord Chandos died in 1654, having bequeathed this manor to his fecond wife Jane, and other truftees for the purpofe of fale ". Jane, Lady Chandos, hav- ing married to her fecond hufband George Pitt, Efq. of Stratfield- fay, they, in conjundlion with William Lord Chandos, (brother and heir-at-law of George,) aliened the manor of Colham in 1669, to Sir Robert Vyner, Bart. In 1 700 Thomas Vyner, Efq. devifee of Sir Robert, conveyed it by fale, to Richard Webb, Efq. and Samuel Dodd, Efq. (afterwards Sir Samuel Dodd, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer,) in equal moieties. The Chief Baron's family afterwards became poflefled, by purchafe, of Mr. Webb's moiety; and in 1782 the whole was fold by John Dodd, Efq of Swallowfield, in Berkfhire, to Fyfh De Burgh, Efq. of Weft Drayton, who died in the month of January 1800, having be- queathed this manor to his daughter Catherine, wife of James Godfrey Lill, Efq. who is the prefent proprietor, and is to take the name of De Burgh. Valuations In an extent of the manor of Colham, bearing date 131 1 '", the of the ma- r rr r • 1 1 r- nor. rents or aflize are laid to amount to 31I. os. 3^d. per annum; the rents called " cope felver" to 36s. the warren was valued at 3 s. /\.d. per anmim ; the arable land, of which there were 300 acres in demefne, was valued at 4 d. 3d. and at id. an acre; the meadow " CoUins's Peerage, vol. ii. p. 454. (edit, period was obligingly communicated the late 1768). by IVIr. De Burgh, to whom I was indebted '♦ Ferdinand Earl of Derby, died feifed likewife for many other particulars relating of it in Ij94- See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. to this parifh. No. 760. ■* Efch. 4 Edw, II. No. 51. " The defcent of the manor from this at H I L L I N G D O N. ,^, atis. 6d. the paft lire at 8d. In an extent of the manor taken in 1328 ", the whole value (including the demefnes,) is ftated to be 60 1. 13 s. 8 d. per annum. The manor of Colham extends over almoft the whole of the parilhes of Hillingdon, Cowley, and Ickenham. It was formerly of much greater extent, having alfo within its jurifdidlion the manors of Hatton and Dawley, and a manor in Harmondfworth, as appears by the record of Domefday. The old manfion-houfe belonging to this manor was for many Manor- years the occafional refidence of the Derby family. " Colham, the ^°"'^" " Erie of Darby's houfe, fays Leland, ftondith on the hither fide of " Colne ftream, about a mile above the bridge'* " (that is the bridge between Longford and Colnbrook). Colham-houfe was pulled down before the memory of any one now living. It was fituated in Pat- cott-field, through which the Grand Jundion canal pafles. By a furvey of the manor of Colham made in 1636, it appears Qn that lands defcend by common inheritance, excepting that in cafe of '^^ manor. co-heirs, the jury may divide the meffuages, lands, and tenements of the deceafed, and the eldeft daughter has the firft choice. The fines within this manor are certain, being two years quit-rent on death or alienation. The freeholders and copyholders of inherit- ance have a right of fifhing in all the common waters and rivers within the manor on Wednefdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The little river running by Colham mill belongs to the lord of the manor, fubje£t to the tenants right of filhery. The tenants are faid to have cuftomarily laved and fifhed the ponds on the commons againft Jamhula, or fuch meetings of neighbours ; the lord of the manor having a right of laving them at all times. The tenants are faid alfo to have had the liberty of taking turf from the commons for neceffary ufes, and for making butts time out of mind. " Efch, 2 Edw. III. No. 61. " Itinerary, vol. ii. p. 2. The 152 HILLINGDON. at Hilling- don The manor of Colham has a courc-leet and court-baron, with right of free warren. The courts are held annually at an ancient public houfe in Hillingdon, called the Red Lion, which in the year 1646 was in the occupation of John Tifdale, as appears by the court- rolls, which confirm the following anecdote, printed in Peck's Defiderata Ciir'iofa "', from Dr. Michael Hudfon's examination before the committee of parliament, (in the year above mentioned,) relating Charles I. at {q King Charles's efcape from Oxford to the Scots at Southwell. the Red Lion ° ^ ^ " After we had pafled Uxbridge, at one Mr. Tifdale's houfe, a " tavern in Hillingdon, we alighted and ftaid to refrefh ourfelves " between ten and eleven of the clock, and there ftaid two or " three hours, where the King was much perplexed what courfe to " refolve upon, London, or northward ; about two of the clock we " took a guide towards Barnet." The ancient mills mentioned in the furvey of Domefday, now called Colham mills, being fituated at Wewfley in this parifh, were feparated from the manor before Mr. De Burgh's purchafe, having been fold by Mr. Dodd in 1771 to John Hubbard, meatman: they are now the property of his fon, the Rev. John Hubbard, redor of Sheperton. The Charlton family, as early as the year 1337, were poffeffed of an eftate called the majwr of Hillyrigdoii, which before that time had been the property of Sir Roger de Brok ". It is probable that this was the fame manor which is mentioned in the furvey of Domef- day. Among the eftates forfeited by the attainder of Sir Richard Charlton in i486, were the manors of Great Hillingdon and Little Hillingdon, which were granted by Henry VIL in the fame year, to Sir Thomas Bourchier, to be held by him jointly with Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Richard above mentioned, and after her death to him folely, and to his heirs male ". After this date nothing appears Colham mills. Manor of Great and Little Hill- ingdon. '' Vol. ii. book 9, fel. 21. (p. 360 of edit. »779-) CI. II Edw. IIL pt. I. m. 33. d. Pat. I Hen. VII. pt. 2. March 7. upon H I L L I N G D O N. 153 upon record of the manor of Hilllngdon, except that Thomas Earl of Derby died feifed of It in 152 1, and Ferdinand Earl of Derby in 1594. As the manor of Hillingdon is not mentioned in the inquifitions taken after the death of the Stranges, it is probable that it was purchafed by Thomas Earl of Derby of Sir Thomas Bourchier's heirs, and that it has fmce merged in that of Colham. The manor of Little Hilling- don ", which it is probable lay near the hamlet of that name, feems to have been always annexed to another eftate held in like manner by the Charltons and Bourchiers, called the manor of Hercies. This Manor of manor appears to have paffed through the fame hands as that of ^'"'^"^s- Swakeleys in Ickenham, till after the death of Sir Edmund Wright, about the middle of the laft century, when his eftates being divided between his daughters and co-heirs, this manor fell to the fhare of Elizabeth, who married Sir John Trott, Bart, of Laverftock, in Hampfliire. Catherine, daughter and heir of Sir John Trott, mar- ried Sir Hugh Stukeley, Bart, (of Hinton in Hampfhire,) whofe daughter and heir married Sir Charles Shuckburgh, Bart, of Shuck- burgh, in Warwicklhire. Sir John Shuckburgh (fon of Sir Charles) fold the manor of Hercies, in 1709, to Edward Gibbon, merchant; from him it paffed, in 1713, to Sir Thomas Hardy, Knt. who died in 1732. Sir Thomas's only fon dying without iffue, and inteftate, his daughter Conftance, wife of George Cham- berlayne, Efq. (who afterwards took the name of Denton,) became his heir. In 1778 the manor of Hercies was purchafed of Mrs. Den- ton's reprefentatives by the truftees afting under the will of Thomas Bridges, Efq. On the death of Mrs. Darby, wife of the late Admiral, it devolved to the Rev. Thomas Clarke of Swakeley, as devifee in remainder under Mr. Bridges's will, and is now the property of his fon, Thomas Clarke, Efq. " The manor of Little Hillingdon is in CI. 8 Edvv. IV. m. 28. as the property of mentioned in CI. 2 Edw. IV. m. 28. d. and the Charltons. X The 154 HILLINGDON. Manor of Tykenham. Manor of Colham Garden. Manor of Cowley- Hall. The manor of Tykeham, or Tykenham, which Is mentioned as part of the poflefllons of the Charltons in 1348 ''\ was determined in a trial between the re£tor of Ickenham and the vicar of Hilling- don, in 1453, to be in this parifh. The lands, which confifted of nearly three hundred acres, are defcribed inNewcourt'sRepertorium'*. They are on the north fide of the parifli adjoining to Ickenham, but the edate has long loft its ancient name, nor can I find who is the prefent proprietor. The manor of Colham Garden in this parifh was the property of William Weynsford alias Wandesford, who was attainted in 1461. It is defcribed in an inquifition, bearing date 1465, as confifting of 6^ acres of arable land, 18 of pafture, and 6 of meadow, valued altogether at 4 marks per annum ". In the laft mentioned year it was granted to Sir Thomas Burgh and his heirs male " ; fmce which time it has pafled through the fame hands as the Blfhop of London's manor in Drayton "", being both vefted in that fee. The manor has been retained by the Bifhops of London in their own hands ; the lands are leafed out for lives, and have had the fame leflees as the Bifhop's demefne lands in Drayton, being now in the occupation of Mrs. Gill, reWQ. of William Gill, Efq. late Alderman of London. The manor of Cowley Hall, which is held under the manor of Colham by a quit-rent of 5L per annum, is called in old records Couele Hall, or Covelefhall. The firft mention of it by that name is in the year 1462, when it was the property of Sir Thomas Charl- ton *^ ; but I fuppofe it to have been the fame manor which (by the name of Couelie only) was conveyed in 1337 by John de Charle- ton to John Atte Pole, for this was long before the Charltons became pofTeUed of the manor of Cowley Pecche. The manor thus con- veyed by Charlton to Atte Pole (which it is probable was only a " Cl. 22 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 9 and 13. ^' Vol. i. p. 647, 6.I.S. « Efch. 4 Edw. IV. No, 51. ^" Pat. 4 Edw. IV. pt. 2. m. 15 '^' Seep, 35, 36. " CI. 2 Edw. IV. m. 28. d. family H I L L I N G D O N. 155 family conveyance,) is ftated to have been formerly the property of Sir Roger de Brok ". Sir Thomas Charlton died fcifed of the manor of Cowley Hall in 1466'°. After the attainder of his fon, Sir Richard, it was granted to Sir Thomas Bourchier in the fame manner as Great Hillingdon^'. In 1585 it was the property of Drugo, or Drew Saunders '\ In 161 3 it was conveyed by Henry Chapman, and Sarah his wife, (daughter and heir of the faid Drew,) to Walter Pritchett " ; and, in 1639, ^Y Walter Pritchett to Peter Goffright, Gent, and John Woodward^*. In the year 1669 Lancelot Johnfon was proprietor of this manor; Mary Johnfon in 1741 ; and in 1742, Mr. Tower", father of Chriftopher Tower, Efq. the prefent proprietor. There is a confiderable farm at Wewfley in this parifh, belonging to St. Thomas's Hofpital. At Little Hillingdon, a hamlet of this parifh, is a feat of the Seat of the Marchionels or Rockmgham. In 1688 it belonged to Sir Philip Car- of Rocking- teret ; and it appears to have been for fome time the refidence ^° of ^^™" that family. In 1698 it was purchafed of Lady Carteret by Meinhardt, the laft Duke of Schomberg, who refided there many years, and in 1 717 built the prefent manfion ". The Duke died in 1719. In 1738 this houfe appeara to have been the property and refidence of John Vifcount Chetwynd ^\ whofe daughter married John Talbot, Efq. and refided at this houfe, which became her property, and was fold after her death (in 17S5) by her fon, John Chetwynd, then Earl Talbot, to the Marchionefs of Rockingham. At Little *9 CI. It Edw. III. pt. I. m. 33 d. Jotmfons to tlie Towers I do not know, as I 5° Efch. 5 Edw. IV. No. 31. could not obtain any informaiion from tlic " Seep. 152. and note 21. ' prefent proprietor. " Pat. 27 Eliz. pt. S. June 26. '" ^'^"^ ^°°^^- '^ Pat. II Jac pt. 36. April i. " From the infoi-mation of Fyfh De 3* Pat. i; Car. pt. 21. No. 83. Burgh, Efq. lord of the manor. " From the information of the late Fydi ^' Parifli books. De Burgh, Efq. How it palTed from the X 2 Hillingdon 156 HILLINGDON. Hlllingdon alfo, is a manfion belonging to the Hon. Mrs. Chet- wynd. Blue-houfe, Richard Boyle, the brave Lord Shannon, who diftinguiflied him- and other * felf at the taking of Vigo in 1702, had a feat on Northolt common, houfcsr called Blue-houfe, or Belmont, where he appears to have refided occafionally, from 1705 to 171a''. It afterwards belonged fuccef- fively to Col. Francis Alexander, his widow, (Lady Aubrey Beau- clerk,) and the Lethieulliers. It is now the property and refidence of Mrs. Newton. Near this common alfo is the feat of Elifha Bifcoe, Efq. who pofTefles confiderable landed property in this parifh. The Cedar- Near the church at Hillingdon, is an ancient manfion, commonly Jioufe, , called the Cedar-houfe, from the celebrated cedar tree which grew Remarkable in the garden. This tree was planted by Samuel Reynardfon, Efq. cedar tree, ^j^^ appears to have refided at this houfe from 1678 till his death, in 1721*°. The firft introdudion of the cedar into England was in 1683*'; and, it is probable, as Mr. Reynardfon was a na- turalift, and had a curious garden of exotics, that this was one of the eadieft planted. In September 1789, one of the largeft branches was broken off by a high wind, in confe- quence of which the tree was cut down. Mr. Lightfoot, who meafured this cedar in 1779, found its dimenfions as follows : The perpendicular height ^;^ feet ; the diameter of the horizontal extent of its branches from eaft to wefi:, 96 feet ; from north to fouth 89 ; the girth of the trunk clofe to the ground, 15 feet and a half; at three feet and a half above the ground 13 feet 6 inches j at feven feet, 12 feet 6 inches ; at twelve feet, 14 feet 8 inches ; at fourteen feet and a half, juft under the divifion of the principal branches, 15 feet 8 inches. The girth of the larger branch, at a foot and a half from its divifion, was 12 feet ; it then divided into two fecondary branches, ^5 rarifli books. . *" Ibid. '^' Miller's Gardener's Diftionary. one H I L L I N G D O N. ^sy one of which was 8 feet 6 inches in girth, the other y feet lo inches. The other principal branch at its divifion, meafured lO feet in girth, and foon dividing formed into two fecondary branches, each 5 feet 6 inches in girth. Benjamin Way, Efq. of Denham meafured the butt as it lay on Hillingdon common, and found the girth the fame as de- fcribed by Mr.Lightfoot, 1 8 inches from the butt, it was 14 feet 6 inches. Above 80 years growth were difcernible beyond the centre piece. The tree produced 450 feet of timber ; fix loads and three quarters of ftack-wood, and one hundred and a quarter of faggots. Mr. Lovett, a carpenter of Denham, who purchafed the tree of the proprietor for lol. retailed it for 22 1. 17 s. ; a part of the timber was bought by the late Lady Ducie, (then Mrs. Child,] and a part by Mr. Way*\ The Cedar-houfe was the feat of General Rich Ruflell, who died in 1735. It is now the property of Thomas Heming, Efq. and in the occupation of Lacey Primatt, Efq. On the north fide of Hillingdon heath, is a houfe built by the late Houfes on Admiral Drake, now the property of Peter De Salis, jun. Efq. who Hillingdon married his daughter Sophia: and farther on, is a houfe which was formerly parcel of the demefnes of the manor. It was inhabited for feveral years by the Duke of Buccleugh, and afterwards by General Columbine, who died in 1746. Mr. Dodd fold it to John Blen- cowe, Efq. It is now the property of the Rev. William Blen- cowe, and was lately in the occupation of Mrs. Hallifax, relidl of the late Bifhop of St. Afaph. On the fouth fide of the heath is a large manfion, lately built by Peter De Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire. It ftands on an eftate called Coomes alias Little London, formerly the inheritance of the Walker family, and lately belonging to the Greenwoods *\ '" From the information of Benjamin '" From the information of Fyfh De Way, Efq. Burgh, Efq. lord of the manor. Cowley xjS H I L L I N G D O N. Cowley Cowley Grove, on that fide of the parifli which adjoins to Cowley, is faid to have been the refidence of Booth the tragedian. It was in- habited for many years by John Rich, Efq. patentee of Covent Garden theatre. This houfe was for feveral generations the pro- perty of the Lane family, from whom it devolved to the Rev. Richard Harrington, the prefent proprietor, nephew of the late Thomas Lane, Efq. It is now in the occupation of Mrs. Evans, reli£t of Henry Michael Evans, Efq. Paiifti- The parifh-church, dedicated to St. John the Baptlft, Hands by church. ^YiQ road fide. It is a gothic ftrudure of flint and ftone, confifting of a nave, chancel, and two aifles, feparated by o£tagonal pillars and pointed arches. At the weft end is a fquare tower, embattled ; on the weft fide of which is a coat of arms much worn, (fuppofed to be Stanley,) impaling Spencer, and the arms of Harbie, with the initials T. H. Monument On the north fide of the chancel is a handfome monument of of Uxb^rdse white and figured marble, in memory of Henry Paget Earl of Uxbrldge, whofe effigies is i-eprefented in a recumbent attitude habited in the Roman toga. This Earl married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Catefby, Efq. of Whlfton, in Northamptonfhlre. His fecond wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Bagot**. The Earl of Uxbridge died at Drayton, Aug. 30, 1743, aged 83 ; Eliza- beth, his Countefs Dowager, died in 1749, aged 75. On the fame Various mo- Wall Is the monumeut of Thomas Harbie, Efq.*' of Adfton in Northamptonfhlre, 1592. He married, i. Alice, daughter of John Foxe of Burford. 2. Margaret, daughter of Malin, citizen of London. 3. Catherine, daughter of Clement Throckmorton, of Hafely, in Warwickfnire, by Katherine Nevll, filler of Lord Aber- ♦* Arms— S. on a crofs engrailed be- ^^ Arms— S. a fefle indented Erm. be- tween 4 eagles difplayed A. 5 lions pall, of twecn 10 billets (4 above and 6 below) A. — the field, Paget, impaling, I. A. 2 lions Harbie impaling, G. on a chevron A. 3 bars pair. garu. S. crowned O. — Catefby.— T I. gemelles S — Throckmorton. Erm. two chevrons A. — Banot. gavenny. (luments. H I L L I N G D O N. 159 gavenny. By his laft wife he had fix fons and five daughters. On the fame wall alfo is the monument of Samuel Nicoll, Efq. ** of Uxbridge common, 1758. He married Sarah, daughter of God- man Jenkyn, Efq. of Harpenden, in Hertfordfliire, and relicft of George Newdigate, Efq. On the fouth wall is a monument of various kinds of marble, fup- ported by columns of the Ionic and Corinthian order, in memory of Sir Edward Carr *', nephew and heir of Sir Edward Carr, gentle- man penfioner to King James and King Charles, who died in 1635. The effigies of the deceafed, of his lady, and two daughters, are re- prefented in kneeling attitudes. Sir Edward is reprefented in armour, with piked beard and whifkers, and a laced band; his Lady is habited in a gown with puckered fleeves, and a kerchief richly orna- mented with lace. Sir Edward Carr married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Onflow, Knt. by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Shurley of WifTon, in Suflex. This monument was repaired in 1775 by the Hon. George Onflow. On the fame wall are the monuments of Sarah, wife of Thomas Harbie "', (daughter of Fer- dinando Poyntz,) 1606; Samuel Nicoll, (buried at Elftree, in Hert- fordfliire,) 1723 ; John, his fon, 1723 ; and Juliana, his daughter, 1724. On the floor is the effigies, in brafs, of a man in armour, with the arms and quarterings of Stanley "', and on an efcutcheon of pre- tence, a lion rampant. "* Arms^Az. three lions heads erafed Three mullets on a chevron — Frankton. O. — Nicoll — on an efcutcheon of pretence, 4. Three efcallop-fliells on a chevron. — Quarterly 1 & 4. — O. a lion ramp, regard. Hai-ding. 5. Three bars and a canton. — S. — Jenkyn — 2 & 3. G. a pair of wings con- Houghton, joined in fefie A. over all a bend Az. '" Arms — Harbie impaling Barry of eight *'' Arms — G. on a chevron A. three O. & G. — Poyntz. etoiles S. a canton Erm. — The fame coat *' I. Stanley, Latham, andWarren, quar- not blazoned, impaling. Quarterly of fix, terly. H. & HI. Ifle of Man. IV. Strange, 1 & 6— a fefle between 6 Cornifli Choughs. Woodville, and Moyne, quarterly. — Onflow. 2. A lion ramp — Kinafton. 3. There i6o HILLINGDON. Tomb of John Lord Strange. Various tombs and monuments. There are alfo two other figures In brafs of a larger fize, under a Gothic canopy, reprefenting a man in armour, and a female with a gown and hood. I fuppofe this to have been the tomb of John Lord Strange of Knockin, and Jane hl-s wife, daughter of Richard Woodville Earl Rivers, and fifter of Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV. It is certain that fuch a tomb was placed for them in Hillingdon church, (in 1509,) by their daughter Jane, who married George Lord Stanley '°, heir apparent of Thomas Earl of Derby. The following infcription (fince removed) was to be feen on the tomb in Weever's time" : — *' Sub hac tumbajacet nobilis Joannes Dominus " Le Strange, Dominus de Knocking, Mohun, Waffet, Warnell et " Lacy, et Dominus de Colham ; una cum piftura Jagnettse quon- " dam uxoris fuse, quae quidem Jagnetta fuit foror Elizabethae Re- " ginse Anglia: quondam uxoris Edwardi Quarti, qui quidem " Joannes obiit 15 die 0£tobris, anno Regni Edwardi Quarti 17; quam quidem tumbam Jobanna Domina Le Strange, una cum " pidura Jagnetta^ ex fumptibus fuis propriis fieri fecit, 1509." On the chancel floor alfo is a tomb (with the effigies in brafs, of the deceafed and his wife,) in memory of Drew Saunders, Gent. one of the merchants of the flaple, 1579. There are the tombs alfo of Anne, daughter of Miles Willfon, of Briftol, 1569 ; William Gomerfall, citizen and ironmonger, 1597; John Bafket, (fon of Peter,") 1622; Ann, daughter of John Peers, Gent, (grandfon of John Peers of Arnold's Hall, Eflex,) and wife of Roger Lukyn, t( 5° In a coUeaion of Epitaphs, publifiied by James Jones in 1727, the following is printed as being then in Hillingdon church : " He married his firft fon George to no ferme nor grange, " But honourably to the heir of the Lord Strange, " Who liv'd in fuch love as no man elfe had, " For at the death of him divers went almoft mad. " At an ungodly banquet, alas, he was poyfoned, " And at London, in St. James's, Garlickhith, lies buryed." '" Funeral monuments, page 530. fon H I L L I N G D O N. i6i fon of Robert Lukyn, Efq. of lielham in Cambridgefliire,) 1 643 ; and Margaret, relidl of Samuel Nicoll, Efq. 1741. In the north-eaft corner of the nave (over the manor pew,) is a circular brafs plate (fixed in the v\'all,) with the arms and quarter- ings of Stanley ^\ furrounded by the order of the garter — and on an efcutcheon of pretence, a lion rampant. On the eaft wall Is the monument of Lady Anne Scott", daughter of the Duke of Buccleugh, 1737. On the fouth wall a memorial for Sarah Frances, daughter of Hugh Jofiah Hanfard, and wife of Edward Ford, furgeon, 1783; and an elegant monument (with a medallion of the deceafed in white marble,) in memory of Thomas Lane, Efq. of the family of Lane of Cowley Grove (no date). The monument was put up in 1795, by the Rev. Richard Harrington, in purfuance of the will of Arthur Benjamin Lane, Efq. (nephew of Thomas,) who died in 1785, and bequeathed the fum of 200 1. for that purpofe, after the death of his widow. On the floor are the tombs of Richard Pope, yeoman, 1651 ; Sufanna, his wido^v, wife of John Atlee, 1703; Francis Hall, 168 1 ; and Mr. Francis Godby, 1770. On the eaft wall of the fouth aifle, is a monument in memory of John Walker, Gent.'* 1682 ; and Mary his daughter, 1685. On the fouth wall are monuments in memory of John Walker, Efq." 17 15; Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir William Gierke of Shabbington, in Buckingham- fhire, 1734; John Walker, Efq. their only fon, 1715 ; Caroline, their daughter, 1723; Robert Beale, Efq.^' barrifter at law, 1717, '* I. & IV. Stanley, Latham, and War- proper, rewarded with a canton finifter Az. Ten, quarterly. II. & III. Ifle of Man. thereon a demi-ram mounting A. armed O. " Arms — O. on a bend Az. an etoile of between two fl.-de-h's of the laft ; over all a fix points between two crefcents of the dexter baton G. — Gierke, field, G. s* Arms — Ax. a chevron between three 5*Arms— A. a fefle counter-embattled be- ducal crowns O. in chief a fun in fplendor, tween three crefcents S. impaling, per fefle Az. Si Erm. a pale '5 Arms— Walker, impaling A. on abend counterchanged, three pheonsA.— Nutt. G. between tliree pellets, as many fwans Y (he i62 H I L L I N G D O N. (he married Margaret, daughter of George Nutt, by whom he had a daughter, Juliana, the wife of Robert Newdigate) ; George New- digate, Efq. (defcended from Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart, ferjeant at law,) 1735 (he married Sarah, only daughter of Godman Jenkyn", Efq.); and William Tatton, Efq. '° Lieutenant General, Governor of Gravefend and Tilbury, 1736. On the weft wall are the monu- ments of Jenkyn Newdigate, of Trinity college, Oxford, who died of the fmall-pox in 1740; and Catherine, daughter of Robert New- digate, wife of Henry Barradall, Efq." 1757. On the north wall is the monument of Sarah, daughter of Godman Jenkyn, Efq. who married, i, George Newdigate, Efq. 2. Samuel NicoU, Efq. (both grandfons of Robert Beale.) Mrs. Nicoll died in 1766. The monu- ment was put up by her coufin John Ofborn, Efq. In a porch at the weft end of the fouth aifle, commonly called Munfey's porch, is a memorial for William Munfaugh, alias Munfey, Gent, who died in 1655. On the north wall of the north aifle are the monuments of Colonel Francis Alexander *", (who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Newton,) 1713; and Mr. John Mift, 1737. On the weft wall that of Chriftopher, fon of Sir John Ingleby, Bart. 171 2. On the floor is the tomb of Humphrey Marriott, Efq. 1786. In the church-yard is the tomb of John Rich, Efq. (patentee of Epita h of Covent Garden theatre,) with the following infcription : " Sacred Rich, the " to the memory of Tohn Rich, Efq. who died Nov. 26, 1 761, comedian. . . . . " aged 69 years. In him were united the various virtues that could " endear him to his family, friends, and acquaintance. Diftrefs " never failed to find relief in his bounty, unfortunate merit a refuge " in his generofity." — Amy, Mr. Rich's fecond wife, died in " Arms— Newtligate impaling Jenkyn. tlie field, in chief a plate. '° .'Vims— Quarterly A. & G. four cref- *° Arms— Az. a chevron between 3 lions' cents counterchanged, impaling, O a chev- heads erafed, Ar. — impaling, A. a crofs ron between three leopards' faces G. flory S. the ends O,— Newton. '' Arms — S. on a bend A. 3 fl.-de-lis of 1737; yard. HILLINGDON. 16 1737; Prifcilla, his third wife, fifter of Edward Wilford, Efq. in In the church-yard are the tombs alfo of Michael Webb, 1639 ; Various Martha, his widow, 1660; Martha their daughter, wife of Thomas t)ie church- Pitt, 1677; Mr. William Webb, 1677; Richard Webb of London, merchant, 1679; Samuel Webb, citizen of London, 1733; Bar- tholomew Pearce, 1673; Michael Pearce, apothecary to the Prin- cefs Anne, Prince George of Denmark, and the Duke of Gloucefter, 1699; Dame Sarah Winford, (only daughter and heir of Michael Pearce, by Sarah his wife, daughter of Richard Holford, Efq.) relidt of Sir Thomas Winford, Bart. 1735; Thomas Impey of Furnival's Inn, 1685; William Crofier, yeoman of the guard to Charles II. 1689; Richard Dove, citizen and apothecary, 1699; Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Roger Atlee, (daughter of Richard Maudit, late of London, merchant,) 1700 ; Grace, daughter of Thomas Barker, Gent. wife of Samuel Cox of Ealing, V. D. M. 1704; Samuel Cox, 1719; Baftianus OttoBaier, (fon of their daughter Grace,) 1 713 ; Jofeph Pitt, Efq. (fon of Edwin and Anne,) apothecary to Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark, 1704; William Thorn, Gent. 1707; Anne, wife of Peter Gelflhorp, M.D. 17 16; Robert Briginfhaw, Gent. 1717; Mr. Benjamin Charlwood, (who married Mary, relidl of William Webb, who died in 1683,) 1720; Benjamin Charlwood, Efq. apothecary to George II. (who was flierifF of London, and died in his flirievalty,) 1766; Mary, fifter of Anne Gelfthorp, wife of Gideon Harvey, M.D. 1725; Charles Jenner, citizen and apothecary, 1726; John Fogg, Efq. 1731 ; Major General Rich Ruflell, fon of Sir John Ruflell of Chippenham, Cambridgelhire, (and grandfon of Oliver Cromwell,) 1735 ; Mabel, his wife, daughter of Gerard RufTel, Efq. of Fordham Abbey, in the county of Cambridge, 1731 ; John Stone, 1736; Martha, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Impey, grand-daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Pitt, and relid of Richard Awfiter, Efq. 1 737; Mrs. Mitchell, aged 90, 1738; Luke Dor- Y 2 rington, o iH HILLINGDON. rington, Efq. 1743; Luke Pope, Gent. 1744; William Pope, Efq. 1789; Catherine, his wife, co-heir of Henry Barradall, Eiq. 1762; John Wilfon, Efq. (fon of Alexander and Elizabeth Wilfon of Hafle- wood,) 1746; Mr. Thomas Lane, 1746; the Hon. Lieut. General Francis Columbine, fome time Governor of Gibraltar, (who married Anne, daughter of Streynfliam Mafter, Efq. CommiiTary and Judge- Advocate there,) ob. 1746; Thomas Wood, citizen and printer, 1747 ; Mr. John Clater, 1752 ; Hayford Wainwright of London> Gent. 1752; Wafhington Gafcoigne Nightingale, Efq. (fon of Jofeph Gafcoigne Nightingale, Efq. by Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Wafhington Earl Ferrers,) 1754; Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Newton, Knt. (Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Florence, and to the Republic of Genoa, and Judge of the High Court of Ad- miralty,) married firft to Colonel Francis Alexander, (who died in 1713,) 2. to Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, who was flain at Carthagena, in 1740. (This Lady, who died in 1755, directed by her will that her firft hufband, Colonel Alexander, Mrs. Perkins, and Captain Cullum, all buried in the north aifle, fhould be removed into the church-yard, but their bodies could not be found, having been buried more than thirty years) ; Henry Sumner Sedley, Efq. 1755 ; Catherine his wife, daughter of John Weeden, Efq. 1747; Mary, wife of John Lane, Efq. of Broomers, in this parifh, daughter of William French, Efq. of Groton, in Suffolk, 1 760 ; Mr. James Morris, who married Mary, daughter of Mr. John Rich, 1 767 ; George Voelcker, page to his Majefty, 1770; Sarah, his wife, daughter of John Rich, Efq. 1769 ; Thomas Wittington, a farmer, who died Sept. 19, 1769, in the 104th year of his age; Mary, wife of George Erneft Eller, Efq. 1771 ; Nicholas Browne, Efq. £772 ; Nicholas Browne, Efq. 1779; Benjamin Wellington, Efq. 1773; Robert Gregg, Efq. 1774; Thomas Gregg, Efq. 1786; Robert Gregg, Efq. 1792 ; Mr. Thomas Watkins, aged 93, 1775; Jane, daughter of the Rev. Richard Yaldwin, redtor of Ludgerfhall, relia H I L L I N G D O N. 165 relid of Edmund Brlckeuden, of the county of Wilts, 1775; Mr. Edward Cole, (fon of Stephen Cole, Efq. of Twickenham,) who married Anne, daughter of Edmund and Jane Brickenden, 1776; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Lewis, Efq. 1778; Mr. William Lewis, 1782 ; Thomas Lewis, Efq. 1791 ; Mrs. Mary Bourne, 1779 ; Rev. Richard Mills, fifty-three years vicar of this parifh, 1779; JVIary, his firft wife, daughter of Matthews of Cambridge, 1729; Mary, his fecond wife, daughter of the Hon. Major General Rich Ruflell, and Mabel his wife, 1743 ; Charles Hake, Efq. 1781 ; Abel Aldridge, Efq. 1782 ; Mary Butler, aged 95, 1784; Mr. John Hughes, (fon of the Rev. John Hughes of Llanengan, in Carnar- vonfhire, by Margaret, daughter of Robert Williams, Efq. of Brom- dannw, in Merionethniire,) 1786 (he married Anne, widow of Edward Cole); Francis Leflie, Efq. of North Britain, Deputy Go- vernor of Southfea Caftle, 1787 ; Anne, wife of John Warburton, Efq. (daughter of Abel Aldridge,) J 787; Maria, daughter of the Rev. William Holcombe, and grand-daughter of Abel Aldridge, 1788 ; Mrs. Anne Hughes, 1788 ; Mr. Richard Mills, 1788 ; Mrs. Catherine Lee, daughter of the Rev. Richard Mills, (by his firft wife,) 1790; Mrs. Grace Mortimer, aged 90, 1790; James, fon of David Anderfon, Efq. 1793; Henry Michael Evans, Efq. of Cowley Grove, 1795 ; Charlotte, his firft wife, daughter of Sir Charles Hardy, Knt. Lord of the Admiralty, 1764; and Mary, daughter of John Geers Cotterell, Efq. by Frances, daughter of Henry Michael Evans, 1794- At the weft end of the north aifle of the church, on the outfide, is the monument of Richard Mucklefton, Gent. 1773. On the north fide of the tower, is a tablet in memory of Mary Smith widow, who died May 29, and Arabella Taylor, who died May 31, 1758. " They lived together forty years in harmony and friend- " fhip, and were buried in the fame vault, on the fame day." The i66 H I L L I N G D O N. Reaory. The chuicli of Hillingdon was given by Brien Fitz Count to the Abbot and Convent of Evefham, in the early part of the 1 2th cen- tury, together with a third of the tiihes of his demefne, a hide of land, with a manfion and orchard at Uxbridge*'. In the year 128 1 (in confequence it is probable of fome exchange,) the church of Hillingdon was appropriated to the Bifhop of Worcefter and his fucceflbrs *\ A vicarage was at the fame time endowed "'. The reafon affigned in the endowment for the appropriation was, that the Bifhop of Worcefter being often fent for by the Archbifhop, and by the King to London, had not in his way any inn in this neighbour- hood, where upon unavoidable and prefling occafions he might fleep and lodge as he ought. During a vacancy of the fee of Wor- cefter, the cuftody of the red;ory was referved by the Dean and Chap- ter of St. Paul's '*. In the year 1453 John Carpenter, Biftaop of Worcefter, had a law-fuit with the redor of Ickenham concerning the tithes of an eftate called Tykenham, which the redlors of Icken- ham had for fome time received as belonging to them. The caufe was adjudged in favour of the Bifhop, the lands in queftion being determined to be in the parifh of Hillingdon. It appears by the ac- count in Newcourt's Repertorium, that they confifted of about 300 Leflees of acres. This redtory was held under the bifhop of Worcefter about the beginning of the laft century, by the family of Carr, and before that, it is probable, by the Harbies. Thomas Harbie, whofe monu- ment is in the chancel, died in 1598. The re£tory-houfe appears to have been built by the Carrs in 1604, their arms'' occurring in the hall-window with that date. Philadelphia, eldeft daughter and *' Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 647. *♦ Cart. Antiq. (in the nauniment room.) " Ibid. No. 985. *^ In the muniment room at St. Paul's *' See note 47. There is alfo the fol- are the appropri.^tion and endowment of lowing coat : A. a fefle indented between Hillingdon. — Cart. Antiq. No. 986 and three fpread eagles G. — In the parlour win- 1141; and Godfrey Bifhop of Worcefter's dow are the arms of Paget, confirmation, No. 429. and 987. co-heir the redory. H I L L I N G D O N. 167 co-heir of Sir Edward Carr, jun. married John Gierke, Efq. who was created a Baronet In 1660. Sir John Gierke became pofleflfed of the leafe of this redlory, which defcending to Francis Gierke, Efq. who died in 17 15, was fold by his executors in 1721 to Henry Lord Paget", afterwards Earl of Uxbridge. The Earl died in 1743, hav- ing bequeathed his intereft in this eftate to Sir William Irby, (after- wards Lord Bofton,) whofe fon, Frederick Lord Bofton, is the pre- fent leflee. The redorial eftate at the beginning of this century, and for fome years afterwards, was in the occupation of the Harring- ton family, who were fucceeded by the Popes. The prefent occupier William Pope, Efq. refides at the redlory. Adjoining to the church-yard is a field belonging to the parfonage, which was formerly a rabbit-warren, and is faid in the furvey of Colham manor, bearing date 1636, to have been originally granted in 1427 for life only, by Richard Lord Strange to Thomas Bolton Eifhop of Worcefter. In fome of the old valors the re£lory of Hillingdon is rated at 30 Valuations. marks " ; in 1548 it was valued at 33I. 6s. 8d. which is the referved rent now paid to the Bifhop, yet in the King's books it is rated only at 14I. In 1650 the redory was valued at 300 1. per annum". In old records it is ftyled the redlory and manor of Hillingdon, or the capital melTuage, manor, redlory, &c. '" There is a portion of tithes in this parifh ifTuing out of the demefnes of the manor of Golham, which was formerly parcel of the poffefrions of the Abbot and Gonvent of Thame, and are now held on leafe by Lord Bofton, under the Dean and chapter of Chrift's Ghurch, (in Oxford,) to whom they were granted on the difTolution of Monafteries '°. ** From papers obligingly communicated bifliop's library at Lambeth, by Lord Bofton. ''9 Papers in poffefTion of Lord Bofton, *^ See Harl. MSS. Brit.Muf. No. Co. ■," From the information of Lord Bofton. ** Parliamentary furveys in the Arch- The i68 H I L L I N G D O N. Vicarage. The vicaragc, which is in the diocefe of London, and in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, was taxed in the old valors at 8 marks". In the King's books it is rated at i61. The return of the Commiflioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices in 1650 ftates, that the vicarage with two acres of glebe, fwojoggs of hay, and 13 s. 4d. rent out of the redory, with the fmall tithes, was worth 35 1. per annum '*. j Advowfon. The advowfon has been vefted in the Bifhops of London ever fince 1 the vicarage was endowed in 1281 ". 1 Samuel Reynardfon, Efq. who died in 1721, by his will bearing date 17 1 5, gave the mortgage of an acre of land (which mortgage has been paid off, and the money produces an interefl of 19 s. per Vicar's li- annum,) for a preparation fermon on Good Friday. Mr. Reynard- brary. £^^ gaye alfo by his will, all his printed books both at Hillingdon and in London, for the ufe of the Vicar of this parifh, and his fuc- cefTors. He dire<3:ed likewife that all his plants, whether in pots, tubs, or cafes, (hould be fold, and the money arifing from the fale laid out in building a room over the veftry, or over Munfey's porch, and furnlfhing it with (helves, a table, a Turkey carpet, or a green cloth, and chairs ; and that the remainder fhould be appropriated to the purchafe of books to add to the library, which he dire£led fhould be kept according to the rules contained in an aft of parliament, pafled in 1708, for the prefervation of parochial libraries. The room was built over the veftry, where Mr. Reynardfon's library is ftill pre- ferved : it confifts chiefly of books in divinity, natural hiftory, medicine, voyages and travels, poetry, and hiftory ; among which are feveral valuable and fcarce works, particularly HiJJoria de Ethio- pia^ 1557'} Peter Martyr's Hiftory of the Eaft and Weft Indies, (by Eden and Lok,) 1 6 1 2 ; Acofta's Hiftory of the Eaft and Weft '• See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 6c. " Newcourt. '* Parliamentary Surveys. Indies, H I L L I N G D O N. 169 Indies, 1604; Coryate's Crudities aad Coryate's Crambo, 1611; Wliitborne's Difcoveries in Newfoundland, 161 2; Horttis Mala- bar'icus^ 1686; Za/iotii Hifioria Botanica, 1675; Breytiii exoticaruin Centuria prima., 1678 ; Riv'mus de Plantis fiore irregulari monopetalo^ 1690 ; R'lvinus de Plaiitis fore irregulari tetrapetalo, 1691 ; Morifof! de plantis umbelliferis^ 1672 ; Florilegium E?nanuel Swerti^ 161 2; Do- donai Hijloria Stirpiiwi, 1583; Matthioli compendium^ ^57^ j Pifo de Iftdia re naturaliy 1658; Fuchjii Hijioria Jlirpiu??!, 1542; Turner's Herbal, 1568; Gerard's Herbal, 1597; Monardes on Weft Indian Drugs and Plants (by Frampton) ; Coryate's Odcombian Banquet, 161 1 ; Stubbs's Dilplay of Corruptions; Churchyard's Choice, 1579; Yates's Caftle of Curtefy, 15825 and many other poems, &c, &c. in the black letter. Richard Turner, who affifted in making the Concordance of the Vkars. Bible, and afterwards to avoid the perfecuting fpirit of Queen Mary, Turner, Sec. fled to Germany, where he died in 1558,* is fuppofed to have been vicar of Hillingdon '*. Philip Taverner w^as appointed to this vicarage by the Lords Com- miflioners in 1650". The prefent vicar is the Rev. Thomas Mills, collated in 1777, on the refignation of his father, the Rev. Richard Mills, who fucceeded John Wolfe in 1724. In the year 1372 John Newman, John Bernes, and John Tulle, Chantries. gave a mefluage, 16 acres of land, and 57 s. 4d. rent in Colham, to a chantry in Hillingdon church '". Newcourt fays, that there was a chantry in this church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, founded about the reign of Henry V. for the foul of Walter Rabb. It was called Rabb's chantry, and continued Rabb's for above a hundred years in the patronage of that family ". The '^ ^^^^'^' Chantry roll, (in the Augmentation Office,) bearing date 1548, values " Newcourt. '« Efch. 46 Edw. III. No. 18. fccond ^' Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- numbering, bifliop's library at Lambeth, " Repertorium, vol. i. p. 648. Z Rabb's 17° H I L L I N G D O N. ParJfli regifter. Compara- tive ftate of population. Rabb's chantry at 5 1. 3 s. 6 d. per annum. It is* faid to have been then in the occupation and difpofal of Sir Nicholas Wever the incum- bent, who enjoyed it as his living. The fame roll ftates, that Sir AVilliam Knyghtcote " gave lands (then valued at 23 s. per annum,) for an obit in Hillingdon church. In the furvey of the manor of Colham, bearing date 1636, mention is made of Robb' s m'lW, and Robl>'& farm, containing 66 acres, held by William Pennyfather by the render of a red rofe. It is probable that this eftate was the endowment of Rabb's chantry. Robb's mill is now in the tenure of Mr. Auften. The earlieft date of the regifter of baptifms, burials, and mar- riages at Hillingdon is 1559. Average of baptifms. Average of burials. 1580-9 — - 2i^V — *i9tV 1630-9 — 307 1680-9 — ^sf 1730-9 — 321 1780-9 — 38/^ 1790-4 — 46-i 1795-9 — 5 St A feparate regifter is kept for the hamlet of Uxbridge — adding the baptifms and burials from thence, the averages of the above periods will be as follows : Average of baptifms. 1580-9 — s6-J-^ 1630-9 — 74 A 1680-9 — 6lr% ,730-9 — 85^ 1780-9 — 1087 1790-4 ■— ii5i. 1795-9 . — i24f 3ixV 4ItV 514 52 A 50x 48-i I o Average of burials. 48 834^ 100 987 97^ 88i *' Sir William Knyghtcote was collated to the vicarage of Hillingdon in 1452. In H I L L I N G D O N. 171 In the year 1548 there were 320 houjlyng people ia this parifh". In 1782 the houfes and inhabitants were numbered by Mr. Mills, the prefent vicar, and were found to be as follows : Houfes. Inhabitants. In Hillingdon and its hamlets, exclufive of Uxbridge - - - 317 — 1627 In Uxbridge - - « ^66 — 171 2 683 3339 The prefent number of houfes in Hillingdon is 2,'})lt iii Uxbridge 385 — making in the whole 718 *'. The number of inhabitants may be calculated at about 3950. In 1603 there were 91 burials at Hillingdon; in 1625, 32; in piague 1665, 48. Several perfons died of the plague in 1603, but it was ^^^^' lefs fatal than at Uxbridge. Very few died of it at Hillingdon in 1625 and 1665. ExtraBs fro7n the Regijier. " Edward, fon of Sir Edward Carr, Knt. and the Lady Jane his Family of " wife, baptized March 11; buried April 5, 1625; Jane their " daughter, buried Nov. 13, 1627; Jane, baptized Sept. 16, 1636- " Sir Edward Carr, jun. buried Feb. 18, 1636-7; Lady Phila- " delphia Carr," (daughter of Connock, of Cornwall,) " Mav " 3> 1639; Sir Edward Carr, Knt. March 24, 1639-40." " July 7, 1663 — This day the hearfe of the late Archbifhop of Fune'a' of " Canterburie, fometime Lord High Treafurer of England, going Juxon. " to Oxford, where he was to be interred, had buriall here offered ^' Chantry Roll in the Augmentation whom I am indebted for feveral other par- Office.— See note 9, p. 5. ticulars relating to this parifli. "^ From the information of Mr. Mills, to Z 2 «' by 172 II I L L I N G D O N. Ancient mode of baptifm re- vived. Cruel mur- der. Monflrous infant. Seventh fon. *' by me, meeting it at the church-gate with the fervlce-book, in " furpUce and hood, attended by the clerk, and the great bell " folemnly tolling all the while, according to the ancient and laudable •' cuflom in like cafes." " Baptifms — Elizabeth, the daughter of William Pratt, Feb. 25, " 1 67 1-2. — The firft that in eleven years was baptized with water " in the font, the cuftom being in this place to baptize out of a " bafon, after the prefbyterian manner, only fet in the font, which " I could never get reformed till I had gotten a new clerk, John " Brown, who prefently did what I appointed to be done." " George* Allen, and fAnne Ivorie, married June 10, 1672." * " A man more bloody in his difpoCtion than in his condition — a butcher." •j- " Who in the year 1674-5, ^^^ moft cruelly murdered by her hufband after feme " foregoing attempts to poifon her, who no way deferved that ufage, being a modeft and " good wife, for which he was hanged in chains behind Iflington, March 5, 1674-5." " William, the fon of John Poker, and Jane His wife, natus^ re- " natus, denatus die eodem^ fumma fcilicet Dei miferatione tarn in " puerutn, quam in parentes^ cum monjlrofus fuit Infans non ex defedlu " fed excejfu partiuniy una cum conformatione aliarum haiid bona— *' March 12, 1672-3.'' " Jofeph, the fon of Mr. Henry Cane, and Elizabeth his wife» " born twelve years after the laft, and the feventh fonne, ni fallor, " without any daughter, Nov. 18, 1674." " 1682. — This year on Eafter-day and Low Sunday, 300 perfons " received the communion, alarmed to their duty by an order from Henry, Lord Bifhop of London." " Robert Earl of Holdernefie, and Lady Frederick, daughter of " my Lord Duke Schomberg, married May 26, 17 15; Chriftopher *' Martin Count Degenfeldt, and the Lady Mary, daughter of *' Duke Schomberg, married Feb. 5, 1716-7." — Meinhardt Duke Schomberg, left no male ifiue. His daughters, Frederica and Mary, whofe marriages are here recorded, were his co-heirs. Frederica furvived C( H 1 L L I N G D O N. 173 furvlved her hufband, and was afterwards married to Benjamin Mildmay Earl Fitzwalter. " The Hon. Robert Coke, Efq. and the Right Hon. Lady Jane " Holt, married June 13, 1733-" Lady Jane was daugliter of Thomas Marquis of Wharton, and relidl of John Holt, Efq. " Mr. John Clarke an eminent writing-mafter, of St. Bride's, Clarke the " London, buried Feb. 4, 1735-6." maftT^ " Anne, wife of Mr. John Rich of Covent Garden theatre, " buried Dec. i, 1737. John Rich, Efq. comedian of Covent Rich the « Garden theatre, buried Dec. 4, 1761." John Rich, the well- "■"^'^'^°- known patentee, was fon of Chriftopher Rich, who makes a con- fpicuous figure in Cibber's Apology, and in the Tatler. On the death of his father in 1715, Mr. John Rich opened the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields *', then juft finifhed, and fpoke a prologue on the occafion. He afterwards attempted the charader of the Earl of Eflex, and fome others without fuccefs. In the early part of his ma- nagement his theatre was unfuccefsful, but having a peculiar talent for pantomimes, and a fpirit which fpared no expence in rendering them captivating by their fplendor, he withftood the force of the moft excellent adtors that ever appeared on the Englifh ftage, and amafled a confiderable fortune for his family. Rich may be confidered as the inventor of the Englifh Harlequin, which is very different from the Harlequin of the Italian theatre. His own inimitable perform- ance of the charadler, under the fiditious name of Lun, is thus fpoken of with due eulogium by Mr. Garrick in one of his Pro- logues. *' When Lun appeared with matchlefs art and whim, " He gave the power of fpeech to every limb ; " Tho' mafk'd and mute convey'd his quick intent, " And told in frolic geflures all he meant '*." *' The patent was afterwards removed to Covent Garden, Mr, 174 H I L L I N G D O N. Mr. Rich was author of a farce, called " The Spirit of Contra- *' didion." He died in the feventieth year of his age °', having been forty years manager of a theatre without a partner '^ He had many oddities in his difpofition and manners, but was much refpedled for the benevolence of his charadter. " The Right Hon. Elizabeth Countefs of Afhbrook, buried Feb. " 13, 1759." Daughter of Lieut. Gen. Tatton, who was buried at Hillingdon in 1736, and widow of Henry the firft Vifcount Afh- brook. " Charles Henry Somerfet, (commonly called Lord Charles Henry " Somerfet,) and the Hon. Elizabeth Courtenay, married by fpecial " licence, June 8, 1788." Injlances of longevity. " William Pope, aged 90 and upwards, buried Aug. 16, 1662; " Martha Warren, aged 94, Auguft 25, 17 14; Jane Mold, widow, " aged 95, April 27, 1718; Mrs. Margery Stiles, fpinfter, aged " 99, March 15, 1760." There is no endowed alms-houfe or fchool at Hillingdon. A Sunday fchool, ftill kept up, was fet on foot in 1786. Benefac- Mr. Thomas Tifdale gave a leafehold clofe, called Honey Hill, now let at 12I. per annum, to the poor of this parifh. Nathaniel Snell, anno 1692, gave by will a rent-charge ofjl. per annum, to apprentice a poor boy or girl of the name of Snell, or Atlee, as long as there fhould be any one of thofe families in the parifh who fhould fland in need of the charity, and in default of fuch to apprentice the child of any other poor perfon not receiving alms. m " See his epitaph, p. 162. *' Victor's Hiftory of the Theatres, vol.iii. p. 29, 30. Robert tions H I L L I N G D O N. 175 Robert Brigginfliaw of Hayes, Gent, who died in 171 7, be- queathed il. I OS. per annum to the poor of this parifh, to be diftri- buted among poor decayed houfekeepers not receiving alms, in bread or money, at the difcretion of the overfeers ". Lady Winford, who died in 1735, gave the fum of 50I. to pur- chafe land, the produce of which {he direded to be applied to the purpofe of keeping her tomb in repair, the overplus to be diftributed among poor houfekeepers not receiving alms. The land purchafed with this money, fmce the late inclofure of Cowley field, produces 7I. 15 s. per annum. Arthur Benjamin Lane, Efq. who died in 1785, left the fum of lool. to be diftributed among the poor of this parifli after the death of his widow, by the truftees a£ling under his will. UxBRiDGE, which is the moft confiderable market-town in the Uxbridge. county of Middlefex, is a hamlet to Hillingdon. In the moft ancient record wherein the name of this place occurs, Etymology, (about the year 1 100,) it is written Oxebruge*', in fubfequent records Woxebruge or Woxebrugge, and in thofe of later date Uxbridge. The fame variation occurs in one of the manors in Harrow-on-the- Hill, which is written Oxendon, Uxendon, and Woxendon. The termination brugge, or bridge, denotes that a bridge exifted at this place at a very early period. The commiflioners appointed to Inquire into the ftate of ecde- Propofai for fiaftical benefices in 1650, repoited that the precindts of the hamlet bridge from Hillingdon- " Mr. Brigginniaw refided at Hayes, at the Crown inn on the day of his funeral, but by his laft will direfted that his body but ftriiftly charges them not to invite any fhould be conveyed to the CVown inn at Ux- parifhioner of Hayes, or any perfon dwell- bridge, and buried from thence in Hilling- ing in that pariih, except thofe whom he don church-yard, where a tomb fliould be had named among his pall-bearers, ereaed to his memory, the infcription for " See Ncwcourt's Repertorlum, vol. i. which he dldlates in his will. He direifls p. 647. his executors to provide a bandfome dinner of 176 HILLINGDON. Land-tax. Leland's de fcription of Uxbridge. of Uxbridge were known, and had been long diftind for the eledlion of parochial officers among themfelves, that they made diftind afTeffments, and had feveral rights, benefits, and privileges proper to themfelves; they therefore thought it very fit that it fliould be made a feparate parifh "". It does not appear that this feparation (which indeed would not have been valid after the reftoraiion) ever took place. A note in the regifter of baptifms, &c. for the hamlet of Uxbridge, bearing date 1654, dates that it had been from very ancient times a borough town, encompaffed by a borough ditch, which feparates it from the reft of the parifli ; that the inhabitants within the faid ditch chofe their own officers of the poor, and maintained their own poor feparately till 1624, when, on account of the fick- nefs, 300 acres of land were allowed to be affefled towards the main- tenance of the poor of the faid borough ; they chofe their furveyors of the highways alfo feparately, but they always paid great and fmall tithes to the mother-church of Hillingdon, and contributed to the repair of the church and church-yard. The hamlet of Uxbridge being affefled feparately to the land-tax, pays the fum of 270 1. 3 s. 6td. which is at the rate of about is. 6d. in the pound. Leland, fpeaking of Uxbridge fays, " In it is but one long ftreet, " but that, for timber, well builded. There is a celebrate market " once a week, and a great fayre on the feaft-day of St. Michael. *' There be two wooden bridges at the weft ende of the towne, and *' under the more wefte goeth the great arme of Colne river. The " leffer arme goeth under the other bridge, and each of them ferve " there a greate mille. The divare of Colne ftream is fcant a mile " above Uxbridge, and thefe two armes meet not at all againe. For " the bigger goeth through the goodly meadowes ftraight to Cole- " brook three miles lower, and foe to Tamife. The other goeth *' to two milles at , and they be a mile and "' Parliamentary Surveys in the Archbifliop's Library at Lambeth. a half eaft H I L L I N G D O N. 177 " eaft from Colebrook, in the way to London, thence that arme « goeth to the Tamife "." The Grand Junction canal, for the making of which an adt of Grand junc- parUament was obtained in 1793, pafles by this town. It was begun by cutting on Uxbridge moor the firft of May that year, and has for fome time been navigable from the Thames to Uxbridge. The principal articles of commerce on this part of the canal are flour, grain, and coals *°. Beyond Uxbridge the canal is na- vigable as far as Tring fummit in Hertfordfhire, and will foon be open as far as Fenny Stratford: the whole, being a diftance of 112 miles, is expedted to be completed in iSoi. In the year 1294 Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, procured a Market and grant of a weekly market at Uxbridge on Mondays, and an annual ^*'"- fair to laft two days ; namely, the vigil and feftival of St. Michael ". The market is now held on Thurfdays, and is one of the greateft ■ corn-markets in the kingdom. A fair is ftill held on Michaelmas- day, and another on the feftival of St. Margaret, to whom the chapel is dedicated. The profits of the market were eftimated at 30s. per annum in 1328; thofe of the burgefles, or portmen's court, at 26s. 8d.'* The prefent amount of the tolls, &c. is above 400 1. per annum. The property of the market has always been annexed to the manor. The prefent market-houfe was built In 1789 pur- Tons. 89 Itinerary, vol. iv. p. 102. Brought over 17,550 ■*" The following is an accurate (latement Stone - 108 of the quantities of the different articles Tiles and brick 13 i| conveyed from the Thames at Brentford to -Lime - 14J Uxbridge, and from Uxbridge to the Manure - 164 Thames, in the year 1799, (obligingly com- Coke - 68|: municated by Benjamin Way, Efq.) }^°^^ - 49i Tons. Timber - 18 Flour - ^"e'l-ii: Sundries - 1,821! Grain - 4,968^ _, • Coals . 6,6501 ^°'='' '9>925i Alhes - M18I s,. Cart. 22 Edw. I. No. 23. Carry over 17,550 "* ^^^h. 2 Edw. III. No. 61. A a fuant 178 HILLINGDON. Government of the town. Corn mills and meal- men. Title of Earl of Uxbridge. Monaftery. Treaty of Uxbridge. iuant to an a£t of parliament (palled in 1785), under which the town has been otherwife much improved by paving, light- ing, &c. The town of Uxbridge is governed by two bailiffs, two conftables, and four tithingmen, or headboroughs. There are no manufa£tures at Uxbridge ; the town abounds with mealmen and corn-chandlers, fome of whom carry on a very exten- five trade. There are five corn-mills in the parifh of Hillingdon. Uxbridge gave the title of Earl to Henry Lord Paget, who was elevated to that rank in 1 744. The title became extinct by the death of his grandfon in 1769, and was revived in the perfon of his coufin (the prefent Earl of Uxbridge) in 1784. Speed fpeaks of a monaftery at Uxbridge, founded by Hugh Rowfe, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary ". It is mentioned by no other writer, nor have I been able to find any records relating to it. At this town in the month of January 1645 was held the fruit- lefs treaty between the King's commiffioners and thofe of the par- liament'*. We are told that during the commiffioners' ftay at Ux- bridge, Chriftopher Love, a celebrated divine among the puritans, preached at the chapel there on Thurfday, it being market-day, and in his fermon told the people that the King's commiffioners were come with hearts of blood, and that there was as great a diftance be- '^ Speed's Hiftory of England, p S14. '* The commiffioners on the King's fide were, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earls of Southampton, Kingfton, and Chicheller, Lord Seymour, Lord Hatton, LordCapel, Lord Culpepper, Sir Orlando Bridgman, Sir Edward Nicho- las, Sir Edward Hyde, Sir Richard Lane, Sir Thomas Gardiner, Mr. John Afliburn- ham, Mr. Jeffrey Palmer, with Dr. Stewart, Dr. Laney, Dr. Sheldon, and their attend- ants, in all icfi.— The parliamentary com- miffioners were, the Earls of Northumber- land, Pen;ibroke, Salifburj', and Denbigh, Lord Wenman, Meffrs. Holies, Pierrepont, and Whitlock, Sir Henry Vane, jun. Mr. Solicitor, Mr. Crow, Mr. Prideaux, to- gether with the Marquis of Argylc, Lord Lothian, Lord Maitland, Sir Charles Erf- kine, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Berkeley, and Mr. Henderfon, as CommifTioners of the parlia- ment of Scotland, with their attendants. — Perfeft Occurrences, Jan. 24 — 31, 1644-j. tween H I L L I N G D O N. 179 tween the treaty and peace as between heaven and hell. Com- plaint being made of this to the parliamentary commiffioners, they faid he was not of their train. Mr. Love was afterwards repri- manded by the parliament ". The particulars relating to the treaty, and the lamentable confequences of its failure, are well known to every one who is converfant with the hiftory of this country. We find from contemporary authority that the commiffioners treated at Mr. Carr's houfe (then lately Sir John Bennet's) — " a veiy fair houfe, " at the fartheft end of the town, in which houfe was appointed " them a very fpacious room, well hanged and fitted with feats for " the commiffioners. The Earl of Northumberland was quartered " at Mr. Carr's, and the Earl of Pembroke at another fair houfe '* *' near it. The chief inn for the King's commiffioners was the " Crown, and for the parliament the George, fair inns near the *' market "." The treaty-houfe, or as it is fometimes called, the Treaty- place-houfe, is an ancient biick-manfion (now let out in tenements! Jiou'e, or ^ ' ^ ' place-houfc at the weft end of the town, near the canal. It was formerly the feat of the Bennets. Leonora, Lady Bennet, died there in 1638. In 1689 it became the property of Wentworth Garneys, Efq.'° whofe co-heirs, in 1724, making a partition of his property, this houfe fell to the fhare of Charles Goftlin, Efq. having been then lately in the occupation of Sir Chriftopher Abdy, Knt. deceafed. After Sir Chriftopher Abdy's death it was many years the refidence of Dr. Thorold " ; it afterwards became a lodging- houfe. It appears by the following entry in the regifter of burials for this Uxbridge hamlet, that Uxbridge was garrifoned in 1645. — " Samuel Coomes, fc^f^^^^^ "' " a foldier in the garrifon under Captain Crompton, Governor of " Uxbridge, buried Odl. 2, 1645." Uxbridge was then in the " Hiftory of the civil war, fol. 1661. of Benjamin Way, Efq. ofDenham.) 136. 137- «^ Peifeft Occurrences, Jan. 1645. ** This is defcribed in fonie old deeds as '^ Afleffments for the hamlet, a capital manfion, called the Brewhoufe, " Ibid, or the Beerhovife. (From the information A a 2 hands i8o HILLINGDON. Parliament- ary army quartered there in 1647. Manor of Uxbridge. hands of the parliament; the garrifon, it is probable, was of no great ftrength ; for a few weeks afterwards, on its being reported that the King's horfe were about to plunder Uxbridge, the regiments under Col. Main waring, then lying about St. Alban's, were ordered thither ". The head-quarters of the parliamentary army were fixed at Uxbridge on the 25th of June 1647. ^^^ General (Sir Thomas Fairfax) lodged at Mr. Henes, the Major-General at Mr. Gettins, the Lieut. General (Cromwell) at the Crown, the Commiflary General (Ireton) at Mr. Matthew Bakers, Col. Lambert at Richard Stiles's, Col. Fleetwood at the Chequer, Col. Lilburn at William Nichols's, Col. Rich at Philip Brabourn's'^", &c. &c. The army was quartered at Watford, Rifellp, Ickenham, Hillingdon, Cowley, Drayton, Har- mondfworth, Stanwell, and Staines, making a line of about fixteen miles "". The head-quarters were removed to Wickham on the 29th '". The army was quartered at Uxbridge again on the 30th of July "\ The manor of Uxbridge was annexed to that of Colham till the year 1669, when George Pitt, Efq. referving Uxbridge, fold Col- ham to Sir Robert Vyner. In 1695 George Pitt, Efq. the younger, for the fumof 550I. conveyed the manor of Uxbridge with the tolls of the market, and all other appurtenances, to John Dunftall, William James, and others, inhabitants of the town. A fubfequent deed of truft declared the profits of the manor, markets, &c. to be appro- priated to charitable ufes '"*. The truft is renewed as often as the number of truftees, originally feven, is reduced to three. The pre- fent truftees, who are ftiled lords of the manor in truft, are Mr. S9 Perfeft Diurnal, Nov. 17—24; Per- fedl Paffages, Nov. 19 — 26, 1645. "^ Probably Brabant ; fee p. 183. '9' Perfed Occurrences, June 25, — July 2; and Perfeft Diurnal, June. 28, — July 5,1647. •" Ibid. '*' Perfeft Diurnal, July 26,— Aug. z, 1647. '"♦ From the information of Mr. Hodder, veftry-clerk and town-clerk. Daniel Jffe H I L L I N G D O N. i8i Daniel Coke, John Hampton, William Beft, William Burton Raines, and Robert Grainge. A court-baron was held for this manor in 1727, when the boun- daries of the manor and borough of Uxbridge were afcertained by a jury. The burgage-holders pay certain quit-rents to the lords of the manor, and have right of common in Cowmoor, in the parifli of Harefield, and for hogs in Hogfmoor. The furvey then made ftates, that the lords of the manor and borough have a court-baron and burgage-court, to be holden from three weeks to three weeks, and that the burgage-holders ought to do fuit and fervice at that court . Newcourt Is under a miftake when he aflerts that the chapel at Uxbrido Uxbridge, was firft built in 1447 by Robert Oliver and others "'*. chapel. Thefe perfons founded, as the King's grant exprefles it, a guild in the chapel of St. Margaret at Woxbridge '"'. The words of this grant fufficiently imply, that a chapel exifted here before, and it appears from other evidence that there was a chapel at Uxbridge at leaft as early as 128 1. In the endowment of the vicarage of Hilling- don, which bears that date, the offerings made in the chapel at Wyxbrug on the feftival of St. Margaret, being the fair-day, are de- clared to be the property of the vicar ■°^ The chapel, neverthelefs, was not mentioned in the inftrument of inftitution to the vicarage till a later date '°'. Uxbridge chapel, dedicated to St. Margaret, is a gothic ftruclure, confining of a chancel, nave, and two aifles, feparated by o£lagonal pillars and pointed arches. The font is odagonal, ornamented with rofes and quatrefoils. At the weft end is a low fquare tower. On the north fide of the chancel is a monument, fupported by Monuments. columns of the Doric order, with the effigies of the deceafed in a re- "" From the information of Mr. Hodder, '"' Pat. 26 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. i. veftry-clerk and town-clerk. "s Yvovn. a copy in the poffcffion of the "" Repertorium Londinenfe, vol. i. p. vicar. 650. "" Newcourt. cumbent i82 H I L L I N G D O N. cumbent pofture, in memory of Dame Leonora Bennet "", who died in 1638. She was daughter of Adrian Vierendeels, citizen of Antwerp. Her firft hufband was Abraham Trion, Gent, fon and heir of Peter Trion, merchant ; her fecond hufband, Gregory Downehall, Efq. Matter in Chancery ; after whofe death ihe married Sir John Bennet, Judge of the Prerogative Court, and Chancellor to Anne of Denmark, James the Firft's Queen. On the South wall is the monument of Anne, wife of Thomas Fellows, Efq. 1776. On the floor are the tombs of Richard Wythte of Worcefter, attorney at law, 1668; Elizabeth, wife of WiUiam Goldar, Gent. 1716; the Rev. John Jacques, redlor of Cowley, and minifter of Uxbridge, 1 71 8; and the Rev. George Jacques, redlor of Fledgerly, Bucks, and of Ingeftree, in Staffordfhire, 1759. On the fouth wall of the nave are monuments in memory of Mr. Richard Spooner '", 1704; Mrs. Dorothea Spooner, aged 91, 1791, and others of that family; William Thorold, M. D."* 1729-30; and Mariana, his wife, 1 71 3. On the floor are the tombs of George White, B. A. 1673 ; William Mellifli, furgeon, 1763 ; and Catherine Howard, fifter of Mrs. Mellifh, 1789. On the north fide of the nave are arms and quarterings of Stanley impaling Spencer, (as on the Countefs of Derby's monument at Harefield '",) with the date 1630. On the fouth wall of the north aifle is the monument of Thomas Watkins"%Gent. 1 776; on the north wall thofe of Mr. William Green- how, 1729; Nathaniel Cowdery '", firft clerk of the Exchequer, "" Arms — I. Az. a felTe embattled be- '" Arms— Az. u boar's head in bend A. tween 6 etoiles O. — Tryon, impaling O. armed O. couped G. & giittee de fang, femee of crofs crofslets five lozenges S. — '" Arms — S. three goats falient, A.; im- Vierendeels. II. Quarterly O. & S. in the paling, S. on 'a chevron A. three efcullop fecond and third quarters a fefle between 6 fhells of the field, fufils A. over all a bend dauncettee of the "' See page 112. fecond. — Downehall, impaling, Vierendeels. "■• Arms — A. three ears of wheat grow- Ill. G. a bezant between three demi-lions ing, proper, impaling A. lobilletsG. ramp. A. — Bennet, impaling, Vierendeels. "^ Arms— G, 10 billets, 4, 3,2, i, O. »743; H I L L I N G D O N. 183 1743; Jabez Goldar, 1749; and Jabez Goldar, attorney at law, 1780. On the weft wall is the monument of Mr. Owen Jones, 1772. In the fouth-eaft corner of the fouth aifle is a monument in me- mory of Mr. John Scott "*, 1722, and Catherine his wife, 1719. On the floor are the tombs of Edmund Baker, 1626; Catherine, daughter of Philip Brabant, wife of Richard Dobyns, 1670 ; Wil- liam Beaker, Gent. 1681 ; Lydia, wife of Denington Bradley of Wokingham, 1757; and Lydia James her daughter, 1776. Dr. Edwin Sandys, Bifliop of London, having, with the confent The cemc- of the vicar of Hillingdon, granted a licence to the inhabitants of '^'^" Uxbridge to bury their dead in the chapel there ; and in a new cemetery then intended to be made (the dues being referved to the mother church '") ; Henry Earl of Derby in 1576 gave a piece of ground at a fmall diftance from the chapel, for the cemetery, which was inclofed at the expence of Mrs. Mary Legie, widow (daughter of Thomas Saunders '"). In this cemetery are the tombs of Thomas Baker, 1636; James Tombs there. Waters, V.D.M. 1725; Henry Durell, Efq. 1768; and Mrs. Su- fanna Ginger, aged 94, 1795. The Chantry-roU"', bearing date 1548, calls Uxbridge a vica- Endowment rage, valued at 5I. per annum. The return to the parliamentary nifte/ "*'" inquiries in 1650 ftates it more properly to be a chapel of eafe, the maintenance of which arofe from the tithes of orchards, &c. being only 8 1. per annum. The jurors then petitioned that Uxbridge might be made a feparate parifh, and the minifter allowed a compe- tent maintenance '". '" Arms — Per pale A. & S. a faltier to an infcription over the door of the ce- counterchanged, impaling O. a chevron be- metery, was the benefaftrefs, became after- tween three leopards' faces G. wards by marriage Lady Kiliigrew. "' Newcourt, vol. i. p. 651. "' In the Augmentation Office. "* A note intheregifterofbaptifmsfays, ■" Parliamentary furveys in the Arch- that the ground was inclofed by Lady Killi- bifliop's Library at Lambeth, grew,— Perhaps Mrs. Legie, who, according George i84 H I L L I N G D O N. George Townfeud, Efq. by his will bearing date 1682, gave certain tenements in Cradle Alley, Drury Lane, to Ralph Hawtrey, and others, in truft for the purpofe of appropriating one moiety of the rents towards the maintenance of a minifter to refide in or near Uxbridge, and the other for the maintenance of a minifter to refide in or near Golnbrook, and to officiate in thofe chapels '". He after- wards diredls that the donatives^ as he calls them of Uxbridge and Golnbrook, when void, fhall be conferred on his exhibitioners at Pembroke college, in Oxford, who had been educated in Crypt fchool at Gloucefter. In the year 1706 a houfe was built by the inhabitants of Uxbridge for the ledlurer, to be enjoyed by him and his fucceffors, on condition of their inftruding fix poor boys, (to be nominated by the vicar of Hillingdon and the churchwardens of Uxbridge,) in reading and writing, or in default of fo doing, paying the fum of 61. per annum to the churchwardens "*. Mmlflers of Mr. Lightfoot the botanift, of whom mention has been already Uxbiidge. 1 r ^ • 1 made"', was minifter of Uxbridge from 1767 till his death in 1788. He was fucceeded by the Rev. John Hofkins, M. A. who is the pre- fent minifter, on Mr. Townfend's foundation. The afternoon ledlurer is the Rev. Thomas Mills vicar of Hillingdon. Guild found- In ti^g year 1447 Robert Oliver, Thomas Mundy, John Palmer, and John Barforde, founded a guild or fraternity in the chapel of St. Margaret, to confift of themfelves and certain others of the town of Uxbridge, (both men and women,) in honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Margaret. They were, by the King's charter of that date, incorporated by the name of the warden, brethren, and fifters of the fraternity of the Virgin Mary and St. Margaret in Uxbridge "*. The revenues of this guild were valued at lol. 14 s. per annum in 1548 "'. "' Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. "' Seepage i6. 651. The will is in the Prerogative Office. "* Pat. 26 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. I. '" Papers in the polfeffion of the Rev. "' Chantry roll in the Augmentation Mr. Mills, vicar of Hillingdon. Office. There H I L L I N G D O N. 185 There was a chantry alfoin this chapel, founded by Sir Walter Shi- shiryngton's ryngton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter, which was endowed by his executors in 1459, with 24 acres of arable land, 3 acres of meadow, 4 houfes, 3 gardens, &c. and the reverfion of 40 acres of land ■". The revenues of this chantry were valued in 1548 at III. 4 s. 4d. including 16 s. for a houfe "'. There is a meeting-houfe in Uxbridge for the prefbyterian difTen- Meeting- ters, a quakers' meeting, and a chapel for the methodifts, called Providence chapel, built at the expence of Mr. J. A. Glover in 1795- A. feparate regifter of baptifms, burials, and marriages, has Reglfterof been kept for the hamlet of Uxbridge ever fmce the firft inftitution of ^^ ' ™^' parochial regiflers in 1538. Average of baptifms at Uxbridge. Average of burials. 1540-9 1580-9 1630-9 — 29t 357 4-n — 2 7t 28-,V 34 ^ CoiTipara- ttve ftate of population. 1680-9 35i — 42 A 1730-9 — 53t 484 1780-9 694 45-r 1790-4 68-1 46^ 1795-9 7°-: — 41 T In 1782 the number of houfes in Uxbridge was ^66; of in ha- bitants 1712'^°; but it muft be obferved that thefe were only fuch as were comprifed within the borough ditch. A part of the ftreet towards the eaft, called Hillingdon-end, is beyond the precindls of the borough, and belongs to the Hillingdon diftridl. The prefent number of houfes in the borough is 385 ; of inhabitants about 1 120. "" Inq. ad q. d. 37 Ken. VI, '" From the information of the Rev. "^ Chantry roll. Mr. Mills. Bb In 1 86 HILLINGDON. Plague years. In 1603 there were 204 burials at Uxbridge ; 176 perfons are ftated to have died of the plague. In 1625 there were 162 burials, 136 perfons dying of the plague. In 1665 there were only 81 burials, 42 perfons dying of the plague. ExtraSis from the Uxbridge Regijier. Four chil. dren at a birth. Two m- ftances of three chil- dren at a birth. <( " Nathaniel, Nicholas, and Edmund, fons of Edmund Lyons and Anne, baptized Sept. 12, 1630." " Sept. 14. Nathaniel, " Nicholas, " Edmund, " A daughter unbaptized ; thefe were the fons and daughter of Edmund Lyons and Anne his wife, all four born on Sunday morning alive, and in perfe£l fhape, being the 12th of September 1630." " Three infants unbaptized, the children of Robert Freny, were buried Jan. 7, 1638-9." " Faith, Hope, and Charity, daughters of George Lamb, and Alice his wife, were baptized Sept. 7, 1639; Hope was buried Sept 21; Faith, Feb. 18, 1639-40." " Mary, daughter of Harry Bruges of Canelham, Somerfetfhire ; and the Right Hon. Lady Diana, buried April 17, 1677." Benefac- tioas. Injlances of Longevity. *' Richard Claydon, aged 97, buried Feb. 20, 17 15-6; Sarah " Bennet, widow, from Hillingdon, aged 99, Dec. 2, 1722; Anne " Reynolds, widow, aged 104, March 15, 17555 Francis Gardener, " aged 96, April 27, 1796." Mr. John Marfh bequeathed a rent-charge of 5I. 6 s. 8 d. to be diftributed in bread among the poor of this hamlet. William Skyd- more. H I L L I N G D O N. 187 more, citizen and ironmonger, gave 2I. 12 s. per annum, to be diftributed in bread. The dates of thefe benefadions could not be procured. The widow of John Clarke, Efq. Alderman of Rochefter, who died in 1 704, gave, in purfuance of the intention of her deceafed huf- band, the fum of 200 1. in truft, to the lords of the manor of Ux- bridge, on condition of their granting an annuity of lol. per annum, chargeable on the tolls of the market, to be diftributed weekly in bread among fix of the pooreft men and fix of the pooreft women of the hamlet, at the dilcretlon of the truftees, with the approbation of the minifter and chapelwardens. John Hill in 1744 gave a rent-charge of 20s. per annum, on the George Inn, to be diftributed in bread at Chriftmas among forty poor perfons. Mr. Robert Woolman, citizen and mercer, gave an annuity of 5I. 4s. to be diftributed weekly (being 2S. a-week) among the poor. Sir George Garrett gave 4I. per annum, to be divided among fix poor widows. Mr. John Garrett gave by will a rent-charge of 3 1. 6 s. 8 d. to the poor of this parlfti. — The dates of thefe benefaftions could not be procured. George Pitt, Efq. (lord of the manor of Uxbridge) anno 1693, gave by will the fum of 20I. (charged upon the tolls of the market,) to be divided in equal (hares between fix poor men or women. Michael Pearce, apothecary, who died in 1699, bequeathed the rents and profits of feveral houfes in Uxbridge (now let at 36I. is. 2d. per annum) to be diftributed among the poor of the faid town at the difcretion of the truftees ading under his will. John Lord Oflulfton, who died in 1695, a few years before his death gave the fum of 100 1. to purchafe lands for the purpofe of apprenticing poor children. With this money was purchafed a piece of land at Wewfley, in this parifh, containing three acres, let at 4I. per annum, afterwards exchanged for land at Norwood, which, Bb 2 to i88 H I L L I N G D O N. to accommodate the late Lady Ducie, was again exchanged very beneficially for the charity, for thirteen acres of land in that parifh, now producing lol. per annum, clear of all dedudtions ; and from the circumftance of the Grand Jundion canal paffing through it, the cha- rity is likely to be hereafter very materially benefited. In the year 1729, Edmund Baker, Edmund Blount, and others, lords of the manor of Uxbridge, executed a deed of truft, by which the remainder of the manerial profits, the tolls of the market, &c. (after deducing 20I. charged to a fpecific ufe by Mr. Pitt, and 10 1. by Mrs. Clarke,) was appropriated to fuch charitable purpofes as the truftees for the time being (hould dired and appoint, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the borough of Uxbridge only. Among other charities maintained by this fund, are two fchools, one for boys, in which there are now twenty, and the other for girls, in which are twenty-two. The profits of the market, &c. are now upwards of 400 1. per annum. [ i89 ] I C K E N H A M. THIS village, which in ancient records is called Ticheham, and Name. Tykenham, lies in the hundred of Elthorne, about three miles situation. north of the Uxbridge road, and about fixteen miles from London. The parifh is bounded by Rifelip, Harefield, Hillingdon, Hayes, Boundaries, and Northall. It contains about 141 o acres of land, of which about ,-^ ' ' Quantity of 560 are arable ; about 780 meadow and pafture, and 70 wafte. The land. foil is clay. „ . This parifh pays the fum of 1 96 I. to the land-tax, which is at Land-tax. the rate of about is. 6 d. in the pound. The landed property in Ickenham is thus defcribed iu the furvey Manors. of Domefday : — " The manor of Ticheham, in the hundred of " Elthorne, is taxed at nine hides and a half. Three knights and " one Englifhman hold it under Roger the Earl (of Arundel). The " land is fix carucates. There are four ploughs, and two more " might be employed. There are fix villans who hold one hide, " and two others who hold a hide and a virgate. Two others have " two virgates ; four bordars have 20 acres, and there are three " cottars. The meadow-land is equal to four carucates. There is " pafture for the cattle of the manor, and pannage for 200 hogs. *' The total value is 4I. per annum. In ibe reign of King Edward " (the Confeflbr) it was 6 1. Tochi, who was a domeftic fervant " of the King, then held two hides of this manor ; and Alwin, who " was a fervant of Ulf Fitz-Man, held a hide and three virgates, " which he might difpofe of at pleafure. The whole of this manor " now ipo I C K E N H A M. <( Manor of Ickenham. Manor of Swakeley. now lies within the manor of Colham, which it did not in the reign of King Edward. " Two Englifhmen hold three hides and a half in Ticheham under Geoffrey de Magnaville. The land is two carucates j there are three villans who hold half a virgate each, and five bordars. The meadow-land is equal to two carucates. There is pafture for the cattle oi the manor, and pannage for 40 hogs. This eftate is " valued at 30s. per annum. In the reign of King Edward the " Confeflbr, at 60s. Two focmen then held this land, one of " whom was a fervant of Afgar the Chamberlain, and held a hide, " which he could not fell without his matter's leave. The other, *' who was a fervant of Earl Lewin, had two hides, which he could " difpofe of at pleafure." Some part of thefe eftates, but it would be impoffible perhaps to determine which, formed in procefs of time the manor of SwalclifFe, or Swakeley. It is moft probable alfo that the eftate called Tykenham, adjudged in 1453 to be within the parifh of Hillingdon ', was comprehended in the foregoing de- fcription. The heirs of Geoffrey de Magnaville, or Mandeville, had a fee in Ickenham as late as the year 1400 \ In 13 16 the manor of Ickenham was vefted in Peter le Botiler'. In 1348 it was conveyed by John, fon and heir of William de Brock, to John de Charlton, jun. citizen and mercer, for life, with remainder to Nicholas Shorediche, Ivetta his wife, and their heirs *• This manor has continued ever fmce in the family of Shordich, being now the property of Michael Shordich, Efq. In the year 1350 Boniface Lapyn releafed to John de Charlton, all right in thofe lands in the parifli of Ickenham, which had been the property of Robert de Swalclyve and Joan his wife \ From this • See p. 166. 1403' Efch. 4 Hen. IV. No. 41. * Eleanor Duchefs of GlouceRer (heir of ^ Nomina Villarum. — Harl. MSS. Brit. the Bohuns and Mandevilles) died feifed of Muf. No. 62S1. a fee in Ickenham, anno 1400, Efch. i Hen. ♦ CI. 22 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 14. IV. No. jo; EdmundEarl of Stafford, anno ' CI. 24 Edw. III. pt. i. m. 4 and 7. Robert, I C K E N H A M. 191 Robert, who, It is probable, was of Swalclyve, or Swallowclive, la Kent, 1 fuppofe that the manor of Swalclyve, SwallclifF, SwaclyiT, or as it is now called Swakeley, took its name. This manor con- tinued in the Charlton family till the attainder of Sir Richard Charl- ton in i486, when it was granted with the manors of Great Hilling- don, &c. and upon the like conditions, to Sir Thomas Bourchier*. In 1532 Henry Bourchier, Marquis of Exeter, granted this manor, together with the park, and certain lands in Great Hlllingdon, Little Hillingdon, Uxbridge, Herfies, and Coppid Hall, with Pyn- chefter farm, to Ralph Pexall and his heirs '. After this it feems to have been divided among feveral co-heirs in the Pexall family, for it appears that Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Sir Richard Pexall) who had been twice married, namely, to Francis Cotton and Oliver Becket, Efq. died in 1582 feifed of a fourth of a third part of this manor, John Becket her fon, aged nine years, being her heir *. Bernard Brocas, Efq. who died in 1589, was feifed alfo of a fourth of a third part of this manor; Sir Pexall Brocas his fon, aged twenty-one years, being his heir '. Norden in his Speculum Bri- tannia^ publifhed in 1596, calls Swakeley, " fome time a houfe *' of the Brockeyes, now Sir Thomas Sherleyes '";" by which it appears that the Brocas's refided there. Whether Sir Thomas Sher- ley had any fhare in the inheritance, or was only a tenant, does not appear. In 1612 eight out of twelve parts (into which the manor had been long divided) were aliened by John Cotton to John (after- wards Sir John) Eingley ", who foon after became pofleffed of the remainder; and in 1629 fold the whole to Edmund (afterwards Sir Edmund) Wright, Alderman of London '\ by whom the prefent manfion was built in 1638. In 1641 Sir Edmund Wright was made Lord Mayor of London by the parliament, after they had difplaced 6 See p. 152, and Pat. i Hen. VII. pt. » Cole's Efcheats, Harl. MSS. No. 757. 2. Mar. 7. "o Speculum Britannia?, p. 39. - Pat. 23 Hen. VIII. pt. I. Oft. 27. " Pat. 10 Jac. pt. 33. Nov. 10. " Cole's Efcheats, Harl. MSS. No. 759. •* Pat. 20 Jac. pt. 23. May 15. Sir 192 I C K E N H A M. * Sir William A£lon '\ Sir Edmund's daughter and co-heir Catherine, married Sir James Harrington, Bart, who in her right became poffeffed of the manor of Swakeley, which in 1665 they fold to Sir Robert Vyner, Bart. In 1741 this manor was fold by Robert Vyner, fen. Efq. and Robert Vyner, jun. Efq. to the truftees of the late Benjamin Lethieullier, Efq. (then a minor). It is now under Mr. Lethieullier's will the property of the Rev, Lafcelles Ire- monger '*. Swakeley- Swakclev-houfe, of which a plate is annexed, was built by Sir houle. ^ _ ^ ■' Edmund Wright in the year 1638. It was afterwards fucceflively the property and refidence of Sir James Harrington, one of King Charles's judges, and of Sir Robert Vyner, the facetious Lord Mayor of London, who entertained Charles II. at Guildhall. Swake- ley is now the property and refidence of Thomas Clarke, Efq. whofe father purchafed it in 1750 of Mr. Lethieullier. Parifh- Yhe pariih-church, dedicated to St. Giles, is a fmall ancient church. "^ ftrufture, confifting of a nave, chancel, and north aifle. At the weft end is a boarded fpire. The font is odlagonal, ornamented with quatrefoils. In the fouth window of the chancel is the coat of Swanland ". Monuments. On the fouth wall are monuments in memory of Michael Shor- dlch, Efq. '* 1623; Richard Shordich, his fon, 1660; and Robert Shordich, Efq. 1676. On the floor is a tomb (with figures in brafs of the deceafed and his wife) in memory of Edmund Shordich, 1584. Some other brafs plates are concealed by the pews. There are the tombs alfo of Mr. Robert Evans, 1694; John Glover, D.D. twenty-feven years redor, 17 14; and the Rev. John Shordich, 51725- " Stow's Survey of London, b.v. p. 144. "' S. a chevron O. between three fwans, '* For the account of this manor from proper. 1665, I am indebted to Dawfon, Efq. " Arms — A. a crofs G. the firft quarter the late Mr. Lethieullier's agent. Erm. In I C K E N H A M. 193 In the nave are the tombs of George Dixon, Gent. 17 16, and John Peareth, Efq. 1778. In the north aifle is a monument in memory of the Rev. Thomas Clarke, M. A." the late redtor of Ickenham, who enjoyed that benefice nearly fifty years, and died in 1 796 ; and of Mary his firft wife, who died in 1771. On the floor are the tombs of Elizabeth, wife of John Turner, Gent. 1728, and Mr. John Crofier, 1769. In the church-yard are the tombs of Mr. William Turner, jun. Tomhs in 1685; William Turner, fen. 1689; Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, 1713; yard. ^'^*^^' and Robert Shordich, Efq. lord of the manor, 1778. The redtory of Ickenham, which is in the diocefe of London, Reaory. and in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, was rated in the old valors at 13 1. 6s. 8d. per annum '', in the King's books at 16 1. 6 s. 8 d. In the return to the parliamentary inquiry in 1650, it is flated to be worth 138 1. per annum, including 25 acres of glebe, and two leetes of meadow. Nathaniel Nicholls was at that time incumbent, having been put in by the committee of plundered minifters in the room of Dr. Clare ejeded "'. The patronage of this redory had been from time immemorial Advowfon. annexed to the manor of Ickenham, till 1743, when the advowfon was fold by the truftees of Robert Shordich, Efq. to Thomas Clarke, Efq. father of the late incumbent '", whofe fon Thomas Clarke, Efq. is the prefent proprietor. The prefent redor is the Rev. Thomas Bracken, M. A. inftituted in 1800, on the death of Henry Dearman, who fucceeded Mr. Clarke in 1796. The regifter of baptifms, burials, and marriages, in this parifh Parifli Re- commences anno 1538. ^'^^"' " Arms — O. a crofs raguly between four "' Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- * trefoils flipped V. — impaling G- a canton bifhop's library at Lambeth. A. — Blencowe. " From the information of Mr Clarke. " See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 60. C c 1540-9 Average of Bapi ifms Average ; of Burial; 5t — 31 6 — 4rV 6A — 4tV Si — 4x-5- 6^^ — 4f 8* — 5^ 8 67 H 7t 194 I C K E N H A M. Comparative I J'40-9 ftate of po- _ pulation. I50O-9 1630-9 1680-9 1730-9 1780-9 1790-4 » 795-9 In 1548 there were 80 houjlyng people in this parifh ". The pre- fent number of houfes is 36, of inhabitants about 200. ExtraBs from the Reg'tfter. Baptifms of " Kathcrlnc, the dowgter of the Lord Haftyngs, and the Lady of Lord " " his wyfF, was borne the Saterday before our Lady-day th'aflump- Haftmgs. ,4 \xon^ being the 1 1 day of Auguft, and was chriftened the 20 of *' Auguft, the godmother Quene Kateryn, by her debite^ beyng " her fyfter, one Mr. Harberd's wiff; the other godmother the " Lady Margaret Dugles, the Kyng's nece, and the godfather the " Lord Ruffell, beyng the Lorde Prive Seale, by hys debite, mafter " Francis Ruffell, hys fon and heyre, 1542." This Lord Haftings was Francis Lord Haftings, eldeft fon of George, the firft Earl of Huntingdon, to which title he himfelf fucceeded in 1544. His daughter Catherine, whofe baptifm is here recorded, married Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln. " One Mr. Harberd's wiff," fifter of the Queen, was Anne Parr, daughter of the Marquis of Northampton, and wife of William Herbert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke. Lord Haftings's younger brother. Sir Edward, created in 1558, Lord *' Chantry RoJl in the Augmentation Office. — See note 9, p. 5- Haftings I C K E N H A M. '95 Haftlngs of Loughborough, appears to have been an inhabitant of this parifh in 1560 and 1561 ". Perhaps the Haftings's were tenants of Swakeley. " William, fon of Sir James Harrington, and Catherine his wife, Family of " baptized June 7, 1647; Lucy their daughter, May 7, 1648; Ca- ^ " therine Eliza, Aug. 9, 1 6^^.'" Sir James Harrington was one of the Judges of Charles the Firft. After the reftoration he efcaped the fate of his affociates by flight. There is a work of Sir James Harrington's in print, intitled Divine Meditations, to which his portrait is prefixed. " Charles, fon of Sir Robert Vyner, and Mary his Ladie, baptized " April 5, 1666." Roger Crab, an eccentric chara Cole's Efcheats H.irl. MSS. Brit. Muf. * Efch. 18 Edw. IV. No. 37. Thomas No. 759. de Leuknore died feifed of it in 1336. — Efch. " From the information of Edmund Eft- 10 Edw HI. No. 52. Roger de Leuk- court, Efq. of Lincoln's Inn. nore in 1349.— Efch. 23 Edw. III. No. 57. " Terrafr'tjla. G g 2 6 d. ; 228 SOUTH MIMS. M.mor of outbid. Manor of Williolts. 6d. ; copyhold rents 26s. 8d. ; S06 days' work at fd. a day; 606 days' work in harveft at id. a-day ; tallage of homefl;eads'° at the will of the lord, never more than 6 d. , The manor of Oldfold was at a very early period the property of the Frowyks or Frowicks. Henry Frowyk, who was fettled at London in 1329, was fixth in defcent from Thomas Frowyk of the Oldfold, the firft perfon mentioned in the pedigrees of the family. This Thomas married the daughter and heir of John Adrian. Thomas Frowyk, a younger brother of Henry above mentioned, inherited the Oldfold eftate, which continued in the family till his grandfon's time ". In the year 1397 the manor of Oldfold was the property of Thomas Charlton '\ It now belongs to Thomas Allen, Efq. whofe anceftor Sir Thomas Allen became poflefled of it about the middle of the feventeenth century, by marrying the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Vernon. In the year 1479 Henry Kyghley and Thomas Bartelot, were found by an inquifition to be feifed of a mefluage, 80 acres of arable land, 44 of pafture, 48 of wood, and il. rent, which eftate was called Wylyottys, and was held under the manor of South Mims ". Thefe perfons appear to have been truftees for the family of Leuknore, or Lewknor, who it is probable had long enjoyed this eftate, of which they continued In pofTeflion a confiderable time after they had fold the manor of South Mims. In the year 1362 Thomas Lewknor, Efq. aliened this eftate, then defcribed as the manor of Williotts, to William Doddes and Katherine his wife. In 1575 they conveyed it to Robert Staniford of Pury-Hall, in the county of Stafford; in 1594 Staniford to Robert Taylor and Elizabeth his wife ; in 1603 the "^ Tallaglumjlati-varum. Stativa, in Latin " See Efch. 20 Rich. II. No. 42. — In- authors, Jlationary camps, feems to have quifitions taken after the death of John been ufed in ancient records to exprefs Payne, who held land under Thomas Charl- houfes or homefteads. ton as of his manor of Oldfold. " See a pedigreeof the Frowyks in Had. '' Efch. 18 Edw. IV. No, 37. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 155 1. Taylors SOUTH M I M S. 229 Taylors to Sir Roger Afton ; the next year Sir Roger Afton to Thomas Honey wood ; in 1607 Robert Honey wood to Elinor Hyde, widow, and John Wylde, her coufin and heir; in 1619 Sir John Wylde to Henry Fetherftone ; in 1623 Fetherftone to Walter Lee, merchant-taylor ; in 1650 the affignees of Walter Lee, jun. a bank- rupt, fto whom it had been conveyed by his uncle, by deed of gift in 1629,) to Alexander Wilding. In 1651 Wilding to Stephen Ewer and Brett Netter truftees, it is probable, for James Hickfon, citizen and brewer, to whom it was conveyed by them the fame year. James Hickfon, by his will bearing date Feb. 16, 1C86-7, ^^~ queathed this eflate to the Brewers' Company'* in truft, for the pur- pofe of endowing and keeping in repair certain ahns-houfes founded by him in this pariih. A rent-charge of 20 I. per annum ifluing out of the manor of Williotts, was fold by the Lewknors in 1568 to William Larke, and after fome intermediate affignments, was purchafed by Robert Tay- lor, who was proprietor of the manor from 1594 to 1603. It has fince pafled with the manor. Thomas Frowyk (grandfather of Henry Frowyk, who was of Manor of London in 1329,) having married Margaret, daughter and heir of John orDur^m Derham, Efq." became poffeiTed of an eftate in this parifh, fince called the manor of Derhams, or Durhams, which continued to be the pro- perty of his defcendants in 1475 '" ; and it is probable long after- wards. John Lacye, citizen and cloth-worker of London, (who had a villa at Putney, in Surrey, where he frequently entertained Queen Elizabeth,) was proprietor of Derhams in 1593 ". In 1683 this manor was the property of Thomas Auften, Efq. "; in 1733 it '■* The defcenc of the manor from the " See CI. 14 Edw. IV. m. 23. year 1562, is taken from an abftracl of the '' Harl. MSS. No. 1551. title.obligiiigly communicated by B.Hutchin- "» The defcent of the manor from this fon, Efq. by permifllon of the Brewers' Com- period is taken from papers obligingly com- pany, municated by Mr. Trotter. " Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. ijji. was 230 SOUTH MIMS. Manor of New Minis, Manor of Brokmans. Gannox. Wroth am Park. Parifli Church. was fold by Sir John Auften, Bart, to Anne Countefs of Albemarle, and George Earl of Albemarle, her fon. In 1773 it was aliened by the Hon. William Keppell to Chrlftopher Bethell, Efq. of whofe executors it was purchafed in 1798 by John Trotter, Efq. the pre- fent proprietor. The allotment of Enfield Chace appropriated to this parifh by adt of parliament in 1777, is in that a£l ftyled the manor of New Mims, and is referved to the Crown as parcel of the Duchy of Lancafter. The manor of Brokham, or Brokmans, is defcribed in old records as partly in this parifh, but the fite of the manor, now the feat of Peter Gauffen, Efq. is in North Mims ; nor can I find that any part of the eftate is now confidered to be in the parifh of South Mims. It was anciently the property of the Adrians, afterwards by intermarriage of the Frowyks '' ; and at a later period of the Fortefcues and Dudleys. The houfe was rebuilt by Andrew Fountain, Efq. in 1682 ". Edmund Bowyer, Efq. who died in 1626, was feifed of a capital meffuage in this parifh, called Gannox *'. It is now a farm, the property of Sir William Smythe, who inherited it from the Bowyers by marriage. Wrotham Park, the feat of George Byng, Efq. one of the Knights of the Shire for Middlefex, was fo called from Wrotham, in Kent, the ancient refidence of the family. The manfion was built about the year 1 754, from a defign of Ware, by Admiral Byng", great uncle of the late George Byng, Efq. who reprefented the county of Middle- fex in parliament from the year 1780 to 1784. The parifh-church, dedicated to St. Giles, is a gothic ftrudlure confiding of a chancel, nave, and north aifle, feparated by octagonal pillars and pointed arches ; at the weft end is a fquare embattled tower, the north and eaft fides of which, as well as the weft end of " Harl. MSS. No. 155 1. *° Chauncy's Hertfordfliire, p. 530. " Cole's Efcheats, Harl. MSS. Brit. Miif. No. 756. *' From the information of George Byng, Efq. the S O U T H M I M S. 231 the north aifle are overgrown with ivy. The north aifle, which was rebuilt in 1526, is of brick, the nave, chancel, and tower, prin- cipally of flint. On the north fide of the chancel is an altar-tomb, ornamented Monuments, with rofes and quatrefoils, over which is a canopy carved with foliage and rofes, and fupported by four grotefque columns. The initials of the deceafed appear to be R. H. On the fouth wall are monuments in memory of the following perfons : Thomas Marfhe, Efq. (fon of Thomas Marfhe, and grandfon of Thomas Marflie, who was notary in the Star-chamber in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,) 1657 5 ^^ married Margaret, daughter of Sir Maurice Abbot, Lord Mayor of London, by whom he had an only fon Thomas ", who died in 1649'*, having married Dorothy, daughter and heir of James Horfey of Huningham, in Warwickfliire, by whom he had an only fon Thomas, who was knighted by Charles II. in 1661. — Frances, third daughter of Thomas Harrifon, Efq. and wife of Robert Newdigate ^\ Efq. (fecond fon of Sir Richard Newdigate, Bart, of Harefield,) 1682; Robert Vincent, Efq," 1764; Mrs. Ann Vincent, his daughter-i"n-law, 1765; Nicholas Gurr, citizen and Fiflimonger, fifty years yeoman and ufher of the body-guard, 1771- On the floor is a brafs plate, with the following infcription : " Henri Frowyk gift icy " Dieu de s'alme eit mercy." There is no date. There are memorials alfo for the following perfons : Henry Ewer, Gent. " (fon of Thomas Ewer of Shenley- *' Arms— A nag's head couped between »» Arms — Az. three cinquefoils A. im- three crofs crofslets fitchee, impaling three paling, A. two chevronels between three horfes heads couped and bridled. — Horfey. towers G. '♦See the date on a flat (lone. *' Arms-G. a tiger (latant S. on a chief " Arms — G. three lions jambs erafed of the firft three croffes patee A. impaling a A. impaling, O. on a fefle S. three eagles horfe's head erafed between three fl.-de-lis. difplayedof the field. — Harrifon. — Marlh. bury,) >32 S O U T H M I M S. bury,) 1641 ; he married Joan, daughter of Randall Marfh of Hen- don, by whom he had one fon and three daughters ; John Adderley, Efq. I 652 ; Elizabeth, daughter of John Horbury, and wife of John Blithm.an, 1660; Sophia, fecond daughter of Thomas Harrifon, Efq. of South Mims, (by Katherine, eldeft daughter of Sir Thomas Bland, Bart, of Kippax Park, in the county of York,) 1661 ; the Rev. Richard Weft, A. B. redor of Bowden Parva, in Northamp- tonfliire, 1775 ; John Barwick, Efq. of Clare Hall, in this parifh, 1 79 1, and Elizabeth his wife, 1795. On the fouth wall of the nave is a fmall nich, within which is placed a death's head accompanied by the following mutilated infcription : " oulde, looke on, why turn awaye thyne eyne, " This is no flranger's face, the phefnamey is thyne." Over it is the following coat : S. three covered cups A. — borne by Nowell, which name frequently occurs in the parifli-regifter. On the fame wall are the monuments of James Hickfon ", Efq. of Lon- don, 1689; and Mary, relid of Chriftopher Dakins '", Efq. 1741. On the floor are the tombs of Roger Hodfden, 1606, and Harriot, an infant daughter of Sir John Reed, Bart. 1756. On the north wall of the veftry, (which it is probable was the Frowyk chantry,) fituated at the eaft end of the north aifle, is a monument, with an open canopy, and an obtufe arch in memory of one of the Frowyks, whofe effigies is reprefented in armour, with a lion at his feet. On this monument are arms of the Frowyk family, and fome of their alliances ^°, but no infcription or date. *' Arms — G. on a chevron between ihree occur alfo on an efcutcheon of pretence, pair of barley garbs in faitier O. as many ^'' I. A chevron between three leopards' tuns S. hooped of the fecond.— Brewers' heads, impaling, three chevrons. — Lewk- Company. nor. II. Frowyk impaling three birds. — *' Arms — G. two mullets inpaleO.be- III. Frowyk impaling, a chevron. IV. tween two fiaunches A. each charged with a. Frowyk quartering a crofs moline voided lion ramp. S. impaling, A. on a pile Az. throughout, between four crofs crofslets.— three lions heads erafed O. The fame arms Knovvles. On S O U T H M I M S. 233 On the floor are memorials of the following pcrfons : Richard Keterich, Efq. 1621 ; Prudence, his wife, daughter of Henry Dyne ofHaidon, in the county of Norfolk, 1602; Dame Mary Turner, daughter of Henry Ewer (no date); George Terry, Efq. 1741; Edward Terry, many years phyfician to the Englifli factory at Aleppo, 1760; and Mr. Richard Maddocks, 1745. The north aifle appears to have been rebuilt in 1526. The win- dows were made at the expence of certain inhabitants of the parifh, whofe portraits are reprefented in ftained glafs, with their names and the date abovementioned. Some of thefe infcriptions are mutilated ; but it appears by a note in the parifli regifter, bearing date 1 62 i , that the firft window, abutting weftward, was made by Richard Walter and John Bowman ; the fecond by the young men and maids of the parifh ; the third by Robert Hunt ; the fourth by Thomas Francis ; and the fifth by the good women of the parifli. One of the windows of the nave (as it appears by the fame note) was made in 1541 at the expence of Edward Jones, citizen and merchant-taylor. On the north wall of the north aifle, is the monument of Anne wife of Charles Rofs, 1 768 ; in the north-eafl corner that of Mr. Richard Maddocks, 1750. On the floor are the tombs of Martha, daughter of Henry Ewer, 1628 ; Mary, reli£t of Daniel Luddington, 1731 ; and Jane Rofs, their daughter, 1765. In the porch beneath the belfry is a tomb (with figures in brafs of the deceafed, his wife, fix fons, and twelve daughters,) in me- mory of Thomas Frowyk. There is no date now to be feen, but it appears by Weever's Funeral Monuments, that Thomas Frowyk, there interred, died in 1448 ; and that the following infcription, which flill remains on his tomb, was written by John Whethamfted Abbot of St. Albans ''. ^'P. 592 Weevererroneoufly places South with North Mims, the feat of the Duke Mims in Herlfordfliire, and m;ikes it the of Leeds, which formerly belonged to that feat of the CoiiiDglbys, confounding it family. H h "Qui 234 SOUTH M I M S. Epitaph o£ Thomas Frowyk. Tombs in the church- yard. « C( (( a « « (( cc (( « cc Qui jacet hie ftratus, Thomas Frowyk vocitatus, Et moribus, et natu, geflu, vidu moderatus ; Vir generofus erat, generofaque gefta colebat, Nam quod amare folent generofi plufque frequentant Aucupium volucrum, venaticumque ferarum Multum dilexit, vulpes foveis fpoliavit Ac taxos " caneis ; breviter quascunque propinquis Intulerant dampna pro pofle fugaverat ipfa : Inter eos etiam fi litis cernerat unquam Accendi faculas, medians extinxerat ipfas, Fecerat et pacem ; cur nunc pacis fibi paufam Det Deus, et requiem quas Temper permanet, Amen." In the church-yard is a monument in memory of Sir John Auften, Bart." three times Knight of the Shire, who died in 1742 ; and his fifter, Mils Arabella Auften, who died in 17 14. The tomb of Benja- min Warwick, Gent, who died in 1781, has the following infcrip- tion : " This ftone is eredled by his difconfolate widow, as well to " perpetuate the tender regard fhe bore to him, as for a caution to " others to avoid the like unfortunate event by which his death was " occafioned, which was by being accidentally fhot near Redburne, *' in the county of Herts, when on a Ihooting party, by one of the " company, who could owe the deceafed no ill-will, becaufe her huf- " band and he were almoft total ftrangers." In the church-yard are the tombs aUb of Daniel Luddington, Gent. 1715 ; William Lud- dington, 1759; the Rev. William Parker, vicar, 1766; William Parker, his only fon, 1767; Ambrofe Hamond, Gent. 1769; Mary, wife of Francis (fon of Ambrofe,) Hamond, 1 778 ; Mrs. Joan Vincent, 1794; and William Hemmings, Lieutenant in the Navy, 1794. ^* Badgers. threebirdsO. — Auften. 2 5:3.0. a lion ramp. " Arms — I & 4. Az. a chevron between S. overall a bend gobony A. & G. — Forfec. The S O U T H M I M S. .235 The redory of South Mims was given by Geoffrey de Mande- Reflory. ville Earl of EfTex, to the Abbot and Convent of Walden ". After the diflblution of religious houfes it was granted by Henry VIII. (anno 1539,) to Thomas Lord Audley ". Before the year 1546 it became the property of William Staunford, Efq. who by an in- denture of that date, aliened it to Lord Wriothefley ". The fame year the King granted it to John Voyfey, or Harman, Bifhop of Exeter ". In 1547 this redlory was conveyed by Richard Sampfon Bifhop of Litchfield and Coventry, to Thomas Fifher, who in 1549, procured a confirmation from the Crown ^\ The next year he de- mifed it to William Clarke for fixty years ". In 1552 the fee of this re£tory being veiled in Sir William Cavendiili, he exchanged it with the King for other eftates *°. In 1558 Sir Thomas Pope, then proprietor of the redlory, procured an exemplification ofLord Audley's grant *'. Queen Elizabeth (it being again veiled in the Crown,) de- mifed it in 1576 for twenty-one years, at the rent of 21I. is. 6d. to James Conyers, he undertaking to difprove the validity of former leafes**. In 1606 King James granted the reftory of South Mims to William Harrifon, Thomas Bulbeck, and their heirs *'. It has for a confiderable time been united to the manor, and is now the pro- perty of the Marquis of Salifbury. In the old valors this re£tory is rated at 22 marks**; in 1548 it was valued at 20I.*' ; in 1650 at 1 14I. Steven Ewer was then leflee at the referved rent of 601.*° 3'' Dugdale's Monnft. vol. i. p. 4^9. 3' See the leafe to Con3'ers. ^5 Pat. 30 Hen. VIII. pt. 5. May 14. *" Records in the Augmentation Office. 3" Pat. 37 Ken. VIII. pt. 8. April 29, *' Pat. 4 & j P. & M. pt. 14. June 29. 3' Records in the Augmentation Office. '^ Records in the Augmentation Office. " Pat. 3 Edw. VI. pt. 6. April 18.— *' Pat. 4 Jac. pt. 8. Feb. 11. Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office, ♦+ See Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 63. bearing date 1548, defcribes the reflory of ♦' Chantry Roll. South Mims as being then the property of 4* Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- the Bifliop of Exeter. bifliop's Library at Lambeth. H h 2 The 236 SOUTH MIMS. Advowfbn. Vicarage. Frowyk's chantry. Meeting- houfes. Parifh re- gifter. The Advowfon of the vicarage became feparated from the re£tory before the year 1618 *^ It was then vefted in the family of Marfh, and continued to be their property till about the beginning of the prefent century *% when it was purchafed by William Parker, Efq. grandfather of William Parker Hamond, Efq. the prefent pro- prietor. The vicarage, which is in the diocefe of London, and in the arch- deaconry of Middlefex, is rated in the King's books at 12I. 3 s. 4d. ; in 1650 it was valued at 30 1.'° The prefent vicar is Peter Aflaton Hamond, M. A. inftituted in 1790, on the refignation of the Rev. John Heathfield. There was a chantry in the church of South Mims, founded about the year 1448, for Thomas Frowyk, and Elizabeth his wife, and endowed with a houfe and lands of confiderable value. This eftate was granted by Henry VIII. in 1547 to his phyfician, Walter Cromer, or Abercromer, fubjed: to a rent of 16 s." In 1 56 1 Thomas Abercromer had the Queen's licence to convey the chantry, with three mefluages, 200 acres of arable land, 50 of meadow, 200 of pafture, and 80 of wood, in South Mims, to Thomas Blackwell, his heirs, and affigns ". I cannot find who is the prefent proprietor of thefe chantry lands. There is a Quakers' meeting-houfe in this parifh, now deferted ; a chapel for the independents, lately built ; and a methodifls' meet- ing-houfe near the town of Barnet. The regiffer of baptifms, burials, and marriages commences in 1558. *' Newcourt's Repertorlum, vol. i. p. 728. *' Mr. Parker was in pofleffion in the year 1 7 1 2. From the information of Mr. Hamond. '° Parliamentary Surveys at Lambeth. '■ Records in the Augmentation Office. '* Pat. 3 Eliz. pt. 13. June 2. 1580-9 SOUTH M I M : s. 237 Average of baptifms. Average of burials. 1580-9 217 — iOtV Compara- tive ilate of 1630-9 ^ 27A — 32I population. i68o-9 imperfe(ft — 28A 1730-9 431- — 367 1780-9 — 33 — 40T 1790-4 — 374 — 364- 1795-9 3S^ — 36I In 1548 the number oi hoiiJly7ig people in this parifh was 340". Within the laft 50 years the population feems to have diminifhed, but the decreafe of baptifms is in this parifh no certain criterion, fmce many of the parifhioners whofe houfes lie contiguous to Hadley and Barnet, being fo far diftant from their own church have their children baptized in thofe parifhes. The prefent number of houfes is about 230 ; that of inhabitants about 970. In 1603 there were 32 burials; in 1624, ^2; in 1625, 54. In Plague 1665 the names of feven perfons only are entered; of thofe who died of the plague there is no mention, excepting in the following extra- ordinary note: " befides above 100 more who died of the plague " the fame year." Extracts from the Regijier. " Sir Richard Gamon, and Mary Grig, married Dec. 23, 1646.'' " Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Hook, and Dame Elizabeth, " baptized Sept. i, 1667." " Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Marfh, burled March 18, Family of " 1668-9; ^^^ ^^"^ of Sir Thomas Marfh, and Anne, buried Auguft ^ " II, 1669; Sir Thomas Marfh, Dec. 31, 1677; the Lady Anne " Marfli, buried May 23, 1678." " Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office.— See p. 5. note 9. " The 238 S O U T H M I M S. *' The Hon. Edward Keppel, buried June 14, 1745 ;" a younger fon of William Anne Earl of Albemarle, who then lived at Derhams. He died at the age of nine years. Hickfon's James Hickfon, Efq. who died in 1689, having in his lifetime built a fet of fix alms-houfes for poor widows, at Dancer' s-Hill in this parifh, by his laft will, bearing date Feb. 16, 1686-7, bequeathed the manor of Williots (already defcribed ",) to the Brewers' Company in truft, for their endowment, dire£ling that a penfion of 4I. per annum fhould be allowed to each widow, with a load of fire-wood ; and every other year a gown ; the remainder of the income being appropriated to keep the houfes in repair. The women are now allowed 1 1. per annum in lieu of the fire-wood. Howkins's The alms-houfcs adjoining to the church-yard were built for five alms-houfes. ^^^^ widows, by John Howkins, Efq. and endowed with 20 s. per annum ifluing out of Wrotham Park, the feat of George Byng, Efq. There is no endowed fchool, but the children of the poor are taught by a voluntary fubfcription of the inhabitants. Other bene- Mr. Paul Jervis, who died in 17 18, gave 20s. per annum to the vicar, for a fermon on Chriftmas eve, and 40 s. to be diftributed in bread among fuch poor perfons as fliall attend divine fervice on that day. Mr. Ewer gave los. per annum to the vicar for a fermon on Good Friday, charged on a houfe, now the Black Horfe. The Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office, which bears date 1548, fpeaks of I2 acres of land belonging to the church, the gift of fome perfon then unknown. " See p. 228. fadions. [ 239 ] STAINES. IN ancient records this place is called Statia, which is the Saxon Etymology. word for a ftone. The name of Stana was common to many- places in the kingdom, moft of which are now called Stone. Cam- den fuppofes this place to have derived its name from a boundary ftone in the river marking the jurifdidtion of the city of London'. The modern way of fpelling the name is Staines. Staines is a market-town in the hundred of Spelthorne, fituated Situation. on the banks of the Thames, fixteen miles from London, on the great weftern road. The parifh is bounded by Stanwell on the north, Boundaries. by Afhford on the eaft, Laleham on the fouth, and by the River Thames on the weft. It contains 748 acres and 16 perches of cultivated land, of which 666 acres i rood 20 perches are arable \ The foil is principally black mould, covering a ftratum of loam ; Soil. in feme parts gravel prevails. This parifti is afleffed the fum of 460 1. 15 s. Qd. to the land-tax, Land.t^ix. which is at the rate of about two ftiillings in the pound. The town of Staines is governed by two conftables and four head- boroughs. The market is on Fridays. In the year 1228 an annual Market and fair at this place was granted to the Abbot and Convent of Weft- ^"^' • Gough's Camden, vol. ii. p. 2. * From the information of J. N. Couffmaker, Efq. minfter, 240 STAINES. mlnflcr, to be held on the morrow of Afcenfion-day, and the three following days \ The Bridge. Staines bridge appears to have been one of the moft ancient in the county: three oaks out of Windfor-foreft were granted by the Crown for its repair in 1262*. Various grants of pontage, or a temporary toll to defray the expence of repairs, were made from time to time, as appears by records at the Tower '. In 1509 an adl of parliament palled, by which the Chancellor of England, or the Lord Keeper for the time being, was autho- rifed to depute certain perfons of the town of Staines to receive fuch tolls as had aforetime been accuftomed to be paid, and employ them in repairing the bridge. Another adt paffed in the year 1597, empowering the Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, to appoint two per- ' fons of Staines, and two of Egham, to receive tolls as aforefaid for the repairs of Staines bridge and Egham caufeway. In 1 79 1 an adl paffed appointing commiffioners for the purpofe of building a new bridge ; under this adl, certain tolls are allowed to be taken, on which the money raifed for building the bridge is charged. In purfuance of this adl a ftone bridge of three arches was begun in the month of Auguft 1792, and opened in the month of March 1797; but in con- fequence of one of the piers having funk, two of the arches are now taken down for the purpofe of being rebuilt. The river Colne falls into the Thames near Staines church. Dr. Stukeley fuppofes a Roman road, which he calls the Via Trino- bantica^ to have paffed through Staines. ' Cart. 12 Hen. III. m. 8. pt. 2. m- 26. Pat. 7 Hen. IV. pt. 2. m. 3;. * CI. 46 Hen. III. m. 12. Pat. 9 Hen. IV. pt. 2. m. 24. Pat. 5 Hen. 5 Pat 22 Edw. I. m. 10. Pat. i8 Edw. V. m. 5. Pat. gHen. V. pt. 2. m. 6. Pat. II. pt. 2. m. 5. Efch. 24 Edw. III. i Hen. VI. pt. i. m. 15. Pat. 6 Hen. VI. No. 51. Pat. 37 Edw. HI. pt. 2. m. 26. pt- i- m. 31. Pat. 7 Hen. VI. pt. 1. m. Pat. 45 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 24. Pat. i3. Pat. 13 Hen. VI. m. 19. Pat. 15 II Rich. II. pt. i.m. 13. Pat. 4Hen.IV. Hen. VI. m. 5. Pat. 34 Hen. VI. m. 23. Staines STAINES. 241 Staines forefl:, which according to Camden *, extended from this town to Hounflow, was difwarrened and disforefted by the King's charter in 1227 ^ "^ Weever mentions a priory at this town, founded by Ralph de Staf- ford. The priory he defcribes was at Stone, in StafFordfhIre, in ancient records called Stane. Speed has fallen into the fame error % The manor of Staines was given, or confirmed to the Abbot and Manor of Convent of Weftminfter by Edward the Confeflbr, in 1066'. It is ^'^'""" thus defcribed in the furvey of Domefday : — " The Abbot of St. " Peter holds the manor of Stanes, which is rated at 19 hides. The " land is 24 carucates. Eleven hides belong to the demefne, on " which are 13 ploughs. The villans have eleven ploughs. There " are three villans who hold half a hide each ; four who have a hide " between them; eight who have half a virgate each; ^6 bordars *' who have three hides between them ^ a villan who has one vir- " gate ; four bordars who have between them 40 acres ; ten bordars " who have five acres each ; five cottars who have four acres each ; " eight bordars who have a virgate between them ; and four cottars " who have nine acres. There are 12 flaves, and 46 burgefles, " who pay rents amounting to 40 s. per annum. There are fix " mills yielding 64 s. and one wear which yields 6 s. 8d. and more. " There is pannage for 30 hogs, and two acres of vineyard. To this *' manor belong four berewicks, or hamlets, which belonged to it " in the reign of King Edward (the Confeflbr]. The total value is " 35^- P^"" annum. In King Edward's time it was 40 1. This manor " is parcel of the ancient demefnes of the church of St. Peter." Chriftian, wife of Robert de Pynkney, who died In 1276, was feifed of the cufl:ody of the manor of Staines, which had been before that ' Cough's Camden, vol. ii. p. 3. * Funeral Monuments, p. 530. and Speed's ' Cart. II Hen. III. m. 5. and CI. M Hiftory, p. 814. Hen. III. m. 4. » Dugdale's Monafticon, vol. i. p. 61. I i time 242 STAINES. Manor of Grove- bames. time enjoyed by Thomas de Pynkney and by Henry de Pynkney. After the deceafe of the faid Chriftian, the reverfion was vefted in Thomas de Arderne '. Upon the diffolution of religious houfes this manor, then valued at 2>3 !• 18 s. lod. per annum '°, became vefted in the Crown. It was granted by James the Firft in 1 6 1 3 to Thomas Lord Kny vet ". In 1629 Thomas Knyvet, Efq. conveyed it to Sir Francis Leigh ", from whofe family it pafled in 1669 to Sir Wil- liam Drake. In 1678 it was purchafed of Sir William Drake by Richard Tayler, Efq. " and is now in the pofTeflion of Mrs. Tayler, relid of the late Richard Tayler, Efq. Andrew de Guildford, who died in 1351, held 60 acres of land, and 40 s. rent in Staines, under Richard de Lovel, the reverfion of which on the death of the faid Richard was vefted in Murlella, wife of Richard Seymour, coufin and heir of Richard de Lovel '*. William Wortham, who died in 1424, held for the term of his life the manor of Grovebarnys, in this parifti, by leafe from Sir Richard de Santo Mauro, (Seymour) fen. the reverfion of which was found by the inquifition then taken, to belong to Alice, wife of Sir William Zouch, (Lord Zouch of Harringworth,) daughter of Sir Richard de St. Maur, jun. (being then 14 years of age). It was valued at AC s. per annum '\ William Lord Zouch, (fon of the faid Alice,) died feifed of this manor in 1469 ; John Le Zouch his fon and heir, being then eight years of age ". After this period I find nothing of it upon record. It appears from deeds " in the poffeffion of the pre- fent proprietor, that William Knowles fold the manor of Grove- barnes in 1634, to James Chapman, by whom it was aliened in 9 Efch. 4 Edw. I. No. 76. •" Rental of manors, 36 Hen. VIII. Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 701. " Pat. 1 1 Jac. pt. 21. Dec. 22. No. 10. '» Pat. 5 Car. pt. 30. April i. No. 15. " From the information of J. Barber, Efq. "♦ Efch. 25 Edw. III. No. 63. 's Efch. 2 Hen. VI. No. 6. '6 Efch. 8 EJvv. IV. No. 53. " From which the above information was obligingly communicated by Mr. Burnett's nephew, Samuel Plaifted, Efq. of Hatton Garden. 1639 STAINES. 243 1639 to Thomas Fauconberge. In 1700 Thomas Fauconberge, his grandfon, conveyed it to Thomas Frafer, Gent, who in 1720 fold it to John Rooper, Efq. ; Godolphin Rooper, his fon, aliened it in 1753 to William Pearfon, who died in 1764. In 1775 this manor was pur- chafed of his reprefentatives, by Thomas Burnett ofLaleham, father of Thomas Burnett, Efq. the prefent proprietor. Sir Nicholas Brembre, who was attainted and executed in the reign of Richard the Second, held for life certain lands, rents, &c. in Staines, Yeveney, and Stanwell, the i-everfion of which was vefted in Thomas Bere, who had afligned his reverfionary intereft to Thomas Walyngton, by whom it had been again afligned to the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter. Thefe lands were confirmed to the Convent by the King in 1397 '^ It feems probable, that this was the fame eftate which was called afterwards the manor of Manor of Yeveney, Yeovney, or Iveney, which manor having been parcel of i^^aeyJ °*^ the pofleflions of the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter, came into the hands of the Crown, and was granted to the Dean and Chapter, who for many years appear to have kept it in their own hands. The family of Dolben were leflees under the Dean and Chapter as early as the year 1667 "'. The leafe was purchafed of Sir William Dolben, Bart, in 1775 or 1776, by the late William Gill, Efq. Alderman of London, and is now vefted in his widow. Richard Rook in the year 1366, gave to the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter ^6 acres of arable land, and 4 acres of meadow in Staines and Laleham ". Edmund de Waftell, vicar of Hefton, anno 1366, gave a mill, 34 acres of land, and 5 s. rent in Staines and Stanwell to the priory of Hounflow *'. " Pat. 20 Rich. II. pt. 2. m. I. numbering. " Court Rolls of the manor, coramuni- *' Efch. 40 EJw. III. No. 51. fecond cated by Mrs. Gill. numbering. " Efch. 40 Edw. III. No. 20. fecond I i 2 The 244 STAINES. Parifli The parifh-church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, ftands about a quarter of a mile weft of the town. It is a gothic ftrufture, confift- ing of a chancel, nave, and north aifle, feparated by circular columns and pointed arches. The door of the chancel is of Saxon architec- ture, and one of the windows is of the lancet form. The nave has been in part rebuilt with brick. At the weft end is a fquare em- battled tower, built in 1631 by Inigo Jones, as appears by an infcrip- tion on the fouth fide. The font is fquare ; its fides are ornamented with plain circular arches. Monuments. On the eaft wall of the chancel is a monument in memory of Thomas Eyre ", (fon of Stephen Eyre, Gent, of Hartlebury in Worcefterlhire,) 17 13; and the Rev. Jofeph Eyre, who died the fame year. On the floor are the tombs of Anne, wife of Samuel Vicars, vicar of Staines, (daughter of John Monger, Gent.) 1681; John Chafe, Efq. apothecary to the Queen, 1690; Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Some, D. D. Canon of Windfor, 1683; Thomas Heames, Gent. 1706; and Tillam Hammond, 1724. On the north wall of the nave is the monument of Charlotte, wife of Samuel Hartley, Efq.*^ 1785 > ^^ tbe floor are the tombs of Mr. John Royle, 1741 ; Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, his mother, aged 95, 1743. She was wife firft of Timothy Royle, and afterwards of John Taylor. In the north aifle is a handfome monument of various kinds of marble, with a farcophagus and medallions of the deceafed, in me- mory of Henry Barham, Efq. who died in 1746; and Elizabeth, his widow, (daughter of Samuel Smith, Efq.) who had been firft married to John Fofter, Efq. of Jamaica, 1756. Reftory. The redory of Staines, which had been appropriated to the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter, became vefted in the Crown on ** Arms — A. on a chevron S. three qua- " Arms— A. on a crofs Az. four cinque- trefoils O. impaling, Per chevron G. & Erm- foils O. in the firft quarter a martlet S. im- two wolves' heads erafed O. paling Eyre. the STAINES. 245 the dlflblutlon of religious houfes ; and was granted in 1601 to Guy Godolphin and John Smyth '*. In 1603 Godolphin fold his intereft In the grant to Smyth, who in the fame year conveyed the redory to Ury, or Uriah Babington. In 1625 William Babington, his fon, aliened it to William Stydolph, and Stydolph in 1631 to Thomas Bartholomew, whofe defcendant, of the fame name, in 1725 fold it to John de Couffmaker, grandfather of John Newman Couff- maker, Efq. and Lanoy Richard Couffmaker, Efq. the prefent joint proprietors. In the old valors this reflory was rated at 70 marks, including the chapelries of Laleham and Afliford ^'. In 1650 the parfonage of Staines was valued at about 80 1. per annum ". The vicarage of Staines, which is in the diocefe of London, and vicarage. in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, was endowed in the time of William (Courtney or Grey) Bifhop of London, with the demefne lands of the redlory, (difcharged of tithes to the redor,) and with all the fmall tithes in Staines and its chapelries, to which chapelries (Teddington excepted, the patronage of which was referved to the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter,) the vicar of Staines was to prefent fit curates, removeable at pleafure *'. The demefne lands thus granted to the vicar, are defcribed in a terrier bearing date 1610, to confift of 54 acres" ; of which in 1650, 24 were meadow, and 30 arable : the vicarage was then valued at Sol. per annum"'. It Is rated in the old valors at 12 marks'"; in the King's books at 12 1. 13 s. 4d. The patronage of this vicarage has been in the Crown fince the Advowfon. diffolution of religious houfes, excepting during Cromwell's ufurpa- *♦ The alienations of this recflory are talcen bifhop's library at Lambeth, from an abftrad of the title, obligingly com- *' Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 732. municated by J. N. Couffmaker, Efq. ^^ Ibid. *J See Harl. MSS. Brit.Muf. No. 60. »» Parliamentary Surveys. »* Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- 3" gee Harl. MSS. No. 60. tlon, 2^6 STAINES. tlon, when Gabriel Price was prefented (anno 1 654) by the keepers of the liberties of England '". The prefent vicar is the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellefley, M. A. inftituted in 1798, on the ceffion of Alexander Cromble- holme, M. A. Yeveney ^^ *^^ endowment of the vicarage of Staines, Yeveney is men- chapel, tioned among the chapelries to which the vicar was to prefent. The chapel at this hamlet has been long ago dilapidated. Guild of the In the year 1456 a licence was granted to John Lord Berners, Sir V"iro"m Mary. John Wenlock, and other parifhioners of Staines, to found a guild or fraternity in honour of God and the Virgin Mary, in the chapel of the Holy Crofs, in the church of Staines, which guild fhould con- fift of two wardens and a certain number of brethren and fillers, who were incorporated by the King's letters patent of that date ". The lands belonging to this guild were valued in 1548 at ill. 17 s. 6 d. per annum, including 6s. 8d. for a chamber, called the chantry prieft's chamber ". Thefe lands paid quit-rents to the manors of Grove-* barnes and Iveney Court. Meetlno-. The Quakers have a meeting-houfe in this town ; there is houfes. another belonging to the Anabaptifts, and a third to the Me- thodifts. .f. The regifter of baptifms, burials, and marriages In this pa- regifter. j-ifl^ commences in 1538, but at various periods it is very im- perfect. »■ Proceedings of the Committees, in the ^* Pat. 34 Hen. VI. m. 12. Archbi(hop's Library at Lambeth, vol. 31 Chantry Roll in the Augmentation xxxili. pt. 3. p. 15. Office. 1540-9 STAINES. 247 Average of baptifms. Average of burials. « 1540-9 — »3I • ~ iiA Compara- 1580-9 — 8 — imperfect tive llate of population. 1630-9 — 91 — 8tV 1680-9 — 8^ — imperfe£t 1730-9 — 34 ■— I73I-9 — — 3It 1780-9 — 42t — 44t 1790-4 — 48-1 — 427 1795-9 48^ — 407 In 1548 the number oi hou/lyng people In this parlfli was 400'*. The prefent number of houfes is about 270 " ; of inhabitants about 1500. In 1603 only three burials are entered ; in 1625, 6; in 1665, 10. Plague No mention is made of the plague in either year, and it feems as if ^^^"' this town, though a great thoroughfarej and fo near London, wholly efcaped that calamity. ExtraBs from the Regifler. " Sir William Lukenor, buried 0£l. 10, 1545." " Anne Foy, buried Dec. 7. " Mrs. TerfiU and two children, 1 Fatal " Mr. Colman, . f" buried Dec. 8. '^'''^• " Mr. Lawrence, ^ " All thefe, and one more, carried into Hamplhire, were drowned " at New Year's bridge, in the parifh of Staines, Dec. 5, 1768, be- *' ing paflengers in the Exeter coach." " Mary Bradfhaw, aged 90 years, buried Jan. 12, 1771." ^* Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Pennington, curate of Staines, to whom I Office. — See p. 5. note 9. am indebted for other particulars relating ^' From the information of the Rev. Mr. . to this parifh. " Buried ace I- 248 STAINES. " Buried March 25, 1791, a man unknown, of fome parifh in *' Cambridge, whofe death was occafioned and haftened by the im- *' proper treatment of William Seymour, farmer of the poor, for *' which a bill was found againft him, and he confined in Newgate a " year and a day." " Edmundus Henricus Stephanus Vidurnius, the fon of Marc " Etienne Gabriel, Prince de Bouveau, and of the Holy Roman " Empire ; and of Nathalie Henriette Vidturnienne de Mortemart, " was born Od. 13, 1794. Robert Pope — accoucheur." Benefac. Mr. William Gillet in 1625 gave 4I. per annum for the education of poor children of this parifh. Nathaniel Loan, by his will bearing date 1625, gave I2d. a week, to be diftributed in bread among the poor. Mr. Thomas Heames by his will bearing date 1705, gave 2S. a week for the fame purpofe. Mr. John Arwood in 1681, gave il. per annum to the poor of this parifli; Mr. William Steers in 1701, the fame fum. tions [ M9 ] STANWELL. THE name of this place has undergone no alteration in the Etymology. mode of fpelling, except from redundancy of letters, for many centuries. Stanwell, in the Saxon language, is literally the flone well. Stanwell lies in the hundred of Spelthorne, about two miles from situation. Staines, two from the Bath road, and 15 from London. The parifh is bounded by Eaft Bedfont on the eaft ; by Staines on the fouth- Boundaries, weft ; on the weft and north-weft by the river Colne, which feparates it from Horton, Iver, and Langley, in Buckinghamftiire ; and on the north and north-eaft by Harmondfworth. It contains (exclufive of roads, &c.) 3810 acres of land, of which about three-fourths are arable, the remainder meadow and pafture. About 360 acres of common, being a part of Hounflow-heath, were inclofed a few years ago purfuant to an a.Q. of parliament pafled for that purpofe, and are included in the above account. The foil is various; fand, gravel, loam, Soil. and in the north-weft part of the parifh a black moor. This parifh pays the fum of 509 1. t8s. to the land-tax, which is Land-tai. at the rate of about is. 6d. in the pound. The manor of Stanwell is thus defcribed in the furvey of Domef- Manor. day : — " Walter Fitzother holds the manor of Stanwell, which is *' rated at 15 hides. The land is to carucates. There are three •' hides in demefne, on which are three ploughs. The freeholders " and villans have 10 ploughs. There is one villan who holds a K k " hide; 250 S T A N W E L L. " hide ; eight villans who have half a hide each, ten vlllans who " have a virgate each ; eight who have half a virgate each ; four " bordars who have between them 28 acres ; there are two cottars, " and eight flaves. Two knights hold two hides and a half, and " under them there are fix bordars. There are four mills, yielding " 70s. rent, and 375 eels: three wears which produce 1000 eels. " The meadow is equal to 1 2 carucates. There is pafture for the " cattle of the manor, and pannage for 100 hogs. The whole value " is 14I. When entered upon by the prefent owner it was 61. In " the reign of Edward the ConfefTor 14I. It was then the property of *' Azor, a domeftic fervant of the King." William, the eldeft fon of Walter Fitzother, being warden of Windfor caftle, affumed the name of Windfor. His fon, William de Windfor, procured from Henry the Second a confirmation of all the lands which had be- longed to Walter Fitzother, his grandfather'. This William de Windfor died about the year 1194, leaving two fons, Walter and William, who divided between them the barony of Windfor \ The manor of Stanwell fell to the fhare of William, who died feifed of it about the year 1275 ; and it continued in the Windfor family ' till the year 1543, when King Henry VIII. having been advifed to dif- pofe of the monaftic lands by gift, or exchange, to the principal nobility and gentry, thought fit to make an exchange of this fort with Andrews Lord Windfor. To this purpofe he fent a meffage that he would dine with him at Stanwell, where a magnificent entertain- • CoHins's Peerage, edit. 176S, vol. iv. Elch. 44 Edw. III. No. 67; Sir Miles dc p. 4j. Windfor in 1387, Efch. 10 Rich. II. No. * Ibid. p. 44. 46 ; Alice, his widow, in 1395, Efch. 3 William de Windfor died feifed of It In 18 Rich. II. No. 51 ; Brian de Windfor 1279, Efch. 7 Edw. I. No. 23; — Sir before 1399. — See a recital in Efch. 9 Hen. Richard de Windfor in 1326, Efch. 19 V. No. 45 ; Richard de Windfor in 1428, Edw. II. No. 54; Joan wife of Richard, in Efch. 6 Hen. VI. No. 46 ; Miles de Wind- 1328, Efch. 2 Edw. III. No. 17; Richard for in 1452, Efch. 30 Hen. VI. No. 11 ; de Windfor, about 1367— See CI. 41 Edw Thomas Windfor, Efq. in 1485— Collins, III. m. 9i Sir James de Windfor in 1370, vol. iv. p. 62. ment S T A N W E L L. aji ment was accordingly provided. The King then informed him that he liked his place fo well, that he was refolved to have it, though not without a beneficial exchange. Lord Windfor made anfwer, that he hoped his Higlmefs was not in earned, fmce Stanwell had been the feat of his anceftors for fo many generations ; the King with a ftern countenance replied, that it muft be, commanding him on his allegiance to repair to the Attorney General, and fettle the bufmefs without delay. The Attorney General fhowed him a conveyance, ready prepared, of Bordefley Abbey, in the county of Worcefter, with all its lands and appurtenances, in exchange for the manor of Stanwell, Being conftrained, through dread of the King's difplea- fure, to accept of the exchange, he conveyed this manor to his Ma- jefty *, being commanded to quit Stanwell immediately, though he had laid in his Chriftmas provifions for the keeping of his wonted hofpitality there, all which he left in the houfe, faying they fhould not find it bare Stanwell '. Edward the Sixth having granted a leafe of the capital melTuage and fite of the manor of Stanwell, with the demefne lands, in the tenure of Sir Philip Hobby, to Sir Thomas Pafton for 50 years, at the rent of 39 1. 6s. 8d., Queen Elizabeth in 1587 granted a renewed leafe to Edward Fitzgarret, or Fitzgerald, for 30 years, commencing at the expiration of the above mentioned term*. Certain lands, parcel of the manor, were demifed In 1573 to Chriftopher Edmunds, at the rent of 9I. 8d. and other lands to Robert Cole, alias Vlume, for 21 years in 158 1 '. King James in 1603, granted to Sir Thomas Knyvet the fite of the manor, and the demefne lands of Stanwell'; and in 1613 he granted him (being then Lord Knyvet), the manor, and various other premifes, fubjed ■• The deed of exchange is in the Aug- from the mouth of Thomas Lord Windfor. mentation Office, bearing date March 14, " Piit. 30 Eiiz. pt. 15. Feb. i. 33 Hen. VIII. ^ Leafes in the Augmentation Office. ' Collins, vol. iv. p. 6S. — on the autho- ' Pat. i Jac. pt. 23. Aug. 5. rity o£ Sir William Dugdale, who had it K k 2 to 252 S T A N W E L L. to a fee-farm rent of lool.' The Lady Mary, daughter of James I. was placed under the care of Lord Kny vet, and died at Stanwell in 1607'°. Lord Knyvet died in 1622, having fettled this manor in moieties upon his great nephew John Gary, and his great niece Eliza- beth Leigh. John Gary was fon of Sir Philip Gary, which Sir Philip was fon of Sir Edward Gary by his wife Gatherine, Dowager Lady Paget, and fifter of Lord Knyvet. Elizabeth Leigh was daughter of Sir Francis, and Dame Ghriftian his wife, which Chrif- tian was daughter of Lady Thynne, another fifter of Lord Knyvet. An award in Ghancery after the death of Lord Knyvet, determined that if John Gary and Elizabeth Leigh fhould Intermarry, which was much wifhed by their friends, this manor fhould be fettled on them and their heirs; otherwife that it fhould remain in moieties. It appears that Elizabeth Leigh married Sir Humphrey Tracye, Bart, of Stan- way, in Gloucefterfhire. In 1678 John Gary being then ftill liv- ing, a deed of partition was executed, by which he became fole pro- prietor of the manor of Stanwell. By his will, bearing date 1686, he bequeathed his eftates for life to his great niece, Elizabeth (only furviving daughter of George Lord Willoughby of Parham, fon of William Lord Willoughby, by Anne daughter of Sir Philip Gary,) provided that fhe fhould within three years after his deceafe marry Lord Guildford, with remainder to her iffue-male by him ; in failure of which condition to the Falkland family. Elizabeth Willoughby married the Hon. James Bertie ; but a decree of the Houfe of Lords in 1697, determined in favour of her life-intereft in this manor, ad- judging the reverfion to be vefted in Lucius Henry Lord Falkland. Mrs. Bertie died in 1715; and in 1720 Lord Falkland fold the » Pat. II Jac. pt. II. March 22. The rent is now payable to the Earl of Sand- defcent of the manor from this period is wich. taken from title deeds obh'gingly communi- '" Lodge's Illuftrationsof Britifli Hiftory, cated by James Graham, Efq. with permif- &c. vol. iii. p. 203. fion of Sir William Gibbons. The fee-farm manor S T A N W E L L. 253 manor of Stanweil to John Earl of Dunmore, who died In 1752. It was purchafed of his truftees in 1754, by John Gibbons, Efq. (afterwards Sir John Gibbons, Bart, and K. B.) father of Sir William Gibbons, Bart, the prefent proprietor. In the deed of exchange between Henry VIII. and Lord Windfor, the manor of Stanweil is defcribed as extending into the counties of Bucks, Berks, Surrey, and Hants. The parifhes are enumerated in the deed ". The inquifition taken after the death of William, de Windfor in 1279, defcribes the value of this manor thus : 90 acres of land worth 6d. an acre ; 34 acres of moor land, worth 4d. an acre ; ^^ acres of meadow, worth I2d. an acre ; 6 acres and a half -of wood, which, with the curtilage of the manor, are valued at 2 s. ; the rents of aflize at ill. 15s. ^d.; the labour due from the tenants, and the manerial profits, are valued at 33s. 6d. The manor was held of the King by the rent of i6s. 8d. and the ward of Windfor caflle once in 40 days. The furvey of Domefday thus defcribes the manor of Weft Bed- Manor of font, in this pariih : " Walter de Mucedent holds the manor of " Bedefont under Walter Fitzother.,, It is taxed at eight hides. The " land is four carucates. There is one plough on the demefne " lands, and the villans employ three. There are two villans who " hold four hides ; two others who have two virgates ; two who *' have one virgate, and one bordar who has five acres. The " prieft has one virgate ; there is a cottar who has five acres, " and there are two flaves. The meadow-land is equal to two " oxgangs, and there is pafture for the cattle of the manor. The " whole value is 3I. ; in the reign of King Edward (the Confeflbr) " it was 61. It was then divided into two manors of four hides " each ; one held by Brithmar, a fervant of Earl Harold, who could " See the deed in the Augmentation Office. " alienate Well Bed- font. 254 S T A N W E L L. " alienate at pleafure; the other by two focmen, fervants of Azor, *' who could not difpofe of it without his leave." In the year 1235 James, fon of William de Haverhull, granted to Andrew Bukerell his homage and fervice of the whole manor of Weft Bedfont, in the county of Middlefex, and whatfoever right the fame James had or could have in the faid manor : this was confirmed by the King's charter '*. Andrew BukereTI, fon of Andrew above mentioned, gave this manor to the Prior of New Place ", who held it under Brian de Windfor, at the death of the faid Brian in 1399 '*. In the year 141 5 this manor was vefted in the Abbot and Convent of Chert- fey, who by their deed of that date, exchanged it with Richard de Windfor for the re£tory and advowfon of Stanwell ". The faid Richard de Windfor died in 1428 feifed of the manor of Weft Bed- font, then valued at 40s. per annum '". This manor was included in the exchange between Andrews Lord Windfor and the King. In 1570, being then defcribed as the manor of Weft Bedfont, alias Bed- font Court, parcel of the manor of Stanwell, it was demifed to Wil- liam Spark for 2 1 years". I find no fubfequent mention of this manor ; it appears to have merged in that of Stanwell, which extends over the hamlet of Weft Bedfont. Manor of John de Tytchburn held the manor of Shipcote (called in other Shipcotts or records Hamondys,) under Richard de Windfor in 142 1 ". Nicholas Hamonds. ■' ' ' Tichborne, who died in 1556, was feifed of the manor of Hamons, otherwife Shipcotts, near Staines ; Francis his fon and heir, being then twenty-five years of age "'. The faid Francis died in 1563 feifed of this manor, 6 mefluages, 6 tofts, 400 acres of arable land ; 60 of " Cart. 19 Hen. III. m. 15. " Leafes in the Augmentation Office " Diigdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 248. "' See Efch. 9 Hen. V. No. 45. (Poft ob. '* See recital in Efch. 9 Hen. V. R. de Windfor,) and Efch. 6 Hen. VI. " See Pat. 3 Hen. V. pt. i. m. 16. and No. 46. (Poft ob. Mil. de Windfor). 19. CI. 9 Hen. V. m. 4. and Efch. 9 Hen. "» Cole's Efch. Harl. MSB. Brit. Muf. V. No. 45. No. 760. "• See Efch. 6 Hen. VI. No. 46. meadow S T A N W E L L. 255 meadow, 100 of pafture, 50 of wood, and 3I. rents in Staines and Stanwell, held under the Crown as of the manor of Stan- well ; Juliana his filler, (thirty- four years of age,) the wife of Thomas Crofswell being his heir ". The manor of Ha- monds continued in the family of Tichborne, or Tichbourn, till 1638, when it was conveyed by Sir Richard Tichbourn, Bart, to John Hyde, who had at that time a mortgage upon it. After paf- fmg through the hands of various mortgagees, it became the pro- perty of John Maculloch, Efq. who, in 1735, conveyed it to John Earl of Dunmore. It was purchafed in 1 754 of the truftees adting under the Earl's will, by John Gibbons, Efq. afterwards Sir John Gibbons, Bart, and K. B. father of Sir William Gibbons, Bart, the prefent proprietor. Lands in Stanwell were held by William de la Poyle in the year Manor of 1267*'. William de Langele conveyed the manor of Poyle, or de °^ ^" la Poyle, in this parifh, to John de la Poyle, Ifabel his wife, and their heirs. John de la Poyle died in 13 18, having demifed this manor, (after the death of his wife,) to Richard de Waledon for life. The reverfionary intereft, after the death of the faid Richard, who was then living, was veiled in Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of John de la Poyle, twenty-four years of age at the time of her father's death ^*. This manor was then valued at 5I. 14 s. 4d. per annum. It continued in the family of De la Poyle for feveral gene- rations. Sir Thomas De la Poyle died feifed of it in 1424*'. In 1452 this manor was the property of John Geynesford, Efq. who held it under the Windfors by the fervice of half a Knight's fee, and the payment of 4s. gd. every 24 weeks'*. In 148 1 it was conveyed *° Cole's Efch. Harl. MSS. Brit Muf. " See CI. ji Hen. III. m. lo. d. No. 758. The remainder of the defcent of " Efch. ii Edw. III. No. 17. this manor is taken from title-deeds, oblig- '^ Efch. 2 Hen. VI. No. 26. ingly communicated by James Graham, '* Efch. 30 Hen. VI. No. 11. (poft ob. Efq. -with Sir William Gibbons's permif- M. de Windfor). fion. to 256 S T A N W E L L. to John Catefby and others ". In 1343 it was vefted In the Windfor family, and was inckided in the exchange between Andrews Lord Windfor and Henry VIII. The fite was demifed in 1575 to Robert Holmes for 21 years, at the rent of ill. 3s. 4d.; and in 1587 to Nicholas Hilliard, her Majefty's portrait painter, for the fame term, and at the fame rent "'. In 161 3 the manor of Poyle was granted in fee to Thomas Lord Knyvet ". From this period it defcended in the fame manner as that of Stanwell till 1678, when, in confequence of the partition then made, Poyle became vefted in the Leigh family, of whom it was purchafed by the late Sir John Gibbons, Bart. In 1 78 1 it was conveyed by Sir William Gibbons, Bart, to John and Henry Bullock; and in 1799 v.-as fold by Henry Bullock, Efq. to Edmund Hill, Efq. who is the prefent proprietor*'. The inquifition taken after the death of Sir Thomas de la Poyle In 1424, defcribes this manor as confifting of 100 acres of arable land, valued at i d. an acre ; 40 of pafture of the fame value ; 40 of mea- dow valued at 8d. an acre; three of heath at 4d. ; a water-mill valued at IDS. per annum ; rents of afhze amounting to 4 1. 12s. Sfd; arofe paid as a quit-rent on the feftival of St. John the Baptlft, and four capons on Hocday. No courts are held for this manor. There are now two mills at Poyle ; the one a paper mill, the other ufed for the manufadure of leather. William de Windfor in the year 1203 granted a vlfgate of land in Stanwell to Jocelin Fitzhugh, redtor of Stanwell, and his heirs ". Ralph Jocelin in 1267, gave rents in this parifh, amounting to 1 2 s. to the Prior and Convent of Ankerwyke '". William Pafla- vaunt in i 285 gave 50 acres of land in this parifh, held under Richard de Windfor, to the faid priory ". '" Cl. 20 Edw. IV. m. 7. ^° Cart. 5 John, m. 10. *' Leales in the Augmentation Office. ^' CI. 51 Hen. III. m. 10. d, " Pat. II Jac. pt. II March 22. ^* Efch. 13 Edw. I. No. 115. *» From the information of Melfrs. Graham. Richard S T A N W E L L. 257 Richard Wyot, who died in 1428, was feifed of a houfe and lands called Cleremundes in this parifh, held under Richard de Windfor by the fervice of half a knight's fee, and the payment of 3 s. 4d. every 24 weekvS ". Sir Peter Ardern and others, anno 1476, conveyed lands and tene- ments in Stanwell to Richard Bulftrode ". The parifh-church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a gothic Parifh ftrudlure of flint and ftone, confifting of a chancel, nave, and two aifles, divided by o<£tagonal and circular pillars, fupporting pointed arches. At the weft end is a fquare tower (of flint and ftone in checquer work,) on which ftands a lofty fpire, partly covered with fhingles, and partly with lead. On the north fide of the chancel is an altar-tomb, over which is Tomb of a canopy, having an obtufe arch ornamented with quatrefoils. Be- Windfor. neath the arch were placed, upright in the wall, brafs plates with the effigies of the deceafed and his wife, and an infcription, all long ago removed. This is the monument of Thomas Windfor, Efq. (father of Andrews the firft Lord Windfor,) who died in i486. Monuments of this form frequently occur, and are generally to be found in chancels. They were intended for a double purpofe, both as memorials of the deceafed, and for the convenience of performing certain ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church, for which, in de- fault of thefe altars, temporary ftrudures were fubftituted. That thefe tombs had fuch a twofold ufe, is evident from the laft will of Thomas Windfor here interred, made in the year 1479. After Direflions in direding that his body ftiall be buried " on the north fide of the '"' ^'^'"' " quer of the church of our Lady of Stanwell, afor the ymage of " our Lady, wher the fepulture of our Lord ftondith ;" he adds, ♦* I will that there be made a playne tombe of marble of a competent " height, to th'entent that yt may ber the blefsid body of our Lord, " Efch. 6 Hen, VI. No. 46. (poft ob. "» CI. 6 Edw. IV. m. 35. Ri. de Windfor). L I " and 258 S T A N W E L L. " and the fepulture at the time of Eftre to ftand upon the fame, and " with myne armes, and a fcriptur convenient to be fett about the " fame tombe, by th' advice of myne executors and overfeers under- " wrytten." He then direds that four tapers and twenty-two torches of wax (the tapers to weigh ten pounds, and each of the torches fixteen pounds,) fhall be ufed at his burial, and at his month's mind, and be borne by twenty-four very poor and well-difpofed men, who (hall have at each time 8 d. a-piece, and a gown of frieze ; the poor of Stanwell to be preferred. The four tapers after being ufed as above mentioned, he bequeaths to the church ; two of them to burn before the fepulture of our Lord at Eafler as long as they will endure, and the others " to help the light that ftandeth upon the " branch before the image of the Virgin Mary." He bequeathed alfo four of the twenty torches to the church of Stanwell, and the others to fixteen of the neareft parifhes in Middlefex. He directed that three priefts and three clerks fhould fmg by note Placebo, Dirige, and mafs of requiem for thirty days next enfuing his deceafe, in the church of Stanwell ; and that a hundred children within the age of fixteen years, Ihould be at his month's mind to fay for his foul within the church of Stanwell, our Lady Pfalter, and each of them to have for their labour four-pence; and that againft his month's mind the candles fhould burn before the rood in the faid church, with all other lights before our Lady, the Trinity, or any other faints in the faid church, to be renewed at his own coft. Alfo that at his month's mind, his executors fhould provide twenty priefts befides the clerks that were to come to fay Placebo, &c. and that they fhould be rewarded at the difcretion of his executors ; and that there fhould be provided a convenient dinner to the pleafure of God, and the comfort of his lovers and friends, which fhould like them to be there at that time, with all other his tenants at Stanwell. He directed, moreover, that lol. fhould be diftributed among poor houfeholders of Stanwell, and the adjoining parifhes, in fums of one fhilling S T A N W E L L. 259 (hilling and eight-pence to parlfliloners of Stanwell, and one fhilling. to thofe of other parifhes. He diredled alfo that an honeft and well- difpofed prieft fhould be provided to fing and fay divine fervice in the church of Stanwell, or in the chapel of his manor-houfe, for the term of twenty years after his deceafe, to have for his wages 61. 13 s. 4d. without his diet, or 35 s. 4d. with his diet, and a gown to be provided by his wife, or next heir, to the intent that the faid prieft fhould pray for his foul, the fouls of his father and mother, his aunt. Dame Alice Wyche, and all chriftian fouls. Laftly, he willed that his widow, or his heirs, fhould keep his obit for forty years, folemnly by note, with fix priefts and three clerks, to pray for his foul, the fouls of his father and mother, John Andrews and Elizabeth his wife, Dame Alice Wyche, his friends, and all chriftian fouls ". To return to the defcription of Stanw^ell church. — On the north wall of the chancel is a handfome monument of veined Monument orThom:is marble, fupported by columns of the Corinthian order, in me- Lord Kny- mory of Thomas Lord Knyvet ^* and Elizabeth his wife, whofe effigies are reprefented as large as the life, in kneeling atti- tudes. On a tablet is the following infcription : — Thomas '5 The will is printed in Collins's peerage, a border S. bezanty. — Lynne. i6. Erm. edit. 1768, vol. iv. p. 59. — 62. a lion ramp. Az. crowned O. — Pickering. '* Arms — I. Quarterly of 22. i. A. a 17- A. three chaplets, G. — Lafcelles. 18. bend within a border engrailedS. Knyvet or S. a crofs A. in the dexter canton a cinque- Knevet. 2. A. three bendlets engrailed G. foil of the fecond. — Morefby. 19. Perfeffe a canton of the fecond. — Horton. 3- G. a A. & G. fix martlets counterchanged. — Fen- feffe dancettee between fix crofs crofslets O. wick. 20. Per bend Az. & O. a lion ramp. — Engayne. 4. O. three pales G. within a G. 21. O. a crofs patonce G. 22. A. a border S. bezanty. — Baflet. 5. O. four lion ramp. S. billety O. II. Knyvet im- bends Az. a canton A. — Fitzotes. 6. paling Hayward. III. Quarterly of fix — Cheeky O. & G. a bend Erm.— Clifton, i & 6. G. a lion ramp. A. ducally crowned 7. G. three bends A. 8. A. a chief G. a O. — Hayward. 2. A. two pales engrailed bend Az. — Cromwell. 9. Erm. a feife G. S. 3. A. on a faltier G. 5 fl.-de-lis of the — Bernake. 10. A. three cinquefoils, and field. — Brofton. 4. G. a lion ramp, between a canton G.—Driby. 1 1 . Cheeky O. & G. three mullets O.—Whitbrook. 5. Perfeffe a chief Erm. — Tatefhall. 12. G. a lion O. & A. an eagle difplayed S. — Underbill, ramp. O. — D'Albini.' 13. Az. three garbs The monument having been newly painted, O. — Chefter. 14. Az. a wolf's head erafed fome of the arms are erroneoufly blazoned, A.— Lupu.s. 15. A. a demi-lion ramp. G. and are here corredled. L 1 2 " Knyvettus vet. 26o S T A N W E L L. " Knyvettus ex andqua admodum et pra;luftre Knyvettorum " familia, de Buckenham in agro Norfolcienfi oriundus, magnani- " mus, gravis, prudens, religiofiflimus, quem per emerita aulae " munia ad fummatium honorum faftigia, virtus fua et gratia princi. " pum gradatim extulit ; reginse fi quidem memorias femper facrae " Elizabethae ab interiore cubiculo, delegatum fibi munus fumma " cum laude prxftitit ; a fereniffimo deinde Jacobo Magnae Britannise *' Rege, fagacitatis ergo qua horrendae illius (a Pyrio pulvere didas) " proditionis veftigia fa^lix explorator indagaflet ad Baronatum de " Efcrick eredlus, niox ad Annas Reginse confilia admiffus fide clarus *' emicuit. Huic contigit uxor Elizabetha Matrona, leftiflima filia " Rolandi Hayward, Equitis, vidua Ricardi Warren, patricii pras- " divitis, quae Reginae Annas fuit a cubiculo et ob fidem perfpedlam " tutelae regiarum natu minorum filiarum Marias et Sophias, ab " utraque Majeftate praepofita. Natura nullius, complurium chari- " tate parens." — It appears by an infcription on the floor that Lord and Lady Knyvet both died in 1622. Other mo- On the fame wall is the monument of Martha, daughter of the Rev. Erafmus Saunders, D D. and wife of Martin Whifh, Efq. 1785- On the fouth wall of the chancel are two ftone ftalls of the early gothic architecture, from which a range of niches, ornamented with trefoils in the arches and in the fpandrils, extends to the end of the chancel. On the floor are the tombs of Richard Thorp, redor, 1408 ; Richard, fon of Richard de Wyndfore (without date) ; and Erafmus Saunders, Efq. fon of Dr. Saunders, 1794. On the fouth wall of the nave is the monument of Elizabeth, wife of William Lardner, Efq." and daughter of Henry Bullock, Efq. 1787. '' Arms — Erm. three piles S. on each as many bezants, impaling, Erm. on a chief G. a label of five points- O. — Bullock. The numents,&c. S T A N W E L L. 261 The font is o£l:agonal. In the church-yard are the tombs of Mary, daughter of John Tombs in the Cotton, Efq. (heir-male of the Cottons of Ridware, in StafFordfhire,) ""^^ ^^'^ ■wife of James Burgh, fon of John Burgh of Troy, in Monmouth- fhire, and grandfon ofUlyiTes Burgh of Ardagh, in Ireland,) 1735 ; Alice, her filler, 1736; James Burgh, Elq. (hufband of Mary,) '739; Jonathan Stevens, Efq. 1744; John Rowlls, Efq. his nephew and heir, 1779 ; Sarah, daughter and heir of Benjamin Curtis, Efq. of Barbadoes, firft wife of John Rowlls, and mother of John Rowlls, jun. Efq. 1747; the Rev. Mr. Matthew, vicar of Stanwell, 1759; Henry Bullock, Efq. 1762; John Bullock, Efq. 1782; Richard Blunt, Efq. Alderman of London, 1763; James Wilfon, Efq. of Douglas, in the parifh of Llanark, in North Britain, 1768 ; Sir James Hodges, Knt. town-clerk of the city of London, 1774; Dame Mary, his widow, (daughter of Henry Bullock,) 1787; and Mary, wife of the Rev. Samuel Browne of Henley, 1777. The reftory of Stanwell was in ancient times a finecure, in the Reaory. patronage of the Windfor family, and the redors prefented to the vicarage '*. In the year 141 5 Richard de Windfor gave the redlory and advowfon to the Abbot and Convent of Chertfey, in exchange for the manor of Weft Bedfont ''. The redory was about that time appropriated to the Abbey of Chertfey and a vicarage endowed, to which the Abbots of that Convent prefented till the diffolution of re- ligious houfes, when both the redory and advowfon became vefted in the Crown '*". ^' Newcourt'sRepertorium, vol. i. p. 735. of the pofleffions of the Priory of Anker- '* See note 15. wyke ; perhaps that Priory became poflefled «" The Abbot and Convent of Chertfey of it by exchange a ftiort time before the prefented to the vicarage in 1532 (New- diffolution of religious houfes.- See the deed court). -Yet in the deed of exchange be- in the Augmentation Office, dated Mar, 14. tween the King and Lord Windfor, the 33 ^^"- VIII. parfonage of Stanwell is defcribed as parcel The 262 S T A N W E L L. Vicarage. Advowfon. BrunoRyves vicar. The re£lory had been leafed by the Abbot and Convent of Chertfey to John Darke and Richard Parker, for 60 years, unexpired when the pofleflions of that monaftery were furrendered to the Crown "'. It was afterwards demifed to Sir Philip Hobby, at the rent of 30I. per annum, and paffed through the fame hands as the manor of Stan well, till the deed of partition in 1678, when the whole of the manor became vefted in John Cary, Efq. but a moiety of the re(ftory remained in the Leigh family. This moiety was pur- chafed in 1 767 of Francis Leigh, Efq. by Sir John Gibbons, Bart, and K. B. then lord of the manor of Stanwell. Sir William Gib- bons in 1797 fold the great tithes of this pariflx, excepting thofe of his own demefnes, to Edmund Hill, Efq. In the old valors this redory was valued at 60 marks *^ ; in 1650 it was valued at 260 1. per annum, including 60 acres of glebe *^ The vicarage, which is in the diocefe of London, and in the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, is rated in the old valors at 8 marks**; in the King s books at 9I. It appears by the return of the Commif- fioners, who were appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices in 1650, that the vicarage of Stanwell, with 6 acres of glebe, was valued at 2,S ^* P^'' annum. Edward Richardfon, who was then incumbent, is defcribed as a pious minifter, obferving all the com- mands of parliament *'. The patronage of the vicarage has been in the Crown ever fmcc the fuppreflion of religious houfes, except during Fitzgarret's leafe, and the interregnum in the laft century. Dr. Bruno Ryves, who was prefented to this vicarage before the year 1639**, was deprived during the civil war. Upon the reftora- *' See Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. 15. Feb. i. — *' Parliamentary Surveys, grant to Fitzgerald. *" The date is not to be found in New- ** See Harleian MSS. No. 60. Brit. Muf. court; but it appears by the parifh regiller *' Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- that Dr. Ryves was refident at Stanwell in bifhop's Library at Lambeth. 1639. *♦ See Harl. MSS. No. 60. tion S T A N W E L L. 263 tlon he recovered all his preferment, and vacated this benefice in 1662. Dr. Ryves was a noted preacher, and author of the Mer- curius Rufticus, (or an account of the fufferings of the Royalifts). Several of his fermons are in print. The prefent vicar is the Rev. William Awberry Phelp, M. A. in- ftituted in 1792, on the refignation of Thomas Cotes. The earlieft date of the regifter of baptifms, burials, and mar- Paiifli rlages in this parifh is 1632. regifter. Average of Bapti fms Average of Burials. 1632-41 — 194 — i6^V 1730-9 — 24t — 24 1780-4 — 24t — 20 1785-9 — 27* - 18* 1790-4 — 29* — 19 1795-9 29t — 154 Comparative ftate of po- pulation. In 1548 there were 240 hotijlyng people in this parilh *'. The prefent number of houfes is 171 *° ; that of inhabitants 677. In 1665 there were only 14 burials in this parifh. ExtraBs from the Regljler. " Bridget, daughter of Sir John Eankes, buried Sept. 25, 1636; Family of Anne, daughter of Sir John Bankes, and Dame Mary, baptized ^'"''^^^• Aug. 6, 1637; Charles, their fon, Od. 3, 1639; Arabella, July 31, 1642." *'' Chantry Roll in the Augmentation of Weft Bedfont, 12; in Stanwell moor, and Office. — See p. 5- note 9. adjoining the Staines road, 52; at Poyle, ♦' Of thefe, 8 are gentlemen's houfes, 15; and at Colnbrook-end, 17. (From the 1 5 farm houfes, 5 mills, 10 public houfes, information of Mr. Phelp, the vicar, to and 90 (hops and cottages. The number whom I am indebted for other particulars cf houfes in the village is 75 ; in the hamlet relative to this pariflj.) Sir 264 S T A N W E L L. Sir John BankesChief Juftice of the Common Pleas. Familjr of Cary Lord Falkland. Family of Bertie Earl of Abing- don. Sir John Bankes, who is ftiled by Clarendon a man of great abilities and unblemifhed integrity*', was made Attorney General in 1634, and Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas in 1640. He was a zealous Royalift, but fo highly efteemed by all parties, that among the propofitions made by the parliament in 1642, was a re- queft that Sir John Bankes might be continued Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas '°. His conftanl adherence to the King, how- ever, and probably his Lady's gallant defence of Corfe caftle, ren- dered him afterwards fo obnoxious to the Republicans, that his eftates were confifcated, and it was voted that he fhould be ex- cepted from pardon. Chief Juftice Bankes died in 1644, at Oxford, and was buried in the Cathedral of Chrift's church ''. His Lady furvived him till the year 1661, and was buried at Rifelip '\ " Dame Mary, wife of John Cary, Efq. buried Dec. 24, 1657; " the Lady Katherine, wife of the Hon. John Cary, Efq. buried " Sept. I, 1673." " Henry John, fon of the Right Hon. Lucius Henry Lord Vif- " count Falkland, born Jan. 21, 1716-7; Frances, born Jan. 12, *' 1718-9, buried Jan. 14; Dorothy Cary, daughter of Lucius " Henry Lord Falkland, buried Feb. 9, 1719-20; Lady Dorothy, " wife of the Hon. Lord Falkland, July 2, 1722." " Willoughby, fon of the Hon. James Bertie and Elizabeth, born " at Lindfey-honfe, in Weftminfter, Nov. 28, 1692; Edward, " Nov. 25, 1694; Elizabeth, buried Jan. 24, 1695-6; Bridget, " born Dec. 13, 1696; Elizabeth, Jan. 22, 1 699-1 700; buried " Jan. 25, 1700-1 ; James, buried Jan. 29, 1701-2 ; Richard, born " May II, 1704, buried March 30, 1713; William, born Jan. " 13, 170J-6; George, born May 15, 1707, buried March ix, " 1707-8; Peregrine, buried June 19, 1708 ; Henry, born April 20, *' Hiftory of the Rebellion, fol. vol. i. p. " Hutchlns's Hiftory of Dorfetfhire, vol. 445- ii. p. fi?- '* Ibid. vol. ii. p. 92. '* See p. 211. " 1709; S T A N W E L L. 265 " 1709; Anne, June 17, 1710; buried Dec. 7, 1711; John, " born Nov. 22, 1711 ; Peregrine, Sept. 26, 1715; Elizabeth, wife " of James Bertie, buried Odl. 2, 1715 ; Peregrine, his fon, OSt. 12, " 1 715." James Bertie was fecond fon of James Earl of Abingdon, (fo created in 1682). He married Elizabeth, only furviving daugh- ter, and at length heir of George Lord Willoughby of Parham, in whofe right he became pofleffed of Stanwell. Mrs. Bertie died in childbed of her fourteenth child. Willoughby, the eldeft fon of James Bertie, fucceeded his uncle Montague, as Earl' of Abingdon, in 1743, and died in 1760. Mr. James Bertie, his father, died in ^735- " Sir William Ofbaldefton of Chadlington, in Oxfordfhire, Bart. " and the Hon. Catherine Bertie, (widow of the Hon. Robert Bertie,) " married Auguft 14, 171 2." " George, fon of George Nares, baptized Dec. 14, 1716." The Sir George late Sir George Nares, whofe baptifm is here recorded, was educated at New College, and brought up to the profeflion of the law. In 1759 he was made Serjeant-at-Law and King's Serjeant. In 1768 he was chofen one of the reprefentatives for the city of Oxford ; and in the fame year recorder for that city. In 1771 he was appointed one of the Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas, and received the honour of Knighthood. Sir George Nares died the 20th of July 1786, leaving behind him the charadler of an amiable man, and an upright judge, " Sir Peter Soames, Bart, and Mifs Alithea Philipps, married " April 23, 1729." " The Hon. Brigadier General Murray, buried March 29, 1738;" Murray Earl " — brother of the Earl of Dunmore — " the Hon. Charles Murray, ° "nm<""e. " buried Feb. 18, 1744-5 ; the Right Hon. John Earl of Dunmore, " April 24, 1752." Mm " Robert 266 S T A N W E L L. Inftances of " Robert, John, and Mary Nafh, trines, baptized Feb. 7 ; buried three chil- a -n \. »> drenata Feb. 14, 1772. b'"h- u John, David, and Anne Bartlet, trines, baptized, March i ; " buried March 5, 1780." Family of " Sir Hungerford Hofkins, Bart, and Catherine Stanhope, married Ho(kins,and r 1 1 • r 1 • 1 t /- " Dec. 14, 1774- Hungeriord, their ion, baptized June 20, 1775; " buried June 27; — Hungerford, baptized July 10, 1776." Gibbons. The baptifms of children of Sir William Gibbons, Bart, occur In 1779, &c. &c. " John Gibbons, Efq. (eldeft fon of Sir William Gibbons, Bart.) « and Mifs Elizabeth Tayler, married Od. 27, 1795." Duel. " William Rowls, Efq. killed in a duel at Cranford bridge, by " Jack England, buried July i, 1784." School. Thomas Lord Knyvet by his laft will, bearing date 1620, direded that his widow and executrix fhould, within a convenient time after his deceafe, ereft a building for a free-fchool at Stanwell, and a houfe for the mafter, to inftru£t poor children of that parifh; and that within a convenient time (he ihould purchafe, or otherwife provide lands of the yearly value of 20I. as an endowment for the fchool. He appointed fix truftees, who fhould be freeholders of Stanwell j and direfted that his executrix fhould nominate the mafter during her life, and after her deceafe the lord or lords of the manor of Stan- well for the time being, who are alfo to make rules and regulations for the fchool, and to fettle the ftipend of the mafter. A farm in Buckinghamfhire was purchafed in purfuance of the diredions in Lord Kny vet's will, which is now let at 40 1. per annum". Dr. Thomas Heather, who died in 1627, gave 2I. per annum to purchafe books, and pens, ink, and paper, for the fchool. 5' From the information of Sir William Gibbonsj to whom I am indebted for other particulars relating to the benefaftions. Lady S T A N W E L L. 267 Lady Hamden gave 10 1, per annum to apprentice two poor boys, Various be- and the rent of 2 1 acres of land, difperfed in the common fields, (fince inclofed, and exchanged for 16 acres 3 roods and 26 perches, which now let at 20I. 14s. 8d. per annum,) to the poor. I could not procure the date of this benefadlion, or find who Lady Hamden was. Katherine Lady Gary, who died in 1673, gave 61. per annum, to be divided among fix poor widows. Her hufband, John Gary, Efq. who furvived her a few years, gave lands now let at 25 1. 15 s. per annum, to poor widows. Mr. Wheeler gave 3I. per annum to the poor. Andrews Lord Windfor gave a public houfe, known by the name of the Horns, and 12 acres of land, let at 25 1. 19s. per annum, for the purpofe of beautifying the church. M m 2 [ 268 ] S U N B U R Y. Etymology Situation. Boundaries, Sunbury common. Soil. Land-tax. Vifcount Sunbury. IN ancient records this place is called Sunnabyri, Sunneberie, Suneberie, &c. Sunnabyri is compofed of two Saxon words, funiia, the fun; and byri, a town, and may be fuppofed to denote a place expofed to the fun, or with a fouthern afpedt. Sunbury lies in the hundred of Spelthorne, being pleafantly fituated on the banks of the Thames, two miles from Hampton, and fifteen miles from London. The parifh is bounded on the fouth by the river Thames, which feparates it from Walton, in Surrey ; on the weft by Sheperton, Littleton, and Alhford ; on the north by Feltham and Hanworth ; and on the Eaft by Hampton. I have not been able to procure any account of the quantity of land in this parilh, or of the proportion of arable, meadow, pafture, and wafte. There is a common of confiderable £xtent, the foil of which is a rich loam, well adapted to th.e purpofes of cultivation. The general nature of the foil throughout the parifh is fimilar, but in fome parts gravel prevails. A bill for inclofmg this parifh,. and the adjoining pariihes of Feltham and Hanworth, is now (May 1800) before the Houfe of Commons. This parifh pays the fum of 313 1. 4s. id. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of is. a^d. in the pound. Sunbury gave the title of Vifcount to Charles Montague, who was created Earl of Hallifax and Vifcount Sunbury in 17 14. Thefe titles became extind the next year, but were immediately re- vived S U N B U R Y. 269 vived in the perfon of his nephew. They became extinft again in 1772. The manor of Sunbury was given, or confirmed, by Edward the Confeflbr, to the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter in 1066 '. It is thus defcribed in the Survey of Domefday : — " The Abbot of St. " Peter holds the manor of Suneburic, which is feven hides. The " land is fix carucates. Four hides are in demefne, on which there " is one plough. The villans have four ploughs. The prieft has " half a virgate ; eight villans have a virgate each ; two other villans " a virgate between them ; five bordars have a virgate jointly ; there " are five cottars, and one flave. The meadow-land is equal to fix " carucates, and there is pafture for the cattle of the manor. The *' whole value is now 61. per annum. In the reign of King Edward " (the Confeffbr) it was 7 1. This manor is parcel of the ancient " demefnes of the church of St. Peter." In the year 1222 by an agreement between the Bifhop of London and the Abbot of Weft- minfter, this manor was ceded to the Bifhop and his fucceflbrs for ever\ In 1554 Edmund Bonner Biftiop of London, demifed it to John Dagon and John Walkeleyn for 41 years'. Not long after- wards, by fome exchange, it is probable, with the Bifhop, the manor of Sunbury became vcfted in the Crown. In 1590 it was demifed by Queen Elizabeth to Charles Yetfwert, Secretary of the French tongue, for 21 years*. In 1595 the leafe was renewed to Jane his widow for the fame term ' ; the rent to the Crown being 14I. per annum. King James in 1603 granted the perpetuity of the manor of Sunbury to Robert Stratford, Gent." Before 1676 it was the property of Francis Phelips, Efq. In 1693 it was conveyed by his executors to Sir John Tyrwhitt, Bart, who had married one ' Dugdale's Monafticon, vol. i. p. 61. 5 Leafes in the Augmentation Office. * Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 743, ' For the particulars relating to the manor 744' from this period, I am indebted by Mr. ' Recital in the leafe to Yetfwert. Boehm's penniffion, to Thomas Clarke, Efq. * Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 18. March 20. of Sadler's Hall. of 270 S U N B U R Y. of his daughters and co-heirs. In 1702 Sir John Tyrwhitt fold It to John Crofle, merchant, by whom it was aHened the next year to Ifaac Guquett St. Eloy, Efq. Mr. St. Eloy in 1718 fold it to Roger Hudfon, Efq. afterwards Sir Roger Hudfon, Knt; On the death of his only fon, Vanfittart Hudfon, Efq. without ilfue, it was inherited by Edmund Boehm, Efq. in right of his wife Martha, furviving daughter and co-heir of Sir Roger Hudfon. It is now the property of their fon Roger Boehm, Efq. who refides at Sunbury houfe, a large manfion built by Sir Roger Hudfon before he purchafed the manor. There is an engraving of it in the Vitruvius Britan- nicus '. Manor of The manor of Col Kenyngton,orColdKennington, (nowKempton,) Kennington, _ _ jo o \ Col Kenyng- is In the Survey of Domefday called Chenetone, and is thus defcribed : — = Kempton. " Robert the Earl" (of Mortain inNormandy, and of Cornwall in Eng- land) " holds the manor of Chenetone, in the hundred of Spelthorne, " which is rated at five hides. The land is five carucates. There *' are two hides and one virgate in demefne, on which is one plough, " and another might be employed. The villans have three ploughs. " There are fix villans who have a virgate each j eight villans who " have half a virgate each ; three bordars who hold a virgate be- " tween them, and two flaves. The meadow land is equal to five " carucates. There is pafture for the cattle of the manor, and " eight acres of vineyard planted with the ufual quantity of trees. " The total value is 4!. per annum. When it came into the Earl's " poffeffion it was 3I. ; in the reign of King Edward 1 the Confeflbr) " 61. It was then the property of Wlward Wit, the King's Thane, " who could difpofe of it at pleafure." Robert Earl of Cornwall was fucceeded in his title and numerous polfeffions by his fon Wil- liam, who being in rebellion againft Henry the Firft, and having quitted the kingdom, the King feized all his eftates In England, In ' See vol. ii. p. 46. the S U N B U R Y. 271 the year 1104. This manor in confequence became vefted in the Ancient Crown, and the manor-houfe was made a Royal Palace during the Kennington. reigns of the firft Henrys and Edwards, as indeed, from its name, it is prohable that it had been at a former period, during the reign of the Saxon Kings. It muft be obfervcd that where Kennington occurs in the date of Royal charters ', it has hitherto, I believe, been always underftood of Kennington, near Lambeth, where alfo was a palace; for I cannot find that even tradition has preferved the memory of the palace which once flood in Kempton park, but on the contrary fuppofes the traces of ancient buildings which occur there to have been the remains of a religious houfe, of whofe exiflence tliere are no proofs either from hiftoiy or record. The exiflence of the palace is proved by the following document, being an inquifition of the flate of the palace and park of Kenyngton in Middlefex, taken by order of Edward the Third in the year 1331, tranflated from the original, which is extant among the records at the Tower '. " An " inquifition * There is a charter of Edward the Second, dated from Kennington in 1709, (Rynier,) at which time Kennington, in Surrey, was in the pofleffion of Jolin Earl of Surrey. It is probable that many of the earlier charters, dated Kennington, were figned at Kenning- ton in Middlefex. ' The following is a copy of the original : — " Inquifitio capta apud Kenyngton die " Sabbati prox. poll feflum Converfionis " Sanfti Pauli, Anno Regis Edwardi Tertii " pod Conqueftum quiuto incip. coram " Olivero de Burdegala, & Johann Le " Spenfer juxta tenorem cujufdem brevis " Regis predidis Olivero & Johan. dix'edl. " huic inquifition! confuti; per facr"? Alani " Attemunte, Tho. Attemulle, Johan Atte- " halle, John Hauberger, Walt. Foghou, " Johan. By Northe, Gilb. North, And. ♦« Le Parker, Will. Le Mouner, Will. At- " tewelle, Johan. Le Charpenter, Johan. " Weft et Rob. de Wodhull qui dicunt fup. " fac" fuum q'j defeftus magna; auls cum " cum panetr. et botel. ad capud oriental " ejufd. et eftimantur fumptus ad reperand. " pereofdem4 — 6 — 8. It. defeftus earner, " ad capud occidental, ejufd. aule cum ca- " mino in eadem q. minatur ruina nifi " citius repar. et eftimantur fumptus per " eofdem 10 marc. It. in magna camera " cum capella et garderoba adjacent, funt " plures detedus et eftimatur reparatio 10 " marc. It. defeiftus earner. Reginas cum " capella et garderoba juxta diflam came- " ram eftimantur fumptus per eofdem 13 " marc. It. defeflus celar. fubtus magnam " cameram cum feneftra de novo fac. in " ead. et garderob. ibid, reperand. 20 s. It. " defeftus celar. fub capella R'. eftimantur " fumptus 13 s. It. defeclus camer. q. " vocatur. La Jleye ut in fuUivis de novo " fac. et pret. reperand. et eftim. fumptus " per eofd. 30 s. It. domus q. vocatur Au- " tnerye eft ita riiinofa quod minatur ruina " nifi citius repar. et eftimantur fumptus " per cofd. 10 marc. It. in lardar. deficitur " un. 272 S U N B U R Y. " inquifition taken at Kenyngton on the Saturday next following the " feaft of the Converfion of St. Paul, in the fifth year of King " Edward the Third, before Oliver de Burdegal, and John Le Spen- " fer, according to the tenor of a certain writ from the King, " direcfled to the faid Oliver and John, (to this inquifition annexed,) " upon the oath of Alan Attemunte, Thomas AttemuUe, John Atte- " halle, John Hauberger, Walter Foghou, John By Northe, Gilbert " North, Andrew Le Parker, William Le Mouner, William Atte- " welle, John Le Charpenter, John Weft, and Robert deWodhull, " who fay upon their oaths, that there are dilapidations in the great *' hall, and in the pantry and buttry at the eaft end, and they efti- " mate the expence of the repairs at4l. 6s. 8d. Item, the chamber " at the weft end of the faid hall is out of repair, and the chimney " is likely to fall down, unlefs foon repaired, and they eftimate the " expence at 10 marks. Item, the great chamber, with the chapel " and wardrobe adjoining, are much out of repair, and the expence " of the repairs they eftimate at 10 marks. Item, the Queen's " chamber, with the chapel and wardrobe adjoining, are out of re- " pair, and the expence of the repairs is eftimated at 13 marks. " Item, the repairs of the cellar under the great chamber, with " making a new window, and repairing the wardrobe there, are " eftimated at 20 fhillings. Item, the repairs of the cellar under " the Queen's chamber are eftimated at 13 fhillings. Item, the " un. hoftium cnxn gumph'is et verlivellis el " ner. pofflint reperari de los. Sum. 47 1. " poteft reparari de 2 s. It. coqulna eft " 8 s. 4d. Ec predid. Jur. requifit. ulte- " ruinofa et eftimantur fumptus per eofd. " rius per cujus vel per quorum defeftum, " 40 s. It. de camera ultra portam cum " defeftus illi evenerunt, quo tempore, qua- " gradibus ad eand. et eftimatur reparacio " liter, & quo modo; dicunt quod penitus " loos. It.defeflus cameremilitumcumgar- " ignorant. In cujus rei teftimonium pre- " deroba eftimantur ad 10 s. It. drelForium " diifli Jur. huic Inquifitioni figilla fua ap- " inter magnam coquinam et aulam eft to- " pofueruut. Dat. die & Anno fupradift." " tum dirutum et eftimatur reperacio 40 s. The above is the return to a writ to enquire " It. defeftus grang. bover. cum porta juxta into the ftate of the palace and park of Ke- *' granar. et eftimantur fumptus 10 s. It. nyngton, in Middlefex. Efch. 5 Edw. III. " defedlus murorum pare! poteft reperari No. 17B. " de I3s.4d. It. defeftus juur. circa raa- " repairs S U N B U R Y. 273 " repairs of the chamber called the Aleye, which muft have new " beams, and be otherwife repaired, ai'e eftimated at 30 s. Item, " the houfe called the Amnerye is fo ruinous that it threatens to fall " down unlefs foon repaired, the expence of which is eftimated at " 10 marks. Item, there is wanting in the larder a door, with pro- " per faftenings '°, which may be made for 2 ihillings. Item, the " kitchen is in a ruinous ftate, and the repairs are eftimated at " 40 fliillings. Item, the repairs of the chamber beyond the gate, " with the fteps leading to it, are eftimated at iocs. The repairs " of the guard-chamber, with the wardrobe adjoining, are eftimated " at 10 s. Item, the drefler in the great kitchen and hall is " entirely broken down, and the expence of replacing it is eftimated " at 40 s. Item, the repairs of the farm-houfe, with the gate " next to the Fgranary, are eftimated at 10 s. Item, the repair of " the park wall is eftimated at 13 s. 4 d. Item, the repair of the " walls round the manor is eftimated at los. The whole amount " is 47 1. 8 s. 4d. And the faid jury being required farther to re- " turn by whofe negledl thefe dilapidations happened, at what " time, and in what manner, fay, that they are wholly ignorant. " In teftimony whereof, the faid jury have annexed their feals to " this inquifition." It is moft probable that Kennington palace was never after this time a Royal refidence. In 1446 a protedlion was granted to the tenants and inhabitants of the Royal manors of Colde Kenton and Feltham, that nought of their goods or chattels, corn, hay, carriages, &c. fhould be feized for the King's ufe, during ihe fpace often years". In 1461 the cuftody of the manor of Kenyngton, alias Cold Kenyngton, with " The original is cum gumphu et vertevellh, one would rather Aippofe they were bars— which it is difficult to tranflate literally. It Vertevelk q,i^ Jam foramina dicas, appears by other records that the gumphi ^wdvirlunturinhhvellesqtiocunqueferunixir. were of iron : fome gloffkries define them to See Ghjfarium medie Lathiitath. be chains; but, by the definition oi -ucrte-velk, ,, ^,^^ ^^ ^^^^^ yj_ _ ^ ^_ ^^^ N n the 274 S U N B U R Y. the parks, manfion, &c. was granted to Chrlftopher and Edmund Warter, at the nomination of Geoffrey Blower and John Aylmer, citizens of London, for 20 years '\ In 1463 a fimilar grant was made to Sir Thomas Bingley and Robert Sheffield, jun. for eleven years, at the rent of 19I. lis. 8d, per annum '\ In 1475 the manor was granted to William Mulfo for life, at the fame rent '*. In 1477 the cuflody of the manor was granted to Thomas Windfor, Efq. at the nomination of Benedict Barnard and Thomas Alberton for twenty years at the faid rent ". The manor of Col Kennington, alias Kempton, in Middlefex, with the manor of Hanworth, and the two parks, both together of the yearly value of 31 1. i6s. 8 d. were granted in 1558 to Anne Duchefs of Somerfet, widow of the Protedlor, to be held by fealty for life '*. In 1594 the manors of Cold Kennington and Hanworth were demifed to William Killi- grew and his heirs for eighty years". In 1631 Kennington, or Kempton, was granted in fee to Sir Robert Killlgrew '°. — Francis Phelips, Efq. died feifed of this manor in 1674, and his only fon, Francis, in 1679, without iflue, leaving his three fifters, Anne, Dorothy, and Elizabeth, co-heirs. Anne afterwards married Sir Cane James, Bart, and Dorothy, the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne. In 1 690 an adt of parliament pafFed enabling the co-heirs of Francis Phelips to fell this manor, which was foon after purchafed by Sir Thomas Grantham, and fettled in marriage with his daughter Judith on Jonathan (afterwards Sir Jonathan) Andrews. In 1721 Gran- tham Andrews, Efq. fon of Sir John, fold it to Sir John Chardin, Bart, (fon of the traveller,) who in 1746 gave it to Sir Philip Mufgrave, Bart, father of Sir John Chardin Mufgrave, Bart. " Fin. I Edw. IV. m. 31. " Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. 19. Ofl. 17. " Fin. Rot. 3 Edw. IV. m. 7. " I was indebted for the defcent of the '* Pat. 14 Edw. IV. pt. I. ni. 23. manor of Kempton from this period to the " Fin. 19 Edw. IV. m. 4. late proprietor, Sir J. C. Mufgrave. "" Pat. 4&5 P. & M. pt. 13. March 19- Sir S U N B U R Y. 275 Charlton. Sir J. C. Mufgrave in 1798 fold it to Edmund Hill, Efq. but ftill continues to refide at Kempton Park as tenant. The manor of Charlton, in this parifli, anciently called Cerden- Manor of tone, and Cherdyngton, is thus defcribed in the Survey of Domef- day : — " Roger de Rames holds the manor of Cerdentone, in the " hundred of Spelthorne, which is taxed at five hides. The land is *' four carucates. Four hides and a half are in demefne, on which *' is one plough. The villans keep one plough, only half in employ, *' but they might employ three. There is one villan who holds *' half a hide ; a bordar who has eight acres, and fix flaves. The " meadow land is equal to four carucates. There is pafture for the " cattle of the manor. The annual value of this manor is 30 s* " When it came into the prefent owner's pofl'eiTion it was 60s. ; in " the reign of King Edward (the Confeflbr) it was iocs. Two " brothers then held it ; one was a fervant of Archbifhop Stigandj " the other of Earl Lewin. They could difpofe of the manor as *' they pleafed." This manor was given at an early period (but when or by whom I have not been able to difcover) to the prior and convent of Merton, in Surrey, to which Convent the tenants of Cherdyngton paid quit-rents, amounting to 6 s. 8 d. as appears by an ancient rental of the priory "'. The manor of Cherdyngton, or Charlton, became vefted in the Crown upon the furrender of the Convent in 1538; at which time Nicholas Hoozlyn was leflee ". In 1550 it was granted in fee to Sir John Mafon, Knt. " ; who in 1565 gave it to Nicholas Thorpe, Efq. of Wanfwell Court, in the county of Gloucefter, who had married his niece. In 16 15 George Thorpe conveyed it to Matthew Palefon ; and in 1626 Matthew Palefon to George Cole, Efq. whofe defcendant of the fame name fold it in 1676 to John Grice, Efq. It fl:ill continues in '9 Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. *' The account of the manor from this viii. fol. 19J. b. period was communicated by George Stubbs, *°Manor-RoHsintheAugmentationOffice. Efq. by permlffion of the prefent proprietor. N n 2 this 276 S U N B U R Y. Manor of Hal ford or Halliford. this family ; the prefent owner being the relid of the late Thomas Grice, Efq. now Mrs. Edwards. Dart fays that King Edgar gave lands at Haleghfort to Weftminfter Abbey ". It appears that the manor of Halgford, in this parifh, (called alfo Halughford, Hallowford, orHalliford, and Halford,) was granted to Sir Robert Cranker, by Gervafe Abbot of Weftminfter, (natural fon of King Stephen,) who alienated confiderable property belong- ing to the Convent". In 1285 it was reftored to the Abbot and Convent by Geffrey de Hafpale ". In 1537 it was leafed by the Abbot and Covent to Gabriel Pawlin '' ; being foon afterwards vefted in the Crown by the diffolution of religious houfes, the fite was demifed by Queen Elizabeth, in 1565, to William Fuller for 21 years, at the rent of 7I. ; and 1597 to George Chriftopher for 30 years, at the rent of 18I. 6 s. 8d." In 1637 this manor having been fettled on Queen Henrietta Maria, the fite and demefne lands were leafed by her to Robert Sharpe for 18 years, to commence from 1 654. The widow of Sharpe fold her intereft in the leafe to William Weftbrook, who, when the Crown-lands were put up to fale in 1650, bought the fite of the parliamentary commifTioners at 15 years' pur- chafe, and the manor and royalties (valued at 3I. 13 s. 4d. per annum) at 20 years' purchafe ". Upon the reftoration the Queen Dowager became again poftefled of this manor, which was after- wards part of the dower of Queen Catherine, confort of Charles the Second. Matthew Johnfon, Efq. was leflee under the Queen as early as the year 1680; and had a renewal of his leafe for 31 years in 1697. The leafe was again renewed to Matthew Johnfon, (or " Antiquities of Weftminfter Abbey, vol. i. p. 7, 8. '^ Dart's Antiquities of Weftminfter Abbey. *♦ Pat. 13 Edw. I. m. 7. and Efch. 13 Edw. I. No. 46, ^' Particulars of leafes — Augmentation Office. « Ibid. *' Records in the Augmentation Office. The remainder of the account of this ma- nor is taken from papers in the Land Re- venue Office, obligingly communicated by Mr. Harrifon, with the permiffion of John Fordycsj Efq. perhaps S U N B U R Y. perhaps a fon of the fame name,) in 1710 and 1723. In 1740 it was renewed to Jeffrey Johnfon, Efq. for 16 years, to commence from 1754; and in 1755 to Edward Palmer, Efq. executor and devifee of Mrs. Elizabeth Johnfon, (fifter and devifee of the faid Jeffrey,) for 13 years from 1770. In 1761 Mr. Palmer affigned his intereft in the leafe to John Rayner, Efq. who, in 1769, pro- cured from the Crown a leafe of 31 years from that date, which has not been fmce renewed. Thereverfion of the leafe, fubjedl to the life- intereft of Mrs. Elizabeth Rayner, being vefted in Mr. Chriftie of Pall- Mali, was affigned by him a few months ago to Edmund Hill, Efq. The referved rent to the Crown is 18I. los. In the year 130 1 an eighth part of a Knight's fee, in the parilh of Sunbury, held by William de Stanton and Arabella his wife, was afligned in dower to Margaret Countefs of Cornwall ". Sir Thomas Grantham built " a fair houfe" at Sunbury in 1697''. Martin Bladen, Efq. one of the Lords of Trade, (author of a tranflation of Csefar's Commentaries, and fome dramatic pieces,) was of Sunbury, in 1723 '°. The parifh-church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a modern Panfli- ftrudure, of brick, having been rebuilt in 1752, principally by the fub- ^ ^^^ ' fcriptions of the principal inhabitants ^', aided by a bequefl of 1270]. from Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor. The old church was pulled down on Eafler Monday 1751 ; the new building, defigned by Mr. Wright clerk of the works at Hampton Court, was opened Nov. 26, 1752. It confifts of a chancel, nave, and north aifle. At the wefl end is a fquare tower with a cupola. *' CI. 29 Edw. I. m. II. ments; Sir John Chardin loo I. Sir Pliilip *' Parifti regifter. Mufgrave lool. Lady Hiidfon and V. Hud- ^'' Ibid. fon, Efq. 150I and the font. There were ^' John Turner, Efq. gave 500I. the feveral fmaller fubfcriptions. branch, and the altar, and pulpit orna- On 277 278 S U N B U R Y. Monuments. On the north wall of the chancel are monuments in memory of Francis Phelips '\ aged 19, (eldeft fon of Francis Phelips, Efq. and Anne,) 1679; John his brother, aged 14, 1680; William Dyer", merchant, 1737; Robert Dyer, merchant, 1744; and Mary, their fifter, 1746. On the fouth wall is the monument of Lady Jane, eldeft daughter of Thomas Marquis of Wharton, (by Lucy, daughter of Adam Loftus, Baron Lifborne,) fifter of Philip Duke of Wharton, and the laft of that noble family ". She married firft, John Holt, Efq. of Redgrave, in Norfolk ; her fecond hufband was Robert Coke, Efq. of Longford, in Derbyfhire. She died in 1761. The monument was piit up by Anna Maria Draycot, (afterwards Countefs of Pom- fret,) to whom (he bequeathed a confiderable fortune, and her feat in this parifti, lately the property and refidence of Mrs. Chandler, now of William Blake, Efq. On the chancel floor are the tombs of Francis Phelips, Efq. 1674 ; Nicholas Cotton, Gent. 1676; John Rayner, Efq. 1777; and his wife Eunice, 1753. On the fouth wall of the nave, at the weft end, is the monument of Richard, fon of Richard Billingfley ", who was drowned Sept. 15, 1689 ; on the weft wall, that of Efther, reli£t of Mr. William Clapham, 1722. On the floor is the tomb of Carteret Le Geyt, Efq. 1765- On the north wall of the north aifle is a monument in memory of Stephen Boone ^*, furgeon, 1786; Frances his wife, 1795; and '* Arms — A. a lion ramp. S. ducJly grailed Erm. between three trefoils flipped gorged and chained O. A. — Loftus. " Arms — O. a chief indented G. 3s Arms — G. a fl.-de-lis O. a canton of ^* Arms — Per pale G. & Az. three eagles the fecond. difplayed A. two and one — Coke, impal- ^^ Arms— Az. on a bend A. cottifed O. ing quarterly, I & 4- S. a maunch A. between 6 lions ramp, of the third, three within a border O. charged with eight pair efcallop (hells G. — the coat of Bohun — im- of lions' paws placed faltierwife and erafed, paling A. three martlets S. G Wharton— 2 & 3. S. a chevron en- Elizabeth, S U N B U R Y. 279 Elizabeth, their daughter, 1784. On the floor is the tomb of Franz- George Habbe, merchant, of Peterfburgh, 1795. Norden defcribes two monuments at Sunbury, which were de- Monuments ftroyed, it is probable, when the church was rebuilt, the one in Norden. ^ memory of Nicafius Yetfworth ", Efq. fometime fecretary of the French tongue to Queen Elizabeth, (father of Charles Yetfworth, or ' Yetfwert, who held the fame office, and was leflTee of the manor in 1590,) and Mary his wife, daughter of James Bowfer, Efq. The other in memory of Daniel Rogers ^\ Efq. Clerk of the Council to Queen Elizabeth, " a man of excellent learning and knowledge of *' toongs, and often emploied in ambaflage into Germanic, Den- " marke, and the Low Countries." Norden does not give the dates ". In the church-yard are the tombs of John Herring, merchant, Tombs in 1708; Anne, relidl of Francis Phelips, Efq. (afterwards married to ^/^^f^^^'c''- Henry Waldron, Efq.) £et. 84, 1718 (put up at the charge of Lord Vifcount Weymouth, and the other co-heirs of Francis Phelips) j Philip Meniconi, Gent. 1730; Thomas Grice, Efq, 1733; Thomas Grice, Efq. 1784; Mrs. Mary Perkins, (daughter of Thomas Daniel,) 1736; Thomas Daniel, 1753; Dr. John Metcalf, redor of Hanworth, and vicar of Sunbury, 1739 '•> Sarah Toepken, widow (daughter of John Herring,) 1742 ; Charles Ofborne, citizen and brewer, 1745; William Norbury, furgeon and apothecary, 1754; Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. James Halifax, M. A. vicar of Ewell (daughter of Daniel Chardavoyn, furgeon, by Elizabeth Lockley,) 1754; Rev. James Halifax, 1781 ; Mrs. Jane Bythell, 1756; Charles Meniconi, Gent. 1760; Charles Meniconi, Efq. 1796; Ifabella, wife of William Browne of the city of Bath, merchant, 1765; Thomas Darby, Efq. 1 769 ; Anne Buckley, 1 777 j Sufanna, wife " Arms^An oajc-tree frudled, proper. trippant. ^^ Arms— A chevron between three flags '» See Speculum Britannia:, p. 40. of J 280 S U N B U R Y. of Robert Iludfon, Efq. of Tadworth Court, in Surrey, 1 78 1 ; Thomas Harris, Efq. of Halliford, 1783; Mr. Samuel Alloway, 1784; Henry Topham, Efq. 1790; George Pembroke, Efq. of Bath, 1 793 ; Arabella his wife, (daughter and eventually fole heir of George Ofborne,) 1788; and John Daly, Efq. late of De- merary, 1796. The reftory. By an agreement made between the Blftiop of London and the Abbot and Convent of Weftminfter in 1222, the redlory of Sunbury, with the advowfon of the vicarage, were affigned to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's *°, to which church they ftill belong. The redory was rated in the old valors at 22 marks per annum*'; befides which the hofpital of St. Bartholomew had a portion of tithes valued at 2 marks per annum, and the Abbey of Greftein, in Nor- mandy, another portion of the fame value *\ Thomas Lake, Efq. (afterwards Sir Thomas) was leflee of the redtory in 1622 *'. It ap- pears by a furvey of the jredory of Sunbury, made by order of par- liament in 1649, that Lancelot Lake, Efq. was then leffee of the great tithes, (valued at 130I. per annum,) and that his leafe bore date 1637; the referved rent was 13I. 6 s. 8d.** It is probable that when the Dean and Chapter lands were fold about that time, Mr. Lake purchafed this redory. In the return to the parliamentary inquiries into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices in 1650, he is called impropriator *\ At the reftoration the Dean and Chapter recovered the poffeffion of the redorial tithes (excepting the portions above mentioned). In 1799 they were fold by the Dean and Chapter to Edmund Hill, Efq. under the ad of parliament which enables ecclefiaftical bodies to alienate a part of their landed property for the purpofe of redeeming the land-tax of the remainder. The leafe had *" Newcourt's Repeitorium, vol. i. p, " Rent books at St. Paul's. ^^3. *'* Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- *' See Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 60. biftop's library at Lambeth. 41 Ibid, *' Ibid. been S U N B U R Y. 281 been for fome years in the Rayner family ; Mr. Hill's purchafe being fubjedt to Mrs. Rayner's intereft in it. The redlory-houfe is now in the occupation of Baron Lenthe, the Hanoverian minifter. The portion of tithes (iffiiing out of the manor of Charlton) which Portions of had belonged to the Hofpital of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, came to the Crown on the fuppreffion of that houfe. A leale of thefe tithes, at the rent of 10 s. per annum, was renewed in 1581 to Her- cules Turner, whofe family had for many years been leflees *\ In the return to the parliamentary inquiries in 1650, this portion is faid to be rented by Mr. George Phip at 14I. per annum''\ It now be- longs to the proprietor of the manor. It is probable that the portion of tithes formerly belonging to the Abbey of Greftein, in Normandy, after being vefted in the Crown, as the property of an alien priory, were granted to the Dean and Chapter of Chichefter, who have ftlU a portion of tithes in this parifh. The return of the commiflioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaflical benefices in 1650 ftates, that Mr. Gall held a portion of tithes in Sunbury, (late parcel of the pofleffions of the Dean and Chapter of Chichefter,) at the rent of ill. per annum*'* The leafe of this portion of tithes being vefted in Mr. Greathead, was lately afligned by him to Edmund Hill, Efq. The vicarage of Sunbury, which is in the diocefe of London, and In vicarage, the Archdeaconry of Middlefex, is rated in the old valors at 6 marks "" ; in the King's books at 13I. 6s. 8d. The return of the commiflioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices in 1650 ftates, that there were 44 acres of arable land, and 4 acres of meadow and pafture belonging to this vicarage, and that its value was then 40 1. per annum. Henry Jordan prefented by the *' Leafes in tiie Augmentation Office. •" Parliamentary furveys. *" Parliamentary furveys at Lambeth. '" Sec- Harl. MSS. No. 6d. O o Lords 28: S U N B U R Y. Parilh regifter. Compara- tive ftate of population. Lords CommlfTioners was then incumbent. He Is defcribed as a pious preaching minifter ". In 1655 Richard Hill was prefented to this vicarage by William Steele, Lord Chief Baron, and others, Lords Keepers of the Liberties of England, called in the inftrument of inftitution the true and undoubted patrons '\ The prefent vicar is the Rev. James Co we, M. A. (author of feveral fermons and philanthropic tracts,) inftituted in 1 790, on the refignation of John Hyde, M. A. The earlieft date of the regifter of baptifms in this parifti is 1565 ; that of burials 1589; that of marriages 1566. Av 1580-9 -- 1630-9 — 1680-9 — 1730.9 — 1780-4 — 1784-9 — 1790-4 — 1795-9 — In 1548 the number oi hou/lyng people in this parifh was 174". The prefent number of houfes is 266'*; of inhabitants about 1460. In 1665 there were only 12 burials. ;e of baptifms. Average of burials 9A — imperfect 12* — lOrV i3t'. — 18I ^l — 29to ZZ\ — 29t 45t — 38 414 — 264 424 — 321 '■ Parliamentary Surveys in the Arch- bifhop's Library at Lambeth. 5* Proceedings of the Committees, ibid, vol xix. p. 7. and 15. '' Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office. See p. 5. note 9. '* From the information of Mr Cowe, the vicar, to whom I am indebted for fe- veral other particulars relating to this pa- rifh. ExtraSis S U N B U R Y. 28j Extra&s from the Reg'ijlcr. " Sir Philip Boteler, Knt. and Mrs. Jane Yetfwert, widow, mar- " ried June i6, 1597." *' Cecilia, daughter of Sir William Killegrew, and of Dame Eliza- " beth his wife, baptized Auguft 24, buried Od. 19, 1635." " Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Wefton, Efq. and of Elizabeth " Countefs of Anglefea his wife, baptized Auguft 5, 1641." " Elizabeth, daughter of Carew Rawley, Efq." (fon of Sir Walter Ralegh,) " and Lady Afhly, baptized Sept. 16, 1642; buried « Jan. 6, 1642-3." " John Darton and Henry Darton killed by reafon of a great wind, High wind. " that blew down a chimney of John Brown, and killed them in " their bed, buried Sept. 18, 1661." " Samuel Turner, and Margaret Seafe, widow, was married fit- singular « ting in a cheare in her houfe, Feb. 7. 1663." nwiiage. " Henry Frederick Thynne, Efq. and Dorothy Phelips, fpinfter. Family of " one of the daughters and heirs of Francis Phelips, Efq. late of thynne. " Kenton Park, deceafed, and Anne his wife, married May 27, *' 1684; — Dorothy, wife of the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, " buried April 24, 1695 ; John, fon of H. F. Thynne, and Dorothy, " Od. 15, 1707; the Hon. Mary Thynne, March 13, 1711." " Anne, daughter of Sir Cane James, Knt. and Bart, of the " parifh of St. Giles in the Fields, buried Dec. I, 1685." " Judith, daughter of Jonathan Andrews, Efq. and Judith, bap- Y-^m\\y of « tized Nov. 5, 1691 ; Sufanna, Sept. 30, 1693; Mary, June 8, Andrev-s. " 1695; Henrietta, 0(^.4, 1696; Thomas, fon of Sir Jonathan " Andrews, Knt. and Judith, baptized March 10, 1699- 1700, " buried Nov. 25, 1703 ; Jonathan, baptized 0£t. 3, 1703 ; *' buried March 27, 1703-4; Diana, baptized Auguft 19, 1705; O o 2 " Theodofia, 284 S U N B U R Y. " Theodofia, Auguft 10, 1707; Jonathan, Nov. 3, 1709; Jona- " than Andrews, and Judith Lady Andrews, his mother, buried " Nov. 10, 1709; Sir Jonathan Andrews, May 15, 1716." " EHzabeth, wife of Sir John Tyrwhitt, of Lincolnlhire, Bart. " buried Feb 24, 1697-8." " Clement Gregory, who purchafed houfes and lands in this county " and Surrey, by begging, buried Sept. 4, 1717." Family of " Mrs. Emma Sufanna Hudfon, daughter of Sir Roger Hudfon, " Knt. bHried May 6, 1723; Edmund Boehm, and Martha Hud- " fon, married May 22, 1 735; Robert Tracy of Stanway, in the " county of Gloucefter, and Mrs. Anna Maria Hudfon, Auguft 7, " ^7355 John Frederick, Efq. of Burwood, in the county of Surrey, " and Mrs. Sufanna Hudfon, Od. 22, 1741 ; Sir Roger Hudfon, " buried 0£t. 4, 1743." Family of " Edward Spragge, Efq. and Elizabeth, fifter of Sir Philip Muf- " grave, Bart, married Feb. I2, 1749-50; John Chardin, fon of " Sir Philip Mufgrave, and Lady Jane, born Jan. 15, 1757; Chrif- " topher. May 29, 1759 ; Sir Philip Mufgrave, Bart, aged 84 " years, buried July 13, 1795." " Lord Charles Spencer, and the Hon. Mary Beauclerk, married " Oa. 2. 1762." " Lady Charlotte, daughter of the Right Hon. George Earl of " Pomfret, and Anna Maria Countefs of Pomfret, born Nov. 25, " 1766 ; Thomas William, fon of the Earl and Countefs of Pomfret, " born, Nov. 22, 1770." " Thomas Twifleton, Efq. of Broughton, in the county of Ox- " ford, (the late Lord Say and Sele,) and Elizabeth Turner, married « Dec. 14, 1767." " The Hon. John Townfhend, and Georgiana Anne Poyntz, " married April 10, 1787." Injiances Mufgrave. (( S U N B U R Y. 285 Injlances of Longevity. *' Elizabeth Lee, buried Nov. 9, 1661, being of the age of four- fcore and 14 years and 10 months and 10 days; Mrs. Goldwell, " aged 90, buried Sept. 5, 1733 ; Mary Pipei", aged 96, March 9, " 1786; Sufanna Sears, aged 93, buried 061. 2, 1787; Marcelius *' Jordan, aged 91, Dec. 5, 1787; Elizabeth Limb, aged 97, Jan. " 17, 1788; George Hughes, aged 91, April 15, 1792; Mary " Wells, aged 90, Jan. 18, 1795 ; Dorothy Lawley, aged 96, May " 8, 1795; Deborah Fellows, aged 92, June 5, 1795-" There is no endowed fchool in this parifh, but there is a fund fet Fund for the apart for the education of poor children. The fum of 1 3 1. i o s. per poorchH-" annum, being part of an annuity charged on the poors' rates, in lieu , Jeremy, 286 North, Auguftus, Frederick, 88 Dudley, ibid. ' Frances, ibid. Fre"derick, ibid. George Auguftus Lord, 88 Gilbert, 271, note, 272 Maria, 83 Northampton, Marquis of, 194 ' Wiliam Marquis of. 57 Northumberland, Algernon Earl of, 7 Duke of, 41. 63. 75 note, 179 203 7,8 - Earl of, 178, - Henry Earl of, Hugh Duke of, - Jocelyn Earl of, 22 Nottingham, Charles Earl of, 57. 70 Nutt, George, 162 — - Margaret, ibid. O Ochiltree, Andrew Lord, 22, 29 Odell, William, 4 Odiham, William de, 7 Oglethorpe, Elizabeth, 27 ' Robert, ibid. Okebourne, John, 140, 141 Olaf, 126 Oliver, Robert, 181 . 184 W. 14s Onflow, Edward, 1 18 ■ Sir Edward, 159 ■ George, Hid, ■ Jane, ;^/V. Orange, Prince of, 66. 69 Orford, Earl of, 70. 88 Orme, John, 36 Ormond, Duke of, 116 Oftaldefton, Sir William, 265 Olborn, John, 162 Ofborne, Arabella, 280 — — ^— Charles, 279 ■ George, 280 Offulfton, Bridget Lady, 1 34 — Charles Lord, ibid. ' John Lord, 130. 133. 135- '''7 Mary Lady, 134 Otto Baier Baftianus, 163 Overall, Dr. 64 Owen, Dr. 2 19 Padbury, John de, 140 Page, Francis, 9, 10, 11 — — Ifabel, 9 Page. INDEX OF NAMES. 305 Page, Matthew, 9. 12 Rowland, 8 I Samuel, 2 14 Thomas, 8. 214 Paget, 288 - Anne, 42 ■ Anne Lady, 33, 40. 141 Catherine Lady, 252 ■ Diana, 42 ■ Dorothy, 41 Elizabeth, 42 Eflex, ibid. — Frances, ibid. • Frances Lady, ihid. George, 43 Henry, 42,43 Henry Lord, 41. 178 ■i Ifabelia Lady, 42 Jane, 43 . Katherine, 41 Lstitia, 42 ■ ' ' Lord, 38. 63 — — — Margaret, 41 . Thomas, ibid. i Thomas Lord, 33, 34. 140, 141. 143 Thomas Catefby Lord, 43 139 • William, 42 Sir William, 34, 35.38. William Lord, 33, 34. 40,41,42 Palefon, Matthew, 275 Palmer, Edward, 277 ■ George, 82 • Jeffrey, 178, note ' John, 184 • Sir Roger, 95 Parker, Andrew le, ijliTiote 272 -^— Charles, 11 1 . Mrs. ibid. Richard, 262 — — William, 234. 236 Parr, Lady Anne, 194 ■ Queen Katherine, 63. 94. • 194 • William Lord 63 Partridge, John, in. ii8 Mrs. Ill Paflavaunt, William, 256 Pafton, Sir Thomas, 251 Pawlin, Gabriel, 276 Payne, John, 228, note Pearce, Bartholomew, 163 . Michael, 163. 187 ' Sarah, 163 Feareth, John, 193 Pearfon, William, 243 Fecche, Bartholomew, 13, 14 Pecche, Hubert, 13 ■ John, 14 " Sir John, ibid. ' Mary Lady, 14 ■ Stephen, ibid. Peele, John, 78 Peers, Anne, 160 ■ ■ John, ibid. Pelfant, Anne, 27 ■ Sir Eufebius, ibid. Pembroke, Earl of, 178, note, 179 - George, 280 William Earl of, 94. 194 Penn, John, 78 ■ Sibel, 77 Pennington, 247, note Pennyfather, William, 170 Penton, Stephen, 78 Pepys, Serjeant, 1 16 Percy, Lady Anne, 203 Perkins, James, 36 ■ Mary, 279 Mrs. 164 Richard, 36 Ferrers, Alice, 209 Perridge, John, 130 Perrott, George, 199 I Mary, ibid. Peterborough, Carey Countefs of, Pe.xall, Ralph, igt Sir Richard, ibid. Peyton, Sir Samuel, 22 Phelips, Anne, 274. 279 ' Dorothy, 274. 283 ' Elizabeth, 274 ■ Francis, 46. 269. 274. 278, 279. 283 John, 27S Phelp, William Awberry, 263 Phelps, John, 52. 6^ Philip, King, 63 Philipps, Alithea, 265 Phillips, John, 200 Phip, George, 281 Pierrepoint, Frances, 42 Francis, ibid. Pierrepont, 178, note Pigeon, Alice, 78, note Edmund, 8. 78. 83 Elizabeth, 83 ' — Frances, ibid. — ^ — Joan, ibid. Nicholas, 78 Piper, 286 Mary, 285 Pirye, Godfrey Atte, 140 Pitt, Anne, 163 Edwin, Hid, Rr Piit, Elizabeth, 163 George, 107. 150. 180. 187, 188 Jofeph, 163 Martha, ibid. Thomas, /^/— John, 283 - Lady, 252 Mary, 283 Tichburn, Tichbourn, or Tych- bourn, John, 254 . [uliana, 255 — ^— — Nicholas, 254 ■ Sir Richard, 255 Tickell, Richard, 80. 89. Tillier, John, 145 Tilfon, Anne, 80 ■ George, 79, 80 Tiptoft, John Lord, 220 Tirwhyt, Robert, 119 Tifdale, John, 152 Thomas, 174 Titus, Silias, 74 Tochi, 189 Todd, Richard, 73, note Toepken, Sarah, 279 Tombes, Daniel, 142 ■ John, ibid. — — Matthew, ibid. Tomlyn, Gerard, 5 Tonbridge, Richard de, 105 Topham, Henry, 280 Torrington, Lord, 70 Tothacre, Edward, 43 i Thomas, ibid. William, ;^;V, Tothill, Joan, 14.1 John, ibid. ■ Richard, ibid. Tothill, William, 141 Tower, Chrillopher, 155 Townley, Francis, 204 Nicholas, 46 Town fend, George, 184 ■ Sir John, 86 Townthend, Auguftus, 87 Charles Vifcount, Uxbridge, Elizabeth Countefsof, 44. 158 . Henry Earl of, 32, note, 3+' 35- 43- 44-46. 127, 128. 139, 140, 141. 143, 144. 158. 167. 178 ■ Mary Counlefs of, 43 ii:d. ibid. Dorothy Vifcountefs, Georgina Anne, 50 Ifabella Georgina, ibid. — — — . John, 284 Lord John, 50 Trapp, Jofeph, 129. 131, 132 Tracy, Sir Humphrey, 252 — — Robert, 284 Trevor, Arabella, 79 — — John Morley, ibid. Trinder, Dr. 130 Trion, Abraham, 182 - — ' Peter, ibid. Trott, Catherine, 153 Sir John, ibid. Trotter, Catherine, 199 — — ' Edward, ibid. James, 2:9, note, 230 Truefdale, John, 109. 119 Mary, 119 Trumbull, Anne, 76 William, ibid. Tulle, John, 169 Turberville, Cecilia, 220 Turner, Elizabeth, 193, 2S4 . Hercules, 281 John, 82. 91. 193 277' note, 28; — Mary Lady, 233 —~ Richard, 169 Samuel, 283 William, 193 Turftan, tg Twifden, Elizabeth, 112, 113 Sir Roger, 112 Tyrwhit, Robert, 110. 119 Tyrwhitt, Elizabeth Lady, 284. Sir John, 269, 270. 284 u Ulf, 92. 147 Unwin, Diana, 223 Gilbert, ibid. Urmellone, Agnes, 142 Uxbridge, Countefs Dowager of, »4S Valois, Philip de, 138 Vandyke, 70, 71 Vane, Sir Henry, [78, note Vanfommer, 70 Vardy, 72 Vaughan, Blanche Lady, 203 Sir Hugh, ibid. Vere, Lord, 96 Vernon, Sir Thomas, 228 Verrio. 68 Vicars, Anne, 244 Samuel, ibid. Vierendeels, Adrian, 182 — Leonora, ibid. Vincent, Anne, 231 ■ Joan, 234 Robert, 231 Voelcker, George, 164 Voyfey, John, 235 Vyner, Charles, 195 Mary Lady, ibid. Robert, 192 ■ Sir Robert, 150. 180, 192. •95 Thomas, 147. 150 W Wager, Sir Charles, 70 Waide, Catherine, 79 Robert, ibid. Wainwright, Hayford, 164 Waldegrave, James Earl of, 89 Waldron, Henry, 279 Waledon, Richard de, 255 Wales, Henry Prince of, 70 Walifon, Winifred, 212, note Walkeleyn, John, 269 Walker, 157 ■ Caroline, 161 ■ John, ibid. Mary, ibid. Waller, Walter, 42 Sir William, 24. 42 Wallingford, Wigot de, 148 Walfh, Anne, 82 — — Henry, ibid. Walter, Richard, 233 Walyngton, INDEX OF NAMES. 309 Walyngton, Thomas, 243 Watidesford, William, 154 Warburton, John, 165 Ward, Seth, 24 —— Townley, 96, note Warner, Elizabeth, 14 ■ John, 225 ■ Robert, iiiJ. '■ Thomas, /'^/V. Warren, Dawfon, 39 Martha, 174 - Sir Richard, 260 Warter, Chrirtopher, 274 Edmund, Hit/. Warwick, Benjamin, 234 ■ Robert Earl of, 225 Waftell, Edmund de, 243 Waterhoufe, Nathaniel, 57 Waters, |ames, 1S3 • John, 199 Watkins, Thomas, 164. 182 Watfon, Silhop, 64 Walton, Henry, 10 ■ Mary, Hid. Watts, Edward, 81 Frances, iiid. Way, Benjamin, 157. 177, note, 1 79, note Waynesford, William, 35 Webb, Anna Maria, 47 — — Edmund, 4 Elizabeth, iiid. - John, 216 — ^ Martha, 163 Mary, 47. 163 -^-^ Michael, 163 — — Nicholas, 47 Richard, 150 - Samuel, 163 ■ William, iiiJ. Webley, William, 26 Webfter, Richard, 82 Sufanna, iiid, Weeden, Anne, 15 Catherine, 14. 164 John, 14, 15. 164 Weekly, Thomas, 143 Welbeck, John, 48 Weldifli, Thomas, 9 Wellelley, Gerald Valerian, 85.246 Wellington, Benjamin, 164 Wells, Mary, 285 "Welfted, Henry, 213 Wenlock, Sir John, 246 Wenman, Lord, lyS, note Weft, 70 Edmund, 8 - Elizabeth, Hid. . John, 271, note, 272 Margarec, 8 Weft, Richard, 232 Thomas, iiid. Weftbrook, William, 223. 276 Wertley, Edward, 204 . John, Hid. Wefton, Benjamin, 2S3 . Elizabeth, il,id. Wever, Sir Nicholas, 170 Weymouth, Vifcount, 279 Weynesford, William, 154 Whaley, James, 10 — ■^— Mary, iiid, Wharton, Lady Jane, 173, 278 LncyMarchionefsof, 278 " Philip Duke of, ,^V. Thomas Marquis of. Windham, Serjeant, 1 16 Winofor, -^lice de, 250, note Andrews Lord, 250, 251. 253,254. 256,257.261, note, 267 ■ Brian de, 250, note, 254 - Edward, 204 Edward Lord, 227 Henry Lord, 20 — ^ Sir James de, 250, note ■ Joan de, 250, note Miles de, 250, note, 254, note, 2;5> note Sir Miles de, iiid. 173. 278 Wheeler, 267 Whethamfted, John, 233 Whetftonc, Sir William, 70 Whifti, Martin, 260 White, George, 182 Whitfield, Henry, 10, 11, 12, note Mary, 10 Whitgift, Archbilhop, 64 Whitmore, William, 222 Whyte, Rowland, 123 Wiche, Sir Peter, loi Wickham, William de, 139 Wigot, 126, 127. 140. 148 Wilding, Alexander, 229 Wilford, Edward, 163 Prifcilla, Hid. Wilkins, John Bilhop of Chefter, 27, 28 Wilkinfon, Chriftopher, 47 Francis, Hid. William in. 65. 68 Williams, Sir Edward, 205 .. Sir Gilbert, 1 17 » John, 130, 131, 132. 198 ■ Margaret, 165 . Mary, 205 - -■ Robert, Hid. — — Walter, 120 William, 117 Willing, Thomas, 142 Willoughby, Elizabeth, 252. 265 — — — George Lord, Hid. ' William Lord, 252 Willfon, Anne, 160 Miles, Hid. Wilmer, William, 134 Wilfon, Alexander, 164 • Elizabeth, i6id. James, 261 John, 164 Wiltftiire, Thomas Earl of, 25 Winchelfea, Earl of, ill Winchefter, Clark, 83 Richard de, 250, note, 254. 256, 257. 260. 261 Thomas, 2^0, note, 257. 274 256 Thomas Lord, 251, n. Walter, 250 William de, 250. 253. Winford, Sarah Lady, 163, 175 Sir Thomas, iiid. Wingfield, Sir Richard, 22 Wife, 72 Henry, 82 Wilhart, Sir John, 70 Wit, Wlward, 208. 270 Witherley, Frances, 82 Witt, John, 81 Sarah, Hid. Wittington, Thomas, 164 Wodhull, Robertde, 2yi,note, 272 Wolfe, John, 169 Sarah, 225 Wolfey, Cardinal, 52. 58, 59, 60, 61. 66, 67, 68. 71 Wolftey, Sir Charles, 101 Wood, 288 Dorothy, 286 — - Elizabeth, 206. Robert, 206 Thomas, 141. 164. 203, 204, 205, 206 Woode, Agnes, 4 Edward, 3 Woodefon, William, 134 Woodroffe, George, 216, note Woods, William, 38 Woodward, John, 155 Woolman, Robert, 187 Woolfey, Frances, 143 ' John, iiid. Worcefter, John Earl of, 220 Wortham, William, 242 Wren, Chriftopher, 75 ■ Sir Chriftopher, 65, 66. 68, 73- 75 Wright, 277 W/ight, 310 INDEX OF NAMES. Wright, Sir Edmund, 153. 191, 192 » Elizabeth, 153. 192 » Margaret, a 10 ■ Mary, 2 -^— Stephen, 82 Wriothefley, Lord, 235 Wyatt, James, 67 Wyche, Alice Lady, 259 Wylde, Sir John, 229 Wylles, John, 200 Wyndham, Sir William, 134 Wynne, SirWatkin Williams, 49 Wynton, Edmund de, 204 Wyot, Richard, 257 Wythte, Richard, 182 Yaldwin, Jane, 164 — ^ Richard, ibid. Yetfwert, or Yetfworth, Charles, 269. 279 -■ ■ Jane, 269. 283 Nicalius, 46. 279 York, Anne Duchefs of, 70 Duke of, 100 Young, Anne, 214 ■ Robert, ibid, William, 57 Yowle, Henry, 141 Zincke, Chriftian, 38 Zouch, John le, 242 William Lord, ihid. Zucchero, 72 [ 3" ] GENERAL INDEX. jJCCIDENT, fata), at New Year's Bridge near Staines, 247 by a high wind, 283 y^ltar tombf, their double ut, 257 jimhaffadors received at Hampton-court, 64, 65 Andreius,iAm.\\y of, 283, 284 Arlington, Barons and Earls of, 12; Army, parliamentary, quartered at Uxbridge, I 80 A/cot, or Raftcot, a hamlet of Rifelip, 214 .(^^i family of, 121. Their monuments defcribcd, 117,118 Ash FORD, account of the parilh of, 1 — 5. Name, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. i. — The com- mon, ibid. Manor, i — 3. Chapel, 3. Monu- ments, 3,4. Chapelry,4. Regifter of baptifms, &c. 4, 5. State of Dopulation, 5. Benefadion^, ibid. Afiott, Sir ^sr^^r, monument of, 22,23. His agree- ment with the King's maller-mafon for making it, 287, 288 Atterbury, Lenuii, Reftor of Sheperton, 224 B Banies, Family of, 263 Sir Jo^^B, Chief Juftice of the Common Plea9, account of, 264 Lady, monument of, 211. Her courageous defence of Corfe caftle, 211, 21Z Baptifm, ancient mode of, revised at Hillingdon in 1672, 172 Barn, large, at Harmondfworth, 139 BaJ'e, trigonometrical, meafured by Gen. Roy on Hour. flow heath, 137 Bajfampierre, Monfieur de, received at Hampton- court, 65 Beaucleri, family of, 102 Beard, John, epitaph of. So. Account of, 89 Bedfont, account of the parifhof, 6 — 12. Name, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. 6. Manors, 6 — 9. Church-notes, g, 10. Reflory, 10. Vicarage and advowfon, 11. Parilh regifter, II, 12. State of population, 12. Benefac- tions, ibid. Bed/ont-Eafi, manor of, 6, 7 BeJfont-M'eft , manor of, 253 Beggar, rich, 284 Beihamonds or Belhachetts, at Harefield, 1 1 1 Belmo/it, or Bluthou/e,al Hillingdon, 1^6 Benefaaion, fingular, of a white mare and a mare colt, 286 Ben»e/,Eiirl of Tankerville, family of, 133 ■ Leonora Lzdy , monument of, 181, 182 ■ Timothy, tries the right of paflage through Bufty Park, 73 Berkeley, Earl of Berkeley, family of, 29, 30. lOi. Their monuments dcfcribed, 25, 26 ■ "John Lord, a native of Hanworth, lOi ■ Sir William, a native of Hanworth, ibid. Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, fam.ly of, 264, 265 Billed, manor of, in Laleham, 19B Bladen, Martin, a! Sunbury, 277 Blein-ville, Marquis of, refides at Hampton-COurt, 64 Bolingbroke, Lord, his refidcnce at Dawley, 128 Booth, Barton, accounioi, 17. Hisepitaph, 18 Mrs. accountof, 17, 18 Brakenhury chapel, at Harefield, 113 Brakenburyes, aneftate in that parith, 1 10 Brokmans, manor of, 230 Brome, Adam de, Reflor of Hanworth, 98 Brydges,\jWA Chandoj, family of, 123, 124 Burroughs, a capital manfion at Drayton, 36 i;/(/%' Park, accountof, 73 Camps, 312 GENERAL INDEX. Camps, ancient, 137, ig6, 197 Canal, Grand Jundlion, 177 Carljle, James Earl of, atHanworth, 95 Carr, Sir Edward, monument of, 159 — — family of, 171 Cary, Lord Falkland, family of, 264 Cajlleha'ven, Mer-vin Earl of, marriage of, izz Cfi/ar- houfe at Hiliingdon, I56, 157 Cedar-tree, remarkable, iii^. Chamber, family of, loi Chandos, George Lord, at Harefield-place, 108 Charles L at the Red Lion at Hiliingdon, 152. Im- prifoned at Hampton-court, and makes his efcape thence, 65 Charles JL at Hampton-court, 65 Charlton, manor of, in Sunbury, 275, 276 Chert/ey-bridge, 202 Children^ four at a birth, inftance of, 186 three at a birth, inllances of, 30. 43, 186. 216. 266 Claypoole, Mrs. death of, 65 Coke, Lady Jane, monument of, 278 Colham, manor of, in Hiliingdon, 148. 151 Colham-GzTdei>, manor of, in Drayton, 154 Colham-miWf, 152 Collins, Samuel, author of the prefent State of RufSa, •5 Cenant, John, at Harefield-place, 108 Conference at Hampton-court, 64 Cottington, family of, 101 ■ Lord, his improvements at Hanworth, 95. Entertains the Queen and her court, 96 Couuay Stakes, 218, 2ig Cowley, account of the parifh of, 13 — 18. Name, fituation, boundaries, &c. 13. Manor, 13—15. Church- notes, 15, 16. Reftory, 16. Parifh regifter, 16 — 18. State of population, 16. Be- nefadions, 1 8 Cozvley-grove in Hiliingdon, 158 Coivley-haU, in Hiliingdon, manor of, 154, 155 Coivley Peachey, manor of, (3 — 15 Crab, Roger, an eccentric charafter, 19; Cran FORD, account of the parifli of, 19 — 31. Ety- mology, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. 19. Manors, 19 — 21. Manor-houfes, 21, 22. Church-notes, 22 — 27. Reftory, 27. Reftors, 27, 28. Parifh regifter, 28—30. State of po- pulation, 28. Benefaftion, 31 Crairford, additions to the account of, 287, 288 Cranford le Mote, manor of, 20, 2i. Manor-houfe, 22 Cranford Saint John, manor of, 20. Manor-houfe, 21,22. Portraits there, 22 Cromiuell, Elizabeth, married at Hampton-court, 65 — ■ Oli'ver, refident at that palace, ibid. Croxall, Samuel, vicar of Hampton, 84 Daiuley, manor of, in Harlington, 127, 128 Daiuley-hoxife, the feat of Lord Bolingbroke, 128 De Burgh Fyjh, monument of, 37 Derby, Alice, Countefs of, at Harefield-place, 107, 108. Her monument, iii, 112. Account of her, 122, 123 Derhams, manor of, in South Mims 229, 230 Drayton, account of the parifh of, 32 — 44. Situ- ation, boundaries, &c. 32. Manors, &c. 32 — 37. Church-notes, 37 — 39. Reftory, vicar- age, and advowfon, 39, 40. Parifh regifter, 40 — 43. State of population, 40. Benefaftions, 43>44 Drayton mWh, 32, 33, note Duel it Cranford-bridge, 266 East-Bedfont, manor of, 6, 7 Ed-wardVl. born at Hampton-court, 62 Egerton, Lord Keeper, at Harefield-place, 107 Elizabeth, Queen, keeps her Chriflmas at Hampton- court, 63. When Princef?, under the care of Queen Katherine Parr at Hanworth, 94. Dines at Hanworih in 1600,95. Entertained at Hare- field, 108 Encampment, ancient, on Hounflow-heath, 137 ; — at Greenfield common, 196, 197 Epitaphs, remarkable, on two black fervants, 222, 223 Feltham, account of the parifh of, 4; — ;o. Ety- mology, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. 45. Manor, 45, 46. Church-notes, 47, 48. Rec- tory, 48. Vicarage, ;^/i»'. State of population, 49. Pdrifh regifler, 49, 50 i^«^//, extraneous, at Harefield, 104 Frederick, family of, 88 Frowyk, Thomas, epitaph o^, 234 Fuller, Thomas, D. D. epitaph and account of, 23, 24 Gannox, a mefTuage at South Mims, 230 Garrick, David, his villa at Hampton, 76 David, jun. epitaph of, 81 Germaine, family of, 98 Gibbons, family of, 266 Glcucefer, WilliamYiake of, born at Hampton-court, 86 Gottzaga, Francis, received at Hampton-court, 63 Grocyn, PFilliam, account of, 223, 224 Gro'vebarnes, manor of, in Staines, 2:^2 Guildford, GENERAL INDEX. 313 CuiU/orJ, Frtderick Earl of, refides at Buftiy Park, 7S H Hal/ord, or Halliford, manor of, 276, 277 Hamonds, manor of, 254 Hampton, account of the parifh of, 51 — 91. Si- tuation, boundaries, &c. 51. Preceptor/, /'^/V. Manor, 5J. Hampton-court chafe, 53 — 56. Honour of Hampton-court, 56,57. The palace, 58 — 72. Parks, 72 — 75. Bridge, 75. Garrick's villa, 76. Church notes, 76—83. Reftory, 83, 84. Vicarage and vicars, 84. State of population, 85. Extrafts from the parifh re- giller, 86 — 90. School, 90. Various benefac- tions, 91 Hampton -court bridge, 7; Hampton-court chafe, 53 — 56 Hampton-court green, 75 Hampton-court^ honour of, 56, 57 Hampton. court palace, entertainment of the French ambafladors there, 58 — 62. Principal events connefted with the hiftory of the Palace, 62 — 66. Defcription of its prefent ftate, 66 — 70, The hall, 66, 67. Theatre, 67. Board of green cloth room, 67, 68.— State apartments, 68. Chapel, 69. Portraits, 70, 71. Houfe- keepers, 71. Conduits and canal, I'^/i/. Gar- dens, 72. Great vine, /^/V. Parks, 72 — 75 Hampton-court park, 72, 73 Hanvvorth, account of the parifh of, 92—102. Etymology, fituation, boundaries, &c. 92. Manor, 92, 93. Hanworth-houfe, 93 — 96. Church notes, 97. Reflory, ibid. Reftors, 98, Parilh regifter, 98 — 102. State of population, 98. Benefadions, 102 Han'worth-\\o\ik becomes a royal palace, 93. Lord Cottington's improvements there, 95. Burnt down, 96 Harefield, account of the parilh of, 103—124. Etymology, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. 103, The moors, ibid. Scarce plants and ex- traneous folTils, 104. Copper-mills, ibid. iMancrsand othereltaies, 104 — iii. Preceptory, 109. Church notes, iii — 119. Reftory, 119, izo. Curacy or donative, and its exempt ju- rifdiftion, 120. Parifh regiller, 121 — 124. State of population, 121. BenefaClions, 124 Harefield, addition to the account of, 288 Harefield-Xoige, \ 1 1 Harefield^\ice, is eminent inhabitants, 107 — 109. Queen Elizabeth entertained there, 108. Per- formance of Milton's Arcades, ibid. The houfe deftroyed by fire, ibid. Hare warren at Hampton-court, 73, 74 Harl I not on, account of the parilh of, 12;^ — 135. Etymology, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. 12). Manors, 126— 128. Church-notes, 129, 130. Reftory, 131. Reflors, 131, 132. Parilh regifter, 132 — 135, State of population, 132. Benefaftions, 135 Harlington cum Shepijion, manor of, 1 27 Harli>i£ton, otherw'iie Louells, manor of, 126 Harm ON DSWORTH, account of the parilh of, 136— 145. Name, fituation, boundaries, and extent, 136. Scarce plants, 136, 137. Ancientcamp, 137. Priory, 138. Manors and manor farms, 138. 142. Church-notes, 142, 143. Reftory, 143. Vicarage and advowfon, 144, State of population, 144. Parifh regiller, 145. Bene- faflions, ibid. Harmondfiworth, addition to the account of, 288 Harrington, famWy of , 195 — Sir James, refides at Swakeley, 192 Haftings, family of, 194 Hatton, manor of, in Bedfont, 8 Haiutrey, tombs of the family of, 210, 212, 213. Their feat at Afcot, 214 Htnry VIII. his buildings at Hampton-court, 66, 67, 69. Obliges Lord Windfor to give him the manor of Stanwell in exchange for other lands, Hercies, manor of, in Hillingdon, 153 Hide, manor of the, in Laleham, 198 Hillingdon, account of the parilh of, 146 — 188, Etymology, fituation, boundaries, extent, &c. 146, Manors, 147 — 155. Principal houfes, 155 — 158. Church notes, 158 — 165. Redtory, 166, 167. Vicarage and advowfon, 168. Vi- car's library, 168, i6g. Vicars, 169. Chan- tries, 169, 170. Parifh regifter, 170 — 174. State of population, 170, 171. Benefadlions, 174, 175. Hamlet of Oxbridge, 175 — 188 Hillingdon, addition to the account of, 288 Hillingdon, Great, manor of, 152 Hillingdon, Little, manor of, ibid. Hojkins, family of, 266 ifott»/7<;w-heath, fcarce plants there, 136, 137. Houjlyng people, number of at Alhford, 5. Bed- font, iz. Cowley, 16. Cranford, 28. Dray- ton, 40. Feltham, 49. Hampton, 85. Han- worth, 98. Harefield, 121. Harlington, 133. Harmondfworth, 144. Hillingdon, 171. Ick- enham, 194. Laleham, 201. Littleton, 205. Rifelip, Z15. Sheperton, 224. South-mims, 237. Staines, 247. Stanwell, 263. Sunbury, 282 Hoiuard, Katharini, married at Hampton-COurt, 63 Hud/on, family of, 284, IcKENHAM, account of the parilh of, 189 — 195. Name, fituation, boundaries, quantity of land, &c. 189. Manors, 189—192. Church notes, 192,19;. Redory and advowfon, 193, Parilh regifter, 193 — 195. State of population, 194 S f Iveiiey, 3H GENERAL INDEX. Iventy, or Yeveney, manor of, 243 Juxtit, archbiihop, funeral of, 171 K Katherine-eni, in Rifellp, manor of, 210 Kempton, manor of, in Sunbury, 270, 273, 274 Kempton-'pirk, 27; Kennington, ancient palace of, 271, 272 Kmnington, or Col Kenyngton, manor of, 274 Kilhgrtiu, family of, 99 — 101 — 283 ■ Dr. Henry, account of, 100 — -^— — Thomas, account of, 99, 100 ■ Sir William, account of, 99 Knyvet, Thomas Lord, monument of, 159, 260 Kylt, John, reftor of Harlington, I31 N Nares, Sir George, born at Stanwell, 165 Ntit/digate, family of, 121, 122. Their monnmentt at Harefield, 11 z — 117 ; — at Hillingdon, 162 • Sir Richard, epitaph and account of, i >4 — u6 Neiu Mints, manor of, 230 North, Earl of Guildford, family of, 88 270, 273, North park, at Hampton-court, 73 Oldfold, in South-Mims, manor of, 228 OJfulJion, John Lord, monument of, 130 Laleham, account of the parifli of, 196 — 201. Situation, boundaries, quantity of land, &c. 196. Ancient encampment, 196, 197. Ma- rors, 197—199. Church notes, 199, 200. Reftory and Benefice, 200. • State of popula- tion, 201. Benefaftions, ibid. Lihrary, valuable, belonging to the vicars of Hil- lingdon, 168, 169 Lightfoot, John, the botanift, 16, 184 Littleton, account of the parifli o^, 202 — 206, Etymology, fituation and boundaries, 202, Manor, 202, 203. Church notes, 203, 204. Reftory and advowfon, 204. Parifli regiller, 205, 206, State of population, 205. Bene- faftions, 206 Longevity, inftances of, 12, ij. 18. 43. 78. 82, 83. 87. 124. 163, 164, 165. 174. 182, 183. 186. 206. 213. 215, 216. 225. 244. 247. 285 - Longford, a hamlet in Harmondfworth, 144 Loveils, manor of, in Harlington, 126 Luddington, a manor farm in Harmondlwortb, 141 M Marriage, fingular, 283 Marjh, family of, 237 Middle park at Hampton-court, 73 Milton'i Arcades performed at Harefield-place, 108 Monjirous infant, 172 Afoor-hall in Harefield, manor of, 109, no Mojfendcix, Robert, epitaph of, 119 Murder, cruel, 172 Murray, Earl of Dun more, family of, 265 Mu/grave, family of, 284 Padbury, a manor farm in Harmondrwortb, 140 Paget, family of, 40 — 43 — — William Lord, account of, 40, 4 1 Paitei, or Pates, in Bedfont, manor of, 8 Parr, Katherine, married at Hampton-court, 63. Refides at Hanworth, 94 Penn, Sibel, nurfe to Edward VL epitaph of, 77 Perrot, Baron, monument of, 199 Perry-Oik%, or P^rry-place, a manor farm in Har- mondfworth, i^[ Philip and Mary keep their Chriftmas at Hampton- court, 63 Plague at Hampton, 85 ;— at Hillingdon, 171 ; — at Uxbridge, 186; — at Littleton, 205 ;— at South Mims, 237 Plants, fcarce at Harefield, 104. On Hounflow- heath, 136, 137 Poyle, manor of, in Stanwell, 255 Preceptory at Hampton, 51 ;— at Moor-hall in Hare- field, 109 Priory at Harmondfworth, 138; — at Rlfelip, 208 Pritcheit, John, Bifliop of Gloucelter, monument of, 118 Progers, Ed-ward, epitaph and account of, 87, 88 R Rangers of Bufliy-park, 74, 75 Reynell, family of, 224, 225 Rich, John, epitaph of, 162. Account of, 173, 174 Ripley, Thomas, account of, 88 RiSELiF, account of the parifli of, toy — 217. Name, fituation, boundaries, and quantity of land, 207. Priory, 208. Manor?, 208— 2JO. Church notes, 210 — 214. Rectory, 214. Vicarage, 215. Parilh regiller, 215, 216. Stateofpopu- lation, 215. Benefaftions, 215, 216 Ri/elif, addition to the account of, 288 Rockingham, GENERAL INDEX. 3^5 Roek'tngham, Marchionefs of, her feat at HilHngdon, Rogers, Daniel, monument of, 279 Roiutheys, a capital mandon at Drayton, 36 RoKencrantz, Paul, received at Hampton-court, 64 Rujiat, Tobias^ under houfekeeper atHampton-courti 71 Ryland, William Wynne, account of, 49, 50 Rjvet, Bruno, vicar of Stanwell, 262, 263 Etymology, llcuation, boundaries, &c. 268. Manors, 269 — 277. Ancient palace of Ken- nington, 271, 272. Church notes, 277. 280. Reflory, 280, 281. Portions of tithes, 281. Vicarage, 281, 282. Parilh regifter, 282—285. State of population, 282. Benefaftions, 285, 286 _ Sunbury, Vifcount, title of, 268 Siuakeley, in Ickenham, manor of, 190— 191 Siuakeley-hovik, 192 Samfordi, an eftate at Harefield, 1 10 Scarburgh, Sir Charles, epitaph and account of, 24, 25 Schomherg, Duke of, family of, 172 Seymour, Queen Jane, her death at Hampton-court, 62 ■ Sir Thomas, his familiarities with the Prin- cefs Elizabeth, 94 Sheperton, account of the parifh of, 218 — 225. Etymology, fituation, boundaries, quantity of land, &c. 218. Coway-ftakes, 218, 219. Manor, 219 — 221. Church notes, 221 — 223. Reftory and advowfon, 223. Reflors, 223, 224. State of population, 224. Pariih regiller, 224, 225 Shipcotts, in Stanwell, manor of, 254 Sip/on, a hamlet in Harmondfworth, 144 Southcote, in Harmondfworth, manor of, 140 ■ in Rifelip, manor of, 209, 210 South Mi ms, account of the parifh of, 226 — 238. Name, ftipulation, boundaries, quantity of land, &c. 226. Manors, 226 — 230. Church notes, 230 — Z34. Reftory, 235. Vicarage and ad- vowfon, 236. Chantry, /i^ya'. Meeting-houTes, ibid. Parifh regiller, 236 — 238. State of po- pulation, 237. Benefaiaions, 238 Spiller, family of, 225 Staines, account of the parifh of, 239 — 248. Etymology, fituation, bound-.ries, quantity of land, &c. 239. Market a'^d fdir, ib'.d. Bridge, 240. Manors, 241. 243. Church notes, 244. Redory, 244, 245. Vicarage and advowion, 245. Chapel, guild, and meeting-houfes, 246. Parifh regiller, 246 — 248. State of population, 247. Benefadlions, 248 Staines, addition to the account of, 288 Staines foreft, 241 Stanwell, account of the parifh of, 249 — 267. Etymology, fituation, boundaries, quantity of land, &CC. 249. Manors, 249 — 256. Manor of Stanwell exchanged with Henry VIII. 251. Church notes, 257. 261. Reftory, 261, 262. Vicarage and advowfon, 262. Vicars, 262, 263. Parifh regilfer, 263 — 266. State of po- pulation, 263. School and other benefaftions, 266, 267 Strange, John Lord, his tomb at Hillingdon, 160 SuKBURv, account of the parifh of, 268—286. Teukejbury, 7«^b x.Jofeph, his monument, 129, I30. Ac» count of him, 131, 132 Treatment, cruel, of a pauper, 248 Treaty of Uxbridge, 178, 179 Treaty-\iO\i{e, at Uxbridge, 179 Tumulus, near Bufhy-park, 74 Turner, John, vicar of Hillingdon, 169 Tykenham, in Hillingdo.T, ancient manor of, 154 U Uxbridge, account of the hamlet of, 175 — 188. Etymology, 175. Propofed feparation from Hillingdon, 175,176. Leiand's defcription of the town, 176. Grand jundlion canal, 177. Market and fairs, ibid. Corn mills, &c. 178. Hiftorical fads connected with Uxbridge, 17^ — 180. Manor, 180, 181. Chapel, &c. 181 — 183. Cemetery, 183. Minifter's endowment, 183, 184.. Guild, 184. Meeting-houfes, 185. Comparative ftate of population, ibid, Ex- trafts from regiller of baptifms, &c. 186. Be- nefadions, 186 — 188 Uxbridge, Henry Earl of, monument of, 158 Vine, great, at Hampton-court, 72 Vyner, Sir Robert, refides at Swakeley, 192 W Walton-bridge, account of, zifi, note Warivici, Benjamin, accidentally killed on a fhooting party, 234 M'e^ Bed/ont, manor of, 253, 254 !l6 GENERAL INDEX. Weft Drayton, manor of, 32 — 34 Wilkins, Bifliop, reftor of Cranford, 27, 28 William III. at Hampton-court, 65 Williots,m South Mims, manor of, 228, 229 Wind/or, Thomas, tomb of, 257. Diredlions in his will, 257, 258 Wolfey, Cardinal, the builder of Hampton-court palace, 58. His reception of the French Am- ba/Tadors there, 58 — 62 Woodefon, William^ Angular funeral of, 1 3 4, 135 Wreibam-jpatk, at South Mims, 230 feoiveney, Yeveney, or Inieney^ in Staines, manor of, 243 Ye'w-x.tte.%, remarkable, 10, 130 Toung, Mrs. painful death of, 214. THE END. Printed by A. 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