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ADVERTISEMENT.
Wl H I L S T a tafte for local hiftory fo generally
prevails, it is fomewhat fingular that the coun-
ties adjacent to London fhould not have had their due
fhare of illuflration ; for even in thofe of which hifto-
ties have been publifhed, fome very interefting parti-
culars have been w^holly unnoticed. The author of
the following work offers to the public what he has
been able to colle6t, relating either to the ancient
hiftory or prefent ftate of the feveral parifhes within
twelve miles of the capital, a diftridl which furnifhes
perhaps more curious and interefting matter for obfer-
vation than any other of the fame extent in the king-
dom. A brief defcription of the fttuation, foil, pro-
duce, and manufaftures ; the defcent of the principal,
particularly manerial property ; the parifh churches,
and eccleftaftical hiftory; the ftate of population, and
the biography conneded with each parifli ; are the
principal objedls of the following work.
A Through
vi ADVERTISEMENT.
Through the obHging permifTion of Thomas Aftle,
Efq. John Caley, Efq. and John KipHng, Efq. to
infpedl the Records at the Tower, the Augmentation
Office, and the Rolls; through the politenefs of the
prefent proprietors of the feveral manors, and the ready
and liberal affiftance of the gentlemen of the law ; the
author has been enabled to give the defcent of pro-
perty in a manner which, though brief, he hopes will
be found accurate. In the defcription of parifli
churches, thofe epitaphs only are given at length,
which are either lingular in themfelves, or record per-
fons of eminence, and thefe have been all copied on
the fpot ; from the others he has inferted the names of
the perfons recorded, with the date of their deceafe,
merely to denote the place of interment of the feveral
families. In treating of the ecclefiaftical hiftory, an
account is given of the nature of the benefice of each
parifh, and, where it could be afcertained, the defcent
of the advowfon. In this department, the frequent
references to the MSS. in the Lambeth library will
fhew how much the author has been indebted to his
Grace the Archbifhop of Canterbury, for his per-
miflion to confult them. The fucceffion of incum-
bents on each benefice has not been given, on a pre-
fumption, that a bare lift of names would be very un-
interefting
ADVERTISEMENT. tK
interefting to the reader, and tend to fwell the volume
to very little purpofe ; the author has confined him-
felf therefore to the noticing fuch perfons only as have
been in any refped eminent. The parochial regifters
(for a ready accefs to which, as well as for other occa-
fional information, he is much indebted to his bre-
thren the clergy) have been found of much afTiftance
in afcertaining the comparative Hate of population,
and furnifhing hints for biographical matter. The
ravages of the plague in many of the parifhes at va-
rious periods, have been afcertained from the fame
fource of information ; and fuch inftances of longevity
as are there recorded, have been alfo noticed. From
the churchwardens accounts, particularly at Lambeth
and Kingfton, feveral curious circumftances, relating
to the price of provifions, and local cufloms, have
been extracted.
The difficulty of corre<3:nefs in a work of this na-
ture, wherein the references are neceffarily fo nume-
rous, is well known. The reader, it is hoped, will
excufe fuch trifling inaccuracies as may have efcaped
the author's obfervation ; efpecially as he has endea-
voured to correal thofe which are material, parti-
cularly in the references to public records, which have
A 2 been
VUl
ADVERTISEMENT.
been again carefully collated with the originals, fince
the work was printed.
Of the plates fomething perhaps fhould be faid : the
portraits which reprefent perfons of confi.derable emi-
nence, are now for the firft time engraved; the others
will, it is prefumed, be found faithful delineations of
what they are intended to reprefent.
[ ix ]
LIST OF THE PLATES.
PLATE PAGE
I. Map of that part of the County of Surrey which lies within
twelve miles of London — to face the Title-page.
II. Title Page — Vignette View of Putney, from the Bifhop or
London's lawn at Fulham.
III. Dedication Plate — to follow the Title-page.
IV. Tomb of WiUiam Millebourne in Barnes Church— to face 17
V. Portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew, - - - 54
VI. Beddington Church, - - - _ ^8
VII. Tomb of Nicholas Carew and his Wife in Beddington
Church, - - _ _ _ il)id.
VIII. Portraits on Glafs in Camberwell Church, - - 73
IX. Tomb of John Scott, Efq. and his Family in Camberwell
Church, - - - - - 77
X. Dulwich CoUege, (PI. I.) - . - _ 105
XL Dulwich College, (PI. II.) - - - - 117
XII. Tomb of Nicholas Gaynesford and his Family in Carfhalton
Church, - - - - - 128
XIII. Tomb of Jane Lady Lumley in Cheam Church, - 144
XIV. View of Nonfuch Palace, - - - - ^S3
XV. View of Croydon Church, - . - - - ^79
XVI. Tomb of Archbifhop Sheldon in Croydon Church, - 183
XVII. View of the Crypt under the Chapel in Lambeth Palace, 262
XVIII. Viev/
LIST OF THE PLATES.
PLATE PAGB
XVIII. View of Lambeth Palace from the Gateway, - - 268
XIX. View of Merton Church, - - _ _ ^46
XX. Portrait of Dr. John Dee, - - - - 385
XXI. Infide View of Bifliop Weft's Chapel in Putney Church, 409
XXII. Portrait of Chriftian Countefs of Devonlhire, - - 432
XXIII. Richmond Palace, ----- 442
XXIV. Richmond Obfervatory, - - . _ 44.6
XXV. Wimbledon Houfe, (PI. I.) - - - - 524
XXVI. Wimbledon Houfe, (PI. II.) - - - 527
XXVII. Figure on Glals in Wimbledon Churqh, - - 529
.? T It «' ]
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Account of, addington, . « - - ^»^
Barnes, -- -- - - - li
Battersea, - - - -16
Beddington, - • - - 49
■ Bermondsey, - - - - 546
Cambeb-well, - - - - 68
- Carshalton, - — - - - 122
- Cheam, __--_. 137
. Clapham, ----- 159
Croydon, ----- lyo
.Kew, ----- 202
Kingston upaw Thames, - - _ 212
Lambeth, ----- 257
Malden, - - - - - 33"^
Merton, ----- - 338
MiTCHAM, ----- 350
MORDON, — - ■ - - - 36'
MORTLAKE, _ - - - 364
Newington Butts, - - - - 389
Petersham, _ _ - - 399
Putney, ----- 404
Richmond, ----- 436
rotherhithe, _ _ _ _ 470
Streatham, - - - - 478
Account
xil CONTENTS.
Account of Sutton, - _ _ - _ 452
Tooting, _ - _ > _ ^^•j
Wandsworth, - - _ _ j02
Wimbledon, - - - ' $^9
- ji-Tffn-v'vr^j'^ "•■"*"- ■*
APPENDIX.
PAGE
jiDDITlONS to Addxugtoh, - - - - 541
Barnes, -- w ,, _ _ iiid.
Battersea, ---.__ ^44
- Beddington, - - - - 545
Camberwell, _ _ _ _ ^j^
Carshalton, - _ - _ ^62
Cheam, - - - • - - 564
Clapham, - _ _ _ iliid.
- Croydon, _ _ _ _ ^65
Kew, - - - _ - ii>fd.
Kingston upon Thames, - - - 566
Lambeth, _ _ _ _ ^67
Merton, ----- ii?iii.
MiTCHAM, - _ _ _ £68
Mortlake, _ _ _ _ £69
Newington Butts, _ _ _ /^/^,
Petersham, _ - - - ii>i(i,
Richmond, - - - _ il>id.
Rotherhithe, - _ - _ ^yo
Wandsworth, _ - - . ii>id.
Prefetit State of Population in the Parijhes treated of in this Volume, - 571
Index of Names, ____-- ^7^
General Index.
ADDING-
ADDINGTON.
THE name of this parifh was anciently written Edintone. I Etymology,
can find nothing fatisfaclory relative to its etymology ; it was
probably denominated from fome one of its remote pofleflbrs. The Boundaries,
parifh lies within the hundred of Wallington, and is bounded by
Croydon, Saunderftead, Farleigh, and Chelfham, in Surry ; and by
Weft Wickham and Beckenham in Kent. The village ' is fituated
about three miles to the eaft of Croydon^ at the foot of a range of Addington
hills to which it gives its name. Their extent is about five hundred
acres.
On the brow of the hill, towards Addington, is a clufter of tumuli, Tumuli,
about 25 in number ; they are of very inconfiderable height ; one of
them is nearly 40 feet in diameter ; two others are about half that
fize; the remainder are very fmall. The greater part of them
appears to have been opened. Salmon fays, that fome broken
pieces of urns, which had been taken out of them, were, in his
time, in the pofTeffion of an apothecary at Croydon.
The land at Addington is, for the moft part, arable ; there is
little meadow, but a pretty large proportion of wood and common.
The foil is very various ; being, in fome parts of the parifh, gravel ; Soil.
in fome, chalk ; and in others, a ftifF clay.
' This parifh is fituated almoft beyond the a circumflance which the author was not ac-
limits propofed for this work, the church be- quainted with before lie had collefted his ma-
ing nearly 13 miles from Weftminller bridge ; terials : Aubrey calls it iz miles.
Vol. I. B It
2 ADDINGTON.
Manors. It appears, by Doomfday Book, that there were two manors in
the parifh of Addingtoa in the time of William the Conqueror ; they
were not exa£lly divided, as Salmon * has aflerted, though they
were each taxed as eight hides ; for the land of one manor was four
carucates, ' that of the other, two and a half; the one was valued
at 5I. the other at 3I. The former manor had been held by
Ofward, in the time of Edward the ConfefTor, and was then the
property of Albert, a clerk ; the latter having belonged to Godric,
in the Confeffor's reign, was, at the time of the furvey, in the
pofTeflion of Tezelin the cook ; they were both held of the king.
Tezelin's manor continued in lay hands, and was held by a very
fingular tenure, as will be mentioned hereafter.
Godric's manor, previoufly to the reign of Edward I. appears to have
been divided into two; one of which was given to the Knights Templars
icln'ts"'^'''' by Walter de Morton \ and was held of the Archbifhop of Canter-
Templars, bury's manor of Croydon, by an annual rent of thirty-two fhillings
and one penny. The Templars were aboliflied by Pope Clement
the Fifth, in the year 131 1 ; and in the 17th year of Edward II. an
a£t of parliament pafled, by which their pofleflions in England,
among which Addington' was included, were transferred to the Knights
Manor of the of St. John of Jerufalem. The other moiety belonged, I know not by
monallery of •'
St. Mary what grant, to the monaftery of St. Mary Overie ; to this manor the
advowfon of the church was annexed ; it was rated at ten fhillings.
For twelve acres of land, which belonged to this convent in the parifh
of Addington, they were obliged to keep a lamp burning every
night in the church '. The manfion-houfe belonging to this
manor is defcribed as having a hall of ^^^ feet in length, and 28 in
* Antiquities of Surry, p. 58. ' Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Claudius, E. vi.
' A carucate is generally fuppofed to be as f. 186. and Nero, E. vi. f. 100. a-b.
much land as one plough can till in a year. * Regiller of the monaftery of St. Mary
♦ Chartulary of Chrift's Church, Canter- Overie, Cotton MSS. Fauftina, A. viii.
bury, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, f. 234.
p. 97. ' Ibid. f. 371.
breadth ;
A D D I N G T O N. • ■
breadth; and two folarii, or upper rooms, the one 32 feet by 18,
the other 32 feet by 11. At the diflblution of monafteries, both
thefe manors came into the pofTeflion of the Leigh family ' ; who,
at that time, held the third manor above mentioned.
The earlieft proprietor of this manor, that I find upon record after Aguiiion's,
the Conqueft, is Bartholomew Chefnet ", or Cheyney, who had two manor,
daughters co-heirefTes ; one of whom married Peter '°, the grandfon
of Ailwin of London, and was burled in Bermondfey abbey ; for
which privilege her hufband gave the monks a rent of 15 fhillings,
ifluing out of a houfe in Addington ; the other daughter married
William Aguillon, who, in right of his wife, inherited the manor " ;
his fon. Sir Robert Aguillon '\ had a licence to fortify and em-
battle his manor houfe at Addington. A fpot of ground near the Manor houfe.
church, being ftill called the Caftle Hill, ferves to afcertain the
fite of this manfion, which, moft probably, continued to be the
manerial refidence till the year 1400, when the manor houfe, which
was pulled down about twelve years ago, (and which was fituated
at the foot of the hill,) was eredted ; as appears by the following
infcription '^ which was over the door :
In fourteen hundred and none.
Here was neither flick nor ftone.
In fourteen hundred and three
The goodly building which you fee.
This houfe was built chiefly of flint, mixed with chalk, and very
ftrongly cemented.
* Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. p. 28. July 17. records in the Exchequer, the originals of
9 Madox'sHillory of the Exchequer^p. 453. which are not now to be found.
'= Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Claudius, '^ Pat. 54 H. III. m. 26.
a. viii. 12. Extrads from a regifter of '^ Letter from Archbifhop Herring to Dr.
Bermondfey abbey. Ducarrel, in the Appendix to the Hiftory
" Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 313. f 22. b. of Croydon, p. 184. Bib. Topograph. Britan.
This MS. appears to be a tranfcript of fome No. 46.
B 2 Sir
ADDINGTON.
Sir Robert Aguillon was flieriff'* of Suflex in the reign of Henry
the Third ; he married Margaret '\ Countefs of the Ifle of Wight,
by whom he had two daughters ; one of whom married Jourdan de
Saukvil, anceftor of the Duke of Dorfet ; the other married Hugh
Bardolf"", and had for her portion the manor of Addington, which
continued in the Bardolf family for two or three generations.
William Walcot " died feized thereof, in the reign of Richard the
Second, having held it for Hfe, by a grant from William Bardolf.
In the reign of Henry the Sixth it was the property of William
Uvedale ", who, for a fine of forty {hillings, paid into the exchequer,
obtained a licence to alienate it to John Leigh and others, and the
heirs of the faid John. The defcendants of this John Legh or
Leigh obtained a grant of the other manors at the fuppreflion
of monafteries, and the whole became united into one ; which
continued in the poffefTion of the Leigh family till the middle of the
prefent century. Sir John Leigh'" died in 1737, without male
iflue. After his death, there was a fuit in chancery depending for
many years, relating to the right of fucceflion to the Addington
eftate, which was at length determined in favour of his female heirs,
one of whom married John Bennet, Efq. and the other Henry
Spencer, Efq. The manor and eftate were fold by their
fons, Wooley Leigh Bennet, Efq. and Wooley Leigh Spencer, Efq.
(about the year 1767,) to Barlow Trecothick, Efq. alderman of Lon-
don, and they are now the property of James Trecothick, Efq. his
nephew ; who has a handfome modern manfion, fituated about half
a mile from the church, and nearly in the centre of the park; it
was begun in 1772, by the late alderman Trecothick, and finifhed
after his death by the prefent proprietor.
•♦ CoUins's Peerage, edit. 1756. vol. I. '^ Efch. 12 Rich. II. Harl. MSS. 708.
p. 701. " Pat. Rolls, 25 Hen. VI. pt. 1. m. 24.
•5 Pat. S3 H. III. m. II. "s Addington Pariih Regifter.
'« CI. Rolls, 20 Edw.I. m. 3.
That
ADDINGTON. 5
That part of the manor of Addington, which belonged to the Singular te-
nureofthe
Aguillons and Bardolfs, was, and Itill is, held by a very fingular manor.
fpecies of grand ferjeanty, viz. by the fervice of prefenting a cer-
tain difli to the king on the day of his coronation. Of the origin of
this fervice, it feems not an improbable conjecture, that the manor
was an appendage to the office of the king's cook, as Richmond,
then Shene, anciently was to the office of baker. It is certain that
Tezelin, the cook, held it of the Conqueror ; being afterwards
feparated from the office, the nature of the ferjeanty might con-
tinue, though confined to the fervice of prefenting a difh to the
king once in his reign. The fervice and the difh are varioufly
defcribed in the different records. Bartholomew Cheney " is faid
to have holden Addington by the fervice of finding a cook to drefs
fuch viduals in the king's kitchen, as the Senefchall fliall order.
This was, in facSt, only executing the office of cook by deputy ; and
his fon-in-law, William Aguillon^', held it by the fervice of
making hajlias'^^, as the record expreffes it, in the king's kitchen on
the day of his coronation, or of finding a perfon who fhould make
for him a certain pottage, called the Mefs of Gyron; or if feym"
be added to it, it is called, Maupygernon ; the feym in another re-
cord is called unguentum. Sir Robert Aguillon '* held it precifely
by the fame fervice, and the difh is mentioned by the fame name
(viz. le Mefs de Gyron) in the pleas of the crown; though Blount*'
has quoted it thence by the name of Dilligrout, and Aubrey has copied
hismiflake. Thomas Bardolf", who died feized of Addington in
the reign of Edward the Third, held it by the fervice of making
" Mag. Rot. 1 8 Hen. III. Surrey. they make lard. Some derive it from the Latin
^' Brit. Muf. Harl.MSS. 313. f. 22. b. wori/e'vum, fuet.
** The word hajlia does not occur in any of ^* Placit. Coron. 39 Hen. HI. m. 33. and
the Gloffaries. Efch. 14 Edw. I.
*' Seym or Seim, is a Saxon word, fignify- *' Blount's Jocular Tenures, p. i. .-.nd Au-
ing fat; it is ftill in ufe amongftthe butchers, brey's Antiquities of Surrey, v. ii. p. 39.
and is ufually fpelt feam ; it is now generally '' Efch. 5 Ed. UI.
applied to the omentum of a pig, of which
three
6 ADDINGTON.
three mefTes of Maupygernoun at the coronation, one of which he
was to prefent to the king, another to the archbifhop of Canterbury,
and the third, to whom foe ver the king would. The fervice is ftill
kept up, and a difh of pottage was prefented to the prefent king
at his coronation, by Mr. Spencer, as lord of the manor of
Addington ; but I cannot find that there exifts any ancient " receipt
for the making of it.
Waldingliam. In the enumeration of the manors ", which were the dower of Mar-
garet the widow of Sir Robert Agulllon, Addington is mentioned,
with its member of Waldingham. This place, which is mentioned
as an appendage to the manor in another record ", is in Tandrige
hundred, about three miles from Addington.
The church. 'Yhe church of Addington is a very fmall ftrudure; it confifts of a
nave, a chancel, and a fmall fouth aifle, feparated from the body of
the church by plain pointed arches, and maffy ancient pillars of rude
workmanfhip. The church appears to have been partly rebuilt,
about the reign of Edward the Third ; the windows in the north wall
being of the architefture of that period.
The pillars above mentioned, are probably coeval with the origi-
nal ftrudure, as is the chancel ; at the end of which, are three narrow
pointed windows. The tower, which is at the weft end, is low,
fquare, and embattled ; it was originally compofed of flint, but has
been almoft rebuilt with brick, and is now covered with plafter. The
church is of flint ; except the windows, which are of foft ftone.
Aubrey, who in general has little of defcription in his work, is uncom-
** In a colleftion of ancient cookery re- pofe, that this might be the difh in queftion ; it
ceipts of the fourteenth century, printed at the was c.illed a pottage, and confifled of almond
end of the royal houfehold eftablllhments, pub- mylk, the brawn of capons, fugar and fpices,
liihcd by the Society of Antiquaries, is a receipt chicken parboyld and chopped. See. See p. 466,
to make a difh called Bardolf ; though there is no of Houfehold Eftabliihments, 410. 1 790.
evidence to fupport it, it would not be an unfair *' CI. Rolls. 14 Ed. I. m. 6. The manor
conjeflure, as the Bardolfs were lords of Ad- was then valued at 17I. 18s. 1 1 ' d.
dington at the period above-mentioned, to fup- " Efch. 14 E. i.
2 monly
ADDINGTON. .
monly diffufe ia defcriblng this church ; his account of the chancel, is
quaint and curious. " Here we find the indifferent fpedtacle of an
" unfealed roof, and walls fufficiently wanting the beautifying art of
" the painter ; heretofore enriched at certain places, with I know not
" what difagreeable ornament of black, at befl a confufed medley of
" daubing; appearing horrible enough, were we not diverted by the
" feveral ftreamers, &c. bearing the hatchments and arms of many
" of thofe honourable perfons here interred '"". " The flreamers ftill
remain, but they are grown almofl as horrible as the walls were when
Mr. Aubrey wrote his account ; there are likev^ife foms helmets, and
other pieces of rufly armour.
In the north- eafl corner of the chancel, is an altar tomb, of Purbeck Monuments.
marble, on which are brafs plates with figures of a man and woman,
praying, with labels iffuing from their mouths, on the one of which is
" Deus mlfcreatur mihi, et benedicat nobis;'' and in the other,
" "■ vultum fiiiim fupcr nos et mifereatur mih'i ;" underneath are
the figures of five children ; the flab is likewife decorated with the
arms '° and quarterings of the Leighs and Harveys ; and the whole is
furrounded with a border of brafs, on which is the following infcrip-
tion in the black letter :
" Here liethe John Leigh, efquyer, and Ifabell hys wyfe, daugh-
" ter of John Harvey, of Thurley in Bedfordfhyre, and fole
" fyfter of Sir George Harvey, Knyght ; whych John
" decefTed the 24th day of Aprill, in the yere of oure Lorde
" God, Mcccccix, and the fayde Ifabell, deffeafed the 8th
" daye of January, in the yere of Chryfle's Incarnacion,
" MCCCCcxLiii. on whofe foules I pray God have mercy."
Againfl the north wall, is a large monument, compofed partly of
marble, and partly of alabafler ; eredied by Sir Oliph Leigh, Knt. to
'' Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii. p. 49. Harvey bears Gules, on a bend Argent, three
^° Leigh bears Or, on a chevron Sab. three trefoils Sable, and quarters Sable, a lion ramp,
lions ramp. Arg. and quarters, Az. on a chief Arg. within a bordure gobony Arg. and Sable,
indented Arg. three mullets pierced. Sable ; for for Nernuit Co. Berks.
Payne.
the
6 ADDINGTON.
the memory of his father and grandfather. In the upper part of the
monument are two arches; under one of which, are kneeling figures
of John Leigh, (father of Sir Oliph,") who died in 1576, and of his
wife Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John Oliph, Knt. ; under the other
arch, are figures in the fame pofture, of Nicholas Leigh, the grand-
father, who died in 1565, and of his wife Ann, daughter of Sir
Nicholas Carew. Underneath is the effigies, as large as life, of Sir
Oliph Leigh, who eredted the monument, and died in 161 1 ; he is
reprefented completely armed, and reclining upon his elbow. The
effigies of his Lady Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, of Betch-
worth, Knight, leaning on her right hand, with a book in her left,
is beneath, and the whole is inclofed with iron palifades. Mofl of the
arms about this monument are obliterated; there only remain thofe
of Leigh, Oliph ^', and Carew ". Above the altar tomb before de-
fcribed, is a monument to the memory of Sarah, wife of Sir Francis
Leigh, who died in 1691 ; and of her mother, Elizabeth Lovel,
fifter of Henry Guy.
Near the communion table, on a flab of Purbeck marble, is a
brafs figure of a man in armour ; and underneath the following in-
fcription in the black letter :
" Of your charite pray for the foule of Thomas Hatteclyff,
" efquyre, fometyme one of the fowre Maflers of the houf-
" holde to our foverayne Lord Kyng Henry the 8th, and
" Anne hys wyfe ; wiche Thomas departed the 30th day of
" Augufl, An. MVXL."
On the flab are the arms " and quartering of HatteclyfF impaling
Leigh. There is likewife in the chancel an infcribed tablet, to the
memory of Mary, daughter of Sir George Chudleigh, Bart, and wife
of George Cole, Efq. of Addington, late of Peterfham, who died
^' Party perchevron, and per pale. Or, and 33 ^^g. three quartrefolls Argent, two and
Sable between three greyhounds hesCds erafed, one, quartering Az. two bars. Or, over all, a
collar'd, and counterchanged. Uon ramp. Gules, both born by HatteclifF.
'* Or, three lions pafTant in pale Sable.
1652J
ADDINGTON. 9
1652; a large marble urn, and an infcribed tablet to the memory of
Barlow Trecothick, Efq. late alderman of London, who died in 1 775 ;
and a monument of white marble againft the fouth wall, to the me-
mory of his firft wife, Mrs. Grizell Trecothick.
In bifhop Fox's Regifter '', at Winchefter, is the will of John
Att Lee, or at Legh ; who diredts his body to be buried in Addington
church, in the fepulture of his father, John at Legh. He bequeaths to
the high altar for his tithes forgotten, twelve-pence; to our Lady altar,
fixpence; to St. Katharine altar, fixpence; to the altar of Cofrae
and Damiane ^*, fixpence; to every of his God-children within the
parifti of Addington, one ewe fheep; the refidue of his effeds, he
bequeaths to his coufin Nicholas at Legh. The will bears date 15 1 1.
I imagine, that this John was fon of John Legh, who died in 1509;
whofe tomb is at the upper end of the chancel, and that his coufm
Nicholas is the perfon who obtained the grant of pofleffions in Ad-
dington, from Henry the Eighth.
The church of Addington is dedicated to St. Mary ; the benefice Reftory and
vicarage
is a Vicarage in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of
Ewell. The great tithes are impropriated to the lord of the manor.
The re£tory formerly belonged to the monaftery of St. Mary Overie,
being the gift of Bartholemew de Kaifnet ", the fame perfon, I
apprehend, whofe daughter William Aguillon married. There was
a chapel annexed, called the chapel of All-Saints; the patronage of
which, belonged to Reginald de Edintone, the lord probably of the
other manor: this chapel was likewife granted to the monaftery.
There is a tradition in the village to this day, that formerly there
were two churches, to which the above fadl probably gave rife;
though the chapel here mentioned, was moft likely a chantry adjoin-
'5 Regift. Winton. Fox, p. 3. f. 61. b. church was built in honour of them at Rome.
'* Cofmas and Damianus were Arabians by Aurea Legenda Sanftorum. Leg. 138.
birth ; they were coufin-germans, and fufFered 37 Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 340.
martyrdom under the Emperor Diodefian. A
Vol. L C ing
10
ADDINGTON.
Pari(h regif-
ter.
Comparative
State of popu-
lation.
Plague years.
Benefaflions.
ing to the church. The redory, at the diflblution of monafterles,
came into the pofleffion of the Leighs, and has defcended with the
manor. The church was taxed in 1291 ^\ at twelve marks. The
vicar formerly had half of the fmall tithes of Aguillon's manor ^',
and he had the 20th of flieaves belonging to the manor of St. Mary
Overie; but he received nothing from the ancient manor of the
Templars, nor from the twelve acres, for which the monaftery of
St. Mary Overie kept a lamp in the church. The prefent vicar
is George Edmonftone, A. M. The vicarage is in the patro-
nage of James Trecothick, Efq. It is rated in the king's books, at
4I. i6s. 5 1 d.
The earlieft date of the parifli regifler, is 1559.
Average of births. Average of burial's.
1580*° — 1589 _ 4 — 3
1780 1789 7 4
The regifter towards the latter end of the laft century, was too
imperfecft to form an average. There are now twenty-two
houfes in the parifti.
In 1603, there were only two burials ; in 1625, eight; in 1665,
no burials are entered.
The parifh of Addington receives 1 1. per annum out of the be-
nefadlions of Henry Smith, Efq. Thomas Purdy, who died in 1646,
and is buried in the belfry, left twenty fhillings per annum towards
the repairs of the fteeple.
'* This taxation was made at the time that
Pope Nicholas IV. granted a tenth of all ec-
clefiaftical revenues to the king, to defray the
expences of the holy war. A record of this
taxation is preferved in the Exchequer ; ano-
ther copy is in the Bodleian Library, and is
often referred to by the title of the Bodleian
Valor. The valuation of ecclefiaftical revenues
was the fame in moil inftances in 1406, when
the clergy of the province of Canterbury
2
granted a tenth to the king. Vide Regift.
Winton, at the beginning of Beaufort's Re-
gifler. The valuation in the king's books was
made in 1534-
" Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. FaufHna,
A. viii. f. 234.
*° An average of ten years in each century,
is given in every parilh to (how the compara-
tive ftate of population.
[ " ]
BARNES,
np H E parlfh of Barnes lies in the hundred of Brixton ; It is
fituated near the Thames, at the diftance of fix miles from
Hyde Park Corner; and is bounded on the north by the river; Boundaries
and name.
on the weft, by the parilh of Mortlake ; and on the eaft and louth,
by that of Putney. In the Conqueror's Survey, it is called
Berne ; (which, in the Saxon language, fignifies a barn ;) and it is
faid to contain fix carucates of land. The parifh now contains
about nine hundred acres, of which nearly two-thirds are arable,
including garden ground. The common adjoining to the parifh
of Putney, is fuppofed to contain about one hundred and fifty acres ;
near the river is fome very rich meadow land ; the foil of the com-
mon is gravel. The amount of the land tax for this parifh, is
317 1. 5 s. lod. which is fuppofed to be at the rate of two fhillings
in the pound.
The manor of Barnes, or Barn-elms, was given to the canons of
St. Paul's, by king Athelftan ' ; and except the temporary aliena-
tion of their property, during the government of the common-
wealth, it has continued in their pofTefTion ever fince. It was valued
in the time of Edward the ConfelTor, at 61. In the Conqueror's
time, at 7I. In 129 1 % it was taxed at 12I. The manor was for-
merly let by the dean and chapter, upon long leafes. In 1467,
Sir John Saye and others' were joint lefTees; in 1480, it was in the
' Dugdale's Hillory of St. Paul's Cathe- ^ See note ^^ in the preceding page,
dral, p. 5. 3 Lambeth Regifters, Bouchier, f. 98. b.
C 2 tenure
12
B
R N
Sir Francis
Walfingham.
Queen Eliza-
beth's vifit.
tenure of Thomas Thwayte ', chancellor of the exchequer ; after
which, it was held for half a century by the Wyats *. Thomas
Smyth ', Efq. bought the remainder of Sir Henry Wyat's leafe ; he
was in poflefTion of it in 1567, foon after which, Sir Francis Wal-
fingham came to live at Barn-elms, having chofen it for a place
of retirement from the fatigues of ftate; he probably purchafed
Smyth's intereft in the leafe. His daughter Mary was buried at
Barnes, in 1579.
In 1589, Sir Francis Walfingham entertained queen Elizabeth
at Barn-elms, and, as was ufual in all her majefty's vifits,
her whole court. Lord Talbot, in a letter to his father, the Earl
of Shrewfbury, fays, " This daye her ma'" goethe to Barn-ellmes,
*' where flie is purpofed to tary all day, to-morrow being Tewfday,
•' and on Wednefday, to return to Whytehall agayne. I am ap-
poynted among the reft to attende her ma'"" to Barn-ellmes. I
pray God my diligent attendance there, may procure me a gra-
" cious aunfwere in my fuite at her return ; for whilft fhe is ther, no-
*' thinge may be moved but matter of delyghte, and to content her j
*' which is the only caufe of her going thither *." — May 26, 1589.
Previoufly to this vifit, the queen had taken a leafe of the manor
of Barn-elms, which was to commence after the expiration of Sir
Henry Wyat's, in 1600. Her intereft in this leafe {he granted by
letters patent ', bearing date the twenty-firft year of her reign, to
Sir Francis Walfingham and his heirs.
Sir Francis Walfingham died in 1590, at his houfe in Seethlng-
lane ', fo poor, it is faid ', that his friends were obliged to bury him
late at night, in the moft private manner; in confirmation of which
((
<(
^ Lamb. Reg. Bouchier, f. 124. b.
•* Wyat's term commenced I ft March,
19 Hen. VII. (1504) ; it was for 96 years.
Chapter-book, St. Paul's (Shirburne, Dean).
' Lamb. Reg. Parker, fo. 384. a.
* Lodge's Shrewfbury Papers, vol. ii. p.
396. The editors of the Biographia men-
tion this vifit, and refer to original letters in
their own poffeffion.
' Pat. 21 Eliz. p. 8. Feb. 23.
* Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 760.
» Camden's Annals, p. 621. 8vo. 1717.
faa,
BARNES. 13
fa£t, no certificate of his funeral appears to have been entered at
the Heralds'-college, as was ufuaJ when any perfon of confequence
was interred in a manner fuitable to his rank.
Sir Francis's only furviving daughter had the fingular good for-
tune of being wife to three of the moft accomplifhed men of the
age, Sir Philip Sydney, the Earl of Effex, and the Earl of Clan-
rickard : her fecond hufband, fo well known and fo much pitied for
his misfortunes, refided frequently at Barn- elms; which, after the
death of Sir Francis Walfingham, was called one of his houfes.
" Some think," fays Rowland White, writing to Sir Robert Syd-
ney '°, " that the Earl of Eflex fhall have the liberty of his houfes at
" London and Barnelmes, and that he fliall have his friends come to
" him." June 11, 1600.
Lady Walfmgham " died at Barn-elms, June 19th, 1602, and was
buried the next night privately, near her hufband, in St. Paul's
cathedral; according to Stow's account in his Annals.
In 1639, the dean and chapter leafed the manerial eftate for twenty-
one years, to John Cartwright. When the church lands were ex-
pofed to fale by parliament, the eftate was purchafed by Mr.
Cartwright", and the manor by Richard Shute, Efq. of London;
the reftoration put the dean and chapter in pofleflion of their pro-
perty again, and the Cartwrights continued to be leflees till the middle
of the prefent century ; when the eftate was purchafed by Richard
Hoare, Efq. father of the late Sir Richard Hoare, Bart, whofe
widow now holds it under the dean and chapter. The dean and
chapter of St. Paul's formerly paid a fparrow-hawk yearly; or in lieu
thereof, two (hillings to the archbifhop of Canterbury, as lord of the
'° Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 201. only fens were blown up with gunpowder.
See likewife vol. ii. p. 50. & p. 120. foon after her marriage with Sir Francis
" Lady Walfmgham was Urfula daughter Walfingham. Baronetage, 17AI. vol. i.
of Henry St. Barbe, of Somerfetftiire, and p. 191.
widow of Sir Richard Worfley. Her two '* Archives, St. Paul's.
manor
>4
BARNES.
manor of Wimbledon, to be exempted from ferving the office
of reeve or provoft within that manor '\
Anecdote of Before Mr. Hoare purchafed the eftate, Heydegger, mafter of
ey egger. ^^^ revels, was for fome time the tenant of the houfe, of whom
the following ftory is told : — The late king gave him notice, that
he would fup with him one evening, and that he fhould come from
Richmond by water. It was Heydegger's profeffion to invent novel
amufements; and he was refolved to furprife his majefty with a
fpeclmen of his art. The king's attendants, who were in the fecret,
contrived that he fhould not arrive at Barn-elms before night, and
it was with fome difficulty, that he found his way up the avenue
which led to the houfe. When he came to the door, all
was dark ; and he began to be very angry, that Heydegger,
to whom he had given notice of his intended vifit, fliould-be fo
ill prepared for his reception. Heydegger fuffered his majefty to
vent his anger, and affi^dled to make fome awkward apologies,
when, in an inftant, the houfe and avenues were in a blaze of
light, a great number of lamps having been fo difpofed, as to
communicate with each other, and to be lit at the fame inftant.
The king laughed heartily at the device, and went away much
pleafed with his entertainment.
The manor houfe '* is pleafantly fituated in a paddock, at a fmall
diftance from the Thames. It was modernized and confiderably
" Pat. Rolls, lo Hen. IV. p. i.m. 19. newfpaper, of a very early date :
There are other records in the Tower, relating " Barn-elras houfe in Surry, with orchards,
to the manor of Barnes, fome granting certain gardens, coach-houfes, ftable, grazing for a
J rivileges and exemptions ; de providentiis re- couple of geldings or cows, fpring water
giis non faciendis. Pat. 7 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 15 brought to the houfe in leaden pipes, p'.eafant
& 27. & 8 Edw. II. p. 1. m. 15. Another is a walks by the Thames fide, and other accom-
mandate of the king's, forbidding, that the modations, is to be let, or otherwife may bedi-
manor of Barnes, given by his anceftors for vided into two convenient dwellings, with gar-
the fupport and ftipend of the canons of den, orchard, and water to each of them. En-
St. Paul's, (hould be converted to any other quire farther of Mr. Edward Marftiall, a ftone
ufe. CI. II Edw. II. m. 14. cutter, living in Fetter-lane." Mercurius Po-
'* Barn-elms houfe was thus advertifed in a liticus. May 5, 1659.
enlarged
BARNES. 15
enlarged by the late Sir Richard Hoare, Bart, in the year 1771.
The wings were then added. In the dining parlour and drawing
room are fome good pidures, particularly two large landfcapes, by
Gafpar Pouflin, which are much admired. The pleafure grounds
have all the advantages of retirement, without being neceflarily
immured within lofty walls. They were laid out with much tafte,
when the houfe was improved. Barn-elms is now the refidence of
lady Hoare, relidt of the late Sir Richard. Adjoining to the manfion,
is a houfe which belonged to Tonfon the bookfeller, at the time that he
was Secretary to the Kit-Kat Club. Here he built a room for their Kit-KatClub.
reception, and here they held their meetings. The room was
ornamented with portraits of the members, painted by Sir Godfrey
Kneller, which have been engraved in mezzotinto.
I cannot quit the fubje£t of Barn-elms, without mentioning, that
it was the temporary refidence of Cowley the poet. The author of Abraham
his life attributes to it a character, which it does not at prefent
appear to deferve, and afcribes to the unhealthinefs of the fituation,
the diforder which brought him to his grave. " Out of hafte,"
fays he, '' to be gone out of the tumult and noife of the city, he
had not prepared fo heathful a fituation as he might have done,
if he had made a more leifurable choice : of this he foon began
to find the inconvenience at Barn-elms, where he was affli£led with
a dangerous and lingering fever '\" He afterwards removed to
Chertfey, where he died.
Hughes wrote a fhort poem, entitled Barn-elms, which is printed
in his works ; it contains nothing defcriptive or interefting.
The church of Barnes is about half a mile from the river ; it is The church.
dedicated to St. Mary, and is one of the moft ancient ftrudlures in
the neighbourhood of the metropolis. About the time of Richard
the Firft, an hofpital was founded " within the liberties of St. Paul's
"• Spratt's Life of Cowley, prefixed to his " Dugdale's Hillory of St. Paul's Cathe-
Works, in folio, p. 23. dral, p. 19.
cathedral,
i6 BARNES.
cathedral, by Henry de Northampton, one of the canons of
that cathedral : to this hofpital the dean and chapter gave the
church of Barnes, with the glebe and tythes. As there is no men-
tion of a church in the Conqueror's Survey, it is probable that it
was firft built about this time. The windows in the north wall of
the chancel, are of the architedure of that period, narrow and
pointed. The windows in the fouth wall, and in the nave, arc of a
later date. The walls are built chiefly of ftone and flint; there
is no window at the eaft end, but on the outfide are very
evident marks of three narrow windows, which have been flop-
ped up. The tower is fquare, with buttrefl'es; it is built of brick,
and has a flair- cafe and turret at the fouth-eafl corner. The
quoins are of a foft flone, much crumbled ; the windows are fquare
and plain. It was ereded probably about the latter end of the
fifteenth century, if not much later. The church was confider-
ably enlarged on the north fide in the years 1786 and 1787.
Monuments. Againfl the north wall of the chancel, is a fmall tablet, to the
memory of Sir Thomas Powell, Bart, of Byrkhead, in Chefhire,
who died An. 1647, ^^ the houfe of his filler Mary, widow of
Richard Cartwright, of Barn- elms. Over the tablet are the arms
of Powell : Sable, three rofes Argent, with the arms of Ulfter.
On the fame wall is a tablet, to the memory of a former redlor of
the church J the infcription is lingular:
" Merentiflimo Conjugi
" Conjux Moerentiflima.
" To the bell of hulbands, John Squier, the late faithful and
*' (oh ! that for fo fhort a time) painful rector of this parifh ;
*' the only fon to that moll flrenuous propugnator of pietie
*' and loyaltie (both by preaching and fulFering), John
" Squier, fometime vicar of St. Leonard, Shorditch, near
" London. Grace Lynch, who bare unto him one only
" daughter.
h\^^<K'5f''> ^^&M
t\Dk fr'fliiff 2:uftu|fliftpa Urn a^ g ^g^ft)?
Mm m foam fB QiioH fgjJiiit^jjcoroTas^a
Tomb of 'VMlliani ^MiUeboxaue in Barnes Church
/tM.^/.w Af.letJmtv^bnA x^tfi ^Ti'.t.tfii.Som4.
BARNES. 17
" daughter, confecrates this (fuch as it is) fmall monument of
" their mutual afFedion.
" He was invefted with this care, An. 1660, Sept. 2.
" He was divefted of all care, An. 1662, Jan. 9. Aged 42 years."
Over the tablet are the arms of Squier : Sable, three fwans heads
Proper.
Upon a flab, near the communion table, before the chancel was ^
new floored, was a figure in brafs of William Millebourn, Efq. who
died. An. 1415. He was reprefented in plated armour, with a clofe
oval helmet, having a dagger on his right, and a long fword on
his left fide.
Aubrey defcribes a brafs plate on the north fide of the altar, with
the figure of a prieft, and the word Ofanna over him, on each
fide, and underneath him : — there was an infcription under it to
the memory of a former rector, Nicholas Clarke, who died
March 28th, 1480.
Againft the north wall of the church, near lady Hoare's gallery,
is a monument of white marble, for the late Sir Richard Hoare, Bart,
by Hickey; above the infcribed tablet, is a female figure reclining
on an urn, and fupporting a medallion of Sir Richard. At the bafe
of the monument, are the arms of Hoare impaling Ackland '\
On the outfide of the church, in the fouth wall, is fixed a fmall tab-
let of flone between two of the buttrefles, to the memory of Edward
Rofe, citizen of London, who died in July 1653. The fpace be-
tween the buttrefl'es, is inclofed with wooden pales, and fome rofe
trees are planted againfl: the wall on each fide of the tablet. This Mr. Rofe's
was done in purfuance of the will '* of the deceafed, who left the fadiion.
'' Hoare bears Sab. an eagle difplayed Arg. a fefle Gules,
with two necks within a border engrailed .Arg. '' The extraft of Mr. Rofe's will is in the
and quarters .Arg. on a chevron engrailed Gules, Minute Book of the veftryof Barnes ; theori-
3 efcallops Or ; in chief, a lion partant. Vert, ginal is in the prerogative court at Canterbury,
for Tuliy. Ackland bears cheeky Sab. and It was proved at Weftroinfter. Aug. 26, 1653.
Vol. I. D fum
i8 BARNES.
fum of 2ol. to the poor of the parifli of Barnes; which fum was
direded to be laid out in the purchafe of an acre of land, for the
benefit of the faid poor ; but the churchwardens M'ere enjoined, out
of the profits of this acre, to, keep the above-mentioned wooden
pales. in conftant repair, to preferve the rofe trees; and whenever they
fhould decay, to fupply their place with others. This man made
an Innocent attempt at leaft to perpetuate his name, and it appears to
have been an effeftual one, for his will has been punctually complied
with; the pales are ftill in good repair, and the rofe trees are
healthy and flourifhing, the clerk of the parifh receiving a fmall
annual falary for taking care of them. It was formerly only an oc-
cafional fervice, as it appears by the parifli accounts :
1688, paid for cleaning Mr. Rofe's tomb - 010
April 6, 1693, paid for nailing the rofe tree — 010
1695, paid Cutle
hurtling the trees
April I, 1695, paid Cutler for nailing the rofe, and 7
The acre of land having been advantageoufly exchanged, now
produces 5I. per annum. Barnes alfo, In common with the other
parifhes in Surry, enjoys a benefadion under the will of Mr.
Henry Smith, and fome other trifling donations.
In 1778, a new workhoufe was built on the common, at the
extremity of the parifh, upon a large fcale, at the expence of near
a thoufand pounds ; the money was raifed by annuities. The annui-
tants were five in number ; they were all fixty years of age, and are
ftill living.
Reftory. The church of Barnes, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is one
of the archbifliop of Canterbury's peculiars. The benefice was
originally a vicarage; in archbifliop Courtney's time, it was en-
dowed by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, with the great tithes.
An. 1388; and John Lenne, or Lynne, the vicar, was inftituted to
the
BARNES. 19
the new redory ". The prefentation has always been in the dean
and chapter, except when they leafed the advowfon with the manor,
which they did to the Sayes ", to Thwayte ", the chancellor of the
exchequer, and to the Wyats ". Queen Elizabeth '^ prefented to it
in 1590, by lapfe. Since the expiration of Wyat's leafe, the dean
and chapter have kept the prefentation in their own hands. Walter
de Hertilande '^* is the firft vicar upon record ; he was prefented by
the dean and chapter in May 1282.
It was prefented at the inqulfition at Kingfton, June 28, 1658,
before the commiflioners appointed by parliament to inquire into the
ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that Barnes was a rectory in the gift
of Richard Shute, Efq. of London; and that Mr. Robert Lenthall,
who was the prefent minifter, came in by the keepers of the liberty
of England, and by the authority of parliament*'.
The church of Barnes was taxed in 1291 '*, at thirty-one marks
and a half; it is rated in the king's books at 9I. 3s. 4d.
Hezekiah Burton was prefented to the re£lory of Barnes, 0£t. Reftors of
Barnes.
19th, 1680 " ; he had been chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman, the Hezekiah
lord keeper, by whofe intereft he got a canonry of Norwich ; he died
at Barnes in 1681, of a malignant fever, which carried off feveral of his
family. After his death, archbifhop Tillotfon publifhed his fermons,
in two volumes odlavo ; to which he prefixed a fhort biographical
preface, wherein he laments that Mr. Burton was taken off in
the prime of his life, when he was capable of doing, and likely to
do a great deal of good in the world. There is a print of him by
White, prefixed to his fermons. He never publifhed any thing in
*' Lambeth Regifter, Morton, Eourchier ** Reg. Peckham, f. 52. b.
Dean, & Courtney, f. 203. b. *' Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth Li-
*'^ Reg. Bourchier, f. 98. b. brary.
"' Ibid. f. 124. b. " Sec note 37. p. 10.
" Ibid. f. 331. b. f. 352. a. &c. &c. *' Reg. Sancroft, f. 388. b.
'-' Reg. Whitgift, pt. i. f. 489. a.
* D 2 his
20 BARNES.
his life-time, except a preface to Dr. Cumberland's book on the Laws
of Nature.
Francis Francis Hare, whofe name is well known in the learned world,
of chichef- ^^s inftituted to the redory of Barnes, Sept. 3, 1717 '\ which he
^"' held ten years. He was bred at Eton, from whence he removed to
King's College, Cambridge, where he was tutor to the marquis of
Blandford, fon to the great duke of Marlborough ". His pupil died
at college, and was buried in the chapel, and Hare wrote his
epitaph. Dr. Hare became fucceffively dean of Worcefter, and
bifliop of St. Afaph '" and of Chichefter ; he was engaged in con-
jundlion with Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Snape, and bifliop Potter, in what
was called the Bangorian Controverfy, with Hoadly, then bilhop
of Bangor : befides the pamphlets publilhed in that controverfy, he
was author of many learned works, which were colleded together
after his death, and publiflied in four volumes, o<^avo. The moft
diftinguiflied of his works are, an edition of Terence ; the book of
Pfalms in Hebrew, put into the original poetical metre, with annota-
tions ; and a fmall tradl, entitled, " The Difficulties and Difcourage-
ments which attend the Study of the Scriptures." To this laft pub-
lication his name was not prefixed ; it made a great noife at the time,
and drew down the cenfures of the convocation. It was of an
ironical nature, and was intended as a defence of Dr. Clarke, and
Mr. Whifton. Bilhop Hare died in 1740.
The prefent incumbent of Barnes is the Right Rev. Chriftopher
Wilfon, bilhop of Briftol, and canon refidentiary of St. Paul's.
Parifh reglf- The regifter of this parifh commences in 1538, the aera of their
firft eftablifhment by Lord Cromwell.
*' Lambeth Regifter, Wake, pt. I. f. 301. 2° He was promoted to the bifliopric of
a. b. St. Afaph in 1727, and tranflated to Cbichef-
*" Biographia Brit. Supplement, p. 101, ter in 1731.
102.
1600
ler
BARNES. 21
Average of Births. Average of Barials. Comparative
tr /■ ct ftateofpopu-
1600 — 1609 . 8 - - 7 lation. ^
1680 1689 - 17 - - 23
1780 1789 - 28 - - 34
The entries during the fixteenth century were too imperfe£t to
enable me to form an average. It appears by the above ftatement, that
the increafe of population has not been proportionably great during
the laft century, notwithftanding feveral houfes have been built on
the terrace, which, being pleafantly fituated on the banks of the river,
is fo much reforted to by families who want an occafional fummer
retreat, that, during that feafon, it has the appearance of a public
watering place.
The prefent number of houfes in the parifli of Barnes is 150.
The village being at that time very retired, and no thorough-
fare, it probably efcaped the very fatal plague in 1 603 ; in that year Plague of
there are only five entries of burials, two of which are the following : ' °^'
" Mr. Egerton, the ladie Marie's gentleman ufher, buried
" Aug. 6, 1603."
" The ladie Marie's chambermaid, buried Sept. ig, 1603."
It feems probable, by thefe entries, that the lady Mary, an infant The lady
daughter of James the Firft, was fent to Barnes to be out of the
way of the ficknefs ; but this does not agree with the accounts of
our hiftorians, who do not bring her out of Scotland till after this
period. Lady Walfingham was fent to Scotland to bring up fome
of the king's children in 1603, and returned, about the beginning of
July, with prince Henry and the princefs Elizabeth ". It was then
cuftomary for fome of the nobility, or great people about the court,
(if one may ufe the expreffion,) to farm the royal children; that
" Baker's Chronicle, pt. 4. p. 123. If Sir Thomas, who died 1630. King James
Stow's account of the death of Sir Francis granted a penfion of 400 1. per annum, to lady
WalfiDgham's widow be accurate, I apprehend Walfingham, in the beginning of his reign,
this kdy Walfingham muft have been wife of MS. of Sir Julius Casfar. Brit. Muf. 4160.
.Ayfcough's
22 BARNES.
is, they difcharged the expences of their board and education by
contra£t. The lady Mary died at lord Knevett's, at Stanwell, in
1607; and the lady Elizabeth was educated at lord Harrington's".
Whether the keeper of the regifter has miftaken the name, or
•whether the annalifts have miftaken it; one of the princefles was
moft probably under the care of fome of the Walfingham family
at Barn-elms, in 1603.
Plague of In 1625 there are entries of thirty-feven burials, a number
and i'655. ' much exceeding the average of that period;' four perfons are men-
tioned to have died of the plague in 1630. In 1665 ^^'^ 1666,
it was not fo fatal here as at fome of the neighbouring villages ; the
number of burials in the former year were twenty-feven ; during
the two years, nineteen of the burials have a private mark, which
I apprehend was intended to point out thofe who fell a vidim to this
fatal malady, — a fmall number when compared with its ravages in
the neighbouring villages.
Befides the above notes extraded from the parifh regifter, I found
the following entries, relating to perfons whofe hiftory is in fome
degree fingular and curious :
Robert Beale. « Robert Beale, counfellor of the north, and dark of the privy
" council, departed out of this life, on Monday, at eight of the
*' clock at night, being the 25th of May, and is buried in London,
" 1601."
This Beale married the fifter of Sir Francis Walfmgham's lady,
by whofe intereft he found an eafy introdudion to court. He was
much in the confidence of the queen, who frequently employed him
in her negotiations with Mary queen of Scots, and made choice "
Ayfcough'sCat. Rowland White, writing to Sir died 1630, was fon of another Sir Thomas,
Robert Sidney, An. 1591, fays, " My lady firft coufin of Sir Francis.
Walfingham, I mean the old lady," by '' Lodge's Shrewlbury Papers, vol. iii.
which it appears, that there were two ladies of p. Z03, and 324.
thatnamecontemporaries. Sidney State Papers, ^^ Camden's Annals, 8vo. 1717, p. 515.
V. ii. p. 131. Sir Thomas Walfingham, who
of
BARNES. 23
of him, In conjundion with lord Buckhurft, to make known to
her the fentence of the court. Beale was afterwards fent to Fother-
ingay, with the warrant for beheading that unfortunate queen ".
He read the fatal inflrument upon the fcafFold, and was a wit-
nefs to its execution. He was employed on an embaffy to Zealand,
with Sir William Winter, in 1576 " ; and the year before his death,
was one of the commifTioners at the treaty of Bologne ^\ Several
of his letters upon the bufinefs of the queen of Scots, are printed
in Lodge's Shrewfbury Papers. Mr. Lodge, not aware that Beale
died two years before his miftrefs, fuppofes that he was difcarded
by her fuccefTor. Camden " calls him a man of a uioft impetuous
and morofe difpofition. His daughter married Sir Henry Yelverton.
" Aug. 23, 1672, buried Mr. Hiam."
The right name of this man was Abiezer Coppe^'j he was born Abiczer
at Warwick, in 161 9, and was a poft-mafter of Merton college, °^'^'
Oxford. After having been by turns, Prefbyterian and Anabaptift,
he became one of the wildeft enthufiafts of that fanatical age. He
publifhed feveral pamphlets with ftrange titles, and as ftrange con-
tents: one of them is dated London, 1648, "two or three days
" before the eternal God thundered at Great St. Helens." In 1650,
he was committed to Newgate for publifliing a book, called " The
fiery flying RolP'." A copy of this book, which was burnt by
the hangman in London, Weftminfter, and Coventry, is preferved
amongft the colledlion of pamphlets in the Britifh Mufeum, and
perhaps it would be in vain to look for it elfewhere ; it abounds with
very extravagant flights, and fhocking blafphemies j but the author
appears to have been a much better fubjed for Bedlam than New-
'♦ Camden's Annals, 8vo. 1717, p. 536. " A. Wood, vol. ii. p. 500—502.
" Ibid, p, 304. " Perfea Diurnal, Jan. 14, 1649.
'* Vol. ii. p. 262. 273.
" P. 394- " Vehementum et auftere acer-
bum."
gate;
24 BARNES.
gate; he had the fenfe, however, after having remained in prifon
more than a year, to publifh a recantation called " The Wings of the
fiery flying Roll clipped ; or, Coppe's Return to the Ways of Truth :"
which is to be found in the fame colle£lion. In Sept. 1650 *°, he was
brought before the Houfe of Commons, but it was fome time before
he procured his liberty ; when, being unwilling to expofe himfelf
again to danger, and alarmed probably at the fevere punilhment of
his brother enthufiaft, James Naylor, he changed *' his name to
Higham, and went to refide at Barn-elms, where he pradlifed as
a phyfician till his death, preaching likewife occafionally in fome
of the neighbouring conventicles.
" June 10, 1697, Mrs. Ann Baynard buried."
Ballard *\ in his Memoirs of learned Ladies, beflows twelve
pages on the chara£ter of Anne Baynard ; this character is, for the
moft part, taken from her funeral fermon*' preached at Barnes,
by John Prade, A.M. June 16, 1697. He tells us, that fhe was
fo fond of the ftudy of divinity, that fhe learned Greek to read
St. Chryfoftom in the original ; befides which, fhe had numberlefs
other accomplifhments, on which, as fhe poflelTed them in com-
mon with many young ladies, both of that and of the prefent
age, I fhall not enlarge : there is not now the leaft trace of her
monument, which was at the eaft end of the church-yard.
The infcrlption is copied from Aubrey :
" Here lies that happy maiden, who often faid,
" That no man is happy until he is dead ;
" That the bufmefs of life is but playing the fool,
" Which hath no relation to faving the foul :
*° Several Proceedings in Parliament, Oft. Hiftorical Diftionary, 1744. vol. iii. p. 288.
3, 1650, and Perfeft Paflages, fame date. 290.
41 A.Wood. *' Itwaspubliftiedin 4to. 1697.
** P. 349 — 361. See likewife Collier's Great
« For
:r the fun, i
lot done, >
lie in this one. J
BARN
*' For all the tranfadion that's under the fun,
*' Is doing of nothing — if that be not
" All wifdom and knowledge does li
" Anne Baynard obiit
" June 12. An. setat. fuse 25. Chrifti
" 1697.
" O mortales! quotufquifque veftrum cogitet ex hoc momento
" pendet seternitas."
25
Vol. I.
[ 26 ]
T
BAT TERSE A.
H E parifh of Batterfea lies in the hundred of Brixton,
and is fituated near the river Thames, about three miles
from Weftminfter-Bridge. The name has undergone feveral changes.
Etymology. In the Conqueror's Survey, it is called Patricefy ; and has fmce been
written Battrichfey, Batterfey, and Batterfea, each variation carry-
ing it ftill farther from its original fignification. Much vague con-
jecture has been beftowed upon the etymology of this name, both
by thofe who have feen the more ancient records, and thofe
who have attempted to derive it from the more recent mode of
fpelling it. Aubrey derives the name from St. Patrick '. Lambarde,
who quotes Leland for his authority, (though I have not been able
to find any thing on the fubjedl in his printed works,) indulges in the
moft ridiculous conjedures \ Of the original fignification of the
word, I think there can be little doubt. Patricefy, in the Saxon, is
Peter's water, or river ; and as the fame record which calls it Patricefy,
mentions that it was given to St. Peter, it might then firft afTume that
appellation ; but this I own to be conjedture. Peterfham, which is
written precifely the fame in Doomfday, Patriceham, belonged to St.
* Vol.i. p. 135. Aubrey was mifled by fee- ing houfe of the archbifliops of York. Topo-
ing it written Patricefy, inftead of Petricefy, in graphical Diftionary, p. 48. To confute fo
Doomfday; but the Normans were not very abfurd an etymology, it is fcarcely neceflary to
accurate fpellers. Peterfham was written in the fay, that the archbiihops of York had no pro -
fame manner with an a. perty in Batterfea till the reign of Edward. IV.
* Batterfey, fays he, quafi Boterfey; becaufe
it was near the waterfide, and was the remov-
Peter's
BATTERSEA. 27
Peter's Abbey, Chertfey, and retains it's original name a little
modernifed.
The parifh of Batterfea is bounded on the eaft by Lambeth ; on Boundary
the fouth by Camberwell, Stretham, and Clapham ; on the weft by
Wandfworth ; and on the north by the river Thames. The land is
pretty equally divided between arable (garden ground included) and
pafture. The greater part of Wandrworth common, which extends
nearly two miles in length towards Stretham, and a confiderable part
of Clapham common are in the parifh of Batterfea. The northern
extremity of the latter, is called Batterfea-Rife ; and is ornamented Batterfea
with feveral villas, it being a fpot much admired for its pleafant fitu-
ation, and fine profpe£t. Penge common, in a detached part of the
parifh adjoining to Beckenham in Kent, is two miles in circum-
ference. The parifh is rated to the land-tax, at thefum of 817I. los.
which is fuppofed to be about is. 9 d. in the pound.
Above three hundred acres of land in the parifh of Batterfea are
occupied by the market gardeners, of whom there are about twenty Market gar-
who rent from five or fix, to near fixty acres each. Thefe gardeners
employ, in the fummer feafon, a confiderable number of labourers,
though perhaps not fo many as is generally fuppofed ; on an average,
I am informed, not one to an acre. The wages of the men are
from ten to twelve, of the women from five to feven fhillings, by the
week. Moft of the women travel on foot from Shropfhire and
North-Wales in the fpring ; and, as they live at a very cheap rate %
many of them return to their own country much richer than when
they left it. The foil of the ground occupied by the gardeners
is fandy, and requires a great deal of rain. The vegetables
which they raife, are in general very fine; their cabbages and afpa-
^ 1 am credibly informed, that many of that their diet confills in a great meafure of
them live upon IS. 6d. per week. To account the produce of the gardens, which they have
for which, it will be neceffary to obferve, gratis.
E 2 ragus,
28 B A T T E R S E A.
ragus, particularly, have acquired celebrity. Fuller, who wrote in
the year 1660, fpeaking of the gardens in Surrey, fays, " Garden-
" ing was firft brought into England for profit, about feventy years
" ago; before which we fetched moft of our cherries from Holland,
" apples from France, and had hardly a mefs of rath ripe peas but
" from Holland, which were dainties for ladies, they came fo far, and
" coft fo dear. Since gardening hath crept out of Holland, to Sand-
" wich, Kent, and thence to Surrey, where, though they have given
" 61. an acre and upwards, they have made their rent, lived com-
" fortably, and fet many people on work. Oh, the incredible profit
" by digging of ground ! for though it be confefled, that the plough
" beats the fpade out of diftance for fpeed, (almoft as much as the
" prefs beats the pen,) yet what the fpade wants in the quantity of
*' the ground it manureth, it recompenfeth with theplenty of the food
" it yieldeth, that which is fet multiplying a hundred fold more than
" that which is fown. 'Tis incredible how many poor people in London
" live thereon, fo that, in fome feafons, the gardens feed more people
" than the field *." I hope to have it in my power, before the con-
clufion of the prefent work, to give a general view of the
prefent ftate of gardening in the neighbourhood of London, and to
afcertain, pretty nearly, what quantity of ground is occupied for that
purpofe. The rent of land in Fuller's time, appears to have
been extremely high. The gardens at Batterfea pay 7s. 6d. an
acre for tithes to their vicar.
Manor. The manor of Batterfea, which before the Gonqueft belonged
to earl Harold, was given by the Conqueror to Weftminfter-
Abbey, in exchange for Windfor. The record of Doomfday
mentions fome difmemberments of the manor, by the bifhop of
Baieux and earl Morton. Thefe lands probably formed the eftate
which afterwards came to the Stanleys. There is a hide of land
♦ Fuller's Worthies, pt. 3. p. 77.
likewife
BATTERSEA.
likewife mentioned, which belonged to the Abbey of Chertfey, of
which a fingular circumftance is recorded ; that, on account of fome
quarrel, the provoft of the village' detached it from the manor of
Batterfea, and threw it into that of Chertfey. The manor was
valued in the Confeflbr's time at Sol. it afterwards funk in value to
30I. and at the time of the Survey was eftimated at 75 1. In the taxa-
tion of 1 29 1, the poffeffions of the Abbey of Weftminfter, in
Batterfea, were rated at 15I.* Thomas Aftle, Efq. has an original
deed of archbifhop Theobald, confirming a charter of king Stephen,
by which he exempts the greater part of this manor from all taxes
and fecular payments. Dart mentions feveral charters relating to
Batterfea'; viz. William the Conqueror's original grant; a charter of
privileges ; and a grant to the Abbot of Weftminfter, of liberty to
hunt in his manor; a charter of confirmation by Henry the Firft ; and
another of king Stephen ; befides that of privileges before-mentioned.
After the diifolution of monafteries, the manor was referved in
the hands of the crown ; a leafe of it was granted to Henry Roydon ",
Efq. by queen Elizabeth, for twenty-one years, in the eighth year
of her reign ; it was afterwards granted for the fame term to his
daughter, then Joan Holcroft' ; it was afligned, amongft others, for
the maintenance of prince Henry, An. 1610 '°. In the year 1627, ^^
was granted in reverfion to Oliver St. John, Vifcount Grandifon ".
Lord Grandifon died in 1630, and was fucceeded in that title, and
in the Batterfea eftate, by William Villiers, his great-nephew, who
died of a wound received at the fiege of Briftol, An. 1644. Sir
' Prsfeftus villrc. The proved, bailiff, or printed in the colledlion of Royal Eflablifli-
reeve. ments, by the Society of Antiquaries 1790,
® See note 38. p. ic. p. 315.
' Dart's Hill, of Weftminfter Abbey, vol. i. " Pat. 3 Car. i. pt. 34. May 5. The
p. 21. whole of the Jefcent of the manor of Batterfea,
Pat. 8 Ellz.pt. II. July 8. from this period, I owe to the information
29
' Pat 34 Eliz. pt. 15. Sept. 4. of earl Spencer's fteward.
'" Harleian MSB. Brit. Muf. 642. f. 239.
John
30 BATTERSEA.
John St. John, Bart, nephew of the firft lord Grandifon, inherited
Batterfea ; from him it pafled in a regular defcent to Sir Walter St.
John, Bart, his nephew; to Sir Walter's fon, Henry Vifcount St.
John ; and to his grandfon Henry Vifcount Bolingbrooke, who, by
an ad of parliament pafled before his father's death, was enabled
to inherit his eftate, notwithftanding his attainder: the eftate and
manor continued in the St. John family till 1763, when it was
bought in truft for John Vifcount Spencer, and is now the
property of the prefent earl Spencer.
A pedigree of the St. John family, from the time of their firft
fettling at Batterfea, explaining at one view the defcent of the
manor, which has been erroneoufly ftated in the peerage '\ is hereto
annexed.
Cuftomof In this manor lands defcend to the youngeft fon ; but in default of
the manor.
fons, they do not go to the youngeft daughter, but are divided
among the daughters equally.
The Stanley family had a confiderable eftate here, which was
alienated in the reign of Edward IV. by John Stanley, Efq. one
moiety thereof became the property of Anne, duchefs of Bucking-
ham '\ the king's aunt ; the other confifting of near 400 acres of
land, with houfes, &c. was purchafed by Lawrence Booth '*, then
bifhop of Durham, and by him annexed to the fee of York, of
which he was afterwards archbifhop. He is faid to have built the
Yorlc-houfe. houfe upon this eftate, near the water-fide, now called York-houfe ".
It was intended as a refidence for his fucceflTors, when their affairs
fhould call them to London; and fourfcore acres of lan3'were re-
ferved by a fpecial claufe in their farmer's leafe to be furrendered to
the archbifhop, to ufe as demefne lands at a month's notice, whenever
'* CoUins's Peerage, edit. 1756. Laur. Ep. Dunelm, &c.
'' Pat. II Edw. IV. pt. 2. m. 10. '^ Morris's Lives of eminent Cambridge
'♦ CI. 39 Hen. VI. m. 11 dorfo. Thomas Men. Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 1776. p. 12.
Dom. de Stanley, &c. ratif. ftatum and poflefs.
he
PED I GREE
I
Oliver St. John, Vifcount
the firft of the family who fettle
obtained a Grant of the Manoi
1630, without liTue.
I
Sir John St. John, Bart, became poflefled of
the Batterfea eftate by a Grant from his Nephew,
Wi LLi AM VifcountGRANDisoN. Ob. 1648.
Anne, Daugh-
ter of Sir Tho-
mas Leigh-
ton.
Oliver St.
JoHN.diedbe-
fore his Father.
Catharine,
Daughter of
Ho RATIO
Lord Verb,
William, kill-
ed at Ciren-
cefler under
Prince Rupert,
died without
IfTue.
John St. John, a Minor, inherited the
Batterfea eflates ; died before he came of
age, and was fucceeded by Sir Walter,
his Uncle.
Margaret,
Widow of Sir
Richard
Grub ham,
Knt. 2d. Wife.
Eleanor, Wife of
SirWiLLiAuST.
John, married
at Batterfea 161 1.
Sir William
was buried there,
1641.
Edward, flain at
the battle of
Newbury, died
without Iflue.
Nici
wit
Anne, Wife of
Sir Henry
Francis
Lee, Bart, and
fecondly
of He N R y
WiLMOT,Earl
of Rochefter.
I
Henry Vifcount
St. John, in-
herited the eftate
at Batterfea. Ob.
1742.
Mary, Daughter
and Coheir of
Robert Rich,
Earl of Warwick.
Angelica Magdaleine, Tj^~ ~
PiLLESARY, of the kingdor ^""'^ *' ^"°'-
, ° MONDELEY,
*~~ Efq.
Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke, attainted
An. 17 14; being enabled by Aft of Parliament,
pafled in 1725, to inherit notwith (landing his
attainder, fucceeded his father in the Batterfea
eftate, and died without IfTue in 1753.
Frances, Daugh-
ter and Co-heir
of Henry
Wi
Efq
NCHCOMB,
. Srft Wife.
ccJ" To front Page 30.
Mary Clara
desChamps de
Marcelly
Marchionefs
DE Villette,
fccond Wife.
RobertKnight,
afterwards Earl
of Cather-
lougb, in Ire-
land. I
luried at Batter-
l of the family
'ault there.
PEDIGREE of St. JOHN of BATTERSEA.
NitHOL AS St.
John, of Lydi-
ard Tregozc.
Elizabeth,
Daughicr of Sir
Rd. Blount.
J_
Oliver St. John, Vifcouni Grandison,
the firft of the family who fccded at Baitcrfea,
obtained a Grant of the Manor 3 Ch. T. died
1630, without IfTuc.
JoAN.Daughierof Henrv Roy don, El'q.
of Batterfca, and relidtof Sir William
H0LCB.0FT, Knight.
SirJoMN St.Johk.
Kjit. of Lydiard I
Tregozc.
Lltcy, Daughter 1
and Heir of
Sir Walter
HoNCEKfORD. I
I
Sir John St. John, BarL became poffeffed of
the Baticrfea ellate by a Grant from his Nephew,
William VifcountGnANDisoN. Ob. 1648.
Anne, Daugh-
terofSIrTHO- 1
MAS Leigh-
ton. '
Mauca
RET,
Widow
of Sir
RlCHA
RD
Gkub
iAM,
Km. 2d
. Wife.
John
Sir Edw. Vil-
LiEKs,Kni.
Lucv
Sit
Ar
, Wife of
Allem
LeY>Knl.
Willi
M
VlLLIE
RS, inherited th
Title
of
Gba
sotJ, aiK
the Batterfea ellate from
his
great
SON ;
Uncle, Oliver Vifcount
CiRAK
01-
he
granted
the edate to his
Uncle,
Sir
Jo«»
St
. John.
Oh. 1644.
Jake
Wife of
■ Ayte,
fccondly of
Sir Charles
Pleydell,
Knt.
Catha
Wife
RINB,
of Sir
Charles
mompesson,
Km.
Oliver St.
JoHN,diedbc-
CaTH ARINE,
Daughter of
HoR ,1 T I o
Lord Vere.
1
Will. A
ed at
cefter
Prince
died t
lITue.
M, kiU-
Ciren-
under
Rupert,
vithout
EowARDiflainal
the battle of
Newbury, died
without llFue.
Nicholas, died
without liTue.
John, (lain in the
North, died
without Iffue.
I
A Daughter of
Sir John Ay-
I loHN St. John, a Minor, inherited the I
Batterfea eilatcs ; died before he came of
age, and was fucceeded by Sir Walter,
his Uncle^
SirWALTJRST.
John, Bart,
fucceeded his
NcphewJoHN,
in the Batter-
fea ellate. Ob.
1703.
I
Henry Vifcount
St. John, in-
herited the ellate
at Batterfea. Ob.
1741.
Mary, Daughter
and Coheir of
Robert Rich,
Earl of Warwick.
Angelica Magdaleine, Daughter of George
Pillesary, of the kingdom of France, fecond Wife.
J__\ L
John, Francis,
and Edward,
died young.
Joan, Daughter
of Oliver
St. John, Lord
Chief Jullice.
Henry St
John.
.atherinb.
Daughter of
Lord Chief
JuiliceST.
John.
I
Walter died
young.
Anne, Wife
of Anthony
Bowyer, of
Camberwetl.
ARBARA St.
John.
== Sir John Top,
Bart.
I
I
Eleanor. Wife of
SirWiLLIAMST.
John, married
at Batterfea 161 1.
Sir William
was buried there,
164,.
Anne, Wife of
SirHENRr
Francis
Lee, Bart, and
fccondly
of Henry
WiLMOT,EarI
of Rocheiler.
Akne St. John. h=
T
now
Al C
MOL-
uo^
DEL
Y,
KIT
Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke, attainted
An. 1714; being enabled by Aft of Parliament,
paffed in 1725. to inherit notwithftanding his
atcaindL'r, fucceeded his father in the Batterfea
cftaie, and died without Iffue in 1753.
Frances, Daugh-
ter
and Co-heir
of
riENRY
Wi
NCHCOMB,
= Efq
. firlV Wife.
George St. John,
diedwithoutlfTue,
.7.6.
John Vifcount
St. JoH N.dicdin
Francci 1749.
A Daughter of Sir
Robert Fur-
NESS, Bart.
_L
HoLLEs St. John,
Equerry to ijuecn
Caroline, died
1733, aged 27.
RobertKn
ICHT,
afterwards
Earl
of Cathc
loueh, in
land.
Ire-
Mary Clara
desChamps Dt
Marcelly
Marchioncfs
DE Villette,
fecond Wife.
Frederick Vifcoun
St
John, fucceeded Vifcount
BOLINGBROKE in
that
title, and in the Batterfea
eftaie, which was
lold
by him to John Vifcount
Spencer, in 1763
Lady Diana
Spencer.
cj" To front Page 30.
Charlott« died young, buried at Batter-
fea, 1762; being the lall of the family
interred in ihc S r. Joh n vault there.
o
B A T T E R S E A. 31
he fliould be refident at Batterfea, or within fixty miles of that place.
This claufe had been infringed before archbifliop Grindall's time,
and his predeceflbrs had been unjuftly deprived of the lafe of the
aforefaid land. Grindall had a fuccefsful fuit with the farmer, and
leafed the eftate to a new tenant with the ufual agreement. The
houfe was formerly an occafional refidence of the archbifliops ; but,
for more than a century, it has been occupied only by tenants.
Tradition, with its ufual fondnefs for appropriation, fpeaks of Wol-
fey's refidence there ; and the room is yet (hown in which he enter-
tained Anne Bulleyn : but befides the improbabihty that Wolfey,
who, when he was archbifhop of York, lived in as great and fome-
times in greater ftate than the king himfelf, and was owner of two
moft magnificent palaces, fhould refide in a houfe which would not
have contained half his retinue ; it is well known that thefe enter-
tainments were given at York-houfe, Whitehall.
To fpeak of a circumftance for which there is authority : — When Archbifliop
archbifhop Holgate was committed to the Tower by queen °sate.
Mary, in 1553, the officers, who were employed to apprehend
him, rifled his houfe at Batterfea, and took away from thence
" 300 1. of gold coin, 1600 ounces of plate, a mitre of fine gold,
" with two pendants fet round about the fides and midft, with very
" fine pointed diamonds, fapphires, and balifts ; and all the plain, with
" other good ftones and pearls ; and the pendants in like manner,
" weighing 125 ounces ; fome very valuable rings, a ferpent's tongue
" fet in a ftandard of filver gilt, and graven ; the archbifhop's feal in
" filver } and his fignet an antique in gold '^" Holgate was after-
wards deprived of his bifhopric, to which he was never reftored ".
The church of Batterfea is fituated on the banks of the Thames • '^^^ church.
it is a modern ftrudure, and has neither aifles nor chancel j the com-
•« Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 308. being a married man. Fuller's Worthies,
'' Archbifhop Holgate was deprived for pt. 3. p. 194.
2 munion-
32
BATTERSEA.
munion-table is placed within a finall recefs, at the eaft end. It
was rebuilt by an adl of parliament, pafled 14 Geo. 3. and was
opened on the 17th of November 1777. It is of brick, and has
a tower, with a fmall conical fpire at the weft end. The eaft win-
dow confifts of painted glafs, which was carefully preferved at the
rebuilding of the church, and contains portraits of Henry the
Seventh; his grandmother, Margaret Beauchamp; and queen Eliza-
beth : they do not appear to have been coeval with the perfons they
reprefent, but of a more recent date. Over the portraits, are the
royal arms in the central compartment; and on each fide, the
arms " and quaiterings of the St. Johns : the portraits are likewife
furrounded with borders, containing the arms " of the families
allied to them by marriage. The former church was built of brick,
and therefore probably not very ancient. A church is mentioned
in Doomfday.
Befides
" St. John bears Arg. on a chief Gul. two
mullets Or, and quarters, i. Az. a bend Ar-
gent cottifed between Ax martlets Or, for
Delabere. 2. Arg. a fefTe between fix cinque-
foils Gu. for Umfreville. 3. Erm. on a feffe
Az. three crofles moline Or. 4. Gu. a feffe
between fix martlets Or, for Beauchamp. 5.
Arg. a fefle Sab. between three crefcents Gu.
for Patilhall. 6. Paly of fix Arg. and Az.
on a bend Gu. three eagles difplayed Or, for
Grandifon. 7. Az. two bars gemelles, and in
chief a lion paffant Or, for Tregoze. 8. Arg
a feffe Gu. between three mullets of fix points
Sab. for Ewyas. 9. Arg. a faltire engrailed
Sab. on a chief of the fecond, two mullets of
the firft, for Iwarby or Ewarby. 10. Or, three
lions paffant, in pale Sab. for Carew. 1 1 . Az.
three b.nileaxes Arg. 12. Sab. two bars Arg.
in chief three plates, for Hungerford. 13. Per
pale indented Gu. and Vert, over all a chev-
ron Or^ 14. Arg. three to.ads Sab. for Bot-
reux. 15. Paly Wavy Or and Gules. All thefe
ire quartered on one (hield, with a Vifcount's
coronet ; the eleven firft are quartered by St.
John, Bart, on another.
■' In the border round Margaret Beau-
champ's portrait, are the following arms :
I. Tregoze impaling Ewyas. 2. Grandifon
impaling them both, quartered. 3. Patilhall
impaling the three laft, quartered. 4. St. John
impaling the laft four, quartered. 5. Arg. a
chevron Az. over all a lion ramp. Gu. crowned
Or, impaling St. John. 6. Az. fretty Arg.
impaling St. John. 7. Az. a chevron en-
grailed between three owls Or, impaling St.
John. 8. Arg. a crofs patonce Az. between
four mullets Gu. impaling St. John. g. Az.
two cinquefoils in chief, and a fleur-de-lis in
bafe, Arg. impaling St. John. 10. Arg. a chief
Az. over all a lion ramp. Gu. on a Canton Or,
a Ihield of the fecond, charged with 3 mullets of
the fourth ; impaling Arg. on three bars Sab.
fix trefoils of the field 3, 2, and i. 11. Arg. a
crofs patonce Az. between four mullets Gu. im-
paling Barry of fix Arg. and Gu. 12. Az.
fretty Arg. impaling quarterly indented Az.
and
BATTERSEA. 23
Befides the monuments of the St. John family, which will be
noticed hereafter, there is a very fingular one to the memory of
Sir Edward Wynter, who lived at York-houfe, and whofe ex- Sir Edward
Wynter.
ploits furpafs even the heroic achievments of Lord Herbert of
Cherbury ", who, alone and in his fhirt, chafed a hoft of midnight
robbers from his houfe. Sir Edward Wynter's monument is againft
the fouth wall ; on the top is his buft of a large fize, with whifk-
ers ; underneath the infcription, is a bafTo-relievo reprefenting him
in the a£t of performing the two exploits mentioned in his epitaph ;
which is as follows :
« P. M. S.
" Edwardi Wynter,
*' Equitis, qui adhuc impuber, ex patria proficifcens in Orien-
" talibus Indiis raercaturam feliciter exercuit, magnas opes
" comparavit, majores conflaturus fi non fpreviflet. Ibidem
" fplendide vixit et honorifice. Poft annos 42 Angliam revifit.
" Uxorem duxit Emma filia Rich. Howe armig. Norfolc.
« Deceffit Mar. 2\ An. xtat. 64. Dni. 1685-6.
" Pofuit Marito optime de fe merito
" Uxor moeftiffima."
and Arg. 13. Az. a chevron engrailed Or, between two birds of the fecond, a chief cheeky
between three owls proper, impaling Az. a Or, and Sab. for Pleydell, impaling St. John,
chevron Erm. between three fleurs-de-lis Arg. 9. Arg. on a crofs Gu. five efcallops Or, for
within a border engrailed Or. In the border Villiers, impaling St. John. 10. St. John
which furrounds the portrait of queen Eliza- impaling Hungerford, quartered with per pale
beth, are thefe arms. 1 . Az. three battle-axes indented Gu. and Vert, over all a chevron Or.
Arg. 2. Carew impaling Az. three battle-axes 11. Arg. on a chevron engrailed Sab. three
Arg. 3. Iwarby impaling the two lad, quar- bucks' heads cabolTed of the field, between
tered. 4. St. John impaling the three laft, three etoiles of fix points Gu. impaling Sc.
quartered. 5. St. John impaling barry nebu- John. 12. St. John impaling St. John. 13.
ly Or, and Sab. for Blount. 6. St. John Barry of fix Arg. and Gu. a canton Erm. for
impaling quarterly indented Or, and Gu. Apfley, impaling St. John.
for Leighton. 7. Arg. a lion ramp. Sab. '' Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, p.
on his (houlder a martlet Or, impaling St. 126.
John. 8. .Arg. a bend Gu. gutty of the firft.
Vol. I. F " Born
34 BATTERSEA.
*' Born to be great in fortune as in mind,
Too great to be within an ifle confin'd ;
Young, helplefs, friendlefs, feas unknown he tried ;
But Englifh courage all thofe wants fupplied.
A pregnant wit, a painful diligence,
Care to provide, and bounty to difpenfe;
Join'd to a foul fuicere, plain, open, juft,
Procur'd him friends, and friends procur'd him truft:
Thefe were his fortune's rife, and thus began
This hardy youth, rais'd to that happy man.
A rare example, and unknown to the moft
Where wealth is gain'd, and confcience is not loft:
Nor lefs in martial honor was his name,
Witnefs his adtions of immortal fame:
Alone unarm'd, a tyger he opprefs'd,
And crufh'd to death the monfter of a beaft.
Twice twenty mounted Moors he overthrew
Singly on foot, fome wounded, fome he flew,
Difpers'd the reft, — what more could Sampfon do ?
True to his friends, a terror to his foes.
Here now in peace his honor'd bones repofe !"
" Vita peregrinatio."
His widow was married the year after his deceafe, to Sir
James Fuller, and died in 1710. The monument was reftored after
the rebuilding of the church, by his great-grandfon, Edward Hamp-
fou Wynter, Efq. On a tablet at the foot of it, are memorials for
Mrs. Catharine Wynter, who died 1771 ; and William Woodftock
Wynter, who died 1747; and on each fide, the arms of Wynter
and Howe ".
" Wynter, bears Sab. a feff. Erm. & impales Arg. a chevron between 3 wolves heads
erafed. Sable for Howe.
At
BATTERSEA. 35
At the eaft end of the church, over the north gallery, is a monu-
ment to the memory of Sir John Fleet, alderman of London, who
died in 171 2. Over the fouth gallery is another, to the memory
of Mr. James Bull, merchant, who died in 171 3. The other mo-
numents mentioned by Aubrey, were not preferved at the rebuilding
of the church.
The church of Batterfea is dedicated to St. Mary ; it is in the Vicarage.
diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Southwark; the bene-
fice is a vicarage. Laurence, Abbot of Weftminfter, firft procured the
appropriation of the great tithes for that abbey about the year 1 159 ".
The monks of Weftminfter were to receive out of it two marks,
referving fufficient to the vicar to fupport the epifcopal burdens and
himfelf. I find that the redory was held by John ", bifhop of
Winchefter, in the time of Philip and Mary ; and that it was after-
wards granted to Downing and Aftiton "'*, with the advowfon of the
vicarage, which in a MS. of Sir John Dodderidge "', is men-
tioned amongft the livings in the gift of the crown. The advow-
fon was granted, with the manor, to the St. Johns ; and has con-
tinued annexed to it ever fince.
At the taxation, An. 1291 ", the I'edtory was rated at twenty-fix
marks and an half; the vicarage at fix marks and forty pence. The
vicarage is valued in the king's books, at 13 1. 15 s. 2[ d. It was pre-
fented^' at the inquifition held at Kingfton June 28th, 1658,
that the redory of Batterfey, impropriated to Sir Walter St. John,
was worth Sol. per An.; that the vicarage was worth about 100 1.
per An. ; that Penge, a member of Batterfey, was feveri miles from
the parifli church, and contained twelve families; that they could
not find a convenient place in the hundred, or county, to unite
" Widmore's Hift. of Weftminfter Abbey, '' Brit. Muf. 3479. Ayfcough's Cat.
p. 29. " See note p. 10.
" Terrier of Lands in Surrey. Brit. Muf. '' Parliamentary Surveys, LambetJi Li-
4705. Ayfcough's Cat. brary.
»+ Ibid. •
F 2 it
36 BATTERSEA.
it to; that the neareft place of public worfhip, was Beckenham in
Kent, about a mile diftant : the commiflioners were vefted with
powers to unite or feparate parifhes, as occafion required ; but they
did nothing in this cafe. The principal profits of the vicarage,
arife from the tithes of the gardens. There are two terriers *' of
Batterfey in the regifter at Winchefter, faftened together, of the
dates of 1619 and 1636.
Vicars of Owen Ridley, who was inftituted to the vicarage of Batterfea,
Batterfea. . ,
An. 1570, appears to have been involved m a tedious litigation
with his parifhioners, and to have encountered no fmall fhare of
perfecution from them. The circumftance would not have been
worth recording but for two curious petitions which it produced ;
the originals of which are in the pofleflion of the prefent vicar,
by whom they have been obligingly communicated. One of them
is from certain of the inhabitants to Dr. Swale, one of her ma-
jefty's high commiflioners for caufes ecclefiaftical ; in which
they ftate many grievances which they had fufFered from their
vicar during the fpace of eighteen years; amongft other crimes
alleged againft him, is that of converfing with a witch. The
obje<Sl of their petition was, that he might be deprived: it is figned
with thirteen names, and about thirty marks. The other petition,
which is to lord Burleigh, being the more curious of the two, is
here given at large:
" To the right honourable the lord Burleigh, lord highe trea-
" furer of England.
" Moft humbly fliewe unto your honor, your daiely orators, the
" inhabitants of Batterfey, befechinge you to extend your favor
*• in all juft cawfes, to our mynifter, Mr. Ridley: fo it is (right
honourable) that fome have fought his deprivation, by many
»• Ducarrel's Endowments of Vicarages. Lambeth Library.
" trobles.
<t
BATTER SEA.
" trebles, many yeares together, and in divers courts ; fometymes
*' in the archdeacon's, fometymes by complayninge to the bufshopp,
" fometymes before the highe commilfioners, fometymes before the
" archbufhopp of Canterbury, his grace ; yea, and once he hath bene
" indided at the aflizes. But God, the defender of the innocent, hath
** fo protedted him, that his cawfe beinge tryed and knowene, he hath
*' hadd a good Iffue of all theis trebles; yet the adverfarie will not ceafe,
*' but feeketh to deprive him of his life, for feekinge after witches,
" and procuringe the death of a man by witchcraft. He hath
" byn our vicar theis twenty , yeares ; he is zealous in the gof-
" pell, honefl in life, painefuU to teache us, and to catechize our
*' youth ; charitable and liberall to the poore and needy, accordinge
" to his abilety ; he never fued any of all his parifheoners for
*' tythes, althoughe he hath hadd cawfe gyven by fome fo to doe.
" Of our confcience, wee take him rather to hate wytches, than
*' to feeke after them ; for he hath fpoken often very bitterly againft
" them owt of the bible, neither doe wee thinke or fufpedl the
" woman to be a witche which is accufed, but hath alwayes
" lyved honeftly, quietly, and painefully here, to gett a poore
" lyvinge truely. Therefore, the man beinge fuch a one, whome
*' for his vertues wee love, his trebles heretofore fo greate, fo many,
" and fo chardgable to the undoinge of himfelfe, his wife, and chil-
" dren, and now fo daingerous for the lefle of his life, doth move
" us to become fuitors unto your honour for him, befeechinge
" your honor to take notice, and to make due triall of him and
" his cawfe, fo that the truth beinge fownd owte, juflice male
" take place ; your honor will defend the innocent in his innocencie,
*' putt an end to his longe, many, wearifome, and daingerous tro-
*' bles, and be a patrone unto him in all his good and honeft
" adions ; fo fliall wee be bound to thancke God for you, and
" to pray for you for ever." Signed by Robert Cooke, alias Cla-
* F 3 rencieulx
37
Patrick.
38 B A T T E R S E A.
rencieulx Roy d'Armes, Robert Claye, preacher, and fourteen
others.
Dr. Temple. Thomas Templcr brother of Sir John Temple, the Irifli mafter
of the rolls, was inftituted to the vicarage of Batterfea in 1634^',
and continued there during the civil wars j he was one of the mini-
fters appointed by Cromwell to aflift the committee for difplacing
ignorant and infufficient fchoolmafters and minifters ; he was like-
wife one of the affembly of divines, and a frequent preacher before
the long parliament : feveral of his fermons are in print.
Biihop Mr. Temple was fucceeded in the vicarage of Batterfea by the
learned bifhop Patrick ^°, who was educated at Queen's College,
Cambridge, and was domeftic chaplain to Sir Walter St, John, by
whom he was prefented to this benefice. Several of his trails were
publifhed while he was vicar of Batterfea, and are dedicated to his
patron. He refigned the vicarage in 1675. He was a zealous
champion of the proteftant religion, both by his writings, and in
converfation ; particularly at a conference which he, in conjunction
with Do(£tor Jane, held in the prefence of James the Second, with
two Roman catholic priefts ; in which he had fo much the fupe-
riority over his opponents in argument, that the king retired in dif-
guft, faying, that he never heard a good caufe fo ill defended, or a
bad one fo well. At the revolution, he was rewarded with the
bifhopric of Chichefter ", and was afterwards tranflated to Ely.
He died in 1707, and left behind him a very numerous colledlion
of printed works ; confiding of fermons, devotional and controver-
fial traits, and paraphrafes on the fcriptures, which are held in
great eftimation, and which were continued by "William Lowtb,
father of the late bilhop of London.
*» Regift. Winton. Curie, f. 21. a. Ant. leian MSS. Brit. Muf. 7176, p. 284, 28J.
Wood. 31 jn i6gg, on the deprivation cf John
^^ Ant. Wood; Eiograph. Britannica; Mor- Lake. He was tranflated to Ely in 1691, on
lis' s Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men ; Har- the deprivation of Francis Turner.
Dr.
BATTERSEA. 39
Dr. Thomas Church," of Brazen Nofe College, Oxford, who Dr. Thomas
was inftituted to the vicarage of Batterfea in the year 1740, diC-
tinguifhed himfelf much in the field of controverfy, in which
he engaged againft Weftley, Whitfield, and Middleton; for his
fuccefsful attack upon the latter, and his defence of the miraculous
powers during the early ages of chriftianity, the Univerfity of
Oxford conferred on him the degree of D. D. by diploma. He
was too zealoufly attached to his religion to let the opinions of Lord
Bolingbroke pafs unnoticed, notwithftanding he had been his
patron. His publication upon this fubjedl, however, was anonymous ;
it was called. An Analyfis of the Philoiophical Works of the late
Lord Bolingbroke, and came out in 1735. Dr. Church publifhed
likewife feveral fingle fermons: he died in 1756, aged 49, hav-
ing never obtained any farther preferment than the vicarage of Bat-
terfea, and a prebendal ftall in St. Paul's cathedral.
The prefent vicar is John Gardner, M. A, who was inftituted
in 1778.
The regifter of this parifli begins in the year 1559 ; and, except- Pariftiregif-
tcr
ing the former part of the prefent century, appears to be accurate.
Dr. Church, foon after he was inftituted to the vicarage, began to
tranfcribe a confiderable part of the regifters, which, for many years
preceding, had been kept by a "very ignorant parifli clerk. He
proceeded fo far as to copy the whole of the baptifms; and, with
great induftry, redlified a vaft number of miftakes, and fupplied
many deficiencies. The difficulty of tranfcribing the burials, of
which indeed for fome years there were no entries, dif-
couraged him from proceeding any farther in this laudable under-
taking.
Average of births. Average of burials. Comparative
1 3 7 ftate of popu-
- 58 - 68 '"""•
— 60 — 69
The
1580 —
1589
1680 —
1689
1780 —
1789
40 BATTERSEA.
The increafe of population in this parifh, appears to have been
very fmall during the laft hundred years, in v?hich refpedt it differs
from moft others in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The
reafon of this difference appears to have been the inconvenience of
the pafTage over the Thames. This could not be fo much felt a
century ago, when our anceflors were little accuflomed to the luxury
of bridges ; but no doubt would adt as a bar to population, fince
they have been more frequent. This obflacle was removed at
Batterfea, by the building of the bridge there, which was opened
about twenty years ago, and which now begins to have the effeft
of increafing the number of buildings, above twenty houfes having
been lately ereded, moft of which' are as yet uninhabited ; includ-
ing thefe, the number of houfes in the parifh is about 360.
Plague years. The number of burials in 1603, was 23.
1625 — 61.
1665 — 113.
Thefe numbers prove, that the village was not free from the
plague in either of thofe years; yet when we compare them
with the average of thofe periods, they do not fhow its fatality to
have been fo great as might be expedled in a village fo near to
London.
St. John fa- Batterfea was long the refidence, as well as the property, of the
^ St. Johns ; and many of the births, deaths, and marriages of that
family are recorded in the parifli regifter ; the moft interefting of
which I fhall infert :
" The Lord Oliver St. John, buried Jan. 12. 1630-1."
" The Ladie Grandifon, her name Jone, buried Mar. 10. 1630-1."
Oliver St. Oliver St. John was the firft of the family who fettled at Bat-
iountGran- terfea; he married Joan, daughter and heir of Henry Roy don Efq.
difon. q£ jj^j^^ place, and widow of Sir William Holcroft. He was gene-
ral of the forces in Ireland, and was lord high treafurer, and
lord
BATTERSEA.
41
lord deputy of that realm ; was created Vifcount Grandifon, of
Ireland, by James I. j and in 1626, was made an Englifti peer, by
the title of Baron St. John : he died without iflue. A monument
to his memory, is fixed in the north wall of the church, ornamented
with bufts of himfelf and his lady, in white marble ; over which are
the arms and quarterings of St. John" impaling Roydon", under-
neath is the following infcription :
" Deo trino and uno facrum
" Olivero Nlcholai S£t. John de Lydeard filio fecundo eq.
aurato antiquilTimis et illuftribus de Bellocampo, de Bletfoe,
Grandifonis et Tregozias familiis oriundo. Terra manque,
domi, forifque, belli pacifque artibus egreglo, divx Eliza-
bethse, e nobiliflima penfionariorum cohorte, fuis inde me-
ntis et fingulari divi Jacobi gratia, in Hibernia inftrumen-
tis bellicis prsefedlo, Conacia; Pro-prsefide et Quasftori fum-
mo et Regis vicario, Procomiti de Grandifonis et Tregozise,
de Hyworth, in Anglia, Baroni, eidem divo Jacobo et
filio ejus piifFimo a fecretioribus et fanflioribus conciliis.
Poftquam is annos honoribus xquaverat et tranquilliffime
fenuerat fomnienti fimiliter extindo, Johannes de Sand.
John Eques et Baronettus ac fratre nepos et hxres avunculo
moerentiffimo mseftiffimus p. in ecclefia de Batterfey.
" Vixit annos 70. Mor. 29 Decembris 1630."
la 1648, Sir John St. John (the nephew as I imagine of Lord
Grandifon ^'^) was buried at Batterfea with fuch unufual pomp,
that it excited the attention of the heralds, who commenced
Funeral of
Sir John
St. John.
'* Lord Grandifon quarters on his (hield ;
I. Beauchamp. 2. Grandifon. 3. Tregoze.
4. Ewyas. 5. Ewarby. 6. Carew. 7. Az.
three battle-axes, Arg.
^' Per pale Arg. and Sab. a griffin fcgreant.
Vol. I.
counter-changed.
^* Sir John St. John, nephew of Lord
Grandifon, was created a Baronet at the tirft
inllitution of that order in 1711, being the
1 7th in precedency.
G a pro-
42
BATTERSEA.
a profecution againft Mr. Walter St. John the executor, for ading fo
contrary to the ufage of arms and the laws of heraldry.
In the Britifh Mufeum " is a MS. depofition of William Riley,
one of the heralds, who declares, that the funeral of the deceafed
was conduced in a manner fo much above his degree, that the
efcutcheons were more than were ufed at the funeral of a duke ;
and that he never faw fo many pennons but at the funeral of one of
the blood royal ; and that he confidered fuch a precedent to be de-
ftrudive of all diftindtion, order, and degree of honour and nobility.
The burial of Sir John St. John is omitted in the Regifter.
" Sir Walter St. John, Bart. xt. 87, buried July 9, 1708."
Sir Walter Sir Walter St. John, the third baronet of the family, fucceeded his
St. John. nephew Sir John, who died before he came of age. Sir Walter
married one of the daughters of lord chief juftice St. John : — he was
eminent for piety and moral virtues. The parifli of Batterfea is in-
debted to him for the foundation of a free-fchool, which he endowed
in the year 1700 for twenty poor boys, and to which both he and his
lady left farther fums towards apprenticing fome of them. A
portrait of Sir Walter is preferved in the fchool-room.
" Henry, the fon of Mr. Walter St. John, baptized Odl. 17,
" 1652."
" The Right Honorable Henry Lord Vifcount St. John, buried
" April 16, 1742."
Henry 'pj^jg ^j^g ^\^q father of Lord Bolingbroke. In 1684, being then
Vifcount St. ° ...
John. Mr. Henry St. John, he was tried for the murder of Sir William
Eftcourt, Bart, and was convidled. Bifhop Burnet fpeaking, no
doubt, of this affair, tells the ftory thus :■ — That a young gentleman of a
noble family, in the year 1684, being at fupper with a large party,
a fudden quarrel arofe between him and another gentleman, very
« HarleianMSS, 5176.-15.
warm
BAT'TERSEA.
warm words pafled, and fwords were drawn, three perfons were
engaged in the rencounter, one of whom was killed on the fpot,
the other two were indidled for murder ; it appeared uncertain by
which the fatal wound was given, nor did the proof againft either
amount to more than manflaughter : yet the gentleman above-
mentioned being one of the two, was advifed to confefs the indict-
ment, and to let fentence pafs for murder. He was threatened with
the utmoft rigour of the law if he negledied to follow this advice ; if
he complied, he was promifed a pardon. He thought it prudent to
comply, and was convidled accordingly : but to his cofl found, that
his pardon was to be purchafed at the high rate of 16,000 1. ; one
half of which the king converted to his own ufe ; and beftowed the
remainder upon two ladies who were in great favor. This is bifhop
Burnet's account ^^ It appears, however, that after the convidlion,
a doubt arofe, whether the king could pardon him. — The matter was
much debated, and bifliop Barlow wrote one of his cafes of con-
fcience upon the fubjedt " : he determines the point in the affirmative.
It is faid, that to obviate all doubts, the king granted him only a
reprieve ; in confirmation of this, no pardon appears to have beea
enrolled " : the reprieve was for a long term of years, which the
extreme old age which he attained rendered it probable that he would
furvive. In 1716 he was created Baron St. John of Batterfea, and
Vifcount St. John, and died in 1742, as mentioned above, on the
verge of ninety.
*' Henry, fon of Henry St. John, Efq. baptized Od. 10, 1678."
'* Hlftory of his own Times, fol. 1724. Henry St. John, which were forfeited to
vol. i. p. 600. tlie crowji by his felonioufly killing and
^' Bilhop Barlow's Cafes of Confcience, murdering Sir William Elkourt, bart. Par.
8vo. 1692. 36 Ch. II. It was for this reftitution, I ap-
2° Amongfl the records at the Rolls' prehend, that the fum mentioned by biftlop
chapel, is a reftitution of the eftates of Mr. Burnet was paid.
43
* G 2 « Henry
44 B A T T E R S E A..
" Henry St- John, late Lord Vifcount Bolingbroke, buried De-
cember 1 8, 1751-"
Lord Boling- Thefe dates will ferve to corredt an inaccuracy in the Life of Lord
broke
Bolingbroke, in which it is aflerted, that he died at the age of feven-
ty-nine "; this has led the editors of the Biographia *° into an error,
and has induced them to fix the date of his birth in 1672. They are
inaccurate likewife in faying that his lady died many years before
him, as will appear both by her epitaph, and the entry of her burial,
in the regifter. Upon the death of his father, lord Bolingbroke
became poffefled of the paternal eftate at Batterfea, to which place he
immediately retired, having long wifhed to fpend the evening of his
days there ; which he did, we are informed, with that dignity which
was the natural refult of his elevated genius, perfedled by long ex-
.perience, many difappointments, and much reflexion, refolving never
more to meddle with public affairs*'. Thus fay his biographers;
fuch of his contemporaries, however, as I have had an opportunity of
converfing with, and fome of them knew him perfonally, and vifited
him at Batterfea, do not give him credit for his refolutions of retire-
ment. As a fenfible man, no doubt, he made that retirement, which
was not the obje£t of his choice, fit as eafy upon him as poffible ; but
I have been aflured, that he endeavoured to the laft to regain his feat
in the houfe of lords, and to overthrow the minifter, and that he
would have rejoiced to have been again in power with the party to
which he was attached. He always expreffed a great partiality to-
wards Batterfea, and wifhed that he might breathe his lafl in the houfe
of his anceflors there : — this wifh was accoraplifhed. He died De-
cember 1 2th, 1 75 1 **. His fecond wife was widow of the Marquis
de Villette, and niece of the celebrated Mad. de Maintenon. She died a
39 Life of Lord Bolingbroke, p. 346. *' The editors of the Biographia fay
*° Edit. 1748. Nov. nth, but erroneoufly. — See his epi-
*• Biograph. Brit. edit. 1748. taph.
fhort
B A T T E R S E A.'
fhort time before her hufband, and lies burled in the fame vault with
him in Batterfea church ; where, on the north wall, is a monument
to their memory by Roubiliac, of grey and black marble : the upper
part is ornamented with lord Bolingbroke's arms *'. The infcription
is on a black tablet, on each fide of which are medallions with pro-
files in balTo-relievo of lord and lady Bolingbroke, well executed, in
white marble. The infcription is as follows :
" Here lies
*' Henry St. John,
" In the reign of Queen Anne,
" Secretary of War — Secretary of State,
" And Vifcount Bolingbroke :
" In the days of King George the firft and King George the fecond,
" Something more and better.
" His attachment to Queen Anne,
*' Expofed him to a long and fevere perfecution ;
*' He bore it with firmnefs of mind,
*' The enemy of no national party,
" The friend of no fadion ;
Diftinguifhed (under the cloud of a profcription,
" which had not been entirely taken off)
" By zeal to maintain the liberty.
And to reftore the ancient profperity, j
" of Great Britain.
" He died the 1 2th of December,
" 1 75 1, aged 73."
45
<(
<c
" In the fame vault
" are interred, the remains of
" Mary Clara des Champs de Marcelly,
♦' St. John quartering Gu. a chevron betw. paling Sab. three chevronels Arg. bstw. three
three crofles bottony Or, for Rich, and im- plates,
G 3 " Marchionefs
^6 BATTERSEA.
** Marchionefs of Villette, and Vifcountefs
" Bolingbroke, of a noble family,
*' bred in the court of Lewis 14th.
*' She reflected a luftre on the former,
*' by the fuperior accomplifhments of her mind ;
" She was an ornament to the latter,
** by the amiable dignity and grace of her behaviour.
" She lived,
" the honour of her own fex,
*• the delight and admiration of ours :
« She dyed,
" an objedt of imitation to both :
" With all the firmnefs that reafon,
** With all the refignation that religion,
*' Can infpire.
*' Aged 74 the i8th of March,
" 1750."
The laft of the St. John family that was buried at Batterfea, was
an infant daughter of Lord Bolingbroke in 1762.
Bolingbroke- In 1 763 the eftate was alienated ; and about fifteen years ago, the
houfe.
greater part of Bolingbroke-houfe was pulled down : a few of the
rooms remain, among which is one wainfcotted with cedar, faid to
have been Lord Bolingbroke's favourite apartment. The pidlures
which were in the old houfe were fold by auction and difperfed.
Vertue mentions a good portrait, on board, of a woman which he
faw there, faid to be the wife of St. Antonio More, painted by
himfelf**:
Horizontal On the fite of Bolingbroke-houfe was eredled, about two years ago,
a horizontal air-mill of a new conftrudion, and of very large
♦♦ Venue's MSS. in the poffeflion of the right honourable the earl of Orford at Straw-
berry Hill.
^ dimenfions :
BATTERSEA.
47
dimenfions : the fhape of the dome or cafe which contains the
moveable machine *', is that of a truncated cone ; being circular, of
fifty-two feet diameter at the bottom, and forty-five feet at the top :
the height of the main fliaft is 120 feet; that is, forty feet from
the floor to the bottom of the dome, and eighty feet thence to the
top. The moveable machine is of the fame fhape, and nearly of the
fame dimenfions as the dome ; having juft fpace to turn round with-
in it: the extremities of this machine are called floats, as in the
wheel of a water-mill ; the pieces of wood which connect them with
the main fhaft, are called the arms ; there are ninety- fix floats, and
the fame number of fhutters in the dome, which, when open, admit,
even when there is little wind, a fufficient current of air to turn the
machine, and, by a particular contrivance, fhut when the wind is fo
violent as to endanger the ftruifture. This mill, at its firfl; eredlion,
was ufed for preparing of oil ; it is now ufed as a corn-mill, and is
occupied by Meflrs. Hodgfon and Co.
A few other entries, which I thought deferving of notice, in the
parifh regifter, are here tranfcribed.
" Goody Hazleton, aged 108 years, was buried Od. 29, 1703." inftancesof
" William Abbots, setat. loi, buried Jan. 5. 1733." ongevuy.
" Feb. 6, 1 730, Mary, Sarah, and Rebecca, children of Richard 4 Children at
*' and Rebecca Harding, baptized." ^ ^^ '
" Feb. 8, Rebecca, wife of Richard Harding, buried."
She died in labour of a fourth child, which was ftill-born ; the
three children were buried the 2d of March following. — The
hufband was a waterman.
" Jan. 31, 1 73 1, Charles Williams, from London, buried." Charles
Charles Williams was an ador of fome eminence at the Theatre the aftor.
Royal in Drury-Iane : he died in the prime of life, being only
38 years of age. He was buried in the church-yard, and was
*5 I could not procure any fpecific name for the moveable part of the machine taken
colleftively.
attended
45 BATTERSEA.
attended to the grave by the whole body of comedians ; the pall was
fupported by Wilks, GrifEn, the two Gibbers, and the two Mills's.—
There is no memorial to him.
Benefaaions. The parifh of Batterfea enjoys 4I. per annum from Mr. Smith's
charity ; and has had legacies left to its poor by various benefadors,
to the amount of above 400 1., exclufive of the liberal benefadlion of
Sir Walter and Lady St. John.
[ 49 ]
BEDDINGTON.
'T^HE name of this parifli has experienced little variation; in
Doomfday, it is written Beddintone. Bedding, in the Saxon, Etymology.
fignifies a bed or lodging: if any thing is to be inferred from this
etymology, it muft be, that Beddington was the firft ftage out of
London, upon one of the great roads. The Roman road to Stane-
Street and Suflex, pafTed through the parilh.
The village of Beddington lies near two miles to the weftward situation,
of Croydon, at the diftance of about eleven miles from Weftminfter- boundary,
' and extent.-
bridge. The parifh is bounded on the eaft by Croydon, on the
north by Mitcham, on the fouth by Coulfdon and Woodmanftern,
and on the weft by Carfhalton. It contains about 3800 acres, of
which not more than a fifteenth part is pafture, the remainder
being arable ; the foil in general is fandy. In Doomfday, the
whole parifh is faid to contain twenty-three plough lands ; it pays
the fum of 263 1. 14s. to the land tax, which is at the rate of is. 6d'
in the pound at Beddington, and is. at Wallington.
At the time of the Conqueror's Survey, there v/ere two manors in Manors.
Beddington, exclufive of Wallington; one of which, in the reign
of the Confeflbr, was held of the king by Azor, and the other by
Ulf: fifteen houfes in London belonged to the former; and to the
latter, thirteen in London, and eight in Southwark.
The records relating to Azor's manor, fometimes called Home- Manor of
Beddington, are very complete and fatisfadory. The Watevils» din^ton.
who held it of Ric. de Tonbridge, in the Conqueror's time, were
poflefTed of it in the reign of Henry II.'; the right of the mefne,
or intermediate lord, was probably either purchafed by, or
granted to that family, as their fucceffors held it immediately
" DugJale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 641.
Vol. L H of
so
BEDDINGTON.
Manor of
Beddington
Hufcarl.
of the king, by the fervice of rendering annually a wooden
crofs-bow, as all the records exprefs. The property of the manor
is to be traced regularly through the families of de Es or de Eys\
de Laik ', Gatelier *, and Rogers ', to Thomas Corbett ', who is
called the king's valet, to whom it was granted by Edward I. ; from
the Corbetts it defcended, by purchafe, to the Morleys*, Bray tons', and
Willoughbys * ; thefe alienations having been made without the
king's confent, he feized the manor into his own hands, but re-
granted it to Richard Willoughby and his wife, upon their paying
a fine of one hundred fhillings. Richard Willoughby left a daugh-
ter and heir, Lucy, who was married ', firft to Sir Thomas Hufcarl,
Knt. (the proprietor at that time of the other manor in Beddington,
called from his family Hufcarl Manor, or Beddington Hufcarl) ; and,
fecondly, to Nicholas Carew, or de Carru, who afterwards became
poffefled of both the manors " above-mentioned ; the marriage took
place towards the latter part of the reign of king Edward III.
In the twenty-fifth year of that king's reign, fhe was living with
her firft hulband.
Of the early proprietors of Hufcarl's manor, I find little
that is fatisfadlory. Milo Crefpin held it of the Conqueror.
In 1305, it was the property of John de Syndlefliam ' ; and in
1321, was in the pofleffion of his widow, then Beatrice Hufcarl'",
the
* Rot. Norman, 6 J oh. m. 3. & Cart. An-
tiq.K. K. 7. 29 Hen. III.
3 Cart. Antiq. K. K. 7.
♦ Pat. 54 Hen. III. m. 28.
by Sir Thomas Hufcarl, the younger, to Rei-
mur.ddc Carru, and others, and by them grant-
ed to Nicholas de Carru. Sec an exemplifi-
cation of the original grant (which bears date
5 Pat. 30 F.dw. I. m. 24. It efcheated to 40 Edw. III.) in the Patent Rolls, Pat. 6
the crown, after the death of Rogers, and was
granted to Corbett.
« CI. 17 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 7. CI. 18
Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 6 & 10.
' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 7025. f. 203.
« Pat. 26 Edw. III. pt. I. m. 7. CI. 46
Edw. III. m. 9. CI. 1 Ric.lf. m.25. dorfo. CI-
3 Ric. II. m. 41. dorfo. CI. 4 Ric. II. m. 36
Hen. VIII. pt. 2. June 28. The manor was
held of the king, as of his honor of W-illing-
ford ; its yearly value was ellimated at 20 1. in
the reign of Hen. VII. Harleian MSS. Brit.
Muf. 7025. f. 203.
' Reg. Winton. Hen. Woodlock, f. 5. a.
'" lb. R. de Aflerius, f. 15. a. The
Hufcarls had property in Beddington, as
& 40. dorfo. The manor of Hufcarl was given eai-'y as the reign of king John, who grant-
B E D D I N G T O N. 51
the firft wife probably of Sir Thomas", vvhofe relid, Lucy, was
married to Nicholas de Carru.
This Nicholas was keeper of the privy-feal '\ and was one of
king Edward the Third's executors "^ He died in 1390, i4Ric. II.
In 1387 he made his will '*, by which he direcls his body to be buried Nicholas de
in the church of St. Mary, at Eeddington, between the grave of his
brother John, and the fouth door of the church. To the redlor of
the church, he leaves 40s.; to the parifh prieft, 20s. ; towards the
building of the church, 20 1. ; to the four orders of mendicant friars
in London, four marks, to pray for his foul, and all chriftian fouls ;
to the prior and convent of Tanrige, 40 s. ; to the mafter, brethren,
and fillers of St. Thomas's hofpital, Southwark, ten marks. He
wills, that there fhould be found four fit chaplains, one of whom
for ever, and the other for five years, fhould pray for his foul, and
all chriftian fouls in the church of Beddington. To Margaret Tur-
bevyle, his daughter, he bequeaths one hundred marks ; to his
daughter Lucie, priorefs of Roofparre, lol. ; to Joan Hufcarl, a
nun, 40 s. He wills, that thirteen torches and five wax tapers, each
weighing fix pounds at the moft, be provided for his funeral ; and
that they be afterwards diftributed at the difcretion of his executors ;
that thirteen poor men be clothed at his funeral, and appointed
to bear the torches. The refidue of his fortune he bequeaths be-
tween his fon Nicholas de Carru, and Nicholas de Mockyng.
Dated at his manor of Beddington, Odl. 13, 1387. This will was
proved at Croydon, Sept.- 26, 1390.
ed lands there that had been William Hufcarl's, houfe, at Beddington, in 134S. Reg. Wir.ton.
to his chaplain Dionyfius. CI. 17 John, m. 17. W. de Edindon. pt. 2. f. 16. a.
In 1246, the prior and convent of Bsrmondfey, " Rymer. vol. vi. p. 742. 747. vol. vii.
recovered tithes of Richard Hufcarl in Bed- p- 19- 82. 122.
dington. Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 641. " Royal Wills, publilhed by Nicholls, 1780,
" Sir Thomas Hufcarl and his wife Lucy P- ^3-
had a licence for an oratory in their manor- '* Lsmb. R?gift. Courtney, f. 147. b.
H 2 The -
52 BEDDINGTON.
The manor of Beddington continued in the Carew family till
the reign of Henry VIII. ; when, upon the attainder of Sir Nicholas
in 1539, his eftates were feized into the hands of the crown, and Sir
Michael Stanhope was appointed keeper of the manor-houfe there.
In a MS. in the Britiih Mufeum ", is an inventory of the " Guarde-
robe at the manour of Bedynton in the countie of Surrye, in
the charge of Michael Stanhopp, Knt. keeper of the fame houfe."
In this inventory, is mentioned a prefs, made with drawers, full of
evidences, court rolls, and other writings, " as well concerning Sir
Nicholas Carew, his landes, as other mens landes." The manor of
Beddington appears to have been granted afterwards to Walter
Gorges '*, who died in the fixth year of Edward the Sixth, the
fame year in which the king granted it to Thomas lord Darcy,
of Chiche ". Of him, Sir Francis Carew, who had procured the
reverfal of his father's attainder '\ purchafed his anceftor's eftate">
which has continued in the family to the prefent time, by lineal
defcent, though the male branch has twice failed : in both inftances
the reprefentative in the female line has taken the name and arms
of Carew. Sir Nicholas Racket Carew, Bart, by his will ", dated
July ift, 1762, left his eftates to his daughter for life; after her
deceafe to the eldeft: fon of John Fountain, dean of York, and his
ilTue male : in default of fuch, to every other of the dean's fons, in
fucceflion. On the failure of iffue male, from the dean of York,
the eftate was entailed upon the eldeft: fon of Richard Gee, Efq. of
Orpington, in Kent, who is now the next in the remainder; the
dean's only fon having died before he attained the age of twenty-five,
when he was to inherit. Richard Gee, Efq. purfuant to the will of
Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew, Bart, has taken the name and arms of
•5 Harleian MSS. 1419. mentation office.
'* Terrier of lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf- '^ i Edw. VI.
No. 470;. Ayfcough's Cat. it refers to Efch. '» Pat. 2 & 3 P. & M. pt. 4. Jan. 2.
6 Edw. VI. " Prerogative Court.
" Grants of lands by Edw. VI. in the Aug-
2 that
PEDIGREE of
CAREW of BEDDINGTON.
Arms. Or, three Lions,
paflant in pale, Sable.
Cr To front Page $3.
John dc Cab RU, fccond Son of John dcCARRU, Lord of Carru, Molesford,
and Odron, and eijjhth in Dcfcent from Odo, who firft look the Name of Carrio
or Carru from the CalUe of that Name, in the County of Pembroke.
Margaret, Daughter
of John Mohun, of
Dunder.
John de Carru, Portionift of the Church 1
of Bcddington, died before 1390.
Nicholas dc Carru, third Son, fettled at Bcd-
dingcon. Keeper of ihc Privy Seal, died 1390.
Lucy, Daughter and Heir of Sir Richard Willoughbv, of Beddiogton,
and Widow of Sir Thomas Huscakl, of the fame Place.
Nicholas de Carru,
died 143Z, aged 70.
isA BELLA, a Daughter of De l a m a k , died
many Years before her Hulband. Firft Wife.
Me R CI A, Daughter of Stephen
HtYME. fecond Wife.
1
Nicholas
deCARHu
died
HiS.
Margaret, Daughter of Sir Roger Feknis, Km. furvived her Huiband. Thomas de Carru.
Nicholas de Carru.
died 6 Edw. JV. 1466.
Mar
icARBT, Daughter of
WARD LaNGFORD.
James de Carru,
died 3 Hen. VIL
Eleonoba, one of the Daughters of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hast-
^il I NGs.and of his fecond Wife Ele A NOR, Daughtcrof Leonard Lord
Welles, of which Family her liTuc were alfo Co-Heirs.
I
I
Nicholas de
CARRU.died
without Ifl'ue.
Sainche de Car ru. 1'his Sainche
and her Sillers had a Law-Suit for the
Manors of Beddington,&c. with their
Uncle James, which was dctermiDcd
in Favour of the Male Heir.
Sir John
IWARBY,
OrEwARBY.
Elizabeth,
Wife of
Walter
TwYKYHO.
Anne, Wife of
Christopher
I Tropnell.
Sir Richard Carew, Knl. Banneret, Lieutenant
of Calais, &c. died 1520.
Magdalen, Daughter of Sir Robert
OxENBRiDce, Knt, died in t;44.
Sir Nicholas Carew, K. G.
Mailer of iheHorfe to Henry
Vlll. beheaded 1539.
Elizabeth, Daughter of SitThomas
Brian, Knt. and Siller and Co Heir of
SirTHOs.and Sir Francis Brian.
Margaret,
Wife of Jo HK
St. John.
Eliza
BETH
, Wife
of Sir
Tho
Fet-
TYPL
ACE,
Knt. 1
Mary. Wife
of Sir Wm.
Pelham.
Anne, Wife of Ni-
cholas Leigh,
of Addington.
Sir Francis Carew, died without
l/Tue 1607, aged 81.
Anne Carew. = Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
Elizabeth, Wife of Hall.
Maria, Wife of Sir Arthur
Darcv.
, Wife of William Saun-
ders, of Ewell.
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, youngeft Son adopted by Sir Francis his Uncle, aiTumed the Name
and Arms of Carew ; died in 1643.
Mary, Daughter of Sir George
More, of Lofely.
Sir Francis Carew, K.i
died in 1649.
Susanna, Daughter of Sir Wi lli am
RoMENEV, died in 1659,
Edmu n d Ca rb'
died in 1654.
Oliph Carew,
died in 1670.
Mary Carew,
died in 1631.
Elizabet
Carew,
Sir Nicholas Carew. Knl.
died in 1687, aged 51.
Susanna, Daughter of Sir Jusi
nian IsHAM, died in 1707,
Rebecca
Carew.
Thomas Tem-
ple, £fq.
SUSANN
Carew
Elizabeth Carew,
died in 1640.
Philippa Carew
died in 1655.
Frances Carew
died in 1641.
Francis Carew, Efq.
died in 1689, aged 26.
Anne, Daughter of Wi l l 1 a m
BoTELER, Efq, died in 16S9.
Sir Nicholas Carew, created a
Bart. 1714. died in 1727, aged 59.
Elizabeth, Daughter of Nicmol
Hacket, Efq. died in 1740.
JusTiKi AN Cari
died in 1668.
RjCHA R D Carew,
died in 16S9.
1
JaneCa
in 16S9,
Ew, died
.ged 2i.
Phil
IP
A Ca
REW,
born
in
1666.
died
in
1744.
Hon. John Beaumont
SonofSAPCOTT Vifc'
BEAUMONTfillHuiband.
JoHK Fountavne, Efq. of
Melton, Yorklhire.
Elizabeth Carew
only Daughter.
Boteler Carew,
born and died in 16S9.
Nicholas Carew, Efq.
died in 1722, aged 35.
Ann, Daughter of Sir Steth en
Lennard, Ban. died in 1722.
Elizabeth Carew
died in 1751.
Richard Gee, Efq.
died in 1791, aged 8;.
An n, Daughter of
Charles Montague, Efq.
_| John Fount AY NE, Dean of
York, fecond Son, new living.
1 Thomas Fouk t ayne, Efq.
eldell Son, died without lltue.
Elizas
Heir 0/
Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew,
Bart, died 1762, aged 42. |""]
Katherine, Daughter of John
Martin, Efq. died in 1762.
T
•
Richard Gee, Efq. the next
the Beddington Ellatc, alTumed thi
Arms of Ca REW, by A€t of Parlia
purfuant to the Will of Sir
BEDDINGTON. 53
that family. The annexed pedigree of the Carew family, which
has been fettled at Beddington for twelve generations, will explain
the fucceflion more diftintlly.
The manor of Bandon " belonged to the Carews, as early as they Bandon
had any property in Beddington ; it took its name probably from
Margery de Bandon, or fome one of that name, whofe property
it was; ^i?rland is mentioned in an old rental of Reginald Forefters.
The manor of Forefter, or Forefters, took its name likewife from Forefters
its owner. Reginald Forefter had a licence for an oratory ^^ in his
manor- houfe, in the parifh of Beddington, in 1347. The manor
is fuppofed to have been of very fmall extent, and appears to have
been alienated to the Carews at an early period.
Frere's manor in this parifh belonged to the hofpital of St. Frere's
Thomas, In Southwark, and was granted to Nicholas de Careu
temp. Ric. II. in exchange for fome lands in Lambeth ".
I find one record relating to a manor, which by the date ^* appears Archbilhop
to be diftin(3: from any of the above-mentioned; it is a grant manor.
from the archbifhop of Nazareth ^\ in the reign of Edward III.
of his manor of Beddington, to John Burgeys, citizen of London,
for thirteen years.
The manor-houfe at Beddington is fituated near the church ; Beddington
. f, manor-houfe.
It IS built of brick, and occupies three fides of a fquare : the
centre confifts of a large and lofty hall, with a beautiful Gothic roof
of wood ; the north wing is a mere fhell, the infide having been de-
ft:royed by fire, foon after the houfe was rebuilt in its prefent form,
about the year 1709. The great door of the hall has a curious
" It is always joined in the records with ** CI. 26 Edw. III. m. 26. dorfo.
Beddington ; and was held of the king in ca- *' He was one of the bifhops in partibus
pite. Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 70Z5. f. 203. infidelium. There was likewife the bifliop of
" Regift. Winton, W. de Edindon. pt. 2. Joppa, the biihop of Bethlehem, and many
f. 13. a. more. They are ftill continued in catholic
*' Pat. 2 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 19. countries.
ancient
54
BEDDINGTON.
Portraits.
^ir Nicholas
Carew.
ancient lock, very richly wrought ; a fhield with the arms of Eng-
land, moving in a groove, conceals the key-hole.
In the hall is a portrait of a lady, which is falfely fhown as queen
Elizabeth ; her arms are in the corner of the pidlure, viz. Arg. a
fefle Sable, three mullets in chief of the fecond, which arms are
born by Townley. A fmall room adjoining to the hall retains the
ancient pannels with mantled carving ; over the chimney is a fmall
portrait of one of the Carews, furrounded by a pedigree. Another
room has feveral portraits of the Racket family; among which is
a good pi£lure of bifliop Racket, faid to be done by Sir Peter Lely.
In a parlour, at the north end of the hall, are fome other family
portraits; the moft remarkable of which, is that of Sir Nicholas
Carew, who was beheaded in the reign of Henry the Eighth, painted
on board ; a good copy of it, taken fome years ago, when the ori-
ginal was in a more perfect ftate than it is at prefent, is in the
pofleffion of the earl of Orford, at Strawberry-hill, from which the
engraving here given was taken.
Sir Nicholas Carew, at an early age, was introduced to the
court of Renry the Eighth, where he foon became a favourite,
and was made one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber.
Having been employed upon fome public bufmefs in France,
he became, as many other young men have been, fo enamoured
of French fafliions and amufements, that, when he returned to
his own country, he was continually making invidious comparifons
to the difadvantage of the Englifli court ". His majefty, who was
too much of a Briton not to be difgufled at this behaviour, re-
moved him from his perfon, and fentenced him to an honourable
banifhment, appointing him governor of Ruyfbank, in Picardy; to
which government he was forthwith commanded to repair, much
againft his inclination. This little offence, however, was foon pad
" Hall's Chronicle, Hen. VIII. f.68. b.
over.
*»««trf-f'i*'"-^A'»«st»rt?A"So»^ '•HiS^ifSf^
iS ibrdatg dtLf
S^NlCJJOLAS CARKAV, K?^T
^^l,jfu1.ut^in£fKU.U^di.iAjf*.fyTCadea.^iinv\d
BEDDING TON.
55
over, and we find him again employed by the king, and for feveral
years'' his conftant companion, and a partaker with him in all the
jufts", tournaments, mafques, and other diverfions of the fame kind,
with which that reign abounded, and which are defcribed very
much at large in Hall's Chronicle '' ; and as a more fubftantial mark
of his favour, the king appointed him mafter of the horfe, an, office of
great honour, being reckoned the third in rank about the king's
houfehold ^°, and afterwards created him knight of the garter".
His promotion may probably be attributed in fome meafure
to the intereft of Anne Bulleyn, to whom he was related
through their common anceftor, lord Hoo. His good fortune
was not of long continuance ; for in the year 1539, he engaged
in a confpiracy, as we are told by our hiflorians '", with the marquis
of Exeter, the lord Montacute, and Sir Edward Neville ; the objedl
of which was, to fet Cardinal Pole upon the throne ; the accufer was
Sir Geffrey Poole, lord Montacute's brother: the trial was fummary,
and the confpirators were all executed. Sir Nicholas Carew
was beheaded on Tower-Hill, the 3d of March 1539 ; when he
made, fays Holinflied, " a godly confeffion, both of his fault and
»' Hall's Chronicle, & Pat. 11 Hen. VIII.
pt. 2. May 20.
^* " Sir Henry Guyldford, and Nicholaus
" Carewe, had each of them from the (landing
" wardrobe, fix yards of blue cloth of gold to-
" wards a bafe and a trapper, and fifteen yards
" of white cloth, of filver damafk, to perform
" another bafeand a trapper for the king'sjulls,
" appointedto be at Greenwich, for the French
•• ambafladors." Anftis'sRegiller of the Gar-
ter, vol. ii. p. 241.
^9 Henry VIII. f. 77. b. 91. b. 134.3.
See Hkewife, Holinfhed, Stow, and Baker,
pt. 3. p. 15 &33.
3° Pat. 14 Hen. VIII. pt. 2. July iS; the
falary was 40 1. per annum.
3' The following account of the robes
worn by Sir Nicholas Carew, at his elec-
tion, is printed in Anilis's Regiller of the
Garter, vol. ii. p. 250. from the original
warrant, in the office of the great wardrobe :
" Pro 22 virg. velvet crimfin pro una toga
" et uno capucio pretii cujuflibet virg. 17.
" Pro 16 virg. taftetaalb. prolinin.cjufdem.
" Pro 26 virg. vil. blod. pro un. mantel.
" pret. cujuflibet 18.
" Pro 1 8 virg. taffeta alb. pro linura ejufd.
" Pro 18 unc. dim. feric. blod. pro laquez
" knopes, button et talTels pro eifdem robis ad
" 16 d. le unc.
" Pro 18 unc. di. auri pro eadem caufa ad
" 5 s. le unc.
" Pro 6 button magn. de auro pro eildem
" laqucz4s. Sum. 661. 19s. 2d. nova empta."
3^ Baker's Chron. pt. 3. p. 49. Hall's
Chron. Hen.\III. f. 234. a. Holinlhed's
Chron. vol. ii. f. 1572.
fuper-
S6 BEDDINGTON.
fuperftitious faith." The old countefs of Salifbury was beheaded
fome time afterwards, upon a charge of being privy to this con-
fpiracy. Fuller" mentions a tradition of a quarrel which happened
at bowls between the king and Sir Nicholas Carew, to which he
afcribes his majefty's difpleafure, and Sir Nicholas's death. The
monarch's known caprice, his hatred of the papifts, to whom Sir
Nicholas was zealoufly attached, the abfurdity of the plot, and the
improbability of its fuccefs, might incline us to hearken to Fuller's
ftory, if Sir Nicholas alone had fuffered ; but as he had fo many
partners in his punifhment, with whom it is not pretended that the
king had any quarrel, it will be more fafe perhaps to rely upon the
account given by our annalifts. Sir Nicholas Carew was buried in
the church of St. Botolph, Alderfgate, in the fame tomb with
Thomas lord Darcy, and others of his family. A fmall monument
to their memory, fupported by Corinthian columns, was preferved
when the church was rebuilt, and is placed againft the weft wall
of the porch. The infcription merely enumerates the perfons in-
terred there, amongft whom are Sir Nicholas Carew, K. G. his wife
Elizabeth, his daughter Mary, and her hufband Sir Arthur Darcy.
The arms and quarterings of the Darcys and Carews are almoft
obliterated with white paint, which has disfigured the whole
monument.
Sir Francis When Sir Francis Carew became poflefTed of the inheritance of
C'srcWt
his anceftors, which had been forfeited by his father's attainder, he
rebuilt the manfion-houfe '* in a very magnificent manner, and laid
out the gardens, which he planted with choice fruit trees; in the
cultivation of which he took great delight, and fpared no expence
in procuring them from foreign countries. The firft orange trees
feen in England, are faid to have been planted by him. Aubrey
" Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2. p. 96. " Aubrey's Surrey, vol. ii.p. 160.
fays
BEDDINGTON. 57
fays they were brought from Italy by Sir Francis Carew ; but the
editors of the Biographia ", fpeaking from a tradition preferved in
the family, tell us, they were raifed by Sir Francis Carew from the
feeds of the firft oranges which were imported into England by Sir
Walter Ralegh, who had married his niece, the daughter of Sir
Nicholas Throckmorton : — the trees were planted in the open ground,
and were preferved in the winter by a moveable fhed ; they
flourlfhed for about a century and a half, being deftroyed by the
hard frofl in 1739-40. In the garden was a pleafure-houfe, on the
top of which was painted the Spanifh invafion. In the month of
Auguft 1599, Queen Elizabeth paid a vifit to Sir Francis Carew Queen Eliza-
at Beddington, for three days, and again in the fame month, the ^^ sviut.
enfuing year^*; the queen's oak, and her favourite walk, are ftill
pointed out.
Sir Hugh Piatt tells an anecdote in his Garden of Eden ", relating Anecdote of
to one of thefe vifits; which fhows the pains Sir Francis took in the '^' ^"^*^"
management and cultivation of his fruit-trees.
" Here I will conclude, fays he, with a conceit of that delicate knight
" Sir Francis Carew, who, for the better accomplifhment of his royal
" entertainment of our late Queen Elizabeth, of happy memory, at
*' his houfe at Beddington, led her majefty to a cherry-tree, whofe
" fruit he had of purpofe kept back from ripening, at the leaft, one
" month after all cherries had taken their farewell of England. This
" fecret he performed by {training a tent, or cover of canvas, over
" the whole tree, and wetting the fame now and then with a fcoop
" or horn as the heat of the weather required ; and fo by withhold-
" ing the fun-beams from refledting upon the berries, they grew both
" great and were very long before they had gotten their perfeft
" cherry-colour: and when he was affured of her majefty's coming,
^^ Biograph. Brit. edit. 1748. article, '+ Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 118.
Ralegh, in the notes. and 210. ^' P. 165.
Vol. I. 1 " he
38 B E D D I N G T O N.
** he removed the tent, and a few funny days brought them to their
" full maturity."
The church. The church of Beddington confifts of a nave, two aifles, and a
chancel ; at the weft end is a fquare tower with buttrefles, embattled.
The prefent ftrudure was probably ereded in the reign of Richard the
fecond, being built in the ftyle of architedure ufed at that time ; and
the claufe in Nicholas de Carru's will of that date, who leaves 20I.,
then a very confiderable fum, towards the building of the church,
ferves as an additional confirmation of this conjedure. At the
weft end of the north and fouth aifles, are fome ancient wooden
ftalls ; the font, which is of an early date, is large and fquare, and
fupported by four pillars. The pulpit was probably given by Sir
Francis Carew, being of mantled carving of the fame form with that
of the old room in the manor- houfe. The pillars which leparate the
nave from the aifles are plain, and of rude workmanfhip. The altar-
piece, the communion-table, the rails, and the pavement of the
chancel, were the benefadion of Sir John Leake '*, in the year
1710.
Monuments. In the chaucel are feveral brafs figures of the Carew family on flat
ftones; the infcriptions of moft of them are gone. The tomb of
Nicholas Nicholas Carew and Ifabella his wife, which is quite perfed, is
ftcon'd of that engraved on the oppofite page ; the figures are of the larger fize j
name, ieuled ji^g ^oman's arms are two lions paflant ". This Nicholas Carew
at Bedding- *
'on- was fon to the keeper of the privy feal ; he was knight of the fhire
for Surrey in the feventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth years of
^* Sir John Leake was a very eminent naval cither at the country-houfe which he had long
officer, he was captain of the Eagle in the had as an occaiional retreat, at Beddington ;
battle of La Hogue ; he relieved Gibraltar or at a little box which he built by the water-
when bcfieged, and performed other eminent fide at Greenwich. Life of Sir John Leake,
fervices for his country. After the death of 8vo. 1750, p. 45;, 456.
Queen Anne he was removed from all em- s' Delamar bears Gul. two lions palTant.
ployment, and was obliged to retire upon a Arg. See the pedigree,
penfion: the remainder of his life was fpent
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B E D D I N G T O N. 59
Richard the fecond, and died in 1432 ''. His wife Ifabella died many-
years before him ; and he afterwards married Mercia, daughter of Ste-
phen Heyme " ; for this, his fecond lady, Henry Sever, D. D. by his
will, 1 47 1, ordered an obit to be obferved for ever in Merton College,
Oxford. On the adjoining ftone are brafs plates with figures of two
of the Carew family, of a fmaller fize ; the infcriptioa has been torn
off: feveral others have been either taken away entirely, or
much mutilated ; and fome are concealed by the pews.
At the fouth eaft corner of the church is a fmall allle, eredled either
by Sir Richard Carew or his fon Sir Nicholas, for the fepulture of the
Carew family : Sir Richard was the firft who was interred there (anno
ic2o); and the architedure is of that period. Sir Richard Carew's J.°!"^ P^^""
~> I ' ^ ^ Richard Ca-
monument is in the fouth wall, near the door ; under a flat gothic rew.
arch is an altar tomb, on the top of which are fmall brafs plates re-
prefenting Sir Richard Carew and his lady ; he is in armour, with a
furcoat, on which are the arms of Carew ; the infcription round the
edge of the tomb is mutilated, but there is enough left to inform us
that he died in 1520. His wife Malyn (or Magdalen) was daughter
of Sir Robert Oxenbridge, whofe arms, gules, a lion rampant arg.
within a border az. bezanty, and thofe of her hufband, are upon the
tomb.
Sir Richard Carew was made a knight banneret at Blackheath'° ;
Henry the feventh appointed him lieutenant of Calais ■", in which
pofl he was continued by Henry the eighth, with remainder to
his fon Nicholas. He officiated as fewer at Archbifliop Warham's
enthronization ■'^.
In the fame aifle, in the fouth eaft corner, Is a very handfome
monument, fupported by Corinthian columns of black marble, to the
^' Baronetage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 159. *' Rymer, vol. xiii. p. Zjz. zgS. &.C.
^' lb. p. 160. *- Leland's Colledlanea, vol. vi. p. i3.
♦' Anftis's Regifter of the Garter, vol. ii.
p. ZjOj &c.
I 2 memory
6o BEDDINGTON.
Monument of memory of Sir Francis Carew ; between the columns lies his effigy in
Carew. complete armour ; on a tablet are fome Latin verfes, which are by no
means remarkable ; they are in the ufual ftyle of panegyric, and re-
cord the royal vifits with which he was honoured ; they are printed
in Aubrey. An infcription over his head mentions the circumftance
of his adopting Nicholas fon of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, his
brother-in-law, to bear his furname, and to inherit his eftate. Sir
Francis died May 16, 161 1, aged 81 : in the lower part of the
monument, under his effigies, are figures of the aforefaid Sir Nicholas
Throckmorton, alias Carew and his wife kneeling, with four fons
habited in long cloaks, and two daughters in ruffs and farthingales :
the monument is likewife ornamented with the arms and quarterings
of Carew ^\
In the fame aifle is a monument to the memory of the lady of Sir
Nicholas Carew, who died in 1638.
In the middle aifle are two flabs with brafs figures and infcriptions
in the black letter ; one, in memory of Martha wife of Fabian Crok-
horne, who died in 1576; the other, of Catherine, wife of Robert
Berecroft, who died in 1507. — The arms are three bears.
Againfl: the wall of the north aifle is a tablet in a wooden frame,
with the following quibbling epitaph :
" Mors fuper virides montes."
" Tho. Greenhill, borne and bredd in the famous univerfity of
" Oxon, Batchelor of Artes, and fometymes ftudent in Magdalen
♦' Thefe coats of arms form a border round impaling Gules, a dexter arm Proper, habit-
the tablet which contains the infcription ; they cd with a maunch Erm. holding a fieur-de-
are as follow : — i. Q2arterly Sab. & Arg. for lis Or, for Mohun. 5. Carew impahng Hoo.
Hoo. impaling Or, a lion rampant, double 6. Carew impaling Arg. 3 piles wavy ilTuing
queued Sable for Welles. 2. Or, 3 lions paf- out of the chief, and nearly pieeting in bafe
fant Sable for Carew, impaling Gules, a lion Vert, within a border Az. bezanty for Bryan,
rampant Argent within a border Az. bezanty, 7. Carew impaling Azure on a crofs Argent^
for Oxenbridge. 3. Argent, three fnakes 5 martlets Sable for More of Lofely.
nowed Proper for Odron an Irilh barony,
" Coll.
BEDDINGTON. 6i
" Coll. fteward to the noble knight Sir Nicholas Carew of Beding-
" ton, who deceafed
" Sept. 17 day, anno 1634."
" Will. Greenhill, raafter of artes, his brother, and Mary his fifter,
" ereded this : —
" Under thy feete interr'd is heare,
*' A native borne in Oxfordfheere ;
" FIrft life and learning Oxford gave,
" Surry to him his death and grave ;
" He once a Hi/If was frefli and Greene^
" Now withered, is not to be feene ;
" Earth in earth fhovell'd up is fliut,
" A Hill into a hole is put.
*' But darkfome earth, by power divine,
" Bright at laft as the fonne may fhine.
" W. G."
In the chancel is the monument of Elizabeth wife of William
Chapman, who died in 1718 ; near the altar the tombs of Thomas
Pope, redor, who died in 1650, and Richard Reddal, redtor, who
died in 1707. In the porch is the tomb of John Cox, redor, who
died in 1669 ; and in the church-yard, that of Charles Berriman,
alias Brandon, re£tor, who died in 1671.
Aubrey gives the dimenfions of the church thus : the length, thirty
yards ; the breadth, eleven yards and three quarters.
The church of Beddington is dedicated to St. Mary ; it is in the
diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery of Ewell ; the benefice
is a redory in the patronage of the Carew family ; it formerly be-
longed to Bermondfey abbey, to which it was given in the year
1 159, by Sibella de Wateville, and Ingram de Fountenays "*. The
♦+ Dugdale's Monaft. Appropriation of the f. 72. b. anno 1307. Licence to appro-
church of Beddingto:i to St. Saviour's, Ber- priate. Pat. 22 Edw. III. pt. 3. m. 10.
mondfsy, Regill. Winton. Hen. Woodlock.
I 3 ' redory
64 BEDDINGTON.
re£lory of Beddington was taxed in 1291 at forty marks; out of
which 100 {hillings was paid to the prior of Bermondfey. In 1454,
there was a commiflion to inquire into the value of the re£tory *' ; in
the certificate which was returned to the bifhop, was a fpecific ftate-
ment of its revenues. As it appears to be a curious record, and is the
only one of the kind which occurs in the regiftry at Winchefter, I
fhall give it at large, with a tranflation.
Certificate of the Value of the ReElory of Beddington^ I454«
£,' s. d.
De 6 quart, fri. per le q. 5s. (6 quarters of wheat at
5s. per quarter) - - - 1100
De 60 quart, ordei per le q. 3s. {60 quarters of barley
at 3s.) - - - 900
De 20 quart, aven. per le q. 2od. (20 quarters of
oats at 2od.) - - - i 13 4
De pifis et taris (of peas and tares) 068
De 30 agnellis ad 6d. {30 lambs at 6d. each) 0150
De 160 veller. lanne ad 2d. ob. (160 fleecesof wool at 27) i 13 4
De aucis et porcellis (tithe of geefe and pigs) 060
De canap. decim. (tithe of hemp) 015
De fen. decim. (tithe of hay) o i
De decim. vaccarum & vitularum (tithe of cows and
calves) - - -02
De decim. pomorum & nucum (tithe of apples and
nuts) - -
De decim. molendlni (tithe of the mill)
De oblationibus (offerings)
De cunlculis & columbis Nicholai Carew (tithe of the
rabbits and doves of Nicholas Care w) o 13 4
o
0
2
6
0
16
8
0
18
0
Regift, Winton. Waynflete, vol. i. pt. 2. f. 33. b. 37. a. b. & 38. a.
De
BEDDINGTON.
6j
De cunlculls Synclo (tithes of Synclo's, probably Saint-
low's rabbits)
De ftramine & kafF (ftraw and chaff)
De terris redtor. (glebe lands)
iOn the feaft of the puri-
fication of the Virgin!
Mary, and for the puri- 1
fying of other women,
020
0 14
1 00
DEDUCTIONS OR REPRISES.
Pro colledl. lanae et agnell. (for colleding the wool
and the lambs) _ _ _
Pro colled, et cariag. bladi (for coUeding and carry-
ing the grain) _ _ _
Pro triturat. fri. premifl". (for threfhing the faid wheat)
Pro trit. orde. (for threfhing the barley)
Pro trit. aven. (for threfhing the oats)
Pro trit. pif. et tar. (for threfhing the peas and tares)
Pro pane, vino, thure & cer. (for bread, wine, frank-
incenfe and wax) _ _ _
Pro funibus campan. (for bell-ropes)
Pro Do. archd. (the archdeacon's fees)
Pro medietat. decim. (moiety of the tithing)
Pro repar. annual, (for annual repairs)
Pro negoc. eccle. (for the bufinefs of the church) -
Propenf. abb. Berm. (the abbot of Bermondfey'spenlion)
Sum. (fum total of receipts) - - 21
Onerum (dedudlions or reprifes) - -11
De claro (clear profits) - . - g
The redory is rated in the king's books, at " ^3 6 8
I
16
8
0
3
2
I
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
6
0
3
4
0
I
8
0
9
87
I
0
8
I
0
0
0
6
8
5
0
0
2 3
15 4t
15 lot
After
H
BEDDINGTON.
Free portion.
Richard
Benefe.
Leng, bilhop
of Norwich.
After the attainder of Sir Nicholas Carew, the advowfon of the
re£tory was for fome time in the pofle/Tion of the crown. Heni;y
the eighth prefented to it in 1542 **. Sir Francis Carew *' re-pofleffed
it with the reft of his anceftor's property, and it ftill remains annexed
to the eftate.
There was hkewife in the church of Beddlngton, a finecure bene-
fice, called a free portion"', the patronage of which was annexed to
Hufcarl's manor*', and went afterwards to the Carews'"; it was
generally called Hufcarl's, or Carew's Portion. In 1291, it was
valued at fifteen marks, out of which it paid two marks to Bermond-
fey abbey. In 1473 '", there was a commiflion from the bifhop of
Winchefter, to inquire into the nature and profits of this portion ;
v/hich, by the certificate, appears to have arifen principally from tlie
tithes of two hundred acres of land, called Hufcarl's fewde, on the
north of the church ; it had Hkewife annexed to it a houfe, and twenty
acres of land on the fouth fide of the church ; the clear profits were
then eftimated at only forty {hillings. In the king's books, it is valued
at 8 1. I2s. id. It is now in lay-hands, and belongs to the
Carews. Richard Benefe, prefented by Henry the eighth in 1540,
is the laft portionift on record '\ He was canon of Merton
Abbey, and author of a book on Menfuration of Land, of which
there was a very early edition primed in St. Thomas's hofpital.
John Leng", afterwards bifhop of Norwich, was inftituted to the
re£tory of Beddington, in the year 1708, which he held till his
death. He was a native of Norfolk, and was of Catherine-Hall,
Cambridge. In 1695, he publifhed two of the comedies of Arifto-
phanes, with notes; and in 1719, preached the fermons at Boyle's
*® Regill. Winton. GarJiner, f. 46. a. al. Regift. paffim.
*' lb. Home, f. 117. a. '' Waynflete, pt. 2. f. 161. b. — 163. b.
♦' It is called, libera et abfque cura, Regift. '^ lb. Gardiner, f. 41. a.
Winton. H. Woodloclc. f. ii7.b. " I am indebted for moft of the particulars
*' lb. R. de AfTerius, f. 15. a. &Jo. deStrat- concerning bilhop Leng, to his grandfon, the
ford, f. 136. a. Reverend James Pettingal.
'" ]b. W. deEdyndon. pt. i. f. 92. b. et in
Leflures,
1580 — 1589 - 9^ - - 7 Comparative
B E D D I N G T O N. 65
Le£lures, which are printed ; a fet of his Sermons preached at Tun-
bridge, and a few others upon occafional fubjedts, are alfo extant.
He was made bifliop of Norwich in 1723, and died at the age
of fixty-two, of the fmall-pox, which he caught at the coronation of
George the Second. He lies buried in the church of St. Margaret,
Weftminfter, where is a monument to his memory. Richardfon,
in his Continuation of Godwin ", calls him a man of the firfl-
rate genius and abilities. A miniature portrait of the bifhop, repre-
fenting him as a young man in a gown and band, and with a brown
flowing peruke, is in the poffeflion of his grand- daughter, Mifs
Pettingal.
The prefent incumbent is John Bromfield Ferrers, A. M.
The regifter of this parifh begins in the year 1538. Parlfti reglf-
ter.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
ilate of popu-
1680 — 1689 - 8 - - II '"ion-
1780 1789 - 22 - - 17
The increafe of population has been principally at Wallington.
The number of houfes in the parifh is now about one hundred.
Several entries occur in the regifter relating to the Carew family,
five of whom were buried within four months, in the year 1689.
Eight perfons are faid to have died of the plague in 1594; in piagne
1603, there were ten burials ; in 1625, eleven j in 1665, there are ^^^"'
no entries.
One inftance of longevity is recorded : Longevity.
*' William Stuart, commonly called Old Scott, aged one hundred
and ten years and two montiis, was buried Jan. 31, 1704-5."
The hamlet of Wallington, in the parifli of Beddington, at the Walling-
time of the Conqueror's Survey, gave name to the hundred ; it was
afterwards called Croydon Hundred, but has of late refumed its ori-
" Godwin de Prxfulibus, edit. 1743. p. 445. " vir ingenio et eruditione inter primes clarus."
Vol. I. * K ginal
66. B E D D I N G T O N.
ginal appellation. The hamlet is fituated on the banks of the Wandle,
and is more populous than the village itfelf, containing about fixty
houfes. At this place is a large manufii£lory for printing of calico,
belonging to Mr. Kilbourn, which employs a confiderable number
of hands.
Old chapel. In a field near the road is an ancient chapel, built of flint and
ftone. It has been new roofed, and is now ufed as a cart-houfe and
ftable ; the ftone work of the windows is entire ; the eaft window
has been flopped up, on each fide of which is a niche of rich Gothic
architecture j and in the fouth-eaft corner is a third for the holy
water. The prefent proprietor was about to pull down this chapel,
but was oppofed in his intention by the parifliioners. From the total
filence of the records, (and perhaps there are more relating to this pa-
rifh in the regiftry of Winchefter than to any other in the diocefe,) I
fhould prefume that it was only a private chapel. From the appear-
ance of the windows, and of the niches above-mentioned, it feems to
be of confiderable antiquity.
Manor of The early records relating to the manor of Wallington, are very
Wailington. uufatisfadlory ; the name of that place being anciently written Wale-
ton, in common with Walton-upon-Thames, and Walton-on-the-
Hill, in the fame county, and without any diftindion to difcriminate
them, except when the hundred is mentioned. Salmon ", by not
attending to this circumftance, has aflerted, that two manors are
defcribed in Wallington, in Doomfday ; the hundreds are there fpe-
cified, and only one manor is mentioned in Wallington, (in the
hundred of that name,) which was held by the king in demefne ;
the land was of eleven carucates, and was valued, in the time of the
ConfefTor, at 15I. then at lol. I fliall not take notice of any fub-
fequent alienations of the manor of Wallington, except fuch as I find
appropriated to that hundred. Henry the Second granted a certain
part thereof to Maurice de Creon ", who gave it to Guy de la Val
'♦ Antiquities of Surrey, p. 45. '* Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 313. f. 20.
with
BEDDINGTON. e-j
with his daughter: this Guy took part with the barons againft king
John, who feized upon his property here, and granted it to John
Fitz-Lucy, who forfeited it by remaining in Normandy : the king
then gave it to Euftache de Curtenay. Katharine Lodelowe ^'^ died
feized of this manor for term of life, 17 Ric. II. which fhe held by
an enfeoffment made with the king's licence, by Olde Poynand.
In Henry the Eighth's time, it was granted to Sir Nicholas Carew";
and after his attainder, paffed through the hands of Sir Edward
Dymock '* and Sir James Harrington, the latter of whom alienated
it to Sir Francis Carew"; it has fmce defcended with the other
eftates of the Carews.
At Woodcote, in the parifh of Beddington, which is now a fingle Woodcote.
farm-houfe, have been found many remains of antiquity, which
tend to prove it to have been a Roman ftation. Camden and fome
other learned antiquaries contend, that it was the city of Novioma-
gus, mentioned by Ptolemy ; whilft others are equally pofitive, that
this city mud have been in Kent: but as the matter, after all thefe
arguments, ends in conjedure, I conceive it would be but an unfatif-
fadlory entertainment to the generality of my readers, were I to de-
tail them. They who wifh to fee the argument treated of at length,
may confult Aubrey's Surrey'", Camden, Dr. Gale's, Mr. Burton's'",
and Mr. Talbot's Commentaries on Antoninus's Itinerary ", and Som-
ner's Defcription of Canterbury.
Salmon fays, that foundations of buildings have been difcovered,
and urns, fpear-heads, and other remnants of antiquity dug up,
both at Beddington and Wallington ; but I cannot find that any
difcoveries of that kind have been made of late years.
5° Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 708. Col- " Pat. 37Eliz.pt. 12. Mar. i.
leftion of Efcheats. "" Vol. ii. p. 151. 159.
" MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 4705. Ayfcough's " P. 175, 176, 177.
Cat. '' Printed at the end of the third voliune of
" Pat. 36 Eliz.pt. 7. Ap. 2. Leland's Itinerary, p. i^o.
K2
[ 68 ]
CAMBERWELL.
Name. ' | ^HE name of this parlfh, in the Conqueror's Survey, is
JL written Cambrewelle j in moft of the records of a fubfe-
quent date, it is called Camerwell; in Aubrey's time it had regained
its former appellation, with the tranfpofition of a letter, being fpelt
Camberwell; which name it ftill retains. I can find nothing fa-
Etymology, tisfadory with refpedl to its etymology; the termination, indeed,
feems to point out fome remarkable fpring; a part of the parilh is
called Milkwell, and a mineral water was difcovered fome years ago
near Dulwich.
Situation and C amberwell lies in the hundred of Brixton, and is fituated about
three miles from Blackfriars-bridge. The parifh is bounded by
thofe of Newington- Butts, St. George-Southwark, and Rother-
hithe on the eaft; by Deptford and Beckenham in Kent on the
fouth ; by Croydon, and the detached part of Batterfea about Penge,
on the weft ; and by Lambeth on the north. The land is divided in
nearly an equal proportion between arable, pafture, and gardens ; in
the latter I include about 300 acres, occupied by farmers and
cowkeepers, which are generally cultivated for garden crops, to fup- ■
ply provifions for their cattle. The foil in general is fertile, and is
much improved with manure ; which is procured eafily, and in great
abundance from London. Camberwell alone, exclufive of Peckham,
(but including, I apprehend, Dulwich, which is not mentioned in that
furvey,) is faid, in Doomfday, to contain five plough lands. The
whole parifli is aflefled 1 30 1 1. 2 s. 3d. to the land tax ; of which, Cam-
berwell
C A M B E R W E L L. 6g
berwell pays 706I. 14s. 9 d. Peckham,53i 1. 8s. 6d. and Dulwich,
62 1. 19s.; the proportion at Camberwell, is 1 s. 9 d. in the pound ;
which, in confequence of improvements and new buildings, is
about to be lowered to is. 6d. ; at Peckham they pay 2 s. in
the pound, which is alfo about to be lowered ; at Dulwich, the
proportion is 4s. in the pound.
The diftridl of Camberwell, formerly comprehended one manor Manors,
only; which was held of the Confeflbr by Norman, and of William
the Conqueror, by Haimo the fherifF; it was valued at 12I. Soon
after the Conqueft it was divided, and eventually became feveral dif-
tindl manors.
The manor of Camberwell Buckingham's, fometimes called Cam- Camberwell
berwell and Peckham, which was held of the king in capite, be- ham's,
longed to Robert de Melhent ' (natural fon of king Henry I.), the
firfl earl of Glocefter after the Conqueft, to whom' it was granted
probably by his father. It pafTed, after his death, with the title, fuc-
ceflively to his fon William; to John, fon of king Henry the Second,
afterwards king of England, who married Ifabell, one of the daugh-
ters and cc-heirs of William ; to Ifabell's fecond hufband, Geoffrey
de Mandeville ; to Almeric de Eureux, fon of Mabel, another
co-heir of Earl William; to Gilbert de Clare, fon to Amicia, an-
other of the co-heirs; to his fon Richard, and to his two immediate
defcendants, both Gilberts; to Hugh, lord Audley *, who married
Ifabella, fifter and co-heir of the laft Gilbert. Hugh, earl of Glo-
cefter, died in 1347. His daughter and heir, Margaret, married
Ralph, the firft earl of Stafford, who thus became poffelTed of the
manor of Camberwell, which continued in that family till the at-
tainder of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, in 1521. It
was then granted to John Scott \ who had been the duke's tenant.
• Di:gdale's Monaft. vol.i. p. 532. without the name of the lord, are in the pof-
^ Some of the Court Rolls of Hugh lord feflion of Jofeph Windham, Efq.
Audley,and others during the reign of Edw. I. ^ Pat. 13 Hen. VIII. pt. i. Feb. 25.
His
70 C A M B E R W E L L.
His grandfon Richard " left the manor between his five fons.
Edgar alienated his fhare in the year 1586 to Edmund Bovvyer, Efq.
which is now, by inheritance, the propei'ty of Jofeph Windham, Efq.
F. R. and A. S. of Earfham-houfe, in Suffolk. The other feve-
ralties were alienated (about feventy years fince) to the Cock family.
Matthew Cock, Efq. fold the reverfion of them in the year 1756
to William Belchier, who becoming a bankrupt, they were fold by
order of the Court of Chancery in the year 1776, and came into
the poffeffion of the late John Halliday, Efq. M. P. for the borough
of Taunton ; and are now the inheritance of his fon, a minor.
A fee-farm rent iffuing out of this manor, was referved to the crown
when the grant was made to John Scott ; it was affigned,
among others, to queen Henrietta Maria for life ^ When the
fee-farm rents were fold, in the reign of Charles II. this was bought
in truft, for Peter Scott \ of whom Mr. Anthony Bowyer purchafed
the fhare, which belonged to his feveralty of the manor.
Manor of The manor of Milkwell, in this parifli, belonged to the brethren
of the hofpital of St. Thomas, in Southwark; who, in confidera-
tion of ten (hillings annual rent in that borough, granted it to the
monaftery of St. Mary Overie \ Upon the fuppreffion of monaC-
teries, it was granted to Sir Thomas Wyat', who was beheaded
by queen Mary. It afterwards belonged to the family of Duke ° ;
and was, in 1609, the property of Sir Edward Duke, Knt. '°; it then
contained about four hundred acres of land, part of which was in
Lambeth parifh. A few years afterwards it was alienated to Robert
Campbell ". I have not been able to trace its proprietors any lower,
♦ Cole's Efcheats. Brit. Muf. Harleian ' Grants of abbey lands, Augmentation-
MSS. 760. p. 396. office.
' Fee-farm Rolls. Augmentation-office. " Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. 8. April 2, and Pat.
* MSS. in the pofleffion of Jofeph Wind- 41 Eliz. pt. 14. March z.
ham, Efq. •° MS. Dulwich College.
' Pat. 33 Edw. I. pt. 1. m.2. " Pat. 13 Jac. I. pt. 34. Nov. 28.
or
Milkwell.
CAMBERWELL. 71
or to find in whom the eftate is now vefted. The manor, which
was held of the king in capite, docs not at prefent exift.
The manor of Camberwell Frerne, or Fryern, was part of thepof- Manor of
Camberwell
feffions of Hahwell priory. It was acquired partly by purchafe, and Frerne.
partly by grant '\ About the reign of king Stephen, Robert earl of
Glocefter gave one hundred acres of wood to Robert de Rothomago,
the latter gave them to the priory. The fame earl madefeveral other
confiderable grants to various perfons, particularly to Thomas de
Tychefey, and Reginald Pointz ; the latter took upon him the crofs,
and left his eftate at Camberwell between his four nephews ; one of
whom, Nicholas Pointz, gave ten acres of land to the nuns of Hali-
well, and they afterwards purchal'ed of him the whole of the fhare
that had been his brother Walter's. Solomon de Bafyng bequeathed
them fome land, called Newelersfeld, and ten acres which had belonged
to William Frango. After the diffblution of monafteries, this manor
was granted to Robert Draper, page of the jewels '\ whofe daugh-
ter married John Bowyer, Efq. of Shepton Beauchamp, in the county
of Somerfet; and it is now, by defcent, and under the will of Edmund
Bowyer, who died in 1718, the property of Jofeph Windham, Efq.
abovementioned.
A fourth manor was conftituted by a grant of lands in this parifh,
from Robert earl of Glocefter, to Thomas de Tychefey '*. From
him they defcended to Gilbert de Eton ", who married Alicia, his
fifter and co-heir. In the reign of Edw. If. thefe lands were granted
by Thomas de Elyngham, and Roger de Bernham, to John de
Owdale '% and from him took the name of Dowdale's manor. Dowdale's,
The Owdales, or Uvedales, were poflefled of this eftate for many manor.
generations, William Uvedale had livery of it in the feventh year
" Dugdale's Monad, vol. i. p. 532. '' CI. z8 Edw. I. m. 10. dorfo.
'2 Pat. 36 Hen. Vlll. pt. 9. July 21. '« CI. 15 Edw. Il.m. 9. & CI. ^Edw. III.
'* Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 532. pt. i.m. 49.
of
72
CAMBERWELL.
Manor of
Camber well.
Manor of
ColdeAbbey.
Manor of
Deptford
S trend.
The church .
of Queen Elizabeth ". The manor is not now known, nor can I find
in whom the eftate is vefted.
An inferior manor, by the name of Camberwell, held of Camber-
well Buckingham's by the fervice of a pair of horfe-fhoes, was the
property of the Scotts " : Francis Mufchamp died feized of it in
1632 "'j and it defcended in the fame manner as the Bretinghurft
eftate, which will be defcribed under Peckham.
The manor of Colde Abbey, held alfo of Camberwell Bucking-
ham's, was the property of the Scotts", and feems to have defcended
through the Bowyers, with their other eftates, to Jofeph Wind-
ham, Efq *'.
The manor of Deptford Strond, which was included in Jane
Seymour's jointure, and was afterwards granted to Sir Thomas Pope
by Queen Mary ^"^ , is partly in this parifh. It is now the property of
Benjamin Way, Efq.
The church is fituated near the road which leads to Peckham and
Greenwich. It is built of flints and rough ftone, and confifts of a
nave, chancel, and two aifles : at the weft; end is a fmall embattled
tower, compofed of the fame materials. A church is mentioned in
Doomfday. In Bifhop Edindon's Regifter at Winchefter, is a com-
miftlon dated 1346, for reconciling Camberwell church which had been
polluted by bloodfhed ". The prefent ftrudure, I imagine, was ereded
towards the beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth. The
architecture of the windows, and of the arches which feparate the nave
" P. R. - Ellz. Rot. 37. Lord Treafurer's tors of this manor, will be given under Dept
Remembrancer's Office. ford,
■s Cole'sEfcheats.HarleianMSS. 7S9-P-2S
•» lb. Harl. MSS. 758. p. 156.
" Jb. 759. p. 25.
^' By Mr. Windham's papers.
" Pat. I Mar. pt. 7. May 30. m. 25.
A more particular account of the proprie-
*' Regift. Winton. W. de Edindon, pt. ii.
f. 5. b. When a church had been polluted
by any accident of this nature, it was former-
ly held necefTary that it Ihould undergo a cere-
mony fomething different from confecration,
which was termed reconciliation.
from
Portraits on Glafs in Camlienvell Clmrcli.
n.J^i^^,.Ar.tif.4n-mf.Ur^.'^yt (. r,i^f//../im,wf
CAMBER WELL.
73
from the alfles, proves that it could not have beea built at a much
earlier period ; and it is probable that the north aifle was built in
1520, having that date in the eaft window. The chancel appears to
be of the fame age; it is of a fingular form, being the fedlion of an
hexagon. The fouth-weft part of the church was much enlarged in
the year 1786. — The new building is of brick.
The eaft window of the north aifle contains feveral portraits paint- Portraits in
'■ '^ the window
ed on glafs. Aubrey" defcribes them as a man kneeling at a fald- of the north
ftool, and his ten fons behind him ; and a woman kneeling in like
manner, with her ten daughters. The window has been much muti-
lated ; the heads, however, of all the men, and nine of the women,
remain : fome of the principal figures are given In the annexed plate,
coloured after the originals. An imperfect infcription is fufficiently
entire to inform us, that they were intended toreprefent the Mufchamp
family: ". . . . Statu Will"' Mufchamp et Agnetis. . . ." The
deficiency may be eafily fupplied from fimilar infcriptions, which fre-
quently occur on church windows : and it may be rendered, " Pray
" for the good eftate of William Mufchamp, and Agnes his wife."
The date, 1520, is ftill preferved. The Mufchamps came to Eng-
land with William the Conqueror. — A branch of that family had
been long fettled at Peckham. That William and Agnes Mufchamp
were intended to be reprefented by the principal figures, is evident :
but Aubrey miftakes in fuppofmg that the remaining figures are their
fons and daughters. It is very certain, that they are not the children
of his wife Agnes, for (he died without iflTue *' : by his other wives,
for he was thrice married, he had a large family ; yet not fo large as
to furnifh fubje£ls for twenty portraits. One of the men in the back
ground appears as old as the principal figure : I take him to be John
*♦ Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 166. *' Pedigree in the Heralds' Vifitations.
Vol. I. L Scott,
74 C A M B E R W E L L.
Scotr, baron of the exchequer, who was brother to Agnes Muf-
champ ; and, I fuppofe, that fome of the men were intended for his
fons.
In the fame window, are two imperfect figures of female faints ;
of one, little more than the head remains ; the other, with a fword in
her hand pointing downwards, is moft probably St. Catherine, who
is generally fo reprefented. This is the figure about which Stow has
fo much idle conjeQure, fuppofing it to be intended for queen
Elizabeth. At the top of this window are angels holding fliields
with the arms of the Mufchamps, and the families allied with them"'.
In the centre of the window are the arms of Sir Thomas Bond, bart.",
with the date 1678. In the north window are the arms of Muf-
champ quartering Welbeck, and impaling Harmonde or Harman ".
This aifle was the burial place of the Mufchamps, and is ftill claimed
for that purpofe by the proprietors of the Peckham eftate.
Monuments. Againft the north wall is a fmall monument with the effigies of
a woman kneeling ; underneath is the following infcription in
capitals :
" Lo ! Mufchas " ftock a fruitfull braunch did bringe,
" Adornde with vertues fit for ladies brighte;
" Sir Thomas Hunt on May day's pleafaunt fpring,
*' Pofleft the Frowe that was his foules delight :
*' Mufchamp bears barry of fix Or and betw. 6 clnquefoils Or for Povey.
Gules, and quarters Arg. on a chevron. Gules '' Wm. Mufchamp's firft wife was the
betw. 3 mafcles Sab. 3 martlets Or, for daughter of Henry Harman, of Cray ford in
Welbeck; another fhield bears cheeky Or and Kent, who bears Arg. a chevron Sab. betw.
Gules ; a third, has feveral coats, fo fmall, 3 perukes proper ; and quarters Arg. on a fefle
confufed, and indiftinifl, that it is impoffible to Sab. betw. 3 pomegranates Or, a muUet
defcribe them; nor do they feem to belong to Argent,
the family. " Mufchamp's— Aubrey miftook it for,
^'' Bond bears Arg. on a chevron Sab. 3 Lomus' chart ftock.
befants and quarters Sab. a bend engrailed
2 " His
C A M B E R \V E L L. 75
" His lovely Jane had two fones by Tho Grimes, Efq. and
" daughters three,
" With wealth and vertues meet for their degree.
" When twice feven yeares, fix monthes, ten dayes, were fpent
" In wedlock bands, and loyall love's delight,
" November twelfth daye, then fhe was content
" This world to leave, and give to God his right :
" Her fixty-three yeares full, complete and ended,
" Her foule to God, to earth her corps commended.
" 1604."
Over the monument are the arms of Hunt, per pale Argent and
Sable a faltier counterchanged ; on a canton of the fecond, a lion
paflant of the firfl.
In the fame aifle are infcriptions to the memory of Francis Muf-
champ, who died in 1612, and his fon Thomas, who died in
In the fouth wall of the chancel, which I take to have been part of Stone (lalls.
the ancient ftrudure, are two ftone flails, and a niche for holy
water, of elegant Gothic architecSlure : the top of them only is feen,
the reft being concealed by fome of the wainfcot which was put up
in 1715 at the expence of Mrs. Katherine Bowyer, widow, who
likewife paved the chancel.
Againft the fame wall is a monument inlaid with brafs plates, re- Skynner's
prefenting the figures of a man habited in a gown, kneeling, his wife
in the fame pofture, and ten children, to the memory of Richard
Skynner, who, as the infcription informs us, died in 1407, and his
wife Agnes, who died in 1499. The very fingular circumftance of
a woman furviving her hulband ninety-two years, has created much
furprife ; but if there had been no error in the dates, the wonder
L 2 would
76
CAMBERWELL.
would not ceafe here, for it would appear that his fons William and
Michael*', who died in 1497 and 1498, furvived their father the one
ninety, and the other ninety-one years ; and that John Scott, his fon-
in-law, who died in 1532, furvived him 125 years: but to put the
matter out of all doubt, Skynner himfelf was living in 1467, in which
year he was bound in a recognizance of lool. to his taylor ^^ ; it is very
evident therefore, that the engraver of the plate committed a great
error ; and that Agnes Skynner's widowhood was of no uncommon
duration.
In the middle aifle, are flabs with figures in brafs of the above-men-
tioned Michael Skynner, and of William and his wife Ifabella ; the
infcription has been torn from the latter; the date is taken from
Aubrey, where it is preferved.
The precatory expreffions which formed the beginning and con-
clufion of almoft every epitaph before the reformation, have been
carefully obliterated in the infcriptions on the tombs of the Skyn-
ners, and others of that age, in the church of Camberwell, either by
the reformers in the reign of queen Elizabeth, or by the puritans in
the laft century : had their zeal been always thus moderate, the anti-
quary would have no reafon to complain of them. Queen Elizabeth
checked the ill directed zeal of her reformers by a proclamation '",
«
Richard
Skynner.
Agnes.
William
ob. 1498.
S. F.
Isabella.
Michael
ob. 1497.
S. P.
Surrey Vifitation, Heralds' College.
Agnes
D' & Coh'.
Eliz. D' &
Coh', Wife of
John Scott,
who died
" CI. 6 Edw. IV.
^' Strype's Annals of the Reformation, vol.i. p. 187.
forbidding
B
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(— '
t—
ti
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CAMBERWELL. i-j
forbidding them " to demolifh or deface any monuments, whether of
" ftone or metal, they being fet up for memory, and not for
" fuperflition."
On the north wall of the chancel is a monument to the memory of Tombs of the
John Scott, Efq. baron of the exchequer, who died in 1532, with
figures on brafs of himfelf, his wife, and eleven -.hildren. The arms
quartered on the tomb, are Scott and Bretinghurft — they impale Skynner.
The Scotts had been fettled for a confiderable time at Camberwell. |
One of that family and defcription is mentioned in a record of the I
reign of Edward the Fourth ". John Scott was appointed third baron
of the exchequer in 1529. His eldeft fon John I find recorded in ]
Holinflied ", on account of fome riots and mifdemeanors in which \
he was concerned with Lord Ogle and Lord Howard, for which they
were all brought before the Star-chamber. He died in the firft year
of Queen Elizabeth ", and lies buried in the fouth aifle, which be- ]
came the burial-place of his family. His brother Edward, who died
in 1538, is buried under a flat ftone, upon which is a brafs plate,
with his figure in armour.
Againft the wall are monuments to the memory of the above-
mentioned John Scott the younger, and Bartholomew his fon^', whofe
firft wife was Margaret, widow of Thomas Cranmer, archbifhop of
Canterbury ; Sir Peter Scott, who died in 1622 ; Peter, his grandfon,
canon of Windfor, who died in 1689, and his wife Margaret, grand-
daughter of Dr. Donne, dean of St. Paul's.
In the chancel, is a monument inlaid with plates of brafs, repre- Tombs of the
fenting the figures of a man and woman kneeling at a table with ^^^^''^'
their children, eight fons and three daughters; underneath, is an
infcription to the memory of John Bowyer, Efq. who died in 15 70, '
^' Cl. 14 Edw. IV. 3s Bartholomew Scott died in 1600. Cole's
" Vol.ii. f. 1507. Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harleian MSS. 760.
^* Cole's Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harleian p. 396. ,
MSS. 756. p. 441. I
and I
78 C A M B E R W E L L.
and of his wife Elizabeth, who, after a fecond marriage to William
Fofter, died in 1605.
This Elizabeth was daughter of Robert Draper, Efq. of Camber-
well. She was married to John Bowyer, Efq. then of Lincoln's Inn,
A. D. 1550. Her wedding clothes are thus defcribed in a MS.
common-place book belonging to her hufband, now in the pof-
feffion of Jofeph Windham, Efq. to whofe politenefs I am indebted
for its communication.
Wedding ap- " Wcdyng apparrcU bought for my wyfFe, Elizabeth Draper, the
zabethDra'- " youngcr, of Camber Well, agaynft 17 die Junii, An. Dni. 1550,
P"- " with defpenfalls."
" Firft, four ells of tawney taffeta, at lis. 6 d. the s. d.
" ell, for the Venyce gowne - - 46 o
" Item, feven yardes of filk chamlett crymfyn at 7s. 6d.
" the yarde, for a kyrtle - - - 52 6
" Item, one yard and a half of tawney velvet, to gard
" the Venyce gowne, at 15 s. the yard - 22 6
" Item, half a yard of crymfyn fattyn, for the fore
♦' flyves - - - 6 8
" Item, eight yards of rufletts black, at 4 s. 6d. the
" yard, for a Dutche gowne
" Item, half a yard of tawney fattyn
" Item, a yard and a quarter of velvet black, to guard
" the Dutche gowne
" Item, fix yards of tawney damafke, at 11 s. the yard,
" for a kirtle - -
" Item, one yard and half-quarter of fkarlett for a
" petycote with plites - - - 20 o
The wedding ring is defcribed as " weying two angells and a
ducket," and graven within with thefe words, " Deus nos junxit
J. E. B. Y. R." The date of the marriage isinferted by Mr. Bowyer
with
IS
0
5
0
17
8
66
0
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with great minutenefs ^°, and with due regard to the afpeds of the
heavens, which at that time regulated every affair of importance.
On the fouth wall of the chancel, is a monument to the memory
of Matthew Draper, brother to Mrs. Bowyer. He died in 1577.
There are alfo the monuments of Hefter, wife of Sir Edmund Bowyer,
who died in 1 66^ ; of Anthony Bowyer, Efq. fon of Sir Edmund,
who died in 1709; and of his wife Katherine, daughter of Henry
St. John, of Beckenham, who died in 1717.
In this church are alfo monuments, in memory of the following Various
' " tombs.
perfons, which are thus fituated : One in the chancel to the memory
of Anne, wife of Sir Robert Vernon, clerk of the Green Cloth, who
died in 1627; one in the fouth aifle to the memory of Robert Waith,
paymafter of the navy to king Charles II. who died in 1685;
Elizabeth his wife, who died in 1667, and Robert his fon,
who died in 1686; another on one of the pillars which feparate
the nave from the north aifle, to the memory of Mrs. Joanna
Vincent, who died in 1654; and her grandfon Vincent, fon of
Henry lord Blayney, an infant. Aubrey has prefcrved the infcrip-
tions of a few others, which are now deftroyed or obliterated ; they
were in memory of the following perfons: Margaret, wife of John
Dove", who died in 1582; Mary Chambers, who died in 1538;
Thomas Stacy, vicar of Camberwell '', who died in 1527; Robert
Maddockes, pay-mafler of the navy to king Charles II. and
' William III. ; Nehemiah Lambert, fchoolmafter, who died in 1700;
3* At the hour of eight, the Dominical let. benvell. The pedigree is traced down to John
ter F ; the moon being in Leo, &c. Dove, S. T. P. the fame probably who is
5' In one of the Surrey Vifications, Isapedi- mentioned by A. Wood, as being a native of
gree of the Doves of Camberwell ; by which Surrey, who took his degrees in divinity at Ox-
it apears, that the ancellors of this John, for ford, and publiflied fome fermons and divers
many generations, had been buried in the controverfial and religious trafts. He died in
parifh church there j and that they were de- 1618. A. Wood. vol. i. p. 368, firft edition,
fcended from Henry Dove, who was (lain at '" Thomas Stacy refigned the vicarage in
Bofworth field, fighting under king Ric. III. 1526, and had a penfion of 12I. per an. af-
He married the daughter of Thomas Brereton, fignedhimoutof.it. Regift. Winton. Fo.y>
©f Cheihiie, who was llkewife buried at Cam- p. i. f. 127. a.-.— 129. a.
Jacob
8o
CAMBERWELL.
Church -yard.
John Hen-
ley's will.
Parifh regif-
ter.
Comparative
fiate of po-
pulation.
«
Jacob Coleby, fchoolmafter, who died in 1651 ; Anthony Stanlake,
who died in 1671 ; and Henry Lyntot, who died in i6oo.
The n^ofl remarkable tombs in the church-yard, are thofe of Sir
Thomas Gardyner, Knt. who died in 1632; Richard Parr, D. D.
who died in 1691 ; Ichabod Tipping, D. D. who died in 1727;
Robert Aylmer, A. M. who died in 1769; (the three laft were fuc-
ceffively vicars of Camberwell ;) of Walter Cock, Efq. who died in
1712; George Roffey, Efq. who died in 1707; Mary, wife of
Henry Vogull, Efq. who died in 1775 ; and Robert Nettleton, Efq.
late governor of the Ruffian company, who died in 1774.
John Henley, of Peckham, by his will dated 15 14", direds,
that his body fliall be buried at Camberwell. He bequeaths to
" the high altar there, 3 s. 4d. ; to the image of our Lady, I2d, ;
" to the child that his wife is withal! in her body, 20 1.; and if it
" happen that the child die before he came of lawful age to marry,
" which God forbid, his father to difpofe of the money as he fliould
« fee fit."
Mrs. Joanna Cock, relid of Walter Cock, Efq. in the year 1717,
gave to the parifh a piece of land to enlarge their church-yard on
the fouth-weft fide, in confideratlon of their paying to her the
annual quit-rent of a pepper-corn.
The regifter of this parifh begins in the year 1558; and it appears,
for the moft part, to have been kept with great accuracy.
Average of baptifms. Average of burials.
1580 1589 23 26
1680— 1689 — l^i — 52
1780— 1789 — 120 143
In the laft period, Dulwich is included : very little parochial duty
was performed there before the prefent century. It may be ob-
'9 Reglft. Winton. Fox, pt, 3. f. 66. b.
ferved,
G A M B E R W E L L. 8i
ferved, that the burials uniformly exceed the baptlfms In a con-
fiderable proportion, which is owing to the great number of ftrangers
and nurfed children interred in this parifh; this happens in fome
degree in every parifh near London ; and is the reafon why a much
more accurate idea of the comparative ftate of population may be
obtained from the average of baptifms, than from that of burials.
It appears that the increafe of population in Camberwell, within the
laft two centuries, has been in a ratio of about five to one; within
the laft hundred years, fomewhat more than three to one ; fo that the
village has been uniformly increafmg, and at no period fo rapidly
as within the laft ten years. It has the reputation of being healthy,
and is a very commodious fituation for thofe perfons who, from in-
clination, or for the benefit of the air, are induced to prefer a
country refidence, though bufinefs calls them daily to the metropolis.
In the year 1787, the inhabitants of the parifti were accurately num-
bered ; they amounted then to 3762 ; the prcfent number of houfes
being about feven hundred and feventy, exclufive of Dulwich col-
lege and the workhoufe, they may now be eftimated at about four
thoufand. The houfes in the Camberwell diftri£t alone, are three
hundred and feven.
In the early part of the year 1603, the regifter is defedtive ; from Plague years.
the month of Auguft, to the enfuing April, there were one hundred
and thirteen burials ; which number, compared with the average of
that period, indicates the plague to have been very fatal. The number
of burials in 1625, was one hundred and one; in 1665, one hundred
and thirty-three ; of which number, thirty-three were from Dul-
wich ; by which it appears, that the fatality of that year was not fo
great as in 1603.
In the year 1684, are recorded the names of fuch perfons as were King's evil.
touched for the king's evil ; a circumftance which I have not obferved
in any other regifter.
" Ann, daughter of George King, touched, aged eighteen years."
Vol. I. M " Barnabas
82 C A M B E R W E L L.
" Barnabas Scudamor touched, aged feven years."
*' John Davis touched, aged one year."
After the reftoration, the multitudes of people who flocked to
receive the benefits of the royal touch, were immenfe. Many of
them were really difeafed ; more perhaps came out of curiofity, and
not a few for the fake of the gold *° which was given to hang about
the neck to complete the cure. To prevent any impofitions, there-
fore, and to give his majefty, who had more patients under his hands
than any phyfician in his dominions, a little refpite, fome reftridlions
were made with regard to the times of healing, and the number of
patients ; and all perfons who applied for cure, were required to
bring a certificate from the minifter and churchwardens of their pa-
rifh, that they had never been touched before, (by which it feems
the difeafe was never to return,) and they were then to go to the
king's chirurgeon, whofe bufinefs it was to examine whether or no
they were proper objects; and if he found them fo, to give them
tickets. A curious paragraph and advertifement, taken from the
newfpapers of that period, will be found in the note *'.
The
♦" It appears by an advertifement in the " there were any more that had not yet been
Mercurius Politicus, that many came twice or " touched. After prayers were ended, the
thrice for the fake of the gold. Feb. 21, 1661. " duke of Buckingham brought a towel, and
Saturday being appointed by his ma- " the earl of Pembroke a bafon and ewer;
4t ««
" jelly to touch fuch as were troubled with the " who, after they had made obeifance to his
•• evil, a great company of poor afflifted crea- " majefty, kneeled down till his majefty had
" tures were met together, many brought in " waftied." Mercurius Politicus, June 21—
" chairs and flalkets, and being appointed by 28, 1660.
" his majefty to repair to the banqueting houfe, " The kingdom having been for a long time
" his majefty fat in a chair of ftate, where he " troubled with the evil, by reafon of his ma-
" ftroked all that were brought to him, and " jefty's abfence, great numbers have lately
" then put about each of their necks a white " flocked for cure. His facred majefty on
" ribon, with an angel of gold on it. In this " Monday laft, touched two hundred and fifty
" manner his majefty ftroked above fix hun- " in the banquetinghoufe; among whom, when
" dred ; and fuch was his princely patience and " his majefty was delivering the gold, one
" tendernefs to the poor afflifted creatures, " (huffled himfelf in, out of an hope of profit,
" that though it took up a very long time, " which had not been ftroked, but his majefty
" his majefty, who is never weary of well- " prefently difcovered him, faying, this man
•' doing, was pleafed to make inquiry whether " hath not yet been touched. His majefty
" hath
CAMBERWELL. 83
The following fingular entries are extracted likewife from the
Regifter.
" May 5, 1658, Rofe, wife of William Hathaway, buried, aged Chiid-bear-
*' 103, who bore a fon at the age of fixty-three." three, and
Her hufband, who was about her own age, furvived her three °"S^^* ^'
years, being buried Od. 3, 1661, aged 105.
The fa£t here recorded is very extraordinary, and taken in all its
clrcumflances unprecedented, I believe, fmce the patriarchal ages.
Though I have not heard of any inftance, upon record, of childbearing
at the age above-mentioned, yet there are a few which approach
very near it ; and fome of the moft eminent men in the medical pro-
feflion are of opinion, that it is neither irapofllble nor incredible
that fuch an event fhould happen.
" June 2, 1687, Robert Hern, and Elizabeth Bozwell, king
and queen of the gipfies, married."
*' Thomas Sweetman, killed by the fall of a chimney in the great
wind, buried Jan. 24, 1689."
" Mary Dickifon, aged above ninety-nine years, buried Jan. 21, inftancesof
« 1702." '°"S"'^-
" Elizabeth Jones, aged 125, buried Nov. 22, 1775."
A few months previoufly to her death, an account of this woman
appeared in the St. James's Chronicle *\ in which it was faid, that
flie retained her faculties perfectly ; that (he remembered being at
" hath for the future, appointed every Friday " till fix of the clock, to attend that fervice ;
" for the cure ; at which time, two hundred " and if any perfons of quality fliall fend to
" and no more are to be prefented to him, who " him, he will wait upon them at their lodg-
" are firft to repair to Mr. Knight, the king's " ings, upon notice given to him." Parlia-
" furgeon, living at the Crofs Guns in RufTel- mentary Journal, July 2 — 9, 1660.
" (Ireet, Covent- Garden, over againft the In the fame paper of July 30— Aug. 6, no-
" Rofe-tavern, for their tickets. That none tice was given, that no more would be touched
" might lofe their labour, he thought fit to till about Michaelmas.
" make it known, that he will be at his home ♦* May 1775.
" every Wednefday and Thurfday, from two
M 2 fervice
C(
((
84 C A M B E R \V E L L.
fervice when King Charles II. was crowned ; and that the nurfe
who attended her in Cambervvell workhoufe, was loi years of
age.
Vicarage. The parifti church is dedicated to St. Giles ; it is in the diocefe of
Winchefter, and in the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a
vicarage, the re(5tory being a lay impropriation ; it was part of the
pofleflions of Bermondfey Abbey, by the grant of William de Mel-
hent, earl of Glocefter, in the year 1154*^ The advowfon of the
vicarage belonged formerly to the Caltons "*. It was granted, toge-
ther with the rectory, to Edmund Bowyer, Efq. by Queen Eliza-
beth*', and is now the property of Jofeph Windham, Efq. In
1 29 1 the redlory was taxed at twenty-four marks** ; the vicarage at
61. 8s. yd. ; in the king's books the latter is rated at 20I.
Vicars. In 1 643, Peter Dawfon, vicar of Camberwell, fhared the fate of
many of his brethren of the eftabUfhed church, and was ejected by the
Puritans. They fubftituted in his room Alexander Gregory*', who
remained there three years ; they then put in John Maynard, " an
" orthodox and godly minifter, and one of the aflembly of divines *' ;"
who proved fo unacceptable to the inhabitants, that they prefented a
petition againft him to the committee for dlfplacing improper
minifters ; but without effed. The redtory was at the fame time
fequeftered, and 50 1. per annum out of it was voted to the minifter
of Ryegate". The fequeftration appears to have been afterwards
taken off, and the right of prefentation reftored to Sir Edmund
Bowyer; for, in 1658, it was prefented to the commiffioners ap-
^ pointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices", that the
*' Dugdale's Monad, vol. i. p. 640. *' Reports of the Commiffioners for dif-
*^ Terrierof Lands in Surrey, 26 Hen .VIII. placing Minifters. Bodleian Library.
& 12 Eliz. Brit. Muf. 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. •" Ibid.
♦' Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 2. Jan. 12. "* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth Li-
** See note, p. 10. brary.
♦' Walker's Lift of ejefted Clergy, p. 233.
redory
C A M B E R \V E L L. 85
re£lory of Camberwell was impropriated to Sir Edmund Bowyer,
patron of the vicarage, to which he had prefented Mr. Richard
Parr, and that the profits of the vicarage were about 140I. per
angum.
Dr. Parr, who was inftituted in 1653 ", was chaplain to archbifhop Dr, Parr.
Ufher, whofe letters he publifhed, with his life prefixed. The
deanery of Armagh, and an Irifh bifhopric, were offered to him, both
which he refufed. In principles, he was a Calvinift; and as a
preacher, fo much admired, that, to ufe Anthony Wood's expi-ef-
fion '*, " he broke two neighbouring conventicles." He publifhed
feveral fermons and devotional trads, and died in the year 1691
at Camberwell, where he lies buried in the church-yard. A monu-
ment was eredled to his memory ; on which, after mentioning the
death of his wife, who was daughter to Sir Roger James, Knt. is in-
fcribed as follows :
" Here alfo lyeth her hufband,
" Rich. Parr, D. D. vicar of this
" place almoft thirty-eight years.
" Ob. Nov. 2, 1 69 1.
" He was
" in preaching, conftant ; in life, exemplary ;
" in piety and charity, moft eminent ; a lover
*' of peace and hofpitality ; and, in fine, a true
" difciple of Jefus Chrift."
The prefent vicar is the Rev. Roger Bentley ; he was inftituted
in 1769, and is the third in fucceflion from Richard Parr above-
mentioned.
In the reign of James I. a free grammar-fchool was founded Grammar-
in this parifh by the vicar, Edward Wilfon ", and endowed with feven
" Camberwell Parifli Regifler. " Pat. 13 Jac. I. pt. 13. Sep. 29.
5* Vol. u. p. 880.
acres
86
CAMBERWELL.
Other bene-
faiSlions.
DuLWICH.
Mineral-
water.
acres of land. The re£tors of Lambeth, Newington-Butts, and St.
Olave, Southwark; the vicar of Carfhalton, the vicar and church-
wardens of Camberwell, the patron of the vicarage, (then Sir
Edmund Bowyer,) with others, were appointed governors. The
above perfons and their fucceflbrs were to have the nomination of
the mailers, and to appoint new governors as vacancies fliould happen.
The number of boys is limited to twelve. The prefent mafter is
Thomas Jephfon, M. A.
Mr. Henry Cornelifen founded two other charity-fchools, Bene-
fadions to the amount of 580 1. have been left towards the fupport of
the fchools; 500 1. of which was a legacy from Mr. Reup. Sir
Edmund Bowyer bequeathed to the parifti three tenements, and five
acres of land ; befides which, it enjoys annual bequefts to the
amount of 61. 13 s. 4 d. (of which, 4 1, was left by Mr. Henry
Smith;) and about 435 1, in money, bequeathed by various
perfons.
The village of Camberwell was lighted and watched by an a6t of
parliament pafTed in the fixteenth year of his prefent majefty.
The hamlet of Dulwich, formerly fpelt Dilwysfhe, is near two
miles from Camberwell, towards the fouth-weft, bordering upon
Kent. The fituation is pleafant, and very retired, no public
road paffing through it except to the neighbouring hamlet of
Sydenham.
In the year 1739, a mineral water was difcovered here in digging
a well at the Green Man, then a place of much refort for parties of
pleafure from London, now a private houfe, and lately the fummer
refidence of the prefent Lord Chancellor. A particular account of the
difcovery was fent to the Royal Society ", by John Marty n, F. R. S.
profeffor of botany at Cambridge. The ftratum of the firft twenty
'♦ Philofophical Tranfaftions, vol. xli. p. 835.
feet,
CAMBERWELL. S7
feet, he fays, was clay mixed with vegetable fubftances ; at the depth
of forty feet, the clay was intermixed with pyrites and ludus hel-
montii. The well being funk to that depth without finding water,
was covered up till the next fpring, when, upon being opened, they
found twenty-five feet of water, of a cathartic quality, much refem-
bling the water of Sydenham Wells, on the Kentifh fide of the
hill.
The firft mention I find of the manor of Dulwich is in the year Manor.
1 127", when it was given by Henry I. to Bermondfey Abbey.
At the fuppreflion of monafteries it was granted to Thomas Calton '*,
and was by Sir Francis Calton alienated to Edward Alleyn, Efq. "
in the reign of James I.
Of Dulwich College and its founder many accounts have been Dalwich col-
publifhed ; but they are fo replete with errors, that I am happy in ^^^'
having an opportunity, through the politenefs of the prefent members,
(by whofe permiffion I have infpeded the MSS. in their pofleflion,)
to give an account, which I flatter myfeJf will be more fatisfadtory
and accurate.
Edward Alleyn was the fon of Edward Alleyn of Willyn, in the Anecdotes of
r T, , 58 , . 1 tl»e founder.
county of Bucks ; his mother was a daughter of James Townley,
Efq. of Lancafhire : he was born in 1566, in Allhallows, Lombard-
ftreet ; where, in Fuller's time, was the fign of the Pie, near Devon-
fhire houfe. Fuller fays, he was bred a ftage player " ; he certainly
went upon the ftage at an early age ", and foon acquired great cele-
brity in his profeffion. Baker *", fpeaking of him and Burbage, fays,
" they were two fuch adors as no age muft ever look to fee the like."
Hey wood calls him " Proteus, for fhapes; and Rofcius, for a
" Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. A. 8. f. no. '» Pedigree Heralds' Coll.
Extrafts from a Chartulary of Bermondfey " Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2. p. 223.
Abbey. «" Biogr. Brit.
5« Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 5. Oa. 1 1. «' Chron. pt. 4. p. 120.
" Pat. 4 Jac. pt. u. May 7.
" tongue."
88 C A M B E R W E L L.
" tongue ''\" Fuller fays, he was the Rofcius of the age, efpecially in
a majeftic part. He is fpoken of alfo in terms of the higheft com-
mendation as an ador, by Ben Jonfon, and others of his contem-
poraries.
It has been a matter of inquiry, how Alleyn fhould have made fo
confiderable a fortune in a profeffion, which, at that time, was not
very lucrative even to the moft eminent "^ To account for this, the
editors of the Biographia fuppofe, that he inherited fome paternal
eftate, and that he improved his fortune by marriage. The tradition
in the college has always been, that he had three wives ; but there
is no certain account of more than two. A letter found among his
MSS. interfperfed with the terms of endearment in which he Dfually
addrelTed his wife, and directed to E. Alleyn, might aflift in giving
rile to this tradition : the letter, which is curious, will be found be-
neath ^* ; it was probably intended for his filler, whofe name was
Elizabeth; the date is 1593 ; at that period he had been married
about a year to Joan, daughter of Agnes Woodward, widow, whofe
fecond hufband was Philip Henflow, with whom Alleyn was after-
** Prolog. toCh.Marloe'sJewofMalta, 1633. " anr forry to hear; but you may thank your
*^ Mr. Malone fuppofes Shakfpeare to have " two fupporters, your ftrong legs I mean,
received about 200!. per annum as a£lor, pro- " that would not carry you away, but let you
prietor, and author. Hillory of the Stage, " fall into the hands of fuch tarmagants ; but,
p. 156. " moufe, when I come home I'll be revenged
'■*■ My good fiveet hart, and loving moufe, " on them; till when, moufe,'! bidfhec fayre-
" I fend thee athoufand con.w;endacions, willi- " well. 1 pray thee friid me word how thou
" ing thee as well as may be ; and hoping " dofte, and doe my harty commendacions to
•' thou art in good hckhe, with my father, " my father, mother, and filler, and to thy
" mother, and filler. — I have no news to fend " owne felf; and fo, fweet hart, the Lord
" thee, but that 1 thanlc God we are all well " blefs thee. From Chelmsford, the 2 of May,
" and in helthe, which 1 pray Gcd to conti- " '593-
" nue with us in the country, and with you in " Thyne ever, and no bodies elfe, by
'* London. But, moufe, I little thought to " God of heaven.
«' hear that which I now hear by you, for it " Edward Allevne.
" is well known, they fay that you were by " Farwell, my mouiin and moufe,
" my Irrd maior's officers, made to ride in " and farwell, Befs DodipoUe.
" a cart, you, and all your fellows, which I « To E. Alle YN£,on the Bank-fide."
wards
C A M B E R W E L L. 89
wards fo much conne£ted. It has been always fuppofed that Allcyn's
wife was the daughter of Henflow, and apparently with fome reafon,
for fhe is not only fo termed in her funeral certificate at the Heralds'
office, figned by the two fenior fellows of the college, but alfo in
the pedigree, figned by himfelf, wherein his arms are impaled with
Henflow. To put the matter however out of all doubt, Mr. Ma-
lone, in confulting the MSS. at Dulwich for his edition of Shakef-
peare, found a memorandum in the founder's own hand-writing, of
his marriage with Joan Woodward, in 1592. She died in 1623,
and AUeyn married a fecond wife of the name of Conftance : what her
furname was, does not appear ; but there are ftrong reafons for fup-
pofing that fhe was a daughter of the celebrated Dr. Donne. It is
faid in the Biographia '% that the founder's arms were upon one of
the organ pipes, impaled with, Azure, a wolf rampant ermine.
Dn Donne bore for his arms, Az. a wolf rampant Arg. In the funeral
certificate of his fon, the wolf is charged with an ermine fpot. Dr.
Donne had a daughter of the name of Conftance, who, at the time
of his death, which happened in 1 631, five years after that
of Alleyn, appears to have been the wife of Samuel Harvey,
Efq. " ; a fadl, by no means adverfe to the conjedlure, which
gains additional fupport from the circumftance of one of her
fitters having been fettled at Camberwell by her marriage with
Thomas Gardyner, Efq. Alleyn, by his will, left to his wife Con-
ftance 1600I., and jewels.
Alleyn was fole proprietor of the Fortune play-houfe in White-
crofs-ftreet, which he built at his own expence ; and which, no
doubt, as he was a favourite adlor, was a fource of confiderable
emolument. He was likewife proprietor of a bear-garden on the
" Edit. 1780. p. 153, in the notes. " Funeral certificate of his father Sir
Thomas Gardyner.
Vol. I. ' N • Bank-
go
CAMBERWELL.
Bank-fide '*, in partnerfhip with Mr. Philip Henflow, long before he
obtained the place of mafter of the king's bears.
Bear-baidng. Bear-baiting was an amufement fo much in fafhion in AUeyn's
time ", that it afforded entertainment to all ranks of people ; and his
garden,
'* Amongft Alleyn's papers is a covenant
of Peter Street's, for the building at the bear-
garden, which was to be fifty-fix feet in length,
and fixteen in breadth. The eftimate of the
carpenter's work was 65 1.
'5 The lateft record which I have feen by July 22, 1721
" gaining place, with fireworks all over him,
" and bull dogs after him ; a dog to be drawn
" up with fireworks after him in the middle
" of the yard ; and an afs to be baited upon
'■ the fame flage." Read's Weekly Journal,
which this diverfion was publicly authorized,
is agrant to Sir Sanders Duncombe, " of the
" fole praftifing and profit of the fighting and
" combating of wild and domeftic beafts with-
•' in the realm of England, for the fpace of
" fourteen years." Pat. 14 Car. pt. 4.
oa. u.
The baiting of bears and other beafts as a
public exhibition for profit, has been revived
more than once, during the prefent century, as
appears from the following advertifements :
" At the boarded-houfe in Marybone-fields,
*' on Monday, the 24th of this inllant July,
" will be a match fought between the wild
" and favage panther, and twelve Englifti
" dogs, for 300I. This match was made be-
At the particular requeft of feveral per-
" fons of dlftiniflion,
" The celebrated white fea-bear, which has
" been feen and admired by the curious in
" moft parts of England, will be baited at Mr.
" Broughton's amphitheatre, this day being
" the 29th inftant. This creature is now fup.
" pofcd to be arrived at his utmoft ftrength
" and perfeflion ; and though there never yet
" was any one of this kind baited in Europe,
" it is not doubted, from his uncommon fize,
" exceffive weight, and more than favage
" fiercenefs, but he will afford extraordinary
" entertainment; and behave himfelf in fuch a
" manner as to fill thofe who are lovers of di-
" verfion of this kind, with delight and afto-
" tween an Englifh gentleman and a foreigner ; " nilhment.
" the latter was praifing the boldnefs and " Any perfon who brings a dog will be ad-
" fiercenefs of the panther, and faid, he " mitted gratis." Daily Advertifer, Ja-
" would lay the above-named fum that he nuary 29, 1747.
" would beat any twelve dogs we had in "We hear there will be a large he tyger
" England. The Englifti gentleman laid the
" wager with him ; the other has brought the
" panther ; and notwithllanding the boldnefs
•' of the creature, twelve to one being odds,
" he defires fair play for his money, and but
" one dog at a time. — Firft gallery, 2s. 6d.
" fecond gallery, 2S. No perfons admitted on
" the ftage but thofe belonging to the dogs.
" The doors to be open at three o'clock, and
" baited on Wednefday next at Mr. Brough-
" ton's amphitheatre, in Oxford-Road, being
" the firft that ever was baited in England.
" He is the largeft that ever was feen here,
" being eight feet in length. He is one of the
•■ fierceft and fwifteft of favage beafts, and it is
" thought will afford good fport. The doors
" to be opened at nine, and the diverfion be-
gin at eleven." Daily Advertifer, Novem-
" the panther will be upon the ftage at five ber 28, 1747.
" precifely. " This day will be baited at the great booth
" Note — Alfo a bear to be baited, and a " in Tottenham-Court, a large Norway bear,
" mad green bull to be turned loofe in the " by two large dogs at a time. None to be
" admitted
CAMBERWELL. gr
garden, probably, yielded him as much profit as his theatre : it was
not licenfed, but was fo well {locked, that when Sir John Darrington,
then raafter of the bears to Queen Elizabeth, was obliged to exhibit
this game to her majefty at a fliort notice '*, he applied to AUeyn
and Henflow for their affiftance. The following is the copy of an
advertifement from this bear-garden, preferred amongft Alleyn's
papers :
" Tomorrow being Thurfdaie, fhal be feen at the bear garden on
" the Bank-fide, a greate match plaid by the gamefters of Eflex,
" who hath challenged all comers whatfoever, to plaie 5 dogges at
" the fingle beare, for 5 pounds ; and alfo to wearie a bull dead at
*' the ftake ; and for their better content, fhall have pleafant fport
" with the horfe and ape, and whipping of the blind bear".
" Vivat Rex."
After the death of Sir John Darrington, the office of " chief
" matter, ruler, and overfeer of all and fingular his majefly's games,
*' of bears, and bulls, and maftive dogs, and maflive bitches," was
granted to Sir William Steward ; who refufing to treat with Alleyti
and Henflow for the houfe and bears on the Bank-fide, they were in-
duced to purchafe his office of him, for the fake of procuring a licence
to bait them.
"admitted under 6d. or 3d. each." lb. " Wednefday flie will have folemn dawncing."
Dec. 27, 1750. May 12, 1600. Sidney Papers, vol, ii.
Bear baiting and boxing foon after the lat- p. 194.
ter date, received a fevere check from the "" Whipping a blinded bear, is performed
magiftrates. The former, I believe, has never " by five or fix men Handing circularly with
been revived. «< whips, which they e,xercife upon him with-
'* One cannot have a better idea of the " out any mercy, as he cannot efcape from
variety of her majefty's amufements, than " them, becaufe of his chain :— he defends
from the following pafl'age in one of Rowland '' himfelf with all his force and (kill, throwing
White's letters to Sir Robert Sidney : " Her " down all who come within his reach, and
" majefly is very well:— this day (he appointes " are not active enough to get out of it, and
" to fee a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope " tearing the whips out of their hands, and
" in the Conduit-court; to-morrow, (he hath "breaking them." Hentzner's Itinerary,
" commanded the beares, the bull, and the printed at Strawberry Hill, p. 42.
" ape, to be baited in the Tilt-yard. Upon
N 2 As
92 C A M B E R "W E L L.
Office of the As the nature of this office is little known, it will, perhaps, be
chief maflcr ^ , . .
of the bears, amufing to my readers, to give a fhort account of it, with copies of
original papers relating thereto. Whenever it was the king's plea-
fure to entertain himfelf, or any of his royal vifitors, with the game
of bear-baiting, it was the bufinefs of the mafter of the game to pro-
vide bears and dogs, and to fuperintend the baiting : and as this
cruel fport deftroyed a great number of the poor animals, he was in-
vefted with the moft unlimited authority to iflue commiffions and to
fend his officers into every county of England, who were empowered
to feize and take away any bears, bulls, or dogs, that they thought
meet for his majefty's fervice. This arbitrary proceeding was little
relifhed by the fubje(3;s"; and the perfons fent to take up dogs, were
frequently ill-treated and beaten, the juftices of the peace often re-
fufing to grant them any redrefs. Some towns, and whole
counties, to avoid thefe difputes, made a compofition with the
mafter of the bears, to fend up a certain number of maftiff dogs
yearly, upon condition, that the commiffion fhould never come into
their neighbourhood. Among AUeyn's papers is an engagement
figned by certain perfons of the town of Manchefter, wherein they
promife to fend up yearly, " a mafty dogge or bytche to the bear-
garden, between Mydfomer and Michaelmaffe." The mafter of
"'Whoever happens to look into the re- fervice, as he himfelf informs us in his Life, at
cords of this period, will have reafon to be the end of that work :
very thankful that he did not live in an age " Thence for my voice, I muft (no cholfe)
when his property was every moment liable " Away of force, like porting horfe,
to be feized to furnifti entertainment for the " For fundry men had placards then,
court. A few references to the Patent Rolls " Such childe to take."
will ftiow to what extent thefe arbitrary fei- ., Commiffion to George Buck to take up as
zures were carried. " A commiffion to take » ^any paynters, embroiderers, taylors, &:c. as
" up well finging children, for furniOiing the .< jje Ihall thinke neceffary for the office of the
" queen's chapel," Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. 6. Jan. 10. .. revels," Pat. i Jac. pt. 24. June 23. " Com-
Pat. 9 Eliz. pt. 10. ap. 18. & Pat. 39 Eliz. .. miffion to Andrew Pitcairn, to take up
pt. 9. July 15. dorfo. Tuffisr, who wrote .. hawks for his majefty's recreation, and*
the poem, entitled " Five Hundred Points of .< pigeons and hens for the keeping of them."
" good Hulbandry," was impreffed upon this Pat. 5 Car. I. p. I. Oft. 30.
the
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the bear-garden, in Queen Elizabeth's time, was allowed to have
public baitings on Sundays in the afternoon '" ; which liberty was
taken away by James L Alleyn complains much of this in a peti-
tion which he prefented to the king ; in which he alfo prays for an
increafe of falary. The whole petition is curious, and throws fo
much light upon the nature and prevalence of this diverfion, that I
fhall make no apology for inferting it at length ; and with it fhall
clofe this digreflion upon bear-baiting :
" To the king's moft excellent majefty, the humble petition of
" Philip Henflow, and Edward Alleyn, yourmajefties fervants.
" Whereas it pleafed your moft excellent majefty, after the death
** of Sir John Darrington, to grant the office of mafter of your
•' game of bulls, bears, and dogs, with the fee of fixteen pence
•' per diem unto Sir William Steward, Knt. ; at which time the howfe
*' and beares, being your majefties petitioners; but we not licenfed
" to bayte them, and Sir William Steward refufmg to take them
" at our hands upon any reafonable terms, we were therefore en-
" forced to buy of him the faid oflBce, paftime, and fee, at a very
*' high rate; and whereas, in refpe£t of the great charge that the
" keeping the faid game continually requires, and alfo the fmallnefs
** of the fee ; in the late queen's time, free liberty was permitted
" without reftraint to bayt them, which now is taken away from
•• us, efpecially on the Sundays in the afternoon, after divine fer-
*' vice, which was the chiefeft means and benefit to the place; and
" in the time of the ficknefs, we have been reftrained many times
*' on the working days; thefe hindrances, in general with the lofs
" of divers of the beaftes, as before the king of Denmark we loft
" a goodly beare of the name of George Stone"; and at another
'» Plays were performed on Sundays, in the mention is made of the notable exploits of a
reign of Queen Elizabeth. Malone's Hillory bear, called " Little Befle of Bromley," who
of the Stage, p. 126. fought in one day, twenty-one double and
" In a letter to Alleyn, amongft his MSS. fingle courfes with the beft dogs in the country.
" bayting,
93
94
CAMBER WELL.
" baytlng, being before your majeftie, were killed four of our bell
*' bears, which in your kingdom are not the like to be had, and
" which were in value worth 30 1. ; and alfo our ordinary charges
•' amount yearly to 200 1. and better; thefe lofles and charges are
•* fo heavy upon your petitioners, that whereas formerly we could
** have letten it forth for lool. a year, now none will take it gratis
" to bear the charges, which is your poor fervants undoing, unlefs
** your majeftie, of your gracious- clemencie, have confideracion of
•* us. Thefe caufes do enforce us humbly to become fuitors unto
" your majeftie, that in refped: of the premifes, and that we have,
" ever fmce your gracious entrance into this kingdom, done your
" majeftie fervice with all duty and obfervance; it would pleafe
" your majeftie in your moft royalle bounty, now fo to relieve us, as
♦' we may be able to continue our fervice unto your majeftie as
" heretofore we have done; and to that end, to grant unto us free
" liberty, as hath been granted in the late queen's time; and alfo,
*' in refpedl of our great and dayly charge, to add unto our faid fee,
*' 2s. and 8d. being never as yet increafed fmce the firft founda-
*• cion of the office. And whereas, their are divers vagrants and
*' perfons of loofe and idle life, that ufually wandereth through the
" country with bears and bulls without any licence, and for ought
" we know ferving no man, fpoyling and killing dogs for that game,
*• fo that your majeftie cannot be ferved but by great charges to
** us, fetching them very far ; which is diredlly contrary to a ftatute
*' made in that behalf, for the reftraining of fuch : your majeftie
" would be pleafed, in your moft gracious favour, to renew unto
'* your petitioners our paftime ; and to grant us, and our deputies,
*' power and authoritie to apprehend fuch vagrants, and to convene
'• them before the next juftice of peace, there to be bound with
" fureties to forfeit his faid bears and bulls to your majefties ufe, if
" he fhall be taken to go about with any fuch game, contrary
" to the laws of this your majefties realm ; and your poor fer-
2 - t« vants
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" vants will dayly praye for your majefties long and happy
** reigne."
Alleyn continued to hold the ofEce of mafter of the bears till his
death, or very near it, at leaft he is fo ftiled in the letters patent, for
the foundation of the college. He ftill continued alfo to be pro-
prietor of the Fortune play-houfe, though he had for fome years re-
tired from the ftage *'. Having acquired a confiderable fortune, he
determined to beftow it upon a charitable foundation. The ftory "
of his forming this refolution, in confequence of a fright, appears
to have been fabricated long after Alleyn's time ; as Baker, his con-
temporary, who mentions the foundation of DuUvich college, and
who was too fond of enlivening his hiftory with marvellous narra-
tions to let fuch a tale pafs unnoticed, fays nothing of it. Lord
chancellor Bacon threw fome obftacles in the founder's way; oppofed
his intentions of fettling his eftates in mortmain, and was hardly
prevailed on to difpenfe with the ftatutes which prohibited fuch fet-
tlements. We are informed by the editors of the Biographia, that
he wanted the king to confent to fettling part of Alleyn's lands on
two profefTorfhips, then about to be founded in Oxford and Cam-
bridge, by two of his own friends, Sir Henry Saville and Sir
Edward Sandys. Having obtained at length the royal aflent, Alleyn
fixed upon Dulwich as the fpot on w^hich to found his college, hav-
ing purchafed an eftate there as early as 1606. Here he retired after
he left the ftage ; and having formed his plan, he fuperintended the
eredion of the college, lived to fee it finilhed, and fpent the re-
mainder of his days at Dulwich, vifiting and being vifited by
fome of the moft refpe(2;able perfons in the kingdom. He managed
the affairs of the college till his death, not as mafter as hath been
afferted, for he appointed his kinfmen, Thomas and IVIatthias Alleyn,
*' It is not certain at what period Alleyn ty prince of Wales,
left the ftage; in an inftrumeiit dated 1612, '" Aubrey gives it from tradition ; Antiqui-
he ftiles himfelf fervant to the high and migh- ties of Surrey, vol. i. p. 190.
to
96 CAMBERWELL.
to be mafter and warden on the completion of the foundation in
1619, though they did not take upon themfelves the management
of the college till after his death. It has been fald, that after his
marriage with his laft wife, he repented of what he had done, and
wifhed to revoke his charity ; of this there appears to be no proof,
nor have I any other to offer in contradidion to it, than his will;
by which he appears to be fo well fatisfied with the foundation, that
he augments it with further donations; nor is there any claufe by
which he excludes other benefadions, which has likewife been
aflerted.
AUeyn died in November 1626, and was buried in the college
chapel on the twenty-feventh. Aubrey gives the following infcrip-
tion, from a flat ftone over his grave:
" Here lyeth the bodie of Edward Alleyn, Efq. the founder of
" this church and college, who died the twenty-firft day of
" November, 1626."
It is probable that this infcription was obliterated, and that in fub-
ftituting the following, which now appears, his age and the dates
were erroneoufly inferted ; for as he was buried on the twenty-
feventh, it is more likely that he died on the twenty-firfl;, than
the twenty-fixth of November :
" Sacred
" To the memory of
" Edward Alleyne, Efq.
" The worthy founder of this college,
" Who departed this life, Nov. 26.
" A. D. 1626. jEtat. 63.
*' As likewife of
" Joan his dear and beloved Wife,
" Who finiflied her mortal race,
" June 28th, 1623."
Alleyn
C A M B E R W E L L. 97
Alleyn was fixty years of age at the time of his death, as appears
by his diary. Over the infcription are his arms".
As the founder's diary, which is extant, does not commence before Building of
1 61 7, we have no certain account wlien the building of Dulwich
college was begun; the editors of the Biographia fay, that the work
was in great forwardnefs in 1614; and they prefume, that 8000I. or
10,000]. were expended upon it before the commencement of the
diary '\ The chapel was firtilhed in i6i6, and was dedicated on
the firft of September in that year. The whole form of the dedi-
cation, and the prayers ufed upon that occafion, are in archbifhop
Abbot's regifter, and have been printed in Wilkins ^'. Cornelius
Lyman, of Chr. Ch. Oxford, was entered fellow of the college the
day before, but he was not one of the members at its final eflablifh-
ment in 161 9. The deed of foundation is dated April 13, and the
letters patent bear date June 21, 1619. The building being
finifhed, and the members of the college appointed, the thirteenth of
the September following was fixed on for the folemnity of the
foundation; of which the following account is given in Alleyn's
own words":
" *' Sept. 13, 1619. This daye was the foundacion of the college Ceremony
" finifhed ; and there were prefent, the Lord Chancellor ; the Lord of dation. °"""
*' Arundell ; Lord Coronell Cecill; Sir John Rowland, high fhreeve;
*^ Sir Ed. Bowyer; Sir Thomas Grymes ; Sir John Bodley; Sir
" John Tunftall ; Inigo Jones, the king's furveyor; John Finch,
" councellor; Richard Tayleboys ; Richard Jones; John Anthony.
*' They firfl heard a fermon, and after the inftrument of creacion
*• was by me read, and after an anthem, they went to dinner, which
" was as followeth :
*' Argent, a chevron between three cinque- ed to 2 1 1 7 1.
foils, Gules. »' Regill. Lamb. Abbot, pt. i. f. 2S8. 3. —
*♦ The cvpences of the college during the 290. a. Wilkins's Concilia, v.iv. p. 455 — 458.
period included in the founder's diary, amount- " MS. Diary, Dulwich Coll.
Vol. L O " Two
9S
CAMBERWELL.
Foundation
dinner.
" Two meffe of meat
" Capons in whight broth
" Boyld pigions
** Boyld venfon
*' Forc't boyld meat
" Could roft
" Gran falade
" A chine of beef, roft
" Shoulder of mutton, with
oyfters
" Bak'd venfon
" Roft neates tongues
" A florlntyne
*' Roft capons
« Roft ducks
" Roft eeles
" Weftfalya bacon
" Cuftards."
So the other mefle.
Thewholeexpence of this entertainment, amounted to 20 1. 9s. 2d.
Alleyn has inferted in his diary the prices of each article ; which,
omitting fome of the moft minute, I have here tranfcribed. In com-
paring them with the prefent prices of provifions, the difference in fome
articles will be found very ftriking, in others very trifling.
" 2 courfe
" Jellies
" Roftgodwits
" Artychoke pye
" Roft partridge
" Wettleche''
" Roft quayles
" Codlyng tart
" Houfe pigions
" Amber leche
" Roft rabbit
*' Dry neats tongues
*' Pickle oyfters
" Anchovies."
So the other meffe.
** A chine of beef, weighing twelve ftone
" Twelve neats tongues
*' Two dry neats tongues
" A leg of mutton
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*' A difli by this name is (Hll occafionally mange, but made with a greater proportion of
brought to the table; itis fomewhatlike blanc- ifinglafs.
« Nine
C A M B E R W E L L. 99
" Nine capons - - -
•' Two godwitts - . •
** Six houfe piglons - -
" Eighteen felde pigions
*• Six rabbits - - - -
" Half a hundred of eggs - - -
^* A pottle of great oyfters - . -
«' Barbaryes and grapes - - -
" Two coUeyfloreys - - - -
*' Thirty lettes - - - -
*' Sixteen artichokes - -
*' Carrots, turneps, rofemary and bays
" Nineteen oranges, and four lemons
*• Sweet water - - "
" Pine apple feeds *', 40Z. - - -
*' Oringades, 2 lb.
" Wett fuckett, half a pound - - -
" Mulket dyamonds - -
*' Lump fugar, gib. -
" Nutmegs, 70Z.
*' Synamon, 1 oz. - - - -
*' Curones, 41b. . - -
" GafFornes, quarter of an ounce - - -
" Two rundlets of claret, containing eight gallons
*' A bottle of canary, five pints - - -
*' Three quarts of fherry - -
*' Three quarts of whight wine
" The buck, with warrant and fetching
*' The cooks labor _ - -
*' The feeds of the round topped fir ; they Italy, where they are called pinocchl. The
are ftill a part of the defert at the tables in tree does not perfeft its feeds in England.
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CAMBER WELL,
Eftablith-
ment of the
college
Statutes.
Mafter and
warden.
Of my own.
" A mutton - - - - o lo o
" Wheat for meal and flower, eight bulhels -200
" Thirty pound of butter - - -.0150
" Two hogfhedds of here - - -140
The college was founded for a mafter, warden, four fellows, fix
poor brethren, and fix fifters, twelve fcholars, fix afliftants, and
Endowment, thirty out-members. The endowment confifted of the manor of
Dulwich, and lands and tenements there ; fome lands in Lambeth
parifh; fome mefluages in the parifhof St. Botolph, Bifhopfgate ; and
the Fortune theatre. The revenues amounted to 800I. per annum.
The ftatutes dired, that the mafter and warden fhall be of the
blood and furname of Alleyn ; and for want of fuch, of his furname
Only: they muft be twenty-one years of age, and unmarried. It was
obje£ted to Anthony Allen, a candidate for the warden's place, in
1670, that he wrote not his name Alleyn ; and he was held to be
difqualified on that account; but that objedion has been frequently
overruled fince. Upon the death of the mafter, the warden fucceeds ;
and a new warden duly qualified, according to the ftatutes, muft be
chofen by lot. The falary of the mafter is 40 1. per annum, with
an allowance for diet -and two hundred faggots; the warden's falary
is 30 1. with the like allowance. The firft mafter and warden,
notwithftanding the claufe which forbids their fucceflbrs to marry,
were both married men; their wives were allowed diet from the col-
lege ; and Matthias Alleyn the warden, being a widower, was allow-
ed to marry again. Some of the fucceeding mafters endeavoured
to avail themfelves of this circumftance, and to procure leave from
their vifitor to marry, but without fuccefs ; the will of the founder
being fo clear and explicit upon this head. In Aug. 1681, their
vifitor exprefsly commanded, that no woman whatfoever fhould
come to eat at the common table with the fociety. The fellows are
chofen
C A M B E R \V E L L. loi
chofen by lot ; the ftatutes dired, that the two feniors Ihall be maf- Fellows,
ters of arts, and officiate as preachers; the two juniors, graduates
and in holy orders, to be fchool-m after and ufher ; they muft all
be unmarried ; the two feniors are allowed 12I. per annum, their
diet, and one hundred and fifty faggots; the juniors, lol., their
diet, and one hundred faggots. Six chanters are alfo men- Chanters,
tioned, of whom the two feniors were to be organifts; the four
others finging men, their falary 61. per annum. Thefe chanters
are to be found no where but in the ftatutes ; none were appointed
by the founder himfelf at the original eftablifhment of the college,
the junior fellow, a layman, being then the organift, and the
fenior the only preacher, as it has continued ever fince. The poor Poor bre-
brethren and fifters muft be fixty years of age at iheir admiiTion, Mers.
and unmarried: there is a claufe in the ftatutes, which excludes
any perfon infecled with a noifome difeafe, or fuch as are decrepit
in their limbs ; if they marry, commit fornication, or adultery, they
are to be expelled. I do not find that the annals of the college
record any expulfions on this account : but very foon after the foun-
dation, a note occurs in the regifter, " that two of the fifters were
expulied for ungodly unquietnefs." It is diredled by the ftatutes, out.
that the poor brethren and fifters fhallbe chofen, as vacancies happen ^"^
in the college, from the thirty out-members, who are to be of the
parifties of St.' Saviour, Southwark; St. Botolph, Biftiopfgate; and
St. Giles's, Cripplegate; ten out of eachparifti; and are to be lodged
in alms-houfes which he built, or ordered by his will to be ere£led for
their reception. Not many years after the foundation, the eftates of the
college being in arrear, and much out of condition, thefe out-
members were difcontinued, and the college received the fandion of
their vifitor for fo doing ; but at the vifitation in 1677*', the penfions
'9 Vifitation of Dulwich Coll. Tanner's MSS, Bodleian Library.
of
mem-
102
CAMBER WELL.
Scholars.
Affiftants.
Vifitor.
Firft mem-
bers.
of the out- members were ordered to be paid. The twelve poor
fcholars are to be fix or eight years of age at their admiffion, and
to be educated till they are eighteen; to be taught writing, reading,
grammar, mufic, and good manners; when their fchool education
is completed, they are either to be apprenticed at the charge of the
college to fome trade or manual occupation, according to their capa-
cities, or to be preferred to the univerfity, where there are to be never
more nor lefs than four. An allowance, which is not particularized,
is to be made them for eight years; they are to receive 5I. to de-
fray the expences of each degree, and are to fucceed to the feliow-
Ihips of Dulwich without lot. Ifaac Defmevets, in 1692, was al-
lowed 20 1. a year by the college whilft he was at the univerfity;
but complaining that he was not able to fubfift upon it, they in-
creafed his allowance to 25 1. and gave him 17I. to take his degree
of M. A. The expence attending the above eftablilhments, is efti-
mated in the ftatutes at 600 1. per annum; of the remaining 200 1.
lool. was to be depofited in the college cheft for emergencies,
and the other 100 1, was to defray the charges of law fuits, repairing
roads, &c. The churchwardens of St. Saviour's, Southwark ; St.
Botolph, Bifhopfgate ; and St. Giles's, Cripplegate ; were appointed
afTirtants in the government of the college, and were to attend the
audits; and the archbifliop of Canterbury was appointed vifitor.
The afnftants right of attending the audits, was confirmed at the vi-
fitation in 1635.
At the final eftablifhment of the college, in 1619, Thomas Alleyn,
citizen and barber furgeon of London, was appointed the firft mafter,
and Matthias Alleyn, of Dulwich, Gent, warden; the fellows were
Sam. Wilfon, M. A. John Harrifon, M. A. Martyn Symmonds,
clerk, and Thomas Hopkins, organift.
In 1638, the revenues of the college were fo much impaired
by the fall of the fteeple, which happened July 6th, that it
was
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was diflblved, by order of the vifitor, for the fpace of fix months;
during which time, the mafter, warden, and fellows received no
falary, but the poor people, and the fcholars were allowed two
fhillings a week each. The college feems indeed to have been pecu-
liarly unfortunate in its dilapidations : it was not long after, that the
whole of the one fide, and part of the other, fell down ; and in
1703, the porch, with the treafury chamber, fliared the fame
fate.
During the civil wars, Dulwich college had its full {hare of the
general confufion; the mafter and warden did not take an adive
part, but the fellows were in arms for the king; in confequence of
which, their fellowfhips were fequeftered, and a fchool-mafter and
ufher only (Stephen Street, and Edmund Colley) were appointed by
the ruling powers. In 1646, thefe two prefented a petition to the
committee for plundered minifters '°, that they might have a double
allowance for diet, as they flood in the place of the four fellows ;
their petition was rejedled at firft, but was afterwards granted, as
being confonant to the will of the founder. In 1647, Fairfax's
army being then at Putney and Fulham, a company of foldiers,
under the command of Capt. Atkinfon, was quartered in the college,
for which they received the fum of 19s. and 8d. a poor reccm-
pence for the deftrudtion of their organ, and other outrages which
the foldiers committed. There is a tradition yet current in the col-
lege, that they took up the leaden coffins in the chapel, and melted
them into bullets.
In 1649, the rents of the Fortune playhoufe being in arrear, the Fortuneplay-
college entered upon the theatre the 21ft of November. Both
houfes of parliament pafled an order, July 16, 1647 ^'» f°^ the fup-
preflion of plays and play-houfes ; they continued to aft for fome
'" Reports of the Committee, BodleianLibrary. ^' Perfed Occurrences, July 16—23, '647.
time
104 C A M B E R W E L L.
time at the Fortune, In defiance of this refolutlon'*; but upon the
parliament taking more fevere meafures, and ordering the play-houfes
to be made unfit for theatrical reprefentation ", they were obliged to
defift. It was not furprifing therefore, that the proprietors of the
theatre fhould be in arrear for rent. At the archbifhop's vifitation,
in 1667, it appeared, that the college had been brought in debt
confiderably by the fall of the Fortune play-houfe".
Having applied feveral times to parliament without redrefs, the
college prefented a petition in 1655, fetting forth their grievances;
and praying that the privilege of eledling their own fellows might
be reftored. Cromwell, by letters patent, dated Feb. 11, x^^^-d^
appointed Nathaniel Fiennes, one of the commiffioners of the great
feal, Sir Bulftrode Whitlock, chief juftice St. John, General Lam-
bert, and others, commiffioners, with full power to vifit and fettle the
affairs of the college; this vifitation took place March 19, 1657-8 ;
but the commiffioners appointed a new preacher and fchoolmafter
themfelves, inftead of reftoring the privilege of eleftion to the col-
lege. The next year, Elias Alleyn prefented a petition to Richard
Cromwell, then protestor, in which he complained, that notwith-
flanding the vifitation of the commiffioners in the preceding year,
the abufes of the college were not reformed ; and that the mafter and
warden ftill continued in their evil practices. In confequence of this
petition, certain perfons were appointed to inquire into the matter,
and it came to a hearing at Whitehall; when it was alleged, that
the mafter and warden had alienated lands belonging to the college,
to the amount of 200I. per ann. and had applied the money to their
own ufe ; that they had fold divers valuable goods belonging to
the college, and had aided and abetted the late king by conniving
at the fellows being in arms againft the parliament: after hearing
'^ lb. Aug. 6 — 13, 1647. thereto belonging, was advertifed to be let
'5 Ibid. Feb. II — 18, 1647-8. for building on, in the Mercurius-Politicus,
3+ The Fortune play-houfe, with the ground Feb. 1^—21, i66i.
both
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both fides a report was drawn up, and a copy ordered to be fent to
each party, which was never done, and thus the matter ended.
The prefent mafter is Thomas Allen; he fucceeded to that place Prefentmem-
in 1775, at which time Mr. William Allen was elected warden; the
prefent fellows are Thomas Jenyns Smith, M. A. Nevile Stow, M. A.
John Newell Puddicombe, M. A. and Mr. Richard Dowell, organift.
Dulwich College confifts of a front and two wings, which form DefcHption
three fides of a quadrangle ; over the door, in the centre of the front college.
building, is the following infcription upon a tablet of black marble :
" Regnante Jacobo,
*' Prlmo totius Britannise monarcho;
" Edward Alleyn, armiger,
" Theromachias Regise prxfedtus,
" Theatri Fortunje didi choragus,
" ^vique fui Rofcius,
" Hoc collegium inftituitj
" Atque ad duodecim fenes egenos,
" Sex fcilicet viros et totidem foeminas
" Commode fuftentandos,
" Paremque puerorum numerum alendum,
♦' Et in Chrifti difciplina et bonis Uteris erudiendum,
" Re fatis ampla inftruxit.
" Porro,
" Ne quod Deo dicaverat poftmodum fruftra fieret,
" Sedulo cavit.
" Diplomate namque regio munitus, juffit
" Et a magiftro, cuftode, et quatuor fociis,
*' Qui et confcientiae vinculis aftridli,
" Et fua ipforum militate admoniti,
*' Rem bene adminiftrarent,
" In perpetuum regeretur.
. Vol. I. P " M-
io6 C A M B E R W E L L.
'• Poftquam annos bene multos collegio fuo prsefulflet,
" Dierum tandem et bonorum operum fatur,
" Fato conceffit
" VI. Cal. Dec^'V A. D. 1626.
" Beatus ille qui mifertus eft pauperum,
" Abi tu et fac fimiliter."
The weft end of the front building contains the hall, kitchen, and
offices on the ground floor; above ftairs are the apartments of the
mafter and warden ; the eaft end is occupied by the chapel, a plain
unornamented ftrudure ; in which is a font infcribed with a Greek
anagram ". The founder of the college, his wife, and her mother,
are burled in the chapel ; the infcriptions are in Aubrey ^'. A
claufe in the ftatutes permits the mafter, warden, and fellows
to be buried in the chapel, but excludes all others. A cemetery
was confecrated at the fame time with the chapel ; it is fituated
about a quarter of a mile from the college, near the road to Lon-
don. The chapel is now frequented by the inhabitants of the hamlet,
to whom it ferves as a chapel of eafe; the parochial duties being
performed by the fenior fellow.
Rfgiiler. The baptifms and burials are entered In the college regifter, which
records likewife the fucceflion of the matters, wardens, fellows,
and other members; fome few hiftorical notes are occafionally in-
ferted, of which I have availed myfelf in the account of the college.
In the firft leaf is a memorandum of the mufic books and inftru-
ments left in the college at Mr. Alleyn's death ; the inftruments were
•' a lute, a pandora, a cythera, and fix vyols," In the earlier part of
the regifter, the burials of the members of the college only ap-
pear to be recorded; a few baptifms occur, moft of them from
" NiyON ANOMA MH MONAN OYIN. called Anne inftead of Agnes, and her name
3* The infcription to the memory of Mrs. written Jenflow. Aubrey's Surrey, vol. i.
Henflow, is very inaccurately given; fhe is p. 158.
• Norwood.
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107
Norwood. It was not till towards the latter end of the laft centur}',
that the inhabitants of Dulwich, who are near two miles from the
parifh church, enjoyed the convenience of having the parochial duties
performed fo near their home.
The average of births and burials at Dulwich, I have noticed in
defcribing the parifh regifter of Camberwell.
Four perfons are mentioned to have died of the plague at Dul-
wich in if)25 ; and thirty-feven in 1665, and 1666; mofl of whom
were buried at Camberwell.
Anthony Bohemc, called in the regifter, " The Famous Tragedian," Anthony
was interred in the burial ground here Jan. 10, 1731. He is ° ^'"^'
mentioned by the theatrical biographers, as an aiftor of confiderable
eminence. Macklin, who remembers him, fays his abilities were
over-rated, and that he was a mannerift.
Another aftor of lefs eminence, called in the regifter " John John Eggle-
" Eggleton, a player," was buried February 19, 1727: ofhimfelf
little is remembered ; his wife was an adlrefs of merit, and was the
original Lucy in the Beggar's Opera : her portrait is introduced by
Hogarth in his fcene from that play.
The following fingular entry appears among the burials in 1 768, Bridget,
" Old Bridget, the Queen of the Gypfies, buried Auguft 6th." This gypfles.
Bridget was niece and fucceflbr of Margaret Finch, whofe hiftory is
very curious ; of ■ whom, I propofe to give fome account when
I come to treat of the village of Beckenham, where i>er viajejly was
buried.
w
In the weft wing of the college which was repaired in 1667, ^^
apartments of the poor fifters occupy the ground floor ; over which is
the pidture gallery, feventy-feven feet long, and fifteen feet fix inches
wide ; the cieling is richly ornamented with ftucco, it is in a very
ruinous ftate, and is fliortly to be taken down, and the whole of the
wing to be repaired or rebuilt.
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io8 C A M B E R W E L L.
Pidure gal- The contetits of the pidlure gallery have been very curforily men-
tioned in all the hiftories of the college. Aubrey, from whom
the fucceeding writers on the fubjedt feem to have copied, fays, that
there are portraits of Henry Prince of Wales, Sir Thomas Grefham,
Mary Queen of Scots, and fome other worthlefs pictures : the two
latter portraits are not there, and as they are not mentioned in the
old catalogue, it may be prefumed they never were : of the remain-
ing pidures which are treated with fo much contempt, fome have
much merit, and many are valuable, as being original and unique
portraits of remarkable perfons : they may be thought therefore to
deferve a more particular account. The catalogue which is in the
hand-writing of Mr. Cartwright, by whom they were bequeathed to
the college, afcertains both their names and prices. Many which
are there enumerated do not now appear ; perhaps Cartwright had
difpofed of them before his death : among thefe was a portrait of
*' the man who demolifhed the Earl of Eflex with a hatchet in
*' Weftminfter Abbey ;" this deftrudion, of which an account is
given in the notes", was not executed upon his perfon, but his effi-
gies foon after his interment. The moft remarkable of the portraits
which remain, are the following :
Michael Michael Drayton, the poet '', in a black drefs, his own hair fhort,
"yton. ^^j ^ plain band. This coft Mr. Cartwright 15 1.
Sir Martin Sir Martin Frobiftier, a brave officer, and a diflinguifhed circum-
navigator, who difcovered the north paffage to China. He defended
37 ti The lad night the hearfe and effigies of " is not yet difcovered ; but no doubt, it will
" the late Earl of Eflex was moft (hamefuUy " be found out, and the aflors and abettors
" handled, cut to pieces, defaced, and fpoyl'd, " made exemplary." Perfeft Diurnal, Nov.-
" as it flood in the abbey of Weftminfter, by 23—30. 1646.
" fome rude perfon or perfons (certainly fome ^' This head is now engraving for a feries
" notorious cavaliers) who lurked on purpofe of original portraits, which are about to be pub-
" fecrctly in the abbey all night, to do that raif- liihed by Mr. Sylvefter Harding; as are
" chievous and difgraceful aft. Who they be Richard Lovelace, Perkins, &c.
Breft
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Breft againft a fuperior force of Spaniards ; and was knighted for his
gallant behaviour in the engagement with the Armada^'.
The firft Lord Lovelace, created by Charles L, who diftinguifhed Lord Love-
himfelf likewife as a naval officer, and took the King of Spain's Weft-
Indian fleet *". He was of Hurley in the county of Berks.
Richard Lovelace, the poet, called in the cataloeue, " Colonel Richard
° _ Lovelace.
" Lovelace, in black armour." This man was a fmgular inftance of
the vicifiitudes of fortune. After leaving Oxford, where the beauty
of his perfon, and the variety of his accomplifhments, procured him
the efteem and admiration of all, he entered into the army ; and
having faithfully ferved his unfortunate mafter Charles L, he after-
wards entered into the fervice of the French king, and was wounded
at the (lege of Dunkirk ; he recovered from his wounds, and returned
to England, where he found his beautiful miftrefs Lucy Sacheverell,
who had fuppofed him dead, married to another; and being ob-
noxious to the then ruling powers, he was thrown into prifon ; being
afterwards releafed, he wandered about in rags and poverty; and be-
ing broken down both in mind and fortune, died in obfcure lodg-
ings in Gunpowder-Alley, Shoe-lane, in the year 1658, and was
buried in St. Bride's church"'. There is a print of him by
Faithorn.
Sir William Lovelace, Serjeant Lovelace, and others of that
family.
The Duchefs of Suffolk, a whole length.
It does not appear what Duchefs of Suffolk this is, probably Lady
Willoughby, the laft wife of Charles Brandon.
A portrait called " the Earl of Exeter," a head painted on board ;
the title muft be a miftake ; — there was no Earl of Exeter, before
2» Fuller's Worthies, pt. 3. p. 203. *• Ant. Wood, vol. ii. p. 147. id edit, and
*° Ibid, pt. I. p. no. Granger, vol. i. p. 423. 410.
Thomas
no
CAMBER WELL.
Greenhill.
Richard Bur-
badge.
Nathaniel
Field.
Richard Per-
kins.
Thomas Cecil; it may be Henry, or Edward, Marquis of Exeter ; the
former was beheaded in 1538, the latter died 1556.
" Greenhill, the painter, by himfelf." This is a good pidure, and
is engraved in the Anecdotes of Painting.
" Althea, with her hair difhevelled," faid to be Lucy Sacheverell ;
though Lovelace always called her Lucafta in his Poems.
" Burbage, the adlor." Richard Burbadge was a very celebrated
tragedian, and a contemporary of Shakfpeare. Camden calls him,
" alter Rofcius ;" and Baker fpeaks of him in the fame terms as he
does of Alleyn, pronouncing them both to be fuch adtors " as no
" age muft ever look to fee the like." He is known to have repre-
fented the character of Richard IH. ; and probably, performed the
principal tragic parts in other of Shakfpeare's plays *\ He was a
principal proprietor of the Globe and Blackfriar's theatres ; and died
anno 1619 ^^
" Nathaniel Field, the ador ;" a good portrait. This cofl Mr.
Cartwright lol. He is reprefented drefled in a fhirt trimmed with
black lace. Field was one of the children of the Chapel Royal : he
originally performed women's charaders **.
" Perkins, the ador.'' Richard Perkins was one of the performers
belonging to the Cockpit, Drury Lane, and is mentioned among
thofe of principal note there *' : he aded in Shirley's and Heywood's
plays *''. John Webfter, the author of a comedy called, The White
Devil, or Vidoria Corombona, publiflied in 16 12, fays, in a note,
after praifmg the other adors, " in particular, I muft remember the
" well-approved induftry of my friend Mafter Perkins, and confefs.
♦* Malone's Hlflory of the Englifli Stage, ** Malone's Hiflory of the Englifli Stage,
p. 186. p. 211.
*^ Ibid. p. 187. The portraits of Burbadge *' Dialogue of Plays and Players, printed
and Field, have been well engraved for Mr. in Dodfley's Plays, edit. 1780. vol.xii. p. 341.
Harding's feries of heads and views to illuf- ** Dodfley's Plays, vol. viii. p. 303. in the
trate Shakfpeare. notes.
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" the worth of his adion did crown both the beginning and the
^' end *'. When the play-houfes were fhut up during the civil wars,
Perkins refided in Clerkenwell, where he died ; and was buried fome
years before the reftoration. He wrote a copy of verfes prefixed to
Heywood's apology for a£l:ors.
" Sly, the ador." William Sly was a contemporary of Shak- William Sly.
fpeare, and was joined with him in the patent of 1603. He is in-
troduced perfonally in Marfton'sMalecontent, 1604; and Mr. Malone
conjedures, from his there ufmg an afFeded phrafe of Ofrick's in
Hamlet, that he performed that part. He died before the year
1612*'.
♦* Tom Bond, the ador." Of Bond little is known, but that he Tom Bond.
aded in Shakerly Marmyon's comedy of Holland's Leaguer, brought
out in 1632.
" Mr. Cartwright, fen. the ador." 7 Thefe pidures coft 1 c 1. The Cart-
. . , f Wrights.
*' Mr. Cartwright, jun. the ador." J each.
The former of thefe, whofe name was William, was one of the
Palfgrave's fervants in 1622 *'. The portrait, which is a very bad one,
reprefents him in a laced band and cuffs. Cartwright the younger,
is in a Vandyke drefs ; of him nothing certain is known : he pro-
bably was fon to the former. There is a third portrait of a Cart-
wright, an ador, called in the catalogue, " my own portrait ''."
This is a good pidure by Greenhill : he is reprefented in a black
robe and flowing peruke, with his hand on a dog's head. His name
alfo was William. He was one of Killigrew's company at the
original eftablifhment of Drury Lane, where he played Falftaff.
This Cartwright, by his will dated September 1686, left his books
and pidures, feveral articles of furniture, and 390 broad pieces of
*' Dodlley's Plays, vol. vi. p. 373. ♦s' Ibid. p. 47.
"'■ Malone's Hillory of the Englifh Stage, 5" Ibid. p. 265.
p. 205.
gold,
112
CAMBER WELL.
Audit-room.
Library.
gold, to Dulwich College ; but his fervants defrauded the College
of the greater part both of the furniture and money, of which they
received only 65 1.
Eefides the portraits above-mentioned, there are others of inferior
value, and lefs note ; and fome other pidures, among which are an
head of an old man, which has much merit, by Greenhill ; an
ancient view of London, faid to be by Norden ; the head of a
woman, by Burbadge the adtor, in chiaro-obfcuro ; fome copies from
Baflan ; a fea view ; and many more, which, as Aubrey fays, are
certainly very worthlefs.
At the fouth end of the pidure gallery, is the audit-room, where
is a good pidture of the founder, a full length, in a black gown " ;
a fmall portrait of a lady, on board, in a drefs of fcarlet and gold,
with a Latin infcription round it ; and fome other portraits of little
value.
Adjoining the audit-room, is a fmall library, in which are
the books bequeathed to the college by Mr. Cartwright. This
library formerly contained a very valuable colle£lion of old plays,
which were given by the college to Mr. Garrick when he was
making his theatrical colledlion, in exchange for fome more modern
publications. There ftill remain fome fcarce editions of books in
various departments of literature, as it may be imagined would be
found amongfl: the ftock in trade of a bookfeller, who lived in the
middle of the laft century. The college is likewife in poffeffion of a
few curious MSS. ; among them is the Founder's Diary, to wnich
I have had frequent occafion to refer, and from which I here fubjoin
fome curious extra<Sts with occafional obfervations. It commences in
September 161 7.
5' This pifture has been engraved in the firll number of Mr. Harding's Series of Original
Portraits, above-mentioned,
« Odtober
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£. s. d.
0£l. 13, 1 61 7. Paid the king's rent for the
" bank^' - - - - 13 17 6
Nov. 18, 1617. Wine at lady Clarke's at fupper " 010
*' 19, Wine at lady Clarke's at dinner 006
" Dec. 23. A ream of fine paper - -024
" 3 1 . Went to SufFolk-houfe
" Given my lady my filver book
" Paid for wrighting the verfes - - O lo o
" To Buckett for lyming " it
" To Mr. Brambel for the glafs work - - £ 2 o
" The whole value 15 1."
The Earl of Suffolk being at that time lord treafurer, it is pro-
bable that AUeyn was foliciting his intereft to forward his patent ;
and it was ufual upon fuch occafions, when a favour was expetfted
from a minifter, to make prefents to his lady.
Jan. I, 1 61 8. Given my lady Clarke a pair of
" filk ftockings
" Given Mr. Auflen a pair of filk ftockings
" Given Mrs. Auften a pair of gloves
The fafhlon of wearing richly embroidered gloves continued a Embroidered
slovcs
long time: I have feen a pair which belonged to the Duchefs of
Exeter, Edward IV. 's fifter; and they very much refemble the
wedding gloves of Mrs. Hampden, wife of the celebrated patriot,
which are now in the Earbof Orford's colledtion at Strawberry-
hill.
It being much the fafliion in Alleyn's time to make new-year's New-year's
gifts, very numerous entries of fuch gifts occur at the beginning of
'* The bear-garden on the Bank-fi.de. '' This frequently occurs. '■* Probably limning.
Vol. I. . Q^ each
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CAMBERWELL.
Trumpeters.
Water-doc-
tors.
each year ; conrifting of capons, pullets, eggs, cakes, &c. ; and fome-
times as above, embroidered gloves and filk ftockings.
" Jan. II, 1618. Given trumpeters on twelfth day 026
It appears to have been ufual for trumpeters to go about, not only
on particular feftivals, but at other times, like the organ-grinders of
the prefent day ; frequent entries occur of money given them.
" 0£t. I, 1 61 9. A noife of trumpeters came and
" founded, given them - -020
" Nov. 30. Given to trumpeters that founded at
" dinner - - -020
" May 25, 1621. Given two noyes of trumpeters
*' at two times - -040
" March 2, 1618. I din'd at the veflry, and gave a
" feminary preefte - -010
** March 4. Paid Mr. Garratt a fee for coming to
*' the bear-garden this day
" Ap. 2. A pint of mulkadele
" Ap. 17. I was at Arundel-houfe, where my lord
" fhowed me all his ftatues and pictures that
" came from Italy; given his man - 020
" Ap. 25. This morning, bleffed be God, I fickned
" at my lady Clarke's j fent Dr. Lifter my
" water - - -020
Dr. Lifter was the firft phyfician of his time. Hence it ap-
pears, that the pradtice of deciding on complaints by viewing the
water of the patient, was not confined at that time to empirics
only. In the March following, Alleyn applied to Dr. Gulfon, an
eminent phyfician likewife, to whom he fent only fix-pence; the
perfons who profefled this branch of medicine alone, called them-
felves water- doctors, or water-fcrigers. The newfpapers of the pre-
fent day inform us of praditioners in this line, both male and
female :
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female ; fome of them have attained great celebrity in their pro-
feffion, and have praftifed with great fuccefs to themfelves at leaft,
if not to their patients, in cafes which have been given over bv
the faculty.
" Ap. 28. Given Dr. Lifter that came to me - no
In a book called " Levamen Infirmi "," written in 1 700, the ufual
fees to phyficians and chirurgeons at that time, are thus ftated:
" To a graduate in phyfick, his due is about ten (hillings, though
" he commonly expeds or demands twenty. Thofe that are only
" licenfed phyficians, their due is no more than fix fhillings and
" eight-pence, though they commonly demand ten fliillings. A
" furgeon's fee is twelve-pence a mile, be his journey far or near;
" ten groats to fet a bone broke or out of joint, and for letting of
*' blood one fhilling ; the cutting off, or amputation of any limb,
" is five pounds; but there is no fettled price for the cure."
" May 27, 1 61 8. Bought a pair of organs of Mr.
" Gibbs, of Powles
" Ap. 13, 1 61 9. Paid Mr. Barrat for a dyapa-
" fon flop to my organ, and other alterations
" July II, 16 1 8. I received my patent from Mr.
" Attorney, and he would nothing ; but Mr.
" Beale had for it -
" His man - - -
" The chamber-keeper I gave
" Aug. 16. Paid Mr. Attorney for my patent pafling
" the fignet and privy feal
At Michaelmas this year, Alleyn, after enumerating the feveral
articles of his expenditures during the laft year, concludes thus,
" and for lawe, the worft of any, 67 1. 5 s. 6d."
»5 Levamen Infirmi, or Cordial Comfort to the Sick and Difeafedj by D. Irifh, praftitioner
in phyfick and furgery, London, 1700, 8vo. p. 28, 29.
Q 2 " Sept.
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" Sept. 1618. More difburfed for the building In
" the Black- fryars for this year, and in An.
" 1617, when it firft begun with the 200 1.
" difburfed by my father, buying in of leafes,
" charges in lawe, and the building itfelf, is 1105 o 2
" Feb. 14, 1 61 9. Paid for four hundred and fifty damalk rofes,
" at feven-pence the hundred.
" Mar. 29, 1619. Paid for powlinge of heads o o 10
*' Ap. 27. Paid Sir Jeremy Turner, mufter-mafter,
" for two years muftering for my light horfe,
" a mufket and corflet - - -038
" ]^^y 3'^' P^^^ ^°'" powder to make a fweet bag - 017
" Aug. I. This daye is my birth-day, and I am nowe full fifty-
" three years old, bleffed be the Lord God, the giver of life. Amen.
" June 6, 1620. The king fent a young tyger to the garden.
" June 26, 1620. My wife and I acknowledged the fine at the
*' common pleas, of all my lands to the college 3 bleffed be God
" that hath given us life to do it.
" July 3 1, 1620. This day I layde the firft brick of the fown-
" dacion of the alms-houfes in Finfburie.
*' Paid for my tawny fattin doublett - -129
" My whight taffeta doublett - - - 0134
" Nov. 3, 1620. I changed my twelve owld fybles for new,
*' and gave four ihillings a piece to boot to Mr. Gibkin for them."
Thefe are in the pidture gallery.
The tafte for fibyls muft be much altered, or Mr. AUeyn had a
very dear bargain ; it would be difficult to meet with a broker
that would give four-pence a piece for them now.
" Nov. II, 1620. Bought of Mr. Gibkin, four-
" teen heads of Chrlft our Saviour, and the
" twelve Apoftles, at a noble a piece - 4 10 4
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Thefe are in the audit-room, and very wretched performances
they are.
" December 15. This day I paid for the manor
" and parfonage of Lewifham - - icoo o o
" Dec. 29. This day the French Ambaflador, the duke of Lo-
" raine, with three hundred and feventy-three perfons, came to
" Somerfet-place."
AUeyn was right in the fadt, but mifuiformed as to the perfon. In
Dec. 1620, the marquis de Cadenet, brother to the duke de Luines,
arrived in England from France, with a great train '*.
*' Jan. 17, 1 62 1. I this day toke a poor fatherlefs child.
" Mar. 20, 162 1. I bought a white horfe of Sir
" Edward Fowler - -480
" Dec. 9. This night at twelve o'clock, the Fortune was burnt."
In the enfuing year, are frequent entries of money given to the
workmen, rebuilding the Fortune theatre.
" Feb. 1622. Paid the tea members at Finfbury their quar-
terage.
" Ap. 26, 1622. I din'd with the Spanifh embaflador, Gundomar.
" June 12. I went to my lord of Arundell's, and fhowed the
*' Fortune plot."
The Diary ends in September 1622.
The eaft wing of the college has been entirely rebuilt; it was
finlfhed in 1740, and coft the college above 3,600!. In the centre
of this wing, on the firft floor, is the fchool-room, and on each
fide the fellows' chambers, which are fpacious and pleafant ; beneath
are the apartments of the poor brethren.
Behind the college is a garden of very confiderable extent,
whence the view in the fecond plate of the college was taken ; it ex-
'* Sir John Finet's Philoxenes, p. 67.
hibits
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C A M B E R W E L L.
PeCKH AM.
Manor.
Manor of
Bredinghurft.
hibits the fouth fide, confifting of the chapel and the mafters apart-
ments.
Peckham, a hamlet in the parifh of Camberwell, is fituated
on the road to Greenwich, a mile from the village, and contains
three hundred and feven houfes. It appears by Doomfday-book,
that it belonged formerly to Batterfea.
The manor, which had been held by Alfred of Harold, was
granted by the Conqueror to Odo, bifhop of Baieux, his half-brother,
and was held under him by the bifliop of Lifieux. I find it men-
tioned in only two records, of a fubfequent date, as a manor diftindt
from Camberwell; the firft is a grant by Thomas Dolfaly, of the
manor of Peckham, which had been given him by Sir John Stonor,
fenior, to Edward deBarneby, vicar of Camberwell, and JohnFauconer,
chaplain, and their heirs"; this was in the reign of Edward III. j
the other is a grant of the fame manor to Tipper and Dawe ^', by
queen Elizabeth.
Two manors in Peckham are recorded by the names of Breding-
hurft and Bafynges ; fo called, no doubt, from fome of their early
pofleffors. The family of Bredinghurft, or Bretinghurft, had pro-
perty in Peckham in the reign of Edw. I. as appears by Mr. Wind-
ham's Court Rolls. The manor belonged to Thomas Wolfely, in
the reign of Edw. III. " and at fubfequent periods, to Edward Dol-
fhill"; and Margaret Bernard, widow". John Scott, Efq. died feized
thereof, lEliz.''; it afterwards came to the Mufchamps. Francis
Mufchamp died feized of it in 1632 ^\ Edward Eversfield, who
" CI. 27 Edw. in. m. 22. 25, 26, & 27.
I fufpeft this to be the manor of Bredinghurft,
in Peckham, of which Thomas Dolefhill, or
Dolfaly, died feized, 43 Edw. III. His fon
Edward held it, 6 Ric. II.
'^ 34 Eliz. Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit.
Muf. No. 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
" 4 Edw. III. Terrier of Lands in Surrey,
Brit. Muf. 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
«° 6 Ric. II. Ibid.
" 9 Hen. IV. Ibid.
'"■ Cole's Efcheats,Brit.Muf.HarIeian MSS.
756. p. 441.
'■^ Ibid. No. 758. p. 156. The defcent of
the manor from this period, is taken from the
abftraa of Mr. Shard's Title Deeds.
married
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married Mary Mufchamp, an heirefs, fold the manor to Sir Thomas
Bond, in 1672. His fon Sir Henry alienated it to Sir Thomas
Trevor, afterwards lord chief juftlce, and created a peer. Lord
Trevor, made Peckham his occafional refidence. His wife Eliza-
beth was burled at Camberwell, May 29, 1702''*. After his death
it was purchafed by Mr. Hill, a merchant, from whom it defcended
to the prcfent proprietor, William Shard, Efq. The manor was
held of the king, as of his caftle of Dover.
The manor-houfe is fituated near the centre of the hamlet
at a fmall dlftance from the road leading from Camberwell to Green-
wich, on the left hand: it was bulk by Sir Thomas Bond, in 1672,
immediately after he had purchafed the eflate. Sir Thomas was one
of the confidential friends of James II. , and left the king-
dom upon his abdication of the throne. There is a tradition, that
the mob were fo exafperated agalnfi: him, that they plundered his
houfe at Peckham, and were with difficulty reftralned from pulling
it down. His fon. Sir Henry, was receiver-general to Janies in
France, and is mentioned amongft the perfons of note who left
that kingdom with him, when he made his unfuccefsful voyage to
Ireland *^
The only mention I find of the manor of Bafynges is, that Henry Manor of
Baker died felzed thereof in 1557**. It was held of the manor of ^
Camberwell. The family of Bafynge had been fettled In this parifh
at a very early period. Solomon de Bafynge, who appears to have
been fherlfF of London in the reign of king John, had pofleffions
there ; part of which he bequeathed to the nuns of Hallwell ''.
At Peckham are meeting-houfes for the anabaptlfts and prefby-
terians. A congregation of the latter has been long eftabllfhed
there, of which Mr. Samuel Chandler was rainlfter, in 1716'
Samael
Chandler.
*♦ Pari!h Regifter. 411. p. 45.
" Life of James II. 12°. 1702. p. 263. *' Dugdale's Monaft. vol.i. p. 532,
" Cole's Efcheats,Brit.Muf.HarleianMSS. " Biograph. Brit. edit. 1784.
He
120 C A M B E R W E L L.
He publifhed a great variety of fermons, and religious trads ; amongft
which, befides fuch as are written in defence of the tenets main-
tained by thofe of his own perfuafion, are fome for which Chrifti-
anity at large is much indebted to him ; particularly " a Vindication
of the Chriilian Religion," of which archbifhop Wake, in a letter
addreffed to him, fpeaks in terms of high commendation "'.
A Roman urn of glafs was dug up in the middle of the highway
at Peckham, about the beginning of this century".
Hatcham Beyond Peckham, towards Greenwich, lies Hatcham, now a finglc
houfe; it is defcribed in the Conqueror's Survey to have been in
Surrey, and feems to be mentioned as an appendage to Camberwell.
It is a manor partly in Kent, and partly in Surrey, and is fometimes
called in the Records, Hatcham Barnes. Brixi (who probably gave
name to the hundred of Brixton, anciently called Brixiftan) held it of
Edward the Confeflbr : at the time of the SurA'ey, the bifhop of
Lifieux held it of Odo bifliop of Baieux. The land was of three caru-
cates, and was valued at forty (hillings. It was in the poflefTion of
the family of Bavent, as early as the reign of Edward I. when
Adam de Bavent had a grant of free warren there", and continued to
be their property till the 36th of Edward III. when Hawifne,
the widow of Sir Roger Bavent, quitted claim to the priory of Dart-
ford '\ It was kept in the hands of the crown for fome time after the
fuppreffion of monafteries, and was leafed by Queen Elizabeth to
Anne Broke Lady Cobham, in the 42d year of her reign ". It was
granted by James I. to George Salter and John Williams '*,
and
*9 Biogiapli. Brit. edit. 1784. RoIL' chapel, of very numerous pofleflions in
1° Bagford's Letter relating to the Antiqui Surrey, and otlier counties, to George Salter
ties of London, prefixed to Leland's Collec- and John Williams. .As the particulars are
tanea. not cxprefled in the Index, it would be a work
" 13 Ed. LCart.Antiq. Brit.Muf. 58. L37. of confiderable time to examine the Rolls. I
''^ CI. 36 Ed. III. m. 4^. fliall content myfeU" therefore with giving all
'^ Pat. 42 Eliz. pt. 29. Sept. 19. the references, that thofe who are intcrefted
'+ There are five grants by James I. in the may know where to confuli them. Tat. 7
Jac.
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and was by them alienated to Peter Vanlore ; from him it paffed to
the family of the Brookes, who fold it, 1 1 Jac. I., to the Haber-
daflaers' Company of London, as truftees to the charitable bequefts
left by William Jones, Efq. to the town of Monmouth. Hatcham
is aflefTed the fum of 102 1. to the land-tax.
Jac.pt. 16. May 22; pt. 34. Nov. 26; and manor from Salter and Williams, is taken from
pt. 35.0ft. 7. Pat. 8 Jac. pt. 37. June 26. the abftraft of Title Deeds belonging to the
and pt. 49. June 5. The defcent of the Haberdalhers' Company.
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CARSHALTON.
Name. ' I ''HE name of this parifti was anciently written Aulton, which
JL fignlfies Old Town : about the reign of King John it aflumed
the name of Kerfaulton ; it was afterwards varied in the records, to
Kerfalton, Carfalton, Crefalton, and Krefalton : it has now for near
two centuries been uniformly written Carfhalton. How it acquired
its firft fyllable is matter of conjedure only, as there is no record
which mentions any of its early proprietors from whom it could be
fo denominated.
Situation and The parifh Ues in the hundred of Wallington ; it is about eleven
boundaries, ^.j^^ ^^^^ Weftminfter-Bridge, and three to the fouth of Croydon.
It is bounded by Beddington, Banftead, Sutton, and Micham. The
Soil. arable land exceeds the pafture in a proportion of feven to one. The
foil is various; in fome parts loam, but chiefly chalk or clay, of
which the former predominates. Carfhalton pays the fum of 386 1.
6 s. 8 d. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of i s. 7 d. in the
pound.
The river Wandle pafTes through the parifh, and being increafed
by other ftrearas and feveral fprings which rife there, forms a large
fheet of remarkably clear water, in the centre of the village,
which gives it a fmgular, and in the fummer a very pleafing ap-
pearance.
Carfhalton is celebrated by Fuller, for trout and walnuts'.
• Fuller's Worthies, pt. 3. p. 76.
On
C A R S H A L T O N.^ 12
On the banks of the Wandle are eftabliflied feveral manufadories ; Manufaao-
nes.
the principal of which are, two paper-mills, occupied by Mr. Curtis
and Mr. Patcli : Mr. Savignac's mills for preparing leather and
parchment : Mr. Filby's mills for grinding logwood : Mr. Shipley's
oil-mills, which were burnt down in 1785, and rebuilt : Mr. Anfell's
fnuff- mills, and the bleaching grounds of Mr. Reynolds and Mr.
Cookfon. At thefe manufadlories an extenfive trade is carried on ;
but their nature is not fuch as to employ a great number of
hands.
Before the Conqueft, there were five manors in Carflialton which Manor,
were held of the Confeflbr by five freemen, who, as the record exprefles
it, could go where they pleafed ; no inconfiderable privilege in the
feudal times. They were afterwards united into one manor, which
was held by Godfrey de Manneville ; but the record of Doomfday
fuggefts, that he was never lawfully feized of it. About the middle
of the 1 2th century the manor belonged to Faramufus de Bolonia,
and was the inheritance of his daughter Slbella, who married Ingram
de Fiennes. There is a charter of Richard I." confirming it
to her, with power to hold it as her hufband did on the day that he
took his journey to the Holy-Land : the fame charter empowers her
to marry whomfoever flie will. The manor continued in the pof-
feffion of the Fiennes's as late as the reign of Henry III. \ It after-
wards belonged to Sir William Ambefus*, and at a later period to
Richard Chifbeche'. In the reign of Edw. III. it became the property
of the Carews". Nicholas de Carru held it of Guy de Bryene, by
* Cart. Antiq. A. 36. netage, vol. ii. p. 243.
3 Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 313. * Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 6281. and CI.
f. 15. The Fiennes's at that time held their 46 Edw. III. m. 29.
property in Carfhalton of Humphrey de Bohun ' CI. 5 Hen. V. m. 12.
Earl of Hereford. William de Fiennes died « CI. 47 Edw. III. m. 35. and CI. 14
feized of 20 marks ifliaing out of the manor Ric. II. m. 37.
of Kerfalton, 20 Edw. I. Dugdale's Baro-
R 2 aa
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224 C A R S H A L T O N.
an annual rent of lo marks, which was afterwards purchafed'. I
find that in the reign of Edw. VI. the manor was in the pofleffion
of the St. Johns. How it pafTed from the Carews to that family,
does not appear ; but I have reafon to fuppofe, that it was by inter-
marriage. In the reign of Hen. VIII. *, the wardftiip of John, fon
of Sir John St. John, was granted to Sir Richard Carew ", who mar-
ried him to Margaret, one of his daughters, and probably gave the
manor of Carfhalton with her as a portion. In the reign of Queen
Elizabeth it was divided into two parts'". One moiety was alienated
to the Burtons, 32 Eliz. Sir Henry Burton, K. B. left it to his bro-
ther Charles, who fold it to Dixie Long, 1647. From him it pafTed
by inheritance to the Shorts, and was purchafed of that family by
Sir Wm. Scawen, Knt. in 1712. James Scawen, Efquire, his
great nephew, fold it to George Taylor, Efquire, who is the prefent
proprietor.
The other moiety pafled from the St. Johns to the family of Cole;
and from them, 18 Jac, to Anne Countefs of Arundel and Surrey.
By the truftees of Henry Earl of Arundel, who died in 1652, it
was fold in 1655 to Edmund Hofkins, afterwards knt. and ferjeant
at law J his fon fold it to Sir William Scawen, who thus became
poflefled of both the moieties, which have been united ever fmce.
The manor-houfe is fituated within a park not far from the church,
on the right hand of the road to Beddington.
Defignforthe About the year 1726, Thomas Scawen, Efq. formed a defign of
houfe. building a magnificent houfe on a rifing ground in the park, a little
to the fouth of the church : the materials were prepared at a very
' CI. 48 Edw. III. m. 24. beenfelzedof the manor of Carfhalton. Baron-
• 4 Hen. VIII. SeeCoUins's Peerage, edit, etage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 190.
1756. vol. iv, p. 392. '" The defcent of the manor from this pe-
' Nicholas Carew, firft coufin of Sir Rich- riod was obligingly communicated by R.
ard, who died without ifliie, appears to have Barnes, Efq. the fteward.
great
C A R S H A L T O N. 125
great expence, but the building was never begun. James Leoni,
who was to have been the archite£t, publiflied eight plates of the plans
and elevations of this intended manfion ; they were engraved by
Picart, and are annexed to Leoni's edition of Alberti's Architedure ".
Richard Kyraberle held a manor in Carfhalton, in the reign of Manor of
Edward III. " : this I fuppofed at firft to be the fame that is called, in J^nerflT"'
Cole's Efcheats, the Manor of Kymerfley, of which John Scott died
feized, i Eliz. "j but from the court rolls of the manor of Carfhalton
it appears, that John Scott held a capital mefluage and lordfhip in
Carfhalton, formerly Bartholomew Kynardefley's, and late Edward
Burton's. After the death of John Scott, it was divided into five
feveralties, and it continued to be defcribed in the court rolls as the
manor of Kynnerfley. As it is not now known, it would be fcarcely
poflible to trace the alienations of thefe feveralties. By a court roll
of 1642, it appears that fome of them were then in the pofTeffion of
Robert Drewe and Robert Duck ; and that Cecilia SoUars, widow,
only fifter and heir of Henry, fon of the above Robert Duck, claimed
two fifths of it, as her inheritance '*.
The manor of Stone-Court, alias Gaynesford's-place, belonged Manor of
formerly to the family from whom it takes its name, and was in fr Ga nef-''
their pofTeffion in the reign of Philip and Mary "' : of its fubfequent ^ord's-place.
owners, the only information I have been able to procure, is, that it
belonged, in the laft century, to the Cater family. It was fold in
1729" to Thomas Scawen, Efq. of whofe fon James it was pur-
chafed by the prefent proprietor William Andrews, Efq.
" Thefe views confift of the elevations of " Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Brit,
the eaft, weft, north, and fouth fronts; the Muf 759. p. 25.
feftion from north to fouth; the plan of the '* From the information of R. Barnes, Efq.
grand ftory, the upper (lory, and the offices; and ' ' Court Rolls of the Manor of Carfhalton,
the plan and elevation of the greenhoufe. communicated through the fame fource.
'^ CI. 15 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 39. and '* From the information of William An-
CI. 16 Edw. III. m. 18. dorfo. drews, Efq.
The
126 C A R S H A L T O N.
The manor-houfe is fituated near the fheet of water above defcrib-
ed, to the north of the church. It was rebuilt by Mr. Cater about
1710. In the hall is an ancient chimney-piece, faid to have been
brought from the palace of Nonfuch.
A record in the tower, being a releafe of the manor of Kerfalton
by Ifabel Greene to John Holt, temp. Hen. VI. ", may relate to
either of the laft-mentioned manors.
Bartholomew Baron Burgherfl: pofleffed lands in this parifli " ;
and procured a charter of free warren here in the reign of Ed-
ward III.
Sir Thomas Copley, Knt. died fcized of confiderable property in
Carfhalton, temp. Eliz.".
The charch. The church ftands on a rifmg ground near the centre of the vil-
lage ; it confifts of a nave, two aifles, and a chancel : the aifles are
divided from the nave by ancient pillars of rude workmanftiip, and
not uniform J their capitals are ornamented with feathers and foliage.
The aifles were raifed about the beginning of the prefent century,
in order to make galleries, principally at the expence of Sir John
Fellows and Sir William Scawen. The prefent church appears to
have been built originally of flints ; the chancel, the lower part of
the aifles, and of the tower, being now compofed of thofe materials :
the aifles were raifed with brick ; the tower, which is low and em-
battled, is fituated between the chancel and nave ; the upper part of
it is built of free-ftone. A church is mentioned in Doomfday. In the
Regifl;ry at Winchefter, is a commiflion dated 1324, for reconciling
the church of Carfhalton, which had been polluted by the death
of Thomas Gruton".
The following circuinfl:ance leads one to conje(flure that the pre-
fent ftrudture was ereded in the reign of Richard II. Before the
•» Cl. 33 Hen. VI. m. 29. dorfo. ■» Cole's Efcheats, HarleianMS.Brit. Muf.
" Cl. 23 Edw. HI. m. 16. " Regift. John de Stratford, pt 2. f. 6. a.
2 alterations
C A R S H A L T O N. 127
alterations above-mentioned were made, there were in the windows of
the north aifle *', the arms of Burley " and Sarnesfield ", with the
order of the garter ; and thofe of John Beaufort Earl of Somerfet ^*,
without that diftindlion. Simon, Richard, and John Burley, and
Nicholas Sarnesfield, were ele(Sted knights of the garter in the reign of
Richard II. : The Earl of Somerfet was afterwards of the fame order,
but was not eleded till the reign of Henry IV. The archited;ure
of the chancel confirms the above conjedture. The columns which
feparate the nave from the aifles, appear to be of a much more re-
mote age.
At the eaft end of the north aifle, is a mafly monument of marble, Monuments.
to the memory of Sir John Fellows, who died July 28, 1724.
At the eaft end of the fouth aifle, is a handfome monument fup-
ported with Corinthian columns and pilafters, to the memory of
Sir William Scawen, who was three times M. P. for the county of
Surrey; he died Odober 17, 1722; the monument is ornamented
with his effigies in white marble ; he is reprefented in a loofe robe
and flowing peruke, reclining on his right hand.
In the fame aifle is a monument of black marble, fupported by
Ionic pillars, to the memory of Sir Edmund Hoflcins, Knight, ferjeant
at law, who died in 1664.
In the north aifle, near Sir John Fellows's monument, is a white
marble urn, with an infcription to the memory of Sir George
Amyand, Bart, who died in 1766.
Near the weft door of the church is a marble tablet to the memory
of Thomas Bradley, a former vicar, who being a non-conformift,
*' Vincent's Vifitation of Surrey. Or, crowned Argent.
" Burley bears Or, 3 bars, and in chief ^* John Earl of Somerfet bears the arms
2 pallets Sable; an inefcutcheon Gules, of England within a border gobony Arg. and
charged with 3 bars ermine. Azure.
*^ Sarnesfield bears Az. an eagle difplayed
refigned
128 C A R S H A L T O N.
refigned his living in the year 1689. He died 0&. 22, 1709, aged
fifty-nine.
Tomb of Againft the north wall of the chancel, near the communion tahle,
Gaynesford. .^ ^^ ^j^^^ tomb of Purbeck marble ; over it is fixed in the wall a
large flab of the fame materials, on which are upright figures of
Nicholas Gaynesford, and his family, as reprefented in the annexed
plate. Thefe figures have been gilded and enamelled; the enamel, in
which the drapery of the wife has been painted, ftill remains, which
is a circumftance rarely to be met with in tombs of this kind. Her
head-drefs, remarkable for its extraordinary fize, correfponds with
other fpecimens of the fame date ; her robe, which has clofe fleeves,
is of red, edged with gold ; of the four fons, it may be obferved, that
the eldeft appears in armour as the efquire, the fecond is habited as a
prieft, and the third and fourth as merchants ; Gaynesford himfelf
appears in armour, kneeling on one knee ; his gauntlet and fword
are at his feet.
This Nicholas was of the family of Gaynesford, of Crowhurft in
Surrey. He attended Elizabeth the queen of Henry the VII. in her
proceflion from the Tower to Weftminfter, previoufly to her coro-
nation. He, and the other efquire of honour, — Verney, rode in the
proceffion with the Lord Mayor of London, (as they are defcribed in
a MSS. in the Cottonian Library,) " welle horfede in gownes of
" cremefyne velvett, having mantells of ermyne, and on ther hedes
*' hatts of rede clothe of golde ermyne, the beher forward ^'." The
office of efquire of the body was of a very honourable nature.
It is thus defcribed in the houfehold book of Edward the Fourth,
" Efquiers for the body, four, noble of condition, whereof alvvay two
" be attendaunt upon the king's perfon to array and unarray hym,
*' to watche day and nyght to drefs hym in his clothes, and they be
*' callers to the chaumberlayn if any thing lak for his perfon, or
*' Lelar.d's Coll. vol. iv. zd edit. p. 220.
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" plelaunce; theyre bufines is in many fecrets, fome fitting in the
" king's chaumber, fome in the hall with perfones of like fervice,
" which is called knyghts fervice, taking every of them for his
" lyvery, at night, a chete lofFe, one quart wyne, &c." Their fee
was 77(3. a day while in waiting".
Margaret Gaynesford was the daughter of Sydney, of the county
of Suffex ; fhe is mentioned by Lelaud, as being prefent at the coro-
nation of Henry VII. 's queen ". On the tomb, are the arms of
Gaynesford and Sydney, and fome other coats "' ; from the blank
fpaces in the infcription, it appears that the monument was ereded
in Gaynesford's life-time.
In Vincent's Vifitation of Surrey, are preferved fome infcrlptlons
from brafs plates, to the memory of the following perfons, fome of
which are now lofl or much mutilated : viz. Thomas Ellynbridge,
gentleman porter to Cardinal Morton, who died in 1497; (the canopy
on this tomb remains with part of the infcription ;) Walter Gaynef-
ford, chaplain, who died in 1493 ; (this tomb remains with the
figure of a prieft; and the infcription, though much worn, is legible ;)
Joan wife of John Gaynesford, who died in 1474; John Perce-
bridge, vicar, who died in 1474 ; and John fon of Thomas Fro-
mound of Cheam, who died in 1580.
Againft the fouth wall of the chancel, is the following fingular in- Tomb of
fcription, to the memory of William Quelch, a former vicar of this • Qi!^ = •
parifh:
" M. S.
*' Under the middle ftone that guards the afhes of
" a certain Fryer, fomtimes vicar of this place, is
•' raked up the duft of William Quelch, B. D. who
" minifterd in the fame fince the reformacion.
" Hislott was, through God's mercy, to burn
" Royal Houfehold Ellablilhments, publifh- between three greyhounds Sable: Sydney
ed by the Society of Antiquaries, 4to. 1790. bears Or, a Pheon Azure. The other coats
" Leland's Coll. vol. iv. p. 233. zd ed. are Arg. three Rofes Gules. 2. Or, a crofs
*' Gaynesford_ bears Arg. a chevron Gules vert. 3- Arg. a Lion rampant Gules.
Vol. I. S " Incence
I30 C A R S H A L T O N.
" Incence here about 30 years, and ended his courfe
" April the 10, An. Dom. 1654, being aged 64 years."
Some Latin lines, which are fo full of errata as not to be intelligible,
and a few Englifh verfes not worth inferting, follow.
Within the rails of the communion table, is a graveftone to the
memory of Charles Burton, Efq. who died in 1661, the laft of the
Burtons of Carfhalton. Of this family was Sir Henry Burton, Knight
of the Bath. They came to this parifh by the intermarriage of one
of their anceftors, with Joan, daughter and heir of John Ellinbridge:
Jhe died in 1523, and was buried in the north aifle, where there is
an infcription on a brafs plate to her memory.
On the north wall of the chancel is the monument of Dixey Longe,
Efq. who died in 1664; againft the fouth wall, that of Henry Her-
rlngman, and his wife Alice, who lived together fifty-eight years,
and died within fix weeks of each other in the feventy-fixth year of
their age, an. 1703.
Pariihre- '^^^ regifter of this parifli begins in 1538 ; it Is comprifed in two
gifter. books, the more ancient of which, with a very commendable zeal for
its prefervation, has been handfomely bound in Ruffian leather. It
appears in general to have been kept with accuracy, excepting the
entire omiffion of any entries from 1644 to 1651, for which the then
vicar makes the following quaint apology :
" Good reader read gently :
" For though thefe vacant yeares may feeme to make me guilty of
" thy cenfure, neither will I fymply excufe myfelfe from all blemlfhe ;
•' yet if thou do but caft thine eie upon the former pages and fee with
" what care I have kept the annals of mine owne time, and certified
" errors of former times, then thou wilt begin to think there is
*• fome reafon why he that began to build fo well fliould not be able
** to make an ende.
" The truthe is, thatbefyde the great miferles and diftradions of thofe
" pretermitted years, which it may be God in his own wifdome would
" not
CARSHALTON. 131
" not fuffer to be kept upon record, the fpeclal grounds of that pre-
" termiflion ought to be imputed to Richard Finch, the parifh clerk,
*' vvhofe office it was by long prefcription to gather the ephemerie,
" or dyary of the dayly paffages, and to exhibit them once a year to
" be tranfcribed into this regiftrey ; and though I often called upon
*' him agayne and agayne to remember his charge, and he always tould
*' me that he had the accompts lying by him, yet at laft I his
*' excufes, and refolved upon fufpicion of his worde, to put him to
*' a full tryal. I found to my great grief that all his accompt was
** written in fand, and his words committed to the empty winde.
*' God is witnefs to the truth of this apologie, and that I made it
*' known at fome parifli meetings before his own face, who could not
•' deny, neither do I write it to blemifhe him, but to cleere mine
*' own integrity as far as I may, and to give accompt of this mif-
" carryage to after ages, by fuperfcription of my own hand."
" Mar. 10, 1 65 1. William Quelch, B. D. Vicar."
The more modern Regifter Book, which begins in 1703, and is
continued to the prefent time, appears to have been kept with great
accuracy. Since the year 1708, the birth as well as the baptifm of
each child is particularized. It is much to be wifhed that this plan
was unlverfally adopted ; as in many cafes, efpecially where any con-
fiderable time has elapfed between the birth and the baptifm of
children, it may be of very material confequence to them at fome future
period, to have the date of their birth fo well authenticated.
Average of Births. Average of Burials. Comparative
1580 1589 ID 0 pulation.
1680 — 1689 14 13
1780— 1780 — II Z^,
By which it appears that the inhabitants have increafed within the
laft century, in a proportion fomewhat of more than two to one. The
prefent number of houfes is one hundred and fixty-five.
S 2 la
I p.
CARSHALTON.
Plagueyears. In the year 1625, only eight perfons died at Carfhalton; in the
enfuing year there were thirty-fix burials. Mr. Quelch obferves in
a note, that " it was a year of very great mortalitie, but that not one
died of the plague, but a difeafe fomewhat akin to it ;" and he refers
for a fimilar circumftance to the year 1543, in which I find entries
of thirty-one burials. In 1665, there were fifteen burials; in 1666,
twenty-three; neither of the numbers much exceeding the average
of each period.
In the earlier part of the Reglfter are many entries of the Gaynef-
ford and Mufchamp families ; the former were the defcendants of
Nicholas Gaynesford, whofetomb has been defcribed; the latter were
of the family of Mufchamp of Peckham ; of whom one was baron of
the exchequer, and was buried at Carfhalton, June 4, 1579.
Sir Nicholas " Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, was buried Mar. 3, 1569-70."
Throkmor- rp.j^jg was the Celebrated ftatefman who had an occafional refidence
at Carfhalton*'. Sir Nicholas was one of the moft eminent men of
his time'"* , being efleemed a good foldier, and an able politician. He
had a command at MufTelborough-field, and brought the news of the
vidlory, for which he was knighted. In the beginning of Queen
Mary's reign he narrowly efcaped with his life, being accufed as an
accomplice in Wyat's confpiracy; he owed his fafety to his own in-
genious defence, and to the integrity of his jury, for which they
were fined and perfecuted. Sir Nicholas was afterwards received into
her majefty's favour. Queen Elizabeth beftowed on him feveral places
of profit and honour; though he was once in difgrace with her, on fuf-
picion of his promoting the Duke of Norfolk's intended marriage with
the Queen of Scots. He was afterwards employed in feveral embaffies;
*» There are two letters in the Burleigh '° The anecdotes of Sir Nicholas Throk-
Papers from Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, one morton, are taken from Fuller's Worthies,
dated " at my ferme oiF Carfalton, Sept. i8, pt. 3. p. 123. and the Baronetage, i-j^f,
1568, the other from Carfalton, Feb. 25, vol. ii. p. 358.
1569, vol. i, p. 472. and 577."
and
C A R S H A L T O N. 133
and grew fo much in favour at court, that the Earl of Leicefter
looked upon him as a formidable rival ; and it was fufpeded that he
hailened his death by poifon, as he died fuddenly at the earl's houfe
near Temple Bar, after eating a hearty fupper. There is a life of Sir
Nicholas Throkmorton inverfe, in the Harleian Colledion of MSS."
which appears to have been written foon after his deceafe. Speaking
of his reconciliation with the Earl of Leicefter, the writer fays,
" Whofo believes a foe late reconcil'd,
" Is for the mod: part fpitefully beguil'd."
A fhort fpecimen of the poetry will fuffice : the following paflage
intimates that the queen fent phyficians to his affiftance, but that he
died before they arrived :
" Was ever man fo bound to fovereign
*' As I to mine, who in extremity
I " Did fend both do£lors for to eafe my pain,
" A comfort great to cure my confcience ;
*' But phyfic came in vain when I was kill'd,
*' Too late to keele when all the milk is fpill'd."
The author making Sir Nicholas himfelf the fpeaker, probably oc-
cafioned the report that he wrote his own life in verfe. Sir Nicholas
Throkmorton married the daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, of Bed-
dington, by whom he left a large family: he died as above-mentioned
on the twelfth of February, and was buried on the twenty-firfl: at St.
Catharine Cree church ^\ where there is a monument to his memory.
The cuflom of celebrating the funeral of eminent perfons, fome time
after their interment, in the church of the parifh where they had a
refidence, and which continued many years after the reformation,
accounts for the above entry in the Regifter.
" 1576. The right honorable Lorde Thomas Howard, vifcount
" of Bindon, and Miftris Mabell Burton, were married June 7."
*' N" 6353 — I. '* Funeral certificate. Herald's college.
Frances
134 C A R S H A L T O N.
Frances Frances the celebrated Duchefs of Richmond, whofe legend is to
Duchefs of _ ^
Richmond. be found at large in Wilfon's Life of James 1. was an offspring of
this marriage ". Her firft hufband was Henry Prannel, the fon of a
vintner, who dying foon afterwards in affluent circumftances, left
her a rich widow ^*. It was not long before fhe had many fuitors ;
among others Sir George Rodney and the Earl of Hertford. On her
preferring the latter, Sir George, with the romantic gallantry of that
age, wrote her a letter with his own blood, and immediately ran upon
his fword. During the earl's life fhe was addreffed by the Duke of
Richmond " as an humble fuppliant, fometimes In a blue coat with
♦' a bafket-hilted fword, making his addreffes in fuch odd difguifes "."
Being once more at liberty by the death of the earl, fhe confented to
marry the Duke of Richmond, and thus arrived at the fummit of her
honours ; though it was faid, that fhe was ambitious of foaring yet
higher ; and that furviving the duke, and finding the king a widower,
fhe vowed that fhe would never marry a fubjedt, after having been
the wife of fo great a prince as Richmond : but though fhe took care
that her vow fhould reach the king's ears, he was determined not to
take the hint. She was a woman of the mofl confummate vanity*
which her fecond hufband, the Earl of Hertford, would fometimes
take an opportunity of mortifying; and *' when he found her in
*' thefe exaltations would fay, Frank, Frank, how long is it fince thou
" waft married to Prannell ''?" There is a whole length portrait of the
duchefs in the gallery at Strawberry Hill j two prints of her are
extant, both of them very rare.
3' Wilfon fays, but erroneoudy, that her '♦ " It is faid, that Sir William Woodhoufe
mother was daughter to the Duke of Buck- " would faine marry the rich widdow Pranell,
ingham. The pedigrees, which are corrobo- " richly left indeed." Rowland White to Sir
rated by Prannel's funeral certificate, corre- Robert Sidney, Jan. 16, 1599. Sidney State
fpond with a note inferted in the parifh re- Papers, vol. ii. p. 160.
gifter, by William Quelch a future vicar, that ^^ Wilfon, p. 258.
Mabell Burton's daughter became Duchefs of ^ lb. p. 259.
Richmond.
The
CARSHALTON.
^35
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is in the dlocefe of Reaory.
Winchefter, and in the deanery of Ewell : the benefice is now a
re£lory, having been endowed with the great tithes about the begin-
ing of the prefent century by Mr. Byne, who was then the lay im-
propriator : William Hollin, the firft redlor, was inftituted in 1703.
The redtory formerly belonged to Merton-Abbey, to which it was
given by Faramufus de Bolonia, in the twelfth century". After the
diflblution of monafteries, it was granted to William Goringe by
Edward VI. ^'; it afterwards belonged to the Fromounds^', and
came by inheritance to the Bynes, who intermarried with that
family. In 1291*° the pofleffions of Merton-Abbey at Car (halton,
including the re£lory, were taxed at 12I. 6s. 6d. ; the vicarage is
rated in the king's books at 1 1 1. 12 s. 6d.
In 1646 it was ordered that 15I. per annum, referved out of the
lands belonging to the dean and chapter of Bangor, fhould be given
to Mr. William Quelch as an augmentation of his vicarage at Car-
fhalton, provided that he fubfcribed the engagement *'.
The prefent patron of the red:ory is Henry Byne, Efq. ; the incum-
bent, the Rev. William Rofe, who was inftituted in 1779.
Before I clofe the account of Carfhalton, I fhould mention, that
on the premifes now belonging to Theodore Broadhead, Efq. a houfe
wasbuiltbyDr. RadclIfFe, the celebrated phyficlan, and noble benefadlor Dr.RadcUfFe.
to the Univerfity of Oxford ; he was no lefs confplcuous for his great flcill,
than for the bluntnefs of his manner, which fpared no rank, however
exalted. He gave great offence by his rudenefs to King William and
to the Princefs of Denmark ; the latter, when fhe came to the throne,
^' Regifter of Merton-Abbey, Cotton 'o Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Erit.
MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. VII. and Muf.
Leland's Coll. vol. i. p. 7. '"^ See note, p. 10.
^^ Fee-farm rolls. Augmentation Office, *' Proceedings of the Committee for plun-
Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. No. dered Miniflers, Bodleian Library.
4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
refufed
iw.
136 C A R S H A L T O N.
refufed to appoint him. her phyfician ; fuch, however, was the opinion
of his {kill, that he was often called upon for his advice, efpecially
during her laft illnefs. The dodtor was then refiding at Carfhalton,
whence he was fummoned to attend her majefty ; being himfelf ill
with the gout, he refufed to obey the fummons, which indeed was
irregular, as not coming from proper authority. His refufal, however,
made him fo unpopular, that after the queen's death, he received
feveral threatening letters, which gave him fo much uneafinefs, that
his apprehenfions of the revenge of the populace were thought to
have haftened his own end. In a letter, dated from Carfhalton,
Auguft 3, 1714, he mentions the receipt of thefe letters, and declares
his intention of not ftirring from home. He died there the firft
of November following "% His houfe at Carflialton was fold to Sir
John Fellows, one of the governors of the South-Sea Company, by
whom it was rebuilt j at which time, in levelling the ground to make
an avenue, many human bones were found *\ The houfe was
afterwards the refidence of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke.
Benefaaions. Mr. Henry Smith bequeathed 2I. per annum to the poor of Car-
fhalton; Mr. Byneleftthem an annual fum of 7I. to be laid out in
coals; Mr. Fellows gave 20 1. per annum to apprentice boys, and
Mr. Mufchamp lol. to poor widows.
♦* Thcfe anecdotes of Dr. RadclifFe are *' Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii.
taken from the Biographia Britannica, edit. 174.
1748.
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H E A M.
N the mod ancient record which I have feen relating to this Name.
parilTi, its name is Tpelt Chieham ; it has fince been varied to
Ceiham, Chayham, and Cheyham, and has now, for about two cen-
turies pafl, been uniformly written Cheam. As there is no word in
the Saxon language nearly fimilar to the firft fyllable of the ancient
appellation, I fuppofe it to have been a proper name j Ham is well
known to mean a dwelling.
I fliould fufped that Aubrey never was at this village, for he de- Situation.
fcribes it as " lying very low, in a bottom' ;" whereas it {lands upon
the higheft ground in the neighbourhood, and commands an exten-
five profpedt. The parifh lies in the hundred of Wallington, and is Boundaries,
bounded by Maiden on the north ; on the fouth, by Banftead ; on
the eaft, by Sutton; and on the weft, by Cudington. It contains Extent and
about 1400 acres of land, of which only 120 are pafture. In
Doomfday it is faid to contain fourteen plough-lands. The foil on
the north fide of the parifh is a ftrong clay, and produces fine crops
of wheat and beans ; on the fouth fide, towards Banfted Downs, it
is chalky. This parifh pays the fum of 190I. i6s. to the land-tax,
which at prefent is at the rate of two fhillings in the pound.
The manor was granted by King Athelftan in the year 1018, to Manor.
the monks of Canterbury \ He exempted it at the fame time from
' Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii. p. 107. * Great Cartulary of the See of Canter-
bury in the Bodleian Library, p. 34.
Vol. I. T , the
138
H
M.
Manor of
Bail Cheam.
Manor of
Weft-Cheam.
the payment of all taxes, except for the repairing of bridges and fort-
refles, and defraying the expence of the king's expeditions. The grant
concludes with the ufual uncharitable anathema againft anyperfonwho
fhould prefume to infringe it : " Excommunicatus cum diabolo focic-
" tur ;" that is, in plain Englifh, " Mayhegoto the devil." InDoomf-
day, the manor of Ceihara is faid to be held by Archbifhop Lan-
franc for the fupport of the monks. It afterwards appears to have
been divided; one moiety being called Weft Cheyham, and held by
the prior and convent of Canterbury; the other, Eaft Cheyham, with
the advowfon of the church, being the property of the archbifhop.
The manor was valued in the Confeflbr's time at 81. ; at the time of
the Survey, at 15I. In 1291 ', the moiety belonging to the archbifliop
was taxed at 10 1 ; that belonging to the convent, at 61. 13 s. 4d.
The manor of Eaft Cheam continued in the pofleffion of the fee of
Canterbury till the year 1540, when it was alienated by Archbifhop
Cranmer to King Henry VIII. in exchange for Chiflet park in
Kent*. It remained in the crown till the reign of Queen Mary,
who granted it to Anthony Lord Montague ' : of him it was pur-
chafed about twenty years afterwards by Henry Earl of Arundel*;
from whom it pafTed to John Lord Lumley, who married his daugh-
ter and coheir. Lord Lumley dying without iffue, this manor was
inherited by the defcendants of his fifter Barbara, who married
Humphrey Lloyd of the county of Denbigh ; and being the property
of the Rev. Robert Lumley Lloyd who died in 1729, he left it by
will to the late Duke of Bedford : the duke fold it to Mr. Northey,
father of William Northey, Efq. of Epfom, who is the prefent proprietor.
The manor of Weft Cheam continued in the hands of the crown
forae time after the fuppreflion of monafteries. The reverfion of
' See note, p. 10. ' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit, Muf.
♦ Exchange and Grants of Lands by Hen. Ayfcough's Cat, No. 4705.
VIII. in the Augmentation Office. * Pat. 25 Eliz. pt. 8. ap. zz. Pardon Alien.
the
C H E A M. 139
the fite thereof was granted by Queen Elizabeth to John Lord Lum-
ley ' ; and it appears, that he purchafed the manor itfelf of Henry
Beacher', 25 Eliz. It has fmce undergone the fame alienations
as that of Eaft Cheam.
The manor-houfe at Eaft Cheam, which is fituated about half a Eaii-Cheam
mile from the village towards Sutton, is an ancient flruflure, built,
as I imagine, by Thomas Fromound, who married the daughter and
heir of John Yerde, leffee of the manor under Archbifhop Cranmer.
In the hall window are the arms of Yerde, impaled by Ellinbridge.
Fromound, whofe mother was an heirefs of that family, bears On his
tomb the arms of Ellinbridge quartered with his own. The hall re-
mains in its original form, the upper part being furrounded by an
open wooden gallery : adjoining the hall, are the buttery and cellar
with ancient doors : in the parlour is fome rich mantled carving.
The chapel is converted into a billiard-room. This houfe and pre-
mifes, called the Site of the Manor of Eaft Cheam, were held under
the crown by the Fromounds", after the manor itfelf was granted to
Lord Montague. They continued in poffeffion of it till the middle of
the laft century. Bartholomew Fromound, who was fined the fum of
1240 1. by James I. as a recufant, died in 1641, and was the laft of
that family fettled at Cheam. The premifes afterwards became the
property of the Petres, and were fold a few years ago by Lord Petre
to Philip Antrobus, Efq. the prefent proprietor.
The manor-houfe of Weft-Cheam, fituated near the church, is a Weil-Cheam
large brick edifice, which contains nothing particularly deferving of
defcription : it appears to be in a negleded ftate, and has not for
fome years been the refidence of its owners.
The church is dedicated to St. Dunftan. It appears by a note on
a pane of glafs taken out of the old palace at Croydon, that " the
' Pat. 2 El'z. pt. 3. Apr. 27. » Pat. i & 2 P. & M. pt. 15. Feb. 14.
' Pat. 25 Eliz. pt. 10. Apr. 25.
T 2 " church
manor-houle.
MO C H E A M.
"church of Cheme was burnt by lightning in the year 1639."
The injuiy it received mull have been only partial, as the tower
and fome parts of the church, which are of a prior date, ftill remain ;
the form of the building, however, in confequence of this accident,
and fome fubfequent alterations, has been fo changed, that no
conjedture can be formed of the date of its ftrudlure. The tower,
which is built of flint and ftone, is low, fquare, and em-
battled.
St. Mary's ^j- ^j^e fouth-eaft corner of the church, is a fmall chapel dedicated
chapel. ^ _ * _
to St. Mary, which was built before the year 1449, as is evident
from the will of John Yerde, who diredls his body to be buried
therein. He bequeaths his eftates in Surrey, after the death of his
wife, to his fecond fon John, to whom alfo he leaves 400 muttons ;
20s. to the repair of the church, and 20 s. to the high
Tomb. altar '°. His tomb is ftill to be feen, with an infcription on a
brafs plate much worn. There are fmall figures of himfelf and
his wife Anne. Her head-drefs refembles that of Margaret Gaynef-
ford at Carfhalton. Anne Yerde died in 1453.
In this chapel alfo are the tombs of Thomas Fromound, who
married the daughter and heir of John Yerde the younger, and
died in 1542; of another of the fame family much oblite-
rated; and of Bartholomew Fromound, who died in 1579. Jane,
one of the daughters of the latter, married the celebrated Dr.
Dee.
Againft the weft wall of the fame chapel, is a monument to the
memory of Lord Stourton, a Roman catholic peer, who died in
1753-
At the eaft end of the chancel, from which it is feparated by a
fkreen of wood, is an aifle built by John Lord Lumley, in 1592,
as a burial place for his family. The roof is enriched with pen-
dant ornaments.
•» Regift. Lamb. Stafford, f. 188. b.
Againft
C H E A M. 141
Againft the north wall is the monument of Lord Lumley. On a T°,j^\°/^j
large tablet fupported by Corinthian columns, and furrounded with Lumley.
coats of arms of the Lumleys, and families allied to them by
marriage", is the following infcription :
" Deo Opt. Max. et Pofteritati Sacrum Johanni Dom. et BaronI
" de Lumley, viro nobiliflimo, innocentia, integritate, conftantia,
" fide, pietate, religione, comitate, rerum difficilium diuturna per-
" peffione, et patientla ornaliflimo, feliciter et fande in terris
" mortuo decimo die Aprilis anno Chrifti Servatoris, millefimo •
•' fexcentefimo nono, setatis fux LXXVI. uxor amantiffima et
" amici acerbo in officio diligentes hoc ei monumentum, non
" honoris erga quo abundavit vivus et florefcet mortuus, fed
*' amoris caufa quern memoria colent, ut debeat, fempiterna, devo-
*' tifiime confecrarunt.
" Pio quoque erga nobilifi^imam Lumleyorum gentem afFe£lu
" dudi in honorem ac memoriam ejufdem, primogenitorum illlus
" The ancient arms of Lumley were Gules, Willington. 8. Az. Seme de lis, a lion ram-
6 ring-doves, Arg. 3, 2, and i. Marma- pant. Or, for Holland. 9. Gules, a chevron
duke Lumley, who married the daughter engrailed between 3 garbs, Arg. for Redham.
and heir of Thomas Baron Thwenge, 10. Sab. a chevron, Arg. a chief indented of
changed them for the arms of that family, the fecond, for Thornton. 1 1. Az. a maunch
Arg. a feife Gules, between three popinjays Or,for Conyers. 12. Quarterly.— i. Ermine ;
vert,beakedandleggedofthe fecond. The arms j. paly of 6 Or, and Gules ; 3 as 2 ; 4 as i ;
impaled by Lumley are, i. Gules a Saltier for Knightley. 13. Gules a lion rampant. Or,
Arg. for Gofpatrick Earl of Northumberland, for Fitz-alan. 14. Arg. 3 cinqOefoils, Gules
2. Sable 3 cups Argent, for Cawtrey. 3. Gules, forD'Arcy.
a Saltier Arg. for Nevil. 4. Sab. a fret Arg. Over the tomb are the modern arms of
for Harrington. 5. The Royal Arms quartered Lumley, quartering, I. Ancient arms of Lum-
with Burgh (Or, a crofs Gules) and Mortimer ley. 2. Sab. 3 cups Arg. for Cawtrey. 3. Gules, a
(Az. 3 bars Or, an inefcutcheon Arg. on a Saltiervalre. 4. Az. Semeof cinquefoils, alion
chief between two cantons party per bend Or, rampant, Arg. for Morewyke. 5. .'^rg. 2 bars
andaz. dexter and finifter, as many pallets); Gules, on a canton of the fecond, a lioii
over all a baton finifter for Elizabeth, natural paffant, guardant Or. 6. Thornton. 7. Arg.
daughter of King Edward IV. who married a chevron Gules within a border engrailed fable
Sir Thomas Lumley. 6. Az. abend Or, for born alfo by Thornton. See Lumleii familiac
Scroop. 7. Gules, a Saltier vaire bom by infignia.Brit.Muf.King'sMSS.XVlL A.XIV.
" familias
142 ' C £L rE A M.
*' familije fuccefliones feriatim hac in tabula fculpi atque defcribi cu-
*' rarunt : — quorum primus Liulphus nomine nobilis geaerolufque
" minifter, ex Anglofaxonura genere vir clariflimus qui late per
" Angliam pofl'efTiones multas haereditario jure poflidebat cum tem-
" pore Regis Gulielmi Primi Conquifitoris Anglise, Normanni
" ubique fxvirent, et quia Cuthbertum Dunelmenfem antiftitem inter
" Divos relatum, multum dilexerat, cum fuis ad Dunelmum fe con-
" tulit, et ibidem Walchero Epifcopo adeo devenit charus et accepta-
" bilis, ut abfque illius confilio nibil confulte fieri videbatur : mul-
" torumdehinc odium fibi conflavit, donee a Gilberto quodam aliifque
" fceleratis didti Epifcopi miniftris crudeliter tandem occideretur:
*' in cujus necis vindidtam Northumbri WalcherumPrazfuleminnocen-
*' tem apud Gatefhed trucidarunt. Anno 1080, Ex Aldgitha con-
" juge Northumbrorum comitis Aldredi filia Liulphus filium fufcepit
*' Udredum Patrem de Gulielmi de Lumley ejus nominis primi, a
*' cujus loci dominio fui pofteri cognomina funt fortiti : Gulielmum,
*' iftum Uiflredi filium Dunelmenfis Epifcopus Hugo eifdem frul
" immunitatibus voluit, quibus cxteri fui Barones in epifcopatu
" gaudeb^nt et Secundi Henrici Regis cartam inde obtinuit. Tanti
*' Beneficii non immemor Gulielmus villam fijam de Di£ton in
*' Alverton-fcira eidem epifcopo et fucceflbribus fuis liberaliter con-
*' tulit ; a primo Gulielmo oritur fecundus, a fecundo tertius, qui ex
*' filia Gualteri Daudre equitis Rogerum filium procreavit, maritum
*' Sybellae cohaeredis inclyti Baronis Hugonis de Morwyco ; inde
** natus Robertas, qui ex Lucia forore et hxrede Thomse Baronis de
" Thwenge Marmaducum filium genuit, paternorum armorum
" defertorem primum fibi fuifque retentis materna: ftemmatis infig-
" nibus. — Procreat is, ex Margaretta Holland conjuge fua, Ra-
" dulphum equitem ftrenuum quem Rex Ricardus Secundus anno
*' Regiminis octavo ad Baronis Regni dignitatem evexerat ; duda-
" que Aleanora primi comitis Weftmarise forore, Johannem tulit,
*' qui
C H E A M. 143
" qui ex Felicia Uxore Thomam fufcepit cui Margaretta conjux'
" filia Jacobi Harrington equitis, Georgium enixa eft maritum
** Elizabethse hxredis Rogeri Thornton armigeri, inde pater
" efficitur illius ThomEe qui ex magni Regis Edwardi Quarti filia
" naturali Ricardum fufceperat : is Annam ducens fororem Gulielmi
" Baronis Coigners, Johannem reliquit hxredem fponfum Johannas
*' filiae Henrici Le Scrope de Bolton, Baronis eximii, avum Johaa-
" nis ultimi Baronis de Lumley, hoc conditorio in certam fpem
*' future refurredionis repofiti : quern illi Georgius filius, ex Jana
*' cohseredi Ricardi Knightley equitis, unicum reliquerit nepotem ac
*' haeredem ; bino conjugio felix ultimus hie Johannes fuit, Jans
*' fcilicet Arundelice comitis Henrici filix state maxima et coha^redi
" necnon et Elizabethse filiae Johannis Baronis D'Arcy, fxminGe non
" Iblum profapia et antiquo ftemmate nobili, fed quod magis laud-
*' andum virtutibus, pudicitia, verecundise, et amore conjugali
*' nobiliffim^E. — Ex illarum prima nati filii duo Carolus et Thomas^
" filiaque unica Maria baud diu fiiperftites adeo ipfa infantia moef-
" tiffimis fatis fiablati."
There is an engraving of this monument in Sandford's Genealo-
gical Hiftory of the Kings of England.
Lord Lumley was engaged by his father-in-law, the Earl of LordLum-
Arundel, in the defign of promoting a marriage between Mary Queen ^^'
of Scots and the Duke of Norfolk, for which he was imprifon-
ed "; but efcaping without farther punifhment, fat afterwards upon
the trial of that Queen ". Camden fpeaks of him as a man of the
ftri£left virtue and integrity ; and fays, that he was, in his old age,
a moft complete pattern of true nobility . He was high ftevvard of
the Univerfity of Oxford ; and having a tafte for literature, colleded a
fine library of books, in which he was aflifted by his brother-in-law,
"Burleigh Papers, vol. ii. p. 26—138. Camden's Annals of Q;_ Elizabeth, p. i90.236,8vo.
»' Ibid. p. 487.
Humfrey
144 ^^ ^ E. A M.
Humfrey Lloyd'*, a celebrated antiquary. After his lordfhip's
death, which happened in 1609, they were purchafed by King
James, and became the foundation of the Royal Library, which now
forms a part of the colledion in the Britifh Mufeum.
A portrait of Lord Lumley, inclofed in a wooden cafe. Hill remains
in his chancel at Cheam ; he is reprefented in a high-crowned hat, a
ruff, and a long beard ; the pidlure is almoft decayed ; but an engrav-
ing of it is preferved in the laft edition of Sandford '\
Tomb of On the fouth fide of Lumley's chancel, is a ftately monument of
Jane Lady ^ r x i t i i r •
Lumley. marble, to the memory of Jane Lady Lumley : the upper part or it,
which exhibits her own effigies in baflb-relievo, is reprefented in the
annexed plate : beneath, is an altar tomb of very large dimenfions :
on the front, which is divided into two compartments, are the figures
of her daughter and two fons, kneeling ; and at each end are the arms
and quarterings of Fitz-alan "^ and Lumle-y. The tomb is covered
with a flab of black marble, eight feet five inches in length, and four
feet two inches and half in breadth ; round the edge is the following
infcription :
" Vixi dum volui, volui dum Chrifte volebas,
*' Chrifte mihi fpes eft, vita, corona, falus.
" Jana Henrico Comiti Arundeliae filia et coheres, Johannis
" Baronis Lumley chariflima conjux, pra;ftans pietatis ftudio, vir-
" tutum officiis, et vers nobllitatis gloria, corpore, fub hoc tumulo
" in adventum Domini requiefcit."
Jane Lady Lumley, daughter of Henry Earl of Arundel, was a
very learned woman. She tranflated the Iphigenia of Euripides, and
fome of the orations of Ifocrates into Englifli ; and one of the latter
■♦ Biograph. Brit. edit. 1748,-p. 4276, Gules, for Poynz. 2. Arg. a fefl"e Gules, a
4277. in the notes. canton of the laft. for Wood'vile. 3. Sab. a
's London, 1707. fol. fret Or, for Makravers.
'* Fitz-alan quarters, i. Barry of 8 Or and
into
Tomb of Jan f Zadv ZumUv^
C H E A M. 145
into Latin ". The MSS. are in the Britifh Mufeum ". Lady
Lumley died in 1577, as appears by the parifh regifter.
" Johanne Lumley, fepult. 9 Mar. 1576-7."
On the north fide of the fame chancel is the monument of Lord Tombof
Elizabeth
Lumley's fecond wife, daughter of John Lord Darcy of Chiche ; her Lady Lum-
ley,
effigy lies at full length under an arch, the cieling of which is che-
quered with cinquefoils and popinjays. There is a Latin infcription
without dates. Over the tomb are the arms of Lumley, impaling
Darcy.
A neat marble tablet, with the following infcription, is affixed to Monument of
r 1 Ml r , Sir Jofeph
one 01 the pillars of the nave: Yates.
*' Sacred to the Memory
" of the Honorable
" Sir Jofeph Yates, Knight,
" of Peel Hall in Lancafhire,
" fucceffively a Judge of the Courts
*' of King's Bench and Common Pleas ;
" whofe merit advanced him to the
** feat of Juftice, which he filled with the mofl
" diftinguiftied abilities and invincible integrity.
" He died the 7th day of June 1770,
" in the 48th year of his age,
" leaving the world to lament the lofs
" of an honeft Man and able Judge,
" firm to aflert
** and ftrenuous to fupport
" the laws and conftitution
" of his Country."
Over the infcription are the arms of Yates, Arg. three Gates
Sable.
■' Ballard's Memoirs of Learned Ladies, p. 121. '» King's MSS. XV. A. L IL and IX.
Vol. L U Sir
14^ C H E A M.
Sir Jofeph Yates was admitted of the Inner Temple in the year
1738 ; he pradifed fpecial pleading for feme time below the bar, to
•which he was called in 1753. In 1764, he was appointed one of the
Juftices of the Court of King's Bench, from whence he removed
to the Common Pleas in 1 770, the year in which he died. His
contemporaries agree in giving full teftimony to the truth of the
encomiums beftowed on him in his epitaph. Sir Jofeph Yates
made Cheara his occafional refidence for a few years preceding his
death.
Befides the tombs already mentioned, Aubrey defcribes thofe
of the following perfons : Michael Denys, who died in 1418;
John Compton, who died in 1450 ; William Woodward, who died
in 1459 ; Sir John Virley, parfon of Cheam, who died in 1557;
Thomas Ufborn, re£l:or, who died in 1686 ; George Aldrich, who
kept a private fchool at Cheam during the rebellion, and died in
1685; James Bovey Efquire, who died in 1695; Edmund Barret,
ferjeant of the wine-cellar to King Charles, who died in 1631 ; and
his fon Thomas, clerk of the wardrobe, who died in 1652: of thefe,
the tombs of Mr. Bovey and the Barrets only now remain.
On a tomb of black marble in the church-yard, near the fouth
door, is ah infcription to the memory of Henry Neale, and his wife,
who died 1664; and their daughter Eliza Button " who was mur-
" thured the 13th of July 1687, by her neighbour, endeavouring
" to make peace between him and his wife.**
Reftory, The benefice of Cheam, is a redory in the peculiar jurifdidion of
the archbifhop of Canterbury. The patronage was annexed to the
manor of Eaft Cheam, till it was alienated to St. John's college in
Oxford, towards the latter end of the laft century.
Reftors. It is fomewhat fmgular, that of fix fucceffive xedors of Cheam,
five fliould become biftiops, as will appear by the following
Kft:
Anthony
C H E A M. 147
Anthony Watfon, inftituted to this re£tory In 158 1 ", was pro- :^"*°"y
moted to the fee of Chichefter in i cq6, and held Cheam in com- bifhop of
. , , . r 1 • L • 1. Chichefter.
mendam" till his death, which happened in 1605 ; at which time he
was almoner to King James. He was buried at Cheam September
19*', and his funeral was honorably folemnized there on the third
of October following".
Lancelot Andrews, then bifhop of Chichefter, was inftituted In 1609 Lancelot
Andrews,
to the reflory of Cheam^\ which he refigned within a few months biihopof
upon his promotion to the fee of Ely: he was afterwards tranflated
to Winchefter. Bilhop Andrews was a very celebrated preacher, to
which circumftance, and his eminent abilities as a writer, he prin-
cipally owed his preferment. It was faid of him by Fuller '*, that
they who ftole his fermons could not Real his manner ; which was
inimitable. Queen Elizabeth admired him *\ and by giving him the
deanery of Weftminfter, laid the foundation of the promotion to
which he arrived, under the patronage of her fucceffbr James. The
bifhop had a confiderable fhare in the tranflation of the Bible ", and
left behind him, in print, a very large colledion of fermons, and fome
ieftures on the Old Teftament. He died in 1626, and lies buried in
St. Saviour's church, in Southwark.
George Mountain, inftituted to this rectory on bifhop Andrews's George
tranflation to Ely in 1609'", was promoted to the fee of Lichfield archbiihop
and Coventry, in 161 1. He refigned Cheam, upon his tranflation °
to Lincoln, in 161 7. He afterwards became fucceflTively blfliop of
London and Durham, and archbifhop of York; and dying in 1628,
at the age of fifty-nine, was buried in the church of Cawood, where
there is an infcription to his memory, written by Hugh Holland ".
'' Reg. Lamb. GrinJal, f. 555. a. *' England's Worthies, p. 369.
" Pat. 38 Eliz. pt. 13. Oa. 14. ^« Biograph. Brit. edit. 1789.
*' Parilli Regifter. '' Reg. Lamb. Bancroft, f. 292. a.
" Funeral Certificate, Herald's college. "' Morris's Lives of eminent Cambridge
" Reg. Lamb. Bancroft, f. 292.3. Men. Harl. MSS. Bridfli Mufeum, 7176,
*+ Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2. p. 206. p. 149.
U 2 Richard
148 C H E A M.
^"^r^'^^l^"* Richard Senhoufe was inftltuted to the tedlory in 161 7", on the
houfe, bilhop •' ' '
cfCarlifle. promotion of bifliop Mountain. He refigned it on being made
bifhop of Carlifle in 1624. Senhoufe preached at the coronation pf
King Charles'' ; and died in 1628. He left behind him a few fer-
mons in print, and lectures on fome of the Pfalms in MS, '°.
JohnHacket, Upon bifhop Senhoufe's promotion, John Hacket obtained the
bifhop of . , •
Lichfield and living of Cheam " through the intereft of the Lord Keeper Wil-
liams ^\ One of Hacket's earlieft patrons was his predeceflbr at
Cheam, Bifhop Andrews, then dean of Weftminfter, who noticed
him when at fchool as a promifmg lad, and gave him money to buy
books ". Whilft he was at the Univerfity, he wrote a Latin comedy
called Loiola, a£ted before King James in 1 6 1 6 ^* ; it was afterwards
publifhed. At the breaking out of the civil wars, Hacket was chofen
by the clergy to be their advocate againfl the bill for taking away the
church government, upon which occafion he pleaded fo well, that it
was then thrown out by a confiderable majority ". Being afterwards
accufed before the committee for plundered minifters, he made no
defence, but retired to Cheam, by the advice of his friend Selden,
who promifed to ufe his endeavours to prevent his being molefted '*.
He remained there unnoticed, till the Earl of Effex with his army
pafled that way, when he was taken prifoner ". Great offers were
made him at this time, if he would change his principles, but with-
out fuccefs. Being difmiffed from his confinement, he haftened
again to his retirement at Cheam, where he continued to read the
common prayer, until he was enjoined to forbear by the Surrey
Committee, when he found himfelf under the neceflity of omitting
fuch parts as were moft ofFenfive to the government". In 1 66 1, he
'^ Reg. Lamb. Abbot, pt. i. ^4 a. Wood, vol. i. Fafti.
'9 Fuller's Worthies, pt. i. p. 219. " Biograph. Brit.
3° Morris's Lives, p. 14;. ^* Ibid.
3' Reg. Lamb. Abbot, pt. 2. f. 338. a. " Ibid.
»» Biograph. Brit. '' Ibid.
" Morris's Lives, p. 194.
was
C H E A M. 14(^
was promoted to the See of Litchfield and Coventry ; and in the
following year he refigned the living of Cheam, after having held it
near forty years. He died in 1670, aged 78". There is a print
of him by Faithorne.
Thomas Playfere, Margaret profeflbr of divinity at Cambridge, was Thomas
the intermediate redlor between the above-mentioned bifhops, being
inftituted after the death of Watfon in 1605*°. Fuller fays, his
fluency in the Latin tongue feemed a wonder, till Collins fo far ex-
ceeded him *'. Playfere died in 1609, and lies buried in St. Bo-
tolph's church, Cambridge; where there is an infcription to his me-
mory, full of the moft extravagant praifes *'^. Fie publlfhed a few
religious trads.
John Doughty, inftituted to this redory in 1662 *\ publifhed fome johnDough-
fermons and political trads **: he died Dec. 25th, 1672. '^*
Edward Bernard, the firft redor prefented by St. John's college, Edward Ber-
fucceeded Doughty *', and was a moft: learned aftronomer, linguift, "^"^ '
critic, and chronologift. Fie refigned his living of Cheam in 1673 ;
and was the fame year appointed Savilian profeflbr of aftronomy at
Oxford. Fie died in 1697, and lies buried in the chapel of St. John's
college. Many of his works in various departments of literature are
in print, and he left behind him feveral MSS. which were purchafed
of his widow for the fum of 200I. by the curators of the Bodleian
Library "%
The prefent redor of Cheam is the Rev. Fienry Peach, who was
inftituted in 1780.
The parifti regifter commences in 1538. P?^'*^ "■«-
" Morris's Lives of Cambridge Men, ♦^ Reg. Lamb. Juxon, f. 138.3.
p. 205. ♦♦ A. Wood, vol. ii.
*° Reg. Lamb. Bancroft, f. 270. a. *' Reg. Lamb. Sheldon, f. 354. a.
♦' Fuller's Worthies, pt. 2.p. 84. *'> Biograph. Brit. edit. 1780.
♦* Morris's Lives, p. 212.
Average
»50
H
E
M.
Comparative
ftate of po-
pulation.
Average of Baptifms.
1580—1589 6
1680 — 1689 "~^ — ^°
1780 — 1789 12
Average of Buriali.
— IT
— 14
Plague
years.
Longevity.
The regifter of burials being defedive towards the latter end of the
fixteenth century, no average could be taken. The increafe of po-
pulation appears to have been lefs during the lad hundred years, than
in the fame period preceding. The number of houfes is now fixty-
one.
In the year 1603, nine perfons died of the plague; the whole
number of burials in that year was thirteen. Four perfons died of
the fame diftemper in 1645, among whom were the curate and his
wife. In 1665, there are entries of nine burials only; a number
not exceeding the average of that period.
The following inftance of longevity occurs in the regifter :
" Johannes Lyftney, fenex, (viz. 100,) fepult. Jan. 18, 17 13-4."
Benefaaions. Henry Smith Efquire, bequeathed 4 1. per annum to this parifh ;
and Anne, reli£l of Samuel Pierfon Efquire, left a meffuage, barn, and
4^ acres of land for the benefit of fuch poor perfons as fhall fre-
quent the church, and receive no alms.
Adjoining the parifh of Cheam, is the fite of the village of Co-
<Iinton, or Cudington, v.'hich now no longer exifts. Of the church,
which formerly belonged to Merton Abbey *', no veftiges remain.
In an old furvey *° of the manor it is faid, that " the fcyte ftandeth
" at the weft part of the faid manor, nygh and adjoining to the
" churche-yard." The old manfion-houfe and the church were pro-
bably pulled down, to make way for Henry VIII. 's new building.
*^ Retrift. Winton. H. Woodlock, f. 130. " houfes, wherein dwelleth and inhabiteth
a. Pat. z Edw. II. pt. 2. m. 4. " four honeft men and tidl perfons, meet and
♦' In this furvey, which is in the Augmen- " able to do the king fervice."
tation-office, are defcribed " four ferme
No
Cud I KG
TON.
H
M.
i%i
No vicars appear to have been inftituted after that time. The tithes
are impropriated to the lord of the manor.
The manor belonged in the time of the Confeflbr, to Earl Lewen, Manor,
and was held by the bifhop of Baieux, after the Conqueft. In the
laft year of the reign of Edward III. it was granted by John Kyn-
wardefle and John Lependen to Ralph de Codinton ■". It con-
tinlied in that family till i8 Hen. VIII. , when it came into the pof-
feflion of that monarch, by an exchange with Richard Codinton '".
Queen Mary granted it to Henry Earl of Arundel " ; fmce which
time it has undergone the fame alienations as the manors of Cheam,
and is now the property of William Northey Efquire. This
manor was united by Henry VIII. to the honor of Hampton-
Court.
Henry VIII. admiring the fituation of Cudington, rebuilt the Nonfuch
manor-houfe, and converted it into a palace ; called afterwards, from
its fplendor and magnificence, Nonfuch.
The palace has been much celebrated both by Englifh and foreign
writers.
Camden fays, " It is built with fo muchfplendour and elegance, that
** it ftands a monument of art, and you would think the whole
*' fcience of architecture exhaufted on this building. It has fuch a
" profufion of animated ftatues and finifhed pieces of art, rivalling
" the monuments of antient Rome itfelf, that it juftly has and main-
" tains its name from thence, as Leland fings :
" Hanc quia non habent fimilem laudare Britanni
" Sa^pe folent nullique parem cognomine dicunt.
" Unrivalled in defign, the Britons tell
" The wondrous praifes of this nonpareil."
■♦9 Cl. 51 Edw. III. m. 5. " Orig. 3 & 4 P. & M. p. 4. Rot. 71.
'" Grants and exchanges of Lands, temp. Lord Treafurer's Remembrancer's Office.
Hen. Vin. in the Augmentation Office.
But
152 C H E A M.
But perhaps no defcrlption of this palace is to be more relied on
than that given by Hentzner, a German, who vifited England in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth ; and at his return into his own country,
—r-^-' - published an account of his travels in Latin, which feems to be
written wit1i- g-rsat^aiicuracy. What relates to this country, was
printed by the earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill, in 1757, with a
tranflation. His account of Nonfuch-palace is as follows :
" Nonefuch, a royal retreat built by Henry VIII., with an excefa
" of magnificence and elegance even to oftentation ; one would
*' imagine every thing that architedlure can perform to have been
•' employed in this one work : there are every where fo many ftatues
*' that feem to breath, fo many miracles of confummate art, fo
" many cafts, that rival even the perfedion of Roman antiquity,
" that it may well claim, and juftify its name of Nonefuch, being
" without an equal : or as the poet fung :
" This which no equal has in art or fame,
" Britons defervedly do Nonefuch name."
" The palace itfelf is fo encompafTed with parks full of deer, de-
" licious gardens, groves ornamented with trellis work, cabinets of
** verdure, and walks fo embrowned by trees, that it feems to be a
" place pitched upon by pleafure herfelf to dwell in along with
" health.
" In the pleafure and artificial gardens ", are many columns and
" pyramids of marble ; two fountains, that fpout water one round
" the other like a pyramid, upon which are perched fmall birds, that
" ftream water out of their bills : in the grove of Diana, is a very
" agreeable fountain, with Aitzeon turned into a flag, as he was
" fprinkleJ by the goddefs and her nymphs, with infcriptions.
" " The French EmbafTador came here " pleafed him infinitely." Rowland White
" and (laid well neare two hours with her to Sir Robert Sydney, Nonfuch, Aug. 18,
" majeAie, then was he brought to fee all 1599. Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 1 1 3.
" the Angularities of the gardens, which
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" There Is befides another pyramid of marble full of concealed
pipes, which fpirt upon all who come within their reach."
In Sebaftian Braun's Work, entitled " Civitates Orbis Terrarum,"
there is an engraving of Nonfuch palace by Hoefnagle ", from
which the annexed print was copied. There is alfo a fmall en-
graving of it in the corner of Speed's Map of Surrey.
Braun, fpeaking of Nonfuch, fays, that by the contrivance of the
archited, an echo was made at the entrance of the palace, which
repeated the found diftin£tly five or fix times.
In the Survey taken by order of the parliament in 1650, the houfe Survey of
r n r r n i Nonfuch ia
at Nonfuch is deicribed, as connltmg of " a fayer, uronge, and i6jo.
large ftrudure, or building of free-ftone, of two large ftories
high ; well wrought and battled with ftone, and covered with blue
flate, {landing round a court of 150 foote long, and 132 foote
broad, paved with ftone, commonly called the outward courte :
a gate-houfe leading into the outward court aforefaid, being a
building very ftronge and graceful!, being ihree ftories high,
leaded over head, battled, and turretted in cv^ery of the foure .
corners thereof ; confifting alfo of another very faire and curious
ftrudlure or building of two ftories high, the lower ftory where-
of, is of very good and well wrought freeftone ; and the higher
of wood ; richly adorned and fet forth and garnifhed with variety
of ftatues ", pictures, and other antick formes, of excellent art
and workmanfhip, and of no fmall coft ; all which building
lying almoftupona fquare is covered with blue flate, and inclofeth
one faire and large court of 137 foot broad, and 116 foot long,
S3
' Over it is the following infcription : p. 27;. where a MS. note b quoted from Le
' Palatium Regium in Anglix Regno, ap- Neve's copy of Aubrey's Surrey, in the pof-
' pellatum Nonciutz : Hoc eft nufquam fefEon of John Claxton Efquire, in which it is
' fimlle;" and under it, " Effigiavit Gcorgius faid, that the houfe was done with plafter
' Hoefnaglius, anno 1582." work, made of rye-dough, in imagery very
'♦ Tliefc ftatues appear to have been made coftly.
of plarter. See Gough's Topography, v. ii.
Vol. I. X "all
1.54
H
M.
Proprietors
of Nonfuch.
Henry VIII.
Henry Earl of
Arundel.
all paved with free-ftone, commonly called the inner court.
Memorandum, That the inner court ftands higher than the out-
ward court by an aflent of eight fteps, leading therefrom through
a gate-houfe of free-ftone, three ftories high, leaded and turreted
in the four corners. This laft mentioned gate-houfe, ftanding be-
tween the inward and the outward court, is of moft excellent work-
manfhip, and a very fpecial ornament to Nonfuch houfe. On
the eaft and weft corners of the inner court building, are placed
two large and well built turrets of five ftories, each of them con-
taining five rooms, the hlgheft of which roomes, together with
the lanthorns of the fame, are covered with lead, and battled
round with frames of wood covered with lead ; thefe turrets
command the profpedl and view of both the parks of Nonfuch*
and moft of the country round about, and are the chief orna-
ments of Nonfuch houfe." Of the infide there is very little de-
fcription ; it is only faid in general, that the rooms are fair and large,
and fome of them wainfcotted and matted. The gardens and
orchards are faid to contain 212 fruit-trees, " fix lelacks, one ju-
" niper-tree, two ewe-trees, and a time-tree." The materials of
the houfe are valued at 7020 1. This Survey, the original of which is
depofited in the Augmentation Office, is printed in the fifth volume
of the Archaeologia ".
Nonfuch palace was not lefs remarkable for its fituation and
magnificence, than it has been for its local hiftory, and illuftrious
proprietors.
Henry VIII. as before mentioned, purchafed its fite and began the
building.
Henry Earl of Arundel, as we are informed in a MS. life of him
in the Britifti Mufeum ", *' perceivinge a fumptous houfe, called
55 P. +29—439.
5« King's MSS. XVII. A. IX.
" Nonefuche,
C H E A M.
" Nonefuche, to have bene begon, but not finifhed bylas firft maifter
" King Henry the Eighte, and thearfore in Quene Maryes tyme,
" thoughte mete rather to have bene pulled downe, and folde by
" peacemeale, then to be perfited at her charges ; he for the love
" and honour he bare to his olde maifter, dedred to buye the fame
" houfe by greate of the Quene, for which he gave faire lands
*' unto her highnes ; and having the fame, did not leave till he had
" fullye finifhed it in building, reperations, paviments, and gardens,
" in as ample and perfit forte, as by the firft intente and meaninge
" of the faid king his old maifter the fame (hould have been per-
*' formed; and fo it is now evident to be beholden of all ftrangersand
" others for the honour of this real me, as a pearle thereof. The
" fame he hath left to his pofterity, garnilhed and replenifhed with
" rich furnitures, among the which his lybrarye is righte worthye
" of remembrance."
In a copy of the firft edition of archbifhop Parker's Church
Hiftory, interleaved with MSS ". is the following curious warrant,
in the Earl of Arundel's own hand-writing, addrefled to his game-
keeper :
" To Robert Gavell, keper of the grete park.
-"• Delyver unto the moft reverent father in God, my very good
lord the archebifhop of Canterbery, upon his grace's letter, fyche
and fo many deere of fefon, in wynter and fomer yerely, as his
grace fliall wryght for, and this fliall be your fofficyent warrant
therefor ; and if hyt fhall plefe him to hunt at any tyme, I will
ye make him fyche game as ye woll doe unto me. Fayl not here-
of, as you tender my plefure, — ■ — at Nonfuch the 22 of Aug.
1571.
« Y' M^ Arundell."
" N" 959. Lambeth MS. Library.
X2 In
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beth.
156 C H E A M.
In the life of Lord Arundel above quoted, it is faid that he left
Nonfuch to his pofterity ; in confirmation of which it appears that
Lord Lumley conveyed it to the crov/n in the year 1591, and re-
ceived in lieu thereof, lands to the value of 534 1. '°.
Queen Eliza- Quecn Elizabeth was frequently at Nonfuch, during the life of
the Earl of Arundel ; whether as a gueft, or tenant, does not appear.
The earl himfelf was refident there in 1571, and he furnifhed the
entertainment for her majefty in 1559; though Strype, in the following
account of her vifit to Nonfuch, calls it one of her houfes :
" Aug. 5. The Qiieen removed from Eltham to Nonfuch, another
" of her houfes, of which the noble Earl of Arundel feems to have
*' been houfe-keeper ; there the queen had great entertainment with
" banquets, efpecially on Sunday night, made by the faid earl, to-
" gether with a mafk, and the warlike found of drums and flutes,
" and all kinds of mufick, till midnight. On Monday was a great
•' fupper made for her ; but before night, fhe flood at her {landing
" on the farther park, and faw a courfe ; at night was a play of the
" children of Paul's and their mailer Sebaftian : after that, a coflly
*' banquet, accompanied with drums and flutes ; the diflies were
*' extraordinary rich gilt. This entertainment lafted till three in the
*' morning, and the earl prefented her majefty with a cupboard of
" plate "." She left Nonfuch on the 10th. I find fhe vifited it again
in 1567, IJ79*', and 1580".
Nonfuch became afterwards the favourite refidence *' of the queen,
who fpent a confiderable part of each fummer at this palace towards
" Burleigh Papers, vol. ii. p. 795. and ** *• Her Grace Hketh well of this place"
Papers in the poffeflion of the Rev. Jofeph (Nonfuch). Lord Talbot to the Earl of
Whately, the prefent proprietor. Shrew/bury, June 23, 1580. Lodge's Shrewf-
" Annals of the Reformation, vol. 1. p. bury Papers, vol. ii.
194. " Her Majeftie is returned again to Non-
** Churchwardens' accounts atKingftonon " fuch, whichof all other places (he likes beft."
Thames, Rowland White to Sir Robert Sydney, Sep. 8.
•' Sydney State Papers, vol.i. p. 274. 276. 1599. Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 120.
the
C H E A M. 157
the latter end of her reign. Here the Earl of Eflex firft experienced the
frowns of her difpleafure. On his return out of Ireland, he rode poll
to the court then at Nonfuch ; and as Rowland White tells the ftory,
in a letter to Sir Robert Sydney ", " made all haft up to the prefence, and
" foe to the privy chamber, and ftaied not till he came to the queen's
" bed-chamber, where he found the queen newly up, the hare about
*' her face ; he kneeled unto her, kifled her hands, and had fome
" privat fpeach with her, which feemed to give him great content-
" ment ; for coming from her majeftie to goe fhifte hymfelf in
" his chamber, he was pleafant, and thanked God, though he had
" fuffered much trouble and ftorms abroad, he found a fweet calm
" at home. Tis much wonderd at here," fays White, " that he went
" fo boldly to her majefties prefence, fhe not being ready, and he
" foe full of dirt and mire, that his very face was full of yt." On
a fecond vifit to the queen after dinner, " he found her much changed
** in that fmall tyme, for flie began to call hym to queftion for his
*' return, and was not fatisfied in the manner of his coming away,
" and leaving all things at foe great hazard. She apointed the
" lords to heare hym, and foe they went to cownfell in the after-
*' noone."
Nonfuch was afterwards fettled upon Anne, Queen of James I. Anne of
Sir Thomas Chaloner, in a letter to Lord Sydney **, fays, " that
** the queen cannot conveniently keep houfe at Nonfuch, without
" fhe could procure the great park, of which Lord Lumley had a
" leafe, and fome of his lordfhip's adjoining lands ; without thees
*' parcells, the fayr houfe at Nonfuch will be nothing pleafmg to the
" queene, if fhee ly here at her own charge, for fhee hath nothinge
" here but the bare park." This purchafe was afterwards arranged.
In the next reign all the premifes at Nonfuch, which had been the
•' Sydney State Papers, vol. li. p. 127, 128. '* Ibid. vol. ii. p. 307,308. Lodge's Shrewf-
The letter is dated Sept. 29, 1599. bury Letters, vol. iii. p. 207.
late
158
H
M.
Algernon
Sydney.
Ducliefs of
Cleveland.
Queen Hen- late quecn's, were fettled on Henrietta Maria. They were feized
as part of her property, after the execution of Charles I. The houfe
was leafed by the truftees for the difpofal of crown lands to Algernon
Sydney, at the rent of 150I. per annum; and afterwards fold by
them in April 1650, to George Smythfon, of the county of York,
and others at fixteen years purchafe ". The houfe alone was then
valued at 7020I. for the materials. After the reftoration, it came
again into the hands of the crown. Charles II. granted all the pre-
mifes which had belonged to Queen Henrietta Maria, to the Duchefs
of Cleveland *', who pulled down the old houfe, and difparked the
land. Her grandfon, the late Duke of Grafton, alienated the eftate
in 1730, to Jofeph Thompfon Efquire, uncle to the prefent pro-
prietor, the Rev. Jofeph Whately ; who under the grant of Charles II.
has a royal franchife of free warren in Nonfuch park. The manfion
which he now occupies, is at fome diftance from the fite of the old
palace.
The park adjoining the palace contained 671 acres; it was dif-
parked, as mentioned before, by the Duchefs of Cleveland.
Leland, fpeaking of Cudington, fays, " Crompton of London,
" hath a clofe by Codington in Southerey, wher the king buildith. In
" this clofe is a vaine of fine yerth, to make moldes for goldefmithes
" and cafters of metale, that a loade of it is fold for a croune of
" golde. Like yerth to this is not found in all Englande."
*"* Particulars of Sale, Augmentation Of- Whately, for the account of the eftate from
fice. this period.
*' I am indebted to the Rev. Jofeph
[ 159 ]
C L A P H A M.
Situation,
boundaries,
and extent.
THIS parifh in all probability received its appellation from Etymology,
one of its proprietors. Ofgod Clappa was the name of
the Danifh lord, at whofe daughter's marriage-feaft, in Lambeth,
Hardicanute died '. In Doomfday book, however, this place is
called Clopeham.
Clapham lies in the hundred of Eafl Brixton, nearly four miles
from Weftminfter Bridge, and is bounded by the parifli of Lambeth
on the eaft; Batterfea on the north and weft, and Stretham on the
fouth. In Doomfday, it is faid to confift of feven plough-lands;
it now contains 1130 acres, of which the greater part is pafture.
The foil in general is light and gravelly. The parifh is affefled the
fum of 795!. I2S. 6d. to the land-tax, which in the year 1791,
was at the rate of is. 9d. in the pound.
- Clapham Common, which contains 202 acres, is partly in this
parifh, and partly in Batterfea, being divided in about an equal pro-
portion. This common owes its prefent improvements to the good
tafte and exertions of Chriftopher Baldwin Efquire \ who has re-
fided many years upon the fpot, and who is well known to the
amateurs of agriculture as a zealous promoter of that fcience. Thirty
years ago, it was little better than a morafs, and the roads were
almoft impaffable; its prefent ftate ' is well known and univer-
' Decern Scriptores, p. 180. giftrate.
* Mr. Baldwin contributed to thefe im- ^ The number and variety of trees both
■ provements, which were accomplilhed by a Englifli and exotic, with which it is orna-
fubfcription of the inhabitants, both by his mented, give it very much the appearance of a
private influence, and his exertions as a ma- park.
fally
Clapham
Common.
i6o C L A P H A M.
fally admired. As a proof of the improvement of property upon this
fpot, and the great requeft in which it is held, Mr. Baldwin, a few
years ago, fold fourteen acres of land near his own houfe for
the fum of 5000 1.
Near the road from Clapham to Wandfworth, is a refervoir of
fine water, from which the whole village is fupplied ; the making of
it was not one of the leaft improvements of the place, the well
being formerly fo fmall, that a fufficient quantity of water could not,
without much difficulty, be procured from day to day.
Manor. '^'*^ manor of Clapham, valued then at lol., was held of the Con-
feflbr by Turburnus. It appears that Geoffrey de Mandeville was
in pofTeffion of it at the time of the Conqueror's Survey, which men-
tions a report, of his holding it unjuflly, to the prejudice ofone Afgar.
He and his heirs neverthelefs continued for fome time in pofTeffion of
it; and even after its alienation, it was ftill held of the honor of Man-
deville *. Faramus de Bolonia became pofTefTed of Clapham in the
reign of King Stephen ; his daughter and heir, Sibella de Tingria,
married Ingram de Fienes, who was flain at the battle of Aeon in the
Holy Land, A. D. 1190'. A charter of King Richard's is ex-
tant', which reflores to her this manor, with all its privileges, as it
was enjoyed by her hufband and her father. William de Fienes died
feized thereof, 30 Edward I. '. It appears to have been granted foon
afterwards to Thomas Romayne, but the Fienes's referved to them-
felves a right as mefne lords '. Juliana, the widow of Thomas Ro-
mayne, died in the reign of Edward II., and left two daughters, be-
tween whom her property was divided. Clapham fell to the fhare of
Margai-et, who married William de Weflon ", and was the property
♦ Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 313. fo. 16. and ^ Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 243.
Cole's Efcheats, Ibid. 410. ' It was held of tlie heirs of Fienes in foe.
' CoUins's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 437. edit. 32 Eliz. Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. 758.
1756. » CI. 19 Edw. II. m. i.dorfo.
* Cart. Antiq. A. 36.
of
C L A P H A M. i6i
of her defcendarits In the reign of Henry VI. '°, from which time I
have found no record relating to this manor, till 15 Elizabeth, when
it was held by William Chehham ". It afterwards belonged to Sir *
Thomas Cockayne, who alienated it to Philip Okeover, and Richard
Crompton ". Probably they purchafed it in truft for Bartholomew
Clerk, who died feized thereof, 3 1 Elizabeth '\ Henry Atkins, phy- Dr. Atkins,
fician to King James I., purchafed the manor for the fum of 6000I. I
which money is faid, by a tradition in that family, to have been the !
produce of prefents bellowed on him by the king after his return
from Scotland, whither he had been fent to attend Charles I. then
an infant, who lay dangeroufly ill of a fever. The circumftance, as !
far as it relates to his journey to Scotland, and its fuccefsful event, is ;
mentioned by Baker '*, who fays, that the king amply rewarded him
for that fervice. It has been faid alfo, that he was offered the firft
baronet's patent, which he modeftly refufed''. His fon was after-
wards advanced to that dignity. The manor of Clapham defcended |
to his heirs, and is now the property of the Right Honourable Lady
Rivers, fifter of the late Sir Richard Atkins, Baronet, with whom the
title became extinil. Lady Rivers's rental, in confequence of the
improvements above-mentioned, has within the laft nineteen years ,
been raifed from 1335I. to 2031 1. per annum clear value, which is I
an increafe of nearly 700I.
The manor-houfe is fituated near the old church, and is now a Manor-
ladies' boarding-fchool, in the occupation of Mrs. Miller. Some "" *' I
coats of arms which were in one of the rooms, having been deftroyed, |
a few years ago, it cannot be afcertained by whom it was built ; but
I fhould fuppofe, both from the external appearance, and from the
pannels and chimney-pieces of the rooms, that it is of as early ■
a date as the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; an o<£lagonal tower, the 1
. " -I
■° Cl. iSHen.VI. m. 36. " Cole's Efcheats, Harlelan MSS. 758. J
" Cole's Elcheats, Harleian MSS. 410. '♦ Chron. pt. 4. p. 123. !
" Pat. 22 Eliz. pt. 12. May 2. " Baronetage, 1741.
Vol. 1. y bafe
i62 C L A P H A M.
bafe of which forms a bay window in a large room, now ufed as
the fchool, rifes fomewhat higher than the reft of the houfe, and ter-
minating in a dome, makes a very fmgular appearance.
William de Breufe died feized of two knights' fees in Clapham,
19 Edward I.'*. Thefe lands probably formed the eftate, whicb, in
the laft century, belonged to Sir Dennis Gauden. The manfion-houfe
of this eftate, which was pulled down about thirty years fince, was
a very magnificent edifice. Some of the rooms were wain-
fcotted with japan, and a fpacious gallery occupied the whole
length of the houfe, both above and below ftairs. Aubrey '^
deJ|'°^ ^^"' ^ays, it was built by Sir Dennis Gauden, for his brother the bifliop
of Exeter, who wrote a treatife on Artificial Beauty, and who
was faid by fome to have been the author of King Charles's celebrated
work called EIKriN BAIIAIKH ". The biOiop died in 1662. The
houfe at Clapham was afterwards the refidence of Sir Dennis himfelf,
who had a very valuable library here, and other colledlions, particu-
larly engraved portraits, models of fhips, " matters of all forts re-
*' lating to the city of London, and draughts to illuftrate them, and
*' frontifpieces of all the gravers in Europe "." Sir Dennis died in
1688, and was buried at Clapham, July i ". The houfe and eftate
were purchafed afterwards by Mr. Hewer, a commiffioner of the
navy ; and bequeathed by him to his relation, a fon of the Rev.
Samuel Edgley, then vicar of Wandfworth, who took the name of
Hewer, and was the laft of that family fettled there. His widow
occupied the eftate fome time after his death, and it is now divided
between feveral proprietors. The rental was nearly as large as that
of the manerial eftate.
J.
'^ CI. 19 Edw. I. m. 3. graph. Brit, article Gauden, in the notes.
" Antiquities of Surrey, p. 14. '' Magna Britan. vol. v. p. 344.
" See Uie fubjeft difcuffed ia the Bio- *» Pariflj regifter.
About
C L A P H A M. 163
About the beginning of this century, feveral Roman antiquities Roman an-
were found in fome fields belonging to Mr. Hewer, by fome ''l"'^^'-
labourers, who were digging for gravel".
The church of Clapham being much decayed, an a£t of parlia- The church.
ment for the rebuilding it was procured 14 Geo. III. The new
ftruiture, which is built of greyftock bricks, was begun in the year
1774, and opened in June 1776, having been confecrated a few
days before, and dedicated to* the Holy Trinity. The building
coft about iijoool.; it is fituated on the north-eaft corner of the
common, clofe to the village. Like moft modern churches, it has
neither aifles, nor chancel. The communion table is within a recefs
at the eaft end. There are fpacious galleries on the north, fouth, and
weft fides ; the pews are all of foreign oak. The whole ftrudlure has
a pleafing appearance, and is devoid of all unnecefTary ornament.
The length of the church is about 100 feet, the breadth 66 ] at the
weft end is a fmall dome and turret.
The old church flood on an eminence near the Kingfton road. The old
It was dedicated to the Trinity. The fouth aifle, which ftill remains, is '^
built of brick, and does not exhibit the appearance of very remote an-
tiquity. There is no mention of a church at Clapham in Doomfday-
book, which, though it is not a proof that none then exifted, is a
ftrong prefumption to that effecn;, as the churches in the county of
Surrey are generally fpecified in that record. It is certain, however,
that there was a church in the twelfth century, and that the ad-
vowfon thereof was given to the priory of Merton ".
In the remaining aifle of the old church, are fome very fumptuous Monuments
monuments, to the memory of Sir Richard Atkins, Bart, who died chard Atkins,
in i68q: and of his family. On a tomb of white marble, are re- Baronet, and
'' ' ■' 'his family.
cumbent figures of Sir Richard and his Lady ; he is reprefented in
*' Bagford's Letter on the Antiquities of " Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C.
Londun, prefixed to Leland's Colled, vol. i. VII. Regill. Cart. Merton Abbey.
p. 59.
Y 2 armour.
J.64
C L A P H A M,
Tomb of
Dr. Martin
Lifter.
armour, with a flowing peruke ; fhe is habited in a long veil, which
hangs down behind : the tomb is furrounded with iron palifades,
and decorated with the arms of the Atkins family, and its alliances*'.
Adjoining this tomb, on theeaft wall, is the monument of their three
children, Henry, who died in 1677, aged 24 ; Rebecca, who died in
1661, aged 9; and Annabella, who died in 1670, aged 19. Under
an arch fupported by columns of white marble, of the Corinthian
order, are their effigies as large as life. The fon is reprefented
fitting, in a Roman drefs, with a flowing peruke. The daughters
are (landing, drefl^ed in gowns, with full fleeves puckered ; and
plain ftomachers.
On the fouth wall, is the tomb of Bartholomew Gierke, dean of the
arches, and lord of the manor of Clapham, who died in 1589 : under
a recefs are figures of himfelf, his wife, and fon kneeling ; and above,
are the arms of Gierke, and Hafelrigge ^*.
On the fame wall, is a marble tablet to the memory of Dr. Martin
Lifter, with the following infcription :
*' Near this place is buried the body of
" Martin Lifter,
" Do£lor of Phyfic, a member of the
" Royal Society, and one of
*' Atkins bears — Az. 3 bars Arg. in chief, 3
bezants; and impales Sab. on a chevron, Arg.
between as many bulls heads couped of the fe-
cond, armed Or, 3 pomies for Wright. Sir
Robert Atkins, Baronet, married Rebecca,
daughter of Sir Edmund Wright, alias
Bunckley. 2. Arg. a greyhound current. Sab.
for Morton, impaling Atkins. Mary, daugh-
ter of Sir Richard Atkins, married Dr. Wil-
liam Morton, afterwards bilhop of Meath. 3.
Per chev. Sab. and Arg. 3 griffins heads erafed
and counter changed for Tooke, impaling
Atkins. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard
Atkins, married Thomas Tooke Efquire. 4.
Arg. a crofs Sab. a treflure of half fleurs-de-
lis, between four mullets pierced, of the fame,
for Atkyns, impaling Atkins. Agnes, daugh-
ter of Sir Richard Atkins, married Edward
fon of Sir Robert Atkyns, of Gloucefterlhire,
K. B. 5. Atkins impaling Or, on a pile en-
grailed Az. 3 anchors of the field for Byde :
Sir Richard Atkins the younger married
Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas Byde.
*+ Bartholomew Gierke, married Eleanor
Hafelrigge. Gierke, bears Or, two bars Az.
in chief, 3 efcaljop (hells of the fecond. Ha-
felrigge bears Arg. a chev. Sab. between
3 laurel leaves vert.
" Queen
C L A P H A M. 165
** Queen Anne's Phyficianst
" Who departed this life,
" the fecond day of
" February 1711-12."
Dr. Lifter is well known to the learned world as a naturalift, par-
ticularly by his book on fhells, intitled Synopfis Conchylium ; the
drawings were made and the plates engraved by himfelf and his
daughters. He publifhed alfo a Journey to Paris, in which he
difplays a confiderable portion of vanity and felf-importance. This
tour was burlefqued by the facetious Dr. King, in a pamphlet called
" A journey to London."
Adjoining Dr. Lifter's, is another fmall tablet thus infcribed :
*' Hannah Lifter,
*' deare wife !
" died the firft of Auguft 1695,
" and left fix children
" in teares,
" for a moft indulgent mother."
This probably was the firft wife of Dr. Lifter : if fo, I prefume he
married again, from comparing the arms upon the two tablets'".
Affixed to the fouth wall alfo is a fmall brafs plate, taken from the
middle aifle, to the memory of William Tablar, who died in 1401 ;
and an infcription for Mr. William Glanvill, a merchant of Exeter,
who died on his road to London in 1647.
Againft the north wall, is the monument of William Hewer,
Efquire, commiffioner of the navy, who died in 1715; it contains
a long euloglum in Latin, and is ornamented with a medallion of
him, and his arms ^*.
^5 On Hannah Lifter's tablet, are the arms eagle proper,
of Lifter, Ermine on a fefle cotifed, Sab. 3 " Hewer bears Sab. two talbots' heads,
mullets. Or, impaling, Or, a fcfte between erafed in pale Or. between as many flaunche$
3 greyhounds, Sab. On the Doftor's tablet, ermine,
are the arms of Lifter impaling. Or, a fpread
The
i56 C L A P H A M.
The monuments of the following perfons, were deftroyed when
the church was pulled down, viz. Samuel Rufh, who died in 1710;
Thomas Day, Efquire, who died the fame year ; and Mr. "William
Brooke, who died in 1712. The infcriptions are preferved in Au-
brey. The tomb of Sir Lawrence Bromfelde, Knight, who died in
1668, is now in the church-yard. On the outfide of the fouth wall
of the aifle, -are tablets to the memory of John Lewis, Efq. comman-
der of the Valentine Eaft Indiaman, who died in 1790; and of
Katherine, the wife of the Rev. Mofes Porter, the late ledurer, who
died in 1788.
Church-yard. The cliurch-yard was enlarged in the year 1768; the principal
tombs therein, are thofe of Mr. Francis Bridges, who died in
1642; William Beake, Efq. who died in 1667; George Lang-
ham, Efq. who died in 1683 ; Dame Rebecca Dixie, daughter
of Sir Richard Atkins, Bart, who died in 1714; Samuel Rufh, Efq.
who died in 1724; and Samuel Rufh, Efq. who died in
1783; William Lethieulier, Efq. who died in 1728; Edmund
Tooke, Efq. who died in 1729; and Nicholas Brady, L L. D. fon
of Dr. Brady, the redor, who died in 1768 ; Michael Mitford, Efq.
who died in 1707; John Lewis Lourbier, Efq. who died in 1767;
John Thompfon, Efq. who died in 1665; Honoria, wife of John
Gould, Efq. who died in 1661 ; Jofeph Shallet, Conful at Barcelona,
who died in 1713; and John Richards, Efq. who died in 1785;
the Rev. John Goodwin, redor, who died in 1753; Engelbert
Hake, Efq. who died in 1777; Sir Henry Cheere, Bart, who died in
1781 ; Calverley Bewicke, Efq. who died in 1774; Thomas Greame,
Efq. who died in 1773; and Lucy, wife of John Thornton, Efq.
who died in 1785.
Reaory. Clapham is a rectory in the diocefe of Winchefler, and the
deanery of Southwark. The advowfon formerly belonged to Merton
Abbey. It does not appear by whom it was granted : in all proba-
bility it was given them by Fararaus de Bolonia, who beftowed Car-
fhalton
C L A P H A M. 167
fhalton upon them, and was lord of both manors. After the fup-
preffion of monafteries, it was granted to Henry Arundell *'; pro-
bably he was lord of the manor at that time, as the advowfon ap-
pears to have been united to it ever fince "; the patronage being now
veiled in Lady Rivers, excepting the next prefentation, which was
purchafed by the late John Thornton, Efquire. The redory was
taxed in 1291'' 3140 marks, out of which it paid 20s. annually to
the prior of Merton. It is rated in the king's book at 81. A
terrier of Clapham without date, is in the regiftry at Winchefter.
John Arthor, prefented by Charles I. in 1642, was appointed by ^"if °?' .
Cromwell, as one of the affiftants to the Committee for difplacing in-
fufficient minifters ^°.
John Gurgany, who fucceeded him, had been a fufferer for the John Gur-
royal caufe. He publiflied the life of John Gregory, prefixed to his ^^"^'
works, and died in 1675 ".
Nicholas Brady, who was inftituted to Clapham in 1 706, is beft Nicholas
known as a verfifier of the Pfalms, in conjun£tion with Tate. He
was a native of Ireland, and a lineal defcendant of the firft Proteftant
bifhop of Meath. During the troubles of that kingdom, in 1690, he
rendered a fignal piece of fervice to his native town of Bandon, by
preferving it thrice from being burnt, through his intereft with James's
* general ^% The fame year he came over to England, and having quir-
ed the preferment he enjoyed in his own country, remained here till
his death, which happened in 1726, at which time he held alfo the
living of Richmond. He publifhed three volumes of Sermons, and a
tranflation of the jEneid of Virgil. The writer of a MS. life of Dr.
Brady, communicated by his grandfon to the editors of the Biogra-
phia, fays, this work will be a lading monument of his fkill in
poetry ". He proved, however, a falfe prophet, for it has long fince
*' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. '° Scobell's A&s daring the Interregnum.
No. 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. ^' A. Wood, vol. i. Fafti.
" Eleanor Gierke prefented to it in 1591. '* Biograph. Brit.
Reg. Winton. Cooper, f. 20. a. " Ibid. edit. 1780, in the notes.
*» See note, p. 10.
been
i68 C L A P H A M.
been funk into total oblivion : to ufe Dr. Johnfon's expreflion '*, " it
*' was dragged forth into the world, but lived not long enough to
« cry."
Anthony Dr. Brady was fucceeded by Anthony Blackwall, Mafter of the
Blaclcvvall. / "^ ^
Grammar School at Market Bofworth, well known by his diflertations
upon the Sacred Claflics. He publifhed alfo an edition of Theognis,
and a Latin Grammar. This living was given him when he was far
advanced in age, by a gentleman who had been his pupil, probably
one of the Atkins family. A ftory is told of him, that, upon being
queftioned upon this occafion, fomewhat abruptly, as to his literary
attainments by a chaplain, who was much his junior, he replied with
fome indignation, " Boy, I have forgot mure than ever you knew ".'*
Blackwall refigned the re£tory in 1729, and died the enfuing year at
Market Bofworth.
Chantry. A chantry was founded in the church of Clapham, in the reign of
Edward II. by Thomas Romayne ^*, and endowed with fix marks
annual rent, ifluing out of certain houfes in London. The arch-
biftiops of Canterbury were the patrons. The only perfon that I find
prefented to this chantry, is John Clerk of Toucefter in 1 347 ".
ParKhre- The earlieft date of the parifh regifter is 1552; it appears to have
^' *'' been accurately kept, except a chafm of a few years towards the clofe
of the laft century.
Average of Births. Average of Burials.
Comparative ' j rgo IcSo % 3
Hate of po-
pulation. ^679 — 1 688 10 _____ 25
1780 — 1789 60 — — 69
The population of this parifh appears to have increafed in a much
more rapid degree than any other whofe hiftory I have examined. The
^* Life of Dryden, p. 278. try, is in W. de Edyndon's Regift. Wint.
^5 Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 636. pt. 1. f. 24. a.
Pat. 15 Edw. II. pt. I. m. 21. The ^' W. de Edyndon, ut fupra.
claufe of Romayne's will^ telating to the chan-
t,y:l
inhabitants
C L A P H A M.
169
inhabitants were accurately numbered in July 1788, when they
amounted to 2477. '^^^ prefent number of houfes is 384, of which
eight are not inhabited ; about forty new houfes having been built
fince 1788, the prefent number of inhabitants muft be calculated at
nearly 2700.
In 1603 there were twenty perfons buried, mofl of whom died of Plague
the plague. Edward Cowchman the redor, his wife, his three
children, and a maid fervant, fell vidims to that diftemper, within a
few days. In 1665, the number of burials was twenty-eight, which
had been exceeded in fome of the former years, efpecially in 1661,
when there were thirty-fix entries.
Dr. Lifter gave 5 h per annum to this parifh in 1690; Thomas Benefaftlons.
Vaughan, Efq. in the fame year gave 1 1 1. Mr. James Lance in
1773 gave 9I.; which, with Mr. Henry Smith's, and fome other
annual benefadions, amount in the whole to nearly 40 1. per ann.
fome of them having been much improved. Bread and clothes for the
poor, are the principal objeds of thefe charities.
A fchool was eredted in Clapham, for the education of poor School,
children. In 1648, which, being in a ruinous ftate, was taken down
and rebuilt by fubfcription in 1781 ; it does not appear to have had
any endowment.
Not far from the fchool and nearly in the centre of the village, is
a large meeting-houfe, for the Prefbyterians.
Before I conclude the account of this parlfh, I fhould mention Sir John
that it was the refidence of that eminent citizen Sir John Barnard,
who fpent the latter part of his days, in honourable retirement, at his
houfe at Clapham, and died there in 1 764 ".
" Biographia Britannica, edit. 1780.
Barnard.
Vol. L
I 170 ]
CROYDON.
Name.
Situation,
boundaries,
and extent.
Soil.
THE name of this place in Doomfday, is called Croindone, and
is frequently fo fpelt in records of a later date : I can find
nothing fatisfadiory with regard to its etymology.
Croydon is a market town, fituated ten miles fouth of London.
The parifh is very extenfive ; in the Conqueror's Survey, it is faid to
contain twenty plough lands, and is now fuppofed to be about thirty-
fix miles in circumference, being bounded on the north by Stretham
and Lambeth ; on the eaft by Beckenham, Addington, Sanderfted, and
Coulfdon ; on the fouth by Beddington ; and on the weft by Micham.
The arable land exceeds the pafture in a great proportion : a con-
fiderable part of Norwood is in this parifh. In the Survey of 1646,
it is defcribed as being " 830 acres, in which the inhabitants of
*' Croydon have herbage for all manner of cattle, and maftage for
" fwine without ftint '." Shirley Heath Common is faid, in the
fame Survey, to contain 300 acres ; Croydon Heath 340 acres. The
foil, as may be fuppofed in fo extenfive a parifli, is very various : in-
deed it is fo various, that I am informed, chalk, gravel, fand, clay,
and peat, may be found in the fame field. About a mile from the
town, near the road to Addington, is a large chalk-pit, which pro-
duces a great variety of extraneous foffils. Croydon is aflefled at
the fum of 1584I. 6s. to the land-tax, which in the year 1791,
was at the rate of 2 s. in the pound.
• Cart. Mifcell. Lamb. MS. lib. vol. xiii. N" 16.
There
CROYDON. 171 ;
There are eight hamlets within this parifh ; Waddon, which con-
tains feveral houfes, fituated to the fouth of the town ; Haling ; Cro- '
ham, and Combe; Benchefham, orWhitehorfe; Shirley ; Addifcombe;
Woodfide; and Selfden. The four firft have manors which will be
treated of hereafter.
The town of Croydon had a market on Wednefdavs, as early as Markets aod j
^ . fairs. •;
the reign of Edward I. procured by archbifhop Kilwardby, and a
fair which began on the eve of St. Botolph, and lafted nine days *.
Another market on Thurfdays, was granted to archbifhop Reynolds,
by Edward II. and a fair on the eve and morrow of St. Matthew '.
A third market upon Saturdays, the only one of the three now con-
tinued, was granted by Edward III. to archbifhop Stratford, and a
fair on the Feaft of St. John the Baptift \ Of the fairs, the two laft
only are now held.
Some antiquaries are of opinion, that Croydon was the ancient
Noviomagus '. The Roman road from Arundel to London, is fup-
pofed to have palled through or near the town ; it is vifible upon
Broad Green '. "'
In the year 1264, during the wars between Henry III. and his Londoners
barons, the Londoners, who had been chafed out of the field at the Croydon.
battle of Lewes, retreated to Croydon ; a part of the King's army
being then at Tunbridge, marched thither, affailed them in their
lodgings, flew many, and won a great fpoil \ \
On the 25th of May 1551, Croydon, and fome of the neighbour- Earthquake. ^
ing villages, were terribly fhaken with an earthquake '.
Fuller, after fpeaking of the fatal aflizes at Oxford in 1577, fays. Fatality at an
" the like chanced about four years fince, at Croydon in Surrey, where ^'^"''
* Cart. 5 Edw. I. m. 24.. and Cartulary Stukeley's Itinerary, pt. 2. p. 9.
of the Churchof Canterbury, in the Bodleian * See Mr. Bray's Paper on the fubjedl in
Library. the Archxologia, vol. ix. p. 104.
3 Cart. 8 Edw. II. m. 15. ' Holinglhed's Cliron. ed.i585.v.iii.f.269. \
* Pat. 18 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 48. dorfo. » Biihop of Hereford's Annals of England, |
* See the Hiflory of Croydon, p. 1,2; and p. 248. I
Z 2 *' a great ;
172 CROYDON.
" a great depopulation happened at the afTizes, of perfons of quality j
" and the two judges, Baron Yates and Rigby, died a few days
" after'."
The fummer afllzes are now held alternately at Croydon and
Guildford.
Wandle '^^^ fmall river Wandle, which falls into the Thames at Wandf-
worth, has its fource in this parifh, near the church. The whole of
its courfe is not many miles, yet there are few rivers on whofe banks
a more extenfive commerce is carried on.
Manor. q-jjg manor of Croydon belonged to archbifhop Lanfranc, at the
time of the Conqueft ; by what grant I have not been able to dif-
cover, as I find no mention of it in the great cartulary of Canter-
bury, in the Bodleian Library. It has been annexed to that fee ever
fmce, except for a fhort time during the government of the Com-
monwealth, when, the biftiops' lands being fold by parliament, this
manor appears to have become the property of Sir William Brere-
ton "". It was valued in the reign of Edward the Confeflbr at 12 1.
per annum; at the time of the Conqueft, at 27 1. to the archbifhop,
and lol. IDS. to his men. In 1291 " it was taxed at 20I. only;
in archbifhop Bourchier's time (temp. Hen. VI.) it was faid to be
55 1. 3 s. 1 1 d. per annum". In the parliamentary Survey of
1646, the annual value is ftated to be 274I. 19 s. g^d. exclufive of
ijgn the timber. Croydon Park, of which the famous Sir William Wal-
Park. worth was keeper, in the reign of Ric. II. " was given by archbifhop
Cramer to Hen. VIII. in exchange for other lands '*; but it reverted
to the archbifhop by another grant in the reign of Edward VI. ".
"Fuller's Church Hiftory, 1655. b. 9. " Cart. Mifc. Lamb. MS. Library, vol. xiii.
p. 110. It does not appear by the regifter, N" 14.
that there was any great mortality at Croydon " Regift. Lamb. Courtney, f. 37. a.
about that time. '* Grants of Lands and Exchanges, Aug-
'<■ Myfteries of the Good Old Caufe, iz"" mentation Office. 31 Hen. VIII.
1663. p. 3. " Jbid. June 12, I Edw. VI.
" See note, p. 10.
The
CROYDON. 173
The palace or manerial houfe, which is fituated near the church, Manor.
was for feveral centuries the occafional refidence of the archbifhops palace',
of Canterbury, of whom there have been few, fince we have any
records of the fee, who have not dated fome of their public ads
from it ■*. Archbifhop Courtney received his pall with great Archbiftops
folemnity in his hall at this place, in the prefence of a great ndeVthlre?'
number of people ". His fucceffors, Arundel, Chichele, and Stafford,
refided here very frequently. It feems probable, that James I. King
of Scotland, then a prifoner in England, was under the cuftody of
archbifhop Arundel here ; a charter of his being extant, by which he
grants the barony of Drumlanrig to Sir William Douglafs, dated at
Croydon, anno 141 2 ".
Archbifhop Parker, fo eminent for his learning and for his virtues, Queen Eliza-
made this palace one of his principal refidences. In the month of J archbiihop
July 1573, he entertained Queen Elizabeth and her whole court for ^^'^"*
feven days, at Croydon ". It appears that her majefty honoured him
with another vifit the enfuing year, or at leaft that fuch a vifit was
in contemplation. The following original memorandum of the
arrangements for her majefty's reception, written by Mr. Bowyer,
gentleman of the black rod, is bound up with a MS. copy of the
Hiftory of Croydon, depofited in the Library at Lambeth:
" Lodgings at Croydon, the bufshope of Canterburye's houfe, be-
" flowed as followeth, the 19 of Maye 1574:"
" The Lord Chamberlayne, his olde lodgings.
" The Lord Trefiirer wher he was.
" The Lady Marques, at the nether end of the great chamber.
" The Lady of Warwicke, wher fhe was.
" The Erie of Leicefter, wher he was.
•* See a lift of thefe dates, p. 1—28. of the " Collins's Peerage, 1756, vol. i. p. 478.
Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon. Bib. ■» Parker's Antiquities, edit. Drake, p.
Top. Brit. N° ,2. S53. 554-
" Reg. Lamb. Courtney, f. 9.3. Anno 1382-
« The
«
(C
174 CROYDON.
" The Lord Admyral, at the nether end of the great chamber.
" The Lady Howard, wher fhe was.
*' The Lord Honfdone, wher he was.
Mr. Secretary Walfingham, wher Mr. Smyth was.
The Lady Stafford, wher flie was.
*' Mr, Henedge, wher he was.
" Mr. Drewry, wher the Lady Sydney was.
** Ladies and Gentilwomen of the privie chamber, ther olde.
" Mrs. Abbington her olde, and another fmall rome addid for
" the table.
" The maydes of honour, wher they were.
" Sir George Howard, wherhe\vas.
*' The Capten of the gard, wher my Lord of Oxforde was.
" The Grooms of the privye chamber, ther olde.
^* The Efquyers for the body, ther olde.
" The Gentelmen HufTers, ther olde.
*' The Phyfycyons, two chambers.
" The Queens robes, wher they were.
*' The Grome Porter, wher he was.
" The Gierke of the kitchen, wher he was.
" The wardrobe of beds.
" For the Queen's wayghters, I cannot as yet fynde any conve-
*' nient romes to place them in, but I will do the beft that I can to
" place them elfewhere ; but yf it plefe you Sir that I doo remove
'* them, the gromes of the privye chamber, nor Mr. Drewrye, have
*' no other waye to their chambers, but to pafs throw that waye.
" Agayne, if my Lady of Oxford fhould come, I cannot then tell
*' wher to place Mr. Hatton, and for my Lady Carewe, here is no
" place with a chimney for her, but fhe muft lay abrode by Mrs.
■'" Apparry, and the reft of the privye chamber; for Mrs. Skelton,
" here is no rome with chimneys. I fhall ftaye one chamber with-
" out for her. Here is as mytche as I have any wayes able to doo
« in
CROYDON. 175
" in this houfe. From Croydon, this prefent Wenfday mornynge,
*' your honour's alwayes moft bounden,
« S. Bowyer."
Archbifliop Whitgifr, a great benefa£tor to the town, refided here
frequently, and more than once entertained the Queen at his palace.
In 1587, upon the archbifhop's refufal of that high office, Sir Chrif-
topher Hatton was at this place rhade Lord High Chancellor ". It
appears by a letter of Rowland White's, that the Queen dined at the
archbifhop's at Croydon in 1600 ".
His fucceflbr Abbot was frequently here. — " Being at Croydon,
*' when the proclamation for permitting fports and paftimes upon
" the Lord's-day was ordered to be read in the churches, he
'* peremptorily forbad its being read there ". "
During the civil wars, the parliament feized on the pofTeffions of
the fee of Canterbury, and leafed the palace here to the Earl of Not-
tingham ^\ After archbifhop Laud's death, it came into the hands |"' ^'^'"'^'"
of Sir William Brereton, " a notable man," fays a pamphlet writer
of that day, " at a thankfgiving dinner, having terrible long teeth
*' and a prodigious ftomach, to turn the archbifhop's chapel at Croy-
" don into a kitchen; alfo to fvvallow up that palace and lands z.i n
♦' morfeP*."
Archbifhop Juxon repaired and fitted up the palace, reftoring it to
its former ftate. He and his fucceffors refided here occafionally, till
archbifhop Seeker's time ^\
In Ducarel's Hiftory of Croydon '*, are various conjedures, both Architeaure
by himfelf, Mr. Rowe Mores, and Dr. Milles, concerning the dates
of the biylding of the palace ; from all which it may be colleded,
" BiographiaBritannica. ** Myfleries of the Good Old Caufe, 12"'°
*' Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 210. 1663. p. 3.
*■ BiographiaBritannica. ^' Hillory of Croydon, p. 40 — 42. and Ap-
'' Steward's Accounts; Rot. general, a pendix, p. 76, 77.
felto Mich. 1644. ad f™ Mich. 1645. ** P. 43—68.
that
176 CROYDON.
that the whole wasere£led fince the middle of the fourteenth century,
before which time it appears to have been built of wood ". Of the
prefent ftrudture, I think, it feems fufficiently evident, that the
guard chamber was built by archbifliop Arundel, whofe arms are
placed there, and the hall by archbifliop Stafford, the coats of arms*'
with which it is ornamented, and its ftyle of architedure, each adding
fupport to the conjedure. There feems to be no fatisfa£tory evidence
to Ihow when the chapel was built ; it appears to have been repaired
and ornamented by the archbifhops Laud and Juxon. Several large
fums of money have been expended on the palace by the fucceeding
prelates, particularly by archbilhop Wake, who built the great
gallery*", and archbilhop Herring, by whom the whole was com-
pletely fitted up and repaired '°. The materials in the Survey
of 1646, were valued at 1200I. In the year 1780, the palace
not having been inhabited above 20 years, was become much out of
repair ; in confequence of which an ad of parliament vpas obtained
for difpofing of it by fale, and veiling the produce in the funds to-
wards the building a new palace upon Park Hill, about half a mile
from the town ; it was fold under this ad, Odober loth, 1780, to
Sir Abraham Pitches, Knight", for 2520 1. It is now let to tenants,
who carry on the calico printing manufadory upon the fpot ; the
garden is ufed as a bleaching ground.
*' By the Steward's accounts, it appears third, for Dohun. Stafford was archbilhop,
that only carpenters were employed before during the reign of Hen. VI.; his relation
that period, in the mod extenfive repairs. Humphrey Earl of Stafford, and Richard Duke
*' I. Archbifhop Stafford's arms — Or, on of York, were alfo contemporaries. The
a chev. Gules, a mitre-ofthe field, within a arms of feveral of the archbifhops, and fome
border engrailed. Sab. 2. The arms of Eng- other coats in the hall and guard chamber, are
land, impaled with thofe of Edward the Con- defcribed and engraved in Ducarel's Hiftory.
feffor, born by Henry VI. 3. The arms of =» Hiftory of Croydon, p. 40. Archbifhop
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York. 4. The Wake is faid to have expended 1 1, cool, upon
arms of Humphrey Earl of Stafford, Or, a chev. the palaces of Lambeth and Croydon. De-
Gules, quartering, i. the arms of England, dication to Mills's Effay on Generofity.
within a border, Or : and 2. Az. a bend, Arg, ^o Hiilory of Croydon, p. 42.
cotifed. Or, between 6 lions rampant, of the ^' Ibid. p. 78.
The
CROYDON. 177
The inhabitants of Croydon have obtained the ufe of the chapel
for their Sunday fchool.
The manor of Waddon was granted by Hen. I. to the monks of Manor of
Bermondfey, in exchange for other lands " ; and was by them ex-
changed with the archbifhop of Canterbury, for the advowfon of the
church of Croydon ". It ftill belongs to that fee. In archbifliop
Bourchier's time, it was valued at 81. 1 2 s. ^* ; in archbifhop Par-
ker's time, at 22I. 6s. 8d. "
Peter Chaceport had a charter of free warren in the manor of Manor of
Benchefham, in the reign of Henry III. ^* ; Richard Gravefend, bi- or White-
fhop of London, had a grant of the fame nature, temp. Edw. I. "
Stephen Gravefend, bifliop of London, died feized of it in the reign
of Edw. III. ^^ I find it afterwards in the poffefllon of the Cher-
burys" and Chiritons, the latter of whom alienated it to Walter Whit-
horfe, the king's fhield-bearer *°, from whom it derived its fecond
name. It afterwards belonged to the families of Holker*', and Bru-
denell*\ In 1566, it was the property of William Morton, Efq. "'
whofe grandfon Thomas, dying in 1678, left five daughters, amongft
whom this manor was divided. Four of the feveralties were pur-
chafed by John Barrett, about the year 1712 ; the fifth was bought
by his grandfon, in 1787, who fold the whole to John Cator, Efq.
M. P. about twelve months fince.
The manor of Croham, formerly called Cronham, or Cranham, in Manor of
the reign of Edw. III. was the property of the Chiritons, who ^'■°^^"-
alienated it to Walter Whithorfe^*. In the reign of Hen. IV. it came
3* Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. A. 8. f. iii. " gfch. 12 Edw. III. n. 34.
Extrafts from a cartulary of Bermondfey '* Cart. 29 Edw. III. m. 9.
Abbey. "o ^ ^, Edw. III. m. 6.
*' Pat. 14 Ric. IJ. pt. 2. m. 39. +' Pat. 7 Hen. IV. pt. 2. m. 36.
3* Cart. Mifcell. Lamb. MSS. Lib. vol. ** Pat. 19 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. 6.
xlii. N°i4. ♦' From the information of John Cator,
" Lamb. MS. Lib. N' 1142. Efquire.
'« Cart. 37 Hen. III. m. 15. "+ CI. 41 Edw. III. m. 6.
" Cart. 27 Edw. I. m. 6.
Vol. L * a a into
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CROYDON.
Manor of
Haling.
Manor of
Norbury.
into the hands of the crown, and the cuftody thereof was granted
to William Oliver *\ I have not been able to find when or to whom
the manor was granted, upon its being alienated from the crown ;
but it appears that it belonged to Dame Anne Peche, temp. Hen.
VII. ■** Sir John Danet held it in the next reign, in right of his wife,
who was daughter and heir of Thomas Elynbridge. It afterwards
came into the .hands of Sir Oliph Leigh, of whom archbifliop Whit-
gift bought it for the endowment of his hofpital, under which it is
now held by leafe ; Samuel Chollet, Efq. being the prefent leffee.
The manor is partly in the parilli of Sanderfted.
The earlieft record that I find relating to the manor of Haling
mentions, that it was given by Hugh Warham to Henry VIII. in
exchange for other lands "'. It continued in the crown till the reign
of Queen Mary, when it was granted to Sir John Gage, Knight "^
By the attainder of John Gage, Efquire, in the next reign, it reverted
to the crown, and was leafed to Charles Earl of Nottingham ■", the
celebrated Lord Admiral, who frequently made it his refidence, and
died there in the year 1624"'. Soon afterwards the Gage family
appear to have been again in poffeffion, for they alienated the manor,
in the fecond year of Charles I. to Chriflopher Gardiner, Efquire "*'.
It continued to be the property of the Gardiners till 1707, when it,
was conveyed by them to Edward Stringer, Efq. who dying without
iflue, his widow brought it into the Parker family, and her grandfon,
William Parker Hamond, Efq. is the prefent proprietor.
The manor of Norbury, held of the archbifhop of Canterbury,
was at an early period the property of the Carews '°, and has de-
fcended in the fame manner as Beddington.
*3 Fin. 1 Hen. IV. m. 8. *' Pat. 34 EHz. pt. 5. May 9 ; and Pat.
** By an abftraft of the Court Rolls of the 9 Jac. pt. 23. N" 5.
manor, in the poffeffion of Samuel Chollet, Efq. ■*^ Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii.
*s 27 Hen. VIII. Grants and Ex-changes of "' From the Abftraft of Mr. Hamond 's
Lands, Augmentation Office. Title Deeds.
'^'^ Pat. I & 2 P. & M, pt. 9. Feb. 21. =" Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 7025.
I have
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I have feen only one record relating to either of the two following Manors of
manors ; viz. Palmer, or Tylecroft, of which Richard Forth, L L. D. Tyiecroft,
died feized, 37 Eliz. ^', and Chelhurft, or Shelhurft, which was grant- hurft or
ed to the archbilhop of Canterbury by Hen. VIII. '\ They are ^'''^''"''^■
both now included in the manor of Croydon.
Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, has a manor-farm in this parifh, , called Manor of
T-T
Ham ; it was purchafed by his grandfather, and is fituated at the ex-
tremity of the parifh, towards Beckenham. I have not had an op-
portunity of procuring any information of the more early pro-
prietors.
The church, which is dedicated to St. John the Baptift, is built of The church,
flone and flint j it is fituated at the bottom of the town, near the fource
of the Wandle. It confifts of a nave, two aifles, and three chan-
cels ; at the weft end is a handfome fquare tower, with pinnacles.
The nave is feparated from the aifles, by light cluftered columns,
•with pointed arches, between which are feveral grotefque heads and
ornaments. The church appears to have been rebuilt in the time
of archbilhop Chicele, who was a great contributor to the work ";
his arms '* are upon the weft door, under the tower. The old font,
which ftands at the weft end of the fouth aifle, appears to be
of the fame date.
In the year 1639, *^^ church fuffered great damage by a ftorm of
wind". On the nth of March 1735, "afire broke out between
*' two and three o'clock in the afternoon, in the roof of the middle
" chancel ; but being foon difcovered, it was extinguifhed in lefs than
*' two hours, and the damage did not exceed 50 1.; it was fuppofed
" to have happened from the plummers making a fire on the leads "."
" Cole's Efchcats, Brit. Muf. '* Or, a chevron between 3 cinquefoils,
'* 32 Hen. VIII. Terrier of Lands in Sur- Gules.
rey. Brit. Muf. 4705. Ayfcough'sCat. " Hiftory and Troubles of Archbilhop Laud,
" Duck's Life of Archbi(hopC hicele, gvo p. 57.
1669, p. 174. 56 pj^jj^ Regifter.
Aa 2 The
monument.
180 CROYDON.
The church has within a few years paft undergone great repairs, efpe-
cially on the fouth fide, and is a very fpacious and commodious
building.
In the middle chancel are fome ancient wooden flails.
Archbi(hop '
Grindaii's In the fame chancel, on the fouth fide of the altar, is a handfome
monument of black marble, fupported by Corinthian pillars, to the
memory of archbifhop Grindall, who is reprefented lying at full
length, drefled in his do£tor's robes.
The following verfes are upon the tomb in three feveral com-
partments :
*' Grindallus, doilus, prudens, gravitate verendus,
*' Juftus, munlficus, fub cruce fortiserat.
*' Poft crucis Jerumnas Chrifti gregis Anglia fecit,
" Signiferum, Chriftus caelica regna dedit.
" Praefulis eximii ter poftquam eft au£tus honore,
*' Pervigilique greges rexit moderamine facros
*' Confedtum fenio, durifque laboribus, ecce
" Tranftulit in placidam mors exoptata quietem.
" Mortua marmoreo conduntur membra fepulchro
*' Sed mens fanda viget, fama perennis erit,
" Nam ftudia et Mufas, quas magnis cenfibus auxit
" Grindalli nomen tempus in omne ferent."
Underneath his effigy is this infcription :
*' Edmundus Grindallus, Cumbrienfis, Theologian Do6lor, Erudi-
tione, prudentia, et gravitate clarus; conftantia, juftitia, et pietate
infignis, civibus et peregrinis charus ; ab exilio (quod evangelii
caufa fubiit) reverfus, ad fummum dignitatis faftigium (quafi
decurfu honorum) fub R. Elizabetha evedus, ecclefiam Londinen.
*' primum,
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CROYDON. 181
" primum, delnde Eborac. demum Cantuarien. rexit. Et, cum jam
" hie nihil reftaret, quo altlus afcenderet, e corporis vinculis liber ac
" beatus ad cxlum evolavit 6° Julli anno Dni. 1583, iEtatis
" {ux 6^. Hie, praeter multa pietatis officia, quse vivus pr«eftitit ; mo-
" ribundus, maximam bonorum fuorum partem piis ufibus confecra-
" vit. In paroeeia Divas Beghse (ubi natus eft) fcholam Grammatic.
" fplendide extrui et opimo cenfu ditari curavit. Magdalenenfi caetui
" Cantabr. (in quo puer primum Academiaz ubera fuxit) difeipulum
" adjecit, CoUegio Chrifti (ubi adultus Uteris incubuit) gratum
" Mv7ifA,o(rvvov reliquit. Aulas Pembrochianas (cujus olim focius, poftea
" Pr^^fedus extitit) xrarium et bibliotheeam auxit, Graecoque
" Prffiledori, uni focio, ac duobus difcipulis, ampla ftipendia affig-
*' navit. Collegium Reginas Oxon. (in quod Cumbrienfes potiflimum
" cooptantur) nummis, libris, et magnis proventibus loeupletavit.
" Civitati Cantuar. (eui moriens prasfuit) centum libras, in hoc, ut
" pauperes honeftis artifieiis exercerentur, perpetuo fervandas, atque
" impendendas dedit. Refiduum bonorum Pietatis operibus dicavit.
" Sic vivens morienfque ecclefia?, patrix et bonis Uteris profuit."
In the fouth, fometimes called the bifhops' chancel, is archbifhop Archbifhop
Whitgift's
"Whitglft's monument, fupported by Corinthian columns of black monument,
marble, between which lies his effigy, in his robes; the following lines
written by his chaplain. Dr. Benjamin Charier ", are infcribed on
three feveral compartments:
" Poft tenebras lucem fpero.
" Whitgifta Eborum Grimfbeia ad llltora nomen
" Whitgifta emifit felix hoc nomine Grifbei.
" Hinc natus non natus ad banc mox mittitur hofpes,
" Londinum ; inde novam te, Cantabrigia, matrem
*' Infequitur, fupraque fidem fuavi ubere crefcit :
" Petro fit focius : Pembro, Triadique Magifter :
" Strype's Life of Whitegift, p. 581.
" Fitque
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" Fitque pater matri, cathedrseque Profeflbr utrlque.
*' E cathedra Lincolna fuum petit effe Decanum,
" Mox Wigorn. petit efle fuum : fit Epifcopus illic ;
" Propraefes patriae quo nunquam acceptior alter.
*' Poft annos plus fex fummum petit Anglia patrein ;
^ *' Plus quam bis denos fuit Archiepifcopus annos ;
" Charior Elifae, dubium eft an Regi Jacobo :
" Conful utrique fuit : fis tu Croidonia teftis
" Pauperibus quam charus erat, queis nobile ftruxit
*' Hofpitium, puerifque fcholam, dotemque reliquit.
" Coelibis, h^ec vitae foboles qua; nata per annos
*' Septuaginta duos nuUo enuberabitur sevo.
" Invidia hsec cernens moritur, patientia vincens,
" Ad fummum evedlo xternum dat lumen honori.
" Magna fenatoris funt nomina, pondera et aequa
" Nominibus, quem non utraque junifta premunt ;
" Prsefulis accedat fi fummum nomen ad ifta
*' Pondera quis ferat, aut perferat ilia diu.
*' Pax vivo grata eft ; mens re£ti confcia pacem
" Pert animo; ha'C mortem non metuiffe dedit.
" Mors requiem membris, animas ca^leftia donant
" Gaudia : fie potuit vincere qui patitur.
" Gratia non miror fi fit divina Joannes ;
" Quijacethic; folus credito gratus erat.
*' Nee magis immerito Whitgiftus dicitur idem;
" Candor in eloquio, pedtore candor erat.
*' Candida pauperibus pofuit loca ; Candida Mufis ;
" E terris moriens, Candida dona tulit."
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In the fame chancel againft the fouth wall, is a fplendid monu- Archbl/hop
ment to the memory of archbifhop Sheldon ; the figure of the arch- monument,
bifhop, which is of white marble, is a very fine piece of fculpture ;
and was the performance of Latham the city architect, and Bonne ".
It has been fuppofed, that the head was finiflied by an Italian artift.
By the kind afliftance of Mr. Lawrence, I have been enabled to give
the annexed print, taken from a beautiful drawing made by him, in
which the likenefs and fpirit of the countenance are extremely well
preferved.
On the tablet above the ftatue of the archbifhop, is the following
infcription :
" Fortiter et fuavlter.
" Hie jacet
" Gilbertus Sheldon,
" Antiqua Sheldoniorum familia
" In agro StafFordienfi natus, Oxonii
" bonis Uteris enutritus,
" S. Sx. Theologise Do£tor infignis;
" Coll. Omnium Animarum cuftos prudens et fidelis,
*' AcademieC Cancellarius munificentiffimus,
" Regii Oratorii Clericus
. " Car. P° B"° Martyri chariffimus,
" Sub fereniffimo R. Carolo IP",
*' MDCLX, magno illo inftaurationis anno,
*' Sacelli Palatini Decanus,
" Londinenfis Epifcopus ;
" MDCLXII, in fecretioris concilii ordinem
" cooptatus :
" MDCLXIII, ad dignitatis Archiepifcopalis apicem
*' eveitus.
« Vir
" Omnibus negotiis par, omnibus titulis fuperior,
" Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p. 80.
((
In
i84 CROYDON.
" In rebus adverfis magnus, in profperis bonus,
*' Utriufque fortunse dominus ;
" Pauperum parens,
" Literatorum patronus,
" Ecclefias ftator.
" De tanto viro
" Pauca dicere non expedit ; multa non opus eft ;
" Norunt praefentes ; pofteri vix credent :
*' Odlogenarius
" Animam piam et cxlo maturam
" Deo reddidit
" V. id. Novembris,
" MDCLXVII."
Agalnft the fame wall is an ancient Gothic tomb, not mentioned in
Aubrey ; under the arch are the veftiges of upright brafs plates, with
figures of a man and woman, having labels ifluing from their
mouths ; thefe, as well as the infcriptions, were probably torn away
during the civil wars, when one Bleefe was hired, at 2 s. 6 d. a day,
to break the windows in this church, which were then of painted
glafs ''. The arms upon the tomb fhow that it belonged to fome
one of the family of Warham '".
In this chancel are alfo the tombs of the archbifhops Wake,
Potter, and Herring, with the following infcriptions upon flat
ftones :
Depofitum
Gulielmi Wake,
Archiepifcopi Cantuarenfis,
Qui obiit 24 Januarii, A. D. 1733.
5* Aubrey's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 30. Arg. The manor of Haling in this pari(h
'» Tlie arms are. Gules, a fefle Or ; in belonged to the Warhami in the reign of
chief a goat's head, and in bafe, 3 efcallops Henry VIII.
j£tatis
CROYDON. i8^
Gratis fucB 79,
Et
Ethelredae uxoris ejus
Qux obiit 15 Aprilis 1731.
Here lieth the Body of
The Moft Reverend Dr. Thomas Herring,
Archbifhop of Canterbury,
who died Mar. 13.
A. D. 1757.
aged 64.
Here lieth the Body of
The Moft Reverend
John Potter, D. D.
Archbifhop of Canterbury,
who died
0£t. loth, 1747.
In the 74th year of his age.
In the middle chancel is the following infcription, in the black
letter, on a brafs plate ; the figure of the perfon whom it com-
memorates has been torn off:
" Hie jacet Egidius Seymor, qui obiit 25 die Decembris A. Dni,
" 1390, cuj. aie procietur Ds."
Near the communion table is a ftone inlaid with the figure of a
prieft, drefled in his robes, under which is an infcription to the me-
mory of Sylvefter Gabriel, who died in 151 1.
Within the rails of the communion table is a graveftone inlaid
with brafs plates, reprefenting the figures of a man, his wife, and
eleven children ; the infcription is gone, but the arms are thofe of
Vol. I. B b Heron ;
i86 CROYDON.
Heron ; viz. per pale Gules and Az. on a chev. between 3 herons,
Arg. as many cinquefoils fable.
In the north chancel is a large tomb of free-ftone, with an afcent
of three fteps, to the memory of Nicholas Heron, Efq. who died in
1568. The figures of Nicholas Heron, his wife, five fons, and eight
daughters, are reprefented on the tomb in alto relievo ; over their
heads are the initials of their names.
In the fame chancel is an altar-tomb, to the memory of Ellas Davy,
who founded the old alms-houfe; he died in 1455; his figure, which
was on a brafs plate, has been torn away.
At the eaft end of the nave, is a monument with a column of
white marble, defigned by Mr. Glover, the author of Leonidas,
to the memory of Philippa, wife of James Bourdieu, Efq. of Combe,
in theparifli of Croydon, who died in 1780.
Having noticed all the monuments, which appear deferving a par-
ticular defcription, I fhall merely enumerate the fituation of others
with their dates, and the names of the perfons they commemorate.
In the middle chancel, are thofe of Dame Ruth Scudamore, who
died in 1649; John Packinton, farmer of the parfonage, who died
in 1607; Martha wife of Barnard Burton, Efq. who died in 1668;
and Nicholas Hatcher, captain of horfe under Charles L, who died
in 1673 : thefe are on flat ftones. Againft the north wall, is the mo-
nument of Henry Mill, citizen of London, who died in 1575 ; and
of his wife Elizabeth, who bore him fixteen children ; and that of
JohnPynfent,Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, who died in 1668.
In the bifhops' chancel are the tombs of Elizabeth, wife of Samuel
Fynch, the vicar, who died in 1589; of Sir Jofeph Sheldon, Knight,
who died in 1681; Daniel Sheldon, Efq. who died in 1698; Roger
Sheldon, Efq. who died in 17 10; Judith Sheldon, who died in 1725;
Lady Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Grefham, who died in 1632 ;
Mrs. Dorothy Pennyman, widow of Sir James Pennyman, and
daughter
CROYDON. 187
daughter and co-heir of archbifhop Wake, who died in 1754; Peter
Champion, Efq. who died in 1758; and Thomas Brigftock, Efq. who
died in 1787. Againft the eaft wall, is the monument of Michael
Murgatroid, archbifhop Whitgift's commiflary, who died in 1608.
In the north chancel, is a brafs tablet, to the memory of " that
" precious fervant of God, Mr. Samuel Otes, M. A. and minifter
" of the word of God in Croydon, who died in 1645 >" '^he tombs of
Marmaduke Wyvell, Efq. of Conftable Burton, in the county of
York, who died in 1623 ; and of another Marmaduke, who died in
1678; Elizabeth, daughter of Herbert Price, Efq. and daughter of
Thomas Morton, of Whitehorfe, who died in 1702 ; Elizabeth, wife
of Francis Butler, Efq. who died in 1626; and Francis her hufband,
who died in 1 648 ; William Boddington, Efq. who died in 1 703 ;
Ralph Smith, Efq. who died in 1639; Benjamin Bowles, Efq.
who died in 1 766 ; Mrs. Anne Callant, who died in 1 735 ; and
Mrs. Elizabeth Apthorp, who died in 1782.
In the nave of the church, is the tomb of Peter Harrifon, Efq.
who died in 1785.
In the north aifle, are thofe of John Parker, Efq. of London,
who died in 1710, aged 52 ; and his wife Bathfheba, who died in
1763, aged 84; the Rev. James Gardner, redtor of Slingfby, in the
county of York, who died in 1772 ; Roger Drake, Efq. who died in
1762 ; and others of the fame family.
In the fouth aifle, thofe of Mary, wife of John Smith, re£tor
ofWeybridge, who died in 1787; John Vade, vicar of Croydon,
who died in 1765 ; James Wilkins, Capt. of Dragoons, who died in
1769; James Douglafs, Efq. Major General, who died in 1743;
William Welbancke, Efq. who died in 1791; and Richard Peers,
Efq. alderman of London,who died in 1765. Againft the fouth wall,
is a tablet to the memory of Francis Tirrel, who was a benefactor to
the town, and died in 1600.
B b 2 The
vicarage.
i88 CROYDON.
The Infcrlptions from the tombs of the following perfons, which
are now deftroyed, are prefcrved in Aubrey : William Heron, Efq.
who died in 1562 ; Captain George Protheroe, who died in 1 745 ;
Thomas Walfh, of Croydon, who died in 1600; Elizabeth, wife of
Wymond Bradbury, Efq. and daughter of archbifhop Whitgift, who
died in 161 2.
In the church-yard, are the tombs of Henry Hoare, Phyfician, who
died in 1709; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Hunton, Efq. of Chelfea,
who died in 1779; " Honefl Thomas How," who died in
1727, &c. &c.
Reftoryand The church of Croydon is in the peculiar jurifdiition of the
archbifhop of Canterbury. It was formerly both a redory and a
vicarage ; among the early redtors, was William de Wyttlefey '°,
afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury : the vicarage was then in the
patronage of the redor. In 1390, archbifhop Courtney gave the
advowfon of the church to the monks of Bermondfey, in exchange
for the manor of Waddon. Since the fupprellion of monafleries the
great tithes have been in lay hands. They were held by Thomas
Walfmgham, and Robert Moyfe, in the reign of Edward VI. ", by
John Lord St. John, of Bletfoe, 32 Eliz. ", and are now the pro-
perty of the Right Honourable Anthony Vifcount Montague. In
1291 *' the redtory was rated at 60 marks, the vicarage at 15 marks.
'° Regift. Lamb. Courtney, f. 176. b. papers are all printed in the Appendix to the
Hiftory of Croydon, p. 17^ Hiftory of Croydon, p. 7, Sec. A licence was
*' Licence from the crown for the ex- obtained from the Crown in archbilhop Rey-
change, Pat. 14 Ric. IL p. 2. m. 39. A nolds's time, to exchange the church of Croy-
copy of this licence, the pope's bull, and other don, with the fame convent, for feme property
papers relating to the exchange, are inarch- in Southwark. See Pat. 12 Edw. II. p. 2.
bifhop Courtney's Regifter, f. 175. a. — 182. m. 17. but this exchange does not appear to
b. In the lail folio, is an indenture, by which have taken effed.
the archbilhop referves to himfelfand his fuc- ** Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
ceflbrs the right of nominating two perfons, 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
00 any vacancy of the vicarage, of whom the *' See note, p. 10,
prior and convent were to choofe one. Thefe
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In 1534, the latter was valued at2il. i 8 s. iitd.**; In the king's
books it is reckoned amongft the difcharged livings, and is faid to be
45 1. clear yearly value.
A houfe was appropriated to the vicar, in the reign of Edward
III. "'; the vicarage-houfe was re-built at the expence of archbifhop
Wake, in the year 1730".
An endowment of the vicarage of Croydon, as fettled by arch-
bifliop Stratford, is recited among the papers relating to the above
exchange; a tranflation of it may be found in the Hiftory of Croy-
don, and a copy of the original in the Appendix ".
Rowland Phillips, collated to this vicarage in 1497", was canon of Rowland
St. Paul's, and warden of Merton college Oxford ; "hewas efteemed"
fays Holinflied, " a notable preacher.'* Soon after the introdudion of
printing, he is faid to have foretold, in a fermon preached at St Paul's,
that it would be the bane of the Roman catholic religion — " We muft
" root out printing, (fays he,) or printing will root us*'." He took
an a£live part in the convocation in 1532, againft granting a fubfidy
to the king '''. Having refigned the vicarage of Croydon in 1538,
he was allowed a penfion of 1 2 I. per annum for his life ".
Samuel Bernard, collated to the vicarage in 1624, was difplaced by Vicarsdurlng
, . the Civil
the committee for plundered minifters in 1643 '\ ^ imagine hewas Wars,
fucceeded by Samuel Otes, who lies buried in the north chancel, as it
appears he came to Croydon that year and died in 1645. In the
year 1646, it was ordered by the committee, that 50 1. per annum,
Ihould be paid to Francis Peck, out of the impropriated redory of
Eaft Meon, in Hampfhire, as an augmentation of the vicarage of
Croydon. This money having never been received, the fame fum
•♦ Regift. Winton. Fox, pt. 5. «» Fox's Martyrs, vol. i. p. 804.
•' Pat. 5 Edw. III. pt. I. m. 28. ^o a. Wood's .-^.then. Oxen. vol. i. F.ilH.
*' Preface to Mills's Effay on Generofity. 7> Regift. Lamb. Cranmer, f. 364. a.
*' P. 12. of the Hiftory, and p. 10. of the '> Walker's Lift of the ejefted Clergy,
Appendix. p. 210.
" Regift. Lamb. Morton, f. 163. a.
was
190 CROYDON.
was voted to his fucceflbr Mr. Corbett, out of the fequeftered re£tory
of Camberwell ". This fequeftration having been taken off, it was
ordered, that a like fum fhould be paid out of the great tithes of fome
other parifhes, to Sir William Brereton, for the ufe of fuch minifter
as fhould be by him appointed to ferve the cure of Croydon '*.
•William William Clewer, prefented to this vicarage by Charles II. on his
Clevver. reftoration ", deferves only to be recorded as a difgrace to his pro-
feffion. Having perfecuted the royalifts during the commonwealth,
and having himfelf enjoyed one of the fequeftered livings, upon the
firft news of the reftoration, he repaired immediately to London,
and had the art to get himfelf recommended to the Earl of Clarendon,
as a zealous fon of the church, and a perfon deferving of preferment.
In confequence of this recommendation he got the living of Croydon.
When fettled there, he foon became the fcourge of the inhabitants,
and pra£lifed every fpecies of extortion and injuftice. His parifhioners
laid their complaints before the king in council, in the year 1672 ; but
though their caufe was frequently heard, and fome fteps taken to-
wards their relief, yet Clewer contrived to delay the final determina-
tion of the bufinefs fo long, that he kept his living till 1684; in
which year he was deprived. It was probably after his deprivation,
that he was tried at the Old Bailey, and burnt in the hand, for fteal-
ing a filver cup. In Smith's Lives of Highwaymen, where this fa£t is
mentioned '", a ftory is told of his being attacked by O'Bryan, a
famous robber ; who finding that he had no money, would have
taken his gown: Clewer, however, pulling a pack of cards out of his
pocket, propofed that they fhould play a game at all-fours for it. The
highwayman accepted hispropofal, and won the gown. Dr. Clewer
died in 1702". The papers relating to his difpute vi-ith the inha-
'3 Proceedings of the Committee ; Bod- ^' Croydon Pari(h Regiller.
leian Library. ^* Vol. ii. p. 50.
'♦ Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon, " Bibl. Topograph. Brit, N° 46. p. 178.
p. 48—50.
bitants
CROYDON. 191
bitants of Croydon, are printed at large in the additions to the hiftory
of that place ".
The prefent vicar is the Reverend Eaft Apthorp, D. D. Author
of Letters on the Prevalence of Chriftianity.
A chantry, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded in the Chantries,
church of Croydon, about the year 1400", by Reginald de Cob-
ham, Lord of Sterbergh, who vefted the patronage thereof in twelve
of the principal inhabitants of the town of Croydon. The income
of this chantry was valued at 14 1. 8s. ifd. in 1534*°. Its revenues
appear, by the Survey in the Augmentation Office, to have amounted
to 16 1. is. 2d. in the third year of Edward VL
Another chantry, dedicated to St. Nicholas, was founded by
John Stafford, bifhop of Bath and Wells, and William Oliver, vicar
of Croydon, in the reign of Henry VL " : it was endowed with
fixteen acres of land, and feveral meffuages in the town ; the patron-
age was vefted in the Weldon family. At the time of the foundation
of this chantry, its revenues were valued at 10 marks; in 1534",
it was eftimated at 81. 10 s. jd.
The parifh regifter commences in the year 1538: the latter part Parilhre-
of it has been kept with great neatnefs and accuracy, particularly ^' "'
during the incumbency of the prefent vicar.
Average of Bapdfms. Average of Burials. Comparative
^580-1589 67 -^ - 43 «-°/„P-
1780— 1789 1507 — 130
I found the regifter fo defedive during the laft century, that it was
impoftible to obtain an average of ten years together. By taking
a number of detached years, it appeared to be nearly as large as it is
"* lb. p. 159 — 178. 8" Pat. 18 Hen. VI. p. 3. tn. 20. and
79 Clement Ecclefton was prefented to this Regift. Lamb. Chichele, p. i. f. 233. b. ap-
cliantry, then faid to be lately founded, in the pointment of Henry Foxwyft, the firft chap-
year 14.02. Regift. Lamb. Arundel, p. I . f. lain, by the founders.
284. a. 8^ Reg. Winton. Fo.\, pt. 5.
" Regift. Winton. Fo.x, pt. 5.
at
192 CROYDON.
,: at prefent. The following averages are given in the Appendix to the
Hiftory of Croydon :
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
1730— 1750 ii6| — — i37t
1760 — 1780 127 — — 129
It is faid, in the fame place, that the upper part of the town was
formerly a common field, and had only a bridle way through it. The
principal increafe of population muft have been above a hundred years
ago. There are now about 800 houfes in this parifh.
Plague Tjjg number of perfons who fell vidims to the plaeue in the
years. ^ r o
laft century, is thus fpecified in the regifter :
From July 20, 1603, to April 16, 1604 - - «- ij8
In the year 1625 - - _ _ - 76
1626 - - - - 24
1631 - - - - 74
From July 27, i66j, to March 22, 1666 - 141
It is recorded in a note, that " from the nth to the 18th of Auguft
" 1603, 3054 perfons died of the plague in London, and the liber-
*' ties thereof, and that many died in the highways neare about the
" citie ;" and that, " from the 25th of Auguft to the firft of Septem-
" ber, 3385 perfons died."
inftancesof ^he followinp; inftances of longevity are recorded in the re-
longevity. ° w> j
gifter:
" Alice Miles, looannos nata, was buried Mar. 6, 1633-4."
" Margaret Ford, aged 105 years, was buried Feb. 2, 1714-5."
" John Baydon, aged 101 years, buried Dec. 12, 1717."
" Margaret Burnett, aged 99 years, was buried Dec. 26, 1718."
" Elizabeth Giles, widow, aged 100, was buried Aug. 17, 1729."
" Elizabeth Wilfon, from the Black Horfe, aged loi, was buried
" Mar. 17, 1771-"
Divers
CROYDON. 193
Divers other entries, either curious in themfelves, or relating to
remarkable perfons, are here copied, without regard to any other than
a chronological arrangement :
" June 10, 1552. Alexander Barkley fepult."
Alexander Barkley, or Barklay, who appears to have been by Alexander
birth a Scot ", ftudled at Oriel College Oxford, and was afterwards
fuccelTively a Benediftine monk at Ely, and a Francilean at Canter-
bury ^*. He is beft known by his celebrated Poem called The Ship of
Fools, taken from a work of the fame name, written in German by
Sebaftian Brandt. It is a fatire upon the follies of the age. The firft
edition was printed by Pynfon, In 1509. Warton, In his Hiftory of
Englifh Poetry, fays, that the ftanzas are verbofe and profalc, but
that It is a work deferving of attention, as it exhibits, like
other fatlres, a picture of familiar manners, and popular cuftoms. He
adds, that the author's language is more cultivated than that of
many of his contemporaries, and that he contributed his fhare to the
improvement of the Engllfli phrafeology '\ Barkley frequently
mentions Croydon in his eclogues. Warton has quoted two of the
pafTages, by one of which It appears, that this place was his re-
fidence in the early part of his life —
" While I in youth In Croldon town did dwell."
Befides his Ship of Fools and his Eclogues, he publifhed alfo a treatlfe
againflSkelton, the poet laureat ; the Lives of fome of the Saints, and
feveral tranflations '". To one of thefe ^' Is prefixed a wooden print of
the author prefenting his book to his patron Sir Giles Alyngton.
*' Edmund Grindall, lord archbufhop of Canterburle, deceafed Archbifliop
. ' Grindall.
*' the oth day of Julye, and was buried the fyrfl day of Augufte,
" Anno Dni. 1583, anno regni Ellzabethse, 25."
^' Biograph. Brit. vol. iii. p. 8. in the notes, '^ lb. p. 247.
edit. 1784. ^^ Biograph. Brit, article Barclay.
"* Warton's Hiftory of Engli(h Poetry, '? " The Mirrour of Good Manners," a
vol. ii. p. 242. fmall folio, printed by Pynfon.
Vol. I. Co Archbifhop
194
CROYDON.
Elizabeth
Fynch.
Licence to
eat flefh in
Lent.
Archbifhop
Whitgift.
«<
((
Archblfhop Grindall died at Croydon". A fhort time before his
death, being rendered unable, by his blindnefs and infirmities, toper-
form the duties of his high ftation, he was urged to refign the arch-
bifhopric, which he confented to do, requefting only that he might
referve to hirafelf the houfe and park at Croydon, to which place
he retired. No fucceflbr however having been appointed till after his
death, it is fuppofed that his refignation never actually took place ".
" Elizabeth, daughter of John Kynge, and Clemence, (wyfe of
" Samuel Fynch, vicar, by the fpace of feven years,) mother of five
children at feveral byrths, of the age of 21 years ; deceafed the
17th day of Nov. and was buried the 18th, A. D. 1589."
" Mem. That whereas Samuel Fynche, vicar of Croydon, lycenfed
Clemence Kinge, the wife of John Kinge, brewer, to eate flefhe
*' in the time of Lente, by reafon of her ficknefie, which lycenfe
" beareth date the 29th of Feb. and further, that fhe the faide Cle-
" mence, doth as yet continue ficke, and hath not recovered her
" health ; know ye therefore, that the faid lycenfe continueth flill in
" force, and for the more efficacie thereof, ys here regiftered ac-
" cording to the ftatute, in the prefence Th. Mofar, church-
" warden of the faid parifh of Croydon, the 7th of March, in the
" 38th year of the Queen's maj's mod gracious reign, and for the
*' regiftering thereof, there is paid unto the curate 4d."
*' John Whitgift, archbifhop of Canterburie, deceafde at Lambith on
" Wednefday at 8 of the clocke in the evening, being the laft day of
" Feb. and was brought the day foUowinge in the evening to Croy-
" don, and was buried the morning followinge by 2 of the clocke,
" in the chappell where his pore people doe ufiially fitte ; his fu-
" nerall was kept at Croydon, the 27th day of Marche followinge.
Biograph. Brit.
»» Ibid.
" Anno
CROYDON. 195
" Anno Dni. 1604, annoque regnl dni. noftri Regis Jacobi fe-
ci
cundo.
Archbifhop Whitgift's funeral was folemnlzed in a manner fuitable
to the fplendour in which he had lived ; Babington, biihop of Wor-
cefter, preached the fermon ; the Earl of Worcefter and Lord
Zouch carried the banners of ftate '°. It is faid, that the archbifhop
on his firft journey into Kent, was attended by a hundred fervants,
forty of whom wore chains of gold''. This fplendour was thought
to be ferviceable at that time to the interefts of the church, by recon-
ciling the papifts to the reformation '\ It excited, however, the indig-
nation of the puritans, and expofed the archbifhop to the cenfures of
Prynne, who handles him very feverely on that account.
" Dec'. 1607, the greateft froft began the 9th day of this month, Great froft.
" it ended on Candlemas-eve."
" Francis Tyrrell, cytizen and marchant of London, was burled Francis
Tyrrell.
" the ift of Sept. 1609, and his funerall kept at London, the 13th
" of the fame month. He gave 200 1. to the parifhioners of Croy-
" don, to build a new market-houfe, and 40 1. to repair our church,
" and 40 s. a year to our poore of Croydon, for 18 years, with
manie other good and great legacies to the citie of London."
*' Charles Howard, fonne unto the Righte Honourable Charles Charles Earl
- . ofNotting-
Earle of Nottingham, born the 25th daye of December, Anno Dni. ham.
" 161 6, was chriftened the 23d daye of January followinge."
This was a younger fon of the Lord Admiral, by his fecond wife
Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, Earl of Murray ; he afterwards
became the third Earl of Nottingham, of the Howard family.
During the civil wars, he attached himfelf to the parliament ; ob-»
tained fome of the fequeflered lands "% and was, as before mentioned,
a tenant of Croydon palace. Dugdale '*, whofe accuracy in general
9° Biograph. Brit. « Perfeft Diurnal, May 1644,
'■ Ibid. «+ Baronage, vol. ii.
9* Ibid.
C c 2 may
«
C(
196
Great fnow.
Archbifhop
Abbot.
Archbifhop
Sheldon.
Mondrous
birth.
Archbifhop
Wake,
CROYDON.
may be relied on, has been led into an error with regard to this Earl
of Nottingham, whom he reprefents as grandfon of the Lord
Admiral, and fon of the fecond earl. His father, who died in 1624,
aged 87, being 73 years of age at the time of his birth ; and his
half-brother, whom he fucceeded in 1641, being alfo named Charles,
moft probably occafioned this miftake.
" Feb. 12, 1614-5. This was the day of the terrible fnow, and
" the Sonday following a greater."
" George Abbot, lord archbifliop of Canterbury, deceafed at
" Croydon, upon the fourth day of Aug. 1633. His funeral was
" with great folemnity kept in the church here, upon the third day
" of September following, and the next day his corpfe was conveyed
" to Guildford, and there buried according to his will."
" Gelbert Sheldon, laite archbufhop of Canterbury, buryed Nov.
" 16, 1677."
Archbifhop Sheldon, after he had retired from public bufinefs,
lived for the moft part at Croydon " ; he was buried in a very private
manner, according to his own fpecial diredtions '*.
" A defcriptlon of a monftrous birth, born of the body of Rofe
*' Eaftman, wife of John Eaftman, being a child with two heads,
four arms, four legs, one body, one navel, and diftindion of two
male children, and was born the 27th of January 172 1-2."
" Dr. William Wake, archbifhop of Canterbury, died at his
palace at Lambeth, Jan. 24, 1736, and was brought to Croydon,
*' and buried Feb. 9 ; and his lady, which was buried at Lambeth,
the ... of April 1731, was taken up and brought to Croydon
" the next day, and put in the vault with him."
Archbifhop Wake was author of many controverfial and theolo-
gical works, of which no one perhaps is better known than his
Expofitiou of the Church Catechifm.
((
<c
cc
i<
*' Biograph. Brit.
'" Funeral certificate. Herald's Coll.
Dr.
CROYDON.
197
" Dr. John Potter, archblfhop of Canterbury, was buried Od. Archbiihop
" 27, 1747-"
Archblfhop Potter was a man of great learning, and particularly
converfant in the Greek language. Many of his theological
writings are extant; but the work for which he has been mofl
celebrated is the Antiquities of Greece.
*' Dodor Thomas Herring, archbifhop of Canterbury, died at his Archblfhop
" palace at Croydon, and was buried Mar. 24, 1757."
Archbifhop Herring was buried in a very private manner, ac-
cording to his own requeft ; which exprefsly forbad alio, that any
monument fhould be erefled to his memory''.
Sir Richard Gurney, the celebrated lord mayor of London, diflin- Sir Richard
' guifhed for his courage, loyalty, and fufferings, during the civil wars,
is faid by Lloyd " to have been born at Croydon, in the year 1577 ;
his name, however, does not occur in the regifter.
Ellis Davy, citizen and mercer of London, in the reign of Ellis
Henry VL % founded an alms-houfe in Croydon, for feven poor alms-houfe.
people ; fix of whom were to receive lod. per week, and the feventh,
v.?ho was to be called the tutor, i s. It was endowed with
lands and tenements, which produced the annual fum of 18I. The
vicar, churchwarden, and four of the principal inhabitants of Croy-
don, were appointed governors; the mafters and wardens of the
mercers' company, overfeers. The flatutes are to be found at large
in archbifhop Morton's regifter '°", and they are printed in the Ap-
pendix to the Hiftory of Croydon '°'. The founder charges the
members to occupy themfelves " in praying and in beding, in hering
" honeft talk, or in labours with there hands, in fome other occu-
S" Biograph. Brit.
'* Lloyd's Memoirs, p. 625. 626.
»' Pat. 23 Hen. VI. pt, i . ra. 12.
Fol. 199. a.
P. 26-36.
pations,
198 CROYDON.
" pations, to the laws and worfhlp of almlghti God, and profit to
** them and there faid alms-hous." They were all bound llkewife to
attend the fervices of the church every day, and to chaunt a pfalm,
and fay paternoRers, and aves, at the place of his burial, and folemnly
to celebrate his year's mind. The ftatutes enjoin them " to abfteyne,
" as moch as may be, from vayne and evill woords at mete and
** fouper ; and yf they will any thingc talke, that it be honeft and
" profitable." It is dire£ted that their clothes fhould be " darke
*' and browne of colour, and not ftaring, neither blafing." No leper
or madman was to be admitted, and if any member fhould " be-
•' come madd, or woode, or be infeded with leper, or fuch other
*' intolerable feeknefs," he was to be removed out of the houfe,
and have his allowance continued. Any perfori guilty of being
*' cuftumably dronkley, glotons, rigours amongs his felawes, or
*' haunting taverns, or being unchaft of his body, or walking or
*' gazing in the opyn ftretis of the towne," to be expelled upon
the third offence. The ftatutes are dated April 27th, 1447. "^'^^
reformation having rendered it neceffary to make fome alterations in
them, they were reviewed by archbifliop Parker in the year I566>
and eftabliflied under his public feal '°\ The alms-houfe was re-
built fome years ago ; the revenues are now about 40 1. per annum.
Whitgift's Archbifhop Whitgift, in the year 1596, began the foundation of
hoipital. ^Yie hofpital at Croydon, which goes by his name. It was finifhed
the 29th of Sept. 1599'°', and endowed with lands for the main-
tenance of a warden, fchoolmafter, and twenty-eight poor brethren and
fifters, or a greater number, not to exceed forty, if the revenues fhould
admit of it. The fchoolmafter, who is likewife chaplain, is allowed by
the ftatutes 20I. per annum; the warden 1 1 1.; and the other members
5 1, each. The nomination of the brethren and fifters was vefted by the
the founder in his fuccelTors in the fee of Canterbury, whom he appointed
'°* Hiftory of Croydon, p. 80. "" Ibid. p. 7.
alfo
CROYDON. 199
alfo to be vifitors. Whenever that fee fhall happen to be vacant, the
re£lor of Lambeth, and the vicar of Croydon, are to fill up the places.
The perfons to be admitted, muft be fixty years of age at leaft; in-
habitants of Croydon and Lambeth are to be preferred. Among the
crimes to be punifhed vrith expulfion, are " obftinate herefye, for-
*' cerye, any kind of charmmynge, or witchcrafte." In the treafury
of the hofpital, are the letters patent for building the hofpital, em-
bellished with a drawing of Queen Elizabeth, on vellum ; and the
archbiflaop's deed of foundation, with a drawing of himfelf highly
finifhed. Thefe drawings are engraved for the Hiftory of Croydon,
where copies of the inftrumentsthemfelves, of the ftatutes of the hof-
pital, and other papers relating thereto, are printed in the Appendix.
The building of the hofpital coft the archbifhop above 2700!.'°*.
The lands with which it was endowed, were of the annual value of
185 1. 4 s. The eftates have been much improved, and the revenues
of the hofpital farther increafed, by various benefadlions, to the
amount of about 40 1. per annum.
The chapel, which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity on the
loth of July 1599'°', (by the biftiops of London and Chichefter,)
is fmall, but fufficiently commodious. At the weft end, is a portrait
of the founder, painted on board, with the following infcription :
" Feci quod potui ; potui quod, Chrifte dedifti ;
" Improba fac melius, fi potes, invidia.
" Has triadi fandtx primi qui ftruxerat sedes,
" Illius en veram PrGefulis efEgiem."
In the chapel, there is a portrait alfo of a lady with a ruff, dated
1 61 6, Stat. 38, probably one of the archbifhop's daughters.
In the hall, is a copy of The Dance of Death, with coloured draw-
ings, much damaged. There are alfo three antique wooden goblets; one
"♦ Hiftory of Croydon, p. 7. '" Regift. Lamb. Whitgift, p. 3. f. 106. a. b.
of
200
CROYDON.
William
Crowe.
OMham the
poet.
Henry Mills
of them, which holds about three pints, is infcribed with the follow-
ing legend : " What, furah ! holde thy peafe ; thirfte fatisfied, ceafc."
Adjoining the hofpital, are the fchool and the mafter's houfe.
William Crowe, who was appointed fchoolmafter here in 1668,
publlflied a catalogue of the Englifli writers on the Old and New
Teftament, which has been frequently printed '".
Oldham the poet was for three years an ufher under John Shep-
herd, who was appointed fchoolmafter in 1675. Here he wrote
his fatires upon the Jefuits, and here he was honoured with a vifit
from the Earls of Rochefter and Dorfet, Sir Charles Sedley, and
other perfons of dlftin£lion, who had feen fome of his works in
MS. and wifhed for a perfonal acquaintance with him. By a very
natural miftake, they were introduced to Shepherd the mafter, who
would willingly have taken the honour of the vilit to himfelf, but
was foon convinced, to his mortification, that he had neither wit nor
learning enough to make a party in fuch company '"'.
Henry Mills, who was appointed fchoolmafter in 171 1, diftinguiih-
ed himfelf as an opponent to biftiop Hoadley, in the moft perfonal
and illiberal part of the celebrated Bangorian controverfy '°\ The
pamphlet which he publifhed on the fubjedl, related to the bifhop's
receiving into his family as tutor to his children, one Francis de la
Pillioniere, a converted Jefuit, who had been ufher under him at
Croydon. Mills publifhed alfo " an Eflay on Generofity;" a pa-
negyric on public charities.
The prefent chaplain and fchoolmafter is the Rev. James Hodg-
fon, who was appointed in 1783.
There is alfo an alms-houfe at Croydon, called the Little Alms-
houfe, where the parifh poor are ufually placed, towards the rebuild.-
- "=* Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 344.
"^ Biograph. Brit, and Oldham's Life pre- p. 155.
fixed to his works.
Appendix to the Hiftory of Croydon,
ing
CROYDON.
20I
Ing of which Arnold Goldwell gave 40 1. and to which bene-
fadtions have been left to the amount of 81. per annum; 50 1. was
given by archbifhop Grindall. In the years 1775 and 1776, fome
new buildings, for the reception of twelve poor inhabi.tants, were
added to thefe alms-houfe?, with a fum of money given by the late
Earl of Briftol, and a voluntary fubfcription of the principal inha-
bitants.
Archbifhop Laud gave lol. ids. per annum, to apprentice poor Benefaaions.
boys.
Archbifhop Tenifon gave a fchool-houfe, and two farms, the
revenues of which amount to 531. per annum, for educating ten
boys, and ten girls.
Mr. Henry Smith left certain lands and houfes to this parifh,
which produce 108 1. per annum. Other benefadions have been
given by divers perfons, amounting in tlie whole to about 36 1. per
annum.
In the town of Croydon are meeting-houfes for the Quakers
and Anabaptifts, and one for the Prefbyterians, which has been for
fome years unfrequented.
Vol. I. D d
[ 202 ]
K
E
W.
Name.
Boundaries
aad fituation.
Ancient pro-
prietors of
lands and
houfes.
TH E mod ancient record In which I have feen this place men-
tioned, is a court roll of the manor of Richmond, in the
reign of Henry VII. It is there written Kayhough ; in fubfequent
records its name Is varied to Kayhowe, Kayhoo, Keyhowe, Keye,
Kayo, and Kewe. Its fituation, near the water-fide, might induce
one to feck for its etymology from the word key, or quay.
Kew, which was heretofore a hamlet to Kingfton, and which is
ftUl included within the manor of Richmond, firft became a parifh
by an a£l of parliament paffed in 1769. It is of very fmall extent,
and is bounded by the river Thames on the north ; by the parifli of
Mortlake on the eafl: ; and by Richmond on the fouth and weft.
It lies in the hundred of Kingfton, about fix miles from Hyde-park-
corner. The foil is fandy, and the fmall quantity of land, that is
not included in the royal gardens ', is for the moft part arable. The
parifli is charged 126I. 13s. to the land-tax, which in the year
1791, was at the rate of 9d. in the pound.
Amongft the early proprietors of lands and houfes here, I find
Charles Somerfet, the firft Earl of Worcefter of that family\
Sir Henry Gate', temp. Edw. VI. held a capital manfion, called
*' The Dairie-houfe," which afterwards became the property of Ro-
bert Dudley, the famous Earl of Leicefter*.
' A confiderable part of Richmond gardens
is in this parilh, as well as thofe of Kew.
* Court Rolls of the manor of Richmond,
temp. Hen. VII.
' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
♦ Pat. I Eliz. pt. 4. May 29.
Edward
K E W. 203
Edward Earl of Devon had a capital meflliage here in the reign
of Queen Mary *.
In a court-roll, 6 EHz. mention is made of a capital manfion-
houfe, called Suffolk Place, then pulled down and deftroyed.
Sir John Puckering, lord keeper of the great feal, was an inha- sir John
bltant of this place. In the Harleian Colledtion of MSS. in the ^"=''^""S'
Britifh Mufeum ', is the following paper, which appears to have been
written by his fteward :
" Remembrances for furnyture at Kew, and for her majeflie's en-
*' tertainment, 14 Aug. 1594.
" A memorial of things to be confidered of, if her majeftie fhould
*' come to my lord's houfe.
" I. The maner of receyvynge bothe without the houfe and within,
*' as well by my lord as my ladye.
" 2. What prefent fhall be given by my lord, when and by whome
*' it fhall be prefented, and whether any more than one.
" 3. The like for my ladye.
" 4. What prefents my lord Ihall beftowe of the ladyes of the
" privye chamber or bedchamber, the groomes of the privye cham-
" ber, and gentlemen ufhers and other officers, clerks of the kitchen
** orotherwife.
" 5. What rewards fhall be given to the footemen, gardes, and
" other officers.
" 6. The purveyed diet for the queen, wherein are to be ufed
*' her own cooks, and other officers for that purpofe.
" 7. The diet for the lords and ladies, and forae fit place for that
" purpofe fpecially appoynted.
" 8. The allowance for diet for the footemen and gardes.
" 9. The appoyntment of my lords officers, to attend on their
" feveral offices, with fufficient affiftants unto them for that time.
♦ Terrier of Lands in Surrey. ' N° 6850. f. 90.
Dd2 " 10. The
204 K E W.
" lo. The orderlnge of all my lords fervants for their waiting,
" both gentlemen and yeomen, and how they fhall be forted to their
" feveral offices and places.
" II. The proporcyon of the diett fitted to eche place of fervice ;
" plate, linen, and filver veflels. .
" 1 2. To furnifh how there will be uppon a foddeyne provifion of
'' all things for that diett made and of the beft kinds, and what
" feveral perfons fhall undertake it.
" 13. As it muft be for metes, fo in like forte for bredd, ale, and
** wynes of all fortes.
" 14. The lyke for bankettynge ftuffe.
" 15. The fwetynynge of the howfe in all places by any means.
" 16. Gretecare to be had, and conference with the gentlemen
*' ufliers, how her majeftie would be lodged for her beft eafe and
** likinge, far from heate or noyfe of any office near her lodg-
*' yng, and how her bedchamber maye be kept free from anye
*' noyfe near it.
" 1 7. My lords attendance at her departure from his howfe and
" his companye.
" Ladies diet for bedchamber.
*' Ladies fome lodged befydes ordinarle.
" Lord chamberlayne, in the howfe.
*' Lord of Eflex nere, and all his plate from me, and dyett for
*' his fervants at his lodgyngs."
If this vifit took place, her majefty was probably well pleafed with
her entertainment ; for it appears by the following paflage in a letter
from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sydney *, that fhe honoured
him with one in the enfuingyear: — '* On Thurfday her majeftie
** dined at Kew, my lord keaper's howfe, (who lately obtained of
• Dec. 13, 1595. Sydney State Papers, vol. i. p. 376.
" her
K E W. 20j
*' her majeflie his fute for lool. a yeare land, in fee-farm). Her
'* intertainment for that meale was great and exceeding coftly ; at
" her firft lighting, (he had a fine fanne, with a handle garniflit
" with diamonds. When fhe was in the middle way, between the
'• garden-gate and the howfe, there came running towards her, one
*' with a nofegay in his hand, delivered yt unto her with a fhort
•' well pened fpeach ; it had in yt a very rich Jewell, with many
*' pendants of unfirld diamonds, valewed at 400 1. at leaft ; after
" dinner, in her privy chamber, he gave her a faire paire of virginals.
" In her bed-chamber he prefented her with a fine gown and juppin,
** which things were pleafing to her highnes ; and to grace his
" lordlhip the more, fhe, of herfelf, tooke from him a fait, a fpoone,
" and a forke of faire agate."
Sir Peter Lely, the celebrated painter, purchafed a houfe at Kew, Sir Peter
to which, during the latter part of his life, he frequently retired':
after his death, it efcheated to the crown, but through the good
offices of Lord Keeper North, was reftored to his family ', fome of
whom were remaining there about fifty years ago. The houfe, which
is now pulled down, flood upon the fite of Mrs. Theobalds's beau-
tiful gardens, on the north fide of the green.
Stephen Duck, whofe native genius broke through the obftacles of Stephen
his humble origin, and recommended him to royal patronage, was
fettled in a houfe at Kew, by Queen Caroline. It is well known
that he afterwards entered into holy orders. The curiofity of the
public had been fo much excited by his flory, that, for fome time
whenever he preached, prodigious crowds flocked to hear him ; and
the newfpapers of the day abound with accounts of the petty difaflers
which happened on thefe occafions.
' Biographia Britannica. ' North's Life of the Lord Keeper, p. 312.
In
206
K
W.
Samuel Mo-
lineux.
Kew-houfe. jii defcribing the prefent ftate of this place, the firfl obje£l that
demands attention is Kew-houfe, the occafional refidence of his
prefent majefty. About the middle of the laft century, this houfe
belonged to Richard Bennet, Efquire ", whofe daughter and heir
married Sir Henry afterwards Lord Capel, of Tewkefbury, who
died Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1696. His widow refided for many-
years at Kew, and dying in the year 1721, was buried in the chapel
there.
The houfe was afterwards the property and refidence of Samuel
Molineux, Efquire, who married her daughter. Mr. Molineux was
Secretary to George IL when Prince of Wales, and is well known
as a man of literature, and an ingenious aftronomer. Dr. Bradley's
difcoveries, relating to the parallax of the fixed ftars, are faid to have
been made with an inftrument of his contrivance '°. The late
Prince of Wales admiring the fituation, took a long leafe of Kew-
houfe, from the Capel family ; and it is now held by his prefent
majefty on the fame tenure. The houfe, which is fmall, and calcu-
lated merely for an occafional retirement, was improved and orna-
mented by Kent, for the Princefs Dowager. It contains fome good
pidlures, amongft which are a portrait of the LordTreafurer Burleigh,
and the celebrated pidlure of the Florence gallery by Zoffanii. In
the long room above ftairs, is a fet of Canaletti's works, conlifting
of views in Venice, and two general views of London, the one from
the Temple, the other from Somerfet-gardens.
Kewgardens. The pleafure grounds, which contain about 120 acres, were begun
by the late Prince of Wales, and finiflied by the Princefs Dowager,
who took great delight in fuperintending the improvements. Lord
Melcombe, in his Diary, mentions working in the walk at Kew ".
Notwithftanding the difadvantages of a flat furface, the grounds are
» Court Rolls of the Manor of Richmond.
Biographia Britannlca.
P. 66.
laid
K E W. 207
laid out with much tafte, and exhibit a confiderable variety of
fcenery. They are ornamented with divers pidturefque objedls and
temples, defigned by Sir William Chambers, among which is one
called the Pagoda, in imitation of a Chinefe building. It is forty-nine
feet in diameter at the bafe, and 163 feet in height '\ which renders
it a very confpicuous obje£t in the neighbourhood.
The green-houfe is of very large dimenfions, being 142 feet long,
25 feet high, and 30 feet broad.
The exotic garden was eftablifhed in the year 1760, by the Exotic gar-
den.
Princefs Dowager. The prefent royal family being much attached
to the ftudy of botany, his majefty has beflowed great attention ^
upon this garden, which now exhibits the fineft colledlion of plants
perhaps in Europe, which is daily increafing by the communications
of the Prefident of the Royal Society, and fuch other zealous promo-
ters of the fcience, as have frequent opportunities of procuring new
feeds and plants from diftant parts of the world. As a proof of the
rapid increafe of this collecStion, it was found neceffary, about two
years ago, to build a new houfe, 1 10 feet in length, for the recep-
tion of African plants only.
A catalogue of the plants in the exotic garden at Kew was pub-
lifhed in 1768, by Dr. Hill, under the name of Hortus Kewenfis;
a much larger and more fcientific work, under the fame title, was
publifhed by the prefent ingenious gardener, Mr. William Aiton, in
the year 1789, in three volumes 8vo.
Sir William Chambers in the year 1763, publifhed a defcription
of the houfe and gardens at Kew, in folio, with upwards of forty
plates, engraved by Rooker, from drawings of Kirby, Marlow,
Sandby, &c. Kew gardens have been the fubjedalfo of two poems,
one by George Ritfo in 1 763, and the other by Henry Jones, author
of the tragedy of the Earl of Effex, in 1767 ".
" Sir William Chambers's Defcription of " See Cough's Topography, vol. ii.
Kew Gardens. p. 273.
The
2o8 K E W.
The old houfe, oppofite to the palace, was formerly the property of
Sir Hugh Portman, who is mentioned in a letter of Rowland White,
as the rich gentleman that was knighted by her majefty at Kew '*.
Sir John Portman fold it in 1636 to Samuel Fortrey, Efquire; it
was alienated by William Fortrey in 1697 to Sir Richard Levett,
of whofe defcendants it was bought in truft for her majefty, in the
year 1781: the late queen took a long leafe of it, which was not
then expired. During this leafe, it was inhabited by different
branches of the royal family. The Prince of Wales was educated
there,' under the fuperintendance of Dr. Markham, now archbifliop
of York. The houfe appears to have been built about the reign of
James, or Charles I.
Kew chapel. Kew chapel was built in the year 1714: it is fituated towards the
eaft end of the green, and is a fmall brick ftrudlure, confifting of a
nave and a north aille ; the fouth fide being appropriated for a
fchool-room : at the weft end is a turret.
Monumentof Againft the fouth wall is a tablet to the memory of Jeremiah
Jeremiah ....
Meyer. Meyer, R. A. late painter in miniature and enamel to his majefty,
with the following verfes by Mr. Hayley :
*' Meyer ! in thy works the world will ever fee
" How great the lofs of art in lofing thee ;
*' But love and forrow, find their words too weak
*' Nature's keen fufFerings on thy death to fpeak:
*' Through all her duties, what a heart was thine !
*' In this cold duft, what fpirit ufed to fhine !
" Fancy, and truth, and gaiety, and zeal,
" What moft we love in life, and lofing feel.
" Age after age may not one artift yield
, . " Equal to thee in painting's nicer field.
*' And ne'er fhall forrowing earth to Heaven commend
*' A fonder parent, or a truer friend."
«♦ Letter to Sir Robert Sydney, Dec. 22, 1595. Sydney State Papers, vol. i. p. 384.
Over
K E W. 209
Over the tablet IS his bud In white marble.
Mr. Meyer was born at Tubingen, in the dutchy of Wurtemburgh.
He came over to England, at fourteen years of age, and ftudied
under Zincke ". His own merit, and the royal patronage, contri-
buted to raife him to the head of his profeffion, as a painter in
miniature.
On the north wall of the church, are the monuments of Brigadier
William Douglas, who died in 1747, in South Beveland (in Holland) ;
and Mary, widow of Colonel RulTel, who died in 1764.
Againftthe eaft wall, is the monument of Dorothy Lady Capel,
widow of Henry Lord Capel of Tewkefbury, who died in 1721.
Againft the fouth wall, is the monument of Elizabeth Countefs
of Derby, who died in 171 7; and lies buried in Weftminfter Abbey.
In the church-yard near the fchool-houfe door, is the tomb of Tomb of
Thomas Gainfborough, Eiquire, the celebrated artift, who died rough, the
Augufl: 2, 1788, aged 61. He has no other monument than a grave- P^'" ^''*
ftone, which only mentions the date of his death. His memory
will live however in his works, and in the deferved and liberal enco-
miums bellowed on him in the lectures of the late worthy and much
lamented Prefident of the Royal Academy. Mr. Gainfborough
never refided at Kew, except on occafional vifits to his filler.
Near the fame fpot is the grave of Mr. Meyer, whofe monument Tomb of
has been juft defcribed ; and that of Mr. Jofhua Kirby, clerk of "* ' ^'
the board of works, an ingenious archited:, who publifhed a well
known book on perfpedlive. He died June 20, 1774.
In the church-yard, are the tombs alfo of Sir Charles Eyre, Knight, Other tombs.
Governor of Fort William, in Bengal, who died in 1729; Thomas
Gardiner, Efquire, who died in 173S; Col. Armand de la Ballide,
who died in 1744; Thomas Howlet, Efquire, who died in 1759;
'5 From the uiformation of Mrs. Meyer, his widow.
Vol. I. E e and
2IO K E W.
and others of his family ; Peter Forbes, Efquire, who died in 1762 ;
Thomas Robinfon, Efquire, page to three Princes of Wales, who
died in 1775; Edward Thomas, Efquire, who died in 1777;
Frances, wife of John Larpent, Efquire, who died in 1777 >
Jane, wife of Captain Lawfon of the Artillery, who died in 1780J
Elizabeth, widow of Edward Bearcroft, Efquire, who died in
1 780 J John Haverfield, Efquire, well known for his tafte and fkill
as an ornamental gardener, who died in 1781 ; Philip Delafield,
Efquire, who died in 1787; and the Rev. Daniel Bellamy, late
minifter of Kew, who died in 1788. He was author of fome Ethic
Poems, and a Paraphrafe on the Book of Job.
The church " of Kew is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and the
deanery of Ewell. In the year 1 769 it was feparated by a£l of par-
liament from Kingfton, to which it had been a chapel of eafe, and
being united to Peterfham, another chapel belonging to the fame
church, they were both made one vicarage. In the king's books,
St. Anne's chapel on Kew Green is faid to be 5I. per annum cer-
tified value.
The prefent vicar is the Reverend William Fofter, who fucceeded
Mr. Bellamy.
Pariihre- The pari fh regifter is of the fame date as the chapel, which was
*' ^^' confecrated the 12th of May 1714.
Average of Baptifras. Average of Burials.
Comparative 1714. — 1724. 7 ■ Q
ftate of po- / T / T / y
pulation. I780 — 1789 10 — — I4
The prefent number of houfes is about eighty.
Benefaftjons, Lady Capel left a benefadion of ii 1. per annum to this parifh,
for the purpofe of eftablifhing a charity-fchool.
•° It is ftill ufually called Kew Chapel, notwithftanding it has been feparated from the
mother church.
Elizabeth
K E W. 211
Elizabeth Countefs of Derby left loool. to the poor of Brentford
arid Kew, the moiety belonging to this parifh produces 24 1, per
annum.
An a6l of parliament was obtained 30 Geo. 11. for building a wood- Kew-bridge.
en bridge acrofs the Thames at Kewj it was finifhed in the year
1759. '^^^ prefent bridge, which is of freeftone, was opened ia
Sept. 1789. It is the private property of Robert Tunftal, Efqulre ;
being built at his expence, as the former was at the expence of his
father.
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[ 212 3
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Name.
Situation.
Boundaries.
Soil.
Kingfton for-
merly a bo-
rough.
THIS place isfo called to diftinguifh it from Kingfton in York-
fhire, and other parifhes of the fame name. Its etymology
is too well known to need much comment. Lambarde fays, that
it has a claim to the title of regia villa, (i. e. the royal or king's
town,) " bothe for that it had been fome houfe for the princes, and
" alfo bycaufe dyvers kingcs had been anoynted theare '." Some
writers * affert, that its ancient name was Moreford.
Kingfton is a market and corporation town ; it is about eleven miles
from Weftminfter-bridge, and gives name to the hundred in which
it lies.
The parifh is of large extent, and is bounded by Peterfliam, Rich-
mond, Putney, Mortlake, Wimbledon, Merton, Maiden, Chefington,
and Long Ditton. The foil is various, confifting of clay, fand, and
gravel, but no chalk ; the land is for the moft part arable. The
parifh, exclufive of Ham and Hook, which are rated feparately, is
aflefTcd the fum of 1449I. 13s. 8d. to the land-tax, which in the
year 1791, was at the rate of 2s. yd. in the pound.
This town fent members to parliament in the fourth, fifth, and
fixth years of Edw. II. and the forty-feventh of Edvv. III. It
ceafed to be a borough, in confequence of a petition from the corpo-
ration (recorded in the town-clerk's office) ; the prayer of which
was, that they might be relieved from the burden, of fending mem-
bers to parliament \
' Topographical Diftionary, p. 164, vol. i. p. 18. Camden's Britannia.
* -■\ubrey in hii Antiquities of Surrey, ' Willis's Noiitia Pailiameiu, vol. iii. p. 90.
Kingfton
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 213
«
Klngfton gave the title of baron to Ramfay earl of Holdernefs, in
the reign of James I.
The town enjoys many valuable privileges and immunities, by charters,
royal charter*. King John granted the men of Kingfton, the
manor of the town in fee-farm, paying to the crown the
annual rent of 50I '. He likewife granted them an exemption
from the fherlffs or bailiffs jurifdicftion. This charter was confirmed
by Henry III., who granted them a return of writs; power to choofe
a coroner ; an annual fair for eight days, to begin on the morrow
of All Souls; and many valuable privileges; particularly, that the
freemen and their heirs (hould be a mercatorial gild ; that their
goods and perfons fhould not be molefted, and they fhould not be
obliged to plead out of the town. I find no charters of Edward I.
or Edward II.; the latter indeed, upon being furniflied with four
armed men by the town of Kingfton, pledged himfelf by a covenant,
that it fhould not be conftrued into a precedent to their difadvan-
tage '. Edward III. confirmed the charter of king Henry.
Richard II. gave them a fhop and eight acres of land, towards
paying their fee- farm-rent ' ; and confirmed the charters of his
predecefTors. Henry IV. and Henry V. did the fame ; the latter
remitted a confiderable part of the fee-farm rent. Henry VI.
confirmed their privileges, and granted that the freemen fhould be
clerks of the market. Edward IV. gave them a charter of incorpo-
ration, by the name of the bailiffs and freemen of Kingfton ; and
confirmed the right of holding a weekly court on Saturdays, which
their anceftors had exercifed. Henry VII., Henry VIII., and Ed-
ward VI. confirmed all the former charters. Queen Mary granted
them a fair on St. Maiy Magdalen's, and the enfuing day; and
a fifh wear, in confideration of the charges they had been at in re-
♦ The fo'.lowing recita! of the principal and n. 25.
nicft important grants, is taken chiefly from » Pat. 16 Edw. II.pt. i. m. 34.
a cartulary in the town-clerk's office. 7 p^t. 4 Riv:. II. pt. 3. m. 15.
! Cart. I Joh. pt. 2.m. 7.r..90, & 10 Joh.
pairing
214
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
pairing the bridge. Queen Elizabeth, after confirming all the char-
ters of her predeceflbrs, granted the freemen an exemption from
paying toll, and being fummoned on juries. She alfo founded a
grammar fchool, as will be mentioned hereafter. James I. granted
a weekly market upon Saturdays, with a toll; and empowered the
bailiffs and corporation to make bye-laws, and to keep a common
gaol. Charles I. granted them a jurifdidlion of adlions and pleas,
within the town and liberty of Kingfton, and the hundreds of Elm-
bridge, Cropthorn, and Effingham ; empowered them to hold a
court of record and a feffion, and to ere£t a prifon within the liber-
ties. He granted alfo, that no market fhould be held within feven
miles of the town \ and in confideration of their refigning their
right of holding a court leet, and view of franck-pledge within the
hamlets of Richmond, Kew, Peterfham, and Ham ; he granted a leet
in the reft of the hundred, and a return of writs in the hundreds of
Cropthorn and Effingham. Charles II. granted them a weekly
Corporation, market on Wednefdays. James II. gave them a new charter of in-
corporation, by the name of the mayor, aldermen, and burgeffes of
Kingfton ; with power to hold a court of record, and a court leet.
They adted under this charter during his reign only, having ever fmce
been guided by their ancient charters, which were confirmed by
Charles II. The corporation confifts of about fifty members. The
prefent high fteward is the Right Honourable Lord Onflow j the
bailiffs, Mr. Jofeph Bradfhaw and Mr. Richard Weftrop ; the
recorder, Thomas Evance, Efquirej and the town-clerk, Mr. Charles
JemmetC
Market and "^^^ market at this place is held on Saturdays only ; that on Wed-
nefdays, which was procured at a confiderable expence ', has de-
fairs
^ This grant was obtained in confequence reign, which the town of Kingfton had been
of a weekly market having been granted at at very confiderable expence to fupprefs.
Hounflow, upon Saturdays, in the preceding ° Chamberlain's Accounts.
clined.
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 215
dined. There are three annual fairs which are held on Thurfday,
Friday, and Saturday in Whitfun-week ; the fecond, third, and
fourth of Auguft ; and the thirteenth of November.
That this town was a celebrated place in the early periods of our Council at
hiftory, is evident from the record ' of a council held there in the a" 838.
year 838, at which Egbert, the firft king of all England, his fon
Athelwolf, and all the bifhops and nobles of the land, were prefent.
Ceolnothus, archbifhop of Canterbury, prefided. This record, in
which the town is called " Kyningeftun, famofa ilia locus," de-
ftroys the fuppofition that it did not receive that appellation till the
reign of king Athelftan; and proves, that it was a royal refidence, or
at leaft a royal demefne, as early as the union of the Saxon hep-
tarchy.
Kingfton was made choice of as the place of their coronation, by Saxon kings
fome of the fucceeding monarchs. *' The tounifch men," fays Le- Kingiion.
land, " have certen knowledge of a few kinges crounid there afore
" the conquefte'.'' The following lift of them is given on the au-
thority of our ancient hiftorians : — Edward the elder, crowned A. D,
900'°; his fon Athelftan, in the year 925"; Edmund, in 940'*;
Eldred or Edred, (who is faid to have afTumed the title of
King of Great Britain,) in 946 " ; Edwy, or Edwin, in 955 '* ;
Edward the Martyr, in 975"; and Ethelred, in 978'*; Edgar who
fucceeded to the throne in 959, is faid to have been crowned either
at Kingfton or at Bath ". Edward the elder, Edmund and Edgar, are
' Brit. Muf. Cotton MSS. Claudius, D. II. p. 423 ; Holinftied, vol.i. f. 229. a.
f. 33. and Auguftus, IT. N° 17. & 34. '♦ Diceto ut fupra, col. 455; Holinflied,
9 Leland's Itin. vol. vi, p. 18. vol. i. f. 230. b.
'° Diceto inter decern fcript. col. 451; " Diceto ut fupra, col. 458; Holinflied,
Bromton Chron. Ibid. col. 831. vol. i. fol. 23;. a.
" Diceto and Bromton, ut fupra, col. 452. " Bromton Chion. ut fupra, col. 878; H.
838; W. Malmtbury, inter fcriptores poll Huntingdon, ut fupra, p. 357 ; R. Hoveden, ut
Bedam,p.48; H. Huntingdon, Ibid. p. 354; fupra, p. 427; Holinflied, vol. i. f. 237. b.
R. Hoveden, ibid. p. 422; Chron. Sax. p. Ethelred was crowned, according to Hoveden,
ill. by Dunftan archbifliop of Canterbury, Of-
Diceto ut fupra, col. 452. vvald archbifliop of York, and ten biOiops.
" Ibid. c. 455; R. Hoveden, ut fupra, " Holinflied, vol.i. f. 231. a.
not
2l6
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Kingfton
cillle taken
by Henry
III.
The Badard
Falconbridge
with his army
at Kingllon.
Sir Thomas
Wyat at
I^ingllon.
A remark-
ably high
flood.
not mentioned by Aubrey, amongft the figures of the Saxon kings,
which formerly exifted in St. Mary's chapel. In the infcriptions
over thefe figures, fome of the kings were faid to have been crowned
in the market place, and others in the chapel ; but I find no men-
tion of the particular fpot in any of the old chronicles above quoted.
In the year 1 264, Henry III. then at war with his barons, marched'
out of London, and took the caftle of Kenington, or Kingfton, be-
longing to Gilbert Clare earl of Gloucefter '^ ; the caflle was proba-
bly then demolifhed ; its memory, except in this record, is not pre-
ferved even by tradition.
In the year 1472, the Baftard Falconbridge, with an army of
17,000 men, went to Kingfl:on in purfuit of Edw. IV., but finding
the bridge there broken down, he retired with his army into St.
George's Fields ''.
Catherine of Arragon, on her journey to England, lodged at King-
fton the night before fhe arrived at Kennington palace ^^
Sir Thomas Wyat, well known for his unfuccefsful rebellion againft
Queen Mary, after the death of Lady Jane Gray, having in vain
attempted a paflage over London-bridge, came to Kingfton, where he
found the wooden bridge broken down by order of the council, and
the oppofite bank of the river defended by 200 men, who upon
fight of two pieces of ordnance planted againft them, quitted their
ftation, and gave Sir Thomas Wyat and his men an opportunity of
repairing the bridge in fuch a manner with planks and ladders, that
his whole army pafl~ed fafely over ". I imagine that it was in con-
fequence of the damage done to the bridge at this time, that the wear
was granted to the town by Queen Mary.
The following hiftorical note occurs in the parifh regifter.
*' Od. 9. 1570. — Sunday at nyght, arofe a great winde and rayne,
" that the Temps rofe fo hye that they myght row botts owte of the
" Stow's Annals. " HoHnlhed's Chron, vol. ii. f. 1730, and
'» Ibid, and Baker's Chron. pt. z. p. 1 06. Bifhopof Hereford'^ Annals of England, p.
*" Lsland's Colleftan. vol. v. p. 335. 294.
" Temps,
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 217
" Temps, a great waye into the markette place, and upon a fo-
*' dayne."
A fimilar clrcumftance happened about eighteen years ago.
Kingfton became once more a celebrated place, durine the civil ^^"'*"*' *'
. Kingfton.
wars of the laft century. The lirft armed force we hear of, was faid during the
to have been here aflembled. It was reported to the Houfe of Com-
mons, in the month of January 1642, that Col. Lunsford was at
Kingfton upon Thames, where the magazine of that part of the
country lay, with a troop of 400 or 500 horfe ". In confequence
of this intelligence. Col. Lunsford was proclaimed a traitor, as
having levied war againft the parliament, and was apprehended.
A reward was offered likewife for apprehending Lord Digby, under a
pretence that he had joined Col. Lunsford's party at Kingfton ; but
Lord Clarendon obferves, that it was well known that Lord Digby
had left the kingdom before the proclamation was iffued ". After
all, fuch are the contradidlory accounts of party hiftorians*', that it
is difficult to determine whether there was any army or not ; and if
there was, whether Lord Digby joined them, or came to Kingfton
accidentally with only his ufual retinue.
During the turbulent fcenes which enfued, the men of Kingfton
appear to have ftiown due gratitude to their royal mafter, from whom
they had experienced fuch great favours. Their town, however, was
frequently vifited by the armies of both the contending parties. In
the month of Odlober 1642, the Earl of Effex was at Kingfton, with
an army of 3000 men ". " In the beginning of November, Sir
«' Richard Onflow, one of the knights of the ftiire, went with the train-
" ed bands of Southwark to defend that town ; but the inhabitants
" thereof fliowing themfelves extremely malignant againft them,
" would afford them no entertainment, calling them round-heads,
** Diurnal Occurrences, Jan. lo - 17, 1642. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 579. Whit-
" Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol.i. p. 301. lock's Memori.ils, p. 54.
**NaIfQn's Colleaions, vol. ii. p. 846. ^^ Whitlock, p. 65,
Vol. 1, Ff ' "and
2i8 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
" and Tvl{hed rather that the cavaliers would come among them,
" whereupon they left them to their malignant humours"."
A few days after, twenty troops of horfe were fent to Kingfton
to fecure it till the Earl of Warwick fhoukl come with the reft of
the army *^
On the 13th of November, the day of the battle of Brentford, the
king marched with his army to Kingfton, where he was received
with great joy; he ftaid there till the 18th *'.
It appears by the following extracts from the parifh reglfter, and
from the chamberlains' accounts, that both the king's troops, and
thofe of the parliament, were frequently quartered at Kingfton; and
that his majefty was often there in perfon :
" Nov. 27, 1642, two foldiers hanged in the market-place, were
*' buried."
In June 1643, thirteen foldiers were buried; eight in one day
from the Bowling-green.
" Robert Cox, one of the gentlemen of the great ordnance to the
" Earlof Eflex, buried Aug. 15, 1643.
" 1643. Dilburfed to officers of the king's army, and officers of
the lord general's, 13 1.
" 1 645. To Capt. Rofmgham's foldiers to rid them out of the
" town, 40 s.
" 1646. To the king's trumpeters and footmen, 50 s.
" 1647. To Mr. George Suckling, for his charges in going to the
" general at Windfor, about eafmg the quartering of the foldiers, 1 2 s.
" 1648. To the ringers at feveral paffiiges of the king through
" the town, 2 s. "' "
On the lothof Auguft 1647, Fairfax removed his head-quarters
from Croydon to Kingfton, where he held a council of war the next
** England's Memorable Accidents, Oft. »» In the year 1638, a zealous puritan being
jl — Nov. 7, 1642. churchwarden, gave the ringers 6s. 8d. for
'' Ibid. Nov. 7 — 14. no/ ringing when the king went through the
*' Ibid. Nov. 14—21; and Perfeft Dlur- town.
nal, Nov. ij — 22.
2 day,
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 219
day, at which it was refolved, " that all protedions of exemption
" from quartering fhould be withdrawn, and that all fhould bear their
" fquares in quartering ; but that they fhould not be obliged to en-
*' tertain private foldiers, but might provide them quarters elfe-
" where ^°." On the 27th of the fame month, the general with his
troops removed to Putney ^'.
A grand rendezvous of the army was held upon Ham Common,
on the 1 8th of November following".
The laft ftruggle in behalf of the royal caufe, was made at King- J^^ ^^^} °^
flon. The Earl of Holland, who had been of all parties, at a time "«! enter-
prize.
when the king's affairs were in the mofl defperate fituation, and
himfelf a prifoner in the IHe of Wight, formed an ill-concerted plan
for refcuing him, and perfuaded the Duke of Buckingham, and his
brother Lord Francis Villiers, to join him in the attempt. They
affembled at Kingfton, with a body of about 600 horfe"; their
avowed obje£l being to releafe the king, and bring him to parlia-
ment ; to fettle peace in the kingdom, and to preferve the laws. A
declaration to this effe(3: was fent to the citizens of London, who were
invited to join them '*• The parliament immediately fent fome troops of
horfe from Windfor, under the command of Col. Pritty, who found the
royalifts but ill-prepared for defence ". A fkirmifh took place near
Surbiton Common, in which the Earl of Holland and his party were
foon defeated. The Earl himfelf fled to Harrow, but was foon afterwards
taken prifoner. The Duke of Buckingham efcaped ; but his brother,
the beautiful Lord Francis Villiers, was flain in the fkirmifli. He be- Death of
haved with fignal courage, and after his horfe had been killed under villiers^
him, flood with his back againft a tree, defending himfelf againft
feveral alTailants, till at length he funk under his wounds ^". The
'" Perfeft Occurrences, Aug. 6 — 13, 1647. 34 jbid.
5' Ibid. Aug. 20 — 27. ^' Ibid.
^^ Ibid. Nov. 1647. ^* Biograph. Brit, and Aubrey's Antiquities
3' Ibid. June 30— July 6, 1648. of Surrey, vol. i. p. 47,
F f 2 next
220 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
next day, the lords who had heard the report of the fkirmifli, and
that Lord Francis Villiers was dangeroufly wounded, made an order,
that chirurgeons might be permitted to go to Kingfton, and take care
of him, if he were yet alive; but as one of thejournalifts of that time
cbferves, " it was too late, for he was dead, and ftripped, and good
" pillage found in his pocket"." His body was conveyed to York-
houfe, in the Strand, by water, and was buried in Henry VII.'s
chapel in Weftminfter Abbey. The following infcription was put
upon his coffin *":
" Depofitum illuftrlflimi Domini, Francifci Villiers, Ingentis fpeciei
" juvenis, filii pofthumi Georgii Duels Buckinghamii; qui, vicefimo
" setatis anno, pro Rege Carolo, et patria fortiter pugnando novem
*' honeftis vulneribus acceptis obiit 7° die Julii, Anno Domini 1648."
The initials of his name were infcribed on the tree under which he
was flain, and remained till it was cut down, as Aubrey fays*', in the
year 1680. Some elegies were written upon his death, which are
extant.
After the death of Charles I. the enfigns of royalty were deftroyed
at Kingfton, as well as at moft other places.
*' 1650. Paid for taking down the king's arms in the Hall,
" IS. id/*
*' 1 65 1. Paid for blotting out the king's arms in the church,
« ys.*^"
i.eTand's de- Lcland, defcribing this place, fays, " The olde monuments of the
the^own.° *' toune of Kingefton, be founde yn the declyving doune from
" Come Parke towarde the Galoys; and there yn ploughyng and
" diggid, have very often beene founde fundation of wauUes of
" houfes, and diverfe coynes of braffe, fylver, and gold, with Ro-
*' maine infcriptions, and painted yerthen pottes ; and yn one yn
'» Perfeft Occurrences, July, 7 — 14, 1648. ♦^ Chamberlains' accounts.
♦° Biograph. Brit. ♦' Churchwardens' accounts.
••' Antitjuities of Surrey, vol. J. p. 47.
" the
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 221
" the Cardinal Wolfey's tyme was found much Romayne mony of
" lylver and plates of fylver to coyne and maflTes to bete into plates
" to coyne, and chaynes of fylver. And yn the old tyme the commune
" faying ys that the bridge where the commun pafTage was over the
" Tamife was lower on the ryver then it is now. And when men
" began the new town in the Saxons tymes they toke from the very
" olive of Comeparke fide to build on the Tamife fide ; and fette
" a new bridge hard by the fame. In the new towne by the Tamife
" fide there is a houfe yet caulled the Bifshop's Haulle. But now it
" is turnid into a commun dwelling houfe of a tounifch man. It
" was fumtyme the bifshop of Winchefter's houfe, and as far as I can
" conje£l fum bifshop wery of it did negledl this houfe and becam
*' to build at Afsher nere the Tamife fide 2 or 3 miles above
" Kingefton "*." This houfe has been long fince pulled down; the
fite of it is ftill called Biftiop's Hall. As the bifhops of Winchefter,
before Waynfleet's time, held frequent ordinations in the parifh
church at Kingftoa *', it is not improbable that they might have a
temporary refidence here, to which they could refort upon fuch
occafions inftead of an inn.
The Town Hall, which ftands in the market place, was built in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as appears by her arms againft the Eaft
wall, round which is the following infcription :
" Vivat Regina Elizabetha, in qua fides, prudentia, fortitudo,
*' temperantia et juftitia elucent. Anno R. Elizabethse "
Some of the mantled carving of that age remains in the wainfcot,
ornamented with the arms of the town (Az. 3 falmons Argent),
and a device of the letter K, and a ton. The South end of the Hall
appears to have been rebuilt in the reign of James I. mod pro-
bably about the year 161 8, when the painted glafs was put up in
♦♦ Leiand's Itinerary, vol. vi. p. i8.
♦5 Regift. Winton. Woodlock ; Stratford; Edindonj and Beaufort.
the
222 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
the windows *°. In the Hall is a portrait of Queen Anne, whofe
ftatue alfo is fixed on the outfide, with an infcription under it, and
the date of 1706. The South windows are ornamented with
painted glafs, confifting chiefly of coats of arms. In one of thefe
windows are the arms of James I. furrounded with fmall fliields,
containing the armorial enfigns of " the Romans, the Heathen and
" Chriftian Britons, the Kentilh Saxons, the Heathen and Chriftian
" Weft-Saxons, the Eaft-Saxons, the Latin-Saxon Monarchs, the
" Norman Kings, the Andegavian Kings, the Kings of France, the
*' Kings of Scotland, the South-Saxons, the Eaft-Angles, the Mer-
" cian Kings, the Kings of Northumberland, the Danifti Kings, the
" Cornifh Kings, the early Kings of Wales, the latter Kings of
" Wales, the Welfh Princes, and the Kings of Ireland." In the fame
window are the arms and quarterings of Charles Howard Earl of
Nottingham, who was high fteward of the town ; and two other
coats *'.
In the other window are the arms of Mr. Hatton, the recorder ;
and the arms of Denmark.
The Lent aflizes for the county of Surrey are held in this Hall.
Adjoining the Hall is a room where the corporation hold their courts
of affembly. In the windows are fome coats of arms on painted
glafs*'. Over it is a fmall room, in which the records of the
town are carefully preferved. Here are depofited the church-
wardens' accounts of as early a date as the reign of Henry VII.
♦* Chamberlains' accounts. It appears that Chamberlains' accounts in the reign of King
the painted glafs coft 14I. los. In 1663, James. The other coat Arg. 3 lions ramp,
the windows were repaired, and three new Gules, a chief of the fecond is born by Yel-
pieces added, at the expence of 1 1. 18 s. verton.
♦7 One of thefe is Arg. a lion paflant be- *' The arms of the butchers' company,
tween two cottifes. Gules; on a chief, Az. which formerly were incorporated in this town,
2 etoils Or. Thefe arms being born by are in the Eall window. In the Weft window
Coolc of London, are probably thofe of Sir are the arms and quartering of Hallings, with
Robert Coo.k, whofe name occurs in the the order of the garter.
and
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
223
and the chamberlains' books, which commence in that of Edward VI.
To the members of the corporation I am much indebted for the
readinefs with which they permitted me to infpedt thefe books, which
have furnifhed much curious and interefting matter. Such extra(fls
as are not made ufe of elfewhere, are here fubjoined, and arranged
under different heads.
H'lflorical,
" 30 Hen. 8. Rec'*. for fetting of the torches gyven at
" the Quynes *' buriall from Hampton courte by
" water _ _ _ _
*' 1553. Rec"*. of the Spanyards '° for the hire of the
" town-hall _ _ _ _
" "^SSS' ReC. of the Spanyards for the counte hall
" 1570. Paid to the ryngers at the command of the
" mafter baylifs when word was brought that the
" Earl of Northumberland was taken "
*' 1571. Paid to the ringers at the Queen's going to
" Horfle - - . .
" when her bott came by -
*' 158 1, when the Queens Ma'" came from Hampton
" courte to courfe _ - _
** 1585. for ringing when the traitors were
" taken'' _ _ - _
^. s. d.
o 10 10
O 27 2
O 20
O
o
012
o 6
o 8
o 9
Extrafts
from the
Chamber-
lains' and
Church-
wardens' ac-
counts.
*' Jane Seymour, who died at Hampton
Court, and was buried at Windier.
5° Probably the attendants of Philip King
of Spain.
" Thomas Percy Earl of Northumberland
rebelled againft Queen Elizabeth, in concert
with the Earl of Wellmorland ; finding that
their defigns were not likely to fucceed, they
fled into Scotland. The Earl of Northum-
berland was taken and executed.
'* William Parrie, a papilt, was executed
for high treafon, March 2, 1584.-5, of whofe
plots fee a long account in Holinlhed's Chron.
vol. iii. f. 1382 — 1396.
« is-88.
224 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
£,' s. d.
" 1588. when Don Pedro " came thro the town 026
*' 1592. when her Majefty was abroad in the
" wycke - - - - 008
" 1594. For 5 torches when the Queen came thro the
" town - - - - 050
*' To the footmen and coachmen wherl the Queen came
" thro the town - - - - 0189
*' 1597. To the ringers when the Qiieen dined in the
" town - - - - 050
" 1599. Paid by Mr. BaylifF Yates towards the
" Queen's officers' fees - - - 6 lo o
" 1600. Paid to ringers when the Queen was at the lodge 050
" 1 60 1. To Thomas Hawarde for to pay for the
" Queen's gloves - - - o 40 o
" To Mr. Cockes for the gift to the Queen 460
" ■ Paid unto the Queen's officers their ordinarie
*' fees at the time of her Majefties coming through
" the town in her ftate,
■ The ferjeants at armes for their fees - o 20 o
— — Unto the trumpeters - - - o 20 o
Yeomen ufliers - - -068
" Gentlemen ufhers - - _ _ _ _
♦' Footmen - - - - o 20 o
" • The porters - - - - 0100
" — — Lytermen - - - - o 6 8
« Yeomen of the hotels - -068
" Sum 4I. 10 s.
" Don Pedro was a Spani(h Commander, Roebuck. Scow's Annals, edit, 1631, fol.
taken by Sir Francis Drake on board the p. 748.
Armada. He was lent to England in the
" 1603.
((
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 225
1603. To a trumpeter for founding a proclamation 050
For fettiiig up a booth in the town and for
" muftering before the coronation - - 026
For a fcarffe and for a box for the late Queen
((
" Elizabeth, returned againe to the feller - 059
*' 1 610. To the ringers for ringing on the day of the
*' King's prefervation from the Gowries confpi-
" racy " - - - -024
" 1624. To the ringers for joy of the Prince's return
" out of Spayne - - -034
*' 1665. To the ringers when Prince Rupert lay In the
" town - - - -060
" "When the King came back from Portfmouth." - 038
Local Ciijloms.
The Kyngham.
Be yt in mynd that y' 19 yere of Kyng Harry y* 7,
" at the geveng out of the Kynggam by Harry
*' Bower and Harry Nycol cherche wardens amount-
" ed clerely to 4 1. 2 s. 6 d. of that fame game.
Mem. That the 27 day of Joun a". 21 Kyng H. 7.
" that we Adam Bakhous and Harry Nycol hath
" made account for the Kenggam that fame tym
" donWylm Kempe, Kenge, and Joan Whytebrede
" quen, and all cofls deduded - - - 450
" 23 Hen. 7. Paid for whet and malt and vele and
" motton and pygges and ger and coks for the
*' Kyngam - - - - o 33 o
" Earl Gowrie and his brother attempted to affaffinate King James in the year 1600,
at a caftle of which the latter was governor.
Vol. I. ' G g "To
((
226 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
£' J. d.
** To the taberare - - -068
*' To the leutare - - - -020
*' I Hen. 8. Paid out of the churche box at Walton
" Kyngham - - - -036
*♦ I Paid to Robert Neyle for goyng to Wyndefore
*' for maifter doctors horfe ageynes the Kyngham
" day - - - - -040
" . For baking the Kyngham brede - - 006
** — - To a laborer for bering home of the geere after
" the Kyngham was don - - -010
The Kyngham appears to have been an annual game, or fport, con-
ducted by the parifh officers, who paid the expences attending it, and
accounted for the receipts. The clear profits, 15 Hen. VIII. (the
lafl time I find it mentioned), amounted to 9 1. los. 6 d. a very
confiderable fum. It feems to have been a diflinft thing from the
May-game, and to have been held later in the fummer. Holin-
flied '* fays, that the young folks in country towns, in the reign of
Edward II. ufed to choofe a fummer king and queen to dance about
May-poles. The contributions to the celebration of the fame
game in the neighbouring parifhes fhow, that the Kyngham was
not confined to Kingflon.
Robin-hood and May-Game.
** 23 Hen. 7. To the menftorell upon May-day 004
" For paynting of the mores garments and for
" fatten gret leveres " - - 024
" 23 Hen.
'* Chron. anno 1306. berlandHoufehold Book, p.6o. If it ever bore
" The word livery was formerly nfed to fuch an acceptation at that time, one might
fjgnify any thing delivered ; fee the Northum- be induced to fuppofe, from the following
entries.
iC
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i(
((
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i(
{(
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
2T, Hen. 7. For paynting of a bannar for Robin hode
For 2 M. & i- pynnys
For 4 plyts and i- of laun for the mores gar-
" ments - - - - -
■ For orfeden ^' for the fame
For a goun for the lady
For bellys for the dawnfars -
227
24 Hen. 7. For little John's cote
I Hen. 8. For filver paper for the mores dawnfars
For Kendall for Robyn hode's cote
- For 3 yerds of white for the frere's " cote
For 4 yerds of kendall for mayde Marian's "
" huke" . _ - _
For faten of fypers for the fame huke
— — For 2 payre of glovys for Robyn hode and
" mayde Maryan - - _
£•
s. d.
0
0 3
0
0 10
0
2 II
0
0 lO
0
0 8
0
0 12
0
8 0
0
0 7
0
I 3
0
3 0
0
3 4
0
0 6
0
0 3
«
I Hen
o
o
o
o
o
entries, that it here meant a badge, or fome
thing of that kind :
15 C. of leveres for Robin hode
For leveres, paper and fateyn
For pynnes and leveryes
For 15 C. of leverys
For 24 great lyvereys -
We are told that formerly, in the celebration
of May-games, the youth divided themfelves
into two troops, the one in winter livery, the
other in the habit of the fpritig. See Brand's
Popular Antiquities, p. 261.
^° Though it varies confiderably from that
word, this may be a corruption of orpiment,
which was much in ufe for colouring the
morris garments.
" The friar's coat was generally of ruflet,
as it appears by the following extraifls. In
an ancient Drama called. The Play of Robin
Hood, very proper to bj played in May
games, a friar, whofe name is Tuck, is one
of the principal charafters. He comes to the
foreft in fearch of Robin Hood, with an in-
tention to fight him, but confents to become
chaplain to his lady.
*° Marian was the affumed name of the
beloved miftrefs of Robert Earl of Hunting-
don, whilft he was in a ftate of outlawry, as
Robin Hood was his. See Mr. Steeven's
note to a paiTage in Shakfpere's Henry IV.
This charafter in the morris dances was ge-
nerally reprefented by a boy. See Strutt's
View of Cuftoms and Manners, vol. iii. p. 150.
It appears by one of the extrafts, given
above, that at Kingfton it was performed by
a woman, who was paid a Ihilling each year
for her trouble.
*' Mr. Steevens fuggefts, with great pro-
bability, that this word may have the fame
meaning as howve or houve, ufed by Chauc
g z for
^K
228 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
£' -r- ^•
" I Hen. 8. For 6 brode arovys - - o o 6
" — — To mayde Marian for her labour for two
*' years - - - --020
*' To Fygge the laborer - - -060
" . Rec'* for Robyn hood's gaderyng 4 marks**
" 5 Hen. 8. Rec'' for Robin hood's gaderyng at
" Croydon - - - - 094
"11 Hen. 8. Paid for three brode yerds of rofett for
" makyng the frer's cote - - - 036
" ■ • Shoes for the mores daunfar's, the frere and
*' mayde Maryan at 7'' a peyre - - 054
*' 13 Hen. 8. Eight yerds of fuftyan for the mores
" daunfar's coats - - - o 16 o
" A dofyn of gold (kynnes for the morres *' - o o 10
*' 15 Hen. 8. Hire of hats for Robynhode - 0016
" Paid for the hat that was loft - o o 10
" 16 Hen. 8. Rec" at the church-ale and Robynhode
*' all things deduded - - - - 3106
** Paid for 6 yerds | of fatyn for Robyn hode's cotys 012 6
*' For makyng the fame - - 020
*' For 3 ells of locram "* - - 016
** 21 Hen. 8. For fpunging and bruftiing Robynhode's
" cotys - - - -- 002
" 28 Hen. 8. Five hats and 4 porfes for the daun-
" fars - - - - 00 4I
«' 4 yerds of cloth for the fole's cote - 020
for a head-drefs ; maid Marian's head-drefs games, was made a parilh concern,
was always very fine : indeed fome perfons *3 Probably gilt leather, the pliability of
have derived her name from the Italian word which was particularly accommodated to the
inorione, a head-drefs. motion of the dancers.
•* It appears that this, as well as other '* A fort of coarfe linen.
« 28 Hen.
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 229
£• s. d.
** 28 Hen. S. 2 ells of worftede for maide Maryan's kyrtle 068
" For 6 payre of double follyd ihowne - - 046
" To the mynftrele - - - 0108
" To the fryer and the piper for to go to Croydon 008
" 29 Hen. 8. Mem. Lefte in the keping of the wardens nowe be-
*' inge a fryers cote of rufTet and a kyrtele of worftede weltyd with
" red cloth, a mowren's " cote of buckram, and 4 morres daun-
" fars cotes of whitte fuftian fpangelyd and two gryne faten cotes
" and a dyfardd's " cote of cotton and 6 payre of garters with
« bells."
After this period, I find no entries relating to the above game.
It was fo much in fafhion in the reign of Henry VIII. that the king
and his nobles would fometimes appear in difguife as Robinhood and
his men, " drefled in Kendal with hoods and hofen *'."
Mifcellaneotis Cujloms.
"21 Hen. 7. Mem. That we Adam Backhous and
" Harry Nycol, amountyd of a play - 400
" 27 Hen. 7. Paid for packthred on Corpus Chrifli
day " - - - - 001
" I Hen. 8. Rec'' for the gaderyng at Hoc-tyde - 0140
" 2 Hen. 8. Paid for mete and drink at Hoc-tyde o o 12
The lad time that the celebration of Hock-tyde appears, is in
1578.
" Rec'' of the women upon Hoc-Monday "' 052
" 5 Hen.
*' Probably a Moor's coat; the word Mo- *' Holinfhed's Chron. 3. f. 805.
rian is fometimes ufed to exprefs a Moor. — The " This was probably ufed for hanging the
morris-dance is by fome fuppofed to have been pageants, containing the hiftory of our Sa-
originally derived from Moorifh-dance. Black viour, which were exhibited on that day, and
buckram appears to have been much ufed for explained by the mendicant friars. See
the drefles of the ancient mummers. One of Cotton, MSS. Brit. Muf. Vefpafian, D. VIII.
the figures in Mr. Toilet's window, is fup- " This felUval was kept on Monday and
pofed to be a morifco. Tuefday in the week following the Ealler-
** Difard is an old word for a fool. week. It is fuppofed to have been held in comme-
moration
230 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
£. s. d.
" 5 Hen. 8. For thred for the refurredlon - o o i
" For 3 yerds of dornek '* for a pleyers cote and
*' the makynge - - - o o 15
"12 Hen. 8. Paid for a fkin of parchment and gun-
" powder, for the play on Efter-day - 008
" . For brede and ale for them that made the
" flage and other things belonging to the play 012
" 17 Hen. 8. Rec"* at the church ale - - 7 15
« 1565. — Rec" of the players of the ftage at Eafter i 2 i
o
Church DutieSy and Payments relating to the Church.
" 20 Hen. 7. John Rofyer owyth for the waft of fix
*' torches at the bereying and the monyth's
" mynd of his fyrft wyfF - - 070
*' Item. That the fayd John Rofyer owith for the waft
" of four torches at the bereying, and for the
" monyth's day of Agnes his laft wyfF - - 034
*' Mem. That Elizabeth Jackfon owyth onto the
*' church for hyr bereying afore feynt Barbara 06$
" 23 Hen. 7. Imprimis, at Efter for any howfe-
" holder kepying a brode gate, fhall pay to the
*' paroche prefts wages 3''. Item, To thepafchallf.
" To St. Swithin t
*' Alfo any howfe-holder kepyng one tenement fhall
" pay to the paroche prefts wages 2'' Item,
" To the pafchall f. And to St. Swithin 7
moration of che death of Hardicanute, and the nlous paper on the fubje£l by Mr. Denne may
extinftion of the Daniftj race : fuch a tradition be feenin the yth volume of the Archaeologia.
was current in the 15th century. See J. *' Dornick, a fpecies of linen fo called from
Rofs de Regbus Anglis, p. 105. An inge- Deornick in Flanders. Johnfon.
((
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KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 231
" Alfo if he have a wyfF and kepe a chamber the fame
" duties : alfo any journeyman takying wayges
" fhall pay to the pafchall 7
*' Mem. That the churchwardens mufl: pay to the
" vicar at Efter for the paroche preft wayges o 53 4
" 24 Hen. 7. Paid to maifter do£tor for the wax of
" the pafchall - - - o 3 47
*' I Hen. 8. For ale upon Palme-Sonday on fyngyng
*' of the paffion - - - 001
•' To the fcribe for the Peter pence - - 0196
*' To the bedeman for a whole year - 034
*' Rec"* of the Abbot of Hyde in reward for
" the beft cope at Efhyre - - - o o 12
*' 17 Hen. 8. To the peynter for peyntyng of our
" Lady - - - - - 0012
*' 2 1 Hen. 8. For brede and ale for the watchers of
" the fepulture - - - 004
*' For a purfe to bear the facrament In - 008
*' ' For two holy water flicks - - 002
*' — — Rec** for hire of the beft altar cloth - 024
" For a lantorn to go with the facrament - - _ -
** 28 Hen. 8. To Palmer for iron-work to fet up Mary
" and John - - - - 0022
" 29 Hen. 8. For payntyng the bafe of our Lady in the
" rode lofte - - - - 0012
" 30 Hen. 8. For a holy brede bafkett - 003
*' ■■ — For a chrifmatory of pewter '" - 006
1° The chrifniatory was the veflel which baptifm, extreme unftion, &c. A certain
held the chrifm ; i. e. the holy ointment. It quantity was confecrated by the bifhop upon
was made of oil and balfam, and was ufed in Eafter-eve, which was to laft a year.
" I561.
232 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
£. s. d,
" 156 1. Paid Fawcon for a year's whipping of the
" dogges out of the church - - - 008
*' 1625. Rec'' for idle perfons being abfert from the
" church on Sabbath-days - - - 0310
" 1 65 1. For ringing the curfew bell for one year I 10 o
Price of Prov'iftonSy and Labourer s Wages.
" 24 Hen. 7. Payde for the hyre of a horfe to
" Wynfore - - - - 004
" A difhe of fyfhe for my Lorde of Merton -010
" Coft of the Kyngham and Robyn hode, viz.
*' . A kylderkin of 3 halfpennye here and a kylder-
" kin of finggyl bere _ - - -
" ■ 7 bufhels of whete _ - - -
*' 2 bufhels and 7 of rye - - - -
*' 3 fhepe - - _ - -
« A lamb - . -
*' . 2 calvys - - - _ -
*' 6 pygges - _ _ .
*' 3 bufhell of colys
*' — — The coks for their labour
"16 Hen. 8. Two women for their labour for two
" days - _ _ _
*' The bellman half a year's wages
*' 24 Hen. 8. A laborer for a day's work
" 1 55 1. Twelve chicken for mafter Gardener at
" going to court - - -
1567. A laborer's wages _ _ _
157 1. A gawne of fack for my lord mayor
1575, A capon for Mr. Recorder
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KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 233
£. s. d.
1576. Eight hens and four capons for Mr. Attorney o 13 4
1589. Two fugar-loaves given to Mr. W. Howard at
" 13'' per pound - - -152
1 60 1. A labourer's wages - - o o 10
A mafter mafon or tyler - - 012
" 1617. A troute given to the Lorde Admiral - 080
" • To Mr. Ball for a white ftallion to beflow on
" S"" Anthony Ben - - 11 10 o
1623. A couple of pheafants for the Earl of Holder-
" nefs - - - o 14 o
1626. A falmon for the Judges - - 2 17
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" 1662. Intereft for 200I. for fix months - 600
" 1666. Two terces of claret - - 13 10 o
*' 1688. Twelve bottles of fack and the bottles - i i o
*' 24 bottles of claret and the bottles and flafkets i 10 o
Mifcellaneous Receipts and Expences.
" 1561. For a letter that my Lord of Winchefter did
" write to the Keeper of the Great Seal - 010
" 1572. The making of the cucking ftool " - 080
" Iron work for the fame - - -030
*' — — Timber for the fame - - - 076
" 3 brafles for the fame and 3 wheels - 0410
" 1574- To \V. Langlye for carying and recarylng the
" hangyng to Hampton Courte that was ufed at
" the Syes - - -026
'■ The cucking-ftool was an inftrument of for its repairs. This arbitrary attempt at
puniftitnent for fcolds and unquiet women, laying an embargo upon the female tongue>
It feems to have been much in ufe formerly, has long fince been laid afide.
as there are frequent entries of money paid
Vol. I. Hh « 1574.
J34 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
" 1574. Paid Mr. Nower for his row-barge to carry
" Mr. Recorder up and down - - 0120
** 1576. . To Mr. Wever for difcharging the town of
y, " eating of flefh - - -020
"1594. Delivered to Th. Howard to give to the
*' players by Mr. Bailiff's commandment - o lo o
** ^597' ^^^ bringing the town pot from Mr. Evelyn's
" and fcouring the fame - - -006
*' 1598. To them that wore the town armour two days
" at 8 d. a daye '* - - -070
" — — To the foldiers towards their wages more than
" we gathered - - - - o o 20
*' 1 60 1. To Henge's man for bringing a letter that
" the armour ihould not go to Ryegate - 026
" 1603. To James AUifon and four other for carrying
" the armour at the coronation - - 0134
" For armour - - - -400
*' 1609. For a coat for the whipper and making 030
" 162 1. Paid by Mr. Bailiff to a company of players
" becaufe they fhould not play in the town hall 010 o
*• 1623. To the Prince's players by Mr. Bailiff's ap-
" polntment - - - o 10 o
*' 1625. To the King's players becaufe they fhould not
" play in the town hall nor in the towne for the
*' fpace of five yeares - - - 0100
'* It appears that every parilh was obliged wardens' accounts at Lambeth :
to keep a certain proportion of armour ac- 1568. For (kouring the church harnefs and
cording to its fize, which was exhibited once carriage to and fro, and a man to wear
a year before the juftices. In villages the it before thejullices, 3 s. 8d.
armour was kept in the church, and was The armour in this county was fliown fome-
called the church armour or harnefs, as in the times at Kingfton, fometimes at Mitcham,
following, and other entries in the church- Newington, Ryegate, and other places.
" 162C.
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
£. s. d.
** 1626. To the King's players to forbeare to play in
" the towne - - - -0100
" 1634. A vizard and cap for the whipper - 0018
" 1670. Old Chitty the whipper, a quarter's wages 034
ns
The manor of Kingfton was a royal demefne, both in the reign Manor,
of the Confeflbr and William the Conqueror. It was of very large
extent, and was valued, at both periods, at 30 1. per annum. King
John granted it to the freemen of Kingfton, in confideration of
their paying an annual rent of 50 1. to the crown ". Richard II.
gave them lands towards paying this rent ; Henry V. lowered it to
26 1. per annum ; and queen Mary remitted a farther fum '*. The
manor ftill belongs to the corporation ; the baylifFs, who hold a
court baron and court leet, being confidered as the lords. The fee-
farm rent is now about 8 1. per annum.
It appears that there were two manors in Combe at the time of the Manor of
Conqueror's Survey, one of which had been the property of Cole or °™
Cola, and was then held of the King by Anfgot, his interpreter ; the
other had been held of the Confeflbr by Alured, who, as the record
exprefles it, was at liberty to go where he would. In the Con-
queror's reign, a woman, whofe name is not mentioned, threw
herfelf under the Queen's protection, and furrendered to her the
manor of Combe, which fhe granted to Humphrey the chamber-
lain. This manor is faid, in the Survey, to have been valued, at
different periods, at 4I., at 20 s., and at 5I. The other was valued
at 60s.
'3 Cart. 1 Joh. pt. 2. ni. 7. n. 90. & Cart. 50 1. per annum.
10 Joh. N° 25. The hrft charter iHpulates, " P. R. 2 & 3 P. & M. Rot. 59. Lord
that they fhall pay 12 1. per annum more than Treafurer's Remembrancer's- office,
the ufual rent — the other fixes the rent at
H h 2 Divers
wool.
236 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Divers conje£lures have been formed about a paflage in the record
of Doomfday, relating to the manor of Kingfton ; which ftates, that
Humphrey, the chamberlain, had one of the villains belonging to
that manor in his cuftody, " caufa coadunandi lanam reginas ;"
and that he paid 20s. for his relief when his father died. Salmon
fays, that the word coadimare fignifies '' to weave ;" and he fup-
pofes that this man carried on a woollen manufadure, by which he
was enabled to pay a relief of 20 s. on his father's death. A MS.
f i" ^^ Harleian colledion '* explains this matter very fully : — We are
lands in there informed, that Ralph Poftel held one hide of land in Combe,
the fervice of by fcrjcantry, viz. by the fervice of colleding (colligendi) the Queen's
C^een's wool J and that the faid hide was given to his anceftors, with this
fervice annexed, by Henry I. In a fubfequent record it is faid, that
Ralph Poftel's land, which was worth 20 s. per annum, was efcheated
to the crown ; and that it had been held by the fervice of colle(5ting
the Queen's wool, and that if he did not colleft it, he was to forfeit
20 s. to the crown. By the fame MS. it appears, that the above
ferjeantry was afterwards granted to Peter Rabwin.
Robert Belet, in the reign of Richard I. paid 80 1. to be reftored
to the manor of Combe, which was his inheritance ". In the reign
of King John, the greater part of the Combe eftate appears to have
belonged to William de Watteville ". Hugh de Combes had half
a knight's fee there ". In the fucceeding reign, Maurice de Credon,
ftyling himfelf a Knight of Anjou, granted his hereditary right in
the lordfhip of Combe, to Sir Robert Burnell and his heirs ".
Richard Lowayte appears to have been in pofleflion of it in the
reign of Edward II. " It afterwards belonged to William Neville,
">* N" 313, called a tranfcript of knights' He refers to Rot. Pip. 2 Ric. I. Surrey,
fees, and other tenures of lands, and alfo of '" Harleian MSS. N" 313.
efcheats and wards belonging to the crown, in " Ibid,
the reign of Henry III. and King John. The '* Cart. 56 Hen. III. m. 4.
originals are not now to be found. '» Harleian MSS. 6281.
" Pugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 614. —
from
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
237
from whom it derived the appellation of Combe Neville ; which it
ftill retains. After his death, his property being divided between
three daughters, Combe fell to the fhare of Nichola, who mar-
ried John Hadrefham ". William Hadrefham died feifed of it,
36 Edward III. " It was then held of the manor of Shene, by an
annual rent of 20 s. In the reign of Henry VI. a licence was
obtained by William Cheyney, John Gaynesford, and others, to give
the manor of Combe, which had been John Hadrefham's, to Merton
Abbey **. After the fuppreffion of monafteries, it was annexed to
the honour of Hampton Court, and was granted by Edward VI. to
the Duke of Somerfet "\ It reverted to the crown after the Duke's
attainder, and was granted by Queen Elizabeth, firll to Sir William
Cecil '*, and afterwards, by Lord Burleigh's petition, as it is ex-
prefled, to Sir Thomas Vincent ^', who is fald to have built the old
manor-houfe, which was pulled down about forty years ago. In
1602, I find that he was honoured with a vifit from Queen Eli-
zabeth '". This manor came into the hands of the crown again foon
afterwards, and was granted by James I. to Sir William Cockayne"'.
It afterwards belonged to Sir Daniel Harvey, and, in Aubrey's time,
was held by his heirs ". It is now the property of the right honour-
able George John Earl Spencer.
Near the manor-houfe at Combe are fprings, from which the
water is conveyed in pipes to Hampton Court.
The manor of Ham is not mentioned in the Conqueror's Survey. Manor of
King Athelftan granted lands there to his minifter Wulfgar ". "^"'
'" Cl. i4Edw. II. ID. 26. dorfo. ss Fee-farm roll. Augmentation-office, 21
»' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 708. Eliz.
CoUeftion of Efcheats. "* " Laid out when the queen removed
'* Pat. 2 Hen. VI. pt. 3. m. 24. & Cl. " from Sir Thomas Vincent's - 03 4."
2 Hen. VI. m. I & 5. Churchwardens' accounts, Kingfton.
'' Grants of lands by Edw. VI. Aug- ^^ Pat. 6 Jac. pt. 17. Dec. 11.
mentation-office. " Aubrey's Surrey, vol. i. p. 47.
'♦ Pat. 13 Eliz. pt. 7. July 18. " Anno 931. Cotton. Cart. Antiq.Brit.Muf.
Henry
238 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Henry II. made a grant of the manor, which reverted to the crown
in the reign of King John, who granted it to Roger de Moubray*'.
It efcheated to the crown, and was given to Godfrey de Lucy, Bifhop
of Winchefler J it was then valued at 61. per annum '\ Ifabella de
Croun had a charter of free warren there, in the reign of Henry III. '^
Maurice de Credon, knight of Anjou, granted the manor to Sir
Robert Burnell and his heirs"*. Philip, nephew of Robert Burnell,
Bifhop of Bath and Wells, had livery thereof, 21 Edward I. "^ After
this period there is a deficiency of records that can be appropriated
to this manor. It had been held by the crown a confiderable time,
when it was leafed by James I. to George Cole, Efq. of Peterfliam '' ;
a reverfionary leafe was granted to William Murray, Efq. groom
of the bedchamber, afterwards Earl of Dyfart. At the time of
the furvey taken by order of the parliament in 1650, the right of
thefe leafes was vefted in Sir Lionel Tollemache, Knt. who married
Catherine, one of the daughters and coheirs of the above Wil-
liam Murray ''. Charles II. in the year 1672, granted it in fee to
the Duke and Duchefs of Lauderdale, and to her heirs by her firft
hufband. It has continued in the family ever fmce, and is now the
property of the right honourable Lionel Earl of Dyfart. At the
time of the furvey above mentioned, the manor was valued at
8 1. per annum.
The harnlet of Ham contains about ninety houfes, and is aflelTed
to the land-tax the fum of 173 1. i8s. 8 d. which is now at the
rate of i s. 6 d. in the pound.
Hara-houfe. The manor-houfe at Ham, which is fituated near the Thames,
was built in the year 1610, and was intended, as it is faid, for the
refidence of Henry Prince of Wales. It underwent confiderable
9' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N" 313. " Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 61.
»* Ibid. *' Parliamentary Surveys, Augmentation-
s'' Pat. V.ifcon, 37 & 38 Hen. III. pt. 2. office.
»+ Cart. 56 Hen. III. m. 4. *' Ibid.
alterations
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 239
alterations In the reign of Charles II. when it was completely fur-
nifhed by the Duke and Duchefs of Lauderdale, and it now remains
a very curious fpecimen of a manfion of that age. The cielings arc
painted by Verrio, and the rooms are ornamented with that mafly
magnificence of decoration then in fafhion. The furniture is very
rich ; even the bellows and brufhes, in fome of the apartments, arc
of folid filver, or of filver fillagree. In the centre of the houfe is
a large hall, furrounded with an open gallery. The baluftrades ot
the grand ftaircafe, which is remarkably fpaclous and fubftantial, are
of walnut-tree, and ornamented with military trophies. In the
North drawing room is a very large and beautiful cabinet of ivory,
lined with cedar. On the Weft fide of the houfe is a gallery ninety-two
feet in length, hung with portraits. In the clofet adjoining the bed-
chamber, which was the Duchefs of Lauderdale's, ftlU remains the
great chair in which fhe ufed to fit and read ; it has a fmall defk
fixed to it, and her cane hangs by the fide. The furniture of the
whole room is fuch, that one might almoft fancy her Grace to be
ftill an inhabitant of the houfe.
Ham-houfe contains fome very fine pidures by the old mafters, Plflures.
amongft which the works of Vanderveldt and Woovermans are moft
confpicuous. There are alfo many very good portraits j the follow-r
ing are principally to be noticed : the Duke of Lauderdale and the
Earl of Hamilton in one piece, by Cornelius Janfen ; the Duke
and Duchefs, by Sir Peter Lely ; the Duke in his garter robes, by
the fame artift ; Charles II. who ufed to vifit this place, and fat for
his pidlure for the Duke of Lauderdale ; Sir John Maitland, Chan-
cellor of Scotland ; Sir Henry Vane ; William Murray the firft
Earl of Dyfart ; Catherine his wife, a beautiful pidture, in water-
colours, by Hoflcins ; Sir Lionel Tollemache, firft huftjand to the
Duchefs of Lauderdale j General Tollemache, who was killed at
Breft ;
240
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
John Duke
of Argyle.
Hook.
Manor of
Bcrwell, or
Barwell-
court.
Breft ; the Earl of Lauderdale ; James Stuart Duke of Richmond,
a very fine pidture, by Vandyke ; and the late Countefs of Dyfart,
by Sir Jofhua Reynolds. Many others might be mentioned, which,
as well as the above, are well deferving of a more particular de-
fcription, did the limits of this work allow it.
Ham-houfe was the birth-place of that great ftatefman and general
John Duke of Argyle, who was grandfon to the Duchefs of Lau-
derdale. His brother Archibald, who fucceeded him in that title,
and was Lord Keeper of Scotland, was likewife born here.
James IT. was ordered to retire to this houfe, on the arrival of the
Prince of Orange in London ". But thinking himfelf unfafe fo near
the metropolis of the kingdom he had abdicated, he fled preci-
pitately to France.
The hamlet of Hook contains about twenty houfes; itpays44l. 8s. 8d.
to the land-tax ; which is at the rate of 2 s. yd. in the pound.
Within this precin£t is the manor of Berwell or Barwell-court, which
belonged to the prior and convent of Merton, who had a charter of
free warren there, in the reign of Henry III. '^ In Cardinal
Beaufort's time it was valued at 8 s. ""' After the diffblution of
monafteries this manor was kept for fome time in the hands of the
crown. Queen Elizabeth gave it to Thomas Vincent, Efq. in
exchange for lands in Northamptonfliire '°\ In 1595, he alienated
it to Edward Carlton, Efq. from whom it defcended to his coufin
Dudley Vifcount Dorchefter, the celebrated ftatefman, and to his
Lordlhip's nephew, Sir Dudley Carlton, Bart, who, in 1636, ob-
tained from the corporation of Kingfton a right of pafture for
himfelf, and the tenants of this eftate, on the commons of Surbiton
»' Hume's Hill, of Eng. vol. viii. p. 295.
•oo Cart. 36 Hen. III. m. II.
*°' Regift. Winton. Beaufort, f. 11. b.
"^* I was favoured with the fubfequent de-
fcent of this manor, by Marcus Dixon, Efq,
the prefent proprietor.
and
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.' 241
and Claygate, belonging to that town. Sir Dudley was in pofleflion
of this manor at the time of the civil wars ; foon afterwards it
appears to have been the property of James Davidfon, Efq. who,
in 1695, devifed it to his fon-in-law, Edes, Efq. The latter
alienated it in 1698 to William LethieuUier, from whom it defcended
to William Tafh, Efq. who married his daughter. In 1771, it was
purchafed by William Terry, who fold it again in 1774 to Jofeph
Sales, Efq. It was alienated by him, in 1788, to John Richardfon,
Efq. and by the latter, in the enfuing year, to Marcus Dixon, Efq.
the prefent proprietor.
The manor of Canonbury, or Canbury, belonged to Merton Manor of
Abbey '°\ The poffeffions of that monaftery in Kingfton and o/canbury.
Hache, exclufive of Berwell, were valued, in Cardinal Beaufort's
time, at 52 s. '°* It was in the hands of the crown during the reign of
King James""; in 1635 it became the property of William Murray,
Efq. afterwards Earl of Dyfart. In 1652 it appears to have be-
longed to Arabella Countefs of Kent, and others. In 1664, it was
the property of John Ramfey, Efq. who alienated it to Nicholas
Hardinge, Efq. in 167 1. It has continued in the Hardlnge family
ever fmce, being now the property of George Hardinge, Efq. M. P.
This manor includes part of the town of Kingfton.
The manor-houfe, which is clofe to the town, was fold by Mr.
Hardinge, a few years ago, to John Eddington, Efq.
There is a fmgle record of a manor, called Harlington, in the Manor of
parifti of Kingfton upon Thames, of which George Cole, Efq. of '^"^^
Peterfham, died feifed, in the year 1624'°'. It was held of the
king, in capite, by the fortieth part of a knight's fee. Harlington
"" Pat. II Eliz. pt. 2. July 6. Grant of following alienations were obtained,
a leafe to Robert Wilkinfon. "-» Cole's Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harl. MSS.
'"* Regift. Winton. Beaufort, f. ii. b. 758.
"" Court-rolls of the manor ; whence the
Vol. I. I i being
342
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Manor of
Norbiton-
hall.
Richard Ta-
verner.
being Inclofed in the New Park, foon after the date of this record,
the manor, moft probably, came to the crown, and merged in that
of Richmond. The proof of fuch a place having exifted, had confi-
derable weight in determining the right of a public foot-path through
the park.
Norbiton is enumerated amongft the lordfhips granted by
Maurice de Credon to Sir Robert Burnell as abovementioned '°'.
Norbiton-hall, in the reign of Edward VI. was the property of
Richard Taverner, Efq. '"' a celebrated man, who being a zealous
proteftant, obtained a licence to preach in any place within the
King's dominions, and adlually did preach before the univerfity
of Oxford when he was high-fheriff for the county, with a fword by
his fide, and a gold chain about his neck '°^ He retired to his feat at
Norbiton, during the reign of Queen Mary, where he was fufFered
to remain unmolefted "", Norbiton-hall afterwards came into the
pofleflion of the Evelyns, and was defcribed as a manor held of the
bailiffs of Kingfton "°. The Evejyns came from Harrow on the
Hill, and fettled in the parifh of Kingfton, in the reign of Henry VIII.
Some vifits of Queen Elizabeth to Mr. Evelyn are recorded in the
churchwardens' accounts. The manor of Norbiton does not now
exift. An ancient houfe there, lately the property of Sir John
Phillips '", now belongs to John Sherer, Efq. but the place at pre-
fent called Norbiton-hall is a modern-built houfe, the property of
Mr. William Farren of Covent-garden theatre.
■ "« Cart. 56 Hen. III. m. 4.
'«' Cole's Efcheats, Harlcian MSS. N''399.
•»» Fuller's Church Hiftory, pt. 2. p. 63-
Fuller quotes from a pamphlet of Sir John
Cheek's, one of his fermons, preached before
the univerfity, the ftyle and words of which
feem to have been imitated by modern enthu-
fiafts. It began thus : — " Arriving at the
" mount of St. Maries, in the ftony ftage
" where I now (land, I have brought you
" fome fine biflcets, baked in the oven of cha-
" rity, carefully conferved for the chicken of
" the church, the fparrows of the fpirit, and
" the fweet fwallows of falvation."
*°» Fuller, as above.
"0 Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. 760.
"• Baroneuge, I74l» vol. iv. p. 14.3.
The
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 243
The church '" of Kingfton, which is dedicated to All Saints, con- The church,
fifts of a nave, two aifles, and three chancels.
On the fouth fide flood the chapel of St. Mary, in which It Is Chapel of
„ . St. Mary.
faid, that fome of the Saxon monarchs were crowned "\ There is
an engraving of it by Vertue. It fell down In the year 1730, and
the fexton, his daughter, and another perfon, were buried under the
ruins "*. The daughter, Hefter Hammerton, was dug out alive, and
fucceeded to her father's office. There is' an engraving of her In
mezzotlnto, with a mattock acrofs her fhoulder, and her hand on a
fcull.
No part of the prefent ftrudlure appears to be older than the reign
of Richard II. ; the fouth chancel feems to be about that age"^; it
is feparated from the middle chancel by pointed Gothic arches, and
light cluttered columns. Both thefe chancels are furrounded by
wooden flails. In the parlfh accounts, during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, mention Is made of St. James's-chancel, St. Catherine's-
chancel. Trinity-chancel, and the High-chancel. The north, now
called the Belfrey-chancel, is fmall ; the windows are large,
with fl^r arches, of the kind which came Into ufe in the reign
of Henry VII. In the fouth chancel Is a pifcina, with a rich Gothic
canopy.
The nave is feparated from the aifles by Gothic pointed arches, fup-
ported by low odangular columns. The aifles were rebuilt with brick,
and the Infide of the church completely repaired and new cieled in
the year 1721. A portico, faced with flone, was added on the fouth
fide about thirty years ago.
"^ In the regillry at Winchefter, is a •'+ Abrara Hammerton, and Richard Mills,
commiffion dated 1344, for reconciling the killed by the fall of the church, buried Mar. 5.
church of Kingfton upon Thames, then po- 1730-1. Hefter Hammerton, buried Feb. 28,
luted with blood. Regift. W. de Edyndon, 1745-6. Parilh Regifter.
pt. I. fol. 10. b. "s There is a citation to the inhabitants of
"' On the walls of this chapel were pic- Kingfton, to repair their chancel, which was
tures of the Saxon monarchs, who were very ruinous, dated 1367. Reg. Wint. W.
crowned here, and of King John. Aubrey's de Wykham, pt. 3. f. 8. b.
Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 20,
* 1 1 2 The
244 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
The tower, which is fquare and low, is fituated between the nave
and the chancel. Stow, in his Annals, fays, that the fteeple of King-
fton church in Surrey, was deftroyed by lightning in the year 1445',
on Candlemas-day. It underwent confiderable repairs in the year
1505 "*; probably Robert Somerfby the vicar, who died three years
before, left a fum of money towards this work, as his name appears
on the tower '". Aubrey mentions a leaded fteeple "°; this probably
was taken down in the year 1 708, when the upper part of the tower
was rebuilt with brick, as appears from an infcription on the outfide.
Skern'stomb. Near the communion table is a flat ftone inlaid with brafs plates,
reprefenting a man and woman in drefTes very nearly refembling
thofe of Nicholas and Ifabella Carew at Beddington. Underneath
is the following infcription in the black letter :
" Robert! cifta Skerni corpus tenet ifta,
" Marmorie petre, conjugis atque fuse,
*' Qui validus, fidus, difertus, lege peritus j
" Nobilis, ingenuus, perfidiam renuit :
" Conftans fermone, vita, fenfu, ratione,
" Communiter cuique juftitiam voluit.
*' Regalis juris unices promovit honores;
*' Fallere vel falli, res odiofa fibi.
*' Gaudeat in cells, qui vixit in orbe Hdelis ;
*' Nonas Aprilis pridie qui morltur,
" Mille quadrlngentis Dni trigintaque feptem
" Aiinis ipfius Rex miferere Jefu."
Robert Skern lived at Downe-Hall "°, in this parifh ; his wife was
daughter of the celebrated Alice Ferrers, by fome hiftorians fuppofed
to have been Edward III.'s miftrefs '".
Againft
■•* Churchwardens' accounts, Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 43.
"^ The infcription ftill remains, though '" Ibid. p. 44.
worn almoft illegible. It was, " Pray for the '" CI. 15 Hen. VI.
" foul of Mafter Robert Somerlhy, fometime "° Barnes has a curious account of this
" vicar of Kyngfton. Anno Domini 1505-" lady, in his reign of Edward III. He con-
tends
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 245
Againft the wall of the fouth chancel is the monument of Sir An- Sir Anthony
thony Benn, recorder of London, who had been recorder of this bo-
rough ; he died in 161 8. Near the fame place is the monument of
Col. Anthony Fane, who married his daughter. Anthony Fane was Col. Anthony
fon of Francis Earl of Weftmorland. He received a fhot in his left
cheek, at the fiege of Farnham, of which wound he died, Dec. 9,
1642, at his houfe at Kingfton '".
Below Col. Fane's monument is an ancient altar tomb, without any Various mo.
infcriptlon or arms, under a Gothic canopy. On the fame wall is the
monument of Richard Lant, Efq. who died in 1682; and in the
fouth-weft corner, that of William Rimes, LL. D. who died in
1 71 8. Elizabeth the wife of the latter, as it appears by the infcrip-
tion, left a candleftick to the church, as a memorial of her earneft
requeft, that her afhes fhould not be difturbed.
On the floor of this chancel are the tombs of John Milner, Efq.
conful-general of Portugal, who died in 171 2; Thomas Warren, fon
of Captain Thomas Warren, commander of the fquadron which con-
veyed Sir William Norris, ambafiador to the Great Mogul j he
died in 1700; William Cleave, Efq. alderman of London, who
founded the alms-houfes, and died in 1 667 ; and Captain Price of
the Ceres Eaft Indiaman, who died in 1789.
On the north wall of the Middle- chancel are the monuments of
Capt. Francis Wilkinfon, who died in 168 1 ; (he beautified the whole
body of the church at his own charge ;) of Richard Clutton, Efq.
of Chefhire, who died in 1635; and Mark Snelling, Efq. a great
benefadlor to the town, who died in 1633.
Over the communion table, is the monument of John Heuton,
ferjeant of the larder to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, who
died in 1584. Within the rails, are the tombs of Samuel Robinfon,
tends, that flie was not the king's miftrefs, after the king's death.
though he owns her influence over him ; his "' England's Memorable Accidents, Dec.
principal argument is, her marrying fo well 5 — '*' '0+2.
fecretary
7^
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
fecretary to the company of merchant adventurers, who died in
1625; Mrs. Alice Bland, who died in 1774, aged 90; and Mrs,
Green, wife of James Green, Efquire, of Canbury-houfe, who died
in 1778.
On the floor of the Middle-chancel are the tombs of Mrs. Morton,
widow of John Morton, Efq. of Eaft Ware, in Kent ; daughter
of the celebrated Mrs. Honeywood, who lived to fee fo numerous a
pofterity, and mother of Sir Thomas, Sir Robert, and Sir Albert
Morton, the latter of whom was principal fecretary of ftate to
Charles I. Mrs. Morton died in 1634; (the infcription is nearly
obliterated;) Mrs. Anne Snelling, who died in 1725 ; and Robert
Cooper, Efq. who died in 1760. ^ ,
This chancel belongs to the impropriator of the great tithes.
In the Belfrey-chancel is a monument to the memory of Dodor
George Bate, who died in 1668; and his wife Elizabeth, who died
in 1667 of a confumption, which was haflened by the fire of
London.
Dr. George Dr. Bate was one of the earllefl: members of the Royal Society,
and very eminent in his profeffion '". He was principal phyfician
to Charles I. to Oliver Cromwell, his fon Richard, and to Charles II.;
having the art of ingratiating himfelf with all parties. Cromwell
held him in high efteem, though he had written in defence of
King Charles ; and he fent for him into Scotland, when he lay ill
there in 1651 '*'. He is faid to have recommended himfelf to the
royal party after the reftoration, by a report induftrioufly fpread, that
he had given Cromwell a dofe which haftened his death ; but this
ftory appears to be built on a flender foundation "*. Dr. Bate was
an author ; his principal work was an account of the commotions in
England ; a fecond part of which was publiflied in 1661. In this he
is faid to have been affifted by Lord Chancellor Clarendon "'.
*" Biograph. Brit. "♦ It is only mentioned by Wood, Athen.
•*' Whitlock's Memorial, p. 494. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 424. •*» .Ibid.
In
Bate
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 247
In the fame chancel is the monument of Mary Lady Wyndham,
wife, firft of Sir Roger Newdigate, and afterwards of Sir Francis
Wyndham, Bart. She died in 1733.
On the floor is the tomb of James Haward, Enfign, who died in Sir
Walter Ralegh's Voyage ; Thomas Haward of the Middle Temple ;
and Thomas Haward, Efq. five times magiftrate of this tow^n.
In the north and eafl walls are the remains of two Gothic monu-
ments, with flat arches.
In the vicar's burial place, a fmall building adjoining the fouth
chancel, are the tombs of Mr. Richard Mayo, who died in 1695;
Thomas Willis, S. T. P. who died in 1692; and William Comer,
M. A. who died in 1766. On the ground is a brafs plate, in
memory of the ten children of Edmund Staunton, vicar of King-
fton in the laft century.
In the north aifle of the church are the tombs of John Agar, Efq.
commiflioner of the navy, who died in 1697; °^ Thomas Agar,
once mayor, and twelve times bailiflf of the town, who died in
1703, at the age of ninety-four j Henry Jenkins, Efq. who died
in 1760.
Near the north door of the church Is a fmall brafs plate fixed In
the wall, to the memory of John Hertcombe, who died in 1488 j
and his wife Catherine, who died in 1477 ; over it, are their eflBgies
in the fame materials. He is reprefented as a merchant ; her head-
drefs fomewhat refembles that of Margaret Gaynesford at Carflial-
ton. Aubrey mentions a houfe in his time, called Hircombe's
Place.
In the nave is a tomb-ftone with an infcription to the memory of
Thomas Cranmer, M. D. who died in 1 748 ; John Cranmer, Efq.
who died in 1773 ; and others of that family.
Over one of the arches in the nave, hangs the achievement of the ^^P'- fj"?*
' ° of the Half-
unfortunate Captain Pierce, who was loft in the Halfwell Eaft In- weiiEaftin-
diaman.
diaman.
248 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
tliaman. He had a refidence in this town, and his family have a
vault in the church. His funeral fermon was preached here, but his
body was never found.
Aubrey has preferved an infcription, which was formerly in the
chancel, to the memory of William Becket, a vicar of Kingfton,
who was confefTor of the houfehold to King James and Charles I.
and the epitaphs of the following perfons, which were deftroyed in
the ruins of St. Mary's chapel : John Shawys, who died in 16543
Catherine Johnfon ; John Stint, Efq. who died in 1O81; and his
wife Elizabeth, who died in 1698; Charles Salter, who died in
1610; Francis Wrote, of Suffolk, who died in 1638; and Anne
Hallet, who died in 1702. •
Church- In the church-yard are the tombs of William CayolljEfq. Captain
in the Horfe-guards, who died in 1742 ; Henry Pratt, Efq. who died
in 1753; Philip Meadows, Efq. who died in 1781 ; Thomas Bur-
fton, Efq. who died in 1785 ; and Rebecca, wife of Jofeph Bradney,
Efq. of Ham, who died in 1790.
By a mandate of the bifhop in the regiftry at Winchefter, which
forbids ballad-finging, the exhibiting of fhows, and other profana-
tions in the church-yard, on pain of excommunication, it feems pro-
bable, that the fairs had been held there "*.
Redory. The church of Kingfton is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the
deanery of Ewell. Henry II. appropriated it with the chapels of
Shene, (now Richmond,) Peterftiam, Moulfey, and Thames Ditton,
annexed, to Merton Abbey '". After the fuppreffion of that mo-
naftery, the redlory appears to have been granted to Sir Nicholas
Carew "', and afterwards to have been in the pofleflion of John
White, Bifhop of Winchefter "'. It was leafed by Queen Elizabeth,
llA
Regift. W.deWykham, pt. 3. f. z6o.a. "' Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 135. ■
The inhabitants are forbidden, "ad pilas '" Regift. Winton. Fox, pt. i. f. 31. a.
" ludere, coreas diflblutas facere, canere canti- '" Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
" lenas, ludibriorum fpedlacula facere, & alios 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
•' ludos celebrare."
to
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 249
to Edward Lord Clinton "°. King James, in the eighth year of his
reign, granted it to Francis Morris and John Philips '^', and afterwards
to John Earl of Holdernefs, and his heirs '^\ After the Earl's death
it efcheated to the crown, and was granted to William Murray, Efq. '"
In 1658, it was prefented at the inquifition held at Kingfton, by
commiffioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical be-
nefices, that the re£tory there belonged to Sir Lionel Tollemache, and
that the great tithes were worth 500I. per annum "*. It afterwards
came into the pofleffion of the Hardlnge family ; the widow of the
late Nicholas Hardinge, Efq. being the prefent proprietor. In Cardi-
nal Beaufort's time, the redlory was valued at 120 marks '".
The vicarage, the endowments of which are recorded in the re- Vicarage,
gifter of Merton Abbey "*, and in the regiftry at Winchefter'", was
valued at the fame time at eight marks '^'. In the King's books, it is
fet down among the difcharged livings, and faid to be of the annual
value of 34 1. 17 s. o d. The crown pays 12 1. per annum to the
vicar, for the agiftment of tithe for Richmond Park "".
In the year 1 769, an a£t of parliament was obtained for feparating
the parifh church of Kingfton, and its dependant chapels of Rich-
mond, Moulfey, Thames Ditton, Peterfham, and Kew ; and forming
the whole parifh into two vicarages, and two perpetual curacies.
John Lovekyn gave a melTuage in Kingfton to Nicholas de Ry-
thynburgh and his fucceflbrs, in the reign of Edward III. '*"
The advowfon of the vicarage was alienated a few years ago by Vicars.
George Hardinge, Efq. to King's College, Cambridge.
"° Leafes by Queen Elizabeth, Augmen- "' Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra,
tation-ofEce. C. VII. f. 121. b. 177. 206.
"' Pat. 8 Jac. pt. 31. May 19. '" Regill. Winton. J. de Stratford, f. 7.b.
'" Pat. 20 Jac. pt. II. April 11. W. de Wykham, pt. 3.f, 8.b. 137. a. b. 163.
'" Fee-farm Rolls, Augmentation-office. a. — 165.3. '■" Ibid. Beaufort, f. 6. b.
"* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth iVIS. ■!» Duc.irel's Lift of Endowments, Lam-
Library. beth iVIS. Library.
•" Regift. Winton. Beaufort, f. 6. b. '*° Pat. 30 Edw. III. pt. i. m. 22.
Vol. I. K k Nicholas
250
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Nicholas
Weft.
Edmund
Staunton.
Richard
Mayo.
Thomas
Twittie.
Thomas
Willis.
Skern's chan-
try.
Bardefey's
guild.
Nicholas Weft, an eminent ftatefman, and Bifliop of Ely, in the
reign of Henry VIII. was inftituted to the vicarage of Kingfton,
• 141
m 1502
Edmund Staunton, inftituted to this vicarage in 1632'*^ became one
of the aflembly of divines; and being a zealous writer in behalf of the
Puritans, was made prefident of Corpus Chrifti college, Oxford. Up-
on this preferment he quitted Kingfton, and was fucceeded by his
curate, Richard Mayo, who publifhed his life, and was ejefted for
non-conformity in 1662 '*\
His fucceflbr Thomas Twittie is mentioned by A. Wood, as the
author of a few fermons '*\
Thomas Willis, who was inftituted to this vicarage in 1667, had
aded with the Prefbyterians, and was one of the commiflioners for
ejedting fcandalous and infufficient minifters, but changed his party
at the reftoration. He publifhed feveral fermons, and fome religious
trafts '*'.
The prefent vicar of Kingfton is the Reverend George Savage,
M. A. who was inftituted in the year 1788. He fucceeded William
Coxe, M. A. the well-known author of Travels into Ruflia, Switzer-
land, and other parts of Europe.
A chantry in honour of the BlefTed Virgin and the Body of Chrift
was founded at Kingfton, before the altar of St. James, in the reign
of Henry VI. by William Skern ; who endowed it with a houfe for
the chaplain, and 10 marks annual rent ""*.
Robert Bardefey, in the reign of Edward IV., founded a frater-
nity or guild in the church of Kingfton, in honour of the Holy
Trinity. It confifted of two wardens or guardians, and a cer-
•♦• Reg. Wlnt. Fox, pt. i.f. 4.b. A more
particular account of Bifhop Weft will be
given under Putney, where he was born.
'♦» Reg. Wint. Curie, f. 2. a.
•" Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol.ii. col. 484.
•♦* Ibid. vol. i. fafti.
•♦' Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol.ii. col. 1082.
•♦* Pat. 37 ^en. VI. pt. 2. m. 19.
tain
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 251
tain number of brethren and fillers '". I found no prefentatlons, or
other records, relating to this chantry and guild, in the regiftry at
Winchefter.
The parifh reglfter commences in the year 1542. From that time Pacini re.
to the prefent, there is no chafm of a whole year, though I found the
earlier part of it too imperfedl to enable me to form a fatisfadtory
average in the i6th century.
Average of Baptifms. Average of BuriaJ?.
1680 — 1689 ■ 96 — — 98 Comparative
(late of popu-
1770 — 1779 130 — — 115 lation.
1780 — 1789 113 — — 113
1790 139 — — 95
1791 147 — 129
The prefent number of houfes in the parifh of Kingfton is about
750-
A few perfons died of the plague in 1545 and in 1550, Plague years.
In 1577 34
From September i, to December 31, 1603 ■ 54
In 1625 ■ — 56
The entries of the year 1 66^ are very imperfect. From Sept. 9,
to Oft. 1, thirty-four perfons died of the plague; which proves, that
it was more fatal than at either of the foregoing periods. In moft
places, I have obferved the fatality to have been greater in the year
1603.
In the year 1571 are frequent entries of perfons who came to the ^^f^^!"f
church to gather money, and an account of what was colleded for
them :
" Sunday was here two women, mother and daughter, owte of
" Ireland, to gather upon the dethe of her hufband, who was flayne
" by the Wild Iryflie, he being captain of the gally-glafles '**."
•♦' Pat. 17 Edw. IV. pt. 1. m. 6. " A puiflant and mighty power
'♦' Gallow-glafles — Soldiers among the " Of gallow-glafles and ftout kernes."
Wild Irifti, whoferveonhorfe-back. — Johnfon. Shakf.
K k 2 Others
2S2 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Others came in confequence of various diftrefles, by licence of the
Earl of Bedford, the Bifhop of Winchefter, the Lord Admiral, the
Lord Scrope of Bolton, &c. &c.
Thefe begging licences were then very frequent, and the privilege
of granting them appears to have been confiderably extenfive ; but
they were generally confined to certain diftridts. In Archbifhop
Grindall's regiflers, are feveral granted by his commlffary Dodlor
Aubrey, fome of which are limited to the peculiars of the Dean
of the Arches. Among thele, is one to Margaret Crayle, the widow
of a preacher '■*'; and another to William Blackwell, who had a
large family of children, one of whom was a ftudent at the univer-
fity of Cambridge "°.
There was formerly an office for granting protections to poor peo-
. pie, who fhould go about and coUedt alms, which in 1592 was held
by Matthew Stuart '^'. Thefe licences ftill exift, and are generally
called briefs; but they have undergone fome regulations, being
never granted but by the crown, and for lodes of a confiderable
amount ; the money is not colle£ted by the fufferers in perfon, but
by the officers of each refpedlive parifh.
The following licence to eat flefh, occurs in the year 159 1,
March 1 8 :
Licence to "Mem. That the day and year aforefaid, I Thomas Lamyng,
eatflefti. u dgrke^ ^[^ gyve licence to eate flefh, to Frances Cox, wife unto
" John Cox of Kyngfton, Gent, being weak and fickly, in the time
" of Lent, and upon other days prohibited ; fuch flefh as might be
" convenient for the helthe of her body, and to the befl liking of
" her flomach, in as large and ample manner, and for fo long time
" as Thomas Lamyng may, or can grant, by force and virtue of hir
" majefties lawes and fliatutes, before William Yonge, one of the
" churchwardens, and Thomas Hav/ard," &c.
'*» Regift. Lamb. Grindall, f. 239. b. ''' Burleigh Papers, vol. ii. p. 798.
"" Ibid. f. 209. b.
" Man
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 253
" Mar. 10, 1673-4. Buried three male children and one female
" unbaptifed, of George Dennifes."
The birth of thefe children gave occafion to the publication of a
pamphlet, entitled, " The Fruitful Wonder, or a ftrange relation
*' from Kingfton, of a woman who was delivered of four children
" at a birth, three fons and one daughter, all born alive, lufty children*
" and perfect in every part ; lived twenty-four hours, and then dyed
*' all much about the fame time, by J. P. Student in Phyfic ;" who
is fuppofed to have been the celebrated John Partridge "*.
Two inftances of longevity occur :
" Frances Phillips, widow, no years ould, buried Feb. 26, Jn fiances of
*• ' ' longtvity.
" ib77-8.
" Winifred Woodfall, Gent, widow, aged 108 years, buried 0£t.
« 24, 1690."
"April 13, 1758, Nicholas Hardinge, Efq. impropriator, buried." ^^rdin^
Mr, Hardinge was clerk of the parliament, and recorder of this "^^1-
town. He was a good fcholar, and an intelligent antiquary. It
was by his encouragement and advice, that Stuart undertook his
journey to Athens, with the view of illuftrating the antiquities of
that celebrated city. Mr. Hardinge wrote Latin verfes with extra-
ordinary facility : a colledion of them was printed after his death,
by his fon George Hardinge, Efq.
" June ig, 1776, Dr. William Battle buried."
Dr. Battle was a native of Devonfhire, and was born in the year ^'- William
1704. He was educated at Kings college, Cambridge. After he
left the univerfity, he fettled as a phyfician at Uxbridge, but foon
returned to London, where he became eminent in his profeflion, and
met with confiderable fuccefs. In 1749 he took an adive part in
the difputes with Dr. Schomberg, in confequence of which he was
feverely handled in a poem entitled, The Battiad. Dr. Battle dif-
''* Cough's Topography, vol. ii.
tingulfhed
254
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
St. Mary
Magdilen'i
chapel.
Foundation
of the free
grammar
fchool.
ilngulflied himfelf as a fcholar, by his publication of an edition of Ifo-
crates ; he publifhed likewife fome medical tracts, one of which,
a Treatife on Infanity, engaged him in a controverfy with Dr.
Munro. Dr. Battle died of a paralytic ftroke at the age of feventy-
two, and was by his own diredion buried at Kingfton near his wife,
without any monument or infcription.
Edward Lovekyn, in the year 1309, built a hofpital in Norbiton,
adjoining to Kingfton ; with a chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magda-
len, and endowed it with ten acres of land, one acre of meadow, and
five marks annual rent '". His fon John, who was four times lord
mayor of London "*, and who is erroneoufly called the founder and
builder of this hofpital by Leland and fome later authors '", aug-
mented it with confiderable endowments "*. In i J34, it was valued
at 34I. 19s. yd. "^' At the fuppreflion of monafteries, this was
confidered as a religious houfe, and was feifed by the crown.
Queen Elizabeth founded a free grammar-fchool upon the fite,
and endowed it, with the premifes, confifting of St. Mary Magdalen's
chapel, and two fmall chapels adjoining, called St. Anne's and St.
Loye's; and fome houfes and lands which had been leafed by the
crown to Richard Taverner. The bailiffs of the town were con-
ftituted governors, with power to purchafe lands to the amount of
30I. per annum'". The chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, which, by
the ftyle of architedlure, appears to have been built in the fourteenth
century, is now the fchool-room.
'53 Regift. Winton. H. Woodlock. f. 112.
b. Reg. Lamb. Reynolds, f. 55. b. Pat.
9 Edw. II. pt. I. m. 5.
''+ Stow's Survey of London.
•55 Newcourt, Stow, and Tanner. The
references above given prove, that the chapel
and hofpital were built in the reign of Edw. IF.
by Edward "Lovekyn; and there are feveral
prefentations of chaplains in the regifters at
Winchefler, before the fuppofed date of the
foundation. Regift. H. Woodlock, f. i24.b.
Reg. Stratford, loo. a. and 124. a. Reg. Ad.
de Orleton, f. 51. a. 60. a.
'5« Pat. 26 Edw. III. pt. 3. m. 13. Li-
cence to John Lovekyn to appropriate twelve
librates of land to the chapel founded and
built by his father. Stow fays, the endow-
ment confifted of 9 tenements, 10 ihops,
one mill, 125 acres of land, 10 of meadow,
120 of pafture, &c. Survey of London, vol. i.
p. 261. '" Regift. Wint. Fox. pt. 5.
'5* Cartulary, Town-clerk's office.
William
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 255-
William Burton, a learned antiquary, who wrote a commentary on William Bar-
Antoninus's Itinerary, a hiftory of the ancient Perfic language, and
other works, was mafter of this fchool in the laft century. He
died in 1657 '"*
The prefent mafter is the Rev. Hugh Lawrence.
William Cleave, Efq. alderman of London, who died in 1667, Alms-houfe.
founded an alms-houfe in this town, for the building of which he
left 500 1. and endowed it with lands for the fupport of twelve poor
perfons. The prefent income is about iiol. per annum.
Edward Belitha, Efq. left 400 1. and John Thomas TyfFyn, 150I. Benefaaions.
to educate poor children of this parifh. William Nichols gave 200 1.
to be diftributed in coals, and Edward Buckland gave the profits of a
wharf, which now amount to 30 1. per annum, for the fame purpofe.
King Charles I. gave 100 1. to the poor; and Henry Smith, Efq.,
about two years before he died, gave loool. upon condition of re-
ceiving lol. per cent, intereft during his life '".
The Prefbyterians, Anabaptifts, and Quakers, have meeting-houfes
in this town.
Kingfton bridge is undoubtedly the moft ancient on the river The bridge.
Thames, except that of London. It is mentioned in a record of the
eighth year of Henry III. "' This bridge being almoft the only
paflage over the Thames, was frequently liable to be deftroyed,
during the time of any inteftine commotions, to cut off the commu-
nication between Surrey and Middlefex. This is known to have
happened in the wars between the houfes of York and Lancafter,
and in Wyatt's rebellion, when it was broken down by order of the
privy council, to prevent his paffing into Middlefex. Several re-
cords '" are extant of a toll being granted for a certain number of
"'» Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 215, bridge and a houfe to Matthew de Kyngfton.
ai6. ""■ Pat. 5oEdw. III. pt. i. ra. 26. Pat.
"° Chamberlains' accounts. 1 Hen. IV. pt. 5. m. 25. Pat. 27 Hen. VI.
"» Pat. 8 Hen. III. m. 28. Grant of the pt. 1. m. 7. &c. &c.
years,
2s6 KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
years, in confequence of the repairs of the bridge. In the year
1567, Robert Hainond made it a free bridge for ever, and increafed
its endowments with lands to the amount of 40 1, per annum '"'.
The year before this endowment, the revenues of the bridge, in-
cluding the toll, were about 25 1. In 1574, they were 53 1. ids. od. ;
in 1605, 61I. 2 s. 6d. They are now about 1301.'°* In 1607,
the bridge was broken down by the froft, which was fo fevere,
that the Thames was paflable by perfons on foot '"'. The length
of the bridge is faid by Aubrey to be 168 yards. The Middlefex
fide was confiderably widened laft year: the management of there-
venues is in the hands of two bridge- wardens, who are elefted to that
office annually.
A fmall ftream, called Hog's Mill River, over which there is a
bridge of three arches, runs through the fouthern part of the town,
and falls into the Thames.
Kingfton was lighted and watched by a£l of parliament In the
13th year of his prefent majefty.
»«' The bridge had been endowed with '*' Letter of Rowland White, to the Earl
lands before, but not fufRcicnt to keep it in re- of Shrewfbury. Lodge's Shrewlbury Papers,
pair without a toll. vol. iii. p. 344.
'*+ Bridge-wardens' accounts.
'^Sl 1
LAMBETH.
' g ^ H E name of this place has been varloufly wrhten, in public Name.
-O. records, and by the ancient hiftorians. In the earheft record
extant, it is called Lambehith ; in Doomfday Book, probably
by a miftake, Lanchei ; in the ancient hiftorians, it is fpelt Lamhee,
Lamheth, Lambyth, Lamedh, and with many other variations,
feme of which were probably occafioned by the errors of tran-
fcribers. Moft etymologifts derive the name from lam^ dirt ; and Etymology.
hyd or hythc, a haven : but Dr. Ducarel will not allow the ety-
mology, as the letter b appears in the earlleft record ; he derives it
therefore from lamb^ a lamb ; and hyd. The gveatefl: objedion to
this derivation is, that it feems to have no meaning.
Lambeth Is fituated near the river Thames, oppofite to Weftminfter ; situation and
It lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is bounded by
the pariflies of St. George, Southwark ; Newington Butts j Cam-
berwell ; Stretham ; Clapham ; and Croydon.
The parifh is about fixteen miles in circumference. In Doomfday Extent,
Book, it is faid to contain twenty plough-lands and an half. By a
land-fcot, levied about the beginning of the laft century', it appears to
have contained 1261 acres of arable land, 1026 of pafture, 125 of Nature of
meadow, 13 of ozier, 37 of garden ground, and 150 of wood, mak- ^" "
Ing in the whole 2612 acres ; the commons and wafle land, fuppofed
to be about 330 acres, not: being charged, will increafe it to 2942
acres. At prefent, the arable is fuppofed to exceed the grafs land,
in a proportion of fix to four ; and the meadcv/s are fuppofed to be
' CIvjrciiwarJens' books of accounts,.
Vol. I. LI abcuc
258
LAMBETH.
Soil.
Land-tax.
Market and
fair.
Hiflorical
fafts.
Death of
Hardicanute.
about a fourth part of the latter. About 250 acres are now occupied
by the market gardeners. Mr. Malcolm's nurfery grounds occupy
nearly 40 acres. The foil is various, but confifts chiefly of gravel
and fand ; there is no chalk. At the extremity of the parifh, to-
wards Croydon, a well was lately funk to the depth of near 300
feet, through an unvaried ftratum of argillaceous earth.
The whole parilh, which is feparated into fix divinons, pays the
fum of 2963 1. 13 s. to the land-tax, which is afleflTed in the follow-
ing proportions :
The Bifhop's liberty,
The Prince's liberty,
Vauxhall,
Marfh and Wall liberty,
Lambeth Dean,
Stockwell,
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4
481
4
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309
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Archbifliop Hubert Walter obtained a grant * of a weekly market
at Lambeth from King John, and a fair for fifteen days, upon con-
dition that it fhould not be detrimental to the interefts of the city of
London. In the Archbifliop's MS. Library is a charter from the city,
fignifying their confent, flipulating only, that the fair fhould begin
on the morrow after the anniverfary of St. Peter ad vincula '. The
market and fair are both now difcontinued.
The earliefl hiflorical fad on record relating to Lambeth, is the
death of Hardicanute, which happened there in the year 1041*,
whilft he was celebrating the marriage-feaft of a noble Dane. He
died fuddenly during the entertainment, fome fay of poifon, others
of intemperance.
' Cart. I John, pt. i. ni.4. No. 23.
* Sax. Chron. &c. Hoveden dates it in 1042.
» Cart. Mifcell. vol. xi. No. 15.
Harold,
2i9
LAMBETH.
Harold, fon of Earl Godwin, who ufurped the crown after the
death of Edward the ConfefTor, is faid to have placed it on his head
with his own hands at Lambeth '.
Henry III. held a folemn Chriftmas here in the year 1231,
under the fuperintendence of Hubert de Burgh, Tiis chief juftice *.
The next year a parliament was held at Lambeth, on the 14th of
September ; wherein the fortieth part of all moveables was voted to
the king, for the payment of a debt which he owed to the Duke of
Bretagne ^ It is moft probable, that both thefe events may be ap-
propriated to the palace at Kennington.
A moft violent outrage was committed in the'church at Lambeth, Outrage at
on Sunday the 19th of February 1642-3. The ftory is varioufly church in
told by the journalifts of the different parties. On the one hand it is
afferted, that the tumult began in confequence of fome of the parifli
officers rebuking a foldier, who fat with his hat on during divine
fervice ; that the foldiers were affaulted by the watermen, and driven
out of the church, whence they were obliged to retire to their court
of guard, where the watermen continued to affault them by throw-
ing of ftones ; that they were under the neceffity of firing in their
own defence, and that one perfon was killed, and another wounded'.
This information was given to the Houfe of Commons. On the
other fide it is faid, that the foldiers who had the guard of Lambeth
Houfe (then a prifon'), at the inftigation of Dr. Lelghton, broke
into the church with mufkets and other weapons ; that they tore
the Common Prayer Book to pieces, pulled the furplice off the mi-
nifter's back, and committed other outrages to the great terror of the
people, till the watermen came to their refcue. This account, which
* Lambarde's Topograph. Didlion. Chron. * During the tumult, fome of the prifoners
Bath. confined in Lambeth Houfe made their efcape,
* Matthew Paris, p. 367. and fled to the Lord Mayor for protedlion.
' Ibid. p. 377. Perfeft Diurnal, by Cooke and Wood, Feb.20
' Certain Special Paflages, Feb. 16 — 23, — 27, 1642-3.
1642-3. Perfeft Diurnal, Feb, 23, &c.
L 1 2 was
1643.
2bo
L A M B E T H.
Thomas
Euftiell.
Earthquake
at Lambeth.
Manors.
was printed In the Mercurius Aulicus, tlie court paper, publlfhed at
Oxford, is probably exaggerated. It feems pretty clear, however,
that the foldiers were in fault, as the Houfe of Commons, upon the
petition of Dodtor Fcatley, and other inhabitants of Lambeth, ordered
that they fhould be removed, and another company placed in their
room. At all events, it ftands on record as an inftance of the fatal
effects of civil difcord, from the outrages of which no place, how-
ever facred, is exempt.
About the time that Cromwell was made Protestor, Mr. Bufhelf,
a man well known for the philofophical purfuits, in which he was
employed by Lord Chancellor Bacon, concealed himfelf in a houfe
in Lambeth Marih, during which time he conftantly lay in a long
garret, hung with black baize ; at one end was painted a fkeleton,
extended on a mattrefs ; at the other, was a fmall pallet bed ; the
walls were covered with various emblems of mortality. Here he
continued above a year, till his friends had made his peace with the
Protestor '°.
In the Philofophical Tranfa<Stions is an account of fome damage
done to a pot-houfe in Lambeth by the earthquake in 1750",
Lambeth appears to have had two diftinft manors at the time of
the Conqueror's Survey ; one of which contained twelve, and the
other fix plough-lands. The latter was held by the monks of
Waltham, of King Harold, and was regranted to them by Edward
the Confcflbr'\ At the time of the Survey it belonged to Earl
Morton, It was valued, in the Confelfor's time, at iocs, after-
wards at 4I. I imagine this to have been, what was afterwards
called, the manor of South Lambeth and Stockwell ; the defcription
of its boundaries in the Confeflbr's charter, wherein the river is not
mentioned, confirms the conjecture.
Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v.
r- 273-
" Ibid., vol. xlvi. p. 700.
" Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 11.
The
LAMBETH. 261
The other manor, that of North Lambeth, Is fald to have be- Manor of
longed to the church of St. Mary at Lambeth, at the time of the beth.
Conqueft : it had previoufly been the property of Countefs Goda'', the
Conqueror's fifter, who gave it to the church at Rochefter '*. The Con-
queror feized it, and gave a part thereof to Odo, Bifhop of Baieux, but
he afterwards reftored it to the convent, together with the patronage of
the church. In the year 1197, the Bifhop and church of Rochefter
granted the manor of Lambeth, with the advowfon, to Hubert
"Walter Archbifliop of Canterbury, and his fucceflbrs, in exchange
for the manor of Darente, and other premifes ". It has been annexed
to the fee ever fmce. In the Confeflbr's time it was valued at lol. ;
at the time of the Conqueror's Survey, at ill.; in 1291, at 15 I.";
in Archbifhop Bourchier's time, at 27I. i6s. 77 d. "; and in Arch-
bifhop Parker's time, at 30I. per annum '^
The manor-houfe or palace belonging to the Archbifhop of- Can- Manor-
terbury is fituated near the river : it is a very large pile of building, LambetU
and exhibits the archite£ture of various ages. It appears that Lambeth ^^ ^"*
palace was, in a great meafure, if not wholly, rebuilt by Archbifhop
Boniface, about the year 1262". If any part of this ftrudture
'' In a lift of benefaftions to the church of a. b. Among the Carts Mifcellan. in the
Rochefter, printed in the Regift. RofFen. MS. Library at Lambeth, are fome of the ori-
p. 1 19, are particularized fome ornaments ginal records relating to this exchange ; one
belonging to Countefs Goda, which were found of them has the feal of the church of Rochefter,
at Lambeth, by Ralph, the firft keeper of and that of the Bilhop of Sali(bury, one of
the manor there, and brought by him to Ro- the witneftes. See Cart, Mifcell. vol. xi.
chefter. They are thus defcribed : " Feretrum N° 17— 2z. The church of Rochefter re-
" (a pix) partim de auro, partim de argento ; ferved to themfelves a mill in Southwark, and
" textus evangeliorum argento et lapidibus a marlh in Lambeth, which they had by a
" pretiofis ornatos ; fcampna ferrea plicantia former exchange with Archbiftiop Baldwin for
" etargentata; et pallia quatuor ; et baculos the fite of the chapel of St. Thomas the
" cantoriales ; et cruces argenteas et can- Martyr.
" delabra de cupro deaurata." ■* See note, p. lo.
•+ Regift. Roften. p. 2. •? Cart. MifceUan. Lamb. MS. Lib. vol.
'' Rymer's Fcedera, vol. i. p. 89, 90. Cart. xiii. N" 14.
Antiq. C. 17. C. iS. Cartulary of the fee of " Kevenuesof the fee of Canterbury (temp.
Canterbury, Bodleian Library, p. 55. 57. 61, Eliz.) Lamb. MS. Lib.
62.184.186. Regift. Lamb. Warham,f. 148. '» Concilia, edit. Wilkins, vol. i. p. 759.
L 1 3 now
262 LAMBETH.
Chapel. now remains, it Is the chapel ; the archite£lure of which indeed
might induce one to afcribe it to a more early period. The
windows refemble thofe of the Temple-church, which was built
Crypt. in the twelfth century. Under the chapel is a crypt, a part of
which is reprefented in the annexed p]at€. The arches are built
with ftone, as is the chapel. The roof of the latter is of wood, and
flat ; it is ornamented with the arms of Archbifhop Laud. The
windows were formerly of painted glafs, which was put up by Car-
dinal Morton ". The repairing of this glafs, which contained the
fcripture hiftory of the Old and New Teftament, was imputed as a
crime to Archbilhop Laud on his trial, and the windows were de-
ftroyed by the Puritans.
Archblfhop The remains of Archbiftiop Parker were depofited in this chapel,
tomb. at his own requeft, under an altar-tomb which he had ereded for
himfelf near the communion-table. The following infcription,
written by Dodtor Haddon, was affixed to it :
" Sobrius et prudens, ftudiis excultus et ufu,
*' Integer, et verx religionis amans,
" Matthseus vixit-Parkerus, fovera^ ilium
" Aula virum juvenem, fovit et aula fenem.
" Ordine res geflit, redi defenfor et sequi :
" Vixerat ille Deo, mortuus ille Deo eft.
>>
When Lambeth-houfe was purchafed by Scott and Hardy, In the
laft century, the former having pofleffion of this part of the palace,
removed the Archbifhop's tomb, and turned the chapel into a
dancing-room ". The leaden coffin was fold to a plumber, and the
Archbifhop's corpfe was thrown into a hole in one of the outhoufes.
After the Reftoration it was difcovered, and re-interred in the chapel ".
The fpot is marked by a marble flab, thus infcribed : " Corpus
" Hiftory andTroublesof Archbiftiop Laud, p. 499.
p.3'7- " Biograph. Brit, article Parker, in the
" Strype's Life of Archbiftiop Parker, notes.
" Matthaei
77/r rn'/}/.i///f/ir ///r C/m/x'/ /'// f.(/////>ff// /f//</tr.
LAMBETH. 263
" Matthzei Archlepifcopi tandem hie quiefcit." Archblfliop Sancroft
placed the old monument in the corner of the veftibule of the chapel,
and caufed the following infcription, faid to have been written by
hirafelf ", to be affixed to it :
" Matthcei Archlepifcopi cocnotaphium, corpus enim, (ne nefcias,
" le£tor,) in adyto hiijus facelli olim rite conditum, a fedlariis per-
" duellibus, anno mdcxlviii, effrado facrilege hoc ipfo tumulo,
" elogio fepulchrali impie refixo, direptis nefarie exuviis plumbeis,
" fpoliatum, violatum, eliminatum ; etiam fub flerquilinlo (proh
*' fcelus!) abftrufnm : rege demum (plaudente coslo et terra) re-
" deunte, ex decreto Baronum Anglia?, fedulo quarfitum, et facello
" poftliminio redditum, in ejus quafi medio tandem quiefcit. Et
" quiefcat utinam, non nifi tuba ultima folicitandum. Qiii denuo
" defecraverit, facer efto."
In the veftry are fome portraits, among which are Cardinal Pole ; Portraits in
ttic vcftrv
Dr. Williams Bifhop of Chichefter in 1696 ; Dr. Evans, Bifhop of
Bangor in 1707; Dr. Gardiner, Bifliop of Lincoln in 1694; Dr.
Whichcote, the learned Provoft of King's College ; and Dupln, the
writer upon ecclefiaftical hiftory.
The great hall was rebuilt by ArchbiQiop Juxon, after the civil Great hall,
wars, upon the old model, and at the expence of 10,5001.*' It is
93 feet in length, and 38 in breadth. It has a Gothic roof of
wood.
The guard-room, which appears to have been built before the year Guard-room.
1424", is roofed like the hall, and is ^6 feet long, and 274- feet
wide. In this room is a whole length pi£lure of Henry Prince of
Wales.
The long gallery, built about Cardinal Pole's time. Is 90 feet in Longgallery.
length, and 16 feet in breadth. The wainfcot remains in its original
10
Biograph. Brit, article Parker, in the 114.6. Biograph. Brit,
notes. »^ Steward's Account, 3 Hen. VI. re-
»' A. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. ferred to by Dr. Ducarel.
2 ftate,
a64 L A M B E T H.
ftate, being all of mantled carving. In the windows are feveral coats
of arms painted on glafs ; being thofe belonging to various Arch-
bifliops of Canterbury. Some of a more ancient date were removed
when the bay-window was made. Over the chimney-piece is a
portrait of Martin Luther ; a very fine pidture of Archbifliop War-
Portraits, ham, by Holbein ** ; and a portrait, faid to be Catherine Parr *'.
The gallery contains alfo an original pidture of A rchbi (hop Parker,
by Lyne ", a whole length of Cardinal Pole, and the following
amongft other portraits: — The Archbifhops ArundelP', Chichele,
Cranmer, Grindall, Whitgift, Abbot, and Sheldon; Pearce, Bifhop of
Bangor ; Mawfon, Fletcher, Moore, Patrick, and Gooch, Elfhops of
Ely; Lloyd and Hough, Bifhops of Worcefter; Burnet, Bifhop of
Sarum ; Thomas, Bifhop of Winchefter ; Bifhop Hoadley, painted
by his fecond lady ; Berkeley, Bifhop of Cloyne; and Rundle, Bifhop
of Derry. The view from the bay-window of the gallery is re-
markably beautiful. St. Paul's cathedral, Weftminfter Abbey, and
the bridge, are feen to great advantage between the clumps of trees
in the pleafure grounds, which exclude the reft of the city.
Dlnlnj- Jn the great dining-room, which is 38 feet 9 inches by 19 feet
6 inches, are portraits of all the archbifhops, from Laud to the pre-
fent time. In thefe we may obferve the gradual change of the
clerical drefs, in the articles of bands and wigs. A large ruff an-
ciently fupplied the place of the former ; Archbifhop Tillotfon was
the firft prelate who wore a wig, which then was not unlike the
natural hair, and worn without powder.
'* This pifture was a prefent to the arcli- retained in his family ; very few copies are
biihop, from the painter; it was left during known to be extant: one is in the edition of
the civil wars, but recovered by Sir William Parker's Antiquities in the MS. Library at
Dugdale, and by him prefented to Archbifliop Lambeth ; there is another in the colleilion of
Sincroft. Anthony Storcr, Efq.
*s This piflure is engraved in the firft *' This piilure is copied from the original
volume of Thane's Britini Autography. in the Penftiurft Colleftion ; and is perhaps the
" There is a very rare print cf the arch- oldeft portrait of an Engliih archbifnop ex-
biihop by R. Berg, v/ho, as well as Lyne, was tant.
Archbifliop
room
LAMBETH. 265
Archblfliop Cornwallls built a handfome and fpaclous drawing-
room and a dreffing room in the year 1769.
The library occupies the four galleries over the cloifters, which Library,
form a fmall quadrangle. It is faid by Aubrey *', to have been
built by Archbifhop Sheldon ; but it is much more probable, that
he only reftored it, and that the galleries are even older than the
foundation of the library, for which the fee is indebted to Archbifhop
Bancroft, who left all his books to his fucceflbrs, upon condition of
their giving due fecurity that they would hand them down entire.
On failure of fuch fecurity, they were to go to the college then about
to be eftablifhed at Chelfea; and if that foundation fhould never be
completed, to the univerfity of Cambridge. Archbifhop Abbot, by
his will, bequeathed his own books to the library.
During the civil wars, the books were all feized by the parliament,
and the ufe of them was firft granted to Dr. Wincocke ^' ; they were
afterwards given to Sion college " ; many of them however got into
private hands, and the library was in danger of being difperfed, when
Selden, who was a lover of literature, and had confiderable weight
with the government, fuggefted to the univerfity of Cambridge, their
right to the library under Archbifhop Bancroft's will, and afforded
them fuch affiflance in their claim, that in the month of February
1647, both houfes of parliament concurred in an ordinance for re-
moving the Lambeth library to Cambridge ^'. After the Reftora-
tion, it was demanded by Archbifhop Juxon, and reflored to his fuc-
ceffor, who profecuted the claim. Such of the books as were got
into private hands were recovered, as far as it was poflible ; and
an ordinance of parliament was made that the books belonging to
the late Archbifhop of Canterbury, which were in the hands of John
Thurloe, and Hugh Peters, fliould immediately be fecured ^*.
*° Antiquities of Sarrey, vol. i. p. 9. ^' Perfeft Diurnal, Feb. i j, 1647.
^» Perfeft Diurnal, Oft. 2, 1643. '* Mercurius Politicus, May 17, 1660.
^° Whitlock's Memorials, p. 106.
Vol. L Mm The
266
LAMBETH.
The library was augmented by the Archbifhops Sheldon, Teniron,
and Seeker, particularly by the latter, who had a very valuable pri-
vate library, out of which he left to his fucceflbrs all the books
which were not already in the Lambeth library ". The prefent
number of books is fuppofed to be about 25,000 '*. There is only
one book which is known to have belonged to Archbifhop Parker,
being diftinguil'hed by his arms ; as are thofe of the Archbifhops
Bancroft, Abbot, Laud, and Sheldon.
Pamted-glafs In the wiudows of the library is fome painted glafs, confifting of
and portraits. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^j^^ archbifhops ; thofe of Philip King of
Spain, in very brilliant colours ; a portrait of Archbifhop Chichele,
&c. Among the pi(£lures, are an original one of Archbifhop
Bancroft ; and portraits of Fox, Bifliop of Winchefler ; Dr. Peter Du
Moulin, and Dr. Wilkins, two learned divines, the one a librarian,
the other a domeftic chaplain at Lambeth. There are likewife a fet
of prints of all the Archbifhops of Canterbury from 1504, to the pre-
fent time, collected by Archbifhop Cornwallis.
The library of manufcripts is fituated over the weflern part of
that which contains the printed books. It is divided into two parts,
the one containing the regiflers of the fee of Canterbury, which are
in excellent prefervation ; and the other, mifcellaneous manufcripts,
divided into four fets, viz. thofe colledled by various archbifhops ;
thofe of Archbifhop Tenifon ; and the colleftion of Henry Wharton,
and George Carew, Earl of Totnefs. This library contains many
very valuable manufcripts ; amongfl thofe of fmgular curiofity, are
the following : — A tranflation of the wife fayings of Philofophers, by
Wood vile. Earl Rivers, with a beautiful illuminated drawing of
the Earl prel'enting his book to Edward IV. which has been en-
graved for the royal and noble authors. — A vellum book, contain-
ing thirty-five very rich illuminations, reprefenting " the daunce of
Library of
manufcripts.
" Ducare'.'s Hiftory of Lambeth Palace, p. 53, 54..
" Ibid. p. 54.
" Macha-
LAMBETH. 267
" Machabree," commonly called Death's Dance. — A curious Saxon
MS. of a book written by Adhelm Bifliop of Shirebourn, in the
eighth century, with a drawing of the bifhop in his pontifical chair ;
and a lady abbefs, prefenting to him eight of her nuns ". — Archbifhop
Cranmer's houfehold book J — and a curious and complete copy of
Archbifliop Parker's Antiquities, printed in 1572, and interleaved
with original MSS. of records, letters, &c. This curious book, which
had been loft out of the library, fell into the hands of Dr. Trevor,
Bifhop of Durham, who reftored it in 1757 ^^ The edition is fd
rare, that only two other copies are known to be extant.
The great tower at the weft end of the chapel, ufually called the Lollard's .
tower*
Lollard's tower, was built by Archbifhop Chichele, in the years
1434, 1435 ". The expence of building this tower, which is of ftone,
amounted to about 278 1. On the weft fide is a Gothic niche, ia
which was placed the image of St. Thomas. At the top of the tower
is a fmall room called the prifon, wainfcotted with oak above an
inch thick, on which are feveral names, and broken fentences in
old characters, cut with a knife, as " Cheflam Dodor." " Petit
" louganham." " Ihs cyppe me out of all el compane, amen." "John
" Worth." " Nofce teipfum," &c. In the walls of the room, are
fixed large iron rings, intended, as it is fuppofed, to confine the
Lollards, and other unfortunate perfons, who are faid to have been
imprifoned there.
It is certain that the archbifliops, before the Reformation, had prifons
for the punifhment of ecclefiaftical offenders ". Queen Elizabeth
frequently made Lambeth-houfe a prifon, not only committing the
Popifh Bifhops Tunftall and Thirlby to the Archbifliop's cuftody,
but divers other prifoners of rank. The unfortunate Earl of EfTex
« This drawing was engraved by Mr. S. " Steward's Accounts, 13 Hen. VI. re-
Watts, in 1765, for Charles Rogers, Efq. ferred to by Ducarel.
3' Ducarel's Hiftory of Lambeth Palace, ^a Rggift. Lamb.
p. 6z.
M m 2 was
268 LAMBETH.
was confined here before he was fent to the Tower "; the Earl of
Southampton *"; Lord Stourton ; Henry Howard, brother of the Duke
of Norfolk '''; and many others. It was ufual for them to be kept
in feparate apartments, and to eat at the Archbifhop's table.
Gate-way. The gateway and the adjoining tower, which are of brick, were
built by Archbiftiop Morton about 1490 *''.
Gardens and The gardens and park, which contain near thirteen acres, are laid
park.
out with great tafte. They have been much improved by the pre-
fent Archbifhop, who has made a very convenient accefs to the houfe,
for carriages, through the park.
Fig-trees. In the garden, againfl the wall of the palace, are two fig-trees of
a very extraordinary fize, covering a furface of fifty feet in height,
and forty in breadth. The trunk of the larger is twenty-eight
inches in circumference. They are of the white fort, and bear
very fine fruit. The tradition is, that they were planted by Cardinal
Pole*'.
Refidence of It has been faid, but erroneoufly, that Stephen Langton is the firft
birtiops i archbifhop upon record who refided at Lambeth. Hubert Walter
Lambeth. was there in 1198**. Many of the public ads of the metropolitan
were performed at Lambeth, in the chapel of the church of Ro-
chefter, long before the exchange with the archbifhop took place *'.
39 Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 181. 1120. Godwin de prasfuiibus, p. 482. Arch-
*° Ibid. p. 384. bifhop Corboyl confecrated SifFred Bifliop of
♦' Parker's Antiquities, edit. Drake, p. 552, Winchefter there in 1125, and Nigellus Bi-
fhop of Ely in 1133. Ibid. p. 503. 250.
** Regift. Lamb. Morton, f. 237. b. 238. Archbifliop Theobald confecrated Gilbert
a, b. and Geoifry Bifliops of St. Afaph in 1143
553
4'
, 1
*3 Ducarel's Hiflory of Lambeth Palace, and 1152. Ibid. p. 633. Archbifhop Rich
p. 77, 78- ^f'l confecrated Baldwin Bifhop of Wor-
■•♦ Diceto inter Decern. Scriptores, col. 700. cefter in 1180. Decern Scriptores, col.
*' The following account of public adls 1452. Archbifhop Baldwin confecrated Ri-
done by the archbifhops of Canterbury at chard Nigel Bifnop of London, and William
Lp.mbeth, before it came into the pofTefTion of Longchamp Bifhop of Ely, in 1 1 89. Ibid,
that fee, was communicated to me by the Rev. col. 1564. To thefe adls maybe added the
Samuel Denne, F. A. S. Archbifhop Ralph fynod held by Archbifliop Anfelm in 1100,
confecrated Richard Bifhop of Hereford there in mentioned more at large hereafter.
Lambeth
LAMBETH. 269
Lambeth has of late been the chief refidence of the archbifhops, and
is now the only habitable houfe belonging to the fee.
Dr. Ducarel has given a lift of the prelates who have died at their Archbifhops
who have
palace here. He enumerates the archbifhops — Wittlefey, who died in died at Lam-
1375 ; Kemp, who died in 1453 ; and Dean, who died in 1504, all
buried in Canterbury cathedral; Parker, who died in 1575, buried in
Lambeth chapel ; Whitgift, who died in 1604, buried at Croydon;
Bancroft, who died in 161 o, buried at Lambeth; Juxon, who died
in 1663, buried in St. John's College chapel, Oxford; Sheldon, who
died in 1667, buried at Croydon; Tillotfon, who died in 1694,
buried in the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, London; Tenifon, who
died in 17 15, buried at Lambeth; Wake, who died in 1737, and
Potter, who died in 1747, both buried at Croydon; Seeker, who
died in 1768, and the late Archbifliop Cornwallis, both buried at
Lambeth. Cardinal Pole, who died there in 1558, is omitted.
~His body lay in ftate at Lambeth for forty days, when it was re-
moved to Canterbury to be interred "**.
Archbifhop Anfelm, in the year iioo, called a fynod at Lambeth, Hiftorical
to confider of the propriety of the King's marriage with Maud, to Lambeth
fifter of the King of Scotland ; when it was determined, that it was Archbifhop
legal, as the princefs, though educated in a religious houfe, was not a f"^^\"^'^
profefled nun *\ Divers other fynods were held at Lambeth after
it became the refidence of the metropolitan.
In Wat Tyler's rebellion in the year i';8i, the commons of EfTex Devaftations
' J. . ^ . committed in
went to the palace here, burnt or fpoiled all the furniture and books, 1381.
drank up all the liquors, and deftroyed all the regifters and public
papers'". Archbifhop Sudbury fell a facrifice to their refent-
ment.
King Henry VIL a few days before his coronation, was enter- Henry VII.
tained by Archbifhop Bourchier at Lambeth *".
*' Biograph. Britannica. p. 57.
*' Eadmer, p. 57. ♦' Stow's Annals;
♦• Stow's Annals, Hiftory of Lambeth,
Catherine
27° LAMBETH.
Catherine of
Arragon.
Catlierine of Arragon, upon her firft arrival in England, was
lodged with her ladies, for fome days, in the " Archbifliop's inne"
at Lambeth ".
Queen Mary. Qucen Mary,who furnifhed the palace at her own expence for the re-
ception of Cardinal Pole, fometimes honoured him with her company".
Queen Eliza- Queen Elizabeth's vifits to Lambeth were very frequent. She
dined with Archbilhop Parker in 1568 ", and vifited him again
^^ ^573 ^"d ^574 "• The following account of her vifit in
1573 is given in Archbifhop Parker's Antiquities: " The Queen
" removing from Hampton Court to Greenwich, vifited the Arch-
" bifhop at Lambeth, where fhe ftaid all night. That day was
" Tuefday — the next day, being Wednefday, it was ufual, as it was
*' the feafon of Lent, that a fermon ftiould be preached before the
" Queen. A pulpit therefore was placed in the quadrangle, near
" the pump, and a fermon was delivei'ed by Dr. Pearce. The
*' Queen heard it from the upper gallery that looks towards the
" Thames ; the nobility and courtiers flood in the other galleries "
" which formed the' quadrangle. The people from below di-
" vided their attention between her Majefty and the preacher.
*' When the fermoa was over, they went to dinner. The other
" parts of the houfe being occupied by the Queen and her at-
" tendants, the Archbifhop received his guefts in the great room
" next to the garden below flairs. Here on the Tuefday he invited
" a large party of the inferior courtiers. In the fame room, on the
" Wednefday, he made a great dinner ; at his own table fat down
" nine earls and feven barons ; at the other table, the comptroller
" of the Queen's houfhold, her fecretary, and many other knights
" and efquires ; befides the ufual table for the great officers of
5° Stow's Annals. which now form the library : there is ftill a
'" Churchwardens' accounts Lambeth. pump in the centre of the quadrangle be-
5' Ibid. 5' Ibid. low.
'♦ Thefe galleries appear to be the fame
« flate.
LAMBETH. 271
." ftate, wherefat the Lord Treafurer, the Lord Admiral, the Cham-
" berlain, and others. The whole of this charge was born by the
*' Archbifliop. At four of the clock on the Wednefday afternoon,
" the Queen and her court removed to Greenwich "." Archbifhop
Grindall foon fell under the Queen's difpleafure, and it does not
appear that {he ever honoured him with a vifit. His fucceflbr
Whitgift received repeated marks of her favour. I find no lefs than
fifteen of her vifits to him upon record ; {he frequently ftaid two,
and fometimes three days at Lambeth '*.
Lambeth palace became the firft objed; of popular fury during Lambeth pa-
the commotions of the laft century. Archbifhop Laud had always by the ap-
111. . . prentices,
been difliked by the Puritans, and was grown particularly obnoxious, 1641.
from having advifedthe King to difTolve the parliament ". On the 9th
of May 1 641, a paper, faid to have been written by John Lilbourne,
was (tuck up at the Old Change, to excite the apprentices to rife,
and attack the palace of Lambeth ^\ The Archbifhop had notice of
their intention, and fortified his houfe as well as he could. On the
nth, at midnight, it was befet by about 500 men ", who continued
there two hours, but did no other mifchief than breaking a few
windows. Whitlock fays, they fet at liberty fome prifoners ".
Some of the ringleaders were apprehended, and one of them was
executed for high trealbn *'. The Archbifhop, whofe life was daily
" Parker's Antiq. Ecdef. Brit. p. 557. '9 Archbidiop Laad's Diary, p- S", 5S.—
Edit. Drake. Lord Clarendon fays fome thoufands.
5* Churchwardens' accounts, Lambeth. It '" Memorials, p. 34.
appears that the Queen was at the Arch- *' Some fay he was a failor ; others, a
bifhop's twice in 1584; in 158;; three times cobler ; and others, a taylor. Clarendon's
in 1587; in 1591 ; in 1593; in 1596; twice Hill, of Rebellion, vol. i. p. 237. Heath's
in 1599; in 1600; and twice in 1602. Va- Chron. and Whitlock's Memorials, p. 34.
rious fums of money were given to the ringers In Rymer's Foedera, (vol. xx. p. 406.) is a
upon thefe occafions, from two (hillings to fix procb.mation for apprehending John Archer,
(hillings and eight-pence. glover; George Searcs, poulterer ; and Wil-
5' Nalfon's CoUedions, vol. i. liam Seltrum, (hoemaker ; the principal ring-
^* Biographia Brit, article. Laud and Nal- leaders,
fon, vol. i. p. 343.
2 " threatened,
272
LAMBETH.
Arms re-
moved from
Lambeih.
threatened, removed, by the King's defire, to Whitehall ". A few
months afterwards he was committed to the Tower.
In the month of January 1642, an ordinance was made for re-
moving the arms from Lambeth-houfe " ; but it does not appear to
have been executed till the Auguft following, when Captain Royden
entered the palace, for that purpofe, with 200 foot and a troop of
horfe**. The number of arms which were found there, was very
much exaggerated in the Parliamentary Journals *'. The Archbifliop,
in his Diary, declares, that he had no other arms than thofe which he
bought of his predeceflbr's executors ; and that they were not fuf-
ficient to equip 200 men. He complains that the officers left only
fix fwords, fix carbines, three halberts, and two half pikes, to de-
fend that great houfe.
Lambeth- The fame year, an order was made by the Houfe of Commons,
by"the Tarii- '^^^ fome of their members fhould receive the Archbifhop's rents,
and apply them to the ufe of the commonwealth **. On the 8th of
November, Captain Brown, with a party of foldlers, entered Lambeth-
houfe, to keep it for the Parliament *'. Soon after, the Houfe of
Commons voted, that it fhould be made a prifon, and that Doctor
Layton, or Leighton, who had been feverely punifhed by the High
Commiffion court, fhould be appointed the keeper "'. At firft, fome
of the Archbifhop's fervants were fuffered to continue there j
but upon a petition of Doctor Leighton's, flating, that they made
his prifoners unruly, they were removed '''. The furniture was fold,
and the wood and coal referved for the foldiers. The Archbifhop
complains, that he was not indulged with any of it for his own ufe
at the Tower '°.
ament.
Made a pri-
fon.
** Clarendon's Hid. of the Rebellion, vol. I.
p. 143. 8vo.
*' Diurnal Occurrences, Jan. 17 — 24, 1642.
*+ Hill, of the Life and Troubles of Arch-
bifliop Laud, p. 196.
*5 Certain Special Paflages, Aug. 15 — 22,
1642. Perfed Diurnal, fame date.
" Ibid. Nov. 7 — 14.
*' Archbilhop Laud's Diary, p. 8;.
*' Ceitain Special Paflages, Dec. 19 — 22,
1642.
'' Perfeft Diurnal, Dec. 27, 1642.
'° Life and Troubles of Archbilhop Laud,
p. 198.
Amongfl
LAMBETH.
273
Amongft the prifoners confined at Lambeth-houfe during the Prlfoners of
civil wars, were the Earls of Chefterfield and Derby ** ; Sir Thomas there.
Armftrong, who was afterwards executed for being concerned in
the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion '" ; Dodor Alleftry, a celebrated
divine''; and Richard Lovelace, the poet '^ There appears to
have been a great mortality among the prifoners here in the autumn
of 1645, when many entries of their burials are to be found in the
parifli regifter ; among others, is Sir George Bunkley, who was
Lieutenant-governor of Oxford, and diRinguifhed himfelf for his
valour and adivity at th« fiege of Bafing ".
Lambeth-houfe was put up to fale in 1648, and purchafed, with Lambeth-
the manor, for the fum of 7073 1. os. 8 d. by Thomas Scot and
Matthew Hardy '*. The former was Secretary of State to the Pro-
te(a:or, and one of the perfons who fat on the trial of Charles I,
for which he was executed at Charing-crofs in 1660.
In the year 1780 Lambeth-palace became once more expofed to Lambeth-
^ r r • r i • • n • palace threat-
the tury of a mob. The mfatuated rioters, amidft their zeal againft ened in the
popery, had been poflefled with an idea, that the Archbifhop, Corn- ^""^ ^^ °'
wallis, was a favourer of the Catholics ". On the 6th of June, a
party of feveral hundred perfons, who had been previoufly aflembled
in St. George's Fields, came to the palace, crying " no popery."
They knocked at the gate, which was fecured ; receiving no aniwer,
they went away, faying, that they would return in the evening.
Upon this alarm, the Archbifhop and his family were prevailed upon
to leave Lambeth. They removed firft, by way of Batterfea, to
*' Mercurius Politicus, Sept. 8—15, and who bought Lambeth-houfe, were ordered to
Sept. 15— 2Z, 1659. be referred to a committee in Nov. 1648.
'° Biographia Britannica. ^' Ibid. Perfeft Occurrences.
'* Occurrences from foreign parts, Aug. '' The circumftance of the Archbifliop
*3 — 3°» '^59' being one of the commiflioners for giving the
'^ A. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. falli. royal aflent to the bill for eftablilhing the
'* CI. 24 Car. pt. 2. N" I. Some differ- Roman Catholic bilhops in Quebec, gave rife
ences which had arifen between the partners to this idea.
Vol. L N n Lord
274
LAMBETH.
Lord Hillftorough's houfe in Hanover-fquare ; afterwards they
went to Wimbledon, and upon receiving intimation that they were
not fafe there, removed again to Lord Hillfborough's houfe in Kent,
where they remained till the diflurbances were over. In the mean
time application was made for fome foldiers to defend the palace.
A detachment of the guards was immediately fent, and centinels
were placed on the tower, and at all the avenues. On the feventh
of June, a party of the Hampfhire militia, then on their march to the
camp, was ordered there. The next day they were fucceeded by
the whole of the Northamptonfhire militia, who continued there
fome weeks; during which time the ftrideft garrifon duty was
obferved. The officers were entertained by the Archbifhop's chap-
lains, Dodlor Lort and Dodor Vyfe, who remained there the whole
time. The foldiers had their meals in the great hall. On the
eleventh of Auguft, the military quitted Lambeth.
Lambeth-houfe has, at various times, proved an afylum for learned
afyium for foreigners, who have been obliged to fly from the intolerant fpirit of
learned men. ° -,,,r iv/r j
their own countrymen. Here the early rerormers, Martyr and
Bucer, found a fafe retreat "; and here the learned Anthonio, Arch-
bifhop of Spalato, was entertained by Archbifhop Abbot. The
Duke of Or- celebrated Duke of Ormond, then Lord Thurles, was educated,
^"ther'l!"" under the care of the fame prelate, by command of James L The
Archbifhop, who thought it a very unreafonable tafk impofed upon
him, is faid to have been very negligent of his charge ".
In 1776 the palace at Lambeth was determined to be extraparo-
chial by a fuit in the common pleas.
Foundation The hiflory of the foundation of a collegiate church at Lambeth
otacoiiegiate ^^^ j^g briefly told thus: — Archbifhop Baldwin having made prepa-
Lambeth. rations for building a convent at Hakyngton in Kent, was oppofed
'* Gilpin's Life of Cranmer, p. 133, 134.
" Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond, vol. i. p. 4, 5.
la
Lambeth an
LAMBETH.
In his intentions by the monks of Canterbury, v/ho thought that fuch
an inftitution would be prejudicial to their intereft. The court of
Rome favoured the monks, and the Archbifhop was obliged to
abandon his defign. He procured therefore a piece of ground at
Lambeth, by an exchange with the church of Rochefter ", and
there laid a new foundation. His opponents being by no means
fatisfied with the alteration of the fite, renewed their application at
the court of Rome, and prolecuted their fuit with fuch fuccefs, that
Archbifhop Hubert Walter, who had completed the plan of his pre-
deceflbr Baldwin, was obliged after the convent was actually built
and inhabited, to difmifs the monks, and level the walls with the
ground. Nothing can be a greater proof of the unbounded power
of the Roman pontiffs in that age, than that a defign which had
received the approbation of the prelates and nobles of this land,
which coincided with the inclination of the monarch, and was fup-
ported by his authority, fhould be inflantaneoufly though reludtantly
abandoned, on the receipt of a Papal bull. The deflrudtion of the
convent took place in the year 1 1 99. There was afterwards a com-
promife between the monks of Canterbury and the Archbifhop, by
which it was agreed that he might build a church at Lambeth any
where, except upon the foundation of that which had been deflroyed
by the Pope's command ; that he might place therein a certain num-
ber of Premonflratenfian canons, and endow it with rents out of
fome churches belonging to the fee of Canterbury ; but they flipu-
lated that he fhould not perform any of the archiepifcopal fundlions
therein ". It does not appear that the Archbifhop ever availed him-
felf of the permifTion under thefe reftridtions. Such are the leading
fadts of a tranfaiSlion which appears to have occupied the public at-
tention very much at the time it happened, and which has been re-
*' Regift. Roffen. p. 434. ^' Diceto inter Decern Scriptores, col. 707.
N n 2 corded
^1S
houfe.
276 LAMBETH.
corded by all our ancient hiftorians". Gervafe of Canterbury has
given the account of it very much at large '\
Bithop of The fite of the convent, with the adjacent area, was afterwards
palacef"' granted by Archbifhop Hubert Walter to Gilbert de Glanville, Bifhop
ofRochefter", for the purpofe of building a houfe there for himfelf
and his fucceflbrs, who refided there occafionally till the i6th cen-
tury '*. Archbifhop Bradwardin died at this houfe in the year
1348". In Biftiop Fifher's tinae, a moft execrable murder was com-
mitted there by a cook ; who, by throwing fome poifon into
a vefTel of yeft, not only deftroyed feventeen perfons belonging to
the family, but fome poor people alfo, who were fed at the gate ;
for which horrid deed he was boiled to death in Smithfield, by a law
made for that purpofe ^*.
Carlifle. "^^^ Bifhop of Rocheftcr's houfe, which was called La Place ",
came into the hands of the crown in Henry VIII.'s time, who
granted it to Aldridge Bifhop of Carlifle, and his fucceffors";
it then took the name of Carlifle-houfe, but does not appear
ever to have been inhabited by the Bifhops of that fee, who
leafed it out. In 1647 it was fold to Matthew Hardy, for
22ol.°' Since that time its hiflory exhibits fome remarkable vi-
cifFitudes '°. It was firfl a pottery, then a tavern and a common
brothel ; and was afterwards inhabited by Mr. Froment, a cele-
brated dancing- matter, who endeavoured, without fuccefs, to get it
opened as a public place. On the fite of it, there is now an
" Diceto.BromptonChron. GervafiusDo- " R.egi(l. RofF. p. ii.
Tobcrn. inter Decern Scriptores, Matthew of '* In the Appendix to the Hiftory of Lam-
Weftminfter.&c.Holinfhed.vol. iii. 537— 539. beth, p. 158. it is faid, that either Hilfcy or
«» The account of this tranfaftion in the HiA. Heath was the laft Bi(hop who refided there,
of Lambeth, is chiefly taken thence. There *' Godwin de Prsfulibus.
is a very complete hiflory of the whole pro- °° Holinfhed's Chron. anno 153U
grefs of' this bufinefs in a MS. in the Harleian *' Reg. Wint. W. de Edindon.
Colleftion, (N° 788.) with the Pope's bulls, "' Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 73.
and all, the letters wluch paflcd on the oc- "" CI 23 Car. pt. 25. N° 8,
cafion. *° Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 74.
academy.
LAMBETH. 277
academy. The premifes are Hill furrounded with fome of the ancient
walls.
The parifh church of Lambeth is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, ^arifli
and is fituated near the water fide, adjoining the Archbifhop's palace.
The church was rebuilt between the years 1374 and 1377 ". The
tower, which is of freeftone, ftill remains ; the other parts of the
prefent flrudure appear to be about the age of Henry VII., and
moft probably were built at feveral times, in the latter end of the
15th and the beginning of the i6th centuries. In the lift of bene-
fadlions to the church, we find fome who contributed to the build-
ing of the north aifle in 1504, others to that of the fouth aifle
in 1505. Archbifhop Warham was a principal contributor to
the building of the weft end in 1519. The eaft end was probably
rebuilt before the lift of benefacftors commenced. Howard's and
Leigh's chapels were built in 1522. The church now confifts of
a nave, two aifles, and a chancel. The nave is feparated from the
aifles by octagonal pillars and pointed arches, over which are feveral
coats of arms in ftone, which are engraved in the Hiftory of Lambeth.
The church, which is built of flints mixed with ftone and brick, was
repaired and ornamented in 1769; at which time the Howard
and Leigh chapels were incorporated with it.
In one of the windows over the nave is the figure of a pedlar and ^'^1^'^^ °^*"*
his dog, painted on glafs ; the tradition concerning which is, that it
was intended for a perfon of that occupation, who bequeathed a
piece of land to the parifli, now called Pedlar's Acre. It has been
fuggefted °\ and with great probability, that this pidlure was intended
rather as a rebus upon the name of the benefador, than as defcrip-
9' In the Biihop's reglfiers nt Wincheder another commiflion to compel the inhabitants
is a commiffion to proceed againd fuch of the to build a tower for their church, then newly
inhabitants of Lambeth as refufed to contri- rebuilt, and to furnifh it with bells. Ibid,
bute to the rebuilding and repairs of the church, fol. 162. b.
dated 1374. Reg. W. Wykham, pt. 3. /. »* Hiftor)' of Lambeth, p. 31.
ii3.b. Three years afterwards there was
tive
27$
LAMBETH.
Tombs and
monuments.
Thomas
Clere.
live of his trade. In Swaffham church in Norfolk, is the portrait of
John Chapman, a great benefador to that parifh ; the device of a
pedlar and his pack occurs in feveral parts of the church ; which cir-
cumftance has given rife to nearly the fame tradition as at Lambeth ".
On a flat flone on the north fide of the chancel is the figure of a
man in armour, engraved on a brafs plate, with the arms of Clere ;
being the tomb of Thomas Clere, Efq. who died in 1545. Over it
was formerly a tablet with the following epitaph, written by the cele-
brated Earl of Surrey :
" Epitaphium Thorns Clere qui fato fundus eft 1545, audore
" Henrico Howard comite Surrienfi in cujus felicis ingenii fpecimen
" et fingularis facundix argumentum appenfa fuit ha:c tabula per
" W. Howard, filium Thomx nuper Ducis Norf. filii ejufdem Hen-
" rici comitis Surrienfis.
• " Norfolke fprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead,
" Clere of the count of Cleremont thou hight,
*' Within the womb of Ormond's race thou bred,
*' And faweft thy cofin crowned in thy fight ;
" Shelton for love, Surrey for Lord thou chafe,
" Aye me while life did laft that league was tender,
** Tracing whofe fteps thou faweft Kelfall blafe,
*' Launderfey burnt and batter'd Bulleyn's render:
*' At Muttrell gates hopelefs of all recure,
" Thine Earl half dead, gave in thy hand his will,
" Which caufe did thee this pining death procure ;
" Ere fummers four-times feven thou couldft fulfill,
*' Aye, Clere, if love had booted care or coft
" Heaven had not wonne, nor earth fo timely loft."
Catherine Ou another flab is inlaid the figure of a woman upon a brafs plate;
Lord William ftic is habited in a robe, ornamented with coats of arms; at her feet is
Howard.
*' Preface to Hearne's edition of Caii Antiquitates, p. 84.
a fquirrel.
LAMBETH. 279
a fquirrel. The veftiges of a Gothic canopy, and feveral labels, are
to be traced upon the ftone, to which was formerly affixed the fol-
lowing infcription :
" Here lyeth Catherine Howard, one of the fillers and heires of
" John Broughton, Efq. fon and heire of John Broughton, Efq.
" and late wife of the Lord William Howard, one of the fonnes of
" the right high and mighty prince Lord Thomas, late Duke of
" Norfolke, High Treafurer and Earl IMar/hal of England ; which
" Lord William and Lady Catherine left iffiie behind them, law-
" fully begotten, Agnes Howard, the only daughter and heir ; which
" faid Lady Catherine deceafed the 23'* day of Aprill, Anno Dhi.
" 1535, whofe foule Jefu pardon."
This lady was indidled, with her hufband, for concealing the m'lC-
demeanors of her namefake Queen Catherine Howard ; and being
convided, they were both fentenced to perpetual imprifonment ; but
were afterwards pardoned '*.
At the upper end of the chancel in the north wall is a rich Hugh Peynt*
Gothic tomb, ornamented with foliage ; under a flat arch are traces ^^"*
of two fmall brafs figures with labels in their mouths, which have
been torn oflf; underneath is the following infcription In the black
letter, upon a brafs plate :
" Sub pedibus ubi ftatis, jacet corpus Magiftri Hugonis Peyntwin
*' legum dodloris, nuper Archi. Cant, reverendiflimorum patrum
" Dnorum Johannis Morton Cardinalis, Henrici Dene et William
" Warham Can. Archiepifcop. audien. caufar. auditoris. Qui obiit
*' 6 die Augufti, Anno Dom. 1504. Cujus anime propitietur Deus.
" Amen."
The tomb is ornamented with the arms of Peyntwin.
On the fame fide is a monument of white and black marble, to Robert Scott,
the memory of Robert Scott, Efq. In the centre is his bull well
'♦ CoUins's Peerage, edit. 1756. vol. iii. p. 565.
executed j
28o LAMBETH.
r
executed; it is furrounded with military trophies in baflb-relievo.
On the tablet underneath is the following infcription :
" Nere to this place lyeth interred the body of Robert Scott, Efq.
" defcended of the ancient barons of Bawerie in Scotland. He bent
" himfelfe to travell and ftudie much, and amongft many other
" thinges, he invented the leather ordnance ", and carried to the
" Kinge of Sweden 200 men ; who after two yeares fervice, for his
" worth and valour was preferred to the office of quarter-mafter-
" generall of his majefty's army, which he poflelfed three yeares.
" From thence, with his favour, he went into Denmarke, (where he
*' was advanced to be generall of that King's artillerie,) there being
" advifed to tender his fervice to his own prince, which he doinge,
" his majeftie willingly accepted, and preferred him to be one of the
" gentlemen of the moft honourable prlvie chamber, and rewarded
" him with a pencion of 600 1. per annum. This defervinge fpirit,
*' adorned with all endowments befitting a gentleman, in the prime
*' of his flourifhinge age, furrendered his foule to his Redeemer,
« 1631.
" Of his greate worth to knowe who feeketh more,
" Muft mount to heaven, where he is gone before.
" In Fraunce he took to wife Anne Scott, for whofe remembrance
" fliee loveinglie erefted this memoriall."
Over the tomb are the arms of Scott, Or, 3 lions' heads erafed
Gules; impaling Vert, a greyhound fpringant Argent.
John Mom- ^'^ ^^^ fouth fide of the altar, oppofite to Peyntwin's monument,
peflon. jg jj^^^ q£ John Mompeflbn, which nearly refembles it ; the orna-
ments are not quite fo rich. A fmall brafs figure has been torn off;
underneath the vefi:iges of which is the following infcription in the
black letter :
" The leathern artillery contributed much important ferviees ; but fupprefs the merit of
to the glorious viftory of Leipfic. Hart and the inventor. Pennant's London, p. 26.
other hiftorians fpeak of the invention and its
" Hie
LAMBETH. aSi
" HIcjacet Johannes Mompeflbn de Bathampton Wyley in com.
" Wilts, Arm. e domefticis reverendiflimi patris Willielmi Warham
" Cantuar. Archiepifcopi primarius, virtute et pietate clarus ; duxit
" in uxorem Ifabellam filiam et cohasredem Thome Drewe, armigeri.
" Obiit quarto die Mail, anno 1524. Cujusanime propicietur Deus.
Amen.
The monument is ornamented with the arms of Mompeflbn, Arg.
a lion ramp. Sab. impaling Erm. a lion paflant guardant Gules, for
Drewe.
Againft the fame wall is a monument with the following In-
fcription :
" In memorle of Anthony Burleigh, third fonne of John Bur- AnthonyBur-
" leigh, late of the Ifle of White, Efq. who was Lieutenant General "^ '
" to King Charles L of bleffed memorie ; and was put to death at
" Winchefter, the 26th of January 1647, ^^^ endeavouring to re-
" leafe his facred Majefty, then prifoner in Carifbroke caftle, in the
" faid Ifle of Wight. His two elder brothers were flaine at Wor-
" cefl:er fight, in the forces of his prefent Majefl:y King Charles II.
•' this being the lafl: of that loyal family, except his truly loving
" and forrowful After, who caufed this monument to be erected.
*' Obiit 17° die Feb. anno Dni. 1681, jetatis fuse 48. Spe refur-
" gendi."
On the fame fide of the chancel are the monuments of the Arch-
bifliops Hutton and Cornwallis, with the following infcriptions, the
former of which was drawn up by the late Michael Lort, D. D.
" Infra conduntur reliquiae Matthsei Hutton, S. T. P. Epifcopi ArchbiOiop
" Bangorenfis, A. D. 1743, deinde Archiepifcopi Eboracenfis
" 1747, tandem Cantuarienfis 1757, qui obiit 19 Martii 1758, setatis
*' fu3e 65. Et Marise uxoris ejus, quae obiit 13 Mail A. D. 1779,
" setatis fus 86, duabus relidlis filiis qux pietatis ergo monumentum
" hoc utrinque parenti pofuerunt, A. D. 1781."
Vol. I. O o " Fred'
i^i
LAMBETH.
Archblfliop
Cornwallis.
Archbifhop
Bancroft.
Milo Smith.
Archbiftiop
Tenifon.
Henry
Skipwith.
" Fred' Cornwallis, Archiep. Cantuar. 1768,
♦' Ob' 19 Mart. 1783, iEt. 70."
There are infcriptions alio nearly to the fame efFedl, upon flabs In
the chancel, which cover their graves.
Within the rails of the communion table is the tomb of Arch-
bilhop Bancroft, with the following infcription on a flat ftone :
" Hie jacet Richardus Bancroft, S. Theologise profeflbr, Epus
" Londinenfis primo, deinde Cantuarienfis Archiepus, et Regi Jacobo
" a fecretioribus confiliis. Obiit 2 Novemb. A. Dni. 16 10, tetatis
" £ux 67."
Adjoining the laft-mentioned tomb, is that of Milo Smith, Arch-
bifhop Sheldon's fecretary ; the ftone is thus infcribed:
" Milo Smith, reverendiffimi in Chrifto patris, ac Dom. Dom.
" Gilberti Archiepi. Cant, fecretarius hie jacet. Obiit 17"° die Febr.
" An° Dni. 1671."
In the middle of the chancel is the tomb of Archbifhop Tenifon,
with the following infcription :
" Here lyeth the body of Thomas Tenifon, late Archbifhop of
" Canterbury, who departed this life in peace on the 14 day of De-
*' cember 171 5."
There is an infcription alfo for his wife Ann, who died Feb. 12, 1715.
Aubrey gives the following hiftorical infcription from a monument
on the north fide of the chancel which is now removed :
" Here lieththe body of Henry Skipwith, Efq. 3 fon of S' Richard
" Skipwith, Knt. which S"" Richard was chief of that antient family
" denominated of the towne of Skipwith, in Yorkfhire, the ould
" landes of Hugo fon of Baldrick, a great baron in his time, whofe
" daughter and heir Eneburga was the wife of Robert de Eftoteville,.
" Baron of Cottingham and Gnarfburge, and Vicecomes Eboraci by
*' inheritance, whofe predecefTors came in barons with the Conqueror,
" and were the greateft lords in Yoikfliire. Patrick, fecond fon of
" this Robert de Eftoteville, had by his mother Eneburga, given him
" the
LAMBETH. 283
" the towne of Sk'ipwith, and therefor was named Patricius de Skip-
*' with, in the time of Henry the Firft, fince which time in lineal
" defcent they have continued the name of Skipwith, in equeftrious
" fucceflbur, two of them having bin Kts. Bannerjets, and matched
" with heirs of very remarqueable families, and great pofTeflions both
" in Yorkfliire, their firft feat and by maridge with the heir of Skip-
" with, in the countie of Yorke. They have bine linked and are
" nerely allied tomanie honourable houfesj the Erie of Howard, Erie
*' of Bathe, Erie of Lindfey, and others. This Henry Skipwith was
" bred in the Netherlands, under that famouce Generall the ould
" Lord Willoughby, and afterwards went laften into Irland, at the
*' fiege of Blackwater, where he did divers good fervices upon the
" enemie, and at the fiege of Kinfaile, where he flew a Spanifh
" commander hand to hand. He was Lieutenant-colonel to the late
" Erie of Totnefs, and at a falie by the Spaniards out of Kinfaile
" receiving a wound, and forcing the Spaniards out of a fort, for
" which fingular deed, his generall, the then Lord Monjoy, and his
" colonell, the then Lord Carew, much graced him after that me-
" morable fiege. For his fignal merit it pleafed Queene Elizabeth to
" give him the prime honor to build hir the fort of Caflle-Purque,
*' which commanded Kinfaile, where before he had won honor ;
" fhe gave him the conftablefhip of that fort, and the ward therein,
" which was confirmed by King James, who beftowed a penfion on
" him, having fundry times modeftly refufed the order of knight-
" hood. He was for his wifdom made one of the councell of ftate
" for the province of Munfter, being one of the ouldeft captains in
" his time, who continuing a penfioner to our moft excellent King
" Charles, departed «-his mortal life March 7, Anno Dni 1630."
On the fouth fide of the chancel are the monuments of William
Suthes, mafter mafon of Windfor Caftle, who died 0£t. 5, 1625 j
Ralph Snowe, treafurer to four Archbifhops of Canterbury, a great
O o 2 benefactor
284 LAMBETH.
benefador to the church and parifh, who died Mar. 21, 1707,
aged 95; William Beefton, Efq. who died in 1639; Mrs. Elizabeth
Barfton, who died in 1703; her fon-in- law Jonathan Chilwell, Efq.
who died in 1731, and others of the family; and Mrs. Elizabeth
Newbury, who died in 1785.
On the north fide is a tablet to the memory of fome of the
children of Dr. George Hooper, Bifhop of Bath and Wells.
On flat ftones are infcriptions to the memory of John Mafon, Efq^
who died in 1768. (" He was bargemafter to the late King and his
" prefent Majefty.") John Alfop, Efq. comptroller and treafurer to
two Archbifhops of Canterbury, who died in 161 1 ; Robert Thomp-
fon, LL. D. fecretary to two Archbifhops, who died in 1683; Ca-
therine wife of John Battely, S. T. P. who died in 1685; Mr.
Peter Schrieber, who died in 1715; and Mrs. Efther Reynell, who
died in 1 79 1.
Aubrey has preferved the infcriptions of feveral tombs and mo-
numents which formerly were in the chancel, but have long fmce
been deftroyed. They were in memory of the following perfons :
Cuthbeit Tunftall, Bifhop of Durham, who died in 1559; Thomas
Thirlby, Bifhop of Ely, who died in 1570 ; (a part of this remains;)
George fon of John Lord Dynham, who died in 1487; Philippa
his daughter, who died in 1485; William Uttinge, S. T. P. who
died in 1480; Thomas Poole, Efq. of Dichelinge, in the county of
SufTex, who died in 1609; Elizabeth Howard, Countefs of Wilt-
fhire (no date) ; Sir Ambrofe Payne, parfon of Lambeth, and
bachelor of mufic, who died May 29, 1528 ; Peter Betefworth, of
Chidden, C° Somerfet, who died in 1613; and Andrew Perne,
S. T. P. who died April 26, 1589.
Elizabeth In Howard's chapel was formerly the following epitaph upon
Duchefs of . . , ^ , .
Norfolk. Elizabeth Duchefs of Norfolk, written by |ier brother Henry Lord
Stafford :
" Good
LAMBETH.
285
" Good Dutchefle of Norfolke
** the Lord have mercy upon thee j
" who dyed at Lambeth,
" The laft of November, 1558.
" Farewell, good lady and fifter dere,
" In erth we fhall never mete here j
*' But yet I truft, with Godis grace,
*' In heven we fhall deferve a place ;
" Yet thy kindnefs fhall nere depart
" During my life out of my hert ;
*' Thou waft to me both far and nere,
" A mother, a fifter, a frende moft dere :
*' And to al thy frendes moft fure and faft,
*' Whan fortune had founded the froward blaft.
" And to the powre a very mother,
** More than was known to any other ;
•' Which is thy trefure as this day,
" And for thy fowle they hertily pray,
" So I fhall do that here remayne
" God thy fowle preferve from payne.
*' By thy moft bounden brother,
" Henry Lord Stafford."
On the pavement were brafs plates to the memory of John, Henry,
and John, fons of the Earl of Surrey, who died in 1501, 1502, and
1503 ; Thomas Howard, who died in 1508, he was fon of Thomas
Lord Howard, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, by his wife Anne, fifter
to Edvv, IV; Charles fon of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey ;
Henry fon of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who died in 1 5 1 3 ; Richard
fon of Thomas Duke of Norfolk ; Elizabeth Lady Fitzwalter, wife
of Henry- Lord Fitzwalter, and daughter to Thomas Duke of
Norfolk.
On
«86 LAMBETH.
On a ftone of grey marble was the effigies of Thomas Duke of
Norfolk hirafelf, on a brafs plate with an infcription — a drawing of
his effigies and arms is preferved in a beautiful MS. on vellum, in
the pofTeffion of the Earl of Northampton. The Duke of Norfolk
died in 1524 ; he was buried at Thetford",
In the middle of the chapel was an altar-tomb, to the memory of
Agnes Duchefs of Norfolk, with her arms and effigies on a brafs
plate.
There were the tombs alfo of Jane Wynkefley, Gentlewoman to
Ann Duchefs of Norfolk, who died 34 Hen. VIII. and Mr. John
Butcher, who died in 1695.
A few of the monuments which ftill remain, are to be feen in the
north aifle. On the floor is a large flab, on the verge of which is
an infcription, nearly obliterated, to the memory of Margaret, wife
of Archbifhop Parker, who died in 1570, and her fon Matthew, who
died in 1521.
On the fouth wall, between two of the arches, which feparate the
aifle from the nave, is the monument of Chriflopher Wormall, who
died In 1639, ^^^ others of his family. On the north wall, thofe of
Robert Marfh, Efq. who died in 1704; Judith, wife of Captain
George Ralegh, (Nephew of Sir Walter,) who died in 1710 ; and
that of Colonel Morley, and his fon-in-law Bernard Granville, Efq.
On the latter is the following infcription ;
*' Near this place lye interred in the fame grave, the bodies of the
honourable Col. Cutbert Morley, who was burled on the 30th of
June 1669, and of the honourable Bernard Granville, Efq. who
efpoufed Anne, the daughter and helrefs of the faid Cutbert, and
dyed the 14th of June 1701, aged 71 years. As alfo of the ho-
nourable Anne Granville, reli£l of the faid Bernard Granville,
and daughter to the faid Cutbert Morley, by Catherine, daughter
*» Fun. Certif. Heralds' College.
*' to
LAMBETH. 287
" to Francis Earl of Scarfdale, who dyed the 20th of Sept. follow-
" ing, 1 70 1.
" Hie juxta mortales depofuit exuvlas Bernardus Granville, Bernard
. 1 T rj • Granville,
" inclyti herois Bevilii Granville, qui ad Lanldown in agro
*' Somerfetenfi, regias tuendo partes fortiter occubuit, filius ; Jo-
" hannis comitis Bathonla;, frater ; nee non fereniflimo principis
" Carolo fecundo a camera, cui tunc temporis exulanti prima
" reditus aufpicatiflimi omnia foelix nuncius apportavit. Uxorem
" duxit Annam filiam unicam & haeredem Ctitberti Morley de
" Normanby in agro Ebor. ex Catharina Francifci comitis de Scarf-
" dale filia, quam Annam viduam inconfabilem, prse pio dolore
** optumi conjugis cum quo hie forlitur tumulura, non diu
" fuperftitem reliquit. Hoc cum Cutberto, civili graflante bello,
*' regii juris aflertore ftrenuiflimo, fortifque dilapfse fidiffimo comite,
*' amoris ergo in conjugem ac focerum, hie fe recondi juflit. Ex
" prsedidlis nuptiis fufcepit fobolem, Bevilium, Georgium, Ber-
" nardum, Annam et Elizabetham. In quorum indole virtutis
" pater n£e fuperfunt vefligia. Diem ob. fupr. Jun. quart, dec.
** anno mil. fept. primo, atatis 71."
Over the monument are the arms of Granville — Gules, 3 Clarions
Or ; impaled with Sab. a leopard's head Arg. jeffant de lis Or.
In the north aifle is the tomb of Jane, wife of Captain Willis
Machell, who died in 1773.
Near the veftry door, in the fouth aifle, is a marble flab^ to the Ellas Aih-
memory of the celebrated antiquary Ellas Afhmole ; on it was the
following infcription, now fo much worn that very few of the words
are legible :
" Hie jacet inclytus ille et erudltiflimus Ellas Afhmole Lich-
*' feldienfis, armiger. Inter alia in republica munera, tributi in
*' cervifias contrarotulator, fecialis autem Windforienfis titulo per
*' annos plurimos dignatus : qui poll connubia duo In uxorem duxic
" tertiam-
a88 L A M B E T H.
" tertiam, Ellzabetham, Gulielmi Dugdale, militis ; garterl prlnci-
*' palis regis armorum, filiam, mortem obiit i8 Mail 1692, anno
" aetatls 76 ; fed durante Mufaeo Aftimoliano Oxon. nunquam mo-
•' riturus."
In the fame aifle is the tomb of "William Broughton, Efq. who
died in 17 15.
Over the gallery are the monuments of John Gofton, Efq. who
died in 1686; Sir Peter Rich, Knight, who died in 1692; Wil-
liam Hammond, Efq. who died in 1710; John Arundell, who died
in 1 71 3; Jofeph Pratt, Efq. who died in 1754, and others of that
family J and John Morris, Efq. who died in 178 1. Under the
gallery, againft the eaft wall, is a tablet, to the memory of Richard
Lawrence, merchant, who died in 1661. — At the end of the in-
fcription is the following fmgular line :
" Abfalom had no fons, and he built him a pillar."
Againft the eaft wall is a fmall monument, to the memory of
Anne Tydnam, wife, firft of Thomas Marfhall, and afterwards of
John Mannynge. She died in 1583. The figures of herfelf, her
two hufbands and children, are cut in freeftone, upon a flat furface,
in imitation of the brafs plates. Againft the north wall of the nave
is a tablet to the memory of Thomas Theobald, merchant, who
died in 1721. — On flat ftones are infcriptions to the memory of
Jane, wife of Edward Moore, Efq. of Stockwell, who died in 1780,
and of Thomas Tolfon, Efq. who died in 1788.
At the weft end of the church, againft the fouth wall, is the
monument of Nathaniel Hookes, Efq. who died in 171 2. In the
pafl"age between the church and the palace is the tomb of Arch-
bifliop Seeker, over which is the following infcription :
" Thomas Seeker,
" Archbifhop of Canterbury,
" Died Aug. 3, 1768, aged 75."
In
LAMBETH. 289
In the church-yard is the monument " of Tohn Tradefcant, which J°''" Tradef-
•^ •' ' cant.
was ereded in 1662, and repaired by fubfcription in 1773, when
the following infcription was reftored :
" Know, ftranger, ere thou pafs, beneath this ftone
" Lye John Tradefcant, grandfire, father, fon ;
" The laft dy'd in his fpring ; the other two
" Liv'd till they had travell'd art and nature through,
" As by their choice collecfiions may appear,
" Of what is rare in land, in feas, in airj
" Whift they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut)
" A world of wonders in one clofet fhut :
" Thefe famous antiquarians that had been
" Both gardeners to the rofe and lily queen,
*' Tranfplanted now themfelves, fleep here ; and when
*' Angels fhall, with their trumpets awaken men,
" And fire fhall purge the world, thefe hence fhall rife
" And change their garden for a paradife."
In the church-yard are alfo (among others) the tombs of Jacob Duche, Tombs in the
Efq. of Philadelphia, who died in 1708 ; John Ranfum, Efq. who died
in 1746 ; Daniel Buffington, Efq. who died in 1780; William Faden,
the original printer of the Public Ledger, who died in 1783; Samuel
Swabey, Efq. who died in 1 790 ; FrancisWood, Efq. who died in 1 783 ;
Captain Wilfon, who died in 1785; the Reverend Alexander Mair,
who died in 1781 ; William Chilwell, Efq. who died in 1731 ; Frances,
wife of Thomas Baker, Efq. who died in 1 78 1 ; Mr. Peter Bufcarlett,
who died in 1761, and others of his family; Hugh Hancock,
fon of John Hancock, Prebendary of Canterbury, who died in 1752 ;
Mr. Richmond Thornycroft, who died in 1 771 ; Thomas Green, Efq.
who died in 1779, and others of his family ; Fenwick Lyddall, Efq.
of London, who died in 1 78 1 ; Ann, wife of Thomas Connor, Efq.
*' Two plates of this monument are in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, vol. Ixiii. pi. iv &
v.; and in the Appendix to the Hillory of Lambeth.
Vol. I. P p and
2f,Q LAMBETH.
and Sarah, wife of the Reverend Francis Kelly Maxwell, who both
died in 1780.
Againft the fouth wall of the church, near the door, is a tablet, to
the memory of Mr. William Bacon, who was killed by a flafli of
lightning, July 12th, 1787.
Burial- The burial-ground in the High-flreet was confecrated in the
^"^ ' year 1705 by Archbiftiop Tenifon, who gave it to the parifh. The
ceremonial of the confecration is inferted at length in his Regifter "'.
Amongft the tombs in this cemetery are thofe of the following
perfons : Mary, wife of Clement Prefton, Efq. of Horton, in the
county of Gloucefter, who died in 1771; John Pritchard, Efq. who
died in 1776; Keturah, wife of the Reverend Primat Kemp, Redor
of Shenley, Bucks, who died in 1789 ; Henry Baylis, Gent, of
Stroud, in the county of Gloucefter, who died in 1789; and Wil-
liam Milton, an engraver, who died in 1790.
Reftory. The advowfon of the Redory of Lambeth belonged to the monks
of Rochefter, under the grant of William the Conqueror, till the
exchange took place between that church and the Archbifhop of
Canterbury, fmce which time it has been the property of his fucceflbrs.
In 1 29 1, it was taxed at forty-five marks, exclufive of a penfion
of five marks paid to the Bifhop of Rochefter ". This penfion was
procured by Gilbert de Glanville, in the year 1196, as a compen-
fation for certain profits which he received out of the manor of
Lambeth '°°: — it is ftill paid. It was prefented at the inqulfition at
Kingfton (in the year 1658) before the committee appointed to
inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that Mr. John
Rawlinfon was then Re£lor of Lambeth ; that the profits of the
redtory were about 190I. per annum; that feveral houfes in the
parifti of Lambeth were above two miles from the parifti church,
and fcarcely two furlongs from that of Camberwell ; and that many
" Regift. Lamb. Tenifon, pt. I. f. 227. 9» See note, p. 10.
b.— 229. a, '"^ Regifl. Roffens. p. 12.
houfes
LAMBETH. 291
houfes in Norwood were about four miles diftant from Lambeth,
and not more than two from Stretham. The Commiffioners, how-
ever, who were veiled with powers to unite, or feparate parifhes,
did not think fit to divide thefe hamlets from Lambeth "". The
redlory is valued in the King's books at 32 1. 15 s. yf d. A parfon-
age-houfe was built by adt of parliament in the year 1778 '".
Gilbert de Glanville, Bifhop of Rochefter, and Lord Chief Juftice |^^°;^j^
of England, was inftituted to the redory of Lambeth in the year Glanville.
1 196 '"' ; the fame year in which he procured the penfion out of the
redory for his fucceflbrs in the fee of Rochefter. It is not impro-
bable, therefore, that he accepted of the living to facilitate that
defign.
Thomas de Eltefle, chaplain to Archbifhop Stratford, was infti- Thomas de
tuted in 1348 '°*, and was the firft mafter of Corpus Chrifti College, '^ ^'
Cambridge '°'.
Henry, Bifhop of Joppa, erroneoufly called, in the Hiftory of Henry, Bi-
. ,o6 Ihopofjoppa.
Lambeth, Henry Jopper, or Joppen, was mftituted m 147 1
John Porye, inftituted in 1563"", tranflated Leo's Hiftory of johnPorye.
Africa '°^
Thomas Blague, inftituted in 1576"', was Dean of Rochefter, and Thomas
author of fome fermons "°. There is reafon for fuppofing that he had ^ ^^"^*
a fhare in writing the Antiquities of the Church of England, a book
which goes under Archbifhop Parker's name, and is generally fup-
pofed to have been the work of various learned perfons, who were
entertained under his roof, and employed by him in divers ufeful
'°' Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. •"* Reg. Lamb. Bourchier, f. 103. b. Sc
Library. Reg. Wint. Waynfleet, pt. 2. f. 5. b.
'"■ Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 44—48. '°' Reg. Lamb. Parker, f. 362. b.
'°' In the eighth year of the pontificate of '°^ Hift. of Lambeth, p. 3;.
Godfrey, Bifhop of Winchefler, Rcgirt. Roff". '°' Reg. Lamb. Grindall, f. 515. a. Sc
p. 13. Reg. Wint. Home, f. 107.3.
'°+Reg.Wint.W. deEdyndon.pt. i.f.42.a. "» Lives of eminent Cambridge Men. Har-
•°s Mailer's Hift. ofC. C. C. Cambridge, Jeian MSS.
p. 17.
P p 2 publica-
29i LAMBETH.
publications. In a letter from Edward Deering to the Lords, In
which he endeavours to exculpate himfelf from the charge of pro-
phefying that Parker would be the laft Archblfhop of Canterbury,
he fays, that Mr. Blague commending, in his prefence, a work that
he was about of the Archbifhops of Canterbury, he (Mr. Deering)
faid, that he would do well to be fomewhat long in the life of the
prefent Archbifhop, as peradventure he was the laft that would fit
in that place "°.
Daniel Feat- Daniel Featley, who was inftituted in 1618, was a native of
^' Oxfordfhire, and a fellow of Corpus Chrifti College. He com-
menced his career as an author with a little tra£t called, A Handmaid
to Devotion, which was well received. He afterwards entered into
the field of controverfy, in which his pen became conftantly en-
gaged. At a time when the caufe of religion was one of the greateft
pretexts for civil commotion, this could not fail of rendering him
a diftinguiflied character. Featley was in principles a Calvinift ; the
editors of the Biographia '" call him an eminent Puritan divine. In
many points, indeed, he is faid to have favoured that party, and to
have been much carefled by them, as they thought that confiderable
fupport might be derived from his learning and chara£ter"\ In
1642 he was appointed one of the aflembly of divines, and, whilft
he fat there, was employed by the Houfe of Commons to review
St. Paul's Epiftles, and to make marginal annotations and expo-
fitions '". He adhered, however, too much to the forms and
eftablifliments of the church of England to continue long in favour
with a party of men who were confpiring its deftrudion. He was
foon afterwards articled againft before the committee for plundered mi-
nifters, by whom he was voted out of his living of Lambeth. From
this fentence, which was given at a very fmall meeting, he appealed,
"^ Murden's Burleigh State Papers, p. 272. p. 169. Lord Clarendon's Hiftory of the Re-
*" Edit. 1750. bellion, vol. ii. p. 370.
'" Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, "' Walker's Sufferings, p. 169.
and
LAMBETH. 293
and was reftored by a full committee, who pafled a cenfure upon the
articles which had been exhibited againfi: him "*. About this time
it happened, that a letter of Dr. Featley's to Archbifhop Ufher, then
at Oxford, was intercepted. In this letter, which it muft be owned
does not refledt much credit upon his difmtereftednefs, he defires
the Archbifhop to reprefent to the King, that he was fecretly his
friend ; that he kept his feat in the aflembly of divines only to
render him fervice ; and concludes with a requeft, that he might be
promoted to the firft vacant Bifhopric or Deanery "'. Upon this
difcovery, the committee were fo far exafperated againft; him, that
in their refeiitment they forgot juftice and confiftency, for they
punifhed him upon the very articles which they had before voted falfe
and fcandalous '". He was thereupon deprived again of his church
preferment, and committed a prifoner to Petre-houfe '". After fome
months ftridl confinement, being in a very infirm ftate of health, he
was permitted to go upon bail to CheJfea college, of which he was
Provoft "\ He died there April 17, 1645, in the 61ft year of his
age, and was buried at Lambeth on the 21 ft. His funeral fermon,
which is extant, was preached by Dr. Leo ; the fame, fays a jour-
nalift of that time '", who preached on " Adam, where art thou ?"
when one Mr. Adams anfwered, " Z,o<?, here am L" Dr. Leo, in
his fermon, fpeaks very highly of Dr. Featley's charader, from an
intimacy of many years, gives a little fketch of his life, and takes
fome pains to confute a report of his being infane in his laft illnefs.
One of the parliamentary writers, who cannot be fufpe£led of par-
tiality towards Featley, fpeaks of him as a man " famous for learn-
" ing, and for his great pains-taking in confuting of the moft
" dangerous and peftilential tenets of the priefts, jefuits, and ana-
"* Walker's Sufferings, p. 75 — 78. p. 78.
■" Lord Clarendon's Hiltory of the Re- ■" Perfeft Diurnal, 0&. 2, 1643.
bellion, vol. ii. p. 371. '" Walker, p. 170.
'" Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, '■» Perfeft Paffages, April 16, 1645.
" baptifts."
294
LAMBETH.
John White.
Robert Pory.
Thomas
Tomkyns.
Biftiop
Hooper.
Bilhop Gib-
fon.
John Denne.
" baptifts '"." Dr. Featley publifhed the lives of Blfhop Jewell and
Archbifliop Abbot, and very numerous controverfial trads '".
John White, who procured the living of Lambeth after Dr. Feat-
ley's deprivation, ufually went by the name of Patriarch White of
Dorchefter. He was efleemed one of the moft moderate and learned
among the Puritans. Dr. Featley's library was given him till he
fhoul4 recover his own books, which had been feifed by Prince Ru-
pert. White publifhed " Diredions for ftudying the Scriptures ;"
Commentaries on the two firft chapters of Genefis, and a few fmall
trads '".
Robert Pory, Inftituted to the reftory in 1663, was one of the moft
remarkable pluralifts of his time. Poor Robin's Almanack, which
was firft publifhed in that year, is faid to have been fo called in
ridicule of him. In the firft page was " Imprimatur, Robert
" Pory'"."
Thomas Tomkyns, who publifhed feveral loyal pamphlets, fucceed-
ed Pory '".
George Hooper fucceeded the laft-mentioned incumbent, and re-
figned the re(3:ory in 1703, on being made Bifhop of St. Afaph. He
was foon afterwards tranflated to Bath and Wells, in which fee he
continued till his death, which happened in 1727. Bifhop Hooper
publifhed a coUedion of fermons, feveral theological works, and a
treatife on ancient weights and meafures '*'.
The next redor of Lambeth was Edmund Gibfon, afterwards
Bifhop of London, well-known in the learned world for his many
excellent and ufeful publications ; particularly the Codex, or Body of
Ecclefiaftical Law, and an edition of Camden's Britannia.
John Denne, D. D. inftituted to this living in 1731, was Archdeacon
of Rochefter, the archives of which church he arranged with great
»" Perfefl Declaration of Proceedings in
Parliament, April 26, &c.
"9 A. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 77.
*»» Ibid. col. 115, 116.
"' Ibid. vol. ii. falli.
•" Ibid, vol.ii. col. 548.
"^ Biographia Britannica.
care
LAMBETH. 295
care and diligence, and made confiderable colledions towards its
hiftory, with a view to publication. Dr. Denne was chaplain to
Bifhop Bradford, whofe daughter he married. He died in 1767,
aged 75. Several of his fermons are extant "*.
The prefent redtor of Lambeth is the Reverend William Vyfe,
LL. D. who was inftituted in 1 777, on the refignation of Dr. Beilby
Porteus, the prefent Bifhop of London, then promoted to the bi-
fhopric of Chefter.
A chantry was founded in the church of Lambeth in the year Romayne's
1312 by Thomas Romayne; and endowed with fix marks annual
rent, ifluing out of certain houfes in London, after the death of his
wife Juliana "'.
Another chantry was founded by John Wynter, lord of the manor Wynter's
of Stockwell, at what period does not appear ; it was reftored by "^ ^°"^^*
Ralph Legh, lord of the fame manor, in the reign of Henry VL and
endowed with lol. annual rent'". Sir John Legh granted the
lands which had belonged to this chantry to Henry "VIII. '"
The parifh regifter commences in the year 1539, and, excepting a par!(h re-
few deficiencies in the latter part of the laft century, appears to have ^' "'
been very accurately kept.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. Comparative
80 ftateofpopu-
. 0—1589 74. _ — 90 lation. ^^
1680 — 1689 about 185 -^ about 265
1780 — 1789 510 :'-aiu- — 629
1780— 1785 473 — — 625
1785— 1789 ~ 547 — — 633
1790 632 — — 626
1791 618 — ■• — 620
i»+ Thorp's CuftomaJe Roffen. p. 233, 234. Lamb. Reynolds, f. zdc— 262.
Matter's Hiftory of C. C. C. Cambridge, '" Pat. 3; Hen. VI. pt. I. m. i.
p. 277, 278, and Appendix, p. 95. ''' Grants temp. Hen. VIH. Augmenta-
"' Pat. 15 Edw.Il.pt. 1. m. 21. & Regift. tion-office..
The
296
LAMBETH.
Plague years.
The period of 1680 — 1689 is not quite perfe£l in the reglfler, but
the average may be calculated pretty nearly at the numbers let down.
It may be obferved, that the burials have uniformly exceeded the
baptifms ; and that they have both increafed, from the firft period to
the time of the laft average, in a ratio of nearly 7 to i. In the
period of 1780 — 1789, the average of baptifms, during the laft five
years, exceeds that of the former five by 74; that of burials
being nearly equal. By an account taken in the beginning of the
prefent century, it appears, that the parifli of Lambeth then contain-
ed 1400 houfes. In 1778 the houfes, being numbered by Mr. Mid-
dleton, amounted to 2270. In October 1788 they were numbered
again, and were found to be increafed to 3759. At Michaelmas
1791, the number was 4030. The prefent number is about 4150,
including thofe which are empty ; building ; or newly built, and not
yet inhabited ; thefe are calculated at nearly 500. The building of
Weftminfter-bridge may be confidered as the sera when the rapid in-
creafe of the population of this parifh commenced. The work-
houfe, which is under very excellent regulations, contains about 300
perfons.
In 1603 there were ^66 burials, of which 522 were in the laft
fix months. Twelve corfes were frequently buried in one night,
fometimes fourteen. In 1625 there were 623 burials; in 1665, 753;
the greateft mortality prevailed in the autumn of each year, as may
be feen by the following table :
1625.
1665.
In July
61
In July - 25
Auguft
179
Auguft - 71
September
177
September 170
Odober -
68
0£tober - 194
November
39
November 134
December
13 '
December 45
Mtfcellaneous
LAMBETH. 297
M'lfcellafieoiis KxtraEls from the Regifler.
" 0£l. 8, 1545, Sir George Come the curate "buried."
" Odt. 13, my Lady Agnes olde Dutchefle Norf. buried." This Agnes
Duchefs of Norfolk was daughter of Hugh Tilney, Efq. and fifter Norfolk.
and heir of Sir Philip Tilney. She was fecond wife of Thomas
Earl of Surrey, who was created Duke of Norfolk in 15 13'*'.
This entry relates perhaps to the celebration of her funeral. She
was buried at Thetford.
" May II, 1554, the Lady Bridgewater buried." Catherine, LadyBxidge-
. . water.
daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk by his fecond wife, was
married to Henry Daubeney Earl of Bridgewater"*.
" Dec. 8, 1558, the Dutchefs of Norfolk buried." She was the Elizabeth
fecond wife of Thomas Howard, the fecond Duke of Norfolk of Norfolk.
that name, and was daughter of Edward Stafford Duke of Buck-
mgham .
*' Feb. 22, 1558-9, my Lady of Oxford was buried." Anne Countefsof
daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk married John Vere Earl
of Oxford '".
" Nov. 29, 1559, Cutbert Tunftall a Popifli Byfhop was buried." Bi^op Tun-
Bifhop Tunftall was a ftriking inftance of the viciffitudes of for-
tune ; being deprived, reftored, and deprived again. Unlike moft
of his brethren in the reign of the cruel Mary, he behaved with great
moderation and humanity towards the members of the reformed
church. On the accefTion of Queen Elizabeth he was fent to Lam-
beth-houfe in the month of July 1559, and committed to the free
cuftody of Archbifhop Parker, who treated him with the utmoft:
kindnefs and humanity ; and at his death, which happened on the 1 8th
of November following, buried him at his own expence in Lambeth
church'^*. Bilhop Tunftall wrote feveral theological treatifes.
•*' Dugdale's Baronage, vd. ii. p. 268. '^* Biographia Britannica, Lloyd's Wor-
"9 Ibid. '3» Ibid. '^ Ibid. thies, &c.
Vol. L Qjq The
298
LAMBETH.
<(
«
Bidiop
Thirleby.
The following epitaph, written by Dr. Haddon, was infcribed upon
his grave-ftone :
" Anglia Cutbertum Tunftallum maefta requirit
*' Cujus fumma domi laus erat atque foris,
Rhetor, arithmeticus, jurifconfultus et sequi,
Legatufque fuit ; denique praful erat,
** Annorum fatur et magnorum plenus honorum,
*' Vertitur in cineres aureus ifte fenex.
" Vixitannos 75. — Obiit 18 Novem. 1559."
Mrs. Parker. u Aug. 1 8, 1570, buried the right worfhipfiil vertuous and god-
*' lye matron miftrefs Margaret Parker, late wife of the moft re-
" verent father in God Matthew Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury,
" and lieth in the fouth chapel called the Dutchefs of Norfolk's
" chapell." Mrs. Parker had purchafed the inheritance of the Duke
of Norfolk's houfe, to which this chapel belonged. The Archbifhop,
who wrote a treatife on the lawfulnefs of priefls marrying, was pri-
vately married to her before the ftatute which enjoined celibacy
to the clergy was repealed '". Queen Elizabeth, who could never be
reconciled to this part of the reformation, is faid to have exprefled
her diflike of it thus rudely, upon taking her leave of Mrs. Parker,
after having been fumptuoufly entertained at Lambeth : — " Madam
" I may uot call you, M'ljlrefs I am afhamed to call you ; yet as
" I know not what to call you, yet I thank you '^*."
" 1570, Aug. 28 dale, buried Mr. Thomas Thurlebye, Dodor of
" the civil lawe, borne in Cambridge, and ftudent fometyme of
" Trynity Hall there, and fometyme Bufhop of Weftminfter, after-
" wards Bufliop of Norwich ; and in Q^Marye's dales Bufhop of
" Elye ; who in the tyme of the noble Kinge Edward, profefled
" the truthe of the Holy Gofpell j and afterwards, in the tyme of
"" Parker's Antiquities, edit. Drake, p.
549-
"♦ Sir J° Harrington's View of the State
of the Church, p. 4.
" Queene
LAMBETH. 299
^' Queene Mary, returned to paplftry, and fo continued in the fame
*' to his end ; and died the Quene's Maj" prifoner within my L.
*' Grace's houfe at Lambeth." Bifhop Thirleby was introduced at
court by Archbifhop Cranmer '", and was a favourite with Henry
VIIL who employed him in fome foreign embaflies. He was the
firft and only Bifhop of Weftminfter. Queen Mary joined him
with Bonner in the commiflion for burning his former patron Arch-
bifhop Cranmer, over whom it is faid that he fhed tears, whilfl his
companion aded the part of an unfeeling inquifitor "'. Thirleby
was ten years a prifoner in Lambeth-houfe, where he was treated
with great humanity; and at his death his remains were laid by thofe
of his fellow-prifoner Tunftall, in the chancel of Lambeth church ;
the following fhort infcription was placed over his grave :
" Hie jacet Thomas Thirlebye, Olim Ep' Elien.
" Qui ob. 26 Aug. Anno Domini 1570."
Upon opening the ground a few years ago for the burial of Arch-
bifhop Cornwallls, Bifhop Thirleby's body was found entire in a
leaden coffin. It was wrapped in fine linen. The face was perfedl;
the beard white, and of great length. On the head was a filk cap,
adorned with point lace ; a flouched hat with firings was under the
arm. The coffin was properly clofed up again, and has been co-
vered with a brick arch '".
" June 6, 1575, was buried the Right Reverend Father in God Archbiihop
Matthew Archbifhop of Canterbury." Archbifhop Parker's bowels
were depofited near the remains of his wife and fon in the Howard
chapel '''; his body, as mentioned before, was interred in the chapel of
the palace.
»3s Strype's Life of Archbifhop Cranmer, '" Appendixto the Hift.of Lambeth,p. 89.
P- 9°' '^' Strype's life of Archbilhop Parker,
"* Godwin de Prsfulibus. p. ^gS.
Oil 2 " 1589,
300 LAMBETH.
Dr.Perne. « 1^89, May the firft daye, burled Mr. Andrew Feme, Doiflor.**
Do£lor Feme '" was a native of Norfolk, Dean of Ely, and Mafter of
Peter-Houfe Cambridge. He is accufed of having changed his
religion four times in twelve years ; it is acknowledged at the
fame time, that by his influence he faved many innocent perfons
from the flames. Dr. Perne was much given to jefting, of which the
following inftance is told among many others : — One day he hap-
pened to call a clergyman a fool, who was not totally undeferving of
the title ; but who refented the indignity fo highly, that he threaten-
ed to complain to his diocefan the Bifhop of Ely. — " Do," fays the
Dodtor, " and he will confirm you." Fuller '*° tells an extraor-
dinary ftory relating to Dr. Feme's death, which he attributes to the
mortification he received from a jeft pafled upon him by theQueen's
fool ; — The Doiflor was at court one day with Archbilhop Whitgiff,
who had been his pupil. The afternoon was rainy, yet the Queen
was refolved to ride abroad, contrary to the inclination of the ladies
of the court, who were to attend her on horfeback. They employed
Clod, therefore^ the Queen's jefter, to difl!uade her majefty from fo
inconvenient a journey. Clod readily undertook the tafk, and ad-
drefled her majefty thus: — " Heaven difliiades you, it is cold and wet;
*' earth difluades you, it is moift and dirty. Heaven difluades you,
*' this heavenly-minded man Archbifhop Whitgift ; and earth dif-
*' fuades you, your fool Clod, fuch a lump of clay as myfelf ; and
" if neither will prevail, here is one who is neither heaven nor
** earth but hangs between both, Dr. Perne, and he alfo diflliades
" you." " Hereat, fays Fuller, the Queen and the courtiers laughed
" heartily, whilft the Dodor looked fadly j and going over with his
" Grace to Lambeth, foon died."
•" In the Rolls' chapel is the record of a bow, Pat. 5 Eliz. pt. 3. July 29.
licence to Andrew Feme, to flioot in a crofi- '♦" Worthies, pt. 2. p. 253.
*t
Dec.
LAMBETH. 301
" Dec. I, IC07, Richard Cofen, Dean of the Arches, buried." p>-- Richard
' '^-'' Conn.
Dr. Cofin is fpoken of as a very learned man and a general fcholar.
He never publiflied any thing except a Defence of the High Com-
miffion Court. There is a life of him by Bifhop Barlow, who had
been his pupil, and who was educated at his expence '*'.
" Nov. 3, 1 610, the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Archblfhop
" Bancroft Archbifhop of Canterbury, buried," Archbifhop Bancroft
died at Lambeth on the 2d of November. By his will he ordered
his body to be buried in the chancel of the church there, within fifty
hours after his deceafe ; and that Abbot, Bifhop of London, Harfnet,
Bifhop of Chichefter, or one of his chaplains, fhould be defired to
preach his funeral fermon in Lambeth church within a month, and
make fuch mention of him as might tend to God's glory '**.
" Sept. 12, 161 1, Simon Forman, Gent, buried." This was Dr. Simon
Forman the celebrated aftrologer ; he was of a very refpedable fa-
mily, being the grandfon of Sir Thomas Forman of Leeds, Knt. and
great-grandfon of another Sir Thomas Forman. He was born at
Quidham in Wiltfhire in 1552, and was apprenticed to a druggift in
Salifbury. He afterwards fet up a fchool there, and having acquired
the fum of forty fhillings, fet off to Oxford, where he became a poor
fcholar at Magdalen College, and continued there two years. He
then applied himlelf to the fludy of phyfic and aftrology ; and after
having travelled to Holland for that purpofe, fettled in Philpot Lane,
where his pradtice was oppofed by the phyficians, and he was four
times fined and imprifoned. To obviate thefe difficulties he went to
ftudy at Cambridge, where he took a do£tor's degree, and got a
licence to pradice ; being thus fortified againft all future attacks,
he fettled at Lambeth, where he openly profelTed the joint oc-
cupation of a phyfician and aftrologer. " Here he lived," fays
Lilly '*\ " with good refpeft of the neighbourhood, being very
'•*• Fuller's Worthies, pt. i. p. 296. '■•'Lilly's Hiftory of his Life and Times,.
*** iJiographia Britannica.. p. 1.7.
" charitable
302 LAMBETH.
" charitable to the poor, and was very judicious and fortunate in
" horary queftions and ficknefles." He was much reforted to by all
ranks of people ; among others, the famous Countefs of Eflex ap-
plied to him for his afliftance in her wicked defigns, and wrote many
letters to him, in which (he calls him " dear father," and fubfcribes
herfelf " your affe£tionate daughter, Frances Eflex'**." Lilly fays, that
Forman would frequently lock himfelf up in his ftudy to avoid her;
but the contrary appeared upon the trials of the Countefs of Efl"ex
and Mrs. Anne Turner, for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
Upon the Countefs's trial, a book of Dr. Forman's was produced,
in which he made all his vifitors write their names with their own
hands before he would proceed to exercife his art. It is faid that
the recital of the names produced much mirth in the court, pro-
ducing many unexpedled difcoveries, and that the Chief Juftice Coke
found his own lady's name upon the firft leaf "'^ A ftrange ftory of
Dr. Forman's death is thus told by Lilly: — "The Sunday night
*' before he died, his wife and he being at fupper in their garden-
" houfe, flie being pleafant, told him that fhe had been informed he
" could refolve whether man or wife fhould die firft. Whether
" (hall I (quoth fhe) bury you or no ? Oh, Trunco, (for fo he called
*' her,) thou wilt bury me, but thou wilt fore repent it. Yea, but
" how long firft ? I fhall die, faid he, ere Thurfday night. Monday
" came ; all was well. Tuefday came ; he was not fick. Wednef-
" day came, and ftill he was well ; with which his impertinent wife
" did twit him in the teeth. Thurfday came, and dinner was ended,
" he very well ; he went down to the water-fide and took a pair of
" oars to go to fome buildings he was in hand with in Puddle Dock.
" Being in the middle of the Thames, he prefently fell down,
" only faying, an impoft, an impoft, and fo died ; a moft fad ftorm
■*♦ Coke's Deteftion, p. 63.
»+s Weldon's Charafter of the Court of James I. p. 101 — 103.
of
LAMBETH. 303.
" of wind immediately enfued '*'." He died worth one thoufand
two hundred pounds, and left one fon named Clement. Dr. Forman
publiftied feveral books, on the philofopher's ftone, magic, aftro-
logy, natural hiftory, and natural philofophy ; two treatifes on the
plague, and fome religious trails '*'. Some of his MSS. on aftro-
logy are in the Britifli Mufeum "*'. The ftudy of that fcience, which
is now confined to a few illiterate impoftors, was then profefTed and
countenanced by perfons of the greateft learning and refpedability.
Dr. Forman's pupil and fucceflbr was Dr. Napier, re£lor of Lind- Dr. Napier.
ford in Buckinghamfhire, and fon of Sir Robert Napier of Luton
Hoo. He is faid to have furpafled his mafter in phyfic and holinefs,
to have converfed with the angel Raphael, and to have cured difeafes
by conftellated rings '*'. We have had empirics and enthufiafts of
late who have profefled to cure difeafes by means as extraordinary,
and who have had their pretended conferences with angels ; nor have
there been wanting thofe who have been credulous enough to liften
to them. Dr. Napier's papers came into the hands of Mr. Afhmole,
and are now in the Mufeum at Oxford. Lilly fays, he was prefent
when Dr. Napier invocated feveral angels ; but he does not tell us
that they obeyed his call ; he fays alfo, that he inftruded feveral
minifters in aftrology, whom he protedled by his intereft with the
Earl of Bolingbroke "°.
Lambeth feems to have been famous for the refidence of aftrolo-
gers. Contemporary with Dr. Forman was a Captain Bubb, who Captain
lived in the Marfli ; not having been fo fuccelsful in his praftice as
his neighbours, he got into the pillory, and ended his days in dif-
grace "". Francis Moore, the original author of the almanac which Francis
^ ^ Moore,
ftill goes by his name, refided at Lambeth alfo, where he pradifed
as an aftrologer "*.
•♦« Lilly's Life, p. 22, 23. •« Lilly's Life, p. 78.
'*' Morris's Lives of Eminent Cambridge- "" Ibid. p. 79.
men, Harleian MSS. Britilh Muf. N° 7177. 's' Ibid. p. 36, 37.
'♦' N" 3822, Ayfcough's Cat. "» Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 64.
" Jan.
304
LAMBETH.
sir Noel
Caron.
Mllo Smith.
Thomas
Blood.
Bernard
Granville.
" Jan. 29, 1617-8, Hoc tempore obiit Sir William Fofter, Knt.
" whofe bowels were buried here." Sir William Fofter was buried
at Wandfworth.
" Jan. 25, 1624-5, Sir Noel Caron, embaflador from the United
" Provinces, buried." Sir Noel Caron's funeral certificate expreffes,
that he was leger ambaflador from the States of the Netherlands to
the Englifli court, for the fpace of ^^ or 34 years, in which time he
performed that place with much honour and good to his own coun-
try and ftate here. He died at his houfe at Lambeth, Dec. i, 1624,
and was buried with due folemnity in the chancel of the church
there. Archbilhop Abbot preached his funeral fermon.
" Feb. 22, 1 67 1, Milo Smith, Efq. Secretary to the Lord Arch-
" bifhop of Canterbury, buried." He was fecretary to Archbifhop
Sheldon, and wrote a practical paraphrafe on the Pfalms "\
•* Jan. 16, 1673, Eliz. daughter of Thomas Blood, buried." I
imagine this to be the famous Col. Thomas Blood, fo well known for
his daring attempt on the regalia in the Tower, and his attack on the
Duke of Ormond. He was pardoned, fet at liberty, and, ftrange to
tell ! had a penfion allowed him about the year 1671'".
" Jan. 22, 1701, Bernard Granville, Efq. buried." He was
father of the celebrated Lord Lanfdowne, and fon of Sir Beville
Granville, who was flain near Bath in the civil wars. He was the
perfon entrufted with the laft difpatches from General Monk to
Charles II. which contained the invitation to return and take poflef-
fion of his kingdom "*.
In 1709 arefeveral entries of the burial of Palatine children and
women, and again in 1749'".
"' A. Wood's Athen.Oxon. vol. ii. p. 496. tines came into England this year, as an afy-
•55 Biograph. Britannica. lum. Salmon's Chronology. A great num-
"♦ Biograph. Britannica, p. 2342, in the ber of them were lodged in the long barn
notes, edit. 1750. at Kennington. Hillory of Lambeth, p. 93.
'»' Six or feven thoufand dillrefled Pala-
te
Dec.
LAMBETH.
305
" Dec. 16, 1715, Thomas Tenifon, Lord Bifliop, buried." Arch- Archbifhop
Tenifon.
bifhop Tenifon publifhed a pamphlet againfl Hobbes, and a treatife
on the DiiFerence between Idolatry and Superftition. At eighty years
of age he put the crown upon the head of George I. '" By his will
hedireded his body to be buried in a private manner in the chancel of
Lambeth church, and requefted that no other infcription than what
now appears fhould be put upon his tomb.
" Jan. I, 1757, Thomas Cooke, Gent. South Lambeth, buried." Thomas
Thomas Cooke was the fon of an innkeeper in Eflex. He became
an author at an early period of life. A tranflation of Hefiod, from
which he obtained the name of Hefiod Cooke, has been reckoned his
befl: work. He attacked Pope in a poem entitled, The Battle of the
Poets, which procured him a niche in the Dunciad. His dramatic
produftions, fome of which were aded at Drury Lane, were by no
means fuccefsful. His other works confifted of various odes, a vo-
lume of poems, the life of Andrew Marvel, tranflations of Terence
and Cicero, an edition of Virgil, and fome treatifes on religious
fubjeds, written in the unitarian principles. He undertook a tranf-
lation of Plautus, which was never completed, and was for fome years
author of the Craftfman. Cooke came to live at South Lambeth
in 1 740, where he remained till his death. He died in great poverty,
and was interred in the burial ground in High-ftreet, by a fub-
fcription, fet on foot by Sir Jofeph Mawbey ; the remainder of
which was given to his wife and daughter. Mrs. Cooke furvived
him only a few months, and his daughter, whofe imprudence had
driven her into Lambeth workhoufe, died there the enfuing year.
Sir Jofeph Mawbey has three volumes of Cooke's MSS. in folio,
and a tragedy called Germanicus.
" Mar. 5, 1757, Edward Moore, Gent. South Lambeth, buried." Edward
Mr. Moore was the fon of a diflenting minifter at Abingdon. He is
well known by his dramatic performances of the Foundling and the
•" Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men, Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 7177.
Vol. L R r Gamefter;
3o6
LAMBETH.
Archbiihop
Hutton.
Archbiihop
Seeker.
Archbifhop
Cornwallis.
Countefi de
la Motte.
Inftances of
longevity.
Gamefter; by his Female Fables, and other poems, particularly " the
" Trial of Selim the Perfian." He was author alfo of a periodical
publication called the World, in which he was affifted by fome emi-
nent literary characters, who are yet living. Whilft he was engaged
in this publication, he refided at South Lambeth in a houfe now
occupied by Mr. Graham. He died there a few days after the laft
number came out, and was buried in the burial ground in High-ftreet.
" May 27, 1758, the moft Reverend Father in God, Matthew
" Hutton, Archbifhop of Canterbury, buried."
" Aug. 9, 1768, the moft Rev. Father in God, Thomas Seeker,
" Lord Archbiihop of Canterbury, buried." Archbifhop Seeker was
buried, at his own requeft, in the paflage which leads from the church
to the palace ; and he ftridtly forbad any monument or infcription
being placed over his grave. An excellent Life of the Archbifhop,
written by Dr. Porteus the prefent Bifhop of London, is prefixed to
his fermons. Archbifhop Seeker is well known to all the friends of
Chriftlanity by his admirable le£lures on the church catechifm.
" Mar. 27, 1783, Frederic Cornwallis, Archbifhop of Canter-
" bury, buried."
" Aug. 26, 1791, Jean St. Rymer de Valois, Countefs de la,
" Motte, buried." This unfortunate lady, who is well known for
the fhare fhe had in fome myfterious tranfadions which took place a
few years ago in the court of France, ended her days in great
mifery and diflrefs in this parifh. A few weeks before her death,
in order to avoid the bailiffs, flie jumped from a two-pair of ftairs
window, by which rafh adt fhe broke her thigh, and was otherwife
terribly maimed. A Life of the Countefs, faid to be written by
herfelf, has lately been publifhed in two volumes.
The following inftances of longevity occur in the parifh regifter.
" Nov. 4, 1704, buried Joana Keys, widow; 104 at her death."
" Jan. 8, 1738-9, Elizabeth Bateraan, aged 102, from Kenning-
" ton Lane, buried."
" Jan.
LAMBETH.
307
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" Jan. 22, 1788, William Cobb, aged loi years, buried."
To thefe may be added a few inftances of aged perfons, who are
faid to have died in this parifh, taken from other fources of infor-
mation.
*' June 28, 1736, died Mr. Thomas Drayman, at Vauxhall, in
*' the 1 06th year of his age. He was formerly a furgeon in the
" royal navy. He had a quick ear, good fight, and wrote a very
good hand to the laft "*.
" Jan. 20, 1743, died at Lambeth, Mr. Wills, aged 102 '".
" In April 1743, died at Stockwell, aged 102, Mr. Horn, for-
merly an eminent grocer in Southwark "\
" May 16, 1749, died at Lambeth, Mrs. Hellings, a widow
" gentlewoman, aged 103 years"'.
" Mrs. Margaret Baife, a widow lady, died at Stockwell in June
**- 1777, aged 107"°,"
The benefadions to this parifli have been liberal and numerous. Benefaaions.
About 800 1. has been bequeathed to the poor by various per-
fons, of which Col. John Bingham left lool. ; Sir Noel Caron,
50I.; Efther Tradefcant, 50I.; Archbifhop Juxon, lool.; and the
Archbifhops Parker, Grindall, Whltgift, Bancroft, Abbot, Laud,
Sheldon, Tillotfon, and Tenifon, various fums.
Sir Noel Caron, in the year 1622, built and endowed feven alms- Alms-hoofes.
houfes for poor women. They are fituated near the road which
leads to Kingfton, not far from Vauxhall turnpike. Over the gate is
a Latin infcription, figiiifying that they were founded by Sir Noel de
Caron in the year 1622, the 32d year of his embafly. The prefent
income of thefe alms-houfes is 28 1. per annum, exclufive of a legacy
of iiool. which was bequeathed to them by the Dowager Lady
Gower in the year 1773.
'*• Appendix to the Hiftory of Lambeth, '*' Ibid,
p. 154. ■" Ibid.
*" Ibid. •*• Annnal Regifter.
R r 2 Major
3o8
LAMBETH.
Schools.
Various be-
nefadions.
Major Richard Lawrence, in the year 1661, founded and endowed
a fchool for twenty boys of the Marfh liberty. A mafter and four
overfeers are to be chofen by the parifh. This fchool is now incor-
porated with another in the Back-lane, which was inftituted in 1731,
and fupported by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants ; the
number of boys now educated therein is fifty, a certain proportion
of whom are annually put out apprentices. Archbifhop Tenifon,
in the year 1704, founded and endowed a fchool for the edu-
cation of twelve girls. Another charity-fchool for girls was in-
ftituted by fubfcription about two years ago, which has met with
very liberal fupport ; a houfe has been built for the purpofe, and
thirty children are now educated there.
The following are the principal annual benefactions to the parifh.
A perfon unknown left a piece of land called formerly the Church
Hope, or Hopys, now Pedlar's Acre. In the year 1504, it produc-
ed only 2 s. 8 d. per annum ; it is now let on leafe at the yearly rent
of liol. and is capable of further improvements. A fine of 800I.
was received by the parifh upon granting the leafe in 1 752. Edmund
Walcot gave the ground on which Walcot Place is now built ; it was
valued at 26 1. per annum, and is now let at 84 1. 10 s. od. Mr.
Henry Smith left 10 1. per annum to buy coats and gowns for the
poor. Ralph Snowe left the intereft of lool. to buy bibles for poor
children. Mr. Bryan Turberville left the interefl of lool. to which
his fon and daughter added another lool. to apprentice two poor
children. The conditions of the legacy were, that the children fhould
not be apprenticed to chimney-fweepers, watermen, or fifhermen ;
that no Roman catholics fhould enjoy any benefits of the charity,
and that the reftor and churchwardens fhould always keep in good
repair a tablet on the outfide of the church tower, fetting
forth the particulars of the bequeft. The tablet is affixed to the
fouth fide of the tower, and the infcription is very legible. Divers
other fmall annual benefadions have been left to the parifh. Their
objeds
LAMBETH.
309
counts.
obje<3:s are various ; fome are left to the poor without fpecifying any
particulai" purpofe ; fome are appropriated to fuch of the poor as do
not receive alms ; fome to apprentice children ; others to educate
them ; and others to buy bread and clothes for the poor. The
■whole income of the parifh eftates at the prefent rents, as fpecified
in the table which hangs up in the veftry, amounts to about 370I.
per annum. The deeds and other writings relating to them are
kept in a large cheft, arranged in a very methodical manner.
In the fame place are depofited the parifii accounts, which com- church-
mence in the year i J04; after the enfuing year there is a chafm till the ^^"^ ^"' *^'
year 1516, from which period they are complete down to the prefent
time. Having, by the permiflion of the redor and churchwardens,
examined the more ancient books, I here fubjoin fome curious ex-
tracts, which differ from thofe already given from the parifh accounts
at Kingflon. It is to be obferved, that no traces of the games
of the Kyngham or Robinhood are to be met with in thefe
books.
£. s. d.
" 1505. Received of my Lady Lyfle's chapleyn, for
" wafl of torches at the chriftening of the fleward's
♦' childe - - - - 008
" 1 5 14. For halowing the veflments - 018
" 15 15. Received of the men for oke money - o 5 7
" of the wyfFs for oke money o '5 ^
" 15 16. To James Calcot for payntyng of Judas 006
" A labourer's wages per diem - - 005
" Paid for dyinge of buckram for the letty clothes '" o 0 8
— — for paynting of the lettny clothes - 008
for lynynge of the lettne clothes - 004
Probably for the proceffions, in which they chaunted the litany on Rogation-day.
" Rec"
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310
C(
((
it
LAMBETH.
Rec"* of the gaderynge of the churchwarden's
" weyfFes on Hoke Monday '"
1519. For a quarter of colls to make the halowyd
«' fire ------ -
For two fmall boltts of yern to the fepulker
Paid for fmoke n^oney atSeynt Mare Eves '*'
Item, for garlonds and drynk for the chyl-
" derne on Trenyte even - _ -
To Spryngwell and Smyth for fyngyng with
" the proceffion on Treuete Sonday even
Item, for four onflys of garnefyng rebonds
" at 9'' the ounce _ _ -
1522. Paid Galoot for St. Chriftopher's banner "*
1523. For the Bifhop's dynner and hys company
" on Saynt Nycolas' day '"
1523. Paid for candylls when the chapell was
" halow'd - . - -
£' s. d.
8 3
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
2
3
4
7
2
6
o 12
o
8
8
"*' It is ft'ill ufual in Catholic countries for
the females to folicit contributions for public
or charitable ufes, their applications being
attended, as it may be imagined, with great
fuccefs. Various inftances of this kind ap-
pear in the pariQi accounts at Lambeth :
" 1521. Rec* of my Lady of
" Norfoke, of hokmoney - i 12 3^
" 1522. Rec"* of the wyfFys for
" the gaderyng for the weft
" wyndow - - 120
•• For St. George's light 022
" 1554. ReC" of John Brafy's
" wife, for money that Ihe
" received and gatheryd with
" the virgyns
•'* This occurs again in 1521-
S 6
Paid by
" my Lord of Winchefter's fcribe for fmoke
" money, 2 s. 6d."
"* Another entry mentions " St. Chrifto-
" pher's awter." It appears by a legacy
left by John Cromwell about this time, that
there was a guild or brotherhood of that Saint
in Lambeth church.
•«5 It was a cuftom with the children upon
St. Nicholas's day to eleft one of their com-
panions a biftiop. He went to church, drcfled
in very rich robes, a mitre on his head, and at-
tended by a great proceffion. They called him
the child bilhop, or epifcopus puerorum ; and
he bore his office till Innocent's day. Ano-
ther of his companions was elefted Dean in
the fame manner. See Brand's Popular An-
tiquities, p. 362, 363.
Temp,
LAMBETH.
3"
£' -f" ^^^
(C
c;
((
u
Temp. Phil. & Mary. Paid to Jamys Calcott for
" wafhing owth the fcriptures owth of the clothe
" that hangyd before the rood lofte - 034
■ A Ilaff for Judas crofle - - 004
Paid to Mr. Lee of Adynton, for a coope of blew
" velfet with marlyans of gold, and a fewte of
" veftments of the fame for preft, deacon, and fub-
" deacon - - - - ;^ 6 8
Paid to the ringers on the 1 9 daye of Sep-
** tember, when the Quene's grace came into
" Lambet church - - - 004
'■ When tydyngs came that the Quene was
" brought a bed '" - - - 006
When the ■ Quene's grace came from Weft-
" minfter to Lambet in the monet of July - 006
To the women that made garlands - 009
■ For a holy water fprynkill - -002
— — To the waytes of London for coming home
" with our proceflion from St. George's church 020
7 Eliz. Paid the ringers when the Queen went to
" Nonfuch - - - 020
When the Queen's ma"' went to the Erie of
" Suflex - - - - 014
" 1570. Rec'^ of the veftments and copes, fold by
" confent of the parifh — For the borders of the
" herfe-cloth and for the images taken out of the
" communion cloths — Sold to John Hamond -034
"* This falfe rumour of the Queen's deli- " of London but alfo in fundrie places of the
very caufed " the belles to be roong, and " realme." Holiiigfhed's Chron. A" 1556.
" bonefires to be made, not only in the citie
" 1570.
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312 LAMBETH.
*' i^yo- ^or ^^^ white fatln that was the crofs in the
" black clothe - - - - 008
— For a fepulcre cloth of white farfnet, fold
to Mr. Oliver St. John - - 100
— For a canopy cloth of red velvet with ftarrs
" embroidered, and bullions of filver and gilt 2 10 o
*' Paid for a dinner at the King's-head "', at
" the fale of veftments for divers of the worfhip-
" ful of the parifh - - - 100
" 15 7 1. When the Queen's ma'" rode about the
" fields - - - - QIC
" At the overthrow of the Tourck "*' - 010
" At the Queen's ma'" going to my Lord of
" Siflix 2 times - - - 034
" 1573. When the Queen's ma^ie was in St. George's
" Fields - - - - 010
" 1575. When the Queen's ma^^ toke her horfe
" here - - - - 026
" 1578. For two books of the order fet forth by the
Queen's magefty for the plague - 006
— For our charges when we went before the
" commiflioners for the faid order - - 010
" To poore women that were fworn there 004
" 1583. When the Queen's grace came from Rich-
" mond to Banfbie-houfe - - 034
'" The fign of Henry VIII. 's head ftill church upon the occafion ; and there were
exifts in the High-ftreet. great rejoicings in the city of London. See
'" This viftory was gained in the Levant Holinglhed's Chron. A" 1571.
Teas. A fermon was preached in St. Paul's •
" 1583.
tc _
LAMBETH;
£' s, d.
«
" 1583. Spent at our golnge about to inquire for thofe
" that came not to churche, and for other honeft
" men with us '*' - - - 070
*• Paid for ringing when the Queen's majefty dined
" at Clapham "" and went to Greenwich - 034
" 1585. When the Queen removed from Green-
" wich to Barnelms, July 11'" - - 026
— • For ringing when the Queen of Scots was
" put to death - ' - - oil
*' Dec. 21. For ringing when the Queen came to
" my Lord Borowe's"% and on the morrowe when
" fhe went to Greenwich - -056
" 1587. When the Queen came to dine with
« my Lord Admiral "" - - -016
" When the Queen dined at Stockwell "*,
" when fhe removed from Greenwich to Rich-
" mond - - - - 030
" 1588. To two men for bringing the church armour
" after breaking up of the campe - - 012
1589. When the Queen went to my Lord of
" Warwick, and returned through Lambeth 020
1592. When the Queen went to Sir George
" Carye's -- - - - 020
1599. Paid to the ringers the 26 daye and the 27
«
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"' This was at a time when the proceed- Lambeth, to the expenditures of which parlfli
ings againft recufants were very drift. he appears to have been a principal contribu-
"° Her Majefty probably dined with Bar- tor. Another vifit of her Majefty's to him
tholomew Gierke, dean of the arches, and is recorded in 1595. He diftinguifhed himfelf
lord of the manor of Clapham. as a military man, and was much employed in
'"' This vifit was to Sir Francis Walfing- Flanders,
ham; another is recorded in 1588. See an "' The Earl of Nottingham, then Lord
account of the vifit under the parilh of Barnes, Admiral, had a houfe at Chelfea.
p- 12. 'it* Stockwell belonged then to Lord Mon-
"^ Lord Borough was an inhabitant of tague.
Vol. I. 8 f " daye
313
3^4
LAMBETH.
" daye of July, when the Queen came from Green-
" wich to Foxehalle ; the ringers gave their at-
" tendance the fyrfte day, and her Majeftie came
" not till the next day - - -056
" 1 60 1. May 23. To the ringers when the Queen
" came through Lambeth, and took horfe at my
" Lord of Canterburie's gate - - 040
" Aug. 6. When fhe toke water at Lambeth,
" and went to the Bifhop of London's - 054
" 1602. Ap. 19. When fhe went through Lambeth
" to my Lord Chamberlen's - - 026
** 1603. To the ringers, being the proclamation day
" of our noble King - - - 070
" 1607. For mending the windows where the
" pidture of the Pedlar (lands - - 020
" Aug. 22, 1613. To a poor fcholar - 016
" 1 615. An iron for the hour-glafs - - 068
" 1629. To a poor minifter - - 006
" Feb. 13, 1641. For making a bonfire at his Ma-
" jefty's going to parliament - - 016
" ■ Paid for trayning when the mutiny was in
" Lambeth, againft the Archbiftiop - 100
" 1643. For bedding fent to Kingfton for the
" foldiers, by vertue of a warrant from the Lord
" General - - - - o 14 6
" For taking down the crofs of the fteeple 020
" . For taking down the rails that were about
" the communion table - - 010
" To the ringers at the regaining of Le-
« cefter'" - - - 060
"' Leicefter was taken by the King.
The
LAMBETH.
31J
The ferry at Lambeth belonged to the Archbifliops of Canterbury, Lambeth
as lords of the manor. The profits were ufually granted by patent '" ^'^'^'
to fome of the officers of the archbifhop's houfehold, an annual rent
of 16^ per annum being referved, which by degrees increafed to 10 1.
Upon the building of Weftrainfter-bridge the ferry was taken away,
and an equivalent given to the fee of Canterbury, and to the patentee,
for his intereft therein '".
In Archbifhop Illip's regifter is a licence to the Bifliop of Ro-
chefter to build a bridge at Stangate "\ for the convenience of him-
felf and family, and others reforting to his houfe.
A trench is faid to have been cut through the parifh of Lambeth Canute's
° "^ trench.
by King Canute, for the purpofe of conveying his fleet to the weft
fide of London-bridge, to attack the city by water. The editor of
the laft edition of Aubrey fays, that fome traces of it were vifible in
his time "'. From the increafe of new buildings no veftiges thereof
are now to be feen, and the conjedures about its courfe are very
various '^°. After all, it is at leaft as probable that any remains of a
trench which might have been vifible half a century ago, were of
that which was made in the year 1 1 73, for the purpofe of alter-
ing the courfe of the river, when London-bridge was rebuilt. This
trench is faid to have been begun in the eaft about Rotherhithe, and to
have ended about Batterfea '°'.
In the Hiftory of Lambeth, in the Bibliotheca Topographica, are
feveral ancient commiffions for divers perfons to furvey the banks of
the river within the parifh of Lambeth, and the adjoining pariflies ;
to take meafures for the repair, and to imprefs fuch workmen as they
fliould find neceflary for that employment '".
Ncrfolk-
»"* Cart. Mifcellan. Lamb. MS. Lib. vol. i. Nov. 23, 1357.
No. 40, 4.1, 42. ■'' Vol. V. p. 278.
'" Ducarcl's KiHory of Lambeth Palace, ''" Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 66— 70.
p. 79. "' Stowe's Annals, p. 225. 410 edit. 1-605.
''" For the purpofe of landing. Reg. '*^ Hiftory of Lambetli, p. 70, 71. The
Lamb. Iflip, fol. 138. a. The licence is dated references are to P.it. 22 Hen. \T. pt. i.
S f 2 m. 17.
3i6 LAMBETH.
Norfolk- Norfolk-houfe, the refidence of feveral of the Howard family, was
houfe. _ ■'
fituated where Norfolk Row now ftands. In the Smith's fhop be-
longing to Betts's flocking manufadlory, the back part of which is
oppofite to that row, there is an old chimney-piece formerly be-
longing to one of the rooms. After the attainder of Thomas Duke
of Norfolk, this houfe came into the hands of the crown, and was
granted by Edw. VI. to William Parr, Marquis of Northampton,
being then valued at 3I. 10 s. lod. per annum "\ The Marquis
a few years after furrendered it again to the King, in exchange
for the Bifliop of Winchefter's palace in Southwark "*. In the firft
year of Queen Mary, it was reftored to the Duke of Norfolk '*',
and was inherited by his fon Thomas, Earl of Surrey, the poet '",
who was educated here under the tuition of Leland the celebrated
antiquary ; and who alienated it to Richard Garth and John Dyfter,
of whom it was purchafed by Matthew Parker, Efq. in truft pro-
bably for Mrs. Parker, the Archbifhop's lady, whofe property it was
at the time of her death "'.
Palace of the In Fore-ftreet is faid to have been a palace belonging to the
Bi(hops of . . ,88
Hereford. Bifhops of Hereford, which is now a pottery ' .
Nearly oppofite the fouth fide of the church-yard is an old houfe
which has Archbifliop Whitgift's arms painted on glafs, with the.
date of 1595 in fome of the windows. It probably was the refi-
dence of Dr. Cofin, to whom the Archbifliop gave fome meffuages
in Lambeth in the year iS93'^^'
m, 17. Pat. 25 Hen. VI. pt. i. m. 8. Pat. taken from a title-deed in the MS. Lib. Lamb.
31 Hen. VI. pt. 1. m. 22. Pat. 33 Hen. VI. Cart. Mifcell. vol. xii. No. 40.
pt. 1. m. 17, Pat. 5 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 23. "* Commentary on Cygnea Cant. Le-
Pat. 14 Edw. IV. pt. I. m. 20. in dorfo. land's Itin. vol. ix.
"" Grants of Lands by Edw, VI. Harleian "' Strype's Life of Archbi/hop Parker,
MSS. Brit. Muf. No. 7389. p. 306.
"♦ Strype's Annals of the Reformation, '"* Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 63.
voL i. p. 62. -89 Pat 33 Eliz. pt. i. April 2. Licence to
»" The fucceffion from this period is alienate.
In
LAMBETH.
317
In Blfliop Waynfleet's reeifter at Winchefter, Is a licence to John Oratory at
r, . •'the Checker
Calcot, hoft of the Checker-inn at Lambeth, (dated 1455,) to have Inn-
an oratory in his houfe, and a chaplain for the ufe of his family and
guefts, as long as it fliall continue decent and reputable, and well
adapted for the celebration of divine fervice "".
In the Marfli liberty is fituated the Afylum, for the reception of TheAfyium.
orphan girls, an excellent public charity inftituted in the year
1758.
In the fame liberty is the Weftminfter-Lying-in Hofpital, another Weftminiier
public charity, inftituted in 1765. As neither of thefe are otherwife HofpftaL
conneded with the parifh of Lambeth than by their local fituation,
I fhall fay nothing farther of their eftablifhment.
About the latter end of the laft century a manufactory of plate Manufafto-
glafs was eftablifhed at Vauxhall in this parifh, under the patronage Piat'e-giafs.
of the Duke of Buckingham ; the principal artift was Rofletti. It
was carried on with very great fuccefs, and the glafs was thought to
excel that made at Venice, or any other nation. In an advertifement
of the year 1700, this manufadlory is called the Old Glafs-houfe,
known by the name of the Duke of Buckingham's houfe "°. Some
mills for fawing, fmoothing, and polilhing of marble, were ereded
at Vauxhall about the year 1675 "', which do not now exift. An
extenfive callico-printing manufadory has alfo been removed.
The importation of foreign timber, which for many years has Timber
formed a very confiderable and important branch of our commerce,
has been a fource of prodigious wealth to the parifh of Lambeth, where
there are feveral wharfs for that trade, fupplied with ftores that are al-
moft incredible.
»?9 «c Decens honeftum & divino cultui count of the manufadlory. There was aglafs-
aptum &c difpofitum." Regill. Waynflete, houfe in this parilh as early as the year 1615,
pt. 2. f. 36. as appears by Norden's Survey, in the office
•9° Poftman, Feb. 15, 17CO. The adver- of the duchy of Cornwall,
tifementis printed at length in the Hiftory of '5' Appendi.x to the Hillory of Lambeth,
Lambeth, p. 120, izi. where there is an ac- p. 160.
At
3i8 LAMBETH.
Potteries, At Vauxhall are fome very large diftillerles, and feveral potteries.
The manufadure of (lone earthen-ware pots is faid to have been
firft introduced there from Holland.
Beaufoy's On the fite of Caper's Gardens are Meflrs. Beaufoy's extenfivc
vincirnr
works. vinegar works. Mr. Pennant, who went over the premifes and took
the dimenfions of the vefTels, mentions a veflel full of fweet wine,
containing 58,109 gallons, or 18 15 barrels of Winchefter meafure ;
and another full of vinegar, which contains 56,799 gallons, or 1774
barrels of the fame meafure ; the leffer of which exceeds the fa-
mous Heydelberg ton by 40 barrels. Befides thefe enormous vefTels,
there are feveral others which contain from 32,500 to 16,974 gallons
each.
Artificial j^ the year 1769 Mrs. Coade eftablifhed here a manufadory of
artificial ftone, which is caft in moulds and burnt. It is intended to
anfwer the purpofe of ftone, for every fpecies of ornamental archi-
tedlure, at a much cheaper rate than carving. Where it has been
placed in expofed fituations it has been found to endure the froft very
well.
Patent (hot. A manufadory for making patent fhot was eftabliftied in this
parifh about three years ago by Meflrs. Watts. The principle of
making this fhot is, to let it fall from a great height into the water,
that it may cool and harden in its pafTage through the air, fo far as
to prevent its receiving any prefTure by falling into the water ; a cir-
cumftance attending the common fhot, which falls fcarcely a yard be-
fore it touches the water, and thereby lofes in fome meafure its
fpherical fliape. The height of the tower at the Lambeth manu-
fadory from the ground to the top of the turret, is about 140 feet;
the fhot falls 123 feet fix inches.
Woollen- About the fame time MefTrs Boulton, Morgan, and Co. eftablifhed
yarn Com-
pany. a manufadory at Lambeth, under the title of the Woollen-yarn Com-
pany. Every branch of the clothing manufadure, from the firft fort-
ing
LAMBETH. 319
Ing of the wool to the making of the cloth, is here carried on entirely
by machinery. The trade is confined to the coarfe fort of cloths,
which are exported for the moft part to America and the Weft Indies.
The fame company are engaged alfo in the cotton works. About five
hundred perfons are employed on the premifes, above two hundred
of whom are children.
About the beginning of the prefent century there was a place of Lambetii
'\YeIis.
public entertainment in this parifh, called Lambeth Wells. It was
fituated in a place now known by the name of Lambeth Walk. The
avowed purpofe of opening it was, on account of a mineral water,
which was fold there at id. a quart. The mufic began at
feven o'clock in the morning, and the price of admiffion was 3d.'°'^
Several years afterwards a monthly concert was held there, tmder
the diredion of Mr. Goodwin, organift at St. Saviour's, Southwark.
At the fame time, Erafinus King, who had been coachman to Dr.
Defaguliers, read lediures and exhibited experiments in natural phi-
lofophy, the price of admilTion being 6d."^ In 1752, a penny wed-
ding was advertifed to be kept at this place, after the Scotch manner,
for the benefit of a young couple "*. The Wells becoming at length
a public nuifance, the proprietor was refufed a licence, and the pre-
mifes were let to a Methodift preacher '".
Thefite of Meflrs Beaufoy's diftillery was, in 1636, the garden of ^"P"'^
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel "*. The premifes were afterwards
rented by one Cuper, who had been the Earl's gardener, and from
him obtained the name of Cuper's Gardens '". They were opened
as a place of public diverfion about the middle of the prefent century,
and were well frequented, being occafionally honoured with the pre-
fence of the Prince and Princefs of Wales ''^ They were then kept
'»* Advertifement quoted in the Hiftory of ''' Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 66.
Lambeth, p. 66. '96 ibid. p. 77.
'" Ibid. ■»' Ibid.
*»•* Daily Advertifer, June 27. '<" Daily Advertifcr, Aug. 29, 1745, &c.
by
'J. I
320 LAMBETH.
by a widow, whofe name was Evans '". The company were en-
tertained with fireworks, illuminations, and mufic ; particularly
with the performance of one Jones, a clebrated performer on the
harp. The Gardens were fupprefled as a place of public diverfion in
1753 ; but the houfe was kept open for fome time as a tavern. In
Cuper's Gardens were formerly fome mutilated ftatues, the refufe of
the colledion brought by the Earl of Arundel from Italy. Thefe
fragments were drawn and engraved for the laft edition of Aubrey's
Antiquities of Surrey. The greater part of them were removed In the
year 1 7 1 7, having been purchafed by Mr. Waller of Beaconsfield, and
Mr. Freeman of Fawley Court. Thofe which remained were covered
with rubbilh. They were afterwards dug out by Mr. Theobald,
a fubfequent proprietor of the premifes, and mod of them were
given by him to the Earl of Burlington, who took them to
Chifwick "°.
Aniey's Am- A ridlng-fchool, for the exhibition of feats of horfemanfhip, was
eftabllflied in this parifh about the year 1768"', by Mr. Philip
Aftley. At firft it was an open area. In the year 1780 It was con-
verted into a covered amphitheatre, and divided Into pit, boxes, and
gallery. In 1786 it was newly fitted up, and called the Royal
Grove; it Is now advertifed as the Royal Saloon, or Aftley's Amphi-
'" Some of the widow Evans's advertife- " her entertainments longer than ufual."
ments were rather whimfical : Daily Advertifer, Aug. i8, 1743.
" cuper's gardens. " cuper's gardens.
" The widow Evans acknowledges herfelf " This is to acquaint Ladies and Gentle-
" much obliged to the company that hath been " men, that this night will be burnt the
" fo kind as to approve of her entertainments, " Gorgon's head, or more properly the head
" and to the public in general. As her in- " of Medufa, in hiftory faid to have fnakes
" tcntion has been always to pleafe, (he has, " on her hair, and to kill men by her looks,
" at no fmall expence, provided a flying " fuch a thing as was never known to be done
" Mercury on a meflage to Neptune, which " in England before." Daily Advertifer,
" being an attempt quite new, (he hopes the June 28, 1743.
" continuance of your favour; that and the "° Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 80, 81.
" good weather may enable her to continue *"' Advertifement in the public papers.
theatre.
LAMBETH.
321
theatre. Between the feats of horfemanfhip, fhort interludes are
performed, and tumbling, rope-dancing, &c. exhibited.
The firfl: mention of Vauxhall, or as it was anciently called Vauxhall.
Faukefhall, occurs in a record of the 20th year of Edw. I."* It
might poflibly derive its name from Foukes de Brent, who married
Margaret de Ripariis, and thus became poffefled of the manor of
South Lambeth, to which this place appears originally to have be-
longed "^
Edw. II. granted the manor of Faukefhall to Roger Damorie "*. Manor.
Upon his attainder for taking part with the barons againft the
King, about two years afterwards it was granted to Hugh Is De-
Ipencer"' ; who being executed in 1326"*, the manor appears to
have been reftored to the widow of Roger Damorie, who gave it
to King Edw. III. in exchange for fome lands in Suffolk "'. It was
afterwards granted to Edward the Black Prince "', and by him given
to the church of Canterbury, to which it flill belongs ; as Hen. VIII.
when the monaflery was fupprefled, gave it to the dean and
chapter.
Near the Thames was formerly a large manfion belonging to Sir Sir Thomas
Thomas Parry, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter, and held by manfion.
him of the manor of Kennington. Here the ill-fated Arabella Arabella
Stuart, whofe misfortune it was to be too nearly allied to a crown, ^"^"*
remained prifoner for twelve months, under the cuftody of Sir
Thomas"'. This houfe, in Norden's Survey"", taken A" 16 15, is
called Copt-hall ; and is defcribed as being oppofite to a capital manfion Copt-haii,
and Vauxhall
houfes.
»»» Efch. 20 Edw. I. No. 139. In this re- *" Holinihed's Chron.
cord Faukefhall is faid to contain 29 acres "^ Pat. 11 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 24. dorfo;
of meadow, valued at 3 s. an acre, and 80 & Pat. 11 Edw. III. pt. 2. m. 9.
acres of arable land, valued at 4d. an acre. "' Cart. 11 Edw. III. m. 14.
"' Holinihed's Chron. anno 1216, and "' Biographia Brit, and Winwood's Memo-
Efch. 29 Hen. III. No. 47. rials, vol. iii. p. 201.
"♦ Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 100. *'° In the office of the Duchy of Corn-
*<" Cart. 17 Edw. II. m. 13. wall.
Vol. L Tt called
322 LAMBETH.
called Fauxe-hall. The latter I imagine was the ancient manor
houfe, which probably was either pulled down or fell to decay foon
afterwards, its name being transferred to its oppofite neighbour. In
the furvey taken by order of parliament"' after the death of
Charles I. Sir Thomas Parry's houfe is defcribed as " a capital mef-
*' fuage called Vauxhall, alias Copped-hall, bounded by the Thames;
" being a fair dwelling-houfe, ftrongly built, of three ftories high,
*' and a fair ftair-cafe breaking out from it of nineteen feet fquare.'*
It was then the property of the crown, having been furrendered to
the King in 1629 by John Abrahall, tenant thereof, and heir of
Sir Thomas Parry, After this time it was defcribed by the name of
Vauxhall only. In 1652, the parliament having determined that
Vauxhall-houfe, which had been referved by a former order"*, fhould
be fold"', it was purchafed by John Trenchard of Weftminfter "*.
After the reftoration of Ch. II. it was leafed to Henry Lord Moore,
afterwards Earl of Drogheda, together with the demefnes, for thirty-
one years ; with a provifo, that if his majefty fhould think lit to
make ufe of the houfe or any part thereof, it fhould be furrendered
upon a proper allowance being made for the fame "'. The King
availed himfelf of this provifo the year after the leafe was grant-
ed *'*, and fettled at Vauxhall one Jafper Calthoff, a Dutchman,
who was employed in making guns, and other warlike implements
for his majefty 's fervice"'. Apart of the premifes was occupied
a few years afterwards by Peter Jacobfon, a fugar-baker "'.
Sir Samuel In 1 675, Sir Samuel Morland obtained a leafe of Vauxhall-
houfe '", made it his refidence, and confiderably improved the
*" In the Augmentation-office. *'* Duchy of Cornwall-office, D. f. 164.
*" Perfeft Diurnal, July 23, 1648. *" Ibid. H. f. 321—329.
'" Mercurius Politicus, Jan. 6, 1653. *" Ibid. H. f. 218.
*'♦ Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-of- *" Enrolment of Leafe, ibid. It does not
fice. appear that Sir Samuel Morland ever occu-
»•' Enrolment of Leafe in the office of the pied any part of the premifes now called
Duchy of Cornwall. Vauxhall-gardens.
premifes.
LAMBETH.
323
pretnlfes. Sir Samuel being a great mechanic, every part of his
houfe fhowed the invention of the owner ; the fide-table in the
dining-room was fupplied with a large fountain, and the glafles
flood under little ftreams of water. His coach had a moveable
kitchen, with clock-work machinery, with which he could make
foup, broil flakes, or roaft a joint of meat. When he travelled he
was his own cook "". Vauxhall-houfe was granted to Mr. Kent, a
diftiller, for 28 years, in the year 1725 "'. The fite thereof is now
leafed to Snaith, Efq. and ftill occupied by under-tenants
as a diftillery.
There does not appear to be the leaft ground for the tradition that Tradition of
Vauxhall, or Fauxhall, was the refidence of Guy Faukes, except the "^
coincidence of names. Jane Vaux, or Faukes, mentioned in the
Hiftory of Lambeth as holding a copyhold tenement at Vauxhall
in the year 1615, was the widow of John Vaux. The infamous
Guy was a man of defperate fortune, and not likely to have a fettled
habitation any where, much lefs a capital maniion. It appears,
however, that the confpirators of the deteflable plot in which he was
concerned held their meetings in Lambeth at a private houfe, which
was burnt down by accident in the year 1635 **\
The premifes now known by the name of the Spring Gardens, Spring
Vauxhall, were in 16 15 the property of Jane Vaux, widow, above- vauxhaU.
mentioned : the manfion-houfe upon the eftate was then called Stoc-
den's "'. Jane Vaux left two daughters, one of whom was the
wife of Barlow, Bifhop of Lincoln "*. The moieties of the eftate,
*" North's Life of the Lord Keeper " flame ; his powder's fin upbraids him and
Guildford, p. 294. " flieth in his face." A note upon this
"' Enrolment of Leafe, Duchy of Corn- paflage informs us, that in the year 1635, the
wall-office. houfe where Gate fby plotted the Gunpowder-
"'' See a fermon preached by Dr. Featley treafon in Lambeth was cafually burnt to the
on the 5 th of November, and publithed in his ground.
Clavis Myftica, fermon 61, p. 814— 824. In »»3 Records in the Duchy of Cornwall-
the concluding paragraph he fays, " the firft office.
" contriver of the fireworkes firft feeleth the "* Ibid.
T t 2 which
3H
LAMBETH.
which was divided between them, pafled through various hands till the
middle of the prefent century. Jonathan Tyers, Efq, purchafed one
moiety of George Doddington, Elq. for the fum of 3800 1. in the
year 1752, and a few years afterwards bought the remainder"'. I
have not met with any certain account of the time when thefe pre-
mifes were firft opened for the entertainment of the public. The
Spring Gardens "'' at Vauxhall are mentioned in the Spectator "',
as a place of great refort. Mr. Tyers was proprietor of the gardens
as tenant at lead twenty years before he purchafed the eftate, which
is ftill vefted in his reprefentatives. Vauxhall Gardens are open
every evening (Sundays excepted) during the greater part of the fum-
"' Records in the Duchy of Cornwall-
6fiice.
^" Simon Ofbaldefton was made Keeper of
the King's garden called the Spring Garden,
and of the Bowling-green there in the year
1630. It appears by the patent, that this
garden was tnade by command of Charles I.
but its fituation is not mentioned. Pat. 7 Car.
pt. 8. No. 4. A few years after we find the
Bowling-green at the Spring Gardens open
for the entertainment of the public. Mr. Gar-
rard, writing to Lord Stafford in 1634, fays,
" the Bowling-green in the Spring Gardens
" was put down one day by the King's com-
" mand, but by the interceflion of the Queen,
" it was reprieved for this year; but here-
" after it ihall be no common bowling place.
" There was kept in it an ordinary of fix
" fliillings a meal, (when the King's proclama-
" tion allows but two elfewhere,) continual
'' bibbing and drinking wine all day under
" the trees ; two or three quarrels every
" week. It was grown fcandalous and in-
" fufFerable ; befides my Lord Digby being
«' reprehended for ftriking in the King's
" garden, he faid, he took it for a common
♦' bowling place, where all paid money for
" their coming in." Stafford Papers, vol. i.
p; 262. In a fubfequent letter Mr. Garrard
writes thus : " Since the Spring Garden was
" put down, we have by a fervant of the
" Lord Chamberlain's a new Spring Garden,
" erefted in the fields behind the Meufe,
" where is built a fair houfc, and two bow-
" ^ng greens, made to entertain gamellers and
" bowlers at an exceHive rate ; for I believe it
" has coft him 4000 1. a dear undertaking for a
" gentleman barber. My Lord Chamberlain
" much frequents the place, where they bowl
" great matches." Stafford Papers, vol. i»
p. 435. A writer of the laft century, fpeak-
ing of this place, fays, " The inclofure is not
" difagreeable for thefolemnnefs of the grove»
" the warbling of the birds, and as it opens
" into the fpacious walk at St. James's ;
" but the company walk in it at fuch a rate>
" as you would think all the ladies were fo
" many Atalantas contending with their woers,
" but as full as they run, they flay fo long as
" if they wanted time to finifh the race ;
" for it is ufual to find fome of the young-
" company here till midnight." Character of
England, as it was lately prefented to a No-
bleman of France, London, 1659, 12°".
Thislittle trait of the fafhion of the times will
ferve to account for the many fcenes in fome
of our old comedies which flill maintain their
ground upon the ftage, to the probability of
whofe incidents a modern audience cannot eafily
be reconciled.
"' N° 383.
mer
LAMBETH. 325
mer feafon for the reception of company, being illuminated with a great
number of lamps. The entertainment confifts of a concert of mufic,
which, in fine weather, is performed in the open air. The price of ad-
miffion till the prefent feafon was one fliiliing ; all refrefhments being
then paid for feparately. It is now two (hillings, including tea and
coffee.
When the city and fuburbs of London were fortified by order of f"" at
Vauxhall.
parliament, during the civil wars, a fort was eredled near Vauxhall-
turnpike. It is defcribed in a plan of London made at that time,
and engraved in Maitland's Hiftory, where it is called a Quadrant-
fort, with four half bulwarks.
On the road to Wandfworth, not far from the turnpike, is a Vauxhall
' ^ ' Well.
fpring of very clear water, called Vauxhall Well, which is faid never
to freeze.
The manor of Kennington, then fpelt Chenintune, was held of Kenning-
Edward the Confeflbr by Theodoric, a goldfmith, who was fuffered The manor.
to continue in poffeflion thereof at the GDnqueft. There is no
record to fhow when it came into the hands of the crown. John
Plantagenet, Earl of Warren and Surrey, had a grant of this
manor in the ninth year of Edward II."', and in the fame year
re-granted it to the king "'. His father, John Earl of Surrey, a ce-
lebrated warrior, died there in 1304"°. Probably he held the manor
for life, or he might have been keeper of the palace for the
crown. Edward II. granted it afterwards to Anthony PefTaigne de
Janua, and his heirs, in exchange for certain premifes in London "'.
It foon reverted to the crown, either by exchange, forfeiture, or ef-
cheat ; for two years afterwards the king granted it to Roger Da-
morie "^ Having undergone the fame alienations as the manor of
"' Pat. 9 Edw. II. pt. 2. m. 7. »3i jj is a fingular circumftance that a fa-
"9 CI. 9 Edw. II. m. 24. dorfo. mily of the name of Damory exifted at Lam-
*'" Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. beth in a ftate of poverty till the middle of the
P- 80. prefent century. Parilh Regifter.
»5' Pat. II Edw. 11. pt. I. m. 19.
Vauxhall,
326 LAMBETH.
Vauxhall, it was vefted in the crown 1 1 Edw. III. and was after-
wards made part of the duchy of Cornwall '", to which it ftill con-
tinues annexed.
Extent and The manor is faid in Doomfday-book to contain two plough-
lands and an half: it now contains about 300 acres. At the time
of the Conqueft it was valued at 3 1. per annum. In the Survey of
1649, at ml. 6 s. 2^d."* Lands in this manor defcend to the
youngeft fon ; and in default of fons, are divided equally amongft
the daughters. The manor was fold in 1650 as crown property,
and was purchafed by William Scott of Little Marlow "".
Refidence of Various coniedures have been entertained concerning the refi-
the Kings at •' ^ . . r n ■
Kennington. dence of our kings at the palace of Kennington. The following
hiflorical fadls, coUeded from good authorities, will fhow that it was
occafionally inhabited by them as late as the reign of Henry VII.
The parliament held by Henry III. at Lambeth is fuppofed
by fome writers to have affembled at this palace ; and it is
flill more probable that he kept his Chriftmas there in 1 231.
Edward III. kept his Chriftmas there in 1342*'*. When Lord
Percy, in the fame reign, was in danger from the mob as a
favourer of Wickliff, he fled to Kennington, where the Princefs of
Wales with the young prince were then refiding*". When
Richard II. returned from France with his young queen Ifabella,
they lodged for a night at the palace of Kennington, before they
went to Weftminfter"'. There is a grant of Henry VI.
dated from his manor of Kennington, A° 1440 *". Henry VII.
previous to his coronation, came from Kennington to Lambeth,
where he dined with Archbifhop Bourchier '^° ; and Leland
fays, that Catherine of Arragon was there for a few days**'.
"' Cart. 1 1 Edw. III. m. 14. »38 Holinflied's Chron. A" 1396.
*" Augmentation-office. »J9 Pat. 18 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. zo.
»3s Particulars of Sale, ibid. *♦" Stow's Annals.
*'* Sto\y's Annals. »4« Colleaan. vol. v. p. 355-
"" CoUins's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 64.
Henry
LAMBETH.
327
Henry VIII. farmed out the manor. Camden fays, that in his
time there were no traces of the palace at Kennington **\ It was
probably pulled down after it ceafed to be ufed as an occafional refi-
dence by the kings ; and the manor houfe, defcribed in the Survey
of 1 649, built on the fite. It is there called a capital meffuage, but
appears by the defcription to have been fmall. It was leafed by
Charles I. when Prince of Wales, to Sir Francis afterwards
Lord Cottington, and was fold by order of parliament in 1 649 ;
Richard Graves, Efq. of Lincoln's-inn being the purchafer**^ In
Charles II.'s reign it was leafed to Henry Lord Moore ***. The
prefent leflee is Robert Clayton, Efq.
Kennington Common is the ufual place of execution for criminals
tried in this part of the county. The rebels who were condemned
at St. Margaret's Hill in 1 746 fuffered here. On this common is
a bridge called Merton Bridge, which formerly was repaired by
the canons of Merton Abbey, who had lands for that purpofe.
Kennington gave the tide of Earl to the Duke of Cumberland, fon
to George the Second.
The manor of Stockwell was anciently called the Manor of South Stock-
W E L L ■
Lameth, and comprehended, I prefume, Vauxhall, South Lambeth, The manor.
and Stockwell. Baldwin de Infula died feized of that manor in the
reign of Henry III. **' It was then valued at 19I. 16 s. 44rd.
Margaret de Ripariis, Countefs of the Ifle of Wight, died at her houfe
at Stockwell feized of the manor of South Lameth 20 Edw. I. '^*
It afterwards came to Thomas Romayne*"', after the death of whofe
widow, Juliana, her eftates were divided among her daughters, and
Stockwell fell to the fhare of Roefye de Boreford ^'\ Sir James de
*♦* Vol. i. p. 170. Cough's edition. *♦* Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 66.
*+' Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-of- *♦' Thomas Roraayne had a charter of free
fice. warren at Stockwell, 3 Edw. III. Cart. m. lo.
»♦♦ Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 26. Jan. 26. *♦» CI. 19 Edw. II. m. 1. dorfo. In this
*♦» Efch. 29 Hen. III. N° 47. South record it is defcribed as a capital meffuage.
Stretham and Weft Mitcham are mentioned with 287 acres of land, &c. &c.
as appendages.
Boreford
328 L A M B E T" H.
Boreford had a licence for an oratory in his manor-houfe at Stock-
well in 135 1 '■", and ten years afterwards a grant of free warren
there *'°. The manor afterwards belonged to John Harold, burgefs of
Calais, who conveyed it to John Dovet and Sir Thomas Swinford,
by whom it was fettled on his wife Catherine *", afterwards the third
wife of John of Gaunt. It afterwards pafled to the families of Wyn-
ter ''\ Molineux *", and Leigh ^'*. Sir John Leigh died at his manor
of Stockwell, 15 Hen. VIII. *" Twenty years afterwards his fon
conveyed it to the king^'*. It was granted by Queen Mary to Anthony
Brown Vifcount Montague *", who died feized thereof 34 Eliz. ^**
It does not appear how it reverted to the crown, but it is enumerated
among the king's manor-houfes, in a houfehold book of the firft
year of James I, *"* Two years afterwards it belonged to Sir
George Chute "°, and was fold by the executors of one of his de-
fcendants to Sir John Thornycroft about the latter end of the laft
century, fmce which time it has continued in the fame family,
being now the property of Henry Thornycroft, Efq.
Manor- A part of the manor-houfe is ftill (landing, and the ancient moat
, ' exifts, but without water. The tradition of its having been the pro-
perty of Thomas Lord Cromwell is without foundation ; as in
his time it belonged to Sir John Leigh the younger. Several of the
ads of John de Stratford, Bifhop of Winchefter and Lord Chan-
cellor, are dated from Stockwell "'. The fite of the manor-houfe is
now the property of Mr. Barret, for the remainder of a thoufand
years leafe.
»« Regift. Wint. W. de Edyndon, pt. 2. *'* Grants, Augmentation-office,
f- 25- a. »" Fee Farm Rolls, ibid.
»"> Cart. 35 Edw.III. N" 12. >58 Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Brit.
*" Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. 49. F. 27. Muf. N» 758.
*s* CI. 27 Hen. VI. m. 9. -"SB !„ the Afhmolean Mufeum, Oxford.
'" Pat. 31 Hen. VI. pt. 2. m. 31. »«<» Pat. 3 Jac. I. pt. 25. Dec' 2.
»5+ CI. II Edw. IV. m. 21. dorfo. »«« Regift. Wint. J» de Stratford, paiEm.
^» Fun. Certif. Herald's Coll.
The
LAMBETH. 329
The hamlet of Stockwell contains about 100 houfes, exclufive of
thofe about Brixton Caufeway, which are not confidered as a part of
it. A chapel of eafe was built here in 1 767, towards which Arch-
bifhop Seeker gave 500 1.
About twenty years ago a fingular impofition was pracStifed at the Stockwell
houfe of a Mrs. Gelding at this place, which was reported to be ° "
haunted. Great numbers of people of all ranks went to fee the
feats of this imaginary ghoft, who caufed the furniture to dance
about the rooms in a very furprifing manner. A pamphlet was
publifhed on the fubjea, called " The Stockwell Ghoft ;" but the
impofture was never completely detected : there were various con-
jedlures refpe£ling the author, fome fufpeiling Mrs. Golding's daugh-
ter, others a maid fervant. Mrs. Golding and her daughter being
both dead, there was an audlion at the houfe a few months ago,
when the dancing furniture fold at very extravagant prices.
The manor of Levehurft is joined with Stockwell in moft of the Manor of
records. I find one, however, in which it is mentioned as being
held feparately by Robert Forth, LL.D. who died feized thereof
37 Eliz. his fon Thomas being his heir. It was then valued at 5 1.
per annum, and is defcribed as being in Lambeth Dean. The
manor is not now known.
The manor of Lambeth Wick belongs to the Archbifhop of Manor of
Canterbury, having been included in the exchange with the church wick.
of Rochefter. In the taxation of 1291 it is called the Grange, or
farm of Le Wyke. It is now on leafe to Lord Holland.
Within this manor is a manfion called Loughborough-houfe. It Loughbo-
was advertifed by that name in 1682, and probably was, at a for- "^""^
mer period, either the property or refidence of Henry Lord Haftings
of Loughborough. It is now an academy, in the occupation of
Dr. Roberts.
Vol. I. U u South
/
330 L A M B E T H.
South South Lambeth lies between Stockwell and Vauxhall. Here was
Lambeth.
the capital manfion of Sir Noel Caron, ambaflador from the States
General. A fmall part of it, which ftill remains, is called Caron
Houfe, and is now an academy.
Phyficgar- Ncat the fame fpot was the phyfic-earden of the Tradefcants,
den of the r n r\ • • ' •
Tradefcants. which was one of the firft elcablifhed in this kingdom. The elder
Tradefcant had been gardener to the Duke of Buckingham, and other
noblemen ; and was afterwards promoted to the fervice of Charles
the Firft. He travelled over a great part of Europe and Africa in
fearch of new plants ; many of thofe introduced by him were long
called by his name. Sir William Watfon, and other members of
the Royal Society, vifited the fite of Tradefcant's garden in 1749,
but found very few trees remaining, which appeared to have been
planted by him "% There are now no traces of it. A catalogue of
the plants cultivated by Tradefcant at South Lambeth, with an ac-
count of the rarities and natural curiofities which he had coUeded,
was publifhed in 12"' in the year 1656 by his fon, under the name
of Mufeum Tradefcantianum ; to which are prefixed portraits both
of the father and fon, by Hollar. The Tradefcants were ufually
called Tradefkin by their contemporaries ; the name is uniformly
fo fpelt in the parifti regifter, and by Flatman the painter, who in
a poem mentions Tradefcant's Collection ;
** Thus John Tradelkin ftarves our wondering eyes
*' By boxing up his new-found rarities "\"
Elias A(h- John Tradefcant the younger gave his whole colledion to the
learned Elias Afhmole, who fucceeded him alfo in his houfe at
South Lambeth, and came to refide there in 1674"*. He found
fome difficulty in getting polfeffion of his friend's noble prefent, and
was obliged to prefer a bill in chancery againft his widow "'. Afh-
*«* Philof. Tranfaft. Vol. XL VI. p. 1 60, '''♦ Afhmole's Diary, annexed to Lilly's
161. Life.
"" Flatman's Poems, p. 147. *«' Ibid.
mole
LAMBETH. 331
mole was much refpeded by his contemporaries, and was frequent-
ly vifited at South Lambeth by perfons of very exalted rank, par-
ticularly by the embaffadors of foreign princes, to whom he had
prefented his book on the Order of the Garter ^**. It is well known
that Tradefcant's Colle£lion was given by Afhmole to the Univer-
fity of Oxford, where it forms the principal part of the Mufeum
which goes by his name, and which was firfl built for its reception.
Dr. Ducarel, author of the Hiftory of Lambeth Palace, and of Dr. Ducarel,
Croydon, and other topographical and antiquarian works, refided at
South Lambeth, and died at his houfe there in the year 1785 "'.
"° Aflimole's Diary, annexed to Lilly's Life. **' Appendix to the Hi fl. of Lambeth, p. ijo.
Vn 1
[ 332 ]
M A L D E N.
Etymology.
Situation.
Boundaries.
Manor.
Merton Col-
lege.
TH E name of this place was written Mseldune by the Saxons,
being compounded of two words mal, a crofs, and dune^ a
hill. In the Conqueror's Survey it is fpelt Meldone ; in fubfe-
quent records it is written Meaudon, Maldon, and Maiden.
Maiden lies in the hundred of Kingfton, in a very retired fitua-
tion between that town and Cheam. It is nearly 12 miles from
Hyde-park-corner. The parifh is bounded by thofe of Cheam,
Cudington, Mordon, Wimbledon, Kingfton, Epfom, and Long-
Ditton. The land is principally arable, and the foil a ftifF clay.
The parifh is affefTed the fum of 167I. 18 s. od. to the land-tax,
which is at the rate of 3 s. lod. in the pound.
The manor, in the Confeflbr's time, belonged to Erding ; at the
Conqueft was held by the Watevilles, of Richard de Tonbridge ;
one ploughland was held by William Wateville of the abbey of
Chertfey. In the 13th century it belonged to Walter de Merton ',
Lord Chancellor of England, who fettled it upon the college which
he founded at Oxford *.
It appears to be a miftaken Idea that Merton College was firfl:
eftablifhed at Maiden, (as a feminary of education at leaft,) and af-
terwards removed; the error feems to have arifen from a mifcon-
ception of the words " domus fcholarium apud Meaudon," in the
founder's charter. By attentively confidering the preamble of the
charter, and a deed recorded in the regifter of Merton Abbey ', it
• Walter de Merton had a grant of free- Oxon. Cart. 48 Hen. III. m. 2.
warren in Mauden, 33 Hen. III. Cart. m. 2. ' Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. vii.
* Mauden M. Dom. Scholar, de Merton. fol. 182. b.
will
M A L D E N. 333
will be evident that It never was Intended for the refidence of the
fcholars. The founder fays, " I give my manors of Meaudon and
" Farleigh to the houfe of the fcholars which I have eftablifhed in
" my faid manor of Meaudon ; namely, for the fupport of twenty
*' fcholars refiding In the fchools at Oxford or elfewhere *." In the
deed abovementioned, figned by Gilbert, Prior of Merton, the con-
vent quits claim to the houfe at Maiden, and grants the advowfon
of the church for the perpetual fupport of fcholars in fchoUs de-
. gentium ; and of a warden and priefts /// ipfo domo coimnorantibus.
It appears therefore, that the original intention of the founder was,
to eftablifh a religious houfe at Maiden, confifting of a warden
and priefts, who were to manage the revenues of certain eftates
which he gave for that purpofe, and apply them to the maintenance
and education of twenty fcholars at either of the univerfities. Af-
terwards, upon the eftablifhment of Merton College, the warden
and priefts were removed to Oxford.
In the year 1578 the members of the college were Induced to
alienate this manor to Qiieen Elizabeth, upon a leafe of 5,000
years^ Her majefty wanted it for the Earl of Arundel, of whom
fhe wifhed to purchafe Nonfuch-houfe and park ; and flie Immedi-
ately ceded to him her eftate in it. Upon Lord Arundel's death,
which happened foon afterwards, it pafled to Lord Lumley, who
married his daughter. About the year 1583 it was alienated to
the family of Goode. In the year 1621, the members of the col-
lege, taking into confideration the illegal adl which had been done
by their predeceflbrs In alienating this eftate, came to a refolution
to difpute the validity of the leafe as contrary to the reftraining
ad of Queen Elizabeth. The caufe was fome years in Chancery,
and at laft the parties came to the following compromife ; that the
♦ Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. 53 H. 12. the Rev. Mr. Kilnerof Cirencefter, from notes
' Moll of the particulars relating to this taken from the Regifters of Merton College,
tranfa^ion were obligingly communicated by
advowfon
334
M A L D E N.
Worcefter-
park.
Singular pu-
nifhment of
fome foldiers.
Tal.vorth
manor.
advowfon of the church fhould be immediately ceded to the col-
lege, but that the prefent pofleflbrs and their heirs fhould enjoy the
benefits of the leafe of the manor for fourfcore years from that time.
Under this agreement the family of Goode continued to hold the
manor till the year 1 707, when the leafe expired ; and the eftate
was furrendered to the College by Dame Penelope, widow of Sir
Thomas Morley, and heir of ■ Goode, Efq. The college then
leafed it to Richard Willis, afterwards Bifhop of Winchefter ; and
it is ftill held by his defcendants.
The whole of the manor is valued in the Conqueror's Survey at
7 1. 1 2 s. o d. In 1 29 1 the Prior of Merton had an eftate in Maiden
which was taxed at 12s.'
A part of Worcefter Park, which was formerly called Nonfuch
Great-park, is in the parifh of Maiden. In 1650 a furvey of it
was taken by order of parliament, when the park, with a meffuage
called Worcefter-houfe, was valued at 550 1. per annum, and was
bought by Col. Pride at fix years purchafe ^ It was granted by
Charles II. to Sir Robert Long, upon a leafe of 99 years ', but was
afterwards included in the grant to the Duchefs of Cleveland, and
was alienated by the late Duke of Grafton to Sir George Walter ',
A confiderable part of it is now the property of William Taylor, Efq.
who has a franchife of free warren in the park.
In 1649 fixteen foldiers, being tried for ftealing deer in Worcefter-
park, were fentenced to the fingular punilhment of riding the wooden
horfe for an hour in Palace-yard, Weftminfter, with mulkets tied
to their heels ; wearing the Ikin of a deer on their backsj and the
following infcriptions on their breafts : — " For ftealing and endea-
" vouring by force to fteal deer '°."
About a mile from Maiden is a hamlet called Talworth, in the
parlfti of Long Ditton. The manor, which is defcribed in all the
" See note, p. lo. » From the information of the Reverend J.
' Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office. Whateley, proprietor of Nonfuch-park.
Pat. ij Ch. II. pt. 5- N»7.
i'erfeft Occurrences, Sept. 7, 1649.
ancient
M A L D E N.
335
ancient records as being in this parlfli, was granted by Edward II.
to Edmund ofWoodftockj by Edward III. to Edmund Earl of
Kent ; and from him defcended to Henry Earl of Weftmorland ",
who alienated it in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, It is now the
property of the Polhills.
The church, which is dedicated to St. John, confifts of a nave The church,
and chancel, which are feparated by a wooden fcreen. At the weft
end is a fquare tower ; the north fide of the church is entirely over-
grown with ivy. In the eaft window are the arms of Ravis, Bifhop
of London ", who was born at Maiden ", and contributed to the
rebuilding of the church. In the fame window are the arms of
Walter de Merton, Bifhop of Rochefter '*. Two other coats are in
the fouth window of the chancel, and a north window of the nave ".
The grant of a brief for colleding money to rebuild Maiden church
bears date 1585 '"; but it does not appear that the work was un-
dertaken before the year 1610". The nave and the tower were
then entirely rebuilt with brick ; the chancel was only repaired, and
ftill retains its old walls of flint and ftone.
In the church are the tombs of John Goode, Efq. who died in Tombs In the
1627; Sir Thomas Morley, who died in 1692; Jane, wife of church-yard.
Sebaftian Brufkett, Efq. who died in 1613; Mr. John Hamnet,
who died in 1643 > Charles Mofeley, the late vicar, who died in
1760 ; and Mr. Francis Bowry, who died in 1772. In the church-
yard are the tombs of Catherine Lady Walter, wife of Sir George
Walter, of Worcefter-park, Barf, and daughter of Sir William
Boughton, Bart, of Lawford in the county of Warwick, who died
•■ Pat. I Eliz. pt. 9. June 14. born by Merton College.
" Arg. a chevron Gules between 3 ravens •$ Az. an eagledifplayeJ Or, a chief Arg.
heads erafed Sable, impaled with the arms of the arms of George Mynors, Efq. a contri-
the fee of London. butor to the church ; and Az. femee of crofi
" Fuller's Worthies, Surrey. crodets Argent, a lion rampant of thefecond.
'♦ Or, three chevrons per pale, the firft »« Reg. Lam. Whitgift, pt.i. fol. lio. b.
Azure and Gules, thefecond Gules and Azure, •? Aubrey's Surrey.
the third as the firft. The fame arms are
173.^;
336
M A L D E N.
Vicarage.
Edward Hin-
ton.
Henry Ste-
phens.
Parifh regif-
ter. .
Comparative
ftate of popu-
lation.
1733; and Thomas Whately, Efq. of Nonfuch-park, who died in
The church of Maiden is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the
deanery of Evvell. The benefice is a vicarage. The advowfon was
granted to Merton Abbey at an early period by Eudonius de Mel-
don"; and was by that convent given to Merton College ''. The
vicarage was amply endowed in the year 1279". Since the college
has been re-poflefled of the advowfon as mentioned above, an ad-
vantageous leafe of fuch tithes as are not included in that endow-
ment has conftantly been granted to the incumbent. The church
of Maiden was taxed in 1291 at 12 marks*'. The vicarage is valued
in the King's books at 81. os. 5 d. per annum. The neighbour-
ing chapel of Chefington is annexed to it. In 1650, the commif-
fioners appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices
made it a dlftindt parifti ", in which ftate it continued till the re-
ftoration.
Edward Hinton,"'inftltuted to the vicarage in 1639", ^^ mentioned
by Wood as the author of a fermon preached at the funeral of
Mr. John Hamnet '*.
Henry Stephens, inftituted in 1714, publifhed a few fingle fer-
mons, and wrote a poem on the air pump, which is printed in the
Mufse Anglicana3.
The prefent vicar is the Rev. Robert Bean.
The parifh regifter commences in 1678.
Average of Baptifms.
1680 1689 2
1780—1789 II
Average of Burials.
- 2
" Cotton MSS. Brit. IVIuf. Cleopatra, cepting thofe of the demefne lands, and all the
C vii. fol. 84, 8;. tithes of Chefington.
" Ibid, f. 182. b. " See note, p. lo.
'° Regift. Wint. Ad. de Orleton, pt. i. ** Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS.
f. 110. b. The endowment confided of i6 Lib.
acres of arable land, the reftory-houfe and ap- '' Reg. Wint. Curie, f. 62. a.
purtenances, the great and fmall tithes, ex- '* Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. Fafti.
By
M A L D E N.
337
By the anfwer of Mr. Stephens, the vicar, to fome queries of
the Bifhop of Winchefter in 1725, (which is inferted in the Regif-
ter,) it appears that the average of births was then 6, that of bu-
rials 4; and the number of inhabitants no. The prefent number
of houfes is 22.
Mr. Henry Smith left an annual benefadlion of i 1. 10 s. od. to Benefaftjon.
be divided amongft poor houfekeepers of this place.
lidjoa bnrt i ,f!"3(oin
Vol. I. X X
[ 338 ]
M E R T O N.
Name.
Situation.
Boundaries.
Murder of
Kenulph,
king of the
Weft Saxons,
and battle
between the
Saxons and
the Danes.
TH E name of this place, which has been written Meretone
and Meretune, muft be derived from Mere, which fignifies
either a lake or a boundary. There is fome marfhy ground near
the river Wandle, which was formerly perhaps more extenfive.
The village is about nine miles from London, upon the Epfom
road. The parifh is bounded by Mitcham on the eaft ; Mordon on
the fouth ; Kingfton on the weft; and Wimbledon on the north.
The foil in the eaftern part of the parifh is light and fandy, towards
the weft a ftifFclay. The land is moftly arable. The parifh is af-
fefTed the fum of 288 1. 15 s. 6d. to the land-tax, which is at the
rate of 2 s. 5 d. in the pound.
Two early hiftorical fadls have been appropriated to this place,
viz. The murder of Kenulph, king of the Weft Saxons, which hap-
pened A. D. 784 ; and a battle between the Danes and the Saxons
A. D. 871 ; but Lambarde ' doubts whether either of thefe events
took place at Merton in Surrey. Upon looking into the old Chro-
nicles, I find nothing to fix them to this place. In the war be-
tween the Danes and Saxons in 871, a battle is faid to have hap-
pened at Merton, in which the latter were difcomfited *. The laft
battle had been at Bafing in Hampfliire. The ancient hiftorians all
agree that Kenulph was murdered at Merton, but none of them
mention the county. That monarch was interred at Winchefter ;
Kineard the murderer, who was (lain foon afterwards, was buried
at Axminfter \
' Topographical Diftionary,
' Huntingdon inter Scriptores poft Bedam,
p. 349. Hoveden inter Scrip, poft Bed. p.417.
^ EtheUverd inter Scrip, poft Bed. p. 840,
841. Huntingdon ut fupra, p. 343. Hove-
den ut fupra, p. 409.
The
M E R T O N. 339
The manor of Merton, before the Conqueft, was the property of Manor.
Earl Harold, and was afterwards held by the king in demefne. It
contained 21 ploughlands, and was valued in the ConfefTor's time
at 25 1. ; afterwards at 15 1. ; and at the time of the Conqueft, at 35 1.
Henry I. gave it to Gilbert Norman, fheriff" of Surrey, Foundationof
1-1 r J 1.- 1 Merton Ab-
who in the year 11 15 built a convent or wood at this place, bey.
Having fo done, he requefted and obtained the king's patronage for
accomplilhing the work. He then applied to the prior of fome re-
gular canons, who had long flourifhed in St. Maiy's church at Hun-
tingdon, and promifing to become a benefactor to that fraternity,
befought his affiftance, and defired that he would fuffer Robert Bayle
his fub-prior to fuperintend the new eftablifhment. This requeft
being granted, he conduced Bayle to Merton, and delivered up to
him the newly-eredted convent, of which he was conftituted prior,
giving him at the fame time two ploughlands, a mill of 60 fhillings
rent, and fome villeins ; promifing, if he could obtain the king's
licence, to fettle the whole of the manor upon the convent. It was
not long before perfons from various parts of England, not only be-
ftowed their goods upon the new monaftery, but alfo took upon them
the religious habit there. The founder brought the prelates and
nobles of the land to fee the place, and recommended the inftitution
to their patronage. Among others. Queen Matilda came to fee
the convent, and was pleafed to exprefs a great intereft in its
welfare. The prior after having refided there near two years,
began to be diflatlsfied with the fituation*, thinking the prefent
fite of the monaftery better adapted for religious retirement ; but
he had fome fcruples about making his opinion known, as the
founder had already been at fo great an expence. The fheriff, how-
ever, foon heard of the prior's inclinations, which he imme-
diately refolved to gratify; and began to remove the convent with
♦ It IS probable that the original fituation was near the church.
X X 2 all
340 M E R T O N.
all poflible expedition. A wooden chapel was foon built, and con-
fecrated by William GifFard, Biftiop of Winchefter, who was enter-
Removal of tained with great coft at the founder's houfe. Some of the cells
the convent. ^ , .n » r • rr^i
and a part of the cloifter were at the lame time removed. The prior,
who had now refided at Merton two years and five months, went in
proceflion with fifteen brethren to the new convent, finging
" Salve dies," the founder himfclf being prefent at the folemnity,
accompanied with an immenfe crowd. Gilbert, as before, brought
the nobles of the land to fee the new building, and prefents foon
flowed in apace. Some brought clothes, others wheat, cheefe,
wine, &c. Queen Matilda came again to vifit the prior in his
new habitation, and brought with her the prince her fon, that fhe
might intereft him for the welfare of the monaftery if he fhould ever
become king. The death of Matilda, which happened the fame
year, and the unfortunate cataftrophe of Prince William which fol-
lowed foon after, aded as a fevere blow to the convent, and
threatened effedlually to impede its rifing glory, efpecially as the
king, who was averfe to the fettlement of lands upon religious
houfes, refufed to confent to the founder's giving them the manor.
About this time an expedition to the Holy Land was in agitation,
and a meeting of the nobles and prelates was to be held at Win-
chefter. It was the founder's propofal therefore, that a fum of
money fhould be raifed by the convent amounting to loo pounds
of filver and fix marks of gold, and prefented to the king at this
feafonable jundlure, with a view of procuring his confent. The
greater part of this fum the founder contributed hlmfelf, and accom-
panied the prior to Winchefter; their journey was fuccefsful,
and they returned with the king's charter of confirmation'. This
was in the year ii2i. On their return, the founder aflembled all
the men of the village into the convent, and furrendered the ma-
* This charter is to be found among the Tower Records; Cart. Antiq. U. 5.
nor,
M E R T O N. 341
nor, with all the villeins thereunto belonging, to the prior and con-
vent, which then confifled of 23 brethren. In the year 1130
Merton Abbey was firfl: built with ftone, the founder himfelf laid Merton Ab-
the nrft Itone, with great lolemnity. The prior laid down the ^ith ftone.
fecond, and the brethren, ;^6 in number, each one. The founder
died the fame year on the calends of Auguft, and was buried within
the walls of the convent, where there was' a monument to his me-
mory. The MS.* from which the foregoing account is taken,
informs us, that he was born in Normandy, and bred a foldier.
The fplendor and magnificence in which he lived is highly fpoken
of; and his hofpitality is faid to have been fo great, that his doors
were conftantly kept open, that every one who wifhed might find
ready accefs, and be entertained according to his rank.
The canons entered the new convent in 11 36, being indudled
by the Bifhops of St. Afaph and Rochefter, who were deputed for
that purpofe by Archbifhop Corboyle^
The benefa(Slions to Merton Abbey were numerous and am-
ple. A regifler of their grants and leafes is to be found In the
Britifh Mufeum ; a chronicle of the Abbey is in the Bodleian Library
at Oxford. In the former is a fucceffion of the priors from the
foundation to the year 1306. In the latter they are continued to
the year 1439. The lift may be completed from the Winchefter
regifters. Moft of them are printed in Willis's Hiftory of Mitred
Abbies °. Michael Kympton, who was eledled in 1402, appears to
have been profefibr of divinity in Oxford, to which profeflbrfhip
he was appointed in 1397 '. At the time of the valor in 1534 John
Ramfay was the prior •° ; but in Willis, John Bowie is mentioned
« MSS. Herald's College, N»xxviii. An ' Decern. Scrip. Col. 1664.
ancient unpubliiV.ed Narrative of the Founda- ' Vol. ii. p. 231,232.
tion of Merton Abbey, which appears to have ' Chronicle of Merton Abbey, in the Bod-
been written by a contemporary ; as the wri- leian Library,
ter mentions fome fads as received from the '° Rcgift. Wiaton. Fox, pt. 5.
mouth of the founder.
as
342 M E R T O N.
as the laft prior, who at the diflblution of the monaftery had a pen-
fion of 133I. 6 s. 8 d. per annum, and was afterwards made Canon
ofWindfor". He furrendered up the monaftery:, with 14 monks,
April 16, 1538. The revenues were then valued at 957I. 19s. ^{d,
per annum ". The Prior of Merton had a feat in parliament as a
mitred abbot.
Seal of Mer- j^ the Afpilogia of John Anftis, Efq. Garter King at Arms, a
MS. in the library of Thomas Aftle, Efq. is a drawing of the
feal of Merton Priory. On the obverfe is a reprefentation of the
Virgin Mary with the infant Jefus on the left knee ; fhe is crowned
as the Regina Coeli. The feal has two legends — " Sigillum ecclefise
•' SandtcC Marise de Meritona," and
" Auguftine pater quos inftruis in Meritona,
" His Chrifti Mater tutrix eft atque patrona."
On the reverfe of the feal is the figure of St. Auguftine : his right
hand is in the attitude of benedi<3:ion, and in his left he holds a
paftoral ftaff, on which is infcribed the following legend : " Mundi
" lucerna, nos, Auguftine guberna." A feal of Merton Abbey is
engraved in Madox's Ancient Charters.
In the Chronicles of this Abbey at the Bodleian Library, are the
ordinations of William of Wickham, Bifhop ofWinchefter, for the
Statutes of government of the convent. By one of the ftatutes the monks are
prohibited from hunting, or keeping dogs for that purpofe within
the walls of the Abbey, under the penalty of being obliged to live
upon bread and ale for fix holidays. Moft of the punifhments af-
fedt the diet of the offenders. The moft fevere is, that of being doomed
to live upon bread and water ; the flighteft, being confined to bread,
ale, and pulfe. In a vifitation of Merton Abbey, by Henry Wood-
lock Biftiop of Winchefter ", the canons are reprehended for not at-
" Vol. ii. p. 232. " Rcgill. Wint. Fox. pt. 5. " Regia. Winton. Hen. de Woodlock.
tending
the convent.
M E R T O N. 343
tending mafs, and for going about with bows and arrows; and they
are threatened to be punifhed, by abridging their allowance. Re-
ferences to feveral records relating to Merton Abbey will be found
in the notes '*.
In .the year 1236, a parliament was held in Merton Abbey", parliament at
wherein were enadted the ftatutes which take their name from that ^"'"'i-
place. In this houfe alfo was concluded the peace between Henry III. Peace be-
and the Dauphin of France, through the mediation of Gualo the in"and the^
Pope's Legate". Here Hubert de Burgh, Chief Juftice of England, ^^"P^^'"-
fled for fanduary when firft apprifed of the king's difpleafure. The Burgh.
King hearing where he was, ordered him to come before the court,
and abide the ifliie of the law ; but he refufed to quit his afylum.
The King being much incenfed at his difobedience, fent to the Lord
Mayor of London, and Ordered him to fummon all the citizens that
could bear arms, and proceed to Merton to take Burgh dead or alive.
The citizens, with whom he was very unpopular, haftened towards
Merton, in number about 20,000, and the Chief Juftice, flying to
the high altar, waited the event. In the mean time the King,
through the interceflions of the Earl of Chefter and the Bifhop of
Chichefter, was induced to alter his purpofe, and the citizens were
recalled by royal mandate, before they could accomplifli their re-
venge '\
'♦ Henry II. 's Confirmation of Lands and ter of free warren in Merton, Mitcham, &e.
Privileges, Cart. Antiq. C. C. ii. Grant Cart. Rot. 36 Hen. III. m. ii. Granitoim-
of Lands in Hants, by H"P. II. Ibid, park 40 acres of land, Pat. 20 Edw. I. m. 5,'
R. 7. ar.d T. 38. Grant of Ewell, Ibid. U. 6. Exemplification of Grants and Privileges, Par.
Richard I.'s Confirmation of Grants, Ibid. 13 Hen, IV. pt. 2. m. 25. Pac. 3 Hen. VI.
C 26. Charter of Privileges by Rich- pt. 2. m. 10. Confirmation of Rights and
ard I. Ibid. L. L. 3 Grant of a Wood at PolTeflion;, by Richard Toclivins, Bifhop of
Merton by King John. Ibid. 0^0^50. Grant Winchefter. Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleo-
that the canons (hould not be imple.ided except patm, C. 7. f. 84. b. 85. a.
before the king. Cart. 7. John. m. 11. Ample '^ Mat. Paris, p. 356.
exemplification and confirmation of Grants '" Lambarde's Topographical Diftionary,
and Privile^"s by Hen. III. Cart. Antiq. from Flores Hiit.
L. L. 4. Si Cart. 36 Hen. III. 17. Char- " Mat. Paris, p. 31S.
* X X 4 John
344
Site of the
priory.
M E R T O N.
John de Sandal, Bifhop of Winchefter, held an ordination in
Merton Abbey, anno 1316. In a grant of certain privileges to
John Haunfard and his wife Gundred, in the regifter of Merton
Abbey '\ it appears that they were to be buried there. James de
Lacy, by his will, dated 1387,- direded his body to be buried in
Merton Abbey ".
The fite of the abbey was granted by Queen Mary to the priory
at Shene ". After the diffolution of that monaftery, it was kept for
fome time in the hands of the crown, and was leafed by Queen
Elizabeth to Gregory Lover". It was afterwards granted to Nicholas
Zouch, and appears to have paffed through the hands of various
perfons " before the middle of the laft century, at which time it was
the property of Rowland Wilfon.
"' Cotton. MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C. 7.
f. 137. b. " In nomine Trinitatis, &c.
" Eullachius Prior de Merton & ejufdem loci
" conventus : ex afFeftu intimo Dominum Jo-
" hannem Haunfard & Dnam Gundredam
" uxorem ejus recipimus participes omnium
" bonorum qua; in ecclefia nollra operari dig-
" nabitur dementia Salvatoris : conceflimus
" etiam eifdem quod in ecclefia noftra fibi eli-
" gant fepulturam ut coram altari aliquo ubi
" eorum corpora debeant fepeliri affignabun-
" tur duo canonici fucceflivc qui ibidem ce-
" lebrantes pro eis memoriam facient fpe-
" cialem. Audita antem eorum vel alterius
" eorum morte corpus fufcipiemus cum ho-
" nore & clafficum faciemus pulfari & exe-
" quias fieri ficut pro Priore fieri confuevit.
" Nomen vero eorum faciemus inter defundlos
" noftros in martilogio numerari, et per brevi-
" gerulum noftrum per Angliam deportari ut
" ejus anima in unoquoque collegio abfolva-
" tur. Die vero anniverfario ejus pro eo ut
" pro canonico profefTo fiet fervicium folem-
" niter in conventu et habebimus die illo pi-
" tanciam fpecialem qus valeat unam marc.
" et fimiliter in anniverfario Domini Gun-
" drede pitanciam unius marc, valoris debet
" fieri in conventu. Hxc etiam omnia pre-
" difta concedimus alteri eorum pofterius
" decedenti. In cujus rei teftimonium hoc
" fcriptum figUlo capituli noftri fecimus com-
" muniri. Unde teftis eft Dominus Jefus
" Chriftus." Euftachius was eledled Prior in
1249, and died in 1262.
'» Regift. Winton. W. de Ulckham.
*" Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
N''4705, Ayfcough's Cat.
*' Leafes by Queen Elizabeth. Augmen-
tation-office.
" Scit. priorat. Merton. alien, per Nich.
Zouch Sc al. Car°. Com. Nottingham & al.
43 Eliz. Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit.
Muf. N°4705, Ayfcough's Cat. Scit. pri-
orat. Merton. alien, per Car. com. Notting-
ham. Jo. Spilman. 2 Jac. Ibid. Scit. priorat,
Merton. alien, per Jo. Spilman, Thoma: Corn-
wall, milit. Pat. 4 Jac. I. pt. 16. -Apr. i.
Scit. priorat. Merton. per Th. Cornwallis.
alien. Th. Merbury. Pat. 11 Jac. pt. 36.
May I. Scit. Priorat. Mertcn. alien. Th.
Merbury, Edw. Bellingham, milit. Pat. 10
Jac. pt. 30. Mar. I. Scit. priorat. Merton.
alien, per Fr. Clerke, milit. Rowland. Wilfon.
Pat. 20 Jac. pt. 20. June i.
During
M E R T O N.
345
During the civil wars, it appears to have been ufed as a garrifon. Merton Ab-
In July 1648, the Derby-houfe committee were ordered by the Par- a garrifon.^
liament to make Farnham Caftle indefenfible, and to fecure Merton
Abbey, and other places of ftrength, in the fame county ^\
In the year 1680 Merton Abbey was advertifed to be let, and
was defcribed as containing feveral large rooms, and a very fine
chapel ^*. Vertue, who vifited this place about fixty years ago,
mentions the chapel as being then entire, and fays, that it refembled
the Saxon buildings''. At prefent there is no other veftige of the
abbey than the eaft window of a chapel, of crumbling ftone, which
feems, from the ftyle of its archite£ture, to have been built in the
fifteenth century. The walls which furround the premifes, in-
cluding a fpace of about fixty acres, are nearly entire, being built
of flints. The fite of the abbey, after pafling through various
hands, became the property of Sir William Phippard, Knt. in 171 1.
It is now divided into feveralties, two-thirds of which belong to
Richard Fezard Mansfield, Efq. who married one of Sir William's
grand-daughters.
In the year 1724, a manufa£tory for printing calicoes was Manufaao-
eftablifhed upon the fite of Merton Abbey, which ftill exifts upon of Menon
Ahbcv
the fame fpot, being at prefent in the occupation of Meflrs. Newton,
Hodgfon, and Leach, who carry on a very extenfive trade, and have
brought the art to a great degree of perfe£lion. Another ma-
nufadlory of the fame nature was eftablifhed within the walls of the
abbey in the year 1752, which is now carried on by Mr. Half hide,
and at the north-eaft corner of the premifes is a copper-mill, in the
occupation of Mr. Thoytts, which has been long eftablifhed there.
Upon a moderate computation, there are a thoufand perfons now
employed within the walls in the different manufactories ; a pleafing
-3 Perfeft Diurnal, July 3—10, 1648. *' Vertue's MSS. in the Earl of Orford's
^* Domeftic Intelligencer, Mar. 5, 1680. colleftion at Strawberry Hill.
Vol. I. Y Y contraft
346
M E R T O N.
contraft to the monaftic indolence which reigned there in former
times.
The manor. The manor of Merton, after the fuppreflion of the abbey, was
referved fome time in the hands of the crown ; and was granted by
Queen Elizabeth to Zouch and Ware ". It appears by fome
means to have twice reverted to the crown; having been granted,
7 Jac. to Richard Bancroft and others ^\ and 14 Jac. to Thomas
Ford and others ^\ It has belonged to the Darell family for fome
generations, and is now the property of John Chambers Darell,
a minor. In 1291 it was valued at 12I. 6s. 6d. per annum.
The church. The parifh church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is built of
flints, and confifts of a nave and chancel. The breadth is very
difproportionate to the length. In the chancel walls are large
pointed arches, in the centre of which are narrow windows with
fharp points. On the north fide is a door with a femicircular arch,
round which are zig-zag mouldings ; at the weft end is a low fpire.
Merton church was built early in the twelfth century by Gilbert
Norman, the founder of the abbey, as appears by the MS. in the
Herald's College above quoted ; where it is faid, that after the king
granted him the manor, he built a church there, at his own expence,
and adorned it with pidures and images "', before which time the
inhabitants were obliged to carry their dead to the adjacent villages.
From the ftyle of architecture of the prefent church, there is little
doubt of its being the original ftrudiure, and that it has undergone
little alteration.
In the chancel window are fome remains of painted glafs, amongft
which are to be feen the arms of England, and thofe of the priory
of Merton '°.
'* Fee Farm Roll, Augmentation-office. exigebat."
*' Pat. 7 Jac. pt. 47. Mar. 13. ^o ^^j,. fretty Or, on each of the joints an
'^ Pat. 14Jac.pt. 16. Jan. 10. eagledifplayedof the field. Thefe were proba-
'3 " Piduris et aliis fpeciebus prout res blythearmsof Gilbert Norman the founder.
Againft
W~^m^^^^^^^~^^
o
n
pi
i-i
a"
M E R T O N. 347
Againft the north wall of the church hangs a large pidure of
Chrift bearing the crofs ; it is much damaged, but appears to have
been a good painting, and was either the work of Luca Jordano, or a
copy from him. It is not known when or by whom it was given
to the church.
Againft the fouth wall of the chancel is a monument, to the me- Monuments,
mory of Gregory Lovell, Efq. of Merton Abbey, cofferer of the
houfehold to Queen Elizabeth^', who died in 1597. ^^ married
Dorothy, daughter of Michael Green, yeoman of the ftirrup. On
the north wall is the monument of Henry Meriton, Efq. gentleman
of the privy chamber to George II. who died in 1757. Within
the rails of the communion table are the tombs of Sir Henry Sta-
pylton, Knt. and Bart, who died in 1679, and Grace, wife of
Thomas Robinfon of Rokefby, and daughter of Sir Henry Sta-
pylton, who died in 1676. In the fouth-eaft corner of the chancel
is the monument of Sir Thomas Robinfon, Knt. and Bart. F. R. S. Sir Thomas
who died in 1777. He was buried at Merton, where many of his
anceftors had been interred, purfuant to the diredions of his will.
In the chancel is alfo the tomb of Elizabeth, wife of John Garth, Efq.
who died in 1640.
Againft the north wall of the nave are the monuments of Elizabeth,
wife of Thomas Robinfon, Efq. who died in 1738 ; William Baynes,
land furveyor of the cuftoms, who died in 171 7; Walter Baynes,
who died in 1727, and others of that family; and Judith, reli£t of
Edward Wilfon, Efq. who died in 1745. In the nave are alfo the
tombs of Dame Anne, relidl of Sir Thomas Noel, Bart, and daughter
of Sir William Witlock, who died in 1737; and Chriftopher, fon
of Sir Henry Stapylton, who died in 1743.
'' Queen Elizabeth's vifit to Merton in probably to Gregory Lovell, to whom (he had
1571 (fee pariih accounts atKingfton) was granted a leafe of the abbey three years before.
Yy 2 In
348
M E R T O N.
Church-
yard.
Reftory.
Parifti le-
gifter.
Comparative
flate of popu-
lauon.
In the church-yard are the tombs of Mr. William Rutlifh,
embroiderer to Charles II. who died in 1687 ; John Payne, Efq.
who died in 1778 ; John Tyton, Efq. who died in 1790; and
Mr. Francis Nixon, of Merton Abbey, who died in 1768. He
is faid, in his epitaph, to have been the firft who perfeded copper-
plate calico-printing. The expreffion, however, appears to be
too ftrong, as many improvements in that art have been made
fmce his death.
The re£tory of Merton belonged to the abbey. In 1 291 it
was taxed at 10 marks". Edward VI. granted it to Thomas Lock
and his heirs". In 1658 it was prefented to the commiffioners
appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that
the reftory of Merton, worth about 50 1. per annum, was im-
propriated to Mr. Robert Wilfon, who had placed Mr. Edward
Raynsford there as curate, allowing him 20 1. per annum, and his
diet'*. Henry Meriton, Efq. who died in 1757, was poflefTed
of the redlory, which afterwards came, by purchafe, to Sir Thomas
Chitty, alderman of London, and is now the property of his daughter
Eleanor, widow of Charles Bond, Efq." The impropriator allows
the curate 14 1. per annum. The prefent curate is the Reverend
Charles Frederick Bond.
The parifh regifter commences in the year 1559; during the laft
century it was not kept with fufficient accuracy to form a fatis-
fa£tory average of births and burials.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
I580-— 1589 4 — — 4
1766 — 1775 18 — II
1784 — 1789 ■ 24 — ~- 20
'* See note, p. lo.
'' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
N° 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
^* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth Library.
^* From the information of the Reverend
C. F. Bond.
The
M E R T O N.
349
The prefent number of houfes is 1 1 6.
In 1603 there are entries of only four burials.
" Lady Mary Villars, daughter of the Right Hon. the Earl of
" Buckingham and Lord Vifcount Purbeck, of this parifh, buried
« May 18th, 1703."
Mr. William Rutlifh left 400 1. to this parifh to put out poor Benefaaions.
children apprentices. An acre of land was bequeathed by an un-
known benefactor. Rowland Wilfon, Efq. of Merton Abbey, in
the year 1656, founded an alms-houfe for fix poor women, and
endowed it with lands. The alms-houfe remains by the fide of the
road to Kingfton, with Mr. Wilfon's arms over the door ; but the
endowment has been loft fome years, and the parifh have in vain
endeavoured to recover it. The fame Rowland Wilfon left fome
money to be diftributed in bread.
[ 350 ]
M I T C H A M.
Name.
Situation.
Boundaries,
&c.
Phyfic gar-
deners.
Manors.
THIS place in Doomfday Book Is called MIchelham, that is,
the great dwelling. In all the early records, and in many of
a more recent date, it is written Miccham or Micham ; the prefent
mode of fpelling, which is more remote from its etymology, was not
univerfally adopted before this century.
Mitcham lies in the hundred of Croydon, about 9 miles from
Weftminfter Bridge. The parifh is bounded by Streatham on the
eaft ; by Beddington, Carflialton, and Croydon on the fouth ; Mor-
don on the weft ; and Merton on the north. The arable land ex-
ceeds the pafture in a confiderable proportion. The greateft part of
the extenfive common between this place and Beddington is in Mit-
cham parifti. The foil confifts principally of a rich black mould.
About 250 acres are occupied by the phyfic gardeners, who cultivate
lavender, wormwood, camomile, anifeed, rhubarb, liquorice, and
many other medicinal plants, in great abundance ; but principally
peppermint, of which there are above 100 acres. The demand for
this herb is not confined to the apothecaries fhops, it being much
ufed in making a cordial well-known to the dram-drinkers. Forty
years fince, a few acres only were employed in the cultivation of me-
dicinal herbs in this parifla. Perhaps there is no place where it is
now fo extenfive. Mitcham is affeffed the fum of 635 I. 13 s. od.
to the land-tax, which in the year 1791 was at the rate of is. 6d.
in the pound.
It appears that, at the time of the Conqueror's Survey, there were
two manors in Mitcham, each of which was of the value of 40 s.
One had been held by Brictric of the Confeffor, and was then held
of
M I T C H A M.
of the Bifhop of Baieux, by the canons of that convent. The other
had been held by Lemarus of King Edward ; and was then the pro-
perty of "William the fon of Anfculf. There were likewife two
other manors at Witford ' in this parifh, held by the fame perfons j
the one of 50 s. the other of 40 s. value. The fmaller was the pro-
perty of the canons of Baieux. I have not been able, through the
deficiency of records, to trace the defcent of thefe manors fatisfac-
torily. Probably fome, if not all of them, reverted foon after the
Conqueft to the crown. I find feveral grants by Henry I. of lands
at Mitcham to be held in capite^ viz. two hides to Robert the fon of
Wolfward, and Walter le Poure * ; one hide to Robert and Matthew
de Micham % &c. &c. Alexander de Witford, about the fame time,
held a knight's fee in Mitcham of the barony of Roger de Sumery,
and of the honour of Dudley*. John de Aperdele is faid to have
held the manor of Mitcham in 1367'. William Mareis had very
confiderable property there in the reign of Edward III. " In a record
4 Richard II. ' the manor is faid to have been divided between the
King, the Earl of Glocefler, and the Prior of Merton. The Prior
of Southwark is omitted, though that monaflery had a manor there
at a much earlier period. The Earl of Glocefter's lands there were
annexed to his manor of Camberwell \ Thomas Plomer, Efq. who
died 15 Car. I. was feized of lands in Mitcham held of that manor'.
The Prior of Merton held lands there about the year 1 250 of Wil-
liam Mauduit, afterwards Earl of Warwick, by the fervice of ren-
dering a pair of gilt fpurs '°. William Figge ", who died 24 Edw. III.
" There is no fuch hamlet now in the parifh, ' Court Rolls of the manor of Camberwell
but a lane between Upper and Lower Mitcham Buckingham's,
ftill retains the name. * Cole's Efcheats, N'' 410. Harleian MSS.
^ Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N"'3i3. f. 20. Brit. Muf.
2 Ibid. f. 22. b. '° Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra,
♦ Ibid. f. 15. C. vii. f. n6.
' Harleian MSS. N''628i. " A fmall common in this parifh went by
* CI. 35 Edw. III. m. 3. the name of Figg's-marfh, now ufually called
' Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N" 6281. Pig's-marfh,
was
351
35^
M I T C H A M.
Manor of
Mitcham or
Canon.
Manor of
Digging and
Tam worth.
was felzed of a houfe and lands at Mitcham, which he held by the
fervice of receiving the King's diftraints for the hundred of Wal-
lington ". Agnes, wife of GeofFry Prior, who died 7 Henry IV.
held a houfe and lands by the fame fervice ". In the year 1240 an
affize of common of pafture was taken, in which the priors of Mer-
ton and Southwark and other freeholders of the parifli of Mitcham
were plaintiffs, and William Hufcarl, Agnes Hufcarl, and others, of
Beddington and Wallington, defendants ; in which the plaintiffs
gained their caufe and recovered 40 s. damages '\
There are now three diflin<Sl manors in this parifh ; the manor of
Mitcham or Canon ; the manor of Digging and Tamworth ; and
the manor of Ravenfbury.
The manor of Mitcham or Canon belonged to the Priory of St.
Mary Overie, and was granted at the diffolution of that monaflery to
Nicholas Spackman '* and Chriflopher Harbottle, who alienated it to
Lawrence Warren '' ; from him it pafTed to Nicholas Burton of Car-
fhalton'\ Sir Henry Burton, K. B. fold it to Sir Nicholas Carew
in the year 161 9". His fon Sir Francis Carew, K. B. gave it to
Thomas Temple, Efq. as a portion with his daughter Rebecca.
Mr. Temple alienated it to the Hammond family ; in 1656 Thomas
Hammond, Efq. fold it to Robert Cranmer, Merchant of London'*,
and it is now the property of his defcendant James Cranmer, Efq.
The fallacy of the tradition, that this was the private eftate of Arch-
bifhop Cranmer, will appear from the foregoing account of its de-
fcent. In 1291 this manor was valued at 20 s. per annum "'.
The manor of Bigging and Tamworth belonged to Merton Abbey,
and was granted by Henry VIII. after the fuppreffion of that mo-
" Efch. 23 Edw. III. pt. 2. N^is- N" 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
" Efch. 6 Henry IV. N" 45. "' The account of this and the fubfequent
" Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, alienations was obligingly communicated by
C. vii. fol. 127. a.
'♦ Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 23. Sep. 28.
" Pat. 5 Edw. VI. pt. 2. July i.
*' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
the prefent proprietor.
" From the information of James Cranmer,
Efq.
'* See note, p. 10.
naftery
M I T C H A M. 2^;^
naftery to Robert Wilford, merchant taylor, for the fumof 486I. 148.''°
In 1569 it appears to have been the property of John Lord Mor-
daunt, in right of his wife^'. In 1582 Henry Whitney, Efq. held
a court as lord of this manor, though it appears that he purchafed
a moiety thereof the enfuing year of Robert Aprece, Efq. The
Whitneys alienated the manor in 1603 to Sir John Carrill. Three
years afterwards it belonged to John Lord Hunfdon, whofe fon fold
it in 1 614 to Sir Nicholas Carew, aHas Throckmorton. It was
alienated about the year 1655 ^° Edward Thurland, Efq. and con-
tinued in the fame family till 1 744, when it was purchafed of the
devifees of another Edward Thurland by John Manfhip, Efq. father
of the prefent proprietor. In 1291 it was valued at 25 s. per
annum.
The earlieft proprietor of the manor of Ravenfbury that I find Manor of
^ ^ ' Ravenfbury.
on record is William de Mara, or De la Mar, who was lord thereof
1250". John De la Mar, and Petronilla his wife, had a grant of
free warren in the parifh of Mitcham in the reign of Edward I."
The manor of Ravenfbury was the property of John De la Pole
Earl of Lincoln, temp. Hen. VII. and was granted after his attain-
der to Simon Digby ^*. It afterwards belonged to Charles Brandon
Duke of Suffolk, who fold it to Sir Nicholas Carew, 22 Henry VIII.
for Bool.'" Upon the attainder of Sir Nicholas it was feized by
the crown, and was granted upon leafe ", but was afterwards reftored
to Sir Francis Carew by Queen Mary""', and has defcended in the
fame manner as the Beddington eftates.
" Pat. 36Hen.Vni. pt. 27. Mayig. " Cart. 11 Edw. I. N° 24.
*' Extrafts from the Court Rolls of the *+ Pat. 3 Hen. VII. pt. 2. Mar. 25.
Manor, communicated by Mr. R. Barnes, tke '' Cotton Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. xii. 24.
fteward. The whole of the following account " Pat. 34 Hen. VIII. pt. 3. Dec. 7.
is derived from the fame fource. " Orig. i. Mar. p. 3. Rot. 38. Lord
" Cotton .MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, Treafurer's Remembrancer's Office.
C. vii. f. Ill, 112.
Vol. I. Z z Sir
354 M I T C H A M.
Sir Walter Sir Walter Raleieh had a houfe and eftate at Mitcham in rieht
Raleigh. ° _ "
of his wife, who was a daughter of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, and
had been maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth. The eftate was fold
with her confent for 2500 1. when he was preparing for his expedi-
tion to Guiana". A houfe, in the occupation of Mr. Dempfter,
who keeps an academy there, is ftill called Raleigh Houfe.
Sir Julius Sir Julius Csefar, Matter of the Rolls, had alfo a houfe here, of
which he became poffeffed by an intermarriage with Mrs, Dent,
the widow of a merchant whofe property it was. In 1598 he was
honoured with a vifit from Queen Elizabeth, of which the following
account is given in his own words ''.
Vifit of " Tuefday Sept. 12. the Queen vifited my houfe at Micham,
Queen Eliza- -' r ^-^ j i
beth. " and fupped and lodged there, and dined there the next day. I
" prefented her with a gown of cloth of filver richly embroidered ; a
" black net-work mantle with pure gold ; a taffeta hat, white, with
" feveral flowers, and a jewel of gold fet therein with rubies and
" diamonds. Her Majefty removed from my houfe after dinner
*' the 13th of September to Nonfuch, with exceeding good content-
" ment, which entertainment of her Majefty, with the former dif-
" appointment ^°, amounted to 700 1. fterling, befides mine own
" provifions and what was fent unto me by my friends."
Dr. Donne. The celebrated Dr. Donne refided for fome time at Mitcham ".
Sir George More of Lofely, whofe daughter he had privately mar-
ried, was fo much exafperated, that he not only refufed to forgive,
but employed his utmoft endeavours to ruin him ; and actually
procured his removal from the family of Lord Chancellor EUefmere,
to whom he was fecretary. At this junfture Sir Francis Wolley took
compaffion on him, and received him and his family into his
" Biograph. Brit. Queen's intention to vifit Mitcham is men-
*' MS. of Sir Julius Cjefar's, Brit. Muf. tioned, at whicli time probably the difap-
N" 4160. Ayfcough's Cat. pointment here alluded to happened. Sidney
^^ In a letter from Rowland White to Sir State Papers, vol. ii. p. 5.
Robert Sidney, dated Sept. 30, 1596, the ^' Biograph. Brit, and England'sWorthies.
houfe,
M I T C H A M.
houfe, where they continued as long as Sir Francis lived. At his
death, being left deftitute of an afylum, Donne took a fmall houfe
-at Mitcham, " a place, as his biographers obferve, noted for good
" air and choice company." Being very learned in the civil law,
he was occafionally confulted by perfons of the firft rank, who paid
him liberally for his advice ; but this yielded only a precarious fup-
port, and he was fometimes reduced to great diftrefs, as may be feen
by the following extradt from a letter to a friend dated from this place.
" The reafon why I did not fend an anfwer to your laft week's
*' letter was, becaufe it found me under too great a fadnefs ; and
" at prefent it is thus with me. There is not one perfon well
*' but myfelf of my family : I have already loft half a child, and
*' with that mifchance of her's, my wife has fallen into fuch a dif-
*' compofure as would afflift her too extremely, but that the ficknefs
" of all her other children ftupifies her, one of which in good faith
*'■ I have not much hopes of, and thefe meet with a fortune -fo ill
" provided for phyfic and fuch relief, that if God fliould eafe us
" with burials, I know not how to perform even that ; but I flatter
" myfelf with this hope — that I am dying too — for I cannot wafte
" fafter than by fuch griefs. From my hofpital at Mitcham,
" John Donne '\"
Mr. Donne continued at Mitcham about two years, during which
time he became fo attached to his fituation that he would have ftaid
there for life had it not been for the importunity of his friends,
and the generofity of Sir Robert Drury, who lent him a houfe in
Drury Lane. Sir George More at laft relented, and gave him an
annuity ; and Donne, who had diftinguifhed himfelf by fome theo-
logical writings, at the earneft defire of King James entered into
holy orders, and was afterwards made Dean of St. Paul's.
** This Letter is printed in the Biograph. Brit, and in Danne's Letters to eminent
Perfons.
355
Z 2
Mofes
35^
M I T C H A M.
MofesMen- Mofes Mendez, the rich poet, who died in 1758, was an inhabit-
ant of this place. He was created M. A. at Oxford in 1750, and
was author of fome dramatic pieces, a poem called Henry and
Blanche, and various other performances, fome of which are to be
found in Dodfley's Collection.
The church. The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is built
principally of flints, and confifts of a nave, two aifles, and a chancel ;
at the eaft end of the fouth aifle is a fquare embattled tower with
a turret. The nave is feparated from the aifles by odtagonal pillars,
and pointed arches. The wall of the north aifle has been rebuilt.
The church received confiderable damage by lightning in the year
1637, at which time thirteen churches in this county are faid to
have experienced the fame fate ". A fimilar accident happened at
Mitcham a few years fmce, when the lightning entered through the
fouth wall of the tower, but without doing much injury.
Monuments. In the chancel are the monuments of Thomas Pynner, Efq. chief
clerk comptroller to Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1583 ; Theophi-
lus Brereton, Efq. who died in 1638 ; Sir Ambrofe Crowley, alder-
man of London, (celebrated in the Tatler ^* under the name of Sir
Humphry Greenhat,) who died in 1713 ; and Jofeph Cranmer, Efq.
who died in 1722. There are alfo two achievements, with infcrip-
tions to the memory of John Eldred, Efq. who died in 1649, and
Mary wife of Robert Cranmer, Efq. who died in 1665. Within
the rails of the altar is the tomb of Lieut. Gen. Daniel Harvey,
governor of Guernfey, who died in 1732; in the chancel alfo are
thofe of Elizabeth wife of William Myers, Efq, who died in 1765 ;
and George Smith, Gent, who died in 1714.
Againft the wall at the eaft: corner of the nave is the monument
of William Myers, Efq. who died in 1742 ; againfl: a north pillar
that of Bridget wife of Gabriel Glover, Efq. who died in 1709.
Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. ii. p. 143.
3* N" 73.
In
M I T C H A M. 357
In the nave was formerly a brafs plate to the memory of John
Roche, an officer in the houfehold of Catherine Queen of England,
who died in 1430 ; the infcription is preferved in Aubrey's Antiqui-
ties of Surrey.
In the eaft window of the north aifle are fome rem-ains of painted
glafs, reprefenting angels playing on mufical inftruments. Under
the window is an altar tomb, from which all the brafs plates have
been torn except the infcription, which is to the memory of Richard
Illyngworth, who died in 1487 ; near this tomb is a brafs plate
upon a flat ftone, to the memory of Ralph Illyngworth, Efq. who
died in 1572. Againft the north wall are the monuments of Henry
Allcraft, Efq. who died in 1779; the Reverend John Evanfon,
vicar of Mitcham for the fpace of 44 years, who died in 1778 ; and
Benjamin Tate, Efq. who died in 1790. In the fame aifle are flat
ftones in memory of Jofeph Taylor, merchant, who died in 1732 ;
John Robinfon, merchant, who died in 1750; and Denzil Onflow,
Efq. who died in 1 765.
At the weft end of the north aifle ftands the font, which is orna-
mented with Gothic tracery, and refembles that at Mortlake which
was ereded in the reign of Henry VI.
At the eaft end of the fouth aifle is a tablet to the memory of
John Cloberry Gafcoigne, who died in 1776.
In the church-yard is the tomb of Anne Haflam, an adlrefs, with
the following infcription : , 'a'"-
" Chariffimcc fure uxori
" Anns Hallam, Hiftrioni,
" Ultimum hoc amoris munus
" Ma^ftiflimus dedit
" Gulielmus Hallam.
Tomb of
AnneHal-
" Intravit
« Exit
} A„no{;^^»|yEt,«.
Mrs.
358
M I T C H A M.
Reftory and
vicarage.
Anthony
Sadler.
Mrs. Hallam belonged to Covent-Garden Theatre, where fhe ac-
quired confiderable celebrity by her performance of Lady Macbeth.
She was much admired alfo in the chara£ter of Lady Touchwood.
In the church-yard are the tombs likewife of John Bligh, M. D.
who died in 1678; Frances Auftin of Peterborough, who died in 1734;
Charles Dubois, Efq. who died in 1 740 ; Waldo Dubois, Efq. and
Ebenezer Dubois, Efq. who died in 1746; Peter Waldo, Efq. who
died in 1762; William Tate, Efq. who died in 1781 ; and John
Twyne, Efq. who died in 1783.
The church of Mitcham is in the diocefe of Winchefter and the
deanery of Ewell. The benefice is a vicarage. The rectory belonged
to the monaftery of St. Mary Overie, and has undergone the fame
alienations as the manor of Canon, being now impropriated to James
Cranmer, Efq. who is patron of the vicarage. The re£tory was taxed
in 1 29 1 at 20 marks". The profits of the vicarage have been lately
much improved by the increafe of the phyfic gardens, the tithes of
which form a principal part of its revenues. It was taxed in 1291 at
8 marks. In the king's books it is reckoned amongft the difcharged
livings, and is faid to be 35 1. clear yearly value.
Anthony Sadler, who was inftituted to the vicarage in 1661,
publifhed feveral fermons ; a pamphlet againft the commiflioners
who fat at Whitehall for the approbation of minifters ; " A Divine
" Mafque," dedicated to General Monk ; and a pamphlet entitled
*' Strange News indeed from Micham in Surrey of the treacherous
" and barbarous Proceedings of Robert Cranmer, Merchant of Lon-
" don, againft A.Sadler, Vicar of Micham, London, 1664." In
this pamphlet Mr. Cranmer is accufed of many cruel and unjuft
perfecutions of the vicar, particularly of throwing him into prifon,
and inducing him, under falfe pretences, to fubfcribe a bond for
500 1. which threatened himfelf and family with ruin. An anfwer
" See note, p. 10.
appeared
{(
M I T C H A M. 359
appeared foon afterwards entitled, " The Sadler fadled," being a
vindication of Mr. Cranmer's condu£t, who it feems prefented Sad-
ler to the vicarage, then worth only 40 1. per annum. The vicar
was not long fettled there before he inftituted a fuit againft his pa-
tron for dilapidations and facrilege, and by his behaviour rendered
himfelf odious to all his parifhioners ; at length terms of reconci-
liation were agreed upon ; one of which was, that Mr. Sadler
fhould refign the vicarage at a certain time, and he entered into a
bond of 500 1. for that purpofe. It appears that upon his refufing
to quit the vicarage, he was threatened with the penalty of the bond.
He kept pofleffion however till his death, which happened four
years afterwards, in the year 1669. Anthony Wood fays, that he
left behind him, " the charaQer of a man of a rambling head, and
a turbulent fpirit '*."
The prefent vicar is the Reverend Streynfham Derbyfhire Myers.
The parifh regifter commences in the year 1650. Parifhregif-
ter.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
1680—1689 ~ 29 Comparative
1705— 17H — — Z7
1780—1789 — 97 94.
The entries of burials, during the latter part of the laft century,
and till the year 1705, are imperfed.
The prefent number of houfes in Mitcham is about 540.
The number of burials in 1665 were 21 ; in i666, 24; not ex-
ceeding the average of that period. It appears neverthelefs that the
village was not free from the plague, a man and his four fons, " who
*' died of the ficknefs," having been buried in one night.
The two following are the only entries in the regifter which are
any way fingular :
" Anne the daughter of George Wafliford, who had 24 fingers
" and toes, baptized 0£t. 19, 1690."
'* Athen. Oxen. vol. ii. col. 675.
« Widow
ftate of popu-
lation.
360
M I T C H A M.
*' Widow Durant, aged 103 years, buried Sep. 23, 1711."
Bencfaaions. Mr. Henry Smith, who is erroneoufly faid by Aubrey to have
omitted this parifti in his numerous benefadions to the county of
Surrey, left 4I. per annum to poor houfekeepers. Thomas Plum-
mer ", Efq. left 5I. per annum to buy bread for the poor;
Mrs. Rofamond Oxtoby, who died in 1792, left 2 1. 12 s. per ann.
for the fame purpofe. Mrs. Fifher, in the year 1709, left 200 1. to
purchafe lands, the annual rent of which fhould be diftributed
amongfl poor houfekeepers : this charity produces about 14 1. per
annum.
The inhabitants of Mitcham fupport a Sunday-fchool by volun-
tary contributions, upon an extenfive plan. A fchool-houfe was built
for that purpofe in the year 1788.
Mitcham Grove, a pleafant villa on the north fide of the road to
Sutton, was a few years fince the property and refidence of Lord
Loughborough, by whom it was fold to Henry Hoare, Efq. the pre-
fent proprietor.
In this parifli are fome fnuff-mills, and Mr. Rucker's and Mr.
Fenning's manufa£tories for printing calicoes.
A large workhoufe was built in the year 1782 on the fide of
Mitcham Common, at the expence of 1,200 1. The average number
of the poor who are placed there is about feventy.
'^ He is called Plomer in the record quoted p. 351, by which it appears that he died in
1639.
Sunday-
fchool.
Mitcham
Grove.
Manufafto-
ries.
Workhoufe.
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M O R D O N.
' I ^HE name of this place has been Invariably written Mordune, Mame.
-*■ Mordone, or Mordon, alluding to its fituation; mor zxv^ dune
both fignifying a hill.
Mordon is ten miles from Weftminfter- bridge, in the road to Situation,
Epfom. The parifh is bounded by Mitcham on the eaft ; Carfhal- &c" "'"*
ton and Sutton on the fouth ; Cheam and Maldon on the weft ; and
Merton on the north. The land is, for the moft part, arable ; the
foil, a ftiffclay. The parifh is aflefled the fum of 184I. lis. 8 d.
to the land-tax, which in 1 791 was at the rate of 2 s. id. in the
pound.
The manor belonged to Weftminfter Abbey before the Conqueft, Manor,
being confirmed by Edward the Confeftbr's charter '. Upon the
fuppreflion of that monaftery, it was granted to Lionel Ducket, and
Edward Whitchurch *, and was foon afterwards, by the latter, aliena-
ted to Richard Garth, Efq.' whofe family have enjoyed it ever
fmce. It is now the property of Owen Putland Meyrick, Efq. of
Bodorgan in the Ifle of Anglefea, in right of his wife Clara, daughter
and heir of Richard Garth, Efq. who died in 1787. In Edward
the Confeftbr's time, this manor was valued at 6 1, ; at the Conqueft
it was rated at 10 1. In 1291 the Abbot of Weftminfter's pro-
perty here was taxed at 4 1. 3s. 4d. only*.
Ifabella de Caron had confiderable property in Mordon in the
reign of King John, for which ftie had a charter of free warren'.
' Dugdale's Monad. Ang. vol. i. p. 6i. * See note, p. lo.
* Pat. 7 Edw. VI. pt. II. June 30. ' Cart. & Lib. Rot. 5 Joh'. m. 4.
' Pat. I Mar. pt. 13. March i.
Vol. I. 3 A The
362 M O R D O N.
The prior and convent of Merton had alfo an eftate here, called
the Spital Farm, which was granted by Hen. VIII. to William
Forman*, and afterwards became the property of the Garths'.
The church. The church, which is dedicated to St. Lawrence, is built of brick,
and confifts of a nave and chancel, which are of the fame height,
and feparated only by a raifed ftep in the floor. At the weft end is
a low tower. The prefent ftrudlure was erected about the year 1636.
The windows, which are of ftone, and of Gothic architecture, appear
to have belonged to the old church. The font nearly refembles that
at Mitcham, but the workmanfhip is not fo rich. In the eaft window
are the ten commandments, painted on glafs, with the figures of
Mofes and Aaron, and fome mutilated pieces of Scripture Hiftory.
Monuments. On the north wall of the chancel, are the monuments of
Anne, wife of George Garth, Efq. and daughter of Sir John
Carlton, Bart, who died in 1655 ; and of Richard Garth, Efq. who
died in 1787. On the fouth wall are thofe of Peter Leheup, Efq.
ofAfhwell in Hertford fhire, who died in 1774; and of Elizabeth,
wife of William Gardiner, Efq. and daughter of George Garth,
Efq. who died in 1719. She was a confiderable benefa£lrefs to the
parifh. Within the rails are tombs of Robert Garth, Efq. who
died in 1613 ; George Garth, Efq. who died in 1639; George
Garth, Efq. who died in 1676 ; and Richard Garth, Efq. who died
in 1727. In the chancel are the tombs of Thomas Hicks, merchant,
who died in 1634; Robert Greenwell, who died in 1637; Wil-
liam Booth, re£tor of this parifh, who died in 1670; Edward
Booth, who fucceeded his father as redor, and died in 1682 ; and
WiUiam Burrel, redor, who died in 1704. On the north wall of
the church is the monument of Peter Leheup, Efq. who died in
1777; on the fouth wall, near one of the windows, that of John
• Grants by Hen. VIII. Augmentation- '' Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Brit.
office, Muf. N^4ii. p. 125.
Roland,
M O R D O N. 363
Roland, Gent, who died In 1702. In the aifle are the tombs of
Zachary Highlord, Efq. who died in 1653, and George Style, Efq.
who died in 1721.
In the church-yard are the tombs of Peter Mauvillain, Efq. who Church-yard.
died in 1739, Stephen Mauvillain, who died in 1740, and Peter
Mauvillain, Efq. who died in 1755 ; Thomas Robfon, redtor, who
died in 1 778 j and Sophia, wife of Thomas Conway, Efq. who died
in 1785.
The redory of Mordon, which was appropriated to Weftminfter Redory.
Abbey, was granted, with the manor, after the fuppreffion of that
monaftery \ It was taxed at 18 marks in 1291 '. The vicarage
was endowed, in 1338, with a houfe and garden, thirteen acres of
arable land, and an acre of meadow". In 1631, Richard Garth,
Efq. difapproprlated the church of Mordon, and converted the
vicarage into a redory, by endowing it. with the great tithes, and
14 acres of glebe ".
The firft redtor was William Booth, Inftituted in 1634. The
prefent Incumbent is Thomas Piers, D. D.
The parlfli regifter commences in 1634. Farifli re-
giller.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
1680—1680 — C 4 Comparanve
■' -^ ' flate of po-
1780 1789 II II pulation.
The prefent number of houfes Is d^.
In 1665 there were only two burials.
Mr. Henry Smith left i 1. per annum to this parifh. Mrs. Benefaftions.
Elizabeth Gardiner left 300 1. for the purpofe of founding a fchool,
which was eftablifhed, according to the tenor of her will, in the
year 172 i. Mrs. Elizabeth Garth gave the ground on which the
fchool-houfe is built.
* Terrier of Lands in Surrey. f. 7 1 . b.
9 See note, p. 10. " Pat. 6 Car. I. pt. 3. July 3. & RcgilL
'" RcgilL Winton. Joh. dc Stratford, pt. 2. Winton. Curie, f. 10. a.
3 A 2
[ 3^4 ]
MORTLAKE.
Etymology.
Situation and
boundaries.
Extent.
Richmond-
park.
Stone-lodge.
TH E name of this place has been generally fuppofed to be de-
rived from mortuus lacus, or the dead lake. In Doomfday
Book it is called Mortlage, which in the Saxon language fignifies a
compulfive law, a derivation which feems to throw little light upon
its etymology.
Mortlake lies in the weftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is
iltuated on the banks of the Thames, nearly feven miles from Hyde-
park-corner. The parifli is bounded by Barnes and Putney on the
eaft ; Richmond and Kingfton on the fouth ; by Kew on the weft ;
and on the north by the river. In an ancient record of the manor
of Wimbledon ', mention is made of " a huge ftone placed oppofite
" the town of Mortlake, to which as their boundaries they claim."
In a very ancient terrier * this parifh is faid to contain 6i yard-
lands, each confifting of 15" acres by the cuftom of the manor, and
making in the whole 915 acres. In this terrier I imagine only the
copyhold lands were included. By a furvey taken A" 1612 ', it ap-
pears that the parifli, including the commons and freehold lands,
contained 2,000 acres. In 1632, when a fum of money was raifed
for the king's houfehold, about 1,400 acres were aflefled, which
nearly correfponds with the prefent calculation, including about
650 acres now inclofed in Richmond-park ; where the boundaries
of Mortlake parifli extend almoft to the great lodge.
The Stone-lodge upon the hill, which is in this parifli, was built
after a defign of Henry Earl of Pembroke, and was intended by
> Communicated by the fieward of the manor.
Ibid.
Ibid.
George
M O R T L A K E. ^^^
George I. as a place of refrefhment after the fatigues of the chace.
It was left in an unfiniflied ftate at his death, and remained fo till
the Princefs Amelia became ranger of the park.
The difproportionate account of the extent of Mortlake parilh in
the furvey of 1612, probably arofe from allowing too great a fhare
of the commons, which before the making of Richmond-park were
very extenfive, and perhaps had never been meafured. At prefent
the uninclofed wafte ground does not exceed 100 acres; the remain-
der of the land is principally arable, including fomewhat more than
250 acres of garden-ground. Great quantities of afparagus are Afparagus.
raifed here, there being not fewer than 60 acres planted with that
vegetable. At the extremity of the parifli towards Richmond, his
Majefty has a farm of about 80 acres in his own occupation, which Royalfarm.
is in excellent cultivation. The barns and granaries were built, and
the farm-yard made with all fuitable conveniences, about five years
fmce. The foil at Mortlake confifts for the moft part of fand and Soil.
gravel ; in the meadows near the water-fide there is fome deep
clay. The parifh is aflefled the fum of 565 1. 10 s. to the land- Land-tax.
tax, which is at the rate of 2 s. 6d. in the pound.
The manor being now included in that of Wimbledon, will be Manor.
defcribed more particularly in the account of that parifh. In the
Conqueror's Survey, and for fome centuries after, it was called
the Manor of Mortlake, the manerial refidence being at that place.
Wimbledon is not mentioned in Doomfday Book ; in fubfequent
records it is defcribed as a grange or farm belonging to Mortlake *.
It will hereafter be fhewn that as a parifh it was the more ancient
of the two.
During the whole time that this manor belonged to the fee of Archbilhops
Canterbury, the manor-houfe was at Mortlake, being occafionally the ry who have
refidence of the archbifhops, moft of whom have dated fome of their ""^ ' ^ ^
public ads from that place. Archbifhop Anfelm celebrated the feaft
♦ Regift. Lamb. Reynolds, f. 79. b.
of
their manor-
houl'e.
366 M O R T L A K E.
of Whltfuntide there in the year 1099'. Archbifhop Corboyle was
confined to his houfe at Mortlake by ficknefs A. D. 11 36'. Arch-
bifliop Peckham died there A. D. 1292 ' ; and Archbifhop Reynolds
in 1327'. Archbifhop Mepham having fallen under the difpleafure
of the Pope was excommunicated by him, and retiring to Mort-
lake fpent many days there in folitude °. Nicholas Bubwith was
confecrated in the chapel of the manor-houfe at Mortlake by Arch-
bifhop Arundel and the Bifhops of Winchefter and Worcefler,
A. D. 1406 '°. Archbifhop Warham appears to have been the laft
prelate who refided there ". His fuccefTor Archbifhop Cranmer alien-
ated the manor of Mortlake to Henry VIII. in exchange for other
lands. The houfe was probably pulled down foon afterwards,
and the manerial refidence removed to Wimbledon. The fite
of Mortlake-houfe was alienated by Sir Thomas Cecil to Robert
Walter ;^6 Eliz. "^ Not a trace of it now remains except the found-
ation of a wall, which forms the boundary (towards the river) of a
garden in the occupation of Mrs. Penley.
In Holinfhed's Chronicle there is an account of a monftrous fifh
which came up the Thames and was taken oppofite the king's ma-
nor-houfe at Mortlake A. D. 1240. The temporalties of the fee of
Canterbury were then in the king's hands, who kept it vacant three
years after the death of St. Edmund '\
Leland, who wrote in the reign of Henry VIII. fpeaking of
Mortlake-houfe in his Cygnea Cantio '*, fays,
" Dehinc et mortuus eft lacus, fuperba
*' Villai effigies, domufque nota."
5 Eadmer, p- 33. dated from Mortlake; Regift. Lamb. War-
' Decern fcriptores, col. 1664. ham, f. 334. a.
^ Godwin de Prsfulibus. " Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. iv. June 6.
' Anglia Sacra, vol. i. p. 1 17 & 368. "' Holinlhed's Chronicle.
' Ibid. p. 370. '♦ Printed in the 9th vol. of his Itinerary,
Regill. Lamb. Arundel, pt.i. f. 33. b. publilhed by Hearne.
One aft only of Archbifhop Warham's is
In
M O R T L A K E. 367
In the commentary upon this paflage, it is called " Villa eximie
*' fplendida."
The manor of Eaft-fheen and Weft-hall was enfranchifed in the reign Manor of
of Henry VII.'^ at which time it was the property of the Welbecks ; and Wefi-
it had been previoufly the eftate of the Dyneleys'*. In 1577 the ^ "
manor was alienated to William Bracebridge; in 1596, to Thomas
Whitfield", and in 161 8 to John Juxon, from whom it defcended
through the Kay family to Edward Taylor, Efq. whofe widow Mrs.
Elizabeth Taylor and her daughters are now joint proprietors.
Mortlake church was firft built about the year 1348, as appears Thechurch.
from a record in the Tower, being a licence to the Archbifhop
of Canterbury to give a piece of ground in Berecroft nine perches
fquare to Adomar, parfon of Wimbledon, and his fucceffbrs, to find
a chaplain who ihould perform divine fervice in a chapel about to
be eredted on that fpot for the eafe of the bodies and the health of
the fouls of the inhabitants of Mortlake and Eaft-fheen, who were
far diftant from the parifh church of Wimbledon '^ I have been
thus explicit in ftating the fubftance of the record, to prove that the
church at Mortlake mentioned in Doomfday Book muft have been-,
that of Wimbledon, then within the manor of Mortlake. The only
part now remaining which feems to be of the original ftrudture
is the outward door of the belfry. A ftone with the following in-
fcription, " Johes Joce cujus aie prcietur de," is fixed in the wall
at the weft end, and probably belonged to the old church, to the
building of which "John Joce might have been a contributor. In
1543 the church was rebuilt; the date is upon the tower, and the
eaft wall of the chancel; over it is " Vivat R. H. 8." The walls are
built of flint and ftone checkered. A few of the windows with the
'' Court Rolls of the manor of Wimbledon, manor were obligingly communicated by Mr-.
" CI. 19R. tl. m. 11. &C1. 21 Hen. VI. Taylor,
m. 19. 21. & 23. " Pat. 22 Edw, III. pt. 2, m. 42.
" The fallowing particulars relating to this
flat
368 M O R T L A K E.
flat arches which were in ufe in the reign of Henry VIII. are ftlll
remaining. The tower, which is at the weft end, is fquare and
embattled. In 1725 the fouth aifle was rebuilt, confiderably en-
larged, and a gallery erected by the voluntary fubfcription of the
inhabitants. The font, which is ornamented with rich Gothic tra-
cery, was given by Archbifliop Bourchier, (temp. Hen. VI.) as ap-
pears by his arms '' upon it.
On the north fide of the church is a brick building of two
ftories, the lower room of which is now ufed as a veftry. On the
north wall of this room is a tablet to the memory of Elizabeth wife
of John Upton, Efq. who died in 1771. Near the door is the
tomb of the Reverend "William Arnold, who died in 1736.
Tombs in In the chancel are the monuments of Nicholas Godfchall, Efq. who
the church.
died in 1750; William Hawkins, Efq. who died in 1677; Jona-
than Clark, Gent, who died in 1670; the Reverend Richard Bi-
field, who died in 1664; and the honourable Francis Coventry, fon
of Thomas Lord Coventry, who died in 1699. On flat ftones are
infcriptions to the memory of Nathaniel fon of the Reverend Daniel
Bull, vicar of Stoke Newington, who died in 1741 ; Elizabeth
Starkie, fpinfter, who died in 1780; Lady Barclay, who died in
1791 ; and Frances Maria Coderc, wife of William Browne, Efq. of
Eaft-fheen, who died in the fame yean
In the north aifle is the monument of Harry Spencer, Efq. who
died in 1 769 ; and on the floor a brafs plate to the memory of Henry
Myles, fervant to Prince Henry and Prince Charles, who died in i6i8.
Over the weft gallery is the monument of Robert Devenifh, Efq.
Norroy King at Arms, who died in 1 704. Under the fame gallery
are the tombs of William Simonds, Gent, who died in 1623 ; Hen-
ry Willis, Gent, of the Middle Temple, who died in 1712; and
Arthur Mayor, Efq. who died in 1783.
'» A crofs engrailed between four water-bougets.
Aubrey
M O R T L A K E. 369
Aubrey mentions the tombs of Anthony Holt, Efq. clerk comptrol-
ler to Queen Elizabeth, and of John Jones, M. D. who died in 1692.
They are now either deflroyed or covered with pews. The former
had a brafs plate with the figure of a man habited in a gown.
In 1383 Archbifliop Courtney gave the inhabitants of Mortlake a Church-yard.
piece of ground adjoining to the chapel there for the burial of the
dead ". The church-yard was enlarged in the year 1 725, towards
which Alderman Barber contributed 50 1.
In the church-yard are the tombs of the celebrated John Partridge Tombs.
and Alderman Barber, with infcriptions, which will be given here-
after ; an obelifk to the memory of Edward Athawes *', an emi-
nent merchant, who died in 1767, and the tombs of the fol-
lowing perfons : — Maria Catherina, relidt of William Marquis of
Blandford, and of Sir William Wyndham, Bart, who died in 1779 ;
Robert, fon of Sir Thomas Liddel, Bart, who died in 171 8; Ann
daughter of Ifaac Lyte, Efq. who died in 1719; Henry Crofts,
chaplain to Henry Vifcount Palmerfton, who died in 1 72 1 ; Richard
Caftleman, Efq. who died in 1746; Robert JefFes, Efq. who died in
1752; Aaron Lambe, Efq. who died in 1777; Jofeph Symonds,
Efq. who died in 1779; Elizabeth, wife of John Davies, furgeon,
who died in 1781 ; Richard Garbrand, Efq. (no date) ; Eleanora
Hay, fpinfter, who died in 1783; Mr. William Sanders, who died
in 1784; Zachary Taylor, Efq. who died in 1786; Edward Tay-
lor, Efq. who died in 1787, and Edward Taylor, junior, who died
in 1788 ; Mary, third wife of Richard Myddleton, Efq. of Chirk-
caftle, who died in 1788 ; and Mary, daughter of John Ewer, Efq.
who died in 1790.
The church of Mortlake Is in the peculiar jurlfdi£tion of the Arch- Curacy,
bifhop of Canterbury. The benefice is a perpetual curacy with a
*» Regift. Lamb. Courtney, f. 51. b.
*' There is a mezzotinto engraving of Mr. Athawes by Smith, from a painting by Pint.
Vol. I. 3 B referved
37©
M O R T L A K E.
referved falary of 40 1. per annum, paid out of the great tithes by
the leflee under the Dean and Chapter of Worcefter. The nomina-
tion of the curate is vefted in the Dean and Chapter. The com-
miffioners who were appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefia-
ftical benefices in 1658, endowed the curacy with the great tithes and
made it a redory " : this arrangement ceafed at the Reftoration.
Mr. Parkes, curate of Mortlake, was one of the minifters ap-
pointed by Cromwell to aflift the committee for difplacing ignorant
and infufficient minifters and fchoolmafters ^'.
The prefent curate is the Reverend Thomas Cornthwaite.
Parilhreglf- fhe parifli regifter begins in the year 1599. About the latter
end of the laft century the baptifms of Diflenters children are en-
tered upon a feparate leaf, purfuant to an adl of parliament which
pafled in 1695.
Average of Births. Average of Burials.
Comparative 1680— l68g — 3 1 40
ftate of popu- ^ ^
lation. 1730 — 1739 — 40 58
1780— 1789 ~ 45 52
1780—1784 — 37 52
1784—1789 — 51 51
1750— — 47 56
1791— — 45 58
The early part of the regifter is too imperfed to form a fatisfac-
tory average. The population during the laft century is evidently in-
creafing, though not fo rapidly as in fome other parilhes. The prefent
number of houfes is 301 '*, of which 25 are lately built, or now build-
ing. The inhabitants being accurately numbered in the prefent
month (June 1792) by the refident minifter, the Rev. Samuel Peach,
were found to amount to 1766, of whom 339 were lodgers.
** Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. Interregnum.
Library. »+ Including the alms-houfes and the work-
*' Scobell's A£ls of Parliament during the houfe.
In
MORTLAKE.
2,1^
In 1603 and 1625 the plague does not appear to have been Plague years,
fatal ; but in 1 6G^ its ravages were very great. In that year there
are entries of 197 burials, vphich are about 170 more than the ave-
rage of that period. In the months of September and Odlober only
there were 122 burials, fometimes feven in one day.
The following extracts from the regifter relate to remarkable Extraas
from the re-
perfons : girter.
" Everard Digby, fon of Sir Kilham Digby, Knt. was buried sir Kenelm
Digby.
" Jan, 16, 1629." The circumftance of an infant fon of the cele-
brated Sir Kenelm Digby being buried at Mortlake might lead to a
prefumption that Sir Kenelm was then a refident at that place, but
of this I have no other proof.
" Richard Bifield, minifter, was buried the 30th of Dec' 1664." Richard Ei-
He was redtor of Long-Ditton, had been one of the aflembly of
divines, and publifhed feveral fermons and religious tra£ts '^
" Sir John Temple, Knight, was buried March 16, 1704." He Sir John
was fon of Sir John Temple, who wrote the Hiftory of the Wars in
Ireland, and was mafter of the rolls in that kingdom, which office
he himfelf held, having been fucceffively folicitor and attorney-ge-
neral, and being efteemed one of the befl lawyers in Ireland". He
purchafed a houfe at Eaft-Sheen of Sir James Ruflaout Cullen, which
is now the property of his great grandfon, Henry Vifcount Palmer-
flon. This houfe was built in the year 161 1 ; the garden-front was
added by the late Lord Palmerflon. The rooms are fpacious and
lofty. The drawing-room is hung with tapeftry reprefenting the
four feafons. In the dining parlour are the portraits of Sir John
Temple the younger ; his brother, Sir William Temple, the cele-
brated ftatefman ; and others of the family.
" John Partridge was buried June 30, 1715." This was the fa- johnPar-
mous aftrologer fo frequently mentioned in the Tatler ""'. He was a "^'^^^
" A.Wood's Athen. Oxen. vol. ii. col. 340. »? >jo i, r, ^i^c.
** Collins's Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. 578.
3 R 2 native
je.
372 M O R T L A K E.
native of Eafl-Sheen. I find a John Partridge, who probably was his
father, joined with Major Thomas Juxon ascolledor of theafTeflments
in 1653*'. Young Partridge is faid to have been bound apprentice
to a ihoemaker after having been a fhort time at fchool, where he
only learned to read and write ^°. Being fond of books, notwith-
ftanding the difadvantage of his fituation, he taught himfelf Latin,
Greek, and Hebrew. He next applied to the ftudy of phyfic, but
carried on the trade of flioemaking at the fame time in Covent- gar-
den^'. He procured the degree of doflor of phyfic at Leyden, and
was appointed fworn phyfician to Charles 11.^^ It appears by his epi-
taph that he alfo held this office under King William and Queen
Mary. He publifhed an almanac which went by his name, and va-
rious aftrological treatifes ; and dying June 24, 17 15, was buried
in the church-yard at Mortlake ; where is the following infcription
to his memory on a flat flone :
" Johannes Partridge aftrologus et medicinse doclor, natus eft
" apud Eaft-Sheen in comitatu Surrey 8" die Januarii anno 1644,
" et mortuus eft Londini 24° die Junii anno 1715. Medicinam
" fecit duobus Regibus unique Reginx ; Carolo fcilicet Secundo,
" Willielmo Tertio, Reginajque Marias. Creatus medicinse doctor
" Lugduni Batavorum."
John Barber. « John Barber, Efq. Alderman of London, was buried Jan. 9,
" 1 741." The alderman, who was fon of a barber in the city of
London ", was bred a printer, in which bufinefs, by a fuccefsful train
of circumftances which brought him acquainted with Lord Boling-
broke. Swift, Pope, and others of the moft eminent writers of the
age, he acquired confiderable opulence ^*. A remarkable ftory is
told of his dexterity in his profeffion: — Being threatened with a pro-
fecution by the Houfe of Lords for an offenfive paragraph in a pam-
^' Parith Accounts. ^* Granger's Biographical Hiflory of Eng-
"* Granger's Biographical Hiftory of Eng- land, vol. ii. p. 380. quarto,
land, vol. ii, p. 380. 410. ^' Life of Alderman Barber, 8vo. 1741.
" Ibid. Appendix. ^* Ibid. p. 2, 3.
phlet
M O R T L A K E. 373
phlet which he had printed, and being warned of his danger by
Lord Bolingbroke a few hours before the ftate meflengers came to feize
the books, he called in all the copies from the publifhers, cancel-
led the leaf which contained the obnoxious paflage throughout the
whole impreflion with wonderful expedition, and returned them to
the bookfeller with a new paragraph fupplied by Lord Bolingbroke,
fo that when the pamphlet was produced before the Houfe, and the
paflage referred to, it was found perfedlly unexceptionable ". Mr.
Barber acquired great wealth by the South-Sea fcheme, which he had
prudence enough to fecure in time, and purchafed an eftate at Eafl-
Sheen with a part of his gain '\ In principles he was a Jacobite, and
on his travels in Italy, whither he went for the recovery of his health,
was introduced to the Pretender, which expofed himtofome danger on
his return to England ; for immediately on his arrival he was taken
into cufl:ody by a king's meflenger, but was releafed without punifh-
ment ", After his fuccefs in the South-Sea adventure he was chofen
Alderman of Caftle Baynard ward, and in the year 1733 was Lord
Mayor of London. During his mayoralty it happened that the
fcheme of a general excife was brought forward, by his a£tive oppo-
fition to which he acquired for a time a confiderable degree of po-
pularity, though he is accufed of procuring clandeftinely from Mr.
Bofworth the city chamberlain, the documents which enabled him
to make fo confpicuous a figure upon that occafion ^^ Among the
alderman's public adtions it fhould be mentioned, that he put up a
monument to Butler in Weftminfter-abbey, upon which occafion
Pope is faid to have written the following fevere lines, which he pro-
pofed fhould be placed on the vacant fcroll under Shakefpear's
buft " :
" Thus Britain loved me, and preferved my fame
" Pure from a Barber's or a Benfon's name."
" Life of Alderman Barber, p. 6. ^' Life of Alderman Barber, p. 25.
^^ Now the property of Philip Francis, Efq. ^' Ibid. p. 30—35.
M. P. . w Ibid. p. 48.
Alderman
374
MORTLAKE.
Sir John
Barnard.
Alderman Barber by his will, dated Dec. 28, 1740, defired that
his body might be buried at Mortlake, as near as poflible to the
ground which he had given to enlarge the church-yard ; he be-
queathed 300 1. to Lord Bolingbroke, 200 1. to Dr. Swift, and lool.
to Mr. Pope. He died a few days afterwards, and was buried put'-
fuant to his requeft *'.
On his tomb is the following infcription :
" Under this ftone are laid the remains of John Barber, Efq.
Alderman of London, a conflant benefactor to the poor, true to
his principles in church and ftate. He preferved his integrity
and difcharged the duty of an upright magiftrate in the moft cor-
rupt times. Zealous for the rights of his fellow-citizens, he op-
pofed all attempts againft them ; and being Lord IN^layor in the
year 1733, was greatly inftrumental in defeating a fcheme of a
general excife, which (had it fucceeded) would have put an end
to the liberties of his country. He departed this life January 2,
1740-41 ; aged 6s"
" Sir John Barnard, Knt. buried Sept. 4th, 1764." This wor-
thy man, who is mentioned by Pope in the fame line with the Man
of Rofs *', was born at Reading, bred a Quaker, and educated at a
fchool for children of that perfuafion in Wandfworth *". At 19 years
of age he was baptized by Bifhop Compton at Fulham. He firfl dif-
tinguifhed himfelf as an adlive citizen by his endeavours to procure
redrefs againft a bill which afFe£ted the wine trade. His fuccefs
upon this occafion induced the city of London to eledl him one of
its reprefentatives in parliament, in which fituation he continued till
his death. How well he condudled himfelf in that charadler, and
how faithfully he promoted the intereft of his fellow- citizens, will
be remembered as long as his ftatue fhall adorn the Royal-Exchange.
♦° Introduftion to Barber's Life, p. 3 1 .
♦" Epilogue to the Satires.
♦^ Biograph. Brit. edit. 1789.
The
M O R T L A K E. 375
The worthy alderman experienced neverthelefs in his life-time the
uncertainty of popular applaufe ; there was a time when he was in-
fulted and reviled whenever he appeared in public ; but he lived to
fee the tide of popularity turn again in his favour *'. Sir John Bar-
nard was at the head of the merchants who flood forwards for the
fupport of public credit in 1745. It is mentioned as an inftance of
his modefty that he could never be induced to enter the Royal Ex-
change after his ftatue was placed there **. He died at Clapham in
1764, and was buried in the chancel of Mortlake church. Sir John
Barnard publifhed a pamphlet on the propofal for reducing the in-
tereft on the national debt.
The two following inftances of longevity occur in the regifter : infiancescf
, . . longevity.
" Margaret Bourne widow, bemg as it was thought above one
" hundred years old at her death, vv'as buried April 21, 1673."
" William Bakerage, aged 103, buried Odl. 20, 1741."
The parifh accounts, which are kept in the room over the veftry, Extrafts
begin in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The following entries in j-ifh accounts.
the year 1 646 are very charadleriftic of the times :
£. s. d.
" Paid for a covenant, and a frame to fet it in - 030
*' Paid two men for taking down the faunt - o 14 o
*' Layd out when they carryed the common prayer
" books to Margaret's-hill in Southwark, and
" then to Klngfton - - o 14 o
" Paid to a poor man that had been plundered - 004
" to a poor minifter - - -010
*' Paid for blotting out the cherubims in the church 026
" for a frame, and a whip that hangs in the
" church for drunkards - - - - 010
By the affeffments made during the protedorate it appears that Lord Pack,
Lord Pack, Lord Tichbourn, and Sir John Ireton, fome of Crom- bourn,andSir
Johnlreton,
*' Biograph. Brit. edit. 1789. ''•* Ibid.
weirs
37^
Tradition of
Cromwell at
Mortlake.
Edward Col-
fton.
Dr. Dee.
MORTLAKE.
well's city friends, had houfes at that time at Mortlake. Pack, who
was commiffioner of the cuftoms and treafurer at war, brought in
the bill to petition Cromwell to be king, and was by him promoted
to the other houfe as it was called *'. Tichbourn, who refided fome
years before at Mitcham, was alfo commiffioner of the cuftoms, and
an alderman of London. He was one of King Charles's judges, and
was made a peer by Cromwell "*. Sir John Ireton was an alder-
man of London. In the afleffinent of 1660 the two latter are ftyled
Alderman Tichbourn and Alderman Ireton. The former was tried
among the regicides and convided.
An ancient houfe at Mortlake, now on leafe to the Mifs Aynf-
combs, is faid to have been the refidence of Cromwell. It is not very
likely that he was an inhabitant there, but highly probable that he
might have been a vifitor, as fo many of his friends lived in the
neighbourhood, one of whom perhaps occupied this houfe. It may
be obferved here, that there is fcarce a village near London in which
there is not one houfe at leaft appropriated by tradition to Crom-
well, though there is no perfon to whom they might be appropriated
v/ith lefs probability. During the whole of the civil wars Cromwell
was with the army ; when he was protedor, he divided his time
between Whitehall and Hampton-Court.
Mifs Aynfcomb's houfe was, during the prefent century, the
refidence of a more amiable though a lefs celebrated man, the
benevolent Edward Colflon, the great benefador to the city of Briftol
and various other places, who in his life-time expended more than
70,000!. upon charitable inftitutions. He died there A. D. 1721 ".
Among eminent perfons who have refided at Mortlake, the ce-
lebrated Dr. Dee muft by no means be forgotten. His charader
has been fo varioufly reprefented, and his hiftory is not only fo ex-
tremely curious but fo much conneded with this place, that I truft
♦5 Myfteries of the good old Caufe, p. 44. '^^ Biographia Britannica.
♦^ Ibid.
Ifhali
M O R T L A K E. 377
I £hall be excufed if I enter more into its detail than is confiftent
with the general plan of this v/ork.
Dr. Dee was the fon of Rowland Dee, Gentleman Sewer to Hen-
ry VIII. and grandfon of Bedo Dee, Standard-Bearer to Lord de Fer-
rars at the battle of Tournay; if any credit is to be given to his
pedigree in the Britifh Mufeum "^ drawn up by himfelf, he was de-
fcended in a diredl line from Tudor the Great. His father was im-
prifoned in the Tower in the year 1553. His mother Johanna Dee,
lived at Mortlake as early as the year 1568. The greater part of
the following account, except where other authorities are quoted, is
taken from the MS. narrative of his life ", which he read to the com-
miffioners at his houfe at Mortlake.
John Dee was born in London A. D. 1527. At the age of 15 he
went to the univerfity of Cambridge, where he applied himfelf to
his ftudies with fuch diligence that he allowed only four hours for
fleep and two for his meals and recreation. In 1547 he went abroad
to converfe with learned men, particularly mathematicians ; and on
his return the enfuing year was elected fellow of Trinity College,
and made under-reader of the Greek language. He went to the
Continent again foon afterwards ; and being then only 23 years of
age, read public ledlures at Paris upon the Elements of Euclid to
crowded audiences, and was vifited by perfons of the highefl: rank,
who were anxious to become his pupils. In 1553 Edward VI.
took him under his patronage, allowed him a penfion, and gave
him the redlories of Upton-upon-Severn in Worcefterfhire, and
Long Lednam in Lincolnfhire. About this time he was offered a
handfome falary for reading ledures upon natural philofophy at Ox-
ford. In Queen Mary's reign he was out of favour ; and being fuf-
*^ Cotton Cart. Antiq. xiv. i. In this drawing of him in a far gown,
pedigree he calls himfelf Johannes Dee, Philo- *' One copy of this narrative is among Dr.
fophus, and maices himfelf coufin to the Dee's MSS. in the Britilh Mufeum, and ano-
Queen ; at the botto.m is a fmall whole length ther in the Aihmolean Mufeum at Oxford.
Vol. I. 3 C peded
378 M O R T L A K E.
pedled of treafonable defigns, was committed to the cuftody of Bl-
fhop Bonner, but efcaped better than his fellow-prifoner Green, who
fuffered at the ftake. Queen Elizabeth, upon her accefllon to the
throne, immediately took Dee under her patronage, and among
other marks of her favour appointed him, though a layman, to the
deanery of Gloucefter ; of which however he never got poffeflion.
In 1575 the Queen, with feveral of the nobility, came to his houfe
at Mortlake, with an intention of feeing his library, but hearing
that his wife was lately dead, they did not enter the houfe. Dee at-
tended her Majefty at the door, and explained to her the properties
of a glafs which had occafioned much converfation, and given rife
to a report that he was a magician. In 1578 he married Jane,
daughter of Bartholomew Fromound, Efq. of Eaft-Cheam. In 158 1
he firft began his incantations in concert with one Edward Kelly. Al-
bert Lafki, a Polifh nobleman of high rank, (and I have no doubt of
large fortune, or he would not have anfwered their purpofe,) was ad-
mitted into a kind of partnerfhip with them. They pretended to
carry on their converfations with fpirits by means of a fhow-ftone,
which Dee aflRrmed was given him by an angel. Kelly was the
feer, who, when they had finiflied their invocations, was to report
what fpirits he faw and what they faid ; whilft Dee, who fat at a
table, noted all in a book. A folio volume of thefe notes was pub-
lifhed by Cafaubon, and many more remain in MS. in the Britifh
Mufeum. They contain the moft unintelligible jargon. The con-
fecrated cakes of wax ufed in thefe ceremonies, marked with hiero-
glyphics and mathematical figures, are alfo in the Mufeum. The
Ihow-flone, which is a round piece of volcanic glafs finely polifhed,
is in the Earl of Orford's colledlion at Strawberry-Hill. This farce
was carried on for fome time, till at length the whole party having
envolved themfelves in debt, they were obliged fuddenly to quit
England. They left Mortlake Sept. 2 1 , 1583; the mob, who had
always
MORTLAKE.
always been prejudiced againft him as a magician, immediately upon
his departure broke into his houfe, and deftroyed a great part of his
furniture and books. Meanwhile Dee and his friends haftened to
Poland, where they flattered themfelves that they fhould meet with
great encouragement through the intereft of Laiki ; but were griev-
oufly difappointed in their expeftations, and reduced to great diftrefs.
They then bent their courfe to Germany, but the Emperor baniflied
them his dominions. At length in the year 1589 the Queen ordered
him to return, being then in Bohemia '°. On his arrival in Eng-
land he waited upon her Majefty at Richmond, and was very graci-
oufly received. She afTured him that he might rely upon her pro-
tedtion in the profecution of his ftudies. Having been in England
three years without reaping any advantage from the promife which
had been made him, he was induced to prefent a petition to the
Queen, praying that flie would appoint commiflioners to inquire
into the lofl"es and injuries which he had fuftained, the fervices he
had done her Majefty, and the various difappointments which he had
encountered. In confequence of this application Sir Thomas Gorge,
Knt. and Mr. Secretary Wolley were adually appointed commifli-
oners to hear his grievances, and fat as fuch at his houfe at Mort-
lake, Nov. 22, 1592, to whom, fitting in his library, he related his
cafe at large. In the meantime two tables were placed near him ;
'° The following prayer (taken from Dee's " linked and vowed unto his hevenly Majefty
MSS. in theBriti(h;Mufeum), which is in itfelf " (by the myniftry and comfort of his holy
a curiofity, will give feme idea of the diftrefs " aungels) to lay fuch thinges as are the or-
to which they were reduced whilft in Bohemia. " nament of our howfe and the coveringe of
It is dated at Prague 1585 : " our bodies in pawne, either unto fuch as are
" We defire, God, of his greate and infi- " rebels agaynft his Divine Majefty, the Jewes,
" nite mercies, to grant us the helpeof his he- " or the people of this cytteye, which are
" venly mynifters, that we may by them be " malicious and full of wicked flaunder.—
" diredled how or by whom to be ayded and " 1 Jane Dee, humbly requeft this thing of
" releafed in this neceflitie for meat and drinke " God, acknowledging myfelfe his fervant
" for us and for our family, wherewith we " and hand-mayden, to whom I commit my
" ftand at this inftant much opprefted ; and " body and fowle. Edward Kelly wrote this
" the rather becaufc it might be hurtful to us, •' for jane Dee." N° 5007 Ayfcough's Cat.
«' and the credit of the aftions wherein we are
3 C 2 on
379
380 M O R T L A K E.
on one of them were the proper vouchers for the fads he aflerted,
to which he conftantly referred ; on the other, all the printed books
and MSS. which he had written. Among the fervices which he
had rendered to the Queen he reckons fome confultations with her
Majefty's phyficians at home, and a journey of 1,500 miles, which he
undertook in the winter feafon, to hold a conference with the moft
learned philofophers on the Continent upon the means of reftoring
and preferving her health. In enumerating his lofTes he eftimates
the damage fuftained in his library " at 390 1. His whole colledlion,
which confifted of 4000 books, of which a great part were MSS.
he valued at 2000 1. Among the latter he mentions a large col-
ledtion of deeds and charters relating principally to eftates in Ireland
v.'hich he got out of a ruined church. He fays, they had been ex-
amined by heralds, clerks of the office of records in the Tower, and
other antiquaries, who had fpent whole days at his houfe in looking
them over ; and had taken away to their liking. His chemical ap-
paratus, which coft him 200 1. was entirely deftroyed by the mob,
when he left Mortlake in 1583 ; at the fame time they beat in
pieces a fine quadrant of Chancellor's which coft him 20 1. and took
away a magnet for which he gave ^^ ^- Among the many pro-
mifes of preferment which had been made him to fo little effed, he
particularly fpecifies Dr. Aubrey's benefices in the diocefe of St.
David's, and the mafterfhip of St. Crofs. He concludes with defir-
ing fpeedy relief, and gives his reafons for preferring the mafterfhip
of St. Crofs to any other appointment, it being a retired fituation
well adapted for his ftudies, with a good houfe annexed ; whereas
his prefent fituation at Mortlake was too public, and his houfe too
fmall to entertain the foreign literati who reforted to him. Upon
the report of the commiffioners, " the Queen willed the Lady How-
s' A catalogue of Dr. Dee's library, under Catalogue. There is another copy in the Bod-
the name of Bibliotheca Mortlakienfis, is to be leian Library,
found in the Britilh Mufeum, in the Harleian
" ard
M O R T L A K E. j8i
*' ard to write fome words of comfort to his wife, and fend fome
" friendly tokens befides;" fhe commanded Sir Thomas Gorge
to take him loo marks, and faid, " that St. Crofs he fhould
" have," and that the incumbent Dr. Bennet might be removed to
fome bifhopric; and affigned him a penfion of 200 1. per annum out
of the bifhopric of Oxford till it fhould become vacant. All thefe
promifes, like the former, came to nothing ; the mafterfhip of St.
Crofs he never got. The next year indeed he was prefented to the
chancellorfhip of St. Paul's, but this was by no means adequate to
his expedations ; and he continued to memorialife her majefly till
at length he procured the wardenfliip of Manchefter in 1595''.
Here he continued feven years, leading a very unquiet life, and
continually engaged in difputes with the fellows. He returned to -
Mortlake in 1604. King James at firfl patronized, but was af-
terwards prejudiced againfl him and his ftudies; upon which Dee
prefented a petition to his Majefly, and another in verfe to the
Houfe of Commons, praying that he might be brought to trial, having
been accufed of calling up evil fpirits ". Dr. Dee died at Mortlake
in the year 1608, having been fo poor in the latter part of his life
as to be obliged to fell his library piece-meal for fubfiflence ^*. He
was buried in the chancel of Mortlake church, where Aubrey fays,
an old marble ftone was fhown as belonging to his tomb ".
The houfe where Dr. Dee lived is now the property of Richard Dee's hoafe.
Godman Temple, Efq. as appears by a furvey of Mortlake '*, taken
A. D. 1 61 7, where it is called an ancient houfe. It was mofl: pro-
bably built in the reign of Henry VII. An old room ornamented
with red and white rofes exifted a few years ago.
'* Biographia Britannica. '" In this furvey Mr. Temple's houfe is
'^ Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men, Har- defcribed as belonging to the heirs of Bartho-
leianMSS. Brit. Muf. 7177. lomew Brickwood ; in the parifh accounts
'* Lilly's Hiftory of his Life and Times, about the fame date, the houfe, which is aflefTed
p. 148. as Bartholomew Brickwood's, is faid lately to
" Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 82. have belonged to Mr. Dee.
It
382 M O R T L A K E.
It Is the opinion of fome writers, that Dee was employed by
Queen Elizabeth as a Spy ", and fome have gone fo far as to fup-
pofe that all the notes of his pretended converfations with fpirits
were, in fa£l, political intelligence, couched in cyphers. As they
contained a kind of jargon meaning nothing in itfelf, they might
undoubtedly be ufed occafionally for fuch purpofes. Dee himfelf
avers in his narrative, that he was taken into the Queen's fervice on
her acceffion to the throne, when fhe promifed, that where her bro-
ther had given him a crown, fhe would give him a noble. The
inftances of her Majefty's attention to him were ftriking and nu-
merous, and certainly prove either that fhe was indebted to him for
real, or that he duped her by magnifying the importance of imaginary
fervices. When he was fick, the Queen ordered her own phyficians
to attend him, " fent him divers rarities to eat, and the honourable
" Lady Sidney to attend on him, and comfort him with divers
Queen Eliza- cc fpeechcs from her Majefty pithy and gracious''!" The Queen
to Dr. Dee. frequently vifited him at his houfe at Mortlake ; one day flie
came on horfeback, and " exhorted him to take his mother's death
" patiently." Another time, as he defcribes it himfelf, " fhe came
" from Richmond in her coach, the higher way of Mortlake field,
" and when fhe came right againft the church, fhe turned down
" (fays ho) towards my houfe, and when fhe was againft ray gar-
" den in the field, her Majefly ftaid there a good while, and then
" came into the field at the great gate of the field, where her Ma-
*' jefty efpied mc at my door making reverent and dutiful obey-
" fances to her ; and with her hand her Majefliy beckoned me to
" come unto her, and I came to her coach-fide ; her Majefly then
" very fpeedily pulled off her glove, and gave me her hand to kifs ;
" and to be fhort, her Majefty willed me to refort oftener to her
" Lilly, who lived foon after Dee, avers p. 146.
pofitively that he was Qiieen Elizabeth's In- " Narrative of his Life, as above, Brit,
telligencer. Hillory of his Life and Times, Muf.
" court,
M O R T L A K E. 383
" court, and by fome of her privy chamber, to give her to weete
" when I am there "."
Dee was undoubtedly a man of very great refearch and fmgular Charafter of
Dee.
learning, as is evident by his various writings both printed and
MSS. in almoft every fcience. He wrote upon the reformation of
the Gregorian calendar ; on the mode of propagating the Gofpel on
the other fide of the Atlantic ; on geography ; natural philofophy,
particularly optics ; mathematics ; metaphyfics ; aftronomy ; aftro-
logy ; and the occult fciences. He wrote an account alfo of his
voyage to St. Helena, and a treatife on the Queen's right to cer-
tain foreign countries ; and proje£ted a fcheme for the prefervation
of ancient MSS. by eftablifhing a general repofitory, a plan which
is in a great meafure realifed by that noble national colledlon at the
Britifli Mufeum. Whether with all his learning he was himfelf
the dupe of an enthufiaftic imagination, or whether he availed
himfelf of his knowledge to dupe others in an age when all ranks
were given to credulity, may perhaps admit of a queftion. I own I
am rather inclined to the latter opinion. As a proof of the fu-
perftition and credulity of the age, it will not be amifs to mention
that Dee was employed to determine according to the opinion of
the ancient aftrologers, what day would be moft fortunate for Queen
Elizabeth's coronation '°. Some time afterwards he was fent for by
the lords of the council to counteraft the ill effeds which it was ap-
prehended would befall the Queen from a waxen image of her Majefty
ftuck full of pins, which was picked up in Lincoln's-inn-fields''.
This we are told he performed " in a godly and artificial manner,"
in the prefence of the Earl of Leicefter, and Mr. Secretary Wilfon.
Dr. Dee was much connected with the Earl, and has been accufed
of being an inftrument in his nefarious defigns'\ He was much
" MS. of Dr. Dee's in the Bodleian Li- »• Ibid,
brary, among Smith's MSS. ' " England's Worthies, p. 229.
*' MS. Narrative of his Life.
patronized
384 M O R T L A K E.
patronized and encouraged by Henry Earl of Northumberland",
the Earl of Oxford, Sir Chrlflopher Hatton, Sir Henry Sidney, and
other great men belonging to the court. So great was his reputation
abroad, that he was offered great falaries by various foreign princes
if he would fettle in their courts. The Emperor of Ruffia in par-
ticular fent him a rich prefent, with an offer of conveying him
and all his family to Peterfburgh, and promifmg to fettle an annu-
ity of 2000 1. per annum upon him, and to grant him the rank of a
privy counfellor. Thefe offers, it muft be obferved, were made be-
fore his laft unfuccefsful journey to the Continent.
Notwithftanding the Queen's patronage, and the various and rich
prefents which he was conflantly in the habit of receiving, his un-
bounded extravagance kept him always poor. His journey from
Bohemia in 1589, which coft him '^ near 800I., will afford fome
idea of his oflentation. He was attended by a guard of horfe, and
travelled with three coaches befides baggage-waggons. The coaches,
with harnefs for 12 horfes, he bought new upon the occafion.
"When he arrived in England, he appears not to have been worth a
penny, and to have fubfifted for the next three years upon the pre-
carious bounty of his friends. During this period he received 500 1.
in money, befides veffels of wine, whole fheep, pigs, wheat, fugar,
and other commodities; he fold his wife's jewels, his own rarities,
and whatever could be fpared out of his houfe ; at the end of the
three years he was 2,33 h iti debt. With thefe expenditures, which
according to the prefent value of money we muft eflimate at more
than 1000 1. per annum, he tells us, that " with great parfimony
" ufed, he preferved himfelf and his family from hunger, ftarving,
*' and nakednefs ^^" Dr. Dee carried on his converfatlon with fpirits
till the year before his death, at which time he feems to have ap-
plied his pretended art to the difcovery of hidden treafure and flolen
'^ Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. col. 492. '+ MS. Narrative of his Life, as above,
iftedit. «5 ibid.
goods.
ILi^di/u) del.
D^ J O II N 1) i: E
^hluh^J tu if\t .Ut datetJ JupiL/t ifi-at.fy' T.iaJeQ.SiMnd.
M O R T L A K E. 385
goods", probably of procuring fome prefent fubfiftence from thofe
who were filly enough to employ him. A portrait of Dr. Dee, taken
at the age of 67, as appears by an infcription upon the canvas, is in
the Afhmolean Mufeum at Oxford, where many of his MSS. are
depofited. The annexed plate is copied from the picture juft men-
tioned. Dr. Dee bore for his arms. Gules, a lion rampant Or, within
a border indented of the fecond. The following creft was granted
him in 1576. A lion feiant gardant, Or, holding in his dexter gamb
a crofs formee fitchee Azure ; on the crofs, a label with this motto,
*' Hie labor ;" and his fmifter gamb on a pyramid Argent, on it a la-
bel with this motto, " Hoc opus." Francis Dee, Bifliop of Peter-
borough, was coufin of Dr. Dee, being defcended from his grand-
father Bedo, called in the Vifitation of the County of Salop, the
great Bedo Dee.
Arthur Dee was born at Mortlake in 1579, on the fame day that Arthur Dee.
his grand-father Bartholomew Fromound died, which his father con-
fidered as an ill omen. Anthony Wood, with his ufual credulity,
fays, that when a child he frequently played at quoits with gold
plates which his father made at Prague by tranfmutation. At eight
years of age he was employed by his father as his Jkrycr. He was
educated at the univerfity of Oxford, and being bred up to phyfic,
pra£tifed in London ; where he was profecuted by the College of
Phyficians for putting a board over his door with a lift of medicines.
King James recommended him to the Emperor of Ruflia, who made
him his phyfician. He refided in that country fourteen years ; and
on his return was appointed phyfician to Charles I. Dr. Arthur Dee
publiflicd a treatife on the hermetical i'cience, and left behind him
fome MSS. He died at Norwich in 1651 ^\
** Dee's Converfations with Spirits, pub- *' Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 140 —
liihed by Cafaubon. The lall conference is 142.
dated Mortlake, 1607.
Vol. I. 3 D, Anfti?,
386
M O R T L A K E.
Anftls.
Tapeftryma-
nufaftory.
Gibfon the
painter.
Anftis, the Garter King at Arms, author of the Regifter
of the Garter, and fome pamphlets on the Office of Earl Mar-
fhal, refidetl at Mortlake, and died at his houfe there March 4,
1744".
A manufactory of fine tapeftry (being its firft introdudion into
England) was eftabliflied here in the year 161 9 by Sir Francis Crane,
who bought fome premifes of Mr. Juxon for that purpofe"'. The
King patronized the undertaking, and gave 2,000 1. towards it as
an encouragement '°. Francis Cleyne, an ingenious artift, coming
to England foon afterwards under the patronage of Sir Robert An-
ftruther, was employed as a defigner, and raifed the credit of the ma-
nufactures to a very high degree". The King granted him a pen-
fion of 100 1. per annum", and made him a free denizen". In
the firft year of King Charles, Sir Francis Crane, to whom his
Majefty owed 6000 1. procured a penfion of i,oool. per annum'*.
After his death, his brother Sir -Richard fold the premifes to the
King. During the civil war they were feized as the property of the
crown. In the Survey" taken by order of parliament the Tapeftry-
houfe is defcribed as containing one room 82 feet in length, and 20 in
breadth, with 12 looms ; another about half as long with 6 looms ;
and a great room called the limning-room. This manufactory oc-
cupied the fite of Queen's-head Court. The old houfe, on the
oppofite fide of the road, was built by Charles I. for the refi-
dence of Francis Cleyne'*. Gibfon, the dwarf, who had been page
to a lady at Mortlake, was a fcholar of Cleyne". During the pro-
tectorate the Tapeftry-houfe remained in the occupation of John
" Venue's MSS. at the Earl of Orford's,
Strawberry Hill.
*» Parliamentary Survey, Augmentation-
ofEce.
'" Fuller's Worthies.
"*' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 127,
128.
''* Rymer's Foedera, vol. xviii. p. 112.
" Ibid. p. 96.
'♦ Lloyd's Worthies.
" Augmentation-office.
'* Survey as above.
^' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p. 64.—
There are prints both of Gibfon and Cleyne
in the Anecdotes.
Holliburie,
MORTLAKE, 387
Holllburle, who In the Survey is mentioned as the mafler workman.
After the Reftoration, Charles II. intended to revive the manufa£ture,
and fent to Verrio to fketch the defigns, but his intention was never
carried into execution ". In the Survey above-mentioned the
Tapeftry-houfe is valued at 50 I. per annum ; the painter's houfe
at 9I.
About fifty years ago a manufadtory of delf and earthen-ware Manufaaory
was eftablifhed here by Mr. William Sanders, which is ftill carried
on by his fon.
In the year 1628 John Juxon, Efq. founded four alms-houfes for Juxon'salms-
poor widows. They were endowed by himfelf, his fon, and grand-
fon, with 1 7 1. 2 s. per annum ; and were further augmented by
Mrs. Elizabeth Heneage, in 1775, with an annuity of 13I. The
widows now receive 2 s. 6 d. per week, befides clothes at ftated
times.
Henry Smith, Efq. gave 3 1. per annum to the poor. Thomas Various be-
Scales in 1640 gave 5 1. los. per annum to be diftributed in bread j
a certain portion every Sunday, Mrs. Ann Clark gave the intereft
of 100 1. to be diftributed among the poor on St. Stephen's day.
Lady Thorold, the intereft of 260 1. to be divided between fix poor
men on the firft of November, on condition that Mr. Coventry's
vault fhould not be removed ; otherwife the benefadion to go to
the parirti of Barnes. Mrs. Ann Smyth, in 1733, gave the intereft
of 100 1. to four of the pooreft houfekeepers on Chriftmas-day. The
fum of 260 1. has been left by various perfons for the pui"pofe of
buying coals for the poor, and 320 1. to apprentice children and pay
widows' rents. Louifa Durour left 50 1. to the poor; and Nicho-
las Langley, Efq. in 1783, the fame fum. The parifli fund at
prefent amounts to 1,1301. South-Sea ftock, which is vefted in
truftees.
'" Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p- 35-
3 D 2 * Lady
388 M O R T L A K E.
Charity- Lady Capel, by her will dated 171 9, left ill. per annum to
fchool.
eftablifti a charity-fchool here, which being augmented by the col-
ledions at an annual fermon, the parifh are enabled to clothe and
educate twenty children.
Thomas Whitfield, Efq. lord of the manor of Eaft-Sheen and
Weft-hall, gave the premifes of the Star and Garter towards the re-
pairs of the church.
East- Eaft-Sheen is a pleafant hamlet in this parifh, fituated on a rifing
ground confiderably above the level of the river. It contains about
ninety houfes. Here are feveral handfome villas ; the vicinity to
Richmond-park, and the beauty of the furrounding country, mak-
ing it a defirable fituation.
[ 389 ]
. NEWINGTON BUTTS.
THIS place is not mentioned in the Conqueror's Survey,
but a church at Walworth is there noticed ; whence it feems
probable, that at the re-building of that church upon a new fite it
was furrounded with houfes, which obtained the appellation of
Neweton, as it is called in all the moft ancient records. It was
afterwards fpelt Newenton, and Newington. There is little doubt
but that it received its additional name from the butts placed there
for archers to fhoot at. The firft record, in which it is written
Newington Butts, is dated 1558'. In Henry VIII.'s time butts
were fet up in the fields near London by authority. There are
two patents printed at large in Wood's Bowman's Glory; the
one of James I. and the other of Charles I. by which thofe monarchs
ordained that the butts, which had been deftroyed in confequence of
the inclofures, fhould be reftored as they were in the reign of
Henry VIII. ^
New-
• Regill, Lamb. Pole, fol. 77. b. " Aflbciatestheworlhipful Citizens of London
* Among other privileges granted to the " on Tuefday Sept. 17, 1583 ; fet forth ac-
archers by thefe patents, it was ordained, that " cording to the Truth thereof, to the ever-
if any one was killed by an arrow near the " lafting Honour of the Game of Shooting in
public butts, the perfon who (hot the arrow " the Long-bow." (London 1682.) Henry
fhould not be liable to punifhment. It may be VIII. made feveral matches for archers at
thought, perhaps, by the lovers of archery, not Windfor, at one of which he named one Barlo
uninterefting to mention, that the pradlice of their duke, who living at Shoreditch, thence
that art as a recreation has never been laid afide obtained the title of Duke of Shoreditch.
for any length of time fmce the long-bow was This fliam title being kept up, one of his fuc-
ufsd in the field of battle. The following par- cefTors, attended by feveral other mock nobles,
ticulars relating to its revival at various times, fuch as the Earl of Pancras, the Marquifles of
are taken from a fcarce pamphlet, entituled Iflington, Clerkenwell, Hoxton, &c. prefided
" A Remembrance of the worthy Show and at the grand difplay, which is the chief fub-
" Shooting by the Duke of Shoreditch and his jeft of the pamphlet ; and which took place in
Hoxtoa
39<^
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
Situation>
boundaries,
extent, &c.
Manor of
Walworth.
Newington Butts lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred,
at the diftance of about a mile from London Bridge. It is bounded
by the parifh of Lambeth on the weft ; by that of St. George,
Southwarkj on the eaft and north ; and by Camberwell on the
fouth. The parifh is of very fmall extent. The land, which is not
covered with houfes, confifts of little more than three hundred
acres, about a third part of which is occupied by market gardeners.
The remainder is for the moft part pafture ; the foil, fand and gra-
vel. The parifh is afleffed 907 1. is. 8 d. to the land-tax, which
is at the rate of i s. 2 d. in the pound.
The only manor in this parifh is that of Walworth, now a ham-
let to Newington, and the birth-place probably q£ the celebrated
citizen who bore its name. King Edmund gave this manor to his
jefter Nithardus, who in the reign of St. Edward, being about to
make a pilgrimage to Rome, obtained a licence from that monarch
to give it to the church of Canterbury \ This manor in Doomfday
Book, called Waleorde, is faid to have been held in the time of
William the Conqueror by Bainardus of the Archbifhop of Canter-
bury, and to have been appropriated to the fupport of the monks.
at the felting up of her Majefty's Staie.
Charles I. granted a licence to Benjamin Aw-
ften, to fet up butts for archers to (hoot at,
and to take a penny for eight (hots of every
archer that was willing to pay for the fame, for
the fpace of fourteen years. (Pat. ii Car. I.
pt. II. July 11.) In 1 66 1 there was " a
" glorious Ihow," as it is called in the pam-
phlet abovementioned, by 400 archers in Hyde
Park, before his Majefty ; another in Moor-
fields in 1676, and at Hampton-court in 1681 ;
when the archers (hot at the diftance of eight
fcore yards, for a prize of plate valued at 30I.
The more modern hiftory of archery is well
known.
' Cartulary of the fee of Canterbury in the
Bodleian Library, p. 36, 37. King Ethelred's
Confir.-nation of the Grant, A" 1006, p. 32.
Hoxton (ields. The number of archers who
fliot was 3,000, the whole proceflion con-
firted of 4,100 perfons befides 300 pages
and henchmen, who all marched through the
city with various pageants and devices.
The drefs of the archers is defcribed as
being very fplendid : fome wore black vel-
vet jerkins with fatin doublets ; but moft
of them were dre(red in fatin and ta{Feta, with
talFeta hats ; 94Z were ornamented with chains
of gold, the reft had large green fcarves, or
ribbons of various colours, but for the moft
part green. They (hot at the diftance of feven
fcore and eight yards, and afterwards partook
of a grand entertainment at the Biihop of
London's houfe, which he lent them for that
purpofe. About the fame time there was a
grand difplay of archery in St. Martin's-fields,
It
N E W I N G T O N BUTTS. 391
It had been valued at 30 s. and at 20 s. but was then worth 3 1.
and in 1291 was taxed at 10 1. It now belongs to the dean and
chapter of Canterbury.
In the reign of Henry III. the Queen's goldfmith held an acre
of land in Newington by the fervice of rendering a gallon of honey
to the King *.
It feems probable, as was before obferved, that the church be- The church,
longing to this pari{h has been removed from Walworth to its pre-
fent fite fmce the Conqueft. Newington church appears to have
been originally a very fmall ftrudure ; Sir Hugh Brawne added a
north aifle about the year 1600. In the year 1704, feveral hundred
pounds were expended in repairing and ornamenting the church,
unfortunately to very little purpofe, for in the month of July 1720,
the congregation having been very much alarmed by a fudden
crack in the wall during the time of divine fervice, it was found
neceffary upon a furvey, that the whole building, except the tower,
fhould be taken down. The dimenfions of the old church being
only 43 feet from eaft to weft, and 54 from north and fouth, it was
determined to increafe the new ftrudure to 62 and 58. The tower,
a low Iquare building of flint and ftone, was left ftanding. The ex-
pences of the re-building were eftimated at 926 1. for which fum a
brief was obtained. The new church was opened on the 26th of
March 1721. Being found inadequate to the increafed number of
inhabitants, an a£t of parliament was obtained during the laft feC-
fion for rebuilding it upon a larger fcale. The workmen began
to take down the old tower on the 19th of June, and the architedt
is under a contrad to complete the new church by Midfummer
1793. The eftimate of the expence amounts to 2,500!. The
length of the intended ftrudure is to be 87 feet, the breadth 58
as before. It is to be built of brick, in the modern ftyle, without
♦ N-sis, HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. f. 20.
detached
392
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
detached aifles, and to have fpacious galleries for the accommoda-
tion of a numerous congregation. At the weft end is to be a turret
and cupola.
Tombs and Having examined the church a few days before the workmen
began to take it down, I fhall fpeak of the tombs and monuments
as they were then fituated.
In the chancel were the monuments of James Reading, Efq. who
died in 1694, and of Mr. Richard Day, who died in 1784; and
flat ftones to the memory of William Tafwell, who died in 173 1,
and Nathaniel Hough, D. D. who died in 1737, both re£lors of this
parifh ; of James Tafwell, who died in 1710; James Tracy, Efq.
Adam Hayes, who died in 1 773 J and Adam Hayes, Efq. one of Lord Anfon's
companions in his voyage round the world, who died in 1785.
In the north aifle was the monument of Sir Hugh Brawne, Knt.
who died in 1614, and the tomb of Mrs. Sarah Crawford, who died
in 1766, and Mrs. Martha Crawford, who died in 1786.
Againft the pillars of the nave were the monuments of Thomas
Inwen, Efq. who died in 1743, and Mr. Richard Boulton, who
died in 1750. On the floor, flat ftones to the memory of Marga-
George ret wife of William Allen, Efq. of Antigua ; and Mr. George Powell,
who died in 1 704. The Editor of Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey
fays, that the latter was called King of the Gipfies, and that he died
in very flouriftiing circumftances.
Capt. Wag- In the fouth aifle was a tablet to the memory of Capt. Waghorn,
a naval ofiicer, who efcaped from the Royal George at the time of
the fatal cataftrophe which happened to that fhip. He died in 1787.
Serjeant At the weft end was the tomb of William Davy, Efq. ferjeant at
law, whofe profefllonal abilities are well remembered ; he died in
1786. Under the belfry was the tomb of Mr. WiUiam Dale, fur-
gcon, who died in 17 18.
The
N E W I N G T O N BUTTS. 393
The church-yard was enlarged by aO: of parliament 29 Geo. II. Church-
yard.
The moft confpicuous monument there is that of William Allen, who Monument
was killed by the foldiers in St. George's Fields in the year 1768. Allen.
The infcription aflerts that he was " inhumanly murdered on the
loth of May by Scottifh detachments from the army." There are
alfo fome verfes and texts of fcripture, which feem to be applied
with a very unjuftifiable fpirit of rancour, as an excufe for which
it muft be admitted that the monument was erected during the
height of party rage, and in the firft tranfports of refentment by pa-
rents who had loft an only fon. The account of the riots which
took place in St. George's Fields in 1768, and the circumftances of
this tranfadlion are detailed in many of the publications of that time.
It appears that Allen was illegally killed, whether he was concern-
ed in the riots or not, as he was fhot apart from the mob at a time
when he might, if neceffary, have been apprehended and brought to
juftice. The acquittal of the foldier who was tried for his murder,
made a great clamour at the time, though it appears that the weight
of evidence preponderated much in his favour, and proved to the
fatisfadlion of the jury that he was not the perfon who fired the
gun.
The church- yard contains alfo, among others, the tombs of the Various
tombs.
following perfons: — Mrs. Emblem Richardfon, governefs of a board-
ing-fchool, who died in 1743; William White, Gent, of the Inner
Temple, who died in 1769 ; Capt. John Diddear, who died in 1773 ;
Benjamin, fon of Timothy Bennet, M. D. who died in 1773 ; Bar-
nabas Mayor, fellow and one of the directors of the fociety of artifts
of Great Britain, who died in 1774; James Abernithy, Efq. who
died in 1781 ; the Reverend James Haflel, redlor of North Rung-
ton, Norfolk, who died in 1781 ; Leverfidge Brandon, who
died in 1785 ; Mary, relidl of Captain Peter Guerin, who died
Vol. I. 3 E in
394
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
in 1785; Sibella, wife of Benjamin Batley, Efq. who died in
1787; Elizabeth, wife of Captain Magnus Henderfon, who died
in 1790; Clariffa, wife of Captain Robert Rayne, in the mi-
litary fervice of the Eaft-India Company, who died in 1791 ; and
John Robfon, Efq. who died the fame year.
Reaory. The church of Newington Butts, which is dedicated to St. Mary,
is in the peculiar jurifdidtion of the Archbifhop of Canterbury.
The advowfon of. the reftory belonged to that fee till the time
of Archbifhop Cranmer, who gave it to Henry VIII. * It was
granted by him ', and confirmed by Edward VI. * to Nicholas,
Bifhop of Worcefler and his fucceflbrs, to whom it ftill belongs.
In King John's reign the redtory was valued at eight marks' ; in
1 29 1 at twenty-two marks \ It was prefented to the commiffion-
ers appointed to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices,
that the redory of Newington Butts was worth about ml. per
annum, and that Mr. Thomas Wadfworth the redtor, who officiated
there and received the profits, was placed there by the Lord Pro-
tedtor'. In the King's books the redory is valued at 16I. per
annum.
The parfonage-houfe, which is built of wood, appears to be very
ancient ; it is furrounded by a moat, which has four bridges.
Rediors. Tobias Crifpe, prefented by the leflees under the Bifhop of
Crifpc. Worcefler in 1627, enjoyed this living only a few months ; being
removed on account of a fimoniacal contra£t'°. He was author
of fome volumes of fermons, to one of which his portrait is pre-
fixed.
♦ Regift. Lamb. Sancroft, f. 391. b. 392.3. ' See note, p. 10.
' Grants by Henry VIII. Augmentation- ' Parliamentary Surveys, Lamb. MSS.
office. Library.
« Grants by Edw. VI. Ibid. " Reg. Abbot, pt. z. f. 358. b. & pt. 3.
' HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. N'sijjf.zo. f. 183.
Thomas
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
395
Thomas Wadfworth above-mentioned wrote feveral tradts, which Thomas
were colledted after his death, and publifhed with his portrait, un-
der the title of Wadfworth's Remains.
Nicholas Lloyd, inftituted in 167%". was author of a hiftorical. Nicholas
. . . . . Lloyd.
geographical, and poetical didlionary. He died in 1680, leaving
behind him feveral unpublifhed MSS. confifting principally of
commentaries and tranflations '%
Edward Stillingfleet, prefented to this redtory by his father the Edward Stil-
. . lingfleet.
Bifliop of Worcefter in 1698, kept it only a few months, having
made an exchange with Dr. Tafwell for fome preferment in Nor-
folk. Mr. Stillingfleet was bred to the (ludy of phyfic, and was
profeflbr of that fcience in Grefiiam College "^
William Tafwell, who fucceeded Mr. Stillingfleet, has inferted in vviiiiam Taf-
well.
the parifh regifter much ufeful information concerning the glebe
land, tithes, and other emoluments of the church, and fome notes
relating to his predecefTors and the ftate of the parifh. He is
fuppofed to have been the author of an anonymous pamphlet,
written to contradidl the exaggerated account of a cure performed
at Newington, by Roger Grant, an oculift, on a boy born blind.
In Grant's narrative Dr. Tafwell is falfely faid to have been pre-
fent at the operation, and his name was without his authority or
knowledge fubjoiaed to a certificate of the cafe.
The prefent redor of Newington is the Right Reverend Sa-
muel Horfley, Bifliop of St. David's, well known for his many
learned writings in defence of the dodrines of the Church of
England.
" Reg. Sheldon, f. 315. a. " Ward's Lives of the Profeflbrs of Gref-
" Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v. ham College, vol. ii. p. 282.
p. 139-142.
3 E 2 The
39(>
N E W I N G T O N BUTTS.
Parirti re-
giller.
Comparative
Hate of popu-
lation.
Plague.
Licence to
eat flefli.
Inftances of
longevity.
Average of Burials.
221
The parifh regifter begins in 156 1, but is very imperfe£l till
about the year 1670, from which time it appears to have been ac-
curately kept.
Average of Baptifms.
1680— 1689 158
1780— 1789 — 204 . 332
The increafe of population does not appear fo great, by the above
comparative average, as it has really been ; a circumftance which is
to be attributed to the number of dilTenters in this parifh. Do£lor
Tafvvell calculated the houfes at only 660 in the beginning of
the century ; they are now about 1 800 in number. The prefbyterian
diffenters have a meeting-houfe here, but no burial ground.
In 1625, four hundred and five perfons died of the plague here
in the months of July and Auguft.
At the beginning of one of the regifter books is the following
licence to eat flefh, which is of a more limited nature than any which
I have obferved elfewhere :
" I James Fludd, Dodlor in Divinity, and Parfon of the church
" of St. Marie Newington in Surrey, do give licenfe unto Mrs.
" Ann Jones of Newington, the wyfe of Evan Jones, Gentleman,
" being notorioufly ficke, to eate flefh this time of Lent, during the
" time of ficknefs onlye, according to lawe in that cafe provided ;
" videlicet, in the 5th of Eliz. chap. 5. and i Jacob, chap. 29. pro-
" vided alwaies that duringe the time of her ficknefle fhe eate no
" beife, veale, porke, mutton, or bacon. In witnefs whereof we
" have hereunto fet our hands and feal. Dated the 8th of March
" 1619."
The following inftances of longevity occur in the parifh regifter.
" Edward Allen, aged 107 years and upwards, buried Jan. 20,
" 1685.
« Sarah
N E \V I N G T O N BUTTS. 397
" Sarah Wood, aged ^oi, j ^^^^^^^ ^ il ^^^
" Mary Ralf, aged 100, ] " ^ J ' /
" Chriftopher Coward, aged 102, buried Dec. 16, 1703.
" Widow Jeweller, aged 106, buried Aug. 30, 1706."
Mr. Simmons, ia the year x6ii, left to the poor of this parifh, Benefaaions.
a farm at Weft Tilbury, which now produces 18I. i6s. 8d. per
annum. Mr. Humphrey Williams gave fome houfes in Kent-ftreet,
for the maintenance of four poor widows ; they now produce 22 1. ids.
per annum. Mr. Henry Smith gave lol. per annum to the poor;
the eftate out of which this benefadion is paid, having been late-
ly advantageoufly exchanged with the Duke of Dorfet, it is expected
to be confiderably augmented. Mr. Robert Hidfon, in 1675, left i 1.
per annum to two blind widows. Mrs. Atkinfon left the intereft of
1,600 1. South-Sea ftock, which amounts to 48 1. 3 s. 6 d. to be di-
vided between fix old maids. Four pounds per annum have been
left to the poor by Mr. Marfhal, Mr. Canon, and Mr. Mafon. A
few other legacies have been bequeathed by various perfons, par-
ticularly 40 1. by John Hacket, with this fingular condition, that
his bones fhould not be removed till the day of judgment ; and 50 1.
by Thomas Barge, to clothe and educate children.
Befides thefe benefaftions, the parifh is alfo poflefled of fome eftates Pariih eftates.
of confiderable value, particularly Walworth common, which was in-
clofed by adl of parliament, and is worth about 300 1. per annum ; and
the Elephant and Caftle, and King and Queen inns, both of which
were purchafed by the parifh, and produce iiol. per annum.
The Drapers' alms-houfes, founded by Mr. John Walter in 1651 Drapers'
r- ,,,. .^ 1-11 1 • •^ r ••' Alms-houfes.
are ntuated m this parifh, which has the privilege or appointing
fix of its own parifhioners. They receive five fhillings each
monthly, and half a chaldron of coals, to which the parifh officers
add a weekly penfion, as they fee fit. The remainder are appointed
by the Drapers' company. The ftatutes of thefe alms-houfes are
printed at large in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey ".
•5 Vol. V. p. 142 — 154.
A part
398
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
Fidimongers'
alms-houfes.
Hofpital of
St. Cathe.
rine.
Great flood.
Theatre.
A part of the Fiflimongers' alms-houfes is alfo in this parlfh ; but
they have no other connexion with it.
There was formerly an hofpital of our Lady and St. Catherine,
at Newington, which continued till Febuary 1 551, when their
prodtor, "William Cleybrooke, had a licence to beg '°.
In the year 1755, on the 30th of September, there was fo great
a flood at Newington, that the people could not pafs from the church
on foot, but were obliged to be conveyed in boats " to the pin-
•' folds near St. George's in Southwark "."
In the beginning of the laft century there was a theatre in this
parifli, at which the Lord Admiral's and the Lord Chamberlain's
fervants performed ".
"> Tanner's Notltia Monaft. p. 516,
" Stow's Chron.
" Malone's Hiftory of the Stage, prefixed
to his edition of Shakfpeare, p. 294.
[ 399 ]
PETERSHAM.
THIS parifla lies in the hundred of Kingfton, at the dlflance Situation,
of about nine miles from Hyde-park-corner. It is bounded Boundaries,
by the river Thames, and by the parifhes of Kingfton and Rich-
mond. It includes a part of Richmond-park. The land is prin-
cipally pafture and meadow ; and the foil for the moft part fand.
The parifh is aflefled the fum of 126 1. i6s. to the land-tax, which
is at the rate of 4 s. in the pound.
The village lies low, but the furrounding fcenery is extremely
beautiful.
The manor at the time of the Conqueft belonged to the Abbey The manor.
of St. Peter at Chertfey, from which circumftance, no doubt, the
place derived its name \ The Abbot of Chertfey having given it to
Henry V.' it continued for a confiderable time in the hands of the
crown. It was fettled among other lands upon Ann of Cleve, who
furrendered it to Edward VI.'' James I. leafed it to George Cole,
Efq. ^ and it has fmce undergone the fame alienations as the manor
of Ham, being now the property of Lionel Earl of Dyfart.
James II. granted a leafe of a manfion here to Vifcount Corn- Peteriham
bury *. This houfe, being then the property of the Earl of Rochef- ° ^^'
ter, was burnt down by accident on the firft of Odlober 1721.
William the firft Earl of Harrington re-built it, after a defign of
the Earl of Burlington. On the death of the late Earl, it was fold
• Cl. 3Hen. V. ni. n. mentation-ofHce.
* Records in the Augmentation-office. * Pat. 2 Jac. II. pt. 7. N° i6.
' 6 Jac. I. Parliamentary Survey, Aug-
to
400
PETERSHAM.
to Lord Camelford, who in the year 1784 purchafed the fee-fimple
of the crown, an hOl of parliament being procured for that purpofe.
His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Clarence bought it of Lord Camel-
ford in the year 1790, and refides there during the fummer feafon.
The pleafure-grounds are fpacious and beautiful, extending to Rich-
mond Park, a fmall part of which has lately been added to them,
by a grant from his Majefty, including the Mount; where, as
tradition fays, Henry the Vlllth flood to fee the fignal for Ann
BuUen's execution.
Sudbrook. Sudbrook, an ancient hamlet' in this parifh, is now a fingle
houfe, the property and refidence of Lady Greenwich, as it was of
her father John Duke of Argyle, the celebrated ftatefman.
The church. There was a church at Peterfham at the time of the Conqueft.
The prefent ftrudture was ereded in the year 1505, as appears by
a note in the parifh regifter, which adds, I prefume, on the autho-
rity of tradition only, that it was built on the fouth-fide of the
abbey. I have met with no account or record of a religious houfe
at Peterfham. The church belonged to Merton Abbey, as the
manor did to that of Chertfey. The prefent church is a brick build-
ing in the form of a crofs ; it confifts of a nave, chancel, and
two tranfepts ; on the weft-fide is a low tower.
In the chancel is the monument of George Cole, Efq. who died
in 1624. Under an arch lies his eflBgy habited in a black robe and
a ruff. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs of
his fon and grandfon. On the north wall is a tablet to the me-
mory of Thomas Gilbert, Efq. who died in 1766. In the nave
is the tomb of Robert Scott, Efq. of Horfley-Hill, Colonel of the
6th regiment of foot, who died in 1770. In the fouth tranfept is
the monument of Sir Thomas Jenner, Knt. fucceffively Baron of
Tombs.
' It is mentioned in a record of 1266, Cotton MSS. Brit.Muf. Cleopatra, C. vii.
the
PETERSHAM. 401
the Exchequer and Juftice of the Court of Common Pleas, who
died in 1707, and the tomb of Henry Green, who died in 1654,
In the north tranfept is a monument to the memory of Jane,
daughter of James Long, Efq. of Draycott, who died in 1651,
and the tombs of Colonel William Duckett, who died in 1749;
Nathaniel Scott, Efq. who died in 1770, and Mary, wife of Sir
James Cockburn, Bart, who died in 1766.
In the church-yard are the tombs of the followine: perfons: — Various
^ ° '^ tombs in the
Samuel Bugby, merchant, who died in 1710, and Bartholomew church-
Hammond, Efq. who died in 1777; Peter, fon of Claudius Fon-
nereau, LL.D. who died in 1759; John Marke, Efq. who died
in 1763 ; John Gray, Efq. who died in 1769; Nicholas Sprimont,
Efq. who died in 1771 ; Elizabeth, wife of Richard Hay, Efq.
who died In 1774; Rebecca, wife of John Briftow, Efq. who
died in 1775; John Crockatt, Efq. who died in 1777; the Re-
verend George Tilfon, M. A. who died in 177S ; and Anna Maria,
wife of John Bulley, Efq. who died in 1790.
The church of Peterfham is dedicated to St. Peter, and is in Vicarage,
the diocefe of Winchefter and the deanery of Ewell. It was a
chapel of eafe to Kingfton upon Thames till the year 1769, when
by a£l of parliament it was feparated from the mother-church ;
and being confolidated with Kew they were made one vicarage,
as mentioned in the account of that parifh. In the year 1266
divine fervice having been difcontinued in the chapel of Peterfham,
an agreement was made between the Prior of Merton and the
inhabitants of this parifli, that a chaplain fhould officiate there
every Sunday, Wednefday, and Friday, on the following terms: —
That the Prior and Convent fliould allow him a certain por-
tion of grain annually out of the tithes ; and that the parifhioners,
on their part, fhould give him a bufhel of rye for every virgate, or
Vol-. I. 3 JF tea
402 PETERSHAM.
ten acres of land*. In the year 1658 it was prefented to the
commiflioners appointed by Cromwell to inquire into the ftate
of ecclefiaftical benefices, that Peterfham was a fmall chapel de-
pendant on Kingfton ; that the tithes were worth about 5 1. per
annum ; and that it was without a fettled curate. It was deter-
mined therefore, that Peterfham fliould be made a feparate and
diftindl parifh ; that the hamlets of Ham and Hacche fliould be
annexed to it ; and that all the tithes Ihould be appropriated to
the maintenance of the minifter ^ The prefent incumbent is the
Reverend William Fofter.
Pariihregif- The parifh regifter begins in 1570; but the early part is very
impertea.
Average of Bapdfms. Average of Burials.
Comparative 1 682 — 169I ■ 3 — — 8
(lateofpopu-
lation. 1780 — 1789 9 20
The increafe of population may be afcertained in fome meafure
by the average of baptifms ; that of burials is a very uncertain
criterion, as in fome years more than two-thirds of the latter are
brought from neighbouring parifhes.
The prefent number of houfes is 53.
The following entry of the marriage of the Duke and Duchefs
of Lauderdale feems worth recording :
Marriacre of " The ryght honorable John Earl of Lauderdale ' was married to
Duchefrof" " '^^ ^yg^''^ honorable Elizabeth CountefTe of Defert, by the Re-
" verend Father in God (Walter) Lord Bifhop of Worcefter, in the
" church of Peterfham, on the 17th day of Februarie 1 671-2,
" publiquely in the time of reading the common-prayer; and, gave
" the carpet, pulpit-cloth, and cufhion."
* Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Cleopatra, C.vii. ^Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS.
b. 147. In this record 225 acres are charged. Library,
paying 22 bulhels and an half. ° Created a duke in 1672.
The
Lauderdale.
PETERSHAM. 403
The Ductiefs of Lauderdale was buried in the church of Peter-
fham June 16, 1696. There is no monument to her memory.
The following inftance of longevity occurs in the regifter : Inrtance of
Mr. Hugh Sims, aged 100, was buried Dec. 10, 1789. s^"/-
Mr. Henry Smith left the fum of 4I. per annum to the poor Benefaaion.
of this parifh.
3 F2
r 404 ]
U T N E Y.
Name. f d ^HE name of this place Is of very uncertain etymology. In
-*■ Doomfday book it is called Putelei ; in all fubfequent records,
till the 1 6th century, it is fpelt Puttenheth, or Pottenheth ; fmce
which period it has obtained the name of Putney. Stebenheth has
in the fame manner been contracted to Stepney.
Leland, fpeaking of this village in his Cygnea Cantio ', diftin-
guifhes it with the appellation of " Puttenega amasnum."
Sitaation, Putney lies in the weftern diN-ifion of Brixton hundred, and is
and extent.' fituated on the banks of the Thames, at the diftance of four miles
from Hyde-park- corner. It is bounded on the north by the river;
on the weft by the pariflies of Barnes and Mortlake ; on the fouth
by that of Kingfton ; and on the eaft by thofe of Wimbledon and
AVandfworth. In a very ancient terrier, this parifli is faid to con-
tain 94 yard-lands, or 1,410 acres''; a furvey taken 13 Hen. VII.
defcribes it as confifting of 1,239^ acres; another of a later date
(1612 *) increafes the number of acres to 1,630. The wafte land is
very extenfive, confifting of a fmall common adjoining to that of
Barnes, the whole of Putney heath, and the greater part of Wim-
bledon common, in which the pariihes are marked out by pofts
placed from north to fouth. The cultivated land is principally ara-
ble, including about 120 acres, occupied by the market gardeners,
and thirty employed as nurfery grounds by Mr. Howey. Two
' Prefixed to the 9th vol. of his Itinerary. ' Records of the manor of Wimbledon.
* Records of the manor of Wimbledon. * Ibid.
hundred
PUTNEY. 405
hundred and thirty acres of Richmond-park are in this parifh,
two hundred of which are cultivated. The foil of this place con-
fifts chiefly of fand and gravel ; there is fome clay. The parifli of
Putney, esxlufive of the hamlet of Roehampton, is afTeffed at the
fum of 549 1. 12 8. yd. to the land tax, which this year, (1792,) is
at the rate of i s. 3 d. in the pound.
Putney has had the honour of producing two eminent ftatefmen,
Nicholas Weft, Bifliop of Ely, and Thomas Cromwell, Earl of EfTex,
both of whom, born of humble parentage, rofe, by their own merit
and abilities, to the higheft ftations in church and ftate.
Weft was the fon of a baker. In 1477 he was chofen fcholar of Nicholas
^' ' Weft, Bifliop
King's College, Cambridge, where his condudl was fuch as gave of Ely,
little hopes of his future eminence, and juftified Fuller's expreflion,
who calls him " a Rakehell in grain '." Among others of his vi-
cious pranks, he fet fire to the Provoft's lodgings, for which he was
expelled the univerfity. But in him, fays Fuller, was verified the
old proverb, naughty boys make good men : he feafonably re-
trenched his wildnefs, turned hard ftudent, was again admitted at
the univerfity, and became an eminent fcholar and a moft able
ftatefman. Flis firft preferment was the vicarage of Kingfton-upon-
Thames. He afterwards became a favourite of Henry VIII. who,
after beftowing upon him other preferments, made him Biftiop of
Ely, and employed him in various embaflies. Queen Catherine
chofe him as one of her advocates, in conjunction with Bifhop
Fifher. His ftyle of living was fo magnificent, that he is faid to
have kept in his houfe a hundred fervants, to fifty of whom he gave
four marks wages, to the others forty ftiillings, allowing every one
of them four yards of cloth for his winter livery, and three yards
and a half for his fummer livery '. Biflaop Weft died April 6, 1533,
and lies buried in Ely cathedral.
5 Fuller's Worthies, Surrey. * Godwin de prsfulibus.
Cromwell,
4o6 PUTNEY.
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Eflex, was the fon of a blackfmith. The
Eari'of Eifex. p'^cc of his birth is yet pointed out by a tradition, which is, in fome
meafure, confirmed by the furvey of Wimbledon manor taken in
1617 ; for it defcribes upon that fpot " an ancient cottage, called the
" fmith's fhop, lying weft of the highway leading from Putney to
** the Upper-gate, and on the fouth fide of the highway from Rich-
*' mond to Wandfworrh, being the fign of the anchor." It is
worthy of remark, that among the numerous pofleffions which this
eminent ftatefinan acquired during his profperity, may be reckoned
the manor of the place where he was born ''. The ftriking features
of his hiftory, his introdudlion at court by Wolfey, his fudden rife,
the adive part which he took in the Reformation, and his fub-
fequent difgrace and fall, are well known. His mafter Wolfey, to
whofe power he fucceeded, was going up Putney-hill on his road to
Eflier, when he was overtaken by Norris, who there prefented him
with a ring, as a token of the continuance of his Majefty's fa-
vour *.
Vifits of I find that Queen Elizabeth vifited this place in the years 1584'
b^h!" "*' ^^^ ^599 '°» ^^^ '^o mention is made of the perfons who were thus
honoured.
Tranfaaions Putney became the fcene of fome very interefting tranfa£lions
at Putney du-
ring the civil during the civil war in the laft century. When the royal army
marched to Kingfton, after the battle of Brentford, the Earl of Eflex
having determined to follow him into Surrey, a bridge of boats
was conftruded for that purpofe between Fulham and Putney, and
forts were ordered to be ereded on each fide the river ".
' The Earl of Eflex had a grant of the Queen Elizabeth's arms, with the date of
manor of Wimbledon, in which Putney is j^^g^ are on the cieling of an ancient houfe
included. at Putney, now the refidence of Peter Stapel,
• Stow's Annals, 4to. p. 546. Efq.
' PariQi accounts at Lambeth. " Perfeft Diurnal, Nov. 15, 1642, and
" Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. 149. Letter England's Memorable Accidents, the fame
from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sidney, date.
In
PUTNEY. 407
In the year 1647, when the kingdom was divided Into The army
quartered
three parties equally jealous of each other, Cromwell refolving there.
to watch the meafures of the parliament, and at the fame time
to keep an eye oyer the King, who was then at Hampton Court,
fixed the head quarters of the army at Putney ", to which place
they removed from Kingflon on the 27th of Auguft '\ The quar-
ters of the general officers are thus fet down in a newfpaper of
that time, printed by authority of parliament '* :
" The General (Fairfax) at Mr. Wimondfold's, the high fheriff".
" The Lieutenant General (Cromwell) at Mr. Bonhunt's '°.
" The Commiflary General (Ireton) at Mr. Campion's ".
" The Lieutenant General of the Ordnance and the Treafurer, at
« Mr. Curley's.
" Colonel Fleetwood, at Mr. Martin's.
" Colonel Rich, at Mr. Porter's.
" The Scoutmafter General, at Mr. Hubbard's.
" The Quartermafter General and Commiffary General of Mufters,
" at Major Cumberlin's.
" The Quartermafter General of Horfe, at Mr. Allifon's.
" Lieutenant Colonel Cowell, at Mr. Duck's.
" Adjutant General of Horfe, at Mr. Cox's in the Park.
" Clarendon's Hiftory, vol. iii. p. 67. ?vo. with the clothworkers' arms. A furvey of
" Perfeft Occurrences, Aug. 20 — 27. Putney, taken in the year 1 61 7, defcribes
'* Ibid. Aug. 27 — Sept. 3. this houfe as " a fair edifice in which his
•5 Mr. Wymondfold's houfe now belongs " Majefty has been." James I. was of the
to Mrs. D'Aranda, as appears from her title clothworkers' company, a circumftance, pro-
deeds. It was purchafed by Paul D'Aranda, bably, which occafioned the vifit there re-
Efq. of the trullees of Sir Theodore Janfcn, corded.
Bart, previoufly to which it had been the pro- '* Not finding Mr. Bonhunt's name in any
perty of the Wymondfolds. On the fame of the records relating to Putney, I know not
fite was anciently a manfion belonging to the to which houfe Cromwell's refidence may be
Welbecks, feveral of which family lie buried appropriated.
in the chancel at Putney. The prefent houfe '' This houfe is now a fchool, in the occu-
was buUt in the year 1596, by John Lacy, pation of the Rev. Mr. Adams; it was built,
citizen and cloth worker, as appears from fome (as appears from a date in one of the rooms)
records of the manor of Wimbledon. The in the year 1533.
deling of the drawing-room is ornamented
" Judge
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Councils held
in the church.
" Judge Advocate, at Mr. George Smith's.
" Com miffary General of Vidu.ils, at Mr. White's".
" Chyrurgeons and Marfliall General, at Mr. Pollexfen's."
During the refidence of the general officers at Putney, they held
their councils in the church, and fat round the communion table '*.
Before they proceeded to debate, they ufually heard a fermon from
Hugh Peters ", or fome favourite preacher. The newfpapers of
that day are full of letters from Putney, giving an account of the
proceedings of the army there. Several councils were held about
the arrears of the army, and fome threatening declarations fent to
the parliament upon that fubjedl ". On the 8th of Odober they
gave an audience in the church to one Gifthiel, a High-German pro-
phet ". After various debates, on the firft of November, they at
length completed their propofitions for the future government of
the kingdom, which were fent to the King at Hampton Court *\
Oa the 13th, two days after the King had made his efcape to the
'5 This houfe now belongs to Mrs. Douglas
Pettiward, widow of the late Roger Pettiward,
D.D. The Pettiwards came to Putney by
the intermarriage of John Pettiward, Efq.
with Sarah, daughter and heir of Mr. White
here mentioned. Among the viciflitudes which
ufually befall a parifii fo near the metropolis,
they are the only family who were fettled here
in the lad century. Henry White was ap-
pointed high IherifT of the county, by the
parliament, in 1653. The Pettiwards appear
to have taken the oppofite fide. Roger Petti-
ward, Efq. of Putney, was returned as one of
the perfons qualified to be elecled Knights of the
Royal Oak, when it was in contemplation to
create fuch an order after the Reftoration. The
Knights were to wear 3 medallion with the
device of the King concealed in the oak ; but
It was thought advifeable to drop the defign :
(Baronetage, 1741, vol. iv. p. 363.) Mrs.
Pettiward is in pofTelTion of a portrait of Henry
White, Efq. who is reprefented in his high
fherilF's drefs, and two excellent piflures of
the celebrated Lord Falkland, by Cornelius
Janfen ; and Sir Abraham Dawes, by the fame
mafter. Sir Abraham was one of the farmers
of the cuftoms, an eminent loyalill, and one
of the richeil commoners of his time. In the
fplendor and magnificence of his houfekeep-
ing, he vied with the firft of the nobility.
(Biograph, Brit, article Crifpe, in the notes.)
He lived at Putney in a houfe which he had
built on fome land which he purchafed of Mr.
Roger Gwyn. This houfe was pulled down
about four years ago.
'9 Perfeft Occurrences, OCi. 8, 1647, &c-
&c.
" Whitlock's Memorials, p. 270.
*' Ibid. p. 270. 277. perfeft Diurnal,
Sept. 27. Perfeft Occurrences, Oft. 1.
" Ibid. Mercurius Melancholicus, Oft. 16,
and Whitlock's Memorials, p. 282.
*' Perfeft Occurrences, Oft. 29— Nov. 4.
Ifle
U T N E Y.
409
Ifle of Wight, the army left Putney *'. During their refidence there,
a pamphlet was publifhed called, " Putney Projeds," in which
Cromwell and Ireton are accufed of endeavouring to introduce the
old flavery in a new form.
The whole of this parifh is included in the manor of Wimbledon. Manor.
The church was firft built as a chapel of eafe to Wimbledon fome The church,
time after the Conqueft, though I have found no record to decide
the date ; it is older however than that of Mortlake, for Archbifliop
Winchelfey held a public ordination in it in the year 1302. It
would be difficult to afcertain the age of the prefent ftrudture, which
exhibits the architedure of very different periods. It appears to
have been in a great meafure rebuilt in the reign of Henry VII. j
the arches and cluftered columns which feparate the nave from the
aifles are undoubtedly of that age. The north and fouth walls
are of much greater antiquity, and by the fhape of fome of the
windows, might be thought coeval with the original ftrudlure.
At the wefl end is a handfome flone tower, which bears no certain
criterion of its age. It is undoubtedly, however, of later date than the
firfl building of the church, and there is good reafon for fuppofmg that
it was eredted before the middle of the 15th century. Over the belfry
door is an ancient coat of arms % which I find appropriated to no other
family than that of Chamberlayne, a name which does not occur
among the inhabitants of this place fmce the period abovementioned ^\
Except the building of a veftry, the church has undergone no material
alterations fmce the beginning of the lafl century, at which time the
large windows, which give light to the galleries, were added. It is
fmall, irregularly pewed, and by no means calculated for the inha-
bitants of fo populous a parifh. Its chief ornament is a little cha- Bl(hop Weft's
pel, at the eafl end of the fouth aifle, built by Bifhop Wefl, '^^P^^'
*' Perfeft Occurrences, Nov. 11 — 18. *' I know of no earlier records which af-
** Two crofs keys qaartering 3 dolphins ceruin the names of the inhabitants,
naiant in pale, born by Dolphinly.
Vol. I. 3 G the
4IO PUTNEY. ■
the roof of which is adorned with rich Gothic tracery *', inter- i
fperfed with the Biftiop's arms*", and the initials of his name.
At the eaft end is a fmall tablet, put up by the late Dr. Pettiward,
with a fhort infcription, which mentions the founder of the chapel, \
and the circumftance of his being born at Putney. '
Putney church fuffered confiderable damage by the dreadful ftorm '
which happened on the 26th and 27th of November 1703. It was i
repaired at the expence of 1 06 1. *' i
Singular in- Under the north window of the chancel is this fmgular infcription ; 1
"'P"°'^' « Verba Maris moriturae. ,
" See me buried by my former hufband, and remember the poor.'* ]
It is explained by the following lines on a flat marble flab in the
Tomb of chancel, being the tomb of Mary, daughter of George Scott, Efq.
Knyvett. and wife, firft, of Richard Lufher, and afterwards of Thomas
Knyvett, Efq.
" That you have layd my body here, I
" By that firft fide I lov'd fo dear ; \
" I thank you, hufband ; that the poore
" Are ftill your care I thank you more.
" Thefe laft I charg'd you with alive,
" Being dead, I reft while you furvive.
" But yet, I have another boone,
" When fate (hall come, as come full foone
" It will — and will not be deny'd,
" That you would clofe my other fide.
" Y'ave thought it worthy to be read, ;
" You once were fecond to my bed. 1
I
*' The chapel is thus defcribed by Godwin: *° The arras of the fee of Ely, impaling j
" In ecclefia Putneienfi, ubi natus eft, ex la- Arg. a chevron Sable, between 3 rofes Gules, J
" pidibus politis capellam extruxit laqueare flipped Vert.
" contextara exquifui operis." " Parilh accounts.
" Why I
P U T N E Y. 411
" Why may you not like title have
" To this my fecond bed, the grave.
*' This ftone will cover us all three,
" And under it we fhall be free
" From love or hate, or leaft diftruft;
" Of jealoufy, to vex our duft ;
" For here our bodies do but wait
" For fummons to their glorious ftate."
Mary Knyvett died in 1623. On the north wall of the chancel
there is a monument of black marble to her memory, with an ele-
gant Latin infcription of confiderable length. The following paf-
fage contains the fame thought as an epitaph of Pope's "'. — Vale,
" vale, Maria, nuUam de te dolorem nifi ex acerbifhma tua morte
" accepi."
On the fame fide of the chancel is the monument of Richard Lu- Various mo-
fher, her firft hufband, who died in 1615, and that of Andrew """"
Welch, merchant, who died in 1704.
On the fouth fide is a handfome monument fupported by Corin-
thian columns of black marble, to the memory of Katherine, wife
of Sir Anthony Palmer, K. B. (and daughter of W"" Kingfmill, Efq.)
who died in 161 3. On the fame wall are the monuments of Mar-
garet, fecond wife of Sir Anthony Palmer, (daughter of Thomas
Digges, Efq.) who died in 161 9; Maria Gary, with her portrait
in baffo-relievo on a medallion (no date) ; Robert Gale, chaplain
to Chriftian Countefs of Devonfliire, who died in 1659; ^^^ Tho-
mas Payne, Efq. ferjeant at arms, who died in 1698.
Near the rails of the communion table is the tomb of John
Welbeck, who died in 1477, and his wife Agnes, who died in
1478 ; with an infcription on brafs in the black letter, and engraved
figures of a man in armour, and a woman habited in a long robe.
" " Nor gave his father grief but when he died." Epitaph on Simon Harcourt, fon of
the Lord Chancellor.
3 G 2 In
412
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In the chancel are alfo the tombs of Sir William Becher, Knt.
Privy Counfellor to King James and King Charles, who died in
1651 ; William Lake, Efq. (no date) ; Edward Buckley, Efq. who
died in 1683 ; and John Glanville, Efq. of Broad Hinton, Wilts,
who died in 1715.
In the gallery over the veftry are the monuments of James Mar-
tyn, Efq. who died in 1651 ; Sir Thomas Dawes, Knt. who died
in 1655 ; and Sir Robert Wymondefold, who died in 1687.
In Bifhop Weft's chapel is the monument of Daniel, fon of Sir
Robert Belt, of Boflall in Yorkfliire, who died in 1697;' °^ '^^
pillars which feparate that chapel from the nave of the church,
are thofe of Edward Martyn, who died in 1655 ; and Leicefter
Burdet, merchant, who died in 1691.
Againft the weft wall of the church, near the chrlftening pew, is
a tablet to the memory of George Tilden, Efq., Michael Tur-
ner, Efq. who died in 1786, and others of that family.
In the nave are the tombs of Sir Gerard Dutton Fleetwood, Knt.
one of the band of gentlemen penfioners, (and fon of Col. Dutton
Fleetwood,) who died in 1699; and of Brackley Kennet, Efq. Al-
derman of London, who died in 1782.
In the veftry are the tombs of Godfrey Woodward, Gent, who
died in 1701 ; and Abraham Hubbert, Efq. who died in 1679.
Aubrey mentions a brafs plate to the memory of John Williams,
fworn Yeoman Porter to the Lord Treafurer Denham, who died in
155 1";
In Vincent's Vlfitation of Surrey, the tombs of the following
perfons in Putney church are defcribed from notes taken in 1609,
by Cooke, Lancafter Herald. William Whorwood, Attorney-
General to Henry VIII. who died in 1545'°; Ann, widow of
Sir
'' Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. i2g. chevron fable between 3 flags heads caboflied,
^° The arms upon this tomb ftill remain Gules, for Whorwood, impaling barry of 6
near the communion table, being Argent, a Arg. & Az. in chief, 3 torteauxes for Grey ;
and
PUTNEY. 413
Sir Richard Brooke, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who
died in 1547"; Jane, wife of Thomas Roberts, one of the Au-
ditors of the Exchequer to Henry VII. Thomas Heton, mercer,
of London, who died in 1598, aged 84; and his wife Jane, who
died a few days before him, at the age of 92, having lived together
fifty-feven years; Johanna Tregoz, who died in 1465 ; John Uft-
wayte, clerk of the kitchen to Cardinal Morton ; Richard Welbeck,
of the Middle Temple, who died in 1488 ; John, his fon and
heir, fervant to Cardinal Morton, who died in 1494; and others
of the Welbeck family ; and Eleanor, wife of Thomas Agar, Gent,
who died in 1483. The infcriptions, which were on brafs plates and
in the black letter, are all printed in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey ^\
In the church-yard are the tombs of the following perfons : — Tombs In tlis
William Wymondefold, Efq. who died in 1664; John Cary, mer- yard!
chant of London, who died in 1701 ; Nathaniel Lodington, Efq.
who died in 1707; Robert Stone, of Lyon's-inn, Gent, who died
in 1 71 2; Charles Stone, ferjeant at arms attending the great feal,
who died in 1715 ; Edward Darell, Efq. of the county of Lin-
coln, who died in 171 9; Ann, wife of Revel Taylor, and daugh-
ter of the Reverend Adam Blandy, Reftor of Whitfield, Oxford ;
and others of the Blandy family ; and Mrs. Sarah Peck, who died
in 1787.
, In the year 1763 the Reverend Roger Pettiwand, D.D. gave Newburial-
the parifli a piece of ground, adjoining the road from Wandfvvorth
to Richmond, for the purpofe of a cemetery. It was confecrated on
the 2d of November. The mod confpicuous monument here is
and Or, a crofs engrailed, per pale Gules and ter of Sir Richard Brooke, who married Ann
Sable, for Brooke. William Whorw6od mar- Leeds.
ried Caflandra, daughter of Edward Grey, " She was mother of 20 children, lofons
Efq. and Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard and 10 daughters, her maiden name was
Brooke, Knt. The arms of Whorwood im- Leeds. In the nave there is ftill remaining
paling Leeds, (Arg. a fefle between 3 eagles the figure of a lady engraved on a brafs plate,
difplayed Sable,) occur feveral times in the which probably was intended for dame Anne
windows of an ancient houfe near the waterfide, Brooke, the infcription is gone,
fome years fince ufed as an aflembly-room. 3» Vol. v. p. 335, &c.
William Whorwood's laft wife was the daggh-
that
ground.
414
PUTNEY.
that of Robert Wood, Efq. who died in 1771. It is ornamented
with a farcophagus of white marble. The infcription will be given
hereafter. There is alfo a handfome marble monument to the me-
mory of Stratford Canning, merchant, who died in 1787, with a
medallion of him, and his coat of arms ; and that of Harrietj
wife of Andrew Thompfon, Efq. of Roehampton, compofed of
Coade's artificial ftone. She died in 1787. There are alfo the
tombs of the following perfons: — William Taylor, Efq. who died
in 1764; Foot Gregg, Efq. who died the fame year, and others of
his family; William Kentifh, Efq. who died in 1766; John Boif-
fier, Efq. who died in 1770; the Reverend John Fludger, feveral
years afliftant minifter at this place, who died in 1 773 ; John Alex-
ander, Efq. who died in 1776 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert, who died in
1783 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Morgue, who died in 1786, and Mr. John
Chalmers, fifty years matter of the charity-fchool, who died in 1791.
The church of Putney, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is in the
peculiar jurifdiiftion of the Archbifhop of Canterbury. The benefice
is a curacy with a referved falary of 40 1. per annum, paid out of
the great tithes by the lefTee of the re£tory, under the dean and
chapter of Worcefter ". At a committee for the fequeftration of Pa-
'* It appears by the following letter from " tie from your leflee, and live upon the hu-
Archbifliop Laud to Dr. Potter, Provoft of " mour of the people. Upon this I have two
Queen's College, Oxford, written in the year " requefts to make to you : The one, that you
1637, that the annual ftipend was not then " would take means to increafe the ftipend of
fettled, but depended upon the will of the Dean " the curate there and at Putney alfo, and to
and chapter's leffee, by whom the curate was " make it certayne. The other, that you
nominated. " would (as it well befeems you) take the no-
" Sir, 1 am about to draw up my order for " mination of the curates in both places to
*' Worcefter, and to fettle peace between the " yourfelves, and not leave it to your tenant
" Bilhop, the City, and the Chapter, if I can. " my Lord Wimbledon, or any other. And
" In the mean time, I am informed that there " I (hall expeft to receive fatisfadlion from you
■" is fome flaw found in theleafe of the reftory " in both thefe particulars, having acquainted
*' of Wimbledon, and that my Lord is about " his Majefty with them already, and he ap-
" to renew it again of the church of Worcef. " proves them. Thus, not doubting of your
" ter. To this reftory. Putney and Mort- «« care herein, and ready performance, I leave
*' lake, are chapels of eafe ; and Mortlake " you to the grace of God, and reft
" hath been for divers years, and is at prefent, " Your loving friend,
" a place of great inconformity, and where Lambeth, " W. Cant."
♦' ufually fuch men are placed as will take lit- May iz, 1637.
pifts
PUTNEY. 415
piftsand delinquents, held May 28, 1644, it was determined, " that Proceedings
relating to the
" whereas the committee did formerly fequefter the profits of the curates of
" vicarage of Putney for the ufe and benefit of fome godly and ring ^the civil
*' painful minifter ; it is now thereupon ordered by this committee ^'""
" that Mr. Hudfon, minifter, fliall officiate the fald cure of Putney
" In the place of Mr. Avery, a delinquent ; and fhall receive the
*' profits and tithes, and all other fees any wayes due or belonging
" to the fald vicarge, and all arrears that are behind due unto the
*' laft incumbent ; and fhall likewife receive all the rents referved
" upon the leafe of the tithes due unto the dean and chapter of
" Worcefter : and whofoever hath or fhall dlfcover the fame, fhall
*' have for his reward according to the ordinance of parliament for
" fequeftrations ; and Mr. Goodwyn is to take care thereof: and
" it is further ordered, that the parifhloners of Putney are hereby
" required to give obedience and affiftance thereto, as they will an-
" fwer the contrary at their peril "." On the third of December,
1645, it was ordered, that the annual fum of 49I. 13 s. id. be paid
out of the eftate of the dean and chapter of Worcefter to the mini-
fter of Putney ^*. Mr. Hudfon, who was put in by the committee
remained but a fhort time, for it appears that his fuccefTor Mr. Ri-
chard Levet relinquifhed the cure before 00:. 9, 1646, at which
time it was refolved, that it fhould ftand fequeftered to Edward
Haughton, minifter of the word ; and It was ordered, " that he
*' fhould preach diligently, and have for his pains all ftipends and
" rents, duties, avails, and profits ; — all houfes and glebe lands, till
" farther orders were taken in the premifes^'." Haughton having
relinquifhed the curacy before March 13, i'648, the fame mainte-
nance was then voted to Jofhua Kirby ^°. The commlffioners ap-
" Recorded in a book of minutes in the pa- dered minifters in the Bodleian Library,
rilhcheft. " Ibid.
^* Proceedings of the committee of plun- ^° Ibid.
pointed
4i6 PUTNEY.
pointed by Cromwell to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical bene-
fices in 1658 made Putney a recSlory, endowing it with all the great
tithes which had belonged to the church of Worcefter ". This
eftablifhment ceafed of courfe at the Reftoration.
Curates. William Leo, who appears by a fignature in the parifli regifter
to have been preacher at Putney in 1624, was Prebendary of Glo-
cefter, and author of feveral fermons, among which is one preached
at the funeral of Dr. Featley ".
Edward Edward Sclater, whofe firft fignature occurs in 1663, was many
years curate of Putney, where he kept a fchool. In 1686, being
then a declared Catholic, James II. granted him a difpenfation to
continue his fchool and to hold his curacy, notwithftanding he no
longer conformed to the liturgy of the Church of England. The
curacy was then valued at 160I. per annum, arifing principally
from fubfcriptions, out of which he was required to allow a compe-
tent falary to a fubftitute. The difpenfation is printed at length in
Gutch's Colledtanea Curiofa. Soon after he procured this difpenfation
he publifhed a pamphlet entitled, " The Reafons of Edv/ard Scla-
*' ter, Minifter of Putney, for his Converfion to the Catholic Faith ;"
which was twice anfwered, to his own convi£lion It is to be pre-
fumed ; for in the year 1689 he read his public recantation, and
was again received into the church. After this he quitted the fchool
and lived privately near Exeter Change. Sclater was author of a
grammar, and fome other fchool-books ".
The prefent curate of Putney Is the Rev. Thomas Hughes, M. A.
Prebendary of Worcefter, and preacher at the Rolls chapel.
Pariftiregif- The parlfli regifter begins In the year 1620. It has been neatly
kept, and appears to be very accurate, except a chafm In the entries
of burials from the year 1686 to 1700.
" Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. ^* Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 87, 88.
Library. " Ibid. vol. ii. col. 1083.
1620
ter
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Average of Baptifms. Average of Durials. Comparative
r t: c ftateofpopu-
1620—1629 — 23 26 lation/^
1680 — 1689 — 50
1677 — 1686 — ■ 67
1730— 1739 — 56 — — ^s
1780 — 1789 — $^ 69
1790 78 ' 48
1791 72 — — 69
From the above table it appears that the increafe of population du-
ring the laft century has been very fmall, though it increafed in a
proportion of fomewhat more than two to one during the 60 years
which preceded. The number of baptifms in the two laft years is
very difproportionate to the average. I cannot give any reafon why
the burials fhould in general exceed the baptifms, as the place is
efteemed healthy, and very few funerals are brought from other pa-
riflies. There are now 440 houfes in Putney, including the alms-
houfes and the workhoufe. The inhabitants being accurately num-
bered in February laft, were found to amount to 2294, of whom
274 were lodgers.
In the year 1625 twenty-five perfons died of the plague here; Plague years,
in 1665 feventy-four ; and in the enfuing year ten perfons only.
It may be obferved, that its ravages were much lefs fatal here than
at Mortlake, though the parifti is more populous, and the communi-
cation with London muft have been more frequent, Putney being
a confiderable thoroughfare.
The following entries relating to the plague occur in the parifli Entries in the
parifh ac-
acCOUntS : counts relat-
" 1625. Paid the carpenters for a barrow, to pag"^'
" carry the people that died of the ficknefle to
" church to bury them - - 050
" Paid for pitch, rofin, and frankincenfe - 010
" Paid for a warrant from my Lo, General, for the
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Colleftions
for the fick.
Papers con-
cerning the
" women of the towne to be brought before him, jT.
" to be fworne firchers - - - o
" Paid to Commynge, for his charges going to
" London to get two women to come up to keep
" the ficke, the people being all ficke - o
" Paid to Fifher for warding the two houfes fhut
" up the firft weeke - _ _ o
" 1665. Paid to James Emberton, when he Ihut
" up Robert Combe's _ _ _
•' To the warders, for helping to bury the dead
CoUedions for the relief of the fick were made every Sunday
at the church door. The firft week the colledion amounted to 5 1.
afterwards to about 3 1. each week. It appears, by fome papers in
MS^^Library ^^^ MS. Library at Lambeth, that the Privy Council ordered col-
at Lambeth, legions to be made monthly on the days of public humiliation, at
all the churches throughout the kingdom ; the money which was
not diftributed in the county where it was colle£ted, was to be
tranfmitted to the Bifhop of London, for the relief of the fick in
London and Weftminfter*". Regular accounts were fent to the
Archbifhop of Canterbury of the collections made in the parifhes
within his peculiar jurifdidion, and the money was tranfmitted to
his fecretary; but it appears that Newington Butts, Mortlake,
Croydon, Barnes, and Putney, took the liberty of diftributing their
colledlions among their own poor, without waiting for further in-
ftrudions*'. Among the fame papers is an order of council, contain-
ing the following regulations: — That the houfes of fuch perfons as
could not conveniently be fent to the peft-houfes, fhould be fhut up
and guarded by a warden, a red crofs being affixed to the door ;
that if any perfon who was required to keep within an infedted
houfe fhould go abroad, he fhould be immediately apprehended and
fent to the peft-houfe, not being fuffered to return to his own dwel-
ling ; that when a vifited houfe was opened, a white crofs fhould be
♦° Cart. Mifcellan. vol. vi. N" ii.
*■ Ibid. N" 27.
affixed
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affixed to the door, with a bill in writing, fignifying how long it
was fince the laft perfon died there ; which writing fhould remain
forty days, during which time the goods and rooms fhould be aired
and fumed with brimftone, and other wholefome fumes ; that the
churchwardens of each parifh fhould take care to cover their church-
yards with unflaked lime twelve inches thick, and the like quan-
tity of gravel, to prevent noxious vapours from exhaling ; and
that the wardens attending vifited houfes fhould warn paflengers not
to approach too near *\
KxtraEls from the Regijler.
« Jerome, fon to the R' Hon"'' Richard Lord Wefton, High Marriage of
J ^ •-' Jerome fon of
" Treafurer of England, and the Lady Frances Steward, were mar- LordWefton,
afterwards
" ried June 1632." Lady Frances was daughter of the Duke of Earl of Port-
Lenox ; they were married in Lord Wefton's chapel at Roehamp-
ton by Archbifhop Laud *'. Some of their children were baptized
in the fame chapel, and are entered in the regifter.
*' Elizabeth, Elinor, and Ann, daughters of John Clinch, by Ann inftances of
fecundity.
" his wife, baptized Mar. 10, 1651." The mother and two of the
children died foon afterwards.
" Mary, Sarah, and Ann, the three daughters of William Brown
" and Elizabeth his wife, baptized July 13, 1735." Two of the
children died a few days after their birth.
" Mr. John Toland, from Edward Hinton's, buried March 13, JohnToIand.
" 1722." This was the celebrated deiflical writer. He took lodg-
ings at a carpenter's in Putney in the year 171 8, where he fpent
the greater part of his time and wrote mofl of his later works,
particularly his Pantheifticon "*. In the Biographia Britannica is a
letter which Lord Molefworth wrote to him at Putney about two
months before he died, wherein he defires him not to indulge me-
lancholy ; for that though his circumftances were narrow, he fhould
never want necelTaries whilfl: he lived. Toland died on the iith
♦* Cart. Mifcellan. vol. vi. N°io. *' Archbifhop Laud's Diary, p. 47. ** Biograph. Brit.
3 H 2 of
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of March 1722, and was decently interred in the church-yard *\
A few days before his death he wrote the following epitaph for
himfelf, fully defcriptive of the fingularity of his opinions : it was
never infcribed on his tomb :
" H. S. E. Johannes Tolandus, qui in Hibernia prope Deriam
" natus, in Scotia et Hibernia ftuduit, quod Oxonii quoque fecit
" adolefcens ; atque Germania plus femel petita, virilem circa Lon-
" dinumt ranfegit setatem: omnium literarum excultor, ac linguarum
" plus decern fciens : veritatis propugnator, libertatis aflertor; nul-
" lius autem fedlator aut cliens. Nee minis nee malis eft inflexus,
" quin quam elegit viam perageret ; utili honeftum anteferens.
" Spiritus cum sethereo patre a quo prodiit olim, conjungitur ; cor-
" pus item naturae cedens in materno gremio reponitur. Ipfe vero
" aeternum eft refurredlurus, at idem futurus Tolandus nunquam.
" Natus Nov. 30. Csetera ex fcriptis pete."
Robert " Robert Wood, Efq. late member of parliament, buried in a new
" vault in the New Burial Ground, Sept. 15, 1771." Mr. Wood
is well known to the public as a fcientific traveller and a claffical
writer. In the year 1751 he made the tour of Greece, Egypt, and
Paleftine, in company with Mr. Dawkins ; and at his return pub-
lifhed a fplendid work in folio, entitled " The Ruins of Palmyra,
" otherwife Tedmor in the Defert," being an account of the ancient
and modern ftate of that place ; with a great number of elegant en-
gravings of its ruins by Fourdrinier, from drawings made on the
fpot. This was followed by a fimilar work refpedling Balbec.
Mr. Wood was meditating future publications relating to other parts
of his tour, efpecially Greece, when he was called upon to ferve his
country in a more important ftation, being appointed under fecre-
tary of ftate by the late Earl of Chatham ; during the whole of
whofe profperous adminiftration, as well as in thofe of his two im-
mediate fucceflbrs, he continued in that fituation. Mr. Wood was
author alfo of an EfTay on the Genius of Homer, and left behind
♦♦ Life of Toland, p. 70,
him
PUTNEY. 421
him feveral MSS. relating to his travels, but not fufficlently arranged
to afford any hopes of their being given to the public. The houfe
in which he lived in Putney is fituated between the roads which lead
to Wandfworth and Wimbledon, and is now the refidence of his
widovir. Mr. Wood purchafed it of the executors of Edward Gib-
bon, Efq. whofe fon, the celebrated hiftorian, was born there. The
farm and pleafure grounds which adjoin the houfe are very fpa-
cious, containing near fourfcore acres, and furrounded by a gravel
walk, which commands a beautiful profpedt of London and the ad-
jacent country. Mr. Wood was buried in the cemetery near the
upper road to Richmond. On his monument is the following in-
fcription, drawn up by the Hon. Horace Walpole (now Earl of
Orford) at the requeft of his widow :
" To the beloved memory of Robert Wood, a man of fupremc
" benevolence, who was born at the caftle of Riverftown near
" Trim, in the county of Meath, and died Sept. 9th, 1771, in the
" fifty-fifth year of his age ; and of Thomas Wood his fon, who
" died Aug. 25th, 1772, in his ninth year; Ann, their once happy
" wife and mother, now dedicates this melancholy and inadequate
" memorial of her affedion and grief. The beautiful editions of
" Balbec and Palmyra, illuftrated by the claflic pen of Robert Wood,
" fupply a nobler and more lafting monument, and will furvive
" thofe auguft remains."
" William Boram, aged ^6 years, three feet high, buried June 1 1, wiiikm Bo-
" 1780." He was by trade a balket-maker, of weak intelledls, and
much given to drink. His voice was harfli, his head difpropor-
tionately large, and his whole perfon rather thick. He moved about
with difficulty, and did not enjoy a good ftate of health.
The following inftances of longevity occur in the regifter : inftances of
*' Elizabeth Fidier, aged a hundredth years, buried June 1 6, 1 662." ""S^'"^
" Mr. John James Dartiquenave, from James Dudley's, aged
" 99 years and upwards, buried Sep. 25, 1709.
•' Catherine Farmer, aged loi, buried Nov. 8, 1747."
" Sarah
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" Sarah Watts, from the workhoufe, burled, fald to be 104,
«' Jan. 18, 1766."
" Ann Williams, from the workhoufe, aged 109, buried May 7,
" 1772-
*•■ Mary Ceafley, aged 100, buried Nov. 18, 1787."
Charity- Mr. Thomas Martyn by his will dated Od:. 22, 36 Car. II. be-
watermens' queathed all his landed eftates, in cafe his niece Lucy Cook died
b°y"Mr? Mar- unmarried or without iflue, for the purpofe of building and endow-
'^"' ing a fchool for the education and maintenance of 20 watermen's
fons. He diredled that the houfe fhould be built upon a piece of
ground belonging to himfelf, in the parifh of Putney, if the lord
of the manor would enfranchife it at a reafonable rate ; otherwife
the fchool, with all the benefits of the endowment, was to be tranf-
ferred to Wandfworth. A falary of 80 1. per annum was to be
allowed to the mafter ; diet, lodging, and a fuit of clothes once a
year (viz. on St. Martin's day) to the fcholars ; befides wages and
maintenance to fuch fervants as fhould be neceffary. It was direded
by his will, that the mafter fhould be unmarried, and fkilled in the ma-
thematics. The refidue of the profits of his eftates he bequeathed to
be divided on St. Martin's day in portions of eight pounds between
maimed watermen of Putney, Fulham, and Wandfworth, who have
loft their limbs in the fervice of their country either by fea or land.
If there fhould be a furplus, the watermen of other parifhes were to be
reheved in like manner. The benefits of the fchool are limited to
Putney only, if there fhould be boys fufKcient to fill up the num-
ber ; otherwife they are to be taken from the neighbouring parifhes.
The eftates bequeathed under this will confifted of the manor of
Buck-fteep in Suffex, and lands there, valued, at the time of the
teftator's death, at 127I. per annum; lands and tenements at
Staplehurft in Kent, valued at 128 1. per annum ; and lands and
houfes in Putney, valued at 100 1. per annum. Mr. Martyn
died
PUTNEY. 423
died Nov. 18, 1684. The year after his death his niece married
Sir Samuel Gerrard, and died without iffue in January 1686. A
fuit was inftituted fome time afterwards in the Court of Chancery
relating to this charity, which was depending many years. It ap-
pears by the proceedings (a copy of which is depofited in the parifli
cheft) that Lady Gerrard and her hufband fuffered a recovery of the
eftates in Kent and Suflex, and declared the ufes thereof to be to
them and their heirs ; this recovery being confirmed by the Court
of Exchequer, the truftees were obliged to convey the eftates to Sir
Samuel Gerrard. At the conclufion of the fuit, there was a fum of
money in hand belonging to the charity amounting to 600 1. and
upwards, which had accrued from the rents of the premifes at Put-
ney, after dedudling the proportion of the annuities charged on
them and other expences. By an order of the Court of Chancery
one of the houfes near the water-fide, called Copt-Hall, was let upon
a building leafe to Robert Eyre, Efq. who erected upon its fite a
large houfe now the property of Hudfon, a minor, and in the
occupation of the Countefs Dowager of Lincoln ; the other houfe,
now belonging to Simeon Warner, Efq. was let upon a repairing
leafe to Peter Renew, merchant. By the final decree of the court
in 1715, it was directed that the eftate belonging to the charity
fliould be vefted in eleven truftees, who fhould be chofen from time
to time out of the veftry whenever there were three vacancies ; the
fum of money above-mentioned was ordered to be expended in
building a fchool- houfe, and certain regulations made, correfpond-
ing with the diminiftied income of the charity, which was then
only 70 1, per annum. About twenty- five or thirty years ago, the
premifes at Putney were advantageoufly exchanged with Gerrard
Vanneck, Efq. for an eftate called Brockholds, in Hertford (hi re,
then valued at 130I. per annum, and which now produces that
fum clear of taxes. The prefent mafter, Mr. Mackenzie, receives the
full falary of 80 1. per annum, as direded by the founder's will.
Sir
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Alms-houfe. Sir Abraham Dawes having ereded in his life-time an alms-
houfe in this place For 12 poor perfons, dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, by his will dated 1639, endowed it with a rent-charge of
40 1. per annum, ifluing out of his eftates. This fum his fon Sir
Thomas Dawes, by an indenture bearing date Jan. 20, 1648, charged
upon his eftate at Roehampton, out of which it is ftill paid. Mrs.
Elizabeth D'Aranda, in the year 1780, left the intereft of 100 1.
4 per cent, annuities, to the poor of this houfe. Michael Turner,
Efq. left them the intereft of 400 1. New South-Sea annuities, after
the death of his fervant Sufannah Hill. Mr. Henry Stead, in 1785,
bequeathed lool. in the 3 per cents, after the death of his widow;
and Mrs. Mary Girardot, in 1791, the intereft of 500 1. in the 4 per
cents. ; to the fame purpofe.
The Earl of Portland, in the year 1635, charged his eftate in Roe-
hampton with the payment of 61. per annum in lieu of fundry
fmall parcels of land belonging to the parifh of Putney.
Alexander White, in i6o8, left los. per annum to buy bread for
the poor on St. Thomas's Day. Mr. Henry Smith bequeathed 6 1.
per annum to the poor. William Wymondfold, Efq. left 12 1. los.
per annum to be diftributed in gowns and money between ten poor
people of this place. Mrs. Elizabeth Offley, in 1667, left the fum
of 50 (hillings to be diftributed annually to the poor on St. Andrew's
day, which is paid out of certain premifes in Holborn. Thomas
Kennett, Efq. gave los. per annum to the poor, and Mr. Powell
the fame fum. Seven {hillings and four-pence is paid anually
out of the Rookery-clofe at P^oehampton, being the legacy of an un-
known benefador.
The ferry. The ferry at Putney is mentioned in Doomfday Book as yield-
ing a toll of 20 s. per annum to the lord of the manor. Putney
appears to have been at all times a confiderable thoroughfare : it was
ufual formerly for perfons travelling from London to many parts
of
Parifh lands.
Various be-
nefaflions.
PUTNEY.
of the Weft of England, to proceed as far as this place by water *\
In the houfehold expences of Edward I. are fome entries of money
paid to the ferryman here for conveying the king and royal family
to Fulham and to VVeftminfter "*. At a court held for the manor of
Wimbledon (42 Eliz.) it was ordered, that if any waterman fhould
omit to pay a halfpenny for every ftranger, and a farthing for every
inhabitant of Putney to the owner of the ferry, he fhould forfeit to
the lord 2 s. 6d/' In 1629 the lord of the manor received 15 s.
per annum for the ferry. In the year 1656, Gen. Lambert, then
lord of the manor, granted a fmall piece of ground near the water-
fide to the Company of Free Watermen of Putney for the purpofe
of eretSing a (hed *'.
An a(St of parliament was procured 12 Geo. I. for building a Pumey-
. bridge.
bridge of wood acrofs the Thames from Putney to Fulham, which
was begun and finifhed in the year 1729, at the expence of 23,975 '•
This work was undertaken by 30 fubfcribers, who advanced the
fum of 740 1. each. The proprietors purchafed the ferry, which on
an average produced the owners 400 1. per annum, for the fum of
8,000 1. The Duchefs of Marlborough received 364 1. los. for her
intereft in the ferry, as Lady of the Manor of Wimbledon ; and the
Bifhop of London 23 1. for the fame intereft in the Fulham fide;
befides which he referved to himfelf and his houfehold, and to his
fucceflbrs, the right of pafling the bridge toll-free. The fum of 62 1.
was direded by the adt to be divided annually between the widows
♦' Apr. 25, 1681. Their Majefties went to " Weftm. 15 die Feb. — 3 s. 6d."
Putney by water, where they took coach. " Roberto Paflatori de Puttenheth pafTanti
Loyal Proteftant. Various inftances of this " ufque Fulham familiam & ofEcia hofpicii
kind occur in the annalifts and more minute " regis cum 2 bargiis ultra Tamif. per
hiflorians. " 2 dies, menfis Marcii principio 4 s. apud
** " Roberto le Paflagier dc Puttenhethe " Weftm." Houfehold Eftabliftiment of Ed. I.
" proftipendiofuoetaliorum nautarum pafTan- publilhed by the Antiquarian Society, p. 51 —
♦' tium magn. partem familia: reg. ultra Tha- 54.
" mifiam ibidem & ducend. eundem regem *' Records of the Manor.
" & magnam partem familia: fuae ufq. Weftm. ♦' Ibid.
'* per aquam ; per manus difti Roberti, apud
Vol. I. -J I and
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426 PUTNEY.'
and children of poor watermen of Putney and Fulham, as a recom-
pence to their fraternity, who, upon the building of the bridge, were
reftrained from plying on Sundays. This money is raifed by an
additional toll of one halfpenny upon foot paflengers on Sundays.
The income of the bridge two years after it was built was eftimated
at 1,5001. per annum ; it is now fuppofed to be nearly double that
fum, and is conftantly increafing. The greateft receipt ever known
in one day was 63 1. los. yd. being the 25th of May, 1767 when his
Majefty reviewed the guards upon Wimbledon Common. The laft
fhare which was put up to fale was purchafed for 1,300 guineas. The
bridge has lately been put in excellent repair, under the management of
the prefent furveyor, Mr. James. In the laft fourteen years near
1 0,000 1. have been expended on it. The length from gate to gate
is 805 feet 6 inches.
The filhery. yj^g Jqi-J of the manor enjoyed a flfhery here at the time of the
Conqueft ; before which time it had been eftabliflied at Mortlake
by Earl Harold. At a court held 13 Hen. VI. the lord was found
to be feized of all fifh within the manor*". In 1663 the fifhery was
let for an annual rent of the three bed falmons that fhould be caught
in the months of March, April, and May '°. This rent appears
to have been changed afterwards to money. When Sir Theo-
dore Janffen's eftates were fold, the fifhery was let for 6 1. per an-
num ; the rent was afterwards increafed to 8 1. A leafe upon thofe
terms expired in the year 1780. Smelts are caught here in great
abundance in the months of March and April, and are efteemed
very fine. The falxnon fifhery is not very produdive, but the fifh
are of a very good quality, and fell for a confiderable price. Small
flounders, fhad, roach, dace, barbel, eels, and gudgeons, may be rec-
koned alfo among the produce of the fifheries here. One or two
fturgeons are generally taken in the courfe of a year ; and fome-
*' Records of the manor. '"* Ibid.
times.
PUTNEY. 427
times, though rarely, a porpus. Thefe are claimed by the Lord
Mayor, and the fifliermen are obliged to deliver them as foon as
taken, to the water-bailiff. For a porpus they receive as a reward
13 s. for fturgeons a guinea each.
The fifliery from Mortlake to Brentford was granted to Merton
Abbey by Hen.JII."
Putney gave the title of baron to Edward Cecil Vifcount Wim-
bledon.
In the year 1776 a houfe was built by David Hartley, Efq. upon David Han-
lev s cxDcri*
Putney Heath, for the purpofe of proving the efficacy of his inven- mentsforfe-
tion of plates to preferve houfes from fire. The experiments were froai^re!" "
fuccefsful, and repeated feveral times before their Majeflies, the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen of London, and feveral members of both
houfes of parliament ; many of the fpedators remained with perfect
confidence and fecurity in the room over that in which the fire was
burning with great rapidity. The houfe where the experiments
were tried is flill flanding, and near it an obelifk built by the city of
London, the infcriptions upon which record, that the Rt. Hon. John
Sawbridge, Efq. Lord Mayor of London, laid the firfl Hone on the
anniverfary of the fire of London, in memory of an invention to
fecure buildings from fire ; that the Committee of City Lands were
empowered to complete the building by an order of Common Council
dated Nov. 22, 1776; that David Hartley was admitted on the
fame day into the freedom of the city in the company of Gold-
fmiths; and that a fum of 2,5001. was voted to him by the
Houfe of Commons on the 14th of May 1774, for the purpofe of
carrying on his experiments.
Not far from the fire-houfe was formerly a fafhionable place of Putney Bowl-
entertainment for public breakfafls and evening affemblies ; the fite
of which flill retains the name of Putney Bowling-green, being the
'' Tanner's Notitia Monallica, p. 538.
3 I 2 property
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Villas on
Putney-
heath.
property of Mr. Gawler, and now in the occupation of John An-
thony Rucker, Efq.
Duel between A fatal duel was fought upon Putney-heath in the year 1652,
ton and Lord between Lord Chandois and Mr. Compton, in which the latter was
killed. Lord Chandois, and his fecond Lord Arundel, after fuffer-
ing a long imprifonment, were brought to trial, and both found
guilty of manflaughter '\
In 1684 was publlfhed a Pindaric ode on his Majefty's reviewing
his forces upon Putney-heath.
The brow of the Heath, which commands a moft beautiful profpedt
over the river Thames and county of Middlefex, from Harrow-on-
the-hill to Hampftead and Highgate, is occupied by feveral handfome
villas. The houfe which is now the property and refidence of Lady
Grantham, was built by Sir Jacob Downing, who left a fum of
money for founding a new college at Cambridge. After his death it
was the refidence of Archbilhop Cornwallis, and was afterwards for
fome time in the occupation of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer.
The hamlet of Roehampton is very pleafantly fituated at the
weftern extremity of Putney-heath. In the reign of Henry VII.
it contained only fourteen houfes " ; the prefent number is forty-
four.
Putney-park. Near this place was the fite of Putney-park, called in fome of the
old records Mortlake-park. Its extent was 300 acres, and it was
bounded towards Putney by the lane which is ftill called Putney-
park-lane. This park was referved by the Crown when a grant was
made of the manor of Wimbledon. In the firft year of Queen
Mary, Sir Robert Tyrwhit was keeper thereof, and mafler of the
game '*. Sir Charles Howard had a grant of that office for life,
Roehamp-
ton.
" Perfeft Diurnal, May lo — 17, 1652, " Ancient Survey of Wimbledon Manor,
and Collini's Peerage, edit. 1756. vol. i. ^* MS. account of Queen Mary's houfe-
p. 688. hold, Dulwich College.
13 Jac.
PUTNEY. 429
13 Jac. I." and a few years after a further grant of 15 1. per annum
to buy hay for the deer '\ Charles I. in the fecond year of his
reign, granted the fee-fimple of the park to Sir Richard Wefton and
his heirs ", and by a fubfequent patent difcharged Sir Charles How- -
ard and Lord Wimbledon of the cuftody thereof". In 1635 Rich-
ard Wefton, then Earl of Portland, had a licence for inclofing 450
acres, and adding them to his park " ; but as he died the fame
year, and his fon foon afterwards began to alienate the eftate, it
probably was never done.
The Earl of Portland, from the time of his obtaining a grant of RkhardWef-
ton Earl of
the park, made Roehampton his fummer refidence. He was a great Portland,
favourite with the King, who in 1628 appointed him Lord High
Treafurer. He held that office till his death, when by the King's
command the whole Court wore mourning for him one day '°.
Lord Clarendon fays, that he was a man of an imperious difpofition,
heedlefs whom he offended, yet when he knew that the party ag-
grieved felt the injury, a very coward in dreading their refentment " :
his Lordftiip tells a ludicrous ftory of him, the fubftance of which is
as follows : — The Earl of Tullibardin having interefted himfelf in be-
half of a fon of Sir Julius Csefar, who wanted to procure one of the
fix clerks' places, obtained a promife from the Earl of Portland to
appoint him on the next vacancy; and left he fhould forget it, gave
him a flip of paper, on which he had written, " Remember Casfar."
This the Lord Treafurer put into his pocket without looking at it.
Some time after, as he was fearching his pockets for other papers,
he found this memorandum, and not knowing whence it came, con-
cluded that it was a friendly hint of fome confpiracy againft his
life. Imprefled with this idea, he called his friends together, and
" Pat. 13 Jac. I. pt. 20. June 8. " Pat. lo Car. I. pt. 8. May 5.
5* Pat. 18 Jac. I. pt. 6. Nov. 20. «=" Stafford Letters, vol. i. p. 389.
" Pat. 2 Car. I. pt. i. Mar. 24. *' Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 47 —
»» Ibid. pt. 3. Oft. 18. 54. 8vo.
by
430 PUTNEY.
by their advice, kept within doors for fome days under pretence of
indifpofition, his gates being ftridtly guarded day and night. At
length the Earl of Tullibardin calling upon him accidentally, aflced
him if he had remembered Cafar ? and by that feafonable queftion
unravelled the myftery, and relieved him from his groundlefs terrors.
Chapclinthe On the 26th of May 1632, a chapel was confecrated in the
land's houfe houfe of the Earl of Portland, then Lord Wefton of Neyland, by
ion. °^ ^^^' Laud, Bifliop of London. Lord Wimbledon met the Bifhop and
Lord Wefton at the door, and gave his confent as impropriator of
the great tithes. Chriftopher Fox curate of Wimbledon and Rich-
ard Avery curate of Putney were prefent alfo and gave their confent.
It was then dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and alligned to be a
chapel for ever'' for the inhabitants prefent and future of that houfe.
This chapel, which was ornamented with a painting, fuppofed to be
the work of Zucchero'*^ was pulled down in the year 1 777 by Tho-
New chapel j^^g porker, Efq. who at the fame time built a new chapel about a
built there in ' -i '^
^in- hundred yards from the houfe, which is now for a term of years
the private property of the Reverend Colfton Carr, who ofEclates
there on Sundays.
After the death of Richard Earl of Portland, his fon Jerome, who
fucceeded him in his title, foon began to alienate his inheritance at
Roehampton. He fold the houfe** and park in the year 1640 for
the fum of 11,3001.'" to Sir Thomas Dawes, by whom they were
fnft let *° and afterwards fold to Chriftian Countefs of Devonfhire ".
Chriftian The Countefs was a woman of confiderable celebrity, and of a
Countefs of _ r •
Devonlhiie. very ungular charader. She is much extolled for her devotion,
" Regift. Lambeth. Abbot, fol. 126. b. was plundered in the civil war. Baronetage,
127. b. J74i> vol. iii. p. 405.
'^ Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 142. *' SirThomas Dawes's indenture concerning
This pifture, the fubjeft of which is the Laft the alms-houfes at Putney, preferved in the pa-
Supper, was preferved and hangs over the rifh cheft.
altar of the prefent chapel. '* Ibid.
'■* This houfe, the furniture of which is faid *' Life of the Countefs, p. 70.
to have been valued at feveial thoufand pounds,
yet
PUTNEY.. 431
yet fhe retained Hobbes the free-thinker in her houfe as tutor to her
fon. She kept up the dignity of her rank, and her houfe was cele-
brated for its hofpitality ; yet fo judicious was her oeconomy, that
having a jointure of 5000 1. per annum, fhe nearly doubled it, and
having procured the wardfhip of her fon, fhe managed his affairs
fo fkilfully as to extricate his eftates from a vaft debt and thirty
law-fuits ; having ingratiated herfelf fo far with the fages of the law,
that King Charles jeftingly faid to her " Madam, you have all my
*' judges at your difpofal ''^" She feems indeed to have imbibed a
due portion of the profitable wifdom of her Lord's grandmother the
famous Countefs of Shrewfbury, who laid fuch ample found-
ations of wealth for her family. The Countefs of Devonfhire was
daughter of Edward Lord Bruce, a relation and chief favourite of
James I. by whofe recommendation fhe was married into the no-
ble family of Cavendifh. The King was prefent at the ceremony,
and gave her a fortune of 10,000 1.*' The Countefs was diftin-
guifhed as the patronefs of the wits of that age, who frequently
affembled at her houfe. Waller frequently read his verfes there ^"^
and William Earl of Pembroke wrote a volume of poems in her
praife, publifhed afterwards and dedicated to her by Donne. Other
contemporary wits exercifed their talents in celebrating the virtues
and accomplifhments of herfelf and her beautiful daughter Lady
Rich ". Having met with fevere domeftic loffes by the death of this
daughter, and her fecond fon the brave Charles Cavendifh '', her
thoughts became more devoted to national affairs, and fhe then
began to take an adive part in the interefting politics of thofe times.
•^ Kennet's Memoirs of the Cavendilhes, ^' Life of the Countefs, p. 57.
p. 78. '* Kennet's Memoirs, p. ICO. Wallerwrote
'» Ibid. p. 73. an Elegy upon the death of Lady Rich, and an
'° Sir William Temple's Works, voL ii. Epitaph upon Colonel Charles Cavendifh;
p. 135. which are to be found in his poems.
Being
432 PUTNEY.
Being in principles a zealous Royalift, Ihe carried on a correfpon-
dence with feme of the leading men of that party, and is faid to have
been inftrumental in urging the Earl of Holland to that rafh en-
terprize which terminated fo unfuccefsfully and fo fatally to him-
felf". When fettled at Roehampton, {he entertained many of the
King's friends at her houfe, and concerted meafures with them for
the Reftoration, correfponding at the fame time with fome of the
principal Royalifts on the Continent. Her letters were written in
cypher, in which fhe was aflifted by her nephew Lord Bruce, and
Mr. Gale her chaplain'*. She became at length a fufpedted perfon,
and was in danger of being fent to the Tower ; a feafonable bribe
to the council of ftate proved her protedion". She afterwards en-
tered into a correfpondence with General Monk, who, at a time that
his conduft was moft myfterious, is faid to have made known to her,
by a private fignal, his intentions of reftoring the King '*. When
Charles II. returned to England, he fhowed the fenfe he entertained
of her zeal for his fervice by frequently vifiting her at Roehamp-
ton, in company with the queen-mother and the royal family, with
whom fhe enjoyed an unufual intimacy till her death, which hap-
pened Jan. 1 6, 1674-5 ". A Life of the Countefs was publifhed in
v 1685, by Thomas Pomfret. There is an original portrait of her in
the Duke of Bedford's collection at Wooburn, by Theodore Ruflel,
(a fcholar of Vandyke,) from which the annexed plate was copied by
his Grace's permiffion.
wiiHam Earl Roehampton-houfe defcended after the Countefs's death to her
(hire. fon William, the third Earl of Devonfhire, who died there in 1684 "•
He was father to the firft Duke, and had been a great fufFerer in
Hobbe? ^^^ '-'^^^ ^^^' Hobbes, who had been his tutor, he entertained in
" CoUins's Peerage. '" Kennet's Memoirs of tke Cavendifli Fa-
''* Ibid. mily, p. 103.
" Life of the Countefs, p. 79. " Ibid. p. 105.
'• Ibid.
his
CIIRI S TL:\IN , CO VNTE S S OF DE Y ON Sill Rl<: ,
HMuh^ ^ the .la ^teu.Junt n^-}jt\.tj T Cadntl.Sa^nd
U T N E Y.
43.1
his houfe as long as he lived, though he is faid to have detefted
his political and religious opinions ". Hobbes refided with the fa-
mily wherever they were, and refufed to be left behind even in his
laft illnefs, though they were obliged to convey him in a litter. He
died in 1679.
Sir Stephen Fox was brought up in the Earl of Devonfhire's fa- sir Stephen
Pox.
mily, where he continued till he became qualified for an appoint-
ment at Court *°.
After the death of the laft Countefs of Devonfhire, which hap- AHenatiom
pened in 1689, the houfe at Roehampton appears to have been alien- ton-houfe.
ated to Sir Jeffery JefFerys, alderman of London, who died there in
1707''. It was afterwards the property of Jofeph Bagnall, Efq. and
was fold by a£t of parliament 17 Geo. II. A few years fmce it be-
longed to Fordyce the banker ; by him it was alienated to Thomas
Parker, Efq. and is now the property of Sir Jofliua Vanneck, Bart.
The beauties of the furrounding fcenery and the contiguity to villas at Roe-
. Hampton.
Richmond-park have induced many perfons to build villas at Roe-
hampton. Among thofe of principal note may be mentioned Lord
Dover's, Sir John Dick's, built after the Italian ftyle by the late
George Clive, Efq. and the Earl of Befborough's ; Sir William
Chambers was the architedt of the latter. In this houfe are fome va- Pi-^ures at
the Earl of
luable antiques ; the moft remarkable of them is the celebrated torfo Beibo-
cf a Venus from the colleftion of Baron Stofch ; there are fome good
pidlures alfo by Italian and Flemifh mafters, among which is a curious
one of the interment of a cardinal by John ab Eyck, the firft painter
in oil colours ; and feveral interefting portraits, confifting principally
of eminent literary characters and artifts. In the eating-room is a
fine portrait of Sir Theodore Mayerne, by Rubens, from Dr. Meade's
colledion. In a bed-chamber on the attic ftory, one of Qiieen
Mary ; in the breakfaft room are feveral in crayons of Englifh geii-
" Rennet's Memoirs of the Cavendilh Family, p. 106. "' Ibid. p. 105. ^' Funeral
Certificate, Herald's College.
Vol. I. 3 K tlemen,
434 PUTNEY.
tlemen, principally in Turkifli drefles, by Liotard ; and in the li-
brary, where is the principal colledtion of portraits, fhould be noticed
a very fingular one of Bifliop Gardiner in a ftriped drefs, by Hol-
bein; over the chimney-piece is a buft of Demofthenes by Ben-
venuto Cellini. A view of Lord Befborough's houfe is engraved ia
the laft edition of the Vitruvius Britannicus ".
In the fame work " are two plates of Roehampton-houfe, the feat
of Thomas Gary, Efq. built from a defign of Mr. Archer about the
year 1710. This houfe was afterwards the refidence of William
Ann, Earl of Albermarle, and is now the property of William
Drake, Efq. M. P. The faloon was painted by Sir James Thorn-
hill, and is ftill in excellent prefervation. The cieling reprefents
the feafts of the gods.
Dreadful On the 15th of Odtober 1780 there happened a mod violent
hurricane in , i rr r ^ • ••nri'
1780. hurricane, the effeds of which were principally felt in and near
Roehampton, where its devaftations were numerous and attended with
very uncommon circumftances. The premifes of Lewis Brown, a
gardener, lying near the lane which leads from that place to Barnes
Common, fuffered the moft material injury. The upper part of a
gable end of the dwelling-houfe was forced out, and formed a con-
fiderable chafm in the room where his daughter, who had been
brought to bed but a few hours before, then lay. The chimney
was alfo thrown down, but the bricks providentially falling on the
outfide, the woman efcaped without any injury, and is ftill living.
The barn and other out-buildings were levelled with the ground,
the materials difperfed, and fome of them carried to a very great
diftance. The body of a large empty cart which flood in the yard
was torn from the wheels, and removed to the diftance of 90 paces.
Of feven perfons who took flielter in the barn one only was killed
upon the fpot, another died in confequence of the bruifes which he
received. A walnut-tree, 12 feet in circumference, which grew
*■ Vol.iv, p. II — 13. «» Vol. i. p. 80, 81.
upon
PUTNEY. 435
upon Lady Eggleton's premifes, was torn up by the roots, and car-
ried to the diftance of 22 feet. In Roehampton-Iane and the ad-
joining fields, above 130 large trees from 18 inches to four feet dia-
meter were torn down within the fpace of three quarters of a mile.
The greater part of them grew in hedge-rows, and formed an
avenue in the lane, which was completely deftroyed. The trees
fell acrofs the lane towards the north and north-weft, fo that the
road was rendered totally impaflable for fome weeks. A few of the
trees were removed to a confiderable diftance ; one in particular,
being about 40 feet in length, is faid to have been carried by the
wind to the north-fide of the road upon Barnes Common, above
130 yards from the fpot where it grew. The earth in many of the
adjoining fields was torn up in fuch a manner that it had the ap-
pearance of having been lately ploughed. The workhoufe upon
Barnes Common received fome injury, and the windmill was over-
turned and beat in pieces. The progrefs of this hurricane is
fuppofed to be about three miles in length, beginning at Lord
Befborough's at Roehampton, and ending at Hammerfmith, where
the church received confiderable damage ; the greateft breadth was
only 200 yards. Vaft crouds of people came for feveral days to fee
the devaftations which it had occafioned".
The hamlet of Roehampton is aflefled the fum of 169I. 19s. Sd. Land-tax.
to- the land-tax, which in the year 1791 was at the rate of 2s. 3d.
in the pound.
°' The greater part of this account of the who were themfelves eye-witnefles to the de-
hurricane is taken from a fliort pamphlet on vaftations which it occafioned. Mr. Edwards's
the fubjeft, publifhed by E. Edwards in the account was illuftrated by four etched outlines,
year 1781, the particulars of which are con- walhed and teinted.
firmed by the recolleflion of feveral perfons
3 K 2
[ 436 ]
RICHMOND.
Name.
Situation and
boundaries.
Soil.
Land-tax.
Manor.
I
T is well known that this place received its prefent name by
royal command in the reign of Henry VII. who was Earl of
Richmond in Yorklhire. In Doomfday Book it is not mentioned ;
a record of nearly the fame antiquity calls it Syenes ' ; the name
was afterwards fpelt Schenes *, Schene ', and Sheen. Some writers,
founding their conjectures upon the latter word, which fignifies
bright or fplendid, have fuppofed it to be expreffive of the magni-
ficence of the ancient palace *.
The village of Richmond is diftinguilhed for its beautiful fituation
upon the banks of the Thames. It lies in the hundred of King-
flon, at the diftance of about eight miles from Hyde- park-corner.
The parilh is bounded by Mortlake, Kew, and Peterfham. The
land which is not inclofed either in the park or the royal gardens is
principally arable ; the predominant foil is fand, but in fome parts
of the parifh there is clay and gravel. Richmond is aUefled the fum
of 939 1. 2 s. 2 d. to the tand-tax, which is at the rate of one
fhilling in the pound.
It feems probable that the manor of Sheen was included at the
time of the Conqueft in that of Kingfton, which then belonged to
the Crown, and was held in demefne. The firft mention I find
of it is in the reign of King John, when it was the property of Mi-
chael Belet, who held it by the fervice of being the King's butler,
having been granted to his anceftors with that office annexed by
• N" 313. HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf.
* Cotton MSS. Cleopatra, A. 7.
3 Ibid.
♦ Leland, Aubrey, Camden, &c.
Henry I.
RICHMOND. 437
Henry I. ' John, fon of Michael Belet, left two daughters, between
whom the manor was divided ; one of them married Oliver,
and the other John Valletort '. Emma Oliver's fhare was alienated
afterwards to Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucefter '. In the early
part of the reign of Edward I. the manor of Sheen belonged to
Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, who granted it to Otto
Grandifon and his heirs, with remainder to himfelf and his heirs '.
Philip Burnell, the Bifhop's nephew, had livery of it 21 Edw. I. '
Soon afterwards it appears to have reverted to the Crown, either by
exchange or forfeiture. Edward I. was in pofTeffion of it towards the
latter end of his reign '", fince which time it has generally been in
the hands of the Crown, or fettled upon fome of the branches of the
royal family". It was granted for life to Elizabeth Queen of
Edw. IV. " ; to Anne of Cleve, who furrendered it to Edw. VI. " ;
to Henry Prince of "Wales, fon of James I. and to Queen Henrietta
Maria '* . It is now held by her prefent Majefty, whofe leafe bears
date Odober 1770.
Lands in this manor are held by the rod, or copy of court-roll. Tenure of
land.
and defcend to the youngeft fon; or in default of fons, to the
youngeft daughter. The fame cuftoms prevail in the manors of
Peterfham and Ham "'.
» N" 313. HarleianMSS. Brit. Muf. f. 21. Sheen, 28 Edw. I. in the houfehold eftablifh-
See note, p. 236. There is a charter in the mentofthat king, publiihed by the Society
Tower, which confirms the office of Butler to of Antiquaries, p. 87.
Michael Belet, with the lands which his ancef- " Henry VIII. granted it for a term of
tors enjoyed. This office was efteemed of a 30 years to M. Villiard and Th. Brampton,
very honourabk nature, and the Belets ap- Pat. 14 Hen. VIII. pt. I. Nov. 2. SirTho-
pear to have had a feat in parliament. See mas Gorge had a grant of the manor for a
Dugdale's Baronage. term of years, Pat. 5 Jac. pt. 26. Ap. to.
« N" 313. Harleian MSS. " Pat. 6 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 4.
' Cart. 48 Hen. III. m. 2. " Record in the Augmentation-office.
^ Pat. 8 Edw. I. m. 26. Grant of free '* Royal houfehold eftablifhments, publiihed
warren. Cart. 8 Edw. I. m. 72. by the Society of Antiquaries 1719, p. 316.
' Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 61. '' Culloms of the manors of Sheen, &c.
'" Accounts of money paid at the court at publiihed in the Colkdanea Juridica, vol. ii.
Richard
438
RICHMOND.
Hiftoryofthe
palace.
Henry I.
Edward I.
Edward II.
and Edward
III.
Death of
Anne, Queen
of Rich. II.
and decay of
the palace.
Henry V.
reftores it.
Sir James
Parker flain
in a tourna-
ment.
The palace
burnt.
Richard II. granted as a privilege to his tenants within this manor
that his officers fhould make no demands upon them for corn or
other provifion ".
It is not certain when the manor-houfe at Sheen firft became a
royal palace. A MS. record in the Britifh Mufeum mentions it as
having been the houfe of Henry I. who granted it, with the manor,
to the Belets ". From that time till towards the clofe of the reign
of Edward I. it was the property of fubjedls. Edward I. and II.
are known to have refided there ". Edward III. clofed a long and
victorious reign at his palace at Sheen, June 21, 1377". Queen
Anne, his fucceflbr's confort, died there in the year 1394. The King
was fo much affedlred at her death that he abandoned the palace, and
fufFered it to fall to ruin ", or as others aflert, pulled it down.
Holinfhed faiys, that " he caufed it to be throwen down and defaced.
" Whereas the former kings of this land, being weary of the citie,
*' ufed cuftomarily thither to reforte, as to a place of pleafure, and
" ferving highly to their recreation ""." Henry V. reftored the pa-
lace to its former magnificence ". Henry VII. held a grand tourna-
ment at his manor at Richmond in 1492, when Sir James Parker, in a
controverfy with Hugh Vaughan for right of coat armour, was killed
at the firft courfe. In the year 1499 ^\ the King being then at his
palace, it was fet on fire by accident ; moft of the old buildings were
confumed. His Majefty immediately caufed it to be rebuilt, and
gave it the name of Richmond. The pidture of Henry V. and his
" " Aliquod bladum aut vidluale." Regift.
Lamb. Courteneye, fol. 62. b.
" N° 313. Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf.
" Edward I. treated with the Scottifli no-
bility at Sheen, after the death of William
Wallace. Lambard's Topographical Difti-
onary. See likewife an account of money paid
at Sheen, in the houfehold eflablithment of that
monarch, publilhcd by the Society of Anti-
quaries. Edward II. dates a grant of the
barony of Alnwick to the Percys from Sheen,
anno 13 10. Collins's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 36.
'' Sandford's Genealogical Hiftory of the
Kings of England, p. 194.. Gough's Camden,
vol. i. p. 169. 177.
" Ibid.
*' Chron. anno 1394.
" Sandford's Genealogical Hiftory of the
Kings of England, p. 283.
*' Stow makes it 1498.
family,
RICHMOND. 439
family, the marriage of Henry VI. and that of Henry VII. in the
Earl of Orford's coUedion, at Strawberry-hill, are fuppofed to have
been painted for this monarch, and intended for his palace here.
It had been finifhed but a fhort time, when a fecond fire broke out. Second fire.
which did confiderable damage '\ The fame year a new gallery fell Fall of the
down, in which the King, and the Prince his fon, had been walking "^'
only a few minutes before'*. Philip I., King of Spain, having been Philip I.
driven upon the coaft of England by a ftorm, was entertained in Spain.
this palace, with great magnificence, in the year 1506''. Henry ^enr' VII
VII. died there April 21, 1509". His fucceffor kept his Chrift- Henry vill.
mas at Richmond the year after he came to the throne*'. A tour- Chriftmas at
nament was held there oh the 12th of January, when the King, for
the firft time, took a part in thofe exercifes ". Charles V. Emperor Charles v.
Emperor of
of Germany, was lodged at Richmond anno 1523*'. When Car- Germany
^ lodged there.
dinal Wolfey gave the leafe of Hampton Court to the King, his Ma- Cardinal
jefty permitted him to refide in Richmond palace, a privilege of
which he frequently availed himfelf. Hall fays, that " when the
" common people, and efpecially fuch as had been fervants to
" Henry VII., faw the Cardinal keep houfe in the manor royal of
" Richmond, which that monarch fo highly efteemed, it was a -
" marvel to hear how they grudged, faying. So, a butcher's dogge
*' doth lie in the manor of Richmond '°." They were ftill more dif-
gufted at the Cardinal's keeping his Chriftmas there, openly, with
great ftate, when the King himfelf obferved that feaft with the utmoft
privacy at Eltham, on account of the plague". Queen Elizabeth S^trafri""
was a prifoner at Richmond for a fhort time, during the reign of ^°°^'' '''"*•
*' The palace was nearly rebuilt in 1501, at " Sandford's Genealogical Hiftory of the
which time Hen. VII. commanded it to be called Kings of England, p. 442.
Richmond. The fecond fire happened in 1506. '' Holinlhed's Chron. *' Ibid.
Stow's Annals. *» Hall's Chrcn.
»♦ Ibid. 3° Ibid. Henry VIII. fol. 144.
« HoUnfhed's Chron. " Ibid. fol. 146.
her
440 RICHMOND.
her fifter Mary '*. After fhe afcended the throne, this palace be-
afteward" Came One of her favourite places of refidence ". In her reign, Eric IV.
refidence""'' King of Sweden, was lodged there. Queen Elizabeth ended her
Ericiy. jj 3f Richmond palace on the 24th of March 160-1. In the
king of owe- j r ^ ^
den. autumn of that year, the court of Exchequer, the court of Chancery,
Death of i -n • i i
Queen Eliza- and Other public courts, were removed to Richmond, on account of
Henry Prince the plague ". The fame precaution was taken in 1625''. Henry
ChSi'. P^'i"'^^ °^ ^^^'^s refided there in 1605 '\ It is probable that
Charles I. was frequently at this palace, where he formed a
large colledlion of pidures. In the year 16^6^ a mafque was per-
formed before the King and Queen at Richmond, by Lord Buck-
hurft and Edward Sackville. When the King was in Scotland, in
1641, the Parliament ordered that the young Prince fhould be fent
to Richmond with his governor ", probably Bifhop Duppa, who
is faid to have educated Charles II. at this place ". In the month
of June 1647, Richmond palace was prepared, by order of parlia-
ment, for the King's reception ", but he refufed to go thither. A
newfpaper of the 29th of Auguft in that year mentions, that the
Prince Eledor was then at Richmond, and that the King, with
'* It was after (he was delivered out of the " mornynge, beiides mufycke & fyngynge.
Tower, and before fhe was fent to Wood- " was her ordinary exercyfe." Lodge's
ftock. Lodge's Shrewfbury Papers, vol. i. p. 1. Shrewlbury Papers, vol. ii. p. 411.
^^ It was at Eichmond, that Anthony Rudd, '+ Baker's Chron.
Bilhop of St. David's, incurred her difplea- '' Rymer's Foedera, vol. xviii. p. 168. 185.
fure, by preaching before the Court on the ^° See a letter of that date to King James,
infirmities of old age, applying them, at the Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 6986.— 41. By
fame time, perfonally, to her Majelly, and a MS. note of Mr. Gray's, in a copy of
cbferving, how it had " furrowed her face, " London and its Environs," belonging to
" and befprinkled her hair with its meal." theRight Hon. Earl Harcourt, it appears that
Lives of Eminent Cambridge Men, Harleian he kept houfe there in 161 z.
MSS. 7176. p. 122. No doubt fuch plain " Nalfon's CoUeftions, vol. ii. p. 596,
language muft have been highly ofFenfive to 597.
her majefty, who even at that advanced age, for ^' Biograph. Brit.
it was in the year 1596, did not diflike to be " .t Richmond is preparing for the King,
complimented on her perfonal charms, and " and a new rich coach was this day (June 22)
was fo fond of youthful amufements, that a " fent from London for his Majefty." Per-
few years before, we are told, that being then fed Diurnal, June 1647. See alfo Whltlock's
at Richmond, " fix or feven gallyards of a Memorials, p. 255.
the
RICHMOND. 441
the Duke of York, and the Lords, hunted in the New Park, and
killed a ftag and a buck — " his majefty was very chearful, and
" afterwards dined with his children at Syon ■*'."
The furvey taken by order of parliament in the year 1649 *'» gives
a very minute defcription of the palace as it then exifted. The Defaiption
great hall was ico feet in length, and 40 in breadth ; it is defcribed •*„ ,545, ^"
as having a fcreen at the lower end, over which, fays the Survey,
is " a fayr foot pace ia the higher end thereof; the pavement is
" Iquare tile, and it is very well lighted and feeled ; at the north
" end is a turret, or clock cafe, covered with lead, which is a fpecial
*' ornament to that building." The privy-lodgings are defcribed
as a free-ftone building, three ftories high, with fourteen turrets
covered with lead, " a very graceful ornament to the whole houfe,
" and perfpicuous to the country round about." A round building
is mentioned, called the " canted tower," with a ftair-cafe of 1 24
fteps. The chapel was 96 feet long, and 40 broad, " with ca-
" thedral feats and pews." Adjoining the privy garden was an
open gallery, 200 feet long, over which was a clofe gallery of the
fame length**. No mention is made ofa library ; yet we are told by Library.
a French author, that a Royal Library was eftabllfhed at Richmond,
by Henry VII. ^\ and the librarian is reckoned amongft the officers
of this palace in the houfehold eftablifhments of Queen Mary ** and
*' Perfc£l Occurrences, Aug. 27, &c. 1647, the lane leading to the Duke of Queen/berry's.
♦' The original is in the Augmentation-office; *' " Traifte des plus belles Bibliotheques,
it is printed in the " Monumenta Vetufta," " &c. par Louis Jacob Chalonnois," 1644.
publilhed by the fociety of Antiquaries. 8vo. quoted in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey,
♦* Thefe galleries flood on the right fide of vol. v. p. 348.
£. s. d.
♦■'■ " Keeper of the library at Richmond, William Tillcfley, fee - 10 o o
of the wardrobe — William Griffith - 926
^— of the orchard — John Lovell - - 6 i 8
of the houfe — Sir Henry Sidney ■.;- - 926
of the garden — the fame Sir Hen. Sidney - 4 11 3
of the parke — the fame Sir Hen. Sidney - 3 10 10"
Houftiold Eftabliihment of Queen Mary, a MS. in the library at Dulvvich college.
Vol. L 3 L Queen
442 RICHMOND.
Queen Elizabeth. His fee was lol. per annum. The Survey-
mentions three pipes which fupplied the palace with water, one from
the white conduit in the New-park, another from the red conduit ia
the town fields, and the third from a conduit near the almshoufes in
Richmond, clofe to the river. The materials of the palace were
valued at 10,7821. 19s. 2d. It was purchafed April 12, 1650,
by Thomas Rookefby, William Goodrick, and Adam Baynes, on
behalf of themfelves and other creditors **. It was afterwards pur-
chafed by Sir Gregory Norton, who had been one of the King's
judges *'.
Views of All the views of Richmond palace, which are extant, wer6
palace. taken before the middle of the laft century, while it remained
entire. Vandergutch's view, which was engraved for Aubrey's
Antiquities of Surrey, probably from a drawing of Hollar's, feems to
give a very good reprefentation of the front towards the water. Hav-
ing been favoured with the ufe of this plate, which is depofited in
the Bodleian Library, it is here annexed. A view of the fame front is
engraved in the Monumenta Vetufta (publifhed by the Society of
Antiquaries) from a pidture belonging to the Earl of Cardigan,
Lord Vifcount Fitzwilliam has an ancient painting of Richmond
palace, by Vinkeboom, taken from the meadow on the other fide of
the water **. Another pi(fture, in the poffeifion of the fame nobleman,
faid to be the work of one of Rubens's fcholars, has been called The
Front of R^ichmond Palace towards the Green j but there are many
reafons for fuppofing it not to be a reprefentation of that houfe; for
it not only feems very improbable, that the numerous and lofty
turrets which were fo " perfpicuous to the country round about,"
fhould not be feen ; but the front itfelf is totally unlike that of the
old palace towards the green, as defcribed in the Survey, and as in
fome meafure it ftill exifts. In this view there is no range of
buildings contiguous to the gateway, nor does the fore ground in the
*■• Particulars offale, Augmeniation-ofEce. ♦* This has been engraved by R. B. God-
*' Myfteries of the Good Old Caufe, p. 26. frey.
leafl
o
RICHMOND.
443
lead refemble the green*', which In the Survey is defcrlbed as " a
" piece of level turf of 20 acres (only) planted with 113 elms, forty-
" eight of which ftand on the weft, fide, and form a handfome
" walk." It is much more probable that the painting at Lord
Fitzwilliam's was intended to reprefent the lodge in the Old-park,
with the defcription of which it fufficiently correfponds, and which
particularly mentions " a fair gate, of good ornament to the houfe,
" ftanding towards the park."
Soon after the return of Charles II., feveral boats, " laden with Removal of
" rich and curious effigies, formerly belonging to Charles I. but Whitehall,
" fmce alienated," are faid to have been brought from Richmond
to Whitehall *\ About the fame time, the manor and palace, which Manor and
had been fettled on the Queen-mother, before the civil war, were al^edto'
reftored to her *' . It is mofl: probable that the palace was at this QBeen Hen-
'■ ^ rietta Maria.
time in a very difmantled ftate. Fuller, who wrote foon after the
Reftoration, fpeaks of it as pulled down '°. It feems, however, to
have been inhabited after his time ; feveral parts of it have been
taken down within the prefent century, and fome of the offices
ftill exifl:. Chrifl:opher Villlers was made keeper of the manor-
houfe at Richmond in 1660 ". In the reign of James II. it appears
to have been in the hands of the crown, and it is faid that the
Pretender was nurfed there ". The fite of the palace is now occupied Pretender
by feveral houfes, which are held, on leafe, under the Crown. Richmond.
The Duke of Queenfberry's was built by George, the third Earl Duke of
Cholmondeley, who obtained a leafe of part of the old palace in the berry's.
*'' In the pidlure, a thick grove of trees Regis, Pat. 2 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 15. Ro-
ftands where the town ftiould be, if tliis was a bert Skeme, Pat. i Hen. VII. pt. i.Dec. 23. s
view of the palace. M. Villiard, & Th. Brampton, Pat. 14 Hen.
■" Exadl Accompt, June 8 — 15, 1660. VIII. pt. i. Nov. 2. James Duke of Lenox,
•*' ParliamentaryIntelligencer,June i8 — 25. Pat. 14 Car. I. pt. 43. May 2.
'" Worthies, pt. 3. p. 78. s* BilhopBurnet's Hirtory ofhis own Times,
'' Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 32. July 4. The fol- vol. i. p. 753. Some parts of the palace ap-
lowing lift of keepers of the manor-houfe of pear to have been repaired by James II. His
Richmond has occurred in fearching the offices initials and the date 16S8, are ftill on the
of record: William Norburgh, Pat. 1 Edw. IV. leaden pipes,
pt. 2. m. I. Edmund Glafe, Clericus Averie
3 L 2 year
444 R I C H M O N D.
year 1 708 ; the noble gallery in this houfe was ornamented by his fine
colledion of pidures. Lord Cholmondeley fold the houfe afterwards to
the Earl of Brooke and Warwick ; from him it paffed to Sir Richard
Littleton, and from the latter to John Earl Spencer, who purchafed
it for his mother Countefs Cowper. The Duke of Queenfberry bought
it after her death, and transferred hither the pictures and furniture
from Amefbury. The tapeftry which hung behind the Earl of Cla-
rendon, in the court of Chancery, now decorates the hall of this houfe.
A leafe of another part of the palace was granted by Queen Anne to
Richard Hill, Efq. who built upon the fite a large houfe now the pro-
Mrs. Way's, perty of Mrs. Sarah Way, widow of Lewis Way, Efq. and the refi-
dence of herfelf and her fifter, the Countefs Dowager of Northampton,
who has fome good pidlures there, particularly a fine portrait of Sir
Thomas Grefliam, which has lately been engraved by R. Thew. In
the front of this houfe is an ancient porch with figures of two boys in
fervitors dreffes, blowing trumpets : in the leafe it is called the
Trumpeting-houfe.
Other houfes The houfes now on leafe to William Robertfon, Efq. and Matthew
the palace." Skinner, Efq. as well as that in the occupation of Mr. Dundas, which
adjoins the gateway, are a part of the old palace, and are de-
fcribed in the Survey above-mentioned, as *' the wardrobe build-
" ings, and other offices, confifting of three fayr ranges of buildings
" lying round a fayr and fpacious court, embattled and guttured,
" of two ftories high, with garrets, and a fayr pair of ftrong gates,
" arched and battled with ftone over head, leading into the faid
*' court from the green lying before Richmond houfe." In Mr. Skin-
* ner's garden there ftill exifts the old yew-tree which is mentioned in
the Survey, and there valued at lol. The circumference of its
trunk is 10 feet 3 inches.
The elegant villa " which belonged lately to Sir Charles Afgill, Bart,
and which is now the property of Whitfhed Keene, Efq. is defcribed
" Built after a defign of Sir Robert Taylor.
in
RICHMOND. 445
in the leafe, as being on the fite of the palace. There is a print of
it in the Vitruvius Britannicus '*.
Edward II. founded a convent of Carmelite friars near his manor Convent of
r rii 1 1 1 • • • Carmelites
of Sheen, and endowed it with i2o marks per annum out of his founded by
Exchequer ". They had been fettled in this convent only two years
when the King caufed them to be removed to Oxford, where they
were placed without the North-gate '".
Henry VII. is faid to have founded a convent of obfervant friars Convent
111, ?7Ti 1 >i-, ofobfervant
near the palace about the year 1499 . I have not been able to hnd friars,
any record of the foundation. Holinfhed mentions its fuppreffion Henry vii.
in the year 1534. In the Survey of Richmond above-mentioned, a
building is defcribed as adjoining to the palace, called " the Friars,
" containing three rooms below ftayrs, and four handfome rooms
" above ftayrs ;" it was then ufed as a chandler's-fhop. The lane
which leads from the Green to the Duke of Queenfberry's is ftill called
in the leafes Friars'-lane ; the houfe, which is now in the occupation
of Jofeph May, Efq. and that which was lately on leafe to John and
Henry Andrews, are defcribed as being part of the fite of the friars.
In the reicrn of Henry VIII. there were two parks at Richmond, Riclimond
t^ J ^ Old-park.
diftinguiflied by the name of the Great and the Little-park. It is
probable that they were afterwards laid together, one only being
mentioned in the Survey of 1649, which adjoined the Green, and
contained 349 acres. It was then called the Little-park, to diftin-
guifh it from the New-park lately inclofed by Charles I. The Lodge
in the Old-park was for fome time the refidence of Cardinal Wolfey H?'','i'"^^
^ ' Wolfey, at
in his difgrace. " The Cardinal (fays Stow) having licence to re- the Lodge.
*' pair unto Richmond, was there lodged within the lodge of the
" Great-park, which was a very prettie houfe ; there my Lord lay
" untill Lent, with a prettie number of fervants '\" He afterwards
removed to the priory.
5+ Vol. iv. p. 74. quotes Colleft. Anglo minorit. p. id. 211.
" Pat. 9 Edw. 11. pt. 1. tn. 15. pt. 2d. p. 39. from St. Clara.
'* Pat. II Edw. II.pt. 2. 01.37. " Stow's Annals.
" Tanner's Notitia Monaft. p. 545. He
The
446 RICHMOND,
The park at Richmond was leafed by Queen Elizabeth to Edward
Bacon ". When the Crown lands were fold in the laft century, the
park which adjoined the Green, then called Richmond Little-park,
was valued at 220 1. 5 s. per annum, and was bought by William
Brome of London, Gent, at 32 years purchafe*". The Lodge, which
is defcrjbed as being a very pleafant feat and habitation for a private
gentleman, appears to have been afterwards in the pofleffion of Sir
Thomas Jarvis or Jervoyfe, and the park in that of Sir John
Trevor".
A leafe of the lodge was granted by K. William in 1694 to John
Latton, Efq. Queen Anne in the year 1707 granted it for 99 years,
Duke of Or- or three lives, to James, Duke of Ormond", who rebuilt the houfe, and
refided there till his impeachment in the year 1715; when, on the
27th of July, " he privately withdrew from his houfe at Richmond
*' and went to Paris °'." Soon after this, George IL then Prince of
Wales, purchafed the remainder of the leafe, which after the Duke's
impeachment was vefted In the Earl of Arran, and made the lodge
his refidence. After he came to the throne it was one of his favourite
retirements. His prefent Majefty fometimes refided there in the early
part of his reign. The lodge was pulled down about twenty years ago,
at which time there was an intention of building a new palace upon
the fite ; the foundations were laid and arches built for that purpofe.
The obferva- Not far from the fite of the lodge, ftands the obfervatory, built by
°'^^' his prefent Majefty in the years 1768 and 1769. Sir William Cham-
bers was the architeft, and the late Dr. Stephen Demainbray fuper-
intended the aftronomical department. Amongft a very fine fet
of inftruments are particularly to be noticed a mural arch of
140 degrees, and eight feet radius; a zenith fedor of 12 feet; a
" Leafes by Queen Elizabeth, Augmen- & 32.
tation-office. ** Records in the office of the Auditor of
'■^ Particulars of fale, ibid. his Majefty's Land Revenues.
•' Myfteriesofthe Good Old Caufe, p. 16 *' CoUins's Peerage, vol. v. p. 240.
tranfit
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tranfit Inflrument of eight feet j and a ten-feet refledor by Her-
fchel. On the top of the building is a moveable dome which
contains an equatorial inftrument. The obfervatory contains
alfo a colledtion of fubje£ts in natural hiflory, well preferred, an
excellent apparatus for philofophical experiments, fome models, and
a colledion of ores from his Majefty's mines in the forefl of Hartz
in Germany. The prefent aftronomer is the Reverend Stephen De-
mainbray, M. A.
A part of the Old-park is now a dairy and grazing farm in his Richmond I
Majefty's own hands ; the remainder conftitutes the royal gardens, ' i
which were firft laid out by Bridgman in avenues, and afterwards
improved and altered to their prefent form by Brown. They have ' 1
the advantage of being fituated on the banks of the Thames, are laid
out with great tafte, and exhibit fome very beautiful fcenery. Queen
Caroline, who was very partial to this fpot, had here a dairy and
menagerie. Several ornamental and grotefque buildings were dif-
perfed about the gardens ; one of which, called Merlin's Cave, con-
tained feveral figures in wax ; another, called the Hermitage, was
adorned with bufts of Sir Ifaac Newton, Locke, and other literary
characters**.
About a quarter of a mile to the north- weft of the old palace West
flood the hamlet of Weft Sheen. Here Henry V. in the year 1414,
founded a convent of Carthufians, which he called the Houfe of Convent of '
Jefus of Bethleem at Sheen ''\ The premifes on which the convent
was built, are faid to have been 3,000 feet in length, and 1,305 in
breadth ". In a MS. of Florentius Wigornenfis, printed in Aubrey's
Antiquities of Surrey % the dimenfions of the hall are faid to have I
been 44 paces in length, and 24 in breadth j the great quadrangle \
i
** A book was puhliflied in 1735. entitled, are in print. See a lift of them in Gough's 1
" A Defcription of the Rarities of Richmond Britifh Topography, vol. ii. p. 271, 272. j
" Gardens, Merlin's Cave, the Hermitage, *» Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 973—977- "1
" &c." Several poems upon thefe gardens '* Ibid. *' Vol. v. p. 340. ^
* 3 L 4 waa i
448 RICHMOND.
was 120 paces long, and loo broad; the cloifters appear to have
been 200 paces fquare, and nine feet in height. Henry V. endowed
his new monaftery with the priories of Lewifham, Greenwich, Ware,
and feveral other ahen priories, with all their lands and revenues.
By his charter he gave them alfo the lifheries at Sheen ; Peterfham-
wear ; and four pipes of red wine of Vafcony every year, granting
them at the fame time many valuable privileges and exemptions, and
Hermitage, licence to make a conduit from a place called Hillfden-well ". John
Wydrington was conftituted the firft prior. A hermitage was found-
ed within this monaftery for a reclufe in the year 141 6, and endowed
with 20 marks annual rent ifluing out of the manors of Lewifham
and Greenwich". In the Survey taken in 1649, ^^'^^ '^^ called the
Anchorite's Cell. John Kingflowe was the firft chaplain or hermit*'.
In the regiftry at Winchefter is a commiflion to the Bifliop of
St. David's to confecrate a chapel and three altars in the monaftery
at Sheen '°.
PerkinWar- Within thefe walls Perkin Warbeck fought an afylum, and in-
treated the prior to beg his life of the king. He was executed after-
wards, for endeavouring to efcape out of the Tower ".
DeanCcJct. The learned Dean Colet, founder of St. Paul's fchool, built a houfe
within the precinds of the monaftery at Sheen, intending it as a
place of retirement in the latter part of his life. He died there in
the year 1519, according to Wood'*, who fays, that his body was
*' This conduit not fucceeding, the con- pipes of wine annually in the port of London,
vent afterwards obtained a grant to make an- Pat. Z2 Henry VII. pt. z. Feb. lo. Grant
other from a place called Welway, or Pik- to the convent to have a coroner in the houfe,
welles-well. Pat. 6 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. i6. Pat. 6 Henry VIII. pt. 2. Apr. 20.
Various grants relating to this convent may be *" Pat. 5 Henry V. m. 22.
found according to the following references: " Regiit.Winton. Waynflete, pt. 2. f. 37.
Henry V.'s Charters, Cart. 2 Henry V. pt. i. b. fecond numbering ; commiflion to inftitute
m. 3. Car:. 3 & 4 Henry V. m. 8. & 14. Robert Lynton, pt. 3. f. 52. a.
Confirmation of grants, Pat. 1 Edw. IV. '" Regift. Fox, pt. 3. f. 52. a.
pt. 6. m. 18, Grant of 48 acres of land, " Holinfhed's Chron. A° 1499.
Pat. 19 Edward IV. m. 25. Grant of three " Athen, Oxon. vol. i. col. 13.
removed
RICHMOND. 449
removed thence to London, prevloufly to its interment in St. Paul's
cathedral. Cardinal Pole in the early part of his life obtained a Cardinal
grant of his lodgings at Sheen, and fpent two years there in ftudious
retirement ".
When the Earl of Surrey returned with the body of the Scottifh Body of the
^ •' King of
•King, after the battle of Flodden-field, he is faid to have conveyed Scots.
it to the monaftery at Sheen ; where it lay for a confidcrable time
unburied. Stow fays, that about the year 1552 he faw a body
wrapped in lead which was thrown into a lumber-room, and that
he was told it was the Scottifh King '*.
When the priory of Sheen was fupprefled Its revenues Suppreffion
of the priory.
were elhmated at 777 1. 12 s. id. per annum '. Henry Man,
the laft prior, became afterwards Dean of Chefter and Bifhop
of Man. Henry VIII. granted the priory to his favourite Ed- Grants of the
fltC.
ward Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerfet '\ In the Duke of So-
year 1550 two fplendid nuptial ceremonies were celebrated there Nuptials of
in the King's prefence ; Lord Lifle being married to a daugh- ^n°j[ j,^ Earl
ter of the Duke of Somerfet ", and Sir Robert Dudley, afterwards of Leicefter.
Earl of Leicefter, to Amy, daughter of Sir John Robfart ". The
Earl's fon, Robert Dudley, whom he had by Lady Douglas Shef- Sir Robert
field, was born at Sheen in 1573 '% and concealed there with great
fecrecy, to prevent the Countefs of Eflex, to whom Leicefter was
then a fuitor, from knowing of his birth. It is generally fuppofed
that the Earl was married to Lady Douglas, though her fon in vain
endeavoured to eftablifh his legitimacy before the ftar-chamber ; it was
neverthelefs afterwards avowed in the patent, by which his widow
" Biograph. Brit. Cotton MSS. Julius C. II. i5.
'+ Stow's Annals, 410. p. 829. See alfo '* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, in the Britilh
Lambe's Flodden-field, p. 152. Mufeum, N" 4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
" Valor of 1534, Regift. Winton. Fox, " Stow's Annals,
pt. 5. There is a rental of the priory of " Biograph. Brit.
Sheen 24 Hen. VIII. in the Britifh Mufeum, " Ibid.
Vol. L ^ M . Alice
450
RICHMOND.
Henry Duke
ofSufFolk.
Revival and
fecond fup-
preflion of
the convent.
Perclval
Gunfton.
Sir Thomas
Gorge.
James Duke
of Lenox.
Parliamenta-
ry Survey.
Alice was created a Duchefs in the reign of Charles I. "' Sir Robert
Dudley, difappointed in the hope of proving his legitimacy, went to
the Continent, where he was patronized by the houfe of Medici,
who were amply rewarded by his projecting the free-port of Leg-
horn. He refided many years in their Court and in that of the Em-
peror, who having created him a Duke, he aflumed the title of Duke
of Northumberland ". This remarkable perfon died in the neigh-
bourhood of Florence, and lies buried at Boldrone °\ Anthony
Wood (after enumerating his manifold accomplifhments) fays, that
he was the firft who taught a dog to fit in order to catch par-?
tridges'\
The Duke of Somerfet having been attainted in 1551, the fite
of the priory appears to have been given to Henry Duke of Suffolk,
father of Lady Jane Grey, who refided there °*. Queen Mary re-
flored the convent ^\ which was dilfolved again at her death, having
continued little more than twelve months. In the year 1572 the
fite of the priory appears to have been in the pofTeflion of Percival
Gunfton, Gent."' Queen Elizabeth, in the 26th year of her reign,
granted it for life to Sir Thomas Gorge and his wife Helen
Marchionefs of Northampton "'. Charles I. granted it upon the
fame tenure to James Duke of Lenox'\
In 1650 it was fold as crown land, and purchafed by Alexander
Eafton, being valued at 92 1, per annum °'. The furvey taken by
order of parliament, defcribes very minutely the buildings belong-
ing to the priory as they then exifted. The old church is faid to
be ftanding, but very ruinous and fit to be demolifhed ; the fur-
vey defcribes a ftruCture of brick called the Prior's Lodgings ; the
*s Pat. 3 & 4 P. & M. pt. 5. Jan. 26.
„ - J -- ._ '* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. IVIuf.
** Ibid. See an account of the Duke of N''4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
Northumberland in the Royal and Noble Au- *' Pat. 26 Eliz. pt. 3. June 23.
'° Biograph. Brit.
'' Dugdale's Hillory of VVarwickfhire.
ihors.
" Vol. ii. col. 126.
'* Stow's Annals, p. 829. 410.
"' Pat. 14 Car. pt. 43. May 2.
'9 Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office.
Monk's-
RICHMOND. 451
Monk's-hall, a ftone building ; the Lady of St. John's lodgings ;
the Anchorite's cell ; and a parcel of buildings called the gallery"'.
Charles II. foon after his Reftoration, granted a leafe of the priory
for 60 years to Philip Vifcount Lifle", who about the fame time Philip Vif-
, . count Ljfte.
obtained from his Majefty a general pardon. Lord Lifle had been
always hoftile to the royal caufe, but was an advocate for moderate
meafures, and refufed to acSt as one of the King's judges". He
was a great patron of literary men, and is faid to have fet apart one
day in every week for their reception "^ The year after he obtained
the leafe he affigned it to John Lord Bellafys, who In the year 1662
furrendered It to the crown, and obtained a new grant for 60 years.
Lord Lille, however, appears by his correfpondence with Sir William
Temple, to have refided at Sheen feveral years.
In the year 1675 a leafe of the priory was granted to Robert Ra-
worth and Martin Folkes, in truft for Henry Brounker, Efq. after-
wards Vifcount Brounker, and Sir William Temple. It appears by Lord Broun-
the records in his Majefty's Land-Revenue Office, that Lord Broun- wiiHam
ker inhabited the manfion-houfe late Lord Lifle's, which was after- Temple.
wards affigned to the Buckworth family. The premifes on leafe to
Sir William Temple, were alienated to John Jeffreys, Elq. who had
a new leafe in 1750.
Sir William Temple appears to have been an under tenant of thefe
premifes before he obtained the leafe from the crown. In the year
1666 his lady appears to have been refident at Sheen, during his ab-
fence at Bruffels '*. Writing from that place the fame year, he
fays, that perhaps he may end his life in a corner at Sheen, but
he knows his Lordfhlp will leave it for fome of the great houfes
that await him ''. Many of his letters exprefs in the moft lively
terms the pleafure which he took in this favourite retirement j " my
s" Survey in the Augmentaiion-office. »♦ Sir William Temple's Works, vol. ii.
«" Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 31. Aug. 8. p. 17.
'* Collins's Memoirs of the Sidneys, p. 149. "' Ibid. p. 25.
s" Ibid.
3 M 2 <« heart,
452 RICHMOND.
" heart, (fays he, writing to Lord Lifle, Aug. 1667.) is fo fet upon
" my little corner at Sheen, that while I keep that, no other difap-
" pointment will be very fenfible to me ; and becaufe my wife tells
" me fhe is fo bold as to enter into talk of enlarging our domi-
" nions there, I am contriving this fummer how a fucceflion of
" cherries may be compafled from May till Michaelmas, and how
*' the riches of Sheen vines may be improved by half a dozen forts
" which are not known there, and which I think much beyond
" any that are*'." In a letter to his father (Nov. 22, 1670) he
thanks him for a prefent of 500 1. towards his intended improve-
ments at Sheen ; and tells him, that as he had before refolved to lay
out 1,000 1. his prefent will enable him to extend his improvements
to ornament as well as convenience *'. In the Ihort intervals between
his foreign negotiations, this was his conftant retreat. " I fpend
" all the time I poflibly can at Sheen, (fays he in one of his letters,)
" and never faw any thing pleafanter than my garden '°°." Here, in
1672, he wrote his Obfervations upon the Netherlands'". In the
year 1680 he began to refide wholly at Sheen, having retired from
public bufmefs '". After a few years he gave up this houfe to his
fon, and went himfelf to Moor Park in Surrey. Upon the arrival
of the Prince of Orange in England, that place being thought unfafe
as lying between the two armies. Sir William returned to Sheen "".
It was about this time that Swift was taken into his family as an
amanuenfis '"*. King William, who had known Sir William Temple
on the Continent, and had a great efteem for his talents and cha-
rader, frequently vifited him at this place, and prefTed him to be-
come his fecretary of ftate. When his patron was lame with the
Dean Swift, gout, Swift ufually attended his Majefty in his walks round the
'' Sir William Temple's Works, vol. ii. "" Biograph. Brit. p. 3918, notes,
p. 41. '°» Ibid.
" Biograph. Brit. p. 3917, notes. '°' Ibid.
•°° Sir William Temple's Works, vol. ii, 'o* Ibid. Article Swift,
p. 458.
gardens.
RICHMOND. 453
gardens. The King is faid upon one of thefe occafions to have
offered to make him a captain of horl'e, and to have taught him
to cut afparagus in the Dutch manner '°'. Here Swift became
acquainted with the beautiful and accomplifhed Stella, who was born Stella.
at this place, and whofe father was Sir William Temple's fteward.
She is faid, by moft writers, to have been in her fixteenth year, when
fhe firft went to Ireland in 1699; but Deane Swift, the biographer
of his relation, fays, fhe was eighteen. As her name is not to be
found in the parifli regifter which begins in 1682 '", he probably is
right. Sir William Temple left Sheen finally in 1689, and returned
to Moor Park.
An ancient gateway, the laft remain of the priory, was taken Lad remain
° ^ * ofthepnory
down about twenty-three years ago ; the whole hamlet of Weft pulled down.
Sheen, confifting of eighteen houfes, one of which was a calico ma- hamlet of
nufadlory, was at the fame time totally annihilated, and the fite, deftroyed!"
which was made into a lawn, added to the King's inclofures.
The houfe upon Richmond Green, which belongs now to Lord ^°[^^"^'
Vlfcount Fitzwilliam, was formerly the feat of Sir Charles Hedges, ^°^^^-
Secretary of State to Queen Anne, and afterwards the property of
the prefent owner's maternal grandfather, Sir Matthew Decker, Bart. ^ecS?''"''
an eminent Dutch merchant, who built a room there for the recep-
tion of George I. In this houfe arc the paintings of Richmond
above-mentioned, fome good pidures of the Flemifh fchool, and a Flemifhpic-
painting of a pine-apple, which, by the infcription '°' that is under it, The pine-
feems to have been gathered for the royal entertainment. It has
been erroneoufly faid that it was the firft fruit of that kind raifed
in England '°\ In the Earl of Orford's coUedlion at Strawberry-
"" Deane Smft's Life of S-.vift, p. io8. " ronetti & Theodori Netfcher Armigeri.
•** In 1683 is an entry of Ann the daughter " Strobilus hie regio convivio dignatus iftius
of Edward Tohnfon baptifed ; but it appears ■' expenCsRichmondiaecrevit: hujus arte eti-
that Mrs J ohnfon's name was Either. " amnum crefcere videtur, 1720."
'Of <( Perenni Memorias Mat. Decker Ba- '°^ Baronetage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 185.
hill,
454
RICHMOND.
Heydegger.
Richmond-
hill.
Sir Jofhua
Reynolds.
Dukeof Buc-
deugh's.
Richmond-
park made
by Charles I.
hill, there Is a portrait of Charles II. receiving a pine-apple from the
hands of Rofe his gardener.
Heydegger, mailer of the revels, had a houfe upon Richmond-
green.
The beauties of Richmond-hill, with its varied and extenfive prof-
pe6t, have been fo often celebrated both in verfe and profe '°", that
it would be needlefs to dwell on them here. There is a view from
the Hill by Old Tillemans, in the colledion of Richard Owen Cam-
bridge, Efq. at Twickenham, which gives a very accurate reprefen-
tation of the adjacent country.
The late Sir Jofhua Reynolds, Prefident of the Royal Academy,
had a houfe upon Richmond-hill.
At the foot of the Hill the Duke of Buccleugh has a villa, which
he inherited from the late Duke of Montagu. It is fituated on the
banks of the Thames. From the lawn there is a fubterraneous
communication with the gardens and fhrubberies on the oppofite
fide of the road, which extend almoft to the fummit of the hill.
They are laid out with tafte, and have local advantages fuperior to
moft places of the kind in the kingdom.
Richmond-park, formerly called the Great or the New-park, to
diftinguifh it from that near the Green, was made by Charles I.
who was extremely partial to the fports of the chace, and was very
defirous of having a large park well flocked with red and fallow
deer in the neighbourhood of his two palaces, Richmond and
Hampton Court. Within the fpace which was marked out for
that purpofe, the King had large wafles and woods of his own ;
but as fome parifhes had commons, and many private perfons
had houfes and lands intermixed, he found it a work of fome dif-
ficulty ; for though he offered more than the value of the feveral
"' Thomfon's Compliment to Richmond Hill is well known. See a lift of Poems oa
Richmond and its Hill in Gough's Britilh Topography, vol. ii. p. 272.
eftates,
RICHMOND. 455
eftates, and many of the owners confented to part with their lands
to obHge his Majefty, yet others could not be prevailed onto alienate
their property upon any terms. The King being very urgent it
made a great clamour, and the outcry was, that he was about to take
away his fubjedls' eftates at his own pleafure. Under thefe circum-
ftances Bifhop Laud and Lord Cottington advifed his Majefty to defift
from a meafure which threatened to be both fo unpopular and fo
expenfive, as it was intended to furround the park with a brick wall.
The King however was not to be difluaded, having already ordered
the bricks to be burnt, and having begun the wall upon his own
eftate. This is Lord Clarendon's account "°. It is to be prefumed
that the owners of the lands at laft complied, for the park appears
to have been completed, and Jerome Earl of Portland made the firft Firft ranger.
ranger in the year 1638 '".
On the 30th of June 1649, the Houfe of Commons voted that The park
the New-park at Richmond fhould be given to the City of London city of Lon-
and to their fucceflbrs for ever, and the Attorney-General was ordered
to make out a grant to that effedl to pafs the great feal "\ An a£t
of parliament for confirming it to the City pafled on the 17th of
July"\ On the i8th of June 1659 '^^ ^"^^^ referred to a committee
to treat with the City about the exchange of Greenwich for the
New-park "■*.
At the Reftoration the park reverted to the crown, and Sir Daniel Sir Daniel
Harvey, ran-
Harvey was appointed ranger "^ Queen Anne granted the rangerfhip ger.
to the Earl of Rochefter for three lives. After his death his fuccef- Rodiefter,
for, who upon the extindlion of the elder branch of the Hydes became ^'^'
Earl of Clarendon, joined with his fon Lord Cornbury, and fold the
grant and remainder for the fum of 5,000 1. to George L who granted it
"" Hiftory of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. loo, "' Whitlock's Memorials, p. 411. Mo-
ld. 8vo. derate Meflenger, July 16— 23.
"' Pat. 13 Car. pt. 46. June 15. "♦ Public Intelligencer, June 13 — 2;,
"* Perfect Summary, June 25, 1649. Im- 1659.
partial Intelligencer, June 27. "' Pat. 12 Car. II. pt. 23. Aug. 17.
to
456 R I C H M O N D.
Robert Lord to Robert, the fecond Earl of Orford, then Lord Walpole. His father
Sir Robert Sir Robert Walpole fpent much of his leifure time in the park, where
improve-^ he indulged himfelf with his favourite exercife of hunting, and paid
ments. nobly for his amufement by building the Great-lodge, and making
other improvements in the park at the expence of 14,000!. The
Stone-lodge upon the hill was built (as mentioned before) by George I.
The defign was the Earl of Pembroke's '". After the Earl of Or-
Imelfa"""^^ ford's death, the Princefs Amelia was appointed ranger. Whilft it
was in her hands a law-fuit was commenced relating to the right of
Right of ^ foot-way through the Park, which was tried at the Aflizes at
foot-way JO >
through the Kingfton April 3, 1758, when the right was eftablifhed ; in con-
fequence of which decifion ladder-gates were put up at fome of the
entrances. The Princefs Amelia having furrendered her intereft in
John Earl the rangerfhip, it was granted by his prefent Majefty to John Earl of
of Bate. j3^^g^ j^jgjy deceafed.
Extent of the Richmond-park is eight miles in circumference, and contains 2,253
^^^ ' acres, of which fcarcely one hundred are in this parifh ; there are
650 acres in Mortlake, 265 in Peterfham, 230 in Putney, and the
remainder in Kingfton.
Projeaedim- Nature has difpofed the ground of this Park to great advantage,
and has diverfified it with a pleafmg variety of hill and vale ; it is or-
namented alfo with a great number of very fine oaks and other
plantations. It has however fome defedls and deformities, which
are now about to be removed, as fome improvements are projefSed
which promife to make it one of the moft beautiful parks in the
kingdom. It is faid that his Majefty, who fmce the death of the
Earl of Bute has taken it into his own hands, has it in contemplation
to caufe all the fwampy parts to be effedlually drained, the rough
banks to be levelled, and the roads turned where beauty and advan-
•" There is a print of this Lodge in the Vitruvius Britamiicus, vol. iv^ p. i — 4.
tagc
provements.
RICHMOND. 457
tage may be gained by fo doing. The open parts, efpeclally the large
tradl of ground towards Eaft Sheen, are to be ornamented with plan-
tations properly adapted to the elevation of the furface ; and the
vallies opened fo as to carry the appearance of greater extent, and to
give additional grandeur to the old plantations.
Within the walls of the park is an eligible and compact farm of The farm.
225 acres. To this, it is faid, that his Majefty, who has fhown a
very laudable zeal for the encouragement and improvement of agri-
culture, will pay particular attention, by the application of the foil to
the purpofes moft appofite to its nature, and in particular by intro-
ducing the Flemifli fyflem of hufbandry "*.
The church of Richmond is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, and The church,
confifts of a nave, two aifles, and a chancel. At the weft end is a low
embattled tower built of ftone and flints, the other parts are of brick.
It was repaired and enlarged in the year 1750. The chapel of
" Schene" is mentioned in a record of the year 1339 ; it exifted pro-
bably at a much earlier period.
On the eaft wall of the chancel Is the monument of Henry Lord Monuments
in the chan-
Vifcount Brounker, of the kingdom of Ireland, who died in 16S8. eel.
He was cofferer to King Charles II. and the laft of his title. On
the north wall are the monuments of Robert Cotton, officer of the
removing wardrobe of beds to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ;
Dorothy wife of Sir George Wright, Knt. who died in 1631 ; John
DIngley, who died in 1671 ; Lady Sophia, daughter of Robert
Earl of Lindfey, and relidt of Sir Richard Chaworth, Knt. who died
"* In this fyllem two horfes on-ly are ufed proportionate price of labour and provifions in
in ploughing, and the lands are cultivated for his Chronicon Pretiofum. Its beneficial con-
alternate crops for man and beaft, on a plan fequences, both to the labourer and a!fo to
which is fuppofed to be produdlive of recipro- landlord, by its tendency to diminifti the poor
cal advantage to both. It is faid, that the rates, are fully pointed out in an ingenious
labourers upon this farm are to be paid half little treatife upon the fubjed, written in the
their wages in wheat, according to the ftandard year 1777 by Mr. Kent, who it is prefumed
price of that commodity ; the hint of which is will be employed to fuperintend thefe improve-
taken from Bifhop Fleetwood's fcale of the ments under his Majefty's own direftion.
VoL.L 3 N in
458 RICHMOND.
in 1689; George Wakefield, M. A. vicar of Klngfton, and minlfter
of Richmond, who died in 1776; Elizabeth wife of George Wol-
lafton, D. D. who died in 1784; and George Rofs, Efq. who died
in 1786. On the fouth wall are the monuments of Margaret,
daughter of Sir William Courtney, and wife firft of Sir Warwick
Hele, and fecondly of Sir John Chudleigh, who died in 1628;
Walter Hickman, of Kew, who died in 1617 ; Mary wife of Thomas
Jay, Efq. CommifTary to Charles I. who died in 1646; William
Rowan, Efq. who died in 1767 ; and William Afton, Efq. who died
in 1769. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs
of the Right Hon. Lady Howard, reli£t of William Lord Howard, of
Efcrick, who died in 1716, and her fon Charles the laft Lord Howard,
who died in 1 715 ; and that of Mrs Catherine Macartney, who died in
Mrs. Yates, 17S8. Near the rails is the tomb of Mary Ann Yates, the celebrated
theaftrefs. tragic adrefs, who died in 1787; and in the lower part of the
chancel thofe of Miles Halfey, Efq. who died in 1771 ; Delacourt
Walfh, Efq. Captain the 38th Regiment of Foot, who died in
1 784; the Honourable General John Fitzwilliam, who died in 1789;
and Mary, relid of Nathaniel Gundry, Efq. who died in 1791.
Aubrey mentions alfo thofe of Matthias Pringham, Efq. who died in
1620 J and Henry Lygon, Efq. who died in 1661, which are now
either obliterated or covered with pews "\
Nave. In the nave are the tombs of Jane, wife of Sir Andrew Forrefter,
Knt. who died in 1685 ; Catherine, daughter of Sir John Dormer,
Bart, who died in 1673 ; Gilbert Wigmore, Efq. of Little Shelford
in Cambridgefhire, who died in 171 3; and Samuel Pechell, Efq.
who died in 1 783. Aubrey mentions the tomb of Sir Richard Cha-
worth, Vicar-general to Archbifhop Sheldon, who died in 1672, as
being at the weft end of the nave '".
South aille. On the caft wall of the fouth aifle is a monument for feveral perfons
of the families of Bardolph, Mawhood, and Stobart. Henry Stobart
•" Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 63. 67. •" Ibid. vol. i. p-yo.
died
RICHMOND.
459
died In 1702. Under the fouth gallery are the monuments of Mary
wife of Hugh Wood, Efq. and afterwards of Sir Edward Wingfield,
Knt. who died in 1677; and Richard Brawne, Efq. who died in
1682. Over the fame gallery is that of Robert Lewes, Efq. a
Cambro-Briton and a barrifter at law, who died in 1649 > ^° great
a lover of peace, fays his epitaph, that when a contention began to Whimficai
arife between life and death, he immediately yielded up the ghoft Robert
to end the difpute. On the weft wall is the monument of Ran- ^"'"'
dolph Greenaway, Efq. who died in 1 754. Under the fouth gal-
lery are the tombs of Guife Hall, Efq. and Mary daughter of Sir
Thomas Grantham, who died in 1682. At the weft end that of
Richard Curfon, Efq. who died in 1784.
On the eaft wall of the north aifle is the monument of Francis North aifle.
Holbourn, Efq. Admiral of the White, and Rear-admiral of Great- Admiral Hoi-
Britain, who died in 1771 ; and that of his wife Frances, who died
in 1763. On the north wall are thofe of Marc Antolne Bonoit, Efq.
a native of France, tutor to Henry Duke of Newcaftle, who died in
16S7; Lieut. Col. Floyer, who died in 1731 ; Charles Floyer, Efq.
who died in 1766; and Jofeph Bentley, Efq. who died in 1660.
The laft-mentioned monument commemorates alfo Eleanor, daughter
of Jofeph Bentley, and wife of Richard Graves, Efq. of Llncoln's-inn,
who died in 1656, and lies burled at Richmond with four of her
children. This monument, which is adorned with feveral bufts,
has been engraved by Vertue. It is now concealed by the gallery.
In the north aifle are alfo the tombs of Edward Lafcelles, Efq. who
died in 1755, and others of that family; and of Thomas Eeles,
apothecary, who died at the age of 90.
The monument of Sir Matthew Decker, Bart, who died in 1749,
is affixed to the north wall of the church on the outfide. On the
fouth wall is the monument of Whichcott Turner, Efq. who died
in 1780; and of William Turner, Efq. who died in 1790.
3 N 2 In
46o RICHMOND.
Tombs inthe In the church-yard are the tombs of the following perfons: — the
c "" '^ '' ■ dates of their death are annexed. Clement Kynnerfley, yeoman
of the wardrobe of beds to Charles I. and Charles II. (1662) ; Ka-
therine, third daughter of Roger Earl of Orrery, and wife of Richard
Brett, Efq. (1681) ; Edward Bertie, eighth fon of Robert Earl of
Lindfey, (1686); Mary wife of Robert White, Efq. firft page of
the bed-chamber to William III. (1686); Jane, relid of Sir Ed-
ward Ormfby, Knt. of the county of Rofcommon, (1695); Mar-
tha, daughter of Robert Wilfon, Efq. and wife of Sir Edward Crop-
ley, Bart. (1697) ; Frances, daughter of Sir Richard Levet, Knt. and
wife of Thomas Lewis, Efq. of St. Pierre, in the county of Mon-
mouth, (1707); Ann, reli£t of Charles Ingram, Efq. (1720);
Tempeft Slingar, of Lincoln's-inn, Gent. (1728); William Coles,
M. D. of Harwich, (1745); George Smith, Efq. (1745); Sarah
Wall, a defcendant of Archbifhop Boulter, (1751); George Philip
Goldman, Efq. (1753) ; Elizabeth, daughter of John Halliday, Efq.
(1763) ; William Smith, apothecary, (1772) ; William Rifby Whit-
horn, Efq. of Jamaica, (1773); Monica, wife of Capt. Daniel
Francis Haughton, of the 69th regiment, (1780); Elizabeth, wife
t of Capt. Lewis, (178 i); Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Paxton, Efq.
(1783); Henry Stebbing, D. D. (1787); the Reverend James Col-
linfon, M. A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, (1788);
Mr. Jofeph Dubois, (1789) ; Ann, wife of Alexander Caffy, mer-
chant, (1789); William Johnfon, Efq. {1789); Mr. James Fea-
ron, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, (1789); the Reverend
Corfield Clare, A. B. Redor of Alvechurch and Madresfield in the
county of Worcefter, (1790); and Henry Reddal, Efq. (1791).
Aubrey mentions alfo the tombs of John Spiller, agent for the Eaft-
India Company in Buflbrah, Surat, &c. who died in 1677 5 Chrifto-
pher Peachman, Gent, who died in 1668 ; and William Hall, who
died in 1700 ; he was gentleman of the King's private band of mu-
fic, and is called, " a fuperior violin "°."
"' Antiquities of Surrey, vol, i. p. 8i.
A new
RICHMOND. 461
A new cemetery, at a fmall diftance from the church-yard, was New ceme-
. . tery.
confecrated in the year 1791. The only tomb yet eredted there is
that of John Doveton, Efq. who died in 1792. At the eafl end of
the ground a handfome room has been built for the meetings of Vellry-office.
the feledl veftry, by which, according to an ad of parliament obtained
for that purpofe, this parifh is governed.
The church of Richmond is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and In Curacy.
the deanery of Ewell. It was a chapel dependant upon Kingfton,
and the curacy was in the gift of the vicar of that place ; till by an
a£t of parliament pafled in 1769, it was made a perpetual curacy, and
the patronage veiled, after the death of the then vicar of Kingfton, in
the Hardinge family, who were proprietors of the great tithes. The
reverfionary patronage has fince been alienated to St. John's College,
Cambridge. The great tithes have undergone the fame alienations
as thofe of Kingfton. It v^as prefented to the commiffioners ap-
pointed in 1658 to inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices,
that Richmond was a chapel dependant on Kingfton ; that the in-
come was formerly about 40 1. per annum ; and that it was without
a fettled minifter. The commiffioners divided Richmond from the
mother church, and uniting it to the hamlets of Kew and Weft
Sheen, ordered, that it fhould be called by the name of the Parifh
and Parifh Church of Richmond '".
Nicholas Brady, the tranflator of the Pfalms, whllft he was en- Nicholas
, c • • Brady.
gaged in that work refided at Richmond, where he fo far ingratiated
himfelf with the inhabitants that they requefted him to become their
curate'^'. His fignature occurs in the regifter in 1696. He was
alfo re£tor of Clapham.
The prefent incumbent is the Reverend Thomas Wakefield.
The parifh regifter begins in the year 1682, and has been very Pariih regif-
ter.
■well kept.
'" Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. Library. "' Biograph. Brit.
1682
462
RICHMOND.
Comparative
ftate of po-
pulation.
Sir Charles
Lyttelton.
1682 — 169I
1780 — 1789
1790—
I79I —
Average of Baptifms.
62
128
129
Average of BuriaU.
— 65
— 117
— "5
— 1 10
Edward Gib-
fon.
The parifh appears to have increafed in the proportion of 2 to I
within the laft hundred years. The prefent number of houfes, ex-
clufive of the workhoufe and the alms-houfes, is 8 15. The average
number of perfons in the workhoufe is about 90.
" Charles, fon of Sir Charles Lyttelton and dame Ann his wife,
« baptized Sept. 7, 1684."
" Thomas, fon of Sir Charles Lyttelton and dame Ann his
" wife, baptized Dec. 20, 1685." Sir Charles Lyttelton was in
his youth engaged in the fervice of Charles IL in the civil war,
and was at the fiege of Colchefter. Soon after the furrender of
that town he went into France, where he ftaid till about the time
of Sir George Booth's attempt to reftore the King, in which he
had a confiderable fhare. Upon the failure of that defign he was
taken prifoner, but foon obtained his liberty and returned to the
King, who entrufted him with many fecret'and important meffages
to his friends in England. He was knighted by Charles II. and dif-
tinguifhed himfelf as a military man during his reign and that of his
fucceflbr. At the Revolution he refigned his ftation in the army,
on account of the oaths, and retired to Weft Sheen, where he re-
fided till the death of his brother Sir Henry, to whofe title as well as
the Hagley eftate he then fucceeded'". Sir Charles's wife was the
celebrated Mrs. Temple, mentioned in the Memoirs de Gram-
mont. Of his two fons, whofe births are here recorded, Charles
died young ; Thomas fucceeded to the title, and was one of the
CommifFioners of the Admiralty '".
" Edward Gibfon, painter, living in the Savoy le Strand, in Ca-
" therine Street, buried Jan. 27, 1701." He painted principally in
»" Baronetage, 1741. vol.i. p. 324—326. "' Ibid.
crayons,
RICHMOND. 463
crayons, and is fuppofed to have been fon of the dwarf. He
died at the age of 33 "*.
" William Gibfon, Gent, of the parifh of St. Giles in the Fields, wiuiam Gib-
" buried Dec. ii, 1703." This was a nephew of the dwarf: he
copied Lely, who was his matter, happily ; but chiefly pradifed
miniature painting '*'.
" Tohn Lord Haverfham buried in the chancel at the north fide, Jo^'" Lord
•" Haverfliam.
*' Nov. 13, 1710." Sir John Thompfon was created Lord Haver-
fham in 1696. He took a very adive part in politics, oppofed all
meafures'in favour of popery or arbitrary power during the reigns
of Charles IL and James II. and joined the Prince of Orange on his
arrival in this kingdom. In the latter part of his life he forfook his
party and went over to the tories. Several of his fpeeches are extant,
and a fliort pamphlet in defence of his change of principles "*.
" The Honourable Thomas Howard, Lord Charles Howard, and Howards, of
' Efcnck,
" Mrs. Mary Howard, buried in the middle of the chancel May 3,
" 1 715." They were children of William Lord Howard of Efcrick.
Charles was the laft of that title.
" James Thomfon, Efq. buried Aug. 29, 1748." The hiftory and JamesThom-
writings of this favourite poet are too well known to need any men-
tion here. The houfe in which he refided at Richmond was pur-
chafed after his death by George Rofs, Efq. who, out of veneration
to his memory, forebore to pull it down, but enlarged and improved
it at the expence of 9,000 1. It is now the property of the Honour-
able Mrs. Bofcawen, who has repaired the poet's favourite feat in the
•*♦ Anecdotes of Painring, vol. ili. p. 65. all of whom refided and died at Richmond.
"' Ibid. Mention is made in the Anec- Byers was buried in the church of St. Clement
dotes of Painting of Gerard Edema, a land- Danes. The names of the two others donor
fcape painter of fome eminence, who delighted occur in the regifter at Richmond. See the
in rocky views, and fubjefls of horror ; Nicho- Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p. 46. 48, 49.
las Byer, a painter of portraits and hiftory, em- and vol. iv. p. 1 1 .
ployed in Sir William Temple's family ; and '** Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii.
Peter Cafteels, a painter of birds and flowers, p. 98— 102.
garden,
464 RICHMOND.
garden, and placed In it the table on which he wrote his verfes.
Over the entrance is infcribed — " Here Thomfon fung the Seafons
" and their Change." The infide is adorned with fuitable quota-
tions from authors who have paid due compliments to his talents ;
and in the centre appears the following infcription : " Within this
" pleafing retirement, allured by the mufic of the nightingale, which
" warbled in foft unifon to the melody of his foul, in unaffedled
" chearfulnefs and genial though fimple elegance, lived James
" Thomfon. Senfibly alive to all the beauties of Nature, he painted
" their images as they rofe in review, and poured the whole pro-
*' fufion of them into his inimitable Seafons. Warmed with intenfe
" devotion to the Sovereign of the univerfe, its flame glowed
" through all his compofitions ; animated with unbounded bene-
*' volence, with the tendereft fecial fenfibility, he never gave one
" moment's pain to any of his fellow-creatures, fave only by his
" death, which happened at this place on the 27th day of Auguft
" 1748." Mr. Thomfon was buried at the weft end of the north
aifle of Richmond church. There was nothing to point out the
fpot of his interment till a brafs tablet with the following infcription
was lately put up by the Earl of Buchan : — " In the earth below
" this tablet are the remains of James Thomfon, author of the beau-
*' tiful poems entitled. The Seafons, The Caftle of Indolence, &c.
" who died at Richmond on the 27th of Auguft, and was buried
" there on the 29th O. S. 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling
" that fo good a man and fweet a poet fhould be without a me-
" morial, has denoted the place of his interment for the fatisfadtion
" of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792." Underneath is a
quotation from his Seafons : " Father of light," &c.
Mrs. Yates. " Mary Ann Yates, buried May 14, 1787." Mrs. Yates' maiden
name was Graham. She firft appeared upon the boards of Drury-
Lane, Feb. 25, 1754, in the character of Icilia in the tragedy of
Virginia.
RICHMOND. 465
Virginia. Her performance gave little promife of that eminence to
which fhe afterwards arrived. An accidental circumftance which
afforded her an opportunity of adling Mandane in the new tragedy
of the Orphan of China firft eftablifhed her reputation in the year
1759 '". She continued for many years to perform the principal
characters in tragedy with great applaufe. Her laft appearance upon
the ftage was for the benefit of Mrs. Bellamy in the year 1785,
when fhe a£led the part of the Duchefs of Braganza. She was mar-
ried about the year 1755, to Mr. Richard Yates the celebrated come-
dian, who is ftill living.
" Henry Stebbing, D. D. aged 70, buried Nov. 20, 1787." He Dr. Steb-
bing.
was fon of Dr. Stebbing the well-known polemical writer, and was
himfelf a man of confiderable talents and very amiable manners.
He publifhed a few occafional fermons, and had prepared for the
prefs two volumes of difcourfes delivered at Gray's-inn, to which
Society he was many years preacher. Thefe were publiflied after
his death by his fon Henry Stebbing, Efq. barrifter at law, who has
prefixed to them a fhort and elegant biographical preface. A third
volume has fince been added.
" James Fearon buried 0£t. 6, 1789." Mr. Fearon had confi- J^""" ^«*-
derable merit as an a£tor, and performed fome charadlers with great
truth and nature, particularly Capt. Driver in Oroonoko, and the
prifoner in Mrs. Inchbald's comedy of " Such Things Are." He
refided conftantly at Richmond, from which place he attended the
duties of the Theatre, and frequently walked home after the play
was over. He was buried in the church-yard, where is the follow-
ing infcription to his memory : — " This memorial is infcribed to
" Mr. James Fearon, of the Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, who
" paid the debt of nature, Sept. 30th 1 789, aged 43. In dramatic
" life he held the mirror up to Nature. In private life he fulfilled
"'' European Magazine, vol. ii. p. 313, &C.
Vol. I. * 3 O « the
ron.
466 RICHMOND.
" the duties relative and fecial, and as he lived refpeded he died
" lamented."
jofeph Tay- Jofeph Taylor, an eminent ador who died in 1653, is faid to
'°''" have been buried at Richmond "'; but there is no memorial of him
to be found in the church or church-yard, and the regifter is not fo
ancient. He was yeoman of the revels to Charles I., and is faid to
have been taught by Shakefpear to a£l Hamlet '^'.
Hon. Rich- The Hon. and Reverend Richard Hill, LL. D. who died at Rich-
aid Hill. . , .
mond in the year 1727, was, in the earlier part of his life, a ftatefman
of confiderable eminence. He was employed in various embaflies to
the courts of Italy by William III. and Queen Anne, and had the
merit of bringing the Duke of Savoy into the grand alliance. Hav-
ing been both a commiflioner of the admiralty and the treafury, and
a pay-mafter of the army, he retired from civil employment in the
reign of George I. and entered into holy orders '^°.
Biihop Dup- The pious Bifhop Duppa lived in a very retired manner at Rich-
P^' mond during the civil war, and the fubfequent exile of his pupil
Charles II. whom he had educated at this place '^'. After he was
made Bifliop of Winchefter he ftill refided occafionally at Richmond,
and died there in 1662. The King vifited him on his death-bed, and
begged his blefTmg '".
Alms houfe The year before he died the Bifhop founded an alms-houfe at
founded by ^|^-g pj^^^g fQj. jq pQQj women, in confequence of a vow which he had
made during the King's exile. He endowed it with a farm at Shep-
perton, for which he gave 1,5401.'" This now produces 115I. per
annum. A few other benefactions have augmented the annual in-
come to 129I. 7s. The alms-houfe ftands upon the Hill J over the
door is an infcription, with a Ihort account of its foundation.
"' Malone's Hiftory of the Stage, prefixed '^' Biograph. Brit,
to his edition of Shakefpear, p, 215 — 217. "'Ibid.
"0 Jbid. '3^ Ibid.
'^° Baronetage, 1741. vol. iv. p. 215.
Another
RICHMOND. 467
Another alms-houfe was founded in the year 1606 by Sir George Sir George
Wright for eight poor women. Its revenues having been aug- alms-houfe.
mented by the benefadlions of Whichcott Turner, Efq. (300 1.);
Charles Selwyn, Efq. (150 1.) ; and Sarah Gaudry Debatt (150 1.) ;
now amount to 73 1. i s. per annum. This is ufually called Queen
Elizabeth's alms-houfe : it flood on the lower road under the hill
till the year 1767, when it was re-built by fubfcription in the vine-
yard, on a piece of ground given by William Turner, Efq.
A third alms-houfe was founded between the years 160; and Michel's
1 Vi r
1697 by Humphry Michel, ^"^ his nephew John Michel, Efq. for
ten old men. It ftands on the declivity of the hill : its income is
now 189I. OS. 4d. per annum, a confiderable part of which arifes
from fundry meffuages bequeathed by William Smith, Efq.
A fourth alms-houfe was founded by Rebecca Houblon for nine Houbion's
•' alms-houle.
poor women in the years 1757 and 1758. Its endowment confifts
of fundry lands, and a capital of 1,050!. in the old South-Sea annu-
ities; producing in the whole 150 1. per annum.
A charity-fchool was eftabliflied in this parifh in the year 1713, Charity-
^ i / / ^ fchool.
with the legacies and benefadtions of various perfons ; — Dorothy
Lady Capel left 1 1 1. per annum, to this amongft other parifhes for
the education of children. The capital belonging to the fchool now
amounts to 3,000 1. in the 3 per cents, with the intereft of which,
aided by an annual fubfcription and the coUedions at a charity fer-
mon, 34 boys and the fame number of girls are clothed and edu-
cated. His prefent Majefty contributes 30 1. per annum to this
fchool, and the Queen 12I. 12 s.
Mr. Henry Smith's benefaction to this parifli, originally 40I. per Various be-
. nefaftions.
annum, now produces 62 1. 5 s. 0 d. Richard Tomlins, m the year
1649, '^^'^ 5<^^* ^° ^^^y l^'^^s to put out children apprentices. Wil-
liam Hlckey, in 1727, left an eftate to this parifh which produces
202 1. 17 s. per annum. Out of this income fix poor men and ten
-^ O 2 women
468 RICHMOND.
women are to receive annual penfions of 61. each. The remainder
is appropriated partly to buy coals and clothes for the poor, and
partly to augment the allowance of the women in Bifhop Duppa's
alms-houfe. The fum of 7 1. i6s. has been left by various bene-
nefadlors to buy bread for the poor. Mrs. Mary New, in 1785,
left the reverfion of 1,000 1. in the 3 per cent, reduced Bank An-
nuities to be divided among live poor widows.
The tra£l of ground called " The Peft-houfe Common," is now
the fole property of the parifh. His Majefty furrendered his right
therein about five years ago, and at the fame time built at his own
expence a large workhoufe for the poor, as a compenfation for
fliutting up the road between Richmond and Kew Gardens.
The church-lands belonging to Richmond produce 62 1. los. per
annum, and are veiled in truftees.
The ferry. 'pj^g ferry at this place belonged to the crown, being an appendage
to the manor : it was ufually granted for life to fome perfons about
the court, the crown receiving 13s. 4d. per annum'". When the
bridge was built an a£t of parliament pafled to enable the crown
to grant the fee-fimple to the commiflioners.
The bridge. The firft ftone of Richmond-bridge was laid Aug. 23, 1774;
and it was finifhed in December 1777. MefTrs. Paine and Coufe
were the architeds. The river at this place is nearly 300 feet wide.
The length of the bridge is about 300 feet exclufive of the caufe-
way at each end ; it confifls of five ftone arches. The central
arch Is 25 feet high and 60 wide. The expence of this ftrudlure
amounted to about 26,000 1. of which fum 25,000 1. was raifed
upon tontine in fhares of 100 1. each. The revenues are about
1,3001. per annum. The view from Richmond-bridge on either
fide, but particularly towards the hill, is fingularly beautiful.
"♦ Pat. 19Edw.IV. m. 12. Pat. 20 Hen. VI. pt. i. m. 13, &c. &c.
In
RICHMOND. 469
In the early part of the prefent century there was a place of en- Richmond-
tertainment much frequented, called Richmond-wells'"; affemblies
were advertifed there as lately as the year 1 755, but the place was
then much on the decline.
Penkethman, of facetious memory, opened a new theatre at Rich- Penketh-
^ '■ man's thca-
mond on the 6th of June 1719, and fpoke a humorous prologue tre.
on the occafion, alluding to the place having been formerly a hovel
for affes "^ This theatre was the fame probably that flood on the
declivity of the hill, and was opened in the year 1756 by Theo- Gibber's ce-
philus Gibber, who, to avoid the penalties of the a£l of parliament
againft unlicenfed comedians, advertifed it as " a cephalic fnuff ware-
*' houfe '"." A theatre was ereded a few years afterwards at the Theatre-roy-
al,
north-weft corner of the green, which has the fandlion of royal au-
thority. It is opened, during the fummer feafon, three, and fometimes
four nights in the week, and is generally fupplied with performers
from the theatres in London.
Richmond was paved, watched, and lighted -by a6t of parliament
25 Geo. III.
"' The following advertifement is copied " moderate quantities (in an evening particu-
from a news-paper of the year 1730 : " This " larly) will not fail to raife the fpirits, clear
" is to give notice to all gentlemen and ladies, " the brain, throw off ill humours, diffipate
" that Richmond-wells are now opened, and " the fpleen, enliven the imagination, exhila-
" continue fo daily, where attendance is given " rate the mind, give joy to the heart, and
" for gentlemen and ladies that have a mind " greatly invigorate and improve the under-
" either to raffle for gold chains, equipages, " Handing. Mr. Gibber has alfo opened at
" or any other curious toys and fine old china, " the aforefaid warehoufe (late called the the.
" and likewife play at quadrille, ombre, wifk, " atre) on the hill, an hiftrionic academy for
" Sec. And on Saturdays and Mondays, du- " the inftruftion of young perfons of genius,
" ring the fummer feafon, there will be danc- " in the art of afting; and purpofes, for the
" ing as ufual." Craftfman, June 1 1. " better improvement of fuch pupils, &c. fre-
"" Read's Weekly Journal, June 23. " quently with his affiftants, to give public re-
'" " Gibber and C°, fnufF-merchants, fell " hear^As ti:itiou( hire, gain, or re-warti," Sec.
" at their warehoufe on Richmond-hill a mod General Advertifer, July 8, 1756.
" excellent cephalic fnuff, which taken in
[ 47° ]
ROTHERHITHE.
Etymology,
Boundaries,
extent, &c.
Dock-yards.
Canute's
trench.
THIS place, which Is fituated on the banks of the Thames,
about a mile and a half below London-bridge, derives its name
from the Saxon words r other ^ a failor, and hyth^ a haven or wharf.
It is ufually called RedrifF, and this pronunciation appears to have
prevailed as early as the 13th century".
The parifh lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is
bounded by Bermondfey and Deptford. The land which is not oc-
cupied by houfes is principally pafture, of which there is about
470 acres. The market gardeners employ about 40. The greater
part of this parifh was formerly a marfli. Rotherhithe pays
1,9181. 5 s. to the land-tax, which, on an average, is about 2s. 6d,
in the pound. This year it was 3 s.
There are eleven dock-yards in this parifh, at fome of w'hich a
confiderable number of fhips are built for the Eafl-India fervice j the
others are employed for building vefTels of a fmaller fize. The
whole extent of the fhore is inhabited by various artificers and
tradefmen who make and furnifh rigging and provifions for the
navy.
The trench, faid to be cut by Canute, to befiege the city of
London by water, began in this parifh *. The channel through which
the river was turned in the year 1 173, for the purpofe of rebuilding
London-bridge, is faid to have had the fame courfe \
• Cl. 8 Edw. I. ni.5. dorfo.
* Hiftory of Lambeth, p. 66—70,
' Stow's Annals, p. 225, 4to edit, 1605.
The
ROTHERHITHE.
The manor of Rotherhlthe belonged to the Abbot of Graces, who, Manor.
•with the King's permifTion, granted it in the reign of Richard II.
to the priory of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondfey *. It was then
valued at 20 1. per annum. After the fuppreflion of monafleries it
was kept in the hands of the crown till the reign of Charles I. when it
w^as granted at the requeft of Sir Allen Apfley, and probably in truft
for him, to William White and others'. In the year 1672 it was in
the poffeffion of James Cecil * Earl of Salilbury ; about the year 1692
it appears to have been alienated to John Bennet, Efq. ; in 1 7 1 5 to John
JoUey and Benjamin Morret ; and about 1732 to Thomas Scawen,
Efq. It was afterwards the property of Francis Gafliry, Efq. whofe
widow bequeathed it to the prefent proprietor Philip Goldfworthy,
Efq. one of his Majefty's Equerries, and Colonel of the firfl regiment
of dragoons. This manor has a court-leet and court-baron.
It appears that there was formerly another manor in Rotherhithe
diftin6: from that of the priory, and that Sir William Lovell was
feized thereof in the reign of Henry VI.'
Robert Burnell, Bifliop of Bath and Wells, had confiderable
property in this parifh in the reign of Edward I. ° Sir Hugh
Burnell, who died in the eighth year of Henry V. held the manor
of Rotherhithe for term of life of the Abbot of Bermondfey '.
In the reign of Henry VIII. Matthew Dale held a mefluage in this
parifh called the " Moted-place," which was formerly the property
of Robert Fitz waiter. Baron of Egremond, in the reign of Ed-
ward III. '°
As Rotherhithe is not mentioned in Doomfday Book, it is pro-
bable that it was formerly only a hamlet to Bermondfey. The pre-
fent church was built in the years 1714 and 1715. In the cafe of
* Pat. 21 Ric. II. pt. 3. m. 25. ' CI. 8 Edw. I. m. 5. dorfo, and 14 Ed. I.
* Fee-farm rolls. Augmentation-office. m. 2. dorfo.
' Court-rolls of the manor, from whence ' Exch. 8 Hen. V. N°ii6.
the other alienations were obtained. '° Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
^ Exch. 33Henry VI. N^zS. N'4705. Ayfcough's Cat.
the
471
472 R O T H E R H I T H E.
the parifhioners which was laid before parliament about that time,
it was faid that the church of Rotherhithe was firft built 400 years
before". It was reprefented at the fame time, that it was then in
danger of falling, that the expence of rebuilding it upon a fcale
proportionate to the increafe of the parifh would be at leafl: 4,000!.
that the poor rates, which 30 years before were only 80 1. per annum,
then amounted to more than 700 1. and that the parifhloners were
chiefly feamen who ventured their lives in fetching thofe coals from
Newcaftle which paid for the rebuilding the churches in London.
They prayed therefore that the duty on coals might be continued, to
enable them to rebuild their church. The petition appears to have
been unfuccefsful. By a brief, however, they colleded 920 1. and
by voluntary fubfcriptions of the inhabitants and others about 1,800 1.
more. The Bilhop of Winchefter gave 230 1. and Sir John Lake
100 1." The new church was opened July 3, 1715. It is built of
bricks, with flone quoins, and confifts of a nave, chancel, and two
aifles, fupported with pillars of the Ionic order. At the weft end
is a fquare tower, upon which is a ftone fpire fupported by Co-
rinthian columns.
Monuments, In the chancel are the monuments of Mr. Jofeph Wade, King's
carver in his Majefty's yards at Deptford and Woolwich, who died
in 1743; Mr. Alexander Roberts, who died in 1758; and Cap-
tain Thomas Barrow, who died in 1781.
In the nave is the tomb of Peter Hills, mariner, and one of the
elder brethren of theTrinity-houfe, who died in 1614. On a fquare
brafs plate are engraved the figures of himfelf and his two wives.
There are the tombs alfo of George Paftfield, Efq. who died in 1660,
and others of his family ; and of Mary Tiddiman, who died in 1666.
" Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v. decayed, their place was fupplied with timber
p. 7, 8. It appears that in the beginning of columns. Gataker's Anfwer to Lilly, p. 47.
the laft century the main fabric of the church •* The names of the fubfcribers are printed
was fupported by chalky pillars of very large at large in Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey,
proportions, which being at that time much vol. v. p. 16—28.
In
&c
R O T H E R H I T H E. 473
la the north aifle is a tablet to the memory of Roger Tweedy,
Efq. who died in 1655. In Aubrey's Antiquities are mentioned
alfo an achievement to the memory of Matthew Hungerford, Efq.
of the county of Wilts, who died in 1677; ^^^ ^^^ tomb of
Elizabeth, wife of Capt. William Evans, who died in 1703.
In the veftry is a portrait of King Charles I. in his robes, kneel-
ing at a table, and holding a crown of thorns. This formerly hung
in the fouth aifle '\ On the outfide of the church are tablets in me-
mory of Capt. Anthony Wood, who died in 1625, and Capt. Tho-
mas Stone, who died in 1666.
The only remarkable monument in the church-yard is that of the Tombs in the
Pelew prince, Lee Boo, the infcription upon which is given in p. 476.
There are the tombs alfo of Ann, widow of Capt. John Blake, who
died in 1681 ; Nicholas Leach, Efq. who died in 1776, and others
of his family ; Thomas Halcot, Efq. of the county of Norfolk, who
died in 1780; and the following perfons, moft of whom were cap-
tains of merchants fhips ; John Steele, who died in 1710; Samuel
Biggs, (1726) ; George Wane, (1748) ; Anthony Nicholfon, (1750) ;
Richard Weales, (1752) ; WilUam Scarth, (1762) ; John Mackmath,
(1762); Henry Sax, (1766); John Petyt, (1773) ; William God-
frey Turner, (1789); John Lafley, (1791). In the year 1790 a
handfome monument was ereded for Mr. John RulTel, who is yet
living.
The church of Rotherhithe, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is Reftor}'.
in the diocefe of Winchefter and the deanery of Southwark. The
benefice is a rectory. The advowfon belonged to the priory of
Bermondfey ; fince the fuppreffion of which monaftery it has pafl!ed
through various hands, and now belongs to Clare Hall, Cambridge.
There is a record in the Tower of fundry grants to the redor of
Rotherhithe ". It was prefented to the commiffioners appointed to
" Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. v. p. 9. '3 Pat. 33 Edw. III. pt.z. m. i.
Vol. L 3 P inquire
474 R O T H E R H I T H E.
inquire into the ftate of ecclefiaftlcal benefices in 1658, that the reftory
of " Redereth" was worth about 92 1. per annum, and that the
impropriation was vefted in Captain Hurlefton and Captain Jo-
feph Dobbins, the purchafers. By fome legal controverfy the
prefentation lapfed to the Lord Protestor, who intended to place
there Mr. Conyers Rutter ; but Capt. Dobbins taking advantage of
his abfence, placed there Mr. John Baker, who then officiated there.
The redory is valued in the King's books at 1 8 1.
Thomas Gat- Thomas Gataker, who was inftituted to this reftory about the
year 161 2, was a man of confiderable note in his time. He was in
principles a Calvinift, and rendered himfelf fo obnoxious to the go-
vernment, that he was confined for fome time in the Fleet before the
breaking out of the civil war. When his party came into power he
was appointed one of the aflembly of divines, where he fometimes
officiated as chairman '*. Several of his works are extant, confifting
of Sermons ; a Treatlfe on the Purity of the Language of the Greek
Teftament ; Annotations on a PafTage in Jeremiah ; and feveral other
trads. Anthony Wood, who bore no good- will to his party, calls
him " the learned Prefbyterian "." A few months before he died
he engaged in a controverfy with Lilly the aftrologer, who had at-
tacked him by name in one of his almanacs. In his anfwer to Lilly
he recites at large the circumftances which attended his removal from
Lincoln's-inn, where he was preacher, to Rotherhithe ", and enters
into a detail of the profits of his redory, which had been much ex-
aggerated by his antagonift. It appears, by his account, that he re-
ceived only 75 1. IDS. per annum for his tithes and glebe land ".
He had formerly received 40 1. per annum, which was decreed him
'♦ Difcourfe apologetical in anfwer to Lilly, "" Apologetical Difcourfe, p. 44—46.
p. 57. It appears that the members of this " Ibid. p. 60. In the fifth vol. of Aubrey's
aflembly were allowed 4s. a day for their at- Antiquitiesof Surrey (1719), theprofits of this
tendance. reilory are valued at 400 1. per annum.
^^ Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 66g.
by
R O T H E R H I T H E. 47^
by the Court of Exchequer In lieu of an ancient tithe on houfes " ;
but this the inhabitants for fome years had refufed to pay, Mr. Ga-
taker died July 27, 1654", and was buried at Rotherhithe ; having
been redtor there 42 years. His fon Charles, who was born in this
parlfh, was chaplain to Lucius Lord Faulkland, and author of fome
theological treatifes ".
The prefent redtor Is the Reverend Robert Myddelton.
The parlfli regifter begins in 1674, and appears to have been Parifhregif-
regularly kept.
Average of Baptifms.' Average of Burials.
1680—1689 — I CI 1 60 Comparative
■^ -^ ftateofpopu-
1780 — 1789 341 - 266 lation.
1790 376 284
1791 388 265
This parifli appears to have increafed in a proportion of more than
two to one during the laft century ; and It ftill continues to increafe
in a very rapid degree. An a£t of parliament has been lately ob-
tained for granting building leafes upon Colonel Goldfworthy's eftate%
The difproportion of the burials to the births feems to denote a
healthy fpot, and Indeed Rotherhithe has been remarked for the fa-
lubrlty of Its air, and the infrequency of Infedious diforders there j
a circumftance which has been accounted for from the flux and re-
flux of the tides pafllng through the common fewers. The prefent
number of houfes Is calculated at about 1600. There are ufually
about 190 poor in the workhoufe.
The following Is the only entry in the reglflier which appears de-
fervlng of notice: — "Prince Lee Boo buried, from Capt. Wilfon's, PHnce Lee
" Paradife-row, Dec. 29, 1784, aged 20." The hiftory of this
amiable young man, who fell a facrifice to the fmall-pox, may be
'^ Apologetical Difcourfe, p. 49, 50. P'570-
'» Anthony Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. " Ibid, vol.ii. p. 669, 670.
3 P 2 feen
476 R O T H E R H I T H E.
feen at large In Mr. Keate's Interefting narrative of Capt. Wilfon's
adventures at the Pelew Iflands^'. Lee Boo was buried in the
church-yard at Rotherhithe, where, upon his tomb, is the following
infcription : —
" To the memory of Prince Lee Boo, a native of the Pelew
" or Palas iflands, and fon to Abba Thulle, Rupack or King of
*' the ifland Goo-roo-raa, who departed this life on the 27th of De-
*' cember 1 784, aged 20 years, this ftone is infcribed by the Ho-
" nourable Eaft-India Company, as a teftimony of the humane and
*' kind treatment afforded by his father to the crew of their ihip
" the Antelope, Capt. Wilfon, which was wrecked off that ifland
" in the night of the 9th of Auguft 1783.
" Stop reader, ftop, let Nature claim a tear,
" A Prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here.'*
Free-fchool. A free-fchool was founded in this parifh about the beginning of
the laft century by Peter Hills and Robert Bell, and endowed with
a fmall annual Income for the education of eight fons of feamen,
with a falary of 3 1. per annum for the mafter. The fchool-
houfe, which Is fituated near the church, was rebuilt by fubfcrip-
tlon in 1745. The endowment has been confiderably augmented
by various donations. In 1712, 220 1. was fubfcribed to purchafe
a ground-rent. Since this time benefadions to the amount of near
900 1. have been given", and the fund is now fuch as to enable
the parifti to clothe and educate thirty-three boys and twenty-two
girls.
The founders of the charity-fchool left alfo fix pounds per an-
num to be diftributed in bread to the poor. Ambrofe Bennet, Efq.
*' In this book there is a print of Lee George Cornwall, Efq. who gave lool. ; B,
Boo, from a drawing made by Mr. Keate's Wood, Efq. lOol.; Mrs. Elizabeth L'Ans,
accomplilhed daughter. I ool. ; Henry Mills, Efq. lOoI.; John Gray,
'* Some of the principal benefaftors were, Efq. 105 1. ; and James Taylor, Efq. 200 1.
left
R O T H E R H I T H E. 477
left 9I. per annum for the fame purpofe. Captain Tweedy,
5I. 4 s. per annum, and Captain William Steevens and the Re-
verend Thomas Gataker, jointly, the fame fum. "With the two
lafl benefactions lands have been purchafed which produce
15 1. 10 s. per annum. Mr. Henry Smith left 10 1, per annum,
to buy clothes and provifions for the poor.
[ 478 ]
STREATHAM.
Situation,
boundaries^
foil, &c.
Etymology. *• | "> HIS place derives Its name from having been fituated near
JL the great Roman road from Arundel to London ; Jlrete fig-
nifying in the Saxon language a highway, and havi a dwelling.
The Normans, with little attention to its derivation, call this village
in Doomfday-book Eftraham : in all records of a fubfequent date
it is written Stretham. In compliance with the univerfal cuftom
which has prevailed perhaps for the laft fifty years, I have fpelt it
Streatham, though the a feems an unnecefTary and improper In-
terpolation '.
Streatham lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and is
fituated on the road from London to Croydon, at the diftance of
fomewhat more than five miles from Weftminfter-bridge. The pa-
rifh is bounded by thofe of Croydon, Mitcham, Wandfworth, Bat-
terfea, Clapham, Lambeth, and Camberwell. The greater part of
the land is arable, the foil various, but clay is predominant.
There are about 380 acres of common. Streatham is afleffed the
fum of 586 L 13 s. 9d. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of
2 8. 3d. in the pound.
Manors. In Doomfday-book feveral manors or eftates are recorded as ly-
ing within the parifh of Streatham ; they were held In the Con-
feflbr's time by Ulward, Edwin, Harold, the canons of Wal-
tham, Erding, and Eftarcher. Ulward's manor was of one caru-
cate, valued at 20 s. j and was held at the time of the furvey by
' See Mr. Bray's paper in the Archaeologia, vol. ix. p. 1 04.
Haimo
S T R E A T K A M. 479
Halmo the flierifF. Edwin's manor, which was of the fame extent,
but vakied at 25 s. was given by the Conqueror to the Bifhop of
Baicux, and was held under him by Anfgot. Earl Morton became
proprietor of the land which had been divided between Earl Ha-
rold and the canons of Waltham. It contained two carucates, and
at three feveral periods had been valued at 30s. 15s. and 43s.
Richard de Tonebridge obtained of the Conqueror the two other ma-
nors ; one of which, being valued at iocs, he gave to the monaftery
of Bee ; the other, valued in the Confeflbr's time at 50s. and at the
time of the furvey at 60s. was held of him by the fame consent.
The former of thefe included the hamlet of Tooting, which, as well
as the manor, was called afterwards Tooting Bee. The lands here are
fometimes defcribed as the property of the abbey of Bee, and fome-
times of the priory of Okebourn, which was the principal cell to
that monaftery in England ^. Tanner fpeaks of a priory of Black Priory at
Monks fettled at Tooting ; in fupport of which authority, a record °°""S*
of the reign of Edward IV. mentions the manor or priory of Toot-
ing '. After the fuppreffion of alien priories, the manor of Tooting Manor of
Bee was granted to John Duke of Bedford, conftable of France*; footing Bee.
and was afterwards leafed by the crown to John Arderne, Efq. for a
rent of igl. per annum, which formed part of the endowment of
Eton college '. The manor was granted by Edward IV. to Law-
rence Booth, Bifhop of Durham, for life * ; and was afterwards, by
the fame king, fettled upon John Tiptoft Earl of Worcefter, mafler
and Sir John Scott and others, wardens, of St. Mary's Guild, in the
* Rymer, vol. xi. p. 488. In a regifter Uveen the Abbot and John ^Vhitema^l, in
of Merton Abbey, in the Bodleian Library, which the former was again fuccefsful. The
is an account of a trial at law between the Prior of Okebourn's property in Strcatham was
Abbot of Bee, and William Rcdor of Streat- valued at 68s. Sid. in 1291. See note, p. lo.
ham, A° 1340, in which the former reco- ^ Rymer's FceJera, vol. xi. p. 488.
vered a houle and 60 acres of land, of which ♦ Elch. 14 Hen. VI.
he had been diffeized. Another trial relating ' Hillory of Alien Priories, vol. ii. p. 15;.
to the fame premifes happened in 1368, be- * Rymer, vol. xi. p. 488.
3 P 4 church
48o
STREATHAM.
Manor-
houfe.
Tradition
of Queen
Elizabeth.
church of Allhallows-Barking'. Upon the fuppreffion of the guild,
John Dudley Earl of Warwick bought the manor of Tooting Bee
of the crown, at 22 years purchafe'. It afterwards became the pro-
perty of the Pakenhams, and was aliened in the year 1600, by
Henry Pakenham to Sir Giles Howland'. By the intermarriage of
Wriothefley Duke of Bedford, with Elizabeth, daughter and fole
heir of John Rowland, Efq. it came into the Bedford family, and
is now the property of the prefent Duke, who bears the title of Baron
Howland of Streatham.
The manor-houfe, which is fituated at the corner of Streatham-
common, on the road to Croydon, is large, but contains nothing re-
markable. It was probably rebuilt by Sir Giles Howland, whofe
arms and thofe of his wife '° are upon two brick turrets, which ap-
pear to have formed the grand entrance to the houfe. Queen
Elizabeth's arms, which were formerly in the hall, ferve alfo to af-
certain the date, and no doubt gave rife to a tradition, that it was
one of her palaces; a tradition fo prevalent in Salmon's time ", that
they fhowed the Earl of Effex's apartments, and fupported it by other
circumflantial proofs, yet fo deftitute of foundation, either from hif-
tory or record, as to make one very cautious of trufting the village
tale upon fuch occafions. The houfe appears to have undergone
a total change in its external form about the beginning of this cen-
tury.
It does not appear what became of the other manors mentioned in
Doomfday. King John granted a confiderable eftate at Streatham,
which had been the property of Peter Feald, to William de Rivers
' Pat. 5 Edw. IV. pt. I. m. 19. Az. on a fefle Gules, engrailed Arg. between
* Certificate of the fale of chantry lands, in 3 fvvans proper, three rofes of the third. Sir
the .'\ugnientation-office. Giles Howland married Elizabeth, daughter of
* Pat. 42 Eliz. pt. 10. Dec. I. Sir John Rivers. Sir Giles's brother Richard
'" Howland bears Argent, two bars Sable, was Bifhop of Peterborough.
in chief, 3 lions rampant, Gules ; Rivers bears " Antiquities of Surrey, 8vo. 1736. p. 39.
Earl
S T R E A T H A M. . 481
Earl of Devonfhire. This probably was afterwards given to the
monaftery of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondfey.
The dean and chapter of Canterbury have flill a manor here, Manorofthe
which, though not mentioned in Doomfday-book, is faid to have been chapter of
given to the monks of that cathedral by King " Egelred," in the year
959 •
The manor of Leigham's or Legham's Court belonged to Ber- Manor of
° ° '^ Leigham's
mondfey Abbey, and was granted, after the fuppreffion of that mo- Court,
naftery, to Henry Dowfe '\ Clerk ; William Dowfe appears to have*
alienated it about the year 1564 to John Southcott. Efq. afterwards
one of the Juftices of the Common Pleas '*. About the year 1610, it
came into the pofleflion of Sir Matthew Carew, Knt. and LL. D.
who two years afterwards appears to have alienated it to John
Howland, Efq. from whom it defcended to Walter Howland, alias
Roberts, fon of Thomas Roberts, Efq. and grandfon of Sir Matthew
Howland. George Duke of St. Albans married Jane fole heir of
Sir Walter Roberts, whereby he became polTefled of this manor,
which was purchafed of the late Duke's truftees by the Right Hon.
Edward Lord Thurlow, who is the prefent proprietor.
The lord of this manor hasacourt-leet, and viewof franc-plege: the
lands therein defcend to the youngeft fon. The tenants are fubjed to
the payment of pannage, or i d. to the lord for every fwine, and
to another cuftomary payment called rump-pence, being one penny
to be paid by every perfon who has cattle to the value of 30 s.
The manor of Balgham, or, as it is now called, Balham, though Manor of
now in Streatham parifh, feems to be mentioned in Doomfday-
book as an appendage to Clapham. It had been held of Earl Ha-
rold by Anfchil. At the time of the furvey it was in the poiTeflion
" Dugdale's Monaft. vol. i. p. 21. There " Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 10. 0&.. 15.
mud be an error refpefting the date : Eldred '■* Court-rolls of the manor, whence the
began to reign in 946, and died in 955. fubfequent alienations are taken.
Ethelred began his reign in 579.
Vol. r. 3 CL of
4^2
S T R E A T H A M.
Seat of Ga-
briel Piozzi,
Efq.
Portraits in
the library.
Dr. John-
fon's refi-
dence here.
of Godfrey Orlatele, who Is there reported not to have had law-
ful feizure thereof. At three feveral periods it had been valued at
61. 20 8. and 40s. Sibyl de Tingria confirmed to the monks of
Bee a hide of land in Balgham belonging to the manor of Clap-
ham, which had been given them by her anceftors '^ Nigel de
Mandeville, in the year 1103, gave two hides of land in Balgham
to Bermondfey Abbey ". The farm of Balams in Streatham con-
tinued in the crown fome time after the diflblution of monafteries,
and was leafed by Queen Elizabeth to Edward Williams ". William
Smith, Gent, who died 16 Car. I. was feized of a mefluage called
Balams in Streatham, which he had lately purchafed of Nathaniel
Boftock ". The manor has belonged to the family of Du Cane fmce
the year 1701, and is now the property of Peter Du Cane, jun. Efq.
Edward VI. granted lands at Streatham to Thomas LordDarcy ",
which afterwards came to the Carews ".
On the fide of the fmall common between Streatham and Tooting,
is a villa which belonged to the late Henry Thrale, Efq. and is now
the refidence of Gabriel Piozzi, Efq. who married his widow. The
houfe, which is pleafant and commodious, has been much improved by
Mr. Piozzi. In the library is a very valuable fet of portraits, painted
by Sir Jofhua Reynolds for Mr. Thrale. Befides the mafter and mif-
trefs of the houfe, they confift, of Lord Sandys, Lord Weftcote, Sir
Jofhua Reynolds, Dr. Johnfon, Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Arthur
Murphy, Oliver Goldfmith, Dr. Burney, Sir Robert Chambers, and
Baretti, who fpent many focial hours in the room where their por-
traits now hang. It Is well known to thofe who have read any of the
various writers of Johnfon's life, that he fpent much of his time beneath
this hofpitable roof. The little events which happened, and the
" Hiftory of Alien Priories, vol. i. p. 164
— 167.
'* Dugdak-'s Monaft. vol. i. p. 640.
" Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. 3. Apr. 2.
»* Cole's Efcheats, Brit. Muf. Harl. MSS.
N'' 411. p. 188.
'* Grants by Edw. VI. Augmentation-of-
fice.
*° Terrier of Lands in Surrey, N° 4705.
Ayfcough's Cat. MSS. Brit. Muf.
pecu-
S T R E A T H A M. 483
peculiarities which diftinguiflied this eminent and worthy charadter
during his refidence here, are admirably pourtrayed by Mrs. Piozzi
in her anecdotes of the lafl 20 years of his life. The kitchen-
gardens belonging to this villa ar<: remarkably fpacious, and fur-
rounded by brick-walls fourteen feet in height, built for the recep-
tion of forcing-frames, and producing a great abundance of fine
fruit. Adjoining the houfe is an inclofure of about 100 acres,
furrounded with a flirubbery and gravel walk of nearly two miles in
circumference.
The church, which ftands in the centre of the village, is dedicated Thechurch,
to St. Leonard, and confifts of a nave and chancel. The north-fide
is built of flints, and retains fome traces of the architedure of the
fourteenth century. The fouth-wall was rebuilt with brick, and a
gallery added on that fide about 16 years ago. At the weft-end is
a fquare tower fupporting a taper fpire, which, though of no great
height, yet, being fituated upon a high fpot of ground, forms a con-
fpicuous objedt for feveral miles.
Upon an altar-tomb in the north-wall, under a rich Gothic ca- Ancient Go-
nopy, lies the mutilated figure of an armed knight, having a pointed
helmet, mail gorget, and plated cuirafl'es. The canopy is orna-
mented with quatrefoils, but the pinnacles and fome of the other
parts are imperfe£t. It feems probable, from the fituation, that it is
the founder's tomb, and its form afcertains it to be of the 14th cen-
tury ". It has been abfurdly called the tomb of John of Gaunt ",
who it is well known was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
In the fame wall, higher in the chancel, is another Gothic canopy
with a flat ardi : beneath this is a marble flab fixed Tideways in the
wall, which has evidently been difplaced. The infcription, which
" It very nearly refembles the tomb of Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i.
Haimo de Hethe, Bifhop of Rochefter, who '^'' See Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i.
died in 1352; and that of Sir William de la p. 201 ; and Salmon, p. 40.
Pole, at Hull, who died 1367. See Gough's
3 0^2 is
484 S T R E A T H A M.
is nearly covered with wainfcot, records the death of Margaret wife
of Henry Cantlowe, and daughter of Nicholas Aylwin, who died iu
i486. It is printed in Aubrey, who fays, that it was taken from
the ground. In the pew belonging to the Thrale family are the
following infcriptions, upon tablets of white marble, to the memory
of Mr. Thrale, and Mrs. Salufbury, mother to Mrs. Piozzi. They
were both written by Dr. Jobnfon.
Epitaphs of *' Hie conditur quod reliquum eft Henrici Thrale, qui res feu
Mr. Thrale . ., ^ , ^. . . , .,,. , . , .
and Mrs. Sa- " civiles, five domeuicas, ita egit, ut vitam ilh longiorem multi op-
ten byVr."'" " tarent : ita facras, ut quam brevem effet habiturus prcefcire vide-
jc*nfon. ti retur. Simplex, apertus, fibique femper fimilis, nihil oftentavit
" aut arte fidum aut cura elaboratum. In Senatu, Regi, patriseque
" fideliter ftuduit, vulgi obftrepentis contemptor animofus; domi
" inter mille mercaturae negotia, literarum elegantias minime neglexit.
" Amicis quocunque modo laborantibus, confiliis, audtoritate, mu-
" neribus adfuit. Inter familiares, comites, convivas, hofpites, tam
" facili fuit morum fuavitate ut omnium animos ad fe alliceret,
" tam felici fermonis libertate, ut nuUi adulatus, omnibus placeret.
" Natus 1728, obiit 1781. Confortes tumuli habet Radulphum pa-
** trem, ftrenuum prudentemque virum et Henricum filium unicum,
" quern fpei parentium mors inopina decennem praeripuit. Ita do-
" mus felix et opulenta, quam erexitavus, auxitque pater, cum nepote
" decidit. Abi Ledlor ! et vicibus rerum humanarum perfpedtis,
" a^ternltatem cogita !"
" Juxta fepulta eft Heftera Maria, Thomas Cotton de Comber-
" mere Baronetti Ceftrienfis filia, Johannis Salufbury, Armigeri Flin-
*' tienfis, uxor; forma, felix, felix ingenio, omnibus jucunda, fuorum
" amantiflima. Unguis artibufque ita exculta ut loquenti numquam
" deeflent fermonis nitor ; fententiarum flofculi, fapientiaz gravitas,
" leporum gratia : modum fervandi adeo perita ut domeftica inter
" negotia Uteris obledaretur ; literarum inter dellcias rem familia-
" rem fedulo curaret. Multis ilU multos annos precantibus, diro
Car-
S T R E A T H A M. 485
" Carcinomatis veneno contabuit, nexlbufque vitx paulatim refolutis,
" e terris, meliora fperans, emigravit. Nata 1707, nupta 1739,
*' obiit 1773.
In the chancel are alfo the monuments of Thomas Hobbes, Efq. Various mo-
. numents.
(no date) ; his wife Sufanna, who died in 1623, and his fecond wife
Margaret Lady Ghiborne, daughter of Sir George Younge, of York,
who died in 1628 ; John Maffingberd, who died in 1653; Sir Matr
thew Howland, Knt. gentleman penfioner to King James and King
Charles, who died in 1 648 ; (this tablet is mutilated, but the infcription
is preferred in Aubrey;) Edmund Tilney, Efq. of Letherhead, mafter
of the revels to Queen Elizabeth and King James (no date, the infcrip-
tion records his alliances with the family of Howard, Duke of Norfolk) ;
Cecilia, wife of Robert Goodwin, Efq. of the county of Suflex, who
died in 1664; Walter Howland, alias Roberts, Efq. ofBrixton-
caufey, who died in 1692; and Rebecca, wife of William Lynne,
who died in 1653. Her epitaph was written by her hufband, who,
after dwelling upon her feveral virtues, exclaims in the concluding Good wives.
lines :
" Should I ten thoufand years enjoy my life,
*' I cou'd not praife enough fo good a wife."
On the fouth wall is a monument to a woman of equal excel-
lence— Elizabeth, wife of Major General Hamilton, " who was
" married near 47 years, and never did one thing to difpleafe her
" hufband." She died in 1746.
On the chancel floor are the tombs of Sir Giles Howland, who
died in 1609 j and Sufanna, relid of John Evelyn, Efq. who died
in 1680.
On the north-wall are the monuments of Robert Livefay *', Efq.
who died in 1608; John Howland, Efq. who died in 1686; and
*' At the foot of this monument is the following quibbling couplet:—
" Livefaye the name, God here them gave,
*' And now Lives— aye, indeed they have."
Major
486 S T R E A T H A M.
Major Henniker, Efq. who died in 1789. On the fouth-wall tliat
of Prifcilla Lavayfiere, a native of France, who left that kingdom
during the perfecutions of Lewis XIV. She died in 1 748. In the
middle of the church are the tombs of Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John
Fry, of the county of Devon, who died in 1770; and EliasDurn-
ford, Efq. who died in 1774. Under the gallery are thofe of the
Honourable John Piers, one of his Majefty's Council in Barbadoes,
who died in 1688, and his grandfon John Piers, Efq. who died in
1761 ; William Hambly, Efq. of the county of Cornwall, who died
in 1 71 8, and Peter Hambly, Efq. who died in 1723. Towards
the weft-end are thofe of the Reverend Philip Morgan, re£lor of
Wafing in Berkfliire, who died in 1774; and Amelia, wife of
James Strachan, Efq. who died in 1788.
Tombs de- Aubrey has preferved the epitaphs of the following perfons, which
Aubrey. are either deftroyed or covered with pews. John Eflifield, redlor of
Streatham, (no date)'*; William Mowfarth*', redor of this church
and Mickleham, w^ho died in 1513; Roger Norton, fub-dean of
the King's chapel, and redlor of Streatham, who died in 1527;
Michael Rabet, redtor, who died in 1630; Thomas Holt, redor,
who died in 1710; Anne, wife of Gabriel Livefey, Efq. who
died in 1518 ; Cecilia, wife of George Lee, Efq. of Lincoln's-inn,
who died in 1664; ^^^ Elizabeth, wife of Mark Wifeman, Gent,
who died in 1643.
In the chancel window, which is faid in Roger Norton's epitaph
to have been put up at his expence, are ftill fome remains of
painted glafs.
Tombs In the In the church-yard are the tombs of Godfrey Lee, prodtor in
Do<^ors Commons, who died in 1720; Edward Theobald Gent, who
(lied in 1738; William Jones, Efq. of Tooting Bee, who died in
** John Elfefield, as he is called in the Bi- a. 2d numbering,
(hop's regifter, was inftituted in 1390. Reg. *' He is called Mountforth, in the Win-
Winton. William de Wykham, pt. i. f. 208. chefter Regifter, Fox, pt. 3. f. 446.
1753;
S T R E A T H A M. 487
1753; John Jones, Efq. who died in 1762; the Reverend James
Jackfon, M. A. mafter of an academy, who died in 1766 ; WilHam
Hardy, Efq. who died in 1779 ; Ann, relidl of the Reverend Pier-
fon Lloyd, LL.D. who died in 1787 ; Mary, wife of Henry Bodi-
coate, merchant, who died in 1789 ; and Elizabeth, wife of John
Painter, Efq. who died in 1791. Aubrey mentions alfo that of John
Baker of Gray's-Inn, Gent, who died in 1703.
The church of Streatham Hes in the diocefe of Winchefler, and in
the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a redory, the patron-
age of which has been always attached to the manor of Tooting
Bee, and is now veiled in his Grace the Duke of Bedford. In
1291 it was taxed at fix marks and 40 d. The Prior of Okebourn
received a penfion of 20 s. from it ; the Prior of Bee 4!. ; and the
Prior of Garfteyne 4s. The rectory is valued in the King's books at
18I. 13 s. pd. per annum.
The celebrated Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Bifhop of Bangor, fo well BKhopHoad-
known for the controverfy which from him took the name of Ban- ^'
gorian, was inftituted to this re£lory in the year 1710 on the
prefentation of Mrs. Howland ; who gave it him without any previous
acquaintance, becaufe fhe admired his political principles ". Dr.
Hoadly dedicated a volume of Sermons to his patronefs. He left
Streatham, which was his moft beloved retirement, upon his pro-
motion to the fee of Salifbury in 1723 ".
The prefent incumbent is the Reverend Richard Bullock, D.D.
The parifh regifter begins in the year 1538, and, except during a Parifli rcgif-
part of the laft century, appears to have been very accurately kept :
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
1580—1589 — II 8 Comparative
1680—1680 20 2C ftateofpopu-
-^ -^ lation.
1780 — 1789 — 42 63
" Biograph. Brit. '' Ibid.
5 0.4 , The
488
STREATHAM.
Plague
years.
The population of this place appears to have increafed in a proportion
of two to one, during each century. The burials confiderably exceed
the baptifms, efpecially during the laft ten years, a circumllance which
is to be accounted for from the great number of ftrangers who are
interred here. The prefent number of houfes is 265.
In the year 1545 there was a very great mortality at this place,
the number of burials being 5 1 ; which exceeded the average of that
period in a much greater proportion than in either of the great plague
years in the laft century. In 1603 there were 36 burials; in 1625,
34; in 1645, 40.
Richard
Adams, the
hermit.
Marriage of
Wriothefley,
Duke of Bed-
ford.
John Duke
ef Bedford.
i<
Extra&s from the Regijler.
*' April 19, 1545, Richard Adams the hermit was buried."
There is ftill a place in the parifh called the " Hermitage-Bridge."
" Mr. Edmund Tilney, Efq. and mafter of the King's revels,
" buried Oa. 6, 1610."
" Wriothefley Marquis of Taviftock, was married to Madam
" Elizabeth Rowland, jun', of this parifti, in the chapel at Streatham-
" houfe, in the prefence of the grandfathers and grandmothers, and
" other nobility, by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert
Lord Bifhop of Sarum, May 23, 1695."
" John, fon of Wriothefley and Elizabeth, Duke and Duchefs of
" Bedford, baptifed 0£t. 20, and born Sept. 30, 1710." This John
fucceeded his elder brother Wriothefley as Duke of Bedford in the year
1 732, and became a charader of confiderable eminence in the political
world. In 1 744 he was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
and in 1748 fucceeded the Earl of Chefterfield as one of his Majefty's
principal fecretaries of ftate. He was fent as ambaflador plenipoten-
tiary to the court of France In 1762, where he negotiated the peace
which was finally ratified in the enfuing year. The Duke died Jan.
14th, 1 771, and was buried at Cheneys in Buckinghamfhire.
His
S T R E A T H A M. 489
His mother Elizabeth, Duchefs of Bedford, died of the fmall-pox In
the month of June 1 724.
" RufTel, buried April 14, 1772. N. B. This perfon was Extraordina-
" always known under the guife or habit of a woman, and anfwered Elizabeth
" to the name of Elizabeth, as regiftered in this parifh Nov. 21, ^"'Teii.
" 1669, but at death proved to be a man." In fpeaking of this
extraordinary perfon, whofe hiftory I have taken fome pains to inquire
into, It will be neceflary, in order to avoid confufion among the re-
lative pronouns, to make conftant ufe of the mafculine gender, how-
ever oddly it may be fometimes combined. The various adventures of
his life, had they been colledted by a contemporary, would have formed
a volume as entertaining as thofe of the celebrated Bampfylde Moore
Carew, whom he accompanied in many of his rambles, and from whom
probably he firft took the hint of difguifmg his fex to anfwer fome
temporary purpofe. Upon examining the parifh regifter, I find that
John Ruflel had three daughters, and two fons ; William, born in
1668, and Thomas, in 1672; there is little doubt therefore that
the perfon here recorded was one of the two ; and that when he af-
fumed the female drefs, he affumed alfo the name of his fifter Eliza-
beth, who probably either died in her infancy, or fettled In fome remote
part of the country; under this name, in the year 1770 he applied
for a certificate of his baptifm. He attached himfelf at an early
period of life to the gypfies, and being of a rambling difpofition
vifited moft parts of the continent as a ftroller or vagabond. When
advanced in years he fettled at Chipfted In Kent, where he kept a
large fhop. Sometimes he travelled the country with goods. In
the chara£ter of a married woman, having changed his maiden name
for that of his hufband who carried the pack, and to his death was his
reputed widow, being known by the familiar appellation of Bet Page*
In the courfe of his travels he attached himfelf much to itinerant
phyficians, learned their noftrums, and pradlfed their art. His long
experience gained him the charader of a moft infallible do£lrefsy to
Vol. I. 3 R which
49©
STREATIIA M.<
which profeflion he added that of an aftrologer, and pratStifed both
•with great profit ; yet fuch was his extravagance, that he died worth
fix fhillings only. It was a common cuftom with him to fpend
whatever he had in his pocket at an alehoufe, where he ufually
treated his companions. About twelve months before his death he
came to refide at his native place. His extraordinary age procured
him the notice of many of the moft refpedlable families in the neigh-
bourhood, particularly that of Mr. Thrale, in whofe kitchen he was
frequently entertained. Dr. Johnfon, who found htm a fhrewd fen-
fible perfon, with a good memory, was very fond of converfing
with him. His faculties indeed were fo little impaired by age, that
a few days before he died, he had planned another ramble, in which
his landlord's fon was to have accompanied him. His death was
very fudden : the furprife of the neighbours may be well imagined,
upon finding that the perfon, who, as long as the memory of any
one then living could reach, had been always efteemed and reputed
to be a woman, was difcovered to be a man ; and the wonder was
the greater as he had lived much among women, and had frequently
been his landlady's bed-fellow when an unexpeQed lodger came to
the houfe. Among other precautions, to prevent the difcovery of his
fex, he conftantly wore a cloth tied under his chin ; and his neigh-
bours not having the penetration of Sir Hugh Evans, who fpied
Falftaff's beard through his muffler, the motive was unfufpeded.
After his death a large pair of nippers was found in his pocket, with
which, it is fuppofed, he endeavoured to remove by degrees all tokens
of manhood from his face. It may be obferved, that fuppofing him to
be the younger fon of John Ruflell, he would have been loo years
of age ; if we fuppofe him to have been the elder, his age would have
been 104. He himfelf ufed to aver that he was 108. He had a
mixture of the habits and employments of both fexes ; for though
he would drink hard with men, whofe company indeed he chiefly
afFefted, yet he was an txctWtnxfempJlrefsy and celebrated for mak-
ing
S T R E A T H A M. 491
ing a good fhlrt. There was a wildnefs and eccentricity in his
general condudt which frequently bordered on infanity; and, at
leaft, we may fairly conclude, to ufe a favourite expreflion of Anthony
Wood the Oxford biographer, that he had " a rambling head and
*' a crazy pate."
A fchool was founded in this parifh about the beginning of the Mrs.How-
prefent century by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland, mother of the Duchefs
of Bedford, who gave 20 1. per annum for clothing and educating
ten children.
John Croft, in the year 1584, left 20s. per annum to the poor; Various be-
Mrs. Anne Livefaye, in 1618, 3I. ; Mr. Gabriel Livefaye, in 1620,
the rent of a houfe which is now let for 8 1. to be diftributed among
the poor at Chriftmas and Eafter ; Sir Giles and Sir John How-
land left lol. per annum, which after deducing 1 1. 6 s. 8 d. for
a fermon, was to be diftributed in bread, a certain portion every
Sunday; Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland 3 1. 15s. to be diftributed an-
nually to poor widows on St. Thomas's day ; and the Reverend
Thomas Holt, a former redtor, the fum of 20 1. to remain in the
overfeers' hands, for ready money for the prefent fupply of the
poor till the taxes were gathered. This parifli receives alfo about
9I. per annum out of Mr. Smith's charity; and 15 1. 4s. being a
benefadtion of Mrs. Dorothy Appleby, in the year 1681 ; of which,
five pounds were appropriated to put out a child apprentice.
A large and commodious workhoufe was built on Tooting-common Workhoufe.
in the year 1790.
A mineral water of a cathartic quality was difcovered in this parifti Mineral wa-
tcr
in the year 1660, which is ftill held in confiderable efteem. There
are no accommodations for perfons who come to drink it on the fpot,
yet the well is much reforted to by thofe who cannot afford a more
expenfive journey ; and the water is fent in confiderable quantities
to fome of the hofpitals in London.
3 R 2
[ 492 ]
u
O N.
Name,
fituatiop, and
boundaries.
The Downs.
Chalk-pit.
Soil.
Land'tax.
Manor.
nr^ H E name of Sutton, /. e. South-town, is common to many
-*- places in all parts of England. This village is fituated upon
the road to Reigate, about eleven miles from Weftminfter-bridge.
The parifh lies in the hundred of Wallington, and is bounded by
Carfhalton towards the eaft ; Mordon towards the north ; towards
the weft, by Cheam ; and to the fouth, by Banftead. The cultivated
land is principally arable ; the proportion of meadow being very fmall ;
the downs and commons are extenfive. The downs adjoin thofe
of Banftead, and are grazed by fheep. The mutton is noted for its
fmall fize and fine flavour. The inhabitants have a right of turning
out their cattle upon Sutton and Bonhill commons in this parifh, du-
ring a certain part of the year. Near the turnpike-gate, on the road
to Carftialton, is a very large chalk-pit, which produces a variety of
extraneous foflils. A rock of chalk extends through the greater
part of the parifti, being covered with a fine mould, in fome places
fix feet deep. The foil to the north of the village is a ftrong clay,
between which and the chalky lands there runs a narrow vein of
fand. Sutton is aflefled 179 1. 14 s. to the land-tax, which this
year (1792) is at the rate of 2s. in the pound.
The manor belonged formerly to St. Peter's Abbey at Chertfey. In
Doomfday-book it is faid to contain 15 ploughlands, and to have
been valued in the reign of Edward the Confeflbr at 20 1. and at
the time of the furvey at 15 1. After the fuppreffion of monaf-
teries it was granted to Sir Nicholas Carew '. Having been forfeited
Pat. 29 Henry VIII. pt. 2. June 26.
by
SUTTON. 493
by his attainder It reverted to the crown, but was reftored to his fon
by Queen Mary \ It afterwards came Into the Darcy family, hav-
ing been bequeathed probably by Sir Francis Carew to the iflue of
his brother-in-law Sir Arthur Darcy. From the Darcys it pafTed to
Sir Richard Mafon, whofe daughter and co-heir, Dorothy, brought it
to her hufband Sir William Brownlow, who died in 1700. It was
purchafed in the year 1720 by the ClifFe family \ Henry ClifFe,
Efq. died in 1761, leaving one daughter, on whom the manor and
eftate were entailed, and who, in the year 1785, married Thomas
Hatch, Efq. of New Windfor, now lord of the manor in right of
his wife.
It appears that there was formerly a manor in this parlfli * diftin6t
from that of the Abbot of Chertfey, valued in the reign of King
John at eight marks, and then held by Gilbert BalTet '. The manor,
which was granted in the reign of Edward III. by Sir Simon d-e
Codyngton to Richard Cok and William Hardegrey *, and by them
aliened to Sir Simon St. Michael, with remainder to Ralph Codyng-
ton ', was held under Chertfey Abbey.
The record of Doomfday fpeaks of two churches In this parlfh : The church,
there is now one only, which Is a fmall ftru(flure dedicated to St.
Nicholas, confifting of a nave and chancel. At the weft-end
was a wooden tower, which has been lately taken down and re-
built of brick.
On the outfide of a north window of the nave Is the fol-
lowing mutilated infcriptlon cut In ftone : + P R I . P U R
WILL. EM FOUL.. ALICIE MAT:ILLI.S. Ancient k-
It appears to be a mixture of French and Latin, and may be ren-
dered *' Pray for William Foul and Alice his mother." They
' Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. defcribed as within the hundred of Walling-
N°4705, Ayfcough's Cat. ton.
,' From the bformation of the Rev. Giles ' Harl. MSS. Brit. Muf. N°3I3. f. 22. b.
Hatch. * CI. 47 Edw. III. m. 8.
♦ It is appropriated to this parilh by being ' Efch. 18 Ric. II. N° 45.
probably
fcription.
494
U
O N.
Monuments.
Lady Brown-
low.
William,
Earl Talbot.
Ifaac Little-
bury.
probably were confiderable benefa£lors towards the Te-buildlng of
the church. Some of the letters of this infcription are in the Saxon
charader ; it has been printed very erroneoufly by Aubrey '.
On the north wall of the chancel is a handfome monument to the
memory of Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Mafon and wife of
Sir William Brownlow, who died in 1700; and on the fouth wail
that of Sarah wife of Jofeph Glover, reftor of this pariflh, who died
in 1629. Within the rails of the communion table are the tombs of
Henry Wyche and George Roberts, both redtors of this place. The
former died in 1678, the latter in 1686.
On the fouth wall of the church is a handfome monument of
white marble to the memory of William Earl Talbot, fon of the
lord chancellor, and high fteward of his Majefty's houfehold, who
died in 1782, and was interred at this place in the fame vault
with his mother.
On the north wall is a tablet with the following infcription :
" In memory of Ifaac Littlebury, whofe liberal education, travels
" abroad, fkill in divers languages, knowledge of hiftory and con-
*' verfation with eminent men, rendered him a lover of public liberty
" and good order, which he endeavoured to promote by publifh-
" ing feveral eminent books. He was, through the courfe of his
" life, juft, open, modeft, generous, mild, beneficent, frugal. He
" died the 30th of April 1710, in his 53d year."
Ifaac Littlebury is faid to have been the fon of " Mr. Thomas
*• Littlebury, the famous bookfeller in Little Britain, eminent for his
" fkill in languages '." He is heft known as the tranflator of Hero-
dotus ; what his other publications were I have not been able to
learn, nor any thing further of his hiftory.
In the nave are the tombs of Jane, relid of John Harris, redlor
of Meftham and prebendary of Hereford, who died in 1703; and of
Robert Holmes, Efq. who died in 1782.
• Antiquities of Surrey, vol.i. p. 128.
9 Magna Britannia, Surrey.
In
U T T O N.
49:
In the church-yard is a farcophagus of white marble (almofl over- Church-yard.
grown with ivy) to the memory of Cecil, daughter and heir of
Charles Matthews, Efq. of Caftle Menyche in the county of Gla-
morgan, wife of Charles Talbot, Efq. barrifter at law, (afterwards T"'^^^^,
° ' » ^ > V Mrs. Talbot,
lord high chancellor of England,) and mother of William Earl wife of the
Talbot. She died at this place in the 28th year of her age, in the ceiior.
year 1720.
At the fouth-eafl: corner of the church-yard is a large maufoleum, Maufoieum
built in the year 1777 by James Gibfon, Efq. of London, for the fons.^
interment of his family. There are alfo the tombs of Tames Ram- ,, .
■' J Various
fay, redor, who died in 1745; Lewis Cholmley, Efq. who died in tombs.
1753, and others of his family ; James Sanxay, the late re£tor, who
died in 1766; and Edmund Wilcox, Efq. who died in 1767.
Sutton is a redory in the diocefe of Winchefter, and in the deanery Reflory.
of Ewell. The advowfon, which has been generally annexed to the
manor, is now vefted in the Reverend Giles Hatch, the prefent in-
cumbent. In 1291 it was taxed at 20 marks; in the King's books
it is valued at 16I. i8s. 4d. per annum.
William Stephens, who was inftituted to this re£lory in 1686, dif- wiiHam
tinguifhed himfelf as a political writer in oppofition to the court.
He preached before the Lord Mayor on the 30th of January 1694,
and before the Houfe of Commons upon the fame occafion in 1700.
Both thefe fermons are in print '°. In preaching before the Houfe of
Commons he omitted the prayer for the King and Royal Family",
and took the liberty of fuggefling the impropriety of continuing the
obfervance of the day, which was confidered as fuch an infult to the
Houfe, that a vote of cenfure was pafled upon him. An anonymous
writer publifhed fome very fevere ftiiitures both upon the preacher
" Mr. Stephens publifhed alfo " A Sermon " the barbarous Maflacre committed by the
" without Doors, to the Proteftants of Ireland " Irifh PapiUs in the year 1641. London,
" now refiding in London; preached at their " 1713. 410."
" Anniverfary Meeting, Oft. 23, 171Z; in " Reflexions upon Mr. Stephens's Sermon,
" commemoration of their Deliverance from 4to. 1700.
and
49(5
U
O N.
Parifli reg'tf-
ter.
Comparative
ftate of po-
pulation.
Benefadions.
and his fermon, which Stephens is faid to have fold to a bookfeller
for 25 1. '* In the year 1707 he publifhed a pamphlet, called " A
•' Letter to the Author of the Memorial of the Church of England,"
containing many fevere refledions upon Secretary Harley and the
Duke of Marlborough. He was indided in the Court of Queen's
Bench for writing this pamphlet, and was fentenced to pay a fine of
100 marks, to ftand twice in the pillory, once at Charing-crofs, and
once at the Royal Exchange, and to find fureties for his good beha-
viour for twelve months. The ignominious part of his fentence was
at length remitted, but not till he had been taken to a public-houfe
at Charing-crofs, whence he faw the pillory ereded, and the multi-
tudes of people who were affembled to be witneffes of his dif-
grace".
The parifli reglfter begins in 1636.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials.
1680 — 1689 10 ■ ■ 10
1780 — 1789 ■ 16 • ■ ■ ' 12
The prefent number ofhoufes is about 100.
There were no entries of burials in the year 1665'.
This parifli receives 2 1. per annum out of Mr. Smith's charity.
Robert Holmes, Efq. gave 200I. for poor widows and houfekeepers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens gave 200 h for the fame purpofe, and 200 1.
towards beautifying the church and keeping the footpaths in repair.
Mrs. E. Gibfon gave 500I. to purchafe flioes and ftocklngs for the
poor; and Mr. Williams, 200 1. in the year 179 1 for educating
children. The parifli receives lol. every third year for repairing
the highways, being the benefadion of Mr. Wilford.
" Refleftions upon Mr. Stephens's Sermon, " Tindal's Continuation of Rapin, vol. xvi.
4to, 1700. p. 384. 8vo. in the notes.
C 497 ]
TOOTING.
IN all records the name of this place is written with the addition Name.
of Graveney, which fhould more properly be Gravenel, being
the name of a family who had confiderable property here in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries. I find no fatisfadlory derivation
of the word Tooting ', or, as it is written in Doomfday-book, Totinge.
Ing is a frequent termination, and fignifies a meadow.
Tooting Graveney lies in the weftern divifion of Brixton hundred. Situation,
o J ' boundanes,
and is fituated on the road to Epfom about fix miles from Weftmin- de-
fter-bridge. The parifh is bounded by that of Streatham on the
eaft J Mitcham on the fouth and weft ; and Wandf\vorth on the
north. The land is principally arable, and the foil, chiefly gravel
intermixed with clay. Tooting is afTefled the fum of 163 1. to the
land-tax, which is at the rate of i s. in the pound.
It appears that there were two manors in this parifh at the time Manors.
of the Conqueft, exclufive of that of Tooting Bee, which belonged
to Streatham. One of them had been held of King Edward by
Swain. After Edward's death it was given by Swain to Earl Wal-
lef, who fold it to Alnod a Londoner. Alnod gave it to the church
of Weftminfter, under which it was held at the time of the furvey
by Ofbert, who paid no taxes. This manor, which contained only
one ploughland and a half, valued at 40 s. was probably joined
afterwards either to that of Tooting Bee or Tooting Graveney.
* Salmon's derivation of Tooting from theou, a Have, and ing, a meadow, does not feem to
approach near enough to the word.
Vol. I. 3 S The
498 TOOTING.
Manor of The Other manor contained three ploughlands, and was held at
Graveney, the time of the furvey by Haimo the Sheriff, under the Abbot of
Chertfey. It was valued at three feveral periods at 40 s. 20 s.
and 70s. This manor appears to have been held in King John's
reign under the fame abbey by Richard Gravenel \ and at fubfequent
periods by the families of Lodelowe and Dymock \ After the
fuppreffion of monafteries it feems to have been kept for fome time
in the hands of the crown, and to have been granted by Queen
Elizabeth to James Harrington *, who foon aliened it to Sir Henry
Maynard ' ; from the Maynards it paffed to Sir James Bateman,
alderman of London, and after his death fucceflively to Abraham
Atkins, Efq. * of Clapham, and Pcrcival Lewis, Efq. of Putney. It
was purchafed of the latter about twenty years ago by Morgaa
Rice, Efq. the prefent proprietor.
Bartholomew de Caftello had a grant of free warren in Tooting la
the reign of Edward I. '
The church. The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a fmall Aruc-
ture, and confifts of a nave, chancel, and fouth aifle. On the
north fide is a low circular tower, with a fmall fpire.
Monuments. In the chancel is the monument of Efther, wife of Sir James
Bateman, Knt. Lord Mayor of London, who died in 1709 ; and the
tombs of Ifaac Brand, Efq. who died in 171 2 ; his fon, who was
killed by a fall from his horfe, in 1701; and William, fon of
Timothy Turner, redor of this parifh, who died in 1714.
Sir John On the north wall of the church was the monument of Sir John
Hepdon. Hepdon, Knt. who died in 1670. He was twice Envoy to the Em-
peror of Ruflia, and employed in various foreign negotiations during
the reign of Charles I. and Charles II. This monument has been re-
* Harleian MSS. Brlt.Muf. N0313. f. 15. N" 4705, Ayfcough's Cat.
3 Efch. 7 Edw. II. N" 37. Efch. 15 * Pat. 38Eliz. pt. 3. Julyi.
Edw. III. N"22. Efch. 17Ric.II. N° 39. * Thefe alienations were obligingly com-
Efch. 4 Hen. V. N" 14. municated by the prefent proprietor.
* Terrier of Lands ia Surrey, Brit. Muf. ' Cart. 13 Edw. i. N° 40.
moved
TOOTING.
499
3J
moA'ed into the belfry. In the nave are the tombs of Samuel Pafh-
ler, Gent, who died in 1759; and Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings, who
died in 1779. Aubrey' mentions alfo that of Deputy Jofeph Scri-
ven, who died in 1704.
On the eafl wall of the fouth aifle is a brafs plate to the memory
of William Fitzwilliam, Efq. who died in 1597. On the fouth wall
is the monument of Frances, wife of John Rice, who died in 1790;
and on a pillar of the nave that of Ralph Plumbe, Efq. who died
in 1776, and Samuel Plumbe, Efq. who died in 1784.
In the church-yard are the tombs of Sir John Maynard, K. B. ^^''rd?^*
who died in 1658, and his fon, Sir John Maynard, Knt. who died ^
in 1664; Sarah, wife of John Crichton, M. D. (no date); Robert
Papworth, of London, Gent, who died in 1 755 ; the Reverend '"'^
Thomas Barron, curate of this parifh, who died in 1 766 ; Peter
Hamond, Efq. who died in 1769; John Greenway, Efq. of the
Middle Temple, who died in 1781; and Page Keble, Efq. who
died at Port I'Orient, in his return from Bengal, in 1786.
The church of Tooting is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and Reaory.
deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a redtory, the advowfon
of which was formerly given to the monaflery of St. Mary Overie
by Hamon de Gravenel '. After the fuppreffion of that convent it
was granted by Edward VI. to Edward Lord Clinton and Say '",
by whom it feems to have been very foon aliened to Sir Richard
Sackville ". It continued in the Sackville family till the middle of the
laft century '\ George Earl of Berkeley appears to have been the pro-
prietor in 1683 '^ It afterwards came into the pofTeffion of Sirjames
Bateman '*, and continued to be annexed to the manor till Mr. Lewis
fold it to the Reverend Nicholas Brady, whofe daughter married the
* Antiquities of Surrey, vol.1, p. 2I9. '* Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS.
5 Dugdale's Monaft. vol. ii. p. 940. Library.
'" sEdsv. VI. Grants in the Augmentation- '^ Regift. Winton. Morley, p. 102.
ofHce. '■* Brown Willis's Papers, Bodleian Library.
" Regill.V/inton. Gardiner reftored, f. 8. a.
3 S 2 Reverend
500 TOOTING.
Reverend Henry Allen, who thus became poflefled of the patronage
of the living of which he is the prefent incumbent. The re£tory was
taxed at 40 s. in 1291''; it is rated in the King's books at
81. 8 s. dfd. and was valued at 52 1. per annum in the year 1658 '*.
The prior of St. Mary Overie formerly received a penfion of 4 1. per
annum out of this redtory ". There is a terrier of the glebe in the
regiftry at Winchefter.
Samuel Lifle Samuel Lifle, who was inftituted to this redtory in the year 1720,
Norwich. was promoted to the bifhopric of St. Afaph in 1743, and tranflated to
Norwich in 1748. He died the enfuing year.
Parlfhregif- The earlieft date of the parifli regifter is IJJJ.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials,
Comparative j rgo — I c8q 6 — 'J
ftateofpopu- u u :/ ^
lation. 1680 — 1689 ■ 5 — — 6
1780 1789 — — 31 24
The population of this village appears to have increafed during the
laft century in a greater proportion than that of any other place
which has been defcribed. The prefent number of houfes is
about 150.
There are no entries of burials in the years 1603 and 1665.
Extra£ls from the Regifter*
Sir John " Sir John Maynard died the 29th of July, and was buried the
^y"*^ • t( 2ift of that month, 1658." He was brother of the firft Lord
Maynard, and was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of
Charles I. He had a feat in the Houfe of Commons in the year
1640, where having given offence to the prevailing party, he was
impeached of high treafon and committed to the Tower. Some
little tradts afcribed to him are extant ".
'' See note, p. 10. f. 256.
'* Parliamentary Surveys, •• Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 856.
•» Cotton MSS. Brit. Muf. Fauflina, A. 8.
« Phoebe,
TOOTING. 501
" Phoebe, the daughter of Jofhua Gearing, Gent, was baptlfed
" in the parifh church of St. Auftin, London, but the place being
" burnt by the raging fire, it was defired by the parents that fhe
" fhould be regiftered in this book — 1666."
This parifli receives 2 1. per annum out of Mr. Henry Smith's be- Benefaaions.
nefa£lions. John Maynard, Efq. in 1659 g^^e 20$. per annum
to the poor". Ifaac Brand, Efq. in 1712 gave an annuity of 3I. to
be divided between twelve poor perfons on Eafter Sunday. Sir
James Bateman, in 1718, gave the intereft of 100 I. for apprentic-
ing children. Thomas Man, in 1721, gave a fum of money out of
the rent of fome tenements in Kingfton, to purchafe annually fix
chaldrons of coals, to be divided between twelve poor perfons. John
Rogers, Efq. in 1778, gave 200 1. to which his widow added
13 1. 6 s. 8 d. to be laid out in Government fecurities, and the in-
tereft (which amounts to lol.) to be divided among poor houfe-
keepers not receiving alms ; and Mrs. Martha Chivers gave the fum
of 200 1. to the fame purpofe.
The alms-houfes founded by Sir James Bateman's mother in 1 709 Bateman's
for fix poor women, have been pulled down, and the benefadion is
loft to the parifh.
A charity-fchool is now building by public fubfcription. Charity-
A new meeting-houfe is building for the prefbyterian diflenters. Diflemers
Queen Elizabeth vifited Tooting in the year 1 600 " ; it is proba- Se"^'
ble that fhe was the gueft of Sir Henry Maynard, who was then lord ^^^J" ^"^**
of the manor.
The Lords North and Grey had a feat in this parifh for many Lords North
a, . and Grey.
years .
•9 A copy of the deed is in the parifh regif- " The Queen removed on Tuefday to Toot*
ter. " ing."
*" Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. 210. Letter *' Britifh Compendium.
from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sidney,
.O V [ 502 ]
WANDSWORTH.
Name.
Situation,
boundaries,
foil, &c.
Manufac-
tures.
THIS place is fo called from Its fituation upon the banks of the
fmall river Wanclle, which falls into the Thames in this
parifh. Worth, in the Saxon language, fignifies either a village,
or a fhore. In Doomfday-book, the name of this place is fpelt
Wandeforde, and Wendleforde j in other ancient records, Wan-
dlefworth, and Wendlefworth.
The village is fituated on the road to Kingfton, about five miles
and a half from Weftminfter-bridge, and lies in the weftern divifioa
of Brixton hundred. The parifli is bounded by thofe of Batterfea,
Streatham, Merton, Mitcham, Tooting, Wimbledon, and Putney.
The land is divided in nearly an equal proportion between
arable and paflure. Two hundred and eighteen acres are oc-
cupied by the market gardeners. The foil is chiefly a fandy loam
upon a bed of gravel. About one half of the common, which
takes its name from Wandfworth, is in this parifh : it contains about
400 acres, and extends nearly two miles in length towards Streatham.
A part of Putney-heath is alfo in this parifli. Wandfworth is
affeffed the fum of 1042 1. 9 s. to the land tax, which, in the year
1 79 1, was at the rate of 2 s. in the pound.
Aubrey mentions ' a manufacture of brafs plates for frying pans,
kettles, and other culinary veflels, which was eftabliflied here by
Dutchmen, who kept it as a myftery. The houfes where this ma-
■ Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 14.
nufadure
WANDSWORTH. 503
nufa(Sture was carried on, bore the name of the frying-pan houfes.
Towards the clofe of the laft century, when great numbers of fren'^'^ re-
•* _ fugees.
French proteftants fled from the perfecution which prevailed in
the reign of Lewis XIV. many of them fettled at Wandf-
worth, where they eftablifhed a French church *. Among thefe
refugees was a confiderable number of hatters, who introduced
their manufadure at this place, and carried it on with srreat Manufafture
*^ ° of hats efta-
fuccefs. Though much diminiflied in its extent, the manufacture ftill Wifhed by
exifts ; Mr. Chatting, a grandfon of one of the refugees, being now
a hatter in Wandfworth. Moft of their defcendants, who either
remain here, or are difperfed into the neighbouring villages, have fo
Anglicifed their names, that the memory of their extradion is
almoft loft. The art of dying cloth has been pradifed at this Dyers,
place for more than a century. There are now two dyers here,
Mr. Barchard and Mr. Williamfon ; the former carries on the branch
of fcarlet dying to a very confiderable extent. There is alfo a ma-
nufadory here for bolting cloth ; Mr. Henckell's iron mills ; Mr.
Gardiner's calico-printing manufadory, which is of confiderable
extent, and employs about 250 hands ; another of the fame kind,
lately eftablifhed by MefTrs. Lawrence and Harris; Mr. Rigby's
manufadory for printing kerfeymeres ; Mr. Dibble's manu-
fadory for whitening and prefling fluffs ; Mr. Were's linfeed oil
and white lead mills ; Mr. Shepley's oil mills ; Meffrs. Gattey's
vinegar works, and Meffrs. Bufh and Co.'s diftilleries. Thefe fe-?
yeral manufadures, exclufive of Mr. Gardiner's, employ about
250 hands.
The citizens of London, who had been deprived of their privi- The citizens
leges by Richard II. fent a deputation of 400 members of their meet Richard
corporation, with the Recorder, to meet the King at Wandfworth, ^f-^'^^ndi-
in his road from Sheen, and implore his pardon, which he gracioufly
* The building is now ufed as a meeting-houfe by the people called Methodifts.
granted ;
5^4
WANDSWORTH.
Manor.
Manor of
Wandfworth.
Manor of
Dunsford.
granted ; and upon their earned intreaty, rode through the city
on his return to Weftminfter, being received with great magnifi-
cence '.
It appears by the Conqueror's furvey, that the manor of Wandf-
worth, which contained four ploughlands, had been held of Edward
the Confeflbr, by fix freemen, who might go where they would ;
that,Anfculf took pofleffion of it when he obtained the fheriffalty,
but the men of the hundred reported, that they never faw the King's
feal, or the livery. His fon William, however, inherited it, and
was in poffeflion when the furvey was taken. In confequence of
this reprefentation, the king probably feized it into his own hands,
for it is known that he gave it to the church of Weftminfter *. In
1 29 1, the Abbot of Weftminfter's eftates at Wandfworth were
valued at 17I. '
The manor which bears the name of the village was conneded
with that of Batterfea, and has undergone the fame alienations*,
being now the property of the right honourable George John Earl
Spencer.
The manor of Dunsford belonged to Merton-abbey. It was
granted, after the fuppreffion of that monaftery, to Charles Bran-
don Duke of Suffolk ', and was by him fold for the fum of
403 1. 6 s. 8 d. to Thomas Lord Cromwell '. It was granted
in the year 1564 to Robert Lord Dudley, afterwards Earl of Lei-
cefter", and was aliened by him to Sir William Cecil, (after-
wards Lord Burleigh"). Within a few years it was again aliened
' Stow's Annals, p. 493. 410. ' Grants by Henry VIII. Augmentation-
♦ Dart's Hift. of Weftminfter-abbey, vol.i. office.
p. 2 1 . ' Cart. Antiq. Brit. Muf. 47. A. 50. & Pat.
• See note, p. 10. 30 Hen. Vllf. pt. 8. Jan. 15.
* It was fettled, with that of Batterfea, » Terrier of [lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf.
upon Henry Prince of Wales : Royal Houfe- N" 4705, Ayfcough's Cat.
hold Eftablilhments, publiftied by the Society '" Ibid,
of Antiquaries, 1790, p. 315.
to
WANDSWORTH. 505
to John Sw'ifr, Efq. '\ and by the latter to Thomas Smith, Efq. '*,
who died feized thereof in 1575 ". It was aliened in the year 1664
to the Brodrick family ", in whofe poflefFion it has continued for
feveral generations, being now the property of George Brodrick
Vifcount Midleton, of the kingdom of Ireland, who has a feat at
Pepperharrow in this county.
The manor cf Downe, or Downe-buys, parcel of the pofleflions Manor of
of the monaftery of Weftminfter, and fituated, partly in this parifli, Downe-buys.
and partly in that of Batterfea, appears to have been kept in the
hands of the crown till the thirty-third year of Queen Elizabeth's reign,
w^hen the fee-fimplc was purchafed by William Cammock, Efq. "
for the fum of 191 1. It was aliened the next year to Sir William
Cecil '\ and fold by the heirs of his grandfon, Edward Vifcount
Wimbledon, to Thomas Hewett ", Efq. of whom it was purchafed
in 1698, by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland. It has fmce defcended with
the manor of Streatham, to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who
has lately aliened it to the right honourable George John Earl
Spencer.
The manor of Allfarthing was alfo parcel of the pofTeffions of the Manor of
monaftery of Weftminfter, and was afterward annexed to the honour ^"^ '"^'
of Hampton-court". It was granted by Henry VIII. to Thomas
Lord Cromwell", and in 1598 was the property of John Bowyer,
Efq. " It was among the lands fettled upon Charles I. when
Prince of Wales, and in the year 1625 was demifed, for 99 years,
to Sir Henry Hobart and others ""^ under whom Endymion Porter,
" Pat. 7 Eliz. pt. 1. Mar. lo. Duke of Bedford, whence the other aliena-
'♦ Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. 3. Jan. 17. tions of the manor are obtained, through the
" Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. Brit, favour of Mr. Beaumont.
Muf. N" 760. p. 398. '° Fee-farm Rolls in the Augmentation-
" Court-rolls of the manor. office.
" Pat. 33 Eliz. pt. 12. Nov. 12. " Ibid.
" CI. 34 Eliz. pt. 23. " Churchwardens' accounts atWandfworth.
•9 Records in the office of his Grace the « Fee-farm Roll.
Vol. I. 3 T gentleman
jo6
WANDSWORTH.
Various
ellates at
gentleman of the bedchamber, and one of the favourite attendants
of King Charles, took a leafe of thirty-one years, to commence in
1646''. He afterwards procured the remainder of this term'*, and
in the year 1628, the fee-fimple was granted in reverfion to Thomas
Porter, Efq. whofe defcendant, Pierce Patrick Walfh Porter, Efq. *'
is the prefent proprietor.
The manor houfe has been many years a fchool ".
In the Conqueror's furvey, mention is made of an eftate in
Waniworth. this parifh, which belonged to the Abbot of Wandregifili, who
held it for Ingulphus the monk. It was valued at 20 s. and had
been held of King Edward by Swein. It is probable that it was
afterwards feized by the crown as the property of an alien priory ;
and may have been the fame eftate which, in the reign of Ed-
ward III., belonged to John Lord Molins, and for which he had
a charter of free warren ^'.
Richard Rook, in the reign of Edward III. granted 200 acres of
land in Wandfworth, to Weftminfter-abbey".
Edward IV. granted certain mefluages in this parifli to his aunt,
Ann Duchefs of Buckingham, late wife of Walter Blount Lord
Mountjoy '*.
A part of the eftate which was annexed to the fee of York, by
the Archbifhop Lawrence Booth, is in this parifh. In Strype's
Annals of the Reformation '°, mention is made of an annuity of
13I. 6 s. 8 d. paid out of certain lands at Wandfworth, belonging
to the Archbifhop of York, towards the endowment of a fchool at
Guildford.
The church, which ftands nearly in the centre of the village, is
dedicated to All Saints. It is a brick ftrudture, and confifts of a
The church.
« Fee-farm Roll.
" Pat. 2 Car. pt. 12. Apr. 20.
*5 Pat. 4 Car. pt. 18. July 2.
" Mill's Journal, Aug. 15, 1724.
" Cart. 8 Edw. III. m. 33.
*" Efch. 40 Ediv. III. N" 20. 2d numbering.
*9 Pat. II Edw. JV. pt. 2. m. 10.
'" Vol. i. p. 309.
nave,
WANDSWORTH. 507
nave, chancel ", and two aifles. At the weft end is a fquare tower,
which was built in the year 1630, before which time there was
a leaded fteeple ^\ The greater part of the church was rebuilt in
the year 1780, at the expence of about3jool. The infide has
been lately painted and ornamented.
Near the pulpit is the tomb of an officer of Henry the Fifth's Tomb of an
111"! 1 r t t t r A • officer of
army, a Iharer, probably, in the glory of the battle or Agincourt. Henry V.
He died in 1420. The part of the infcription which contained
his name has been torn off, and his figure, which was engraved
on brafs, much mutilated.
In the chancel are the monuments of Henry Smith, Efq. who Various
died in 1627-8 ", and Sufanna Powell, widow of John Powell,
fervant to Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1630. Near the com-
munion table is the tomb of Robert Knarefborough, patron of
the vicarage, who died in 161 1. At the eaft end of the north
aifle is the monument of Sir Thomas Broderick, who died in
1 641, and his wife Katherine, who died in 1678. It is adorned
with bufts, well executed, in white marble. On the fame wall,
over the gallery, is the monument of John Powell, Efq. who
died in 161 1. At the weft end of the fame aifle, are the mo-
numents of Thomas Morley, reader of this parifh, who died in
1681 ; Samuel Palmer, Efq. F. R. S. Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Samuel
hofpital, who died in 1738 ; Edward Barker, Efq. Baron of the Ex- gj^^^^j
chequer, who was born at Wandfworth in 1678, and died in 1759; Barker. Ba-
ron of the
and Robert Buck, Gent, of London, who died in 1769. In the Exchequer.
nave is the tomb of Mr. Martin Newport, merchant, who died in
1734 ; at the weft end of the church is a tablet to the memory of
'* At the rebuilding of the church, the feparate interefts of pews, and burial fees,
chancel was fo far incorporated with the nave, ^^ Parifh accounts.
that it appears to be a part of it. The limits " Mr, Smith's epitaph is given in p. 514.
of each, however, are defined to adjuft the
J
T 2 Jofeph
5o8
WANDSWORTH.
Church,
yard.
Cemetery.
Various
tombs.
Jofeph Wight, Efq. who died in 1770; and near the veftry-door, one
to the memory of Mr. Somerfet Draper, who died in 1756.
Aubrey mentions alfo the tomb of Edmund Snow, Efq. who de-
ceafed at the manor of AUfarthing in 1587^*, and Strype, in his
Continuation of Stow's Survey ", takes notice of thofe of Eliz. Gale,
widow, who died in 1545 ; Richard Breame, Gent, of the county of
Suffolk, who died in 1610; and Thomas Tayer, Efq. of Rants, in
the county of Northampton, who died in 1653, ^^^^ loi-
In this church-yard are the tombs of Peter Sainthill, Efq. who
died in 1775, and others of his family; and of Mary relict of
Joachim Gerhard Baas, Efq. who died in 1789.
At the diftance of about half a mile from the church, where the
roads branch off to Clapham and Vauxhall, is a cemetery, which was
walled in and confecrated towards the latter end of the lafl century.
It contains, among others, the tombs of Francis Hunt, citizen of
London, who died in 1687; Peter Paggen, Efq. (1720); Nicholas
Garrett, Efq. (1726); Dame Ifabeau Bories de Montauban en
Guyenne, epoufe de Jean de Comarque, Ecuyer (1731); James
Baudouin, Efq. born at Nifmes in France, " who f]ed from ty-
*' ranny and perfecution in 1685," and died in 1739, aged 91 ;
Mr. Melandthon Strong (1750), and others of his family; Samuel
John, Efq. (1759) ; Mr. David Afterley (1761), and others of
his family; William Vile, Gent. (1767); James Poumies, Efq.
(1769); John Higginfon, Efq. (1770); Malachi Hawtayne, Efq.
(1772); the Reverend Evan Evans (1772); George Ward, Efq.
of the county of York (1777); Matthew Green, Efq. (1785);
Samuel Goodman, Efq. (1787) ; and Jane Betfy, daughter of Gapt.
James Williamfon, who died in 179 1.
Aubrey mentions alfo the tomb of Elizabeth, wife of John Fofter,
who died in 1688 ; and " Thomas de Demfrene, Efquier, Sieur
" de Garende," who died in 1709^*.
'♦ Vol. i. p. 132. '' Vol. ii. p. 738, 739. '° Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 134, 135.
The
WANDSWORTH. 509
The church of Wandfworth is in the diocefe of Winchefter, and
in the deanery of Southwark. The benefice is a vicarage. The
re£tory was appropriated to Weftminfter-abbey by Richard Toclivius
Bifliop of Winchefter " ; and it was ordained by his fucceflbr,
Godfrey de Lucy, that the monks fhould receive an annual penfion
of fix marks out of the revenues of this church, leaving the vicar
enough to fupport himfelf, and to pay the epifcopal burdens ^',
After the fuppreflion of monafteries, this reftory was granted to
John Whyte Bifhop of Winchefter ^'. It was afterwards annexed
to the honour of Hampton-court *°. Queen Elizabeth granted it,
with the advowfon, to Edward Downing and Peter Afliton *'. The
advowfon appears afterwards to have been the property of Robert
Knarefborough *% and the redory that of Mrs. Sufanna Powell, wi-
dow *\ The patronage of the vicarage was vefted in the crown about
the year 1630 **. In the year 1658, both the redtory and advowfon
belonged to Mr. Thomas Andrews *' ; fome time afterwards they
came to the Acworths, who were for many years proprietors
of both. They alienated the former fome time ago to the truftees
of Mr. Marfhall's charitable donations. The reprefentatives of the
late Gabriel Ac worth, Efq. are ftill patrons of the vicarage.
William de Raleigh Bifliop of Winchefter, about the year 1 249, vicarage,
endowed the vicarage with the great tithes of Heyford and Dunsford,
and all the lands of William Fawkner and William Fitzharvey *\
The redtory was taxed at thirty marks in the year 1291 ; the vicarage
at ten marks. In 1646, the fum of 50 1. per annum, out of the manors
of Walworth and Lambeth, was voted for the augmentation of the
3' Ducarel's Lift of Endowments and Ap- ** See his epitaph,
propriations in the MS. Library at Lambeth. *' She charged it with the payment of an
He quotes the regifter of the Abbot and Con- annuity : fee the account of benefaftions.
vent of Weftminfter. ♦+ MS. of Sir J. Doddridge, Brit. Muf.
38 Ibid. N° 3479, Ayfcough's Cat.
'» Terrier of lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf. *' Parliament. Surveys. Lambeth MS. Lib.
N° 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. ♦* The endowment is recited in W. de
*° Fee-farm Rolls, Augmentation-office. Edyndon's Regifter at Winchefter, pt. i. f.
♦• Xbid. 9-. b.
vicarage
5IO
WANDSWORTH.
Vicars.
Griffith
Gierke.
John Field.
Nathan Ref-
bury.
Parifli regif-
ter.
Comparative
(late of popu-
lation.
vicarage of Wandfworth. In 1650 the redlory was faid to be
50 1. 10 s. 8 d. clear yearly value ; the vicarage 40 1. la the King's
books the latter is valued at 15I. 5 s. jd.
In the year 1540 Griffith Gierke, vicar of Wandfworth, with his
chaplain, fervant, and Friar Waire, were all hanged and quartered
at St. Thomas Watering, mod probably for denying the King's fu-
premacy ; though Stow, who mentions the fadt "*', profefles himfelf
ignorant of the caufe of their execution.
Anthony Wood makes mention *' of John Field, a famous preacher
and minifter of Wandfworth, who died in 1586. Fie publifhed fe-
veral fermons and religious tra<Sts, among which was a pamphlet
called " God's Judgment at a Bear-baiting at Paris Garden."
Nathan Refbury, inftituted to this vicarage in 1674, was author
of feveral fermons and tradts againft popery *'.
The prefent vicar is the Reverend Robert Holt Butcher, M. A.
The earlieft date of the parlfh regifter is 1603.
Average of Baptifms.-
— 52
— 134
152
131
The early part of the regifter appears to have been accurately kept,
as it does during the greater part of the prefent century ; but the in-
termediate period is too defedive to admit of forming any average
of burials, nor is that of baptifms by any means fatisfadtory. The
population of this place appears to have increafed in a proportion of
nearly four to one fince the beginning of the laft century. The
great numbers of children who are brought into this parifh to be
1603— 1612
1680— 1689
1780 — 1789
1790
1791
Average of Burials.
146
114
'59
*^ Annals, p. 972. 410. ♦' Athen. Oxon. vol. i. col. 234. iftedit, « Ibid. vol. ii. fafti.
nurfed,
WANDSWORTH. 511
nurfed, many of whom die and are buried here, will account for
the average of burials exceedinc; that of baptifms. The prefent Prcfentnum-
° t> r i berofhoufes
number of houfes, exclufive of the workhoufe of this parifh, and andinhabU
that of St. Mary le Strand, is 689. Of thefe 26 are empty, 1 1 of them
being newly built. The inhabitants having been accurately num-
bered by Mr. Spencer, mafter of the charity-fchool, in the month
of July 1792, were found to amount to 4,554. In this number
are included 367 children at the various boarding-fchools, and 46
poor belonging to the parifh of St. Mary le Strand, and lodged in
their workhoufe. In that of Wandfworth are at prefent 91 poor.
Mr. Spencer has remarked, in his lift of the inhabitants, that the
number of lodgers amounted to 843 ; that of fervants to 460.
There are about 20 families of the people called Quakers in this Qijakers*
^^ meeting-
place, and two fchools for children of that perfuafion. They have houfe.
a meeting-houfe here alio attended by a numerous congregation ;
adjoining which is a fmall burial-ground, given by Joan Stringer
in the year 1697. Very few perfons are buried there annually,
perhaps not more than five on an average. The meeting-houfe was
rebuilt in the year 1787.
The plague appears to have been particularly fatal at Wandfworth ; Plague
the number of perfons who died of that diftemper at various pe-
riods is thus fpecified in the regifter :
In 1603 — 100 In 1665 — 245
1604 — 25 1666 — 99
1625 — 52
Mention is made of a few perfons who died of the plague in the
years 1636, 1641, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1647, and 1648. Itfeems,
by the following entries in the churchwardens' accounts, that this
diftemper was very fatal in the year 1 643 :
jT. s. d.
*' For burying divers perfons who died of the plague o 14 4
" For ftrong waters for the fick at feveral times 051
" For figning the afTeffment for the vifited poor."
Among
512 W A N D S W O R T H.
Among the perfons who died of the plague in 1 66^ are " the
" Ladie Henderfon, buried Aug. 19," and " Mr. Richard Bowden,
" (Dr. of phyfick) buried Odl. 10." Several of thofe who fell vic-
tims to this fatal malady in 1665 and 1666 were buried at the
peft-houfe and in the fields adjoining.
Extra&s from the regtjler.
" Alice Palladaye, widow, aged 114 years, buried Mar. 25, 1622."
Inftances of i i • i tn r i'>
longevity. " Mr. Thomas Tayer, aged loi, buried Dec. 30, 1053.
" Mary Crofs, widow, aged 102 years, buried Aug. 5, 1760."
" Henry Smith, Efq. was buried the 14th day of Feb. 1627-8."
Mr. Smith, whofe name is well known on account of his various
Henry '
Smith's cha- benefadions to the poor, died at his houfe in Silver-ftreet on the
30th of January, and his funeral " was worfhipfuUy folemnlzed at
*' Wandfworth, it being his defire to be there buried, becaufe it
*' was the place of his nativity '°." He was once married, but his
wife dying many years before him without iflue ", he made over his
eftate real and perfonal, in the year 1620, to truftees for charitable pur-
pofes, referving out of the profits thereof 500 1. per annum for his
own maintenance. By his laft will, bearing date Apr. 24, 1627, he
bequeathed legacies to various perfons to the amount of nearly
1,000 1. among which was 200 1. to the Countefs of Dorfet, and lool.
to Lady Delaware ; i,oool. to his nephew, Henry Jackfon ; 1,000 1.
to his poor relations; 1 0,000 1. to buy impropriations for godly
preachers; 150 1. to found a fellowfhip in Cambridge; for his own
kindred ; 1,000 1. to redeem poor captives taken by Turkifh pirates ;
500I. to the parifli of Wandfworth; i,oool. to Richmond ; and i,oool,
to Reigate to buy lands of inheritance for the ufe of the poor; the
refidue of his eftates real and perfonal he bequeathed to his executors
to be allotted to the poor of various parifhes according to their dif-
cretion. In this diftribution the county of Surrey has been princi-
pally regarded. It may be obferved, that whenever it has been aflerted
'° Funeral certificate, Heralds* College. " Ibid.
that
WANDSWORTH.
513
that Mr. Smith left a fum of money to any of the parifhes here men-
tioned, (though they have recorded it as a fpecific bequeft in their re-
fpe£live tables of benefactions,) it is erroneous, and would have been
more accurately ftated if it had been faid that they received it as an allot-
ment out of Mr. Smith's charity. It may be colledled from his will and
declaration of ufes, that his objedt was to fet fuch poor people to work as
were able; to relieve the impotent with clothes and provifions; to educate
children, and to bind them apprentices. A fcheduleoftheprefent amount
of the allotment to each parifli mentioned in this volume, as paid in the
year 1791, (obligingly communicated by William Bray, £fq. of Great
Ruflel-ftreet, the treafurer,) is given in the note '°, with the names
Bexhill, Suflex.
Kemfing, Kent; Reigate, Surrey, &c.
Ibid.
Bexhill.
Kemfing, &c.
Bexhill.
Worth, Suffex.
Bexhill.
Kemfing.
Warbleton, Suffex.
Bexhill.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Kemfing, &c.
Ibid.
Iwood, Suffex.
Kemfing, &c.
Kemfing, &c. and Tellefcomb, Suffex.
Kemfing, &c.
Ibid.
Bexhill.
Ibid.
Stoughton, Leicefterftiire.
Kemfing, &c.
The allotments to Richmond and Wandfworth are exclufive of the fums left to thofe places by
Mr. Smith's will. The eftate at Bexhill being a fee-farm rent, is not improveable; a part
of the Kent eftate having been advantageoufly exchanged with the Duke of Dorfet for lands
at Reigate, the allotments paid out of it are much augmented, and are capable of further
improvement. The parifties of Kingjlon and Croydon have their eftates in their own hands, and
receive therefore nothing from the truftees. The parilh of Streatham, in addition to the fum
above-mentioned, receives about 4I. per annum, out of an eftate at Longney in Gioucefter-
Ihire, which, from eventual circumftances, produced nothing in the year 1 791.
L-
s.
d.
5° Addimgton
I
0
0
Barnes - - .
s
•3
0
Batterfea
7
10
0
Beddington
z
0
0
Camberwell
7
10
0
Carfhalton
z
0
0
Cheam
4
12
0
Clapham
z
0
0
Lambeth
i3
16
0
Maiden
I
10
0
Merton
I
0
0
Mitcham
4
0
0
Morden
I
0
0
Mortlake
5
13
0
Newington Butts
18
16
0
Peterlham
5
'4
0
Putney t
II
6
0
Richmond
97
0
0
Rotherhithe
18
16
0
Streatham
5
'3
0
Sutton
z
0
0
Tooting
z
0
0
Wandfworth
27
0
0
Wimbledon
5
'3
0
Vol. I.
U
of
514 WANDSWORTH.
of the eftates out of which they iflue. The ftory of Smith's having
been a beggar refts upon a very vague tradition : its fallacy, as far
as relates to his excluding Mitcham from the benefits of his charity
becaufe he was whipped out of that parifh, may be deduced from
the foregoing account. It appears, neverthelefs, that he was a per-
fon of very humble extraftion, from his leaving money to his poor
kindred, viz. fuch as were aged, impotent, and unable to help
themfelves. Upon being alked, which of his poor kindred he meant ?
he faid, the pooreft of his fifters' children, and their children fuc-
ceflively ". Mr. Smith was buried in the chancel ; on his tomb is
the following infcription :
" Depofitum Henr. Smith, Senatoris Londinenfis.
" Mole fub hac quaeris quis conditur, optime ledlor,
*' Cujus et qualis, quantus in orbe fuit.
*' A dextris muri, ftatuam tu cernere poflis
" Oranti fimilem, marmore de Pario ;
" Subter quam ftatuam cernatur tabula fculpta
" Auratis verbis quae tibi cundla notant,"
On the eaft wall a monument has been ere£ted to his memory,
with his effigies kneeling at a defk in the attitude of devotion j
underneath is a tablet Infcribed as follows :
" Here lyeth the body of Henry Smith, Efq. fometime citizen
*' and alderman of London, who departed this life the 30th day of
" January A° Dom. 1627, being then neere the age of 79 yeares,
** whome while he lived gave unto thefe feveral townes in Surrey
" following : — One thoufand pounds apeece to buy lands for per-
" petulty for the reliefe and fetting poore people on worke in the
*' faid townes, viz. to the towne of Croydon, one thoufand pounds ;
" to the towne of Kingfton, one thoufand pounds ; to the towne
" of Guildford, one thoufand pounds ; to the towne of Darking,
" See the codicil to his will.
" one
WANDSWORTH. 515
" one thoufand pounds; to the towne of Farnham, one thoufand
" pounds ; and by his laft will and teftament did farther give and
" devife, to buy lands for perpetuity and fetting the poore a-worke,
" unto the towne of Reigate, one thoufand pounds ; to the towne
" of Richmond, one efpecialtye or debt of a thoufand pounds ; and
" unto this towne of Wandfworth, wherein he was borne, the
" fum of five hundred pounds, for the fame ufe as before; and
*' did further will and bequeath one thoufand pounds to buy lands
" for perpetuity, to redeem poore captives and prilbners from the
*' Turkifli tyranny ; and not here Hinting his charity and bounty,
" did alfo give and bequeath the moft part of his eftate, being to a
" great value, for the purchafing lands of inheritance for ever for
*' the relief of the poor and fetting them a-vvorke : a patterne worthy
" the imitation of thofe whom God has bleffed with the abundance
" of the goods of this life to follow him therein."
" Sarah, daughter of Praife Barbone, was buried Ap. 13, 1635." Pralfe Bar-
It is probable that this was the celebrated Puritan, commonly called
*' Praife God Barbone," a diftinguiflied member of the parliament
which took its name from him. He was a leather-feller in Fleet-
ftreet'\
" Sir Thomas Brodrick, Knt. buried Feb. 4, 164 1-2.'*
" Allan Brodrick Lord Vifcount Midleton, buried June 13th,
" '747'"
" George Brodrick Vifcount Midleton, aged ^St buried Aug.
" 28, 1765."
Several others, of the Brodrick family have been interred at
Wandfworth : — Sir Allan Brodrick, Knt. who died Nov. 25, and Sir Allan
was buried here Dec. 3, 1680, was furveyor-general of the king-
dom of Ireland. Anthony Wood fays, that he was endowed with
a poetical wit, of which feveral fpecimens were extant ". His
burial is not entered in the regifter.
'* Clarendon'sHiftory of the Rebellion, vol.iii. p. 482. 8vo. " Atl»en. Oxon. vol. ii. fafti.
3 U 2 « Dr.
5i6 ' W A N D S W O R t H.
Tobias Whit- " Dr. Tobias Whlttaker primarle phyfician to his Maj' houfhold,
" buried May 19, 1666." He wrote upon the fmall-pox, and was
author alfo of " A Difcourfe of Waters ;" and a treatife on " the
" poflibility of maintaining human life (without ficknefs) from in-
" fancy to extreme old age, by the ufe of wine."
" Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, fons of John Rowton, were bap-
*' tifed Jan. 25, 1693-4."
"David Montolieu, Baron de St. Hyppoiite, aged 93, buried
« June 16, 1761."
" The honourable Alice Scot, relid of Francis, late Duke of Buc-
" cleugh, aged 6t„ buried Dec. 13, 1765."
Churchwar- The churchwardcns accounts in this parifh begin in the year
dens' ac- , • i ,- i i i i i • i
counts. 1 590* It appears by a mmute m thefe books, that the bridge over
the Wandle was built at the expence of Queen Elizabeth, between
the 1 8th and 25th of July 1602 '*.
1607, Paid the ringers for ringing that day our King, ^T. s, d.
" with the King of Denmark, came through the
" towne — — — — 0012
1619. When the Queen's Ma''' dined in
" the towne — — 040
1630. Given by confent to a poor minifter who
" preached in our church — — — 026
In the year 1638 the inhabitants were afleffed 3s. for the King's
hounds. During the civil war are entries of various fums of money
paid for complying with the ordinances of thofe times.
Charity- William Wickes, by his will bearing date 17 10, bequeathed 200 I.
towards ralfmg a fum of money for purchafing lands of inheritance
of 25 1. yearly value to clothe and educate 25 boys. Various perfons
having contributed towards the accomplifhment of this objed, an
eftate was purchafed at Afhurft in Kent, which was vefted in truftees,
'♦ It was widened, and in a great meafure rebuilt, in 1757.
and
((
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WANDSWORTH. 517
and the fchool eftablirtied in the year 1720. Other benefadions
having fince accrued, there is now 300 1. in the flocks belonging
to this charity, with the intereft of which, joined to the colledllon at
an annual ferraon, the truftees are enabled to increafe the number of
children to ^S' The fchool-houfe, in which the mafter lives rent-
free, was leafed to the truftees of the charity by Lord Midleton, upon
their paying an annual acknowledgment of five {hillings.
Mr. Henry Smith left the fum of 500 1. to purchafe lands of in- Benefadions.
heritance for the relief of the poor of this place. Mrs. Elizabeth
Blackwell, having left 100 1. for the fame purpofe, the parifh, with
thefe two fums, and 60I. more added by themfelves, bought an eftate
at Carfhalton which formerly let for 40 1. per annum, but now pro-
duces 86 1. The parifh receives an allotment alfo from the truftees
of Mr. Smith's charities, which is paid out of an eftate at Stoughton
in Leicefterfhire ; this was formerly 16I. per annum, now about 28 1.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyroe, in 1625, left a houfe at Wandfworth to the
poor, which in 1705 let at 61. 4s. per annum. Mrs. Sufanna Powell
left an annuity of 20 1. i6s. ifliiing out of the profits of the redtory
to be diftributed thus: — Four-pence in bread, and four-pence in
money, to 24 poor widows, 1 2 on each Sunday alternately. The fame
perfon bequeathed 40 s. per annum ifTuing out of the fame recStory
to bind a poor child apprentice. Sir Allan Brodrick, about the year
1680, gave to this parifh the intereft of 360 1. ; 5 1. of which he di-
rected to be paid to the mlnifter for reading prayers ; 20 s. to the
fexton, and fix fhillings a week to be divided among fuch of the poor
as attended daily prayers. An eftate at Wjllfden which was pur-
chafed with this money now produces 39 1. 13 s. 4d. per annum.
Mr. Nicholas Tonnet, in 1680, gave the fum of 200 1. to the poor
of Wandfworth. Mr. W. Ford, in 1681, the fum of lool. to be
laid out in lands for the poor. Some of thefe legacies have been
confiderably improved.
Mr.
5^8
WANDSWORTH.
Mr. Milling-
ton's bene-
faflion.
Garrett.
Garrett
eledion.
Wandfworth
kills.
"Mr. Rucker.
Mr. Francis Millington left the profits of an eftate to purchafe a
coat annually, and to diftribute portions of 4 1. each to feamen and
watermen of this parifti of the age of 50 years and upwards. This
benefadtion was at firft diftributed among four perfons only, but the
revenues of the eftate being improved, its benefits are now extended
to ten.
The parifli have fome other eftates not appropriated to any par-
ticular purpofe, and they receive 50 1. per annum from the Right
Honourable Earl Spencer, for land belonging to the parifh, which he
has inclofed in his park.
The hamlet of Garrett appears to have been about two centuries ago
a fingle houfe called " the Garvett "." It now contains about fifty
houfes, and is well known as the fcene of a mock election which
took place there for many years upon the meeting of every new
parliament ; when feveral well-known charadters in low-life ap-
peared as candidates, being furnifhed with fine clothes and gay
equipages for the occafion by the publicans, who made a good harveft:
of the day's frolic. This piece of burlefque had been fome time in
the decline, it was wholly dropped at the laft general eledion, and a
ftiort time hence perhaps its memory will be preferved only in Foote's
diverting comedy of the Mayor of Garrett.
Upon the hills on each fide of Wandfworth are feveral good
houfes, which command a fine profpedt over the river Thames, the
metropolis, and a great part of the county of Middlefex.
A very handfome villa has been lately built by Mr. Gibfon of
Hackney, for John Anthony Rucker, Efq. It ftands near Lord
Spencer's park, on the fite of a houfe which was built for the prefent
Lady Rivers, and lately occupied by Lord Stormont. Its elevated
fituation renders it a confpicuous objedl in the neighbourhood, and
gives it the advantage of a beautiful profpedt.
" Records of the manor of Dunsford.
[ 519 ]
WIMBLEDON.
IT Is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently Name,
written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its
early proprietors. I have feen ancient records in which the name
of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language fignifies a hill.
Wimbledon lies in the weftern divifion of Brixton hundred, and Situation,
is fituated about feven miles from Hyde-park-corner, being three and extent!
miles fouth of Putney. The parifh is bounded by thofe of Merton,
Wandfworth, Putney, and Kingfton. In a furvey of the manor, dated
1612, this parifli is faid to contain 1648 acres of cultivated land;
its whole extent is now calculated at about 2,800 acres, of which
about 800 are arable; 1,000 pafture ; 100 meadow; 400 com-
mon; and 500 wood. It may be obferved, that this calculation in-
cludes 800 acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which 600 are pafture
and 200 arable. Two hundred acres of the wood are inclofed and
regularly cut, the remaining 300 acres conftitute part of Wimble-
don Common.
The foil of this parifh is very various, confifting of gravel ; clay ; Soil.
black fand upon a ftratum of gravel ; black mould upon gravel and
clay ; fandy loam upon a clay bottom ; and ftrong loam upon the
fame ; the meadows are black moor earth. In feveral parts of the
parifh the fprings are very near the furface, and the ground fwampy '.
Wim-
' For this accurate account of the proportion man, who is a very fcientific farmer, has
and quality of the land, and the nature of the introduced upon his premifes one of the newly-
foil, I am indebted to Mr. Paterfon, who rents invented mills for threfhing corn. Thefe mills
a very large farm in the parifli. This gentle- are worked by two and fometimes three
horfes.
520 WIMBLEDON.
Wimbledon is charged the fum of 471 1. 8 s. to the land-tax, which,
in the year 1791, was at jhe rate of 4s. in the pound.
Circular At the fouth-weft angle of Wimbledon-common is a circular
^^'^^' encampment with a fingle ditch ; it includes a furface of about
feven acres ; the trench is deep and remains very perfect. Camden,
who fays that this camp was called in his time Benfbury, is of opi-
nion * that this was the fite of a battle between Ceaulin King of the -
Weft Saxons, and Ethelbert King of Kent, in which the latter was
defeated ; and which is faid to have been fought in the year 568, at
a place called Wibandune \ In this engagement two of Ethelbert's
generals, Oflac and Cnebba, were flain.
On the fame common, near the village, is a well, the water of
which is never known to freeze in the moft fevere winter.
Horfe-races. In the early part of the prefent century there were annual races
upon this common, which had then a King's plate *.
The manor. It has been before obferved, that In all the very ancient records
Wimbledon is defcribed as a grange or farm within the manor of
Mortlake, which accounts for its being omitted in the Conqueror's
furvey. Archbiftiop Cranmer, whofe predecefTors had been poffefled
of this manor from the time of the Conqueft \ exchanged it for other
lands with Henry VIIL, who foon afterwards granted it to Thomas
Cromwell Earl of Eflex*. After his attainder it was fettled upon
Queen Catherine Parr for her life'. Queen Mary granted it to
horfes, and they require the attendance of ' Sax. Chron. p. 21, 22. Scriptores poll
three men. They are found to feparate the Bedam, p. 834.
corn more effeftually from the ftraw than it can * Read's Weekly Journal, Aug. 30, Sep. 6,
be done by common threfhing ; and their ad- 17 1 8.
vantage in point of expedition and the faving ^ Archbilhop Iflippe leafed all his demefne
of manual labour is fuch, that it is calcu- lands to the Prior and Convent of Merton for
lated that one of them will threlh 10 quarters 30 years. Pat. 38Edw.III. pt. I. m. 34.
of wheat, or 20 quarters of oats, beans, or * Court-rolls of the manor.
peas in a day. Mr. Paterfon's mill was con- ^ P- R- 3^ Hen. VIII. Rot. 44. Lord
ftruded by Mr. Ruftick of Morpeth. Treafurer's Remembrancer's-ofEce.
* Vol. i. p. 170. Cough's edition.
Cardinal
\V I M B L E D O N. 521
Cardinal Pole '. Her fucceflbr Elizabeth firft gave it to Sir Chrlf-
topher Hatton '° ; and again, in the 32d year of her reign, to Sir
Thomas Cecil, afterwards Earl of Exeter, in exchange for an eftate in
Lincolnfhire ". His father. Lord Burleigh, had a grant of lands at LprdBur-
leigh.
Wimbledon in the reign of Edward VI. '' ; and it appears from the
date of feme of his letters, that he refided there when he was Sir William
Cecil and fecretary of ftate '\ It is probable, notwithftanding the
grant was made in his fon's name, that he lived occafionally at the
manor houfe. In the year 1599 he entertained Queen Elizabeth at Vifit of
his houfe at Wimbledon for three days'*. The Earl of Exeter left beth.
this eftate to his third fon Sir Edward Cecil, who was created a peer sir Edward
■with the title of Vifcount Wimbledon, and Baron Putney. Imme-
diately after his deceafe, which happened in 1638, the manor was
fold by his heirs to Henry Earl of Holland, and others, truftees for
Queen Henrietta Maria ". The manfion at Wimbledon is mentioned Qij^en Hen-
^ rietta Mana.
among the houfes belonging to the crown in the inventory of
Charles the Firft's jewels and pictures '*. It is worthy of remark, that
this unfortunate monarch was fo little aware of the fate preparing
for him by his enemies, that a few days before he was brought to
trial, he ordered the feeds of fome Spanifh melons to be planted
in his garden at Wimbledon '\ When the crown lands were put
up to fale, this manor, valued at 386I. 19s. 8 d. per annum, was
bought by Adam Baynes, Efq. of Knowftrop in the county of York,
at 1 8 years purchafe '^ It is probable that it was fold by him to General
' Orig. 3 & 4 P. & M. pt. 2. Rot. 31. is the following entry, 1599: — " Paid for
Ibid. " mending the wayes, when the Queen went
'° Recital of the grant (18 Eliz.) among " from Wimbledon to Nonfuch, zod."
records of the manor. '' This and the fubfequent alienations were
" Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 17. Mar. 6. obligingly communicated by the ftevvard of the
•* Mentioned among the records of the manor.
manor. " Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 66.
" Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. N° 6990, '" Collins 's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 181. E.x-
'♦ Queen Elizabeth's Progrefles, vol. ii. — traft of a letter from Sir John Temple.
In the churchwardens' accounts, at King Hon, '^ Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office.
Vol. I. 3 X Lambert,
522 W I M B L E D O N.
General Lambert, who was lord of the manor in the year i6c6". " Lam-
Lambert. ^ J J .
" bert," fays Coke, author of a book called the Detedion, *' after he
*' had been difcarded by Cromwell, betook himfelf to Wimbledon-
*' houfe, where he turned florift, and had the fineft tulips and giU
*' liflowers that could be got for love or money ; yet in thefe out-
*' ward pleafures he nourifhed the ambition which he entertained
*' before he was cafhiered by Cromwell "." General Lambert was
not only a cultivator of flowers, but excelled in painting them ; fome
fpecimens of his (kill in that art remained for many years at Wim^
bledon ". After the return of Charles II. this manor was reftored to
the Queen, of whom it was purchafed in the year 1661 by the
Earl of Bedford, and others, as truftees for George Digby Earl of
Briftol, and his heirs ". His Lordfhip's widow fold it to Thomas
Earl of Danby, the lord treafurer, who was afterwards created Duke
of Leeds. The Duke, by his will, bearing date Jan. 21, 1 711, left
this eftate in truft to Montagu Earl of Abingdon and others ; they,
by virtue of a decree in Chancery, fold it in the year 1717 to
Sir Theodore Janflen, Bart, who becoming deeply involved in
the unfortunate South-Sea adventure, it was again put up to fale,
and purchafed by Sarah Duchefs of Marlborough for 15,000!.*'
Her Grace gave it to her grandfon John Spencer, Efq. grandfather
of the Right Honorable George John Earl Spencer, the prefent pro-
prietor.
This manor was valued in Edward the ConfefTor's time at 32 1. per
annum ^* ; when the furvey of Doomfday was taken, at 38 1. ; and be-
tween thofe periods, at only 10 1. ; in 1291, at 20I. *'; in Archbifhop
Bourchier's time, at 47 1. 17 s. 8d. "; when the grant was made to
" Court-rolls of the manor. South-Sea diredors.
" P. 406. '♦ Record of Doomfday.
*' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 155. *' See note, p. 10.
" Records of the manor. " Cart. Mifcellan. Lamb. MS. Library,
" Particulars of fale of the eftates of the vol. xiii. N» 14.
Sir
WIMBLEDON. 523
Sir Chrlftopher Hatton, at 98 1. 3 s. 44 ^' "> ^^^ when the crown-
lands were fold, in 1650, at 386I. 19s. 8d. "
The following cuftoms formerly prevailed in this manor, fome Cuftomsof
rr • r n • c ^^^ manor.
of which have now neceflarily ceafed : — On the nrlt coming of every
new archbifliop, each cuftomary tenant was obliged to prefent him
with " a gyfte called faddle fylver, accuftomed to be five marks ;"
every perfon who held two yard-lands, or 30 acres, was liable to
ferve the office of beadle; and thofe who held three yard-lands, the
office of reeve or provoft. Upon the death of every freeholder the
lord was entitled to " his beft horfe, faddyl, brydell, fpere, fvvorde,
*' boots, fpores and armure, if he any fhould have*'." Lands in
this manor defcend to the youngeft fon.
The manor-houfe, which was purchafed of Sir Chriftopher Hat- Manor.
ton by Sir Thomas Cecil, fome years before he obtained a grant of
the manerial eftate '", was rebuilt by him in the year 1588". It ""ebuiitb
1588 ;
received confiderable damage by the accidental blowing up of fome
gunpowder in the year 1628'*. It was upon its being repaired injured by an
after this accident, perhaps, that the outfide was painted in frefco gunpowder.
by Francis Cleyne ". Fuller calls Wimbledon-houfe " a daring ftriic-
" ture ;" and fays, that by fome it has been thought to equal Non-
fuch, if not to exceed it ^*. A very accurate and minute furvey of Surveyofthe
the houfe and premifes was taken by order of parliament in the year in 16+9.
1649, ^^^ original of which is depofited in the Augmentation-office.
It was read at the Society of Antiquaries in the month of November
*' Recital of the grant among the records of " ble year in ivhich the Spaniards attempted
the manor. '• but in vain to invade England." See Au-
" Particulars of Sale, Augmentation-office, brey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 15.
'» Paper among fome records of the manor, 3=- Continuation of Stow's Annals. It is re-
copied from the Black Book in the ArchbiiTiop markable that Wimbledon-houfe. in London,
of Canterbury's Office of Record. was burnt the fame year.
" Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Muf 3' Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 128.
N" 4705, Ayfcough's Cat. Aubrey alfo mentions its being adorned with
^' There was an infcription in Latin over frefco of two colours, yellow and burnt-okcr.
the door to the following purport: — " That 3* Worthies, pt. 3. p. 78.
" the houfe was built in 1588, that memora-
3X2 laft,
524 WIMBLEDON.
laft, and is now printed in the tenth volume of the Archseologla.
The following account of the fingular afcent to the north front will
be found to correfpond with the annexed plate, which is copied
from an extremely rare if not an unique print in the pofleflion of
Richard Bull, Efq. to whofe liberality I am indebted for the ufe
of it ". The furvey, after mentioning two courts, one lying higher
than the other by an afcent of twenty-fix fteps, continues thus : —
Defcription " The fcite of this manor-houfe being placed on the fide flipp of
" a rifing ground, renders it to ftand of that height that, be-
" twixt the bafis of the brick- wall of the fayd lower court, and the
" hall door of the fayd manor-houfe, there are five feverall aflents,
*' confifting of three-fcore and ten ftepps, which are diftinguifhed ia
*' a very graceful manner; to witt, from the parke to a payre of
" rayled gates, fet betwixt two large pillers of brick j in the mid-
" die of the wall ftanding on the north fide of the fayd lower
" court is the firft affent, confifting of eight ftepps, of good free-
*' ftone, layed in a long fquare, within which gates, levell with the
" higheft of thofe eight ftepps, is a pavement of freeftone, leading
»* ro a payr of iron gates rayled on each fide thereof with turned
" ballafters of freeftone, within which is a little paved court leading
" to an arched vault neatly pillowred with brick, conteyning on each
" fide of the pillers a little roome well arched, ferving for celleridge
*' of botteled wines ; on each fide of this vault are a payre of
" ftaires of ftone ftepps, twentie-three ftepps in aflTent, eight foote
*' nine inches broad ; meeting an even landing-place in the height
" thereof, leading from the forefayd gates unto the lower court, and
" make the fecond aflent ; from the height of this aftent a pave-
" ment of Flanders brickes thirteene foot fix inches broad, leading
" The infcription under this print is as fol- " Garter, 1678; to whofe Lordfhip this plate
lows :—" Wimbledon, in Surrey, fix miles dif- " is dedicated by his Honor's moft humble
" tant from London, the manfion-boufe be- " fervant, Henry Winftanly, at Littlebury in
" longing to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Earle of " Effex, fecit." Size of the plate 145 inches
Danby, Lord High Treafurer of England, by 1 1 {'.
*' and Knight of the moft honorable order of the
ti
to
WIMBLEDON. 525
" to the third aflent, which ftands on the fouth fide of the lower
*• courte, confifting of a round modell, in the middle whereof is a
" payre of iron gates rayled as aforefayd, within which is a foun-
** tayne fitted with a leaden ceflerne fed with a pipe of lead ; this
•' round conteynes a payre of ftone ftayres of 26 ftepps in
*' affent, ordered and adorned as the fecond affent is, and leades into
*' the fayd higher courte, and foe makes the third affent ; from the
*' height whereof a pavement of fquare ftone nine foote broad and
*' eightie-feaven foote long leades up to the fowerth aflent, which
" confifts of eleven ftepps of freeftone very well wrought and or-
" dered, leading into a gallery paved with fquare ftone, fixtie-two
" foote long and eight foote broad ; adjoyning to the body of the
*' fayd manor-houfe towards the fouth, and rayled with turned
" ballafters of ftone towards the north ; in the middle of this
" gallery, the hall-doore of the fayd manor-houfe, the fabrick
*' whereof is of columns of freeftone very well wrought, doth ftand,
*' into which hall from the faid gallery is an afl'ent of two ftepps.
" From the forementioned firft aflTent there is a way cut forth of the
" parke, planted on each fide thereof with elmes and other trees, in
" a very decent order, extending itfelf in a direct line two hundred
*' thirty-one perches from thence quite through the parke north-
" ward unto Putney-common, being a very fpecial ornament to
*' the whole houfe."
The Survey defcribes on the ground-floor, " a roome called the
<(
Stone Gallery, 108 foote long, feeled over head, pillored and arched Stone gal-
lery,
with gray marble, waynfcotted round with oake waynfcott var-
" nifhed with greene and fpotted with ftarrs of gould, and benched
*' all along the fides and angles thereof;" in the middle was
" a grottoe wrought in the arch and fides thereof with fundry
" forts of fhells of great luftre and ornament, formed into the
" ftiapes of men, lyons, ferpents, antick formes, and other rare de-
" vices;"
526
WIMBLEDON.
Chapel.
Lower par-
lour.
Balcony-
room.
Stone gal-
lery.
Stair cafes.
** vices ;*' alfo " fortie fights of feeing- glafs fett together in one
" frame, much adorning and fetting forth the fplendour of the
" roome." In the hall was " a table of one intire peece of wood,
"21 foote long and 6 inches thick." The cicling was " of fret or
*' parge work, in the very middle whereof was fixed one well-
" wrought landfkip, and round the fame in convenient diftances
" feven other pidlures in frames, as ornaments to the whole roome ;
*' the floor was of black and white marble." In this room was alfo
" a fayre and riche payre of organs." The chapel is defcribed as
paved with black and white marble, the roof was " a quadrate arch"
painted with landfcapes, as were alfo the fide-walls above the
wainfcot. The lower parlour was " waynfcotted with oake adorned
" with ftarres and crofs patees of gould, the ceding thereof a qua-
" drat arch, in the middle of which (hung) one pinnacle perpendicu-
*' lar, garnifhed in every angle with coates of armes well-wrought
" and richly guilt." Near this was the balcony-room, the cieling of
which alfo was " a quadrat arch, garnifhed and adorned in the
" angles with variety of feveral kinds of curious works." On the
fame, that is, the firft floor, were the King's chamber, the Queen's
chamber, and feveral other rooms, in one of which was " a lytle
" wyndow to looke into the greate kitchen." On this floor was alfo
a ftone gallery 62 feet long, on the walls of which were many
" compendious fentences." At the eafl: and wefl end of the houfe
were two ftaircafes 20 feet fquare, " topped with turrets of a great
" height, covered with blue flate ; in the middle pinnacles whereof
" (ftood) two faier gilded wether-cocks, perfpicuous to the countrie
" round about." The weft fi:aircafe contained 82 fteps, the eaft
ftairs, ;^;^. " Thefe ftaires," fays the Survey, " are adorned with one
" large picture of Henry the Fourth of France in armes on horfeback,
" fet in a large frame ; placed at the head thereof, and with land-
*' fkipps of battayles, anticks, heaven and hell, and other curious
*' works J under the ftaires is a little compleate room called the
« Den
17^
.'*^*^??^
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WIMBLEDON. 527
" Den of Lyons, paynted round with lyons and leopards." The
great gallery on the fecond floor was 109 feet 8 inches long, and P^^^'^^^^'e
21 feet I inch broad, " floored with cedar-boards cafting a pleafant fecond floor.
** fmell, feeled and bordered with fret-work well-wrought, very
" well lighted, and waynfcotted round with well-wroughte oake
"13 foot 6 inches high, garnifhed with fillets of gould on the
" pillers, and ftarrs and crofs patees on the panes, in the middle
" whereof is a very fayre and large chimnie-piece of black and
" whyte marble ingraved with coates of armes adorned with feveral
" curious and well-guilded ftatues of alablafter, with a foot-pace of
*' black and whyte marble." Near this gallery was a room called Summer
the Summer Chamber, 45 feet long and 20 broad, floored alfo with
cedar, " well feeled with fret-work, in the middle whereof (was
" fixed) apidure of good workmanfhip reprefenting a flying angel."
On this floor were feveral other rooms, among which was one
called the Duchefs's Chamber, another the Countefs of Denbigh's
Chamber, another the Lord Willoughby's. The whole houfe is faid
to have been of excellent good brick, " the angles, window-fl.aun-
" chions and jawmes all of afliler ftone." The leads and battlements
of the roof are defcribed as having been a great ornament to the
whole houfe. The furveyors valued the houfe alone at 150 1. per
annum, and reported the materials to be worth 2,840!. 7 s. 1 1 d.
The fecond plate of Wimbledon-houfe, here annexed, reprefents the
garden front : it is copied from another rare print in the pofl'efllon
of Richard Bull, Efq. '"
In the furvey of the gardens, &c. " the orangerie" is faid to Gardens.
Orangerie.
contam 42 orange trees in boxes, valued at lol. each ; " one lem-
i(
mon tree bearing greate and very large lemmons," valued at 20 1. ;
3' The following infcription is under this " towards the orange-garden ; and with a
plate: — " Wimbledon as it is feen from the " view of the orange-garden and orange-houfe.
" great walk of trees in the principal garden, " Henry Winflanley, at Littleljury in EfTex,
" with a fide profped of that part which is " fecit." Size of the plate 17 inches by 7 |.
*' one
:28
WIMBLEDON.
Large fig-
trees.
Irifli arbutis.
Fruit trees.
Manor-houfe
pulled down
and rebuilt.
Burnt by ac-
cident in
1785.
The park.
" one pomecltron tree," valued at lol. ; " fix pomegranet trees,"
valued at 3 1. each; and 18 young orange-trees, valued at 5I. each.
The furvey mentions " three great and fayer fig-trees, the branches
*' whereof by the fpreading and dilating of themfelves in a very large
" proporcion, but yet in a moft decent manner, (covered) a very
*' greate part of the walls of the fouth fide of the manor-houfe." In
the feveral gardens, which confided of mazes, wildernefles, knots,
allies, &c. are mentioned a great variety of fruit trees, and fome
fhrubs ; particularly " a faire bay-tree," valued at 1 1. and one very
fayer tree called " the Irifli arbutis, very lovely to looke upon, and
" worth I 1. IDS." Above 1000 fruit trees are enumerated, among
which is every fort now cultivated except the necflarine. Mention is
made of a mufkmilion ground, " at the end of the kitchen-garden,
" trenched, manured, and very well ordered for the growth of muf-
" muions.
Wimbledon-houfe was pulled down by the Duchefs of Marlborough
in the early part of the prefent century, and rebuilt upon or near the
fite, after a defign of the Earl of Pembroke. This houfe, of which
there is a view in the Vitruvlus Britannicus", was burnt down by
accident upon Eafter-Monday, in the year 1785. The ruins were
cleared away, and the ground levelled and turfed, fo as to leave
fcarcely a trace of its foundation. Some of the offices which were
preferved from the flames have been elegantly fitted up, and are ufed
as an occafional retirement by Lord Spencer's family. The fituation
is fingularly eligible, having a beautiful home profpe£t of the park,
with a fine piece of water towards the north, and an cxtenfive
view over the county of Surrey on the fouth.
The park, which contains about 1,200 acres, exhibits a beautiful
variety of furface, and was planted and laid out with much tafte by
Brown.
" Vol, V. p. 21, 22.
John
Pigure oil GJafs, m Wimbledon Cliurcli
T<,hhjfiJ .%. rfttJ.i .tirf.t.r JUtir,'^ i.r^^.M- T ta,Ml..ffai<.
WIMBLEDON. 529
John Lynton, at the time of the furvey above-mentioned, held
certain lands of the lord by the fervice of rendering annually four
horfe-fhoes ^^
It appears by a record in the cartulary of the fee of Canter-
bury ^", that Peter de Eggeblanche, or Equeblank, who was Bifhop
of Hereford from 1240 to 1269, held a houfe at Wimbledon under
the archbifhop.
The church ftands near the fite of the manor-houfe, and at a con- The church,
fiderable diftance from the principal part of the village. A church
is mentioned in the Conqueror's furvey as within the manor, which
muft have been that of Wimbledon, as there was no church at
Mortlake till the reign of Edward III. *° Archbifhop Peckham held
an ordination at Wimbledon in 1286*'. The church has lately been
rebuilt with grey- flock bricks, at the expence of about 2,200 1.
The new church, which was opened July 7, 1788, is fitted up in
the Grecian ftyle, and has galleries on the north, weft, and fouth
fides. At the weft end is a circular projedion, on which is a fquare
wooden tower with Gothic pinnacles of artificial ftone, and in the
centre a taper fpire covered with copper.
In the chancel, which underwent no alteration at the rebuilding The chancel,
of the church, and which feems to be of the 14th century, are fome
remains of painted glafs, confifting principally of Gothic canopies. Painted glafs.
In the north window are the figures of St. John the Baptift and
St. Chriftopher, and that of a crufader completely armed. He has Figure of a
a clofe helmet and a mail gorget ; the reft of his armour is partly
mail and partly plated. He is reprefented with whifkers ; in his
right hand is a fpear, with a banner of the moft ancient form ; and
upon his left arm a fhield with the crofs of St. George. His armour
nearly correfponds with that of Sir John Creke, defcribed in the
^' See the Survey in the Archxologia. *" See p. 367.
'9 In the Bodleian Library, f. 136. *' Regift. Peckham, f. 121. b.
Vol. I. ^ Y firft
530
WIMBLEDON.
firft volume of Gough's Sepulchral Monuments. Sir John died fome
time in the reign of Edward III. In the eaft window are the arms
and quarterings of Sir Thomas Cecil **, afterwards Earl of Exeter ;
and thofe of Thomas Ofborne, the firft Duke of Leeds *'.
Monuments. In the uorth wall is an altar-tomb, under a flat Gothic arch, to the
memory of Philip Lewefton. A tablet of a much more modern date
than the tomb is fixed on the wall under the arch, and gives the de-
fcending pedigree of Lewefton but without dates ; it appears, how-
ever, that his grand-daughter Catherine married William Walter, Efq.
of Thindge in Northamptonfhire, who died in 1587, and whofe
monument adjoins to that of Philip Lewefton. It is mentioned in
his epitaph that Mr. Walter lived 50 years at Wimbledon, upon the
eftate which he pofleffed in right of his wife.
Tomb of Sir On the floor is the tomb of Sir Richard Wynne, with the fol-
^' lowing infcription :
" Hie jacet Richardus Wynn de Gwedir in comitatu Carnarvon
" Mil. et Baronet. Thefaurarius necnon confiliarius Honoratifl'e
*' principis Henrietta Marias Regina: ; qui linea paternali ex illuftri
*' ilia familia. et antiquiflima ftirpe Britannica Northwalline princi-
" pum oriundus, denatus ig^diejulii 1649, ^^^^ ^^•"
Sir Richard Wynne was Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to
Charles I. and attended him in the romantic journey which he took
into Spain to vifit his intended confort. Sir Richard drew up an
account of his travels, which was printed among other fcarce tradls
♦' Cecil bears barruly of lo Arg. and Az. bars gules ; on a canton of the fecond a crofs
6 cfcutcheons, ■;, z, and 1. Sable, each charged of the firft, for Broughton. 2. Arg. a chevron
with alien ramp. Argent; and quarters, i. ^■ert between 3 annulets Gules. 3. Arg. on a
Per pale. Gules and A2. a lion rampant Arg. feffe flory counterflory, 3 cranes proper be-
holding a tree Vert, for Winfton. 2. Sable, tween 3 lions paflant Argent. 4. Gules a chev-
a plate between 3 caftles Argent, for Carleon. ron between 3 owls Argent, for Hewit. 5. Gules
3. Arg. on abend cottifed Gules, 3 cinque- on a chief Ermine, two hurts for Walmf-
foils Or, for Eckington. 4. Arg. a chevron ley. 6. Gules, a chevron between 3 mullets
between 3 chefs-rooks Ermine, for Walcote. pierced. Or, for Danvers. 7. Gules, a Sal-
*' Ofborne bears, quarterly ermine and tier Argent, charged with an annulet Sable,
Az. a crofs Or; and quarter.-, i. Arg. two for Nevil.
by
WIMBLEDON. jji
by Mr. Thomas Hearne **. He died at "Wimbledon, in the manor-
houfe, which he held as truftee for Queen Henrietta Maria"'.
Aubrey mentions the tombs of W^ de , redor of Wimbledon,
^vho died in 1461 ; Thomas Myllyng, redlor, who died in 1540;
and Robert Squibb, Efq. who died in 1694, as being in the chancel ;
of thefe the laft; only remains.
On the fouth fide of the chancel is a fmall chapel or aifle built for Lord wim-
the interment of Lord Wimbledon's family, which is kept in repair pel and mo-
with a fum of money left for that purpofe, by Dorothy Cecil, one ""'"^" '
of his daughters. In the centre is an altar-tomb of black marble,
over which hangs a vifcount's coronet fufpended by a chain from the
cieling. The following infcription occupies the four fides of the
tomb and the ledge which furrounds the upper flone.
" Here refteth Sir Edward Cecil, Knight, Lord Cecil and Barou
" of Putney, Vifcount Wimbledon of Wimbledon, third fon of
*' Thomas Earl of Exeter and Dorothy Neville, one of the coheyres
" of the Lord Neville of Latimer, and grandchild of the Lord Trea-
" furer Burleigh, who followed the warres in the Netherlands five
*' and thirty yeares, and pafl!ed the degrees of captaine of foote, and
" horfe ; collonell of foote and collonell of the Englifh horfe at the
" battle of Nieuport in Flanders ; who was admiral and lo: mar-
" fhall, lieutenant-generall, and generall againft the King of Spaine
*' and Emperoi", in the fervice of King James and King Charles
*' the Firft, and at his returne was made counfeilor of ftate and warre
" and lord lieutenant of this county of Surry, and captain and go-
" vernour of Portfinouth ; and after fo many travells returned to
*' this patient and humble mother earth, from whence he came,
*' with affured hope in his Saviour Chrifl: to rife againe to glory ever-
*' lading. His firfh wife was Theodofia Nowell, of the houfe of the
■*♦ Pennant's Tour in Wales, vol. ii. p. 153.
♦' See the Survey in the Archsologia, vol. x. p. 447.
3 Y 2 « Lord
532
WIMBLEDON.
" Lord Nowell and Vifcount Campden, by the mother of the houfe
" of the Lo: Harrington, who died in Holland and lyeth buried
" in the cathedral church of Utrecht, by whom he had four daugh-
" ters here mentioned in this chapell with their hufbands. His fe-
" cond wife was Diana Drury, here interred, one of the coheirefles
" of the houfe of Drury ; and by the mother defcended from the
" ancient family of the Dukes of Bucks and Stafford, and had only
" one daughter by her, named Cecil."
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, who ferved with Lord Wimbledon
in Flanders, fpeaks of him as an able and an adlive general, though
he loft fome reputation by the mifcarriage of the expedition to Cadiz,
in which he commanded **. He wrote a fhort defence of his conduct
on this occafion, which is extant in print, and two fhort trads on
military affairs*', which remain in MS. in the Britifh Mufeum.
The date of Lord Wimbledon's death is not mentioned on his tomb,
nor is it to be found in the parifh regifter; it appears, by his
funeral certificate in the Heralds' College, that he died at his houfe
at Wimbledon, Nov. i6, 1638. There is a rare print of him by
Simon Pafs.
In the eaft, weft, and fouth walls of the chapel are fmall windows
with coats of arms painted on glafs. In the fouth windows are the
arms of Cecil impaling Noel *\ and Cecil, with a vifcount's coronet,
impaling Drury "'. Underneath are tablets thus infcribed : — " His
" firft wife, who in this tomb is named," and " his fecond wife."
In one of the eaft windows is a coat of arms '", impaling Cecil, un-
derneath which is a tablet infcribed " Mr. James Fines, fon and
" heyr of the Lo: Vifcount Say and Sele, and his wife Frances Cecil."
♦" Life of Lord Herbert, written by him- •" Drury bears Arg. on a chief Vert, aTau
felf, p. 74. between two mullets pierced. Or.
*' Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, '° This coat Or, fretty Azure ; being that
vol.i. p. 177. of Lord Willoughby of Parham, hasbeenmif-
** Noel bears Or, fretty Gules, a canton placed.
Ermine.
The
WIMBLEDON. 533
The arms have been removed from the other window, but the tablet
remains with the following infcription : — " The Lo: Francis Wil-
" loughby of Parrom, and his wife Elizabeth Cecil." In one of
the weft windows are the arms of Cecil only ; the tablet under-
neath which is thus infcribed, " Dorothy Cecil, unmarryed as yet ;"
in the other the arms of Cecil on the female fide, thofe of the
hufband having been removed. The following infcription is on
the tablet beneath : — " Sir Chriftopher Wray, Knight, heyer to the
*' Drurys ; and his wife Albinia Cecil."
Upon the floor of Lord Wimbledon's chapel are the tombs of Other tombs
.in clie chapel.
Richard Betenfon, fon of Sir Richard Betenfon, of Scadbury in the
county of Kent, who married Albinia, daughter of Sir Chriftopher
Wray, and grand-daughter of Lord Wimbledon ; he died in 1677 ;
and that of the honourable Frances Ellis, who died in 1687. She
was wife of Andrew Ellis, Efq. of Alrey in the county of Flint ;
daughter of James Fiennes, Efq. Vifcount Say and Sele, and grand-
daughter of Lord Wimbledon. Upon the walls and in the fmall
niches are placed feveral pieces of armour.
In the nave of the church are the tombs of Mr. George Morley, Tombs in the
who died in 1737; General Jofeph Hudfon, who died in 1773;
his fon Colonel Hudfon, who died in 1789 ; and Peter Shaw, M. D.
who died in 1 763. He was phyfician to the late King, and to his
prefent Majefty.
At the entrance of the church-yard, on the right hand, is a large
columbarium made by Benjamin Bond Hopkins, Efq. for the in-
terment of his family. Within it are infcriptions upon tablets of
white marble to the memory of Benjamin Bond, Efq. of Clapham,
who died in 1783; his wife Elizabeth, who died in 17S7; and
Eliza and Alicia, wives of Benjamin Bond Hopkins, Efq. of Pains-
hill, who died in 1771 and 1788.
In
534 WIMBLEDON.
Various In the church-yard are tombs of Gilbert Smyth, M. A. of Chrlft's
College, Cambridge, who died in 1674; John Simpfon, *' a zealous
" rainifter of Chrift, who was bleffed with the converfion of very
" many fouls in the city of London ;" he died in 1662 ; Thomas
Pitt of London, merchant (1,699), and feveral of his family; Henry
Canby Gent. (1719); John Tompkins, Gent. (1720); Mary,
reli(5t of Richard Savage, Efq. (1726) ; John Hopkins, Efq. (1732) j
VultureHcp- he was commonly known by the name of Vulture Hopkins, and is
remarkable for having accumulated an immenfe fortune, which he
difpofed of in fuch a manner by his will that it might not be enjoyed
till the fecond generation. His intentions, however, were defeated,
and his will fet afide by the Court of Chancery, which decreed that
his fortune fliould go immediately to the heir at law ". To continue
the lift of tombs, — There are thofe alfo of George Brehold, Lieutenant
of his Majefty's fhip the Portland, who died in 1735; Thomas
Walker, Efq. Commiffioner of the Cuftoms, and Surveyor-general
Sir Theodore of his Majefty's Land Revenue, who died in 1748; Sir Theodore
Janflen, Bart, one of the diredors of the famous South-Sea adven-
ture, who died the fame year; James Trymmer, Efq. (1762); John
Lawfon, Efq. (1764); Mr. David Ker (1770), and Richard Mac-
pheadris, Efq. (1774); Martha, reli£l of Murthwayte Ivatt, Efq.
(1770); Mr. John Paterfon (1772); Sir Henry Bankes, Knt. and
Alderman of London {1774); the Reverend John Cookfey, late
curate of Wimbledon, (1777) '* ; William Wilberforce, Efq. (1777) ;
he was uncle to William Wilberforce, Efq. M. P. who inherited
from him a houfe at Wimbledon; Kemble Whateley, Efq. of Lam-
beth (1780); Richard Gaire, Efq. (1788); Diana, wife of the
Reverend Herbert Randolph, curate of this parifh, who died in
1789; and Mary, wife of William Southoufe, Efq. who died the
fame year.
" Note on 1. 85 of Pope's 3d Moral Effay, '* He publiflied fome occafional fermons,
edit. 1751.
The
WIMBLEDON. S3S
The church of Wimbledon, which is dedicated to St. Marv, is within Reftoryand
■' curacy.
the peculiar jurifdidion of the Archbifliop of Canterbury, to whofe
predeceflbrs the advowfon of the church as well as the manor an-
ciently belonged. Archbifliop Cranmer aliened them to King
Henry VIII. ; who, in the 38th year of his reign, granted the rectory
to be appropriated to the dean and chapter of Worcefter ", out of
which the fum of 61. 13 s. /\.d. each was to be allowed to the
curates of Mortlake and Putney. By a grant of the fame date
he gave the advowfon of the vicarage to Nicholas Heath, Bifliop
of Worcefter, and his fucceflbrs ". Wimbledon and its two cha-
pelries were afterwards put upon the fame footing, and the fa-
laries of the curates at each increafed to 40 1. per annum". In
1550 a letter was written by King Edward VI. to the Dean and
Chapter of Worcefter, to defire that they would make the like, or
rather a better grant to Mr. Cecil, then fecretary of ftate, (of a leafe
in reverfion for 60 years,) than they did to Sir Robert Tyrwhit,
whofe intereft in the old leafe Mr. Cecil had purchafed ''. In 1658
it was prefented to the commiffioners appointed to inquire into the
ftate of ecclefiaftical benefices, that the tithes of this parifh were
impropriated, and that the impropriators Jiired curates, and gave
them what falaries they thought fit ; in confequence of this repre-
fentation, and the diftance of Putney and Mortlake from the mother-
church, they made them feparate and diftindl redories, endowing
them with the great tithes, which at Wimbledon were then valued
at 80 1. per annum ; thofe of Mortlake, at 70 1. ; and thofe of
Putney, at Sol." This arrangement of courfe lafted no longer
than till the Reftoratioa of Charles II. The re^fliory was taxed at
" Grants by Henry VIII. Augmentation- "■ Rawlinfon's MSS. additions to Aubrey's
office. Antiquities of Surrey in the Bodleian Library.
" Ibid. 5' Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MSS.
" See Archbifliop Laud's Letter, p. 414. Library.
60 marks
53^
WIMBLEDON.
Arclibi<hop
Reynolds.
Parifli regif-
ter.
Comparative
ftate of po-
pulation.
60 marks in 1 291 ''. In the King's books it is valued at 63 1. 4s. 2d.
per annum.
The parfonage-houfe, which is an ancient ftrudure, ftands near the
church. In the Survey, taken by order of parliament in the lafl
century, it is defcribed as containing a confiderable number of rooms
and having two coach-houfes, ftabling for 14 horfes, and a hawk's-
mew. One other building is mentioned as adjoining to it, containing
two rooms above flairs and two below flairs, wherein, fays the Survey,
" the minifter of Wimbledon and the French gardiner of Wirable-
'' don oringe-garden doe live ^''.
Walter Reynolds, afterwards Archbilhop of Canterbury, was infti-
tuted to the redory of Wimbledon in the year 1298, and quitted it
in the year 1308, on being promoted to the fee of Worcefter ".
The prefent curate is the Reverend Herbert Randolph, B. D.
The regifter of baptifms begins in 15 13, that of burials in 1593.
15S0— 1589
1594— 1603
1680— 1689
1729— 1738
1780 — 1789
1790
1791
Average of Baptifms.
— 4
16
27
36
39
37
Average of Burials.
6
14
27
43
- 38
35
The population of this parifh appears to have increafed during the
laft century in a proportion of fomewhat more than two to one ;
and in the century preceding in a proportion of at leaft 4 to i. In
the year 161 7, as it appears by a furvey of the manor then taken,
there were only 46 houfes in this place ; there are now nearly 230.
In the year 1603 there were 21 burials.
" See note, p. lo. " Parliamentary Survey, Augmentation-office.
'"* Lambeth Regift. Winchelfey, f. 25. a.
Extra^i
WIMBLEDON. S37
Extra&s from the Reg'ijlcr.
" The thirteenth day of Julie being Satterday, in the yeare of our ^'^* °/
" Lord 1616, about half an hour before. 10 of the clocke in the Anna.daugh-
terofTho-
" forenoon of the fame day at Wimbledon, in the countie of Surrie, mas Earl of
*' was born the lady Georgi-Anna, daughter to the right honorable
" Thomas Earl of Exeter, and the honorable Lady Frances Coun-
" tefs of Exeter ; and the fame ladie Georgi-Anna was baptifed the
*' thirtieth day of the fame moneth of Julie, in the faide yeare 16 16,
" being Tuefdaie in the afternoone of the fame dale ; Queen Anne
*' and the Earl of Worcefter, Lord Privie-Seal, being witnefles ; and
*' the Lord Bifliop of London adminiftered the baptifm."
•' Chriftopher Wraye, Efq. and Albinia Cecill were married the Marriage of
Chriftopher
" third of Auguft 1633. She was given m marriage by her honor- Wraye and
" able father Sir Edward Cecill, Knt. and fon to the right honorable
" the Earl of Exeter."
" On the ipthday of September 1678, Charles Earl of Plymouth ^''pf'mDulhl
" was married to the Lady Bridget Ofborn, daughter to the right and Lady
, - _ Bridget Of-
" honorable Thomas Earl of Danby, Lord High Treafurer of Eng- home,
land"."
" Sir John Cotton married to Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert, grand- ^qJq°„^"„^
((
(C
daughter to the Duke of Leeds, in his chapel, on Sunday night, Elizabeth
i(
July 4, 1708; the licence being only a common one for the
regifter of the parifh church of Wimbledon, between the hours of
*' 8 and 12 as uftial."
" Henry Duke of Beaufort and Mary Ofborne, daughter of ^^""^^^^^
** Peregrine Marquis of Carmarthen, married by fpecial licence in and Mary
, ,, Ofborne.
" the Duke of Leeds s chapel, the 14th of September 1711.
*" Bridget Duchefs of Leeds died at Wim- Peregrine Marquis of Carmartben, died there
bledon in June 1703. Le Neve's Monumenta in child-bed, Nov. 20, 1713. Ibid. vol. iv.
Angljcana, vol. iv. p. 6<j. Elizabeth, wife of p. 270.
Vol. L 3 Z " George
538
WIMBLEDON.
Birth of
George John
Earl Spencer.
((
Inftance of
longevity.
Dorothy Ce-
cil's benefac-
tion.
Other bene-
fadions.
Charity-
fchool.
((
" George John, fon of John Spencer, Efq. and Georgiana his
wife, was born Septennber the firft, and baptifed October the i6th,
1758; his Majefty and Earl Cowper being godfathers; the
Duchefs of Marlborough and Lady Dowager Bateman godmothers.
It is remarkable that his Majefty King George II. was godfather
not only to this young gentleman, but to his mother, daughter of
the Hon. Stephen Poyntz, Efq. and to his grand-mother, daugh-
" ter of the right honorable the Earl of Granville."
" Francis Trevor, aged 103, was buried Feb. 8, 1778."
Dorothy Cecil, daughter of Lord Wimbledon, by a deed of gift:
bearing date 1651, which ihe afterwards confirmed by her will, gave
to this parifh the fum of 25 1. per annum, ilTuing out of an eftate
called Mifsleden and Newlands, in the parifh of Putney. After
deducting the fum of 8 1. to be expended annually, if neceffary, upon
the repairs of her father's tomb, the remainder was to be thus ap-
propriated : — Five pounds to educate children, and 12I. to bind
them apprentices. This benefaction not having been regularly re-
ceived, through the negle£t of appointing proper truftees, application
was made fome years ago to the Court of Chancery, when Lord
Chancellor Hardwicke, by a decree bearing date Feb. 1 1, 1744, or-
dered, that feven of the principal inhabitants of the parifh fhould be
appointed truftees, and that the number fhould be filled up whenever
they were reduced to three. This rent-charge is liable to the pay-
ment of the land-tax, which occafions a deduction of 2I. 17s. 6d.
The parifh of Wimbledon receives alfo 3I. 2s. 6d. out of
Mr. Smith's charity, and enjoys a benefadlion of 10 s. per annum
left by Thomas Hillyard in the year 1651.
A charity-fchool for boys and girls was built in the year 1773,
upon a piece of ground given by Lord Spencer. It is fupported by
an annual contribution of the inhabitants j about 80 children are
educated there.
The
WIMBLEDON.
539
The Survey of 1649 mentions an iron-plate mill" at Wimbledon.
There are now three manufadories in this parifh, which are fituated Manufac-
at a confiderable diftance from the village, on the banks of the
Wandle, viz. Meflrs. Henckell's copper-mills ; Mr. Coleman's calico-
printing manufadure, and MelTrs. Walls' manufadure of Japan
ware.
On the fide of the Common are feveral handfome villas, fome of Villas,
which deferve particular notice ; the mofl ftriking is that which
lately belonged to Monf. de Calonne, who made confiderable addi-
tions to the houfe foon after he had purchafed it of Benjamin Bond
Hopkins, Efq. the prefent proprietor of Painfhill. It had been, fome
years before, the property of Sir Henry Bankes, Knt. alderman of
London. The pleafure-grounds, which are fpacious and beautiful,
adjoin to Lord Spencer's park. This villa was lately purchafed
by the Right Hon. Earl Gower.
I find nothing remarkable relating to the ancient houfe where the Ancient
^ ^ _ houfe belong-
Reverend Mr. Lancafter now keeps an academy. It was built about ing to Mr.
II • Lancafter.
the beginning of the laft century; the Survey of 1617 calls it
" a fair new houfe belonging to Mr. Bell." Before it was purchafed
by Mr. Lancafter it was fucceffively in the occupation of the prefent
Marquis of Bath and Lord Grenville.
The houfe, which now belongs to Michael Bray, Efq. was the
refidence of William Benfon, auditor of the imprefts ; who died there Auditor Ben-
in 1 754. He was fon of Sir V/illiam Benfon, fheriff of London.
In the reign of Queen Ann he publiflied a Letter to Sir Jacob Banks
upon the Miferies of the Swedes, fmce they had fubmitted to arbi-
trary power ; in which he lamented the progrefs it was then making
in England. It is faid that 100,000 copies of this Letter were fold.
The author was profecuted by the Attorney-general ; but it does not
appear that he was puniflied. In the next reign he became a courtier.
'* Archsologia, vol. x. p. 441.
3 Z 2 Sir
/
Ton.
540 WIMBLEDON.
Sir Chriftopher Wren was difplaced, to make room for him as fur-
veyor-general of the board of works ; and he attended the King to
Hanover, where he planned the famous water-works at Heren-
haufen. Mr. Benfon was a great patron of literary men j he paid
the debts of Elifha Smith, author of the Cure of Deifm ; gave Dob-
fon I col. for tranflating Paradife Loft ; and as a farther proof of his
refpedl for Milton, ereded a monument to his memory in Weftmin-
fter Abbey. He himfelf was author of an Effay on Virgil's Georgics,
two of which he tranflated ; he wrote alfo fome Letters on Poetical
Tranflations ; and publifhed an edition of Arthur Johnfton's tranfla-
tion of the Pfalms, which he preferred to Buchanan's ''\ Pope has
introduced Benfon more than once in the Dunciad : alluding to what
he had done in compliment to Milton and Johnfton, he fays :
** On two unequal crutches propp'd, he came ;
" Milton's on this, on that one — Johnfton's name."
At the houfe where the Right Hon. Henry Dundas now refides,
LvdeBrown's Lyde Brown formed the valuable coUedion of antiques which he af-
antiques. tetwards fold to the Emprefs of Ruflia.
A houfe, which belonged to the late Mr. Rufli, and which is
now pulled down, was remarkable for having been the refidence of
Marquis of the late worthy and much-refpe£ted Marquis of Rockingham, who
' died there in 1782. The year after his death the Right Honourable
Charles James Fox refided there whilft Secretary of State.
*^ The anecdotes of Mr. Benfon are taken an account of him in the Gentleman's Maga-
from Nichols's Life of Bo.vyer, p. 1545 and zine for 1775.
A P P E N-
APPENDIX.
ADDINGTON.
'TpHIS pari(h is afTefled the fum of 107I. i6s. lod. to the
"*■ land-tax, which this year- (1792) is at the rate of 2s. id. in
the pound.
In the note ' are references to the efcheat-bundles in the Tower, Manor,
relating to the manor of Addington.
Robert Aguillon had a grant of free warren there in the reign of
Henry III.'
The manor, which belonged to the Knights Templars, was
granted to Nicholas Leigh, June 25, 36 Hen. VIII. ^
BARNES.
The foil of this parlfh confifts principally of fand, gravel, and a Soil.
rich loam. The market gardeners occupy about 150 acres; and Market gar.
deners.
' Robert Aguillon, Efch. 14 Edvv. I, Edw. III. No. 7. Will. Bardolf de Worme-
No. 16. Margaret ux. Robert Aguillon, gey, Inquif. ad q. d. 2 Ric. II. No. 104.
Efch. 20 Edw. I. No. 20. Hugo de Bardolf, Will. Walcott, Efch. 12 Ric. II. No. 56.
Efch. 32 Edw. I. No. 64. Thomas Bardolf, * Cart. 32 Hen. III. m. 6.
& Agnes ux. Efch. 3 Edw. III. No. 66. ^ Grants, Augmentation Office.
Johan. Bardolf de Wormegey, Efch. 45
Mr.
542
BARNES.
Conjefture
concerning
the Lady
Mary.
Kit Kat
Club.
Tombs.
Mr. Chapman, who rents a large farm there, cultivates about loo
acres for garden crops : there is alfo a fmall hop ground, the only
one I believe in the neighbourhood ; it contains about 7 acres.
The dean and chapter of St. Paul's had a charter of free warren
in their manor of Barnes, in the reign of Edward II. *
King James I. on his acceflion to the throne, granted the manor,
for the remainder of Queen Elizabeth's leafe, to Peter Vanlore ' ;
the conjefture therefore (p. 23.) concerning the Lady Mary, muft
be erroneous, as far as it relates to her having been under the care of
the Walfmgham family ; as it appears that they were not fufFered to
enjoy any benefit from Queen Elizabeth's grant, after her majefty's
death.
The portraits of the Kit Kat Club (fee p. 15.) are now the pro-
perty of William Baker, Efq. and are at his houfe in Hill-ftreet,
Berkley-fquare. "
To the tombs in the church (p. 16, 17.) may be added thofe of
Peter Combaulde, merchant, who died in 1717; Edward Byfield,
Efq. who died in 1774; and Charles Nightingale, Efq. who died
in 1 79 1.
In the churchyard are thofe of the following perfons : David
Mlfplee, waterman to Charles II. James II. King William, Queen
Anne, and George I. who died in 1716 ; Diana, wife of Capt. Darcy
Savage, who died in 1726; Peter Marquet, merchant, 1730; Sir
Philip Sydenham, Bart. 1739 ; Frances, wife of Jofeph Lee, mer-
chant, 1748 ; Mr. Bemifh Hill, 1760; Mrs. Ann Dubordieu, 1768;
Mr. William Hutchins, 1771 ; Mr. John Partington, 1778, and
others of his family ; Mr. Samuel Bowyer, of Serjeants' Inn, 1790 ;
Caroline, wife of John Deffell, Efq. of Gower-ftreet, Bedford-fquare,
1790 J and George Wright, Efq. 1791.
♦ Cart. 9 Edw. II. m. 31
' Pat. I Jac. pt. 18. June 4.
Hezekiah
BARNES. 543
Hezekiah Burton was buried at Barnes, Sept. 14, 1681. The H"^'''^'*
' ^ ^ Burton,
malignant fever, mentioned p. 19. appears to have been very fatal;
in that year there were ^^ burials, a number more than double the
average of that period. Mr. Burton's fon, of the fame name, was
buried three days after his father.
John Hume, who was inftituted to the rectory in 1 749, quitted Bidiop
it in 1758, on being promoted to the fee of Oxford ; he was after-
wards tranfiated to Salifbury. His fucceflbr at Barnes was Ferdi- Ferdinando
nando Warner, a celebrated preacher, and a multifarious author.
He publifhed feveral fermons ; a fyftem of divinity in five volumes;
two volumes of ecclefiaflical hlftory ; an illuftration of the Book of
Common Prayer ; memoirs of Sir Thomas More ; the hiftory of the
rebellion and civil war in Ireland, and the firft volume of a general
hiftory of that kingdom; remarks on Offian's poems; and a treatife
on the gout, with an account of a peculiar method which he had
adopted in his own cafe. He died a martyr to that diforder foon
after the publication of this treatife, which deftroyed the credit of
his fyftem *. Mr. Warner publifhed alfo a fcheme for a provifion
for the widows and orphans of the clergy.
He was fucceeded in the living of Barnes by Chriftopher Wilfon, chrir-opher
afterwards Bifhop of Briftol, whom it is with regret that I muft now ^^o^°o{' BciC-
call the late rector. Dr. Wilfon was a man of very amiable manners, '''^"
and had the good fortune of conciliating general efteem. Steady
and uniform, though not violent, in his political principles, he en-
joyed not only the refpedt, but the friendfhip, of thofe who differed
from him in opinion. When elevated to the bench, through the
intereft of the reprefentative of his deceafed friend the Marquis of
Rockingham, he took the fureft method of making the church to
which he belonged, and its rulers, refpeded and efteemed, by main-
taining the ftridleft difcipline, at the fame time that he behaved with
* Nichols's Life of Eosvyer, p. 346, 347.
the
544 B A T T E R S E A.
the moft unbounded affability to perfons of every rank and defcrlp-
tion, particularly to the inferior clergy. The blftiop publifhed a
few fingle fermons, preached upon public occafions.
The prefent redor of Barnes is John Jeffreys, D. D. Canon Refi-
dentiary of St. Paul's.
Anne Bay- Anne Baynard (mentioned p. 24.) is faid to have written feveral
fatires againft the atheifts \
Henry Field- Henry Fielding, the celebrated novelift, refided at Barnes, in the
'"S^" houfe which is now the property of Mr. Partington.
Tombs.
BATTERSEA.
Derivation Leland's derivation of the name of this place (fee p. 26.) Is to
of Batterfea. -^^ found in the annotations to the Cygnea Cantio ; his words are,
" Nomen loco inditum, ut ego conjicio, ex cymbis'."
Manor. The manor of Batterfea was leafed by King James to Aaron Beft '.
A monument of artificial ftone, of Mrs. Coade's manufadlure, has
been lately eredted over the fouth gallery of Batterfea church, to the
memory of John Camden, Efq. who died in 1780; and Elizabeth
his daughter, wife of James Neild, who died in 1791.
In the church-yard are the tombs of Margaret, wife of Arthur
Beardmore, Efq. who died in 1756; William Abbot, of Dolors'
Commons, 1768; John Baptift Bufliman, Efq. 1769; John Ro-
berts, 1773; the Reverend Richard Woodefon, A.M. 1774;
and Ridley Manning Webfter, Efq. 1777.
» Collier's Diaionary. ° Leland's Itinerary, vol.ix. p. 35.
* Pat, 7 Jac. pt. 9. May iz.
Batterfea
BATTERSEA.
Batterfea bridge was built under the diredion of the late Mr.
Holland, and at the expence of fifteen proprietors, who fubfcribed
1 500 1. each. Its revenues, which are increafing, are now about
1 700 1, per annum.
J45
BEDDINGTON.
Alice, wife of Raimond de Luke, (called in other records de Manon.
Laik,) had the manor of Beddington for her dower, temp. Hen.
III. " Ifabella, wife of Richard Gaceline, (called in fome records
Gateline,) died feized thereof, in the reign of Edward I.j her heir
was Arnulph de Clarak ". The manor was then valued at 22 marks.
The Corbets were in pofleffion of it for a confiderable time '*, and
aliened it to the Morleys '\ Richard Willoughby granted it for life to
William Carew, Porcionift of the church of Beddington, and Nicholas
Carew, 26 Edw. III. '*; and a few years afterwards granted it in fee to
the latter ". Nicholas Carew had a charter for " free warren in Bed-
dington, as early as the firft year of Edward II.
Reginald le Forrefter's manor was held of Thomas Corbet, as of
his manor of Beddington, (13 Edw. III.) by an annual rent of
8 s. 4d. It confided of eighty acres ".
Simon Stowe gave eighteen acres at Beddington to St. Thomas's
hofpital, 3 Edw. II. " This conftituted a part of what was called
Frere's manor.
" Cl. 30 Hen. III. m. 19. dington and Hufcarl, 14 Ric. IT. Efch.
" Efch. 4 Edw. I. No. 42. No. 10. Nich. Carew died feized of Bedding-
" Th. Corbet, Efch. 15 Edw. II. No. 5. ton and Bandon, 36 Hen. VI. Efch. No. 22.
Th. Corbet, 10 Edw. III. No. 27. Nich. Carew died feized of Beddington, Huf-
•^ Efch. 12 Edw. III. No. 37, 2d number- carl, and 'Bandon, alias Porter's, 6 Edw. IV.
ing. Efch. No. 40.
'♦ Efch.26Edw. III.No. 28,2dnumbering. '* Cart. 1 Edw. II. m. 20.
•5 Efch. 33 Edw, III. No. 34, 2d number- " Efch. 13 Edw. III. No. 63.
ing. Nicholas de Carew died feized of Bed- '^ Inquif, ad. q. d. 3 Edw. II. No. 51.
Vol. I. 4 A William
546 B E D D I N G T O N.
William Hufe had a charter of free warren in Beddington,
1 1 Edw. II."
Tombs. To the tombs in Beddington church, (fee p. 58 — 61.) may be
added the following : A monument at the eaft end of the nave to the
memory of Nicholas Carew, Efq, who died in 1721. In the nave
is alfo a brafs plate to the memory of Thomas Hunte, who died
in 1538 ; another to the memory of Mary, wife of John Hunt-
ley, Gent, who died in 1638 ; and the tombs of John Bour-
chier, M. D. who died in 1756; Bourchier Walton, Efq. who
died in 1779, and others of that family; and Dorothy, reli(ft of
James Garland, Efq. who died in 1792. In the fouth aifle are the
tombs of Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, who died in 1781 ; and Charles
Maddox, Efq. of the South Sea Houfe, who died in 1791. In
the Carew aifle is the tomb of Jofeph Ward, Efq. who died in
1767; and his daughter Lydia Henning, wife of William Auguflus
Skynner, Efq. who died in 1789.
In the church-yard are the tombs of " Honeft Robin Betterton,"
who died in 1724; Mr. Walton Wood, of Newington Butts, who
died in the fame year ; Bertrand Cahuag, who died in 1 743 ; Eliza-
beth, wife of Mr. John Bowles, of Croydon, who died in 1751 }
and Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings, who died in 1771.
J31
BERMONDSEY.
This parifli is treated of by Stow, Aubrey, and other writers, as
a part of the Borough of Southwark, to which it adjoins ; it was
omitted therefore in the alphabetical order; but as upon further
inquiry it appears to be totally unconneded with the Borough, fome
account of its hiftory is here inferted.
•» Cart. II Edw. II. m. 42.
The
BERMONDSEY.
547
The word Bermondfey, or, as it is written in the Conqueror's Name.
Survey, Bermundefye, is of uncertain derivation. The laft fyllable
denotes its being fituated near the river. Bermond may be a pro- Situation.
per name. This village is fcarcely a mile from London Bridge,
and lies in the eaftern divifion of Brixton hundred. The parifli
is bounded by St. John, St. George, and St. Olave, Southwark ; by Boundaries,
Scc»
Deptford and Rotherhithe. In 1641 it is fald to have contained
514 acres of land", a confiderable part of which has been fmce
built on ; of the remainder, the greater part is grafs land, and occu-
pied by cow-keepers. There is no corn, but about 1 1 o acres of garden
ground, the foil of which, from long cultivation and manuring, is
become a rich black mould. This parifli is aflefled the fura of
3954I. OS. 9d. to the land-tax, which this prefent year (1792) is
at the rate of 2 s. 9d. in the pound.
Bermondfey is a place of very great trade. The tanners, who are a Trade and
, manufac-
chartered company, (having been incorporated by Queen Anne *' by tures.
the name of " the mafter, wardens, and commonalty, of the art or my f- ^^^^"' ^
*'tery of tanners, of the parifli of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondfey,")
are very numerous, and carry on that bufuiefs to a greater extent than is
known in any other part of the kingdom. From a natural connection
between the feveral trades, there are alfo many woolftaplers, fell-
mongers, curriers, and leather-dreflers, and fome parchment makers.
The water-fide is occupied by rope-makers, anchor-fmiths, ftave-
merchants, boat-builders, and perfons employed in furnifliing various
articles of rigging for the navy. There are two fmall docks. The
calico printing and dying bufinefs is carried on alfo in a fmall degree
in this parifli, and there are fome pin and needle makers.
A monaftery for monks, of the Cluniac order, was founded at Bermondfey
Abbey.
Bermondfey, by Aylwin Child, a citizen of London, in the year
1082". William Rufus gave them his manor of Bermondfey".
*° Record in the veftry. " Dugdale's Monaft. vol.i. p. 639.
*' J"'y S> in the fecond year of her reign. *' Ibid.
4 A 2 References
548
BERMONDSEY.
Death of
Catherine,
Queen of
Henry V.
Perfons of
note buried
in the abbey.
Remains of
the abbey.
King John's
Palace.
References to various fubfequent grants will be found in the note'*.
This convent was originally a cell to that of La Charite in France,
and was feized by Edward III. among other alien priories in 1371.
It was reftored to its privileges within a few years, and continued
to fiourifli till the year 1538, when it was furrendered to the crown,
the annual revenues being then valued at 474I. 14s. 4yd. Robert
de Wharton, the laft Prior, who was afterwards fucceffively Bifhop of
St. Afaph and Hereford, obtained a penfion of 533I. 6s. 8d. per
annum. A lift of benefadors to this convent may be found in Dug-
dale's Monafticon ''', and a lift of its priors in Browne Willis's Hiftory
of Mitred Abbies^*.
Catherine the Queen of Henry V. died in this abbey, Jan. 5,
Among perfons of note interred there, may be reckoned William
de Morton Earl of Cornwall " ; Loufstane, Provoft of Lon-
don, An° 1 1 15; Margaret de la Pole, (1473); and Dame Aime
Audley, relidt of John Loi;d Audley, (1497) *'.
Near the church-yard at Bermondfey is an ancient gateway, and
towards the eaft fome old buildings called King John's Palace.
Thefe buildings, which confift partly of brick, and partly of timber^
intermixed with lath and plafter, carry the appearance of having been
a part of the convent or its appurtenances. The traditional appro-
priation of very ancient houfes to King John is not infrequent. The
tradition in this inftance is entirely unfupported either by hiftory or
record. The manor-houfe, or palace of Bermondfey, was given to
«* The charters of Will. II. and Hen. II.
are printed in Dugdale. Various grants, Pat.
56 Hen. III. m. 15. CI. 18 Edw. I. m. 17.
Pat. 8 Edw. II. pt. z.m. 19. Pat. 15 Edw.
III. pt. z. m. 29. Pat. 22 Edw. III. pt. 3.
m. 10, II. Pat. 24 Edw. III. pt. i.m. 8.
Pat. 14 Ric. II. pt. 2. m. 39. Pat. 23 Hen.
VI. pt. I. m. I. Appropriation of Chelfham
church, CI. 8 Edw. II. m. 19. Grant
of return of writs in Brixton and Wal-
lington hundreds, Pat. 20 Ric. II. pt. 2.111.4.
Pat. 21 Ric. II. de M. de Rotherhithe.
Appropriation of Kemfing church, Pat. 21
Ric. II. pt. 2. m. 8. Confirmation of grants
and privileges. Cart. 4 Edw. III. No. 57.
Pat. 2 Ric. II. pt. I. in. 43. Pat. i Hen. IV.
pt. 7. m. 15. Pat. 23 Hen. VI. pt. I. m. 2.
*5 Vol. i. p. 639—642.
" Vol. ii. p. 229, 230.
*' Chronicle of Merton Abbey, in the Bod-
leian Library.
'" Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 25.
** Stow's Survey of London, edit. Strype.
the
B E R M O N D S E Y. 549
the monks by William Rufus. The quotation inferted in Aubrey's
Antiquities of Surrey '", as the only conjectural proof that the kings
of England had a refidence at this place after the grant above-men-
tioned, has been totally mifunderftood, and proves nothing. It is faid
in Aubrey's work, that Sir Thomas Pope built a houfe on the fite of
the priory which afterwards came to the Earls of Suflex. Some traces
of the refidence of the Earls of Suflex at Bermondfey are to be found
in the parifh regifl;er about the year 1595 ; but I have not met with
the name in any title deeds or other records relating to the fite of
the convent. A confiderable part thereof was fold by Sir Thomas
Pope to Robert Bifliop of St. Afaph, the lafl: Prior, and having pafl'ed
through various hands, is now the property of William Richardfon,
Efq. in whofe garden is an ancient wall with crofl'es, and various
emblematical devices worked with glazed bricks. The remainder of
the fite is for the moft part if not entirely the property of William
Smith, Efq. of Chifwick.
The manor of Bermondfey before the Conquefl; was the property Manor.
of Harold, and as fuch was feized by the Conqueror. William Rufus
gave it to the monaftery founded at that place. After the fuppreflion
of the convent, Henry VIII. granted the fite, with other lands at
Bermondfey, together with a court leet, view of frank pledge, and
right of free warren, to Sir Robert Southwell, Maflier of the Rolls " ;
who the fame year fold the whole of the premifes to Sir Thomas
Pope ". Soon after this. Sir Thomas procured from the crown a
grant of the rents of afllze "; and in the year 1556, aliened the manor
to Robert Trapps, Efq. '* in whofe family it continued till the year
1717, when it was fold to Peter Hambly, Efq. grandfather of the
reverend Thomas Hambly, the prefent proprietor.
At the time of the Conquefl the manor was valued at 15I. per
annum. At that time Earl Morton held lands of the king at Ber-
mondfey, which was his refidence ".
3" Vol. V. p. 37, 38. " Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 23. May 4.
" Pat. 33 H. VIII. pt. 2. July 8. " AbllraftofMr. Hambly's Title Deeds.
" Abftradt of Mr. Hambly's Title Deeds. " Record of Doomfday.
Edward
S50 B E R M O N D S E Y.
Edward VI. granted certain premlfes in this parlfh, which had
been part of the pofleflions of our Lady of Rouncival, to Edward
Lord Clinton and Saye ".
The church. The Survey of Doomfday, which was made in 1083, mentions a
fair and new church at this place. This, no doubt, was the conven-
tual church then newly built. It was long afterwards that the monks
of Bermondfey founded a parochial church there, and dedicated it
to St. Mary Magdalen. The prefent ftrufture was erected in 1680.
It is of brick, and confifts of a chancel, nave, two allies, and a tranfept;
at the weft end is a low fquare tower with a turret.
Tombs in the On the north wall of the chancel is the monument of Nathaniel
church. . 1 r"
RofFey, Efq. who died in 1733; and within the rails the tomb of
Jeremiah Whitaker, redor of the parifh, who died in 1654. On the
north pillar of the nave is the monument of Sir William Steavens, Knt.
who died in 17 12. At the eaft end of the fouth aifle, thofe of
William Caftle, Efq. who died in 1681 ; and Elizabeth wife of Bafil
Wood, who died in 1 730. In the fame aifle are the monuments of Mr.
John RufTell, who died in 1770 ^*; William Mafon, Efq. who died
in 1791 ; and near the fouth door that of William Browning, Efq.
who died in 1758; and William Browning, redor, who died in
1 740. Againft the fouth wall, on the outfide, is a tablet to the me-
mory of Sir Thomas Steavens, Knt. who died in 1738 ; and others
of that family.
Tombs in the In the church-yard are the tombs of the following perfons : Capt.
Charles Smith, who died in 1726J Mr. John Burgoyne, 1728; and
'* Grants by Edw. VI. in the Augmenta- Jofeph Mawbey, who was one of his executors,
tion Office. , Mr. Ruffell bequeathed the greater part of his
'* This John Ruflell was father to Richard property to the Magdalen, Small-pox, and
Ruffell, Efq. who died in 1784, and was Lying-in-hofpitals, and the Afylum. He left
buried in St. John's church, Southwark, with a hundred pounds to the charity fchool at Ber-
great pomp, his pall being born by fix young mondfey. Mr. Ruffell, though by no means
women, fpinfters, and the corpfe preceded by a fcholar, was an author, having publiftied a
four others ftrewing flowers, as direfted by his pamphlet, entitled, " War with the Senfes; or
very fingular will; which is printed, with a " Free Thoughts on Snuff taking; by a friend
Ihort account of his life and charafter, by Sir " to Female Beauty."
Humphrey
B E R M O N D S E Y. 551
Humphrey Burgoyne, Efq. (1735); William Wilkin, Gent, of the
Great Lodge near Tunbridge, (1735); Mary, relid of Captain
William Studholm, (1738) ; Captain Charles Chamberlain, (1740) ;
Captain Robert Nowne, (1741) ; Captain John Blackabee, (1750) ;
Captain James Thompfon, (1753); Sir William Richardfon, Knt.
(1769); John Brett, Surgeon, (1769) ; Capt. John Lindfey, (1774);
John Bickham, Gent, of Co. Somerfet, (1774); Captain William
Sparks, (1782) ; Elizabeth, wife of Capt. William Compton, (1782) ;
Jofeph Phillipfon, General Accomptant of theExcife, (1782) ; Capt.
Samuel Haycraft, (1785); Samuel Bowerman, Efq. (1787); Capt.
Enoch Stickney, (1788); Thomas Lechmere, fon of Richard Lech-
mere, Efq. of Newborn Hall, Suffolk, (1788) ; Mr. Richard Phillips,
(1789"); and Capt. George Butler, of Rotherhithe, and feveral of his
children (no date).
The church-yard was enlarged in 1783.
The church of Bermondfey is in the diocefe of WInchefter, and Reaoryand
in the deanery of Southwark. The advowfon of the redlory belonged
to the monaftery, and has undergone the fame alienations as the
manor, being now the property of the Reverend Thomas Hambly,
who is both patron and incumbent.
Edward Elton, and Jeremiah Whitaker, two eminent puritan Reftors.
divines in the laft century, were redtors of this parifh; the former and Jeremiah
died in 1624, the latter in 1654. Elton publifhed a volume of fer-
mons in folio, an Expofition of the 9th chapter of St. Paul's Epiftle to
the Romans ; an Expofition of the Epiftle to the Coloflians, and, it is
probable, other works. Whitaker was a member of the affembly of
divines, and faid to have been remarkable for his fkill in the oriental
languages. There is extant a fermon preached at his funeral, with
an account of his life, (which contains nothing remarkable,) by Simeon
Aflie. Several elegies on his death, and panegyrical poems, are an-
nexed. He was fucceeded at Bermondfey by his fon William, who
was
552
BERMONDSEY.
Richard
Parr.
Pari(h re-
gifter kept
with great
accuracy.
was author of a few fingle fermons, and was ejected at the reftora-
tion '*. Elton and the elder Whitaker lie buried in the fame grave
in the chancel, where is the following infcriptlon :
" Where once the famous Elton did entruft
" The prefervation of his facred duft,
" Lies pious Whitaker, both juftly twin'd,
*' Both dead, one grave ; both living, had one mind :
" And by their difToIution, have fupply'd
" The hungry grave, and fame and heaven befide.
*' This ftone protects their bones, while fame enrolls
*' Their deathlefs names, and heaven embrace their fouls."
" The faid Whitaker departed June i, 1654, Eetatis fu^e ^^."
Dr. Richard Parr, of whom fome account is given in the parifh of
Camberwell, (p. 85.) of which he was vicar, was alfo redtor of Ber-
mondfey. His fignature occurs in the regifter in 1676. He died
in 1 69 1.
The earlieft date of the parifh regifter is 1548. The manner in
which it has been kept for the laft fixteen years by the Reverend
Henry Cox Mafon, the prefent curate, deferves particular mention, and
much commendation. Mr. Mafon has adopted a plan nearly fimilar to
that recommended by the prefent Bifhop of Durham, who has fome
excellent obfervations on the importance of regularity and precifion
in the keeping of parochial regifters, in his letter to the clergy of the
diocefe of Sarum. Notwithftanding the extreme populoufnefs of the
parifli of Bermondfey, Mr, Mafon has inferted with great accuracy,
the date of the birth of each child, as well as of its baptifm, the pro-
feffion of its parents, and their place of abode. In the regifter of the
burials, the age of the parties is inferted. Without fuch a plan, the
parochial regifter, efpecially in a very populous parifh, ceafes to be of
'* Nonconformift's Memorial, vol. i. p. 127.
ufe
B E R M O N D S E Y. S53
ufe either In afcertalning with precifion the identity or age of a
perfon, or the defcent of a family.
Average of Baptifms. Average of Burials. Comparative
r, ftateofpo,
1549— 1558 — 32 ' 57 pulsion-
1580— 1589 — 74 85
1680 — 1689 — 334 — 481
1780— 1789 — 418 498
1780 — 1784 — 399 488
1784— 1789 — 436 509
1790 450 417
ijgi 474 511
The principal increafe of population in this parifli happened be-
tween the year 1665 and the year 1680, within which period it was
wonderfully rapid ; the proportional increafe during the laft hundred
years having been very fmall. The average of baptifms is only one
fourth more within the laft ten years, than it was during 1680 —
1689. In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid,
that there were then 2 1 1 1 houfes in Bermondfey; there are now about
3100, and new buildings are increafing very faft. The burials have
uniformly exceeded the baptifms in a confiderable proportion, which
may be accounted for from the great number of diflenters and
catholics in the parifli, many of whom are interred here. There
are two congregations of Independents at this place ; one chapel for
perfons in Mr. Wefley's connexion ; a Roman Catholic chapel ; a
meeting for the Anabaptifts ; and another for the Antinomians.
The Quakers have a burial ground, but no meeting.
The ravages of the plague appear to have been much greater pkgue years,
at Bermondfey than at Lambeth, although the latter parifli was
the more populous. The following table will give fome idea of its
devaftations.
Vol. L 4 B In
554
B E R M O N D S E Y.
Singular ce-
remony of
the re-union
of a man and
his wife, after
a long ab-
fence, during
which the
woman had
married an-
other huf-
band.
1603.
B
U R I A L S .
1625.
B
ITRIALS.
1665.
B
ORIALS.
In April,
-
8
Previoufly to June,
-
6+
Previoufly to July,
- 38
May,
-
9
In June,
-
-
32
In
July.
- 108
lunc.
-
21
July.
-
-
252
Auguft,
- 121
July.
-
- 141
Auguil,
-
-
539
September, -
- 263
Auguft,
-
*
-•278
September,
-
-
152
Oiftober,
- 278
September,
-
- 140
Oaober,
•
-
43
November, -
- lU
Oftober,
-
- 42
November,
December,
-
-
20
November,
- >s
December,
-
1 1
It may be obferved, that the average number of burials, at the lateft
of thefe periods, was little more than 100. In the year 1625, when
the plague appears to have been moft fatal, the total number of bu-
rials was 1 1 1 7, being at leaft 1000 more than the average of that pe-
riod ; 20 perfons were frequently buried in one night. It is ob-
ferved in, the regifter, that of the 263 perfons who died in the month
of September 1665, 185 were males. Two hundred and three per-
fons died of the plague in 1636.
The following very fmgular entry occurs in the year 1604 :
" The forme of a folemne vowe made betwixt a man and his
" wife, havinge bene longe abfent, through which occafion the wo-
" man beinge maried to another man, tooke her again as fol-
" loweth :
" The man's fpeach:
" Elizabeth, my beloved wife, I am right forie that I have fo
" longe abfented myfealfe from thee, whereby thou fhouldeft be
" occafioned to take another man to be thy hufband. Therefore I
do now vowe and promife, in the fighte of God and this com-
panle, to take thee againe as mine owne ; and will not onlie for-
give thee, but alfo dwell with thee, and do all other duties unto
thee, as I promifed at our marriage.
" The woman's fpeach:
*' Raphe, my beloved hufband, I am right forie that I have in thy
abfence taken another man to be my hufband ; but here, before
" God
<c
(C
B E R M O N D S E Y. . ^-55
" God and this companie, I do renounce and forfake him, and do
" promife to kepe myfealfe only unto thee duringe life, and to per-
" forme all duties which I firft promifed unto thee in our marriage."
Then follows a fhort occafional prayer, and the entry concludes
thus:
" The firft dayofAuguft 1604, Raphe Goodchild, of the parifh
** of Barkinge in Thames-ftreat, and Elizabeth his wife, were
" agreed to live together, and thereupon gave their hands one ta
** another, makinge either of them a folemne vow fo to doe, in the
" prefence of us,
*' William Stere, Parfon.
*' Edward Coker,
" and Richard Eires, Clark."
The following entry alfo is fmgular :
" James Herriott, Efq. and Elizabeth Jofey, Gent, were mar- Numerous
" ried Jan. 4, 1624-5. N* ^- This James Herriott was one of ^^^^^y-
*' the 40 children of his father, a Scotchman."
The following inftances of longevity occur :
" Sarah Terrey, widow, aged 98, buried Feb. 12, 1 741-2. inftances of
" Mr. Lovejoy, aged loo, from Bermondfey-ftreet, buried l°"g^"^'
J"iy 15. 1744-
*' Mr. Langworthy, of Long-lane, leather-cutter, aged 103, bu-
" ried -Sept. 4, 1750.
" Walter Wharry, aged 99, buried June 1 7, 1 754.
" Mrs. Owen, from Dog-lane, aged 104, buried Aug. 19, 1762.
*' Mrs. Rebecca Harrowman, aged 99, buried Dec. 16, 1764.
" Jofeph Day, from Bermondfey-ftreet, aged, 105, buried
" June 1 1, 1769.
" Jarvis Whitehead, from Dockhead, aged 96, buried Feb. 13,
Henry Phillips, aged 100, buried 0«^. 3, 1774."
4 B 2 There
ss^
BERMONDSEY.
Charity
khool.
There are entries alfo of 15 other perfons who have been buried
at Bermondfey, from the age of 90 to 93 inclufive.
Free-fchcol. Mr. Jofiah Bacon, by his will, dated 1709, bequeathed the fum
of 700 1. for the purpofe of building a free-fchooj, which he endowed
with 150I. per annum, for the education of a certain number of
boys (not more than 60, or fewer than 40) in writing, arithmetic,
&c. This will was confirmed, in the year 1732, by Mr. Thomas
Bacon, who charged certain cftates in Huntingdonfliire with the pay-
ment of the faid fum. The mafter receives 80 1. per annum, the
ufher 50 1. the remainder is appropriated to repairs, &c.
A charity-fchool was eftablifhed in this parifh about the year 1714*
to which various perfons have jointly contributed about 430 1.
Mr. Nathaniel Smith, in 1755, bequeathed the fum of 40 1. per ann.
towards its fupport; and Mr. Edward Dockley, in 1789, 2I. per ann.
Its annual income is augmented by the collections at two charity
fermons.
The benefactions to this parifh have been numerous and ample.
The following brief recital of them is taken from a more enlarged
account, printed at the end of the aCt of parliament for the better
regulation of the poor at Bermondfey ". Mr. Thomas Kendall gave
two fmall tenements, the fite of which is let for 2I. 6s. per annum.
William Gardiner, Efq. in 1597, left lol. per annum to the poor;
a mefluage in Bermondfey-ftreet, taken in lieu of this annuity,
produces 9I. per annum, clear of all taxes. Mrs. Trapps, in 1624,
bequeathed fome lands at Weftham, fubjeCt to a deduction of
il. 6 s. 8d. for a fermon; which now produce 81. 8 s. per annum.
Mr. Richard Lockwood, in 1631, gave a meffuage and premifes in
Bermondfey-ftreet; now let at 61. per annum. Mr. Andrew Dandy,
Benefaflions.
■'' By an aft of parliament pafled in 1757, number of governors and direftors, to be
and amended in 1791, the management of chofen annually by the veflry. The average
»he poor of this parifh is veRed in a certain number of poor in the workhoufe is about 300.
*
in
B E R M O N D S E Y. 557
in 1673, left money to purchafe a piece of ground, for the purpofe of
paying 20 s. each annually to fix poor perfons. Mr. Jofiah Bacon, in
1703, gave the fum of 150 1. for the purpofe of purchafing lands to
buy bread for the poor ; with this money two houfes were built on
a piece of ground given by Mr. Robert Banyard in 1659; thefe
houfes produce lol. per annum. The parifh has lands at Yalden
and Marden in Kent, which were purchafed with the donations of
Mrs. Chibbald and various perfons, and now produce 24 1. 10 s.
per annum. Mr. Full, in 1578, left 2 1. 12 s. per annum, to buy
bread for the poor. Mr. Stevens the fame annuity in 1635. Mr.
Wright, in 1673, an annuity of 3 1. Mr. David Apfey, in 1740, the
intereft of 100 1. after deducing 1 1. is. for a fermon. And Mr.
Archadyne, in 171 4, a fmall benefadion for the fame purpofe. Mr.
Skidmore, in 1584, left 20s. per annum for firing; and Francis
Tyrrell, in i6oy, five chaldrons of coals yearly, to be paid by the
grocers' company. Sir John Fenner, in 1633, left (SI. per annum to
buy bibles for the poor, and 5 1. per annum for fick perfons. Mr.
Edward Martin, in 1645, left the third part of a moiety of 28 acres
of land, with the meffuages thereon, at Low Layton in Eflex, for the
purpofe of buying bibles, in odlavo, in Englifh print, for the poor :
it is exprefsly faid in the will, that if the parifh fhould difpofe of the
money to any other ufe, the benefits of the legacy fliould be tranf-
ferred to the parifh of Lambeth : this legacy produces now only 3I.
per annum, but is capable of very great improvement at the expira-
tion of a long leafe. Mr. Bernard Hide left the fum of 4 1. 10 s. to be
paid by the falters' company, every tenth year, to iS poor maids and
widows of this parifh. Mr. John Wright, in 1673, gave a rent-
charge of 14I. per annum, payable out of fome meffuages in Ber-
mondfey ; 12I. 13 s. 4 d. of which is to be laid out in clothing for
12 poor women ; and a farther rent-charge of 3I. per annum, for
educating children. John Scrag, in 153 1, left the fum of 6s. 8 d.
to
Spa.
558 B E R M O N D S E Y.
to be dlftributed annually among poor houfekeepers ; and Mr. Ralph
Pratt, in 1607, an annuity of four marks to the poor. An allotment
of 20 1. per annum, being a rent-charge upon an eftate at Bexhill,
in Suffex, has been made to this parifli, out of Mr. Henry Smith's
benefa(flions.
Among fome minutes taken from an old veftry-book of this parlfli,
I obferved the following: " Dec. 30, 1634, ordered, That Mr. Wil-
liam Cafe might come to veftry in his cloak, and fit there without his
gown, notwithftanding an order to the contrary."
Bermondfey In this parlfh is a well-known place of entertainment, called Ber-
mondfey Spa, from fome waters of a chalybeate nature, which were
difcovered there about the year 1770; a few years before which
period, Mr. Thomas Keyfe, the prefent proprietor, firft opened his
premifes as a place for tea-drinking ; and exhibited, with great fuc-
cefs, a colledion of paintings of his own produ£lion, which, con-
fidered as the works of a felf-taught artift, have much merit.
About eight years ago, Mr. Keyfe procured a licence for opening
his gardens with mufical entertainments, after the manner of
Vauxhall. They are now open every evening in the fummer
feafon, the price of admiflion being one fhilling. Fireworks
are occafionally exhibited ; and a few times in the courfe of the
year, a very excellent reprefentation of the fiege of Gibraltar,
confiftlng of fireworks and tranfparencles, the whole of which were
conftrufted and arranged by Mr. Keyfe himfelf, and do great credit
to his mechanical abilities. The height of the rock Is about 50 feet,
the length 200 5 the whole of the apparatus covers about four acres
of ground.
CAMBER-
[ 559 ]
CAMBERWELL.
References to the efcheat-bundles in the Tower, concerning Manors.
the manor of Camberwell Buckinghams, may be found in the
note ".
The Beckwell family held the manor of Camberwell (confiftlng of Cambsrwell.
nearly 300 acres) of the Earls of Gloucefter, by the fervice of half a
knight's fee, in the reign of Edw. I. " ; and they continued to be
in pofleflion of it 43 Edw. III. *°
Robert Lyttel is faid to have been the proprietor of the manor of Dowdale.
Dowdale 43 Edw. III. *' John, fon of John Adam, died feized of
part thereof the fame year.
Robert de Bretynghurft held about 150 acres of land in Camberwell Bretinghurft.
and Peckham, of the king, in capite, 9 Edw. III.**; which moft
probably formed the manor called, from him, Bretinghurft. la the
terrier of lands in Surrey (quoted p. 118.), the name of Wolfely
muft have been erroneoufly copied from the record for Dolfely.
That family, whofe name is varioufly written, Dolfely, Dolcely, Dol-
faly, Doulfhill, and Dolfhill, were proprietors of the manor of Bre-
tinghurft for feveral generations *\ Margaret Barnard and Simon
Worfted, who feverally died feized thereof, were allied to them **.
William Scott was proprietor of this manor in the reign of Hen. V. " :
3* Ric. de Clare Com. Glouceft. Efch. 55 Efch. 35 EJw. I. No. ii.
47 Hen. in. No. 34. Gilbert de Clare Efch. *" Efch. 43 Edw. III. No. 28.
24 Edw. I. No. 107. Johan. ux. Gilbert de 4' Ibid.
Clare, Efch. 35 Ediv. I. No. 47. Gilbert ->» Efch. 9 Edw. III. No. 3.
declare Efch. 8 Edw. II. N0.6S. Hugh de « Efch. 43 Edw. III. pt. i. No. 28.
Audley, Com. Glouceft. Efch. 21 Edw. III. Efch. 47 Edw. III. No. 12. Efch.6Ric.H.
No. 59. Radulph. Com. Staff. Efch. 46 No. 30. Efch. 21 Ric. II. No. 55. Efch.
Edw. III. No. 62. Hugo Com. Staff. Efch. 8 Hen. IV. No. 8.
loRic. II. No. 28. Th. Com. Staff. Efch. "Efch. 18 Ric. II. No. 48. Efch. 21
16 Ric. II. No. 27. Will. Fr. & Her. Th. Ric. II. No. 55.
Com. Staff. Efch. 22 Ric. II. No. 46. Edm. +5 Efch. 5 Hen. V. No. 26.
Com. Staff. Efch. 4 Hen. IV. No. 41.
as
560
CAMBER WELL.
Peckham and
Bafyng.
Hatcham.
Tombs.
as his family continued to be in pofleflion thereof till the time of
Queen Elizabeth, William Credy, who is mentioned as its owner
3 Hen. VI. *', muft have pofTefled it by fome temporary grant.
Thomas Dolcely had the manor of Peckham alfo, which was held
under the manor of Camberwell " ; and that of Bafyng *', which
was held of the fame manor, by a rent of 5 s. lod. The latter feems
to have been annexed to Bretinghurft *'.
It appears, that there were two manors in Hatcham In the reign
of Edw. I. ; for Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, is faid to
have held the manor of Hatcham, which rendered fuit of court at the
manor of Hatcham Bavent ^°. Henry Vaughan held a manor in
Hatcham 43 Edw. III."
John Abell had a charter of free warren in Hatcham and Camber-
well 24 Edw. I. '^
In the account of Camberwell church (p. 75.) for *' a niche for
" holy water," read " a pifcina."
The conjeQure relating to the window at Camberwell (fee p. 74.)
muft be attributed to Strype, as that parifh is not mentioned in the
early editions of Stow's Survey.
The brafs plate to the memory of Margaret Dove remains at the
■weft end of the nave. To the tombs in the churchyard (p. 80.) may
be added thofe of Thomas Fox, merchant, who died in 1672 ; Henry
Balowe, Gent. 1715 ; William Bourne, 1724; Robert Ford, Efq.
1727; Mr. Thomas Browne, 1732; Peter Cock, Efq. 1737, and
others of his family ; John Amy, Efq. 1 745 ; John Brittnor, Efq.
1752 ; William Jephfon, A.M. mafter of the grammar-fchool at
this place, and vicar of Great Hormead, Herts, 1761 ; Capt. Wil-
liam Clarke, 1762; Samuel Brown Tufnell, Efq. of Norwood
♦= Efch. 3 Hen. VI. No. 32.
■»' Efch. 43 Edw. III. pt. I. No. 28.
♦• Efch. 47 Edw. III. No. 12.
•» Efch. 9 Hen. IV. No. 34.
'" Efch. 21 Edw. I. No. 50.
'■ Efch. 43 Edw. III. pt. I. No. 28.
'* Cart. 24 Edw. I. m. 21.
Green,
C A M B E R W E L L. 561
Green, 1763; Capt. John Peters, 1765 ; Gilbert AUix, Efq. 1767;
George Edward Pakenham, Efq. 1768; Mr. Michael Mandeville,
1769; Henrietta, wife of Richard Henfhaw, Efq. 1771 ; John
Taylor, Merchant, 1780 ; David Thompfon, M. D. of the Ifland of
Jamaica, 1785 ; Mary, relidt of Browne Claxton, Efq. and mother
of John Claxton, Efq. F. A. S. 1786; Edward Marfhall, Attorney,
1788 ; Ann, wife of John James, Efq. of Moor Court, in the county
of Hereford, 1789 ; Capt. Jonathan Dring, 1791 ; Catherine, wife of
Thomas Dale, M.D. 1791 ; and William James Gambier, Efq.
1791.
In the burial-2;round at Dulwich are the tombs of Thomas Tell, Tombs at
^ ,. , r f. Dulwich.
Efq. who died in 1 779 ; John, fon of Peter Thompfon, Efq. of
Poole in Dorfetihire, who died in 1788 ; and Winde William Van-
derefch, who died in 1789,
In Stow's Annals ", there is an account of the baiting of a lion in Lion baiting.
the Tower, under the diredion of Edward Alleyn, the founder of
Dulwich College.
James Allen, Efq. formerly Mafter of that College, by his inden- 9^"',^^
ture, bearing date Auguft 31ft, 1741, gave a piece of ground at Ken- ed at Dulwich
fmgton Gravel-pits, with fix tenements newly erected thereon, to Allen.
the mafter, wardens, fellows, &c. of Dulwich College, and their
fucceflbrs, in truft, for the purpofe of eftablifhing a charity-fchool,
for the education of poor children living at Dulwich, or within one
mile thereof; the boys to be taught to read, the girls to read and few.
The mafter for the time being to have the fole management of the
fchool, to appoint the fchool-miftrefs or miftrefles, to make leafes
of the premifes, and to receive the rents; for which trouble he
is allowed to deduft out of the profits 5I. per annum, and the addi-
tional fum of 1 1. 6 s. to treat the tenants with a dinner. It is ex-
prefsly faid in the indenture, That whereas Archbifhop Wake did by
'5 p. 1427, 1428. quarto edit.
Vol. I. 4 C his
562
CAMBER WELL.
BenefaAion
of Sarah
Vifcountefs
Falkland.
his Injundion, Dec. 9th, 1724, ordain, that fuch twelve poor boys
as could read in the New Teftament, fhould be perfected in reading,
and taught writing and arithmetic, by the fchool-mafter, and uftier, at
the college ; the mafter fhould recommend the boys out of his
fchool, as foon as they could read in the New Teftament, to be edu-
cated according to the faid injundlion, and that he fhould give at
the admiffion of each the fum of ten fhillings. The premifes now
produce to the charity 21I. 6$. od. per annum only, but are capa-
ble of very great improvement at the expiration of the prefent leafe.
The houfes, one of which is in the tenure of Sir Gervas Clifton, Bart,
are good and eligibly fituated, and are let on an average at about 25 1.
per annum. There are now about fifteen children in the fchool, for each
of whom the mafter pays three-pence per week to the fchool-miftrefs.
Sarah Countefs of Suffolk, afterwards the wife of Lucius Charles,
the late Lord Vifcount Falkland, by her will bearing date May 6th,
1776, bequeathed the fum of 300 1. to the mafter and warden of
Dulwich College in truft, that the intereft of the fame fhould be dif-
tributed annually on Chriftmas-day, in equal portions between the
poor brethren and fifters.
Market and
fair.
Manor.
CARSHALTON.
Henry IIL granted to this parifh a weekly market on Tuefday,
and an annual fair for three days, on St. Mary's Day, the vigil, and
the day following ". When this grant was made, Gilbert fon of
William de Colville was lord of the manor. William de Fiennes
granted it to Queen Eleanor for a term of years ". Nicholas
Carew died feized thereof, 36 Hen. VI. '*j and his fon Nicholas,
6 Edw. IV. "
»♦ Cart. 43 Hen. III. m. 4.
" Cart. 4 Edw. I. m. 9.
s« Efch. N° 22.
" Efch. N" 40.
The
C A R S H A L T O N. 563
The Lady Margaret Burwafli, or Burgherfte, held the manor of Stone Court.
Stone-Court, in Carlhalton, 46 Edw. III. " The fite of this manor
has been lately fold to Palmer, Efq.
Mr. Broadhead's houfe (fee p. 135.) was fold alfo a fhort time ago
to J. H. Durand, Efq,
To the tombs in Carfhalton church, (fee p. 127 — 129.) may be Tombs,
added the following : In the chancel on the fouth wall, the monu-
ments of Elizabeth, wife of Henry Byne, Efq. who died in 1687,
and James Brace, Efq. who died in 1 749 ; on the north wall that of
John Braddyl, Efq. who died in 1753; and on the floor, the tomb
of Chriftopher Mufchamp, Efq. who died in 1660 ; at the eaft end of
the nave, the monument of Dorothy, wife of George Burrifh, who
died in 1685 ; on one of the pillars that of Thomas Potts, Efq. who
died in 1788 ; on the floor, the tomb of Martha, wife of Thomas
Otgher, Gent, and daughter of Thomas Carleton, Efq. who died in
1706; and in the north aifle, the monument of Edward Fellows,
Efq. who died in 1730.
In the church-yard are the tombs of Edward Whitaker, Admiral
of the White, who died in 1735; Thomas Bradley, Efq. who died
in 1 739 ; and feveral others of that family ; Rachel Grymes, who
died in 1740; Paul Peter Savignac, who died in 1756, and others
of his family; and that of one Humphreys, a corpulent barber, who
was a famous dancer, with the following whimfical infcription :
*' Tom Humphreys lies here, by death beguil'd,' Whimfical
** "Who never did harm to man, woman, or child ; epitaph.
" And fmce without foe no man e'er was known,
*' Poor Tom was nobody's foe but his own ;
*' Lay light on him earth, for none would than he
*' (Though heavy his bulk) trip it lighter on thee.
" Died Sept, 4, 1 742, aged 44 years."
'• Efch. N° 56. zd numbering.
4 C 2 The
504 C H E A M.
The MS. mentioned p. 133. is annexed to Peck's Life of Milton.
The line " A comfort great, &c." is there printed,
" To comfort and to cure my corofie."
H E A M.
Tombs in the To the tombs in the church of this parifli, (mentioned p. 140 —
146.) may be added thofe of Francis Rogers, who died in 1688;
Mrs. Jane Pattinfon, who died in 1 755 ; Thomas Kemp, D. D.
redor of the parifh, who died in 1 769 ; Jofeph Butler, Efq. of York,
who died in 1785 ; Edmund Sanxay, Efq., Edmund Antrobus, Efq.,
and Leonard Hammond, Efq. who all died in 1787; and John
Kempfon, who died in 1 788.
Church- In the church-yard are the tombs of fome children of John Dor-
^^'^^' mer, Efq. of Lee Grange, in the county of Bucks ; the Reverend
Daniel Sanxay, who died in 1 739 ; Catherine, relid of Michael
Crake, Efq. (1740); Jofeph Thompfon, Efq. of Nonfuch, (1743);
and James King, S. T. P. late redlor of the parifh, who died in 1780.
C L A P H A M.
Manor. RicHARD Gower was lord of the manor in the reign of Edw. IV.
and fold it to Sir George Ireland, Alderman of London ".
The Rev. Sir James Stonehoufe, Bart. LL. D. and redlor of Clap-
ham, died in the month of April laft, and was fucceeded by the
Reverend John Venn.
"Efch.ii Edw. IV. N"4i. & 13Edw.IV. Juliana Romeyne, 19 Edw. II. Efch. N° 85.
N" 36. William de Fiennes died feized of the Agnes Ux. Joh. Founteynes, prius nupt. W"
manor of Clapham, 30 Edw. I. Efch. N°33. Wefton, 13 Edw. VI. Efch. N° 13.
CROYDON.
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CROYDON.
The manor of Benchefham was held under the Archbifhop of Manor of
u^ . Benchefham,
Canterbury . Edward Brudenell had a grant of free warren therein,
19 Hen. VI. *' The Morton family were in pofleffion of this ma-
nor as early as the reign of Henry VIII. Sir Robert Morton died
feized of it 6 Hen. VIII. ; and his fon, William, 14 Hen. VIII. "
King Edw. III. in the 46th year of his reign, feized the manor of p ^"°^°^
Crowham, among other lands, then the property of Walter Chiriton,
for a debt of 3000 1. due to the crown, and granted it to John de
Wefenhara. Richard 11. reftored it to William Chiriton, fon of the
former.
Nicholas Carew died feized "of the manor of Norbury, ;^2 Hen. Norbury.
VI. '% and his fon Nicholas, 6 Edw. IV. "'
At Addifcombe in this parifh, is a feat of the Right Honourable
Lord Hawkfbury.
K E W.
It is probable that the capital manfion-houfe, called Suffolk CharlesBran-
don, Duke of
Place, (fee p. 203.) belonged to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, Suffolk, and
Mary the
and Mary the French Queen, who are known to have refided at French
Kew. Leland fays,
" Chevam hofpitio pias Mariae
" Gallorum Dominx celebriorem "."
«" Efch. 12 Edw. III. N" 34. kian Library.
«' Pat. 19 Hen. VI pt. 2. m. 6. '* Efch. N" 22.
** Cole's Efcheats HarleianMSS. N' 756. «' Efch. N" 40.
•' Chronicle of Merton Abbey, in the Bod- '* Leland's Idnerary, vol. L'c. p. 12.
Kew
j66
K
W.
Lord Har-
rington of
E.vton.
Kew was the refidence alfo of the elder and younger Lord Har-
rington of Exton ; the latter of whom, who is defcribed as a moft'
amiable and accomplifhed young nobleman, died therein 1614*'. -
The improvements made at Kew-houfe by Kent, (fee p.206.)
muft have taken place before the death of the Prince of Wales, &$
Kent himfelf died in 1748.
• Mr. Bellamy (fee p. 210.) publifhed alfo fome dramatic pieces.
Kew-bridge. Paine was the archited: of Kew Bridge. It is 400 feet in length,
exclufive of the abutments, and confifts of feven arches, the central
one of which is 66 feet wide and 22 high. The annual revenues of
this bridge are about 2,500!. per annum.
Manor of
Combe.
Manor of
Ham.
Duchefs of
KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
John Hadrefham, or, as he is called in the record here quoted,
Hatherfam, granted the manor of Combe to John Gaynesford and
others, jHen. V. " This manor was aliened in the year 1651,
by Charles Cockayne, Lord Vifcount Cullen, of the kingdom of Ire-
land, (and fon of Sir William Cockayne, Knt.) to Eliab Harvey,
Efq. '* It was purchafed of the Harveys about the year 1753, in
truft, for the late Lord Spencer, then a minor.
John Handelow and his wife Matilda granted the manor of Ham,
near Kingfton, (4 Edw. III.) to Euftachius de Eton, and Geoffrey
de Shardeburgh, and the heirs of the former '".
Sir Nicholas Burnell held 100 acres of land in Ham of the bailiffs
of Kingfton, 6 Ric. II. "
The celebrated Duchefs of Queenfberry refided at Ham, in the
Queeniberry, houfc which is novv the refidcncc of Lady Douglas.
•' Heroologia Britannica, p. 135. fteward.
•» Efch. s Hen. V. N° 45. '" Efch. 4 Edw. HI. N<» j6. & 45.
•» From the information of Lord Spencer's ^' Efch. 6 Ric. IL N" zo.
Roger
KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 567
Roger Wood died feized of the manor of Norbiton-hall, Norbiton.
10 Car. I.
LAMBETH.
There Is a record in the Tower " which exprefsly fays, that the Manor of
manor of Faukes-hall, which had been granted to Richard Gerefeye
for Hfe, and which was afterwards granted to Roger Damorie, was
confirmed to Thomas Bardolf, heir of the faid Roger, and his heirs for
ever, by Hen. IV. This appears to be inconfiftent with the account
of the manor given, p. 321. from equal authority, unlefs we fup-
pofe that there were two manors at Faukes-hall, both of which be-
longed to Roger Damorie.
Mention is made in a record, 27 Edw. I. of a bridge made at the
Abbot of Weftminfter's expence, between Vauxhall and Wandf-
worth '*.
Sir Richard Sackvllle died feized of the manor of Levehurft, Levehurfi.
9 Eliz. "
Nicholas Molineux had a grant {^6 Hen. VI.) of the manors of Knolls.
Stockwell, Lambeth, and Knolls, which feem to have been in this
parifh.
In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid, that
there were then 1625 houfes at Lambeth.
Maitland mentions two Spring-gardens at Vauxhall.
A chapel of eafe is now building at South Lambeth, by the fub«
fcriptions of the inhabitants of that place.
M E R T ON.
In the Auc-mentation-office is the deed of furrender of the Priory Surrender of
... r Merton
of Merton. The feal of the convent, which is in very good preferva- Priory.
»» Cole's Efcheats, N" 757. HarleianMSS. '+ Efch. 27 Edw. I. N'liS.
" Pat. I Hen. IV. pt. 7. m. 22. " Cole's Efcheats, Harleian MSS. N" 757.
tion,
568 M E R T O N.
tion, is thereto annexed ; it reprefents the Virgin Mary fitting under
a gothic canopy, with the infant Jefus on her knee. The legend is
SiGiLL. ECCLESiE SAn. Marie de Meritona. The deed of fur-
render is dated April 26, 29 Hen. VIII. and is figned by Sir John
Ramfay, the laft prior, Jofeph Debnam, fub-prior, Thomas God-
mechefter, facrift, John Codynton, Richard Wyndefle, precen-
tor, George Albyn, fuccentor, John Hayward, Richard Benefe,
Thomas Mychell, Edmund Dowman, Thomas Paynell, John Salyng,
John Martyn, Robert Knyght, John Page, fcholar of Oxford.
Manor of
Ravenfbury.
Ancient
houfe.
M I T C H A M.
Sir John Burgherfhe died 15 Ric. II. feized of the manor of Ra-
venfbury ", which defcended to John Arundell, who married Mar-
garet his daughter and heir ''. It was held under Baldwin Frevylle,
as of his manor of Afhted ".
There is an ancient houfe at Mitcham, the property of Mrs.
Sarah Chandler, widow of George Chandler, Efq. in which are the
remains of a chapel. The proprietors of this houfe, which is held
under the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, claim a right to the north
aifle of the church, in fupport of which it appears that the family of
Illyng worth, who were buried in that aifle in the fixteenth century,
held a houfe and lands under the church of Canterbury, temp.
Edw. IV. " It is probable that it was at an earlier period the pro-
perty of Henry Strete, who had a licence for an oratory in his houfe
at Mitcham, in the year 1 348 ".
" Efch. ij Ric. II. N" 8.
'" Efch. 2 Hen. VI. N° 39.
" Now in the tenure of Mr, Worsfold.
'» Efch. 16 Edw. IV. N-^ 38.
'» Regift. Winton. W. de Edindon, pt. 2.
f. 20. b.
MORTLAKE.
t 569 J
MORTLAKE,
Isaac Reed, Efq. is in pofleffion of a very fcarce book written
byDodor Dee, of which, only one hundred copies were printed. It
is entitled " General and rare Memorials, pertayning to the perfed
*' Art of Navigation ; annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas in Playne,
" now firft publifhed 24 yeres after the firft invention thereof."
Fol. 1577.
NEWINGTON BUTTS.
In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid thai
there were then 75 1 houfes in that parifh, and only one perfon who
kept a coach.
PETERSHAM.
In the year 1777, Mr. Bellamy, the late minifter of Peterfham,
publifhed a memorial, addrefled to the Bifhop of Winchefter, on the
expediency of enlarging that church, and fettling and afcertaining
the rights of the future vicars, under the ad of parliament paffed
in 1769.
RICHMOND.
Robert Burnell, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, purchafed the Manor of
manor of Sheen (now Richmond) of Hugh de Wyndlefor, temp.
Edw. I. '" It was then valued at lol. 2 s. 4d.
" Efch. 21 Ed. I. N'so.
Vol. I. 4 D Queen
57^
RICHMOND.
Queen Caroline made Stephen Duck Keeper of the Hermitage hi
Richmond Gardens, before he went into orders. Alhiding to this
appointment, Mr. Pope, in his imitation of Horace, Epiftle 2. Book 2.
fays,
*' Lord ! how we ftrut thro' Merlin's Cave, to fee
*' No poets there, but Stephen, you, and me."
There was a theatre at Richmond before Penkethman opened bis.
" Injured Virtue, or the Virgin Martyr," by B. Griffin, was a£ted
there by the Duke of Southampton and Cleveland's fervants, in
ROTHERHITHE.
Reflory. Ralph Bofleville held the recStory and advowfon, 2 Eliz. '*
In Maitland's Hiftory of London, printed in 1739, it is faid that
there were then 1320 houfes in this parilh, and only one perfon who
kept a coach.
Lambarde fays, that Henry the Fourth refided at Rotherhithe,
whilft he was cured of his leprofy ".
WANDSWORTH.
Edward Barker (fee p, 507.) though ftiled in his epitaph, one
of the Barons of the Exchequer, appeal's to have held the office of
Curfitor Baron only.
" Dodfley's Old Plays, preface, p. 52. *' Topographical Diftionary, p. 306.
'* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, N°4705.
Ayfcougl^'s Cat. Brit. Muf.
[ Sl^ J
PRESENT STATE of POPULATION in the
PARISHES treated of in this Volume,
^O afcertain as nearly as pofTible the prefent Hate of population in
the feveral pariflies near London, an accurate account of the
number of houfes and inhabitants has been procured in three pretty
large villages ; viz. Mortlake, Putney, and Wandfworth j the num-
bers are as follows :
Number of Houfes.
Number of Inhabitants
Mortlake, - 301
-
1766
Putney, - 440
« m
2294
Wandfworth, - 690
-
- - 4554'
Total number, 1431 - - 8614
Upon making the calculation, the average number of inhabitants to
a houfe in thefe three parifhes jointly, will be found to be 6t44x> that
is, about 6 -5-V- The average of 6 to a houfe, therefore, will perhaps
give a pretty fair view of the prefent ftate of population near Lon-
don. Clapham, perhaps, is almoft a fmgle inftance where the average
is nearly 7. In moft parifhes, the houfes have been adually num-
bered, and in all they have been calculated as nearly as polTible. The
following table gives the number of houfes and inhabitants upon
the foregoing calculation :
4D 2
[ 572 ]
Addlngton ■■
Barnes —
Batterfea —
Beddington
Bermondfey ■
Camberwell
Carfhalton ■
Cheam —
Croydon
Kew
Kingfton upon Thames
Lambeth
Maiden
Merton
Mitcham •
Morden ■
Newington Butts
Peterfliam
Richmond
Rotherhithe — —
Streatham — —
Sutton
Tooting — —
Wimbledon •
Number of Houfes.
- 22
150
360
100
3,100
772
165
61
800
80
4.130
22
116
1,800
53
815
1,600
265
100
150
230
16,246
Number of Inhabitants.
132
■ 900
— — 2160
— — 600
— • 18,600
4.632
990
366
■ 4,800
480
4.500
24,780
■ 132
696
3,240
390
10,800
318
4,890
——- 9,600
1,590
■ 600
■ 900
1,380
97,476
If to the number of houfes, 1,431 be added for Mortlake, Putney,
and Wandfworth, and 384 for Clapham, it will make in the whole
18,061 houfes: adding 8,614 inhabitants for the three former
pariihes, and 2,700 for Clapham, the total number will be 108,790.
C 573 ]
INDEX OF NAMES.
A BB A-ThuUe, Page 476.
■^*- Abbington, 174.
Abbot, George, Archbiftiop of Can-
terbury, 175. 196. 264, 265,
266. 274. 294. 304.
■ Biihop of London, 301.
■ William, 544.
Abbots, William, 47.
Abell, John, 560.
Abernithy, James, 393.
Abington, Montagu Earl of, 522.
Abrahall, John, 322.
Ackland, 17.
Acworth, Gabriel, 509.
Adam, John, 559.
Adams, 293. 407. n.
Richard, 488.
Adhelm, Bifhop ofShirebourn,267.
Adomar, 367.
Agar, Eleanor, 413.
■John, 247.
Thomas, 247. 413.
Aguillon, Margaret, 6. 541. note.
— — Sir Robert, 3, 4, 5. 541. n.
■ William, 3. 5.9.
Ailwin, 3.
Alton, William, 207.
Albemarle, Wm. Ann Earl of, 434.
Albert, 2.
Albyn, George, 567.
Aldrich, George, 146.
Aldridge, Bifhop of CarliTle, 276.
Alexander, John, 414.
Alfred, 118.
AUcraft, Henry, 357.
Allen, Anthony, 100.
—— Edward, 396.
Henry, 500.
■ James, 561.
—^Margaret, 392.
^— Thomas, T05.
Allen, William, 105. 392. 393.
Alleftry, 273.
Alleyn, 113, 114, 115, 116.
■ Conftance, 89.
— Edward, 87 — 93. 95 — 98.
105, 106. no. 561.
' Elias, 104.
— — — Joan, 96.
Matthias, 95. 100. 102.
' Thomas, 95. 102.
Allifon, 407.
James, 234.
Allix, Gilbert, 561.
Alnod, 497.
Alfop, John, 284.
Alured, 235.
Alyngton, Sir Giles, 193.
Ambefus, Sir William, 123.
Amelia, Princefs, 365. 456.
Amy, John, t,6^.
Amyand, Sir George, 127.
Andrews, Henry, 445.
■ John, iiiif.
■ Lancelot, Bifliop of Win-
chefter, 147, 148.
■■ Thomas, 509.
William, 125.
Anne of Cleve, 399. 437.
of Denmark, 157. 537.
— Queen, 222.
— — Queen of Richard II. 438.
Anfchil, 481.
Anfculf, 351. 504.
Anfell, 123.
Anfelm, Axchbilhop of Canterbury,
268. n. 269. 365.
Anfgot, 235. 479.
Anfon, Lord, 392.
Anftis, 386.
■ John, 342.
Anftruther, Sir Robert, 386.
Anthony, John, 97.
Antrobus, Edmund, 564.
Antrobus, Philip, 139.
Aperdele, John de, 351.
Apparry, 174.
Appleby, Dorothy, 491.
Aprece, Robert, 353.
Apfey, David, 557.
Apfley, 33.
— — Sir Allen, 471.
. Lucy, St.JohnPedigree,30.
Apthorp, Eaft, 191.
■ Elizabeth, 187.
Archadyne, 557.
Archer, 434.
■■ John, 27 1 . «.
Arderne, John, 479.
Argyle, Archibald Duke of, 240.
•■ John Duke of, 240. 400.
Armftrong, Sir Thomas, 273.
Arnold, William, 368.
Arran, Earl of, 446.
Arthor, John, 167.
Arundel, Anne Countefs of, 124,
■ Archbilhop of Canterbury,
173. 176. 264. 366.
Arundel, Earl of, 97. 117. 333.
Henry Earl of, 124. 138.
143, 144. 151. 154— Js6.
■ Lord, 428.
' Thomas Earl of, 3 1 9, 320.
Arundell, Henry, 167.
John, 288. 568.
Afgar, 160.
Afgill, Sir Charles, 444.
Afhe, Simeon, 551.
Alhton, 35.
Peter, 509.
Afhmole, Elias, 287. 303.
Afterley, David, 508.
Aftle, Thomas, 29. 342.
Aftley, Philip, 320.
Allon, William, 458.
Athawes, Edward, 369.
Athenian, 11. 137.
330.
Atkins*
574
INDEX OF Nx^MES.
Atkins, Abraham, 498.
Annabella, 164.
Henry, 161. 164.
■ Rebecca, 164.
. Sir Richard, 161. 163.166.
Atkinfon, 103. 397.
Atkyns, Sir Robert, 164. n.
Att Lee, or At Legh, Jolin, 9.
Nicholas, ibid.
Aubrey, 252.
Audley, Aime, 548.
. Hugh Lord, 69.
• John Lord, 548.
Auften, 113.
Aurtin, Frances, 358.
Avery, 41;.
■ Richard, 430.
Awften, Benjamin, 390. note.
Ayliffe, Anne, St. John Pedigree,
«i Sir George, ibid,
• Sir John, ii>id.
Aylraer, Robert, 80.
Aylwin, Nicholas, 4S4.
Aynfcomb, 376.
Ayte, Jane, St. John Pedigree, 30.
Azor, 49.
B.
Baas, Joachim Gerhard, 508.
Mary, Hid.
BabingtonBilhopofWorcefter, 195.
Backhous, or Bakhous, 225. 229.
Bacon, Edward, 446.
Jofiah, 556, 557.
— — Lord Chancellor, 95. 97. 260.
• Thomas, 556.
•^— William, 290.
Bagnall, Jofeph, 433.
Baieux, Bilhop of, 28.
Bainardus, 390.
Baife, Margaret, 307.
Baker, Frances, 289.
— — Henry, 1 19.
John, 474.487.
■ Thomas, 289.
■ William, 542.
Bakerage, William, 375.
Baldwin, Archbilhop of Canterbury,
261. n. 268. «. 274, 279.
— — Bifhop of Worceiler, 268. n.
Chriftopher, 159.
Ball, 233.
Balowe, Henry, 560.
Bancroft, Archbifhop of Canterbury,
265, 266. 269. 282. 301. 307.
—— Richard, 346.
Bandon, Margery de, 53.
Bankes, Sir Henry, 534. 539.
Banks, Sir Jacob, 539.
Banyard, Robert, 557.
Barber, John, 369. 372—374.
Barbone, Praife, 515.
. Sarah, iiid.
Barchard, 503.
Barclay, Lady, 368.
Bardefey, Robert, 250.
Bardolf, Agnes, 541. note.
• Hugh, 4. 541. note.
■ John, 541. note.
Thomas, 5. 541. note. 566.
' William, 4. ^t^x.noie.
Bardolph, 458.
Baretti, 4S2.
Barge, Thomas, 397.
Barker, Edward, 507. 570.
Barkley, Alcxancter, 193.
Barlow, Bifuop of Lincoln, 323.
Barnard, Sir John, 169. 374, 375.
Margaret, 559.
Barneby, Edward de, 1 1 8.
Barrat, 115.
Barret, 328.
■ - Edmund, 146.
Barrett, John, 177.
Barron, Thomas, 499.
Barrow, Thomas, 472.
Barfton, Elizabeth, 284.
Baflet, Gilbert, 493.
Baftide, Armand de la, 209.
Bafyng, Solomon de, 71. 119.
Bate, George, 246.
Bateman, Elizabeth, 306.
Efther, 498.
Sir James, 498, 499. 501.
Dowager Lady, 538.
Bath, Earl of, 283.
Marquis of, 539.
Batley, Benjamin, 394.
■ Sibella, ibid.
Battely, Catherine, 284.
John, ibid.
Eattie, William, 253, 254.
Baudouin, James, 508.
Bavent, Adam de, 120.
Sir Roger, ibid.
Baydon, John, 192.
Bayle, Robert, 339.
Baylis, Henry, 290.
Baynard, Anne, 24. 544.
Baynes, Adaixi, 442. 521.
Walter, 347.
William, ibid.
Beacher, Henry, 1 39.
Beake, William, 166,
Beale, 115.
Robert, 22, 23.
Bean, Robert, 336.
Bearcroft, Edward, 210.
• Elizabeth, ibid.
Beardmore, Arthur, 546.
Beauchamp, 41.
■ Margaret, 32.
Beaufort, Henry Duke of, 537.
Beaufoy, 318, 319.
Becher, Sir William, 412.
Becket, William, 248.
Beckwell, 559.
Bedford, Duchefs of, 491.
Duke of, 138. 432. 487.
505.
Bedford, Earl of, 252. 522.
Elizabeth Duchefs of, 488,
489.
■ John Duke of, 479. 488.
Wriothefley Duke of, 480.
488.
Beefton, William, 284.
Belchier, William, 70.
Belet, 438.
John, 437.
• Michael, 436, 437.
- Robert, 236.
Belitha, Edward, 255.
Bell, 539.
—— Robert, 476.
Bellamy, Daniel, 210. 569.
Mrs. 465.
Bellafys, John Lord, 451.
Bellingham, Sir Edward, 344. w/r.
Belt, Daniel, 412.
Sir Robert, ibid.
Benefe, Richard, 64. 568.
Benoit, Marc Antoine, 459.
Benn, Sir Anthony, 233. 245.
Bennet, 381.
Ambrofe, 476.
■ Benjamin, 393.
John, 4. 471.
•Richard, 206.
Timothy, 393.
■■ Wooley Leigh, 4.
Benfon, 373. 540.
Sir William, 539.
William, ibid.
Bentley, Jofeph, 459.
Roger, 85.
Berecroft, Catherine, 60.
Robert; ibid.
Berkeley, Bifhop of Cloyne, 264.
■ George Earl of, 499.
Bernard, Edward, 149.
Margaret, 1 1 8.
Samuel, 189.
Bernham, Roger de, 71.
Berriman, aliasBrandon, Charles,6 1 .
Bertie, Edward, 460.
Belborough, Earl of, 433 — 435.
Beft, Aaron, 544.
Betenfon, Richard, 533.
• Sir Richard, ibid.
Betefworth, Peter, 284.
Betterton, Robin, 546.
Betts, 316.
Bewicke, Calverley, 166.
BIckham,
INDEX OF NAMES.
575
Bickham, John, 551. ^
Bifield, Richard, 368. 37I.
Biggs, Samuel, 473.
Bindon, Thomas Vifcount, 133.
Bingham, John, 307.
Blackabee, John, 551.
Blackwall, Anthony, 168.
Blackvvell, Elizabeth, 517.
William, 252.
Blague, Thomas. 291, 292.
Blake, Anne, 473.
John, ibid.
Bland, Alice, 246.
Blandford, Maria Catherina Mar-
chionefs of, 369.
■ Marquis of, 20.
———William Marquis of, 369.
Blandy, Adam, 413.
Blayney, Henry Lord, 79.
' Vincent, ibid.
Bleefe, 184.
Bligh, John, 358.
Blood, Elizabeth, 304.
Thomas, ibid.
Blount, 33.
■ Elizabeth, St. John Pedi-
gree, 30.
Sir Richard, ibid.
Boddington, William, 187.
Bodicoate, Henry, 487.
Mary, ibid.
Bodley, Sir John, 97.
Boillier, John, 414.
Boherae, Anthony, 107.
Bohun, 176. note.
Bolingbroke, Earl of, 303.
Henry ,Vifcount, 30.44,4;.
Lord, 39. 42.46. 372. 373.
Bolonia, Faramus, or Faramufus de,
123. 1 35. 160. 166.
Bond, Charles, 348.
—— Charles Frederick, ibid.
^— Eleanor, ibid.
Sir Henry, 119.
Sir Thomas, 74. 1 19.
Tom, III.
Bonhunt, 407.
Boniface, Archbilhop of Canter-
bury, 261.
Bonne, 183.
Booth, Edward, 362.
Sir George, 462.
» Lawrence, Bilhop of Dur-
ham, and Archbilhopof York,
30. 479. 506.
William, 362, 363.
Bodock, Nathaniel, 482.
Bottreux, 32.
Boughton, Sir William, 335.
Boulter, Archbifhop, 460.
Boulton, 318.
Richard, 392.
Bourchier, Archbi(hop, 269. 326.
368.
John, 54.6.
Bourdieu, James, 186.
Pnilippa, ibid.
Bourne, Margaret, 375.
William, 560.
Bovey, John, 146.
Bowden, Richard, 512.
Bower, Harry, 225.
Bowerman, Samuel, 551.
Bowie, John, 341.
Bowles, Benjamin, 1 87.
' Elizabeth, 546.
■ ' John, ibid.
Bowry, Francis, 335.
Bowyer, 72. 173.
- Anthony, 70. 79.
■ Sir Edmund, 79. 84 — 86.
97-
Edmund, 70, 71. 84.
— Hefter, 79.
— John, 71. 77,78. 505.
— Katherinc, 75. 78.
— S., 175.
Samuel, 542.
Boram, William, 421.
Boreford, Sir Jamts de, 328.
Rofye de, 327.
Borowe, Lord, 313.
Bofcawen, Hon. Mrs. 463.
BoiTeville, Ralph, 569.
Bozwell, Elizabeth, 83.
Brace, James, 563.
Bracebridge, William, 367.,
Bradbury, Elizabeth, i88.
Wymond, ibid.
Braddyl, John, 563.
Bradford, Bifhop, 295.
Bradley, Dodlor, 206.
— Thomas, 127. 563.
Bradney, Jofeph, 2.18.
Rebecca, ibid.
Bradfhaw, Jofeph, 214.
Bradwardin, Archbifhop, 276.
Brady, Nicholas, 166, 167. 461.
499.
Brambel, 113.
Brampton, Thomas, 443. note.
Brand, Ifaac, 498. 501.
Brandon, Leverfidge, 393.
Brandt, Sebaftian, 193.
Braly, John, 310. note.
Braun, Sebaftian, 153.
Brawne, Sir Hugh, 591, 392.
■ Richard, 459.
Bray, Michael, 539.
VVilliam, 513.
Brayton, 50.
Breame, Richard, 508.
Brehold, George, 534.
Brent, Foukes de, 321.
Brereton, Theophilus, 356.
■ Thomas, 79. note.
• Sir William, 172. 175.
190.
Bretagne, Duke of, 239.
Bretinghurft, 77. 11 3.
Richard de, 559.
Brett, Lady Katherine, 460.
John, 551.
Richard 460.
Breufe, William de, 162.
Brian, Elizabeth, Carew Pedigree,
• 53-
Brian, Sir Francis, ibid.
Sir Thomas, ibid.
Brickwood, Bartholomew, 381. ncfe.
Bridric, 350.
Bridges, Francis, 166.
Bridgman, Sir Orlando, 19.
Bridgewater, Catherine Countefs
of, 297.
Henry Daubeny, Earl of, ii,
Brigftock, Thomas, 187.
Briftol, Earl of, 201.
George Digby, Earl of, 522.
Briftow, John, 401 .
— — — Rebecca, ibid,
Brittnor, John, 560,
Brixi, 120.
Broadhead, Theodore, 13;, 563.
Brodrick, Sir Allan, 515. 517.
■ Katherine, 507.
Sir Thomas, 507.515.
Brome, William, 446.
Bromfelde, Sir Lawrence, 166.
Brooke, 121.
Anne, 412.
— — Earl of, 444.
— — Sir Richard, 413,
William, 166.
Brooks, Elizabeth, 546.
Broughton, 90. >:cte. 530. note.
John, 279.
William, 2S8.
Brounker, Henrv Vifcount, 451.
T, 457-
Brown, Ann, 419.
—— Captain, 272.
— — Elizabeth, 419.
— — Lewis, 434.
Lyde, 540.
Mary, 419.
Sarah, ibid.
VVilliam, ibid.
Browne, Frances Maria Coderc,
368.
-^^— Sir Thomas, 8.
■ Thomas, 560.
William, 368.
Browning, William, 550.
Brownlow, Sir William, 493,494.
Bruce, Edward, Lord, 431, 432.
Brudcncll,
57<5
INDEX OF NAMES.
Brudenell, 177.
Edward, 565.
Brufkett, Jane, 335.
. Sebaftian, ibid.
Bryan, 60. n^te.
Bryene, Guy de, 123.
Bubb, Captain. 303.
Bubwith, Nicholas, Bilhop of Lon-
don, 366.
Buccleugh, Alice Duchefs of, 516.
Duke of, 454.
Bucer, 274.
Buchan, Earl of, 464.
Buck, George, 92. note.
-^— ^ Robert, 507.
Buckett, 113.
Buckhurll, Lord, 23. 440.
Buckingham, Anne Duchefs of, 30.
506.
Duke of, 134. note. 219,
220. 317. 330.
■ Earl of, 349.
Edward Stafford, Duke of.
69. 297.
Buckland, Edward, 255.
Buckley, Edward, 41 z.
Buckworth, 45 1 .
Buffington, Daniel, 289.
Bugby, Samuel, 401.
Bull, Daniel, 368.
James, 35.
— ^ Nathaniel, 368.
Richard, 524. 527.
Bulley, Anna Maria, 401;
■ John, iiid.
BuUeyn, Anne, 31. 55. 400.
Bullock, Richard, 487.
Bunkley, 164. note.
. Sir George, 273.
Burbadge, Richard, 87. 1 10.
Burdet, Leicefter, 412.
Burgeys, John, 53.
Burgh, 141. note.
Hubert de, 259. 343.
Burgherfhe, Sir John, 568.
. Margaret, ibid.
Burgherft, Bartholomew, 126.
Burgherfte or Burwalh, Margaret,
563- ^
Burgoyne, Humphrey, 551.
John, 550.
Burke, Edmund, 482.
Burleigh, Anthony, 281.
■ Lord, 36. 206, 504.
521.
Burley, John, 127.
. Richard, ibid.
— Simon, ibid.
Burlington, Earl of, 320.
Burnell, Sir Hugh, 471.
■ Sir Nicholas, 566.
Burnell, Philip, 238. 437.
Robert, Bilhop of Bath
and Wells, 238. 437. 471.
560. 569.
Sir Robert, 236. 238. 242.
Burnet, Bifhop of Sarum, 264.
Burnett, Margaret, 192.
Burney, Dodlor, 482.
Burrell, Sir Peter, 179.
William, 362.
Burrilh, Dorothy, 563.
George, ibid.
Burrton, Thomas, 248.
Burton, Barnard, 186.
■ Charles, 130.
■ Sir Henry, 124, 130. 133.
352-
Hezekiah, 19. 543.
Mabell, 133, 134. note.
Martha, 186.
■ Nicholas, 352.
William, 25;.
Bufcarlett, Peter, 289.
Eulii, 503.
Bufhell, Thomas, 260.
Bufhman, John Bapiift, 544.
Butcher, John, 286.
Robert Holt, 510.
Bute, John Earl of, 456.
Butler, Elizabeth, 187.
. Francis, ibid,
— — George, 55 ••
■ Jofeph, 564.
Byde, Sir Thomas, 164. note,
Byfield, Edward, 542.
Byne, 135, 136.
I Elizabeth, 563.
Henry, 135. 563.
Cadenet, Marquis de, 117.
Cxfar, Sir Julius, 354. 429.
Cahuag, Bertrand, 546.
Calcot, 310.
. James, 309. 311.
John, 317.
Gallant, Anne, 187.
Calonne, M. de, 539.
Cakhoff, Jafper, 322.
Calton, 84.
■ Francis, 87.
Thomas, ibid.
Cambridge, Richard Owen, 454.
Camden, John, 544.
Camelford, Lord, 400.
Cammock, William, 505,
Campbell, Robert, 70.
Campden, Vifcount, 532.
Campion, 407.
Canaletti, zo6.
Canby, Henry, 534.
Canning, Stratford, 414.
Canon, 397.
Cantlowe, Henry, 484.
- Margaret, ibid.
Canute, King, 315, 470.
Capel, Dorothy Lady, 209, 210,
388. 467.
— — Henry Lord, 206. 209.
Carew, or de Carru, 32, 33. 41.
,78.
■ Sir Francis, 52. 56 — 58. 60.
64.67.352,353.493.
Ifabella, 58. 244.
Lord, 283.
• Sir Matthew, 481.
■ Sir Nicholas, 8. 52. 54—
56. 59—61.64,65. 67. 133.
248. 352, 353.492.
- " Nicholas, 50,51. 53. 58.
62. 123, 124. note. 244. 545,
546. 562. 565.
Sir Nicholas Hacket, 52.
65-
Sir Richard, 59. 124.
William, 545.
Carew, alias Throckmorton, Sir
Nicholas, 60. 353.
Carleon, 530. note.
Carleton, Thomas, 563.
Carlton, Sir Dudley, 240.
■ Edward, ibid.
— — Sir John, 362.
Carmarthen, Elizabeth Marchio-
nefs of, 537. note.
■ Peregrine Marquis of,
537-
Caroline, Queen, 205.447.
Caron, Ifabella de, 361.
Sir Noel, 304. 307. 330.
Carr, Colfton, 430.
Carrill, Sir John, 353.
Cartwright, 108.111,112.
■ John, 13.
— Richard, 16.
William, ill,
Cary, John, 413.
■ Maria, 411.
— — Thomas, 434.
Carye, Sir George, 3 1 3.'
Cafe, William, 558.
Cafly, Alexander, 460.
—^ Ann, ibid.
Caftello, Bartholomew de, 498.
Caftle, William, 550.
Caftleman, Richard, 369.
Cater, 125, 126,
Catelby, 323. note.
Catherine of Arragon, 2i6. 270.
326.
Catherine*
INDEX OF NAMES.
577
Catherine, Queen of Hen. V. 548.
Catherlough, Earl of, St. John Pe-
digree, 30.
Cator, John, 1 77.
Cavendilh, Charles, 431.
Cawtrey, 141. note.
Cayoll, William, 248.
Ceafley, Mary, 422.
Ceaulin, 520.
Cecil, 97.530. 532. 535.539.
Albima, 533. 537.
Dorothy, 531. 533. 538.
— — Sir Edttard, 521. 531. 537.
- Elizabeth, 533.
— — Frances, 532.
■ ' Georgiana, 537.
— — Sir Thomas, 366. 521. 523.
Sir William, 237. 504, 505.
Ceolnothus, Archbifhop of Can-
terbury, 215.
Chaceport, Peter, 177.
Chalmers, John, 414.
Chamberlain, Charles, 551.
Chamberlayne, 409.
Chambers, Mary, 79.
• Sir Robert, 482.
• Sir William, 207. 440.
Chandler, George, 568.
Sarah, ibid.
Chapman, 542.
■ Elizabeth, 61.
— — — William, ibid.
Charier, Benjamin, 181.
Charles I. 281. 440. 443. 454.
473.521.530.
Charles II. 246. 432. 440. 443.
454. 466.
Chatting, 503.
Chaworth, Sir Richard, 457, 458.
' Lady Sophia, 4.57.
Cheere, Sir Henry, 166.
Chellham, William, 161.
Cheney, Chefnet, or Cheyney,
Bartholomew, 3. 5.
Cherbury, 177.
Cheflam, 267.
Chefter, Earl of, 343.
Chellerfield, Earl of, 273, 488.
Cheyney, William, 237.
Chibbald, 557.
Cliiborne, Margaret Lady, 485.
Chichele, Archbifliop, 173. 264.
266, 167.
Child, Aylwin, 547.
Chilwell, Jonathan, 284.
• — ; William, 289.
Chiriton, 177.
■ Waiter, 565.
-^— — William, ibid.
Chifbeche, Richard, 123.
Vol. I.
Chitty, 235.
Chitty, Sir Thomas, 348.
Chivers, Martha, 501.
Choilet, Samuel, 178.
Cholmley, Lewis, 495.
Cholmondeley, George Earl, 443,
444 •
— Thomas, St. John Pedi-
gree, 30.
Chudleigb, Sir George, 8.
• Sir John, 458.
Mary, 8.
Church, Thomas, 39.
Chute, George, 328.
Cibber, 48.
TheopKlus, 469.
Clanrickard, Earl of, 13.
Clappa, Ofgod, 159.
Clarak, Arnuiph de, 545.
Clare, Corfield, 460.
Clarence, Duke of, 400.
Clarendon, Earl of, 246. 444. 455-
Clark, Ann, 387.
Jonathan, 368.
Clarke, Doftor, 20.
Lady, 113, 114.
Nicholas, 17.
William, 560.
Claxton, Browne, 561.
■ John, I53.n«/ir. 165.
• Mary, 561.
Claye, Robert, 38.
Clayton, Robert, 327.
Cleave, William, 245. 255.
Clement the Fifth, 2.
Clere, Thomas, 278.
Clerk, John, 168.
Gierke, Bartholomew, 161. 164.
313. note.
—— Eleanor, 167. note.
• Griffith, 510.
Cleveland, Duchefs of, 158. 334.
Clevver, William, 190.
Cleybrooke, William, 398.
Cleyne, Francis, 386. 523.
Cliffe, Henry, 493.
Clifton, St. Gervafe, 562.
Clinch, Ann, 419.
— — Elinor, ibid.
•^^ Elizabeth, ibid.
— — John, ibtd.
Clinton, Edward Lord, 249. 499.
Clive, George, 433.
Clutton, Richard, 245.
Cnebba, 520.
Coade, 318. 544. •
Cobb, William, 307.
Cobham, Anne Broke Lady, J20.
Reginald dc, 191.
Cock, Joanna, 80.
Matthew, 70.
4E
Cock, Peter, 560.
Walter, 80.
Cockayne, Sir Thomas, 161.
' Sir William, 237.
Cockburn, Sir James, 401.
Mary, ibid.
Cockes, 224.
Codinton, Richard, 151.
Codynton, John, 568.
■ Ralph, 493.
■ Sir Simon de, ibid.
Cok, Richard, ibid.
Coke, Lord Chief JulUce, 30*.
Coker, Edward, 555.
Cole, 124. 235.
George, 8. 238. 241. 399, 4.00.
Coleby, Jacob, 80.
Coleman, 539.
Coles, William, 460.
Colet, Dean, 448.
CoUey, Edmund, 103.
Collinfon, James, 460.
Colfton, Edward, 376.
Colville, Gilbert de, 562.
■ William de, ibid.
Comarque, Jean de, 508.
Combaulde, Peter, 542.
Combe, Robert, 418.
Combes, Hugh de, 236.
Comer, William, 247.
Compton, 428.
Bilhop, 374.
■ Elizabeth, 551.
' John, 146.
William, 551.
Connor, Ann, 289.
Thomas, ibid.
Conway, Sophia, 363.
——— Thomas, ibid.
Conyers, 141. note.
William Lord, 1 43.
Cook, Lucy, 422.
— — Sir Robert, 22Z. note,
Cooke, Robert, 37.
■ Thomas, 305.
Cookfey, John, 534.
Cookfon, 123.
Cooper, Robert, 246.
Copley, Sir Thomas, 126.
Coppe, Abiezer, 23.
Corbett, 190.
Thomas, 50. 545.
Corboyle, Archbilhop, 268. note.
341. 366.
Cjrnbury, V'ifcount, 399. 455.
Come, Sir George, 297.
Cornelifen, Henry, 86.
Cornthwaite, Thomas, 370.
Cornwall, George, 476. note.
William de Morton, Earl
of, 548.
Cornwallis,
!r78
INDEX OF NAMES.
Cornwallis, Archbifliop, 265, 266.
269. 273. 281, 2S2. 299. 306.
428.
Cofin, Richard, 301. 316.
Cottington, Lord, 327. 455.
Cotton, Sir John, 537.
Robert, 457.
Thomas, 484.
Courtney, Archbilhop, 18. 173.
Margaret, 458.
Sir William, ibid.
Coufe, 468.
Coventry, Franci?, 368.
Thomas Lord, ibid.
Coward, Chrillopher, 397.
Coivchman, Edward, 169,
Cowell, 407.
Cowley, Abraham, 15.
Cowper, Earl, 538.
Cox, 407.
- Frances, 252.
^^— John, 61. z<;2.
Robert, 218.
Coxe, William, 250.
Crake, Catherine, ^64.
Michael, ibid.
Crane, Sir Francis, 386.
■ Sir Richard, ibid.
Cranmer, 359.
Archblfhop, 77. 138.
172. 264. 267. 299. 352,
366. 394. 520. 535
. James, 352. 358.
John, 247.
Jofeph, 356.
- Margaret, 77.
. Mary, 356.
Robert, 352. 356. 358.
■ Thomas, 247.
Crawford, Martha, 392.
Sarah, ibid.
Crayle, Margaret, 252.
Credon or Creon, Maurice de, 66.
236. 238. 242.
Credy, William, 560.
Creke, Sir John, 529.
Crefpin, Milo, 50.
Crichton, John, 499.
Sarah, ibid.
Crifpe, Tobias, 394.
Crockatt, John, 401.
Croft, John, 491.
Crofts, Henry, 369.
Crokhorne, Fabian, 60.
• Martha, ibid.
Crompton, 158.
Richard, 161.
Cromwell, John, 310. »o/^.
Oliver, 246. 376. 407.
409. 522.
Cromwell, Richard, 246.
Thomas Lord, 20. 328.
504, 505.
Cropley, Sir Edward, 460.
Crofs, Mary, 512.
Croun, Ifabella de, 238.
Crowe, William, 200.
Crowley, Sir Ambrofe, 356.
Cullen, Charles Cockayne Vif-
count, 566.
■ ■ Sir James Rulhout, 371.
Cumberland, Duke of, 327.
Cumberlin, Major, 407.
Cuper, 319.
Curley, 407.
Curfon, Richard, 459.
Curtenay, Eullache de, 67.
Curtis, 123.
Cutler, 18.
D.
Dale, Catherine, 561.
Matthew, 471.
■ Thomas, 561.
William, 392.
Damorie, Roger, 321. 325. 567.
Danby, Thomas Earl of, 524. 537.
Dandy, Andrew, 556.
Danet, Sir John, 178.
Danvers, 530. note.
Daranda, Elizabeth, 424.
Paul, 407. note.
Darcy, 141. note.
■- Sir Arthur, 56. 492.
John Lord, 143. 145.
■ Thomas Lord, 52. 56.
482,
Darell, Edward, 413.
■ John Chambers, 346.
Darrington, Sir John, 91. 93.
Dartiqucnave, John James, 421.
Daudre, Walter, 142.
Davidfon, James, 241.
Davies, Elizabeth,
John, ibid.
Davis, John, 82.
Davy, Elias, 186. 197.
William, 392.
Dawe, 1 18.
Dawes, Sir Abraham, 408. note.
424.
■ Sir Thomas, 412. 424.
Dawkins, 420.
Dawfon, Peter, 84.
Day, Jofeph, 555.
Richard, 392.
Thomas, 166.
Dean, Archbilhop, 269. 279.
Debatt, Sarah Gaudry, 467.
Debnam, Jofeph, 568.
Decker, Sir Matthew, 453. 459.
Dee, Arthur, 385.
Bedo, 377. 383.
— — Francis, Bilhop of Peterbo-
rough, 385.
— — Johanna, ^77.
John, 376—379. 381—385.
Rowland, 377.
Deering, Edward, 292.
DefFell, Caroline, 542.
John, ibid.
Dclabere, 32. note.
Delafield, Philip, 210.
De la Mar, or De Mara, John, 333.
— Petronilla, ibid.
William, ibid-
De la Motte, Jeanne St. Rymer
Valois Countefs, 306.
De la Pole, William, 483, note,
De la Val, Guy, 66.
Delaware, Lady, 512.
Demainbray, Stephen, 446,447.
Dcmfrene, Thomas de, 508.
Dempfter, 354.
Denbigh, Countefs of, 527.
Denmark, King of, 93. 516.
Princefs of, 135.
Denne, John, 294, 295.
■ Samuel, 268. note.
Dermis, George, 253.
Denys, Michael, 146.
Derby, Earl of, 273.
Elizabeth, Countefs of, 209.
211.
Defaguliers, Doiftor, 319.
Defmevets, Ifaac, 102.
Defpencer, Hugh le, 321.
Devenifh, Robert, 368.
Devonlhire, Chriftian Countefs of,
410. 430—432.
Countels of, 433.
■ Edward Earl of, 203.
William de Rivers, Earl
of, 481.
■ William Earl of, 432.
, 433-
Dibble, 503.
Dick, Sir John, 433.
Dickifon, Mary, 83.
Diddear, John, 393.
Digby, Everard, 371.
■ Sir Kenelm, ibid.
■ Lord, 217. 324. nott.
—— Simon, 353.
Digges, Thomas, 41 1.
Dingley, John, 457.
Dixie, Rebecca, 166.
Dixon, Marcus, 24!.
Dobbins, Jofeph, ^74.
Dobfon, 540.
Dockley.
INDEX OF NAMES.
579
Dockley, Edward, 556.
Dodderidge, Sir John, 35.
Doddington, George, 324..
Dolfalv, Thomas, 118.
Dol(ely,Dolfaly,DolceIy,Doul(hill,
or DolfhLl!, Thomas, 559, 560.
Dolfhill, Edward, 118.
Polphinly, 409. note.
Donne, John, 77. 89. 354, 355.
Dorchefter, Dudley Carlton Vif-
count, 240.
Dormer, Catherine, 458.
■ Sir ]o\m,ibid.
• John, 564.
Dorfet, Duke of, 397. 513. note.
Earl of, 200.
Doughty, John, 149.
Douglas, William, 209.
Douglafs, James, 187.
~ Lady, 566.
• - Sir William, 173,
Dove, Henry, 79. note.
John, 79.
Margaret, ihid. 560.
Dover, Lord, 433.
Dovet, John, 328.
Doveton, John, 461.
Dowell, Richard, 105.
Dowman, Edmund, 568.
Downbg, 35.
—^— Edward, 509.
Sir Jacob, 428.
Dowfe, Henry, 48 1 .
■ William, ibid.
Drake, Sir Francis, zz\.note,
Roger, 187.
■ William, 434.
Draper, Elizabeth, 7S.
- Matthew, 79.
Robert, 71. 78.
■ Somerfet, 508.
Drayman, Thomas, 307.
Drayton, Michael, io8.
Drewe, Robert, 125.
■ Thomas, 281.
Drewry, 174.
Dring, Jonathan, 561.
Drogheda, Henry Moore, Earl of,
322.
Drury, Diana, 532.
■ Sir Robert, 355.
Dubois, Charles, 358.
■ Ebenezer, ihid.
Jofeph, 460.
Waldo, 358. .
Dubordieu, Ann, 542.
Du-Cane, Peter, 482.
Ducarel, Doftor, 331.
Duche, Jacob, 289.
Duck, 407.
Henry, 125.
— — Robert, ibid.
Duck, Stephen, 205. 570.
Ducket, Lionel, 361.
Duckett, William, 401.
Dudley, James, 421.
Sir Robert, 449, 450.
Dugdale, Elizabeth, 288.
Sir William, 264. mU,
288.
Duke, Sir Edward, 70.
Du Moulin, Peter, 266.
Duncombe, Sir Sanders, 90. note,
Dundas, Henry, 540.
Dupin, 263.
Duppa, Biihop, 440. 466.
Durand, J. H. 563.
Durant, 360.
Durham, Biihop of, 552.
Durnford, Elias, 486.
Durour, Loiiifa, 387.
Dutton, Eliza, 146.
Dymock, 498.
Sir Edward, 67.
Dyneley, 367.
Dynham, George, 284.
Dyfart, Catherine Countefs of, 239.
■ Countefs of, 240. 402.
- Earl of, 238.
■ Lionel, Earl of, ihid. 399.
^— — William Murray, Earl of,
238, 239. 241.
Dyfter, John, 316.
E.
Eaftman, John, 196.
Rofe, ibid.
Eafton, Alexander, 450.
Ecclefton, Clement, 191. ?iote.
Eckington, 530. note.
Eddington, John, 241.
Edema, Gerard, 463. mte.
Edes, 241.
Edgar, 215.
Edintone, Reginald de, 9.
Edmonftone, George, 10.
Edmund, 215. 390.
of Woodilock, 335.
St., Archbilhop of Canter-
bury, 366.
Edward I. 43:', 438.
IL 438. 445.
III. 244. 321. 43S.
IV. 266.
- ■ the Black Prince, 321.
■ the Confeflbr, 120.
- the Elder, 215.
■ the Martyr, tbtd.
Edwin, 215. 478, 479.
Edwy, 215.
Eeles, Thomas, 459.
4 E 2
Egbert, 215.
Egerton, 21.
Eggleton, John, 107.
Lady, 43;.
Eggeblanche, or Equeblank, Peter
de, Bifliop of Hereford, 529.
Eires, Richard, 555.
Eldred, or Edred, 215. \%i.note.
John, 356.
Eleanor, Queen of Edward I, 562.
Elizabeth, Lady, 22.
■ Princefs, 2 \ .
' Queen, 12.32. 57. 76. 132.
156.173.225. 242.270.333.
347. note. 3S4-378-382. 383.
406. 439,440. 501. 521.
Queen of Edward IV. 437.
Ellefmere, Lord Chancellor, 354
Ellinbridge, 139.
■ Joan, 130.
' John, ihid.
Ellis, Andrew, 533.
■ Frances, ibid.
Ellynbridge, Thomas, 129.
Eltefle, Thomas, 291.
Elton, Edward, 551, 552.
Elynbridge, Thomas, 178.
Elyngham, Thomas de, 71.
Emberton, James, 418.
Erding, 332. 478.
Eric IV. King of Sweden, 440.
Es, or de Eys, 50.
Eflifield, John, 486.
Effex, Countefs of, 449.
Frances, Countels of, 302.
Robert Devereux, Earl of, 13.
157. 204. 267. 480.
■ Robert Devereux, the younger.
Earl of, \o%.note. 148. 217<
218. 406.
■ Thomas Cromwell, Earl of,
405, 406. 520.
Eftarcher, 478.
Eftoteville, Robert de, 282.
Ethelbert, 520.
Ethelred, 215. 48 1. note.
Eton, Euftachius de, 566.
— ^ Gilbert de, 71.
Evance, Thomas, 214.
Evans, 320.
• Biihop of Bangor, 263.
Elizabeth, 473.
— — Evan, 508.
William, 473.
Evanfon, John, 357.
Evelyn, 234. 242.
— — John, 485.
Sufanna, ihid.
Eversfield, Edward, 118.
Ewarby, 32. note. 41. note.
Ewer, John, 369.
Mary, ibid.
Ewy^s,
j8o
INDEX OF NAMES.
Ewyas, 32. note. 41. note.
Exeter, Duchefs of, 113.
- Earl of, 109.
Frances, Countefs of, 537.
. . ■■ Marquis of, 55. no.
Thomas Cecil, Earl of, 521.
53^. 53'- 537-
Eyre, Sir Charles. 209.
Robert, 423.
Faden, William, 2S9.
Fairfax, General, 103. 218. 407.
Falconbridge, 216.
Falkland, Lord, 408. 7iote.
. Lucius Vifcount, 475.
Lucius Charles, Vifcount,
562.
Sarah, Vifcountefs, ihid.
Fitzwalter, Robert, 47 1 .
Fitzwilliam, John, 458.
— Vifcount, 442, 443.
453-
William, 499.
Fane, Anthony, 245.
Farmer, Catherine, 421.
Farren, William, 242.
Fauconer, John, 118.
Faukes, Guy, 323.
Fawcon, 232.
Fawkner, William, 5C9.
Feald, Peter, 480.
Fearon, James, 460. 465.
Featley, Daniel, 260. 292—294.
323. note. 416.
Fellows, Edward, 563.
Sir John, 126, 127. 136.
Fenning, 360.
Fennis, Margaret, Carew Pedigree,
53-
Sir Roger, ibid.
Ferrers, lohn Bromfield, 65.
Fettyplace, Elizabeth, Carew Pe-
digree, 53.
.^— Sir Thomas, ibid.
Field, John, 510.
• Nathaniel, no.
Fielding, Henry, 544.
Fienes, or Fiennes, James, 532.
562.
Ingram de, 123. 160.
Nathaniel, 104.
—— Sibella, 123.
. William de, 123. 160. note,
Figge, William, 351.
Filby, 123.
Finch, John, 97.
Margaret, 107.
Filher, 360. 418.
— ^ Bifliop, 405.
— — Elizabeth, 421.'
Fitzaliin, 141. note. 144.
Fitzharvey, William, 509.
Fitzlucy, John, 67.
Fitzwalter, Elizabeih, Lady, 2B5.
■ ■ Henry Lord, ibid.
Flatman, 330.
Fleet, Sir John, 35.
Fieet.vood, Colonel, 407.
-Dutton, 412.
■ SirGerrard Duttoajrf^.
Fletcher, Bithop of Ely, 264^^
Floyer, Charles, 459. ^'
Fludd, John, 396.
Folkes, Martin, 45 1.
Fonnerau, Claudius, 401.
. — Peter, ibid.
Forbes, Peter, 210.
Ford,. Margaret, 192.
. Robert, 560.
. Thomas, 346.
— — William, 517.
Fordyce, 433.
Forefter, or Forrefter, Reginald le,
53- 5j4S-
Forman, Clement, 303.
■ Simon, 301 — 303.
Sir Thomas, 301.
Forrefter, Sir Andrew, 458.
Jane, ibid.
Forth, Richard, 179.
- Robert, 329.
— — Thomas, ibid.
Fortrey, Samuel, 208.
William, ibid.
Fofter, Elizabeth, 508.
• John, ibid.
- Sir William, 304.
William, 78. 210. 401.
Foul, Alicia, 493.
— — William, ibid.
Fountain, John, 52.
Fountaiue, John, Carew Pedigree,
Thomas, ibid.
Founteynes, Agnes, 564. note.
• John, ibid.
Fowler, Sir Edward, 117.
Fox, Bifhop of Winchefter, 266.
Charles James, 540.
Chriftopher, 430.
Sir Stephen, 433.
— — Thomas, 560,
Francis, Philip, 373. note.
Frango, William, 71.
Freeman, 320.
Frevylle, Baldwin, 568.
Frobilher, Sir Martin, 108.
Froment, 276.
Fromound, 13;.
— Bartholomew, 139, 140.
378.383-
■ John, 129.
Fromound, Thomas, 129.139, 140.
Fry, Elizabeth, 486.
John, ibid.
Full, 557.
Fuller, Sir James, 34.
Furnefs, St. Robert, St. John Pe-
digree, 30.
Fynch, Elizabeth, 186, 194.
Samuel, ibid,
Fygge, 2z8,
Gabriel, Sylvefter, 18;.
Gaceline, Ifabella, 545.
Richard, ibid.
Gage, Sir John, 178.
]o\\n,ibid.
Gainfborough, Thomas, 209.
Gaire, Richard, 534.
Gale, 432.
Elizabeth, 508.
Robert, 41 1.
Gambler, William James, 561.
Garbrand, Richard, 369.
Gardiner, 232. 503.
Bifhop, 434.
Bilhop of Lincoln, 263.
' Chriftopher, 178.
■ Elizabeth, 363.
- Thomas, 209.
— — — William, 362.
Gardner, James, 187.
Gardnor, John, 39.
Gardyner, Sir Thomas, 80. 89.
note,
• Thomas, 89.
Garland, Dorothy, 546.
James, ibid.
Garratt, 114.
Garreit, Nicholas, 508.
Garrick, David, 112.482.
Garth, Anne, 362.
— — Elizabeth, 347, 363.
—— George, 362.
John, 347.
Richard, 316. 361 — 363.
Robert, 362.
Gafcoigne, John Cloberry, 357.
Galhry, Francis, 471.
Gataker, Charles, 475.
Thomas, 474, 475. 477.
Gate, Sir Henry, 202.
Gatelier, 50.
Gattcy, 503.
Gauden, Bifhop, 162.
Sir Dennis, ibid.
Gaunt, John of, 328. 483.
Gavell, Robert, 155.
Gawler, 428.
Gaynesford, 237.
Gaynesfoi dj
INDEX OF NAMES.
581
Gaynesford, Joan, 129.
. John, ibid. 237.
Margaret, 129. 140. 247.
Nicholas, 128. 132.
■ Walter, 129.
Gearing, Jothua, 501.
Phcebe, ibid.
Gee, Richard, 52.
GeoiFry,Bi(hop of St. Afaph,268.».
George, I. 365.453.456.
ir.446.
III. 365. 456. 467.
Gerefeye, Richard, 567.
Gerrard, Lady, 423.
Sir Samuel, ibid.
Gibbon, Edward, 421.
Gibbs, 115.
Gibkin, 1 16.
Cibfon, E. 496.
Edmund, Bilhop of Lon-
don, 294.
- Edward, 462,
~ James, 495.
The Dwarf, 386.
William, 463.
Giffard, William, Bifliop of Win-
chefter, 340.
Gifthiel, 408.
Gilbert, Bifhop of St. Afaph,
268. >iote.
■ Elizabeth, 414.
' Thomas, 400.
Giles, Elizabeth, 192.
Girardot, Mary, 424.
Glanvill, William, 165.
Glanville, Gilbert de, Bilhop of
Rochefter, 276. 290, 291.
I John, 412.
Glafe, Edmund, 443. note.
Glocefter, Earl of, 351. 559- note.
Almeric, de Eureux, Earl
of, 69.
■ Gilbert Clare, Earl of,
69. 216.437.
■ Geoffrey de Mandeville,
Earl of, 69.
. Hugh Audley, Earl of, ib.
- Johanna, Countefs of,
- John Sanfterre, Earl of, 69.
■ Richard Clare, Earl of, ib.
Robert, de Melhent, Earl
of, 69. 71.
William de Melhent, Earl
of, 69. 84.
Glover, 186.
Bridget, 356.
• Gabriel, ibid.
Jofeph, 494.
Godric, 2.
Godfchall, Nicholas, 368.
Godwin, Earl, 259.
Gofton, John, 288.
Gelding, 329.
Goldman, George Philip, 460.
Goldfmith, Oliver, 482.
Goldfvvorthy, Philip, 471. 475.
Goldwell, Arnold, 201.
GooA'^ Bilhop of Ely, 264.
Goofftaild, Elizabeth, 555.
— :Jti' — Ralph, ibid.
Goode, 333, 334.
John, 335.
Goodman, Samuel, 508.
Goodrick, William, 442.
Goodwin, 319.
— — — Cecilia, 485.
John, 166.
Robert, 485.
Goodwyn, 415.
Goringe, William, 135.
Gorges, Sir Thomas, 379. 381.
450.
■ Walter, 52.
Gould, Honoria, 166.
John, ibid.
Gower, Countefs Dowager, 307.
Earl. 539.
- Richard, 564.
Gowrie, Earl, 225.
Grafton, Duke of, 158. 334.
Graham, 306.
Grandifon, 32. note.
■ Joan Lady, 40.
Oliver, St. John, Vif-
count, 29. 40, 41.
Otto, 437.
-' Sara]], ibid.
Goda, Countefs, 261.
Godmecheller, Thomas, 568.
Grant, Roger, 395.
Grantham, Lady, 428.
Mary, 459.
Sir Thomas, ibid.
Granville, Anne, 286, 287.
Bernard, 286, 287.304.
« Sir Beville, 287. 304.
' Earl of, 538.
■ Elizabeth, 287.
George, ibid.
Gravenel, Hamon de, 499.
Richard, 498.
Graves, Richard, 327. 4<;9.
Gravefend, Richard, Bifliop of
London, 177.
Stephen, Bifliop of Lon-
don, ibid.
Gray, John, 401. 476. note,
Greame, Thomas, 166.
Green, Dorothy, 347.
Henry, 401.
Green, James, 246.
— — . Matthew, 508.
Green, Michael, 347.
Thomas, 289.
Greenaway, Randolph, 459.
Greene, Kabel, 126.
Greenhill, no.
• Thomas, 60.
— ^-^ William, 6 1 .
Greenway, John, 499.
Greenwell, Robert, 362.
Greenwich, Lady, 400.
Gregg, Foot, 414.
Gregory, Alexander, 84.
John, 167.
Grenville, Lord, 539.
Grefliam, Elizabeth, 186,
Sir Thomas, 444-
Sir William, 186.
Grey, Edward, 413. note.
Lady Jane, 216. 450.
Griffin, 48.
Griffith, William, 441. note.
Grimes, Thomas, 75.
Grindall, Archbilhop, 31. 180,
193, 194. 201. 264. 271.
307-
Grubham, Margaret, St. Joha
Pedigree, 30.
■ Sir Richard, ibid.
Gruton, Thomas, 126.
Grymes, Rachel, 563.
— Sir Thomas, 97.
Gualo, 343.
Guerin, Mary, 393.
Peter, ibid.
Gulfon, 1 14.
Gundomar, 1 17.
Gundry, Mary, 458.
■ Nathaniel, ibid.
Gunllon, Perclval, 450.
Gurgany, John, 167.
Gurney, Sir Richard, 197.
Guy, Henry, 8.
Guyldford, Sir Henry, 55. note.
Gwyn, Roger, 408. note.
H.
Hacket, 54.
Bifliop of Litchfield and
Coventry, 54. 148.
' John, 397.
■ Nicholas, Carew Pedigree,
53-
Haddon, 262. 298.
Hadrelham, John, 237.
■ Nichola, ibid.
William, ibid.
• orHatherfam, John,566.
Haimo, 69. 479. 498.
Hake,
582
INDEX OF NAMES.
Hake, Engelbert, 166.
Halcot, Thomas, 473.
Halfhide, 345.
Hall, Carew Pedigree, 53.
Guife, 459.
■ William, 460.
Hallam, Anne, 357, 3^8.
■ William, 357.
Hallet, Anne, 248.
Halliday, Elizabeth, 460.
■ John, 70. 460.
Halfey, Miles, 458.
Hambly, Peter, 486. 549.
• Thomas, 549. 551,
. William, 486.
Hamilton, Earl of, 239.
• Elizabeth, 48;.
Hammerton, Abram, 243. note.
——^— Heller, 243.
Hammond, Bartholomew, 401.
» Leonard, 564.
■ Thomas, 31; 2.
William, 288.
Hamnet, John, 335,336.
Hamond, John, 311.
' Peter, 499.
■ ■ Robert, 256.
— William, Parker, 178.
Hampden, 1 13.
Hancock, Hugh, 289.
- John, i&iii.
Handelovv, John, 566.
Matilda, iiij.
Harbottle, Chrillopher, 352.
Harcourt, Earl, 440. note.
• Simon, 411. m/e.
Hardegrey, William, 493.
Hardicanute, 2^0. note. 258.
Harding, Rebecca, 47.
' Richard, ititi,
Hardinge, 461.
. George, 241. 249. 253.
■ Nicholas, iiiii.
Hardwicke, Earl of, 136. 538.
Hardy, 262.
■ Mathew, 273. 276.
William, 487.
Hare, Francis, Biftiop of Chichef-
ter, 20.
Harley, 496.
Harman, Henry, 74. note.
Harmonde, or Harman, 74.
Harold, 118. 259.426. 478,479.
. John, 328.
Harrington, 141. »o^-.
. Sir James, 67. 143.
. James, 498.
John, Lord of Exton,
Harris, John, 494.
Harrifon, John, 102.
Peter, 187.
Harrovvman, Rebecca, 555.
Harfnet, Bifhopof Chicheltcr, 301.
Hartley, David, 427.
Harvey, Daniel, 237. 356. 455.
Eliab, 566.
• Sir George, 7.
Hafelrigge, 164.
Henry V. 438. 447.
VL 326. 439.
VIL 269. 326. 438, 439.
445-
5
66.
Harris, Jane, 494.
Lord, 22. 532.
William Earl of, 399.
Eleanor, iiiJ. note.
Haflel, James, 393.
Halliiigs, 222. note.
— ' ■ Henry, Lord, 329.
Hatch, Giles, 495.
Thomas, 493.
Hatcher, Nicholas, 186.
Hathaway, Rofe, 83.
. William, ibid.
Hatteclyfl", Thomas, 8.
Hatton, 174. 222.
Sir Chrirtopher, 175. 384.
521.523.
Haughton, Daniel Francis, 460.
■ Edward, 415-
■ Monica, 460.
Haunfard, Gundred, 344.
. John, ibiJ.
Haverfield, John, 210.
Haverfham, John Lord, 463.
Haward, James, 247.
■ Thomas, 224. 247. 252.
Hawkins, William, 368.
Hawkfbury, Lord, 565.
Hawtayne, Malachi, 508.
Hay, Eleanora, 369.
— Elizabeth, 401.
Richard, ibid.
Hayes, Adam, 392.
Haycraft, Samuel, 551
Hayley, 208.
Hay ward, John, 56S.
Hazleton, 47.
Hearne, Thomas, 531.
Heath, Bifhop of Rochefter, 276.
note.
Nicholas, Bifhop ofWorcefter,
394- 535- ,
Hedges, Sir Charles, 453.
Hele, Sir Warwick, 458.
Henckell, 503. 539.
Henderfon, Elizabeth, 394.
— Lady, 512.
Magnus, 394.
Heneage, 174.
. ~ Elizabeth, 387.
Henley, John, 80.
Henniker, Major, 486.
Henrietta Maria, Queen, 70. 158.
437. 521. 531.
Henry L 87. 177. 438.
' ■ - in. 216. 259. 326. 343.
vin. 138. 151. 154. 400.
405.439. 520.
■ Prince of Wales, 21. 29.
440.
Henfhaw, Henrietta, 561.
■ Richard, ibid,
Henflow, 89. 106. note.
Philip, 88. 90, 91.
Hentzner, 152.
Hepdon, Sir John, 498.
Herbert, Elizabeth, 537.
^— — Lord of Cherbury, 33.532.
Hern, Robert, 83.
Heron, Nicholas, 186.
William, 188.
Herring, Archbifliop, 176. 184,
185. 197.
Herringman, Alice, 130.
Henry, ibid.
Herriott, James, 555.
Hertcombe, Catherine, 247.
' John, ibid.
Hertford, Earl of, 134.
Hertilande, Walter de, 19.
Hethe, Haimo de, Bifhop of Ro-
chefter, 4S3. note.
Heton, Jane, 413.
Thomas, ibid.
Heuton, John, 245.
Hewer, 162, 163.
- Samuel Edgley, 162.
— — William, 165.
Hewett, Thomas, 505.
Hewit, 530. note.
Heydegger, 14. 454.
Heyme, Mercia, 59.
Stephen, ibid.
Hiam, 23.
Hickey, William, 467.
Hickman, Walter, 45S.
Hicks, Thomas, 362.
Hide, Bernard, 557.
Hidfon, Robert, 397.
Higginfon, John, 508.
Higham, 24.
Highlord, Zachary, 363.
Hill, 1 19. 207.
Bemilh, 542.
Richard, 444. 466.
Hills, Peter, 472. 476.
Hillfborcugh, Earl of, 274.
Hillyard, Thomas, 538.
Hilfey, Bifhop of Rochefter, 276. ».
Hilton, lidward, 336. 419.
Hoadlv, Bifhop, 20. 200. 264,
487.
Hoare, 14.
Henry, 188. 360.
Hoare,
INDEX OF NAMES.
583
Hoare, Lady, 15. 17.
— — Sir Richard, 13. i;. 17.
Hobart, Sir Henry, 505.
Hobbes, Sufanna, 485.
Thomas, 431 — 433. 485.
Hodgfon,47.345.
I ■ James, 200.
Hoefnagle, 153.
Holbourn, Frances, 459.
• Francis, ibtd.
Holcroft, Joan, 29.
Sir William, 40.
Holdernefs, Earl of, 213. 233. 249.
Holgate, Archbilhop, 31.-
Holker, 177.
Holland, 141, note. 545.'
■ Earl of, 219. 432. 521.
Hugh, 147.
■ Lord, 329.
■ Margaret, 142.
Holliburie, John, 387.
Hollin, William, 135.
Holmes, Robert, 494. 496.
Holt, Anthony, 369.
• Elizabeth, Carew Pedigree,
53-
— — John, 126.
^-^ Thomas, 486. 491.
Honeywood, 246.
Hoo, 60. note.
Lord, 5j.
Hcokes, Nathaniel, 288.
Hooper, Bifhop of Bath and Wells,
284. 294.
Hopkins, Alicia, 533.
■ Benjamin, ibid,
• Benjamin Bond, 533.
539-
Eliza, 533.
' Elizabeth, ibid.
John, 534.
Thomas, 102.
Horn, 307.
Horfley, JoTin, 395.
■ ' Samuel, Bithop of St. Da-
vid's, 395.
Holkins, Sir Edmund, 124. 127.
Houblon, Rebecca, 467.
Hough, Biihop of Worcefter, 264.
How, Thomas, i83.
Howard, Agnes, 279.
■ Catherine, ibid.
Sir Charle-, 428, 429.
■ Charles, 285.
■ Charles Lord,of Efcric,
458. 463.
■ Earl of, 283.
■ Sir George, 1 74.
■ Henry, 268. 285.
John, 285.
Howard, Lady, 174. 381.
Lady, of Efcric, 458.
Lord, 77.
■■ Lord, VVilliam, 279.
Mary, 463.
Richard, 2S5
- Thomas, 234. 285. 463.
- W. 233.
- William, 278.
William Lord, of Efcric,
458. 463.
Howe, 34. 564.
Richard, 33.
Howey, 404.
Howland, 487.
Elizabeth, 480. 488. 491.
5^
Sir Giles, 480. 48;. 491.
■ Sir John, 97. 491.
John, 480, 481. 485.
Sir Matthew, 481. 485.
Richard, Bifhop of Peter-
borough, 480. note.
Howland, alias Roberts, Walter,
481. 485.
Howlet, Thomas, 209.
Hubbard, 407.
Hubbert, Abraham, 412.
Hudfon, 415. 423. 533.
Jofeph, 533.
Hughes, Thomas, 416.
Hume, Biihop of Salifbury, 543.
Humphreys, Tom, 563.
Hungerford, 7,2. koh.
Lucy, St. John
Pedi-
gree, 30.
— — Matthew, 473.
Sir Walter, St.
Pedigree, 30.
John
Hunfdon, John Lord, 353.
Lord, 174.
Hunt, Francis, 508.
Sir Thomas, 74.
Hunte, Thomas, 546.
Huntingdon, Rjbert Earl of, 227. «.
Huntley, John, 546.
Mzry, ib.-d.
Hunton, Elizabeth, 188.
Samuel, ibid.
Hjrlefton, 474.
Hufcari, 64.
Agr.es, 352.
Beatrice, 50.
Joan, 51.
' Richard, ibid. note.
Sir Thomas, 50, 51.
■ William, 5 1 . note. 352.
Hufe, William, 546.
Hutchins, William, 542.
Hutton, Archbilhop, 281. 306,
I.
Illyngworth, Ralph, ^57,
Richard, ibid.
Ingram, Ann, 460.
Charles, ibid.
Ingulphus, 506.
Infula, Baldwin de, 327.
Inwen, Thomas, 392.
Ireland, Sir George, 564.
Ireton, 407. 409.
Sir John, 375, 376.
Ifabella, Queen of Richard II.
326.
Iflippe, Archbilhop, 520. note.
Ivatt, Martha, 534.
Murthwayte, ibid.
Iwarby, 32. note, n.note.
• Sir John, Carew Pedigree,
53-
J.
Jackfon, Elizabeth, 250.
' Henry, 512.
James, 487.
Jacobfon, Peter, 322.
James, 426.
James I. 21. 14S. 222. 355. 381;
385. 407. note.
II. 240. 443.
Ann, 561 .
— ^ John, ibid.
Sir Roger, 85.
Jane, Dodor, 38.
Janfen, Cornelius, 239.
Janflen, Sir Theodore, 4C7. note,
426. 522. 534.
Janua, Anthony PefTaigne de, 325.
Jarvis, or Jervoyfe, Thomas, 446.
Jay, Mary, 458.
Thomas, tbid.
Jefferys, Sir JefFery, 433.
Jeffes, Robert, 369.
Jeffreys, John, 45 1 . 544.
Jemmett, Charles, 214.
Jenkins, Henry, 247.
Jenner, Sir Thomas, 400.
Jennings, Elizabeth, 499. 546.
Jephfon, Thomas, 86.
William, 560.
Jewell', Biihop, 294.
Jeweller, 397.
Joce, John, 367.
John, King, 54S.
■ Samuel, 508.
Johnfon, Anne, 453. note.
• Catherine, 248.
■ DoiSor, 482. 484. 490.
Johnfooj
584
INDEX OF NAMES.
Johnfon, Edward, 453. note,
Efther, ibid.
— William, 460.
Johnllon, Arthur, 540.
Jolley, John, 471.
Jones, 320.
Ann, 396. 1,
Elizabeth, 83.
Evan, 396.
- Henry, 207.
Inigo, 97.
John, 369, 487.
— — Richard, 97.
William, 121.486.
Joppa, Henry Bifhop of, 291.
Jordano, Luca, 347.
Jofey, Elizabeth, 555.
Jouganham, 267.
Juxon, Archbiihop, 175, 176. 263.
265. 269. 307.
• John, 367. 387.
— — Thomas, 372.
K,
Kaifnet, or Cheyney, Bartholo-
mew, 9.
Keate, 476.
Keble, Page, 499.
Keene, Whitlhed, 444.
Kelly, Edward, 378.
Kemp, Archbiihop, 269.
Keturah, 290.
— — Primate, ibid.
— — Thomas, 564.
Kempe, William, 22;.
Kempfon, John, 564.
Kendall, Thomas, 5 56.
Kennet, Bracklcy, 412.
Kennett, Thomas, 424.
Kent, 323, 457.
— — Arabella Countefs of, 241.
—— Edmund Earl of, 335.
Kentifh, William, 414.
Kenulph, 338.
Ker, David, 534.
Keys, Joanna, 306.
Keyfe, Thomas, 558.
Kilbourn, 66.
Kilwardby, ArchbiQjop, 171.
Kineard, 338.
King, Erafmus, 319.
— George, 81.
James, 564.
Kingflowe, John, 448-
Kingfmill, William, 41 1.
Kirby, Joftiua, 209. 415.
Knarelborough, Robert, 507. 509,
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 15.
Knevett, Lord, 22.
Knight, Robert, St. John Pedigree,
30-
Knighlley, 141. note.
Sir Richard, 143.
Knyght, Robert, 568.
Knyvett, Mary, 410, 411.
— — — Thomas, 410.
Kymberle, Richard, 125.
Kympton, Michael, 341.
Kynardefley, Bartholomew, 125.
"Kynge, Clemcnce, 194.
John, ibid.
Kynnerfley, Clement, 460.
Kyngllon, Matthew de, 255. note.
Kynwardefle, John, 151.
L.
Lacy, James de, 344.
John, 407. note.
Laik, 50.
Lake, William, 412.
Lambe, Aaron, 369.
Lambert, General, 104. 425. 522.
. Nehemiah, 79.
Lamyng, Thomas, 252.
Lancafter, 539.
Lance, James, 169.
Lanfranc, Archbiihop, 138. 172.
Langford, Edward, Carew Pedi-
gree, 53-
■ Margaret, ibid.
Langham, George, 166.
Langley, Nicholas, 387.
Langlye, W. 233.
Langton, Stephen, Archbi(hop,268.
Langworthy, 555.
L'ans, Elizabeth, 476. note.
Lant, Richard, 245.
Larpent, Frances, 210.
John, ibid.
Lafcelles, Edward, 459.
Lalki, Albert, 37S, 379.
Lafley, John, 473.
Latham, 183.
Latton, John, 446.
Laud, Archbifliop, 176. 201. 262.
264. 266. 271.307. 414. note.
430.455.
Lauderdale, Duchefs of, 238 — 240.
402, 403.
. Duke of, 238, 239. 402,
403-
Earl of, 240. 402.
Lavayfiere, Prifcilla, 486.
Lawrence, 183. 503.
Hugh, 255.
Richard, 288. 308.
Lawfon, Jane, 210.
Lawfon, John, 534.
Lay ton, 272.
Leach, 345.
Nicholas, 473.
Leake, Sir John, 58. 472.
Lechraere, Richard, 551.
Thomas, ibid.
Lee, 31 1.
- Cecilia, 486.
Frances, 542.
— — Godfrey, 486.
■ Sir Henry Francis, St. John
Pedigree, 30.
Jofeph, 542.
Lee-Boo, 473. 475, 476.
Leeds, Bridget, Duchcfsof, 537. n.
— — Duke of, 522. 537.
Thomas Olborn, Duke of,
522. 530.
Legh, Sir John, 295.
- John, 9.
Ralph, 295.
Leheup, Peter, 362.
Leicefter, Earl of, 133. 173. 383.
• Robert Dudley, Earl of,
202. 449. 504.
Leigh, 3.
Anne, Carew Pedigree, 53.
—— Sir Francis, 8. .
Sir John, 4. 328.
John, 4. 7, 8.
—— Nicholas, 8. 541,
Sir Oliph, 7, 8. 178.
Sarah, 8.
Leighton, 33. note, 259. 272.
. Anke, St. John Pedi-
gree, 30.
■ Sir Thomas, ibid.
Leland, 316.
Leiy, Sir Peter, 205. 239.
Lemarus, 351.
Leng, Bifhop of Norwich, 64.
Lennard, Ann, Carew Pedigree,
53'
■ Sir Stephen, Hid.
Lenne, or Lynne, John, 18.
Lenox, James Duke of, 443. note,
450.
Lenthall, Robert, 19.
Leo, Doftor, 293.
William, 416.
Leoni, James, 125.
Lependen, John, 151.
Lethieullier, William, 166. 241.
Levet, Frances, 460.
■ Sir Richard, ibid.
Richard, 415.
Levett, Sir Richard, 208.
Lewen, Earl, 151.
Lewes, Robert, 459.
Lewellon,
INDEX OF NAME.S.
5^5
Leweflon, Philip, 530.
Lewis, Elizabeth, 460.
Percival, 498, 499.
— Thomas, 460.
Liddel, Sir Thomas, 369.
Lilbourne, John, 271.
Lilly, 474.
Lir.coln, Countefs Dowager of,
423-
. John de la Pole, Earl of,
353-
Lindfey, Earl of, 283. 457. 460.
Lide, Lord, 449. 452.
Philip Viicount, 451.
- Samuel, Bilhop of Norwich,
500.
Lifter, Dodlor, 114. 165. 169.
Hannah, 165.
Martin, 164.
Litdebury, Ifaac, 494.
■ Thomas, iiii/.
Littleton, Sir Richard, 444.
Livefayc, Ann, 491.
■ Gabriel, iiid.
Robert, 485.
Livefey, Ann, 4S6.
Gabriel, il/ii:/.
Lloyd, Anne, 487.
Barbara, 138.
i Hlfhop of Worcefler, 264.
. Humphrey, 138. 144.
Nicholas, 395.
. Pierfon, 487.
. Robert Lumley, 138.
Lock, Thomas, 3 48.
Locke, 447.
Lockwood, Richard, 556.
Lodelovve, 498.
■ Catherine, 67.
Lodington, Nathaniel, 413.
Long, Dixie, 124. 130.
James, 401.
Jane, liid.
Sir Robert, 334.
Longchamp, William, Bifhop of
Ely, 268. note.
Loraine, Duke of, 1 17.
Lort, Michael, 274. 281.
Loufstane, 548.
Loughborough, Lord, 360.
Lourbier, John Lewis, 166.
Lovejoy, 555.
Lovekyn, Edward, 254.
John, 249. 254.
Lovel, Elizabeth, 8-
Lovelace, Lord, 109.
■ Richard, 109, 273.
I : Serjeant, 109.
■■ Sir William, iiiif.
Lovell, Gregory, 344. 347.
■ John, 441. note.
VoL.L
LovclI, Sir William, 471.
Lowayte, Richard, 236.
Lowth, William, 38.
Lucy, Godfrey de, Bi(hop of Win-
cheftcr, 238. 509.
Luines, Duke of, 117.
Luke, Alice, 545.
. Raimund de, iitJ.
Lumley, Elizabeth Lady, 145.
. George, 143.
Jane Lady, 144, 145.
— — — John, 142, 143.
John Lord, 138, 139. 141.
Lord, 144. 156, 157.333.
Marmaduke, S41. note.
14a.
Ralph, 142.
Robert, 142.
Roger, iiid.
■ Sir Thomas, 141
Thomas, 143.
William, 142.
Lunsford, Colonel, 217.
Lufher, Richard, 410, 411.
Luther, Martin, 264.
Lyddall, Fenwick, 289.
Lygon, Henry, 458.
Lyman, Cornelius, 97.
Lynch, Grace, 16.
Lyne, 264. note.
Lynne, Rebecca, 485.
-William, iii^.
Lynton, John, 529.
Robert, 448. note.
Lyntot, Henry, 80.
Lyfle, Lady, 309.
Lyftney, John, 150.
Lyte, Anne, 369.
Ifaac, tiiJ.
Lyttel, Robert, 559.
Lyttelton, Ann, 462.
i Sir Charles, iiii/.
■ Charles, iiiii.
• Sir Henry, iiiti.
• Thomas, ii>iJ.
M.
Macartney, Catherine, 458.
Machcll, Willis, 287.
Mackenzie, 423.
Mackmath, John, 473.
Macpheadris, Richard, 534.
Maddockes, Robert, 79.
Maddo.Y, Charles, 546.
Mair, Alexander, 289.
Maitland, Sir John, 239.
Malcolm, 258.
Maltravers, 144. note.
Man, Henry, 449.
4 I-
Man, Thomas, 501.
Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 160.
.. Michael, 561.
Nigel de, 482.
Manneville, Godfrey de, 123.
Mannynge, John, 288.
Mansfield, Robert Fezard, 345.
Manftiip, John, 353.
Mareis, William, 351.
Marke, John, 401.
Markham, Archbifhop, 208.
Marlborough, Duchefs of, 425.
522. 528. 538.
Duke of, 20. 496.
Marquet, Peter, 542.
Marlh, Robert, 286.
Marfhal, 397.
Marlhali, 509.
■ Edward, 14. note. 561.
Thomas, 288.
Martin, 407.
■ Anne,
Carcw Pedigree,
S3
Edward, 557.
Martyn, Edward, 412.
- James, /W.
. John, 86. 56S.
' Thomas, 422.
Martyr, Peter, 274.
Mary, Lady, 2i. 542.
Queen, 72. 132. 151. 216.
27°- 433- 45 -
-^— Queen of France, 565.
Queen of Scots, 22. 143.
Mafon, 397.
Dorothy, 493, 494.
■ Henry Cox, 552.
John, 284.
— — Sir Richard, 493, 494.
William, 550.
MafHngberd, John, 485.
Matilda, Queen, 339, 340.
Matthews, Cecil, 495.
Charles, Hi J.
Maud, 269.
Mauvillain, Peter, 363.
Stephen, iiiJ.
Mawbey, Sir Jofeph, 305. 550.
note.
Mawhood, 458.
Mawfon, Bilhop of Ely, 264.
Maxwell, Francis Kelly, 290.
- Sarah, itid.
May, Jofeph, 445.
Maycrne, Sir Theodore, 433.
Maynard, Sir Henry, 498. 501.
■ Sir John, 499, 500.
John, 84. 501.
Lord, 500.
Mayo, Richard, 247. 250.
Mayor, Arthur, 36S.
Mead,
586
INDEX OF NAMES.
Mead, Doftor, 433.
Meadows, Philip, 248.
Mcldon, Eudonius de, 336.
Mendez, Mofes, 356. .
Mepham, Archbifliop, 366.
Meriton, Henry, 347, 348.
Merton, Walter de, 33Z. 335.
Meyer, Jeremiah, 208, 209.
Meyrick, Clara, 361.
. Owen Putland, ibid.
Micham, Matthew de, 351.
Robert de, ibid.
Michel, Humphrey, 467.
——— John, ibid.
Middleton, 39. 296.
Midleton, Allan Vifcount, 515.
. George Vifcount, 505.
S^S-
Lord, 517.
Morewyke, 141. noit.
Hugh de, 142.
Morgan, 318.
Philip, 486.
Morgue, Elizabeth, 414.
Morland, Sir Samuel, 322.
Morley, 50. 545.
Anne, 287.
. Cutbert, 286, 287.
George, 533.
Penelope, 334.
— Sir Thomas, ibid. 335.
Thomas, 507.
Miles, Alice, 192.
Mill, Elizabeth, 1 86.
— — Henry, ibid.
Millebourn, William, 17.
Miller, 161.
Millington, Francis, 518.
Mills, 48.
Henry, 200. 476. note.
— — Richard, 243. mte.
Milner, John, 245.
Milton, 540.
William, 290.
Mifplee, David, 542.
Mitford, Michael, 166.
Mockyng, Nicholas de, 5 1 .
Mohun, 60. note.
Molineux, Samuel, 206.
Molins, John Lord, 506.
Mompeflbn, Catherine, St. John
Pedigree, 30.
» Sir Charles, ibid,
. John, 280, 281.
Monjoy, Lord, 283.
Monk, General, 304. 358. 432.'
Montacute, Lord, 55.
Montague, Anthony Lord, 138,
139. 1S8. 313.328.
.. Duke of, 454.
Montauban, Ifabeau Bories de,
508.
Montolieu, David, Baron of St.
Hyppolite, 516.
Moore, Bilhop of Ely, 264.
. Edward, 288. 305.
■ i ' Francis, 303.
Henry Lord, 327.
Mordaunt, John Lord, 353.
More, 60. note.
- Sir Antonio, 46.
Sir George, 354,355-
Margaret, Carew Pedigree,
S3-
Morret, Benjamin, 471.
Morris, Francis, 249.
John, 288.
Mortimer, 141. note.
Morton, Sir Albert, 246,
_ Earl, 28. 260. 479. 549.
John, 246.
. John, Archbifliop and Car-
dinal, 262. 268. 279.
■ Sir Robert, 246. 565.
■ Sir Thomas, ibid.
■ Thomas, 187.
- Walter de, 2.
■ William, 177.
William, Bifliop of Meath,
1 64. note.
Mofar, Thomas, 194.
Mofeley, Charles, 335.
Moubray, Roger de, 238.
Mountain, George, Archbifliop of
York, 147.
Mountjoy, Walter Blount, Lord,
506.
Mowfarth, William, 4S6.
Moyfe, Robert, 188.
Munro, Doftor, 254.
Murgatroid, Michael, 187.
Murray, James Stewart Earl of, 1 95.
William, 238. 249.
Murphy, Arthur, 482.
Mufchamp, 132, 136.
Agnes, 73, 74.
. Chrirtopher, 563.
1 Francis, 72. 75. 1 18.
Mary, 119.
. Thomas, 75.
William, 73, 74.
Mychell, 1 homas, 568.
Myddelton, Mary, 369.
. Richard, ibid.
• Robert, 475.
Myers, Elizabeth, 356.
■ Streynftiam Derbyfliire,
3S9-
■ William, 356.
Myles, Henry, 368.
Myllyng, Thomas, 531.
Mynors, George, 335. nets.
N.
Napier, Doftor, 303.
Sir Robert, ibid.
Naylor, James, 24.
Nazareth, Archbilhop of, 53.
Neale, Henry, 146.
Neild, Elizabeth, 544.
■ James, ibid.
Nernuit, 7. note.
Netfcher, Theodore, 453. note.
Nettleton, Robert, 80.
Nevil, 141. note. 530. note.
Neville, Dorothy, 531.
Sir Edward, 55.
■ Lord Latimer, 531.
■ William, 236.
New, Mary, 468.
Newbury, Elizabeth, 284.
Newcaftle, Henry Duke of, 459.
Newport, Martin, 507.
Newton, 345.
. Sir Ifaac, 447.
Neyle, Robert, 226.
NichoUs, William, 255.
Nicholfon, Anthony, 473.
Nigel, Richard, Bifliop of London,
268. note.
Nigellus, Bifliop of Ely, ibid.
Nightingale, Charles, 542.
Nithardus, 390.
Nixon, Francis, 348.
Noel, Anne, 347.
Sir Thomas, ibid.
Norburgh, William, 443. note.
Norfolk, Agnes, Duchefs of, 286.
297.
Anne, Duchefs of, 286.
■ Duke of, 132. 143.
Elizabeth,Duchefsof, 284,
285. 297.
- Thomas, Duke of, 279.
285, 286. 297. 316.
Norman, Gilbert, 339, 340. 346.
Norris, 406.
. Sir William, 245.
North and Grey, Lord, 501.
. Lord Keeper, 205.
Northampton, Countefs Dowager
of, 444.
.—— Earl of, 286.
Helen, Marchionefs of,
450.
.^—^— Henry de, 16.
i William Parr, Marquis of,
316.
Northey. William, 138. 151.
Northumberland, Gofpatrick Earl
of, 141. note.
North-
INDEX OF NAMES.
587
Northumberland, Heiii-y Earl of,
384.
Thomas Earl of, 223.
Norton, Sir Gregory, 442.
Roger, 486.
Nottingham, Charles Earl of, 178.
195. 222.
■ ■ Earl of, 175. 222. 313.
note.
Nowell, Theodofia, 531.
Nower, 234.
Nowne, Roijert, 551.
Nycol, Harry, 225. 229.
O'Bryan, 190.
Odo, Bifhop of Baieux, 118. 120.
261.
Odron, 60. note.
Offley, Elizabeth, 424.
Ogle, Lord, 77.
Okeover, Philip, 161.
Oldham, 200.
Oliph, Sir John, 8.
Oliver, Emma, 437.
William, 178. 191.
Onflow, Denzil, 357.
■ Lord, 214.
— — ^ Sir Richard, 217.
Orange, Prince of, 240.
Orford, Horace Earl of, 54. 113.
152. 378.421. 439- 453-
■ Robert Earl of, 456.
Orlatele, Godfrey, 482.
Ormfby, Sir Edward, 460.
. Jane, ibid.
Ormond, Duke of, 274. 304. 446.
Orrery, Roger Earl of, 460.
Olbaldefton, Simon, 324. note.
Ofbert, 497.
Olbome, Lady Bridget, 537.
Oflac, 520.
Ofward, 2.
Otes, Samuel, 187. 189,
Otgher, Martha, 563.
■ Thomas, ibid.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 302.
Owdale, John de, 71.
Owen, 555.
Oxenbridge, 60. note.
■ ■ Sir Robert, 59.
Malyn, ibid.
Oxford, Ann Countefs of, 297.
• Countefs of, 1 74.
• Earl of, 384.
■ John Vere Earl of, 297.
O.xtoby, Rofamond, 360.
P.
Pack, Lord, 37;, 376.
Packington, John, 186.
Page, Bet, 489.
John, 568.
Paggen, Peter, 508.
Paine, 468. 566.
Painter, Elizabeth, 487.
John, ibid.
Pakenham, George Edward, 561.
Henry, 480.
Palladaye, Alice, 512.
Palmer, 231. 563.
■ Sir Anthony, 411.
■ Katherine, ibid.
Mary, ibid.
i Samuel, 507.
Palmerfton, Henry Vifcount, 371 .
Papworth, Robert, 499.
Parker, Archbifliop, 173. 262.
i.6\. 266. 269, 270. 291,
292. 297 — 299. 307.
. Bathiheba, 187.
Sir James, 438.
' John, 187.
■ Margaret, 286. 298.
Matthew, 286. 316.
Parkes, 370.
Parr, Catherine, 264.520.
Richard, 80. 85. 552.
Parrie, William, 223 . note.
Parry, Sir Thomas, 321, 322.
Partington, 544.
John, 542.
Partridge, John, 253. 369. 371,
372-
Palhler, Samuel, 499.
Paftfield, George, 472.
Patch, 123.
Paterfon, 519. note.
John, 534.
Patilball, 32. note.
Patrick, Bifhop of Ely, 38. 264.
Pattinfon, Jane, 564.
Paxton, Elizabeth, 460.
Nicholas, ibid.
Payne, 7. note.
— — Sir Ambrofe, 284.
■ John, 348.
■^— — Thomas, 411.
Paynell, Thomas, 568.
Peach, Henry, 149.
' Samuel, 370.
Peachman, Chrillopher, 460.
Pearce, Bifhop of Bangor, 264.
. Doftor, 270. ■
Peche, Anne, 178.
Pechell, Samuel, 458.
4F 2
Peck, Francis, 189. ,
— — Sarah, 413.
Peckham, Archbifhop, 366,529.
Pedro, Don, 224. note.'
Peers, Richard, 187.
Pembroke, Henry Earl of, 364.
• — William Earl of,
431.
Penkethman, 469. 570.
Penley, 366.
Pennant, 318.
Penny man, Dorothy, 186.
■ Sir James, ibid.
Percebridge, John, 129.
Percy, Lord, 326.
Perkins, Richard, no. III.
Peme, Andrew, 284. 300.
Perrers, Alice, 244.
Peters, Hugh, 265. 408.
John, 561.
Petre, Lord, 139.
Pettingal, James, 64. note.
Pettiward, Douglas, 408. note.
^—^^ John, ibid.
Roger, 408. note. 413.
Petyt, John, 473,
Peyntwin, Hugh, 279.
Philip. I. King of Spain, 439.
— — - IL 266.
Philips, John, 249.
Phillips, Frances, 253.
Henry, 555,
■ Richard, 551.
• Rowland, 189.
Phillipfon, Jofeph, 551,
Phippard, Sir William, 34;.
Pierce, Captain, 247.
Piers, John, 486.
—^ Thomas, 363.
Pierfon, Samuel, 150.
Pillefary, Angelica Magdaleine,
St. John Pedigree, 30.
■ George, ibid.
Pillioniere, Francis de la, 200.
Piozzi, Gabriel, 482.
Mrs. 483, 484.
Pitcairn, Andrew, 92. note.
Pitches, Sir Abraham, 176.
Pitt, Thomas, 534.
William, 428.
Play fere, Thomas, 149.
Pleydell, 33. note.
Sir Charles, St. John Pc»
digree, 30.
Plomer, Thomas, 351.
Plumbe, Ralph, 499.
Samuel, ibid.
Plummer, Thomas, 360.
Plymouth, Charles Earl of, 537.
Pointz, Nicholas, 71.
■ Reginald, ibid.
Pole.
583
INDEX OF NAMES.
Pole, Cardinal, 55. 264.. 26S —
770. 449. 521.
Margaret tic la, 548.
Polhill, 335.
Pollexfen, 40S.
Pomfret, Thomas, 432.
Poole, St. Geffrey, 55.
Thomas, 284.
Pope, 374.
— — Sir Thomas, 72. 549.
Thomas, 61.
Porter, Endymion, 505.
- Katherine, 166.
Mofes, ibid.
Pierce Patrick Wallh, 506.
Thomas, ibid.
Porteus, Beilby, Bifhop of London,
295. 306.
Portland, Karl of, 424.
Jerome Earl of, 430.
455-
Richard Earl of, 429,
T, ^^°- .
Portman, Sir Hugh, 208.
Sir John, ibid.
Pory, Robert, 294.
Porye, John, 291.
Poftel, Ralph, 236.
Potter, Archbiihop, 184, 185.
197. 269.
Potts, Thomas, 563.
Poumies, Jamef, 508.
Poure, Walter le, 351.
Pouffin, Gafpar, 15.
Powell, 424.
. George, 392.
Jjhn, 507.
Sufanna, 507. 509. 517.
Sir Thomas, 16.
Poynand, 67.
Poyntz, Stephen, 538.
Poynz, 144. 7zote.
Prade, John, 24.
Prannel, Henry, 134.
Pratt, Henry, 248.
Jofeph, 288.
Ralph, 558.
Prefton, Clement, 290.
Mary, ibid.
Price, Captain, 245.
■ Herbert, 187.
Pride, Colonel, 334.
Pringham, Matthias, 458.
Prior, Agnes, 352.
Geoffrey, ibid.
Pritchard, John, 290.
Pritty, Colonel, 219.
Protheroe, George, 188.
Prynne, 195.
Puckering, Sir John, 203.
Puddicombe, John Newell, loj.
Purbeck, Vifcount, 3(9.
Purdy, Thomas, ic.
Pynncr, Thomas, 356.
Pynfcnt, John, 186.
Quelch, William, 129. 131, 132.
'35-
Queenfberry, Ducliefs of, 566.
Duke of, 443—445.
R.
Rabet, Michael, 486.
Rabivin, Peter, 2j6.
Radcliffe, Dodior, 135,136.
Raleigh, George, 286.
Judith, ibid.
Sir Walter, 57. 247. 286.
354-
William dc, Bilhop of
Winchefter, 509.
Ralf, Mary, 397.
Ramfay, John, 341. 495. 568.
Ramfey, John, 241.
Randolph, Diann, 534.
Herbert, 534. 536.
Ranfum, John, 289.
Ravis, Bifhop of London, 335.
Rawlinfon, John, 290.
Raworth, Robert, 451.
Rayne, Clariffa, 394.
Robert, ibid.
Raynsford, Edward, 348.
Reading, James, 392.
Reddal, Henry, 460.
Richard, 61.
Redham, 141. note.
Reed, Ifaac, 569.
Renew, Peter, 423.
Refbury, Nathan, 510.
Reup, 86.
Reynell, Efther, 284.
Reynolds, 123.
Archbilhop, 536.
— Sir Jolhua, 240. 454. 482.
Rice, Frances, 499.
John, ibid.
Morgan, 498.
Rich, 45, note.
Colonel, 407.
Lady, 431.
Sir Peter, 288.
Richard IL 326.
- Archbilhop, 268. note.
Richards, John, i66.
Richardfon, Emblem, 393.
• John, 241.
I Sir William, 551.
• William, 549.
Richmond, Duke of, 134.
• Frances Duchcfs of, 134.
. James iJukeof, 240.
Ridley, Owen, 36.
Kigby, 503.
Baron, 172.
Riley, William, 42.
Rimes, Elizabeth, 245.
William, ,bid.
Ripariis, Margaret de, 321. 327.
Ritfo, George, 207.
Rivers, Sir John, 480. note.
Lady, 161. 167.518.
Woodvil, Earl, 206.
Roberts. Alexander, 472.
Doflor, 329.
George, 494.
Jane, 413.
John, 544.
Thomas, 413. 481.
■ aliasHowland,Wa!ter,48i.
485.
Robertfon, William, 444.
Robinfon, Elizabeth, 347.
■ Grace, ibid.
John, 357.
Samuel, 245.
Sir Thomas, 347.
• Thomas, 210 347.
Robfart, Sir John, 449.
Robfon, John, 394.
—— Thomai, 363.
Roche, John, 357.
Rochefter, Earl of, 200. 399. 455.
Henry, Earl of, St. John
Pedigree, 30.
Rockingham, Marquis of, 540.542,
Rodney, Sir George, 134.
Roffey, George, 80.
Nathaniel, 550.
Rogers, 30.
Francis, 564.
John, 501.
Roland, John, 363.
Romayne, Juliana, 160. 295. 327.
Thomas, 160. 168. 295.
327.
Romeney, Sufanna, Carew Pedi-
gree, 53.
Sir William, ibid.
Romeyne, Juliana, 564. note.
Rook, Richard, 506.
Rookefby, Thomas, 442.
Rofe, 454.
— ^ Edward, 17.
William, 135.
Rofingham, Capt. 218.
Rofs, George, 458. 463.
Rofletti, 317.
Rofyer, John, 230.
Rothomago, Robert de, 71.
Rowan,
INDEX OF NAMES.
589
Rowan, William, 458.
Rowton, Abraham, 516.
Jacob, ibid.
Ifaac, ibid.
John, ibid.
Roydon, Captain 272.
■ Henry, 29. 40.
Rucker, 360.
John Anthony, 428. 518.
Rudd, Anthony, Bifliop of St Da-
vid's, 440. note.
Rundle, Bifhop of Derry, 264.
Rupert, Prince, 225. 294.
Rufh, 540.
Samuel, 166.
Ruffel, Elizabeth, 489.
John, 473. 489, 490. 550.
■ Mary, 209.
- Richard, 550.
William, 489.
Rullick, 520. note.
Rutlifli, William, 348, 349.
Rutter, Conyers, 474.
Rythynburgh, Nicholas de, 249.
Sacheverel, Lucy, 109, no.
Sackville, Edward, 440.
Sir Richard, 499. 567.
Sadler, Anthony, 358.
Saint Alban's, George, Duke of,
4S1.
Saint Barbe, Heniy, i^.note.
Urfula, ibid.
Sainthill, Peter, 508.
Saint John, 32. 124. "
Henry, 42, 43. 79.
Sirjohn,30. 41,42. 124.
. John Lord, 188.
Oliver, 312.
Sir Walter, 30. 35. 38.
42. 48.
Saintlow, 63.
Saint Michael, Sir Simon, 493.
Sales, Jofcph, 241 .
Salilbury, Countefs of, 56.
James, Earl of, 471.
Salter, Charles, 248.
George, I 20.
Salufbury, Hefter Maria, 484.
■ John, ibid.
Salyng, John. 568.
Sancroft, Archbilhop, 263.
Sandal, John de, Bifhop of Win-
cherter, 344.
Sanders, William, 369. 387.
Sandys, Sir Edward, 95.
—^-^ Lord, 482.
Sanxay, Daniel, 564.
■ Edmund, ibid.
James, 495.
Sarnesfield, Nicholas, 127.
Saukvil, Jordan de, 4.
Saunders, William, Carew Pedi-
gree, 53.
Savage, Darcy, 542.
Diana, jbid.
— — — George, 250.
Mary, 534.
Richard, ibid.
Savignac, 123.
Paul Peter, 563.
Saville, Sir Henry, 95.
Sawbridge, John, 427.
Sax, Henry, 473.
Say and Sele, James Fiennes,
Vifcount, 533. nofe,
— — ^ Vifcount, 532.
Saye, 19.
■ Sir John, 1 1.
Scaled, Thomas, 387.
Scarfdale, Francis Earl of, 287.
Scarth, William, 473.
Scawen, James, 124, 125.
Thomas, 124, 125.471.
Sir William, 124. 126,
127.
Schomberg, Doftor, 253.
Schreiber, Peter, 284.
Sclater, Edward, 416.
Scot, Thomas, 273.
Scott, 72. 262
Anne, 280.
— — Bartholomew, 77.
Edward, ibid.
- George, 410,
■ Sir John, 479.
John, 69, 70.76,77. 118.
125.
. Mary, 410.
Nathaniel, 401.
Sir Peter, 77.
■ Peter, 70. 77.
Robert, 279, 280. 400.
William, 326. 560.
Scrag, John, 557.
Scriven, Jofeph, 499.
Scrope of Bolton, Henry Lord, 143.
Lord, 252.
Shall'.t, Jofcph, 166.
Shard, William, 119.
Shardeburgh, Godfrey de, 566.
Si. aw, I'ttcr, 533.
Shawys, John, 248.
Sheffield, Lady Douglas, 449,
Slieldon, Archbifliop, 183. 196.
264 — 266. z6y. 202. 304.
3^7- .
■ Daniel, 186.
Sir Jofeph, ibid,
• Judith, ibtd.
Roger, ibid.
Shepherd, John, 200.
Sherer, John, 2 ^2.
Sherlock, Doftor, 20.
Shipley, 123.
Short, 124.
Shiewfbury, Countefs of, 431.
Earl of, 12.
Shute, Richard, 13. 19.
Sidney, Sir Henry, 384. 441. //c/f.
Lady, 382.
SiiTred, Bilhop of Winchefter, 268.
note,
Simmons, 397.
Simonds, William, 368.
Simpfon, John, 534.
Sims, Hugh, 403.
Skelton, 174.
Skern, Robert, 244. 443. non.
■ William, 250.
Skidmore, 557.
Skinner, Matthew, 444.
Skipwith, Henry, 282, 283.
Patricius de, 283.
. Sir Richard, ibid,
Skynner, Agnes, 75, 76.
■ Elizabeth, 76.
. ]fabella, ibid.
. Lydia Henning, 546.
Michael, 76.
Richard, 75, 76.
^— — — William, ibid.
William Augulluy, 546.
Slingar, Tempeft, 460.
Sly, William, ill.
Smith, 48.
Scudamor, Barnibas, 82.
Srudamnre Riitti i S6
^ Charles, 550.
Seares, George, 271. note.
Seeker, Archbifhop of Canterbury,
266. 269. 288. 306. 329.
Sedley, Sir Charles, 200.
Selden, 265.
Seltrum, William, 271. >iot(.
Selwyn, Charles, 467.
Senhoufe, Richard, Biftiop of Car-
lide, 148.
Sever, Henry, 59.
Seymour, Giles, 185.
•^— ^— Jime, 223. iiott.
George, 356. 408. 460.
150. 169. «oi. 255. 308.
337. 360. 363. 387. 397-
403. 424. 467. 477. 491.
496. 501. 507. 512—514.
517.538.558.
John, 187.
■ Milo, 282. 304.
Nathaniel, 556.
Ralph, 187.
Smith,
59°
INDEX OF NAMES.
Smith, Thomas, 505.
■ Thomas Jenyns, 105.
William, 460. 467. 482. 549.
Smyth, 310.
Ann, 387.
• Gilbert, 534.
Thomas, iz.
Smythfon, George, 158.
Snaith, 323.
Snape, Doftor, 20.
Snelling, Anne, 246.
. Mark, 245.
Snow, Edmund, 508.
Snowe, Ralph, 283. 308.
Srtlars, Cecilia, I2j.
Somerfby, Robert, 244.
Somerfet, Duke of, 237. 450.
Somerfet, Edward Duke of,
449.
John Earl of, 127.
Southampton, Earl of, 268.
Southcott, John, 481.
Southoufe, Mary, 534.
■ William, ibid.
Southwell, Sir Robert, 549.
Spackman, Nicholas, 352.
Spalato, Archbifhop of, 274.
Sparks, William ,551.
Spencer, 6. 511.
. Earl, 444. 518. 566.
. . George John, Earl, 30,
237- 504. S°5- 522. 538-
■ Georgiana, 538.
— — — Harry, 368.
I Henry, 4.
■ John, 522. 538.
Lady Diana, St. John
Pedigree, 30.
Wooley Leigh, 4.
Spiller, John, 460.
Sprimont, Nicholas, 401.
Spryngwell, 310.
Squier, John, 16.
Stacy, Thomas, 79.
Stafford, Archbilhop, 173. 176.
Edmund Earl of, 559.
Henry Lord, 284, 285.
■ Hugh Earl of, 559. note.
• Humphrey Earl of, 176.
note.
John, Biftiop of Bath and
Wells, 191.
Ralph Earl of, 69. 559.
Thomas Earl of, 559.
note.
William Earl of, ibid.
Sianhope, Sir Michael, 52
Stanlake, Anthony, 80
Stanley, 28.
» John, 30.
Stapel, Peter, 406. note.
Stapylton, Chriftopher, 347,
— Sir Henry, ibid.
Starkie, Elizabeth, 368.
Staunton, Edmund, 247. 250.
Stead, Henry, 424.
Steavens, Sir Thomas, 550.
— ■ Sir William, ibid.
Stebbing, Henry, 460. 465.
Steele, John, 473.
Steevens, William, 477.
Stephens, Elizabeth, 496.
Henry, 336, 337,
' William, 495, 496.
Stere, William, 555.
Stevens, 557.
Steward, Lady Frances, 419.
Sir William, 91. 93.
Scickney, Enoch, 551.
StillingHeet, Edward, 395.
Stint, Elizabeth, 248.
John, ibid.
Stobart, Henry, 458.
Stone, Charles, 413.
— — Robert, ibid.
— — Thomas, 473.
Stonehoufe, Sir James, 564.
Stonor, Sir John, 1 18.
Storer, Anthony, 264. note.
Stormont, Lord, 518.
Stofch, Baron, 433.
Stourton, Lord, 140. 26S.
Stow, Nevile, 105.
Stowe, Simon, 545.
Strachan, Amelia, 486.
— James, ibid.
Stratford, Johnde, Birtiop of Win-
chefter, 32S.
Street, Peter, 90. note.
Stephen, 103.
Strete, Henry, 568.
Stringer, Edward, 178.
■ Joan, 511.
Strong, Melandlhon, 508.
Stuart, Z53.
Arabella, 321.
Matthew, 252.
William, 65.
Studholm, Mary, 551.
— — ^ William, ibid.
Style, George, 363.
Suckling, George, 218.
Sudbury, Archbifhop, 269.
Suffolk, Charles Brandon Duke
of, 35V 405- 504- 565-
— — — Duchefs of, 109.
— — Earl of, 113.
— Sarah Countefs of, 562.
Sumery, Roger de, 351.
Surrey, Earl of, 449.
Henry Howard Earl of>
278.
Surrey, John Plantagenet Earl of
325-
— — Thomas Howard Earl of,
285. 297. 316.
Suffex, Earl of, 312.
— — Ratcliff, Earl of, 549.
Suthes, William, 283.
Swabey, Samuel, 289.
Swain, 497.
Swale, Doftor, 36.
Sweetman, Thomas, 83.
Swein, 506.
Swift, Dean, 374. 452, 453.
John, 505.
Swinford, Catherine, 328.
' Sir Thomas, ibid.
Sydenham, Sir Philip, 542.
Sydney, 129.
Algernon, 158.
■ — Sir Philip, 13.
Symmonds, Martyn, 102.
Symonds, Jofeph, 369.
Syndlefham, John de, 50.
Tablar, William, 165.
Talbot, Cecil, 495.
I Charles, Lord Chancellor,
ibid.
■ Lord, 12.
i William Earl, 494.
Tafh, William, 241.
Tafwell, James, 392.
William, 392. 395, 396.
Tate, Benjamin, 357.
William, 358.
Taverner, Richard, 242. 254.
Tayer, Thomas, 508. 512.
Tayleboys, Richard, 97.
Taylor, Ann, 413.
■ Edward, 367. 369.
I Elizabeth, 367.
■ George, 124.
■ James, 476. note.
• John, 561.
■ Jofeph, 357. 466.
»' Revel, 413.
■■ William, 334. 414.
^ Zachary, 369.
Temple, 462.
— — — Sir John, 38. 371.
Rebecca, 352.
— — — Richard Godman, 381.
■ Thomas, 38. 352.
Sir William, 371. 451 —
453-
Tenifon, Archbifhop, 201. 366.
269. 282. 290. 305. 307,
308.
Terrey,
INDEX OF NAMES.
591
Terrey, Sarah, 55;.
Terry, William, 24.I.
Tell, Thomas, 561.
Tezelin, 2. 5.
Theobald, 205. 320.
. Archbifhop, 29. 268. «.
Edward, 486.
— Thomas, 288.
Theodoric, 325.
Thirlby, Thomas, Bilhop of Ely,
267. 284. 298, 299.
Thomas, Biihop of Winchefter,
264.
Edward, 210.
Thompfon, Andrew, 414.
David, 561.
— Harriet, 414.
— James, 551.
— Jolin, 166. 463. 561.
— Jofeph, 158. 564.
— Peter, 561.
Robert, 284.
Thomfon, James, 463, 464.
Thornton, 141. note.
— John, 166, 167.
— — Lucy, 166.
Roger, 143.
Thornycroft, Henry, 328.
— — Sir John, ibid.
I Richmond, 289.
Thorold, Lady, 387.
Thoytts, 345.
Thrale, 490.
— Henry, 482. 484.
— — Ralph, 484.
Throckmorton, Throgmorton, or
Throkmorton, Anne, Carew
Pedigree, 53.
■ Sir Nicholas, 57. 60.
13*' '33- 354-
alias Carew, Nicholas,
60. 353.
Thurland, Sir Edward, Carew Pe-
digree. 53.
. Edward, 353.
Thurloe, John, 265.
Thurlow, Edward Lord, 481.
Thwayte, 19.
Thomas, iz.
Thwenge, Thomas Lord,
note.
Tichbourn, Lord, 375, 376.
Tiddiman, Mary, 472.
Tilden, George, 412.
Tilledey, William, i^i^x.mte.
Tillotfon, Archbifhop, 19.
269. 307.
Tilney, Edmund, 485. 488.
— — — Hugh, 297.
— — — Sir Philip, ibid,
Tilfon, George, 401.
141.
264.
Tingria, Sibella, or Sibyl de, 160.
482.
Tipper. 118.
Tipping, Ichabod, 80.
Tirrel, Francis, 187.
Toclivius, Richard, Bifliop of Win-
chefter, 509.
Toland, John, 419, 420.
ToUemache, General, 239.
Sir Lionel, 238, 239.
Toilet, 229. note.
Tolfon, Thomas, 288.
Tomkyns, Thomas, 294.
Tomlins, Richard, 467.
Tompkins, John, ^34.
Tonbridge, or Tbnebridge, Richard
de, 49. 332. 479.
Tonnet, Nicholas, 517.
Tonfon, 15.
Tooke, Edmund, 166.
■ Thomas, 164. note.
Top, Sir John, St. John Pedigree,
30-
Totnefs, Earl of, 283.
■ George Carew, Earl of,
266.
Townley, 54.
■ James, 87.
Tracy, James, 392.
Tradefcant, Efther, 307.
■ John, 289. 330.
Trapps, 556.
Robert, 549.
Trecothick, Barlow, 4. 5.
■ Grizell, 9.
^^— — — James, 4. 10.
Tregoz, Joanna, 413.
Trego ze, 32. note.
Trenchard, John, 322.
Trevor, Biihop of Durham, 267.
. Elizabeth, Lady, 119.
■ Francis, 538.
• Sir John, 446.
Tropnell, Ann, Carew Pedigree,
S3-
. ■ Chriftopher, ibid.
Trymmer, James, 534.
Tudor, 377.
Tufnell, Samuel Brown, 560.
Tullibardin, Earl of, 429, 430,
Tully, 17.
Tunltall, Cuthbert, Biihop of Dur-
ham, 267. 284. 297 — 299.
■ Sir John, 97.
— — — Robert. 211.
Turberville, Bryan, 308.
Turbevyle, Margaret, 51.
Turburnus, 160.
Turner, Anne, 302.
■ Sir Jeremy, 116.
■ Michael, 412. 434.
Turner, Whichcott, 459. 467.
William, 467. 498.
William Godfrey, 473,
TufTer, 92. note.
Tweedy, Roger, 473. 477.
Twittie, Thomas, 250.
Twyne, John, 358.
Twynyho, Elizabeth, Carew Pedi-
gree, 53.
■ Walter, ibid.
Tychefey, Thomas de, 71.
Tydnam, Anne, 288.
Tycrs, Jonathan, 324.
TyfFyn, John Thomas, 255.
Tyler, Wat, 269.
Tyroe, Elizabeth, 517.
Tyrrell, Francis, 195. 557.
Tyrwhit, Sir Robert, 428. 535.
Tyton, John, 348.
U.
Ulf, 49.
UKvard, 478.
UmfreviHe, 32. note.
Upton, Elizabeth, 368.
John, ibid.
Urtwayte, John, 413.
Ufborn, Thomas, 146.
Ufher, Archbiihop, 293.
Uttinge, William, 284.
Uvedale, William, 4. 71.
Vade, John, 187.
Valletort, John, 437.
Vanderefch, Windc William, 561.
Vanderveldt, 239.
Vane, Sir Henry, ibid.
Vanlore, Peter, 121. 542.
Vanneck, Gcrrard, 42^.
' Sir Jofhua, 433.
Vaughan, Henry, 560.
Hugh, 43S.
- " Thomas, 169.
Vaux, Jane, 323.
Venn, John, 564.
Vere, Horatio Lord, St. John Pe-
digree, 30.
Verney, 128.
Vernon, Ann, 79.
■ Sir Robert, ibid.
Verrio, 239.
Vile, William, 508.
Villctic, Marchionefs of, 46.'
Villiard, M. 443. note.
Villicrs, Chrillopher, 443.
Villiers,
^92
INDEX OF NAMES.
VUUers, Sir Edward, St. John Pe.
digree, 30.
. Lord Francis, 219, 220.
L^dy Mary, 349.
William, 29.
Vincent, Joanna, 79.
Sir Thomas, 237.
Thomas, 140.
Virley, Sir John, 146.
Vogull, Henry, 80.
Mary, ibid.
Vyfe, William, 274. 295.
W.
Wade, Jofeph, 472.
Wadfworth, Thomas, 394, 395.
Waghorn, Captain 392.
Wairc, Friar, 510.
Waith, Elizabeth, 79.
Robert, ibiii.
Wake, Archbifhop, 120. 176. 184.
187. 189. 196. 269. 56;.
Wakefield, George, 458.
. Thomas, 461.
Walcot, Edmund, 308.
-. William, 4. 541. twte.
Walcote, 530. tiote
Waldo, Peter, 358.
Wales, Charles Prince of, 505.
. . Frederic Prince of, 206.
_ George Prince of, 208.
.. Henry Prince of, 108.
440.
306,
238. 263. 368. 437.
C04. note.
■ Princefs Dowager,
207.
Walker, Thomas, 534.
Wall, 539.
Sarah, 460.
Wallef, Earl, 497.
Waller, 320. 431.
Walmiley, 530. note.
Walpole, Sir Robert, 456.
Wallh. Delacourt, 458.
Thomas, 188.
Walfingham, 174. 542.
. — Sir Francis, 12, 13. 21,
22. note. 313. note.
- Lady, 13. 21.
, ■ — ^ Sir Thomas, 21. «. 22. ».
• Thomas, 188.
Walter, Catherine, 335. 530.
. Sir George, 334, 335.
. Hubert, Archbifljop of
Canterbury, 258. 261. 268.
275, 276.
. John, 397.
— Robert, 366.
William, 5 30.
Wane, George, 473.
Warbeck, Perkin, 448.
Ward, George, 508.
Jofeph, 546.
Ware, 346.
Warham, 184.
' "' Archbifhop, 59.
279. 281. 366.
Hugh, 178.
»77-
Warner, Ferdinando, 543.
Simeon, 423.
Warren, Earl, 325.
■■ Lawrence, 352.
Thomas, 245.
Warwick, Countefs of, 173.
Earl of, 218. 313.444.
John Dudley, Earl of,
480.
. Robert Rich, Earl of,
St. John Pedigree, 30.
William Mauduit, Earl
of, 351
V/alhford, Anne, 359.
George, ibij.
Wateville, or Watteville, 49. 332.
. ■ Sibellade, 61.
— William de, 236. 332.
Watfon, Anthony, Bifhop of Chi-
chefter, 147. 149.
Watts, 318.
Sarah, 422.
Way, Benjamin, 72.
— — Lewis, 444.
Sarah, ibid.
Wealcs, Richard, 473.
Webfter, Ridley Manning, 544.
Welbancke, William, 187.
Welbcck, 74. note. 367. 407. note.
• Agnes, 411.
John, ibid.
• • Richard, 413.
Welch, Andrew, 411.
Weldon, 191.
Welles, 60. note.
Eleanor, Carew Pedigree,
53
Leonard Lord, ibid.
Walton, Bourchier, 546.
Walworth, Sir William, 172.
Were, 503.
Wefenham, John de, 565.
Weft, Nicholas, Biihop of Ely,
250. 405. 409.
Weftcote, Lord, 482.
Weftley, 39. 553.
Weftmorland, Earl of, 223. note.
245- 335-
Wefton, Jerome, 419.
■ Margaret, 160.
Richard, Lord, 419.
William de, 160.
Weftrop, Richard, 214.
Wever, 234.
Wharry, Walter, 555.
Wharton, Henry, 266.
Robert de, Biihop of St.
Afaph, 549.
Whateley, Kemble, 534.
Whately, Jofeph, 158-
. Thomas, 336.
Whichcote, Doflor, 263.
Whifton, 20.
Whitaker, Edward, 563.
• Jeremiah, 550 — 552.
Tobias, 5 16.
William, 551.
Whitchurch, Edward, 361.
White, Alexander, 424.
■ Henry, 408. note.
——^— John, 294.
John, Biihop of Winchefter,
248.
' Mary, 460.
Robert, ibid.
- Rowland, 13.
■ Sarah, 408. note.
William, 393. 471.
Whitehead, Jarvis, 555
Whiteman, John, 479. note.
Whitfield, 39.
Thomas, 367. 388
Whitgift, Archbifhop, 175.
188. 194, 195. 198.
269. 271. 300. 307. 316,
181.
264.
Whithorn, William Rifby, 460.
Whithorfe, Walter, 177.
Whitlock, Sir Bulftrode, 104.
Whitney, Henry, 353.
Whorwood, William, 412, 413.
note.
Whyte, John, Bifhop of Winchef-
ter, 509.
Whytebrede, Joan, 225.
Wickes, William, 516.
Wickham, William of, Bifhop of
Winchefter, 342.
WickliiF, 326.
Wight, Countefs of the Ide of, 4.
Jofeph, 508.
Wigmore, Gilbert, 458-
Wllberforce, William, 534.
Wilcox, Edmund, 495.
Wilford, 496.
-— RoberS 353.
Wilkin, William, 551.
V/ilkias, Doiflor, 266.
Jsmes, 187.
Wilkinfon, Francis, 245 .
Wilks, 48.
William IIL, 135. 452.
Son of Henry L, 340.
Williams, 496.
■ Anne, 422.
■ Bifhopot Chicheftcr, 263.
Charles, 47.
Edward, 482.
Williams,
INDEX OF NAMES.
593
Williams, Humphrey, 397.
John, 120. 412.
Williamfon, 503.
. James, 508.
— ^^^ Jane Bc-tfy, ibid,
Willington, 141. note,
Willis, Henry, 36S.
Richard, 334.
■ Thomas, 247. 23c.
Willoughby, Lord, 283.
— — — — of Parham, Lord, 527.
533-
Richard, 50. 545.
Wills, 307.
Wilfon, 383.
Captain, 289. 475, 476.
— • Chriflopher, Bilhop of Brif-
tol, 20. 543.
■ Edward, 85. 347.
I Elizabeth, 192.
. Judith, 347.
^-^— Martha, 460.
■ Robert, 34I!. 460.
. Rowland, 344. 349.
Samuel, 102.
WJkfnire, Elizabeth Countefs of,
284.
Wimbledon, Vifcount, 414. "ote.
427.429,430. 505. 521.531
—533- 538-
Winchcomb, Frances, St. John
Pedigree, 30.
• Henry, ibid.
Winchelfey, Archbifhop, 409.
Wincocke, Doctor, 265.
Windham, Jofeph, 70 — 72, 78.
84.
Wingfield, Sir Edward, 459.
Winllanley, Henry, 524. nole. 527.
Winfton, 530. nou.
Winter, Sir William, 23.
Wifeman, Elizabeth, 486.
Mark, ibid.
Witford, Alexander de, 351.
Witlock, Sir William, 347.
Wittlefey, Archbilhop, 269.
Wolfward, 351.
Wollafton, Elizabeth, 458.
— George, ibid.
Wolley, 379.
WoUey, Sir Francis, 354.
Wolfely, 559.
Thomas, 118.
Wolfey, Cardinal, 31. 406.439.
445-
Wood, Anne, 421.
Anthony, 473.
— — B. 476. note.
Bafil, 550.
^— Elizabeth, ibid.
— — Francis, 289.
Hugh, 459.
■ Mary, ibid.
Robert, 414. 420, 421.
Roger, 567.
' Sarah, 397.
— — Thomas, 42 1 .
Walton, 546.
Woodefon, Richard, 544.
W'oodfall, Winifred, 253.
Woodhoufe, Sir William, 134.
note.
Woodlock, Henry, Bilhop of V\'in-
chefter, 342.
Wood vile, 144. note.
Woodward, Agnes, 88.
Godfrey, 412.
' Joan, 88, 89.
William, 146.
Woovermans, 239.
Worcel1:er, Charles Somerfet, Earl
of, 20Z.
— ^— ^ Earl of, 195. 537.
John Tiptoft, Earl of,
479-
Wormall, Chriflopher, z86.
Worfley, Sir Richard, 13. note.
Worlled, Simon, 560.
Worth, John, 267.
Wray, Sir Chriftopher, 533.
Chriftopher, 537.
Wren, Sir Chriftopher, 540,
Wright, 164. note.
Dorothy, 457.
■ Sir Edmund, 164. note.
Sir George, 457. 467.
: John, 557.
Wrighte, George, 542.
Wrote, Francis, 248.
Wulfgar, 237.
Wyat, 19. 132.
■ Sir Henry, iz.
■ Sir Thomas, 70. 216.
Wyatt, 255.
Wyche, Henry, 494.
Wydrington, John, 448.
Wymondefold, or Wymondfold,
407.
Sir Robert, 412.
- William, 413. 424.
Wyndeffe, Richard, 568.
Wyndham, Sir Francis, 247.
— — ^— Mary, ibid.
Sir William, 369.
V/yndlefor, Hugh de, 569.
Wynkefley, Jane, 286.
Wynne, Sir Richard, 530.
Wynter, Catherine, 34.
. Sir Edward, 33.
■ Edward Hampion, 34.
John, 29;.
William Woodftock, 34.
Wyttlefey, William de, 188.
Wyvell, Marmaduke, 187.
Yates, 224.
Baron, 172.
Mary Ann, 458. 464.
Sir Jofeph, 145, 146.
Richard, 465.
Yelverton, Sir Henry, 23.
Yerde, Anne, 140.
John, 139, 140.
Yonge, William, 252.
York, James Duke of, 441.
Richard Duke of, 176.
note.
Younge, Sir George, 485.
Zincke, 209.
ZofFanii, 206,
Zouch, 346.
.. Lord, 195.
Nicholas, 344.
Vol. I.
4G
GENERAL INDEX.
ABBOT, Archbifliop, account of his funeral,
-^ 196.
Addington, account of the parifh of, i. Name,
boundaries, and foil, ibid. The manors, 2, 3.
Singular tenure, 5. The church, 6. The rec-
tory and vicarage, 9. Siate of population, 10.
Benefaflions, ihid.
uHleynyEdiuard, anecdotesof, 87 — 96. Hisepitaph, 96.
Extracts from his diary, 113 — 117.
Allen, William, account of his death and tomb, 393.
Allfarthing, manor of, 505.
Andrevjs, Launcelot, Biihop of Chichefler, Reftor of
Cheam, 147.
Archers, privileges granted to them by Henry VIII.
389. note.
Arms of the family of Ackland defcribed, 17. Al-
]eyn, 97. Apfley, 33. Atkins, 164. Beau-
champ, 32. Blount, 33. Bohun, 176. Bond,
74. Bottreux, 32. Bourchier, 368. Broogh-
ton, 530. Bryan, 60. Bunclcley, 164. Burgh,
141. Borley, 127. Byde, 164. Carew, 8.
Carleon, 530. Cawtrey, 141. Cecil, 530.
Chichele, 179. Gierke, 164. Conyers, 141.
Cooke, 222. Danvers, 530. D'Arcy, 141.
DoftorDee, 385. Delabere, 32. Delamar, 58.
Drury, 532. Eckington, 480. Ewyas, 32.
Fitzalan, 141. Gaynesford, 129. Gofpatrick,
Earl of Northumberland, 141. Grandifon, 32.
Grey, 412. Harman, 74. Harrington, 141. Har-
vey,7. Hafelrigge, 164. HatteclyfF, 8. Hewer,
165. Hewit, 480, Hoare, 17. Holland, 141.
Hoo, 60. Howe, 34. Howland,48o. Hunger-
ford, 32. Iwarby, 32. Knightley, 141, Leigh, 7.
Leighton, 33. Lifter, i6j. Lumley, 141.
Maltravers, 144. Merton, 33^. Mohun, Oo.
More, 60. Morewyke, 141. iVIortimer, 141.
Morton 16^. Mufchamp, 74. Mynors, 335.
Nevil, J41. Noel, 532. Odron, 60. Olipb, 8.
Ofborne, 530. Oxenbridge, 60. Patiniall, 32,
Pleydell,33. l'ovey,74. Poynz, 144. Ravis, 335.
Redham, 141. Rich, 45. Rivers, 412. Sarnef-
field, 127. Scroop, 141. St. John, 32. Earl
of Somerfet, 127. Stafford, 176. Sydney, 129.
Thornton, 141. Tooke, 164. Tregoz, 32.
Tully, 17. Villiers, 33. Umfreville, 32.
Walcote, 530. Walmfley, /^/V. Warham, 184.
Welbeck, 74. Welles, 60. Whorwood, 412.-
Willington, 141. Lord Willoughby of Parham,
532. Winfton, 530. Woodvile, 144. Wright,
164. Wynter, 34.
Arthor, John, Redor of Clapham, 167.
AJhmok,Elias, account of, 330. His epitaph, 287.
A/paragus, cultivation of, at Mortlake, 365.
AJirologers refident at Lambeth, 302, 303.
Atkins, Henry, phyfician to James I. 161.
Atkins, Sir Richard, account of his tomb and family,
163.
6.
Balham, manor of, 481,
Bancroft, Archbifhop, his epitaph, 282.
Baudon, manor of, 53.
Barber, John, anecdotes of, 372.
Barklay, Alexander, account of, 193.
Barnard, ^\x John, account of, 374. His rcfidcnce
at Clapham, 167.
Barnelms, manor-houfe, 14,
Barnes, account of the parifh of, 11. Boundaries,
extent, &c. ihid. Manor, ibid. Records relat-
ing thereto, 14. note. The church. 15. Mo-
numents, 16.542. The redory, 18. Reftors,
19. 543. State of population, 21,
Bafynges, manor of, 119.
Bate, Doiflor George, account of, 246.
Battersea, account of the parilh of, 26. Ety-
mology, 26. Boundaries, &c. 27. Market
4G
gardeners.
GENERAL INDEX.
gardeners, 27. Defccnt of the manor, 28.
Cuftom of the manor, 30. The church, 31.
Vicarage and reflory, 35. The vicars, 36.
The parifh regifter, 39. State of population,
ihid. The St. John family fettled there, 40.
Remarkable entries from the regifter, 47. Be-
nefaflions, 48. Tombs in Batterfea church,
544-
Baller/ea Rife, 27.
Sattie,T>oQ.oT William, account of, 253.
Baynard, Ann, hercharafter and epitaph, 24.
Beak. 'Robert, anecdotes of, 22, 23.
Bear- baiting, a falhionabie amufement in Queen
Elizabeth's time, 90. How late the praftice of
it continued, ibid. note.
Bear garden, on the Bank-fide, 50. Advertifements
from it, 91 .
Bears &c. chief mailer of, Account of his of-
fice, 92.
Bears, and dogs, feized for her Majeftj's fervice, ih.
Beddincton, account of the pariih of, 49. Ety-
mology, fituation, boundaries, and extent, ib.
Manors,;'^. & 545. Manor-houfe, 53. Portraits
there, 54. The church, 58. Monutnents, /'^r'a'.
End 546. The redory, 61. The free portion,
64. The parifh regitler, 65. State of popu-
lation, ib.
Bedford, 'John Duke of, born at Streatliam, 488.
Benchepam, manor of, 177. & 565.
Benefe, Richard, portionift at Beddington, 64.
Benjon, Auditor, anecdotes of, 539.
Bermondsey, account of the parifh of, 546. Etymo-
logy, fituation, &c. 547. Trades and manufac-
tures, ibid. The abbey, ibid. The manor, 549,
The church, 550. Tombs, ibid. The reftory
and rectors, 551. The parifh regifter, 552. State
cf population, 553. Ravages of the plague, ;i.
The ffee-TrhooI, and charity-fchool, 556. Bene-
fadions, ji^/V. The Spa, 558.
Bernard, Edivard, reftor of Cheatn, 149.
Berru;ell, cr Barwell Court, manor of, 240.
r,:Jlorough, Earl of, account of his houfe at Roehamp-
ton, 433.
Blackivall, Anthony, reflor of Clapham, 168.
Blague. Thomas, redlor of Lambeth, account of, 291.
Bigging, and Tamworth, manor of, 352.
Bcheme, Anthony, the tragsdian, 107.
Bolingbroke, Lord, account of, 44.
Bolingbroie-hoa(e, account of, 46.
Bond, Sir Thomas, 119.
Boiuyer, tombs of the family of, at Camberwell, 77.
Brady, Nicholas, reflor of Clapham, account of,
167. curate of Richmond, 461.
Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, his houfe at Kew,
565.
.5«r«o«t, Sir William, at Croydon, 175.
Bridget, Queen of the Gypfies, 107.
Buckinghams Camberwell, defcent of the manor
of, 69.
Burbage, Richard, the aflor, 1 10.
Burgh, Hubert de, takes faniluary at Mer>ton Abbey,
343-
Burleigh, Anthony, his epitaph at Lambeth, 281.
■ Lord, his refidence at Wimbledon, 521,
Burton, Hezekiah, reflor of Barnes, ig. Of his
death, 543.
Biijhel, Thomas, his refidence at Lambeth, 260,
Ca/ar, Sir Julius, his refidence at Mitcham, 354.
Camberwell, account of the parifh of, 68. The
name, boundaries. See. 68. The feveral manors
there, 69 — 72.559. The church, 72. Monu-
ments there, 74. State of population, 80. The
plague there, 81. The vicarage, 84. V\czr%yibid,
The Grammar-fchool, 85. Benefaftions, £6,
Camp, circular, at Wimbledon, 520.
Caa«B^«ry, or Canbury, manor of, 241.
Canterbury, Archbifhops of, who have refided at their
palace at Lambeth, 268. At Mortlake, 365.
Canute's trench at Lambeth, 315.
Carf<ui, account of the family of, 52. their pedigree,
53- . .
Sir Francis, account of, 56. His tomb, 60.
Nicholas, and Ifabella his wife, account of,
their tomb, 58. Sir Nicholas, account of, 54.
Sir Richard, account of the tomb of, 59.
Carru, Nicholas de, will of, 51.
Carshalton, account of the parifh of, 122. The
name, boundaries, and foil, ibid. Manufaflure.»,
123. The feveral manors, ibid. & 562. The
church, 126. Monuments there, 127. State
of population, 131. The reflory, 135. Bene-
fadlions, 136.
Cartijurights, the aftors, ill.
Catherine, Queen of Hen. V. her death, 548.
Chandler, Samuel, 119.
Chapel, old, at Wallington, 66.
Cheam, account of the pari (h of, 137. The name,
boundaries, and foil, ibid. '1 he feveral ma-
nors, ibid. The church, 139. Tombs there,
140.564. The reftory and redlors, 146. State
of population, 150, Plague there, ;'i/V. Bene-
fadiions, ibid.
Childbearing, inftance of, at the age of fixty-three, 83.
Child-Bijhop, cuftom of eledling on St. Nicholas's-
day, 3 to. note.
Church, Dodlor Thomas, account of, 39.
C^arf/'-armour, 234. note.
Clapham, accountof the parifh of, 159. Thename,
boundaries, t'^c. ibid. The common, ibid. The
manor, 160. 564. Manor-houfe, 161. The
church, 163. Tombs, /i5;V. — 166. The reflory,
166. Reftors, 167. The chantry, 16S. State
of population, ibid. The plague there, 169.
Benefaftions, &c. ibid.
Clere, Thomas, epitaph of, 278.
C/eiver, William, anecdote of, 190.
Colde Abbey, manor of, 72.
Collegians, charitable, folicited by females, 310. nott.
Colet, Dean, refidence of, at Weft Sheen, 448.
Col/Ion,
GENERAL INDEX.
Coljlon, Edward, refidence of, at Mortlake, 376.
Combe, Neville, manor of, 236. 566.
Cooke, Thomas, tranflator of Hefiod, account of,
305-
Coppe, Abiezer, anecdotes of, 23.
Copt-hall, fee Vauxhall,
Councils held in Putney church, 408.
Cowley, the poet, refidence of, at Barnelms, 15.
Crcham, manor of, 177. 565.
Cromwell, tradition of his refidence at Mortlake,
376.
■ Thomas, Earl of Eflex, born at Putney,
406.
Crowe, William, account of, 200.
Croydon, account of the parifh of, 170. The
name, boundaries, foil, &c. ibid. Hamlets be-
longing (o the parilh, 171. Market and fairs,
ibid. The manors, 172. 565. The park, 172.
The manor-houfe, 173. Archbifhops who have
refided there, ibid. The church, 179. Monu-
ments there, 180. The reflory and vicarage, 188.
The vicars, 189. The chantries, 191. State of
population, /^/W. The plague there, 192 Davy's
alms-houfes, 197. Whitgift's hofpital, 198.
Benefaftions, 201.
Cru/ader, figure of, on glafs, 529.
Cucking-&Qo\, 233. vote.
Cudington, file of the haml,et, 150. The manor,
151.
Cufer'% Gardens, account of, 319.
D.
Dee, Arthur, account of, 385.
YioQ.OT John, account of his life, 377. Of his
houfe ai Mortlake, 381. His charafter, 3S3.
De la Molie, Countefs, account of the death of, 306.
Deptford Strcnd, manor of, 72.
Demon/hire, Chrijlian Countefs of, account of, 430.
Diary of Edward Alleyn, 113.
Dinner at the foundation cf Dulwich College, ac-
count of, 98.
Denize, D^clor, refidence of, at Mitcham, 3;.|..
Doughty, John, reC^or of Cheam, 149.
Z)»i;^ of Camberwell, account of the family of, 79.
note.
Dowdaleh manor, account of, 7 1 .
Dozune, or Dcwne buys manor, account of, 50 j.
Dra/er, Elizabeth, wedding apparel of, defcribed, 78.
Duck, Stephen, refidence of, ar Kew, 205.
Dudley, Sir Robert, account of, 449.
Dulwich, account of the hamlet of, 86. Mineral
water there, ibid. '^I'he manor, 87. The col-
lege,/'^;V. Account of the founder, 87. Cere-
mony oi the foundation, 97. Foundation din-
ner, 9S. Endowment of the college, 100.
Statutes, ibid. The members, ibid. Defcrip-
tion tf the college, 105. The regiller, 106.
Tombs, 561. The ch irity-fchool, ibid, Be-
nefaiition of Lady Falkland, 562.
Dunsford, manor of, 504.
'Earthquake at Croydon, 171. At Lambeth, 260.
Eaji Cheam, manor of, 138. Manor-houfe, 139.
Eafi Sheen, account of the hamlet of, 3S8.
Manor of, 367.
Eggleton, John, the player, 107.
Elizabeth, Queen, her fpeech to Mrs. Parker, 298.
Her imprifonment at Richmond Palace, 439.
Her death there, 440. Tradition of her having
a palace at Streatham, 480. Her vifit to Sir
Francis Walfingham, at Barnelms, iz. To Sir
Francis Carew, at Beddington, 57. To Arch-
bilhop Parker, at Croydon, 173. At Lambeth,
270. To Sir John Puckering, at Kew, 203. To
Mr. Evelyn, at Kingllon, 242. To Archbifhop
Whitgift, 271. To Sir Julius C.-efar, at Mitch-
am, 354. To Doftor Dee, at Mortlake, 378.
3S2. To Putney, 406. To Tooting, 501. To
Wandfworih, 516. ToLord Burieigh, at Wim-
bledon, 521. Various journies of, 223. 244.
, 3"— 3'4-
Elton, Eaivard, reflor of Bermondfey, 551,
Epitaphs, whimfiral, 459. 563.
Ejlcourt, Sir William, murder of, 42.
Fauks, Guy, tradition of, at Vauxhall, 323.
Faukes-hall, manor of, 321.
Fearon, James, the ador, 465.
Featley, Daniel, Reflor of Lambeth, account of, 292.
/"f« of phvficians in 17CO, 1 15.
Field, Nathaniel, the ailor, 1 10.
Fielding, Henry, of his refidence at Barnes, 544.
Fig-trees, remarkable, at Lambeth, 26S.
Fire at C'oyc'on church, 179.
Fitzwilliam, Vifcount, account of his houfe at Rich-
mond, 453.
Flood at Kingrton, 2 16. At Newington Butts, 398.
Forejiers, manor of, 53.
Forman, Dodor Simon, anecdotes of, 301.
Frere's manor, 53.
Frobifiier, Sir Martin, lo3.
Froji, fevere, in 1607, 195.
Fruit-trees, how managed by Sir Francis Carew, 57.
■ At Wimbledon houfe, 528.
Gainjhorough, Thomas, account of h"s tomb, 209.
G'«rfl^«'fr/, Market, account of, a: Batterlea, 27. At
Barnes, 541. At Camberwell, 68. At Lam-
beth, 258. At Mortlake, 365 At Ne*ing-
ton Butts, 390. At Putney, 4O4. At Rothsr-
hithe, 470. At Wjndfworth, 502.
• Phjfic, at Mitcham, 350.
Gardening,
GENERAL INDEX.
Gardening, (late of, in 1660, 28.
Garrett, account of the hamlet of, 518. Mock elec-
tion there, ibid.
Gataker, Thomat, Reftor of Rotherhithe, account
of, 474.
Gauien, Bilhop, 162.
Gaynes/ord, Nicholas, account of the tomb of, 128.
Gaynesford''i Place, account of, 125.
Gifts, new year's, 113.
Glo-ves, embroidered, worn, 113.
Granville, Bernard, epitaph of, 287.
Greenbill, Thomas, epitaph of, 60.
Grindall, Archbifhop, of the death of, 194. Ac-
count of his tomb, 180.
Gurganytjohn, ReAor of Clapham, 167.
H.
Hackei, John, Bilhop of Lichfield and Coventry, Rec-
tor of Cheam, 148.
Haling, manor of, 178.
Ham, manor of, 179.
Ham manor, in the parifh of Kingdon, account of,
HiJOT-houfe, defcription of, 238.
Hardinge, Nicholas, Efq account of, 253.
Hare, Francis, Bilhop of Chicheller, Reftor of
Barnes, 20.
Harlington, manor of, 241.
Harrington of Exton, Lord, refidence of, at Kew, ;66.
Hartley, David, account of his experiments on Put-
ney Heath, 427.
Hatcham, manor of, 120. 560.
Hatteclyffe, John, account of bis tomb in Addington
church, 8.
Hanierjham, John Lord, account of, 463.
Henley, John, will of, 80.
/f«rWn^, Archbifhop, funeral of, 197. His epitaph,
185.
Heron, Nicholas, tomb of, 186.
Heydegger, anecdote of, 14.
HilL Hon. Richard, account of, 466.
Hoadly, Bifhop, Reftor of Streatham, 487.
Hobhes, Thomas, refidence of, at Roebampton, 432.
Hock-tide, <.o\\e.Suon%iK, 229. 309,310.
Holgate, Archbifhop, how plundered when committed
to the Tower, 31.
Holland, Earl of, account of his rafh enterprife at
Kingfton, 219,
Hook, hamlet of, 240.
Ho/pital, Whitgifi's, at Croydon, account of, 198.
Hume, Bilbop of Salilbury, Reftorof Barnes, 543.
Hurricane at Roehampton in 1780, account of, 434.
Hu/carl Beddington, manor of, 50.
Hutton, Archbifhop, epitaph of, in Lambeth church,
281.
1.
Inhabitants, number of, at Mortlake, 370; at Put-
ney, 417; at Wandfworth, 511.
Jones, Elizabeth, a remarkable inflance of longe-
vity, 83.
Kennington, manor of, 325. Of the palace there,
326.
Kenulph, King, where murdered, 338.
Kew, account of the parifh of, 202. The name,
boundaries, and foil, ibid. Ancient proprietors
of lands and houfes there, ibid. Kew-houfe,
206. The gardens. Hid. Exotic garden, 207.
The chapel, 208. Tombs, ibid. & 209. The
parifh regifler, 210. State of population, ibid.
Benefaftions, ibid. The bridge, 211.
Kin^ham, an ancient game, account of, 226.
King'i evil, of perfons touched for, 81.
Kingston upon Thames, account of the parifh of,
212. Of the name, boundaries, foil, ice. ibid.
Charters granted to the town, 213. Corpora-
tion, 214. Market and fairs, ibid. Council
held there by King Egbert, 215. Saxon kings
crowned there, ibid. Events which have hap-
pened there, 216. During the civil wars, 217.
Leland's defcription of the town, 220. Account
of the town-hall, 221. Extrafts from the
church-wardens' and chamberlains' accounts,
223. Ancient games there, 226. Various cuf-
toms, 229. Church duties and payments relat-
ing to the church, 230. The manor, 23;.
The church, 243. Tombs, 244. The reftory,
248. The vicarage, 249. The vicars, 2i;o.
Skern's Chantry, and Bardefey's Guild, ibid.
The parifh regifter, 251. State of population,
ibid. The plague years, ibid. St. Mary Mag-
dalen's chapel and fchool, 2J4, The alms-
houfe, 255. Benefaflions to the parifh, ibid.
Account of the bridge, ibid.
KitKat Club, account of their room, 15. Portraits
of them, 542.
Knyvett, Mary, whimfical epitaph of, 410.
J^/Ti^r/?^, account of the manor of, 125.
Labourers, wages of, temp. Hen. VIL tc VIII. 232.
Lacy, James de, will of, 344, note.
Lambert, General, refidence of, at Wimbledon
Houfe, 522.
Lambeth, account of the parifh of, 257. The
name, boundaries, extent, and foil, ibid. The
market and fair, 258. Death of Hardicanute
there, ibid. A parliament holden by Henry
III. 259. Outrage in the church in 1643, 259.
The
GENERAL INDEX.
The manors, 260. The manor-houfe, or Lam-
beth palace, 261. The chapel, 262. The li-
brary, 263. The Lollards' tower, 267. Re(i-
dence of the archbifliops at Lambeth, 268. Of
thofe who have died there, 269. Hiftorical fails
relating to the palace, ibid. The palace at-
tacked by the apprentices in 1641, 271. Seized
by the parliament, and made a prifon, 272.
Prifoners of note confined there, 273. The pa-
lace fold, ibid. Threatened by the rioters in
1780, ibid. An afylum of learned men, 274.
Foundation of a collegiate church, ibid. The
Bifhop of Rochefter's palace, 276. Carlifle
houfe, ibid. The parilh church, 277. Tombs,
278 — 289. The burial ground, 290. The rec-
tory, ibtd. The reilors, 291. Romayne's and
Wynter's chantries, 295. The parilh regifter,
ibid. State of population, ;'^/V. Ravages of the
plague, 296, Mifcellaneous extracts from the
regiller, 297. Benpfaftlons, 307. The alms-
houfes, ibid. The i'chools, 308. Extrafls from
the church-wardens' accounts, ^09. The ferry,
315. Norfolk- houfe, 316. Oratory ac the
Checker Inn, 317. Manufaftures, &c. ibid.
Lambeth Wells, and Cuper's Gardens, 319.
Allley's Amphitheatre, 320. Manor of Vaux-
hall, 321. Of Kennington, 325. Of Stock-
well, 327. Of Levehurft, 329. 567. Of
Knolls, 567.
Lambeth, South, account of, 330. Of the Tradef-
cants' phyfic-garden there, ibid,
Lambethivick, m^nor o(, 329.
Land-tax, at Addington, 541.; at Barnes, 11.; at
Batterfea, 27. ; at Beddington, 49. ;atBermond-
(ey, 547. ; at Camberwell, 68, 69. ; at Carflial-
ton, 122. ; at Cheam, 137. ; at Clapham, 159. ;
at Croydon, 170. ; at Kew, 202.; at Kingfton
upon Thames, 21 2. ; at Lambeth, 258 ; at Mai-
den, 332. ; at Merton, 338. ; at Mitcham, 350 ;
at Mordon, 361.; at Mortlake, 365.; at New-
ington Butts, 390. ; at Peterfham, 399 ; at Put-
ney, 405.; at Richmond, 436.; at Rothethithe,
470.; at Streatham, 478. ; at Sutton, 492.; at
Tooting, 497.; at Wandfworth, 502. j at Wim-
bledon, 520.
Leake, Sir John, account of, 58. note.
Lee-Boo, Prince, epitaph of, 476.
Leigh, arms of the family of, 7. note.
John, account of the tomb of in Addington
church, 7.
Sir Olifh, account of the tomb of, ibid.
Leighani's Court , manor of, 481.
Lely, Sir Peter, houfe of, at Kew, 205.
Leng, John, Bilhop of Norwich, account of, 64.
Letter, fingular one from Edward Alleyn to his filler,
88. note.
Levehurjl, account of the manor of, 329. 567.
Library ^i Dulwich college, 112.; at Lambeth pa-
lace, 265. ; at Richmond palace, 441.
Licence to eat fiefli in Lent, 194. 252. 396. To beg,
Lion baiting, under the direflion of Edw. Alleyn, ;6i.
Lijler, Doctor Martin, account of, 164. His epi-
taph, ibid.
Littleton, Sir Charles, account of, 462.
Longe'vity, inllances o*", at Batterfea, 47. ; at Bed-
dington, 65.; at Camberwell, 83.; at Cheam.
150.; at Croydon, 192.; at Kingfton, 253.;
at Lambeth, 306, 307. ; at Mitcham, 360. ;
at Mortlake, 375.; at Newington Butts, 396. ;
at Pecerlham, 403. ; at Putney, 421,422.; at
Streatham, 489.; at Wandfworth, 512.; at
Wimbledon, 538. ; at Bermondfey, 555, 556.
Loughborough houfe, account of, 329.
Louelace, Lord, portrait of, 109.
Richard, the poet, anecdotes of, ibid.
Liimley, Elizabeth Lady, tomb of, 145,
Jane Lady, account of, 144.
——Lord, tomb of, 141. Anecdotes of, 143.
M.
Ma L DEN, account of the parilh of, 332. Etymology,
boundaries, foil, &c. ibid. The manor, ibid.
Eftablilhment of a religious houfe there, 333.
Worcefter park, 334. Thechurch, 335. Tombs,
ibid. The vicarage, 336. Vicars, ibid. State
of population, ibid.
Mary, Lady, refidence of, at Barnes, 21. Conjedure
coticerning, ibid. 542.
ManufaBures at Beddington, 66. ; Carlhalton, 123. ;
Limbeth, 317.; Merton, 345.; Mitcham, 360 ;
Mortlake, 387. ; Wandfworth, 502. ; Wimble-
don, 539 ; Bermondfey, 547,
May game, 226.
Maynard, Sir John, account of, 500.
Mendez. Mofes, reliJence of, at Mitcham, 356.
Merton, account of the parifh of, 338. Etymology,
boundaries, foil, &c. ibid. The manor, 339.
346. The abbey, 339. Account of its foun-
dation, ibid 341. Statutes of the convent, 342.
Site of the abbey, and its prefent (late, 344,345.
Manufadures there, ibid. Parilh church, 346.
Monuments, 347, 348. The reaory, ibid.
State of population, ibid. Benefadlions, 349,
Surrender of the monallery, and account of the
feal, 567.
Meyer, Jeremiah, account of, 209. Epitaph of,
208.
Milk<ivell, manor of, 70.
Mill, horizontal, at Batterfea, defcription of, 46.
Mills, Henry, fchoolmafter at Croydon, 200.
M/nir^/ water at Bermondfey, 558. At Dulwich, 86.
At Streatham, 491.
Mitcham, account of the parilh of, 350. Etymo-
logy, boundaries, foil, &c. ibid. Phyfic-gar-
deners there, ibid. Manors, ibid. Manor of
Mitcham or Canon, 352. Of Biggingand Tarn-
worth, ;^/V. Of Ravenfbury, 353. Thechurch,
356. Monuments, 356 — 358. Redory and vi-
carage, 558. \'\<iin,ibid. State of population,
359. Benefaflions, 360. Mitcham Grove, ibid.
Manu-
GENERAL INDEX.
Manufaftures, ibid. Workhoufe, ibid. Ancient
houfe, 568.
Molineux, Samuel, account of, 206.
MompeJ/hn^ John, monumenc of, in Lambeth church,
280.
Monjlrous birth at Croydon, 196.
Moore, Ediuard, rcfiJenteof, at Lambeth, 305.
Mo R DON, account of the panlhof, 361. Etymology,
boundaries, foil, &:c. ibid. The manor, ibid.
The church, 3(^2. Monuments, 362, 363. The
TeQory, ibid, btate of population, /^»W. Bene-
faftions, ibid.
Morland, Sir Samuel, a great mechanic, 322.
Morley, Colonel, epitaph of, 286.
MoRTi.AKE, account of the parilh of, 364. Etymo-
logy, boundaries, extent, &c. ibid. His Ma-
jelly's farm, 365. Soil, ibid. Cultivation of
afparagus, ibid. Manor, ibid. Archbifhops of
Canterbury who have refided in their manor-
houfe there, ibid. The church, 367. Tombs,
368, 369. Comparative Hate of population,
370. Number of inhabitants in 1791, ibid.
Ravages of the plague, 371. Extrafls from the
regifter, /'i/V. From the churchwardens' accounts,
375. Remarkable perfons who have refided at
Mortlake, 376. Manufaflure of tapeftry, 386.
OfDelf, 387. Juxon's alms-houfes, j'^V. Be-
refaftions, ibid. Charity-fchool, 388. Hamlet
of Eaft Sheen, ibid.
Mountain, George, Archbifhop of Yotk, reftor of
Cheam, account of, 147.
Mufchamp, tombs of the family of, in Camberwell
church, 74, 75.
N.
Napier, Dodlor, account of, 303.
Nazareth, Archbifhop of, his manor at Beddington,
Newington Butts, account of the parifli of, 389.
Etymology of, ibid. Boundaries, &c. -go.
Manor of Walworth, ibid. The church, 391.
Tombs, 392, 393. The reftory, 394. Rec-
tors, :95. State of population, 396. The
plague there, ibid. Benefadions, 397. The
alms-houfes, /^«/. The hofpital, 398. Number
of houfes in 1739, 569.
Non/uch-pi\ace, account of, 151. Pjrliamentary
Survey of, 153. Proprietors of, 154. Hen. VIll.
ibid. Henry, Earl of Arundel, ;^;d'. Queen Eliza-
beih, 15;. Anne of Denmark, 157. C^een
Henrietta Maria, 158. Algernon Sydney, and
the Duchels of Cleveland, ibid.
Norbiton hall, manor of, 242.
Norbury, manor of, 178.
Norfolk, Elizabeth Duchefs of, her epitaph, 285.
, Houfe at Lambeth, account of, 316.
Nottingham, Charles Earl of, account of, 195.
O,
Obfer'vatory at Richmond, account of, 446.
Oldham the poet, anecdote of, 200.
Orange-trees planted at Beddington by Sir Francis
Carew, 57.
Palace at Richmond, hiftory of, 438.
of the Archbifhops of Canterbury, at Lam*
beth, account of, 261 .
of the Bithops of Rochefter, at Lambeth,
276.
of the Bifhops of Hereford, at Lambeth,
316.
— at Croydon, account of, 173.
— I"^'ng John's, at Bermondley, 548.
Palmer, or Tylecroft, manor of, 179.
Palmerjhn, Lord, houfe of, at Ealt Sheen, 371.
Parliament holden at Lambeth, 259.
Parker, Archbifhop, tomb of, 262.
Parr, Dodlor, vicar of Camberwell, account of, 85.
Partridge, John, account of, 371.
Patrick, Bijhop, vicar of Batterfea, 38.
Peckham, hamlet of, 118. Manor of, ibid. Sc ^60.
Pedlar, and his dog, in Lambeth church, account of,
277.
Perkins, Richard, the a£lor, 110.
Perne, Dodor, anecdotes of, 300.
Petersham, account of the pari fh of, 399. Boun-
daries, ibid. The manor of, ibid, heterfham
Lodge, ibid. The church, 400. Tombs, ibid.
401. The vicarage, ibid. State of population,
402.
Petition, from P. Hen/low and Edward Alleyn,
mailers of the bears, &c. to |ames L 93.
Petition, curious one from the pariihioners of Batter-
fea to Lord Burleigh, 36.
Pettinxiard, account of the family of, 408. note.
Peynfwin, Hugh, lomh of, 279.
Philips, Ronvland, vicar of Croydon, 1S9.
Pitlure gallery, at Dulwich College, account of,
108.
Piozzi, Grabriel, Efq. feat of, at Streatham, 482.
Plague, at Addington, 10. Barnes, 22. At
Batterfea, 40. At Camberwell, 81. At Dul-
wich, 107. At Carfhalton, 132. At Cheam,
150. At Clapham, 169. At Croydon, 192.
At Lambeth, 296. At Mortlake, 371. At
Newington Bu^ts, 396 At Putney, 417. At
Streatham, 488. At WandKvorth, 511. At
Wimbledon, 536. At B^rmondfey, 553, 554.
—— I'apeis concerning, in the Library ac Lambeth
Palace, ^tS.
Play/ere, Thomas, redor of Cheam, 149.
Pole, Cardinal, refidente of, at Welt Sneen, 449.
Population, comparaiive Hate of, at Adaington, 10.
At Barnes, 21. At Batterfea, 39. At Bed-
dington,
GENERAL INDEX.
dington, 65. At Camberwell, 80. At Car-
fhalcon, 131. AtCheam, 150. At Clapham,
168. At Croydon, 191, 192 At Kew, 210.
At Lambeth, 295, 296. At Maiden, 336. At
Merton, 348. At Mitcham, 359, At Mor-
don, 363. At Mortlake, 370. At Newington
Butts, 396. At Peterftiam, 402. At Putney,
417. At Richmond, 462. At Rotherhithe,
475. At Streatham, 487. At Sutton, 496.
At Tooting, 500. At Wandfworth, 510. At
Wimbledon, 536. At Bermondfey, 553.
Portraits, in the pifture gallery at Dulwich College,
account of, 108. At Lambeth, 263, 264. At
Streatham, 482. In the window of Camberwell
church. 73. Of the Kit Kat Club, 542.
Portland, Richard Wejion Earl of, anecdote of, 429.
Potter, Archbifliop, account of, 197. Epitaph of,
185.
Pro-viftons, price of, temp. Hen. VIL & Hen. VIH.
232.
Puckering, ^'irjohn, refidence of, at Kew, 203.
Putney, account of the parifh of, 404. Etymology,
boundaries, &c. ibid. Tranfadlions there during
the civil wars, 406. The church, 409. Tombs,
410. 413. The curacy, 414. Curates, 416.
State of population, 417. Plague years and en-
tries, in theparifh accounts relating to the plague,
ibid. Extrafts from the regifter, 419. Charity
fchool for fons of watermen, 422. The alms-
houfe, 424. Benefaftions, ibid. The ferry,
ibid. The bridge, 425. The fifliery, 426. The
bowling-greeo, 427. Villas on Putney-heath,
428. Account of RoehamptoD, ibid. Putney-
park, ibid.
CL
^eenjberry, Duchefs of, refidence of, at Ham, 566.
~——^ Duke of, feat of, at Richmond, 444.
Siuelch, William, tomb of, 129.
R.
Radcliffe, Doftor, anecdotes of, 135.
Raleigh. Sir Waller, refidence of, at Mitcham, 354,
Ra'venjiury, manor of , 353.
Richard II. met at Wandfworth, by the citizens of
London, 503.
Richmond, account of the parilh of, 436. Etymo-
logy, boundaries, and foil, ibid. The manor,
ibid. Tenure of land, 437. Hiflory of the
palace, 438. D'^fcription of it in 1649, 441.
Account of houfes on the fiteof it, 443. The
convents, 445. The Old-park, ibid. The ob-
fervatory, 446. The gardens, 447. The hill,
454. The New-park, ibid. Rangers thereof,
4C5. Its extent, 456. Projefled improvements,
ibid. The farm, 457. The church, /^/<j'. Mo-
numents, ibtd. 460, 461. The curacy, ibid.
State of population, 462. Extrafts from the re-
gifter, ibid. Bilhop Duppa's alms-houfes, 466.
Other alms-houfes, 467. The charity-fcbool,
ibid. Various benefadUons, ibid. The ferry
Vol. I.
and the bridge, 468. Richmond Wells, 469.
The theatre, iS/d.
Richmond, Frances, Duchefs of, rnecdotes of, 134.
Ridley, Owen, vicar of Batterfea, account of, 36.
Robinhood, game of, 226. 229.
Rochejier, Bilhop of, palace of, at Lambeth, 276.
Roehamfion, account of the hamlet of, 428. The
Earl of Portland's feat there, 429. The chapei,
430. The alienations of Roehampton houfe,
433. Villas at Roehampton, ibid. Hurricace
there in 1780, 434.
Roman antiquities at Clapham, 163.
Station at Woodcote, 67.
Rofe, Ed-aiard, fingular benefaftions of, to the parilh
of Barnes, 17,
Rotherhithe, account of the parilh of, 4-0. Ety-
mology and boundaries, ibid. The Dock-yards,
ibid. Canute's Trench, ?^/V. The manor, 471.
The church, 472. Monuments, »'^;V. 473. The
reftory, ibid. State of population, 475. The
free-fchool, 476.
Rujfel, Elizabeth, fingular hiftory of, 489.
Sadler, Anthony, vicar of Mitcham, account of, 358*
Saint John, pedigree of, 50.
Henry, Lord Bolingbroke, account of, 44.
Epitaph of, 45.
^—— Henry, Vilcount, anecdotes of, 42.
' 'Si\'cJohn, funeral of, 41.
Oli'ver, V'ifcount Crandifon, account of, 40.
Epitaph of, 41.
Sir Walter, account of, 42
Salujhury, Mrs. epitaph of, written by Doftor John-
fon, 48+.
5flx-o« Kings cowned at Kingfton, 215.
Sea-wen, Sir William, monument of, 127.
Sclater, Edward, curate of Putney, accjunt of, 416.
Scott, "John, Biron of the Exchequer, tomb of, at
Camberwell, 77.
■ John, the younger, account of, ibid.
• Robert, monument of, at Lambeth, 280.
tombs of the family of, at Camherwe!!, 77.
Senhoufe. Richard, Bilhop of Carlifle, redlor of Cheam,
14S.
Sheen, Eaft, manor of, 367.
■ Weji, monaftery of, 447. Its foundatJon,
hermitage, 448. Suppreflion, 449, Parliamen-
tary Surv.y, 450. The fite, 4.^9. Leales there-
of from the crown, to Lord Lifle, Lord Broun-
ker, and Sir Wiiiiam Temple, 451.
Sheldon, Archbilhop, burial of, 196. Monument of,
Skipiuitb, Henry, epitaph cf, 282.
Skinner, tombs of th»- fat.iily of, 75.
Siy, William, the aftor, 1 1 1 .
Smith, Henry, charities of, 512. Epitaph of, 514,
Smith, Milo, account of, 304. Ef itap*-' of, 282.
Smoke-money, 3 10.
Spring-gardens, Charing-crofs, account of, 324. note.
.- 1 V' ii\h£li, ibid
Stalls, otene, in Camberwell charch, 75.
4 H Stebbiiig,
GENERAL INDEX.
Subbing, Henry, account of, 465.
Stephens, William, redlor of Sutton, account of, 495.
Stockivell, hamlet of, 327. Manor, ibid. Manor-
houfe, 328. Stockwell gholl, 329.
Stone Court, manor of, 125.
Streatham, account of the pari (h of, 47S. Ety-
mology, boundaries, foil, &:c. ibid. Manors,
ibid. Manor of Tooting Bee, 479. Of Leigh-
am's Court, 4S1. Of the Dean and Chapter of
Canterbury, ibid. Of Balham, ibid. Manor-
houfe, 480. Tradition of Queen Elizabeth,
ibid. The church, 483. Tombs, 483—487. Rec-
tory, ;^/</. Reftors, ibid. State of population,
ibid, Extradls from the regifter, 488. Mrs.
Howland's fchool, 491, Benefaftions, ibid.
Mineral water, ibid.
Sudbrook, hamlet of, 4C0.
Sutton, account of the parilh of, 492. Etymo-
logy, boundaries, foil, &c. ibid. Manor, ibid.
The church, 493. Tombs, 494. 495. The
redlory, ibid. Reftors, ibid. State of popula-
tion, 496. Benefaftions, ibid.
Sivi/t, Dean, refidence of, at Weft Sheen, 452.
T.
Taltvorih, minor of, 334.
Tapefiry, manufafture of, at Mortlake, 386.
Ta<verner, Richard, Efquire, preaches at Oxford, 242.
Temple, Dodor Thomas, vicar of Batterfea, account
of, 38.
. Sir William, refides at Weft Sheen, 451. King
William vifits him there, 452.
Teni/on, Archbifliop, epitaph of, 282.
Tenure, fingular, at Addington, 5.
Theatre, Fortune, 103.
Theatre at Newington Butts, 398. At Richmond,
469.
Thirlebye, Bilhop, account of, 298.
Thomfon, James, refidence of, at Richmond, 463. Tomb
of, 464.
Thrale, Henry, Efq. epitaph of, 484.
Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, anecdotes of, 132.
Toland, John, account of, 419.
Tooting, account of the parifh of, 497. Etymo-
logy, ibid. Manors, ibid. The church, 498.
Tombs, ibid. 499. The reilory, ibid. Rectors,
500. State of population, ibid. Extrafts from
the regifter, ji«V. Benefaftions, 501. Priory of,
479-
Tooting Bee, manor of, 479. The manor-houfe, 480.
Tradt/cant, John, tomb of, 289. Pbyfic garden of,
^ 33°- ..
Trumpeters, itinerant, 1 14.
Tumuii, at Addington, i.
Tunjiall, Bilhop, account of, 297.
Tyrrell, Francis, benefaflions of, to Croydon, 195.
/'««Ar/&«//, etymology of, 321. Minor, ibid. Copt-
hall and Vauxhall houfes, ibid. Tradition of
Guy Faukes, 323. Spring Gardens, Vauxhall,
ibid. The fort, 325. Vauxhall well, /^V.
Vejlmenls at Lambeth church, fale of, 31 1, 312.
VilUers, Lord Francis, death of, 219.
W.
Wake, Archbifhop, account of, 196. His tomb, 184.
Waldingham, manor of, 6.
Wallington, manor of, 66.
Walfingham, Sir Francis, refidence of, at Barnelms,i2.
Death of, ibid.
Lady, 13.
Walivorth, Manor of, 390.
Wandle, river, account of, 122. 172,
Wandsworth, account of the parilh of, 502.
Etymology, boundaries, &c. ibid. Manu-
faftures, ibid. The manors, 504. Various
eftates, 506. The church, ibid. Tombs, 507,
508. The vicarage,. 509. Vicars, 510. State
of population, /i5;W. 511. The plague there, ib.
Extrafts from the regifter, 512. Churchwardens'
accounts, 516. The charity-fchool, ibid. Be-
nefaftions, 517. Hamlet of Garrett, 518.
Warner, Ferdinando, account of, 543.
Way, Mrs. Sarah, houfeof, at Richmond, 444.
Wedding apparel of Mrs. Elizabeth Draper, 78.
Weft, Bilhop, account of, 405. »
Whitaker, Jeremiah, account of, 551.
Whitgi/t, Archbilhop, funeral of, 195. Monument
of, 181.
Whitehor/e, manor of, 177.
Willoi John Alt Lee, 9. Of Nicholas Carew, ci.
Of John Henley, 80.
Williams, Charles, the aflor, 47.
Wilfon,Chriftopher, Biftiop of Brjftol, charafler of, 543.
Wimbledon, account of the parifli of, 519. Ety-
mology, boundaries. &c. ibid. The manor, 520.
Manor-houfe, 523. Parliamentary Survey of it,
ibid. The gardens, 527. The park, 528. Thb
church, 529. Tombs, 530. Lord Wimbledon's
chapel and monument, 531. Tombs in the
church-yard, 534. The reftory and curacy,
535. Parfonage houfe, 536. State of popula-
tion, ibid. Extrafts from the regifter, 537. Be-
nefaftions, 538. Manufaftures, 539,
Wimbledon, Lord, epitaph of, 531.
Wol/ey, Cardinal, refidence of, at Richmond palace,
439. At the lodge in the Old-park, 445.
Wood, Robert, account of, 420. Epitaph of, 421,
Worcefter park, account of, 334.
Wyat, Sir Thomas, at Kingfton, 216.
Wynn, Sir Richard, epitaph of, 530.
Wynter, Sit Ed^vard, monument of, 33.
y.
Vates, Sir Jo/eph, tomb of, 145.
Mrs. the aftrefs, account of, 464.
} er^-houfe, at Batterfea, 30.
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