like ceremonies, it continued until the funeral hour, which was in manner following: "The whole train (as travelled) from Callowdon, and other places, assembled by ten of the clock in the forenoon, were by Garter King at Arms, and Chester Herald, set in order, and directed then to proceed from the said house to the Church of St. Michael in this man Ref: "First, went six of your principal yeonien, called the conductors of the train, in long black cloaks, with black staves in their bands, directed to conduct the train all the length of that street, to the Bar gates, and thence to CrossCheaping; and so through the North side of Trinity Church-yard, to the great West door of St. Michael's Church, both sides of which passage, near a quarter of a mile long, was impaled by many thousands of people, assembled to be Next after hold the honour, thereof. those conductors, in mourning gowns and Holland kerchiefs, came seventy poor women; then came thirty gentle men's servants in black coats; then followed the servants of gentlemen and esquires in black coats; next them, the servants of knights, in black cloaks also; then came your Lordship's yeomen, and after them your gentlemen, (all two by two,) with some of the Lady Strange's gentlemen interplaced with them, yours being 74, whereof myself went as one of her Secretaries; then the officers of your household, as clerk of the kitchen, gentleman of the horse, auditor, and steward, in their gowns and hoods, your steward bearing a white rod in his hand. Next behind the steward, came Mr. Henry Beamont, bearing the great banner of honour; after him followed the esquires, and chief gentlemen of the country, as Mr. Clement Fisher, Mr. William Cotton, Mr. Elmes, Mr. Fulke Butteris, young Mr. Beamont; then came your Lordship's chaplains ; and after them, and next before the coffin, went Chester the herald, assisted by Mr. Walter Denis, as a necessary marshal to the better direction of the train; the coffin was borne by eight of your chief gentlemen and yeomen, and supported by four other gentlemen of most note, viz. Master Edward Devereux, Sir John Spencer, Sir Thomas Leigh, and Mr. George Shirley, your son-in-law. "Near to the four corners thereof went four esquires, viz. Mr. Robert Spencer, son and heir of the said Sir John, Mr. Basil Fielding of Newnham, Mr. Samuel Marrow, and Mr. William Norwood, each of them bearing a banneroll, with her Arms and your Lordship's quartered. "Next behind the coffin came Mr. Richard White as ber gentleman usher, with a small white rod in his hand, accompanied with the gentleman usher of the Lady Strange, both of them bareheaded, between whom went Garter in his kingly coat of arms; next after them came the Lady Strange, eldest daughter to the late Earl of Derby, and for this day, principal mourneresse, in her gown, mantle, train, hood, and tippet of black, and in her paris head, tippet, wimple, vaile, and barbe of fine lawn, on whose right hand went your son, Mr. Thomas Berkeley, and on her left hand, your brother in-law, Sir George Carey, supporting her by the arms, called the two principal assistants, who were apparelled in their gowns, hoods, and tippets of finest black. Then came Mrs. Audley Denis, bearing the train of the principal mourneresse, apparelled as an esquiresse, in her gown, and lined hood of black, with a plaited kerchief, and barb of lawn. "Then came Mrs. Elizabeth Berkeley, your daughter-in-law, and the Lady Ca rey, side by side, apparelled as Baronesses, and in all points suitable to the principal mourneresse, save that their trains were tucked up, and not borne. Then followed in semblable order, Mrs. Devereux, and the Lady Leigh, apparelled as knights' wives, in their black gowns, hoods, and tippets, and in their round paris heads, bonnegrace, and barbes of fine lawn. came "In answerable order, next Mrs. Beamont and Mrs. Spencer, apparelled as knights' wives, like the former: which seven were called the seven principal mourneresses, and estates of the funeral. "Next after whom in like correspondency, two by two, came four esquiresses, viz. Mrs. Fielding, Mrs. Fisher, and her daughter, and Mrs. Dilkes, apparelled as the train-bearer, save that they wanted hoods. "Then followed the late Lady's gentlemen, the principal mourneresses two gentlewomen, knights and esquires wives gentlewomen, all like apparelled in black gowns, kerchiefs, and barbes of lawn, to the number of fourteen. "And next after these, came eight chambermaids, servants to the estates and ladies aforesaid, in gowns and kerchiefs of lawn only: all which was furnished at the only charges of your Lordship. "After all these, and last of all, came Mr. Mayor of Coventry, the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Commous in great number, and good proportion. In this order passed this train with slow slow steps, and frequent pauses, to the Church aforesaid. In the first aisle stood the foresaid 70 poor women, paling the passage on either side, through whom passed the whole action up to the East end of the Church, where the pulpit was purposely placed, and also the hearse.— The seven principal mourneresses were placed by Mr. Garter king at armes within the inward rail of the said hearse, with their faces towards the same, and the rest of the gentlemen ministers to the funeral were placed in the outer rails, about two yards distant from the pall of the coffin; all others sat in seats adjoining. The company thus placed, and the psalm ended, (which had received the corpse at the entrance into the Church), your chaplain, Edward Cowper, ascended the pulpit, and towards the end of his learned sermon, took a fit occasion to speak of her learned and virtuous life; A lady, never known to dissemble, or heard to swear, with speech modestly carried,' sealed also with the knowledge of many hundreds there preseut, wrought such effect, that seldome hath been beheld a more sorrowful assembly at a subject's funeral, nor tears more dropping down. The sermon ended, another psalm was begun, during which, all such mourners as before are said to wear heads of lawn, together with the two assistants, walked in procession wise about the hearse; in which procession, the waiting gentlewomen and chambermaids were severed from the rest, and aptly seated on one side the aisle extending to the offertory, where they conti nued till all ceremonies were ended. But all the rest, by their circular walk, were seated in their former places; which done, the offertory began, first, by the principal mourneresses, and after, by the other six, each conducted by Mr. Garter; then were the banners offered up by such as formerly I have noted to bear them; which finished, Mr. Berkeley, your eldest son, was, by Mr. Garter, led to the offertory, and there by him invested with the honours of his deceased mother, by delivery and acceptance of the banners, and other ceremonies; which done, and he solemnly conducted back to his former place, then were next brought before the hearse, the two principal officers of the household, the steward and gentleman usher, who after many obeisances and humble reverences, brake their rods, commending them to the custody of the corps and hearse; which ceremony ended, the whole company arose, and in the order they came, returned to Mr. Hopkins' house aforeaid, and thence to Callowdon, where 5 your Lordship for them and many hundreds more had so plentifully provided, that the excess herein appeared, when with such dishes, as for most part passed untouched at former tables, more than one thousand poor people were plentifully fed the same afternoon; and thus have you performed that part of your late letter to her brother, the Lord Henry Howard, that as her life was honourable, so you intended her funeral should be. -Finis. "Thus the paper I delivered to this Lord. John Smith. "Her body was after interred in a vault, in the North-east corner of that Church, near the Draper's Chapel there; and I think it hardly possible to have all things better performed than were at this funeral, and after at the feast, wherein no error was by any observed to be committed; so careful were the servants of this Lord in their several offices and charges committed to them, who also for more comeliness had attired themselves the gentlemen in black sattin suits, and black silk stockings, with gold chains, folded in black scarfes, and the yeomen in silk sashes, grograms, and taffeties of black colours. Reliquet nomen, narrantur laudes. Topographical Account of the Parish of TOTTINGTON, in Norfolk. TOTTINGTON is a small irregular village in the hundred of Wayland, deanery of Breccles, and archdeaconry of Norwich, and lies on the road between Thetford and Watton, distant eight miles from the former, and four from the latter place. The parish is bounded on the north by Threxton, Little Cressingham, and Merton; by Merton and Thompson on the east; on the west by Stanford; and on the south by Wretham and Sturston. We find mention of no less than six manors in this parish; viz. Tottington or Mortimer's manor, Strange's, Stanford's, Campesse, Thetford-Monks', and Bokenham's or Macham's manors. All these bad their rise from the two principal manors, Mortimer's aud Stanford's. A full and particular account of the descent of property may be seen in Blomefield's elaborate History of this county, from which I have abridged a few particulars respecting the two principal manors, in order to shew how they became die vided. TOTTING TOTTINGTON OF MORTIMER'S MANOR. Alwi, a Saxon, held it in the Confessor's time, and the Conqueror gave it to Robert Bigot*, of whom Ralph Fitz-Herlewin held it at the survey. It contained four carucates, three of which were demesne. The manor was worth 80s. afterwards it fell to 60s. The whole town was better than four miles in length, and two in breadth, and paid 15d. to the gelt. It continued in the Bigots; and in King Stephen's time Hugh Bigot owned it, who divided it, and gave part to the Prior of Thetford, which constituted "Thetford-Monks' Manor," and the other part to John le Strange; and it appears that part of it was afterwards conveyed to Warner, or Warin de Tottington, who gave the tithes of his estate, which contained half a knight's fee, to Thetford priory. In 1195, there was a dispute between Robert Mortimer, of Attleburgh, and John le Strange, of Hunstanton, concerning five fees in Hunstanton, Tottington, &c.; and at last, Robert released the whole to John, and John gave the church to the nuns at Campesse, with all the lands belonging to it, excepting divers rents and services; that constituted the manor called "Stranges," which continued in that family till John le Strange, of Hunstanton, esq. by deed dated 5 Hen. V. confirmed to the Prioress of Campesse his manor in Tottington, called Strange's, with all thereto belonging +. STANFORD'S MANOR. Alwin, a Saxon, owned this part in the Confessor's time, and Roger de Ramis held it, allotted him by the Conqueror. He gave it to Waregius, who held it at the Conqueror's Survey, when it was worth 20s. per ann. it being fallen half its value since Alwin's time. It contained three carucates, one of them being demesne. In 1275, Maud de Ebroicis granted to Thomas de Solariis, for life, with remainder to herself and heirs, this manor, which then contained two carucates. About 1290, Thomas de Ware held it at half a fee of Petronil de Vaux; in 1344, Osbert de Boyton died seized of this manor; and in 1466, it was settled in marriage by John Wyndham, esq. the father, on his son John and Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir John Howard, knt. afterwards Duke of Norfolk, and their heirs. "Bokenham's or Macham's Manor," had its rise out of Stanford's Manor, when Thomas de Ware settled half of it on Hugh de Bokenham, in 1345. It seems to have been divided soon after; for, in 1402, Thomas de Tottington held a part of it of the Honor of Richmond." In 1558, the manors were all joined, for Sir Richard Southwell, knt. suffered a recovery of the manors of Tottington, Stanford's, and Mortimer's, with the impropriation and advowson of the vicarage, to the use of himself for life; the remainder to Elizabeth, wife of George Heneage, daughter of * "Terra Rogeri Bigoti, Wanelund . In Totintuna, tenet Radulphus Filius Herluini iiii Car. terre quam tenuit Alwi T. R. E. tunc et post xv Villi. mo iiii. tune et post x bord. mo. xvii. tunc et post viii Ser. mo. iiii. xxiii Acr. prati, semper iii Car. in dnio. tunc et post v Car. hom. mo. iii. Silva xxx porc. modo i mol. et semper iii Soc. lxxxxv. Acr. tunc et post ii Car. mo. Nichil. sed possent esse. Semper i Runc. tune xvii. anim. mo xviiii. tunc xxii. Porc. mo. xii. tunc clx. ov. m. exl. iii minus. xxiiii. Capras. tunc lxiii Eque mo. xv. tunc et post val. lxxx Sol. Et xv. et mo. lv. Totum habet ii Leug in Lat. et i in Lat. quicumque ibi teneat. den. de Gelto." Domesday, fol. 108. + Is it not therefore probable, that Strange's and Campesse manors were all one and the same? for the only account we meet with of the latter is, that at the dissolution this manor devolved to the Crown, with the impropriation and patronage, and was given by Hen. VIII. in 1530, with all the house, lands, &c. belonging to that Monastery, to Richard Southwell and his heirs, who was to hold it of the crown by the annual fee farm rent of 31. "Terre Rogeri de Ramis. . Wanelund. Totintuna tenet Waregius quam tenuit Aluuinus liber homo. T. R. E. iii Car. terre. tunc et post ix Vill. mo vii, tunc i Bor. tunc et post ii Serv. modo Nullus. xii Acr. prati, tunc et post i Car. in dnio. mo i et dim, tunc et post ii Car. homin. mo dim. semper ii Runc. et xv anim. tune xx Porc. mo v. tunc lxxx. m° xiiii. vi Capr. tunc et post val. xls. m° xx." Domesday, fol. 275. GENT. MAG. January, 1819. Sir Sir Richard, for life; and, in 1572, George Heneage had it. It came after to Sir Robert Southwell, who sold it, 16 May, 40 Eliz.* to Edward Coke, esq. and his heirs. În 1635, the Lady Jane Harte paid 201. per ann. out of these manors, to John Harte, according to the will of Sir Eustace Harte, knt. deceased. It afterwards belonged to Thomas Garrard, esq. and after that to Sir Nicholas Garrard, of Langford, bart. who died in 1727, leaving it to his widow. Sir William de Grey, lord chief justice of the common pleas, purchased it, whose descendant, the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, is the present proprietor. Indeed, the whole parish, except the glebe and one cottage, now belongs to his Lordship. In 14 Geo. III. (1774) an Act of Parliament was passed, entitled, "An Act for dividing and inclosing the common fields, half-year lands, common pastures, common meadows, commons, commonable lands, heaths, and waste grounds, within the parish of Tottington, in the county of Norfolk." About two furlongs north-west of the Church, there is a barn, which has been moaled in, and had a good fishery belonging to it; by this place are several foundations of buildings, which are supposed to have been the old manor-house. As some workmen were digging here, in 1812, they found a large old key, much corroded; it is now in the museum of the Rev. M. D. Duffield, F.S.A. There is a mere, or sheet of water, about a quarter of a mile north west of the Church, which in rainy seasons covers seven acres of land. Such meres are common in the county; within a few miles of Tottington, there are three others; viz. Stow-Bedon, Soham, and Scoulton. There are two public-houses in the village, known by the signs of the Cock, and the Green Man. It is, perhaps, worthy of remark, that a pair of stocks, which is so commonly seen on the green of every vil lage, though the use is at this day almost unknown, never was erected in this parish, which shews either the peaceableness of the inhabitants, or the carelessness and inactivity of the parish officers In 1801, there were 26 houses, and 40 families, cousisting of 104 males, and 94 females, in Tottington. According to the Return made to Parliament for the year 1817, the poor's rate amounted to 292l. 14s. Od. The only charitable bequest which I have met with in this parish, is a piece of land called Chandler's Pightle, containing less than an acre. It was formerly let by the parish officers to Lord Walsingham, for 4s. a year, and is believed to have been given for the industrious poor. In 1777, it was let for 5s. but has not been mentioned in the Terriers since that time. Like Naboth's vineyard, it has been taken from the owner, perhaps for a garden of herbs, and affords us another instance to the many hundreds which have been brought to light, of the "industrious poor" having been deprived of their rights, not perhaps by the great and wealthy, but by those who are put in authority under them t. There are about 2266 acres of land in the parish; the soil consists of a light sand; so light indeed is it in some of the adjoining parishes to the west, that it frequently drifts in the wind, and is bare of vegetation. THE CHURCH, which is dedicaled to St. Andrew, was, in 1196, given by John le Strange, with the consent of Robert de Morti mer, to the priory of St. Mary and the Nuns at Campesse, in Suffolk, and was appropriated to that house in 1302, the rectory being valued at thirty, and the vicarage at six marks. * Mr. Neve says, that Bokenham's manor came to the Salters, and that Edmund Salter was Lord in 1629; and that about 1714, it was sold by Edmund son of Robert, along with their estate, to Mr. Eversdon. Since writing the above, I have been informed by some of the old inhabitants, that the rent of this piece of land (5s. per ann) was formerly received by the overseers; and, instead of being given to the "industrious poor," went towards paying the expences of the town meetings!! "Chandler's pightle" is now let, with some land of Lord Walsingham's, to Samuel Chilvers, who pays the rent to his Lordship's steward. Should this meet Lord Walsingham's eye, or reach his ear, I doubt not but the rent of the land will be restored to its owners or their trustees, as I feel confident that his Lordship (having only lately succeeded to the estates) is not aware that “Chandler's pightle" belongs to the "industrious poor" of Tottington. In Pope Nicholas's Taxation, 1291, Tottington is rated at 207. * la 1404, there was great complaint made that the profits of the vicarage were much impaired by the number of rabbits on the warren of Sir John FitzRalf, knt. so that it was not able to pay the whole tenth of 40s. At the dissolution, the impropriation and patronage devolved to the crown, and were given by Henry VIII. in 1530, to Sir Richard Southwell, knt. and his heirs. Mr. Le Neve, in his Collections, says, that this impropriate rectory was sold by Sir Thomas Southwell, kot, to Thomas Hall, and that Francis Windham, esq. was late farmer of it, at 17. 13s. 4d. per ann. and that it was given by King James I. to the Divinity Professor in Cambridge, it being settled on Trinity College, in trust for him. It now belongs to the Governors of Chigwell School, in Essex; but by what means the Professor of Divinity lost this rectory, or how and when the Governors of the School became possessed of it, I cannot learn; suffice it to add, that the present value of the great tythes is 2507.; the vicarage is worth 60%. and the curate, who bears the burthen and heat of the day, receives 40%. a yeart. The site of the parsonage joined the east part of the Church-yard, where a large barn now stands. The only glebe belonging to the vicarage consists of half an acre. A Sunday-school was opened here, Oct. 5, 1817, by the present curate, at which upwards of 50 children regularly attend, and are by this means kept from idling away the Sabbath on the village green. Service is performed once every Sunday, alternately morning and afternoon. (To be continued.) Antiquities, &c. discovered at WHIT TLESFORD, CAMBRIDGESHIRE. (From the Cambridge Chronicle,Nov. 13.) WE are now enabled to lay be culars respecting the remarkable discoveries that have been made upon the estate of Ebenezer Hollick, esq. of Whittlesford, at a place called Got Moor, between Whittlesford and Triplow, two miles from Newton. Mr. Hollick employed some labourers to level three antient tumuli upon Got Moor, called The Chronicle Hills, with a view to the improvement of his land. These tumuli stood in a line nearly North and South, upon the North side of a brook se parating the parishes of Triplow and Whittlesford. The old road from Cambridge to Triplow, through Shelford, crossed this brook; it may have been a Roman way. Upon the left (i. e. Eastern) side of it, were the tumuli; and also other sepulchres of a very remarkable nature, as we sball presently show. The middlemost of The Chronicle Hills was 8 feet high, and it was 27 yards in diameter; the others were much lower. They ranged along an antient wall, constructed of flints and pebbles, which the workmen are now removing. Its length was 4 rods, its thickness 30 inches, and it had three abutments upon its Eastern side. Beyond this wall, at the distance of 12 rods to the East, was found an antient well made with clunch, 9 feet in diameter, full of flints and tiles of a curious shape, so formed as to lap over each other. Some of these tiles had a hole in the centre; and, from their general appearance, it was believed that they had been used in an aqueduct. In this well were found two bucks or elks' horns, of very large size. Upon opening the tumuli, the workmen removed, from the larger one, four human skeletons, which were found lying upon their backs, about two feet from the bottom. Some broken pieces of terra cotta, with red and with black glaz ing, were found in opening the tumuli, heaped among the earth, which, from Ware our Readers some parti- the nature of the workmanship, seem "Totyngton [Eccl'ia de Totington app' p' de Caumpisse pret' porc' et pret' Vicar' indecim'] 201. Norwic' Sp'. + The vicarage is valued in the King's books at 6l. 14s. 94d. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 101. 4s. 8d. it is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.-From a memorandum on the back of the first Register it appears," that on July 17, 1717, a commission was holden for inspecting into ye Email curacies, in order for their augmentation, when it appeared that Mr. Avis and Edmund Holida did yn make oath yt the curacy of this parish of Tottington was not worth more yn eleven pounds pr annum to ye curate." The town paid 51. 7s. 6d. to the tenths, and was rated to the land tax at 3287. 15s. Od. ed |