eldest son was created a Baron, but that title became extinct in 1711; and another barony, created in favour of the son of Sir Gilbert's second son, was extinct in 1702. William Gerard, his younger brother, Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, was a resident at Flambards. He is mentioned in the assessment of 1598, and died in 1609.* His son (who is noticed in Lysons) was created a Baronet in 1620, and that honour became extinct in 1715.

There were also two PAGES named as governors: John Page, of Wembly, and Thomas Page, of Sudbury Court. The registers contain evidences of their pedigree, but their family also is extinct in the direct male line.

In the MSS. at the College of Arms (C. 28, part ii. p. 38,) is a pedigree of the Pages of Wembly, beginning with Henry Page, father of John Page (the governor). John was the eldest son, and died in 1623, having (according to his monument) lived to see seventy-five children and grandchildren. His wife was Audry, daughter of Thomas Redding. Their eldest son, John, was one of the Masters in Chancery, and as trustee for Dudley, Lord North, sold Iping, in Sussex (Add. Charters, 6607-10). Their daughter Katharine married Richard Browne, of Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire; and their daughter Frances married Philip Gerard, of Gray's Inn, fifth son of William of Flambards (Harl. MS. 1551, fol. 90). Richard, their second son (who married Frances, daughter of Robert Mudge, of London, clothworker), was of Uxenden, and distinguished himself in the civil wars on the side of the King. In November, 1644, being then a captain, he was made a Lieut.-Colonel in Colonel James Penniman's regiment of foot, raised in Yorkshire; he came with the King from York (Symonds's Diary, Camd. Soc. p. 161), and was knighted by Charles on his road to Oxford, 2nd June, 1645 (ib. p. 185). In May, 1645, he had an augmentation to hist arms: "Or, a fesse dancettée between three martlets az. a bordure of the last," of "a canton gu. a lion passant guardant or," from the arms of the King. Crest: "A hand in armour proper issuing

* In Harrow church are monuments to William Gerard, Esq. who died 1584, and to this William Gerard, Esq. who died 1609, with effigies of him and his sister.

out of a ducal coronet or, guttée de sang," in consideration of his services at the battles of Kenton (or Edgehill, 23rd October, 1642), Braunteforth (Brentford, 15 November, 1642), Alresford (29th March, 1644), and Newbury, the second (27th October, 1644), in which he was seriously wounded [Walker's Grants, R. 23-312]. For his services at Foy, Leicester, and Newbury, see Clarendon, iv. 540, 585-6-9; v. 176. He had seven sons: (1) John, of the Middle Temple; (2) Richard, of Wembly, who married Elizabeth Cart; (3) Richard; (4) William, believed to be the rector of East Cocking, Berks, appointed in 1644 master of Reading school, and who died 1660; (5) Francis; (6) Henry; and (7) Thomas; and three daughters: Barbara, who married Clement Scudamore; Jane, who married William Savage, of Loxworth, Dorset; and Audrey, the wife of Robert Hadden, of Westminster.

The fifth governor, THOMAS REDDING, was of Pinner, where a separate register was kept, though none earlier than 1656 can now be found.

The family of the sixth governor, RICHARD EDLYN, of Woodhall, has also left the neighbourhood, being recently resident at Watford. The registers here contain entries of the baptism of Thomas Edlyn, in the year of the foundation of the school, and other notices of the family, which is represented through a female descent by Edlyn Walmisley, Esq. and Edlyn Tomlins, Esq.

The family of FYNCHE, extinct likewise in the male line, yet represented in the female by Henry Finch Hill, Esq. resided in the earliest period of the registers at Greenhill: and were connected by marriage with another family still flourishing here, the Greenhills of Greenhill. One of the earliest entries is of the burial, on 8th December, 1558, of Amy Fynch; on the last day of March, 1559, was buried Alice Fynch: on 28th May, 1560, Joane Fynche; on 17th February, 1560-1, Griselda Fynche; on 9th March, 1560-1, Thomas Fynche; on 21st June, 1561, Audry Fynche, and another Audry Fynche on 12th October, 1561; on 11th June, 1562, of George Fynche; on 11th November, 1563, of Elizabeth Fynche; in December, 1563, of Cicely Fynsh on 14th, Henry Fynche on 19th, and Robert on 30th; of Susan and John, both on 11th January, 1563-4; and of another John on

12th June of the same year; and of two Williams on 30th Jaruary, 1565-6, and 25th February, 1568-9, and several other entries. There are also recorded among the early entries the marriages on 4th July, 1560, of Henry Fynche and Joane Greenhill; on 5th September, 1565, of John Weste and Joane Finche; on 18th November, 1566, of John Lawday and Elizabeth Finch; and on 13th November, 1569, of John Fynch and Maria Herton, the lady being the first who has recorded her autograph in the register; it must have been added at least thirty years after the date. The baptisms record the names on 29th August, 1571, Awdry Fynche; on 12th October, 1572, of Thomas Fynche (who is assessed in 1598); on 5th November, 1572, of Richard Fynche; on 21st December, 1572, of Clare and Isabell Fynche; on 22nd February, 1572-3, of Dorothy Fynche; on 24th August, 1573, of Hierome Fynche; on 7th September, 1573, of Rose Fynche; on 10th October, 1573, of James Fynche; and on 19th October, 1573, of Arthur Fynche.

of

Of the GREENHILLS of Greenhill several families must have been cotemporary. The first year's register of marriages contains three of the family. On 22nd May, 1559, Henry Greenhill married Margaret Chalkhill; on 9th October, William Greenhill married Isabell Reading; on 16th November, Robert Greenhill married Joane Halmond; on 18th February, 1562-3, Thomas Greenhill married Joane Shephearde; and on 14th November, 1563, Thomas Taner married Margaret Greenhill. The baptismal register mentions on 15th March, 1566, Post Greenhill; on 29th April, 1571, Richard Greenhill; on 24th June, 1571, Jane Greenhill; on 4th July, 1572, Bryan Greenhill; on 22nd February, 1572-3, John Greenhill; on 5th June, 1573, Margaret Greenhill; on 28th December, 1573, Ranulphus Greenhill; on 24th October, 1574, Margaret Greenhill; and on 20th March, 1574, William Greenhill. The burials are of five Joane Greenhills, one on 24th December, 1559, another 25th January, 1559-60, the third on 28th May in the same year, the fourth 12th June, 1566, and the fifth, on 20th October, 1569; and of four Johns, one on 28th May, 1560, another 13th January following, the third on 24th August, 1563, and the fourth on 18th December, 1563; of Richard Greenhill, on 9th November, 1561; of William Greenhill, 26th December, 1561; of Thomas Green

298 THE PARISH REGISTERS OF HARROW-ON-THE-HILL.

hill, on 22nd March, 1562-3; of Robert Greenhill, on 22nd April, 1563; and of Alice Greenhill, 25th May, 1565.

There is an entry on 10th January, 1571-2, of the baptism of MATTHEW MARNHAM, whose descendants still reside in the parish, and are possessed of property at Sudbury: as also of the family of HAWKINS, one of whom, Amy Hawkins, was buried 14th July, 1559, and another, Alice, 10th December, 1561.

JOHN LYON of Preston, the Founder of the School, is not proved to have been a native of this place. The register records the burial on 25th May, 1583, of his only son Zachary (whose effigy once existed in the centre of the brass to his father), buried 4th October, 1592; and of his mother, the founder's widow Joan, buried on 30th August, 1608.

A subsidy roll of 1598 gives us the names of the then holders of lands and fees, and of two persons assessed for goods.

In the certificate dated 31 Oct. 40 Eliz. 1598, for the hundred of Gore, there were rated in lands and fees

The PEACHEYS, whose tomb has been celebrated by Lord Byron's notice, were residents in the neighbourhood till recently, and on 15th November, 1563, Dorothy Peaché was buried.

The names of Smyth, one of whom, Randoll, was assessed in 1598; of Fisher of Roxeth; of Bugbere; of Kenton; of William Harman, 22 June, 1562; of Richard Germane, 28th July, 1564; of John Wright, 20th April, 1569; of Richard Laurence, 29th November, 1570; and of several more families still living in the parish in the humble position of labourers, are likewise found in the first book of registers, which affords the most reliable and at the same time the most interesting evidence of persons who might have heard Wolsey preach within the walls of this parish church, and who certainly lived to welcome the firm establishment of our Protestant faith under Elizabeth.

Proceedings at the Meetings of the Society.

TENTH GENERAL MEETING,

Held at the Rooms of the Architectural Exhibition (Gallery of British Artists), Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, on Wednesday Evening, February 10th, 1858,

FREDERICK KEATS, Esq., Ex-Sheriff of London, in the Chair.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that in the absence of the noble President, he had, as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, been requested to take the Chair, the duties of which he wished had been placed in abler hands. The objects, the uses, and the necessities of such a Society as the present were more and more appreciated every day, and he was pleased and gratified by seeing such a numerous attendance on the present occasion.

The Rev. THOMAS HUGO, F.S.A., F.L.S., read a paper on the Bell Tower in the Tower of London, which will be found at page 211.

Mr. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, F.S.A., then read a paper on the Lieutenants of the Tower of London, which will also be found at page 225.

Mr. WILLIAM TAYLER, F.S.S., read the next paper, entitled, "A Walk from Westminster to the Tower in the reign of Queen Elizabeth," of which the following is a summary:—

"Few who now traverse the streets of this great metropolis realise, even in imagination, the contrast which it presents to what it did in the time of Queen Elizabeth, when the mansions of the great were principally concentred from Westminster along the Strand, so as to have easy access to the river, then a principal highway. There are few houses in London older than the time of Queen Elizabeth and James I. The Great Fire almost entirely destroyed those of the City. Until about the year 1200, there were very few stone houses, and none tiled or slated; at that period they were principally built of wood and thatched with straw; and the simplicity and customs of the time are forcibly illustrated in Blount's Jocular Tenures, wherein it is related that a century after this period one Peter Stileman held lands from Edward II. to find (among other things) litter for the king's bed and hay for his horse.

"In the time of Queen Elizabeth the shore opposite Lambeth, known as Westminster, was a mere marshy tract.