brother of Sir Julius, very interesting memoirs appear in these MSS.

Sir Charles Cæsar, Knight, third son of Sir Julius, was also Master of the Rolls; he was buried at Bennington, Herts.

Dr. Daniel Featley (born Fairclough) domestic chaplain to Dr. Abbott, Archbishop of Canterbury; by him was preferred to rectory of Lambeth. "In 1617 he proceeded in divinity, and puzzled Prideaux, the King's Professor, so much with his learned. arguments, that a quarrel being thereupon raised the Archbishop was in a manner forced to compose it for his chaplain's sake. The Archbishop of Spalato, being also present at the disputation, was so taken with Dr. Featley's arguments that he forthwith gave him a brother's place in the Savoy Hospital, near London, he being the master thereof. On Sept. 15, 1623, he married an ancient grave gentlewoman, called Mrs. Joyce Halloway, who lived in a house of her own at Kennington, and, being fond of flowers, had a beautiful garden, in which she took great delight.

"In 1642, after the King had encountered the Parliament soldiers at Brentford, some of the rebels took up their quarters at Acton, of which Dr. Featley was then rector; and, after they had missed the Doctor, whom they took to be a Papist, drank and eat his provisions, burnt down his barn full of corn, and profaned his church. On 30th September following, being judged to be a spy and betrayer of the Parliament cause, he was committed prisoner to Lord Petre's house, in Aldersgate Street, and his rectories taken away. On his release he went to Chelsea College, of which he was Provost, where he died in 1645."

Dr. Goddard, physician to Cromwell, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Professor of Physic in Gresham College, who died in 1674, was buried here.

The monument of the celebrated Sir Thomas Gresham deserves attention on the visit to the Church. The memoir of him comprises the history of the Royal Exchange, and other matters of great civic interest.

Dr. Robert Hooke, a Professor of Gresham College, and celebrated for his plans for rebuilding London, died in the College in 1702, and was buried in St. Helen's Church.

Dr. Thomas Norton, also a Professor, and who succeeded in

retaining the office in spite of his marriage (at that time an obstacle), was buried here 1673, under the communion table.

Sir Andrew Judd, Lord Mayor in 1550, greatly in favour with their Majesties Philip and Mary for his spirited and patriotic conduct during Wyatt's rebellion, died 4th September, 1558, and was buried in St. Helen's Church with great pomp. He was founder of a school at Tonbridge, and of almshouses in London.

Sir John Lawrance, Alderman, celebrated for a splendid banquet given by him to their Majesties, and for his judicious conduct during the visitation of the Plague, which took place in his mayoralty. He did not desert the City at this time, but continued at his residence in St. Helen's; enforced the wisest regulations then known respecting the prevention of the pestilent contagion, and saw them executed himself. He supported on this occasion 40,000 discharged servants.

London's generous Mayor,

Who, when contagion with mephitic breath,
And withered famine urged the work of death,
With food and faith, with medicine and prayer,

Raised the weak head, and stayed the parting sigh,

Or with new life relumed the swimming eye.-Darwin.

The monument of Sir William Pickering is worthy of attention. In 1551 he was employed as Ambassador, with the Marquis of Northampton, to the King of France, to propose the marriage of Edward with the Princess Elizabeth.

Of this gentleman, says the MS., quoting the character in Lloyd's State Worthies, "His extraction was not noble, his estate but mean, yet was his person so comely, his carriage so excellent, his life so greatly reserved and studious, and his embassies in France and Germany so well managed, that in King Edward's days he was by the Council pitched upon as the oracle whereby our agents were to be guided abroad, and in Queen Elizabeth's designed by common vote for the Prince by whom we were to be governed at home. He received extraordinary favours, no doubt, so deserving he was: he was wished to more, he was so popular; and, when his service was admitted to Her Majestie's bosome, all fancies but his own gave him her hand."

"Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor 1594, was called 'rich Spencer,' and died worth 800,000l., according to the value of property in the year 1609. The year of his mayoralty was a year of famine, and at his persuasion the City companies bought a quantity of corn in foreign parts, and laid the same up at the Bridge House for the use of the people. A pirate of Dunkirk, in Queen Elizabeth's time, laid a plot, with twelve of his mates, to carry him away: he came over with them in a shallop, and they hid themselves at Islington, where Sir John had a country house; but he kept in London that night, and their plan was frustrated.

"His daughter married Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of Northampton. The lady eloped with her noble suitor, she being by his contrivance taken away from her father's house in a baker's basket. Sir John was so incensed by this act that he totally discarded her, until a reconciliation took place by the interposition of Queen Elizabeth. To effect it a little stratagem was resorted to. When Lady Compton's child was born, the Queen requested that Sir John would with her stand sponsor to the first offspring of a young couple happy in their love, but discarded by their father. The Knight readily consented, and Her Majesty dic tated his own surname for the Christian name of the child. The ceremony being performed, Sir John assured the Queen that, having discarded his own daughter, he would adopt the boy as his son. The parents of the child being now introduced, the Knight, to his great surprise, discovered that he had adopted his own grandson, who ultimately succeeded his father in his honours, and his grandfather in his wealth. From him sprang the present noble family, which owes its immense possessions at Canonbury to the industry of a citizen of London."

I subjoin the following extracts from the Vestry Minutes and Parish Accounts:

"2nd October, 1558.

"Item, if anye p'ish'oner of the saide p'she be duly warned by the churchwarden to come to anye vestrye to be kepte by the saide p'ishioners, and do make defaulte, that then he or they having no good or lawful excuse shall forfeit for any suche default the som of j. (sic) to the use of the parishe.

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"28 October, 1562.

"That the company of laborers shall contynue their resort to this p'sh church yerely on Trynnity Sondaie as heretofore and they have done, payinge to the p'sh church yerely 2s. 4d. to the churchwardens for the tyme beinge.

"Item, that none shall be buryd within the church unles the dead corps be coffined in wood.*

"xiij. January, A° Domini 1565.

"At a vestrie holden the said daie and yere, it is ordered and agreade by the whole assent of the parishioners here present, that the residue of oure roode lofte yet standinge at this daie shall be taken downe accordinge to the forme of a certain writinge made and subscribed by Mr. Mollyns, Archdeacon of London, by the commandement of my Lord Bishoppe of London and others the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners. And further, that the place where the same doeth stande shall be comelie and devoutlie made and garnished againe like to Sainte Magnus Church or St. Dunstain in the East, as the discretion of the churchwardens shall seem good.

"xi. of April, 1576.

"It is also agreed that the organes and the scaffolds they stande on shall be taken downe.

PARISH ACCOUNTS.

"1575. Received of Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt., for his

licence to eat flesh "1609. Paid for 6 gallons and 3 quarts of clarett wyne, at 28. 4d. the gallon and 2d. the roundlet. "1643. Paid for taking down the cross on the belfrye . Paid for writing the names of those who took not the covenant and carrying it to Westminster

s. d. 6 8

"1668. The two churchwardens were excommunicated for not carrying in their presentment: it cost them 17s. 6d. to be absolved."

*This is the first sanitary minute with which I am acquainted.

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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF LONDON AND

MIDDLESEX.*

PART I.

A Notice of the Monumental Brasses to Alianore de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, A.D. 1399, in Westminster Abbey; and to Joice, Lady Tiptoft, A.D. 1446, in Enfield Church: also of a Fragment of a Cross-Brass of the Thirteenth Century in the Chapel of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey.

BY THE REV. CHARLES BOUTELL, M.A.
[Read, in part, at Crosby Hall, January 28, 1856.]

In selecting these Brasses to form the subject of the present memoir, I have been influenced by a two-fold motive. In the first place I have felt it to be incumbent upon us, in the very outset of our career, to enter upon that important department of our Society's future operations which will be devoted to the Sepulchral Monuments of London and Middlesex and, secondly, I have been attracted by the intrinsic merit of these memorials, by their highly interesting character, and historical value.

Sepulchral Monuments cannot fail to occupy a pro

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minent position in that sys

tematic plan and in that sus

* For an historical and descriptive notice of Monumental Brasses, I must refer to the first of my papers upon the Brasses of the county of Surrey, to be published in the "Transactions" of the Archæological Society of that county.